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Gasoline Conservation Fee Letter to the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader.

May 30, 1980

Dear Mr. Speaker (Dear Mr. Leader)

This is to reemphasize my long standing position that I cannot sign any bill disapproving the gasoline conservation fee which I imposed April 2, 1980.

Thus I shall immediately veto any debt limit extension or other legislation that disallows the fee or that restricts my authority to impose such a fee.

Sincerely,

JIMMY CARTER

Note: This is the text of identical letters addressed to Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Robert C. Byrd, Majority Leader of the Senate.

Jimmy Carter, Gasoline Conservation Fee Letter to the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/251967

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