[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: WILLIAM J. CLINTON (1999, Book II)]
[July 1, 1999]
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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]




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PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES

                     PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS
                                 OF THE
                              UNITED STATES

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                     PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS
                                 OF THE
                              UNITED STATES


                           WILLIAM J. CLINTON



                                  1999

                             (IN TWO BOOKS)

                 BOOK II--JULY 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1999


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                    United States Government Printing Office
                                Washington : 2001


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                                Foreword

    In the second half of 1999, the Nation's attention turned to meeting 
the challenges of a new millennium--and seizing the opportunities 
presented by our strong and growing economy.

    Our economic expansion continued to set records as the longest in 
America's peacetime history. The number of new jobs created since 1993 
passed the 20 million mark, as unemployment reached its lowest level in 
20 years, and unemployment among African-Americans and Hispanics fell to 
record lows. At the same time, America experienced the fastest and 
longest growth of real wages in two decades--and inflation fell to its 
lowest level since the 1960s. We achieved our first back-to-back budget 
surpluses in 42 years.

    With support from Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, I 
launched a New Markets Initiative, to reach those parts of America that 
economic growth has passed by. We began with the principle that, just as 
we give companies incentives to invest in developing markets overseas, 
we should give them incentives to invest in inner cities, poor rural 
areas, and Native American reservations right here in America. As I 
traveled from Watts to the Mississippi Delta to the Pine Ridge Indian 
Reservation, I met a stream of talented people, eager for opportunity 
and ready to work. With investment incentives, loan programs, and 
support for business development, our New Markets Initiative is helping 
put them to work--and helping to keep our economy growing.

    Working with the Congress, we made a bipartisan commitment to put 
100,000 new teachers in our schools and 50,000 more police on our 
streets. We doubled funds for after-school programs. We provided, for 
the very first time ever, funds to help school districts turn around 
failing schools or shut them down. We funded 60,000 housing vouchers to 
help people move from welfare to work. Working with Senators Jeffords 
and Kennedy, we passed a bill allowing people with disabilities to move 
into the workplace and keep their government-funded health care.

    We also reaffirmed our commitment to global leadership for peace and 
freedom in the century ahead by reaching an agreement with the Congress 
to pay our arrears to the United Nations. We reached a ground-breaking 
agreement to allow China to enter the World Trade Organization in 
exchange for China's opening its markets to U.S. goods. We continued our 
efforts to promote peace in the Middle East, working to assist 
negotiations between both Israel and Syria and Israel and the 
Palestinians. We concluded the adapted Conventional Armed Forces in 
Europe Treaty, which will help ensure military stability and 
predictability in Europe; and Russia committed to withdraw its forces 
from Georgia and Moldova. We helped conclude a Caspian pipeline 
agreement to further ensure our energy security and reinforce the 
independence of the new nations of Central Asia. In our own hemisphere, 
we honored America's commitment to entrust the Panama Canal to the 
government and people of Panama. We also gave strong support to the 
democratic transitions in Nigeria and Indonesia, and we led the way in 
negotiating an historic debt relief initiative for the poorest countries 
of the developing world.

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    We recommitted ourselves, as well, to meeting the challenges we face 
at the dawn of a new millennium, abroad and at home: the need to keep 
Social Security and Medicare safe and sound for future generations; the 
need to make sure the trade that keeps us prosperous becomes not just 
freer, but fairer; the need to bridge the digital divide between those 
who have and can use a computer, and those who do not or cannot; the 
need to manage the implications of new technology, new science, new ways 
of doing business. And perhaps the most important challenge of all: the 
imperative not to give in to complacency, but to use our prosperity for 
good--and for a better future.

                          

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                                 Preface

    This book contains the papers and speeches of the 42d President of 
the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary 
during the period July 1-December 31, 1999. The material has been 
compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National 
Archives and Records Administration.

    The material is presented in chronological order, and the dates 
shown in the headings are the dates of the documents or events. In 
instances when the release date differs from the date of the document 
itself, that fact is shown in the textnote. Every effort has been made 
to ensure accuracy: Remarks are checked against a tape recording, and 
signed documents are checked against the original. Textnotes and cross 
references have been provided by the editors for purposes of 
identification or clarity. Speeches were delivered in Washington, DC, 
unless indicated. The times noted are local times. All materials that 
are printed full-text in the book have been indexed in the subject and 
name indexes, and listed in the document categories list.

    The Public Papers of the Presidents series was begun in 1957 in 
response to a recommendation of the National Historical Publications 
Commission. An extensive compilation of messages and papers of the 
Presidents covering the period 1789 to 1897 was assembled by James D. 
Richardson and published under congressional authority between 1896 and 
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there was no uniform publication comparable to the Congressional Record 
or the United States Supreme Court Reports. Many Presidential papers 
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of Jimmy Carter, the Public Papers series expanded its coverage to 
include additional material as printed in the Weekly Compilation. That 
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the Office of the Press Secretary. Also included are lists of the 
President's nominations submitted to the Senate, materials released by 
the Office of the Press Secretary that are not printed full-text in the 
book, and proclamations, Executive orders, and other Presidential 
documents released by the Office of the Press Secretary and published in 
the Federal Register. This information appears in the appendixes at the 
end of the book.

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also included in the Public Papers series.

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Register. The series is produced by the Presidential and Legislative 
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were Karen Howard Ashlin and Anna Glover, assisted by Brad Brooks, 
Margaret A. Hemmig, Maxine Hill, Alfred Jones, Jennifer S. Mangum, Lisa 
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Michael F. DiMario, Public Printer.

Raymond A. Mosley
Director of the Federal Register

John W. Carlin
Archivist of the United States


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                                Contents

Foreword . . . v

Preface . . . vii

Cabinet . . . xi

Public Papers of William J. Clinton,
July 1-December 31, 1999 . . . 1097

Appendix A
Digest of Other White House Announcements . . . 2361

Appendix B
Nominations Submitted to the Senate . . . 2377

Appendix C
Checklist of White House Press Releases . . . 2387

Appendix D
Presidential Documents Published in the Federal Register . . . 2397

Subject Index . . . a-1

Name Index . . . b-1

Document Categories List . . . c-1


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                                Cabinet

Secretary of State ............................ Madeleine K. Albright

Secretary of the Treasury ..................... Lawrence H. Summers

Secretary of Defense .......................... William S. Cohen

Attorney General .............................. Janet Reno

Secretary of the Interior ..................... Bruce Babbitt

Secretary of Agriculture ...................... Dan Glickman

Secretary of Commerce ......................... William M. Daley

Secretary of Labor ............................ Alexis M. Herman

Secretary of Health and Human 
Services ...................................... Donna E. Shalala

Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development ................................... Andrew M. Cuomo

Secretary of Transportation ................... Rodney E. Slater

Secretary of Energy ........................... Bill Richardson

Secretary of Education ........................ Richard W. Riley

Secretary of Veterans Affairs ................. Togo D. West, Jr

United States Representative to 
the United Nations ............................ Richard C. Holbrooke

Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency ............................. Carol M. Browner

United States Trade Representative ............ Charlene Barshefsky

Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget ......................... Jacob J. Lew

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Chief of Staff ................................ John D. Podesta

Chair of the Council of Economic 
Advisers ...................................... Janet Yellen
                                                Martin N. Baily
                                                (effective August 12)

Director of National Drug Control Policy ...... Barry R. McCaffrey

Administrator of the Small 
Business Administration ....................... Aida Alvarez

Director of Central Intelligence .............. George J. Tenet

Director of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency ............................. James Lee Witt

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                  Administration of William J. Clinton

                                  1999