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On the recordJuly 26, 2005
I yield myself 30 seconds. First of all, the last speaker appears to have read the other party's bill, not ours. The Democrats' bill is actually weaker than our bill because it ignores a recommendation by the GAO to authorize the Commerce Department to use third-country information in countervailing duty cases against China consistent with China's WTO accession commitment. Without this provision, the countervailing duty provision would be difficult to use and could be subject to endless court challenges. They have simply misread this legislation and done it in an egregious way. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Johnson), a distinguished member of the Committee on Ways and Means.
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Philip English
Republican · Pennsylvania

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