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On the House floor yesterday: >5:42 P.M. - >The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President >transmitting a 6-month report on the national emergency to deal with the >threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United >States caused by the lapse of the Export Administration Act of 1979 - >referred to the Committee on International Relations and ordered to be >printed (H. Doc. 107-235). This is of course a recurring event, which every president does with a metronome's regularity. It allows current export regulations (think crypto) to remain in place. Here's a previous Politech message from 1998 in which Clinton did the same thing (before my web-accessible archives begin, so the link is to Dave Farber's list): http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199808/msg00023.html See also a quote from the Church report: http://www.politechbot.com/p-00106.html -Declan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------