September 10, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 144 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Pages S5391-S5392]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGES

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     REPORT ON THE CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY THAT WAS 
  ORIGINALLY DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 13848 OF SEPTEMBER 12, 2018, 
  WITH RESPECT TO THE THREAT OF FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN UNITED STATES 
                            ELECTIONS--PM 26

  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying 
report, which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs:

To the Congress of the United States:
  Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) 
provides

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for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 
days before 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 to the 
Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the 
national emergency with respect to the threat of foreign interference 
in or undermining public confidence in United States elections declared 
in Executive Order 13848 of September 12, 2018, is to continue in 
effect beyond September 12, 2019.
  Although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the 
outcomes or vote tabulation in any United States election, foreign 
powers have historically sought to exploit America's free and open 
political system. In recent years, the proliferation of digital devices 
and internet-based communications has created significant 
vulnerabilities and magnified the scope and intensity of the threat of 
foreign interference. The ability of persons located, in whole or in 
substantial part, outside the United States to interfere in or 
undermine public confidence in United States elections, including 
through the unauthorized accessing of election and campaign 
infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and 
disinformation, continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat 
to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. 
Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the 
national emergency declared in Executive Order 13848 with respect to 
the threat of foreign interference in or undermining public confidence 
in United States elections.
                                                     Donald J. Trump.  
The White House, September 10, 2019.

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