2260 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975 to the locating and relocating of Federal in­ By Mr. HALEY: Lafi Alisa. Toelupe; to the Committee on the stallations and facUlties; to the Committee H.R. 2774. A blll for the relief of Charles Judiciary. on Rules. A. Pfleiderer; to the Committee on the Judi­ H.R. 2779. A blll for the relief of Yun Tim ciary. Yim and Amy Chee Yim; to the Committee By Mrs. KEYS: on the Judiciary. H.R. 2775. A biD for the rellef of Rev. Ernest ByMr.SISK: PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS E. Thompson; to the Committee on the Judi­ H.R. 2780. A bill for the relief of Benjamin ciary. Baxter; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Under clause 1 of rule xxn, private By Mr. LEGGETT: H.R. 2781. A blll for the relief of Masonic bills and resolutions were introduced and H.R. 2776. A bill for the relief of Candido Homes of California, a nonprofit corpora­ tion; to the Committee on Agriculture. severally referred as follows: ~adua; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. ANNUNZIO: H.R. 2777. A bill for the relief of Michael H.R. 2782. A blll to provide for the rein­ H .R. 2773. A blll for the relief of Modern statement and validation of U.S. oil and gas Catalan; to the Committee on the Judiciary. lease No. U-0140571, and for other purposes; Life and Accident Insurance Co. of Chicago; By Mrs. MINK: to the Committee on Interior and Insular to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2778. A bill for the relief of Ralph Affairs.

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THE CRISIS IN ASTRONAUTICS At first glance, 1975 is a bright ye-ar for plex congressional budget process, and the science of astronautics. Presidential election politics. With Apollo-Soyuz, we will see this sum­ Enough of the symptoms of pessimism! I HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE mer the first t:.,lly joint venture in space by am sure each of you can add one or more OF TEXAS men from different nations and different equally valid reasons for concern. If this be ideologies. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES crisis, let us make the most of it. A few days after ASTP, we will launch the I'll turn now to some of the considerations Monday, February 3, 1975 twin Viking spacecraft toward their historic I believe we should all have in mind as we Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, last landings on Mars in 1976. move into the second half of this decade. Pioneer 11 wlll speed toward Saturn, and For openers, let me suggest that we should Thursday, in an address to the American two Hellos spacecraft toward closeup studies more and more be viewing astronautics as a Astronautical Society, the distinguished of the Sun, while we launch small astronomy routine part of our national-indeed our in­ Senator FRANK E. Moss, delivered an im­ and Explorer satellites and continue the era ternational-life. Certainly in the area. of portant and timely message entitled, of space applications with a dozen or more space applications this is becoming the case. "The Crisis in Astronautics." As newly .new communications, weather and earth We barely note that every month or so a appointed Chairman of the O:tllce of resources satellites, whether they be "ERTS" domestic or international communication Technology Assessment, I intend to lend or "La.ndsats". Especially in non-NASA com­ satellite, a new low-earth orbit or synchro­ my support to Senator Moss' request for munications satellites, we are witnessing a nous orbit operational weather satellite or veritable explosion of activity, and isn't ATB- remote sensing resource satellite is launched. providing the Congress the best tools in 6 a great success! - Commercial and foreign-built satellites are helping to decide the hard choices be­ And here on Earth, the space shuttle pro­ becoming quite common. Indeed, during one tween competing request6 for research gram will be in high gear. We are flna.Uy recent month NASA had six satellites in proc­ and development funds. I commend this actually buUding, in plants across this coun­ ess at the Cape for launch, not one of them speech to all my colleagues: try and in Europe, the elements of the first a. NASA bird. THE CRISIS IN AsTRONAUTICS space transportation system. Someone noted a few years ago that not too long after Lindbergh's flight the French (By senator FRANK E. Moss) Heady stuff I But here, at the risk of sounding like stopped flocking to Le Bourget every time It is a great pleasure to meet with you at Chicken Little, I'll list some of the dark someone flew across the Atlantic. Even in the AAB annual luncheon and to have this clouds that come with these silver linings. this room full of space buffs, I doubt if many opportunity to share a few thoughts with I give you this list, not in ascending or de· of you could name the nine Skylab crewmen. you. scending order of gloom, but simply as the So perhaps we should not be too upset when You have honored me twice in recent facts come to mind. the networks decline to cover a splashdown. months-by inviting me to be with you to­ First. After ASTP comes the long-foreseen And while I am on this point I certainly day and by electing me to your Board of four to five year hiatus in American-manned should note that once the space shuttle has Directors. I must acknowledge that I was space flight. Public interest in the space made its first few flights, another shuttle unopposed on your ballot, a situation that I program has traditionally dropped during flight will probably generate about as much have seldom experienced and that I find such periods. interest as the sa111ng of a. large ship from quite enjoyable. I wish it could become habit­ Second. For the sixth consecutive fiscal New York or San Francisco. forming. year, the Administration budget request for Of course, I would not want to suggest that In thinking over what I might discuss with NASA totals $3.5 billion or less. With infla­ we settle permanently for NASA budgets of you today, I decided first-off to include the tion gnawing away at NASA just as it is at $3.5 billion, but perhaps the relatively level word "crisis" in the title. Unless you are the rest of us, we have now sunk well more nature of the budget over these past six years talking about a "crisis" these days, no one than a half bUlion dollars below the prom­ can be viewed as one indicia of acceptance. Will pay much attention to you. ised "constant level" budget. And this year I happen to believe that Congress would Historians will have to choose whether to there are no new starts I accept a bit more, but let us be thankful call the 1960's the decade of Apollo, of Viet­ Third. Although those of us who believe that, despite the repeated rumors, the budget nam, or of political assassination. But I have in research and development as the key to a has.not continued to decline. little doubt that they will settle on the better tomorrow welcome the cre-ation of Now, if we view the current budget levels, 1970's as "The Decade of Crises". ERDA, we must face the likelihood that in­ or only modestly higher levels, as the norm Thus we are all aware of crises in· the creasing demands for energy research and for the next few years, perhaps we will view environment, crises in energy supply an4 de­ development will represent increasing com­ our options for the near-term future in a dif­ mand, and of a worldwide crisis of faith in petition for the astronautics research and ferent way. various institutions, especially political in• development dollar. Perhaps we will begin to devote serious at­ stitutions. National Commissions warn us of Fourth. The space shuttle requirement for tention to how we can capitalize on the ad­ impending crises in food, in water and in over a billion dollars per ye-ar for each of vantages of the space shuttle in the 1980's. As materials generally. Scientists increasingly the next few years w1l1 leave precious little we move into the shuttle era, there will be are sounding alarms over the apparently de­ room in the NASA budget for meaningful little patience with science and applications teriorating world climate. And now, as my new starts. NASA and its contractors have payload advocates who aren't ready. Committee heard yesterday, we face the possi­ shown great ingenuity in recent years in fly­ The great inventor, Fulton, is supposed to bility that our ozone supply will end, not ing backup ha.rdware, and in using the "bil­ have said "when it's steamboat time, you With a bang, but with the "psst" of Freon liard ball" approach to planetary flybys to steam!" Whether or not Fulton really said from a can of hair spray. give us the maximum science for the dollar. it, I fully expect NASA to say to the payload And so my subject: "The Crisis in Astro­ But there 1s a limit to the amount of prog­ community, "when it's shuttle time, you nautics". ress that can be made unless, the Space shuttle!" Let me begin by assuring you that my re­ Science Board has pointed out, a new start Such an attitude, it seems to me, would marks wUl dwell only briefly on the sad symp­ "wedge" can be created soon. have the dual benefits of removing the high toms of the crisis. I will devote most of my - Fifth, and finally. Astronautics budgets cost burdens of other launch systems from our astronautics budgets sooner, but also of thoughts to suggested solutions !or the over the next two years face the substantial uncertainties of greatly changed congres­ fostering timely and realistic action toward future. reducing the costs of payloads themselves. ., But first, let's deal with the present. sional membership, a new, untried and com- February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2261 ·Stated di1rerently, when I read in the press lary equipment, is designed to be taken into must confess to having become, over the past statements by a NASA official suggesting that orbit by the shuttle and left there· untended few months, a virtual zealot in support of one existing launch system will be kept in the when the shuttle returns to earth. The continuing and expanding the ERTS pro­ inventory through 19'85 bec.a.use of planetary shuttle revisits it for resupply and to re­ gram. I'm trying to taper off, but I haven't mission requirements, I feel that we perhaps trieve collected data. The entire instrument quite made it. I can't resist sharing with are not being as serious about either econ­ can be returned to the earth for refurbish­ you my delight at the fl.rm rumors around omy or the shuttle as we should. ment and repair, 1f necessary. In its normal town that ERTS-C, or Landsat 3 is now in Let me turn now to a different, but closely mode, however, the LST can be thought of the NASA budget. Let's work together, at related, topic, and one that I find exciting. as an embryonic space station. Perhaps 1~ least as moderate zealots, to keep it there, The year of Apollo-Soyuz should lead us to could be operated in conjunction with Space­ and to continue and expand the many other consider closely the possibilities of increased lab modules or with a Soviet space station. worthy programs. Thank you. international cooperation in astronautics. Certainly the data from the LST 1s going to Here the record is already quite good. From be of enormous interest to scientists, es­ the many hundreds of sounding rocket pecially astronomers, from all over the flights, to increasingly common launch serv­ world. LEO J. MEUSER ices agreements and to major cooperative Opportunity number three. If everything projects like Hellos, the Canadian applica­ goes well, on July 4, 1976, a strange looking tions satemte, and ASTP, NASA has had an craft called the Viking will make a soft HON. MICHAEL T. BLOUIN exceptionally successful program of interna­ landing on the surface of Mars. We don't OF IOWA tional cooperation in space flight. know yet, of course, what we will learn from The undertaking of our European friends that far-away landing, but already the in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to ·build Spacelab modules for shuttle flights terest in the scientific community 1s rising Tuesday, February 4, 1975 marks the beginning of what will hopefully and speculation about follow-on programs be a permanent large-scale cooperative effort is mounting. Sooner or later we are going to Mr. BLOUIN. Mr. Speaker, it seems in manned and unmanned space science and want to examine that Martian soil more particularly appropriate to me, at a time applications projects. But I believe we should closely. The January Issue of Astronautics when the esteem of elected officials has look beyond these successes for further op­ and Aeronautics contains two rather detailed dropped to record lows, to call attention portunities for cooperation. This is so not articles on possible post-Viking Mars explora­ to exceptions to that trend. only for the sake of cooperation itself, but tion and the return of Mars surface samples One of these exceptions, and one which for the sake of improved astronautics en­ to the earth. A roving vehicle on Mars is deavors as well. After all, cooperation offers another possibility and here the Soviets' ex­ I know from personal experience, is the very real benefits. In addition, joint ventures perience with thlr lunar rovers could be former treasurer of Dubuque County in will relieve the strain on the U.S. space quite useful. my home State of Iowa, Mr. Leo J. budget. One thing 1s certain, any such Martian Meuser. I do not offer international cooperation as mission will be expensive and it seems un­ Mr. Meuser retired ·as county treasurer a panacea. As we have learned from each of likely that any one nation-not even the on December 31 of last year, after 36 these efforts in the past, they often involve United States---could carry out a series of many roadblocks and hurdles that would not years in public office. I believe it is a such expeditions alone. So this seems like tribute to Mr. Meuser's honesty, profi­ be encountered in a purely unilateral space another area that would be ideal for an program, With these caveats in mind, let me international program o! cooperation that ciency, and dedication that he was con- ­ mention by way of example two or three would benefit all the people o! the world. tinually reelected to the office of county major long-range opportunities for mutually Before I close today, there is one other treasurer since 1938. beneficial space flight cooperation. matter that I would like to bring to your He dispatched the weighty responsi­ Number one. Let us consider a space sta­ attention. For a long time most of us inter­ bilities of his office with a degree of in­ tion. Most of you will recall that, originally, ested in the development of new technologies tegrity and efficiency which earned him in the late 1960's, NASA had hoped to make have accepted as an article o! faith that a space station its number one priority proj­ the respect of the citizens he served as money spent on advanced R&D would create well for so long. Mr. Meuser is a very ect in post-Apollo period. As the studies benefits that would eventually pay back to proceeded, it became clear that a new and society many times more than the amounts excellent example of the many thousands better way was needed to get back and forth originally expended. Another way of saying of public officeholders who disprove the to such a station, and so the idea of a space this is that R&D leads to greater produc­ cynicism and the disillusionment with shuttle evolved. tivity and the creation of greater wealth which the public views politicians and Because of budgetary constraints, it soon without inflation. As part of this faith, we public servants these days. became apparent that these two projects have believed that it was necessary for the could not be developed simultaneously, so Because Mr. Meuser's record of serv­ Nation to spend a certain portion of its in­ ice is both a source of eneouragemcn ~ NASA opted to go forward first with the more come on R&D and for the Federal govern­ basic of the two, the space shuttle. Plans for ment to shoulder the burden for the risk­ and an example to be followed by all of the space station were dropped, and no such iest portion. us in public office, I would like to include missions are even shown in the shuttle mis- · Within the last three or four years, there the following article from the January 1, sion model for 1979-91. have been some preliminary econometric 1975, edition of the Dubuque Telegraph­ But why shouldn't we revive the idea of a Herald for the review of my colleagues: space station? As I mentioned, we already studies which tend to show that these have the cooperative Spacelab program with relationships are indeed true. There are two MEUSER "CHECKS OUT'' AFI'ER 36 YEARS studies underway right now at NASA trying (By Bill Knee) the Europeans. At the moment, the Spacelab to refine the earlier studies. But none of is designed to fly up and back on the shuttle, these studies has yet given us the broader Dubuque County taxpayers and motorists relying on the shuttle for its life support and and more detailed results that would allow will have to break a 36-year-old habit be­ other systems. But it is not inconceivable us to make more rational decisions on R&D ginning tomorrow. that life support and other shuttle trans­ priorities. Checks to pay property taxes and motor ported modules could be launched in con­ I have, therefore, asked the new Office of vehicle registrations will no longer be made junction with a Spacelab so that we would Technology Assessment to look at the prob­ out to County Treasurer Leo J. Meuser. have the beginnings of a space station. lem with the hope that a comprehensive Meuser, 73, spent his last day in office at The Soviets have recently launched the study m,ight give us more confidence in .what the County Courthouse Monday. Late in the Salyut 4 and over many years have shown we had previously accepted on faith and also afternoon, the County supervisors followed an active and continuing interest in the de­ give us a better method for making the hard the annual routine of counting the cash in velopment of larger and more sophisticated choices between competing requests for R&D the treasurer's office. Not so routinely, Meuser orbiting manned spacecraft. Again, it is not funds. . turned over the keys to the treasurer's office inconceivable that the next generation of I can assure you that if the OTA is able to to County Treasurer-elect Tom Breitbach, such craft would be large enough to hold develop a useful methodology in this area, it Meuser's successor and the county's first new several people and remain in orbit indefinite­ will be of enormous benefit to ·the Commit­ treasurer in 36 years. ly. Perhaps a logical long-term follow-on to tee. and to the Congress in the annual re­ A short office party was held at the end of the ASTP program would be a joint program quirement to authorize and appropriate the day to commemorate the occasion: Coke, with the Soviets whereby they would furnish money for R&D projects. coffee and a cake inscribed "Best wishes and the space station and we would help resupply I am· confident---Qr else I would not have appreciation Leo". their station with provisions and scientific asked for the study-that we will be able to . Everyone sang, "For he's a jolly good fel~ personnel. place our requests for an adequate space pro­ low." Meuser's eyes got wet more than once. Opportunity number two. NASA is now in gram on a sounder and more se9ure basis, and Memories . . . Recollections . • . the preliminary stages of designing a large thus avoid a continuing crisis in astronautics. It was_ back in the spring of 1938 that space telescope, the LST. As you know, One final word-a ·postscript--! have talked Meuser aspired to the county treasurer's job. this instrument will operate above ·the He entered the Democratic primary, running for longer than usual without mentioning against ·incumbent Treasurer Frank J. Hick­ eal"th's interfering atmosphere and give us the ERTS program except in a passing way. son. our first · really· good unrestricted look at There is an old political adage that poll­ the universe. This instrument, and its anc1l- Meuser's father had been hit hard ·by the ticians should avoid becoming zealots. I depression, and: the position in the family 2262 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS . February 4, 19'115 business the.t Meuser had been groomed to ..If there's been any success in the office, the car for employment and communlce.tlon. fill was no longer there. lt wasn't due to mJ&<, lt was due to the But designing a system of rebates and al~ Meuser won tha.t election 7,186 to 6,693. He good help," Meuser salcl. lowances for essential automobile uses would still has the newspaper clipping showing a He paused, then &deled: "They had a prett7 be far les8 complicated than any attempt to· precinct breakdown of the vote. good overseel', though... compensate for the gross infiationary damage "I've been here 36 years, about halt my from across-the-board petroleum increases. life," Meuser said in an interview. "My dad The social and economic judgment that came down after I'd been in office about siX underlies President Ford's abhorrence of ·a months. He took me aside and said, 'You take THE CASE FOR A GASOLINE TAX gasoline tax centers on an ex-aggerated pride care of this place, and they might give you of place which he assigns to the automobile two or three terms.' " industry. However, the unpalatable fact iS The two or three terms stretched into 36 HON. DONALD M. FRASER that the directions pursued in car design years, as no opponent of either political party OF MINNESOTA and marketing over the past decade and the showed to run against Meuser in subsequent infrastructure of highways and community elections. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES development· that this trend has promoted At first, the public had trouble wi,th its Tuesday February 4 1975 have distorted the economic growth an.d . new treasurer's name. It's pronounced MOY­ · • • social well-being of the nation. zer. Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker. if there One current example is the impact on em· "People still have trouble pronouncing it, must be an increase in the cost of petro- ployment and energy consumption from although not nearly as much as at first," leum, higher prices should be imposed on . highway construction, so long the symbol of Me'user said. "It was everything from mouser, gasoline alone, through an additional ex- . this country's auto-based economy. In are· mewser, miser to a few other ways." cise tax. cent issue of Science magaZine, two research- The years passed. People stopped writing An editorial in yesterday's New York ers calculated the difference between spend­ Hickson's name on checks sent to the ing $5 blllion on construction of new high- county treasurer's office. Times points out that- ways or investing the sa.me amount in rail- In Meuser's first year in office, $2.9 million The fatal flaw in the Administration's roads and other ·mass transit facUlties. The passed through his hands; in 1973, he han­ argument against a gasoline tax is the as- energy consumed in the construction work dled $31.6 million. The 36-year total comes sumptton that all uses of petroleum are alone would be 62 per cent less for railroads close to $1 bllllon. equal-equally necessary or equally waste- than for highways; such a shift in priorities, Back in 1939, there were about 12,000 or ful, equally desirable for social or economic moreover, would provide more than 8,000 ad· 13,000 automobile registrations in Dubuque health. ditional jobs. County. Last year there were more than ~~- th h t Leaders of the automobile industry recog- 40,000. Inconvenient and u.uucult oug i nize the need for new direottons. Chrysler Meuser said two county bond issues may be, it will be possible to reduce gas- has begun a long-term restructuring that bracketed his tenure. In 1939, $45,000 in oline use with less real hardship than cuts capital overhead by one-third and pro­ bonds were sold to meet heavy demands on to cut consumption of heating oil or in- jects sales in the range of 6 millton cars the county poor fund. In 1973, $490,000 dustrial fuel. every year instead of 8.8 million sold in 1974. ln bonds were sold to finance the county's The editorial follows: General Motors has announced a four-year share of the new County-City Law Enforce­ TAXING GASOLINE AND AUTOS research program, costing $3 billion, to make ment Center. its models smaller · and lighter. During ail those years, there never was a The fatal flaw ln the Administration's such steps· are but a beginning. Dr. Ed· hint of irregularity. . arguments against a gasoline tax is the as- ward· Teller, who knows something about ad· · Once, the state auditor criticized the · sumption that all uses of petroleum are · vanced technolOgy, believes :that "excep-t for colinty for not investing idle funds promptly. equal-equally necessary or equally wasteful, . the mental inertia 111. Detroit, we could have A front-page story in the Telegraph Herald equally desirable for social or ·economic a fifty-mile-per-gallon car in perhaps as Nov. 11, 1966, reported a loss of $80,000 in health. Thus, President Ford insists on a short a time as three years." Another critic unearned interest. The figure was a typo­ tariff on all crude on ·imports rather than of the automobile industry, Donald . E. grapical error; it was corrected to $8,025 in a higher excise tax on gasoline alone. _ weoo,en, president of the City Club of New the next edition. The story was clarified Yet, essel!tial -though automobile trans· York; ~ has even proposed "massive govern­ further by Meuser's explanation that $4,500 port has become in most parts of the coun- ment a.td to Detroit to produce twenty mil· had indeed been earned in 1965, but hadn't try, many American famllies have already lion compact cars a year in order to get us shown up as receipts yet. found that the gasoline to power inefficient out from under our existing inefficient fleet." Meuser never took a vacation. His longest cars, one driver at a time, over short urban A tax on horsepower or automobUe weight absence from work occurred last winter, when and suburban distances is far easier to spare would be a logical complement to a tax on he was sick for a few months. That illness in their energy budget than, say, the fuel gasoline; the goal is not to penalize motor­ convinced him not to run for reelection. to provide basic 68·degree heat tn the home. ists, but to reward efficient design and use However, Meuser did leave Dubuque briefly On average, American motorists drove of cars. every four years to attend the national con­ about 300 mlles less per car last year as a re- No energy policy that alms to protect the \'entions of the Catholic Order of Foresters, suit of the higher cost of gasoline forced status quo of the automobile industry by an organization he has belonged to since he by foreign oil producers' price increases. This preserving the relative cheapness of gaso­ was 18. is an indication ot the elasticity lD raso- line can make more than a dent in the prof­ For 39 years Meuser was the chief ranger line--optional consumption that falls off as ligacy of this country's energy consump- (president) of one of Dubuque's five Catholic the price rises. tion. Order of Foresters courts. He was chief ranger Nor is it necessarily fairer, as the Admin- The undoubted hardships of a gasoline tax of Iowa foresters for 20 years. And since 1960, istration contends, to spread out the costs can only be measured against the alternative Meuser has be~n one of the national orga­ of conserving energy across all petroleum hardships foreshadowed by President Ford's nization's 15 trustees. users-which, one way or another, means tariff plan; these are becoming more ex­ Meuser's retirement plans call for an even­ everyone. It is stirely fairer to let each Amer- tensive with each new economic analysis by tual part-time job. In the meantime, how­ lean motorist make the decision for himSelf the government itself. For the longer term, ever, he said he would work for the Catholic how much to drive, rather than to force every automobile and gasoline taxes would pro­ Order of Foresters to increase the group's consumer to pay the higher costs passed mote the necesary trend of American life membership. along by ut111ties, industries and everyone away from the extravagances of the unfet· Meuser will continue to live in Dubuque else who uses petroleum in the production tered automotive economy. with his sister at the Stanton Street apart­ process. ment he moved into a year ago after selling The ·fourfold. price increase that has al­ the last family home at 2499 Central Ave. ready occurred in crude oil has forced gaso- He never married. "I played hard to get, line prices up about 37 per cent, but far higher percentages hit other fuel prices; LAWSUIT TO ENJOIN FURTHER U.S. but I overdid it," laughed Meuser. Then, MILITARY PARTICIPATION IN more seriously: "The real reason was that my diesel fuel went up 49 per cent, home heat­ mother was sick half of her life, and my ing oU 66 per cent, aviation fuel 100 per CAMBODIA sister had to take care of her. I had to take cent and residual fuel oil, used in industry care of the family financially after my father and electric utilities a Sltaggering 143 per HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN died. . .. Just circumstances." cent. Where is the equity, therefore, in "spar­ OF MASSACHUSETTS Looking back over 36 years in the county ing" motorists the burdens of a sizable in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES treasurer's office, Meuser said he was fortu­ crease in the cost of a gallon of gasoline in nate to have had a good staff: Deputy Trea­ order to spread out the burden among all Tuesday, February 4, 1975 surer Victor Brecht, 36 years with Meuser, petroleum products when these other prod­ Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, 20 members with the exception of a short break to try his ucts have already risen so much more? hand at business; Deputy Treasurer Eileen Undoubtedly, adjustment to higher gaso­ of the Congress and myself filed in the Boyce, 36 yearS also; Deputy Treasurer John line prices would create hardships, particu­ U.S. District Court for the District of Manders, 25 years; Chief Clerk Pat Powell, larly at the start and in localities where Massachusetts on January 31, 1975, a about 22 years, and many more. there may-now be no practical alternative .to lawsuit which would seek a preliminary February 4~ - 1975 . EXTENSIONS OF ),t£~S 2263 injunction to halt further U.S, military congressional District of Massachusetts, re• tiff Lowry sues on his . own behalf and on operationS ·in Cambodia. The suit has sidilig at 1812 Columbia Road, South Boston, behalf of all tho8e 'similarly situated. been brought against President Gerald Massachusetts. Defendants - 6. The above-named plaintiffs, all Mem­ R. Ford and other high ranking officials. bers· of the House of Representatives from 9. Defendant Gerald R. Ford is the Presi­ For the benefit of my colleagues, Mr. the District of Massachusetts, are joined in dent of the United States and Commander Speaker, I would like to bring to their thls action by the following duly elected in Chief of the Armed Forces, and In these attention the first half of the complaint Members of Congress from across the Nation: capacities, it is his duty "to take care that which was filed last Friday in Boston: Bella S. Abzug, representing the Twentieth the laws be faithfully executed" and he is Congressional District of New. York; responsible for all the actions of all the de­ [United States District Court for the District fendants and their agents. of Massachusetts] Herman Badillo, representing the Twenty­ first Congressional District of New York; 10. Defendant James R. Schlesinger is the VERIFIED COMPLAINT George E . . Brown, Jr., representing the Secretary of Defense and is the official re­ Robert F. Drinan, Michael J. Harrington, Thirty-eighth Congressional District of Cali­ sponsible for the conduct of the Armed John Joseph Moakley, Bella S. Abzug, Her­ fornia; Forces of the United States. man Badillo, George E. Brown, Jr., Yvonne Yvonne B. Burke, representing the Thirty­ 11. Defendant John L. McLucas is the B. Burke, Bob Carr, Ronald V. Dellums, Don seventh Congressional District of California; Secretary of the Air Force and, in that capac­ Edwards, Donald M. Fraser, Ken Hechler, Bob Carr, representing the Sixth COngres­ ity, is the civilian official directly responsi­ Henry Helstoski, George Miller, Richard L. sional District of Michigan; ble for and in control of the operations Ottinger, Frederick W. Richmond, Benjamin Ronald V. Dellums, representing the being conducted by the United States Air S. Rosenthal, Edward R. Roybal, John F. Seventh Congressional District of California; Force in Southeast Asia. Seiberling, Fortney H. Stark, Henry A. Wax­ Don Edwards, representing the Ninth 12.- Defendant Henry A. Kissinger is the man, and David E. Lowry, on his own behalf, Congressional District of California; Secretary of State, and in that capacity is and on behalf of all others similarly situ­ Donald M. Fraser, representing the Fifth responsible for the conduct of the foreign ated, Plaintiffs, v. Gerald R. Ford, individu­ Congressional District of Minnesota; affairs of the Nation, and the operations of . ally and in his capacity as President of the Ken Hechler, representing the Fourth Con­ the foreign service. United States; James R. Schlesinger, indi­ gressional District of West Virginia; 13. Defendant John Gunther Dean is the vid.ualiy and iii his capacity as Secretary of Henry Helstoski, representing the Ninth United States Ambassador to Cambodia, and Defense; ·John L. McLucas, individually and Congressional District of New Jersey; in that capacity is responsible for the ex­ in'his capacity as Secretary of the Air Force; George Miller, representing the Seventh ecution of United States policy toward Cam­ Henry A. Kissinger, individually and in his Congressional District of California; bodia and for the_ conduct of all official capacity as Secretary of State, and John Richard L. Ottinger, representing the United States personnel in Cambodia. Gunther Dean, individually and in his ca­ Twenty-fourth Congressional District of New 14. Defendant Willi8m F. COlby is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency p~fty as United States Ambassador to Cam­ York; - bOdia; William L : Colby, individually and in Frederick W. Richmond, representing the and in that capacity is responsible for tbe his capacity as Director of the Central In­ Fourteenth COngressional District of New conduct of all CIA personnel in and with respect to Cambodia. telligence Agency, Defendants York; IV. CLASS ACTION ALLEGATIONS I. NATURE OF THE ACTION Benjamin S. Rosenthal, representing the Eighth Congressional District of New York; 15. Plaintiff David E. Lowry sues pursuant 1 . . Plaintiffs seek a preliminary and per­ Edward R. Roybal, representing the to Rule 23(a) and (b) (2), on his own be­ manent injunction restraining defendants Thirtieth Congr:ession.al D1strict of Cali­ half and on behalf of all other members of from carrying on military and paramilitary fornia;· the United States service similarly situated, activities in, over, off the shores of and re­ John F. Seiberling, representing the Four­ who, by virtue of the continued and escalat­ specting Cambodia and from furnishing ad­ teenth Congressional District of Ohio; ing involvement of the United States in the vice, support, training and intelligence to Fortney H. Stark, representing the Eighth hostilities in Cambodia are threatened with the military forces of the Lon Nol regime, Congressional District of California. being ordered to serve or assist, directly or on the grounds that such activities are in Henry A. Waxman, representing the indirectly, in the illegal and unconstitu­ violation of the mandate of Congress, the Twenty-fourth Congressional District of tional activities of the defendants respecting Constitution of the United States, the Paris California. the civil war in Cambodia, which eventuality Peace Treaty and other provisions of domes­ 7. The above-named plaintiffs, herein­ would put their life, limb, and liberty in tic and international law. Plaintiffs also seek jeopardy without due process of law and appropriate declaratory relief. after referred to as "Congressional Plaintiffs" have been deprived by defendants of their would expose them to punishment in viola­ n. JURISDICTION Constitutional and statutory right and ob­ tion of due process of law should they re­ 2. This is a civil action seeking a declata­ ligation to participate, together with other fuse to carry out such illegal and uncon­ ·tory judgment pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. Members of Congress, in deciding where stitutional orders. The class represented by § 2201 et seq., and injunctive relief, pursuant and when American forces are to be com­ the plaintitr is so numerous that joinder of to Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331(a) arid 1361, ad­ mitted to and involved in, hostilities; and all members is impracticable; there are ques­ judging that certain operations currently also where, and !or what purposes the funds tions of law and fact conmmon to the class. being conducted or planned in, over, off the of the United States Treasury are to be ap­ The claims or defenses of the plaintiff are shores of and respecting Cambodia under the propriated. By the illegal acts of defendants typical of the claims and defenses of the direction of defendants are in violation of complained of herein, the legislation which class; the plaintiff will fairly and adequately domestic and iil.ternational· law, and re­ they enacted, together with over a majority protect the interests of the class. Defend­ straining defendants and their agents from of the Members of Congress, has been and· ants have acted on grounds generally appli­ engaging therein. Jurisdiction is conferred continues to be rendered a nullity, in whole cable to the class, thereby m.a.king appropriate upon this Court by Title 28 U.S.C. § § 1331 and/or in part. They have a right to com­ final injunctive and corresponding declara­ and '1361; Title 5 U.S.C. § § 701-706; Article I, pliance, by the executive branch, with their tory relief with respect to the class as a Section 8, Clause 11, Article I, Section 9, lawful mandate, and are entitled to a deter­ whole. Clause 7, Article I, Section 8, Clauses 12 and mination as to the illegality of defendants' V. THE INCIDENTS AT ISSUE 18, and Article I; Section 2, Clause 5 of the actions complained of herein, under their 16. On February 27, 1973, the United Constitution of the United States and the Constitutional duty to determine whether a States signed, in Paris, the Agreement on Fifth Amendment thereto. The matter in resolution of impeachment is cailed for, ·and Ending The War And Restoring Peace in controversy involves rights, privileges and also to prohibitory injunctive relief against Vietnam, (hereinafter "Paris Agreements"), immunities valued in excess of $10,000, exclu­ defendants to effectuate, as swiftly as pos­ Article 20(b) of which obliges the United sive of interest and costs. sible, their lawful mandate. . States to put an end to all military activi­ In. PARTIES 8. David E. Lowry, is a Private First Class, ties in Cambodia. Plaintiffs resides at 1550 Worcester Road, Fr~ming­ 17. Notwithstanding the Paris Agreement, ham, Massachusetts, and ~s presently serving 3. Plaintiff Robert F. Drinan is the duly a civil war has been and continues to be in the United States Marines, attached to waged in Cambodia, ·respecting ·which hos­ elected Member of the United States House the Second !'4arine Air .Wing at Cherry Point, of Representatives from the Fourth Congres­ tilities the forces · of the Lon Nol regime North Carolina. He is trained as an elec­ receive massive military- and paramilitary sional District of Massachusetts, residing at triclan to work .on aviation support equip­ 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, Massa­ assistance from the United States by and chusetts. ment. Plaintiff Lowry believes _that defend­ through the servants, agents and employees ants' activities complained of herein are il­ 4. Plaintitr Michael J. Harrington is the of the defendants. duly elected Member of the United States legal, ~hat th~y perpetuate apd cause to b~ 18. In a series of enactments both prior esca1ateq. in House of Representatives f:r:om the Sixth A~erican ~litary involyell!e~t and subsequent to February 27, 1973, the the civil war in Cambodia, and that 1! forced Congress of the United States has mani­ Congressional District of ~ssachusetts, and to 'participate directly or indirectly "thereiii, fested its unequivocal- il;ltent. to prohibit resides at Bayview Avenue, Beverly, Massa­ he may be deprived of life or liberty witncmt chusetts. the direct or. indirect Involvement of the due proce8s 'of "iaw, either-by-being ~illeUkraine by the government in Moscow; chooses to pursue. that we all have the responsibllity as Ameri­ and It is with great pride that I call to the can citizens to take pride in our work and Whereas: Americans of Ukrainian descent attention of my colleagues Scott Liard's an interest in our government. Let us work urge the Government to support the release collectively by doing our individual jobs well of all Ukrainian dissidents from Soviet winning essay, titled "My Responsibility to keep America the best place to live and imprisonment: as a Citizen": work in the world. Now, therefore, I, Kevin H. White, Mayor VOICE OF DEMOCRACY CONTEST: "MY of the City of Boston, do hereby proclaim RESPONSmiLITY AS A CITIZEN" Wednesday, January 22, 1975, "Ukrainian (By Scott Liard) Independence Day" in the City of Boston Flag I believe that when I was born, I received and direct that the Ukrainian National UKRAINIANS MARK 57TH ANNI­ be raised at City Hall Plaza to symbolize a very special gift, but so quietly and subtly VERSARY that to this day, I don't fully appreciate just Ukrainian freedom. how encompassing that gift is. I was born a. KEviN H. WHITE, citizen of the United States of America, with Mayor. all the rights, privileges and responsibllities HON. JOE MOAKLEY this status caiTies. OF ndASSAC~SETTS CITY OF BOSTON-IN CITY COUNCIL We read a. lot about all the crises facing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whereas, the Ukrainian Independence Day our country today; the food crisis, the energy in Boston will be celebra-ted on January 22, crisis, the economic crisis, the morality Tuesday, February 4, 1975 1975, commemorating the 57th Anniversary crisis, and the world crisis. To listen to a Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, on Jan­ of the proclamation of the free Ukrainian TV news commentator would Inake you uary 22, we commemorated the 57th an­ National Republic; and think that the U.S. is on the verge of col· Whereas, despite the many conflicts for lapse and that those who speak out in praise niversary of the proclamation of a free world freedom, the Ukrainian people con­ of America have closed their eyes to reality and independent Ukrainian National tinue to struggle to gain freedom and na• and are merly reciting patriotic rhetoric. But Republic. In my own district, this anni­ tiona! statehood for their beautiful land in turn off that TV set and take a hard look versary is reverently observed as a re­ the economically abundant region of the around you, not at the America someone else sult of the tireless efforts of the Ukrain­ Ukraine which is still under Communist tells you about at the America you can see control; and for yourself. Take a drive in your family car, ian Congress Committee of America. In this regard, I would like to pay spe­ Whereas, thousands of Ukrainian patriots or if you're like most American famllies-2 languish in Russian Communist prisons as a cars. You won't need special government per­ cial tribute to Mr. Konrad Husak, presi­ result of their fight for the restoration of na­ mission to travel around the country. You dent and Mr. Orest Szczudluk, vice presi­ tional and human rights in the Ukraine; and won't see masses of destitute starving people. dent of the committee. Whereas, Va.lentyn Moroz, who has become At night, you won't have to sleep in fear Mr. Szczudluk has presented me with a. symbol of Ukraine's cUITent struggle for of an enemy attack or an attempt to over• copies of the resolutions marking Jan­ national rights and liberties by enduring 145 throw the government. I admit that this uary 22 in Boston and Massachusetts and days of a. hunger strike at the Vladimir country has its share of problems, but under­ Prison outside Moscow, continues to be im­ neath it all America is as solid as a rock and I would like to place them in the RECORD prisoned for his freedom fight for the I believe the vast majority of Americana at this point: Ukraine; and share my confidence that the U.S. will en­ THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETl'S-A Whereas, the world council known as the dure as the best country to live in in the PROCLAMATION United Nations is continually ignoring the world. Whereas, January 22, 1975, marks the plight of those enslaved people of eastern I believe the strength of America lies in fifty-seventh anniversary of the proclama· Europe who were promised freedom and self­ her citizens, a. vast reservoir of different cul· . tion of free Ukmtnian National Republic as government but whose rights have been ig­ tures and faiths now bonded together by a the sovereign state of the Ukrainian people, nored; and common heritage. We are all citizens of the and Whereas, the City Council of the City of U.S.A., and as citizens we do have a respon­ Whereas, Ukrainian Americans of Massa· Boston is concerned for the relatives and sibility to our country. I don't mean to say chusetts desire to manifest their support for friends of its many American citizens of that we should all rush out and form massive the Ukrainian people to regain their free­ Ukrainian ancestry residing here in Boston; rallies, or all run for public office, or all join dom and national freedom, and now, therefore, be it the armed forces. I believe my responsibility Whereas, Americans of Ukrainian descent Resolved: That the Boston City Council as an American citizen is to take pride in my in Massachusetts wish to come to the de· appeals to our national leaders to press the work and keep an interest in my government. fense of Ukrainian intellectuals who are Soviet government to free the Ukrainian If we all take pride in our jobs and work hard at whatever we're best at, the quality of persecuted for having spoken out against patriots, such as Valentyn Moroz, L. Plyu­ American goods and services can be the high­ oppressive policies, and shch, L. Lukianenko, E. Sverstiuk and V. est in the world. The best way we can work Whereas, This anniversary serves to drama­ Chornovil from imprisonment in the Soviet to improve our country and solve our prob­ tize the legitimate right and aspiration of jails and to exert through the United Na­ lems is not to sit back, complain and become all captive nations for freedom and inde­ tions .all the effort possible to bring about discouraged, but it 1s to take a little time to pendence; freedom for these enslaved people of the do our own job right. America's strength lies Now, therefore, I, Michael S. Dukakis, Gov­ Ukraine. in the collective effort of her citizens, there­ ernor of the Commonwealth of Massachu­ In City Council January 20, 1975. Adopted. fore it is each citizen'• responslbllity to make setts, do hereby proclaim as "Ukrainian In­ Attest: the chain strong by taking care of his or her dependence Day;" January 22, 1975, and urge ------.City Clerk. own link. all citizens of the Commonwealth to take ap- February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2269 THE FREDERICK CHAMBER AND during the depression o! the thirties. How­ us simultaneously .to make stronger THE ECONOMY ever, the effort in Frederick County ,marks efforts to promote a settlement while the first time a concerted, Qooperative e1fort has been mounted by the business commu­ negating just such an effort before it has nity as a whole. even had a chance to be effective. HON. GOODLOE ·E. BYRON If the administration is making any OF MARYLAND "Obviously. Operation MAX-EM will not work :ror all companies:• Chamber officials attempt at all to promote a coalition gov­ IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES said. "The logistical requirements of shift ernment~ they are at least as invisible to Tuesday, February 4, 1975 work, and the nature of the jobs involved at me as they are to the Post. We made the a particular company, may make the program finding last year that both sides were in Mr. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, recently the impractical at some businesses. To be truly Chamber of Commerce of Frederick effective, without working an undue hard.. violation of the Paris accords, and it County Md., issued its program to fight ship on any individual, requires implementa­ seems to me the height of intellectual intlatioit. It seems to me that this is a tion in those companies where the work force dishonesty for the President to request well thought out program with possible is large enough to spread the work among $300 million for another 5 months' :fight­ application in other areas. more people." ing on grounds that "The Republic of The concept of Operation MAX-~ will Vietnam has repeatedly" offered elections I know that all Americans are con­ involve "sacrifices by employers and em­ cerned over the impact of unemploy­ while conveniently ignoring the fact that ployees alike. Employes will sacrifice an hour this same government has repeatedly re­ ment. It is important to realize that indi­ or two p.ay each week. Employers will kick in vidual organizations are working to pro­ the money necessary to administer the ex­ buffed attempts to form the National vide guidance and coordinated programs penses of maintaining more employes. Fringe Council for Reconciliation and Concord to remedy the situation or to reduce its benefit packa.ges will, of course, be main­ provided in that agreement. impact. tained as a fixed dollar per employe figure, The failure of the administration to regardless of the individual hours worked I would like to share with my col­ press for compliance on this point indi­ by an employe," it was explained. cates that the administration has chosen leagues an article from the Frederick rn the weeks ahead, the Chamber of Com­ News outlining the new chamber of com­ merce will mount a concerted effort to ex­ to abandon all hope of a settlement under merce program: plain fully the program as it can be applied the Paris peace agreement. thus con­ (From the Frederick (Md.) News, Jan. 23, in various businesses and industries, Haugh signing that document to the status of a 1975] said. huckster's ploy whose sole use is to wring "OPERATION MAX-EM" To REDucE "We must emphasize that Operation MAX­ more money from Congress. I reject this UNEMPLOYMENT EM is purely a volunteer program," said denigration of the Paris accords; if they Haugh ...The Chamber of Commerce or Com­ are defective and fail, so be it, but let us The Chamber of Commerce of Frederick munity Services Agency cannot and will not County and the Frederick County Com­ try to dictate to any business or any group at least abide by the complete agreement munity Services Agency today announced a of employes how many hours they can or rather than give up when we are halfway new. volunteer effort to reduce the effects should work. But we would hope that Indi­ there. of unemployment in Frederick County. vidual companies and groups of employes It is long since time we left the Viet­ Dubbed "Operation MAX-EM," the volun­ will embrace the concept of 'Everybody share namese to settle their internal problems teer effort will be a cooperative venture by the load.' among themselves, without artificial employers and employes alike to preserve as "We think it is much better for an em­ many jobs as possible in Frederick County props to one e:lde or the other provided ploye to be assured of keeping his job. even by American tax!)ayers. The supple­ business and industry. if he must work a. few less hours. than tG Operation MAX-EM. short !or MAXimum face the very real possibility of losing his mental request is such a prop, and should EMployment, is simply a "share the work job all together. be defeated. load,. approach to employment. If a. business­ "Everybody has been crying for an answer is faced with reducing its work force because to the rising unemployment r.ate. So far. no­ there isn•t enough work to keep the whole body has done anything significant to cor­ staff busy, Operation MAX-EM would en­ rect the problem. We in the Chamber feel courage the employes to voluntarily reduce that Operation MAX-EM is a positive step NEWS STORIES DEMONSTRATE their work week by a few hours each in order that can have an impact if employers and NEED FOR GUN CONTROL AT to keep the whole work force on the job, employes alike join forces to work together EVERY LEVEL a press conference was told at Winchester to lick the problem. Han. "Operation MAX-EM is obviously not the In announcing this new effort, Chamber total answer, but it is a positive step in the HON. WALTER E. FAUNTROY President William L. Haugh called upon in­ right direction. With the unemployment fig­ dustry and labor to join together to keep OF THE DISTRICT OF COL UMB.IA ures we are faced with, any improvement in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as many people working as possible. "We the situation is most desirable,'' concluded believe:• said Haugh, "that a cooperative Haugh. Tuesday, February 4, 1~75 effort. by employers and employees alike will produce significant results in reducing the Mr. FAUNTROY. Mr. Speaker, few spiralling unemployment rate in Frederick REJECT SUPPLEMENTAL INDO­ issues are as important as handgun County. If we all pull together, perhaps we CHINA AID control in our major cities. In the Dis­ can keep more people working." trict of Columbia, the preliminary police According to Haugh, over 4,000 people are analysis of last year's record number of currently unemployed in Frederick County H(}N. ROBERT L. LEGGETT 158 295 ~ •. and more people are being laid off almost homicides indicates that of the every day. With the Frederick County work OF CALIFORNIA victims were killed with handguns. An­ force estimated at just over 40,000 people. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other 16 were killed by shotguns or rifles. Frederick County is rapidly approaching a Tuesday, February 4, 1975 In Detroit, we can amply see demon­ 10 per cent unemployment rate. Operation strated by the attached newspaper arti­ MAX-EM is designed to slow the increase in Mr. LEGGETT. Mr. Speaker, the most cle from the Washington Post that hom­ unemployment, and perhaps even reverse that recent editorial in the Washington Post icides and the use of handguns are trend. on the subject of the President;s supple­ closely related to the economic health "H a group of 40 employees are willing to mental request for Vietnam represents reduce their work week . . • and their pay of our Nation and the ready availability ..• frorn40 to 39 hours a week.'' said Haugh, an interesting change of position for that of these weapons of death and destruc­ "they can save one job. Reducing two hours publication. -In earlier comment Congress tion. per week will save two jobs. Americans have w~s importuned to grant the entire $300 The more human aspects of the trag­ always rallied to help whenever major prob­ million; now it appears that half a loaf edies wrought by these weapons is lems appear. We believe that Americans,. would be sufficient. Unfortunately, the brought home by the article written by working together, can lick the unemployment logic presented does not support either Smith Hempstone of the tragic end of problem and make a real contribution tcward conclusion. While the editorial suggests helping the state of the economy:• two Washingtonians who were attending The idea. for OpeJ:ation MAX-EM is not· that "it would be quite right . ; . for Con­ to their own affairs and doing nothing new. Employes of the Washington Sta::: News­ gress to make a more active effort to that should be the start of the end of paper recently voted to reduce their work promote a political settlement," it goes their lives. week and their pay to keep the full -force on on to state that "though warned not to Mr. Speaker, I call these articles to the the job. The International Ladies Garment expect more than $700 million in military attention of my colleagues. I hope that Workers Union has adopted a similar posture aid this year, the administration sup.:. they will read them and gain the same for the past 40 years, and workers in the na­ plied Mr. Thieu at a rate which let him understanding that I have on this issue tion's steel industry did much the same thing ignore the warning." Thus, the Post asks of the need for handgun control: 2270 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975 Two LivES, Two DEATHS remove from the death penalty the "caprl- guns were used in 440 cases, shotguns in 110, ( s lth H to ) cious" element that the Supreme Court has · rifles in 72 and knives in 133. By m emps ne found unconstitutional. The predominant number of handgun kill- Aside from their shared humanity and rep- They say that capital punishment Is ings is not surprising in Detroit since pollee _ utations for being decent, hard-working nothing but legalized murder, that It de- estimate there are between 500,000 to one Washingtonians, Lorenzo Wooden and South bases society a.p.d does not act as a deterrent. million illegal handguns in the city. Trimble Jr. had little in common. In an ethical sense, one understands the On New Year's Eve, the department Wooden's turf was the inner city. A :n- philosophical objection to the death p_enalty• . ordered its helicopters grounded at 10 p.m. year-old high school dropout whose great But Lorenzo Wooden and South Trimble, for fear that overenthusiastic celebrants fir­ love was football. An unmarried black. Three both decent men, had had a right to live._ ing their guns in the air might bring one of sisters and five brothers. Lived at home with Those of delicate sensibilities may forgive the machines down. The previous New Year's his parents. Had made his first down pay- me if I feel that society would not suffer Eve, gunfire had narrowly missed a heli­ ment on a color television set. Held a blue- unduly if those who on New Year's Eve copter. collar job at this newspaper. Was saving his denied them that right shared their fate. In 1967, Wayne County Prosecutor William money so that he could buy furniture and Cahalan, coined the name "Saturday Night get an apartment of his own. . 159 OF 295 VICTIMS SLAIN BY HANDGUNS Special" for the- cheap handguns used in Trimble was a member of Washington's A preliminary police analysis of last year's many of the killings. white establishment. Son of-a Kentucky con- . record number of homicides in Washington He said the name was derived from the gressman. A 78-year-old tax attorney. Former . says that 158 of the 295. victims were killed habit of Detroiters who used to go to Toledo, head of the Senate Commerce Committee's with handguns. In another 16 cases the Ohio, on the weekends and buy a gun on staff. Belonged to the right clubs. Three sons, weapons used were shotguns or rifles. saturday night. two daughters, 15 grandchildren. District homicides for 1974 also include 12 Detroit's love affair with -the h-andgun is What united Wooden and TrimbJe· where cases in which people were killed by police shown time and again in some of the hard to the circumstances of their deaths: At 2:30 using service revolvers. believe cases that are now routine police p.m. on New Year's Eve, while watching a The worst year for homicides in the city's blotter news in the city's newspapers. payday card game, Wooden was shot to death history has been previously attributed to the Last year, a man paid his way into a movie. by robbers who entered the ground fioor of easy availability of hand guns by homicide theater, bought a 35-cent box of popcorn, the Star-News building and made off with chief Capt. Robert M. Boyd. then objected when the concession operator the pot; Trimble, who had just returned Fifty-four cases are still under investiga- handed him salt in a ketchup bottle. from church, was slain by a gunman seven tion, and warrants have been issued for the The man protested that the salt was un- hours later in the garage of his Northwest ,arrest of suspects in six of these. sanitary and during the ensuing argument, a Washington apartment. Three cases were listed by the pollee as. security guard fatally shot the movie patron Wooden became Washington's 294th 'solved by other means,' in which the police in the head. - homicide victim of 1974--setting a new and were certain of the perpetrator's identity but In another incident, a man came home grisly record-and Trimble the city's 295th were unable to obtain an indictment for drunk one night, attempted to sit at the din- casualty. One life was snuffed out at its varying reasons. ing table, missed the chair and fell on the beginning, one near its end. And one won- floor. ders just how long the American people are (From the Washington Post, Jan. 12, 1973} His wife laughed at him and he told her to going to put up with this barbarism, this shut up. When she continued to laugh the tolerance of a situation in which law-abiding DETROIT's HoMICIDE SPmAL LINKED To man pulled his gun and kille~ her._ :inen and women of all races, sorts ~d con- EcoNOMIC ·DisTREss - In .yet a,nother incident, a man was killed · ditions can be gunned down with ~~ (By Norman Sinclair) -in an argument over his smelly feet. impunity at their places of work, in ·their · . DETROIT, Jan. .11.-From Jefferson Avenue . He was. visiting friends and took off his homes, on the public _streets. _ i:n downtown Detroit, only 1,000 yards of shoes. Another man teased him about the Although Washington has a bad reputa- ·murky water separate the Motor City from smell of his-feet and in the altercation that tion for crime, the problem is a national one, _ Windsor, Ontario, its Canadian neighbOr ·ro followed the man with the foot odor was shot In n~arby Baltimore, with about ~OO.OOQ the north. · ·and killed. . , . _ . . more people .than Washington, there were But· the 1.000 yards_ of the Detroit River Bannon and Wilt say that such killings 330 killings in 1972, the record year. The might as well be 1,000 miles. While Vlind.sor are merely ~ the end result of conflict-moti.; 1974 record for Detroit was an incredible 800 is noted for its fine restaurants and clean· vated pressures brought to bear on young, dead. streets, Detroit grimaces at its growing under-educated, unemployed blacks. On a statistical basis, one is infinitely safer reputation as the murder capital of the Nearly half of -those involved in killings 'valking down a darkened street between the world. in Detroit--the victims and the perpetra- Catholic and Protestant sectors of strife-torn Last year, there were 801 homicides in tors-had criminal records, police statistics Belfast than in any of America's 10 largest Detroit, up from 751 in 1973. Across the river show. cities: Between them, the bomb-throwing in Windsor, the police department of that Prosecutor Cahalan, the chief law enforce- Irish Republican Army and the British Army city of 211 697 people recorded 6 murders. ment officer in the Detroit area, acknowl- managed to kill "only" 476 people in Ulster's Even mo~e disturbing is the fact that De- edges that the years of automobile produc- record bloody year of 1972. troit had over 6,000 near misses-serious tion-line boredom have created a syndrome Although the level of violence is rising in assault victims who, had it not been for the that triggers conflict-motivated homicides. the white suburbs, the core of the murder Detroit General Hospital emergency staff, But he believes the relationship between problem-and of other crimes of violence- would have been part of the homicide murder and handguns in Detroit has a remains the inner cities. This means that, statistics. strong bearing on the problem. just as most of the perpetrators of these vile James D. Bannon, a police commander who "If you didn't have as many handguns you acts are blacks, so too are most of their vic- is finishing his study for a doctorate degree wouldn't have as many murders. It is as sim- tims, like Lorenzo Wooden. , in sociology, believes that the poor economic pie as that," he said. . . We know also what the murderers favorite situation in Detroit--with unemployment "Through November of last year, the No. 1 weapon is: Of Washington's 295 homicides now :over 9 per cent--will combine with fac-· offense for which warrants were issued from _last year, 161 people were slain by pistols, · tors that were consistent· in last year's this office was for carrying concealed weap- which are cheap, readily available and easy homicides to keep the deadly spiral rising. ons," he said. · to conceal (there are an estimated 30 mtl- ·In a majority of the homicides last year, ·"We issued ·warrants in 2,023 concealed lion. handguns in the U.S. and about 600,000 the killers and victims were practically inter• weapon cases." - new ones go on the market every year). changeable, Bannon points out. Only 16· of every 100 !!UCh cases resulted in The solution to urban violence will not · Their backgrounds were the same--black convictions. be complete, easy or cheap. But there are a men between the ages of 19 and 30, unem- "Law enforcement hasn't failed. It just number of things that could be done to re- ployed poorly educated and hooked on drugs hasn't been tried," he said. duce the mayhem in "acceptable" levels. or liq~or. Cahalan believes that the certainty of pun- There ought to be a total feder-al ban on "These ingredients, regardless of race, wlll ishment, not the severity, would be a deter- the importation, domestic manufacture or give the same results," he said. "It just hap- rent to crime. sale of handguns for any purpose other than pens that in Detroit these predominant fac- "In the state of Michigan, 86 per cent of military or police. Those who own pistols tors affect the black community." the persons convicted of criminal conduct do should be compelled to register them, with Bannon's conclusions are based on an 18- not go to jail," he said. fines to be imposed upon the owner if t~ey month study of homicides that he and Dr. Last December, Cahalan asked the Detroit are lost or stolen (shotguns and rifles, wh1ch Marie Wilt, a Wayne state University re- Recorder's Court judges to impose manda­ have legitimate sporting uses and are seldom searcher, have been conducting through a tory five-day jail terms _for anyone caught used in crimes of violence, ought to be ex- police foundation grant. . with a gun, but the judges threw out his eluded from registration). Of the 801 victims last year, 642 were request. He is currently sponsoring a bill in The existing laws against carrying a con- black, 153 were white and six were of Mexi- the Michigan legislature that would provide cealed deadly weapon and the use of such can-American heritage. In these cases, 694 a five-year prison term for anyone caught a weapon in the commission of a crime of those accused of murder were black and carrying a gun while committing a crime. should be enforced and strengthened, with 106 were white. Recorder's Judge Robert J. Colombo said incremental sentences fot repeaters. Finally, There were 371 killings in homes, and 175 that mandatory jail terms for gun offenses is the · states ought to rewrite their ·laws to on ·the streets. In the 801 homicides, ·hand- not the cure for homicide in Detroit. F.ebruary 4., 1975 EXTENSIONS OF RE~S 2271 "There is no doubt about 1t that nearly ducers and manufacturers meet health Joseph Gaydos (.Pa.) every one ·in· this town Is carrying. a guii, and sanitation standards as rigid as those Benjamin Gilman (N.Y.) but the ones that Cahalan. brings"tnto my Bill Goodling (Pa.) courtroom are by arid large respectable cit­ which fanners and manufactUrers must James Hanley (N.Y.) izens carrying guris for fear of their lives," meet in the United States. Michael Harrington (Mass.) he said. · · When I introduced this bill under a James Hastings (N.Y.) He said he does not view the Detroit different title in the last Congress, it was Elizabeth Holtzman (N.Y.) homicide total as startling, considering that cosponsored by more than 60 Members William J. Hughes (N.J.) for the past 33 years there have been only of the House, from both urban and rural Richard !chord (Mo.) short periods of peace between wars. areas. The bill Memorial damental to the economic health of the· In nearby Raritan.. Ortho Pharmaceutical Hospital; Muhlenberg Hospital, Plainfteld; Nation and the lives and deaths of mil­ Corp. began construction of a three-story Overlook Hospital, Summit; Perth Amboy research building on Route 202. The build­ General Hospital; Princeton Medical Center; lions of people in a nuclear age. Thus ing is the :first of four planned phases in a and Somerset Hospital, Somerville. it is -essential that we be aware of the :five-year construction program on a 200-acre manner in which these requests are ­ site across the highway from Ortho's current sometimes presented. As Saul Friedman's­ headquarters. Ortho Pharmaceutical, a article "United States To Spend Millions· leader in family planning products, now BILL TO Al\-IEND ms CODE OF 1954 on Plant It Sold" explains, the Army shares facilities with Ortho Diagnostics Inc., TO EXCLUDE FROM GROSS IN­ $2 mil­ a manufacturer of blood banking products sold an important arms plant for COME THE FffiST $500 OF lion and now requests $85.9 million to. and diagnostic agents. INTEREST The Johnson & Johnson Baby Products relieve the serious shortage of M-60 Co. manufacturing and warehouse facility in tanks that ensued. Apparently, it was Montgomery will be a 425,000 square-foot HON. PAUL G. ROGERS hoped that a scarcity of tanks would plant. The single-story structure is located succeed in getting a new multimillion on 252 acres on Grand View Road and County OP FLORIDA dollar tank development program Route 13. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES New product development is another area through Congress. If what has been al­ of significant activity for Johnson & John­ Tuesday, February 4, 1975 leged is true, then I am dismayed that son companies ln New Jersey during 1974. Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker. today I the military has stooped so low that Ethicon, a leader and pioneer in wound am introducing legislation to help ease they must play tricK or treat to ease the repair, introduced a synthetic absorbable su­ the tight supply of funds available for passage of their budget through Con­ ture that is the result of years of develop­ gress. ment and clinical evaluation. Research scien­ mortgag-e loans for the purchase of hous­ tists at Ethicon had long been seeking a ing and new construction and for bank The Defense Department has an­ molecular structure for a suture that would consumer and business loans. nounced that it will seek out public com­ be timed to retain its tensile strength The legislation would amend the In­ ment on new regulations affecting the through the healing period and then break ternal Revenue Code to provide for an public, according to Vernon Guidry's ar­ down and be absorbed quickly when no income exclusion of up to $500 for each ticle entitled "Pentagon Qualifies 'Impact longer needed. taxpayer for the interest or dividends on the Public! " Yet the list of exemp­ The new product Vicryl (polyglactin 910) t1ons and qualifications imposed on this synthetic absorbable suture, is designed for on savings deposits or withdrawable ac­ use by surgeons where a synthetic absorb­ counts in savings and loan associations, new open policy seem to exclude more able is preferred. It is composed of chemical banks, credit unions, and other thrift than they include. Such concealment -of compounds that form a unique molecular institutions. The bill provides for up to a the very origins of def--ense policy under chain, providing desirable one-of-a-kind $1,000 interest exclusion for jointly filed a pretense of openness is exactly the properties. The suture is biologically inert, returns. problem we in Congress are up against. minimizing tissue reaction. Studies of Vicryl The tax breaks provided by this legis­ How can we effectively evaluate the suture show that it holds its strength better than any other synthetic absorbable for the lation will provide some relief to the budget if we cannot gain any real per­ duration of the critical healing period, and taxpayer as well as encourage more peo­ spective on the requests before us? In that it then is absorbed faster after it has ple to place their savings in savings ac-· attempting to scale this mound of re­ served its function. counts in banks and savings institutions. quested budget items, we should bear in Ortho Pharmaceutical introduced a new It has been estimated that an additional mind the way in which it has grown and fungicide th

But years of incleetsien have left problems NO AVIATION POLYC~ increase the use of light planes th-at bum no ·that ean no longer wait. To ~oster and protect these assets. there more fuel per passenger than cars and save ~OR EARLY ACTION is no na.ttonal ,pollcy on tbe rote of aviation precious time. PREPARING FOB ~ TUTURE Urgent i~ms face the 94th Congress. and its development to tulflll tts role4 The Airport-A~y. Act-The main ariatJ.on 1970 Act created an Aviation Advisory Com­ Tho~h there is no genual emergency in issue thiS year is reaewal <>f tbe ~7.0 law, m.lsston. appointed by the 'P.restd.ent, to study aviation now w requtn the help ot Congress, passed after the 1968 tratlic jams to provide and report in a year. Arter two years. with -action is urgent so work necessary to meet the means to .expand and improve our avla­ division among Its members, its fi:ntllngs future demands will not be disrupted. tionhandUng .sysbems. n gives $310 million were moot. Although FAA -estimates of ,growth have a year to airports, ~ million to airways, Congress also told DOT to formulate .a pol- been reduced from those made in more hope­ $80 mlllion to research a.nd development~ and 1cy on 'transportation into which .aviation ful times, it is expected tba.t most items $15 mlllicm to plans. Spen:cUng authority ends ·would fit, still not done despite lnslstence will gain 3% to 6% a year between now and June 30. by the House Committee on Appropriations. 1981. Avi«.twn Trust FU'nd-llser taxes on pas­ MeanWhile FAA cannot set a policy of Its In this 6-yea.r span. it is 1orecast that air­ sengers.. shippers~ and ail'er.aft owners yield own. There has been no guideline document line enplanemeata will J.nCRase !i2~; pas­ orer $100 million a year !Ql" airports and since "tbe Horizon Report o~ 1961. senger miles iif>%; air~r.att lla.ndled -at FAA airWays. The uncommited balance is closed Unprotected by any posltive declaration, control towers 51%; .ana gener.al aviation to .$000 million. Administration budget men -aviation is harassed by negative -actions. The hours 31%. want to tap 'the fund for operating expenses. omee of Management & Budget stated. in The dgures may be a bit high. But as Others would .spread lt to terminal improve­ 1'971 that until future needs are clearJ 1iy1ng Gross National PrDrussification policy, forced athe­ minutes, Castaneda said. ism, colonial exploitation, and pollee control Hypothermia !or infant heart surgery doctors and nurses to meet our total o! family and public lives. They bravely de­ originated in Japan in the early 1960s, Cas­ needs. I believe that this problem can fended their human rights and Ukrainian taneda reported, and then spread, first to be alleviated throughout our continued identity. A partial list of Ukrainian women New Zealand and Britain and then to the participation in the public health service arrested and persecuted between 1972-73 is United States. Several U.S. medical centers program. attached. have had considerable experience with it, For this reason, and to insure that As Americans o! Ukrainian descent, we are he added, including Children's Hospital in Guam will not once again find itself left proud to state that Ukraine is a friendly western oriented nation and is a sincere Buffalo and the University of Alabama Hos­ out of yet another PHS program, through pital in Birmingham. and reliable ally. Ukrainians believe in the At his own hospital in Boston, Castaneda inadvertent legislative omission, I urge policy of self-liberation and their desire for reported, the technique has been used !or my colleagues to support the bill I have freedom has cost them more than twenty 83 patients with correctable defects in the introduced today. Thank you. million victims in the past 57 years o! Rus­ past two years--38 of them less than 3 sian occupation. months old-and only 10 have died. So far In the International Year o! Women 1975, there has been no evidence that the oxygen initiated by the USSR, we are asking your deprivation to the brain during the surgery UKRAINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS honorable person !or your intervention be­ interferes with a baby's later physical and fore the Soviet authorities in behalf o! the mental development, he said. women political prisoners to persuade the About 4,000 of the 11,000 infants born HON. JOHN BUCHANAN Soviet authorities to grant them amnesty with heart defects in the United States each and release to return to Ukraine, their year require life saving surgery in the first OF ALABAMA homes and families. three months of·life. Until recently, babies IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ULAN A CELEWYCH, Pres-tdent. born with such defects in the Washington Tuesday, February 4, 1975 area had to be sent out of town (if they were strong enough) for surgery in which hypo­ Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Speaker, the A PARTIAL LIST OF UKRAINIAN WOMEN AR­ thermia was used. In July, however, Dr. hope for freedom still lives among ·mch RESTED AND PERSECUTED BETWEEN 1972-73 Thomas Midgley, who was trained in this captive peoples as those of Ukraine, fed IRYNA STASIV-KALYNETS technique at the Hospital for Sick Children and encouraged by such American friends Iryna Stasiv was born in 1940, graduated tn London, joined Washington Children's of freedom as the Women's Association !rom Lviv University and became a teacher Hospital Medical center. in secondary school. From there she went on In a telephone interview, Midgley said that for the Defense of Four Freedoms for to become a lecturer in Ukrainian Language none o! the three babies whom he has treated Ukraine. Today, representatives of this and Literature in the preparatory faculty of to date in the United States has survived, fine organization a.re visting Congress­ the Lviv polytechnic institute. An authoress but that all o! them had multiple and ex­ men and Senators, pleading the cause of several unpublished works, she, and hus­ tremely serious defects which made them of those Ukrainian women now held as band Ihor Kalynets, came out in defence o! especially poor candidates !or surgery. Thus, political prisoners in the Soviet Union. the persecuted Ukrainian patriots and signed he explained, he expects better results in the Their efforts deserve our prayerful sup­ a collective protest letter in defence of V. future. Moroz. Iryna also protected against the de­ Meanwhile, he said, many children in Lon­ port. There follows a statement concern­ struction of Ukrainian historical monu­ don who underwent their operations as in­ ing their purpose here, together with a ments. For this, she was fired !rom her post fants as long ago as 1968 have done well both partial list of the political prisoners and continuously victimised, while officially academically and athletically, indicating whose cause they plead: her poetry was forbidden to be published. In that they have developed normally in every WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION FOR THE i.. 971 she joined the "People's COmmittee !or way. DEFENSE OF FoUR FREEDOMS the defence of Nina Strokata," who had been FOR UKRAINE, INC., arrested without any grounds. Iryna Stasiv­ New York, N.Y. Kalynets was arrested in January and sen­ tenced in Lviv on July, 1972 to 6 years im­ AMENDMENT TO THE PUBLIC Commemorating the 57th anniversary o! the Proclamation of the Independent State prisonment and three years in exile. She and HEALTH SERVICE ACT of Ukraine, the delegation of the Women's her husband have a ten year old daughter­ Association for the Defense of Four Freedoms Dzvinka, who was left orphaned because Ihor !or Ukraine, Inc., composed of women !rom Kalynets was also sentenced to 12 years of HON. ANTONIO BORJA WON PAT various states, are paying a special visit to prison and exile. Iryna Stasiv-Kalynets was OF GUAM the offices of their senators and congressmen sentenced under Article 62 o! the Criminal to express their gratitude for defending the Code of the USSR "for anti-soviet agitation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES human rights of the people in enslaved and propaganda." She is serving her sentence Tuesday, February 4, 1975 Ukraine, for their unselfish support and con­ in a Mordavian concentration camp from tinued interest in the knowledge of the strug­ where she, Stefania Shabatura, and Nina Mr. WON PAT. Mr. Speaker, today I gle and desire of the Ukrainian people !or Strokata-Karavanska, sent a letter on am introducing a bill which authorizes the restoration of a free•Ukra.inian State. On May 10, 1973 to the Secretary General of the an amendment to section 2 (f) of the this occasion, we particularly express our ap­ U.N., Kurt Waldheim, in which they pro­ Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 201 preciation !or their voice in defense of tested against the enslavement of the (f) ) so as to include the Territory of Ukrainian political prisoners. Ukrainian nation and demanded an open Allow us to present to you a. small desk trial !or themselves in the presence of a. Guam in the definition of a "State" in­ U.N. representative. cludes all American areas, including the :flag, a reproduction o! our Ukrainian :flag, to mYNA SENYK 50 States, the District of Columbia, serve as a. symbol of Ukraine, and as a token of appreciation in behalf of our membership Iryna Senyk, a poetess, was born in 1925, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. and of the Ukrainian people in your state. near Lviv. She was initially arrested in 1946 Only Guam is left out. This measure is On the occasion of this visit with you, in Lviv, on the accusation that she belonged identical to a bill which I introduced in permit us to inform you that during the to the Organization of Ukrainian National­ the 93d Congress. month o! February, Ukrainians, in secrecy at ists, in which she acted as massenger from February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2283".

the O.U.N; Headquarters whose head was house searched, and various poems and books ALLA OLEKSANDRIVNA HORS'KA Roman Chuprynka, commander of the by her husband were found. Alia was brought up in a russifled Ukrain­ Ukrainian Insurgent" Army. She was sen­ The KGB stated that Nina had been ar­ ian family ln Kiev. She completed her edu­ tenced to ten years hard labour. After finish- rested because she would not "forget" her cation at the Kiev Art Institute. She took an . ing her term of imprisonment, she left prison husband's case and because of her contacts active part in the national rebirth within the with tuberculosis of the bones. After treat­ with the committee for Human Rights. She community life in Kiev, which since the ment for TB, she obtained her specialist was officially charged under Article 62 of the 1960's has attracted young generations of qualifications in literature. In her free time, Criminal Code of the USSR, and her trial, artists and intellectuals. she wrote patriotic verses full of love for which took place in Odessa, lasted from the In 1962, she became one of the organisers Ukraine and hatred for the enemies of free­ 4th to the 19th of May, 1972. She was tried of a cultural club for young people which dom. The publication of her works was inter­ together with the writer Alex Rysnykov and was closed down in 1964. She took part in rupted by the arrest of Shornovil, who was Alexander Prytyka. The latter pleaded organising literary and artistic meetings and to be the editor. From 1969 onwards Iryna guilty, while Strokata and Rysnykov stated exhibitions, in spreading underground pub­ Senyk and others wrote letters in defence they were innocent and refused to accept lications and in organising aid and funds for of S. Karavansky and V. Moroz. For this she their defense lawyer, since he was on the the arrested and persecuted and their was persecuted. In 1970, the KGB searched prosecutor's side. Nina was sentenced to four families. her house, &fter which she was arrested and years imprisonment, Rysnykov to five years, In May, 1964, Alla designed and produced sentenced to six years imprisonment and five and Prytykra to two years. On the lOth o! a Shevchenko stained-glass panel exhibited years exile. May, 1973, Nir.a Ka.ravanska-8trokata, Stef­ in the foyer of the University of Kiev. The The trial was "in camera"; she was ania Shabatura and Iryna Stasiv-Kalynets panel was destroyed for ideological reasons charged with propagating literature, for pos­ sent out a letter from a Mordavian concen­ and Alla.Hors'la expelled from the Ukrainian sessing E. Rice's book, ''The New literary tration camp to the U.N. Secretary General, Artists' Union. She was then forced to find current in the Ukraine" which was confis­ Kurt Waldheim, in which they protested work outside Kiev, so, together with othel cated from her, and for her friendship wtih against the enslavement of the Ukrainian artists she organised a range of monumental V. Moroz, V. Chornovil, M. Osadchy, and nation and demanded an open trial in the and decorative panels in Donbas. During the with the writer Olga Duchymynska. A So­ presence of a U.N. representative. following years she continued to take an viet newspaper reported that at her trial STEPHANIA SHABATURA active part in Ukrainian cultural life. Iryna Senyk did not admit to guilt and Stephania Shabatura, born in 1940, is an In December 1965 she appeared as a wit· even considered herself as suffering for the artist who drew many cartoons with Ukrain­ nes5 in the pre-trial investigation of Yaro­ achievement of Ukrainian independence. Her ian patriotic motifs. In 1970, she protested slav Hevrych. Thoughout 1965 and 1966 she place of confinement is unknown. against the illegal arrest of Valentin Moroz, wrote complaints to the Ukr.S.S.R. Procu· NINA KARAVANSKA-STROKATA for which she was persecuted, and finally rator, to the Supreme Court and other of­ ficials protesting against the violation of th~ Nina Karavanska was born on the 31st arrested in Lviv, 1972. The KGB began a continuous interrogation of Katala, an en­ Soviet law system, and against the persecu­ of January, 1925, in Odessa. After finishing tion of Ukrainian cultural development. In secondary school, she became a student in gineer, in connection with the case. His refusal to give fake evidence led to his mys­ 1967, Alla witnessed the trial of Vyacheslav the Odessa Medical Institute, from where Chornovil and later signed a collective pro· she graduated with distinction. For a while terious death in a prison in Lviv, on May 28, 1972. In August, 1972, Stephania Shabatura test letter against the unlawful nature o1 she worked in the Microbiological Institute that trial. In July 1968, together with others, in Odessa, and later practised medicine for was sentenced to five years imprlsvnment and thre& years of exile. Together with other she wrote an open protest letter to "Libra.cy 6 years. From 1952 until 1971 she did re­ Ukraine" against 0. Poltoratsky's article con­ search in the Odessa. Medical Institute, and women prisoners, Shabatura sent a letter of ·protest against the enslavement of the cerning Ukrainian intellectuals. In 1969-70, was working on her doctorate, and publish­ Alla supported Valentin Moroz in public ing many scientific works. Ukrainian nation by Moscow to the Secre­ when he met with opposition towards his Nina is married to Svyatoslav Karavansky, tary General of the United Nations, :·n which recent works such as "Among the Snows." who was imprisoned in concentration camps they demanded an open trial in the presence On November 28, 1970, Alla Hors'ka wa.e from 1944 to 1960 for having been active in of a U.N. representative. murdered at her inlaw's home in Vasyl'kiv, the Odessa unit of the Organization of NADIA SVITLYCHNA near Kiev. She was found murdered in the UlQ'a.inian Nationalists, who fought 1or the Nadia Svitlychna, sister of the literary basement by friends who after being unable liberation of Ukraine. He was arrested again critic Ivan Svitlychny, is a pilologis.t. She is to trace her whereabouts, demanded that in 1965 for writing an article on the policy the wife of Danylo Shymuk, who was sen­ the KBG let them into the in-law's house. of the russification of the Ukrainian langu­ tenced to 15 years imprisonment, and has a Her funeral was arranged for December 4, age in Ukraine and for appealing to the lead­ 3 year old son, Yarema. Nadia Svitlychna 1970. People from Kiev a.nd distant areas ers of the Communist parties of Poland and worked in a Kiev Library but was fired from came to the funeral. Unexpectedly, the fu­ Czechoslovakia in the matter of the politi­ her post for signing a petition demanding neral was postponed until December 7th. Her cal arrests of 1965 in Ukraine. For this he was freedom for Ukraine. Since then, she has been family was forbidden to see her or even take sent back to serve out the nine remaining without work and has been persecuted. After the coffin, which remained sealed from the years of his 25 year sentence. In 1969, he was the murder of Alia Hors'ka, she made a time of her death. Despite all schemes and sentenced to a further eight years, thus demand for an inquiry into the circum­ efforts on the part of the Soviet authorities making a total of 33 years imprisonment. At stances of the artist's mysterious death. The to prevent a public funeral from taking this trial, Nina Karavanska-Strokata ap­ KGB searched Svitlychna's house and took place, about 150-200 people gathered for this peared as a witness, defending her husband Alia Hors'ka's files. From January to May occasion. Those who dared to pay the last and accused the Moscow bolshevik authori­ 1972, Nadia Svitlychna had to report to the tribute to her were threatened with re­ ties of a cruel and brutal trial. Because of KGB every day, and on May 19, 1972, she was prisals. Searches were carried out at their this, the Odessa Medical Institute demanded. sentenced in a closed trial to four years im­ homes. On the day of her funeral, her friends that she publicly denounce her husband. As prisonment (according to article 62 of the held a post-mortem exhibition of all her she refused, she was fired from her post on Constitution of the Ukrainian S.S.R.). Her works. Hundreds of people passed through May, 1974, and riot permitted to defend her little son was forced to enter a government her studio. dissertation for a doctorate. Nina also came orphanage. Her place of confinement is un­ STEFANIA HULYK out in defence of persecuted Ukrainian pa­ known. Stefania was an employee of the Society triots, and signed a statement against the L YUBOV SEREDNIAK for the preservation of historic and cultural unlawful imprisonment of V. Moroz. For a In January, the KGB searched Lyubov monuments in Lviv. In 1970, she sent a pro­ while, harassment towards her was inter­ Seredniak's house, and found a novel by test letter to the Supreme Court of the Uk­ rupted due to the fact that a cholera epi­ Solzhenitsyn, a work by Grossman, and simi­ rainian S.S.R., in defence of the unlaw­ demic had broken out and she was among lar literature. For this she was arrested, and, fully sentenced Valentin Norz, and against the most active in combatting the epidemic. after four months of interrogation, was sen­ the destruction of Ukrainian cultural and After the epidemic was overcome, a new tenced on May 15, 1972, to a year's imprison­ historical monuments by the Bolsheviks. She ment. She has not yet been released. is married and has a small child. She was campaign of villification was mounted arrested in January and later released. How­ against her in the press, and she was un­ VALYA KORNICZUK ever, she is constantly being questioned by able to find employment. Because of this, Valya was a former student of Lviv Uni­ the KBG and may be rearrested at any time. Nina was forced to leave Ukraine at the versity. She was expelled in the summer of OLHA VASYLIVNA DUCZYMINSKA end of the summer of 1971, and went to 1973 for citicizing the terrorist activities of Nalchyk, (Kabarolyno-Balkarue) where she Olha was born in 1883 in Western Ukraine. the Soviet regime. She was also a member of a She is an expert in literature and art. Olha became a medical lecturer. But even here student group which published an uncen­ was formally accused of having strong patri­ she was persecuted. On the 8th of December, sored magazine "Postup" and disseminated otic beliefs and contact with the Ukrainian 1971 while returning to Odessa from Nal- pamphlets that criticised Moscow's policies revolutionary freedom fighters. For this, 1n chyk, Nina was arrested by the KGB, her of Russification in Ukraine. 1949, she was arrested and sentenced in Lviv 2284 EXTENSIONS OF .REMARKS February·.!,, ·· 1975 to 10 years imprisonment. In 1972 the KGB periodicals. In 1964 her artistic essays "By­ RAJISA MORDAN' (BORN 1939, NR. KIEV) aimed mallcious accusations at Olha who was kovynski Ballads" were published, followed Rajlsa is the wife of poe-t--v.- Mordan'. She by then 89 years old. They began to persecute by several collections of poetry. A series of was a teacher at a nursery school in Kiev, and her again. She was alleged to be circulating her lyric poems "In the Bells of the Heart" taught the children a few Ukrainian songs, Ukrainian anti-Soviet literature and to be appeared in 1972-73. As a result o! this, the and brought them to a concert commemo­ giving her opinions on patriotic Ukrainian Soviet censors began to attack Iryna Dzylenko ra.tirig Lesya Ukra.inka, in which the ethnic poems, especially the works of Iryna Senyk, on the pages of the Soviet press, accuSing her choir 'Homin' also took part. For this, Rajisa who was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment. of "ambiguity in the context of her poetry", Mordan' was called up for "questioning" at IRYNA HUSAR (BORN 1905) and of straying from the Party line. Nor­ which she was brutally treated and dis­ Iryna received a doctorate in philology mally, such strong criticism and accusations missed from work. She was accused of "con­ from the University of Lviv in 1940, and is an precede the denunciation of an author's tact with the 'nationalistic' choir Homin, and author of German language textbooks. She works and probable imprisonment. It is not of influencing the children". From then on was released from her job at the University known what the future holds for Iryna Dzy­ Rajisa has undergone continuous persecu­ of Lviv in the summer of 1973, where lenko and her creative endeavours. · tion, and her husband has also suffered as a Ukrainian students were demanding lec­ OLHA HEL' result of this. turers to teach subjects in the Ukrainian Olha's brother, Ivan Hel', is a distin­ LUDMYLA SHEREMETYEVA (BORN IN 1945) language. Ukrainian professors and lecturers guished writer who is serving a long prison Ludmyla was an extra-mural student of were blamed for this and since that time sentence. Olha herself has heart trouble, and journalism at Kiev University. After the ar­ Iryna Husar has been continuously perse­ looks after her elderly mother. She previ­ rests of 0. Nazarenko and Karpenko, the cuted. Now it is questionable whether she ously received an invalid's pension, which KGB searched her home, looking for Samvy­ will receive her pension. has since been stopped. Ill and persecuted dav material which it did not find. However, SVITLYANA KYRYCZENKO she lives under strained circumstances. It Sheremetyeva has continued to be persecuted Svitlyana is a scientist, formerly working was reported that in 1972, Olha Hel' was since then, and in 1969 she was expelled from at the Institute of Philosophy in the Academy arrested but later released on account of her Kiev University. of Sciences of the Ukrainian S.S.R. In 1972, in ill-health. MARIA VOYTOVYCH MARIA KACZMAR-SAVKA Kiev, she was fired from her job after con­ Maria Voytovych lives in Lviv. On May 12, tinuous harassment. She is accused of "na­ Maria is an artist, who on November 25, 1972, she wrote a letter tO the Supreme Court tionalistic and anti-Soviet views". Such an 1970, sent a letter of protest to the Supreme of the Ukrainian S.S.R. in defence of the accusation is usually a precurser of arrest; Court of the Ukrainian S.S.R. in defence of illegally convicted historian Valentin Moroz. Svitlyana may soon be another victim. the unjustly sentenced Valentin Moroz. The As a result of this, she is continuously perEe­ ATHENA VOLYCKA court ignored this as well as other similar cuted and unable to obtain work. protests, but as a consequence the KGB be­ Athena Volycka, a scientist at Lviv Uni­ NADIA VOLKOVYCH versity, stood up in defence of all repressed gan to harass Maria Kaczmar-Savka. In 1972 the KGB stepped up its persecution toward Nadia was l':>orn in 1947, and became a Ukrainians and protested to the Supreme member of the Komsomol. She worked in a Court of the USSR against the savage trial her. LUDMYLA CHYZHUK children's nursery in Kiev. She was a mem­ of V. Moroz, demanding an end to the illegal ber of the Ukraine folk-ensemble, "Homin", judgment. She was publicly reprimanded for Ludmyla was a student at the Kiev Uni­ which was disbanded by the Russian author­ this, and given an assistant at the laboratory, versity where she transferred from the Rus­ ities who accused it of being "nationalistic." who was an agent of the KGB. In the sum­ sian to the Ukrainian department. On May Nadia Volkovych was interrogated in con­ mer of 1972, Volycka's home was searched, 22, 1971, she recites poems by the poet nection with this, and was requested to be after which she was arrested. Her present Symonenko at the Shevchenko Monument. an informer for the KGB. When she refused fate is not known. After this she was called up !or interroga­ to do this she was fired from her job and MARIA KOVALSKA tion, at which she was reproached, among has been continuously persecuted. other things, for changing her university Maria was a sales clerk in the bookshop course, and for reading Symonenko. She was. HAL YNA YAREMYCZ "Molod" in Lviv. In 1973 the KGB searched accused of nursing a "hostile view of Soviet Ha.lyna was a. student at Lviv University, her apartment but found nothing. Never­ authority". Since then Ludmyla Chyzhuk from which she was expelled in 1973 · for theless, she was released from her job and is has been expelled from the university and protesting together with other students continuously persecuted. Maria Kovalska is is stlll continuously persecuted. against the russification of Ukrainian accused of too friendly an association with schools, and for insisting on the freedom to visiting tourists, of conversing with them IRYNA STESHENKO commemorate the poet, Shevchenko. Several (which is forbidden to Soviet citizens un­ Iryna was born July 5, 1898, in Kiev. A students of this group were arrested, but less they are agents o! the KGB) , and of ex­ writer-actress who translated foreign works so far it is not known what has happened pressing sympathy for Ukrainian cultural into Ukrainian, she was the granddaughter to Halyna Yaremycz. figures sentenced by the regime. of a well-known writer. In 1920, she grad­ uated from the Dramatic Institute, and KHRYSTYNA TYMCHUK worked as an actress at the Shevchenko Khrystyna Tymchuk, who worked at the .Theatre, and then at the Berezel' Theatre. Academy of Sciences, was arrested in 1972 in At the same time, she translated plays, Kiev. During interrogations, the KGB in­ poetry and prose from French, Itaiian, Eng­ THE 1974 VOTING RECORD OF sisted that she work !or them, but when she lish, German and Russian. She took part in CONGRESSMAN ROBERT F. DRINAN refused, they promised to help her in her the "Fatherland War" for which she was career as a reward for her cooperation. This, awarded a medal. In 1973 Iryna Steshenko too, had no effect. The fate of Khrystyna fell into disfavour, being accused of main­ HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN Tymchuk and her present whereabouts are taining contact with Ukrainian scientists OF MASSACHUSETTS now unknown. .abroad, and allowing her lodgings to be used IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RAJISA MOROZ for meetings with Ukrainian cultural figures Rajisa Moroz is the wife of the well known and foreign tourists, in which she also took Tuesday, February 4, 1975 historian Valentin Moroz who was sentenced part. Mr. DRINAN. Speaker, I . believe MARIJKA VALY A Mr. to 14 years of imprisonment. She is a teacher my constituents are entitled to know Marijka Valya., an assistant at the Institute of German in the Ivano Frankivsk teacher's how I voted on each issue during college and is continuously persecuted be­ of Sociology in Lviv, and a specialist in ba­ 1974. cause her husband was sentenced for "anti­ roque literature, was fired on the . pretext of I am, therefore, taking this opportunity Soviet" activities as he stood out in defence "nationalist, anti-Soviet feeling". She has to set forth my position on every vote. of the Ukrainian culture and language. In since been deprived of her government pen- In doing so I am following a practice 1973 harassment towards her was increased sion. which I have followed in each of the because she had contact with Ukrainian in­ LYBOMYRA POPADYUK 4 years I have served in the Congress. tellectuals abroad. As a result of this, she Lybomyra. was a lecturer of German at the During 1974, in the second session of was also threatened to have her 11 year old University of Lviv. Early in 1972, _the KGB the 93d Congress, I was unadvoidably son, Valik, taken away and placed in a searched her house and began persecuting absent for only 3 votes out of the total police-sui)er\rised institution. her. Later she was fired from work, under the pretext that she was acquainted with cul­ of 537 recorded votes. My attendance YRYNA VOLODYMYRIVNA DZYLENKO tural figures M. Osadchy, V. Chornovil, and record, over 99 percent, was the third Born on April 28, 1931, in Kiev, Iryna re­ others. In actual fact, she was fired because highest of the 435· Members of the House. ceived a degree from the Philological Faculty the students of ··Lviv University protested I would welcome· comments or in­ 1964. of Kiev University in She worked as a against russification and criticised the re­ quiries from any cons~ituent about any tutor, and later in a newspaper and maga­ gime in the Ukraine. There have been recent of the votes I have. ta~en, ~ine publishing oflice. She published her reports of her arrest. Her son Zerian Popa­ first poems in 1958 and since then has sys­ dyuk has been arrested and sentenced to 7 My complete .voting · .record for 1974 tematically appeared on the pages of various years imprisonment. follows:' February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2285

Date Measure and result Vote Date Measure and result Vote

January 2L.H.a. 11387. Alcoholism Programs. Staggers Tell FebrUarJ 6_..H.R. M63. Federal Rules ot Evidence. Passage Yes (D W.Va.) motion to suspend the rules of the bill to eatabll8b uniform rules of and pass the blll to authorize ~-mn- evidence for federal courts. Passed 377-13. llon in fiscal 1974-76 for the prevention February6--Adjournment. Waggonner (D La.) motion to Not and treatment of alcoholism. Motion adjourn. (The intent of the motion was to Present agreed to 338-22. seek acljournment before House Rules Com- J anuary 22-H.R. 11537. Game Management. Dingell (D Yes mittee could report a rule providing for Mich.) motion to suspend the rules and House fioor consideration of the energy pass the bill to extend and expand the au­ emergency blll (S 2589) on Feb. 7.) Motion thority of federal agencies to carry out rejected 125-155. wildlife conservation and propagation pro­ February 7--H. Con. Res. 425. Lincoln's Birthday Recess. No grams on military reservations and other O'Neill (D Mass.) motion to concur with public lands. Motion agreed to 355- 25 Senate amendment to the resolution pro­ (PL 93-452). viding for adjournment of the Senate January 22-H.R. 11809. Fishery Zones Baselines. Dingell Yes from Friday, Feb. 8, to Mond'ly, Feb. 18, (D Mich.) motion to suspend the rules and and adjournment of the House from pass the bill to expand the fisheries zones Thursday, Feb. 7, to Wednesday, Feb. 13. off the coast of the United States by pro­ Motion agreed to 209-175. viding that baselines be straight rather February 7--S. J. Res. 185. Truckers' Fuel Cost Reim- No than following the indentations of the bursement. Adoption of the rule (H Res coastlines. Motion agreed to 875-1. 835) providing for House fioor considera- January 23-H.R. 11354. International Development As- Yes tion of the resolution to permit the Inter­ sociation. Passage of the bill to authorize state Commerce Commls8ton to order regu­ an additional $1.5-billlon contribution to lated trucking companies to reimburse the International Development Associa- independent truckers for increased fuel tion. Rejected 155-248. costs by Feb. 15 instead of March 20. January 29-H.R. 11793. Federal Energy Administration. Tea Adopted 384-10). Adoption of the rule (H Res. 788) provid- February '7'--S. J. Res. 185. Truckers' Fuel Cost Reimburse- Yes ing for House floor consideration of the ment. Passage of the resolution to permit bill to create a Federal Energy Administra- the Interstate Commerce Commission to tion. Adopted 380--5. (PL 93'-275). order regulated trucking companies to re­ January 30-H.R. 5463. Federal Rules of Evidence. Adop- Yes imburse independent truckers for increased tlon of the rule (H Res 787) providing for fuel costs by Feb. 15 instead of March 20, House fioor consideration of the bill to thus reducing the statutory waiting period establish a uniform set of rules of evidence for comments on the order. Passed (thus for federal courts. Adopted 386-18. cleared for the President) 374-6. (PL 93- February 4 __ H.R. 4861. Piscataway Park. Taylor (D N.C.) Yes 249) motion to suspend the rules and pass the February 7--H.R. 11873. Animal Health Research. Gooding Yes bill to authorize the acquisition, preserva- (R Pa.) motion to recommit to the House tion and protection of certain lands known Agriculture Committee the blll to author- as Piscataway Park in Prince Georges and ize an Agriculture Department matching Charles Counties, Maryland. Motion agreed grant program to carry on a program of to 334-4. ( PL 93-444) • an1ma1 health research. Rejected 27-328. February 5 __ H.R. 11221. Deposit Insurance. Adoption of Yes February 'f __ H.R. 11873. Animal Health Research. Passage . Yes the rule (H Res 794) providing for House · of the blll to authorize an Agriculture De­ fioor consideration of the bill to increase to partment !llatchlng grant program to carry tsQ,OOO from $20,000 the amount of a bank on a program of animal health research. deposit that can be covered by federal in­ Passecl324-23. surance and to provide for full federal in­ February 13-H.R. 118M. Solar Energy. Teague (D Texas) Yes surance of both checking and savings de­ motion that the House resolve into Com­ posits by state and local governments. mittee of the Whole House to consider the Adopted 397-0. blll to pl'"ovide for demonstrations of tech­ February 5 __ H.R. 11221. Deposit Insurance. Wylie (R No nology for using the sun•s energy to heat Ohio) amendment to delete from the bill and cool homes and other buildings. Agreed provisions to provide for federal insurance to24B-2. for unlimited amounts of bank savings de­ Febru ary 13-H.R. 11864. Solal' Energy. Passage of the blll Yes posits by state and local governments. Re­ to provide for National Aeronautics and jected 170--202. Space Administration program of demon­ February 5 __ H .R. 11221. Deposit Insurance. Motion to or- No strations of technology to use .solar energy der the previous question (thus end fur- to heat and cool homes a-nd other build- ther debate and the possib111ty for amend­ ings. Passed 253-2. ment) on Blackburn (R Ga.) motion to February 19-H.R. 12628. Veterans' Education and Re- Yf'~"l recommit to the Banking and Currency habllltation Amendments of 1974. Dorn Committee the bill to increase federal de­ (D S.C.) motion to suspend. the rules and posit insurance limits. Motton to order pass the bill to increase veterans' educa- previous question rejected 122-259. tion benefits by 13.6 per cent and make February s __ H.R. 11221. Deposit Insurance. Passage of the Yes other changes in veterans' education and blll to increase to $50,000 from $20,000 the training programs. Motion agreed to 382-0. amount of a bank deposit that can be cov- February 19-H.R. 10834. Golden Gate National Recreation Yes ered by federal deposit insurance and to Area. Taylor (D N.C.) motion to suspend provide for federal insurance on unlimited the rules and pass the bill to add approxi­ amounts of savings deposits by state and mately 875 acres to the Golden Gate Na­ local governments. Passed 282-94. tional Recreation Area in San Francisco and Marin Counties, Calif. Motion agreed February 6 __ H. Res. 803. Impeachment Inquiry Subpoena No to 284-88. Authority. Rodino (D N.J.) motion to order February 19_ H.R. 10203. Water Resources Development. Yes the previous question (end further debate Adoption of the conference report on the and the opportunity for . amendment) blll to authorize $1.3-b1111on in flscal 1974- on the impeachment inquiry resolution. 79 for the construction, repair and devel­ Motion agreed to 342-70. opment of navigation, fiood control and February 6 __ H. Res. 803. Impeachment Inquiry Subpoena Yes other water resource projects. Adopted Authority. Adoption of the resolution to 374-4: (PL 93-251). authorize and direct the House Committee February 2L H.R. 12670. Mllitary Flight Pay. Passage of No on the Judiciary to conduct an investiga- the bill to restructure the tllght pay sys- tion or" whether sufficient grounds exist to tem of the armed forces in order to im­ impeach President Nixon and to authorize prove retention of trained aviators and use of subpoenas in conducting the in­ provide more equitable flight pay. Passed quiry. Adopted 410--4. 320-67 (PL 93-~94). 2286 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Feb1--uary 4, 1975

Date Measure and Result Vo&le Date Measure and result Vote

February 26-H.R. 2. Private Pension Reform. Sisk (D Yes March 5----H. Res. 947. Reorganization Plan No. 2. Boll- Yes Calif.) motion to move the previous ques- field (D Calif.) motion to suspend the rules tion (cut otr further debate and preclude and adopt the resolution to amend the Re­ the opportunity for amendment) on the organization Plan No. 2 of 1973, by agreeing rule (H Res 896) providing for House :floor to Senate-approved amendments to a bill consideration of the bill to establish mini­ (H.R. 8245), passed by the House July 17, mum federal standards for private pension 1973, and by the Senate Dec. 3, 1973, elimi­ plans. Agreed to 331-53. nating dlfticulties in administering govern- February·26-H.R. 2. Private Pension Reform. Adoption of No ment immigration and naturalization pro­ the rule providing for House :floor consid­ grams. Motion agreed to 317--86. eration of the bill to establish minimum federal standards for private pension March 5 ____ H,R. 11793. Federal Energy Administration. No plans. Adopted 373-7 (93-406). Holifield (D Calif.) amendment, clarifying February 27-S. 2589. National Energy Emergency Act. Pep- No sections of the bill, to restrict the author- per (D Fla.) motion to order the previous ity of the Federal Energy Administration question (cut off further deba.te and pre­ to functions transferred to it under H .R. clude the opportunity for amendment) on 11793 or to those found in existing law. the rule (H Res 901) providing for House Adopted 301-103. :floor consideration of the energy emer­ March 6----H.R. 11793. Federal Energy Administration. No gency conference report. (Opponents of Bauman (R Md.) amendment to prohibit the rule sought to change the terms by the implementation of rationing programs which certain conference provisions could for gasoline and other petroleum products be considered by the House.) Motion re­ by the administrator of the Federal Energy jected 144-259. Administration without congressional ap­ February 27 _ s. 2589. National Energy Emergency Act. An- No proval. Rejected 160-241. derson (R Ill.) request for a separate vote striking from the conference report the March 6 •••• H .R. 11793. Federal Energy Administration. Yes provision to reduce and to control the Dingell (D. Mich.) amendment to roll back price of domestic crude oil which had been the price of domestic crude oil to $5.25 a exempted from price controls by law or by barrel and to allow prices to rise no more the Cost of Living Council. Rejected 173- than 35 percent above the $5.25 ceiling. 238. Adopted 218-175. February 27_ S. 2589. National Energy Emergency Act. Eck- No March 7 ____ H.R. 11793. Federal Energy Administration. Yes hardt (D. Texas) request for a separate vote Second vote on Dingel (D Mich.) amend­ striking from the conference report pro­ ment (See vote 42, above) requested by visions granting the President authority Holifield (D Calif.) . Amendment rejected to impose mandatory energy conservation 163-216. plans and providing for congressional dis­ approval of the plans. Rejected 66-343. March 7 ____ H.R. 11793. Federal Energy Administration. Yes February 27_ s. 2589. National Energy Act. Latta (R Ohio) No Passage of bill to create a Federal Energy request for a separate vote striking from Administration replacing the Federal En- the conference report the provision to au­ ergy Office, established by executive order thorize the President to impose rationing of in December 1973, to manage federal emer­ crude oil and oil products. Rejected 199-211. gency energy program. Passed 353-29. February 27 _ S. 2589. National Energy Emergency Act. Yes March 1L•• H. Res. 790. Armed Services Committee Fund- Yes Adoption of the conference report on the ing. Adoption of the resolution authorizing bill to grant the President authority to $150,000 for the Armed Services Cpmmittee impose gasoline rationing and other conser­ for the remainder of the 93rd Congress for vation measures and to ease clean air investigations, consultants fees, equipment standards and to direct him to reduce and rentals, and other miscellaneous expenses. control the price of domestic crude oil that Adopted 312-1. had been exempted from controls by law or by the Cost of Living Council. Adopted March 12 ___ House Journal. Wolff (D N.Y.) motion to read No 258-151. the March 11 proceedings from the House February 28_ H .R. 2. Private Pension Reform. Erlenborn No journal in their entirety. (The motion was (R Ill.) amendment to place management a tactic to delay consideration of H .R. 69, of pension plan termination insurance in a bill to amend and extend the Elementary a government-operated pension benefit in­ and Secondary Education Act of 1965; see surance corporation headed by a nine­ vote 47, below) . Motion rejected 16-365. member board rather than in the Secretary March 12---H.R. 69. Elementary and Secondary Educa- Yes of Labor and two other persons selected by tion Act Amendments. Adoption of the him, as provided by the bill. Rejected rule (H. Res. 963) providing for House 179-217. floor consideration of the bill to amend February 28_ H .R. 2. Private Pension Reform. Conable (R No and extend the Elementary and Secondary N.Y.) amendment to allow the maximum Education Act of 1965. Adopted 234-163. tax deductibe amount that a self-employed person could contribute to his own retire­ March 13 ___ H .R. 12341. State Department Property. Yes ment fund to be adjusted by cost of living Passage of the bill to amend the Foreign increases. Rejected 183-206. Service Buildings Act of 1926 to authorize February 28_ H.R. 2. Private Pension Reform. Long (D La.) No the sale of the former consul building and amendment to reduce to $6,000 from $7,500 residence in Venice, Italy, by the State the maximum tax-deductible amount that Department to Wake Forest .university in a self-employed person could contribute to North. Carolina for $250,000. Passed 402-Q. his own retirement fund each year. Re­ (PL 93-264) jected 63-323. March 13 ___ H.R. 12466. State Department Supplemental Yes "February 28_ H.R. 2. Private Pension Reform. Passage of Yes Authorization. Passage of the bill to the bill to establish minimum federal amend the State Department Appropria- standards for private pension plans. Passed tion Authorization Act of 1973 by reducing 376-4. some authorizations and incre~sing others, March 4-----H .R. 11143. Government Purchases From the Yes for a. net reduction of $12.7-inlllion for Blind. Hicks (D Wash.) motion to suspend fiscal 1974. Passed 331-75. (PL 93-312) the rules and pass the bill to authorize $240,000 in fiscal 1974 and open-ended March 13 ___ H .R. 3858. Anti-Hijacking Act. Metcalfe (D. Yes funds thereafter for ·the federal commis- Ill.) amendment to eliminate the death sion supervising government purchases of · penalty as a punishment _ for hijacking goods and services from the blind and other crimes and substitute instead a prison severely handicapped persons. Motion sentence of from 20 years to life. Rejected agreed to 308-0. (P.L. 93-358). 121-286. February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2287

Date Measure and result Vote Date Measure and result Vote

March 13 ___ H,R. 3858. Anti-Hijacking Act. Mathis (D. No March 20___ H.R. 12435. Minimum Wage Increase. Passage Yes Ga.) amendment to eliminate four of the of the bill to raise the hourly minimum mitigating factors under which the death wage for most non-farm workers from penalty for hijacking could not be im­ $1.60 to $2.00 two months after enactment, posed, but to retain a fifth factor prohibit- then to $2.10 on Jan. 1, 1975, and to $2.30 ing the death penalty for anyone under on Jan. 1, 1976; to extend new min1mum the age of 18. Rejected 102-302. wage coverage to approximately 7 million March 13---H.R. 3858. Anti-Hijacking Act. Eckhardt (D. Yes workers and to repeal several min1mum Texas) amendment to eliminate the man­ wage and overtime coverage exemptions datory death penalty for specifically de- contained in existing law. Passed 275-37. fined hijacking crimes in the bill and make March 20---H.R. 11929. TVA Pollution Control Costs. Pas- No it discretionary instead. Rejected 162-239. sage of the bill to entitle the Tennessee March 13---H.R. 3858. Anti-Hijacking Act. Passage of the No Valley Authority to a credit for the costs blll implementing the 1971 Hague inter­ of installation of pollution control equip­ national hijacking convention and author­ ment against repayments of appropriations izing the President to suspend air service to the U.S. Treasury. Passed 209-193. to and from any country he determined March 2L ••H.R. 12920. Peace Corps. Adoption of the rule Yes was acting inconsistently with the con­ (H Res 994) providing for House floor con­ vention, defining the circumstances under sideration of the bill to authorize $82,256,- which the death penalty must be imposed 000 for Peace Corps operations and up to for hijacking crimes, and authorizing cer- $1,000,000 for increases in Peace Corps sala- tain security measures for use at U.S. air­ ries and employee benefits in fiscal 1975. ports. Passed 361-47. Adopted 38o-9. March 14---H.R. ·12471. Freedom of Information. Passage Yes March 2L ••H.R. 12920. Peace Corps. Passage of the bill Yes of the bill to amend the Freedom of In­ to authorize $82,256,000 for Peace Corps formation Act of 1966 to improve the pub- operations and up to $1,000,000 for in­ lic's access to federal government docu­ creases in Peace Corps salaries and em­ ments by strengthening procedures for ob­ ployee benefits for fiscal 1975. Passed 294- tain1ng materials from government agen- 103 (PL 93-302). cies and by providing for closer congres­ March 25---H.R. 8747. D.C. Smallpox Vaccination. Pas- Yes sional oversight of the agencies covered by sage of the blll to repeal a District of the act. Passed 383-8. Columbia law requiring public school stu­ March 18--- S. 1206. Immigration and Nationality. Ell- Yes dents to be vaccinated against smallpox. berg (D Pa.) motion to suspend the rules Passed 316-1. (PL 93-334). and pass the bill to amend section 312 of March 25 ••• H .R. 12109. D.C. Neighborhood Councils. No the Immigration and Nationality Act to Landgrebe (R Ind.) motion to recommit, exempt any alien over 50 years of age who and thus kill, the bill amending the Dis- had lived in the United States for at least trict of Columbia Self-Government and 20 years from the requirement that he Governmental Reorganization Act to re­ have a working knowledge of the English quire the establishment of neighborhood language before applying for naturaliza- advisory councils by majority vote. Motion tion. Motion agreed to 301-21. rejected 118-215. March 18--- H.R. 10337. Hopi-Navajo Land Partition. No March 25---H.R. 12109. D.C. Neighborhood Councils. Yes Meeds (D Wash.) mo-tion to suspend the Passage of the bill to amend the District rules and pass the bill to authorize the of Columbia Self-Government and Govern- U.S. District Court of Arizona to formally ment Reorganization Act to establish partition lands that had been jointly used neighborhood advisory councils if a ma­ by the Hopi and Navajo Indians between jority of those voting approved their estab­ the two tribes. Motion rejected 133-199. lishment; the law: had originally required March 18___ _s. 2771. Milttary Enlistment Bonuses. Strat- No ·a majority of all 'registered voters to ap­ ton D N.Y.) motion to suspend the rules prove establishment of the councils. and pass the b111 to revise the special pay Passed 227-111 (PL 93-272). bonus structure of the armed services by March 25 ___ H.R. 12832. D.C. Law Revision Commission. Yes allowing up to $15,000 in selective re­ Passage of the bill to create a District of enlistment bonuses (SRB) for re-enlist­ Columbia Law Revision Commission and ments of persons with critical skills and establish a municipal code for the city. to expand existing law by allowing for Passed 220-119 (PL 93-379). enlistment bonuses of up to $3,000 for a March 26 ___ H.R. 69. Elementary and Secondary Educa- Yes four-year enlistment in any critical skirt tion Act Amendments. Peyser (R N.Y.) area in any service. Motion agreed to amendment to require that federal educa- 237-97. (PL 93-277). tion aid to disadvantaged students be dis­ March 19 ___ _H.R. 12503. Narcotic Treatment Programs. Yel3 tributed on the basis of a formula that Staggers (D W.Va.) motion to suspend the counted the number of children from fami- rules and pass the bill to require persons lies making less than $4,000 and all of the dispensing methadone and other narcotics children from famllies receiving AFDC in drug treatment programs to register (aid to fam111es with dependent children) with the attorney general. Motion agreed in excess of $4,000. Rejected 87-326. to 375-0. March 26 ___ H.R. 69. Elementary and Secondary Educa- No March 19 ___ .H.R. 12417. Diabetes Research. Staggers (D Yes tion Act Amendments. O'Hara (D Mich.). W. Va.) motion to suspend the rules and amendment to distribute two-thirds of the pass the bill to authorize $23.5-million in federal aid for disadvantaged students to fiscal 1975-77 to establish a national com­ school districts on the basis of the total mission to develop a long-range plan to number of schooL children, and one-third combat diabetes and to create new centers on the basis of the bill's formula-which for diabetes research and training. Motion counted only poor children (under the agreed to 380-6. federal definition of poverty) and two­ March 19 •••.H.R. 11105. Nutrition for the Elderly. Brade- Yes thirds of those receiving AFDC payments mas (D Ind.) motion to suspend the rules in excess of the poverty level. Rejected and pass the b111 to authorize $600-millton 103-312. in fiscal 1975-77 for the nutrition program March 26 ___ H.R. 69. Elementary and Secondary Educa- No for the elderly (Title Vll) under the Older tion Act Amendments. Esch (R Mich.) Americans Act. Motion agreed to 380-6. amendment to ban busing for desegrega- (PL 93-351). tion purposes to any but the school closest March 20---H.R. 12435. Minimum Wage Increase. Snyder No or next closest to the student's home and (R Ky.) amendment to exempt from mini­ to ~allow reopening of school desegregation mum wage and overtime requirements orders to modify them to conform with newsboys who also delivered . shopping the provisions of the amendment. Adopted newspapers. Rejected 167-236. 293-117. 2288 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February~' t!i75

Date Measure and result Vote Date Measure and result Vot&

March 27-..lLJ. Res. 941. Veterans Supplemental Appro- Yea Aprn:____ s. ~o. MU1tary Medical Pa.y. Aspm (1> Wls.) Yes priation.s, Fiscal 1974. Pas~e of the blll ameDgl"ams. Apr112-----S. 2'770. M111tary Medical Pay. Passage of the No Passed 398-0. bUl to increase bonuses and special pay for March 27 ___ H.R. 69. Elementary and Secondary Educa- Yes physicians, dentists, veterinarians and op­ tion Act Extension. Mink {D Ha.wa11) tometrists in the armed forces. Adopted amendment to extend impact aid programs 291-106. for three years. through fiscal 1977. instead April3------H.R. 13163. Consumer Protection Agency. Yes of one year. through fiscal 1975. Adopted Adoption of the rule (H Res 1025) pro­ 276-129. viding for House floor consideration of the March 27---H.R. 69. Elementary and Secondary Educa- No bm to establlsh an independent cOnsumer tion Act Extension. Ashbrook (R Ohio) Pl'otection Agency to represent. consumer amendment to prohibit any appropriated interests in the proceedings and activities funds !rom being used for busing to achieve of federal agencies. Adopted ~72-20. school desegregation. Adopted 239--168. Apr113------H.B. 13163. Consumer Protection Agency. No March 27 ---·H.R. 69. Elementary and Secondary Educa- No Broyhill (R. N.C.) amendment, to the tion Act Extension. Crane (:Rill.) amend­ Brown (R. Ohio) amendment in the nature ment to withhold education funds !rom or a substitute bill (See vote 89, bel01V), to any local education agency 11 the agency limit the authorization of the Consumer required its employees to join or pay dues Protection Agency to fiscal 1975-77. to a union or professional organization. Adopted 224-177. Rejected 95-308. Aprll 3------H.R. 13163. Consumer Protection Agency. No March 27 ----H.R. 69. Elementary and Secondary Educa- Yes Brown (R Ohio) amendment, In the na- tion Act Extension. Passage of the bill to ture of a substitute blll, to restrict the extend most programs authorized by the Consumer Protection Agency's access to Elementary and Secondary Education Act ether federal agencies' information, to of 1965 through fiscal 1977 and restrict the limit its authority to seek judicial review use of busing for d~gregation purposes. of agency decisions and to delete its indi- Passed 380-26. rect subpoena power. Rejected 176-223. March 28--.S. 2747. Mlnlmum Wage Increase. Adopti~"'l Yes April 3------H.R. 13163. Consumer Protection Agency. No of the conference report on the bill to Fuqua tD Fla.) amendment. as a substitute raise the hourly minimum wage for most to the pending Wright (D Texas) amend­ non-farm workers from $1.60 to $2.00 on ment (See vote 91, below), to limit the Ma.y 1, 1974. then to $2.10 on Jan ~ 1, 1975, Consumer Protection Agency's right of a.nd to $2.30 on Jan. 1, 1976; and to extend judicial review to questions dealing with new minimum wage coverage to approxi­ its right to obtain information or to repre- ma:tely 7 million workers. Adopted 345-50. sent consumers. Rejected 149-241. (PL93-259) April 3---- - ·H.R. 13163. Consumer Protection Agency. No March 28 ___ .H.R. 12412. Foreign Disaster Assistance. Pass- Yes Wright (D Texas) amendment to require age of the bill to authorize $65-million in the Consumer Protection Agency to demon­ disaster assistance to Nicaragua and Paki- strate that judicial review of any agency stan and $50-million to the Sa.hellan coun- decision in which it did not participate tries of Africa, and to require congressional originally would serve the interests of Jus- reView of any agreements modifying the tice before seeking such review. Adopted terms of foreign aid debts of foreign gov­ 236-147. ernments to the United States. Passed 276- April 3----- H.R. 13163. Consumer Protection Agency. Yes . 124- (93-333} Passage of the blll to establish an inde­ April t______x Res 937. Internal Security Committee No pendent Consumer Protection Agency to Funding. Passage of the bill to authorize represent the interests of consumers In the $475,000 for the House Internal Security activities of federal agencies. Passed 293- Committee .n fiscal 1975. PassecS 247-86. M. . April L ____ ..H.R. 13515. Librarian of Congress Retirement. No April 4 _____ H.R. 12253. Guaranteed student Loans. Adop- Yes Nedzl (D Mich.} motion to suspend the tion o! the conference report on the bill to rules and pass the bill to provide a con­ elimlnate the needs test for certain stu­ gressional retirement of $20,700 per year dents seeking federal interest subsidies on for L. Quincy Mumford, librarian of Con­ guaranteed student loans and to make gress, proVided that he retired within 30 fiscal 1974 education funds available for days of enactment of the bill. (Mumford expenditure through fiscal 1975. Adopted was scheduled to retire as a Civil Service 376-l. (PL 93-269) . employee at $15,000 per year.) Motion re­ April 4 __ ___ H.R. 12565. Defense Supplemental Authoriza- No jected 103-226. tion, Fiscal 1974. McSpadden (D Okla.) motion to order the previous question, April2-----~H. R. 6186. D.C. Elections. Adoption of the Yes conference report on the bill to permit which would have the effect of ending fur- employees of the federal government or ther debate on and the possibility of amending the rule (H. Res. 1026} providing the government of the District of Col,•m- for House floor consideration of the blll to bia to become candidates for mayor and authorize supplemental defense appropria­ city council of the city and to amend the tions for fiscal 1974. Motion rejected 113- District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1947. 268. Adopted 388-6. (PL 93-268) April 4------H.R. 12565. Defense Supplemental Authoriza- Yes Aprll 2 ______8. 1585. Unauthorized Use of Woodsy Owl. Yes tion, Fiscal 1974. Leggett (D. callL) amend­ Edwards (D Calif.) motion to suspend the ment to delete the provision to authorize rules and pass the bill to provide a fine $29-m.Ullon to expand the U.S~ naval facil- and prison term for using for profit the Ity at the Indian Ocean island of Diego conserV!ation emblem, Woodsy Owl, or the Garcia. Rejected 94-255. slogan, "Give a hoot, don't pollute." Mo- April 4---- ~ H.R. 12565. Defense Supplemental Authorize.- No tion agreed to 384-15 (PL 93-318). tion. Fiscal 1974.. Hebert (D. La.) amend­ Aprll2 ______s. r'/70. Mllitary Medical Pay. Adoption of No ment to increase the fiscal 1974 authoriza- the rule (H Res 1017) to provide for House tion ceiling on U.S. military aid to South 1loor consideration of the but to increase Vietnam from $1.126-billion under existing bonuses and special pay !or physicians, law to $1.4-blllion (the adm.in!stratlon dentists, veterinarians a.nd optometrists in originany had requested $1 .6-billion). Re­ the armed forces. Adopted 288-112. jected 154-177. February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2289

Date Measure and Result Vote Date Measure and Result Vote

April a_____ H.R. 12473. Eisenhower Convention Center. Yes commission to oversee the industry; to Passage of the bill to establish and finance grant the coillllli.ssion new legal authority a bond sinking fund for construction o! to prescribe and enforce regulations; and the Eisenhower convention center. Re­ to extend federal regulation to all agricul­ jected 138-211. tural and other commodities traded on April 9-----H. Res. 998. House Rules. Adoption o! the Yes commodity exchanges. Adopted 347-15. rule (H. Res. 1018) to provide for House April 1L ___ _H.R. 13113. Commodity Futures Trading Yes fioor consideration of the b!ll to modify Commission. Sisk (D Calif.) amendment to House parliamentary procedures. Adopted ensure that the four public members of 311-84. the commodity trading regulatory com­ April 8-----·H.R. 12473. Eisenhower Convention Center. Yes mission proposed in the bill be fulltime Diggs (D. Mich.) amendment to allow Dis- employees of the commission, and that the trict of Columbia residents to vote in a fifth member, the secretary of agriculture, nonbinding advisory referendum on wheth- not be appointed chairman of the body. er or not the Eisenhower convention cen- Rejected 158-179. ter should be built. Adopted 276-69. April 1L----H.R. 13113. Commodity Futures Trading Yes April a __ _: __ H.R. 12473. Eisenhower Convention Center. No Commission. Passa.ge of the bill to Gray (D. Ill.) amendment to delete a $14- strengthen federal regulation of commod- million authorization, previously enacted ity futures trading by cr~ting a five-mem- into law, in federal funds for the conven.:. ber, semi-independent commission to over- tion center and to eliminate oversight au­ see the industry; to grant the commission thority of the Senate and House Appro­ new legal authority to prescribe and en­ priations Committees for convention cen- force · regulations; and to extend federal ter plans and construction. Rejected 142- regulation to all agricultural and other 205. commodities traded on commodity ex­ April 9-----H. Res. 998. House Rules. Gross (R-Iowa) Yes changes. Adopted 281-43. amendment to delete the language in the April 23-----S. 2770. Military Medical Pay. Adoption of Yes resolution to raise to 40 from 20 the num- the conference report on the bill to revise ber of members needed to force a recorded the special pay structure for physicians in vote on an amendment in situations where the armed forces and to set a maximum more than 200 members were on the fioor. bonus of $13,500 for each year of additional Adopted 252-147. service that .a military physician agreed to April 9-----H. Res. 998. House Rules. Adoption of the Yes perform. Adopted 327-17 (PL 93-274). resolution to restrict the use of quorum April 23 _____ H.R. 13919. Atomic Energy Commission Au- Yes calls on the fioor, establish a new procedure thorization. Lujan (R N.M.) amendment to for consideration of bills under suspension increase the fiscal 1975 authorization for of the rules, and broaden the opportunity the Atomic Energy Commission by $600,- for House members to consider and vote on 000 for construction of a solar heating and non-germane language added to bills by cooling demonstration project at the Los the Senate and in conference; Adopted Alamos, N.M., Scientific Laboratory. 374-27. Adopted 27&-112. April g _____ H.R. 14012. Legislative Branch Appropria- Yes April 23 _____ H .R. 13919. Atomic Energy Commission Au- No tions, Fiscal 1975. Passage of the bill to thorlzatlon. Robison: (R N.Y.) amendment·. appropriate $603,221,280 in fiscal year 1975 to itlcrease the fiscal 1975 authorization for for the operations of the House of Repre,;, controlled thermonuclear (fusion) research sentatives, joint House and Senate activ- to $112-million from $91-million. Rejected ities, the Architect of the Capitol and other 11~283. items. Passed 373-17. April 24 _____ H.R. 12799. Arms Control and Disarmament Yes April 10 ____ H.R. 14013. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes Agency Authorization. Foreign Affairs Fiscal 1974. Obey (D-Wis.) amendment to Committee-approved amendment to re­ increase to $250-million from $100-million quire the director of the Arms Control and an appropriation to continue existing Disarmament Agency to report to Congress public service job programs triggered on the impact major weapons programs whenever national unemployment is 4.5 would have on U.S. arms control policy percent or more and to increase total ap­ and negotiations. Rejected 152-239 (P.L. propriations for both existing and new 93-332). public service jobs programs to $500-mll- April 24 _____ s, 628. Civil Service Annuity. Adoption of the Yes lion from $350-million. Adopted 236-168. rule (H Res 1010) to provide for considera- April 10----H.R. 14013. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes tion of the bill to eliminate the reduction Fiscal 1974. Addabbo (D-N.Y.) amend- in the annuity taken by a Civil Service ment to appropriate $4,500,000 for imple­ retiree in order to provide survivor bene- menting a Federal program to prevent and fits for a spouse, and to provide a surviving treat child abuse. Adopted· 254-149. spouse with a basic annuity of 55 per cent April 10-----H.R. 14013. Supplemental Appropriations, No o! the retiree's annuity. Adopted 363-30. Fiscal 1974. Gross (R Iowa) amendment to April 24 _____ s. 628. Civil Service Annuity. Passage of the Yes delete a $230-million appropria.tion for a bill to eliminate the reduction in annuity payment to the U.S. Postal Service Fund taken by a Civil Service retiree in order to to offset losses caused by a Cost of Living provide survivor benefits for a spouse and Council order delaying a postage increase to provide a surviving spouse with a basic to March 2 from Jan. 5. Rejected 97-302. annuity of 55 per cent of the retiree's an­ April 10----·H.R. 14013. Supplemental Appropriations, No nuity. Passed 296-102 (PL. 93-474). Fiscal 1974. Symms (R Idaho) amendment April 24 _____ H.R. 11321. Public Safety Officers' Benefits. No to cut all appropriations in the bill by 5 Danielson (D Calif.) amendment to change per cent. Rejected 145-249. the effective date of the program estab­ April 10----.H.R_. 14013. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes lished by the bill from Oct. 11, 1972, to the FISCal 1974. Passage of the bill to make date of enactment of the bill. Rejected supplemental appropriations of $8,811,362,- 187-191. 043 in fiscal 1974 for defense, pay coot in­ April 24 ____ H.R. 11321. Public Safety Officers' Benefits. No creases, manpower programs and other Wiggins (R Calif.) motion to recommit the purposes. Passed 37&-22. bill to the Judiciary Committee. Rejected AprU lL••• .H.R. 13113. Commodity Futures Trading Yes 77-300. Commisison. Adoption of the rule (H. Res. April 24-----H.R. 11321. Public Safety Officers' Benefits. Yes 1029) providing for House fioor considera- Passage of the bill to provide a $50,000 fed- tion ot the blll to strengthen federal regu­ eral payment to the surv1v11ng dependents la.tlon of commodity futures trading by of non-federal public safety officers-po­ creating a five-member, semi-independent licemen, firemen, corrections officers, pris- 2290 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975

Date Measure and Result Vote Date Measure and Result Vote

on and probation officers--who died from May 2------H.R. 13053. National Cancer Program. Passage Yes injury sustained in the performance of of the bill to authorize $2.8-billion over a their work. Passed 320-54. three-year period (fiscal 1975-77) !or the April 25-----H.R. 13999. National Aeronautics and Space Yes federal program of cancer research, detec- Administration Authorization. Passage of tion and treatment. Passed 390-1: the bill to authorize $3.3 billion in fis- May 2 ______..H.R. 6175. National Institute on Aging. Yes cal 197S appropriations for the- National Passage of the bill to establish a National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Institute on Aging within the- National Passed 341-37. Institutes of Health. Passed 379-1: April 25-----H.R. 13999. National Science Foundation Au- Yes May 6 ______H.R. 296. Historical and Archeological Data Yes thorization. Symington (D Mo.) amend­ Preservation. Taylor (D N.C.) motion to ment. as a substitute amendment to the suspend the rules and pass the bill to ex- pending Roncallo (R N.Y.) amendment pand federal efforts to recover, preserve (see note 123 below), to bar the National and document historical and archeological Science Foundation from performing any resources that would otherwise be lost be- research using live human fetuses outside cause of federal construction projects. Mo- the womb except to save the life of the tion agreed to 296-23. fetus or to carry out the duties and re­ May 6------S. 1125. Alcoholism Program. staggers (D Yes sponsibilities of the medical profession. W.Va..) motion to suspend the rules and Rejected 136-218. concur with Senate amendments to the April 25-----H..R. 13999. National Science Foundation Au- No blll to authorize $374-million in fiscal thorization. Roncallo (R. N.Y.} amend­ 1975-77 for federal programs for the pre­ ment to bar the National Science Foun­ vention and treatment of alcoholism and dation from performing any research using alcohol abuse. Motion agreed to (thus live human fetuses outside the womb ex- cleared for the President) 301-17. (P.L. cept to save the life of the fetus. Adopted 93-282). 281-58. Uay 7 ______H.R. 11035. Metric Conversion. Teague (D No April 25 _____ H.R. 13999. National Science Foundation Au- Yes Texas} motion to suspend the rules and thorization. Passage of the bill to author- pass the bill to establish a national board ize $788.2 million in fiscal 1975 appropria- to plan for the voluntary conversion to tion for the National Science Foundation. the metric system of measurement in the Passage 330-8 (PL. 93-413}. United States. Motion rejected 153-240. April 29 _____ H.R. 11793. Federal Energy Administration. Yes May 7 ______H.R. 14117. Disabled Veterans. Dorn (D No Adoption of the conference report on the S.C.) motion to suspend the rules and bill to establish a temporary Federal Ener- pass the bill to authorize cost-of-living in­ gy Administration to manage short-term creases in the rates of disability compen­ energy shortages. Adopted 356-9 (PL. 93- sation for disabled veterans and the rates 275). of dependency and indemnity compensa- April 29 _____ H.R. 11989. Fire Prevention and Control. Yes tion for their survivors. Motion agreed to Passage of the b111 to establish a National 396-0. Bureau of Fire Safety and a.. Fire Research May 7 ______H.R. 14354. National School Lunch Program. Yes Center in the Department of Commerce Perkins (D Ky.) motion to suspend the and to authorize the National Institutes :rules and pass the bill to extend through of Health to develop a program for the fiscal 1975 the authority of the agriculture improved treatment of burn victims. seeretary to purchase food commodities Passed 352-12. for distribution to child nutrition pro­ April 3Q _____ H.R. 14434. Energy Research and Develop- Yes grams at non-surplus prices. Motion ment Appropriations. Fiscal 1975. Roncalio agreed to 359-38. (D Wyo.) amendment to delete $4.335,000 May 8 ______H.R. 8053. Voter Registration Aet. Adoption Yes. m Atomic Energy Commission funds for of the rule (H. Res. 929) to provide for research and evaluation !or the use of un­ House fioor consideration of the bill to derground nuclear expositions to stimulate establish a nationwide postcard voter reg­ the recovery of shale oil and mineral ores. istration system for federal elections. Re­ Rejected 190-207. jected 197-204. Apri130 ____H.R.14434. Energy Research and Development Yes May g ______H.R. 8193. Energy Transportation Security. No Appropriations, Fiscal 1975. Passage of the Anderson (D Calif.) amendment to exempt bill to appropriate $2,269,828,000 for energy refineries with a capacity of 30,000 barrels research and development programs of the of oil per day or less from the bill's re­ fe-deral government. Passed 392-4 (PL 93- quirement that a percentage of imported 322). oil (see vote 142, below) be carried in May L ______H.R. 12993. Broadcast License Renewal. Bray- No American ships. Agreed to 227-176. bill (R N.C.) amendment to extend the May 8------.H.R... 8193. Energy Transportation Security. No broadcast license term from three to five Passage of the blll to require that Ameri- years, instead of from three to four years. can ships carry 20 per cent of all oil and oil Adopte-d 308-84. products imported into the United States, May L ______H.R. 12993. Broadcast License Renewal. No with the percentage Increasing to 25 per Passage of the bill to amend the 1934 cent after June 30, 1975, and to 30 per cent Communications Act by extending the by June 30, 1977. Passed 266-136. broadcast license term from three to five May 14-----·S- 1752. Productivity Commission. Adoption Yes years. putting new llmits on the Federal o! the rule (H. Res. 895) providing for Communications Commission's power to House fioor consideration of the bill revis- revoke licenses, and requiring broadcasters ing and defining the objectives and func- to !allow specific rules in determining the tions o! the National Commission on Pro­ interests o! their audiences. Passed 379-14: ductivity. Adopted 308-57. May 14-_____ .s. 1752. Productivity Commission. Passage of Yes May 1------..H.R. 14368. Energy Supply and Coordination. No the bill revising and defining the objec- Wyman (R N.H.) amendment to suspend ti:ve.s and functions ot the National Com­ auto emlssion controls in the- United States mission on Productivity, and authorizing until 1977 except !or those areas designated :fiscal 1975 funds for the commission. as having heavy pollution levels. Rejected Passed 238-139 (PL. 93-311). 169-221: May 15_____ .H.R. 12000. Egg Research and Consumer In- Yes Uay 1------.lLR- 14a68. Energy Supply and Coordina.tion. No formation Act. Goodling (R. Pa.) amend- Passage o! the bill to authorize a. relaxation ment to require the egg industry \o pay of several air poll utfon regula.tions and to administrative expenses. of its. research and require the federal energy aclmln1s.trator to promotion prograin from. voluntary con­ eollect information on the nation•s. energy ttlbutions, instead of using government res0urces. Passed 349-43 (PL 93-319). funds for that purpose. Adopted 238-151. February 4, .1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 229l

Date Measure and Result Vote Date Measure and Result Vote

May 15 ____ .H.R. 1200. Egg Research and Consumer In- No May 22 _____ H.R. 14592. Defense Procurement Authoriza- Yes formation Act. Passage of the bill authoriz­ tion. O'Neill (D Mass.) amendment, as sub­ ing egg producers to establish, finance and stitute for Dellums (D Oa.Uf.) amendment, carry out a program of research and pro­ to reduce the total number of U.S. troops motion to improve their market position, overseas by 100,000 by Dec. 13, 1975, with under Department of Agriculture super­ the reductions to be determined by the vision. Passed 302-90 (P.L. 93-428). Defense Department. Rejected 163-240. May 15------S. 3062. Disaster Relief Act. Adoption of the Yes May 22 ______H.R. 14592. Defense Procurement Authoriza- Yes conference report on the bill to expand tion. Leggett (D Calif.) amerulment, to the federal assistance to states which were af­ Hebert (D La..) substitute for the original fected by major disasters. Adopted 392-0 Leggett amendment, to set a $1-blllion ceil­ (P.L. 93-288). ing in fiscal 1975 on military aid for South May 16------H.R. 13973. Overseas Private Investment Yes Vietnam. Rejected 190-211. Corporation. Passage of the bill to extend May 22 ______H.R. 14592. Defense Procurement Authoriza- Yes the programs of the Overseas Private In­ tion. Aspin (D-Wis.) amendment to reduce vestment Corporation (OPIC) through the total authorization in the bill $733.1- Dec. 31, 1977, and to promote the transfer milllon-to $21.9-billion-by setting a ceil­ of OPIC's insurance functions to private ing equivalent to the fiscal 1974 congres­ insurance companies, multilateral organi­ sionally approved procurement appropria­ zations or other private agencies by stat­ tions, plus a 7.4 percent adjustment for ing the intent of Congress that OPIC cease inflation. Rejected 185-209. writing expropriation and inconvertibllity May 22 _____ .H.R. 14592. Defense Procurement Authoriza- No insurance after Dec. 31, 1979, and war risk tion. Passage of the bill to authorize $22.6- insurance after Dec. 31, 1980, and by au­ billion for fiscal 1975 for Defense Depart­ thorizing OPIC to assume the role of re­ ment procurement, research and develop­ insurer. Passed 225-152. ment. Passed 358-37. May 16------H.R. 7824. Legal Services Corporation. Ash­ No May 23 _____ .H.R. 14832. Debt Limit Increase. Adoption Yes brook (R Ohio) motion to recommit to of the rule (H. Res. 1141) to provide !or the conference committee with specific in­ House fioor consideration of the blll to structions the bill (see vote 150, below) increase the temporary federal debt ceiling to establish an independent corporation to $495-billion. Adopted 33()-44. providing legal services for the poor. (The May 23 _____ .H.R. 14832. Debt Limit Increase. Passage of No instructions would have required House the bill to increase the temporary federal conferees to insist on retaining House­ debt ceiling to $495-billion from $475-bll­ passed provisions to eliminate the cor­ lion from July 1, 1974, through March 1975. poration's authority to make grants and Passed 191-190. (PL 93-325). No contracts for outside research on legal May 29-----.H.R. 14449. Community Services Act. Quie questions affecting the poor.) Motion re­ (R Minn.) amendment to delete provisions jected 183-190. . of the bill to create a separate Community May 16------H.R. 7824. Legal Services Corporation. Adop­ Yes Action Amlnistration within the Depart­ tion of the conference report on the bill ment of Health, Education and Welfare. to establish an independent public cor­ Rejected 94-284. No poration providing legal services for the May 29-----.H.R. 14441t Community Services Act. Kemp poor. Adopted 227-143. (R-N.Y.) amendment to require a commu­ May 2Q _____ .H.R. 14592. Defense Procurement Authori- Yes nity action agency to be a unit of state zation. Adoption of the rule (H. Res. 1112) or local government (existing law allowed providing !or House floor action on the private groups to be community action bill to authorize $22.6-billion for Defense agenCies). Rejected 122-264. No Department procurement, research and May 29-----·H.R. 14449. Community Services Act. Froeh­ development in fiscal 1975. Adopted 298-0. lich (R-Wis.) amendment to bar commu­ May 2L _____ H.R. 12526. Rural Electrification Loans. Yes nity action programs from using family Poage (D Texas) motion to suspend the planning assistance funds for medical aid rules and pass the bill making technical or supplies in abortion cases. Adopted changes in the procedures for obtaining 290-91. guaranteed loans under the Rural Elec­ Yes trification Act of 1936, as amended. Mo­ May 29-----·H.R. 14449. Community Services Act. Passage tion agreed to 386-9. of the blll to extend programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity through fiscal May 2L _____ H.R. 13834. Standby Energy Emergency Au- Yes thority, Staggers (D W.Va.) motion to 1977 and to tnmsfer them to a separate suspend the rules and pass the bill to Community Action Administration within HEW and to other cabinet-level depart­ give the President authority to ration ments. Passed 331-53. scarce fuels and to roll back and control the price o! crude oil and oil products. May 29 _____ .H.R. 10337. Hopl-Navajo Land Partition. No Motion rejected 191-207. Meeds (D-Wash.) amendment in the nature of a substitute for the bill, to pro­ May 2L ____ .H.R. 14225. Vocational Rehabilitation Act Yes Extension. Brademas (D Ind.) motion to vide for court appointment of three arbi­ suspend the rules and pass the bill to trators to settle the land dispute between amend and extend the Rehabilitation Act the Hopi and Navajo Indians if they failed o! 1973 for one additional year, through to reach an agreement after six months of fiscal 1976. Motion agreed to 400-1. negotiation. Rejected 129-199. May 2L _____ H.R. 13221. Saline Water Authorization. Yes May 29 _____ .H.R. 10337. Hopi-Navajo Land Partition. · Yes Johnson (D Calif.) motion to suspend the Passage of the bill to authorize the u.s. rules and pass the bill to authorize $13.9 District Court of Arizona to formally parti­ million in appropriations !or fiscal 1975 tion land that had been jointly used by for the Interior Department's saline water the Hopi and Navajo Indians. Passed research, development and demonstration 290-38. program. Motion agreed to 396-3 (PL 93- May 30-----.H.R. 10265. Federal Reserve Audits. Adoption Yes 342). of the rule providing for House floor con­ May 22 _____ .H.R. 14592. Defens~ Procurement Authoriza- Yes sideration o! the bill to require General tion. Pike (D N.Y.) amendment to delete Accounting Office audits of the Federal Re­ $499-mlllion authorization for the con­ serve System. Adopted 290-85. tinued development of the B-1 manned M.ay SO _____ .H.R. 10265. Federal Reserve Audits. Ashley No bomber. Rejected 94-309. (D-Ohio) amendment to restrict General May 22 _____ H.R. 14592. Defense Procurement Authoriza- Yes Accounting Office (GAO) audits of the tion. Abzug (D N.Y.) amendment to delete Federal Reserve System to the system's ad­ all research and development funds in the ministrative expenses and financial trans­ bill allocated to the administration's new actions and to prohibit GAO evaluation of counterforce nuclear strategy of targeting Federal Reserve Board monetary pollcy­ on Soviet missile sites. Rejected 34-370. maklng. Adopted 224-139. CXXI--145-Part 2 2292 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975

Date Measure a.nd Result Vote Date Measure and Result Vote

May 30-----H.R. 10265. Federal Reserve Audits. Passage Yes June IS-----..H.R. 14747. Sugar Act Amendments. Adop- No of the blll to require regular General Ac­ tion of the rule (H. Res. 1152) providing counting Office (GAO) audits of Federal for House floor consideration of the bill to Reserve System financial administration amend and extend the Sugar Act of 1948 but not of Federal Reserve Board monetary for five years, through Dec. 31, 1979. policies. Passed 333-20. R 141-6. Adopted 370-13: May 30-----H.R. 13678. Hospital Employees Bargaining No June 5------H.R. 14747. Sugar Act Amendments. Mitchell Yes Rights. Quie (R Minn.) amendment to al- D. Md.) amendment to phase out the sugar low the National Labor Relations Board to quota for South Africa by 1976. Rejected cede jurisdiction for labor-management 149-238: relations involving nonprofit hospitals to June 5------H.R. 14747. Sugar Act Amendments. Ford Yes any state that had a law "substantially (D. Mich.) amendment to include changes equivalent" to that outlined in the bill. in productivity and costs of worker travel Rejected 152-161. among the criteria. which the secretary of May 30-----H.R. 13678. Hospital Employees Bargaining No agriculture must consider in determining Rights. Erlenrorn (R Ill.) · amendment to miniinum wage . rates for sugar workers. provide for a 60-day "cooling off" period Adopted 244-143: . before employees could strike against a , health care institution in the event that June 5 ______H.R. 14747. Sugar Act Amendments. O'Hara Yes bargaining reached an impasse. Adopted (D. Mich.) amendment to require growers 168-137. who employed sugar field workers at piece May 80-----H.R. 13678. Hospital Employees Bargaining Yes rates to pay them at least the hourly Rights. Passage of the blll to remove the minimum· w~ge .determined by the secre- exemption from coverage under the Na­ tary of agriculture. Adopted 233-151: tional Labor Relations Act of all nonprofit June 5------H.R. 14747. Sugar Act Amendments. Passage No nongovernmental hospitals a.nd to estab- of the bill to amend and extend the Sugar lish certain labor relations procedures for Act of 1948 for five years, through Dec. 31, all health care institutes, including the 1979. Rejected 175-209: right to strike only if 10 days notice were given. Passed 240-58. June 5------H.R. 69. Elementary and Secondary Educa- No June 3-----H. Con. Res. 271. U.S. Soldiers Missing in Ac- Yes tion Act Extension. Esch (R Mich.) motion tion. Adoption of the resolution to express to instruct House conferees to the bill to the sense of Congress that U.S. consider­ insist on House-passed busing language ation of trade, financial aid or diplomatic forbidding the transportation of students recognition of North Vietnam or the Viet to achieve racial integration beyond the Cong be terminated until they complied school next closest to the st udents' homes. with provisions of the Jan. 27, 1973, set­ ~otion agreed to 270-103. tlement on cessation of hostilities in June 6 - -- ~ --H.R. 15155. Public Works-AEC Appropria.- Yes Southeast Asia. regarding servicemen miss- tions, Fiscal 1975. Conte (R Mass.) amend- ing in action. Adopted 273-0. ment to delete $800,000 in fiscal 1975 ap­ June 3-----H.R. 14833. Renegotiation Act Extension. Yes propriations for preconstruction planning Mills (D Ark.) motion to suspend the rules and study for the proposed Dickey-Lincoln a.nd pass the bi11 to extend through School hydroelectric power project on the Dec. 31, 1975, from June 30, 1974, the fed- Saint John River bordering Maine and eral Renegotiation Board, which wa.s es­ canada. Rejected 186-201. tablished to review federal . defense and space contracts a.nd eliminate excessive June 6 ____ .:_ H.R. 15155. Pu~lic Works-AEC Appropria- Yes profits to contractors. Motion agreed to tions, ·Fiscal 1975. Passage of the bill to 278-2 (PL 93-329). ·appropriate $4,475,410,000 for fiscal 1975 June 4-----S.J. Res. 40. White House Conference on Yes for federal public works programs and the Libraries and Information Services. Brade- Atomic Energy Commission. Passed 374- mas (D Ind.) ~otion to suspend the rules 21. and pass the bill to authorize and request June 6 ______H.R. 10701. Deepwater Ports Licensing Au- Yes the President to call a White House Con­ thority. Eckhardt (D Texas) amendment to ference on Library and Information Serv- the Sullivan (D Mo.) substitute ices in 1977. Motion rejected 223-147. (see vote 192, below) to the Jones (D Ala.) substi- June 4-----H.R. 13595. Coast Guard-Authorization. Mur- Yes phy (D N.Y.) motion to suspend the rules tute for the committee bill-Establish a a.nd pass the bill to authorize $122-million high seas oil port liability fUnd financed in fiscal 1975 for Coast Guard operations. from a 2 cents a barrel user charge to pay Motion agreed to 365-0 (PL 93-430). for damages suffered to property within June 4 ______s. 2844. Recreation Use Fees. Taylor (D. N.C.) Yes the U.S. territorial limits from an oil spill motion to suspend the rules and pass the which occurred as a part of the high seas bill to amend the Land and Water Conser­ port operation. vation Fund Act of 1965 to reinstitute June 6------H.R. 10701. Deepwater Ports Licensing Au- Yes camping fees at all national parks a.nd rec­ thority. Sullivan (D Mo.) substitute as reation areas (authority to levy charges amended by Eckhardt (D Texas) (see vote on campers was inadvertently eliminated 191, above) to the Jones (D Ala.) substi- in 1973 by legislation amending the Flood tute for the committee bill-Authorize the Control Act of 1968) . Motion agreed to secretary of interior to grant licenses for 355-10 (PL 93-303). construction of deepwater ports off the June 4, ______H.R. 12565. Fiscal 1974 Defense Department No territorial waters of the United States after Supplemental Authorization. Adoption of it was determined that construction of a the conference report on the bill to au­ port wasin line with the land and water thorize a supplemental appropriation of use laws of the adjacent state. Adopt ed $769-million for Defense Department pro­ 174-158. curement, construction, research and de­ velopment for fiscal 1974. Adopted 354-14: June 6------H.R. 10701. Deepwater Ports Licensing Au- Yes (PL 93-307). thority. Passage of the bill to authorize June 4------H.R. 14013. Second Supplemental Appropria- Yes the secretary o! interior to grant licenses tions, Fiscal 1974. Adoption of the con­ for construction of deepwater ports off ference report on the bill making definite the territorial waters of the United States supplemental appropriations for various after it was determined that construc- federal departments and agencies of tion of a port was in line with the land and $8,771,474,398 for fiscal 1974. Adopted water use laws of the adjacent state. 339-27 (PL 93- 305) . Passed 318-9. February ·4, ·1975 · EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2293

Date Measure and Result Vote Date Measure and Result Vote

June 10-----H.B. 15074. District of Columbla ·Campalgn Not June 18----H.R.. 1MCK. State. Justice, Commerce Appro- Yes Financing. Faunt~y (D D.C.) amendmenii Present priatlona. Fiscal 1975. Belnz (R Pa.) to reduce. the campaign spending celllngs amendment to increase appropriations for for mayoral candidates in the District of the antitrust division. Justice Department Columbia from $150.000 to $100.000 for each by $1.082,000. to $16.8 mlllion, an increase primary and general election campaign of $2 million over flscal1974. Adopted 216- and to set lower limlts for campaigns for 185. _ other District offices. Adopted 273-56. June 18----H.R. 15404. State, Justice, Commerce Appro- Yes June 1Q _____ H.R. 15074. District of Columbia Campaign Yes priations. Fiscal 1975. Passage of the blll Financing. Passage of the blll to regulate to appropriate $5,554,254,100 for the De­ political campaign financing practices in partments of State. Justice. Commerce. the the District of Columbia. Passed 314-17 federal judiciary and 13 related agencies (PL. 93-376). in fiscal 1975. Passed 365-36. June 11-----H.R. 12165. Colorado River Basin. Adoption Yea June 19----S. 411. Postal Rate Adjustments. Chap- No of the rule (H. Res. 1166) providing for pell (D Fla.) am.mdment to eliminate House floor consideration of the blll to most proflt-maklng publications from cov­ authorize certain programs in the Colorado erage under the bill. thus lengthening the River Basin for the control of the salinity phaseout period for postal subsidies only of the water delivered to users in the for nonprofit publications and weekly United States and Mexico. Adopted 402-1. newspapers with circulation of 10.000 or June 11-----H.R. 12165. Colorado River Basin. Passage of Yes less. Rejected 166-237• . the blll to authorize certain programs in June 19----S. 411. Postal Rate Adjustments. Passage of Yes the Colorado River Basin for the control the blll to amend the Postal Reorganiza- of the salinity of the water delivered to tion Act of 1970 to continue annual federal users in the United States and Mexico. subsidies for most second. third and fourth Passed 403-8 (PL. 93-320). class man for longer periods than had June 1L----H.R. 10294. Land Use Planning. Adoption of Yes originally been authorized. Passed 277- the rule (H. Res. 1110) providing for House 129 (PL. 93-328). floor consideration of the blll to provide June 19----H.R. 15405. Transportation Appropriations. No for federal grants to the states to help Fiscal 1975. Shoup (R Mont.) amendment them draft comprehensive land use plans to prohibit the use of Federal Aviation Ad­ under guidelines established in the act. mlnlstration (FAA) funds to phase out Rejected 204-211. existing FAA airport flight service stations. June 12-----S.J. Res. 202. Vice Presidential Residence. Yes Adopted 281-120. Adoption of the rule (H. Res. 1169) to pro- vide for House floor consideration of the June 19 ____ H.R. 15405. Transportation Appropriations, Yes bill to designate the official residence of the Fiscal 1975. Passage of the bill to appro­ U.S. chief of naval operations as the official priate $8.848,978,448 for the Department of residence of the vice president untu such Transportation and related agencies. time as a permanent vice presidential res­ Passed 392-4. Idence was constructed. Adopted 388-4. June 20 ____ ,H.J. Res. 1062. Continuing Appropriations. Yes June 12-----H.J. Res. 876. Laotian Mllitary Student. Pas- No Fiscal 1975. Passage of the resolution mak- age of the bill to permit a citizen of the ing continuing appropriations for flscal Kingdom of Laos to receive instruction 1975 through Sept. 30 for agencies whose at the U.S. Mllitary Academy without ex­ regular appropriations blll had not been pense to the United States. Passed 294-101. cleared by July 1, the start of the new June 12-----S.J. Res. 202. Vice Presidential Residence. No fiscal year. Passed 393-6 (PL 93-324). Passage of the bill to designate the official June 20----.H.R. 15361. Housing and Community Devel- Yes residence of the U.S. chief of naval opera­ opment. Ketchum (R.-Callf.) amendment tions as the official residence of the vice to exempt increases in Social Security president untn such time as a permanent benefits a.fter June 1974 in computing in- vice presidential residence was constructed. come ellgibllity for public and federally Passed 38Q-23 (PL. 93-346). subsic11zed housing and the amount of re­ June 13 _____ H.R. 13839. Council on International Eco- Yes quired rllnt for such housing. Adopted 285- nomic Policy. Passage of the bill to au­ 114. thorize appropriations of $1.8-mlllion in :fiscal 1975 for the Council on International June 20----·H.R. 15361. Housing and Community De- Yes Economic Policy. Passed 175-168 (P.L. velopment. Steele (R.-Conn.) amendment 93-315). to reinstate a low-interest direct loan pro- June 17----H.R. 14354. National School Lunch Program. Yes gram for unsubsidized. non-profit devel- Perkins (D. Ky.) motion to suspend the opers of housing for the elderly and to rules and adopt the conference report on make occupants of housing constructed the bill to extend through fiscal 1975 the under the program eligibl~ for federal agriculture secretary's authority to pur­ rent subsidies. Adopted 274-112. chase food commodities for school lunch June 2Q ____ H.R. 15361. Housing and Community De- No programs at non-surplus prices and to velopment. Rousselot (R.-Calif.) amend­ make use of the authority mandatory. Mo- ment to delete provisions of the bill to al- tion agreed to 345-15 (PL. 93-326). low recipients of basic grants from the June 17____ H.R. 15296. Legal Training for Disadvantaged Yes National Foundation on the Arts and Hu­ Students. O'Hara (D Mich.) motion to sus- manities to receive supplementary grants pend the rules and pass the blll to continue from the Department of Housing and Ur- education assistance of $1,000 a year to ban Development for programs in new disadvantaged students seeking entry into communities. Rejected 111-260. the legal profession. Motion agreed to 31o- June 20----R.R. 15361. Housing and Community Devel- Yes 53 (PL. 93-343). opment. Passage of the blll to authorize June 18 ____ H.R. 7130. Congressional Budget Reform. Yes $11.3-billlon (including $1.5-billion in Adoption of the conference report on the Treasury borrowing authority) in fiscal bill to revise congressional procedures for 1975-77 tor housing assistance programs considering the federal budget. shift the and community development block grants federal government to an Oct. 1-sept. 30 and to encourage greater avallabillty of fiscal year. set deadlines for consideration mortgage credit. Passed 351-25. of authorization and appropriations bills, June 2L---H .R. 15472. Agricultural. Environmental and Yes make new backdoor spending programs Consumer Protection Appropriations. Fis- subject to annual appropriations and pro- cal 1975. Conte (R.-Mass.) amendment to vide procedures for limiting impoundment delete $3-mlllion in subsidies to Cotton of funds by the President. Adopted 401-6 Inc.• a promotional and research organiza- (PL. 93-344). . tion. Rejected 182- 189. 2294 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975

Date Measure and Result Date Measure and Result Vote

June 2L----H.R. 15472. Agricultural, Environmental and Yes June 25-----H.R. 15544. Treasury, Postal Service Appro- Yes Consumer Protection Approprlattons, F18· priations, F1scal 1975. Passage of the blll cal 1975. Eckhardt (D Texas) amendment appropriating $5,503,794,000 in fiscal 1975 to delete provisions that would require the for the Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Federal Trade Commission to use data ob­ Office of the President and other independ- tained in its line-of-business reporting ent agencies; Passed 367-13. (PL 93-381) . program for statistical purposes only and June 26 _____ H.R. 15572. HUD, Space, Veterans Appropria- Yes prohibit public disclosure of the data in tions, Fiscal 1975. Passage of the bill to ap­ other than aggregate form. Rejected 127- propriate $20,846,323,500 for the Depart­ 201. ment of Housing and Urban Development June 2L----H.R. 15472. Agricultural, Environmental and No (HUD), the National Aeronautics ancl Consumer Protection Appropriations, Fis- Space Administration, National Science cal 1975. Dickinson (R Ala.) amendment Foundation and Veterans Administration to make households of striking workers and related agencies in fiscal 1975. Passed ineligible for food stamps. Rejected 147- 407-7. 169. June 26 _____ H.R. 14883. Economic Development. Passage Yes June 2L----H.R. 15472. Agricultural, Environmental and No of the blll extending the Public Works and Consumer Protection Appropriations, Fis­ Economic Development Act of 1965 for two cal1975. Anderson (R Dl.) amendment to years, through fiscal 1976, and authorizing make all college students who are claimed appropriations of $510-mllllon for the Eco­ as tax dependents by their parents ineligi- nomic Development Administration in each ble for food stamps. Adopted 195-123. of fiscal 1975-76. Passed 402-11. (PL 93- June 2L----H.R. 15472. Agricultural, Environmental and .No 423). Consumer Protection Appropriations, Fis- June 27 _____ H. Res. 988. Commitee Reorganization. O'Neill No cal 1975. Mizell (R N.C.) amendment to (D Mass.) motion to table and thus kill, add $7 million to the bill for grants to the Anderson (R Ill.) resolution (H. Res. rural volunteer fire departments. Adopted 1203) to direct the chairman of the Select 213-103. Committee on Commitees to ask the Rules June 21-----H.R. 15472. Agricultural, Environmental and Yes Committee to give immediate consideration Consumer Protection Appropriations, Fis- to grant a rule for House floor considera- cal 1975. Passage of the blll to appropriate tion of H. Res. 988, providing for reorga­ $13,405,420,000 for agricultural, environ­ nization of the committees of the House of mental and consumer protection programs Representatives. Motion agreed to 242-163. in fiscal 1975. Passed 278-16. June 24-----H.J. Res. 1061. Fiscal 1974 Veterans' Adminis- Yes June 27 -----H.R. 69. Elementary and Secondary Educa- No tration Supplemental Appropriation. tion Act Extension. Waggonner (D La.) Adoption of the joint resolution to ap­ motion to instruct House conferees to the propriate an additional $179,000,000 for blll to insist on House-passed busing lan­ veterans' benefits and programs for the guage forbidding the transportation of fiscal year ending June 30, 1974. Adopted students to achieve racial integration be­ 337-0 (PL. 93-321). yond the school next closest to the stu­ June 25-----H.R. 14715. White House Office Authoriza- No dentS' homes. Motion agreed to 281-128. tion. Derwlnski (R Ill.) amendment, in June 27 _____ s. Con. Res. 96. Fourth of July Recess. Pas- Yes the nature of a substitute, for the Pickle sage of the resolution to provide for House (D Texas) amendment (see vote 225, adjournment for the Fourth of July holi- below) to reinstate the existing authoriza- day from close of business July 3, 1974, tion for 14 positions at executive level n; until July 9, 1974, and to provide for Sen- to authorize appointment of not more ate adjournment from the close of business than 21 positions at executive levels ·Ill June 27, 1974, until July 8, 1974. Passed through V (the current strength); and 297-84. to allow the President continued fiexibil- ity in hiring to fill lower-level positions June 27-----H.R. 15580. Labor-HEW Appropriations, Fis- Yes from 05-18 (the current strength was 61), cal 1975. Obey (D Wis.) amendment to limited only by the amount· of the ap­ increase appropriations for the Compre­ propriation. Rejected 181-237. hensive Employment and Training Act by June 25-----H.R. 14715. White House Office Authoriza- Yes $300-mlllion, to $2,450,000,000. Adopted tion. Pickle (D Texas) amendment to re- 231-171. duce the current number of outside con­ June 27 -----H.R. 15580. Labor-HEW Appropriations, Fis- No sultants and the number of people de­ cal 1975. Symms (R Idaho) amendment tailed from other agencies to the White to reduce appropriations for the Occupa­ House. Rejected 77-336. tional Safety and Health Administration June 25-----H.R. 15544. Treasury, Postal Service Appro- Yes by $30,416,000, from $100,816,000 to $70,- priations, Fiscal 1975. Addabbo (D N.Y.) 400,000. Rejected 179-218. amendment to reduce to $16-mlllion from June 27 _____ H.R. 15580. Labor-HEW Appropriations, Fis- Yes $22-mlllion the fiscal 1975 appropriation cal 1975. Steiger (R Wis.) amendment to for the Office of Management and Budget earmark $5-million of the Occupational (OMB). Rejected 152-252. Safety and Health Administration appro­ June 25-----H.R. 15544. Treasury, Postal Service Appro- Yes priation for contracts with the states to priations, Fiscal 1975. Gross (R Iowa) provide consultation services to employers amendment to reduce to $19.4-million on federal health and safety regulations. from $22-million the fiscal 1975 appropria- Adopted 301-100. tion for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Adopted 287-104. June 27 _____ H.R. 15580. Labor-HEW Appropriations, Fls- No cal 1975. Findley (R Ill.) amendment to June 25-----H.R. 15544. Treasury, Postal Service Appro- Yes prohibit the use of any funds to pay the prlations, Fiscal 1975. Addabbo (D N.Y.) salaries of Occupational Safety and Health amendment to forbid use of funds appro­ Administration inspectors inspecting firms priated by the bill to transfer border in­ with 25 or fewer employees. (The amend­ spection duties to any other federal agen- ment effectively exempted such firms from cy from the Customs Bureau in the Treas- compliance with federal health and safety ury Department. (The amendment would regulations.) Adopted 201-194. forestall an Office of Management and Budget plan to transfer port and border June 27 _____ H.R. 15580. Labor-HEW Appropriations, Fis- No crossing inspection functions to the Im­ cal 1975. Camp (R Okla.) amendment to migration Service 1n the Justice Depart­ delete the entire $100,816,000 appropria• ment from the Customs Bureau.) Adopted tion for the Occupational Safety and 283-100. Health Administration. Rejected 97-295. February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2295

Date Meas'Ure and ResUlt Vote Date Measure and Result Vote

June 27 _____ H.R. 15580. Labor-HEW Appropriations, Fls- No July L------H.R. 15276. Juvenlle Delinquency Prevention. No cal 1975. Ashbrook (R Ohio) amendment Quie (R Minn.) amendment to transfer to cut the appropriation for the National administration of federal juvenile dilen­ Institute of Education by $90-mlllion, from quency prevention and treatment pro­ $100-million to $10-million. Rejected 44- grams from the Department of Health, Ed­ 331. ucation and Welfare to the Law Enforce­ June 27-----H.R.15580. Labor-HEW Appropriations, Fiscal No ment Assistance Administration. Rejected 1975. Ashbrook (R Ohio) amendment to 144--210. prohibit the use of funds to transport July L------H.R. 15276. Juvenile Delinquency Prevention. Yes students and teachers in order to over­ Passage of the bill to provide an expanded come racial imbalance or to carry out a and coordinated federal program of as­ racial desegregation plan. Adopted 231-137. sistance and research concerning juvenne June 27-----H.R. 15580. Labor-HEW Appropriations, Fiscal No delinquency. Passed 329-20. 1975. Roncallo (R N.Y.) amendment to July 2------H.R. 15465. International Development Asso- No prohibit any funds in the bill from being elation. Gross (R Iowa) motion to strike used to pay for abortions, abortion-caus- the enacting clause and thus kill the bill. ing drugs and devices, abortion referral Rejected 96-268. services or support of research to develop July 2------·H.R. 15465. International Development As- No methods of abortion or to force any re­ sociation. Rousselot (R Calif.) motion to cipient of federal funds to provide abor­ recommit the bill to the Banking and Cur­ tions or insurance benefits for abortions. rency Committee with specific instructions Rejected 123-247. to report it back with the IDA provisions June 27-----H.R. 15580. Labor-HEW Appropriations, Fiscal No in the bill stricken, thus retaining only 1975. Second vote requested by Steiger provisions relating to ownership of gold. (R Wis.) on the Findley (R Dl.) amend­ Rejected 135-230. ment (see vote 238, p. 1778) to bar funds July 2------H.R. 15465. International Development As- Yes in the bill from being used to pay the sociation. Passage of the bill to authorize salaries of Occupational Safety and Health U.S. participation in and a contribution Administration inspectors who inspected of $1.5-billion to the International De­ firms employing 25 or fewer persons, velopment Association and to permit U.S. Adopted 190-182. citizens to own, buy or sell gold effective June 27 -----H.R. 15580. Labor-HEW Appropriations, Fiscal Yes Dec. 31, 1974. Adopted 225-140. 1975. Passage of the bill to appropriate July g ______s. 3703. D.C. Indigent Representation. Pas- Yes $33,156,541,000 for the Departments of sage of the bill to authorize a transfer from Labor and Health, Education and Welfare the federal judiciary system to the District and related agencies in fiscal 1975. Passed of Columbia responsibility for providing 329-43. legal representation of defendents who are June 28-----H.R. 6~. Elementary and Seco~dary Educa- Yes financially unable to obtain an adequate tion Act Extension. Mink (D Hawaii) defense in criminal cases in the District of motion to instruct House confer.ees to Columbia courts. Passed 242-120 (P.L. 93- insist on House impact aid amendments. 412). Motion rejected 144-187. July 9 ______.s. 2830. Diabetes Research. Adoption of the Yes June 28 _____ s. 3458. Food Commodity Assistance. Adop- Yes conference report on the bill to authorize tion of the conference report on the bill to $41 million i;n fiscal 1975-77 to establish extend through fiscal 1977 the agriculture new centers ~or diabetes research and train- secretary's authority to purchase food com­ ing and to create a national commission modities for needy families, institutions, to develop a long-range plan to combat disaster victims and other assistance pro­ diabetes. Adopted 356-4 (PL. 93-354). grams at non-surplus prices. Adopted (thus July 10 _____ .H.R. 15323. Nuclear Accident Insurance. Yes cleared for the President) 325-0 (PL 93- Adoption of the rule (H. Res. 1196) pro­ 347). viding for House floor consideration pf the June 28 _____ H.R. 7724. Biomedical Research. Adoption of Yes bill to extend until Aug. 1, 1987, the fed- the conference report on the bill to au­ eral program insuring the public against thorize $207.9-million in :fiscal 1975 for losses in the event of a nuclear accident. awards to young scientists and doctors in Adopted 391-2. biomedical research training programs and July 10 _____ H.R. 14920. Geothermal Energy Research and Yes to establish a two-year commission to oversee the use of human subjects in med- Development. Passage of the bill to improve ical research funded by the Department of coordination of federal geothermal energy Health, Education and Welfare. Adopted research and development programs and to (thus cleared for the President) 311-10. guarantee loans or to pay the interest for (PL 93-348). borrowers for research, development, dem­ June 28 _____ H.R. 15581. District of Columbia Appropria- Yes onstration or commercial operation of geo­ tions, Fiscal 1975. Passage of the bill mak- thermal energy projects. Passed 404-3 (P.L. ing fiscal 1975 appropriations for the Dis- 93-410). trict of Columbia of $1,074,124,000, com­ July 10 _____ H.R. 15323. Nuclear Accident Insurance. Yes posed of U.S. Treasury funds and revenues Gross (R. Iowa) amendment to prohibit raised by the city. Passed 236-36. federal insurance guarantees for nuclear July t______H. Res. 1210. Impeachment Inquiry Rule. Yes accidents occurring in foreign countries. Rodino (D N.J.) motion to suspend the Adopted 255-151. rules and pass the resolution to suspend July 10 _____ .H.R. 15323. Nuclear Accident Insurance. Ron- Yes the·House rule requiring that each member · calio (D. Wyo.) amendment, in the nature of a committee have five minutes toques- of a substitute bill, to extend the federal tion a witness. The resolution would au­ program insuring the public against losses thorize the House Judiciary Committee to in the event of a nuclear accident to proceed without regard to that rule in Feb. 1, 1979, instead of Aug. 1, 1987. Re­ questioning witnesses before its impeach- jected 138-267. ment inquiry. Motion rejected. July 10-----H.R. 15323. Nuclear Accident Insurance. Pas- No sage of the bjll to extend to August 1, July t______.S.J. Res. 218. Export-Import Bank Extension. Yes 1987, the federal pr~m insuring the Patman (D Texas) motion to suspend the public against losses in the event of a nu­ rules and pass the joint resolution to ex- clear accident. Passed 360-43. tend by 30 days; to July 31 from June 30, July ll ____ :_s. 3203. Hospital Employee Bargaining Yes the date for expiration· of authority for the Rights. Ad~ption of the conference report Export-Import Bank operations. Motion on the bill to remove the exemption from a_greed to 238---.:115 ·-(Pi. 93--:331). · coverage under the National Labor Rela- 2296 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975

Date Measure and Result Vote Date Measure and result Vote

tiona Act of all nonprofit, nongovernmen­ July 18-----H.R. 11500. Surface Mining. Hechler (D Yes tal hospitals and to establish certain labor W.Va.) amendment, in the nature of a mental health care institutions, including substitute to the committee blll, to phase the right to strike only if 10 days notice out all surface mining for coal over a 54- were given. Adopted (and thus cleared month period. Rejected 69-336. for the President) 205-193: (PL 93-360) July 18-----H.R. 11500. Surface Mining. Udall (D Ariz.) Yes July 1L----H.R. 14215. Developmental Disabilities. Pas­ Yes motion to limit the remaining debate on sage of the bill to authorize $192-mllllon amendments to the findings and purposes in fiscal 1975-76 for federal programs to section of the blll (Title I) to 10 addi­ aid those with developmental disabilities such as mental retardation and cerebral tional minutes. Motion agreed to 217-176. palsy. Passed 337-2. July 18 _____ H,R. 11500. Surface Mining. Hosmer (R No July 11------H.R. 15427. Amtrak Authorization. Passage Yes Calif.) amendment inserting language in of the bill to autho!'lze $200-million in op­ the bill to emphasize in establishing the erating grants to the National Rail Pas­ legislative history of the blll that coal senger Corporation (Amtrak) for fiscal was essential to meet the nation's energy 1975, to increase the ceiling on guaranteed requirements and to reduce the environ­ government loans for Amtrak and to make mental emphasis in the purposes outlined other amendments to the Rail Passenger in the bill. Rejected 146-250. Service Act of 1970. Passed 317-67. July 22-----H. Res. 1107. Broadcasting of Committee No July 15-----H.R. 14494:. Simplified Procurement Proce­ Yes Meetings. Passage of the resolution amend­ dure. Holifield (D Calif.) motion to sus­ ing the rulea of the House of Representa­ pend the rules and pass the bill increas­ tives to allow the broadcasting of com­ ing to $10,000 from $2,500 the maximum mittee meetings, in addition to commit­ amount of any federal purchase that could tee hearings, when the meetings are open be made through simplified procurement to the public. Adopted 346-40. procedures that were less time-consuming July 22-----H.R. 69. Elementary and Secondary Educa­ No and costly than normal procedures. Motion tion Act Extension. Waggonner (D La.) agreed to 361-0. Yes motion to instruct House conferees to the July 15 _____ H. Con. Res. 559. Impeachment Inquiry Re- bill to Insist on original House-passed bus­ ports. Hays (D Ohio) motion to suspend ing language forbidding the transporta­ the rules and concur in the Senate amend­ tion of students to achieve racial integra­ ment to the resolution authorizing print­ tion beyond the school next closest to the ing of 20,000 additional copies of the House Judiciary Committee's hearings and 50,000 students' homes. Motion agreed to 261-122. additional copiea of the committee's final July 22 _____ H,R. 11500. Surface Mining. Udall (D Ariz.) No report on impeachment and providing for motion to limit to 20 minutes the remain­ all additional copies to be sold at cost. Mo­ ing debate on the Hosmer (R Calif.) sub­ tion rejected 197-169. stitute and the Mink (D Hawaii) substitute July 16-----H.R. 15560. Emergency Guaranteed Livestock Yes and all perfecting amendments to section Loans. Mayne (R Iowa) amendment to 201 setting forth interim regulatory stipulate that financial assistance pro­ procedures for the control of the en­ vided to partnerships and corporations un­ vironmental impact of surface mining. der the bill would go only to those In which Motion rejected 15~233. a majority of the stock was owned by July 22-----H.R. 11500. Surface Mining. Mink (D Ha­ Yes actual livestock producers. Adopted 405-7. waii) substitute to the Hosmer (R Calif.) July 16-----H.R. 15560. Emergency Guaranteed Livestock No substitute to the committee substitute to Loans. Passage of the bill to provide tem­ section 201 setting forth interim regulatory porary emergency financing to llvestock procedures for the control of the environ­ producers through the establishment of mental impact of surface mining during a government-guaranteed loan program. the three-year period before a state pr&­ Passed 210-204. gram became etlective. Adopted 241-144. No July 16-----H.R. 7824:. Legal Services Corporation. Gross July 23-----H.R. 11500. Surface Mining. Kazen (D Tex­ No- (R. Iowa) motion to table (and thus kill) as) amendment deleting language to re­ the Perkins (D Ky.) motion see vote 271, strict strip mJning permits for Appalachia below) that the House agree to the Senate to two years, thus retaining a blanket amendments to the House version of the five-year period for permits). Adopted bill to establish an independent legal serv­ 213-193. ices corporation for the poor with another July 23 _____ H.R. 11500. Surface Mining. Hosmer (R amendment. (see vote 271). Motion to No· Calif.) amendment to the Mink (D Ha­ table rejected 136-269. waii) amendment to the committee sub­ July 16-----·H.R. 7824:. Legal Services Corporation. Per­ Yes kins (D Ky.) motion that the House agree stitute to section 211 adding agricultural and recreational purposes to the list of to the Senate amendments to the House possible uses of formerly strip-mined land version of the bill to establish an inde­ pendent legal services corporation with an which would be permitted if certain re­ amendment substituting all of the provi­ quirements were met. Adopted 213-193. sions of the conference version of the bill July 24-----H.R. 16027. Interior Department Appro­ No except those allowing the corporation to priations, F1scal1975. Ichord (D Mo.) sub­ fund outside poverty law research centers. stitute amendment for the Gross (R Iowa) (In etlect, the motion provided for adop­ amendment to ensure that the proposed­ tion of the conference report on the bill; $39.7-mlllion cut for the National Founda­ but conference provisions to allow the cor­ tion on the Arts and Humanities would be poration to fund the outside centers were divided proportionately between the En­ changed to bar such funding ln the sub­ dowment for the Arts and the Endow­ stitute amendment.) Motion agreed to ment for the Humanities. Rejected 126- 265-136 (PL 93-355). 284. July 17 _____ H.R. 11500. Surface Mining. Adoption of the Yes July 24 ••••. H.R. 16027. Interior Department Appropria- Yes rule (H Res 1230) providing for House floor . tions, Fiscal 1975. Passage of the bill ap­ consideration of the bill to provide for propriating $3,163,515,310 in fiscal 1975 for :federal and state regulation of surface the Department of Interior and related mining for coal and the reclamation of agencies. Passed 385-22. mined lands. Adopted 4:11-1. July 24- ----H.R. 11500. Surface Mining. Udall (D Ariz.) Yes .July 18-----H.R. 11500. Surface Mining. Hosmer (R Calif.) No motion that the House resolve itself into amendment, In the nature of a substitute the committee of the whole (the proce­ to the committee bill, to provide for the dure used to consider amendments to most regulation of surface mining and reclama­ bllls) to resume debate on the blll. Motion lon of mined lands. Rejected 156-255. agreed to 324-54. Ji!ebruary 4, _1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2297 ...... : ..

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July 25-----H.R. 11500. Surface Min1ng. Hosmer (R No to protect the civil rights of individuals as Calif.) motion to recommit the bill to the guaranteed under the Constitution. Interior and Insular A1fairs Committee Adopted 323-83 (P.L. 93-380). with instructions to substitute provisions July 3L ••• -H.R. 15582. International Nuclear Agree­ Yes of an alternative bill (H.R. 12898) im­ ments. Long (D Md.) amendment to re­ posing less stringent environmental safe­ quire approval by Congress before interna­ guards on surface mining and reclamation tional agreements for peaceful cooperation programs. Rejected 106-267. in nuclear technology could take e1fect. July 25 _____ H.R. 11500. Surface Mining. Passage of the Yes (The bill as reported would have required bill to set federal guidelines for the regu­ specific disapproval by Congress to block lation of surface mi.n1ng for coal and for an agreement.) Adopted 194-191. the reclamation of land that had been July 3L____ H.R. 15582. International Nuclear Agree- Yes strip mined. Passed 291-81. ments. Passage of bill to require a1firma.tive July 29 _____ H .R. 14592. Defense Procurement Author- No action by Congress on international agree­ ization. Adoption of the conference report ments for peaceful cooperation in nuclear on the bill to authorize $22,159,364,000 for technology, including the sale of nuclear defense procurement, research and devel­ equipment to foreign nations, before they opment for fiscal 1975. Adopted 305-38 could be implemented. Passed 373-8. ( PL 93-365) . August L---H.R. 14012. Legislative Branch Appropria­ Yes July 29 _____ H.R. 15791. D.C. Home Rule Amendment. Yes tions, Fiscal 1975. Adoption of the confer­ Passage of the blll to make technical ence report on the bill approprla.ting $708,- amendments to the District of Columbia. 275,650 in fiscal 1975 for the operations of Self-Government and Government Reorga­ the legislative branch. Passed 380--13. nization Act of 1973, including provision August L __ _H.R. 14012. Legislative Branch Appropria- Yes for filling a vacancy in the position of tions, F1scal1975. Roybal (D Calif.) motion council chairman. Passed 337-10 (PL that the House accept a Senate-passed 93-395). amendment, reported in disagreement by July 29 _____ H .R. 15643. District of Columbia Postsec- Yes House-Senate conferees, providing funds . onda.ry Education Act. Passage of the bill for the restoration of the west front of the to consolidate the ex.isting local institu­ Capitol. Motion rejected 192-203 (P.L. tions of higher education into a single 93-371). land-grant university. Passed 351-11 (PL August L __ H.R. 15046. USIA Authorization. Passage of Yes 93-471). the bill to authorize appropriations of July 29 _____ f!.R. 15842. District of Columbia Salary In- Yes $243,738,000 for fiscal 1975 for operations creases. Passage of the bill to increase sala­ of the U.S. Information Agency. Passed ries for District of Columbia, police, fire­ 352-43. men and teachers, and to impose a 5 per­ August L __ _H.R. 16416. AEC Omnibus Bill. Long (D Md.) Yes cent tax on parking in the District. Passed amendment to require specific congres­ 284-75 (PL 93-407). sional approval of increases above the stat­ July 29_.: ___ H.R. 11108. District of Columbia Medical Act Yes utory levels for distribution of nuclear Extension. Passage of the bill to extend material to groups of nations and inter­ through fiscal 1977 the District of Colum­ national agencies. Rejected 88-298. bia Medical and Manpower Act of 1970 August L __ H.R. 15416. AEC Omnibus Bill. Passage of Yes and to authorize assistance grants to pri­ the bill to make various changes in the vate medical schools in the District for 1954 Atomic Energy Act and the 1955 . fiscal 1975-76. Passed 348-11 (PL 93-389). Atomic Weapons Rewards Act. Passed 377- Juiy 30-----H.R. 15472. Agricultural, Environmental and Yes 6 (PL. 93-377). - Consumer Protection Appropriations, Fis­ August 2----H.R. 15736. Reclamation Development Act. Yes cal 1975. Adoption of the conference re­ Passage of the bill to authorize appropria­ port on the bill to appropriate $13,571,- tions of $191,972,000 for reclamation proJ­ 395,000 for agriculture, environmental and ects in 10 western states. Passed 320--8 consumer protection programs for fiscal (P.L. 13-493). 1975. Adopted 351-41. August 2---.H.R. 14780. International Broadcasting Au­ ;No. July_30 _____ S. 386. Urban Mass Transit Subsidies. Adop- Yes . tlon of the rule of H. Res. 1253 providing thorization. Passage of the bill to author­ for House fioor consideration of the con­ ize appropriations of $49.99-million for fis­ ference report on the bill to authorize $800- cal 1975 for Radio Free Europe, Radio Lib­ million in fiscal 1975 grants to states and erty and the Board for International . Broadcasting. Passed 278-58 (P.L. 93-392). localities for mass transit o~rating and capital improvement subsidies. Adopted August 5----S. Con. Res. 72. 1980 Winter Olympic Games. Yes 255-141. Fraser (D Minn.) motion to suspend the rules and pass the concurrent resolution to July 30 _____ s. 386. Urban Mass Transit Subsidies. Wylie No (R. Ohio) motion to recommit, and thus extend an invitation to the International kill, the bill to the conference committee. Olympic Committee to hold the 1980 Win­ Motion agreed to 221-181. ter Games at Lake Placid, New York, and July 3L_:. __ H.-R. 82. Duty-Free Ship Repairs. Pickle (D No to pledge the cooperation and support of Texas) motion to delete from the confer­ the Congress of the United States. Motion ence report a nongerma.ne Senate-passed agreed to 382-4. amendment, on which a. point of order had August 5 ____ H.R. 15936. Special Pay .tor Military Physi- YetJ previously been sustained, extending until cians. Stratton (D N.Y.) motion to sus­ April 30, 1975, an unemployment compen­ pend the rules and pass the bill to pro­ sation program scheduled to expire July 31, vide extra pay tor physicians in initial 1974. Motion rejected 63-336. residency who agreed to remain in the July 3L----S. Con. Res. 93. Infiation Policy Study. Pass­ Yes armed services. Motion agreed to 375-3 age of the concurrent resolution authoriz­ (P.L. 93-394). ing an emergency, six-month study of in­ August 5_. __ H.R. 14402. Air Force Officers. Stratton (D No fiation in the United States by the Joint N.Y.) motion to suspend the rules and Economic Committee. Passed 335-66. pass the bill to extend for two years, July 31-----H.R. 69. Elementary and Secondary Educa­ Yes through Sept. 30, 1976, the existing au­ tion Act Extension. Adoption of the con- thorization for the number of lieutenant . terence report on the bill to extend and colonels and colonels in the Air Force. amend the Elementary and Secondary Edu­ Motion agreed to 271-108 (P.L. 93-397). cation Act of 1965 a.nd related education August 5 ____ H.R. 13377. Medica.! Care for Polish and Czech Yes programs and to declare that students Veterans. Roberts (D. Texas) motion to ·should not be bused beyond the school · suspend the rules and pass the bill to pro­ next ~Iosest to their homes, . bu.t allowing vide veterans' medical care benefits to per­ t?e co~~ts. to· ~rde! in<;>re_ex .terislve busing sons,-now u.s. citizens, who served with the 2298 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975

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armed forces ot Poland or Czechoslovakia­ August 7 ___ .H.R. 16090. Federal Elections Campaign Act. Yes as U.S. allles in World War i or World War Adoption of the l'Ule (H. Res. 1292) pro­ II. Motion agreed to 341-40. viding for fioor consideration of the bill to Au gust 5 ____ H,R. 15912. Veterans• Housing. Roberts (D. Yes publicly finance presidential election cam­ Texas) motion to suspend the rules and paigns and impose political and campaign pass the bill to liberalize the Veterans' spending limits. Adopted 330-78. Administration home loan guaranty pro­ August 7 ___ _H.R. 16090. Federal Elections Campaign Act. grams. Motion agreed to 384-0. No Yes Mathis (D Ga.) amendment to lower the Au gust 5----H.R. 13267. Extension of Agricultural Pro­ campaign spending limits for House gen­ grams to Guam. Matsunaga (D. Hawall) eral elections and for primary elections to motion to suspend the rules and pass the $42,500 from $75,000. Rejected 187-223. bill to authorize the secretary of agricul­ ture to provide technical and financial as­ August 7 ____ H, Res. 802. Broadcasting of Impeachment Y~s sistance to Guam for fire control, watershed Proceedings. Adoption of the resolution protection and reforestation programs. providing for television and radio cover­ Motion agreed to 360-27 (P.L. 93-421). age of proceedings in the chamber of the August 5----H.R. 16077. National Health Service Corps Yes House of Representatives on any resolution Scholarships. Staggers (D. W.Va.) motion to impeach the President of the United to suspend the rules and pass the bill to States, Richard M. Nixon. Adopted 385- extend through fiscal year 1975 the schol­ 25. arship program for the National Health August 8 ____ H,R. 16090. Federal Elections Campaign Act. No Service Corps and the loan program for Obey (D Wis.) amendment to allow elec­ health professions students. Motion agreed tion campaign spending ceilings adopted to 371-9 (P.L. 93-385). after Dec. 30, 1970, by the states to pre­ August 5----H.R. 15172. Passport Application Fee. Morgan Yes . empt the limits in H.R. 16090 tf they were (D. Pa.) motion to suspend the rules and lower than the federal figure. Rejected 169- pass the bill to authorize the secretary of 250. state to prescribe the fee for execution of August 8----H.R. 16090. Federal Elections Campaign Act. No an application for a passport and to con­ Cleveland (R N.H.) amendment to lower tinue to transfer to the U.S. Postal Service the campaign spending limit for House the fee for each application accepted by it. campaigns to $60,000 from $75,000. Adopted Motion agreed to 381-7 (P.L. 93-417). 240-175. August 5----S.J. Res. 229. Export-Import Bank. Ashley Yes (D. Ohio) motion to suspend the rules and August 8 ~ ---H.R. 16090, Federal Elections Campaign Act. Yes pass the bill to amend the Export-Import Brademas (D Ind.) amendment to provide Bank Act of 1945 to extend the Export­ for a six member Board of Supervisors to Import Bank's authority for 60 days to oversee compliance of the bill's provisions Sept. 30, 1974. Motion agreed to 271-113 composed of four public members, ap­ (P.L. 93-374). pointed by the House speaker and the Pres­ August 5--- -H. Res. 1258. Chemical Warfare Policy Review. Yes ident of the Senate on a bipartisan basis, Zablocki (D. Wis.) motion to suspend the who would be voting members, plus the rules and pass the resolution expressing clerk of the House and secretary of the the sense of the House that the 1925 Senate, who would be ex-officio members; Geneva Protocol should be ratified by the and to modify the "review of regulations" Senate and that the United States should provision to require that all rules and review its policies on chemical warfare. regulations be submitted to the House and Motion agreed to 315-70. Senate for review and approval or veto. Au gust 6- --·H.R. 16243. Defense Appropriations, Fiscal Yes Adopted 391-25. 1975. Giaimo (D. Conn.) amendment tore­ August a ____ H.R. 16090. Federal Election Campaign Act. No duce funds for the Safeguard ABM system Frenzel (R Minn.) amendment to delete by cutting $37.5-million from Army oper­ from the bill provisions for federal fi­ ation and maintenance funds and $45- nancing of presidential nominating con­ million from funds for research and de­ ventions. Adopted 223-193. velopment. Rejected 182-219. August 8 ___ _H.R. 16090. Federal Elections Campaign Act. No August 6- ---H.R. 16243. Defense Appropriations. Fiscal Frenzel (R Minn.) amendment to delete 1975. Hicks (D Wash.) amendment to delete provisions from the bill for partial federal $5.8 million for binary nerve gas produc­ financing through matching grants of pres­ tion faclilties at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Ark. idential primary campaigns. Rejected 163- Adopted 214-186. 253. Yes August 6----H.R. 16243. Defense Appropriations, Fiscal August 8- ---H.R. 16090. Federal Elections Campaign Act. Yes 1975. Abzug (D. N.Y.) amendment to delete Udal (D Ariz.) amendment to provide $169.5-million for counterforce weapons re­ for partial public financing of congressional search and development programs intended general e~ection campaigns by providing to increase the accuracy and yield of U.S. for matching federal funds to be raised intercontinental ballistic missiles. Rejected from the Presidential Campaign Fund Dol­ 69-328. lar Check-offs on individual income tax Au gust 6--- -H.R. 16243. Defense Appropriations, Fiscal Yes returns. Rejected 187-228. 1975. Flynt (D. Ga.) amendment to reduce funds for military assistance to South Viet­ August 8-- --H.R. 16090. Federal Elections Campaign Act. No nam by $300-million, to a total of $700- Second vote requested by Brademas (D million. Adopted 233-157. Ind.) on Frenzel (R Minn.) amendment August 6----H.R. 16243. Defense Appropriations, Fiscal Yes (~ee vote 331, above) to delete the pro­ 1975. Addabbo (D. N.Y.) amendment to VISions for public financing of presidential limit defense spending for fiscal 1975 to nominating conventions. Amendment re­ $81.2-billion. Rejected 178-216. jected 205-206. August 6--- -H.R. 16243. Defense Appropriations, Fiscal No August 8----H.R. 16090. Federal Elections Campaign Act. No 1975. Passage of the bill to appropriate Dickinson (R Ala.) motion to recommit the $83,393,570,000 for Defense Department ac­ bill to the House Administration Commit­ tivities and all armed services and weapons tee with specific instructions to report it programs for fiscal 1975. Passed 350-43. back to the House with language barring Avgust 7 ___ _H.R. 16090. Federal Elections Campaign Act. Yes candidates or their campaign committees Young (D. Texas) motion to order the from accepting contributions from political previous question (to end debate and the committees or organizations unless the in­ possibility of amendments) on the rule (H. dividual contributor designated to which Res. 1292) providing for fioor considera­ tion of the bill to publicly finance presi­ candidate his contribution was to go and dential election campaigns and impose po­ the committee identified the contributors litical contribution and campaign spend­ making up the contribut ion. Motion re­ ing limits. Motion agreed to 219- 190. jected 164-243. February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2299

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August 8 ____ H.R. 16090. Federal Elections Campa.lgn Act. Yes August 13--.H.R. 15264. Export Controls. Passage of 'tne Yes . Passage of the bill to provide for public bill to extend to June 30, 1976, from June financing of presidential election cam­ 30, 1974, the authority of the secretary of paigns, impose campaign spending and con­ commerce to regulate exports. Passed 37~. tribution limits, and establish a board of August 14 ___ s. 2510. Federal Procurement Policy. Adop- Yes supervisors to oversee and administer the tion of the conference report on the bill law. Passed 355-48. to establish an Office of Federal Procure­ AUf?U!>t 9 ____ H.R. 16136. Military Construction Authoriza- Yes ment Policy within the Office of Manage­ tion. Adoption of the resolution (H. Res. ment and Budget to set policies for pur­ 1297) providing for House floor considera­ chase of goods and services by federal tion of the bill to authorize $2,983,821,000 government agencies and by recipients of for military construction projects for fiscal federal grants. Adopted 389-1 (P.L. 93-400). 1975. Adopted 327-1. August 14---H.R. 12859. Federal Mass Transportation. Yes August 9----H.R. 16136. Military Construction Authoriza­ No Adoption of the rule (H. Res. 1313) to tion. Passage of the bill to authorize $2,- provide for House floor consideration of 983,821,000 for mllita.ry construction proj­ the bill to authorize $20.4-billion over a ects for fiscal 1975. Passed 322-30 (P.L. 93- six-year period to construct public mass 552. transit systems in urban, suburban and August g ____ s. Con. Res. 108. President Gerald R. Ford. Not rural areas. Adopted 370-21. Adoption of the concurrent resolution ex­ present August 14 ___ H.R. 9989. Real Estate Settlement Costs. Yes tending best wishes to Gerald R. Ford, who Stark (D. Calif.) amendment to the com­ became the 38th President of the United mittee amendment (see vote 352, below), States on Aug. 9, 1974, upon the resigna­ to eliminate provisions of the bill which tion of President Richard M. Nixon. would repeal a 1970 law authorizing the Adopted 329-0. Department of Housing and Urban Devel­ Augu:;;t 12--.H.R. 14214. Health Services Programs. Pas­ Yes opment (HUD) to set standards governing sage of the bill to authorize $1.7-blllion in allowable real estate settlement charges fiscal 1975-76 for health services formula connected With the purchase of homes grants to the states, family planning pro­ backed by federal mortgage guarantees. grams, community mental health centers, Rejected 199-202. migrant health services and community August 14 ___ H.R. 9989. Real Estate Settlement Costs. Yes health centers for the medically under­ Adoption of the Banking and Currency served. Passed 359-12. Committee amendment to repeal the 1970 August 12--. H.R. 5529. Motor Vehicle and School bus No law authorizing HUD to set allowable set­ Safety Amendments. Wyman (R N.H.) sub­ tlement charges connected to the p~chase stitute amendment, to Moss (D Calif.) of homes backed by federal mortgage guar­ clarifying amendment, to prohibit the De­ antees and to require the HUD secretary partment of Transportation from requir­ to study the need for regulation of settle­ ing vehicles to be equipped with safety ment charges. Adopted 274-121. belt-ignition interlock systems, sequential August 14 ___ H.R. 9989. Real Estate Settlement Costs. No warning devices or passive restraint sys­ Stephens (D. Ga.) motion to order the tems such as air bags; allowed such devices previous question (end further debate and to be at the purchaser's option. (The Moss the possibllity for amendment) on the amendment would have required cars to McKinney (R. Conn.) motion to recommit be equipped with either the interlock sys­ the bill to the Banking and Currency Com­ tem or the sequential warning device.) mittee. Motion ordering previous question Adopted 339-49 (PL 93-492). agreed to 237-160. August 12--.S. 1728. War Claims Act Amendment. Passage Yes August 14 ___ H.R. 9989. Real Estate Settlement Costs. Pas- Yes of the bill to increase benefits to Ameri­ sage of the bill to revise practices With can civilian internees in Southeast Asia settlement charges connected with buying from $60 to $120 per month, and to give a home and to repeal a 1970 law authoriz­ first priority in benefits to individuals for ing HUD to set allowable settlement property losses arising out of World War charges for homes backed by federal mort­ II. Passed 368-17. gage guarantees. Passed 399-2 (P.L. 93- August 13---H.R. 15155. Public Works-AEC Appropria­ Yes 533). tions, Fiscal 1975. Adoption of the confer­ August 15 __ s. 3066. Housing and Community Develop­ Yes ence report on the bill to appropriate ment Act. Adoption of the conference re­ $4,505,472,000 for fiscal 1975 for federal port on the bill to authorize $11.1-billion public works programs and the Atomic En­ for fiscal 1975-77 for federal housing ergy Commission. Adopted 376-18 (PL 93- assistance programs and community de­ 393) velopment block grants and to encourage August 13-_.H.R. 15405. Transportation Appropriations, Yes greater availability of mortgage credit. Fiscal 1975. Adoption of the conference re­ Adopted (thus clearing the bill for the port on the bill to appropriate $3,288,504,000 President) 377-21 (PL 93-383). for the Department of Transportation and August 15 __ H.R. 12859. Urban Mass Transit. Milford (D No related agencies for fiscal 1975. Adopted Texas) amendment to cut from the $20.4 394-3 (PL 93-391) . billion mass transit authorization b111 a August 13--.H.R. 15264. Export Controls. Adoption of the Yes provision for federal operating subsidies rules (H Res 1234) providing for House for existing mass transit systems. Rejected fioor consideration of the bill to extend 197-202. and expand the authority of the secretary August 15--H.R. 12859. Urban Mass Transit. Synder (R No of commerce to regulate exports through Ky.) amendment to provide that no funds June 30, 1976. Adopted 387-9. authorized in the bill were to be used to August 13--.H.R. 15264. Export Controls. Blackburn (R No transport students or teachers for the Ga.) amendment, as a substitute for the purpose of correcting racial imbalances Hanna (D Calif.) substitute amendment 1n schools. Adopted 243-149. (see vote 347 below) for the committee August 15-_H.R. 12859. Urban Mass Transit. Harsha (R No bill, to restrict exports of industrial and Ohio) amendment to allow cities With pop­ technological goods and services to com­ ulations of 2-million or more to qualify munist nations and to require consultation for "Category A" funds-the category with members of Congress before imposi­ with the highest grant level. (The bill tion of export controls. Rejected 142-246. limited Category A grants to cities which August 13 __ .H.R.l5264. Export Controls. Hanna (D Calif.) No had or were constructing fixed rail transit amendment, in the nature of a substitute systems.) Rejected 143-215. for the com.m..tttee bill, to extend to June August 15--H.R. 12859. Mass Transit. Shuster (R Pa.) No 30, 1976, !rom June 30, 1974, the existing amendment to provide that tn determining authority of the secretary of commerce to the distribution of grant funds, in the bill, regulate exports. Adopted 258-131. the secretary of transportation should con- 2300 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975

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sider as a. major factor the local effort to ments in using the sun's energy to heat encourage public transit use and dis­ and cool homes and other buildings. courage automobile use. Rejected 155-174. Adopted 402-14 (PL 93-409). August 19--H.R. 16425. Infia.tion Task Force. Patman Yes August 2L __ H.R. 16168. State Department Authorization. Yes (D Texas) motion to suspend the rules Passage of the bill to authorize appropria­ and pass the bill to establish through tions of $7~..:,191,000 for the Department of June 30, 1976, a. Cost of Living Task Force State operations and programs :for fiscal within the Executive Office of the President 1975. Passed 330-43. (PL 93-475). to monitor wage and price increases. Mo­ August 2L __ H.R. 15977. Export-Import Bank. Banking Yes tion agreed to 379-23. and Currency Committee amendment to August 19--H.R. 16102. Daylight Saving Time. Staggers Yes repeal a 1971 fede:ml law removing the Ex­ (D W.Va.) motion to suspend the rules port-Import Bank receipts and disburse­ and pass the bill to amend the Emergency ments from the federal government budget. Daylight Saving Time Energy Conserva­ Rejected 191-202. tion Act of 1973 to exempt from its pro­ visions the period from the last Sunday in August 2L_. H.R. 15977. Export-Import Bank. Ichord (D No October 1974 through the last Sunday in' Mo.) amendment to allow either the House February 1975. Passed 383-16. (PL 93-434). or the Senate-to disapprove Export-Import Yes Bank financing of exports to a communist August 19--H.R. 14897. Youth Conservation Corps: nation by adopting a resolution within 30 Daniels (D N.J.) motion to suspend the d.ays after the bank reported the transac• rules and pass the bill to make perma­ nent the Youth Conservation Corps and tion to Congress. Rejected 178-215. to authorize appropriations of $60-million August 2L •. H.R. 1.5977. Export-Import Bank. Passage of Yes annually. Motion agreed to 361-38. (PL the bill to extend the Export-Import Bank 93-408). through June 30, 1978, and to require the August 19-- H.R. 16027. Interior Department Appropria­ Yes bank to report to Congress any loans of tions. Fiscal 1975. Adoption of the confer­ $50-million or more to finance exports to ence report on the bill appropriating communist nations. Passed 33Q-67. $3,169,162,310 in fiscal 1975 for the In­ August 2L __ H.R. 15487. Foreign Investment Study. Pas­ Yes i terior Department and related agencies. sage of the bill to direct the secretary of Adopted 374-25 (PL 93-404). commerce and the secretary of the Treas­ August 20__ H.R. 2. Pension Reform. Adoption of the con­ Yes ury to make an 18-month study of foreign ference report on the bill to set minimum investments in the U.S. economy. Passed federal vesting, funding and participation 324-29. standards that private pension plans must August 22 ___ H.R. 15572. HUD, Space, Veterans Appropria- Yes meet and to provide for a system of plan tions, Fiscal 1975. Adoption of the con­ termination insurance. Adopted 407-2 (PL ference report on the bill to appropriate 93-406). Yes $21,215,812,000 for the Department of August 20 __ H. Res. 1333. Impeachment Report. O'Neill Housing and Urban Development, National (D Mass.) motion to suspend the rules and Aeronautics and Space Administration, Na­ adopt the resolution to take formal notice tional Science Foundation, Veterana .Ad­ of the action of the House Judiciary Com­ ministration and related agencies in fiscal mittee in recommending the impeachment· 1976. Adopted 379-3. (PL 93-414). of President Nixon and of Nixon's subse­ quent resignation, to accept the report of August 22 ___ H.R. 12628. Veterans' Education BenefitS. Yes the committee on impeachment, and to Dorn (D S.C.) motion to recede :from authorize its printing. Adopted 412-3. House disagreement to the Senate amend­ August 20 __ H.R. 15581. District of Columbia Appropria­ Yes ment to the bill, and to concur in a tions, FU.cal 1975. Adoption of the confer-' modified version of the Senate amendment ence report on the bill appropriating thai would increase rates of veterans' edu­ $1,073,642,900 in fiscal 1975 for the District cational and vocational rehabilitation of Columbia, comprised of U.S. Treasury benefits. Motion agreed to 386-0. funds and local revenues, and setting the Sept. lL ____ H.R. 13565. Non-Nuclear Energy Policy. Fu- No federal payments to the city at $221,200,- qua (D Fla.) amendment to delete lan­ 000. Adopted 352-58 (PL 93-405). guage establishing a patent policy for in­ August 20 __ H.R. 12859. Mass Transit. Harsha (R Ohio) No ventions developed under authority of amendment, in the form of a substitute the bill with federal funds and to require for the Roberts (D Texas) amendment, to the administrator of the proposed Energy reduce the total authorization in the bill Research and Development Administration from $20.4-blllion to $11.4-billion. (The to make his recommendations on patent original Roberts amendment sought tore­ policy within six months of enactment. duce the authorization to $15.8-billion.) Adopted 182-142. Adopted 257-155: R 165-19; D 92-136. Sept. 1L ____ H.R. 13565. Non-Nuclear Energy Policy. Pas- Yes August 20 __ H.R. 12859. Mass Transit. Passage of the blll Yes sage o:f the bill to establish a $20-billion, amendment to delete from the bill a pro­ 10-year program of research and develop­ vision to increase the allowable weight for ment in non-nuclear energy resources. trucks operating on interstate highways. Passed 327-7. Adopted 252-159. Sept. 1L ____ H.R. 15928. Debt Obligations. Passage of the Yes August 20 __ H.R. 12859. Mass Transit. Gross (R Iowa) No bill to give federal bank regulatory agen­ amendment to remove from the bill a pro­ cies discretionary authority to regulate vision to authorize $14-million for a rail­ debt obligations issued by holding com­ road crossing demonstration project in panies affiliated · with financial institu· , Hammond, Ind. Rejected 190-223. tions regardless of whether funds earned August 20 __ H.R. 12859. Mass Transit. Passage of the bill Yes by selling the obligations went to the sub· to authorize $11.4-billion in fiscal years sidiary bank or to thrift institutions. The 1975-80 for mass transit capital and oper- bill was designed to con1'er authority to ating subsidies. Passed 324-92. regulate variable interest notes issued by August 20---S. 3919. Inflation Council. Patman (D Texas) Yes bank holding companies at terms attrac· motion to suspend the rules and pass the tive to small investors. Passed 317-5. (PL bill to establish a Council on Wage and 93-501). Price Stability within the Executive Office Sept. 12-----H.R. 15301. Railroad Retirement. Devine (R No of the President to monitor infiation. Mo­ Ohio) motion to recommit the bill with tion agreed to 369-27 (PL 93-387). instructions that the committee report August 2L __ H.R. 11864. Solar Energy. Adoption of the Yes back a bill extending the existing railroad conference report on the bill to provide for retirement system for one year. Motion demonstrations of technological advance- to recommit rejected 26-329. Februa'ry 4, 1975· EXTENSIONS OF REMARKs 2301

Date Measure and result Vote Measure and result Vote

Sept. 12 ••••. H.R. 15301. Railroad Retirement. Passage of Yes Sept. 25----H.R. 16032. Eisenhower College-Penny Com- No the bill to restructure the financing of position. Passage of the blll to provide the existing federally operated railroad funding for the Eisenhower College in workers' retirement system, authorized Seneca Falls, N.Y., and the Sam Rayburn under the Railroad Retirement Act of Library 1n Bonham, Texas, and to author- -1937. Passed 343-10. ize the secretary of the Treasury to reduce Sept. 19-----H.R. 16371. Solar Energy Research Manage· Yes the amount Of copper in the penny 1! the ment. Passage of the blll to establish a price of copper made the penny more valu- management program to coordinate fed­ able for its copper content than for its eral research and development programs in use as a coin. Passed 172-166 (PL 93-441). solar energy technology and to authorize Sept. 30----H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- Yes $2-milllon in fiscal 1975 for a study to tion. Adoption of the rule (H. Res. 1395) assess the technology needed to develop providing for House floor consideration of solar energy resources. Passed 383--8. (PL H. Res. 988, to reorganize House commit- 93-473). tee jurisdictions and procedures. With H. Sept.19-----H.R. 7917. Oonsumer Product Warranty and Yes Res. 1248 in order as a substitute. Adopted FTC Amendments. Eckhardt (D Texas) 326-25. amendment, to the Broyhlll (R N.C.) sub­ Oct. L-----H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- No stitute for the committee bill, to authorize tion. Thompson (D N.J.) amendment, to the Federal Trade Co:mmtssion (FTC) to the Hansen (D Wash.) substitute resolu- seek court redress for consumers injured by tion (H. Res. 1248). to increase the perma­ ••unfair or deceptive" trade practices. Re­ nent staff of standing committees from 12 jected 180-209. to 30; to allow the minority to appoint Sept. 19-----H.R. 7917. Consumer Product Warranty and '-fes one-third of that total (10); and to allow FTC Amendments. Passage of the bill to the ranking minority members of sub­ set ~um federal standards for con­ committees to appoint one professional sumer product warranties, revise Federal staff aide to be paid out of funds derived Trade Commission (FTC) procedures and from additional expense resolutions. authorize fiscal 1975-77 funds for the com­ Adopted 218-180. mission. Passed 384-1. (PL. 93-637). Oct. L-----H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations. Yes Sept. 23-----H.R. 16243. Defense Department Appropria­ No Fisca11975. Roybal (D Calif.) amendment, tions, Fiscal 1975. McDade (R Pa.) motion 1n the nature of a substitute to the Obey ordering the previous question (to end fur­ (D Wis.) amendment (see vote 400, be­ ther debate and the possib111ty for amend­ low). to increase funds for education aid ment) on the McDade (R Pa.) motion to to the disadvantaged and handicapped and recommit the conference report on the bill impact aid by $193.6-million. Adopted making appropriations for the Department 253-145. of Defense for fiscal 1975. Motion ordering Oct. L------H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes previous question agreed to 228-125. Fi.soal 1975. Obey (D Wis.) amendment, as Sept. 23 _____ H.R. 16243. Defense Department Appropria- No amended by the Roybal (D Calif.) sub­ tions, Fiscal 1975. Adoption of the confer­ stitute amendment (see vote 399, above), ence report on the bill appropriating to increase funds for education aid to the · $82,576,297,000 for the Department of disadvantaged and handicapped and im- Defense for fiscal 1975. Adopted 293-59. pact aid by $193.6-mlllion. Adopted 280-114. (PL. 93-437). Oct. L ____ ..:.H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, No Sept. 24 •••• .H.R. 15323. Nuclear Accident Insurance. No Fiscal 1975. Holt (R Md.) amendment to Adoption of the conference report on the prohibit the federal government from bill to extend until Aug. 1, 1982, the federal withholding funds from school districts program insuring the public against losses as a method of compelling them to classify in the event of a nuclear accident. Adopted or assign teachers and students to schools 376-10. o.r classes on the basis of race, sex, religion Sept. 24-----H.J. Res. 1131. Continuing Appropriations, Yes or national origin or to keep records and Fiscal 1975. Rosenthal (D N.Y.) -du Pont files pertaining to the race, sex, religion or (R Del.) amendment to prohibit funds in national original of their students and the blll from· being used to supply military teachers. Adopted 220-169. assistance, including mllltary sales and Oct. 2------·H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes credits, to Turkey until the President cer­ Fiscal 1975. Roybal (D Calif.) amendment tified to Congress that "substantial prog­ to increase funding for library resources by ress toward agreement has been made re­ $5-milllon, to $95,250,000. Adopted 280-120. garding military forces in Cyprus." Oct. 2. ______H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes Adopted 307-90. Fisca11975. Pepper (D Fla.) amendment to Sept. 24 _____ H.J. Res. 1131. Continuing Appropriations, Yes add $25.4-mlllion, to a total of $125- Fiscall975. Holtzman (D N.Y.) amendment mllllon. for nutrition programs for the to prohibit any funds in the blll from being elderly (Meals on Wheels) . Adopted 282- used by the Central Intelligence Agency to 125. undermine or destabilize the governments Oct. 2 ______H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganization. No of foreign countries. Rejected 108-291. Kuykendall (R Tenn.) amendment, to the Sept. 24-----H.J. Res. 1131. Continuing Appropriations, Yes Hansen (D Wash.) substitute resolution Fiscall975. Adoption of the joint resolution H. Res. 1248), to restore jurisdiction over to make continuing appropriations for fis­ surface and air transportation to the Com­ cal 1975 through the sine die adjournment mittee on Commerce and Health (cur­ of the 93rd Congress for agencies whose rently Interstate and Foreign Commerce.) regular fiscal 1975 appropriations bill had Rejected 172-239. not yet been cleared by Congress. Adopted Oct. 2------..H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganization. Yes 374-26. Young (R Fla.) amendment, to the Hansen Sept. 24-••• H.R. 15404. State, Justice, Commerce Appro- Yes (D Wash.) substitute resolution (H. Res. priations, Fiscal1975. Adoption of the con­ 1248), to establish a non-legislative Se- ference report on the bill to provide $5,- lect Committee on Aging. Adopted 323-84. 532,957,100 for the Departments of State, Oct. 2 ______.H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganization. No Justice, Commerce, the judiciary and 13 !chord (D Mo.) amendment, to the Hansen related agencies for fiscal 1975. Adopted (D Wash.) substitute resolution (H. Res. 358--31 (PL 93-433) . 1248), to retain the House Internal security Sept. 25 ___ H.R. 16032. Eisenhower College-Penny Com- Yes Committee as a separate standing com­ position. Wylie (R Ohio) amendment to mittee instead of transferring its jurisdic- delete a provision of the bill which would tion to the Judiciary Committee. Adopted authorize up to $10-million for grants to 246-164. the Eisenhower College and earmark 10 Oct. 2------H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes per cent of such grants for the Sam Ray­ Fiscal 1975. Stokes (D Ohio) amendment, burn Library. Rejected 166-169. to Addabbo (D N.Y.) amendment (see 2302 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975

Date Measure and result Vote Date Measure and result Vote

vote 408 below), to delete aU appropria­ 988 with a recommendation that the re­ tions for former President Nixon authorized solving clause be stricken (thus kllling the under the Presidential Transition Act of resolution). Rejected 39-295. 1963. Rejected 169-228. October 7 ___ H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- Yes October 2-- - H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes tion. Bolling (D Mo.) motion to limit to Fiscal 1975. Addabbo (D N.Y.) amendment five hours debate on the Hansen (D Wash.) to reduce to $100,000 from $245,000 the substitute (H Res. 1248) and amendments amount available for former President to it. Agreed to 274-56. Nixon for presidential transition expenses. October s ___ H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- No Adopted 342-47. tion. Dennis (RInd.) amendment to the October 2-- -H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes Martin substitute (see vote 426, p. 2886), Fiscal 1975. Waldie (D Calif.) amendment, to retain jurisdiction over the Panama to Addabbo (D N.Y.) amendment (see vote Canal and Panama Canal Zone in the 411, below), to delete appropriation of Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee $55,000 for former President Nixon's fiscal instead of transferring it to the Foreign 1975 pension. Rejected 46-344. Affairs Committee. Adopted 228-132. October 2---H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes Fiscal 1975. Stokes (D Ohio) amendment, October 8 ___ H, Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- No to Addabbo (D N.Y.) amendment (see vote tion. Eckhardt (D Tex) amendment, to the 411, below), to delete all allowances to for- Martin (R Neb.) substitute resolution (H mer President Nixon authorized under the Res. 1321), to delete a provision allowing Former Presidents Act of 1958 except his the Rules Committee to decide jurisdic- pension. Rejected 107-277. tion disputes between committees on bill October 2---H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes referrals and allowing committee chairmen Fiscal 1975. Addabbo (D N.Y.) amendment to appeal those decisions to the floor. to reduce the appropriation for former Adopted 186-168. President Nixon's pension and other allow- October 8---H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- Yes ances to $100,000 from $153,000. Adopted tion. Heinz (R Pa.) amendment, to the i, 321-62. Martin (R Neb.) substitute resolution (H October 2-- -H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, No Res 1321), to establish a non-legislative Fiscal 1975. Passage of the bill making fis- Select Committee on Aging. Adopted 299- cal 1975 supplemental appropriations of 44. $8,436,251,562 for several federal depart­ October 8 ___ H. Res. 988. Committee Reorganization. Dun- No ments and agencies. Passed 317-72. can (R Tenn.) amendment, to the Martin October 3 ___ H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- Yes (R Neb.) substitute resolution (H. Res. tion. Bolling (D Mo.) motion to resolve the 1321), to prevent defeated or retiring House into the Committee of the Whole House members from using government to consider amendments to H. Res. 988 and funds for foreign travel. Adopted 301-43. two substitute resolutions. Agreed to 384-2. October 3 ___ H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- No October 8--- H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- No tion. Waggonner (D La..) amendment, to tion. Martin (R Neb.) amendment in the the Hansen substitute resolution (H. Res. nature of a substitute resolution (H. Res. 1248), to delete a provision of the resolu- 1321) to the Hansen (D Wash.) substitute tion permitting the House speaker to bring resolution (H. Res. 1248). Rejected 41- legislation to the floor without prior ap­ 319. proval by the Rules Committee. Adopted October 8 ___ H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- No 295-104. tion. Froehlich (R Wis.) amendment, to October 7 ___ H.R. 17027. National Visitors Center. Gray No the Hansen (D Wash.) substitute resolu- (D Ill.) motion to suspend the rules and . tiqn (H. Res. 1248), to establish a non­ pass the bill to authorize $12.9-mlllion for legislative select committee to study the construction of the National Visitors Cen- abortion issue. Rejected 163-193. ter in Washington, D.C. Motion rejected October 8 ___ H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- Yes 185-175. tion. Latta (R Ohio) amendment, to the October 7 ___ H.J. Res. 1131. Continuing Appropriations, Yes Hansen (D Wash.) substitute resolution Fiscal 1975. Adoption of the conference re- (H. Res. 1248), to ban voting by proxy in port on the b111 making further continuing committee. Adopted 196-166. appropriations for fiscal year 1975 for fed- eral agencies and departments whose ap­ October 8 ___ H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- No propriations had not yet been cleared by tion. Cleveland (R N.H.) amendment, to Congress. Adopted 330-25. the Hansen (D Wash.) substitute resolu- tion (H. Res. 1248), to give the minority october 'f___ H.J. Res. 1131. Continuing Appropriations, No party in Congress control of a select in­ Fiscal 1975. Mahon (D Texas) motion that vestigating committee whenever the ma­ the House concur in a House-Senate con­ jority controlled both houses of Congress ference amendment to a Senate amend­ and the presidency. Rejected 148-218. ment prohibiting funds for further U.S. October 8 ___ H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- No military assistance to Turkey until the tion. Hansen (D Wash.) amendme . ~t in the President certified that that nation was in nature of a substitute (H. Res. 1248) to H. compliance with the Foreign Assistance Res. 988, changing House committee juris­ Act of 1961 and the Foreign Military Sales dictions and procedures. Adopted 203-165. Act and was making "good faith efforts" October 8 ___ H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- Yes to reach a negotiated settlement with re­ tion. Passage of the resolution changing spect to Cyprus. Rejected 69-291. House committee jurisdictions and pro­ October 'J •••H.R. 12471. Freedom of Information Act. Yes cedures, as amended by the Hansen sub­ Adoption of the conference report on the stitute resolution (H. Res. 1248). Passed blll to amend the 1966 Freedom or Infor­ 359-7. mation Act to guarantee broader public October 9- - - H.R. 16901. Agricultural, Environmental and Yes access to government information and doc­ Consumer Protection Appropriations, Fis- uments. Adopted 349- 2. cal 1975. Passage of the bill to appropriate October 'J ___ H, Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- Yes $13,379,183,000 for agriculture, environ­ tion. Bolling (D Mo.) motion to resolve the mental and consumer protection programs House into the Committee of the Whole for fiscal 1975. Passed 366-24. to consider amendments to H. Res. 988 and October 9 ___ S. 1769. Fire Prevention. Adoption of the Yes two substitute resolutions. Agreed to 211- conference report on the bill to authorize 121. $45.5-million over fiscal years 1975-76 for October 7 ___ H. Res. 988. House Committee Reorganiza- No establishing a comprehensive federal fire tion. Martin (R Neb.) preferential motion prevention and control program. Adopted that the committee rise and report H. Res. 381-3 (P.L. 93- 498). / February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2303

Date Measure and result Vote Date Measure and result

October 9 ___ H.R. 13113. Commodity Futures Trading Yes October 1Q __ H.R. 15888. District of Columbia Community No Commission. Adoption of the conference Development and Finance Corporation. report on the bill to establish an independ- Passage of bill to establish a District of ent commission to regulate trading in com­ Columbia Community Development and modity futures. Adopted 375-4 (PL Finance Corporation to serve as a housing 93-463). financing agency and a developer of last October 9 ___ H.R. 11510. Energy Research and Develop- Yes resort. Rejected 116-191. ment Administration. Adoption of the October 1L.S.J. Res. 247. Foreign Aid to Turkey. Passage No conference report on the bill to abolish of the joint resolution to authorize the the Atomic Energy Commission and create President to delay the cutoff of military an Energy Research and Development funds to Turkey, contained in an emer­ Administration and a Nuclear Regulatory gency appropriations bill (H.J. Res. 1131) Commission to take over the AEC's regu­ and required under the Foreign Assistance latory functions. Adopted 372-1 (PL Act of 1961 and the Foreign Military Sales 93-438). Act, until Dec. 15, 1974, if he-determined October 9 ___ H.R. 11221. Deposit Insurance. Adoption of Yes that the delay would help negotiations for the conference report on the bill to in­ a peaceful settlement of the Cyprus con­ cree.se to $40,000 from $20,000 the limit on filet. Rejected 171-187. the amount of a bank or thrift institution October 1L_H, Con. Res. 667. Federal Spending Target. No deposit covered by federal insurance. Sisk (D Calif.) motion to order the previ- Adopted 35~1 (PL 93-495). ous question (ending debate and prevent- October 10_.8. 3044. Federal Election Campaign Finane- Yes ing amendments) on the rule (H. Res. ing. Adoption of the conference report on 1437) providing for House fioor considera- the bill to establish spending and contribu- tion of the concurrent resolution to set a tion limits for federal election campaigns $300-blllion target for :fiscal 1975 federal and to provide for the public :financing of spending. Motion adopted 195-150. presidential elections. Adopted 36~24 October 11--H. Con. Res. 667. Federal Spending Target. Yes ( PL 93-443) . Frenzel (R Minn.) motion to order the October 10_.H.R. 12628. Veterans' Educational Benefits. Yes previous question (ending debate and pre­ Adoption of the conference report on the venting amendments) on the conc·.llTent bill to increase veterans' educational bene- resolution to set a $300-billion target for fits by 22.7 per cent and raise on-the-job :fiscal 1975 federal spending. Motion adopt- training assistance and vocational aid for ed 260-84. the disabled by 18.2 per cent. Adopted October 1L-H. Con. Res. 667. Federal Spending Target. Yes 388-0. . Passage of the resolution to set a $300- October 10_.8, 3698. International Nuclear Agreements. Yes billion target for federal spending during Eckhardt (D Texas) motion to recommit fiscal 1975. Adopted 329-20. the conference report to the House-Senate October 15--H.J. Res. 1131. Continuing Appropriations, Yes conference committee with instructions Fiscal 1975. Passage, over the President's that the House managers insist on a House Oct. 14 veto, of the joint resolution to provision requiring approval of Congress make further continuing appropriations on proposed international nuclear agree­ for :fiscal year 1975 and to ·prohibit fur- ments. Motion rejected 143-230 (PL ther military ·aid to Turkey until the Pres- 93-485). ident certified that the Ankara regime was October 10_.8. 3792. Export Administration. Adoption of Yes in compliance wtih U.S. foreign assistance the conference report on the bill to extend laws and that bstantial progress had the Export Administration Act through been made in negotiations regarding its Sept. 30, 1976, authorizing the secretary of military forces on Cyprus. Rejected (thus commerce to regulate exports. Adopted sustaining the President's veto) 223-135. 332-43 (PL 93-500). October 15__ H.R. 15301. Railroad Retirement. Passage, Yes October 10_..H.R. 17027. National Visitors Center. Passage No over the President's Oct. 12 veto, of the bill of the bill to authorize appropriations of to restructure the financing of the exist- $12.9-million for construction of a National ing federally operated railroad workers' Visitors Center in Washington, D.C. Passed retirement system, authorized under the . 198-159 (PL 93-478). Railroad Retirement Act of 1937. Passed October 10 __ H.R. 8193. Energy Transportation Security. Yes (thus· overriding the President's veto) Du Pont (R Del.) motion to delete from 360-12 (PL 93-445). the bill reported by House-Senate conferee October 15 __ s. 3979. Emergency Mortgag~ Credit. Adop- Yes provisions require oil tankers to be tion of the rule (H. Res. 1446) providing equipped with the latest pollution control for House fioor consideration of the bill to technology; provisions had been ruled authorize the Government Nation.al Mort- nongermane by the speaker on a point of gage Association to purchase, for one year, order. Motion rejected (overruling point of home mortgage loans not insured by the order) 95-261. federal government and to limit the out­ October 10--H~. 8193. Energy Transportation Security. Yes standing value of: ~ns purchased to $7.75- Adoption of the conference report on the billion. Adopted 35~13 (PL 93-449). bill to require upon enactment that U.S. October 15 __ H.R. 15427. Amtrak AuthoriZation. Adoption Yes fiagships carry at least 20 per cent of all of the conference report on the bill author- oil and oil products imported into the izing $2-million in fiscal 1975 operating United States, with the percentage in­ subsidies for the National Railroad Pas­ creasing to 25 per cent after June 30, 1975, senger Corporation (Amtrak) and raising and to 30 per cent after June 30, 1977. the ceiling on federally guaranteed loans Adopted 219-140. for the corporation. Adopted 299--35 (PL October 10__ 8. 1296. Grand Canyon National Park. House No 93-496). Interior and Insular Affairs Committee October 16 __ H.R. 14225. Rehabilitation Act Extension. Yes amendment to place 185,000 acres of the Adoption of the conference report on the Grand Canyon National Park in trust for bill to extend the Rehabilitation Act of the Havasupai Indian Tribe. Adopted 180- 1973 through fiscal 1976, to authorize a 147. (P.L. 93-620). White House Conference on the Handi­ capped in 1976, and to give priority to October 10--H.R. 15888. District of Columbia Community No blind persons to operate vending stands · Development ·and Finance Corporation. on federal property. Adopted 334-0. Ketchum (R Calli.) amendment to delete October 16--H.J. Res. 1163. Continuing Appropriations, Yes language that would allow the ·chairman Fisc~l .1975. Rosenthal (D N.Y.) amend- .of the proposed Community Development ment to require an immediate cutoff of and Finance Corporation to seek federal military aid to Turkey if any u.s.-supplied appropriations to · restore insufficiencies in military equipment or supplies were the corporation's capital reserve fund. Re­ shipped to Cyprus by Turkey after enact- jected 146-165. ment. Adopted 194-144. - 2304 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4,. -1975

Date Measure and result Vote Date Measure and result Vote

Oct. 16-----·H.J. Res. 1163. Continuing Appropriations, No persons to operate vending stands on ted-. PISCal1975. Gross (R Iowa) amendment to eral property. Passed (thus overriding the extend the limitations on U.S. aid to Tur- President's veto) 398-7. {PL 93-516). key to cover sl.milar U.S. aid to Greece. Nov. 20 __ ___ H.R. -124:71. Freedom of Information Act. Yes Rejected 84-237. Passage, over the President's Oct. 17 veto, Oct. 16-----.H.J. Res. 1163. Continuing Appropriations, Yes of the bill to amend the 1966 Freedom of Fiscal 1975. Passage of the joint resolution Information and documents. Passed (thus to make further continuing appropriations overriding the President's veto) 371-31. for the fiscal year 1975 through the sine {PL 93-502). die adjournment of the 93rd Congress and Nov. 20 _____ H.R. 6624:. Private Blll. Passage, over the Yes also to bar further military aid to Turkey President's Oct. 29 veto, of the bill to until the President certified it was in com­ compensate two American citizens, as rec­ pliance with U.S. foreign assistance laws ommended by a Revie-, Panel of the Com­ and that substantial progress had been missioner of the Court of Claims, who were made on negotiations regarding military wounded by U.S. military personnel in a forces on Cyprus, but permitting the Pres­ 1965 shooting incident in the Dominican ident to delay the ban until Dec. 10, 1974, Republic. Rejected (thus sustaining the if it helped the negotiations: however the President's veto) 236-163. ban would become effective immediately Nov. 20 ______H.R. 16373. Privacy Act. Erlenborn (R Ill.) No U Turkey shipped additional military sup- amendment to prevent government agen- plies or equipment to Cyprus. Passed cies from disclosing to federal military and 287-30. civilian personnel the names of sources Oct. 17------H.J. Res. 1163. Continuing Appropriations, Yes who had supplied confidential informa- Fiscal 1975. Passage, over the President's tion about them as well as examination Oct. 17 veto, of the joint resolution to of materials contained in employee files. make continuing appropriations for fiscal Adopted 192-177. 1975 and also to suspend as of Dec. 10, Nov. 2L __ __ Mass Transit Subsidies. Adoption of the rule Yes 1974, military aid to Turkey, but requiring (H. Res. 1470) providing for House floor the aid cutoff to take effect immediately consideration of and waiving points of if Turkey shipped any additional military order against the conference report on the supplies or equipment to Cyprus before bill. Adopted 24:1-154. that date. Rejected (thus sustaining the Nov. 2L __ __ Mass Transit Subsidies. Adoption of the con- Yes President's veto) 161-83. terence report on the bill authorizing $11.9- Oct. 17-----·H.J. Res. 1167. Continuing Appropriations, Yes billlon for mass transit operating and cap- Fiscal 1975. Adoption of the rule (H. Res. ital subsidies for fiscal years 1975-80, in­ 14:56) providing for House floor considera- cluding $7.8-billion for capital grants and tion of the joint resolution to make fur- nearly $4-billion for large cities to use ther continuing appropriations through for either capital or operating expenses. the sine die adjournment of the 93rd Con- Adopted 288-109. (PL. 93-503.) gress for fiscal year 1975 for federal agen- cies and departments whose appropria- Nov. 2L ____ H.R. 16373. Privacy Act. Passage of the bill Yes tions had not been cleared. Adopted 210-14. to protect individual privacy by regulating the federal government's collection, use · Oct. 11------H.J. Res. 1167. Continuing Appropriations, Yes Fiscal 1975. Passage of the joint resolution and disclosure of personal data on citizens. to make further continuing appropriations Passed 353-1. through the sm. die ·adjournment of the Nov. 25 _____ H .R. 174:50. District of Columbia Public Serv- Yes 93rd Congress for fiscal year 1975 for fed- ice -commission. Passage of the bill to pro- eral agencies and departments whose ap­ vide a people's counsel for the Public Serv- propriations had not been cleared, and to ice Commission in the District of Columbia bar further military aid to TUrkey as of to represent consumers' interests in utility Dec. 10, 1974, provided Turkey until then matters. Passed 278-65. (PL. 93-814:.) honored the cease-fire line on Cyprus, Nov. 25 _____ H.R. 16609. AEC Supplemental. Passage of No neither increased nor decreased its troops the bill to authorize $80.5-million in fiscal there and did not transfer any U.S.-sup- 1975 supplemental appropriations for plied weapons to Cyprus. Passed 191-33 Atomic Energy Commission weapons test- ( PL 93--448) . ing and nuclear security programs. Passed Nov. 18 _____ H .R. 16982. UN Peacekeeping Forces. Fraser Yes 312-49. (P.L. 93-576.) (D Minn.) motion to suspend the rules Nov. 26 _____ H .R. 15580. Labor-HEW Appropriations, Fis- Yes and pass the bill to authorize payment for cal 1975. Adoption of the conference ·re- fiscal 1975 to the United Nations of an port on the bill appropriating $33,045,856,- unspecified amount for the U.S. share of 000 in fiscal 1975 for the Departments of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare the Middle East and $4:.8-mlllion for the and related agencies. Adopted 352-25. (P.L. United Nations force in Cyprus. Motion 93-517.) agreed to 304-56. Nov. 18----- S. 1064:. Judicial Disqualification. Kasten- Yes Nov. 26 ____ _ H.R. 174:68. Military Construction Appropria- No meier (D Wis.) motion to suspend the tions, Fiscal 1975. Passage of the bill to rules and pass the bill to broaden and appropriate $3,062,108,000 for military con­ clarify the circumstances under which a struction programs in fiscal 1975. Passed federal judge should disqualify himself 341-33. (PL. 93-636.) from sitting on a case. Motion agreed to Dec. 3 ______H.R. 12628. Veterans' Education Benefits. Pas- Yes 317-31. (PL 93-512). sage, over the President's Nov. 26 veto, of Nov. 1!) _____ ·H.R. 16757. Emergency Fuel Allocation Act Yes the bill to increase veterans' educational Extension. Staggers (D W. Va.) motion to benefits by 22.7 per cent and raise on-the- suspend the rules and pass the bill to ex- job training assistance and vocational aid tend the Emergency Petroleum Allocation for the disabled by 18.2 per cent. Passed. Act of 1973 !rom Feb 28, 1975, through (thus overriding the President's veto) 394- Aug. 31, 1975. Motion agreed to 335-55. 10. (PL. 93-508.) Nov. 19--- -- H.R. 13002. Safe Drinking Water. Passage of Yes Dec. 3------H.R. 6191. Zine Imports. Passage, over the Yes the bill to authorize the Environmental President's Nov. 26 veto, of the bill to sus- Protection Agency to set natiomll stand- pend until June 30, 1977, the duties on ards for safe drinking water. Passed 296-84. zinc materials and 'to entitle 1972 flood Nov. 20 ___ __ H.R. 142~5. Rehabilitation Act Extension. Yes disaster victims to exclude from their Passage, over the President's Oct. 29 veto, taxable incomes up to $5,000 1n payments of the bill to extend the Rehabilitation Act for flood damages even if their losses had of 1973 through fiscal 1976, to authorize a been deducted in previous years. Rejected · White House Conference on the Handi­ (thus. sustaining the President's veto) capped in 1976 and to give priority t o blind 249- 150. February ·4; .:1975 · · EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2305

Date Measure and result VOte Date Measure and result vote ·

Dec. s _____ JI.R. 17481. Truman Memorial Scholarship. Yes railroads and make changes in the surface · · · O'Hara (D. Mich.) motion to suspend the tzansporation regulatory system. Passed rules and pass the bill to authorize $30- 377-15. m.illion to establish the Harry S Truman Dec, 10______H .R. 17234. Foreign Aid Authorization. Adop- Yes Memorial Scholarship Program. Motion tion of the rule (H. Res. 1468) providing rejected 236-'--149. - for House fioor consideration of the bill to Dec. 4 _____ .H. Res. 1483. Suspension of the Rules. Adop- Yes provide foreign military and economic as­ tion of the resolution to authorize the sistance. Adopted 322-58. Speaker of the House to allow the intro­ Dec. ll ______H.R. 17234. Foreign Aid Authorization. Yes duction of motions to suspend the rules on Mathis (D Ga.) amendment to delete a Monday, Dec. 9, 1974, and at any subse­ ceiling of $85-million for the procurement quent time during the remainder of the of fertilizer for South Vietnam and deny 2nd session, 93rd Congress. Adopted use of funds for that purpose. Adopted 210-164. 291-98. Dec. 4 __ .:. __ ..H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes Dec. 1L ____ .H,R . 17234. Foreign Aid Authorization. Rosen- Yes Fiscal 1975. Adoption of the conference thal (D N.Y.) amendment to provide for an report on the bill to make fiscal 1975 sup­ immediate cut-off of military aid to Turkey plemental appropriations of $8,659,352,078 until the president certified to Congress for several federal departments and agen- that Turkey was in compliance with the cies (the total included $2,357,718,000 for Foreign Aid and Foreign Military Sales Acts advance fiscal 1976 funding for several edu­ and that substantial progress had been cation programs). Adopted 292-89. made toward a military settlement on Dec. 4---'---H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, No Cyprus. Adopted 297-98. Fiscal 1975. Mahon (D. Texas) motion to Dec. 11------H.R. 17234. Foreign Aid Authorization. Gross No concur with an amendment, reported in (R Iowa) amendment to reduce funds for technical disagreement by House-Senate international organizations and programs conferees, to prohibit the Department of to $127,822,000 from $154,400,000. Rejected. Health, Educ tion, and Welfare from with­ Dec. 11------H.R. 17234. Foreign Aid Authorization. Gross No holding federal funds under authority of (R Iowa) amendment to end all aid and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from school nll,;!tary credit sales to . India. Rejected districts in order to compel them to clas- 159-223. sify or assign its students and teachers to Dec. 1L-----H.R. 17234. Foreign Aid Authorization. Miller No schools or classes on the basis of race, sex, (R Ohio) amendment to permit the presi­ religion or national origin for the purpose dent to disperse assistance funds only in of desegregation. Motion agreed to 212-176. Dec. g ______s. 425. Strip Mining. Udall (D. Ariz.) motion Yes return for strategic raw materials and to to suspend the rules and adopt the con­ provide for the stockpiling or sale of those ference report on the bill to regulate strip materials by the United States. Adopted 24~136. mining of coal and the reclamation of Yes mined lands. Motion rejected 212-150. De~. 1L-----H.R. 17234. Foreign Aid Authorization. Final Dec. g ______s. 2201. Flood Damage. Breaux (D. La.) mo- No passage of the bill to authorize $2,643,325,- tion to suspend the rules and pass the bill 000 for fiscal 1975 for foreign economic and · to provide $5-million in- relief to Louisiana military assistance. Passed 201-190. oyster fishermen. Motion reJected 172-185. Dec. 12 _____ .1I.R. 16901. Agricultural, Environmental and Yes Dec. 9 ______s. 4040. Veterans' Pensions. Dorn (D S.C.) Yes Consumer Protection Appropriations, Fis­ motion to suspend the rules and pass the cal 1975. Adoption of the conference report bill to provide a 12 per cent inc:rease in on the bill appropriating $13,389,851,000 for pension rates for eligible veterans and their agriculture, environmental and consumer survivors. Motion agreed to 357-1 (P.L. 93- protection programs for fiscal 1975. Adopted 527). 359-20. Dec. 10 ______H .R. 5385. Surface Transportation. Matsu- No Dec. 12 _____ H .R. 16901. Agricultural, Environmental and No naga motion to order the _previous ques- Cons_umer Protection Appropriations, Fis­ tion (end further debate and. the possibil- cal 1975. Whitten (D Miss.) motion that ity for amendment) on the rule (H. Res. the House insist on its disagreement to a 1485) providing for House fioor considera- Senate amendment that deleted House tion of the bill to grarit $2-billion in fed­ language barring the Environmental Pro­ erally guaranted loans for railroads and to tection Agency (EPA) from taxing, limiting make changes in the surface transporta- or otherwise regulating parking facilities. tion regulatory system. Motion rejected 93- (Prior to the vote, the speaker had sus­ 263. tained a point of order against language Dec. 10 ______H .R. 11666. Asian Development Bank. Pass- Yes approved by the conference committee that age of the bill to authorize an increase in would have prohibited EPA from imple­ the U.S. contribution to the Asian Devel­ menting or enforcing indirect source regu­ opment Bank. Passed 186-1~7 (PL. 93- lations pending completion of judicial 537). review.) Motion agreed to 282-90. (PL 93- Dec. 10 _____ .H .R. 14214. Health Services Programs. Adop- Yes 563). · tion of the conference report on the bill Dec. 12 _____ .H.R. 17597. Emergency Unemployment Com- Yes to authorize $1.9-billion in fiscal 1975-76 pensation. IDlman (D. Oreg.) motion to for health services formula grants to the suspend the rules and pass the bill to states, family planning programs, com­ give an additional 13 weeks of unemploy­ munity mental health centers, migrant ment insurance benefits to unemployed health centers and community health cen­ persons who had exhausted both their reg­ ters for the medically underserved. Adopt­ ular and extended unemployment benefits. ed (thus cleared for the President) 372- Motion agreed to 374-2 (P.L. 93-572) . 14. .Dec. 12 _____ H .R . ·. 16596. Public Service Jobs. Adoption Yes Dec. 10______H .R. 5385. Surface Transporta.tion. Fulton No of the rule (H. Res. 1493) under which (D Tenn ..) amendment to delete a pro­ the bill to provide public service jobs was vision of the bill to prevent transportation considered. Adopted 360-10. property from being taxed at a rate higher Dec. 12 _____ H.R. 16596. Public Service Jobs. Passage of Yes than other industrial and commercial the bill to authorize $2-billion in fiscal property, ·and to substitute language al­ 1975 to provide public service jobs to the lowing states to classify transportation unemployed and stich ·sums as might be property as public utility property. Re­ necessary to extend unemployment com­ jected 79-314. pensation coverage to approximately 12 Dec. 10-'· --~--· · H.R. 5385. Surface Transportation. Passage Yes million· persons, primarily farm workers, of the bill to provide for $2-billion in fed­ domestics and state and local government erally guaranteed loans for the nation's employees. Passed 322-53. 2306 EXTENSIONS Or REMARKS Febritary 4, ·1975

Dat e Measure and result ..vote Date Measure and result Vote Dec: 16_ ___ H.R. 17382. American Folklife Center. Nedzi Yes Dec. 12--- -- H.R. 17084. Health Manpower Programs. Stag - Yes gers (D. W.Va.) motion to suspend the (D Mich.) motion to susp~nd the rules and rules and pass the bill to authorize $1.6- pass the bill to provide for the establish- billion in fiscal 1975-77 for health man­ ment of an American Folklife Center in the power assistance programs. Motion agreed Library of Congress. Motion rejected 249-134. to 337-23. Dec. 12 _____ S .J. Res. 40. White House Conference on Yes Dec. 16 __- ___ s. 1901. Denver Mint Building. Gray (DIll.) Yes Libraries. Passage of the bill to authorize motion to suspend the rules and pass the and request the President to call a Whit e bill increasing to $95-million from $45- House Conference on Library and Infor­ million the amount authorized for the mation Services in 1976. Passed 259-81. building of new mints in the United States Dec. 13 _____ s. 425. Strip Mining. Adoption of the rule Yes and permitting to July 1, 1983, any previous (H. Res. 1496) providing for House fioor appropriations to be spent, thus allowing consideration of the conference report on construction of a new mint building in the bill to regulate strip mining of coal Denver, Colo. Motion agreed to 241-143. . and the reclamation of mined lands . ; Dec. 16--.---H.R. 17481. Truman Memorial Scholarship. Ye.s Adopted 198-129. Adoption of the rule (H. Res. 1495} provid- Dec. 13 _____ H.R. 16204. Health Planning Programs. Pas- Yes . ing for House floor consideration of the sage of the bill to authorize $1.2-billion in bill to authorize $30-million to establish fiscal 1975-77 for new federal health plan- t be Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarship ning and resource development programs. Program. Adopted 298-56. Passed 236-79 (P.L. 93-641). Dec. 17 ____ _H_R ·. 15263. Rice Production. Adoption of the Ye.s Dec. 13--- -- H.R. 14266. International Airlines. Murphy Yes rule (H. Res. 1381) providing for House (D. N.Y.) amendment to direct the Civil :floor -consideration of the bill to suspend Aeronautics Board (CAB) to fix new rates i for three years, through 1977, the acreage paid by the U.S. Postal Service to U.S. l allotment and marketing quota system for airlines for carrying mail overseas that rice. Adopted 256-135 ... were no lower than those paid by the Postal Service to foreign airlines for carry- Dec. 17-----H.R. 15263. Rice Production. Passage of the Yes bill to suspend the acreage allotment and ing U.S. mail. (The effect of the amend­ marketing quota system for rice, begin- ment was to raise rates set by CAB on U.S. internat ional airlines routes to the ning in 1976. Rejected 118-263. higher rates set by international agree­ Dec. 17 ___ __H.R. 174:Sl. Truman Memorial Scholarship. Ye::; ment . t hus aiding financially troubled Pan Passage of the bill t o authorize $30-million American Airways and Trans World Air­ to establish the Harry S Truman Memorial lines.) Adopted 154-131. Scholarship P r ogram . Passed ~8 - 122 (P.L. Dec. 13-----H .R-. 14266. International Airlines. Passage of Yes 93-642). the bill to require CAB to set higher rates Dec. 18- ----H. Res. 1512. Conference Report s. Adoption Ye.s for U.S. international airlines carrying mail of the resolution aut horizing the consider- overseas and to direct federal officials to ation of conference reports on t he same seek reductions in unfair charges levied by day reported or any day thereafter during foreign governments on U.S. airlines at the remainder of the second session of the foreign airports or to impose offsetting 93rd._ Congress. Adopted 351-42. charges on foreign airlines using U .S . Dec. 18- ---- S . 3394. Foreign Aid Authorization. Adoption Yes facilities. Passed 221-54 (PL 93-623). of the conference report on the b111 au­ Dec. 16-----H.R. 16900. Supplemental Appropriations, Yes thorizing $2,697,226,000 for foreign military Fiscal 1975. Mahon (D Texas) motion tt~at and economic assistance for fiscal year the House concur in the Senate-passed 1975 and permitting the President to delay Mansfield (D Mont.) -Scott (R Pa.) amend- an immediate ban on military aid to Tur- ment nullifying the effect of the so-called key until Feb. 5, 1975, provided Turkey ob­ Holt amendment--which would rave pro­ served the cease-fire on Cyprus and did not hibited the Department of Health, Educa- ship additional weapons or troops there. tion and Welfare from withholding funds Adopted 209-189 (PL. 93- 559). from school districts to compel them to Dec. l8 _:._ ___ H.J. Res. 1178. Continuing Appropriations, Yes classify or assign teachers and students to Fiscal 1975. Adoption of the resolution schools or classes on the basis of race, sex, making further continuing appropriations religion or national origin-by specifying through Feb. 28, 1975, for federal agencies t hat such a prohibition wonld not apply and departments whose appropriations had if the wit hholding cf funds ·-·as necessary not been cleared, to appropriate funds for to enforce and comply with federal anti­ Israel, Egypt, and Cyprus and to suspend discrimination laws. Motion agreed t o 224- military aid to Turkey effective Feb. 5, 136. (PL 93-554). 1975. Passed 272-122 (P.L. 93-570) . Dec. 16 __ ___ H, Res. 1509. Conference Reports. O'Neill Yes {D Mass.) motion to suspend the rules and Dee. 18 ___ __ .H.R. 16596. Public Service Jobs. Adoption of Yes adopt t he resolution authorizing consider- the coJ:!ference report on the bill author- ation of conference reports and reports izing $2.5-billion for emergency public f rom the House Committee on Rules of the service jobs and such sums as necessary to same day they were reported or on any day extend unemployment compensation cov- thereafter during the rem'il.inder of t he erage to approximately 12 additional mil- second session of t he 93rd Congress. Mo- lion workers. Adopt ed 346-58 (PL 93-567) . tion rejected 252- 135. · Dec. 18_.:. ___ ..H.J. Res. 1180. Emergency Supplemental Ap- Yes Dec. 16 ____ _ 8. 1283. Non-Nuclear Energy Policy. Udall Yes propriations. Mahon (D Texas) motion to (D Ariz.) motion to suspend the rules and suspend the rules and pass the resolution adopt the conference report on the bill to making urgent supplemental appropria- establish a national program of research tions of $4,824,873,000 for fiscal 1975, in­ and development of the nation's non­ cluding $4-billion for emergency Jobs and nuclear energy resources. Motion agreed t o unemployment compensation programs. 378- 5 (PL 93- 577). Motion agreed to 378-24 (PL 93-624). Dec. 16 _____ H .R. 17504. American Film Inst itute. Brade- Yes Dec. 18 ______H.R . 54{13. Federal Rules of Evidence. Adop- Yea mas (D Ind.) motion to suspend the rules · · tion of 'the conference report on the bill and pass the bill to amend the National establi-shing the first uniform code of evi­ Foundation on the Arts and the Humani- dence for federal courts. Adopted (and ties Act of 1965 to create the American thus cleared for the President) 363-32 Film Institute as an independent agency. (PL 93-595) . - Motion rejected 123-264. February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2307

Date Measure and result Vote Date Measure and result Vote

Dec. 18 ______s. 3934. Highway Programs. Adoption of the No Dec. 19-----H. Res. 1494. Speedy Trials. Adoption of the Yes conference report on the bill setting a per­ rule providing for House floor consideration manent 55-mile-per-hour speed limit na­ of the btll (H.R. 17409) to give force to a tionwide and authorizing appropriations citizen's constitutional right to a speedy for federal highway programs. Adopted trial. Adopted 221-69. 307-67 (PL 93-643). Dec. 20 _____ H.R. 10710. Foreign Trade. Adoption of the Yes conference report on the bill giving the Dec. 18 ______H.R. 15977. Export-Import Bank. Adoption of Yes President broad powers to negotiate trade the conference report on the bill extend- agreements and reduce trade barriers and ing the Export-Import Bank through June granting favorable trade status to Com­ 30, 1978, increasing the bank's financing munist countries which permitted their authorizations and requiring congressional citizens to emigrate freely. Adopted 323- review of support for exports to the Soviet 36. (P.L. 93-618) Union. Adopted 280-96 (PL 93-646). Dec. 20 _____ H.R. 421. Needles and Pins and Taxes. Adop- Yes Dec. 18 ______s. 2439. Wild and Scenic Rivers. Taylor (D Yes tion of the conference report on the bill N.C.) motion to suspend the rules and pass allowing duty-free imports of upholsterers' the bill providing for a two-year study of needles and pins and making various 70 miles of the New River in Narth Caro- changes in tbe U.S. tax laws including lina and Virginia for its suitability for in­ provisions increasing the interest rate that clusion in the National Wild and Scenic the Treasury charged on delinquent tax .Rivers System. Motion rejected 196-181. payments, doubling the existing limit on tax credits and deductions for political Dec. 19 ______s. 3976. Copyright Protection. Dingell (D No contributions and clarifying the tax status Mich.) motion to suspend the rules and of political parties. Adopted 257-71. (PL. pass the bill providing permanent copy­ 93-625) right protection for sound recordings, ex­ Dec. 20 _____ H.R. 6668. State Lotteries. ::?assage of the bill Yes tending the duration of certain expiring to permit the transportation, mailing and copyrights and establishing a National broadcasting of advertising information Commission New Technological Uses of and materials concerning lotteries au­ Copyrighted Works. Motion agreed to 292- thorized by state law and conducted by the 101 (PL 93-573). state. Passed 185-126. (PL. 93-583) Dec. 19 _____ .H. Res. 1511. Rockefeller Nomination. House No Dec. 20 ____ _H.R. 14449. Community Services Act. Adop- Yes approval. as provided for by t:1e 25th tion of the conference report on the bill Amendment, of President Ford's Aug. 20 to extend programs of the Office of Eca­ nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller of nomic Opportunity (OEO) through fiscal New York to be vice president. Approved 1977. Adopted 244-43. (P.L. 93-644). (thus confirming the nomination) 287- Dec. 20 _____ s. 4206. Milk Price Supports. Jones (D- No 128. Tenn.) motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill raising the price support for Dec. 19-----H.R. 1520. Conference Reports. Adoption of Yes milk from 80 per centum to not less the resolution providing for the considera- than 85 per centum of the parity price. tion of conference reports from the Com­ Motion agreed to 205-58. mittee on Rules on the same day reported Dec. 20 _____ H.R. 620. Assistant Secretary of Interior. Ye or any day thereafter during the remainder Meeds (D-Wash.) motion to suspend the of the 93rd Congress, waiving the two­ rules and agree to the conference report on thirds vote requirement for passing bills the bill to establish within the Department under suspension of the rules, and author- of the Interior an additional assistant sec­ izing the speaker to declare recesses. retary of the interior for Indian affairs. Adopted 276-58. Rejected 109-132.

FULL CONSERVATION new program which has been initiated. In becoming increasingly alienated and iso­ the past large quantities of unreclaimable lated in our society. They need some­ contaminated lubricating oil generally thing to give added meaning to their HON. BILL NICHOLS taken from vehicle engines and gear lives, but many obstacles hinder their OF ALABAMA boxes was disposed of in some manner. attempts to add this new dimension. One IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Now they have found that by soaking the of their biggest obstacles is transporta­ Tuesday, February 4, 1975 coal used at the depot with this oil, they tion. Living .on fixed incomes and having have been able to save about one ton of difficulty traveling, the old and the di - Mr. NICHOLS. Mr. Speaker, for too coal per day. abled may find that their inability to long now there has been too much talk These energy conservation efforts are reach these destinations will discourage and too little action on the part of our outstanding and show a great deal of them from exploring other areas of Government and many Americans re­ imagination. My hat is off to Colonel interest. garding the conservation of our fuel Bergquist and the employees of Anniston To make travel around town or across sources. Our country is known for its Army Depot for their dedicated efforts to country easier and cheaper for elderly wastefulness but not all of us are the type conserve fuel and petrolem products. Americans, I have introduced the who waste or believe in the "toss-away" They have demonstrated that conserva~ Elderly and Handicapped Americans concept of "use once and throw away." tion can work and work well. Transpork!;ion Services Act. This leg­ The Anniston Army Depot at Anniston, islation, H.R. 993, which has more than Ala., has been conducting a reclamation 50 cosponsors, would: program for about 8 months with out­ Allow persons 65 and older to travel at standing results. The Depot takes the THE ELDERLY AND HANDICAPPED free or reduced fares on airlines, rail­ waste gasoline and diesel fuel from the AMERICANS TRANSPORTATION roads, and buslines; SERVICES ACT tanks and trucks they rebuild and filter Permit similar discounts for the blind, it into top quality usable fuel. Since this the mentally and physically handi­ program began the Anniston Army Depot HON. BENJAI\1IN S. ROSENTHAL capped, and persons traveling in their has reclaimed more than 400,000 gallons OF NEW YORK attendance on airlines. Rail and bus lines of fuel. L.~ THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES already are covered under present law; But the conservation efforts have not and Tuesday, February 4, 1975 ceased. In a l"ecent letter from Col. Provide special services and facilities Robert L. Bergquist, commanding officer Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, to eliminate travel barriers-such as of Anniston Army Depot, he tells me of a elderly and handicapped Americans are steps for those in wheelchairs-encQun- CXXI--146-Part 2 2308 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975 tered by handicapped and elderly persons of buildings and facilities they must or U.S. funds directly or indirectly going to on mass transit facilities. would use. Alternatives will have to be aid North Vietnam and the Vietcong Beneficiaries of this bill include more found to such barriers as bus and train at a time when they continue their war than 25 million of the Nation's handi­ steps, which 30 percent of the handi­ of aggression in South Vietnam and con­ capped, including many Vietnam vet­ capped cannot now use; escalators; long tinue to refuse helping us in finding our erans; 20 million elderly Americans who staircases; and a multitude of obstacles MIA's? wish to remain active and keep in touch which do not even warrant a second In addition to my question above, I with society; the friends and relatives thought by the able-bodied majority. wonder how long we are going to allow these persons will be able to visit; and I believe that many measures can be the United Nations to thumb its nose at the transportation industry. taken to relieve the strain of urban and the United States. At the Geneva office Getting out of their homes and travel­ cross-country travel. Some examples of of the United Nations, the Vietcong ing, whether for pleasure or for a previ­ these include special ticket lines; tum­ have been permitted by the United Na­ ously unavailable job, is certain to give stiles that have been redesigned to ac­ tions to open a liaison office. these Americans a new sense of belong­ commodate not only the elderly and han­ This adds one more to the long list ing and a feeling of independence. dicapped but also shoppers with pack­ of U.N. actions that make that body's This bill not only makes travel easier ages, children or anything that restricts actions inimical to the interests of the for those who would have trouble doing their movements; travel lanes set aside United States and other free peoples. It so, but it would also help to fill commer­ for those people unable to move quickly; is an outrage that the Vietcong, who in cial transports that usually run well wider doors on all vehicles; and shuttles fact are the North Vietnamese, have below capacity. Over 100 urban transport or minibuses where a long walk is re­ been allowed recognition by the United systems around the country have re­ quired, as in airline terminals. Nations. Two years ago recognition was duced fare programs, and most are find­ Since handicapped people tend to suf­ refused. It should continue to be refused. ing that their business has increased. fer more from the confusion and panic At this point I include in the RECORD For example, since the New York City experienced when they become dis­ the text of Father de Jaegher's letter to oriented, visual indicators, illuminated Kurt Waldheim: subway started its reduced fare program, JANUARY 23, 1975. there has been a reported 30 percent sign boards, audio signals, and :floor tex­ ture pathways would greatly benefit H. E. Mr. KURT WALDHEIM, increase in travelers. In addition, the these people and help to keep the masses Secretary General of the United Nations, recently passed Urban Mass Transit Act of travelers :flowing smoothly. These spe­ United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y. will result in more reduced fares in other DEAR SECRETARY GENERAL: I was very much cial adaptations for the handicapped upset to read in the New York Times that areas of the country. Under this act, need not be separate from the normal any community that accepts Government your Excellency agreed to have the Vietcong traffic patterns. It may prove to be even open Liaison Bureau with the U.N. in Ge­ transportation subsidies must provide more convenient and preferable to the neva for humanitarian reasons. a fare of no more than half the regular general public. Having spent ten years in Vietnam, I have fare for elderly and handicapped people This bill goes beyond mere practicality. witnessed Vietcong aggressions and violences during nonpeak hours, providing these of all sorts many times. Recently, I read re­ It makes available to the elderly and dis­ ports from Vietnam and reports in the New people are able to board and exit the abled new opportunities which they could facility. York Times about the attack with tanks and not heretofore have taken advantage of. artillery during the battle for the Provincial The transportation industry would They would be freed of much of their Capital of Phuoc Binh-an open aggression soon find that this virtually untapped present dependence and could use their against the Paris agreement enjoining the segment of the American population new mobility to attain broader and richer parties "to maintain the ceasefire and en­ would bring considerably more business lives. It would aid in relieving some of sure a lasting and stable peace". I was in to commercial transportation. The fare the boredom and misery of old age and Kontum and Pleiku two years ago (end of provisions of this bill are discretionary, July 1972) and visited the battlefield and infirmity by helping these people travel saw mountains of shells used by the North allowing each carrier to decide for itself more easily. More than anything else, how much, if any, discount offer. Vietnamese Army when they attacked the to this bill will aid our aged and disabled Highlands of South Vietnam in violation of The potential mobility of those who in achieving a dignified and meaningful the Paris agreement. Vietcong activities are would benefit is severely limited by lack life. all inside the borders of the Republic of of income; 25 percent of the Nation's Vietnam. The Vietcong are not part of the elderly are below the poverty level. Yet, Government of South Vietnam nor of North reducing fares is not enough. If the IS THE U.N. AIDING NORTH VIET­ Vietnam. For 20 years, the war was waged handicapped and the elderly are to take NAM AND THE VIETCONG? in the South-not in the North-How could advantage of the reduced fares, special we accept aggressors in a liaison bureau for facilities will have to be made for them. humanitarian reasons, when the United Na­ tions is condemning aggression ~n countries Through this bill, special grants and HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK all over the world. loans will be allocated to State and local OF OHIO UNICEF aid to North Vietnam is 18 mil­ agencies to assist them in providing bar­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lion dollars plus 4 million dollars for the Vietcong-a total of 22 million dollars. UNI· rier-free mass transportation services Tuesday, February 4, 1975 that are planned, designed and carried CEF aid to South Vietnam is only 12 mil­ out to meet the special needs of these Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, is the lion dollars. The aggressors received 22 mil..,. people. Some of the services that would United Nations or its agencies giving lion dollars and the attacked only 12 million. money to North Vietnam and the Viet­ I really am shocked to see the United be included are ramps at subway sta­ Nations promote, through your Excellency, tions, sheltered waiting areas with special cong. On October 4, 1973, I pointed out aid to the aggressors by giving to the Viet­ areas for wheelchairs, and stanchions that UNICEF was on the verge of giving cong in Geneva a liaison bureau for "Hu­ running from :floor to ceiling in subway aid to North Vietnam and the Vietcong. manitarian Reasons". I hope you will not cars instead of overhead grips. The Sec­ At that time my office received a letter grant the aggressors a Liaison Bureau and retary of Transportation would prescribe from the Department of State which in destroy the prestige of the United Nations design standards to insure that the el­ part stated: by giving them a platform to promote war derly and handicapped would have ready No U.S. funds will be used in projects for and not peace. Today in the Free World is Freedom Day access to these services. North Vietnam or the Provisional Revolu· tionary Government. celebrating the Korean and Chinese prisoners The bill also provides for special con­ of war who refused to go back to North sideration of applications for Federal In a letter to Kurt Waldheim, Secre­ Korea and the People's Republic of China, transportation grants and loans to those tary-General of the U.N., Father Ray­ but wanted to go freely to South Korea agencies taking measures to aid the mond de Jaegher, president of the Free and Free China. We cannot forget that the elderly and handicapped. It authorizes Pacific Association, charges that North United Nations condemned the Chinese for their aggression in Korea. We cannot now $40 million over the next 2 years for Vietnam is receiving $18 million in aid accept that the Vietcong and the North special transportation planning, re· from UNICEF plus the Vietcong are re­ Vietnamese would have a liaison for further search and demonstration grants. ceiving $4 million in aid from UNICEF. aggressions. It is difficult for the public to under­ UNICEF has been and is still largely de­ I remain, Dear Secretary General, stand that the greatest single obstacle of pendent on U.S. contributions-both Very sincerely yours, the handicapped is the physical design governmental and nongovernmental. Are RAYMOND DE JAEGHER. February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2309 A TRmUTE TO THE 57TH ANNIVER­ During the month of February, for 9 a.m., but not for noon ... You might SARY OF THE UKRAINE'S PROC­ Ukrainians at home and in the free drop in at the tobacconist's for a cigar. Alarmed at the price, you'd rush to a com.; LAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE world traditionally pay tribute to their petltor, find that his price was still higher, Ukrainian heroines. In harmony with and race back to the first shop, which may the tradition and in the spirit of the have doubled or tripled its price in the mean· HON. JACK F. KEMP United Nations Proclamation of Inter­ time . . . On F.riday evenings you could see 0.1' NSW YO&X national Year of Woman 1975, Ukraini­ workers coming out of the factories with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ans will this year also acknowledge the baskets, sacks, and suitcases full of money .. . contribution of women of achievement It became necessary to pay wages daily ..." Tuesday. February 4. 197 5 in Ukrainian culture, science, economy, On Nov. 8, 1923, when Hitler launched KEMP. Mr. industry, religion, family and social life. his Putsch in a beer hall, one U.S. dollar Mr. .Speaker, both the in­ was worth 4.2 billion marks. Not unreason­ dependence of Ukraine and the act of A special tribute will be paid to the ably, Mann believed this: union were proclaimed in Kiev, the capi­ th.ousands of Ukrainian women political •· A straight line runs from the madness tal of Ukraine, on January 22, 1918, and prisoners who were sentenced by the of the German inflation to the madness of January 22, 1919, respectively. By these Russian court to many years in prison the Third Reich ... In those days the market proclamations, the Ukrainian ethno­ and concentration camps in Siberia woman who, without batting an eyelash, graphic lands were united into one in­ although no crimes were committed. demanded a hundred million for an egg, dependent and sovereign state of the They are not crjminals, they are re­ lost the capacity for surprise. And nothing Ukrainian people. spected ladies who refused to renounce that has happened since has been insane or cruel enough to surprise her. It is a sad fact that virtually since their arrested mates and loved ones, but "It was during the Inflation that the Ger· the time of these proclamations, the defended them instead. They opposed the mans forgot how to rely on themselves as Ukrainian people have been oppressed by russification policy, forced atheism, co­ individuals and le.arned. to expect everything the vastly superior power of the Soviet lonial exploitation, and police control of from 'politics,' irom the 'state,' from ·ael'!t!ny.i Union, and forced within the Soviet sa­ family and public lives. They bravely They learned. to look en life as a wlld a.d­ tellite. defended their human rights and Ukrain­ ventll!'e, the outcome of which depended Ukrainian independence was short ian identity. And we in the West must not on their own effort but on sinister, mys­ lived, but the Ukrainian spirit of inde­ not fwg~ rnem. terious forces. The millions who were then pendence was not. Througb. l~ng and robbed of their wages and savings became the •masses' with w.hom Dr. Goebbels was lonely years# ~ Ukrainian people have to operate." fought to regain their freedoms. During Mann was not giving a "merely economic" World War II, they waged a two-front INFLATION AND REVOLUTION interpretation of Germany's catastrophe. No war of liberation against Nazi Germany significant economic phenomenon, like in­ and Soviet Russia. Although granted HON. DEL CLAWSON flation, is only an economic phenomenon. charter member status at the United Na­ The February issue of the British monthly, tions, Ukraine has, since 1945, been out­ OF CALIFORNIA Encounter, contains Mann's 1942 lecture, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "for whatever unfortunate topical value it rightly colonized by the Soviet Union. now has." That value is limited but real. Stalin marked the Ukraine for physical Tuesday. February 4, 1975 Germany's great inflation was the result extinction. Khrushchev, and now Bre­ Mr. DEL CLAWSON. Mr. Speaker, this of fighting-and losing-the first ''total wa.r." zhnev and Kosygin, replaced outright morning's Washington post contains a But inflation can have intolerable effects terror with tactics of cultural and po­ column which points out a lesson to be without being as virulent as Germany's in­ litical manipulation, attrition through derived from history. It is a lesson with flation was in 1923. propaganda, gross discrimination, and particular significance as we in the Con­ An average U.S. inflation rate of 10 per suppression. These efforts of Russifica­ cent over 10 years would have some of the gress attempt to determine guidelines to "severe" consequences Mann described: tlon have, however, been singularly un­ assist us in mapping sane direction for "A severe inflation is the worst kind of successful. U.S. economic policy. The article by revolution . . . For there is neithel' sys-· Ukrainian national feeling has not George F. Will follows: tern nor justice in the expropriation and been transformed or suppressed, and INFLATION AND REVOLUTION redistribution of property resulting from tn• continues today as .strongly as in 1918. flation. A cynical .. each man for himself' It 1s to this proud and undaunted (By George F. Will) becomes the rule of life ... The great mass spirit that l rise in tribute today. The Thomas Mann, the novelist, remembered of those who put their trust in the tradi­ Ukrainian people continue to wage a that even children were mesmerized by the tional order, the innocent and unworldly, great German inflation: "My youngest daugh­ all those who do productive and useful work, valiant struggle for human rights and ter sat on her rocking horse and called out: but don't know how to manipulate money, freedoms. Their perseverance 1n the 'The dollar is up!' when the horse's head the elderly who hoped to live on what they face of oppression is a memorial to the rose. The same words were sung to the first earned in. the past-all these are doomed to dignity of all of mankind. notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony • • • suffer. An experience of this kind poisons the I am privileged to have in my district People spoke of nothing but marks, dollars, morals of a nation... in New York State many thousands of and pounds .•." You say "it can't happen here"? It can persons who were either born in the Mann, living in the United States while a happen 1n any nation that decides that a Ukraine, or who are Americans of refugee from Hitler, remembered other things high rate of inflation is an acceptable price about the inflation that helped. produce to pay to achieve other economic goals. Ukrainian descent. The Buffalo chapter Hitler: of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of "I can still remember the look of pride on America has worked hard to reflect here our old governess' face when she told us the brave struggle going on in the one day that she was planning to retire soon MIDDLEMAN'S SLICE OF BEEF IS Ukraine. Under the able leadership of and live on her savings. At the time the few Wasyl Sharvan, the Buffalo chapter has thousand marks she had in the bank were LEAN championed the cause of Ukrainian in­ worth less than a penny. People who had tellectuals, and pressed for congressional once been wealthy and were still living in HON. JAMES P. (JIM) JOHNSON commitment to the release of Valentyn their dilapidated old mansions sold their art Moroz and Leonid Plyushch, who remain treasures and furniture to sharpers. A Rem­ OF COLORADO brandt might bring them enough to live on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES imprisoned by the Soviets. for a few weeks. In the end they were turned Mr. Speaker, I am proud to associate out into the streets with their pockets lull Tuesday. February 4. 1975 myself with the efforts of the Ukrainian of multicolored paper." Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. Congress Committee of America-and So spoke novelist Mann in a 1942 lecture Speaker, many of us are familiar with will continue to press for swift congres­ on the German decade of inflation, 1913-1923. the repeated stories about the middle­ sional action to free Moroz and Plyushch, "Peasants filled their houses with sewing man and his advantageous position be­ and restore independence to Ukraine. I machines, pianos, and Persian rugs, and re­ tween consumer and producer. The also want to thank Mrs. Nestor Procyk fused to part with their eggs and milk ex­ cept in exchange for articles of permanent polarized positions have explained their of Buffalo for her presenting me with value ... perspectives at length, yet rarely is the the ftag of the Ukraine, commemorating "You took your money as fast as your legs view of the man in the middle articu­ its day of Independence, January 22, would carry you to some innocent grocer ... lated. The January 20, 1975, edition of 1918. If you were lucky, he had the mark quotation the Denver Post details the experience 2310 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975 of some of the middlemen in the beef The fabricator, which usually is the same Mr. Speaker, so that the President business. I commend it to the attention firm as the packer, will have costs of 6 cents knows that the Congress will not ask of my colleagues at this 'point in the a pound for processing the carcass. Result: that 709 pounds of meat now costs $453.23. the Nation's elderly, widowed, and dis­ RECORD. But another 11 per cent of that weight is los1i abled to bear the brunt of inflation and The article follows : in trimming of fat and tallow. When he sells resulting high prices, I . have sponsored How THEY "GouGE" You-MIDDLEMAN's this 78 pounds of waste, the packer receives a concurrent resolution opposing the SLICE OF BEEF Is LEAN a total of $15.60. President's proposed ceiling on social (By Bill Strabala) What's left is 631 pounds of meat, usually security benefit increases. Between the farmer's pasture and the meat cut into primal cuts, costing the fabricator This concurrent resolution declares $437.63, or 69 cents a pound. counter is a merchandising no-man's land that the cost-of-living escalator provi­ that has traditionally belonged, in consum­ PRICES IN MARKET sion was intended to protect beneficiaries ers' minds, to the middleman. Just last week, one area supermarket was from the uncertainties of inflationary Although many suspect the middleman's advertising swiss steak for 96 cents a pound, chief role is to push up the price and take short ribs for 59 cents a pound, English roasts periods. Further, the resolution declares, exorbitant profits, nobody knows for sure for 98 cents a pound, boneless chuck roasts it is the sense of the Congress that no who the middleman is. True enough, there for 88 cents a pound, and chuck roasts for 5-percent ceiling be enacted. are truck drivers, there are meat cutters, 57 cents a pound. Mr. Speaker, we must not, however, and there are packaging specialists, business Another supermarket advertised ground be satisfied with blocking the President's administrators, shipping specialists, and beef at 59 cents a pound, and round steaks at ill-advised 5 percent .proposal. We must marketing representatives. $1.19 a pound. immediately begin to overhaul the tax So who is the middleman? Although there are higher priced cuts, such Even if the middleman ever had an iden­ as sirloin ·and T-bone, those advertised come structure which finances the social secu­ tifiable role in the beef industry, that role to about 82 cents a pound on the average. rity system, to improve certain benefits, has become increasingly hidden as beef proc­ So what happened to the middleman in all and to make other needed reforms. essors have become more vertically inter­ this? As a recently elected member of the grated and prone to perform functions that The beef produced lost money at 29¥2 Social Security Subcommittee of the formerly were done by separate businesres. cents a pound, the feedlot operator los~ Ways and Means Committee, I am hope­ For those who can't understand how a money a.t- 37 cents a pound, tbe beef packer­ ful that a major reform of the system farmyard bovine that sells for 29¥2 cents a fabricator made a profit of 1% ce:nts.!!: pound, will soon be undertaken by the subcom­ pound can be turned into steaks selling for the shippers presumably made some profit by mittee. The United States is the only $1.95 a pound, here's a part of what happens charging about 1 cent a. pound, the meat in the middle-the part that most of us cutters and salesmen made a living, and the country in the world ths.-t uses the re­ never see-based on information provided by retailer apparently pric-ed the end product gressive payroll tax to finance social se­ a spokesman for a large feedlot. pretty close to his cost. curity. This dependence on the payroll At one point about two months ago, BOO­ By the time 53 pounds of bones are tax must be drastically reduced. pound :reeder cattle in the Colorado market trimmed, the fabricator has 578 pounds of I propose that general revenues be were selling for $29.50 per hundredweight, meat ready for shipping to wholesalers. After made available to reduce the unfair or $236. Including operational overhead, the selling the bones for 2 cents a pound, those impact of the payroll tax and that farmer's cost for producing these pasture­ 578 pounds of meat have cost the fabricator fed cattle was about $37 a hundredweight, $436.56, or 75 cents a. pound. recommendations for increasing the or $296. That's a loss of $60 per head, a fact Boxing costs for the 578 pounds of meat amount of earnings· subject to the tax­ that most producers have been complaining will be $6.07, and shipping costs will add for instance, from $14,100 to $20,000 or about for the past year. $5.78, for a total of $448.42, or 77 cents a $25,000-be rejected. I intend to press (In many cases, other more profitable pound by the time it reaches the wholesale these recommendations before the Social farming operations keep the producers market, or the supermarket's warehouse. Security Subcommittee. afloat.) - By the time the primal cuts are shipped to In addition, Mr. Speaker, I propose the FEEDLOT COSTS the supermarket, trimmed and cut into chops, following: first, an immediate increase Once the steer is sold, it costs about $1 per steaks and hamburger, and then packaged, the base cost of the meat will be around 84 in the amount of money senior citizens hundredweight for the feedlot operator to can earn without losing social security transport it. In addition, he usually feeds cents a. pound, without considering unknown it fattening grains for about 125 days until loss in trimming, or cost of packaging. benefits from $2~500 to at least $3~000 to it gains about 325 pounds. And that is before the supermarket or $4,000 per year; second, a raise of· the This costs the feedlot operator about 65 ret ailer takes his profit. minimum level for payments to the aged, cents per pound, or a total of $212.25 for that blind, and disabled from $130 to $140 per added 325 pounds. By the time it's ready for month for individuals and from $195 to slaughter, the steer, which now weighs 1,125 $210 for couples; and third, the elimina­ pounds, has cost the feedlot operator $456.25. MIKVA CALLS FOR SOCIAL SECU­ tion of the rules that reduce the benefits At this point, that steer the farmer sold RITY REFORMS AND OPPOSES of married couples, which discourages for 29¥2 cents a pound is worth 40 cents a FORD PLAN TO CUT SOCIAL SECU­ senior citizens from marrying. pound before slaughter. By the time it is shipped to a packing plant, the cost is up RITY COST-OF-LIVING INCREASES Mr. Speaker, we cannot allow the to 41 cents a pound. burdens of inflation-which drive up But two months ago slaughter steers were HON. ABNER J. MIKVA food, fuel, transportation, housing, and bringing only 37 cents a pound, or $416.25. other costs-to be borne by those lea-st That means the feedlot operator also oper­ OF ILLINOIS able to afford them. I urge prompt legis­ ated, at least temporarily, at a loss-of $51.25 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lative action along. the lines I have sug­ per head. Tuesday, February 4, 1975 gested. The packing plant then takes a 37-cent­ per-pound animal and slaughters it at a. cost Mr. MIKVA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today of about $20. The packer then has $436.25 or in opposition to President Ford's recent about 38 cents a pound in the slaughtered INTRODUCTION OF THE POSTAGE­ proposal to limit social security benefit FREE ABSENTEE VOTING ACT OF animal. increases to 5 percent and, second, to But he loses 37 per cent of those 1,125 1975 pounds as offal-the inedible parts such as recommend to the House several reforms hide and organs. That amounts to a. loss of in the social security system which re­ 416 pounds, but it's not a. total loss, because quire immediate action. HON. WILLIAM D. FORD the packer can sell the offal for about $36. As to the Ford plan for a 5-percent OF MICHIGAN When that is deducted as a credit, the packer ceiling, it is unconscionable to limit so­ IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES has $400.25 in the carcass, which now weighs cial security cost-of.:.livuig increases to 709 pounds. That's 56 cents a pound. less than half the rate of national infla­ Tuesday, February 4, 1975 If the packer sells the carcass for fabrica­ tion. As it is, minimum levels of pay­ rtion into primal cuts, he finds that only two­ Mr. FORD <;>f Michigan. Mr. Speaker, thirds of the meat on the carcass will be ments for :Ohe aged, blind, and disabled today I am intrm~ucing the Postage-Free graded choice, which brings him 61 cents a are too low to pay for increased rent, Absentee Voting A-ct of 1975. For several pound. The other one-third will bring him 56 food, and other prices at current rates. years, Mr. Robert G. McLachan, an of­ cents a pound, or a total of $410.69. Holding cost-of-living increases below ficer ef the· International Institute of In other words, the packer has netted $10.44 the increased cost· ·of goods and services Municipal Clerks and clerk of the city per head, for a profit of 1.5 cents per pound. ~both unfair and wrong. of Dearborn Heights; has been advocat- February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2311 ing the free mailing of absentee voting " ( 1) 'State' shall include each of the sev­ is that a large segment of the population in material. eral States and the District of Columbia; the villages has lost all enthusiasm for the and collective efl'ort. Today, I am pleased to reintroduce "(2) 'election' shall include any general, legislation which I oifered in the 93d special, or primary election." Writing in the January 1972 issue of Congress designed to accomplish this (b) The analysis of such chapter, imme­ the Swiss Review of World Aifairs, Mr. goal. Very simply, my proposal would diately preceding section 3401 of such title, is Seidlitz notes that, "production is declin­ authorize the agency or omcial of a State amended by adding at the end thereof the ing." or a political subdivision thereof which following new item: Rather than permit free enterprise to administers the election laws to mail "3406. Mailing of absentee voting matter.". exist in the agricultural sphere, he postage-free absentee ballots and in­ SEc. 3. (a) Section 2401(c) of title 39, writes: structions to any voter requesting such United States Code, is amended by striking out "3403-3405" and inserting in lieu there­ The government prefers to continue im­ material. Further, this measure provides of "3403-3406". porting the basic foodstufl's. for the free return mailing of the ballot (b) Section 3627 of such ·title is amended to the designated omcial or agency for Following is Mr. Seidlitz's important by striking out "3403-3405" and inserting in article, "The Failure of Tanzania's Col­ tabulation. lieu thereof "3403-3406". Mr. Speaker, it was estimated that 5.7 lective Agriculture," from the January percent of the total votes cast in the 1975 issue of the Swiss Review of World 1972 general election were by absentee Affairs: THE FAILURE OF TANZANIA'S COLLECTIVE AGRI­ ballot and preliminary estimates tell us Ol'~E CAUSE OF THE FOOD CRISIS: that at least 5 percent of the total votes NATIONALIZED FARMING CULTURE cast in the 1974 general election were (By Peter Seidlltz) also absentee ballots. Many persons who, Every family in the ujama.a (agricultural for reasons of infirmity or proximity to HON. PHILIP M. CRANE cooperative) villages in the district of Do­ doma, Tanzania's future capital, must cul­ their legal place of voting, were unable to OF ILLINOIS tivate about 7.5 acres of land. Each addi· reach the polls on election day and voted IN THE HOUSE OF ~EPRESENTATIVES tional woman in the family must work an­ by mail. In my district, 4,594 absentee Tuesday, February 4, 1975 other 7.5 acres. Secretary King'ombe of ballots were counted in the general elec­ TANU, the country's monolithic political tion. This would include the elderly, stu­ Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, the world party, has ordered identity cards to be is­ dents, as well as civilian and military faces a crisis in food. Global population sued to the rural population, on which their personnel stationed overseas. is growing at a rate of 70 million a year success (or failure) at this task is noted. Mr. Speaker, my proposal will encour­ and by the year 2000 the world's popula­ Farmers who remain below the official quota tion could be approximately 6.5 billion are confined to their villages; "lazy" farmers age and promote a greater participation are not only banned from travel, but are not in the electoral process. Citizens have no people. The weather has been bad both permitted to take part in barazas (festivals) greater power or expression of sentiment in 1972 and 1974. World production of and cattle auctions or to enter public bars. than through their vote, and as their wheat, corn, barley, oats, sorghum, and Such extraordinary measures by short­ representatives, it should be one of our rice-the basic cereals on which people sighted provincial functionaries of TANU, primary responsibilities to evoke an even rely-will have to increase by about 25 ·aimed at forcing the ujamaa policy which greater interest in our democratic sys­ million metric :tons a year to cope with is the cornerstone of President Julius Nyer­ tem. the rising demand brought on by popu­ ere's concept of socialism, are no longer un­ usual in Tanzania. The compulsory system, Mr. Speaker, I strongly believe my bill lation growth ·and rising amuence. Be­ conceived by the politicians as a means of would accomplish this and I urge prompt tween 1971 and 1972-while population achieving a better living standard for the consideration of this legislation by the increased-annual world output actually people as a whole, is threatening to under­ 94th Congress. declined by 35 million tons. The output in mine the foundation of Nyerere's concept, At this point : would like to insert 1974 was lower than the 1,265 billion tons which is the guarantee of a life in .freedom. into the RECORD the text of the Postage­ produced in 1973. In Iringa, near Dodoma, one individualist Free Ballot Act of 1975: It is high time that those who are farmer recently gave the authorities a graphic demonstration of his opinion of the H.R.- most vocal in their concern for the starv­ ujamaa policy, the guiding principle of A bill to provide for the mailing of absentee ing millions, particularly in the under­ which is division of labor: When the TANU voting matter free of postage developed countries, recognize one major district commissioner tried to force him to Be it enacted by the Senate and House cause of the current problem which they give up his solitary efforts at farming and of Representatives of the United States of have thus far overlooked. That, of course, merge into the cooperative, the farmer shot America in Congress assembled, That this is the disastrous failure of nationalized the official, loaded the corpse onto his truck Act may be cited as the "Postage Free Ab· farming-whether in the form of forced and delivered it to the nearest police sta­ sentee Voting Act of 1975". collectivization in the Soviet Union and tion. In mid-October several ministers from SEc. 2. (a.) Chapter 34 of title 39, United the Dar es Salaam government, along with States Code, is amended by adding at the Communist China, or in other state-con­ a 27-man TANU delegation, undertook an end thereof the following new section: trolled systems in India, Tanzania, Ar­ inspection tour of ujamaa villages to hear "§ 3406. Mailing of absentee voting matter gentina, and elsewhere in the world. the growing complaints of the agrarian " (a) An official or agency of a State or In Argentina, Latin America's major population. political subdivision having authority to ad· exporter of food, the government grain A clash between party ideologists and the minister the election laws of the State or board paid farmers less than $70 a ton people had become inevitable. Although political subdivision may mail free of post­ for wheat in 1973, even though the world agriculture, with the ujamaa villages as its age to an absentee voter of the State or po­ price was $200 a ton. The government focal point, has been the basis of Tanzania's litical subdivision an application for an ab­ development policy for several years now, sentee ballot requested by the absentee wanted to keep consumer prices low. In it has enjoyed only very modest success. De­ voter, an absentee ballot, instructions ex­ effect, it made farmers subsidize m·ban spite good initial conditions, especially in plaining such application or ballot, and an populations. The Soviet Union has re­ the Usambara Mountains and the southern envelope or other cover to return such ap­ placed emcient private farming with a.nd northern highlands, the real growth of plication or ballot to the official or agency. costly collective farms. Before the Rus­ Tanzania's agriculture has lagged far behind The absentee voter may make a return mail­ sian Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union that of neighboring Kenya. From 1967 to ing of his application or absentee ballot free exported grain-now it must import 1971 the growth rate was a mere 1.6%, com­ of postage if such mailing is made in the pared to Kenya's 4.4%. return envelope or other cover provided by basic food products. The same story can Each month Tanzania must import some such official or agency. be told of India. 10 million dollars' worth of such agricul­ "(b) Any envelope or other cover contain­ Discussing the failure of collective ag­ tural products as sugar, corn, milk, meat, ing matter authorized to be mailed free of riculture in Tanzania, Peter Seidlitz, fruits and grain. Yet, instead of drawing the postage under subsection (a) of this section notes that under the forced nationaliza­ inevitaible conclusions from this state of af­ shall bear the words 'Free Postage-Absen­ tion program- fairs, government officials have resorted to tee Voting Matter', or words to that e.trect Farm wages have risen by a total of only make the system work. At present there specified by the Postal Service, in the upper 2.2% in the past three years (compared to seems little change of success. The fact has right-hand corner of the address area. 22% ~ Kenya during the same period) , while been "ignored that sma.U-scale African farm­ " (c) For purposes of this section, the miniinum wages in the cities have climbed by ers, like their counterparts elsewhere, react term- about 40 %this year alone ... The result positively to material incentives and increase 2312 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975 their production when it seems rewarding to The agricultural system, very similar to industry. The agricultural system, very simi­ do so. Until now comparisons made here be­ that in Russia ... permits the farmers to lar to that in Russia, the so-called "ejido" tween private and equivalent state-run agri­ work land that doesn't belong to them and system, permits the farmers to work land cultural enterprises have regularly yielded in which they do not have an interest. As a that doesn't belong to them and in which results clearly in favor of the great number result, 75 percent of the land in Mexico pro­ they do not have an interest. As a result. 75 of farms which are still privately owned and duces 25 percent of the national agricultural percent of the land in Mexico produces 25 run. products. Only 25 percent of the farmers, percent of the national agricultural prod" In the agrarian sector as in no other Tan­ those who own their lands, produce 75 per­ ucts. Only 25 percent of the farmers, those zanian functionaries have deviated from the cent. who own their lands, produce 75 percent. TANU principle that "Leaders must not be This confirms that the agricultural failures masters." Julius Nyerere did n{lt want to "re­ Writing in the February 1975 issue of of the U.S.S.R., Chile, Cuba, and Mexico are place white district commissioners with Reason, Mr. Pazos concludes that-- not the result of the weather but rather of black ones," who would lord it over the peo­ This confirms that the agricultural fail­ the bad political-economic systems that pre­ ple. In practice, however, this is what has ures of the U.S.S.R., Chile, Cuba, and Mexico vent the full development of agricultural happened. Even the semi-official Daily News are not the result of the weather but rather property. The agricultural failure is clear but has published regular reports on popular of the bad political-economic systems that nobody accepts it and nobody has an interest resistance against the resettlement projects prevent the full development of agricultural in finding solutions to this problem (which decreed by the party. property. causes the loss of millions of dollars and In the Kllombero district alone, about keeps 50 percent of the inhabitants poor and 100,000 people have been resettled in new One answer to the food crisis which unproductive) . villages spaced along the Chinese-built rail­ the world would do well to consider is IDEOLOGICAL DISORIENTATION way line. A propaganda campaign has been the institution of free market incentives launched to convince the villagers of the ad­ In Mexico 99 percent of the books about in the agricultural field. That makes social, political, and economic matters have vantages of cooperative farming: more effi­ more sense in the long run than con­ cient planning, cheaper buying, increased a socialist tendency. The market system Is productivity, higher market prices. And, ac­ stant demands for additional "emer­ used but intellectually unknown. There are cording to the official line, ujamaa makes gency" aid from the United States, many businessmen who look at the govern­ possible the construction of schools, the whose farmers produce food for export ment as the solution to most problems. With drilling of more wells, the mechanization of because they produce in freedom. very rare exceptions one could say there is field work through the purchase of jointly I wish to share with my colleagues the nobody to talk in favor of the free market system. Research among students in the Na­ operated tractors-all with official govern­ article, "Keynesianism and Socialism in ment support. tional University of Mexico shows that 80 Mexico," by Luis Pazos from the Feb­ percent of the students are against private The reality of the situation is different, ruary issue of Reason, and insert it into however. If there is any initial enthusiasm­ companies. It is the result of the atmosphere skepticism is more usual-it is quickly sup­ the RECORD at this time. created by books, magazines, teachers and planted by harsh economic realities. Even KEYNESIANISM AND SOCIALISM IN MExiCO public men which attacks the market system the government's limited ability to help is (By Luis Pazos) and capitalism. At the present time there is an ideological vitiated by the clumsy bureaucracy. For MEXICO CITY example, frequently the state-operated trucks fight in Mexico, a very important one that which are supposed to bring the produce to The very first problem that a good observer will establish the future of the country; market arrive too late, or break down en of Mexican economic and social development those in favor of economic freedom must find route due to faulty maintenance, so that faces is to classify Mexican political systems. a way to demonstrate that the free market foodstuffs rot before they can be sold. The ~vernment vacillates from "left" to is the best way to develop Mexico. Unfortu­ The rural population is by no means igno­ "right." nately they are ve-ry few and at the same rant of the fact that farm wages have risen CONTRADICTIONS time there are, day by day, more and more by a total of only 2.2 % in the past three One of the biggest mistakes of the Mexican people teaching the socialist theories. years (compared to 22% in Kenya during government is inconsistency; this affects the the same period), while minimum wages in economic development of the country. One the cities have climbed by about 40% this day a Secretary will declare that the govern­ year alone to 340 shillings (about $50 U.S.) ment will sell all government business and THE FOOD STAMP PROPOSAL per month (and thus are somewhat higher companies, next day another Secretary says than in Kenya) . Often the farmers are as the contrary. On the one hand, because it is short of operating capital as they are of necessary to encourage foreign investments, HON. MARTHA KEYS technical knowledge. Ministers and even the President will visit The result of these circumstances is that other countries to interest foreign companies OF KANSAS a large segment of the population in the in opening branches in Mexico; on the other IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hand, tmportant government representatives ujamaa villages has lost all enthusiasm for Tuesday, F'ebruary 4, 1975 collective effort. To the despair of govern­ declare that foreign investments are terrible ment functionaries, production is declining. for the economic development of Mexico and Mrs. KEYS. Mr. Speaker, in November, Nor is it true, as the party argues, that the must be stopped. These contradictory opin­ the Ford administration announced a ujamaa villages constitute an extension of ions frighten away new investments from national and foreign business. plan to change the food stamp program. the African tradition of the extended family. Since that time, many research groups This structure, which provides support for THE ECONOMIC SITUATION and those individuals involved have the weaker members of the community and Mexico is a very good illustration of the involves a sharing of the fruits of common failure of Keynesian doctrines, Government voiced deep concern that the changes labor, is still to be found everywhere in intervention, and increase of public expendi­ would result in a tremendous blow to Africa; but it is strictly clan-oriented, and tures. From 1971 to 1973 the public expendi­ millions of Americans. never involves a sharing of work and earn­ tures increased 220 percent. To cover these It is my hope that my colleagues will ings with members of other clans. expenses the government increased the seriously review all the information Tanmnia's omnipotent officials also go out amount of money in circulation 48 percent. available, and then give their full sup­ of their way to stamp out the smallest signs In accordance with Keynesian ideas the in­ port to H.R. 2082, which will freeze the of private enterprise and initiative. Not long crease of public expenditures will increase ago, some members of the Tanzanian elite goods, public services, investments, employ­ cost of food stamps at the January 1, who maintained chicken and dairy farms in ment and economic activity. But reality 1975 rate-until December 30, 1975. the communities around Dares Salaam (such shows that the result is a deficit in the pub­ On January 17, the USDA adopted the activities are forbidden to government offi­ lic budget, inflation, higher prices, lower pro­ administration proposal to raise food cials by a kind of code -of honor) , and thus duction and unemployment. In 1973 prices in stamp prices, beginning in March. This kept the market in the capital supplied with general went up 30 percent and the percent­ increa.se will cause all but the most des­ eggs and milk, were unmasked and repri­ age of working people went down 30 percent. titute-those households making below manded as "enemies of the people and sab­ Mexican Government representatives find oteurs." Rather than permit such "capital­ different causes to explain the bad situation, $20 per month-to pay 30 percent of istic" institutions to ·thrive, the government often blaming "world inflation," but exces­ their net income to purchase their food prefers to continue importing the basic sive production of currency here in Mexico is stamps. Approximately 94 percent of foodstuffs. the real reason. those purchasing food stamps will have A situation similar to that of Tanzania THE PROBLEM OF THE FARMERS to pay more for their stamps. exists in Mexico. During 1973, the in­ Despite these factors, the industrial and The administration's proposal would dustrial sector of the Mexican economy commercial sectors have grown. The indus­ hit hardest those recipients of food grew by 14 percent. At the same time, trial sector grew 14 percent in 1973. But the stamps who live in one- and two-person notes Luis Pazos- agricultural problems offset the advances in households, the majority of whom are February 4, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2313 elderly. Most individuals would face a of the Virginia Sea-where it all began. life. But here in the Virginian Sea lay the 35- to 100-percent increase in the price Captain John Smith named the Atlantic roadway to new wealth, fertile new lands, Ocean coastal area from Cape Cod to Cape new raw materials to feed the industrial of their food stamps. For a few individ­ Hatteras the Virginia Sea, and so inscribed revolution in England; and above all-a uals and couples the increase would be his famous map of Virginia. He was describ­ chance for all who survived the trip to start as much as 800 percent. ing the boundaries of the original Virginia a new life and adventure unmarred by royal The cost increases would most severe­ charter issued by King James I jointly to or feudal whims. ly affect individuals now living on net the London and Plymouth Companies on The southern end of the Virginian Sea incomes of $154 to $194 a month. All April 10, 1606. was the gateway to this new world. In the such persons now eligible for $10 to $13 This charter announced "our license to developing days of this nation the rivers of make habitation, plantation, and to deduce the James, the York, the Rappahanock, the food stamp benefits each month would be a colony of sundry of our people into that Potomac led into the fertile coastal plain, eliminated from the program entirely, part of America commonly called Virginia, and nurtured and spread the unique seed since the new plan would require that situate, lying and being all along the sea first planted in 1607 at Jamestown. Shipping they pay more in cash for food stamps coasts, between 34° northerly latitude from reached these rivers, through Cape Henry each month ·han they receive back. the equinoctial line, and 45° of the same and Cape Charles by proceeding into the Even though many of these individuals latitude, and in the mainland between the Chesapeake Bay (an Algonquin Indian name are living below the poverty line of $194 same 34 o and 45 o; and the islands there­ meaning great shellfish bay). The bay and a month for persons living alone, they unt o adjacent or within 100 miles of the the rivers formed a natural protective system, un­ coast thereof." and fostered rapid development of special would for the first time in years be The charter thus, defined Virginia as all kinds of seaborne commerce which brought able to receive aid from the food stamp the land, coastal areas, islands and water the benefits of wealth and prestige to Virginia program. from what is now South Carolina to Maine planters. It was an environment in which In Kansas, this would directly affect extending 100 miles to seaward. Captain energetic and intelligent men could prosper. any individual receiving social security John Smith's Virginia Sea was aptly named. The lure of the new life brought all types or enrolled in the SSI program, the Fed­ Quite recently, the Virginia sea has again across the Virginian Sea-and Virginia ac­ eral Government's assistance program been identified and updated by an interest­ commodated them all-aristocrats, religious for the aged, blind, and disabled. Kan­ ing bathymetric chart produced by the Vir­ zealots, criminals; defeated royalists driven ginia Institute of Marine Science at Glouster from England by Cromwell, as well as those sas is one of 18 States wh1ch combines Point, Virginia. Part one of that chart issued "roundheads" who fled when Charles n came an additional State payment to the Fed­ last year and called the Virginia Sea covers to the English throne-borne on the highway eral level of $146 per month, making the coastal areas from Cape Henlopen; Del­ of the sea they came, and subsequently sent those individuals in the SSI program aware to Cape Hatteras; and as we approach back the riches of the new world; creating a recipients of $154 a month. Under the our bicentennial year-carries us back to revolution in trade-seaborne trade-with administration's proposal, these individ­ those days when western man was beginning Europe and with the Far East-opening up uals would be eliminated from the food an adventure destined to have the most mo­ the natural wealth of this continent and mentous consequences for all mankind. beyond. By 1830 growing world trade turned stamp program. In the years which followed that first char­ on the hub of a wheel which revolved about At the present time, the amount of food ter, the Virginian Sea became the crossroads the U.S. Atlantic seaboard and British ports; stamps a household receives each month for the greatest expansion of commerce and the spokes of the wheel reaching all portions is based on the USDA economy food plan. trade the world has ever known. of the globe. The equation was balanced, and This plan has been described by medical Through the waters of this sea hopeful it was a maritime one-its elements-the experts and even USDA nutritionists as people struggled westward with their meagre Virginian Sea; colonial energy-initially Brit­ nutritionally inadequate except over possessions and their dreams--often only ish protection at sea-later U.S. protection at their dreams. Many lost those possessions, sea, equalled: world maritime trade. The short periods of time. and many gave their lives in the pursuit of formula spelled success. Nevertheless, the food stamp program their dreams; but the dreams were enough to Trade was interrupted by the Civil War, does provide important assistance to the sustain most of them, and their achieve­ which in large part was decided by Union diet and health of millions of Americans. ment, in time, provided the world with the control of the Virginian Sea and the Atlantic Especially in these troubled times, we finest flowering of western civilization yet and Gulf coasts; but this was only an inter­ should reject any plan to make the pro­ known. lude in the steady development of trade from gram less accessible to those who need it. Their courageous vision and its direct re­ this hemisphere. lation to positive action was clearly seen in When the last vestige of Spanish power was the 17th and 18th centuries; but at times removed from the Caribbean in 1898, the today that vision may seem clouded. It is United States held sway. The Panama Canal about that vision, and its .fundamental truth was built and another maritime dimension VffiGINIA-AND THE SEA that I would speak this evening. was added to world trade. The adventure through t~.e Virginian Sea, What I shall say this evening will accentu­ which ultimately established in a new world, ate the historical truth-hammered home by HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST immense wealth and new frontiers of law, our past--that the sea rewards those who OF VmGINU government, religion, commerce, education, understand it and who use it well. They IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES society, technology and-especially of per­ achieve a degree of freedom and progress no~ sonal freedom-that adventure was success­ available to others. Tuesday, February 4, 1975 ful because of the clear understanding of one Perhaps that statement before this audi­ Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, last unchanging natural law. Our world is 70% ence, smacks of Admiral Mahan updated­ month Vice Adm. M. G. Bayne, USN, water--seas-oceans-which can be the high­ and in a way it does-for Alfred Thayer ways between islands of populated land. The Mahan wrote that success in peace and war Commandant of the National War Col­ people who live on these islands most suc­ is dependent on control of the seas--certainly lege, gave an address to the Virginia cessfully are those who understand best how he would agree that our security today, in an Historical Society entitled "Virginia­ to use the water areas between them. increasingly interdependent world, is even and the Sea." I would like to include The eventual success of the London Com­ more dependent on free access to this three­ Admiral Bayne's remarks at this point pany's establishment in Jamestown was quarters of our planet's surface. in the RECORD, because I think it has achieved only after repeated efforts during George Washington understood it. He be­ deep meaning for every Member of this the 17th century had failed; it was at­ gan his own navy in 1775 by converting sev­ body. tempted in clear recognition that through eral small schooners into warships which the Virginian Sea lay the path of least risk harassed British shipping. They were called Admiral Bayne, with a distinguished to a new world. The Spanish held sway to "Washington's fleet." But they were not naval career behind him, is well quali­ the south of latitude 34°; the French to enough, and without the French fleet under fied to point up the deficiencies which the north of latitude 45 o. The English defeat Admiral De Grasse off the Virginia Capes in now face this Nation on the high seas. of the Spanish Armada in 1588 removed most 1781, General Cornwallis would not have sur­ This is an excellent paper, and I hope of the Spanish warships from the Atlantic rendered at Yorktown. Washington, in writ~ that my colleagues will take the oppor­ Ocean highways, and freed the movement of ing De Grasse, said: tunity to read it carefully: English ships to cross the Atlantic and enter "Your excellency will have observed that the Virginian Sea. A residual of Spanish naval whatever efforts are made by the land armies, VmGINIA-AND THE SEA power remained, and constituted a threat as the navy must have the casting vote in the present contest." (An address by Vice Adm. M.G. Bayne, u.s. English ships moved west into the new world. Navy Commandant, National War College) Close by were the traditional routes of the Lord Montgomery, Britain's most famous army general 1n World War II, said 1n his What a privilege it is for a naval omcer Spanish treasure fleets; any ship sighted to speak with this distinguished audience History of Warfare: had to be feared as a potential enemy: here "The lesson is this: In all history the na­ about the Sea: And what a pleasure for a pirate trade flourished; here storms and tion which has had control of the seas has native of this great commonwealth to talk treacherous, uncharted areas were a way of in the end, prevailed." • 2314 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975

It is tempting to go on, quoting great men, 72 essential commodities which sustain the trade requires the world's largest navy. It is basking in the refiected light of exciting industrial heart of our land. The vast ma­ a.n expense and a responsibility which must times past; it is tempting and it is fun; but jority of these products arrive at our ports be borne-or, if we fall to do so, at a future today we are not apt to hear too well these in ships which do not fiy the American fiag. time we will not conduct the world's largest distant echoes from the past. There are those who feel that this degree of volume or maritime trade. England is the We are a comfortable nation, a successful reliance on foreign shipping is not against latest example of this maritime truism. nation-the most successful the world has our national interests; that U.S. privately Always, I am at great difficulty in follow­ ever known. The vast majority of our people owned ships fiying other fiags, primarily Li­ ing the arguments of those who suggest that have never known want; true, some have, berian or Panamanian, are just as subject a reduction in strength leads to greater and for them we feel a compassion which to call as are ships owned and operated under probability for stability. Can anyone really drives us to help them improve their lot. United States laws. The statistics are believe that the Cuban quarantine, the Do­ Generally, we take our good life for granted, interesting. minican Republic affair or the uneasiness at not questioning too deeply how we obtained In 1971 the foreign fiag fieet owned by Lebanon some years ago would have resulted 1t-1t was always there-not worrying too U.S. citizens numbered 480 ships with a dead­ in a more stable world order had not the much about signs which indicate that the weight tonnage of 28 million tons. United States' naval capability been superior cup may be running over-If we spill a In 1973 the United States fiag fieet num­ to others. little-somehow, someone else will fill it up bered 573 ships of only 13 million deadweight In no case were naval weapons used, and for us--not relating carefully to the future, tons. that superior power was precisely the rea­ the Immutable laws of supply and demand­ I do not intend to sit in judgment here, son weapons were not needed. A society is at became today in spite of temporary reverses, simply to present facts as they are emerging its closest proximity to confiict when it is we believe things will turn out all rtght. They in our complicated, competitive, commercial perceived to possess valuables desired by always have before! world. Perhaps symbolic of our times is the another society, and is further perceived. un­ There is nothing surprising about this launching just ten days ago, into the Pa­ able or unwllling to protect those valuables. American attitude. We are human beings, tapsco River of the largest ship ever built It is not strength which gives rise to danger­ and as such are competitive. We strive for in this country. She is the supertanker it is exactly the opposite-weakness-as his­ improvement of our way of life-and are Massachusetts, a 265,000 ton tanker built by tory has demonstrated time and aga.ln. sometimes delayed in seeing how actions of Bethlehem Steel for Boston VLCC Tankers, One cannot discuss this matter in the others, perhaps thousands of miles away, may Inc. abstract for long without someone raising the be setting the stage to change that life-we Although she will enter the Virginian Sea question of the Soviet maritime build-up. see it when it happens to us--not before. to begin her life of world trade, she is not Is it bad? Does it threaten us? The basic truths have not changed. The likely to carry out that trade in U.S. waters My answer to this invariably is, no, there expense, the risk, the determined hard work for some time. Her size, and the absence of is nothing bad about it at all, and it does not undertaken by those hardy souls who set out U.S. ports deep enough to accommodate her threaten us, unless the Soviets perceive that under London charter to enter the Virginian wlll cause her to be leased for operation we are unwllling or unable to continue to Sea in 1606, are just as applicable today as among foreign oil ports of call. insure the free and full use of the world's they were then-perhaps camoufia.ged a bit­ On January 4th of this year President Ford maritime highways. Mankind has not perha.ps dangerously camouflaged by our signed a blll granting permission to build changed since 1945-his weapons have-his comfort and our success; but they are there deep water moorings for such ships, beyond numbers have-his use of the resources of stlll, and if we violate them our way of life the three-mile line, off the coasts of Dela­ his planet has--all have multiplled many will change adversely-if we respect them­ ware, Maryland and Virglnia. times-but until mankind cbanges his our pa.th ahead is unlimited. In Virginia maritime trade is growing basically competitive nature-he is most safe Today the United States is an island, con­ rapidly. Last October Admiral E. P. Holmes, being strong not weak. nected with other world islands by water the executive director of Virginia's port au­ Last month in San Francisco, the Secre­ highways-highways along which commerce thority, informed the 26th annual Conference tary o! the Navy, J. W1llia.m Middendorf, freely fiows. These highways are paths-not on World Trade that the port of Virginia had speaking before the San Francisco rotary barriers--they become barriers only if we exceeded shipping forecasts; running almost club, said: make them so. In prior times we heard that four years ahead of projections, and would "It is the trend of expanding Soviet naval the two best allies of this country were the reach ft ve million tons of general cargo and, capabil1tles that I personally view as one of Atlantic and Pac11lc Ocea.ns. This was the over 300,000 containerized units per year by the most sign11lcant strategic developments isolationist belief heard between the two 1980, a 40% increase over present levels. since the atomic bomb." world wars. Perhaps in the early days of the He attributed the rapid growth to the This is an important statement for our Virginian Sea that notion had merit-the favorable geography of Hampton Roads and nation to hear, particularly Virginians who separation in time and technology made it an abundance of good loading and transpor­ understand that a. second-best maritime ca­ true. Now these oceans are connecting links tation faclllties. He referred to Hampton pability Is not posted on the success board. and we cannot hide behind an outdated Roads as the Gateway to the Midwest. It is Since 1962 the Soviet Navy has outbuilt the theory which claims that they protect us. the pull of the Virginian Sea all over again. U.S. Navy in every category except aircraft The other islands are now too close, close in This attraction of the Virginian Sea works carriers. I! we list the numbers o:f major time and close in the technology required to in other ways. The establishment of the in­ combatants tod!ly the comparison shows- span their widths easily. ternational trade and development depart­ Here it is that our contemporary American United ment in Virginia in 1969 has, to some extent, Soviets States vision sometimes tends to blur. lt becomes made more visible this attraction. At present blurred when we, the largest international Aircraft carriers ___ ·------2 14 about 460 mlllion dollars of foreign capital Cruisers ------30 6 trader in the world, allow the percentage of has been invested in the commonwealth. our overseas trade carried in U.S. flag ships to EscortsDestroyers ______------______10980 6690 drop from 57.6% in 1947 to 5% in 1970. Sixty-one foreign firms ranging from auto­ By comparison, in 1970, the Soviets carried motive assembly to the manufacture of syn­ Submarines ------325 115 55% of their trade in ships fiying the Soviet thetic fibers use the pathways o! the Vir­ ginian Sea. Is it unrealistic to assume that Next year the total number of ships in flag, Japan 47%, Norway 43 %, France 38%, the massive availability of investment capital the United States Navy will be under 500, Spain 37%, United. Kingdom 35 %, West Ger­ to the oil producing nations wlll result in the lowest since before 1938. many 29%, Italy 23%. significant increases of capital fiow to this It is difficult and dangerous to attempt In October of 1970, in recognition of this unique trading location? comparisons of this nature. Someone is cer­ deterioration, the U.S. Maritime Act of 1970 The merchant marine is only one factor in tain to say-you didn't list this or that, or was signed into law. It provides for a ten­ this maritime equation. To be viable, to move one of these equals two of those. I do this year shipbuilding program to update the freely about the oceans, that trade must be not to ask you to add up sides and fight a American merchant fieet. This program is de­ secure. It must not be challenged, it must hypothetical naval engagement. I do lt only signed to begin the road back to a capabil­ not move under conditions which become to indicate trends, and to provide data which ity envisioned in the Merchant Marine Act unpredictable enough to cause insurance and will allow you to answer for yourself the of 1936. This act states that it is necessary wage rates to soar beyond the points of ineVitable question-how does he perceive for our national defense and for the develop­ profitabllity. me? Am I too strong to tempt or am I too ment of our foreign and domestic commerce, weak to care? It is a personal question-you The Virginian Sea was and is an attractive cannot check the bidding to some mystical that the United States shall have a. mer­ pathway because the British, and now the group of "brass," a. euphemism meaning chant marine capable o! carrying all its do­ United States Navy insure freedom of move­ many things in today's vernacular. They mestic waterborne commerce; a substantial ment to and from it. preach the gospel in which they believe, just portion of its foreign trade; and capable of We have no viable option in this country as surely as does your minister 1n your own serving as a. naval and military auxiliary 1n but to continue to maintain a. Navy that is church on Sunday morning. You either time of war or national emergency. second to none. There seems nothing at all believe him or you do not: a.nd your life and Certainly 5% cannot qualify as substantiaL lllogical about the notion that the nation actions a.re governed accordingly. Toda.y we import a.ll or part of 69 of the which conducts the world's largest maritime Perhaps there is an Ulustra.~ive symbol here February #, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2315

also. On December 14th the eighth American towards a twelve-mile territorial sea, a 200- John Smith., Washington, JefJerson, Madison, naval ship to bear the name Virgini4 left the mlle eoastal resource zone, and an interna­ Harrison, Lee, and others whom this audi­ building ways at Newport News Shipbuilding tional regime for the deep seabeds, but at­ ence can so readily name-that heritage and Drydock Company and floated to her new tainment of a comprehensive agreement still leads me to the notion that Virginia is­ home in the James River. requires, most importantly, acceptance of and always has been for leaders. She is a nuclear powered naval cruiser to free navigation of international straits. The be armed with modern anti-submarine and hope is that agreement can be reached at a. anti-air weapons. further session in Geneva scheduled for this The newspaper accounts of the launching March, with the posslbllity of a signing con­ gave more space to the seven earlier U.S.S. ference in Caracas in the summer. Interna­ THE HIGH COST OF FEDERAL Virginias than to this new ship. They re­ tional agreement on these most important is­ DOLLARS counted that a former U.S.S. Virginia had sues will be a huge step toward a rational been originally named the Merrimack until approach for use of the planet's resources. she entered history and ushered in the era Disagreement raises the possibility of uni­ HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK of iron clad warships. lateral national actions. OF OHIO But while making much of the poignant Being the wealthiest nation on earth; IN ·rHE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES history of the earlier U.S.S. Virginias, they conducting the largest amount of world took little note that the eighth was the first trade; using the largest amount of the Tuesday, FebruaT1/ 4, 1975 ship of this type launched in our country earth's resources; creating the highest Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, if you in ten years. standard of living; producing the greatest were offered $30,000 in Federal funds to Today we cannot confine our view of the product in goods and services-nearly twice sea to maritime trade and naval protection. as much as the next nation in line; produc­ help run your volunteer program, you The sea offers so much more. In April of last ing more food than any other nation and would leap at the chance. Or would you? year our Senate began a national ocean producing it much more etficiently; with all Accompanying such a grant would be policy study. They did so in recognition, that of this as our 100-year heritage-we neces­ a :flood of bureaucratic regulations, aside from the highways of the sea, the sarily inherit the awesome responsibility to guidelines, and restrictions. The paper­ world's oceans contain enough food, energy keep the world's sea routes open and free. work burden could become an adminis­ and mineral resources to provide for the Just as did those who set out for the Vir­ trative nightmare. You may decide that needs of mankind for undetermined periods ginian Sea in 1606, we face risks. These risks into the future. The requirements for tech­ may not come from weather and pirates; but the burden is so great that it is better to nology to reap these benefits, and to develop they can come from being misunderstood. turn down Federal funds rather than agreements among nations for use of the sea The world is at a critical moment in accept them. areas are becoming increasingly compelling. history. Its people sense that there is a finite­ According to a recent edition of the Surprisingly perhaps, our country has no ness to the planet. They are beginning to Baltimore News American, such a deci­ national ocean policy to bring together the be aware that population increases are using sion was made by the Howard County related programs involving the merchant up planet resources at an exponential rate marine, the Navy, ocean research, fishing, and Commission on Aging. Rather than ac­ and producing waste at rates feared, but not cept $30,000 in Federal funds for i.ts re­ exploration of the seabeds--all programs yet clearly understood as to their effect on having far-reaching significance for our the earth's environment. People throughout tired senior volunteer program, It re­ national security. the world are becoming much more aware of fused the funds because it could operate The Soviets do have such a policy. They co­ each other. Those who have; sense a greater more efficiently without them. ordinate carefully the activities of their concern for those in need; not always be­ The executive director of the commis­ navy, their merchant marine, their fishing cause they are innately altruistic, but be­ sion stated: fleets and their oceanographic research cause those in need are becoming more ships-all under a policy to advance their All the volunteer will go on just the same aware of the great disparity between their lot and the only thing different is that we ex­ national interests. and the luxury of others--and they are Admiral Gorshkov, the head of the Soviet pect their administrative paper work will be making themselves heard. more etficient and therefore more effective. navy, says it well in explaining that objective. The haves and the have nots; the de­ These are his words- veloped countries; the developing or unde­ As the News American contends, "It is evident that every time ruling circles veloped countries; the east, the west--divide "Surely there is a lesson here for bu­ in Russia failed to properly emphasize devel­ them into whatever categories you choose: reaucracy." opment of the fleet and its maintenance at (each o! today's phllosophers seems to have a level necessitated by modern-day demands, a favorite way to slice the world pie)-all Following is the article from the De­ the country either lost battles in wars or its have this sense of impending change. It can cember 30, 1974, edition of the Baltimore peacetime policy failed to achieve designated come in orderly fashion, by logical, negoti­ News American. objectives. ated, rational understanding. It can also [From the Baltimore News American, Dec. "However, the ruling circles of Tsarist come by choosing up sides and issuing ulti­ 30, 1974] Russia--despite repeated grave lessons dem­ matums. TAKE HEED, BUREAUCRACY onstrating the absolute needs of the state Our country generally is acknowledged as It was with fascination that we learned for sea power-still did not understand the the leader of most of the world's nations importance of a navy in the achievement the Howard County Commission on Aging because of those superlatives I used a has turned down $30,000 in federal funds for of political objectives." moment ago. As that leader we have a pri­ One other factor in this maritime equation its Retired Senior Volunteer Program sim­ mary responsibility to ensure that the ply because it can operate more efficiently must be mentioned. rational road is the road travelled. So far, The expanding resource needs o! industrial without the federal money. we seem to have done rather well--despite Under the program: societies place increased pressures on the the hand wringing and the dire predictions 70 % of the earth's surface covered by water, of some. Any senior citizen requesting it receives a daily phone call to make sure he or she and industrial activities threaten the eco­ If we are to continue. one of the most re­ logical balance of the oceans through pollu­ is all right. sponsible and least costly actions we must Shut-ins receive regular visits from vol­ tion. Few issues so clearly exemplify the take, is provide insurance for those who interacting character of global society as to unteers to cheer them up and keep them the problem of achieving a cooperative cannot provide it for themselves, that the from getting lonely. regime for the use of the seas. A Law of the maritime pathways of this increasingly in­ Volunteers take senior citizens shopping Sea Conference in 1958 produced interna­ terdependent globe remain free for all to use. if they lack transportation. tional agreements on certain aspects of this We can do this only by a strong, professional So the federal government was making problem. Fresh United Nations efforts in the merchant marine to carry the trade, a $30,000 available to support the program, but last five years have aimed at a comprehensive strong, professional navy to ensure its safe the money offer was accompanied by a flood multilateral convention covering all the arrival, a progressive national program to of bureaucratic regulations, guidelines and principal issues: The width of the terri­ seek new benefits !rom the interior, and restrictions that simply added up to a col­ torial sea, the navigation o! international from the seabeds of the world's oceans; all lossal headache. straits, a coastal resource zone, an interna­ within a body of international law to legiti­ No thank you, said the commission on tional regime for the exploitation of the mize the free use of these oceans for all. aging and its executive director Mrs. Hazel seabeds beyond the national jurisdiction, The Virginian Sea is alive and well. It Ricker. In fact, :Mrs. Ricker said, "All the volunteers will go on just the same and the control of marine pollution, and the estab­ means much more now than it did 200 years only thing different is that we expect their lishment of a basis for scientific research. ago. As we Virginians travel through this At Caracas, Venezuela this past summer, administrative paper work will be more ef­ great state-we sometimes have the feeling ficient and therefore more effective." 148 nations met to discuss these issues. It from the gift shops, the bumper stickers, the was the largest international conference ever Surely there is a lesson here for bureauc­ information booth posters, that "Virginia is racy, but just as surely, sadly, it will be held. The consensus appeared to be moving for Lot ers"-but deep down the heritage of ignored. 2316 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1975 A PLAN TO INVIGORATE THE a car or light truck included in the customer stands and we should do everything in AUTO INDUSTRY program are eligible for up to $600 in re­ our power to insure their cessation. bates," the spokesman said. Medders isn't overly impressed. He claims I would like to quote from a letter I dealers don't shave prices as much when they recently received from a very prominent HON. RONALD M. MOTTL know the buyer qualifies for a rebate. Deal.. Ukrainian-American, Mr. Lev E. Dob­ ers, he said, can find out who qualifies when riansky of Georgetown University. Mr. OF OHIO customers fill out financing reports. Dobriansky writes: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Medders today also challenged views o:t Basic human rights are universal, and no Tuesday, February 4, 1975 UAW President Leonard Woodcock who said current myth of 'non-interference in inter­ that auto makers can't reduce prices because nal affairs' can becloud this truth for free Mr. MOTTL. Mr. Speaker, there is of what he considers their paper-thin profit men. An empire such as the U.S.S.R., built general agreement that our Nation's eco­ margins. and maintained on conquests and foreign nomic health would be greatly improved Medders concedes that the auto makers domination, cannot logically justify the na­ may be hurting now, but insists that what tional, non-interference principle. With our if some way could be found to invigorate he calls their record profits in recent years technology, know-how and capital flowing the slumping automobile industry. provides a financial reservoir which could to this empire, we have every right and duty Thousands of workmen in plants make possible price cuts. to move forward for ( 1) a strict Congressional throughout the country have been laid As head of one of the biggest UAW locals accounting of across-the-board emigration off because of the sharp drop in public here, Medders is understandably worried from the U.S.S.R. (2) an equally strict ac­ purchasing of new cars. about the slump in auto sales. counting of deals made by our businessmen The reasons for this falling off of auto At the Ford Brook Park plant where he who are admittedly confused by present rules is the union leader for about 10,000 workers, in U.S.-U.S.S.R. trade (3) in the spirit of sales are multitudinous and complex. both the foundry and Engine Plant No. 2 are Senator Jackson's appeal to Brezhnev on There are varying viewpoints and opin­ shut down this week. The shutdowns atfec~ Sept. 10, 1974, the release of Valentyn Moroz ions about the cause. However, there 4150 workers. (4) Congressional hearings on the resurrec­ seems to be unanimous agreement that In addition, about 725 of his union mem­ tion of the Ukrainian Orthodox and catholic the results are harmful, and that the bers have been laid otf indefinitely. Churches genocided by Stalin and ( 5) a entire Nation would benefit if some way short term Select Committee on the Captive Nations to crystallize for our citizenry a were found to stimulate auto sales and reality that no amount of diplomacy can production. conceal. Manufacture of automobiles is an im­ UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE portant industry in the 23d District of I support the above-stated goals and Ohio, which I have the honor to repre­ pledge to my Ukrainian-American HON. WILLIAM F. WALSH friends to do everything I can to see they sent in this Congress. OF NEW YORK Thousands of my constituents have are achieved. had their earnings curtailed or cut off IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by the recent reductions in automobile Tuesday, February 4, 1975 manufacturing activities. Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, on January TELLING IT LIKE IT IS Therefore, I would like to call the at­ 22, 1918, the Ukrainian nation declared tention of the great auto companies with its independence and founded the special urgency to a suggestion of Wayne Ukrainian National Republic. Two short HON. L. A. (SKIP) BAF ALIS K. Medders, president of the United Auto years later, this independence was de­ OF FLORIDA Workers Union local in the huge Ford stroyed by Moscow's armed conquest. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Motor Co. manufacturing complex at Today, the 48 million Ukrainian people Tuesday, February 4, 1975 Brook Park, Ohio, which adjoins my constitute the largest non-Russian na­ district. tion under Moscow's domination, both Mr. BAFALIS. Mr. Speaker, I am sub­ The proposal of Mr. Medders was re.. inside and outside the U.S.S.R. mitting an editorial written by Malcolm ported in an article in the Cleveland Domination is too mild a word, how­ Johnson of the Tallahassee Democrat Press, which reads as follows: ever, to describe the way in which Soviet entitled "Watch Out for Ricochets!" for PROPOSAL OF WAYNE MEDDERS officials rule the Ukraine. They rule by the review of my colleagues. (By Norman Mlachak) fear, violence, and torture. While the subject matter of this edi­ Wayne K. Medders, president of the United Since 1963 to the present, alarming torial is not pleasant or popular, I ap­ Auto Workers local at the Ford complex in numbers of arrests have been made. In plaud Mr. Johnson for his courage in Brook Park, came up with a proposal which 1973 and 1974 these arrests escalated to "telling it like it is". For decades now, he believes will wipe out Ford's backlog of include Ukrainian intellectuals, writers, economists and government officials alike cars, stimulate production, reduce unemploy­ literary critics, professors, students, have lauded the praises of deficit spend­ ment and raise employee morale. ing. While citizens across the country In telegrams to top officials of Ford and the scientists and representatives of every UAW, Medders is proposing that Ford give strata of society. These people are being questioned the fact that Government its hourly workers the traditional new car charged with "anti-Soviet agitation and could run year after year in the red while discounts it grants to some salaried work­ propaganda." individuals could not, their fears were ers--most of them superintendents and In reality, this "propaganda" consists being scoffed at by intellectuals. a.bove. of petitions, appeals, and letters sub­ Now, however, the once imaginary bill Top echelon white collar workers, Medders has come due-and at a time when this mitted from concentration camps by said, receive new Fords at $100 to $200 above Nation can ill afford to pay. We must now cost. prominent political prisoners and promi­ Extending the program to Ford's 180,000 face the reality and the seriousness of nent Ukrainians at home to the Com­ the situation. Mr. Johnson deals very factory workers, Medders believes, would wipe munist Party and government officials of out the firm's 100-day backlog of cars and candidly with this in his editorial. I com­ start the assembly lines humming again. the Ukraine and the U.S.S.R. raising the mend him for his willingness to "lay it Responding to Medders' proposal, a spokes­ question of the violations of human and on the line." man here said that Ford has instituted pro­ constitutional rights. The editorial follows: grams under which hourly workers and re­ Soviet authorities are using torture WATCH OUT FOR RICOCHETS! tirees alike can save up to $600 on a new and psychological methods of inhumane (By Malcolm Johnson) car. treatment on Ukrainian political prison­ They're starting to fire from the hip in Earlier this month Ford announced that ers. It is no doubt their intent to pre­ hourly workers and retirees alike would be washington-at ghosts and hobgoblins. vent these people from surviving the given $100 rebates on any 1975 model cars If they don't watch out they'll shoot up the or light trucks or on selected 1974 models. terms of their sentences. house. This rebate, the company spokesman said, These prisoners are subjected to secret Just when natural economic laws begin to is in addition to customer cash rebates that trials. They are not allowed to have at­ cut prices inflated to the bursting point by its employees would be entitled to. extravagance (both private and governmen­ torneys present, nor are members of the tal) new political laws are whtpped up to Under the customer program, the com­ prisoners' families even allowed to at­ pany is offering rebates ranging from $200 save us from the austerity we m.ust exercise. tend. OUr President glumly inform us "the state to $500 on five of the company's small car of the union is not good . . . I've got bad lines and on one of its light truck models. These tactics are totally foreign to "In effect, hourly employees who purchase everything for which the United States news." February 5, 19;5 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 2317

"Prices are too high," he says, "and sales compensating factors of economies will work has it been since anyone really tried to sell are too slow." And he's exactly right. to bring about some desirable a

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Wednesday, February 5, 1975 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. here today can agree that our most CALL OF THE HOUSE Rev. C. Wade Freeman, Capitol Hill pressing problem is the state of the Baptist Church, Washington, D.C., of­ economy. Prices are still rising; as is un­ Mr. BAUMAN, Mr. Speaker, I make fered the following prayer: employment. Our national productivity the point of order that a quorum is net is declining. present. Be ye therefore followers of God.­ The SPEAKER. Evidently a quorum Ephesians 5: 1. The reasons of course are complex, but a root cause has been continued, long­ is not present. Help us, 0 God, today to recognize how Mr. FLYNT. Mr. Speaker, I move a human we are, and to remember that term deficit spending. One product of this failure to keep national expendi­ call of the House. being human, we cannot be infallible. A call of the House was ordered, Thou hast made us as we are; Thou dost tures in line with revenues has been dou­ !mow how much we need divine leader­ ble digit inflation. When Congress failed The call was taken by electronic de­ to levy new taxes to pay for added new vice, and the following Members failed ship and direction. to respond: So often in our haste and eagerness we programs, Congress imposed-just as surely-the tax of inflation. [Roll No. 12] are guilty of dependence on self for life's Badillo Florio Nedzi daily direction and decisions. Our prayer A stable national economy with those Barrett Fraser Pattison, N.Y. is today that we might heed the plea of able to work employed and with the value Beard, R.I. Gaydos Pepper Paul and be "followers of God." of the dollar remaining stable so salary Blanchard Gude Randall increases are real instead of cruel illu­ Brown, Mich. Harris Riegle For these Congressmen today, we pray Broyhill Hebert Rosenthal that in their deliberations they will be sions, is a goal we can all support. It Byron IDghtower StGermain good followers. This, too, would we pray crosses party and ideological bonndaries. Carr Hol tzma.n Santini There are times when deficits are un­ Chappell Jarman Satterfield for all the people of our great Nation, for Chisholm Jones, Ala. Solarz only as we follow after Thee will we be avoidable--when a depressed economy Collins, Til. Jones, Okla. Steelman strong. must be stimulated into balance and Conyers LaFalce Steiger, Ariz. In the name of our Lord do we pray. health. But we must recognize that these D'Amours Leggett Steiger, Wis. occasions are extraordinary-that we Derwinskl McClory Teague Amen. Dickinson Macdonald Thompson cannot continue fiscal business as has Diggs Madigan Udall been usual over the past few decades Drinan Michel Waxman THE JOURNAL without permanently crippling our Early Mikva Yates Edwards, Calif. Mills Young, Alaska ' economy. Esch Neal The SPEAKER. The Chair has ex­ I have today introduced a bill, with 24 amined the Journal of the last day's pro­ cosponsors, to provide that Federal ex­ Mr. SPEAKER. On this mllcall 374 ceedings and announces to the House his penditures during each fiscal year shall Members have recorded their presence by approval thereof. j ~ot .exceed projected tax revenues except electronic device, a quorum. . Without objection, the Journal stands m trme of an economic necessity declared By unanimous consent, further pro­ approved. by a two-thirds vote of the membership ceedings under the call were dispensed There was no objection. of each House of Congress, or in time of ·with. - declared war. - . t This bill would g-ive Congress the flexi­ PERSONAL EXPLANATION THE BALANCED BUDGET BILL bili~; to stimulate the economy while Mr. MAGUIRE. Mr. Speaker, yesterday