Jimmy Carter

These nominations reflect our commitment to public service.

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.

The price of steel products made in the United States will have risen 12.5 percent.

LOUIS J. SOSCIA, Of New York, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of New York for the term of 4 years, vice Benjamin F. Butler, resigned.

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.

I expect the Council to report to me by September 30, 1977.

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 would like your contracting and purchasing officers to be particularly alert to the comparative prices of steel supplies.

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

I still believe that all the leaders in the Middle East genuinely want to have peace, obviously on their own terms.

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

I must express my deep reservations about these two provisions and my intention to preserve the constitutional authority of the President.

The bill gives the United States an important tool with which to help meet reasonable and legitimate defense needs of our friends and allies.

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

Where existing procurement regulations provide an opportunity for judgments, or the exercise of your discretion, you should be aware of the importance to my anti-inflation program of purchasing steel at the lowest possible cost.

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

If the South Africans become an obstacle to further progress, then some sort of additional influence on our part against South Africa would probably be advisable.

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

WALLACE P. BOWEN, of Oregon, to be United States Marshal for the District of Oregon for the term of 4 years, vice Everett R. Langford, term expired.

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

I think all parties have come a long way in the last few weeks.

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

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

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 Cape Verde.

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.