Posted on 07/23/2015 5:08:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A GOP-controlled Senate panel has voted to lift a decades-long ban on travel to Cuba, giving a boost to President Barack Obamas moves to ease travel restrictions and open up relations with the Castro-governed nation.
The Senate Appropriations Committee also voted to block enforcement of a law prohibiting banks and other U.S. businesses from financing sales of U.S. agricultural exports to Cuba.
The Obama administration issued rules in January to significantly ease travel restrictions to Cuba and allow regularly scheduled flights for the first time. The Senate Appropriations Committee 18-12 vote comes just days after the U.S. and Cuba formally ended more than a half-century of estrangement by re-establishing diplomatic relations cut off during the Cold War.
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Trump/Cruz
Sealing the fate of the GOP.
Pathetic.
There is not a week, a day, or an hour,
that the Give Obama Power party does not
.... give Obama more power.
Every day. Every second.
Is there anything they won’t do for Obama?
“We have the opportunity to increase the likelihood that Cuban people have greater liberties and freedom with the ability to connect with them,” said sponsor Jerry Moran, R-Kan. “I also would say that as Americans we have certain freedoms that we cherish, and Americans can travel around the globe today without exception - no country is totally prohibited with the exception of Cuba.”
Great we’ll have our choice of underage prostitutes when we get to Habana.
You think we could have played a little hardball and ask that the Cop killer be extradited to the US before any restrictions are lifted? Where the hell did our government get their negotiating skills; the French?
Good show GOP.
This Admin’s ‘negotiating skills’ are comparable to absolute, complete capitulation to America’s enemies.
NEXT...GOP Senate agrees to vacate GITMO.
It is, Castro is on his last legs and of course Obama couldn’t wait for him to die, he had to give him victory while he is still alive.
We have the most out of control /utterly amoral corrupt Senate and House leadership in our lifetime.
They are owned by Billionaires and foreign governments !
A Trump Presidency will stop their reign of terror on all of us.
And yet again this day we witness the triumph of lesser evil voters over the forces of conservatism.
Thanks guys!
They just want to go to Cuba and stock up on their Cuban cigars.
Turds
Insanity from communists.
Sickening.
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