Bill Clinton

Senator Feinstein? Senator Feinstein. Mr. President, I want to just ask Judy one question. Judy, do you know how many units that $25 million will cover? [Mayor Abdo explained that they will not know how many units the money will cover…

Well, one of the things that we found out and that Henry Cisneros talked to me a lot about was that years after the natural disasters that struck the Bay Area in northern California and in southern Florida, there are still these ghost…

I know you toured the areas. [Senator Feinstein discussed damaged and abandoned apartment buildings and expressed appreciation for increased HUD funding to alleviate the problem.]

Sure. Senator Feinstein. Oh, I think it was--James Lee, was it a month ago we went to them, the ghost towns, with Richard Alarcon?

What about the ghost towns in the areas, both in Los Angeles and Santa Monica? That's still a problem, isn't it? Senator Dianne Feinstein. Well, Mr. President, may I say something here?

Well, I just want to say that it's been a privilege for all of us here in Washington to work with you to help get southern California back on its feet again. I visited Los Angeles a couple of days after the earthquake and saw that…

My goal for this committee is to help encourage those partnerships.

That will end the misery to the people of Haiti, and he can do it.

Let me remind you all of what our interests are there.

It is because organized, intense, discrete minority interests are doing very well on a system that costs more than any other country's and covers fewer people.

I believe it does meet the objective I set out in the State of the Union Address, and I would sign it.

To achieve our goals, we must strengthen partnerships with industry, with State and local governments, and with schools, colleges, and universities across the country.

I believe both leaders do want to make peace.

There was no violation of the law; there was no violation of any ethics rule.

We all know what the problem is here.

Our system still costs too much and covers too few.

We have an historic opportunity.

Now the deficit is going down 3 years in a row for the first time since Harry Truman was President.

We have a consensus in this country on universal health care.

I believe it will achieve universal coverage for all Americans, and that is the one criteria I have set out.

The plan I originally proposed has been changed, and much of it for the better.

I think all Americans should be pleased that the United Nations has stated with a strong, firm voice.

We can see this year that automobile sales, for example, to Mexico are growing at five times the rate of last year.

Now the deficit's going down, and the economy's coming up.

Much of it has changed for the better.