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HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL CONgRESS AdjouRNS
DECEMBER 20, 1974
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Inasmuch as I was elected to the 93rd Congress and was part of it
for half its term, any assessment I make of its accomplishments
upon adjournment sine die cannot be entirely objective. But I will
always be grateful for the personal friendship and courtesies
Members of this Congress have shown to me in three different
official capacities, and for the confidence they have demonstrated
in confirming both me and my subsequent nominee for the Vice
Presidency.
The legislative accomplishments of the 93rd Congress have been
less than I had hoped, but perhaps that is the perspective of
everyone at this end of Pennsylvania Avenue, and certainly this
has been far from an ordinary session. Among the measures for
which I do commend and congratulate the Congress are trade
reform, pension reform, housing and community development,
mass transit, assistance for the temporarily jobless, deep
water ports, creation of the new Energy Research and Development
Administration, and strengthening the anti-trust laws.
In my first message as President, I told the Congress that "we
have work to do." Much has been done, but much more remains.
I wish the departing Members a warm farewell and all a happy
holiday season. I look forward to the coming Congress and the
New Year with the mixture of challenge and hope that the always-
unfinished agenda of our nation inspires in those who serve it in
all its branches.
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Digitized from Box 6 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library