Spencer Cox: “we must keep our focus on the narrow purpose of this amendment, which is to keep Congress in control over any decision…”

“we must keep our focus on the narrow purpose of this amendment, which is to keep Congress in control over any decision whether the U.S. taxpayer should be put on the hook for a multi-billion dollar liability for nuclear accidents in North Korea. It is, to say the least, a surprising policy that this administration, the Clinton-Gore administration, with the author of Earth in the Balance complicit in the decision, has decided to use taxpayer resources to build nuclear power plants, nuclear power plants not for U.S. consumers, but for a repressive regime that has armed itself to the teeth. They are maintaining a 1 million-man army while the people of North Korea are so impoverished they are eating the bark off of trees. But leaving aside our warranted astonishment with this policy of building nuclear power plants for Kim Jong Il, which will produce plutonium which could be used to make nuclear weapons and be fitted on the missiles that he will continue to develop while we are giving them this aid, the new question that is put before us now is whether or not the agreed framework between the United States and Japan and South Korea and North Korea is going to be distorted in a way not contemplated by this Congress or by the administration, that the liability of the U.S. taxpayers will be enormously increased without any consultation with Congress, and, most importantly, without any legal authorization for doing so.”