First, we should carry out the legislative mandate, which the Republican administration has never carried out-to make a census of transportation so that the Congress and the Executive will have adequate and accurate information on which to act.

I ask you tonight to follow in that tradition - to judge me on the basis of my record of 14 years in Congress.

have the full cooperation of the party's floor leadership in the Congress.

We are very fortunate to have Congressman John Moss working with Governor Collins on this project.

I think it is time we elected a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President.

I most earnestly hope that the Congress will support this particular part of the bill to the full.

Each of us has very great trouble understanding, but even so, I think we should not forget this: the Supreme Court is just as essential to our system of government as is the President or the Congress.

In my own instructions to the Cabinet and heads of all offices, I have told them that every place that there is a chance to save a dollar out of the money that we have budgeted and may be appropriated by the Congress, that will go on through the entire period.

I now request Congress to pass a straight Soil Bank Bill as promptly as possible.

I am ready to sign a sound Soil Bank Act as soon as Congress sends it to me.

I HAVE WITHHELD my approval from the bill (H.R. 1393) 'For the relief of the E. J. Albrecht Company.'

We must make progress, and it will be my earnest effort as quickly as the next Congress opens, to bring these things very emphatically to the attention of both the House and the Senate.

I am pleased indeed to have your assurance that H.R. 5550 will be among the very first measures to be considered by your Committee next year.

I commend to the attention of the Congress, as well as of State and local executives and legislatures, the recommendations pertaining to them.

I urge upon the Congress the following:

I urge that the Congress give consideration to amendments that would enable this to be done.

Accordingly, I do not advise the enactment of additional legislation by the Congress with respect to those subjects.

It is my earnest hope and recommendation that the Congress will quickly consider and enact postal pay legislation that will be in the public interest and fair to all of the half million employees who man the Postal Service.