Session #97 · 1981–83

Speech #970207106

Let us just buy some commercials on WINZ Radio and beam the truth to Cuba. I think we ought to have a new title for this bill. I would suggest at least the following: How about "The $17.7 Million Boondoggle Broadcasting to Cuba Act?" How about "Throwing Money at the Castro Problem Through Broadcasting to Cuba Act?" Or how about this one. "The Cuban Refugee Recruitment Through Broadcasting to Cuba Act." because the one thing we have learned in the past from our broadcasting to Southeast Asia is that is what brought all of these millions of refugees out. So even if this bill does what the authors purport it does. we are going to have more Cuban refugees in this country than we even have today. But I think perhaps the best title of all for this bill ought to be the "John Foster Dulles Cold War Mentality Memorial Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act." which to me is what this bill is all about. But I just want you to know that aside from all of this there are very legitimate reasons over and above this to be opposed to this bill.
Keywords matched
Refugee refugees

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
THOMAS HARKIN
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
IA
Gender
M
Date
1982-07-23
Speech ID
970207106
Paragraph
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