The president also discussed crime, the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, illegal immigration, and the minimum wage.
Regarding foreign policy, he urged assistance in Mexico's economic crisis, additional disarmament in cooperation with Russia and other international treaties, stopping North Korea's nuclear weapons program, legislation to fight terrorists, and peace between Israel and its neighbors.
Among them were: The Republican Party response was delivered by Governor Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey.
[3] This was the first response given exclusively by a state governor and, delivered in Trenton, the first outside Washington, DC.
In his 1995 State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton said: “All Americans … are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.