For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 30, 2006
Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate
October 27, 2006
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 the
enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication, stating that
the emergency posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
and their means of delivery declared by Executive Order 12938 on
November 14, 1994, as amended, is to continue in effect beyond November
14, 2006.
Because the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the
means of delivering 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, 2006.
Sincerely,
GEORGE W. BUSH
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