Article: Senate Panel OKs End of Cuba Travel Ban

JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
11-07-2003
Dateline: WASHINGTON
The Senate moved on several fronts Thursday to make it easier for Americans to travel to and do business with Cuba, setting up a confrontation with the White House, which says the president will veto any legislation that weakens current U.S. restrictions on such contacts.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 13-5 in favor of legislation to end the Cuba travel ban first imposed by President Kennedy in 1963.

The legislation, sponsored by a bipartisan group headed by Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., would bar the president from restricting travel to Cuba, except when the two countries are at war.

Enzi also joined Sen. ...

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