Romney Leads Senate Hearing on Strengthening Export Controls Enforcement

U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight Subcommittee, today led a bipartisan hearing with Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Subcommittee Chair, focused on strengthening the enforcement of export controls, which protect national security and prevent our adversaries from acquiring and misusing American-developed technology.

Senators Romney and Hassan have made strengthening the enforcement of export controls a top priority of the ETSO Subcommittee.

Yesterday, they introduced the Export Controls Enforcement Improvement Act, bipartisan legislation to bolster the Export Enforcement Coordination Center—an interagency hub for information sharing and coordination among the key agencies responsible for export control enforcement. In January, Senators Romney and Hassan sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an assessment of the Department of Commerce’s export controls restricting advanced semiconductors, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and related technologies from going to China and other adversaries.