Such a change would place administrative burdens on the Federal contracting agencies, increase the cost of Federal contracts, and require the development of a new body of Federal procurement procedures.

Congress needs to get back to work and come up with a bill I can sign.

The bill would signal a basic change in the direction of our national defense, a change away from strength and proven success and back toward weakness and accommodation of the 1970's.

The Sandinistas' real face is not hard to find.

Today I call upon the U.S. Congress to keep faith with itself.

I had to feel the process has not been concluded.

SDI can be practical and can be a method of protecting us against a nuclear attack.

The most objectionable of these provisions would preclude the use of housing vouchers for existing Section 8 loan management cases.

This would undermine both our strategic deterrent and our position in the START negotiations.

I am returning without my approval H.R. 4264, the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989.

This bill would drastically curtail our Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program.

The Strategic Defense Initiative challenges our best scientists to find a way to deter war and protect what we value while threatening no one.