The bill contains an inane formula which allows the export of supercomputers with a performance capability of 25% or less of the average of the two most powerful supercomputers currently available commercially.
At Goldman he rose to the level of Managing Director and co-invented the tool for pricing options on Treasury bonds with Goldman colleagues Bill Toy and the late Fischer Black, of Black-Scholes formula fame.
Although Mr Clinton and congressional leaders have reached agreement on a formula to pay off most of the arrears in stages (and may even get a bill to that effect through Congress), this in itself raises hackles.
In the last week of February, however, changes were introduced to the bill that struck out all of the well-balanced language in the bill designed to fix the faulty funding formula.