Some were laid off. Next, we must help parents protect their children from the gravest health threat they face. An epidemic of teen smoking, spread by multi-million dollar market campaigns. The Family Medical Leave Act was the very first bill I was privileged to sign into law as President. We have formed a crime fighting partnership with local law enforcement and citizen groups.
Violent crime is down, robbery is down, assault is down, burglary is down.
We must exercise responsibility not just at home, but around the world. To meet these challenges, we are helping to write international rules of the road for the 21st Century, protecting those who join the family of nations, isolating those who do not. We need some changes there. New citizen advocacy panels, phone lines are open 24 hours a day. We must also ban the cloning of human beings.