In the past year, the Commission has received 9,000 complaints about job discrimination.

The results of these spiraling interest rates are threefold:

The bill I am signing here in the Cabinet Room this morning--H.R. 14026--I hope will help to correct these conditions.

So I can testify to his ability.

Justice demands it and I think the American people have always, when they know all the facts and they get the truth, done what is fair, what is right, and what is just.

We have made great progress.

We hope we will be able to get the Senate to act next week on the new Transportation Department.

As soon as we know how much we will be allowed to spend for running the Government next year, we will take appropriate actions shortly thereafter.

Competition has always been the hallmark of our free enterprise system.

I assure them, all present this morning including the regulatory agencies, and the people of this country, that the executive branch of the Government is going to take whatever action it can in an attempt to drive down interest rates.

I am pleased to ask you to come here to be with us today when we put into the hands of the Federal Government a new weapon to preserve the strength of our economy.

We have pledged to do our part by reducing low-priority Federal spending.

We have an enforcement arm.

But its will will be worked and the bill will be passed in due time, I believe.

I think you can observe from the papers each day what is happening.

I am confident that he is going to be a very effective, just, and aggressive Chairman.

He has his work cut out for him.

I will tell you in my State of the Union Message our program for the next session of Congress.