WASHINGTON (CNS) — A month after President Barack Obama announced the relaxation of family travel and finance restrictions for Cuban Americans to visit and financially support their relatives in Cuba, supporters of further changes renewed their efforts to lift travel bans for all U.S. citizens.

At a May 19 press conference at the Capitol, members of Congress, representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Human Rights Watch also urged an end to the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba and encouraged the administration to take other steps to open “person to person” dialogues.

“The more we change, the more Cuba will change,” said Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass. He is one of 154 bipartisan co-sponsors of the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act, introduced in February. Twenty-six senators are co-sponsors of the Senate version of the bill.

Oblate Father Andrew Small, incoming director of the USCCB’s collection for the Church in Latin America and a foreign policy adviser, said the U.S. bishops are fully behind efforts for more access to Cuba, and the sooner the better. “We need not just incremental change but robust, bold change,” he said.