This is the culmination of a long-term look at steps that might be taken to further restrict hard currency going into Cuba.

The embargo has been the cornerstone of United States policy for 35 years.

I am pleased that the Act substantially funds most of my budget requests for priority investment programs within the Departments of Energy and the Interior and the Army Corps of Engineers.

The delegation will urge resolution of the political crisis in Burundi and review relief efforts for Rwandan refugees.

When needs are demonstrated, we certainly will institute relief on a case-by-case basis.

To designate the week beginning on November 20, 1994 and ending on November 26, 1994, as 'National Family Caregivers Week'

I look forward to the insight and wisdom Ann Forts will share with the members of the President's Committee on Mental Retardation.

This is the embargo enforcement policy, and we will enforce it so long as it is the policy.

Designating December 7 of each year as 'National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day'

Castro's repressive political regime and lack of economic freedoms have essentially denied this to the Cuban people.

The additional steps announced by the President will deny the Cuban government badly needed foreign exchange.

Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and making supplemental appropriations for these departments and…

The Cuban economy will no longer benefit from travel-related transactions originating in the U.S.

These nominees will bring legal talent and dedication to the Federal bench.

For 6 long years, the American people have watched and waited as Washington talked about stemming the tide of crime and violence in this country but did not act.

This crime bill is going to make every neighborhood in America safer.

Oh, absolutely.

I know they will serve our country with distinction.