Congressman Flake Introduces Bill Permitting Americans to Travel to Cuba
Bill Introduced with Ways and Means Chairman Rangel
Washington, D.C.,
Jan 25, 2007 -
Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today introduced legislation (H.R. 654) that would lift the ban on Americans traveling to Cuba.
Congressman Flake introduced the bill with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel.
“For nearly fifty years our current Cuba policy has done little to bring democracy to Cuba,” asked Flake. “A new approach is long overdue.”
“Far from hastening democratic reforms, our current policy has given Fidel Castro a convenient scapegoat for his own regime’s failures. With the Cuban government taking new shape, we shouldn’t give the new leader the same excuses we’ve given the old one.”
Congressman Flake, a critic of the U.S.’s current Cuba policy, believes that the most effective way to hasten democratic reforms in Cuba is to ease trade and travel restrictions currently imposed by the U.S.
