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title: "Expressing support for completion of President Obama's Export Control Reform Initiative, which will fundamentally reform the United States export control system and enhance United States national security."
identifier: "114-HRES-829"
congress: 114
bill_number: 829
bill_type: "HRES"
version_code: "ih"
version_type: "Introduced in House"
bill_url: "https://chamberzero.com/congresses/114/bills/hres/829"
source: "https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-resolution/829"
site: "Chamber Zero"
site_url: "https://chamberzero.com"
rendered_at: "2026-06-04T02:18:41.462Z"
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Whereas the United States export control system is highly flawed and limits the competitiveness of American businesses in the global marketplace;Whereas the United States export control system currently is enforced by multiple overlapping agencies utilizing separate and often redundant information technology systems;Whereas President Obama undertook an interagency review of the United States export control system in 2009 with the goal of doubling United States exports within 5 years;Whereas review of the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Commerce Control List and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls’ United States Munitions List is part of phase one of President Obama’s Export Control Reform Initiative;Whereas 18 of the 21 categories on the United States Munitions List have begun the transition from the Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls to the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security’s Commerce Control List;Whereas the remaining 3 categories still remain under regulation by the Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls with no indication of movement since 2013;Whereas the remaining 3 categories represent an opportunity to increase United States competition in a rapidly increasing global marketplace and grow United States exports without impacting national security; andWhereas American manufacturers face a competitive disadvantage, which limits the ability of manufacturers to grow their businesses here at home: Now, therefore, be itThat the House of Representatives—
  - (1) supports President Obama’s Export Control Reform Initiative;
  - (2) recognizes the economic burden imposed on those United States Munitions List categories that remain unnecessarily regulated by the Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls; and
  - (3) encourages publication of proposed rules to shift the remaining United States Munitions List categories to the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security’s Commerce Control List by the end of 2016.