FC: Alert! President Bush declares national emergency

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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




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