On the recordOctober 11, 1995
The Traficant amendment says when there is a joint R&D program, and in fact NASA is determining to, in fact, release certain undisclosed, unrestricted information, that at the request of the company, who is also a participant in the funding of it, that the NASA Administrator would not release into a period not to exceed 5 years. Now, before everybody panics over this, if the NASA Administrator who still has the discretion would believe that it is not as significant as the concern of the company, that may only be a short period of time. But the Traficant bill says in order for it to be a 5-year holding back of this release of this information that there would have to be a 50-percent contribution in the private sector. I think language could be worked out here. Let me say this. American industry needs some protection here.
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