Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s Attempt to Stop Additional Travel to Cuba Halted

[joshcryer]

Florida’s Republican Senator Marco Rubio’s attempt to block the Obama administration’s expansion of travel to Cuba has been halted, but he has vowed to continue his opposition.

Along with New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, Rubio has drafter an amendment to try to stop any new flights from leaving from U.S. airports to Cuba after last month’s White House announcement to ease travel restrictions to the island.

The two tried to attach their amendment to a funding bill for the Federal Aviation Administration, but after staunch criticism from the Tampa Area Chamber of Commerce, which backs the Tampa International Airport’s bid to host some of the flights, it was shot down.

“Increasing direct commercial or charter aircraft flights with state sponsors of terrorism is totally irresponsible,” said Rubio when fist announcing the amendment.

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/florida-sen.-marco-rubios-attempt-to-stop-additional-travel-to-cuba-ha/5396/

Amusing how the flight block attempt http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x48312">was http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4734808">reported widely here on DU (in LBN and here), but this was not. I didn't know that the amendment had failed until I looked in to it as prompted by some blog reading.