[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 10 (Thursday, January 18, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H734]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO TERRORISTS WHO 
  THREATEN TO DISRUPT THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS--MESSAGE FROM THE 
           PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 110-8)

  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 Foreign Affairs 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 to the 
Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice, stating that the 
emergency declared with respect to foreign terrorists who threaten to 
disrupt the Middle East peace process is to continue in effect beyond 
January 23, 2007. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was 
published in the Federal Register on January 20, 2006 (71 FR 3407).
  The crisis with respect to the grave acts of violence committed by 
foreign terrorists that disrupt the Middle East peace process and that 
led to the declaration of a national emergency on January 23, 1995, as 
expanded on August 20, 1998, has not been resolved. Terrorist groups 
continue to engage in activities that have the purpose or effect of 
threatening the Middle East peace process and that are hostile to 
United States interests in the region. Such actions constitute an 
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 foreign terrorists who threaten to disrupt the 
Middle East peace process and to maintain in force the economic 
sanctions against them to respond to this threat.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, January 18, 2007.

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