[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 26753]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        OPENING JAPANESE MARKETS

  Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, when we go to H.R. 434, I am going to 
introduce a sense-of-the-Senate resolution encouraging the U.S. 
Government to pursue its bilateral measures with Japan and urge the 
United States to urge Japan to go further to open up telecommunications 
markets, particularly its Internet services, and so forth. I will have 
a lot more to say at the appropriate time. I believe strongly that we, 
as a country, have to go further and, more importantly, Japan has to go 
a lot further in opening up its market. It would be in the best 
interest of Japanese consumers, if it were to do so, and it would 
surely be in the best interest of peoples all around the world. At the 
appropriate time, I will speak more at length.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Massachusetts is recognized.

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