Senate Proceeding 03-10-09 on Mar 10th, 2009 :: 0:27:30 to 0:28:25
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Speech By: Jon Tester

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Jon Tester: general to be giving credit to an -- to a country that has not only a repressive policy but $30 billion in defaults is not in my mind good policy. president obama said that -- quote -- "my policy towards cuba will be guided by one word, prefreedom.

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Jon Tester: and it must begin with justice for cuba's political prisoners, rights it was free speech, free press and freedom of assembly and lead to election at's are free and fair." the end of that quote. i couldn't agree more with president obama on this point and fully support him in moving forward in ts direction. finally, i know that some of my

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Jon Tester: colleagues might be confused about my persistence with this issue over the last couple of weeks. so let is a principled position. first, i have new

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Jon Tester: stories speak to the castro regime. many of them have spent 10 years to 20 years of their life in a prison cell. their only crime was trying to seek peaceful change in their country. they are now proud united states citizens. but they languished in a jail for a decade