Maxwell Frost: “while the scope of the matter under discussion today is fairly narrow, the resolution itself is very broad. It is…”

“while the scope of the matter under discussion today is fairly narrow, the resolution itself is very broad. It is possible that this resolution could be used in a future Congress as a means for examining the entire foreign policy of the United States as it relates to China, regardless of whether there was any wrongdoing found by this investigation. I only raise that cautionary flag, as I did in the Committee on Rules, because that is really a legitimate matter to be determined by our foreign policy committees of this Congress, perhaps even by our Select Committee on Intelligence, perhaps by our Committee on National Security, but not necessarily by this Select Committee. Because the gentleman and previous Republican Presidents have a philosophical difference on this issue, and I would hope this Select Committee does not go to that philosophical difference of whether we ought to be engaging China, but simply limits itself to the matters at hand which raise the question of whether there was improper conduct in terms of the implementation of that policy.”