[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 41 (Monday, October 16, 2000)]
[Pages 2356-2357]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on Signing the Second Continuing Resolution for Fiscal Year 
2001

October 6, 2000

    Today I have signed into law H.J. Res. 110, the second short-term 
continuing resolution for FY 2001.
    The Act provides 2001 appropriations for continuing projects and 
activities of the Federal Government through October 14, 2000, except 
those funded by the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2001, and 
the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2001, which I have signed 
into law.
    In February, I sent a budget to the Congress that funded critical 
investments in our future. I urge the Congress to fund these important 
national initiatives, including investing in education so that we can 
stay on a path to hiring 100,000 teachers and reduce class size, 
modernize and repair our schools, and expand our efforts to strengthen 
the quality of teachers, the performance of schools, and the 
accomplishments of our students.
    It is also essential that we strengthen our efforts to protect and 
preserve the environment. Our national security must be provided for, 
both at home and abroad. Putting more police on the street, and fighting 
gun violence, helps make this Nation safer for its citizens. Similarly, 
supporting global leadership and the Nation's diplomacy helps make the 
world safer and more secure for all Americans.
    It is important that we fund scientific research and technology, 
upon which advancements in our economy and sustained prosperity depend. 
Our Nation's priorities must include the expansion of this current wave 
of prosperity to all Americans. I urge the Congress to support my 
efforts to expand this prosperity, including closing the digital divide 
and funding efforts to bring economic development to underserved areas. 
I also urge the Congress to support the Equal Pay initiative and civil 
rights enforcement.
    The health of our Nation must not be neglected, and I urge the 
Congress to act accordingly, including by supporting efforts to help 
family planning for low-income women.
    I urge the Congress to continue to work with my Administration to 
come to mutually acceptable agreements on the remaining 2001 spending 
bills and to do so as quickly as possible.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
October 6, 2000.

Note: H.J. Res. 110, approved October 6, was assigned Public Law No. 
106-282. This item was not received in time for publication in the 
appropriate issue.

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