Ala. House panel urges president Bush to open travel to Cuba
committee has approved a resolution urging President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Congress to open up travel between the United States and Cuba.

The resolution by the House Tourism and Travel Committee specifically asks the president to allow travel between Alabama and Cuba.

Committee chairman Rep. Johnny Mack Morrow, D-Red Bay, said allowing travel to the communist island off the southern coast of Florida would mean millions in tourism dollars for Alabama. State Agriculture Secretary Ron Sparks said much of the benefit would come from cruise ships traveling between Havana and Mobile.