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

We actually now have some experience with the Patients' Bill of Rights.

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

This bill is an important step forward to help them in their struggle to become successful, independent adults.

This important civil rights legislation would extend basic employment discrimination protections to gay and lesbian Americans.

My administration will continue to work for its passage until it becomes law.

I am pleased to transmit to the Congress, pursuant to sections 123 b. and 123 d. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.

I strongly support this bill, and we will work hard for its passage.

H.R. 1175 would mandate in law a diplomatic agenda and timetable with respect to the missing in action (MIA) soldiers which would not advance and may in fact hurt U.S. efforts to discover more information about these soldiers.

H.R. 1175 would mandate a set of reporting requirements which are unnecessary and would be counterproductive to ongoing diplomatic efforts.

H.R. 1175 would infringe on the President’s exclusive authority to conduct U.S. diplomatic relations.

This week the House of Representatives gutted our bill in the dark of night—literally, after midnight—because the gun lobby didn't want commonsense gun legislation to see the light of day.

Instead of closing the deadly gun show loophole, the House of Representatives voted in the dark of night to let criminals keep buying guns at gun shows.

Our Nation is waiting for Washington to pass a real law that keeps guns away from children and out of the hands of criminals.

I call on the Congress to stop playing politics and start living up to its responsibility to help save lives.

It is necessary to protect the national security interests of the United States to suspend for a period of 6 months the limitation set forth in section 3(b) of the Act.

It is time to close the loophole.

I think that serious efforts should be made to pass this legislation.