His combination of White House, congressional—both House and Senate—and political experience will serve the administration well.

I call on the Senate to pass GATT with the same strong, bipartisan support as it received in the House of Representatives.

That's plainly what happened in the last 4 months, 5 months in the House and in the Senate where there was just this 'kill it, kill it, kill it, kill it, kill it' drumbeat coming out of the ones who were negative.

We strongly urge the Senate to provide additional funding for the Head Start program.

We urge the Senate to approve the bill.

We urge the Senate to consider shifting funding from lower priority programs within this bill.

I applaud the majority leader and the Members of the Senate who have been working diligently to bring a bill to the floor that works for ordinary Americans.

I recommend that the Senate give its advice and consent to the ratification of ILO Convention No. 150.

The Senate is urged to fund the President's full $1.7 billion community policing request to ensure that 100,000 new police officers are on the street by FY 1999.

I am deeply gratified by the Senate Judiciary Committee's unanimous vote to forward Stephen Breyer's nomination to the full Senate for confirmation to the Supreme Court.

I am confident that the full Senate will act swiftly to confirm Judge Breyer.

I ask the Senate to consider and to promptly confirm the nomination of Judge Stephen Breyer as the 108th Justice of the Supreme Court.

The Constitution requires the President to seek not only the consent but the advice of the United States Senate, and I did that.

Therefore, I urge the Senate to give early and favorable consideration to the Convention.

I thought after the bill passed the House, especially by such a healthy margin, that the majority rule would prevail in the Senate.

We have a lot to do, and it matters whether this Senator is reelected to the United States Senate.

I transmit herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Convention on Biological Diversity.

It is for us now to make sure that this agreement is speedily passed by the United States Senate.