A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to allow
 sales of food and medicine to Cuba, over the objections of Majority Whip Tom
 DeLay.

 The House Appropriations Committee voted 35-24 to preserve a provision in an
 agricultural appropriations bill that would license such sales as long as they are
 not subsidized by U.S. taxpayers.

 The measure would also prohibit the president from including food and medicine in
 future embargoes of other countries without congressional approval.