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Monday, April 9, 2001
Volume 37--Number 14
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Contents
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Addresses and Remarks
See also Meetings With Foreign Leaders
American Society of Newspaper Editors convention, question-and-
answer session --574
China, U.S. Navy aircraft incident--560, 571, 581
Congressional Hispanic Caucus, meeting--566
Congressional leaders, meeting--565
Delaware, leadership forum in Wilmington--568
Horatio Alger Awards, presentation--581
National Restaurant Association--562
Radio address--559
Senate action on Federal budget legislation--582
Trade policy--565
U.S. Conference of Mayors National Summit on Investment in the New
American City--578
Virginia, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards, presentation in
Crystal City--580
Communications to Congress
World intellectual property rights, letter transmitting report--573
Executive Orders
Amendment to Executive Order 13202, Preservation of Open Competition
and Government Neutrality Towards Government Contractors' Labor
Relations on Federal and Federally Funded Construction
Projects--584
Further Amendment to Executive Order 10000, Regulations Governing
Additional Compensation and Credit Granted Certain Employees of
the Federal Government Serving Outside the United States--580
Termination of Emergency Authority for Certain Export Controls--573
Interviews With the News Media
Exchanges with reporters
Cabinet Room--565
Oval Office--561
Letters and Messages
National Library Week, message--566
Passover, message--584
(Continued on the inside of the back cover.)
Editor's Note: The President was in Milwaukee, WI, on April 6, 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
Meetings With Foreign Leaders
Egypt, President Mubarak--561
Proclamations
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day--568
National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week--572
Pan American Day and Pan American Week--567
Statements by the President
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), arrest of
former President Milosevic--560
Statements by the President--Continued
House of Representatives action on estate tax legislation--572
Senate action on Federal budget legislation--583
Supplementary Materials
Acts approved by the President--588
Checklist of White House press releases--587
Digest of other White House announcements--585
Nominations submitted to the Senate--586
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Week Ending Friday, April 6, 2001
The President's Radio Address
March 31, 2001
Good morning. This week the House of Representatives approved my
budget plan, and next week the Senate will vote on it, as well.
My budget is shaped by a simple commitment: We can address our
country's needs and still be responsible with taxpayers' money; and we
can fund our priorities without expanding Government beyond the bounds
of responsibility.
Today I want to give you a little more detail about some of my top
priorities, the education and health and character of American children.
My budget spends additional money on these goals and spends it in
effective, creative ways.
We place a new national emphasis on teaching reading with a Reading
First program to help all children learn to read by the third grade.
Reading First will more than triple the existing funding for Federal
reading programs, funding for early intervention and teacher training.
Another program called Early Reading First will put the best reading
methods to use in preschool and Head Start Programs. Again, Early
Reading First will triple the existing funding for Federal early reading
programs.
My budget increases the funding for Head Start, while giving it a
clear mission: to prepare our Nation's most disadvantaged children to
learn as soon as they enter school.
My budget cares for children's health, as well as for their minds.
In 2002, we'll spend well over $25 billion on health coverage for
children under Medicaid and related programs. We invest more than a
billion dollars, up 12 percent from 2001, in research into childhood
diseases at the National Institutes for Health. We fund 1,200 new
community health centers over the next 5 years, to bring better care to
poor children. Thirty percent of the health care center patients are
under 12 years old.
We add 94 million to the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition
program. In 2002, that program will aid more than 7 million people. The
Centers for Disease Control will get a $22 million increase for their
childhood immunization program. My budget plan increases Federal
spending on childcare by 350 million, to reach a half million additional
children.
We provide 200 million extra to provide services for children,
services that prevent child abuse and keep families together. And we
offer 60 million to help children raised in the foster care system with
the cost of college or vocational training.
The values of our children must be a priority of our Nation. So my
budget invests in abstinence education and drug treatment. We create a
new $67 million program that will make grants to faith-based and
community organizations who mentor the children of parents in prison.
This is a long list, but I wanted to make a point: My budget is
active and compassionate. Discretionary spending grows by a healthy,
responsible 4 percent, enough to meet our needs. We fund goals like
education, health, and defense. We reduce debt at a record rate. We set
aside a fund for future emergencies. We then have enough money to
provide broad tax relief, including relief from the marriage penalty and
a doubling of the child tax credit.
Those of us in Washington must always understand the surplus is not
the Government's money; the surplus is the people's money.
My budget has the right balance. And I hope you'll encourage your
Representatives in Congress to support my budget. And I thank you for
listening.
Note: The address was recorded at 1:13 p.m. on March 30 in the Cabinet
Room at the White House for broadcast at 10:06 a.m. on March 31.
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The transcript was made available by the Office of the Press Secretary
on March 30 but was embargoed for release until the broadcast.
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Week Ending Friday, April 6, 2001
Statement on the Arrest of Former President Slobodan Milosevic of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)
April 1, 2001
I welcome today's arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the former President
of Yugoslavia. His arrest represents an important step in bringing to a
close the tragic era of his brutal dictatorship.
Milosevic was responsible for great suffering throughout the Balkan
region. He deserves to be tried for his crimes against the Serbian
people. He also deserves to be tried for violations of international
law. We cannot and must not forget the chilling images of terrified
women and children herded onto trains, emaciated prisoners interned
behind barbed wire, and mass graves unearthed by U.N. investigators.
Milosevic's arrest should be a first step toward trying him for the
crimes against humanity with which he is charged. I am confident that
Yugoslavia will continue down the path of cooperation with the U.N. War
Crimes Tribunal. I am encouraged by the actions that Belgrade has
already taken to work with the Tribunal, including its assistance over
the last several weeks in transferring two indictees to The Hague. I
call on President Kostunica to continue this cooperation and to see that
Milosevic is likewise brought to justice.
The United States appreciates the hard job that Yugoslavia faces in
building its new democracy. I assure the Yugoslav Government and people
that they can count on the friendship of the United States as they
continue down the path of democratic and economic reform. We look
forward to the day that Yugoslavia is fully part of a Europe that is
whole and free and at peace.
Note: In the statement, the President referred to President Vojislav
Kostunica, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).
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