Bipartisan support from the Colorado delegation and both Houses of Congress led this effort to establish the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park—our 55th National Park—and the adjacent Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area.

I urge the Congress to work with my Administration in similar fashion in coming to mutually acceptable agreements on the remaining FY 2000 appropriations bills and to do so expeditiously.

I remain committed to working with Congress to move forward in this area.

I have just completed a meeting with my economic team to see what we can do to reach overall budget agreement with the congressional leadership.

The country was in trouble; we elected the Clinton-Gore administration; they had friends and allies in the Government and the Congress and in the private sector; they implemented their ideas.

I urge Congress to keep that promise by enacting legislation that improves our nation's schools by ensuring greater investments in education.

We will continue to work closely with Congress to seek expedited action for funding.

My Administration will submit draft legislation to the Congress that would create a new program to give DOE contractor employees with CBD and beryllium sensitivity the same benefits—certain medical costs and lost wages—now available to Federal employees.

This week Congress has a chance to pass a bill that can transform our relationship with an entire continent for the better.

RLPA will, in large measure, restore the principles of RFRA, which was enacted with broad Congressional support in 1993.

I urge Congress to seize this opportunity by passing the African growth and opportunity act.

I'm basically asking the Congress to give investors like those on this stage with me today the same incentives to invest in south Phoenix that we give them right now to invest in the developing countries of Latin America and Africa and the Caribbean.

That depends on how—the attitude of Congress, I think that— in both parties.

I want us to pass a law in Congress to create new markets in America, to say we're going to give a businessperson the same incentives to invest in new markets in America we give them today to invest in new markets overseas.

I determined and reported to the Congress that the Russian Federation was not in violation of the freedom of emigration criteria.

We already have the plan to make it happen if Congress keeps its word.

I hereby report to the Congress that I have exercised my statutory authority to further amend Executive Order 12938 in order to more effectively respond to the worldwide threat of weapons of mass destruction proliferation activities.

I have approved the Protocol and authorized its execution and urge that the Congress give it favorable consideration.