Marshall Sanford: “I think that what was worked out with Cuba has a fatal flaw, and that is, if we propose to offer food and medicine…”

“I think that what was worked out with Cuba has a fatal flaw, and that is, if we propose to offer food and medicine without the ability to travel, I think we are making a real mistake. I would say that for a couple of different reasons. First of all, the present policy in Cuba has not worked. We changed welfare, because it supposedly did not work. Here we have a policy that has been in place for 40 years that has not worked, and we are not going to change it. That, to me, does not make common sense. Mr. Chairman, I would say also it does not make common sense from the standpoint of history, which interesting thing is, that one of the tools that Ronald Reagan used in changing things behind the Berlin Wall was travel, allowing young kids with backpacks to travel in the international community, in South Africa, apartheid South Africa, allowed people to travel, actually promoted the exchanges with young kids coming to America or American kids going there, so we had one-on-one personal diplomacy. It was key to changing things down there.”