Bill Clinton

This Agreement not only sends a strong and concrete message to Jordanians and Jordan's neighbors about the economic benefits of peace, but significantly contributes to stability throughout the region.

I urge the prompt and favorable consideration of this legislation.

We must do more to reach out to these families so that their children will get health care coverage, too.

I am pleased to transmit a legislative proposal to implement the Agreement between the United States of America and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the Establishment of a Free Trade Area.

Sixty percent of uninsured children nationwide are enrolled in school lunch programs.

If we all work together, we can make certain that our children get the health care they need to make the most of their lives in this wondrous new century.

The success of CHIP is particularly impressive when you consider that the program has only been up and running for 3 years.

For the first time in a dozen years, the number of Americans who lack health insurance is declining.

The FTA also includes, for the first time ever in the text of a trade agreement, a set of substantive provisions on electronic commerce.

This Agreement is a vote of confidence in Jordan's economic reform program, which should serve as a source of growth and opportunity for Jordanians in the coming years.

With 3.3 million children now enrolled in CHIP, we're getting closer than ever to the goal I set 4 years ago of providing 5 million uninsured children with health coverage.

We can never pay you enough, but we can always pay you more.

I also hope the Senate will take up the treaty at an early date as a critical component of a bipartisan nonproliferation policy.

Ratifying the CTBT would increase our national security.

I thanked Navy Petty Officer Second Class Mario Solares.

Today we free the lands so that they will remain unspoiled by bulldozers, undisturbed by chainsaws, and untouched for our children.

I commend General Shalikashvili for his thorough and rigorous report and his continued service to the Nation.

Thanks to you, the world is safer, and America stands taller.

Today we preserve the final frontiers of America's national forests for our children.

This is a great day for America.

There is no greater honor in being President than to be Commander in Chief of these magnificent people.

CTBT is supported by our friends and allies overseas and designed to reduce existing nuclear dangers as well as those that might emerge in the future.

I am grateful that we can stand here today because of the work done by Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, and John Muir.

I urge Congress and the incoming Bush administration to act on them.

We established a dedicated continuous fund for protecting and restoring green and open spaces across America.