Jeffrey Kessler the Administration's nominee for Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security had a relatively easy go of it in front of the Senate Banking Committee Thursday, as members sunk their teeth into the higher-profile nominees who shared the dias.
While Mr. Kessler brings a strong legal background in tariff and trade enforcement and compliance, the technical and national security elements of export administration will call for a high degree of collaboration with what one senator referred to as "career bureaucrats [who] over the years at BIS have rubber stamped deals for decades and sent some of our most important technology to China"
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