Exiliados cubanos y miembros de las Organizaciones Cubanas Unidas, Silvio Acosta (izq.) y Angel Alfonso, asistieron al debate de la Comisión de Relaciones Exteriores de la la Cámara sobre el levantamiento de las restricciones a los viajes de estadounidenses a Cuba. Los legisladores escucharon intervenciones a favor y en contra. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

El presidente de la Comisión de Relaciones Exteriores de la Cámara, el representante Howard Berman, y una de sus miembros más importantes, la legisladora del sur de la Florida, leana Ros-Lehtinen, hablan antes de la reunión donde se debatió el levantamiento de las restricciones sobre los viajes de estadounidenses a Cuba. Getty Images

House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) (C) counsels Cuban citizen Berta Antunez (L), sister of Cuban pro-democracy activist Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, before Antunez testifies before the committee during a hearing on the travel ban for U.S. citizens to Cuba on Capitol Hill November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee heard from witnesses on both sides of the issue as Congress gears up for a battle over Cuba policy, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the decades-old ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

Former Cuban political prisoners listen to testimony from witnesses during a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the travel ban for U.S. citizens to Cuba on Capitol Hill November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee heard from witnesses on both sides of the issue as Congress gears up for a battle over Cuba policy, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the decades-old ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) (R) counsels Cuban citizen Berta Antunez (L), sister of Cuban pro-democracy activist Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, before Antunez testifies before the committee during a hearing on the travel ban for U.S. citizens to Cuba on Capitol Hill November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee heard from witnesses on both sides of the issue as Congress gears up for a battle over Cuba policy, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the decades-old ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

In a break with many in his party, House Foreign Affairs Committee member Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) gives an opening statement about the need to lift the travel ban for U.S. citizens to Cuba on Capitol Hill November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee heard from witnesses on both sides of the issue as Congress gears up for a battle over Cuba policy, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the decades-old ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

Former Southern Command head, U.S. Army General (retired) Barry McCaffrey testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the need to lift the travel ban for U.S. citizens to Cuba on Capitol Hill November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee heard from witnesses on both sides of the issue as Congress gears up for a battle over Cuba policy, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the decades-old ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

Independent journalist and founder of the White Ladies, Miriam Leiva is seen on a television screen (R) while testifying from the U.S. Interests Section in Havana to the House Foreign Affairs Committee during a hearing on the travel ban for U.S. citizens to Cuba on Capitol Hill November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee heard from witnesses on both sides of the issue as Congress gears up for a battle over Cuba policy, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the decades-old ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

Former Cuban political prisoners Guillermo Estevez listens to testimony during a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the travel ban for U.S. citizens to Cuba on Capitol Hill November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee heard from witnesses on both sides of the issue as Congress gears up for a battle over Cuba policy, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the decades-old ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island. Estevez, a pilot in the Cuban Air Force, was sentanced to 30 years in prison in 1959 by Fidel Castro's revolutionary government. He served 20 years of hard labor in 12 different prisons where he says he was tortured and isolated. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

Former Southern Command head, U.S. Army General (retired) Barry McCaffrey testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the need to lift the travel ban for U.S. citizens to Cuba on Capitol Hill November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee heard from witnesses on both sides of the issue as Congress gears up for a battle over Cuba policy, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the decades-old ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images