April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7829 PERKINS, Mr. STUMP, Mr. MONTGOMERY, Mr. responsible for adinlnistering part I of the DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER YOUNG of Alaska, Mr. JEFFRIES, and Mrs. HOLT. Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Admin­ SEC. 703. (a) There shall be a Director of H.R. 2655: Mr. WINN, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. istrator of such agency shall, within 90 days the Center (hereinafter in this title referred FLOOD, Mr. EDGAR, Mr. BEVILL, Mr. APPLEGATE, after the effective date of this title, establish to as the "Director") who shall be the Chief Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. WALGREN, within such agency a Minority Resource Cen­ Executive of the Center. The Director shall and Mr. MoAKLEY. ter (hereinafter in this title referred to as be appointed by the Administrator. H.R. 2792: Mr. BoNIOR of Michigan, Mr. the "Center"). (b) The Director of the Center shall hold WEISS, Mr. MATSUI, and Mr. YOUNG of Florida. (c) The Center shall have an Advisory a.n ex-officio seat on the Procurement Policy H.R. 2814: Mr. BEVILL and Mr. FLIPPO. Committee which shall consist of five in­ Advisory Committee of such agency. dividuals appointed by the Administrator of H.R. 2849: Mr. BONIOR of Michigan, Mr. DEFINITIONS BARNES, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. LAFALCE, Mr. such agency within 45 da.ys after the effective WEISS, Mr. CARR, Mr. DOWNEY, Mr. BEILEN­ date of this .title, three of whom are selected SEC. 704. For the purposes of this section­ from a. list of recommendations solicited. ( 1) the term econoinically a.nd socially soN, Mr. BINGHAM, Mr. VENTO, and Mr. disadvantaged enterprlse means a business- STARK. from and subinitted by tra.de and business H.R. 3159: Mr. DAN DANIEL, Mr. CHARLES .associations representing economically and ( a.) which ls at least 51 per centum owned WILSON of Texas, Mr. STUMP, Mr. BREAUX, socially cilsadvantaged businesses. by one or more socially and econoinically Mr. McDoNALD, Mr. WYATT, Mr. LoNG of GENERAL AUTHORITIES disadvantaged individuals; or, in the case Maryland, and Mr. LEACH of Louisiana. of any publicly owned business, at least 51 SEc. 702. (a) The Center shall- per centum of the stock of which ls owned H.R. 3379: Mr. BARNES and Mr. RICHMOND. ( 1) establish, maintain, and disseminate H.R. 3434: Mr. MILLER of California. by one or more socially and economically information as an international information disadvantaged individuals; and, H.J. Res. 239: Mr. ANDERSON of California. clearinghouse for economically and socially H.J. Res. 279: Mr. SENSENBRENNER. disadvantaged business enterprises, for the (b) whose management a.nd dally business ti. Con. Res. 4: Mr. Russo and Mr. DOWNEY. purpose of furnishing to such businesses in­ operations are controlled by one or more of such individuals. H. Con. Res. 73: Mr. CARNEY, Mr. MILLER of formation regarding business opportunities Ohio, Mr. SYMMS, Mr. KINDNESS, Mr. KELLY, in development assistance programs, funded (2) Socially disadvantaged individuals are Mr. BAFALIS, Mr. RUDD, Mr. MOORHEAD of by the agency primarily responsible for ad­ those who have been subjected to racial or Callfornia, Mr. MADIGAN, Mr. HILLIS, Mr. ministering part I of the Foreign Assistance ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of SHUMWAY, Mr. STUMP, and Mr. BEARD of Act of 1961, which implement the policy set their identity as a member o! a. group with­ Tennessee. forth in section 102 of such Act; out regard to their individual qualities. H. Res. 115: Mr. LEACH of Iowa. (2) design a.nd conduct programs to en­ (3) Economically disadvantaged individ­ courage, promote, a.nd assist economically uals are those socially disadvantaged indi­ and socially disadvantaged business enter­ viduals whose ab111ty to compete in the free prises to secure direct contracts, host country enterprise system has been impaired due to PETITIONS, ETC. contracts, operation expatriate contracts, in­ dim1nlshed capital and credit opportunities Under clause 1 of rule XXII, definite quantity contracts, subcontracts, as compared to others in the same business 97. The SPEAKER: Presented. a petition of projects, grants, and research and develop­ area who are not socially disadvantaged. In the city council, Minneapolis, Mln,n., relative ment contracts in order for such enterprises determining the degree of diminished credit to proposed cutba.cks in Amtrak routes, to participate in such development assist­ and capital opportunities the Administrator which was referred to the Committee on In­ ance programs; of such agency shall consider, but not be terstate and Foreign Commerce. (3) conduct market research, pla,,nning, limited to, the assets and net worth of such economic and business analyses, and feasi­ socially disadvantaged individual. bll1ty studies to identify business opportuni­ REPORTS ties in such development assistance pro­ AMENDMENTS grams; SEc. 705. Not later than eight (8) months after the effective date of this section, and Under clause 6 of rule XXIII, proposed (4) develop support mechanisms which will no later than the end of every six-month amendments were submitted as follows: enable socially and economically disadvan­ period thereafter, the Administrator of the taged businesses to take advantage of busi­ agency primarily responsible for administer­ '.H.R. 3324 ness opportunities i'll such development as­ ing part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of By Mr. MITCHELL of Maryland: sistance programs; 1961 shall submit to each House of the Con­ -Page 46, add the following new title at the (5) enteP into such contracts (to such gress a report concerning the activities of end of the blll: extent or in such amounts, as are provided the Center under this title. in appropriation Acts), cooperative agree­ AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS TITLE VII-.MINORITY RESOURCE ments, or other transactions as may be nec­ CENTER essary in the conduct of its function under SEC. 706. There are authorized to be ap­ ESTABIJisHMENT AND POLICY this section. propriated to the President to carry out the SEC. 701. (a) In keeping with the estab­ (b) The Administrator of the agency pri­ purposes of this title, in addition to funds lished policy to maximize the use of appro­ marily responsible for ad.ministering part I otherwise available !or such purposes, $950,- 000 !or fiscal year 1980, and $1,030,000 for priate domestic experience an,d technology of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and in the delivery of international development the Secretary of State shall provide the Cen­ the fiscal year 1981. Amounts appropriated assistance, participation by United States under this title are authorized to remain ter with such relevant information, including available until expended. econoinically and socially disadvantaged en­ procurement schedules, bids, and specifica­ terprises should be assured. tions with respect to development assistance REPEAL AND TERMINATION (b) In order to increase the participation programs funded by such agency which im­ SEc. 707. Section 133 of the International of economically and socially disadvantaged plement section 102 of such Act, as may be Development and Food Assistance Act of business enterprises in contract, procure­ requested by the Center in connection with 1977 ls repealed and any section on minority ment, grant, and research and development the performance of its functions under this business established under such section is activities funded by the agen,cy primarily section. abolished.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS VOICE OF DEMOCRACY cern for our country and the precepts Nevada's winner was Lucy Elizabeth upon which it was founded. Groh of Zephyr Cove. Lucy is a 16-year­ Since the Veterans of Foreign Wars old 11th grader at George Wittel High HON. JIM SANTINI assumed the sole sponsorship of the pro­ School. She plans on pursuing a career OF NEVADA gram in 1961, the scholarship program in law or a related field. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has grown from a single $1,500 award to Below is the text of Lucy's speech five separate awards totaling $22,500. which I would like to share. I think you Monday, April 9, 1979 Student participation has tripled, and will find her comments both inspiring • Mr. SANTINI. Mr. Speaker, fellow col­ school participation has doubled. and thought-provoking. leagues, for the last 32 years the voice The past year, more than one-quarter The speech follows: of democracy scholarship program has million students participated in the WHY I CARE ABOUT AMERICA provided financial assistance to deserv­ Voice of Democracy Contest on the The miracle or creation brings with it more ing students who display an abiding con- theme of "Why I Care About America." than just the manifestation of an idea. It ls

•This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 7830 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS- April 9, 1979 significantly and uniquely a pa.rt of its cre­ scholarships for outstanding high school of arms. Since this consignment includes ator. And when that invention is offered to students. sophisticated weaponry, he also announced me as a gift to treasure, to display proudly, that the arms would have an appropriate or to use wisely, my sense of care has been On April 22, 1979, the auxiliary will be escort of American mllltary advisers. What­ profoundly aroused because I have become holding its first annual dinner dance ever the merits of the Yemen policy, the the recipient of that treasure. Such a treas­ with a twofold purpose in mind: To gen­ mode of making it raises serious questions. ure ls the document drafted for us by the erate revenue for its scholarship fund For Mr. Carter, in sending arms and ad­ men who wrote the Constitution of these and to create civic good will within the visers to Yemen, did something no President United States of America. It had cost them Westmoreland County community. At had ever done before. He invoked a waiver much in blood and sacrifice; their lives, their this time they will be presented with a provision of the Arms Export Control Act fortunes, and their sacred honor. Each gen­ number of tributes, including a procla­ that permits the President to bypass Con­ eration that has followed since the institu­ gress on arms sales If "an emergency exists tion of this republic has dedicated itself to mation from the Westmoreland County which requires such sale in the national se­ the preservation of that gift. commissioners announcing them as a curity interests of the United States." The It offered to posterity freedoms, all woven historical first in Westmoreland County Arms Export Control Act requires that arms into the same cloth to be treated with great and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. sales amounting to $7 m1llion or more ordi­ care. Each thread priceless and fragile. I It should be noted that the office of narily be laid before Congress for 30 days, cannot cut one without damaging the en­ constable was deemed a position of im­ during which Congress can consider and, if tire piece. It shrouds me not with the divtne portance for more than three centuries it so desires, disapprove the proposed sale. right of one, but with the divine right for all. The point of this requirement ls obvious: under the British crown. It became part It is to prevent Presidents from making When I consider what my heritage is­ of the legal system adopted from Eng­ major commitments of arms, advisers and freedom of choice, freedom to choose an land when Pennsylvania was still one of prestige abroad without review by Congress. occupation, a religion, a government-to The point of the waiver provision is obvious make of my life what I wm, not what I am the Thirteen Colonies. It has continued ordered, I dare not risk the frivolities of dis­ to be recognized in our Commonwealth too: It is to give Presidents, should an au• respect or neglect. I am obligated to share with the establishment of these United thentlc and dire emergency threaten na· States of America. tional security, authority to act at once. in the responslbl11tles of preserving it and Did Southern Yemen's attack on Yemen contributing to its expanding growth. I can Therefore, on behalf of the good citi­ constitute, as Mr. Carter's action lmplles, a do thl°ti by recognizing my role in this society zens of Westmoreland County and all of grave and urgent threat to the safety of the a11d by demonstrating the right to which I Pennsylvania's 21st Congressional Dis­ Republlc? The day before Mr. Carter declared hold claim. The Declaration of Independence trict, it is an honor to pay tribute to the the existence of the emergency, the Arab spoke ringingly of what was about to be Pennsylvania State Constables Associa­ League called for a cease-fire and negotia• mine-life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap­ tion, Women's Auxiliary, Westmoreland tlons. The cease-fire took effect shortly after• piness-I accepted it with the full knowledge ward. The negotiations soon resulted in that so valuable a gift would require neces­ Chapter, which will serve our community well in the coming years.• agreement by the leaders of Yemen and sary talents and skllls to preserve. My gift Southern Yemen to unite their two coun• permits me vast educational opportunities tries. Whatever that agreement may mean, to strengthen my knowledge of its function, which may not be much, and however long I have been given the instruments of politi­ the cease-fire lasts, which may not be long, cal choices through my vote at the polls, I ARMS FOR YEMEN, QUALMS FOR US these developments cast doubt on the Ad• will accept the call to arms when my pr'e­ ministration's claim that the United States clous gift is threatened. was faced with so Immediate a threat to na• My caring wm require courage-the valor HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL tional security that there was no alternative to reinforce that feeling even when my coun­ OF NEW YORK to unilateral Presidential action. try is not being threatened. A look at the arms-sale package reinforces My appreciation for its ideals of liberty IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this doubt. The President could have sold and equality are enshrined in my heart. On Monday, April 9, 1979 Yemen weapons it could have used to meet this solid relationship I hope to share· in its immediate enmergency-grenade launch• making these opportunities available for e Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, the ers, antitank missiles, ammunltion-withoui everyone, throughout the world. There ls President's decision to bypass congres­ going to Congress, because the amount in• strength in numbers, and the force of sional review of a $390 million weapons volved would not have broken the $7 mlllion America's compassion for human kind wlll sale to the Yemen Arab Republic was, in barrier. The expensive weapons in the pack• extend far beyond its present sphere of in­ my opinion, an abuse of Presidential dis­ age, such as 12F-5E aircraft and 64 M-60 fluence. Perhaps-Why I care about Amer­ cretionary authority. tanks, would have been useless In the alleged ica--wlll be.come for me the reason for my emergency because Yemen, not a notabl~ being.e The facts simply did not justify the advanced country, lacks the personnel to action. The situation was so fiuid there operate such equipment. That is why Ameri• was no way the arms-including F-5 jet can advisers must go along. A delay of 30 HISTORIC FIRST IN WESTMORE­ fighters, M-60 tanks and armored per­ days to allow Congress to ponder the wisdom LAND COUNTY sonnel carriers-and accompanying of sending advisers into a wa-r zone would American advisers could have arrived in have made no difference to the fighting, time to make any difference. The truth which of course bas come to an end anyway. of the matter is the Yemeni were not In addition, Yemen has three times as HON. DON BAILEY large a population as Southern Yemen. Ii OF PENNSYLVANIA then and still are not able to utilize, maintain, or absorb any of this equip­ has arms supplied, ironically, in an earlier IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES spin of the dial, by the Soviet Union (which ment quickly, and few, if any, of its mfll­ raises the interesting question as to whom Monday, April 9, 1979 tary personnel are acquainted with the our F-5E aircraft and M-60 tanks may be • Mr. BAILEY. Mr. Speaker, it gives me equipment. used against In the future). Yemen's condl· great pleasure to announce to the Mem­ Compounding that situation is the fact tion could hardly have been so desperate as that the day before the President signed the Presidential invocation of the emergenc~ bers of the House of Representatives the waiver implied, unless its people were less recent formation of the Pennsylvania the order waiving Congressional review, concerned than we are about defending their State Constables Association, Women's Prof. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., points out own country. Auxiliary, Westmoreland County Chap­ in today's New York Times: The emergency was patiently spurious. ter. This is the first such chapter of its The Arab league called for a cease-fire and Even if It had not been, would the "loss" of kind in Westmoreland County and in the negotiations. The cease-fire took effect shortly Yemen so vitally threaten our safety as to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. afterward. The negotiations soon resulted in leave no time to seek the support of Con­ agreement by the leaders of Yemen and gress? If Mr. Carter's ln-terpretatlon of the This auxiliary presently has 45 active Southern Yemen to unite their two countries. Act prevails, it ls hard to see how that act members who are civic-minded wives, will restrain Presidents from making unilat­ mothers, and friends of the constables I commend Professor Schlesinger's Op eral commitments of arms, advisers and association. The noteworthy objectives of Ed column to all my colleagues and urge prestige wherever the four winds blow. And the women's auxiliary are to lend aid and them to read it. The column follows: what will happen, our arms, advisers and prestige having been thus committed, if .ARMS FOR YEMEN, QUALMS FOR US support to the Westmoreland County "our" side begins to lose? Congress, having constables chapter in encouraging law (By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.) accepted the commitment, will find it far enforcement, developing programs for President Carter announced his decision more difficult to prevent deeper involvement charitable purposes, and promoting on March 7 to sell Yemen $390 milllon worth further on down the road. April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7&11 On March 15, Representative Leon Panetta. signed on April 11, 1968, by President vestments. Perhaps even more significant ls of California. introduced a concurrent reso­ Johnson. The law guarantees equal op­ the comeback in Newark's neighborhoods. lution protesting Mr. Carter's use of the portunity in housing to every American Thousands of Newark working-class folk waiver authority. "This action," he sa.ld, "de­ are investi.ng life savings and ta.king out by providing that all actions necessary be substantial loans to reha.b1llta.te their nies to the Congress an opportunity to ex­ taken to prevent discrimination on the amine all relevant facts in the Yemen war homes--hardly a sign of a population in and determine whether making this kind of basis of race, creed, and national origin flight. Newark's neighborhood rebirth ls 100 major new commitment to North Yemen in federally financed housing and related percent a blue-collar, black and ethnic, is in the best interests of the nation." facilities. lower-income group affair. "Gentrification" In the Senate, George McGovern of South Fair housing is an idea which em­ by middle and upper-income types-the Dakota observed that the point of the Arms braces the spirit of societal justice for hanging plant and spinach salad crowd tak­ Export Control Art was to prohibit "unex­ all Americans. Equally important how­ ing over newly chic neighborhoods in many amined major commitments instituted solely ever, is to make sure this spirit is trans­ cities-is virtually nonexistent here. by Presidential discretion." Sending arms lated into reality through a forthright One's strong impression is that if Newark, and advisers to Yemen, he said, was plainly given its weight of problems and drawbacks, one element in the development of a new national commitment. can emerge with new strength, then any city policy in the Middle Ea.st. "The President's Our Nation has a responsibility to help in America. can. waiver was significant not because some communities provide adequate shelter Even in its darkest days, of course, Newark weapons were shipped out but because a new and a respectable environment. To do has had formidable economic assets. It re­ security policy, with new American commit­ less than this involves the denial of jus­ mains the connecting point between the na­ ments and risks, was being created without tice and the denial of a measure of hu­ tion's most heavily tra.tftcked highway, raU any serious Congressional review of its scope, man diginity. The elimination of dis­ and air routes and largest harbor (New character or problems." criminatory barriers is essential for a York). Newark's llOrt fa.c111ties are outstand­ No doubt Mr. Carter, on the defensive be­ ing. It is stlll New Jersey's largest city, with cause of miscalculations in Iran and troubles strong and viable society. The principles banks holding b1llions in assets and life in­ in Afghanistan and elsewhere, hoped to embodied in the fair housing law are surance companies selling more policies than strengthen himself at home by showing how the building blocks for a more equitable any city save New York. macho he was prepared to be in Yemen. But, society, a more compassionate society, Still, the fact is that Newark entered the in the longer run, the initiation of mll1tary and certainly a more humane society.• 1970's with an appalling list of disa.blllties. commitments on his own say-so is not to his The crime, population, density, unemploy­ own best interests, for the requirement that ment, venereal disease and infant-mortality Congress pass on large arms sales is surely to NEWARK REVITALIZATION rates were the country's highest-or close to Presidents' advantage. A year a.go, Mr. Mc­ it. The city had been convulsed with two Govern pointed out to the Senate ·that, had decades of rapid population change, from that requirement not existed, Mr. Carter's HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. white ethnic to black and. Hispanic, with arms-sale package to Saudi Arabia and Is­ OF NEW JERSEY pockets of violent emotions along the cutting rael "would have been carried out by the edge of neighborhood racial change. executive branch unlla.terally, and virtually IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Not all of those conditions have changed every Senator would have been tempted to Monday, April 9, 1979 in nine years, but enough ... have to make stand up on this floor and assail the President a fundamental difference. The metamor­ of the United States, knowing the deal was • Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I want to phosis started. in 1970 when Kenneth Gib­ going to go through anyway. But when we call my colleagues' attention to an ar­ son, a black leader of honest reputation and had to face the hard decision of voting yes ticle written by Neal Pierce and appear­ palpable good will, defeated Mayor Hugh or no and take the responslb111ty for the ing in the Washington Post of March 10 Addonizlo, soon to go to prison for plunder­ interest of the United States in this sale, it concerning my home city of Newark. It ing the public treasury. was quite a different result. By a vote of '54 tells of the hard work and dedication of Administratively, the Gibson administra­ to 44, a clear majority of the U.S. Senate the loca: public officials, private indus­ tion often drifted. But it did convince said, in effect, to the world, we uphold the to Washington that Newark was the nation's hands of the President. So I think we did an try, and citizens of Newark bring the worst-off city and garnered over $500 mil­ enormous service by sharing ·the responsibil­ city back from decay. lion in aid in eight years. Added to increased ity of that very agonizing and difficult deci­ Mr. Speaker, I am proud to be a. part state a.id, that made Newark look like a sion with the President." of Newark's revitalization and I believe fiscal-aid junkie. When Congress cut off The idea of committing the United States this article would be valuable reading for countercyclical aid last year, Newark had to to the defense of Yemen may or may not be those who might feel that our Govern­ lay off 425 city workers, including 200 police. sensible. In either case, the policy would ment should "give up" on our cities, be­ But Gibson claims that large outside pay­ benefit from serious. national debate. And it ments are justified by the huge a.mount of ls essential now for Congress to declare Mr. cause they are incapable of helping them Newark land devoted to state and federal Carter's action a misuse of the waiver author­ selves. Newark's story is one of con­ omce buildings, universities, roads and ity in the Arms Export Control Act; other­ tinuing struggle and success, and I am port--all the appurtenances of a major re­ wise a dangerous precedent will be estab­ very happy that Mr. Pierce has writ­ gional service center cut off from the nat­ lished. Wise Presidents will regard the re­ ten about the efforts to rehabilitate ural tax base of its amuent hinterrand. quirement of Congressional collaboration not Newark, and their results. Maybe now it Gibson also claims solid economies. He as a burden to be evaded but as an oppor­ will no longer be "one of the best-kept says city government per-capita cost has tunity to be embraced in order to give our secrets in urban America. • • • " declined from $360 to $280 since 1970, with­ foreign policy a solid base in understanding out adjusting for inflation. The city's bond and consent.e Mr. Speaker, I insert the article in the rating improved. Tax rates, for years way RECORD: above those of nearby suburbs, have begun THE QUIE'l" REVIVAL OF RIOT-TORN NEWARK to inch downward. The crime rate finally ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL (By Neal R. Peirce) leveled off, then declined sharply to its la.t­ FAIR HOUSING LAW est ranking of 28th in the nation. Publlc­ NEWARK, N.J.-The best-kept secret in health measures cut the venereal disease and urban America is how this city, devastated infant mortality rates to a fraction of their by riots a dozen yea.rs a.go and long amlcted prior levels. HON. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS by America's worst problems of burned-out OF CALIFORNIA A new element has been added to New­ slums, high crime and municipal penury, has ark's character with a $300 million wave of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES begun to bounce back. investments in universities-the New Jersey Monday, April 9, 1979 Admittedly, the bounce has to be a long College of Medicine and Dentistry, the New one in a city stlll troubled by alarmingly Jersey Institute of Technology, a branch of •Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, in wake high jobless rates, flashes of arson and the Rutgers University and others. They have of our country's long and bitter struggle fact that a third of the population is on caused the student population to balloon to for civil rights I would like to bring to public assistance. But from downtown to the 23,000 in a decade. the attention of my colleagues the an­ neighborhoods, the visitor discovers multiple In the mtd-'70s the tide of black and His­ niversary of a monumental and histori­ signs of rejuvenation that national media panic immigration and push into formerly cal piece of legislation which was passed stories-focused uniformly on the lurid signs white neighborhoods ceased, permitting sta­ by the Congress in 1968, the national of civic distress-rarely mention. bilization-albeit at a very high 80 to 85 per­ fair housing law, title VII of the Civil One sign of Newark's rebirth is the heavy cent minority figure citywide. A Regional amount of downtown building under way Plan Commission poll last year showed twice Rights Act of 1968. with the backing of banks, insurance com­ as many Newark residents expected their city This April marks the 11th year of the panies and other firms who feel the city's to get better in the next five years as expected national fair housing law, which was future is secure enough to justify large in- it to get worse. 7832 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979 The most vivid example of all is provided cialized departments to deal with severe The City of Niagara. Falls operates two (2) by the Portuguese, now the majority group burning injuries, with tuberculosis, and 32 million gallons per day Water Treatment of the old Ironbound neighborhood of tightly has an intensive care unit for nursery Plants at 53rd & Buffalo Avenue, adjacent to crowded little houses, shops and factories the Hooker Chemical Company property. The close to the center city. Joining the Germans, children, and provides comprehensive first of the two plants was built in 1912. The Poles, Lithuanians and Italians who preceded care for children with multiple handi­ chemical treatment and filtration section is them, the Portuguese (immigrating most caps. stlll in operation. The pumping fac111ties heavily since 1967) are providing a sparkling In past years the hospital concerned it­ were replaced in 1953. The original pump new example of the old ethnic, pull-yourself­ self primarily with the indigent citizen, station was renovated into omces and ve­ up-by-your-bootstraps dream. Says one city but now the fame of this institution is hicular and equipment storage. Some of the official of the Ironbound's melange of mixed spreading far beyond the city's bound­ underground piping and water storage fa­ uses, narrow streets and sidewalks and yards: aries so that a large and growing per­ c111ties were abandoned intact. These were "It breaks every rule of city planning­ centage of the patients reside in the adjacent to what is called the "S" Area-a except that it works tremendously." suburbs. disposal sight. A road-way, "Dock Street," The most serious test for Newark will be now separates the two properties. the future of its Central Ward, blasted by Cleveland Metropalltan, "the best kept My first recollection of the dump site is in the 1967 riots. It will probably be decades secret" over the last 15 years has been the mid 1950's. Its presence probably would until that area lives down its past. But even engaged in a vast building program and never have come to the attention of the Water there, one finds hope. On a wintry day I restructuring of the facilities which pro­ Department employee's except for the ob­ climbed over a construction site where the vide a full range of medical services for noxious odors, spontaneous fires and smoke, Pllgram Baptist Church is spearheading a the entire community. which occurred from time to time and car­ 100-acre redevelopment site with 305 hand­ Oh, yes, I almost forgot. Cleveland ried by the preva111ng south-west winds some townhouses under a federally insured Metropolitan General with the help of across the Water Works property. The nature mortgage for low- to moderate-income peo­ of the gases was nauseous, choking, and ple. Several hundred yards away one could my beautiful wife gave me the gift of lacrimatory to humans, and toxic to plant see the hulks of public housing high-rises, an equally beautiful baby girl, 4-pound, life as evidenced by the death of trees and where three young girls were recently multi­ 10-ounce Amanda Leigh.• plants which we attempted to grow. Both lated and thrown off the roof. Such struc­ Fred J. Hayes, Supt. of Maintenance and I tures, Pilgrim Baptist Pastor Arthur Jones reported these occurrences to our superiors told me, "ought to be dynamited like they CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY OF and the Hooker Chemical co., on many oc­ were in St. Louis." ELLIOT LYNCH OF YOUNGSTOWN, casions. There was some alleviation when But his townhouses, Jones sa.'1d, were being N.Y. more cover was provided for the land-fill. bullt with quality, on a human low-rise In about 1957 the State Power Authority scale. "Come here in 10 years and I guarantee began the construction of the Robert Moses you that this complex wlll not be vandal­ HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE Parkway, and the 400 ft. concrete dock and ized," he said. "It wlll be like a good cancer 01' NEW YORK industrial water intake on the bank of the that spreads." • IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Niagara River directly behind the Water Treatment Plant. In 1958 I began taking pic­ Monday, April 9, 1979 tures of .this construction as well as of the CLEVELAND'S BEST KEPT SECRET Hooker landfill area next to the cl ty property. • Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, Elllot Photographs shows the disposal area, 55 Lynch is one of many of my constituents gal. containers, tank trucks and in one dis­ HON. RONALD M. MOTTL who came to the Capitol on March 21 tance a railroad tank car. A series of paralled 01' OHIO to provide Congress with firsthand ex­ trenches were dug, 55 gal. drums ltned up on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES periences in dealing with one of our most the crest of the .trenches, punctured in some serious health and environmental is­ instances, and rolled into the trenches and Monday, April 9, 1979 sues-hazardous wastes. Mr. Lynch, now covered. Tank wagons would be discharged directly into the pits, and the emuent then • Mr. MO'ITL. Mr. Speaker, we hear a retired, ran the water treatment plant covered. lot about Cleveland these days, most of for the city of Niagara Falls for 10 years, About ten years ago, the pumping station it, unfortunately, derogatory. and he learned about the problems faced operators began complaining of chemical But permit me to tell you about the when a municipal water treatment plant odors emanating from the pump station quality of Cleveland's medical care with is located adjacent to a hazardous waste wet-well. Mr. Fred Hayes, Supt. of M&inte­ special reference to one of its finest hos­ disposal site and in a city where one of nance determined that it was apparently pitals. Most of us have heard of the the major industries deals daily with coming from an abandoned raw water pipe Cleveland Clinic and its "guests" from chemicals, many of them highly toxic. line leading north along our west property line. Saudi Arabia. We know lots about uni­ Mr. Lynch's presentation to Congress We contacted Allen Marine Salvage Com­ versity hospitals, and most of the other helps show how important it is that we pany, a.nd they subsequently confirmed Mr. hospitals with which Cleveland is blessed. in Congress deal with this issue, and do Hayes suspicion. The consensus of opinion The hospital I want to talk about is so soon, so we can prevent future dis­ of the operators and supervisory personnel one that we do not know much about, be­ asters such as the one that has struck at the time, was that it originated from the cause we do not hear or read much about the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Hooker land fill. The conclusion was derived Falls. I would like to share his testimony from the smell, general e.ppearance and it. But it was my good fortune to be "in­ proximity to the "S" Area. The Hooker Com­ troduced" to Cleveland Metropolitan with you and with our colleagues. It pany was so notified. The abandoned pipe General Hospital about 2 weeks ago when follows: was plugged with concrete and the condition my wife was taken there and admitted "S" AREA OccuaaENCE CHEMICAL COMPANY in the pump station alleviated. to the department reserved for high-risk LAND Fn.x., BUFFALO AVENUE AND FUTY­ A re-occurrence of the chemical smell in pregnancies. THIRD STREET, NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. the pumping station occurred aga.ln in the To me, this hospital is Cleveland's best I am Elliott J. Lynch, 2091 Lake Road, late spring of 1978. I recommended to the Youngstown, New York 14174. I am presently Director of Utllities, Mr. Robert Ma.thews, kept secret. The treatment accorded to employed as Acting Chief Operator-chemist, that Allen Marine Salvage Company be re­ my wife probably could not have been for the Niagara County Water District, 7227 called and the concrete plug and general matched anywhere else in the area. The Williams Road, Niagara Falls, New York area be examined. A portion of the plug had hospital is specially equipped to deal with 14304. eroded, and more of the sa.me chemical waste such cases, and the skill and dedication of I am a 1950 graduate of Niagara University, was issuing into the wet-well. Samples were the doctors and the nursing was simply and was employed by the City of Niagara taken and analyzed by Hooker. It is my wonderful. I herewith gratefully pay mY Falls Water Department from June 1949-to­ recollection that Mirex and C-56 were found gratitude to Drs. Mortimer G. Rosen, September 1978. I served as Chemist-Chte! ln the deposits. Roger Hertz, LeRoy Dierker, and Me­ Operator, from September 1953 until my re­ I had retired from Clty employment by tirement in 1978. Besides my regular employ­ this time August 1978, but was retained on linda Kwong and also administrator, ment with the City, I was also the City's a consulting basts for two months. The de­ Henry E. Manning. representative on the Niagara. County Board posits were removed and a meta.I bulk-head Mr. Speaker, Cleveland Metropolitan of Health, from 1965 to 1970. installed tn the abandoned raw water Une. General Hospital is one of the finest in Since I no longer have access to Water It should be noted that there ls consider­ the country and I am glad to be able to Department records, the testimony which able difference of opinion concerning the bring it to the attention of this House. follows ts primarily recollection. Some facts origin of the Mirex and C-56. My contention Not only does this hospital deal with high mg,y be substantiated by various govern­ is that it originates from the "S" Area. land risk pregnancies, it also has highly spe- mental records and correspondence. fill. According to published report.s, other April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7833 local omcia.ls and the Hooker Chemlca.l Com­ Having carefully studied the training ln Los Angeles, it will necessarily remain so pany a.re reserving decision publicly. Their and disciplines of nurse-midwifery, I am unless government is willlng to make avail­ contention is that it may be from the fully confident that nurse-midwives can able the necessary funds to provide an ade­ Niagara River itself, and an accumulation of provide high quality health care at a quate public transportation alternative. many years. I must present to you some information In my refutation of this claim, I have cited reduced cost to health care consumers. about public transportation in Los Angeles that the repeated chemical analysis of both This being one of my key legislative that you may find hard to believe. the raw river water and finished water over goals for the 96th Congress, I, thereby, The Southern California Rapid Transit the pa.st fifteen yea.rs, by State and Federal submit legislation that will provide for District is the third largest transit system in laboratories which have shown negative, or the inclusion of nurse-midwives under the United States-providing primary service within the llmlts prescribed. for various medicare and medicaid programs, and to some seven million people and secondary organic toxins in Part 5 of the New York that will provide for access to nurse­ service to an additional three million people. sanitary Code. The most recent comprehen­ The service area by way of population and sive series of analysis were between 1972 and midwives without referral in the Federal geography ls in excess of the combined cities 1977, and were conducted by the New York employee health benefits program. In of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Ban Fran­ State Health Department under the U.S. passing this legislation, Congress wlll cisco and Atlanta. Geologic Survey. These a.re on file in the provide the consumer with high quality Our ridership has increased 67% in the New York Ste.te Department of Health and health care at a reduced and saving past 4 years and now some 550,000 persons in the Niagara County Health Depa.rtment.e cost.• each weekday are dependent on the system. In the dense metropolitan area of Los An­ geles we are now out of capacity-leaving HEALTHCARE PRESIDENT OF SOUTHERN CALI­ people at the bus stops unable to get to work. Those that do get aboard are so FORNIA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT crammed together that the experience ls an HON. BARBARA A. MIKULSKI URGES SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC agony. 01' MARYLAND TRANSPORTATION we have been forced to reduce our an­ IN TB'.E HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nualized mileage over the past few years by 11 %-and this in the face of increased pas­ Monday. April 9. 1979 HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON senger demand. e Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker, today 01' CALD'ORNIA Our fleet of buses ls the oldest in the na­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion-averaging over 12 years of age. Some I am introducing legislation that is con­ buses are so old that parts must be specially sistent with two of my most imPortant Monday. April 9. 1979 made for replacements. We suffer nearly 1200 goals for the 96th Congress: To improve e Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. in service breakdowns per week resulting ln the quality of health care delivered by Speaker, I wish to commend President a huge excess maintenance cost and an in­ utilizing varied health professionals and convenience to passengers that has become Carter on his nationwide address of intolerable. to lower the cost of quality health care. April 5, in which he urged Americans to I am introducing two bills to the Con­ The central (Wilshire) corridor of Los increase their utilization of mass trans­ Angeles has a population density second in gress; One provides for the inclusion of portation, carpooling, riding the bus to the nation and the buses in that corridor­ nurse-midwife services under medicare work, and other modes of energy efficient a most costly and inefficient way to trans­ and medicaid programs and the other transportation, as part of the adminis­ port large numbers of people--carry more provides for access to a nurse-midwife tration's effort to stem energy consump­ passengers than the entire BART ran sys­ without referral in the Federal employee tion. tem in the Ban Francisco Bay Area. health benefits program. As you can see, public transportation ls On Aprll 4, Mr. Marvin L. Holen, presi­ now an essential part of Los Angeles life, and Since many people are unaware of the dent of the board of directors of the the people of .Los Angeles need and want a education and training background of Southern California Rapid Transit Dis­ modern, reliable system. We must have the nurse-midwives and their ability to de­ trict presented his testimony before the money to replace our old ·buses, to expand liver high quality obstetric health care House Appropriations Subcommittee on our service and to build new mass transit services, I would like to take this oppor­ Transportation. Mr. Holen emphasized facilities which are cost effective, such as a tunity to inform my colleagues. A nurse­ the need for increased Government fund­ rail llne through our high-density central midwife is trained in both the disciplines ing for mass transit at a time when both corridor. of nursing and midwifery, and is certi­ I must emphasize to you as an Appro­ House Appropriations Subcommittee on priations Committee of Congress that mon­ fied according to the requirements of energy consumption and prices are sky­ ey spent on public transportation is an in­ the American College of Nurse-Midwives rocketing. As one who was bringing these vestment of tax dollars that results in a upon completion of a 1- to 2-year edu­ facts to this Chamber 7 years ago, and lower cost of living and thereby a higher cational training program. In order to who was active in "busting open" the standard of living. It is good public busi­ receive certification from the 0CNM, Highway Trust Fund for utilization in ness to invest public funds in publlc trans­ the nurse-midwife must successfully mass transit programs, I feel Mr. Holen's portation. pass a national certification examina­ Forgive me lf I step out of my role for goals are good ones. a moment as an advocate for better public tion. President Carter has indicated his de­ transportation in Los Angeles and speak as Women, as consumers, must be sire that windfall profits accruing to oil a very concerned American citizen. afforded the opPortunity to select the companies as a result of decontrol be Our country is in the midst of a national most efficient, satisfying, and economi­ heavily taxed. I support this tax on wind­ energy crisis requiring reduction in petro­ cal delivery system according to their fall profits and believe that a substantial leum use. Major sources of our petroleum own needs. Women have indicated a amount of the new revenues it will create are under foreign domination and control should be used to provide additional making us subject to foreign intluence. Our preference for obstetric care by nurse­ currency is being undermined by the huge midwives as they feel they receive more funding for public transportation sys­ balance of payment deficits resulting from personal support from the nurse-mid­ tems nationwide. foreign oil purchases. Our people are being wives, as health care providers in any With this in mind, Mr. Speaker, I subjected to terrible lnfiationay pressures national health care plan, we enable mid­ would like to share with our colleagues making the cost of private transportation wives to be reimbursed for services pro­ the following remarks delivered by Mr. prohibitive for a rapidly growing number vided on the same basis as other health Holen: of families. The continuing dependence on care providers delivering the same level the automobile causes a polluted atmos­ TESTIMONY 01' MARVIN L. HOLEN BEFORE phere subjecting everyone to irritation and of quality service. TRANSPORTATION COMMl'lTEE ON APPROPRIA• disease and requiring massive investments The standards for the practice of mid­ TIONS, APRIL 4, 1979 in our attempt to keep the alr at least wifery are comparable to those of ob­ My name is Marvin L. Holen. I a.m the Pres­ breathable. stetrics; the practice of nurse midwifery ldell{t of the Board o! Directors of the South­ We call on the federal government-the occurs with a formal written alliance ern California Rapid Transit District. Mr. President and the Congress-for a crash with an obstetrician or another physi­ Chairman and members or the Committee-I program to expand public transportation. cian who has a formal consultation ar­ a.ppreclate the opportunity to appear here It ls a direct way to attack and ln large today to relate to you some specific prob­ part solve our eneragy problem. It would be rangement with an obstetrician. If the lems-and some speclflc opportunities-tbat one or the most effective ways to dilute the need arises, the nurse-midwife, with her exist in the greater Los Angeles area concern­ pain or lnfla.tlon. It would help relleve us training to recognize the variations from ing publlc transportation. o! the massive cost and consequences o! the normal delivery, will then call UPon Los Angeles ts stm automoblle dominated, polluted air. It ls the wise course of action the obstetrician to assist with the case. and given the state of pu1blic transportation and should be of first priority. 7834 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979 We urge you to increase appropriations Family Farms . . . these are questions I face The sad part is this: not only to the authorized level but well every day. (And I say this as someone who has al­ beyond. And as a member of those committees, I ways supported 100% parity.) Thank you for your time and considera­ want to take this opportunity to thank the We're not going to get 100% parity . . . tion. I will be very happy to answer any ·National Farmers Union ... Tony De­ or 90% parity ... or anything like that ... questions.e chant, . . . and Lowell Gose, . . . and all through the legislative process or govern­ the rest of you, for the thoughtful and well ment supports. It's just not going to hap­ documented testimony and advice you have pen. It wasn't going to happen before the FAMil..aY FARM PROGRAM provided over the years. farmers cam.e to Washington and it cer­ Your opinions are respected, and your ad­ tainly isn't going to happen now. vice ls highly valued. I thank you for it. The economic, legislative and political HON. ED JONES I'd like to take just a moment, here, to realities simply make it impossible. talk a.bout some of those other farmers Well, that leaves us with two choices. OF TENNESSEE who've been in Washington the past two We can either tear up the mall, block trat­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES weeks. fic, e.nd "hold our breath" until we turn Monday, April 9, 1979 I don't question that many of them have blue ... reason to be mad. But let me be quite frank . . . Or we can work for other ways to •Mr. JONES of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, with you. They have not helped our ca.use. build the kind of farm system we had my colleague on the House Agriculture They have deliberately snarled traffic at hoped parity would provide. Committee, TOM HARKIN of Iowa, re­ rush hour. I say it's much more productive to do the cently addressed a "Family Farm Rally," They have torn up and burnt park benches latter. If we had kept parity we would have sponsored by the National Farmers for firewood. a good system today. But we can't turn the They cut down 25 young elm trees on the clock back ... we have to look a.head. Union in Atlantic, Iowa. mall and burnt them. We have to ask what kind of agriculture Since coming to Congress in 1975, Mr. They have driven their tractors on joy­ system do we want? And how do we get it? HARKIN has proven to be a vocal and ef­ rides through the reflecting pool at the foot (1) We want a system of many farms fective spokesman for the family farm, of the Capitol, doing serious damage to it. and one in which they all equitably con­ working to insure that the next genera­ They knocked over and broke an $8,500 tribute to our food production. tion of farm operators are family farm­ sign outside the Smithsonian Institution (I Since 1950 the number of farms in Ameri­ ers, and not nonfarm corparations, or don't know which makes me the mad­ ca has been cut in ha.If ... from 5.6 million giant agribusinesses. dest ... the fa.ct that they knocked it down to 2.7 milllon. and broke it, or the fact that somebody And only the largest 6% of those that re­ In his speech to the "Family Farm thought we needed an $8,500 sign outside the main . . . account for 53 % of all farm Rally," Mr. HARKIN outlined a nine-point Smithsonian in the first place!) receipts. farm program. It is sure to be contro­ They have damaged an underground We must turn this around. versial, but it is thought-provoking and sprinkling system used to water the grass on (2) We want a system that provides ample merits the attention of every Member of the mall. access for young people . . . young fami­ this body. They damaged curb signs, bike and walk­ lies . . . to begin farming. I commend his speech to the attention ing paths. Today over half the farmers in this na­ They have crashed their tractors into police tion are over 50 years old. of my colleagues, and include it at this ca.rs and driven them over police motorcycles. And the ever rising cost of land and the point in the RECORD: And, they have torn up the mall so badly interest paid on money borrowed to buy it, SPEECH BY REPRESENTATIVE TOM HARKIN it must now be entirely re-sodded at a cost of is placing the dream of operating their own Thank you very much. a half mllllon dollars. farm well beyond the reach of those who It's a pleasure to be here. Each day the protest continues it costs the do not inherit their land. When you stop and consider that when I federal government and the District of (3) We want a system that will maintain left Washington, D.C. to begin the trip out Columbia. nearly $200,000--that's nearly a farming not just as the risk ta.king and here, I left the worst snow storm to hit that quarter of a. million dollars. profit making business it is ... but most city in 20 years and quite a few farmers who In short, this "demonstration" has done importantly as a way of life--a.s a part of have been snarling traffic all week, you'll more than draw attention to the farmer's our social fa.bric. understand how serious I am when I say "It cause. The fact ls the policies of the last 30 is a real pleasure to be here." It has cost the American taxpayer nearly to 40 years have taken us in the exact op­ I! the drive from the Omaha airport to 2 million dollars, so far. posite direction. They have preached the Atlantic was not leisurely, it was at lea.st And, I might add, many urban Members of "bigger is better" policy. And those policies unobstructed and I am grateful for that. Congress a.re having a ha.rd time believing have resulted in: Thomas Jefferson, himself a farmer and that the farmers who are living on the mall The American farm becoming bigger and fa.rm innovator, once described farmers as in their 24 foot mobile homes or staying at bigger: doubling in size since 1950. The aver­ "The chosen people of God." He said they the Mayflower and Hilton Hotels are really age farm doubled in size, while the actual had a "special character based on substance in need of help. number of acres in production dropped by and genuine virtue." But I'm afraid, the most serious damage 10% and the number of farms dropped by Like most of our founding fathers, Jeffer­ they've done, will not carry a price tag. 50%. son believed very deeply in a system of agri­ The antics of a minority of the farmers in We must have an agriculture fa.rm policy culture, based on family farms. Washington, I'm afraid, have been a serious which will reverse those trends. That base had more than just symbolic set-back to our efforts ... to build bridges Since the changes we seek a.re major, so importance to them ... for as long as Ameri­ between rural America and urban America.. must be the changes in our agriculture pol­ cans could chart their own destiny and Some of you attended the Farm Convention icy, and in our way of thinking a.bout agri­ build their own prosperity as independent I held with Congressman Bedell and Con­ culture policy. family farmers and land owners ... Ameri­ gressman Nolan from Minnesota. two yea.rs We need the following nine items: cans would remain free. a.go. Over 300 family farmers attended. ( 1) We need a graduated farm program. Many things have changed in this nation An important part of that convention was We must go beyond the price support pay- since then. the afternoon those family farmers spent ment limitations. Price supports must be But perhaps no other change that has going around in small groups to the offices of scaled to farm size and wealth and there taken place since then would surprise Jeffer­ urban Members of Congress. They explained must be a point when we say "good luck, son as much as the change in our agricul­ their situation. The discussions were you are on your own." ture system. thoughtful, and were rational. And the ur­ It makes no sense for the taxpayer to sup­ The answer to the question: "Who shall ban Members of Congress listened. plement the income of someone with a mil­ control agriculture?" is not as easy to an­ Some eyes were opened. Some minds were lion dollars in equity. (Not debt!) And it swer in our day as it was in theirs. opened. Bridges were built. makes less sense for us to do that if our Then the answer was simple: Family I'm afraid a lot of that foundation, a. lot of goal is to help and encourage the average farmers shall control agriculture. that goodwill, has disappeared in the la.st 2 family farmer. weeks. Target prices, loans, and disaster pay­ Today our generation must decide: They have set back our efforts to get good ments all reduce risk. It is a well estab­ Will it be the agribusiness corporations? farm legislation. lished economic principle that risk manage­ Will we have an agriculture system based They have made my job and the job of ment is the key to business expansion. So, on absentee landownership, or foreign other farm state Congressmen much harder. by reducing large farmers risk, we make ownership? We now harve to -convince those urban him more hungry and expand and thus Or will it be based on a great many farms Members of Congress that the few "hell allow him to outbid small or new farmers ownei and operated by the independent Taisers" in the group of fa.rmers in Wash­ for land. fam1lies who live on these farms? ington . . . and the few who protest their A similar change is needed in our farm As a member of the House Agriculture "poverty" from $30,000 mobile homes . . . loan programs. Committee .. . and its Subcommittee on don't represent rural America. It is no secret many big farmers in Iowa April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS got 3% SBA disaster loans after the drought remain for the generations to come we must It's no accident agriculture exports were of '77. They didn't need that help. get serious about saving it now. up nearly 14 percent over last year. rrhey had the equity to weather a tough I'm happy to say the Carter Admln1stra­ It's no accident farm exports set a new year like 1977. But they took the 3% money, tion may be moving in this direction. The record in 1978, both in volume and in dol­ put it in a bank, and earned interest. Council of Environmental Quality has rec­ lars received. rrhe law allowed that. ommended farm program participation be And as Jimmy carter and Bob Bergland And the law needs to be changed. made contingent upon the use of sou con­ open the door to China the prospects for That 3% disaster money meant life or servation practices. I! this becomes Carter even bigger exports are even brighter. death for the farm operations of many fam­ Administration policy, we wlli have taken a Domestically, that reserve kept the price lly farmers in Iowa. The program served them giant step closer to ensuring the protection of com from collapsing in the face of a 7 well. of our top soil for the generations yet to b1llion bushel harvest. But for a lot of other big farmers it did not come. And that on-the-farm reserve, owned by mean the difference between success or !all­ (7) We must have an agriculture policy farmers, means that when the price of corn ure. It meant simply, an opportunity to make that recognize that we can use farm land goes up even further, farmers will profit, some easy money. for energy also. not the Commodity Credit Corporation. ·We must graduate program benefits and (8) We must redirect, research and exten­ We wm keep our commitment to our ex­ prohibit benefits to non-farm corporations sion programs to help family farms-not port customers, and we wm also help our and partnerships. agribusiness and not non-farm corporations. balance of payments. What I'm suggesting may sound a bit (9) We need a nationa.1 grain marketing This Administration's farm pollcy can be strange coming from the Members of Con­ board to sell our grain abroad. We are the summed up in one word: "recovery." gress who represents the 8th most rural Con­ only major nation in the world that sells its And that is a welcome change from the pol­ gressional district in the nation. grain through private companies. Under that icies of Earl Butz, Gerald Ford, and Rich­ !But it has to be said, if we're serious about arrangement, foreign buyers of our grain ard Nixon, who gave us little price pro­ doing what we must to stop the demise of barter among those companies for the lowest tection, fence row to fence row planting, the family farm. We have to concentrate our price. With a national grain marketing board, grain embargoes, and price freezes. limited resources on helping those who really we'd sell our grain to the highest bidder and Those who are trying to tell you Jimmy need help. farmers would reap the profit. Carter and Bob Bergland are responsible for And, if we're serious about cutting waste in If we are serious about building the kind all the farm problems today are simply government, we must admit it ls everywhere; of agriculture system in which the family wrong. it's not just in the "other guys'" programs. farm can survive and prosper our program And I, for one, are will1ng to stand up and It's in every program, including "OUR" pro­ must be broad and comprehensive and ad­ say so. grams. dress the many factors which impact the They are on the right track. We need to When it comes to cutting waste in federal family farm. If we continue to address only do more-as I outlined-but while we may spending there should be no "sacred cows." the price issue, the only thing we will ac­ disagree about how fast we should go, there (2) We need a tax pollcy that discourages complish is to make the rich richer and the should be no disagreement that, overall, absentee landownership and has a disincen­ big farmers bigger. we are at last, finally going in the right di­ tive for getting bigger. My final point today ls this: rection. The income that comes from farm land to Those of you who remember my battle Now that doesn't mean we can all sit back anyone other than those who live and work with the Carter Administration over beef and take it easy for awhile. on that land, must be taxed at a higher rate; imports, and my inclusion on Secretary Berg­ There's still a lot of work to do. and that rate must be structured so that it is land's "bed wetters" list last fall, know I've We must continue to push and work for not more profitable for that absentee land­ never been a "cheerleader" for the Carter the changes still needed to ensure the sur­ owner to just pass his higher tax b111 along Administration. vival of the family farm. I've outlined some to his renter. I've always felt free to criticize this Ad­ of those changes I think we need, this after­ We need a graduated property tax. mintstration--even though it ts of my party­ noon. We can have such a structure and at the when I thought they were wrong. And I sha.11 I intend to continue to work for them, and same time protect the retired tanner who continue to do so. That is my obligation, I hope the National Farmer's Union, and all depends on what he and his wl!e bullt and my right. of you, will too. th.rough a llfetlme of work for their retire­ But I've never been one to stand by and Thank you very much.e ment income. let someone take a "bum rap" when I felt (3) We must change the inheritance tax they were getting one, either. So let me be laws to allow a farmer to pass a farm on to frank. TRIBUTE TO GEORGE KOPPEL the next generation of his family to continue Jimmy Carter and Bob Bergland are getting farming without breaking it up. a "bum rap" from the farmers who have (4) We must prohibit foreign ownership gathered in Washington and from many HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON· of farm land in the United States. farmers across this nation. And I think it's OF CALIFORNIA time someone said so. (5) We must establish a special "money IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pool" to help young farmers compete with One and two years ago, farmers were reap­ established farmers and investors with lots ing the bitter harvest of the pollcies of Earl Monday, April 9, 1979 of equity-in purchasing farm land. Butz and Richard Nixon. Prices were at rock Today, nearly 60% of all fa.rm land sales bottom in the 3rd successive year of disaster •Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. are made to established farmers, enlarging on the farm. Speaker, our contemporary American their farms. .I know you all remember what it was like. society presents a very difficult world in A little over four square mlles per day, or I know I do, too. which to live. In this complicated age about 1 mllllon acres of farm land a year, What ls the situation today? where we are simultaneously bombarded ts sold to people who plan to put it to non­ Prices farmers received at the end of this by talk of rising costs and the falling agricultural uses. past harvest season were nearly % higher value of the dollar, tax revolts, and de­ New farmers and corporations scramble than the year before. Corn was up 18 per­ cent. Wheat was up 32 percent. Soybeans mands for increasing social services, the for what llttle ls left and corporations can were up 21 percent. Cattle were up 52 per­ energy crisis and nuclear powerplant beat new farmers in bidding for land. New mishaps, food additives that are carcino­ farmers need long-term, low-rate, financial cent. Hogs were up 28 percent. help. Prices we pay are up too-but not as high. genic, peace conferences in the Middle Farm equity ts up 73 blliion dollars over East and wars and coups d'etat in ob­ (6) Our agricultural pollcy must address last year. scure parts of the world; it is all too easy not just price, but conservation and the best Net farm income was up 40 percent in to become confused, misdirected-to lose use of the land as well. 1978 and reached the second highest level If price were our only objective, 100% on record ... $28 billion dollars. touch with the most basic values upon parity ... mandated by legislation, it would Livestock receipts are up over 10 blllton which this society was built. The business take the price of corn up to $3.50-$4.00 a dollars. world in particular is wrought with very bushel. But it also would result in thou­ Crop receipts are up over 4 b1111on dollars. harsh realities. There are few individuals sands of Texas and Oklahoma and Colorado 1978 was the first year since 1973 that the who are able to remain calm in an farmers planting corn and other crops on rise in gross income exceeded the rise in the atmosphere of crisis, unselfish in an age what ts essentia.lly grass land. Taking pre­ farmers expenses. of the self, and philanthropic in an age cious water from water table for irrigation. These are dramatic improvements. They of acquisition. Competing with Iowa and Illinois farmers are not the product of happenstance. They where we can grow those crops better. One such individual is George Koppel. are the product of sound agricultural pollcy. In the 10 years that I have had the pleas­ Growing corn would not be the best use They are the product of a policy which: of that land, and we'd find ourselves heading Established an on the farm farmer owned ure of knowing him, he has consistently back to the days of the dust bowl. grain reserve ... that reserve reestablished displayed a most genuine love for human­ In 100 years o! !arming nearly one-third o! our reputation as a rellable suppller to the ity. He is a living symbol that one does our top soil has been lost. We lose some 4 bil­ world. It guarantees we won't have any more not have to become completely immersed lion tons of top soil a year. If anything is to grain embargoes. in the often boiling waters of business in 7836 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979 order to succeed. As head of Koppel, Inc., of Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan. I am writ­ youngest men ever appointed to an un­ one of the most successful commodity ing to you because of an item which appeared in the Detroit news on 3/20/79 expired term as Frederick city police merchandising and trading companies in (enclosed) . magistrate when he first served in public the world, George has managed to rise Basically, the article describes your com­ office in 1936. to the top of the corporate world without mittee assignments and provides a brief de­ I know my colleagues will join me in neglecting his family, his faith, or his scription of the impact you have had on extending the official sympathies of the fellow man. these committees. In particular I refer to House to the family of this unselfish and It would not be possible to pay tribute your chairmanship of the Postsecondary civic-minded American.• to George Koppel without mentioning his Education Subcommittee of the House Labor family, and particularly his wife, Har­ and Education Committee. I believe that I have directly benefited from your involve­ riet. Truly, they have forged a firm, ment on this committee. steady partnership over the years so that The fact that I attended college at all ts HUMANITARIAN AWARD TO one without the other is incomplete. due to the generosity of many persons. Most ROBERT DAVIS Together they have created a wonderful of these persons are easily identiftable and family of four children, each of whom I have been able to express my gratitude to has received all the love and care that them without difficulty. HON. DON BAILEY George and Harriet could provide. The problem I experience now Is this: a OF PENNSYLVANIA George Koppel is a rare combination portion of my financial aid was in the form IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of qualities. He stands at the pinnacle of of Basic Educational Opportunity Grants and National Direct Student Loans. Who do I Monday, April 9, 1979 success in the corporate world, yet he is thank? How does one say thank you to the equally successful at home and in the federal government? By writing the Presi­ • Mr. BAILEY. Mr. Speaker, on Sun­ community. A happy man who returns a dent? I think not. Perhaps it could be done day April 29, a constituent of mine, joy of living to all of us around him, by writing to the agency which administers Robert Davis, Greensburg, Pa., will be George is a pleasure to know. His name the program. Maybe, but I think the applause honored at a testimonial dinner held by in the business world is synonymous for should go to the men and women in Congress the Westmoreland County Conference for quality, integrity, and dedication. And in who went onto the floor and into their com­ Economic Opportunity, Inc. At this testi­ the community his name is synonymous mittees to fight for the programs and funding monial, Robert Davis will be the seventh for concern for his fell ow man, involve­ from which so many students have benefited. annual recipient of the Humanitarian I would like to take this opportunity to ment in a wide range of community express my deepest gratitude for the work Award from that agency. affairs, and leadership in making life you and other members of Congress have Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the OPP<>r­ better for many less fortunate than him­ done in behalf of college students, including tunity to seek this national recognition of self. One most notable example is the myself. It was with the help of the B.E.O.G. Robert Davis and all of his good works. establishment of the George Koppel Re­ and N.D.S.L. programs that I was able to Recognized for his sincere dedication to search Fellowship at the world famous attend college. I believe that the education the citizens of Westmoreland County as City of Hope Medical Center. that you helped provide has been the key to the success that I now enjoy. well as for his participation and interest My wife, Lee, and I would like to ex­ in many W.C.C.E.O., Inc. community-re­ tend our very best wishes to George and I would very much appreciate it if you would forward this letter to other members lated projects, Bob Davis was selected by his lovely wife Harriet and to thank them of your committee and support staff, so they a committee's decision that was ratified both for being the outstanding people might know that their efforts do not go by a unanimous vote of the 211-member that they are.• unnoticed. Thank you. Policy board. Sincerely, Now in his 33d year in the food busi­ THANK YOU, CONGRESS, RICHARD J. McGRATH.e ness, Bob has contributed to many func­ FOR MY EDUCATION tions of area schools and businessmen as a sponsor of various events for the benefit of the entire county. HON. WILLIAM D. FORD EMMERT R. BOWLUS Bob is a 1939 graduate of Jeannette OF MICHIGAN High School, past member of the Jean­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON·. BEVERLY B. BYRON nette Harriers track team and holds a Monday, April 9, 1979 OF MARYLAND bachelor of arts degree from the Uni­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES versity of Pittsburgh. After college • Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, graduation, he served 3 years with the like most of my colleagues, I supPose, I Monday, April 9, 1979 U.S. Naval Amphibious Force in Europe. have days when I wonder if anyone understands or i31Ppreciates what we do • Mrs. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, I would Active in Westmoreland County, Bob in Congress. Certainly we all believe we like to take this opportunity to honor the has held numerous positions, such as act in the !best interests of our fell ow memory of a Frederick County resident past president of the Central Westmore­ Americans, and we hope people !benefit and highly respected citizen of Freder­ land Chamber of Commerce, past presi­ from our votes, programs, and plans. ick, Md. dent and chairman of the board of the A young man in Michigan, Richard Emmert R. Bowlus was deeply admired Westmoreland County Society for Crip­ McGrath, provided me with a heart­ by all who knew and loved him. He was a pled Children and Adults, and past warming experience when I opened a well-known auctioneer and former Fred­ chairman of the Greensburg-Jeannette­ letter from him. It had recently come erick city alderman. Mr. Bowlus died of Irwin Committee for Employment of the to his attention that I chair the Sub­ a heart attack on January 2, 1979, at Handicapped. committee on Postsecondary Education. the age of 68 years. In 1966, Bob received the Brand Names He wrote to thank me and through me As a lifelong resident of Frederick Foundation Award from U.S. Secretary thank all the Members of Congress for County he was elected eight times to of Commerce, John T. Conner, for out­ making it Possible for him to graduate public office. Emmert was a member of standing Food Retailer of the Year. This from college. the Republican Party and served as pres­ is the food industry's most prestigious Particularly in light of the criticism ident of the board of aldermen between award. of the younger generation, and the pub­ 1943 and 1966 under six different mayors Currently, Bob is a member of numer­ licity 01bout student loan defaulters, I and he served one of the longest tenures ous service organizations, ranging from hope my colleagues will take a minute to in city hall. the Greensburg Lions Club to the West­ read this letter. I promise it will pick Mr. Bowlus was a member of the Fred­ moreland County Mental Health Board. up your day. erick Church of the Brethren; Moose In 1971, he was the recipient of the Mr. Speaker, I include the text of the Lodge 371 ; Frederick Lodge 684 of the Man-of-Year Israel Bond Award for his letter from Richard McGrath at this BPOE Elks; and was the charter presi­ outstanding civic work. point in the RECORD: dent of the Frederick Breakfast Opti­ Bob has, indeed, earned the respect MARCH 26, 1979. Congressman WILLIAM FORD, mists. Emmert also served on the board and esteem of all of us for the quality of Rayburn House Office Building, of aldermen for 22 years and was elected his leadership and standards of excel­ Washingtcm, D.C. three times to the County Republican lence in his service to our fellow citizens. I DEAR CONGRESSMAN FORD: My name ts State Committee. have known Bob since I was in high Richard McGrath and I am a recent graduate At 26, Emmert Bowlus was one of the school and this award is truly well de- April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7837 served. We do, indeed, salute a dis­ the abandoned 54" main. Clean-out of en­ that could be done today to immedi­ tinguished citizen, community leader, tire system was not completed at this time. We are scheduled to resume operations in ately cut back on the noise levels if outstanding American, and great April. those responsible were willing. These in­ humanitarian-Robert Davis.• Observations as to possible source of con­ clude restrictions on nighttime opera­ tamination: tions, innovative approach and depar­ Indication of contamination at river in­ ture procedures and carefully controlled take. Chemicals in samples taken are same fiight paths. I discuss these and others CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY BY. as in other Hooker dump sites. Hooker Chem­ in a letter I am today sending to Trans­ HAROLD ALLEN ical used their adjacent property as a chemi­ portation Secretary Brock Adams seek­ cal waste disposal site. ing his help in dealing with the problem. Possibly involved area was originally river I also have written to the chairman HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE bottom and land fill material could be quite of the Subcommittee on Transportation OP NEW YORK permeable. Respectfully submitted, and Commerce of the Committee on In­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HAROLD K. ALLEN, terstate and Foreign Commerce suggest­ Monday, April 9, 1979 Partner.e ing a number of changes in present laws that will aid residents of communities • Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, on affected by excessive airport noise. March 21 a number of people from West­ CONFERENCE ON AffiCRAFT NOISE I am inserting both letters in the ern New York-most of them from my AND SAFETY RECORD. congressional district-came to Wash­ I want to use this opportunity to ex­ ington to discuss the problems faced in press my gratitude to all those who at­ the city of Niagara Falls and elsewhere HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL tended my conference on March 29 and in that region with respect to the dis­ OF NEW YORK I pledge to them and to all residents posal of hazardous wastes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of Queens that I will continue doing all It is becoming clear that this is one of Monday, April 9, 1979 in my power to find solutions to these the Nation's most serious and pernicious vexing problems. health and environmental problems. e Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, Harold Allen, one of those who gave Thursday evening, March 29, nearly 200 The letters follow: presentations that day, is an engineer of my constituents came to P.S. 120 in WASHINGTON, D.C., who has assisted the city of Niagara Falls Flushing for a Conference on Aircraft April 6, 1979. Hon. BROCK ADAMS, in making sure that its water treatment Noise and Safety which I sponsored. The Secretary of Transportation. plant is not contaminated by toxic chem­ purpose of the meeting was twofold. DEAR BROCK: Last week I sponsored a Con­ icals or other foreign substances from First, Federal and regional authorities ference on Aircraft Noise and Safety in my a nearby waste disposal site. His presen­ were invited to report to the commu­ district. These are two subjects of enormous tation was illuminating and is one which nity about what they are doing to solve concern to my constituents, hundreds of I would like to share with you and our these problems and to discuss how citi­ thousands of whom live near or beneath the colleagues. It follows: zens could help find solutions. Second, tlight paths of La.Guardia Airport. Through­ ALLEN MARINE SALVAGE SERVICE, the meeting was designed to help in­ out the evening, departing jetliners roared Williamsville, New York, March 16, 1979. form-or perhaps more accurately, to overhead disrupting the meeting while em­ Re Inspection and clean-out of chemical sensitize-those officials about the cares phasizing the problem. contamination in raw water system, City Nearly 200 persons attended, expressing of Niagara Falls Water Treatment Plant. and concerns of Queens residents. frustration, anger and bitterness. Many have COMMITTEE MEMBERS: The following state­ We learned that the gap between the lived in these neighborhoods since before the ment is a true and accurate account based two sides is enormous. Throughout the jets intruded into their lives. You and I are on personal recollection and company work evening, jetliners from nearby La­ well aware that aircraft noise is more than records when available: Guardia Airport roared overhead, em­ just a nuisance; it threatens the physical The Water Treatment Plant is located next phasizing the problem as they drowned health of persons on the ground as well as to the Hooker Chemical Plant property and out speakers and questioners alike. It their psychological and social balance. It separated by a narrow access road. was abundantly clear that the com­ interferes with sleeping, listening to the ra­ The basic raw water system ls an intake dio and television, simple conversations, read­ located in the West Niagara River that drops munity finds the present situation ing and many of our other daily functions. in a 10' shaft to a horizontal tunnel approxi­ totally unacceptable. It depreciates the market V·alue of residential mately 65' below water level. This tunnel In the first 3 months of this year, there property and disrupts schools and businesses. extends for 5010' to another vertical 10' shaft have been at least 10 near midair col­ It is not enough to promise people that by next to a raw water pump station. From lisions over the New York City area plus 1985 or later planes should be quieter. We this shaft a 60" steel main delivers raw will all be deaf by then. We need and deserve water to a forebay area, through a pair of at least 8 more close calls. Yet the action now. The irony is that there are travelllng screens and then it ls pumped three major airports serving the commu­ results. These include restrictions on opera­ into a mixing channel. From this point it is nity remain the only group 1 category tions during normal sleeping hours such as sent to two separate treatment plants. Next air terminals in the country that do I have proposed in H.R. 170. As you well is a settling basin and finally through filter not have the advanced alphanumerics know, there already ls a curfew at the FAA­ beds. radar system. This new system would operated National Airport, a faclllty which is Chemical contaminants were first discov­ provide tower controllers vital altitude as important to Washington, D.C., commu­ ered by our firm approximately 8 years ago separation data. Installation is sched­ nity and economy as LaGuardla ls to New in the forebay area in front of the travelling uled for October, half a year away. I York City. Other possibilities are innovative screens. It appeared as a shiny black liquid approach and departure procedures (such as (heavier than water) on the concrete floor have, therefore, written to the head of those already in use by at least one carrier), collected in puddles and mixed with gravel the Federal Aviation Administration, use of preferential runways, and carefully and sllt in the area. Samples were taken and Langhorne Bond, asking for a speedup controlled tlight paths. submitted !or analysis. At this time the in the introduction of alphanumerics I am sorry to have to report that I have source of ingress was considered to be an radar for New York's airports. no faith or confidence in the FAA's willing­ abandoned 54" steel main that conneded The problem of aircraft noise seems ness or ablllty to deal with this problem. The to the 10' shaft. We inserted an inflated agency has repeatedly proven Itself insensi­ rubber bag in the main and a concrete plug to get worse daily. It adversely affects tive to the needs and concerns of the com­ was poured to stop further contamination the lives of my constituents and millions munity. I think you wlll agree that in both of the system. No clean-out of contaminants of other Americans. It is not only an­ our experiences, FAA has demonstrated a lack from system was undertook at this time. noying, but it threatens the physical of incentive to deal forcefully with the air­ Our next involvement was in August ot health of persons on the ground as well craft noise problem. 1978, when we conducted a full inspection as their psychological and social balance. It ls abundantly clear that my constitu­ of the entire system and found chemical Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, the Fed­ ents--Uke millions of other Americans ad­ contamination from a point 20' into the eral Aviation Administration has re­ versely affected by aircraft noise pollution-­ horizontal tunnel from the shore shaft, right find the present noise conditions unaccept­ through to the settling basins. We conducted peatedly shown itself to be insensitive able. an extensive clean-out of contaminate ma­ to the needs and concerns of those on My purpose in writing to you today is to terials from various parts of the system and the ground who are afflicted by aircraft share with you the concerns of my constitu­ installed a steel plug at the shaft opening of noise. There are a number of things ents and to suggest that we get together to 7838 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979 discuss what can be done to correct this cally demonstrated it ls not interested in agreement by the leaders of Yemen and deplorable situation. solving the problem and stopping the noise. Southern Yemen to unite their two coun­ I look forward to hearing from you. That ls why the Quiet Communities Act tries. Whatever that agreement may mean, With best personal wishes. ·must be amended. which may not be much, and however long Sincerely, I would be happy to discuss these matters the cease-fire lasts, which may not be long, BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, with you at your convenience. these developments cast doubt on the Ad­ Member of Congress. With best personal wishes. ministration's claim that the United States Sincerely, was faced with so immediate a threat to WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 1979. BENJAMIN S. RoSENTHAL, national security that there was no alterna­ Hon. JAMES FLORIO, Member of Congress.e tive to unilateral Presidential action. Subcommittee on Transportation and Com­ A look at the arms-sale package reinforces merce, WasMngton, D.O. this doubt. The President could have sold DEAR MR. CHAmMAN: I would like to com­ Yemen weapons it could have used to meet mend you on your leadership and concern 1n ARMS FOR YEMEN, QUALMS FOR US its immediate emergency-grenade launch­ advancing programs and legislation to con­ ers, antitank Inlsslles, ammunition-without trol airport noise. As you may know, I rep­ going to Congress, because the amount in­ resent the area adjacent to La.Guardia Air­ HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER volved would not have broken the $7 million port, one of the country's major noisemakers. OF NEW YORK barrier. The expensive weapons in the pack­ Rarely a day goes by that I am not bom­ age, such as 12 F-5E aircraft and 64 M-60 barded by letters, phone calls and personal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tanks, would have been useless in the visits from constituents complaining about Monday, April 9, 1979 alleged emergency because Yemen, not a the problem. notably advanced country, lacks the per­ Last week I sponsored a Conference on Air­ •Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I com­ sonnel to operate such equipment. That is craft Noise in my district. It was abundantly mend to the attention of my colleagues why American advisers must go along. A clear that my constituents like yours and the following article entitled, "Arms for delay of 30 days to allow Congress to ponder milllons of other Americans who live beneath Yemen, Qualms for Us," written by Ar­ the wisdom of sending advisers into a war airline flight paths, find the present noise thur Schlesinger, Jr. which appeared in zone would have made no difference to the conditions unacceptable. If fighting, which of course has come to an end While it may appear that progress ls being the New York Times today. the Viet­ anywa.y. made to reduce airport noise through new nam War taught us anything, it taught In addition, Yemen has three times as leg,.slation and regulations, it is evident that us that the American people do not want large a population as Southern Yemen. It we are not moving ahead as quickly as we the President taking the unilateral action has arms supplied, ironically, in an earlier should. One major reason, in my judgement, of sending American men and weaponry spin of the dial, by the Soviet 'O!'llon (which that progress has been slow ls that the FAA into a foreign country without consulting raises the interesting question as to whom ls insensitive to airport noise problems and their representatives in Congress. On our F-5E aircraft and M-60 tanks may be community concerns. used against in the future). Yemen's condi­ Since FAA's authority extends only to air­ March 7, President Carter blatantly tion could hardly have been so desperate as port proprietors and operations of airplanes, ignored this directive of the American the Presidential invocation of the emergency communities impacted by airport noise have people and of Congress. Mr. Schlesinger's waiver implied, unless its people were less heretofore not been fully participatory mem­ article illuminates the dangerous prece­ concerned than we are about defending their bers in the process. dent President Carter's decision to sell own country. I would like to recommend the following arms and to provide military advisers to The emergency was patently spurious. remedial measures for your consideration: Yemen portends. Even if it had not been, would the "loss" of 1. During the current reauthorization proc­ Yemen so vitally threaten our safety as to ess, the EPA should be brought into full The article follows: leave no time to seek the support of Con­ partnership with the FAA and the State and ARMS FOR YEMEN, QUALMS FOR US gress? If Mr. Carter's interpretation of the local governments so that some enlightened (By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.) Act prevails, it ls hard to see how that act decisions may be made to insure better com­ President Carter announced his decision wlll restrain Presidents from making unllat­ patlb111ty between airports and their neigh­ on March 7 to sell Yemen $390 milllon worth eral commitments of arms, advisers and bors. of arms. Since this consignment includes prestige wherever the four winds blow. And 2. I am aware you have assumed the lead­ sophisticated weaponry, he also announced what wlll happen, our arms, advisers and ership role for Section 8 of the Quiet Com­ that the arms would have an appropriate prestige having been thus commlted, if "our" munities Act of 1978. I feel many communi­ escort of American m111ta.ry advisers. What­ side begins to lose? Congress, having ac­ ties severely impacted by airport noise could ever the merits of the Yemen pollcy, the cepted the commitment, wlll find it far more derive great benefit from noise abatement mode of making it raises serious questions. d11ficult to prevent deeper involvement studies similar to that called for in this sec­ For Mr. Carter, in sending arms and advi­ further on down the road. tion. It ls imperative that more funds within sers to Yemen, did something no President On March 15, Representative Leon Panetta the act be directed toward additional studies had ever done before. He invoked a waiver of California introduced a concurrent resolu­ for communities that are continuing to suf­ provision of the Arms Export Control Act tion protesting Mr. Carter's use of the waiver fer from severe airport noise. It ls my opinion that permits the President to bypass Con­ authority. "This action," he said, "denies to that too little funding ls devoted to airport gress on arms sales if "an emergency exists the Congress an opportunity to examine all noise abatement in general and communlty­ which requires such sale in the national se­ relevant facts in the Yemen war and deter­ oriented studies in particular. curity interests of the United States." The mine whether making this kind of major new 3. Section 14 of the Noise Control Act ot Arms Export Control Act that permits the commitment to North Yemen ls in the best 1972 should be amended to authorize specific President to bypass Congress on arms sales interests of the nation." funding-at least $1.5 mllllon in the next if "an emergency exists which requires such In the Senate, George McGovern of South fiscal year-to enable EPA to conduct avia­ sale in the national security interests of the Dakota. observed that the point of the Arms tion noise abatement planning efforts with United States." The Arms Export Control Act Export Control Act was to prohibit "un­ severely impacted communities located in requires that arms sales amounting to $7 examined major commitments instituted close proximity to air carrier airports. million or more ordinarily be laid before solely by Presidential discretion." Sending 4. In reauthorizing the Quiet Communities Congress for 30 days, during which Congress arms and advisers to Yeman, be said, was Act of 1978, I strongly believe funds should can consider and, lf it so desires, disap­ plainly one element in the development of a be provided for EPA to assist severely im­ prove the proposed sale. new policy in the Middle East. "The Presi­ pacted airport communities in taking a more The point of this requirement ls obvious: dent's waiver was significant not because active role in seeking solutions to the prob­ It is to prevent Presidents from making ma­ some weapons were shipped out but because lem of excessive aircraft noise. Such an jor commitments of arms, advisers and pres­ a new security policy, with new American amendment would give communities the tige abroad without review by Congress. The commitments and risks, was being created needed opportunity to have an input in the point of the waiver provision ls obvious too: without any serious congressional review of decision-making process prior to implemen­ its scope, character or problems." tation of measures developed solely by the It ls to give Presidents, should an authentic aviation interests. A good example of how and dire emergency threaten national secu­ No doubt Mr. Carter, on the defensive be­ not to proceed can be seen in a. project un­ rity, authority to a.ct at once. cause of Inlscalcula.tions in Ira.n and troubles derway by the Port Authority of New York Did Southern Yemen's attack on Yemen in Afghanistan an<:L elsewhere, hoped to and New Jersey. FAA has provided the Port constitute, as Mr. Carter's action implies, a strengthen himself at home by showing how Authority about $700,000 in ADAP funds for grave and urgent threat to the safety of the macho he was prepared to be in Yemen. But, the first phase of a. three pa.rt program which Republic? The day before Mr. Carter de­ in the longer run, the initiation of military will include a. study of the noise problem in clared the existence of the emergency, the commitments on his own say-so ls not to his the New York-New Jersey area. The fatal Arab League called for a cease-fire and ne­ own best interests, for the requirement that flaw in this procedure is that the Port Au­ gotiations. The cease-fire took effect shortly Congr~ss pass on large arms sales is surely thority, as the airport proprietor, has histori- afterward. The negotiations soon resulted in to Presidents' ad.vantage. A year ago, Mr. April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7839 McGovern pointed out to the Senate that, necessary fear and speculation about the had that requirement not existed, Mr. Car­ quality of water. A recent survey by our 24-HOUR COMPOSITE, AUG. 27, 1978 ter's a.rms-sale pa.cka.ge to Saudi Araibia. and Water Quality laboratory has shown that [Parts per billion) Israel "would have been carried out by the some bottled "spring" water and country executive branch unilaterally, and virtually well water have a. very low water quality every Sena.tor would have been tempted to when compared to City water presently sup­ Compound Raw water Finished water stand up on this floor e.nd a.ssa.11 the Presi­ plied. dent of the United States, knowing the deal As responsible public servants, it 1s our 1, 2, 3-trichlorabenzene ______l 0.04 2 N/D was going to go through anyway. But when moral obligation to assure the citizens that 1, 2-dichlorabenzene ______N/D N/D 1, 4-dichlorobenzene ______N/D N/D we had to fa.ce the hard decision of voting City water is safe for human consumption. N/D N/D yes or no and take the responsib111ty for the Therefore, we have contracted for one of the ~=~:~~l~~::b~~~ofi:~~a-~i:~_e::::: N/D N/D interest of the United States in this sale, it most sophisticated analytical quality assur­ Monochlorotoluene ______N/D N/D was quite a different result. By a. vote of 54 to ance programs in the country. To date, Tetrachlorobenzene_ ------_ (I) Lindane ______'N/D N------8. 0 10. 8 with a 1590 head assembly and a % tefion Tetrachlorobenzene______29. 4 1. 30 drawllne secured 8lt mid-depth of the sam­ cerned that the drinking water has always Mirex_ ------.15 N/D and continues to meet all requirements stip­ Dichlorobenzenes______• 26 pling site. An extractable field water blank ulated by Section 5 of the New York State Hexachloroethane______1. 5 was provided for each composite. Sanitary Code. The results of a recent analy­ Hexachlorobenzene ___ ------3. O Two separate analyses were completed on sis conducted by the New York State Health each of the water samples. Initially, all sam­ Department Laboratories, confirms the high Sludge sample taken January 2, 1979 1n the ples were screened at the 10 ppb and higher quality of our water. underboot of the travelling screens in num­ concentration level using protocols contained I understand some of the anxieties about ber one forebay of pump station was ana­ in the EPA, April 1977 revised, "Sampling and the quality of the water in as much as lyzed for 2, 3, 7, 8,-tetrachlorodibenzo-p­ Analysis Procedures for Screening of Indus­ tourist trade may have been adversely af­ dioxin with a confirmed report of less than trial Emuents for Priority Pollutants with fected by rumors of "unsafe" water. Unfor­ 5 ppb. Lower detection limits were not modification adopted from the Denver pro­ tunately, recent publicity has produced un- achieved due to interference compounds. ceedings. More sensitive techniques were ap- 7840 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979 plied to better determine concentration !or one of the finest individuals known to tinue to benefit from his wise counsel compounds instant below 10 ppb. Higher this Chamber, Joe Bartlett, who recently concentration !actors were employed a.long and warm friendship. with more advanced computer technology. retired from his position as minority GILLIS ha.s established a very fine rec­ Presently, monthly water samples are clerk after 37 years of service to the U.S. ord during his service in the Congress, analyzed with a detection limit o! 10 ppt. House of Representatives. and it is widely agreed that he can con­ The extractable organics were extracted All of us who have served in the House, tinue to provide leadership to his State using methylene chloride and concentrated and especially those of us who are on as well as to the Nation by retaining his to less than 0.1 ml. Standards were run at 0.1 the minority side, realize and appreciate seniority and respect in the House of ppb. Analyses was conducted using a Finni­ the fine assistance and guidance which gan 4000 gas chromatograph/mass spectrom­ Representatives. eter equipped with a Finnigan INCOS 2300 Joe ha.s provided during his years of Through his work on the Committee data. system. Monthly water samples a.re service. Starting out "at the bottom" in on Rules and the Joint Economic Com­ analyzed by GC equipped with a Coulsen 1941 a.s a page, Joe has become a real mittee, GILLIS plays an important role in detector and confirmed by mass !ragmentog­ fixture in the House and has been par­ the shaping of legislation affecting all raphy. ticularly invaluable as minority clerk, aspects of American life. I know that he giving counsel, guidance and a sem­ enjoys this effort and the opportunities NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ANALYSIS OF blance of order to this body which has it presents. FINISHED WATER; AUG. 20, 1978 AND SEPT. 21, 1978 a te~dency. from time to time, to resist Those of us who have worked with him orderly procedures. during his leadership of the United Dem­ New York State Health Few Americans are really familiar with ocrats of Congress are also aware of the Hooker Department, the operations of the Congress, and the important work he has been doing to analysis finished water,2 finishea1 Aua. 20, 1978 vital contributions made by staff be­ help forge this organization into a ma­ water,t and Sept 21, hind the scenes by persons such as Joe jor force within the Democratic Party Compound Au1. 23, 1978 1978 Bartlett. Perhaps this situation might in the House. Trichloroethylene ______change somewhat with the introduction In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, with a Toluene ______<0.4 <5.0 touch of self-concern, we are very glad <.1 <10.0 of televised proceedings in this House, Tetrachloroethylene ______<.4 <5.0 and it is unfortunate that Joe will not be that GILLIS LoNa has made his decision Monochlorobenzene_ ---- ______<.1 <5.0 around to stand in the eye of the cam­ to stay with us. We know he will not be Monochlorobenzotrifluoride ___ _ <.2 <5.0 Monochlorotoluene ______<.1 <5.0 eras. Nevertheless, Joe would be a famil­ sorry.• Dichlorobenzotri fluoride ______1.9 <5.0 iar face to most Americans, and his dis­ Dichlorobenzene ______.2 <5.0 Trichlorobenzene ______1.5 3.6 tinctive voice would be recognized from

TABLE 1.-CO.NGRESSIONAL ACTION ON DEFENSE BUDGET REQUESTS,t FISCAL YEARS 1971-78 (Appropriations, dollars in millions)

Fiscal year- 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 2 1977 1978

DOD request···-··----- __ ------• ------·-----·- 75, 346 79, 883 84, 999 90, 262 94, 160 106, 118 114, 426 119, 907 Conr ressional action------2,507 -3,917 -6, 160 -5,825 -6, 719 --8, 874 -4,056 -3,003 Appropriated. _____ ------·---·------72, 839 75, 966 78, 839 84, 437 87, 441 97, 764 110, 371 116, 904 Percent reduction._ •• ___ ._._. __ -----______• __ .••• __ •••• __ ••••• 3.3 4.9 7.3 6.5 7.1 12. 0 3.5 2.5

1 The firures cited in this and subsequent tables refer to funds appropriated to or manared by 2 The original report dated Sept 16, 1976, was keyed to data from the DeP.artment of Defense (military assistance) the Department of Defense. Excluded are other programs which make up the for fiscal years 1971-76 that did not renect action by Congress on the military assistance and total national defense functional cateiory of the budget such as Department of Energy atomic energy supplemental appropriation bills. Approval of the requested appropriations for military assistance defense activities, the Selective Service System, defense stockpile materials transactions, etc. The and estimated appropriations (not then submitted) for the annual cost-of-living pay supplemental DOD military and military assistance prorrams account for more than 95 percent of the total was assumed. The fiscal year 1976 data has now been adjusted to renect conrressional action national defense functional cate&ory of the blld&eL on those appropriations.

TABLE 2.-CONGRESSIONAL CHANGES BY CATEGORY, FISCAL YEARS 1971-781 (Dollar amounts In millions)

Substantive Noncritical Postpone and deferrals Adjustments Amount Percent Amount Percent Amount Percent Amount Percent Total

Flscalli3~ ~ .... _...... _... _... _...... _. _... _... -$1, 442 48.0 -$299 10.0 -$570 19.0 -$692 23.0 -$3,003 19n•• _. ___ • _. _____ • _. _•••••••• ____ • _. ___ • _. _ -2,517 62.1 -261 6.4 -659 16.2 -620 15.2 -4,056 1976 ••••.•• ·-----· -• -• -· ------· ---· -·--- •-3,809 43.8 2-1,4n 16.6 2684 7.7 2 -2,824 31.8 2-8,874 1975 •• -----• ---• -----• ---• -• ------3,081 45.8 -487 7.3 -1,036 15.4 • -2, 115 31. 5 • -6, 719 1974. ·---· -----• -• ------. ------2,608 44.8 -172 3.0 33.4 -1 096 18.2 -5,825 1973. ------• ------• -----• -• -• -• - -1,839 29.9 -159 2.6 :l:~~ 26.1 -2:551 41.4 -6, 160 1972. --•• --• -• ---• -• -• ---• ---• --•• -----• -• --- -1, 681 42.9 -70 1.8 -351 9.0 -1, 815 46.3 -3,917 1971.. -----• -• ---• -• -• -----• -----• ---• ------903 36.0 -125 5.0 -512 20.4 -967 38.6 -2,507

t Numbers may not add due to roundini. and estimated appropriations (not then submitted) for the annual cost-of-livinr pay supplementa1 2 The original report dated Sept 16 1976, was keyed to data from the Department of Defense was assumed. The fiscal year 1976 data has now been adjusted to renect conrressional action for fiscal year 1971-61 that did not reflect action by Conrress on the military assistance and sup­ on those appropriations. plemental appropriation bills. Approval of the requested appropriations for military assistance 1 Includes $183,000,000 in rescissions.

TABLE 3.-SUMMARY BY APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT AND CATEGORY, FISCAL YEAR 1978 {Dollar amounts in millions)

Postpone­ Total request Substantive Noncritical ments and Total Percent of r.sca'rm Appropriation account reduction reductions deferrals Adjustments reductions total request

DOD Aftfa'opriation Act: · 0 $26, 140 ~~tire~ :1~:~n~rsiiiiiieC::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ______:~~------=~~------=!~~- -~~ -~ :~ 9,036 Operation and maintenance (including civilian pay>------3!>8 -264 -22 -207 -850 2. 5 34, 358 130, 928 :~~1~t~;u~~;::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ______:~~~------=~~------=~~! ______!~! ______==~------~:~- 11.m Tota1, DOD Appropriation AcL·------1, 162 -404 -492 -600 -2, 658 2. 4 112, 365 Cruise missile supplemental..------25 ------__ -25 5. 8 449 2,899 3, 131 90 ~~1c~:ff~~~~~;~~~~f~~~~,~~ ~~~~i~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~------~~~;-~~~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~======~~~=------~~:;-~~~~~~~~~~~~:~ 973 Grand total._. ______-1,442 -299 -570 -692 -3,003 2. 5 119, 907

1 For technical reasons DOD published tables give the request as $32,394, which includes the fiscal year 1978 procurement program for the canceled B-1 bomber ($1,466,000,000). This pro&ram was canceled by Congress at the request of the Carter administration, however, and it is deleted here from both the request and congressional change columns. CXXV--493-Part 6 7846 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979 APPENDIX A EXAMPLES OF SUBSTANTIVE TYPE CHANGES [In thousands of dollars)

Account Request Cha nae Enacted Account Request Cha nae EnlCted

Military personnel, Army: Communications •••••• ----_-----.------• 305, 526 -1,375 304, 151 R.D.T. & E., Air Force: lntelliaence ______------_------•• 79,807 -500 79, 307 Technology base: Intermediate aircraft maintenance ______6, 708 -3,354 3, 354 Aerospace flight dxnamlcs. ______46, 910 -3,000 43,960 Base operating support ______311, 323 -8,654 302, 669 Conventional munitions •• ______---- 24,200 -4,500 19, 700 Operation and maintenance, Navy: Advanced technology development: Price arowth on proaram arowth______589, 723 -79, 123 510, 600 A/C propulsion subsystems lntearation •• 14, 000 -4,000 10, 000 Ship operations-General purpose forces____ 763, 297 -13 000 750, 297 Advanced fiahter technolo&Y intearatlon. 11, 000 -3,000 8,000 Tactical flyina hour proaram______606, 188 -22:260 583, 928 Application for Information processlna Support flyina hour proaram______14, 614 -1, 040 13, 574 technoloay •••••• ---- _------••• -- 2,900 Depot maintenance aircraft______999, 480 +u,500 1, 016, 980 Strateaic program: -2, 900 --··-···----•• Ship overhaul and maintenance______2, 572, 842 +57, 100 2,629, 942 Advanced interceptor technolo&Y------­ 600 Sec Nav/CNO staff studies and analysis ______-600 ------·- -5,000 -5,000 StratealcSAC communications bomber penetration ______••• ·------_ 26,500 + 13, 000 39, 600 Unexplained increases, procurement opera- 18, 800 -18, 800 ····----·····- tions------185, 793 -1,600 184, 193 Tactical proarams: Advanced medium ranae air-to-air mis· Aircr~~/it:~r;.:n:t"~ir~~~r------24, 800 -13, 000 11, 800 sile •• ___ ------______-----__ _ 42, 500 -23, 600 18, 900 Aircraft spares and repair parts (replenish)__ 36, 800 -700 36, 100 Advanced medium STOL transport ______25, 000 -15, 000 10, 000 UH-1 fliaht simulators______8, 200 -8, 200 ------Hi-accuracy taraetina system ______9,300 Other procurement, Air Force: lntelliaence communications: -9, 300 ------·---·· Joint surveillance systems______2, 300 -2, 300 ------Space Shuttle ______129, 700 -5,400 124, 300 Traininf support equipment------16, 500 -16, 500 ------Satellite systems survivability ______10,800 8,800 Genera reduction-lntelliaence activities ______-49, 055 -49, 055 Lona haul communications ______-:.~ 4,600 Gel!e!~I reduction-lntelliaence related ac- NAY STAR GPS user equipmenL. •••••• 1::~ -12,300 3,000 t1v1t1es. ---_____ • ____ •• ___ • ___ ••• _-- •• _••••• _. _•••••• -17, 500 -17, 500 Procurement, defense aaencies: General reduction-Communications activi· ties •••• -··---•• __ -·-··----·-· -• -···-· ••••••••••••••• -2,374 -2,374 General reduction-lntelliaence activities··-----·-·····-·- -18,500 -18, 500

APPENDIX B EXAMPLES OF NONCRITICAL TYPE CHANGES (In thousands of dollars)

Account Request Chanae Enacted Account Request Cha nae Enacted

Military personnel, Army: General reduction-Productivity enhance- Separation pays·-----·-·---·······---·--­ 32, 263 -1,500 30, 763 ment _____ •• ------·· ____ ------·· •• ___ ••••• ___ -800 -800 lncentive pays._------·-. --•• -·-· ----- 22, 729 -2,250 20,479 R.D.T. & E., Air Force: Proficiency pays ______-----•• ------·- 12, 314 -500 11, 764 Technoloay base: Trainln1 and simulation Permanent chanae of station ______540, 000 -5,965 534, 035 support. _____ ------____ ------______8,600 -1, 670 6,930 Military bands ••• ___ ------•• -----·- 28, 300 -2,900 25,400 Stratealc proarams: low life cycle cost Operation and maintenance, Navy: avionics •••• ------_____ -----______2, 000 -2, 000 ------Civilian education and training______2, 800 -2, 800 ------Tacticalmilitary proarams: operations Ground ______and amphibian Navy audit service______15, 965 -1, 000 14, 965 5,800 -5, 800 ------Hiah school completion proaram...... 3, 200 -1, 600 1, 600 lntelllaence and communications: Traffic Property disposa'------·------8, 230 -1, 530 6, 700 control/approach landina system ______8,000 -3,600 4,400 rl.otion picture services------~~------6, 337 -2, 600 3, 737 Proaramwide manaaement and support: Aircraft procurement, Army: C-12A utility aircraft. •••••••••••••• +11, 200 17, 200 Test and evaluation support ______315, 557 -11,200 304,357 Procurement, defense aaencies: AF Project RAND •• ·--··------9,800 -300 9,500 Uniformed Services University of Health Advanced systems •••••••••••••••••••• 15,400 -10, 100 5,300 sciences •••••• --·-. --• -• ---• -• -••• -• -•••• --•••••••••• +1,300 +1,300 • JOE BARTLETT Congress and this country will be blessed son's column for the benefit of my col­ by many more men who love their coun­ leagues: try as deeply as Joe Bartlett. IN MY WR1'1'1: Mnm HON·. DAVID C. TREEN It is a pleasure to join my colleagues (By Steve Anderson) OJ' LOtJISL\NA in wishing Joe many more years as happy To Thomas Paine, Professional Revolu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and rich as those he spent with us as tionary: minority clerk.• You were so right. Wednesday, March 28, 1979 Back in 1777, after the 13 Colonies had proclaimed thelr independence !rom Great •Mr. TREEN. Mr. Speaker, one of the Britain and were fighting to establish our greatest rewards of my first 6 years in new nation, you gave us this note o! caution the Congress was the privilege of know­ DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION that liberty would not be all skyrockets and ing Joe Bartlett. As the minority clerk, MEANS FEDERAL CONTROL Jubilation: Joe was always ready and cordially will­ "Those who expect to reap the blessings ing to assist me and my colleagues in of freedom must, like men, undergo the HON. ROBERT McCLORY fatigue of supporting it." every possible way. 011' ILLINOIS Much has been said and written thrOugh Joe Bartlett is one of the most opti­ IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES the years about the cost of supplying govern­ mistic and patriotic citizens I have ever ment services to local, state and national met. His faith in America and in the Monday, April 9, 1979 constituents, but nobody has suggest.ed. we House of Representatives was an inspir­ • Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Speaker, the effort chuck the whole system because it's too ation to me every day I saw Joe. He expensive. to establish a new Department of Educa- Opportunities a.rise, however, when our served this institution well, especially tion runs counter to our system of edu­ elected representatives must resist the politl· those of us in the loyal opposition. cation in our country-and would subject cally popular notion that more government ~ Joe has a vision for reorganizing this local and State control of our educational agencies means more government service to House to serve the mushrooming de­ institutions to an increasing Federal th~ public and, therefore, more happy voters mands on the Congress. I drew upon his influence. to show their appreciation. proposal for the central theme of my One of those times "that try men's soulS," My friend, the editor of the St. Charles as you put it, ls at hand in Washington, D.C. introduction to "Can You Afford This Chronicle, Steve Anderson, has delin­ President carter has revealed step one of House." I hope Congress will adopt Joe eated convincingly on this subject in a the journey toward his stated goal of making Bartlett's ideas for managing our work­ mythical letter to Tom Paine. the executive branch of government more load. But I hope even more that this I am pleased to include Steve Ander- etflclent. As you might have predicted, he April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7847 planS to do lt by creating a.notb.er depart­ The Federal Aviation Administration, them up, the plane flew over the airport and ment. on the other hand, has attempted to deal kept going. When they finally awoke, the Instea.d of ha.vlng one huge Dept. of Health, with the need to improve upon air safety. crew found they were out over the ocean. Education and Welfare, he would keep a.n un­ Two pilots told an Air Line Pilots Asso­ controllable Dept. of Rea.Ith and Welfare Recently, FAA released new regulations ciation task !orce their method for prevent­ and create a new Dept. of Education that, that adjusted positive and terminal con­ ing such situations: two of the crew woUld presumably, would have every opportunity to trol areas in order to help deal with the sleep, while the third set a kitchen timer become unwieldy in its own right. mind-boggling problem of preventing to ring every 25 minutes in case he too HEW alrea.dy has a budget that last year mid-air collisions. Yet, the FAA has dozed off. was exceeded only by the total budgets of failed to cope with a more fundamental The FAA stlll thinks pilots are all iron the United States and Russian govern­ problem presently jeapordizing the safe­ men-lone eagles immune to the fatigue and ments---$184 billion! boredom that overcome earthbound mor­ The president has concluded tha.t because ty of all air travelers; namely, pilot fa­ tals. Refiecting this attitude, the agency's HEW ls so big, not enough attention ls given tigue. How long will the FAA continue to chief surgeon, Dr. H. L. Reighard, has told to the country's educationa.l responsiblllty. disregard this serious problem and be­ us: "Fatigue ls a subjective factor. Only the The new Dept. of Education would have a gin to acknowledge its existence? How pilot knows 1! he ls suffering from it." This budget of $13.5 billion, placing it hlg1her tha.n long will it take the FAA to construct the ls llke letting every motorist decide when the Departments of Energy, Justice, Com­ proper regulatory framework aimed at he's too much drunk to drive. merce, Interior and State. It would control eradicating this ever-present threat to What are the FAA rules on pilot work more than 16,000 federal employees and more air safety? Obvious}y, the airline indus­ hours? In brief, on domestic flights, pllots than 150 federal programs. can fiy eight hours in a 24-hour period; on That's just the start. It ma.y sound like try will not take the first step in solving overseas flights, 12 in 24. That would be pea.nuts to the president, but 1f peanuts this very real and dangerous problem. gruellng enough, but the rules govern only didn't grow, Jimmy wouldn't be where he ls It would be too expensive for them. time in filght-not preflight preparation or today. It appears that Jack Anderson has un­ ground delays. It bes.ts me how anybody can believe that covered another SNAFU or "oversite" in Incredible as lt seems, the crew of an you can streamline government by adding the Federal regulatory framework. I re­ international flight could fly for six days more agencies. They tend to proldferate in spectfully submit the following article straight and stlll meet FAA rules, as long proportion to the demand from beneficiaries as extra crewmen and bunks are provided. who discover new services ava.llable for the that appeared in the Washington Post In the 1960s, when the jet boom really asking. on March 28, 1979, in order to make got going, the FAA assigned Dr. Stanley Congressman Robert McClory notes the others aware of this outrageoUs situa­ Mohler, then director of the Clvll Aeromedl­ existence of "iron trlangles"-the "cozy rela­ tion. I do not believe that "ignorance is cal Research Institute, to study the problem tionships that exist among congressional bliss" in this case. Too many of us here of multiple time-zone crossings. He con­ committees, executive agencies and the con­ on Capitol Hill spend a large amount of cluded that pilots' "behavorlal integrity" stituencies that benefit from federal spend­ time traveling in the air to disregard the was sometimes "degraded" by the long-dis­ ing." tance flights across several time zones, caus­ McClory says they have the same effect on immediate urgency for solving this ing "significant impairment of psychological taxpayers' dollars that the Bermuda Triangle problem: performance." has on ships and planes: "Money disappears Pu.OT FATIGUE HAs FAA NODDING OFF Mohler recommended changes in the reg­ into them and ls never seen again." (By Jack Anderson) ulations, but the FAA was unable to get the A bigger education bureaucracy, no matter While exhausted airllne pilots are dozing alrllnes the pilots to agree on the proposed how patriotic its motives, ls not the way to off in their cockpits, federal officials are snor­ changes, so it dropped the idea. go. Too much of the education dollar is being There are some in the FAA who recognize ing at their desks, unconvinced that pilot the problem. An inspector told us, "In some spent on administration now and not enough fatigue ls a serious threat to air safety. in the classroom. flights, fatigue factors are excessive and the The Federal Aviation Administration ls regulations are inadequate." On the local level, for instance, it ls con­ content with rUles for pllots' hours that ceivable that one superintendent like Don have gone virtually unchanged since 1934. The airline industry disagrees. "Fatigue D'Amico Of St. Charles might be able to as a safety problem has not been demon­ Yet its own files a.re bulging with foreign strated," a spokesman for the Air Transport handle the three trl-clty districts, maybe accident reports that list pllot fatigue as even all five in the Mid-alley co-op. Association said. Tightening the rUles ls a factor. unnecessary, he said-and, of course, woUld And 1f one principal can ha.ndle a high The ground collision that killed 574 per­ be very expensive. . school of 2,500 restless adolescents, why do sons at Tenerlfe in 1976 ls an example. The So far the FAA goes along with the air­ we have to hire one for each gra.de school Spanish accident report states that the lines, and the only changes come about as with as few as 128 kids to keep track of? KLM pilots were beginning to feel fatigue a result of contract provisions worked out The answer, of course, is that we apparent­ when they roared down the runway without between pilots and the individual airlines. ly have not yet wearied of your prophesied clearance and smashed into a Pan Am jet. In other words, because the FAA ls shirking fatigue of supporting suCh. "blessings of A Pan Am jet crashed into the Pacific its duty, the safety o! mllllons of air travel­ freedom." shortly after takeoff from Tahiti in 1973, ers may depend on the bargaining sklll of a But we're ge:ttlng there.e kllllng 78. The French accident report cited pilots' union negotlator.e "fatigue resulting from the long filghts made over the 48-hour period preceding the ac­ cident" as a likely cause. In 1977, a Fleming International cargo PILOT FATIGUE HAS FAA NODDING jet crash on takeoff at St. Louis, killlng the ANNIVERSARY OF THE INVENTION OFF crew of three. According to investigators, OF PUBLIC LIGHTING the cause was the fatigued pllots• poor judg­ ment and failure to follow proper proce­ HON. NICHOLAS MAVROULES dures. HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR OF MASSACHUSETTS The list goes on and on. But accident OJ' OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES reports don't tell the whole story. National IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Transportation Safety Board officials told us Monday, April 9, 1979 fatigue ls cited in U.S. reports only when Monday, April 9, 1979 there ls evidence that the pilots had been •Mr. MAVROULES. Mr. Speaker, in sleeping. • Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, on April 29, 1978, the airline industry was deregulat­ The pilots themselves know the score. It's 1979, the people of the city of Cleveland ed. This action brought on the expected common as rain to see pilots napping," Capt. will celebrate the lOOth anniversary of battle between competing airline com­ Wllliam Hoover told our reporters Moira the invention of public lighting by a na­ panies reducing their air fares to fan­ Forbes and Tom Rosenstlel. tive son-Charles Francis Brush. On the tastically low figures, thus, encouraging Another pilot told of a dangerous takeoff night of April 29, 1879, Charles F. Brush air travel. With more of the American on the seventh leg of a day-long flight. "We pulled the switch on his invention of the public ready to take advantage of these were so tired we drifted up to a higher alti­ electric arc lamp and the sudden illumi­ bargain rates, such as flying your chil­ tude than we were supposed to be at, into nation of Public Square in Cleveland dren or your adult companion free or the pattern of incoming flights," he said. pioneered a new day in the uses of elec­ flying from Washington, D.C., to Cali­ "The ground controller caught us and told tricity and made Charles F. Brush fa­ us to get back down." mous around the world. fornia, roundtrip, for as little as $214, it The story o! one transcontinental cargo would seem only natural that the airline flight ls famous among pilots. Flying at I am proud and happy to share in the industry strive, now more than ever be­ night !rom New York, all tmee pilots were celebration of this anniversary by every­ fore, to guarantee that its passengers ar­ asleep as tbe plane approached Los Angeles. one who has benefitted from streetlights rive safely at their destination. Wb1le the tower tried frantically to wake and other forms of outdoor illumination. 7848 EXTENSIONS OP REMARKS April 9, 1979 dangled 12 of hls new-fangled, electric, a.re in remote mountain areas, large and small I am especially pleased to place into the lamps that were supposed to make light when cities installed arcs on their streets." RECORD an excellent article, written bY electricity was shot into them. In 1885, another authority acclaimed the Mr. Earl R. Hoover of Cleveland, com­ Picture them, up there, in your minds eye. universallty of Brush's creations, saying: memorating the brilliant achievement If they lit up, Cleveland's Square would make "The machines he has fashioned creates by a young inventor-Charles Francis world history. electric light a.:Qd power on every continent Brush-on an unforgettable night back On our Square so much was on trial for and every ocean. It ls in use in mills, mines, in Cleveland, on April 29, 1879. the world that night. On trail were: factories, stores, hotels and public buildings Electricity as a source of power; the country over. Its brightness ls seen in The article by the distinguished his­ Electricity's ability to make practical light­ every country on the European continent. It torian, Early R. Hoover is as follows: ing, and shines in India, China., Japan, South Amer­ THE APPROACHING CENTENNIAL OF SOME 01' Electricity as a means of publlcly and ica, Australia, Egypt, South Africa and the CLEVELAND'S IMPORTANT GIFTS TO THE WORLD practically lighting the streets of the world. isles of the sea. Steamboats on the oceans (By Earl R. Hoover) Yes and on trial were young Charles Brush and the gerat rivers are making constant use On the approach of any centennial, I think and Cleveland. I! he failed, he and Cleveland, of it. The war vessels of the British Royal of the 3rd grader, whose teacher asked, would be ridiculed and abused and accosted Navy a.re lighted by it. It has made strong "What's the difference between a centennial with the usual "I told you so!". headway in Mexico and Central America. In and a centipede?", to which he correctly That night no automobiles graced the short, it has been adopted wherever civiliza­ answered, "I don't know". However, he added, Square. Hitching posts ringed it holding tion has a. foothold, and has become one of "I think the centennial has more legs than horses at bay. Swarms of tense, excited people the great needs as it ls one of the great won­ a centipede". overflowed it. Curiosity jammed it. ders of the age." Aprtl 29, 1879, 100 yea.rs ago, was not just There were skeptics aplenty there too; Abraham Lincoln said: another routine day in the world-all be­ those who were sure-Brush couldn't do it. "I Uke to see a man proud of the place in cause of ia. world-shaking feat-that Cleve­ After all, it had never been done before in which he Uves." land inventor, Charles Francis Brush, pro­ the world. It ls fitting, therefore, that with pride, on posed to pull off that night on Cleveland, Many believed that unproved electricity April 29, 1979, we should celebrate the cen­ Ohio's Public Square. was just a plaything-just a laboratory curi­ tennial of these major, indispensable, Cleve~ Fearless he proposed to do the unheard of osity-certainly not something that could be land gifts to the world. thing of lighting the Square with electricity. of practical use in a modern world. At the same time, we should remember If he was successful his bold deed would Some thought electricity was a fluid, flow­ some other of our important contributions to be a turning point in world history-the ing through channels in wires, just as water the world in the same field. world would never be the same. Can he do flows through a pipe. It was the inventions, both of Charles it? Many were apprehensive about electric Brush and of another native son of our area, Cleveland's Publtc Square has witnessed power as many are today about atomic Thomas Edison, that formed an important great people and great events. Two American power. part of the original nucleus of the General Presidents have lain in state there-Lincoln Then there were those who came to the Electric Company of which Edison was the and Garfield. Square defensively, wearing colored specta­ father. Where the number one publlc square cles, or clutching pieces of smoked glass. They weren't going to risk ruining their eyes. Too, greater Cleveland, because of General building now stands, John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Electric's Nela Park, ls the electric lighting and Harvey Firestone attended business col­ At la.st came the fateful moment-8:05 center of the world.e lege. p.m. Where the May Company now stands was Undaunted, Brush gave the signal. the birthplace of the father of brain sur­ The switch was pulled. gery, Dr. Harvey Cushing and the first omce Oh-will it work!! of the world's greatest industrial empire­ The skies of Cleveland gave the answer. HEAVY GOVERNMENT "The" .Standard 011 company. In a flash the Square was lit with electric­ REGULATIONS Let us flash back and try to visualtze the ity; a flash, like the shot at Concord's bridge, Square as it was in 1879-the.center for just that was to be heard around the world. 160,000 people. Horses reared, bands played, cannon HON. RON PAUL To imagine it as it was we would have to boomed, throngs cheered, and in that flash or TEXAS tear down every structure now facing the Brush and Cleveland ma.de world history IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Square except one, Old Stone Church. that Aprtl night on our Square. n·'was a square without the Terminal In fa.ct, more than one item of history was Monday, April 9, 1979 Tower, Higbee's Department Store and ma.de that night-all gifts of Cleveland to the Stou1fer's Inn On The Square; without the world. • Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, the nuclear Illuminating, Society National Bank, Wil­ Here is how various historians have de­ power industry is one of the most heavily liamson and May Company buildings; with­ scribed what was there achieved: regulated industries in this country. De­ out the Soldiers and Satlors Monument, and It marked the end of one lighting era and spite all the millions of regulations, how­ without the statutes of founder Moses Cleve­ the beginning of another. It was the world's first, successful, public, ever, there still occurred the Three Mile land and Mayor Tom Johnson. Island incident near Harrisburg, and five In the Square's Southeast quadrant, where electric, lighting of streets. the Soldiers and Sailors Monument now An old way of life ended and the age of nuclear plants have been closed by the Stands, then stood. the heroic st&tue of Com­ electricity began. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for modore Oliver Hazard Perry, victor of the It was the beginning of commercial elec­ safety reasons. It would appear that Battle Of Lake Erle. tricity for the world. Government regulation has not worked Most buildings facing the Square rose just Brush changed the text books. and is not working. Perhaps the bureau­ 2, 3 and 4 stories high. The Scientific American sald---occasions.lly crats have confused endless paperwork, The only building now standing on the a new invention so greatly affects a whole range of allied inventions and industries, miles of redtape, and years of delay with Square, that stood there in 1879 and saw what safety and caution. happened that historic night, ls venerable that it entirely changes time-honored cus­ Old Stone Church. toms, inaugurates new practices and estab­ Some economists have suggested that There, Old Stone has kept vigil over the lishes new arts-and Brush's commercial de­ Government regulations never work in Square, even to this hour. velopment of electricity ls a notable example the long run, and I am inclined to agree It then had a spire which pierced the sky. Of this. with them. Still others have suggested It was the Square's tallest structure then From Cleveland, Brush's electric arc Ughts that OSHA and the EPA, rather than dominating the Square as the Terminal were to envelop the earth. writing detailed regulations which every­ Tower does today. He lit Niagara Falls, John Wanamaker's fa­ In that 1879 setting, young, 30 year old mous Philadelphia store, Broadway, the fa­ one must comply with, should simply an­ Charles Brush would attempt to mould world mous New York street that was to become nounce goals for worker safety and clean history. When the sun arose on April 29, 1879, known as "The Great White Way," the ships air, and then let the ingenuity of busi­ nowhere in the world had streets been pub­ of the oceans, seas and rivers, and the navies nessmen devise ways to meet those goals. lics.Uy lit successfully by electricity. ot Great Britain and the United States. For I would like to apply this suggestion to That night young Brush daringly proposed his contribution to our Navy, a destroyer was the nuclear power industry. If we are to to startle the world by doing that very thing named after him, the U.S.S. Charles Francis have a Nuclear Regulatory Commission, on Cleveland"s Publlc Square. Brush. then let the Commission simply an­ He had rigged the Square with awesome He lit, among others, Baltimore, Boston, steel poles, 150 feet tall-poles, in height, as Brooklyn, Buffalo, Ctnclnnati, Hartford, Los nounce safety goals-and let the nuclear high as buildings 15 floors high, right there Angeles, Lowell, Montreal, Philadelphia, power industry devise the means to at­ where there were no buildings high enough Providence, London, Shanghai, Tokyo. tain them. to have 15 floors. One authority proclaimed: "Throughout As part of this approach, it would be Atop those high, dizzy poles Brush had the land from coast to coast, on plains and necessary to end the privilege of limited April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7849 liability accorded the nuclear power in­ University librarian who is coordinator o! THE ALCOHOLIC IN PRISON-WHO dustry by the Price-Anderson Act. That the 50th anniversary celebration, will deliver CARES? act is certainly not a free market ap­ the sermon. Among the concelebrants o! the Mass wm proach to the development of nuclear be Msgr. Francis R. LoBianco, executive di­ HON. MARIO BIAGGI power, but is typical of the intervention­ rector o! Catholic Community Services istic methods that the Government has (CCS), the umbrella corporation for the OF NEW YORK used in regulating the industry. The nu­ Guild and the Associated Catholic Charities. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES clear industry has, in effect, received a Following the Mass, the guests will be in­ Monday, April 9, 1979 subsidy from the Federal Government vited to a soup and sandwich luncheon at in the form of limited liability. St. Patrick's School, the site o! the original • Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, one of the soup kitchen which opened under Guild The reform of the nuclear industry auspices in 1930. least discussed but truly major problems must include the three things I have The Mt. Carmel Guild was establlshed by in our prisons today is the growing num­ mentioned here: First, an end to coun­ a group o! volunteers under Archbishop ber of alcoholics and alcohol abusers. terproductive overregulation of the in­ Thomas J. Walsh. About 35,000 women vol­ Many of these prisoners enter the insti­ dustry; second, an abolition of the lim­ unteers staffed St. Pa.trick's as well e.s 26 tution in this condition yet are never ited liability of the nuclear power in­ other Guild centers throughout the arch­ detected and even worse, are never dustry; and third, a restoration of the di'ocese, offering food and clothing to the treated. applicability of the common law. Any so­ needy during the Depression. The Fellowship Center, Inc., of New By 1941, the Gulld had served more than called reform that results in more Gov­ 1.6 mtlllon meals at its Newark kitchen and York is an organization which does care ernment regulation will result in greater had begun offering Engllsh language classes about this segment of the prison .popu­ danger from nuclear power plants.• to immlgrants a.nd programs !or the dea! lation. Since 1958 they have been OPP.r­ and blind. ating programs in the State of New York During the 1950s and 1960s, the Guild identifying and providing aid to the developed a broad range o! pro!esslonal prison alcoholic and their families. The MOUNT CARMEL GUILD services !or the disabled and disadvantaged, center was founded by Buford Peterson, including the elderly, emotionally disturbed children and adults with hearing e.nd speech a recovered alcoholic with a prison HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. disorders. These expanded rehabilltatlon record. OF NEW JERSEY programs were coordinated into a depart­ I was most impressed with Mr. Peter­ ment of special educa.tion in 1959. son when I met him and learned of his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In 1967, the Guild added a. division !or important work at the center. For the Monday, April 9, 1979 housing, which sponsored several low-in­ benefit of my colleagues I wish to place come, middle-income and senior citizen com­ • Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, Govern­ plexes. In 1974, however, housing was phased in the RECORD, the center's brochure ex­ ment over the past three decades rightly out during a reorganization of the Gulld, plaining its work. has taken a more active role in helping to which revealed extensive disarray in the [Brochure) solve social problems. Today I would divlslon bookkeeping. FELLOWSHIP CENTER, INC. like to recognize a local organization that Msgr. LoBla.nco, who took over as ccs di­ THE . PROBLEM has been working to provide basic human rector in 1976, now heads a multl!aceted social service agency which Includes seven The prison system o! the State o! New services for the past 50 years. mental health centers, six special education York now houses over 20,000 prisoners in 36 The Mount Carmel Guild in Newark, schools, family services such as oounsellng institutions at an annual <:ost o! $15,000 per N.J., in celebrating its 50th anniversary and adoptions, day ca.re and a children's prisoner, and has !uture plans to spend in this year, looks back on five decades of residence, programs for the visually handi­ the hundreds or m1111ons o! dollars !or addi­ service to chidren, to the handicapped, capped and persons with communications tional !ac111t1es. to the elderly, to the disadvantaged of disorders, a vocational rehablUtation center, Criminologists, legislators, and others con­ the cities, to the mentally ill and to all and offices for the elderly, tmmlgratlon, tinue to debate the causes o! crime, methods health and hospitals. or prevention, and whether prisons are !or those individuals and families who have The director said that as the Guild begins punishment or rehabllitation. needed care in some form or another. Its second halt-century, he would like to see There is, however, one crucial !act about The guild is known throughout north­ it return to its "original thrust of people the prison population rarely mentioned. ern New Jersey as the largest privately­ helping people." It is now an establlshed !a.ct that alcohol sponsored social service agency in the "We have the pro!essiona.ls," he said, re­ abuse ls directly connected to the perform­ State and one of the most compassion­ !errlng to the Guild's 600 employes, "but ance o! violent crimes. According to Depart­ ate. It has reached out to help people we're looking !or more volunteers to work ment o! Justice figures, 43 percent of all from all walks of life and to this day wlth us. those in state prisons were drinking at the continues its valuable work under the "We have a proven track record or helping tlme o! arrest. An even more startllng !act the emotional and physical needs of people. ts that the proportion or alcohol abusers very capable direction of Newark Arch­ But we've reached a saturation point tn among those who return to prison la even bishop Peter Gerety and Msgr. Francis numbers or programs we can offer. And no higher-approximately 80 percent. Conserva­ R. LoBianco. matter how many programs we establlsh, tive estimates show that more than 64 per­ Mr. Speaker, I am very proud that we'll always be excluding some category of <:ent of all homicides, 41 percent o! assaults, Newark has such a charitable and hard­ need." and 34 percent or all rapes are alcohol working agency as Mount Carmel Guild. The 50th anniversary or the Mt. Carmel related. It is one of the most valuable institutions Guild wm also be celebrated during the Yet there is practically no systematic e!­ in our city and State and I am happy to annual Archbishop's Gala on June 3. The !ort to identity the alcohol abuser in the join in celebrating its 50th anniversary black-tie !und-ralsing event will be held at courts or prisons, nor-with the exception to more good works in the future. the Mansion on the H111 a.t Caldwell OOllege.e o! the Fellowship Center-have there been programs developed in the New York State Mr. Speaker, the Newark Star-Ledger prisons to counsel and treat the alcoholic printed an article on April 1 describing offender. the guild's history and current work. PERSONAL EXPLANATION Alcoholism has been recognized as a treat­ I insert the article in the RECORD : able disease and is slowly shedding the moral MT. CARMEL TO MARK 50 YEARS OF SERVICE stigma attached to it. The American Medical (By Monica Maske) HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER Association, American Psychiatric Associa­ The Mt. Carmel Guild, the largest privately OF NEW YORK tion, The National Institute o! Mental sponsored social service agency in the state, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Health, along with many industrial employee wlll kickoff its 50th anniversary celebration programs accept that treatment ls a funda­ today during a Mass at a Newark church Monday, April 9, 1979 mental necessity and that early recognition where the Guild first opened its doors as a or alcohol abuse con bring effective results. soup kitchen. •Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, on roll­ AN ANSWER Newark Archbishop Peter L. Gerety wlll be call No. 85 today, the Bauman amend­ The Fellowship Center belleves that the the principal celebrant o! the Mass, which ment to provide support for the Rhode­ alcoholic offender, in or out or prison, must wlll begin at 12.30 p.m. at St. Patrick's Pro­ sian election, I was at the White House be helped to deal with the problem of alco­ Catherdal on Washington Street. and unable to return for the vote. Had I holism before he or she can realize any bene­ Msgr. Wllliam Noe Field, the Seton Hall been present, I would have voted "nay."• fit from other rehabilitation programs, such 7850 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979 as education or vocational training. Treat­ such as Alcoholics Anonymous will be en­ ment of alcoholism will permit the alcohol couraged and more effectively utilized. politan America. GILLIS LoNG has been abuser to utillze these other programs con­ In cooperation with the New York State a leader among those of us who represent structively and develop the inner resources to Department of Correctional Services, the the small cities and towns all across this maintain a life free from both alcohol and Fellowship Center Inc., is attempting to es­ Nation. crime. tabllsh an Institutional Comprehensive Al­ While there is no question in my mind FCI PROGRAM/METHODS coholism Program ut111zing many of the ex­ that he would be a capable governor for The Center works in prisons with programs isting correctional services. the people of Louisiana, I believe he is designed to guide the alcohol abuser to an This ongo.....!.ng project incorporates pro­ awareness of the nature of alcoholism ancl grams for the incarcerated alcohol abuser, better served to stay with us in the offer the mental, physical and spiritual tools the correctional statf, the famlly of the con­ House, where he can serve not only the to combat the lllness. victed alcohol abuser, and follow-up pro­ people of Louisiana but all those Ameri­ The Center maintains contact with a siz­ grams for the released/paroled otfender. cans who have chosen to live in the able cadre of recovered alcohollc ex-offenders Since FCI has worked within this area of countryside and who want the voice of who are available as volunteers in patterns concern for many years it is uniquely quau­ GILLIS LONG to be heard.• so successfully employed by Alcoholics Anon­ fied to fulfill the varied services necessary ymous, which is the only alcohollsm program to implement this program effectively. functioning 1n prisons. FCI, under contra.ct with the New York The Center conducts workshops and semi­ State Division of Alcohollsm and the New AMENDMENTS TO FEDERAL MINE nars for correction staff (administrators, se­ York State Department of Correctional Serv­ curity, counselors, chaplains, parole otncers) ices, recently coordinated the first four-day SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT OF 1977 to inform them on the nature of alcoholism training seininar on alcoholism. Senior TO EXEMPT CLAY SURFACE MIN­ and to provide insights and give techniques Counselors from 35 state prison facilities and ING OPERATIONS for working with alcohollc prisoners. The the Federal prison in Manhattan attended. curriculum developed by the Fellowship Cen­ It was well received and evaluated as highly ter, under a contract with the State Division effective. Since then 160 correctional staff HON·. CHARLES W. STENHOLM of Alcoholism, is now used by Russell sage personnel have received simllar training and 01' TEXAS College in Albany, N.Y. as a 3-credit course FCI has firm contract cominitments from IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for correction otncers working toward a Mas­ both the Division of Alcohollsm and the De­ ters Degree. partment of Correctional services for a series Monday, April 9, 1979 The Center has established a drop-in office of &dditional seminars. The target groups !or tn the United Charities Building at 105 East e Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, with these services are the counseling staffs, se­ the passage of the 1977 amendments to 22nd Street in Manhattan where released and curity otncers, chaplains, and prison &dmin­ paroled prisoners and fammes of prisoners istrators. the Mine Safety Act, the expectation was can come for counsel and support in han­ that the Secretary of Labor would give dling alcohol problems. THE FORGOTl'EN ONES priority to the promulgation of reason­ The Center is also working with the City In its years of experience the Center has able regulations to provide safer condi­ and Federal correction systems to develop found two groups whose needs have been similar programs within the institutions for largely neglected by our system of criminal tions for the workers in our major energy which they are responsible. justice, and it gives special attention to source areas-the coal mines. The Center has begun to train a number of them. It is now apparent the Secretary is giv­ recovered ex-offenders to work as parapro­ The /amily broken by alcoholism and a ing equal attention in his regulatory ac­ fessionals in the prisons under the supervi­ prison sentence is often left resourceless and tions to the surface clay mines in my dis­ sion of counselors who have had training resentful, understandably allenated from the trict and in other parts of the Nation. in alcoholism therapy. prisoner and uncomprehending of the 1Ilness These mines have a long record of safe One male and one female recovered alco­ of alcoholism. The children are particUlarly hollc ex-offender will be staffed as parapro­ operating conditions. Their extraction vulnerable, and may easily be drawn into the procedures, although identified as "min­ fessional counselors. They wlll work prlmar­ life pattern of the alcoholic parent. The Fel­ lly within the prison fa.c111tles, assisting cor­ lowship Center works toward help and un­ ing" under the broad terminology of the rectional personnel with case finding; estab­ derstanding, and the eventual reconcmatton Federal Act, are actually more like road­ lishing alcohol counseling, P.ducation and between the family and the recovered grading or other construction prepara­ prevention programs. They wm work with in­ alcoholic. tion work. In fact, most of the so-called mates prior to release as well as when they mining consists of bulldozers or front­ return to the community. The woman offender with a drinking prob­ The work that the Fellowship Center has lem finds herself categorized as an almost load graders scraping the clay off the begun could dramatically reduce the prison total social outcast, caught in a system that surface in small and shallow open pits. population and save tremendous costs, not lacks even the llmited opportunities provided It is a relatively safe operation, tradi­ only in tax dollars, but in the human Inisery men in the prison system. The Fellowship tionally and successfully supervised by associated with the alcoholic inmate, the vic­ Center is making special efforts to help wom­ OSHA and its predecessors. My bill tim, and famtlies of both. en prisoners toward a self-understanding and meet their needs while incarcerated and dur· merely proposes to return the clay mines WHO WE ARE Ing their re&djustment into soclety.e to the inspection status quo ante the Fed­ The Fellowship Center, Inc. (FCI) was eral Act of 1977. founded March 5, 1958, by BUford Peterson, Furthermore, these clay mines in my a recovered alcoholic with a prison record. TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN district and elsewhere are small opera­ Recognizing the desperate plight of the al­ GILLIS LONG coholic offender both during and after incar­ tions, most often consisting of three or ceration, he pioneered efforts to identify and two or sometimes only one man operat­ help the alcoholic in prison and upon release, SPEECH OF ing the "mine," with one or two truck­ and to restore the alcohollc to health, allow­ drivers departing with the clay. This ing him to become responsible to himself, his HON. BILL ALEXANDER type of activity should not require the family and society. OP ARKANSAS ela·borate training programs and report­ BUford Peterson, as Director and Senior IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing requirements established by the Fed­ Counselor, oversees the treatment programs Thursday, April 5, 1979 eral Act. at FCI as well as those ~the various cor­ Passage of this legislation will reduce rectional facllitles. e Mr. An administrative Director and Family ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, I costs of administration and training pro­ Counselor, coordinates program activities at want to associate myself with the re­ grams, both for the clay industry and for the warm homelike atmosphere of the FCI marks of a number of our colleagues last the Federal Government. Continued safe offices at 105 East 22nd Street. Thursday, April 5, in the praise that working conditions-the principal reason FCI is an extended service agency of the was given our colleague, GILLIS LoNG, for initial congressional interest in this 166-year-old New York City Mission Society. for his de:ision not to seek the governor­ matter-will be assured by reversion of It is Incorporated as a not-for-profit organi­ ship of Louisiana and to remain in the surface clay mines operations to State or zation and operates under a Board of Direc­ House. tors which includes recovered alcohollcs as Federal OSHA inspection. While under­ well as non-alcoholics, ex-offenders, key per­ I applaud that decision. GILLIS LONG ground clay mining is almost extinct, sonnel from the N.Y. State Department of is an effective legislator that this body there are several such mines in existence. Correctional services, businessmen, clergy, needs. My work with GILLIS LONG in The bill would insure that these mining and other concerned citizens. the Congressional Rural Caucus, which operations, similar to the more hazard­ COOPERATION WITH OTHER PROGRAMS we helped to found some years ago, has ous operations of underground coal min­ In addition to the professional personnel shown me his sensitivity to the needs ing, will remain subject to the provisions now in fac1Ilties, community-based programs of the people who reside in nonmetro- of the Federal Act.• April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7851 FICTIONAL ARTICLE ON DISASTER Kiesllng said it was intended to illustrate the ROCKVILLE, MD., RECEIVES AWARD dangers o! nuclear power plants. FOURTH TIME ALMOST COST MAGAZINE'S GRANT Creitz told the magazine he considered the article "sensational reading, not true, a hor­ rible article." He complained to Yatron on HON. RON PAUL Aug. 18 that it was "blatantly distorted.'' and HON. MICHAEL D. BARNES OJ' TEXAS said "Lord, help us all" if federal money sup- OJ' l\IARYLAND IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ports such writing. . IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Of course, the events propounded by author Monday, April 9, 1979 Larry Arnold, including a meltdown of the Monday, April 9, 1979 • Mr. PAUL~ Mr. Speaker, I wish to call nuclear reactor core, did not occur. But in a the attention of my colleagues to an strange coincidence, his account and the first • Mr. BARNES. Mr. Speaker, it gives article that appeared in the Washington radiation problems occurred at the plant on me great pleasure to introduce a con­ Post this morning. a March28. current resolution to recognize the city The real accident and the first radiation of Rockville, Md., and its residents for I note first that the "alternative" problems at Three Mile Island last week oc­ in Harrisburg journal in question was par­ curred on . . . March 28.e their outstanding efforts making their city an "All-America" City once again tially federally funded. this year. Second, the journal predicted in the summer of 1978 that an accident would PUBLIC FINANCING OF CONGRES­ The award, sponsored annually by the occur at the Three Mile Island power­ SIONAL ELECTIONS National Municipal League to recognize plant in Harrisburg on March 28-which and encourage constructive citizen ac­ is exactly when an accident did occur at HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN tion, was granted to 11 communities that plant. which had competed from a field of al­ OF FLORmA most 500 nominations. In achieving this If the Post is to be believed, this is an IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES distinction again this year, Rockville be­ extraordinary coincidence; that possibil­ Monday, April 9, 1979 comes the first city in the country to be ity cannot be ruled out. But it might also so recognized for a fourth time in the be a case of self-fulfilling prophecy in • Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Speaker, the newly 30-year history of the award. which an antinuclear fanatic-and there elected mayor of Hallandale, Fla., Mr. are many of these-read this "alterna­ Art Canon, recently wrote a letter to the Among the many innovative activities tive" magazine and decided that the only editor of the Miami Herald expressing of Rockville citizens for which the city way the American people would learn the his support for public financing of elec­ has been singled out is a community dangers of nuclear power is to be forced tions. I am in complete accord with the goals process, which has involved the in­ to suffer a nuclear "accident." The possi­ views expressed by Mayor Canon and put of over 2,000 citizens in a develop­ bility of human action, not simply me­ would like to share these thoughts with ment process lasting over a year. Other chanical failure, as a cause of the Three my colleagues: notable ongoing programs include Pres­ Mile Island incident should not-and in CONGRESS ON THE AUCTION BLOCK ervation Unlimited, in which senior view of the Post article this morning­ craftsmen teach disadvantaged persons To The Editor: as apprentices; the good neighbor pro­ cannot be ruled out. It is not unlikely I! there is any doubt about where the that those who have attempted to terri­ allegiance of many congressmen and sen­ gram, in which volunteers check with fy the American people with an infinity ators lies, one has only to review their vot­ the elderly daily by phone and assist of fears about nuclear power finally de­ ing records. I! there is a.ny question o! the with shopping; and other activities such cided to cause what they have so long favoring o! vested interests over and above as the Senior Citizens Fiesta, Grand­ predicted-a nuclear "accident." the interests o! the people, one has only to parents Cottages, a community arts pro­ study the sources o! campaign contributions. gram, and plans for a new downtown If this Congress does anything about There can be no other conclusion except that area. the Harrisburg incident, it ought to in­ many of our legislators are controlled by big vestigate the possibility of sabotage. money from big people. The people of Rockville who have par­ The latest figures released by the Federal ticipated in these and many other com­ The article follows: Election Commission show that $35 mlllion munity programs should be proud of the FICTIONAL ARTICLE ON DISASTER ALMOST COST was contributed to congressional candtda.tes special recognition they have brought to MAGAZINE'S GRANT by special-interest groups in 1978. This com­ their city. Their encouragement of in­ (By Ward Sinclair) pares with $12.5 millton in 1974 and $22.6 dividual involvement in community ef­ HARRISBURG, PA.-Prophetic it might have mllllon in 1976. Political Action Committees, forts and their cooperative approach been, but a fictional article about a nuclear which collect and distribute campaign con­ toward problem-solving should serve as disaster at the Three Mlle Island generating tributions, increased from 608 in 1974 to plant last year nearly cost Harrisburg maga­ more than 1,900 today. a model for cities throughout the Nation. zine a $25,000 federal grant. The present system o! financing congres­ The benefits of their efforts are certain Federal support !or several staff members sional elections ts not only not competitive, to be manifested not only in progress was ordered cut off by the Department of tt ts undemocratic. It subjects candidates to toward solutions of individual problems, Labor after the president o! Metropolitan corrupting pressures that ha.ve undermined but in an atmosphere of increased trust Edison Co., operator of the plant, complained the public confidence in Government. The and cooperation among all residents of to his congressman. undermining process will increase while the the community. practice continues. A fair and equitable sys­ Walter Creitz, upset by the article, told tem o! public funding for these campaigns The text of the concurrent resolution Rep. Gus Yatron (D-Pa.) that he was con­ would match small, private contributions follows: cerned that the magazine was receiving with funds from the voluntary-dollar, tax­ CONCURRENT RESOLUTION money under the Comprehensive Employ­ checkoff fund. ment and Training Act (CETA). Whereas the City of Rockville, Maryland, The capacity o! special interests to create A spokesman !or the Reading congressman has been named an All America City for political indebtedness must be eltminated 1978-79; and confirmed today that Creitz' letter had been 1f public confidence is to be restored. The forwarded to the Labor Department, which in Whereas Rockville is the only city in the role o! the small-citizen contributor must be nation to · be a !our-time winner in the turn ordered its contracting agency here to enlarged 1! we are to take our lawmakers cut off the "alternative" news magazine's off the auction block. HR I, a piece of legisla­ 30-year history of this award; and CETAmoney. tion that has been introduced in the House Whereas the All America City award indi­ 'I!he magazine's grant money was delayed o! Representatives, is a step in the right di­ cates special achievement in community de­ by the Susquehanna Employment and Train­ rection. Similar legislation must be intro­ velopment through citizen action; and ing Corp., but then restored while an appeal duced in the Senate. Right now the House Whereas the City o! Rockvtlle was cited by publisher Bob Becker was considered. The is the better prospect !or action in public specifically !or its completion of a commu­ appeal is pending. financing, the Senate can come later. nity goals setting process, development or a Three Mlle Island, of course, is the site of By implementing public financing o! their comprehensive program to ensure active the Metropolitan Edison plant where an acci­ campaigns, we broke the vested-interest lives for senior citizens and creation of a dent a week ago threatened a major disaster chains that bound Presidential candid:i. tes. wide-ranging community arts program. and the evacuation or parts of five counties All that big money once was funneled into in area. congressional campaigns. We can break these Now, therefore, be it resolved that the The article was an account of public health new chains requesting support for public House of Representatives {the Senate con­ problems from radiation and mass confusion financing of congressional elections. curring) recognizes the City of Rockville and in an evacuation after an imaginary accident ART CANON, its residents for their outstanding efforts in at Three Mile Island. Managing editor Bill Hallandale .• making their city an "All America" city.e 7852 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979 THE ELOQUENCE OF SILENCE which kicked off a weekend of activity many one-person, one-car trips to work," she at the Corcoran Art Gallery and the said. "One van pool can save over 5,000 gal­ Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. lons ot gas a year. About 400 commuters in HON. THOMAS N. KINDNESS Those who missed the weekend activity Tidewater are taking advantage of the OF OHIO will be pleased to know that plans are pools." People like Gene Durst ot Aragona, who is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES underway for the second annual Nation­ putting up the $15'5-a.-month, 4-cents-per­ Monday, April 9, 1979 al Mime Week. mile stake to operate a van pool, get a free I would certainly commend the ac­ ride. And it costs a rider only $6.50 to $7 a •Mr. KINDNESS. Mr. Speaker. a na­ tivity of our Nation's fools to the atten­ week, a !a.r cry from financing a car o! your tion stands to·learn a great deal from its tion of my colleagues. In the days ahead, own primarily to get to work and buying the fools. it is likely that each of us will have oc­ fuel to teed It. Last Friday, a remarkable display of casion to remember the eloquence of Are Virginia. Bea.ch people going to return talent took place at the West Front of silence.• to the ways of the one-car !a.m.lly a.gain? this edifice. As this body completed an­ It's not unlikely because some of the van poolers a.re already doing it. other week of articulate expression and SAVING GAS Charles Pa.trick of Huntington drives a deliberation. an assortment of some 100 TRT van of passengers to Da.m Neck. "The mimes and clowns. and a host of well blg advantage for me ls the free ride I get and wishers. began a procession down Penn­ HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST the !a.ct that I've postponed buying another sylvania Avenue in silent tribute to Na­ OF VIRGINIA car," said Pa.trick. tional Mime Week. Ill THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Pa.tricks own two old ca.rs that a.re Mr. Speaker. I am reminded that debt free, he said, but it's like having only clowns and fools have always played an Monday, April 9, 1979 one "because one's down most of the time," he said. He does the upkeep hiqlSelf "and integral role in the development of every e Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, when one's down the other's running. My major society. while there are urban areas of sufficient wife drives to work in downtown Norfolk." Historians note that clowns were at­ population density to make adequate The obvious savings in getting to work via tached to the imperial court of China in mass transit facilities economically feas­ van is not the only reason many passengers 1818 B.C. The Chinese court clowns were ible, there are many other sections of the opt for buying into the plan. privileged to express themselves freely country in which it just is not feasible to Norma Worsfold says she's not saving before the emperor, providing them with provide adequate buses and so forth to much by van pooling "but I like the conveni­ ence of it. I have a small car of my own but political power beyond that of most serve the entire Population, at least not riding the van, I don't have the worry or the members of the court. in the near future. Tidewater Virginia ls traffic, cleaning my car, upkeep, and I buy Members of this profession take great such an area, and this causes problems fewer tires. My auto insurance went down pride in the story of a Chinese emperor for people who sincerely desire to con­ $30 a year, too, because I don't drive to work." whose decision to change the currency serve fuel but at the same time must get The tone of her voice changed as she of his kingdom resulted in an edict that to work. talked, indicating she was discovering more of a savings than she had: originally coins would be minted in denominations The Tidewater Regional Transit has thought. no smaller than 10-cash pieces. come up with one possible solution, and it "This base ls so small," Ms. Worsfold said No one was w111ing to explain the folly is working so well that I am pleased to of Dam Neck, "I don't think it's !air !or ea.ch of this decision to the emperor until two take this opportunity to share with my person working here to drive a car. Parking of his clowns presented a sketch illus­ colleagues an article which appeared in is just not available for that many ca.rs. And trating the use of 10-cash pieces. the April 8, 1979, edition of the Virginia getting out via Old Dam Neck Road to In the sketch, a customer attempted to Beach Beacon. The story was written by Oceana Boulevard is stop-and-go frustration purchase a one-cash drink from a ven­ Suzanne Holden, the features editor of every day.'' the Beacon, and it merits a careful The "good fellowship" of riding with the dor. The customer handed over the same group every day ls another reason Ms. smallest coin he had, a 10-cash piece, reading. Worsfold gives for enjoying the van route to and the vendor was unable to make It is not going to be easy to reduce our work. She engenders much o! that good fel­ change. With considerable difficulty and dependence on fossil fuels, but the Amer­ lowship herself. discomfort, the customer downed 10 of ican people have a history of resourceful­ Charles Pa.trick, with whom she rides, said the large-one-cash drinks. ness, and if we continue to apply the kind Ms. Worsfold remembers other riders with "There!" he exclaimed, "but if the of creative thinking that TRT has birthday cakes, the members o! their !a.mmes who're sick with get-well cards. Government had made us use those big brought to the problem, I am confident "It's a.ma.zing," said Pa.trick, "the camar­ one hundred-cash pieces, I'd have that a great deal can be accomplished. aderie that develops on these vans: There's popped!" I am proud of TRT, and of all the peo­ rarely a dull moment. And a lot o! the peo­ The emperor roared with delight, and ple in my area who are cooperating to ple that ride with me have their jobs in ordered that one-cash pieces be returned make the project work. common, too. There's always a ready topic to circulation. The article follows: of conversation." Triboulet, a fool who cheered the [From the Virginia Beach Beacon, Apr. 8, Pa.trick said there ls obviously more of a 1979] savings in riding a van now that gas prices French courts of Louis XII and Francois a.re going up. "The average trip to Dam Neck I, distinguished himself as a military ad­ SAVING GAS: TRT's VAN POOLING PROGRAM BIG cost.s me $3 in gas a day but it only costs the visor. SUCCESS So FAJt rider $1.50," he said. Triboulet was admitted to the council United they ride, divided they stand a Does he make any money on van pooling? of war with Francois as the monarch and chance of being devoured financially by the "No, I'll take a loss this month." That's tn his lords discussed the invasion of Italy. price of gas. spite of the fa.ct that his riders a.re com­ "Cousin," Triboulet interrupted the Van pools to get workers to their Jobs ls mitted to paying him $31 a month regardless king, "Do you mean to stay in Italy?" what it's all about. It's a distinctly American or whether they all ride every day. Rising way of handling an increasingly burdensome gas prices a.re cutting into his break-even The king replied that he did not. problem. Tidewater Regional Transit ls rent­ status. "Well, all this talk of how to get to ing 12-passenger vans to make it possible. Patrick leaves his home in Huntington, Italy worries me," the fool continued. A pilot program In which TRT made 50 which lies just north o! Princess Anne Road "Why cousin?" the king asked. vans available to Navy employees-military and west of Kempsvllle Road, and drives "Because it seems to me that if you and civll1an-is so successful that the trans­ through Carolanne Fa.rm and Arrowhead are not going to stay, the first thing to portation firm has 30 more on order. These picking up his passengers. He leaves home at settle is not how to get into the country, vans are being offered to workers outside the 6:20 and arrives at Dam Neck well ahead or mmtary. The Navy surveyed its taclllties be­ the 7:30 starting hour. but how you get out." fore it launched its van pooling efforts. And Does he ever have trouble with anyone's The stories of the fool's role in af­ now, slm1lar surveys are under way among being late !or the ride? fairs of state are legion. employees or city governments, hospitals, "No. Our agreement ls that everyone mu.st It is indeed fitting that the week of banks, retail stores and the like. The surveys be on time for his ride or he gets left. You April 1 was declared National Mime alert these workers to the ava1labil1ty of the get left once, you're never late a.gain," he Week in the United States, under the rental vans and serve to link up neighbor­ said with a laugh. Patrick is a visual infor­ sponsorship of the Junior Senator from hood groups traveling to the same general mation specialist-a. civilian employee of the destlna.tlon. Navy. He does photography, mustra.tlons and California, a semanticist, S. I. HAYAKAWA. TRT's van pooling is Mary Lou Harrison's printing. The semanticist joined the Prince of "baby." Ms. Harrison ls special services repre­ Gene Durst said he used to ride to work Pantomime, Red Skelton, in the parade sentative. "It's an effort to cut down on so on a private busline but didn't like it. April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7853 "The van's more comfortable, cleaner," he Whereas, his first book, "Three Lectures erty and advancing civil rights, will be said. "It has two air conditioners and very on Gaelic Topics," was published in 1893, the long remembered along with his efforts good heating." same year he was elected to the Executive to combat hijacking and provide safer Durst has 11 passengers that he picks up Committee of the Oe.elic League and began airports. in Aragona Village and Pembroke Meadows. studies at the Royal University; and He drives to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Whereas, he was an active and proinlnent This House and this N&.tion were well Portsmouth. And he has about 10 people member of the Gaelic League, editor of its served by Sammy Friedel, and the mark on a waiting list for rides. billngual paper "An Claidheamh Soluis" and he left was one of service to humanity.• He worked out his own schedule for pick­ deeply involved in its publications and edu­ ups and drops of! each rider at his work cationial activities; and station. "I have them from one end of the Whereas, he cultivated an early interest in ANGELA MAYEUX HONORED AS yard to the other," he said. Durst, himself, educational theory and practice and his edu­ FREE ENTERPRISE WEEK ESSAY is an inside machinst who operates a large cational writings place him firmly among the CONTEST WINNER lathe. progressive members of the "New Education" He's charging riders $6.50 a week but is movement, a goal of which was to incorporate having to go up to $7, he said, to adjust to the study of Gaelic, the true Irish language, HON. W. HENSON MOORE higher gas prices. His intention is simply to in Ireland's schools; and OF LOUISIANA break even "because I'm getting a free ride," Whereas, he lectured extensively, taught in he said. The convenience of having the van a number of schools and in 1908 founded IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for family use at seven cents a mile is a plus, Scoil Eanna as a prototype of what an Irish Monday, April 9, 1979 too, however. school should be; and TRT takes care of all maintenance, tires, Whereas, he was among the founders of • Mr. MOORE. Mr. Speaker, the week of licenses, taxes and operates a 24-hour the Irish Volunteers and one of a small group January 22-27, 1979, was celebrated as trouble-shooting dispatcher service for the that planned the Easter Rising of 1916 of Free Enterprise Week in my congres­ $155-per-month fee plus four cents a mile. which he was the leader and became Presi­ sional district, Louisiana's Sixth District. Second only to the savings realized by van dent of the Provisional Government of the Free Enterprise Week is a grassroots, pooling ls the fun of it. Drivers and riders Republic; and community effort to give the citizens of alike talked of that aspect. It is a factor they Whereas, he was a. signator of the Proc­ hadn't seemed to consider until they got in­ lamation of the Irish Republic, an act for the district an opportunity to learn more volved. which he was executed at the age of thirty­ about our free economic system. Durst said, "It's like a family. We have a seven, by a British firing squad, on May 3, Free Enterprise Week includes a num­ great time going to work and coming 1916 at Kllmainham Prison and burled in a ber of informative and educational pro­ home."e " quick-lime grave at Arbour Hill. grams. One of the most important of Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the these programs is a high school essay members of this House join together to com­ contest. CONNECTICUT GENERAL ASSEMBLY memorate the Centenary of the birth of All of the secondary schools in the dis­ ENDORSES PEACE FORUM Patrick Pearse, Irish Patriot, and continue to support his dream that the whole of Ire­ trict are invited to participate by having land may be as one Irish-Free State. their students write an essay about the HON. MARIO BI AGGI Be it further resolved, that the members free enterprise system. From these essays, OF NEW YORK of this House lend their most fervent sup­ a school winner is selected. The winning IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES port to the Congressional Irish Peace Forum essays from each school are then judged which is to take place the week beginning to find the best essay to represent each Monday, April 9, 1979 May 14, 1979 and which is sponsored by the parish in the district. Finally, from the Ad Hoc Congressional Committee for Irish • Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, it was with Affairs. parish winners, an essay is selected to be great pleasure that I received word that Be it further resolved, that the Clerk of recognized as the best essay in the on March 15, 1979, the Connecticut Gen­ the House be directed to forward a copy of district. eral Assembly adopted a resolution this resolution to United States Representa­ This was the second year that Free "Commemorating the Centenary of the tive Mario Biaggi of New York, 10th District, Enterprise Week, and the essay contest, Birth of Patrick Pearse, Irish Patriot." Chairman of the Ad Hoc Congressional Com­ was held in the Sixth District. Literally Contained in the resolution was the mittee for Irish Affairs, and a major Con­ hundreds of students wrote essays for gressional spokesman for the ca.use of free­ Free Enterprise Week and because of the following language- dom in Ireland.e Be it further resolved that the members high quality of all the essays, it was very of this House lend their most fervent sup­ difficult for the judges to choose the ones port to the Congressional Irish Peace Forum SAMMY FRIEDEL to receive recognition. which is to take place the week begln11i1:g Each of the school winners received a May 14, 1979 and which ls sponsored by the $25 savings bond. The parish and district Ad Hoc Congressional Committee for Irish HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. winners were given stock awards. Affairs. OF NEW JERSEY The parish winners were allowed to I was most gratified by this endorse­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES select common stock or stocks in a do­ ment. We maintain that the Congres­ Tuesday, April 3, 1979 mestic corporation of up to $100 in value. sional Irish Peace Forum will constitute The district winner received a total of up the most dramatic American initiative • Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I would like to $350 in stock. to date to advance the cause of peace to join with Congressman LoNG of Mary­ By giving these students an opportu­ and justice in Ireland. It is an initiative land and my other colleagues in paying nity to own a piece of American enter­ with many potential and real risks. Yet tribute to one of the mos'j warmhearted prise it was the hope of Free Enterprise as the President so dramatically and ef­ and beloved Members of this House who Week that they would continue in their fectively demonstrated-in his recently passed away on March 21. Sammy Friedel interest in our free economic system. completed Middle East peace treaty­ was a friend of mine, as I am sure he was The author of the essay which was risks must be taken for there to be a suc­ of many Members in this body. In the judged the best out of all those sub­ cessful final product. nine terms that he served here, I knew mitted was Miss Angela Mayeux. I wish to thank the general assem­ Sammy as an able and distinguished She is 17 years old and is the daughter bly and most directly the sponsors of committee chairman who would offer sin­ of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mayeux. Miss House Resolution 154. The ad hoc com­ cerity and warmth to his colleagues and Mayeux is a senior at Redemptorist High mittee which has now grown to 128 mem­ to his constituents. School in Baton Rouge, La., and has two bers wants peace in Ireland. As Chairman of the House Administra­ sisters. The resolution follows: tion Committee. Sammy was truly dedi­ An excellent student, she is a mem­ cated to improving the way this institu­ ber of the Beta Club and she plans to RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE CENTENARY tion functions. His concern for his OF THE BIRTH OF PATRICK PEARSE, IRISH continue her education next year at PATRIOT constituents was reflected in his efforts Louisiana State University where she Resolved by this House: to provide all Members with the resources will major in premed. Whereas, Patrick Pearse was born Novem­ to better serve their own constituents. He In addition to her academic activities, ber 10, 1879 in Dublin; and sheparded legislation which moved this she is a member of her high school's Whereas, Patrick Pearse became a foremost House into the modern era. band and is editor of the yearbook. Gaelic scholar, educator, author, lecturer and His fights for improving education in As the district-wide Free Enterprise patriot; and this country, as well as eliminating pov- Week essay contest winner, she read her 7854 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979 essay at, the awards banquet which con­ depend on Carter's anti-inflation program. low page" advertisements were not re­ Under the pressing weight of a.11 this evi­ lated to co-op business endeavors and cluded Free Enterprise Week. Her essay dence, it is obvious that the President is the shows great insight and we can all learn most influential and dominant force in the thus not exempt from taxation. from it. For your consideration, it is economy today. A weak economic policy NONMEMBER INCOME PROVISION reprinted here. guarantees a. worsening economy. Since the adoption of the Rural Elec­ THE DANGERS CONFRONTING FREE ENTERPRISE To turn the economy around to a facsimlle trification Act, the Internal Revenue IN AMERICA of its original idea.ls will take courageous laws have provided that an electric co­ "1973-74: Double-digit inflation ... 1973- executive leadership; the cooperation of gov­ operative can qualify for tax exempt sta­ 75: A two-year recession ... 1978-79: Predic­ ernment, business, and labor for the greater good of the citizens of the United States; tus if at least 85 percent of its revenues tion of enormous slowdown in economy ..." consist of amounts collected from mem­ These depressing headlines elicit many ques­ and a. bold stand by all three against the tions from Americans: from businessmen predator of wage-price spirals on our econ­ bers. This insures that the special tax and housewives; from college and high omy. These demands will mean sacrifice status will be granted only to co-ops en­ school students, who must eventually ma­ by a.11 involved, including the consumer.e gaged primarily in serving their mem­ triculate into a labor market more precar­ bers while allowing some flexibility for ious than ever before. income generated by nonmember activ­ Why is the economy in such dire straits? PRESERVE TAX EXEMPT STATUS ities. This provision has been interpreted Why is our system of free enterprise, in­ OF RURAL COOPERATIVES to encourage power sharing arrange­ efficient? Answering these questions demands ments between member and nonmember a. clear definition of free enterprise. Free enterprise is "a.n economic system in which HON. ALBERT GORE, JR. utilities. If, during peak hours, a member primary reliance is on private business, with OF TENNESSEE utility was asked to sell power to an ad­ the government restricted to protecting the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES joining nonmember utility, these reve­ rights of the people, not directing the econ­ nues could be offset when later it was omy." Free enterprise, as it exists in America, Monday, April 9, 1979 necessary for one to purchase peak power fails to mirror all the components of the • Mr. GORE. Mr. Speaker, electric and from the other. This practice encouraged given definition. Waste of natural resources, full use of regional electric capacity and deficit spending by an overgrown bureauc­ telephone cooperatives are the backbone racy, and weak executive leadership in the of rural America. Congress helped nur­ prevented costly overbuilding of capac­ United States government have almost ture the growth of co-ops in the 1930's ity. brought free enterprise to its knees. and 1940's in order to improve the qual­ Last year during a routine audit of an Because free enterprise gives everyone the ity of life in rural areas. Privately owned Iowa co-op, IRS suggested in an interim right to be in business, the natural greed utilities brought necessary services to ruling that an electric co-op may no of people results in the wasting of natural urban areas, but they either could not longer offset its nonmember power sales resources. With no regard for conservation, or would not furnish the needs of rural from its peaking purchases. Thus, if an the greedy enterpriser a.ggra.va.tes the deple­ electric co-op sells power to its neigh­ tion of these resources. As the law of sw>ply areas. and demand states, that which is desirable The goal of cooperatives is not profit, bor in need, and those revenues put the and in short supply rises in price. Economic but reliable service at the lowest price. co-op beyond the 15-percent limit, the history supplies numerous examples of waste This is one of the principal reasons why co-op would no longer qualify for tax lea.ding to higher prices. The lumber in­ we have seen co-ops on the forefront of exempt status. dustry serves as a good illustration. For major technological changes and inno­ This is a very unwise and shortsighted years, trees were milled as an inexhaustible vative cost-cutting measures. ruling. For a meager increase in tax rev­ resource. Now the industry uses cheap wood enues, the will frustrate energy con­ for expensive furniture formerly crafted There are more than 1,000 electric ms from the finest lumber. Reforestation is now co-ops in this country operating in 46 servation goals and discourage efficient a must. States. They provide service to 25 mil­ utilization of electrical capacity. The Na­ Higher wholesale prices, resulting from lion people and cover more than 50 tional Energy Act passed by the 95th waste, lead to rising retail prices and the percent of the land area in the United Congress requires power sharing, wheel­ clamoring by labor for higher wages. In­ States. Telephone co-ops operate in 30 ing, and pooling arrangements between creased costs inevitably provoke higher States and provide telephone service to utilities. This act reflects a purpose­ prices to maintain original profit margins. which I fully support-of encouraging The futile attempt of wages to keep up with more than 750,000 people. Co-ops are an prices is known as the vicious, omnipresent indispensable part of rural life and con­ full utilization of power from less expen­ by-word of our times-INFLATION. To com­ tinue to provide oppartunities for growth sive energy sources like coal and hydro bat inflation, governmental control comes and development. and discouraging the use of costly peak­ into play and erodes our system of free Unfortunately, it seems that the In­ ing capacity from oil. If allowed to stand, enterprise. ternal Revenue Service does not share the IRS interim decision will almost Governmental controls mean increased Congress' enthusiasm for cooperatives. mandate that co-ops place a wall around government spending. Many people, who do Recent rulings by the ms have at­ their borders and build their own capac­ not truly understand our economy, trust the tempted to chip away at their tax exempt ity without regard to costs or the capac­ "Ga.lbra.ithia.n" philosophy which predicates status and have placed unnecessary and ity of neighboring power facilities. It defict spending as essential to the running of a large government. In reality, deficit unreasonable :financial burdens on co­ most definitely will add greatly to con­ spending causes excessive taxation that con­ operatives. sumer utility bills. sumes large portions of wages and accelerates Today, I am introducing legislation The 95th Congress passed similar leg­ the rising wage spiral. Higher wages and sub­ which will preserve the tax-exempt islation which corrected this same in­ sequent price hikes increase inflation and status which Congress established for equity with regard to telephone co-ops. lead to the large-scale tax revolts seen in the cooperatives and will help keep rural The ms was attempting to include non­ the United States today. Governments that member income revenue gained from find their source of income declining are utility rates at reasonable and affordable forced to increase deficits. The sound solu­ rates. The first part of the bill provides reciprocal telephone call arrangements tion of cutting superfluous spending, po­ that certain income from nonmember between member and nonmember utili­ litically unpopular, is shelved in favor of electric utilities will not be taken into ties. Congressman ULLMAN, the chairman increasing deficit spending. William Prox­ account in determining the electric co­ of the Ways and Means Committee, who mire, chairman of the Senate Banking Com­ operatives tax exempt status. This will led the fight for the legislation, stated mittee, said: "There is one answer and one reverse an IRS policy which has had the that the 1974 ms ruling could preclude answer only at this time--

TABLE 7-"And what would you say would be 14. Improve the economy in genera.L___ 2 The concomitant increases in attention to the best thing the government could do to 15. Give localities more cor..troL______2 the economy (and related socioeconomic re­ help reduce the amount of crime?"--Con. 16. Reduce welfare______2 sponses) that have occurred with the per­ sistence of America's economic ma.la.dies and •Another ¥2 % said the schools needed, the rekindling of public interest in the econ­ Stricter laws, tougher police______16 specifically, more discipline. omy as a. basic problem. Improve law enforcement & the courts__ 13 A majority of the American people clearly Improve family life, morals, religion_____ 9 TABLE 8.-AND WHAT WOULD YOU SAY WOULD BE THE want government to focus on tougher treat­ :lmprove the schools & youth programs__ 5 BEST THING THE GOVERNMENT COULD DO TO HELP ment of criminals before trying new social Improve government leadership______5 REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF CRIME? engineering as the cure for crime. Reduce (federal) government controL__ 3 Stricter drug laws------2 [In percent) VOTER GROUPS' VIEWS ON FIGHTING CRIME Other ------2 The distribution of suggested solutions No opinion______9 among voter groups, shown in Table 9, nat­ Septem­ urally resembles the distribution of per­ SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS OFFERED ber/ ceived ca.uses of crime. October December Rank and solution (15+ mentions): 19751 1978 Broad economic solutions a.re urged espe­ 1. More punishment for convicts, cially often by minority voters, residents of mandatory sentences______20 big cities, and low-income working fa.m111es. 2. Reduce unemployment______11 More punishment, stronger police ______31 "Cracking down" is popular with all 3. Improve the laws (tighten them) -- 8 Improve the economy ______6 groups, a.nd especially strong in the Midwest 4. Improve police forces______7 Improve law enforcement and the courts. 2 21 and South and in rural a.rea.s, a.s well as Strengthen family, morals, religion ______12 5. Re-institute ca.pita.I punishment___ 5 Capital punishment______------__ _ 9 among middle-aged voters. 6. Improve the judicial systems______4 Stricter drug laws ______2 Improving law enforcement is most men­ 7. Strengthen family life______3 Increased gun controls.------11 Various other suggestions ______tioned by college-educated voters and voters 8. Give the police more powers______3 5 with incomes greater than $30,000. 9. Improve the school system•------2 No opinion •••. ______------___ 3 10. Reduce the use of drugs______2 EFFECTIVENESS ESTIMATES 11. Reduce corruption in government__ 2 Seventeen proposals to curb crime were 1 The exact wording in 1975 was, "In recent years there has rated on a. seven-point sea.le of likely effec­ 12. More programs and activities for been a sharp increase in the nation's crime rate. What steps do tiveness by our representative sample in the young people______2 you th ink should be taken to reduce crime?" 2 Almost half (10 percent) of this consists of "more police" May-June survey. Cha.rt 3 gives their word­ 13. Reduce moral decay______2 suggestions. ing and their overall ranking.

TABLE 9.-WHAT TO DO ABOUT CRIME? BY VOTER GROUPS (In percent)

Govern­ Govern­ ment Crack Schools ment Crack Improve Schools leader- The down, youth Fam ilies, leader- The down, enfofce­ youth Families, sh ip economy punish program morals sh ip economy punish ment program morals

Aggregate.------17 33 16 Income: Geographic regions: Under $5.000 ______9 17 33 9 1 11 Northeast. ••• ------9 19 31 13 8 $5,000 to $9,999.. ______5 12 35 11 4 12 South. ______------7 17 39 12 10 $10,000 to $14,999.. ____ Midwest.. ______8 17 35 12 7 9 9 13 39 14 9 $15,000 to $19,999 ______6 15 40 13 4 6 West______------6 18 33 12 8 $20,000 to $29,999 ______10 16 36 13 5 9 Urban/rural: $30,000 and over------8 14 38 18 6 5 Big cities ______7 28 27 10 9 Education: Other cities ______5 16 36 14 9 Less than high school. __ 19 34 8 2 10 Suburban areas.------11 13 37 15 7 High school only ______17 39 10 4 8 Rural areas ___ _------7 15 40 10 11 Some college ______15 33 16 6 10 Age: College graduate ••• ____ 15 36 15 8 7 18 to 24 ______3 18 36 14 9 10 Sex: 25 to 34 ______10 20 38 14 3 5 Men •• ------8 17 36 14 9 35 to 44 ______9 13 38 13 5 9 Women ______8 15 36 11 8 45 to 54 ______8 14 43 9 6 5 Ethnicity: 55 to 64 ______8 16 31 14 4 14 White (anglo) ______14 37 13 9 65 and older------8 15 30 12 4 14 Black._------____ 29 28 9 7

By far the most highly rated proposals voters' agreement that "The government has transfers be through licensed dealers. Only were those involving increased punishments gone much too far in protecting the rights 3% thought "almost all" gun owners would for convicted criminals, with these proposals of suspected crimina.ls"-which won out comply. sweeping the top four positions, while deny­ against "The government should be much Only 28 % compliance was expected for ing bail to those accused of violent crimes more careful to protect the rights of sus­ a. handgun confiscation law. Less than ¥2 % ca.me in fifth. Increasing the sea.le of preven- pected criminals" by a. margin of 66 % to thought "almost all" gun owners would tive or reha.b111ta.tion efforts was considered 18%. (See Interview Schedule, Question 8.) comply.e of only intermediate effectiveness-none of 8. Some people think the government these four items achieved more than a. 4.95 should be much more careful to protect the mean effectiveness rating; only 43 % assessed rights of suspected criminals. Other people it a.s a. highly effective measure. think the government has gone much too Gun control measures drew intermediate far in protecting the rights of suspected HONORING OUR COLLEAGUE to low ratings, with greatest support for criminals. CHRISTOPiiER J. DODD "denying gun ownership to users of mari­ Where would you place yourself? juana. and those addicted to ha.rd drugs" SHOW CARD and "detailed record-keeping of gun pur­ HON. BUTLER DERRICK chases and sales by federally licensed gun Protect criminal rights: Percent dealers" (these were ranked sixth and sev­ 1 ------8 OF SOUTH CAROLINA enth, respectively). These three proposals 2 ------4 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a.re already contained in the federal laws. 3 ------6 Monday, April 9, 1979 Support for record-keeping as an effective • 4 ------16 measure declines when carried to the level 5 ------12 • Mr. DERRICK. Mr. Speaker, I would 6 ------18 of keeping records a.bout individual owners Protect rights too much: 7______37 like to join in a tribute to our colleague, or requiring licenses for collectors and pa.rt­ Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, in time dealers, and declines further for letting Respondents in the May-June survey were recognition of his service as Chairman police stop and search people for mega.I guns. also asked how many gun owners they of the 94th Caucus. I am pleased to asso­ Outlawing private possession of handguns is thought would comply with a law requiring ciate myself with the expression of ap­ considered least effective by the American people to register their guns with the federal people. government; the average estimate was that preciation in the following statement of The more severe the restrictions placed on 46 % would comply-only 4 % thought "al­ Representatives BERKLEY BEDELL, NOR­ gun ownership, the less effective such meas­ most all" gun owners would oomply. MAN Y. MINETA and TIMOTHY E. WIRTH, ures a.re judged to be. The average estimate was that 43% would all of whom are former chairmen of the These findings a.re very consistent with the comply with a requirement that all gun 94th Caucus. April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7861 STATEMENT the pro-preservation Department of the by one of my constituents, Catherine Our distinguished colleague, Christopher J. Interior-what will that do in our best Lynn Thompson, of Biloxi, Miss. Due to Dodd, has recently completed a term as interests? Catherine's inspirational message, she Chairman of the 94th Caucus. We would like The memorial follows: was selected as our State winner for the to take this opportunity to express our re­ spect and appreciation for his outstanding HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL No. 6 BY STATE 1978-79 VFW voice of democracy service to his 94th colleagues and to the AFFAIRS COMMITTEE scholarship program. House of Representatives. A Joint Memorial to the Honorable President VOICE OF DEMOCRACY Chris ls primarily responsible for our suc­ of the United States, Jimmy Carter, the America is not only a dream, lt ls a grand cessful group effort to study and implement Honorable Secretary of the Department o! legacy, a. proud people, and a shining ideal ways to improve procedures in the House of Agriculture, Robert S. Bergland, the Hon­ that has been mine from birth. This legacy Representatives. Last spring he initiated the orable Secretary o! the Department o! In­ was built by those proud people, who so dif­ formation of the 94th Task Force on House terior, Cecil D. Andrus, the Senate and the ferent at first, were determined to work to­ Procedures to consider possible changes in House of Representatives in the Congress gether towards a. common dream, a dream House and Democratic caucus rules, over­ of the United States, and the Sena.tors and which began in the minds of a few a.nd spread sight procedures and programs of education Representatives representing the State of until it covered and united this vast and for Members. Over the summer months, this Ida.ho in the Congress of the United States. varied country. group conducted interviews, did research, We, your Memoriallsts, the House of Rep- This dream is of a place where all are given held discussions and, la.st fall, issued a. final iresenta.tives and Senate of the State o! the cha.nee to find their own happiness and report of recommendations that was en­ Ida.ho assembled in the First Regular Session live up to their potential. America's heritage dorsed by the full 94th Caucus. Under Chris' of the Forty-fifth Idaho Legislature, do has not only given me this dream to steer by leadership, this Task Force did a thorough, hereby respectfully represent that: that constantly challenges me to fulfill my comprehensive and generally superior job. Whereas, the United States Forest Service, potential, it has given me the tools to ac­ The full Democratic Caucus agreed; eleven established in 1905 within the Department of cept this challenge and live up to this of the Task Force recommendations were Agriculture, was created and designed to dream. adopted by the Democratic Caucus last De­ serve the interests o! the public through the These tools include a good education, a cember. management of the forest resources of this free wm, an attitude that all possibilities are Chris has also continued a program of ac­ nation; and · open, and a belief that the best can be mine tivities in response to 94th Members' inter­ Whereas, over the span of nearly three­ if I work for lt. I have also been given a ests in increasing our understanding of is­ quarters of a century, members of the agri­ multitude of opportunities to exercise these sues; developing working relationships with­ cultural community have participated with tools in my lifestyle and choice of education in the Congress and with the Administration; the Forest Service ln beneficial use of forest and vocation. Ways to take the best advan­ and improving our effectiveness as individual lands, including grazing of livestock and tage of these opportunities have been shown Members. Among the many activities have harvesting of timber in ways which contrib­ to me by the past, a pa.st that has so much been meetings with President Carter, Ambas­ ute to a sound economy and a wise manage­ to give including this dream. This dream sador Robert Strauss, Energy Secretary ment of resources; and which is my reality. James Schlesinger and briefings on tax is­ Whereas, a long tradition of operation To have this reality come a.live for future sues, the energy b111 and inflation. through the Department of Agriculture generations, I must work just as the genera­ As past Chairmen of the 94th Caucus, we should not be disturbed without a significant tions past did. As they learned to live in can especially appreciate Chris' efforts, ini­ demonstration that the existing organiza­ peace, beating down the barriers of preju­ tiatives and leadership. We shall all benefit tional structure has failed to serve the public dice and inequality, so must I. As they hon­ from the contributions he has ma.de to the interest; and ored the decisions of our governmental sys­ 94th Caucus and to the House of Represent­ Whereas, proposals a.re now under consider­ tems and constantly worked to update them, a.tlves.e ation which would transfer the Forest Serv­ so must I. And, as they studied the issues of ice to the Department of Interior or other the times, so to be able to express an edu­ possible umbrella agency and interrupt the cated opinion by means of the voice, pen, and IDAHO REJECTS PROPOSAL TO history of service and progress which has vote, so shall I. served the people of the State of Ida.ho and But, I am young. My voice ls not listened TRANSFER THE FOREST SERVICE of this Nation. to by many, my pen is not well known, and FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF Whereas, we find that the existing struc­ the privilege of the vote ls not yet mine. I AGRICULTURE ture has served well for nearly seventy-five do not let this discourage me. I take another years, and we encourage the Congress to care­ lesson from the past and see that now my fully consider this history of service and ac­ responsib111ty is to learn so that my voice, HON. STEVEN D. SYMMS complishment. pen, and vote will be wise and respected as I OF WAHO Now, therefore, belt resolved by the mem­ grow older. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bers of the First Regular Session of the Forty­ Through this responslblllty one can truly fifth Idaho Legislature, the House of Repre­ see that the only way to learn is from the Monday, April 9, 1979 sentatives and the Senate concurring therein, pa.st and from the people. Once this basic • Mr. SYMMS. Mr. Speaker, I wtsh to that we urge the Congress and the President idea is known the process of learning is made submit to the RECORD the Idaho Legis­ to reject proposals for the transfer of the easier by this country's freedom of expres­ Forest Service from the Department of sion. The opinions of many and the educa­ lature's House Joint Memorial No. 6 Agriculture. tion necessary to understand them a.re easily which urges the Congress and the Pres­ Be it further resolved that the Chief Clerk available. This results in something charac­ ident to reject proposals for the trans­ of the House of Representatives, be, and he teristic of our country, individualism, some­ fer of the Forest Service from the De­ is hereby authorized and directed to forward thing unknown in a. country where complete partment of Agriculture. As my col­ copies of this Memorial to the President of conformity is the rule. leagues are aware, the administration the United States, Jimmy Carter, the Honor­ America. has been individualistic from the has recommended moving the Forest able Secretary of the Department of Agri­ beginning, unparalleled because of her dif­ Service to a proposed new Department culture, Robert S. Bergland, the Honorable ferences from other countries, and so rich Secretary of the Department of Interior, from her resources of people and geography. of Natural Resources, and it is impor­ Cecil D. Andrus, the President of the Senate This ts why I ca.re about America. and want tant that this matter be considered very and the Speaker of the House of Representa.­ to pass on this legacy, this dream, this chal­ carefully before some hasty action is tives of Congress, and the honorable con­ lenge, and this reallty.e taken. gressional delegation representing the State At the present time, the Forest Service of Ida.ho ln the Congress of the United States.e is functioning under the umbrella of the HAL GREENWOOD, NEIGHBORHOOD Department of Agriculture, and I am not COMMISSION MEMBER convinced that this restructuring would be in the best interests of the public. A TRIBUTE TO CATHERINE LYNN Therefore, I urge my colleagues to read THOMPSON HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR the memorial which follows for a fur­ OF MINNESOTA ther explanation of the problem. HON. TRENT LOTT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The real issue is this-if a new pro­ OF MISSISSIPPI Monday, April 9, 1979 common sense use Department of Na­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tural Resources were to be formed­ •Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, one of maybe this would be an idea worth Monday, April 9, 1979 the most urgent missions facing the studying. But to transfer the United • Mr. LOT!'. Mr. Speaker, I would like Congress and the Nation is the fight for States Forest Service from the pro­ to take this opportunity to share with my our Nation's cities. production Department of Agriculture to colleagues an outstanding essay written Our efforts to preserve our neighbor-

CXX•V---494-Pa.rt 6 7862 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979 hoods and to revitalize our cities will, datlons wm be formally presented to the ings in Minneapolis but couldn't swing it. President at a White House ceremony next Other members felt Minneapolis was too however, fail no matter how much fund­ spring. healthy and since there were a limited num­ ing and how many good intentions we "We were a little unique," said Green­ ber of cities they could visit, Minneapolis was have without the hard work and sus­ wood. "It's not like some community group eliminated. So, Greenwood said, he held his tained interest of men and women of studying the arts or some professor writing own hearing at the Sabathani Community vision and commitment. a paper or something like that. We had Nick Center, 3801 First Av. S., last summer. In the Commission on Neighborhoods, Carbone, a street guy, Gale Cincotta, Bill "The main complaints were that north President Carter found 20 such men and Proxmire, Maynard Jackson. People you Minneapolis was abused," he said, and did wouldn't dream would get together in the not get sufficient attention from elected offi­ women. same room." cials. There also were complaints that most During the past year, the Commission Carbone is president of the Hartford, of that attention was focused on south Min­ visited 15 American cities and spent Conn., city council; Cincotta the executive neapolis-at the expense of the north side. hundreds of hours in meetings and hear­ director of the National Training and Infor­ Redlining was a recurring theme. (An area ings in their effort to develop recom­ mation Center in Chicago; Proxmire, D-Wls., ls "redlined" when residents are unable to mendations to the President on the a U.S. senator; Jackson the mayor of Atlanta. obtain the same access to loans and insur­ establishment of a comprehensive urban The commission includes five leaders of ance they might in another part of the city.) policy for the 1980's. neighborhood organizations, five local offi­ "That's something we have to zero in on," cials, two senators, two members of the U.S. he said. I have known Harold Greenwood, a House of Representatives, and-according t.o In general, Greenwood said, "Minneapolis member of the Neighborhood Commis­ Greenwood-at least one Socialist. Chairman and St. Paul don't have the urban problems sion, for many years. of the commission was Joseph Tlmllty, a that Detroit or Cleveland or the Bronx or In selecting Hal Greenwood, the Presi­ state senator from Boston. most larger cities do. The Bronx was the dent recognized the truth of the axiom, Greenwood, the only area member on the worst place we visited." "If you want something done, ask a commission, was nominated by Vice Presi­ Minneapolis ls a step ahead of most cities, busy man to do it." Hal Greenwood is dent Walter Mondale and Rep. Thomas Ash­ he said, because good relationships exist be­ the president of Midwest Federal Sav­ ley, D-Ohlo. An unequivocal city booster who tween businesses and the community. He has been involved in many neighborhood talked of corporate involvement in neighbor­ ings and Loan Association and this year's projects, Greenwood has backed up much hoods by the Dayton Hudson Co. (Whittler president of the National Savings and of what he has said with his institution's neighborhood) and General Mills (Stevens Loan League. money: In 1973 Greenwood pledged $1 mil­ Court). Hal has been a leader in Minnesota lion for construction and mortgage loans (Just la.st week, Tlinllty, the commission in rebuilding neighborhoods. He has to a fledgling inner-city construction com­ chairman, cited Minneapolis corporate efforts demonstrated the kind of leadership pany, Project for Pride in Living. Last year, to help neighborhoods as a model for the na­ which can place America's financial in­ Midwest Federal became the second lender in tion. He mentioned the above projects, plus the nation to join a program aimed at pro­ Control Data's efforts on the north side and stitutions in the forefront of the restora­ viding mortgages for inner-city homes. work of the Greater Minneapolis Housing tion of our neighborhoods and the Most of the commission's prellfhinary find­ Development Corp. That's a development revitalization of our cities. ings won't startle anybody. "We found that consortium of 15 companies and it ls involved Earlier this year, the Minneapolis older and depressed neighborhoods are in rehab111tation.) Tribune profiled Hal Greenwood and his ignored, so we went on to examine some of Something else Greenwood said the com­ work on the Neighborhood Commission. the factors," he said. "Redlining, poor leader­ mission has zeroed in on ls making the city I would like to share with my colleagues ship response to a neighborhood's needs, poor a more attractive place to live. the article which appeared in the Trib­ use of grants. We found a lack of coordina­ "I'm concerned about people who work in tion in economic development by government the city, take what it has to offer and then une on January 13, 1979. agencies-a lot of overlapping." commute to the suburbs," he said. But he NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION VISITED REsroENTS "What we proposed was a Neighborhood admitted that it wouldn't be easy to get com­ IN 15 CITIES LAST YEAR Economic Development Administration, away muters to make the suburban switch. (By Tom Sorensen) from HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and "We (employers) should encourage our Harold Greenwood spent a good share of Urban Development), perhaps under the De­ employees to live in the city; we can't make his weekends last year listening to people partment of Commerce." Greenwood said the them, I'm not in favor of that. But we should complain about their neighborhoods. commission did not want the neighborhood encourage them to." But not at the expense About every third Thursday he flew to administration under HUD because "What of pushing people out, he said. places like Baltimore and the Bronx and took we're talking about wlll deal not only with Greenwood said he backed tax abatements a tour not sanctioned by the local Chambers housing, but with health care, community and loans to entice people to move to the of Commerce, talked to neighborhood leaders services and drug (prevention) services." city, "but it's an attitude problem. It'll take and listened to testimony from residents, a coordinating effort to get people to live in Under the neighborhood administration, the city they work in. If you live where you businessmen and public officials. Mondays, an Office of Community Economic Develop­ he returned to Minneapolis. work, it'll help establish a stronger tax base ment would be established. Greenwood ad­ and help cut taxes. That's it exactly." I! everything goes rlght, his efforts could mitted that the neighborhood administration "Look at Cleveland. People come in and help result in legislation that will pump and accompanying office of community devel­ work during the day and kick it away a.t money and power into city neighborhoods opment would mean hiring more people, night and leave it." (In the It-Could-Have­ across the land. Greenwood, chairman and including an assistant secretary to head it. It Happened-Anywhere-Department, Green­ president of Midwest Federal Savings and also would mean more than just fancy titles wood was rolled in downtown Cleveland when Loan, was one of 20 people who served on the and expensive employees, he said. the commission met there. "I lost $100, National Commission on Neighborhoods. The "We could cut down on waste by eliminat­ something like that," he said. "But he took group, which met in 15 cities in 1978, con­ ing some of the overlapping services." Resi­ my wallet.") cluded its hearings last month in Washing­ dents In a given neighborhood often have The commission heard testimony in St. ton, D.C. trouble deciding where to go for what serv­ Louis that only 23 percent of the Jobs cre­ "I'll tell you, I'm drained," the 47-year­ ices; some aren't fam111ar with the services ated under a. special tax abatement program old Greenwood said on one of his seemingly available. I! the nelghborhod administration there went to city residents. A complaint rare days in town. "Between the commission, becomes reality, Greenwood said residents from many cities ls that when federal jobs the National Savings and Loan League-I'm would ultimately have a clear-cut idea of are created, most usually go to commuters. the president-and running this bank, it was where to go and, once they got there, access Cincotta, who heads the National Train­ one long year." to what they need. ing and Information Center, said at the very Greenwood sat in his plush office !our At this point, details about how the com­ lea.st, the commission will get people think­ floors above the Nicollet Mall and sifted mission's programs will be funded remain ing about neighborhoods and their impor­ through the five pounds-worth of notes, vague. Greenwood said "sketchy funding tance. "To have a healthy country we need quotes and studies he had collected during levels were already set aside" by Congress healthy cities," she said. "To have healthy his commission travels. Since a final report for the programs, but those "sketchy funding cities we need healthy neighborhoods. The wm not be issued for about six weeks, there's levels" did not specify how many dollars commission offered a chance to get their no way to accurately determine at this time would be available. Top priority for all pro­ (neighborhoods') problems out in the open. what it will say. But unlike many reports grams will go to central cities because the To get people-and politicians-thinking issued by the some 2,000 commissions in this theory goes that central cities need the about them." country, Greenwood said it will do more than money the most. Cincotta ls spoken about with as much fill space on somebody's shelf. Greenwood said that in Minneapolls, most awe in the circles she moves in as Fran Tar­ All 20 commission members were ap­ commission programs would be implemented kenton is in his. A tough-talking liberal pointed by President Carter and Greenwood first on the near north side and parts of the involved with community groups in Chicago, expects the report t.o help shape Carter's south side. He explained that he tried to get she offers a contrast with Greenwood, a sub­ urban policy next spring. Those recommen- the commission to hold one of its 15 meet- urbanite until a year ago. Both, however, say April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7863 they anticipate no minority report that wlll The statement favoring additional wil­ land. This means less employment tn the clash with any of the commission's findings. derness areas in Vermont was prepared woods industry, a.nd higher lumber and pulp Greenwood said he felt guilty lea.ding Mr. prices for consumers. The lower income Ver­ cheers for Minneapolis when he wa.s living by Bill Painter, on behalf of the monter could not even remove dead a.nd in the suburbs, so he moved back to the Vermont chapters of the National Wild­ down wood for firewood-it would all have to city. He lives near Lake Harriet a.t 4200 Du­ life Federation, the Audubon society and be left to rot where it fell. Nor could these pont Av. S. He wa.s raised here; he graduated the Sierra Club, as well as the Vermont lands produce wood fuel for Burlington's from Southwest High School. Natural Resources Council, the Vermont new wood-fired electric generating plant, "I'm optimistic a.bout the city," he said, Wilderness Association, the Conservation which means that Vermont could not de­ talking a.bout Minneapolis a.nd cities in gen­ Society of Southern Vermont, and the crease its dependence on nuclear power plants eral. "Distance; economics; the quality ot Vermont Public Interest Research Group. a.nd foreign oil imports. the housing; right now cities a.re the place All snowmobiling would be forbidden in to be. I've saved a lot of ga.s since I moved Mr. Speaker, knowing that many of my colleagues are struggling with these the wilderness a.rea.s. This would cause major back. I sa.y I'm more efficient, although some inconvenience in trail planning and also in­ of my coworkers ma.y disagree." same issues, I submit for the RECORD at crease the recreational pressure on privately "I moved back because I wanted to get this time both of these excellent state­ owned fa.rm a.nd forest land. Such plea.sure back to where I ca.me from. I used to live in ments: ls a. sure way to encourage land posting a mansion out in Ferndale, but I don't need THE CASE FOR ADDITIONAL WILDERNESS AREAS against snowmobillng. The Forest Service ls all the oohs and a.hhs with the Hetrelfingers IN VERMONT forbidden to engage in normal wildlife man­ and the Da.ytons." Currently, the Northeast, which contains agement and habitat improvement in wilder­ Pa.use. ness areas. This is a. setback for sportsmen, "You ca.n quote me on that." e 1 percent of America's people, has less than 1 percent of its federal wilderness land. for game becomes scarce in unmanaged wil­ Additional wilderness would provide places derness. Even the taxpayer would be forced where people could find peace a.nd solitude, to bear additional costs from wilderness des­ search for plants and animals that thrive in ignation since the land would generate no VERMONT'S WILDERNESS remote locales, a.nd challenge nature on its revenues for payment to the towns. The cry CONTROVERSY own terms. As forests in these areas grew to for Congressional designation for more per­ maturity, people could see majestic forests manent wilderness is simply an attempt by a like those once found in Vermont. small group to get the U.S. Government to HON. JAMES M. JEFFORDS These areas would be equally open to all, lock up another 87 square miles of every• OF VERMONT with anyone willing to walk a. few miles able body's forest for their own special benefit. IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES to fully enjoy them. Since wilderness-type That attempt should be defeated. The Na­ use of the candidate areas is already 5-times tional Forest exists !or the benefit of an.e Monday, April 9, 1979 greater than motorized use, many would use •Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. Speaker, the For­ them. est Service's Rare II recommendations Effects on timber production would be which will be acted upon by this Congress miniscule, even if a.ll the qualifying areas be­ POPE VOICES STRONG SUPPORT OF came wilderness. Dr. Carl Reidel, Professor of CHURCH FOR ISRAEL-EGYPT continue to evoke considerable con­ Forestry a.t UVM has noted, "most of these troversy in my home State of Vermont. lands a.re at ·higher elevations, with serious PACT Six areas of Vermont's Green Moun­ limitations for logging or silvicultura.l (for­ tain National Forest totaling 55, 720 est) improvement ... their potential ls but acres were reviewed, and each was des­ a. minor fraction of the state's potential an­ HON. LESTER L. WOLFF ignated as "nonwildern'ess" by the Forest nual growth." Since we now harvest less OF NEW YORK than half of the annual growth of 't!imber in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Service. This recommendation was wel­ Vermont, future needs can easily be met comed by many Vermonters, while many without logging these lands. Monday, April 9, 1979 others have voiced strong disapproval of Opportunities for motorized recreation • Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, I would this conclusion and the methods by would stlll be abundant, a.s only 40 miles of which it was reached. snowmobile trail--out of a. statewide total of like to insert into the RECORD an article It is still not certain whether these rec­ 10,000-are located on the lands in question. which appeared in the March 26, 1979, ommendations will be presented to Con­ One roadless tract, nearly 20,000 acres in size edition of the New York Times concern­ gress intact by the administration, or wa.s used by only 200 snowmobilers in 1977. ing the Pope's support for the Israeli­ whether revisions will be made. But in Costs to taxpayers would be minima.I, as the Egyptian peace treaty. The support of any event, the final decision rests with Forest Service spends less than $1.00/ a.cre/ Pope John Paul II is most welcome and Congress. year on Vermont's existing wilderness a.rea.s, helpful as we search for lasting peace in compared to several times as much per a.ere the Middle East The final outcome will not necessarily for the Forest a.s a whole. Home prices won't be an "all or nothing" decision. We have be affected because lumber comprises only The article follows: heard, for example, that one of the six 2 percent of the cost of new homes, and most POPE VOICES THE STRONG SUPPORT OF CHURCH areas-most likely ithe 19,850-acre construction lumber comes from out of state. FOR ISRAEL-EGYPT PACT Breadloaf section in Addison County­ Fina.Uy, it should be remembered that the (By Henry Tanner) may be designated as wilderness while decision to designate land as wilderness can ROME, March 25.-Pope John Paul II went be reversed in a. matter of weeks or months, out of his wa.y today to state the forceful the other five areas would remain in the while it would take decades for the effects of nonwilderness category. If that option support of the Roman Catholic Church for timber harvesting to disappear. the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty scheduled were decided upon, protections would to be signed in Washington tomorrow. have to be included to assure that main­ THE CASE AGAINST MOP.E WILDERNESS AREA "This event is formalizing peace between tenance of the portion of the Long Trail DESIGNATION IN VERMONT two countries after decades of wa.r a.nd ten­ running through that area would con­ Proponents of more permanent Vermont sion a.nd is giving a. decisive impulse to the tinue to be allowed. wilderness are now asking that another 55,720 peace process in the entire region of the Mid­ To aid in my own consideration of acres of Green Mountain National Forest be dle East" while "respecting the rights a.nd this pressing issue, I have asked articu­ locked up forever a.s their private preserve. the well-being of a.ll these populations," the late spokesmen for both sides of the con­ But there are already 16,884 acres of perma­ Pope told thousands of people gathered in St. nent wilderness in Vermont and 25,932 acres Peter's Square in warm sunshine for his reg­ troversy in Vermont to prepare very brief of permanent wilderness are now available in ular Sunday blessing. summaries of their arguments. nearby New Hampshire, with more than The Pope's endorsement of the t.rea.ty was The statement against designation of 160,000 additional acres a.bout to be desig­ seen a.s politically significant because many additional wilderness areas was sub­ nated there. There a.re 2,273,328 a.cres--most European governments have shied away from mitted by Mr. Roland Seward, on behalf of it wilderness-in the Adirondack Forest giving official or public support to the pa.ct, of the Vermont State Farm Bureau, the Preserve in nearby New York State. There is which is fiercely criticized in the Arab world. Vermont Federation of Sportsmens' already plenty of opportunity to enjoy nearby The Pope ha.d previously praised President Clubs, the Vermont Association of Snow wilderness for those who wish to do so. Carter's peace efforts at the time of Mr. Designating National Forest a.s permanent Carter's trip to the Middle East. Travelers, the Vermont Timber Truckers wilderness would close the door to alterna­ Pope John Paul invited the faithful to pray and Producers Association, the Bristol tive uses of great benefit to Vermont's econ­ "intensely" for the success of the peace ef­ Cliffs Association, the Vermont Tax­ omy and its people. It would mean no log­ forts so that "fraternity and harmony may payers Association, and the Devil's Den ging operation in over 50,000 acres identified return to the blessed land where Jesus was Committee. by the Forest Service a.s commercial timber born a.nd lived." 7864 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979 HELP FOR PALESTINIANS SUGGESTED sage received by the United Services or­ The need for Federal regulation in The Vatican radio suggested 1n a broad­ ganization over 39 years ago and he has this matter is a clear recognition that cast today that the treaty be followed by been traveling continuously for AmerJCa aviation noise has limited the construc­ action to fill the "needs'' of the Palestinians. ever since that date. His example of dedi­ "A peace is not authentic," the radio said, tion and expansion of airports, severely "lf it does not favor a just way for the popu­ cation to his country in the lifting of affected the aviation system of this Na­ lations to live together, above a.11 the Pales­ of its spirit during so many of our dark tion, and has seriously reduced the qual­ tinian Arabs, who are waiting rightly for a hours, is a character value that America's ity of life of millions of Americans. Just and adequate solution to their press­ youth can do well to follow. Therefore, During the past few years, Congress ing needs." the Great Western Council will, on has attempted to deal with this issue, "No people, no country, can be sacrlftced to April 10, 1979, confer its Americanism to make good on a 10-year-old promise the destiny of others," it asserted. Award on Mr. Bope Hope. of aviation noise reduction. In spite of In hls address today, Pope John Paul a.lso placed his coming visit to Poland more cate­ The distinguished civic leaders, the extensive hearings and committee de­ gorica.lly in the context of the 900th anniver­ Lieutenant Governor of California, Mr. liberations, Federal agency studies and sary of the death of St. Stanislaus, who at Mike Curb; the honorable mayor of Los lots of good intentions, we have yet to the time of his assassination on orders of the Angeles, Mr. Tom Bradley; and the hon­ produce a piece of legislation which can Polish king was serving as archbishop of orable California State Senator Alan deal appropriately and meaningfully Cracow, the office that the new Pope held Robbins, will assist in the ceremoniP.s with the problems associated with avia­ before assuming the Papacy. The Pope re­ honoring Mr. Hope, as well as the honor­ tion noise. ferred to Stanislaus's death as a "martyr­ dom." ing of the following volunteer Scouters, We now have an opportunity in the He thanked both the church authorities of who through years of devotion to young 96th Congress to resolve this problem Poland and the Polish Government for hav­ people are to be recognized for distin­ by reducing the noise at it.s source-the ing invited hlm. guished service to our youth with t.he plane-and by providing relief from the VISIT HAS STIRRED CONTROVERSY prestigious Silver Beaver Award of the noise on the ground. The timing and nature of the visit have Boy Scout.s of America: Norman Abramo­ As many of my colleagues are aware, been matters of controversy between the vitch, Phillip E. Bailey, Norman E. Cal­ two bills

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Department of Energy. 154 Russell Building Appropriations 3110 Dirksen Building 2:00 p.m. •HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee 2:00 p.m. Energy a.nd Natural Resources To resume hearings in proposed budget Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings on S. 688, proposed au­ estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee thorizations for fiscal yea.r 1980 !or the Department of the Treasury. To continue hearings on S. 593, proposed Department of Energy. 1318 Dirksen Building Elderly and Handicapped Act, S. 740, 3110 Dirksen Building 2:00p.m. proposed Homeownership Opportunity APRIL 26 Appropriations Act, and S. 745, Housing and Com­ 8:00 a.m. munity Development Amendment.s. Transportation Subcommittee Appropriations To continue hearings on proposed budg­ 5302 Dirksen Building et estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the District of Columbia Subcommittee APRIL 25 To continue hearings on proposed budget Department of Transportation. 8:00 a..m. 1224 Dirksen Building estimates for fiscal year 1980 for gov­ Appropriations ernmental direction and support serv­ APRIL 23 District of Columbia. Subcommittee ices for the government of the Dis­ 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget trict of Columbia. Energy and Natural Resources estimates for fiscal year 1980 !or gov­ S-126, Capitol To hold oversight hearings on United ernmental direction a.nd support serv­ 9:30 a.m. States activities in Antarctica. ices for the government of the District Commerce, Science, a.nd Tra.nsporta.tion 3110 Dirksen Building of Columbia. To continue hearings on S. 411, proposed APRIL 24 S-126, Capitol Pipellne Safety Act. 8:00 a..m 9:30 a..m. 1202 Dirksen Building Appropriations Commerce, Science, a.nd Transportation Labor and Human Resources District of Columbia Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 411, proposed To receive a briefing on proposed budget Pipeline Safety Act. To continue oversight bee.rings on the estimates !or fiscal year 1980 for the 1114 Dirksen Building conditions, trends, a.nd new ap­ Government of the District of Co­ proaches to linking education, health, Commerce, Science, a.nd Transportation a.nd work in the coming deca.de. lumbia. Aviation Subcommittee S-126, Capitol 4232 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearings on the Civil 10:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Aeronautics Board plan to implement Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Appropriations the Airline Deregulation Act (P.L. 95- HUD-Independent Agencies SubcoIIliffiittee Housing and Urban At!airs Subcommittee 504. To resume hearings on S. 593, proposed To continue bee.rings on proposed budg­ Elderly and Handicapped Act, S. 740, 235 Russell Building et estimates !or fl.sea.I year 1980 for proposed Homeownership Opportunity Environment and Public Works the Department of Housing a.nd Act, and S. 745, Housing and Com­ Regional and Community Development Urbe.n Development. munity Development Amendments. Subcommittee 1318 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on proposed au­ Appropria.tions 9:30 a..m. thorizations !or fisca.l year 1980 for the Interior Subcommittee Commerce, Science, and Transportation Public Works and Economic Develop­ To continue hes.rings on proposed budg­ To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ ment programs. et estimates for FY 1980 for the Office tions !or fiscal year 1980 for hazardous 4200 Dirksen Building of Surface Mining Reclamation a.nd materials transportation programs Judiciary Enforcement, Office of Water Research administered by the Department of Constitution Subcommittee a.nd Technology. Transportation. To hold oversight hearings on the title 1223 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building I provisions under the Speedy Trial Appropriations Commerce, Science, a.nd Transportation Act of 1974. Transportation Subcommittee Science, Technology, a.nd Space Subcom­ 2228 Dirksen Building To resume hes.rings on proposed budg­ mittee Labor and Human Resources et estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the To hold hearings on proposed fiscal year To hold oversight hearings on the con­ Department of Transportation. 1980 authorizations for programs ditions, trends, and new approa.ches 1224 Dirksen Building under the Toxic Substances Control to linking education, health, and work •commerce, Science, and Transportation Act ( P .L. 94--469) . in the coming decade. Communications Subcommittee 6226 Dirksen Building 4232 Dirksen Bu1lding Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 7870 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979

Economic Stabilization Subcommittee Energy and Natural Resources 2:00 p.m. To continue oversight hearings on the Parks, Recreation and Renewable Re­ •commerce, Science, and Transportation administration's anti-inflation pro­ sources Subcommittee Communications Subcommittee gram, and to review the relationship To resume oversight hearings on the To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed between fiscal policy and inflation. National Park Service's concession Communications Act Amendments 5302 Dirksen Building policy. and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ To continue hearings on s. 611, proposed 3110 Dirksen Building tions Competition and Deregulation Communications Act Amendments, Act. Labor and Human Resources and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ 6226 Dirksen Building Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ tions Competition and Deregulation Energy and Natural Resources Act. mittee To continue hearings on proposed legis­ Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Re­ 235 Russell Bullding sources Subcommittee •Energy and Natural Resources lation on biomedical research pro- grams. To hold hearings on S. 490, proposed Energy Regulation Subcomml ttee Archaeological Resources Protection To continue hearings on S. 688, proposed 4332 Dirksen Building Act. fiscal year 1980 authorizations for the APRIL30 3110 Dirkson Building Department of Energy. 9 :30 a.m. MAY 2 3110 Dirksen Building Labor and Human Resources 8:00 a.m. Environment and Public Works Handicapped Subcommittee Appropriations Water Resources Subcommittee To hold oversight hearings on the impli­ District of Columbia Subcommittee To mark up proposed authorizations for cations of the Randolph-Sheppard Act To hold hearings on proposed budget fiscal year 1980 for the Water Re­ Amendments of 1974. estimates for fiscal year 1980 !or judi­ sources Council. 4232 Dirksen Building cial services, and transportation serv­ 4200 Dirksen Building 10:00 a .m. ices and assistance for the govern­ Governmental Affairs ment of the District of Columbia. Commerce, Science, and Transportation · 1114 Dirksen Bullding To continue hearings on S. 755, pro­ To hold hearings on the following nomi­ posed Regulation Reform Act. 9:00 a.m. 3302 Dirksen Bullding nations, Mary P. Bass, of New York, Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to be Inspector General, Department Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee Labor and Human Resources of Commerce; Frank Saburo Sato, of Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ To hold hearings on S. 301 and S. 745, Virginia, to be Inspector General, De­ bllls to amend housing and commu­ mittee partment of Transportation; and To hold hearings on proposed legislation nity development laws relating to la­ Eldon D. Taylor, of Virginia, to be In­ bor standards. on biomedical research programs. spect.or General, National Aeronautics 154 Russell Building 5302 Dirksen Building and Space Administration. 9:30 a.m. 2:00p.m. 224 Russell Building Appropriations Judiciary Transportation Subcommittee •com·merce, Science, and Transportation Constitution Subcommittee To continue hearings on proposed budg­ Communications Subcommittee To resume oversight hearings on the title et estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed I provisions under the Speedy Trial Department of Transportation. Communications Act Amendments, Act of 1974. 1224 Dirksen Bullding and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ 2228 Dirksen Building APRIL 27 tions Competition and Deregulation 10:00 a.m. 9 :30a.m. Act. Appropriations 235 Russell Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation Rud-Independent Agencies Subcommittee Aviation Subcommittee Energy and Natural Resources To continue hearings on proposed budget To resume oversight hearings on the Business meeting on pending calendar estimates for fiscal year 1980 !or HUD Civil Aeronautics Board's plan to im­ business. and independent agencies. plement the Airline Deregulation Act 3110 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building (P.L. 95-504). MAY 1 Appropriations 235 Russell Building 8 :00 a.m. Interior Subcommittee Finance To continue hearings on proposed budget Appropriations estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the Taxation and Debt Management Generally District of Columbia Subcommittee Subcommittee Smithsonian Institution. To hold hearings on proposed budget 1223 Dirksen Bullding To hold hearings on S. 103 proposed estimates for fiscal year 1980 for public •commerce, Science, and Transportation Save Our Schools Act, and S. 449, pro­ safety services and educational serv­ posed Charitable Organizations Pres­ ices for the government of the District Communications Subcommittee ervation Act. of Columbia. To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed 2221 Dirksen Building 1114 Dirksen Building Communications Act Amendments, 10:00 a.m. and s. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ 9:00 a.m. Appropriations tions Competition and Deregulation HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Act. To resume hearings on proposed budget Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee 235 Russell Building estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the To resume hearings on S. 593, proposed Energy and Natural Resources Department of Housing and Urban Elderly and Handicapped Act, s. 740, Business meeting on pending calendar Development, and the Neighborhood proposed Homeownership Opportunity business. Reinvestment Corporation. Act, and S. 745, Housing and Commu­ 3110 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building nity Development Amendments. Appropriations 5302 Dirksen Building MAY 3 Tr&n.sportation Subcommittee 9:30 a .m . a:ooa.m. To continue hearings on proposed budg­ Labor and Human Resources Appropriations et estimates !or fiscal year 1980 !or Child and Human Development Subcom­ District of Columbia Subcommittee the Department of Transportation. mittee To hold hearings on proposed budget 1224 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearings on the im­ estimates for fisoal year 1980 for human Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs . plementation of the Older American support services for the Government Economic Stabilization Subcommittee Volunteer Program Act (P.L. 93-113). of the District of Columbia. To continue oversight hearings on the 4232 Dirksen Building 1114 Dirksen Building 9:30a.m. admln1stration's anti-1n1lation pro­ 10:00 a .m. gram, and t.o review the relationship Environment and Public Works between fiscal policy and infiation. Appropriations Resource Protection Subcommittee 5302 Dirksen BuUdlng Interior Subcommittee To make up proposed legislation author­ •commerce, Science, and Transportation To resume hearings on proposed budget izing funds !or fiscal year 1980 for Communications Subcommittee estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the programs under the Endangered To continue hearings on S. 61, proposed National Park Service. Species Act, Anadromous Fish Act, Communications Act Amendments, 1223 Dirksen Building and Noise Control Act. and S. 622 proposed Telecommunica­ Energy and Natural Resources 4200 Dirksen Building tions Competition and Deregulation Business meeting on pending calendar Labor and Human Resources Act. business. Business meeting to mark up S. 209, to 8226 Dlrkaen Building 3110 Dirksen Bullding regulate Federal laws relating t.o pri- ,i April 9, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7871 vate sector pension and welfare pro­ MAY 8 ll:OOa.m. grams. 8:00 a.m. •Appropriations 4232 Dirksen Building Appropriations ! Transportation Subcommittee ,; Veterans' Affairs District of Columbia Subcommittee To continue hearings on proposed To mark up S. 330 to provide for a judi­ To hold hearings on proposed budget budget estimates !or fiscal year 1980 ~ : cial review of the administra.tive a.c­ estimates for fiscal year 1980 for for the Department of Transportation. tions of the VA, and for vetera.ns' a.t­ economic development and regulation 1224 Dirksen Building torneys fees before the VA or the services for the government of the 2:00 p.m. courts, and on proposed legislation District of Columbia. · •Appropriations extending certain veterans' health 1114 Dirksen Building Transportation Subcommittee benefits programs through FY 1980. 10:00 a.m. To continue hearings on proposed budget 412 Russell Bullding Appropriations estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the 10:00 a.m. Department of Transportation. Appropriations Interior Subcommittee 1224 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on proposed budget HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee •commerce, Science and Transportation To resume hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1980 !or the Department or Energy. Communications Subcommittee estimates for fiscal yea.r 1980 for HUD. To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed 1318 Dirksen Building 1223 Dirksen Building •Appropriations communications Act Amendments, Approprlations and S. 622, proposed Telecommuni­ Interior Subcommittee Transportation Subcommittee cations Competition and Deregulation To continue hearings on proposed budg­ To resume hearings on proposed budget Act. et estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the 6226 Dirksen Building Department of Energy. Department of Transportation. 1223 Dirksen Bullding 1224 Dirksen Building MAY 10 Appropriations 10:00 a.m. Transportation Subcommittee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Appropriations To resume hearings on proposed budget Business meeting to mark up S. 593, pro­ Interior Subcommittee estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the posed Elderly and Handicapped Act, To continue hearings on proposed budget Department of Transportation. S. 740, proposed Homeownership Op­ estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the 1224 Dirksen Building portunity Act, and S. 745, Housing Department of Energy. Ba.nking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and Community Development Amend­ 1223 Dirksen Building International Finance Subcommittee ments. Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ 6302 Dirksen Building Transportation Subcommittee tions for fiscal year 1980 for interna­ 10:00 a.m. To resume hearings on proposed budget tional affairs programs under the De­ Energy and Natural Resources estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the partment of Treasury. Business meeting on pending calendar Department of Transportation. 6302 Dirksen Building business. 1224 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation 3110 Dirksen Building · Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Communications Subcommittee 2:00 p.m. Business meeting, to mark up proposed To continue hearings on S. 611, pro­ •Appropriations authorizations for fiscal year 1980 for posed Communications Act Amend­ Transportation Subcommittee rural housing programs, flood insur­ ments, and S. 622, proposed Telecom­ To continue hearings on proposed ance programs, and crime and riot in­ munications Competition and Deregu­ budget estimates !or fiscal year 1980 surance programs. lation Act. for the Department of Transportation. 5302 Dirksen Building 6226 Dirksen Building 1224 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources Energy and Na.tural Resources •commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold hearings on S. 685, proposed Nu­ Business meeting on pending calendar Communications Subcommittee clear Waste Policy Act. business. 3110 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on S. 611, proposed Communications Act Amendments, 2:00 p.m. MAY4 and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ •commerce, Science, and Transportation 10:00 a.m. tions Competition and Deregulation Communications Subcommittee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Act. To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed Rural Housing Subcommittee 6226 Dirksen Building Communications Act Amendments, To hold hearing on proposed legislation MAY 9 and s. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ authorizing funds for fiscal year- 1980 8:00a.m. tions Competition and Deregulation for all existing rural housing programs. Appropriations Act. 5302 Dirksen Building 6226 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources District of Columbia Subcommittee Business meeting on pending calendar To hold hearings on proposed budget MAY 11 business. estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the 10:00 a.m. 3110 Dirksen Building Temporary Commission on Financial Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Oversight of the government of the MAY7 District of Columbia. Business meeting, to markup pending calendar business. 10:00 a.m. 1114 Dirksen Building Appropriations 10:00 a.m. 5302 Dirksen Building Transportation Subcommittee Appropriations *Commerce, Science, and Transportation To resume hearings on proposed budget Interior Subcommittee Communications Subcommittee estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the To continue hearings on proposed To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed Department of Transportation. budget estimates for fiscal year 1980 Communications Act Amendments, 1224 Dirksen Building for the Department of Energy. and s. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Atrairs 1223 Dirksen Building tions Competition and Deregulation Business meeting to markup proposed •Appropriations Act. authorizations for fiscal year 1980 for Transportation Subcommittee 235 Russell Building international atrairs programs under To continue hearings on proposed Energy and Natural Resources the Department of Treasury and pro­ Business meeting on pending calendar posed authorizations through fiscal budget estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the Department of Transportation. business. year 1984 for programs under the Ex­ 3110 Dirksen Building port Administration Act. 1224 Dirksen Building 6302 Dirksen Building Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs MAY 15 Energy and Natural Resources To continue markup of S. 593, proposed 10:00 a.m. Business meeting on pending calendar Elderly and Handicapped Act, S. 740. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs business. proposed Homeownership Opportun­ To hold joint hearings with the Com­ 3110 Dirksen Building ity Act, and S. 745, Housing and Com­ mittee on Governmental Affairs on s. 2:00 p.m. munity Development Amendments. 332, proposed Conosolidated Banking Appropriations 5302 Dirksen Building Regulation Act. Transportation Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. 5302 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on proposed budget Energy and Natural Resources Energy and Natural Resources estimwtes for fiscal year 1980 for the Business meeting on pending calendar To resume hearings on S. 685, proposed Department of Transportation. business. Nuclear Waste Polley Act. 1224 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building 7872 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1979 Governmental Affairs MAY 24 erans for non-service-connected dls­ To hold joint hearings with the Com­ 10:00 a.m. ab1Uties to the extent that they have mittee on Banking, Housing, and Ur­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs health insurance or similar contracts. ban Affairs on S. 332, proposed Con­ To told hearings on S. 35, to amend the 412 Russell Building solldated Banking Regulation Act. Credit Control Act. 5302 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building JULY 12 9:30 a.m. MAY 16 MAY 25 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Veterans' Affairs Energy and Natural Resources Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold oversight hearings on the efforts Business meeting on pending calendar To continue--bearings on S. 35, to amend made by the Veterans' Administration business. the Credit Control Act. to provide information on benefits due 3110 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building incarcerated veterans. MAY 17 JUNE 12 412 Russell Building 10:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. CANCELLATIONS Appropriations Veterans' Affairs APRIL 11 Transportation Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 689, proposed 10: 00 a.m. To resume ,hearings on proposed budget Veterans' Disab1Uty Compensation and estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the Survivor Benefl ts Act. Finance Department of Transportation. 412 Russell Building To continue markup on S. 350, S. 351, S. 748, and S. 760, bills to encourage 1224 Dirksen Building JUNE 10 10:00 a.m. and !ac111tate the avallab111ty, through Energy and Natural Resources private insurance carriers, bf basic Business meeting on pending calendar Energy and Natural Resources health insurance at reasonable pre­ business. To hold oversight hearings on the activ­ mium charges. 3110 Dirksen Building ities of programs administered by the 2221 Dirksen Building 2:00 p.m. Surface Mining Control and Reclama­ Appropriations tion Act of 1978. APRIL 12 Transportation Subcommittee 3110 Dirksen Building 9:30 a.m. To resume hearings on proposed budget JUNE 21 Judiciary estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the 10:00 a.m. Constitution Subcommittee Department of Transportation. Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings on S.J. Res. 34, to 1224 Dirksen Building To resume oversight hearings on the ac­ extend the term of office of Members MAY 23 tivities of programs admlnlstered by of the U.S. House of Representatives 8:00 a.m. the Surface Mining Control and Rec­ to 4 years. .Veterans' ·Affairs lamation Act of 1978 . 5110 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearings on employ­ 3110 Dirksen Building APRIL 26 ment programs administered by the JUNE 30 1:30 p.m. Department of Labor. 9:00 a.m. 412 Russell Building Environment and Publlc Works 10:00 a.m. Veterans• Affairs Resource Protection Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 759, to provide for To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs right of the United States to recover To hold oversight hearings on the activi­ tions for fiscal year 1980 for programs the costs of hospital, nursing home or under the Noise Control Act (P.L. 95- ties of the banking system. outpatient medical care furnished by 153). 5302 Dirksen Building the Veterans' Administration to vet- 4200 Dirksen Bu~ding