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Re: details of 6/26 action on HR 695??

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Mon Jun 30 03:41:03 1997

Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 11:05:13 -0400
To: geeman@best.com
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>

geeman@best.com wrote:

>Are these the same amendments from before, or new ones?

The H.R.695 amendments referred to in the Congressional Record 
appear to be the same ones described in House Report 105-108:

   http://jya.com/hr105-108.txt

If there are others they have not yet been published.

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>Congressional Record: June 26, 1997 (House)]
>[Page H4834]
>From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
>[DOCID:cr26jn97-74]
>
> 
>                  REPORTED BILL SEQUENTIALLY REFERRED
>
>  Under clause 5 of rule X, the following action was taken by the 
>Speaker:
>
>       H.R. 695. A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to 
>     affirm the rights of U.S. persons to use and sell encryption 
>     and to relax export controls on encryption; with an 
>     amendment; referred to the Committees on Commerce, National 
>     Security, and the Permanent Select Committee on intelligence 
>     for a period ending not later than September 5, 1997, for 
>     consideration of such provisions of the bill and amendment 
>     reported by the Committee on the Judiciary as fall within the 
>     jurisdiction of those committees pursuant to clause 1(e) and 
>     (k), rule X and rule XLVIII, respectively.
>


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