For the first time, certainly in my time in the Senate and probably in a decade, when something is going on in Cuba now, a human rights abuse, any sort of outrage, it now is news in the United States.

Give me an example of a policy like this that you are implementing here today that has led, in the 20th or 21st century, into a reluctant tyranny becoming a democracy.

I have deep reservations and in many instances direct opposition to many of the changes that we are going to review here today.

I hope that in a future Cuba, you will be able to organize yourselves into political parties if you so choose.

Can you categorically say today we will never accept that condition on our personnel?

Did the negotiators reach out to you as someone in charge of the human rights portfolio?

I find this concerning given the fact that these are the two individuals who the administration put forward in negotiating the deal.

I believe every member of this committee this morning, as I do the vast majority of Americans and policymakers, share the goals of democracy and freedom on the island of Cuba.

The Cuban people are the only people in this hemisphere that have not had a free and fair election in the last decade and a half.

Their views on human rights are not legitimate. They are immoral.

The reason why people in Cuba do not have access to the Internet ultimately is because the Cuban Government will not allow it.