Two House Democrats are asking conferees working on the fiscal year 2006 defense authorization bill to strike a section of the chamber's version of the legislation that, in effect, would impose sanctions on companies that transfer sensitive military goods to China. This kind of "unilateral sanction" authority, even if well-intentioned, "could bring significant unintended consequences, from increased tensions with our allies to economic damage to our high-tech industry," Reps. Ellen Tauscher (CA) and Adam Smith (WA) write today in a...
