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RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: oliver D. Pangborn ( CN=0liver D. Pangborn/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO ] )
CREATION DATE/TIME:24-NOV-2000 09:59:14.00
SUBJECT: Siewert briefing 11/22
TO: Juan Cardenas ( CN=Juan Cardenas/OU=ONDCP/O=EOP@EOP [ ONDCP ] )
READ: UNKNOWN
TEXT:
THE WHITE HOUSE
office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
November 22, 2000
PRESS BRIEFING BY
JAKE SIEWERT
The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
11:25 A.M. EST
MR. SIEWERT: Quick announcements, and then we'll go -- we'll try
to make this quick, so everyone can go home and enjoy the holiday.
The President will be sending a delegation to the inauguration of
Vincente Fox in Mexico, headed by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
and including Senior white House Representative Maria Echaveste, the
Deputy chief of Staff. He will not, himself, be attending that, although
be sending the highest level delegation possible.
And the President this morning signed the District of columbia
appropriations bill for fiscal year 2001. He was pleased that we were
able to work out a good-faith compromise on this, under the leadership of
Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton. That bill will provide roughly $446
million in federal funds that are central for District courts, correction
facilities and the rest. It also provides $17 million to fully fund the
D.C. college Access Act. That's something the President has championed
that provides tuition assistance for District residents, a bill that the
President signed into law last year. It also fully funds the New York
Avenue Metro Station, and provides a strong start for brownfields work in
Anacostia, and economic development there.
The entire bill builds on the economic development program that
the President has championed in the District, which includes the tax
legislation he signed in 1997 that provides tax relief for D.C. residents
and businesses, and some projects that were also provided for last year to
revitalize the Nation's Capital.
There were some riders in the bill that we didn't like, as there
have been other years. But in general, this was a bill that needed to be
signed and does a lot of good for the District.
And that is all I have. He is signing about 2 dozen other bills.
If you need details on those, check with Nanda or Sarah. Most of them are
relatively small measures, although there is one that he is having a
ceremony on now, called the Health Care Fairness Act, a small private
ceremony.
Q
Jake, what does the President think of Secretary Baker's
statements last night that no one should be surprised if the Florida
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