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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 901 

Honoring former President William Jefferson Clinton on the occasion of 

his 60th birthday. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 29, 2006 

Mrs. MALONEY (for herself, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Ms. CARSON, 

Mr. CONYERS, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. 

HOLT, Mr. HONDA, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mrs. 

JONES of Ohio, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mrs. MCCARTHY, Ms. MCCOLLUM of 

Minnesota, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts, Mr. GEORGE

MILLER of California, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. SERRANO, and Ms. 

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring former President William Jefferson Clinton on the 

occasion of his 60th birthday. 

Whereas former President William Jefferson Clinton was 

born in Hope, Arkansas, on August 19, 1946; 

Whereas William Jefferson Clinton attended Georgetown University as an undergraduate and received a Rhodes Scholarship in 1968; 

Whereas William Jefferson Clinton received a law degree 

from Yale University in 1973; 


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Whereas William Jefferson Clinton established a record of 

public service as Attorney General of Arkansas, Governor 

of Arkansas, and Chairman of the National Governors 

Association; 

Whereas William Jefferson Clinton campaigned for and won 

the Democratic nomination for President in 1992; 

Whereas William Jefferson Clinton was elected the 42d President of the United States in 1992 and was reelected for 

a second term in 1996; 

Whereas during William Jefferson Clinton’s time in office the 

United States experienced 8 years of economic expansion, 

job growth, and the transformation of a budget deficit 

into a budget surplus; 

Whereas William Jefferson Clinton rallied the members of the 

North Atlantic Treaty Organization to put an end to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and to depose the murderous regime of Slobodan Milosevic, actions which eventually led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords; 

Whereas William Jefferson Clinton played a major role in the 

Good Friday Peace Accords which finally brought peace 

to war-torn Northern Ireland; 

Whereas William Jefferson Clinton and former President 

George H. W. Bush were appointed to lead the United 

States effort to provide private aid to the victims of the 

devastating tsunami that struck southeast Asia on December 26, 2004; 

Whereas William Jefferson Clinton and former President 

George H. W. Bush were appointed as co-chairs of the 

Bush-Clinton Katrina Relief Fund to provide both 

medium- and long-term relief for areas of the United 

States affected by Hurricane Katrina; 


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Whereas William Jefferson Clinton established the Clinton 

HIV/AIDS initiative to combat the worldwide AIDS epidemic and has provided medication and tests to thousands of people in the developing world to accomplish this 

end; and 

Whereas, in the words of President George W. Bush, William 

Jefferson Clinton ‘‘showed a deep and far-ranging knowledge of public policy, a great compassion for people in 

need, and the forward-looking spirit the Americans like 

in a President’’: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives honors 

2 former President William Jefferson Clinton on the occa3 sion of his 60th birthday on August 19, 2006, and extends 

4 best wishes to him and his family. 

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