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Statement by the Press Secretary - President is very concerned that the Congress has failed to pass the Second Supplemental [Speeches by Others]
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Digitized from Box 12 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
J IE 9, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
NOTICE TO THE PRESS
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
The President is very concerned that the Congress has failed to pass the
Second Supplemental. He feels that it is essential that Congress pass this
so that the Federal Government can honor its commitments to groups such
as the G.I. bill program participants.
As you are aware, on June 2nd, the Executive Branch was not able to make
a regularly scheduled payment to Veterans because the Congress had not yet
completed its action on that Second Supplemental. As the days go by, we have
now missed a second payment so that there are about 300, 000 G.I. bill partici-
pants who will not receive their benefit checks on a timely basis. In another
week, we are going to miss another regularly scheduled payment date.
In addition to that, if the Congress fails to take action on the Second Supple-
mental by the end of this week, not only will the G.I. bill program participants
be in arrears for their benefits, but we will be at the point where the Execu-
tive Branch is not able to make advances to States for the unemployment
insurance program, and we no longer will have any funds to obligate for food
stamp participants. Also, 30 million social security checks of $50 each are
waiting on passage of this bill.
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