David Skaggs: “I have to say to them that we have tried and tried and tried, and this simply does not work. It is not, as the gentleman…”

“I have to say to them that we have tried and tried and tried, and this simply does not work. It is not, as the gentleman from New Jersey suggested a moment ago, a question of political will. Political will cannot repeal the law of physics, and it is the basic electronics of this that make it doomed to failure. To compare it with radio is to do the apples and oranges thing. Yes, radio works, and all of the statistics cited I would not refute because they are radio statistics, and I am not touching Radio Marti. It does get through. Although a few years ago I criticized it and attempted to cut funding for it, it has reformed and it is now a legitimate, worthy operation. I just ask my colleagues again to stop the insult to the American taxpayer of spending $10 million year in and year out to send no-see TV to Cuba. Stopping this will be a victory for them, not cause for celebration for Castro, because we will continue to penetrate that closed society with Radio Marti.”