This provision is likely to have pay-as-you-go costs of up to several hundred million dollars per year.

The pension provision is highly objectionable because it would create an ill-conceived, unfunded entitlement program.

I encourage all Americans to observe these months with appropriate programs and activities.

Programs under the Older Americans Act will continue to operate if this bill is vetoed.

It would also undermine the administrative process that was designed to eliminate the need for ad hoc determinations through legislation.

Intelligence remains our basic national instrument for anticipating danger: military, political and economic.

H.R. 932, however, would circumvent this process.

America will not forget.

We must always remember the importance of preparedness and the high cost of liberty.

The United States will always be a force for peace in the world.

We will not forget those who died.