Bill Clinton

We have to make the choices that have served America well.

I proposed to expand the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.

This new policy will assure that Federal employees can schedule and receive up to 24 hours away from the job each year for these family and medical circumstances.

We must also continue to open opportunities in the world's newest market economies.

I ask you to take immediate action to assist Federal workers further in balancing the demands of work and family.

I have determined that it is appropriate to suspend the duty-free treatment accorded under the GSP to certain eligible articles that are the product of Argentina.

Trade and communications are remaking our world.

Let us remind ourselves that America must be strong and involved in the world.

I encourage you to use a partnership approach with your employees and their representatives.

America has led the effort to establish an international ban against chemical weapons.

I also urge you to accommodate these employee needs as mission requirements permit.

I have determined to withdraw benefits for 50 percent (approximately $260 million) of Argentina's exports under the GSP program.

Announcement on national and State-by-State statistics on the decline of welfare caseloads during the President's first term.

Women deserve to be rewarded on an equal basis for their contributions to the American work force.

We can elevate our most fundamental values of family and work and responsibility and make welfare reform work.

Nearly everybody on welfare wants to get off, wants to be self-supporting, wants to be an independent member of society.

Everybody pays in life.

The Federal Government, after all, is a large employer in the United States.

These will not be make-work jobs.

The system we have—the way it works, especially for people with very young children made it actually—it was a disincentive for a lot of people to get off welfare.

If we didn't do anything, about 4 in 10 people on welfare would continue to be on a while, get the help they need, get right off, and go on with their lives.

Department of Transportation April 8, 1997 To the Congress of the United States: As required by section 308 of Public Law 97-449 (49 U.S.C. 308(a)), I transmit herewith the Annual Report of the Department of Transportation, which covers…

But the truth is, we must all be the constituency of the future.

It is a tribute to the American worker and testimony to the skill, training, and dedication of our people.

Continued American leadership depends on our enduring commitment to science, to technology, to learning, to research.