Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
United States Representative, Florida, Republican
Representative Ros-Lehtinen, of the Eighteenth District of Florida, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election held in August 1989. She served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1982 to 1986 and in the Florida Senate from 1986 to 1989. She sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, which she chaired from 2011 to 2013. The following is from a March 22, 2015, House floor statement on “Lack of Liberty and Freedom in Cuba.” In 2014, President Obama said he wanted to go to Cuba if, and I quote, “I, with confidence, can say that…
