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WASHINGTON — The Senate joined
the House on Thursday in striking at the
four-decade-old policy of making travel to
Cuba a criminal act, putting Congress on a
collision course with Bush administration
efforts to step up enforcement of travel
restrictions.
“The travel ban does nothing to hurt
Fidel Castro,” said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-
N.D. “It only hanns Americans.” He was
co-sponsor of the measure, passed 59-36,
that bars use of government money to
enforce current travel restrictions.
Last month, the House approved identi
cal language in its version of a $90 billion
bill to fund Transportation and Treasury
department programs in the budget year that
started Oct. 1.
The votes in the two GOP-controlled
chambers came despite a White House
warning that the president would be
advised to veto the bill if it includes the
Cuba provision. The legislation contains
vital money for highways, law enforce
ment and anti-terrorism.
The White House said in a statement that
unlicensed tourism “provides economic
resources to the Gastro regime while doing
nothing to help the Cuban people.”
In neither the Senate nor House did the
Cuba vote reach the two-thirds margin need-
u
ed to overturn a presidential veto. House and
Senate leaders must negotiate a final com
promise on the spending bill; in the past,
they have used this process to remove lan
guage approved earlier that would have
eased penalties against Cuba.
But Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said the
Senate vote was “a strong repudiation of the
president’s recent announce
ment that his administration
plans to tighten and increase
the travel restrictions.”
The Homeland Security
Department announced this
month that it was enhancing
efforts to curtail illegal trav
el and transport of goods to
Cuba.
Sen. Larry Craig, R-
Idaho, a co-sponsor with
Dorgan, said fighting terror
ism and drug trafficking
should be a higher priority
than Cuban tourism. He said
The travel ban
does nothing to hurt
Fidel Castro.
It only harms
Americans.
but thousands of other Americans visit!
gaily, by way of third countries, riski
thousands of dollars in fines and impris®
ment.
Tourism officials have estimated
many as 1 million Americans mighti
Cuba in the first year after the
embargo.
President Kennd)
imposed the travel baiu
1963, a year after the Cull
missile crisis. Presidts;
Carter let it lapse in
but it was reimposed h
President Reagan in
Violators could facect
penalties of up to
and 10 years in prison.
Free-trade Republicans,
mostly from farm
have joined
Democrats in recent yearH
questioning the effectives
— Sen. Byron Dorgan
D - North Dakota
a Treasury
office was spending 10 percent of its budget
“to track down little old grammas from the
West Coast who through a Canadian travel
agency chose to bike in Cuba.”
The Treasury Department estimates that
about 160,000 Americans, half of them
Cuban-Americans visiting family members,
traveled to Cuba legally last year.
Humanitarian and educational groups, jour
nalists and diplomats are also allowed visits,
of the trade and travel embargoes,:
that the Cuban president has usedthemti
his own advantage to avoid liberalizing cm
tacts with Americans.
Congress loosened the trade embargoi:
2000 to allow sale of agricultural prodiki
and medicine on a cash-only basis.
The House, along with its vote last mom
on the travel restrictions, lifted capso
money that can be sent to Cuban famil
members on the island.
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techniques used by many of the
Internet’s most prolific e-mail-
ers, who pump out millions of
unsolicited messages daily.
The bill, sponsored by Sens.
Conrad Burns, R-Mont., and
Ron Wyden, D-Ore., would pro
hibit senders of unsolicited com
mercial e-mail from disguising
their identity by using a false
return address or misleading
subject line. The legislation also
would prohibit senders from
harvesting addresses off Web
sites and require such e-mails to
include a mechanism so recipi
ents can indicate they do not
want future mass-mailings.
A provision proposed by Sen.
Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.,
authorizes the Federal Trade
Commission to establish a do-
not-spam list, similar to the
agency’s popular do-not-call list
of telephone numbers that mar
keters are supposed not to
The Direct Mark)
Association opposed that prow
sion and has described it as “i
bad idea that is never going I
work.”
The Bush administrationsf
ports the bill, although silk
legislation has stalled in (If
House.
“Kingpin spammers it
send out e-mail by the ml*
are threatening to drowntk
Internet in a sea of trash, anoti
American people want
stopped,” Wyden Mi
Acknowledging problems
e-mails sent from overseas, lie
urged other countries toapprovi
similar limits.
Burns said time spent by
sumers wading through unv
ed messages and the costs to
businesses and Ini
providers delivering them
“escalating and wide-i
Under the bill, he said, “]
will think twice before they sek
it, and that’s the answer.”
The bill also requires
mercial e-mail senders H
include their physical address
along with a clear notice
message is an advertisement#!
sales pitch.
Despite the vote,
cautioned computer users no
expect an immediate end
overflowing inboxes.
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