Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, January 14, 2002 Volume 38—Number 2 Pages 11–57 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 01:48 Jan 16, 2002 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P02JAF4.011 txed01 PsN: txed01 Contents Addresses and Remarks Bill Signings—Continued See also Bill Signings; Meetings With Foreign Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Leaders Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2002, California, townhall meeting in Ontario—11 statement—49 Economic team, meetings—24, 42 No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, remarks— Federal Reserve Board Chairman, meeting— 26 Small Business Liability Relief and 24 Brownfields Revitalization Act, remarks—52 Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, fundraiser—40 Massachusetts, Boston Latin School in Executive Orders Boston—32 Exclusions From the Federal Labor- New Hampshire, University of New Management Relations Program—26 Hampshire in Durham—29 Interviews With the News Media No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, remarks on implementation—36 Exchanges with reporters Ohio, bill signing in Hamilton—26 Cabinet Room—24 Oregon, Parkrose High School in Portland— Oval Office—42 20 Joint Statements Pennsylvania, bill signing in Conshohocken— Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan 52 Assurance of Project Benefits Agreement— Radio address—19 39 Virginia, bill signing in Arlington—44 Meetings With Foreign Leaders Bill Signings Greece, Prime Minister Simitis—48 Department of Defense and Emergency Statements by the President Supplemental Appropriations for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist See also Bill Signings Attacks on the United States Act, 2002 Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Remarks—44 Plan—38 Statement—46 Supplementary Materials Departments of Labor, Health and Human Acts approved by the President—56 Services, and Education, and Related Checklist of White House press releases—55 Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002, Digest of other White House statement—50 announcements—54 Nominations submitted to the Senate—55 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. 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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. VerDate 11-MAY-2000 01:48 Jan 16, 2002 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P02JAF4.011 txed01 PsN: txed01 Week Ending Friday, January 11, 2002 Remarks at a Townhall Meeting in I notice the people in the uniforms here Ontario, California applauding a little louder. They understand January 5, 2002 that Congressman Lewis plays an incredibly important role when it comes to appro- The President. Thank you all very much. priating monies for the United States mili- Mario, muchas gracias por tu palabras. tary. There is no—he’s been strong on the Thank you all for coming. defense of America. I look forward to work- ing with Jerry Lewis in the next budget cycle [At this point, the President spoke in Spanish, to make sure that the defense of this Nation and no translation was provided.] is the number one priority of the budget of Thank you for letting me come. Thank you the United States. for taking time out of your fin de semana I want to thank Rosario Marin, the Treas- para hablar con el presidente. I’m honored urer of the United States, for being here. It’s that so many came out for this weekend. It nice to be back in your neighborhood, gives me a great chance to share some Rosario. I want to thank Hector Barreto, the thoughts with you as we begin a new year Administrator of the SBA; Ruben Barrales, that I believe is going to be a fantastic year who works for me in the White House. for America. And I look forward to answering Thank you for coming, Ruben. some questions you may have. I want to thank our host organizations, the I want to thank your Governor for being Latin Business Association, the Ontario His- here. Governor Gray Davis kindly took time panic Chamber of Commerce, the Hispanic out of his schedule for coming. Governor, Chamber of Commerce of Orange County, thank you for coming. I want to thank some and the Latino Coalition, for your sponsor- of the members of the mighty—and I mean, ship. One of the things that I am most proud mighty—congressional delegation from the of, of our Nation, is the number of Latinos State of California. We’ve got Gary Miller, who own their own business, the number of whose district this is. Gary, thank you for Latinos who really work hard to access the coming. David Dreier, chairman of the Rules American Dream. Committee—David, thank you for being The growth of Latino-owned small busi- here. nesses in California is astounding. It is amaz- David and I worked closely together to get ing how many people now can say, ‘‘I am a trade bill out of the House of Representa- a proud business owner.’’ To me, that is what tives. He knows what I know, that trade is America is all about, somebody who has a good for creating jobs in the State of Cali- dream, somebody who works hard and can fornia. Fearful people, people who don’t say to themselves and their community, ‘‘This trust the ability of our entrepreneurs, build is my business. This is something I own, and walls around America. Confident people tear nobody can take it away from me.’’ them down, and I’m confident in the Amer- And the job of Government is always to ican spirit. I’m confident that the entre- remember the importance of the small busi- preneurs of our country—Hispanic, Anglo, ness and the entrepreneurial dream. The job African-American—compete with anybody, of Government is not to try to create wealth. any place, any time, and let’s trade freely. The job of Government is to create an envi- Congressman Calvert, Congressman Issa, ronment in which people are willing to take are with us, as well. Thank you two for com- risks to realize their dream. It’s to educate ing. And finally, Congressman Jerry Lewis is people. It’s to provide opportunity and then with us today. make the playing field as level as it is and 11 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 07:57 Jan 15, 2002 Jkt 197250 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 E:\PRESDOCS\P02JAT4.011 pfrm07 PsN: P02JAT4 12 Jan. 5 / Administration of George W. Bush, 2002 see who can succeed or not in the great coun- My most important job is the security and try called America. safety of the American people. Every morn- This has been an amazing year for Laura ing I wake up, and when I wake up, I go and me. Some things occurred that we ex- to the Oval Office. I’m kind of an early morn- pected. Some things happened that we didn’t ing guy, by the way. I take Barney and Spot expect. I’m going to talk about one thing we out. [Laughter] They take a good look at the were able to anticipate and one we weren’t. Rose Garden—[laughter]—up close and per- First, I will tell you that nearly a year ago sonal. [Laughter] And then I head into the I hosted a group of business leaders to Aus- Oval Office. And I read about the potential tin, Texas, before I had become sworn in as threats to America. And one of my first meet- the President. And leaders all around the ings is to visit with the head of the FBI. And country came and made it very clear that our my question every morning is, ‘‘Mr. Director, economy was pretty darn slow, and I knew what are you doing about this threat? What’s we needed to do something about it, and I’m happening with this lead? Are you taking care going to talk about that in a second. of this piece of business?’’ So it was expected that there would be un- The culture of our law enforcement has employment on the rise, expected that after changed to the point where they now know a period of great prosperity, the economy what I know, that we’ve got to do everything would slow down. And we took some action in our power to protect the American people. But the best way to secure the homeland of that I’ll describe here in a second. Obviously, America is to find the evil ones wherever they what was not expected was what took place try to hide and bring them to justice.