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�Final 10/29/99 lOam
PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
PARAGRAPH ON BUDGET
PHILADELPHIA, P A
October 29, 1999
�This morning, I signed another one-week Continuing
Resolution to keep the government running until next
Friday. This is no way to do the business of the American
people. Again, I urge the Congress to roll up its sleeves,
make the tough choices, and produce a final budget that
honors our commitments and meets our highest priorities
- 100,000 teachers, 50,000 police officers, and real
protections for our environment.
It's time to put progress over partisanship. To stop
the gimmicks and smoke and mirrors that are intended to
hide the fact that the Congressional majority is spending
the Social Security surplus. And it's time to stop
avoiding tough decisions with measures like their acrossthe-board cuts that could have a devastating impact on the
American people. ·
�Final 10/29/99 1Oam
PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
PARAGRAPH ON BUDGET
PHILADELPHIA, P A
October 29, 1999
�This morning, I signed another one-week Continuing
Resolution to keep the government running until next
Friday. This is no way to do the business of the American
people. Again, I urge the Congress to roll up its sleeves,
make the tough choices, and produce a final budget that
honors our commitments and meets our highest priorities
- 100,000 teachers, 50,000 police officers, and real
protections for our environment.
It's time to put progress over partisanship. To stop
the gimmicks and smoke and mirrors that are intended to
hide the fact that the Congressional majority is spending
the Social Security surplus. And it's time to stop
avoiding tough decisions with measures like their acrossthe-board cuts that could have a devastating impact on the
American people.
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PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
REMARKSONTHEBUDGET
THE WHITE HOUSE
October 25, 1999
�Good afternoon. Last February, I sent Congress a
balanced budget that maintains our fiscal discipline. I
proposed a budget that pays down the debt, saves Social
Security, strengthens and modernizes Medicare, and
meets our most pressing priorities- putting 100,000
teachers in our classrooms and another 50,000 community
police on our streets; protecting the environment and
strengthening our national security. Everything in that
budget is paid for - without dipping into the Social
Security surplus.
Unfortunately, the congressional majority has
rejected that approach. In the eight months since I sent
them my balanced budget, they have failed to produce a
budget of their own that meets our priorities and honors
our values.
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Instead, they have moved this way and that, trying one
unsuccessful scheme after another; failing, all the while,
to move us forward. Now the majority wants an arbitrary,
across-the-board cut. Their plan would cut military ,
recruiting, and cut as many as 70,000 men and women
from our active forces. Their plan would cut off
thousands ofchildren from the benefits of HeadS tart.
Their plan would cut childhood immunizations, and cut
the cleanup of toxic waste. And it would do something
they have pledged not to do: with all these cuts, it would
still spend the Social Security surplus, as their own
Congressional Budget Office has said it would do.
And yet: Congress has somehow seen fit to fund
pork-barrel projects, like a ship the Pentagon says it
doesn't need and aircraft it didn't ask for.
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�They have found a way to fund corporate welfare for big
oil companies and other special interests; and t9 fund
Congress's own pay raise. Now, the American people
sent us here to make tough choices. But these are the
wrong choices. Let me be clear: I will not allow the
Congress to raise its own pay, and fund its own porkbarrel projects, while making devastating across-theboard cuts in everything from education to child
nutrition to the FBI. I will not sign any budget·
agreement that puts special interests above the
national interest.
Now, this week, I may be forced to veto several of
the majority's appropriations bills because they fail to
meet America's most pressing national priorities.
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But I have decided to sign into law the Department of
Defense Appropriations Bill - because I cannot, in good
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conscience, allow our n·ational security needs to be held
hostage to this budget battle. This legislation provides
funding for our most ~ritical military needs, including
weapons procurement and modernization, research and
development, and, importantly, a much-needed pay raise
for our men and women in uniform.
I had proposed the first sustained increase in defense
spending in a decade; and this bill will help maintain that.
Still, what Congress has sent me is far from perfect.
Congress loaded this legislation with things the Pentagon
didn't ask for and doesn't need. It applies accounting
gimmicks to important areas.
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�For example, Congress designated the $7.2 billion for
base operations and basic training - something our
military needs and depends on every year- as an
unforeseen, "emergency" expense.
Despite my reservations, I am signing this bill because it is crucial to our national security and our
military readiness. Because the troops who defend
America's interests abroad deserve the strongest support
we can provide here at home.
The second action I am taking is on the
appropriations bill for the Departments of State, Justice,
and Commerce. Today I will veto the bill Congress has
sent me.
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�I will veto this legislation because it fails to fund the
additional 50,000 community police we need to keep
crime going down in our communities. It fails to provide
the funding to give the American people their day in court
against the tobacco companies. It fails to take a strong
stand - indeed, any stand whatsoever - against hate
crimes. And by failing to provide for our obligations,
including our United Nations dues and arrears, it imperils
not only our vote in the U.N., but also our national
security.
The appropriations bill for the Interior Department is
no better. If Congress sends it to me in its current forn1,
with provisions that weaken rather than strengthen our
environmental protections, I will have to veto that, too.
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�On Friday, the temporary resolution that keeps the
government .running will again expire. That's the second
such measure to have come and gone. Another week,
another deadline, and Congress still has not sent me a
budget that pays down the debt, saves Social Security,
strengthens and modernizes Medicare, and meets our
most important priorities. They have not lived up to their
commitment to put 100,000 teachers in our classrooms.
They have not provided for another 50,000 community
pollee to keep crime going down in our communities.
They have not done what is necessary to protect our
environment.
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�Now, even though time is short, we still have a
chance to meet these goals. Today, my budget
negotiators are continuing to work with Congress to finish
the job. I hope Congress will work with us in good faith,
and make this a true season of progress. Thank you.
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Terry Edmonds worked as a speechwriter from 1995-2001. He became the Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting in 1999. His speechwriting focused on domestic topics such as race relations, veterans issues, education, paralympics, gun control, youth, and senior citizens. He also contributed to the President’s State of the Union speeches, radio addresses, commencement speeches, and special dinners and events. The records include speeches, letters, memorandum, schedules, reports, articles, and clippings.
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