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Monday, December 12, 1994
 
Volume 30--Number 49
Pages 2459-2484
 
Contents

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Weekly Compilation of

Presidential

Documents



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Addresses and Remarks

    See also Appointments and Nominations; Bill Signings; Resignations 
        and Retirements
    Business Enterprise Trust awards--2468
    Democratic Leadership Council gala--2470
    Florida, Summit of the Americas volunteers in Miami--2481
    Hungary
        American community in Budapest--2465
        Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Budapest--
            2462
        Nuclear agreements signing ceremony in Budapest--2464
    National Christmas tree lighting--2477
    Pearl Harbor Survivors Association--2477
    Radio address--2460

Appointments and Nominations

    President's Export Council, statement--2470
    Treasury Department, Secretary, remarks--2467

Bill Signings

    Uruguay Round Agreements Act, remarks--2478

Communications to Congress

    Locality-based comparability payments, letter--2459

Communications to Federal Agencies

    Assistance for the New Independent States of the former Soviet 
        Union, memorandum--2476
    Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, memorandum--2466
    Locality-based comparability payments, memorandum--2459

Meetings With Foreign Leaders

    Belarus, President Lukashenko--2464
    Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe--2462
    Kazakhstan, President Nazarbayev--2464
    Russia, President Yeltsin--2464
    Ukraine, President Kuchma--2464
    United Kingdom, Prime Minister Major--2464

Proclamations

    Human Rights Day, Bill of Rights Day, and Human Rights Week--2481
    National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month--2461

Resignations and Retirements

    Treasury Department, Secretary, remarks--2467

Statements by the President

    See also Appointments and Nominations
    Death of Elizabeth Glaser--2462
    Federal funding of research on human embryos--2459
    Reorganization of the Department of Agriculture--2470
    Webster L. Hubbell--2470
    White House initiative on welfare reform--2480

Supplementary Materials

    Acts approved by the President--2484
    Checklist of White House press releases--2484
    Digest of other White House announcements--2483
    Nominations submitted to the Senate--2484

Editor's Note: The President was in Miami, FL, on December 9, 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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Monday, December 12, 1994
 
Volume 30--Number 49
Pages 2459-2484
 
Week Ending Friday, December 9, 1994
 
Memorandum on Locality-Based Comparability Payments


November 30, 1994

Memorandum for the President's Pay Agent:

    The Secretary of Labor
    The Director of the Office of Management and Budget
    The Director of the Office of Personnel Management

Subject: Locality-Based Comparability Payments

    I have reviewed your report concerning recommended locality-based 
comparability payments for General Schedule employees, submitted in 
accordance with section 5304 of title 5, United States Code. I approve 
the recommended payments as set forth in Table 4 of the report, and I 
direct the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement 
those payments, effective as of the beginning of the first applicable 
pay period commencing on or after January 1, 1995. I further authorize 
and direct the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to ensure 
that this memorandum and a schedule of the attached comparability 
payment rates and localities be published in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:07 a.m., December 2, 
1994]

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on December 1, and it was published in the Federal Register, with a 
schedule of rates and localities, on December 5. This item was not 
received in time for publication in the appropriate issue.


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Monday, December 12, 1994
 
Volume 30--Number 49
Pages 2459-2484
 
Week Ending Friday, December 9, 1994
 
Letter to Congressional Leaders on Locality-Based Comparability Payments

November 30, 1994

Dear Mr. Speaker:  (Dear Mr. President:)

    In accordance with section 5304(d)(3) of title 5, United States 
Code, I hereby report to the Congress on the implementation of locality-
based comparability payments for General Schedule employees for calendar 
year 1995.
    I have directed the President's Pay Agent to put into effect the 
locality-based comparability payments shown on the enclosed table, 
effective in January 1995. The report of the President's Pay Agent, 
which includes the information required by section 5304(d)(3) regarding 
comparability payments for 1995 and 1996, is also enclosed.
    Sincerely,
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: Identical letters were sent to Thomas S. Foley, Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, and Albert Gore, Jr., President of the Senate. 
This letter was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
December 1. This item was not received in time for publication in the 
appropriate issue.


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Pages 2459-2484
 
Week Ending Friday, December 9, 1994
 
Statement on Federal Funding of Research on Human Embryos

December 2, 1994

    The Director of the National Institutes of Health has received a 
report regarding Federal funding of research on human embryos. The 
subject raises profound ethical and moral questions as well as issues 
concerning the appropriate allocation of Federal funds. I appreciate the 
work of the committees that have considered this complex issue, and I 
understand that advances in in vitro fertilization research and other 
areas could derive from such work. However, I do not believe that 
Federal funds should be used to support the

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creation of human embryos for research purposes, and I have directed 
that NIH not allocate any resources for such research. In order to 
ensure that advice on complex bioethical issues that affect our society 
can continue to be developed, we are planning to move forward with the 
establishment of a National Bioethics Advisory Commission over the next 
year.

Note: This item was not received in time for publication in the 
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Monday, December 12, 1994
 
Volume 30--Number 49
Pages 2459-2484
 
Week Ending Friday, December 9, 1994
 
The President's Radio Address

December 3, 1994

    Good morning. December and the holiday season it ushers in is a 
wonderful time of year. The pace slows and moods brighten as the holiday 
spirit lifts us up and brings us closer together. We have a chance to 
visit with family and friends, to celebrate, to reminisce, to think 
about the year ahead as well as the year we've just finished. We have 
the chance to reflect on our accomplishments as individuals and as a 
nation.
    In the last 2 years, our administration has made a good start. We've 
worked hard to downsize the Government and reduce the deficit and to 
create jobs and opportunities and to help middle class Americans take 
advantage of both. Unemployment is at a 4-year low. We're having the 
most rapid economic growth in 7 years. Things are moving in the right 
direction. But despite this progress, we know Americans have a lot of 
problems that we still have to work on up here in Washington, including 
stagnant incomes and crime and other difficult social challenges.
    But I think all of us know that nothing we can do will truly restore 
the American dream unless individual Americans exercise more personal 
responsibility for their own lives. That's why we must continue our work 
here to reform welfare and to help educate more Americans with better 
education and training to face the challenges of a global economy in the 

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