This Center will fund research programs on health disparities and minority health.

The elimination of health disparities will require a comprehensive effort.

I call on Congress to help us strengthen food safety across the board.

Ensuring the safety of our food and the health of our people are among the most important parts of our citizens' basic contract with their Government.

These actions, taken together, should allow us to achieve our Healthy People Goal by 2005 rather than 2010.

My Administration's goal—articulated in our Healthy People 2010 plan—is to cut the number of illnesses caused by Listeria in half by 2010.

Now, there are a lot of kids alive and there are a lot of adults alive in America because we did that.

Every day, 3,000 young people smoke for the first time, and 1,000 of them will die earlier as a result.

This new funding will help provide vital resources and information to inform the public about poison control and assist parents in protecting the health and safety of their children.

Today I am pleased to sign a bipartisan bill that will help save lives by giving families immediate access to vital information about poison control.

This bill could save thousands of lives every year.

The American people believe in fairness, and I am sure that they would find it fair to provide this reasonable compensation to this small group of people who contributed so much to their country's well-being and who now are suffering from this incurable disease.

While the majority of imported food is safe, problems do exist.

Foodborne illness is difficult to control in a changing world.

We must do all that we can to protect Americans from unsafe food.

Today I want to talk about what we must do to ensure that the food we serve at those gatherings is as safe as we can possibly make it.

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

With this new rule, and with these three simple attachments, we can save lives and prevent up to 3,000 injuries a year.