Congress will take its annual long recess in August, and Democrats hope to use the time to build support for health-care reform around the country.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

"A sense that a step is made to release prisoners, and the government is trying to build some bridges in certain areas, but at the same time, the revolutionary side is given its moment in which Fidel Castro is able to excoriate the United States and to continue to lay out the revolutionary credentials, or Cuba's role as a leader of the Third World."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13