Jim Webb: “At this critical moment, it is imperative that our policy toward Burma be forward thinking, providing incentives for…”

I respectfully ask the Committee to work with me to bring this legislation to the Senate floor.

Thank you, Mr. President. I thank the Parliamentarian for that clarification. (The remarks of Mr. Webb pertaining to the introduction of S. 3372 are located in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')

If the government is so repressive that it deliberately kills its own people--that is the standard where you say that government no longer has validity--then it does not matter how powerful that government is.

We do support the validity of internationally accepted Exclusive Economic Zones, those that are set out under basically agreed-upon international law.