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NRCC chairman predicts House floor vote on SAFE in weeks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Fri Jul 9 11:14:51 1999
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 10:41:41 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>From a conversation I had yesterday with Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va), National
Republican Congressional Committee chairman. The GOP is using encryption
policy
as a way to bash Democrats who blindly back the administration. --Declan
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20641.html
House GOP leaders still haven't allowed a vote on a bill to liberalize -- but
not remove -- restrictions on the overseas shipments of encryption products...
Davis predicted that Congress' inaction will end. "You'll see [a vote] before
the August recess," he said. "You'll see it pass the House this year before
the
August recess.
"The Democratic leadership is terrible on the issues. That's the point we're
trying to make. There are some very good Democrats but their leadership does
the wrong thing."
