John Cornyn: “Two years ago, during the debate on the Defense…”

“And I have something to announce to my colleagues here. I'm not going to give up. We're going to stay after this until we get it done right. Two years ago, during the debate on the Defense Authorization Bill, The Senate voted 91 to 6 to include my amendment, which contained provisions on outbound investment transparency. Even in the face of such overwhelming, nearly unanimous consensus, again on a bipartisan basis in the Senate, to address outbound investment, this provision was stripped from the final bill, …” (05:59–06:10)

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