Political Quotes

“we have had some considerable success in this regard. In fact, Cray has sold and installed in Japan 170 supercomputers. NEC has installed in Japan, their own country, 80 computers. In the United States, Cray has installed 320 supercomputers versus 2 for NEC and none to a Government corporation, a Government agency. Mr. Chairman, are we to suggest here tonight that we are going to deny the right of the NSF, which has looked at the bids and has decided that this is clearly the superior computer, that we are going to say, you cannot proceed with that and jeopardize all of the trade laws, all of the sales which Cray and others have made, all of the efforts we have made to open this market to our computers and to other countries and to other companies that sell in that market? I want to make it clear that the bottom line has nothing to do with whether it is Cray or NEC that gets the NSF contract. It is a process that must be followed here. There is a process for an antidumping case. The process has not been followed by the Department of Commerce, and this body is preparing to violate it in a very major way tonight.”