Signing Statement 2019-08

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Text of the Signing Statement from the White House website

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Statement by the President 
       

       FOREIGN POLICY    --  Issued on: November 27, 2019

 

Today, I have signed into law S. 1838, the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019” (the “Act”).  The Act reaffirms and amends the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992, specifies United States policy towards Hong Kong, and directs assessment of the political developments in Hong Kong.  Certain provisions of the Act would interfere with the exercise of the President’s constitutional authority to state the foreign policy of the United States.  My Administration will treat each of the provisions of the Act consistently with the President’s constitutional authorities with respect to foreign relations.

DONALD J. TRUMP

 

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Sources for the Signing Statement

  1. White House website
  2. PDF from GPO
  3. HTML text at GPO

Text of the Affected Law

S. 1838, the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019, has been designated as public law 116-76.

The text of S. 1838 from the Government Printing Office (GPO) is available as follows:

1.  PDF downloaded from the GPO
2.  PDF on the GPO website
3.  Plain text from the GPO
4.  Enrolled text from the GPO