Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Just a few hours ago, we lost a dear friend, an esteemed and honored and respected colleague, Congressman Don Payne of New Jersey.

The goal here in simple terms is to focus on the truly dangerous items.

My legislation, the FOSL bill, which I think makes the point that legislation is needed to increase sanctions.

We need to make sure that we hold all parties accountable.

Thank you for the Members for giving us, the South Florida congressional delegation, some of us the opportunity to testify at this very important hearing.

My legislation, the Foreign Oil Spill Liability Act, will ensure the responsible foreign party pays for all cleanup costs.

The Obama administration has made no effort whatsoever to dissuade this activity.

I am pleased to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights, a strong advocate for freedom everywhere and the author of the…

With that, I have no further requests for time, and I yield back the balance of my time.

For our closing speaker, I am pleased to recognize for such time as he may consume my good friend from California (Mr. Royce), the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade and a cosponsor of…

To close on this bill, I am pleased to give our remaining time to the gentleman from California (Mr. Royce), who is the chairman of our Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade and has been a leader in this…

Yes. As I have stated before and will continue to state, I will reserve my time to close.

I have no further requests for time, and I reserve the balance of my time to close.

Despite the 5 percent reduction to the committee's budget for this calendar year, we have met and we have surpassed our goals as described in our oversight plan.

This legislation is designed to address the drift and lack of strategic thinking that has hurt the relationship in recent years.

It's time that all Taiwanese officials are afforded the proper respect and be allowed to visit the United States.

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 2918 offered by the Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Should we not be looking at incentives then to shorten these lease times and to move the production forward quickly?

But in response to my question, wouldn't it be to the oil companies' benefit to speed up their completion of these steps if they wanted to begin producing more quickly?

I will be calling you. One of the things that is brought to my attention is The Washington Post today indicated that Chevron has halted drilling off the coast of Brazil because of an underwater oil leak.

The fact that companies would continue to hold the money knowing that the insured have probably died over 50 or 60 years ago raises the question is this the kind of company that American consumers should be allowed to do business with.

Well, any secrets that I have about my insurance policies I give to the world when I hit age 150.

Why should Holocaust victims, why should victims of the Armenian genocide, why should the Roma victims of the Nazis not get this same benefit of a list?

We shouldn't just focus on the Jewish victims of the World War II era but all those whose families were destroyed and whose insurance was never known about and never paid.

Thank you, Madam Chairman, for having these hearings to explore once again the horror of the Holocaust and to give us the honor and the education of being with Holocaust survivors.