VOL. XLIV

No. 29

16-July-2001

IRAN/LIBYA

Second US House Committee Endorses Five-Year ILSA Extension SubjectTo Review

The powerful US House ofRepresentatives Ways and Means Committee on 12 July endorsed a five-yearextension of the 1996 Iran-Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) the second Housecommittee to do so. On 20 June the International Relations Committee voted 41-3to extend the act when it comes up for review on 5 August (MEES, 25 June). But the Ways and Means Committee also voted for anamendment...