Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, asked the Biden administration July 22 to provide a briefing on its efforts to find out how parts made by U.S. companies are ending up in Iranian-made drones.
Marc Selinger
Marc Selinger, Assistant Editor, is the congressional reporter for Export Compliance Daily, which he joined in December 2023. He previously wrote for a variety of defense publications, highlights of which included covering the Paris and Farnborough (UK) air shows and touring the Israeli defense industry. His first full-time journalism job involved reporting on local government, schools and police news for a community newspaper in Michigan. He is on X at @marcselinger and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-selinger-315089173/.
The Biden administration should seek to remove trade barriers that are making it difficult for American producers of liquor and liquefied natural gas (LNG) to export their products to India, a member of Congress said July 23.
The Biden administration opposes the House version of the FY 2025 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill, partly because it could hurt the Treasury Department's ability to implement upcoming outbound investment restrictions (see 2405080039), the White House said July 22.
Congress should get on with passing long-standing legislation on China sanctions and outbound investment, two Republican senators said during a panel discussion at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado last week.
Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., introduced legislation last week aimed at modernizing the Bureau of Industry and Security’s aging information technology systems.
The leaders of the House Select Committee on China and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China urged the Biden administration July 17 to sanction 28 Hong Kong government officials for recent efforts to dismantle the Chinese territory's autonomy and stifle political dissent.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, urged the Commerce Department this month to make several changes to “strengthen” the Bureau of Industry and Security’s new interim rule restricting firearms exports.
If NATO considers adding Ukraine to the alliance, it should require the country to limit potential investment from China to address security concerns, according to a new report by Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Rep. Maria Salazar, R-Fla., introduced a resolution last week opposing the lifting of sanctions against Cuba or the removal of Cuba from the State Department’s state sponsors of terrorism list.
The House Appropriations Committee has included several export control provisions in a new report accompanying its version of the FY 2025 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Bill.