The Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based nonpartisan-nonprofit watchdog, just released this first-of-a-kind survey largely in response to growing national debate over the future direction of the Cuban-American lobby in Congress.

Questions now exist about the political resolve of the anti-Castro lobby, for instance, considering the very publicly reported discord among members of the Miami-based Cuban American National Foundation, the group considered by many as most responsible for helping to shape U.S. policies on the Cuban trade embargo.

Those policies are likely to become an even larger issue now that Sen. Jesse Helms, R-NC, the embargo's leading congressional proponent, has announced his retirement.