One of the reasons that the Castro regime arrested Alan Gross was to try to chill the very essence of what our democracy programs are inside of Cuba.

I find it very difficult to understand some of the administration's views as it relates to strengthening civil society inside of Cuba.

Radio Marti as an indispensable tool in the flow of information inside for the Cuban people.

the chair is cognizant of members of the Castro regime who are here from the Cuban Interests Section, taking notes of everything that has been said.

It is a reality inside of Cuba that one can face repression, torture, or imprisonment simply for speaking one's mind or simply for coming together in common cause to organize.

And those successes ultimately can be justified in the context of record numbers of imprisonments?

Radio Marti was very important to free information inside of Cuba.

Do you dispute that the largest increase in reserves to the Castro regime is a combination of remittances and travel money that is going into Cuba?

We have never permitted our worldwide democracy or surrogate broadcasting programs to be impinged upon by either jamming or policies of a regime.

So what happens when you--so those are the people who take the information of repression inside of Cuba and tell the rest of the world. What is crossing the line?

I was unavoidably detained for rollcall vote No. 114 on the nomination of Timothy S. Hillman to be a United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts. Had I been present, I would have voted yea. ____________________

I do not want to see a repeat of 2008.