Save Yourself the Lawyer's Fees

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 17

BY: CAPITOL HILL CUBANS



Realizing that the U.S. Congress is unlikely to unconditionally lift sanctions towards the Castro regime -- and apparently not satisfied with the billions in unilateral concessions that have already been provided by the Obama Administration over the last two years -- advocates of normalizing relations with Cuba have chosen a new strategy:

Telling Congress what it "really meant" when it codified Cuba sanctions into law.

So they hired lawyers to draft a report encapsulating how they would like U.S. law to be interpreted -- as opposed to how Congress wrote it.

In other words, these lawyers (at the request of their clients, the Cuba Study Group) purport to tell Congress, which wrote the law 15 years ago, and the Executive, which has enforced it throughout the same time, that they are wrong.

Next thing you know, they'll produce a poll on what Congressional intent should be -- as opposed to what it actually is.

Here's a novel idea -- instead of bothering with lawyer's interpretations, just read the actual legislative Conference Report (click here).

It'll save you the lawyer's fees.