Land of The Free: American Political Roleplay (OOC VI)

[Lavan Tiri]

Agatha licked her lips at her Twitter feed which had Will Dayton and Zach Prendergast. She crossed her legs...

(Image)
Angus Hartford
@AHartGutierrez

Fuck the police and fuck my mom.

Bernie Porter wouldn't be so angry if he'd just come out tbh

The greatest day yet.

Angus makes his debut

[Sarenium]

The greatest day yet.

Angus makes his debut

Is Angus going to flirt with Will too.

[Louisianan]

5/1/21 aka 5/30/20

THE DAY THE MIDDLE-AGED POLITICIANS GOT THIRSTY OVER SOME PRETEENS

[Lavan Tiri]

Angus makes his debut

Is Angus going to flirt with Will too.

Isn't Will 16

[Sarenium]

:D

Is Angus going to flirt with Will too.

Isn't Will 16

18*

[Louisianan]

:D

Is Angus going to flirt with Will too.

Isn't Will 16

Hey, Hypolite has plenty of grandchildren who might get 'randy' with Will....or Angus.

[Lavan Tiri]

:D


Isn't Will 16

18*

Angus is 26

:D


Isn't Will 16

Hey, Hypolite has plenty of grandchildren who might get 'randy' with Will....or Angus.

Angus is 26 and engaged

[Louisianan]

18*

Angus is 26

Hey, Hypolite has plenty of grandchildren who might get 'randy' with Will....or Angus.

Angus is 26 and engaged

This means nothing. Alberta (a rich married woman) partially seduced Linda (an engaged woman)

[Jovuistan]

Just found out Jimmy Carter is alive and was before Reagan so he's unaltered.

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jovuistan
Character Name: Jimmy Carter
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 95
Character Height: 5 ft 9.5 in
Character Weight: 160 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Former President of the United States
Appearance:
Character State of Origin: Georgia
Character State of Residence: Georgia
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Main Strengths:
Main Weaknesses:
Biography: James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician, businessman, and philanthropist who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967 and as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Since leaving the presidency, Carter has remained engaged in political and social projects as a private citizen. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in co-founding the Carter Center.

Raised in Plains, Georgia, Carter graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree and joined the United States Navy, where he served on submarines. After the death of his father in 1953, Carter left his naval career and returned home to Georgia to take up the reins of his family's peanut-growing business. Carter inherited comparatively little due to his father's forgiveness of debts and the division of the estate among the children. Nevertheless, his ambition to expand and grow the Carter family's peanut business was fulfilled. During this period, Carter was motivated to oppose the political climate of racial segregation and support the growing civil rights movement. He became an activist within the Democratic Party. From 1963 to 1967, Carter served in the Georgia State Senate, and in 1970, he was elected as Governor of Georgia, defeating former Governor Carl Sanders in the Democratic primary on an anti-segregation platform advocating affirmative action for ethnic minorities. Carter remained as governor until 1975. Despite being a dark-horse candidate who was little known outside of Georgia at the start of the campaign, Carter won the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination. In the general election, Carter ran as an outsider and narrowly defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford.

On his second day in office, Carter pardoned all the Vietnam War draft evaders by issuing Proclamation 4483.[1] During Carter's term as president, two new cabinet-level departments, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education, were established. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), and the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. On the economic front, he confronted stagflation, a persistent combination of high inflation, high unemployment and slow growth. The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response to the invasion, Carter escalated the Cold War when he ended détente, imposed a grain embargo against the Soviets, enunciated the Carter Doctrine, and led a 1980 Summer Olympics boycott in Moscow. In 1980, Carter faced a challenge from Senator Ted Kennedy in the primaries, but he won re-nomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. Carter lost the general election to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan in an electoral landslide. He is the only president in American history to serve a full term of office and never appoint a justice to the Supreme Court. Polls of historians and political scientists usually rank Carter as a below-average president. Carter's activities since leaving the presidency have been viewed more favorably than his presidency itself.

In 1982, Carter established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights. He has traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations. Carter is considered a key figure in the Habitat for Humanity charity. He has written over 30 books, ranging from political memoirs to poetry, while continuing to actively comment on ongoing American and global affairs such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At 96 years old and with a 40 year long retirement, he is both the oldest living and had the longest retirement of any US president. He is also the seventh-oldest living former world leader.
Other Info: Penis

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Your Nation's Name Here)

Do Not Remove: 84721

[Vaquas]

Just found out Jimmy Carter is alive and was before Reagan so he's unaltered.

(Image)

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jovuistan
Character Name: Jimmy Carter
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 95
Character Height: 5 ft 9.5 in
Character Weight: 160 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Former President of the United States
Appearance: (Image)
Character State of Origin: Georgia
Character State of Residence: Georgia
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Main Strengths:
Main Weaknesses:
Biography: James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician, businessman, and philanthropist who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967 and as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Since leaving the presidency, Carter has remained engaged in political and social projects as a private citizen. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in co-founding the Carter Center.

Raised in Plains, Georgia, Carter graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree and joined the United States Navy, where he served on submarines. After the death of his father in 1953, Carter left his naval career and returned home to Georgia to take up the reins of his family's peanut-growing business. Carter inherited comparatively little due to his father's forgiveness of debts and the division of the estate among the children. Nevertheless, his ambition to expand and grow the Carter family's peanut business was fulfilled. During this period, Carter was motivated to oppose the political climate of racial segregation and support the growing civil rights movement. He became an activist within the Democratic Party. From 1963 to 1967, Carter served in the Georgia State Senate, and in 1970, he was elected as Governor of Georgia, defeating former Governor Carl Sanders in the Democratic primary on an anti-segregation platform advocating affirmative action for ethnic minorities. Carter remained as governor until 1975. Despite being a dark-horse candidate who was little known outside of Georgia at the start of the campaign, Carter won the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination. In the general election, Carter ran as an outsider and narrowly defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford.

On his second day in office, Carter pardoned all the Vietnam War draft evaders by issuing Proclamation 4483.[1] During Carter's term as president, two new cabinet-level departments, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education, were established. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), and the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. On the economic front, he confronted stagflation, a persistent combination of high inflation, high unemployment and slow growth. The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response to the invasion, Carter escalated the Cold War when he ended détente, imposed a grain embargo against the Soviets, enunciated the Carter Doctrine, and led a 1980 Summer Olympics boycott in Moscow. In 1980, Carter faced a challenge from Senator Ted Kennedy in the primaries, but he won re-nomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. Carter lost the general election to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan in an electoral landslide. He is the only president in American history to serve a full term of office and never appoint a justice to the Supreme Court. Polls of historians and political scientists usually rank Carter as a below-average president. Carter's activities since leaving the presidency have been viewed more favorably than his presidency itself.

In 1982, Carter established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights. He has traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations. Carter is considered a key figure in the Habitat for Humanity charity. He has written over 30 books, ranging from political memoirs to poetry, while continuing to actively comment on ongoing American and global affairs such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At 96 years old and with a 40 year long retirement, he is both the oldest living and had the longest retirement of any US president. He is also the seventh-oldest living former world leader.
Other Info: Penis

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Your Nation's Name Here)

Do Not Remove: 84721

Based and Jimmy-Pilled

[Meelducan]

Just found out Jimmy Carter is alive and was before Reagan so he's unaltered.

(Image)

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jovuistan
Character Name: Jimmy Carter
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 95
Character Height: 5 ft 9.5 in
Character Weight: 160 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Former President of the United States
Appearance: (Image)
Character State of Origin: Georgia
Character State of Residence: Georgia
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Main Strengths:
Main Weaknesses:
Biography: James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician, businessman, and philanthropist who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967 and as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Since leaving the presidency, Carter has remained engaged in political and social projects as a private citizen. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in co-founding the Carter Center.

Raised in Plains, Georgia, Carter graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree and joined the United States Navy, where he served on submarines. After the death of his father in 1953, Carter left his naval career and returned home to Georgia to take up the reins of his family's peanut-growing business. Carter inherited comparatively little due to his father's forgiveness of debts and the division of the estate among the children. Nevertheless, his ambition to expand and grow the Carter family's peanut business was fulfilled. During this period, Carter was motivated to oppose the political climate of racial segregation and support the growing civil rights movement. He became an activist within the Democratic Party. From 1963 to 1967, Carter served in the Georgia State Senate, and in 1970, he was elected as Governor of Georgia, defeating former Governor Carl Sanders in the Democratic primary on an anti-segregation platform advocating affirmative action for ethnic minorities. Carter remained as governor until 1975. Despite being a dark-horse candidate who was little known outside of Georgia at the start of the campaign, Carter won the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination. In the general election, Carter ran as an outsider and narrowly defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford.

On his second day in office, Carter pardoned all the Vietnam War draft evaders by issuing Proclamation 4483.[1] During Carter's term as president, two new cabinet-level departments, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education, were established. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), and the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. On the economic front, he confronted stagflation, a persistent combination of high inflation, high unemployment and slow growth. The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response to the invasion, Carter escalated the Cold War when he ended détente, imposed a grain embargo against the Soviets, enunciated the Carter Doctrine, and led a 1980 Summer Olympics boycott in Moscow. In 1980, Carter faced a challenge from Senator Ted Kennedy in the primaries, but he won re-nomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. Carter lost the general election to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan in an electoral landslide. He is the only president in American history to serve a full term of office and never appoint a justice to the Supreme Court. Polls of historians and political scientists usually rank Carter as a below-average president. Carter's activities since leaving the presidency have been viewed more favorably than his presidency itself.

In 1982, Carter established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights. He has traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations. Carter is considered a key figure in the Habitat for Humanity charity. He has written over 30 books, ranging from political memoirs to poetry, while continuing to actively comment on ongoing American and global affairs such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At 96 years old and with a 40 year long retirement, he is both the oldest living and had the longest retirement of any US president. He is also the seventh-oldest living former world leader.
Other Info: Penis

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Your Nation's Name Here)

Do Not Remove: 84721

Pls pls pls run Carter/Mondale

[Gordano and Lysandus]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Gordano and Lysandus
Character Name: Zachary Prendergast
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 22
Character Height: 6’1”
Character Weight: 171lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Student (2017-)

Appearance:

Character State of Origin: West Virginia
Character State of Residence: District of Columbia
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic

Main Strengths: Wealthy, and attractive.
Main Weaknesses: Related to an arch-conservative, and publicly and obviously privileged.

Biography:
Born in South Charleston, West Virginia on March 16th 1998 to an 18 year old Jonah Prendergast III (of the West Virginian Prendergast political-business dynasty) and Madeleine Kettel (later Prendergast), Zachary was the second of a pair of twins (the elder being named Adam). Born into a family and world of incredible privilege, it was clear from a young age that despite this, as the second son, Zachary was the ‘spare’, and so the focus on grooming Adam to succeed to the top of the family business in time oft overlooked him. Despite this, he received a significant degree of education, though not necessarily focused on economics. He focused more on the political pedigree, and when he came to attend the Linsly School (like his forebears) as a boarding student, he managed to achieve the position of Prefect (which definitely did not go to his head at any point).

After graduating from the Linsly School in 2017 as a fairly accomplished student, he was nudged towards a prestige school - Georgetown University in the District of Columbia - with all expenses paid and a trust fund at his back. Away from the suffocating and close-minded atmosphere of his family home, his politics radically liberalized, and so despite his grandfather’s Republican inclinations and political ambitions, he aligned himself with the campus Democrats in the 2018 midterms, helping with phonebanking and fundraising efforts (as there’s little else meaningful to be done in DC without statehood). Reading Government for a Bachelor’s of the Arts, he intends to sign up for a Master’s course at the same university and remain studying before seeking solid employment, convinced that the weight of his name may prove to be a turn-off to potential left wing employers.

Whilst at Georgetown, he joined the Georgetown Hoyas rowing team, and the Philodemic Society, and helped found a band - The Blueberries (named after one of the college’s colors) - as the lead guitarist and vocalist.

Other Info: Son of Jonah Prendergast III, grandson of Governor Jonah Prendergast Jr. of West Virginia.

(OOC Note: In order to make the timeline work, as the head of the ‘family’ I want to make the executive decision to roll forward the birth of Jonah III (Jonah Jr’s eldest) back to 1980. Bending the extant Prendergast continuity but not breaking it. Also, dude's like 22, don't think I need to really put more down here. He's probably never going to run for office at this rate.)

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Gordano and Lysandus

Do Not Remove: 84721

[Latvijas Otra Republika]

I'm going to be inactive for a couple of weeks or longer

Picked the wrong time holy shit

[Madrinpoor]

Why are there so many teenagers in the IC all of a sudden

[Madrinpoor]

Also who would be interested in a police reform bill? Given the crisis and all that

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Also who would be interested in a police reform bill? Given the crisis and all that

A team for the Democrats are already working on a police reform bill and as a heads up, the Speaker will expect everyone to be on board for that bill.

[Madrinpoor]

Also who would be interested in a police reform bill? Given the crisis and all that

A team for the Democrats are already working on a police reform bill and as a heads up, the Speaker will expect everyone to be on board for that bill.

Alright.

[Madrinpoor]

Cuban-American Trade and Travel Resumption Act (CATTRA)

Overview: The Cuban Embargo, which prevents American businesses and businesses with commercial activities in the United States, dates back to 1958 and is outdated, ill-thought out, restricting of business and trade to and from Cuba, in turn restricting the freedom of businesses, and will further hinder the economy in this current economic crisis. This bill aims to repeal that, allowing trade to and from Cuba, and allowing travel to and from Cuba unless special restrictions (health restrictions, safety restrictions, etc.) are in place.

Section 1a: Trade Restrictions: The embargo costs the American economy roughly $4.84 billion per year. In 2001, the U.S. International Trade Commission found that an estimated $146 million in tariffs were lost because of these sanctions between 1996 and 1998. Billions of dollars are being lost for no reason — Cuba receives trade and tourism from other major countries, undermining the embargo and rendering it useless.

Section 1b: Travel Restrictions: U.S. Citizens are restricted from traveling to Cuba in various ridiculous ways; under the Cuban Assets Control Regulations U.S. nationals must obtain a license to travel to Cuba, and licenses are not given for tourist travel. The United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control also bizarrely disallows U.S. citizens from receiving free goods or services from Cuban nationals. Fines for breaking this unnecessary embargo are outrageous, ranging from $1 million in corporate fines, $250,000 in individual fines, and even ten years in jail.

Section 1c: International Condemnation: The United Nations has passed 27 resolutions, one a year since 1992, criticizing the U.S. embargo. The embargo has also resulted in shortages of medical supplies and hygienic materials, such as soap, and malnutrition and disease from the high prices of food and medicine have cased many Cubans to fall sick and die. This embargo was founded on ideas of genocide, and a classified document from 1960 showed that the embargo was a part of a plan to bring down the regime by all methods, including hunger and disease. According to the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies, "The embargo has been a failure by every measure. It has not changed the course or nature of the Cuban government. It has not liberated a single Cuban citizen. In fact, the embargo has made the Cuban people a bit more impoverished, without making them one bit more free. At the same time, it has deprived Americans of their freedom to travel and has cost US farmers and other producers billions of dollars of potential exports."

Section 2: Removing Cuba from the list of nations restricted under the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917 to stop sanctions between the two countries; Cuba is the only nation listed currently.

Section 3: Voiding the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, understanding that the restrictions on trade with Cuba and relations with Cuban Nationals damage the United States economy unnecessarily.

Section 4: Repealing the Cuban Democracy Act (of 1992), voiding the prohibition on prohibited foreign-based subsidiaries of U.S. companies from trading with Cuba, travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens, and family remittances to Cuba.

Section 5: Repealing the Helms-Burton Act (of 1996), and voiding the prohibition on the territorial application of the initial embargo to apply to foreign companies trading with Cuba, and penalizing foreign companies allegedly "trafficking" in property formerly owned by U.S. citizens but confiscated by Cuba after the Cuban revolution.

This bill is then honorably presented to the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration in order to (insert a sentence summary) to improve the United States Law and is backed by Alexander Santiago on (insert the date)

Sponsor: Alexander Santiago (D-FL-27)

House Co-sponsors:

Senate Co-sponsors:

Do Not Remove: 1337

Any co-sponsors? I might wait a little while before submitting this.

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Cuban-American Trade and Travel Resumption Act (CATTRA)

Overview: The Cuban Embargo, which prevents American businesses and businesses with commercial activities in the United States, dates back to 1958 and is outdated, ill-thought out, restricting of business and trade to and from Cuba, in turn restricting the freedom of businesses, and will further hinder the economy in this current economic crisis. This bill aims to repeal that, allowing trade to and from Cuba, and allowing travel to and from Cuba unless special restrictions (health restrictions, safety restrictions, etc.) are in place.

Section 1a: Trade Restrictions: The embargo costs the American economy roughly $4.84 billion per year. In 2001, the U.S. International Trade Commission found that an estimated $146 million in tariffs were lost because of these sanctions between 1996 and 1998. Billions of dollars are being lost for no reason — Cuba receives trade and tourism from other major countries, undermining the embargo and rendering it useless.

Section 1b: Travel Restrictions: U.S. Citizens are restricted from traveling to Cuba in various ridiculous ways; under the Cuban Assets Control Regulations U.S. nationals must obtain a license to travel to Cuba, and licenses are not given for tourist travel. The United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control also bizarrely disallows U.S. citizens from receiving free goods or services from Cuban nationals. Fines for breaking this unnecessary embargo are outrageous, ranging from $1 million in corporate fines, $250,000 in individual fines, and even ten years in jail.

Section 1c: International Condemnation: The United Nations has passed 27 resolutions, one a year since 1992, criticizing the U.S. embargo. The embargo has also resulted in shortages of medical supplies and hygienic materials, such as soap, and malnutrition and disease from the high prices of food and medicine have cased many Cubans to fall sick and die. This embargo was founded on ideas of genocide, and a classified document from 1960 showed that the embargo was a part of a plan to bring down the regime by all methods, including hunger and disease. According to the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies, "The embargo has been a failure by every measure. It has not changed the course or nature of the Cuban government. It has not liberated a single Cuban citizen. In fact, the embargo has made the Cuban people a bit more impoverished, without making them one bit more free. At the same time, it has deprived Americans of their freedom to travel and has cost US farmers and other producers billions of dollars of potential exports."

Section 2: Removing Cuba from the list of nations restricted under the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917 to stop sanctions between the two countries; Cuba is the only nation listed currently.

Section 3: Voiding the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, understanding that the restrictions on trade with Cuba and relations with Cuban Nationals damage the United States economy unnecessarily.

Section 4: Repealing the Cuban Democracy Act (of 1992), voiding the prohibition on prohibited foreign-based subsidiaries of U.S. companies from trading with Cuba, travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens, and family remittances to Cuba.

Section 5: Repealing the Helms-Burton Act (of 1996), and voiding the prohibition on the territorial application of the initial embargo to apply to foreign companies trading with Cuba, and penalizing foreign companies allegedly "trafficking" in property formerly owned by U.S. citizens but confiscated by Cuba after the Cuban revolution.

This bill is then honorably presented to the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration in order to (insert a sentence summary) to improve the United States Law and is backed by Alexander Santiago on (insert the date)

Sponsor: Alexander Santiago (D-FL-27)

House Co-sponsors:

Senate Co-sponsors:

Do Not Remove: 1337

Any co-sponsors? I might wait a little while before submitting this.

Leadership will oppose this bill, and I'll be open in saying it'll probably do Santiago severe harm in his district.

[Madrinpoor]

Cuban-American Trade and Travel Resumption Act (CATTRA)

Overview: The Cuban Embargo, which prevents American businesses and businesses with commercial activities in the United States, dates back to 1958 and is outdated, ill-thought out, restricting of business and trade to and from Cuba, in turn restricting the freedom of businesses, and will further hinder the economy in this current economic crisis. This bill aims to repeal that, allowing trade to and from Cuba, and allowing travel to and from Cuba unless special restrictions (health restrictions, safety restrictions, etc.) are in place.

Section 1a: Trade Restrictions: The embargo costs the American economy roughly $4.84 billion per year. In 2001, the U.S. International Trade Commission found that an estimated $146 million in tariffs were lost because of these sanctions between 1996 and 1998. Billions of dollars are being lost for no reason — Cuba receives trade and tourism from other major countries, undermining the embargo and rendering it useless.

Section 1b: Travel Restrictions: U.S. Citizens are restricted from traveling to Cuba in various ridiculous ways; under the Cuban Assets Control Regulations U.S. nationals must obtain a license to travel to Cuba, and licenses are not given for tourist travel. The United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control also bizarrely disallows U.S. citizens from receiving free goods or services from Cuban nationals. Fines for breaking this unnecessary embargo are outrageous, ranging from $1 million in corporate fines, $250,000 in individual fines, and even ten years in jail.

Section 1c: International Condemnation: The United Nations has passed 27 resolutions, one a year since 1992, criticizing the U.S. embargo. The embargo has also resulted in shortages of medical supplies and hygienic materials, such as soap, and malnutrition and disease from the high prices of food and medicine have cased many Cubans to fall sick and die. This embargo was founded on ideas of genocide, and a classified document from 1960 showed that the embargo was a part of a plan to bring down the regime by all methods, including hunger and disease. According to the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies, "The embargo has been a failure by every measure. It has not changed the course or nature of the Cuban government. It has not liberated a single Cuban citizen. In fact, the embargo has made the Cuban people a bit more impoverished, without making them one bit more free. At the same time, it has deprived Americans of their freedom to travel and has cost US farmers and other producers billions of dollars of potential exports."

Section 2: Removing Cuba from the list of nations restricted under the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917 to stop sanctions between the two countries; Cuba is the only nation listed currently.

Section 3: Voiding the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, understanding that the restrictions on trade with Cuba and relations with Cuban Nationals damage the United States economy unnecessarily.

Section 4: Repealing the Cuban Democracy Act (of 1992), voiding the prohibition on prohibited foreign-based subsidiaries of U.S. companies from trading with Cuba, travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens, and family remittances to Cuba.

Section 5: Repealing the Helms-Burton Act (of 1996), and voiding the prohibition on the territorial application of the initial embargo to apply to foreign companies trading with Cuba, and penalizing foreign companies allegedly "trafficking" in property formerly owned by U.S. citizens but confiscated by Cuba after the Cuban revolution.

This bill is then honorably presented to the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration in order to (insert a sentence summary) to improve the United States Law and is backed by Alexander Santiago on (insert the date)

Sponsor: Alexander Santiago (D-FL-27)

House Co-sponsors:

Senate Co-sponsors:

Do Not Remove: 1337

Any co-sponsors? I might wait a little while before submitting this.

Leadership will oppose this bill, and I'll be open in saying it'll probably do Santiago severe harm in his district.

The reason he is making it is for his district. He wants to run in FL-25, and he needs to court the Cuban vote. Cuban-Americans are in favor of ending the embargo 70%. I would know. I haven't seen my family in Cuba since 2016 because of the restrictions, and lots of other Cuban-Americans haven't either. Plus, Midwestern senators have tried to water down the embargo every year since the 90s so there would be support. Even the Cato Institute supports this. I assume lots of progressives would too, and the Cuban-Americans obviously, which Santiago wants to gain in Hialeah.

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Leadership will oppose this bill, and I'll be open in saying it'll probably do Santiago severe harm in his district.

The reason he is making it is for his district. He wants to run in FL-25, and he needs to court the Cuban vote. Cuban-Americans are in favor of ending the embargo 70%. I would know. I haven't seen my family in Cuba since 2016 because of the restrictions, and lots of other Cuban-Americans haven't either. Plus, Midwestern senators have tried to water down the embargo every year since the 90s so there would be support. Even the Cato Institute supports this. I assume lots of progressives would too, and the Cuban-Americans obviously, which Santiago wants to gain in Hialeah.

The problem is that it mobilises that remaining 30% against to definitely vote you because you'll be perceived as weak on Cuba.

[Madrinpoor]

The reason he is making it is for his district. He wants to run in FL-25, and he needs to court the Cuban vote. Cuban-Americans are in favor of ending the embargo 70%. I would know. I haven't seen my family in Cuba since 2016 because of the restrictions, and lots of other Cuban-Americans haven't either. Plus, Midwestern senators have tried to water down the embargo every year since the 90s so there would be support. Even the Cato Institute supports this. I assume lots of progressives would too, and the Cuban-Americans obviously, which Santiago wants to gain in Hialeah.

The problem is that it mobilises that remaining 30% against to definitely vote you because you'll be perceived as weak on Cuba.

Cubans are already more conservative than any other Hispanic group. He doesn't have any as a given, he has to gain them. Those 30% wouldn't vote for him anyway, but he might have more of a shot with the other 70%.

[Gordano and Lysandus]

The problem is that it mobilises that remaining 30% against to definitely vote you because you'll be perceived as weak on Cuba.

Cubans are already more conservative than any other Hispanic group. He doesn't have any as a given, he has to gain them. Those 30% wouldn't vote for him anyway, but he might have more of a shot with the other 70%.

The bill won't get put on the agenda, I don't think that Santiago should make this his 'thing'. Leadership is taking a firmly anti-Cuba stance.

[Madrinpoor]

Cubans are already more conservative than any other Hispanic group. He doesn't have any as a given, he has to gain them. Those 30% wouldn't vote for him anyway, but he might have more of a shot with the other 70%.

The bill won't get put on the agenda, I don't think that Santiago should make this his 'thing'. Leadership is taking a firmly anti-Cuba stance.

Why do they take that stance?

[Emazia]

The bill won't get put on the agenda, I don't think that Santiago should make this his 'thing'. Leadership is taking a firmly anti-Cuba stance.

Why do they take that stance?

Because they think it helps them win Florida