Consistency and certainty in the procedural relationships between the executive and legislative branches is important in providing both branches with a common set of rules within which to resolve disagreements over policy. Because each House has appointed an officer to receive Presidential messages during adjournments. we expect that the President will continue. if the occasion arises. to return bills with objections during all adJournments which precede the final adjournment of the Congress. as President Ford earlier had determined he should do. While the administration has not embraced the principles which the District of Columbia circuit has recognized. it has acted in the case of the Emergency Chinese Immigration Relief Act consistently with those principles. This is a salutary development for our system of constitutional government. and Is an achievement for which Senator KENNEDY deserves considerable credit.
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