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Monday, July 17, 2000
Volume 36--Number 28
Pages 1605-1647
Contents
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Weekly Compilation of
Presidential
Documents
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Addresses and Remarks
See also Appointment and Nominations; Resignations and Retirements
Congressional Gold Medal, presentation to Father Theodore M.
Hesburgh--1636
Home heating oil reserve--1608
Internet address--1605
Maryland
Departure for Camp David--1623, 1637
NAACP national convention in Baltimore--1627
Middle East Peace Summit--1623
Pennsylvania
Departure for State College--1608
National Governors' Association meeting in State College--1610
Reception for Representative Ron Klink in Philadelphia--1618
Radio address--1606
Vietnam-U.S. bilateral trade agreement--1637
Appointment and Nominations
Veterans Affairs Department, Secretary, remarks--1609
Bill Signings
Emergency Supplemental Act, 2000, statement--1640
Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2001, Emergency
Supplemental Act, 2000, and Cerro Grande Fire Supplemental--1640
Communications to Congress
Cyprus-U.S. mutual legal assistance treaty with documentation,
message transmitting--1643
Haiti, letter transmitting report--1625
``Hate Crimes Prevention Act,'' letter--1627
South Africa-U.S. mutual legal assistance treaty with documentation,
message transmitting--1644
Communications to Federal Agencies
FY 2001 Refugee Admissions Consultations, memorandum--1605
Turkey-U.S. agreement on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy,
memorandum--1625
Executive Orders
Federal Career Intern Program--1607
Interviews With the News Media
Exchanges with reporters
Camp David, MD--1624
Rose Garden--1637
South Lawn--1608, 1623
Meetings With Foreign Leaders
Israel, Prime Minister Barak--1624
Palestinian Authority, Chairman Arafat--1624
Resignations and Retirements
Veterans Affairs Department, Secretary, remarks--1609
(Continued on the inside of the back cover.)
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Editor's Note: The President was in Camp David, MD, on July 14, the
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this issue will be printed next week.
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Contents--Continued
Statements by the President
See also Bill Signings
Environmental Protection Agency action to strengthen water quality
protections--1625
House of Representatives action on the foreign operations
appropriations legislataion--1639
Medicare prescription drug benefit legislation--1626
Philippines, accident--1626
Statements by the President--Continued
Senate action on estate tax legislation--1644
White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Policy--1639
Supplementary Materials
Acts approved by the President--1647
Checklist of White House press releases--1646
Digest of other White House announcements--1645
Nominations submitted to the Senate--1646
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Monday, July 17, 2000
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Week Ending Friday, July 14, 2000
Memorandum on FY 2001 Refugee Admissions Consultations
July 6, 2000
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Subject: FY 2001 Refugee Admissions Consultations
In accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (INA), you are authorized to consult with the appropriate committees
of the Congress concerning refugee admissions as follows:
1. The authorization of 80,000 refugee admissions, 76,000 of which
are funded, during FY 2001, which would be allocated by specific
region as follows: 20,000 for Africa; 6,000 for East Asia
(including Amerasians); 3,000 for Latin America and the Caribbean;
10,000 for the Near East and South Asia; 37,000 for Europe
(including 20,000 for the former Yugoslavia and 17,000 for the
former Soviet Union); and 4,000 for the unallocated reserve. The
recommended level of funded admissions is equal to the level
assumed in the FY 2001 budget request (76,000).
2. The authorization of an additional 10,000 refugee admission
numbers to be made available for the adjustment to permanent
resident status of persons who have been granted asylum in the
United States.
3. The designation, pursuant to section 101(a)(42)(B) of the INA, of
persons in Cuba, Vietnam, and the former Soviet Union, who, if
they otherwise qualify for admission as refugees, may be
considered refugees under the INA even though they are still
within their country of nationality or habitual residence.
William J. Clinton
cc: The Attorney General
The Secretary of Health and Human
Services
Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary
on July 7. This item was not received in time for publication in the
appropriate issue.
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Week Ending Friday, July 14, 2000
The President's Internet Address
July 8, 2000
Good morning. Earlier this week, we launched a new and improved
White House website at www.whitehouse.gov. Today I want to talk a little
about the website and about our other efforts to use technology to bring
Government closer to the people.
I'm proud to have been the President who brought the White House
into the digital age. When I became President, there were just 50
websites on the World Wide Web. Now there are 17 million, and almost 50
million households on-line in the United States alone.
It was just 6 years ago that we launched the very first White House
website. Our website now has more than 9,000 pages of information, and
that's not counting the archives. We've redesigned and updated it to
keep pace with its growth and the rapid changes in technology. The new
and improved White House website is another important step in our
efforts to make Government high-speed, high-tech, and user-friendly.
We're bringing information that matters into people's homes--policy
papers, the citizens' handbook, links to Federal agencies.
We've also made it easier to find the features that visitors use
most--like E-mailing the White House, taking an on-line tour, or finding
special activities for kids. And we've made the website a permanent part
of the Executive Office of the President, so that future Presidents will
be able to change it to suit their needs as easily as they can change
the furniture here in the Oval Office.
Under the leadership of Vice President Gore, we've used information
technology to bring Government closer to citizens in many
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ways. People are now using U.S. Government websites to file their taxes,
compare their Medicare options, and find good jobs. They're tapping into
the latest health research, browsing the vast collections of the Library
of Congress, and following along with NASA's missions in outer space.
And we're in the process of creating a single, customer-focused website,
www.firstgov.gov, where Americans can find every on-line resource
offered by the Federal Government.
But we must do more to ensure that the benefits of the information
revolution flow to every American. That means working to close the
digital divide, to put computers in every classroom, to train our
teachers to make the most of them. We must also pay attention to the
issues of computer security and the privacy of our records on computers
so that the newest technology doesn't undermine our oldest values.
Eighty-one years ago this week, Woodrow Wilson became the very first
President to communicate by radio. On his way home from Europe,
President Wilson used the radio, after several unsuccessful efforts, to
call the then-young Franklin Roosevelt, who was his Assistant Secretary
of the Navy back in Washington. It wasn't immediately clear how this new
technology would be used or that in just 15 years Roosevelt, as
President, would be making radio broadcasts that 80 percent of our
Nation would hear. But it was clear that a new door to the future had
opened.
We're at just such a moment again today, and the new White House
website is just one small step toward bringing Government more fully
into the information age. We have barely begun to understand how
information technology will change our lives. But those of us in
Government have a responsibility to use these new tools to expand the
reach of democracy and give more people a chance to live their dreams.
I'll see you on-line at whitehouse.gov, and thanks for logging on.
Note: The address was recorded at approximately 11 a.m. on July 7 in
the Oval Office at the White House for broadcast at 10 a.m. on July 8.
The transcript was made available by the Office of the Press Secretary
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