Orrin Hatch: “I appreciate the Senator's willingness to take out the prior notification and the word ``likely'' in her response to the…”

“I appreciate the Senator's willingness to take out the prior notification and the word ``likely'' in her response to the distinguished Senator from Delaware. But if she would also modify and take out ``or knows,'' in other words if such person ``intends'' and take out ``or knows.'' I will tell her why that is important. There are a lot of explosives manufacturers and personnel who do teach others how to make explosives and how to use them legitimately, for legitimate purposes, mining and others. There are a lot of slurry manufacturers in my State. In fact, the chief for slurry underground explosives happens to be the founder of the IRECO Chemical Corp. in my home State. If you put ``or knows'' in there, what we are concerned about is if they teach a university class or teach other people in their business or teach other people, in seminars, about how to do slurry explosives or some other type of explosives, they could, under this provision, be indicted or prosecuted. I really believe the distinguished Senator does a great favor if she says that the person ``intends that such explosive materials or information will be used for. . . .'' I think that is the fair way to do it. It is one way of alleviating these difficult legal questions that really make it very difficult for people who are in the explosives business to even talk about the business. If the Senator could do that, I will be willing to accept this amendment.”