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

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

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.

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

I think it will leave you stronger and in a better position in the world.

I think there will be enormous bipartisan understanding that you simply cannot take this away from communities without reinvesting something in them.

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

I am very proud to be making this announcement.

On Monday, I leave for Tokyo for the G-7 summit.

This government-wide effort will cost over $5 billion in the next five years.

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

The changes now going on in Japan over the long run are going to be good for the Japanese people and good for the American people.

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

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

Fast track procedures give our negotiators the bargaining power they need in Geneva.

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

I believe that if a community has pulled together and produced a real plan for job creation and economic growth, the federal government must pitch in by giving that base to the community at a discount or, in some cases, even for free.