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Week Ending Friday, December 24, 2004
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Statement on Signing the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004,
December 21, 2004
Today, I have signed into law H.R. 3242, the "Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004" (the "Act"). The Act is designed to increase the competitiveness of fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and nursery crops grown in the United States.
Section 1408A of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as amended by section 303 of the Act, purports to require the Secretary of Agriculture to take into consideration certain advisory board-approved findings and recommendations in preparing the Secretary’s annual departmental budget proposal to the President and to disclose to the Congress how the Secretary addressed each such recommendation. The executive branch shall construe section 1408A in a manner consistent with the President’s constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch, to require the opinions of principal officers of the executive departments, to recommend for the consideration of the Congress such measures as the President shall judge necessary and expedient, and to withhold information the disclosure of which could impair the deliberative processes of the Executive or the performance of the Executive’s constitutional duties.
George W. Bush
The White House,
December 21, 2004.
Note: At the time of publication, H.R. 3242, approved December 21, had not been received by the Office of the Federal Register for assignment of a Public Law number.
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Chicago: George W. Bush, "Statement on Signing the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004, December 21, 2004," Week Ending Friday, December 24, 2004 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, December 24, 2004 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004), 40:3009 Original Sources, accessed November 30, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=NGFRCQTKJP9FNI7.
MLA: Bush, George W. "Statement on Signing the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004, December 21, 2004." Week Ending Friday, December 24, 2004, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, December 24, 2004 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004), 40:3009, Original Sources. 30 Nov. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=NGFRCQTKJP9FNI7.
Harvard: Bush, GW, 'Statement on Signing the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004, December 21, 2004' in Week Ending Friday, December 24, 2004. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, December 24, 2004 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004), 40:3009. Original Sources, retrieved 30 November 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=NGFRCQTKJP9FNI7.
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