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As enacted, the National Emergencies Act consisted of five titles. (9)

	Responding to Terrorist Attacks

Prior to the September 14, 2001, national emergency declaration of President George W. Bush in response to terrorist attacks in NewYork City and Washington, D.C., President William Clinton had declared a January 1995 national emergencyrelative to prohibitingtransactions with terrorists who threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace process. On December 17, 2003, President Bush, pursuant to his national emergency declaration of September 14, 2001, issued E.O. (19)
Further actions by the President pursuant to his September 14 and 23, 2001, national emergency declarations, and the issuance ofadditional such declarations concerning terrorism, will be chronicled in this report as they occur.
As part of his response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World TradeCenter and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush formally declared national emergencies on September 14 and23 pursuant to theNational Emergencies Act. The President's actions follow a long-standing tradition of alerting the nation to a crisisthreatening publicorder and constitutional government. Currently, such declarations also allow the President to make use of activatedauthority on aselective basis, as appropriate for responding to an emergency. Updated as events recommend, this report chroniclesthe actions takenby President Bush pursuant to his national emergency declarations, as well the issuance of additional suchdeclarations concerningterrorism.