[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 1435]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  CUBA

  Mr. CARPER. Mr. President, while Senator Durbin is still on the 
floor, I wish to say very briefly that we came to the House of 
Representatives a few years ago in 1983, and we didn't get a lot of 
time to speak on the House floor--maybe 1 minute a day if we were 
lucky. We would say when we were debating, when we agreed with 
somebody: I would like to be associated with the remarks of the 
gentleman from Illinois.
  I would very much like to be associated with the remarks of the 
Senator from Illinois.
  I served three tours in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war. We 
have most-favored-nation trading status, and they enjoy most-favored-
nation trading status with us today.
  I like to work out and run. I like to run in the mornings. The 
mornings I stay here, I run down to the Lincoln Memorial, come back by 
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and I am reminded of the 55,000 lives 
that we lost in that war. Yet we enjoy normal diplomatic relations with 
that country, and they enjoy most-favored-nation status with us. If we 
can come to this point with Vietnam--after all the loss of life and 
cost--we should certainly be able to move things along with Cuba. So I 
applaud what the Senator has said.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I be added as a cosponsor 
to S. 299.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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