[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.