[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 38 (Thursday, March 6, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H2250]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 BLOCKING PROPERTY OF CERTAIN PERSONS CONTRIBUTING TO THE SITUATION IN 
 UKRAINE--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 
                                113-95)

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Cramer) 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:
  Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an 
Executive Order (the ``order'') declaring a national emergency with 
respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national 
security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation 
in Ukraine.
  The order does not target the country of Ukraine, but rather is aimed 
at persons--including persons who have asserted governmental authority 
in the Crimean region without the authorization of the Government of 
Ukraine--who undermine democratic processes and institutions in 
Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and 
territorial integrity; and contribute to the misappropriation of its 
assets. The order blocks the property and interests in property and 
suspends entry into the United States of any person determined by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:
   to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged 
in, directly or indirectly, any of the following:
   actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or 
institutions in Ukraine;
   actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, 
sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine; or
   misappropriation of state assets of Ukraine or of an economically 
significant entity in Ukraine;
   to have asserted governmental authority over any part or 
region of Ukraine without the authorization of the Government of 
Ukraine;
   to be a leader of an entity that has, or whose members have, 
engaged in any activity described above or of an entity whose property 
and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the order;
   to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided 
financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services 
to or in support of, any activity described above or any person whose 
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the 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 the order.
  I have delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury the authority, in 
consultation with the Secretary of State, 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 the order. All agencies of the United States 
Government are directed to take all appropriate measures within their 
authority to carry out the provisions of the order.
  I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.
                                                        Barack Obama.  
The White House, March 6, 2014.

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