[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 16 (Tuesday, February 15, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H592]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                CUBAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD FREE DR. BISCET

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, the Cuban Government thinks that our top 
diplomat to their nation, James Cason, is a fourth-rate bureaucrat 
whose mission is to deceive and subvert.
  Well, I think he will be the first to admit that if promoting the 
human rights of all Cubans is subversive, then that is exactly what his 
mission is. And let me be among the first to say, Mr. Cason is no 
fourth-rate bureaucrat. No fourth-rate bureaucrat would so openly share 
the story of Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet.
  Dr. Biscet is a physician who has courageously stood for human rights 
and today sits in a tiny prison cell imprisoned for peaceful protest in 
April of 2003.
  Despite Cuban propaganda, Dr. Biscet is sick and has been denied food 
and medical attention by his captors. The Cuban Government should allow 
Dr. Biscet medical care, and it should unconditionally and immediately 
release him.
  Dr. Biscet, we stand with you. And if we had more fourth-rate 
bureaucrats like James Cason, our world would be a much better place.

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