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How do you do? Ladies and gentlemen, I believe I can spend the most youthful of any that I've been permitted. Cuisines and all the newspapers are a jet official Congresses of all time legislation, all of which will be respect to our international affairs. But with respect to our national affairs as well, many of these laws that were passed will be a specific benefit from all of them are good.

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We have here a list taken from the United States News and World reported. Some of these laws which have been passed this year, starts off appropriate in some $72 billion. Of course, we needed to appropriate this large amount of money in order to step up our national defense effort.

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And most of that appropriation goes into that particular item. Much of that money, of course, will be spent at the military installations throughout our state, the next group of laws that they make mention of the Social Security benefits that came out of the committee, of which I'm privileged to serve the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee.

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I think we made a very meaningful step forward with respect to looking after our retired people and our elderly people in those particular groups of law, we made money more readily available in the housing field. That, of course, is of great benefit to our state of Florida.

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We increased the authority of the Federal Housing Authority at the same time, we added more money for the Federal National Mortgage Association, and already we've seen some beneficial effects from that, particularly in our state. We raised the debt limit. We didn't like to do that. But the secretary of the Treasury, Bob Anderson, came before us and convinced us that in order to meet the large obligation to this government, he needed more room in which to operate.

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And so we gave him the an increased debt limit. He authorized loans and other aides to the railroad that came to be known as the Transportation Act of 1958. I'm proud of the fact that I was the author of that particular bill, and not only will it be of great assistance to the railroads, but it will also strengthen our entire transportation system.

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It will be of benefit to the motor trucks and the water carriers and the whole system of transportation. We voted aid and assistance to small business. I talked a great deal about that last week and out of our finance Committee. We pass certain tax legislation, which will be a particular benefit and encouragement to the small businessman.

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We ended the 3% tax on freight, and once again I was proud of the fact that I was able to originate that bill. And yet it adopted by both the houses of the Congress and finally approved by the present. We passed a system of assistance to education.

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This bill that we finally adopted did not go as far as I personally would have liked for it to have gone, but nevertheless it does take some meaningful steps forward. It will improve the caliber of teaching. It will improve, uh, school construction. Although there are no federal scholarships in the bill which we finally pack, he created a new federal aviation agency, which will bring about a good deal more safe throughout the airwaves and particulars who travel on commercial airlines will live in the future, be able to have a greater sense of safety.

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I'll have to skip down here. We enlarged death. Some of the well, we've improved the tariff bill, the reciprocal trade. So I think we made that more meaningful. And I believe that our general economy is going to benefit because of improved traffic back and forth between our country and particularly country.

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To the south of it, we corrected many inequities in the tax laws, and all in all, I think we had a most profitable and beneficial year. Now that the session is over with, I hope to take a long, belated vacation. Ah, I don't know just exactly where I'm going, but I think I'll go to North Carolina and there I'm gonna sit on the porch, and as the man said after about a week after sitting there, I expect to do a little rocket.

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But before I sign off, I want to thank all of you for listening in and looking in all year. And I want to thank the television stations which have been so kind to show these programs every week in the nature of a public service, thank you very much, and God bless all of