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House Journal: Page 1884: Tuesday, April 25, 1995

The committee waited upon President Bill Clinton and escorted
him to the President's station.
President Boswell presented the President of the United States,
Bill Clinton, who delivered the following remarks:
Thank you very much, Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Governor
Branstad, Mr. Chief Justice, and members of the Supreme Court,
distinguished Iowa state officials.  And former Congressman Neil
Smith, my good friend, and Mrs. Smith, thank you for being here.
 To all of you who are members of the Iowa legislature, House
and Senate, Republican and Democrat, it  is a great honor for me
to be here today.
I feel that I'm back home again.  When I met the legislative
leadership on the way in and we shared a few words and then they
left to come in here, and I was standing around with my crowd, I
said, you know, I really miss state government.  I'll say more
about why in a moment. 
I'd like to, if I might, recognize one of your members to thank
him for agreeing to join my team - Representative Running will
now be the Secretary of Labor's representative. Would you stand
up, please. Thank you. 
Representative Running is going to be the representative of the
Secretary of Labor for region 7 - Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and
Kansas.  And if you will finish your business here pretty soon,
he can actually go to Kansas City and get to work - which I
would appreciate.
I'm delighted to be back in Iowa.  I had a wonderful day here,
and it was good to be here when it was dry - although a little
rain doesn't do any harm.
We had a wonderful meeting today at Iowa State University with
which I'm sure all of you are familiar, this National Rural
Conference we had, designed to lay the groundwork for a strategy
for rural America to include not only the farm bill, but also a
rural development strategy and a strategy generally to deal with
the problems of rural America-with the income disparities with
the rest of America, the age disparities with the rest of
America, and the problems of getting services and maintaining
the quality of life in rural America.
I want to thank Governor Branstad for his outstanding
presentation and the information he gave us about the efforts
being made in Iowa in developing your fiber optic network and
developing the health care reform initiatives for rural Iowans
and many offer areas.  I want to thank Senator Harkin for his
presentation, particularly involving the development of
alternative agricultural products as a way to boost income in
rural America.   And I want to say a special word of thanks to
the people at Iowa State.  They did a magnificent job there, and
I know you are all very proud of that institution, and you would
have been very, very proud of them today, the way they performed.
I'm also just glad to be back here in the setting of state
government.  You know, Governor Branstad and I were once the
youngest governors in America, but time took care of it. And now
that he's been reelected, he will actually serve more years than
I did.  I ran for a fifth term as governor.  We used to have
two-year terms, and then we switched to four-year terms. And
only one person in the history of our state had ever served more
than eight years, and only one person had ever served more than
- two people had served more than two terms, but those were
two-year terms - in the whole history of the state. So I was - I
had served 10 years. I'd served three two-year terms and one
four-year term, and I was attempting to be reelected. And I had
a high job approval rating, but people were reluctant to vote for

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