José E. Serrano: “it is very troubling when you come to the well and speak and have the full realization that nothing you say will finally…”

“it is very troubling when you come to the well and speak and have the full realization that nothing you say will finally sway the vote. This bill will pass and the President will sign it, because the President has been advised that Miami has votes that he can pick up. I will support him in New York, and he has a lot of votes in New York. But he has no votes in Miami, and that is the travesty of this situation. What we have here is more of the same. It is more of a policy that has not worked. It has not worked for those of us who feel that the Cubans should be left alone to determine their own destiny, and it has not worked for those who wanted to get the Cuban Government to throw out Fidel Castro and hang him by his toenails. Except that this time, Mr. Speaker, as has been stated on this floor, it goes further. It goes deeper. Now we are telling our allies that we have no respect for their own sovereignty.”