Thomas Ewing: “Mr. Chairman, let me try to clear away some of this smoky rhetoric that has been put out here to mask the problem here.…”

I am wondering if it is the understanding of the gentleman that under this bill there is no general prohibition of exports to a country which is deemed to contain responsible entities who are committing religious persecutions, as defined…

School violence and violence in society concerns all of us. What do we do about it? Well, we have tried gun control. We have insisted on parental control. We have suggested the schools could control more. I do not believe our young people…

So there is no provision in this act that would punish the farmer or exporter if the product exported eventually reached a responsible entity?

So, then, if I understand the gentleman, if a farmer exports grain to a country that the director of the Office of Religious Persecution Monitoring deems to contain responsible entities engaged in religious persecution, and exports that…