A Fight To End The US/Cuba Trade Embargo

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URGENT CUBA UPDATE:
To members of End the US Trade Embargo on Cuba


Luis Moro
February 7 at 3:55pm
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URGENT CUBA ALERT: RE TRAVEL LAW GOING TO Foreign Policy Committee Review as of Feb 4th, 2009.

Please take a moment, and learn more on CUBA TRAVEL law, and do your part.

Call your congress person, the media, meet with them, write, blog, talk to and about your rights. Ask congress to vote for Allowing ALL AMERICANS THE RIGHT TO TRAVEL BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CUBA.

H.R. 874 “To allow travel between the United States and Cuba.”

1) This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate.

2) The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee.

Committees are like "mini Congresses". Most bills begin by being considered by one or several congressional committees which may "report" the bill favorably or unfavorably to the Senate or House as a whole allowing it to receive consideration by the full body and move forward, or may fail to consider a bill at all preventing the bill from moving forward.

3) Most bills never receive any committee consideration and are never reported out. House bills start in House committees and enter Senate committees only after being passed by the House and received by the Senate, and similarly for Senate bills.

4) Information on committee proceedings is notoriously opaque: (dense, difficult, unclear, obscure) committees vary in what information they make public and often do not provide basic public information such as the results of votes electronically or in an understandable format.
Furthermore, if your Member of Congress does not sit on any committee relevant to this bill,

5) you generally have no opportunity to voice your opinion on the bill while the bill is receiving its most important consideration.


***THIS IS INSANE – WE HAVE TO SPEAK UP.

This bill has been referred to the following committees:
House Foreign Affairs


CALL, WRITE, MEET WITH YOUR CONGRESSPERSON, YOUR LOCAL PRESS, MEDIA, ON BILL H.R. 874 “To allow Travel between the United States and Cuba.”

WE NEED YOUR VOICE NOW MORE THAN EVER. DON’T WAIT. Call, write, blog to the Congress people on the list below.

The bill has been referred to the following committees:
House Foreign Affairs


****GET INVOLVED****

**Contact Cuba Policy Outreach Coordinator, Angelica Salazar, asalazar@wola.org, to get support package in meeting with your local congressperson. We need to reach all 48 of them ASAP.

**Thank you.
Luis Moro
www.EveryThingCUBA.com


LIST OF MEMBERS ON HOUSE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

United States House of Representatives
Committee on Foreign Affairs.

See their photos, direct website, contact information here: http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/members.asp

1. Howard L. Berman
CHAIRMAN
D-CA, 28th District

2. Gary L. Ackerman
VICE CHAIR
D-NY, 5th District

3. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
RANKING MEMBER
R-FL, 18th District

4. Albio Sires
D-NJ, 13th District


5. Brad Sherman
D-CA, 27th District

6. Eni F. H. Faleomavaega
D-American Samoa

7. Donald M. Payne
D-NJ, 10th District

8. Robert Wexler
D-FL, 19th District

9. Eliot L. Engel
D-NY, 17th District

10. Bill Delahunt
D-MA, 10th District

11. Gregory W. Meeks
D-NY, 6th District

12. Diane E. Watson
D-CA, 33rd District

13. Adam Smith
D-WA, 9th District

14. Russ Carnahan
D-MO, 3rd District


15. Gerald E. Connolly
D-VA, 11th District

16. Michael E. McMahon
D-NY, 13th District

17. John S. Tanner
D-TN, 8th District

18. Gene Green
D-TX, 29th District

19. Sheila Jackson Lee
D-TX, 18th District

20. Barbara Lee
D-CA, 9th District

21. Shelley Berkley
D-NV, 1st District

22. Joseph Crowley
D-NY, 7th District

23. Mike Ross
D-AR, 4th District

24. Brad Miller
25. D-NC, 13th District

26. David Scott
D-GA, 13th District

27. Jim Costa
D-CA, 20th District

28. Keith Ellison
D-MN, 5th District

29. Gabrielle Giffords
D-AZ, 8th District

30. Ron Klein
D-FL, 22nd District


31. Christopher H. Smith
R-NJ, 4th District

32. Dan Burton
R-IN, 5th District

33. Elton Gallegly
R-CA, 24th District

34. Dana Rohrabacher
R-CA, 46th District

35. Donald A. Manzullo
R-IL, 16th District

36. Edward R. Royce
R-CA, 40th District

37. Ron Paul
R-TX, 14th District

38. Jeff Flake
R-AZ, 6th District

39. Mike Pence
R-IN, 6th District

40. Joe Wilson
R-SC, 2nd District

41. John Boozman
R-AR, 3rd District

42. J. Gresham Barrett
R-SC, 3rd District

43. Connie Mack
R-FL, 14th District

44. Jeff Fortenberry
R-NE, 1st District

45. Michael T. McCaul
R-TX, 10th District

46. Ted Poe
R-TX, 2nd District

47. Bob Inglis
R-SC, 4th District

48. Gus Bilirakis