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February 8, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1119 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS EXPLAINING THE REAGAN Indeed, ideas are what coalitions and poli­ nesses and upper income individuals. Syn­ REVOLUTION tics are all about. As Emerson said, "The fuels subsidies for large oil companies. Arts party of virility rules the hour, the party of and humanities subsidies for the elite. Free ideas and sentiments rules the ages." Cpast Guard inspections for yacht owners. The ideas wnich will turn the Republican Export subsidies for Boeing. These pro­ HON. NEWT GINGRICH Party into the new, governing coalition are grams respond to greed, not principle. OF GEORGIA simple, but fundamental. Fifth, we believe that just because some­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES First, the highest political goal is freedom. one comes up with a "good" idea doesn't Monday, February 8, 1982 There may be higher moral goals. Or social mean that the government should tax some­ goals. Or personal goals. But the most im­ one, spend money, and create a program. e Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, Mr. portant goal of government is to guarantee The role of government is not to fund Doug Bandow, special assistant to the individual liberty. "good" ideas; it is to establish the frame­ President, gave an inspiring speech to This is the idea behind the founding of work necessary for our free society. a gathering of college Republicans at our country. In 's words, this Thus, flood insurance for people in areas Colgate University last November 13. I founding idea was "Very simply-you and I which flood is a "good" idea. But why have God-given rights, among them free­ should the government provide it? Hospital would like to share Mr. Bandow's ex­ dom and the ability to determine our desti­ planation of the first year of the care for merchant seamen is certainly good ny. Government's only excuse for being is to for the merchant seamen. But why should Reagan administration with my col­ see that no individual or group in our midst the tapayers pay for it? as I quoted Ronald leagues. and no outside aggressor can take this free­ Reagan earlier, "Government is a watchdog, The speech follows: dom from us. Government is a watchdog, not a cow to be milked." KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY DOUG BANDOW not a cow to be milked." The sixth idea is that, in Congressman As College Republican activists, you all And, in the end, only the people can pro­ Kemp's words, the people "should not waste have a unique opportunity to affect the tect this freedom. As the late Judge Learned their political talents and energies arguing course of this nation, and the destiny of a Hand said, "Liberty lies in the hearts of over how to divide up the economic pie, but generation of Americans to follow. men and women. When it dies there, no con­ rather they should concentrate those tal­ This opportunity may be more thankless stitution, no law, no court can save it." Your ents and energies on making the pie grow." than you think: John Quincy Adams once help is necessary to help ensure that this Too many government policies, far from observed that "Posterity-you will never spirit of liberty lives on in the hearts of increasing the total economic benefits avail­ know how much it cost my generation to your fellow countrymen. able to all, have sharply reduced those bene­ preserve your freedom. I hope you will The second idea behind the Republican fits. They have-on a wide scale-penalized make good use of it." But it is an opportuni­ renaissance is that all wisdom in our society achievement. ty, which, if spurned, may never return. does not reside in Washington. Indeed, at times, wisdom exists in exactly inverse pro­ People do respond to incentives. Thus, You may think this rhetoric to be over­ higher tax rates-the portion of workers stated. I think not. We have reached a po­ portion to the proximity of the decision­ maker from the problem. paying 25 cents or more out of each addi­ tential watershed in the development of this tional dollar they earn has more than quin­ country. A number of different forces and We believe that the most fundamental building blocks of our society are the indi­ tupled in the last 15 years-create a major policies have converged to reduce the aver­ disincentive to work, investment, savings, age worker's real take-home pay and de­ vidual, the family, and the community. Then local and state government. These are and production. Quite simply, when you tax value his savings, increase unemployment, something, you get less of it. And we've and destroy the positive expectations about the organs in society which are best able to recognize and solve problems. been taxing work and savings. the future that Americans have traditional­ People also respond to barriers. The mini­ ly held. Thus, we reject the notion that just be­ It is the convergence of these factors cause some federal officials believe some­ mum wage, for instance, is probably the which toppled a President and a party's con­ thing is important, that it must be done. We greatest barrier to racial progress in Amer­ trol of the U.S. Senate. And it is the conver­ repudiate the notion that federal bureau­ ica today. Economic study after economic gence of these factors which mandates a crats have the answers to our probleiDS, if study have found that the minimum wage radical redirection of American policy. Only only they can bypass "reactionary" proper­ destroys jobs-in particular those of the a dramatic change in direction, replacing re­ ty-owners, community groups, and mayors. poor, the young, the ill-educated, and mi­ liance on bureaucratic dictates with encour­ Some things are not federal responsibilities. norities. agement of individual creativity, will over­ Period. In fact, by penalizing achievement in at­ come a half century of flawed policies. Third, there is no such thing as "govern­ tempting to help a few, we have too often Of course, the liberals and bureaucrats ment" money. Taxes don't grow in the impoverished everyone else. Those individ­ who have been in power for 50 years say Treasury. It is the people's money. And uals and regions of the country at the that after 50 days we have failed. They taking that money is taking money earned bottom of the economic ladder would gain want the American people once again to by Americans. little from even confiscating the wealth of trust the same ideas that have failed, and Since the role of government is not to everyone else. But they will gain a whole failed, and failed. They think the people beneficiently decide how much money each new world if we create and sustain a new era never learn. person should retain, social welfare pro­ of growth and opportunity. Your responsibility within the Republican grains result from the generosity of the tax­ The seventh idea is that we should not Party is perhaps the most crucial one of all: payers, and not from the right of the recipi­ hesitate to defend this country if it becomes bringing a new message to the young people ent. Therefore, the taxpayers rightfully necessary. Defense is the ultimate social of America. Foremost in this new message is demand that their money be well-spent, good-indeed, it is the most fundamental the revolution of ideas. As Ronald Reagan helping the truly needy, not the truly influ­ duty of the federal government. Our de­ said in perhaps his most famous speech ential. fense should be strong, lean, and based on some 17 years ago: Our faith idea, a corollary of the third, is the other values which underly our socie­ "We have come to a time for choosing and that income redistribution for the sake of ty-indeed, which make our society worth we should recognize that two contrary phi­ redistribution is not a worthy goal in a free defending. This includes a firm commitment losophies divide us. Either we believe in our society. A compassionate society caring for to man our military forces through volun­ traditional system of individual freedom those who cannot care for theiDSelves is one teers, the only method consistent with our with constitutional limits on the power of thing. A covetous society taking from those historical tradition of freedom. government, or we abandon the American who have earned it and giving to those who Finally, we believe that we should not be Revolution and confess that an intellectual have not-and who do not need it-is quite ashamed of the other seven ideas. We elite in some far distant capitol can plan for another. should be willing to spread these ideas not us better than we can plan for ourselves." This opposition to subsidizing the life­ only here at home, but also around the The 1980's is now the decade of this styles of those with political power applies globe. Indeed, our ideas are our real weap­ choice-a choice between competing ideas. with particular force to profit-making busi- ons abroad. As James Reston has noted, " It

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89-059 0-85-72 (Pt. 1) 1136 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1982 mately becoming a threat to our na­ This morning I discovered it. It was re· the working poor are forced back to the tional security, then we must do what reading the speech while shaving when I no­ dole, and the unemployed have no access to is necessary to help our allies stop the ticed that it could be read reversed in the training. mirror. Not only had I broken the White Today, we are coming off a year in which Marxist forces. House code, but I had also learned the iden· triumphed completely. We are There is a Soviet-Cuban design for tity of the writer. unable to match the vast sums of money the all of Central America. Will El Salva­ I will share the secrets with you here Republicans and their New Right attack dor be the next to fall, followed by today. groups can raise. We are just beginning to Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, This is what the speech really said: understand their sophisticated campaign then on to the Panama Canal and the 'Twas brillig, and the unemployed techniques and I pray we never catch up in oil fields of southern Mexico? Did gyre and gimble in the wade; their use of distortion and vicious tactics. A Have you considered the prospect of All mimsy were the working poor, few months ago we Democrats were a armed terrorist forces moving across And the elderly outgrabe, gloomy lot. Beware the Press Conference, my son! But not today. We won Virginia where we our own southern border in the years The jaws that bite, the facts that hitch, haven't won for years. And the trends in the ahead? Beware the interest rates, and shun polls are clear. If next fall's election were That is a possible consequence of de­ The frumious deficits. held today we would win a sweeping con­ velopments today in Central America. There was more, but now that it was clear gressional victory. The civil war in El Salvador cannot be that Lewis Carroll was writing for the The Republicans, who could have become isolated from concern for our own na­ White House, it was imperative that I talk the majority party by proposing a fair and tional security.e to Dave Stockman. balanced program, instead did what they I reached an OMB spokesman who said have done throughout our Nation's history. that David had disappeared down a rabbit As they have from the time of the Federal· JONES' BRILLIANT SPEECH hole some months ago and had seldom been ists in 1796 to the New Right of 1982, they seen since. I asked the spokesman about choose to be the party of the rich, the party Lewis Carroll's status, and he said the of isolation and narrowness, the party of HON. GILLIS W. LONG White House had been deeply impressed economic class division, the party of sup­ with the writer's technique and had used pression of individual freedom. OF LOUISIANA him on a free-lance basis. He said they had IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES There was one great Republican excep­ wanted to hire Carroll full time but were tion-Abraham Lincoln. He spoke for the Monday, February 8, 1982 shocked by the outcome of his lie detector common man and for freedom, for national Mr. LONG of Louisiana. Mr. Speak­ test. unity and national reconciliation. He spoke e Lewis Carroll, the OMB spokesman said, with honesty. And he spoke with genuine er, last Saturday, the distinguished wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through love and understanding of the working chairman of the Budget Committee the Looking Glass-but Carroll did not be­ American. . Italy <5.3 million> and, glory in argument and in the accepting rec­ gressional Record. Such knowledgeable and by a thin margin, Britain, not including ognition of differences. That dignity of sensible writing on the Northern Ireland Northern Ireland, <4.9 million>. human recognition prevails-until the problem is rare in the United States. You There is deep reason, then, that Irish moment Tyrant History intrudes. At that and The Philadelphia Inquirer have made a woes are American woes as well. Those woes point, old wounds are tom open, or new substantial contribution to American aware­ today are at a critical point. They are as in­ ones are inflicted. Passions rise, and spill ness of the true nature and character of the tense, in their rage and violence, as at any over. Latent agonies are laid bare. problem of Northern Ireland. point in the almost 60 years since 26 of the Left to good nature, those agonies would With warm regards, 32 counties of Ireland became effectively ease and perhaps even heal-though realis­ Sincerely, free of British rule and began to stabilize as tically that would take a generation or THoMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr., an independent nation. more. But, conscious of the power of in­ The Speaker. Economic stultification is a serious con­ voked history, tiny handfuls of willful men [From the Philadelphia Inquirer] tributor to the agonies of Ireland, and and women-for reasons they passionately America can help. But it is not the most dif­ believe are justified-leap to exploit others THE AGONIES OF IRELAND: A TEST OF ficult challenge today. ·Nhat is? Most susceptibilities. The result is strife and re­ CIVILIZATION simply, the endur.ng :-.ourishment of a nourishment of agony. What is the island of Ireland to America? peaceful, rational :...... ,JJ.ticrc.l and social order, What is that Tyrant History? A shining emerald of romanticized nostal­ convincingly responsive t·· explosively dis­ There cannot be more than a half-dozen gia? Or an unyielding, bottomless bog to be cordant constitutent elements. nations or cultures on earth about the histo­ fled, which for centuries was fought with What are the alternatives to that? Most ry of which so much has been written as sweat, tears and hunger? A womb forever to obviously, continued misery and bloodshed, Ireland. It is endlessly examined, and yet be yearned for, or a cruel poverty forever to at present levels. That is a ghastly prospect. the tyrant still stalks the slums of Belfast escape? A magic, carefree, evergreen island But it is based in genuine human fears and and Derry. the lanes and villages of Kerry enchanted by elves and songs sung by voices senses of defining identity-so defining, by and Donegal, the prisons of Ulster and the as clear and lambent as Waterford crystal? many Catholics and Protestants alike, as to parliaments of Dublin and London. A source of passionately loyal affection or be worth dying, and killing, for. Thus there an agonizing reminder of blinding, unre­ is today substantial danger that the present Ancient Hibernia, from 1500 B.C. and solved rage? violence may develop into a full-scale civil before, was raided, swept and settled by Is Ireland rightly a single, emerging coun­ war. The murderous status quo and that far waves of outsiders, the most enduring try, still engaged in an unfulfilled revolu­ bloodier extension are dismaying. colony being Celts, who invaded from the tion of national independence -or two sepa­ To progress from the present danger, and European mainland around 600 B.C. The rate countries, both post-revolutionary, un­ to avert a greater one, is the overriding test. succeeding millenium was a swirling fog of comfortably pluralistic societies bypassed by It is a tiny island, a place of grand, rich, tribal conflict. which the Roman Empire the industrial revolution and now turbulent- . turbulent, romantic history. Yet today it found purposeless to invade. ly seeking senses of identity and purpose has fewer inhabitants-north and south, a Midway in the fifth century A.D., the en­ without the consoling benefit of instructive total of 4.7 million-than 14 of America's 50 slaved captive from Roman Britain who was models? states, and with 32,595 square miles, is to become St. Patrick arrived. Gradually, It is all. those things. It is-also-some­ smaller than 39 of them. It is a place of conversion to Christianity began. From just thing more, and something else. tight, sharp focus of passion and conflict, of before 800 A.D. until beyond 1000, waves of Somewhat more than 2,100 Irish and Brit­ neglect and passivity, of rage and yearning. pagan Danes and Norsemen raided-pillag­ ish men, women and children have died vio­ It is a source of sustenance of great human ing, setting and intermarrying. Tribal and lently in the last 12 years of brutal, doleful insights, of humane wisdom. Yet it is also a feudal conflict and conquest predominated "Troubles." It is not irresponsible-or irra­ place of rigidity of mind, of pain and polar­ until the late 1100s, when the exceptionally tional-to fear that if worse came to worst, ization and brutality. aggressive British King Henry II sponsored 10 times that number, or 20 or more times, Resolving all that is an Irish problem, with papal support, English military domi­ could die in a wildfire civil war. above all else, and then a British problem, nation. Ireland's gifts beyond its shores are by action or default, a legacy of centuries of From then through the 1500s, the English beyond counting. The impact and influence history. But finally it is a problem, a true continued attempts to dominate the Gaels, of Irish men and women endure in every test, of the capacity of Western civilization. or Celts, who increasingly intermarried with corner of the Western world. Irish names For if humane reason cannot prevail on the the invaders. English power waned and rose and accomplishments are imprinted upon island of Ireland, it will be forever doubtful but was generally successful at least in the politics, culture, commerce, literature, that it can rise effectively to trying difficult major cities, and especially within the Pale, music, art and legends of much of Latin challenges elsewhere. the often-shifting boundary, established by 1140 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1982 Henry II, around the area centered on the tum of the 20th century, through Brit­ by English and Scots, of centuries of denial Dublin. ish efforts to ease the passions of national­ of cultural, territorial, religious and govern­ Henry VIII, having broken from the ism. mental integrity, and thus of personal digni­ Roman Catholic Church in the mid-1500s, Thwarted in close debates and maneuver­ ty. To many of Northern Ireland's more became the first Protestant monarch of Ire­ ings in the British Parliament, the cause of than one million Protestants it is also a land, and an officially ordered settlement of Irish home rule and thus of nationalism simple story, one of centuries of fighting off Irish land by English and Scots began. grew more powerful. That nurtured growth the threat of domination and religious and How many Americans today sing songs or of militant separatist and unionist organiza­ economic subjugation-and to many minds recite poetry-or maim and kill their neigh­ tions, with unionist support concentrated in massacre-by a Catholic majority. bors-with passion whose roots are deeper the Protestant parts of the nine counties of The life of every Irish man, woman and than 400 years? Tonight and every night in the province of Ulster, where Protestants child, south and north, Catholic and Protes­ Northern Ireland, soaring lyrics and inhu­ felt increasingly threatened by the prospect tant, is woven into the seamless tapestry of man savagery will celebrate both sides of of expropriation of property and power, or violence and fear, of heroism and meanness, the events of the late 1500s and the 1600s. even massacre, should Catholics capture of rebellion and frustration which is Ire­ Immigration of Scots and English to Ire­ control: Huge unofficial armies grew both land's history. All hope for an enduring end land, predating all but the very earliest Eu­ Catholic and Protestant. to those agonies lies in conquering that ropean settlements in America, continued The British government, distracted by Tyrant History, for peace and prosperity under Elizabeth I, through successive upris­ World War I, muddled along. On Easter can be nourished only in conciliation of the ings and revolts. In the early 1600s, King Monday, 1916, a rebellion began in Dublin, past. with declaration of an Irish Republic. In James I increased the flow of settlers with what today is recognized as gross and brutal the "plantation" of substantial numbers of stupidity, British forces martyred the prin­ THE AGONIES OF IRELAND: THE REALITY OF Scots in the northern province of Ulster. cipal leaders of that rebellion before firing DIFFERENCES They had been preceded, in small numbers, squads-after they had surrendered. For the woes of Ireland today, there is for centuries; Scotland is a mere 21 miles, After the end of World War I, a provision­ blame enough to go around. Those agonies and visible, from Ireland. al Irish government began to take hold, are not going to be laid to rest by any It was those Ulster "Scotch Irish" who amid a bloody guerrilla war. The War of In­ sudden act of political or economic magic. were the chief target of attack in the Catho­ dependence, or Anglo-Irish War, caused Then what can bring relief of the drain of lic "Great Rebellion" of 1641, which precipi­ about 2,000 deaths, brutalized tens of thou­ tated the English Civil War. That was final­ human energy and material resources, the sands, but led to a treaty in 1921 by whi~h ly put dowii by Oliver Cromwell, who as­ violent attrition of body and spirit? the British government conceded virtually There are as many answers as there are sumed control of the English government. independent dominion status to 26 of the 32 Cromwell then ravaged Irish Catholics' vantage points in Ireland and beyond its counties. shores: dozens. All prescriptions with the properties and churches with a Puritan During those events, the British govern­ army flaming with zealotry. slightest hope of fulfillment, however, con­ ment was faced with the onset of World tain one common premise: Any progress Protestants took control of most of the War I and the concurrent threat of a mas­ land. After restoration of the English mon" must begin with a broadly shared, dispas­ sive civil war by a Protestant Ulster Volun­ sionate acceptance of the nature of the con­ archy, James II, a Catholic, sought briefly teer Force of nearly 100,000 men, armed to redress the Cromwellian deprediations. flicts, real and mythic. with 40,000 military rifles, vast ammunition The reality is that there are two political James was driven from England amid a and an incalculable armory of other weap­ power struggle with complex religious over­ entities on the island of Ireland. One is the ons. London backed off its resolve to leave Irish Republic, with 26 counties, an inde­ tones. In 1690, James was pursued to Ire­ the entire island politically intact in its new land by William of Orange, a Protestant status and excluded six counties in Ulster pendent, democratic state. The other is the ·who-confusingly today-had the support of which had a geographically unevenly dis­ Province of Northern Ireland, comprising the pope. James's Catholic forces were de­ tributed two-thirds Protestant majority. six of the nine counties of the ancient Irish feated at the Battle of the Boyne. The 26 counties, called the Irish Free province of Ulster, occupying the northeast The early 1700s were deceptively peaceful State, struggled through hideously bloody comer of the island. It is constitutionally a under Protestant dominance. In the third internal dispute over the treaty and its ex­ part of the United Kingdom of Great Brit­ quarter of that century, however, conflict clusion of the north, but the 26 counties ain and Northern Ireland. Its voters are rep­ began to grow again, encouraged by the became increasingly stable and, in 1949, the resented in the Parliament in London, the American and French revolutions. So did Irish parliament declared an independent oldest democratic body on earth, precisely the seeds of modern Irish republicanism, republic. as are the voters of I .iverpool or Edinburgh. the national independence movement­ Northern Ireland remained a province of Its laws and taxes and the levels and poli­ dramatized by establishment in Belfast in the United Kingdom, largely governed by its cies of government service are set by the 1791 of the Society of United Irishmen by own parliament in Belfast. The yearning for British Parliament. Theobold Wolfe Tone and others who were a united Ireland remained powerful in the To American eyes, or pocket calculators or predominantly Protestants. Wolfe Tone's republic and-among Catholics-in North­ geography lessons, the numbers are tiny: aspiration: "To unite the whole people of em Ireland. Nearly all the one million The island is 32,595 square miles of land, Ireland ... to substitute the common name Protestants of the north continued to be im­ almost exactly the size of Maine (33,215 of Irishman in place of the denominations placably devoted to maintaining union square miles), 70 percent that of Pennsylva­ of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter." Dis­ with-and protection by-Britain. nia <45,333), ·less than one-eight the area of unity made that hope illusory. The "United Those Protestants remained insensitive to California <158,693). It is 302 miles from its Irish" rebellion was crushed by English and the basic rights of the almost half-million northmost point to its southern reach, 171 loyalist Irish forces in 1798, but only after Catholics in the six counties. Nationalist ex­ miles from east to west. The population is the loss of 30,000 lives. tremists, designated the Irish Republican 4.7 million, exactly that of the Philadelphia The first half of the 19th century was Army, waged a series of terrorist campaigns metropolitan area, less than half that of dominated by struggles between the concept against the government. In the late 1960s, a Pennsylvania <11.8 million). of Ireland as an integral part of the United strong Catholic civil rights movement devel­ Those numbers are astonishingly small. Kingdom and that of Ireland as an unruly oped, a resounding echo of the worldwide Yet the numbers underlying the misery colony. The potato famine of 1845-50 drove civil rights tide and student unrest and pro­ that plagues the island are even smaller. more than one million of Ireland's eight test. The Irish Republic occupies 27,136 square million inhabitants to emigrate, the largest Paramilitary terrorism re-emerged from miles, and Northern Ireland 5,459-a mere number to America, leaving 800,000 dead both extremes and led, in 1972, to British 16% percent of the total, and roughly the behind them. The northeast part of the suspension of the repressively Protestant­ size of the state of Connecticut <5,009 island, with a grain-based food economy and dominated Northern Ireland parliament and square miles), little more than half the size predominantly Protestant-more Scots­ reimposition of direct rule from London, ini­ of New Jersey <7.836 square miles). The pop­ Presbyterian than Anglican-suffered far tially at least to protect the rights of belea­ ulation is divided: Less than two thirds, less misery than the potato-dependent, guered Catholics. about 3.1 million, live in the Irish Repub­ mainly Catholic areas of the island. There Ireland stands today. Every phrase lic-roughly 100,000 of them Protestant. A Irish nationalism, increasingly a Catholic of that tiny diagram of its history oversim­ bit more than 1.6 million people, almost as cause, grew in popular strength outside plifies events which themselves alone fill many as live in the City of Philadelphia Ulster, amid bitter struggle. Home rule for volumes of history. The perspective of every headed by the United States and the rest of legal analysis of such dubious scholarship. meeting in Bogota, Colombia, on November the capitalist countries of Europe and of the February 8, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1147 world, and on the other side the socialist sponding to criticism by the Council for nobody, and said, 'We are Marxist,' we prob­ camp, composed of distinct countries of Inter-American Security's Colonel Sam ably could not have come down from the Europe, Asia, and Latin America, with the Dickens, Commander of the Revolution Luis mountains. So we called ourselves by other Soviet Union as their vanguard." Ortega left Carrion Cruz said on October 8 over Radio names. We simply did not talk about it." no doubt that Nicaragua is now in what he Sandino that "we are Sandinistas. However, Like Fidel, the Sandinistas held out for called the "socialist" camp. if we are communists, so what?" over two years, posing as revolutionaries but The speech created a furor in Nicaragua. U.S. TO BLAME? not communists. This tack allowed them to Later Ortega called upon Sandinista militia Most apologists for the Sandinistas now collect millions of dollars in foreign aid members to draw up lists of government en­ concede that the regime has become repres­ from Western countries. emies and said that anyone supporting "the sive and anti-American. Their new line is Now it is impossible to continue the cha­ plans of North American imperialism" that the U.S. is to blame for pushing the rade. The lead editorial in the October 19 would "be the first to appear hanging along Sandinistas into the arms of Castro. For ex­ Wall Street Journal asked: "Can anyone the roads and highways of the country," ac­ ample, Christopher Dickey wrote in a front­ still doubt that Nicaragua has been a victim cording to the October 13 Miami Herald. page article in the November 22 Washington of a Communist takeover? The Cuban-style Ortega also made it clear that the Sandi­ Post: "Although the Sandinista revolution­ 'neighborhood committees' are in place, the nistas intend to stay in power, no matter ary government here is avowedly Marxist secret police are being trained, La Prensa what. "We have not promised the elections oriented and describes itself as 'internation­ has been told it will be closed if it continues that they

89-059 0 -85-73 (Pt. 1) 1152 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1982 "major political factions" included in mas vacation" less than a month after MEETINGS SCHEDULED the fourth condition. An even more the killings occurred. The extraordi­ explicit declaration, tailored with pre­ narily slow pace, and incomplete FEBRUARY 10 cision to the language contained in the nature of ballistics, fingerprinting, and 9:00a.m. law, would be helpful if the FDR­ polygraph tests cannot be excused. • Appropriations FMLN were truly desirous of eliminat­ The sum total of activity in the 14 BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ ing doubts on this score. A meaningful tee months since the murders could have To hold hearings on proposed supple­ test of the sincerity of such a state­ been achieved, if good-faith were truly mental appropriations for fiscal year ment, and of the other statements evident and El Salvador and FBI re­ 1982 for construction grants of the En­ concerning negotiations which have sources fully utilized, in a matter of vironmental Protection Agency. been issued by the FDR-FMLN might weeks. Instead, the case had been al­ 1224 Dirksen Building then be possible, but only if the Gov­ lowed to drag on and on, the investiga­ 9:30a.m. ernment of El Salvador agrees, as it tion periodically pronounced dead by Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ought in order to remain legally eligi­ those responsible for carrying it for­ Securities Subcommittee ble for U.S. military aid, to do its own ward, and then revived in response to To continue hearings on S. 1720, author­ part toward finding a political solution new bursts of interest on the part of izing bank holding companies to estab­ to the violence. lish securities affiliates which could Condition 5: The Government of El people in the United States. The latest underwrite municipal revenue bonds Salvador must have made good faith activity, generously publicized by the and operate, advise, and sell shares in efforts both to investigate the murders State Department in recent weeks, mutual funds. of six U.S. citizens in El Salvador in seems to be occurring in direct re­ 5302 Dirksen Building December 1980 and January 1981 and sponse to the understanding that a Judiciary G!ertification of good-faith efforts To resume hearings on S. 995, providing to bring to justice those responsible for contribution of damages in anti­ for those murders. · would be required. If the requirements trust price-fixing suits. According to President Reagan, the of law do indeed push the investiga­ 2228 Dirksen Building Government of El Salvador has put tion forward, this will be all to the Rules and Administration sufficient energy into these investiga­ good. But, Congress will need to utilize To continue hearings on committee res­ tions to satisfy him that "good faith" a more reasonable definition of "good­ olutions requesting funds for operat­ efforts have been made. Others, how­ faith" than the President if there is to ing expenses for 1982. ever, are not so easily satisfied. be any real meaning in this condition 301 Russell Building Mr. William P. Ford, brother of one of the law. 10:00 a.m. of four churchwomen slain in El Sal­ Congress must also renew its efforts Armed Services vador on December 2, 1980, wrote a to obtain detailed information con­ To hold hearings on proposed legislation letter to President Reagan on January authorizing funds for fiscal year 1983 25, 1982, in which he states: cerning the investigations in order to for the Department of Defense, focus­ make a truly firm judgment about the To date, the families have not seen any ing on Army programs. evidence of a good faith effort by El Salva­ extent to which El Salvador had dem­ 212 Russell Building dor to investigate the murders and bring to onstrated "good-faith." • Energy and Natural Resources justice those responsible. Every indication To hold hearings to review those items seen by the families points to a cover-up by SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS in the President's budget for fiscal the Salvadoran government. At a minimum, year 1983 which fall within its legisla­ basic decency suggests that the State De­ Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, tive jurisdiction and consider recom­ partment tell the families about any agreed to by the Senate on February mendations which it will make there­ progress before releasing statements to the 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a on to the Budget Committee, focusing press. I ask you not to certify to the Con­ system for a computerized schedule of on the Department of Agriculture and gress that progress has been made into the all meetings and hearings of Senate the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation. investigation, until the State Department 3110 Dirksen Building tells the families and the American people committees, subcommittees, joint com­ just what progress has been made. mittees, and committees of conference. Environment and Public Works Mr. Speaker, making a firm judg­ This title requires all such committees Water Resources Subcommittee ment with respect to this condition of to notify the Office of the Senate To hold hearings to evaluate the water­ Daily Digest-designated by the Rules way user charge study, authorized by the law will not be easy for Congress section 205 of the Inland Waterways due to the unwillingness of the admin­ Committee-of the time, place, and Revenue Act of 1978 . Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Finance 4232 Dirksen Building cation Subcommittee 2:00p.m. International Trade Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on S. 1511, clarifying Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the the determination of the definition of Federal Mediation and Conciliation a country under the General Agree­ cation Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Service, National Labor Relations ment on Tariffs and Trade, and to Board, National Mediation Board, review the effectiveness of section 301 timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, OSHA Review Commission, and the of the Trade Act of 1974 in enforcing Mine Safety and Health Review Com­ the trade agreement rights of the National Commission on Libraries and mission. Information Science, President's Com­ United States and responding to for­ 1114 Dirksen Building eign practices that are inconsistent mission on Ethical Problems in Medi­ with trade agreement provisions or cine, and the Student Financial Aid Environment and Public Works burden or restrict U.S. Commerce. Commission. To hold hearings to review those items 2221 Dirksen Building 1114 Dirksen Building in the President's budget for fiscal year 1983 which fall within its legisla­ Judiciary Budget Constitution Subcommittee Committee's Task Force on Federal tive jurisdiction and consider recom­ To resume hearings on S. 53, S. 1761, S. Credit, to continue hearings to exam­ mendations which it will make there­ 1975, and S. 1992, bills extending the ine economic and budgetary effects of on to the Budget Committee, receiving effects of certain provisions of the Federal credit activities. testimony from officials of the Nucle­ Voting Rights Act of 1965. 6202 Dirksen Building ar Regulatory Commission. 2228 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation 4200 Dirksen Building Science, Technology, and Space Subcom­ 2:00p.m. Rules and Administration Judiciary To continue hearings on committee res­ mittee olutions requesting funds for operat­ To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ To hold hearings on pending nomina­ ing expenses for 1982. tions for fiscal years 1983 and 1984 for tions. 301 Russell Building the National Bureau of Standards, De­ 2228 Dirksen Building partment of Commerce. FEBRUARY 22 10:00 a.m. 235 Russell Building Appropriations Judiciary 9:00a.m. Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Security and Terrorism Subcommittee Commerce, Science, and Transportation cation Subcommittee To resume oversight hearings in closed To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ session, on activities of the Federal tions for the National Telecommunica­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Bureau of Investigation. tions and Information Administration, Railroad Retirement Board, domestic 357 Russell Building Department of Commerce. programs of the ACTION Agency, and Veterans' Affairs 235 Russell Building the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. To hold hearings to review those items 9:30a.m. 1114 Dirksen Building in the President's budget for fiscal Labor and Human Resources Armed Services year 1983 which fall within its legisla­ Employment and Productivity Subcom­ To continue hearings on proposed legis­ tive jurisdiction and consider recom­ mittee lation authorizing funds for fiscal year mendations which it will make there­ To hold joint hearings with House Sub­ 1983 for the Department of Defense, on to the Budget Committee, receiving committee on Employment Opportuni­ focusing on Air Force programs. testimony from officials of the Veter­ ties of the Committee on Education 212 Russell Building ans' Administration. and Labor on proposed legislation es­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 412 Russell Building tablishing employment training poli­ To hold hearings on the conduct of cies. monetary policy. FEBRUARY 12 2175 Rayburn Building 5302 Dirksen Building 9:00a.m. 10:00 a.m. Energy and Natural Resources Energy and Natural Resources Appropriations Public Lands and Reserved Water Sub­ Water and Power Subcommittee Interior Subcommittee committee To hold hearings on S. 698, assisting the To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed legislation Yuma County Water Users' Associa­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the relating to land conveyances, ex­ tion, Arizona, to relocate the head­ Office of Water Research and Tech­ changes and private relief . Interior Subcommittee 235 Russell Building 4232 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 10:30 a.m. timates for fiscal year 1983 for the MARCH9 Environment and Public Works Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department 9:00a.m. Business meeting, to consider pending of the Interior. Appropriations calendar business. 1224 Dirksen Building Interior Subcommittee 4200 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 9:30a.m. Labor and Human Resources timates for fiscal year 1983 for the MARCH 12 Economic Regulatory Administration Labor Subcommittee and the Energy Information Adminis­ 9:30a.m. To resume hearings on S. 1748, exempt­ tration, Department of Energy. Labor and Human Resources ing certain employers from withdrawal 1114 Dirksen Building Aging, Family and Human Services Sub­ and plan termination insurance provi­ 10:00 a.m. committee sions of title IV of the Employee Re­ Environment and Public Works To hold hearings on expanding employ­ tirement Income Security Act Business meeting, to consider those mat­ ment opportunities for older workers. . ters and programs in the President's 4232 Dirksen Building 4232 Dirksen Building February 8, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1157 10:00 a.m. MARCH 25 APRIL 14 Appropriations 9:00a.m. 10:00 a.m. Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Appropriations Appropriations cation Subcommittee Interior Subcommittee Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ cation Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1983 for student timates for fiscal year 1983 for the financial assistance, student loan in­ Office of Indian Education, Navajo To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ surance, higher and continuing educa­ and Hopi Indian· Relocation Commis­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for activi­ tion, higher education facilities loan sion, and the Pennsylvania Avenue De­ ties of the Secretary of Health and and insurance, college housing loans, velopment Corporation. Human Services. educational research and training ac­ 1114 Dirksen Building 1114 Dirksen Building tivities overseas, Department of Edu­ 2:00p.m. cation. MARCH 26 Appropriations 1114 Dirksen Building 9:00a.m. Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ 1:30 p.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation cation Subcommittee Appropriations Surface Transportation Subcommittee To continue hearings on proposed Interior Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 To continue hearings on proposed tions for the railroad safety program, for activities of the Secretary of budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 Department of Transportation. Health and Human Services. for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, De­ 235 Russell Building 1114 Dirksen Building partment of the Interior. 1224 Dirksen Building 9:30a.m. Labor and Human Resources APRIL 15 2:00p.m. Employment and Productivity Subcom­ 9:00a.m. Appropriations mittee Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ To resume hearings on productivity in Appropriations cation Subcommittee the American economy. Interior Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 4232 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Na­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the tional Institute of Education, Fund for MARCH30 Land and Water Conservation Fund, the Improvement of Post-secondary 9:30a.m. and to receive testimony from congres­ Education . and education sta­ sional witnesses. tistics, Department of Education. Labor and Human Resources 1114 Dirksen Building Aging, Family and Human Services Sub­ 1318 Dirksen Building committee 10:00 a.m. MARCH 18 To hold oversight hearings on the imple­ Appropriations mentation of sex education programs. 9:00a.m. BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Appropriations 4232 Dirksen Building tee Interior Subcommittee 10:30 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Veterans' Affairs timates for fiscal year 1983 for the timates for fiscal year 1983 for conser­ To hold hearings to receive Veterans of Office of Science and Technology vation programs of the Department of Foreign Wars legislative recommenda­ Policy and the Council on Environ­ Energy . . tions for fiscal year 1983. mental Quality. 1224 Dirksen Building 318 Russell Building 1224 Dirksen Building Appropriations 10:00 a.m. MARCH31 Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ 9:00a.m. cation Subcommittee cation Subcommittee Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Interior Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1983 for activi­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for special To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ ties of the Secretary of Education. institutions, Howard University, de­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for strate­ partmental management . and the Office for Civil leum reserves of the Department of 2:00p.m. Rights, Department of Education. Energy. Appropriations 1114 Dirksen Building 1114 Dirksen Building Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ cation Subcommittee MARCH 19 APRIL 1 To continue hearings on proposed 9:30a.m. 9:30a.m. budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 Labor and Human Resources Labor and Human Resources for activities of the Secretary of Edu­ Employment and Productivity Subcom­ Aging, Family and Human Services Sub­ cation. mittee committee 1114 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on productivity in the To hold hearings on promoting volun­ American economy. teerism in America. APRIL 16 4232 Dirksen Building 4232 Dirksen Building 9:30a.m. 10:00 a.m. Labor and Human Resources MARCH23 Appropriations BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Employment and Productivity Subcom­ 9:00a.m. mittee Appropriations tee Interior Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To resume hearings on productivity in To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the the American economy. timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Federal Emergency Management 4232 Dirksen Building Holocaust Memorial Council, and the Agency and the Selective Service APRIL 20 Bureau of Land Management of the System. Department of the Interior. 1224 Dirksen Building 9:00a.m. 1114 Dirksen Building Appropriations 10:00 a.m. APRIL 2 Interior Subcommittee Appropriations 9:30a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Labor and Human Resources timates for fiscal year 1983 for certain tee Employment and Productivity Subcom­ functions of the Indian Health Serv­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ mittee ice, Department of Health and Human timates for fiscal year 1983 for the To resume hearings on productivity in Services, and the Geological Survey, Veterans' Administration. the American economy. Department of the Interior. 1224 Dirksen Building 4232 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building 1158 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1982 10:00 a.m. APRIL 27 10:30 a.m. Appropriations 9:00a.m. Veterans' Affairs MUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Appropriations To hold hearings to receive AMVETS tee Interior Subcommittee legislative recommendations for fiscal To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ year 1983. timates for fiscal year 1983 for the En­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Room to be announced vironmental Protection Agency. Office of the Federal Inspector, 2:00p.m. 1224 Dirksen Building Alaska Natural Gas Transportation 2:00p.m. System, Bureau of Mines of the De­ Appropriations Appropriations partment of the Interior, and the Na­ Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ tional Endowment for the Arts. cation Subcommittee cation Subcommittee 1318 Dirksen Building To continue oversight hearings on pro­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 10:00 a.m. grams of the Departments of Labor, timates for fiscal year 1983 for activi­ Appropriations Health and Human Services, Educa­ ties of the Secretary of Labor. MUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ tion, and related agencies. 1114 Dirksen Building tee 1114 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ APRIL 21 timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Na­ MAY3 10:00 a.m. tional Science Foundation. 2:00p.m. 1224 Dirksen Building Appropriations Appropriations Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ cation Subcommittee cation Subcommittee cation Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold oversight hearings on programs To hold hearings to receive testimony timates for fiscal year 1983 for the of the Departments of Labor, Health from public witnesses on proposed Employment and Training Adminis­ and Human Services, Education, and budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 tration, Department of Labor. related agencies. for certain programs under the sub­ 1114 Dirksen Building 1114 Dirksen Building committee's jurisdiction. 2:00p.m. 1114 Dirksen Building APRIL 22 Appropriations 9:00a.m. Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ MAY4 Appropriations cation Subcommittee 9:00a.m. Intel"ior Subcommittee To continue oversight hearings on pro­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ grams of the Departments of Labor, Appropriations t '.mates for fiscal year 1983 for certain Health and Human Services, Educa­ Interior Subcommittee functions of the Forest Service, De­ tion, and related agencies. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ partment of Agriculture. 1114 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1983 for the 1318 Dirksen Building Smithsonian Institution, Woodrow 9:30a.m. APRIL 28 Wilson International Center for Schol­ Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.m. ars, and the Advisory Council on His­ Aging, Family and Human Services Sub­ Appropriations toric Preservation. committee Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ 1318 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearings on the im­ cation Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. plementation of title X of the Public To continue oversight hearings on pro­ Appropriations Health Service Act relating to the grams of the Departments of Labor, MUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ health aspects of teenage sexual activ­ Health and Human Services, Educa­ tee ity. tion, and related agencies. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 4232 Dirksen Building 1114 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Na­ 10:00 a.m. 2:00p.m. tional Aeronautics and Space Adminis­ Appropriations Appropriations tration. Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ cation Subcommittee 1224 Dirksen Building cation Subcommittee Appropriations To hold heariri.gs on proposed budget es­ To continue oversight hearings on pro­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the grams of the Departments of Labor, Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Labor-Management Services Adminis­ Health and Human Services, Educa­ cation Subcommittee tration, Pension Benefit Guaranty tion, and related agencies. To hold hearings to receive testimony Corporation, and the Employment 1114 Dirksen Building from public witnesses on proposed Standards Administration, Depart­ budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 ment of Labor. APRIL 29 for certain programs under the sub­ committee's jurisdiction. 1114 Dirksen Building 9:00a.m. 2:00p.m. Appropriations 1114 Dirksen Building Appropriations· Interior Subcommittee 2:00p.m. Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations cation Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1983 for fossil Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ research and development and fossil cation Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Oc­ construction programs of the Depart­ To hold hearings to receive testimony cupational Safety and Health Admin­ ment of Energy. from public witnesses on proposed istration