[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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                        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
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