I authorized the Department of Energy to spend $5.8 billion to acquire oil for the Reserve.

I hope you will urge your colleagues to reject this proposal and pass instead the Broomfield-Carney-Stratton resolution.

Restoring America's energy security has been a top priority since I assumed office.

Mr. Hughes will also serve concurrently as the spokesman for the Department of State.

Today, in the United States, one farmer produces enough food to feed himself and 77 other people.

I understand, however, that time demands affecting Congress this year simply have not allowed it to complete timely review of these amendments.

I am confident that Congress will promptly review these rule 4 amendments, as well as amendments to 28 U.S.C. § 569(b) and 1921 proposed by this administration.

Farmers are in a business that makes a Las Vegas crap table look like a guaranteed annual income.

The American farmer is a bigger risktaker than Evel Knievel.

We have cut its rate of growth nearly in half. And we're just beginning.

The world can no longer accept a situation of constantly escalating violence.

I reluctantly am signing H.R. 6663, a bill delaying the effective date of amendments to rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.