On the recordJune 9, 1999
Reclaiming my time, I just add that, as my colleagues know, giving Members of Congress not even 24 hours to see the language on amendment of this nature is also problematic. I understand the negotiations were going on until the very end, but this is too serious to do on an ad hoc basis with a section here and a section there. Mr. Chairman, I think if we look at that, at one point televisions were American. Next thing we know, they did not make them in America virtually. At one point machine tools, we have the leadership in manufacturing machine tools; it went to Japan. High tech is easier to move, cheaper to move and is available in lots of other countries. We are not careful, we are going to kill the American expertise and superiority in this area. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
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