Robert Torricelli: “I never thought, however, Mr. Speaker, that I would hear a day when Members of Congress would come to the floor while…”

“I never thought, however, Mr. Speaker, that I would hear a day when Members of Congress would come to the floor while the bodies of four Americans are still lost in the Straits of Florida, having been murdered by Fidel Castro, talking about consideration for Canadian investors, worrying about European corporations while there are still hundreds of American corporations whose property was stolen from them and is being resold; consideration for the Canadian investors, worrying about the Spanish companies, extraterritoriality. People are going to American courts under this bill, I would say to the gentleman from California [Mr. Campbell], because the Cuban courts are unavailable. If they could get their grievances redressed in Cuban courts for the last 30 years, they would have gone there. They would have gone there. They cannot. So we are opening ours up. Consideration for our European allies? If this were an island in the Mediterranean, 35 years later, hundreds of people in jail, planes being shot down off our coast, do my colleagues think we would be silent? As allies, we would have been there demanding elections and freedom and taking a stand.”