Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Of course you blame the GOP Date:   5/27/2021 11:31:44 AM

MM, I will grant you that a lot of rules and regulations are based on someone's interpretation of whatever it is Congress has passed.  Usually it gets passed down to someone's general counsel and they interpret it and it gets passed down from there.  Sometimes rules and regulations are created based on the fear of what might happen or on a single incident.  In 2006, most of my year and my bosses year was spent on a Congressional fallacy by Hilary Clinton among others, that foreigners were buying up our ports through which sensitive defense material was passing.  That wasn't true, a UAE company got permission from Commerce to execute a contract for port operations through which no defense material was ever passed.  But didn't mean that we didn't spend 3/4 of a year answering Congressional questions and ultimately stood the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US on it's each.  You would not believe all the reguatory changes that came out of that circus.  The waste of manhours was extraordinary.