[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 101 (Wednesday, June 18, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H5552]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE RISK OF 
  NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION CREATED BY THE ACCUMULATION OF WEAPONS-USABLE 
 FISSILE MATERIAL IN THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION--MESSAGE 
     FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 110-126)

  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 in Executive Order 13159 of June 21, 2000, with 
respect to the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the 
accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in 
the territory of the Russian Federation is to continue beyond June 21, 
2008.
  It remains a major national security goal of the United States to 
ensure 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 risk of nuclear proliferation created by 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 18, 2008.

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