Political Quotes

“For example, the bill prohibits export controls on items that contain controlled components comprising less than 25 percent of the total value of an item and sets an extremely high standard for the President to meet in order to control such items. Nations such as Iran and Iraq spend millions of dollars to establish elaborate procurement companies with front companies and shadowy middlemen in order to obtain items that in some cases really only cost a few thousand dollars. These nations could easily take advantage of this by purchasing the larger items that contain the desired part. There are a lot of examples of this, where you purchase the larger item, and all you want is the little piece embedded in it. That is what you need for your particular nuclear program or missile program. We all know that the particular item is highly sensitive, that it has military application. But in the bill, if it is only 25 percent of the total value of the overall item, then it goes, notwithstanding the fact that it can be easily taken apart, that the sensitive item can be pulled out and put onto a missile or a nuclear weapon or whatever the use of it might be. That doesn't make sense. Finally, the current bill weakens current controls by treating export controls adopted for foreign policy reasons as a sanction.”