Conferees OK Keeping Ban on Travel to Cuba
Senate and House negotiators bowed to a threatened presidential veto and accepted that a 42-year ban on travel to Cuba should remain in place.
The lawmakers removed from pending legislation a provision that would have barred President Bush from spending any money to enforce the travel ban, thus allowing Americans to resume traveling openly to Cuba.
Opponents of the travel ban had tried to stop funding to enforce it. Top White House officials said the bill would be vetoed if it contained language relating to the Cuba travel ban.
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