Thomas Ewing: “So there is no provision in this act that would punish the farmer or exporter if the product exported eventually reached…”

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…

I understand that is what the GAO report said; but sugar prices are low, and I have not, and I just wonder if the gentleman has, seen any reduction in candy bars or soda pop or any other commodity that the gentleman claims will be such a…

The gentleman knows, I am sure, that sugar prices are at an all-time low; they have not been this low in years.

Mr. Chairman, let me try to clear away some of this smoky rhetoric that has been put out here to mask the problem here. This bill is an intricate interlocked bill that affects the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, and the part…