Bill Clinton

I hereby submit to the Congress a plan to achieve a balanced budget not later than the fiscal year 2002 as certified by the Congressional Budget Office on January 6, 1996.

Today I have signed into law H.R. 1358, the Seventh Continuing Resolution for fiscal 1996.

Let's do what our country has always done: Let the Government go on and perform its basic services, and let's get back to work.

I want to say again this—this is one of the things that came up at our lunch when one of the folks at the table said, 'I thank you for standing firm'—this shutdown does not have anything to do with balancing the budget.

Now, these meals are one of the things that are threatened by the shutdown that was forced by the Republicans in the House of Representatives.

Every day we miss in these negotiations is a day we're putting off balancing the budget.

This shutdown is hurting people in every State in America.

H.J. Res. 153 makes further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996.

We can balance the budget and protect all that.

This threat of the shutdown— as much as I hate to see people furloughed, as much as I hate to see people working and not getting paid, as much as I hate to see these young people not getting their homes and these businesses not being…

Stuart E. Eizenstat, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, vice Jeffrey E. Garten, resigned.

All across this great country of ours, there are seniors like you and others who depend upon meals like this that are federally funded.

I want to thank the Friendship House for the leadership shown in being a true friend to our seniors.

I have pledged to the Republicans—I gave my word, and I was raised in an old-fashioned home in an old-fashioned time.

H.R. 2808 extends authorities under the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act until March 31, 1996.

Well, I have worked with our people, obviously, at OMB to explore every conceivable option to bring them back. And I will continue to do that. I have done everything that I have been told I can legally do, and we are exploring some other…

As long as we remain devoted to them, we will stay faithful to him and to the remarkable generation of Americans he helped to lead.

The freedoms we cherish, the peace we enjoy were sustained by his vision and his labors.

Every life is a lesson, but his life particularly so.

May it find guidance and inspiration in the lessons of his long life so well lived.

Today we mourn the passing of a great American.

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the Protocol.

Romania is in full compliance with the freedom of emigration criteria of sections 402 and 409 of the Trade Act of 1974.

I'm looking forward to it, and I hope we can reach an agreement.

That's a very good sign, and I'm looking forward to the meeting tonight.