DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We want to go right now to the White House, where President Clinton is speaking in the Rose Garden. He is going to be talking about legislation he will sign that will make it the legal limit, .08 for blood alcohol level. That will be reducing it in many states across the country.</s>WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Good morning. I really believe that everything that needs to be said about this has just been said. I want to thank Millie Webb for sharing her story and for her crusading leadership. I want to another person who's here today, Brenda Frazier, who came to the White House in 1998 to talk about the tragic death of her 9-year-old daughter Ashley by a drunk driver. And I want to thank all the members of Mothers Against Drunk Driving for the grassroots campaign that has galvanized our nation and changed the way we think and now, thank goodness, the way policy- makers behave when it comes to this issue. I thank you, Secretary Slater, and I thank all the members of Congress who worked on this. We did have strong bipartisan support but finally was able to overcome the lobbying pressure that Millie described. But I want to say a special word of appreciation to Representative Nita Lowey from New York, who's here to my right, and to Senator Frank Lautenberg. They have worked for more than five years on this legislation, and we wouldn't be here today without their leadership. And let me say a special word of good wishes to Senator Lautenberg. He is retiring after 18 years in the Senate, and he is leaving a true legacy as a champion for the children, the families and the economy of this nation, and we wish him well. Thank you, Frank.</s>KAGAN: We have been listening to President Clinton, at the White House, talking about signing legislation that will demand that all states have to adopt .08 as the blood-alcohol level that would define drunken driving. Most states right now have a higher limit than that. And yet, if don't change by the year 2004, they will begin to lose federal highway funds.
President Clinton Signs Drunken Driving Legislation