May 2, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— SENATE S5941 

Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the 

quorum call be rescinded. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, after consultation with the Democratic leader 

and a number of people who are conducting hearings, I withdraw the request. We will just go ahead and complete the votes now. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. The request 

is vitiated. 

AMENDMENT NO. 614

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

question, then, is on agreeing to the 

Simon amendment (No. 614). 

Mr. GORTON addressed the Chair. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington is recognized. 

Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I move 

to table the Simon amendment. 

Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and 

nays. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a 

sufficient second? 

There is a sufficient second. 

The yeas and nays were ordered. 

VOTE ON MOTION TO TABLE AMENDMENT NO. 614

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

question occurs on the motion to lay 

on the table the amendment, No. 614. 

The yeas and nays have been ordered. 

The clerk will call the roll. 

The legislative clerk called the roll. 

The result was announced, yeas 51, 

nays 49, as follows: 

[Rollcall Vote No. 142 Leg.] 

YEAS—51 

Ashcroft 

Bennett 

Bond 

Brown 

Burns 

Campbell 

Chafee 

Coats 

Cochran 

Coverdell 

Craig 

Dodd 

Dole 

Domenici 

Exon 

Faircloth 

Frist 

Gorton 

Gramm 

Grams 

Grassley 

Gregg 

Hatch 

Hatfield 

Helms 

Hutchison 

Inhofe 

Jeffords 

Kassebaum 

Kempthorne 

Kyl 

Lautenberg 

Lieberman 

Lott 

Lugar 

Mack 

McCain 

McConnell 

Murkowski 

Nickles 

Pressler 

Robb 

Rockefeller 

Roth 

Santorum 

Smith 

Snowe 

Stevens 

Thomas 

Thurmond 

Warner 

NAYS—49 

Abraham 

Akaka 

Baucus 

Biden 

Bingaman 

Boxer 

Bradley 

Breaux 

Bryan 

Bumpers 

Byrd 

Cohen 

Conrad 

D’Amato 

Daschle 

DeWine 

Dorgan 

Feingold 

Feinstein 

Ford 

Glenn 

Graham 

Harkin 

Heflin 

Hollings 

Inouye 

Johnston 

Kennedy 

Kerrey 

Kerry 

Kohl 

Leahy 

Levin 

Mikulski 

Moseley-Braun 

Moynihan 

Murray 

Nunn 

Packwood 

Pell 

Pryor 

Reid 

Sarbanes 

Shelby 

Simon 

Simpson 

Specter 

Thompson 

Wellstone 

So the motion to lay on the table the 

amendment (No. 614) was agreed to. 

Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I move 

to reconsider the vote. 

Mr. MACK. I move to lay that motion on the table. 

The motion to lay on the table was 

agreed to. 

VOTE ON AMENDMENT NO. 607

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

question now occurs on amendment No. 

607 offered by the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. KENNEDY]. 

Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I move 

to table the Kennedy amendment and 

ask for the yeas and nays. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a 

sufficient second? There is a sufficient 

second. 

The yeas and nays were ordered. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

question is on agreeing to the motion 

to table amendment No. 607. The yeas 

and nays have been ordered. The clerk 

will call the roll. 

The assistant legislative clerk called 

the roll. 

The result was announced—yeas 55, 

nays 45, as follows: 

[Rollcall Vote No. 143 Leg.] 

YEAS—55 

Abraham 

Ashcroft 

Bennett 

Bond 

Brown 

Burns 

Campbell 

Chafee 

Coats 

Cochran 

Coverdell 

Craig 

DeWine 

Dole 

Domenici 

Exon 

Faircloth 

Frist 

Gorton 

Graham 

Gramm 

Grams 

Grassley 

Gregg 

Hatch 

Hatfield 

Heflin 

Helms 

Hutchison 

Inhofe 

Jeffords 

Kassebaum 

Kempthorne 

Kyl 

Lieberman 

Lott 

Lugar 

Mack 

McCain 

McConnell 

Murkowski 

Nickles 

Packwood 

Pressler 

Robb 

Rockefeller 

Roth 

Santorum 

Smith 

Snowe 

Stevens 

Thomas 

Thompson 

Thurmond 

Warner 

NAYS—45 

Akaka 

Baucus 

Biden 

Bingaman 

Boxer 

Bradley 

Breaux 

Bryan 

Bumpers 

Byrd 

Cohen 

Conrad 

D’Amato 

Daschle 

Dodd 

Dorgan 

Feingold 

Feinstein 

Ford 

Glenn 

Harkin 

Hollings 

Inouye 

Johnston 

Kennedy 

Kerrey 

Kerry 

Kohl 

Lautenberg 

Leahy 

Levin 

Mikulski 

Moseley-Braun 

Moynihan 

Murray 

Nunn 

Pell 

Pryor 

Reid 

Sarbanes 

Shelby 

Simon 

Simpson 

Specter 

Wellstone 

So the motion to table the amendment (No. 607) was agreed to. 

Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I move 

to reconsider the vote. 

Mr. JOHNSTON. I move to lay that 

motion on the table. 

The motion to lay on the table was 

agreed to. 

VOTE ON AMENDMENT NO. 615

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

question is on agreeing to amendment 

No. 615 offered by the Senator from 

Massachusetts [Mr. KENNEDY]. 

The amendment (No. 615) was agreed 

to. 

Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I move 

to reconsider the vote and move to lay 

that motion on the table. 

The motion to lay on the table was 

agreed to. 

AMENDMENT NO. 603, AS AMENDED

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

pending measure is amendment No. 603, 

as amended, offered by the Senator 

from Kentucky [Mr. MCCONNELL]. 

Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I ask 

for the yeas and the nays. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a 

sufficient second? 

There is a sufficient second. 

VOTE ON AMENDMENT NO. 603, AS AMENDED

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

question is on agreeing to amendment 

No. 603, as amended. 

The clerk will call the roll. 

The legislative clerk called the roll. 

The result was announced—yeas 53, 

nays 47, as follows: 

[Rollcall Vote No. 144 Leg.] 

YEAS—53 

Abraham 

Ashcroft 

Bennett 

Bond 

Brown 

Burns 

Campbell 

Chafee 

Coats 

Cochran 

Coverdell 

Craig 

DeWine 

Dole 

Domenici 

Exon 

Faircloth 

Feinstein 

Frist 

Gorton 

Gramm 

Grams 

Grassley 

Gregg 

Hatch 

Hatfield 

Helms 

Hutchison 

Inhofe 

Jeffords 

Kassebaum 

Kempthorne 

Kyl 

Lieberman 

Lott 

Lugar 

Mack 

McCain 

McConnell 

Murkowski 

Nickles 

Nunn 

Pressler 

Robb 

Roth 

Santorum 

Simpson 

Smith 

Snowe 

Stevens 

Thomas 

Thurmond 

Warner 

NAYS—47 

Akaka 

Baucus 

Biden 

Bingaman 

Boxer 

Bradley 

Breaux 

Bryan 

Bumpers 

Byrd 

Cohen 

Conrad 

D’Amato 

Daschle 

Dodd 

Dorgan 

Feingold 

Ford 

Glenn 

Graham 

Harkin 

Heflin 

Hollings 

Inouye 

Johnston 

Kennedy 

Kerrey 

Kerry 

Kohl 

Lautenberg 

Leahy 

Levin 

Mikulski 

Moseley-Braun 

Moynihan 

Murray 

Packwood 

Pell 

Pryor 

Reid 

Rockefeller 

Sarbanes 

Shelby 

Simon 

Specter 

Thompson 

Wellstone 

So the amendment (No. 603), as 

amended, was agreed to. 

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CHANGE OF VOTE 

Mr. PACKWOOD. Mr. President, on 

rollcall vote No. 139 I voted ‘‘yea.’’ It 

was my intention to vote ‘‘no.’’ Therefore, I ask unanimous consent that I be 

permitted to change my vote. This will 

in no way change the outcome of the 

vote. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

(The foregoing tally has been 

changed to reflect the above order.) 

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CHANGE OF VOTE 

Mr. HATFIELD. Mr. President, on 

rollcall vote No. 137 I voted ‘‘yea.’’ It 

was my intention to vote ‘‘no.’’ Therefore, I ask unanimous consent that I be 

permitted to change my vote. This will 

in no way change the outcome of the 

vote. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

(The foregoing tally has been 

changed to reflect the above order.) 

Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I ask 

unanimous consent that I be permitted 

to proceed very briefly as in the morning business. 

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S5942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— SENATE May 2, 1995 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

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HAVE THE CUBAN PEOPLE BEEN 

SOLD DOWN THE RIVER? 

Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, at noon 

today, Attorney General Reno made a 

formal announcement that has dismayed the Cuban people. 

The Attorney General, speaking for 

the President, announced that effective 

immediately the Cubans interdicted at 

sea will be forcibly returned to face the 

wrath of Fidel Castro. 

Mr. President, of course, Mr. Castro 

has said he will take no punitive action 

against Cubans forcibly returned to his 

tyranny. But the Cuban people, many 

of whom died before firing squads, and 

others who languished for years as political prisoners in Castro’s prisons, 

learned the hard way the value of Mr. 

Castro’s word. 

Mr. President, there has been another sad and tragic moment involving 

the Clinton administration’s dealings 

with the Cuban people. I am already receiving in my office an endless stream 

of telephone calls and faxes from 

Cuban-Americans who feel they have 

again been betrayed by the administration. 

For more than 35 years, Mr. President, the United States has been a safe 

haven for Cubans fleeing Castro’s repressive Communist dictatorship. Last 

year, Mr. President, the Clinton administration began a reversal of this policy. Cuban Americans now appropriately fear that the administration 

has joined hands with the Castro regime in an effort having the continuing 

effect of enslaving the people of Cuba. 

Today’s announcement, described as 

the result of secret negotiations between the administration and the Castro regime, is seen as a sign that the 

United States will now work in partnership with Castro’s brutal security 

apparatus by intercepting and capturing escaping Cuban refugees and 

turning them over directly to Castro’s 

thugs. How sad it is, Mr. President, 

that the United States is now viewed 

as an accomplice in Castro’s repression 

of the Cuban people. 

Mr. President, if the United States 

wants to send naval vessels to surround 

Cuba, it should not be done to cooperate with the Castro regime. It should 

be done to blockade and strangle his 

brutal dictatorship once and for all. 

This development is another reason 

why Congress must pass the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act. In 

the face of this vacillation, the Congress must reaffirm that United States 

policy is to isolate and replace Fidel 

Castro, not to keep the Cuban people 

imprisoned in Castro’s tropical gulag. 

I ask unanimous consent the full text 

of the statement issued at noon by the 

Attorney General, Ms. Reno, be printed 

in the RECORD at the conclusion of my 

remarks. 

There being no objection, the statement was ordered to be printed in the 

RECORD, as follows: 

STATEMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET

RENO REGARDING CUBAN MIGRATION

I would like to make an announcement regarding Cuban migration. 

It has long been the policy of the United 

States that Cubans who wish to migrate to 

the United States should do so by legal 

means. The U.S. Interests Section in Havana 

accepts and processes requests for visas, and 

it also operates an in-country program for 

those Cubans who seek refugee status for 

entry into the United States. 

Pursuant to this policy, last August I announced that Cubans attempting irregular 

means of migration to the United States on 

boats and rafts would not be allowed to enter 

this country, but rather would be brought to 

the United States Naval base at Guantanamo 

Bay, where they would be offered safe haven. 

Last September, following negotiations 

with representatives of the Cuban government, the United States announced that it 

would increase Cuban migration to the 

United States to permit 20,000 legal entrants 

per year. This program, which includes immigrant visas, refugee applications, and a 

Special Cuban Migration Program designed 

to broaden the pool of potential entrants, is 

on target, and we expect to continue legal 

Cuban migration at this level in the years to 

come. This year alone, we expect to bring 

7,000 Cuban refugees to the United States 

through our in-country program in Havana. 

Following recent diplomatic exchanges 

with the Cuban government, the United 

States is now prepared to take another important step towards regularizing Cuban migration between Cuba and the United States. 

First, with respect to Guantanamo: 

We will continue to bring to the United 

States those persons who are eligible for special humanitarian parole under the guidelines announced by the President last October and December. 

The government of Cuba has agreed to accept all Cuban nationals in Guantanamo who 

wish to return home, as well as persons who 

have previously been deported from the 

United States and persons who would be ineligible for admission to the United States 

because of criminal record, medical, physical, or mental condition, or commission of 

acts of violence while at Guantanamo. 

All other Cubans in the safe haven will be 

considered for entry into the United States 

on a case-by-case basis as ‘‘Special Guantanamo Entrants’’, bearing in mind the impact 

of paroles on state and local economies and 

the need for adequate sponsorships. As has 

been true for all Cubans and Haitians previously paroled into the United States from 

Guantanamo, sponsorship and resettlement 

assistance will be obtained prior to entry. 

The number of these ‘‘Special Guantanamo 

Entrants’’ admitted to the United States 

will be credited against the 20,000 annual 

Cuban migration figure, beginning in September of this year, at the rate of 5,000 per 

year (regardless of when the Special Guantanamo Entrants are admitted). 

Second, with regard to future irregular migration: 

Effective immediately, Cuban migrants 

intercepted at sea attempting to enter the 

United States, or who enter Guantanamo illegally, will be taken to Cuba, where U.S. 

consular officers will assist those who wish 

to apply to come to the United States 

through already established mechanisms. 

Cubans must know that the only way to 

come to the United States is by applying in 

Cuba. 

All returnees will be permitted to apply for 

refugee status at the U.S. Interests Sections 

in Havana. Cuba is one of only three countries in the world in which the United States 

conducts in-country processing for refugees. 

The Government of Cuba has committed to 

the Government of the United States that on 

one will suffer reprisals, lose benefits, or be 

prejudiced in any manner, either because he 

or she sought to depart irregularly or because he or she has applied for refugee status 

at the U.S. Interests Section. The Cuban 

Government made a similar commitment in 

the context of the September 1994 agreement, and we are satisfied that it has been 

honored. Moreover, the Government of Cuba 

will permit monitoring by U.S. consular officers of the treatment of all returnees. 

Migrants intercepted at sea or in Guantanamo will be advised that they will be taken 

back to Cuba, where U.S. consular officials 

will meet them at the dock and assist those 

who wish to apply for refugee admission to 

the United States at the Interests Section in 

Havana. They will be told that the Government of Cuba has provided a commitment to 

the United States Government that they will 

suffer no adverse consequences or reprisals of 

any sort, and that U.S. consular officers will 

monitor their treatment. They will also be 

told that those persons who seek resettlement in the United States as refugees must 

use the in-country refugee program. 

Measures will be taken to ensure that persons who claim a genuine need for protection 

which they believe cannot be satisfied by applying at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana will be examined before return. 

Cubans who reach the United States 

through irregular means will be placed in exclusion proceedings, detained, and treated as 

are all illegal migrants from other countries. 

The United States Government reiterates 

its opposition to the use of violence in connection with departure from Cuba and its determination to prosecute cases of hijacking 

and alien smuggling. 

These new procedures represent another 

important step towards regularizing migration procedures with Cuba, finding a humanitarian solution to the situation at Guantanamo, and preventing another uncontrolled 

and dangerous outflow from Cuba. 

The United States policy towards Cuba remains the same. We remain committed to 

the Cuban Democracy Act and its central 

goal—promoting a peaceful transition to democracy in Cuba. We will continue to enforce the economic embargo to pressure the 

Cuban regime to reform. We will continue to 

reach out to the Cuban people through private humanitarian assistance and through 

the free flow of ideas and information to 

strengthen Cuba’s fledgling civil society. 

And we remain ready to respond in carefully 

calibrated ways to meaningful steps toward 

political and economic reform in Cuba. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Florida. 

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask 

unanimous consent to proceed for up to 

10 minutes as in morning business. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

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THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S ANNOUNCEMENT ON CUBAN MIGRATION 

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, it had 

not been my intention to speak at this 

moment but I happened to be on the 

floor and heard the Senator from North 

Carolina. I would like, if I could, to put 

in context what the Attorney General 

announced at noon today. 

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