Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “I think it is quite curious that the distinguished gentleman from Colorado [Mr. Skaggs] began his remarks by saying this…”

“I think it is quite curious that the distinguished gentleman from Colorado [Mr. Skaggs] began his remarks by saying this is not about Cuba and this is not about Castro. It is very much about Cuba, about Castro, and about the oppression that the Cuban people have to live day in and day out at the hands of the dictatorship and that denial, the attempt to deny information to the Cuban people that is so primary in the agenda of the Cuban dictatorship. The gentleman from Colorado must have forgotten that, in 1994, in this Congress, we paid for this report, Mr. Chairman, this report, two volumes, and we had an agreement that we would support the creation of this panel and that the panel would be asked, after its creation, some very clear questions and would have to report not only to the administration but then that the director of the USIA would have to report to Congress based on this report.”