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On the recordJuly 7, 1997
I think our approach to it gives the Government the power it needs to police the sales, says to the seller, the computer company, you can come to the Government now and entrust that decision to an entity which should know as to which purchasers should not be trusted. And that I think would give the industry some peace of mind. It has to be a major embarrassment to these companies to realize now that they have sold these supercomputers in China and in Russia and that they may be used for military purposes against the United States.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the need for government oversight on technology sales to prevent misuse.

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