[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 23201]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




REPORT RELATIVE TO THE CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED 
    IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 12978 WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT NARCOTICS 
                TRAFFICKERS CENTERED IN COLOMBIA--PM 27

  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying 
report; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs.

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 the 
enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication, stating that 
the emergency declared with respect to significant narcotics 
traffickers centered in Colombia is to continue in effect beyond 
October 21, 2005. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was 
published in the Federal Register on October 20, 2004 (69 Fed. Reg. 
61733).
  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 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.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, October 19, 2005.

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