[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 44 (Monday, November 3, 2003)]
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              WEEKLY COMPILATION OF
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              PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS

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Weekly Compilation of

Presidential

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Monday, November 3, 2003

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Volume 39_Number 44
Pages 1469	1510

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Contents

Addresses and Remarks

    Iftaar dinner--1484
    Medicare reform legislation--1485
    Ohio
        Bush-Cheney luncheon in Columbus--1494
        Central Aluminum Company in Columbus--1499
    Presidential Envoy to Iraq L. Paul Bremer III, meeting--1471
    Radio address--1470
    Texas
        Bush-Cheney reception in San Antonio--1504
        Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Youth Education Center in Dallas--
            1490

Bill Signings

    Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, statement--1485

Communications to Congress

    Sri Lanka-U.S. taxation convention, message transmitting protocol 
        amending--1485
    Sudan, message on continuation of national emergency--1488
    Weapons of mass destruction, message on continuation of national 
        emergency--1489

Interviews With the News Media

    Exchange with reporters in the Oval Office--1471
    News conference, October 28--1473

Notices

    Continuation of Emergency Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction--
        1489
    Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Sudan--1488

  

  

(Continued on the inside of the back cover.)

  Editor's Note: The President was at the Bush Ranch in Crawford, TX, on 
October 31, the closing date of this issue. Releases and announcements 
issued by the Office of the Press Secretary but not received in time for 
inclusion in this issue will be printed next week.

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Contents--Continued

Proclamations

    National Hospice Month--1504
    Protection From Pornography Week--1469
    United Nations Day--1469

Statements by the President

    See also Bill Signings
    Senate
        Action to block an up-or-down vote on the nomination of Judge 
            Charles W. Pickering, Sr.--1503
        Confirmation of Michael O. Leavitt as Administrator of the 
            Environmental Protection Agency--1485

Statements by the President--Continued

    Senate--Continued
        Passage of the ``Healthy Forests Restoration Act''--1503

Supplementary Materials

    Acts approved by the President--1510
    Checklist of White House press releases--1509
    Digest of other White House announcements--1508
    Nominations submitted to the Senate--1509
  

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