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On the recordApril 7, 2014
If we did not have our embargo, you would have so many American companies down there, fighting for the chance to do this and very openly doing it, it would have accomplished a lot more than this program did.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy criticizes the embargo's impact on American companies' involvement in Cuba.

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