Bill Clinton

I am returning herewith without my approval H.R. 2631.

I am pleased that the Senate and the House of Representatives have passed historic, bipartisan legislation to promote adoption and improve our Nation's child welfare system.

This bill represents a genuine breakthrough in what is now quite a long effort by many people to achieve national academic standards in the United States.

The provision was canceled by the President because, as originally drafted, it would have permitted abuse and created loopholes.

I can think of no better way to celebrate National Adoption Month than to sign this legislation into law.

I do not endorse restoration of all 38 projects.

The tests will be created by an independent, bipartisan organization and will be piloted in schools next October.

This is a remarkable, remarkable bill with an astonishing bipartisan commitment to keep our country on the front ranks of medical research.

Our children rise with the expectations we set for them.

The bill would restore all of the 38 projects.

I think all of us believe that the best way to sustain and build on that progress is to make sure that all of our people have a world-class education.

Most important, this legislation will help us meet the goal of doubling, by the year 2002, the number of children who are adopted or permanently placed each year.

I am particularly pleased that the bill incorporates my administration's recommendations to provide States with financial incentives to increase the number of children who are adopted.

Comply now with the U.N. resolutions and let the UNSCOM inspection team go back to work.

As much as any bill I have signed, this bill genuinely does fulfill our strategy of opportunity for all, responsibility from all, a community of all Americans.

This legislation makes clear that children's health and safety are the paramount concerns of the public child welfare system.

It is important to the safety of the world that they continue their work.

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.

He was a man who had run for and been defeated for Congress.

In so many ways the governorship is more important than ever before.

I don't think he has a mean bone in his body.

Democrats care about the deficits and welfare reform and safe streets.

We want to wipe the prospect of chemical warfare off the face of the Earth.

He sent a message to young people that public service is a noble thing.

Walter Capps was always there.