December 18, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 205 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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                          PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE

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 REPORT ON THE CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO 
SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE AND CORRUPTION THAT WAS ORIGINALLY DECLARED 
          IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 13818 OF DECEMBER 20, 2017--PM 40

  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 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 declared in Executive Order 13818 
of December 20, 2017, is to continue in effect beyond December 20, 
2019.
  The prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption that 
have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United 
States, continue to threaten the stability of international political 
and economic systems. Human rights abuse and corruption undermine the 
values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and 
functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken 
democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent 
conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; undermine 
economic markets; and continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary 
threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the 
United States. Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to 
continue the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13818 with 
respect to serious human rights abuse and corruption.
                                                     Donald J. Trump.  
The White House, December 18, 2019.

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