11/04/1999
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"I determine that it is in the national interest for the Export-Import Bank of the United States to extend a loan in the amount of approximately $237,253,000 to the People's Republic of China."
"It would be inappropriate to speculate about the motives, the atmosphere, or anything else until this investigation is complete."
"It is in the national interest for the Export-Import Bank of the United States to extend a loan in the amount of approximately $ 278,120,000 to the People's Republic of China."
"My message to the children is that this was an evil thing and the people who did it were terribly, horribly wrong."