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HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 808 AM CDT SUN AUG 22 1999 ...TROPICAL STORM WARNING FROM PORT OCONNOR TO FREEPORT... ...HURRICANE WATCH FROM PORT OCONNOR TO FREEPORT... ...COASTAL FLOOD WARNING FROM FREEPORT TO HIGH ISLAND... THIS STATEMENT APPLIES TO RESIDENTS OF BRAZORIA...CHAMBERS... GALVESTON...HARRIS...JACKSON AND MATAGORDA COUNTIES... ...WATCHES/WARNINGS IN EFFECT... A TROPICAL STORM WARNING AND A HURRICANE WATCH ARE NOW IN EFFECT FROM PORT OCONNOR TO FREEPORT. A COASTAL FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM FREEPORT TO HIGH ISLAND. ...PREPAREDNESS/EVACUATION RECOMMENDATIONS... THE CITY OF GALVESTON EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS RECOMMENDING THAT PERSONS ON THE WEST END OF GALVESTON EVACUATE ...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Aboard Air Force One) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release July 29, 1999 Statement by the Press Secretary The President wishes to express his special gratitude to Professor Chang Lin Tien, who begins his service today on the National Science Board. Professor Tien and other Board members help sustain American leadership across the frontiers of scientific knowledge. Professor Tien's rich background, as a world-class engineer and as the former Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, provides him with a unique understanding of the important links between science and technology, and education ...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release July 1, 1999 June 30, 1999 Presidential Determination No. 99-31 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Eligibility of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to be Furnished Defense Articles and Services Under the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 503(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, section 3(a)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act, and section 422 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 ...

Interestingly, Independence Day is the anniversary of the death of three Presidents and the birth of one. The first is, for my money, one of the greatest minds ever produced by this country. Thomas Jefferson, at the age of 83, died on the 4th of July in 1826, fifty years to the day after the original 4th. He was but 33-years-old when he penned the Declaration of Independence. He was a remarkable man whose achievements in virtually any science of the time would have caused him to be remembered today. He was an architect (of all the historic homes that ...

"THAT RAGGED OLD FLAG" (Author Unknown) I walked through a county courthouse square. On a park bench an old man was sitting there. I said, "Your old Court House is kinda run down." He said, "No, it will do for our little town." I said, "Your old flag Pole is leaning a little bit. And that's a ragged old Flag you've got hanging on it." He said, "Have a seat," and I sat down "Is the first time that you've been to our little town?" "Well," he said, "I don't like to brag, But we're kinda proud of that ragged ...

We yell for the Government to balance the budget, then take the last dime we have to make the down payment on a car that will take 5 years to pay off. We demand speed laws that will stop fast driving, then won't buy a car if it can't go over 100 miles an hour. We know the line-up of every baseball team in the American and National Leagues but mumble through half the words in the "Star Spangled Banner." We'll spend half a day looking for vitamin pills to make us live longer, then drive 90 miles an hour ...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 30, 1999 VICE PRESIDENT GORE, TREASURY SECRETARY RUBIN ANNOUNCE LOW-COST ELECTRONIC ACCOUNT Also Announce the First Financial Institutions Committed to Offering New Account New York, NY -- Vice President Al Gore and Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin announced today the final details of the Treasury Department's Electronic Transfer Account (ETA), a new low-cost account that will allow more Americans to benefit from today's growing economy and take advantage of the latest in financial technology. Treasury designed the ETA to allow federal payment recipients -- such as ...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 29, 1999 VICE PRESIDENT GORE ANNOUNCES $9.5 MILLION TO HELP TEN STATES TRAIN WORKERS IN HIGH TECH SKILLS Washington, DC -- Vice President Gore announced today that ten states across the country will receive $9.5 million to help workers who have been laid off get training in advanced manufacturing skills. Specifically, the Vice President announced the following Department of Labor grants: FL - $895,872; IL - $1,000,000; MA - $1,000,000; MD - $989,900; MI - $1,000,000; MO - $982,112; NY - $938,302; OH - $989,370; PA ...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 30, 1999 VICE PRESIDENT GORE TO UNVEIL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO RESTORE FLORIDA EVERGLADES $7.8 Billion Blueprint Would Increase Freshwater Flows to Environment, Cities, Farms Washington, DC -- Vice President Gore will present to Congress tomorrow a comprehensive blueprint for rebuilding freshwater supplies in South Florida, a central feature of the Administration's long-term strategy for restoring the Everglades. The $7.8 billion plan calls for a series of water system improvements over 20 years to capture much of the fresh water that now flows unused to the ocean ...

July 1, 1999 Presidential Determination No. 99-32 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SUBJECT: Military Drawdown for Tunisia Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, including Title III (Foreign Military Financing) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1999, as enacted in Public Law 105-277 (Title III), I hereby direct the drawdown of defense articles from the stocks of the Department of Defense, defense services of the Department of Defense, and military education and training of an aggregate value of $5 million ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ A Senate subcommittee is handing a victory to mining interests by restricting a Clinton administration effort to limit waste dumping at hard-rock mines and trimming a White House plan to buy more land for parks. Both provisions were included in a $13.9 billion bill financing the Interior Department and federal cultural programs for fiscal 2000, which begins Oct. 1. A subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee used a voice vote to approve the legislation, which would give President Clinton $1.2 billion less than he requested. The vote came as Capitol Hill budget experts said Republicans will receive ...

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JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) -- Mississippi Gov. Kirk Fordice announced Tuesday he was resigning as a national co-chairman of the Dan Quayle presidential campaign amid a love triangle that has shaken his office. Fordice, 65, said he hoped his wife, Pat Fordice, would give him a speedy divorce so he can marry a woman he's known 50 years, Ann G. Creson of Memphis, Tennessee. The governor rebuffed questions on whether his affair is at odds with the family values campaigns that got him elected in 1991 and re-elected in 1995, a theme that is also dominant in the Quayle campaign. "You ...

No spy charges against Wen Ho Lee China espionage case collapses By Martin McLaughlin 19 June 1999 Use this version to print Despite the avalanche of publicity about alleged Chinese spying at US nuclear weapons laboratories, federal officials have concluded that the scientist who has been the principal target of the allegations, Wen Ho Lee, cannot be prosecuted for espionage and may not have committed any criminal offense. Reports in the Washington Post May 24 and the New York Times June 14, each citing prosecutors and other unnamed federal officials, confirm that the China spy scare is essentially a politically ...

No. 606 June 15, 1999 JUVENILE JUSTICE: LEGISLATING WITHOUT ADEQUATE OVERSIGHT OF EXISTING PROGRAMS VIRGINIA L. THOMAS Link to: | PDF (78k) | In the aftermath of the April 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, Congress is looking at ways to translate the national debate into tangible improvements in efforts to prevent juvenile crime. The House of Representatives will soon consider the Consequences for Juvenile Offenses Act of 1999 (H.R. 1501), which would authorize billions of additional dollars for states to prosecute juvenile criminals and deter criminal behavior. Unfortunately, inadequate congressional oversight of existing federal programs will make ...

WIRE:June 19, 11:16 a.m. ET Republican senator pushes for nuclear security body AP News Service WASHINGTON (AP) _ Congressional Republicans pressed their case Saturday for a reorganization of the Energy Department in response to the continuing controversy over the safeguarding of America's nuclear secrets. Using the weekly GOP radio address, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., accused the Clinton administration of taking ``half measures'' in dealing with security at nuclear weapons laboratories. Kyl is one of three GOP senators who have proposed putting nuclear weapons programs under a largely autonomous agency within the Energy Department _ an idea also urged this week ...