María Elvira Salazar

President Ronald Reagan warned in 1985 that America has an unrelenting obligation to halt communist penetration in our hemisphere. If we fail to meet this obligation, we will send the unmistakable signal that the greatest power in the…

Most federal government agencies, like the SBA, are required to have an annual independent audit.

You cannot solve one--you cannot help one by attacking the other. We have got to help both.

October 7th of 2023 is the day that we live in infamy in the history of the Jewish people.

But the only thing that we could do is force them to behave well and not to send the wrong message to their populations in Latin America that being antisemitic or anti-Jew is OK.

Basically what it does is that the pie, it cuts the pie, the big pie of a government contract and gives big pieces to the small guy.

This is the way we have to work in Congress, in a bipartisan fashion.

What a fantastic bill.

How can we help this Administration to really help those small business owners in Cuba, I repeat, that have no contact or connections with the regime in order to open up a good store if they want to or to have their own privately owned…

the Cuban revolution is probably the most cruel and the most repressive revolution that the Western Hemisphere has seen since the arrival of Christopher Columbus.

the least thing that the Cuban regime--what the Cuban regime wants is for Democrats and Republicans to work together to help the average Cuban person.

the reasoning is because Barbara Lee, who I know is a distinguished member of the Democratic Party, is friends with the oppressors and not with the Cuban people.

she has been able to express her admiration for Fidel Castro.

I wish the Biden Administration took the issue of human rights in America as seriously, as you were saying, he takes them in Cuba.

That's called slavery.

the United States would be a very close friend of the Cuban people if the Cuban regime decides tomorrow morning to lift the embargo they have on their people.

But it's not only review the list. It's working with us and my office to make sure that those people that have no contact with the Cuban government be able to obtain the licenses because since the Biden Administration is so interested in…

We are doing something right in Florida that apparently other States are not.

That is not the American way. The American way, 60 percent of business in the United States is composed of people like you.

I have presented a law called the Dignity Act, which does that, and burn at the stake child sex traffickers.

Murillo and Ortega are the Devil on Nicaragua. So that's why we are resisting them.

The problem is that H.R. 2, which is the law that we passed, needs some teeth for it to become the law of the land.

Thanks to you, Mr. Chairman, and you are the distinguished one, Representative Smith, for putting together this hearing and always caring about the people from Nicaragua.

we will not rest so long as we're in this position and we will not forget that they are two heartless dictators

Let's stop right there. Yes. OK. Let's try to deport them.