{"id":426,"date":"2003-11-17T07:46:48","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T15:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/11\/more_unfinished_business\/"},"modified":"2003-11-17T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2003-11-17T15:46:48","slug":"more_unfinished_business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/11\/more_unfinished_business.html","title":{"rendered":"MORE UNFINISHED BUSINESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The consensus of a <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20031109.shtml#59512\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>recent panel on Cuba<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (that Bush would likely veto<br \/>\nlegislation <A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/3250171.stm\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>ending the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>) has been<br \/>\nrendered moot. The legislation had been attached to the transportation bill&nbsp;the maximum<br \/>\nleader needs to approve, so as to make a veto more difficult for him. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>But as reported Thursday, &#8220;President Bush&#8217;s allies in Congress quietly eliminated [the] widely<br \/>\nsupported provision easing restrictions on American travel to Cuba from a major appropriations<br \/>\nbill to save him from embarrassment over his political designs in Florida, officials from both<br \/>\nparties said.&#8221; In other words, Bush can continue to pander to the Cuban \u00e9migr\u00e9s in Miami without<br \/>\nhaving to take a hit from other constituencies.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consensus of a recent panel on Cuba (that Bush would likely veto legislation ending the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba) has been rendered moot. The legislation had been attached to the transportation bill&nbsp;the maximum leader needs to approve, so as to make a veto more difficult for him. But as reported Thursday, &#8220;President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-6S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}