Those who can work will work.

This new program will accomplish the following: Dramatically reduce reliance on welfare payments.

I am asking the Congress to abolish our existing welfare system, and replace it with a job-oriented program for those able to work.

This program will not be incompatible with that dream to balance the budget.

The system is neither rational nor is it fair, and the welfare system is antiwork and antifamily.

People in poverty want to work, and most of them do.

The primary impetus of this whole bill is to make sure that it's always profitable for a family to take a job.

This program will provide increased benefits and more sensitive treatment to those in need.

We must make a complete and clean break with the past.

The welfare system is worse than I had expected, and I stand by that conclusion.

The welfare system is too hopeless to be cured by minor modifications; we must make a complete and clean break with the past.

It is time to begin.

We are now adding in public service jobs throughout our country 15,000 per week.

I must express my deep reservations about these two provisions and my intention to preserve the constitutional authority of the President.

I emphasized my commitment to reducing conventional arms transfers throughout the world.

EDWARD MARKS, of California, a Foreign Service officer of Class three, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.

I have a firm desire to make more intimate the warm and cooperative relations which exist between our two countries.

I am signing into law H.R. 6884, the International Security Assistance Act of 1977.