We should be supporting these entrepreneurial efforts, not stifling them.

We must remove Cuba from the SSOT and end this baseless, extremely harmful designation.

I stand with the Cuban people in their fight for a government and society that protects human rights, advances democracy, and promotes economic development.

you're suppressing somebody from even sitting here and participating in the same way that the Cuban government has suppressed opinion and perspective for decades.

It would still represent a kind of transformation to a market-based economy, at least more than what you've seen right now.

This is the creation of a market-based economy, the beginnings of it at least?

this move to not allow one of our colleagues in the U.S. Congress who's been elected by the people she represents to sit and participate on a panel like this is, I think, unprecedented.

I want to say I support the proposed reforms and I hope that they ultimately get implemented.

I believe that the best way to achieve these goals is through a renewed approach to our engagement with the island, an approach that recognizes that our policies over the last 60 years have not resulted in the changes we would like to see.

I am circulating to the other members the Belarus Democracy Act and Human Rights and Sovereignty Act of 2023, which we hope to move as quickly as we can.

She has earned this position by showing enormous courage and principle, and many of us and I believe it, beyond any reasonable doubt, she won the election.