Albio Sires

the rhetoric coming out of the White House when he calls shithole countries, he calls people from Western Hemisphere criminals, sick, and everything else.

the rhetoric out of the White House seems to be let's look inward, not let's look outward.

the tactics are the same and how do you coordinate fighting this?

This resolution highlights the deteriorating situation in Venezuela and the regional humanitarian crisis it has caused.

The resolution supports the findings of the Organization of American States' panel of experts that states that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the government of Nicolas Maduro has committed crimes against humanity.

President Trump stood next to Vladimir Putin and took his side over the American people and our intelligence community.

I believe that sanctions are the way to go, and it seems like we pass sanctions and you're getting more and more work and more and more sanctions to look after.

The situation in Nicaragua is an outrage. They have killed more than 300 people in the past few months with targeted assassinations.

It is unacceptable that the administration continues to cozy up to the Russians at the expense of our security and safety.

I probably represent the most congested area in the country.

For the purpose of closing. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this measure. In response to Ortega's brutal crackdown on peaceful protests and human rights violations, H. Res. 981 condemns the violence, persecution, and intimidation…

I hope that we don't go through with that. I hope that we can get the NICA bill through the Senate.

I support the resolution condemning the violence and persecution and intimidation by the Ortega government in Nicaragua.

I am always amazed at the audacity of these people like Ortega. He goes and puts his wife as vice president.

I have also worked with my friend, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, to pass a Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act to hold the regime accountable for its misuse of international loans.

That is why my colleagues, Representative Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Engel, Chairman Cook, and I have introduced a bipartisan resolution condemning the ongoing violence in Nicaragua and urging the administration to impose sanctions on…

The United States cannot stand idly by and ignore the demands of the Nicaraguan people while the Ortegas and his confidantes push the country undoubtedly toward a civil war.

To me, if anybody continues to deal or work or invest with this Ortega thug, we have to find a way of stopping that.

I think that we have to really start focusing more on the Western Hemisphere and what is going on in the Western Hemisphere.

Why should we allow them to have loans from financial institutions when they go and spend $80 billion on Russian tanks to oppress their people?

I think that while we sleep, there are people out there plotting, and basically I am talking about China, I am talking about Russia, I am talking even about Iran.

I think we have to bring some sort of pressure on these governments to realize you just can't run over people and just expect us, the United States, to not do anything.

I hope that the State Department makes an effort to really concentrate on the safety of the Coptic Christians in Egypt.

I represent the largest Coptic Christian community in New Jersey and I am always very concerned about the security.

And I just want to follow up on my good friend from Florida on some of the things that he said.