Bob Menendez: “it is not lack of interest of the Cuban people but the jamming which has prevented it, and we have means to circumvent…”

“it is not lack of interest of the Cuban people but the jamming which has prevented it, and we have means to circumvent that. The fact of the matter is that if in fact we move to the UHF opportunity, broadcasting to Cuba would neither interfere with Cuban broadcasting nor United States stations. The Cuban Government would have no present jamming capacity on a UHF process. These broadcasts could occur at any time. And it is both technically feasible and cost effective to switch TV Marti to UHF. The fact of the matter is we have an opportunity for peaceful diplomacy to the people of Cuba. The same messages that we used to use in Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, those are the types of messages we want to send to TV Marti. We have never accepted another country's jamming of our surrogate broadcasting to be a reason to stop that broadcasting. We should not do it in the case of Television Marti. Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to give the President of the United States the opportunity to truly pursue his foreign policy goals.”