H.R. 2653 is objectionable because it would authorize appropriations which are $4.4 million in excess of the Administration's request of $42.3 million for Department of Commerce export control activities.

I ask all Americans to remember the precious legacy of liberty we enjoy.

I am especially pleased that this bill will provide the long overdue additional funding for our Nation's veterans.

It provides for the uninterrupted operation of the SPR, which is important to our Nation's energy security.

I think of the Polish people as treasuring freedom.

I want to ask you to take a moment sometime before the last of the fireworks light the sky to think about what this day means, to think about how fortunate we Americans are.

The approximately $9 billion Defense Strategic and Critical Materials stockpile provides substantial protection against a possible interruption in strategic and critical supplies for national security purposes.

Current law and administrative procedures adequately ensure that the national security and economic interests of the United States are considered in decisions affecting foreign mining ventures.

Today, I have signed into law H.R. 2402.

This bill represents an acceptable compromise.

Here's what the United States stands for; and here are our aspirations for a relationship with the Soviet Union.

I am encouraged by the changes we've seen.

Our Fourth of July wish for all Americans is a day of enjoyment, a day spent with family and friends, a day celebrated the traditional way, with picnics, parades, and fireworks.

I do hereby proclaim July 2, 1989, as National Literacy Day.

I want to take this opportunity to commend the Congress for keeping the funding levels in this bill within acceptable bounds.

We discussed that goal in our talks here, and the President and I also examined other important aspects of regional conflicts.

We hope that this treaty will encourage greater American investment in Zaire leading, in turn, to greater economic development.

I intend to nominate Jean McKee as a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority.

He cared deeply for those people around the world who needed our help.

It is also designed to reform the system of campaign finance under which in the 1980's House incumbents have a 97.7-percent reelection rate and Senate incumbents an 85-percent reelection rate.

I was honored to invite President Mobutu to be the first African head of state to come to the United States for an official visit during my Presidency.

Strengthening political parties by increasing the amounts they can spend on behalf of congressional candidates.

Alan was committed to focusing AID's work on promoting growth in developing countries.

Zaire is among America's oldest friends, and its President, President Mobutu, one of our most valued friends.

I want to note that Zaire recently took the constructive step of signing an economic policy reform agreement with the International Monetary Fund.