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Week Ending Friday, August 7, 1998
Statement on the Anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act
August 5, 1998
Five years ago today the Family and Medical Leave Act went into
effect, giving tens of millions of Americans the peace of mind that they
would never have to choose between the jobs they need and the families
they love. I am very proud that the Family and Medical Leave Act was the
very first piece of legislation I signed into law.
Millions of Americans have benefited from this historic legislation
by taking time off--without fear of losing their jobs--to care for a
newborn or adopted child, to attend to their own serious health needs,
or to care for a seriously ill parent, child, or spouse. In addition, a
report issued today by the Department of Labor shows the relative ease
with which the law has been implemented--the overwhelming majority of
employers have found the FMLA easy to administer and 9 out of 10
complaints have been successfully resolved, often with a simple phone
call.
I have always believed that we can help our workers fulfill their
family responsibilities and strengthen the economy and America's
businesses. For 5 years, the Family and Medical Leave Act has helped us
to fulfill both of those critical goals.
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Statement on House Action on the Census Amendment
August 5, 1998
I am very disappointed that the House failed to adopt an amendment
to the FY 99 Commerce-Justice-State appropriations bill that would have
removed onerous restrictions on the Census Bureau's plan for the
decennial census. By failing to adopt this amendment, the House is
undermining the Census Bureau's ability to plan and conduct an accurate
decennial census.
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To ensure a fair and accurate count, my administration has supported
the 2000 census plan developed by the experts at the Census Bureau that
was based upon recommendations by the National Academy of Sciences. It
is a plan that will correct the inaccuracies of the 1990 census, which
missed millions of Americans and disproportionately undercounted
children, minorities, and residents in urban and rural communities. This
is the first census of the 21st century, and we must ensure that the
census, the single most important source of information about the
American people, is accurate.
Congress must remove these restrictions. It is critically important
that the Census Bureau have the funding it needs to implement its 2000
census plan--a plan that will produce the most accurate census in
history using the best, most up-to-date scientific methods.
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Executive Order 13095--Suspension of Executive Order 13083
August 5, 1998
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America and in order to enable full and
adequate consultation with State and local elected officials, their
representative organizations, and other interested parties, it is hereby
ordered that Executive Order 13083, entitled ``Federalism,'' is
suspended.
William J. Clinton
The White House,
August 5, 1998.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., August 6,
1998]
Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on
August 7.
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Proclamation 7114--Designating Klondike Gold Rush International
Historical Park
August 5, 1998
By the President of the United States
of America
A Proclamation
A century ago, the Klondike Gold Rush began a migration that forever
changed Alaska and the Yukon Territory. More than 100,000 people headed
north during 1897 and 1898, catapulting a little-known region from
obscurity to the center of the world stage. While the Klondike was not
the first or largest western gold rush, coming nearly 50 years after the
1848 gold discovery at Sutter's Mill, California, it is remembered for
the sheer drama by which it was announced to the world and for its
century-long influence on Alaska and the upper Yukon River basin.
The United States and Canada have been engaged for 30 years in joint
planning and cooperation to commemorate the Klondike Gold Rush and
preserve historic structures and trails on both sides of the
international boundary. In 1976, the Government of the United States
established Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, consisting of a
Seattle unit, a Skagway unit, a Chilkoot Pass unit, and a White Pass
unit, to preserve the historic structures and trails. The Government of
Canada has recognized the national significance of the Chilkoot Trail
and Dawson Historical Complex by designating them as National Historic
Sites. It has also designated a section of the Yukon River as a Canadian
Heritage River and taken other steps to commemorate the rich history of
this region.
It is the desire of the United States to join our Canadian neighbors
in celebrating our shared history on the occasion of the centennial of
the Klondike Gold Rush and to reaffirm the commitment of the United
States to continuing the joint efforts of both nations to preserve our
shared Klondike history.
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In 1996, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien proclaimed that,
``the governments of Canada and the United States and of Yukon and
Alaska in a long-standing spirit of cooperation have agreed to establish
the Klondike Gold Rush International Historic Park, incorporating the
resources of the Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site in British
Columbia and the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Alaska .
. .''
Section 3(a) of U.S. Public Law 94-323 states, ``At such time . . .
that planning, development, and protection of the adjacent or related
historic and scenic resources in Canada have been accomplished by the
Government of Canada in a manner consistent with the purposes for which
the park was established, and upon enactment of a provision similar to
this section by the proper authority of the Canadian Government, the
President is authorized to issue a proclamation designating and
including the park as a part of an international historical park to be
known as Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park.''
Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United
States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section
3(a) of Public Law 94-323 of June 30, 1976, do proclaim that Klondike
Gold Rush National Historical Park is designated and included as part of
an international historical park to be known as Klondike Gold Rush
International Historical Park.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of
August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, and
of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
twenty-third.
William J. Clinton
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., August 6,
1998]
Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on August
7.
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Remarks at a Unity '98 Dinner
August 5, 1998
Thank you. I know you need a stretch, but it's going on too long.
[Laughter]
Let me just say the most important words I can say: Thank you. Thank
you for your support for me and for our administration and for our
candidates for Senate and Congress and for the whole concept of this
Unity campaign. Thank you, Representative Pelosi and Leader Gephardt and
Senator Torricelli and Steve Grossman, all dedicated Democrats, all
dedicated Americans.
Thank you, Mr. Vice President, for the wonderful work that you have
done in so many ways, and everything that we've done together in the
last 5\1/2\ years.
In 1996, when the American people were good enough to give the Vice
President and me another term and made me the first Democratic President
in 60 years, since Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, to be reelected, we
picked up some seats in the House. And if we had picked up a few more,
we would have won the House. There was, I think, one overwhelming
reason--in the last 10 days, even though we had the issues and the
direction, we were outspent in the 20 closest districts 4\1/2\ to one.
But we did begin this Unity concept a little too late, but it still
did very well. All of our contributors liked it because all three
committees weren't asking at the same time to give money or raise it.
But it was the right thing to do, because we could work on helping
particular candidates, targeting particular States, going after
particular constituencies, getting our turnout up.
This year we're trying to go sooner and do more. And I cannot say
enough for what I believe is the vision of the leaders of the House, the
Senate, and the Democratic Committee for doing this early and doing it
together and in good faith with a good heart. The Vice President and I
and the First Lady and Tipper, we're all committed to making this work.
The Vice President gave that wonderful portrait of what's happened
the last 6 years through chapter 6. Chapter 7 is, we win if we do the
right things--if we do the right things, we win.
Hillary came up with this great motto for the millennial celebration
we're going to have on New Year's Eve 1999-2000, and between now and
then: ``Honor the past; imagine the future.'' And we started out a
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of weeks ago honoring the past by announcing grants by private citizens
to help us save the Star-Spangled Banner. It's hard to think of anything
that embodies our past more. And then Hillary went to Thomas Edison's
<SUP>\1\</SUP> home in New Jersey to talk about saving that and then to
Harriet Tubman's home, then to George Washington's revolutionary
headquarters, then to New York to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the
beginning of the women's movement, all honoring the past.
\1\ White House correction.
But we've also had a lot of interesting lectures at the White House
imagining the future. Stephen Hawking, the great physicist from
Cambridge, England, came and spoke in a very heroic way, because he
suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease, about what we would learn about the
larger world in the future. We had poets for the first time in a long
time--a genuine poetry reading in the White House with our poet
laureates and ordinary citizens, including children, thinking about
their future.
Steve said that never, at least--I quit looking at the Civil War
because I'm not sure before that political trends are indicative. But
since the Civil War, the party of the President in the President's
second term has always lost some seats at midterm. But there is a reason
for that which we have determined to erase--and these records are made
to be changed--and that is, that generally there is the sense that no
matter how well liked the President might be, the term is three-quarters
over, so what else is new.
Well, when I was reelected, the Vice President and I sat down one
day, and I told our people, I said, ``Look, I want us to drive the
agenda of this country until the last hour of the last day of my term in
January of 2001. That is what we signed on for. That is what we owe the
American people. That is the right thing to do.'' And if you look at
what is happening today, our party--I love what Dick Gephardt said about
when he was the majority leader, how he met with the minority leader and
how we tried to work together. Because this election fundamentally is
not about the Democratic Party; it's about the American people. And it's
about our agenda, which puts progress over partisanship and people over
power and unity over division.
We believe this country has big challenges. We believe, first, you
don't sit on a lead in a global economy and society like the one we're
living in. You know, the temptation is after all the tough years we had,
``things are going so well now; why don't we just relax, kick back and
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