    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 13 (Monday, April 5, 1999)]
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    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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

    March 30, 1999

    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 United States
    Senate on April 24, 1997.
        Sincerely,
                                                William J. Clinton

    Note: Identical letters were sent to J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the
    House of Representatives; Jesse Helms, chairman, and Joseph R. Biden,
    Jr., ranking member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; John W.
    Warner, chairman, and Carl Levin, ranking member, Senate Committee on
    Armed Services; Ted Stevens, chairman, and Robert C. Byrd, ranking
    member, Senate Committee on Appropriations; Benjamin A. Gilman,
    chairman, and Sam Gejdenson, ranking member, House Committee on
    International Relations; C.W. Bill Young, chairman, and David R. Obey,
    ranking member, House Committee on Appropriations; and Floyd Spence,
    chairman, and Ike Skelton, ranking member, House Committee on Armed
    Services.