[House Document 109-135]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]




109th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 109-135

 
  CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO PERSONS WHO 
            COMMIT, THREATEN TO COMMIT, OR SUPPORT TERRORISM

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

   NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED WITH RESPECT TO 
  PERSONS WHO COMMIT, THREATEN TO COMMIT, OR SUPPORT TERRORISM IS TO 
  CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND SEPTEMBER 23, 2006, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 
                                1622(d)




 September 25, 2006.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
     Committee on International Relations and ordered to be printed
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.
                                 Notice

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

    On September 23, 2001, by Executive Order 13224, I declared 
a national emergency with respect to persons who commit, 
threaten to commit, or support terrorism, pursuant to the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-
1706). I took this action to deal with the unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, 
and economy of the United States 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 
against United States nationals or the United States. Because 
the actions of these persons who commit, threaten to commit, or 
support terrorism continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary 
threat to the United States, the national emergency declared on 
September 23, 2001, and the measures adopted on that date to 
deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond 
September 23, 2006. Therefore, in accordance with section 
202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I 
am continuing for 1 year the national emergency with respect to 
persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.

                                                    George W. Bush.
    The White House, September 21, 2006.