I think it's important that this commitment be expressed publicly.

It is my purpose in instituting these changes to strengthen Cabinet participation in Presidential decisions.

I think our mind is pretty well made up, except within the bounds of the congressional deliberations.

A joint resolution to provide for the designation of a week as 'National Lupus Week'

An act granting the consent of Congress to an amendment to the Sabine River Compact entered into by the States of Texas and Louisiana

To amend the Indian Financing Act of 1974 by revising the appropriations for the Indian business development program.

I herewith transmit my plan for the Reorganization of the Executive Office of the President (EOP), Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977.

Public Law 95-65

Recommendations to the President concerning Indian land claims in the State of Maine.

Public Law 95-66

Members of Congress may not, for purposes of State income tax laws, be treated as residents of any State other than the State from which they were elected.

An act to amend the Fishery Conservation Zone Transition Act in order to give effect during 1977 to the Reciprocal Fisheries Agreement between the United States and Canada

To authorize appropriations for the Indian Claims Commission for fiscal year 1978.

I will nominate Patricia A. Graham, of Cambridge, Mass., to be Director of the National Institute of Education.

To facilitate the transfer of cases from the Indian Claims Commission to the United States Court of Claims.

I estimate that this plan and the other steps I am taking will reduce staff levels in the EOP by about 250, from 1,712 full-time permanent positions to about 1,460 and will save the taxpayers at least $6 million.

My goal is that at the end of the following fiscal year, in October, on October 1 of 1978, that we would have no more employees in the Federal Government than we had in October of 1976.

International Navigational Rules Act of 1977