If all goes as planned, more Americans may be able to visit communist Cuba. Obama is trying to change rules to allow more American Citizens to travel to the island for educational purposes and cultural trips.

There has been a 47 year ban on allowing Americans to visit Cuba, but legislators hope that it will change soon.

“We’re confident we can get it passed,” Senator Byron Dorgan, said on Friday. “Restricting the right of Americans to travel to Cuba means you are punishing the American people for transgressions of the Cuban government. That just doesn’t make sense to me.”

In June the bill was approved by the House Agriculture Committee, but it still must be approved by the House and Senate in order to go into effect. People who support the travel ban believe that easing the rules against tourism in Cuba would take pressure off the communist regime. These supporters think we are getting closer to ending the Castro Regime in Cuba, and easing up would be counter productive.

More than likely we will see a partial lift of the ban sometime before 2012.