[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 145 (Tuesday, November 12, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H8087]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   CONTINUATION OF EMERGENCY REGARDING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION--
 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 107-280)

  The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following message 
from the President of the United States; which was read and, together 
with the accompanying papers, without objection, referred to the 
Committee on International Relations and ordered to be printed:

To the Congress of the United States:
  Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) 
provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, 
prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President 
publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a 
notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the 
anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent the 
enclosed notice, stating that the emergency posed by the proliferation 
of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems declared by 
Executive Order 12938 on November 14, 1994, as amended, is to continue 
in effect beyond November 14, 2002, to the Federal Register for 
publication. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was 
published in the Federal Register on November 13, 2001 (66 FR 56965).
  The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the means of 
delivering them continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat 
to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United 
States. Therefore, I have determined the national emergency previous 
declared must continue in effect beyond November 14, 2002.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, November 6, 2002.  

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