Andrea Joy Campbell: “whenever an economic sanction has worked in our history, whether it be South Africa, Haiti, Iraq, or even worked in…”

“whenever an economic sanction has worked in our history, whether it be South Africa, Haiti, Iraq, or even worked in part, it is because our allies have agreed with it. What we do today alienates our allies at a time when we need them most. It is not out of any concern for investors in Canada or investors in Spain that I rise in opposition to title III of this bill. It is precisely because I want to put pressure on Fidel Castro's Cuba. But I know that the only way to put effective pressure, whether it be a sugar embargo, a tobacco embargo, limited sanctions or a total quarantine, is when we have our trading partners and our allies with us. Today, for the first time in the history of American jurisprudence, we are applying a law not to goods that come into our country, not to acts that happen within our country, but to goods and acts that are outside of our country. However great our outrage, that is not American jurisprudence. That is extraterritoriality. It drives our allies away at a time we need them most.”