[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 102 (Friday, July 20, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1388-E1389]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         INTRODUCTION OF THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT OF 2001

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                        HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 20, 2001

  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I have today introduced the ``Export 
Administration Act of 2001'', H.R. 2581.
  This bill is identical to counterpart legislation that has been 
reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs, S. 149, except that it includes two additional sections 
relating to nuclear transfers to North Korea. These additional sections 
are substantively identical to legislation that Congressman Ed Markey 
and I introduced last year, H.R. 4251 (106th Congress), the 
``Congressional Oversight of Nuclear Transfers to North Korea Act of 
2000''.
  H.R. 4251 was intended to ensure that congress will be fully involved 
in the decision our nation may have to make in several years to either 
permit or delay the transfer to North Korea of key components for the 
two light water nuclear reactors that are being built in North Korea 
pursuant to the 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea. H.R. 4251 
commanded broad bipartisan support in the House of Representatives and 
was approved on May 15, 2000, by a vote of 374-6. Regrettably, the 
Senate did not approve H.R. 4251 before final adjournment of the 106th 
Congress last year.
  Last year's vote demonstrates that the two additional sections I have 
added to the text of S. 149 are essentially non-controversial. I

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have included them in the text of the bill I am introducing today 
because they relate the control of dual-use exports and should, in my 
opinion, be included in any Export Administration Act enacted this 
year.
  I would note that I have based the bill I am introducing today on S. 
149 because that measure commands strong support in the Senate and 
elsewhere. I have reservations about certain aspects of the Senate 
bill, however, and accordingly anticipate that I will support some 
amendments to this legislation as it moves forward in the legislative 
process.

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