 Well, John, Senator Ruebauer and Congressman Bertha and other members of the Observer Delegation. Welcome back and thank you for getting up your time and energy to traveling to El Salvador to witness one of the most exciting and ancient and promising political developments in recent times. You know, it wasn't too long ago. As a matter of fact, skeptics were all over the place predicting that the people of El Salvador were forever doomed to endure the burden of dictatorship. And this was when they were having their first democratic election in many, many years. And we said they were not capable of self-government. The Marxist guerrillas were surely going to win when the skeptics were wrong. There were a number of fantastic stories of courage of people who walked for miles in order to vote. Buses that were burned by the guerrillas to keep people from getting to the polls more. And again and again, the Salvadoran people defined the violence of the anti-democratic guerrillas and freely expressed their political preference at the ballot box. Yesterday's elections were no different. As in the past, there are numerous reports of Salvadoran walking for hours, even now, of the voting booth. And it's this spirit that's driving the democratic revolution in El Salvador. And I think it's a very promising revolution. In this regard, we all owe a great deal to the courageous president of El Salvador, Napoleon Duarte, whose leadership in these difficult past years has been so crucial to the development of El Salvador's democracy. He was the candidate in that first election that I just described. It's precisely that kind of political transformation and dictatorship to democracy. From arbitrary power to the rule of law and from coercion to respect for human rights. Which has been our primary objective for all of Central America, not just El Salvador. What a contrast between yesterday's event in El Salvador and what's going on in Panama and Nicaragua. But the tie to democracy is running strong in Central America. And I'm convinced that it will reach all nations in that region. But that's a myth out of me now and across the call. Dick Lugar and then Jack Murther for your observations from down there and what you saw. Well thank you very much Mr. President for reading this delegation. I took the fact that you were going to in our visit with President Duarte on Saturday nights. And I mentioned that we'd like to see you directly. He asked of course to give his best wishes to you. Thank you for all of the strong loyal and individual as well as for what you're doing. And I suppose that Jack... Right now they're in a ceasefire. Why are you here today? Yes, I... I heard that I'm just trying to think of the answer. What is working against Noriega? What is going to happen? Well, I'm not going to make any predictions. You shouldn't leave him. Will you encourage him? Yes, I hope that they can achieve something there. Will you hold up? We haven't given that in consideration. But I think I'm going to move on now. Thank you. Thank you for your help in all of our successes over the past seven years. We help us restore America's pride and prosperity, its strength and security. And I mean this quite seriously for giving a new birth to our freedom to people all over the world. As President I have been given credit for many of the things that were really the work of others or that couldn't have been done without others. As Casey Stengel told the press after one World Series victory, fellas, I couldn't have done it without the players. We fought many battles side by side. We've won something. We've lost something. But winter lose, like Crosby and Hope, like Rogers and the Stair, the Lone Ranger and Tonto, the House Republicans and this Republican administration have made a great team. The only thing wrong with us is there haven't been enough of us. The next Republican president deserves a House of Representatives that is on his side and this year I plan to spend my time doing something about that. You've heard of the loneliness of the long distance runner. Well you yourselves have been long distance runners who've time and time again gone to the wall and beyond for lower taxes, controlling spending and a strong defense. Again and again you've seen unscrupulous methods used by the majority to beat you when you had things won. And with the economy in a period of record growth you've had to hear the opposition's phony story over and over about how desperate things are. Somehow I think that must be the toughest part of your jobs. Listening to those outrageous stories repeated on the floor of the House. In fact I know this will surprise you but that reminds me of a story. It was during World War II and those of you who were in the service then will remember that movies from Hollywood made the rounds of units in the field a new picture every three days. But sometimes deliveries got delayed so the current film was held over and with nothing to do everyone saw it again. In the Marianas in the Pacific one army unit saw going my way with Bing Crosby seven times in a row. Now going my way is a great movie but after seven times they'd all come to hate it. One night they captured eleven Japanese soldiers who had sneaked in from their hiding place nearby to see the picture too. And while they were waiting for someone to arrive to take the Japanese soldiers to prisoner of war camp one of our men had the idea of letting the Japanese stay and see the end of the show. They'd also seen it seven times and decided they were sick of it too. Well instead of some of the grade B horror flicks they produce around here I thought I'd give you a preview of coming attractions and for what this movie business calls the establishing shot the one that sets the scene. Let me say that this year through November and beyond in the next year our economic expansion is going to be strong and growing and the American people know it. Now that's not what you've been hearing from your colleagues on the other side of the aisle. They talk about the decline of the middle class even though real median family incomes have risen strongly and steadily throughout our expansion and independent studies show that the new jobs have been on the average better paying jobs than those we already had. They talk about deindustrialization and America's inability to compete even though over the past fifteen months the volume of merchandise exports has grown four times faster than the volume of merchandise imports and much of this in manufacturing exports. Industry after industry is reporting an export boom. Some of the boom is because of the dollar, yes but it's also because thanks to our tax cuts and deregulation and what they've meant for investment and competitiveness American manufacturing productivity has increased more than three times as much since 1980 as during the previous seven years. Just two weeks ago, Honda even began as you know to export its American-made cars to Japan. Our job in the next few months is to keep the leadership on the other side of the aisle from drumming through legislation that would send the longest piece-time economic expansion on record into a tailspin. You know the legislation I mean. Plant closing regulations, protectionist trade legislation, a huge hike in the minimum wage which will guarantee unemployment for millions of poor urban teenagers, costly new entitlement programs, and hidden tax increases. Yes, working together we've kept the rascals in the majority in line and the stakes in our continued success are high. An economist, Jude Waniski, was asked not long ago why the stock market crashed on October. He replied, and here are his words, the perception that the Congress controlled by the Democratic Party, which is a party of pessimists, believes we must have protectionist trade legislation, we must have tax increases, we must even have a recession. And the fear that Congress might have seized control of economic policy from the administration. Well thanks to you in the last several months we've proven to the world that the party of faith, hope, and opportunity is still in the driver's seat. In a vote you may cast today you can reassure the world once again. I'm talking about the so-called Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, commonly known as the Grove City Bill. Equality before the law is the American standard. We can never allow ourselves to fall short. Discrimination is an evil, pure and simple, and cannot ever be tolerated. Ending discrimination and protecting civil rights are not however the issues at stake here. The real issue is that accepting one dollar in federal aid, direct or indirect, would bring entire organizations under federal control from the charitable social service organizations to grocery stores to churches and synagogues. Over the weekend a spokesman for the National Federation of Independent Businesses said there's a lot of confusion out there. The group is telling all small businessmen that it would like to sustain the President's veto so that an alternative can be passed which clarifies who's covered and who isn't. Confusion is exactly the right word. As Bob Michael and Trent Lott said so aptly, the House was given almost no opportunity to amend the bill to make its intent clear. Jim Sensenbrenner was given a one-shot amendment which would have been very helpful if it had passed. But the Rules Committee gave the rest of you no opportunity to strengthen the bill on the floor so that the American public could know for sure what the legislation accomplished. I ask you therefore to sustain my veto so that we Republicans can demonstrate our commitment to civil rights and our resolve to overturn the Grove City decision in a responsible manner. With my veto message on the Grove City bill I transmitted to Congress, the Civil Rights Protection Act of 1988 which is designed to ensure equality of opportunity and eliminate discrimination while preserving our basic freedoms. It would strengthen the civil rights coverage of education institutions and accommodate other concerns raised during congressional consideration of the Grove City issue. It would extend the federal civil rights laws to an entire plant or facility receiving federal aid, but it would not single out certain sectors of our economy for nationwide coverage as 557 would. If my veto is sustained, this is the bill that Republicans can all help move through the Congress to strengthen the protections afforded the civil rights of our citizens. Now let me turn to another area, our national security. If anyone still doubted what you and I have been saying for years, that the road to peace is through the strength of America and its friends, you would think the INF Treaty would have set their doubts to rest, but apparently it hasn't. The same issue is at stake in Central America today and the same people are making the same old mistakes. Those who led the fight against our package of assistance to the Democratic resistance cannot escape responsibility for what happened. Immediately after the House vote against our package of aid to the freedom fighters, Daniel Ortega called for the complete and total defeat of the Contras. Our critics, the ones who told us that taking pressure off the Sandinistas would move them in a more democratic direction, these critics dismissed Ortega's words as, quote, idle rhetoric. We know now that physical preparations for the incursion began immediately. This incursion is no mere political mistake by the Sandinistas. It is part of a broad offensive that is both military and political. It's meant to deliver a knockout blow to the Democratic resistance. And rather than pointing the way to more democracy, the cutoff of aid has also been followed by more harassment and oppression in Nicaragua, including attacks with rocks, chains, and pipes by Sandinista-sponsored mobs on political demonstrations, the harassment of opposition journalists, and the not so veiled threats to the opposition parties. Rarely has a political proposition been tested so fully and conclusively. Opponents of our package of aid to the freedom fighters said that little or no assistance would mean more democracy and less war, but just the opposite has occurred. The truth about Nicaragua is getting out. Early last week, for example, I spoke to major contributors to the United Jewish Appeal and got a warm response when I talked about Sandinista anti-Semitism and Sandinista ties to drugs, Castro, and terrorism. I mentioned that Sandinista leaders had been trained by the PLO and that one hijacker who died in a PLO hijacking of an LL airline was a Sandinista who now has a power plant named after him in Nicaragua. I mentioned the attacks on Managua's only synagogue, and I mentioned, too, the line from the Commission on Organized Crime Report tying members of the Sandinista leadership to international drug trafficking. This issue is not going away and will be coming back to the Hill again. We're determined to get continued assistance for the resistance, and if we stick together this time, we'll make it. We got a lot of work left before this old cowboy climbs up on his horse and rides off into the sunset, but I have a feeling that when the credits roll up on the screen for the hit show, GOP Administration 1981 to 1989 and beyond, the last credit will read, Don't Miss the Exciting Sequel, a GOP House of Representatives in the 90s. Thank you. You're going to go right, Gary. Senator from Idaho. This is the Minister of Culture of the Baskerville, Jose Rodriguez. I do want to thank you. Jose Rodriguez, we surrender. Great to see you. We're in the State of California. When we are in the State of California, we are all together in the State of California. I would like to speak to you in Bask, so the interpreter will change. I would like to speak to you in Bask, so the interpreter will change. Thank you very much for this agreement. It's the highest honor for him to be able to meet you. Well, I'm very pleased to have you here. I would like to have hands up ties with the Bask. We have some such ties, one is right here. Yes, and incidentally it gives me an opportunity to tell you how much I respect what you have done with regard to eliminating terrorist violence in the country. Democracy doesn't need that. Our people have always defended our democracy and have done so for many years. At this point in time we continue to be a peace-loving and democracy-loving people and we hope that very soon we will overcome this problem of violence. These links, these ties, these desires for democracy and freedom are something which binds us together, which unites us, the Bask people and the American people. Although the difference between our peoples is so huge, we're a very tiny people and the United States is such an enormous country, but we have something very important in the United States. This representation, this very illustrious representation of boundaries who are the ones who do us so much honor here in the United States. Well, and they do. But then what we do have that makes us rather unique is that anyone from any corner of the world can come to America and become American. Indeed, but is the way our first president came to the United States in 1938. I want to introduce myself. I want to introduce myself. I want to introduce myself. I want to introduce myself. I want to give you this small gift as a memento of this visit. It's a simple gift, but it has a great deal of symbolic importance. It symbolizes authority, order and respect among men. And it's called a maquilla. I feel there's some kind of a weapon. Yes, people, they are all brothers. Yes, that's right. Kind of weapon, you're right. People, they have a weapon. Just one ancient weapon. Keeps unscrewing. This is. That's very true. We should have had this with me this morning, now it's happening here. I'm in handy. Thank you very much. Beautiful Rancho del Ciel. You're holding that with every close. We're going to take a photo of Bruno with the president. If someone wants to put it on the other side, they can put it here. You can put it on the other side. Turn just a little to the side. Good, you should be in your photo. Mr. President, that maquilla is going to look gorgeous at Rancho del Ciel. Yes. You can handle this spot too. Yes. This is the rose garden right here. Thank you very much. There you go, Roy. Here's your steering chairman from a few years ago. In addition to Pete, there's your key rings. Thank you, Mr. President. It's been a great pleasure to see you. It's been a great pleasure for me too, Mr. President. I think we should much love to also invite you if any time you can come to the vast country and come to know our country as well. I would like that very much. Thank you. Well, thank you. Bye, Mr. President. Good to see you. I think you're in a few photos, but you've never been a host. Thank you. A couple to make sure. One more. Thank you so much. I will see you again on Friday with the President of the Dominican Republic. Oh, that's right. How do you pronounce his name? Baleguerre. Baleguerre? Yeah. But he takes a lot of care. He's blind and he's hard of hearing. So we'll be busy. That's what you call it. Right. Right. Then that's the whole work. May I present the ambassador poem? Mr. Ambassador. Come here. Mr. President. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Seed. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. We'll do that over there in front of some place after I meet your lovely family. This is Mrs. Evans and four lovely children. That's my daughter. That's my little fireplace. We have a picture taken exchanging on paper. Thank you. And then we'll bring your family in for a family. Thank you very much. I'm going to question this a little bit more. There we go. This is Francisco. Where like this one? Really. Finish those hands. Yes. I remember that because I was a governor of California. Mr. New Zealand. Mr. Evans. What a great pleasure to be here. Thank you. Pleased to welcome you. Thank you very much indeed. Mr. Francis. Good afternoon. What pleasure to be here. I'm Sarah. What's that? I'm the daughter. I'm the son-in-law. I'm the son-in-law. Would you allow more in front of a fireplace to exchange our paper? Yes. And then we'll have your family come over to your security guard. Well, Mr. President, I think that the friendship goes back a long time. Yes. I think that's more important than anything else. Yes, yes. Certainly I've been asked to tell you the great affection that you've got, the initiative, calling back my people. One is rolling, the other one asking if you'd accept me as New Zealand representative. All right. All right. I have. Well, shall we, the family in? I think if the ladies get between us. They're at three o'clock. So she ought to be next to you. He's not going to go to the more close. He can squeeze a little bit more. Turn sort of sideways. No. That's okay. Okay. So much. Cheers. The Ambassador of Bolivia. Well, Mr. Ambassador. Mr. President, welcome. Please do. Thank you very much. It's a great honor for me to represent my country. We're the greatest democracy on Earth. Well, and I hope to maintain and improve the relationship between the two countries by fostering a better understanding of our mutual problems. Well, I'm sure we will. Well, you know something about those problems. Mr. President, I present Mrs. Davis. I mean, they're nothing. Mr. President. You and I will go over to the front of the fire. We'll pull it forward, teaming people, and then we'll bring you in for a kind of picture. Okay. Thank you. With your country's efforts, we'll be naming COCA, calling it right. Right. And doing that. And we can assure you that those efforts will continue and increase and hope to improve the results of things. We're an institution of democracy there. We admire very much. I have a recall of my previous lecture. I have a letter of greetings. And a copy between us. And the book there. Well, pleased to have you. Welcome to the United States. I hope you'll be very happy. Thank you very much. My pleasure. Thank you. Ambassador Buquino Faso. Well, Mr. Ambassador, it's a pleasure. Well, great honor to see you. It's a pleasure to see you. And also, to see your respect from Buquino Faso to you. Thank you very much. A great thing of the people who came up. Right. Thank you. You're welcome. Mr. Cabaret. How do you do? He's a veteran. What? 25 years ago, I was signed here. Yes. Yes. So, I should kind of say, come back. Yes. Come back. We're going to go over and exchange our papers here and bring them to Mr. President. Let's say welcome back to our party. Come back. And that's it.