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Should foreign Policy be in Spending Bill?

hypocritexposer

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Cuban-born Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., is working behind the scenes in a bipartisan way to kill the massive spending measure now wending its way through the Senate because of provisions that loosen decades of restrictions against his native land.

The senator took to the floor in a blistering speech ticking off a host of examples of human rights abuses committed by the dictatorship, formerly led by Fidel Castro and now by his brother, Raul, including the flaunting of international law and the cozying up to other authoritarian regimes throughout the world that sponsor terror, like those in Iran and Venezuela.

The omnibus spending bill, which funds most government agencies through September 30, eases restrictions on travel and extends credit for increased trade to the island nation, all moves that Martinez says will not benefit the Cuban people as the measure exacts no positive actions in return.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/03/senator-martinez-working-dems-kill-omnibus/
 
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Anonymous

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Yeah- Whats Martinez thinking- 50 years of restriction and embargo have worked so well in getting rid of Castro and getting a change in government :???: :wink: :lol: :lol: :p
 

aplusmnt

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reader (the Second) said:
Even my conservative Cuban friends were angered that GW once again restricted travel to Cuba.

You always seem to have a group of friends to fit every discussion! :shock: O wait I figured it out, all the time you spend on Internet allows you many online friends, now I understand these are online friends and that is why you have so much time to speak to them.....sorry now I get it! :wink:
 
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Anonymous

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hypocritexposer said:
Should it be in a spending bill?

Should the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (Enron Loophole) that Foreclosure Phil stuck in for his Enron buddies been stuck in an Ominbus Spending bill at midnight :???:
 
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Anonymous

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hypocritexposer said:
No!

Should the Cuban issue have been stuck in a spending bill?

Probably not...Be interesting to see who stuck that part of the bill in..
Remember 40-45% of the earmark items in the Omnibus were stuck in by Repubs....

Repubs like my Congressman (Rehberg)- who for years supported opening trade with Cuba (since all the State Ag groups had been working with Cuban trade embassaries for years) but then last year flipped and voted against it- and which since then has received over $11,000 in campaign donations from a ProEmbargo lobbying group out of Florida....
 

Texan

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reader (the Second) said:
aplusmnt said:
reader (the Second) said:
Even my conservative Cuban friends were angered that GW once again restricted travel to Cuba.

You always seem to have a group of friends to fit every discussion! :shock: O wait I figured it out, all the time you spend on Internet allows you many online friends, now I understand these are online friends and that is why you have so much time to speak to them.....sorry now I get it! :wink:

Once again, I fail to see why I inspire such a deflation in your ego with my posts that you are compelled to slam me personally.

Yes, I have a lot of interesting friends. I am at least twice your age and speak a few languages and live in a large urban center and work with senior government officials. I come into contact with interesting people.

This couple I refer to were my husband's best friends and I have met a lot of the Cubans (mostly very conservative) in their circle of friends at parties over the last 20 years.

I admit I am online more now that I am widowed. But I still keep my old friends and even have made new friends.

Get over it, little man.
Reader, it sure is good to see that you're above the personal slams. "Hold your head high." :lol:
 

hypocritexposer

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March 10, 2009
Categories: Senate Democrats
Menendez warns House Dems on foreign policy

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), as expected, says he will vote with the majority to invoke cloture on the $410 omnibus bill -- bit offered a warning to House Democrats who loosened trade and travel restrictions to Cuba in their version of the measure.

Menendez -- who had held out until he received assurances that the bill wouldn't roll back the Cuban embargo from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner -- warned the House leadership that he would repeat his actions if they tried to slip in foreign policy riders to spending bills.

"It is simply undemocratic to push it in a large... and must-pass spending bill," said Menendez, who thanked Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who was forced to pull the omnibus cloture vote after Menendez raised the red flag.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0309/Menendez_warns_House_Dems_on_foreign_policy_.html
 
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