House Committee With Oversight Over Export Administration Regulations Renamed
The House Committee that would consider any bill to reauthorize the expired Export Administration Act (EAA) has a new name. In a bow to tradition, Chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA) restored the name of the House International Relations Committee to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Republican leadership had renamed the Committee in 1994.
The EAA provides the statutory authority for the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), which are administered by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security. The EAA, which originally expired in 1989, periodically has been reauthorized for short periods of time, with the last incremental extension expiring in August 2001. Since the EAA expired in 2001, the U.S. dual-use export control regime has relied on the president's emergency powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) (P.L. 95-223). Legislation to renew the EAA was introduced in Congress in 2003 and 2005, but was never passed.
Labels: BIS, Export Controls
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