Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “Mr. Speaker, I vigorously, obviously, disagree with the merits of what the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley)…”

“Mr. Speaker, I vigorously, obviously, disagree with the merits of what the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley) has just said. The gentleman from Massachusetts has a number of others who are here ready to speak and consistently come forth with subterfuges to hide their support for a brutal regime that has maintained itself for 40 years. He has a right, and they have a right, to admire and to support that regime. But I will not accept from the gentleman . . . There is no community in this United States, sir, that would accept a Member of Congress getting up and saying, like you have said, 'the Miami community got word of it.' No community. No community in the United States. No ethnic community in the United States would accept that, whether it is the Boston Irish community or any community in any city, and I do not accept it. And you owe, sir--you can have all the views you wish, but you owe an apology to that community in South Florida . . .”