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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chairwoman and Miami Representative María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) sent a letter to President Biden demanding asylum for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó and his family, who remain in Venezuela.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Chairwoman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee María Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27) met with President Gustavo Petro of Colombia ahead of his meeting on Thursday with President Biden.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Mark Green (R-TN), and Carlos Giménez (R-FL) sent a letter to the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) lambasting the organization for avoiding accountability over its role in helping the Cuban regime traffic thousands of doctors and healthcare professionals to Brazil between 2013 and 2018. The U.S. State Department categorizes the Cuban medical missions as “forced labor” as this is a form of modern-day slavery.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), and Mark Green, M.D. (R-TN) introduced a bill to provide substantial funding to the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) for the next half-decade.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), in conjunction with Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Mary Miller (R-IL), André Carson (D-IN), Darren Soto (D-FL), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), introduced the Panama Canal Zone Veterans Act. This bill provides Panama Canal veterans access to the healthcare they deserve to treat illness contracted through exposure to deadly herbicides.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Chair of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, announced that her bill H.R. 314, the FORCE Act, passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) markup process with bipartisan support.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, Representatives María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA), Co-Chairs of the House Tuberculosis Elimination Caucus, reintroduced the End Tuberculosis Now Act of 2023, bipartisan legislation to strengthen U.S. efforts to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) worldwide.
Washington, D.C. — On Thursday, Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chairwoman María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), participated in a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, in which she interrogated U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on matters impacting Cuba, Argentina and the Dominican Republic.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Salazar issued the following statement after voting ‘Yes’ on H.R. 5, the ‘Parents Bill of Rights Act,’ which passed the U.S. House of Representatives today on a 213-208 vote:
Washington, D.C. – Today, Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chairwoman María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) co-hosted a hearing with Human Rights Subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith (R-NJ) on the dire situation Nicaraguan Catholics are facing because of the Ortega-Murillo regime’s systematic persecution of the Roman Catholic Church in