Appropriations committee responds to Jay-Z, Beyonce Cuba trip (trying to ban all travel to Cuba)

[Mika]

Appropriations committee responds to Jay-Z, Beyonce Cuba trip

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A spending bill approved on Wednesday by one of the panel’s subcommittees contains a provision that seeks to tighten travel restrictions to Cuba, following the celebrity couples headline making trip the communist country earlier this year.

“This is the Jay-Z, Beyonce Bill,” Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.), a member of the House Appropriations Committee who opposes the provision, told POLITICO. “Absolutely [it’s a response to the trip], and it’s playing to the audience in Miami” — a reference to opponents of relaxing economic and diplomatic relations with the island country.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/jay-z-beyonce-cuba-trip-93959.html




Yet again the Miami exiles are used as cover for the money pouring in from both sides to both parties.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Right on schedule. A$$holes where we can least afford them. Thank you. n/t