Ronald Reagan

We have frequently called on Iran's leaders to join in working toward a negotiated settlement.

We, therefore, think that it is time to turn over the responsibility for continuing these programs to the State and local communities who benefit from them.

The objective is to target the specific needs of each community while encountering fewer layers of bureaucracy and decreasing the dependency on Federal dollars.

We remain strongly committed to supporting the self-defense of our friends in the region.

However, simply because we propose terminating this Federal grant program it would be a mistake to conclude that the Administration's commitment to a strong criminal justice system is less than complete.

We are determined to help bring the war to the earliest possible negotiated end.

Paul H. Henson has served on the Committee since December 1982.

Mr. Wilkinson is currently vice chairman of the Advisory Board of Public Employees Benefit Services Corp.

Indeed, it is precisely because of our strong commitment to improving the criminal justice system that we continually search for scarce Federal dollars.

Mrs. Coors is currently the vice president and founder of Citizens for America.

I urge the international community, in the appropriate fora and through the appropriate mechanisms, to cooperate in the endeavor.

Rocco John Marano has served on the Committee since May 1983.

This landmark legislation would provide protection under the Medicare program for elderly and disabled Americans who suffer an acute care catastrophic illness.

I am pleased to transmit today for your immediate consideration and enactment the 'Medicare Catastrophic Illness Coverage Act.'

I am asking the Congress to give elderly Americans a health insurance plan that fights the fear of catastrophic acute care illness.

A catastrophic acute care illness requires treatment so costly that families can only pay for it by impoverishing themselves.

The proposed 'Medicare Catastrophic Illness Coverage Act' would provide improved acute care coverage for the elderly and disabled by restructuring the Medicare program.

It's in our States and communities that we find many of the most innovating and exciting answers to our problems.

We must once again make a wholesale, conscious commitment to strengthening and protecting those basic family values.

People are our most valuable resource; and their imagination and creativity, hard work, and faith—that's what'll drive America into the 21st century.

Anything we do, any change we make, must strengthen, support, and give encouragement to the family.

Our philosophy is that the only way we could save our community was by saving our families.

The best thing the Federal Government can do for the States is get out of your pockets and out of your way.

I simply told them there would be speeches after the meal.

Having been a Governor, I can sympathize that sometimes it feels like you're out in the middle of the arena and the voters are rooting for the lions.