[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 98 (Tuesday, July 19, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Page S8487]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




REPORT ON THE CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY BLOCKING PROPERTY 
  OF CERTAIN PERSONS AND PROHIBITING THE IMPORTATION OF CERTAIN GOODS 
FROM LIBERIA THAT WAS ESTABLISHED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 13348 ON JULY 22, 
                              2004--PM 18

  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. l622(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 the provision, I have sent the 
enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication stating that 
the national emergency and related measures blocking the property of 
certain persons and prohibiting the importation of certain goods from 
Liberia are to continue in effect beyond July 22, 2005.
  The actions and policies of former Liberian President Charles Taylor 
and other persons, in particular their unlawful depletion of Liberian 
resources and their removal from Liberia and secreting of Liberian 
funds and property, continue to undermine Liberia's transition to 
democracy and the orderly development of its political, administrative, 
and economic institutions and resources. These actions and policies 
pose a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign 
policy of the United States. For these reasons, I have determined that 
it is necessary to continue the national emergency and related measures 
blocking the property of certain persons and prohibiting the 
importation of certain goods from Liberia.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, July 19, 2005.

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