Norvell Emerson: “I commend the gentleman and appreciate very much his explanation of the whole issue of safety, because we have got to…”

Following the section that he read, there is then language that gives the Secretary very broad discretion in adding countries as she, or he in the future, whatever, may desire, subject to safety standards.

But the problem is, the problem that I have is that there was no community involvement whatsoever during the 2-year process that they were trying to make this designation, I suppose because there is really no authorization for it.

If soft money is so corrupting, why then does the gentleman allow any soft money to be legal in this bill?

I misspoke, and I need to make a correction for that. When I was quoting about the restrictions, the people who wanted to remove the restrictions, I meant to say it was a letter from the dissidents, the Cuban dissidents, to us. And also, I…