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MONTHLY LIST OF GAO Federal Efforts to Ensure Effectiveness Letter Reports REPORTS and Safety of Thermal Insulation can be Review of Federal disaster assistance to Improved. Acc. No. 110927, EMD-80-4, No- two libraries in Pennsylvania. Acc. No. vember 26. 110796, CED-80-22, October 31. HON. JACK BROOKS Letter Reports SOCIAL SERVICES OF TEXAS The Nation should develop energy alter­ Serving a Broader Economic Range of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES natives. Acc. No. 110746, EMD-80-18, Octo­ Families in Public Housing Could Reduce Monday, March 10, 1980 ber 26. Operating Subsidies. Acc. No. 110795, CED- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commis­ 80-2, November 7. e Mr. BROOKS. Mr. Speaker, the sion should ensure Compliance with its Reg­ Identifying Boarding Homes Housing the monthly list of GAO reports includes ulations and Legislative Responsibilities Needy Aged, Blind, and Disabled: A Major summaries of reports which were pre­ over Interstate Gas Supplies. Acc. No. Step Toward Resolving a National Problem. pared by the staff of the General Ac­ 110794, EMD-80-5, November 6. Acc. No. 110884, HRD-80-17, November 19. counting Office. The November 1979 NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT Prison Mental Health Care can be Im­ list includes: U.S. Mining and Mineral-Processing In­ proved by Better Management and More Ef­ fective Federal Aid. GGD-80-11, November NATIONAL DEFENSE dustry: An Analysis of Trends and Implica­ tions. Acc. No. 110742, ID-80-04, October 31. 23. Modernizing the Air Reserve Forces­ How to Burn Coal Efficiently and Eco­ Quality Civil Legal Services for the Poor More· Emphasis on Logistics Support nomically, and Meet Air Pollution Require­ and Near Poor are Possible through Im­ Needed. Acc. No. 110793, LCD-80-11, No­ ments-The Fluidized-Bed Combustion proved Productivity. Acc. No. 110862, veti1ber 6. Process. Acc. No. 110821, EMD-80-12, No­ FGMSD-79-46, October 19.. Impediments to Reducing the Costs of vember 8. Better Cash Management can Reduce the Weapon Systems. Acc. No. 110824, PSAD- Interior Lacks Adequate Oversight of Cost of the National Direct Student Loan . 80--6, November 8. Shut-in or Flaring Natural Gas Wells on the Program. Acc. No. 110945, FGMSD-80-5, Lack of Control and Feedback Hinders Outer Continental Shelf. EMD-80-3, No­ November 27. Army Manpower Management Improve­ vember 21. Letter Reports ments. Acc. No. 110743, FPCD-80-9, October 31. Letter Reports How project sites in Iowa for the Senior The Navy does not kn9w if it has too The Farmers Home Administration, the Community Employment Program were se­ much Electronic/Electrical Depot Mainte­ Small Business Administration, and · the lected. Acc. No. 110826, HRD-80-13, Novem­ nance Capability, too little, or the right Federal Emergency Management Agency ber 8. kind. Acc. No. 110769, LCD-80-3, November are inconsistent in their national policy on HEALTH 2. disaster loans to individuals affected by U.S. Ground Troops in South Vietnam Tactical Operations System Development repeat floods. Acc. No. 110755, CED-80-10, were in areas Sprayed with Herbicide Program Should Not Continue as Planned. October 26. Orange. FPCD-80-23, November 16. Acc. No. 110894, LCD-80-17, November 20. Appropriate· congressional committees Entering a Nursing Home-Costly Impli­ Centralized Ammunition Management-A should review the Land and Water Conser­ cations for Medicaid and the Elderly. PAD- Goal Not Yet Achieved. LCD-80-1, Novem­ vation Fund Act to evaluate local matching 80-12, November 26. ber 26. share requirements. Acc. No. 110750, CED- Health Costs Can Be Reduced by Millions The Air Force Should Cancel Plans to Ac· 80-23, November 1. of Dollars if Federal Agencies Fully Carry quire Two Computer Systems at most Bases. EPA should help grantees realize the full Out GAO Recommendations. Acc. No. Acc. No. 110774, FGMSD-80- 15, October 26. benefits of warranty coverages in contracts 110840, HRD-80-6, November 13. for construction of treatment facilities. Acc. Increased Oversight and Interservice use INCOME SECURITY of Military Aviation Training Ranges Can No. 110874, PSAD-80-11, November 16. Indirect Costs of Social Security's Disabil­ Reduce Costs. Acc. No. 110929, LCD-80-14, AGRICULTURE November 26. ity Programs are Excessive and Should Be A Mission Budget Structure for the Agri· Reduced. Acc. No. 110885, HRD-80-23, No­ Letter Reports culture Department-A Feasibility Study. vember 19. 16. Review of Management of military reserve Acc. No. 110895, PAD-80-08, November ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE forces facilities. Acc. No. 110770, LCD-80-19, Estimated Personnel Needs of the Agricul­ November 1. tural Stabilization and Conservation Serv­ Justice Department Should Coordinate Criminal and Civil Remedies to Effectively GENERAL SCIENCE, SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY ice-Are they reliable? FPCD-80-5, Novem­ ber 26. Pursue Fraud in Federal Programs. Acc. No. Federal Weather Modification Efforts 110754, GGD-80-7, October 25. · Need Congressional Attention. Acc. No. COMMERCE AND HOUSING Improved Planning for Developing and 110752, CED-80-5, November_1. Economic and Operational Benefits in Selecting IRS Criminal Tax Cases Can ENERGY Local Telephone Services can be Achieved Strengthen Enforcement of Federal Tax Through Government-Wide Coordination. Laws. GGD-80-9, November 6. Prospects for Cooperation and Trade of Acc. No. 110861, LCD-80-9, November 14. An Informed Public Assures that Federal Energy Resources between the ·United Outlook Dim for Revised Accounting Agencies will Better Comply with Freedom States and Canada. Acc. No. 110805, ID-80- System Needed for Changing Telephone In­ 2, November 8. · of Information/Privacy Laws. Acc. No. dustry. Acc. No. 110841, FGMSD-80-9, No­ 110753, LCD-80:-8, October 24. Coal Creek: A Power Project with Con­ vember 13. GENERAL GOVERNMENT tinuing Controversies over Costs, Siting, and Improved Grievance-Arbitration System: Potential Health Hazards. EMD-80-16, No­ A Key to Better Labor Relations in the Determining Federal Compensation: vember 26. Postal Service. GGD-80-12, November 28. Changes Needed to Make the Processes Montana's Libby Dam Project: More U.S. Customs Service Misclassifies Tobac­ More Equitable and Credible. Acc. No. ' Study Needed Before Adding Generators co Imports. Acc. No. 110803, GGD-80-19, 507844, FPCD-80-17, November 13. and a Reregulating Dam. EMD-80-25, No­ November 6. Wages for Federal Blue-Collar Employees vember 20. are being Determined According to the Law, Placing Resident Inspectors at Nuclear COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT but Improvements are needed. Acc. No. Powerplant Sites: Is it Working? Acc. No. American Seaports-Changes Affecting 110771, FPCD-80-12, October 29. 110926, EMD-~0-28, November 20. Operations and Development. Acc. No. Managing the Federal Work Force: Major How to Speed ·oevelopment of Geother­ 110876, CED-80-8, November 16. Issues. Acc. No. 110822, FPCD-80-22, Octo­ mal Energy on Federal Lands. Acc. No. Rental Housing: A National Problem that ber. 110773, EMD-80-13, October 26. Needs Immediate Attention. Acc. No. Issues and Needed Improvements in State The Department of Energy's Practices for 110825, CED-80-11, November 8. Regulation of the Insurance Business . Acc. No. 110538, PAD- Need to be Improved. Acc. No. 110856, Needing Improvement. Acc. No. 110839, 79-72, October 9, Acc. No. 110510, PAD-79- EMD-80-2, November 2. CED-80-3, November 13. 72A, October 9. e This .. bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which . are · not spoken by the Member on the floor. March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5127 Federal R&D Laboratories-Directors' House of Representatives, he served region, we must immediately counter­ Perspectives on Management. PSAD-80-8, on the Appropriations and Naval Af- act the source of the problem, Castro, November 28. fairs Committees. He also served as a and let the tentacles he has spread - AMTRAK's Inventory and Property Con· trial attorney in the Land Division of . wither from lack of support.· trols Need Strengthening. CED-80-13, No· vember 29. the Justice Department. I would commend to my colleagues' Stronger Procurement Controls in the Far Congressman McFarlane was born in attention the following article by East Would Minimize Fraud and Abuse. Acc. Greenwood, Ark., and graduated from Allan H. Ryskind, the distinguished No. 110800, PSAD-80-2, November 'l. Chicago's Kent College in 1921. He editor of Human Events, in this GSA's Personal Property Repair and Re· then joined his father's law firm in month's American Legion magazine habilftation Program: A Potential for Graham, Tex. He was a veteran of about the menace from CUba. It is Fraud? Acc. No. 110854, PSAD-80-5, Novem· World War I and a member of the timely, thorough, and frightening, and ber 14. First United Methodist Church of I urge that we take heed of what is FAA's Program to Automate Flight Scrv· tee Stations: Status and Needs. Acc. No. Graham. He was listed in "Who's Who says before it is too late. 110'144, PSAD-80-1, October 31. in American Politics" and the "Nation­ The article follows: · Contracting for Computer Software De- al Register of Prominent Americans." CUBA CASTS. A LoNG SHADOW A charter member of the American . velopment-Serious Problems Require Man· The mid-August 1979 discovery of a Soviet agement Attention to Avoid Wasting Addi­ Legion, he was a past post conimander combat brigade in Cuba may have helped tional Millions. Acc. No. 110804, FGMSD- of the American Legion and a 32d alert the American people to what Washing­ 80-4, November 9. degree Mason. The Congressman is ton has only begun to perceive: the success· The Office of the Comptroller of the Cur­ survived by his wife, Debbie, 3 daugh­ ful Soviet-Cuban penetration of the West­ ~en~y·s _Internal ~~~tID.g N~eds_S~rel)gthen­ ters, 2 sons, 13 grandchildren, and 6 ern Hemisphere. After Cuba's Ernesto ing. Acc. No. 110823, GGD-80-8, Novem- great-grandchildren. "Che" Guevara and his band of guerrillas ber 8. . were wiped out by the Bolivian government Audit of Financial Transactions of the While campaigning in Graham I in 196'1 and with the overthrow of Marxist. -Sergeant at Arms for the 12 Months ended during the summer of 1978, had the Leninist Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973, June 30, 19'19 House of Representatives. prlvllege of meeting Mr. McFarlane the notion took hold in sophisticated quar­ Acc. No.11076'1, GG0.,.80-1, November 2. for the first time. I was amazed at his ters that the domino ~eory was dead, that Examination of Financial Statements of interest and grasp of the current Castroism had breathed its last south of the GPO for FY 1978. Acc. No. 110768, LCD-80- events of the day. He was very articu­ U.S. border. But such euphoria no longer ~. November 2. late in expressing his views about exists, for Soviet imperfalism, with Fidel Activities of the House Office Equipment them and about the major events Castro acting as point man for Moscow, fa Service June 30, 19'19. Acc. No. 110915, making a major comeback in Latin America. GGD-80-17, November 21. during· his years as Representative of the 13th District. I particularly appre· Of particular concern to many pro-West­ Letter Reports ciated his sharing some good solid po­ ern Latin American experts is the rising Impoundment of funds for the Depart. litical advice with me, a young aspi­ Soviet-Cuban threat to both Central Amer­ ment of Agriculture. the Department -of ica and the Caribbean. The .loss of this Commerce. and the Railroad Retirement rant for political office. He had great region to Communist influence would be a Board. Acc. No. 110801; OGC-80-3, Novem­ interest in our Nation's future. Repre­ staggering economic, military and psycho­ ber 6. sentative McFarlane was a gentleman logical blow to the United States. No fewer The Administrator, GSA, shoUld discon· in every sense of the word and our than 13 major trade routes pour through tinue assessing higher rental rates on ·build-· Nation has lost one of its outstanding the. Caribbean Sea-Gulf of Mexico-Panama Ing improvements unless they are Justified citizens.e Canal area. Venezuelan oil, Jamaican baux­ by increased commercial values. Acc. No. ite and Brazilian manganese-the latter 110864, LCD-80-18, November 7. used in the manufacture of our strategic GAO should not have resolution over the THE SOVIET THREAT IN OUR missfles--move through its waters to the roles and responsibWties of the congression­ OWN BACKYARD United States. Beneath the Gulf, huge de-' al offices under Title I of the Ethics in Gov· posits of oil '8.Dd natural gas are believed ernment Act of 1978. Acc. No. 110838, Just waiting to be tapped FPCD-80-27, November 13. · HON. ROBERT E. BAUMAN The Panama Canal fa no less a strategic · Delays in definitizing letter contracts can OF MARYLAND waterway simply because we have relin­ be costly to to the Government. Acc. No. quished our sovereignty. This vital commer­ 110873, PSAD-80-10, November 16. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cial artery. where 60 percent of the traffic Monday, March 10~ 1980 in recent years has been bound to or from GENERAL PURPOSE FISCAL ASSISTANCE U.S. ports, takes precious Alaskan oil and New York City's Fiscal Problems: A Long •Mr. BAUMAN. Mr. Speaker, if there routes it to refineries on the East and Gulf Road Still Lies Ahead. Acc. No. 110741, were an Office of Optometrist to the Coasts and carries in its locks 20 percent of GGD-80-5, October 31. President, I am sure that the office­ all U.S. farm exports. Stressing its military The monthly list of GAO reports holder would have ·diagnosed a pecu­ importance, Adm. James Holloway, chief of liarly selective problem with the Presi­ naval operations when the U.S. Senate was and/or copies of the full texts are debating the Panama Canal treaty, testified available from the U.S. General Ac­ dent's vision: a blurred view of Soviet that the canal was "absolutely essential" to counting Office, Distribution Section, activities right on our doorstep. America's defenses. Room 1518, 441 G Street NW., Wash­ While his attention has been focused Yet this entire area is now endangered by ington, D.C. 20548. Phone C202> 275- on Soviet military adventurism half a a new Soviet-Cuban thrust. Increasingly, 6241.e world away, and while he has tried to Cuba resembles a Soviet military base rally the United States and its allies to though the Administration refuses to attach condemn the invasion of Afghanistan, that provocative labeL "The brigade is only WILLIAM D. McFARLANE the President has curiously Ignored one part ot a general increase of forces," the bloody terrorism and revolution noted one U.S. analyst. "Everything they have done fa small in itself, but they· are HON. ·CHARLES W. STENHOLM fomented by the Soviets agent in the buildibg a 'Fortress Cuba' that down the OF TEXAS Caribbean, Fidel Castro. This selective road has strategic significance for us.'~ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES astigniatism has allowed the Soviets, Since 1976, the Soviets have rearmed and their surrogate Castro, virtually a Monday, March 10, 1980 Cuban mWtary units, dven them defense free hand in the shaping of events in missiles, installed electronic antennae capa­ e Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I Latin America. Some countries have ble of picking up U.S. satellite transmissions was deeply saddened by the recent fallen to Marxist dictatorships . by into Cuba and sneaked onto the island a passing of former U.S. Representative guile, others by force. Nicaragua has dozen or so Mig-23 aircraft, each capable of William D. McFarlane, Representa~ve Just emerged from a bloody war which carrying nuclear bombs and covering the of the 13th District of Texas from set up a government that is basically southeastern U.S. Indeed. the Cubans are fairly bristling 1933 to 1939. He was truly a remark· nothing more than a clone of Cuba's. with Soviet weaponry. The CUbans have able man, having spent 44 years in Now as innocents in El Splvador, Gua­ Russian amphibious armored infantry politics, from his election to the Texas temala, and Honduras di~ at the hands combat vehicles, Russian tanks and tank·re­ House of Representatives in 1922 until of terrorists trained in CUba, and as covery equipment. Russian medium helicop­ his retiremeht in i966. While In the anarchy spreads throughout the ter gunships, Russian attack submarines 5128 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 and at least one Russian squadron of AN-26 police and Internal security functions of the associations as saying the goal is to prevent Curl medium transport aircraft. This plane. country-is the Cuban-trained Tomas Borge a "counterrevolution" along the lines of a officially described as an assault aircraft. Martinez, who has emerged as the most "Swedish-style social democracy." What was identified flying military cargo to Costa prominent Sandinista spokesman. Referred Nicaragua is really aimitlg for, he told Rica for delivery to pro-Communist Sandi­ to sometimes as the Nicaragu~ Castro, the Krause, is "true socialism,'' along the llnes nista guerrillas who successfully overthrew fiftyish Borge is probably the uncrowned laid out by CUba and the Soviet Union. anti-Communist Somoza forces in Nicara­ ruler of his nation today. He is not only In · The CUbans and their revolutionary allies . gua. . charge of the police force, but also serves as have been massively buoyed by the Marxist This Sovietized fortress ls not o,:ily menac­ one of three men who rule the new army as triumph In Nicaragua. In a state of near eu­ ing . the United States and its Latin neigh· well. In addition, he is on the nine-member _phoria, Ramon Sanchez-Parodi, the top bors militarily. but it serves as a shielded directorate that controls the Sandinista Communist diplomat In the United States haven from which Castro. now Moscow's movement. who heads up the CUban Interest section. hired gun, can help spread Red revolution An admitted Marxist and revolut1onar1 held forth last July for Journalists attend­ around the globe. When this reporter vis­ who personally engaged In subversion and ing a breakfast meeting sponsored by For­ ited Havana In 1978, Cuban officials boasted terror, Borge was captured by the Nicara­ eign Polley magazine. of their revolutionary activities, emphasiz. guans during the Somoza years and sen· . Sanchez was blunt. Acknowledging that Ing that, as one Communist party function­ tenced to a 30-year term In 1977. the Cubans delivered arms and advice to the ary told me. "We will help revolutioll&r)' During his trial. Borge admitted he had Sandinistas. Sanchez also said the fall of groups everywhere In the world.'' spent several months In CUba In 1960 recelv· Somoza In Nicaragua was a "signal" to other True to their word, Moscow's CUban "hit Ing military training at the hands of the Latin American dictatorships that they, too. men" have dispatched mercenaries to the CUban army. In 1967 he returned to CUba might fall. He said CUba Intended to SUP· Third World-Including Latin America­ with more than 15 terrorists for additional port guerrilla Insurgencies In these coun­ lndoctrlnated foreign students In Marxism· training. ' tries and named Guatemala. El Salvador Leninism, trained would-be guerrillas In the Alona with some 80 other revolutionaries. and Honduras as Central American nations arts of subversion and terrorism and pro­ Borge wa8 released from prison on August where CUba was providing assistance "of all vided sanctuary and weaponry to revolution­ 24, 1978, as a .result of a deal Somoza struck sorts" to revolutionary forces. ary brothers. with the Sandinistas after some of their The CUban-tralned Borge has been more It was precisely this kind of activity that members had held the national legislature circumspect. but he was quoted as saying enabled Castro to score his first major coup hostage. One month. later. Borge was back last July that In both El Salvador and Gua­ on Central America In mid-July 1979, when In Havana discussing anti-Somoza strategy temala. as well as In other Latin nations, the President Anastasio Somoza Debayle of with Castro and being hailed on the front Nicaraguan revolution would trigger a "re· Nicaragua flew Into exile In MlamL page of the official CUban Communist Party crudescence of violence. a rebirth of popular A number of non-Communist Latin na­ publication, Gninma. struggle In these countries. • • :• .The San­ tions. Including Costa Rica, Venezuela. Since assuming power. the Sandinista dinista triumph, he contended, "will give Panama and Mexico aided the Sandinista leadershiP-lncluding Borge-has repeated­ rise to a new revQlutionary wave which will National Liberation Front In its ly gone to Cuba for Instruction, and the sweep through Latin America:• battle against Somoza-who was disliked by Sandinista& are sending their future leaders Even before the eventual Sandinista victo­ many Latin leaders for a variety · of rea­ to Havana for advanced education. CUbans ry. Castro had begun to expand his Insur­ sons-but CUba proved the key to victory. in great numbers are also moving Into Ma­ gency activities. For while it was not widely reported lif the nagua as wen. ostensiblJ to get the revolu­ The maJor thrust of Castro•• ·policy press. the Sandlnistas sprang to llfe In tion on its feet. At least 1.000 CUbans are toward Guatemala has been to encourage Havana. were nurtured by Fidel for 1i, being dispatched to Nicaragua to help staff the various Marxist rebel groups to Join to­ lorig-and sometimes desperate-years and. the schools and ·'educate" the nation's young gether to undermine the elected govern­ were given the wherewithal by Castro to men and women. ment. finish the Somoza regime off when the con· The s&ndlnistas- have already ·given Nica­ Havana's closest 1lnks have been to the Oict came to a head In 1979. ragua more than the faint trappings of a Guerrilla Army_of lhe Poor . which The State Department's Michele M. Bova. Marxist-style government. Aside from na­ began to emerge as a serious threat In 1975. then director of the Office of Central tionallzlng various business enterprises. In· During 1978, according to a first-rate study American Affairs, wrote a letter on April 19, eluding all private banks. seizing about 50 on Latin American terrorism produced by 1977. to then Rep. Ed Koch . now percent of the agricultural land, repudiating Samuel Francis of the Heritage Foundation. New York City's mayor. describing Cuba's huge chunks of foreign debt and putting off close to 40 percent of Guatemalan terrorist help to the Sandinista movement. Among national elections Indefinitely. the Sandinis­ Incidents could be traced to the EGP. On other things. she mentioned that the FSLN tas eontrol the major media. with the offi· January 1. 1978. the EGP kidnapped the "was founded In Havana In September 1962 cial Sandinista paper. Barricada, still exten· Guatemalan Foreign Minister. and a little by a group of leftist extremists · who had slvely using the CUban news service. Prema over a year later. this Castroite organization been active for some years In revolutionary La.ttna.. Bayardo Arce. a former Journalism murdered the Nicaraguan ambassador. Gua­ causes In · Nicaragua. .Carlos Fonseca professor and member of the Sandinista di­ temala's previous president, KJell Laugerud Amador. perhaps their most significant rectorate. gave the world a glimpse of how Garcia. charged In early 1978 that the EGP leader, was a proponent of Marxist-Leninist the media were to be treated when he waa. had obtained all its support-and some of its theory who had closely followed the Castro quoted as saying. "We support freedom ·of instructors-from Cuba. revolution In Cuba and whose attachment the press. But. of course. the freedom of the The revolutionary wave that hit Nicara­ to ·the revolutionary model strongly lnfiu· press we support will be a freedom of the gua has already toppled the rightist govern· enced the FSLN's early tactics and strat­ press that supports the revolution:• ment of Gen. Carlos Humberto Romero In egy." Some key government officials. further­ El Salvador, who· was replaced by a five­ The Bova memo also stated Cuba aided more, aren't adverse to honoring the Bol· member mllitary-c1vllian Junta on October the FSLN with arms, ammurµtion and guer­ shevik revolution of 1917. Dr. Alvaro Ra· 15. The new Jw1ta. considered liberal In ·its rilla warfare training. "External support," mirez Gonzalez, president of the Socialist orientation, has embraced a program of the memo added. "has also come from Nica· party of: Nicaragua and vice minister of for­ reform In its effort to defuse leftist revolu· raguans living abroad, but probably the eign affairs, addressed a major gathering on tionary sentiment. most important source of external support November 12 In Managua celebrating the But some observers believe It has gone has been CUba .•• :• 62d anniversary of the Russian revolution. overboard to appease the Castroites within A copy of ·a Central lnte111gence Agency The major participants at the rally Included the country. having quickly established dip­ memorandum vie~e<;l by th~s reporter dis­ representatives of the Sandinista Workers lomatic relations with CUba and pledged to closed Cuba's key role In aiding the Sandt· Central and Socialist and Communist release even milltant leftist "pollti~" prls· · nistas during the last days of the Somoza parties. one:i;s, many of whom have a past history of government. In early March 1979, the lead­ Nicaragua's Sandinista Army has also de­ violent revolutionary activity. And there is ers of the three major FSLN factions trav­ veloped an ominous instrument· that could growing concern-Judging from the unrest eled to Cuba to meet with Fidel. Noted the compel the entire country to conform to the that still stirs the nation-that the new gov­ memo: "The CUban leader Is said to have whtma of the new government: a CUban· ernment will not be able to stanch a radical spent nearly 48 hours over a four-day period style network of block associations. Each left-wing takeover In the long run. helping to hammer out a basis for coopera- CDS-The Spanish Initials for Sandinista Of all the left-wing terrorist groups, the . tion. As a result of the meeting, a unified Defense Committee-is built around the most active-and the one with the closest FSLN directorate was established contain· residents of a single block or street. Ostensi­ CUban ties-has been the Fuerzas Populares Ing three members from each faction." bly set up to distribute emergency aid, the de Liberacion . American intelligence Castro, In turn, pledged a renewed supply of associations also Indoctrinate Nicaraguan sources Indicate that 60 members of the arms, ammunition and money. citize~. provide them with rudimentary FPL's army were In Cuba In late 1978 and Equally Indicative of the CUban connec­ military training and spy on neighbors. The early 1979 receiving military and ideological tion is that the current Nicaraguan Minister Waahtngtcm Poat•• Charles Krause has training. with many having. been returned of Interior-whose department controls the quoted one man Involved with -these CDS to El Salvador to ~rve as leaders In ~ f~rce M~rch 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5129 of 2,000 newly trained Salvadorans repre· travel through Panama. The Cuban embas­ The 1980 State of Maine winner is senting the ."Popular Militia" of the FPL­ sy in Panama City has more than a hundred Theresa Aceto, a Junior at Deering dominated Popular Revolutionary Bloc, one staff members, far in excess of any other High School in Portland. Theresa's of the nation's most powerful left-wing po­ nation's embassy, and their influence on litical organizations. Panama's government is well known." essay is a meaningful composition of Castro's influence in Jamaica, a small At the eastern and southern end of the the plight of handicapped persons. At island country to the south of Cuba, has Caribbean Sea, Fidel Castro is also making this time I would like to bring this fine also increased to alarming proportions. headway. In March of last year, Maurice essay to the attention of my col­ Shortly after charges were made by. Man· Bishop and his New Jewel Movement seized leagues in the House. ley's opposition that 5,000 Cubans f1·eely the tiny nation of Grenada through a revo­ The essay reads: . ·roamed the island, a new Cuban ambassador lutionary coup. Bishop moved fast in recog­ SPEAKING OUT-VOICES OF THE DISABLED arrived in Jamaica. He was bluntly identi· nizing Cuba and joining .the non-aligned PEOPLE fled by the official Kingston, Jamaica, radio movement. His finance minister, Bernard on July 25, 1979, as Ulises Estrada, "the Coard, spouts Marxist economics. · former Deputy Chief of the Department of Bishop said in 1977 that his movement There are over 2,000 handicapped people the Americas of the Central Committee of was sympathetic to socialism and there are in Maine. Many of these people are ambi­ the Communist Party of Cuba. The Depart­ grounds for believing that his group may tious. They share the interests, ideas and . ment of the Americas has. responsibility for have been aided by Castro before the coup. opinions of a non-handicapped person; they political relations between the Communist U.S. intelligence officials now claim that as feel anger, hurt, and love just as we do. Party of Cuba and the political parties and many as 50 members of the Cuban military Sometimes, though, we tend to segi-egate National Liberation Movements in Latin are now in Grenada advising Bishop's own the handicapped; the attitudes of society se­ America and the Carribbean." defense forces. An indication of the friendly clude them in such things as school, em­ Manley's closeness to Castro and Commu­ attitude of the new government toward ployment, and transportation. We should nism is hardly in doubt, and the Jamaican Castro surfaced in an interview given by the not rob them of their abilities that can in­ Prime Minister once told this reporter that country's Minister of Education, Youth and crease their usefulness, but instead we he was sorry he did not have the military Social Services, George . Louison, last year. should consider the alternatives. We could personnel available to aid Castro ·in his ef­ Quoted in the Bridgetown Barbados Advo­ listen to the needs and concerns .of the dis­ forts to "liberate" Africa. In a remarkable cate News on July 25, Louison said, "to abled and try to improve their lives by help­ oration at the nonaligned conference in those who say we cannot establish close po­ ing to solve several major problems. Havana this past September, Manley litical and economic relations with Cuba, we One problem that the disabled encounter fawned over Castro and his alleged accom­ say that this is not only an insult to our ts the attitudes of classmates and teachers. plishments, gushed over the Bolshevik revo­ people, but an insult to the entire Caribbe­ While the disabled struggle to get an educa­ lution and savagely condemned U.S. "impe­ an because we see the Grenadian and Cuban tion, society worries that we may have to rialism." Many observers were also some­ people as one people." "put out" somewhat by helping them. what sturuied at Manley's slavish.echoing of Cuba and Castroism, as the above sug­ Schooling to a handicapped person is equal­ even the most insignificant Cuban demands gests, are clearly on the march again In ly important to them as it is to us. We tend in the field of foreign policy. Whether it in­ Latin America. And the only question that to forget this when we run up a flight of volved the seating of the Cambodian delega­ seems to remain is, "How many more domi­ stairs, skipping two, and almost knock over tion or support for the Puerto Rican "inde­ noes will Fidel collect in the coming year?"e a person struggling on crutches. Instead we pendence" movement, Manley was in virtual could hold the door open for the boy on lockstep with Fidel. crutches or the girl with only one leg. In Panama, perhaps the most strategically PERSONAL EXP:µA.NATION Teachers also have not always been trained placed nation in Central America, Castro to understand. For example, Helen Siedel of has secured a solid friend in Gen. .Omar Goodwill, 1 who has hydrocephalus de­ Torrijos, who, while.1 he has resigned the HON. CARDISS COLLINS scribed an occasion that occurred hi her presidency, is still consi.dered the strong OF ILLINOIS grammar school years at Lyseth School. man of the country. - . IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The teachers wanted Helen to switch Torrijos has hailed Castro as "an example schools. Helen told us, "They thought that I and a light" to be followed elsewhere. Monday, March 10, 1980 was too much of a nuisance, I was on a chair Before the Panama Canal subcommittee in e Mrs. COLLINS of' Illinois. Mr. with wheels and they couldn't be bothered the House in 1979, Lt. Gen. Gordon Sumner, to push me to the bathroom or any place Speaker, due to coinmitments in my_ else". In addition, most of our schools in former chairman of the Inter-American De­ congressional district, I was unable to fense Board, testified that General Torrijos Maine are not equipped for the handi­ personally told him in November 1977 "of be present today. Had I been present I capped. Any person in a wheel chair attend­ his intention to support rebellion and insur­ would have voted "aye" on passage of ing a public school would find it almost im­ rection in his neighbor republics.'' Torrijos the three bills on which recorded votes possible to adapt to. We have very few bragged about his support of the Sandinis­ occurred: ramps, handrails, or ~levators . We could tas and suggested he had an eye on toppling House Concurrent Resolution 285- help solve this problem by making it a point El Salvador as well. Disappearance of certatn persons. of one of the school clubs to raise funds for Back in 1976, the Senate Internal Security such purposes as these. Why not give in a H.R. 6702-Federal election cam­ little? Subcommittee issued a report on the Cuban paign contributions. influence on Panama, authored by Harold Another issue of concern is the employ­ Hughes, the liberal former senator from H.R. 6152-Product Liability Risk ment of the handicapped. In most cases, Iowa. While Hughes said Torrijos was not a Retention Act.e whatever the handicap of a person, there is Communist, he said his government was rid­ most always something useful that he can dled with those of the far left. "The sub­ still do. He would like to earn money and be committee has evidence," Hughes went on, GOVERNORS COMMITTEE ON EM­ self supporting too. Why then are there not "that a significant number of meil holding PLOYMENT OF THE HANOI· . more jobs available to him? True, a · 1ot of CAPPED ESSAY CONTEST companies, even large ones such as Canal important positions in the government 1 Bank , and the Portland Telephone Compa­ have, over the years, either been involved 8 with the political left in Panama or have · HON. DAVID F. EMERY ny , hire the handicapped. But why don't been involved in the disturbances of 1959, all large companies? Most companies tend to 1964 and 1965, or have openly professed OF MAINE discourage a handicapped person in a dis­ their ,sympathies for Cuba. I;N THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES creet manner. They tell him not to give up and keep looking; they will take his name "T!9s subcommittee has evidence that at Monday, March 10, 1980 least three officers of the Cuban General and number so that if anything does come Directorate of Intelligence were invited by •Mr. EMERY._ Mr. Speaker, every up they will be sure to contact him. Our so­ Col. Manuel Noriega Moreno, assistant chief year the Governors Committee on Em­ ciety should make an extra effort to hire of staff for intelligence, to act as advisers to ployment of the Handicapped spon­ more c:lli;abled people, if they are qualified; the Panamanian National Guard for a we should also make mpre companies and sors the "Ability Counts" essay con­ plants accessible for the handicapped. period of two months in 1973 •••" test. Tllis contest is part of a national Another issue which needs more support When Rep. Robert Bauman . the competition sponsored by the Presi­ ranking Republican on the Panama Canal is transportation. Any person in a wheel- subcommittee, went down to Panama in dent's Committee on Employment of 1979, he returned stating, "It has long been the Handicapped. 1 Personal Interview with Helen Siedel, Goodwill recognized that there is considerable Com­ This cont~st is designed to remind Industries-Nov. 28, 19'79. the ·people of our State of the obsta­ 2 Personal interview with Ami Cray, employee at munist influence within Panama. Only re­ Canal Bank-Dec. '7, 19'79. cently Panama permitted arms shipments to cles and needs that handicapped per­ •Personal Interview with Personnel Manager. the Sandinista guerrillas in Nicaragua to sons face as a fact of life. Telephone Company-Dec. 14, 19'79. 5130 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 chair has limited transportation. A cab is years of service in the area of religious Dr. Kilgore's contributions to man­ about the only means. Ann Cray deeply leadership; community development, kind have touched the lives of many.. feels a threat of losing her job and her civil rights activists, and educational home in Maine. She has spastic cerebral When Californians gather to pay trib­ palsy which she, unfortunately, feels may programs. That person is Dr. Thomas ute to him at the Beverly Hilton be increasing into arthritis in her hips. She Kilgore, Jr.. and I would like to take Hotel, proceeds from the dinner will is presently on crutches but states, "If I this opportunity to share with my col­ llelp support community ministries have to resort into a wheel chair then I will leagues Just a few of Dr. Kilgore•s re­ and a.minority scholarship fund at the leave Maine. The transportation for handi­ markable contributions. University of Southern California. It capped person8 Is so bad that it would prac­ The sixth of 12 children, Thomas is a fitting tribute for a man who has tically be impossible to be transported even Kilgore, Jr., was born on a cotton farm spent over half of his life dedicated to by cab."" Why not create special buses for the handicapped only? It would be more in South Carolina on February 20; th.e principle of helping others. It is an convenient and an improvement to every­ 1913, to Thomas and Eugenia Kilgore. honor for me to be associated with one. He received his primary and secondary him and I welcome this opportunity to Still another problem the d~abled person education in the schools of Woodruff. add my praise.e encounters Is the lack of rehabilitation cen­ Brevard, and Asheville, N.C. In 1935, ters. We do see YMCA's, dance halls, and Dr. Kilgore graduated from More­ craft centers for the non-handicapped, but house College and in 1944 began grad­ PERSONAL EXPLANATION there are ·not nearly enough centers for the uate work at the Howard University handicapped person. a Norbert Tondreau School of Religion. He received a mas­ HON. LARRY McDONALD agrees with this problem. "There used to be · OF GEORGIA a single's club here in Maine, ·but they ters of divinity from Union Theologi­ closed it down. That was the only enjoy­ cal Seminary in New York in 1957. He IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment I received". Ann Cray agrees, "Maine is the recipient of several honorary Monday, March 10, 1980 is ten years behind the times, we need some degrees. enjoyment as well as peer counseling". Why • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker. on Dr. Kilgore's philosophy of life ex­ March 3-6, 1980, I was unvoidably can't our society construct some programs pressed during his 50 years of ministry such as "Outward Bound?" 8 We could also absent from the Capitol and missed a spend a little less money on the triple and service to the community has re­ series of votes. If I had been present I decker malls, and furnish some kind of pro­ flected a strong commitment to the would.have voted as follows: . grams or buildings of enjoyment for the dis­ poor and underprivileged instilled Yes to House Joint Resolution 414- abled. One center per county would seem to during his formative years. Believing National Bicycling Day (rollcall No. be a responsible task to achieve. in the intrinsic worth of each human 108). . In conclusion I feel that the attitudes of being, Dr. Kilgore has spent half a No to House Joint Resolution 445- our society toward the disabled should be century working to improve the improved. We must be very selfish or un­ National Cystic Fibrosis Week Crollcall aware to overlook all their problems. When human condition, regardless of color. No. 109). Norbert Tondreau told me that he some­ His inspiration and insight ·as a reli­ No to House Joint Resolution 463- times waits one half hour shouting, "Will gious leader, his educational and com­ National Diabetes Week Crollcall No. someone please help me across the street", munity involvement, have served as a 1101 • and still no one replies, I realized that there model that young and old can emu­ No to H.R. 4960-Gold Medal for is need for improvement. The disabled late. Dr. .Kilgore, currently the senior Gerald F. Spiess Crollcall No. 111>. person wants to be independent, but he pastor of the Second Baptist Church, No to H.R. 5548-Gold Medal for needs our help. We should make our plants a 95-year-old religious inst.Ltution in Simon Wiesenthal Crollcall No. 112). accessible, or help a blind man across the Los Angeles, was the first black presi­ street, or open the hall door for a girl on •No to House Concurrent Resolution crutches; we should create a system of dent of the American Baptist Conven­ 282-Expressing the sense of the Con­ transportation, or supply rehabilitation cen­ tion and is past president of the Pro­ gress with respect to the recent for­ ters, or understand the needs of a disabled gressive National Baptist Convention. eign inspired attempts to undermine person. With a little cooperation, we can He has served as a major religious the stability of Tunisia Crollcall No. achieve these necessities for the handi­ force in the black community of Los 113). capped person. Their needs, interests, and Angeles and has exhibited great politi­ No to House Resolution 575-Dis­ ideas are equal to ours. So .why not give cal leadership in the community. them some opportunities? Why not give in a missing the election contest against little!• During his pastorate at the Second· Anthony Leach Crollcall No. 114>. Baptist Church, Dr. Kilgore has pio­ •No to the conference report to S. neered in the formation, organization, 643, the Refugee Act of 1980 Crollcall DR. THOMAS KILGORE, JR. and operation of the Child Develop­ No. 115). . ment Center at Second Baptist · Yes on the rule, House Resolution HON. JULIAN C. DIXON Church, Griffith Gardens, a senior 589, to H.R. 6291, to extend and in­ OF CALIFORNIA citizens apartment community; Pueblo crease certain agricultural loan pro­ Christian Action Center, a street min­ grams"crollcall No. 116>. IN THE HOU~E OF REPRESENTATIVES istry for youth development; the No on final passage of .H.R. 6291, to Monday, March 10, 1980 Second Baptist Free Clinic; the Ebonie extend and increase certain agricultur­ • Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, many Support Group, a scholarship fund at al loan programs . people have characterized the pa.St 10 the University of Southern California, •No to the amendment, as amended, years as the "me" decade, a period where he serves as an adviser to the to H.R. 3829, international financial when individual priorities have fo­ president in the area of special com­ institutions. that prohibits use of cused on self rather than helping munity affairs, and last but not least, funds authorized for the Inter-Ameri­ others. It is, therefore, very gratifying the Gathering, an organization of can Bank for any form of assistance to and reassuring to ·know that there is clergy dedicated to co:mmunity devel­ any nonmember nation Crollcall No. an individual among us who continues opment. Dr. Kilgore's achievements ln 119). to persevere in his commitment to en­ the area of civil rights is, perhaps, best •Yes to the amendment to H.R. 3829 riching the lives of all mankind. I have realized by the citizens of Los Angeles. that. reduces the authorization for the the pleasure of knowing such· a person As a close friend and associate of the U.S. subscription and contribution to and on March 19, 1980, members and late Dr. Martin Luther King, it was the Inter-American Bank from $2. 749 representatives of Los Angeles civic Dr. Kilgore who formed a citywide billion to $1.650 billion, and reduces and community organizations will meeting immediately following Dr. the authorization for the U.S. contri­ gather to pay tribute to him for his 50 King's assassination to stem violence bution to the Fund for Special Oper­ in the black community. It was pri­ ations from $700 million to $600 mil· 4 Personal interview with Ann Cray, employee, marily through his efforts that Los lion Crollcall No. 121). Canal Bank-Dec. 7, 1979. Angeles was spared the trauma and •Yes to the amendment to H.R. 3829 6 Personal Interview with Norbert Tondreau, Me. Institution for the Blind-Dec. 10, 1979. tragedy of violence which plagued nu­ that reduces the authorization for the •Personal Interview with Mike Knight, teacher, merous other urban cities throughout Woodfords School. the Nation. • Received live pair. March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5131 U.S. contribution to the Asian Devel­ The states won the right to regulate the Recently USICA World, the in-house opment Fund from $445 million to industry under a federal law, the McCarran­ publication of that agency, published $180 million .e number of .insurance companies had in­ garding Iran, broadcasts stress <1 > that the creased four-fold and the a.mount of insur­ hostages are the real issue and must be re­ ance ten-fold. leased, <2> that the United States is pursu­ EX-COMMISSIONERS OF INSUR­ '.!'he 1979 GAO report, indicating things ing all peaceful and legal means to resolve ANCE AT WORK IN INDUSTRY hadn't changed much, said: "In general, the the crisis, <3> that the international commu­ number of individuals on insurance depart­ nity supports the United States, and (4) ment staffs with relevant professional train­ that American society stands united in its HON. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN ing is small, departments spend little to up­ support of the President's handling of the OF NEW YORK grade staff skills, and salary levels are low crisi~. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in relation to the salaries of similar profes­ VOA also emphasizes <1 > that once the sionals elsewhere." In addition, many regu­ hostages are released the U.S. will listen to Monday, March 10, 1980 latory officials, including commissioners, Iran's grievances and <2> that prolonging e Ms. HOLTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, in­ not only exit to the industry, but enter the th~ crisis is counter to Iran's own interests, "revolving door" from it. especially _its revolutionary goals. At the surance is a business which affects President Carter, in a mid-January letter same time. VOA tries to "humanize" the almost every American. to all of the governors, urged them to give image of the hostages to evoke a sympathet­ In recent weeks we have seen press "most careful consideration" to model state ic response to.them as human beings rather reports on a wide range of question­ regulation proposals by the Federal Trade than mere cogs in an impersonal diplomatic able insurance practices such as over­ Commission. machine. charging, redlining, and unnecessary "Americans spend over $30 billion a yea.r Regarding Afghanistan, VOA has stressed ca.ncer insurance. Consumers have a on life-insurance premium payments,'' the violation of international rules of be­ right to be assured that those who reg­ Carter wrote. "Yet too often, consumers havior and of Afghanistan's right to self-de­ lack the basic cost information they need to termination. ulate this industry are independent find the best policy at the lowest price." . In terms of specific programming, VOA minded men and women. Unfortunate­ Consumer Reports' computations showed has done news analyses of both crises since ly the ti~s between regulators and that for a 45-year-old man b1.1ying $100,000 they began and also has summarized Ameri­ those regulated a-re often closer than of participating cash-value life insurance, can and foreign press comment about them. they should be. tn thfa regard i recom-­ the projected difference over 20 years be­ Recent programming highlights have in­ mend to my colleagues the Washington tween the lowest-priced and highest-priced cluded Joseph Sisco on "Pre~ Conference' Post article of March 3, "Ex-Commis­ policies would exceed $34,000.• U.S.A." answering questions on Iran, and sioners of Insurance at Work in Indus­ Undersecretary of State David Newsom on "Dateline)' discussing Iran and Afghanistan. try." HOW USICA HANDLED THE VOA carried the U.N. Security Council The text follows: AFGHANISTAN-IRAN CRISES debate on Iran live in both English and Rus­ SURVEY OF FORMER REGULATORS BY CONSUM­ sian and presented extensive summaries of ERS UNION-EX-COMMISSIONERS OF INSUR­ the debate in other languages. U.N. Secre­ ANCE AT WORK IN INDUSTRY HON. ROBERT H. MICHE;L tary General Waldheim's mission, Presitlent OF J;LLINOIS Carter's address to the American people on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 4, and developments in both the More than a third of the immediate past Security Council and the General Assembly state insurance commissioners now work in Monday, March 10, 1980 In regard to the invasion of Afghanistan the Industry they once regulated, according e Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, the U.S. have been thoroughly reported and ana­ to a survey in the March Consumer Re­ International Communication Agency lysed. ports. The Voice also aired a seven-program The survey, done late last year by Con­ CUSICA>, formerly known e..s the U.S. Information Agency , our official interna­ of both actions. can hardly be surprised if present state com­ tional broadcasting station-has been Comment by U.S. Congressmen and for­ missioners want to be appreciated by VIPs doing quite a bit during the Iranian­ eign leaders demonstrating the widespree.d in the industry they are regulating.'' Afghan crises. support for the U.S. position in Iran and dis- 5132 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 approval of the Soviet move on Afghanistan Iranian students were facing and to advise think it is important to give credit · have been carried constantly. . them on how to avoid either ·harassment of where credit is due. The File carried texts of all major declara­ the students or actions vis-a-vis the local Seeing and hearing Senator GOLD· tions, e.g., President Carter's press confer· communities that might exacerbate the in­ ence and later his address to the American tematlonal situation. WATER last night made I'ne ·wonder people, Ambassador McHenry's remarks at ECA has been in continual contact with what would have happened had he the United Nations Security Council, and the Treasury Department concerning finan­ been given such a fair and impartial the text of the International Court· of Jus­ cial ·prpblems 'faced by Iranian students in opportunity in 1964 when he was seek­ tice's oplnion in the case of the hostages. . the ·united States. It also has maintained . ing the Presidency. Back in those U.S. bac~ground to the Iranian crisis w.a.s close contact with- the U.S. Immigration days, if my colleagues remember, the presented by such items as that on the Service and the National Association of For­ news media behaved a little different­ President's meeting with the hostages' fa~i­ eign Student Affairs with advice on how to ly, portraying the Senator as a radical lies, a transcription of Zbigniew Brzezinski's minimize problems with Iranian students in appearance-on "Face the Nation," Secretary the U.S. . who would undoubtedly preside over Vance's meeting with European leaders The Office of Near Eastern Affairs has Armageddon if he were' elected. How about the crisis, a report of the U.N. vote re­ provided policy direction for USICA and for soon we forget. Today, some 16 years garding hostage-taking, an article by an aca­ other foreign affairs agencies in regard to later, I have a hunch that most Ameri­ demic expert on the legal issues fuvolved, ·public affairs aspects of the crises. Back­ cans agree with his every word. and an article about the International ground and policy papers for State Depart­ Perhaps if BARRY GOLDWATER had Court of Justice, describing its history, em­ ment and USICA have analyzed public af­ moved into the White House in 1965, phasizing its authority and pointing out the fairs problems faced not only in Iran and Lyndon Johnson would still be enjoy­ respect tt has gained among nations. Afghanistan but throughout the Middle Excerpts of the United Nations · debate East. The policy guidance mechanism, al­ ing retirement on the LBJ Ranch. and vote on economic sanctions against ready in place and working since the start of Richard Nixon might still be in New Iran. as well as coverage of the Waldheim the Iranian crisis, was readily expanded to York practicing law with John Mitch­ visit to Iran and his subsequent meeting deal with the breaking Afghan situation. ell. and Jimmy Carter would probably with President Carter have.been featured. All U.S. Public Affairs Officers in the be just another former Georgia Gover­ The File carried a full range of material Middle East have been asked to assess and nor, tending to the family peanut busi­ on developments surrounding the Soviet in­ -analyze reaction in their countries to both ness. How . different it might have vasion of Afghanistan, including the Soviet the Iranian crisis and the U.S. response. been.e veto ln the U.N. Security Council, the tran­ The area office has assigned a policy offi­ script of Deputy Secretary Christopher's cer to consult on VOA broadcasts concern- appearance on "Face the Nation," and John . ing the crisis. · Chancellor's interview with , President Since the beginning of the Iranian crisis, HOW NOT TO FIGHT INFLATION Carter. three USICA officers have been a part of . The Wireless File ran excerpts of the Re­ the Iran Working Group at tl:le Department publican Presidential candidates' debate in of State. With their specific training and ex· HON. DON BONKER . Des Moines, including their comments on perience in media relations, these officers OF WASHINGTON · Iran and Afghanistan. have made a· valuable contribution to han­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Film and Television Service produced dling the many hundreds of- press and tele- a half-hour videotape available to USICA vision inquiries. · Monday, March 10, 1980 posts around the world. It concentrates on Foreign Press Center: Assistant Secretary the violation by Iran of international law e Mr. BONKER. Mr. Speaker, unques­ of State for Near East and South Asian Af· tionably, inflation is the country's No. and points out that this violation is more fairs Harold H. Saunders spoke to a numb~r sinister for small nations than for more of foreign Journalists at USICA's Foreign 1 problem which, if not abated soon, powerful ones because the former are much Press Center on the continuing crisis in threatens to erode all of the economic more dependent on international law for lfan. gains m:ade since World War ll. their 'security. This point was made particu­ Interest by the· foreign press in the State But if we are going to solve this na­ larly forcefully by U.N. ambassadors from Department's noon press briefing, piped tional affliction, we need to do so hon­ Liberia and Singapore, who are featured in daily into the Press Center, remained high estly and realistically. Too many in the tape. 'Louis G. Fields, Jr. of State De­ throughout the holidays. The number of partment's legal office stressed the signifi­ and out of Government are making in­ correspondents usually diminishes at year's flation the scapegoat for other eco­ cance of the Iranian breach of the Vienna end as the journalists return to their home conventions for diplomatic relations and countries for vacation. This holiday season, nomic and political ills. One example Professor Majid Khadduri, Johns Hopkins however, the Center was filled every day as ii;; the current rush to balance the School of Advanced International Studies, Journaljsts remained in Washington to cover budget as a means of halting inflation, discussed the events both in terms of inter­ the unfolding Iranian and Afghan stories.e but as the Congressional Budget national and Moslem law. The tape includes Office indicated l 1/2 years ago, $25 bil­ excerpts from Carter's press conference and lion in budget cuts would shave only from Ambassador McHenry's statements in A RARE ACCOLADE DUE CBS the U.N. Security Council as well as the one-tenth of 1 percent off the infla­ opinion of a_number of Third World leaders tion rate over 1 year. who have found the Iranian action insup­ HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK As noted by Gar Alperovitz and Jeff portable. _OF OHIO Faux, codirectors of the National The tape has been 9rdered by 99 USICA Center for Economic Alternatives in posts around the world and its text was pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Washington Post on March 9: vided to VOA for broadcast. Monday, March 10, 1980 Educational and CUltura.l Affairs: Alert to Whatever the short-term political value of potential problems in Iran, ECA moved all e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, it is a budget-cutting binge, it clearly has little ot the eight American Fulbright scholars not often that I take time to· praise to do with our real and urgent inflation out of the country in fiscal year 1979 and one of the major television networks problems. sent none tn FY 1980. A Fulbright founda­ but this morning I would like to pay a If we are to seriously confront infla­ tion. however, continues at least nominally rare compliment to correspondent tion, we must get to· the root causes of in Iran, and ECA hopes· it may someday be Harry Reasoner· and the weekly televi­ the problem. According to the Con­ useful in re-establishing cordial relations be­ tween two countries. That commission sent sion show, "60 Minutes" for their pro­ sumer Price Index. inflation rose 13.7 three °Iranian students and ten scholars to fessional handling last night of an percent in 1979, of which energy 37 the United States in the last fiscal year, one interview with an American patriot, percent, housing 15.2 percent, and of whom has completed his work and re­ Senator BARRY M. GOLDWATER. food and medical costs about 10 percent turned. Those who remain are the only TV interviews with conservatives are ~piece were the major contributors.· Iranian students or scholars here with the not al ways as well done as was Mr. They are the so-called basic necessities, aid of federal funds. Reasoner's last night. Even though \ve which accounted for 17 .6 percent of the. ECA Director Alice Ilchman, with the make up the vast majority within our overall increase. The inflation rate for Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, Dr. Olin C. Robison, own party, some commentators like to consumer items other than necessities and the President of the American Council portray us as an extremist element increased by less than 1 percent. on Education, met with 80 college and uni­ within the American political system. · In their article, "How Not To Fight versity presidents to counsel them on prob· pure fraud, of course, but nevertheless Inflation," Alperovitz and Faux offer a lems that both the institutions and their a part of life for us. That is why I prescription to be applied where infla· March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5133 tion is hurting us the most-energy, . ing and medical costs. The combined rate crush the average household budget. Unless, housing, food, and health care. It will for these items was 10.8 percent in 1978; last that is, we go beyond posturing. year it skyrocketed to 17.6 percent. By con­ Barry Bosworth, to his credit, has ac­ not be painless, nor will it bring heal­ trast, the inflation rate for consumer items knowledged that much of the anti-inflation ing overnight. But at least we would other than these necessities changed only strategy he helped design as director of the be applying the medication in the from 6.5 percent to 6.8 percent. Council on Wage and Price Stability was proper places. Conventional wisdom has viewed inflation based on the false assumption that we can Mr. Speaker, since the article · re­ In these key sectors as "temporary aberra­ treat inflation in the necessities as aberra­ f erred to above so closely parallels my tions." The prescription is for wage earners tions. own thinking on the subject, I am to absorb the "shocks" and then the econo­ Can anyone believe energy prices wm go placing the article in the CONGRESSION· my will resume its normal path. This is the anywhere but up during the 1980s, esvecial­ meaning of Alfred Kahn's repeated argu­ ly with the president letting domestic AL RECORD at this time. ment that although "the desire to keep pace energy prices rise to OPEC-determined How NOT To FIGHT .INFLATION by catch-up increases is certainly levels? The same holds for food: As food an­ We are about to go through another understandable . . . unfortunately it is not alyst Lester Brown notes, the growing gap round in the symbolic waltz that passes for possible .•." Federal Reserve Board Chair­ between world food demand and supply a strategy to control inflation. Frightened man Paul Volcker has put the case more "takes us to the bottom line," promising by January's 18.2 percent annual-rate rise in bluntly: "The standard of living of the aver­ future price rises "that may dwarf those of consumer prices and by widespread calls for age American has to decline." . the recent past." To what but spiralling wage and price controls, the Carter adminis­ Yet the necessities account for 60 to 70 health care costs can we look forward as the tration plans to hand us about $20 billion in percent of the spending of four out of five population ages and as medical science de­ budget cuts-$4 billion this year, the rest in families; they take up 90 percent of spend- velops new technologies that are not sub­ fiscal 1981. . ing for the lower 20 percent of society and jected to hard cost-benefit analyses? Simi­ In a $2 trillion economy the effect will be even more for the poor among them (Who larly, by driving interest rates high enough, roughly similar to using a 22-caliber rifle to must go constantly in debt-or steal-to pay we may ~ succeed in making it impossible for deflect a charging elephant. The. Congres­ for groceries and rent>. Real spendable young couples to own a home, but how will sional Budget Office calculated a year and a earnings of the average worker declined we prevent the rent increases that will half ago that $25 billion ·in budget cuts more than 5 percent last year. There may result (people have to live somewhere> from would shave a mere one-tenth of 1 percent be some modest fat in family budgets, but it forcing poor people out of theirs? off the inflation rate over a year. The opti­ is both economically and politically absurd, Controls alone self-evidently do not deal mists think we might get two-tenths to as well as morally unconscionable, to expect with the fundamentals of health care infla­ three-tenths of a point less inflation. What­ family budgets to absorb all of the 17 .6 per­ tion. We need instead a steady expansion of ever the short-term political value of a cent inflation rate increase in basic necessi­ prepaid health care and health mainte­ budget-cutting binge, it clearly has little to ties-a rate which in 1979 was virtually nance organizations employing salaried pro­ do with our real and urgent inflation prob­ double the average 8 to 9 percent wage set­ fessionals. We also need to devote far more lems. tlements. This, however, has been precisely of our national health resources to health Budget-cutting is merely a continuation of the premise of most of the administration's education and other public and occupation­ what Arthur Okun has called "muddle­ strategy. al health measures. through economics," a strategy based on Specifically, what Kahn and Volcker have· The longer-term inflation in housing re­ the assumption that government should not in mind is a deflationary policy to force quires us to expand. the supply to bring it directly deal with the larger forces batter­ down general demand for goods and serv­ into line with growing demand. Current ing the economy, or at least not on purpose. ices. Here is where their economics become tight-money strategies aim only at dampen­ In other words, the strategy simply means more muddled: The past failures in the "ne­ ing short-term speculation and run contrary trying to stave off disaster in the hope that cessities" sectors are now "spilling over" to the fundamental problem: we· are in the your luck will turn. into wage demands, as they inevitably had midst of a surge in household formations as This crossed-fingers school is not without to. But symbolic budget cuts will not signifi­ the postwar baby boom has become a family its virtues. . When times are good and eco­ cantly affect demand, nor will they do much boom and as more people is essential. if the energy part The administration's inability to go businesses-and monthly home mortgage of inflation is ever to be controlled. But re­ beyond wishful thinking was reflected early payments. It also increases long-term infla­ control makes sense only if coupled with on when the president refused to ask Con­ tionary problems in housing by reducing in­ direct measures to achieve energy conserva­ gress to reauthorize his power to impose vestment. When he presided over the tion. These include gasoline rationing, standby wage and price controls. For the Federal Reserve Board, William Miller had tough auto mileage ·standards and more president to throw away his most important the honesty at one point to acknowledge the meaningful solar, gasohol and insulation weapon substantial irrelevancy of monetary policy to and weatherization programs, to say noth­ was a remarkable act that he surely will the biggl=!st sectoral problems. Moreover, in ing of expanded systems of mass transit and regret. With inflation unlikely to ease energy; as is well known, the administration passenger railroads. Direct government-to­ much, let alone go away, he probably will be has deliberately stimulated inflation with government efforts to diversify our oil forced to ask for the popularly supported its price-decontrol policy. supply witli more non-OPEC countries are controls at some point. While we wait we Only in connection with its weak hospital also essential. can expect a round of price increases by cost-containment proposals and support for The obstacles to solving our underlying businessmen who want to get in their boosts a slight expansion of assistance to health food inflation problems are more political before the price gates slam down. maintenance organizations did it seriously than economic. We are not in a shortage sit­ But the issues facing us go beyond con­ attempt to target a basic-necessity sector. uation here as in energy. Relative to domes­ trols and even beyond the appalling fact But the approach here has been half-heart­ tic needs, the United States is the richest that the budget ax is likely to fall most ed, and, more importantly, the anti-inflation agricultural nation in the history of the heavily on the weakest members of society. benefits would be counteracted if the ad­ world; we export half of our grain. They go to the. larger question of whether ministration's plan for catastrophic-only But the United States thing will turn up"-or whether we will, on Unless we focus on the necessities while does not yet have a serious policy of insulat­ purpose, attack the central causes of infla­ wage-price controls are in effect, we will ing our domestic food economy from the ef­ tion. Critics are correct in stating that if ·squeeze family income even further. This fects of short-term world shortages. A controls are clamped on, there would merely has happened already under the voluntary system of export management, coupled with be another explosion of prices and wages wage-price program, and it will worsen if expanded deficiency payments to farmers, once they are removed-unless we simulta- key items in the family budget-fuel oil and could stabilize domestic grain prices and neously root out the causes. · food, for example-are allowed to skyrocket thereby also reduce fluctuations in meat Our new inflation, it must be understood, while wages are held down with reserves must also be pursued. pressures. It has been concentrated in a few the force of law. We could see a replay of In short, for our anti-inflation strategy to key sectors for most of the "10s. Virtually all the Nixon program, properly described by be something other than wishful thinking the increase in the inflation rate between one of the top men in then charge, Arnold or a repeat of Richard Nixon's election-year 1978 and 1979 was caused by special and by Weber, as a mechanism to "zap labor." controls program, this administration or the now familiar factors that increased prices of Wage-price controls by themselves would ac­ next must have a clear plan for how it the "basic necessities"-energy, food, hous- tually do more than that today: They would wants to reshape the key markets generat- 5134 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 ing the bulk of the inflation. This requires All through the years· we have wit­ columns from the Daily Telegraph of more than a simple-minded notion of gov­ nessed energetic participation by more London for February 25, 1980 follow: ernment intervention; it requires a willing­ than 38,000 girls, aged 7 through 17, in [From th_e Daily Telegraph, Feb. 25, 19801 ness to plan. activities which benefit people of all Planning is a dirty word in American poli­ backgrounds. It is with a sense of LEFT-WINGERS GRUDGINGLY RECOGNISE tics. Instead we prefer muddling towards a CHILE'S ECONOMIC SUCCESS I crisis solution like unplanned wage-price pride that salute these young women controls. It is an all too familiar pattern. dedicated to peace, and moved by a Both the massive government interventions sense of service to all. Chile's economic recovery under the stern to bail out Chrysler and to build an $.88 bil­ Girl Scouting is a · movement with hand of Gen. Pinochet, is now acknowf­ lion synfuelS industry were preceded by the edged by the International Monetary Fund, multipurpose. Girl Scouts include all the World Bank and inter-American eco­ muddle-through, symbolic posture of look­ people in their worldwide family by ing the other way and hoping something nomic policy.circles. would turn up. regularly visiting the elderly in homes More significantly, it is even finding We may have to go through an eponomic and providing them with companion­ grudging recognition from some Left-wing bloodbath before the lesson is learned: Gov­ ship. They have the ability to generate opponents in Chile itself. ernment intervention is the likely result of laughter in the eyes of children and They see today's slight "liberalisation" of the process in any event. The question is older Scouts tutor inner-city children the regime as a direct result of growing na­ whether it is based on serious confrontation in reading and other skills. There are tional-prosperity. with the new problems we actually face. The ·fact that things are generally better, camps for learning-fro~ th~ C~Jn_a_ra- . despite the persistent social flaws 1which Once all of this is recognized, we may derie of a fire and-a song, to the recog­ Chile's succession of "progressive" regimes have a chance of dealing with the central nition of our natural resources and the failed ever to remedy, is showing up the issue facing the economy in the coming iµiportance of a clean and h~althy en­ threadbare nature of the "developmental" · decade: the sharp lag in U.S. productivity. theories popular in the 1960s and which ac­ From 1967 to 1978, for example, output per vironment. Girl Scouting instills a sense of re­ tually set back economic and social growth manhour in U.S. manufacturing rose only in many Latin American and other Third 28 percent, while it climbed 75 percent in sponsibility in all its members. Scout­ World countries. West Germany and 113 percent in Japan. ing encourages individual and group Our manufacturing growth was the lowest involvement that is necessary for SUSTAINED GROWTH of 11 industrial nations-trailing even Great people to truly enjoy a community With a growth-rate of 8.6 per cent last Britain. And last year we suffered an actual spirit. Civic ·programs, educational pro­ decline in productivity. year-likely to be about eight per cent again grams for the retarded and handi­ this year-and inflation again cut from the If we repeat this performance this decade, exceptional 40 per cent of 1979 and forecast the effects of compounding guarantee that capped, hikes in the forest, craft bazaars, international exchange pro­ at about 20 per cent in 1980, the Chilean the very heart of our industrial economy economy is doing well by any standards will be threatened while our major competi­ grams, recycling projects, and grand­ parent "adoption" programs are just a today. tors race forward. From an· almost breakdown in 1973, under But no intelligent executive can plan for few of the many service activities in­ the' Leftist coalition,·with inflation at about long-term · iiivestmerit in -high-productivity volving the Girl Scouts. _A sense of - 1,000 per cent, the Treasury empty and pro­ equipm.cnt unless there is confidence of a service is not the only benefit of scout­ duction atinost at a standstill, Chile has now growing market. So the uncertainties of our ing, however. The mutual trust and experienced three-and-a-half years of sus­ stop/start economy caused by the govern­ friendship formed between girls of all tained GNP growth at double its historial ment's policy responses-or non-responses­ ages is a reward to cherish forever. rate. lead business to shift away from long-term, Recovery has been during the worst world productivity-improving investments toward Mr. Speaker, it is for us to honor recession since 1929 and is a tribute to the short-term speculation. this wonderful organization that has planners' aim to make Chile less vulnerable To some, the answer is always "supply­ done so much for world unity and than before to world economic shi~ts. side economics," especially more tax breaks peace in the past 68 years. May they The most common reproach nowadays for business to help increase productivity. continue to uphold the values of our made to the economic team, led b~ Sr But most executives make large invest~ent forefathers, . and the goodness of Sergio De Castro, Minister of Finance, con­ decisions because of confidence in a future today. Scouting shall continue to cerns their "narrow monetarism." market, not because of tax breaks. Congress' It is said that by seeking financial equilib­ General Accounting Office, assessing the spread its high ideals to everyone, ev­ erywhere.• rium, rejection of import substitution, dras­ effect of investment tax credits in 1978, tic reduction of the state's involvement in found they prompted little change in actual trade and industry, they have produced a investment decisions-at a. cost to the feder­ sheaf of impressive figures and a middle­ al budg.et of $19 billion. LEFT-WINGERS GRUDGINGLY class bonanza. But at the expense of. the · While a "supply-side economics" is neces­ RECOGNIZE CHILE'S ECONOMIC poorer ciasses. sary, it must be carefully targeted to the SUCCESS Income is being concentrated, not distrib­ problem sectors-and integrated,. on pur­ uted. Unemployment is increasing. There is, pose. into an overall plan that can offer con­ in fact, no real proof of this new "concentra­ fidence in resumed growth. We can no HON~ ~RRY McDONALD tion." · longer Just cross our ..fingers that we will OF GEORGIA No thorough study of poverty in Chile has avert a major crisis.e been made for several years. Many assump­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions are based on an out-of-date Church Monday, March 10, 1980 study of "extreme poverty" made before the GIRL SCOUTS -1. 19'80 illusory experiments of Allende's "Popular e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the Unity." left throughout the world remains A recent University of Chile st!.ldY of un­ HON. WILLIAM H. NATCHER adamant that Chile and its leader Pin­ employment in the Greater Santiago area OF KENTUCKY ochet will never be forgiven for seemed to establish that this has neither de­ lN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thwarting their plans to take over teriorated nor improved since 1970-a some­ Chile. However, in this hatred the left what negative tribute to the government's Monday, lt-!arch 10, 1980 reversal of the artificial employment meth­ ·has been · confounded· by how well ods ol both the Christian Democrat and So­ e Mr. NATCHER. Mr. Speaker, Chile has succeeded by turning to cap­ cialist-Communist regimes. during the week of March 9-16, the italism without any real help from the Santiago today is a cheerful bustling city, more than 2,000 Girl Scout troops United States. Her economy is boom­ its shops bursting at the seams with import­ throughout the United States will ing. Concurrently with this economic ed goods at reasonable prices, packed with · celebrate the 68th anniversary of the prosperity has been · a lessening of shoppers at all hours. · founding of Girl Scouts of America, an government controls and it was also The awful slums, the "Pobfaclones," still organization brought over from Eng­ recently announced that collective bar­ exist, their inhabitants eking out an exist­ ence based nowadays on Roman Catholic land by Juliette Low in 1912. I would gaining and the right to strike for peri­ aid, government social assistance and "mini­ like to take this opportunity to praise ods of up to 60 days have been restored mum employment" provisions. this fine group for their many contri­ in Chile. Critics may say that Improvement there is slow to come. But butions to world friendship every­ tliis ls not enough, but what rights do under Christian Democrats, Socialists and where. Cuban workers have to strike? Two Communists these slums existed without March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5135 the cheerful and expanding atmosphere of Principal Vincent Daher led the en- would honor a commitment to provide a. · the growing middle class. . thusiastic supporters from Phoenix- meaningful standard of living and quality of life for men and women who volunteered. NEW ATTITUDES ville High School. a.nd for their families. We have reneged on For years Santiago was a Latin replica of These young men epitomize the this commitment. East Berlin in its worst days, thanks to · dedication and purpose to which we all Since 1972, the Consumer Price Index has import substitution which denied the public aspire. Their tremendous effort brings risen 75 percent, while military compensa­ access to world produce and offered mostly honor not only to themselves, but also shoddy, high-priced local imitations. tion has risen only 51 percent. This means a Criticisms of the "social market economy" to their school and the community as decline of over 14 percent in purchasing on Friedmanite principles, ts essentially po- a whole, and the Nation will receive power for all military personnel, and a de· litical. the benefits of this commitment in the cline approaching 25 percent for some en· listees in the lower grades. The average Meanwhile new standards and attitudes to future. . compensation for an enlisted person, includ­ life are being generated throughout Chilean The members of the championship ing pay and benefits, currently is $9,900. society which are likely to make a return to team are Nick Vodantis, Dean Treve­ That is 17 percent below the "lower" stand· earlier irresponsible demagogy unlikely lino, Steve Vodantis, Tim DeBolt, Ted ard of living for a family of four as calculat­ when, one day, the political boom ts lifted. Harrop, John Tometta, Vince Heck, ed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At CHILE ALLOWS STRIKES BUT LIMITS THEM Tom Bearden, Ted Krancz, Dan Hoff. least 100,000 and possibly 275,000 military man, Bernie Brewer, Brett Lehman, families qualify for welfare payments. New labour laws introduced in Chile last Byron Brant, Gerald Taney, and Alan (Many who qualify are too proud to apply; year by President Pinochet have restored Raichle. they leave the service instead.) Military collective bargaining and permit strikes last· I congratulate the members of the commissaries take in over $10 million a year ing up to 60 days. in food stamps. There have been about 20 strikes, includ­ Phoenixville High School Phantoms A few concrete examples are even more ing one at El Teniente copper mine. There wrestling team and their coaches, and shocking. An E4 plane handler on the nucle­ has been no violence, no military interfer­ wish them the best in all future en­ ar carrier Nimitz, deployed to the Indian ence. deavors.• Ocean during the Iranian crisis, normally The "labour plan," introduced by Senor works 16 hours a day, or about 100 hours Jose Pinera, Labour Minister, has had a per week. He ha.nciles the F14 aircraft, R).ixed reception since it subjects union lead­ IT'S TIME FOR A BIG PAY RAISE which costs $25 million, and helps operate a er~..W more control by grass-roots member­ $2 billion Ship. Yet he makes less per hour ship and rules out the union politics of pre­ HON. TIM LEE CARTER than a cashier at McDonalds, lives below vious regimes. the poverty level, is eligible for food stamps OF KENTUCKY CHECK TO INFLATION and probably has not seen his wife and child The plan complements the Government's IN THE HOUSE OF R~RESENTATIVES for six months. A chief petty officer on that free-enterprise economic policy. It prevents Monday, March 10, 1980 same ship with 17 years' service makes the unions from imposing inflationary wage set­ same salary as a Janitor on union scale and tlements. Productivity is the ruling factor in • Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, it was puts in twice as many hours. negotiation. my pleasure and honor to have served It is little wonder, then, that the services Sceptical workers so far see the new free­ with the Honorable Melvin R. Laird, a last year fell short of their recruiting goals dom as "better than nothing" but as weight­ distinguished Member from Wisconsin by 25,000 people. They have experienced ed in employers' favour. who later served as Secretary of De­ qualitative as well as quantitative shortfa11s. The idea is to preclude vast trade union fense. Mel was known for his incisive Nearly 50 percent of all male volunteers groupings with politic~.1 ambitions and also, tested mentally in the lower ha.If of the U.S. thinking and his brilliant mind. population. Five years ago that figure was by limiting wage negotiations to individual In the Washington Post of March establishments, to prevent nationwide "soli­ 32 percent. darity" strikes. 10, 1980, he has an article concerning Yet recruiting is only half of the mili­ Unions may be freely formed according to pay raises for the military. I must say tary's personnel dilemma.. Retaining qua.If· the number of a firm's employees. but .that I agree that the members of the fled people after their first, second and closed shops are forbidden. military are underpai.d, that a pay third enlistments ts an acute problem and "We believe this system will produce very raise no doubt would increase the will get worse unless remedial action is just results, meaning that each worker shall number of volunteers and improve the taken. The services have been losing over 75 earn the value ' of his productivity," says percent of those compJeting their first en· esprit de corps. We do not need the llstment since 1976. About 30 percent of Senor Pinera.• largest army in the world, but we need males enlisting do ~ot even complete the the best trained, best equipped, and first term. PHOENIXVILLE HIGH SCHOOL most determined. To restore our defense readiness and meet PHANTOMS WRESTLING TEAM I enclose for the perusal of the our commitment to the All-Volunteer Force Members the article by the former concept, I propose the following specific ac­ Secretary of Defense, Melvin R. Laird. tions: HON. RICHARD T. SCHULZE An across-the-board 17 percent pay in· OF PENNSYLVANI.A IT'S TIME FOR A BIG PAY RAISE crease for all military grades to make up for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Congre_ss and the Carter admfnistration the loss in purchasing power since 1972. should act now to drastically increase the Legislation indexing increases in military Monday, Mar;ch 10, 1980 pay and benefits of U.S. military personnel. pay to increases in the Consumer Price e Mr. SCHULZE. Mr. Speaker~ I am This action-more than any being pro- Index. pleased to share with my colleagues posed by the president to upgrade our de~ . f ense posture-ts necessary to · restore the A mandate that pay levels be applied to today· the achievements of Rt group of services to the effective forces that this all forms of compensation-basic pay, hous­ young men from my congressional dis- nation demands and deserves. The AII-Vol­ ing allowance and subsistence . Pres­ trict. For the fifth straight. year, the unteer Force is beset with severe and grow­ ently, a portion of an increase may be ap­ Phoenixville High School Phantoms ' Ing problems of both quality and quantity. plied to housing or subsistence, and basic wrestling team has . won the Ches- And these problems a.re directly attributa· pay does not increase by the full amount. Mont championship. ble. to our failure to keep lhilitary compen- Separation, or decoupling, or the compu­ This impressive record might lead to sation comparable with the civilian sector. tation of military pay from that of federal 0 0 1 civil service workers. The demand for jobs in the assumption that their victories se~~et:~u~?d::e~e ~:S t~ 1:~d :~~~~ the federal civil service far outweighs the haye become predictable. In contrast, With that step, the United States embarked supply, and civil service workers generally this year the odds and preseason ex- on one of the more important ventures in its are not subject to long hours of unpaid pectations were against the team, a recent history: we would endeavor to overtime, frequent moves and family separa­ fact which has earned !t especial pride become the first nation in modem times to tion. from the community. maintain a large standing military on an e.11- A variable housing allowance keyed to The perseverance and determination volunteer basis. It would make up about 2.5 actual housing costs in the local area, and a which resulted in a championship percent of the labor force and rely com­ crash program to build more military hous­ team was nurtured by Coach Lonny pletely on the equitable considerations of ing. Government housing is available to the competitive marketplace. only 20 percent of the enlisted force; it Moore, Assistant Coach Matt Gordon, My confidence that this would succeed should be available to 50 percent. and Athletic Director Edward Aurand. was based on the expectation that the presi· Reimbursement to military families for Principal Richard Newton and Vice dent, Congress and the American people the full cost of their moves. The present en· CXXVI--824-Pa.rt 4 5136 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 titlement is 10 cents per mile; the actual AMERICAN CARS DON'T SELL IN JAPAN? $6,000 ice add another $5,089. The car now costs cost is about 21 cents per mile. MODEL GOES FOR $20,000 '$13,441, wholesale. Special skill pay to enlisted and officer Internal freight costs are . about $44. ratings where shortfalls are expected-nar· dealer prep charges are $478, warranty DETROIT.-The automobile bridge across charges are another $478 and advertising rowing the gap, for example, between what the Pacific is a one-way street. an enlistee receives and what he or she costs per car average about $350. could earn on the outside in areas such as Fo"reign cars. particularly Japanese The final cost to the dealer the refore is computer programming. models, are capturing an ever-increasing $14,791. To this, he adds his markup of 36.4 share of sale in the United States, and percent. and the price of the car to the Jap­ Improved medical benefits and coverage, American cars simply don't sell in Japan. which have been reduced for dependents. anese buying public ls $20.175. The situation exacerbates an already criti· A luxury car running through the same . . An increased bonus to $5,000 cal balance-of-trade problem for this coun­ for joining the combat arms, and indexing· system will run over $30,000. A subcompact try and is starting to br~ed a growing ~ense would be close.to $14,000, while a Japanese future increases to the CPI. of international economic ill will. A cost-of-living allowance for all personnel buyer could get a similar car built in his United Auto Workers President Douglas country for about $3,500.9 stationed overseas, even if they live in mili­ Fraser, irate that import sales are flourish­ tary barracks. ing while slumping sales of U.S. cars are These initiatives will be expensive-sever­ putting thousands of his members out of A NEW TAX ON YOU al billion dollars per year. But the amount work, has returned from a trip to Japan will be offset to some degree through de· where he sought some relief. He would like creased costs of recruiting and training. to see Japanese auto exports to the United HON. LARRY McDONALD More important" we will have taken .some States cut back and would like to have the OF GEORGIA necessary steps toward restoring and main­ Japanese automakers start manufacturing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES taining our required military capability. some of their cars in this country. The United States must provide these in­ Whether Fraser's mission has any impact Monday, March 10, 1980 dividuals and their families with a quality of remains to be seen. But it is unlikely that e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the life commensurate with the sacrifices we any of the trade problems between the tax gouging theft of legitimate private demand from them. The primary ingredient United . States and Japan will be solved in in providing that quality is competitive pay the foreseeable future by a growing Japa­ enterprise profits in the energy indus­ and benefits.• nese •market for American-made cars. try is making its way to completion. The problem can be traced directly to Jap­ Having violated some of the most basic anese customs and regulations that add up concepts of free enterprise economics, PERSONAL EXPLANATION to trade barriers. Taken all together, they the Government has made the moral can turn a car which would sell for $6,000 in equivalent to a declaration of war HON. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN this country into one that would cost a Jap­ against production. Taking away the anese customer more than $20,000. very moneys the industry needs to in­ OF NEW YORK According to a State Department study crease exploration and production, we IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES done by the American consulate in Osaka, have guaranteed scarcity and high Japan, these are some of the factors that Monday, March 10, 1980 jack up the price of American cars in Japan prices. Regulation of the industry has to a point where only the wealthy can produced our shortages and reg~la­ e Ms. HOLTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, I tions will perpetuate it, all to the det­ was unable to be present on Friday, afford tnem: The Japanese levy a commodity tax of 20 riment of the consumer. February 22, 1980. If I had been pres­ percent on the landed cost of every Ameri­ The following is an article from the ent. I would have voted as follows: can car. The -tax is figured on the car's Chattanooga News Free Press, Janu­ Roll No. 65-yes. wholesale value,· plus entry fees and trans­ ary 3, 1980. It very appropriately dem­ Roll No. 67-yes. portation costs. The commodity tax on Jap­ onstrates who is to receive the great­ Roll No. 68-yes.e anese cars, on the other hand, is only 15 percent and is assessed at the factory so est injury in this very confused action shipping costs are not included. by our Government. The article follows: AUTOMOBILE TRADE ONE-WAY Japanese standards for new cars are not STREET the same as U.S. standards. They are not 4 ~EW TAX .ON Y-ou necessarily · tougher, just different. Modifi­ Many· have chortled that "the big oil com­ cations which dealers must make to meet panies" were really getting their come­ HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS those standards can add more than $1,000 to uppance as moves have been made to the price of each car. OF PENNSYLVANIA impose upon them a "windfall profits tax." Dealer mark ups on American cars can run But it you take a closer look, you will find IN THE HOUSE OFllEPRESENTATIVES up to nearly 37 percent. The markups are the oil companies are not going to pay the M onday, March 10, 1980 justified by t he Japanese as necessary be­ tax. cause American car sales volume is too low You will. e Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, Japa­ to afford a profit without the markups, and Besides that, you will be paying ~igher nese model automobiles have become because Japanese automakers generally will prices. common sights on the streets and not allow a dealer who sells foreign cars to Here's the situation: highways of .every city and town in sell Japanese cars, too. For political reasons. government price Moreover, Japanese cars are sold door-to­ controls were put on domestic oil. The poli­ America. In fact, .Toyotas·. Datsuns, door, much as vacuum cleaners and encyclo­ Subarus, and so forth, are so numer­ ticians told the people they were saving pedias are sold here. Dealers in Japanese them money. What really happened was ous they make up something like 25 models dol'.il. 't have showrooms and don't that domestic production was discouraged percent of the domestic automobile maintain inventories, so overhead is virtual­ and did not keep up with increasing market. ly non-exist~mt. American cars in Japan are demand. But, would you see Fords, Chevys, sold out of showrooms and from in-stock in­ With shortage occurring, the foreign oil and Chryslers cruising the streets of ventori ~s . creating high overhead which is producers found it easy to Jack up their J apan in such numbers? No! The Japa­ passed th rough t o customers. prices. So U.S. domestic price controls and nese go to great lengths to keep The Osaka study traces three American limiting regulations made it possible for American cars off their streets models-a luxury car, an intermediate and a OPEC to sock it to us! subcompact-through the marketing steps Now we have to remove some of the price through a maze of custom and regula­ in Japan. and produces a clear picture of controls and regulations to try to get out of tions. The re5ults is a $6,000 American the problem. the mess we have gotten into. Since prices car could cost the Japanese buyer a The intermediate carries a factory price in have gone up, the government now wants to cool $20,000. this count ry of $5,350. The landed price in keep the millions of Americans who own oil I am inserting into the RECORD a Japan is $6.960, an increase due largely to company stock from · getting profits that newspaper article which describes shipping costs and entry fees. '. they have previously been denied. Thus a these barriers to free trade and The 20 percent commodity tax then adds heavy tax on "windfall profits." $1,392 to the price, bringing it to $8,352. But the oil companies won't pay the tax. graphically demonstrates why our Na­ Landing fees, unloading costs, options pack­ It will become a part of the prices of all oil tion's automobile traffic with Japan is ages on which dealers insist because custom­ products, Just as the cost of drilling, cost of strictly.a one-way street. ers demand them. modifications to meet labor, cost of equipment, cost of everything The article follows: Japanese regulations and pre-delivery serv- else is included in the price. March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5137 Since· the money that goes · for tax winds family is surely a radical and sweeping The Census Bureau definition of family up in the hands of government, that overstatement and quite inconsistent comes from a time when people lived differ­ amount will be otential invest­ with reality. ently. While everyone is counted in house­ ment in producing more oil. So shortage will holds, many real f amtlies are not counted by not be allevia.ted to the degree it should· be, Another category in the report, the bureau as· families. "Family of Choice" thus keeping prices high. called childless couples, may include includes everyone. During interviews con­ The only windfall profits are going to newlyweds and older couples whose ducted for this project, everyone-whether OPEC and Washington politicians. And children are grown and married. To unclear, single parent, brother and sister, or they won't even thank you for paying look upon individuals who might fall homosexuai couple-said the same thing: them.e · into this category as somehow being "We are family,"e members of different kinds of family entities is again a distortion of reality. IS "FAMILY" IN THE EYE OF ED PATTEN TO RETIRE THE BEHOLDER? But the real question is not one of sta'.' tistics. It is not a matter of whether the wife or mother works part time or HON. FRANK THOMPSON, JR. HON.JOHNM.ASHBROOK full time, of whether the married OF NEW JERSEY OF OHIO couple have one or two or no children IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES under a certain age, of whether the father lives away from home part of Monday, March 10, 1980 Monday, March 10, 1980 the time because of his work, of e Mr. THOMPSON. Mr. Speaker, our e Mr. ASHBROOK. ~r. Speaker, a whether any or all of the children are colleague, Congressman ED PATTEN, recent report in the Chicago Tribune, adopted, or of whether an adult son or has announced that he will not seek· January 20, 1980, challenges the falla­ daughter may be living in a separate, reelection to the House and~ therefore, cious claim by radical feminists that single household. The real question will reenter private life at the end of "traditional" families make up only 7 concerns the traditional values of the the present Congre$s~ We in New percent of all American families. American people as opposed to those Jersey will miss ED and the enormous Actually, that percentage would vary values, or better lack of. values, that help he has given to New Jersey and considerably according to what or who agents of change would force upon his constituency over the years the observer is and according to what them by parrying with words and sta­ through his untiring work on the Ap­ he or she chooses to understand by tistics in an effort to make· what actu­ propriations Com.niittee. We who serve the terms "traditional" and "family." ally is into something they want it to with him will miss his unfailing good Here, in this Tribune article, "When a be. Liberal activists would like to humor and blithe spirit. 'Family' Is Not a Family to U.S.", we change the family to something like I had the privilege . of coming to have yet another view of family. The beauty which is in the eye Of the be­ know ED and his lovely wife, Ann, article cites U.S. Census Bureau fig­ holder. Most Americans will not com­ early in the 1950's when he was serv­ ures showing that more than 57 mil­ promise their moral values. We know ing as Middlesex County clerk. En sub­ lion out of some 76 million households what a family is and it is not of the sequently ran the successful candidacy meet the criteria of "two or more per­ Manson or Jones type nor is it of the of former Governor Robert· Meyner sons, related by blood, adoption, or homosexual or convenience trend and was appointed Secretary of State marriage, living under one roof." either. where he served with distinction prior That's approximately 75 percent, a WHEN A " FAMILY" Is NoT A FAMILY To U.S. to his election to the House 18 years long way from the 7-percent refrain so The figures and perceµtages in "Family of ago. often sung by th._e chorus of f emL.11ists Choice" were derived from the Household I have seldom known a political and their fellow travelers in an effort and Family Characteristics section of the figure who cares more for the people to support their claim that the tradi­ Statistical Abstract, March 1978, published he represents. He·has a truly phenom­ tional family is a thing of the past and by the U.S. Census Bureau~ Some of the enal knowledge of the lives of thou­ needs to be replaced by some new kind percentages were derived from the abstract sands of his collStituents, their cares, of family. The idea is, to plant the im­ by sociologists and statisticians at the their · problems, and their hopes. I pression that those who support the · Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. According to 'the · U.S. Census Bureau, know you will Join with me in com­ co:ncept of a traditional family are rep­ mending to the House an editorial resentative of a minority view. there·were 76,030,000 American households in 1978. A subgroup of that figure is fami· that recently appeared in the New One category mentioned in. · the lies, defined by the bureau as two or more Brunswick Home News that comments report is the single, which comprises persons, related by blood, adoption, or mar­ on our colleague, ED PATTEN. about one in five· U.S. households. Of riage, living under one roof. Some 57,215,000 The editorial follows: course, there are households occupied households held families that met those cri­ by single individuals, but in many · teria. PATTEN ls AN INSTITUTION cases the single may be a widow or a · Clearly, many contemporary American Frank Skeffington, the polftical character widower or an adult ion or daughter families don't fit into those traditional in Edwin O'Connor's "The Last Hurrah," who, because of his or her work, may molds, so the percentages listed here are of may have been modeled after Boston's households. In the case of couples living to· famous Mayor James Michael Curley. But be living away from home. Perhaps, gether unmarried, who are counted as anyone who lives west of the Arthur Kill even in some cases it may be.a wife or households but not families, the 1.1 milllon can tell you that the greatest living embodi­ a husband who part of the time during couples, also a U.S. Census Bureau figure, ment of the old-time, ward-heeling politi­ the workweek maintains a separate was divided by the number of households. cian who knew how to "take care" of his abode. The result was 1.5 percent. people was Edward J. Patten. Certainly those of us in Congress The households counted by tne U.S. In his 17 years as a congressman, hardly a who have families residing beyond the Census Bureau include all Americans. but weekend has passed that the 74-year-old there's a 20 million difference between the ~tten has not come home to Perth Amboy immediate vicinity of Washington, to hear constituents ask favors. D.C., and who, because of demands on number of households and the number of "families." And some families, as defined in Whether it was for help in finding a Job, our time, cannot be home every night "Families of Choice," are counted by the or obtaining long-overdue Social Security in the week, do not consider our own government as part of ~ larger group: Foster payments or getting federal funds for a mu­ families. any less traditional and any fam!lies mch as the Schleifers, or adoptive nicipal project, ·Patten always took pains to less ideal simply on the basis of that families such as the Days, would come help his constituents. criterion. To imply that all these indi· under the same umbrella as the Kurkows­ Others who served in Congress as long as · viduals are no longer part of & tradt­ kis, the traditional nuclear family. The he may have championed major legislation tional family, that somehow their Riottos, however, an extended family, would or attained positions of leadership. family membership is obliterated by be counted as two · househol~. And the But Patten's self-defined role was to "help large Kinnerk family could also be counted the average person cope with government in the fact that they ~re not at home as part of the 21 percent of American house­ any variety of problems." It was his greatest every day in the week on a regular holds in which both parents work, such as virtue and his greatest achievement. basis or that somehow they now con­ the Platas. Yet an observer sees vast differ­ · Patten has decided to call it quits to that stitute a new and different kind of ences among them. career, announcing Thursday that he will 5138 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 retire in December rather than seek a 10th many people who may not have had success." As in revolution, so too in passion? term. heli:> are able to use the hospital's alco- We dream perhaps of becoming ourselves Uncharacteristically, the normally garru- holism recovery program. I think Mr. the object of these monstrous, distorted, ob­ lous Patten had no long and emotional Daniels should be highly congratulat- sessional, monomanic emotions now lav­ speech this time, just a prepared statement f i · · 1 · ished on some daft or wicked cause or other, that he had decided to "see what it is like to ed or prov dmg this essent1a service and of being swept right away for a time '1.ead a private life and still maintain a lively .to the community. from our all-too-normal worid of easy affec­ interest in public affairs." Psychiatric facilities are also one of tion, of ever-intrusive laughter, of up-to-a­ Patten said nothing in his statement his major accomplishments in addition point and on-the-one-hand-or-the-other. about the pressure that has been built up to instituting a wide range of special­ To return to Ms. Fonda-she apparently against him by members of his own Middle- ized services. These services represent charges 2,500 for a lecture-yes, a lecture: sex County Democratic Organization. Nor significant technological advance­ rather beyond my means. She gets, accord­ did he mention the narrow brush with ments and include a 24-hour emergen­ ing to Ms. Mccooey, more than half a mil­ defeat he had in his last election over a Re· cy center, an intensive care unit, coro­ lion dollars for a film. Yet, rich as she is and peddling charges. medicine, ultra sound, cardiac rehabili- presumably ashamed of it, this greedy girl Those factors undoubtedly influenced his . tation center, eye surgery suite, physi­ still needs more, in particular to finance her decision, but it is more likely that age and cal and occupational therapy depart. husband, Tom Hayden, described by Ms. the changing political complexion of Mid· ments, out-patient surgery, specialty Mccooey as "brilliant" and "ad· dlesex County were the deciding factors. labs, oncology unit, progressive care viser on nuclear energy" Cl am not joking) When he steps down at the end of this unit. and noninvasive cardiac labora­ to Governor Jerry Brown , in year, Patten will be quitting more than a ,tory. It is an impressive list that repre­ his campaign for some sort of public office. career. He will be ending a tradition that in- sents a great deal of time and effort So Ms. Fonda, this "dedicated supporter eludes top hats and top coats with silk of oppressed minorities" reject­ litical scene as long as Edward J. Patten has thanks to the gentleman who had the ed personal publicity, concentrating instead are hard to forget.e foresight and dedication to see that on the political issues of the day." She is "a goal become a reality. tireless champion .. of unpopular causes," I again would like to salute Mr. Dan­ most notoriously for her traitorous cam­ TRIBUTE TO MR. WILLIAM iels for his fine efforts. He has many paign to get America defeated in Vietnam, DANIELS outstanding accomplishments that are for which she was hung in effigy, nick­ more than worthy of recognition and named Hanoi Hannah and widely ostracised. Today, according to Ms. Mccooey, her OF pALIFORNIA views are "vindicated by all but a few f anat­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LOONEY LADIES OF THE LEFT ical hawks." Monday, March 10, 1980 Vindicated? My hat! Have these asinine women noticed nothing that has gone e Mr. CHARLES ~ WILSON of Cali­ HON. LARRY McDONALD wrong in Indo-China since the Americans fornia. Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased OF dEORGI"- left? Have they not heard of the famines to bring to the attention of my col­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and misery, the overf)owing jails, the f ami­ leagues here in the Congress a hospi­ Monday, March 10, 1980 lies sundered, of the piteous refugees in tal administrator who has demonstrat­ tlleir hundreds of thousands, of the fearful ed what quality health care should be. e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, Mr. tortures and massacres, of the Cambodian Colin Welch wrote a column that ap­ peasants, for instance, buried alive up to His name is Mr. William Daniels. who their necks and then ploughed ·in, of the is currently serving his 25th year as peared in the Daily Telegraph of London on February 11. 1980, discuss­ grim "re-education" camps in Vietnam chief executive of the Hawthorne itself, in which some of the inmates eat a Community Hospital in Hawthorne, ing the roles of Jane Fonda and starvation diet and are forced to squat, Calif. Vanessa Redgrave in various interna­ bound wrist and ankle, suffocating in boxes, In today's society with skyrocketing tional issues and causes prominent in while others are driven through minefields health care costs it is reassuring to world affairs in recent years. Mr. as human mine-detectors? witness community health services Welch wrote a rather biting commen­ Are these fitness fanatics-mens insctna in practiced in its highest form. The tary on the ruin these ladies leave in cor1'ore sano-in fact blind and deaf? Or do their wake, while rushing off to em­ they modishly ("tinsel-type values"> put quality of care given to patients at blame for all these horrors on Nixon and Hawthorne Community Hospital is brace the latest cause of the left. The column follows: Kissinger? Why not on the Emperor Franz largely attributable to the man who Josef or, much more appropriately, at least has stood at its helin. LoONEY LADIES OF THE LEFT in part, on their own silly little selves? And Mr. Daniels is not an administrator presents no problems, where tion, the serious problem of alcohol certain: a condition of semi-madness is not stones are lost quickly never to return, abuse has received notice and now unbecoming at such times and often leads to where death itself comes soon to end all March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5139 worries about spare tyres and sagging but­ be as unacceptable as the double-digit the airline industry. While airline tocks. inflation they are intended to cool. ticket prices have risen, prices are far "I like to feel close to the bone," drools These high prime a.pd mortgage inter­ below what they would have been Ms. Fonda. I wonder how Vietnam's concen­ est rates, which stem from the Federal, without deregulation despite increased tration camp victims like it? I have suggested that Ms. Fonda lacks Reserve's ever tighter monetary airline fuel prices and the economy's humour. Perhaps I was unjust. Rex Reed, policy, should bring us to the conclu­ overall high rate of inflation. · In­ "the columnist," once wrote that "while he sion that the Fed alone is not going to creq.sed competition in the trucking in­ was interviewing Fonda she was smoking a strip inflation, at least not before the dustry certainly will have a similarly joint. 'What he didn't say was that he was cure becomes worse than the disease. beneficial . impact on the overhead smoking one too,' was her tart and ready In less than 3 months, high mortgage costs of all those products transported . reply." On second thoughts perhaps I rates have reduced the workingman's by truck. wasn't unjust. New scriptwriter needed?• ability to buy a home by 40 percent. I I think, too, the Federal regulatory think it is time we permit the Fed to agencie~ should be required to weigh TRIBUTE TO MR. TARAS resume a reason.able monetary policy the cost of a proposed rule against the SHEVCHENKO and begin to attack inflation where it expected benefits-before implementa­ counts. tion. Many of us have cosponsored leg­ I am heartened by the President's islation to mandate this procedure and HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI decision to initiate a review of his the President has begun to initiate OF ILLINOIS fiscal year 1981 budget submittal for this requirement administratively. We IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES additional spending cuts. As recently should continue along this course. Monday, March 10, 1980 as February 25, the President was 3. · Reduce U.S. dependence on e Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, quoted as saying. that his economic . OPEC. Energy costs are a major con­ today marks the 166th anniversary of policy suited him fine. By implement­ tributing factor to inflation. The the birth of Taras Shevchenko, tlie ing this budget review, the President President estimated that increased Ukrainian poet laureate, who inspired $hows that he at long last recognizes energy costs resulting from OPEC oil a national spirit of independence in something besides raising interest price hikes made up 3 percentage the Ukraine and other lands under rates must be done. points of 1979's 13.3 percent inflation Russian rule. I want to outline now those actions I rate. Oil is used for everything in our Shevchenko's fame began with the believe should be taken to reduce in­ economy from fertilizers to synthetic publication in 1840 of "Kobzar.'' a col­ flationary pressure. cloth and January's 18-percent infla­ lection of poems extolling freedom for First, reduce Federal expenditures tion rate certainly is an indication the Ukrainian people. It was his and balance the Federal budget. Fed­ that energy costs now ~re contributing poetry that inspired the Ukrainian eral deficit spending is not necessarily more than 3 percentage points to in­ movement for independence. an indicator of unsound fiscal policy. flation. Unfortunately, this period of inde­ In those· years when th~ economy is in I believe ·the most important step we pendence after World War I was brief, a slump and unemployment extremely can take to demonstrate U.S. resolve and since that time, there has been no high, the added stimulation of deficit to break our dependence on OPEC is letup in the campaign of forced Russi­ spending may be desirable. But, the to commit as a minimum 50 percent of fication in the Ukraine, a policy inau­ large Federal deficits of recent years the oil windfali profit tax revenues to gurated by the Czars and expanded have occurred in the context of an ex­ energy research, development, produc­ under the Communist regime. panding economy and this added stim­ tion and conservation. Ending our de­ However, Shevchenko's inspiring ulation certainly has contributed to in­ pendence on foreign suppliers of oil · messages in defense of Ukrainian inde­ flationary pressure. Consequently, I will take time; we should begin now, pendence will remain forever a source personally am supporting legislation however, to show that the United of inspiration and strength for new to limit Federal expenditures as a per­ States has started down the road. And generations of Ukrainians and all free­ centage of the gross national product. we should follow this signal with dom-loving peoples in their struggle to At this point, I want to add a cau­ action: We should begin reducing our free their native lands from oppressive tionary note. While recent Federal oil imports each year as we conserve rule. Taras Schevchenko has become deficit spending certainly ha.S contrib­ energy and develop our domestic alter­ an international prophet, a symbol of uted to some of the economy's illfla­ natives. America used less gasoline in the dreams and aspirations for the tionary pressure; balancing the budget 1979 than in 1978 and our import ideals and hopes of the Ukrainian will not be the panacea some undoubt­ policy should reflect this conservation people.e edly are expecting. Estimates are that effort. balancing the Federal budget in fiscal 4. Increase labor and industry pro­ year 1981 will only reduce the annual ductivity. Now we come to the root of inflation rate by 1 or 2 percentage our inflation problem: Declining pro­ REMARKS OF CONGRESSMAN points at most. Brookings Institution ductivity. Simply put, ·declining pro­ ALLENE. ERTEL ON INFLATION economist Arthur Okun predicts flatly ductivity means excessive demand for that balancing the fiscal year 1981 too few goods. Between 1950 and 1967, HON. ALLENE. ERTEL budget will only knock three-tenths of U.S. productivity grew at an annual OF PENNSYLVANIA 1 percent off the annual inflation rate. rate of 2.4 percent. From 1967 to 1972, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Still this step to reduce Federal spend­ productivity grew at an annual rate of ing ought to be taken: Any contribut­ 1.1 percent. And, from 1972 to 1977 Monday, March 10, 1980 ing factor to inflation should be ad­ productivity growth slowed to an •Mr. ERTEL. Mr. Speaker, last week dressed and mitigated. But, we· must annual rate of only 0.6 percent. Still, the Nation's major banks increased not ignore the larger contributing fac- there was growth. But from the fourth their prime interest rates to 1734 per­ tors either. · quarter of 1978 to the fourth,.quarter cent. The prime now can be expected 2. Reduce the Federal regulatory of 1979, U.S. productivity for all pri­ to exceed 18 percent in the not too dis­ burden on the private sector of the vate business actually dropped by 1.8 tant future. economy. Estimates are that Federal percent. Also last week, several of the Na­ rules and regulations cost the private To resolve this basic problem, we tion's leading savings and loan institu­ sector of the economy between $36 bil­ should be moving along several lines. tions raised home mortgage interest lion and $100 billion annually. Regard­ Congress should move to enact legisla­ rates to 15 percent. And, right here in less of where the actual figure lies, the tion permitting business and industry Washington, the area's largest mortga­ burden is substantial. to take faster depreciation writeoffs gor has raised its mortgage interest I think less Federal regulation of the for investment in new plant and equip­ rates to an incredible 17 percent. trucking industry should be the No. 1 ment. Estimates are that the Capital Prime and mortgage interest rates at priority in this area. We already have Cost Recovery Act, which · a good these historically high levels ought to deregulated, for all practical purposes, number of us have Joined in co-spon- 5140 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 soring, would increase annual growth Worker Week" in America. My con- the RECORD, "And Now, the Communi­ in productivity by as much as 0. 7 per­ gratulations go to the Department for cations Gap," and "The Issue of U.S. cent. their recognition of a vital force in Credibility," the New York Times, Congress also should move to over­ American employment, the aging March 5, 1980: haul the Nation's patent laws. I have worker. AND Now. THE COMMUNICATION GAP introduced legislation to do just this Too many times in our fast-paced so- Somewhere, maybe, there is someone who and while the President also has pro­ ciety have we shunned those who have · believes that the United States Government posed patent policy reform, his legisla­ accumulated years while gathering the would cast a precedent-shattering vote tive proposal falls short of recognizing wisdom of their professions. In recent against Israel at the United Nations, in an the full commercialization potential of decades particularly American indus- election year, without having read and re­ Federal patent policy reform. try and business has ! moved toward read and re-read the language of the resolu­ Productivity reform also should in­ young, enth.usiastic employees simply tion. If that actually happened, as the clude efforts by the Federal Govern­ to follow the trend, often to the detri- White House contends, you would have ment to clear institutional barriers to ment of the business itself. . Mr. Chair- thought that everyone entrusted with the man, those corporations which have nation's security affairs would have moved change and innovation in the private mountains to cover it up. For now it has sector of the economy. Along this line, actively endorsed mandatory retire- become a case not only of betraying Israelis I am pleased to say that the Science, ment programs find that they lose and then Arabs, but also of dismaying all Research and Technology Subcommit­ more in experienced professional ex- who depend on the competence and con­ tee has included as part of the Nation­ pertise than they gain, often, in the stancy of American leaders. Not even crass al Science Foundation's fiscal year vigor of youth. I have been extremely political calculation can explain this kind of 1981 authorization a pilot field pro­ pleased with the initiatives taken by whirligig diplomacy. How does it help a . t ti President to demonstrate that, on an issue gram for a Center of Innovation De­ C ongress and the a dminis ra on of domestic as well as foreign significance, velopment. Center activities will in­ toward breaking down those manda- his political calculus. cannot hold from Sat- clude direct equity funding for the tory retirement barriers. urday to Monday? startup of firms wishing to develop My heartiest congratulations are ex- For the moment, we can only guess at the and bring to market a promising inno­ tended during this week to America's circumstances that produced President vation. I think this type of program older work force. They are the Ameri- Carter's pathetic confession of a "failure to has great potential and I certainly will cans who created the advantages communicate." Perhaps he approved the be fighting for its adoption here in the which our and later generations enjoy vote In anger at the Israelis' newest venture House in the not too distant future. in this Nation, and they continue to in West Bank settlement, only to be fright­ contribute to the best interests of the ened off on reflection, or by the reaction iil 5. Rollback social security payroll Israel-and · Massachusetts. Perhaps the tax. Finally, Mr. Speaker, I think Con­ Nation with their enthusiasm.. e State Department, thirsting to side with the gress should rollback the social secu­ Arabs, misread a White House signal of con­ rity payroll tax. The Congressional HAS THE CARTER ADMINISTRA­ sent and rushed over a rhetorical cliff. Budget Office concedes that this may It doesn't much matter. Far more worri­ be the only type of tax cut which will TION CORNERED THE MARKET some than even this escapade ls the fact bring about downward pressure on ON INCOMPETENCE? that the people who caused an ethnic war prices. Not only is this a desirable by somehow losing touch with Andy Young goal, but I think we also. have an obli­ HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL have made clumsy reversal on major issues gation to the American taxpayer who a trademark of their regime. OF ILLINOIS There was the case of the Soviet "bri- is being hit hard by the so-called infla­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gade" in Cuba, probably set off by an intelli- tion tax. Inflation means that taxpay­ Monday, March 10, 1980 gence failure. It was compounded by politi- ers can expect to pay the Federal Gov­ cal panic-the fear that Senate opponents ernment an extra $13 billion this year, •Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, there olthe SALT treaty.-would capitalize on the a figure which wipes out completely are some who say the Antitrust Divi- "discovery" unless the President became the the 7 .2-percent tax cut we voted last sion of the Justice Department should first to· demand withdrawal of the troops. Congress. investigate the Carter administration When the Russians proved that they had · To conclude, Mr. Speaker, the sug­ which seems to have cornered the nothing special to withdraw, Mr. Carter gestions I have noted here certainly market in incompetence. could only retreat, dragging the treaty are not exhaustive of the actions this · The latest manifestation of this in- toward oblivion. . competence is the by now infamous There was the case of the military budget. House can take. For example, small For months, Mr. Carter had insisted that he business impact statements ought to "yes and no" vote on a U.N. resolution could not profitably spend more than a 3 be included with any regulatory condemning Israel. percent increase in Pentagon funds. But to reform effort, and. savings and invest­ The administration claims that the · buy SALT votes in the Senate, essential new ment incentives, which I strongly sup­ original vote supporting the resolution projects were miraculQusly found requiring port, should be mentioned as other came about because of a f oulup. Cyrus an additional 2 percent increas~. possibilities for stimulating productiv­ Vance has been chosen as the scape- Then came the budget as a whole. After ity. But, the alternatives I have men­ goat in this little scenario and he is promising for three years to balance it for playing h1s part well. fiscal 1981, and despite the need to cool in- tioned would go to the heart of infla­ flation, Mr. Carter last month proposed a tion when considered as a package and There are those who suggest that deficit of at least $16 billion. That permitted frankly. to be successful we should be far from being a mistake, the original . him to satisfy Pentagon clients on the right looking at an inflation-fighting pack· vote was deliberate. They say that the and Kennedy liberals on the left. But it age, and not just one or two policy uproar that ensued caused the admin- soon became obvious that inflation had~re­ changes. My package is a good place to istration to seek some' way of escaping ated an even greater political menace in the begin immediate action.e from its own error. middle-and the White House discovered so, anyway you look at it, the ad- that it could rewrite the budget in Just a ministration has fouled up once again. few days after all. EMPLOY THE OLDER WORKER E 'th th · i And then there was the summons to regis- WEEK 1 er e orig nal vote was intention- ter draft-age youth. Mr. Carter called it nec- al-in which case monumental stupid- essary for national defense-until the Pen­ ity was shown. Or the original vote tagon and Selective Service Indicated that it HON. GARY A. LEE was a mistake-in which case monu- would reduce the time needed for mobiliza­ OF NEW YORK mental stupidity was shown. tion by only a few days. The White House IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I would like to see a show of hands then said registration was needed to demon­ as to how many are proud of the ad- strate a new public tolerance for military Monday, March 10, 1980 ministration's latest diplomatical tri- preparedness. With great fanfare, and an umph. In any event, the extent of the eye on the women's lobby, Mr. Carter said •Mr. LEE. Mr~ Speaker, I am in­ women, too, had to register. But within formed that the U.S. Department of admiriistration's inepitude has been days, the great public referendum was al- Labor has designated this week, captured in two articles in the New lowed to fizzle. Registration was proposed March 9-15, as "Employ the Older York Times. At this point I insert in for only 19- and 20-year-olds, and Congress March 1 O, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5141 was quietly told it didn't r.eally have to in­ ·On Afghanistan, the sharp respo~e to DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION AT clude women. the Soviet intervention has become dulled, Mt:tmn'-VERNON HIGH: TEACH· After all that, what's another fumble in in part because of a lack of enthusiasm n. ~:3' ENERGY CONSERVATION the United Nations? More than a failure to among the European allies over making it a communicate. major East-West issue. President Carter had asserted that the HON. HERBERT E. HARRIS II Soviet Union would have to pay a lasting OF VIRGINIA 'fHE ISSUE OF U.S. CREDIBILITY price for its actions in Afghanistan, but Sec­ • N THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES retary of State Vance said yesterday that sanctions would be lifted as soon as. Soviet Monday, March 10, 1980 WASHINGTON, March 4.-ohe day after troops were withdrawn. e Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, as being praised for political courage by West­ Mr. Carter had a!So called the Soviet America struggles for energy inde­ ern leaders, Arab diplomats and State De­ move the "gravest threat to world peace pendence, every segment of our soci­ partment officials for having voted in the since World War II," but for the moment ety will be called upon to do its part. United Nations Security Council against Is­ tl;le threat · appears to be hypothetical. The Distributive Education Clubs of raeli settlements on the West Bank,· the American intelligence finds that the Soviet America have already begun their ef• Carter Administration is being accused of forces are bogged down against the Afghan political cowardice by many of the sil.me forts to teach energy-conservation insurQ'ents and hardly a threat to anyone. techniques: and to educate the general people for its abrupt reversal. As a result, the Administration's efforts to The general tone of diplomatic cable­ gain support on Capitol Hill for stepped-up public on how important-and how grams reaching the State Department and simple-it is to save energy. of conversations throughout the capital was aid to Pakistan and other countries have At Mount Vernon High School in Al- one of disbelief in the official explanation run into skepticism. . exandria, Va., which I represent, the that the anti-Israeli vote had resulted from The dispute over the vote in the United Distributive Education Club recently Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance's misun­ Nations recalls other cases where the derstanding of President Carter's instruc­ United States took a firm position against coordinated an extremely successful tions. Israel and then retreated. energy fair that included a conserva­ According to the White House, Mr. Carter In March 1977, President Carter, after tion poster contest for schoolchildren, had told Mr. Vance by telephone that he having endorsed the idea of a Palestinian a demonstration by local merchants of would approve a vote . against the settle· "homeland," modified his position and ruled energy-saving products, and tips for ments onJy if all references to Jerusalem, a out a Palestinian state. In October 1977, homeowners on how to cut down on sensitive subject for Israel, were dropped after having joined with the Soviet Union in energy use. . from the resolution. a statement of principles to guide a confer­ A key part of the project was a local Donald F. McHenry, the United, Nations ence on the Middle East, the United States market survey conducted by distribu­ delegate, said he had been told by Mr. dropped the idea when President Anwar el­ tive education students. These surveys Vance over the phone to vote for the resolu­ Sadat of Egypt made his own overture to tion if one particularly troublesome para- help_merchants identify the products Israel, fu effect ending prospects for a con­ a community is interested in, and in graph was altered. It was. · · ference. The White House said Mr. Carter would tum, increases the availability of have ordered an abstention if he had known Last August, the United States ·made an those products desired by consumers. that other, seemingly inconsequential ref er­ effort to support a Security Council resolu­ I am proud of the efforts by the Dis­ ences to Jerusalem were still in the text. tion on Palestinian rights, but, backed off tributive Education Club at Mount The explanation was greeted with skepti­ when both Israel and Egypt objected. · Vernon High School. Last year they cism by State Department officials, who felt There have also been diplomatic accom­ it made no sense for the United States to be pllshments, largely as a result of the perse­ were the Virginia champions in a seen in such disarray. Instead, the officials verance of President Carter and of Secre­ statewide creative marketing project. I and foreign governments believe that the tary of State Vance in bringing about an am sure that they will enjoy a similar White House backtracked to avoid a rift Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty and a frame­ success this year. with Israel that would have alienated influ­ work accord for Palestinian self-rule that is Energy co:pservation is everybody's ential Jewish backers in Mr. Carter's cam­ now under negotiation. business. The work of distr~butive edu­ paign for re-election. ISRAELI OUTBURST WAS FEARED cation clubs in bringing merchants For example, Ambassador Kingman Brew­ and consumers together is a very im­ ster Jr. ·is reported to have sent ·a message Israeli officials said today that the Presi­ portant part of our national drive for from London that Britain had reacted with dent, by dissoci~ting himself from the vote "horror" to the apparent switch by the in the United Nations, might have prevent­ energy independence. I congratulate White House. Prime Minister Margaret ed an Israeli outburst endangering the Pal­ the Mount Vernon High School Dis­ Thatcher has been an important backer of estine negotiations. tributive Education Club, and look for­ President Carter and her support IS needed But the President's action puts additional ward to watching their continued suc­ to insure Western unity in the Afghanistan cess.e crisis. · pressure on Egypt, and makes it even more State Department officials reacted with a difficult for the United States to gahi sup- mixture of embarrassment and anger. Some port in Arab capitals. . ' MANDATORY WAGE-PRICE expressed unhappiness with what one called Since the onset of the Iran and Afghani· CONTROLS "Vance's taking the dive for Carter." Others stan crises, the United States has been par­ shared the assessment of Mr. McHenry, the ticularly eager to seek the friendship of United Nations delegate, that the United Moslem countries. State Department offi­ ·HON. PARREN J. MITCHELL States, by its reversal, had gained "the cials assumed in part that the President had OF MARYLAND worst of all possible worlds" -skepticism in approved the anti-Israeli vote in the United IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Israel and distrust among Arabs. Nations to demonstrate to the Arabs that . The controversy comes at a time when the United States. was willing to vote for a Monday, March 10, 1980 United States policies on Iran and Afghani· resolution that incorporated American e Mr. MITCHELL of Maryland. Mr. stan, which have preoccupied the President policy statements against Israeli settlements Speaker, within 1 week after the Presi­ tor ·several months, also seem inconsistent. in occupied territory, including East Jerusa­ dent signed the Humphrey-Hawkins On Iran, the United States has vacillated lem. Full Employment and Balanced between carrot and stick in trying to bring When reporters inquired yesterday about about the release of the American hostages. Growth Act, many of us were deeply After having threatened punishment, in­ the vote, tne officials said President Carter disconcerted to hear then-Director of cluding military force, · the United ·States has shown courage in defying expected criti­ the Council on Wage and Price Stabil­ began treating Iran as 1a potential ally when cism from Israel by supporting the Security ity Barry Bosworth say, "We're not go­ Soviet forces entered Afghanistan to prop Council action. Today, many of the same of­ ing to be able to get unemployment up the Govei:nment there against an insur­ ficials were plainly unhappy over the rever­ down significantly from where it is now gency. sal. Since the White House statement itself as­ for several years to come,'' in order to SHIFT ON U.N. PANEL IS SEEN serted that the vote represented no change focus on inflation. Washington also agreed to a · United Na­ In United States policy, skeptics saw the of­ Now, Mr. Bosworth, as a private tions commission to hear Iran's grievances ficial explanation as further evidence that economist, is one of a gl-o~ing number after having ruled out such an inquiry the disavowal had been motivated by politi­ of economists who are calling for a before the hostages were freed. cal considerations.• fundamental shift in the administra- 5142 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 tion's economic policy in order to limit Settlement of new, non-inflationary con­ Bosworth also rejected the now standard inflation and unemployment. Mr. Bos­ tracts with major unions-including the contentions that the Nixon administration's worth has called for mandatory wage­ Teamsters and auto, steel, electrical and much-criticized experiment with wage-price railroad workers-is key to the anti-inflation controls in 1971-73 proved that such a pro· price controls. saying that "nothing drive's success. gram can't work. but. a major recession or mandatory "We cannot," he said, "afford to continue "There were a lot of outside factors then controls can break it:• to have one group of American workers, that blew the controls out of the water,'' The Consumer Price Index increased year in year out, get wage increases in Bosworth said in the interview. "If they by 1.4 percent in January. a 15.6 per­ excess of the rest of the economy." happen again, we'll be blown out of the cent annual inflation rate. Black un- water again-with or without controls." employment rose from 11.4 percent in CFrom the Washington Post, Feb. 7, 19801 The factors Bosworth was referring to in­ November to 12.0 percent in December BOSWORTH URGES MANDATORY CONTROLS cluded a simultaneous economic boom in all the major industrial countries, overstimula­ to 12.6 percent in January. When are tion of the U.S. ·economy, grain sales to the we going to stop the ineffective and · The man who ran President Carter's anti­ Soviet Union and devaluation of the dollat. harmful policy of squeezing the econo- inflation program from 1977 to 1979 said Bosworth argued that sweeping, across­ my in a vain effort to redµce inflation? yesterday that it isn't working and the ad­ the-board action is needed because key ele· When are we going to recognize that ministratien should turn instead to manda­ ments of the nation's economic structure the Humphrey-Hawkins Act precisely tory wage-price controls. won't. accept voluntary restraint programs predicted the ineffectiveness of em- Barry P. Bosworth, now a Brookings Insti­ that involved only their sector. ploying the tradeoff theory of at- tution economist, said the change Is needed "Only if you say, 'Here's a whole program' tempting to fight inflation by increas- because inflation has built up such momen­ will. they accept the parts,'' he said. "The ing unemployment? tum "that nothing but a major recession or difference between a voluntary program and mandatory controls can break it." · a mandatory one is only a matter of degree. The following articles from October The call for controls, in an interview yes- But it's an ill)portant one." 31. 1978, and from February 7. 1980. terday, marked a departure for Bosworth, . Eckstein's remarks, delivered in testimony show how the former Director of the who consistently had opposed them during before the House Budget Committee, were President's Council on Wage and Price his two-year tenure as director of Carter's based on similar reasoning to those offered Stability has changed his view of the Council on Wage and Price Stability. by Bosworth, but didn't go nearly as far. economic policy necessary to combat Separately, Otto E. Eckstein, former The former Johnson, economic adviser, the stagflation which continues to Johnson adipinistration economic adivser, now president of Data Resources Inc., said plague the Nation. I have endorsed a told the House Budget Committee the con­ "we're betting on recession" now to dampen temporary mandatory policy of price. trols idea "deserves a serious look." Howev- inflation, and the prospects are it won't profit. rent. and wage controls. 1 be- er, he said mandatory restraints had not work. He said the controls idea "deserves a worked before. serious look." • lieve many other economists and polit- · The combination of statements constitut- ical leaders will come to recognize the ed the first serious suggestion for a controls need for a fundamental change in program by established economists in recent policy, years. Most middle-of-the-road economists The two articles follow: have opposed controls as unworkable. THE CUMBERLAND COLLEGE CFrom the Los Angeles Times, Oct. 31, 19781 Bosworth also advocated an array of other SINGERS stiff measures, including gasoline rationing DELAY JOBS EFFORT To FIGHT INFLATION, or a gasoline excise tax, a prompt return to BoswoRTH URGES a bala~ed budg·et, tax cuts to spur produc- NEW Yoruc.-Presidential adviser Barry tivity and incentives for capital formation. HON. ALBERT GORE, JR. Bosworth Monday cast doubt on the Carter He said the only ·alternative to such a OF TENNESSEE Administration's ability to fight inflation package would be for the government to en­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and unemployment simultaneously. gineer a major recession under which the He suggested the Qovernment must call jobless rate would rise to double-digit levels Monday, March 10, 1980 off its fight against unemployment and of 10 percent or higher. focus on inflation to avert a serious reces- · Bosworth's suggestions, similar to' those •Mr. GORE. Mr. Speaker, the Cum­ sion in the next year. proposed last week by Sen. Edward M. Ken- berland College Singers from Lebanon, "Unless within the next 6 months to 1 nedy CD-Mass.>, weren't likely to be em­ Tenn.. and my Fourth Congressional year we can move to get the inflation rate braced by the Carter administration, Carter District will perform on Capitol Hill back under control; ·I think most people already has rejected Kennedy's plan. The .today. The· Cumberland College Sing­ would agree that it's absolutely inevitable Brookings Institution economist said he ers have toured 20 States, Washing­ that the country will go back into another -isn't working as a Kennedy adviser nor did ton, D.C.. Mexico. and Canada. They. recession," said Bosworth, Director of the he have any part in drafting the Senator's Council on Wage and Price Stability. ·economic proposals last week. Kennedy sup· are touring throughout the Washing­ "If it is to be a recession .. . It will be a ported a gasoline rationing plan, but op­ ton-Virginia area from March 7 recession far more severe than that of 1975. posed a gasoline excise tax. through March 15. ·on March 7. they And that, in tum, was the worst recession of ·Bosworth's proposal would impose manda­ performed at Central Presbyterian the postwar period," he said. tory controls across every sector of the Church, Bristol. Va. On March 9, they To curb lnfiation, Bosworth suggested American economy-including wages, prices, · sang at the morning service at the that the Federal Government cut t>rograms, profits and rent-with limits of 5 percent on First Baptist Church. Wa.Shington reduce spending and virtually call off its pay raises and 6 percent on. price increases. D.C. and in the evening at the Guild­ effort to reduce unemployment. The former anti-inflation official said the ford Baptist Church. Fredericksburg "We're going to have a pause in the econo- controllers should be empowered to break my," . the presidential adviser said in a existing contracts lf needed to force compa· Baptist Church. Fredericksburg. Va., speech to the American Truckers Assn., his nies and unions to comply witll the wage. and they will complete their tour on first since President Carter laid out anti-in· prime limits. He said the program should March 12, at the Hatcher Memorial flation l'Uidelines last week. last two to three years. · Baptist Church. Glen Allen. Va. Carter also signed the Humphrey-Haw- He. also proposed that the government in The Cumberland College Hand6ell kins bill last week. an act committing the effect ration available mortgage money by Choir was founded in 1976 by Dr. H. Government to pursue a goal of full adult requiring extremely high down payments employment in a context 'Of trying to curb for home mortgage loans as a way to Bert Coble. director of music at the inflation. dampen demand for housing. college. The bells were later memorial­ But Bosworth said: "We're not going to be And ·he suggested that if food prices begin 'ized with a gift from Mrs. Virginia G. able to get unemployment down significant- to soar again as they did last year, the gov­ Lawlor· in memory of her husband, ly from where it is now for several years to ernment eliinlnate all restrictions on crop Richard Lawlor. come." · production. He urged keeping government Cumberland College in Lebanon, He continued: "We will, in other words, grain reserves high to help stabilize future have to have almost no new programs what- price surges. Tenn.. has roots back to 1785 when soever, and a lot of the existing programs Bosworth said the strong action is neces- the Nashville Academy was founded in will have to be significantly reduced." sary because the "gradualism" advocated by Nashville. About 15 years later the But Government action alone won't be Carter isn't working and traditional govern­ hame was changed to Cumberland Col­ enourh. he sai'd. "Real sacrifices" in the pri- ment policies to dampen inflation by reduc- lege and was later founded on the Leb­ vate sector also will be needed. · ing over.all demand no longer are effective. anon campus in 1842 as a university. March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5143 Today, Cumberland is the ollly pri­ delicate feelings of the professional appeal of an armed ·struggle for social vate, independent Junior college in anti-anti-Communists. It is standard, change. for instance, to complain of retaliation Opinions differ on whether an eruption is_ Tennessee and' the only 2-year school Imminent. because popular sentiment is like of any kind to offer an associate of carried out against leftists for their the brooding presence of Guatemala's volca­ music degree. outrages, but the "Human Rights" nos, whose placid slopes conce~ the turbu­ The music department has grown to concern does not extend to kldnaped lence which may boil within. Pessimists more than 4Q music majors with a fac­ children, to hostages burned alive, and point to the rising costs of tortillas, corn ulty of 8. The areas of emphasis are to other victims of similar Communist and beans, to· the repressions of the govern­ keyboard, voice, and choral. In addi­ atrocities. ment and the selfishness of the rich and to tion to the Handbell Choir, other en­ Columnist Charles Bartlett, writing the pressures which make it no longer safe to count on the stability of the large Indian sembles include the Oratorio Chorus, in the Richmond Times-Dispatch population. College Singers, and the Show Choir. dated February 28, 1980, rightly calls But the long-suffering Indians have more Students study organ on a 25 rank Guatemala "a staunch little nation" faith in God than revolution. A govemment, Schantz Pipe organ. Several senior col­ which should not be lost because of headed since 1968 by elected generals. is not leges offer standing scholarships to "Washington's posturing.'' If the Reds popular, but its revealed corruptions have the Cumberland graduates. Cumber­ take control, they will have Washing­ not generated emotions comparable to those land itself offers scholarships in voice, ton to thank for it, because we have that brought down Nicaragua's Somoza. piano, organ, and church music. done all we can to weaken that coun­ 'Eight opposition parties are now tolerated and in two elections in the past decade the The Handbell Choir uses a four­ try, denying it access even to pur­ voters have brought opposition parties into octave set of Melmark bells on five chases of defense materials, for cash, power. The Lucas government is trying to tables with two-inch foam pads and from foreign countries. This is incredi­ dramatize its compassion with. sonw high­ waleless corduroy covers. The 13 ring­ ble bullying, of benefit only to our en­ profile projects. ers are composed of 7 women and 6 emies. Moreover, Guatemalans have tasted life men, 10 ·of whom are music majors. The column follows: under the communists, and although memo­ The choir participates regularly in WASHINGTON COMPOUNDS GUATEMALA'S ries have faded of Jacob Arbenz's misrule in the Tennessee Baptist Handbell Festi­ the early 1950s, the Army ·of the Pool;' and PROBLEMS the Marxist students are challenging an vals and has presented numerous tele­ economy much stronger and a society much vision programs. GUATEMALA CITY.-Guatemala is a lively freer than Cuba's. The college singers are under the country with a rich future, and the Carter The risks of instability lie in the swollen leadership of Dr. Bert Coble, who administration should not allow it to lay un­ populations of cities which attracted work­ holds a B.R.E. and a B.C.M.E. from certainly between the spite of liberals and ers they no longer need in their struggle to Southwestern Baptist Seminary, a the anxiety of those who perceive-the gath· recover from the 1977 earthquake. The gov­ B.A. from Belmont College, and a ering force of the Marxist push in· Central ernment has ·not turned its back on these M.M. from the University of Colorado, America. people, amt the U.S. government ought to a Ed.D. from Clayton University. Dr. The virtues of Guatemala, more demo­ be doing what it can to help the Guatema­ Coble has served as a music director at cratic by some yardsticks than Mexico, are lans to -repel the guerriifas and build an obscured'by the fascination of the American economy that will bring better times for all. Cumberland College for the , last 8 press with its recurring episodes of violence. This is a staunch little nation, and it years. I hope my colleagues and their Recognition of the unique character of Gua­ should not be lost because of Washington's staff who are able to attend today's temalans, now emerging from centuries of posturing and waffling.e performance will enjoy it.e poverty and travails, is distorted by the brutal antics of small extremist factions of the left and right. IDAHO AND THIS COUNTRY'S CARTER ADMINISTRATION VEN­ The confusion ls fanned by Carter policy MINERAL OVERDEPENDENCE DETTA AGAINST GUATEMALA makers who fluctuate between liberal dis­ .dian of Guatemala's lapse into brutality and HON. STEVEN D. SYMMS awareness of the little country's need for HON. LARRY McDONALD firm ties .with the United States. So far, OF IDAHO OF GEORGIA Guatemalans feel they have been damaged IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more by Washington's negative assessments Monday, March 10, 1980 of their situation than they have been Monday, March 10, 1980 helped by positive policies. •Mr. SYMMS. Mr. Speaker, in delib­ e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the They need, for example, American sup­ erations of this Congress over the administration has raised to a fine. art port in putting down the guerrillas whose with.drawal of public lands to mineral the practice of alienating· and weaken­ resort to urban bombings, rural terror and exploration and entry, I have repeat­ ing our diminished number of friends high-ransom kidnappings provokes eye-for­ edly warned.the Members of the need an-eye redneck retaliations from the ex­ in this world, and we see just one more treme right. President Lucas is committed for a viable domestic mineral indilstry example in the case of Guatemala. to ·facing subversion forcefully so Guatema­ that can supply our needs in the event This small but proud country, which la's horrors will not cease until the guerril­ of a national emergency. The Idaho has made truly great strides economi­ las are stopped. cobalt vein, second largest in the cally and politically in recent decades, It is ironic, there!ore, that the Carter ad­ world, is an excellent example to em­ has a long tradition of friendly rela­ ministration, in one of its characteristic con­ phasize that point~ This country is de­ tions with the United States. Guate­ volutions, is denying the Guatemalan gov­ pendent upon the import of 97 percent mala is the largest and most important ernment the access it has always enjoyed to of. its cobalt needs, which are vital in country in Central America. Its ex­ police training by U.S. specialists, to spare the production of Jet aircraft engines, ports, worth over a billion dollars an­ parts for helicopters and to other anti-guer­ gas turbines, high speed tool steels, ce­ rilla weapons. Often barred from dealing nually, come largely to the United even with alternate suppliers like Israel, mented carbides, and magnets. Our de­ States. Guatemala is next door to El Guatemalans tend to feel that Washington fense stockpiles of cobalt are critically .Salvador, a small nation now under is throwing its weight on the side of the low-less than 50 percent of stockpile heavy pressure indeed from Havana­ guerrillas. goals. The Members of this body will directed Communist subversive forces, So the situation is becoming an acid test have the opportunity in the near and Guatemalans are well aware of of the human rights policy, a weighing of future to enact the SY114Ms substitute the Communist plan to take El Salva­ priorities in which moral wrong choices by to S. 2009, which will enact the largest dor in 1980 and then concentrate on the Carter administration and Congress will contiguous wilderness area but will the larger prize, Guatemala. facilitate the communists' liberation tactics, concurrently protect local economies plainly aimed at toppling the Central As in the case of Nicaragua, and as American dominoes. and mineral and timber access. now in the case of El Salvador, White Guatemalan politics has indeed been po­ The people of this great Nation are House and State Department policy larized, as State Department officials have sharing this concern over America's in­ toward threatened Central American noted in their gloomy assessments. but ability to .find and develop its own re­ nations ·has been to penalize them there are influential moderates pressing for sources for production and energy in­ heavily for any act which offends the evolutionary policies that will limit the dependence. I enclose for the Mem- 5144 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 bers• benefit Just such a concern from legislation regarding Alaska- should be ENERGY Mr. David Williams of Spokane, Wash. . passed unless it safeguards access to poten­ The Federal Government Needs a Com­ The letter very cogently addresses tially important economic discoveries . Acc. No. 111079, EMD-80-11, December 12. As an individual employed by the minerals Congress toward them. industry. my career. as well as many others, Letter reports The letter reads as follows: is dependent on responsible and informed GAO agrees that State and local involve­ SPOKANE, WASH., legislation. Your decisions .are of vital im­ ment in promoting national energy objec­ February 23, 1980. portance to insuring a viable minerals devel­ tives should be continued. Acc. No. 110985, Representative Sl'EVEN D. SYMMS, · opment program. I urge you to closely ex­ EMD-80-15, November 27. Longworth House Of/ice Bldg., amine the long term consequences of con._ Curr~nt plans to award the American Washington, D.C. tinued massive lands witbdrawals and the Technological University a contract to DEAR MR. SYMMs: During the past decade economic impacts which necessarily follow. manage the Fort Hood solar project should the United States has witnessed a growing S incerely yours, be reconsidered. Acc. No. 111058, EMD-80- dependence on foreign sources for the DAVID S. WILLIAMS .• 37, December 7. energy and minerals requirements of the National Energy Planning II. EMD-80-43, nation. AB periodic crises unfolded .the gov­ December 28. ernment called on the collective national MONTHLY LIST OF GAO will to cope with problems rising ultimately NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENl' from the absence of any coherent long REPORTS Analysis of Current Trends in U.S. Petro­ range planning mechanism. Certainly it leum and Natural Gas Production. Acc. No. cannot be 8.rgued that these scenarios were HON. JACK BROOKS 11042, EMD-80-24, December 7. not forecast well in advance of the actual Uncertainties over Federal Requirements events. In June, 1979 the French Foreign OF TEXAS for Archeological Preservation at New Me· Minister Jean Francois-Poncet, speaking to IN THE HOUSE OF REP~SENTATIVES lones Dam in California. CED-80-29, De­ an OCED meeting, stated that "politics cember 21. starts by a refusal to leave things to Monday, March 10, 1980 Phosphates: A Case Study of a Valuable, chance". Perhaps we all would do well to re­ e Mr. BROOKS. Mr. Speaker, the Depleting Mineral in America. Acc. No. flect on that thought, particularly in regard monthly list of GAO reports includes 110982, EMD-80'-21, November 30. to our future minerals and energy pro­ summaries of reports which were pre- Letter reports grams. If effective resource evaluation and strategy is not forthcoming the economic pared by the staff of the General Ac- The Fish and Wildlife Service ts imple· fabric of the country will be sorely tried. counting Office. The December 1979 menting a management and development Since·1ts inception America has relied on a list includes: · plan at the Sachuest Point refuge. Acc. No. 111061, CED-8,0-26, November 23. strong and innovative minerals Industry as a SUMMARIES OF GAO REPORTS AGRICULTURE cornerstone of economic independence. NATIONAL DEFENSE Today that industry ts threatened by over­ Food Price Inflation in the United States regulation and restrictive land use classifica­ The WoI'ld Wide Military Command and and Other Countries. CED-80-24, December tion. Areas open to exploration and mineral Control System-Major Changes Needed in 18. entry are being systematically withdrawn by its ADP Management and Direction. Acc. Federal Export Grain Inspection and existing and proposed wilderness and RARE No. 111112, LCD-80-22, December 14. Weighing Problems: Improvements Can II legislation. While few question the neces· Improving the Effectiveness of Joint Mili­ Make them More Effective and Less Costly. sity for primitive areas the actual decision­ tary Exercises-An Important Tool for Mili­ Acc. No. 110981, CED-80-15, November 30. making process ts highly arbitrary and quite tary Readiness. Acc. No. 111076, LCD-80-2, damaging in terms of a comprehensive min· December 11. Letter reporta erals policy. Indeed much of the legislation The Army Inspector General's Inspec­ Problems with Implementing the Agricul­ appears designed to ensure continued de­ tions-Changing ·from a Compliance to a tural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of pendence on foreign resources with the ac­ Systems Emphasis. Acc. No. 110983, 1978. Acc. No. 111135, CED-80-37, December companying economic consequences. FGMSD-80-1, October 30. 18. While the lands controversy has been felt Letter reports Improvements needed in Department of in nearly every Western state perhaps the Agriculture's certification that export ship­ present situation in Idaho and Alaska are Defense has not recovered quality assur­ ments of grain conform with phytosanitary exemplary. The 2.3 mtllion acre Central ance costs after requiring this reimburse­ regulations of foreign countries. CED-80-42, Idaho Wilderness Act ts now pend­ ment for 10 years. Acc. No. 110987, December 28. FGMSD-80-2, December 3. ing action in the House. This area includes COMMERCE AND HOUSING the most promising cobalt prospect in the The basic allowance payment for subsist­ United States. Should the b111 pass, our con­ ence to all enlisted members at three mili­ FCC's Decision to Consolidate Licensing tinued reliance on unstable countries like tary installations should be discontinued. Division in Gettysburg, Pa. Was Made With­ Zaire, which now provides 42 percent of our Acc. No. 111011, FPCD-80-18, December 5. out Adequate Analysts. Acc. No. 111056, cobalt, is almost a foregone conclusion. AB it Defense should consolidate, eliminate, or CED-80-27, December 3. presently exists the legislation also encom­ place in reserve excess depot capacity that COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT passes RARE II lands recommended by the cannot be economically Justified to satisfy GSA ts Overly Restrictive in its Imple­ administration for non-wilderness as well as peacetime and mobilization needs. Acc. No. mentation of the National Urban Policy in national forest lands not included in the 110998, LCD-80-23, December 6. Fort Smith, Arkansas. Acc. No. 111039, RARE II inventory. Certainly this does not GAO Iound no basis for changing its prior LCD-80-26, December 6. represent a ·prudent long range decision in conclusions concerning service policies for the best interest of the nation. I strongly estimating the availability of wartime mill- · Letter reports urge that the areas mentioned above be ex­ tary personnel. Acc. No. 111074, FPCD-80-6, The Veterans' Administration decision to cluded from the Central Idaho Wilderness December 11. close its Sacramento loan guaranty office is Act. Review of contracts for base operating reasonable. Acc. No. 110984, HRD-80-16, Alaska provides another illustration of ex­ support functions at Pacific Missile Test November 1. cessive withdrawals. Most recently Secre­ Center, Point Muger, Calif. Acc. No. 111098, The Defense Contract Administration tary of the Interior Andrus unilaterally des~ PSAD-80-19. December 11. · Service's Cleveland regional office and its ignated 40 million acres of Alaskan lands as Defense should Improve its efforts to cor­ Chicago regional office will be consolidated wildlife refuges, while these areas were al· rect identified hazards and advise Congress In Cleveland. Acc. No. 110978, LCD-80-24, ready "protected" until 1981 awaiting con­ annually of the costs in Its budget Justifica­ November 29. sideration in the Congress. This ts in addi· tion. Acc. No; 111099, HRD-80-20, December Federal policy on relocating Government tion to the already extensive federal hold· 1a • activities to economically depressed, labor ings placed ln wilderness classification. Can The Army should determine whether two surplus communities. LCD-80-29, December such actions by a nortelected official be con­ construction projects at Fort Pickett, Va. 21. sidered representative government? On the should be Included under the Military Con­ SOCIAL SERVICES contrary, such decisions can only be viewed struction. Army Reserve or the Military as an expanding non-resource utilization Millions of Dollars of Rehabilitating Construction. Army. Acc. No. J.11090, LCD- Housing can be used more effectively. Acc. policy which severely Impairs the United 80-28, December 14. States• ablllty to attain any minerals inde­ No. 111038, CED-80-19, December 7. pendence. The current Alaskan Lands Bill INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS HEALTH also remains ineffective in answering Flexibility-Key to Administering Ful- HEW Must Improve Control over Billions the most basic problems concerning miner­ bright-Hays Exchange Program. ·Acc. No. in Cash Advance. FGMSD-80-6, December als production in Alaska. In my opinion, no 111059, ID-80-3December10. 28. March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5145 Need to Better use the Professional The costs of most presidential libraries Knoxville, Tenn.; and E. Kenneth Mc· Standards Review Organization Post-Pay­ has far exceeded the estimation when the Donald, Knoxville, Tenn.e ment Monitoring Program. Acc. No. 111033. Presidential Libraries Act was being consid­ HRD-80-27. December 6. , ered. Ace; No. 111010, LCD-80-27, December Radiation Control Programs Provide Lim- 5. . . REPRESENTATIVE WOLFF IN· ited Protection. Acc. No. 111041, HRD-80- The Monthly List of GAO Reports TRODUCES LEGISLATION TO 25, December 4. f h f · AMEND THE UNIFORM RELOCA­ Errors in Health Benefits Enrollment and/or copies 0 t e ull texts are TION ACT Data Push Up Health Insurance costs. Acc. available from the U.S. General Ac· No. 111032, FGMSD-80-8. December 6. counting Office. Distribution Section, Room 1518. 441 G Street NW., Wash- HON. LESTER L. WOLFF Letter reports · ington. D.C. 20548. Phone (202) 275- OF NEW YORK Inpatient care at Quantico Naval Hospital 1.e should not be resumed. Acc. No. 110971, 624 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HRD-80-26, November 29. Monday, March 10, 1980 The Army cannot certify that the Fort Greely Gerstle River Test Center is free PETITION ON H.R. 6070 •Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, today I from chemical and biological contamination. am introducing legislation to amend Acc. No. 110972, LCD-80-25, November 30. HON. JO]IN J. DUNCAN the "Uniform Relocation Assistance INCOME SECURITY OF TENNESSEE and Real Property Acquisition Act of 1970." 91-946 Minimum Benefit Provision of the Civil IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Public Law provides for Serviee Disability Retirement Program the uniform and equitable treatment Should Be Changed. Acc. No. 110980, Monday, March 10, 1980 of persons displaced from their homes, FPCD-80- 26, November 30. • Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. Mr. businesses. and farms as a result of Minimum Social Security Benefit: A Speaker, I have received a petition Federal or federally assisted programs Windfall that Should Be Eliminated. Acc. from a number of my constituents op­ or projects. No. 111057, HRD-80-29, December 10. posed to H.R. 6070. In order that the Congress has learned of a number of Employee Protection Provisions of the views of these citizens might be known problems associated with the program. Rail Act Need Change. Acc. No. 111100, most of which involve the differing CED-80-16, December 5. by my colleagues, I am presenting herewith the entire petition: regulatory policies for administering GENERAL GOVERNMENT A PETITION TO REPRESENTATIVE JOHN J. the program. The General Accounting An Evaluation of the Intergovernmental DUNCAN Office recently published a report out­ Personnel Act of 1970. Acc. No. 111124. 1 Please help save our forest wilderness. lining a number of problems. The FPCD-80-11, December 19. GAO report revealed that the prob­ Transit Equipment Warranties Should be People throughout the country are working Enforced. Acct. No. 111040, PSAD-80-12. to preserve irreplaceable areas of our na­ lems in the program derive from a December 7. tional forest lands under the orderly process number of sources and that basic legis­ established by Congress in the Wilderness lative amendments are needed to ef· Letter reports Act. The timber industry is now attempting fectively manage the requirements of The costs of replacing fire hydrants and an end-run around this orderly process by the relocation act. lighting fixtures at the National Mall in pushing legislation that would: My legislation would correct many Washington .following the American Farm­ Instantly write off 36 million acres of fed­ ers' Demonstration has exceeded the origi­ eral wildlands-the last potential forest wil­ of the inequities in· the current law. nal estimate. Acc. No. 110863. CED-80-21. derness-by ratifying the results of a hastily My amendment would: First, provide November 5. prepared Forest Service study; for greater clarification to the defini­ No evidence of specific improprieties on Give the timber industry access to vast tion of those eligible for assistance; the part of the Chairman, Federal Maritime stretches of forest lands; second, require the President to desig­ Commission, has been found but he should Force Congress to make unnecessarily nate one Federal agency to develop a make sure his actions do not give the ap­ hurried decisions about the roadless lands single set of regulations and proce­ pearance of impropriety. Acc. No. 111060. recommended by the Forest Service for con­ dures for the program; third, increase CED-80-25, November 9. gressional consideration; and the benefits provided under the act to The Antitrust Division deems it unwise to Make a sham of future planning . of our grant any U.S. attorney general authority national forests; and dictate a single nation­ take into consideration today's higher without interference to investigate and al scheme for our forests without the par­ costs for housing and related expenses prosecute antitrust violations involving the ticipation of local citizens and ·members of and; fourth, require the preparation motion picture industry. Acc. No. 111093, Congress. and submission of an annual report GGD-80-24, November 13. Please help make sure that this anti-wil­ about relocation activities within the Survey of the effectiveness of the Federal derness legislation is sidetracked. Instead, Government. apportionment process and implications for we must continue the time-tested congres· I hope you will join me in correcting budget execution. Acc. No. 111134, PAD-80- sional wilderness designation process-area this devastating problem. The full text 5, November 21. by area, with local citizen participation. Wil· The Department of Energy's Office of In· derness lands are an important part of our of the bill follows: spector General needs to develop .a compre­ heritage. They are an inheritance we want H.R. 6756 hensive plan for auditing its programs and to leave for our children. A bill to amend the Uniform Relocation As· operations. EMD-80-29, November 28. Signed. sistance and Property Acquisition Policies The Air Force's Civil Engineer Cost Ac· H. R. Payne, Knoxville, Tenn.; Jane Or­ Act of 1970 counting System at Travrs Air Force Base is leans, Knoxville, Tenn.: Doris Gove, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of conforming to GAO's approved system Knoxville, Tenn.; Tom Johnson, Louis· design. Acc. No. 110979, FGMSD-80-18, No· Representatives of the United States of ville, Tenn.; Bob Allen. Knoxville. America in Congress assembled, That this vember 30. . Tenn.; Alan Solomon, Knoxville, Contracting out of laundry services at Act may be cited as the "Uniform Reloca­ Tenn.; S. Russell Manning, Knoxville. tion Assistance Act Amendments of 1979". Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is Tenn.; J. R. Humble, Knoxville. Tenn.; cost effective. Acc. No. 111094, PSAD-80-17, John Z. C. Thomas, Knoxville, Tenn.; DEFINITIONS . December 7. George E. Oswald, Lenoir City. Tenn.; SEC. 2. Ca> Section 101<2> of the Uniform Proposed impoundment of funds for the M. Cooperman. Lenoir City. Tenn.; Relocation Assistance and Real Property International Communication Agency ·was John Vavruska. Knoxville, Tenn.; Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 is amended rescinded and alloted to the program. Acc. Ruth K. Young. Oak Ridge, Tenn.; to read as follows: No. 111072, OOC-80-4, December 7. Charlotte Williams. Knoxville, Tenn.: "<2> The term 'State' means any of the The Environmental Protection Agency is Hal W. Jernigan. Knoxville. Tenn.; sev.eral States of the United States. the Dis· not getting adequate information on its fi· Phyllis E. Holt, Knoxville, Tenn.; For· trict of Columbia, the Commonwealth of nancing reports produced by its three auto­ rest F. Evans, Knoxville, Tenn.; Larry Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of mated systems. Acc. No. 111073, FGMSD- W. Holt. Knoxville, Tenn.; Roger A. the United States, the Trust Territory of 80-11, December 11. Jenkins, Knoxville, Tenn.; Richard E. the Pacific Islands, any Indian tribe or res· The Congress should consider eliminating Nygren, Knoxville, Tenn.; Lance ervation, and any political subdivision there­ the extra pay for time off holidays that McCold. Knoxville, Tenn.; Teresa of.". Federal employees on a compressed work Zogby. Knoxville. Tenn.; Carol Acker, Section 101<3> of such Act is amended schedule will receive. Acc. No. 111062. Knoxville. Tenn.; Gary H. Irwin. by adding at the end thereof the following: FPCD-80-21, December 4. · Knoxville, Tenn.; Mary Lynn Dobson, "Such term also includes any entity which 5146 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 has eminent domain authority under State <1> by striking out the matter preceding and inserting after paragraph <5> the follow- law.". subparagraph CA> and inserting in lieu ing new paragraphs: · Section 101<4> of such Act is amended thereof the following: · "(6) make available to displaced persons · by inserting "to any Sate agency, State, or "SEC. 203. Ca)Cl) -In, addition to payments information concerning Federal or State petson" after ~·united States". otherwise authorized by this .title, the head programs which may be of assistance to dis­ Section 101<6> of such Act is amended of the Federal agency shall make an addl· placed persons; to read as follows: tional payment not in excess of $25,000 to "<7> make available to displaced persons "<6> The term 'displaced person' means any displaced person who is displaced from lnformation concerning buying, selling. and any persQn who moves from real property or a dwelling actually owned and occupied by mortgaging real property; and". moves personal property from real property, such displaced person for not less than 90 Section 205Cd> of such Act is amended or who moves a business or farm operation, days prior to the lnltiatlon of negotiations to read as follows: directly or indirectly as a result of- for the acquisition of the property, unless " The assurances required by subsec­ "CA> a program oi' project undertaken by a ownership or occupancy was not in good tion that housing will be available Federal agency; or faith or was solely for the purpose of ob­ shall- " a progtam or project undertaken taining the benefits of this Act. Such addi· "< 1> be made prior to Federal approval of with Federal financial assistance by a tlonal payment shall include the f ollowlng the program and project and be updated at person with a legal ownership interest in elements:": · reasonable times thereafter; the property, a State, or State agency.". <2> by redesignating subparagraph CC> as "<2> be based upon a careful, detailed writ­ subparagraph ; and ten analysis of the potential dlsplacees POLICY <3> by inserting after subparagraph housing needs a.nd the availability of hous­ SEC. 3. Section 201 of the Uniform Reloca· the following: ing which complies with subsection <3> of tion Assistance and Real Property Acquisi­ ,; The amount, if any, by which the this section; and tion Policies Act of 1970 is amended by annual real property taxes on the replace· "<3> include plans for comp.lying with sec· adding at the end thereof the following: "It ment dwelling at the time of displacement · tion 206, unless it is determined that compa­ is the intent of Congress that no Federal or ·exceed the annual real property taxes on rable replacement housing as required by federally assisted program or project should the dwelllng from which such person is dis· subsection <3> of this section will be avail­ be undertaken which requires the displace­ placed multiplied by the number of years in able.". ment of persons from their dwellings, busi­ the term of the mortgage on the replace­ HOUSING REPLACEMENT ness operations, or farm operations unless ment dwelling.". SEc. ·s. Section 206 of the Uniform Reloca­ the program or project includes all possible REPLACEMENT HOUSING FOR TENANTS AND tion Assistance and Real Property Acquisi­ measures to minimize such displacement. CERTAIN OTHERS tion Policies Act of 1970 ls amended to read However, lf, nevertheless, a person should as follows: be displaced from his dwelling, business op­ SEC. 6. Section 204 of the Uniform Reloca­ eration, or farm operation, tt 18 the intent of tion Assistance and Real Property Acqui.Si­ "HOUSING REPLACEMENT BY FEDERAL AGENCY AS Congress that such ·person should receive tion Policies Act of 1970 is amended- LAST RESORT fair compensation and should, to the maxi­ <1 > in paragraph Cl> by striking out "SEe. 206. If a Federal or federally as­ mum extent possible, be relocated in the "$4,000" an~ inserting in lieu thereof sisted program or project cannot proceed to area where such dwelling, business oper­ "$8,000"; . actual construction because comparable re· ation, or farm operation is located." (2) tn paragraph (1) by striking out "four placement sale or rental housing complying years" and inserting in lieu thereof "six with the requirements of section 205Cc><3> ls MOVING AND RELATED EXPENSES years"; not available and the head of the Federal SEC. 4. Section 202 of the Uniform <3> in paragraph (2) by striking out agency ·determines that such housing Relocation Assistance and Real Property "$4,000," and all that follows through the cannot otherwise be made available, the Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 is amend­ period at the end of such paragraph and in· agericy head may take such action as is nec­ ed-· serting in lieu "$8,000.''; and essary or appropriate to provide such hous­ <1> by striking out the matter preceding <4> by adding at the end of such section ing by us~ of funds authorized for such clause <1> and inserting in lieu thereof the the following: "The additional payment to project. following: any . displaced person under this section "Cb> No person shall be required to move "SEc. 202. Notwithstanding any other shall be made unless occupancy was not in from his dwelling on account of any Federal provision of law, whenever. a program or· good faith or was solely for the purpose of or federally assisted program or project project undertaken in any State by a Feder­ obtalnlng the benefits of this title. No dis­ unless the Federal agency is satisfied that al agency, such State, a State agency of placed person shall be denied benefits under replacement housing, in accordance with such State, or any person furnished Federal this section due to the condition of the section 205Cc)(3), is available to 'such financial assistance pursuant to a grant, dwelllng unit to which such person is relo· person:•; contract. or agreement will result in the dis· cated, but nothing in this srmtence relleves LOCAL COOPERATION placement of any person, the head of the any agency . or person from its obligation Federal agency admlnisterlng" or providing SEC. 9. Section 207 of the Uniform Reloca­ under this title to relocate all displaeed per­ tion Assistance and Real Property Acquisi­ such financial assistance shall provide for sons to decent, safe, and sanitary housing.". the payment to the displaced person of-"; tion Policies Act of 1970 is amended to read and RELOCATCON ASSISTANCE ADVISORY SERVICES as follows: ' <2> by adding at th~ end thereof the fol­ SEC. '1. Section 205Ca> of the Unif.orm "REQUIREMENT OF FURNISHING REAL PROPERTY lowing: ''Expenses paid for relocation of a Relocation Assistance and Real Property INCIDENT TO FEDERAL ASSISTANCE (LOCAL business or farm operation under this sub­ Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 is amended COOPERATION) section shall include, but not be limited to, to read as follows: · "SEC. 207. Whenever real property is actual reasonable expenses, not in excess of "SEC. 205. Whenever a program or owned or acquired by a State agency, State, $5,000, incurred by a person for architectur­ project results in the displacement of any or person and f~hed as a required con­ al. legal, engineering, appraisal, or other person. the head of the Federal agency ad­ tribution incident to a Federal or federally profr._,::; ional services in preparation for ministering or providing assistance wit~ -re· assisted program . or project, the Federal moving such operation.". spect to such program or project shall estab­ agency having authority over the program Section 202 of such Act ls amended lish and maintain a relocation assistance ad· or project may not accept such property by striking out "$300" and "$200" and in· vlsory program which shall comply with unless the State agency, State, or person serting in lieu thereof "$600" and "$400", subsection of this section. If such agency has made all payments and provided all as­ respectively. head determines that any person occupying sistance and ~urances as are required by Section 202 of such Act ts amend- property immediately adjacent to the real sections 210 and 305 of this Act. Such State ~- . property acquire4 ls caused substantial eco­ agency, State, or .person shall pay the cost <1 > in the first sentence by striking out nomic injury because of the program or of meeting such requirements in the same "$2,500" and "$10,000" and inserting in lieu project. such person shall be treated as a manner and to the same extent as the real thereof "$5,000° and "$20,000", respectively; displaced . person for the purposes of thts property ·acquired for such project.''. and Act.". .. AGENT FOR FEDERAL PROGRAM Section 205Cb> of such Act Is amended <2> in the last sentence by Inserting "of by inserting ", State, or person" after "State SEc. 10. Section 208 of the Uniform Relo­ the displaced person's choosing out of the agency". cation Assistanee and Real Property Acqui­ five taxable years" after "during the two sition Policies Act of· 1970 is amended to taxable years". Cc> Section 205Cc><2> o( such Act is amend­ ed by inserting "and farm operations•• after read as follows: - REPLACEMENT HOUSING "displaced businesses". "STATE, STATE AGENCY. OR PERSON ACTING AS SEC. 5. Section 203Ca><1> of the Uniform Section 205 of such Act ls amended AGENT FOll l'J:DERAL PROGRAM · Relocation Assistance and Real Property by striking out "and" at the end of para­ "Sec. 208. Whenever displacement ls effect­ Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 is amend· graph <5>. redeslgnattng paragraph <6> as paragraph <7>, request of a Federal agency for a Federal or March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5147 federally assisted program or project, such the provisions of this title effective October person owning property affected by such displacement shall for the purposes· of this 1 of .each fiscal year beginning a_.fter Sep­ program or project with an uneconomic chapter be deemed displacement by the tember 30, 1981, by increasing each such remnant, the head of the Federal agency Federal agency having authority over such amount by a percentage equal to the per· administering or financing the program or program or project.". cent increase, if any, in the price index pub· project shall offer to acquire that property REQUIREMENT FOR RELOCATION ASSISTANCE lished for December of the preceding year which would be adversely affected so that over the price index published for December the owner and occupant would be entitled SEc. 11. Section 210 of the Unifo.rm Reio· of the year before the preceding year. As to full benefits under this Act. cation Assistance and Real Property Acqui· used in this section, the term 'price index' "<11> At least 90 days before the initiation sition Policies Act of 1970 is amended- means the Consumer Price Index for all of negotiations for acquisition of any dwell­ <1 > by striking out "State agency" each Urban Consumers by striking out paragraph <3> and in· serting in lieu thereof the fallowing new ANNUAL REPORT CIFTS paragraphs: · SEC. 15. Section 214 of the Uniform Relo· SEc. 18. Title III of the Uniform Reloca­ "(3) within a reasonable period of time, cation Assistance and Real Property Acqui· tion Assistance and Real Property Acquisi· but in no event less than six months, prfor sition Policies Act of 1970 is amended to tion Policies Act of 1970 is amended by to displacement, comparable decent, safe, read 3.13 follows: ad<;Iing at the end thereof the following new and sanitary replacement dwellings will be "ANNUAL REPORT section: · avafiable to displaced persons in accordance "GIF1S with section 205<3>; and "SEc. 214. The head ·of each Federal agency shall prepare and submit an annual "SEc. 307. Notwithstanding any other pro· " (4) at least 90 days before the fuitiation of negotiations for acquisition of any dwell· report to the F'ederal agency designated by vision of this Act, the owner of real proper­ ing, public notice of such negotiations shall the President under section 213 of this Act ty; may give or donate all or part of such on the activities of such agency with respect property to the Federal or State agency un· be provided.". to the programs and policies established or dertaking its acquisition, without prior de· . FEDERAL SHARE OF COSTS . authorized by this Act, and the head of the termination of the Just compensation there· SEc. 12. Section 21l of the Uniform F'ederal agency so designated shall submit for. Any such gift or donation shall be vol­ Relocation Assistance and Real Property · such reports to the President and the Con­ untary and may only be made in writing Acquisition .Policies Act of 1970 is amend· gress not later than January 15 of each after the owner has been fully informed of ed- year, beginning January 15, 1981, together his right to receive Just compensation for <1 > by inserting ", State, or person" after with . his comments or recommendations. the acquisition of such property as provided "State agency" each place it appears; and Such reports shall give special attention to: for in this Act.". · <2> by striking out", except that," and an <1) the effectiveness of the provisions of this EFFECTIVE DATE . that follows through the period at the end Act assuring the availability of comparable thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a ·replacement housing, which is decent, safe, SEC. 19. The amendments made by this and sanitary, for displaced homeowners and Act shall take effect October l, 1980, and perJod. apply with respect to any claim proceeding, Section 211 of such Act is amended tenants; <2> actions taken by the agency to by inserting "or receives a payment from a achieve the objectives of the policies of Con· or action under the Uniform Relocation As· gress, declared in this Act, to provide uni­ sistance and Real Property Acquisition Poli· legal owner" after "eminent domain". cies Act of 1970 which is pending on such Section 211Cc> of such Act is amended form and equal treatment, to the greatest by inserting ", State, or person" after "State extent practicable, for all persons displaced date or which arises on or after such date.e agency" each place it appears. by, or having real property taken for, Feder­ al or federally assisted programs; <3> the views of the Federal agency head on the AND NOW RHODESIA ADMINISTRATION progress made to achieve such objectives in SEC. 13. Section 212 of the Uniform Relo­ the various programs conducted or adminis­ HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK cation Assistance and Real Property Acqui­ tered by such agency, and among the Feder· sition Policies Act of 1970 is amended by in­ al agencies; <4> any indicated effects of such OF OHIO serting ", State, or person" after "State programs and policies on the public; and (5) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES agency" each place it appears. any recommendations he may have for fur­ Monday, March 10, 1980 REGULATIONS ther improvements in relocation assistance SEc. 14. Section 213 of the Uniform Relo· and land acquisition programs, policies, and e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, Mr. cation Assistance and Real Property Acqui­ implementing laws and regulations.". Carter and the boys at Foggy Bottom sition Policies Act of 1970 is amended to DISPLACEMENT should really be proud of themselves read as follows: SEC. 16. Section 217 of the Uniform Reio· for the elections that took place last "REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURES cation Assistance and Real Property Acqui­ week in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Once "SEc. 213. In order to promote uniform sition Policies Act of 1970 is amended to again the forces of terrorism and in­ and effective administration of this Act, the read as follows: · timidation have succeeded in thwart­ President shall designate a Federal agency "DISPLACEMENT BY PROGRAMS RECEIVING ing moderate democratic elements in a to establtsh a single uniform set of regula­ FEDERAL ASSISTANCE society. Once again the U.S. efforts to tions and procedures for use by Federal "SEC. 217. A person who moves or discon­ weaken pro-American forces within agencies and by States, State and local tinues his business, or moves other personal the country have paid off in bringing a agencies, and other recipients of Federal fi. property, or moves from his dwelling . as a Marxist regime to power. Where will it nancial assistance. result of any program or project undertaken all end? Already · the analysts are "(b) Such Federal agency shall take ap­ by a Federal agency or any federally fi. eyeing Namibia and South Africa as propriate action to assure the uniform ap­ nanced activity undertaken by a State, plication and interpretation of the regula­ State agency, or person shall, for the pur­ the next fronts where the United .tions and procedures established pursuant poses of this. title, be deemed displaced as States can sell out. ·After they are to subsection . the result of the acquisition of real proper­ gone, all of Africa is gone. Then what? " Any person aggrieved by any action of ty.". I know many of my colleagues and a Federal agency, other ·than the Federal REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION · the news . media are still celebrating agency designated under subsection , Robert Mugabe's victory· of last week. under this title may petition the head of the SEC. 17. Section 301 of the Uniform Relo­ Federal agency designated under subsection cation Assistance and Real Property Acqui­ To them the restilts of the parliamen­ for a hearing on the record in any case sition Policies Act of 1970 is amended:.... tary elections are a vindication of the where the application or interpretation by Cl> by adding at the end of paragraph <2> years they opposed white rule in Salis­ such other agency of the regulations and the following new sentences: "Upon request bury and cheered on Nkomo's and Mu­ procedures prescribed under this section are of the owner or his representative, there gabe's violence. Their snubbing of at variance with an application or interpre­ shall be provided, a second appraisal by a Bishop Muzorewa's government is also tation thereof by any other agency. In any different appraiser. The second appraisal supposedly all right now since he only such proceeding, the designated Federal shall be conducted under the same a.ssump­ agency may by order direct such other tions, information, and procedures as the re~eived three seats in the new parlia­ agency to take such action as may be appro­ first appraisal."; and ment. When will we ever learn? The priate to achieve the purpose of this section. <2) by adding at the end thereof the fol­ weakened condition of Rhodesia after "(d) The Federal agency designated by lowing: years of diplomatic and economic· iso­ the President pursuant to subsection "<10> If the acquisition of property for the lation was no match for the heavily · shall adjust each dollar figure contained in site of a program or project would leave any armed forces of the terrorists who 5148 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 used Chinese, Soviet, and Cuban advis- glasses and a proper British accent. process and to produce a usable energy ers and arms to bring the country to Gone are the military fatigues and the product. . its knees. With an adverse intemation- African dialect. How long will this I applaud the interest and enthusi­ al climate· and a mounting terrorist packaging survive once power is con- asm of these students and commend war within its borders Rhodesia was solidated? their piox:ieer educational experiment trapped by events beyond its control. What is next for Africa? After a few which will contribute toward solving To the credit of Margaret Thatcher, months of peace the guerrillas and one of the most critical problems there was a valiant attempt to salvage their Cuban and Soviet advisers will facing our Nation. democracy through negotiations. Un- move further southward to force their On February 29, the Grand Rapids fortunately, the neglect shown Rhode- solutions on Nambia. After the Press ran. a story about this remark· sia by the United States and by previ- SWAPO Marxists triumph there, it able project, which I include in the ous British Governments had already will move on to the major prize of the RECORD: done enough damage. continent-South Africa. IN CEDAR SPRINGS, .ALCOHOL FuELs HOPES What happened in Rhodesia during This march of Communist control FOR FuTuRE ON FARM the elections is an outrage to every could have been avoided. The United concept of fairness. Reports coming States could have shown some leader- CEDAR SPRINGs.-In many of the Nation's from a number of observers show ship years ago In bolstering moderate schools, alcohol is a problem. widespread intimidation of the elector- forces in Rhodesia. It could have given At Cedar Springs High School, where the ate by Mr. Mugabe's guerrillas. One aid to Muzorewa. It could tiave pro- latest educational equipment IS a "still," al­ on-the-scene observer, Martin Mer- vided moral guidance to the British. cohol may be a solution. edith, reported on February 24, one Instead Mr. carter stood aside, and Moonshine could be the farmer's fuel of typical method of insuring.support for watched things happen. He let·Andrew the future, acco:rdlng to a group of Cedar Mugabe's ZANU party: Young cheer on the terrorists and let Springs agricultural students. who aim to make alcoholics of gasoline engines. Earlier this month, to take one of the less Mugabe and Nkomo come to the "It's almost perfect because many farmers blood-curdling examples. three Nkomo ac- United States to rally support. At the already have the materials, such as com, to tivists-a candidate and two party workers- same time he frustrated attempts make all the alcohol they want cheaply," were putting up posters in Chibi tribal trust d b h t in lisb land in south-central Rhodesia. They were ma e Y t e governmen s a ury explains Junior nave Patin, 16, 12901 Rit· seized by two gunmen. who identified them- to establish dialogs with the United chie Ave .• who also runs his own farm. selves as Zania men, adding that they had States. Just like Nicaragua, Taiwan, Since December, Patin and other stu­ instructions from Mugabe to kill anyone and Iran, the White House decided to dents• studies have included shelling and grinding com, cooking the "mash" and dis· who defiled their ban on othe~ parties in wat c h a f r i en d fall . tilling the precious liquid they hope will be the area. ' Time is running out for America. at least 160 proof grain alcohol. The three were then marched to two Every nation that falls to communism But about all that will get gassed up on nearby villages where the population, clear- strengthens the Kremlin's grip· on our the booze is a lawn·mower, not the students, ly frightened, was assembled. The villages were told to ignore Nkomo's party, informed lifelines to the rest of the world. Every who plan to make only a half-gallon. that ZANU had equipment to detect nation we abandon weakens our ability The school is one of few in the country how they voted, and warned that anyone to keep the friendship of what few · making alcohol without a permit under a who voted for other than Mugabe would allies we have left. There may come a waiv~r from the U.S. Treasury Depart­ have their heads cut off. day ·when America's word will not be ment s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and The two Nkomo party officials were then worth the paper it is printed on At Firearms. beaten up but managed to escape. The luck- • Regional bureau officials in Cincinnati say less candidate was last seen having red-hot that point where will we tum lf the they've been swamped recently by requests coals stuffed down his throat. Soviets make their move? Rhodesia from farmers for permits to produce up to The overall effect of such tactics has been did not have to succumb to Robert 2,50.0 gallons of alcohol annually for use in dramatic. The conclusion of soames' elec- Mugabe. His election was not inevita- agricultural equipment. tion supervisors is that in five of Rhodesia's ble. It was only when we allowed vio- At least 95 such permits were issued in eight electoral provinces, conditions for a lence to rule events and refused to aid Michigan in the past year, and another 284 free election no longer exist. Mass intimida· a friend that things came apart. Not have gone to farmer~ tn ~hio, Indiana. Ken­ tion is recorded in Manicaland, Victoria, too long ago America was known for tucky, and West V1rgima, bureau officials Mashonaland East and Central, with politi- its in t din b · d report. cal thuggery in parts of Matabeleland · courage 8 an g esi e our Under orders from Congress to expedite South. Only Mashonaland West, Matebele- friends. We are now getting known Jor such requests, the bureau usually sends out land North and Midlands are free of fear, weakness. Thank you, Mr. Vance. permits the day application is made. Per­ according to the supervisors. In Victoria Thank you, Mr. Carter. Your efforts mits are accompanied by a slick Govern­ Province, the worst affected area, both Mu- have done in 3 short years what the ment .information package instructing farm .. zorewa and Nkomo have abandoned at- leaders of the Kremlin have tried to ers on how to make the home brew. tempts to hold rallies. At a recent meeting do in 20 on the continent of Africa I However, unlike their mountain ancestors in Salisbury, Nkomo said: "The word intimi· hope you are proud of yourselves be- who were efficient in their production of dation is mild People are being terrorized • "cornlikker.'' many farmers don't know how It is terror." · · cause America and the remnants of to get the most alcohol yield for the least the free world are appalled.e amount of investment. according to ·agricul- Mr. Speaker, another observer, Rich- ture teacher Larry Reyburn. ard McCormack, reported that the Reyburn and instructor Ted Sabinas are consitutency of Fort Victoria had only STUDENTS BOOST ALCOHOL helping the students in their attempt to cut Mugabe candidates were campaigning FUELS RESEARCH · farmers• alcohol production costs. there because Nkomo and Muzorewa The students' experiment will compare al· workers had met with violent deaths. HON HAROLD S SA WYER cohol yields from the use of expensive com- This is not democracy, it ts a seizure of • ' • mercial enzymes to those of "natural" en· power. OF MICHIGAN zymes produced by sprouted grains. En- The offical reports from Zimbabwe- IN THE HOl,TSE OF REPRESENTATIVES zymes break down starch to sugar, neces· Rhodesia talk about efficient election salacroyhinol.the fermentation process of making Monday, March 10, 1980 management and high voter turnouts. "We want to discover which is more eco- The Britsh did provide effective elec- • Mr. SAWYER. Mr. Speaker, as in· nomical for the farmer.'' Reyburn explains. toral control, however, tliis does not temational tensions continue to grow. "The commercial enzymes go for $9 a quart. translate into fairness. In an environ- alcohol fuel is fast becoming one of In large-scale production, that becomes ment of fear, that even the official ob- the most important answers to Ameri- costly." . servers made note of, only the forces ca's energy future. He notes that it takes a bushel of corn to of fear prevail. Murders, threats, and I want to call to the attention of my get two to three gallons of alcohol. But shows of force carried the day in the colleagues the impressive effort being costs,using thenatural students enzymes believe. could sharply reduce elections. not policy and popular will. undertaken by· students at Cedar Additional experiments will determine As for Mr. Mugabe himself, he is now Springs High School, Cedar Springs, what proof alcohol delivers the best horse­ wearing suits ~d sports conservative Mich., to study the alcohol conversion power. March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5149 A useful byproduct from the still is the A WAR MYSTERY: RETURN OF According to files gathered from the De· leftover com mash~ It's 28 to 30 percent pro· RELUCTANT PRISONERS TO partment of War, the State Department and tein and can be used as livestock feed for SOVIET the Army, Federal officials were aware that cattle whose sobriety Is not critical Regular the men would likely face death penalties. com is 10 to 14 percent protein. _nnNALD But they believed that the Soviet Govern· Eventually, farmers may be able to use HON. LARRY Mcuv ment would hinder the return of American garbage and wood byproducts as a grain or GEORGIA prisoners of war In the Far East if the Rus· substitute In making alcohol, the students lN THE HOUSE .OF REPRESENTATIVES sians were not repatriated. note. PREPARED POil LARGER EFFORTS "In some states, fuel now Is hard to get Mo_nday, March 10, l980 Although It involved a small number of during harvest and planting seasons and •Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker. one people, the Fort D~ case was of critical im· during critical times, alcohol could be count· of the relatively unknown atrocities of portance to United States policy on this ed on," Patin reinarks. World War II and its aftermath was subject and It set the stage for American Patin hopes their experiments will result the forcible return to the U.S.S.R. of participation In larger repatriation efforts in alcohol becoming more competitive with gasoline. Depending on the efficiency of a some 5 million people by the Allles. In::peintemal Government memoran­ still, alcohol can be produced for 80 cents to princlpally the United States, Great dums and telegrams, It 18 clear that the Rus· $1.50 a gallon, he estimates. Britain, and France. Most of these sians' pllght provoked intense debate within As gasoline creeps toward the $1.50 II people were prisoners of war of the the Truman Admin1stratlon, with some dip· gallon mark-and perhaps $2 by next year­ Germans and the remainder were lomats, Jnclu~ w: Averell Harriman, then farm costs also will rise. those who had been sent from the the Ambassador to the Soviet Union, urging Patin, who took over the family'' 375-acre U .S.S.R. to labor In German factories that the United States allow the soldiers to cash crop farm when his father died of leu­ or others who had retreated with the stay. kemia last summer, understands fuel's lm· German forces from the U.S.S.R. Very Public attention was first focused on the portance to farmers. Be has six tractors. few of them· wanted to return to the ragtag group on June 29, 1945, when the sol· diers attacked the military pollce at Fort three trucks and two gasoline engine com· S S 800 000 to 1 000 000 0 f bin es. U.S ..R. ome • • • Dix with pieces of metal. "They Just didn't Some of the farm implements are diesel· the men .had donned German uni- appear to care for their lives at all," Capt. pawered, but diesel fuel no longer Is much forms at one time or another and some Richard Rtewarts told Army Investigators. of a savings because. its price Is almost com· had even fought against Red army "They pointed to their hearts and said oarable to gasoline. units, while others fought the Allies at shoot at it." The next day, with the riot widely publi· Using alcohol as a fuel has some draw­ the West Wall In Europe when the backs, however, such as difficult cold-weath· Allles landed. They comprised nearly cized. President Truman stayed the repatri· er starting. Modifications sometimes must all the nationalities that make up the ation: but despite pleas from within th-e be made in carburetors. U.S.S.R. and had only one thing In State Department, the Russians were quiet· commori-thelr hatred of Stalin and ly loaded onto a ship on Sept. 6, 1945. They Although school officials have ribbed the were sent to Hof, Germany, where they still project, they've been receptive to alco· communism. They could have been a were handed over to Soviet authorities. hol In the classroom. As a deterrent, howev­ great asset to the West ln the postwar BRITISH REPATRIATION POLICY er. the alcohol will be denatured, meaning world. but they were shipped back and The war had Jumbled national borders in that if anyone tried to drink it, they'd cer· in the case of the ex-prisoners many tainly retch and might die. were sent back at bayonet point. This Europe, and repatriation had been a major Patin and another student, Brian Issue among the Allies for several years. Heminger, 16, admit they've become quite foolish policy adopted by the- Allies The British policy, · which was essentially popular in school caused many deaths as these people adopted by the American Joint Chiefs of "A Jot of kids want the plans for making committed suicide. Once back in the Staff in 1944, demanded that prisoners be the still," Patin says. U.S.S.R. many were shot outright, par· returned "irrespective of the question of For demonstration purposes, the students tlcularly ex-officers. Nearly all the en· whether or not they want to be repatriat­ llsted, men and civilians were sen· ed." also built a half-scale mockup of backwoods American officials were not happy with stills that used to incur the wrath of govern· t enced to f orced 1a b or camps, wh ere this. One telegram from officers in Europe ment "revenooers." some survived to live to the post Stalin predicted "a wave of unfavorable public The still-makers relied on Mother Earth amnesty and be released back Into opinion" if United states troops carried out News and the Foxfire books In constructin1 written of their plight.. The New York War, scrawled in a handwritten, undated mash pots, the firebox, steam pipes and con­ Times on Sunday, February 24, 1980, memo that he objected. densers. detailed one of the notable instances "First thing you know," he s~id, "we will The still and an "Alcohol as a Fuel" dem· that took place on our own shores at be responsible for a big killing by the· Rus· onstration recently won the district and re­ slans." Fort Dix, N.J., in June of 1945• And if Under the terms of the Feb. 11. 1945. gional Future Farmers of America leader· anyone thinks this is Just old history. ship competitions. The students are prepar­ recall that Just recently we turned the Yalta agreement, negotiated by the Allied ing for state competition at Michigan State powers. natJonals held by one nation were University during Farmer's Week. March whole nation of Nicaragua over to the to be returned to their country of origin. 19-21. Communists. The column follows: · Throughout the early mont.lis of 1945, "Eventually farmers should be able to to. (From the _New York Times. Feb. 24. 19801 though, the declassified documents show tally convert from gasoline to alcohol," pre­ A WAR MYSTERY: RE'l'URN OP RELUCTANT that the United States spumed repeated dicts Heminger, of '1125 Seventeen Mile PRISONERS TO SOVIET Soviet requests to repatriate the prisoners Road. "World energy started on the farm. who claimed German citizenship because it and we think it'll end on the farm."• WASHINGTON, February 22.-In June 1945, feared that the Nazis would harm American 153 frightened Soviet prisoners of war, who prisoners of war. had been captured in German uniforms and By May 1945, the Nazis were out of the feared they would be shot upon their return war, and a major policy-making body, the to Russia, begged President Barry S. St te N din tt...... i t Truman to allow them to stay in this coun- a · war- avy coor a ..... comm t ee, PERSONAL EXPLANATION ruled that any Russians captured in try. The pris.oners, who attempted to . German uniforms should be immediately commit mass suicide by provoking their t d t s vi t A th riti Th d HON. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN guards at Fort Dix to shoot them. received a ume over 0 0 e u 0 es, e or er Presidential reprieve the next day. Included several thousand prisoners of war OF NEW YORK But classified Government documents dis· held by the Allies .in Europe as well as the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES close that all but seven of the soldiers were 153 Russian prisoners incarcerated in the handed over to the Russians after the United States. Monday, Monday 10, 1980 public furor had died down. The ultimate 153 ASSEMBLED AT FORT DIX e Ms. HOLTZMAN. Mr. Speaker. I fate of the soldiers is not known. By June 28, the e:Qtire group had been as- was unable to be present on Thursday, The United States, the documents show. sembled at Fort Dix and the Soviet Ambas­ February 28. Had I been present, I never swayed from its original intention to sador was notified that their departure return the soldiers to the Soviet U,nion, would take place the next day. would have voted as follows: Classified "secret" at the time, the repatri· They were a mixed lot. Some had joined Roll No. 106-yes. a tion of the Russians has been referred to the Germans out of hatred for the Soviets. Roll No. 107-no.e since only in academic publications. Others had been captured by the Nazis and 5150 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 pressed into the German army with threats HOW NOT TO FIGHT INFLATION a strategy to control Inflation. Frightened of death. But all believed that a return to by January's 18.2 percent annual-rate rise in the Soviet Union would mean disaster for consumer prices and by widespread calls for them and what remained of their famWes. HON.AUGUSTUSF.HAWKINS · wage and price controls, the Carter admlnJs· In 1942, the Red Army had declared that OP CALltORNIA tration plans to hand us about $20 billion in anyone captured by ·the enemy was a trai­ IN THE BOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES budget cuts-$4 billion this year, the rest in tor. Although Soviet officials later rescinded fiscal 1981. this directive, the prisoners 1n Fort Dix re­ Monday, March 10, 1980 In a $2 tr11llon economy the effect will be mained unconvinced. One 40-year-old offi­ e Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, In the roughly similar to using a 22-callber ri.fle to cer, whose name was obscured on the docu­ defiect a charging elephant. The Congres­ ;ments, said: "I knew I was a traitor because next week to 10 days, this body will re- sional Budget Office calculated a year and a when I was a commander 1n the Red Army, ceive some proposals from the Prest- half ago that $25 billion In budget cuts I myself read those orders to my troops." dent which will be billed as the answer would shave a mere one-tenth of 1 percent Overnight, they fashioned a plan to pro­ to our Inflation problems. I wish to off the Inflation rate over a year. The opti· voke their own deaths. The metal beds 1n point out right here and now that If mists think we might get two-tenths to the Fort Dix barracks were easily disman­ current reports are accurate,- and ·the three-tenths of a point less Inflation. What­ tled, and the parts served as weapons for President bases his so-called new anti- . ever the short-term political value of a the Russians. At 9 the next morning, the inflationary measures on drastic budget-cutting binge, it clearly has little to Fort Dix executive officer, Captain budget cuts, and possibly credit con~ ~~th our real and urgent Inflation prob- Riewarts, ordered the men to fall out. He spoke 1n German. and he later told Army in· trols, that I will oppose such misguld- Budget-cutting Is merely a continuation of terrogators, "All I heard was a bunch of ed, symbolic gestures because they are what Arthur Okun has called "muddle­ •no's' or •neln's.' " mere expedients and will do absolutely through economics," a strategy based on Tear gas was thrown into the barracks nothing to bring down Inflation. In the assumption that government should not through a window to dislodge the recalci­ fact, such a program may well result directly deal with the larger forces batter­ trant prisoners. Moments later, the Rus­ fn a further deterioration of the al- Ing the economy, or at least not on purpose. sians charged out of the building toward the ready shredding economic fabric of In other·words, the strategy simply means armed guards, shouting while sw1nging their our Nation trying to stave off disaster in the hope that makeshift weapons. Shots were fired, and • your luck will turn. nine Russians suffered wounds, none of How many times must we point out This crossed-fingers school Is not without them fatal. that economically speaking, draconian Its virtues. When tlm.es are good and eco­ After the· guards quelled the uprising, budget cuts, especially in the anti-in- nomic forces stable, a case of sorts can be Fort Dix officers found that three of the fiationary, domestic side of the Feder- made for leaving things pretty much as they Russians had hanged themselves. Fifteen al budget, will not affect the rate of are and merely·tlnkering at the margin. But more nooses ·hung from the celling unused, Inflation? we are In the midst of massive changes in the officers said. How many times must we point out our economic relationships against which According to the Army Inspector Gener­ . muddle-through Is of little help. al's report, the prisoners were then loaded that economically speaking, Inflation The administration's inab111ty to go into buses and 'Shipped to Camp Shanks, is out of control and we must under- beyond wishful thinking was reflected early N.Y., to await their June 30 departure. The take bold and effective initiatives on when the president refused to ask Con­ trip passed In relative ~. although one which will strike at the true causes of gress to reauthorize his power to impose Russian had to be hospitalized after swal· the ·price spirals In the Inflationary standby wage and price controls. For the lowing a razor blade. sectors in the economy? · president to throw away his most important The next day, the prisoners were granted How many times must we point out weapon their Presidential reprieve, pending: comple­ that economically speaking the onl was a remarkable act that he surely will •. Y regret. With Inflation unllk,.e1Y to ease tion of an investigation of the Fort Dix riot answer to our current Inflationary ex- much, let alone go away, he probably will be and the nationality of each prisoner. plosion is immediate ·imposition of forced to ask for the popularly supported SEVEN ALLOWED TO STAY across-the-board controls; that will ef- controls at some po1Jlt. While we wait we Further interrogation during July dis­ fectlvely stop a further surge of·infia· can expect a round of price increases by tion, accompanied with a focused bU*1inessmen who want to get 1n their boosts closed that seven prisoners were not Soviet attack on the basic causes of the lnfla- before the price gates slam down. citizens. Russian officlalS agreed to let ~hem stay In this country, but demanded the lm· tion; which are the price increases and ·But the issues facing us go beyond con­ shortages in the basic necessities of trols and even beyond the appalling fact mediate return of the remaining 146. . that the budget ax Is likely to fall most Within the State Department, the Depart­ energy, housing, medical care, and heavily on the weakest members of society. ment of Legal Affairs contended that send­ food. Only through such a planned, They go to the larger question of whether ing the prisoners to the Soviet Union would coordinated effort will we really be we will simply continue to hope that "some­ result In their execution and thus violate able to bring the economy back to full thing will turn up"-or whether we wm. on the pri,soners' rights under the Geneva Con­ use of its human and material re- purpose, attack the central causes of lnfla· vention. ~bassador Harriman reported from Moscow that trainloads Df repatriates sources and to an economic . environ- tion. Critics are correct 1n stating that If from all over Europe passed through the ment characterized by full employ- controls are clamped on, there would merely . cit¥. and he said those Judged gullty of de­ merit, price stability, and increased be another explosion of prices and. wages sertion were probably being shot. productivity. ~~~~~~~~~~u~e~~v~a~:.-1ess we sunulta· The winding down of the WlU' 1n the Far It is quite evident ·to me that our Our new Inflation it must be understood East ultimately led to a decision by the . constituents are very much aware of does not stem prm;arlly from generalized United Stat~. On Aug. 20. 1945, Elbridge how their ·household budgets have pressures. It has been concentrated 1n a few Durbrow, chief of the State Department's been pinched by skyrocketing costs in key sectors for most of the '70s. Virtually all Division· of 'European Affairs, said. in a the basic necessities. Their message is the Increase 1n the .Inflation rate between memo that "the repatriation shoula ta"ke loud and clear. We must now repeat 1978 and ~979 was caused by special and by place without delay, "since there are a large now familiar factors that increased prices of number of American prisoners held by the the ir message over and over again, the "basic necessities"--energy, food, hous- Japanese In Manchuria who will shortly be untll we, as policymakers and partners Ing and medical costs. The combined rate liberated by the Soviet forces." In economic decisionmaking, take heed for these items was 10.8 percent 1n 1978; last The last reference to the deported soldiers and act accordingly. Therefore, I en- year it skyrocketed to 17.6 percent. By con­ ls an official Army shipping order that courage my colleagues to read the fol- trast, the hlflation rate for consumer items states that two Soviet majors, Valenian lowing thoughtful explanation of other than these necessities changed only Sharapov and Pyotr Orechlshk.ln, "will ac­ "How Not To Fight Inflation," which from 6.5 percent to 6.8 percent. company shipment 000 to B516 and thence appeared in the March 9 1980 Wash- Conventional wisdom has viewed inflation to final destination." lngton Post Op-Ed page ' • In these key sectors as "temporary aberra- • tions.'' The prescription Is for wage earners From other documents, it can be inferred The article follows: to absorb the "shocks" and then the econo- that the transfer was handled by an Army CFrom the Washington Post, Mar. 9, 19801 my will resume' its normal path. This is the officer named Major Suffield and that B516 How NOT To FIGHT INFLATION meaning of Alfred Kahn's repeated argu- was Hof, a town on the autobahn between ment that although "the desire to keep pace Nuremberg and Leipzig. The prisoners' by catch-up increases Is certainly "final destination," however, remains a mys­ We are about to go through another understandable •.• unfortunately it is not tery.e round In the symbolic waltz that passes for possible • • .'' Federal Reserve Board Chair- March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5151 man Paul Volcker has put the case more "takes us to the bottom line," promising emment intervention is the likely result of bluntly: "The standard of living of the aver· future price rises "that may dwarf those of the process in any event. The question is age American has to decline." the recent past." To what but spiralling whether It 1s based on serious confrontation Yet the necessities account for 60 to '10 health care costs can we look forward as the with the new problems we actually face. · percent of the spending of four out of five population ages and as medical science de· Once all of this is recognized, we may families; they take up 90 percent of spend- velops new technologies that ~e not sub­ have a chance of dealing with the centr~ ing for the lower 20 percent of society and Jected to hard cost-benefit analyses? Simi· issue facing the economy 1n the coming even more for the poor among them . Real spendable young couples·to own a home, but how wlll manhour in U.S. manufacturing rose~ only earnings of the average worker declined we prevent the rent increases that w111 28 percent, while it climbed '15 percent in more than 5 percent last year. There may result from West Germany and 113 percent in Japan. be some modest fat in family budgets, but it forcing poor people out of theirs? Our manufacturing growth was the lowest is .both economically and politically absurd. Controls alone self-evidently do not deal of 11 industrlal nations-traillng even Great as well as morally unconscionable, to expect with the fundamentals of health care infla­ Britain. And last year we suffered an actual f amily budgets to absorb all of the 1'1.6 per- tion. We need instead a steady expansion of decline In productivity. ~ cent inflation rate increase in basic necessi· prepaid health care and health mainte­ U we repeat this performance this decade, ties-a rate which in 1979 was virtually nance organizations employing salaried pro­ the effects of compounding guarantee that double the average 8 to 9 percent wage set· fessionals. We also need to devote far more the very heart of our industrial economy tlement. This, however, has been precisely of our national health resources to health will be threatened while our major competi­ the premise of most of .the administration's education and other public and occupation- tors race forward. strategy. alhealth measures. But no Intelligent executive can plan for Specifically, what Kahn and Volcker have The longer-term inflation 1n housing re- long-term investment in high-productivity in mind is a deflationary policy to force quires us to expand the supply to bring it equipment unless there ls confidence of a down general demand for goods and serv- into line with growing demand. Current growing market. So the uncertainties of our tces .•Here is where their economics become tight-money strategies aim only at dampen­ stop/start economy caused by the govern· more muddled: The past failures in the "ne· ing short-term speculation and run contrary ment's policy responses-or non-responses­ cessities" sectors are now "spilling over" to the fundamental problem: We are In the lead business to shift away from long-term, into wage demands, as they inevitably had midst of a surge in household formations as productivity-improving inv~tments toward to. But symbolic budget cuts will not signtfl. the postwar baby boom has become a family short-term speculation. cantly affect demend, nor will they do much boom and as more people ls essential if the energy part General Accounting Office. assessing the nesses-and monthly home mortgage pay- of tnnatlon is ever to be controlled. But re­ effect of investment tax credits 1n 1978, ments. It also increases long-term inflation· ·control makes sense only 1f coupled with found they prompted little change in actual ary problems in housing by reducing invest- direct measures to achieve energy conserva­ investment decisions-at a cost to the f eder­ ment. When he presided over the Federal tion. These include gasoline rationing, al budget of $19 billion. Reserve Board, William Miller had the hon- tough auto· mileage standards and more While a "supply-side economics" is neces· esty at one point to acknowledge the sub- · meaningful solar, gasohol and insulation sary, it must be carefully targeted to the stantial irrelevancy of monetary policy to and weatherlzation programs, to say noth­ problem sectors-and integrated. on pur­ the biggest sectoral problems. Moreover, In ing of expanded systems of mass transit and pose, Into an overall plan that can offer con· energy. as 1s well known, the administration passenger railroads. Direct government-to· fidence in resumed growth. We can no has deliberately stimulated inflation with government efforts to diversify our oil longer Just cross our fingers that we will its price-decontrol policy. supply with more non-OPEC countries are avert a major crisis.e Only in connection with its weak hospital also essential. cost-containment proposals and support for The obstacles to solving our underlying a slight expansion of assistance to health food inflation problems are more political U.S. ADMISSION OF ERROR IN maintenance organizations did it seriously than economic. We are not in a shortage sit­ U.N. ISRAEL VOTE IS NOT attempt to target a basic-necessity sector. uation here as in energy. Relative to domes­ ENOUGH But the approach here has been half-heart· tic needs, the United States 1s the richest ed, and, more Importantly, the anti-inflation agricultural nation in the history of the benefits would be counteracted if the ad- world; we export half of our grain. HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER ministration's plan for catastrophic-only But the United States IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Unless we focus on the necessities while does not yet have a serious policy of insulat· wage-price controls are iri effect, we will ing our domestic food economy from the ef- . Monday, March 10, 1980 squeeze family income even further. This f ects of short-term world shortages. A e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker. the has happened already under the voluntary system of export managem~nt; coupled with wage-price program_. and It ·will worsen If expanded deficiency payments to· farmers, administration•s confession of error in key items in the famtly budget-fuel oil and could stabilize domestic grain prices and casting a vote . against Israel in the food, for example-are allowed to skyrocket thereby also reduce fluctuations 1n meat U .N. Security Council last week (as has bappened in the past during periods supplies. International agreements on grain cannot undo the damage that vote has of controls> while wages are held down with reser\{es must also be pursued. done to our national credibility. Let the force of law. We could see a replay of In short, for our anti-inflation strategy to the administration be assured that the Nixon program, properly described by be something other than wishful thinking Congress will never tolerate the aban­ one of the top men in then charge, Arnold or a repeat of Richard Nixon's election-year doning of principles or jeopardizing Weber, 8s a mechanism to "zap labor.'• controls program, this administration or the Wage-price controls by themselves would ac- next must have a clear plan for how It the security of our true friend and tually do more than that today: They would wants to reshape th~ key markets generat­ ally. Israel. Ivan Novick. president of crush the average household budget. Unless. Ing the bulk of the inflation. This requires the Zionist Organization of America. that is, we go beyond posturing. more than a simple-minded notion of gov. eloquently addresses this Issue in his Barry Bosworth, to his credit, has ac· ermnent intervention; It requires a willing· letter to the editor that recently ap­ knowledged that much of the anti-inflation ness to plan. peared in the New York Times. I com­ strategy he helped desirii as director of the Planning ts a dirty word in American poli­ mend the letter to my colleagues at­ Council on Wage and Price Stability was tics. Instead we prefer muddling towards a based on the false assumption that we can crisis solution like unplanned wage-price tention: treat inflation in the necessities as aberra- controls. It is an all too familiar pattern. CARTER'S DECISION AGAINST THE JEWS tions. Both the massive government interventions To the EDITOR: Can anyone believe energy prices will go to bail out Chrysler and to build an $88 bil­ On the day of the Jewisn Sabbath, the anywhere but up during the 1980s, especial· lion synfuels industry were preceded by the United States delegate to the United Na- Iy - with the president letting domestic muddle-through, symbolic posture of look· . tions. Donald F. McHenry, Joined with anti­ energy prices rise to OPEC-determined Ing the other way and hoping something democratic forces In the Security Council in levels? The same holds for food: As· food an· would turn up. support of a resolution intended to negate alyst Lester Brown notes. the growing gap We may have to go through an economic the right of the Jewish people to the land of between world food demand and supply bloodbath before the lesson is learned: Gov· Israel. CX:XVI---325-Pa.rt 4 5152 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 President Carter's decision to support this TESTIMONY OP HON. GEORGE MILLER OF CALI• PUBLIC DENIED FAIR RETURN Infamous U.N. action Ignored the historic, PORNIA, BEFORB THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON The public does not receive the fair rellglous, legal and moral rights of the ENERGY AND MATERIALS PRODUCTION, U.S. market value for the publicly oWlled gas and Jewish people. It brings us tragic memories SENATE. JULY 11, 1979, ON. TITLE VII OF S • . oil leased under the noncompetitive system. of the consequences of appeasement at a 1308 Under that system, participants In the lot· time when a strong America must show Its Senator Ford and men1bers of the subcom- tery pay a $10 filing fee, an amount estab· resolve as a free nation challenged by a hos· mtttee, I appreciate having the opportunity ltshed "without the benefit of a cost study" tile world. to testify this morning before this subcom- In 1950, and never updated.• The President's action. was counter-pro­ mittee on the need to enact legislative In Its 1970 study, GAO definitively con­ ductive to the decisions made In good faith changes In the system by which onshore oil eluded: Under the present leasing system, at Camp David. By capitulating to the Re· and gas resources on public lands are leased. the rights to federally owned oil and gas are Jectiontst Front we have catered to the For the past several months: I have con· being disposed of at less than their fair worst elements opposing the peace process ducted an Investigation of the onshore leas- market value. GAO concluded that competl· i...... 0 f this t d I h tive leasing would ensure that lands are between Egypt and Israel. The satisfied re· u&a system. As part s u y, ave re- leased at prices that more nearly approx!· viewed numerous reports and critiques of action of the P.L.O. spokesman at the U.N. the so-called "simultaneous leasing pro- mate their fair market value.• expressing grattftcation for the vote was a gram". Virtually all of these studies, by the The public receives a royalty of only 121/a clear Indictment of the decision that was General Accounting Office and the Depart- percent on its oil and gas leased through the taken. ment of the Interior concluded that the cur- noncompetitive system. By contrast, the off. In spite of long-estabUshed views held by ts h 0 f this shore leasing program was severely . criti· Mr. Carter's predecessors as well as most rent system chea t e taxpayers cized 1n recent years because it's allowed a members of Congress, the President, un· country and that It results In unnecessary royalty of 16% percent. Under the new wisely, has shifted American policy. Should delays In the development of oil and gas re- O.C.S. law, the Department of Interior has Israel, the one country that ls most vulner­ sources which we desperately need. · been selling offshore tracts for royalties in able to terrorism, be condemned by the The Mineral Lands Leasing Act, under excess of 30 percent. . . United States, whose citizens are at this which the leasing of public oil and gas ts The General· Accounting Office has re­ conducted, must be changed to expedite the peatedly wan:ied that the public ts not re­ very moment being held hostage by P.L.O.· sale production of oil and gas, and to assure ceivlng a fair return for its oil and gas. In supported fanatics In Iran? that the public receives a fair return from . one case, GAO concluded that the public President Carter's extraordinary state­ the development of its resources. was receiving only 5 percent of the fair ment that a failure In communication Title VII of S. 1308 addresses some of the market value! caused the U.S. representative to vote In problems in the noncompetitive leasing pro- In our rush to energy lndependenee, ·we error ts dlstre8slng. Yet we note with regret gram. I would like to commend the chair· ought not give away to Private Interests bil-· that Mr. Carter has not changed his basic man of your committee, Senator Jackson, lions of dollars of oil and gas which belong views. Even a vote to abstain was not the for having taken the Initiative In lntroduc- to the people of the United States. answer. Instead. a resounding "No!" would tng this legislation. The legislation .which I have Introduced have been of great credit to our nation. This I believe that the revision of the program converts the entire onshore program to a would have met with the approval of the should go further than has been proposed competitive bid program, and authorizes the American people, who will not tolerate the In S. 1308. The numerous and longstanding us.e of a variety of bidding systems In order f orsaktng of principles or Jeopardizing the flaws In the current system have been the to give the Secretary of .Interior the maxi· security of proven friends. subject of GAO studies In 1955, 1961, 1970, mum flexibility In leasing these lands. IVAN J. NOVICK, and 1979. The Bureau of Land Management Competitive bidding was endorsed as long issued a critical ago as 1961 by the Assistant Secretary of In­ President. report In 1978, as did the Department of the terlor, John M. Kelly, who said that his Zionist Organization of America.e Interior some ten 'years earlier. studies Indicated that such a reform·"would In 1966, 1968~ and most recently a few curb speculation without restricting pros- weeks ago, the Department of the Interior pecttng. . REFORM OF ONSHORE OIL AND recognized the need to reform this system. Nine years later, GAO concluded: The use OAS LEASING While Secretary Andrus' administrative pro- of a competitive bidding system would elimi· posal would address some of the problems, nate the undesirable aspects of awarding comprehensive legislative changes are cer- leases of· Federal lands on the. basts of a HON. GEORGE MILLER talnly required. drawing. OF CALIFORNIA I have attempted to develop such a legisla- . GAO continued: The disposal of the Na­ tive package In H.R. 4373, "The Public on tion's oil and gas resources under full and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Gas Lands Leasing .Act", which I would free competition would be more consistent Monday, March 10, 1980 like to submit today as a part of the Record. with our free enterprise economy.• This comprehensive legislation ls designed COMPETITION • Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. to remedy the most severe shortcomings of My legislation addresses the major con- Speaker, Secretary of the Interior the current system, as revealed In the var- cern which has been raised about an all­ Andrus has wiseiy suspended the lot­ lous studies to which I have referred. I competitive system: that it would exclude tery leasing of onshore oil and gas would like to take a few minutes to describe smaller companies from acquiring leas'es. these problems, and the solutions which This is obviously not the design of the leg- lands because of reported widespread H.R. 4373 offers to them. lslation. We should be encouraging more abuses. LOTrERY PROGRAM companies to participate In exploring for, Several critiques of the "simulta· Under the current law, competitive bid- and developing our Nation's energy re- neous leasfug system" have document~ ding may be used only on public lands sources. in i ed that taxpayers are not receiving a ·where there ls a "known geologic structure" . My bill, H.R. 4373, eludes restrict ons on Joint bidding among major companies. The fair market return from the lottery, . On all other lands, a noncompetitive bill continues the current restriction on system must be used. to al d 1 and that domestic reserves are not .organization and con- t acreage permitte any essee and cre- being expeditiously developed. To eliminate the dis ates a further limit of 10 percent of the fusion associated with these noncompetitive acreage offered for le.ase In any )".ear. Following my own investigation last drawings, the "simultaneous filing system" year, I introduced H.R. 4373, "The was created In 1960 under which an unllmit- LEASE ASSIGNMENTS Public Oil and Oas Lands Leasing ed number of potential lessees may submit The conversion to a competitive leasing Act." The Senate has conducted hear- their. names for a lottery on parcels of land. system would also reduce the high degree of . ings on this issue, and has several bills As early as 1968, the U.S. Department of speculation which exists In the non-competi­ under consideration, ·including one of­ the Interior noted the serious objections to tive leasing program. The most serious of this program which had been raised by the these abuses ls the practice of "assigning" . ~ere~J>Y the administration. Department of Interior and the Independ- leases almost as soon as someone has won I would like to share with my col­ ent Petroleum Producers Association, and leagues the testimony on H.R. 4373 questioned whether the noncompetitive •General Accounting Office, "Review-of Selected which I delivered to the Senate Sub­ system "ts sufficiently In tune with the 'real Activities Relating to Lease and Disposal of Lands world' ",1 and Mineral Resources," BLM/DOI> 12. Materials Production last July. I also· • ---, "Opportunity for Benei'its Through invite my colleagues to join me in co­ •Department of the Interior, "Public Land Man· Increased Use of Competitive Bidding To Award 011 agement, Identification of problems-Analysis of and Oas Leases on Federal Lands" would be increased to encourage thoughtful presentation of one aspect and gas reserves. development. The duration of a lease would of our national energy prob.lem, and I Indeed, less than 5 percent of all non-com· be reduced to five years. "&Ild could not be take pleasure in sharing them with petitlvely awarded leases are under develOP·· renewed unless diligent exploration and de· Members of this House. velopment were occurring. ment. Mr. Henry's remarks follow: As Interior noted in 1968, a sizable group In addition, no one could secure a lease of those awarded leases through the lottery who was not already performing diligently TEXT OF COMMENTS BY ALAN HENRY "have immediately assigned their rights to on all other public leases for oil and gas Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen. My others for high values which some contenet which he held. name is Alan Henry, I am President of a ought to be collected through bonus bidding Lastly, the Secretary would be given the group of Television and Radio stations in and retained on behalf of the Treasury." authority to approve or order modifications the United States, headquartered in In assignments of leases to assure that the Tampa/St. Petersburg. There is no rational· public policy benefit broad public interest was being senred. . to this high stakes buying and selling of val· Mr. Chairman. these policy reforms are I'm representing myself-as a boater, and uable public resources. the result of many investigations over the Indirectly representing the thousands of But some do benefit. The lottery program years. but they address ver7 contemporary boaters in the viewing area of our television has given birth to many leasing companies Issues. station WTSP-TV. which scout out, and bid on tracts for hun­ We need to develop our on and gas re· As I understand it, this hearing is only dreds of applicants, collecting millions of serves safely and quickly. The current si­ one of a series of nationwide meetings un­ dollars in fees for merchandising the re~ multaneous filing system for non-competi· dertaken as an outcrop of a mandate by Congress to DOE, to develop alternate sources of the people of the United States. tive leases is antiquated. It encourages spec4 an If you read the literature circulated by ulation rather than production: It festers fuel conservation plan, short of rationing. these companies, you will be reminded of delay instead of development; it provides Subsequently, the DOE ~ued a contract carnival barkers: riches for a few and denies the public the to MIT for an Economic Regulatory Impact "Yours for a richer summer.;' profits which we all deserve from the leas· Analysis. which includes an examination of ''Yours for r-1-c-h-e-s in 1979.'' ing of lands we all own. possible energy restrictions for aircraft. wa· It is time to bring our leasing program for tercraft and off-road vehicles. From this "You can bring a gusher of money into report, these hearings have evolved into a your life! ' these lands into conformity with the pro­ gram for other public resources. as well as fact finding effort to determine the general These companies serve as agents for appli., into conformity with the fundamental prop.. public attitude to certain findings contained cants, both in the original filing, and in ne.­ ositiori that the public should benefit most tn the report. gotiating the turn-around assignment sales. from the development of public resources. Frankly the objective for these hearings in many cases. H.R. 4373 provides the framework for that in-light of the report are curious. Some of these companies.advertise having reform. It assures rapitl leasing, expeditious The major MIT analysis revolved around sold a $10 lease for as much as $200,0()0; development, full competition and a fair the hypothetical economic other resales of $10 leases for $40,000 and return to the public. I am hopeful that impact of lines at the gas pump in $50,000 are not uncommon. House and Senate Members will work coop­ the event of a fuel shortfall. In order to If these leases are worth tens of thou· eratively together to assure that these poli­ make its case the DOE sup. sands of dollars, why shouldn't the public~ cies are included in legislation .to be enacted plied a fantasized formula-one in· which which owns the resources, benefit from in this Congress.• was woven this hypothetical economic their sale instea:d of an individual who has Impact, against our GNP ("deadweight done ndthing at all but have his name burden">. For all the good this hazy, mysti· pulled out of a hat? PERSONAL EXPLANATION cal, disengenous hypothesis was intended to Unrestricted lease assignment may also· accomplish, the findings of the MIT report cause delays in developing leases. because HON. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN are overwhelmingly weighted against this the parcels are carved up into inefficient instant rulemaking. units. Moreover, the highl1 speculative OJ' NEW YORK For that reason. among others, one feels nature of the system encourages people to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES there is a sinister, but yet comedic, overtone delay exploration f~r years. Monday, March 10, 1980 to these hearings. Lastly, the system is inconsistent with the Sinister, because we certainly have a gov· need to expedite development of domestic • Ms. HOLTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ernment attempt to fabricate a hypothesis, energy resources. because applicants need was unable to be present on Tuesday, the value in queuing-which is unsurporta· not demonstrate that they possess the tech~ February 26. Had I been present, I ble. nical or financial abilities to develop oil and would have voted as follows: The MIT report states it clearly • • • gas resources. Successful applicants either Rollcall No. 82-no.e "most of the conclusions of the present sit on their winnings, possibly shutting 1D study require a fairly elaborate scaffolding valuable resources. or sell them at great per~ of assumption." sonal profit. to ~he financial detriment of Comedic because this very report, upon the interests of the people of the United! REMARKS OF ALAN HENRY which the foundation of these hearings States. have is to reduce the cent through reassignments, which are ar~ all-out natiQnal program to encourage lines at the gas pump in the event of an ranged without any public scrutlny or open the production of more energy. Conser­ energy shortfall. To quote MIT: bidding. vation is a commendable goal, but con~ . • • "the benefits for the country as a Thus, major oil companies have secured servation alone is not enough. whole from this plan. and compared with nearly 25 percent of all leases in a. program conditions during a shortfall with no plan, designed to benefit the "little guy" . Unfortunately, the Carter adrninis· consists almost entirely of the reduction of If there is a more idiotic way to dispense tration and the Department of Energy queuing cost". public resources in flagrant disregard of the seem committed to programs which In contrast to the attempt to quantify this public interest it has not come to my atten­ will merely allocate scarcity. One ex­ fanta$ized benefit, we have a real event: tion in the five years I have served in Con· ample of that effort was a hearing havoc will be wrecked on an industry, and a gress. held in Atlanta March 3 to hear com4 recreational past time destroyed, 5154 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 On that, MIT is explicit: • • • "90 percent this noble retreat is an 8 billion dollar in­ never-the reductio·n of consumption, equal of all fuel transfer will result from a reduc- dustry as an integral part of 8 million to all.e tion in boating"• • •. American lives. Yet the plan intended for On page 17 of the report, the conclusion ls this retreat is ill-conceived, unprovable, un­ mind-shattering: • • • "the . burden of the workable, unenforceable, and more impor­ MORE POWER, MORE RESPONSI· cost will be unequal• • •,the tantly, indefenseable under the law. The BILITY TO LOCAL GOVERN· plan achieves a reduction in queuing costs end product of this plan is however, predict­ MENT at the expense of an increase in the inequity able. The benefits, if any, are. not. That's a of its distribution." lousy trade-off. - Albeit, I am lead to believe these hearings What we are really doing here today is HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL from beginning to end are a charade. How representatlv~ of a sympton in our nation's 01' ILLINOIS else can anyone believe otherwise, when you malaise. We are grasping for a conscience, a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES digest the conclusions in the report, the direction. We need a hero. conclusions are contrary to the very reason If we are to have a national conscience, we Monday, March 10, 1980 these hearings are being held . need leaders to lead. If this nation needs a •Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, there is A charade becomes even more beli~vable hero, I've got one-what better a candidate a very important but almost totally when you read the Energy Conservation Act than our President. What better deed, in unreported struggle going on all over of 1979: tune with these meetings, than suspending • • • "Taken as a whole this plan has been the Clean Air Act. From this the United States every day. It is the designed not to impose an unreasonable dis· heroic stance 220 million Americans will struggle between the forces of an ever­ proportionate share of the burden of re- equally share in major benefits, and, minor growing centralized government and striction on energy use on any specific liabilities. those of us who believe that govern­ class" • • • · . This simple act of courage would all but ment works best when it is closest to la~re objective is clear. Equality, under the eliminate any potential energy shortfall. the people. On the one hand there is a In contrast, the DOE sponsored MIT Given this period of time we can then pro­ cry for more and-more money and di­ report says: • • • "the boating industry ceed with calm to develop alternate fuel rection from Washington; on the would absorb the major brunt of the plan." sources, like oil shale, synthetics and solar other hand there is a demand that power. With 40% of the world's coal re- Without a doubt, under the instant pro· sources, we have an obligation to develop ef• more and more power and responsibili­ posal, not only would a ban on weekend mo- f ective use for this abundant energy source. ty be turned over to the people of the torboating be highly discriminatory, but in communities and the States. all probability, illegal. Should you have any We must accelerate· the development of nuclar power-not withstanding the risks. A recent editorial on station WRAU­ doubt about the strength of character in ~verything ~hat is . wrong Ctoda.Y) I~ servation Act has as its basic direc- . A_menca. Just thmk of it, a rulemakmg is tive-equality, while the DOE conducts ing local educational policies, why couldn't a being considered which is discriminatory, hearings of dubious legal standing leading special blue ribbon citizen committee be unequal in its implementation and punitive to a possible rule making which is based on named to address the issue? in its execution. . inequality. It would ~ertainly be cheaper than spend· When I was growing up that was not one . · ing over half a million tax dollars to accom­ of the fundamentals of our American way Maybe somewhere along this trail a con- plish the same goal. It's this kind of ap­ And, when growing up, believing in Am~r- clusion was reached that the ~erican proach to local problems that can reduce ica was critical because I grew up in reason- people lacked perception and are gulllble? the cost of government, and curb inflation able poverty, not knowing my mother nor How else could anyone produce a premise while still providing the .services we want.e my father. Between then and today as I as synthetic as placing an illusionary value prospered, I have always believed that our on a queu, at a gas pump-with the end government would protect our sacred rights. result. being the laying of the seeds of de· END SECRECY ON PLANT Yet we are here today to consider a rule- struc:tion for a fundamental American CLOSINGS making which on its face, would disassemble right-equality, under the law. one of our inherent rights, equality under Parenthetically, 'I wish to inform you Mr. the law. Chairman and Ladles and gentlemen of the HON. BOB EDGAR There is a discernible pattern ·here; it's panel.. . . . that on Friday, February 29th, I OF PENNSYLVANIA the pattern generated by a vacuum in con- talked to Mr. Tom Humphrey, Project man­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES structive thought. A pattern which is be· ager of_the MIT report. He informed that coming repetitive because our country's this report is in the process of being re­ Monday, March 10, 1980 leadership is searching for the easier way evaluated in the light of recent develop­ •Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, I would out. This pattern, and this proposal is inter- ments in the price of fuel and the apparent like to submit for the RECORD an arti­ woven simplistically towards the objective conservation being achieved. cle which appeared in the Philadel­ of a retreat. Mr. Humphrey stated that much of the phia Inquirer this week. The article Make no mistake, we are here today to conservation hoped for from the initial ana~ gives the views of Joseph Ferrara, area consider orchestrating a retreat. Our gov- lytical report has already · begun to be emment can't face the issue of sharing the achieved <14 times what this proposal is in­ director of United Auto Workers Dis­ burden eQually among all Americans in an tended to do> and that a 1981 fuel shortfall trict 9, on legislation in Congress energy shortfall. The Justification for this is may be unlikely, if the current trend which would deal with plant closings. an obfuscated thought process which says continues. As chairman of. the Northeast-Midwest that if we put this plan into being, we as a It appears that, the market place is al· Congressional Coalition, I have been nation can win, by losing. To be sacrificed tn ready achieving what this proposal would very concerned about a continuing March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5155 · erosion of the industrial base in the. They're the exception, the ones that don't ments get back from the federal govern· region and this legislation would at· know. . ment $1.30 on average for every dol1ar they Q. How soon In advance would a company put in federal taxes while we get back_about tempt to deal with that problem. have to give notice of a move under the leg­ 60 to 70 cents in r;he northern states. Forget The article follows: islation you are supporting? the companies. I'm talking about ali i.ax dol· HE WOULD END THE SECRECY ON PLANT A. I think the bill calls for at least a year. lars in its entir..eties. . · CLOSINGS Q. A year's notice that they are consider· These companies in the North should be A leaflet announcing a meeting Saturday ing closing or that they have decided? getting additional benefits. The people In in City Council chambers beckoned to A. Considering. · the North should be getting additional Philadelphians to "save ur Jobs and aur Q. What does that do to a company's op ~ benefits. These companies don't he$itate to neighborhoods." tions. its competitive position with other tell you. I heard a statement today: "We're The assembly was Intended to focus atten· companies In the same Industry? opening a plant In Texas." The Texas gov· tion on the area's loss of manufacturing. A. We should have a right to that Cinfor~ errunent's giving them all kinds of tax jobs, and the leaflet warned that the flight mation.> You're concerned with the compa­ breaks. Up here we Just can't afford to. And of factories meant rundown neighborhoods, ny's options. We're basically concerned with they complain about the tax structure up high crime rates, high disease rates. broken the people working for that company. families and higher taxes. l was at Autocar the other day. We're here. It's Just too expensive to operate in A force behind the meeting was Joseph talking about people who've got 40 years of the northern states. seniority. The company comes In and noti· Q. Taxes are not usually a top complaint Ferrara, area director of United Auto Work· fies you three weeks ahead .of time as ers District 9, who had been holed up when businessmen are surveyed about the Friday at the City Line Marriott In negotla· of the 14th of March that plant's going disadvantages of the area's economy. There down. not to open up any more. tions with Gould ·Inc., which 1s closing one Everybody there's got at least 10 years of are a lot of other things that come first of its factories In the city. He took time out seniority. They've got retirees that's got such as proximity to markets, energy sup­ from those negotiations to discuss with plies, population growth. Douglas A. Campbell of The Inquirer staff a long-term interests there, that no longer bill that. according to the leaflet, "can help will have health-care benefits and things of A. Well, what's your solution to the prob· that nature. These are things that we're tern? Everyone should go on welfare? protect our Jobs." The bill is now in Con· concerned about. They take preference over Q. Tell us. gress. their little problems the may Question. What will this federal legisla.· have with their competitors. A. Well, I don't know. I don•t know the so· tioAnsndwo?er. It will ....fve notice why, attempt to do cemed with, I've never seen that. We Just about time ·they've got to .be concerned what they can to keep the Industry -where it recently concluded negotiations with the about this portion of the country. This was is. Budd Co. And across the bargaining table, the industrial backbone of the country that These are things that currrently are not they informed us that they're going to sell made this country as great as it is. My feel· done. All you do is get situations such as the their Gary a couple of hours before the would happen if they did sell that facility. people you're \going to have up In this plant closed on a Friday that the plant If they could work this out, I don't see northern part of the country are those on won't open any more. where anybody else would have that kind of Question. Let's take these ideas one by a problem. retirement and those on welfare. one. How could a company that's trying to Q. How would training programs work Q. There ts some proposed legislation In survive know until the last minute that it's· under the legislation you propose? · Pennsylvania that sounds similar to this not going to survive? A. Well, through federal funds, the money federal proposal, except that the Pennsylva­ A. Companies know well In advance of by the law would provide for training pro­ nia bill would more directly penalize compa­ closing out when they are going to close out. grams. People would be retrained In occupa· nies that want to move out. It would seem Any corporation that's worth its salt knows tions that are necessary. You know, I myself that that might discourage other companies well in advance what the conditions are, and don't see that as any great thing right now. from ever starting up in Pennsylvania. the fact that they are going to close is nc;>t Unless we can prevent companies frem Just just something that comes about a day or a. picking up and moving out, l don't really A. Well, my philosophy on this subject­ week or a month before they close. think that's the greatest thing. and I may differ from some other labor Q. Well, take a company like Bond Baking Q. Then that's the bottom line? You don't leaders- I support that state legislation Co., where 800 workers lost their jobs. It. want companies moving In the first place? only on the basis that maybe it will gener· could have been predicted that they would A. That's right. ate enough heat on business and community eventually go under, but they tried and Q. And how do you stop them from groups and commerce groups and manufac· trled and it was only a matter of days that moving? · turing groups to put the heat on the federal they had before they knew they would fi- A. I don't know. I don't have the answers. representatives to get a federal bill passed. nally f o!d. 1 wish I had the answers to this. I really Tl}e only way you're going to cope with this A. Look at the situation I'm in here with don't. You know, my philosophy is if we thing ts In federal legislation. I think it's got Gould Inc., - where Gould came in and don't do something In these northeastern to affect the country as a whole. bought up an old, reliable Philadelphia· Industrial states of this country .•• we're I don't really believe that you can solve based firm. I'l'E Imperial, and without even faced with some problems. this problem state by state. telling us. We had to find it out ourselves. If On average, the state of Pennsylvania for it wasn't for the fact that we heard the every dollar we pay In federal taxes. we get I think it's same as the problem with un· rumors and the president of the local union back a little over 60 cents from the federal employment compensation and workman's and myself went down to Wilmington, N.C.. government. You take the southern states, compensation. We In Pennsylvania get pe. and what we . found out-and the company for every dollar th~y put In taxes, they get nalized because we ha\'e a decent unemploy­ kept denying it-was the fact that people we $1.30. ' ment compensation bill and workman's com· represent were processing expenses every Q. Those figures are a little deceptive . • . pensation bill. That's something that's got week for two people In Wilmington. N.C. In A. No, they're not. to be federally passed, the uniformity of un· a motel. We went down and checked it. out. Q .... because the tax figures reflect all employment compensation. We located the plant and located the fore- of the taxes paid by corporations that are man. And that's the only way we found out headquartered in the Northeast but may Q. How do we get penalized? about it. They weren't about to tell us. Here have a lot of operations In other parts of A. Becatlse corporations aren't going to .they Wet"e moving Jobs of a concern that the country. come into states where they pay a higher had been here since the turn of the century, A. I've got documentation on that. It's and have a more liberal application of LOok at the Strick plant up in Fairless 1>retty much factual that the average runs the workman's compensation laws. Hills, Pa. There were as many as 1,800 used' about ..• Q. Do you see any kind of willingness on to work up there. They Just up and closed Q. All right, It's factual, but it misstates the federal level to go along with these na· do~'11. and this was It. Notify you a couple of the situation to some extent because there weeks before time. They know in advance. It are more corporate headquarters in the tionalized programs? isn't like to go out of the business. They're Northeast than elsewhere. A. It will be very difficult. I've talked with still producing trailers in this country. A. I'm talking about the state govern· congr:essmen who say this kind of legislation 5156 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 will take 15 years to get through. But I DANGER-NUCLEAR WAR eight and a half years the U.S. tought In think you've got to begin somewhere.e Vietnam were equivalent to four million HON. HAMILTON FISH, ·JR. tons of TNT <4 megatons>. A 20 megaton thermonuclear bomb"ex­ Ol'NJ:WYORK ploded on a clear day at ground level on a SMALL BUSINESS NEEDS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES large East-Coast city would create a fireball LIABILl~Y INSURANCE RELIEF one and a half miles in diameter, with tem­ Monday, March 10, 1980 peratures of twenty to thirty mUlion de­ • Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, today I grees Fahrenheit. Everything in the down­ HON.EDWARDJ.MARKEY would like to share with my colleagues town area, the streets and the earth below, or MASSACHUSETTS an advertisement which appeared in and all living things, would be vaporized, leaving a crater several ·hundred feet deep. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Sunday. March 2. 1980, edition· of the New York Tlmes. This message At six miles from the epicenter, all people Monday, March 10, 1980 was sponsored by concerned physl- would be instantly killed by a huge silent . clans, scientists, and citizens ·in associ­ heat flash traveling at the speed of light• e Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, in my ation with Physicians for Social Re­ 01888 would melt, and buildings would col­ Seventh Congressional . District in lapse when hit by a supersonic shock wave sponsibility, Inc. It is an appeal to and winds of 300 miles per hour. Massachusetts, there are over 7 ,000 President Carter and Chairman Brezh· small businesses. We have a combina­ Within a ten mile radius, or roughly the nev to totally ban the use of all nu­ distance to Route 128 from Boston, to tion of high-technology firms on clear weapons and to defuse current Newark from New York City, or to the Route 128 and a large number of small international tensions which could Maryland Beltway from Washington, D.C., manufacturing firms located through­ lead to a nuclear holocaust. The adver­ the blast wave, 180 mile per hour winds, and out my district. Over the past 5 years, tisement follows: fires would tnruct almost total casualties Mr. Speaker, these firms have experi­ with at least 50% dead and 40% injured. DANGER-NUCLEAR WAR Even at 20 miles from the epicenter, 50% of enced a very slight increase in the To President Carter and Chairman Brezh- the people would be killed or injured by the actual legal actions taken against nev: direct thermal radiation and blast pressures. them due to product liability. There As physicians, scientists, and concerned A single nuclear device would result in tens has been virtually no increase in the citizens, al~ed by an international pollti- of thousands of severe burn injuries. The actual claims that have been settled cal climate that increasingly presents nu- · entire U.S. has intensive care facWties for by the courts for damage caused by clear war as a "ra~ional" possibWty, we are fewer than 2,000 such cases. these firms' products. In spite of this, impelled to renew a warning, based on medi- Many would be killed by random sponta- cal and scientlfic analyses, that: neous fires fueled by oil storage tanks. natu- the ·cost of premiums for liability in­ 1. Nuclear war, even a "limited" one, ral gas lines, gasoline and LNG tanks. These surance has increased on the average would result in death, injury and disease on fires might coalesce into an enormous fire­ of 200 percent with deductible levels a scale that has no precedent in the history storm 1200 square miles in area, fanned by substantially increasing over the past of human ext::~ence: , 100-200 mile per hour wtnds, creating tem- ·5 years. Those that can afford the ex­ 2. Medical disaster planning' for a nu- peratures capable of cooking and asphyxiat­ clear war is meaningless. There Is no possl- Ing those in shelters pense continue to pay these exorbitant ble effective medical response. Most hospi- · liability insurance costs while continu­ tais would be destroyed, most medical per- Survivors of the fires would be exposed to ing to suffer severe financial strain. sonnel dead or injured, most supplies un- lethal or s~blethal doses of radiation from This high price, however, has put available. Most "survivors" would die: short-term fallout. Even mild winds of 20 needed liability insurance .out of reach 3. There is no effective civil defense. The miles per hour would carry fallout as far as blast, thermal and radiation effects would 150 miles where everyone exposed. could re· and has Jeopardized many· of the small k.lll even those tn shelters, and the fallout ceive a lethal dose within 24 hours. Thia businesses struggling to stay afloat would reach those who had been evacuated; would cause acute radiation sickness, with during tough economic .times. Now. 4. Recovery from nuclear war would be decreased resistance to infection, and death since there ts no alternative to obtain­ Impossible. 'the economic, ecologic and within one to two weeks. Sublethal doses ing liability coverage, it appears, Mr. social fabric on which human life depends would produce an increased incidence of Speaker. that the forces of competi­ would be destroyed in the U.S., the u.s.S.R.. still births, fetal malformations, leukemia, and much of the rest of the world; and cancer. In subsequent generations ge- tion have been suspended. I find this 5. In sum, there can be no winners in a nu- netic damage would probably appear. unacceptable. clear war. Worldwide fallout would contami- Hospitals would be destroyed and most The small businesses in my district nate much of the globe for generations and medical personnel would be among the dead atmospheric effects would severely damage and injured. There would be mUlions of need and deserve relief from, tnese ex­ all living things. corpses. Food, air, and water would be con- cessive premium costs and availability Therefore, In the interests of protecting taminated. Survivors would die from starva- problems. By allowing product sellers human life, we appeal to you to: tlon, dehydration, radiation s,ickness and in· engaged in the same or similar busi­ 1. Defuse the current tensions between f ections. ness to form product liability risk-re­ our countries. In an all-out nuclear exchange, all major tention groups, protection for small 2. Ban the use of all nuclear weapons. population and industrial centers would be busin~ss can be much more reasonably 3. Recognize the threat posed by the very hit, both in the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Such an existence of our enormous nuclear arsenals, exchange could be complete in one hour, achieved. This will increase competi­ and begin dismantling them. and could destroy most life in the northern tion in the insurance industry and en­ We urge you to meet with us to discuss hemisphere. Worldwide fallout would result, courage rates to be based on actual the medical consequences of nuclear war. with possible destruction of the ozone layer, risks and loss experience rather than - We urge all physicians in the U.S. and the changes in the earth"s temperature and mu­ anticipated losses., With this legisla­ U.S.S.R. to join us in this appeal. tation of crops. It would be a different tion, I firmly believe. Mr. Speaker, This statement was released at the conclu- world afterwards, colder, harsher. and con­ sion of a two-day symposium on the medical taminated by radiation for thousands of that the quality control now exercised consequences of thermonuclear war held in years. The number of deaths would break by product manufacturers would in­ Cambridge, Massaschusetts on February 9 scales of comparison. · crease. Surely, lt would be in the best and 10. It derives from our understanding of SIGNATORIES interests of the risk-retention-group the destructive potential of the nuclear ex­ members to manufacture products plosions that would result should nuclear Herbert L. Abrams, M.D., Philip H. Cook. that would not produce a large war occur. To share with you our perspec­ Professor and Chairman, Department of tive on this possibillty we ask you to consid­ Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Radi­ number of claims. I believe that the er the following: ologist-in-Chief, Peter Bent Brigham Hospi­ Product Liability Risk Retention Act . The single bomb dropped on Hiroshima tal and the Stanley Farber Cancer Institute represents a significant step forward had the explosive force of approximately Mary Ellen Avery, M.D., Physician-in· in making this essential coverage avail­ 15,000 tons <15 kilotons> of TNT. Today the Chief, Children's Hospital Medical Center able to small businesses at prices they U.S. has over 30,000 nuclear bombs and Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediat· can afford to pay. Mr. Speaker, I urge Russia has 20,000. Nuclear weapons in pres­ rics, Harvard Medical School your strong support for this legisla­ ent day arsenals range in size from one kilo­ Robert J. Boyd, M.D., Assistant Clinical ton to 20 megatons (20 mUlion tons of }>rofessor of Orthopedfo Surgery, Harvard tion.e TNT>. All the bombs dropped during the Medical School March 1 O, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5157 Eugene B. Brody, M.D., Professor of Psy­ Victor Sidel, M.D., Professor of Communi­ H.R.- chiatry and Human Behavior, University of ty Medicine, Albert Einstein College of A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Secu· Maryland Medicine rity Act to provide for minimum reim­ Helen M. Caldicott, M.B., B.S., Associate William Silen, M.D., Surgeon-in-Chief, bursement levels for physicians' services tn Medicine, · Children's Hospital Medical Beth Israel Hospital, Johnson and Johnson under the medicaid program Center Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Eric Chivian, M.D., Clinical Fellow in Psy­ School Representatives of the United States of chiatry, Harvard Medical School Benjamin Spock, M.D. America in Congress assembled, That · Oliver Cope, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Edwin O. Wheeler, M.D. section 1902<13) of the Social Security Surgery, Harvard Medical School Act <42 U.S.C. 1396(a) is amended- Daniel Deykin, M.D., Maurice B. Strauss Augustus A. White III, M.D .. Orthopaedic Professor of Medicine, Boston University Surgeon-in-Chief, Beth Israel Hospital, Pro­ <1 > by inserting "and" at the end of sub­ and Tufts University Schools of Medicine fessor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard paragraph , and Medical School- by adding after subparagraph . the Frank Epstein, M.D., Physician-in-Chief, tion purposes only).e Beth Israel Hospital Herman Bloomgart following new subparagraph: Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical " for payment for physicians' services School at a rate of not less than the greater of­ Stuart Finch, M.D., Professor of Medicine, MEDICAID PAYMENT FOR "(i) 60 percent of the reasonable charges Rutgers Medical School Former Director, PHYSICIAN SERVICES for such services, as determined for pur­ Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hi­ poses of part B of title XVIII, or roshima "(ii) the rate of payment for such services· Shervert H. Frazier, M.D. HON. ANDREW MAGUIRE under the State plan as in effect during the David Freeman, M.D., Professor of Pa­ OF NEW JERSEY calendar quarter ending December 31. 1979;". thology. Harvard Medical School IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES John Gardner, M.D., M.P.H., Harvard (b)(l) The amendments made by subsec­ School of Public Health Monday, March 10, 1980 tion Ca) shall In the case of a State plan for medical' care, pays for physician services on assistance under title XIX of the Social Se­ Oral and Maxillofacial ·Surgery, Harvard the basis of the usual and customary School of Dental Medicine curity Act which the Secretary of Health Howard H. Hiatt, M.D., Dean, Harvard charge and ts a national program, and Human Services determines requires School of Public Health, Professor of Medi­ Title XIX. medicald, ·gives the States State legislation in order for the plan to cine, Harvard Medical School broad discretion in determining physi­ meet the additional requirement imposed by Franz J. Ingelfinger, M.D., Editor Emeri­ cian reimbursement. In fact, the most the amendments made by subsection , tus, New England Journal of Medicine recent statistics indicate that 13 States the State plan shall not be regarded as fail­ Kurt J_ Isselbacher, M.D., Mallinckrodt use the medicare system of reasonable ing to comply with the requirements of such Professor of Medicine, Harvard MedicaJ title solely on the basis of its failure to meet · and customary charges, 11 States use a this additional requirement before the first School variation of this system, and 26 States day Qf the first calendar quarter beginning Carl J. Johnson, M.D., M.P.H., Associate use- a fee schedule. Physicians treating Clinical Professor of Social and Environ­ after the close of the first regular session of mental Medicine, University of Colorado medicaid patients must accept the the State legislature that begins after the Medical School direct program reimbursement as pay­ date of the enactment of this Act.• Merton Kahne, M.D., Psychiatrist-in­ ment in full for their services. Chief and Professor of Social Psychiatry. Nationally, medicaid physician fees Massachusetts Institute of Technology average 77 percent· of medicare fees INDIANA DUNES R. W. Lamont-Havers, M.D. for the same service. This amounts to ·· Alexander Leaf, M.D., Jackson Professor approximately 60 percent of the physi­ of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical HON. FLOYD J. FITHIAN School cians' usual and customary fee for his Robert J. Lifton, M.D., Foundations Fund services. However. 14 States :reimburse OF INDIANA Research Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Uni­ physicians at a rate which ts less than IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the national average and tn one case versity Medical School Mond~y, March 10, 1980 Bernard Lown, M.D., Professor of Cardi­ the reimbursement ts less than 40 per­ ology, Harvard School of Public Health, Co­ cent of the medicare reimbursement e Mr. FITHIAN. Mr. Speaker, I would ordinator. U.S.-U.S.S.R. Cooperative Study for the same service. When physician like to share with my colleagues the on Sudden Death payment is set at a level less than 50 following editorial from the Everett Salvador Luria, M.D., Ph.D., Institute Pro­ percent of his usual fee, the intent of for Mary­ Senate in the last Congress. perience, and determination, he contributed land, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware That leads us to wonder why Bumpers to the solution of many difficult and com­ for the Yea.tS 1792 to 1802. Hts almanacs car· finds it difficult to take favorable action on plex problems relating to our national de- ried not only seasonal news of the weather . the blll. fense posture; and but other news and anecdotes of the day. Whereas because of his fairness, sincerity, Next to the Bible, the Almanac in 18th cen­ Jackson ought to wonder about the and good fellowship, he earned the trust, re· tury America, was the second most widely holdup and the hangups on the dunes bill, SPect, and affection of his colleagues in the read publication. too. He supported it in the last Congress. As U.S. House of Representatives, and particu­ Banneker was chosen as scientific assist­ · chairman of the Energy and Natural Re­ larly the members of this commit~e and ant to Major Andrew i,:llicott as a member sources Committee, his support in thfs Con­ the committee staff: Now, thereby, be it of the team of surveyors to lay out the Fed­ gress could be the key to achieving what . Resolved, That in recognition of his out­ eral territory of the District of Columbia. Sen. Douglas lntended-"simply to save the standing public service to his country and to Banneker's correspondence with Thomas dunes.''• his constituents in the Third District of the Jefferson, then Secretary of State, protest· March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5159 1n·g the continuation of slavery is unique In Jackie studied ·at American Overseas lege, unJversity, business, or trade the annals of American History. Banneker Schools In Tripoli, .Mogadlscio and Tangier. school. died on October 19, 1806. the Federal Ga· He was caned by British school masters. and The purpose of this bill is to insure zette and the Baltimore Dally Advertiser rapped on the knuckles by French nuns. He carried notice of his death. · has gone through the loneliness and self· our Nation's youth have the freedom The Maryland Commission on Afro· disCtpline of Calvert correspondence courses of choice to Join or not to Join a union American History and CUiture CMCAAHC>, when no schools were available. He learned by prohibiting employers ·and union 20 Dean Street, Annapolis, Maryland has to read .and count In French before he knew officials from discriminating against issued a Banneker First Cover with art work English:, He learned the Arabic of the Tan· student employees on the basis of by Lawrence E. Hurst. The handsome pre· gier Medina, the. French of the Sorbonne, union affiliation. cancelled cover dated February 15, 1980, An· and was studying Spanish In Tangier when Because of their short term of em· napolis, Maryland sells for $1.00. AU pro ~ he died. ployment, students are particularly ceeds will go towards the establishment of During his uncompleted university career, the Banneker-Douglass Museum of Afro­ he studied Medieval Literature at the State hard hit, as they are seldom eligible to American Life and "History at the 106 year University of New York, the Institut Catho­ receive union benefits, which take 6 old former Mount Moriah African Method· lique of Paris, the Sorbonne. and New Col­ months, sometimes even 10 years, to ist Episcopal Church, Annapolls.e lege in Sarasota. He was putting the final accrue. touches to a dissertation on Flaubert's Mr. Speaker. I would like to point . Madame Bovary. He was accepted for fur­ out some examples of how union mem­ FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS ther study at the Universities of Pau and bership works to the financial disad­ Perpignan. but had not decided where he would go. He knew only that he was headed vantage of students. HON. DON BONKER toward a teaching career. In my neighboring State of Missouri, OP WASHINGTON A classicist and a medievalist, Inspired by student Brady Rapp worked Sundays IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES two truly great teachers-Headmaster at a supermarket to help pay his Joseph McPhillips and English Professor school expenses. His union monthly :{Wonda11, March 10, 1980 George Staples of the American School· of minor dues were $6, later raised to $'1. e Mr. BONKER. Mr. Speaker, For Tangier-Jackie loved equally the language He was assessed a $1 fine when he eign Service officers and their families of Chaucer and W. S. Gilbert and the lan· paid his dues 2 days late. He was then guage of Moliere and Beckett. He loved told that in order to keep his 1-day-a­ are a unique .group. You can find them music too-from Bach to Led Zeppelin. He serving our country unselfishly In was an accomplished, If self.taught, guitar· week Job, he'd also have to attend posts all over the world. ist and harmonica player. union meetings or pay a $5 fine. Recently John W. MacDonald. Jr•• Jackie loved the theater and the theatri­ In Yuma, Ariz.. teenager Robert our political counselor in Geneva, gave cal. Tangerines remember him for his 1973 Chambers sought temporary agricul­ me a very touching and sensitive trib· performance In Samuel Beckett's Waiting tural work with Freshpict Foods, ute written by. him about his son. A for Godot. In that year too-his greatest­ which had entered a contract with the young man who would have been 25 he won the Headmaster's Prize as a senior United Farm Workers. The union told in Tangfer. Sarasotans will remember him Chambers that he must go through years old this year, had he not met an for his spectacular Medieval Pagent In 1977 untimely death. while a student at New College. the union's hiring hall to have his Job The essay which follows recounts Jackie was a dedicated teacher. He started and pay $3.50 a month in dues. When Jackie MacDonald's death and his full his first full-time Job In September 1979, a he refused, they dropped his name and promising life and I would like to French teacher and a member of the dJstin· from the list of those who were re­ share l~ with my colleagues. guished faculty of ~he American School of ferred to work. Tangier-the most unique and t!~e greatest In Las Vegas, Nev .• hundreds of stu ~ JOHN WINCHESTER MACDONALD III, 1955-'19 . of American Overseas Schools. He had dents working as waitresses. waiters, Jackie MacDonald knew the wonders of always yearned for respectability, and he busboys, and short' order cooks were Go~ and man. He hiked In the Alps f)f the died a respectable man. forced to · go through the Culinary Principality of Liechtenstein, ventured to Baptized by the Reverend John S. Ma· the forbidden city of Harar, and explored loney at the Church of the Immaculate Union's hiring hall for jobs. Those the coral reef of the Indian Ocean. He Conception tn Ithaca on April 10, 1955, he who refused to Join the union were prayed in Notre Dame de Paris and In was buried on December 16, 19'19, by P~re screened out. Those who did were Father Felix's chapel In the sahel of North· Jean-Bernard H~bert, Cur6 of the Church _forced to pay union dues of $30 and em Somalia. He had lunch In Andorra. He of Notre Dame of the Assumption in Tan· initiation fees of $24. Due to the short sailed the Atlantic on the SS United States. gier: He rests In a grave overlooking the term of employment. the students and walked the gangplanks of a Persian hills of Tangier, which he had called-In a never benefited from the union's Dhow in the Gulf of Aden. He saw Robert letter to a girl named "Flo" he wrote a few · health and pension plans which they Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" off the days before his death but never malled­ Guinean coast. He drove his prized Yamaha "the closest to a home-town I have ever were forced to .Pay for. 500 from Florida to Maine and back. He known." He will be at peace there. Support for this legislation~ Mr. knew the beaches of the northern and Like all of us, Jackie has long been "Wait­ Speaker. is without parallel. Surveys southern Mediterranean coasts, both sides ing for Godot." Before many of us, he has of public opinion by Roper. Gallup. of the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the found Him. In the 1960's, he always signed and Opinion Research Corp. have con· Indian Ocean. He climbed to the Acropolis and explored the caves of Hercules. He his letters: Peace, Jackie. Thus peace. sistently shown that '70 percent of the knew the sunset of the Sahara and from Jackie, and • Dieu.e American public, including a majority Cayuga Heights, far above Cayuga's waters. of union members themselves, support He experienced the passion and anguish of the right-to-work concept. Among love. young citizens between the ages of 18 Jackie. 24-year-old son of FSO John W. STUDENT'S RIGHT TO WORK and 29 that figure is '79 percent. MacDonald, Jr., died In Tangier on Decem· Twenty States have availed them­ ber 10, 1979, asphyxiated, along with his. HON. CHARLES E. GRASSLEY selves of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. dog Gaston, by a faulty Butagaz water heater; an accident all Foreign Service famt­ OF IOWA including my home State of Iowa, to IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES pass right-to-work laws. Many more lles dread. He had planned a Christmas va· States are considering legislation and cation in Geneva with Noelle and his broth· Monday, March 10, 1980 ers Ted and Tim, where his father is Politi· two States. Wisconsin and Connecti· cal Counselor. e Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr.· Speaker, cut. have had student right-to-work Born on March 22, 1955, In Ithaca, New today I am cosponsoring H.R. 4657, bills before them. York. Jackie wandered the earth like a commonly referred to as a student For years. student newspapers across former King of Ithaca and led the restless right-to-work bill. H.R. 4657, would the Nation have editorialized against life that, today, only Foreign Service chil­ dren know. He grew up In Ithaca, Zurich, amend section 8<3> of the National compulsory unionism, campus right­ Nice, Paris. Washington, Tangier, Tripoli, Labor Relations Act and the Railway to-work organizations have been Hargeisa, Nairobi, Mogadisclo, Tunis, Tan­ Labor Act to exempt anyone employed formed, and youth government pro­ gier again, Conakry, Sarasota and finally, on a part-time or temporary basis who grams have . overwhelmingly passed for the third time. Tangier-where he left Is a student enrolled In a full-time edu· right-to-work bills, copies of which for another world. catlonal program·in a high school, col· have been sent to Congress. 5160 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 Mr. Speaker, with the high cost of limitations on State and local govern­ U.s. marshals, and bankruptcy trust· an education today. we should not ments. ees, Department of Ju~tice. force students to divert their educa­ 6202 Dirksen Building S-146, Capitol tion dollars into union fees. I urge Commerce, Science, and Transportation Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs that we put political considerations Science, Technology, and Space Subcom­ Business meeting, to consider those mat­ aside and exempt students from the mittee ters . and programs which fall within To hold hearings on S. 2320, authorizing the committee's Jurisdiction with a National Labor.Relations Act.e funds for fiscal years 1981 and 1982 view to submitting its views and budg· fot the National Bureau of Standards. etary recommendations to the Com­ 235 Russell Building mittee on the Budget by March 15. SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS Governmental Affairs 5302 Dirksen Building Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, To hold Joint hearings with Judiciary's Energy and Natural Resources agreed to by the Senate on February 4, Subcommittee on the Constitution on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Re­ 1977, calls for establishment of a sys­ ·S. 2079, to remove1 the Patent and sources Subcommittee tem for a computerized schedule of all Trademark Office from within the De· To hold hearings on e. 2025 and H.R. meetings and hearings of Senate partment of Commerce and establish 5926, bills to establish the Biscayne committees, subcommittees, Joint com­ it as an independent agency. National Park in Florida; S. 2299, to mittees, and committees of conference. 6226 Dirksen Building add lands to Valley Forge National This title requires all such committees Governmental Affairs · Historical Park in Pennsylvania; S. 1431 and S.J. Res. 119, measures to es· tQ notify the Office of the Senate1 Intergovernmental Relations Subcommit· tee tablish a Vietnam Veterans~ Memorial Daily Digest-designated by the Rules in New Mexico and the District of Co­ Committee-of the time, place, and To hold Joint hearings with the Budget Oommittee to examine the impact of lumbia, respectively; and S. 1924, to purpose of all meetings, when sched­ tax and expenditure llniitations on designate the Salinas l'jational Monu· uled, and any cancellations or changes State and local governments. ment In New Mexico. in the meetings as they occur. 6202 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building As an interim procedure until the Judiciary Environment and Public Works computerization of this information To continue hearings on proposed au· Environmental Pollution and Resource becomes operational, the Office of the thorizations for fiscal ·year 1981 for Protection Subcommittees Senate Daily Digest will prepare this. programs administered by the Depart- To resume Joint markup of S. 1480, to information for printing in the Exten.. ment of Justice. · provide for the adequate and safe sions of Remarks section of the CoN­ 2228 Dirksen Building treatment of hazardous substances re· GRESSIONAL RECORD on Monday andl­ Judiciary leased into the environment. Wednesday of each week~ Constitution Subcommittee 457 Russell Building Any changes in committee schedul­ To hold Joint hearings with the Commit­ Foreign Relations ing will be indicated by placement o! tee on Governmental Affairs on the To hold hearings to review the foreign an asterisk to the left of the name of substance of S. 2079, to remove the aid program. the unit cond.ucting such meetings. ·Patent and Trademark Office from 4221 Dirksen Building within the Department of Commerce Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, and establish it as an Independent Governmental Affairs March 11, 1980, may be found in the agency. •Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Feder· Daily Digest of today's RECORD. 6226 Dirksen Building al Service Subcommittee MEETINGS SCHEDULED To continue hearings on S. 1699, pro· Lab01· and Human Resources posed Energy Impact Assistance Act. MARCH 12 •Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor Subcommittee 1202 Dirksen Building 8:00 a.m. Labor and Human Resources Armed Services To resume hearings on S. 1312, proposed Work and Training Opportunities Act. •Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ Research and Development Subcommittee mittee To hold closed hearings on S. 2294, au­ 5110 Dirksen Building thorizing funds for fiscal year 1981 for Select on Small Business To resume hearings on S. 2144, propQsed military procurement programs o! the To· hold hearings on S. 2040 and 2104, Health Professions Educational Assist· DOD, receiving testimony on the M-:X .bills to promote export opportunities ance and Nurse Training Act, S. 2375, program and ballistic missile defense, for small businesses. proposed Health Professions Training and Distribution Act, and S. 2378, pro­ 224 Russell Building 424 Russell Building posed Health Care Management and 8:~0 a.m. lO;OO a.m. Health Care Personnel Distribution Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Appropriations Improvement Act. To hold hearings on S. 2249, to increase the minimum level of price support on Defense Subcommittee 4232 Dirksen Building quota peanuts for the 1980 and 1981 To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Rules and Ad.ministration crops. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the de­ Business meeting, to consider S. 1786, 324 Russell Building fense establishment, focusing on mili­ authorizing funds through fiscal year 9:00 a.m. tary posture. 1983 for the National Museum of the · Armed Services S-126, Capitol Smithsonian Institution, and other General Procurement Subcommittee Appropriations legislative and administrative business. To resume hearings on S. 2294, authoriz­ Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit- 301 Russell Building ~e . ing funds for fiscal year 1981 for mili­ Joint Economic tary procurement of the DOD, focus­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ ing on Navy and Marine Corps pro­ timates for fiscal year 1981 for the To hold hearings on the crisis in the curement programs with the exception · Office of Indian Education, and the public and private bond market. of the subjects of tadical air and air Institute of Museum Services. 2247 Rayburn Building defense. · 1223 Dirksen Building 2:00 p.m. 212 Russell Building Appropriations Appropriations 9:30 a.m. Labor-HEW Subcommittee Labor-HEW Subcomn11ttee Appropriations To continue hearings on proposed To continue hearings on proposed Agriculture, Rural Development and Re­ budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 · lated Agencies Subcommittee for certain programs of the Depart· for certain programs of the Depart· To resume hearings on proposed budget ments of l.abor, and Health, Educa­ ments of Labor, and Health, Educa· estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the tion, and Welfare. tion, and Welfare. Department of Agriculture. S-128, Capitol · S-128, Capitol 1318 Dirksen Building Appropriations Appropriations Budget State, Justice, Commerce, the J udiciary State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary To hold Joint hearings with the Govern­ and Related Agencies Subcommittee and Related Agencies Subcommittee mental Affairs' Subcommittee on In­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es· tergovernmental Relations to examine timates for fiscal year 1981 for the timates for fiscal year 1981 for the the impact of tax a.nd expenditure Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Prison System, and Office of March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5161 Justice Assistance, Research arid Sta­ for certain programs of the Depart­ •Energy and Natural Resources tistics, Department of Justice. ments of Labor, and Health, Educa­ Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Re­ S-~46, Capitol tion, and Welfare. sources Subcommittee Foreign Relations S-126, Capitol To hold hearings on S. 2123, proposed East Asian and Pacific A!fairs Subcommit· Appropriations Colorado National Forest Wilderness State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary Act. tee . and Related Agencies Subcommittee To hold closed bearings on the People's 3110 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Foreign Relations Republic of China threat to Taiwan, timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Im­ and on the proposed arms sales to To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ migration and Naturalization Service, tions for fiscal year 1981 for foreign Taiwan. Department of Justice. S-116, Capitol assistance progr~. 8-146, Capitol 4221 Dirksen Building Select on Intelligence Appropriations Select on Intelligence Budget Authorizations Subcommittee Transportation Subcommittee To resume hearings on S. 2284, proposed To continue closed hearings on proposed To resume hearings on proposed budget legislative charter governing the Intel· budget estimates for Intelligence activ· estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the ltgence activities of the United States. ities of the U.S. Department of Transportation. · 1202 Dirksen Building S-407, Capitol 1224 Dirksen Building MARCH13 · ~ergy and Natural Resources MARCH 14 To hold hearings on national security 8:00a.m. 8:00 a.m. implications of recent developments in Armed Services Armed Services the Middle East. ·Research and Development Subcommittee Research and Development Subcommittee 3110 Dirksen Building To continue closed hearings on S. 2294, To continue closed hearings on S. 2294, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1981 Energy and Natural Resources authorizing funds for fiscal year 1981 for military procurement programs of . Energy Conservation and Supply Subcom· for military procurement programs of the DOD, receiving testimony Theater mittee . the DOD, receiving testimony on the Nuclear Forces. · To review those items In the President's Army antitank weapon, electronic war· 224 Russell Building budget for fiscal year 1981 which fall fare, and battlefield Integration. 8:30 a.m. within Its legislative Jurisdiction and 224 Russell Building Judiciary consider recommendations which it 9:15 a.m. To continue hearings on proposed au­ will make thereon to the Budget Com­ Veterans' Affairs thorizations for fiscal year 1981 for mittees. Business ·meeting, to consider those mat­ programs administered by the Depart­ 318 Russell Building ters and programs which fall within the committee's Jurisdiction with a ment of Justice. Environment and Public Works 2228 Dirksen Building view to submitting Its views and budg­ Water Resources Subcommittee etary recommendations to the Co~­ 9:00 a.m. Business meeting, to continue markup mittee on the Budget by March 15. Labor and Human Resources on S. 703, to provide for the study, ad· Child and Human Development Subcom­ 412 Russell Building vanced engineering, and design and/or 9:30 a.m. mittee construction of certain public works To hold bearings on proposed legislation Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry projects for navigation and fiood con· Agriculture Credit and· Rural Electrifica­ to -establish Commissions on National trol on rivers and harbors in the Youth ·service and Volunteerism. United States and trust territories. tion Subcommittee 457 Russell Building To resume hearings on S. 1465, proposed 4200 Dirksen Building Farm Credit Act Amendments of 1979. 9:30 a.m. Finance Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 324 Russell Building International Trade Subcommittee Appropriations Economic Stabilization Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed legislation To hold oversight hearings on the Agriculture, Rural Development, and Re· authorizing funds for fiscal year 1981 lated Agencies Subcommittee impact of payroll taxes on Inflation. for the U.S. Customs Service, U.S. In­ 5302 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on proposed budget ternational Trade Commission, and estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the •Labor and Human Resources the Office of U.S. Trade Repr~senta­ Department of Agriculture. Employment, Poverty, and Migratory tive. 1318 Dirksen Building Labor Subcommittee 2221 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on S. 1129, 2021, Labor and Human Resources Judiciary To hold hearings on the nomination of 2218 and 2286, bills to provide career Antitrust, Monopoly and Business Rights empioyment opportunities for disad­ Betsy Levin, of North Carolina, to be Subcommittee General Counsel, Department of Edu· vantaged youth. To hold oversight hearings to examine 6226 Dirkst!n Building cation. the amotint of books published in rela- 4232 Dirksen Building Select on Small Business tion to book sales. _ To cqntinue hearings on S. 2040 and 5110 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. 2104, bills to promote export opportu­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 10:30 a.m. To resume hearings on S. 2352, extend­ nities for small ~usinesses. Appropriations 424 Russell Building ing the authority of the Council on Closed business meeting, to consider Wage and Price Stability through 10:00 a.m. those items and programs in the Presi· Appropriations fiscal year 1981, and authorizing funds. dent's budget for fiscal year 1981 for fiscal years 1980 and 1981, for ac· Foreign Operations Subcommittee which !a.ll within the committee's Ju­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ tivities thereof; to be followed by over· risdiction with a view to submitting its sig~t hearings, In conjunction with. t~e timates for fiscal year 1981 for the In· views and budgetary· recommendations aforementioned bill, on the adm1ms­ ternational Development Cooperation to the Committee on the Budget by Agency, and certain programs of the tration 's anti-inflation programs, and March 15. on recent proposals for mandatory Agency for International Develop­ S-128, ·capitol ment. wage and price controls. 1114 Dirksen Building 11:00 a.m. 5302 Dirksen Building Appropriations · Labor and Human Resources Environment and Public Works Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Business meeting, to mark up S. 1076, to Environmental Pollution and Resource tee improve the regulation of multiem· Protection Subcommittees To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ ployer pension insurance plans, and io 'l'o resume Joint markup of S. 1480, to timates for fiscal year 1981 for the · provide sufficient funds to pay bene­ provide for the adequate and safe Office of the Secretary, and the Office fits. treatment of hazardous substances re· of the Solicitor, both of the Depart­ 4232 Dirksen Building leased into the environment. ment of the Interior. 2:00p.m. 4200 Dirksen Building 1223 Dirksen Building Conferees Foreign Relations Appropriations On H.R. 2313, authorizing funds· for ·•ro continue hearings on proposed au­ Labor-HEW Subcommittee fiscal years 1980 and 1981 for the Fed­ thorizations for fiscal year 1981 for To continue hearings on proposed eral Trade Commission. foreign assistance programs. budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 235 Russell Building 4221 Dirksen Building 5162 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 Select on Intelligence •Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Budget Authorizations Subcommittee International Finance Subcommittee timates for fiscal -year 1981 for the To resume closed hearings on proposed To continue hearings on S. 864, 1499, Bureau of Indian Affairs. budget estimates for intelligence activ· . .1663, l '144, bills to facilitate the forma­ 1224 Dirksen Building ities of the U.S. tion of U.S. export trading companies. Energy and Natural Resources S-407. Capitol to expand export participation by Business meeting, to · consider pending smaller U.S. companies. calendar business. MARCH17 5302 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building 9:00 a.m. Energy and Natural Resources Select on Indian Affairs . Energy and Natural Resources Energy Conservation and Supply Subcom­ To continue hearings on S. 1181, pro­ To resume hearings to assess the politi· mittee posed Tribal-State Compact Act: artd To review those items in the President'& . on the substance of Part C-Amend· cal. military. economic. and social fac­ budget for fiscal year 1981 which fall tors affecting world oil production and ment Relating to Indians, Title 25. within its legislative Jurisdiction and U.S.C., Sec. 161, to authorize Indian consumption ov.et the next decade. consider recom.."Ilendations which it 3110 Dirksen Building tribes to petition the United States to 9:30 a.m. will make thereon to the Budget Com· reassume Federal jurisdiction, of S. _ mitt~e. 1722, to codify, revise, and reform the ~oint Economic criminal code; and an application of a Energy Subcommittee Room to be announced Energy and Natural Resources .magistrate's concept on Indian reser­ To hold hearings to examine the Admin­ vations. istration's efforts to promote alcohol Energy Resources and Materials Produc­ fuel production in rural America. tion Subcommittee 457 Russell Building 5110 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearlngs on the im­ 10:15 a.m.. 10:00 a.m. plementation of the Outer Continen­ Labor and Human Resources Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs tal Shelf leasing program. Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ International Finance Subcommittee 3110 Dirksen Building mittee To resume hearings on S. 864, 1499, •select on Indian Affairs To resume hearings on S. 1652, to pro­ 1663, 1744, bills to facilitate the forma· To continue hearings on S. 1181, pro· vide consumers with nutrition and in· tion of U.S. export trading companie& posed Tribal-State Compact Act; and gredient Information on food labels, to expand export participation by on the substance of Part C-Amend· a.nd to remove the burdens on the food smaller U.S. companies. ment Relating to Indians, Title 25, industry in providing such informa­ 5302 Dirksen Building U.S.C., Sec. 161, to authorize Indian tion. tribes to petition the United States to 4232 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation 2:30 p.m. Merchant Marine and Tourism Subcom­ reassume Federal Jurisdiction, of S. 1722, td codify, revise, and reform the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs mittee Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 2322, authorizing ·criminal code; and an application of a magistrate's concept on Indian reser· To continue· hearings on S. 2004, 2015, funds for fiscal year 1981 for certain and 2296, bills authorizing funds for maritime programs of the 'Department vations. 1224 Dirksen Building urban mass transportation programs. of Commerce. 5302 Dirksen BuUding 235 Dirksen Building 2:00p.m. Finance Foreign Relations Appropriations Military Construction Subcommittee Health Subcommittee To continue hearings on S. 2271, autho· To continue hearings on S. 1968, pro­ rizing an increase in the U.S. quota In· To resume hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mill· posed Health Incentives Reform Act. the International Monetary Fund. 2221 Dirksen Building 4221 Dirksen Buildin8' tary construction of the DOD. Select on Indian Affairs · 1224 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on S. 1181, proposed 2;30 p.m.. MARCH20 Tribal-State Compact Act; and on the Finance 8:30 a.m. substance of Part C-Amendment Re· Health Subcommittee . Energy and Natural Resources lating to Indians, Title 25. U.S.C. Sec. To hold hearings on S. 1968, proposed To resume closed hearings to assess the 161, to authorize Indian tribes to peti• Health Incentives Reform Act. political, military, economic, and social tion the United States to reassume 2221 Dirksen Building factors affecting world oil production Federal Jurisdiction of S. 1722, to 3:00p.m. and consumption over the next codify, revise, and reform the criminal Appropriations decade. code; and an application of a magis­ Military Construction Subcomm,ittee S-407, Capitol trate's c0ncept on Indian reservations. To continue hearings on proposed 9:30 a.m. 457 Russell Building budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Governmental Affairs 1:00 p.m. for military construction programs for Intergovernmental Relations Subcommit­ Judiciary the DOD, focusing on family housing tee To resume hearings on proposed au­ programs. To hold oversight hearings on the scope thorizations for fiscal year 1981 for 1224 Dirksen Building . of th~ general revenue sharing pro- programs administered by the Depart· gram. ment of Justice. 3302 Dirksen Building 2228 Dirksen Building MARCH 19 Judiciary 9;30 a.m. To continue bearings on proposed au­ MARCH 18 Appropriations thoriiations for fiscal year 1981 for programs administered by the Depart· 9:30 a.m. Agriculture, Rural Development, and Re­ Select on Small Business lated Agencies Subcommittee ment of Justice. To hold hearings on S. 1860, proposed To resume hearings on proposed budget · 2228 Dirks~n Building estimates for fiScal year 1981 for the ·10:00 a.m. Small Business Innovation Act. Department of Agriculture. 424 Russell Building Appropriations 1318 Dirksen Building Foreign Operations Subcommittee 10:00 a.m.­ Banking, Housing, anrl Urban Affairs To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee tiinates for fiscal year 1981 for certain Foreign Operations Subcommittee To resume hearings on S. 2004, 2015, programs of the Agency for Interna· To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ and 2296, bills authorlzlng funds for tional Development, and for the Peace timates for fiscal year 1981 for certain urban mass transportation programs. Corps. programs of the Agency for Intema.­ 5302 Dirksen Building 1114 Dirksen Building tional Development. Judiciary Appropriations · 1114 Dirksen Building To resume hearings 'on proposed au· HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit· Appropriations thorlzations for fiscal year 1981 for tee Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ programs administered by the Depart­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ tee ment of Justice. , timates for fiscal year 1981 for the En­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 2228 Dirksen Building vironmental Protection Agency. timates for fiscal year 1981 for alter­ 10:00 a.m. 1318 Dirksen Building native fuels program of the Depart­ Appropriations Appropriations ment of Energy. Interlor and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ 1223 Dirksen Building tee tee March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5163 To continue hearings on proposed 10:00 a.m. Economic Development Administra· budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs tion, and Regional Planning Commis· for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. International Finance Subcommittee sion, Department of Commerce. 1223 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on the U.S. embargo S-146, Capitol Appropriations of grain and technology exports to the Transportation Subcommittee Soviet Union. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To resume hearings on proposed budget 5302 Dirksen Building Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the To hold hearings on proposed legislation Department of Transportation. Energy and Natural Resources authorizinl funds for fiscal year 1981 1224 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearings on the activl­ for housing, community development ties of the Department of Energy. programs and the Urban Development Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Action Grant of the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee 3110 Dirksen Building Housing_and Urban Development. To hold oversight hearings on the scope 2:00p.m. 5302 Dirksen Building of rental. multifamily. and public Appropriations housing. State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, Commerce, Science, and Transportation 5302 Dirksen Building and Related Agencies Subcommittee To hold Joint hearings with the Energy Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings on proposed budget es· and National Resources' Subcommit· timates for fiscal year 1981 for the tee on Energy Resources and Materi· Energy Resources and Materials Produc­ als Production on S. 2119, provide tion Subcommittee Bureau of Census, general admintstra· to tion, and economic and statistical for the protection of fishery resources To resume oversight hearings on the im­ on the Georges Bank from envfronmenM tal Shelf leasing program. tal degradation due to oil and gas well 3110 Dirksen Building MARCH25 ·drilling activities. 2:00 p.m. 235 Russell Building Appropriations 9:30 a.m. Military Construction Subcommittee Appropriations Energy and Natural Resources To resuine hearings on proposed budget Agriculture, Rural Development, and Re­ Energy Resources and Materials Produc­ estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mili­ lated Agencies Subcommittee · tion Subcommittee tary construction of the DOD. To resume hearings on proposed budget To hold Joint hearings with the Commit- 1224 Dirksen Building estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the . tee on Commerce, Science, and Trans­ Appropriations Department of Agriculture. portation on 8. 2119, to provide for the Transportation Subcommittee S-128, Capitol protection of fishery resources on the · To continue hearings on proposed Environment and Public Works Georges Bank from environmental deg­ Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee radation due to oil and gas well drill· for the Department of Transportation. To continue hearings on S. 2358, author· 1318 Dirksen Building tng activities. !zing funds for fiscal years 1981 and 235 Russell Building Energy and Natural Resources 1982 for the Nuclear Regulatory Energy Research and Development Sub­ Commission. Energy and Natural Resources committee 4200 Dirksen Building •Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Re· To review those items In the President's Governmental Affairs sources Subcommittee budget for f-iscal year 1981 which fall Intergovernmental Relations Subcommit­ To receive testimony from Administra­ within its legislative Jurisdiction and tee tion officials on the following land consider recommendations which it To· resume oversight hearings on the conveyance and other measures affect· will make thereon to the Budget Com­ scope of the general revenue sharing Ing the Forest Service and' the Bureau mittee. program. of Land Management: S. 1506, 2261, 3110 Dirksen Building 3302 Dirksen Building 1923, 1972, 1985, 1997, 2209, 1910, 1715, 2307, H.R. 1762, 3928, 1967, and 920. Labor and Human Resources 3110 Dirksen Building MARCH21 Health and Scientific Research Subcom· mittee Labor and Human Resources 9:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed authoriza· .Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom· Energy and Natural Resources tions for the National Science Founda­ mittee · To resume hearings to assess the politi· tion. Business meeting, to resume considera­ cal, military, economic, and social fac­ tion of S. 1839, authorizing funds tora affecting world oil production and 4232 Dirksen Building through fiscal year 1985 for programs consumption over the next decade. •veterans' Affairs under the Higher Education Act. 3110 Dirksen BuildfntJ" Business meeting, to consider S. 1188, to 357 Russell Building 9:30 a.m. revise the vocational rehabilitation 2:00 p.m. Judiciary program administered by the Veter· Appropriations To continue hearings on proposed au· ans' Administration. Legislative Branch Subcommittee thorizations for fiscal year 1981 for 412 Russell Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ programs administered by the Depart· 10:00 a.m. timates for fiscal year i981 for the ment of Justice. Appropriations Cost Accounting Standards Board. and 2228 Dirksen Building Foreign Operations Subcommittee the General Accounting Office. 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es· S-128. C~pltol Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1981 for certain Appropriations HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ programs of the Agency for Intema· Transportation Subcommittee tee tional Development; the international To continue hearings on proposed To continue hearings on proposed narcotics control program of the De· budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 partment of State; and for the Inter· for the Department of Transportation. for the Environmental Protection American Foundation. 1224 Dirksen Building Agency, and for the Council on Env~ 1318 Dirksen Building ronmental Quality. Appropriations 1318 Dirksen Building Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit· MARCH26 tee 9:00 a.m. To ·hold hearings on proposed budget es· Labor and Human Resources MARCH24 timates for fiscal year 1981 for certain Child and Human Development Subcom­ 9:30 a.m. programs of the Department of mittee Environment and Public Works Energy. Business meeting, to mark up S. 1843 Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee 1223 Dirksen Building and H.R. 2977, proposed Domestic Vio­ To hold hearings on S. 2358, authorizing Appropriations lence Prevention and Services Act; and funds ·for fiscal years 1981 and 1982 State, .i"ustice, Commerce, the Judiciary, proposed legislation to establish Com· for the· Nuclear Regulatory Commis­ and Related Agencies SubCommittee . missions on National Youth Service sion. To hold hearings on proposed budget es· and Volunteerism. 4200 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for the 4232 Dirksen Building 5164 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 9.30 a.rn. Veterans' Affairs Appropriations Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings to receive legislative Consumer Affairs Subcommittee Agriculture, Rural Development and Re­ recommendations for fiscal year 1981 To continue hearings on S. 1928, pro­ lated Agencies Subcommittee from AMVE'l'S, ParalY'zed Veterans, posed Fair Financial Information To continue hearings on proposed Blinded Veterans, 'WWI Veterans, and Practices Act, and S. 1929, proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Military Orders of the Purple Heart. Privacy of Electronic Fund Transfers for the Department of Agriculture. 1202 Dirksen Building Act. 13UJ- Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. 5302 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Appropriations Appropriations HUD-Independent Agencies Subcorrunit­ MARCH31 Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ tee tee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 9:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na­ Energy and Natural Resources timates for fiscal year 1981 for the tional Science Foundation. To resume hearings to assess the politi­ Office of Water Research and Tech­ cal, military, economic, and social fac­ nology. 1318 Dirksen Building Appropriations tors affecting world oil production and 1223 Dirksen Building Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ consumption over the next decade. Appropriations 3110 Dirksen Building State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, tee To hold hearings on proposed budget es· 10:00 a.m. and Related Agencies Subcommittee •Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Smithsonian Institution. International Finance Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1981 for the In· To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ dustry and Trade Administration, Mi· 1223 Dirksen Building •Appropriations tions for fiscal year 1981 for the inter­ nority Business Development Agency, national affairs programs of the De­ and the U.S. Travel Service, Depart­ State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Subcommittee partment of the Treasury; and on ment of Commerce. proposed legislation to increase the 8-146, Capitol To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1981 for the U.S. quota in the International Mone­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Patent and Trademark Office, and sci­ tary Fund. 5302 Dirksen Building Housing and Urban Affairs Subcom­ ence and technical research, Depart­ mittee ment of Commerce. 2:00 p.m. To continue hearings on proposed legis­ S-146, Capitol Appropriations lation authorizing funds for fiscal year State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary 19Bl for housing, community develop­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Consumer Affairs Subcommittee and Related Agencies Subcommittee ment programs and the Urban Develop­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es· ment Action Grant of the Department To, resume hearings on s. 1928. proposed timates for fiscal year 1981 for the of Housing and Urban Development. Fair Financial Information Practices Act, and S. 1929, proposed privacy of .Chrysler loan guarantee program. S-146, Capitol 5302 Dirksen Building Electronic Fund Transfers Act. 5302 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources APRIL 1 Energy and Natural Resources Energy Research and Development Sub ~ 10:00 a.m. committee To hold hearings on S. 1784, to improve Appropriations To review those items in the President's the electric generating efficiency of budget for fiscal year 1981 which fall Joint Federal-civili1µ1 pooling practices Foreign Operations Subcommittee within its legislative Jurisdiction and in Alaska. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ consider recommendations which it 3110 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for foreign will make thereon to the Budget Com- 2:00p.m. assistance programs. mittee. · Appropriations 1318 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building Military Construction Subcommittee .Appropriations 'To continue hearings on proposed Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Rules and Administration tee To hold hearings on proposed legislation budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 authorizing funds for fiscal year 1981 for military construction of the DOD. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 1318 Dirksen Building . timates for fiscal year 1981 for the for the Federal Election Commission. Appropriations Office of Territorial Affairs. · 301 Russell Building State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, 1224 Dirksen Building 2:00 p.m. and Related Agencies Subcommittee Appropriations Appropriations To hol~ hearings on proposed budget es­ State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary Military Construction Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na­ and Related Agencies Subcommittee To resume hearings on proposed budget tional Telecommunications and Infor­ To continue hearings on proposed · estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mil1- mation Administration, and the budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 tary construction of the DOD. Maritime Administration, Department for the Departmel)t of Commerce. .._ · 1224 Dirksen Building of Commerce. S-146, Capitol Appropriations S-146, Capitol State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, Appropriations Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and Related Agencies Subcommittee' Transportation Subcommittee Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To continue hearings on proposed To resume hearings on proposed legisla­ timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na­ budget estimates' for fiscal year 1981 tion authorizing funds for fiscal year tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad­ for the Department of Transportation. 1981 for housing, community develop­ ministration, Department of Com­ 1224 Dirksen Building ment programs and the Urban Devel· merce. opment Action Grant of the Depart­ ment of Housing and Urban Develop­ S-146, Capitol MARCH28 ment. 9:00 a.m. 5302 Dirksen Building MARCH27 Energy and Natural Resources Energy and Natural Resources To resume hearings to assess the politi­ Energy Research and Development Sub­ 9:30 a.m. cal. military, economic, and social fac­ Appropriations committee tors affecting world oil production and To review those items in the President's Agriculture, Rural Development and Re· consumption over the next decade. lated Agencies Subcommittee . budget for . fiscal year 1981 which fall 3110 Dirksen Building within its legislative Jurisdiction and To continue hearings on proposed 10:00 a.m. budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 consider recommendations which it Appropriations will make thereon to the Budget Com­ for the Department of Agriculture. HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ mittee. S-128, Capitol tee 3110 Dirksen Building Judiciary . To continue hearings on proposed To resume hearings on proposed au­ budget estimates for .fiscal year 1981 APRIL 2 thorizations for fiscal year 1981 for for the National Science Foundation, programs administered by the Depart­ and for the Office of Science and 9:30 a.m. ment of Justice. Technology Policy. Commerce, Science, and Transportation 2228 Dirksen Building Science, Technology, and Space Sub­ 1318 Dirksen Building committee March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5165 To hold hearings on S. 1393, authorizing To resume hearings on proposed budget To hold hearings on S. 1424, proposed funds for fiscal years 1981 and 1982 estimates for fiscal year 1981 for cer· International Health Act. for programs under the National tain programs of the Department of 6226 J;>irksen Building Eartl;lquake Hazard Reduction Act. Energy. 10:00 a.m. 235 Russ~ll Building 1224 Dirksen Building Appropriations • Judiciary Commerce, Science, and Transportation Interior and Related .Agencies Subcommit· To resume hearings on· proposed au­ To hold hearings on proposed legislation tee thorizations for fiscal year 1981 for authorizing funds for ocean pollution To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ programs administered by the Depart­ research and monitoring programs. thnates for fiscal year 1981 for t he Na· ment of Justice. 235 Russell Building tional Gallery of Art, and the Commis· sion of Fine Arts. 2228 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources •veterans' Affairs 1223 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on the environmental Appropriations To hold hearings on the recruitment effects of carbon dioxide present in · and retention of qualified health-care Treasury, Postal Service, 3.Ild General the atmosphere. Government Subcommittee professionals to staff the Veterans' 3110 Dirksen Building Administration's health-care facilities. To continue h earings on proposed 412 Russell Building budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 APRIL 15 for the Department of the Treasury. 10:00 a.m. 1318 Dirksen Building •Appropriations 10:00 a.m. HUD-Independent Agencies ' Subcommit­ Appropriations Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs tee Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit· International Finance Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ tee To resume hearings on proposed au· timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ thorizations for fiscal rear 1981 for tional Commission on Air Quality, the timates for fiscal year 1981 for the the international affairs programs of American Battle Monuments Commis­ Federal inspector for Alaska pipeline, the Department of the Treasury; and sion, and U.S. Army cemeterial ex­ and the Energy Information Adminis· on proposed legislation to increase the penses. tration, of the Department of Energy, U.S. quota in the International Mone· 1318 Dirksen Building 1223 Dirksen Building tary Fund. Appropriations 5302 Dirksen Building Appropriations tnterior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Energy and Natural Resources tee Transportation Subcommittee To resume hearings on proposed budget Business meeting, to consider pending To ·Continue hearings on proposed! calendar business. budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the Department of Transportation. 3110 Dirksen Building for the Office of Territorial Affairs. Judiciary 1224 Dtrksen Buildine 1224 DirkSen Building Appropriations To resume hearings on proposed au· Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs . Treasury, Postal Service, and General thorizations for fiscal year 1981 for Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee Government Subcommittee programs administered by the Depart­ To continue hearings on proposed legis­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es· .ment of Justice. lation authorizing funds f ~r fiscal year Uni.ates for fiscal year 1981 for the De· 357 Russell Building 1981 for housing, community develop· partment of the Treasury. 2:00p.m. ment programs, and the urban devel­ 1318 Dirksen Building Appropriations opment action grant of the Depart· Military Construction Subcommittee ment of Housing and Urban .Develop· Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To resume hearings on proposed budget ment. •International Finance Subcommittee estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mili· 5302 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on S. 2097, propose tary construction of the DOD. Joint Export Marketing Assistance 1224 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources Act, and on the substance of S. 2040, Business meeting, to consider pending proposed Small Business Export Ex· APRIL 17 calendar business. pansion Act and S. 2104, proposed 3110 Dirksen Building Small Business Export Development 9:30 a.m. 2:00 p.m. Act. •Labor and Human Resources •Appropriations 5302 Dirksen Building Child and Human Development Subcom· mittee Transportation Subcommittee •Energy and Natural Resources To resume hearings on'proposed budget To hold oversight hearings on the devel­ Energy Regulation Subcommittee opment of 'children who benefit from estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the To review those items in the President's adoption by facilitating their place· Department of Transportation. budget for fiscal year 1981 which fall 1318 Dirksen Building ment in adoptive homes. within its legislative Jurisdiction and 457 Russell Bull~ consider recommendations which it 10:00 a.m. 4PRIL3 will make thereon to the Budget Com­ Appropriations 9:30 a.m. nilttee, receiving testimony from offl· Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Appropriations cials of the Federal Energy Regula· tee Agriculture, Rural Development, and Re· tory Commission and for the Office of To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ lated Agencies Subcommittee Hearings and Appeals. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the To resume hearings on proposed budget · 6226 Dirksen Building Forest Service, Department of Agricul· estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the 2:00p.m. tute. · Department of Agriculture. Appropriations . 1223 Dirksen Building S-128, Capitol Transportation Subcommittee Appropriations Judiciary To continue hearings on proposed Transportation Subcommittee To continue hearings on proposed au­ budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 . To resume hearings on proposed budget thorizations for fiscal year 1981 for for the Department of Transportation. estimates for fiscal year .1981 for the programs administered by the Depart­ 1224 Dirksen Building Department of Transportation. ment of Justice. 1224 Dirksen Building AppropriatiQns 2228 Dirksen Building, APRIL 16 10:00 a.m. Treasury, Postal Service, and General Appropriations 9:00 a.m. Government Subcommittee •veterans' Affairs To continue hearings on proposed HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ budget estimates or fiscal year 1981 tee To resume hearings on the Federal Gov· ernment's efforts to assist Vietnam-era for the Department of the Treasury. To hold hearings on proposed budget es· 1114 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for the veterans in readjusting to society, and Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and the use of excepted appointments for •Energy and Natural Resources the National Institute of Building Sci, disabled veterans. Energy Regulation Subcommittee ences. 412 Russell Building To review those items in the President's 1318 Dirksen Building 9:30 a.m. budget for fiscal year 1981 which fall Appropriations · Labor and Human Resources within its legislative Juri~diction and Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Health and Scientific Research Subcom· consider recommendations which it tee mittee will make thereon to the Budget Com· 5166 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 mittee, receiving testimony from offi­ APRIL23 Approprf ations cials of the Economic Regulatory Ad· 10:00 a.m. Treasury, Postal Service, and . General ministration, and the Energy Infonna ­ Government Subcommittee tion Administration. Appropriations . . . Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit- To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 5110 Dirksen Building tee . timates for fiscal year 1981 for the 2:00p.m. Office of Personnel Management, Appropriations To hold hearings on 'proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na­ Merit Systems Protection Board, Fed­ Military Construction Subcommittee tional Endowment for the Arts. eral Labor Relations Authority, U.S. To · continue hearings on proposed 1223 Dirksen Building Tax Court, and President's Commis­ budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Appropriations sion on Pension Policy. for military construction of the DOD. 1318 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building Treasury, Postal Service, and General 2:00 p.m. Appropriations Government Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations Treasury, Postal Service, and General Military Construction Subcommittee Government Subcommittee timates for fiscaLyear 1981 for the Ex­ ecutive Office of the President. To resume hearings on proposed budget To continue hearings on proposed estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mili­ budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 1318 Dirksen Building tary construction of the DOD. for the Department of the Treasury. Judiciary . · 1223 Dirksen Building S-146, Capitol To resume hearings on proposed au­ thorizations for fiscal year 1981 for programs administered by the Depart- APRIL30 APRIL 18 ment of Justice. . 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 2228 Dirksen Building •veterans' Affairs Appropriations . 2:00 p.m. Business meeting, to consider proposed HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Appropriations legislation on the recruitment and re­ tee Military Construction Subcommittee tention of qualified health-care profes­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es· To continue hearings on proposed sionals to staff the Veterans' Adminis­ timates for fiscal year 1981 for the budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 tration health-care facilities, S. 759, to Federal Emergency Management for military construction of the DOD: provide for the right of the United Agency. 1224 Dirksen Building States to recover their costs of hospi­ 1318 Dirksen Building tal, nursing home, or outpatient medi· Energy and Natural Resources cal care furnished by the Veterans' To hold hearings on a report entitled APRIL24 Administration to veterans for non­ "Energy in Transition: 1985-2010" of 10:00 a.m. service-connected disabilities to the the Committee on Nuclear and Alter­ Appropriations extent that they have health insur­ native Energy Systems CCONAES> of HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit· ance or similar contracts, and S. 1523 the National Academy of Sciences. tee and H.R. · 4015, proposed Veterans 3110 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Senior Citizen Health Care Act. 2:00 p.m. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na· 412 Russell Building Appropriations tional Aeronautics and Space Adminis­ lO:OOa.m. Military Construction Subcommittee tration. Appropriations To continue hearings on proposed 1318 Dirksen Building Appropriations Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit· budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 tee for military construction of the DOD. Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ 1223 Dirksen Building tee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es· timates for conservation programs of timates for fiscal year 1981 for the APRIL 21 the Department of Energy. Bureau of Land Management 1224 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. 1223 Dirksen Building Judiciary Appropriations To resume hearings on proposed au­ Appropriations Treasury, Posts.I Service, and ·General thorizations for fiscal year 1981 for Treasury, Postal ServfCe, and General Government Subcommittee programs administered by the Depart- Government Subcommittee · To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ ment of Justice. · To continue hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 timates for fiscal' year 1981 for the 2228 Dirksen Building for the Executive Office of the Presi­ Federal Elections bommissf on, Adviso­ dent. ry Commission on Intergovernmental APRIL 22 1114 Dirksen Building Relations, Advisory Committee on 10:00 a.m. Federal Pay, Committee for Purcha8e 2:00 p.m. From the Blind and Other Severely Appropriations · Appropriations . Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Handicapped, and the Administrative Military Construction Subcommittee Conference of the U.S. tee To continue hearings on proposed To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ budget estimates for fiscsJ year 1981 1318 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1931 for the for military construction of the DOD. 2:00 p.m. Economic Regulatory Administration, 1224 Dirksen Building Appropriations Department of Energy. .Military Con8truction Subcommittee 1223 Dirksen Building Appropriations APRIL25 To continue hearings on proposed Treasury, Postal Service, and General 10:00 a.m. budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Government Subcommittee Appropriations for military construction of the DOD. To resume hearings on proposed budget HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ 1223 Dirksen Building estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the tee Department of the Treasury, and on To continue hearings on proposed the U.S. Postal Service. budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 MAYl 1318 Dirks.en Building for the National Aeronautics and .10:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. Space Administration. · Appropriations · Appropriations 1318 Dirksen Building HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit· Military Construction Subcommittee . tee To resume hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mili­ APRIL 29 To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ tary construction of the DOD. 10:00 a.m. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De­ 1224 Dirksen Building Appropriations partment of Housing and Urban De· Appropriations . Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ velopment Treasury, Postal Service, and ' General tee 1318 Dirksen Building Government Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriatiol)S To continue hearings on proposed timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Heritage Conservation and Recreation tee Service. for the Department of the Treasury. To hold hearings on proposed budget esti­ S-146, Capitol 1224 Dirksen ~uilding mates for fiscal year 1981 for the Land March 10, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5167 and Water Conservation Fund of the Appropriations Environment and Public Works Heritage Conservation and Recreation Transportation Subcommittee Water Resources Subcommittee Service. To resume hearings on proposed budget Business meeting, to continue markup 1224 Dirksen Building estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the on S. 703, to provide for the study, ad· Appropriations Department of Transportation. vanced engineering, and design and/or Treasury, Postal Service, and General 1224 Dirksen Building construction of certain public works Government Subcommittee projects for navigation and flood con· To hold hearings on proposed budget es· MAY15 trol on rivers and harbors in the United States and trust territories. tilnates for fiscal year 1981 for the 10:00 a.m. General Services Administration. Appropriations 4200 Dirksen Building 1114 Dirksen Building HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ MARCH 13 *Labor and Human Resources tee Child and Human Development Subcom· To resume hearings on proposed budget 9:30 a.m. mitte·e estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the Appropriations Department· of Housing and Urban To hold hearings on issues Congress Agriculture, Rural Development, and Re· Development, and Independent Agen­ lated Agencies Subcommittee · might consider which would affect cies. youth in the coming decade. To continue hearings on proposed 1318 Dirksen Building budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 6226 Dirksen Building Appropriations for the Department of Agriculture. Transportation Subcommittee 1318 Dirksen Building MAY2 To continue hearings ·on proposed ·2:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the Department of Transportation. Appropriations Appropriations 1224 Dirksen Building Transportation Subcommittee HUD-Independent Agencies Subcomrnit· To continue .hearings on proposed tee MAY16 budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 To continue hearings on proposed for the Department of Transportation. 10:00 a.m. budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 1224 Dirksen Building for the Department of Housing and Appropriations Urban Development. HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit· MARCH 14 1318 Dirksen Building tee To continue hearings on proposed 10:00 a.m. budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 •Labor and Human Resources MAY6 ·for the Department of Housing and Education, Arts, and the Humanities Sub· 9;30 a.m. Urban Development, and Independent committee Appropriations Agencies. Business meeting, to resume markup of 1318 Dirksen Building Agriculture, Rural Development, and Re· S. 1839, authorizing funds through lated Agencies Subcommittee fiscal _year 1985 for programs under To resume hearings on proposed budget MAY22 the Higher Education Act. estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the 9:30 a:m. 1052 Dirksen Building Department of Agriculture. Labor and Human Resources 1318 Dirksen Building Child and Human Development Subcom· MARCH 18 2:00 p.m. mittee 10:00 a.m. Appropriations To hold oversight hearings to examine Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Military Construction Subcommittee issues affecting infant mortality. and International Finance Subcommittee To resume hearings on proposed budget preventable birth defects. To continue hearings on S. 2097, pro· estimates for fiS.cal year 1981 for mili· 4232 Dirksen Building posed Joint Export Marketing Assist· tary construction of the DOD. ance Act, and on the substance of s. 1223 Dirksen Building MAY29 2040, proposed Small Business Export Expansion Act and S. 2104, _proposed 9:30 a.m. MAY'1 Small Business Export Development *Veterans· Affairs Act. 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed legislation 5302 Dirksen Building Appropriations to establish a cost-of-living increase Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit· for service-connected dlsability com· tee pensation. MARCH 19 To hold hearings on proposed budget es· 412 Russell Building 9:30 a.m. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Commerce, Science, and Transportation U.S. Geological Survey. . JUNE 11 Science, Technology, and Space Subcom­ 1224 Dirksen Building mittee 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed legislation •veterans' Affairs authorizing funds ·for fiscal year 1981 MAYi3 To hold oversight hearings on the activi· for programs under the National Cli· 10:00 a.m. ties of the Inspector G~neral of the mate Program Act. Appropriations Veterans' Administration. . 235 Russell Building Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit· 412 Russell Building tee MARCH 21 To hold hearings on proposed budget es. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na· CANCELLATIONS 9:30 a.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation tional Park Service. MARCH 12 · 1224 Dirksen Building Science, Technology, and Space Subcom· 10:00 a.m. mittee Energy and Natural Resources To resume hearings on proposed legisfa.. MAY14 Energy Conservation and Supply Subcom­ tion authorizing funds for fiscal year 10:00 a.m. mittee 1981 for programs under the National Appropriations Climate Program Act. To review those items in the President's 235 Ru.ssell Building Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ budget for fiscal year 1981 which fall tee within its legislative jurisdiction and To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ consider recommendations which it MARCH25 timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De­ will make thereon to the Budget Com· 10:00 a.m. partment of the Interior. mittee. Appropriations 1223 Dirksen Building 318 Russell Building Transportation Subcommittee CXXVI--326-Pa.rt 4 5168 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 10, 1980 ·ro resume hearings on proposed budget Business meeting, to consider pending estimates for the Department of estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the calendar business. Transportation. Department of Transportation. 3110 Dirksen Building 1224 Dirksen Building · 1224 Dirksen Building 11:30 a.m. MARCH27 · .Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee MARCH26 10:00 a.m. To continue hearings on proposed Appropriations budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 10:00 a.m. Transportation Subcommittee for the Department of Transportation. F.nergy and Natural Resources To resume hearings on proposed budget 1224 Dirksen Building