[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 9 (Monday, March 2, 1998)]
[Page 324]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting the Report on Chemical and 
Biological Weapons Defense

February 24, 1998

Dear __________:

    Attached is a report to the Congress on Chemical and Biological 
Weapons Defense, submitted pursuant to Condition 11(F) of the resolution 
of advice and consent to ratification of the Convention on the 
Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of 
Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, adopted by the Senate of the 
United States on April 24, 1997.
    Sincerely,
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: Identical letters were sent to Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House 
of Representatives; Jesse Helms, chairman, and Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 
ranking member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Strom Thurmond, 
chairman, and Carl Levin, ranking member, Senate Committee on Armed 
Services; Ted Stevens, chairman, and Robert C. Byrd, ranking member, 
Senate Committee on Appropriations; Arlen Specter, chairman, Senate 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs; Benjamin A. Gilman, chairman, and Lee H. 
Hamilton, ranking member, House Committee on International Relations; 
Robert L. Livingston, chairman, and David R. Obey, ranking member, House 
Committee on Appropriations; and Floyd Spence, chairman, and Ike 
Skelton, ranking member, House Committee on National Security.