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Sam Gejdenson: “I have heard some of the debate here. Some try to make it seem that this is a Clinton-era problem. It is hard to make…”

On the recordJune 9, 1999
I have heard some of the debate here. Some try to make it seem that this is a Clinton-era problem. It is hard to make that argument with problems that date back to 1982. Some of the Members who spoke on the floor said, oh, this is just because we lost COCOM. COCOM left us. We never lost it. They left us once the Soviet Union fell apart. We cannot get our allies to agree to fully significant controls. The Bush administration could not save it, and the Clinton administration could not save it. We have to deal with that reality, or we will take actions here that will only injure American dominance in these high-tech areas.
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Sam Gejdenson
Connecticut
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Addressing issues related to international controls and American dominance in technology.

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