I am very pleased to be naming Charles Masten, an experienced investigator with a thorough understanding of the Department of Labor, to this position.

Today we come here for more than a bill signing.

This was clearly not an easy fight.

This is good for America.

Nothing before us that cannot be cured if we have the willingness to open our ears, lower our voices, roll up our sleeves, and make our words speak through our deeds.

We're all in this together, and everyone must do his or her part.

I am equally confident that Jane Wales' experience in the foreign policy arena will be used well as our staff at OSTP continues to pursue joint science and technology ventures with other countries around the world.

I am pleased today to name these two experienced individuals to our team at OSTP.

We can never take the deficit down to zero.

For the first time in the history of this country, people who work 40 hours a week and have children in their homes will be lifted, not by a Government program but by the tax system, out of poverty.

Can we do it? Of course we can.

We cut the deficit.

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

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

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

Let us begin that together.

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.

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