This program has been endorsed by 80 of my colleagues. Thisprogram was first announced on January 8. prior to the state of the Union and budget messages. The program covers foreign policy and national defense. immigration. civil rights. improved civil service. education. health and housing. taxes. labor. business and industry. agriculture. public works. resources. atomic energy. veterans benefits. and government operations. The Presidents state of the Union and budget messages recommended the passage of a number of the proposals contained in the program we are recommending. Among the Presidents recommendations. for instance. were revision of the immigration laws. civil rights legislation. aid to school construction. revision of the TaftHartley Act. the extension of the Fair Labor Standards Act. atomic energy. and statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. The proposed program for Democrats in the House of Representatives in this Congress goes beyond the administrations recommendations in a number of areas including the treatment and compensation of Government employees. revision of the labor relations law. housing. revision of the tax laws. tax relief for small business. an improved unemployment program. assistance to industry in depressed areas. and the revision of farm legislation. The program also calls for a repudiation of the administrations partnership approach to the development of natural resources. and its replacement by what the signers of the proposed program describe as a return to the historic resources development partnership. including farmer cooperatives. public power districts. private enterprise. and the Federal Government.
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