The contract provision relating to nondiscrimination in employment, recommended by the Committee on Government Contracts, is hereby approved.

I believe that substantive changes which may seriously affect the administration of this law should not be placed in the statute books without extending to the responsible enforcement agency, the great industries affected, and the consumer…

I hope that the 84th Congress will promptly enact a measure to unify regulatory authorities over public transportation and provide for a further transit study with adequate coverage and recognition of State and District responsibilities.

The interest of the consumer public is the principal objective of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

In the light of this history of repeated judicial review, I cannot agree that Carl Piowaty and W. J. Piowaty should be given the special consideration and relief which the bill would provide.

The Government would then be on exactly the same basis under that section as all other shippers, and existing inequities in the present rate-making relationships between the Government and the common carriers would be removed.

I see no reason why the Government should not be subject to the same limitations on retroactive review of its freight charges as the commercial shipper.

I HAVE WITHHELD my approval of S. 906, 'To establish the finality of contracts between the Government and common carriers of passengers and freight subject to the Interstate Commerce Act'.

Approval of H.R. 6529 would not be in keeping with these principles.

The very purpose of a statute of limitations--whether it relates to suits between private citizens or to suits brought against the Government--is to avoid stale claims and to procure a reasonably prompt initiation of judicial action before…

In other words, I am seriously concerned that an exception as broad as that which S. 417 proposes to make in the case of Elephant Butte would be a precedent for attempts to secure similarly over-generous legislation in the case of every…

I am withholding my approval of S. 45, a bill 'For the relief of Mrs. Merle Cappeller Weyel.'