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Monday, February 14, 1994
Volume 30--Number 6
Pages 217-282
Contents
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Weekly Compilation of
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Addresses and Remarks
Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement Reform--257
Bosnia--219, 252
Houston, TX
Cattlebarons Children's Party--220
Greater Houston Partnership--226
Space shuttle Discovery astronauts--233
Texas Presidential dinner and gala--223
NCAA football champion Florida State University Seminoles--259
Radio address--217
Shreveport, LA, General Motors employees--235
Teleconference with mayors--248
Ukrainian-Americans--256
Upper Marlboro, MD, Prince Georges County Correctional Center--244
World Jewish Congress--250
Appointments and Nominations
Securities and Exchange Commission, Commissioner--262
U.S. Court of Appeals, judges--255
U.S. District Court, judges--255
U.S. Information Agency, Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Director--255
Communications to Congress
Budget rescissions and deferrals, message--235
Libya, message--260
Progress toward regional nonproliferation in South Asia, letter
transmitting report--243
Science, technology, and American diplomacy, letter transmitting
report--242
Communications to Federal Agencies
Environmental justice, memorandum--279
Executive Orders
Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority
Populations and Low-Income Populations--276
Interviews With the News Media
Exchanges with reporters
Briefing Room--252
Oval Office--248, 262
Roosevelt Room--257
South Lawn--219
Interview with California newspaper publishers--270
News conference with Japanese Prime Minister Hosokawa, February 11
(No. 46)--263
Meetings With Foreign Leaders
Japanese Prime Minister Hosokawa--262, 263
Statements by the President
See also Appointments and Nominations
Attack on Sarajevo--219
National African-American History Month--217
Senate action on education legislation--243
Statements Other Than Presidential
Access by the House Banking Committee to Iraq-related documents--244
Supplementary Materials
Acts approved by the President--282
Checklist of White House press releases--281
Digest of other White House announcements--280
Nominations submitted to the Senate--281
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Week Ending Friday, February 11, 1994
Statement on the Observance of National African-American History Month
February 4, 1994
I want to extend my greetings to all of you who are celebrating
African-American History Month during this important time of renewal and
reflection for our country.
America was founded on the principle that we're all created equal,
and this solemn commitment to tolerance and freedom must continue to
bind us as a nation. Our diverse culture enriches and broadens the
American experience of which African-American heritage is an inseparable
part. It weaves throughout our country's history, profoundly influencing
every aspect of our national life.
We've come a long way since the days when white-only and colored-
only signs disfigured our country's landscape and demeaned too many of
our citizens. African-Americans have made great strides in recent years,
commanding leadership positions in the public and private sectors in
record numbers. Opportunities for education advancement, election, and
mobility continue to expand among black Americans, and our country's
moving ever closer to fulfilling its fundamental promise of equality for
all.
Yet the truth is, many problems continue to plague our communities,
tarnishing that ideal of equality because they affect African-Americans
more adversely than the rest of us. The poverty, the drugs, the violence
that afflict too many of our people in our communities, of all races and
backgrounds, have severely harmed black children, women, and men,
threatening our vision of a better world.
Throughout this month, we look to the lessons of our past for
solutions to these crises, in the hope of building a brighter world for
the future. Many such solutions can be found in the rich history of the
African-American people. The speeches of Martin Luther King and Malcolm
X, the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth,
the powerful literature of Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Alice Walker,
and so many others explore the difficulties and the joys that pervade
the African-American experience.
By rediscovering and celebrating this wealth of history, we can draw
strength from the successes of these great leaders and determination
from their example for the hard work in the days ahead to forge a new
era of healing and hope. As we continually strive to embrace the talent
and creativity of all our Nation's people, I want to give my best wishes
to all of you for an exciting, productive, and renewing month.
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Week Ending Friday, February 11, 1994
The President's Radio Address
February 5, 1994
Good morning. This morning I want to talk with you about jobs, how
more Americans can find new jobs and better ones, how we can help
business to create those jobs, and how we can prepare our people to hold
them.
I became President committed to growing the economy, cutting the
deficit, and creating new jobs. A year later, we've made real progress
toward all those goals. We brought down next year's projected deficit by
$126 billion, about 40 percent less than it was predicted to be. And in
the past 12 months, the economy has created 1.9 million new jobs, 90
percent of them in private industry. In fact, more private sector jobs
were created in the past year than in the previous 4 years. So together
we've accomplished a lot. But we've got a lot more to do to achieve a
lasting recovery that benefits every region of our country and every
sector of our society. We must maintain budget discipline, continue our
comprehensive strategy to create more growth and more opportunity for
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Americans, and make sure our workers and our young people especially
have the new skills for the jobs that will be created.
On Monday, I'll submit the next installment of our plan for deficit
reduction and economic growth. The budget cuts spending for more than
300 Government programs, completely eliminates more than 100 programs,
and reduces the Federal work force by more than 100,000 and gives 7 to
14 Cabinet Departments less money than last year.
Meanwhile, we invest more in developing new technologies to create
new jobs, in educating our children and training our workers for those
jobs, and fighting crime and protecting the environment, and in giving
our children a healthy start in life. We have to cut spending on
yesterday's outmoded programs so we can bring down the deficit and still
invest more in tomorrow's most urgent priorities.
This morning, I want to tell you more about one of our most
important priorities: helping people from unemployment to work, from
welfare to work, from school to work, and from lower paying work to
better paying work. For all our success at creating new jobs, too many
people are still looking for work, too many workers' wages are still
stagnant and have been for two decades, and too many young people are
not on track for good paying jobs.
Because the global economy and new technologies have changed the
rules of the game, the only ticket to good jobs with growing incomes are
real skills and the ability to keep learning new ones. That's why I've
called for a revolution in education and training, from our schools to
our unemployment offices to our job training programs. Our American
workers must be the best educated, best trained, and most highly skilled
in the world.
With our Goals 2000 program, we'll improve our schools, linking
world-class standards to grassroots reforms all over America. With our
school-to-work initiative, we're linking schools with workplaces and
providing improved training for young people who want to go from high
school to work. These initiatives have been approved by the House of
Representatives and will be considered this week by the Senate.
Just as we need to train our young people, we must retrain millions
of workers who have been displaced by technological change, by
international trade, by corporate restructuring, and by reducing defense
spending. Later this month, we'll introduce the ``Reemployment Act of
1994'' to consolidate dozens of different job training programs and
convert the unemployment system into a reemployment system. We have to
do this because the unemployment system and the patchwork of job
training programs have been trapped in a time warp, frozen in bygone
days when most laid-off workers could expect to be called back to their
old jobs. Now we need one source of job training, counseling, and income
support that workers can call upon as soon as they know they're losing
their jobs because most workers won't be called back to their old jobs
and because most younger workers can look forward to changing work seven
or eight times in a lifetime.
The reemployment act will create one-stop job centers where every
unemployed worker will be able to learn new skills, find out about new
opportunities, and get help for themselves and their families. The plan
works hand in hand with our plans for welfare reform and health care
reform. We need to make every welfare office a work office where people
will be encouraged to seize opportunities for training and jobs. And
when we guarantee health security for every American, guaranteed private
insurance that can never be taken away, then people will no longer be
afraid that they'll lose their medical coverage when they move from
welfare to work or from their old jobs to new ones.
Last week, I met with hundreds of workers, business people, and job
trainers who told me how their communities have met the challenges of
offering new skills and new opportunities. I was inspired by the drive
and dedication of people like Deb Woodbury from Bangor, Maine, who lost
a factory job and learned new skills as a marketing sales
representative; Cynthia Scott of San Antonio, who went from welfare to a
training program in nursing and a job in a hospital; Donald Hutchinson,
a high school graduate from Detroit, who learned new skills as a
machinist; and John Hahn of Niagara County, New York, who was laid off
from a job he had
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