:Does anyone know of a law that says if the President declares a National Emergency before July 21st of an election year he automatically gets another term in office?

Message to Congress: National Emergency with Russian
: Federation
: U.S. Newswire 22 Jun 18:19
: Message to the Congress: National Emergency with the Russian
: Federation

: To: National Desk

: Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2580

: WASHINGTON, June 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following was released
: by the White House today: TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED

: STATES: Pursuant to section 204(b) of the International
: Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 50 U.S.C. 1703(b)
: and section 301 of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C.
: 1631, I hereby report that I have exercised my authority to
: declare a national emergency to deal with the threat posed
: to the United States by the risk of nuclear proliferation
: created by the accumulation in the Russian Federation of a
: large volume of weapons-usable fissile material. The United
: States and the Russian Federation have entered into a
: series of agreements that provide for the conversion of
: highly enriched uranium (HEU) extracted from Russian
: nuclear weapons into low enriched uranium (LEU) for use in
: commercial nuclear reactors. The Russian Federation
: recently suspended its performance under these agreements
: because of concerns that payments due to it under these
: agreements may be subject to attachment, garnishment, or
: other judicial process, in the United States. Accordingly,
: I have issued an Executive Order to address the unusual and
: extraordinary risk of nuclear
: proliferation created by this situation.

: A major national security goal of the United States is to
: ensure
: that fissile material removed from Russian nuclear weapons
: pursuant to various arms control and disarmament agreements
: is dedicated to peaceful uses, subject to transparency
: measures, and protected from diversion to activities of
: proliferation concern. The United States and the Russian
: Federation entered into an international agreement in
: February 1993 to deal with these issues as they relate to
: the disposition of HEU extracted from Russian nuclear
: weapons (the "HEU Agreement"). Under the HEU
: Agreement, 500 metric tons of HEU will be converted to LEU
: over a 20-year period. This is the equivalent of 20,000
: nuclear warheads.

: Additional agreements were put in place to effectuate the HEU
: Agreement, including agreements and contracts on transparency,
: on the appointment of executive agents to assist in
: implementing the agreements, and on the disposition of LEU
: delivered to the United States (collectively, the "HEU
: Agree-ments"). Under the HEU Agreements, the Russian
: Federation extracts HEU metal from nuclear weapons. That
: HEU is oxidized and blended down to LEU in the Russian
: Federation. The resulting LEU is shipped to the United
: States for fabrication into fuel for commercial reactors.
: The United States monitors this conversion process through
: the Department of Energy's Warhead and Fissile Material
: Transparency Program.

: The HEU Agreements provide for the Russian Federation to
: receive
: money and uranium hexafluoride in payment for each shipment of
: LEU converted from the Russian nuclear weapons. The money
: and uranium hexafluoride are transferred to the Russian
: Federation executive agent in the United States.

: The Russian Federation recently suspended its performance
: under
: the HEU Agreements because of concerns over possible
: attachment,
: garnishment, or other judicial process with respect to the
: payments due to it as a result of litigation currently
: pending against the Russian Federation. In response to this
: concern, the Minister of Atomic Energy of the Russian
: Federation, Minister Adamov, notified Secretary Richardson
: on May 5, 2000, of the decision of the Russian Federation
: to halt shipment of LEU pending resolution of this problem.
: This suspension presents an unusual and extraordinary
: threat to U.S. national security goals due to the risk of
: nuclear proliferation caused by the accumulation of
: weapons-usable fissile material in the Russian Federation.

: The executive branch and the Congress have previously
: recognized
: and continue to recognize the threat posed to the United
: States
: national security from the risk of nuclear proliferation
: created by the accumulation of weapons-usable fissile
: material in the Russian Federation. This threat is the
: basis for significant programs aimed at Cooperative Threat
: Reduction and at controlling excess fissile material. The
: HEU Agreements are essential tools to accomplish these
: overall national security goals. Congress demonstrated
: support for these agreements when it authorized the
: purchase of Russian uranium in 1998, Public Law 105-277,
: and also enacted legislation to enable Russian uranium to
: be sold in this country pursuant to the USEC Privatization
: Act, 42 U.S.C. 2297h-10.

: Payments made to the Russian Federation pursuant to the HEU
: Agreements are integral to the operation of this key national
: security program. Uncertainty surrounding litigation involving
: these payments could lead to a long-term suspension of the
: HEU Agreements, which creates the risk of nuclear
: proliferation. This is an unacceptable threat to the
: national security and foreign policy of the United States.

: Accordingly, I have concluded that all property and interests
: in
: property of the government of the Russian Federation directly
: related to the implementation of the HEU Agreements should
: be protected from the threat of attachment, garnishment, or
: other judicial process. I have, therefore, exercised my
: authority and issued an Executive Order that provides: --
: except to the extent provided in regulations, orders,
: directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to the
: order, all property and interests in property of the
: Government of the Russian Federation directly related to
: the implementation of the HEU Agreements that are in the
: United States, that hereafter come within the United
: States, or hereafter come within the possession or control
: of United States persons, including their overseas
: branches, are blocked and may not be transferred, paid,
: exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in;

: -- unless licensed or authorized pursuant to the order, any
: attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or
: other judicial process is null and void with respect to any
: property or interest in property blocked pursuant to the
: order; and

: -- that all heads of departments and agencies of the United
: States Government shall continue to take all appropriate
: measures within their authority to further the full
: implementation of the HEU Agreements.

: The effect of this Executive Order is limited to property that
: is directly related to the implementation of the HEU
: Agreements.
: Such property will be clearly defined by the regulations,
: orders, directives, or licenses that will be issued
: pursuant to this Executive Order.

: I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.
: The
: order is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on June
: 22, 2000.

: WILLIAM J. CLINTON

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