Bob Menendez: “after 10 years in the House, and as the ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, it is amazing on…”

“after 10 years in the House, and as the ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, it is amazing on an issue that is vital to my district and my constituency how I have to fight for time on the floor, but I appreciate the gentleman yielding me this time. President Bush came to this Chamber and said of countries who support terrorism, you are either with us or you are against us. It is amazing to me how I have heard some of my colleagues come to the floor and begin to equivocate. I remember the standing ovation the President received when he said that, about whether some terrorists are okay and others are not. For the purposes of this amendment, let me just put Cuba under Castro in context. On May 10, 2001, Castro visited Iran and he said, ``Iran and Cuba in cooperation with each other can bring America to its knees. The United States regime is very weak, and we are witnessing this weakness from up close.'' Then we found out that Ana Montes, who was a senior analyst for our Defense Intelligence Agency of the United States, was a Cuban spy. She gave us all of the wrong information and analysis on Cuba, and gave the Cubans and Castro all of the sensitive information she had as a senior analyst on the United States, and she was specifically instructed to discredit Cuban defectors' reports of Cuba's biological weapons development. Then we saw the Cuban spy ring in the south of Florida.…”