Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 88, No. 224 

Wednesday, November 22, 2023 

Title 3— 

The President 

Proclamation 10675 of November 17, 2023 

National Family Week, 2023 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

My father always said that family is the beginning, the middle, and the 

end. Family is everything. During National Family Week, we celebrate the 

love, support, and resilience of the tens of millions of American families 

that make our Nation strong and keep the American Dream alive. 

For too long, too many families in this country have lived with the prospect 

of an uncertain future. Too many parents have lain awake at night staring 

at the ceiling, wondering how they will make rent, send their kids to 

college, retire, or pay for medication. Too many have had to move far 

away from their hometowns to earn a living. I ran for President to change 

all that—to finally rebuild a strong middle class and grow our economy 

from the middle out and bottom up, giving hardworking families across 

the country a little more breathing room. 

The historic legislation that we have since enacted is delivering, investing 

in American families and in America’s future. The American Rescue Plan 

kept millions of families in their homes, food on the table, and folks on 

the job through the pandemic. Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, 

over 40,000 projects are currently underway to rebuild our Nation’s roads, 

bridges, and ports, expand access to clean drinking water, and connect 

every home to high-speed internet. We are also working to revitalize American manufacturing—we have helped create nearly 800,000 manufacturing 

jobs, and through the CHIPS and Science Act, we are making historic investments across the country. The Inflation Reduction Act has made health 

care coverage cheaper for nearly 15 million Americans—it is set to cap 

out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare at $2,000 per 

year, and it has already slashed their insulin costs to $35 per month from 

as much as $400, helping families pay their monthly bills. Through the 

PACT Act, we are helping veterans who were exposed to toxic materials 

while serving get the health care and benefits that they and their families 

deserve. I am fighting hard to protect children and families from the scourge 

of gun violence—last year, I signed our Nation’s most significant gun safety 

law in nearly 30 years, strengthening background checks, increasing the 

effective use of red flag laws, and expanding access to mental health services. 

I am fighting to ensure that all families have equal rights and dignity. 

That is why I was so proud to sign the Respect for Marriage Act into 

law, protecting the right to marriage for same-sex and interracial couples. 

I also signed an Executive Order that calls for the most comprehensive 

set of executive actions of any administration in history to increase highquality child care, long-term care, and support for caregivers, ensuring that 

families have access to the support they need. 

We have more to do to keep building on all of this progress, to make 

sure that every family in America has an equal shot at a better life of 

dignity and respect. During National Family Week, we celebrate the importance of spending time with loved ones, both the families that we are 

born into and the families that we create throughout our lives. Families 

are an essential part of the glue that holds our Nation together across 

generations, and we will never stop investing in their dreams. 


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81338 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 224 / Wednesday, November 22, 2023 / Presidential Documents 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States 

of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution 

and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 19 through 

November 25, 2023, as National Family Week. I invite States, communities, 

and individuals to join together in observing this week with appropriate 

ceremonies and activities to honor our Nation’s families. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth 

day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and 

of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 

and forty-eighth. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25980 

Filed 11–21–23; 8:45 am] 

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