Haley Stevens: “let me just list some major sales in the time we have. As we listened to the Senator from Illinois, I made a list. These…”

“let me just list some major sales in the time we have. As we listened to the Senator from Illinois, I made a list. These are recent major sales: C-130J to Britain, AH-64 Apache to Britain, AH-64 Apache to Netherlands, F-16 to South Korea, Corp-San development with Germany, F-18 to Australia, F-18 to Spain, AV-8B co-production with Britain and Spain. That is the British area being built in the United States, a co-production with Britain and Spain. And the MLRS rockets, which are so important to the Senator from Arkansas, to Germany and to Britain. Now, that is just 5 seconds of thinking about what we are doing. The impact of this amendment places those in jeopardy. Now, Mr. President, I am constrained to say that, the other night, a good friend of mine, who is a very intelligent person from academia, told me, ``You know, as we reduce our industrial base, if you in Congress continue to put restrictions on our American industry so it cannot enter into cooperative agreements abroad, we will see the day come when we will be procuring all of our systems from abroad, because technology follows production.'' Technology follows production. As we produce, we refine our systems, we develop new technology. If we are not involved in this production, we will not be able to afford the development costs and research costs to refine it.”