[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 419]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 PLACATING THE COMMUNIST REGIME OF 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, it is truly astonishing that President 
Obama is asking Congress and the American people to applaud and reward 
the Castro regime for releasing 53 innocent people from its gulags 
today while ignoring the fact that over 1,000 were arrested last year.
  These individuals were imprisoned for expressing their basic rights 
as human beings, and for seeking reforms on the island based on the 
universal and fundamental principle of freedom.
  What a pathetically low bar President Obama has set. This 
administration has shown, time and again, that it is more willing to 
appease tyrants than to fulfill America's role as the defender of 
freedom, of democracy, and respect for human rights.
  President Obama's concessions to the Castro regime further illustrate 
that he is willing to abandon American core principles of liberty and 
justice in order to placate a dangerous regime.

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