[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 16 (Tuesday, February 6, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1230]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




WAIVER OF RESTRICTIONS PERTAINING TO COSAT PROJECT ON EXPORT OF UNITED 
       STATES-ORIGIN SATELLITES TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following message 
from the President of the United States; which was read and, without 
objection, referred to the Committee on International Relations:

To the Congress of the United States:
  Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 902(b)(2) of the 
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 (Public 
Law 101-246), and as President of the United States, I hereby report to 
the Congress that it is in the national interest of the United States 
to waive the restrictions contained in that Act on the export to the 
People's Republic of China of U.S.-origin satellites insofar as such 
restrictions pertain to the COSAT project.
                                                  William J. Clinton.  
  The White House, February 6, 1996.

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