Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

In the long run, more democratic governments are also stable and reliable allies.

Promoting democracy and governance is not only important for supporting American values, but it is also in our national security interests.

I have no further requests for time, so I will wait for Mr. Deutch to close on his time. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

We look forward to hearing from you in a classified setting to know the efforts that we are undertaking to seek the liberation of United States permanent resident Nizar Zakka.

Our subcommittee looks forward to working with you in evolving U.S. policy toward Lebanon.

How much is Embassy Beirut spending? Are we involved in helping governance, the rule of law, civil society, pro-Western political parties?

It is abundantly clear that at this point this fanciful notion that if only we come to a nuclear agreement with Iran first, then Iran would be willing to engage on the rest of its illicit activity has proven to be just that, fanciful.

I hope that our colleagues will indeed stand with us. I hope that this resolution sends a strong message to Iran that this practice will not be tolerated. And I hope that it sends a strong message to our own administration that Congress is…

H.R. 1918, the Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act (NICA) of 2017 is a bipartisan bill that I authored alongside my colleague, Albio Sires.

I oppose loans at international financial institutions for the Government of Nicaragua unless they hold free elections.

Over 7.7 million Venezuelans voted against Maduro's regime and in favor of freedom and the constitution and the rule of law.

Representatives Ros-Lehtinen, Clarke, Love, and I led a bipartisan letter to the Appropriations Committee rejecting this proposed cut.

I am extremely troubled by the draconian cuts to the FY 2018 international affairs budget proposed by President Trump and Secretary Tillerson.

Jordan remains a vital partner in the fight against ISIS, and its stability and security are top priorities for the region.

We need to honor our obligations and guarantee that Israel is able to maintain its qualitative military edge.

I believe we have many good programs that should not be cut just for the sake of scaling back.

I would kindly give you a list of more human rights violators of Venezuela whom we would like the administration to place on the sanctions list.

The budget proposal zeroed out budget programs in Cuba.

I asked our Ambassador to please look into the visa restrictions that we placed--previous administration--in 2009.

I firmly stand with Baha'i community in the U.S. and Iran in calling for an end to this horrific religious persecution.

It is vital that we speak with one voice and that we speak consistently in upholding rule of law and universal human rights.

The notion that they could be separate wings of a terrorist organization and that one wing is bad, and full of terrorists, but the other wing is merely a political organization; that is an absurd thought.

We are pleased to take up Ted Lieu's House Resolution 218--thank you, Mr. Lieu--recognizing the importance of that economic relationship and encouraging new areas of cooperation.

The European Union needs to wake up, and we must urge it and its member states to designate the whole of Hezbollah as the terrorists that they are.

House Resolution 317, which calls upon Iran to release unconditionally all U.S. citizens, U.S. legal permanent resident aliens, and foreign nationals that the regime has unjustly detained and is holding hostage.