For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 21, 2004
Message to the Congress of the United States
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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