[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 152 (Tuesday, October 20, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H11467]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT 
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS CENTERED IN COLOMBIA--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 
               OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 111-70)

  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, 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 significant narcotics traffickers 
centered in Colombia is to continue in effect beyond October 21, 2009.
  The circumstances that led to the declaration on October 21, 1995, of 
a national emergency have not been resolved. The actions of significant 
narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia continue to pose an unusual 
and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and 
economy of the United States and to cause an extreme level of violence, 
corruption, and harm in the United States and abroad. For these 
reasons, I have determined that it is necessary to maintain economic 
pressure on significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia by 
blocking their property and interests in property that are in the 
United States or within the possession or control of United States 
persons and by depriving them of access to the U.S. market and 
financial system.
                                                        Barack Obama.  
The White House, October 16, 2009.

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