WASHINGTON -- Highlighting the plight of four dissidents in Cuba, leaders on both sides of Capitol Hill are pushing bipartisan resolutions to condemn the Cuban government for human rights abuses.

In the House, Miami Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has introduced a measure criticizing Cuba's ``great repression of internal dissent'' and calling on the Clinton administration to ``take all steps necessary'' to secure a resolution condemning Cuba's rights record at the upcoming U.N. Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva.

A spokesman for the International Affairs Committee said Thursday that the House resolution will be considered by the committee next week, with a vote on the House floor possible by March 23.

Ros-Lehtinen's resolution has the support of the GOP leadership, including International Relations Chairman Benjamin Gilman of New York, and Democrats Peter Deutsch and Robert Wexler of South Florida, and Steve Rothman and Bob Menendez of New Jersey.

In the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, senators heard an impromptu debate Wednesday on the embargo while conducting a hearing on a similar resolution condemning Cuba that is backed by Chairman Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and Florida's two senators, Democrat Bob Graham and Republican Connie Mack.

One Cuban exile, Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, condemned the embargo as ``an insult to Cubans'' that helped keep Castro in power. But two others -- Luis Zuñiga, president of the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, and Frank Calzon, director for the Center for a Free Cuba -- said it had helped weaken the Cuban military and had forced some economic reforms on the island.