[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 90 (Wednesday, July 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 13, 1994]
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                 SUPPORT THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT

  (Mr. GEJDENSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Speaker, we in this Congress have begun to turn 
the American economy around, not by ourselves, but working with small 
business across this country.
  Now the budget passed, sadly by only Democrat votes, and was able to 
work with an economy ready to respond. We have another opportunity 
coming before this House to help the economy, and that is to pass the 
Export Administration Act.
  Mr. Speaker, in our competition with Japan and Germany, American 
companies are shackled and prevented from engaging in the international 
market in technology that is generally available. In our bill we are 
tougher on terrorists, but we let the administration lead the effort to 
take advantage of the international marketplace where the future of our 
economy will be built.
  I ask my colleagues to focus on the Export Administration Act as it 
comes to the floor in the next several days and to make sure those of 
my colleagues interested in its passage helps us fight off amendments 
that would leave American companies in a more complicated situation 
than they were at the height of the Brezhnev era. We need to take 
advantage of international markets and of international security, not 
destroy American opportunity by passing some of these very negative 
amendments.

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