Mike Enzi said "I have to tell you that the foreign availability in this bill was in the 1979 act, but it has gotten some attention because we put in mass market this time. Because of comments raised by the Senator from Arizona and several of his colleagues, we have a provision in here that provides for some Presidential enhanced powers that trump all of that. We hope the President won't trump all of that. We hope the President will work to have some multilateral controls over these foreign availability items instead of just the unilateral system that we are working now. "Unilateral" means we are letting the rest of the world sell this stuff to anybody they want. "Multilateral" means we work together to make sure anybody who makes that item doesn't sell it to the bad guys. We have to have the multilateral control. Unilateral doesn't work." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 5, 2001

I have to tell you that the foreign availability in this bill was in the 1979 act, but it has gotten some attention because we put in mass market this time. Because of comments raised by the Senator from Arizona and several of his colleagues, we have a provision in here that provides for some Presidential enhanced powers that trump all of that. We hope the President won't trump all of that. We hope the President will work to have some multilateral controls over these foreign availability items instead of just the unilateral system that we are working now. "Unilateral" means we are letting the rest of the world sell this stuff to anybody they want. "Multilateral" means we work together to make sure anybody who makes that item doesn't sell it to the bad guys. We have to have the multilateral control. Unilateral doesn't work.

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Mike Enzi

Republican · Wyoming

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing jurisdictional issues and foreign availability in a bill during Senate floor debate.

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