Chris Dodd said "To Cuban Americans who want to travel to Cuba--many do-- this is, in a sense, saying you can only go back to the country of your birth once during a year, unless you have a sick relative, and then you have to apply to some bureaucrat in the Treasury Department to go down and see your family. That is wrong. But the idea that Cuban Americans would be restricted to Varadero Beach is just not the case. You can talk with Cuban Americans who have been back to Cuba. They are not restrained on where they can travel in Cuba." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 30, 1999

To Cuban Americans who want to travel to Cuba--many do-- this is, in a sense, saying you can only go back to the country of your birth once during a year, unless you have a sick relative, and then you have to apply to some bureaucrat in the Treasury Department to go down and see your family. That is wrong. But the idea that Cuban Americans would be restricted to Varadero Beach is just not the case. You can talk with Cuban Americans who have been back to Cuba. They are not restrained on where they can travel in Cuba.

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Chris Dodd

Democratic · Connecticut

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing travel restrictions for Cuban Americans during a floor speech.

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