US Congress blocks lifting of Cuba travel ban
I'm again so thoroughly disgusted by these cretins.
US Congress blocks lifting of Cuba travel ban
Republican-controlled House of Representatives votes to keep restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba, in blow to Obama administration efforts to ease half century-long standoff with Castro regime
By AP
2:15PM BST 05 Jun 2015
House Republicans voted on Thursday to keep restrictions on Americans seeking to travel to Cuba, a setback to Obama administration efforts to ease the five-decade Cold War standoff.
The Republican-controlled chamber voted 247-176 to keep a Cuba-related provision in a transportation funding bill. The provision would block new rules issued in January that would significantly ease travel restrictions to Cuba and allow regularly scheduled flights for the first time.
The administration rules lifted a requirement that US travelers obtain a license from the Treasury Department before traveling to Cuba. Instead, all that is required is for travelers to assert that their trip would serve educational, religious or other permitted purposes.
The White House has threatened to veto the bill, in part because of the Cuba-related provision. The measure is also caught in a battle between Republicans controlling Congress and the White House and its Democratic allies over spending levels for domestic agencies. The White House has issued a blanket veto threat against every Republican spending bill, and Senate Democrats weighed in on Thursday with explicit promises that they will delay the measures and block them from reaching Obama's desk.
The Republican-backed Cuba provision is the handiwork of Mario Diaz-Balart, a Cuban-American Republican congressman from the Miami area.
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fucking kidding. 
