 That was a nice stand-by today. I keep trying to think of the 535 miles shelves. The Library of Congress, the greatest repository of such things in the world, has 535 miles of shelves. I kept trying mentally to figure out what their 10 shelves hide, and how many of them. And I forgot all about any rows of shelves. I was thinking around the walls and how big your face would have to be. Well, listen, it's good to have you all back, although I see a lot of empty chairs. We've got a lot ahead of us in the next few weeks. And incidentally, your, your isn't Trent's letter to Jim Wright and warmed the cockles of my heart. That was just great. And your statement also there. I don't imagine that too many of you would have been surprised back in January if you'd known then that we'd be meeting here today on September 15th. But the budget process, once again, in critical condition. As far as our priorities are concerned, let me state again the importance of funding national defense and our security assistance program. These areas of the budget have been cut sharply over the last two years, and we all know. And of course some in the Congress would like to rewrite Graham Huddredman in such a way that further, further cut defense or try to force a tax increase. And that cannot and will not happen. As you know, they also oppose giving me the tools I need to control spending through the budget process. As far as the budget appropriations are concerned, we simply got to demonstrate our ability to stick together in that way. We're going to be serious about setting limits on spending, and that was the time to do so. And if we're united against raising taxes, then I believe we'll prevail in the end. And I think the people will remember us for that. I spoke once before to many of you in this room about looking at some of the thousands sure were outnumbered with the minority. But there are two things that come with every one of these problems. One, okay, we may be outnumbered. We may not be able to win a man. But if we stick together, we may also then have gained a strong political point. But if we're coming ahead, we can point the finger at them. And we can't do it if we stood up and going in several different directions ourselves. But to start our discussion, I'd like first to hear from Bob Michael and then Pete Domenici as to where things stand. Do you want to? Yeah, thank you, sir. Well, number one. Can you say that? The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Senegal, Mr. President. Hello there. Nice to see you. Okay. Now we're going to have a roundabout of the other problems. Mr. President, I consider the real revolution that struck Asia in the 1960s and had a beginning in Latin America in the 1970s led to food self-sufficiency in this region, even though it may not have vanished hung up altogether. But in Africa, the new technologies of the green revolution characterized by high input and high energy farming methodologies have singularly been lacking in Africa. The tragic events of the great drought and famine of the 1980s have dramatically exposed a fragile foundation on which Africa's food farming policies and practices rests. That foundation cannot sustain a food production system that demands of it higher yields on the same land that is renfed, worked upon by resource poor farming communities, dependent on a traditional only base, which took it for granted that each plot of cut-bedded land would be rested for seven years in each 10-year cycle. After 80 years of attempting to implement a temporary type of agriculture in a tropical environment, trying to replace a mixed farming system paralleling the genetically adverse tropical climate with a monoclocked agriculture and making a heroic effort to ensure that Africa's enormous range of staples conforms to the staples like wheat, rice and potato of Europe, of North America and Asia. It has become transparent and clear that the challenge of tropical Africa to the scientist and the statement is profound and don't wait. Excuse me, sir. Right, go ahead. John, please hold on. Yes. Hello there. Mr. President, I'm very, very proud of you. I'm honored to meet you. I'm very proud of you. I think you're very proud of you. I'm very proud of you, Mr. President. The doctor knows what you are doing here and that we just had that, yes, we want to participate in helping, believe in the amount of growth, private enterprise and stuff like that. We can resolve this problem. We want to be a part of it. Well, I congratulate you on your leadership to your own initiative. It's been an inspiration to be a part of the development community. So thank you for the White House initiative and its income in Sub-Saharan Africa. It serves. In no way, it was a wonderful experience for the same and those of me, I don't think I'm getting that kind of behavior. So we're honoring the right people Right people and leadership, I think, Mr. President. Yes. I'm the President of the United States. Mr. President, we want to express our thanks for your taking the time to really be with the leaders. And I know you would be with President Putin. It can really, really help the cause of your own kind of stand for me in the public. I want to thank you very, very much for that leadership in that time. We value our relationship to the country very, very highly. Thank you very much. And I tried to draft him for one of our basketballs. You have to say that to President. That's exactly right. We were talking earlier about his stature as a president, and we meant that both ways, I guess. Thank you for all your work. Thank you for what you do. Thank you very much, Mr. President. I'm very proud of our country. I'm proud of the citizens that form organizations and so forth to be at help and outside the bounds of government. I feel I'm following your lead. Thank you for that. Thank you very much. Thank you. This is Archbishop Patrick Flores. Thank you for welcoming us. Good to be with you. Thank you for having you here. Ernest Robles. Thank you very much. Ernest Ford. August Bush. Good to see you again. Good to see you. Good to be with you. Thank you. Since JosseukERID, Mr. President, Ricardo Lumenez. Paul Cedillo. Paul Cedillo. Nice to see you. This is Paul Cedillo. Nice to see you again. Thanks, President. Mr. President, I think I'll move the easel in the center that won't have everybody look around at the presentation. I'll have some of the on both sides here to balance it off. What do you guys think? Sir, do you want to cut the thing back? Are we ready? Mr. President, on behalf of the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund, as Bush was asked to prepare this poster, thank you for your support of this most worthy cause and we thank you from both the fund and from our company. Well, listen, I want to thank all of you for what you're doing. I think this is remarkable. 11 years, 6,000 students so far, and we all know the importance of education without my sharing into it. I just think this is so wonderful of all of you to be engaged in this. Appreciate it. We thank you for welcoming us, and this is the support that we need and we got it now so we promise to keep on doing it for the glory of the country and the people of the nation. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Nice to see you. Nice to see you, Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you.