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Article: REPUBLICAN LEADERS SAVE TRAVEL BAN AS ADMINISTRATION INTENSIFIES CRACKDOWN ON TRIPS TO CUBA.
- Article from:
- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- December 18, 2003
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Congressional leaders killed an amendment that would have crippled the 40-year-old restrictions on travel to Cuba. An amendment, sponsored by a bipartisan coalition led by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), would have deprived the Treasury Department of funds to enforce currency controls, which severely inhibit free travel to Cuba. Legislation passed in 1963 makes spending money in Cuba by anyone except travelers holding Treasury Department licenses a criminal offense subject to heavy fines and prison time.
The amendment to derail the restrictions was attached to a large spending bill to fund the Treasury and Transportation departments, ...