Jane Harman: “I see these advantages in promoting foreign military sales that are definitely circumscribed by our limitations on arms…”

“I see these advantages in promoting foreign military sales that are definitely circumscribed by our limitations on arms exports, and these are carefully circumscribed. We are not changing the rules with respect to what can be exported and to whom. We are just making it easier to export. If we encourage appropriate commercial foreign military sales, we do three things. Jobs is one. The second thing is we save the industrial base, which, as I mentioned before, we can use to our advantage later as national security problems arise. Third, and this is very important in terms of saving money for the government, we are able to manufacture more units of whatever is exported, because of the exports, and we lower by that means of the per-unit cost of the airplane or whatever the item is, which means that when the U.S. Government purchases that item in the future, for example, the C-17, the per----”