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109th CONGRESS 2d Session

H. RES. 901

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

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

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.