08/31/1976
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"I am returning, without my approval, H.R. 2521."
"Neither the Agriculture Department nor the Food and Drug Administration has been able to substantiate a significant health problem with rabbit meat in this country."
"The primary beneficiaries of this special interest legislation would be a few large processors of rabbit meat."
"This excessive importing of foreign oil is a tremendous and rapidly increasing drain on our national economy."