[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2002, Book II)]
[July 1, 2002]
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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]
Public Papers of the President, 2002, Book II
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P U B L I C P A P E R S O F T H E P R E S I D E N T S
O F T H E
U N I T E D S T A T E S
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Foreword
This volume collects my speeches and papers from the second half of
2002, a period in which the United States witnessed the passage of
significant domestic reforms as we continued vigorously to pursue the
war on terror abroad.
On the home front, my Administration worked with the Congress to
rouse an economy rocked by corporate scandals and the attacks of
September 11. To bolster the worker and investor confidence essential
for the functioning of any free market, in July 2002 I signed into law
the most sweeping corporate reforms in more than 50 years. The Congress
also passed Trade Promotion Authority after an 8-year lapse, giving me a
stronger hand to open new markets abroad for American farmers, ranchers,
workers, and entrepreneurs. The Congress also responded to our call by
passing legislation making terrorism insurance available and affordable,
as well as new laws that promoted conservation of our wetlands, expanded
community health centers, and helped cities and States update their
voting systems.
From the outset, my Administration has made it clear that in order
to best serve Americans in need, faith-based and community organizations
must be free to compete for Federal grants on a level playing field. In
December 2002, I signed an Executive Order directing all Federal
agencies to follow the principle of equal treatment in awarding social-
service grants. In Congress, meanwhile, we continued to work for passage
of legislation advancing my faith-based and community initiative. We
also continued to work for a comprehensive energy plan and a Medicare
reform bill that would include a prescription drug benefit. And to speed
our economic recovery, we urged the Congress to make permanent the tax
relief passed in 2001.
Throughout this period, protecting the American people from attack
remained our highest priority. During the second half of 2002, we saw
important victories. Ramzi Binalshibh, a key al-Qaida chief who shared a
house with Mohamed Atta in Germany and helped plan the September 11
attacks, was captured along with several other al-Qaida operatives in
Pakistan, exactly a year to the day after the attack on our homeland. We
worked with our allies to take the offense against terrorists, breaking
up their cells and disrupting their infrastructure. And in our 2003
defense budget, we provided the largest increase in defense spending
since Ronald Reagan's Presidency so that our Armed Forces would have the
resources they need to defend our security and freedom.
As we pursued terrorists abroad, we took vital steps to secure the
homeland. The creation of a new Department of Homeland Security
represented the most extensive reorganization of the Federal Government
since the start of the Cold War. This department united dozens of
Federal agencies in a single mission of protecting the American people
and sharing critical information. We also acted to improve the
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security
of our ports, coasts, and borders, and we began increasing our
stockpiles of vaccine to inoculate our population in the event of
biological attack.
Protecting Americans from terrorist attack also required us to
address other threats before they fully materialized, including that
posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. In September, I urged the United Nations
to consider Saddam's longstanding refusal to disarm and abide by all
U.N. resolutions. After a spirited and civil debate, the Congress
approved a strong bipartisan resolution, authorizing me to take military
action to disarm the Iraqi regime in the event its dictator refused to
meet his obligations to the world. In November, the U.N. Security
Council passed a unanimous resolution demanding that Saddam disarm in
compliance with its previous resolutions; allow thorough inspections;
and abandon the tactics of denial and delay he had used to avoid
accountability for more than a decade.
America did not seek conflict with Iraq. By year's end, the many
warnings the Congress and the U.N. had given had made clear that the
choice between peace and war rested with Saddam Hussein.
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Preface
This book contains the papers and speeches of the 43d President of
the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary
during the period July 1-December 31, 2002. The material has been
compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National
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name indexes, and listed in the document categories list.
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printed full-text in the
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Contents
Foreword . . . v
Preface . . . vii
Cabinet . . . xi
Public Papers of George W. Bush,
July 1-December 31, 2002 . . . 1153
Appendix A
Digest of Other White House Announcements . . . 2221
Appendix B
Nominations Submitted to the Senate . . . 2249
Appendix C
Checklist of White House Press Releases . . . 2259
Appendix D
Presidential Documents Published in the Federal
Register . . . 2271
Subject Index . . . A-1
Name Index . . . B-1
Document Categories List . . . C-1
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Cabinet
Secretary of State......................... Colin L. Powell
Secretary of the Treasury.................... Paul H. O'Neill
Secretary of Defense..........................Donald H. Rumsfeld
Attorney General..............................John Ashcroft
Secretary of the Interior.....................Gale A. Norton
Secretary of Agriculture......................Ann M. Veneman
Secretary of Commerce.........................Donald L. Evans
Secretary of Labor............................Elaine L. Chao
Secretary of Health and Human
Services......................................Tommy G. Thompson
Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development...................................Mel R. Martinez
Secretary of Transportation...................Norman Y. Mineta
Secretary of Energy...........................Spencer Abraham
Secretary of Education........................Roderick R. Paige
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.................Anthony J. Principi
Chief of Staff................................Andrew H. Card, Jr
Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency.............................Christine Todd Whitman
United States Trade Representative............Robert B. Zoellick
Director of the Office of
Management and Budget.........................Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.
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Assistant to the President for
Homeland Security.............................Tom Ridge
Director of National Drug Control
Policy........................................John P. Walters
Administration of George W. Bush
2002