FC: What do you call a "national emergency" that never ends?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Answer: Permanent?

See also:

"Alert! President Bush declares national 
emergency"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03686.html

"Emergency Powers and National Emergencies"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-00106.html

-Declan

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            THE WHITE HOUSE
       Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release                          November 12, 2002


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 emergency posed by
the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems
declared by Executive Order 12938 on November 14, 1994, as amended, is to
continue in effect beyond November 14, 2002, to the Federal Register for
publication.  The most recent notice continuing this emergency was published in
the Federal Register on November 13, 2001 (66 FR 56965).

     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.  Therefore,
I have determined the national emergency previously declared must continue in
effect beyond November 14, 2002.


                              GEORGE W. BUSH


THE WHITE HOUSE,
    November 6, 2002.




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