Senators push legislation to lift Cuba embargo

Senators push legislation to lift Cuba embargo
By Paul Richter contact the reporter
January 29, 2015, 2:14 PM|Reporting from Washington

Congress on Thursday began considering the first of what is expected to be a flurry of bills aimed at gradually doing away with the 54-year-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba..

Six weeks after President Obama began easing travel restrictions as part of his historic opening to Cuba, a bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation that would do away entirely with limits on travel.

The policy "hasn't worked, so it's time to try something new," Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a longtime reform advocate, said at a Senate news conference. "It's time to allow Americans to travel freely to Cuba."

The Republican leaders of both houses, as well as longtime congressional critics of the government in Havana, have vowed to fight reform legislation.

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