The United States of America and the Russian Federation will negotiate agreements to increase the transparency and irreversibility of nuclear arms reduction.

The Presidents urged progress in implementing current agreements affecting the irreversibility of the process of reducing nuclear weapons.

The United States of America and the Russian Federation reaffirm the commitment to the goal of nuclear disarmament.

The process should be transparent, inclusive and based on an integral relationship between the security of Europe and that of North America.

The IAEA's safeguards program plays a fundamental role in the global nuclear nonproliferation regime.

I think this meeting was a win-win meeting.

The so-called 'takings' provisions in this bill, however, would dramatically increase costs to the taxpayers of protecting our vital wetlands.

H.R. 961 would allow polluters to circumvent national industrial performance standards through case-by-case negotiations with States.

Wetlands are critical to our Nation's water supply by functioning as natural filters which improve water quality and mitigate potentially disastrous flooding.

Nonpoint source pollution (NPSP) is the major water quality problem currently facing the nation.

Nothing can justify turning this bill into a political football.

I ask all the veterans of World War II now to stand and be recognized.

Today we must draw inspiration from the extraordinary generation we come here to honor.

I sent that bill to Congress because it will strengthen our ability to investigate and prosecute and to deter.

We come today, 50 years later, to recall their triumph, to remember their sacrifice, and to rededicate ourselves to the ideals for which they fought and for which so many of them died.

We're going to keep it out of the rebuilding efforts in Oklahoma.

This legislation does it, and there is simply no reason to delay it.

I applaud the fact that the leadership in Congress has said that they will have that bill on my desk by Memorial Day.