Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

The safety of the residents of Camp Liberty. They still have very little protection.

The Iraqi Government incorrectly states that these papers are theirs.

I am gravely concerned with the ongoing crisis that we see unfolding in South Sudan.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, too often, current U.S. law addressing international child abduction actually facilitates domestic violence and child abuse by forcing the return of a child despite a recognized risk to the child or…

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I feel abandoned and I feel my husband has been abandoned.

It is not a case. It is your husband. It is the children's father.

While most of the world is focused on the nuclear deal with Iran, today provides a timely opportunity to remind the people of Iran that we stand with them in their quest for dignity and for freedom.

In response to his situation, this week my colleague and friend, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen and I introduced H. Res. 435 urging Iran's Government to cooperate in his case and return Mr. Levinson home to his family as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, Pastor Abedini's persecution is just the latest in a string of appalling actions the Iranian regime has taken against American citizens.

Earlier this week, I joined as a co-sponsor of House Resolution 435, introduced by Ranking Member Deutch, which calls for Iran's cooperation and immediate return of Bob Levinson.

Last month our Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee... unanimously passed House Resolution 147, calling on the Iranian regime to immediately release Pastor Saeed.

Falun Gong, as you know, is a spiritual discipline that was first introduced in the early 1990s which combines exercise and meditation with philosophy.

I have been concerned that we are allowing the post-2014 residual force size also to be decided politically, and that is purely numbers-driven rather than focused on the task and what is needed.

If we can't conduct the kind of operations needed to reduce the poppy production, and if we don't have enough manpower now to fight this issue, what are we going to do next year and post-2014 to stop the illicit drug trade that generates…

As I had mentioned, we had met with President Karzai, as all delegations do when they go over there, and in our delegation we raised the concerns about his neighbor, the Iranian regime, the threat that that poses to our interests in the…

What can we do to ensure that the new Constitution would not restrict the fundamental rights of any Egyptian?

We have already seen many Gulf nations pledge sums of money that dwarf our $1.3 billion.

What headway do you see that we are making in that? What progress?

Thank you for your leadership throughout the years on any issue related to human rights and thank you for shedding some light on this terrible human rights abuse that is going on in Egypt.

If conditions do not change in Cuba, if political prisoners are not released, if democratic elections are not scheduled, I think you're going to have to go through the cold, dead body of Bob Menendez to get policy change, and that is the…

Mr. Secretary, sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raul Castro, it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant.

This is a country that is not far away. It is in our backyard.

Passing this resolution will send a strong signal of support to Saeed and his family that we have not forgotten him and that we will continue to fight for his safe and immediate return.

Last week, our subcommittee unanimously passed House Resolution 147 calling on the release of U.S. citizen Saeed Abedini and condemning Iran for its persecution of religious minorities.