20 August 1997

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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:38 -0400
From: The White House <Publications-Admin@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov>
Subject: 1997-08-20 DeBusk Nominated as Commerce Assistant Secretary
Keywords: Executive-Act, Foreign, Government, International-Economy, 
          Maryland, Massachusetts, Mid-Atlantic-Region, 
          New-England-Region, Nomination, Personnel, South-Region, 
          Virginia
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                                THE WHITE HOUSE

                        Office of the Press Secretary 
                     (Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts)
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For Immediate Release                                   August 20, 1997


                  PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES F. AMANDA DEBUSK 
               AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EXPORT ENFORCEMENT 
                        AT DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 President Clinton today announced his intent to nominate 
F. Amanda DeBusk as Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement 
at the United States Department of Commerce.

 Ms. DeBusk, of Potomac, Maryland, is currently a partner in the 
international trade department of the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers, 
LLP where she has worked for the past eleven years.  Ms. DeBusk 
handles a variety of issues within the international arena.  She has 
extensive experience with antidumping, countervailing duty, escape 
clause investigations and obtaining export licenses.  Ms. DeBusk was 
an associate at Surrey & Morse from 1984 to 1986 and an associate at 
Preston, Thorgrimson, Ellis & Holman from 1981 to 1984.  She has 
represented clients in matters involving GATT, the World Trade 
Organization, NAFTA and Steel Voluntary Restraint Agreements.  
Ms. DeBusk has practiced before the Department of Commerce, 
the United States International Trade Commission and other agencies.  
She also has served on the Investment and Services Policy Advisory 
Committee.  She received a B.A. from the University of Richmond and 
a J.D. from Harvard University.

 The Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement investigates breaches 
of United States export laws, analyzes export intelligence to monitor 
diversion risks, and administers and enforces the antiboycott provision 
of the Export Administration Act.


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