[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 93 (Thursday, June 8, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5693]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   WHITE HOUSE DEMONSTRATION WILL DRAMATIZE NEED FOR ADMINISTRATION 
                           SANCTIONS ON CUBA

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, today at noon the Cuban-American 
community will hold a rally in front of the White House to protest the 
immoral policy of the Clinton administration of repatriating freedom-
seeking Cubans who escaped their homeland for liberty in the United 
States.
  Through the accord, the Clinton administration once again has shown 
its foreign policy ineptitude, and specifically its lack of vision and 
effectiveness toward the formulation of a clear Cuba policy. Instead of 
supporting the desires for freedom for the Cuban people, the President 
has preferred to accept the empty promises from the ruler of a 
totalitarian state who promotes terrorism, and is about to finish 
construction of a potentially dangerous and unsafe nuclear powerplant 
just a few hundred miles from our shores. Yet, we hear only silence 
from the administration on these illicit acts by the Cuban dictator.
  I hope that the President takes a look from the White House at 
today's demonstration, so he can listen to the voices of those Cubans 
who were forced to leave their country in search of freedom, and from 
those who suffered from the oppressive hand of the Cuban dictator. 
Maybe then the President will realize the diabolical consequences of 
his failed policy and join us in implementing new sanctions against the 
Cuban tyrant.


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