Reformulating and simplifying the Export Administration Regulations is an important priority, and significant progress has been made over the last 6 months.

The first thing we have to do is do what we can to prevent violence.

Export license authority reverted to the Department of Commerce upon the termination of the embargo against Haiti.

If children aren't safe in their homes, if college women aren't safe in their dorms, if mothers can't raise their children in safety, then the American dream will never be real for them.

I have taken the measures described above to further the national security interests of the United States.

Today we are making available $26 million to help the States open rape crisis centers, to staff domestic violence hotlines, to provide victims advocates.

I declared a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to deal with the threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.

I am pleased to transmit to you the Annual Report of the National Science Foundation for Fiscal Year 1993.

For too long, domestic violence has been considered purely a private matter.

I issued Executive Order No. 12924 pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

We have to keep going.

The Foundation supports research and education in every State of the Union.

We must help people who suffer violence put their lives back on track and put the burdens on the criminals where they belong.

Domestic violence is now the number one health risk for women between the ages of 15 and 44 in our country.

It is a very effective tool for cutting wasteful Government spending and bringing down the deficit.

The President, no matter what party, needs the line-item veto to bring discipline to the budget process.

If the Congress gives me the line-item veto, I will cut each one of these programs, and a whole lot more.

I urge the Senate to pass the strongest line-item veto legislation.