[House Document 110-47]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]







110th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 110-47


 
    EXPANSION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO PROTECTING THE 
                     STABILIZATION EFFORTS IN IRAQ

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from


                     THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO PROTECTING THE 
   ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION AND POLITICAL REFORM IN IRAQ, ORIGINALLY 
DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 13303 OF MAY 22, 2003, AS EXPANDED IN SCOPE 
BY EXECUTIVE ORDER 13315 OF AUGUST 28, 2003, AND MODIFIED IN EXECUTIVE 
 ORDER 13364 OF NOVEMBER 29, 2004, IS EXPANDED BY BLOCKING PROPERTY OF 
CERTAIN PERSONS WHO THREATEN STABILIZATION EFFORTS IN IRAQ, PURSUANT TO 
                         50 U.S.C. 1601 ET SEQ


    July 18, 2007.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
         Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed


To the Congress of the United States:
    Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers 
Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby 
report that I have issued an Executive Order blocking property 
of persons determined to have committed, or to pose a 
significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that 
have the purpose or effect of threatening the peace or 
stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq or undermining 
efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform 
in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi 
people. I issued this order to take additional steps with 
respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of 
August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in 
Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 
13364 of November 29, 2004. In these previous Executive Orders, 
I ordered various measures to address the unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 
policy of the United States posed by obstacles to the orderly 
reconstruction of Iraq, the restoration and maintenance of 
peace and security in that country, and the development of 
political, administrative, and economic institutions in Iraq.
    My new order takes additional steps with respect to the 
national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and 
expanded in Executive Order 13315 by blocking the property and 
interests in property of persons determined by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and 
the Secretary of Defense, to have committed, or to pose a 
significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that 
have the purpose or effect of threatening the peace or 
stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq or undermining 
efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform 
in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi 
people. The order further authorizes the Secretary of the 
Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the 
Secretary of Defense, to designate for blocking those persons 
determined to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided 
financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or 
goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of 
violence or any person designated pursuant to this order, or to 
be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act 
for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose 
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this 
order.
    I delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of 
Defense, the authority to take such actions, including the 
promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers 
granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry 
out the purposes of my order. I am enclosing a copy of the 
Executive Order I have issued.

                                                    George W. Bush.
    The White House, July 17, 2007.

                            Executive Order


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Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts 
                                in Iraq

    By the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, 
including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as 
amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National 
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 
of title 3, United States Code,
    I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of 
America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat 
to the national security and foreign policy of the United 
States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and 
stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic 
reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide 
humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the 
interests of the United States to take additional steps with 
respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of 
August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in 
Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 
13364 of November 29, 2004. I hereby order:
    Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided in section 203 
(b) (1), (3), and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702 (b) (1), (3), 
and (4)), or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses 
that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding 
any contract entered into or any license or permit granted 
prior to the date of this order, all property and interests in 
property of the following persons, that are in the United 
States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that 
are or hereafter come within the possession or control of 
United States persons, are blocked and may not be transferred, 
paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense,
    (i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of 
committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or 
effect of:
          (A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the 
        Government of Iraq; or
          (B) undermining efforts to promote economic 
        reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to 
        provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;
    (ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided 
financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or 
goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of 
violence or any person whose property and interests in property 
are blocked pursuant to this order; or
    (iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or 
purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, 
any person whose property and interests in property are blocked 
pursuant to this order.
    (b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section 
include, but are not limited to, (i) the making of any 
contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, 
or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests 
in property are blocked pursuant to this order, and (ii) the 
receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or 
services from any such person.
    Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or 
within the United States that evades or avoids, has the 
purposeof evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the 
prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
    (b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the 
prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
    Sec. 3. For purposes of this order:
    (a) the term ``person'' means an individual or entity;
    (b) the term ``entity'' means a partnership, association, 
trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other 
organization; and
    (c) the term ``United States person'' means any United 
States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized 
under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within 
the United States (including foreign branches), or any person 
in the United States.
    Sec. 4. I hereby determine that the making of donations of 
the type specified in section 203(b) (2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 
1702(b) (2)) by, to, or for the benefit of, any person whose 
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this 
order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the 
national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and 
expanded in Executive Order 13315, and I hereby prohibit such 
donations as provided by section 1 of this order.
    Sec. 5. For those persons whose property and interests in 
property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a 
constitutional presence in the United States, I find that, 
because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets 
instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be 
taken pursuant to this order would render these measures to be 
ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to 
be effective in addressing the national emergency delared in 
Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, 
there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination 
made pursuant to section l(a) of this order.
    Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with 
the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, is hereby 
authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of 
rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the 
President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the 
purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may 
redelegate any of these functions to other officers and 
agencies of the United States Government, consistent with 
applicable law. All agencies of the United States Government 
are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within 
their authority to carry out the provisions of this order and, 
where appropriate, to advise the Secretary of the Treasury in a 
timely manner of the measures taken.
    Sec. 7. Nothing in this order is intended to affect the 
continued effectiveness of any rules, regulations, orders, 
licenses, or other forms of administrative action issued, 
taken, or continued in effect heretofore or hereafter under 31 
C.F.R. chapter V, except as expressly terminated, modified, or 
suspended by or pursuant to this order.
    Sec. 8. This order is not intended to, and does not, create 
any right, benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural, 
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United 
States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or 
entities, its officers or employees, or any other person.

                                                    George W. Bush.
    The White House, July 17, 2007.

                                  
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