[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 13 (Monday, April 5, 1999)]
[Page 538]
[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.