We need more refining capacity.

This increases the flexibility of our energy distribution system, allowing fuel to be delivered more rapidly to areas that need it.

We are going to have to address the flooding issues.

We've got a lot more work to do to protect all these systems in the private sector.

We ought to give the States enough money to repair another 5,000 schools every single year for the next 5 years.

Seventy percent of the homes on her Navajo reservation did not have a phone.

Today's achievement completes this work and brings the pipeline project a critical step closer to fruition.

There are schools in New York City that are still heated by coal-fired furnaces.

There has never been a better time to expand our investment in Amtrak and the Nation's passenger railways.

I want to try to do more to set up 1,000 community computer centers around the country in areas that wouldn't have them otherwise.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), and in order to support a coordinated effort by both government and private sector entities to address threats to our Nation's critical infrastructure, it is hereby ordered as follows.

The NIAC will meet periodically to enhance the partnership of the public and private sectors in protecting our critical infrastructure and provide reports on this issue to the President as appropriate.

Amtrak is an essential component of the nation's inter-city transportation system.

It is in the national interest for the Export-Import Bank of the United States to extend a loan in the approximate amount of $60 million to the People's Republic of China to finance the export of U.S. goods and services for the construction of Shanghai Metro Phase II, Line I.

It will also enable us to connect our schools and our libraries to the information superhighway.

I commend the Congress for not including any new earmarked highway projects.

This intermodal project will speed the transportation of goods from these ports throughout the country and will also help sustain our Nation's competitive edge in Pacific Rim trade.

I am particularly pleased that the Congress, in the omnibus appropriations bill, fully funded my request for the Alameda Corridor project.