    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 39 (Monday, September 27, 2004)]
    [Page 2084]
    [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 21, 2004

    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, 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, 2004, to the Federal Register
    for publication. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was
    published in the Federal Register on September 22, 2003 (68 FR 55189).
        The crisis constituted by the grave acts of terrorism and threats of
    terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including the terrorist
    attacks in New York, in 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 21, 2004.

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