Nita Lowey: “On Venezuela, we have a responsibility, of course, as the United States, to speak up on behalf of those who are seeking…”

I am delighted to yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters), the chair of the Committee on Financial Services.

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Schrier).

MEPPA offers the one thing that has always stood between proven civil society initiatives and widespread change: the promise of sufficient peacebuilding resources.

We cannot allow a return to a familiar and unstable status quo which repeatedly increases violence and animosity while rendering a final resolution of the conflict impossible.