It is a very American idea that we meet our challenges not through big government or as isolated individuals, but as members of a true community, with all of us working together.

To restore motor carrier safety enforcement authority to the Department of Transportation

Now is the time to say we can bring opportunity to poor people, and the Government doesn't have to do it all.

Our challenge in this time of burgeoning social entrepreneurship is to encourage Government, nonprofits, and others to work together more meaningfully.

I have approved H.R. 1906.

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

I am concerned that the Act frustrates initiatives to improve customer service in USDA county offices.

That's why we have worked hard to establish last year this GEAR UP mentoring initiative.

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.

You are breathing new life into our old, old democracy.

Let me just give you this statistic to think about.

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.

This appropriations bill undermines important American interests.

This bill rejects all of those principles.

Let's finish the job the American people sent us here to do.

The circumstances that led to the declaration on September 26, 1993, of a national emergency have not been resolved.

We have this huge surplus.

I want you to think about it, because the big debate is, what are we going to do with the surplus?