[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 129 (Thursday, September 18, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11721-S11722]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  REPORT RELATIVE TO THE CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH 
     RESPECT TO PERSONS WHO COMMIT, THREATEN TO COMMIT, OR SUPPORT 
                            TERRORISM--PM 49

  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying 
report; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs:
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. Consistent with this provision, I have sent the 
enclosed notice, stating that the national emergency with respect to 
persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism is to 
continue in effect beyond September 23, 2003, to the Federal Register 
for publication. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was 
published in the Federal Register on September 20, 2002 (67 FR 59447).

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  The crisis constituted by the grave acts of terrorism and threats of 
terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including the terrorist 
attacks in New York, Pennsylvania, and against the Pentagon committed 
on September 11, 2001, and the continuing and immediate threat of 
further attacks on United States nationals or the United States that 
led to the declaration of a national emergency on September 23, 2001, 
has not been resolved. These actions pose a continuing unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and 
economy of the United States. For these reasons, I have determined that 
it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared with 
respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism 
and maintain in force the comprehensive sanctions to respond to this 
threat.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, September 18, 2003.

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