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The original documents are located in Box D30, folder "American Restaurant Association,
Los Angeles, CA, January 17, 1971" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and
Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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NEWS
CONGRESSMAN
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
Exerpts from a speech by Rep. Berald R. Ford before the American Restaurant
Association, Jan. 17, 1971, in Los Angeles, Calif.
The
"six great goals" President Nixon announced a year ago in his 1971
State of the Union Message to the Congre SS remain just that--goals--but we will
achieve some of them in 1972
and take large strides toward the others.
You may recall what those goals were: Welfare reform, an environmental program
aimed at restoring and enhancing our
natural environment, a
program improvin
Federal
the availability of
health care for all the American people,
revenue sharing
with the states and local units of government, Federal Government reorganization,
and full prosperity in peacetime.
We are already moving toward the achievement of full prosperity in peacetime.
The President's New Economic Policy--a combination of tax cuts, price and wage
controls and
stimulation of trade--1s heading us in that direction.
All of the business economists are bullish. We can e xpect 1972 to be a very good ye.
I expect 1972 to be not only a very good year for the economy but a good year for
President Nixon in his dealings with the Congress.
I am fully aware that Congress acted on less than 10 of the President's major
pieces of legislation last year. But twice that many of these major measures have
been passed by one house of Congre SS or the other and appear fairly certain of
final passage by both houses in 1972. Adding in other
other major bills that
expect to
I
clear
the Congress this year, I
think the President will move steadily toward his six great goals.
Politics aside, the people
will benefit.
President Nixon is
seeking the right objectives in the right way at the
right time.
With Federal welfare
reform, he is seeking to overhaul the scandalous welfare
system which has burdened us since the Thirties and has run wild in recent years.
With his efforts to restore the
environment, he has given the Nation
a common-sense program of air and water pollution control that promises only what it cal
deliver.
With his new health program, he offers improved health coverage for all, with
improvements in the distribution of health services.
GERALOR FORD LIBRARY
Digitized from Box D30 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
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With his general revenue sharing proposal, he offers property tax relief for
local axpayers and a rescue from imminent bankruptcy for state and city
governments.
With Federal Government reorganization, he moves to make the Executive Branch
responsive to the people and truly a government of the people, by the people and for
the people.
These are measures that have substantial public support. I think they will mov e
ahead in the Congress in 1972.
Welfare reform passed the House last June 22. Sen. Russell Long, chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee, has committed himself tobring it before the Senate. I am
most
hopeful this historic legislation will be on the President's desk before the
end of the year.
Our program to restore the environment is moving ahead well. The Environmental
Protection Agency is implementing the very strong Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970. In
the area of water pollution control there is a
danger that the Congress will
make a gesture far out of keeping with reality. The Senate has passed a bill which
the EPA Administrator
believes sets unachievable goals. The House Public
Works Committee has approved similar legislation. We should not promise more than we
terms
can deliver. What we need is a strong program that is on ttarget in*
of
what
we
can fessibly accomplish. The American people musti not be deceived into thinking we
purity by
can
return all of our lakes and stremams to pristine
1985.
Health care legislation likely will pass Congress in 1972. Hearings have been
conducted in both the House and the Senate. The Administration's health insurance
proposal will probably be the principal vehicle for such legislation, rather than the
costly program of Federalized health care
advocated by Sen. Kennedy. Imerica'
health care problems can best be met by improving on the present system, not by
scrapping it and erecting a massive bureaucratic
structure in its place.
As I mentioned earlier, Federal revenue sharing is needed to ease the property
tax burden and feed unencumbered Federal dollars to cash-starved state and local
governments. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills has introduced a bill which
is about 80 per cent acceptable to the Administration. So prospects for Federal
revenue sharing legislation in 1972 must be rated fairly good.
Another of the President's great gobls also is within reach--reorganization of
the Federal
cabinet departments. There is good reason to believe that this legis-
lation will move in the House this year, and perhaps the logjam will break in he Sena
as well.
We must put the Nation on a new courtse. We must move toward the great goals
outlined by the President. The American people deserve no less.
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