The Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act is gaining ground in the US House of Representatives.  There are 180 congresspersons willing to endorse it, and there’s even a similar bill in the Senate now, which has thirty-two cosponsors.  The House Foreign Relations Committee is the group that holds the open hearings on the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act, and which must approve the Bill before it continues its way on in the legislative process.

There are over a hundred thousand online signatures collected in support of the act, which would open up travel to Cuba for all Americans (US, that is).  Orbitz has collected lots of signatures in just a few months.  There is much popular support for the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act.  More people want Cuba opened up now more than ever since the US first imposed a travel ban and embargo more than forty years ago.  Even into the 1990s, the US government was passing new laws restricting US interaction with Cuba on all levels, but especially in doing business with the country.

The Vice president of the National Foreign Trade Council views this time in history as an historic opportunity for the President to start change towards travel to Cuba for all Americans.