[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 38 (Monday, September 22, 2003)]
[Page 1246]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency With 
Respect to Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism

September 18, 2003

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. Consistent with this provision, I have sent the 
enclosed notice, stating that the national emergency with respect to 
persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism is to 
continue in effect beyond September 23, 2003, to the Federal Register 
for publication. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was 
published in the Federal Register on September 20, 2002 (67 FR 59447).
    The crisis constituted by the grave acts of terrorism and threats of 
terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including the terrorist 
attacks in New York, Pennsylvania, and against the Pentagon committed on 
September 11, 2001, and the continuing and immediate threat of further 
attacks on United States nationals or the United States that led to the 
declaration of a national emergency on September 23, 2001, has not been 
resolved. These actions pose a continuing 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 persons who 
commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism and maintain in force 
the comprehensive sanctions to respond to this threat.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 September 18, 2003.

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