Political Quotes

“I will relinquish the floor if colleagues come and wish to offer amendments to the FAA bill. That is what I prefer happen at the moment. Travel to Cuba Mr. President, I wish to visit in morning business about legislation that Senator Mike Enzi from Wyoming and I have worked on now for some long while. It has 38 cosponsors, 38 Senators cosponsoring, Republicans and Democrats. It deals with the question of travel to Cuba. As you know, what we have at the moment and have had since 1962 is a prohibition on the American people's ability to travel to the country of Cuba. Cuba rests about 90 miles off our shore. We have, obviously, had massive disagreements with the Castro regime for many years. In order to punish the Castro regime, we have restricted the rights of the American people to travel. We can travel unimpeded to many other countries. We can travel to Communist China. We can travel to Vietnam, a Communist country. We can travel to North Korea, if you can get a visa to get in. No restrictions there. The American people just cannot travel to Cuba. Let me describe the absurdity of this which leads Senator Enzi and me to offer this legislation. We have not offered it on the underlying bill today, but we will offer it on an authorization bill in the near future. With 38 cosponsors, we feel this bill would pass the Senate with some ease. Let me point out that the New York Philharmonic Orchestra is the oldest symphony orchestra in America, founded in 1842.…”