I direct the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement those payments, effective as of the beginning of the first applicable pay period commencing on or after January 1, 1995.

Government can work better, cost less, and direct lending proves it.

I further authorize and direct the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to ensure that this memorandum and a schedule of the attached comparability payment rates and localities be published in the Federal Register.

Tonight the United States House of Representatives cast an historic vote for American workers, farmers, and families.

Never again can America be unprepared, or permit an aggressor to threaten our vital interests, or isolate itself from events of global significance.

I call on the Senate to pass GATT with the same strong, bipartisan support as it received in the House of Representatives.

The Uruguay round agreement is the product of 8 years of work by three administrations—Republican and Democratic.

We have a golden opportunity here to add $1,700 in income to the average family's income in this country over the next few years.

When we walked away from our leadership and engagement responsibilities, as we did after the First World War, the world has paid a terrible price.

Without the capacity to expand trade and to generate more economic opportunities we will, first of all, not be able to fulfill our global responsibilities.

It is an American agreement, designed to benefit all the American people in every region of our country from every walk of life.

That is a wrong argument.

I want to begin by thanking our brave service men and women who are so many miles from home this Thanksgiving, serving our country with honor overseas.

We must be thankful, with all of our challenges, for what's right with America.

I'm committed to make your Government work for ordinary Americans again.

I'm very thankful for that.

The Uruguay round is the largest, most comprehensive trade agreement in world history.

And I'm very thankful for the opportunity that my family and I have been given to get up here every day and work on the problems and the opportunities of this country.