    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 53 (Monday, January 4, 1999)]
    [Page 2537]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Plan and Report on
    Reorganization of the Foreign Affairs Agencies

    December 29, 1998

    Dear __________:

        I hereby submit the reorganization plan and report required by
    section 1601 of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998
    (Public Law 105-277, Division G). As required by the Act, the
    reorganization plan and report describe how the United States Arms
    Control and Disarmament Agency, the United States Information Agency,
    and portions of the United States Agency for International Development
    will be integrated into the Department of State.
        Sincerely,
                                                William J. Clinton

    Note: Identical letters were sent to Jesse Helms, chairman, and Joseph
    R. Biden, Jr., ranking member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations;
    Ted Stevens, chairman, and Robert C. Byrd, ranking member, Senate
    Committee on Appropriations; Benjamin A. Gilman, chairman, and Lee
    Hamilton, ranking member, House Committee on International Relations;
    and Robert L. Livingston, chairman, and David R. Obey, ranking member,
    House Committee on Appropriations. This letter was released by the
    Office of the Press Secretary on December 30.