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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1995
Contents:
Statement on Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Legislation,
July 18, 1995
The 1996 VA-HUD appropriations bill passed today by the House Appropriations Committee is unacceptable.
By abolishing AmeriCorps it would eliminate opportunities for thousands of young people to serve their communities through the national service program. By dramatically slashing resources for the Environmental Protection Agency and imposing severe restrictions on that agency, the bill would decimate the Government’s ability to protect the American people from air and water pollution. By cutting assistance for the Nation’s homeless in half, it would punish some of the weakest and most vulnerable in our society.
We need to balance the budget, and we need to cut spending to do it. But there is a right way and a wrong way. A bill so contrary to the priorities and concerns of the American people clearly represents the wrong way.
I will not stand by as the Republican majority tries to impose this extreme agenda on the Nation. If this bill is presented to me in its current form, I will veto it. I call on the Congress to correct the appropriations bills now under consideration before they reach my desk, not after.
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Chicago: William J. Clinton, "Statement on Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Legislation, July 18, 1995," Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1995 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, July 21, 1995 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), 31:2238 Original Sources, accessed April 19, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=16MMZ9QML2L8H92.
MLA: Clinton, William J. "Statement on Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Legislation, July 18, 1995." Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1995, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, July 21, 1995 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), 31:2238, Original Sources. 19 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=16MMZ9QML2L8H92.
Harvard: Clinton, WJ, 'Statement on Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Legislation, July 18, 1995' in Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1995. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, July 21, 1995 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), 31:2238. Original Sources, retrieved 19 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=16MMZ9QML2L8H92.
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