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• 11 / 18 / 2009

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Members of Congress who had supported reducing sanctions against Cuba instead backed the status quo, nearly making $11 million in contributions since 2004, a report said.  

Cuban officials attack U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez for receiving the most campaign contributions from a PAC that supports the embargo against the island's dictatorship.

Since the report by the nonpartisan group Public Campaign came out on Monday, bloggers and others have been on the Internet with the report's theme.

It came to the conclusion that members of Congress who had supported reducing sanctions against Cuba instead backed the status quo, earning them nearly $11 million in contributions since 2004 from the anti-Castro U.S.-Cuba Democracy Political Action Committee and its donors.

The Cuban Interests Section in Washington, which is as tantamount to calling it an embassy, attacked the notion that money decides U.S. policy. A spokesman for the Cuban government specifically targeted U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez.

"It is interesting and scandalous that Sen. Bob Menéndez [D-N.J.] was one of those who received the most money for maintaining this type of policy against Cuba," Cuba spokesman Alberto Gonzalez wrote. "Evidently, one must question whether his interests respond not to the Cuban community but to an issue of money ... "

Menedez's Senate office responded by noting that the senator's stance has always been the same long before taking public office and the existence of the PAC.

It's an undeniable truth, money decides US policy up to now.

Source: www.nj.com