Patrick Leahy actually said...

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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Leahy discusses the impact of the U.S. embargo on American companies in Cuba.

03/12/2014

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