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On the recordJuly 7, 1997
If I could pose another question to my cosponsor on this amendment, Senator Cochran. There have been others that have said, well, why is the United States doing this? If we stop selling computers around the world, whatever their capability, some other country is going to sell them. So we are tying the hands of American business in a futile effort to stop this march of technology. I would appreciate it if my colleague, the Senator from Mississippi, would address that particular complaint.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing concerns about U.S. technology export restrictions during Senate debate.

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