the government’s share at 40% of the simple average of premiums for the six health plans. October 26, 1970 - P.L. 91-510, The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970. Sec. 132(a) Provided for a set Congressional recess during the summer, long championed by McGee. March 9, 1972 - P.L. 92-243 to amend chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, relating to adopted child October 9, 1972 - P.L. 92-476 to designate the Stratified Primitive Area as a part of the Washakie Wilderness, heretofore known as the South Absaroka Wilderness, Shoshone National Forest, in the State of Wyoming, and for other purposes. The law set aside 208,000 acres of wilderness for protection under the National Wilderness Preservation Act. It also designated a 30,000-acre tract in the upper drainage of DuNoir Creek as a special management area to be studied for 5 years. October 23, 1972 - P.L. 92-537 to establish the Fossil Butte National Monument in the State of Wyoming. Fossil Butte National Monument preserves the best paleontological record of Cenozoic aquatic communities in North America and possibly the world. July 23, 1974 - P.L. 93-354, National Diabetes Mellitus Research and Education Act, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for greater and more effective efforts in research and public education with regard to diabetes mellitus. The Act established the National Commission on Diabetes. This group established the first long-term plan to address diabetes prevention and treatment in the US, leading to improved funding for related research, treatment programs, and eventually the National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP). This commission’s recommendations resulted in federal policies that addressed the US diabetes epidemic. United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States After his defeat by Malcolm Wallop, McGee was nominated by President Jimmy Carter as United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States. After approval by the Senate, he was sworn in on March 30, 1977 at a ceremony in the Roosevelt Room in the White House by Judge John Sirica. His former colleague from the U.S. Senate, Vice President Walter Mondale, was in attendance as were former U.S. secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and William P. Rogers, former United States Ambassador to South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker, Under Secretary of State Warren Christopher, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, and senators John Sparkman and William Fulbright. During his tenure, McGee headed the U.S. delegation to four OAS assemblies and lobbied for