Last year, three amendments to the Treasury Appropriations bill to loosen travel restrictions did not pass.

Check to see how your Congress person voted:

Many Congresspeople changed their votes since last year under pressure from Republican leadership, and after receiving campaign contributions from the pro-embargo "US Cuba Democracy PAC."

You can check on the details of US-Cuba Democracy PAC's gifts to Congress people at Open Secrets.org

Did a PAC donation change your Representative's vote?

 

FACT SHEETS

Prepared by the Latin American Working Group and the Washington Office on Latin America these fact sheets are great for talking points when you call your congressperson or are composing letters.

• History of the Embargo
• Complete Travel Ban
• Cuban American Family Travel
• Educational Travel
• Trade with Cuba

FLYERS

• Travel Ban=Threat to US Values
  Info sheet explains how travel ban threatens our freedom of movement, information, academic freedom as well as separates Cuban Families

PETITION

• National Cuba Petition
  For the past six years the House has voted to end the ban on travel to Cuba Each year the Cuba provision gets taken out. This petition demands that after the amendments are passed the bill must reach the President without changes. The petition will be delivered before the votes happen in the summer and again in the fall, when they usually try to take the amendments out.