WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A congressional panel voted yesterday to lift a decades-old ban on travel and to remove other hurdles to food sales to the Caribbean island.
Supporters hope the 25-20 vote in the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee will be followed by action this year in the full House and the Senate.
But opponents of easing the nearly 50-year-old US embargo on communist-led Cuba have vowed to use every tool at their disposal to keep the measure from becoming law.
