[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 154 (Wednesday, October 29, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Pages S13512-S13513]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 REPORT RELATIVE TO THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 
        12938 WITH RESPECT TO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION--PM 53

  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

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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 to the 
Federal Register for publication 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, 
2003. the most recent notice continuing this emergency was signed on 
November 6, 2002, and published in the Federal Register on November 12, 
2002 (67 Fed. Reg. 68493).
  Because 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, I have determined the national emergency previously 
declared must continue in effect beyond November 14, 2003.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, October 29, 2003.

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