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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is a former U.S. Representative who served Florida's 18th congressional district from 1989 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was the first Hispanic woman elected to the U.S. Congress. Throughout her tenure, Ros-Lehtinen was known for her strong advocacy on issues related to Cuba, human rights, and foreign policy. She played a significant role in promoting legislation aimed at supporting democracy and human rights in Cuba, often speaking out against the Castro regime.

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Mar 17, 2015

I think my colleagues have told you we are looking at all the assistance to the Palestinian Authority.

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Mar 16, 2015

Where is State and USAID in answering these 14 questions and what would SIGAR and GAO say if we called them up right now for an assessment?

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Mar 16, 2015

My concern is that once this money goes to the U.N. we lose our oversight into what is actually being done with that assistance.

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Mar 16, 2015

What mechanisms do we have in place to ensure that the aid that we send through the U.N. gets to the intended recipients?

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Mar 16, 2015

In my view that has already triggered U.S. law to cut off funding.

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Mar 3, 2015

Ukraine is in such tragic need of lethal aid from the U.S.

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Mar 3, 2015

I have been advocating for the administration to withdraw from the U.S.-Russia nuclear cooperation agreement, the 123 Agreement.

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Feb 25, 2015

And what is true is that since these secret negotiations have taken place, and now 19 months or so, 20 months, the number of arrests in Cuba have also skyrocketed.

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Feb 25, 2015

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, and I wanted to give the panelists an opportunity to answer my long-winded question.

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Feb 25, 2015

What signal does that tell the Castro regime? We can do whatever we want and everything is forgiven, and it sends a terrible signal to the human rights activists.

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Feb 25, 2015

And if I might add, and what has changed since you left for a very principled stand--and I congratulate you for that--is that there has been an uptick in the number of Cubans who have left the worker's paradise.

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Feb 25, 2015

Thank you for holding this joint subcommittee hearing on this important topic.

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Feb 25, 2015

We are just going to talk about a nuclear deal with Rouhani, we will ignore human rights.

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Feb 25, 2015

Cuba poses a clear and present danger to the United States.

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Feb 25, 2015

So I will end and just say there is a lot of brave men and women in Cuba who have--in face of adversity have spoken out against the regime and risked being arrested.

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Feb 25, 2015

Oh, you should read the Cuban Constitution. It is a beauty. They don't follow one word of it, but it is beautiful.

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Feb 25, 2015

President Obama should learn from history that negotiating with the Castro regime is a failed endeavor.

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Feb 25, 2015

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Feb 25, 2015

The Castro regime undermines our national security at every turn and reinforces instability in the entire region.

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Feb 25, 2015

The White House must stop putting politics ahead of our national security.

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Feb 25, 2015

The silence is deafening. And it is no surprise that Nicolas Maduro, the thug of Venezuela, went to Cuba...

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