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H.R. 2434, The Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2012 (6 comments ↓)
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Making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012.
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Andy Herrera - 1 OF 5
July 14, 2011, 4:21pm (report abuse)Amendment included on H.R. 2434, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2012 offered by Mr. Diaz-Balart of Florida.
Please, find below copy of letter submitted to Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, to all U.S. Senator, including the 30 members of Senate Committee on Appropriations and the President.
July 13, 2011
Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart
Miami District Office
8669 NW 36 Street, Suite 100
Doral, FL 33166
Re: H.R. 2434, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2012 (Amendment to President Obama’s regulatory changes)
Dear: Rep. Diaz-Balart.
I am writing to you regarding your recent attempts to restrict Cuban-American families to travel to and from Cuba in opposition to President Obama’s reformed rules on travel earlier this year.
Andy Herrerra - 2 OF 5
July 14, 2011, 4:23pm (report abuse)It is very sad to know that you Mr. Diaz-Balart, a Cuban descendent, proposed such a prejudiced, discriminatory, ignorant, and anti-family value amendment, which tends to separate the people who live in and love this country. It shows many of us Cuban-Americans that your human rights beliefs are put aside to your own ignorance and greed.
We don't need haters in America, we need peacemakers. We need people with principles, especially those representing the people of this country such as yourself. We need people that love this country. We need people defending the real interests of this great nation, which are the ideas of freedom, family values and helping others in need. You are against the most important values of this great nation and the ideas that built this great nation and defined our Constitution.
Andy Herrera - 3 OF 5
July 14, 2011, 4:24pm (report abuse)What about those of us who still have family there? You don’t know what it means to leave behind your love’s ones. There are many family members left behind lacking the most basic human needs, in need of medication and other items. There are many on the final stage of their lives and their last wishes are to see us. Simply put, you don’t care.
Andy Herrera - 4 OF 5
July 14, 2011, 4:25pm (report abuse)The current policy has proved that there is a slowly, but evident, movement to something different that Cubans did not have before. What did the old policy accomplished? A big nothing! Just more pain and suffering to the Cubans on both sides of the stretch. Decades of old policy has proven not to work.
Stop saying that the money goes to the government. The money goes to our families who need it to survive everyday struggles. Mr. Diaz-Balart, are you representing your constituents, or Cuban government interest? Mr. Diaz-Balart, do you understand that the people you represent are the same ones that travel to Cuba and elected you?
Andy Herrera - 5 OF 5
July 14, 2011, 4:26pm (report abuse)I think the only ones, who propose and agree with those old policies, are the people who are still alive who came in the 50's and 60's, “the right win dinosaurian Batistianos”.
I don't think the new majority of Cuban-American will support such a failing policy which at the end is only making harder the lives of our family in Cuba.
Thank God that you are in the minority together with your fellow political greedy cartoons like Rubio, Menendez, Ros-Lehtinen, and Nelson. Shame on you, as a Cuban, as a politician, as a person and a citizen of the United States of America.
God bless this country, and guide the Cuban people in their search for freedom!
Paula Snyder
September 5, 2011, 5:05am (report abuse)Take out all the special interest parts of programs for senior taxpayer services, and Indian and Hawaain people. They should be handled at a state or local level or not at all. Then this bill may be ok.
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