Secretary Lewis has expressed his enthusiasm for the challenge this bill presents to the Department.

A major purpose of this legislation is to restore solvency to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund.

The bill addresses the revenue side of this problem by temporarily doubling the excise taxes on coal producers.

I am withholding my approval of H.R. 4353, to amend the Act entitled 'An Act to Establish a Uniform Law on the Subject of Bankruptcies.'

The whole purpose of our actions is to speak for those who have been silenced and to help those who've been rendered helpless.

Accordingly, this language of section 114(e) must be objected to on constitutional grounds.

The peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is an extraordinary achievement, and its continuing implementation will constitute a further major advance in the peace process.

I cannot support this effort to confer special relief in the guise of general legislation at a possible loss to the Treasury of $1.6 million.

I am gratified that the bill represents the combined efforts of the coal industry, the insurance industry, and organized labor, especially the United Mine Workers, in working with the administration to achieve needed improvements in the…

By our actions, we expect to put powerful doubts in the minds of the Soviet and Polish leaders about this continued repression.

For all these reasons, I am pleased to sign H.R. 4503.

I believe in the social security system.