We should be having a high-opportunity, smart-work, high-wage future, not a hard-work, low-wage future.

We need your advice, your wisdom, your enthusiasm, your energy, and America needs your service.

Paul M. Homan, of the District of Columbia, to be Special Trustee, Office of Special Trustee for American Indians, Department of the Interior (new position).

The Government of Iraq continues to engage in activities inimical to stability in the Middle East and hostile to United States interest in the region.

If we have the will to balance the budget, we know we can find the way because of what happened on the rescission bill.

Welcome to the United States and welcome to Washington.

The combination of Executive Order No. 12947 and the proposed legislation demonstrate the United States' determination to confront and combat those who would seek to destroy the Middle East peace process.

Today I reaffirm America's pledge to stand by that partnership.

I signed Executive Order No. 12947, 'Prohibiting Transactions with Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Process.'

S. 961 sharply limits the purposes of foreign assistance, omitting the Administration's key objectives.

I have sent to the Congress new comprehensive counterterrorism legislation that would strengthen our ability to prevent terrorist acts.

The overall level of funding authorized in S. 961 represents a reduction greater than that required to meet the already low levels set in the Budget Resolution.

And we tried to give you significant flexibility so that you could use these funds in a way that would spur economic recovery and have the biggest impact.

S. 961 would seriously undermine the President's prerogatives and authorities to carry out U.S. foreign policy.

I saved one for you.

If you need us, let us know.

The order blocks all property subject to U.S. jurisdiction in which there is any interest of 12 terrorist organizations that threaten the Middle East peace process.

The bill I am here to sign is proof that we can put party politics aside and do things that are good for our country.