I am also requesting that the Congress authorize an additional $50 million for the Special Funds of the Asian Development Bank.

I herewith transmit to the Congress the most recent Quarterly Report of the Economic Stabilization Program.

The responsible and effective exercise of the war powers requires the fullest cooperation between the Congress and the Executive and the prudent fulfillment by each branch of its constitutional responsibilities.

This Administration is dedicated to strengthening cooperation between the Congress and the President in the conduct of foreign affairs and to preserving the constitutional prerogatives of both branches of our Government.

I am today requesting that the Congress authorize emergency security assistance of $2.2 billion for Israel and $200 million for Cambodia.

I am therefore requesting that the Congress approve emergency assistance to Israel in the amount of $2.2 billion.

I am confident that the Congress and the American people will support this request for emergency assistance for these two beleaguered friends.

As legislative deliberation continues, I look forward to working with the Congress on this bill in a spirit of constructive partnership.

I again urge the Congress, in considering my request for authority to grant normal tariff treatment to these countries, to work with me in framing an authority which preserves these gains.

I shall ask the Congress tonight, and also when I submit the name tomorrow, to act as expeditiously as possible on this nomination because of the great challenges we face at home and abroad today.

I will soon be forwarding to the Congress a request for supplemental appropriations to cover the remainder.

Therefore, once again, I strongly urge the Congress to restore the authority to grant nondiscriminatory tariff treatment to all countries.

Accordingly, I am today proposing that the Congress enact the Patent Modernization and Reform Act of 1973.

In that belief, I ask the Congress to give the proposals contained in the Patent Modernization and Reform Act of 1973 prompt and careful consideration.

It is heartening, however, that neither the Congress nor the Administration allowed the smoke of legislative skirmishes to obscure the goal we have shared from the first--that of continuing and improving a program which has long been one of the most humanitarian and effective of all Federal grant activities.

Eight months ago I submitted to the Congress a new budget calling for Federal outlays of $268.7 billion during fiscal year 1974.

I call upon the Congress to act while there is still time, while vital spending bills are still before it.

With the Congress, the Administration, and the people working together toward this goal, we can achieve it.