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WASHINGTON – Sen. Mary Landrieu has joined four other senators to push for more small business opportunities with Cuba.
Landrieu, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, today wrote to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner requesting that changes in American telecommunications policy toward Cuba include access to new exports and opportunities for U.S. small businesses.
In April, President Barack Obama announced of a series of changes to limits on travel and gifts from the U.S. to Cuba, as well as the authorization of greater telecommunications links between the two countries.
The letter was also signed by Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
“As the administration negotiates with the Cuban government and comes up with new regulations, we would respectfully request your consideration to make U.S. small business interests a priority in these discussions,” the senators wrote. “Small businesses are the engine of the American economy and, now more than ever, deserve a level playing field for new opportunities in Cuba.”
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