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Jeff Flake: I would submit not very much. But yet the same ones who support increasing this funding by five times also will not…

On the recordJune 21, 2007
I would submit not very much. But yet the same ones who support increasing this funding by five times also will not support allowing individuals to visit their own family members in Cuba and take toothpaste or clothing items or even to take a fishing poll so that poor Cubans might supplement their meager diets. That, according to the group that wants to increase funding here, should be outlawed. We should continue to outlaw that but increase taxpayer funding for a program that the GAO says there was intense mismanagement, cronyism.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Discussing funding for a program related to Cuba and criticizing its mismanagement.

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