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children does better.
A few months ago I was down in Dallas, visiting one of our
AmeriCorps projects. And I saw two pictures that illustrate why I think
this issue is so important. One, I was walking with a young woman who
was my tour guide on this project. She was a teen mother, had a child
out of wedlock, thought she had done the wrong thing, went back and got
her GED, and was in the AmeriCorps program because she wanted to work in
this poor community to help them and earn money to go to college. But
the second person I met was the real reason we ought to be working for
welfare reform. I met a young woman who was very well-spoken. She told
me she had just graduated from a university in the Southeast. But she
was working on this anyway, even though she really didn't have to go on
to college anymore. And I said, ``Why are you doing this?'' She said,
``Because I was born into a family of a welfare mother. But I had a
chance to get a good education; I
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got a college degree. And I want these young people to come out like I
did.''
Now, that's the kind of citizen we want in this country. Those are
the kind of people that will turn these disturbing trends around. Those
are the kind of people that will enable us to come together and go
forward into the future.
We owe them that. And we can do it. You and I can do it now.
Congress can do it this year. And every one of us ought to do our part.
Thank you, and God bless you.
Note: The President spoke at 2:45 p.m. at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel.
In his remarks, he referred to Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont, chair, and
Gov. Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, vice-chair, National Governors'
Association; and Mayor Peter C. Brownell of Burlington, VT.
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Volume 31--Number 31
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Week Ending Friday, August 4, 1995
Statement on Oil and Gas Drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf
July 31, 1995
The Government today has reached an agreement protecting sensitive
coastal areas off Florida and Alaska from oil drilling, which has been
prohibited since 1988, through Democratic and Republican Presidencies.
Concern for our coasts is part of the common ground we share as
Americans, not only in the areas protected today but in places as
different as California, Massachusetts, Oregon, New Jersey, and
Washington. Once sensitive areas are damaged--beaches, the fishing
industry, tourism--our natural heritage suffers greatly.
This settlement is good for the environment, good for taxpayers,
good for the economy, and fair to the oil companies.
I am pleased that Secretary Babbitt and Attorney General Reno
reached this agreement with the oil companies. We celebrate today with
the citizens of Florida and Alaska, and I pledge continued protection of
our coasts.
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Executive Order 12967--Establishing an Emergency Board to Investigate
Disputes Between Metro North Commuter Railroad and Its Employees
Represented by Certain Labor Organizations
July 31, 1995
Disputes exist between Metro North Commuter Railroad and certain
employees represented by certain labor organizations. The labor
organizations involved in these disputes are designated on the attached
list, which is made a part of this order.
The disputes have not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions
of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) (the
``Act'').
Parties empowered by the Act have requested that the President
establish a second emergency board pursuant to section 9A of the Act (45
U.S.C. 159a).
Section 9A(e) of the Act provides that the President, upon such
request, shall appoint a second emergency board to investigate and
report on the disputes.
Now, Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including
section 9A of the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Establishment of the Board. There is established
effective July 31, 1995, a board of three members to be appointed by the
President to investigate these disputes. No member shall be pecuniarily
or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees or any
carrier. The board shall perform its functions subject to the
availability of funds.
Sec. 2. Report. Within 30 days after creation of the board, the
parties to the disputes shall submit to the board final offers for
settlement of the disputes. Within 30 days after submission of final
offers for settlement of the disputes, the board shall submit a report
to the President setting forth its selection of the most reasonable
offer.
Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section 9A(h) of the
Act, from the
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time a request to establish a board is made until 60 days after the
board makes its report, no change, except by agreement, shall be made by
the parties in the conditions out of which the disputes arose.
Sec. 4. Records Maintenance. The records and files of the board are
records of the Office of the President and upon the board's termination
shall be maintained in the physical custody of the National Mediation
Board.
Sec. 5. Expiration. The board shall terminate upon submission of the
report provided for in section 2 of this order.
William J. Clinton
The White House,
July 31, 1995.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:52 p.m., July 31,
1995]
Note: This Executive order, with its attached list, was published in the
Federal Register on August 2.
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Memorandum on Assistance to the United Nations Rapid Reaction Force in
Bosnia
July 31, 1995
Presidential Determination No. 95-33
Memorandum for the Secretary of State; the Secretary of Defense
Subject: Determination to Authorize the Furnishing of Emergency Military
Assistance to the United Nations for Purposes of Supporting the Rapid
Reaction Force in Bosnia Under Section 506(a)(1) of the Foreign
Assistance Act
Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 506(a)(1) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 2318 (a)(1) (the
``Act''), I hereby determine that:
(1) an unforeseen emergency exists, which requires immediate
military assistance to an international organization; and
(2) the emergency requirement cannot be met under the authority of
the Arms Export Control Act or any other law except section 506 of
the Act.
Therefore, I hereby authorize the furnishing of up to $3,000,000 in
defense articles and defense services from the Department of Defense to
the United Nations for purposes of supporting the Rapid Reaction Force
in Bosnia.
The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to report this
determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the
Federal Register.
William J. Clinton
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:21 a.m., August 4,
1995]
Note: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on August 7.
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Remarks on Congressional Action on Appropriations Legislation and an
Exchange With Reporters
August 1, 1995
The President. Good morning. Looking over the last few days, it is
clear that this Congress is on the wrong track. I began the year hoping
to make bipartisan progress on balancing the budget, on reducing
paperwork, reforming regulation and welfare. And therefore, I was very
pleased last week when a bipartisan majority voted to reject the extreme
anti-environment provisions adopted in the House committee. That was the
right thing to do.
But then the lobbyists for the polluters went to work. They got the
leadership of the House of Representatives to call the bill back up. And
last night, in a remarkable exercise of special interest power, the
House voted to gut environmental and public health protections. It was a
stealth attack on our environment in the guise of a budget bill.
The bill would effectively end Federal enforcement of the Clean
Water Act and the Clean Air Act, a bill that my Republican predecessor
said was his proudest legislative achievement. It allows poisons in our
drinking water, raw sewage on our beaches, oil refineries to pollute,
and limits a community's right to know what chemicals are toxic which
are released in their neighborhoods. It would be bad for our children,
our health, and our environment.
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This is Washington special interest politics at its most effective
and at its worst. Even before the 17 special interest provisions were
added, the bill had already dramatically undercut environmental
protection by cutting environmental enforcement in half.
You don't need to damage the environment to balance the budget. Our
budget demonstrates that, and the budget the American people get out of
this session of Congress ought to demonstrate that. In the past few
days, a battalion of lobbyists has swarmed Capitol Hill, exerting
enormous pressure to save these loopholes. I said I would use the power
of my office to help people, not polluters. I believe we can protect the
environment and grow the economy.
So on this so-called environmental bill, my message to the American
people should be very, very clear: Don't worry. We'll make commonsense
reforms. But the minute this polluter's protection act hits my desk, I
will veto it.
One of the most interesting things that has achieved not too much
notice in the last few days is that while Congress has been taking care
of the special interests, it's also taking care of itself. It is way
behind schedule on virtually every budget bill, in the hope, apparently,
of enforcing a choice at the end of this fiscal year between shutting
the Government down and adopting extreme budget cuts which will be bad
for our country, bad for our economy, and bad for our future.
Apparently, they don't even plan on letting the American people see
their planned Medicare cuts until the last possible minute. But one
bill, wouldn't you know it, is right on schedule--the bill that funds
the Congress, its staff, and its operations.
I don't think Congress should take care of its own business before
it takes care of the people's business. If the congressional leadership
follows through on its plan to send me its own funding bill before it
finishes work on the rest of the budget, I will be compelled to veto it.
I want to work with Congress to pass a balanced budget that protects
the health and the security of the American people, a balanced budget
that strengthens our economy and raises the incomes of our people and
the future prospects of our children. But we have to remember in order
to do this that all the special interests have to be subordinated to the
broader public interest. That is not happening now, but we can still get
things back on track. That's what I want to do, and I still ask, again,
the Congress to work with me to do it.
Helen [Helen Thomas, United Press International].
Opposition From Congress
Q. Mr. President, your policies and your judgment calls appear to be
under siege on Capitol Hill, Waco, Whitewater, Bosnia, social programs,
and so forth. How debilitating has this been on you personally, on your
administration, on the country? And obviously, you're whistling in the
dark if you think you're going to have common ground.
The President. I disagree. It's not been debilitating; it's been
invigorating. And I wouldn't be so surprised. There are two significant
things that--I would say big issues--that have become clear in the last
few days. One is you can see who's in control in this Congress, who's in
control of the people that compelled this unusual revolt on the
environmental issues. You see the story on the NRA today: No gun control
measures will be voted out of committee or on the floor of the House.
I'm sure glad we got the Brady bill and the assault weapons ban first,
and I still think we ought to have a ban on the cop-killer bullets. You
see--we're investigating--this Congress is investigating the AARP and
letting the NRA run one of its own investigations. So you see who's in
control. That's the first thing you see.
The second thing you see is more hopeful. There were, after all, 50
Republicans who broke ranks in the House and said that they would put
the environment ahead of party. Senator Dole yesterday said that--in
Vermont at the Governors' conference--that he wanted to pass a welfare
reform bill free of the extremist provisions which the members of his
caucus, some of them, had demanded that he put on a welfare reform bill.
And so we may be moving toward finding common ground in welfare reform.
So you see two things. You see who's in control, and it's not good.
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