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“SUPPORT URGED FOR A REAFFIRMATION OF UNITED STATES COMMITMENT TO DEMOCRACY IN CUBA” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H5625 on June 7, 1995.
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SUPPORT URGED FOR A REAFFIRMATION OF UNITED STATES COMMITMENT TO
DEMOCRACY IN 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 the House resumes consideration of the American Overseas Interests Act.
This bill reduces spending by $3 billion over the next 2 years, and reforms our foreign policy institutions by folding three agencies into the State Department. Five recent Secretaries of State--Eagleburger, Baker, Shultz, Haig, and Kissinger--endorse this plan. The bill addresses important policy issues. It stops aid to countries that supply weapons to terrorist States and those who vote consistently against us in the United Nations. It cuts off aid to countries that provide aid to the Castro regime or which engage in subsidized trade with the Cuban dictatorship.
Tomorrow, freedom-loving people are rallying at noon in Lafayette Park in front of the White House to protest the administration's policy of forcible repatriation of Cuban refugees. I encourage all of my colleagues to join in this protest and to demand a reaffirmation of this country's commitment to freedom and democracy in Cuba, and please support our bill this week.
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