    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2001, Book II)]
    [November 9, 2001]
    [Pages 1374-1375]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency With
    Respect to the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
    November 9, 2001

    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. The notice
    states that the national emergency with respect to the unusual and
    extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and
    economy of the United States posed by the proliferation of nuclear,
    biological, and chemical weapons (weapons of mass destruction) and the
    means of delivering such weapons declared by Executive Order 12938 on
    November 14, 1994, is to continue in effect beyond November 14, 2001.
    The most recent notice continuing this emergency was published in the
    Federal Register on November 13, 2000 (65 Fed. Reg. 68063).
        The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the means of
    delivering them continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to
    the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.
    Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the
    national emergency declared on November 14,

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    1994, regarding weapons of mass destruction, beyond November 14, 2001.

                                                              George W. Bush

     The White House,

     November 9, 2001.

    Note: An original was not available for verification of the content of
    this message. The notice of November 9 is listed in Appendix D at the
    end of this volume.