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DENTAL CORPS McGuire, Michael D ., xxx-xx-xxxx . MEDICAL CORPS xxx-xx-xxxx To be lieutenant colonel Nitzberg, Benjamin W., . Bobbitt, Roy L ., xxx-xx-xxxx . Olesijuk, Andrew, xxx-xx-xxxx . xxx-xx-xxxx Fisher, Howard E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Gilman, Robert T., . Oliveros, Rene A., xxx-xx-xxxx . Jones, Al E., xxx-xx-xxxx . The following persons for appointment as P endell, P aul W., xxx-xx-xxxx . Koop, L amonte P ., xxx-xx-xxxx . temporary officers in the U.S. Air Force, in P ratofiorito, Frank N., xxx-xx-xxxx . P ritchett, P aul E., xxx-xx-xxxx . the grade indicated, under the provisions of P rue, Edmund B., xxx-xx-xxxx . Roldan, Erlinda C ., xxx-xx-xxxx . sections 8444 and 8447, title 10, United States Rainess, Alan E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Wise, Jack L ., xxx-xx-xxxx . C ode, with a view to designation under the Rodriguez, Teodorico C ., xxx-xx-xxxx . NURSE CORPS provisions of section 8067, title 10, United Rosero, Marciano A., xxx-xx-xxxx . States C ode, to perform the duties indicated : Rubinstein, Norman E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Kuehnast, Elizabeth L ., xxx-xx-xxxx . MEDICAL CORPS Suter, D arvin K., xxx-xx-xxxx . Montanaro, Frank L ., xxx-xx-xxxx . Scoggins, Joan I., xxx-xx-xxxx . To be lieutenant colonel Task, Steven A., xxx-xx-xxxx . Verde, Horatio V., xxx-xx-xxxx . Williams, D orothy S., xxx-xx-xxxx . Astorga, Alex M., xxx-xx-xxxx . Wagner, Vernon P ., xxx-xx-xxxx . Benedict, Roland D ., xxx-xx-xxxx . Wakefield, C harles T., xxx-xx-xxxx . Buxton, Richard D ., xxx-xx-xxxx . Winer, Bernard A., xxx-xx-xxxx . C abebe, Fernando S., xxx-xx-xxxx . Wolborsky, Martin, xxx-xx-xxxx . C ONFIRMATIONS C apistrano, C ecil L ., xxx-xx-xxxx . Zeller, Robert W., xxx-xx-xxxx . C hobot, Edwin F., Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx . Executive nominations confirmed by The following officer for promotion in the C hua, Ernesto L ., xxx-xx-xxxx . the Senate July 29, 1976: A ir Force Reserve, under the provisions of C lemmons, Roy S., xxx-xx-xxxx . sections 8376 and 593, title 10, United States EXP ORT-IMP ORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES C oolbaugh, C arl C ., xxx-xx-xxxx . C ode : D elio E. Gianturco, of Virginia, to be First C ooley, D aniel J., xxx-xx-xxxx . MEDICAL CORPS Vice P resident of the Export-Import Bank of C rane, Roger H., xxx-xx-xxxx . the United States. C rawford, Elwyn D ., xxx-xx-xxxx . Lieutenant colonel to colonel Erd, Quentin L ., xxx-xx-xxxx . Thomas, Elias A., Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx . FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Farson, C lyde L ., xxx-xx-xxxx . The following officers for promotion in the D avid A. C lanton, of Virginia, to be a Fed- Frias, C arlos A., xxx-xx-xxxx . A ir Force Reserve, under the provisions of eral Trade C ommissioner for the unexpired Froilan, Jorge T., xxx-xx-xxxx . sections 8376 and 593, title 10, United States term of 7 years from September 26,1969. Gans, Robert H., xxx-xx-xxxx . C ode: D avid A. C lanton, of Virginia, to be a Fed- Greer, Robert C ., xxx-xx-xxxx . LINE OF THE AIR FORCE eral T rade C ommissioner for the term of 7 Hess, George W., Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx . Major to lieutenant colonel years from September 26,1976. Holbrook, James M., xxx-xx-xxxx . The above nominations were approved sub- Kaufmann, Robert J., xxx-xx-xxxx . Bergeman, L eroy E., xxx-xx-xxxx . ject to the nominees' commitment to respond Kramer, Roy K., xxx-xx-xxxx . C oady, Thomas J., xxx-xx-xxxx . to requests to appear and testify before any L ehman, Edward D ., xxx-xx-xxxx . Gathman, Terry R., xxx-xx-xxxx . L ongmire, L emuel T., xxx-xx-xxxx . Workman, Frederick C ., xxx-xx-xxxx . duly constituted committee of the Senate.

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MEETING THE C RISIS OF INTER- Mr. Speaker, yesterday I spoke of the is urged to review such designation for purposes of possible termination of such desig- NATIONAL TERRORISM need to stem the tide of international nation. terrorism by invoking the necessary sanctions against nations willing to aid HON. H. JOHN HEINZ III or abet terrorists. THE 1976 L EGISL ATIVE QUESTION- OF PENNSYLVANIA W e now have a law on the books- NAIRE RESUL TS IN THE HOUSE OF REP RESENTATIVES section 602A of the amended Foreign As- sistance Act-that cuts off American as- Thursday, July 29, 1976 sistance to nations that aid terrorists. HON. BILL ARCHER My resolution would make it clear that Mr. HEINZ. Mr. Speaker, today I am OF TEXAS introducing a resolution urging the P resi- C ongress intends sanctions against those dent to deny or revoke the general sys- countries that may not directly receive IN THE HOUSE OF REP RESENTATIVES tem of preferences-GSP -to any coun- U.S. aid but that enjoy the advantages Thursday, July 29, 1976 of such special benefits as GSP . try w hich aids or abets any group or Mr. ARC HER. Mr. Speaker, this year, individual committing an act of interna- This action would clearly demonstrate to countries like Uganda that w e are as has been my custom every year that tional terrorism. I have served in C ongress, I sent out a For those not familiar with GSP , it was seriously concerned over nations which, through their collusion w ith interna- questionnaire to all of the homes in the established to give developing nations an Seventh C ongressional D istrict of Texas advantage over industrialized countries tional terrorists, encourage these acts, endanger innocent lives and prevent in order to obtain my constituents' opin- in competing for the U.S . market by ions on important national issues. eliminating duties on certain products. criminals from being brought to justice. The text of the resolution follows: The questions themselves were selected The rationale behind this preferential from those most frequently mentioned treatment w as that if countries could RESOLUTION in other correspondence I had received build up their own economies through Urging the P residing to deny to any coun- from the district prior to the time the trade they would require less foreign aid try granting sanctuary to international questionnaire was published. from the United States. terrorists the benefits of designation as a Under the T rade A ct of 1 9 74 , the beneficiary developing country under the Since I know my colleagues in the P resident w as given the authority to G eneral S ystem o f P references o f th e House will be interested in seeing the Trade Act of 1974 grant G SP to any developing country results, I am requesting that the follow- Resolved, T hat the P resident is urged to ing article on the questionnaire from which was not C ommunist, a member of deny designation as a beneficiary developing O P EC , or which had not nationalized my most recent newsletter be reprinted country for purposes of title V of the Trade at this point in the RECORD. American businesses without adequate Act of 1974 (relating to the Generalized Sys- The results compensation. Additionally, American tem of P references and providing duty-free are also being sent to P resident Ford businesses and jobs were protected by not treatment for eligible articles) (1 9 U.S .C . so he may have the benefit of my con- extending G S P to "import sensitive" 2461-2465) to any country which the P resi- stituents' opinions as well: items where domestic industry was al- d ent find s aid s o r ab ets, o r h as aid ed o r 1976 L EGISL ATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE RESUL TS ready competitive and where preferential abetted, by granting sanctuary from prose- N early 35,000 people responded to this cution, any individual or group which has year's L egislative Questionnaire, an indica- treatment would hurt our industries. committed an act of international terrorism, C urrently, about 90 nations and 2,700 tion to me that the stories of apathy among and in the case of any such country which the A merican people certainly don't fit the products have been granted GSP . has already been so designated, the P resident 7th C ongressional D istrict of Texas. C X X II-1 5 5 1 -P art 1 9 24592 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1976 While this is a very useful method of ob account of his experience--typical of many district recently celebrated the installa taining the opinions of a large number of others-was published in this magazine in tion of the Most Reverend John Ray the District's residents on a variety of broad May, 1973, and attracted nationwide atten issues, the annual survey is by no means tion. mond McGann as second bishop of the designed to take the place of other forms of But there is more to the story than his Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y. Bishop communication that are open throughout release, recovery and the return to active McGann succeeds the Most Reverend the year. Many thanks to those who took the duty that has now put him in command of Walter P. Kellenberg, who served the time to respond (and went to the 13¢ expense one of the Navy's crack flying outfits. diocese for 19 years and has recently that the Postal service required) and help John is the third generation in a family retired. me better assess the views of the 7th District. dedicated to what is known in the military as During his many years of service in Here are the results of the survey: "career Navy." the Diocese of Rockville Centre, Bishop 1. Should the United States continue its His grandfather, the first John S. McCain, membership in the United Nations? 64 per was on combat duty in two World Wars. In McGann has held posts too numerous to cent yes, 36 percent no. World War II, he was an admiral in the Pa mention. The parishioners of the diocese 2. Do you favor the policy of detente that ciflc. He was on the deck of the battleship are most fortunate to have a man so the U.S. has been pursuing with the Soviet Missouri in 1945 when Gen. Douglas A. Mac familiar with their needs and their Union? 35 percent yes, 65 percent no. Arthur accepted the formal Japanese sur beliefs to lead them as bishop. 3. Should private organizations be per render. Bishop McGann was ordained to the mitted to compete with the Postal Service in Commander McCain's father, the second priesthood in 1950, after studying at the the delivery of all mail? 80 percent yes, 20 · John S. McCain, was a submarine commander Immaculate Conception Seminary in percent no. in World War II and stood with his father on 4. Do you feel that communism is a threat the Missouri to witness the surrender. Huntington, Long Island. -He served in to the U.S. today? 85 percent yes, 15 percent In the years that followed, John S. Mc St. Anne's Parish, Brentwood, until 1957, no. Cain, II, rose to the rank of four-star ad when he was appointed assistant chan 5. Should the U.S. conduct active intel miral. At the time of his retirement in 1972, cellor in the newly formed Diocese of ligence operations in other countries? 91 he was commander in chief of all Paciflc Rockville Centre. In 1959 he became sec percent yes, 9 percent no. forces. He served in that post burdened with retary to the bishop, a position he re 6. Do you approve of the federal govern the knowledge that his own son was a pris tained until his ordination in 1971 as ment's loan guarantees to New York City? oner in the hands of the North Vietnamese. 28 percent yes, 72 percent no. The man who nursed young John M.cCaln auxiliary bishop. 7. Should Members of Congress be per back from the edge of death in Hanoi was In the homily delivered at his instal mitted to reveal classified national security a fellow prisoner, Maj. George E. Day. He, lation mass, Bishop McGann had much information? 7 percent yes, 93 percent no. too, has made it all the way back-promotion to say about the Catholic Church and 8. Do you favor making labor unions sub to colonel and to vice commander of the 33rd about the future of the United States, ject • to anti-trust laws? 92 percent yes, 8 Tactical Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base and I would like to share some of his percent no. in Florida.. words of inspiration with my colleagues 9. Should the federal government deter Still another former prisoner, R. Adm. mine standards of educational quality in James B. Stockdale, is now commander of in the House of Representatives: Houston area public schools? 10 percent yes, the Antisubmarine Warfare Wing of the Pa In this Bicentennial Year, as our Nation 90 percent no. ciflc Fleet. He and Colonel Day received rejoices in its richly blessed heritage, our 10. Do you believe that deficit spending by Medals of Honor at the White House March Ca.thollc bishops have issued a. new call to the federal government is a major cause of 4. Uberty and justice for all. The liberty of lnfiation? 89 percent yes, 11 percent no. Of his experience as a prisoner, Admiral which they speak is the freedom of the Stockdale once said: children of God. It is a highly responsible · "Most men need some kind of personal freedom-a freedom that never shirks the philosophy to endure what the Vietnam grave concern that all men be freed from the POW's endured. For many it is religion; for burdens of poverty, racial discrim1n'81tion, in CHANGE OF COMMAND many it is patriotic cause; for some it is justice and prejudice. This freedom rests simply a question of doing their jobs. . . . In upon the knowledge that all men are the our effort to survive and return with honor, ohildren of the same Heavenly Father and HON. BARRY M. GOLDWATER, JR. we drew on the totality of our Amer1can all are called to love that Father and to love hel"itage." one another as His children. OF CALIFORNIA Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton-now a rear IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, I hope you will join me admiral-put it another way when he and in reflecting upon Bishop McGann's Thursday, July 29, 1976 the other POW's ca.me home from Vietnam at the end of the war. words, and that they will serve to in Mr. GOLDWATER. Mr. Speaker, the To those who welcomed them, he said: spire us in our work. I also hope that editorial in the July 26, 1976, issue of "We are honored to have the opportunity my colleagues will join me in congratu U.S. News & World Report, written by to serve our country under dimcult circum lating Bishop McGann on his appoint Howard Flieger, almost leaps off the page stances. We are profoundly grateful to our ment, and in wishing him every success Commander in Chief and to our nation for in the most demanding job of spiritual in its thoughtfulness and significance. this day. God bless America!" I am pleased to share it with my col Many find it d11Hcu1t to understand those leader of the Diocese of Rockville Center. leagues: who persist in service to their country de CHANGE OF COMMAND spite, in Kipling's words, the taunts of others By" Howard Flieger) "ma.kin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep." Right now, when people's thoughts are THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST CASE on politics, let the record show: But in a signiflcant way the Days, the On July 1, 1976, Cdr. John S. McCain III Stockdales, the Dentons and three genera was ~iven command of Attack Squadron 174, tions of John S. McCains are an important Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla. part of what the Bicentennial year is all HON. BILL FRENZEL Chances are you didn't see it on television about. OF MINNESOTA or in the newspapers. Such changes in mill IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tary command are sinall swatches of the total fabric of current events. Thursday, July 29, 1976 But this one deserves special notice. SECOND BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, the fol The ceremony on the above date marked OP ROCKVILLE CENTRE INSTALLED the fact that young John McCain had made lowing statement would have appeared it all the way back. in the debate on the case of Congressman Nine years ago he lay 111 and neglected in SIKES today had permission been granted a filthy prison cell in North Vietnam-with HON. JOHN W. WYDLER for all Members to insert remarks: two broken arms and a broken leg. A Navy OF NEW YORK. The vote today on this matter of ap filer, he had been shot down by enemy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES proving the ;report of the Committee on rockets and captured by the Communists. Thursday, July 29, 1976 Standards of Ofllcial Conduct may not be The ordeal of imprisonment, brutality and historic, but it is an extremely important abuse lasted nearly six years before he made Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, the precedent. The reP<>rt should be ap it back to the United States. His first-person Roman Catholics of my congressional proved. An amrmative vote will confirm July 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24593 the reprimand contained in the commit committee should give better guidance to will not pose risks of fire or explosion) , en the Members through regulations, opin vironmentally sound (i.e., wm not en tee report. The reprimand is not as danger public health or environmental qual strong as a censure, but today's vote will ions, guidelines and the like. The com ity), and complies with all laws and regu signal a dramatic change in the House's mittee should also be given permanent lations. attitude about the oonduct of its Mem subpena power. The listed means of preparation, i.e., re bers, and about the importance of its But future improvements, however fining, rereflning, reclaiming and reprocess own code of ethics. ·sorely needed, should not obscure the fine ing, have more or less defined vernacular The House will become, as a result, work the committee has done here, nor meanings: a less clubby institution. It will shed some the important precedent it has brought The term "refine or rerefine" means to use us today. refining technology in the treatment of used of its previously total r,eliance on any oil to remove physical and chemical con Representative's individual constituency taminants and enhance used oil quality so to make ethical judgments on that Rep as to produce lubricating oil or other petro resentative. For some Members, those are COMMENTARY ON A MODEL USED leum products that are similar to new oil undesirable changes, but almost all OIL RECYCLING ACT intended for the same purpose. The tech Members will say they are necessary and nology includes, but is not limited to, the use of distillation, chemical treatment, oil unavoidable. additives, hydrogen treating, and various No Member wishes to sit in judgment HON. CHARLES A. VANIK physical treatments. of another, nor to "second-guess" the OF OHIO The term "reclaim" means to use physical votes of another Member's constituency. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES methods, short of those used in rerefining, Many of us today are casting "aye" votes to cleanse used oil for further use !or its with twinges of regret. Thursday, July 29, 1976 original or similar purpose. The methods in Mr. VANIK. Mr. Speaker, recently, I clude settling, heating, dehydration, filtra But, not only do we have a clear con tion and centrifuging and may entail use of stitutional responsibility to make these presented to my colleagues a new initia oil additives. judgments, but we have an absolute ob tive to improve State and local efforts at The term "reprocess" means to use minimal ligation to the people who sent us here recycling waste lubricating oil. The En physical methods to remove water il.D.d sus to make every ~easonable effort to keep vironmental Law Institute has recently pended solids from used. oil in preparation this body free of conflicts. This does not released a Model Used Oil Recycling Act !or its use primarily as a fuel or fuel supple necessarilY conflict with the ultimate re for use on the State and local level. ment. The methods may include settling, sponsibility of the electorate to make Over the years that I have been study chemical pre-treatment, filtration, a.nd de judgments on its Representatives. ing this problem, I have become con hydration. (c) The dlirector of an agency responsible No wit.ch hunting is required of us. vinced that the key to successful waste oil recovery programs lies in local citizen for energy conservation or public health None has been involved here. Our ob could ·also be named.. ligation, which I am confident we a.re action. That is why the ELI's model leg It Section 3. Commentary: As the following going to discharge today, is simply to islation is so important. provides a table shows, in all states the a.mount of in insure that our code of ethics and our framework for State and local govern dustrial and automotive used oils generated rules are upheld. When they are vio ments to organize community oil re exceeded one million gallons in 1971, For lated, reprimand, censure, eXPulsion, or cycling programs. In the interests of local jurisdictions the a.mounts would depend other suitable penalty, should be voted. providing a background to this legisla on population and industrial characteri&tics. tion, I am submitting to the RECORD a Although cllrty a.nd contaminated, used An alleged breach of a code or rule is background .commentary to the legisla oil is composed. mostly of lube oil fractions, often a matter of opinion subject to dif tion. a sma.11 but valuable portion of a barrel of ferent conclusions by different persons. The FEA has not yet endorsed this leg crude on, and has high heating va.lue.1 Used "Confiicts of interest" are even harder to islation. However, oil ca.n be rerefined into lubricating oil 2 or determine precisely. Nowadays conflict after the model bill used as a feedstock in the manufacture o! of interest is an overused buzz-word. has been reviewed, the FEA.hopes to ac other petroleum products. It can be reclaimed tively distribute this legislation to State a.nd used again !or its original plll'pose, can Such allegations have outnumbered the and local governments. A copy of the bill hard evidence presented in their support. be reprocessed to fuel oil and, under con is available by writing Used Oil Re trolled conditions, can be safely burned un Today's note does not mean that cycling Program, Conservation and En treated.a banditry is rampant in the Congress. vironment, Federal Energy Administra The best estimate of the ultimate !ate of It does not mean that any other case tion, Washington, D.C. 20461. the 1.1 billion gallons o! used oil generated pending before the committee, or any The commentary follows: annually in the United. States is: 480 million other allegation, will receive similar gallons (43 percent) used as fuel, treated or treatment. It means only that the House USED OIL RECYCLING ACT untreated; 90 million gallons (8 percent) re intends to police its own rules and Section 1. Commentary: (a) none. reflned to lube oll; 200 million gallons (18 codes. But that is a significant, and Section 2. Commentary: percent) used as road oil or in asphalt; and welcome, departure from our normal (a) "Used oil" is preferable to "waste oil" the fate o! 340 million gallons (31 percent), since it indicates possibllities !or further use including the 30 million gallons of rerefining style. rather than readiness !or disposal. Used on wastes, is unknown. Better estimates of the In other words, the Sikes case sets a includes, but is not limited to, crude oil, ultt.mate fate of used oil are not possible precedent as to the House attitude, but fuel on, lubricating on, hydraulic on, elec because Of the lack of means of accounting otherwise, it is a decision based only on trical oil, refrigeration oil, cutting oil, oil for it a.cross the fragmented collection, re emulsion, kerosene, diesel fuel, and other reftning a.nd disposal systems.' this particular case with its own particu non-chlorinated industrial oil, that are dis lar set of facts. carded as waste or recovered from oil sep Most used olls contain heavy metals and One other important aspect of this arators, oil spills, tank bottoms or other organic compounds which are toxic and, in action today is the new vitality of sources. Used oil does not include an insoluble some inst.ances, carcinogenic, 11 ingested or the Committee on Standards of Oftlcial or partially soluble organic chemical or petro inhaled.11 Disposal on land contributes to leum derivative which requires special han water pollution either directly or by leach Conduct: Other improvements are dling precautions because of toxicity, com ing, an may make the land unproductive and needed, but the committee ought to be position, or flammabllity including but not result in ground water conta.mine.tion.s congratulated for taking that first diffi limited to gasoline, a petroleum solvent, a Incineration or uncontrolled. burning releases cult step. chlorinated solvent or on, ~n aromatic, or metallic oxides, principally lead, to the air; We need a better procedure for initia ganic pesticide, polychlOl'inated biphenyl, the Environmental Prot.ection Agency has tion of committee action. A sworn com and a low-bolling ketone, alcohol or ether. determined. th&t concentrations of certain plaint should not be the only basis. We (b) "Recycle" is now a popularly under airborne meals, including lead, endra.nger stood word for recovery and reuse of re public health,., need to take another look at our code of sources. Recycling of used oil 1s defined as ethics. Either it should be updated, im any preparation !or reuse or use in place of proved, and made more specific, or the new on which is operationally safe (i.e., Footnotes at end of article. 24594 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1976 TABLE 1.-USED OIL GENERATION BY STATE ity of used on to be collected, and, most im of course contra.ct for the provision of the (1971 DATA) portantly, whether a market exists for the facilities. collected oil. (In gallons] Collection facilities should be located as Section 5. Commentary: conveniently as possible for the benefit of The means of disposal named here a.re those who change their own oil. Those who Automotive Industrial those which a.re most clearly wasteful and State (gallons) (gallons) change their own oll will probably neither harmful to the environment. The genera.I travel far not pay anything to deposit their prohibition ls intended to cover other uses' Alabama ______------or means of disposal which endanger public used oil. The Director's rules could require 12, 182, 600 4, 719, 116 that private and public facilities combined ArizonaAlaska ______------_ 1, 395, 900 190, 920 health, such as emissions or residues from 6, 358, 600 1, 279, 087 recycling and depositing used oil in ones' be ma.de a.va.lla.ble on a per ca.pita or per Arkansas ______------______8, 008, 590 3, 085, 107 squa.re mile basis, California ____ ------______72, 034, 320 20, 021, 638 garbage. Applicable environmental and other Colorado ______8, 229, 900 1, 920, 620 laws and regulations are also included. The limitation on gallons deposited at one Connecticut______------6, 743, 700 3, 652, 711 Section 6. Commentary: time is designed to prevent overloading of' Delaware ______435, 653 Florida ______1, 624, 800 Public education ls potentially a. very ef facilities. Those who generate larger a.mounts 14, 445, 900 5, 056, 982 of used oil should create their own storage 14, 495, 200 6, 442, 547 fective component of the Director's used ======1, 857, 600 (1) oil program. fa.clllties and arrange for regular pick-up by ~:o:::r_-Idaho_------3, 435, 200 392, 549 Signs posted where those who change their collectors licensed in accordance with sec Illinois_------37, 263, 000 26, 383, 747 own oil purchase it informing them of the tion 8. 1ndiana ______17, 722, 970 12, 991, 233 Iowa ______------11, 103, 700 2, 400, 122 location of the collection facilities estab Whoever maintains collection fa.c111ties Kansas ______------14, 381, 400 2, 979, 826 lished in accordance with section 7 would should secure them from theft, tampering 14, 075, 600 639, 301 promote both the establishment of the facil or threat of fl.re and should post a sign at 15, 163, 300 12, 070, 643 ities and public knowledge of why and how Maine~;~i~~~~~ ______== == ------======______======__ 3, 3S9, 070 822, 170 ea.ch site stating clearly that they are only Maryland ______------7, 286, 100 3, 102, 488 they should be used. for used oil, not for paints, solvents, gasoline, Massachusetts ______13, 404, 420 6, 129, 556 Public understanding of the law is im pesticides, or other wastes. Michigan ___ ------37, 488, 000 19, 571, 150 portant to the acceptance and success or Section 8. Commentary: Minnesota ___ ------______14, 533, 400 3, 213, 530 the Du·ector's program and should be a pa.rt 9, 185, 500 2, 707, 690 A used oil collector is defined to exclude ~i~~~s~:r_~i======19, 701, 790 4, 283, 712 of his public education efforts. Provisions of those who transport only on their own prop Montana ___ ------____ ------__ 4, 191, 070 503, 289 federal law, such as EPA rules for labels on erty or who transport small a.mounts. Licens Nebraska __ ------__ ------8, 846, 970 1, 633, 035 oil contr..iners concerning proper disposal of Nevada ______------2, 381, 800 257, 644 ing of collectors should limit the number of New Hampshire ______l, 680, 430 257, 769 oil after use (when that requirement or sec unreliable or unscrupulous "gypsy" opera New Jersey ___ ------18, 071, 960 18, 459, 034 tion 383 of the Energy Policy and Conserva tions which flourish when used oil is in de New Mexico ______4, 760, 980 1, 548, 790 r+ew York ______tion Act becomes effective) should also be mand. The 500 ·gallon threshold permits 32, 016, 880 15, 546, 678 explained. North Carolina ______13, 832, 000 4, 585, 158 storage and transport by persons not in busi North Dakota ______4, 046, 000 271, 254 Public information and education func ness to collect used oil. 36, 627, 970 29, 795, 774 tions-such as telling a member of the pub OklahomaOhio ___ ----- ______------Subsections (b), (c) and (d) are designed 12, 295, 400 4, 249, 737 lic or commercial genera.tor where the near to permit control of the flow of used oil into 12, 020, 320 2, 977, 082 est used oil deposit fa.cil1ty is or who the va-nia======35, 728, 740 27, 823, 461 collectors in an area. a.re--could best be co approved uses and to provide information Rhode~~~~~~f Island ______1, 912, 560 770, 858 which will enable monitoring and eventual South Carolina ______6, 432, 670 1, 678, 776 ordinated and performed by a. member of South Dakota ______4, 400, 210 203, 592 the sta.tr responsible for a used oil informa management of those flows. I ennessee _____ ------12, 665, 700 10, 442, 178 tion and education center. Some state agen In many metropolitan a.rea.s collectors pick Texas _____ ------47, 222, 230 32, 778, 546 cies have such personnel; they arc also a.va.il up oll in one jurisdiction and deliver it in Utah_------4, 647, 950 1, 062, 643 1, 330, 400 190, 565 a.ble from extension services. another. In order that receiving states are 10, 839, 430 3, 017, 776 Technical assistance for voluntary recy notified of the a.mount and locations of de 11, 047, 210 2, 845, 560 cling programs would include providing local livery, out-of-state as well a.s intra.state in Washington, D.C ______1, 638, 780 (1) formation should be recorded on the col ~1~!1~~~~~ ~======6, 530, 830 7, 432, 560 groups with materials which contain a. how 17, 262, 010 5, 073, 985 to-do-it ma.nu.al for creating community re lector's annual report and the Director should Wyoming:rss:C~i;~~~~======___ ------__ ------2, 563, 700 470, 723 cycling programs, along with a. suggested send to his counterparts in another state the brochure, poster and bumper i:;ticker and information contained in the reports per taining to that state. 1~Not available. case histories of successful Iocbl. programs, and would stimulate interest and effort Section 9. Commentary: This section au Source: GCA Corporation, "Waste Automotive Lubricating Oil thorizes licensing of those who recycle used Reuse as a Fuel," published report EPA-600/5-74--032, Environ which complement the state or municipal mental Protection Agency, September 197 4. regulatory activities. oil in order to ·provide outlets for the oil In addition, brochures could be provided collected and to control potential adverse Section 4. Commentary: for distribution by all retailers of oil and by environmenta.'l effects of recycling or its by The statement of policy provides a genera.I the department of motor vehicles In con products. In addition, these persons should purpose and constitutional foundation (pro jun'}tion with drivers' licensing or testing be identified in conjunction With section 12 tection of public health and welfare) , two or vehicle registration .. Used on units could dealing With recycled oil products. principal components of that purpose (re be prepared for inclusion in driver or auto The 5,000 gallon threshold could be differ source conservation and environmental pro motive education courses. ent, depending on the desired trade-off be tection), two means for achieving the pur Section 7. Commentary: tween scope of coverage and administrative pose (collection and recycling) and two flex Within the last ten yea.rs, there has been burden. ible concepts for implementing the means for a sign1:f:l.cant upturn in "do-it-yourself" oil Subsections (b) and (c) a.re designed to achieving the purpose (economically feasible changes. This trend ls reflected in the large complement sections 8 ( c) and 11 ( e) . and enviropmentaHy sound'). volume of retail automotive lubricating oil Section 10. Commentary: Subsequent sections of this Act empower sales in mass-market retail stores. It is esti In certain circumstances, for example, the Director, through a system of rules, li mated that retail sales today of lubricating where it would be unreasonably expensive censes, special permits, and prohibitions, to oils at non-service station outlets constitute to bring used oil in for recycling, or where execute this policy. between 40 and 60 percent of all automobile the ca.pa.city for recycling is not a.va.Ua.ble, The implementation of this policy in a lube oil sales, and few provide facilities for other uses or means of disposal may be per particular area will depend on what the en return of used oil. For lack o! an alternative, mitted provided that they a.re environmen vironmental constraints and economic mar 1ndividua.ls who change their oil, in doing tally sound, even though they may involve kets a.re. From the viewpoint of environ so, often discard the used product· where the loss of resource. mental soundness, if air pollution standards they can-in the garbage, down storm sewers, This section provides the Director necessary a.re stringent and hazardous waste disposal and in vacant lots. Such disposal wastes a flexib111ty in implementing the Act's policy, fac1lities for recycling wastes a.re available, valuable resource, and may create a. fl.re haz that ls, in determining economic feasibility more used oil may flow to rere:f:l.ning or re ard or produce water pollution. Many "do and environmental soundness. claiming or both. Conversely, if environmen it-yourselfers" interviewed in a. recent survey Use or disposal of less than 55 gallons a tal standards permit, more used oil may conducted for EPA indicated a. willingness to year does not require a special perm.1 t. Tb.is flow to other uses. return used oil, provided a. convenient mech would exempt several uses of used oil on the Economic feasiblllty is the other key con anism for doing so existed. This section ls fa.rm or in small shops, for example. cept. An activity i~ economically feasible if designed to require the provision of conven Subsections (b) and (c) a.re designed to the revenues from it are at least equal to ient places for the cleposit of small quantities complement sections B(c) and 11 (e). the costs of doing it, including a competi of used oil. Section 11. Commentary: tive return on the investment in the activity. Creation and maintenance of collection (a) Adherence to an administrative proce The a.mount of used oil collected depends faclllties could be the responsiblllty of those dure Act, in addition to ensuring due process, on many factors, including, but not neces who retail oll, or of municipal governments makes administration· of this Act consistent sarily limited to, the concentration of used (e.g., fire stations, sanitary landfl.lls, etc.) or with existing statutes. oil collection sites within an area, the quan of state government, or of a combination of (b) The extent of information required on tities of used oil available, the type and qual- any of these. The responsible persons could an application may vary among states and July 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24595 kinds of activities applied for. The Director's s Id.,p. 33. duce. The Zumwalt ship too would have fea rules could call for name and address; kind 7 Id., pages 66-67. The EPA regulations re tured V /STOL (vertical and short takeoff and capacity of recycling facilities (or loca quiring reduction of lead in gasoline were and landing) planes and helicopters. Kiev tion of site and means of proposed disposal or upheld by the District of Colum·bia Court of does not begin to meet the capabilities en use under special permits); amounts of used Appeals on March 19, 1976 (Ethyl Corp. v. visioned by former. Secretary of Defense oll to be recycled, used or disposed of; kinds EPA, 6 ELR 20267). James Schlesinger for U.S. Navy "midi and amounts of wastes generated and waste carrters." management practices, etc. Kiev and Minsk "a.re not attack carriers," Fees for applications should not be so high John W. Finney wrote in The New York as to discourage entering the business; other Times Magazine in January. " ... Rough nieans of funding this program are available. FEARSOME SOVIET AIRCRAFT CAR ly the size of the World War n Essex car Keeping of records enables monitoring and RIER INVADES THE MEDITER riers, the Soviet ships do not have catapults evaluation of practices and programs designed RANEAN and cannot launch long-range attack planes. to regulate them. Rather, they seem to be primarily defensive (c) Whatever the recycling, use, or disposal ships . ..." authorized, the authorization should require HON. BOB CARR Nevertheless, Kiev's appearance in the compliance with all current laws, regulations ;Mediterranean has created a greater splash and environmental standards. Licenses could OF MICHIGAN than most ships manage. "A curious dichot prescribe a schedule for achieving compliance IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES omy develops whenever the U.S. Navy looks at Soviet carriers," Mr. Finney noted, as if by a facility needing time to do so. Thursday, July 29, 1976 (d) The term of a license or permit could anticipating the occasion. "The Soviet pro be shorter or longer. The relatively short term Mr. CARR. Mr. Speaker, during the gram is cited as evidence that the Rus of a year is suggested as an accommodation past week the press has contained nu sians are trying to catch up with the Unit between the ease of administration of a longer ed States in carrier power, thus providing merous accounts of the entrance of the ever more reason why the Navy should term and the greater flexibility of control of Soviet ship Kiev into the Mediterranean a shorter term. build more carriers. Section 12. Commentary: Sea. But as the press in most cases did "But the Navy seldom volunteers the in This section is designed ·to facilitate the not point out, the Kiev may be a giant formation that it is constructing five 40,- sale of recycled oil products of sufficient step forward for the Soviet NaVY but it 000-ton carriers that will carry helicopters quality to meet their intended uses and to is not much of a ship by U.S. standards. and V /STOL planes, and that it has six proscribe misrepresentation of recycled oil The Kiev, which is not even in the 18,000-ton helicopter carriers in operation. products. There have been numerous alleged same class as the "midi-carriers" re When the Navy builds such ships, they are instances of selling used oil which has merely jected by our Navy as too small and 'amphibious assault ships' for the Marine been decanted as "home heating oil," burn Corps. But when the Soviet Union buildff ing such oil poses risk of damage to furnaces. short-legged, now shares the Mediter similar ships, they suddenly become 'car· State and local officials should encourage ranean-described by some of our more riers' with an ominous potential." the purchase of recycled oil products by pub dramatic military commentators as "a lic and private persons in order to provide a Soviet lake"-with two oil-powered U.S. market for them and an example of their supercarriers, U.S.S. Saratoga and U.S.S. utility. America, and with one nuclear-powered CONSTITUENT RECOGNIZED FOR Section 13. Commentary: supercarrier, the U.S.S. Nimitz. All of OUTSTANDING VALOR Enforcement is essential to the credibility these ships are equipped with several of any regulatory system and is therefore re quired of the Director. A selection of admin types of aircraft, all of which are several istrative actions and civil enforcement tech generations ahead of the best Soviet sea- HON. WILLIAM F. WALSH niques is authorized in order to provide the based counterparts. . OF NEW YORK flexibility needed to tailor an enforcement An exception to the typically superfi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES action to the nature of the violation. Civil cial news coverage which prevailed was administrative penalties, although not so an excellent and well-researched edito Thursday, July 29, 1976 common at the state level as at the federal, rial which appeared in the Norfolk, Va., Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, today it is have proved effective where states have em Virginian-Pilot. This newspaper, which with high regard that I honor one of my ployed them, e.g., Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Violation of the central provi serves a relatively small city but which constituents who has performed a val sions of the Act is made a misdemeanor for appears to be written by people with iant feat--one most worthy of notice. each day of violation. large minds, consistently covers military With unselfish disregard for his own Where state law requires, the Director af!airs with a perceptiveness and sophis safety, he prevented a tragedy that was would utilize the authority provided in this tication which places the majority of our only seconds away for a victim whom, section in collaboration with the office of the big-city papers in the shade. · without rescue, undoubtedly would have attorney general. I insert the editorial entitled "Red drowned. Section 14. Commentary: carrier in the Med," from the Norfolk Charles Rogers of Geneva, N.Y., is the This section enables the continued validity Virginian-Pilot of July 20, 1976; in the 28-year-old son of Mr. Charles Rogers, of the remainder of the Act 1f a part of it is found unconstitutional. RECORD at this point: Sr., Geneva's city Republican commit Section 15. Commentary: RED CARRIER IN THE MED tee chairman. An Air Force veteran and Sections of existing law which conflict with If the Soviet Navy's 45,000-ton Kiev, student at Central Piedmont Community provisions of this law should be specifically , which sailed into the Mediterranean Sea. College, Charles Rogers, Jr., executed an referred to and expressly repealed in order to over the weekend, is not an aircraft carrier instantaneous heroic act in rescuing a avoid questions of interpretation. by American definition, she is being given young girl from drowning. Section 16. Commentary: the look of one. A sister ship, Minsk, is taking form in a. Black sea shipyard. Work On Tuesday afternoon, June 29, in This section postpones the effective date of on a third is believed to be in progress in Charlotte, N.C., Rogers was mowing the this Act 90 days in order to provide the Direc the Leningrad region. lawn when he heard the screams from tor time to organize implementation. This someone who was evidently drowning. section ties in with section 11 (f), in which Kiev is twice the size of the Soviet Moskva the Director is allowed a maximum period of class helicopter missile cruisers. She marks Racing 200 yards to a backyard swim two years after the effective date to fully im "an impressive and logical advance by the ming pool he immediately dove in after plement all provisions. Soviet Navy," says the current edition of the young girl, elevated her from the "Jane's Fighting Ships." NATO intelligence REFERENCES 9-foot-deep pool and gave her mouth sources reported last month that Kiev would to-mouth resuscitation. The girl was 1 Waste Oil Study: Preliminary Report to be equipped with the Yak-36, a quick take Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection off jet fighter similar to the British Harrier, later treated at a nearby hospital. Agency, April 1973. as well as helicopters. News accounts of her Dr. Robert Schwartz credited the sav-· 2 Report to Congress: Waste Oil Study, pre passage through the Bosporus Straits said ing of the girl's life to Rogers' courage pared by the Environmental Protection she carried about 30 of the former and 25 and instant response. He acknowledged Agency, Washington, D.C. 20460, April 1974, of the latter. Jane's estimated her hangar that the young girl had been underwater Section VI. capacity at close to that. about 4 minutes which is the maximum 3 Id., Section VII. Despite her relative hugeness, Kiev is rem time physicians say a person can survive. ~ Id., page 25. iniscent of the 17,000-ton "sea-control ships" 5 Id., Section IV. See also Irwin and Liroff, that retired Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., In admiration and pride I commend Used Oil Law in the United States and one of the few surface-fleet officers to have Charles Rogers for his courageous deed Europe, U.S. Government Printing Office, held the post of Chief of Naval Operations which has set such a noble example that EPA-600/5-74-025, July 1974, pages 16-20. in recent years, tried unsuccessfully to intro- others might follow. 24596 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1976 BLANCHARD ANTIBOYCOTT the public service function of a. banking in piecemeal regulation of financial dis AMENDMENT stitution in this country. closure into one equitable, effective legis Mr. Speaker, I believe there is a gen lative package. eral understanding among businessmen H.R. 3249 has the support of the Demo HON. JAMES J. BLANCHARD in this country that such discrimination cratic Caucus and is backed by many OF MICHIGAN is wrong, and that it is against the tradi members of our New Members Caucus. Its IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tional policy and laws of this country. concept is also incorporated into the My amendment clarifies that under Democratic Party platform and is sup Thursday, July 29, 1976 standing and draws it to the attention of Ported. by the Democratic nominee for Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speaker, I am those from other countries who seek to President, Gov. Jimmy Carter. pleased to note the passage today by the do business here. This does not mean the Financial Dis House of an antiboycott amendment All of us know that these practices closure Act is partisan legislation, how which I offered to H.R. 13876, the In have no place in the United States. It is ever. On the contrary, a wide bipartisan ternational Banking Act of 1976. time for us now to write that principle ~ase of support has evolved throughout My amendment bans discrimination into law so that it. cannot be misinter Congress and within the Government for by foreign banks and bank holding com preted or misunderstood. this bill. President Ford has stated his panies, in their operations in the United support for the concept, and the citizen's States, on the basis of "race, color, reli lobby, Common Cause, has continued to gion, sex, or national origin." Further, offer its earnest advocacy in support of any discriminatory practices which may FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE-LET THE financial disclosure. The foregoing is be discovered will be subject to enforce TRUTH BE KNOWN truly indicative of the diversified array ment under the Federal Deposit Insur of substantial backers of this bill. ance Act. HON. JIM SANTINI In summary, Mr. Speaker, the proposed I believe, however, thrut the importance disclosure bill -will demonstrate a sub of this amendment goes beyond its purely OF NEVADA stantial and sincere intent by this Con legal scope. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gress to pursue decisive legislative reme It is intended to clarify the views of Thursday, July 29, 1976 dies for some of the inherent inadequa Congress toward practices carried on Mr. SANTINI. Mr. Speaker, one of the cies in the process in which we have under the boycott---for all of those, both most important issues pending in the toiled. No magic elixir can instantane in this country and abroad, who are un 94th Congress is the Financial Disclosure ously transform public preoccupations, certain about our intentions. Act of 1976. but H.R. 3249 is constructive evidence of During the last year and a half, since I.Ong before this· issue ever received our legislative intent. the Arab boycott first made headlines any legislative consideration, I formu Certainly, there is an impingement across the counrtry, those of us who have lated a strong, personal belief that the upon our individual privacy. Certainly, been concerned with this issue have be public should have access to the personal this legislation represents an additional come more and more aware of how financial statements of Members of Con sacrifice for those who wish to serve in necessary such clarification is. gress and other high Government offi the Federal legislative process. But, I do Some Federal agencies, when faced believe that in rational balance, the pub with evidence of discriminatory activi cials. Upon seeking congressional office, I made personal disclosures of both my lic's entitlement to know and have access ties, have taken quick and responsible financial posture and my income tax re to the facts must outweigh our under action to uphold not only the letter, but turns for the preceding 4 years. These standable desire to maintain personal the spirit of our laws and traditions. disclosures were made as a result of my privacy. Others, unfortunately, have been personal election rather than by mandate Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3249 would make a found wanting. of law. Now, it is my conviction that at significant contribution toward rebuild Because of this history of inconsistency least some substantial form of personal ing the political and moral character of on the part of bureaucrats in interpret disclosure should be implemented by our our national leadership and I urge all of ing Federal law in this area, I believe a legislative body. my colleagues to support and to work for statement of purpose by Congress is both its passage. timely and appropriate. My advocacy of this issue presses a My amendment will not affect the threshold question: Does the public have purely economic forms of boycott ac- . a right to have access to information tivity, such as discrimination against about the financial activities of the Gov products made in the state of Israel. The ernment officials who represent them? SANTA MONICA POLICE DEPART limited scope of H.R. 13876 makes that If that ,question is answered in the affirm MENT'S INNOVATIVE PHYSICAL impossible, and it is my understanding ative, then a second question is sug FITNESS INCENTIVE PROGRAM that legislation strengthening the Export gested: How should that right be statu Administration Act, which will be con torily defined and implemented? I be sidered in the near future, will deal with lieve that H.R. 3249 provides an answer, HON. ALPHONZO BELL that issue. albeit not perfect, to that question. Our , OF CALIFORNIA My amendment is aimed at a less wide proposed legislative solution requires IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES candidates for Federal office, Members spread, but to my mind more ominous, Thursday, July 29, 1976 form of boycott---discrimination against of Congress, high-ranking Federal em persons of Jewish faith or heritage. ployees and the President and Vice Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, I wish to call On February 24, 1975, the Comptroller President to file annual financial state to the attention of my colleagues in the of the Currency wrote to all national ments with the Comptroller General of Congress a very interesting article ap banks in the United States, saying in the United States. The statements would pearing in the current issue of the FBI part: contain the amount and source of all in Law Enforcement Bulletin describing an This office has recently learned that some come and gifts valued in excess of $100, innovative physical fitness incentive pro national banks may have been offered large as well as all recorded transactions in gram adopted recently by the Santa deposits and loans by agents of foreign in volving securities, commodities, and real Monica, Calif., Police Department in my vestors, one of the conditions for which ls property valued in excess of $1,000. congressional district. that no member of the Jewish !·a.1th sit on The :Financial Disclosure Act does rep The article was written by George P. the bank's boa.rd of direct.ors or control any resent a substantial step in the direction Tielsch, chief of police of Santa Monica significant a.mount of the bank's outstanding of rehabilitating the deteriorating and Police Department. stock. negative preoccupations of the general I recommend it and a related letter The Comptroller went on to state public about all political entities. It is not from FBI Director Clarence Kelley for that--- a panacea, but it is a positive attain the perusal of my colleagues, and I share Dlscrtmlna.tlon based on religious a.ffilia. ment. Moreover, the proposed legislation Director Kelley's confidence that it will tlon or rac1al her11iage ls lncom.paitlble with would also aggregate our heretofore prove very informative to members of July 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24597 the law enforcement profession through PHYSICAL FITNESS INCENTIVE PROGRAM marksmen. The tests a.re administered by the out the country. (By George P. Tielsch) Personnel and Training Division on a quar Director Kelley's letter and Chief A physical fitness incentive program wa.s terly basis. Scores recorded at that time de Tielsch's article follow: initiated by the Santa Monica, Calif., Police termine the incentive pay for the following 3 Department on January 6, 1976. The original months. Injuries incurred during the pro U .S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, gram a.re handled as industrial injuries and FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, idea was conceived by two officers in the de partment. The program was presented on the covered by State compensation insurance. Washington, D .C., July 27, 1976. The tests are based on a maximum score Hon. ALPHONZO BELL, premise that, while many police departments encourage marksmanship by offering extra of 500 points and include the following five House of Representatives, events: situps, squat thrusts, pullups, push Washington, D.C. pay for marksmanship proficie~cy, no in centive is offered to police officers to keep ups, and 1-mlle run. DEAR CONGRESSMAN BELL: Enclosed are two The only difference in administering the advance copies of the August, 1976, issue of themselves in good physical condition-an attribute that is required on a dally basis if tests between female and male officers is that the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. I thought female officers a.re allowed to do pushups and you might like to see the splendid article. an officer is to perform his duties at peak efficiency and best protect himself and the pullups in the style normally recommended beginning on page nine, entitled "Physical for females. Fitness Incentive Program," by Mr. George public. Approval to initiate the program was re To encourage participation of all sworn P . Tielsch, Chief, Police Department, Santa personnel regardless of age, the following Monica, California. I am confident this re ceived from the city manager and the city council. points were added to ea.ch event according port on the work of his agency will be most The program was made voluntary, and to the participant's age: informative to members of the law enforce participating officers train on their own time. Add points ment profession. If the participant is per event The incentive portion of the program is simi 35 to 40 years ______15 Sinoerely yours, lar to the marksmanship program in which 41 to 45 years ______20 CLARENCE M. KELLEY, participants may earn a monthly bonus of Director. $2, $4, 8, or $16, depending on their skill as 46 to 50 years------25

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1-MILE RUN number of participants is expected to in years. He is just a great individual. So In the 1-mile run test, 100 points are given crease substantially when officers who did many times he has gone way out of his for 7 minutes and under. For each second not feel confident of scoring high in the way to help. He takes a personal interest over 7 minutes and up to 7 minutes and 50 inaugural t.ests complete a 3-month, self in the people in the office and makes seconds, 1 point is ded,ucted. From 7 minutes lmposed training program to insure a better performance in the next testing program. things go. 51 seconds to 8 minutes 10 seconds, 35 points As someone who has been in the Navy, are accrued; 8 minutes 11 seconds to 8 min In order to further encourage participa utes 45 seconds, 20 points; and 8 minutes 46 tion. a perpetual trophy has been established I learned very early that the people that seconds to 9 minutes 15 seconds, 10 points. to honor the officer who achieves the highest really ran it are the chiefs. "Mac" is liv PUSHUPS score ea.ch year. A different scoring system ing proof of this. He enlisted in the U.S. or additional tests wm possibly have to be Navy in 1942 and advanced through the Two points a.re given for each pushup for evaluated and utilized to separate the officers a total of 100 points or 50 pushups. enlisted rates of the Hospital Corps, at who achieve a maximum score for all four taining the rate of chief hospital corps 51 to 55 years ______35 quarters. Three individual a.wards wm also 56 to 60 years ______50 be presented to the top three officers. man . in 1952. During his Navy career, Although this physical fitness incentive "Mac" wa.s stationed with the 69th Naval The incentive pay was established as program is relatively new to the department, Construction Battalion, North Atlantic; follows: officers already have been encouraged to lni the Navy Base, New London, Conn.; the Points: Bonus tla.te and expand physical training activities Reserve Fleet, Charleston; U.S.S. Yellow 300 to 329______$2 per month on an individual basis. Hopefully, the pro stone; Naval Research Institute; Naples, 330 to 399______$4 per month gram will result in long-term benefits to Italy; and Washington, D.C. Since 1954 400 to 464______$8 per month ea.ch officer and the police department by fos 465 to 500 ______$16 per month he has been with us, assigned to the tering better health and job performances. Capitol Physician's Office. Twenty-five police officers, including one To sum it all up, "Mac" is 4.0, and YoU female, out of 133 sworn personnel partici just do not get any better. We are going pated in the in.itial program. The officers to miss h'im and wish him the best. Good were weighed and then taken to a nearby JOHN McGUINESS IS RETIRING high school facility for testing. Eight of the FROM HIS ASSIGNMENT TO THE luck and Godspeed. officers obtained a maximum score of 500, OFFICE OF THE ATTENDING PHY while 15 qualified for top bonus money. A SICIAN, U.S. CAPITOL complete breakdown of scores is as follows : Number JOBS: WE MUST DO BETTER Bonus: of officers HON. LOUIS FREY, JR. OF FLORIDA $16 ------15 $8 ------4 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS OF CALIFORNIA $4 ------3 Thursday, July 29, 1976 $2 ------2 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Failed to qualify______2 Mr. FREY. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow Thursday, July 29, 1976 The initial high scores were anticipated in John McGuiness is retiring from his that officers who already maintained a high assignment to the.Office of the Attending Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, itplea.ses degree of physical fl tness were expected to Physician, U.S. Capitol. It has been my me to call the attention of the Members participate and do well in the first tests. The privilege to know "Mac" for the past 8 to an editorial appearing in the Phila- 24598 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1976 delphia Daily News, entitled "Jobs: We · As will be remembered, Senator MON this country in the "free port" of Mayaguez, Must Do Better." In their opinion, the DALE is the individual who introduced in Puerto Rico, and then being processed to Full avoid high duty payments, I a.m astounded Employment and Balanced Growth the Senate the child and family services by the failure of the government to nip this Act of 1976 (H.R. 50) provides the neces bill. As the initiator of the legislation in swindle in the bud. sary framework to develop urgently this Congress, his support for it has never I understand that there is a proposal pend needed jobs at low cost, without infla wavered. ing before the Foreign Trade Board to allow tion. The editorial urges that the full In the platform that Carter and MON a processing plant to handle foreign bee! human costs of unemployment not be DALE are running on is language which in the Foreign Trade Zone of New Orleans. ignored, for the implications to society's can encompass the Child and Family Although I have no doubt that the Admin well-being and order are severe. Services Act-the renamed earlier child istration will not allow the situation in New Orleans to develop as it has in Mayaguez, I The editorial, which appeared July 20, development bill. There is support for urge you to take action at once. I see no 1976, follows: "developmental and educational child reason why the arrangement between Aus JOBS: WE MUST Do BETTER care programs." tralia and New Zealand and the meat pack Philadelphia has lost 128,000 jobs since We must realize that supporters have ing plant in Puerto Rico cannot be termi 1969, the year Richard Nixon became Presi attempted to portray this legislation as nated immediately. This is an administrative dent. Last year, 28,000 went, the biggest de helping the family. But its effect would decision and one that could be made tomor crease since th~ U.S. Labor Department began be quite different. Careful analysis of the row. keeping local records 23 years ago. legislation shows that it would further The New Orleans proposal resembles the More than 8 million Americans want to involve the Federal Government in the Puerto Rican venture as a blatantly clear work and can't. Another 3¥2 million have attempt to bypass our import laws. I trust part-time jobs and want full-time. This must family and it would involve the Govern that the position of our government will be be a key issue in the upcoming election. ment in the lives of children at the most made clear in that regard as well. Either the federal government lets economic impressionable ages of their preschool We are all aware of the precarious state recovery "take its normal course," or it ac years. of the American cattle industry as it has de tively fights unemployment. Economist Louis Vigilance must be maintained against veloped over the past few years. Let us not H. Bean says the "normal course" will leave the Child and Family Services Act. I allow an impression of callous disregard for an unemployment rate of 6.5 percent in 1977 would remind you that the 1971 child and the legitimate rights and needs of our cattle (it's 7.5 percent today). family development bill was much worse men to remain uncorrected. Foes of government intervention say it than the 1976 verision. It represents the Sincerely, costs money and causes infiation. The former EnwARD MEZVINSKY. is true; the latter is denied by many experts. true goal of the Mondales and the social The Humphrey-Hawkins bill, which aims at planners who in their own words want to "full employment" (no more than 3 percent "zoom in on the family." unemployed) within four years, has a $20- ECONOMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL 25-billion price tag. But reductions in unem PROTECTION ployment compensation and other jobless benefits would reduce that to $12 billion. IMPORT DUTY RESTRICTIONS That's 2 percent of our gross national prod HON. PAUL FINDLEY uct. Compare it to today's Vik.1ng I landing OF ILLINOIS on Mars, a $1-blllion project. But let economists and statisticians de HON. EDWARD MEZVINSKY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bate unemployment in those terms. The pub OF IOWA Thursday, July 29, 1976 lic must consider it on the human level. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Being jobless costs more than a diminished Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, late in savings account, lost home, delayed college Thursday, July 29, 1976 the 1960-'s this country embarked on a education, reduced standard of living. Mr. MEZVINSKY. Mr. Speaker, I was long-delayed program of environmental Tell a person society has no need of him recently alerted to a flagrant circum protection. We had for too long ignored and you have wounded his self-image. Tell the limits of our resources, oblivious him there is no use for his talents and you spection of import duty restrictions have crippled his self-image. People break; which cannot and should not be tol that our air, water, and land cannot families crumble. erated. take repeated and unlimited abuse Among the most recent local individuals Working through the "free port" of without it eventually costing us dearly. to warrant the newspaper headline "Crazed Mayaguez in Puerto Rico, a meat proces One of the products of our new en Gunman" were George Geschwendt, Leon sor is purchasing Australian and New vironmental sensitivity was the Clean Haraismowicz and Richard Kochensky. All Zealand frozen beef at the 3-cents-per Air Act of 1970, amendments to which were unemployed. Perhaps they were pound duty rate for fresh and frozen we soon will consider on the House floor. "crazed" before they were jobless. But And while progress in cleaning up our we will never know whether the stability beef. The processor is then preparing the that comes with regular employment would beef and shipping it to U.S. markets, cir air has not been as swift as we might have made them rational. How much of our cumventing the 10-percent value duty have hoped, it has been real. We have crime is linked to joblessness? for processed beef. seen marked reductions in total emis To deny people the opportunity to work, Those of us who are keenly aware of sions of nearly every pollutant for which the pride of earning their own way, is uncon~ the difficulties of U.S. cattlemen today EPA has established standards. scionable. This country must do better. are outraged by this maneuver. I have From time to time in recent years, written to the Secretary of State asking however, we also have seen environ him for an immediate directive putting mental zeal prevail over careful, rea an end to the free port swindle. soned pursuit of critical environmental NEW PUSH FOR CHILD AND FAMILY I am also asking for a rejection of the goals. The Environmental Protection SERVICES ACT? proposal pending before the Foreign Agency, like other agencies, has a ten Trade Board tQ allow a processing plant dency sometimes to rush to correct a to handle foreign beef in the Foreign serious pollution problem without care HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK Trade Zone of New Orleans. fully evaluating the economic implica OF OHIO A copy of my letter to Secretary Kis tions of its actions. The EPA's proposal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES singer follows: several years ago of 80 to 90 percent gas Thursday, July 29, 1976 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, rationing in Los Angeles and other com Washington, D.a., July 26, 1976. munities as a means of reducing auto Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, two re Hon. HENRY KISSINGER, mobile pollution is an example of such cent activities show the need for continu Secretary of State, zeal. ing vigilance on the Child and Family Washington, D.C. Without careful and reasoned study Services Act. One is the choice of Sena DEAR MR. SECRETARY: I hope you are a.ware of the potential economic impact of its tor MONDALE for Vice President on the of a serious circumvention of trade law which proposed rules and regulations, EPA is victimizing American cattlemen and rob ticket headed by Carter. The other is the bing the federal treasury. of significant duty simply does not have the information it choice of words in that party's platform revenues. I expect that the matter will re needs to determine whether a proposed which can be read as a slightly veiled ceive your immediate attention. solution is worse than the problem it push for the Child and Family Services Having learned of the details about Aus attempts to solve. Environmental "shoot Act. tralian and New Zealand beef coming into ing-from-the-hip" is not only harmful July 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24599

to economic progress, but it also dam (5) the effects on competition of the "(3) any regulation establishing a sched ages the environmental movement itself. standard or regulation, particularly effects ule of rates of excess emission fees under on small businesses; section 122 (b), Regulatory excesses spark a public back (6) the effects on consumer costs; "(4) any regulation under subtitle B of lash which can undermine critical en (7) the effects on energy use of avallablllty; title I (relating to stratosphere protection), vironmental programs. (8) the impact on the potential for long- "(5) any regulation under subtitle C of I wish to commend the committee's term economic growth; title I (relating to prevention of significant efforts in its bill, H.R. 10498, to assure (9) the impact on productivity; deterioration of air quality), that the Environmental Protection (10) the impact on the Nation's balance of "(6) any regulation establishing emis Agency pursues balanced solutions to payments; sion standards under section 202 and any the problems of air quality. ( 11) the economic impact of postponing other regulation promulgated under that the standard or regulation or of not promul- section, There is, I believe, one oversight in gating the standard or regulation; . "(7} any regulation controlling or pro the committee bill which I propose to (12) alternative methods for achieving hibiting any fuel or fuel additive under sec rectify by an amendment on the House equal or greater protection at lesser economic tion 211 ( c) , floor. My amendment would require EPA costs; and . "(8) any aircraft emissions standard un to prepare an economic impact state (13) comparative expenditures required to der section 231, and ment before publishing notice of pro achieve incremental levels of reduction of " ( 9) any rallt"oad . emission standard un posed rulemaking under specified sec emissions (or enhancement of health or en der section 235. tions of the Clean Air Act. EPA then vironmental protection); Nothing in this section shall apply to any would be required to make that economic (14) any possible alternatives for minimiz standard or regulation described in para ing or eliminating part or all of any adverse graphs (1) through (9) of this subsection impact statement available to the public economic impacts of such standard or unless the notice of proposed rulemaking in together with an explanation of the ex regulation. connection with such standard or regula tent and manner in which the Admin tion is published in the Federal Register istrator considered the impact statement My amendment is drafted carefully to 90 days after the date of enactment of this in drafting the proposed rule. assure that it will have no disruptive im section. In the case of revisions of such I believe my amendment would have pact on the act, promulgation of stand standards or regulations, this section shall two major positive effects. First, by de ards or regulations under it, or their en apply only to revisions which the Adminis tailing the economic factors which must forcement by the Administrator. With trator determines to be substantial revisions. be analyzed, my amendment will force any amendment requiring extensive "(b) Before publication of notice of pro economic analysis, there is a danger of posed rulemaking with respect to any stand EPA to be more systematic and thorough ard or regulation to which this section ap in its evaluation of the economic im burdening the Administrator and the plies, the Administrator shall prepare an eco pacts as well as the means of reducing Agency to the point where the regulatory nomic impac~ statement respecting such those impacts. Second, by requiring that process collapses. My amendment guards standard or regulation. Such statement shall the economic impact statement be made against such a breakdown in that: be available to the public following such public, the American people will be fully First, it applies only to future regula publication and such notice of proposed informed of the economic consequences tory actions by the Agency; rulemaking shall include notice of such Second, it cannot be used to disrupt or availabllity together with an explanation of of EPA's regulatory decisions and, the extent and manner in which the Ad through the comment process, be af slow actions required by law; and ministrator has considered the analysis con forded an opportunity to evaluate and Third, it will not prevent the Admin tained in such statement in proposing the express their views on EPA's economic istrator from carrying out his respon action. The Administrator shall also pro analysis. sibilities to protect public health and the vide such an explanation in his notice of My amendment would require an eco environment. promulgation of any regulation or s~dard nomic impact statement any time the Mr. Speaker, business firms, farmers, referred to in subsection ,(a). and private citizens alike· are being re " (c) Subject to subsection (d), the state Administrator issues or revises the fol ment req~ired under this section with re lowing: quired to comply with regulatory re spect to any standard or regulation shall (1) any new source standard of perform quirements whose economic impacts contain an analysis of: ance under section lll(b), sometimes are not fully known. It is my " ( 1) the cost s of compliance with any (2) a regulation under section 111 (d), hope that my amendment will encourage such standard or regulation, including the concerning the application of new source a more responsible attitude in determin extent to which the costs of compliance will standards by states to existing sources, ing environmental policy. It is incumbent vary depending on (A) the effective date of (3) a regulation establishing a schedule upon us to develop and follow environ the standard or regulation, and (B) the de of rates of excess emission fees under S"ec velopment of less expensive, more efficient tion 122 (b) , mental policies which attempt to achieve means or methods of compliance with the (4) a regulation under subtitle B of title a reasonable balance between environ standard or regulation; I relating to ozone protection, mental necessity and economic reality, " (2) the potential inflationary or reces (5) a regulation under subtitle C of title while protecting public health. sionary effects of the standard or regulation; I relating to prevention of significant dete I believe my amendment requiring " (3) the availability of capital to procure rioration of air quality, economic impact statements, in conjunc the necessary means of compliance with the (6) a regulation establishing emission tion with the provisions the Commerce standard or regulation; standards under section 202 (automobile Committee has included in H.R. 10498, " ( 4) the direct and indirect effects on em truck and other motor vehicle emission ployment of the standard or regulation; standards) and any other regulation promul requiring EPA to take economic, energy " ( 5) the effects on competition of the gated under that section, and other costs into account under the standard or regulation, particularly the ef (7) a regulation controlling or prohibiting Clean Air Act, will help us achieve that . fects on small business; any fuel or fuel additive under section balance. I urge my colleagues to join me "(6) the effects of the standard or regula 211(c), in supporting this amendment. tion on consumer costs, including costs es (8) an aircraft emission standard under Text of amendment to H.R. 10498 pecially affecting economically vulnerable section 231, and follows: segments of the population; "(7) the effects of the standard or regula (9) a railroad emission standard under AMENDMENT TO H.R. 10498, As REPORTED section 235. tion on energy use or availability; OFFERED BY MR. FINDLEY "(8) the impact of the standard or reg Furthermore, my amendment specifi Page 158, after Un~ 17, insert: ulation on the potential for long-term eco cally lists the factors which the EPA ECONOMIC IMPACT STATEMENT nomic growth; would analyze in preparing the economic Sec. 102A. Title Ill of the Clean Air Act, "(9} the impact of the standard or regula impact statement. Therefore, this new as amended by sections 306, 201, 304, 312, tion on productivity; EcIS would be required to assess the 313, 108, a.nd 211 of this Act, is further " ( 10) the impact of the standard or regu effects of the proposed standard or reg amended by adding the following new section lation on the Nation's balance of payments; at the end thereof: " ( 11) the economic impact of postponing ulation on the following: the standard or regulation or of not promul ( 1) the cost of compliance; "ECONOMIC IMPACT STATEMENT gating such standard or regulation; (2) its potential inflationary or recession "Sec. 325. (a) This section applies to ac "(12) alternative methods to such stand ary effects; tion of the Administrator in promulgating ard or regulation for achieving equal or (3) the availability of capital necessary to or revising- greater degree of emission reduction (or comply; " ( 1) any new source standard of per health or environmental protection) at lesser (4) the direct and indirect effects on formance under section 111 (b), economic costs; and employment; "(2) any regulation under section lll(d), " ( 13) comparative expenditures required to CXXII--1552-Part 19 24600 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1976 achieve incremental levels of reduction of scandal was the Federal Campaign Finance moved by the President only "for extraordi emissions (or enhancement of health or en Act of 1974, which provided public financing nary improprieties, for malfeasance in office vironmental protection) ; of presidential campaigns and did other or for any conduct constituting a felony." "(14) any possible alternatives for mini things supposedly guaranteed to cleanse the For all practical purposes, he is a free agent, mizing or eliminating part or all of any ad political process. exercising extraordinary power without verse economic impacts of such standard or It was hailed in Congress and on the na check. He is, in short, the very kind of official regulation. tion's editorial pages. But when the Supreme which Watergate should have warned us "(d) The statement required under this Court got around to examining the law, it against. section shall be as extensive as is practicable, decided that several of its key provisions were What is deceptive about this scheme is in the judgment of the Administrator taking unconstitutional infringements on the free well-explained by Professor Philip B. Kur into account the time and resources available dom of speech. land of the University of Chicago, in a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency and A s1m1lar caution is in order on the near printed as part of the debate of the bill. other duties and authorities which the Ad unanimous praise being lavished on the "Yo'u. have certainly Inisoonstrued history," ministrator is required to carry out under Watergate Reorganization and Reform Act he wrote the senators, "if the concept of a this Act. of 1976, which passed the Senate last week special prosecutor is based on the n otion that "(e) Nothing in this section shall be con by a vote of 91-5 and is expected to have the Watergate special prosecutor contributed strued: equally easy sa111ng in the House. 1io the discovery and remedy for the Water "(1) to alter the basis on which a stand The five dissenters in the Senate were five gate aibuses." The press and two congres ard or regulation is promulgated under this of the more rigid conservatives in that sional committees did that work of exposure Act; or body--Carl Curtis, Paul Fannin, Roman and "the special prosecutor undertook crim "(2) to preclude the Administrator from Hruska, Paul Laxalt and William L. Scott. inal prosecutions of those malefactors." carrying out his responsibility under this Hardly a commentator to the left of Pat That is the proper division of labor, Kur Act to protect public health and the envi Buchanan would willingly enlist in such land said, but the blll's proposed "utilization ronment. company. of special prosecutors at a stage prior to A standard or regulation subject to this sec But I am going to ignore the proprieties criminal trial is once again an evasion of tion shall be invalid on the basis of a failure and say plainly what I think-that the main congressional responsibility . . . Every time to comply with this section only if the Ad provision of the bill is offensive, deceptive an important governmental problem has ministrator acted arbitrarily and capri- and dangerous, and that, once again, Con arisen in recent decades, Congress has pusil ciously- . gress has avoided the opportunity to come to lanimously delegated the treatment of the "(A) in failing to prepare and publish an grips with the real problems of Watergate. ailment to someone else. Thus, the proposed adequate economic impact statement as re That bill cTeates a permanent Independ public prosecut.oriru scheme ... is only an quired by this section, or ent Office of Special Prosecutor within the other symptom of the Watergate syndrome, "(B) in failing to comply with the proce Department of Justice, to be headed for rather than a contrt1bution toward its elimi dural requirements of subsection (b) ." a single three-year term by someone ap nation." pointed by the President and confirmed by Instead of passing suoh showboat legisla the Senate. The prosecutor will have juris tion, Congress could be employing its con diction to investigate and prosecute any stitutional powers to judge and expel those WATERGATE REFORM ACT possible violations of federal criminal law of its own members who have been charged by the President, Vice President, senior ad with almost every kind of abuse of power Ininistratlon officials, members of Congress and breach of law. It can also investigate and the judiciary. alleged improprieties in the Executive HON. DAVID R. OBEY One thing that is offensive about the bi11 Branch. OF WISCONSIN is the proviso that the special prosecutor But thlat is the difficult course of political IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cannot be anyone who, in the previous five responsibll1ty, so Congress prefers to pass the years, held a "high-level position of trust buck 1io a non-political special prosecutor. If . Thursday, July 29, 1976 and responslb111ty" in a political party or this scheme comes 1io pass, we can all recall Mr. OBEY. Mt. Speaker, occasionally the personal organization of any candidate what the English said at the time of Crom because of the emotions and the myths for federal office. (For good measure, Sen. well: Lord protect us from Protectors. Lloyd Bentsen amended the bill to put the surrounding an issue, it's extremely dif same prohibition on anyone appointed At ficult to get people to do anything but torney General or Deputy Attorney Gen legislate by title. Pulitzer prize-winning eral.) columnist David Broder of the Washing I do not know what word except "con WAYS AND MEANS OVERSIGHT ton Post, Wednesday wrote a very pro tempt" expresses my attitude toward a set SUBCOMMITI'EE SCHEDULE voking article, inserted for your atten of practicing politicians who accept as valid tion, about the so-called Watergate Re the premise that anyone affiliated with poli form Act, which would establish a per tics is automatically unfit to conduct one HON. CHARLES A. VANIK of the highest responsib111tles of govern OF OHIO manent special prosecutor accountable ment---the administration of justice. to no one. If politicians can't be trusted 1io adinin IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I do not yet know how I am going to ister justice, then why in the world should Thursday, July 29, 1976 vote on that bill, but I must say that I we trust them to collect taxes, or provide am most impressed with the arguments for the national defense, or decide whether Mr. VANIK. Mr. Speaker, following is made by Mr. Broder. I probably would our children fight in a war? Why not be a summary of planned Ways and Means not be in the company of Senators CUR consistent and say that no one connected oversight hearings between now and the TIS, FANNIN, HRUSKA, LAXALT, and Wn. with politics should serve in public office? Republican Convention recess: The dangerous notion in the bill ls the LIAM SCOTT on legislative matters once in . assumption that the safety of our republic SUMMARY OF HEARINGS a century, but they may be right on this lies in finding non-political "good men," August 2: 10 a.m., main committee room, one, and I would hope that we would who can be trusted with powers we would Mr. Thomas Tierney, administrator, Bureau think through our actions carefully be not trust to politicians. . of Health Insurance, Social Security; N.Y.U. fore we take the irrevocable step of pass That is an absolute perversion of the Law Professor Sylvia A. Law and represent ing this legislation. doctrine of the American Constitution. Such aitives from GAO and HEW Audit Agency on I am not suggesting ·that I am pre men of perfect virtue are as rare as Plato's Administrative Costs in Medicare Claims "philosopher-kings." In real world terms, a. Processing, Representative STARK chairing. pared to vote "no" at this time. Neither August 4: 10 a.m., H-208, hearing on HEW I lawyer with a thre~-year non-renewable am yet prepared to vote "yes" without charter to investigate anything of import Efforts to Reduce Welfare Errors, representa further evidence that the bill will not ance in the upper levels of all three branches tives from HEW, State and Local Govern in fact create the very kind of unac of the American government would be un ments, and a Presentation of Possible Wel countable power center which Watergate der enormous pressure to find things to fare Savings from Mr. Larry Dooling, A.T.&T. should have warned us against. prosecute. As Sen. Sam Nunn said, "He August 5: 1 to 2:30 p.m., B-316, the ,Ad Let us think a little bit more about it wants trophies for his wall when he's ministration of SSI. The View From the as Mr. Broder suggests. through." It is the perfect launching pad States: State Welfare Officials from Texas, for the ruthless demagogue's political career. Michigan, South Carolina, and Washington. WATERGATE REFORM ACT: DANGEROUS, Riather thMl depending on godlike virtue August 5: 2: 30 p.m., H-208, IRS Collection OFFENSIVE in public servants, the American Constitu of Delinquent Taxes, Cominissioner Alex (By David S. Broder) tion protects freedom by holding officials ander, Representative JONES chairing. Well, the congressional mountain has accountable for their actions. labored and brought forth a second Water BUJt the special prosecutor, under this law, In late August, the subcommittee ex gate mouse. The first landmark piece of is accountable to no one. He reports annually pects to hold additional hearings on the legislation that resulted from the great to cominittees of Congress but can be re- supplemental security income program July 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24601 on I.R.S. collection of delinquent taxes, but the wealthiest Americans have been cause of the State's wood products in and on medicare administrative costs. eroded. dustry. Essential to our economic recov The exact time and place of those hear RURAL HOUSING POLICY ery is a healthy nationwide construction ings will be announced later. Our Nation needs a comprehensive industry which uses our forest products. rural housing program. Rural areas have Yet, the Federal Government's respon one-third of the Nation's population but sibility to accelerate recovery of the nearly two-thirds of its substandard housing and construction industry is not STATEMENT ON HOUSING housing. This higher incidence of poor yet fulfilled, as many jobless Montanans housing can be attributed to lower in:. can attest. comes, less credit, and fewer institutions As table I indicates this trend is in HON. MAX S. BAUCUS to deliver housing. There are fewer large part attributable to the fact that the OF MONTANA builders in rural areas who can lower number of total private housing starts IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES costs through constructing a high volume in the United States dropped from Thursday, July 29, 1976 of units. Also, it is difficult for HUD and 2,481,000 units in January of 1973 to Fm.HA to administer their programs over 1,415,000 units in May of 1976 causing a Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. Speaker, I would the wide distances that must be traveled lag in the housing construction industry. like today to address a serious problem thus reducing the effectiveness of their The number of private one family hous that has been one of my major concerns programs. ing starts also dropped by nearly 400,000 since I came to Congress 18 months ago. Ever since the 1949 National Housing from 1.43 million units in January of That is the· overwhelming absence of a Act, the Federal Government presumably 1973 to 1.06 million units in May of 1976. comprehensive national housing policy has been committed to improving the for both urban and rural areas. The two housing situation in the United states. TABLE 1.-TOTAL PRIVATE HOUSING STARTS; HOUSING Federal agencies responsible for admin Both HUD and FmHA were set up to UNITS, PRIVATE, I-FAMILY istering national housing programs, the assist people in securing homes. Though fin thousands of units] Department of Housing and Urban Af each of these agencies has rural housing fairs-HUD-and the Farmers Home programs, there remains a marked lack Total Private Administration-FmHA-lack an ade of emphasis toward meeting rural hous private sin~le quate framework to meet our national ing needs. housing family Date starts units housing needs. A SUMMARY OF FEDERAL HOUSING PROGRAMS The housing slump started before the FmHA has several programs that are January 1973 ______2, 481 recent recession, went deeper than the on their way to meetmg rural demands. February 1973 ______1, 431 economy overall, and is responding more March 1973 ______2, 289 1, 341 Section 502 provides loans to purchase April 2, 365 1, 237 slowly than the recovery. Moreover, in- 1973 ______2 084 1, 216 a new or existing house, or to build, re May 1973 ______. :tlation in housing and fin~ncing costs is 2:266 1, 220 habilitate, or relocate homes. June 1973 ______2,067 1, 106 such that American families have in Section 515 provides direct loans to July 1973 ______2, 123 1, 178 creasing problems buying-or renting August 1973 ______2, 051 1, 106 finance rental or cooperative housing September 1973 ______1, 874 1, 019 an adequate house. and related facilities for occupancy by October 1973. ______1, 677 970 Since 1972, total private and public November 1973. ------1, 724 960 low to moderate income rural families. December 1973 ______1, 526 824 housing starts have declined. Though this Section 504 provides loans to make January 1974 ______1, 453 811 trend is reversing itself, housing starts houses safer and more viable in rural February 1974 ______1, 784 1, 032 are nowhere near the level they were in March 1974_ -----·------1, 553 967 areas, and section 514/515 provides 1, 571 983 late 1972, causing much havoc in the loans at 1 percent interest for a term of 1, 415 900 building industry and raising the cost l, 526 984 up to 33 years to buy, build or repair July 1974 ______1, 290 903 ~;:1?J~~~======August of houses. housing for domestic farm labor. FmHa, 1974 ______1, 145 813 Many people, especially young fami September 1974 ______1, 180 872 however, now operates piecemeal ·pro October 1974 ______lies, find it more and more difficult to 1, 100 793 grams, some of which work well. They November 1974_ ------·----- 1, 812 purchase a home. In 1972, one-third of December 1974 ______g~g 719 have no overall rural housing goals as January 1975 ______the Nation's households could afford to 748 part of their mandate. February 1975. ______1, g~~ 722 purchase a medium-priced house. In HUD was established to assist com March 1975 ______986 763 1975, an income of $20,000 was needed to April 1975 ______982 774 munities in housing and community May 1975 ______1, 085 853 qualify for a conventional mortgage on June 1975 ______development. There are several pro 1, 080 874 a medium-priced house; however, only July 1975 ______1,207 916 one-fifth of the families in the country grams within HUD that could help im August 1975 ______1, 264 979 prove rural housing needs. Section 8 September 1975 ______1, 304 966 had this much income. October 1975 ______1, 431 1, 093 More people, because of their low in provides housing assistance payments November 1975_ ------1, 381 1, 048 for low income families to' either rent or December 1975 ______l, 283 962 comes, must now rent instead of buy. January 1976_. ______1, 236 957 Renting families are finding that the build homes. Section 235 provides assist February 1976 ______1, 547 1, 295 amount of money they spend for rent is ance in the form of monthly subsidies March 1976 ______1, 417 1, 110 and is of great importance to rural April 1976 ______1, 381 1, 063 constantly increasing. In 1960, accord May 1976 ______1, 415 1, 057 ing to the Census of Housing, the median areas. Section 202 provides housing for the elderly and handicapped. But HUD's portion of income spent on rent was in This problem was exacerbated by a the 15 to 19 percent range. In 1973, the orientation is toward the urban areas proportions had risen to 20 to 24 percent. and it does not have the persotmel or more than 50 percent reduction in feder Spiraling infiation in rental costs is background to adequately deal with ally supported housing production dur due to increases in the cost of mainte rural problems. ing the 1973 to 1975 period, as evidenced nance, construction, and mortgage costs, NATIONAL HOUSING PRODUCTION by table II, thus further cutting the and most importantly, rising utility We in Montana have a special interest chances that the Montana wood prod charges. The housing prospects of all in sound rural housing programs be- ucts industry would get back on its feet. TABLE 11.-NEW HOUSING ACTIVITY ANNUALLY, 1963-75 [In thousands of un its) .

New starts under government programs New starts under government programs FHA, all programs FHA, all programs HUD HUD Sin~le Multi- FmHA public Total S i n~le Multi· FmHA public Total Year family family VA total subsidized housing starts Year family family VA total subsidized housing starts

1963______166. 2 54. 9 71. 0 13. 7 23.5 329.3 1970 _____ ----- 233. 5 182. 0 61.0 57.1 95. 4 629.0 1964______1971 ______94.3 74. 7 68.5 762.3 154. 0 50. 7 59.2 11. 6 24.6 300.1 1972 ______300.9 224.8 19661965. ______------159. 9 36. 7 49.4 14.4 32.2 306. 0 198. 5 172.4 104.0 91.4 40. 0 606.3 1967 ______129. 1 29.3 36.8 19. 9 30.2 245.3 19741973 ______~ ------_____ 73.4 88.6 86. l 63.3 26. 7 338. l 1968 ______141. 9 37. 8 52. 5 23. 5 32.6 288. 3 1975 ______56. 7 37. 7 72.9 41. 2 16. 7 225.2 1969 ______147. 8 79.4 56.1 25.2 66.4 374. 9 69. 7 28.0 77.0 48.6 15.2 238. 5 153. 6 79. 7 52.2 30.4 67.0 382. 9 ' 24602 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1976

The drop in the total number of hous THE WOOD PRODUCTS AND HOUSING CONSTRUC- housing industry. Now I would like to ing starts is in part attributable to the TION INDUSTRIES IN MONTANA outline passible solutions. increase in the price of new homes. Most An important part of employment in To begin with, FmHA and HUD should families cannot afford to build a house. my State results from both looal and expand their focus in the housing prob~ In table m, we natice that in January national construction. In fact, 43 per lems of rural America. More money of 1973, the average price of a new home cent of the total employment in eight needs to be given for subsidies to low was $35,500, a price within the means of Montana counties, which comprises over and moderate income families in rural most Americans as evidenced by the high 40 percent of my district's population, is areas so that they may buy their own number of starts in the same year. either directly or indirectly attributable homes. These families are now pushed In 1975, the average price of a new to the woods products industry. That is, out of the housing market with little home was $44,400, a price beyond the close to 43 percent of the people em hope of participating unless the Govern means of low- and middle-income Ameri ployed in these counties are either hired ment expands the current subsidy hous cans. The buying ability of these fami by the woods products producers or pro ing programs such as the HUD section 8 lies was further eroded by the fact the vide goods and services to these indus and section 235 programs and the FmHA interest rate for a conventional mortgage tries.1 502 and 515 programs. was 7.5 percent for a $35,600 home in Locally, contract construction em Along these lines, more money should 1973 compared to a mortgage interest ployed about 6 percent of all nonagri be given to the Government National rate of 9.01 percent for a $42,500 home in cultural workers in 1973. The lumber and Mortgage Association-GNMA-and the 197•5. wood product fudustry, which supplies Federal National Mortgage ~ociation TABLE m.-Average sale price of new one the Nation's construction industry, em FNMA-so that more people have the family houses for United States-Not sea ployed over 4 percent of Montana's opportunity to secure a Government sonally adjusted: Quarterly 1974-76 workers in 1973, five times higher than backed mortgage at reasonable interest United the rest of the Nation. These construc rates. Annual: States tion-related industries did not partici HUD and FmHA should take the re 1971 ------~--- 28,300 pate in the growth in employment dur sponsibility of teaching community of 1972 ------30,500 ing the 1973 to 1975 period, but rather 1973 ------35,500 ficials in rural areas the intricacies of 1974 ------38,900 contributed to the unemployment prob preparing housing assistance applica 1975 ------42,600 lem. Lumber and wood products, whose tions. Many of the smaller communities Quarterly: fortunes are tied closely to the depressed in my district lack the expertise to put 1974: national constrµction industry, lost together an acceptable housing proposal. 1st quarter ------(NA) 1,400 jobs, with employment dropping In fact, most towns in western Montana 2d quarter ------(NA) from 9,700 in 1973 to 8,300 in 1975, de have part-time mayors. In one county in 3d quart.er ------(NA) 4th quarter ------(NA) creasing to 3.5 percent of the State's Montana, the county manager is also the 1975: workers. In contract construction, em county clerk and recorder, treasurer, as 1st quarter ------40, 900 ployment dropped from a high of 14,000 sessor and clerk of the district court. Its 2d quarter ------42, 600 workers in 1973 to 12,600 in 1975, falling sheriff is also the janitor at the court 3d quarter------42,200 from 6.1 to 5.3 percent of Montana's house. Technical assistance from Federal 4th quarter------44,400 workforce. The 10-percent unemploy housing agencies could greatly beneflt 1976: ment rate implied by these figures, how such a county. 1st quarter ------46, 100 ever, was only half the national rate for In addition, planning and funding The factors of high mortgage rates, construction workers. The 2,800 work services for small, nongrowth commu high priced houses, and little effort by ers no longer employed in these two in nities should be available, especially in the Government agencies to build houses dustries together make up some 10 per rural areas. Many towns are stagnant have combined to cause a serious crip cent of the total of 28,000 unemployed and miss out on many Federal moneys pling of western Montana's saw mills workers in the State. for which they are eligible. operators and have put many contractors MONTANA HOUSING NEEDS To administer these services, addi out of business. Many mill owners and Montana's housing needs are great. Al tional staff members should be moved in housing contraotors in my district will most one-fourth of Montana's rural to rural areas. Housing assistance ap never again operate because of the un housing is deficient. Of the 240,000 units plications are growing, and the current predictability of the wood products and in 1970, approximately 9 percent lacked staff levels cannot handle the increas housing industries. some or all plumbing facilities and al ing load. Also, there is a lack of person THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN MONTANA most 10 percent housed more than one nel to inspect onsite development proj Montana's economic situation, as person per room. There was little over ects, although this seems to be changing measured in per capita income, has lap between the overcrowded units and somewhat in my district. Many houses showed a somewhat faster rate of growth, those with inadequate plumbing facili are not built according to Federal although still remaining below the na ties. Some 7 percent did not have com standards and should be examined more. tional average. The Montana 1974 aver plete kitchen facilities, although many Consolidation of rural housing au age, as reported by the U.S. Bureau of of these are probably included in those thorities would help smaller towns. HUD Economic Analysis Survey of Current lacking plumbing. There were 8,000 va and FmHA should fully consolidate the Business-August 1975-of $4,956 was 91 cant units with standard plumbing fa section 8 and FmHA 515 programs percent of the national $5,443, compared cilitie§ in 1970, and some substandard whereby the developer need only to ap with 88 percent in 1970. units may have been rehabilitated, but ply to FmHA. The separation of these The failure to crutch up more quickly not all of Montana's housing needs have two programs builds unnecessary bu may ha.ve been a reflection of the greater been met. reaucracy, wastes taxpayers money, and unemployment Montana suffered in the Mr. Speaker, that concludes my anal causes developers to lose enthusiasm for past 2 years. In January 1974, my State's ysis of the housing situation in the these programs. The establishment of unemployment rate had already reached United States, with particular emphasis rural housing authorities to carry out an unadjusted rate of 8.5 percent, com on my State of Montana. Thus far I have the various housing programs would pro pared with a national unadjusted rate of concentrated on the problems of the vide a special focus on rural housing 5.2 percent. During 1974, Montana's un problems and should create interest employment continued to increase, 1 On this point, I am most grateful to among the developers. reaching 9 percent in January, 1975, Maxine Johnson, Director of the Bureau of A rural liaison office in HUD should when the Nation's rate was 8.2 percent. Business and Economic Research and Pro be established. Travel constraints, urban By June of this year, the last month for fessor of Management in the School of BuSil orientation, reliance on the private mar ness Administraltion at the University of which figures are available, Montana's Montana. for her article entitled. Montana's ket, and requirements for larger scale rate had dropped to 8.1 percent, still too Economy-Where it Has Been and Where it projects now constrain Federal officials high but not much different from the na ls Going, Montana Business Quarterly, 1976, from effectively and enthusiastically en tional 8 percent in the same month. P. 27. dorsing rural housing programs. ·More July 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24603 travel money should be given to the Den and not included in many of our own Doctors and Their Patients" which ap ver regional HUD office which is respon committees' rules--was necessary to pro pears in the July 1976 issue of Private sible for its projects in Montana. The tect free exchanges of ideas and discus Practive. Denver office also serves several of the sions of national strategies in agencies As a medical doctor who has directly other large Rocky Mountain States and like the Federal Reserve, the Securities experienced the harmful effects these frequently its staff cannot afford trips to and Exchange Commission, and the Fed policies have on many patients, I en Montana to inspect housing projects. eral Trade Commission. thusiastically call this article to your HUD should develop adequate statis The amendment redefining a "meet attention. tics for long-range rural housing plan ing" will avoid a fuzziness that would in LET'S RESTORE MEDICAL FREEDOM TO DOCTORS ning and also make comparisons between vite unnecessary legal action, and make AND THEm PATIENTS subsidized housing accomplishments and the bill more workable. (By Congressman STEVE SYMMs-Research proposed goals and budgets. This would In general, the sunshine bill is a useful Associates: Paula Hawks-Deluca & Larry cut down on duplication and the con step forward in opening up the processes L. Wasem) struction of unnecessary housing proj of government. There will undoubted EDrroR's NoTE.-Since the 1962 Kefauver ects and would save taxpayer funds. It ly be some problems which can be re amendments to the Food, Drug, and Cos would also prevent piecemeal, hit-and solved by future amendments, but the metic Act, the FDA has had authority to miss approaches to rural housing devel bill, as it passed the House, is a good one. regulate the efficacy as well as the safety of opment. Hopefully, the Senate will not, in its drugs. This has led directly to the dramatic decrease in new drugs marketed. We can FmHA's research capacity should also normally excessive enthusiasm, overdec only guess at the suffering and death thereby be developed to study the impact of its orate the bill. It is important to bring it caused. Congressman Symms (Republican, programs, such as water and sewer into operation as soon as possible, and Idaho) has introduced legislation, HR 12573, grants and loa.ns to small communities. Senate overexuberance is likely to cause to repeal the 1962 Amendments and thereby Along with this, technological innova delay. expand the medical freedom of choice of tions should be encouraged wherever While we bask in ·somebody else's sun doctors and patients. His bill would leave possible, such as for the use of solar shine, it is well to remember that the the determination of efficacy where it be energy. Building regulations should be House record for openness is still poor. longs-in the free marketplace. As was the We still have no "verbatim record" case before 1962, m11lions of decisions by more :flexible to conform to the climatic practicing physicians and their patien~s needs of the northern States and to an in the House. Our CONGRESSIONAL RECORD would determine which drugs worked and ticipate future energy uses. Many FmHA is an exercise in "It might have been." which didn't. homes are built in Montana according to Our committees do not provide public ac The Food and Drug Administration, espe housing standards for the South. In cess to verbatim transcripts. Our demo cially since 1962, has embarked upon a cam Montana, many homes have single crat "King Caucus" has no transcripts at paign of regulatory overkill that has had walled installation in areas with subzero all. A bill to provide TV and radio cov dire effects upon sick Americans. The result has been therapeutic nihilism. temperatures; some homes have stick-on erage of House floor proceedings is lan The story of Floyd Mizell, PhD, of Boga shingles in areas of high winds; and the guishing in the Rules Committee, a vic lusa, Louisiana, provides a classic illustra plumbing in some· homes freezes in the tim of leadership pressure. The bill to tion of how the FDA has suppressed drug winter making them unlivable. improve disclosure by lobbyists seems to innovation. Dr. Mizell's dental drug was used Mr. Speaker, that concludes my sur be making no progress. and highly valued by a few dentists using vey of the state of housing industry na While we are patting ourselves on the it on a trial basis. It enabled them to save tionally and its impact on Montana. I back for letting sunshine into other folks' even abcessed teeth from extraction. He was hope and trust that my colleagues on business, we ought to try a little of our encouraged to seek FDA approval of the own. drug so it could be marketed. He found that the Committee on Banking, currency such approval would be far too costly, and and Housing continue to be aware of the sought the help of researchers at a dental housing problems in rural areas and ex school in New Orleans. Prior to getting an pand their work to solve these problems. NDA to market the drug, Dr. Mizell had to CONGRESSMAN SYMMS SPEAKS ON have clinical tests. But before he could con MEDICAL FREEDOM duct such tests, with the help of the dental school, he had to secure an IND from the FDA. To get an IND, one must have con "SUNSHINE" ducted some prior tests. This "Catch--:J2" HON. LARRY McDONALD caught Dr. Mizell. His drug will be marketed OF GEORGIA overseas, as are many products of American HON. BILL FRENZEL IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES innovators. And American patients who OF MINNESOTA Thursday, July 29, 1976 might have benefitted from his drug will be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES deprived of it by government edict. The FDA Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, our has become so involved as a drug censor, it Thursday, July 29, 1976 colleague from Idaho, STEVE SYMMS, re has forgotten its affirmative duties to bi"ing Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, yester cently introduced legislation which has new, more effective drugs to market day I was pleased to vote for the "Gov already received a great deal of attention promptly. ernment in .the sunshine bill," because its and support. Aptly titled the "Medical FDA PREMISES RE-EXAMINED worst :flaws had been cured by amend Freedom of Choice Act," the bill would Let's look at the five premises µpon whicb. ment. repeal the 1962 amendments to the Food, the FDA drug policy is based. Dr. William Wardell of the University of Rochester The sunshine bill is a logical follow Drug and Cosmetic Act which require a Medical School summarizes them as follows: up to previous actions taken to open up new drug to be proven not only safe but 1. "Therapeutics drugs should be proven day-to-day Federal operations to public effective before it may be marketed. to be safe and effective for their intended scrutiny. In 1972, we opened up the meet As Congressman SYMMs has pointed uses"; ings of executive branch advisory com out, the efficacy law not only denies 2. "Committees of experts are better able mittees. In 1973 House Resolution 259 American citizens the freedom to choose to judge the safety, efficacy, and appropriate pried open some of our own processes: perfectly safe medical treatments, but usage of drugs than are individual physi 1974 saw significant amendments to the has stifled innovation and development cians"; 3. "Access of a drug to the market is the Freedom of Information Act; and 1975 of new drugs. Many Americans are now most crucial and appropriate point at which was the year in .which Senate commit forced to travel to foreign countries to to exert control over drugs. Strict control tees and conference committees began to receive safe and effective medical treat over marketing will optimize drug utilization. open. ment that is not permitted in our coun A regulatory agency is the most appro The bill passed yesterday was an im try because the FDA spends 7 years or so priate tool to exert such control"; portant reaffirmation of our commitment studying an application to market a 4. "New drug candidates should be ex to the principle of open government. new drug. haustively evaluated, first preclinically, and then clinically, to ensure that they are safe Three important amendments were Clearly the basic premises underlying and effective"; adopted to improve the bill yesterday. the FDA drug policy require reexamina 5. "No drug shoud be admitted to the The amendment deleting the verbatim tion. And this is precisely what Congress market or approved for a. hew use until the transcript requirement-a requirement man SYMMs does in an incisive article criteria. for safety and efficacy have been not included in any State's sunshine law, titled "Let's Restore Medical Freedom to satisfied." 24604 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1976 Dr. Wardell shows these assumptions to appears that FDA's assumption 'that the ear the effi.cacy of old drugs which have been be lllogical. The first premise would be sound, liest tests of a drug upon man are the most placed on the market in the years since 1938, he points out, were it not for the fact that hazardous ls equally lllfounded. Indeed, early the additional cost to drug companies to "safety" and "effi.cacy" have never been de testing may be the safest. Carr conducted a secure approval of new drugs because of more fined in operational terms appropriate for a. study at a prison testing unit in Michigan in strigent regulations, and the government's scientific evaluation of drugs. (One of the ad which 14,000 volunteers had participated in expenditures to support the administrative vocates of more FDA regulation, Senator Gay 300 tests over the course of seven years. There operations of the FDA in enforcing the lord Nelson, recently said, "Drugs are either was not one incident of serious toxicity. Sub Amendments, and arrives at a total of $12 safe and effective or they aren't. There can jects of such testing were carefully monitored billion in costs !or the first 12 years of the be no in-between.") Dr. Wardell asks, what and dosages are carefully controlled. Wide Amendments' existence. concrete standards exist for a scientist to spread toxicity can only occur after a drug But the Amendments have also delayed determine how much "safety" and "efficacy has been approved for marketing and is used the marketing of new, more effective drugs. are enough? Under the FDA rules, the stand chronically. The third assumption about "ex These delays have meant that illne~es which ards are insufficient at best. A drug which haustive" premarketing studies ignores the could have been shortened by an existing new produces a highly desirable effect in a mi fact that a large number of patients cannot drug have, instead, been prolonged and that nority of patients will be rated ineffective feasibly be studied in an intensive manner. some dealths have occurred. Profe~or Sam if that minority is small enough or if it is To have a 95 % chance of detecting a side Peltzman of the University of Chicago esti not properly recognized. As things now stand, effect with a frequency of one in 100, 300 mates the loss due to missed benefits at $300 FDA's subjective judgments as to efficacy patients would be required. For some drugs, to $400 milUon annually. From this, he sub for "society as a whole" wlll prevail, and clinical pharmacologists estimate that 15,000 tracts any gains attributed to the law and the minority of patients who could have or more patients would be necessary for ex arrives at a figure of $250 to $350 in net losses benefitted from a drug discovery are ignored. haustive premarketing studies. for American patients. This is above and be Underlying this first premise is the FDA's The fifth premise, at this point, scarcely yond the $12 billion cost for administrative notion that appropriate uses for a. drug can deserves rebuttal. There are no objective and additional testing expenses. be clearly distinguished from inappropriate standards for determining safety and effi.cacy, FDA CONTRAINDICATION: DRUG LAG uses. But this is true only in the context of nor is there any way that a drug can be ex Everyone (including the FDA) talks about an individual patient--and even then, this haustively evaluated before it is introduced the drug lag, but no one is taking the de knowledge is established empirically. The in the market. cisive steps nece~ary to remedy it. Several trial-and-error nature of a. good deal of Important drugs such as penicillin, digi experts have conducted comprehensive medical therapy is familiar to all practicing talis, aspirin, and fiuroxene might not have studies of the drug lag, enumerating specific physicians. Dr. Wardell argues, that "as long received FDA approval if discovered after drugs which were made available in the U.S. as there is need for trial-and-error by in 1962. Pencillin has a markedly toxic effect only after years of availability overseas. Also dividual physicians for individual patients, upon guinea pigs and the other drugs have included in this listing are drugs which are 'appropriate use' must remain an individual appreciable toxic effects upon both animals still unavailable in this country. The ,8-block concept, not a community concept." There and humans. ers provide a dramatic illustration of the fore, the evalution of safety and efficacy must Although the British Health Service is a problem. remain an individual concept. It, like any medical and financial disaster, Britain is way Of the ,8-blockers, only propranolol ls therapeutic decision, is a very personal deci ahead of us in drug regulation. The former available in the U.S. The only approved use sion which must be made by individual chairman of the Safety of Drugs Committee for the drug was the treatment of cardiac ar pnys1c1ans wno have special knowledge of in Britain, Dr. Derrick Dunlop, notes that: rhythmias, until relatively recently. Over their individual patients. "The main difference between the two sys seas, two of the major indications for the The second premise that "committees of tems is that ultimate power to license medi drug were angina and hypertension. Both the experts" are best qualified to make decisions cines in the United Kingdom rests with the American and British literature were replete affecting the whole community is debunked, Licensing Authority acting on the profes with articles advocating the use of this drug in large part, by the argument made above. sional advice of the Safety Committees. The for angina. Despite all this, propranolol was In addition, there ls a fundamental conflict decisions of these committees are taken by not approved for treatment of angina. in the in operation here-between the individual men whose careers in no way depend upon U.S. until 1973 and is still not approved for and society. The individual physician wants their membership of the committees on which treating hypertension. to provide the best possible therapy for his they serve part-time in a. virtually honorary A dozen new drugs in the ,8-blocking fam individual patients, but the regulatory agency capacity as an altruistic chore. They are as lly have been introduced overseas that dif wants to minimize the incidence of toxicity sisted, of course, by a. small staff of expert fer from propranolol by demonstrating the in the entire community. Thus, regulations professional civil servants ... but the deci following characteristics: ca.rdioselectivity, designed to protect the majority will often sions are taken by the committees. In the intrinsic sympathomimetic activity, and less deny great benefits to a minority. This essen US, on the other hand, ultimate power rests membrane-depressant activity. The newer tial conflict is aggravated by the tendency with the full-time professional civil servants members of the drug family are still under of a regula. tory body such as FDA to make of the FDA whose careers depend on the cor going investigation in the US, and the in excessive allowances for "worst-case" possi rectness of their decisions, and who are sub vestigation was halted at one time because bilities. The policy is one of too much caution ject to formidable grilllngs by Congressional of FDA's suspicion that ,8-blockers might in the approval of new drugs and drug uses, committees. The FDA has to work under produce tumors in one strain of mouse. Dr. and emphasis upon adverse safety data with fairly rigid rules by Congress, which seem to Wardell carefully analyzes the risk-benefit inadequate attention to drug benefits. rely more upon animal experiments than is decisions being made by the FDA in the The third premise is over come by the ar usual in the UK." testing of ,8-blockers and concludes: gument that the true aim of the FDA is not Dr. Dunlop has stated, on another occasion, The important point 1s that this type of to control the marketing of drugs, but to that he hoped any new regulation of drugs risk-benefits decision should ultimately be control the way in which drugs are used. in England would not follow the US scheme made by single physicians for individual pa Most effective drugs a.re hazardous to some of requiring proof of efficacy. He says, "I be tients, rather than a regulatory agency for degree, and all drugs are hazardous if mis lieve there is evidence of increasing doubt, society as a whole. There exist identifiable used. But for even the most hazardous drugs even in quarters antagonistic to industry, groups of patients who obtain great benefit there are some patients for whom the bene that these regulatory efforts may not only from certain ,8-blockers in angina. or hyper fits outweigh the risk. Should our regulatory fall short of their objective but may actually tension, yet who cannot tolerate proP,ran policy allow the FDA to deny these drugs to undermine it." olol. For some of these patients, common the patients who would benefit from them? r Messrs. Grabowski, Vernon, and Thomas of sense could clearly indicate use of the newer think not. By granting vast premarketing Duke University commented, in a pa.per they ,8-blockers. The need to make decisions of controls to the FDA, Congress has missed the presented at the 1975 American University this type has long been commonplace in whole point. Any prophylactic efforts of Seminar on Public Polley and Drug Innova the agency-if they are desirable at all tion, that-- medicine. The only new element ... is that should be limited to requiring safety but not the decisions are now being ta.ken by com "The greater use of external professional mittees on behalf of all physicians and all efficacy. advfce in the UK apparently has produced a patients. The fourth premise sounds convincing, but regulatory incentive structure which is less it rests on some shaky assumptions about the prone to bias in the direction of caution and Critics of the FDA's rapture with animal value of animal toxicity studies, the degree toxicity studies point out that the FDA delay. This, combined with the greater reli has required _ additional carcinogenicity of hazard in early drug tests upon man, and ance on medical judgment rather than formal studies of .B-blockers on animals even the "exhaustiveness,. which can be attained regulatory controls, has meant a system with though the number of humans 1n other much shorter time lags 1n the 1ntroduct1on by any premarket clinical testing. L1tchfleld's countries currently using the drugs 1s many 1962 study indicates that the FDA may be of new products than has been the case in ' the US." times greater than the number of animals way off base when it places great faith in the that could be realistically contemplated for predictive value of tests upon anlmals. In this WHAT'S THE TAB? toxicity tests. The American taxpayers' study, it was found that more than half the As we examine the profit and loss reports money might be better spent in sending a toxic effects of six drugs upon man were on the 1962 Amendments, it's obvious that crew of FDA investigators overseas to study missed by animal screens. And 20 % of the there is a net loss. Dr. Francis Davis, PRIVATE hum.an patients instead of wasting precious toxicity predictions based upon animal stud PRACTICE'S publishers, adds up the expendi time and dollars to pump animals full of ies were incorrect when applied to man. It tures by pharmaceutical companies to prove ,8-blockers. July 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24605 As compared with other developing na subject. The bill is presently pending be the chairman of the Senate's only Constitu tions, our drug lag is blatant. During the fore a judiciary subcommittee. I am tional Rights panel. years 1965 to 1969, France showed an aver Senator Edward M. Kennedy: having excerpts from those articles re For the last five years various Senators, age lead time of one year in introduction printed here so that my colleagues in of new drugs. Germany's average lead time including myself, have labored unsuccess as contrasted with the US was 1.6 years, and the House may have the benefit of their fully in an effort to place some meaningful England's average lead time was 2.1 years. analyses. The item entitled "Legitimizing statutory restrictions on the so-called "in These averages hide even more dramatic the Buggers," is an editorial: · herent power" of the Executive to engage in drug lag in the case of specific drugs. Co "LEGAL" BUGGING? PR.OS AND CONS OF S. 3197 electronic surveillance for the purpose of ob trimoxazole was introduced in the US five taining foreign intelligence information. Charles Morgan Jr. : Bills have been introduced only to die a slow years after becoming available in Britain. Attorney General Levi and Senaitor The US was the 106th nation to approve the death in committee; speeches have been Kennedy wrote it. Liberals and conservatives made only to fall on deaf ears; inquiries drug. Fenfluramine was approved for use in co-sponsored and voted for it. President Ford the US nine years after its introduction in made of the Nixon administration were wm sign it. With that kind of bipartisan sup ignored or answered in a halfhearted way. Britain. port from the Washington Establishment, Dr. Lewis Sarett in Research Management The sad fact is that despite five yea.rs of ef there must be something wrong with it. fort by a small group of Senators the rule of says that from 1962 until 1972, development And there is: "The Foreign Intelligence costs per New Chemical Entity rose from law simply has not applied to foreign intelli Surveillance Act" (S. 3197) is a clever de gence electronic surveillance. $1.2 million to $11.5 million. In addition, he ception, another manifestation of Washing suggests that total development time for an Until this year. On March 23 I introduced ton's habitual thirst for compromise at all S. 3197, a bill designed to regulate such sur NCE was 2.5 years in 1962 as contrasted with costs and of the liberals' weakness for the 7.5 to 10 years in 1972. veillance. This legislation would require that illusion of reform at the expense of the all such surveillance be subject to a require v. A. Mund, in "The Return on Investment substance. Of course, the supporters of this of the Innovative Pharmaceutical Firm," has ment that, before such surveillance could measure will disagree. They will claim that occur, a named executive branch ofllcial cer looked at the R&D costs of the drug industry the Senate Judiciary Committee's June 14th and concludes that whereas it used to take tify in writing and· under oath that c;;uch · approval of the wiretap bill by an over surveillance is necessary to obtain foreign $1.5 million to produce a new single entity, whelming 11-to-1 vote represents a happy, it now takes $15 million. intelligence information. It would, for the even "historic," moment-resolving the long first time, expressly limit whatever inherent WHERE FROM HERE? standing stalemate between the executive power the President may have (the Supreme Several years ago, Dr. Edward Freis, who and legislative branches over the President's Court has never resolved this issue) to en won the 1971 Lasker Award for his studies of "inherent power" to order wiretaips and bug gage in such surveillance in the United hypertension, was heard to lament that no gings for "national security" purposes. States. It would provide civil and criminal new anti-hypertensives had been put on the To be sure, the bill does provide for mini sanctions to those who violate its provisions. U.S. market since 1963. When I contacted mal judicial supervision over these activities. Just as important is the fact that, at long Dr. Freis about my legislation, he exclaimed, But this is the quinitessence of the deception, last, legislation restricting such surveillance "Do you mean commonsense may yet prevail for it disguises a host of nasty concessions has a better than reasonable chance of Sen in the Congress?" We can always entertain that go far toward legitimizing a permanent ate passage. It was the first time in more than that hope! I am optimistic that my colleagues national security state. eight years that any comprehensive elec in the Congress will react favorably to the Only John Tunney, the Democratic Senator tronic surveillance legislation had been re repeal of the 1962 law once they are presented from California and the successor to Sam ported out of the Senate JudiciM'y Com with the facts. Doctors and patients alike Ervin as chairman of the Constitutional mittee. can be of tremendous help in this legislative Rights Subcommittee, ca.red enough to vote Now comes Christopher H. Pyle in the May effort, by writing their own Congressmen and against the consensus. 29th issue of "The Nation" labeling the legis demanding that individual freedom of choice Senator Tunney's debate with the other lation "regressive," calling it a "fraud" and be restored to physicians and patients. members of the Judiciary Committee cen urging its defeat. Aware of his well-inten I believe that far more Americans want to tered on his objections to the elusiveness of tioned concern, nevertheless I believe that be protected from government ofllcials than the blll's definitions (what does "clandestine the defeat of this bill would be tragic. Legis want to be protected from their own physi intelligence activity" mean?) and the bill's lation can hardly be labeled "regressive" cians. Recent opinion polls show politicians authorization (for the first time in history) which, for the first time, attempts to place as low men on the totem pole of public of bugs, wiretaps, and brea.kins of U.S. citi foreign intelligence electronic surveillance esteem. Doctors are rated very high, despite zens who are committing no crime. under the rule of law. Mr. Pyle's concern over the best efforts of the "progressives" in Con On the Senate :floor Tunney will emphasize the "funny warrant" requirement ignores gress who seek headlines by criticizing the the bill's faults: the bill's silence on National the fact that today there is no warrant re medical profession and by attempting to Security Agency taps and bugging of Amer quirement at all ("funny" or otherwise), shackle its members with government regula icans abroad; the disclaimer section that con and that the courts currently have absolutely tion. Some say that my legislation ls an at tinues to acknowledge the President's "in no role to play whatsoever in this area. tempt to "turn back the clock." But what herent power" to act virtually as he pleases Nor should he give such short shrift to the has really turned back the clock on drug de whenever he deems it necessary and thereby certification procedure. This bill requires a velopment in America? The Congress, the vitiates even the minim.el protections estab named executive branch ofllcial to certify in FDA, and the 1962 Amendments. lished in the preceding sections; the bizarre, writing that the surveillance is necessary. The garden variety American has common last-minute inclusion of a moratorium on all There can be no "passing the bucl;::" on the sense. He knows that the most ineffective controls whenever new and presumably more issue of responsibility and authorization; in drug is the one which is not on the market sophisticated electronic equipment is being any civil or criminal litigation the executive when he needs it! "tested"; the ways and means of conducting designee will be called on to justify his "pre-tap" investigations to determine actions. whether the target is an agent of a foreign Many of Mr. Pyle's other specific criticisms power and to identify the preferred location have been met by amendments to the blll: for the subsequent e1.ectronic survelllance; for example, the Presidential disclaimer has FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEIL and the circumvention of normal judicial LANCE ACT EXAMINED been completely rewritten to clarify the Con process rto allow the Chief Justice secretly to gressional limitations on the Executive's in hand-pick seven special judges and to pro herent power; any person aid1ng a foreign hibit other federal judges from ruling on agency who is acting "pursuant to the direc HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN warrant applications. OF :MASSACHUSETTS tion of a foreign power" must be a knowing Tunney's lonely courage was obscured by participant; and the bill has been apprecia IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the sound and fury surrounding the Judi bly altered to provide access by a defendant ciary Committee's approval the same day of Thursday, July 29, 1976 to materials obtained by means of this sur the oil divestiture bill. But there is &till time veillance and subsequently used in a criminal Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, the For to slow the Washington Establishment's rush to judgment-provided, of course, that the proceeding. eign Intelligence Surveillance Act of two committees that stlll have jurlf'Aiiction The bill is not perfect but I am hopeful 1976 four STRONG OBJECTION TO FPC NAT I know that the concern for human economy impinging on their's. URAL GAS PRICE RISE rights for all Irish men and women will We say full employment does not entail be translated into positive accomplish galloping inflation. This period has demol ments in behalf of peace in Ireland by ished the myth of the "Phlllips curve".. As HON. H. JOHN HEINZ III Matty Higgins and Jack Keane. jobs moved down and prices went up, ex The articles follow: actly the opposite of its predicted motion OF PENNSYLVANIA [From the National Hibernian Digest, July occurred. The auto industry dramatically IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES threw hundreds of thousands out of work August 1976] and simultaneously lifted the prices of its Thursday, July 29, 1976 NATIONAL PRESIDENT RENEWS PEACE INITIATIVE cars. The building trades have not seen such Mr. HEINZ. Mr. Speaker, I object IN LETTER TO NEW BRITISH PB.i'IME MINISTER unemployment since the depression of the strongly to the decision announced Tues Rt. Hon. JAMES CALLAGHAN, thirties, and yet the prices of houses a.re so day by the Federal Power Commission Prime Mintster, Parliament House, Westmin high that home ownerships is once a.gain ster, London, England the American dream for only 15 to 20 percent that would result in massive price in Mr. PRIME MINISTER: Approximately two of the dreamers. creases in the price of natural gas from years ago, and With a feeling of cautious The most appalling waste in times of high existing wells, and applaud the Federal optimism, my predecessor, Hon. Edward J. unemployment is the human deterioration court panel decision to stay the action Fay of Pittsburgh, wrote to your predeces that idleness induces. The question that until the decision can be fully studied. sor, Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, suggesting that should haunt us most is that self-respect and The court's decision will save con the best hope for peace in IreLand lay in the self-confidence are drained away as enforced sumers about $4.1 million a day. ultimate disengagement of the English pres idleness keeps people from the sense of use ence from Irish affairs. Our optimism was fulness a job provides. How haunted are we Mr. Speaker, I believe the FPC de based upon the fact that, whilst leader of by the presence of parents without employ cision to raise prices to be both without Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, he had sug ment who must retain the respect of their justification and without purpose. gested a definite 15-yea.r disengagement children? How haunted are we by the literal If, as the FPC says, it is trying to stim process. ly millions of young peoplle who are enter ulate production of new natural gas Unhappily our optimism was short-lived~ ing adulthood without any work experience sources, then it should raise only the Mr. Wilson's government fell into the same or any possibility of finding a. job? price of new gas-that is, gas discovered trap as his Tory predecessor's. Lacking any Recently, the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill after a date today or in the future. :fl.rm Irish policy, H.M. Government seeks (H.R. 50-S. 50) has been introduced in short-term military solutions to what is es Congress: my belief is that this wise piece Instead, the FPC has raised the price sent1a.lly a political problem. of legislation would go a long way toward of a great amount of gas that has al The recent introduction of more SAS troops making the American dream-of fruitful ready been discovered and is already into those six of divided Ulster's nine coun: work and a place in society-a reality. Pas being produced. Not only will that do ties known as "Northern Ireland" is an event sage would be in the American tradition that nothing to stimulate discovery, it will which the present generation of the Irish brought about the enactment of Social Secu serve only to hit the consumer directly in people regard as a virtual return of the rity Legislation and Unemployment Compen the pocketbook. "Black and Tans." Such terror tactics did not sation Insurance, which over the years has pacify Ireland in the 1920's, nor can they be done much to provide dignity and a sense of Nowhere has the FPC judged the im expected to work today. All that this accom security to many who would otherwise be pact of its decision upon the gas user plishes 1S to violate the truce, aggravate the leading lives of misery. The Humphrey who must live on a fixed income. No situation, make England a.gain liable to Hawkins Blll would place the responsibility where has the FPC judged the indirect judgment before the European Commission on government to plan for jobs for all who impact of its decision-that is, the im on Human Rights at Strasbourg, and are willing to work: pact on the price of goods and services strengthen the resolve of the nationalist 1. The President is directed to shape both that depend upon natural gas for the community to be free. We suggest that this short-term and long-term plans for a full policy 1s unworthy of any government calling employment economy and submit the plan production proceess. itself "civillzed." to Congress. The President's budget must be Mr. Speaker, the FPC has attempted Rather than piecemeal military responses tailored to produce full employment. to add at least $1.5 billion to the national to the sporadic symptoms, it would be far 2. Most jobs would continue to be provided fuel bill. It would only mean new prices, better to seek to cure the disease itself by by private business. But if the economy fal- not new gas, and it must be stopped. removing the ultimate cause of the malady, 24610 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1976 1.e., remove the presence of a. foreign body, Mr. Higgins will be succeeding Mr. Micha.el a friend of the West, but domestically, English infiuence, from Ireland. Such re Dela.hunty, who resigned because of business there was a consistent contradiction of moval ought not be precipitous, but rather and his newly elected position as Commis the meaning of Western democracy that a. responsible, orderly, phased withdrawal, sioner of Montclair, N .J. coupled with a general amnesty for all po it was supposedly being crippled. Family litical prisoners. The framework for this ac identity, tribal affiliation, religious con tiVity must be an English declaration of in viction, and fanatic sectarianism deter tent to be quit of Ireland by a. specific date; THE SUDAN: A MODEL FOR PEACE mined one's position in the political hier only under this condition ca.n we reasonably AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA archy. The non-Arab South was politi expect all Irish parties to negotiate for a new cally economically, a.pd socially subju Ireland rather than seek to perpetuate the gated to the Arab-North. The outcome artificial differences which have divided a HON. DON BONKER minority from the majority in the past. was the southern violent opposition that Charging that American support of the OF WASHINGTON triggered off a 17-year civil war which "Provisional" IRA is responsible for the cur IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES caused great social disruption with much rent conflict is nothing more than a vain Thursday, July 29, 1976 damage to life and property and para search for a scapegoat (regarding the New lyzed economic development throughout York Times article alleging a. U.S. Intel Mr. BONKER. Mr. Speaker, our coun the country. President Nimeiri did much ligence report claiming such major American try has recently been honored with a to correct these inequities. He gave the arms and financial support for the IRA cam private visit from President Gaafar Mo paign, a. recent letter from the U.S. Deputy rural populace a direct political voice Assistant Secretary of Defense (International hamed Nimeiri of the Democratic Re and removed the religious and tribal Affairs) denies the existence "of any U.S. public of the Sudan, a man who has done middlemen who had abused the voice of Mllita.ry Intelligence Report on this sub much to reform his country and to lead the people they had purported to repre ject.") You avoid coming to grips with the it in actively undertaking the role of sent. The disparity of the southern situa real ca.use of the confiict and you ignore the intermediating for peace within Africa tion ended with the highly acclaimed real reason for the success of the "Provos" of and the Middle East. His visit has given Addis Ababa agreement which gave the the IRA. The real cause is English mis-gov many of us insight into his domestic ernment in Ireland and the activity of a South regional autonomy within national politically partisan British Army whose pres achievements and his regional and inter unity. It is the first and only peaceful ence is so unnatural as to in itself cause con national aspirations for t>eace and har settlement of ethnic con:flicts in a con tinued conflict. The real reason for the suc mony. I believe we will do well to re:flect tinent permeated by similar problems. cess of the "Provisional" Irish Republican on some of these, ·to see what meaning This pea.Ce settlement which came after Army is not any amount of American or for they hold for us in the United States, a long indecisive war is a model not only eign support, but rather that they have the and to ponder over what we can do to for Africa but indeed for the world. support of the minds and hearts of the local assist this man and his nation achieve Having successfully mobilized the rural people in Ireland, particularly in that two thirds of the Province of Ulster which still the human objectives they have set for population and satisfied the regional feels first-hand the weight of English rule. themselves both in their own interest southern aspirations, the Government Until you admit these facts to yourself, you and in the interest of humanity at large. was assured of peace, unity, and stability and Ireland will remain trapped in an ever President Nimeiri's visit was moti and cbuld then embark on the construc deepening cycle of violence and retribution. vated by the desire to demonstrate good tive task of accelerating economic and You will be able to find no English solution will to the Government and people of social development. The Sudan has al to the Irish problem because England is the the United States, to exchange views on ways been known for its immense nat problem. Recent pronouncements against American major regional and international issues, ural resources, especially pronounced in assistance for the suffering victims of the and to explore, broaden, and deepen the agriculture and livestock, but also ex current troubles merely signals to us that bases of cooperation, especially in devel tending widely into fishery, forestry, wild Her Majesty's Government is gearing up _for opment, for which he emphasizes the game, and minerals. The Government intensified conflict in Ireland and warns us role of the private sector. To achieve this wisely decided to give priority to the de that we must redouble our own efforts if we objective, President Nimeiri brought velopment of agriculture and agri-indus a.re to be able to give succor to the innocent with him a rather large delegation com try where the potentials are greatest and victims of such an erroneous policy. Rest assured that Americans generally, and Irish promising ministers from the fields of the needs urgent in view of the impend America particularly, recognize that we a.re foreign affairs, finance and national ing world food crisis, and the particular our brother's keepers. Our response to the economy, agriculture, education, indus demands of the Middle East. Conserva World War Il "Blitz" was "Bundles for try, and transport and communications. tive estimates quantify the amount of Brita.in;" our response to the present suffer The style adopted by the President arable land in the Sudan at 200 million ing is through the Ancient Order of Hiberni and his delegation was unconventional of which less than 10 percent is being ans' Prisoners' Dependents' Fund and other and judging from the reports, most ef actively utilized. legitimate relief agencies. we pray that you will reconsider your fective. While giving Washington its due The country is determined to make a Irish policy lest future historians compare priority and emphasis; meeting with breakthrough in development and has your government's handling of the Irish President Ford, the Senate Committee enacted appropriate legislation to create Question with the way Lord North's govern on Foreign Relations, the House Com a climate conducive to private invest ment handled the American Question for mittee on International Relations, the ment, both domestic and foreign. The King George Ill two hundred yea.rs ago. It Department of State, and a number of Development and Promotion of Agricul would be much better for all concerned if other Federal Government institutions, tural Investment Act stipulates a num you were to take a.s a model the statesman ship of Charles DeGa.ulle, who both pre they visited eight States, meeting with ber of guarantees, concessions and ex served the honor of France and the peace of State government officials and leaders emptions for investors in the field of the Mediterranean whilst disengaging from of the private sector. Both in Washing agriculture. Exemption of custom duty is Algeria. We a.re enclosing an abstract of the ton and throughout the States, the visit granted for the import of necessary ma peace plan proposed two yea.rs ago for your is seen as a success not only because of chinery and equipment. Concessions are consideration. its constructive results, but also because granted in the form of unrestricted Please believe that we are motivated by a of the reported openness and sincerity transfer of capital and profits. Business genuine desire to see not only peace and frt>e dom in Ireland, but also the reconciliation with which President Nimeiri and his profit tax is exempted for periods vary of our peoples, which events Partition aild delegation approached our country and ing from 5 years upwards. The Develop foreign occupation prevent. the enthusiastic reception they got ment and Encouragement of Industrial With a sincere prayer for peace and justice, everywhere they went. From what we Investment Act provides for tax holidays, I am, have come to know about President protection of sales, and a number of Very truly yours, Nimeiri and his country, this positive other inducements. It also provides for JOHN M. "JACK" KEANE, interaction is in large part due to the tax exemption and for the free transfer National President. message the President brought to the of capital and profit. HIGGINS APPOINTED NATIONAL CHAIRMAN United States about the developments Perhaps the most striking feature of National President John Keane announces inside his country and his views on vari the development capability of the Sudan the appointment of Martin Higgins, Nassau ous regional and international issues. is that the country has emerged as a County, N.Y., as National Chairman for the Before President Nimeiri took office in model for tripartite cooperation with the Freedom for All Irela.nd Committee. 1969, the country was viewed by many as the Middle Eastern capital and agri- July 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24611 industrial technology. Oil-rich Middle to the United States, President Nimeiri The increase in the state share of reve Eastern countries are contributing gen met with King Khalid and President nues generated by the leasing and extraction of Federal minerals and the· modernization erously to the agricultural development Sadat to consolidate this strategic co of the Federal coal leasing procedures pro of the Sudan and the newly formed Arab operation. This is a constructive alliance vided in this legislation would have accom Authority for Agricultural Investment to promote the principles which we in the plished two objectives. and Development has chosen the coun United States share with these three First, state and local governments would try as it first model for development countries. have received financial assistance to initiate cooperation. I believe that many factors continue to advance planning, the construction and An important feature of the develop make the Sudan a country we ought to maintenance of public facllities, and the pro look at with favor as our friend. It is the vision of services needed by the influx of peo ment effort in the Sudan is that it aims ple expected to accompany increased Fed at adjusting the imbalances existing be largest country in Africa, an Afro-Arab eral coal development. As Senator Lee Met tween the urban centers and the rural microcosm of the continent, centrally calf so accurately and eloqueµtly has said areas and between the various regions of placed at the borders of eight countries, (CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, June 21, 1976): the country. Nearly every area and vil pursuing a domestic policy of social jus "No other substantial Federal assistance lage in the country is reported to be wit tice that has brought harmony to many is available to the coal-producing states to nessing the profits of development and diverse elements in the country, and de deal · with predicted population increases the process continues to permeate the termined to play a constructive role in triggered by Federal coal development. The new financial resources provided in S. 391 grass roots. promoting peace and understanding in could spell the d.11ference between, on one President Nimeiri's domestic achieve the region and in the world. It has now hand, the chaotic disintegration of a stable ments are matched by his moderate and been over a year since our colleague, Sen life-style dominated by agriculture, together constructive regional and international ator PERCY, entered in the CONGRESSIONAL with all the social ills, and on the other hand, role. His foreign policy aims at maintain RECORD a positive statement on the op an orderly transition to an urban or semi ing friendly relations with all nations. portunities available in the Sudan for in urban lifestyle. He is particularly intent on good rela ternational cooperation in development. Your agreement that the Federal govern President Nimeiri's visit should give us ment should provide assistance to the states tions with his neighbors. Wherever there by increasing our she.re of Federal leasing is confiict, he has first looked to peaceful renewed incentive. For this fast achiev revenues from 37¥2 per cent to 50 per cent, negotiation. He was the first and has re ing nation, time is of the essence and I as stated in your veto message to Congress, mained the only Arab leader to publicly believe it is time to act. is appreciated. support the Second Sinai Agreement. Second, the Federal Coal Leasing Amend Earlier he had invited all Sudanese Jew ments Act of 1975 ha.s been designed to elim ish citizens who had left in reaction to inate the speculative holding of Federal the Middle East conflict to return with TEN GOVERNORS ASK FOR VETO coal leases, assuring development of Federal the guarantee of full rights of citizenship. OVERRIDE ON S. 391---COAL LEAS coal on a timely basis and in a manner bene ING BILL ficial to the public. Nearly sixteen blllion Under his leadership the Sudan has be tons of federal coal have already been le~ed come a country of nondiscrimination on in the western states, but only 242 milllon any grounds including race or religion. tons have been developed. Sudan was the first Arab country to re HON. TENO RONCALIO Conservative estimates indicate that the store diplomatic relations with the United OF WYOMING tonnage available under existing leases could States after they had been broken, fol IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES support over fifty 2,000 megawatt power gen erating stations for forty years. Non etheless, lowing the 1967 war in the Middle East. Thursday, J,uly 29, 1976 the Department of Interior has renewed coal His efforts to mediate over the Eritrean leasing without establishing the need to do conflict in Ethiopia continue. He has Mr. RONCALIO. Mr. Speaker, it is so and without conducting en vironmental many times used his good offices to secure vitally important, not only for the Rocky studies to determine which coal reserves al the relea~e of Americans, Canadians and Mountain States, but for all the Nation, ready leased are acceptable for mining. By Europeans, detained by the Eritreans. that the Congress override the Presi requiring that federal coal lea.sed by the De Despite his achievements at home and dent's veto of S. 391, the Federal Coal partment of Interior be produced within ten efforts on the international level, Presi Leasing Amendments Act of 1975. years and the holders of non-produtive leases dent Nimeiri has been a target for the I would .like to share with my col be ineligible to receive additional leases, s. leagues a letter sent the President by 391 assures the production of coal to achieve forces of extremism, both left and right. to national energy independence. In 1971, the Communists, who had in Montana Gov. Thomas L. Judge, acting With all due respect, Mr. President, I sub filtrated his system, tried to overthrow in his position as chairman of the West mit that the objections in your veto message the Government of the Sudan. After 3 ern Governors' Regional Energy Policy . of S. 391 are unfounded. days of uncertainty, he emerged in con Office-WGREPO. In your July 3d statement, you said that trol and even more popular with the Writing for himself and also on behalf S. 391 "would insert so many rigidities, com Sudanese people, whom I understand are of the Governors. of Arizona, Colorado, plications, and burdensome regulations into Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North the Federal coal leasing procedures that it by disposition anti-Communist govern would inhibit coal production of Federal ment. The President was subjected to Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyo lands, probably raise prices for consumers severe attack from the Communist bloc. ming, Governor Judge expresses "ex and ultimately delay our achievement of en While relations have significantly im treme concern and dissatisfaction" with ergy independence." proved, they have remained rather re the President's veto. Unnecessary and duplicative regulations at served and cautious. President Nimeiri Governor Judge's letter clearly and ac all levels of government clearly should be has survived at least three major coup curately makes the case for S. 391 and its eliminated. But regulations designed to serve attempts which have been engineered importance for the entire United States. efficient ly actual public needs must continue And he points out that the 10 Governor to be established and employed. singly or jointly by the Communists You state that a minimum royalty of 12¥2 and/or the fanastic Muslim rightists. members of WGREPO unanimously "en per cent based on the value of the coal is As the recent events in which foreign dorse and fully support affirmative over more t han is necessary in all cases. This elements attempted to overthrow the riding action by Congress." rate, however, would eliminate inequities regime have shown, it is no longer easy I also include a letter from New Mex noted by the General Accounting Office in its to topple the system. The defeat of this ico Gov. Jerry Apodaca expressing study of royalties. Increasing the minimum latest coup attempt should be interpreted his strong support for the overriding of royalty with a concurrent increase in the this veto. state share would have more evenly distrib by us as a clear indication of the strength uted the costs of coal development. The . of the President's leadership and the The letters follow : Secretary of Interior would still retain dis- country's mature purpose to proceed with STATE OF MONTANA, ·cretionary authority to reduce this royalty its enormous development opportunities Helena, July 23, 1976. to encourage underground mining and the that the Sudan has. Hon. GERALD R. FORD, conservation of coal. The Sudan has joined with Saudi President of the United States, Legislation enacted by the State of Mon The White House, tana. last year increased severence taxes on Arabia and Egypt in cooperation not only Washington, D.C. coal from 10 to 30 per cent, with production against the destructive forces in the area DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: Your veto of s. 391, continuing to expand. Outer Continental but also in united efforts for economic the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of Shelf oil and gas royalties of 16¥2 per cent and social development. Prior to his visit 1975, is most disappointing. have been established with no indication that 24612 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1976 lea.sing and production have been discour Mexico, Link of North Dakota, Kneip of WILLIAMS. COHEN-JULY 29, 1976 aged. A minimum royalty as set forth in S. South Dakota, Rampton of Utah, and Assets: 391 will not render Federal coal uneconomi Herschler of Wyoming join me in expressing Real esta.te--EquitY------$34, 681 cal to mine, provided that the national need our extreme concern and dissatisfaction with Personal Savings______4,900 truly exists. your veto of S. 391. We endorse and fully Ca.sh value on life insurance______1, 880 The undisputed environmental value of support affirmative overriding action by Con the western states, recognized by numerous gress. Stocks ------none Bonds ------none presidents and the Congress for many yea.rs, Sincerely, Household furnishings______3, 000 more than justifies the requirement of s. THOMAS L. JUDGE, Automobiles (2) ------6, 500 391 for reclamation planning. Chairman, Western Governors' Re Specific provisions, requiring lease termi gional Energy Policy Office. Tota.I ______60,961 nation when production ls not attained with Lia.b111ties: in ten yea.rs and the submittal of a mining Loans outstanding______2, 000 and reclamation plan within three yea.rs from STATE OF NEW MEXICO, Santa Fe, July 20, 1976. Issuance of a lease, would not frustrate ac Net worth______48, 961 celerated Federal coal development. On the Hon. TENO RoNCALio, contrary, these provisions would insure it. U.S. Representative, State of Wyoming, Long Production requirements in S. 391 a.re less worth House Office Building, Washing stringent than Interior's new regulations, ton, D.C. but admittedly do not contain language DEAR REPRESENTATIVE RONCALIO: As Gov CONGRESS LOSES A HEALER, which allows an extension to meet specified ernor of one of the nation's largest energy FRIEND, AND COUNSELOR production levels. These statutory provisions producing states, I was greatly distressed to discourage speculative holding of Federal learn of President Ford's recent veto of S. mineral leases. With the mining industry 391, the ,Amendments oo the Mineral Leasing HON. JOSEPH E. KARTH presently stating that at least four to six Act. OF MINNESOTA New Mexico strongly supported the passage years lead time 1s necessary for the purchase IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of required equipment associated with site of this bill. We particularly favored those specific mining plans, the above time se provisions which would give increased min Thursday, July 29, 1976 quence does not appear restrictive. eral royalty return to the states, and would Contrary to another of your objections, allow those revenues to be expended in meet Mr. KARTH. Mr. Speaker, Congress the antitrust review requirement a.ml the ing the energy impact needs of those states. men come and go, but Capitol Hill med deferred bonus payment on one-half of the As you may know, the northwest corner ical men endure. leased acreage would strengthen competi of our state is already experiencing severe In fact, I suspect that the Members of tive aspects of the coal industry and hold impacts from rapid energy developments. The Congress who outlast our medical ex down consumer prices. Delays ca.used by the funds, that would be made available through perts do so only as the result of the min Attorney Genera.l's review of proposed lease implementation of S. 391, could help finance istrations, bonesettings, pills, diets, sales would be minor compared with those the planning and construction of public fa organ transplants, exercise regimens caused by lengthy litigation. Smaller com cilities and services that a.re urgently needed panies would be encouraged to participate in to prevent boom town situations from oc particularly golf-rejuvenation formu the competitive bidding process, knowing curring. las, psychoanalysis, legislative counsel, that the deferred bonus payment system New Mexico is committed to helping the and lovelorn advice that we obtain from requires less front-end capital so easily avail nation meet its energy needs. However, we our naval doctors and medical men as able to the larger coal and muti-na.tiona.l oil feel there should be a parallel commitment signed to the Capitol. companies. at the federal level to ensure, that as our A man who combined all the aptitudes I view the provisions of this legislation al mineral development proceeds, we a.re given cited above and many more, one of the lowing the states' review and comment on adequate financial assistance to deal with proposed lease sales within National For the affects of this development. Enactment most durable and valuable followers of ests as essential. The maximum eight month of s. 391 would be a responsible way of Aesculapius under the Capitol dome, delay resulting from this prerogative ls neg achieving this goal. will-we regret to learn-retire from the ligible when compared to the potential long I strongly urge you and your colleagues to Office of the Attending Physician at the range effects on our states' mining of federal override the Presidential veto of S. 391 when end of July. minerals in National Forests. the issue 1s brought back before the Con John McGuiness, after 22 years of You contend, Mr. President, that the re gress. treating our scrapes and bruises, our quirement of public hearings is excessive, Sincerely, fractures of bones and egos, blood and yet leasing regulations issued in May, 1976, JERRY APODACA, by Interior Secretary Kleppe require the op Governor. constituent pressures, has decided to seek portunity for the" same number. a less hectic life. Comprehensive Federal exploration of Mr. McGuiness will be deeply missed Federal coal reserves is necessary to deter by the Members of this House; he was mine the actual value of tracts proposed for virtually an institution when I and other lease sale, to estimate the reserves for estab FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE Members made our first tentative en lishing logical mining units and specifying STATEMENT trance on the congressional scene 18 advanced royalties. It seems logical that the years ago. We are indebted to him in Federal Government should not depend on industry to furnish this data. The U.S. Geo many ways: for his professional skills HON. WILLIAM S. COHEN from which so many of us have benefited, logical Survey has recognized the need for OF MAINE this program in projecting a three-fold ex his friendliness, courtesy, patience and pansion by 1979 of Its coal reserve base in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES i.nterest in the problems we have had; vestigations. Thursday, July 29, 1976 and his medical efficiency in helping to In short, I view S. 391 as constructive, pro get us back on the floor of Congress in gressive, and fair legislation for the purpose Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, this year, order to discuss the AMA and a national of correcting mismanagement of the coal as I have in the past, I am making public health insurance program. resources owned by the people of this nation. a summary of my net worth. John McGuiness has served us well, Recent comments by Secretary Kleppe be While the figures listed below do not fore the American Coal Association noted, in but I also want to note that he has also a manner contradictory to his testimony be necessarily testify to my financial served with distinction in the U.S. Navy fore Congress and your subsequent veto ac acumen, they do refiect my belief that both in wartime and peacetime. tion, that the Federal Coal Leasing Amend the public is entitled to know the finan Following his Navy enlistment in Au ments Act of 1976 would " ... not seriously cial holdings of those individuals in gust 1942, McGuiness moved upward in hamper the administration's schedule for whom it has invested its trust. This rank, achievement and prestige through coal development.". Denial of desperately knowledge can help the public determine the hospital corps and became a chief needed financial assistance to mitigate the if that trust has been violated by the hospital corpsman in December 1952. impacts of Federal actions because of an in-: voting behavior of the officeholder. In explicable administration reversal of this McGuiness came to know well my old view ls a tremendously painful price to ask my view, one of the most effective ways friends, the rough-and-tough miracle of the western states and the areas of nat to protect the public interest is to make workers of the Naval Construction Bat ural splendor entrusted to our care. public one's private interests. With that talion, the famed Sea Bees, having served In conclusion, Governors Castro of Ari thought in mind, I am inserting in the with them in the North Atlantic. His zona, Lamm of Colorado, Exon of Nebraska., RECORD the following list of my assets service has also included tenures at the O'CaUaghan of Nevada, Apodaca of New and liabilities: New London, Conn., Naval Base, the Re- July 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24613 serve Fleet, at Charleston; and assign appreciation and gratitude to John Mc June of this year notifying them of a ments aboard the U.S.S. Yellowstone and Guiness and wish him the happiest and "significant change" in posta! regula at the Naval Research Institute, as well most fruitful retirement. tions which govern the use of business as at posts in Naples, Italy, and Wash reply mail. ington, D.C. The Postal Service, for once, was cor Members of Congress who have spent rect. Their sweeping revision of the enforced periods, as I did not long ago, A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN POSTAL business reply mail rate schedule is in at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center REGULATIONS GOVERNING BUSI deed "significant"-especially for the have nothing but the highest admiration NESS REPLY MAIL small to medium size business. and esteem for the knowledge, skills and The following chart emphasizes the efficiency of naval medicine. Mr. Mc HON. LOUIS FREY, JR. differences between what the Postal Guiness, in my opinion, reflects all that Service used to charge for business re OF FLORIDA ply mail and what they will charge when is most professional and farsighted in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the regulations go into effect Septem that service's research and practice. ber 12. Two examples draw the contrast: A great many of us who are presently Thursday, July 29, 1976 a large multi-distribution operation and in Congress and a great many who are Mr. FREY. Mr. Speaker, business con one of my constituents who brought this no longer here share this expression of cerns in our districts received a letter in ridiculous matter to my attention: CHART SHOWING NEW BUSINESS REPLY MAIL COSTS EXAMPLE A: A NATIONWIDE MULTIDISTRIBUTION OPERATION WITH A MONTHLY MAIL EXAMPLE B: ONE OF MY CONSTITUENT'S WHO MAILS OUT 100 PIECES A MONTH AND OUT OF 200,000 PIECES WITH A 10,000 RETURN (5 PERCENT) HAS A 10 PERCENT RATE OF RETURN (10 PIECES)

August September October January August September October January

Fee______None $30 ______None ______$30. Initial postage ______$26, 000 $26,000 ______$26,000 ______$26,000. r;~iaf postage_~::::::::::::: $1~~~3 fit:::::::::: r1°3n_~----~======Reply pickup: Reply pickup: m: System I _____ ------500 ------r------System I _____ ----______0. 50 ______------______System II or II'------$25 deposit, No deposit, $75 deposit, System II or 111------$25 deposit No deposit $75 deposit $350 or $350 or $350 or plus $0.35 or plus $0.35 or plus $0.35 $1,200. $1.1200. $1,200. $1.20. $1.20. $1.20. Tota'------26, 500 $26J.405 or $2~.:i50 or $2~455 or Tota'------13. 50 $68.35 or $13.35 or $118.35 of $t7,23D. ~"7,200. ~d,230. $44.20. $14.20. $44.20.

NOTES System I: former schedule which charged $0.05 per returned article. System 11 :. Sept 12 regulation permit the user to leave a $75 advance deposit and pay $0.035 per returned article or System Ill: the user may pay $0.12 per returned article and forgo the deposit

Let me try to explain the rate changes and during the implementation of the THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE to you. The Postal Service informs me new regulations. The small competitor DIVESTITURE ISSUE that the Postal Rate Commission spent will jump from a mere $13.50 to a choice 3 years on these regulations and believe of $68.35 or $44.20 to a choice of $13.35 me, they look it. or $14.20 and then back up to a choice of HON. BILL ARCHER Essentially, the old system required a $118.35 or $44.20. That is an even break? OF TEXAS 13-cent stamp on the initial letter and a That is discriminatory! IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nickle to get the reply out of hock. You To put it another way, it cost the big Thursday, July 29, 1976 can see that the old system then cost the company $318,000 from September 1975 large operator $26,500 and our small op- until August 1976 to mail out their Mr. ARCHER. Mr. Speaker, the col erator $13.50. 200,000 pieces of mail per month and get umnist Patrick Buchanan in the Chicago Enter the new regulation: a $30 permit back 10,000 pieces of mail. Keeping the . Tribune of June 22, 1976, wrote a per fee for all users big and small and a initial letter/ reply figures, it will cost ceptive column on the divestiture move choice of reply pickup payment systems. , them either $316.015 or $326,550 between ment and the long-range significance of The choice breaks down to a $75 "ad- September 1977 and August 1977. this movement. Mr: Buchanan probes vance dePosit" fee and a separate charge It cost my constituent $162 from Sep into the economic motivations of some of 3.5 cents per letter returned or a tember 1975 through August 1976 to mail of the proponents of divestiture and re straight 12-cent charge per letter out his 100 pieces of mail per month and lates them to the Sun Belt prosperity. returned. get back 10 pieces of mail. Assuming his I wish to commend the article to the What is interesting is that at first the business does not grow, it will cost him attention of my colleagues: Postal Service wanted the $30 in Sep- either $320.20 or $230.40 between Sep [From the Chica.go Trubune, June 22, 1976] tember and again in January since it was tember 1976 and August 1977. BIG OIL A BURNING ISSUE IN U.S. SUN BELT for a year.· And, they wanted the same It is uncomprehensible to me that the (By Patrick Buchanan) double payment with the $75 advance Postal Service did not, during their 3 WASHINGTON.-Voting 8-7, the Senate Ju deposit-if the user went that route. Rec- years of study, examine the impact of diciary Committee has approved legislation ognizing the unfairness of that idea, the these rate schedules on different kinds dismantling America's 18 largest oil com Postal Service backed down and revised and sizes of businesses. panies. Republican minority leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania cast the decisive vote their decision so that the $75 is still due But then again, maybe they did. As my to give the measure a floor hearing. in January but only $25 is due in Sep- constituent said in his letter to me, "A The obvious question ls why. Why chop up tember. The $30 double payment stands. pro-rating of these newly imposed the United States compMiles when the na The question in my mind is how they charges for the period of September 12, tion is more dependent than ever on foreign arrived at the magical $75 figure for and through December 31, would certainly be oil? Why weaken the capacity of the Ameri then decided to apply it to all users a tremendous help to many of us, I am can firms to negotiate with the oil ministers My of the Persian Gulf? equally. constituent will take 250 certain, and a narrowing of the charges Breaking up the companies would mean months to use up the deposit at 3.5 cents for service between those who do not use duplication of existing management struc per letter-yet it is due once a year. The a $75 deposit in 3 years and those who tures. Tens of millions of dollars and years large operation will use the $75 deposit may run that much a month would be of time would be wasted in lawsuits in federal account four times in 1 month-and they ap1>reciated. court. The smaller companies that resulted would never be able to amass the profits or pay by the year also. I am sure that the Postal Service will accumulate the investment capital needed to Also note that the costs to the big op- go bankrupt no soone.r, with this consid- bring the U.S. back toward energy independ erator hover around $26,500 before, after, eration. ence. 24614 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1976 Again, why? The oil industry is less con of subjects. One such effort by Frank pute between Treasury Secretary William centrated, more open, than steel, aluminum, Starr, columnist for the Chicago Tribune Simon and Secretary of State Henry Kissin or copper. In autos, the Big Three--GM, and former Tribune bureau chief in ger over Kissinger's now-dead proposal for a Chrysler and Ford-a.re far more dominant in resources bank to aid Third World countries. their market than Exxon, Mobil and Texaco. Moscow, was included in the July 28 Carter pledges a strong commitment of Not a shred of evidence has been produced Tribune and dealt with the recent visit compassion and realism in sensitive relations to prove that dismantling the oil companies by Mr. Carter to a New York City busi with the Third World. He has also pledged would mean lower fuel costs or reduced ness group: a smaller and less powerful White House prices at the pump. Why, then, single out CARTER Woos THE ECONOMIC ELITE WHICH staff, as well as a better-employed cabinet- Big Oil for political assault? HE CRITICIZES a promise Peterson, ironically, said he listened to "with great interest." Because, crows Sen. Birch Bayh [D., Id.], (By Frank Starr) "If there's one symbol of the Establish At 21 Carter did a lot to assuage business ment ripping off the people, it's the oil in WAsHINGTON.-It seemed a bit strange to fears, and choosing one of those leaders for dustry." Smashing the oil companies, then, those of us who had spent months hearing that job would do a lot more. Then he can while it makes no economic s.ense, does have Jimmy Carter rail against the "economic go back again and soothe the labor folks he political appeal. Especia.lly for the national elite who never stood in line looking for a sea.red. Democrats, who, like their cousins in the job." British Labor Party, a.re long on ideology and Here he was, the fellow who had said only a week earlier that "too often, unholy, self short on economic lttera.cy. OTTINGER AUTHORED AND CO perpetuating a~ances have been formed be But within the bosom of Northern liberals, SPONSORED LEGISLATION there is another motive for this attack upon tween money and politics," now standing be Big Oil. This legislation is the first-strike fore 50 select business leaders in New ·York's PASSED BY THE HOUSE DURING weapon against the heartland of Sun Belt posh 21 club saying, "I want to be a friend THE 94TH CONGRESS prosperity. of business." In the mid-May issue of Business Week, Now the distinctions a.re getting finer and there was an insightful piece titled "The Sec more carefully drawn. HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER The same Jimmy Ca.rter who had been ond War Between the States." Details with OF NEW YORK in were statistics of how the nation's lead criticizing the export of American jobs in population, income, and manufacturing abroad was saying, "I would not do anything IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESEN'l'ATIVES growth has passed, dramatically, out of the to subvert or minimize foreign invest Thursday, July 29, 1976 North and Northeast intQ the South and ment. . . •. I am basically committed to . . . Southwest. Businessmen from the Northern international trade." Mr. O'ITINGER. Mr. Speaker, under states, f'ed up with environmental harass Of course, those two sentiments may not leave to extend my remarks in the REC ment, antibusiness rhetoric, political attacks, be mutually exclusive. But their mutual ac ORD, I include the following list of legis i regulatory interference and exorbitant taxes, commodation needs clarifying. He conceded lation authored and cosponsored by me I are pulling up stakes and fleeing into the to the business men that overseas job losses I might be a problem, but added: "In my own which .has passed the House during the Sun Belt where they are welcomed with brass 94th Congress: ( bands. mind it might be a tossup; we probably Older Americans are picking up their Social benefit as much as we are damaged." To OTTINGER AUTHORED AND COSPONSORED LEGIS Security checks and pensions earned in busi blue-collar voters it's no tossup, and he LATION PASSED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRE ness and government up North and spending never told them it was. SENTATIVES, 94TH CONGRESS those checks and their retirement years in To the business leaders he vowed [or H.R. 28. Surface Mining Control and Recla the warm and air-conditioned communities seemed to vow] to help overcome the nasty ma. tion Act (strip mining). Similar H.R. 25 from south Florida to southern California. image problem dogging multinationals and passed House March 18, 1975. Vetoed, May 20, M111tary spending and the federal payroll go big oil. "This will be an important responsi 1975. Sustained. disproportionately to the states below the bility of mine, and I won't let you down," H.R. 47. Youth Camp Safety Act. Similar Mason-Dixon line. America's investment he promised. H.R. 46 passed House April 17, 1975. capital is following the same trail. The North Certainly some of the business community H.R. 1768. Suspend oil tariff declared by is now running an annual balance-of-pay were pleased by what they heard. Carter's President. Identical H.R. 1767 passed House ments deficit with the rest of America. disinclination to abolish the foreign tax February 5, 1975. Vetoed March 4, 1975. And while the northern cities decline and credit was reassuring; his doubt about the H.R. 2056 (H.R. 9838) . Extend U.S. juris decay, oil is the major industry leading the deferral of taxes on foreign profits pending diction over certain ocean areas and fish ( 200 Sun Belt into the new prosperity. Ergo, the their repatriation was not especially upset Mile Limit Bill). Expanded version H.R. 200, attacks, the liberal determination to break ting. Marine Fisheries Conservation Act, passed up the oil companies. But there remain plenty of business peo ~ House October 9, 1975. Became law April 13, Nevertheless, this punitive legislation, ple who consider Carter a liberal on eco 1976. P.L. 94-265. tinged with malice and envy, singling out nomic issues, and perhaps with justification. H.R. 2067. Tax credits for installation of one industry, is certain to divide the country While that generalization may not be solar heating and cooling equipment or in and invite retaliation. Texas, Louisiana, and enough to sour them, some of the specifics sulation. Similar provisions included in H.R. California congressmen, witnessing this might. 6860, Energy Conservation and Conversion Northern assault upon the industry on which One proposal that wotild cause a good bit Act, which passed House June 19, 19'75. their prosperity hangs, a.re unlikely to view of satisfaction among these international H.R. 2'570. Funds for research into Tay with enthusiasm extension of federal bail traders calls for having one of their own Sachs Disease. Included in H.R. 7988, Heart, out guarantees to the city fathers of New near the President's ear. And a good case Lung and Blood Research, Research Traill/"" York. for it can be made. ing, and Genetic Diseases Amendments, If this legislation is passed by Congress and The idea is for an adviser, a man of stature which passed House October 20, 1975. Be survives a presidential veto, it would surely and experience, on the White House staff to came law, April 22, 1976. P.L. 94-278. be marked as the Battle of Bull Run in an study and shape international trade policy H.R. 2577. Reject proposed cuts in Food economic War Between the States, a war in and to bridge the gap between the secretary Stamp Program. Indentical H.R. 1589 passed which all Americans would suffer. of state and the secretary of the treasury House February 4, 1975. Became law without both of whom may claim international trade President's approval, February 20, 1975. P.L. because neither has clear responsibility for 94-4. it. H.R. 3344. Extend the Voting Rights Act. The idea is not new. Chicagoan Peter G. Provisions included in a larger version of the CARTER WOOS THE ECONOMIC Peterson once did the job effectively in the bill, H.R. 6219, passed House June 4, 1975. ELITE WHICH HE CRITICIZES Nixon White House until the palace guard Became law August 6, 1975. P.L. 94-73. found him too effective. So, with a crack H.R. 3353. Encourage the payment of in about being unable to click his heels, he terest on government deposits in banks. Sim HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI went to Lehman Brothers, the New York in ilar H.R. 3035 passed House December 15, vestment bankers, to make money instead. OF ILLINOIS 1975. But like other positions of authority, this H.R. 3873. Repeal those provisions· of law IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES one is only what its holders make of it. requiring community participation in the Thursday, July 29, 1976 Peterson was succeeded by Peter Flanigan, national flood insurance program as a pre who eventually vanished; the job, chairman requisite for approval of financial assistance Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, as of the Council of International Economic in a flood hazard area. Similar provision speculation increases as to what, if any Policy, is now vacant and overseen by Presi applicable to houses existing prior to Janu thing, Jimmy Carter stands for, the dential adviser William Seidman. ary 1, 1976, included in S. 3295 which passed press is methodically attempting to de There is currently no one who could ]:lave House May 26, 1976. termine the candidate's views on a host interceded, for example, in the recent dis- H.R. 3875. Energy Conservation Act of 1975. July 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24615 Provision similar to section on fuel economy vestment Act Amendments, which passed H.R. 10900. Establish Tinicum National En standards for new autos included in H.R. House June 7, 1976. vironmental Center. Similar H.R. 5682 passed 7014, Energy Conservation and 011 Policy Act H.R. 7066 (H.R. 8846). Railroad Right of House May 18, 1976. of 1975 which passed House September 23, Way Improvement Act. Similar provision in· H.R. 11456. Expand Indiana Dune National 1975. Became law Decemoer 22, 1975. PL. eluded in H.R. 8672, Emergency Rall Trans La.keshore. Identical H.R. 11455 passed 94-163. portation Improvement and Employment House February 17, 1976. H.R. 3935. Reform of the Hatch Act. Ex Act, which passed House October 23, 1975. R.R. 11065. Suspend duty on mattress panded version, H.R. 8617, Federal Employees H.R. 7428. Extend investment tax credit to blanks of rubber latex. Passed House May 17, Political Activities Act, passed House October include solar energy equipment and permit 1976. (Ottinger authored.) 21, 1975. Vetoed April 12, 1976. Sustained. alternative rapid amortization of solar equip H.R. 12065. Prohibit deprivation of em H.R. 4035. Provide for Congressional review ment. Included in H.R. 6860, Energy Con ployment because of refusal to make politi of Presidential decisions removing oil price servation and Conversion Act, which passed cal contribution. Identical H.R. 11722 passed controls. Passed House June 5, 1975. Vetoed House June 19, 1975. House April 5, 1976. July 21, 1975. H.R. 7448 (H.R. 7936). Countercyclical as H.R. 12333. Establish Commission on Se· H.R. 4102. Additional Appropriations for sistance for state and local governments. curity and cooperation in Europe to school lunch and child nutrition program. Similar provisions included in H.R. 5247, monitor Helsinki Agreement Similar S. 2679 Similar provisions included in H.R. 4222, Local Public Works Ca.pita.I Development passed House May 17, 1976. Became law School Lunch and Child Nutrition Act and Investment Act, which passed House June 3, 1976. P.L. 94-304. Amendments, which passed House April 28, May 20, 1975. Vetoed February 13, 1976; and H .R. 12453. NASA Authorization. Passed 1975 and became law over President's veto S. 3201, Public Works Employment Act, which House March 22, 1976. Became law June 4, on October 7, 1975. P.L. 94-105. passed House May 13, 1976. Vetoed July 6, 1976. PL. 94-307. H.R. 4680. Require reports to Congress prior 1976. H.R. 12567. Authorization of Appropria to issuance of a. license for export of certain H.R. 7605. Abolish the Federal Metal and tions for Federal Fire Prevention and Control arms, ammunition and implements of war. Non-Metallic Mine Safety Board of Review. Act. Passed House March 24, 1976. Vetoed Included in H.R. 13680, In'terna.tiona.1 Secu Incuded in H.R. 8773, InteriOl' Appropriation, July 7, 1976. rity Assistance and Arms Export Control Act which passed House July 23, 1975. Became H.R. 12704.-Authorize Appropriations for which passed House June 2, 1976. Became law law December 23, 1975. P.L. 94-165. environmental research, development and June 30, 1976. P.L. 94-329. H.R. 8197. U.S. participation in African demonstration. Passed House May 4, 1976. H.R. 4888. Small Business Administration Development Fund. Similar provision in H.R. 12978.-Increa.se authorization for assistance to small bus.inesses injured due to cluded in H.R. 9721, Inter-American Devel long term direct loans for elderly and handi disruptions in utility service. Passed House opmment Bank Act, which passed House capped housing. Included in S. 3295, Housing June 17, 1975. December 9, 1975. Amendments of 1976, which passed House H.R. 4955. Prohibit production and pro H.R. 8428. Health Ma.intena.nce Organiza May 26, 1976. \ curement of. binary chemical warfare systems. tion Amendments. Similar H.R. 9019 passed H.R. 13123.-Authorize a local public works ( Amendment to H.R. 5210, Military Construc House November 7, 1975. ca.pita.I development and investment pro I tion Authorization, effectively precluding H.R. 8674 (H.R. 6154). Metric Conversion gram. Identical H.R. 12972 (S. 3201) passed new production and procurement, passed Act. Passed House September 5, 1975. Be House May 13, 1976. Vetoed July 6, 1976. House July 28, 1975. Became law, October 7, came law on December 23, 1975. P.L. 94-168. H.R. 13449.-Authorization for Federal 1975. P.L. 94-107. H.R. 8779. AssU4"e humane treatment of Energy Administration. Expanded version H.R. 4996. Authorize medical care to cer animals. Similar H.R. 5808 (S. 1941), Animal H.R. 12169 passed House June 1, 1976. tain veterans of armed forces allied to the Welfare Improvement Act, passed House H.R. 13655 (H.R. 6159) .-Automotive U.S. in World War I or World War II. Similar February 9, 1976. Became law April 22, 1976. Transport Research and Development Act H.R. 71 passed House July 21, 1975. P.L. 94-279. (research program for advanced automotive H.R. 5199. Repeal of Fair Trade Legislation. H.R. 880. Electric Vehicle Research, De_. propulsion systems) passed House June 3 Similar H.R. 6971 passed House July 21, 1975. velopment and Demonstration Act of 1976. 1976. Became law December 12, 1975. P.L. 94-145. Passed House September 5, 1975. Includes H.R. 13668.-Amend authority of Sma.n H.R. 5234. Criteria. for assisting post-sec 2 provision added in Committee by Ottinger Business Administration Administrator tn ondary education programs. Portions in that would insure the participation of small provide disaster loans. Included in H.R. cluded in H.R. 12851, Higher Education business in the demontra.tion progt"am and 13567, Small Business Act and Small BusineRs Amendments of 1976, which passed House would expand the scope of the bill to in Investment Act Amendments, which passP.d May 12, 1976. clude not only electric vehicles, but hybrid House June 7, 1976. (Ottinger authored) H.R. 5443. Establish American Folkllfe propulsion systems (e.g. the Sterling en H.R. 13669.-Increase maximum Small Center. Similar H.R. 6673 passed House Sep gine as well. tember 8, 1975. Became law January 2, 1976. H.R. 9013. Permit appointment of women Business Administration loan from $350,000 to $500,000. Partially included in S. 2498, P.L. 94-201. to Coast Guard Academy. Similar H.R. 10192 H.R. 5719. Expand family planning service. pa.ssed House May 18, 1976. Small Business Act and Small Business In Included in S. 66, Nurse Training Act, which H.R. 9056. Create a. program in Small Busi vestment Act Amendments, which passed passed House June 5, 1975. Became law over ness Administration for financing pollution House December 17, 1975. Became law June 4, President's veto on July 29, 1975. P.L. 94-63. control equipment fo rsmall businesse. In 1976. P.L. 94-305. (Ottinger authored) H.R. 6012. Recycling of old oil. Tax provi cuded in S. 2498, Small Business Act and H. Res. 357.-Select Committee on Missing sions of bill included in H.R. 6860, Energy Small Business Investment Act Amend in Action. Identical H. Res. 335 passed House Conservation and Conversion Act of 1975, ments, which passed Houe December 17, September 11, 1975. (Ottinger appointed which passed House June 19, 1975. 1975. Became law June 4, 1976. P.L. 94-305. member of committee) H .R. 6113. Increase authorization for Sec H .R. 9280. Elimination of means tests for H. Res. 605.-Disapprove the President's tion 8 home subsidy program. Similar provi provision of services t0 low-income individ proposal to remove oil price controls. Passed sion included in S. 3295, Housing Amend uals aged 60 or over; limitation of frequency House July 22, 1975. ments of 1976, which passed House May 26, of recertifications of eligibility of such serv H. Res. 641.-Disapprove the President's 1976. ices. Similar provision included in H.R. 12455, proposal to remove oil price controls. Passed H.R. 6246. Restrict use of franking privilege Social Security Act Amendments, which House July 30, 1975. by former Members of Congress. Identical passed House March 16, 1976. H. Res. 1168.-Express support for Soli H.R. 4865 passed House October 6, 1976. Be H.R. 9608. Provide constitution for the darity Sunday. Passed House April 30, 1976. came law December 23, 1975. P.L. 94-177. Virgin Islands. Identical H.R. 9460 passed H. Res. 1239. Sense of House in support of H.R. 6248 (H.R. 7616). Equal treatment of House October 6, 1975. moratorium on closing of small post offices. craft and industrial employees. Similar H.R. ~.R. 9909. Construction Industry Collec Identical H. Res. 1216 passed House June 22, 5900 passed House July 25, 1975. Vetoed Jan tive Bargaining Act. Identical H.R. 9500 1976. uary 2, 1976. passed House October 7, 1975. H.J. Res. 406. Presenting a. statue of H.R. 6632. Require increased Congressional H.R. 10230. National Science and Tech Abraham Lincoln to Israel. Passed House De oversight of foreign military sales and pro nology Policy and Organization Act. Passed cember 17, 1975. Became law February 4, vide far a procedure for Congressional disap House November 6, 1975. Became law May 1976. P.L. 94-208. (Ottinger authored). 11, 1976. PL. 94-282. H.J. Res. 585. St. Elizabeth Seton Day. proval of such sales. Similar provision in Identical S.J. Res. 125 passed House Septem cluded in S. 2662, International Security As H.R. 10614. Extend D.C. Medical and Den tal Manpower Act. Similar H.R. 12132 passed ber 9, 1975. Became law September 11, 1975. sistance and Arms Export Control Act which P.L. 94-95. passed House March 3, 1976. Vetoed May 7, House April 12, 1976. Became law June 4, H. Con ~ Res. 126 Place a bust of Martin 1976. 1976. P.L. 94-308. Luther King, Jr. in the Capitol. Similar H. H.R. 6833. Impose a moratorium. on the re H.R. 10633. Make homebuilders eligible for Con. Res. 96 passed House January 20, 1976. payment o! certain Small Business Adminls· Small Business Administration assistance. H. Con. Res. 302. International Women's tration loans by firms that face insolvency. Included in H.R. 13567, Small Business Act Year. Identical H. Con. Res. 309 passed House Similar provision included in H.R. 13567, and Small Business Investment Act Amend October 6, 1975. Small Business Act and Small Business In- ment.s, which passed House June 7, 1976. H. Con. Res. 354. Condemn lllegal drug 24616 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1976 traffic from Turkey. Simllar provision added How to get the Cuban Expeditionary Force lin's ideological mentor, Suslov, and of the as amendment to S. 2230, Authorization of withdrawn from Africa. Communist delegates from Central and Board for International Broadcasting and Here there are two novel points which have South America. Improvement of Greek-Turkish relations, so far escaped ~neral attention. First, there "We will never renounce our solidarity with which passed House October 2, 1975. Became is the palpable demonstration that a non Puerto Rico and ·Angola,'' Castro declared. law Oct.ober 6, 1975. PL. 94-104. African power is carrying on warfare on an "The flags of Cuba and Puerto Rico are one H. Con. Res. 486. Recognize the Washing other continent in the classical imperialist and the same." And he went on: "We will de t.on-Rocha.mbeau Historic Route. Identical tradition. fend Angola and Africa wi-th our blood if it H. Con. Res. 225 passed House February 17, Second is the clear precedent set by the should be necessary." 1976. Soviet-Cuban intervention in Angola for On Jan. 10 Castro staged a grandiose re AMENDMENTS simllar adventures in the Caribbean, from ception for Panama's dictator, Brig. Gen. Omar Torrijos Herrera, who came to Cuba, FEA sola.r: Floor amendment to the Federal Puerto Rico and Panama t.o Venezuela. Yet the Angola crisis may offer the oppor escorted by over 200 picked followers on a · Energy Administration Authoriz-ation provid state visit. His journey followed a pilgrimage ing for the authorization of a $3 million tune historical hour for the United States to avert the outbreak of World Warm ovtlr t.o Havana of a delegation of Puerto Rican solar energy commercialization program was Communists carrying on the fight for inde defeated in the House. That amendment was our ramparts in the Caribbean. It is an oc casion not unlike the moID:ent early in 1936 pendence from the United States. The avowed later added to the Senate FEA authorization purpose of Torrijos• visit was to secure help bill (June 15, 1976.) Ottinger subsequently when Hitler marched into the Rhineland, presaging the coming of World War II. for his acquisition of full sovereignty over offered the amendment in the conference the Pana.ma Canal. committee, which adopted the commerciali Is it necessary to remind our policymakers that Fidel Castro's military force, acting in "To the 1.2 million Panamanians we can zation program authorization in July 1976. add nine million Cubans," Castro assured ERDA solar: Authored various ERDA au Angola as a massive unit of the Soviet army, is based at the gateway to the Caribbean Torrijos on Jan. 12 before a crowd of several thorization increases in the areas of con hundred thousand, advising his prospective servation and solar energy during considera where the lifeline of the United St.ates the Panama Canal-ls located? ally, however, not to force the issue tion of the bill by the Science and Technol immediately. ogy Committee. He was particularly responsi When the Senare voted to cut off Ameri can supplies to the anti-Soviet forces in "Much more important than a small bi,t ble for increases in the authorizations for the of land," oastro warned his visitor in words solar, thermal electric, photovoltaic and en Angola, it did so in the announced belief that the Soviet intervention there presented no which unmistakably echoed the Kremlin's vironmental studies and resource programs. catechism, "ls the liberation of a continent In the conservation field, Ottinger contrib threat to the vital interests of this country. Curiously, the Senate's severe critic, Sec . . . the liberation of Vietnam, of Africa, uted four significant additions to the pro of Angola." How could the ruler of a poverty 1) retary of State Henry Kissinger, displayed gram-authorizations for electric storage ridden inconsiderable island, unless he be & systems, 2) industrial conservation, 3) the same visionless rationale. In a recent news conference, Kissinger declared that the stooge of the Soviet power, brag of the libera buildings conservation, and 4) capital equip tion of a continent? ment funding ($2 million dollars.) issue in Angola is not whether vital Ameri can interests are involved there, but "whether In his interview of Jan. 17, with the cor OTTINGER LEGISLATION PENDING the Soviet Union, backed by a Cuban ex respondent of Corriere della Sera Castro H.R. 8438. Burn Facllities Act. Included 1n peditionary force, can impose on two-thirds stressed his determination to fight oii in An H.R. 12664, Emergency Medical Services Act of the population its own brand of govern gola, and rejected demands from Washington Amendments. To be considered by the House ment." that Cuba "should no longer back the move 1n August. (Ottinger authored) Kissinger knows only too well that the ment for independence in Puerto Rico or the H.R. 11226. Dedicated C&O Canal Park t.o United States did nothing when imperialist government of Panama in the struggle over Justice William 0. Douglas. Hearings sched Moscow imposed its brand of totalitarian the Canal." uled August 6. (Ottinger authored) despotism on Poland, on Hungary, on Czecho The reference to the Pana.ma Canal must H.R. 11740. Including hearing aid and slovakia, on East Germany through the erec be judged in conjunction with the threats dentures in Medicare coverage. (Ottinger au tion of the Berlin Wall, and in many other to seize the canal by force which have been thored) areas. · made by Panama's dictat.or, Genera.I Torrijos. H.R. 12161. Setting up a system of regional If that ·be the issue, how did it come to Coupled unity with Puerto Rico, this is the Presidential primaries. Senate hearings ten pass that under detente, carried out with kind of handwriting on the wall that leaves tatively planned for fall. (Ottinger authored) such fanfare by Nixon, Ford and Kissinger, no room for dispute. H .R. 12461. Utility Rate Reform and Regu the Soviet tentacles which have been gird If any further evidence 1s needed that latory Improvement. Hearings held. (Par ing the globe and encircling these United Castro was speaking for the Kremlin, it is to tially Ottinger authored) States, implant the Kremlin's brand of dic be found in a suppressed report by the Com H.J. Res. 667. Authorizing Secretary of In tatorship wherever they reach? mittee on Security of the Organization of terior to accept St. Paul's Church for preser The basic issue in Angola is not the rivalry American States. The report, compiled before vation as an historic site. Hearings held, between Soviet Russia and the United States Cuban troops were dispatched to Angola, House and Senate action expected by Octo over mineral resources or the control of ship deals with Soviet domination of Cuba's ber. (Ottinger authored) ping lanes in the South Atlantic. That rival quasi-m111tary secret police. the DGI, and ry, while important, is on a par with many concludes: similar secondary contests between the two "Castroite agents are now infiltrating the ANGOLA IS STEP AWAY FROM superpowers all over the earth. We have structure of Latin American countries and PANAMA learned to live with these frictions since the the United States, and are also utilizing rise of the Communist challenge to the free Latin and North American agents in their world. sabotage in full collaboration with agents of Nor is the primary issue in Angola whether the KGB (the Soviet secret police.) The DGI HON. BOB WILSON is now an extension of the KGB." OF CALIFORNIA detente can be continued to further world peace. The truth is that detente has been a The Cuban military establishment is now IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dying swan for some time. Its failure and nothing but an extension of the Soviet Army. Thursday, July 29, 1976 eventual doom have been indicated by most How else is one to characterize the combined independent observers in all countries. The Soviet air and sea lift which transported Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, a astute Washington columnist of the New troops from Cuba to Angola, according to factor I do not think was considered in York Times, William Sa.fire, opened his es Pentagon sources, bringing Castro's expe ditionary force up to 10,500 men plus? the decision to cut American supplies say on Dec. 29 with this verdict: "As 1975 Two days after Castro first threw down to Angola is the possibility of the Soviet's draws to an end, detente is dead. The sec- the gauntlet, the official Soviet mouthpiece, use of Cuban troops not only in Africa, ond cold war is underway." - Izvestia, echoed his call that support of na but also to carry out similar missi·ons Nor is the crucial issue in Angola whether tional liberation movements is one of the in our own hemisphere. we should extend aid in the form of supplies most important principles of Soviet foreign Isaac Don Levine, writing in the and arms to the nationalist elements there, policy. That theme has been stressed again "Officer Review" magazine of the Mili an important subject to be sure, to which and again in recent weeks in Soviet pro tary Order of the World Wars, addresses most of the pundits of the press and media nouncements. this most sobering subject and I believe have devoted millions of words as if it in What this amounts to is a warning to all volved the security of the nation. that the Brezhnev doctrine, proclaimed at his words are well worth noting. The paramount pressing issue ls the Cuban the infamous invasion of Czechoslovakia 1n [From Oftlcer Review, June \976] expeditionary force fighting a skirmish in 1968, has been applied and tested in Angola ANGOLA Is STEP AWAY FROM PANAMA the Soviet battle for world hegemony. with Cuba as the instrument. (By Isaac Don Levine) Castro has openly avowed the aims of the The Kremlin has served notice, the way The paramount issue in the crisis over Soviet-Cuban axis in his speech on riec. 22 Hitler did in Mein Kampf, that it assumes Angola, overriding all the others raised so at the great Congress of the Cuban Com the right to wage war in any part of the far in the great debate on the subject, ls: munist Party, in the presence of the Krem- planet where an anti-capitalist revolution- July 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24617 a.ry movement appears. That such move to have Cuba permit "on-site" inspection of the Volvo Motor Company in California dur ments can and have been engineered by the her naval bases. ing the 1977 model year. Those responses are Kremlin's own underground agencies is clear The United States challenge to Cuba for provided herewith. in Peking, in Belgrade, in Bucharest, 1n periodic "on-site" inspection of her subma Sincerely yours, Egypt, but not to the American public which rine harbors ls sure to be backed by a ma ERIC 0. STORK, has been befuddled for years by the myth jority of the Organization of American Deputy Assistant Administrator for ology of detente. States (OAS). This is the moment for di Mobile Source Air Pollution Control The Brezhnev doctrine is a cloud hanging plomacy to resort to plain truth about the (AW-455). over the Caribbean in the form of the Cu menace of the Soviet-Cuban military alli Enclosure. ban expeditionary force in Angola. where ance to this hemisphere and, specifically, to troops a.re being tratned for further opera the Panama. Canal. RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS ON THE VOLVO tions inside the vital defense perimeter of Chairman Mao's admonitions to President THREE-WAY CATALYST CAR POSED IN CON the United States. Ford against the Soviet drive for world he GRESSMAN MAGUIRE'S LETTER OF JUNE 15, Even Kissinger admitted it when he de gemony assures widespread international 1976 clared that if the United States permits the support for action in the present crisis by 1. Has any American automobile manu establishment of a Soviet Angola, lt will be the United States under the Monroe Doctrine. facturer tested this (Volvo's) technology on an invitation to Moscow to engage in similar A confrontation between the Brezhnev and its cars without fuel injection and/or on interventions elsewhere. In his latest hard Monroe doctrines has long been overdue on cars with six or eight cylinder engines? line declaration before the Senate Foreign the issue of "on-site" inspections. All four domestic automobile manufac Relations subcommittee, following his con It is urgent that such action take place turers have tested three-way catalysts to ference with Brezhnev in Moscow, Kissinger before the agreement negotiated by Ambas some degree, with Ford and General Motors warned Soviet Russia against moving "any sador Bunker with Panama's ruler, General performing the most extensive development where it wants without serious risk,'' involv Torrijos, is approved and signed. That is not work in this area. As indicated in the April ing "a great miscalculation, thereby plunging to say that the original treaty with Panama 1976 EPA report on "Automobile Emission us into a. major confrontation which neither should not be updated and amended, so long Control-The Current Status and Develop of us wan ts." as the sovereignty over the Canal Zone re ment Trends as of March 1976," Ford has The immediate area of danger is in Pan mains undivided and unimpaired in the conducted extensive development work on ama where Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, hands of the United States. three-way catalyst systems on six and eight representing the White House and the State cylinder carbureted engines. General Motors Department, negotiated a. new treaty with has also conducted three-way catalyst system the government of Panama, which is await development work for application on car ing congressional approval. VOLVO BREAKTHROUGH-PART 2 bureted eight cylinder engines. According to the drafted agreement, the 2. Does any American automobile manu soverignty over the Canal Zone is to be facturer plan to implement three-way cata shared jointly by the United States and Pan lyst technology in its future model year ama. Now we have a living precedent for HON. ANDREW MAGUIRE vehicles? such a. partnership in Berlin, where sover OF NEW JERSEY Although Chrysler and American Motors eignty is exercised jointly by the Soviet re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have conducted limited development work gime and the Western powers. on three-way catalyst systems, neither manu Is it necessary to recall to Secretary Kis Thursday, July 29, 1976 singer and Ambassador Bunker how it has facturer has advised EPA that they will im Mr. MAGUIRE. Mr. Speaker, yester plement such technology in future model worked, what with the numerous Soviet year vehicles. General Motors, although re harassments, the Berlin blockade and airlift, day I noted the significant breakthrough and the monstrous Berlin Wall still standing made by the 1977 california Volvo in re porting limited success in developing three· there was a monument to diplomatic folly? ducing auto emissions to the 1978 Fed way catalyst technology, has also not stated Joint sovereignty ls a guarantee of discord, to EPA that they will market this technology. eral standards while simultaneously Of the American manufacturers, Ford ap turmoil, and' belllcose ventures. achieving a fuel economy increase of 10 Such ventures a.re part and parcel of the pears to be pursuing the most active three Soviet arsenal of planted provocations and percent-July 28, 1976, E4160-4161. way catalyst development program. It has frame-ups in the field of international rela Today, I am presenting the second let been reported in the news media that Ford tions, as anyone who would look into the ter cited in my remarks, from Mr. Eric plans to introduce this type of technology on voluminous record can see. For the Kremlin Stork, Deputy Assistant Administrator a limited basis in the 1978 model year. How to stage an "appropriate" incident in the for Mobile Source Control, U.S. Environ ever, EPA has not been formally notified by Canal Zone would be an elementary exercise. Ford on this matter, and thus EPA has no mental Protection Agency. The testi information on Ford's plans other than news Under the Brezhnev doctrine, a fraternal mony of this expert strengthens my con media reports. alliance between sovereign Panama and Cuba would provide legal cover for a move into viction that Detroit can make similar 3. Is it feasible to apply three-way catalyst the Canal Zone. The Kremlin would simply progress by 1981, the target date for technology to cars without fuel injection and respond to a call for help from the "socialist compliance set forth in an amendment with more than four ~ylinders? camp." to the Clean Air Act that Representa The need for fuel injection systems for use It is no secret that the ruling junta in tive HENRY A. w AXMAN and myself will in conjunction with three-way catalyst sys Moscow has been smarting from the humili be o:ff ering next week. tems arises from the need for more precise ating defeat it suffered in 1962 in Cuba at The feasibility of our amendment is control of air-fuel mixtures than ls used the hands of President Kennedy, and has obvious in view of the National Academy today. Fuel injection systems are currently been dreaming of retaliation to redeem its ca~able of providing the need~d degree of impaired prestige among the worldwide Com of Science's finding. that no extension of control of air-fuel mixtures. Development munist parties. the compliance schedule is necessary to work conducted by Ford and others suggests Instead of employing Soviet military and achieve the emmissions reductions now that sophisticated carburetor systems may naval personnel, as Khrus)lchev did in Oc mandated for 1978. The Waxman. also be able to provide adequate control of tober, 1962, in his move to establish missile Maguire amend.men t will limit delays to air-fuel mixtures. Current carburetor systems bases in Cuba, Brezhnev's politburo would 3 years. In contrast, the Dingell-Broyhill are not adequate to provide this precise con conduct its operation in Panama by making amendment would grant a postponement trol. Thus at this time the feasib111ty of using use of Cuban troops bearing Soviet arms. for 7 years. The Waxman-Maguire three-way catalyst technology without fuel Since it is generally recognized that the injection has not been demonstrated. amendment maintains incentives to re In principle, three-way catalyst systems Cuban role in Angola was a provocative ad duce air pollution from auto exhaust as venture. it provides a fitting occasion for can be applied to cars with more than four fast as practically possible. cylinders. The difficulty in applying this tech Washington to raise the long-delayed issue of nology successfully on cars With more than American "on-site" inspection, under United The text of the letter follows: U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL four cylinders is that it becomes more diffi Nations auspices, of the naval pens in Cuba cult to assure proper air-fuel mixture dis where Soviet nuclear submarines are alleged PROTECTION AGENCY, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1976. tribution to each cylinder on six and eight to be sheltered. Hon. ANDREW MAGUIRE cylinder cars than on four cylinder cars. Im Such inspection was provided for in the House of Representatives, proved fuel distribution systems (either car Khrushchev-Kennedy agreement in 1962. Washington, D.