Issue Position: Cuba Relations

Issue Position

Travel to Cuba should be easier for Cuban-Americans in the Tampa Bay area. I have been working hard to ease travel restrictions for Cuban-American families and to designate Tampa International Airport as an entry/exit point for charter flights to the island nation. We have had some successes. In 2009, President Obama issued an executive order to lift travel restrictions on family travel to Cuba and to increase the amount of monetary remittance that families could send to relatives in Cuba.

I was the first member of Congress from Florida to call for modernization of the longstanding ban on traveling to Cuba by cosponsoring a bill that would open travel to Cuba to all Americans. Not only would this help Cuban-Americans, this would create jobs and boost our economy.

I hear the personal stories of families trying to visit loved ones in Cuba. I remain committed to working with President Obama to breathe new life into Cuba travel restrictions. Below you will find more information about the work we are doing to help our neighbors and improve our relations with the island nation.

-Kathy Castor

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