[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 17, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H7898]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




BLOCKING PROPERTY OF CERTAIN PERSONS WHO THREATEN STABILIZATION EFFORTS 
 IN IRAQ--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 
                                110-47)

  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:
  Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as 
amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have 
issued an Executive Order blocking property of persons determined to 
have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or 
acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of threatening the 
peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq or undermining 
efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq 
or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people. I issued 
this order to take additional steps with respect to the national 
emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and 
expanded in Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon 
for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, 
and Executive Order 13364 of November 29, 2004. In these previous 
Executive Orders, I ordered various measures to address the unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the 
United States posed by obstacles to the orderly reconstruction of Iraq, 
the restoration and maintenance of peace and security in that country, 
and the development of political, administrative, and economic 
institutions in Iraq.
  My new order takes additional steps with respect to the national 
emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive 
Order 13315 by blocking the property and interests in property of 
persons determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, to have 
committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts 
of violence that have the purpose or effect of threatening the peace or 
stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq or undermining efforts to 
promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to 
provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people. The order further 
authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, to designate for 
blocking those persons determined to have materially assisted, 
sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical 
support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of 
violence or any person designated pursuant to this order, or to be 
owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on 
behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.
  I delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with 
the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, the authority to 
take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, 
and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be 
necessary to carry out the purposes of my order. I am enclosing a copy 
of the Executive Order I have issued.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, July 17, 2007.

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