Mike Thompson: “I see what the Senator is saying. If you are assuming that the determination made by the Secretary of foreign…”

“I see what the Senator is saying. If you are assuming that the determination made by the Secretary of foreign availability and the President's decision to set that aside were made simultaneously, I am wondering whether or not there could be a situation where that would not be the case, that a determination could be made of foreign availability by the Secretary. The President doesn't have anything to do with that. Then at a later date the President makes a determination that this is not working out very well and he wants to use his enhanced authority. But enhanced authority doesn't refer to 212, which gives him the right to set aside which foreign availability would subsume.”