Political Quotes

“I yield myself 1 minute. We talked about what this would do to our supercomputer industry, which is one company: Cray. Let me just tell my colleagues what they said in a memorandum to their own employees just a month ago in which they said, it is a Q and A kind of memorandum. Question. How much of an impact does the entire deal have on Cray financially and in terms of jobs? Answer. It is a large procurement, but we as a company do not live or die by one deal. It does not make or break our revenue goals for the year, and it does not really make a difference in employment because we do not staff up prospectively for business that is not booked yet. Mr. Chairman, this is not going to make or break Cray; they are doing very well in Japan. Let us not jeopardize the sales of computers that they have in Japan. Let us not jeopardize this with the kind of action that is being talked about here today. Let us not jeopardize this by violating our own law our law makes it clear that you can only have a sanction after there is a final determination of dumping, and then it can only be in the form of an antidumping tariff, not in terms as proposed by section 421. It violates our dumping laws, and our procurement costs.”