[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 37 (Monday, September 22, 2008)]
[Page 1224]
[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, 2008

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 to the 
Federal Register for publication 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, 2008.
    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 18, 2008.