The President's News Conference
03/12/1976
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H.R. 12455 embodies a major compromise on a key issue which led to that veto.
No major revision of the District's criminal laws should be undertaken without the benefit of the Commission's recommendations.
Most Americans agree that both are necessary.
I call the Nation's attention once again to the continuing inability of the Congress to meet the real needs of the American taxpayer.