[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 18 (Monday, May 9, 1994)]
[Pages 952-953]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6681--Small Business Week, 1994

April 30, 1994

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    Small businesses create many new jobs in the United States and are 
an important part of our Nation's international competitiveness. Today, 
America's 20 million small businesses remain at the heart of our 
economy. These companies are the engines of growth, and it is in small 
business that people continue to find opportunity, pride, and dignity.
    Indeed, small business is the lifeblood of America's free enterprise 
system. This is the sector that creates two of every three new jobs in 
our country, putting the American Dream within reach of hundreds of 
thousands of men and women who provide the variety and ingenuity that 
are our greatest natural resources. Small businesses employ more than 57 
percent of the private U.S. work force, account for 54 percent of all

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sales, and generate half of the domestic private sector output.
    As we move forward in a spirit of renewal and change, there is one 
constant that must prevail in the economy of the United States. Small 
business must continue to provide the solid foundation upon which this 
Nation builds its economic strength and maintains its character. 
Government, working hand in hand with entrepreneurs, must recognize 
these contributions and help small business create jobs and increase 
incomes.
    We must support and honor small business for the contributions this 
sector makes to the economy. And just as important, we should remember 
that it is in small business that the United States finds energy, faith, 
and confidence in our system of democracy and free enterprise. Only by 
fully developing our technological and human resources can we expect to 
be leaders in the global marketplace.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United 
States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the 
Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week 
of May 1 through May 7, 1994, as the 31st ``Small Business Week,'' and I 
call on every American to join me in this tribute.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day 
of April, 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 
eighteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:38 p.m., May 2, 1994]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on May 4.