Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, October 7, 1996 Volume 32ÐNumber 40 Pages 1893±1967 1 VerDate 28-OCT-97 11:45 Nov 07, 1997 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P40SE4.000 p40se4 Contents Addresses and Remarks Bill SigningsÐContinued See also Bill Signings Comprehensive Methamphetamine Control Balanced budget agreementÐ1927 Act of 1996, remarksÐ1951 Massachusetts Department of Transportation and Related Boston Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997, ArrivalÐ1927 statementÐ1933 Campaign concert for Senator KerryÐ Electronic Freedom of Information Act 1928 Amendments of 1996, statementÐ1949 Fall RiverÐ1922 Energy and Water Development Middle East summitÐ1931, 1939 Appropriations Act, 1997, statementÐ1934 New York, BuffaloÐ1954 Mother Teresa, legislation conferring Radio addressÐ1914 citizenship, statementÐ1942 Rhode Island, ProvidenceÐ1916 Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, Texas 1997, statementÐ1935 Fort WorthÐ1902 Waiving enrollment requirements, Houston statementÐ1935 Astronaut Shannon Lucid, welcomeÐ Witness retaliation, witness tampering and 1908 jury tampering legislation, statementÐ1941 CommunityÐ1909 Bill Vetoes LongviewÐ1893 Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Bill Signings Refuge Eminent Domain Prevention Act, Antarctic Science, Tourism, and Conservation messageÐ1950 Act of 1996, statementÐ1948 ``Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Communications to Congress Donation Act,'' statementÐ1943 See also Bill Vetoes Carjacking Correction Act of 1996, Caribbean Basin economic recovery, message statementÐ1941 transmitting reportÐ1943 (Continued on the inside of the back cover.) Editor's Note: The President was in Chautauqua, NY, on October 4, the closing date of this issue. Releases and announcements issued by the Office of the Press Secretary but not received in time for inclusion in this issue will be printed next week. 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. Published every Monday by the Office of the Federal Reg- The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents will be ister, National Archives and Records Administration, Washing- furnished by mail to domestic subscribers for $80.00 per year ton, DC 20408, the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Docu- ($137.00 for mailing first class) and to foreign subscribers for ments contains statements, messages, and other Presidential $93.75 per year, payable to the Superintendent of Documents, materials released by the White House during the preceding Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. The week. charge for a single copy is $3.00 ($3.75 for foreign mailing). The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents is pub- There are no restrictions on the republication of material lished pursuant to the authority contained in the Federal Reg- appearing in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Docu- ister Act (49 Stat. 500, as amended; 44 U.S.C. Ch. 15), under ments. 2 VerDate 28-OCT-97 11:45 Nov 07, 1997 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P40SE4.000 p40se4 ContentsÐContinued Communications to CongressÐContinued Meetings With Foreign Leaders Convention on the International Maritime Israel, Prime Minister NetanyahuÐ1939, Organization, message transmitting reportÐ 1943 1942 Jordan, King Hussein IÐ1939, 1943 Inter-American Convention on Serving Palestinian Authority, Chairman ArafatÐ1939, Criminal Sentences Abroad, message 1943 transmittingÐ1938 Traffic and motor vehicles, message Proclamations transmitting reportsÐ1961 National Breast Cancer Awareness MonthÐ Communications to Federal Agencies 1959 National Domestic Violence Awareness Drawdown of Defense Department MonthÐ1960 commodities, services, and training for the National Student Voter Education DayÐ1950 Economic Community of West African Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and States' peacekeeping force, memorandumÐ Nonimmigrants of Persons Who Formulate 1934 or Implement Policies That Are Impeding Family violence provisions, memorandum on the Transition to Democracy in Burma or guidelines to States for implementationÐ Who Benefit From Such PoliciesÐ1957 1958 Executive Orders Statements by the President Supporting Families: Collecting Delinquent See also Bill Signings Child Support ObligationsÐ1925 Federal Aviation Reauthorization Act of 1996, passageÐ1957 Interviews With the News Media Omnibus parks legislationÐ1932, 1957 Exchanges with reporters Welfare reform initiativesÐ1933 Boston, MAÐ1927 Supplementary Materials Chautauqua, NYÐ1962 Oval OfficeÐ1939 Acts approved by the PresidentÐ1965 Rose GardenÐ1931 Checklist of White House press releasesÐ Interview with the Houston Chronicle and the 1965 Dallas Morning NewsÐ1898 Digest of other White House News conference with Middle Eastern announcementsÐ1963 leaders, October 2 (No. 129)Ð1943 Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ1964 3 VerDate 28-OCT-97 11:45 Nov 07, 1997 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P40SE4.000 p40se4 Week Ending Friday, October 4, 1996 Remarks in Longview, Texas Thank you, Judge Frank Maloney, for being here. And ladies and gentlemen, I'd September 27, 1996 like to take a little personal privilege here The President. Thank you. Thank you. and ask your retiring Congressman, Jim Chapman, who has served you well and Audience members. Four more years! worked hard, just to come up here and say Four more years! Four more years! one word. This is the biggest crowd he'll see The President. Thank you very much. in Longview until he leaves office, and I want Folks, I would have come all the way to him to have a chance to say hello to you. Longview just to see the Rangerettes and Come on up here, Jim. hear the Ranger Band. Thank you very much. I thank you for coming out on a little bit [At this point, Representative Jim Chapman of an overcast day and keeping the rain away. made brief remarks.] I feel like the Sun shines on us in Longview Audience members. Four more years! today, don't you? [Applause] Four more years! Four more years! Thank you, Martha Whitehead, for being The President. Thank you. Thank you. a great mayor, a great state treasurer, for Ladies and gentlemen, 4 years ago I had keeping your campaign commitment and a pretty tough time here. I ran for President working yourself right out of a job. Somehow against two guys from Texas. [Laughter] It I think that people will think you're entitled hardly seemed fair to me. I'm sure I spent to a lot more good jobs in the future. Thank more time in Texas than anybody else who you for your leadership. Thank you, County had run for President recently. And you were Commissioner James Johnson, for being very good to me. We had a good showing here. Thank you, Ann Richards, for your here. I've had an opportunity to come back wonderful talk. I heard it in the back. Thank to Texas many times in the last 4 years, and you, Texas Democratic Party chair and I want to thank all those who have been my former Deputy Secretary of the Department friends and supporters through good times of Energy, Bill White. He did a great job and bad. for us in Washington, and he's doing a great You know, we had some tough decisions job for the Democratic Party here in Texas. to make when I became President. But think And thank you, Garry Mauro, my friend of what this country was like 4 years ago. We many years, for standing up for us, sticking had high unemployment, the slowest job with us, and waiting around until we finally growth since the Great Depression, growing got to the point where we can win in the inequality because working people's wages State of Texas because we've done a good were stagnant. The crime rate was going up. job for the people of Texas. The welfare rolls were going up. The country I also want to thank Max Sandlin for being was becoming more divided, and people here and for speaking earlier. And I want were becoming more skeptical, even cynical, to ask you to send him to the United States about our politics. And I believed it was be- Congress. We've got some great candidates cause we did not have a unifying vision to in this part of Texas running for their first take us into the 21st century. terms in Congress: Max Sandlin, Jim Turner, And I have a simple, straightforward idea John Pouland. I hope they will all win. I hope of what I want this country to look like in you will help them so they can help you build 4 years when we start a new century and a that bridge to the 21st century that we've new millennium. In Longview, Texas, and been talking about. every town like it all across America, I want 1893 VerDate 28-OCT-97 13:21 Nov 07, 1997 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 W:\DISC\P40SE4.030 p40se4 1894 Sept. 27 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1996 the American dream to be alive and well for the biggest decline in the number of children everybody who is willing to work for it, with- living in poverty in 20 years. We are on the out regard to where they start out in life. right track, and we need to stay on that track I want this country to be the world's strongest to the 21st century. force for peace and freedom and prosperity, We have increased education opportuni- because our peace and our freedom and our ties, from more children in Head Start to a prosperity depends upon America's ability to better, lower cost college loan program, to lead and stand up for those things in the the AmeriCorps program, to allow young world. And I wanted us to be a country that's people to work their way through college by coming together, not being torn apart by our serving in their communities. We're moving differences. And I believe we can all say in the right direction.