[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 40 (Monday, October 7, 1996)]
[Page 1935]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on Signing Legislation Waiving Certain Enrollment Requirements

September 30, 1996

    Today I have signed into law House Joint Resolution 197, which 
waives the printing requirements of sections 106 and 107 of Title 1 of 
the United States Code with respect to any appropriations measure of the 
104th Congress that is presented to me after the enactment of H.J. Res. 
197. I have done so to avoid any confusion as to my ability to act on 
any form of legislation presented to me after certification by the 
Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives that the 
form is a true enrollment.
    In signing this joint resolution, I express no view as to whether it 
is necessary to waive the provisions of Title 1 before I exercise my 
prerogatives under Article I, section 7 of the Constitution where the 
Congress has presented to me any form of bill or resolution it considers 
to be a true enrollment.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
September 30, 1996.

Note: H.J. Res. 197, approved September 30, was assigned Public Law No. 
104-207. This statement was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on October 1.