    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 38 (Monday, September 25, 2006)]
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    [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, 2006

    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, 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, 2006. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was published
    in the Federal Register on September 22, 2005 (70 FR 55703).
        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 of
    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, 2006.