[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 7 (Monday, February 22, 1999)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Report on the National 
Emergency With Respect to Iraq

February 17, 1999

Dear Mr. Speaker:  (Dear Mr. President:)

    As required by section 401(c) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 
U.S.C. 1641(c), and section 204(c) of the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(c), I transmit herewith a 6-month 
periodic report on the national emergency with respect to Iraq that was 
declared in Executive Order 12722 of August 2, 1990.
    Sincerely,
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: Identical letters were sent to J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, and Albert Gore, Jr., President of the Senate.