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the best products here, instead of outsourcing them other places. The key to a decent defense is to be able to continue to rely on our own industry to provide what we need to defend ourselves. The more we become dependent on others to provide the expertise for providing us with what we need, the sooner we can suddenly be stripped of that defense, if the countries providing that labor/products, etc. nationalize their industry or use other means to prevent us from using that technology. Whether or not the products are "better" functionality-wise, the limitation of others being able to yank our resources at any time is what makes relying on them worse.

There should be no reason why we shouldn't be able to produce the superior products ourselves here. We've done it in the past, and with the right tax incentives, etc. in place to keep jobs here at home doing this work, we should be able to continue to do so in the future.

I've been saying all along that one big way of telling Republicans the need for us to stop this outsourcing trend is to point out to them that you don't at some point want to be dependent on having all of your defense materials being made in China, which is where things might be leading if you allow all of the rest of our tech industry to outsource itself there. If this can put a stop on outsourcing, I think it's great.

As noted by others, this is one time where my hat is off to the Republican that put forth this bill.