Twenty-seven members of the House of Representatives have urged President Clinton not to proceed with the Administration's key escrow encryption policy proposal. In a May 15 letter to the President, the bipartisan group called on the Adminstration instead to "immediately liberalize export controls on non-key escrow encryption programs and products." The bipartisan group, including Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va), Anna Eshoo (D-Ca), Tom Campbell (R-Ca) and Eliot Engle (D-NY), argued that "the ability of companies and individuals to ensure that the information they send over communications and coputer netwroks is secure is a prerequisite to exploiting the potential of the Global Information Infrastructure."

• Rep. Goodlatte's Press Release about the letter
• Text of the letter

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