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I have just read a little statement by the majority leader of the
House. He said, "Last year the House was in session on 24 of the
38 Fridays when the House was in session." How's that again?

The public affairs department at the Interstate Commerce commission
has formed a group to simplify government talk. But, even though
they call themselves, "The I.C.C. Zero Base Gobbledy Gook Commission",
it's hard to be optimistic about their chances. Not when you read in
the same news story a U.S. postal service memo containing the following,
"if you are going to process under the old procedure, it better
be done under the old procedure, otherwise the position will have to
be reannounced under the new procedure". Is there a clue as to why
postal rates went up? Or is it just that postal employees are asking
for more annual holidays including all state and local holidays,
Inauguration Day, Martin Luther King's birthday and a day off for
each employee to celebrate his own birthday? What! No more office
parties?

Here is a little inflationary item you might have missed. The
Senate is going to have another new building. This will make it three.
Now, so far as I know, we still have the same number of Senators --
two for each state -- totaling 50. This new building, it is said,
will cost $105 million. That's $2,100,000 per Senator, even if they
do build it for the estimated cost, which Congress hasn't been able
to do since the British burned Washington.

In the last one they built, the y had to remove every door and
shorten it. It seems that none of the doors would open or close after
the carpet was laid. This new building will have a T.V. studio,
recreational facilities and a rooftop care, which you can bet won't
break even without a subsidy. Now the members of the House say they
need a new building also, and there are almost 10 times as many of
them.

To change the subject, the bill to grant an income tax credit for
private school tuition was killed in Congress. Some of the arguments
used to kill it were a little more than demagogic. It was charged
that private schools were expensive; therefore, only for the rich,
and they are against the minorities -- a touch racist.

Private schools spend from one-sixth to one-third of what public
schools spent per pupil in their areas. In 1975 almost half (42%)
of all private schools, elementary and secondary students, were from
families earning below the median income. Twelve per cent came from
families with incomes below $7,500.

Only one-and-a-half percent of Catholics are black, and one percent
are Lutherans. In Catholic schools, seven percent of the students
are black and in Lutheran schools, 10% in elementary and 18% in
high school. That averages higher minority enrollment in private
schools than in our public school system. 

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>06/27/[[Radio1978|1978]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2024-07/40-656-7386263-014-009-2024.pdf#PAGE=49 Online PDF]</TD></TR>
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