[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3531]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                    PRESIDENT'S BIZARRE TRIP TO CUBA

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, in a letter to the 
President, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce revealed, 
``Since your administration announced normalized relations with Havana, 
the regime's repression of basic human rights has gone from bad to 
worse. In the first 2 months of 2016 alone, the Cuban Commission for 
Human Rights has documented a staggering 2,588 political arrests. In 
spite of this, reports suggest that you will soon announce . . . more 
one-sided concessions that will serve to shore up the communist Castro 
regime.''
  While visiting Havana, the President supports plans to end the 
embargo, yet ignores the fact that increased trade will not reach the 
Cuban people. It will benefit the Cuban military and intelligence 
agencies which have stolen Cuba's most profitable industries. The 
President's bizarre legacy has led to more repression as the failed 
socialist dictatorship is propped up.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and may the President, by his 
actions, never forget September the 11th in the global war on 
terrorism.
  Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Belgium and Prime 
Minister Charles Michel as the global war on terrorism continues.

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