I have decided it is necessary and appropriate to authorize the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to perform the functions specified in section 115 of the URAA.

Nothing is more important to meeting this goal than seeing to it that Americans live in a world with clean air, safe food, pure water.

These new safety rules will begin to take effect next week.

No parent should have to think twice about the juice that they pour their children at breakfast or a hamburger ordered during dinner out.

Americans rightly expect to have the world's safest food supply.

We need to do more.

Together we will see to it that our people and our Nation are prepared for the 21st century.

I signed into law legislation to keep harmful pesticides off our fruits and vegetables and legislation that keeps our drinking water safe and pure.

I intend to appoint Irving Greenberg and Romana Strochlitz Primus to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

He has served the people of Maine with tremendous distinction.

I intend to appoint Kathryn Walt Hall to the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

I intend to appoint Harry P. Pachon as a member of the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans.

To seize all the possibilities of this moment and to keep the United States the greatest force for peace and freedom, we must continue to have the best-trained, best-equipped, best-prepared troops on Earth.

Our Armed Forces maintain America's status as the indispensable nation.

At the heart of America's power is our military strength and will.

I intend to nominate Ellen S. Seidman to be Director of the Treasury Department's Office of Thrift Supervision.

It says a great deal about this extraordinary man that his Senate colleagues paid him the tribute of a unanimous vote of approval.

Susan Bass Levin, of New Jersey, to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation for a term expiring December 10, 1999, vice Richard C. Hackett.