The Committee is commended for funding Amtrak at $571 million, the President's requested level.

My budget includes a $1.3 billion proposal to restore health care benefits to children and pregnant women.

A unified budget presents spending tradeoffs and permits more fully informed decisions to be made on allocating the Nation's resources.

Ghana already invests a phenomenal 40 percent of its budget in education.

It triples our budget for after-school and summer school programs to $600 million.

The only way to achieve the appropriate investment level is to offset discretionary spending by using savings in other areas.

This emergency relief was paid for in last year's bipartisan balanced budget agreement.

I have proposed budget increases to sustain American leadership across the frontiers of scientific knowledge.

Funding COPS at the requested level of $1.4 billion is consistent with the Balanced Budget Agreement.

This proposed Fiscal Year 1999 Budget represents the major programmatic objectives of the Mayor, the Council of the District of Columbia, and the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority.

We must maintain our hard-won fiscal discipline in anything that we do.

This guidance will change the budgetary treatment of these contracts to be consistent with the unique statutory authority for ESPCs.

The funding level is unacceptable.

Funding COPS at the requested level of $1.4 billion is consistent with the Balanced Budget Agreement and would enable us to achieve the goal of hiring 100,000 additional police officers by the year 2000.

We are disappointed by the Committee's failure to provide any of the $85 million requested for the drug testing and intervention program.

The allocation is simply insufficient to make the necessary investments in programs funded by this bill.

It continues the successful economic policy that we adopted beginning with the budget in 1993.

I can also say that the budget that I present to the Congress in February will be a balanced budget for 1999.