We eliminate the repeal on the EITC.

This budget raises taxes on our hardest pressed working people, even as it gives unnecessarily large income tax relief and other tax relief to those who need it least.

I think we're better off today than we were yesterday.

This bill would fall woefully short and would hurt beneficiaries, over half of whom are women.

American leadership matters; American leadership is welcome; American leadership is necessary.

For welfare reform to succeed, savings should result from moving people from welfare to work, not from cutting people off and shifting costs to the States.

I will never be satisfied until we have solved the problem.

I am returning herewith without my approval H.R. 2491, the budget reconciliation bill adopted by the Republican majority.

Now is not the time to derail this movement.

I want to find common ground with the Congress on a balanced budget plan that will best serve the American people.

We can conquer this.

The threat of AIDS has changed the lives of millions of people.

American families want to make the most of their own lives and to pass opportunity onto their children.

Our engagement in Bosnia is also essential for the continued viability of NATO.

Now it's up to all of us to go back to work together to show we can balance the budget and be true to our values and our economic interests.

I have ordered the deployment of approximately 1,500 U.S. military personnel to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia as part of a NATO 'enabling force'.

The American people need to know that everybody in this country and, indeed, throughout the world, is now vulnerable to this disease.

My balanced budget plan reflects the values that Americans share—work and family, opportunity and responsibility.