[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16279-16280]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE RISK OF NUCLEAR 
PROLIFERATION IN THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION--MESSAGE FROM 
        THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 110-41)

  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 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 the 
enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication, stating that 
the emergency declared with respect to the accumulation of a large 
volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the 
Russian Federation is to continue beyond June 21, 2007.
  It remains a major national security goal of the United States to 
ensure that fissile material removed from Russian nuclear weapons 
pursuant to various arms control and disarmament

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agreements is dedicated to peaceful uses, subject to transparency 
measures, and protected from diversion to activities of proliferation 
concern. The accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile 
material in the territory of the Russian Federation continues to pose 
an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and 
foreign policy of the United States. For this reason, I have determined 
that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared with 
respect to the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile 
material in the territory of the Russian Federation and maintain in 
force these emergency authorities to respond to this threat.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, June 19, 2007.

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