This comprehensive legislation demonstrates the extent to which the United States is involved, and must remain involved, in international initiatives with global impact.

Today's vote on the 17 special interest environmental riders is a step in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go if we are to stop Congress' assault on public health and the environment.

I hereby proclaim November 1995 as National American Indian Heritage Month.

America cannot protect the environment if we gut enforcement of antipollution laws.

That's why I have said repeatedly I think it is a mistake to balance the budget if we cut education or if we harm the health care system or undermine the environment or weaken law enforcement or raise taxes on working families.

Our children are the future of this country.

We have to deal with all those things that can be done by the President and all those things that can be done by legislators at the national, State, and local level.

We cannot balance the budget in a way that puts our children at risk or that weakens our resolve to fight the drug problem.

As important as today's vote was, Congress' responsibility does not end here.

It is up to the rest of us to support you as well as we possibly can.

This is madness, pure and simple.

Parents must teach right from wrong, and we must all support that.

We owe it to them. Let's deliver.

The Authority was specifically mandated to assist in District budgetary and management reform.

Adoption provides a means for building and strengthening families.

I urge the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate activities and programs and to participate in efforts to find permanent homes for waiting children.

It places children into loving, permanent homes where they can flourish and grow up to become happy, healthy, productive members of our national community.

Citizens from all communities and organizations from the public and private sectors must join together to renew our commitment to finding permanent homes for each one of America's children.