03/20/2000
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"I am convinced that this plan meets my essential responsibility as Commander in Chief to assure that our military forces are satisfactorily trained and ready."
"I cannot send our service men and women into harm's way if they have not been adequately trained."
"I have signed into law H.R. 1555, the 'Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000.'"
"This economy is not just 20 million new jobs and a stock market that went above 11000 again today."