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March 13, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 4019 SENATE-Monday, March 13, 1989

The Senate met at 12 noon, on the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. RECESS UNTIL 10 A.M. expiration of the recess, and was Under the order previously entered, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1989 called to order by the President pro the Senate will stand in recess until Thereupon, at 12 noon, the Senate tempore [Mr. BYRD]. the hour of 10 a.m. on Wednesday recessed until Wednesday, March 15, next. 1989, at 10 a.m.

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. 4020 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 13, 1989 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Monday, March 13, 1989 The House met at 12 noon. the University of Notre Dame in this Emergency Board [PEBJ in the East­ The Chaplain, Rev. James David body. ern Air Lines strike. Ford, D.D., offered the following I wish to take this opportunity to In my view, the establishment of prayer: commend Lou Holtz, his staff, and the such a board in this case is not justi­ For all Your good gifts, 0 God, we superb athletes they coach on a tre­ fied on either legal or policy grounds. offer our praise; for Your providence mendous victory over a very tough The Railway Labor Act requires such to us through all the years, we offer University of West Virginia team. The a board only when there is a national our word of gratitude. As we look to victory over the Mountaineers capped transportation emergency. Although the days ahead, may not Your loving an outstanding 12-0 season for the some people are certainly inconven­ concern for us lessen, or Your acts of team. The university, the community, ienced, a strike at one airline does not forgiveness and mercy for us ever di­ the Nation can be proud of them. create a national emergency. minish, but may Your mighty hand of Their achievement shows the dedica­ In addition, the Emergency Board grace ever give us the strength and the tion and determination that inspire has no power to end the dispute. It peace that You alone can give. In millions. I am not an alumnus of the can only make recommendations Your name, we pray. Amen. college, so I don't think I can be ac­ which will certainly be ignored by one cused of the sin of bragging, when I or both parties. THE JOURNAL say that I believe Notre Dame, and its In the end, the only way to resolve football team, are loved in a special this dispute is for both parties to sit The SPEAKER. The Chair has ex­ way. Over the years, the Fighting down and negotiate it out. That will amined the Journal of the last day's Irish have won their share of national occur only when we no longer hold out proceedings and announces to the championships, produced many Reis­ this false hope of Government inter­ House his approval thereof. man Trophy winners and boast some vention through an Emergency Board. Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the of the legendary names of college foot­ I am also including in the RECORD Journal stands approved. ball-Knute Rockne, George Gipp, the additional points that Members are Four Horsemen, Frank Leahy, and welcome to use when we consider this PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE scores of others. But that success has bill later this week, including two edi­ not come at the expense of education­ torials. The SPEAKER. Would the gentle­ al excellence. Notre Dame wins the old man from Mississippi [Mr. MONTGOM­ Mr. Speaker, on March 9, the Com­ fashioned way. The players and the mittee on Public Works and Transpor­ ERY] kindly lead the Members in the coaches play by the rules. Players at Pledge of Allegiance. tation reported H.R. 1231 to establish Notre Dame are students first. They a Presidential Emergency Board to in­ Mr. MONTGOMERY led the Pledge either make the grades, or don't play. of Allegiance as follows: vestigate the labor dispute at Eastern They go to class, they earn their diplo­ Air Lines. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the mas and they graduate. In this day of Arguments in opposition to this leg­ of America, and to the Repub­ widespread scandal and cheating in lic for which it stands, one nation, under islation follow as well as two pertinent God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for college athletic programs, Notre Dame editorials. all. is to be commended for adhering to ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION TO H.R. 1231 academic principles and for refusing to I. There is no basis for convening an emer­ conform to the notion of "win at any gency board under the Railway Labor Act. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE cost." Under the Railway Labor Act, an emer­ A message from the Senate by Mr. So, Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the gency board may be convened by the Presi­ Hallen, one of its clerks, announced students, faculty, administration, and dent if the airline labor dispute "threaten(s) that the Senate had passed a bill of friends of the University of Notre substantially to interrupt interstate com­ the fallowing title, in which the con­ Dame on the great accomplishment of merce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transpor­ currence of the House is requested: their outstanding football team. I am tation services." S. 553. An act to provide for more balance honored to represent this fine institu­ No such interruption or threat has oc­ in the stocks of dairy products purchased by tion, and I have every confidence that curred since the strike against Eastern the Commodity Credit Corporation. Coach Holtz and the Fighting Irish began 10 days ago. Other air carriers and will keep me coming back to this floor other modes of transportation have been A TRIBUTE TO THE FIGHTING to commend them for many victories able to provide transportation in the ab­ in the future. sence of Eastern. IRISH AND THEIR SUPPORTERS There is no logic whatever in applying the

D This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., D 1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. March 13, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4021 The only factor that threatens a national remain a viable air carrier. The demise of bad precedent for unions and management transportation emergency in this case is the Eastern will result in further concentration to come to Congress to resolve their differ­ ability of labor to conduct secondary picket­ in the industry and a corresponding decline ences. ing. in competition. It is particularly ludicrous to expect an Instead of creating an emergency board, V. The Railway Labor Act is outmoded emergency board to arrive at comprehensive Congress should ban secondary picketing. and is no longer an efficient or fair way to recommendations for labor agreements with This would solve the problem of disruption resolve labor disputes in the airline indus­ these two unions in 19 days, when their ne­ to commerce while permitting the parties to try. gotiations are still preliminary. this labor dispute to fight it out on their The Railway Labor Act was enacted in VIII. The shortening of the time periods own turf. 1926, at a time when the railroads were in the bill does not solve the defects in the It is important to emphasize that the heavily regulated and essentially the only bill. If anything it will make it more diffi­ "right" to conduct secondary picketing is means of transportation. The Act was ex­ cult for the emergency board to reach unique to the airline and railroad industries, tended to the airlines in the 1930's when the meaningful recommendations. and even there it has been recognized only industry was young and heavily regulated. The committee amendment shortens the for the last two years. The Act was designed to prevent strikes, time for the emergency board to report to Secondary picketing gives labor the power because any strike against a railroad would the President from 30 days to 14 days, with to turn a purely local dispute into a national be likely to cripple the national transporta­ a possible extension of 5 days. After the crisis. In effect, it gives labor the power to tion system. It did so by creating an open­ board reports, the cooling off period is 7 hold hostage the users of transportation ended mediation process, during which the days

TABLE 2.-U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS: 79TH-100TH CONGRESSES 1 [Reprinted from "Indicators of House of Representatives Workload and Activity.'' Roger H. Davidson and Carol Hardy, CRS report, June 8, 1987]

2 Mean number Total number of assignments Mean number Mean number Total mean of standing of of select. number of Congress Subcomm. Select. special special and Standing committee subcommittee joint committee Committee of standing and joint Total assignments assignments assignments Committee Committee 3 assignments

79 { 1945-46) ...... ······· ···· ······························ 941 752 113 1,806 2.16 1.73 0.26 4.15 80 (1947-48) ...... 482 742 56 1,280 I.II 1.71 .13 2.94 81 (1949-50) ...... 481 533 66 1,080 1.11 1.23 .15 2.48 82 (1951-52) ...... 491 611 78 1,180 1.13 1.41 .18 2.71 83 (1953-54) ..... 526 570 66 1,262 1.21 1.54 .15 2.90 84 (1955-56) ...... 542 765 116 1,423 1.25 1.76 .27 3.27 85 (1957-58) ...... 549 975 145 1,669 1.26 2.24 .33 3.84 86 { 1959-60) ...... 575 1,095 144 1,814 1.32 2.51 .33 4.15 87 (1961-62) ...... ··········· ··· ············· ...... 584 1.128 161 1,873 1.34 2.58 .37 4.29 88 (1963-64) ...... 594 1,211 137 1,942 1.37 2.78 .32 4.46 89 (1965-66) ...... 602 1,274 171 2,047 1.38 2.93 .39 4.71 90 (1967-68) ...... 613 1,378 187 2.178 1.41 3.17 .43 5.01 91 (1969-70) ...... 637 1,403 186 2,226 1.46 3.23 .43 5.12 92 (1971 - 72)...... 674 1.450 216 2,340 1.54 3.32 .49 5.36 93 (1973- 74) ...... 710 1,531 261 2,502 1.62 3.49 .60 5.70 94 (1975-76) ...... 770 1.719 210 2,699 1.75 3.92 .48 6.15 95 { 1977-78) ...... 776 1.716 259 2.751 1.77 3.91 .59 6.27 96 { 1979-80) ...... 764 1,692 242 2,698 1.74 3.85 .55 6.15 97 (1981-82) ...... 757 1,564 235 2,556 1.72 3.56 .53 5.81 98 (1983-84) ...... 765 1.710 277 2.752 1.74 3.89 .63 6.26 99 { 1985-86) ...... 781 1.734 323 2,838 1.77 3.94 .74 6.45 100 (1987-88) ...... 807 1,822 431 3,060 1.83 4.14 .98 6.95

1 Sources: Data for the 79th Cong. are compiled from U.S. Congress, Joint Committees on the Organization of Congress. Hearings, 79th Cong., ls! Sess .• Mar. 13- June 29, 1945. Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office 1945. p. 1084; data for the 80th through 83rd Congress are compiled from U.S. Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Standing Committee Structure and Assignments: House and Senate. Report No. 82-42 GOV, by Sula P. Richardson and Susan Schjelderup. Washington , 1982. p. 77 ; and data for the 84th through the lOOth Congress are compiled from information taken from yearly volumes of Brownson, "Congressional Staff Directory"; Congressional Quarterly, "Congressional Quarterly Almanac" and ··co Weekly Report"; the Monitor Publishing Co., the "Congressional Yellow Book," spring, 1987 ed., West Publishing Co., "U.S. Code Congressional and Administrative News"; and lists of committee assignments published by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. 2 These figures include statutory members of the Chamber who participate in committee and subcommittee activities. As of the !OOth Cong., this group includes four Delegates and one Resident Commissioner. 3 These totals include all House members of select. special and joint committees and their subcommittees. 4028 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 13, 1989 [Reprinted from " Indicators of House of and other responsibilities that they cannot least half the members must be present. And Representatives Workload and Activity," devote sufficient time to any one legislative committees are authorized to adopt commit­ Roger H. Davidson and Carol Hardy, CRS assignment. As a result of our limited work­ tee rules which permit proxy voting. Report, June 8, 1987) week and multiple assignments, committees As can be seen in table 2, 18 of our 27 SPECIAL RULES AND RATIOS have been permitted under House rules to standing and select committees permit one­ As I previously mentioned, one of the rea­ conduct business with as few as one-third of third quorums, while only nine do not. And 22 sons committees are declining is that Mem­ their Members present. The exception to this of our standing and select committees permit bers have so many committee, subcommittee is the reporting of a measure, for which at proxy voting while only 5 prohibit it.

TABLE 3.-HOUSE COMMITIEE SURVEY, lOOTH CONGRESS

Number of Number of Investigative Committee Proxy voling 1 One-third quorums2 staff: • stafMadget: su~~'!1amit- 1988 5

Agriculture ...... Yes ...... Yes 6 .. 8 63 $1 ,611,111 Appropriations ...... No ...... No ...... 13 198 7 NA Armed Services ...... Yes...... Yes.. . 11 69 1,657,528 Banking, Finance ...... Yes ...... Yes 8 97 3,092 ,883 Budget ...... Yes No 8 112 7 NA D.C ...... Yes ...... Yes. 3 38 298,609 Education and Labor ...... Yes ...... Yes. 8 120 3,250,922 Energy and Commerce ...... Yes ...... Yes... . 6 141 4,746,248 Foreign Affa irs ...... Yes ...... Yes ...... 8 98 2,748,528 Government Operations Yes...... Yes .. . 7 77 2,731 ,633 House Administration ...... Yes...... Yes ...... 7 54 1,109,634 Interior . Yes...... Yes ...... 6 70 1,670,958 Judiciary ...... Yes .. ... Yes ...... 7 79 1,923.722 Merchant Marine ...... Yes ...... Yes 6 74 1,974,493 Post Office and CS ...... Yes ...... Yes .. . 7 80 1,495,536 Public Works...... Yes...... Yes 6 80 2,152,890 Rules ...... No ...... No ...... 2 41 583,984 Science and Technology ...... Yes ...... Yes.. 8 74 2,220,240 Small Business ...... Yes...... Yes ...... 6 56 925,808 Standards of Official Conduct ...... No ... No 0 10 400,000 Veterans Affairs ...... No ...... No ...... 5 41 560,932 Ways and Means ...... Yes.... . No ...... 6 94 3,326,487 Select Committees: Aging ...... Yes...... Yes .. . 34 1,338,367 Children, Youth, and Families ...... Yes ...... No .. 18 688,308 ...... Yes .... . No .. 15 588,995 ~~~~i~eiicii : ::· ...... No ...... No... . 21 58,000 Narcotics ...... Yes ...... Yes 14 632,892

000 ...... 22 .. . . 18 ...... 157 1,868 42,198,708 .. v ...... 5 . 9 ......

1 House rule XI , clause 2(1) permits proxy voling in committee if authorized by written rule adopted by the committee. Source for survey on proxies: "Rules Adopted by the Committees of the House of Representatives, lOOlh Congress," Rules Committee Print. 2 House rule XI , clause 2(h) permits committees other than Appropriations, Budget, and Ways and Mean s, to set the quorum for doing business other than reporting mea sures, issuing subpoe nas, and closing meetings and hearings, at not less than one-third of the membership. Source: same as ff.!. 3 This figure includes long-term task forces and panels (more than 6 mos.). Sources: House Phone Directory (Spring, 1988) ; and phone inquiries. •This figure includes statu tory and investigative staff. Sources: House Adm inistration Committee; House Phone Directory (Spring, 1988) ; and Appropriation s Committees staff. • This figure consists only of the money authorized through committee investigative expense resolutions and does not include funding for the 30 staffers ( 18 professional and 12 clerical staff) each committee is .authorized by House rule and statute, and which are funded through the appropriations process. Source: Report on Committee Expense Resolution, 1988, House Resolution 388 ( H. Rep I. 100- 512) , Committee on House Administration, March 9, 1988. • The Agriculture Committee permits a chairman to set a one-third quorum rule if notice is given in advance of a meeting. 7 The Committees on Appropriation s and Budget receive no investigative staff funds and instead are funded entirely through the appropriations process under an an open-ended statutory authorization.

Another problem in reporting representative ing and select committee seats, and that in­ statistic on committee staff is the number of legislation is the unrepresentative party ratios cludes the Standards Committee which has a staff per committee member. While the aver­ on some committees. Table 3 shows that 50-50 majority-minority party makeup. If one age ratio is 1.9 to 1, one committee has 3.6 while Democrats comprised 59 percent of looks at the staffing on committees, the ma­ staffers per member, and two others have 3.5 House membership in the 1OOth Congress, jority party edge is even more dramatic: 76 staffers per member. they held an average of 61 percent of stand- percent to 24 percent. An even more telling

TABLE 4.-MEMBER AND STAFF RATIOS ON HOUSE COMMITIEES, lOOTH CONG.

Party ratio Democrat/ Staff ratio Democrat/ Republican Republican Staff Committee Total Total staff member members ratio Number Percent Number Percent

Agriculture ...... 43 26/ 17 60/ 40 63 42/21 67/33 1.5 Appropriations 57 35/ 22 61 / 39 198 151/47 76/24 3.5 Armed Services 52 31/21 60/40 69 NA 1.3 Banking .... 51 31/20 61 / 39 97 76/21 78/22 1.9 Budget ...... 33 20/ 13 61/39 112 79 /33 71/29 3.4 D.C...... ············································· ...... 12 8/4 67/33 38 30/8 79/21 3.2 Ed and Labor ...... ····· ····· ····· ··· ·············································· ·· ··········· ·· ·· 34 21 / 13 62/38 120 89/31 74/26 3.5 Energy and Commerce ...... 42 25/ 17 60/ 40 141 125/16 89/11 3.4 Foreign Affairs ...... 45 25/17 60/40 98 79/19 81/19 2.2 Government Operations ...... 39 24/15 62/38 77 64/13 83117 2.0 House Administration ...... 19 12/7 63/37 54 48/6 89/11 2.8 Interior ...... 41 26/15 63 / 37 70 54/16 77/23 1.7 Judiciary ...... 35 21 / 14 60/ 40 79 64/15 81 / 19 23 Merchant Marine 42 25/17 60/ 40 74 54/20 73/27 1.8 Post Office ...... 22 13/ 8 59/ 41 80 62/18 78/22 3.6 Public Works...... 50 30/20 60/ 40 80 56/24 70/30 1.6 Rules ...... 13 9/4 69/31 41 32/9 78/22 3.2 Science and Technology 45 27 /18 60/40 74 58/16 78/22 1.6 Small Business ... 45 27 / 18 60 / 40 56 42/14 75/25 1.2 Standards ...... 12 6/ 6 50/50 10 NA .8 Veterans Affairs ...... 34 21/13 62/38 41 29/12 71/29 1.2 Ways and Means ...... 36 23/ 13 64/36 94 76/18 81/19 2.6 Select Committees: Aging ...... 65 39 /36 60 / 40 34 24 / 10 71/29 .5 Children, Youth, and Families ...... 30 18/ 11 60 / 40 18 11 / 5 61/28 .6 March 13, 1989 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4029 TABLE 4.-MEMBER AND STAFF RATIOS ON HOUSE COMMITIEES, lOOTH CONG.-Continued

Party ratio Democrat/ Staff ratio Democrat/ Total Republican Republican Staff Committee members Total staff member Number Percent Number Percent ratio

26 16/10 62/ 38 15 10/5 67 /33 .6 17 11/6 65/35 21 NA 1.2 25 15/ 10 60/40 14 11 / 3 79/21 .6

NA-Nol available. Sources: Committee on House Administration; U.S. House of Representatives Telephone Directory: Congressional Staff Directory. Note: At the outset of the lOOth Cong., there were 258 Democrats and 177 Republicans, giving the majority a 59· to 41-percent share of House seats.

MULTIPLE REFERRALS tional and functional lines so that multiple re­ More recent data (see table 5) indicates Another factor which delays and compli­ ferrals would be held to a minimum, the that things have improved for multiple referred cates the legislative process is the system of Democratic caucus substitute for the biparti­ bills. They actually have a higher chance of referring bills to two or more committees san package scuttled jurisdictional reform being reported-in part because so many having overlapping jurisdictions. The Speaker while retaining multiple referrals. singly reported measures are taken-up without was first given this authority in the Committee One early assessment of the multiple refer­ being reported. But, they still have close to Reform Amendments of 197 4, and it first ral system indicated that multiple referred bills one-third the chance as singly referred bills of became effective in 1975. took four times as long to process in commit­ being passed-again, in part, for the same tees as singly referred bills, only half the While the original intent of the Bolling com­ reason. mittee in its committee reform package was to chance of being reported, and only one-third realign committee jurisdictions along more ra- the chance of being passed by the House.

TABLE 5.-REPORT AND PASSAGE OF REFERRED MEASURES, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1975-1986 [In percentages]

Measures 94th Cong. 9Sth Cong. 96th Cong. 971h Cong 98th Cong. 99th Cong.

Reported: 97.5 94.6 88.6 86.8 86.2 83.7 ~~~\~i~~::r~~e

Source: House LEGIS computerized data base. Reprinted from. "One Bill, Many Committees: Multiple Referral s in the U.S. House of Representatives," by Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, and Thoma s Kephart, in "Legislative Studies Quarterly", vol. 13, Feb ., 1988.

Most committees have adjusted to this the House but had not yet passed the Senate, TABLE 6.-STATUS OF AUTHORIZATIONS IN FISCAL 1989 shared jurisdiction situation, and, in many or cleared the conference committee. But, this BY HOUSE COMMITIEE cases, the cross-fertilization process has been claim, is being made less and less. The fact is healthy for policymaking in the House. But, at that fewer authorizations are even being re­ (In millions of dollars J the same time, it must be admitted that multi­ ported, let alone being considered by the Expired laws Laws not ple referrals also result in considerable dupli­ House. And yet, we still grant the necessary House Committee reauthorized Number Amount cation of effort, not to mention the valuable waivers on the appropriations bills, and fund Number Amount consumption of time that might better be the unauthorized agencies and programs spent on other jurisdictional areas. It is clear anyway. Agriculture 4 $1,515.9 .. from the discussion in the next section of my Fiscal year 1988 may have been the worst Armed Services 6 210,259.8 $185.1 Banking ... s 13,188.2 47.0 special order that committees are failing to do of all time in terms of unauthorized appropria­ Education and Labor ... 11 230.6 .. some of their most basic work, and this is in tions. According to a CBO report, that omni­ Foreign Affairs. .. 7 10,251.9 3 10,338.4 part due to the time spent on multiply referred bus continuing resolution we enacted in 1987 Government Operations... 2 7.5 I 2.4 House Admin istration 1 14.2 1 15.4 legislation. contained nearly $45 billion in funding for Interior and Insular Affairs ...... 6 1,107.3 2 422.2 THE AUTHORIZATION BREAKDOWN some 45 unauthorized laws. Energy and Commerce ... 28 11 ,690.3 14 5,122.7 Judiciary ...... 8 5,4713 3 5,836.2 Mr. Speaker, the complaint that we are But, even when we returned to the more Merchant Marine ...... 19 3,387.3 4 203.0 always slow in enacting authorization bills is normal way of doing things last year, and Post Office .. .. 1 2.0 ...... Public Works ...... 11 2,518.S 583.6 not a new one. The Appropriations Committee passed all 13 appropriations bills separately, Science, Space and Technology .... 11 15,238.8 4,002.7 has been coming to the Rules Committee as we were still not coming anywhere near en­ Small Business 1 634.0 ...... a routine matter on most of its bills over the acting all the necessary authorization bills. As Veterans' Affairs.. 2 65.0 Ways and Means 3 1,225.1 512 last two decades, requesting a waiver of table 6 below shows, we approached fiscal Intelligence 1 158.3 clause 2, rule 21, against numerous provisions year 1989 with 97 laws which required authori­ Total.. 97 276, 968 .0 31 23,124.4 in each bill. As my colleagues are aware, zations worth approximately $277 billion. But, clause 2 states that- when we completed our work for fiscal 1989, Source: Data derived from Congressional Budget Office, "Reports on Unau­ thorized Appropriation s and Expiring Authorizations," Jan. 15, 1988 and Jan. N o appropriation shall be reported in any nearly one-third of those laws, for which some 15, 1989. General appropriation bill, or shall be in $23 billion had been appropriated, had still not order as an amendment thereto, for any ex­ been reauthorized. Table 6, which is derived The breakdown of our authorizing process penditure not previously authorized by law. from CBO data, shows the breakdown by has even led some, such as former CBO Di­ In the past the point was often made that House Committee for those unauthorized pro­ rector Alice Rivlin, to propose that the authori­ the authorization bill in question had passed grams. zation and appropriations committees be 4030 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 13, 1989 merged to avoid the duplication and delays H. RES. 106, SUMMARY OF "COMMITTEE a rule in the House on a bill that has not caused by our three-track budget system. PROCESS REFORMS OF 1989" been reported from committee. Even the President's National Economic Com­ and Northern 764. A letter from the Comptroller Gener­ Ireland, and members of their families, pur­ al, transmitting information copies of a Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, execu­ suant to 22 U.S.C. 3944(b)(2); to the Com­ repair and alteration prospectus for renova­ tive communications were taken from mittee on Foreign Affairs. tions to the GAO building, Washington, DC; the Speaker's table and referred as fol­ 754. A letter from the Assistant Secretary to the Committee on Public Works and lows: of State, Legislative Affairs, transmitting Transportation. 744. A communication from the President copies of the original report of political con­ 765. A letter from the Secretary of Com­ of the United States, transmitting amend­ tributions by Joseph V. Reed, of Connecti­ merce, transmitting a copy of the strategic ments to the request for appropriations for cut, for the rank of Ambassador during his plan for the modernization and associated fiscal year 1990 providing funding for initia­ tenure of service as Chief of Protocol for restructuring of the National Weather Serv­ tives identified in "Building a Better Amer­ the White House, and members of his ice, pursuant to Public Law 100-685, section ica", pursuant to 31U.S.C.1107

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 4036 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1989 never compromise on the central issue of communal goals and pursuing them on work of building bridges to other groups in her right to exist as a creative, viable, demo­ behalf of the common good. The NJCRAC society must be an ongoing enterprise cratic society and on her unsparing efforts process, I believe, has the flexibility and dy­ within the field of Jewish community rela­ to apply her strength in the search for a namism to shape the response of the Jewish tions. If we do not involve ourselves in the just and enduring peace. community relations field to our new chal­ full range of American life, is it likely that Strengthened by our hopes for America lenges. Polls tell us that a vast majority of other Americans will not care about what is and tempered by the lessons of our group Jews share the outlook and positions of important to us? If we do not fight against history, the Jewish community has largely NJCRAC as reflected in the Joint Program the injustices affecting others, will they succeeded in this country. Among all Ameri­ Plan. Too many of these Jews, however, are fight the injustices affecting us? While on­ can religious groups, Jews have the highest unidentified with the community. Many are going relationships are no guarantee that level of family income and educational at­ like I was before my involvement in my our viewpoint will prevail, the absence of tainment. We are leaders in the learned pro­ local federation, a young lawyer involved in strong bridges is a guarantee that our posi­ fessions, academia, and the arts. We are organizations like the ACLU who did not tion will be vulnerable. prominent in public affairs. fully realize that these efforts on behalf of Our material success and our political be­ the broader community actually reflected a IV. havior are puzzling to many. Why is it, we Jewish sensibility. The field needs to con­ Hubert Humphrey, certainly an ally are asked, that Jews vote more like disad­ sciously reach out to these young men and whose friendship, loyalty and compassion vantaged minorities than like our socio-eco­ women, recognizing that Jewish community are revered by everyone in this room, once momic peers? Some, including some Jews, relations provides an important, yet underu­ said that the moral test of a society is how wonder if Jewish interest would not be tilized channel for bringing people into the it treats those at the dawn of life, children better served if we "voted our pocketbooks." Jewish community. who are helpless; those in the midday, the I disagree. Such a view is shortsighted; it Secondly, we must acknowledge that our healthy who need employment and housing; misreads our understanding of what is re­ strategic practice has frequently fallen and those within the shadows, the handi­ quired to assure our continuing security in short of our rhetoric. How many communi­ capped, the needy, the other helpless. I American society. When Ronald Reagan ties are actively, consciously involved in coa­ would add that the Jewish community asked and George Bush echoed, "Are you lition-building? Are we uncovering common ought to be in the forefront of efforts to better off today than you were eight years agendas with the Blacks, Hispanics, and devise and enact comprehensive programs ago," the Jewish community answered not Asian Americans who are our neighbors and to break the cycle of generational poverty. individually, but collectively. While many of organizing effective coalitions to achieve How do we do that? Emergency housing us may indeed be better off financially our shared goals. The automatic liberal coa­ and food programs must be fully funded, today than in 1980, we dispute the premise lition of the thirties. forties, fifties, and six­ not cut; rent subsidies must be restored, not of the question. We ask instead. "What is ties no longer exists. The challenge for us, phased out; the minimum wage must be in­ the state of America today as compared to then, is to construct functional coalitions of creased; quality child care must be available eight years ago? What assistance has been limited duration, designed to achieve specif­ to all Americans; sound family policy must offered to the poor, the homeless and the ic goals. We see such coalitions coming to­ include the right of people to care for new­ unemployed among us? What is being done gether frequently in Washington, suggest­ born or ill children and dependent elderly to meet the needs of the vast majority of ing models that can be utilized by the field parents without risk of job loss; Americans American citizens in health care, child care, at the local level. must be able to aspire to home ownership, and housing?" Thirdly, we must acknowledge our own quality education, a rewarding job, afforable It ought not be surprising that a commu­ shortcomings. How many of our communi­ health care. In short, the American dream nity whose central questions are these ties actually confront issues of domestic must be restored as a reality to each Ameri­ should continue to vote for candidates who concern on a day-to-day priority basis? In can household. And each American must share its view that assisting the needy is a my view, too many of us have bought the ar­ have a household in which to cherish that principal function of government. We vote gument that the Jewish community simply dream. not out of a personal history stretching cannot afford the resources required to do Yet these goals cost money, and our coun­ back ten or twenty years, but out of 2,000 community relations well. Part of the task try faces a severe deficit. How do we balance years of Jewish experience which has in­ ahead is to make it clear that active involve­ the two? I would suggest to you that grained in us an understanding that condi­ ment in the public affairs agenda is a cen­ Gramm-Rudman-Hollings is not social tions threatening to the fundamental rights tral Jewish enterprise-it protects and pre­ policy. While we must recognize that federal of any individual in society jeopardize the serves American democracy and it builds deficits are a serious problem, spending cuts rights of all. We remember the words of active strongly-identified Jews. If for no in the domestic arena are not the only way Rabbi Stephen Wise, who taught us that other reason, community relations should to reduce those deficits. There are other op­ "only in a land where the rights of all are be seen as a major community priority. tions. We can-read my lips!-raise revenue. secure are the rights of Jews secure." And The JTA Community News Reporter for Opinion polls show that a majority of Amer­ we remember that the freedoms embodied December 9, 1988 tells of the permanent res­ icans not only believe that President Bush in the Bill of Rights-of speech, assembly, idence facility operating in Adas Israel Con­ and the Congress will have to raise taxes, press, worship, and the right to petition the gregation here in Washington, D.C. Housing but they also are not averse to tax increases government-must always be protected, for five women between the ages of 30 and 50, to cope with the deficit. And, of course, I be­ they are the very bedrock of the society in the project was conceived by the synagogue lieve that the defense budget should be which we have flourished. as a model effort to involve the religious scrutinized with the same rigor with which We have consistently applied these princi­ community in finding a permanent answer the domestic budget has been pared. What­ ples in our practice. Early on, the Jewish to the problem of homelessness. According ever approach ultimately followed, the community understood that coalition build­ to the synagogue's social action chairman, Jewish community relations field has an ob­ ing is the soundest strategy for a minority­ the "potential for expansion is largely in ligation to debate the issues-as we have at any minority, including our own-to achieve getting other congregations and other orga­ this plenum-and insist that the govern­ its political objectives. With workers from nizations to pursue similar programs." The ment address these problems, rather than around the world, our forebears struggled facility is called the Anne Frank House, a hide behind ideology masquerading as eco­ for labor unions to bring justice and equity name that evokes in us all the realization nomic policy. to the work place. With blacks in Alabama, that the struggle for justice is an unceasing What is Jewish about that debate and grape growers in California, wherever injus­ one whose outcome is by no means assured. that agenda, we are asked? Everything. As tice cried out for witness, the Jewish com­ This striking example of Jewish involve­ Leonard Fein observes in his recent book, munity stood shoulder to shoulder with ment in the problem of homelessness stands Where Are We?, public affairs allows the other "weak clients" seeking redress of in sharp contrast to the general absence of Jewish community to enact our particular grievances. And from these common, prag­ such creative programming in the communi­ et hical values. It requires us to test the pro­ matic efforts came the relationships that ty. To me, it only underscores the existing phetic vision of our faith against the facts have been translated not only into a shared, evidence that we have neglected our rela­ of our society's shortcomings. Responding general vision of America but also into tionships. Growing public recognition of to injustice is central to our integrity as a broad support for our particular concerns: tension between Jews and blacks, the pend­ people. By fighting for justice we can reaf­ Israel's survival and the rights of Soviet ing judicial assault on the principle of re­ firm our past and redeem our future. Sepa­ Jews to rejoin their people in freedom. productive choice embodied in the Supreme ration of church and state is a justice and a We acknowledged that commitment to Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, the J ewish issue. Civil rights is a justice issue common cause nearly fifty years ago in cre­ spectacle of pro-Israel supporters heckled and Jewish issue. Persecution of blacks in ating NJCRAC as the institutional frame­ and booed at the Demoratic National Con­ South Africa is a justice issue and a Jewish work for arriving at and articulating our vention are all stark reminders that the issue. The rights of children, the needs of March 13, 1989 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4037 the elderly, the survival of our cities and daily family life. You learn the give-and­ whose generation expects men and women farms, these are all justice issues. They take of human relations, how to put things to share child-rearing; and women who have must all be Jewish issues as well. If we want diplomatically-as when I tell my children had to balance career and family. pluralism in our society, then we cannot be their rooms look like a bomb went off in a There are also sharp disagreements about singular in our concerns. K-mart. what the American family is and should be. At the end of the day after all is said and Helping my kids with their homework, ar­ Some people have a real need to believe in a done, that is at the heart of Jewish commu­ ranging for the plumber to fix the washer, family ideal that our economy makes rarer nity relations. That is what Jewish commu­ figuring out what to do about the raccoons every day: Mom at home, Dad at the facto­ nity relations should be saying clearly and in the attic-all these experiences have kept ry. Others advocate the two-career house­ unequivocally. If it cannot say at least that me grounded as a person. Whatever our hold, a family structure not everyone wants. much, then I fear it has nothing Jewish to public role, it is our family responsibilities To speak about family issues, politicians say at all, because our ethical and moral and joys that form the core and rootedness first have to define them. That means run­ credo tells us that we must be involved in all of our lives. ning the risk of alienating some voters. these issues as Jews and as Americans. That I've been pretty open about the problems Political courage is becoming a rare trait. is our obligation. I've had balancing my life, and I think that Politicians increasingly rely on polls and Remaining engaged in the affairs of our has made people less guarded with me. pundits to tell them where the people are. community is a community relations imper­ They tell me about their own complicated The cloakroom wisdom is, "There go the ative. As Americans and as Jews, we have no lives and seem to empathize when I describe people. Let's scamper to get in front of moral or pragmatic choice but to move the times all the balls I was juggling them because we're their leaders." Family ahead and re-invest our community with dropped from the air. issues don't confer power on their advo­ the impulse to confront the incomplete do­ Everywhere I see the relieved reaction cates. Family issues aren't as prestigious as mestic agenda. The need to do so is rooted when people recognize their own problems defense and foreign policy. not only in altruism but also in the knowl­ in mine. There is so much pressure on fami­ Wanting the best education for your child, edge that what is good for America is good lies to produce perfect children and be the caring for a sick child, trying to get by on a for the Jewish community and that the perfect family; we hate to confess we all tight budget-these are the concerns of strength of the Jewish community and its harbor doubts about whether we are good most constituents. ability to survive in freedom bears a direct parents. The government should initiate the relationship to the quality of life of those The challenges I faced as a parent have debate, but if it does not, American families around us. But just as the Jewish communi­ been just as rigorous at those I had to deal can turn the situation around by taking the ty has been concerned for the health of with as a congresswoman. Campaigning offensive. They must deliver a message to American democracy, the health of Ameri­ every two years is tough, but so was seeing their elected leaders that it is time to make can democracy allows us to be concerned my son Scott through his high school foot­ family problems a priority issue for action about the Jewish community. There is a ball career. Through my experiences as a and funding. symbiotic relationship between our commu­ "football mom," I learned a lesson about Funding seems to cause the most anxiety. nity and our country that assures the well­ politics-the average person doesn't pay a People say, "Sure, the family needs more being of each. lot of attention. help. But our country can't afford it." Thus, the mission of the community rela­ During the season, I'd wash and dry Public enemy No. 1 for American families tions field-to safeguard the rights of Jews Scott's practice uniform every night. Once, is the federal deficit. But the answer does and assure the strength of American democ­ when our dryer broke

29-059 0-90-40 (Pt. 3) 4038 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1989 make us pay more money for defense, we treatment programs, and the resulting AIDS enough money to meet these goals realisti­ may have to raise taxes or cut services." crisis from intraveneous drug abuse. cally." "Right," I tell them. "That's exactly what Will, a generation from now, a nation look There is no public health plan to stem the we have had to do in the United States." back and condemn our Government's current spread of AIDS in the South Bronx, just a It is our children who have paid the price grab bag of half-hearted initiatives. If socie­ of our astronomical defense budget. Our callous disregard for an entire segment of our ty really cared about the Three Plagues. in country has higher rates of infant mortali­ population? every South Bronx across the country, ty, teen suicide, divorce, teen pregnancy, How, in a nation of such moral commitment many measures might have been tried long and alcohol and drug abuse than most of and religious strength, can we stand idly by ago: our allies among the developed nations. and do next to nothing? Drug treatment would be made available The changes in our country's demograph­ Anyone who has held a tiny baby in their on demand, and centers set up where ad­ ics, family life, and economy make it imper­ arms, knowing that this innocent, defenseless dicts congregate conquering local opposi­ ative that our federal government provide baby will soon die from AIDS, recognizes that tion. leadership on family policy. This isn't a call we must commit ourselves to solving this Instead of having to send addicts back on for big government. Some of the most effec­ the street when no drug treatment was tive programs include money-saving preven­ problem. Anything less than providing avail­ available, clinics would be allowed to supply tive initiatives, such as childhood immuniza­ able, affordable drug treatment-the best way them with clean needles. This would help tion. to attack the AIDS crisis currently plaguing our keep an addict coming back until a treat­ To ignore the federal government's obliga­ inner cities-is morally indefensible. ment slot was ready, meanwhile protecting tion to its families is to pass up a golden op­ Currently 9 out of 1O of IV drug abusers against infection. portunity for this country to soar into t he who seek to pay for affordable treatment are Addicts would be urged to avoid sharing next century. That's why I call famii:v turned away and told to wait for at least 3 to 6 needles, to sterilize their works with bleach policy the moon-shot legislation of the months for an available treatment slot. Can and to enroll in dirty-for-clean needle ex­ 1990s-a national challenge that can inspire anyone explain how we can allow this? change programs while awaiting treatment. the entire country, just as getting to the Each severely affected block would be as­ moon did in the '60s. Do not assume that this is a crisis only in signed a health worker charged with insur­ A national family policy should have New York, Oakland, or other metropolitan ing that every resident understood how to three basic goals: to acknowledge the rich cities-this is happening in your own backyard protect himself against contracting AIDS. diversity of American families; to protect too. Whether it's Seattle or Miami, San Diego Once the victims of AIDS are dying, with the family's economic well-being; to provide or Bangor, it's happening. It's happening in only months to live, public expenditure families with flexible ways to meet their Dothan. AL; in Butte, MT; in Lubbock, TX. You soars, often reaching $100,000 per case. economic and social needs. just don't realize it yet. Were a fraction of the same money avail­ Government policy cannot be based upon Mr. Speaker. the New York Times editorial able for prevention, many lives would be a static definition of the family, but must which follows ought to be required reading for saved. take into account that Americans live in a Without a serious preventive effort, the variety of family structures. Two-parent all Members: incidence of AIDS in the South Bronx will family, single-parent family, blended family, THREE PLAGUES soon approach that in African cities with extended family, empty-nest family-each Modern America's Three Plagues blight minimal standards of public health. And the comes with stresses and needs. An under­ the South Bronx: poverty, drug addiction levels in other inner cities won't be far standing of this diversity is essential to and AIDS. The population is now widely in­ behind, to the enduring shame of all New avoid creating government policy that pe­ fected with a disease that slowly drains the York and of all America. nalizes families that don't fit in a particular body of control, sight, mind and life. When mold. the administrations of Mayor Edward Koch I have tried to identify those issues that a and Gov. Mario Cuomo are long forgotten, TRIBUTE TO UKRAINIAN national family policy must address: fairer history will surely note that the New York PEOPLE treatment in the tax code; family and medi­ of their era left the poor to rot, in unparal­ cal leave; affordable child care; minimum leled numbers, from the cruelest of diseases. health-care coverage; retirement security; Now there is vivid evidence of just how HON. BOB McEWEN and a right to decide whether, when, and punishing the AIDS plague has become. OF OHIO how to have a family. But these will simply Among emergency room patients tested at IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES remain laudable goals unless we can mobi­ Bronx-Lebanon Medical Center, 23 percent lize a constituency around them. were found to be infected with the AIDS Monday, March 13, 1989 The coalitions that support work and virus, Bruce Lambert reported recently in Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, today, I wish to family issues are out there, but they have The Times. That doesn't necessarily mean a pay tribute to the Ukrainian people who not been mobilized to counter the much­ quarter of the South Bronx is infected. remain committed to their struggle for sover­ better organized forces that currently con­ Emergency room patients are sicker than trol access to money and power. the population at large. But it's a horrifying eignty and independent statehood. This year I know how little time parents have, but warning. marks the 70th anniversary of the unification even so, we need to push for a family lobby The people of the South Bronx are mostly of Ukrainian lands in the Ukrainian National so that our voices will be as powerful as black or Hispanic, and poor. Poverty and Republic. On January 22, 1918, in the city of those of other groups. It is not hopeless. drug addiction go together. Unable to buy Kiev, the Ukrainian Central Rada issued a People who care do make a difference. clean needles, heroin addicts share them, proclamation declaring Ukraine a free, inde­ Our government and our people should thus spreading the blood-borne AIDS virus. pendent nation, subordinated to no other for­ step out front together and make a strong Crack houses. where sex is often exchanged eign power and a member of the community moral and practical commitment to the for drugs, spur the spread of other diseases, of free nations. Unfortunately for the people of Great American Family. Our country's which in turn promote the spread of AIDS. future is at stake. Addicts then infect their partners. In one Ukraine the iron fists of Soviet leader after South Bronx district, 1 of every 25 women Soviet leader, including the present General giving birth now carries the virus, and Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, have subjugated ARE WE STARING THE FUTURE nearly half of these infect their babies. these brave peoples. In tribute, and recogni­ IN THE FACE? As if the Three Plagues weren't deadly tion of their rights of political, economic, and enough, they are magnified by a larger religious freedom, I wish to submit into the HON. FORTNEY PETE STARK malady: indifference. The poor of the South RECORD the fourth universal issued on that Bronx do not speak loudly in the councils of January day 70 years ago. OF CALIFORNIA state. Other citizens readily see them, if at all, as an underclass, an unregenerate source FOURTH UNIVERSAL OF JANUARY 22, 1918, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of addiction and crime. PROCLAIMING THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE Monday, March 13, 1989 Society has not, surely, chosen a deliber­ UKRAINIAN NATIONAL REPUBLIC ate policy to let them die. But if it had, the People of Ukraine: By your strength, will. Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, I don't represent present outcome would not be very differ­ and word a Free Ukrainian National Repub­ New York City, but I do represent Oakland, ent. Governor Cuomo, announcing his five­ lic was established on the Ukrainian Land. CA. Both cities, while a continent apart, have year plan for combating AIDS, declared last The former old dream of your fathers, been plagued by a continual battle with drug week, "I want to say as clearly as I can, I am fighters for freedom and the rights of the abuse. the lack of available, affordable drug not putting into this plan this year nearly working people has come true. March 13, 1989 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4039 But the freedom of Ukraine was reborn in any other part of the former Russian ruined the economy. Now all of this must a difficult hour. Four years of vicious war Empire and to establish peace so that our come to an end. have weakened our country and the popula­ country can begin life in peace and harmo­ At the time when the army will be de­ tion. Factories are not producing goods, ny. mobilized, we direct that some soldiers are works at the plants are coming to a stand The war has also claimed for itself all the to be released to their homes and after the still, the railroads are dislocated, the money working forces of our country. The majority peace treaties had been ratified, to dissolve is losing its value, the bread has grown of plants, factories and shops have been pro­ the army completely; then, instead of a per­ scarcer-hunger is approaching. Bands of ducing only what was necessary for war and manent army ·to create a national militia so robbers and thieves sprang up throughout the population was left entirely without that our troops would serve in the defense the country, especially when Russian troops goods. Now the war is over. Therefore we of the working people rather than the de­ pulled back from the front, causing carnage, driect the Council of National Ministers to sires of the ruling strata. disorder and ruin in our land. take immediate measures to adjust all Localities ruined by the war and demobili­ For these various reasons the elections to plants and factories to peacetime conditions, zation are to be reconstructed with the help the Ukrainian Constituent Assembly could for the production of goods needed, first of all by the toiling masses. of our state treasury. not take place at the time designated by our When our soldiers reach home, the peo­ previous Universal and the meeting de­ This very same war has given birth to signed for this day could not be held so that hundreds of thousands of unemployed as ple's councils-borough and country-and the Assembly could take over from us the well as invalids. In an Independent National the city dumas are to be reelected at a pre­ temporary revolutionary authority in Republic of Ukraine not one worker should scribed future time so that also our soldiers Ukraine, to establish order in our National suffer. The Government of the Republic is would have a chance to vote. In order to es­ Republic, and to organize a new govern­ to upraise the industry of the State, has to tablish a local authority which would enjoy ment. initiate the construction work in all the confidence and which would find sup­ In the meantime, the Petrograd Govern­ branches in which all unemployed would be port from all revolutionary democratic seg­ ment of People's Commissars, in order to able to find work and to utilize their force, ments of the population, the Government place the free Ukrainian Republic under its and to make every effort to provide security should invite the cooperation of the coun­ and is dispatching troops into our land-the fered from the war. cils of peasants, workers, and soldiers depu­ Red Guard, the Bolsheviks who rob bread In the time of the old regime traders and ties, elected from among the local popula­ from our peasants and carry it off to Russia various middle men had amassed great cap­ tion. without any compensation, not sparing even ital at the expense of the poor, suppressed In the matter of land, the commission the grain prepared for planting; they kill in­ classes. From the day on the Ukrainian Na­ elected at our last session, has already nocent people and everywhere they spread tional Republic is taking over the most im­ worked out a law concerning the transfer­ disorder, thievery, and chaos. portant branches of trade and all profits ence of land to the working population We, the Ukrainian Central Rada, made will be returned for the benefit of the without compensation, having accepted as every effort to avoid the fratricidal war be­ people. Our State will supervise the import the basis the abolishment of ownership and tween the two neighboring nations but the and export of foods in order to prevent the the socialization of land according to our Petrograd government did not do likewise high costs which are suffered by our poorest resolution at the eighth session. This will be and continues the bloody fight with our classes because of the speculators. For the examined in a few days by the plenary Cen­ people and the Republic. Furthermore, the execution of this directive we instruct the tral Rada. The Council of National Minis­ very same Petrograd Government of Peo­ Government to prepare and submit for ap­ ters will use all means to see to it that the ple's Commissars is delaying the peace ef­ proval a law dealing with this as well as a forts and calls for a new war, naming it law concerning the monopoly on iron, leath­ transfer of land into the hands of working "holy," Once more the blood will flow, again er, tobacco, and other products and goods people through the land committees will the unfortunate working people are to lay from which most profits were taken from definitely take place before the spring down their lives. the working classes for the benefit of non­ works. We, the Ukrainian Central Rada, elected working people. The forests, waters, and all underground by the congresses of peasants, workers, and Also we direct to establish state-national wealth, as a property of the Ukrainian soldiers of Ukraine, cannot agree to this and control over all banks which with credits working population, is placed at the disposal will not support any war because the Uk­ and loans helped the non-working classes to of the Ukrainian National Republic. rainina Nation desires peace and a demo­ exploit the working classes. From this day All democratic freedoms proclaimed by cratic peace should come as soon as possible. on help in the form of bank loans is to be the Third Universal, the Ukrainian National And so that neither the Russian govern­ given mainly for the support of labor and Republic reaffirms and especially proclaims: ment nor any other should place obstacles for the development of national economy of in the Independent Ukrainian National Re­ for Ukraine in establishing the desired the Ukrainian National Republic rather public all nationalities enjoy the right of na­ peace and to lead our country to order, to a than for speculation and various exploita­ tional-personal autonomy, recognized by us creative work, to strengthen the revolution tion and gain on the part of the banks. through a law of January 20. and our feedom we, the Ukrainian Central Founded on disorder, uneasy life and the If we, the Ukrainian· Central Rada, will Rada, inform all citizens of Ukraine of the lack of goods dissatisfaction is growing in not be able to accomplish in the following following: some parts of the population. Various dark weeks the goals listed in this Universal, they From this day on the Ukrainian National forces take advantage of this dissatisfaction will be completed by the Ukrainian Constit­ Republic becomes an independent, subordi­ and prod the ignorant people toward the old uent Assembly. nated to none, free, sovereign State of the regime. These dark forces want once more We order our citizens to conduct the elec­ Ukrainian Nation. to submit all free nations to a unified tsarist tion to it very carefully: to take every meas­ With all neighboring states such as yoke of Russia. The Council of National ure to count the votes as quickly as possible, Russia, Poland, Austria, Romania, Turkey Ministers should fight decisively against so that in a few weeks our Constituent As­ and others we want to live in peace and counter-revolutionary forces. And anyone sembly-the supreme master and arranger friendship but none of them can interfere who will urge an insurrection against the of our Land-would strengthen liberty, with the life of an independent Ukrainian Independent Ukrainian National Republic, order and welfare by a constitution of the Republic. It is authority will belong only to to return to the old regime, should be pun­ the People of Ukraine and in its name, until ished for state treason. Independent Ukrainian National Republic the Ukrainian Constituent Assembly con­ Regarding the so-called Bolsheviks and for the benefit of the entire working popu­ venes, we the Ukrainian Central Rada, the other aggressors who are destroying ,mr lation, for the present and for the future. representatives of working peasants, work­ country we direct the Government of the This highest body is to decide the matter ers, and soldiers, shall govern together with Ukrainian National Republic to take firm of federative union with the national repub­ our executive organ which as of today shall and decisive measures against them and we lics of the former Russian state. have the name of Council of National Minis­ call upon all citizens of our Republic to Up to that time we call upon all citizens of ters. defend the welfare and the freedom without the Independent Ukrainian National Repub­ And this first of all we direct the govern­ regard for their life. Our National Ukraini­ lic to stand firmly on guard of the gained ment of our Republic, the Council of Na­ an State should be cleared of the attackers freedom and the rights of our nation and to tional Ministers to do, as of this day to con­ sent from Petrograd who trample the rights defend with every effort the liberty from all duct peace negotiations with the Central of the Ukrainian Republic. enemies of the Independent Ukrainian Re­ Powers, which already had begun, complete­ Immeasurably hard war, started by the public of peasants and workers. ly independently and to bring them to a bourgeois government, exhausted our In Kiev, 22 January 1918. conclusion, disregarding any obstacles from Nation, already destroyed our country, UKRAINIAN CENTRAL RADA. 4040 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1989 PRO COMPETITION CARGO the American taxpayers. I urge my colleagues Percent increase ALLOCATION ACT OF 1989 to support the Pro Competition Cargo Alloca­ 28. Quarryville, PA...... 62 tion Act of 1989. 29. Libertyville, IL...... 62 30. Lower, NJ...... 61 HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR 31. Manassas, VA ...... 59 OF MINNESOTA WHAT WERE THE EFFECTS OF 32. Passaic, NJ...... 59 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CABLE DEREGULATION? ISN'T 33. Bennington, NY...... 58 Monday, March 13, 1989 IT TIME WE KNEW? 34. W. Bridgewater, MA...... 56 35. Hoosick, NY...... 53 Mr. OBERST AR. Mr. Speaker, on January 36. Oak Ridge, TN...... 53 20, 1989, I introduced the Pro Competition HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER 37. Midland, MI...... 52 Cargo Allocation Act of 1989 (H.R. 597) which OF NEW YORK 38. Venus, PA...... 52 is designed to reestablish equity and econom­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 39. Walnut Creek, CA...... 52 ic efficiency for all coastal ranges with respect Monday, March 13, 1989 40. Kalamazoo, MI ...... 51 to the transportation of the Federal Govern­ 41. Brownsville, KY...... 51 ment's humanitarian relief commodities. This Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, as of January 42. Eugene, OR ...... 50 legislation would repeal the provisions of the 1, 1987, cable television companies were free 43. Beaver, OR ...... 50 1985 farm bill which raised the cargo prefer­ to charge any rate that they chose for their 44. Ocala, FL...... 50 ence for U.S.-flag vessels from 50 to 75 per­ service. As with other aspects of the Cable 45. Broadview, IL...... 50 cent within the Public Law 480 programs while Act of 1984, the effect of rate deregulation is 46. Burnham, IL...... 50 creating a temporary "set-aside" of the limited not clear. Some cities have seen rates jump 47. Maywood, IL...... 50 portion of the title II program for the Great over 100 percent, yet the cable industry re­ 48. Oak Park, IL...... 50 Lakes where U.S.-flag vessels are not avail­ ports that, on average, rates have only risen 49. River Forest, IL...... 50 able. about 6 percent. Comprehensive and reliable 50. Bridgeville, PA...... 50 51. Ferndale, WA...... 50 As I explained on the House floor on De­ rate information is not available. To help us Source: Paul Kagan & Associates and Congress­ cember 18, 1985, when these provisions were get the whole story of cable-rate deregulation, man Schumer's Office. enacted: I am introducing H.R. 1375 the Cable Rate The Cable Rate Disclosure Act of 1989 will The requirement that 75 percent of these Disclosure Act of 1989. cargoes be transported on U.S.-flag vessels, As Congress assesses the success of the help Congress get the whole story. It would require each cable company to report its rates which choose not to serve the Great Lakes, Cable Deregulation Act of 1984, some things has the potential to destroy Great Lakes are clear and others aren't. It is clear that to the FCC on a monthly basis the first report under the act would have to provide informa­ ports and the port-related sectors of our cable televison is no longer the struggling new Great Lakes economy. tion dating back to January 1, 1987, the be­ technology that it was in 1984. Cable televi­ * * sion now serves almost half of all Americans. ginning of rate deregulation. Each month the Virtually the only cargoes our ports handle Cable stocks are up and the industry profits FCC would be required to issue a statistical are the bagged, processed and fortified com­ are booming. breakdown of the collected information. modities of Title II, Public Law 480, and sec­ However you feel about cable deregulation, tion 416. If the Department of Agriculture However, it is not clear how our constitu­ ents have been impacted by rate deregulation. you'll agree that the debate shouldn't be fails to properly interpret and apply the based on sketchy and biased information. availability concept contained in the Cargo The National Cable Television Association, a Let's get the facts as best we can. Preference Act, then, under this legislation, cable trade association, has studied rates and Below is a text of the bill: the Lakes will be eligible to bid on less than found that on average they have only in­ 5 percent of all grains shipped under Public creased by 6 percent. But there are some H.R. 1375 Law 480, titles I, II, and III, and are more who disagree. According to industry experts, A bill to require cable television operators to likely to successfully bid on a mere 3 per­ regularly disclose their rates and services cent. rates have jumped much more. Below is a list of cities that have seen their rates jump 50 to the Federal Communications Commis­ sion, and for other purposes. * percent or more in the first year of deregula­ I also want to put my colleagues and the tion. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of USDA on notice that, should any port range Representatives of the United States of be discriminated against in the administra­ WHAT CABLE DEREGULATION MEANS AROUND THE America in Congress assembled, UNITED STATES tion of this subtitle, there will be that much SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE added pressure to see the entire provision Fifty-one cities where the cable rates went self-destruct at the earliest possible This Act may be cited as the "Cable Rate up 50 percent or more in 1987: City, State: Disclosure Act of 1989". moment.- by striking clause by redesignating clauses and as lowing a month in which the operator im­ clauses (iii) and (iv), respectively; and plements any change in the services it pro­ from around the country who have married by striking clause of title 5, United report shall be in such form as the Com mis­ posit requirement, are simply unable financial­ States Code, is amended- sion may require by regulation and shall ly to provide for a survivor benefit plan for (i) in clause (i), by striking " (B)(i)" and in­ contain- their spouse. In order for some retirees to pro­ serting "(B)'', and by redesignating sub­ " (A) a description of any tiers of service vide these necessary spousal benefits, depos­ clauses (l) and Section 8339<2> of title 5, United " (B) the total number of subscribers for the retiree and to the spouse. A Federal retir­ States Code, is amended by striking sub­ each of such tiers; ee who decides to marry after his or her re­ paragraphs and . " (C) any changes in rates charged for, or tirement begins should not be penalized for (b) FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT in services provided to, any such tier from the years he or she was not married and did SYSTEM.- the previous monthly report; and not foresee marriage in the future. Likewise, (1) REPEAL.- Chapter 84 of title 5, United "(D) such other information as the Com­ the new spouse should not be denied annuity States Code, is amended- mission may by regulation require. protection because of the deposit require­ by striking section 8418; and "(2) The Commission shall compile the re­ (B) in the chapter analysis, by striking the ment. ports submitted under paragraph (1) and item relating t.o section 8418. shall publish a statistical summary of such I am introducing this legislation because the (2) CONFORM:ING AMENDMENT.--Section reports on a monthly basis. Such summary inequity that exists for Federal retirees in pro­ 861 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 <22 shall contain national, regional, and state viding for survivor benefits for a spouse U.S.C. 4071j(c)) is amended by striking average rates for representative tiers of should be corrected. The bill, which is sup­ "8417, 8418," and inserting "8417". service. The reports submitted under para­ ported by the National Association of Retired SEC. 2. STUDY AND REPORT. graph O> shall be made available by the Federal Employees, restores fairness and Within 180 days after the date of enact­ Commission for public inspection. equity for Federal retirees and their spouses ment of this Act, the Comptroller General "(3) The first report submitted under shall study and submit a report to Congress paragraph <1) by each cable operator shall and I hope Members will join me in sponsor­ ing this legislation. A section analysis and a on ways to maintain the long-term value of contain the information required by para­ the survivor benefits provided under sub­ graph 0) with respect to each month be­ copy of the bill are included with this state­ chapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, United tween January 1, 1987, and the month pre­ ment: States Code, as well as those provided under ceding the month in which such report is BILL ANALYSIS chapter 84 of such title. The report shall in­ submitted.". Section 1. Under P.L. 98-615 Congress clude such recommendations as the Comp­ eliminated a benefit previously allowed for troller General considers appropriate. annuitants who marry after their annuity LEGISLATION TO CORRECT AN begins. Previous law allowed an annuitant INEQUITY THAT EXISTS IN to take a reduction in his or her annuity at COLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDA­ PROVIDING FOR A FEDERAL the time of the marriage to provide for a TION HONORS JOSEPH A. SURVIVOR BENEFIT PLAN survivor benefit. The law now requires that GIMMA an annuitant make a contribution toward the survivor benefit for periods when he or HON. FRANK R. WOLF she was not married and received a full an­ HON. BILL GREEN OF VIRGINIA nuity. This provision states that a deposit is OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not required of an annuitant to provide for a federal survivor benefit for a new spouse. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, March 13, 1989 Instead, the federal annuitant will receive a Monday, March 13, 1989 reduced annuity at the time of the marriage Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I am introducing Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, on Wednesday, legislation today that will allow Federal retir­ in order to provide for a survivor benefit. Section 2. Directs GAO to study the survi­ March 15, the Columbus Citizens Foundation ees who marry after they retire to provide sur­ of New York will honor a very special octoge­ vivor benefit plans for their spouses without vor benefit program. The federal survivor benefit annuity seems to diminish in value narian, Joseph Gimma. I want to share with incurring, in many cases, tremendous financial more quickly than does the standard annu­ my colleagues a recent article from the Catho­ hardship. ity. It is essential that the survivor annuity lic New York by Dennis Poust about this ex­ Prior to 1986, Federal retirees who wished be made more resilient to the ravages of in­ traordinary gentleman. to provide a survivor benefit plan for their flation. GAO is directed to conduct a study and Even at age 81, Joseph A. Gimma is spouse could do so by taking a reduced annu­ hardly slowing down. Almost daily he still ity at the time they married. The annuity was recommend cost effective ways to provide a stronger survivor annuity program. Such makes his way to his investment banking reduced by a set formula effective the date of job in the financial district, just as he has the marriage. recommendations as the option to make larger annuity reductions for a more sub­ for the past 65 years. As a result of Public Law 98-615, any retir­ stantial survivor benefit, larger and addi­ Gimma is one of the founders of the Co­ ee who has married after February 26, 1986, tional bePefits for older survivors who have lumbus Citizens Foundation clubhouse. The is required to take a reduced annuity at the been widowed for many years, and changes 42-year-old organization, best known for time of the marriage and pay a deposit that in the survivor annuity contribution formu­ sponsoring the Columbus Day Parade, is made up of prominent Italian-Americans. equals the difference between "" full annuity la should be explored by GAO. The bill follows: Currently there are about 400 members. and a reduced annuity-for surviv,)r benefits­ The main purpose of the group is to for every month since retirement tl1at a retiree H.R. 1377 engage in philanthropic activities in support has not been married. In addition, the retiree Be it enacted by the Senate and House of of Italian-American causes. It is dedicated to must pay 6 percent interest on the deposit. Representatives of the United States of preserving and perpetuating the Italian­ I am introducing legislation today that will America in Congress assembled, American culture. restore the benefit following Federal retirees SECTION I. ELIMINATION OF DEPOSIT REQUIRE­ On Wednesday evening, March 15, the who marry after their annuity begins to take a MENT. foundation will honor Gimma at a testimo­ (a) CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM.­ nial dinner. Business leaders, politicians and reduction in their annuity at the time of mar­ (1) AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 8339 (j ) .-Sec­ sports personalities are expected to attend. riage to provide for a survivor benefit. My bill tion 8339(j)(5)(C) of title 5, United States At his side will be his wife of nearly 44 would eliminate the current requirement to Code, is amended- years, retired opera star Licia Albanese. make retroactive deposits in order to elect in clause (ii), by striking " 9 months Gimma likes to tell the story of how they survivor annuity benefits for a new spouse. after the date of t he remarriage," and all met. 4042 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1989 "My wife was already an opera star in I encourage coalition members to become in­ MILITARY EXPENDITURES Italy and she came here to sing at the Met," volved in advancing this regional agenda. Although the Northeast-Midwest region he recalled. "She came from the same town has 43 percent of the nation's population, it I did, Bari, and a friend asked me to watch [Taken from the Northeast-Midwest Economic Review] receives only 32.6 percent of defense spend­ over her. I did. I married her." ing. Despite containing almost twice the Opera isn't his wife's only talent, though. THE BUDGET AND THE REGION population of California, for instance, the "She's an excellent cook besides being an The . enormous federal deficit will be the seven midwestern states receive just over excellent singer," he said. "She won my top priority for the new administration and half the amount of federal prime contracts heart through my stomach." Congress. The Congressional Budget Office in 1987 than the state of California alone. Gimma is a self-made man. Emigrating estimates that this year's federal budget The distribution of military personnel also from Italy at age 10 with his parents, he will add another $155 billion to the debt. is heavily against the Northeast and Mid­ couldn't possibly have known that he would But this figure includes a $97 billion surplus west; fewer than 20 percent of all Depart­ one day own a Park Avenue apartment and in the trust funds (for Social Security, high­ ment of Defense personnel, and only 14.2 a home in Connecticut. Now a parishioner ways, airports, unemployment compensa­ percent of active-duty personnel, were locat­ of St. Jean Baptiste in Manhattan, he lived tion, and the other programs with dedicated ed in the region in 1986. on East !17th Street for two years before sources of revenue), masking a real deficit in Because of the disproportionately small returning to the Bensonhurst section of share of military spending the region re­ Brooklyn, where he was raised. the general funds of $252 million. The total federal debt of $2.8 trillion is so ceives, the Northwest-Midwest Congression­ On Feb. 8, 1924, he got his first job on al Coalition has led efforts to help firms Wall Street as an assistant bookkeeper at huge that it's easy to lose perspective. Con­ sider, however, that the national debt trans­ compete effectively for federal procurement Herrick, Berg and Co. Over the past 65 contracts. The procurement Technical As­ years he has seen the many ups and downs lates into a $37,000 bill for every American family, and that every man, woman and sistance Cooperative Agreement Program of the financial market first hand. He is provides matching funds to state and local now a senior vice president/financial con­ child in the United States must pay $4 in taxes each day just to cover the interest on governments and nonprofit organizations sultant at Shearson Lehman Hutton. that give technical assistance to businesses Gimma was there for the stock market this debt. The Northeast-Midwest Institute and Coa­ seeking federal contracts. crash of 1929. By then he was an audit The Coalitions also played an active role clerk. "I stayed in that cubbyhole office for litions have long focused on the budget, ar­ guing that the region doesn't receive its fair in the military base-closing legislation, suc­ 72 hours without seeing daylight, before cessfully promoting report language that going home," he recalled. "The volume was share of the federal payments. In fact, the distortion against northern states is perva­ called for regional equity in any base-closing incredible." plan. Efforts must continue however, be­ Always interested in horse racing, Gimma sive and long-standing. Historically, the cause the Commission has recommended was appointed to the New York State South and West have been the major bene­ that 54 percent of the net personnel losses Racing Commission by Gov. Nelson Rocke­ ficiaries of military installations, natural re­ 01,060 jobs) occur in northeastern and mid­ feller in 1960. He has been reappointed ever source developments, and infrastructure western states. The South, in contrast, is since and has officiated during the huge projects. In fiscal 1987 the South and West scheduled to gain 1,150 jobs, while the West growth in the sport over the past 25 years. received $1.12 for every dollar they paid in loses 10,697 military and civilian slots. He also serves as a commissioner of the federal taxes, while the northeastern and state's Thoroughbred Breeding and Devel­ midwestern received only 86 cents for every OIL IMPORT FEE opment Fund Corp., a program which pro­ dollar sent to the Treasury. An oil import fee would harm most states, motes breeding and horse racing in general. The distortion may become worse as Con­ particularly those in the Northeast-Midwest In the 1960's, Gimma was chairman of the gress faces an explosion of unfunded costs, region. Working with state officials, the In­ New York Republican County Committee. A most of which will go out of the region. stitute and Coalition prepared several re­ twist of fate saved his life when he was run­ Bailing out troubled savings & loans in ports showing that an import fee would ning for the office. He was scheduled to fly Texas, for instance, could cost $100 billion. shift $8 billion out of the economies of the to the West Coast on racing business but Cleaning up the nation's aging and environ­ eight largest oil consuming states, which are was informed by Attorney General Louis mentally hazardous nuclear weapons pro­ New York, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylva­ Lefkowitz that he had not given sufficient duction plants in the South and Northwest nia, Ohio, Illinois, Georgia, and California. notice to the county committee and he had could cost another $200 billion. Although President Bush opposes an to wait an additional 24 hours. The flight he The region may take another fiscal jolt import fee, several members of Congress are was scheduled to be on crashed on take-off because of the 1990 Census. Recent esti­ eyeing the measure to raise revenue. The from LaGuardia Airport. mates suggest midwestern and northeastern Coalitions will continue to block the fee's Being commissioner was a difficult job. states will lose 14 seats in the House of Rep­ adoption. "My wife was in the prime of her singing resentatives. The region, as a result, will career," he said. "The phone would ring have less power when the Electoral College until two or three in the morning, even with selects the president and when the House JEANE KIRKPATRICK DIS- an unlisted number. If a commissioner died, votes on legislation. But more startling and CUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS: before the body even got cold they'd call to troubling is the projected loss of money. Be­ UNITED NATIONS HUMAN recommend replacements. That's the only cause billions of federal dollars are allocated RIGHTS COMMISSION CRITI­ time my wife ever gave me an ultimatum­ by formulas based in part on population, CIZES ROMANIAN POLICIES quit my job or she'd divorce me. I quit." the Northeast-Midwest region can expect AND CUBAN VIOLATIONS major reductions-several hundred million dollars-in its share of federal funding. The THE NORTHEAST MIDWEST impacted programs include some of the HON. TOM LANTOS CONGRESSIONAL COALITION most basic support initiatives for our com­ OF CALIFORNIA TAKES AIM munities-highway funds, Community De­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES velopment Block Grants, LIHEAP, Head Start, Vocational Education, Drug and Alco­ Monday, March 13, 1989 HON. HOWARD WOLPE hol Abuse, airport improvements, and pay­ OF MICHIGAN Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, our former Am­ ments to agricultural stations. The Insti­ bassador to the United Nations, Dr. Jeane IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tute's challenge, therefore, is to identify for­ Kirkpatrick, wrote an excellent column last Monday, March 13, 1989 mula changes that could cushion the pend­ ing loss of money. week focusing on the latest indications of Mr. WOLPE. Mr. Speaker, the 101 st Con­ During this period of fiscal difficulty, the hope in the area of human rights. Based on gress faces an array of critical challenges that Northeast-Midwest groups plan to expand her experience representing the United States profoundly impact the economy and quality of their budget work substantially. As usual, at the United Nations, she discussed impor­ life throughout Northeastern and Midwestern the organizations will release an immediate tant developments at the U.N. Human Rights States. The Northeast-Midwest Coalition has response to, as well as a thorough analysis Commission in Geneva. of the Administration's proposed budget. In Since her column appeared, there were outlined its regional policy agenda for the addition, the groups will publish an 18-state 101 st Congress in our biweekly newsletter, review of the flow of federal funds, and a other extremely interesting developments in the Northeast-Midwest Economic Review. I detailed analysis of the federal grants to Geneva. Not only did Hungary join in sponsor­ would like to share the following excerpt from states. Our goal, quite simply, is to be the ing the proposal calling for an investigation of the Economic Review with my colleagues and region's source for federal budget data. human rights conditions in Romania, but when March 13, 1989 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4043 the issue came up for a final vote, representa­ fairness in the work of the U.N. commission Command testified before the House Armed tives of the Soviet Union, East Germany, and and demonstrated that Communist coun­ Services Committee: Bulgaria did not appear to cast their votes. tries could no longer count on being exempt from scrutiny. We have worked hard to maintain an ade­ Romania's egregious human rights violations This meant that Cuba was no longer quate number of steaming days, flying have isolated it-not only from the democratic immune. The testimony of hundreds of hours, and vehicle miles so that equipment countries-but also from its own Warsaw Pact former Cuban political prisoners was al­ are exercised and the people are trained. allies. ready on the public record. And in 1987 Regarding budget cuts, he said: Mr. Speaker, I ask that Dr. Kirkpatrick's arti­ Allan Keyes, assistant secretary for interna­ Commanders have made the logical, if dif­ cle be placed in the RECORD for the benefit of tional organizations, and U.N. Ambassador ficult, decisions from the slim range of op­ our colleagues in the House. Vernon Walters, the U.S. permanent repre­ tions available, but there should be no ques­ [From the Washington Post, Mar. 6, 1989] sentative, forced discussion of the issue. tion about there being an eventual impact In 1988 new U.S. human rights commis­ AT LAST, A LITTLE ATTENTION TO HUMAN upon readiness. With fewer exercises • • • sioner and former Cuban political prisoner force readiness will deteriorate. RIGHTS Armando Valladares pushed the issue onto and of volunteers to help chil­ [From the Washington Post] ing the children at as early an age as possi­ dren with homework from 3-5 p.m. on week­ DOUBLE STANDARD ON HUMAN RIGHTS? ble, to help give them a good education and days, to act as reading tutors during the a sense of self-worth so that they can school term as well as during the summer will go to whatever during the political persecutions of the lengths to bring out the potential in each Tibet is a grave example of human rights Anti-Rightist movement alone, some 500,000 child, whether it means engaging the par­ abuses, but it is one which has gone relatively people were purged because of their ents in discussions about the amounts of unrebuked by the Reagan and Bush adminis­ thoughts and opinions. Some lost their jobs, T.V. a child watches at home, or staying trations. while others were shipped off for "reform after school hours to help a child with read­ There is a danger not only that we will de­ through labor." ing or homework. She has found that moti­ cline to assert our support for human rights To this day the fates of many of these are vating parents plays a large part in the within the People's Republic of China because still unknown. And, as for our record of dis­ respect for religious rights and the rights of child's progresss. She counsels parents and geopolitical motive, there have also speaks to them whenever the need arises, of some minority peoples, China has been no differ­ encouraging them to "keep up with their been arguments made that the sort of human ent than any other socialist country. children". Parents take an active part in the rights which we are committed to in much of Compared to the era of , the Center, involving themselves in fundraising the world has less application in non-Western situation of this past decade has indeed and public relations work. society. That is a dangerous, illogical, and ulti- showed some improvement. However, the March 13, 1989 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4045 way in which present Chinese authorities the past 15 years, Federal revenues have re­ "SEC. 4. The Congress shall implement continue either to disregard or to simply mained relatively constant around 19 percent and enforce this article by appropriate legis­ ignore the question of human rights makes of GNP. They ranged from a low of 18 per­ lation. for a grave situation. cent in fiscal year 1973 to a high of 20.1 per­ "SEc. 5. This article shall apply to the first First and foremost, Chinese authorities fiscal year beginning after its ratification have still not completely acknowledged that cent at the start of the Reagan administration and subsequent fiscal years, but not to fiscal the human-rights violations alluded to in fiscal year 1981. This year, they are esti­ years beginning before October 1, 1992.". above were wrong in principle. mated to be 19.3 percent of GNP. For example, to this day they still pro­ Spending, on the other hand, has increased claim the Anti-Rightist movement of 1957 as a proportion of GNP. In fiscal year 1983, QUADRENNIAL COMMISSION as necessary and "correct." Since then, the Federal spending was only 19.2 percent of suppression and persecution of people with differing beliefs and opinions has never GNP. It went as high as 24.3 percent in fiscal year 1983, before beginning to decline to the HON. ANTHONY C. BEILENSON ceased. Obvious examples of this policy are OF CALIFORNIA the suppression of the Democracy Wall estimated 21 percent of GNP for this year. movement in 1970, the campaign against President Bush's budget estimates that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "spiritual pollution" in 1983 and the move­ Federal revenues will increase by about $82 Monday, March 13, 1989 ment against "bourgeois" in 1987. And lest billion in fiscal year 1990 as a result of eco­ the world forget, Democracy Wall activists nomic growth. Even with that increase, total Mr. BEILENSON. Mr. Speaker, today I am Wei Jingsheng and other similar political Federal revenues in fiscal year 1990 will introducing legislation which would implement prisoners have now been in jail for 10 years, amount to the 19.3 percent of GNP which I the pay increases recommended for judicial and up until now still remain unreleased. and executive branch employees by the Presi­ Throughout this truly grim period, efforts just mentioned. by some on behalf of human rights never If Congress applied about half of that reve­ dent's Quadrennial Commission on Executive, ceased, gaining the support of rights activ­ nue increase to deficit reduction, we could Legislative, and Judicial Salaries. Salaries for ists and organizations elsewhere in the meet the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit Members of Congress would not be affected world. As a consequence, China human­ target of $100 billion, and we could apply the by the bill. rights activists have now become part of the other half to existing programs. By just limiting When we in Congress voted to reject the large global t rend towards respecting such the growth in Federal spending, the deficit will Commission's recommendations for ourselves rights. · last month, 'it almost seemed like a minor foot­ There should, in fact, be a universal begin to close-without a tax increase. The standard for human rights everywhere. Just balanced budget/spending limitation amend­ note that we also denied long overdue and as the International Declaration of Human ment can take effect in fiscal year 1993 with­ well deserved raises for 2,000 federally em­ Rights has declared, the rights and free­ out any major disruption to the economy. ployed scientists, economists, policy advisers, doms that all men ought to enjoy should About 15 States have constitutional limits foreign service professionals, and judges. In a not be denied because of race, color, sex, on how much their State or local governments real sense, as a number of our colleagues language, religion, politics or any other can spend, and they work well. My home have already pointed out, salaries for these reason. men and women, which are by law linked to In struggling for human rights we must State of Arizona has had a State spending not only oppose those incidents where limit for about 1O years, and is the second our own, are being unfairly held hostage to human rights have been totally disregarded, fastest growing State in the Nation. A spend­ our unwillingness to raise our own salaries. but also oppose the notion that there is a ing limit can work equally as well at the Feder­ I would note that top executive branch em­ double standard for different countries. al level. ployees were also denied cost of living adjust­ In short, we must struggle towards a I invite my colleagues to join me in cospon­ ments in 5 of the last 8 years when we in notion of human rights as having universal Congress decided to exempt ourselves from application. soring this amendment and demonstrating to the American people that we are serious COLA's. The Quadrennial Commission con­ about deficit reduction. I also urge the Judici­ cluded this year that current salary levels for BALANCED BUDGET SPENDING ary Committee to b9gin holding hearings at an top executive and judicial branch employees AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTI­ early date. have eroded over the last 20 years by ap­ TUTION I insert the text of the amendment at this proximately 35 percent in constant dollars, point in the RECORD. while salaries for other Americans have in­ creased above the rate of inflation. HON. JON L. KYL H.J. RES. 189 OF ARIZONA The huge differential between what these Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep­ talented and highly skilled professionals earn IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES resentatives of the United States of America and what their counterparts in the private Monday, March 13, 1989 in Congress assembled, That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the sector, and even the nonprofit sector, are Mr. KYL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to intro­ Constitution of the United States, which earning is appalling. Distinguished Federal duce a balanced budget/spending limitation shall be valid to all intents and purposes as judges earn less than many of the young cor­ amendment to the Constitution. part of the constitution when ratified by porate lawyers just a few years out of law Last November, the American people elect­ the legislatures of three-fourths of the sev­ school who appear before them in court. De­ ed George Bush to the Presidency, giving him eral States within seven years after the date partment chairmen at the National Institutes of a resounding mandate to reduce the Federal of its submission for ratification: Health [NIH] are paid less than half what they budget deficit without raising taxes. The "ARTICLE - could be paid at a university hospital. As a amendment I am introducing today will not "SECTION 1. Except as provided in this ar­ result, NIH has suffered a loss of 28 percent only ensure that Congress and the President ticle, expenditures of the United States of its most senior research scientists in the balance the budget, but that we do so consist­ Government for any fiscal year shall not last 1O years; all left to accept positions in pri­ ent with that mandate-by restraining spend­ exceed its revenues for that fiscal year. vate industry at salary increases of 50 percent ing. "SEC. 2. Except as provided in this article, the expenditures of the United States Gov­ to 300 percent. NASA officials are fearing, This amendment's balanced budget require­ ernment for a fiscal year may not exceed 19 quite justifiably, the probable loss of many of ment will become effective in fiscal year 1993, per centum of the Nation's gross national its most experienced and highly trained tech­ once the deficit has presumably been reduced product for the last calendar year ending nicians to private industry. to zero under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings before the beginning of such fiscal year. It is true that public service has traditionally law. What makes this amendment unique, "SEC. 3. The Congress may, by law, and demanded some financial sacrifice in ex­ however, is that it also limits Federal expendi­ subject to article I, section 7 of the Consti­ change for less tangible rewards. But these tures to no more than 19 percent of gross na­ tution, provide for suspension of the effect men and women hold some of the most im­ tional product. of sections 1 and 2 of this article for any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is portant and demanding jobs in the world, and Although that is about the level of spending in effect or whenever three-fifths of the their decisions often have permanent and dra­ we would have today if we balanced the total membership of each House shall pro­ matic effects on all of our lives. These posi­ budget without raising taxes, it isn't the only vide, by a rollcall vote, for a specific excess tions should, without question, be held by the reason the 10-percent figure was chosen. For of outlays over estimated revenues. most competent people we can find. Their 4046 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1989 compensation should match the level of re­ register with the government, disclosing sumption, not investment. The bill for that sponsibility and authority they hold. their identity, address, nationality and the consumption takes the form of an outflow Mr. Speaker, the system we devised to ad­ industry in which they have invested. of profits. Foreign investors in American dress the very sticky issue of appropriate pay Where the foreigners take over more than farms, mines, and factories gain a claim on 25% of a U.S. business, they would also have the wealth those resources will produce in for Members of Congress has failed-clearly to reveal the names and nationalities of future years. we will need to find a better way to decide on their directors and officers, the market Rep. Bryant's bill would discourage for­ the level of congressional salaries in the value of their purchases and detailed infor­ eigners from putting their money in the future. But the biggest losers in this debacle mation about their assets and their fi­ United States without altering the basic are without a doubt the senior executive and nances. economic factors that have made America judicial branch employees who were also af­ On the surface, this appears to be a simple dependent upon foreign investment. That fected by our vote to reject the Quadrennial exercise in data gathering, providing the may play well to the voters back home, but Commission's recommendations. The truth is federal government with the information it at great cost to the United States. Rather needs to gauge the impact of foreign invest­ than railing about the dangers of foreign that unless we act soon to remedy this prob­ ment in the United States. But the need for ownership of the U.S. economy, Rep. lem, the Federal Government stands to lose that data is not at all evident. The U.S. gov­ Bryant and his colleagues would do well to some of its most talented professionals, and ernment already collects extensive informa­ deal with the high budget deficit and the our ability to attract highly qualified replace­ tion on foreign investment. Advocates of ad­ low savings rate that are among its principal ments will be severely weakened. I urge my ditional reporting have failed to show why causes. colleagues to support this very important leg­ that data base is inadequate for the require­ islation. ments of federal policy-makers. Demanding that foreign investors file fi­ STATEMENT FROM THE ESTO­ nancial statements in Washington, when NIAN AMERICAN NATIONAL THE BRYANT BILL privately held U.S. investors face no such COUNCIL requirement, is blatant discrimination. Even worse is the bill's provision that information HON. BILL FRENZEL filed by individual foreign investors will be OF MINNESOTA HON. BOB McEWEN public information. In a sharp departure OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES from the government's practice of shielding Monday, March 13, 1989 the identity of individual firms when it IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gathers data for statistical purposes, infor­ Monday, March 13, 1989 Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, on March 8, mation about the transactions of individual the Journal of Commerce carried a splendid "foreign" firms would be exposed to the Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to editorial which concluded that the Bryant world. express my strong support for the people of amendment to restrict foreign investment in Under U.S. securities law, publicly held Soviet-occupied Estonia in connection with the United States, would be "destructive" to U.S. companies must disclose only informa­ the 71 st anniversary of Estonia's Declaration U.S. interests. tion that has a material impact on their of Independence on February 24. I call upon earnings. In the vast majority of cases, the The Bryant bill is being promoted as an in­ details of investments by public companies my colleagues to stand with me in recognizing nocent exercise in data collection. Not so. De­ remain confidential, and almost all similar the right for all Estonians to political, religious, manding that foreign investors file statements information concerning private firms is and economic freedom. At this time I would not required of U.S. companies is blatantly shielded from public view. like to insert into the RECORD a recent state­ discriminatory, and a violation of the very Under the Bryant bill, "foreign-owned" ment from the Estonian American National goals we are trying to achieve right now in companies, including companies with as Council and urge my colleagues to join me in international trade negotiations. little as 25% foreign ownership, would no this most noble and worthy cause on behalf of Then, making the information public, or longer enjoy that same degree of confiden­ liberty. tiality. If American-owned Amoco Oil Co. giving it to the Congress which is the same were to buy a small plant that makes an ad­ ESTONIA: POLITICAL AWARENESS AND thing, would immediately slow the flow of for­ vanced plastic, it could keep the size of its NATIONAL REAWAKENING, 1988-89 eign capital to the United States. Interest venture secret. If foreign-owned Royal 1988 was a dramatic year of demonstra­ rates would climb and small borrowers would Dutch/Shell were to build a similar facility, tions, rallies, song fests and unprecedented be frozen out. its competitors could well learn exactly how political activity in Soviet-occupied Estonia, The right way to slow foreign capital, lower much money it is putting into the project­ all of it aimed, ultimately, at the eventual interest rates, and reduce the trade balance, an extremely important piece of competitive restoration of Estonian independence. The is reduce Federal spending. The promoters of intelligence that would make it easier to world media have been filled with images of divine Shell's future plans. "the mouse that roared," as a country of the Bryant amendment apparently find such The consequence of such a regulation is one million seemed to challenge an empire rational economic policies unattractive, but obvious. Foreign investors will need to think of 300 million. oddly enough, the public seems to understand twice before putting their money into the In a true grassroots movement, Estonian them. United States and exposing their corporate demands for reform, democracy and out­ This is not the only editorial to strip the secrets to the world. right independence came directly from the sheep's clothing from the Bryant amendment, For Rep. Bryant, a strike against foreign long-suppressed Estonian people-fully one­ but it is an easily understandable one. investment may offer just the lift needed to third of the population attended a rally The Journal of Commerce article follows: run for the Senate in 1990. For the United September 17, while 900,000 signed a peti­ States, however, few actions could be more tion opposing proposed Soviet Constitution­ [From the Journal of Commerce, Mar. 8, destructive. al changes as undemocratic and harmful to 1989] The growth of foreign direct investment Estonian interests. National and local-level THE BRYANT BILL in the United States has less to do with the groups and organizations, representative of Foreign takeovers are preoccupying Con­ evil designs of foreigners than with Ameri­ a variety of approaches but united in their gress again. Within the next few days, the ca's inability to set its economic house in final objective, continue to form. House of Representatives faces a vote allow­ order. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the Estonians were brought to this level of ac­ ing members to express their outrage about U.S. government has consistently run tivity by a growing awareness that their the "wave" of foreign investment swamping budget deficits of unprecedented magni­ very survival as a people is threatened by the American economy. The legislation tude. At the same time, the savings rate has the continued Soviet occupation and coloni­ before them will not only discourage foreign hit record lows. With Americans' private zation of their homeland. Kept keenly investment, but will give American compa­ savings inadequate to finance the govern­ aware-by the presence of 150,000 Soviet nies one more way to use the U.S. govern­ ment's needs and private-sector investment troops-that they live in an nation under oc­ ment to attack foreign competitors. demand as well, foreign money has been re­ cupation, Estonians yearn once again to be The bill, by Rep. John Bryant, D-Texas, is quired to make up the difference. masters in their own home, to control their being promoted as an innocent way to im­ To the extent that that foreign money own economy and natural resources, to prove data collection about the scope of for­ represents an increase in the productive decide their own internal affairs, their own eign investment in the United States. For­ base of the United States, Americans will be destiny. At its founding ceremonies August eigners who buy more than 5% of a U.S. better off in future years. But a large share 20, 1988, the Estonian National Independ­ company or U.S. real estate would have to of those foreign funds have financed con- ence Party declared: "We do not have March 13, 1989 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4047 enough clean air, water or earth to sustain uation of Soviet forces from Afghanistan. A The Service is continuing to devote signifi­ life, let alone freedom ... Add to that the milti-lateral international agreement on the cant examination resources to media evan­ danger of becoming a minority in our own evacuation of Soviet forces from Estonia, gelist cases, particularly the six examina­ ancient land." Latvia and Lithuania must be based on the tion projects involving prominent television As a possible indicator of things to come, condition that independence be restored to evangelists described in our report to you the Soviet press has been villifying Estonia those states. The resulting neutral Baltic dated December 5, 1988. The degree of coop­ for months, to the point that the Estonian states, independent of any power-bloc, could eration received by. the Service varies from Popular Front has sued TASS for slander. play a valuable and positive role in the col­ case to case and, in one case involving a However, while well aware of the ever­ lective security of Europe. prominent evangelist, the Service has present potential for a Soviet crack-down or of a violent backlash led by the Russian reached agreement on Federal tax issues for chauvinist organization "International REPORT FROM THE INTERNAL the years 1980 through 1983, including pay­ ment of substantial Federal income tax, in­ Front," Estonians still push peacefully for REVENUE SERVICE ON EXAMI­ further reforms and democratization. terest, and penalties. In a second case, how­ NATION AND COMPLIANCE AC­ ever, the Service has had to resort to sum­ Counting on continued moral and real sup­ TIVITIES IN THE AREA OF port from the free world, Estonians are pro­ mons enforcement to obtain production of ceeding with careful, measured steps to TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS books and records of the sort that have move away from Moscow's control and INVOLVED IN TELEVISION MIN­ been voluntarily provided by other evangel­ toward true sovereignty. ISTRIES ists. That summons enforcement action in­ The goals of free Estonians and of the volves a request for corporate minutes of international Estonian the Freedom Council and the National Free­ remain: HON. J.J. PICKLE dom Institute and was filed in U.S. District 1. That the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact OF TEXAS Court in Norfolk, Virginia, on February 13, along with its secret protocols be declared IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1989. We anticipate that several other cases null and void from the moment of its incep­ involving prominent media evangelists will Monday, March 13, 1989 tion. move to the final stages of the examination 2. That Estonian-Soviet relations be gov­ Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, the Committee on process this year. We also anticipate that erned by the 1920 Peace Treaty of Tartu, in Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Over­ some of these cases will present serious which the USSR promised to respect Esto­ sight, which I chair, held a hearing in October issues relating to continued Federal income nian sovereignty "forever". tax exemption. 3. That all Soviet troops, militia and para­ 1987 to examine the Federal tax rules applica­ military forces be withdrawn from Estonian ble to tax-exempt organizations involved in tel­ We have enclosed an updated chart of soil. evision ministries. In followup to that hearing, I media evangelist cases that were open 4. That the existing Soviet colonial admin­ requested that the Internal Revenue Service during the fourth quarter of 1988. Cases re­ istration and bureaucracy in Estonia be dis­ [IRS] provide quarterly status reports on ex­ ported as closed on the earlier chart in our mantled. December 5, 1988 report have been dropped amination and collection actions involving tele­ from this updated chart. We will continue 5. That reparations be paid to the Esto­ vision ministries. I would like to share with my nian people and to all individuals and fami­ to provide you with additional reports on a lies who have suffered directly or indirectly colleagues the report which summarizes IRS's quarterly basis. as a result of Soviet-German collusion, inva­ examination and collection activity in this area Sincerely, sions and occupations of Estonia since 1939. during the last quarter of 1988. ROBERT I. BRAUER. 6. That democratic elections be conducted, The IRS reported on the 23 cases which Enclosure. initially under international supervision. were in progress from October through De­ 7. That, as a former member of the cember 1988. In one case involving a promi­ EXAMINATIONS OF MEDIA EVANGELISTS AND -RELATED League of Nations, Estonia be admitted to nent evangelist, the Service has reached ORGANIZATIONS United Nations membership and reinstated agreement on Federal tax issues for the years into all other international organizations, [Status as of Dec_ 31 , 1988] conferences and institutions to which Esto­ 1980 through 1983, including the payment of nia belonged. Federal income tax, interest and penalties in Taxpayer Issue Status In Moscow on November 17, 1988, the Es­ excess of $1 million. Issues examined in this tonian National Independence Party pre­ case included inurement, private benefit and ...... Unreported income The Criminal Investigation Divi sion began sented to members of the U.S. CSCE (Hel­ unreported income. Investigation of these (reported income an information gathering project in not commensurate March 1987 based on an informant's sinki) Commission a "Memorandum Con­ issues involved the review of compensation with life style ). letter. The project has been complet­ cerning the Situation in Estonia". This doc­ and benefits, housing and transportation pro­ ed and the ca se has been referred to ument concludes: the Department of Justice for grand vided by the organization. jury action and accepted by_ The time is ripe to begin to discuss the Further, the Service reported that they ...... Unreported income and The examination began in September restoration of Estonian independence in employment taxes. 1985 after the minister fa iled to file much more concrete terms. It is our desire, expect several other cases involving promi­ Forms 1040, 940, and 941. The nent television ministers will move to the final Collection Division has secured em­ that the developments in the Baltic states ployment tax return s and taxes due. be taken into the orbit of the key issues con­ stages of examination this year. The Service If individual returns are not voluntari- cerning the and anticipates that some of these cases will ~x1~~ati~~e i~~i o~il~r~i;:ife[~~si~ Government and that there be a deeper and present serious issues relating to continuation gation Divi sion _ sincere understanding and appreciation of of the organization's Federal tax exemption...... Unreported income on Examination of individual resulted in the efforts of Estonians, Latvians and Lith­ Form 1040; false referral to Criminal Investigation Divi­ The full report from Robert I. Brauer, Assist­ statements on return . sion _ The ca se wa s subsequently re­ uanians as they strive to restore their na­ ant Commissioner (Employee Plans and ferred to the Department of Justice tional independence. for prosecution _ Information was filed A practical step would be the placement of Exempt Organizations), Internal Revenue in U.S District Court in October Service, follows: 1988. impartial UN observers into the Baltic ...... Political activities, The examination was begun with an states to ensure a peaceful transition to de­ DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, commercial activity, affiliated organization _ Agents are on­ mocracy. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, inurement, site interviewing third parties as well unreported income. as members of the organization 's An international conference should be or­ Washington, D.C., March 8, 1989. executive staff_ The agents have re- ganized within the framework of the Con­ Hon. J.J. PICKLE, viewed the program content of the ference on Security and Cooperation in Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight, TV broadcasts and are discussi ng their findings with the organization, Europe to discuss the problems and aspira­ Committee on Ways and Means, House as well as activities that may have tions of the Baltic states (with representa­ of Representatives, Longworth House been conducted primarily for political tives of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Office Building, Washington, D. C. purposes. The estimated completion date for the examination phase is independence movements invited to attend). DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: This constitutes the June 1989. We propose that discussions be initiated publicly disclosable report on Internal Reve­ ...... Unreported income ...... The Forms 1040 for 1978-84 were concerning a problem of key importance, nue Service actions involving media evangel­ examined and "church " income was namely the removal of Soviet occupation determined to be personal income. ists during .the fourth quarter of 1988. More The case is currently in the Collection forces from Baltic territory. These discus­ recent information is included where appro­ Division and collection activity is in sions should be an integral part of all arms priate. Information, the public disclosure of progress. The estimated completion reduction talks in Europe and a logical ex­ which is precluded by IRC 6103, will be pro­ date is March 1989. tension of talks in connection with the evac- vided under separate cover. 4048 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1989 EXAMINATIONS OF MEDIA EVANGELISTS AND RELATED EXAMINATIONS OF MEDIA EVANGELISTS AND RELATED technologies, and new American entrepre­ ORGANIZATIONS-Continued ORGANIZATIONS-Continued neurs. If we choose to discourage foreign in­ vestment, which H.R. 5 would do, then we [Status as of Dec. 31 , 1988] [Status as of Dec. 31 , 1988] would be choosing to forgo these benefits. Do

Taxpayer Issue Status Taxpayer l ss ~e Status we want to do that? I don't think so. I urge my colleagues to defeat H.R. 5 when it comes to 6...... Failure to pay taxes...... Forms 941 were filed for 3 quarters but 17 ...... lnurement. unreported The EP / EO Division has determined that a vote. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. no employment tax payments were income. an examination should be conducted made. The organization paid the out­ as a result of an information gather­ [From the Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, standing interest and has requested ing project. The case will be assigned 1989] abatement of penalties. The estimated to an agent when personnel become closing date is March 1989. The available. PATIENT MONEY-UNITED STATES FIRMS FIND penalties issue is presently under 18 ...... tnurement... The EP / EO Division has initiated an ASIAN INVESTORS ARE WILLING TO WAIT FOR consideration in the Appeals Divison. information gathering project as a 7 ...... Failure to pay Forms 941 were filed but no payments result of a referral from the Criminal RETURNS employment taxes. were made. The taxpayer is now Investigation Division. Since it is still (By Marj Charlier) current in payments and has ar- in the information gathering process we are unable to provide an estimat­ There is money, and there is patient b~~~4ax:s . ~~~m;~t\m:i~eec~~n~letifg~ ed completion date. money. If you are an entrepreneur starting date is March 1989. 19 ...... lnurement. private Closing agreement on the years 8007 ...... Political activity, The cases have been assigned to an benefit, unreported through 8307 has been reached. Sub­ a business or trying to make it grow, patient lobbying, inurement. agent who contacted the taxpayer in income. sequent years will be examined. money is better-and the best place to look June, 1988. The Form 990-T of an 20 ...... lnurement; private Examination of Form 1040 initiated as a for it now is across the Pacific. affiliated entity has been selected as benefit ; allocation of TCMP selection. Issues involve use of part of the EO TCMP program and expenses. "church " assets by the minister. The Tu Chen, chairman of Komag Inc., a Mil­ will be worked accordingly. The case has been closed with the report­ pitas, Calif., maker of high-quality hard agents are collecting additional infer· ing of additional income on the min­ disks for computers, is one of a growing mation on nonexempt activities. Due ister's tax return. to the expected complexity of the 21. . .. Nonpayment of After making a series of payments number of stateside entrepreneurs who case the estimated closing date is corporate income toward tax liability on Forms 941 and have been mining the heaps of patient December 1989. An examination team taxes. 1120, the organization ceased all money piled up in Japan. Mr. Chen, an of exempt organizations agents, further contact with collection person­ income tax agents, and a computer nel. Collection activity is in progress. American citizen, founded the company in audit specialist ha s been assembled. Subsequently, the taxpayer reduced 1983 with an initial boost from domestic .. . Unreported income ...... The examination of the Form 1040 was its out standing balance substantially. venture capital, but since then he has relied begun in December 1985 as a result Contact has resumed. The estimated increasingly on the Japanese. He's not of computer scoring. The organiza­ completion date is March 1989. tion 's funds were transferred to a 22 ...... Nonpayment of This case was initiated as a result of sorry. second organization for the benefit of employment and nonpayment of taxes due on Form Last year Komag, suffering growth pains, the minister. The case has been income taxes; fraud 941. It is currently in Collection but didn't improve earnings from the second forwarded to the Appeals Division. potential, both a referral to Examination Division is 10...... Employment tax ...... The Collection Divison is attempting to individual and pending and informal contact has quarter to the third. Expecting stair-step secure delinquent Forms 941. The corporate. been made with the Criminal Investi­ growth in profits, a lot of U.S. stockholders gation Division. Collection activity is

MEETINGS SCHEDULED 4:30 p.m. 413, Financial Institutions Reform, Armed Services Recovery, and Enforcement Act. MARCH 15 To continue hearings to review the rec­ SD-538 ommendations for closure of certain Foreign Relations 9:00 a.m. military bases. To hold hearings to review the interna­ Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry SR-222 tional environmental agenda for the Agricultural Research, and General Legis­ lOlst Congress. lation Subcommittee 9:00 a.m. SD-419 To hold hearings on no-till conservation Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Labor and Human Resources tillage technology. International Finance and Monetary Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism SR-328A Policy Subcommittee Subcommittee Commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold hearings to review proposals on Third World debt. To hold hearings on health effects of Communications Subcommittee pesticide use on children. To hold hearings on the proposed Fair­ SD-226 Veterans' Affairs SD-430 ness in Broadcasting Act of 1989. 2:00 p.m. SR-253 To hear and consider the nomination of Anthony J. Principi, of California, to Appropriations 9:30 a.m. be Deputy Secretary of Veterans' Af­ Foreign Operations Subcommittee Appropriations fairs. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Foreign Operations Subcommittee SR-418 timates for fiscal year 1990 for devel­ To hold hearings to review U.S. foreign 9:30 a.m. opment assistance programs. assistance programs. Commerce, Science, and Transportation SD-138 SD-138 Science, Technology, and Space Subcom­ Armed Ser.vices Budget mittee Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence To continue hearings in preparation for To resume hearings to review the Presi­ Subcommittee reporting the first concurrent resolu­ dent's proposed budget request for To resume hearings on environmental tion on the fiscal year 1990 budget, fo­ fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Na­ priorities for U.S. nuclear weapons fa­ cusing on energy and related issues. tional Aeronautics and Space Adminis­ cilities. SD-608 tration, focusing on space station pro- SR-222 Energy and Natural Resources grams. Foreign Relations Business meeting, to resume consider­ SR-253 Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Af­ ation of S. 406, to establish and imple­ Veterans' Affairs ment a competitive oil and gas leasing fairs Subcommittee To hold oversight hearings on veterans' To hold hearings on democracy and debt program for the Coastal Plain of the health care issues. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Venezuela. SR-418 SD-419