The United States strongly supports international efforts to strengthen the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC).

The United States Government continues to monitor closely activities that may be subject to CBW sanctions provisions.

There should be a limit to the extent to which we go beyond celebrating our diversity to glorifying division.

If we're going to bring this budget into balance, we're going to have to make a lot of tough decisions.

Special interest road projects, nine in one congressional district, are not as important as giving our teachers the training they need.

More than 170 nations joined in the indefinite, unconditional extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) on May 11, 1995.

There is nothing wrong with this country that we can't fix if we have the right attitude and enough courage and vision.

The CWC is a critical element of U.S. nonproliferation policy that will significantly enhance our security and that of our friends and allies.

It just doesn't compute.

The future should not belong to Republicans or Democrats; it should belong to all Americans who are willing to do what has to be done to keep the American dream alive.

I am urging the Senate to give its advice and consent to ratification as soon as possible.

Among the most insistent themes in the history of American democracy has been the determination of our workers to find dignity in their work and meaning in their citizenship.

The labor movement has long given voice to these aspirations.

Secretary Brown's success as Secretary of Commerce is unparalleled.

We shouldn't be cutting education to build courthouses.

All 50 States will have some participation in the school-to-work program.

The national labor movement has helped ensure safe working conditions, regular hours, decent living wages, and paid holidays and vacations.

Education and training deficit is one of the two big deficits in America today.