[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 45 (Monday, November 8, 2004)]
[Pages 2799-2800]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders on Continuation of Emergency Regarding 
Weapons of Mass Destruction

November 4, 2004

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

    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 posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and 
their delivery systems declared by Executive Order 12938 on November 14, 
1994, as amended, is to continue in effect beyond November 14, 2004. The 
most recent notice continuing this emergency was signed on October 29, 
2003, and published in the Federal Register on October 31, 2003 (68 FR 
62209).
    Because the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the 
means of delivering

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them continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the 
national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, I 
have determined the national emergency previously declared must continue 
in effect beyond November 14, 2004.
     Sincerely,
                                                George W. Bush

Note: Identical letters were sent to J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, and Richard B. Cheney, President of the 
Senate. An original was not available for verification of the content of 
this letter.