Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

Monday, February 20, 1995 Volume 31—Number 7 Pages 231–262

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Addresses and Remarks Interviews With the News Media Burundi, radio address—233 Exchange with reporters in the Oval Office— California 234, 239 American Council on Education in San Interview with Dick Enberg of NBC Sports— Francisco—241 253 San Bernardino Valley College in San Joint Statements Bernardino—249 Economic Report of the President—234 Bulgaria-U.S. relations—239 J. William Fulbright, memorial service—258 Meetings With Foreign Leaders Middle Eastern leaders—232 Bulgaria, President Zhelev—239 Radio address—231 Middle Eastern leaders—232 Appointments and Nominations Proclamations National Poison Prevention Week—254 White House Office, Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs— Statements by the President 258 See also Appointments and Nominations Argentina’s accession to the Nuclear Non- Communications to Congress Proliferation Treaty—231 Disaster assistance for Georgia, Florida, and Chemical and biological weapons, message on Alabama—260 proliferation—256 Petroleum imports and energy security—255 ‘‘Middle-Class Bill of Rights Tax Relief Act of 1995,’’ message transmitting—237 Supplementary Materials United Nations peacekeeping, letter—240 Acts approved by the President—262 Weapons of mass destruction, message on Checklist of White House press releases—261 proliferation—257 Digest of other White House ‘‘Working Wage Increase Act of 1995,’’ announcements—260 message transmitting—238 Nominations submitted to the Senate—261

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Statement on Argentina’s Accession Essentially that means the Government’s to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation responsibility is to expand opportunity while Treaty shrinking bureaucracy, to empower people to February 10, 1995 make the most of their own lives, and to en- hance our security not just abroad but here I warmly welcome Argentina’s accession to at home, too. At the same time, it means the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) we must demand more responsibility from this morning. In joining the NPT, Argentina every citizen in return, responsibility for our has taken an historic step to reinforce its own country, for our communities, for our fami- security and to unite with 170 other NPT lies and ourselves. parties in the global effort to stem the spread Part of our job here in Washington is to of nuclear weapons. I salute President help arm the American people to fight crime Menem and his government for their fore- and violence. During the Presidential cam- sight and courage in making Argentina a paign I promised the American people that champion for nonproliferation in Latin I would cut 100,000 Federal bureaucrats in America and around the world. In the State Washington and use those savings to put of the Union Address, I pledged that the 100,000 new police officers on America’s United States would lead the charge for in- streets. Last year, Democrats and Repub- definite extension of the NPT when the trea- licans joined together to pass the crime bill ty’s future is considered this April. Argenti- to keep that promise. We’ve been working na’s NPT adherence will help us reach that ever since to put that crime bill into effect. goal. It’s been only 4 months since the crime bill became law, but already we’ve awarded NOTE: This item was not received in time for pub- over 16,000 new officers to half the police lication in the appropriate issue. departments in America. We’re under budg- et; we’re ahead of schedule. The President’s Radio Address Police departments all around the country February 11, 1995 are putting this effort to work, hiring, train- ing, and deploying officers as fast as we can Good morning. Today I’ve asked Attorney give a go-ahead. The last thing your local po- General Reno and Drug Control Director lice department needs is Congressmen in Lee Brown to join me here at the White Washington playing politics with their safety House. I want to discuss the crime and drugs and yours. But the astonishing thing is, de- that plague almost every community in our spite the urgent need for more police on our country. streets, despite our success in getting them I ran for President because I believe it’s there, some Republicans in Congress actually the responsibility of our generation to work want to repeal this effort. They want to re- together to preserve the American dream for place an initiative guaranteed to put 100,000 all Americans and to ensure that we move police on the street with a block grant pro- into the next century still the strongest coun- gram that has no guarantees at all. try on Earth. The best way for us to do that The block grant is basically a blank check is by building a new partnership in our coun- that can far too easily be used for things be- try between Americans and their govern- sides police officers. That’s why the law en- ment, and especially between Americans and forcement steering committee, representing each other. I call that partnership the New over 450,000 police officers, is absolutely op- Covenant. posed to this block grant approach or to any

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other change that weakens our commitment the courage to do what’s right and stand up to put 100,000 police on the streets. for what’s right. That means not using drugs, Undermining this commitment to law en- staying out of gangs, studying hard, avoiding forcement is not acceptable. I didn’t fight to violence. It also means telling friends that cut 100,000 Federal bureaucrats so we could drugs and gangs and guns aren’t cool, and trade them in for an old-fashioned pork bar- children that are involved in those things rel program. I fought to trade 100,000 bu- aren’t going to be your real friends. reaucrats for 100,000 police officers. Last That’s what the New Covenant is all year, Republicans and Democrats passed the about—more opportunity, more responsibil- 100,000 cops bill, and I signed it. I made ity. We’ve got to do our part here. But each a commitment, a promise to put 100,000 and every one of you must take responsibility more police on our streets, because there is to join us. We can only win this fight to- simply no better crime fighting tool to be gether. found. And I intend to keep that promise. Thanks for listening. Anyone on Capitol Hill who wants to play partisan politics with police officers for NOTE: The President spoke at 10:06 a.m. from America should listen carefully: I will veto the Oval Office at the White House. any effort to repeal or undermine the 100,000 police commitment, period. Of course, as crucial as these 100,000 po- Remarks at a Meeting With lice officers are, they can’t do the job alone. Middle Eastern Leaders Every citizen in America has to help in this February 12, 1995 fight, because no amount of police officers can replace people taking responsibility for Thank you, Mr. Secretary. And thank you, their own lives and for their communities. all of you, for coming to this very important This week, I announced our administra- meeting. It is no secret to anyone in the tion’s 1995 drug control strategy. It involves world that we are at a critical moment in cutting off drugs at the source, stiffer punish- the peace process. We cannot allow the rise ment for drug dealers, more education and of terror again to threaten this peace, or as prevention, and more treatment. But per- Chairman Arafat said the other day, we can- haps the most important part of this strategy not allow it to kill the Palestinian dream. will be to boost efforts to educate our young We are prepared in this country to redou- people about the dangers and penalties of ble our efforts to get the peace process back drug use. Our children need a constant in full gear. We are doing what we can on drumbeat reminding them that drugs are not our own and with others to deal with the safe, drugs are illegal, drugs can put you in problem of terror. jail, and drugs may cost you your life. I want to begin by saying a special word Community-based education programs of appreciation to President Mubarak for the work. I saw them work in school when my Cairo summit. He has been involved in this daughter was younger. This morning I’ve process all along, and I think that the Cairo been joined by some police officers who par- summit produced a clear statement by the ticipate in community education programs leaders of all of you here represented that and especially in the national drug abuse we are not going to let terror hold sway, that education and resistance program that you we are not going to let the peace process probably know as DARE. Every American collapse. Today it is for us to begin to take should follow their example and accept the the specific steps necessary to have the mes- responsibility to join the fight against drugs sage of peace and renewed commitment car- and crime and violence. ried out. Parents must teach their children right I think it’s clear that we have to complete from wrong. They must teach that drugs are phase two of the Israel-Palestinian Agree- bad and dangerous. And make no mistake ment. I think it’s clear that we have to fully about it, parents must set a good example implement the peace treaty between Jordan for their children. Young people must have and Israel. I think it is clear that we have

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to bring some economic benefits of peace that we can all take to keep doing it together. as quickly as we possibly can. We cannot let people believe that they can And the United States is prepared to do disrupt the rational, humane, decent course its part on that. For example, if you agree of history by terror. to establish industrial zones in the West Bank Mr. Secretary. and Gaza and elsewhere, I am prepared to go to Congress and seek approval for extend- ing duty-free treatment to products coming NOTE: The President spoke at 12:30 p.m. at Blair out of those zones. Of course, in the end, House. Foreign Ministers Atef Sedky of Egypt, the economic and political cooperation Shimon Peres of Israel, Abd Al-Karim Kabariti of Jordan, and Minister of Planning and Inter- among all of you will be the most important national Cooperation for the Palestine Authority, thing in reaping economic progress. But I Nabell Sha’ath, and their respective peace delega- want to do our part. tions attended the meeting. I know our Russian partner feels the same. I think that many others around the world will also help. But I am absolutely convinced that we need to move as quickly as we can Radio Address to the People of to prove that there are some economic bene- Burundi fits to peace. February 13, 1995 Let me say also that, even though we must have enhanced security to create enhanced The recent violence in Burundi dem- economic benefits, it is obvious that our at- onstrates that extremists want to reverse your tempt to do that is impaired when the move- remarkable progress toward democracy. The ment of goods is limited by boycott, by clo- United States rejects those who reject peace. sure, by any other action. So we’re all going We stand with those who are against violence to have to work hard to make progress on and for tolerance and peace. Burundi has suf- the peace front, on the security front, and fered enough. on the economic front at the same time. And we all have to recognize that there are dif- Your historic elections in 1993 promised ficult decisions to be made in this area. to open a new, peaceful chapter in your na- The negotiations that you have already tion’s history. The American people and sup- concluded have built a framework for peace. porters of democracy around the world What we have to do now is to have specific watched with high hopes as Burundi em- achievements, lasting achievements. We will barked on a new course. Despite tragedy and do our part. We are as committed today as suffering, the vast majority of your people we have ever been to a comprehensive peace. have worked for lasting peace, security, and I wish the representatives of Syria and Leb- freedom. anon were around this table; they are not I say to the people and the leaders of Bu- here only because there has been no peace rundi: Do not go back. You deserve to live agreement signed with them. But I know you in peace and without fear. Democracy will all join me in saying that our work will never help you build a better future for yourselves be completed until we are all around a table and your children. Say no to violence and as partners working for peace. extremism. Say yes to peace and reconcili- Now, there are many other things I could ation. discuss today, but I mostly want to say to you, the United States is still committed to this, more strongly than ever. We are ready NOTE: The address was recorded on February 11 to do our part. We are ready to do our part at approximately 10:15 a.m. in the Oval Office at the White House, and it was released by the Of- economically. We are certainly ready to do fice of the Press Secretary on February 13. A tape our part in fighting terror. But we all have was not available for verification of the content to do this together. And I hope that this of this address. meeting will produce further specific steps

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Remarks on Receiving the Economic 2 years into our administration, we can see Report of the President and an the positive results of this strategy: almost Exchange With Reporters 6 million new jobs, the lowest core rate of February 13, 1995 inflation in 30 years, the deficit reduced by over $600 billion. The President. As you know, we are here It’s not enough. Too many of our people to receive the annual Economic Report of are still working harder for less, with less se- the President. So I want to begin by thanking curity. So today I’m sending Congress two the Council of Economic Advisers: Dr. Laura new bills that are the next installment in our Tyson, our Chair; Dr. Joseph Stiglitz; and Dr. comprehensive effort to raise the wages and Martin Baily. the incomes of working Americans and to This economic report is an important mile- give them more opportunity in return for stone for me. It measures our success in ful- their responsibility of learning and working. filling the mission that I brought to the Presi- These bills reward work. They raise living dency. I ran for this office to help to restore standards. They allow people to invest in the American dream and to guarantee its themselves and to make the most of their availability for all Americans into the 21st own lives. century, to make sure that the middle class The ‘‘Working Wage Increase Act’’ would would still be growing and that work would increase the minimum wage by 90 cents over still be rewarded. The best way to do that 2 years. This would benefit over 11 million is by building a new partnership between workers and their families. It would be the Americans and their Government and Amer- equivalent of an $1,800 raise or about 7 icans and each other, the partnership that I months of groceries for a family. have called the New Covenant. The middle class bill of rights has four pro- Essentially, it means that our responsibility visions that will also benefit those who are here in Washington is to expand opportunity working to help themselves: a $500 tax cut while shrinking bureaucracy, to empower for families with children under 13; a way people to make the most of their own lives, to allow more families to invest in an IRA and to enhance our security, not only abroad and withdraw those investments tax free to but here at home as well. At the same time, pay for education, health care, purchase of it means that we must demand more respon- a first home, or the care of an elderly parent; sibility from every citizen, especially those a voucher to improve worker skills worth who seek the benefits of Government action, $2,600 a year for 2 years for people who are responsibility for our country, for our com- unemployed or who are working for wages munities, for our families, and for ourselves. low enough to qualify for Federal training; These responsibilities have defined our and of course, I think, over the long run most economic strategy. We have pursued deficit importantly, a tax deduction for the cost of reduction to make more of our Nation’s re- education beyond high school. sources available for private investment, The success of the United States is clearly growth, and jobs. We have reduced the size dependent upon our ability to educate and of the Government’s bureaucracy, cutting the develop the capacities of every one of our Federal work force to its lowest level in 30 citizens. That’s what the middle class bill of years. We have expanded trade to provide rights is all about. It goes with our previous more opportunity for jobs and higher in- efforts to expand Head Start, to work to help comes. And we have invested in the Amer- public schools achieve excellence, to move ican people, from Head Start to the Goals people into the work force who don’t go to 2000 program, to the program to help young college, and of course, to expand the student people who don’t go to college but do need loan program. further training, and of course what we’ve This Economic Report of the President done in national service and student loans. shows that this strategy is working. We We’ve done all of that to help our people should not abandon it. Instead, we should get the skills they need so that they can grow build on it. We should deepen it. When and prosper in a global economy. And now, you’re doing something that’s working, you

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shouldn’t turn around and do something else. it. And my instinct is, we’ve got a pretty good You should do what you’re doing better, do chance to pass it. more of it, keep going in the same direction. That’s what we’re trying to do. We’re reduc- Deficit Reduction ing Government spending. We’re cutting Q. Mr. President, you’ve taken a lot of crit- Government bureaucracy. But we are in- icism for your budget, and a lot of people creasing our investment in the American are saying that you haven’t done enough to people. The middle class bill of rights, raising reduce the deficit in the coming 5 years, that the minimum wage, these are things we you actually have stopped doing what we ought to do. The evidence that we ought to were doing before. I think Speaker Gingrich do them is in the success of the last 2 years’ today said that maybe your budget was strategy in the Economic Report to the Presi- even—that it could even be a factor that dent. would tip the country into recession. What I thank Dr. Tyson and the others and, of do you say to these critics? course, all of those on our economic team The President. Well, let me just say, first and all of those in the Congress and through- of all, all those people, including the Speaker, out the country who’ve done so much to were here for 12 years when we had a biparti- make this report a reality. san conspiracy to quadruple the debt of this Thank you. country. With Republican Presidents and Democratic Congressmen, they quadrupled Minimum Wage the debt of the country. If it weren’t for the Q. What do you think the chances are of interest we have to pay on the debt that was getting the minimum wage, Mr. President? accumulated between 1981 and 1993, we The President. Well, I think they should would have a balanced budget next year and be pretty good. The more we see the evi- a surplus thereafter. And we have cut the dence—you know, there was a very moving deficit more than it has ever been cut before piece in one of the papers yesterday on that in history, I might say, with no help—no community in North Carolina that has such help—not a single vote from the Repub- a high percentage of minimum wage workers. licans. I saw a television interview the other night Now, they’re in the majority, and it’s their with a lady working, I believe, in southwest turn. If they don’t like my budget, let’s see Virginia, who gave an answer to the question what theirs is. They promised—they made that has become the battle cry for the mini- promises that would make the deficit bigger mum wage around here when she said, with all the tax cuts and spending increases ‘‘Well, some people say if we raise your mini- they talked about. Now the real world is mum wage that you could lose your job be- crowding in on them. I have done my duty. cause more of the work will be done by ma- I have sent a budget to the Congress that chines,’’ and she looked at the interviewer contains another $140 billion in spending and said, ‘‘Honey, I’ll take my chances.’’ cuts, that pays for the middle class bill of [Laughter] That’s sort of become our battle rights, including the education tax deduction, cry around here for the minimum wage. that reduces the deficit by $80 billion more, I will say this, in 1989, or the last time and that does it without cutting Social Secu- the minimum wage was raised, whatever year rity, Medicare, veterans, or education. It is it was, ’91, the bipartisan support was truly time for them to take a little responsibility. impressive. It ought to be there again. Half They were here during the years of the of this minimum wage increase is necessary eighties when we created this deficit prob- just to bring the minimum wage back up to lem. America was never buried in a deficit the point where it was when it was raised problem until 1981. They voted and voted the last time. The other half would be a mod- and voted and voted. I got here 2 years ago. est increase in the living standards of people I have been fighting this as hard as possible. who are working hard to support themselves I have welcomed them to give me their ideas. and often their children. So I’m going to keep I have said, I will work with you to reduce fighting for it. I’m going to keep working for the deficit more. And I will do that, but let’s

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see what they want to do to do it. They have Entitlements some responsibility, too. Where is their Q. Why haven’t you taken on entitlements, budget? What are they for? Let’s see what Mr. President? they’re for. I want to work with them. You The President. I did take on entitlements. know I find it amazing that people who are The Republicans ran out against me last here every year, digging the country in the time. Don’t you remember that, in ’94? And hole I’ve been digging us out of, are now don’t you remember all the surveys that said, saying I’m not getting this out quick enough. ‘‘Democrats losing their edge among elders’’ I mean, where were they, and where are because the Republicans, the people now in they? It’s time for them to suit up and show the majority of Congress, launched those vi- up. cious ads claiming we had tried to tax Social Security recipients, when in fact the upper Surgeon-General-Designate 13 percent of Social Security recipients were only asked to pay taxes on their Social Secu- Q. Are you going to the mat on Dr. Fos- rity on the same basis that private pensioners ter? were. The President. Yes. We took on entitlements. We had savings Q. Mr. President, there are some who in Medicare. We had savings in Medicaid. would argue now that you’re going to be We did that. And the Republicans said they spending so much time trying to get Dr. Fos- hated that. Now let’s see what they do. It’s ter confirmed, it’s going to detract from your their turn. They’re in the majority in Con- other priorities, because this looks like it’s gress. It is time—I don’t have a vote; let them going to be one hell of a fight. Are you pre- do it. Do you remember when Ronald pared for that right now? Reagan—they protected him for years. They The President. Yes, but I want to say, just said President Reagan and President Bush, because you’ve spent a lot of time talking in 12 years between them, vetoed one appro- about it, doesn’t mean it’s going to take us priations bill because it didn’t spend enough a lot of time to do it. [Laughter] We’ve got money and got away with blaming the Con- a lot of folks that work here and a lot of things gress for raising the deficit. It beat anything to do. And every day we may only be talking I ever saw. about one or two things, but we’re working Now, I have tried to work with the Con- on a lot of things. It will not in any way un- gress. I have tried not to be political. I have dermine the impact of the Presidency on the tried to say, ‘‘Here’s my budget. If you’ve other work we have to do. got a better idea, you put your ideas up. Then And let me also say—let me go back to we’ll work together.’’ So far their reaction is, ‘‘It hurts us too much to put our ideas for- that other question. I don’t see how anybody ward. We think we’ll criticize yours.’’ The could seriously say that our budget would American people are sick of this. They want cause a recession. They caused the recession us to work together. before I ever showed up here. Since I have been here, we have reduced the deficit, we White House Conference on the Economy have grown the economy. After we presented Q. Why are you going to have an economic our budget, the markets had a very positive conference in March? response to it: Long term interest rates The President. What? dropped; the stock market went up. It was Q. Why are you having an economic con- seen as a very prudent budget. Now if they ference in March? can do better, then we ought to get beyond The President. Because I think it would the politics and let them put their proposal be a good thing to get those people back to- on the table and let us work through. At some gether that gathered 2 years ago, not only point, they have to vote. They’ve got to get to review the progress that has been made beyond the talking. I’ve gotten beyond the but, more importantly, to look at the thorny talking. I’ve given the budget. Let’s see problems that remain. The middle class still theirs. feels squeezed in the midst of a recovery.

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And I want us to focus on the challenges Presidential Candidates that we face for the 21st century in terms Q. Are you happy that Speaker Gingrich of ordinary middle class people. What can is not going to run against you for the Presi- we do to raise living standards and increase dency? security for people who are working harder Q. They’re dropping like flies, Mr. Presi- and harder? How are we going to spread the dent. benefits of economic recovery to the middle The President. Did he say that today? class? How are we going to grow the middle They’re dropping like flies? Is that what you class and shrink the underclass and still keep said? I notice there’s still a few. [Laughter] this marvelous environment for entre- I wish the absence of Republican opposition preneurs in which so many people are doing was my main worry, but I don’t think it is. better than they ever had before? That is a Somebody will show up, sure as the world. separate set of questions. [Laughter] Thank you very much. Two years ago when that group gathered, NOTE: The President spoke at 2:23 p.m. in the we had to focus on just getting the economy Oval Office at the White House. out of the recession, getting the deficit down, getting the overall growth up. That has hap- pened. Now we need to focus on what still Message to the Congress needs to be done to make sure we’re solidify- Transmitting the ‘‘Middle-Class Bill ing and strengthening and growing the mid- of Rights Tax Relief Act of 1995’’ dle class instead of dividing and shrinking it. February 13, 1995

The Republican Party To the Congress of the United States: I am pleased to transmit today for your Q. Mr. President, is the Republican Party immediate consideration and enactment the being taken over by extreme right-wing, anti- ‘‘Middle-Class Bill of Rights Tax Relief Act abortion elements? [Laughter] of 1995.’’ I am also sending you an expla- The President. Well, I hope not, but nation of the revenue proposals of this legis- that’s up to them, isn’t it? lation. This bill is the next step in my Administra- Surgeon-General-Designate tion’s continuing effort to raise living stand- ards for working families and help restore Q. Do you have the votes for Dr. Foster the American Dream for all our people. now, Mr. President? For 2 years, we have worked hard to The President. He hasn’t even had a hear- strengthen our economy. We worked with ing yet. I haven’t even canvassed them. the last Congress to enact legislation that will Q. Do you think you’ll have the votes? reduce the annual deficits of 1994–98 by The President. I think if he’s judged on more than $600 billion; we created nearly 6 his life’s work, on the merits, I think he’ll million new jobs; we cut taxes for 15 million be confirmed. I think that if he gets the kind low-income families and gave tax relief to of hearing I would expect him to get from small businesses; we opened export markets a fair-minded Senate, I think he’ll be con- through global and regional trade agree- firmed. ments; we invested in human and physical capital to increase productivity; and we re- Border Crossing Fees duced the Federal Government by more than 100,000 positions. Q. Mr. President, are you going to change With that strong foundation in place, I am your border crossing fees? Some Texans saw now proposing a Middle Class Bill of Rights. advisers of yours today and thought—[in- Despite our progress, too many Americans audible]—Mr. Panetta was going to take a are still working harder for less. The Middle closer look at it. Class Bill of Rights will enable working The President. I certainly think we have Americans to raise their families and get the to look at it. education and training they need to meet the

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demands of a new global economy. It will Message to the Congress let middle-income families share in our eco- Transmitting the ‘‘Working Wage nomic prosperity today and help them build Increase Act of 1995’’ our economic prosperity tomorrow. The ‘‘Middle-Class Bill of Rights Tax Re- February 13, 1995 lief Act of 1995’’ includes three of the four To the Congress of the United States: elements of my Middle Class Bill of Rights. I am pleased to transmit for your imme- First, it offers middle-income families a $500 diate consideration and enactment the tax credit for each child under 13. Second, ‘‘Working Wage Increase Act of 1995.’’ it includes a tax deduction of up to $10,000 This draft bill would amend the Fair Labor a year to help middle-income Americans pay Standards Act to increase the minimum wage for postsecondary education expenses and in two 45 cents steps—from the current rate training expenses. Third, it lets more middle- of $4.25 an hour to $4.70 an hour on July income Americans make tax-deductible con- 4, 1995, and to $5.15 an hour after July 3, tributions to Individual Retirement Accounts 1996. The pattern of the proposed increase and withdraw from them, penalty-free, for is identical to that of the last increase, which the costs of education and training, health passed the Congress with a broad bipartisan care, first-time home-buying, long periods of majority and was signed by President Bush unemployment, or the care of an ill parent. in 1989. The first increment of the proposal The fourth element of my Middle Class simply restores the minimum wage to its real Bill of Rights—not included in this legisla- value following the change enacted in 1989. tion—is the GI Bill for America’s Workers, If the Congress does not act now, the mini- which consolidates 70 Federal training pro- mum wage will fall to its lowest real level grams and creates a more effective system in 40 years. That would dishonor one of the for learning new skills and finding better jobs great promises of American life—that every- for adults and youth. Legislation for this pro- one who works hard can earn a living wage. posal is being developed in cooperation with More than 11 million workers would benefit the Congress. under this proposal, and a full-time, year- If enacted, the Middle Class Bill of Rights round worker at the minimum wage would will help keep the American Dream alive for get a $1,800 raise—the equivalent of 7 everyone willing to take responsibility for months of groceries for the average family. themselves, their families, and their futures. To reform the Nation’s welfare system, we And it will not burden our children with should make work pay, and this legislation more debt. In my fiscal 1996 budget, we have would help achieve that result. It would offer found enough savings not only to pay for this a raise to families that are working hard, but tax bill, but also to provide another $81 bil- struggling to make ends meet. Most individ- lion in deficit reduction between 1996 and uals earning the minimum wage are adults, 2000. and the average worker affected by this pro- This legislation will restore fairness to our posal brings home half of the family’s earn- tax system, let middle-income families share ings. Numerous empirical studies indicate in our economic prosperity, encourage that an increase in the minimum wage of the Americans to prepare for the future, and help magnitude proposed would not have a signifi- ensure that the United States moves into the cant impact on employment. The legislation 21st Century still the strongest nation in the would ensure that those who work hard and world. I urge the Congress to take prompt play by the rules can live with the dignity and favorable action on this legislation. they have earned. William J. Clinton I urge the Congress to take prompt and The White House, favorable action on this legislation. February 13, 1995. William J. Clinton NOTE: A fact sheet on the ‘‘Middle-Class Bill of Rights Tax Relief Act of 1995’’ was made available The White House, by the Office of the Press Secretary. February 13, 1995.

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Remarks Prior to Discussions With the country. We are also going to sign a joint President Zhelyu Zhelev of Bulgaria declaration in a few moments, setting forth and an Exchange With Reporters the principles and the specific agenda that we will follow in working together. And I am February 13, 1995 very, very pleased that the President and the The President. I’d like to tell you how leaders of the Government are here. delighted I am to welcome President Zhelev NOTE: The President spoke at 5:54 p.m. in the and the representatives of his government Oval Office at the White House. A tape was not here. The United States supports the demo- available for verification of the content of these cratic and economic transformation of his remarks. country, and we’re looking forward to having this visit and then signing a declaration of principles and a common agenda together. Joint Statement on Relations We look forward to working together. And Between the United States of we’re very, very pleased to have him and the America and the Republic of Ambassador and leaders of the Government Bulgaria here. February 13, 1995 Bosnia At the invitation of President Bill Clinton, Q. Is Bosnia at the top of your agenda, President Zhelyu Zhelev visited Washington, and the lifting of the embargo? Any move meeting with President Clinton at the White toward that? House on February 13. The President. Well, I imagine we’ll dis- President Clinton and President Zhelev cuss that and a number of other things. But stressed the value of the close cooperation we just started. established over the past five years in main- taining regional stability and supporting Bul- Declaration of Principles garia’s democratic and market economic Q. What is this declaration of principles? transformation. They agreed that relations Is it just a friendship kind of thing? between the two countries rest on the values The President. It sort of—it outlines the of democracy and human rights. President basic principles that will govern our relation- Clinton noted that the security of Bulgaria ship and also sets forward an agenda for how and the other Central European democracies we can work together so that we can support is inseparably linked to that of the United their successes, which is something we want States and praised Bulgaria’s balanced and to do. constructive policy in the Balkans. Q. Thank you. Both Presidents noted the importance of Q. Life in the old corral. continued implementation of Bulgaria’s mar- The President. What did she say? ket economic reforms. In this context, they The Vice President. She said, ‘‘Life in the noted the need for Bulgaria to solidify its ef- old corral.’’ [Laughter] forts at stabilization, to accelerate implemen- The President. I don’t know—you haven’t tation of privatization and to complete the stayed rounded up too well, Helen [Helen legal and regulatory conditions necessary to Thomas, United Press International]. This a market economy. President Clinton offered corral analogy has got its limits. [Laughter] continued U.S. assistance to support Bul- garia’s efforts in this direction. As part of the [At this point, one group of reporters left the planned 1995 $30 million U.S. foreign assist- room, and another group entered.] ance program in Bulgaria, President Clinton The President. We are honored to have told President Zhelev of a new $7 million President Zhelev and the leaders of the Bul- loan program designed to support small and garian Government here today, and I look medium-sized private businesses, especially forward to our conversations and to continu- in rural areas. ing the support of the United States for the Recognizing the significant cost to Bul- democratic and economic transformations in garia of enforcing United Nations sanctions

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against Serbia/Montenegro, President Clin- vestment have already been signed, including ton and President Zhelev agreed about the a Trade Agreement and Bilateral Investment continuing importance of sanctions as a key Treaty, and the two Presidents placed high tool to resolving peacefully the conflict in the priority on the conclusion of a Treaty on the former Yugoslavia. Avoidance of Double Taxation. Following the President Clinton reaffirmed that the announcement of a new Central Europe Ini- United States will remain engaged in efforts tiative by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the to improve regional transportation infrastruc- Presidents agreed to work to establish a co- ture in the southern Balkans, including Bul- operative financing arrangement to support garia. The two Presidents agreed that such Bulgarian exports that also involve U.S. goods projects can help mitigate the interruption and services to third country markets. The of trade routes and promote regional stability two Presidents agreed that this initiative and democracy. President Clinton noted that could help create jobs in both Bulgaria and he has asked Congress for $30 million for the United States. this regional project. President Clinton recognized the impor- The United States and Republic of Bul- tance of the removal of Bulgaria from appli- garia affirmed their determination to en- cation of the provisions of Title IV of the hance regional and European stability U.S. Trade Act of 1974 (the Jackson-Vanik through support of the OSCE, United Na- Amendment). The U.S. Administration has tions and Partnership for Peace. made determinations that Bulgaria is in full Both countries will work to advance Bul- compliance with Title IV criteria and will garia’s integration into international and consult with the U.S. Congress concerning Euro-Atlantic economic and security institu- legislation to remove Bulgaria from applica- tions. President Clinton and President tion of Title IV at an early date. Zhelev affirmed support for the Partnership Both Presidents agreed to support ongoing for Peace as the path for all countries of Cen- educational and cultural projects such as the tral Europe and other Partners who wish to American University in Blagoevgrad and to work toward NATO membership. President seek to conclude and implement a Science Clinton stated that under his Warsaw Initia- and Technical Agreement. tive the United States will seek $5 million Through cooperation to advance common in security-related assistance for Bulgaria to political, economic, security and humani- support the purposes of the Partnership for tarian interests, the United States and the Peace plus additional resources to support Republic of Bulgaria continue to build a security cooperation. strong and enduring relationship. Recognizing the international dimension of many crimes, the two Presidents agreed NOTE: An original was not available for verifica- to deepen cooperation between their respec- tion of the content of this joint statement. tive law enforcement agencies in the struggle against terrorism and organized criminal ac- tivities including narco-trafficking, money Letter to Congressional Leaders on laundering and smuggling of cultural and his- Reform of United Nations torical objects. Peacekeeping The two leaders agreed to encourage and February 13, 1995 promote trade and investment between their countries, based on market principles. The Dear Mr. Chairman: (Dear Member:) two nations intend to work together to create There have been few times in history when the conditions necessary for such market co- mankind has had such an opportunity to en- operation, taking into account such issues as hance peace. The founding of the United Na- protection of investments and new tech- tions fifty years ago was one such oppor- nologies, adequate and effective protection tunity. The victorious Allies put in place an of intellectual property and other elements institutional mechanism that could be used necessary to a friendly investment environ- to enhance peace. Unfortunately, it was not ment. Agreements concerning trade and in- used properly, and Cold War replaced peace.

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Now, with the Cold War behind us, we on battlements in places of great importance have another important opportunity. Around to us: on Israel’s border, and Iraq’s, in the the world, old enemies are coming together Mediterranean between two NATO allies, in in the Middle East, South Africa, Haiti, Ire- Europe on the border of the Former Yugo- land, Central America, and across the great slav Republic of Macedonia to deter a wider rift that divided Europe for almost five dec- Balkan conflict, and in the Caribbean. The ades. This is a unique period. It can be, as UN recently completed and closed successful was written in Ecclesiastes, a time for peace. operations in numerous places, including in Peace, however, does not come easily or our own backyard in Central America, Cam- quickly. Numerous threats remain to our own bodia, Namibia and Mozambique. and our allies’ security. Were the UN not engaged in promoting For our generation to seize this oppor- peace and security, we would have to invent tunity for wider global peace, America must it. If we did so, it might not look precisely stay engaged. We must also be prepared to as it has now evolved. The U.S. assessment pay our fair share of the price of peace, for share would be less. It would be able to re- it is far less than the cost of war. spond more rapidly to disasters and do so One of the tools we have to build this new more economically and effectively. These peace is that institution created fifty years and other improvements we seek can be ago, the United Nations. As the Cold War achieved only if the U.S. stays engaged in ended, the previous Administration turned to the world and we remain a member of the the UN and its peacekeeping mechanism to United Nations in good standing. deal with many of the conflicts left over from I look forward to working with the Con- the superpowers’ competition. As a result, gress, as we continue the task of reforming the number of UN peacekeepers and their UN peacekeeping and the mission of build- cost sky-rocketed, overburdening the capa- ing and consolidating world peace. bilities of the UN system. The enclosed report is submitted pursuant I have made UN peacekeeping reform a to Section 407(d) of the FY 1994/1995 For- key goal, working to reduce costs and im- eign Relations Authorization Act (PL 103– prove efficiency, using UN peacekeeping 236). when it will work and restraining it when the Sincerely, situation is not ripe. More needs to be done William J. Clinton to make UN peacekeeping realize its poten- tial and more effectively serve U.S. interests. NOTE: Identical letters were sent to Jesse Helms, It is in the U.S. interest to ensure that UN chairman, and Claiborne Pell, ranking member, peacekeeping works and to improve it, be- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Mark O. cause peacekeeping is one of the most effec- Hatfield, chairman, and Robert C. Byrd, ranking tive forms of burdensharing available. Today, member, Senate Committee on Appropriations; other nations pay more than two-thirds of the Benjamin A. Gilman, chairman, and Lee H. Ham- ilton, ranking member, House Committee on costs of peacekeeping and contribute almost International Relations; and Robert L. Livingston, 99 percent of the troops. Troops from sev- chairman, and David R. Obey, ranking member, enty-seven nations are deployed throughout House Committee on Appropriations. the world in the service of peace. The UN, once a forum for anti-American debate and propaganda, now is a vehicle for Remarks to the American Council on promoting the values we share. Throughout Education in San Francisco, the world, the UN is promoting democracy California and providing security for free elections. Its February 14, 1995 agencies are the chief instruments in the bat- tle against proliferation of nuclear arms and Thank you very much. Thank you, Juliet, other weapons of mass destruction. UN and thank you ladies and gentlemen. Your forces have assumed roles that once had been welcome was worth the 5-hour plane ride. performed by American troops—in Kuwait, [Laughter] I want to congratulate you all on Somalia, Rwanda and soon Haiti. They stand this meeting, and I want to thank Juliet for

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her leadership and also say to Frank Jenifer, versities, as someone who worked as a Gov- whom I know will carry on the Council’s out- ernor tirelessly to advance the cause of edu- standing work and strong leadership in high- cation and now, in this job, as your partner er education, I wish you well, and I’m de- in a very important mission at a very impor- lighted to see you again. tant time in our country’s history. I want to thank the entire American Coun- Our job, yours and mine together, is to cil on Education Board of Directors for en- redefine the partnership to empower our dorsing our middle class bill of rights. It will people through education and through train- build education and training across America, ing to face the demands of this age. That’s and I want to say a little more about it in really why I ran for President. I believe it a few moments. You will have to play an im- is the responsibility of our generation to work portant role in making it a reality, and I know together to preserve the American dream for that you’ll be interested in what I think you all Americans, and to ensure that we move have to do along with what I have to do. into the next century still the strongest coun- Let me say at the outset what an honor try in the world. it is for me to be here with my longtime And I think the best way for us to do that friend, our Secretary of Education, Dick is by building a new partnership in our coun- Riley. He has really done a wonderful job, try between Americans and their Govern- and I am very, very proud of him. And he ment and between one another. I’ve called is responsible for the fact that we had the that partnership the New Covenant, more most successful year last year in promoting opportunity in return for more responsibility, advances in education in the Congress in at and a renewed sense of citizenship and com- least 30 years in the United States, and I munity. In that New Covenant, Govern- thank him for that. ment’s responsibility is to expand opportunity I’m also glad to be here for the second while shrinking bureaucracy, to empower straight year and to have Juliet’s suggestion people to make the most of their own lives, that maybe I should think about becoming and to enhance our security abroad but here a college president when I am once again at home as well. At the same time, we have unemployed. [Laughter] Now, before we to demand more responsibility from every came out here, she gave a slightly earthier citizen in return—more responsibility for our description of why I should think about that. country, for our communities, for our fami- She reminded me that President Kennedy, lies, and for ourselves. when asked why he wanted to be President As we end this century, we are facing dra- said that the pay was pretty good, a nice matic changes in our economy, our Govern- house came along with the job, and you work ment, and our daily lives. As we move away close to home, and that was like a lot of col- from the cold war into the information age, lege president’s jobs. [Laughter] we face a world that is both exciting and very Over New Year’s I met a college president challenging, a world where knowledge is the who told me that we had a lot in common basis of wealth, creation, and power, and with people who run cemeteries. He said, where technology accelerates the pace of ‘‘You know, if you run a cemetery, you’ve change. In a world like that, those who have got a whole lot of people under you, but no- the skills to prosper will do far better than body’s listening.’’ [Laughter] On the hard any generation of Americans has ever done. days, when you’re about to cry, you can think But those who lack the ability to learn and of that and laugh a little bit about it. to adapt may be left behind no matter how We have more in common than that. You hard they work. are the keepers of a great trust of this Nation, That is part of the frustration of America the most diverse network of learning in the today, that there are so many of our fellow entire world. It’s a spur for our economy and Americans who are working harder and hard- a magnet for our people and for people and er and harder, and never feeling that they’re ideas from all around the globe. I come today rewarded, feeling that they’re falling further as someone who spent some of the happiest behind, having less time for their children, years of his life teaching in colleges and uni- having less time for their spouses, having less

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time for the things that we know as the qual- one of the Governors who reached out across ity of life, and just plowing ahead. It leads party lines to work with the Governors’ Asso- to people having too much anxiety and too ciation and with President Bush and his little hope, and it leads to special responsibil- White House to craft anew national edu- ities for all of us. cation goals, goals which we then wrote into At the heart of all three of the responsibil- law in the Goals 2000 program, and which ities that I said the Federal Government has, we are doing our best to help schools all expanding opportunity, empowering people, across America to achieve on their own. enhancing security, is your work: education. From the first day I became President, we It is, indeed, the essence of the New Cov- have been committed in this administration enant. Now more than ever, education and to reinventing Government in all areas but training are the keys to opportunity for every especially in education. Our approach is American, and the future will only make that not—and I repeat, is not—to micromanage more true. They will only work, of course, anything. We have deregulated the Federal if individuals also assume the responsibility Government’s role in education, in the public for themselves to get themselves educated schools and elsewhere. We have worked to and to impart the value of education to their inspire reform at the grassroots level. We children, to their families, and throughout have recognized that our job is to define a their communities. But it is clear that the road map, clear standards of excellence and key to opening the American dream for all then to work to empower everyone in this Americans as we move into the next century society to reach those standards through edu- is our ability to broadly spread the benefits cation, to support the educational institutions of education. all across this country, to support the stu- For more than two decades, I have not dents and the families to help them to reach budged from this conviction. I had, as it turns those standards of excellence. out, for this job the good fortune of growing Instead of defending the status quo, we up in a State which itself was burdened in have worked to change it. We’ve abolished America’s greatest explosion after World War 13 of the education programs we inherited. II for lack of education. And I have worked We have cut another 38 programs that we now for about 20 years, relentlessly, to con- thought were less than essential. We have stantly change the role of Government so consolidated 70 more programs in the budget that it wastes less money and does fewer I have just sent to Congress. And all of this things it shouldn’t but so that at the same is designed to empower students and work- time, it serves people better. It insists on ac- ing people not educational bureaucrats, to countability. It promotes excellence, but it help teachers to do their job not to help the especially emphasizes educating people. Federal Government to regulate more. America now must do that if we have any Others have talked about such things, but hope of preserving the American dream in our administration has actually cut over a terms of all of our people, in terms of an quarter of a trillion dollars in Federal spend- expanding middle class instead of one that ing. We have reduced more than 300 domes- is shrinking and constantly being divided be- tic programs. We have eliminated more than tween the haves and have-nots, not in terms 100,000 people from the Federal payroll, and of money but in terms of education. As a we have used the savings from the payroll Governor, I invested more in education and reduction to put 100,000 more police officers in higher standards for our students, for our on our streets in community policing settings, teachers, and for our schools and in trying not run by the Federal Government but peo- to make it easier for our young people in ple who work at the grassroots level on the my State to go to college. problems they confront every day. The ‘‘Nation At Risk’’ report, back in 1983, We are on our way, if no other law passes, confirmed the crying need for changes in our to cutting more than a quarter of a million public schools, and I was glad to work on people from the Federal payroll and putting trying to change the conditions in ours. At all those resources back into making our the end of the decade, I was proud to be communities more secure. And the budget

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I have just sent to Congress proposes another The fight for education is the fight for the $144 billion in spending cuts. But my strategy American dream. It is the fight for America’s is eliminating yesterday’s Government to middle class. It is the fight for the 21st cen- meet the demands of today and tomorrow, tury. It should therefore—and I emphasize— to give us a leaner but not a meaner Govern- it should therefore be a bipartisan fight. ment, to cut Government to reduce the defi- When we passed the Elementary and Sec- cit and to increase our investments in the ondary Education Act last year, drastically re- future, in education, in technology, in re- ducing regulation, emphasizing more help to search, things like Head Start and Goals poor children in need, giving teachers and 2000, and the defense conversion programs school principals more flexibility, it had bi- we supported, and the medical research pro- partisan support. grams we supported. Look, I want to work with this new Repub- These things make us stronger as a people. lican Congress to help America. We support They build opportunity, and they demand re- many of the same initiatives. I supported sponsibility, and they are good for America. them when they passed the bill to apply to We should be discriminating in this work we Congress all the laws they put on private em- are doing. We should move beyond rhetoric ployers. I have supported our common ef- to reality. Let others talk about cutting forts to reduce the burden of unfunded man- spending. We have done it, and we’d like dates on State and local governments. I have some more help. But we have to realize why supported giving more flexibility to the States we’re doing it. We’re doing it to lift the coun- in pursuing welfare reform and health care try up and bring the country together and reform. I’ve supported the line-item veto. move the country forward, not to find some But we clearly have our differences. way to divide us in a new and different way Look at the student loan reforms. We so we have more rhetoric, more hot air, and eliminated the middlemen and got the funds less progress. Let that be our commitment: directly to the schools and the borrowers to do better. which meant, unbelievably, lower fees, lower You know, now I admit that some in the interest rates, easier repayment choices for new Republican Congress see education in students. It meant less paperwork, less red- another way. They think education at the na- tape, less bureaucracy to administer the pro- tional level is just another area to cut and grams for colleges and universities, and it gut. Their proposals will cut investments in meant much, much lower costs to the tax- our future and increase the cost of student payers. loans to our neediest students to fund tax Our proposal, when fully implemented, cuts for the wealthy. They will limit the avail- will save the taxpayers $12 billion over a 6- ability to lower cost direct loans to middle year period, while lowering the cost of col- class students to increase profits for the mid- lege loans to the student, and reducing the dleman in the student loans, even though hassles to you. That is reinventing Govern- that means a higher deficit. Indeed, the only ment at its best. That is the new Democrat thing they have proposed spending more approach. It ought to be the new Republican money in education on are funds going to approach, but instead, they want to cap these middlemen by limiting the amount of the di- loans. I want to expand them. I want to in- rect loan program, by cutting it off, just as clude all the schools and all the students who it’s becoming more and more successful. And want to be a part of this program by 1997. some of them don’t want to reinvent the De- Your choice, but I’ll be darned if I want to partment of Education as I have done to cut it off from you when I know that it will make it stronger and leaner and more effec- help you. tive. They want to abolish it altogether. Well, They want to pay for the tax cuts in their I think Dick Riley’s worth the money. And contract for America by eliminating the stu- so, I want you to know that to all of this, dent loan subsidy so that we start charging I will say, no. I will fight these proposals interest on the loans to our poorest students every step of the way. And I want you to while they’re in college. That costs $2 billion join me in fighting them, too. a year. That adds 20 percent on the average

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to the cost of going to college for some of payers were being ripped off. And we’ve tried our neediest students to pay for tax cuts. It to change it. is not right. That would be the biggest cut Now, when we proposed these direct stu- in student financial aid in the history of the dent loans, our opponents and those who United States. wanted to protect the status quo said that Our approach is to help students and their the Federal Government was completely in- hard-working parents to cut bureaucracy, to capable of administering a loan program. reduce the deficit by not subsidizing non- Well, they weren’t right. They were wrong. competitive middlemen. I might add that I got a letter that was sent to Terry Hartle those who wish to compete for student loans by Jerome Supple, the president of South- are now doing it in many places for lower west Texas State in San Marcos. It’s a big costs than they were providing when the school now. It has 21,000 students. It distrib- Government was giving them a lock-down utes grants and loans in excess of $23 million. guarantee because of the competition from President Supple wrote about what direct the direct loan program. lending has meant to his school. He also Now, that is our approach. The other ap- wrote to me, but Dick Riley gave me this proach would increase the cost of education, copy of his letter to Terry Hartle, and I like would keep the bureaucracy and the redtape, it better than what the speechwriters put in, and would increase the deficit by guarantee- so I’m going to write what he actually said. ing billions and billions more in no-risk funds [Laughter] to middlemen in the student loan system. It This is what he said: ‘‘We are aware of is wrong. It is wrong. And we should not the concern of some members of the finan- stand for it. And I hope you won’t stand for cial community about the shift to direct lend- it. I hope you’ll stand up and fight for it. ing and can understand the concern for a Now, as you well know—and I want to em- loss of revenue. However, the savings to the phasize—we are not talking about a give- Government and the improved service to away. This Department of Education has got- other students offered by direct lending are ten tougher on enforcing laws against default. of greater importance. The other argument And the default rate has dropped by one- that the Federal Government cannot effec- third. The net annual cost to the taxpayers tively administer such a program and must has fallen by almost two-thirds since we have rely on the expertise of the private sector is been in office, from $2.8 billion to $1 billion, counter to our experience.’’ because we’re enforcing the laws against de- Listen to this: ‘‘The results have more than fault. I think it is wrong to default on your met our expectations. We have gone from student loan. This Department of Education an institution that was scrambling to meet has gotten tough with scam operators our students’ need, often after classes have masquerading as higher education. And started, to an institution that was one of the every one of you wanted us to do that. Now, first in the State to get awards out last fall, with this progress, I hope we can continue so early, in fact, that it had a positive effect to remove the regulatory burdens from many on our admissions program. of the strong institutions with proven records ‘‘While the direct lending program must of responsibility. That’s what you want us to share some of the credit for the improvement do. That’s his valentine present to you. of our financial aid services with our hard- But that’s the way we ought to be doing working and talented staff’’—there’s a good this. Secretary Riley will work with you to politician—[laughter]—also true—‘‘there is find a better way of balancing the flexibility no doubt that direct lending allows us to you want with our obligations to the tax- serve our students better. And finally,’’ he payers. But the point is, other people talk says, ‘‘it is legitimate to express concern about this stuff, but when I showed up in about the ability of the Department of Edu- town 2 years ago, I found a student loan pro- cation to manage the direct lending program gram that was too costly, helping too few at full capacity, but the experience to date people, gave too few options to the borrowers suggests that it can do this very well. It is with a redtape headache to you, and the tax- rare that the Federal Government creates a

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program that both saves money and improves appoint Dick Riley as the Secretary of Edu- service to its constituents.’’ cation. One of the reasons is, I find that once Listen to what the students say. I got a you become President, sometimes people, letter from Marie Lyons, a 40-year-old stu- even people you think know you very well dent—rather more typical these days. She all of a sudden don’t really tell you what’s wrote to me to say that she had given up on their minds. It drives me nuts since I don’t hope on going to college. But with our loan mind hearing what’s on people’s minds. reforms, she’s been able to go to Murray Sometimes they don’t want to hear what’s State University in Kentucky, studying crimi- on mine in return when they tell me, but nal justice. She’ll be the first person in her it’s okay. [Laughter] But one of the things family to graduate from college. you need to know about the Secretary of You know, we can’t take hope away from Education is, we’ve been friends since I was people like Marie Lyons, and all the other barely old enough to shave. He always tells people now that are flooding back into your me what’s on his mind—[laughter]—and institutions, into the community colleges, what’s on his mind is you and your students into the 4-year institutions, because they and the future of this country. know—they’re way ahead of the politicians— So I’ll say again, we’re cutting inessential they know what they need to do to make education programs. We’ve saved more good lives for themselves, and they’re coming money by going to the direct student loans to you. They’re coming to you in record num- than they can save by cutting out the people bers. But people like that deserve the best who work at the Department of Education. opportunity we can give them. They are very Who are we trying to kid here? He is worth responsible. They are working hard. They are the investment; the other people who work people from all races and income groups and there are worth the investment. backgrounds with a million different life sto- We are not running education, but we are ries, but they are chasing a common dream. trying to energize it and create opportunity Because of people like that, we should not and shine a light to the future. This is a clas- abolish the Department of Education, either. sic battle, and we ought to fight it and win We should not do that. it together, not just the battle to save the You know, everybody talks about this being Department of Education, not just a battle the information age. The White House and for the direct loan program, not just a battle now the House of Representatives are in this against increasing the cost of student loans, little friendly contest to see who can do the but the larger issue, and I will say again, this most high-techy stuff on Internet, and call ought to be a bipartisan battle that we fight us on the computer and see what we have so that we can meet our responsibility to pre- to offer, read the administration’s budget. pare our children for the 21st century and But if this is true, if the new economy really so that we can make the most of our own is based more than ever before on knowledge lives. and skills, we have to do more of education. For 2 years, we have done everything we And undercutting education at this time, say- could do to prepare our people for the new ing that this is not a national concern, that economy. Last year when I came before you, would be like undercutting the Department I presented a comprehensive agenda for life- of Defense during the cold war. We won the long learning. I’m proud to report that with cold war because we stayed strong. And we the last Congress, we did produce a tremen- will win the fight for our own future and a dously successful record in achieving that place in the 21st century if we stay strong agenda. We reformed Head Start and ex- with education. That is what we should do. panded it by 30,000 more children. And next You know our future depends upon it. You year, I want to expand it again by at least know, as President, as has already been said, that many. That’s why we’re cutting inessen- I’ve worked pretty hard for us to do well in tial programs, not only to reduce the deficit this new war for the minds and hearts of our but to put the money where the people need people and for the future. And I do think it. I think the taxpayers want the Head Start one of the smartest things I ever did was to program expanded.

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We passed the Goals 2000 program, and colleges. And that’s fine. If they don’t plan for the first time we spell out a national un- to do that, we also have to make sure that derstanding of what our young people must they have the academic strength and skills learn to compete in the world. This goes right they need to compete. to the heart of the whole approach of the That’s what our school-to-work opportuni- national role in education, not trying to tell ties act was all about, to reinvent the relation- people how to teach or regulate how they ship of high school to the world of work and spend every day and every hour or control the work of post-high school education with them through a blizzard of paperwork but high standards that enable our students to to set national standards and then give State learn in class and to begin to reach out into and local governments the control, the the real world. Along with their classroom power, the opportunity, and, where we can, learnings, they are learning real jobs, dealing the resources to get the job done, to give with real people, and we expect them to go them the flexibility through waivers of com- on for some post-high school education as plex Federal rules and reforms like charter well. schools and public school choice. And to do We’re not doing this with a big national it with no new Federal regulations to dimin- bureaucracy. We’re doing it with grants and ish State and local control. I’m proud of that. advice and help and support to let every State The way we’re running that program is the set up a flexible network, working with em- way the Federal Government ought to relate ployers and schools and the post-secondary to the States in the area of public education. educational institutions to make sure that we We are raising the bar for everyone. All of fill this enormous gap in the American sys- our young people are going to have to do tem. There are too many of our young people better. I think we all know that. All of our still who, neither get a 4-year college degree parents and grandparents are going to have to help our young people to do better. All or at least have a good school-to-work transi- of you in this room now accept as a truism tion the way many of our competitors do. that we have the best higher education sys- These reforms, every one of them, will tem in the world, but that we have to do make sure that more capable students are better in our school systems K–12, and we coming into your institutions, which means are all going to have to teach to higher stand- you’ll have to spend less time bringing them ards, to work to higher standards, to learn up to speed. I know that would be a relief to higher standards. to all of you. A lot of us have been working Our communities, our businesses, they’re on it for years and years, but I believe it will going to have to pitch in and do more. And make a difference. our young people, we know—and let me say Something else we did last year that I’m this with all sincerity and convictions—we very proud of that two or three of you have know that too many of them are still trying already mentioned to me today is our na- to learn in atmospheres that are too domi- tional service program, AmeriCorps. It al- nated by violence and drugs. If they can’t ready has 20,000 Americans taking respon- walk down the halls or learn in the class- sibility for improving their country at the rooms because they’re afraid for their safety, grassroots level and earning some money to then all the reforms will not be successful. go to school. It is a very, very important thing That’s why making our school environment for this country, and I am very proud of it. safe and disciplined and drug-free are impor- Americans like the 16 members at the Uni- tant to all the other standards being achieved, versity of California at Berkeley, who have and why we have worked so hard in this ad- 750 of their classmates tutoring middle ministration and in this Department of Edu- school students and helping four local police cation to make sure that all of our legislative departments set up neighborhood watch pro- efforts included the safe schools initiatives. grams. Now, that’s just one example of hun- You know, some young people—I ought dreds I could give you of what a modest Fed- to emphasize, too, because I know who all eral investment can do to get a big result. is out here—don’t plan to go on to 4-year Eighty-nine members of AmeriCorps in

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Texas immunized—listen to this—104,000 training reforms that will keep us on the infants in Texas two summers ago. move. And I want you to fight for them, too, In Simpson County, Kentucky, and we will win because the American people AmeriCorps members are teaching second- are for us. graders to read, and they’ve already raised Now, that’s why I have proposed this mid- the reading levels there from 2 years behind dle class bill of rights, because I want to em- the official standard to 1 year ahead of it. phasize what we still have to do. We can’t Now again, some people in the new Repub- just preserve what we’ve got. We’ve got to lican Congress say that AmeriCorps is a waste keep going forward. All over this country of money, bribing people to do service, an there are people who are saying, ‘‘Well, I expensive way to send people to college. I read about this recovery, and I know we’ve say it’s about the best thing that’s happened got 6 million new jobs, but it’s not affecting to this country in a long time. I’m going to me. I still feel insecure and uncertain, and fight to keep it, and I hope you’ll fight for I haven’t gotten a raise. The middle class bill that, too. And for all of you that have had of rights, I think should be called the bill AmeriCorps projects on your campuses and of rights and responsibilities because, like all with your students, I thank you, and I hope the other things we’ve been talking about more of you will ask to do it. today, you can’t take advantage of it unless We’ve got a lot more work to do. We have you act responsibly. It does offer a tax cut to protect the Pell grants, and as Juliet said, for people, but only if they’re behaving re- my budget raises the maximum grant by 12 sponsibly, raising their children, educating percent. We all know the Pell grant program themselves or their children. got in trouble, and we had to make it solvent From your point of view, the most impor- again, and it hasn’t kept up with the econ- tant parts of it are a tax deduction for the omy. But this is a good step in the right direc- cost of education after high school; an IRA tion. that you can withdraw from tax-free for edu- We’ve got to preserve the work-study pro- cation and for other purposes like buying a gram, the other campus-based programs that health insurance policy; and the collapse of we all know are important to the students 70 of the Government’s training programs on your campuses. And we’ve got to keep into a program which a person who’s eligible moving forward on university-based research for Federal training help because he or she with expanded investments and less redtape. is unemployed or working for a very low wage I do not believe that it is the right thing to can draw on and just take the money, up to do to take universities out of the partnerships $2,600 a year, to an institution of his or her we now see forming. In defense conversion, choice, getting around the Federal bureauc- for example, where we are doing remarkable racy, getting around all the programs and things with the decline of the defense budg- going direct to a lot of you. et, taking some of that decline and putting Now, this is a good thing, and I thank you it into partnerships between universities and for endorsing it. But I need your help to private companies with some Federal invest- make it happen. Why is it a good thing? It’s ment and a whole lot of private investment. a good thing, first of all, because it will lower Again, there are some in the new Congress the cost of living for hard-working people who say, let’s get rid of all that. That’s our who have gotten no benefit out of this recov- competitive edge, research, development, ery yet. But instead of just giving them a mind work, making connections, moving for- quick fix, it lowers their cost of living because ward. it increases their standard of living over the All of this is an agenda that works. In his long run by putting the money into edu- state of American education address earlier cation. It is the right way to give tax relief this month, to which Secretary Riley alluded, to the middle class. It is consistent with long- he said that America is turning the corner term control of the deficit. It is consistent from being a nation at risk in education to with a commitment to long-term economic being a nation on the move. Well, you’ve got growth. And I ask each of you to do what my word: I will fight for the education and you do best now—to help teach people about

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this, to talk about it; because this resolution over there. And I want to thank a representa- is really nice, but what we really need is for tive group of incredible people who just every Member of Congress to hear from spent about an hour with me, talking to me every college president, every dean of stu- about this institution, how it has affected dents, every member of every board of trust- their lives and your community and the re- ees, every student body president, every stu- markable partnerships that are being made dent organization in the country, ‘‘Hey, don’t and the dreams that are being made to come take the interest subsidy away.’’ ‘‘Hey, don’t true. I’d like for all the people who were just stop us from getting the direct loans.’’ ‘‘Hey, in the little roundtable discussion with me pass the middle class bill of rights.’’ to be recognized. They’re over here some- Education is the key to our future. It ought where. Where are they? There they are. [Ap- not to be a partisan issue. If there is one plause] Thank you. They were great. I feel thing in the wide world that ought to unite that I know a lot more about you now be- us on the way to the next century, it should cause I listened to all of them, and believe be our common commitment to explode the me, they put you all in a very good light. potential of our people. I need your help. I want to talk to you today about the im- I want your help. You can do it. But the reso- portance of this community college and edu- lution has to be a first step, not the last step. cation in general, not only to your future but Be heard in every office of every Member to the future of our country, what it means of Congress in the United States, and we will and what we should be doing about it. I met have a great victory. I need you. I want you a lot of folks already here today that rep- to do it. I’m confident you will. resent what I think America is all about, peo- Thank you very much. ple who are coming together around the idea of education without regard to their race, NOTE: The President spoke at 11:45 a.m. in the their income, their background, what country Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Hotel. In his re- they were born in, what situation they’re in marks, he referred to Juliet Garcia, chair, Franklyn Jenifer, incoming chair, and Terry now just because they want to make the most Hartle, vice president for government relations, of their own lives and make a contribution, American Council on Education. live up to the fullest of their God-given abili- ties. And I really think that’s what we ought to be supporting. Remarks at San Bernardino Valley The reason I worked so hard for the na- College in San Bernardino, tional service program that you see all these California young people in is because I believe that we February 14, 1995 ought to be helping young people to find ways to earn money for education and con- Thank you for that wonderful, wonderful tribute to the strength of their communities welcome. Thank you, Dr. Singer, for your at the same time. introduction. I know the Secretary of Edu- I ran for President because I was worried, cation, Secretary Riley, has already spoken. as we come to the close of this great century, I’m glad to be here with him. And I thank that we wouldn’t be able to guarantee the the mayor for being here and Dr. Bundy. American dream for all people moving into And let’s give the Etiwanda High School the 21st century and we wouldn’t be able Band a hand. Didn’t they do a great job? to make sure America was the strongest Great job. Thank you. When I heard them country in the world, and I believe those are playing ‘‘Hail to the Chief’’ outside I thought the two jobs the President has to do. And they’d transported the Marine Band from the I believe the way we should do that is what White House here, they were so great. They I have called the New Covenant. We should were great. create more opportunity; we should insist on I’d also like to recognize a couple of other more responsibility from all of us; and we groups that are here. First of all, I want to should work to build our communities at the thank the members of our national service grassroots level, where the real strength of program, AmeriCorps, who are here. They’re America is.

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Now, there’s been a lot of debate in our Let me give you an example of what we’re country now in two separate elections, in trying to do in another area on security, and 1992 and 1994, about what the role of Gov- then I’ll come back to education, because I ernment is and whether Government is bad want to make sure that you understand ex- or good inherently. My answer to you is that actly how I’m thinking about this. I welcome we need a different kind of Government for the call of the new Republicans in the Con- the 21st century and that your National Gov- gress to cut the Government, but I—now, ernment has three major jobs. One is, we wait a minute, you all don’t get into a partisan should expand opportunity while shrinking fight already; wait until the end of the the Federal bureaucracy and the burden it speech. [Laughter] For the last 2 years, we’ve imposes. Two, we should recognize that the been doing it without any help. I’d like some Government can’t support everybody, but it help. I’d like some help. But what is the pur- should work to empower people to make the pose of this? That’s what I want you to think most of their own lives. And three, we should about. work to enhance the security Americans feel Now, there are now over 100,000 fewer not only in terms of what goes on beyond people working for the Federal Government our borders but here at home as well. More than there were the day I took office. We opportunity, more empowerment, more se- have shrunk the Federal Government. If they curity: that is what we should be about in don’t pass a single law this year, we will re- the National Government. duce the size of the Federal Government by Now, if you look at what this national serv- over a quarter of a million because of the ice project does, they’re working in the San budgets adopted in the first 2 years of my Bernardino forest, people who are helping term, and we’ll make the Federal Govern- to clean up the forest, maintain it, strengthen ment the smallest it’s been since John Ken- it, keep it there for our children and our nedy was President. grandchildren, make sure it’s an important Now, what do we do with the money? resource. Last year there were 89 young peo- What are we doing with the money? We cut, ple in this program in south Texas who im- already, over $600 billion from the deficit, munized 102,000 infants to help them live. and we’re going to cut more. I’ve just sent And all of them earned money on their edu- a budget to the Congress that cuts more cation. Sixteen of these young people work spending from the deficit. What are we doing at Berkeley, helping 750 of their classmates with the money? We propose, first, to reduce to tutor middle-school students. These are the deficit and, secondly, to increase invest- the kinds of things that are going on all over ments in the areas that I mentioned: to in- America, and I think it emphasizes what I’m crease investments that would create more saying. For a small amount of Federal money opportunities, jobs; that would empower we have increased opportunity with no bu- people more, education; and that would en- reaucracy. This is all done at the grassroots hance security, things like the crime bill. level. If you just take the crime bill, for example, We have certainly empowered these young I said when I ran for President—I came to people to make more of their own lives, and California and campaigned—‘‘Vote for me, we are clearly going to be a stronger country and I will reduce the size of the Federal bu- because we have more people getting an reaucracy by 100,000 and we’ll put another education and more people preserving the 100,000 police officers on the street.’’ And environment, making our kids healthier, that’s exactly what we’ve done, except we re- making our country stronger at the grassroots duced the size of the Federal Government level. That is what I am trying to do. And by 270,000 and used it to pay for police offi- I want to talk to you today about what that cers, prisons, and prevention. We passed that means for education in general, and espe- crime bill last year with a bipartisan majority. cially for community colleges like this one, After 6 years of partisan haggling and scrap- which are the key to the future of the Amer- ping around and people throwing words at ican economy and the ability to preserve the each other, we actually passed a bill. And American dream for all people. since October, we have put—but I only was

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there a year and a half, you understand— so we can put the police on the street and [laughter]—but since October, we’ve put have the prevention programs. 16,000 police officers out, 16,000. But I will not—I will reiterate what I said And we’ve got 17 right here in San Saturday—if I have to, I will veto any bill Bernardino, new police officers. Listen to that attempts to undermine the commitment this, we did it with a one-page form, eight that we made last year after 6 years. But it questions that could be faxed in; nobody had need not be a partisan issue. It ought to be to hire consultants. And of all the commu- an American issue. And that’s what I say to nities in America with police officers, every you about education. What are we going to size, including those with just one, one-half do in this day and time? What is our job in of all the communities in America have al- Washington that affects you way out here in ready applied for help under this program the Inland Empire when it comes to edu- because it’s a good program, it works, and cation? What is our job when it comes to there’s no hassle in it. That’s the kind of Gov- helping to raise middle class incomes and let ernment we ought to have, a leaner, not a people in the underclass work themselves meaner Government that makes sense and into the middle class? What is our job, and makes people more secure. We’re under what is the problem? budget, ahead of schedule, moving forward. You know, if anybody told me 2 years ago It took 6 years to pass the bill. I started that we would be able, in the space of 2 years, working on it when I got elected; we got it to bring the deficit down over $600 billion done. In only 6 weeks of this new Congress, and have a hand in creating almost 6 million the new majority in the House of Represent- new jobs, I would have been very happy to atives is trying to wipe out the crime bill and hear that. In 1994, we had the best year for pass two block grants, to cut back on the economic growth in a decade and the first money that goes to police and to prevention, year in a long time when all 50 States, includ- to put it all in one package, send it to the ing California that’s been through so much, States and say, you all do whatever you want had economic growth. What is the problem? to with it, and to put more money into the The problem is, a whole lot of people have prison system. Now, here’s the interesting jobs but their incomes aren’t going up. They thing—wait a minute, don’t get into a par- don’t feel secure at work. They’re afraid they tisan fight, just listen to me make my piece. can’t keep their health insurance, or they [Laughter] Every police organization in the don’t have it now. We had 8.5 million people country, including those that are overwhelm- worried about their retirement until we ingly Republican, has endorsed our position passed a reform of the retirement guaranty to leave it alone and let it work. This is not system late last year. So in this global econ- a partisan issue. omy the good news is, there are more people So the people in the House said, ‘‘I don’t in America becoming millionaires than ever care what the police said. I don’t care what before. That’s good news. The good news is, the people working in the community said. there are more people with an education I don’t care what the evidence shows. This doing exciting things than ever before. The is what we’re going to do. We’re determined bad news is, if you don’t have the skills you not to spend any money on prevention. If need, you can work harder and harder and the States want to do it and not put police harder for less and less and less, right? on the streets, that’s their business. And So when you have a good news-bad news here’s the money, build the prisons, or else.’’ story, you have two choices. You can tell a Now, what I believe is that we still have a joke about it, but if you’re President, that chance to keep this a bipartisan issue. And doesn’t seem to be a particularly good option. I’m going to do my best to go into the Senate [Laughter] The other choice you have is to and to work with people who understand law try to make more good news and less bad enforcement, who will listen to people who news. And the only way to do that, I would are out here on the streets every day trying argue to you, is to make sure we give all of to save these kids and save our communities our people access to the education and train- and save our streets and keep this bill intact ing they need to compete and win in this

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global economy, so when they work harder, more funds for Head Start, more funds for they’ll be rewarded for it and not punished apprenticeship programs for people who for it. That is what we have to do. don’t go on to 4-year colleges. Now, I want you to focus with me just for I met a young woman today and a police a minute, therefore, on two big issues, what officer who is working with her, who’s in one we ought to do in this year and what we of these programs that we now see people should not do. I think we ought to give some desperately trying to set up all over the coun- tax relief to hardworking middle class people try, training young people in high school, giv- who haven’t felt the benefit of the recovery. ing them work experience, letting them see But the question is, what kind, and will we what it’s like, giving them a chance to look pay for it? I do not think we should increase forward to a job in the workplace. the Federal deficit. That’s been a big prob- You know, not everybody has to go to a lem. We’ve gotten it down. We ought to keep 4-year college, but everybody needs to get bringing it down, not exploding it. out of high school and have access to at least Secondly, I think that the best tax relief 2 years of further education. And one way is embodied in what I call the middle class to do it is to abolish the artificial distinction bill of rights because it rewards work and between learning and work by bringing the family. It gives tax relief for people raising workplace into the school, the education into young children, and it gives tax relief for the the workplace, and doing it everywhere in cost of all education after high school, which America. So we’ve put some more money I think is important. You think about it, you into that. can deduct the cost of interest on your home The other thing we have sought to do is if you have a home. But in the information to make available college loans on better re- age, if you don’t have an education, you may payment terms and lower costs to more peo- never get to a home. So why shouldn’t we ple, through the so-called direct loan pro- let people deduct their education costs? It’s gram. a good investment. We also propose to let This is an amazing thing. I want you all more people get an IRA, an individual retire- to—this is an amazing thing. When I became ment account, and withdraw from it tax-free President, I discovered that we were spend- for the cost of education. I think that’s what ing about $3 billion a year in your money we ought to be doing. because of people defaulting on their college And finally, I had a lot of questions earlier loans. I discovered we were spending a for- about unemployment; one gentleman talked tune because the college loan program was about his father being unemployed. We have a guarantee program. So you’d go to a bank, scores of different Federal training programs and if you qualified, the bank would give you that you have to wonder, are you really quali- a note. And if you didn’t pay it back, we’d fied for or not? And what we propose to do give them the money. So they didn’t have is to create a GI bill for America’s workers much incentive to see that you paid it back, by taking 70 of these programs, putting them because we were going to give them the in one big pot and saying, ‘‘If you’re unem- money. ployed or if you’re working for a really low And we discovered if we started loaning wage and you’re eligible for Federal help, the money to people directly, these good instead of having to figure out how to enroll things would happen if it could be properly in one of these programs, qualify. We’ll send managed. We discovered we could loan the you a voucher. Show up at this community money sometimes at lower interest rates and college. We’ll send them a check.’’ That’s the always at lower fees. We discovered that we way it ought to be done. could give people a lot of options about how We’re also taking the savings from cutting they repaid it so that when you get out of out all of these programs. In the Education school if you take a job that doesn’t pay much Department alone, Secretary Riley has abol- money and you’ve got a lot of loans, you ished 13 programs, reduced 38 others, and could pay it off as a percentage of your in- consolidated 70 more, in the Education De- come instead of having to pay an amount you partment. We took the savings and put it into couldn’t afford to pay. We discovered we

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could cut the bureaucratic paperwork and $2.8 billion a year to $1 billion a year. We’re hassle for the colleges by more than half. And collecting the loans. We’re doing it right, and we discovered, miracle of miracles, if we we ought to keep going. didn’t have to pay a middleman and we start- So what I want to ask you to do is, without ed collecting on these student loans, we regard to your party, and maybe—especially could actually lower the cost to the taxpayers. if you have never voted before—I want to It almost doesn’t make sense: lower costs tell you something: You’ve got a big stake to students, lower costs to taxpayers. But this in this debate that’s going on in Washington. plan has already saved in the budget about And it is a good and healthy debate in some $5 billion, and if we can send it to all colleges ways. We do need a less bureaucratic, more and universities in the country, it can lower creative, more entrepreneurial, more flexible the deficit by $12 billion and lower the cost Government in Washington as we move into of loans to every student in America with a the 21st century. We do need more respon- student loan. That’s one of the most impor- sibility put down to the State and local levels. tant things we have done, and we need to What’s the best institution you know? The do it. community college. Nobody from Washing- Now, here’s the political problem that you ton is telling you what programs to have, need to be a part of. We’re having a big de- what to do, who to sign up for—nobody. bate up there: Everybody wants to cut the You’re doing this. It’s a community-created size of Government, everybody wants to re- institution. We do need to change the nature duce the deficit, and everybody has got a dif- of the Federal Government. We do have to ferent idea for a tax cut. But some people keep cutting Federal spending. in the new Congress believe that one of the But the key to our future is whether we ways they can reduce the deficit is by increas- educate everybody so we don’t need to cut ing the cost of student loans to people who investment in education, and we do need to don’t have to pay interest on the loan while do things, I will say again, that enhance secu- they’re in school now. You know about the rity, empower people to make the most of loan subsidy; a lot of you are probably eligible their own lives, and expand opportunity. That for that. That will add 20 percent to the cost is education, education, education. We of student loans. should not turn back on it. I’m against it. That is not the way to cut Thank you very much. God bless you. We the budget. That is not the way to pay for need your help. Please support it. Thank you. a tax cut, to increase the cost of going to college to people. We need more people NOTE: The President spoke at 5:45 p.m. in the going to college at lower costs, not fewer peo- Snyder Gymnasium. In his remarks, he referred ple going to college at higher costs. And I to Dr. Don Singer, president, San Bernardino Val- hope you will support that. ley College; Mayor Tom Minor of San Bernardino; The other idea—this is unbelievable to and Stuart Bundy, chancellor, San Bernardino me—is we got this program working to lower Community College District. the deficit, lower the cost of student loans, and there are some people in the Congress who want to limit the number of students Interview With Dick Enberg of NBC in this country who can get these direct loans Sports in Palm Springs, California to 40 percent of the colleges in America. February 15, 1995 Why? Because the people that are in the middle who get the money don’t like losing Mr. Enberg. Well, a historic foursome. it. I mean, it’s not a bad deal: I loan you How do you put this group together to play money; you don’t pay me back; I get a check a game of golf? from the Government. But it didn’t work Bob Hope. Well, it’s damned lucky, I very well. think, you know. Because I called President Secretary Riley, since he’s been there as Clinton and asked him, and he finally said, Secretary of Education, has cut the cost to ‘‘Yes, I’d like to do that.’’ Then I got Presi- the taxpayers of college loan defaults from dent Ford, President Bush, and we got—and

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me. Three Presidents and a hacker. [Laugh- Mr. Enberg. Well, Mr. Hope, this event ter] becomes bigger and better every year. It’s Mr. Enberg. Mr. Clinton, your ambitions a great testimony to your love for—— as a golfer—have you set any goals? Mr. Hope. Well, I’ll tell you, we’ve drawn President Clinton. I’m just trying to get a crowd here today. I don’t remember seeing my handicap in single digits. That’s my goal. anything like this. It’s a beautiful thing to It seems unlikely in my present position. But have happen for golf, you know, because you I love to play, and I was gratified when Bob can’t do any better. called me the other day. He said that he liked President Clinton. Absolutely. my State of the Union Address, but I could Mr. Enberg. Isn’t it interesting that in speak a lot better if I come out here and these complicated times, this sport brings played in his tournament. It would put me this unusual group together? in a better frame of mind. President Clinton. One of the nicest Mr. Enberg. You’re without your 35-year- things about golf is that it’s really becoming old putter. I hope the rumors aren’t true that a sport for every man and woman in America. Mr. Ford confiscated that. [Laughter] All kinds of people, all these new courses President Gerald R. Ford. Well, Dick, coming up, public courses, people able to I’ve played here 17 years with Bob, and it’s play who never could have played 10, 20 always a great, great thrill. He’s kind of a years ago. And that’s very rewarding, because scoundrel, but he’s fun to play with, and it’s it’s a sport that you can play throughout your a great cause. life and at all different skill levels. It’s really Mr. Enberg. And your thoughts, Mr. a perfect sport for our people. Bush? Mr. Enberg. Well, you gentlemen are President George Bush. Just to try to get used to high pressure. I can’t think of any- it in the air. [Laughter] thing in sports that has more anxiety and pressure than that first hit. [Laughter] President Clinton. We’re going to try to President Clinton. We are nervous as stay out of—we’re going to avoid out of cats. We were just talking about it. We’re bounds, he and I are. We’re not going to just as nervous as we can be. [Laughter] go too far right or too far left. We’re going President Ford. Dick, I would advise peo- to play political golf today. [Laughter] ple they should stay behind us. [Laughter] Mr. Enberg. Have you been in this close Mr. Enberg. Gentlemen, thank you very an association in recent terms, or have you much, President Bush, President Clinton. played before? President Clinton. Thank you very much. President Clinton. We’ve never played golf together before, but President Bush has NOTE: The interview was taped at 9:56 a.m. for been good enough to support a lot of things later broadcast at the Indian Wells Country Club we’ve done together on trade and issues, for where the President participated in the Bob Hope example, things he started that I tried to fin- Chrysler Classic golf tournament. A tape was not ish. So we’ve been together on several occa- available for verification of the content of this sions. interview. Mr. Enberg. Any interesting wagers as you go around today? Proclamation 6770—National Poison President Bush. I don’t know. We haven’t Prevention Week, 1995 gotten to that. February 15, 1995 President Clinton. We’re on the same side. We want somebody to bet with us and By the President of the United States these other foursomes. of America Mr. Enberg. Well, how about that on this side? A Proclamation President Ford. Well, Bob and I will take Children are the future of our country, and the young fellows on. [Laughter] protecting them is America’s most sacred re- Mr. Hope. Yes, sir. sponsibility. All of us—government leaders,

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citizens, parents—are bound to do whatever [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, we can to keep them safe and healthy. Simple 11:17 a.m., February 16, 1995] safety measures—such as using child-resist- NOTE: This proclamation was published in the ant packaging correctly, locking cupboards, Federal Register on February 17. keeping prescriptions and cleaning supplies out of the reach of a child’s hands—all can protect our most precious resource from the Statement on Petroleum Imports and dangers of poison and other hazardous sub- Energy Security stances. February 16, 1995 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Com- mission (CPSC) has made great progress in I am today concurring with the Depart- safeguarding our young people by mandating ment of Commerce’s finding that the Na- child-resistant packaging for medicine and tion’s growing reliance on imports of crude dangerous chemicals. And the invaluable oil and refined petroleum products threaten work of the Nation’s poison control centers the Nation’s security because they increase has saved countless lives, both young and old. U.S. vulnerability to oil supply interruptions. These public health efforts have reduced I also concur with the Department’s rec- childhood poisoning deaths from 450 in 1961 ommendation that the administration con- to 62 in 1991. tinue its present efforts to improve U.S. en- However, according to the American Asso- ergy security, rather than to adopt a specific ciation of Poison Control Centers, nearly 1 import adjustment mechanism. million children each year are exposed to po- This action responds to a petition under tentially poisonous medicines and household Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of chemicals. Every year we lose children to 1962, which was filed by the Independent poisoning—and almost all of these Petroleum Association of America and others poisonings are preventable. This week—and on March 11, 1994. The act gives the Presi- every week—we must rededicate ourselves dent the authority to adjust imports if they to informing everyone of the importance of are determined to pose a threat to national prevention and to educating all caregivers security. The petitioners sought such action, about ways to prevent childhood poisonings. claiming that U.S. dependence on oil imports To encourage the American people to had grown since the Commerce Department learn more about the dangers of accidental last studied the issue in response to a similar, poisonings and to take more preventive 1988 petition. measures, the Congress, by Public Law 87– In conducting its study, the Department 319 (75 Stat. 681), has authorized and re- led an interagency working group that in- quested the President to issue a proclamation cluded the Departments of Energy, Interior, designating the third week of March of each Defense, Labor, State, and Treasury, the Of- year as ‘‘National Poison Prevention Week.’’ fice of Management and Budget, the Council Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, of Economic Advisers, and the U.S. Trade President of the United States of America, Representative. The Commerce Department do hereby proclaim the week beginning also held public hearings and invited public March 19, 1995, as National Poison Preven- comment. Following White House receipt of tion Week. I call upon all Americans to ob- the Commerce Department’s report, the Na- serve this week by participating in appro- tional Economic Council coordinated addi- priate ceremonies and activities. tional interagency review. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set As in the case of its earlier study, the Com- my hand this fifteenth day of February, in merce Department found that the potential the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and costs to the national security of an oil import ninety-five, and of the Independence of the adjustment, such as an import tariff, out- United States of America the two hundred weigh the potential benefits. Instead, the De- and nineteenth. partment recommended that the administra- tion continue its current policies, which are William J. Clinton aimed at increasing the Nation’s energy secu-

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rity through a series of energy supply en- seded Executive Order No. 12735. As I de- hancement and conservation and efficiency scribed in the report transmitting Executive measures designed to limit the Nation’s de- Order No. 12938, the new Executive order pendence on imports. Those measures in- consolidates the functions of Executive clude: Order No. 12735, which declared a national —Increased investment in energy effi- emergency with respect to the proliferation ciency. of chemical and biological weapons, and Ex- —Increased investment in alternative ecutive Order No. 12930, which declared a fuels. national emergency with respect to nuclear, —Increased Government investment in biological, and chemical weapons, and their technology, to lower costs and improve means of delivery. The new Executive order production of gas and oil and other en- continued in effect any rules, regulations, or- ergy sources. ders, licenses, or other forms of administra- —Expanded utilization of natural gas. tive action taken under the authority of Exec- —Increased Government investment in utive order No. 12735. This is the final report renewable energy sources. with respect to Executive Order No. 12735. —Increased Government regulatory effi- This report is made pursuant to section ciency. 204 of the International Emergency Eco- —Increased emphasis on free trade and nomic Powers Act and section 401(c) of the U.S. exports. National Emergencies Act regarding activi- —Maintenance of the Strategic Petroleum ties taken and money spent pursuant to the Reserve. emergency declaration. Additional informa- —Coordination of emergency cooperation tion on chemical and biological weapons pro- measures. liferation is contained in the annual report Finally, led by the Department of Energy to the Congress provided pursuant to the and the National Economic Council, the ad- Chemical and Biological Weapons Control ministration will continue its efforts to de- and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991. velop additional cost-effective policies to en- The three export control regulations issued hance domestic energy production and to re- under the Enhanced Proliferation Control vitalize the U.S. petroleum industry. Initiative are fully in force and continue to be used to control the export of items with potential use in chemical or biological weap- Message to the Congress on the ons (CBW) or unmanned delivery systems Proliferation of Chemical and for weapons of mass destruction. Biological Weapons During the final 6 months of Executive February 16, 1995 Order No. 12735, the United States contin- ued to address actively in its international To the Congress of the United States: diplomatic efforts the problem of the pro- On November 16, 1990, in light of the liferation and use of CBW. dangers of the proliferation of chemical and At the termination of Executive Order No. biological weapons, President Bush issued 12735, 158 nations had signed the Chemical Executive Order No. 12735, and declared a Weapons Convention (CWC) and 16 had national emergency under the International ratified it. On November 23, 1993, I submit- Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. ted the CWC to the Senate for its advice 1701 et seq.). Under section 202(d) of the and consent to ratification. The United States National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. continues to press for prompt ratification of 1622(d)), the national emergency terminates the Convention to enable its entry into force on the anniversary date of its declaration un- as soon as possible. We also continue to urge less the President publishes in the Federal those countries that have not signed the Con- Register and transmits to the Congress a no- vention to do so. The United States has re- tice of its continuation. mained actively engaged in the work of the On November 14, 1994, I issued Executive CWC Preparatory Commission headquar- Order No. 12938, which revoked and super- tered in The Hague, to elaborate the tech-

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nical and administrative procedures for im- di Salle, an Italian national, effective on Au- plementing the Convention. gust 19, 1994. Additional information on The United States was an active partici- these determinations will be contained in a pant in the Special Conference of States Par- classified report to the Congress, provided ties, held September 19–30, 1994, to review pursuant to the Chemical and Biological the consensus final report of the Ad Hoc Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Group of experts mandated by the Third Bio- Act of 1991. logical Weapons Convention (BWC) Review Pursuant to section 401(c) of the National conference. The Special Conference pro- Emergencies Act, I report that there were duced a mandate to establish an Ad Hoc no expenses directly attributable to the exer- Group whose objective is to develop a legally cise of authorities conferred by the declara- binding instrument to strengthen the effec- tion of the national emergency in Executive tiveness and improve the implementation of Order No. 12735 during the period from No- the BWC. The United States strongly sup- vember 16, 1990, through November 14, ports the development of a legally binding 1994. protocol to strengthen the Convention. William J. Clinton The United States maintained its active participation in the Australia Group (AG), The White House, February 16, 1995. which welcomed the Czech Republic, Po- land, and Slovakia as the 26th, 27th, and 28th AG members, respectively. The Group re- Message to the Congress on the affirmed members’ collective belief that full Proliferation of Weapons of Mass adherence to the CWC and the BWC pro- Destruction vides the only means to achieve a permanent February 16, 1995 global ban on CBW, and that all states adher- ing to these conventions have an obligation To the Congress of the United States: to ensure that their national activities support On September 29, 1994, in Executive these goals. Order No. 12930, I declared a national emer- The AG also reiterated its conviction that gency under the International Emergency harmonized AG export licensing measures Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) (50 U.S.C. are consistent with and indeed actively sup- 1701 et seq.) to deal with the threat to the port, the requirement under Article I of the national security, foreign policy, and econ- CWC that States Parties never assist, in any omy of the United States posed by the con- way, the manufacture of chemical weapons. tinued proliferation of nuclear, biological, These measures also are consistent with the and chemical weapons, and their means of undertaking in Article XI of the CWC to fa- delivery. Specifically, this order provided cilitate the fullest possible exchange of chem- necessary authority under the Enhanced Pro- ical materials and related information for liferation Control Initiative (EPCI), as pro- purposes not prohibited by the Convention, vided in the Export Administration Regula- as they focus solely on preventing assistance tions, set forth in Title 15, Chapter VII, Sub- to activities banned under the CWC. Simi- chapter C, of the Code of Federal Regula- larly, such efforts also support existing non- tions, Parts 768 to 799 inclusive, to continue proliferation obligations under the BWC. to regulate the activities of United States per- The United States Government deter- sons in order to prevent their participation mined that one foreign individual and two in activities that could contribute to the pro- foreign commercial entities—respectively, liferation of weapons of mass destruction and Nahum Manbar, and Mana International In- their delivery means. vestments and Europol Holding Ltd.—had I issued Executive Order No. 12930 pursu- engaged in chemical weapons proliferation ant to the authority vested in me as President activities that required the imposition of by the Constitution and laws of the United trade sanctions against them, effective on States of America, including the IEEPA, the July 16, 1994. A separate determination was National Emergencies Act (NEA) (50 U.S.C. made and sanctions imposed against Alberto 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3 of

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the United States Code. At that time, I also from September 29, 1994, to November 14, submitted a report to the Congress pursuant 1994. to section 204(b) of the IEEPA (50 U.S.C. William J. Clinton 1703(b)). The White House, Executive Order No. 12930 was revoked February 16, 1995. by Executive Order No. 12938 of November 14, 1994. Executive Order No. 12938 con- solidates a number of authorities and elimi- Announcement of Appointment for nated certain redundant authorities. All au- Assistant to the President and thorities contained in Executive Order No. Director of Political Affairs 12930 were transferred to Executive Order February 16, 1995 No. 12938. White House Chief of Staff Leon E. Pa- Section 204 of the IEEPA requires follow- netta announced today that the President has up reports, with respect to actions or named Douglas B. Sosnik as Assistant to the changes, to be submitted every 6 months. President and Director of Political Affairs. Additionally, section 401(c) of the NEA re- ‘‘Doug has spent his career in politics and quires that the President: (1) within 90 days Government at the national level,’’ the Presi- after the end of each 6-month period follow- dent said. ‘‘His combination of White House, ing a declaration of a national emergency, congressional—both House and Senate— report to the Congress on the total expendi- and political experience will serve the admin- tures directly attributable to that declaration; istration well.’’ or (2) within 90 days after the termination of an emergency, transmit a final report to NOTE: A biography of the appointee was made the Congress on all expenditures. This re- available by the Office of the Press Secretary. port, covering the period from September 29, 1994, to November 14, 1994, is submitted Remarks at a Memorial Service for in compliance with these requirements. J. William Fulbright Since the issuance of Executive Order No. February 17, 1995 12930, the Department of Commerce has continued to administer and enforce the pro- Mrs. Fulbright, the children and grand- visions contained in the Export Administra- children of Senator Fulbright, all of his fam- tion Regulations concerning activities by ily and friends here assembled, we come to United States persons that may contribute to celebrate and give thanks for the remarkable the proliferation of weapons of mass destruc- life of J. William Fulbright, a life that tion and missiles. In addition, the Depart- changed our country and our world forever ment of Commerce has conducted ongoing and for the better. In the work he did, the words he spoke and the life he lived, Bill outreach to educate concerned communities Fulbright stood against the 20th century’s regarding these restrictions. Regulated activi- most destructive forces and fought to ad- ties may include financing, servicing, con- vance its brightest hopes. tracting, or other facilitation of missile or He was the heir of Jefferson in our time. weapons projects, and need not be linked to He believed in the American idea, but he exports or reexports of U.S.-origin items. No respected others who saw the world dif- applications for licenses to engage in such ferently. He lived with passion tempered by activities were received during the period reason. He loved politics, but cautioned covered by this report. against the arrogance of power. He cherished No expenses directly attributable to the ex- education as the answer to our common ercise of powers or authorities conferred by problems and our personal dreams. But he the declaration of a national emergency in knew there would always be more to learn. Executive Order No. 12930 were incurred Time and again for 32 years as a Congress- by the Federal Government in the period man, a Senator, Chairman of the Foreign Re-

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lations Committee, he worked for progress But let me tell you that those of us who and peace, often against great odds and understood and shared his roots in the sometimes at great personal cost, expanding Ozarks, those of us who knew what his life opportunities for the people of his beloved was like as a young person growing up and Arkansas and other Americans who needed playing football and becoming the president help to make the most of their lives, leading of a university, those of us who understood the way to found the United Nations, taking later in life what he learned when he had a long, lonely stand against Joseph McCarthy, the chance first to travel overseas and study expanding the reach of our culture as the in England and see the insanity that resulted driving force behind the Kennedy Center, from the squandering of the victory in World fighting to change our course in Vietnam, re- War I, those of us who saw firsthand the minding us that the forces of freedom would enormous anguish he felt, as I would see him win the cold war if we could avoid nuclear early in the morning and late in the evening war, what he called his generation’s power in the Senate office building, in the great of veto over the next, and of course, in a struggles over the Vietnam war, those of us cold dawn only 2 weeks after Hiroshima, call- who saw him in his campaign in 1968, when ing for the creation of the international ex- this country was being literally torn apart, still change program that will live as his most pro- trying to learn, trying to understand, and try- found legacy. ing to be understood, we will never forget The Fulbright Scholarship Program is a the debt that we owe him and the debt the perfect example of Bill Fulbright’s faith, dif- country owes him. ferent kinds of people learning side by side, When Mrs. Fulbright spoke last year in building what he called ‘‘a capacity for empa- Germany, in recognition of the Senator’s re- thy, a distaste for killing other men, and an ceipt of a distinguished award from the inclination for peace.’’ Next year will be the American Chamber of Commerce there, she 50th anniversary of that program. Now it in- quoted from a letter Senator Fulbright re- cludes as its alumni Nobel Prize winners, ceived 30 years ago. I’d like to leave it with Members of Congress, leaders for peace and you, so that you can remember something freedom the world over, and many not so of what he did, and the times in which he famous people who went home to live out did it. the faith of Senator Fulbright, more than She said, all this talk of leadership, free- 120,000 from other countries have come here dom and education may seem simple, self- and more than 90,000 Americans have gone evident and commonplace to you now, but overseas to study, to learn, and to grow. No there was a time when it was considered radi- matter what their native tongue, all of them cal, even dangerous. Thirty years ago, Sen- are now known by the same name, ator Fulbright was called names I wouldn’t Fulbrights. dream of putting on paper, much less pro- In a way, a lot of us here, especially those nouncing to a respectable audience. He got of us from Arkansas and those who worked emotional letters full of praise and hate. for him in other ways over the years, are also There was one which affected him far more in our own way Fulbrights. Those of us who deeply than all the rest. And after reading knew and loved him, who worked for him, it, he closed his office doors, ordered all the who learned from him, each of us have our calls held, and wrote in longhand an answer indelible memories, some of them serious, which he did not copy. I will read you the some of them quite funny. letter: I must say that I was a little reluctant to ‘‘Dear Senator Fulbright: I have never accept the request that I speak today because voted for you. I have never missed a chance I once attended a funeral with Bill Fulbright, to belittle you. But deep inside me, there and I know how much distaste he had for was a nagging suspicion that I have been highly formalized rituals. If he were giving wrong. As this world plunges headlong to- me instructions, he’d say, ‘‘Bill, say some- ward what well may be its destruction, it gets thing nice, be brief, and try to get everybody increasingly harder to hear lonely voices, out so they can enjoy this beautiful day.’’ such as yours, calling for common sense,

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human reason, and the respect for the broth- NOTE: This statement was included in a White erhood of man. But be of good cheer, my House statement announcing an additional $145 friend, keep nipping at their heels. This old million in emergency funding for the States to as- world has always nailed its prophets to trees, sist in their continuing recovery from the effects so don’t be surprised at those who come at of Tropical Storm Alberto. you with hammers and spikes. Know that those multitudes yet unborn will stand on our shoulders. And one among them will stand a little higher because he is standing on Digest of Other yours.’’ White House Announcements We owe a lot to Bill Fulbright, some of us more than others. Let us all remember the life he lived and the example he set. The following list includes the President’s public A few years ago, Senator Fulbright came schedule and other items of general interest an- nounced by the Office of the Press Secretary and home to Fayetteville, and we celebrated a not included elsewhere in this issue. Fulbright Day. I was then the Governor, and after the official event, we went back to his hotel room and watched the football game. February 11 And when the young player for one of the In the afternoon, the President hosted a teams kicked a field goal, he looked at me working lunch for Prime Minister Jean-Luc and he said, ‘‘You know, I used to do that Dehaene of Belgium. over 60 years ago. I don’t know what hap- February 13 pened to all those years. They sure passed In the afternoon, the President had a tele- in a hurry.’’ I think we can all say that they phone conversation with President Boris also passed very well. Yeltsin of Russia to express strong U.S. sup- Senator Fulbright’s lesson is captured on port for the continuation of reform in Russia. the statue in the Fayetteville town square in The President announced his intention to these quotes: ‘‘In the beauty of these gar- nominate Gloria Rose Ott and Harvey dens, we honor the beauty of his dream, Sigelbaum to the Board of Directors of the peace among nations and free exchange of Overseas Private Investment Corporation knowledge and ideas across the Earth.’’ Bill (OPIC). He also announced his intention to Fulbright also left us the power of his exam- renominate to full 3-year terms on the OPIC ple, always the teacher and always the stu- board, George Kourpias and John Chrystal, dent. who were previously confirmed for the first Thank you, friend, and Godspeed. term in November 1993. The President announced his intention to NOTE: The President spoke at 10:25 a.m. at the nominate John Goglia to the National Trans- Washington National Cathedral. In his remarks, portation Safety Board. he referred to the Senator’s wife, Harriet Ful- bright. February 14 In the morning, the President traveled to San Francisco, CA. In the afternoon, he trav- eled to San Bernardino, CA, and in the Statement on Disaster Assistance for evening, he traveled to Palm Springs, CA. Georgia, Florida, and Alabama The President announced his intention to February 17, 1995 appoint the following individuals to the Fed- eral Salary Council: We will continue to stand by the people —Anthony F. Ingrassia, Vice Chair; of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama as they do —John F. Leyden; the hard work of recovering from last sum- —Leslie E. Nulty; mer’s storms, rebuilding their homes, repair- —John N. Sturdivant; ing their roads, and restarting their busi- —Peter A. Tchirkow; nesses. —Robert M. Tobias.

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The President announced his intention to items nor covered by entries in the Digest of name the following members to the Advisory Other White House Announcements. Committee for the 1995 White House Con- ference on Aging: Released February 11 —Liz Carpenter; —Elsie Frank; Statement by Press Secretary Mike McCurry —Anita Freedman; on National Security Adviser Anthony Lake’s —Elinor Guggenheimer; meeting with representatives of the transi- —Daniel P. Perry; tional Government of Ethiopia —Ruth Shepherd; Transcript of a press briefing by Attorney —James T. Sykes. General Janet Reno, Drug Control Director Lee Brown, Associate Attorney General John February 15 Schmidt, and Director of COPS Program, In the evening, the President returned to Chief Joseph Brann on the 1994 crime bill Washington, DC. Letter from the Law Enforcement Steering February 16 Committee to the President and Members In the afternoon, the President met with of Congress presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Cabinet Room at the Released February 12 White House. Transcript of a press briefing by Secretary February 17 of State Warren Christopher on the Presi- In the evening, the President attended a dent’s meeting with Middle Eastern leaders musical salute to African-American World Released February 13 War II veterans at Constitution Hall. Transcript of a press briefing by Press Sec- retary Mike McCurry Statement by Press Secretary Mike McCurry Nominations on the President’s telephone conversation Submitted to the Senate with President Yeltsin of Russia Fact sheet on the ‘‘Middle-Class Bill of Rights Tax Relief Act of 1995’’ The following list does not include promotions of members of the Uniformed Services, nominations Announcement of the nomination of Curtis to the Service Academies, or nominations of For- L. Collier to be U.S. District Judge for the eign Service officers. Eastern District of Tennessee Released February 14 Submitted February 13 Statement by Press Secretary Mike McCurry Curtis L. Collier, on National Security Adviser Anthony Lake’s of Tennessee, to be U.S. District Judge for announcement of Andrew D. Sens as Execu- the Eastern District of Tennessee (new posi- tive Director of the National Security Coun- tion). cil Transcript of a press briefing by Deputy As- sistant to the President for Economic Policy Gene Sperling on the President’s remarks to Checklist the American Council on Education of White House Press Releases Fact sheet on the President’s remarks to the American Council on Education The following list contains releases of the Office Excerpts of the President’s remarks to the of the Press Secretary that are neither printed as American Council on Education

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Released February 15 Statement by Press Secretary Mike McCurry Statement by Press Secretary Mike McCurry on the Ecuador-Peru peace declaration on the administration’s determination that Statement by Press Secretary Mike McCurry USIA, AID, and ACDA should continue as on conventional arms transfer policy independent agencies Fact sheet on conventional arms transfer pol- Released February 16 icy Transcript of a press briefing by Press Sec- retary Mike McCurry Fact sheet on the criteria for decisionmaking on U.S. arms exports Statement by Press Secretary Mike McCurry on the appointment of Douglas B. Sosnik as Assistant to the President and Director of Po- litical Affairs Released February 17 Acts Approved by the President Transcript of a press briefing by Press Sec- retary Mike McCurry

Transcript of a press briefing by U.S. Ambas- NOTE: No acts approved by the President were sador to Canada James Johnston Blanchard received by the Office of the Federal Register on the President’s upcoming visit to Canada during the period covered by this issue.

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