[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 119 (Saturday, August 20, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 20, 1994]
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                TIME FOR NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH CUBA

  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, now that it appears as though the Castro 
government is prepared to just throw the Cubans into the water to show 
how much they have got to do to thumb their nose at the United States, 
I think after 30 years it is time for these two nations to come 
together and try to normalize their relationship.
  For so many years what we have done is invited everyone to come to 
this country from Cuba just because it was Cuba. But now the President 
has changed this, and he says that they now have to prove that they are 
running away from persecution.
  We have stopped sending food and medicine there. We have had an 
embargo from our country on their country, and now it appears that we 
are waiting for them to overthrow Castro. That is not going to happen. 
What they are going to do is overthrow Miami if we do not do something 
about it.
  It is time to sit down and work out some sensible immigration 
policies. It is time to sit down and decide to at least allow us to 
send food and medicine to Cuba, to sit down and see whether or not in 
this hemisphere we can talk about the North American Free-Trade 
Agreement and we can talk about the Caribbean Basin Initiative and get 
on with the job of trade instead of fighting the cold war.

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