Speech #890160771

Established Federal regulation cigarette labeling and advertising. and Authorized $404 million additional for fiscal years 196668 for the Vocational Rehabilitation Act to assist in providing more flexibility in financing and administering State rehabilitation programs. and to assist in expanding and improving services and facilities provided under these programs. particularly for the mentally retarded. Or it may be remembered as the Congress that found the way to remove more than $4 billion in excise taxes. a burden borne since the days of the Korean confilct and the Second World War. Some will emember this Congress for immigration reform because it ended the discriminatory national origins quotas which has remained a constant irritant to so many millions of our citizens who had come to these shores to find the freedom and the economic opportunity denied them in the land of their birth. Conservationists may acclaim this as the conservation Congress for it authorized a comprehensive longrange FederalState program for the development of the Nations natural resources through the coordinated planning of water and land resources. And it also: Authorized the Assateague.