What this amendment does do is threaten our national security. This amendment allows the Cuban Regime. a state sponsor of terrorism. access to. U.S. financial institutions and allows its agents access to U.S. visas. If adopted. the Rangel amendment will legitimize the Cuban Regime and provide them with the opportunity to continue its sponsorship of terrorism. It will also provide high level regime officials access to U.S. visas to travel throughout the United States. At a time when our country has declared a war on terror and we have worked to cut the flow of money to terrorists and terrorists access to our financial institutions. we must not open our financial institutions to help finance state sponsors of terrorism. By adopting this amendment. we will be doing just that. rewarding the Cuban Regime and supporting the financing of a state sponsor of terrorism.