After President Obama announced the plans for the normalisation of US relations with Cuba, some in Washington are already expressing their concern about the move.
The Democratic Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Menendez, says by freeing three Cuban prisoners in the US, the administration has vindicated the Cuban government's behaviour.
Meanwhile, Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida called the announcement 'absurd'.
Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow at the right wing Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington D.C, laid out some of the steps such disgruntled members of Congress could take to obstruct President Obama's move:
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Anna Quintana, a research associate at Washington's right wing Heritage Foundation, says the State Department should not, as is planned, review Cuba's place on its list of state sponsors of terrorism:
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OUT: ...their proxy Venezuela
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Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow at the right wing Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington D.C, criticised the negotiation skills of the White House:
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