ADMINISTRATON OF RONALD REAGAN

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05T02051R000200370012-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 17, 1984
• Content Type: MISC

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July 17 / Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1984
has fallen 23 percent; in Michigan, 31 per-
cent. And when the Commission on Drunk
Driving submitted its report, it forcefully
recommended that all 50 States should
make 21 the legal drinking age.
And vet, today, less than half that number
have the age-21 law. And that leaves us
with a crazy-quilt of different States' drink-
ing laws and far too many blood borders,
borders where teens drive across to reach
States with lower drinking ages. And these
teenagers drink and then careen home and
all too-.often -cause crippling or- fatal acci-
dents.
This problem is bigger than the individ-
ual States. It's- a-grave national problem
and it touches all our lives. With the prob-
lem so clear-cut and the proven solution at
hand, we have no misgiving about this judi-
cious use of Federal power. I'm convinced
that it will help persuade State legislators to
act in the national interest to save our chil-
dren's lives, by raising the drinking age to
21 across the country.
Now, many have toiled hard to make this
bill possible-Members of Congress, Secre-
tary Dole, thousands of concerned Ameri-
cans like Mothers Against Drunk Driving,
the Students Against Drunk Driving-by
supporting legislation, they've done this
nation a service. And each of them certain-
ly have my heartfelt thanks and, I think,
the thanks of all the people in our country.
So, God bless you. And I am now going to
write; instead of talk, I'll sign.
Note: The President spoke at 1:29 p.m. at
the signing ceremony in the Rose Garden at
the White House.
As enacted, H.R. 4616 is Public Law 98-
363, approved July 17
This legislation, which recognizes that com-
petitive private sector involvement in land
remote sensing is in the national interest, is
a good example of cooperation between the
administration and Congress.
One of the administration's primary goals
in implementing this legislation will be to
develop a program that requires minimum
government involvement. The administra-
tion's policies of limiting burdensome gov-
ernmental regulation and encouraging com-
petition in the marketplace will. guide the
Secretary of Commerce's implementation of
this legislation, and we will make every
effort to minimize the duration and amount
of any Federal subsidy.
Two provisions of the bill deserve special
comment since the Attorney General has
advised that they establish a procedure
which is unconstitutional. Sections 202(c)
and 303(c) require the Secretary of Com-
merce to transmit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees any decision to enter
into a contract under titles II and Ill of the
bill and to wait for 30 days before imple-
menting that decision. These sections also
provide that the committees may, in effect,
waive the prescribed waiting periods.
Under the Supreme Court's decision in Im-
migration and Naturalization Service v.
Chadha, 103 S. Ct. 2761 (1983), Congress,
including committees of Congress, may not
be given power which has "the purpose and
effect of altering the legal rights, duties and
relations of persons, including . . . Execu-
tive Branch officials . . .," through proce-
dures which bypass the constitutional re-
quirements for valid legislative action. Thus,
the provisions in this bill purporting to em-
power the relevant committees to "waive"
the 30-day waiting period are, under that
Supreme Court decision, unconstitutional.
I extend my appreciation to the Congress
Land Remote-Sensing
Commercialization Act of 1984
Statement on Signing H.R. 5155 Into Law.
July 17, 1984
I am pleased to sign H.R. 5155, a bill that
facilitates the commercialization of the Fed-
eral Government's civilian land remote-
sensing satellite system, known as Landsat.
for the careful and timely consideration
given this legislation, and I look forward to
the successful commercialization of the
Landsat system. This commercialization
represents one of the administration's major
efforts to return to the private sector those
activities which it can best perform.
Note: As enacted, H.R. 5155 is Public Law
98-365, approved July 17.
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