[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 16 (Tuesday, February 6, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S915]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    REPORT CONCERNING WAIVER OF RESTRICTIONS RELATIVE TO THE COSAT 
              PROJECT--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT--PM 116

  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying 
report, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 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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