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Remarks to Americans for Peace Now
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Chairman Berman’s op-ed on export controls and national security was published in The San Jose Mercury News on the morning of a Committee hearing on the subject.
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The Foreign Affairs Committee held a field hearing in Northern California to consider the confluence of national security and U.S. leadership in science and diplomacy as affected by our country’s aging export control regime.
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