[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 901 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 901

Honoring former President William Jefferson Clinton on the occasion of 
                           his 60th birthday.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 29, 2006

 Mrs. Maloney (for herself, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Ms. Carson, 
Mr. Conyers, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Engel, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. Holt, 
Mr. Honda, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mrs. Jones of Ohio, Mr. 
McDermott, Mrs. McCarthy, Ms. McCollum of Minnesota, Mr. McGovern, Mr. 
 Neal of Massachusetts, Mr. George Miller of California, Mr. Moran of 
    Virginia, Mr. Serrano, and Ms. Wasserman Schultz) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Government 
                                 Reform

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Honoring former President William Jefferson Clinton on the occasion of 
                           his 60th birthday.

Whereas former President William Jefferson Clinton was born in Hope, Arkansas, 
        on August 19, 1946;
Whereas William Jefferson Clinton attended Georgetown University as an 
        undergraduate and received a Rhodes Scholarship in 1968;
Whereas William Jefferson Clinton received a law degree from Yale University in 
        1973;
Whereas William Jefferson Clinton established a record of public service as 
        Attorney General of Arkansas, Governor of Arkansas, and Chairman of the 
        National Governors Association;
Whereas William Jefferson Clinton campaigned for and won the Democratic 
        nomination for President in 1992;
Whereas William Jefferson Clinton was elected the 42d President of the United 
        States in 1992 and was reelected for a second term in 1996;
Whereas during William Jefferson Clinton's time in office the United States 
        experienced 8 years of economic expansion, job growth, and the 
        transformation of a budget deficit into a budget surplus;
Whereas William Jefferson Clinton rallied the members of the North Atlantic 
        Treaty Organization to put an end to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and 
        to depose the murderous regime of Slobodan Milosevic, actions which 
        eventually led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords;
Whereas William Jefferson Clinton played a major role in the Good Friday Peace 
        Accords which finally brought peace to war-torn Northern Ireland;
Whereas William Jefferson Clinton and former President George H. W. Bush were 
        appointed to lead the United States effort to provide private aid to the 
        victims of the devastating tsunami that struck southeast Asia on 
        December 26, 2004;
Whereas William Jefferson Clinton and former President George H. W. Bush were 
        appointed as co-chairs of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Relief Fund to 
        provide both medium- and long-term relief for areas of the United States 
        affected by Hurricane Katrina;
Whereas William Jefferson Clinton established the Clinton HIV/AIDS initiative to 
        combat the worldwide AIDS epidemic and has provided medication and tests 
        to thousands of people in the developing world to accomplish this end; 
        and
Whereas, in the words of President George W. Bush, William Jefferson Clinton 
        ``showed a deep and far-ranging knowledge of public policy, a great 
        compassion for people in need, and the forward-looking spirit the 
        Americans like in a President'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved,  That the House of Representatives honors former 
President William Jefferson Clinton on the occasion of his 60th 
birthday on August 19, 2006, and extends best wishes to him and his 
family.
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