I have frequently expressed my commitment to review and reform the Federal role in combatting safety and health hazards in the workplace.

FRANK JONES, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Director of the Community Services Administration (new position).

I intend to carry out the programs authorized by H.R. 6884 in such a way as to improve prospects for international peace and security.

My aim is to improve the effectiveness of our efforts to protect the health and safety of American workers.

JAMES R. SCHLESINGER, of Virginia, to be Secretary of Energy (new position).

This is a good week for my administration, for the Congress, and for the whole Nation.

I emphasized my commitment to reducing conventional arms transfers throughout the world.

A steel industry able to produce steel at low cost, using the most modern techniques, is important to the overall well-being of the United States.

BERNAL D. CANTWELL, of Kansas, to be United States Marshal for the District of Kansas for the term of 4 years, vice Jack V. Richardson.

The continuation of the kind of price and cost increases that we have been witnessing clearly jeopardizes our efforts to achieve a deceleration in the overall rate of inflation.

I reaffirm our deep and continuing interest in obtaining a peaceful solution to the problems of southern Africa.

You have made a significant contribution to that vital undertaking and the security it provides our country.

I want to be sure that federal programs actually do reduce threats to the health and safety of American workers.

I have also asked the Council to monitor developments in tin mill and structural steel markets closely over the next few months.

We are now adding in public service jobs throughout our country 15,000 per week.

I have a firm desire to make more intimate the warm and cooperative relations which exist between our two countries.

I am signing into law H.R. 6884, the International Security Assistance Act of 1977.

EDWARD MARKS, of California, a Foreign Service officer of Class three, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.