I have consistently opposed legislation containing these provisions, and will continue to oppose actions that constitute a legislative encroachment on the Executive branch.

On this Bicentennial, Americans have united in a new mood of hope and of confidence.

This provision extends to the Congress the power to prohibit specific transactions authorized by law, without changing the law and without following the constitutional process such a change would require.

I herewith report two new deferrals totaling $4.6 million in budget authority.

I am transmitting 27 supplementary deferrals that have a net effect of decreasing the total amount of deferred funds previously transmitted by $1,462.5 million.

The two new deferrals are routine actions and involve $135,938 for the Special foreign currency program of the Department of Labor and $4.4 million for the National Commission for the Observance of International Women's Year.

I am very proud to welcome all of you as fellow citizens of the United States of America.

To be an American is to subscribe to those principles which the Declaration of Independence proclaims and the Constitution protects--the political values of self-government, liberty and justice, equal rights, and equal opportunity.

Remember that none of us are more than caretakers of this great country.

Our common goal is freedom--the liberty of each individual to enjoy the equal rights and to pursue the happiness which in this life God gives and self-government secures.

The Constitution was created to make the promise of the Declaration come true.

It is good to know that in our own lifetime we have taken part in the growth of freedom and in the expansion of equality which began here so long ago.

We are all proud to be Americans and proud to turn on to future generations the blessings that we have had in the past.

The American Revolution was unique and remains unique in that it was fought in the name of the law as well as liberty.

Their restless search for a better life was begun in the spirit of adventure, but it was the spirit of sacrifice that sustained them.

We must ensure each citizen's right to privacy.

I feel both pride and humility, rejoicing and reverence as I stand in the place where two centuries ago the United States of America was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Americans will remember the name of Valley Forge as long as the spirit of sacrifice lives within their hearts.

Liberty is for all men and women as a matter of equal and unalienable right.

Not all sacrifices are made in war.

We had always governed ourselves, and we always meant to.

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 production on Federal lands.

For all of these reasons, I believe that S. 391 would have an adverse impact on our domestic coal production.

I object in particular to the way that S. 391 restricts the flexibility of the Secretary of the Interior in setting the terms of individual leases.

I pledge my support for increasing the State share of Federal leasing revenues from 37 1/2 percent to 50 percent.