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Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 915, H.R. 6063, H.R. 6634

December 07, 2012

On Friday, December 7, 2012, the President signed into law:

H.R. 915, the "Jaime Zapata Border Enforcement Security Task Force Act," which establishes in statute the Department of Homeland Security's Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST), which is comprised of multi-agency units established to address and reduce security threats and violence on the Nation's southern and northern borders and at selected seaports;

H.R. 6063, the "Child Protection Act of 2012," which makes changes to the Criminal Code related to child pornography and protection of child witnesses and Department of Justice programs related to prevention and interdiction of child exploitation and child pornography on the Internet; and

H.R. 6634, which delays, until April 15, 2013, the requirement in the STOCK Act that financial disclosure forms of certain employees of the Executive and Legislative Branches be made available on official websites.

Barack Obama, Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 915, H.R. 6063, H.R. 6634 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/309743

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