Roy Blunt: “I think this amendment is ill conceived. It can produce unknown results. We do not change the law, but we do not provide…”

“I think this amendment is ill conceived. It can produce unknown results. We do not change the law, but we do not provide any funds to enforce the law. As the gentleman from California pointed out earlier, the whole sanctioning process, the whole way to get an ability to work around the sanctions is not available if we cannot enforce the law. It confuses the question of whether or not U.S. credit can be available to Cuba if we cannot enforce the sanction law; does that mean Cuba has access to U.S. Government programs. On our side of the aisle, we have had good-faith negotiations to try to come up with a position that we were comfortable with where both sides gave, where we would in fact deal with the fact that Cuba is handled differently in the law than other countries and clarify that in a way that helps American farmers but does not help Castro. I think this amendment confuses that. I urge my colleagues to vote against it.”