89--059 0-85-34 (Pt. 3) 3742 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 9, 1982 Field Foundation. Here are the major find will encourage welfare clients to quit jobs MONTHLY INCOME-Continued ings: they have and fall back on welfare. The average combined monthly AFDC, How can that be? The computer analysis Parent food stamp and fuel-aid benefit for a by the Center for the Study of Social Policy State Parent doesn't Gain, mother with two small children who has no of the University of Chicago found that in works work loss job and no other income would drop from 24 states, the average family that now lives $450 nationwide (based on 1981 welfare fig partly off work and partly off welfare would ~e::~t. :: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : ::::::::::::::::::: m m ~ ~~ ures) to $423 in 1983. In the District of Co have a higher income if its members Washington ...... 518 485 -33 lumbia, according to the study, such a bene stopped working. Even in states where fit would drop from $450 to $427: in Mary income would be higher for those who work, ::a~;~'.~~.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::. m m ~ n Wyoming ...... 437 426 -10 land from $432 to $408; and in Virginia from the advantage of working would generally ------$417 to $398. be less than under previous law. National average ...... 423 432 + 9 Nationwide, the typical non-working wel In the District of Columbia, Maryland and fare family of three, whose income now Virginia, however, the computer analysis Note.-Figures are for monthly disposable income, roonded to the nearest stands at 76 percent of the federal poverty shows that the average working welfare dollar. line, would drop to 72 percent. That poverty family would end up slightly better off than level for such a family of three was $7,070 in the one that relied solely on welfare. A similar conclusion was reached by the 1981. These non-working welfare families But in California, for example, a working Congressional Budget Office recently with make up 85 percent of the 10.3 million welfare mother with two children, who has respect to the initial round of Reagan wel people on AFDC. average wages and expenses for such a fare cuts that was enacted in 1981. The For "working poor" families on AFDC the family, would have combined income from CBO said that it was estimating smaller sav cuts would be even sharper. The center said earnings, Aid to Families with Dependent ings over the next few years than the ad that in 1981 a working AFDC family of Children, food stamps, fuel aid and the ministration expected from the 1981 welfare three with average earnings had a combined earned-income tax credit and average poverty line. In the District, the study said, work-expense figures for such families, then New York: The non-worker would get $409 combined disposable income was $616 in computed welfare benefits on the basis of from AFDC, $15 in energy aid and $84 in 1981, or 104 percent of poverty, and the current state welfare laws and Reagan's pro food stamps for a $508 monthly total. The 1983 figure would be $453 <77 percent>. The posals. worker would earn $486 in gross pay but end figure in Maryland would drop from $590 in The reason families can end up better off up with $320 after paying for work expenses 1981 to $443 <75 percent), and in Virginia not working in some states is the interaction and child care; she'd then get $21 from from $549 in 1981 to $407 <69 percent>. of several Reagan proposals for cuts. The AFDC, $15 in energy aid, $70 in food stamps If the Reagan proposals go through, the most important would give working families and $42 from the EITC, for a $468 total, less cuts for the working poor would provide a fewer deductions for work expenses and than the non-worker. clear disincentive to work; in 24 states, a larger cuts in benefits under the food stamp D.C.: The non-working mother would get welfare mother with two would end up get program than under current law. As work $286 AFDC, $15 in fuel aid and $127 in food ting more disposable income if she depended increases, benefits will drop so sharply that solely on welfare than if she went out and stamps for a total of $427. The worker, with total income will either go down or barely $485 earnings but only $319 left after ex took I hope you will take the time to read e Mr. NOWAK. Mr. Speaker, this Dasha Procyk reads the headlines with Sister Kelly's letter. It does a great year we observe the 64th anniversary sorrow. Her heart goes out to the people of deal to eliminate any misconceptions of Ukrainian Independence. Poland, but her mind reaches back to her As in many communities across the own homeland and "the beginning of the about our policy in El Salvador that long chain of conquests." might still exist: Nation, Buffalo and Erie County joined in commemorating this event. The headlines take on special meaning for EL SALVADOR NEEDS OUR SUPPORT her this week, as she and her countrymen Part of our local observance included who settled in Buffalo mark still another the issuance of a joint proclamation The current Caribbean-Central American anniversary, for still another dream that crisis is very complex. At stake is an entire by Buffalo's Mayor James D. Griffin was lost. area which the U.S. considers vital to its and Erie County Executive Edward J. Friday is the 64th anniversary of Ukraini own security. The Soviet Union, through its Rutkowski. an Independence Day-the birthday of a principal Caribbean satellite, Cuba, is at The text of this proclamation re nation that threw off the domination of tempting to carve out yet another sphere of flects our sincere expression of con Czarist Russia only to be engulfed by a wave influence at the doorstep of the United cern for these people who have been of Russian-based communism little more States. deprived so long of their freedoms. than three years later. It may very well do so if the American Therefore, I would like to share with The dream of independence died hard. people do not realize they are being subject There was fierce fighting against over ed to a tremendous propaganda campaign. my colleagues the text of this mes whelming odds, and pockets of resistance Misinformation is being spread by some sage, along with an article from The lasted until 1922. A Ukrainian insurgent well-intentioned people as well as by less Buffalo Evening News which-through army lasted decades longer, and there are well-intentioned Marxist ideologues. We are the words of Dasha Procyk, an ener underground freedom groups still. being told that if one wants justice for the getic leader among Ukrainian-Ameri Driven by man-made famines, religious Salvadoran people, one must favor the cans in western New York-captures persecutions and mass post-war deporta rebels and let the Salvadorans decide their poignantly the special meaning of this tions, Ukrainians carried the dream to other own destiny. anniversary. parts of the globe. It survives today in orga One can not deny that injustice and pov The following proclamation was nizations such as the Ukrainian Congress erty exist in El Salvador and that changes issued jointly by Buffalo's Mayor Committee of America. Dasha Procyk serves are in order. It is equally clear that Cuba James D. Griffin and Erie County Ex as chairman of the Buffalo chapter. has assumed a very active role as the As her late husband did before her, she U .S.S.R.'s "Foreign Legion," especially in ecutive Edward J. Rutkowski on Janu carries on the dream of independence-and Africa and Latin America. Cuba, like its ary 18, 1982: voices a warning to her new homeland and mentor, is committed to supporting all revo Whereas, this nation having embarked on other Western nations she sees as too will lutionary "national liberation" movements its third centennial and having built a foun ing to trust other leaders, other lands. and has incorporated this goal into its con dation of freedom from foreign rule guaran "Every tyranny has to grow," she says, stitution. tees basic liberties for its citizenry through "because if it stops growing, it starts to dis The current ruling junta of Jose Napoleon its Bill of Rights; and integrate." Duarte is committed to modeate but sub Whereas, the American people have "We've had Russia on our backs for 375 stantive reform. Yet, Duarte's government grown under this beneficial aegis into a years-Russian imperialism, not the Com is unacceptable to the radical Marxist lead world power dedicated to the concept that munist system." ership of the guerrilla movement. Their freedom is a universal birthright; and goal is the erection of a Marxist communist Whereas, fundamental freedom, national When imperialism took Communist form, state like that of Nicaragua which is well on and human rights can be ensured only in a she says, Ukrainians were "the first vic its way to becoming another Cuba. The cur free society regulated by voluntary elections tims.'' The fields of poppies she knew as a rent goal of Salvadoran guerrillas is to bring within the framework of constitutional girl now form part of a territory known as a down the Duarte government by destroying guarantees; and "union republic" of the U.S.S.R., but the the nation. It is no secret that they are Whereas, the Ukrainian people, through process of "Russification" continues, with being underwritten militarily by Cuba. their duly elected representatives, did pro bans on the teaching of the Ukrainian lan President Reagan did not lie to the Ameri claim on January 22, 1918 their will to live guage and the imprisonment of dissidents. can people when he stated that the human an independent national life, free of foreign Buffalo's Ukrainians, she adds, are watch rights situation in El Salvador is improving. domination and be masters of their own des ing the "ongoing tragic events" in Poland This fact has been corroborated by the tiny; and with sorrow, sympathy-and apprehension. acting archbishop of the Diocese of San Sal Whereas, Ukraine's ancient and avowed Long-ago uprisings in the Ukraine, she vador, Arturo Rivera y Damas. The Episco- adversary, Russia, has adopted a new ag- says, "brought out the patriots long enough 3748 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 9, 1982 for Russia to make lists; I'm very fearful ALL-SAVERS CERTIFICATES the major types of intermediaries in rough that now that is happening in Poland." As of December 31, 1981, the all savers proportion to the market shares shown in But Poland, she adds, is just part of a certificates , an independent contrac ty line in 1976. the other individuals involved per tor to the AoA, examined the results And yet, as the FAR study cited formed their duties in a highly effi of this demonstration senior citizens above shows, these older workers, if cient and comprehensive manner. I program. It concluded that: given the chance, can be more produc welcome this opportunity to bring to With regard to the costs of the program, tive per dollar of Federal cost than the attention of this body an example we could have simply stated that the pro younger workers in the same fields of of human kindness and concern for gram was a grandiose success because it endeavor. helped the environment in ways that cannot others which was underlined by this be easily measured in dollars and cents, but In closing, I say that we need to look heroic rescue. surely must be substantial. Or we could at the Senior Citizens Environmental Patients who suffer severe trauma or have said that the program was cost bene Employment Act as a program which serious illness and receive advanced ficial because it provided employment for a will help the EPA stretch its already life support services at the scene, like segment of the population which is too stretched budget, and assist older the victim in this case, have a greatly often presumed to be unproductive. These Americans to obtain productive and increased survival potential. I think benefits are real and they are the greatest meaningful employment by allowing that it is most important that the benefits of the program. them to give future generations the people who perform these vital serv But even against a tough, analytic benefits of a cleaner and safer envi ices are given the recognition they yardstick, the SEE program was pro ronment.e truly deserve. ductive. The FAR evaluation revealed I know that my colleagues will join that employment of these senior citi me in paying tribute to the individuals zens resulted in savings of 16.4 percent STUDENT FINANCIAL AID whose prompt action, quick thinking, of labor costs. The program was so CUTBACKS medical training, and compassion com successful that FAR recommended bined to save the life of a fell ow that it be expanded to all 50 States, human being, and to whom the previ and that existing State programs be HON. FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN ous example is· part of their everyday increased. OF RHODE ISLAND efforts to protect the lives of our citi Mr. Speaker, the Senior Citizens En IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES zens.e vironmental Employment Act of 1982 authorizes expanded use of senior citi Tuesday, March 9, 1982 zens in both EPA's national and re e Mr. ST GERMAIN. Mr. Speaker, THE SENIOR CITIZENS ENVIRON gional offices. It would allow for the the following summary illustrates the MENTAL EMPLOYMENT ACT OF employment of eligible older Ameri effect of the administration's proposed 1982 cans to work within the EPA on such budget cuts in student financial aid on activities as air monitoring and emis the students at Roger Williams Col HON. COOPER EV ANS sion testing, pesticide inventory and lege in my State of Rhode Island. control, water supply sampling and When this example is multiplied to re OF IOWA monitoring, technical libraries and flect the number of students across IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES public information, carcinogenic sur the Nation who will lose Federal edu Tuesday, March 9, 1982 veys and followups, hazardous materi cation assistance and be forced to e Mr. EVANS of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, it als routing surveys, rural health either drop out or abandon a college is with great pleasure that I introduce screening, and noise abatement and education, the message becomes today a bill to establish the senior citi control. clear-we cannot allow such drastic zens environmental employment pro Why employ the elderly? First, they cutbacks in funding for these student gram. are a highly motivated, highly skilled aid programs. As the Members of this body will re and experienced work force. Approxi EFFECTS OF PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS TO ROGER member, a few years ago, a very suc mately 1.4 million older Americans are WILLIAMS COLLEGE cessful demonstration project under unemployed and actively seeking work In 1981-82, some 2,464 students ap the Environmental Protection Agency today. Senior citizens already possess plied for financial aid. They had a , the Administration on Aging the broad range of skills and extensive combined need of $8,231,708. , and the Department of Labor, on-the-job training that the young The available financial aid for 1981- established the senior environmental worker has yet to accumulate. Older 82 is: employment program in 10 workers also have excellent records of Pell Grant ...... $590,000 States. This demonstration project hard work, reliability, and low absen Supplemental Educational Op- hired over 200 senior citizens for a va teeism. Second, our system actively portunity Grant ...... 212,100 riety of activities. Examples of these discriminates against them. The U.S. College Work Study ...... 150,500 activities include: First, a statewide Commission on Civil Rights concluded National Direct Student Loan ...... 96,000 survey of hazardous waste generators that employment discrimination Roger Williams College Scholar- and implementation of a hazardous against the elderly was widespread in ship ...... 250,000 waste manifest system in New Jersey; Federal job programs. The Commis Rhode Island Scholarship ...... 103,050 and second, an Illinois program to sion said: Total...... 1,310,650 monitor the quality of the State's We are shocked at the cavalier manner in We have 754 students receiving water supplies. which our society neglects older persons SEE is a direct employment program who often desperately need federally sup direct financial aid in 1981-82. under which the EPA hires elderly in ported services and benefits. Expected 1982-83 levels dividuals. The primary task of these In addition to the older Americans Proposed changes: participants is to assist State and local who are actively seeking work, there Pell Grant, $25,000 income cap <82 percent of financial aid governments with environmental con are an estimated 350,000 workers over applicants have an adjusted trol programs. They have in the past the age of 55 who are "discouraged gross income greater than helped to implement various programs workers"-people who have given up $25,000) ...... $550,000 such as ECHO ...... 72,660 3750 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 9, 1982 College Work Study, <50 per- DON'T GIVE UP remain anonymous simply for thanking cent cut proposed) ...... 75,250 AN OPEN LETTER TO THE STAFF OF EPA someone for encouraging him for a job well Roger Williams College Schol- You joined the Environmental Protection done. arship ...... 250,000 Agency as dedicated professionals seeking to You have offered me some welcomed en Rhode Island Scholarship, achieve a goal shared by millions of Ameri couragement, now I offer you the same. The ...... 92,750 ---- the last decade, under three different ad ministrations, to carry out the nation's envi LETTER 2 Available in 1982-83 for direct ronmental laws-laws passed to protect the financial aid...... 1,040,660 SAVE EPA CAMPAIGN, public from poisons in the air, water and NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, Assuming level tuition, room and land. Those laws were passed because the 1725 I Street NW., Suite 600, Washington, board charges, Roger Williams College public demanded them. Those laws have not D.C. would be able to help some 58 fewer been changed. From my job with a chemical trade asso students in 1982-83. Because of your work, our air was getting ciation, I am aware that EPA has been ef cleaner; our rivers were coming back to life, fectively shut down. Please let this contribu If the tuition, room and board and progress was being made in controlling charges are increased by the current tion be effective in bringing a halt to the dangerous toxic substances. But now a decimation in the name of reform . . . 8.9-percent inflation rate, Roger Wil decade of environmental progress is in jeop Sincerely, liams College would be able to help ardy. New political bosses have come to EPA. 203 fewer students. LETTER 3 SOCIAL SECURITY They openly scorn the environmental laws Congress passed. They hold your achieve NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, Some 9 percent or 221 of the stu ments in contempt. To them, you are dan PRESS RELATIONS OFFICE, dents applying for financial aid in gerous, because you care about your lawful Washington, D.C. 1981-82 are also receiving social securi responsibilities. To whom it concerns: ty benefits averaging $1,665 a year. Many of you are being fired, transferred, I applaud your Save EPA Campaign and This is a combined income of $367 ,965. demoted. You are being deprived of author would like to know more about it-your A 25-percent cut per year represents a ity to act and ordered to disregard the laws action agenda . . . and the facts. You are being publicly derid I've seen the shambles at EPA, not only in loss of $91,991 that will have to be ed and shabbily treated by those for whom and around the office but in the regulatory made up from financial aid funds if you work. Many of you are quitting in frus output. There's plenty of evidence not only the student is to be allowed to contin tration and disgust. of defiance of Congressional intent but of ue his or her education. At current We urge you to stick it out. If you are disorder. A lot of tax money is being wasted cost levels, meeting this social security driven from the agency, it will be left an in there these days and this is something to gap means that 52 other students a effectual shell, an illusion of protection. bring out in the campaign. I was there last year would not receive financial aid.e The most important work of all is still to be May when Mrs. Gorsuch made her first talk done. to the whole EPA staff, outside the offices The public needs and wants you where at lunchtime. One of the things she said was DON'T GIVE UP you are. In a recent Roper poll, seventy-one that she had found the offices to be a percent of those responding believe EPA "mess," physically. Now she and her helpers should be doing as much as it is, or more, to have made the operation a mess. Hit the protect the environment. In a Chamber of media with this, chapter and verse! HON. THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA Commerce poll, seventy-two percent said Sincerely, OF PENNSYLVANIA they believe what EPA tells them about the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES environment, almost twice the number who LETTER 4 believe what industry tells them. Tuesday, March 9, 1982 While your bosses may not believe in you, To whom it concerns: e Mr. FOGLIETTA. Mr. Speaker, I the public does. We do. While your bosses As an employee, you're right! We all to encourage the de -the Lawyers and Scientists at NRDC. to remain anonymous in this context. Any moralized staff of the Environmental form of dissent is not exactly welcomed at Protection Agency to continue work LETTER 1 EPAnow.e ing to implement and enforce our envi SAVE EPA CAMPAIGN, ronmental protection laws. NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, 1725 I Street NW., Suite 600, Washington, DEDICATION OF THE Any number of newspaper accounts D.C. EUROPEAN-BUILT SPACELAB and common knowledge of this Agency It is with my deepest gratitude that I am confirm that its employees are work writing to the NRDC staff to thank you for ing in an atmosphere of fear and mis your open letter to the people at EPA pub HON. LARRY WINN, JR. trust created by political appointees, lished in the Washington Post. I served with OF KANSAS EPA in------and after the past sev who view as disloyal the staff's efforts IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to carry out the congressionally man eral months of hearing the harsh criticisms from my new administrators, I acknowledge Tuesday, March 9, 1982 dated requirements of the air and there have been times when I began ques water pollution, pesticide, and hazard tioning my value to the public and even my •Mr. WINN. Mr. Speaker, I recently ous waste laws. The poignant re own self worth. had the pleasure of attending the sponses to the included ad illustrate The uplifting effect of your letter I'm sure dedication of the European-built the sad situation. It is unfortunate not has far outreached anything you had ever Spacelab which is an integral part of only for EPA's dedicated civil servants, hoped for. Even if this uplifting in spirits is the Space Shuttle system. This was a but for the Nation that relies on EPA only temporary, your encouraging thoughts very important occasion because it to protect it from environmental, I believe will endure. It is sad, no it's worse than sad, it's scary demonstrates that close cooperative safety, and health hazards. I hope my that I am not signing this letter because I relations with our European friends colleagues will join me in echoing have to be aware of possible reprisals from can and does exist. As an indication of NRDC's words to EPA staff, "Don't my Agency's highest bosses. It's silly when how significant this occasion was, Vice give up." in our free speech America, a person has to President, GEORGE BUSH was on hand March 9, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3751 to make a very thoughtful statement. We are returning to space ... together, peoples of the Baha'i faith by the I would like to include that statement and that is no small achievement. The Government of Iran. Space Shuttle and Spacelab represent a The concurrent resolution which I in the RECORD for my colleagues. bond, not just of transatlantic cooperation review: and friendship, but of a cooperation and am introducing today expresses the I'm very happy to be here with you all friendship that will extend even beyond the sense of Congress that the President today, and I thank you for inviting me to Earth, into the heavens. and other official representatives of take part in the ceremonies. It seems I turn If the Shuttle itself embodies all that is the United States should at every op up at so many space shuttle-related events, bold and dynamic in the American charac portunity before international forums people are going to start calling me a NASA ter, Spacelab symbolizes the unity and de reiterate and emphasize the extent to groupie. termination of free Europe. Together they which we deplore and condemn the re As a matter of fact, I am one. And I hope are a potent symbol, of the interdependence ligious persecution of peoples of the you keep inviting me back. of our nations, and of our partnership. Baha'i faith by the Government of I give a lot of speeches these days. This Let us continue to be partners, in this and one will be short-you'll no doubt be re in all fields. Iran. lieved to hear. I often say, in these speeches, And let me take this opportunity to assure Last spring the Baha'i international that we're doing our best to bring down the you that we intend to continue our interna community unsuccessfully sought inflation rate, to bring down the interest tional, cooperative programs, just as Presi adoption of a resolution by the U.N. rates-and that the only thing we want to dent Reagan recently reconfirmed the com Human Rights Commission deploring see going up is the next Space Shuttle. mitment of the United States to a vigorous the Baha'is' plight in Iran. "There is a And now something else will be going up space program. better chance of passage at the cur with the Space Shuttle. "There is beauty in space," said Wernher rent Commission session in Geneva. This is a happy day, and an important von Braun. standing on the threshold of the day. Spacelab, Europe's contribution to the space age in 1958, "and it is orderly ... ev Switzerland. Space Shuttle program, is an extraordinary erything in space obeys the laws of physics. I urge my colleagues to cosponsor engineering achievement. It's also the larg If you know these laws, and obey them. this concurrent resolution. We must est cooperative space project ever undertak space will treat you kindly. And don't tell band together in great numbers, and en. On behalf of President Reagan and all me man doesn't belong out there. Man be then join other Western governments Americans, I want to congratulate our Euro longs wherever he wants to go-and he'll do that have condemned the oppression pean partners. especially Dr. Johannes plenty well when he gets there." of peoples of the Baha'i faith by the Ortner and Eric Quistgaard. for their fine How far we have come in the last quarter Government of Iran. work. century, and how far we'll go in the next. Spacelab is the fruit of a lot of hard work. Spacelab is a claim to the truth of von Today. I am also introducing a bill to Ten member nations of the European Space Braun's boast that we belong wherever we prohibit imports from Iran until it Agency brought it about. Over two thou want to go . . . and will prove, I am sure, ceases its persecution of the Baha'is. sand men and woman built it. Over fifty that we'll do plenty well when we get there. Although U.S. imports from Iran have Europan firms participated in the project. Thankyou.e been reduced drastically, totaling only Americans too can take satisfaction in it. If $63.8 million for all of 1981 and only today can be considered Spacelab's birth $3.4 million for January 1982. impos day. then there are a great many proud par TWO PIECES OF LEGISLATION ing an embargo on even this quantity ents celebrating. IN SUPPORT OF THE BAHA'IS of imports would be a clear. tough You've heard enough about what Space AND DEPLORING THEIR lab can do-or indeed. you already know signal. enough, since I have the feeling most people PLIGHT IN IRAN I truly hope that my colleagues will here have Ph. D.'s in at least one scientific join me in the effort to help the field. Let me just tell you that as a layman, Baha'is. If the message in the concur I'm amazed by its potential. Its telescope HON.H.FORTNEY(PETE)STARK rent resolution is not heeded, we must will look up and out into the outer reaches OF CALIFORNIA move forward with more concrete ac of space, capturing images of galaxies, of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Halley's comet; its cameras will look down tions. such as an embargo.e on Earth, relaying vital information about Tuesday, March 9, 1982 crops, pollution. and precious natural re sources. In this space laboratory, specialists e Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, Today I ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE will work to further our knowledge about am introducing one concurrent resolu vaccines, alloys, pure matter, microwaves tion and one bill on the perilous situa . . . and they will try to find a cure for that tion of the 300,000 Iranian Baha'is. HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. unique misery of the modern age . . . space The Baha'is, who practice a religion OF NEW JERSEY sickness. that stresses world unity. universal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES You all are much more conversant with education, and the equality of men science than I. So instead. I thought I might and women, are facing the real possi Tuesday, March 9, 1982 offer a comment or two on other, less tech e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker. it is nical aspects of Spacelab. bility of annihilation. Before the first astronauts left the Moon, Amnesty International says the im again an honor for me to salute the they left there a plaque that said. "We came prisonment and execution of Baha'is men and women of Irish heritage in peace for all mankind." "appear • • • to indicate a deliberate during this time of year when we cele Now man is returning to space once again, government policy of religious perse brate St. Patrick's Day. this time with all the tools of peace. cution." The Government of Iran has Throughout this week over 140 And in that connection, I feel very hon killed more than 100 individuals of the Irish-American organizations in my ored today to be able to announce that next Baha'i faith since 1978, has jailed home State of New Jersey are prepar flight. The third launch of the Space Shut ing festivities for the 47th annual St. tle Columbia from Kennedy Space Center Baha'is unjustly. has confiscated and has been set for March 22, 1982 at 10 a.m. shut down Baha'i meetings, has dis Patrick's Day parade on March 14. The crew for the third Shuttle mission is missed Baha'is from public and private The parade is held in my home dis Jack Lousma. commander. and Gordon Ful employment, has destroyed Baha'i trict, beginning in Newark and follow lerton, pilot. I know they will continue the homes and businesses. and has har ing to Seton Hall University in South unbroken chain of excellence in the per assed or assaulted Baha'is in outlying Orange. It is the oldest and largest formance of their important mission. villages trying to force them to recant Irish-American celebration in the Following seven days and three hours in their faith. In accordance with our his State. Earth orbit, the Columbia is scheduled to tory and national tradition of opposi Mr. Speaker, I am looking forward. land on the dry lake bed at Edwards Air once again, to participating in the Force Base. California, on March 29th. tion to religious persecution, as well as The knowledge that Spacelab will bring in full respect for international law parade-this year with Grand Marshal back from its many missions will belong to and custom, we must condemn and John Walsh and Deputy Grand Mar all mankind. oppose the religious persecution of shal Bridie Vesey and the many others
89-059 0-85-34 (Pt. 3) 3752 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 9, 1982 who have worked to make this year's housing downturn. The Federal Treas ed to advancement in medical science parade a success. The parade is dedi ury lost more than $10 billion in per through his work in medical instru cated to the memory of Sean McGoni sonal income tax, corporate income mention. gal, noted pipemaster, and a leading tax, and social security payments. When Professor Offner should be figure in the evolution of bagpipe Local jurisdictions lost over $2.5 bil enjoying the fruits of his labor, he has music. Sean McGonigal was a resident lion in real estate taxes in 1979 alone. only a 30-year horror story to tell. His of Kearny, N.J., where he died in 1965. This clearly shows the need to have a saga threatens the patent law system Mr. Speaker, it is indeed a tribute to mechanism to generate new capital in and the protection of small inventors the Irish people that men and women the market dedicated for home pur everywhere. He has fought a lonely from all ethnic backgrounds join in chases. battle against corporate giants and celebrating St. Patrick's Day. The The "individual housing account" is Federal Government in court for message which St. Patrick brought to an opportunity to help our ailing almost a generation. the Emerald Isle in 431 A.D. was one housing industry and offer tax incen Briefly, I would like to relate some of Christian brotherhood and spiritual tives for our young people to invest in details about his legal battle to obtain fulfillment. He preached peace and America's future. I hope you will join just compensation. In 1943, Professor justice and supported his words with those of us who are cosponsoring this Offner, on his own initiative and his actions. He helped to establish many bill and assist us in our efforts to revi own expense, started development of schools and churches in Ireland, as he talize an important part of our econo an electronic fuel control system for became a trusted friend and symbol of my, the housing industry.e jet engines. By 1945, his development hope for an entire country. had proceeded far enough so that the The warmth and wisdom of the Irish PROF. FRANKLIN OFFNER Air Force asked for a voluntary, no have greatly enriched American cul cost demonstration. It was considered ture and the history of our Nation is a great success. He continued his de replete with countless contributions of HON. HENRY J. HYDE velopmental work and the Air Force Irish-Americans. The Irish heritage is OF ILLINOIS asked to purchase one of his fuel con an important part of America's cultur IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES trol systems at a total price of $7,500. al diversity, and I am proud to join the Tuesday, March 9, 1982 He built one for them, which they had voices all over the world next week tested by an engine manufacturer. It who will be saying, "Erin go Bragh."e e Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, at the bottom of Capitol Hill on the left side was again found to operate well, and of the Mall rests the Air and Space the development proceeded. INDIVIDUAL HOUSING ACCOUNT Museum of the Smithsonian. It would Because of this one sale of a device do well to visit again this living tribute he developed at his own expense, the to American inventive know-how. To Government held it had a free license HON. LARRY E. CRAIG realize that the Wright Brothers, the to use his invention. They purchased OF IDAHO Spirit of St. Louis, and the Space millions of dollars worth of controls IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Shuttle are all homegrown, stirs in us based on his invention from a major Tuesday, March 9, 1982 a deep sense of pride. Less glamorous, jet engine manufacturer, and denied e Mr. CRAIG. Mr. Speaker, today, but no less important, is the special him any compensation based solely on Congressman LAGOMARSINO and exhibit on jet aviation. It is U.S. tech this single purchase. He sought relief myself, are reintroducing a bill which nology on parade. One of the principal in vain for years through the Court of will help the housing industry and reasons contributing to the spectacu Claims. After this ugly experience Pro allow first-time home buyers a tax de lar achievement in American aviation fessor Offner has avoided defense-re duction to purchase a home. is the encouragement and protection lated projects like the plague. The As you know, the housing industry is of invention, indeed it is part of our public record documents the value of in a prolonged downturn. The need to Constitution. Article I, section 8 di his work with respect to electronic create incentives for individuals to rects Congress to "Promote the prog control systems. A companion case in invest in the purchase of a home is ress of science and the useful arts, by another court says of Professor tantamount to the success of revitaliz securing for limited times to authors Offner's invention: ing the housing industry. We believe and inventors the exclusive right to It is clear that COffner'sl contribution to the "individual housing account" is their respective writings and discover the defense effort was historic and im one tool that can be used as a long ies." mense.... It gave the U.S. a decided edge More often than not, success is con over our international rivals. It saved the term solution to bring about a cure for government millions of dollars in money our ailing timber and housing indus tingent on cumulative effort and com and time. try. bined inventions-the building blocks The concept is very similar to indi of teamwork and ideas. Jet aviation is In the interest of justice, science, vidual retirement accounts, in fact the a prime example. No one can do it and protection for a small inventor, I bill is titled "Individual housing ac alone. In this special exhibit on jet am introducing a bill for the private count." This bill will create a tax de aviation we can observe engineering relief of Professor Offner. No direct duction for first-time home purchasers masterpieces, we can appreciate the compensation is provided, it merely is if they start an "individual housing ac brilliance of the technical effort that a congressional referral to the Court count." A single individual may con went into such engines as the J-47 and of Claims to review the issue. There is tribute $5,000 yearly over a 10-year the J-57. no dispute as to who invented the elec period, with a maximum allowed con They are the prototype for high per tronic speed control system, the issue tribution of $20,000. A married couple formance jet aircraft. One of the es concerns the use of that patent given may file jointly and make a maximum sential elements to the operation of to Professor Offner. yearly contribution of $10,000 and these complex engines is a fuel control Before concluding I would like to $40,000 over a 10-year period. This bill system and acceleration system invent note for the record that Professor also allows a couple the flexibility of ed by Prof. Franklin Offner, now Offner was offered $1 million by the establishing two separate IHA ac teaching at Northwestern Univesity in Air Force to settle this case out of counts but the maximum allowed con Evanston, 111. Dr. Offner's credentials court. I believe it gives us a feel for tribution of $40,000 over a 10-year as an inventor and scientist are with the strength of his claim. Ultimately, period does not change. out peer. He was part of the Manhat the Offner case may lead to the pro No one needs to tell you the econom tan project and has a number of other tection of small inventors every ic costs to the Nation of the current patents to his name. He has contribut- where.e March 9, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3753 J. DUDLEY DIGGES A SALUTE TO ADA D. SIMOND By these travelers who stopped only for a drink. One day, you'll be dry: HON. STENY H. HOYER HON. J. J. PICKLE There will be need to find another oasis, OF TEXAS And they will. OF MARYLAND The new travelers will only know of the old IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fountain, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, March 9, 1982 From old travelers who went before. Tuesday, March 9, 1982 •Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, the city Some travelers leave nothing, of Austin honored a special lady But take away all. •Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I would As years go, they not only carry the re like to take this opportunity to honor during Black History Month in late freshed ambition and purpose, a person who has contributed greatly February. Mrs. Ada Simond is 78 years But also the cherished memory of the to the State of Maryland over the young. She is an educator, a volunteer beauty that surrounds the fountain. years. I speak of J. Dudley Digges, a for countless causes and groups; but Perhaps a blooming lily, member of a distinguished Maryland she is probably best known as a writer, Or the song of a thirsty bird. family who recently retired as associ historian, and folklorist. Mrs. Simond Or perhaps the smile of an innocent child ate judge of the Court of Appeals of has written several books about life in who also needed drink. Austin, Tex., as experienced by blacks And the bench that was nearby, Maryland. around the turn of the century. Her They rested there. Judge Digges, a lifelong Marylander, books are based on fact and real expe But there are those, who, was born in LaPlata, Charles County, riences, but the stories are fictional Having drank, became springs themselves. 70 years ago. He attended St. Johns ized to illustrate for audiences of all These are staggered ever so frequently on College in Annapolis, Md., graduating ages the day-to-day lives of people she life's highway, in 1933 with a bachelor of arts degree. knew. Giving new courage and hope to tired souls He then received his law degree from The Black Arts Alliance of Austin that pass their way. the University of Maryland School of and the city recognized Mrs. Simond In these, new worlds have been born; for her contributions to and support In these, a bright dawn has come; Law in 1936. Through these, a better world is due, Judge Digges was admitted to the of black cultural arts. We join in con In these, you will live on, and on, and on.e Maryland Bar Association and, as a gratulating this talented and dynamic partner of former Congressman Lans lady. dale Sasscer, practiced law from 1936 Mrs. Simond subscribes to the logi INTRODUCTION OF THE BILL, to 1949. From 1968 to 1969 he served cal but sometimes painful theory that "TO EXEMPT U.S.-FLAG VES as president of the Maryland State we cannot fully grasp the future with SELS CONTINUOUSLY ABROAD Bar Association. In 1949 at the age of out knowing about the past. The black FOR 2 YEARS OR MORE FROM 37 he was appointed to the Seventh experience in Austin and other places DUTY ON FOREIGN EQUIP in the past is mixed with pain and suf MENT AND REPAIRS" Judicial Circuit Court where he served fering, along with advances and until 1969. In 1964 he was appointed progress in social justice. chief judge of the seventh circuit, the In accepting the award, Mrs. Simond HON. GENE SNYDER youngest man to hold that honor. said she considered herself a stand-in OF KENTUCKY In 1969, then-Governor Marvin for the women who toiled in menial IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mandel appointed him to the Court of jobs over many decades to help pro Tuesday, March 9, 1982 Appeals of Maryland. Judge Digges vide homes, schools, and other forms was a hard working member of that of support for succeeding generations • Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, today I auspicious body, serving on the rules to improve their lives. Indeed, the am introducing legislation which will committee which promulgates and ad theme of Black History Week was "A remedy an inequity which presently vises on the adoption of rules for the Blueprint for Survival," which fits this exists for U.S.-flag vessels. Currently, court. Much involved in historic pres~ thought so well. U.S.-flag vessels are assessed a 50 per ervation in Maryland, Judge Digges To illustrate Mrs. Simond's vision, I cent ad valorem duty on the cost of acted as chairman of the 200th anni am proud to present one of her poems, equipment, parts or materials pur versary celebrating of the court of ap which she calls a literary portrait of chased for, and repairs made to, U.S. her mother. flag vessels in a foreign country, peals, which was most successful. unless necessitated by emergency. His remarkable career as a member MAMMA The apparent purpose behind such a of the highest tribunal of the State of done in U.S. shipyards. However, there fact that on the day of his retirement, You are a spring along the side of a road, is a certain impractically in expecting the court immediately recalled him to A road to the town of success, You are an oasis to weary travelers that vessels trading in distant ports of the sit with them in the February session. come your way. world to return to the United States His close attention to detail, his over For years, travelers have come by you. for repairs. Congress recognized this riding concern for justice and fairness Just as their jugs were empty, inequity when it amended section 466 and equality under the rule of law And, here they drank their fill, of the Tariff Act of 1930 <19 U.S.C. mark him as a man who has contribut Then refilled their jugs with enough for the 1466) to exempt shrimp boats and ed much to society. rest of their journey. other "special purpose" crafts such as Judge Digges has always presided Ever so often, if the journey, was long, barges, oil drilling rigs, and oceanogra with distinction, lending his quiet, You sent water on ahead to refresh them, phy vessels that remain away from In spots where no fountains could be found. U.S. ports for 2 years of more. self-effacing manner to all he did, None of these left much. gaining the respect and admiration of The bill which I am introducing As all travelers, they carved or wrote their today would broaden that exemption all of those who came to know him. initials, to include U.S.-flag cargo and passen I am very proud, Mr. Speaker, to pay On the stone at the fountain; ger vessels. This bill is nearly identical tribute to one of Maryland's most out Some took a chip from the stone as a souve- to Public Law 91-654 which exempted standing citizens. His dedicated service nir, And now, after so many years, certain shrimp boats and other craft will surely be a hallmark for all those You are scratched, carved, broken, that remain away from U.S. ports for who follow.e Nay, almost destroyed, a period of 2 years or more. Under my 3754 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 9, 1982 bill, the statutory requirement that a substantially less operating and lost robbery or for engaging in a conspira duty be levied on any repair work done opportunity cost than oceangoing ves cy to commit the offense. in the first 6 months a vessel is away sels, the case for also exempting the It is ironic that your local pharma from a U.S. port would remain in relatively small number of foreign cist violates a Federal statute-Con effect. Also, the requirement that a service, U.S.-flag merchant vessels is trolled Substances Act-if he illegally U.S.-flag vessel be away from a U.S. indeed compelling.e dispenses drugs, but if those very same port for 2 years or more in order to drugs are stolen from him it is not a achieve duty-free status would remain LOCAL DRUGSTORES ARE Federal crime. H.R. 2034 would correct in effect. In addition, I have added a TEMPTING TARGETS FOR this glaring omission in the Federal proviso which does not now appear in CRIMINALS scheme of drug regulation. The clear the law, forbidding duty-free status to Federal interest in drug control and vessels which are taken overseas for the danger involved makes congres the sole purpose of obtaining repairs. I HON. HENRY J. HYDE sional action not only appropriate, but believe this latter condition will dis OF ILLINOIS imperative. courage any potential abuse by opera IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Seventy-five Members of the House tors who may have no intention of have already agreed to cosponsor H.R. using their vessels for trading pur Tuesday, March 9, 1982 2034. I urge my colleagues to join us in poses while away from the United e Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, neighbor cosponsoring our bill that will make States. hood drugstores are a tempting target robbery of a pharmacy of controlled I do not believe that shipyards in for criminals; pharmacists and custom substances a Federal offense. the United States could reasonably ers are beaten and even killed by A list of cosponsors of H.R. 2034 fol expect to receive the ship repair busi criminals and addicts determined to lows: ness involved, since return of the ves steal narcotics. Joseph Addabbo, Skip Bafalis, Don Bailey, sels to the United States would impose Your local community pharmacist Doug Barnard, Robin Beard, Tom Bevill, a prohibitive economic burden for out and any innocent bystanders in the Carroll Campbell, Bill Chappell, William of-service time and steaming costs. pharmacy or drugstore are totally at Clinger, James Collins, Silvio Conte, Balta Yet, at a time when the competitive the mercy of these criminals who need sar Corrada, James Coyne, Norman posture of the U.S. merchant marine a fix or have a shopping list of drugs D' Amours, Hal Daub, Edward Derwinski, is under severe constraints, due to the for sale on the street. The pharmacist Brian Donnelly, Robert Dornan, Charles cost advantage enjoyed by foreign is usually forced at gun point to meet Dougherty, John Duncan, Bill Emerson, the demands of the criminal. Drugs David Evans, Tom Evans, Hamilton Fish, competitors and the trading protec James Florio, Edwin Forsythe, Barney tions being imposed by an increasing such as amphetamines and barbituates Frank, Newt Gingrich, Bo Ginn, Wayne number of our maritime partners for command as much as $25 or $30 on the Grisham, Frank Guarini, Steve Gunderson, the benefit of their own fleets, it is ap street for 1 pill, and a couple of 100- Sam Hall, John Paul Hammerschmitt, Bill propriate that U.S. merchant vessels tablet bottles can mean as much as Hendon, Ed Jones, Jack Kemp, Ray Kogov regularly deployed abroad for ex $5,000 to a drug-dealing criminal. sek, John LaFalce, Robert Lagomarsino, tended periods be relieved of the fur No doubt you have been contacted John LeBoutillier, Mickey Leland, Trent ther cost disadvantage of a duty on recently by a pharmacist, retail drug Lott, Tom Luken, Robert Mcclory, Ron foreign equipment or repairs when re gist, or chain drugstore operated in Marlenee, Robert Mollohan, Sonny Mont gomery, Carlos Moorhead, John Murtha, turned to the United States. your district, urging that you cospon John Napier, Steve Neal, Bill Nichols, My proposal is also consistent with a sor H.R. 2034, which I introduced Charles Pashayan, Jerry Patterson, Joel recommendation by the Comptroller early last year. Why? They are fright Pritchard, Tom Railsback, Robert Roe, General of the United States in a ened. Armed robberies of pharmacists James Sensenbrenner, Richard Shelby, Paul recent report to the Congress Chalmers Wylie
