Ben Cardin actually said...

"Cuba is an authoritarian state where elections are neither free nor fair."

"if you had the additional resources, we would not only get better compliance--which is our responsibility, to make sure we have compliance--we would get greater revenue, which would help those taxpaye..."

"It is a peculiar kind--the worst kind, in my mind--the worst kind of class warfare by people who are paid good salaries and get good pensions and health care from the government."

"What leverage will we exercise over Cuba in regard to our expectations that they will make progress on these internationally recognized human rights standards?"