[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 326]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            HELLFIRE MISSILE

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, last week we were made aware of an 
extremely serious security breach that resulted in the Castro regime 
taking possession of a U.S. Hellfire missile.
  It is reprehensible to think that while the Obama administration 
conducted secret negotiations with a communist regime that had under 
its control sensitive U.S. military hardware, the White House 
negotiators chose to do nothing about it. The State Department has 
known about Castro having Hellfire missiles since June of 2004. 
Apparently, what is the rush?
  Cuba continuously engages in military cooperation with our foes and 
could easily share the missile or its technology with the Russians, 
Chinese, or North Koreans to be used against our own national security.
  An exhaustive investigation must be held by Congress. I urge the 
administration to hold accountable those responsible for diverting the 
Hellfire missile to Cuba, and to hold accountable the criminal 
communist regime that still refuses to return this sensitive technology 
to us and continues to undermine our interests.

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