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On the recordJune 7, 1995
This bill reduces spending by $3 billion over the next 2 years, and reforms our foreign policy institutions by folding three agencies into the State Department. Five recent Secretaries of State--Eagleburger, Baker, Shultz, Haig, and Kissinger--endorse this plan. The bill addresses important policy issues. It stops aid to countries that supply weapons to terrorist States and those who vote consistently against us in the United Nations. It cuts off aid to countries that provide aid to the Castro regime or which engage in subsidized trade with the Cuban dictatorship. Tomorrow, freedom-loving people are rallying at noon in Lafayette Park in front of the White House to protest the administration's policy of forcible repatriation of Cuban refugees. I encourage all of my colleagues to join in this protest and to demand a reaffirmation of this country's commitment to freedom and democracy in Cuba, and please support our bill this week.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Discussing the American Overseas Interests Act and its implications for U.S. foreign policy.

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