U.S. likely to keep Cuba travel ban
Thursday, October30, 2003
WASHINGTON, USA: A legislative provision to relax the ban on travel to Cuba that recently passed both the House and Senate is very likely headed for failure.
According to the Associated Press, Republican leaders will probably strip the provision from a transportation funding bill during House and Senate negotiations so President Bush would not have to veto an important appropriations bill.
The widely expected result is that when the House and Senate conferees meet to iron out differences in the two transportation bills, the Cuba provision will be quietly dropped or changed to render it impossible to enact.
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