Original sentence: Thomas Dale "Tom" DeLay (born April 8 1947) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Sugar Land, Texas, the former House Majority Leader, and a prominent member of the Republican Party
Edited sentence: As Cuban cigars have been a (if not the) central symbol of the U.However, in April 2005, Time Magazine published a photo from a July 2003 trip to Israel, in which DeLay is seen smoking a Cuban cigar.Since September 2004, the U.The consumption or purchase of Cuban cigars is illegal in the United States (but was, at the time, not illegal abroad).Thomas Dale "Tom" DeLay (born April 8 1947) is a disgraced former member of the United States House of Representatives from Sugar Land, Texas, the former House Majority Leader, and a prominent member of the Republican Party.Treasury Department's enforcement of the law has been toughened to forbid consumption (smoking) or purchase of Cuban cigars by U.citizens anywhere in the world.embargo on Cuban trade, DeLay's action - apparently contradicting his well-known and strongly-stated personal convictions regarding Cuba - was widely reported