Rush joins bipartisan group of House leaders in applauding President Obama's recently announced Cuba policy as he prepares to attend Latin American Summit

CHICAGO –– Today, Chairman Bobby L. Rush shared with his constituents a copy of a communiqué, signed by 47 leading members of the U. S. House of Representatives, that will be hand delivered to the President, this week, as he attends the Fifth Summit of the Americas, April 17 – 19, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

In a letter to the President signed by members as diverse as Reps. Linda Sanchez (D-CA), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Barney Frank (D-MA) and Ron Paul (R-TX), Rush and his colleagues praised the President for a series of steps aimed at removing restrictions on remittances and travel by Cuban Americans to Cuba while also outlining 10 specific steps they believe the Administration should take to move more aggressively toward normalizing trade relations with Cuba.
 
Next week, fresh off the heels of  his recent five-day trip to Cuba as part of a Congressional delegation, Rush will preside over the first policy forum in the nation’s capitol on the growing national effort to expand America’s trade relationship with Cuba when he chairs the first hearing on the subject, on Monday, in Washington, D.C.
 A copy of the bipartisan House letter follows.

Read the complete letter

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