{"id":3381,"date":"2013-07-12T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2013-07-12T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T15:02:13","slug":"jay-z-beyonce-trip-reportedly-inspires-bill-restricting-travel-to-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/?p=3381","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z &#038; Beyonce Trip Reportedly Inspires Bill Restricting Travel To Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from the\u00a0<strong>huffingtonpost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Celebrity power couple Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z,\u00a0who controversially visited Cuba\u00a0earlier this year, might face tougher government restrictions on travel to countries considered U.S. adversaries if congressional Republicans get their way.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0bill\u00a0that just made its way out of a House Appropriations subcommittee would limit the use of Department of Treasury funds to approve &#8220;travel-related or other transactions incident to non-academic educational exchanges&#8221; described in\u00a0American legal restrictions\u00a0on travel to Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.), an advocate for easing travel restrictions to Cuba, labeled the proposal the &#8220;Jay-Z and Beyonc\u00e9 bill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In April, Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay Z visited Havana to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. When the couple returned, a variety of groups and lawmakers\u00a0criticizedtheir choice of destination.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government became involved when the Treasury Department announced it had authorized the trip. A pair of lawmakers\u00a0began investigating\u00a0the incident, and the White House\u00a0denied that it played\u00a0a role in the authorization, in light of President Barack Obama&#8217;s friendship with the couple.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/10\/congress-beyonce-jay-z_n_3575237.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span id=\"inserted5782\" style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #232ec4;\">Read more here\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from the\u00a0huffingtonpost Celebrity power couple Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z,\u00a0who controversially visited Cuba\u00a0earlier this year, might face tougher government restrictions on travel to countries considered U.S. adversaries if congressional Republicans get their way. A\u00a0bill\u00a0that just made its way out of a House Appropriations subcommittee would limit the use of Department of Treasury funds to approve &#8220;travel-related [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[722,721,723,1142,720],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-havana","tag-beyonce","tag-cuba","tag-cuba-travel","tag-jay-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}