Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. First of all, WuXi AppTec and WuXi Biologics are two separate entities. Again, I was hoping to get some more clarity, and this is what puzzles me as to why WuXi Biologics is on this list. I was told at one point that they were on the list because the Department of Commerce had them on the unverified list. I actually had a conversation with the Department of Commerce to try to understand all these different lists, and they told me that it is not uncommon for companies to be on the unverified list, especially in the aftermath of COVID because it was hard to do the investigations. However, then they sent me a statement in which WuXi Biologics was removed from the unverified list. Then I said: Well, they must be on another list. They said that they had this thing called the entity list. I asked them, I said that they must be on the entity list if they are named in this bill. The entity list is made up of foreign individuals, companies, and organizations deemed a national security concern subjecting them to export restrictions and licensing requirements for certain technologies and goods, so they must be on that list. The Commerce Department said: No, they are not on that list. I said: Okay, they are not on the unverified list, and they are not on the entity list. Is there any other list out there? Well, there is another one out there. It is the DOD section 1260H list. Are they on that list?…”