[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Pages 1699-1700]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 REPORT ON THE CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO 
   FOREIGN TERRORISTS WHO THREATEN TO DISRUPT THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE 
                             PROCESS--PM 1

  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 to the 
Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice, stating that the 
emergency declared with respect to foreign terrorists who threaten to 
disrupt the Middle

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East peace process is to continue in effect beyond January 23, 2007. 
The most recent notice continuing this emergency was published in the 
Federal Register on January 20, 2006 (71 FR 3407).
  The crisis with respect to the grave acts of violence committed by 
foreign terrorists that disrupt the Middle East peace process and that 
led to the declaration of a national emergency on January 23, 1995, as 
expanded on August 20, 1998, has not been resolved. Terrorist groups 
continue to engage in activities that have the purpose or effect of 
threatening the Middle East peace process and that are hostile to 
United States interests in the region. Such actions constitute an 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign 
policy, and economy of the United States. For these reasons, I have 
determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency 
declared with respect to foreign terrorists who threaten to disrupt the 
Middle East peace process and to maintain in force the economic 
sanctions against them to respond to this threat.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, January 18, 2007.

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