Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, we have spoken about this amendment for some time now during this debate. I think most of the folks that are listening to the debate understand the problem. The problem is that there is an inextricable link between the satellite technology that we have been transferring to China pursuant to our satellite launch partnership with them and their nuclear missile capability. While we are trying to sort this problem out, Mr. Chairman, it makes sense for us to stop the train, to put on the brakes and say we are not going to make any transfers, no export or reexport of U.S. satellites, including commercial satellites and satellite components, to the People's Republic of China. That is what this amendment does. Mr. Chairman, in this crash we saw another problem that we had not thought about, and that is that we have these packages which, in theory, are protected against Chinese scientists and engineers being able to examine the contents even while they are in China.”