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Robert Torricelli: “I don't know how a Member of this Senate tomorrow morning could call the families of the victims of Pan Am 103, who are…”

On the recordJuly 15, 1998
I don't know how a Member of this Senate tomorrow morning could call the families of the victims of Pan Am 103, who are now suing to get financial reimbursement for the loss of their loved ones from Qadhafi, and now suggest that we are going to be financing food exports to Libya or Cuba. Not only are we not selling, but we will be financing. This brings us back to where we were with Saddam Hussein when the gulf war started. How could we explain to any American that, while American soldiers were having to fight in Iraq, Iraqi soldiers were eating food not only made in the United States but financed by American taxpayers? That would be returned to. Senator Graham and I specifically prohibited medical devices because there was evidence that Fidel Castro was using medical devices made in the United States to torture and interrogate prisoners in Cuba. That is the sum and substance of what the Senate faces.
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Robert Torricelli
New Jersey
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Discussing the implications of financing food exports to Libya and Cuba during Senate debate.

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