Bill Clinton

Today I signed into law S. 1769, a bill to continue a number of existing Federal reports scheduled to expire on May 15 of this year.

We have to win in Colombia.

We have to find some way this can be made more usable.

I'll always be proud that the first bill I signed as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Four years ago you put yourselves on the line for the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill.

Today, people are living longer, more active, and more independent lives than ever before.

It's really important to find some way to fill that gap.

We've now run the first back-to-back surpluses in over 40 years.

Lifting the burden of debt from our children and grandchildren is one of the most important investments in the future we can make.

This will mean that civilian users of GPS will be able to pinpoint locations up to 10 times more accurately than they do now.

It would undermine the Federal effort to help communities reduce class size in the early grades.

The bill should authorize this assistance.

The decision to discontinue SA is coupled with our continuing efforts to upgrade the military utility of our systems that use GPS.

The United States will pay off $216 billion of debt this year—the largest debt paydown in American history.

Vouchers drain attention and resources from the neediest public schools.

The bill fails to encourage each State to develop a single, rigorous accountability system for Title I and non-Title I schools.

There is no assurance that funds will go to improve instruction.

We should not jeopardize the longest economic expansion in history with risky tax cuts that threaten our fiscal discipline.

It does little to improve teacher quality.

My decision to discontinue SA was based upon a recommendation by the Secretary of Defense in coordination with the Departments of State, Transportation, Commerce, the Director of Central Intelligence, and other executive branch departments…

The current statute still does not concentrate resources sufficiently on those districts.

Today I am pleased to announce that the United States will stop the intentional degradation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) signals available to the public beginning at midnight tonight.

He will veto the bill because it fails to continue the Federal obligation and commitment to support reform in our schools.

S. 2 would authorize only half of the one billion dollars requested by the President.

This increase in accuracy will allow new GPS applications to emerge and continue to enhance the lives of people around the world.