Debbie Dingell: “I firmly believe that it is in the vital interests of American workers and American business that this Congress pass…”

“I firmly believe that it is in the vital interests of American workers and American business that this Congress pass legislation this year implementing the OECD anti-bribery convention. I understand the proposal before us includes an extraneous matter involving satellites which represents a compromise with the Administration, Comsat, and at least one Senator. My concern is that this is all happening in the very last minutes of this Congress, and may jeopardize passage of this legislation. There has never been any controversy over the provisions in this bill implementing the OECD anti-bribery convention. The only issue in controversy has been the extraneous satellite provisions. The Senate has now passed legislation ratifying and implementing the anti-bribery convention on two different occasions, and, both times they have passed it without the satellite provisions that my good friend Chairman Bliley has put in the House bill.”