We feel that the damage from this flood is going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion dollars.

I believe that most of the fears the American people have are not well-founded about that.

Every day when I go to work and I fight for our economic plan, I ask myself, is it going to help Americans to have more jobs, better incomes, more security, and a brighter future for their children?

I'm very sorry. I hope this will help, and I assure you we'll be very diligent in pushing to get this action through Congress.

Whenever possible, get somebody you've appointed to high office to introduce you.

If everybody in this country who wanted to work had a job and we had free and open markets in the world, then we could lower taxes and reduce the deficit.

In order to provide for an accelerated schedule of duty elimination for specific goods of Annex 401.2 to the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement and to modify the rules of origin for certain goods under the Agreement.

I know how hard it is.

The modifications made by paragraph (1) of this proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods originating in the territory of Canada entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the dates set forth in sections…

Every job it creates, every policeman or policewoman it rehires, every farm devastated by weather it assists, and every small business it enables to grow will make a difference to the people and communities served by this legislation.

I am pleased to sign into law last night a modest job creating bill, H.R. 2118, the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1993.

I commend the Congress for developing a supplemental appropriations bill that supports my investment program and meets urgent National needs.

This bill does not nearly provide what I believe is necessary to help our economy.

I have insisted on the fullest possible accounting from the Vietnamese Government and pressed for further progress.

Let me repeat, there are two things at work here.

Today we compete in a quieter field, the world of global economic competition.

It is not a bad thing; it is a good thing.

I probably have more admiration for your country in more ways than any President who has ever served.