I will nominate Roland R. Mora, of Mission Viejo, Calif., to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment.

Trust is the foundation of effective leadership and governance.

Defense Production Act Extension Amendments of 1977.

I believe that our energy research and development dollars should be spent on technologies which are not yet demonstrated rather than on projects or technologies which have been shown to be successful at a commercial or near commercial…

An act to make certain technical and miscellaneous amendments to provisions relating to vocational education contained in the Education Amendments of 1976.

I applaud the Congress for its prodding in developing the energy extension service concept and see considerable merit in such a program.

An act to authorize appropriations for the administration of the Deepwater Port Act of 1974.

An act to authorize appropriations to the Energy Research and Development Administration.

I feel we should be sure that the requirements for these plans are as well designed as possible.

I seriously question the need for price supports for these types of facilities since a significant body of experience and demonstrated technology is already available.

I am pleased to sign S. 36, a bill which will authorize $1.639 billion for the Energy Research and Development Administration's nonnuclear programs in fiscal year 1977.

I will nominate William W. Allison, of Atlanta, Ga., to be Deputy Director of the Community Services Administration.

I will nominate M. Carr Ferguson to be Assistant Attorney General.

An act to amend the Privacy Act of 1974 to extend the life of the Privacy Protection Study Commission to September 30, 1977.

An act granting the consent of Congress to the Mississippi-Louisiana Bridge construction compact.

I believe that a further expansion of U.S.-Romanian economic relations can help to promote a continuation of such independent policies.

The panel will submit five names to the President from which he will select a nominee to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Francis L. Van Dusen from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

I further determine, pursuant to subsection (d) (5) (c) of section 402 of the Act, that continuation of the waiver applicable to the Socialist Republic of Romania will substantially promote the objectives of section 402.