Joaquin Castro: “I have no further requests at this time, and I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to…”

“I have no further requests at this time, and I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. First, I thank the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the ranking member, Mr. Nunes, for their strong support of this bill. It is very important. I will be introducing a bill next week on this, and I hope to work with the House Intelligence Committee on that as well. I am very concerned the administration may be planning to send U.S. personnel back to our Havana Embassy. I just got off of a big rally across the street from the White House with a lot of Cubans. They are searching for freedom and democracy over tyranny, oppression, and communism. But our personnel, we can't send them back until we can say who or what caused these brain injuries that prompted the Trump administration to pull our people out of there for their own safety in 2017. Over these last few weeks, the world has watched Cuba's brutal police state in action. The Venezuelan military is there as well, silencing people just for exercising freedom of speech, which they don't have under a communist dictatorship. The same surveillance system that tracks dissidents and censors the internet has been unwilling to share necessary information about these attacks against Americans. I have no doubt that Cuban intelligence is involved in this. If the administration sends U.S.…”