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Jimmy Carter: “I urge Congress to act with dispatch so that the first amendment rights of Federal employees are not unduly jeopardized.”

On the recordJanuary 7, 1980
I urge Congress to act with dispatch so that the first amendment rights of Federal employees are not unduly jeopardized.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1979 Statement on Signing H.R. 5010 Into Law

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