Sam Farr: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, this is the bill, and the language that we are trying to strike out…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, this is the bill, and the language that we are trying to strike out reads: ``None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to facilitate new scheduled air transportation originating from the United States if such flights would land on, or pass through, property confiscated by the Cuban Government, including property in which a minority interest was confiscated, as the terms confiscated, the Cuban Government, and property are defined in'' the paragraphs below. This is just a job killer for Americans. We have a hundred thousand Americans who are visiting Cuba illegally. You know how they get there? They go to Mexico. Who gets the business? Mexican airlines. They go to Canada. Who gets the business? Canadian airlines. Or, any other country in the world that has normal travel relationships with Cuba. You are just cutting off the ability for American enterprise to get access to Cuba, where everybody wants to go, because there are family feuds going on here, because it is including property which has a minority interest. How are the airlines, how are the people going to decide what property has been confiscated, who is the ownership title? Those are big legalistic problems in the United States when we confiscate property to build freeways or railways. This amendment really screws up the ability for America to be involved in a business that Americans want to do. They want to travel.…”