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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box D30, folder \"American Restaurant Association,\nLos Angeles, CA, January 17, 1971\" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and\nSpeech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. The Council donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nNEWS\nCONGRESSMAN\nGERALD R. FORD\nHOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER\nRELEASE\nExerpts from a speech by Rep. Berald R. Ford before the American Restaurant\nAssociation, Jan. 17, 1971, in Los Angeles, Calif.\nThe\n\"six great goals\" President Nixon announced a year ago in his 1971\nState of the Union Message to the Congre SS remain just that--goals--but we will\nachieve some of them in 1972\nand take large strides toward the others.\nYou may recall what those goals were: Welfare reform, an environmental program\naimed at restoring and enhancing our\nnatural environment, a\nprogram improvin\nFederal\nthe availability of\nhealth care for all the American people,\nrevenue sharing\nwith the states and local units of government, Federal Government reorganization,\nand full prosperity in peacetime.\nWe are already moving toward the achievement of full prosperity in peacetime.\nThe President's New Economic Policy--a combination of tax cuts, price and wage\ncontrols and\nstimulation of trade--1s heading us in that direction.\nAll of the business economists are bullish. We can e xpect 1972 to be a very good ye.\nI expect 1972 to be not only a very good year for the economy but a good year for\nPresident Nixon in his dealings with the Congress.\nI am fully aware that Congress acted on less than 10 of the President's major\npieces of legislation last year. But twice that many of these major measures have\nbeen passed by one house of Congre SS or the other and appear fairly certain of\nfinal passage by both houses in 1972. Adding in other\nother major bills that\nexpect to\nI\nclear\nthe Congress this year, I\nthink the President will move steadily toward his six great goals.\nPolitics aside, the people\nwill benefit.\nPresident Nixon is\nseeking the right objectives in the right way at the\nright time.\nWith Federal welfare\nreform, he is seeking to overhaul the scandalous welfare\nsystem which has burdened us since the Thirties and has run wild in recent years.\nWith his efforts to restore the\nenvironment, he has given the Nation\na common-sense program of air and water pollution control that promises only what it cal\ndeliver.\nWith his new health program, he offers improved health coverage for all, with\nimprovements in the distribution of health services.\nGERALOR FORD LIBRARY\nDigitized from Box D30 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\n-2-\nWith his general revenue sharing proposal, he offers property tax relief for\nlocal axpayers and a rescue from imminent bankruptcy for state and city\ngovernments.\nWith Federal Government reorganization, he moves to make the Executive Branch\nresponsive to the people and truly a government of the people, by the people and for\nthe people.\nThese are measures that have substantial public support. I think they will mov e\nahead in the Congress in 1972.\nWelfare reform passed the House last June 22. Sen. Russell Long, chairman of the\nSenate Finance Committee, has committed himself tobring it before the Senate. I am\nmost\nhopeful this historic legislation will be on the President's desk before the\nend of the year.\nOur program to restore the environment is moving ahead well. The Environmental\nProtection Agency is implementing the very strong Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970. In\nthe area of water pollution control there is a\ndanger that the Congress will\nmake a gesture far out of keeping with reality. The Senate has passed a bill which\nthe EPA Administrator\nbelieves sets unachievable goals. The House Public\nWorks Committee has approved similar legislation. We should not promise more than we\nterms\ncan deliver. What we need is a strong program that is on ttarget in*\nof\nwhat\nwe\ncan fessibly accomplish. The American people musti not be deceived into thinking we\npurity by\ncan\nreturn all of our lakes and stremams to pristine\n1985.\nHealth care legislation likely will pass Congress in 1972. Hearings have been\nconducted in both the House and the Senate. The Administration's health insurance\nproposal will probably be the principal vehicle for such legislation, rather than the\ncostly program of Federalized health care\nadvocated by Sen. Kennedy. Imerica'\nhealth care problems can best be met by improving on the present system, not by\nscrapping it and erecting a massive bureaucratic\nstructure in its place.\nAs I mentioned earlier, Federal revenue sharing is needed to ease the property\ntax burden and feed unencumbered Federal dollars to cash-starved state and local\ngovernments. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills has introduced a bill which\nis about 80 per cent acceptable to the Administration. So prospects for Federal\nrevenue sharing legislation in 1972 must be rated fairly good.\nAnother of the President's great gobls also is within reach--reorganization of\nthe Federal\ncabinet departments. There is good reason to believe that this legis-\nlation will move in the House this year, and perhaps the logjam will break in he Sena\nas well.\nWe must put the Nation on a new courtse. We must move toward the great goals\noutlined by the President. The American people deserve no less.\n######"
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