[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 80 (Tuesday, June 20, 2006)]
[House]
[Pages H4315-H4316]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO RISK OF NUCLEAR 
    PROLIFERATION CREATED BY ACCUMULATION OF WEAPONS-USABLE FISSILE 
MATERIAL IN TERRITORY OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 
               OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 109-115)

  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 to the Federal Register for publication, stating that 
the emergency declared with respect to the accumulation of a large 
volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the 
Russian Federation is to continue beyond June 21, 2006. The most recent 
notice continuing this emergency was published in the Federal Register 
on June 20, 2005 (70 FR 35507).
  It remains a major national security goal of the United States to 
ensure

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that fissile material removed from Russian nuclear weapons pursuant to 
various arms control and disarmament agreements is dedicated to 
peaceful uses, subject to transparency measures, and protected from 
diversion to activities of proliferation concern. The accumulation of a 
large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the 
Russian Federation continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary 
threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United 
States. For this reason, I have determined that it is necessary to 
continue the national emergency declared with respect to the 
accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in 
the territory of the Russian Federation and maintain in force these 
emergency authorities to respond to this threat.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, June 19, 2006.

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