April11, 1983 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 7889 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Monday, Aprilll, 1983 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. tion and Control Act of 1974, and for other COMMUNICATION FROM THE Rabbi Isaac Neuman, Sinai Temple, purposes; CLERK OF THE HOUSE Champaign, Dl., offered the following S. 820. An act to amend section 7 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 The SPEAKER laid before the prayer: (42 U.S.C. 7706) to extend authorizations House the following communication God of our fathers, our God, humbly for appropriations, and for other purposes; from the Clerk of the House of Repre­ a survivor of Auschwitz stands in Thy S. 821. An act to authorize appropriations sentatives: presence amid the chosen serirants of a to the Secretary of Commerce for the pro­ grams of the National Bureau of Standards WASHINGTON, D.C., April 7, 1983. great people, a generous people, who Hon. THoMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr., opened their gates to homeless victims for fiscal year 1984, and for other purposes; and The Speaker, House of Representatives, of totalitarianism. S. 967. An act to amend the Independent Washington, D.C. We raise our voices in gratitude to Safety Board Act of 1974 to authorize ap­ DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the per­ Thee that on this day 38 years ago, propriations for fiscal years 1984, 1985, and mission granted in Clause 5, Rule III of the the U.S. Armed Forces entered Bu­ 1986. Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, chenwald Concentration Camp and The message also announced that the Clerk received at 2:30p.m. on Thursday, freed the prisoners from the Nazi gas the Vice President, pursuant to the April 7, 1983, the following message from chambers. the Secretary of the Senate: That the provisions of section 276 of title 22, Senate passed without amendment H. Con. I raise my voice in gratitude to Thee Code, as amended, ap­ 33 Res. 102. because on this day, years ago, I pointed Mr. GRASSLEY as a member of With kind regards, I am, first set foot on these blessed shores. the Senate delegation to the Interpar­ Sincerely, May our country hold true to its tra­ liamentary Union Conference to be BENJAMIN J. GUTHRIE, ditions, and remain a refuge for the held in Helsinki, Finland, on April 25 Clerk, House of Representatives. homeless and oppressed, as it has been through April 29, 1983. for us and for all our forefathers. 0 Sovereign of the World, may this A TRffiUTE TO HON. PHILLIP our land retain its zeal for justice. RABBI ISAAC NEUMAN BURTON Awaken its compassion and mercy for (Mr. DANIEL B. CRANE asked and

0 This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., 0 1407 is 2:07 p.m. e This .. bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 7890 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE April 11, 1983 THE LATE HONORABLE PHILLIP Those of us who pass this House Visitation at Yellowstone National Park, BURTON hope, all of us, to make a mark on the the first such park in American history, has fallen off to a fraction of the numbers that Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. people and events that surround us. Some of us succeed and others do not once inundated it through much of the Speaker, I offer a privileged resolution twentieth century. This might be a salutary and ask for its immediate succeed. PHIL BURTON was not only a development, given the overcrowding in consideration. success, he was a giant. His work on most parks, if it were not for the reason The Clerk read the resolution, as fol­ the floor, in committee, within the behind it: expansive development of geo­ lows: Democratic Party, and perhaps more thermal sites just west of the park for H. R.Es.157 importantly in those places in his dis­ power generation has drained off the steam trict where cameras and reporters and hot springs which fed Yellowstone's Resolved, That the House has heard with geysers and bubbling-hot pools and water­ profound sorrow of the death of the Honor­ seldom go, made him a compassionate and skillful leader who certainly has falls, the park's main visitor attractions. Old able Phillip Burton. a Representative from Faithful, a postcard standard for genera­ the State of California. left a mark on the people and events tions, has not erupted for several years; Re3olved, That a committee of such Mem­ that he has touched. Mammoth Hot Springs, only slightly less bers of the House as the Speaker may desig­ I am saddened by the loss of this popular than Old Faithful, is now nothing nate, together with such Members of the friend and this colleague of ours. He but a collection of brittle geyser cones. Senate as may be joined, be appointed to wasted not a minute of his life in the Two thousands miles to the southeast, at attend the funeral. pursuit of his goals. It was that cour­ the very tip of Florida, Everglades National Re3olved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized and directed to age, that heart of a lion that those of Park is deteriorating at an alarming rate. take such steps as may be necessary for car­ us who knew him respected so much. Subdivisions and industrial parks spreading rying out the provisions of these resolutions Mr. Speaker, I will insert in the southwest of Miami with the random inex­ RECORD the article I read last night, orability of spilled milk have seriously de­ and that the necessary expenses in connec­ pleted the natural flow of fresh water in the tion therewith be paid out of the contingent written by our departed colleague. fund of the House. park. Periods of severely depleted water The article follows: levels are interspersed with destructive Re3olved, That the Clerk communicate [From the Wilderness Spring, 19831 these resolutions to the Senate and trans­ flooding. Saltwater intrusion is at a crisis mit a copy thereof to the family of the de­ CLEAR AND PREsENT DANGERs-AssAULTS level. The natural cover of sawgrass has ceased. FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT been replaced in most areas by the exotic Re3olved, That when the House adjourns Brazilian pepper. The Everglades kite, once today, it adjourn as a further mark of re­ Horror story. The year is 2001. In the a prime addition to any birder's life list, has spect to the memory of the deceased. not been seen in nearly a decade. The last Santa Monica Mountains National Recrea­ alligator was spotted by a park ranger five The resolution was agreed to. tion Area, the National Park Service has borrowed an idea from the Japanese. Scat­ years before ... A motion to reconsider was laid on tered along the trails and roads of the park, This dark fantasy, more nightmare than the table. spaced no more than two miles apart, are dream, is not yet a reality. Neither is it an narrow, glass-enclosed cubicles not unlike impossibility. The National Park System, one of the major talismans of the United A TRmUTE TO PHILLIP BURTON structures found on the streets of downtown Tokyo. They look like telephone booths. States as a civilized community, is in trou­ problems aggravated by the ever-increasing presence of smog creeping up into the jest. Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, it is so mountains from the Los Angeles Basin, a It is not as if we hadn't been warned. In strange how things sometimes happen. phenomenon so common that smog alerts 1978, the National Parks and Conservation Last night as I was flying back from have become a regular part of the park ex­ Association, a national environmental orga· Oregon to Washington, I was reading perience. nization, did a survey of park superintend­ an article en route in the Wilderness In Yosemite National Park, ground is ents to determine the environmental status Magazine written by PHIL BURTON, our broken for a shopping mall on a privately of the parks. Sixty-six percent of the departed colleague. owned three-acre "inholders" plot in the superintendents reported that their parks shadow of Half Dome. The plot's owner jus­ were suffering some sort of resource threat And that article vividly demonstrat­ tifies construction of the complex on the from within or without park boundaries, ed his passion for the preservation of grounds that the National Park Service has and 64 percent declared that some of these our parks and our wilderness and our removed so many commercial shops from threats had the capability of permanently public lands. And as I read the article, the floor of the valley that park visitors are damaging the quality of their parks. This I reflected on my friend, who I fully seriously inconvenienced. survey was augmented in 1979 by a more expected to see this week as we re­ At Page, Arizona, just below Glen Canyon comprehensive study undertaken by the Na­ turned to the vigorous schedule before National Recreation Area on the Colorado tional Park Service's Office of Science and River, hydrologists test the water released Technology in response to a bipartisan re­ us, reflected how this issue was only into the river from behind Glen Canyon quest by myself and former Congressman one of his many causes. Dam and discover radiation levels high Keith Sebelius . Its conclusions He had many causes. And he was enough to pose a threat to human life; al­ were published the following year as State one of those rare power brokers on ready, there have been major fish kills in of the Parks, 1980. While the report made Capitol Hill who had as beneficiaries Lake Powell. The likely source of the radi­ clear the fact that threats of one kind or an­ of their use of power those who so ation is a high-level nuclear waste disposal other affected all national park units-for very often are powerless, those who site at the Gibson Salt Dome upriver near an overall average of twenty-three threats are not able to lobby for themselves, the edge of Canyonlands National Park. Ap­ per park-those units with 30,000 acres or parently, the radiation has seeped into the more-including many of our oldest and those who are poor, those who are dis­ groundwater table and from thence to best-loved parks-were shown to have a star­ possessed. those who need a better streams feeding the river, the principal tling twice as many threats as the average. break. source of water for irrigation and municipal Writing in the October 1982 issue of Envi­ Today, I was shocked when I woke needs for most of the Southwest. ronment magazine, Oundar Rudzitis and up and learned on the radio that my At Yovtmpa Point in Bryce Canyon Na­ Jeffrey Schwartz glumly analyzed the NPS friend had died overnight. This House tional Park, visitors pause to look out upon report's implications: " ... the NPS conclud­ has lost a great leader, a man who was a once-spectacular landscape of up-and­ ed that no parks are immune to internal and tough, a fighter, a man who was not down desert country. What they see now, about four miles away, is a 7,000- causing significant damage. Furthermore. always loved, but a man who was re­ ton, 200-foot-high mechanical brontosaurus these threats would continue to degrade and spected and a man who was unwilling strip-mining the earth for coal, throwing up destroy irreplaceable park resources until to compromise very much on those a pall of black dust, growling like a beast in such time as mitigation measures are imple­ thlnp that he held dear. anger. mented. In many cases ... such deeradation April11, 1983 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 7891 or loss of resources is irreversible. The irre­ During the Carter administration, Interior ice, because until they can be incorporated versibility represents a sacrifice by a public Secretary Cecil Andrus ruled that strip­ into the individual parks as part of the that is, for the most part, unaware that mining 9,000 acres of the Alton Coal Field system, they are a perpetual menace to both such a price is being paid." just four miles from Bryce Canyon National the meaning of the parks and the ecosys­ The threats of which the report spoke are Park would be unsuitable because the re­ tems they were designed to perpetuate. The still with us and are, if anything, worse than sulting development would all but destroy danger is real, for in many instances the they were in 1979. They are too numerous the splendid view from the park's Yovimpa Park Service has been all but helpless to and complex to be dealt with in detail in the Point. In fact, the Clean Air Act requires prevent damaging industrial and commer­ space allotted to me here , but they can be tion from within the federal Class I area of Glacier Bay and Yosemite national parks. broken down into some general categories. the specific historical, cultural, or scenic Strip-mining has occurred in Shenandoah These would include aesthetic degradation landmark panorama which is located out­ National Park; a mine was begun in Capitol from resource extraction and commercial, side the boundary of a park and which vista Reef National Park within a stone's throw residential, and road development near the parks; air pollution from park." Interior Secretary James Watt has Grand Canyon National Park sports a ura­ sulfur dioxide and hydrocarbon emissions refused even to list any integral vistas, and nium mine; part of Death Valley National and water pollution from toxic waste dispos­ beyond that has sought to reverse the Andrus ruling in the mine; residential developments have popped effluents; ecological damage through the courts, and has proposed changes in the law up within the boundaries of Santa Monica loss of wildlife, the introduction of exotic to allow such activities. Mountains National Recreation Area and species, overcrowding, and internal misman­ Perhaps the most overwhelmingly threat­ roads for similar developments have been agement; and the disruptive effect of pri­ ened national park in the entire system is laid down in Olympic and Yosemite national vate inholdings on the integrity of individ­ Everglades. The increasing use of Florida's parks. ual park units. water resources by agriculture and urban It is a threat that has been with us for With those general categories, the follow­ and industrial growth in and around Dade some time. In 1967, Park Service Director ing summary of specific problems, however County have seriously interfered with the George Hartzog eloquently outlined the partial, however brief, should give some idea region's natural seasonal flow of water, a problem: "Inholdings are like the worm in of the dimensions of the clear an present cycle necessary for the maintenance of the the apple. They may not take up much of dangers facing the National Park System: park's ecological integrity. The impact on the total park area, but they tend to cluster Under provisions of the Clean Air Act wildlife and its habitat already has been around the prime scenic attractions. . . . On Amendments of 1977 . As many could result from such development. Three tional Park . . . wholesale cactus poaching as ten additional power plants have been of the world's top ten natural geyser areas in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument proposed for this region in recent years. have been destroyed already, and four more . . . vandalism and petroglyph desecration The Department of Energy is investigat­ significantly damaged. Yellowstone is the in Chaco Canyon National Monument ... ing two sites near Canyonlands National only remaining natural geyser system in offroad vehicle damage at Cape Lookout Na­ Park in Utah as possible repositories of nu­ North America that remains undisturbed. tional Seashore . . . dredging in Gulf Is­ clear waste with high-level radiation. One Are we willing to exchange Old Faithful for­ lands National Seashore ... possible land site is Davis Canyon, less than a mile from ever for probably no more than twenty-five sales in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore the park; the other is Lavender Canyon, years of locally produced geothermal only a little more than two miles away. energy? There are those who would take the All of these and many, many more are Even with the most sophisticated disposal chance. either chipping away right now at the secu­ technology, there is no absolute guarantee In the words of The Wilderness Society's rity of the National Park System or may that radiation from such depos~ would not executive director, William Turnage, the soon be doing so. And they are not long­ leak into the local ground-w er system, still-unresolved question of privately held term threats awaiting us some distance with potential impact on t e Colorado "inholdings" is "the gravest threat to the down the road to the twenty-first century; River. Aside from that, the site chosen integrity of the National Park System in its they face us now-today, tomorrow, the day would also include a coal-fired power plant, entire history." The threat is both complex after tomorrow. Our response must be a railroad line for the transport of both coal and insidious, and covers a broad spectrum geared to that imminence. We must swiftly and nuclear wastes, transmission lines, and of national parks. These pockets and parcels pass, in this session of Congress, a parks support facilities-all within minutes of the of land, left in private ownership when protection bill that challenges the inexora­ edge of one of the most beautifully primi­ many parks were created, are a constant bility of park degradation, that recognizes tive and undeveloped parks in the country. thorn in the side of the National Park Serv- our responsibility to the future, that reaf- 7892 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE Aprilll, 1983 firms our commitment to-and indeed our the United States. As late as last July, We respectfully urge your prompt action love for-these precious enclaves whose U.S. cotton's market share in Korea to reverse the Senior Inter-Governmental preservation goes a long way toward illumin­ amounted to 95 percent of that level decision which denied the U.S. cotton ating what the great experiment of America industry's request for Korean credit. was all about. market. In the past 9 months, howev­ Respectfully, Affairs Committee. As chair of this commit­ that our share will drop to 60 percent tee's National Parks and Insular Affairs by 1985 unless action is taken to halt Subcommittee from 1977 to 1980, he set an this decline. LEGISLATION DESIGNATING unprecedented record for establishing and Mr. Speaker, the Korean market is CERTAIN LANDS IN ARKANSAS protecting parks, wilderness areas, trails and one of the largest export markets for AND OKLAHOMA AS WILDER­ wild and scenic rivers, including the Omni­ NESS bus Parks Act of 1978-one of the most U.S. cotton, accounting for approxi­ sweeping pieces of environmental legislation mately 25 percent of our cotton ex­ ports. During the last 6 months, we given permission to address the House have suffered a competitive loss of for 1 minute and to revise and extend nearly 200,000 bales. Unless this trend his remarks.) A TRmUTE TO PHIL BURTON is reversed, the annual loss could ap­ Mr. ANTHONY. Mr. Speaker, I rise the years. May they inspire us to carry ed dramatically in recent months because on in his spirit and deepen our own Korea's request for $20 million in direct Mr. BARNARD. Mr. Speaker, many commitment to the cause of humanity. credit under the blended credit program has of my friends and constituents are not been approved. gathering on April 13, 1983, for a testi­ This is a market that we vitally need to monial dinner to honor a great Augus­ COTTON BLENDED CREDIT PRO­ retain in today's climate of excess supply. tan and a great American, Miss Mary GRAM FOR KOREA SHOULD BE This one market, if held, would consume Lou Reynolds. APPROVED nearly 12 percent of U.S. production and Miss Reynolds is retiring as execu­ The slippage so far amounts to an annual had great success under her leader­ Mr. HUCKABY. Mr. Speaker, re­ loss of $73.5 million. ship. cently I and 130 of my colleagues sent Korean officials project that U.S. cotton's Miss Reynolds came to Augusta a letter to President Reagan, express­ share will drop to 60 percent of the coun­ when the local chapter was in a time ing our concern about the recent Cabi­ try's purchases by 1985 unless blended of turmoil. I understand that three credit is made available to them. This would net Council's denial of $20 million in result in a $170 million annual revenue loss different people served as the execu­ direct credit for a cotton-blended at today's prices. Judging from our shares of tive director during the 12 months credit program for Korea. other Far Eastern markets, there is every prior to her coming. She brought sta­ Until recently, virtually all of reason to expect that projection to material­ bllity, she brought efficiency and she Korea's cotton was purchased from ize. moved forward into new areas. It was April 11, 1983 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 7893 under her leadership that a program make it work better for people-the out that the Congressional Budget was begun in an Augusta hospital for people who primarily need help and Office had said in its analysis that, in training and using high school stu­ are not thought of very much in the fact, there was room for a congression­ dents as volunteer helpers. This grew process that we go through. He al pay increase in the bill and that the into a national program which we now thought of them. He cared about figures would indicate that the bill know as candy-strippers. The Augusta them. He gave every ounce of his meant to provide for a congressional Red Cross now recruits and uses a ver­ energy and, ultimately, of his life, to pay increase and, indeed, when you itable army of volunteers in many dif­ those people he cared about in Amer­ analyze the report on the bill, it went ferent areas. Last year 85,000 hours of ica. into great detail about all of the volunteer service was given by volun­ For Hawaii, for the Nation, his pass­ things that were down in the bill, but teers working with the Augusta chap­ ing will be a great loss, a loss that will it left out any discussion of the fact ter. not easily be replaced, if ever to be re­ that there was money in there for that Miss Reynolds is a talented and well­ placed, in one human being. congressional pay increase. educated lady. She grew up in South So I have a feeling that the Ameri­ Carolina, getting her undergraduate LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC BUDGET can people are properly worried, par­ education at Columbia College and, CONTAINS PROVISION FOR PO­ ticularly when they looked further later, a masters degree in social work. TENTIAL PAY INCREASE FOR down in that little sheet from the She taught French as a school teach­ MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Democratic Study Committee and er, and then worked with Indians in found out that one of the things they Oklahoma through the Methodist The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under said down in there ·was that Repre­ Church before beginning her career a previous order of the House, the gen­ tleman from Pennsylvania

11--059 0-87-38 (Pt. 6) 7896 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE April 11, 1983 OATH OF OFFICE, MEMBERS, foreign and domestic; that I will DAN ScHAEFER, Sixth District, Colo­ RESIDENT COMMISSIONER, bear true faith and allegiance to rado. AND DELEGATES the same; that I take this obliga­ The oath of office required by the tion freely without any mental res­ EXPENDITURE REPORTS CON­ sixth article of the Constitutio:t of the ervation or purpose of evasion; and CERNING OFFICIAL FOREIGN United States, and as provided by sec­ that I will well and faithfully dis­ TRAVEL tion 2 of the act of May 13, 1884 (23 charge the duties of the office on Reports of various House commit­ Stat. 22), to be administered to Mem­ which I am about to enter. So help tees and delegations traveling under bers, Resident Commissioner, and Del­ me God." authorizations from the Speaker con­ egates of the House of Representa­ has been subscribed to in person and cerning the foreign currencies and tives, the text of which is carried in 5 filed in duplicate with the Clerk of the U.S. dollars utilized by them during u.s.c. 3331: House of Representatives by the fol­ the fourth quarter of calendar year "I, A B, do solemnly swear (or lowing Member of the 98th Congress, 1982 and first quarter of calendar year affirm) that I will support and pursuant to the provisions of 2 U.S.C. 1983 in connection with foreign travel defend the Constitution of the 25: pursuant to Public Law 95-384 are as United States against all enemies, follows:

REPORT OF EXPENDITURES FOR OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL, PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, EXPENDED BETWEEN OCT. 1 AND DEC. 31, 1982

Date Per diem 1 Transportation Other pOJrposes Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name of Member or employee Country Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Arrival Departure currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency• currency• currency• currency•

Looise Bracknell ...... 11/ 14 11/ 18 Montreal, Canada ...... 458.47 375.00 ...... 458.47 375.00

1 Per diem constitutes lodging and meals. 2 11 foreign currency is used, enter U.S. dollar equivalent; if U.S. currency is used, enter amount expended.

AMENDED REPORT OF EXPENDITURES FOR OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL, COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, EXPENDED BETWEEN OCT. 1 AND DEC. 31, 1982

Date Per diem 1 Transportalion Other purposes Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name of Member or employee Country Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Arrival Departure currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency• currency• currency• currency•

Hon. Bill Frenzel ...... 11/ 14 11/15 Germany ...... 216.72 84.00 ...... 84.00 11/15 11/19 Soviet Union ...... 178.00 ...... 178.00 11/19 11/22 ...... 1,653.00 228.00 ...... 19.74 ...... 17.93 ...... 265.67 11/22 11!27 Switzerland ...... 889.60 405.00 ...... 405.00 Transportation by Department of Defense ...... 5,693.06 ...... 5,693.06 Committee total ...... 895.00 ...... 5,712.80 ...... 17.93 ...... 6,625.73

1 Per diem constitutes lodging and meals. •If foreign currency is used, enter U.S. dollar equivalent; if U.S. currency is used, enter amount expended. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI , Chairman, Mar. 16, 1983.

AMENDED REPORT OF EXPENDITURES FOR GtFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL, COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, EXPENDED BETWEEN OCT. 1 AND DEC. 31, 1982

Date Per diem• Transportation Other purposes Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name of Member or employee Country Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Arrival Departure currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency• currency• currency• currency•

Thomas E. Mooney, staff...... 10/10 10/14 Switzerland ...... 132.00 ...... 132.00 10/14 10/17 Germany ...... 99.00 ...... 99.00 10/17 10!20 Italy...... 132.00 ...... 132.00 Commercial transportation ...... 260.00 ...... 260.00 Torn Railsback, MC ...... 10/11 10/14 Switzerland ...... 99.00 ...... 99.00 10/14 10/16 France ...... 66.00 ...... 66.00 10/16 10/19 Italy...... 99.00 ...... 99.00 10/19 10!20 England ...... 33.00 ...... 33.00 Committee total ...... 660.00 ...... 260.00 ...... 920.00

1 Per diem constitutes lodging and meals. 2 11 foreign currency is used, enter U.S. dollar equivalent; if U.S. currency is used, enter amount expended. PETER W. RODINO, JR., Chairman. April 11, 1983 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 7897 REPORT OF EXPENDITURES FOR OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL, STEPHEN I. JACOBS, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, EXPENDED BETWEEN MAR. 13 AND MAR. 18, 1983

Date Per diem 1 Transportation Other purposes Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name of Member or employee Country Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Arrival Departure currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency 2 currency 2 currency 2 currency 2

Stephen I. Jacobs...... 3/14 3/15 Great Britain ...... 65.30 98.00 ...... 2,753.74 ...... 3,100.74 3/ 15 3/ 18 Belgium ...... 11 ,728 249.00 ......

1 Per diem constitutes lodging and meals. 2 H foreign currency is used, enter U.S. dollar equivalent; if U.S. currency is used, enter amount expended. STEPHEN I. JACOBS, Mar. 30, 1983.

REPORT OF EXPENDITURES FOR OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL, ELEANOR KELLEY, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, EXPENDED BETWEEN JAN. 9 AND JAN. 20, 1983

Date Per diem 1 Transportation Other purposes Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name of Member or employee Country Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Arrival Departure currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency 2 currency 2 currency 2 currency•

Eleanor Ketley ...... 1/9 l/12 11/11113 Venezuela ...... 1,51538.2105 I~~ : ~~ :::::::::::::::::::::::: ...... ~. ~ ~.. .:: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 1 , 5! ,5s~~ 354150.00 1/14 1111 UBruragZI.ul.a.y.... ·.·.·.·. ·.·.·. ·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·. ·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·...... 105', 953 408.00 ...... 105,953 4o8·. oo 1/ 18 1/ 20 u.s. Virgin lslands ...... ___o__ . __. --·_ ...._ ... _....__ ... __.... _ ...__.... .:.:.. ... :.::: .....:.:...... :.::: .. ·.:.:.. ·.. ·.:.:..· :.:::·....:.:.. .. ·:.::: .....:.:.. .. ·:.::: .....:.:...... :.::: .. ·.:.:...... :.::: ....:.:...... :.:.. ...:.::: .....:.:.. ... :.::: .....:.:.. ... :.::: .....:.:...... :.::: ....::... .. ____:_o --~o Committee totals ...... 921 .00 ...... 912.00

1 Per diem constitutes lodging and meals. • If foreign currency is used, enter U.S. dollar equivalent; if U.S. currency is used, enter amount expended. ' USAF, no individual cost figures available. ELEANOR KELLEY, Feb. 8, 1983.

REPORT OF EXPENDITURES FOR OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL, DELEGATION TO BRAZIL, SOUTH AFRICA, ZIMBABWE, KENYA, GREECE, AND ITALY, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, EXPENDED BETWEEN JAN. 7 AND JAN. 22, 1983

Date Per diem 1 Transportation Other purposes Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name of Member or employee Country Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Arrival Departure currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency• currency• currency• currency•

Frank Godfrey ...... 1/7 1/9 Brazil...... 270.00 ...... 270.00 1/9 1/12 South Africa ...... 324.00 ...... 324.00 1/12 1/ 14 Zimbabwe...... 216.00 ...... 216.00 1/14 1/17 Kenya ...... 324.00 ...... 324.00 1/17 1/20 Greece ...... 324.00 ...... 324.00 238.00 Military transportation ...... ~ :. :~ ...... ~ :. :: ..... ~~~~ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ...... :~~ : ~~ .. ::::::::::::::::::::::::·...... ii:iiis:9o .. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 8,019.90 Committee totals ...... 1,696.00 ...... 8,019.90 ...... 9,715.90 Rita H. Hankins ...... 1/7 1/9 Brazil...... 195.00 ...... 195.00 1/9 1/ 12 South Africa ...... 324.00 ...... 324.00 1/12 1/14 Zimbabwe ...... 141.00 ...... 141.00 1/14 1/17 Kenya ...... 249.00 ...... 249.00 1/17 1/20 Greece ...... 324.00 ...... 324.00 238.00 Military transportation ...... ~ :. :~ ...... ~:.:: .... - ~~~~~ : : ::::::::: : :::: : ::::::::::::: : ::: : :: : : ::: :: : :::::::::::: :: ::: ::: : : :::::: :: :::::: : :: : ::: : ::: ...... :~~:~~ .. :::::::::::::::::::::::: ...... s:o19:9o .. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 8,019.90 Committee totals ...... 1,471 .00 ...... 8,019.90 ...... 9,490.90

1 Per diem constitutes lodging and meals. 2 If foreign currency is used, enter U.S. dollar equivalent; if U.S. currency is used, enter amount expended. FRANK GODFREY, RITA H. HANKINS, Feb. 18, 1983.

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, served by the payments made by the Com­ transmitting a draft of proposed legislation ETC. modity Credit Corporation to the U.S. credi­ to amend section 1333 and 1341 of the Na­ tors on credits guaranteed by the CCC on tional Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, execu­ which payments had not been received from amended; to the Committee on Banking, Fi­ tive communications were taken from the Polish People's Republic, pursuant to nance and Urban Affairs. the Speaker's table and referred as fol­ section 306 of Public Law 97-257; to the 856. A letter from the Mayor of the Dis­ lows: Committee on Appropriations. trict of Columbia, transmitting a draft of 852. A letter from the Director, Office of 854. A letter from the Acting Assistant proposed legislation to amend the District Management and Budget, Executive Office Secretary of State for Congressional Rela­ of Columbia Retirement Reform Act; to the of the President, transmitting a cumulative tions, transmitting a copy of Presidential de­ Committee on the District of Columbia. report on rescissions and deferrals of budget termination No. 83-5, certifying assurances 857. A letter from the Chairman, Council authority as of April 1, 1983, pursuant to that proposed foreign military sales or of the District of Columbia, transmitting section 1014(e) of Public Law 93-344 of Public Law 93-198; to the Commit­ the civil aviation security program, covering H.R. 2456. A bill to amend the Railroad tee on the District of Columbia. the period ending December 31, 1982, pursu­ Retirement Act of 1974 with respect to ben­ 859. A letter from the Chairman, Council ant to section 315 of the Federal Aviation efits payable to certain individuals who on of the District of Columbia, transmitting Act; to the Committee on Public Works and December 31, 1974, had at least 10 years of D.C. Act 5-22, Real Property Tax Sale Reg­ Transportation. railroad service and also were fully insured ulations Amendment Act of 1982, pursuant 871. A letter from the Administrator of under the Social Security Act; to the Com­ to section 602 of Public Law 93-198; to General Services, transmitting four prospec­ mittee on Energy and Commerce. the Committee on the District of Columbia. tuses for Federal construction projects, pur­ H.R. 2457. A bill to provide that members 860. A letter from the Chairman, Council suant to section 7 of the Public Buildings of all commissions, councils, and similar of the District of Columbia, transmitting Act of 1959, as amended; to the Committee bodies in the executive branch of the Gov­ D.C. Act 5-23, Cable Television Communica­ on Public Works and Transportation. ernment appointed from private life shall tions Act of 1981 Temporary Amendment 872. A letter from the Assistant Secretary serve without any remuneration for their Act of 1983, pursuant to section 602(c) of of the Army of Public Works and Transportation. mittee on Ways and Means. Law 93-198; to the Committee on the Dis­ 873. A letter from the Comptroller Gener­ H.R. 2459. A bill to amend the Internal trict of Columbia. al of the United States, transmitting a Revenue Code of 1954 to repeal the estate 862. A letter from the Vice President for report on the status of the Great Plains coal and gift taxes and the tax on generation­ Government Affairs, National Railroad Pas­ gasification project ; jointly, to the Committees on Ways and Means. covering the period of January and Febru­ Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; H.R. 2460. A bill to reduce unemployment ary 1983 on the average number of passen­ Energy and Commerce; and Science and by providing that unemployment insurance gers per day on board each train operated, Technology. funds may be used pursuant to State laws and the on-time performance at the final establishing programs for payments to em­ destination of each train operated, by route ployers who hire the unemployed; to the and by railroad, pursuant to section SUBSEQUENT ACTION ON A RE­ Committee on Ways and Means. 308<2> of the Rail Passenger Service Act PORTED BILL SEQUENTIALLY By Mr. MURPHY (for himself, Mr. of 1970, as amended; to the Committee on REFERRED PERKINS, Mr. MILLER of California, Energy and Commerce. Under clause 5 of rule X, the follow­ Mr. BIAGGI, Mr. SIMON, Mr. GAYDOS, 863. A letter from the Acting Assistant Mr. WILLIAMS of Montana, and Mr. Secretary of Congressional Relations, trans­ ing action was taken by the Speaker: CORRADA): mitting reports on political contributions by [Submitted AprilS, 1983] H.R. 2461. A bill to extend and improve various ambassadorial nominees and by The Committee on Merchant Marine and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and to pro­ members of their families, pursuant to sec­ Fisheries discharged from the further con­ vide for the operation of the Helen Keller tion 304<2> of Public Law 96-465; to the sideration of H.R. 1071; H.R. 1071 referred National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Committee on Foreign Affairs. to the Union Calendar and ordered to be Adults; to the Committee on Education and 864. A letter from the Secretary of Hous­ printed. Labor. ing and Urban Development, transmitting a By Mr. MURPHY (for himself, Mr. report on the Department's activities under FoRD of Tennessee, Mr. DANIEL, Mr. the Freedom of Information Act during cal­ PUBLIC BILLS AND ROE, Mr. McNULTY, and Mr. BAR­ endar year 1982, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. RESOLUTIONS NARD>: 552; to the Committee on Government Under clause 5 of rule X and clause H.R. 2462. A bill to provide for the place­ Operations. ment of an appropriate statue or other me­ 865. A letter from the Comptroller Gener­ 4 of rule XXII, public bills and resolu­ morial in Arlington National Cemetery to al of the United States, transmitting a tions were introduced and severally re­ honor individuals who were combat glider report on the review of basic corporate con­ ferred as follows: pilots during World War II; to the Commit­ trol laws ; to By Mr. ANTHONY: tee on Veterans' Affairs. the Committee on Government Operations. H.R. 2452. A bill to designate certain lands By Mr. SEIBERLING: 866. A letter from the Chairman, Inter­ within the Ozark and Ouachita National H.R. 2463. A bill to amend title II of the state Commerce Commission, transmitting a Forests in the States of Arkansas and Okla­ Social Security Act and the Internal Reve­ report on the Commission's activities under homa as wilderness areas, to release other nue Code of 1954 to exclude from wages, for the Government in the Sunshine Act during lands within such National Forests for uses purposes of computing benefits and taxes calendar year 1982, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. other than wilderness, and for other pur­ under the old-age, survivors, and disability 552b(j); to the Committee on Government poses; jointly, to the Committees on Agri­ insurance program, the quarterly cash re­ Operations. culture and Interior and Insular Affairs. muneration for the services of a domestic 867. A letter from the Acting Secretary. By Mr. FASCELL , Mr. In the first section, strike out "and" at the F'EIGHAN, Mrs. BoXER, and Mr. PATTERSON. COURTER. end of paragraph (4), strike out "be it fur­ H.J. Res. 187: Mr. 0BERSTAR, Mr. FAUNT­ H.R. 42: Mr. HERTEL of Michigan. ther" at the end of paragraph <5>. and insert H.R. 204: Mr. STOKES. ROY, Mr. HUGHES, Mr. FRENZEL, Mr. SHUM­ after paragraph (5) the following: H.R. 216: Mr. STAGGERS. WAY, and Mr. MAZzOLI. "(6) urges both powers to discuss the H.J. Res. 215: Mr. SMITH of Florida, Mr. H.R. 223: Mr. RALPH M. HALL. impact that the development of comprehen­ H.R. 237: Mr. IiARTNETr. DONNELLY, Mr. FAZIO, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. McGRATH, Mr. SHELBY, Mr. RosE, Mr. PAT­ sive defensive systeins would have on the re­ H.R. 245: Mr. CARR. duction and eventual obsolescence of nucle­ H.R. 337: Mr. HowARD. TERSON, Mr. VANDERGRIFF, Mr. LEWIS of Cali­ ar weapons; and be it further". fornia, Mr. WEiss, Mr. OWENs, Mr. NICHOLS, H.R. 338: Mr. HOWARD.