November 30, 1999
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Aboard Air Force One en route San Francisco, California)
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For Immediate Release November 30, 1999
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
I have signed into law H.R. 3194, the Consolidated Appropriations Act
for FY 2000. I am pleased that my Administration and the Congress were
able to reach agreement on the first budget of the 21st Century --
producing a hard-won victory for the American people.
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Labor/Health and Human Services/Education Bill
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The bill includes $264 million to expand HHS' bioterrorism initiative.
It provides $52 million for the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention's (CDC) national pharmaceutical stock- pile and $123 million
for CDC to expand national, State, and local epidemiologic, laboratory,
and surveillance planning capacity, as well as to conduct a vaccine
study. The bill also fully funds my request to expand the number of
Metropolitan Medical Response Systems that can respond to the health and
medical consequences of a chemical, biological, or nuclear incident, and
to enhance smallpox and anthrax vaccine research and development. I am
particularly pleased that the bill funds the creation of a new national
electronic disease surveillance system, which will also help detect
outbreaks and strengthen the public health delivery system.
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Authorization Bills/Other Issues
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Unfortunately, the Congress did not fund my additional request to
protect the Nation's critical computer and information based
infrastructures from a growing threat of cyber attack from hostile
nations, terrorists, or criminals.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 29, 1999.
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