I am asking Congress to provide emergency assistance of $56 million to provide aid to those whose economic welfare is threatened by this crisis.

I look forward to working with the Congress to ensure that the world's best Coast Guard remains as its motto proclaims: Semper Paratus—Always Ready.

I urge Congress to approve my request today for additional funding.

Congress should seize this moment of opportunity to do what is right for the health of the American family.

It forces America's schoolchildren to pay the price for Congress' failure to make responsible choices.

I believe Congress should act.

I urge Congress to pass this legislation this year.

I urge the Congress to pass legislation in a timely manner that would strengthen the Federal Government's ability to combat hate crimes.

All I'm saying is, after all we've been through in this country in the last couple of years and all the hate crimes we've seen, I just don't see how we can possibly walk away from this session of Congress and not pass this.

Today my budget negotiators are continuing to work with Congress to finish the job.

I will not allow Congress to raise its own pay and fund its own pork-barrel projects and still make devastating across-the-board cuts in everything from education to child nutrition to the FBI.

I hope that the Members of Congress will work with us in good faith to make this a season of progress.

I call on the Congress to work with my Administration to fix the 1996 Farm Bill permanently.

I call on the Congress to pass long-term crop insurance reform before adjourning this year.

my administration reached a tentative agreement with Congress that will modernize the Depression-era laws that govern our financial system.

I urge Congress to continue moving forward.

I urge Congress to fully fund my lands legacy initiative this year and to work with me to secure permanent funding to continue these efforts well into the 21st century.

If Congress sends me a crime-fighting bill that's a crime spending bill that doesn't have the right priorities, I will have to veto it.