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Bob Menendez: Do you think helping a regime that is oppressive of its people; that violates every principle that not only we, as…

On the recordMarch 15, 2011
Do you think helping a regime that is oppressive of its people; that violates every principle that not only we, as Americans, have, but the International Charter has; that doubling--doubling--its reserves to $5.7 billion, which only gets used in its security apparatus; and that permits--permits--interchanges with the Committee to Defend the Revolution, which ultimately is a block watch organization that oppresses every Cuban in every village, in every hamlet, that's good policy?
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez questions the policy of aiding an oppressive Cuban regime.

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