I think the foreign registry is one element in a broader strategy. We should not oversell it.
I would go narrow. I would make sure that it forces people who represent China.... It should be modelled on the Lobbying Act. People who are representing interests of China—maybe they are law firms; maybe they are others—should have to report their contacts like they do under the Lobbying Act. There should be penalties for people who choose to not comply, who will not report. The penalties should be meaningful—going back to the question of Mr. Cooper earlier.
You need to have good measures, measures that are going to deal with what the problem is. That's why I say that I would hope that the committee's work allows us to go above partisanship and develop a strategy that deals with what the problem is, what the best institutions are that we need to update and how we make sure that we are successful in correcting this thing.
Maybe I'm too naive.