Brad Sherman: “When we transfer manufacturing technology, we transfer our most valuable secrets, how to make the materials involved.”

Having spent 28 years on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and 28 years on this committee, I want to commend our witnesses and the agencies they represent, since our ability to impose sanctions and economic penalties is such a critical…

Can I be assured that you are getting more input from Americans than Europeans in writing these rules?

If you guys screw it up, don't blame the Europeans, and if you oppose these rules, don't enlist as xenophobia.

I predict someone will introduce a resolution of disapproval and I invite members of this committee who have worked with us to prevent nuclear weapons in the Middle East, from non-democratic countries, to join in that effort.