It's a great pleasure to have you here, because your friendship is continuing a longstanding relationship between our two countries.

The United States would double to 14,000 the number of Indochinese refugees allowed to enter the country each month.

I'm deeply grateful to them for their willingness to go to Thailand, to observe at first hand the consequences of the horrible tragedy that is occurring there.

When enacted, this proposal will—lift 2 million families above the poverty line.

It's important that we maintain our commitment and our concern to all the starving people there, regardless of their political affiliation.

I want to commend Speaker Tip O'Neill, Congressmen James Corman and Charles Rangel, and the other Members of the House of Representatives for the passage this evening of my cash assistance reform proposal.

It's imperative that our Nation exert its moral leadership as an example to the entire world of the true feelings of Americans.

This is a crucial step forward in the Nation's 10-year effort to provide vitally needed reform of the welfare system.

We must not fail to do what we can for those who are most in need.

Our country has already committed a major share of the total international effort.

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I am pleased to nominate Howard A. Rusk as a member of the National Council on the Handicapped.