We can never take the deficit down to zero.

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

Can we do it? Of course we can.

This is good for America.

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

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.

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.

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.

We cut the deficit.

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

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.

Let us begin that together.

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

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

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.

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.