Bill Clinton: “Thank you very much, Al. And hello, ladies and gentlemen. I want to thank you for agreeing to join us on this telephone…”

“Thank you very much, Al. And hello, ladies and gentlemen. I want to thank you for agreeing to join us on this telephone call today and through this telephone call to speak to the people in your own State and throughout the United States. One of the things that we are determined to do here in Washington is open the Government to you and never let people forget, who are here making decisions, that you and lives are at stake and that these matters that we discuss and vote upon here really do affect real people out in our country. So with that, let me just now go from one person to the next and let each of you say something about how this family and medical leave act might affect your life in the future or could have affected your life in the past or the fact that we didn't have it affected you. [At this point, the President took a series of telephone calls from people who described their personal experiences.]”