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110th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 110-47
EXPANSION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO PROTECTING THE
STABILIZATION EFFORTS IN IRAQ
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MESSAGE
from
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
transmitting
NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO PROTECTING THE
ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION AND POLITICAL REFORM IN IRAQ, ORIGINALLY
DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 13303 OF MAY 22, 2003, AS EXPANDED IN SCOPE
BY EXECUTIVE ORDER 13315 OF AUGUST 28, 2003, AND MODIFIED IN EXECUTIVE
ORDER 13364 OF NOVEMBER 29, 2004, IS EXPANDED BY BLOCKING PROPERTY OF
CERTAIN PERSONS WHO THREATEN STABILIZATION EFFORTS IN IRAQ, PURSUANT TO
50 U.S.C. 1601 ET SEQ
July 18, 2007.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed
To the Congress of the United States:
Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers
Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby
report that I have issued an Executive Order blocking property
of persons determined to have committed, or to pose a
significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that
have the purpose or effect of threatening the peace or
stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq or undermining
efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform
in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi
people. I issued this order to take additional steps with
respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order
13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of
August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in
Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order
13364 of November 29, 2004. In these previous Executive Orders,
I ordered various measures to address the unusual and
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign
policy of the United States posed by obstacles to the orderly
reconstruction of Iraq, the restoration and maintenance of
peace and security in that country, and the development of
political, administrative, and economic institutions in Iraq.
My new order takes additional steps with respect to the
national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and
expanded in Executive Order 13315 by blocking the property and
interests in property of persons determined by the Secretary of
the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and
the Secretary of Defense, to have committed, or to pose a
significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that
have the purpose or effect of threatening the peace or
stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq or undermining
efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform
in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi
people. The order further authorizes the Secretary of the
Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the
Secretary of Defense, to designate for blocking those persons
determined to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided
financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or
goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of
violence or any person designated pursuant to this order, or to
be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act
for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this
order.
I delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, in
consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of
Defense, the authority to take such actions, including the
promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers
granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry
out the purposes of my order. I am enclosing a copy of the
Executive Order I have issued.
George W. Bush.
The White House, July 17, 2007.
Executive Order
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Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts
in Iraq
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,
including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as
amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301
of title 3, United States Code,
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of
America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat
to the national security and foreign policy of the United
States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and
stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic
reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide
humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the
interests of the United States to take additional steps with
respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order
13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of
August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in
Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order
13364 of November 29, 2004. I hereby order:
Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided in section 203
(b) (1), (3), and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702 (b) (1), (3),
and (4)), or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses
that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding
any contract entered into or any license or permit granted
prior to the date of this order, all property and interests in
property of the following persons, that are in the United
States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that
are or hereafter come within the possession or control of
United States persons, are blocked and may not be transferred,
paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense,
(i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of
committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or
effect of:
(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the
Government of Iraq; or
(B) undermining efforts to promote economic
reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to
provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;
(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided
financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or
goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of
violence or any person whose property and interests in property
are blocked pursuant to this order; or
(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or
purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly,
any person whose property and interests in property are blocked
pursuant to this order.
(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section
include, but are not limited to, (i) the making of any
contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to,
or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests
in property are blocked pursuant to this order, and (ii) the
receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or
services from any such person.
Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or
within the United States that evades or avoids, has the
purposeof evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the
prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the
prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
Sec. 3. For purposes of this order:
(a) the term ``person'' means an individual or entity;
(b) the term ``entity'' means a partnership, association,
trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other
organization; and
(c) the term ``United States person'' means any United
States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized
under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within
the United States (including foreign branches), or any person
in the United States.
Sec. 4. I hereby determine that the making of donations of
the type specified in section 203(b) (2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C.
1702(b) (2)) by, to, or for the benefit of, any person whose
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this
order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the
national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and
expanded in Executive Order 13315, and I hereby prohibit such
donations as provided by section 1 of this order.
Sec. 5. For those persons whose property and interests in
property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a
constitutional presence in the United States, I find that,
because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets
instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be
taken pursuant to this order would render these measures to be
ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to
be effective in addressing the national emergency delared in
Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315,
there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination
made pursuant to section l(a) of this order.
Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with
the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, is hereby
authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of
rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the
President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the
purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may
redelegate any of these functions to other officers and
agencies of the United States Government, consistent with
applicable law. All agencies of the United States Government
are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within
their authority to carry out the provisions of this order and,
where appropriate, to advise the Secretary of the Treasury in a
timely manner of the measures taken.
Sec. 7. Nothing in this order is intended to affect the
continued effectiveness of any rules, regulations, orders,
licenses, or other forms of administrative action issued,
taken, or continued in effect heretofore or hereafter under 31
C.F.R. chapter V, except as expressly terminated, modified, or
suspended by or pursuant to this order.
Sec. 8. This order is not intended to, and does not, create
any right, benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United
States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or
entities, its officers or employees, or any other person.
George W. Bush.
The White House, July 17, 2007.
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