The strategic location of the naval station is of extreme importance and it plays a pivotal role for our military capabilities in the region.

This is a resolution which condemns China's ongoing, gruesome practice of harvesting organs from the followers of Falun Gong.

This bill would ensure that the Obama administration cannot close or abandon the Naval Station of Guantanamo Bay without congressional action.

I was extremely disappointed to see that our State Department's latest human rights report on China quoted a Chinese official's unsubstantiated and dubious claim that any harvesting of organs from prisoners would now be voluntary.

I am proud to have introduced H. Res. 343 with my dear friend, Gerry Connolly, who has been a good partner throughout my years here.

This past Saturday, February 27, marked the first anniversary of the assassination of Russian pro- democracy and opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was tragically gunned down in Moscow. Killed just days before he was due to publish…

This weekend I had the pleasure of being at Temple Menorah in Miami Beach at the Hadassah Inter-American Chapter Gala in honor of an old and close friend, Isaac Olemberg. Isaac is a pillar of the Jewish and south Florida communities and…

I would like to bring to the attention of this body the current negotiations taking place in Cuba between the Colombian Government and the FARC, which is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. That deal is dangerous for Colombia and for…

First, I would like to thank Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel for their leadership in bringing attention to Bob Levinson's plight and for guiding this resolution through our Foreign Affairs Committee and onto the House floor today…

I thank my good friend, Mr. Deutch, for his eloquent proposals time and time again in our committee, on the House floor, and in every public gathering on behalf of Bob Levinson's family. I am sure that the Levinson family feels a great…

I thank my good friend for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. Now, we know the Natural Resources Committee is a rowdy one to manage, with lots of difficult decisions and inflamed passions. But I thank…

Will you commit, Mr. Secretary, to the families of these victims today that you will seek the extradition of Castro regime officials responsible for the shoot down?

As the author of legislation that awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, better known as the WASP, I rise in strong support of this bill, H.R. 4336, the Women Airforce Service Pilots Arlington Inurnment…

I remain firmly opposed to your administration's offer continually to get a waiver to the law that prohibits U.S. funds from going to UNESCO.

I hope that this administration would use every bit of its voice, its vote, its influence at WIPO and with the member states to ensure that Gurry is removed from office as soon as possible.

This administration must also ensure that whistleblowers are reinstated at WIPO immediately.

I thank Mr. Chabot for his leadership on this issue. It is funny that the gentleman should call me Dr. Ileana Ros- Lehtinen, because I do have my doctorate from the University of Miami. One of the rivalries that I enjoyed with Mike Oxley…

I would like to commend the Children's Bereavement Center, an organization located in my congressional district that has been providing support and lifting spirits for so many south Florida families after facing a tragic loss. Founded in…

And so I just want to thank you for your leadership, thank Mr. Deutch for his continued involvement on behalf of his constituency and we will all of us join together in a bipartisan way to support this effort.

Fundamentally, that if we allow the American people to believe that we are going to tolerate a regime that not only has unbelievable humanitarian atrocities that continue to get leveled on an almost daily basis but that we are going to…

I continue to be stunned that the State Department believes still that Russia and Iranian engagement in Syria could be a positive development.

We want to protect Turkey against the PKK and that is something we are going to help them do.

What guarantees have you received from the Iraqis, and have you brought it up to protect the residents of Camp Liberty from this newly strengthened and well-funded regime in Tehran?

What steps is the administration taking to prevent a massacre of Syria's remaining moderate opposition?

Yesterday I had the honor of meeting Simha and Leah Goldin. They are the parents of Israeli Defense Force Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, and they have started the campaign Bring Hadar Home. Hours after the declaration of the international…