Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, September 18, 2000 Volume 36ÐNumber 37 Pages 2025±2103 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 06:55 Sep 20, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\PD18SE00.PRE ATX006 PsN: ATX006 Contents Addresses and Remarks Communications to Congress Congressional candidate Mike Ross, Azerbaijan-U.S. investment treaty, message receptionÐ2055 transmittingÐ2052 Connecticut Panama-U.S. Investment Treaty, message Community in DanburyÐ2037 transmitting protocolÐ2053 Luncheon honoring Representative James H. Maloney in DanburyÐ2032 Communications to Federal Agencies Education, legislative agendaÐ2047 Hate crimes, legislative agendaÐ2059 Continuation of the Exercise of Certain Hillary Clinton, dinnerÐ2093 Authorities Under the Trading With the IMPAC 2000 receptionÐ2091 Enemy Act, memorandumÐ2052 India, state visit of Prime Minister Vajpayee, Delegation of Authority Under the Iran welcoming ceremonyÐ2097 Nonproliferation Act of 2000, Legislative agendaÐ2047, 2049, 2059 memorandumÐ2039 National Campaign Against Youth Violence Improving Hate Crimes Reporting, luncheonÐ2085 memorandumÐ2063 New York Japanese Research Whaling, memorandumÐ Community of Westchester County in 2075 ScarsdaleÐ2029 Dinner for Hillary Clinton in New York Interviews With the News Media CityÐ2025 Partners in History dinner in New York Exchanges with reporters CityÐ2044 Cabinet RoomÐ2049 Reception for Hillary Clinton in New York Oval OfficeÐ2098 CityÐ2042 South LawnÐ2047 Reception for Representative Anthony D. South PorticoÐ2081 Weiner in New York CityÐ2040 Interview with John Harris of the Washington Patients' Bill of RightsÐ2081 PostÐ2064 Radio addressÐ2027 Religious leaders, breakfastÐ2075 Meetings With Foreign Leaders Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, India, Prime Minister VajpayeeÐ2097, 2098 receptionÐ2053 (Continued on the inside of the back cover.) Editor's Note: The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents is also available on the Inter- net on the GPO Access service at http://www.gpo.gov/nara/nara003.html. WEEKLY COMPILATION OF regulations prescribed by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, approved by the President (37 FR 23607; 1 CFR Part 10). PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS Distribution is made only by the Superintendent of Docu- ments, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. 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VerDate 11-MAY-2000 06:55 Sep 20, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\PD18SE00.PRE ATX006 PsN: ATX006 ContentsÐContinued Proclamations Statements by the PresidentÐContinued National Hispanic Heritage MonthÐ2088 ``Marriage Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of National Historically Black Colleges and 2000,'' congressional effort to override Universities WeekÐ2089 vetoÐ2062 National POW/MIA Recognition DayÐ2090 Northern Ireland peace processÐ2062 Statements by the President United Nations' peacekeeping scale of assessmentÐ2025 Congressional action, need for COPS programÐ2061 Supplementary Materials Housing vouchersÐ2051 Quality child care and after-school Acts approved by the PresidentÐ2103 opportunitiesÐ2028 Checklist of White House press releasesÐ TobaccoÐ2041 2103 Death of Representative Herbert H. Digest of other White House BatemanÐ2039 announcementsÐ2101 Japanese whaling practicesÐ2062 Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ2102 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 06:55 Sep 20, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\PD18SE00.PRE ATX006 PsN: ATX006 Week Ending Friday, September 15, 2000 Statement on the United Nations' this. [Laughter] And I want to thank Jerry Peacekeeping Scale of Assessment Colonna and Barbara and Fernando and Ann September 8, 2000 Espuelas and Andrew Rasiej and all the peo- ple on the host committee and all of you who I am pleased that so many nations have came tonight for Hillary and for a better fu- announced their support for a revision of the ture for this country. United Nations' peacekeeping scale of as- I want to thank these Senators here. Noth- sessmentÐa revision that will better reflect ing I was able to do in the last 8 years would the reality of peacekeeping costs in the year have been possible without them, both when 2000. Much will depend on the outcome of they were in the majority and most of the this fall's deliberations, including the future timeÐand even especiallyÐwhen they were of U.N. peacekeeping. in the minority. I want to thank them for Specifically, I want to express my personal being on our high-tech council and trying to appreciation to the countries who have dem- put the Democrats on the side of positive onstrated leadership by agreeing to assume change in this economy. additional financial responsibility under the And I want to say a special word of thanks peacekeeping scale: Antigua and Barbuda, to Jay Rockefeller, who served with me as Bulgaria, Kuwait, Malta, Qatar, Republic of Governor for many years. And we used to Korea, Romania, and Slovenia. The formula sit together and ruminate together and fight used for funding U.N. peacekeeping oper- for the same things together. And the socio- ations, the so-called scale of assessment, is economic profiles of West Virginia and long out of step with today's realities and is Arkansas were the two most identical in the in pressing need of change. country. The real reason I'm glad he's here Yesterday all permanent five members of tonight is that he proved that you could go the Security Council supported a revision of someplace else and represent them real well the peacekeeping financial structure. My in the Senate. [Laughter] He is exhibit A for team and I will be working on this important Hillary's campaign. issue for the remainder of this administra- I want to thank Mark Green, the public tion. advocate, for being here tonight. And he's The U.N. General Assembly will be debat- my great friend of many years, thank you. ing revisions to the scale of assessments over I would just like to make a couple of points the next few months. These deliberations will in introducing Hillary. First of all, I am pro- be guided and inspired by the example of foundly grateful that I've had the chance to the countries. serve and grateful for the opportunities that Al Gore and I and our whole administration NOTE: This item was not received in time for pub- lication in the appropriate issue. had to help make America a better place. I think it is important to point out some- thing that you know because it's a part of Remarks at a Dinner for Hillary what you do every day, and that is that the Clinton in New York City most important force in the world are September 8, 2000 ideasÐforces in the world. And they have consequences. And if your ideas are good and Thank you. First of all, I want to thank you implement them, they have good con- Jonathan for this incredible setting. It's a sequences. And if they're not so good, you beautiful place. It makes me want to get in live with the consequences. We forget that your line of work, so I can have a place like sometimes in politicsÐwhen we vote, when 2025 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 07:01 Sep 20, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 W:\DISC\PD18SE00.000 ATX006 PsN: ATX006 2026 Sept. 8 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 2000 we debate issues, we forget that in the end, ones that ought to be embraced instead of it really does matter whether your ideas are the ones that sound good in 5-second sound right or not. And I remember when I went bytes, then we'll win the White House, and around the country in 1991 and 1992, and we'll win the Senate, and we'll win the the economy was stagnant, and inequality House, not because it's us but because of was increasing, and all the social indicators you and the future you want for yourselves were going in the wrong direction, I came and your children. to the conclusion that one reason was that Martin Luther King once said, ``The arc Washington was being run on a set of ideas of history is long, but it bends toward jus- that were, if they were ever any good, their tice.'' It's a wonderful, eloquent line, and a time had long since passed, and some of lot of people said, ``It's a wonderful, eloquent them never were right. line, but it may not be true. Look at all the And we changed the economic policy, the horrible things that happened in the 20th welfare policy, the crime policy, the edu- century.'' There is a new book out by Robert cation policy, the health care policy, and the Wright, called ``Non Zero.'' Some of you may environmental policy and the foreign policy have read it. But essentially what he argues of this country. Ideas have consequences in is that as societies become more complex and public life just like they do in what you do. people grow more interdependent, all of us And so, for me, apart from my extraor- are forced to look more and more for non- dinary personal feeling about this race, the zero sum solutions, for win-win solutions, not reason I'm going around the country nowÐ win-lose solutions, for things that bring us the first time in 26 years when I haven't been together and unite us and lift us all up, not laugh- on the ballot during an electionÐ[ things that divide us so I can win at your ter]Ðis because I've worked as hard as I expense.