[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 192 (Wednesday, October 5, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 50681-50682]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-24807]
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[Federal Register: October 5, 1994]
Presidential Documents
Proclamation 6729 of September 30, 1994
National Disability Employment Awareness Month,
1994
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Like every civil rights law in our Nation's history,
the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) is
about potential. We see that potential reflected every
day in the faces of America--from the AmeriCorps
volunteers of Gallaudet University to the athletes
taking part in this year's trials for the Special
Olympics World Games. In myriad ways, our citizens
continually prove the proposition on which our Nation
was founded: that empowered by the freedom to dream, to
work, and to succeed, every one of us can accomplish
great things.
As we commemorate National Disability Employment
Awareness Month, 1994, employers across the country are
recognizing that in the hiring of people with
disabilities, basic fairness and economic good sense
are one and the same. Prohibiting discrimination in
employment, public accommodation, government services,
transportation, and communications, the ADA holds up a
model and an important challenge to businesses at home
and around the world. In this country, the 49 million
Americans with disabilities represent one of our
largest untapped resources--a resource upon which we
must rely if we are to succeed in an increasingly
competitive international marketplace. Their knowledge
and skill, their energy and creativity are essential in
building a work force that will carry our economy into
the next century.
This year, we celebrate as the ADA provisions for fair
employment practices go into effect for small
businesses throughout the land. These provisions are
designed to open a vast new world of opportunity to
American workers and employers, and our Nation stands
committed to fully implement and to aggressively
enforce the ADA in our schools and workplaces, in
government and in public facilities. With this measure,
our citizens will enjoy more avenues to freedom than
ever. Indeed, it is past time to free all of our people
to dream, to work, to succeed, and finally to fulfill
the vast potential that is America.
The Congress, by joint resolution approved August 11,
1945, as amended (36 U.S.C. 155), has called for the
designation of October of each year as ``National
Disability Employment Awareness Month.'' This month is
a time for all Americans to recognize the tremendous
potential of citizens with disabilities and to renew
our commitment to full inclusion and equal opportunity
for all.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim October
1994 as National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
I call upon all Americans to observe this month with
appropriate programs and activities that affirm our
determination to fulfill both the letter and the spirit
of the Americans with Disabilities Act and related
laws.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirtieth day of September, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and nineteenth.
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[FR Doc. 94-24807
Filed 10-3-94; 1:27 pm]
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