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7/1/93 After having funds for Radio and TV Marti deleted in a closed mark-up session, the House Appropriations Committee restores funds for Radio Marti but not TV Marti (CAC, 6/22/93; CM, 6/25/93; MH, 6/25/93). Rep. Diaz-Balart succeeds in cutting $23 million from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in an effort to repay Rep. David Skaggs (D-CO) for cutting $17.5 million from Radio and TV Marti. Rep. Skaggs complains, "I was greatly disturbed and saddened that the normal business of this House was subject to these retributive tactics. This is an example of how difficult it is to pull the plug on a program, even one as ineffective as this one." Skaggs believes the programs are unnecessary because Cubans are able to view commercial broadcasts from Florida. (MH, 7/3/93) Another Cuban American Member of Congress, first-term Representative Robert Menendez (D-NJ), tells the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call that he intends to monitor projects in the districts of Members who are "obviously on a mission" to oppose the "peaceful diplomacy" programs of Radio and TV Marti: "It could be anyone...For every action, there's a reaction." (CAC, 7/23/92; RC, 7/5/93)
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7/2/93 Following the conflict between Rep. Skaggs, who cut TV and Radio Marti funding, and Rep. Diaz-Balart, who cut funding for Boulder-based federal programs, CANF sends out a press release announcing "Opposition to Cuba initiative costs Boulder rep pet project," sending Colorado papers to press with news of the Boulder-Miami feud. (MH, 10/13/93)
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Excerpts found a little beyond 1/2 down the page at:
http://www.cuban-exile.com/doc_126-150/doc0146b.html

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The original post on Rep. David Skaggs was excerpted from this article I just found, which contains more information on TV/Radio Martis, if I'm not mistaken.
http://www.coha.org/2006/03/29/radio-and-tv-marti-washington-guns-after-castro-at-any-cost/

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I might add that the fathers of Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, his brother, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen both have been invited to do programs at Radio Marti, before he died. I'm sure the people of Cuba love to hear the stories about how wonderful Cuba was before the revolution for wealthy Spanish descended people to be thrilling!

Diaz-Balart's father, Rafael, was a Senator, and a Cabinet member of Fulgencio Batista, the blood, dirty U.S.-supported dictator.

He was educated at Princeton. He got a law degree in Cuba. His sister, Mirta, was the wife of Fidel Castro.

The 3rd son, Jose's Wikipedia:

José Díaz-Balart is the co-anchor of Telemundo Network’s “Cada día” morning program. Díaz-Balart is also the Network’s National Director of Public Affairs, as well as the Anchor and Managing Editor of “Enfoque”, Telemundo’s public affairs program.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Diaz-Balart

Here he is, second from the right, while his two sweet Congressladdies are on the leftside of the photo.