US Congress Won’t Discuss Travel Restrictions
HAVANA TIMES, Dec. 5 – The United States Congress will not discuss in its last sessions of this year a bill that would have lifted the restrictions on travel to Cuba, said Democratic Senator Bill Delahunt. Starting January, the bill could face a definitive opposition in the new House of Representatives, dominated by the Republican Party, and in the Senate where the Democrats lost part of their majority, reported IPS.
The last option to liberalize travel to Cuba is Presidential action on non-tourist travel.
It was supposed to be announced around Labor Day but got postponed until after the mid-term election due to self-serving and misleading pressure from Sen. Menendez and Rep. Wasserman-Schultz.
Readers who want to encourage the White House to open travel can do so here http://www.change.org/fund_for_reconciliation_development/petitions/view/mr_president_be_bold_on_people_to_people_travel_to_cuba
and Americans can ask their Representative and Senators to contact the President here http://www.change.org/fund_for_reconciliation_development/petitions/view/ask_congress_to_support_presidential_action_on_cuba_travel
John McAuliff
Fund for Reconciliation and Development