I have determined that Panama has taken or is taking steps to afford internationally recognized worker rights.

I have determined that it is appropriate to designate specified articles provided for in the HTS as eligible for preferential tariff treatment under the GSP when imported from designated beneficiary developing countries.

I have determined that Mauritania has not taken and is not taking steps to afford such internationally recognized rights.

I intend to suspend Mauritania indefinitely as a designated beneficiary developing country for purposes of the GSP.

I hope that this will never happen again.

It is critical that we pass this.

I am pleased that he will be taking this ambassadorial post.

Donald Johnson has served our country with distinction for almost two decades in the Foreign Service.

This country needs your help.

Fewer bank failures means more and cheaper bank loans to America's businesses and communities.

Today's announcement by the FDIC is another tangible benefit brought on by the progress of our deficit reduction plan and the lower interest rates it has produced.

The $65 million reduction for Amtrak capital would leave insufficient funds to continue purchase of new equipment and maintenance of stations.

It shows once again how critically important it is for Congress to lock in the benefits of lower interest rates and deficit reduction by approving the Clinton economic plan.

I think those kinds of things should do something to shatter the myth that intellectual pursuits should remain the exclusive domain of men.

I never thought they'd be easy.

I hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to draw down defense articles from the stocks of the Department of Defense and defense services of the Department of Defense for the purpose of providing disaster…

This will be a very loud statement.

I feel just the way I did before the House vote.