[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 60 (Tuesday, April 19, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H1837]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   BLOCKING PROPERTY AND SUSPENDING ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF 
   PERSONS CONTRIBUTING TO THE SITUATION IN LIBYA--MESSAGE FROM THE 
          PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 114-124)

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. McSally) 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'') expanding the scope of the national 
emergency declared in Executive Order 13566 of February 25, 2011, with 
respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national 
security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation 
in Libya.
  In the order, I find that the ongoing violence in Libya, including 
attacks by armed groups against Libyan state facilities, foreign 
missions in Libya, and critical infrastructure, as well as human rights 
abuses, violations of the arms embargo imposed by United Nations 
Security Council Resolution 1970 (2011), and misappropriation of 
Libya's natural resources threaten the peace, security, stability, 
sovereignty, democratic transition, and territorial integrity of Libya, 
and thereby constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the 
national security and foreign policy of the United States. The order 
blocks the property and interests in property of persons 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 threaten the peace, security, 
or stability of Libya, including through the supply of arms or related 
materiel;
   actions or policies that obstruct, undermine, delay, or 
impede, or pose a significant risk of obstructing, undermining, 
delaying, or impeding, the adoption of or political transition to a 
Government of National Accord or a successor government;
   actions that may lead to or result in the 
misappropriation of state assets of Libya; or
   threatening or coercing Libyan state financial 
institutions or the Libyan National Oil Company;
   to be planning, directing, or committing or to have planned, 
directed, or committed, attacks against any Libyan state facility or 
installation (including oil facilities), against any air, land, or sea 
port in Libya, or against any foreign mission in Libya;
   to be involved in, or to have been involved in, the 
targeting of civilians through the commission of acts of violence, 
abduction, forced displacement, or attacks on schools, hospitals, 
religious sites, or locations where civilians are seeking refuge, or 
through conduct that would constitute a serious abuse or violation of 
human rights or a violation of international humanitarian law;
   to be involved in, or to have been involved in, the illicit 
exploitation of crude oil or any other natural resources in Libya, 
including the illicit production, refining, brokering, sale, purchase, 
or export of Libyan oil;
   to be a leader of an entity that has, or whose members have, 
engaged in any activity described above;
   to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided 
financial, material, logistical, or technological support for, or goods 
or services in support of any of the activities 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, any person whose property and interests in 
property are blocked pursuant to the order.
  In addition, the order suspends entry into the United States of any 
alien determined to meet one or more of the above criteria.
  I have delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, 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 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, April 19, 2016.

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