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Oppose Regulations Ending Cuba Travel
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Progressive Portal
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Apr 07, 2003 16:52 PDT
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OPPOSE NEW REGULATIONS ENDING PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE TRAVEL TO CUBA
[From the Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee
<http://www.seattlecuba.org>]
The U.S. has maintained restrictions on travel to Cuba for most of the
last 40 years. For the past dozen years, the door has opened more and
more, and tens of thousands of people have traveled to Cuba on
educational, humanitarian, and religious licenses. On March 24, 2003,
the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) --
which issues these licenses -- announced it is eliminating the license
for people-to -people educational exchange, the second-largest category
of travel to Cuba (after family visits).
View the regulations (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader):
1. Treasury department factsheet on the regulations:
http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sanctions/t11cuba.pdf
2. Federal Register containing new regulations:
http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/legal/regs/fr68_14141.pdf
More information, from the Washington Office on Latin America:
http://www.wola.org/Cuba/cuba_ofac_travel_restric_memo_march03.htm
Seventy-five percent of the American people as a whole, and half of the
Cuban-American community in Miami, are opposed to any travel
restrictions to Cuba.
A majority in the House of Representatives voted last year to end
enforcement of these restrictions. Ignoring the public and the Congress,
OFAC has acted to end these educational exchanges, further restricting
American citizens' freedom to travel.
TAKE ACTION
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Write to OFAC. Comments will be accepted until May 23, 2003:
Chief of Records
Attn: Request for Comments
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20220
Send a copy of your letter to your Congressional representative and your
Senators (enter your ZIP code in the left column of any Progressive
Portal page) and urge them to join the House or Senate Cuba Working
Groups (see lists below), both of which are leading efforts to end the
travel restrictions.
Also send copies of your correspondence to:
Thomas W. Warner
Secretary, Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee)
8923 2nd Ave. N.E.
Seattle, WA, 98115
1-206-523-1720
warner-AT-scn.org (change "-AT-" to "@")
SENATE CUBA WORKING GROUP MEMBER LIST
Democrats
1. Max Baucus, MT
2. Byron Dorgan, ND
3. Maria Cantwell, WA
4. Blanche Lincoln, AR
5. Jeff Bingaman, NM
6. Chris Dodd, CT
Republicans
1. Michael Enzi, WY
2. Chuck Hagel, NE
3. Norm Coleman, MN
4. Jim Talent, MO
5. Pat Roberts, KS
6. Kit Bond, MO
HOUSE CUBA WORKING GROUP MEMBER LIST
Democrats
1. Neil Abercombie (HI-01)
2. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
3. Howard Berman (CA-26)
4. Marion Berry (AR-01)
5. William Lacy Clay (MO-01)
6. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
7. William Delahunt (MA-10)
8. Rosa DeLauro (CT-3)
9. Cal Dooley (CA-20)
10. Sam Farr (CA-17)
11. Nick Lampson (TX-09)
12. Stephen Lynch (MA-09)
13. Jim McGovern (MA-03)
14. Collin Peterson (MN-07)
15. Charlie Rangel (NY-15)
16. Mike Ross (AR-04)
17. Vic Snyder (AR-02)
18. Hilda Solis (CA-31)
19. Charlie Stenholm (TX-17)
20. John Tanner (TN-08)
21. Mike Thompson (CA-01)
22. Edolphus Towns (NY-10)
23. Chris Van Hollen (MD-8)
24. Mike Doyle (PA-14)
Republicans
1. John Boozman (AR-03)
2. Kevin Brady (TX-08)
3. Dave Camp (MI-04)
4. Jo Ann Emerson (MO-08)
5. Jeff Flake (AZ-01)
6. Sam Graves (MO-06)
7. Wally Herger (CA-02)
8. Tim Johnson (IL-05)
9. Ray LaHood (IL-18)
10. Jim Leach (IA-01)
11. Jerry Moran (KS-01)
12. George Nethercutt (WA-05)
13. Tom Osborne (NE-03)
14. Butch Otter (ID-01)
15. Ron Paul (TX-14)
16. Jim Ramstad (MN-03)
17. Dennis Rehberg (MT-At Large)
18. Paul Ryan (WI-01)
19. Chris Shays (CT-04)
20. John Shimkus (IL-20)
21. Nick Smith (MI-07)
22. Pat Tiberi (OH-12)
23. Edward Whitfield (KY-1)
24. Jim Greenwood (PA-8)
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CUBA TRAVEL
National Lawyers Guild Cuba Subcommittee:
http://www.nlg.org/cuba/
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