[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25070]
[From the U.S. 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. 108-136)

  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 International Relations 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. Consistent with this provision, I have sent 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, 2003, to the Federal Register for 
publication. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was 
published in the Federal Register on October 18, 2002.
  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 unparalleled 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 of 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 United States market and financial 
system.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, October 16, 2003.

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