02/24/1976
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"I pledge my support for increasing the State share of Federal leasing revenues from 37 1/2 percent to 50 percent."
"S. 391 is also littered with many other provisions which would insert so many rigidities, complications, and burdensome regulations into Federal leasing procedures that it would inhibit coal productio..."
"For all of these reasons, I believe that S. 391 would have an adverse impact on our domestic coal production."
"America still cares, that the torch in the Statue of Liberty still burns brightly."