It is a good provision. It will help everybody in Charleston, West Virginia, and Casper, Wyoming, and throughout this country.

This is the most pro-small business economic plan adopted in many a year in Washington, DC.

We cut the deficit.

Marci Greenwood's work in both science teaching and university administration will be invaluable as she takes the lead at the Science Division.

Her background in State government and experience in consensus-building and solving local issues will make her a forceful advocate for local and State interests.

In our Nation, where most people have to work, we cannot force people to choose between being a good parent and a good worker.

I applaud her decision and thank her for the hard work and dedicated service she gave her country and wish her happiness and success in the future.

We don't want to punish success. We want to reward it.

Along with Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court and the many other judges yet to be named, this outstanding group of jurists will change the face of the Federal courts and help move our country forward.

Let us begin that together.

Just this week, our national service program cleared its final hurdles and now will clearly become law.

It's not right.

The political fog that has surrounded this town for so long is at long last lifting.

For the first time in a long time, we'll be making a meaningful downpayment on the massive Federal deficit.

All Americans, whatever their political stripe, can reap the benefits of the change we can begin today.

We want to end welfare as we know it and restore dignity to millions of idle Americans who have been dependent too long.

There are few things that I will do that will have more lasting effect than the appointment of Federal judges.

I am also very pleased that Marcia Hale has agreed to take on this new responsibility.