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Monday, August 7, 2000
Volume 36--Number 31
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Contents
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Addresses and Remarks
Florida
David Barksdale Senior Center in Tampa--1756
Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee
Dinner in Palm Beach--1775
Luncheon in Tampa--1760
Reception in Palm Beach--1770
Permanent normal trade relations with China in Tampa--1754
Illinois
Association of Trial Lawyers of America in Chicago--1749
Democratic National Committee luncheon in Chicago--1743
Massachusetts
Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee
Dinner in Cambridge--1733
Reception in Boston--1728
New York City, luncheon for Hillary Clinton--1740
Radio address--1739
Rhode Island, luncheon for Representative Patrick J. Kennedy in
Barrington--1721
Bill Signings
Cross-Border Cooperation and Environmental Safety in Northern Europe
Act of 2000, statement--1782
Communications to Congress
Iraq, national emergency, letters--1728
Mexico-U.S. treaty on delimination of the continental shelf in the
western Gulf of Mexico, message transmitting--1721
Communications to Federal Agencies
Potential Electricity Shortages in California, memorandum--1783
Interviews With the News Media
Interview with Kelly Ring of WTVT television in Tampa--1766
Notices
Continuation of Iraqi Emergency--1727
Proclamations
Helsinki Human Rights Day--1781
Statements by the President
See also Bill Signings
California, Federal action on potential electricity shortages--1783
Colombia, upcoming visit and assistance--1784
Colorado initiative to close the gun show loophole--1781
Death of Sister M. Isolina Ferre--1782
Gun buyback initiative--1753
National debt--1770
Stability Pact for Southeast Europe--1727
Supplementary Materials
Acts approved by the President--1786
Checklist of White House press releases--1786
Digest of other White House announcements--1784
Nominations submitted to the Senate--1786
Editor's Note: The President was in Martha's Vineyard, MA, on
August 4, 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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Week Ending Friday, August 4, 2000
Message to the Senate Transmitting the Mexico-United States Treaty on
the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf in the Western Gulf of Mexico
With Documentation
July 27, 2000
To the Senate of the United States:
With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to
ratification, I transmit herewith the Treaty Between the Government of
the United States of America and the Government of the United Mexican
States on the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf in the Western Gulf
of Mexico beyond 200 nautical miles. The Treaty was signed at Washington
on June 9, 2000. The report of the Department of State is also enclosed
for the information of the Senate.
The purpose of the Treaty is to establish a continental shelf
boundary in the western Gulf of Mexico beyond the outer limits of the
two countries' exclusive economic zones where those limits do not
overlap. The approximately 135-nautical-mile continental shelf boundary
runs in a general east-west direction. The boundary defines the limit
within which the United States and Mexico may exercise continental shelf
jurisdiction, particularly oil and gas exploration and exploitation.
The Treaty also establishes procedures for addressing the
possibility of oil and gas reservoirs that extend across the continental
shelf boundary.
I believe this Treaty to be fully in the interest of the United
States. Ratification of the Treaty will facilitate the United States
proceeding with leasing an area of continental shelf with oil and gas
potential that has interested the U.S. oil and gas industry for several
years.
The Treaty also reflects the tradition of cooperation and close ties
with Mexico. The location of the boundary has not been in dispute.
I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration
to this Treaty and give its advice and consent to ratification.
William J. Clinton
The White House,
July 27, 2000.
Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on
July 28. This item was not received in time for publication in the
appropriate issue.
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Week Ending Friday, August 4, 2000
Remarks at a Luncheon for Representative Patrick J. Kennedy
in Barrington, Rhode Island
July 28, 2000
Thank you. You have to be 33 years old to have that kind of energy.
[Laughter] You know, Patrick is--he celebrated his 33d birthday, but he
looks like he's about 23. And he told me that story that he told you.
You remember when he started his remarks, and he talked about being
grounded? He was supposed to go to his birthday party, he was grounded
by bad weather. The first time he said it, I thought one of his parents
made him stay home for bad behavior. [Laughter]
Don't pay any attention to this. We're all just jealous, Patrick.
[Laughter]
I want to thank Bill and Nancy for opening this magnificent home,
this beautiful, beautiful place and for giving me a reason to come to
Barrington. I hope I can come back. I really think it's amazingly
beautiful.
I want to thank Senator Reed for being here with us and for his
truly outstanding leadership in the Senate. I want to thank Ted and
Vicki and Joan for being here to support you, Patrick. You deserve it,
and everything you said about your dad is the truth.
When Patrick was up here bragging on his father, I leaned over to
Bill and I said, ``You know, you would be hard-pressed to name 10 people
who have served in the United
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States Senate in the entire history of America who have done as much
good as Ted Kennedy has.'' And I think that's very important.
I want to thank your former Governor, Bruce Sundlun, and your former
Lieutenant Governor, Bob Licht, for being here and Lieutenant Governor
and all the mayors and legislative leaders. And there are a lot of
people here who helped me from the beginning, but I want to especially
mention Joe Paolino and Mark Weiner and Ira Magaziner, and his whole
family, for being there for me when I was just what then-President Bush
referred to as a Governor of a small southern State. [Laughter] And I
was so naive, I thought it was a compliment. [Laughter] And I still do.
[Laughter]
I want to thank Patrick for giving me the opportunity to come here
for him today. I don't know anybody in the Congress who works as hard as
he does. I don't know anybody in the Congress any more devoted to his or
her constituents than he is. I don't know anybody in the Congress on the
good days and the bad--and believe me, you get your fair share of both
down there--who is always up, always there, always focused, always doing
what he's supposed to do. You should be very proud of what he has done
with his life for you and the people of Rhode Island.
I think it is truly astonishing that one family has produced so many
people so devoted to public service. His cousin Joe did a great job in
the Congress. His cousin Kathleen, I think, is the finest Lieutenant
Governor in the entire United States--unbelievable in terms of what
she's been able to accomplish.
But over the long run, if you will just stick with him, his energy
and consistency and dedication will make a unique mark on Rhode Island
and on the United States, and I want you to stick with him. And besides
that, he's now raised all this money for these other people in Congress,
and they owe him everything. I mean, if we get the majority, they may
move the Capital up here, for all I know, just because of Patrick.
Let me just say, too, on behalf of Hillary and myself and Al and
Tipper Gore, I want to thank the people of Rhode Island for being so
good to us and to me, especially, through two elections. I stopped at a
school on the way here and read my radio address for tomorrow morning.
And on the way out, I stopped and shook hands with a lot of the folks
that were on the street. And I turned to one of my aides and I said,
``You know, I want to spend the rest of my Presidency in places where I
got 60 percent of the vote or more.'' [Laughter] I was pretty happy. But
I'm very grateful to you.
And I guess the remarks that I make today are sort of like what we
at home used to call preaching to the saved. But I hope you will listen
to what I have to say, and I know that you have friends, not only all
over this State but all over this country, and I hope you will share it
with them.
Some people think I'm crazy for doing what Patrick said I am. I've
never worked harder in an election for myself than I'm working for our
Congressmen and our Senators and our Vice President. And of course,
there is one particular Senate race I have more than a passing interest
in. [Laughter] But I'm doing it for other reasons.
I come here today a little--actually, reluctant to speak because the
night before last was the first time in 2 weeks I've been to bed before
2 in the morning, because we were at Camp David working on those Middle
East peace talks. And I'm not sure I'll remember what I say when I
finish, because I'm still a little tired.
But let me tell you what I think is most important and what I'm
concerned about. Patrick had it right; I always tell people there's only
three things you need to know about this election: It is a big election;
there are big differences; and only the Democrats want you to know what
the differences are. What does that tell you about who you ought to vote
for?
But let me explain what I mean by that. We're in the midst of the
longest economic expansion in our country's history, including those
which occurred in wartime, and we've had no war. All the social
indicators are going in the right direction. The welfare rolls are half
what they were when I took the oath of office. The crime rate is down.
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