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Judi Lynn

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Wed May 27, 2015, 06:15 PM May 2015

Some in congress working to curtail Obama’s advances on Cuba

Some in congress working to curtail Obama’s advances on Cuba

Sarah Stephens • May 23, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Step-by-step, legislation is working its way through Congress to curtail much of the progress President Obama is making in U.S.-Cuba relations by cutting the funds needed by federal agencies to implement his new policies.

We ask: Will those who benefit most from the new policies that encourage travel and trade with Cuba do nothing but stand on the sidelines in the expectation that President Obama will veto the bills that reverse them?

In 2011, after President Obama reinstated the rules allowing Cuban Americans to visit their relatives on the island and permitting all Americans to send remittances to Cubans, hardliners used the budget process to prevent the policies from being implemented.

Back then, the White House issued a policy statement promising to veto the legislation unless the budget riders on Cuba were removed. The President’s supporters, who comprised the majority in the Senate, kept the provisions out of the big budget bills that finally emerged from paralysis and delays on Capitol Hill. Legislation reversing the modest but hopeful travel and remittance reforms never reached the President’s desk.

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http://progresoweekly.us/some-in-congress-working-to-curtail-obamas-advances-on-cuba/

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