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Re: LAST CALL: Crypto export bill - one day left to make or break!
Subject: LAST CALL: Crypto export bill - one day left to make or break!
*DISTRIBUTE WIDELY AND QUICKLY*
ONE DAY DEADLINE! The House Intelligence Committee will probably make their
decision on the vital issue of cryptography export tomorrow afternoon, Wed.
June 15, 1994. If you've not had your say on whether the State Dept. & NSA
will be allowed to continue to restrict the flow of public cryptographic
products, write, call and fax *today*. Updated fax information for the
entire Intelligence Cmte. is below, as is a sample letter, and background
information on this important legislative action. If you don't get
through on your first fax attempt, keep trying. All of these numbers
have been tested and are working as of June 14.
******* What You Can Do
1) Fax a short letter TODAY to the chair of the Intelligence
Committee, Representative Dan Glickman (D-KS). Ask him in your own
words to leave the encryption provisions of H.R. 3937 intact.
You may wish to send a copy of this to the committee itself also.
Fax number: +1 202 225 5398 Committee fax: +1 202 225 1991
2) If you are unable to fax a letter, send an e-mail message to Rep.
Glickman at [email protected]. We'll deliver it for you, provide it
arrives before noon, at which point all such messages must be delivered.
3) Personally urge everyone you know to send a similar fax to
Rep. Glickman TODAY, especially if they are among Glickman's Kansas
constituents.
4) If your own Representative is on the Intelligence Committee, send
him or her a copy of what you sent Rep. Glickman.
******* Phone and Fax Numbers
House Intelligence Committee
----------------------------
Subcommittee phone: +1 202 225 4121
Subcommittee fax: +1 202 225 1991 <== send your fax HERE <==
p st name phone fax
___________________________________________________________________________
D KS Glickman, Daniel +1 202 225 6216 +1 202 225 5398 Chair
D WA Dicks, Norman D. +1 202 225 5916 +1 202 226 1176
D CA Dixon, Julian C. +1 202 225 7084 +1 202 225 4091
D NJ Torricelli, Robert +1 202 224 5061 +1 202 225 0843
D TX Coleman, Ronald D. +1 202 225 4831 +1 202 225 4831
[Coleman's staff manually switch line to fax if they hear fax tones.
Preceeding your fax with a voice call might help]
D CO Skaggs, David E. +1 202 225 2161 +1 202 225 9127
D NV Bilbray, James H. +1 202 225 5965 +1 202 225 8808
D CA Pelosi, Nancy +1 202 225 4965 +1 202 225 8259
D TX Laughlin, Gregory H. +1 202 225 2831 +1 202 225 1108
D AL Cramer Jr, Robert (Bud) +1 202 225 4801 private
D RI Reed, John F. +1 202 225 2735 +1 202 225 9580
D MO Gephardt, Richard A. +1 202 225 2671 +1 202 225 7452
R TX Combest, Larry +1 202 225 4005 +1 202 225 9615
R NE Bereuter, Douglas +1 202 225 4806 +1 202 226 1148
R CA Dornan, Robert K. +1 202 225 2965 private
[Dornan's public fax disconnected; office refuses to divulge a fax number]
R FL Young, C. W. (Bill) +1 202 225 5961 +1 202 225 9764
R PA Gekas, George W. +1 202 225 4315 +1 202 225 8440
R UT Hansen, James V. +1 202 225 0453 +1 202 225 5857
R CA Lewis, Jerry +1 202 225 5861 +1 202 225 6498
R IL Michel, Robert H. +1 202 225 6201 +1 202 225 9461
****** Sample Fax
FAX to: 202-225-1991 and 202-225-5398
Representative Daniel Glickman
Chair
House Intelligence Committee
U.S House of Representatives
Dear Representative Glickman:
I realize that tomorrow your committee will probably act on the encryption
provisions of H.R. 3937, the Export Administration Act of 1994. I urge
that you allow them to remain as they were introduced in Rep. Cantwell's
H.R. 3627, and subsequently incorporated into H.R. 3937. Privacy is the
basis for my concern, and I support the ability to use secure encryption.
Additionally, prohibiting the export of secure cryptography from the United
States puts the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage internationally, for who
would choose to use crypography known to be insecure (such as the "Clipper
Chip", or products intentionally weakened to pass excessively stringent
export restrictions)? Please, support privacy and security by preserving
the cryptography export language of H.R. 3937.
<signed>
****** More Information
Detailed background information on this alert:
ftp.eff.org, /pub/Alerts/export.alert
gopher.eff.org, 1/Alerts, export.alert
http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/export.alert.html
BBS (+1 202 638 6119, 6120; 8N1): "Alerts" file area, export.alt
The actual text of this part of H.R. 3937 is at:
ftp: ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/ITAR_export/hr3937_crypto.excerpt
gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy/Crypto/ITAR_export, hr3937_crypto.excerpt
http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/ITAR_export/hr3937_crypto.excerpt
BBS: "Privacy--Crypto" file area, hr3937.crp
For current status on the bill:
ftp.eff.org, /pub/Alerts/export_alert.update
gopher.eff.org, 1/Alerts, export_alert.update
http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/export_alert.update
BBS: "Alerts" file area, export.upd
A general Web page on crypto export policy is at:
http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/export.html
--
Sunnyvale City Councilmember and Employee of Network Computing Devices.