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letters, but I want you to know he's not the only one that gets letters. We're getting all kinds of letters as we approach the end of this session. We were averaging about 5 to 600 letters a day during the early part of the session. But now, as we come towards the end of this 86 Congress, people are getting somewhat frantic.

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Is whether or not a particular programme in which they're interested is going to be passed. So we're getting letters. And unlike Perry Como's, I think ours present many more problems. Some of these I thought you'd be interested in seeing what people are writing about. Here's a lady who writes from New Point Richie, Florida And she says a lot has been said about the federal government helping with some kind of medical care plan for people who are over 65 she said, Do you think Congress will do anything about it?

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And then, she said, and I don't want any mealy mouth answer. Well, we won't give her a medium out answer when we write her back, and we'll tell her that We definitely do think if this Congress will not adjourn before. It has done something useful in something meaningful in this field of providing adequate medical care for the aged people of this nation.

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Of course, there's a great deal of discussion about what particular program we should adopt, and you can find as many views as you can find different senators. However, I have no doubt, but what There will be a getting together and the sharing of views on the part of these senators on the Finance Committee, of which I'm a member and we will evolve a program which I think will be very helpful for our aged people.

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So the lady who does not want a mealy mouth answer Yes, we will have some legislation in that field. Now here's another letter, for example. From Miami, she says, What's the heat this time? What's your stand on the bill for extended coverage of the minimum wage?

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Or you're going to put us small retail grocers under it and drive us out of business? Well, of course, that again is a very difficult bill and my own view on the minimum wages. While I'm very strong for high wages for all our working people. Nonetheless, I don't believe that this federal minimum wage in our law should be extended to include the actual small retail service operations, such as grocery stores, laundries.

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I don't think it should be included, or it should include hotels or things of that character. And I believe that we will pass a minimum wage law in the Congress this year. But it's my own personal hope that we will have excluded from the coverage of that bill certain retail establishments and particularly those operations where the tipping service is a substantial part of the remuneration, which the employee gets those those are very difficult to put under, uh, wage and hour laws.

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We will have a minimum wage bill, but I hope that it's not extended in its coverage, other than to the point where it is now extended. Now here's another letter that somebody writes me from Lakeland says. What are you as Florida's favorite son planned? Who do you as Florida's favorite son plan to support for the presidential nomination, the Democratic National Convention?

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We get a lot of letters on that because obviously people are greatly interested who's going to be the next Democratic nominee. But I you've heard me say many times have three very close personal friends running, and I would not want to make a preferences between my good friend.

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But I have said over and over again that I thought the Democratic Party's strongest ticket would be a ticket made up of Senator Lyndon Johnson as our nominee for president and Senator Jack Kennedy as our nominee for vice president. I cannot help but think that this ticket would be highly successful, and I think that it would pull back into the Democratic Party those people who left it in 1952 and 1956 and thereby we would be victorious.

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Here's a man who writes in Wants to know what about your bill to provide The self employed retirement program is not going to pass before the end of the session. Well, I would say to him that I hope so. I believe so. We now have a good bill.

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It's a better bill. Then it started up, and I believe that if we can ever get it to the floor, if the Congress will not quit too soon, that we can pass it. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for looking in. My time is up. I wish I could show you some of these other problems which are presented to us.

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Yeah, there are only 1 44 7 reports asked Senator status that very great entertainer Perry Como sings this song every week in which he says we get letters, but I want you to know he's not the only one that gets letters. We're getting all kinds of letters as we approach the end of this session.

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We were averaging about 5 to 600 letters a day during the early part of the session. But now, as we come towards the end of this 86th Congress, people are getting somewhat frantic. Is whether or not a particular programme in which they're interested is going to be passed.

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So we're getting letters. Unlike very Cuomo's. I think ours present many more problems