1140 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS AIRLINE SAFETY INSPECTORS a 16% reduction in the number of author ments which no airline can short-cut. The SHOULD BE RESTORED ized field inspectors (638 and 534 respective recent significant reductions in the FAA ly), and another 7% reduction is expected in safety inspector workforce and in the FAA's the current fiscal year, for a total cut of ap regulatory "presence" in airline operations HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA proximately 23%. convey exactly the wrong message to the OF CALIFORNIA What gives me concern about these reduc airlines and to the traveling public. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions is that they are corning at a time when I recommend that the air carrier inspector Tuesday, January 31, 1984. the FAA's responsibilities for air carrier in workforce be returned to the FY 1981 au spection have expanded. Airline deregula thorized level. This would represent an in e Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, last No tion has spawned numerous new carriers crease of approximately 100 positions from vember 10, after an extensive investi and has resulted in the more established present levels. I believe that such action, gation, the Subcommittee on Aviation carriers realigning their operations both coupled with at least some of the FAA's pro held a hearing on the Reagan adminis geographically and in the type of service posed management and program initiatives, tration's cutbacks in the FAA's airline provided. These developments have substan will enable FAA to carry out its important tially increased the workload placed on responsibilities to the extent expected by safety inspector workforce. These in FAA's field inspectors. Also, general eco spectors are the vanguard of the Fed the traveling public and the airline indus nomic trends are forcing the airline indus try. eral Government's responsibility to try to examine any and all means to reduce insure that the Nation's airlines are costs. FAA's responsibility for ensuring that Again, thank you for your consideration complying with the Federal aviation cost cutting does not have an impact on the of this matter. safety regulations. These cuts cause safety of operations is most certainly in Sincerely, creasing. Since neither the effects of de NORMAN Y. MINETA, the Subcommittee on Aviation a great Chairman, Subcommittee on Aviation. deal of concern because they come at a regulation nor the general economic climate time when many new carriers are are static, I believe those responsibilities starting up operations, when more es and workload will continue to expand. REMARKS BY DONALD D. ENGEN In the hearing, FAA Administrator Helms Good afternoon . . . tablished carriers are providing new talked about a number of management and I'd like to take just a moment to thank types of service and shifting services program initiatives aimed at increases in in the National Aviation Club for its invitation to new locations, and when economic spector productivity. Though I still have to speak . . . and to thank all of you for conditions are forcing the airline in questions about some of these initiatives, I what I once heard a speaker describe as "a dustry to examine any and all means applaud Administrator Helms for his efforts wonderful reception-which I so richly de to reduce costs. to recoup in productivity increases what has serve but so seldom get." Presently, the Nation's airline been lost in staff. My concern is first of all Seriously there is nothing more complicat system is very safe and it has been get that, while most of the staff cuts have al ed in my gratitude than the simple fact that ting safer, but I am concerned that ready been made, most of the productivity I like to be with people who are in aviation. these cuts in the inspectors will result enhancements will be implemented at some Over the last 40 years, I've spent my career point in the future, and secondly, that when either flying airplanes ... testing airplanes . in too little FAA presence in the air the productivity enhancements are realized, lines' cockpits, training facilities, and . . manufacturing airplanes or establishing there is no assurance that we will even policy about airplanes . .. and it has been maintenance bases which could lead to return to earlier capabilities, much less both enjoyable and a superb education. a reversal of these trends. exceed them. The enjoyment came from doing those In this session, I will be working My view is that FAA's safety surveillance things that dreams are made of, and the through the appropriations process to and enforcement capabilities need to be ex education from the fact that I've never met restore the number of field inspectors panded beyond what they have been in the any two people in aviation who could agree to previous levels. I urge my colleagues past to meet increasing workloads. Increases on anything. to join me in this effort to insure that in productivity will be an integral part of I sometimes suspect that the record would there is no dimunition of safety in any effort in this area, but it is my belief show we have argued about everything from spection and surveillance of the Na that there simply is no substitute for sus the center of gravity on the Wright Flyer to taining, rather than reducing, air carrier in the rate of climb on Scott Crossfield's X-15. tion's airlines. spector staff in the field. Without a restora For the Members' further informa But no matter how heated our discussions, tion of safety inspector staff, I believe FAA no one has ever lost sight of the fact that tion, I am including in these remarks will.be stretched too thin to carry out its re the final decision should be based on only the text of a letter I have sent to Sec sponsibilities. one criterion: that it was good for aviation! retary Dole on this matter, as well as The airline industry is the safest mode of I believe this freedom of thought ... this the text of a speech recently delivered transportation, and since deregulation, it internal watchfulness . . . has been a by National Transportation Safety has been getting safer. My concern is that healthy thing for aviation. It has acted as a Board member Donald D. Engen to these cutbacks are the initial steps of loos kind of catalyst that has helped produce the National Aviation Club of Wash ening up of safety regulation of the airlines. what we have today-a safe, technically so ington, D.C. Fewer inspectors translate into less FAA phisticated aviation system. presence in the airline's day-to-day oper COMMITTEE ON PuBLIC WORKS ations and into less of a sense among airline We are now in the midst of another one of AND TRANSPORTATION, management and employees that someone is those legitimate, and necessary "soul U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, watching what they are doing. This may searchings" in aviation. This time the argu Washington, D.C., November 18, 1983. create on the part of some carriers a more ment centers around the entire airline in Hon. ELIZABETH DOLE, lax compliance attitude that, in the long dustry. The industry is where it has been Secretary of Transportation, Washington, run, could reverse the excellent safety many times in the past-in a state of flux. D.C. record that currently exists. Many long-established airlines have vacat DEAR SECRETARY DoLE: On Thursday, No Everyone agrees that, while most of the ed some of their territories, and many new, vember 10, the Subcommittee on Aviation economic decisionmaking in the airline in often smaller airlines have moved to fill the held a hearing on the reductions in the dustry has been deregulated, safety has not gap. FAA's air carrier safety inspector staff. The been deregulated and should not be deregu To be more specific, in 1978-the year the Subcommittee is concerned that the reduc lated. Both the public safety and the public Airline Deregulation Act was implemented tions could have long-term implications for confidence in this industry require a firm there were 219 air carrier and commuter air the Safety of the nation's airline industry. belief that FAA's regulation of airline lines in scheduled service. In 1983, the total Comparing FY 1981 with FY 1983 there was safety ensures irreducible safety require- had risen to 419.
• This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. January 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1141 This kind of dramatic growth has brought failure to live up to the Federal Air Regula In summary, let me say this about airline with it both economic uncertainties and tions. Global International Airways also was safety: questions about the impact of growth on ordered by the FAA to suspend all flights People fly because they believe it is safe safety. What does it mean in terms of air for violating maintenance regulations. In to fly. And they believe that because dec line maintenance ... operations ... train addition, the FAA halted operations of a ades ago the airline industry and the gov ing . . . and FAA surveillance? third airline-Guy America-again for ernment convinced them of that fact by the Could cost-cutting triggered by increased safety violations. way they set tough safety standards. In competition impact on maintenance or oper What is the common thread in these three effect, safety became the industry's "strong ations expenditures? Will the new genera cases? Obviously, it is the question of safety. heart." tion of aviation management have the same In each of these cases, the regulations Nothing has changed that philosophy-we commitment to safety excellence as did the were there . . . in place . . . and known to simply are not going to permit a degrada old? the airlines. But they weren't being fol tion of air safety. We have not in the past, The questioners themselves are not the lowed ... and that failure continued until it and we won't today, or tomorrow. uninitiated-rather, they range over the was spotted by surveillance procedures . . . We-the government and the industry entire spectrum of the aviation communi or, tragically, after the fact, by a Safety must do what we have always done. We ty-airline management and union offi Board accident investigator. must stay alert to safety threats ... we cials . . . Congressmen . . . the media . . . Why did they occur and what then is the must search for the dangerous trends . . . the sophisticated air traveler. cure? I certainly don't think these examples we must educate and re-educate our flight The National Transportation Safety bolster any argument for economic re-regu crews ... and in doing so we will keep what Board might turn them all aside with a lation. Nor is simply adding new safety regu we have now-the safest aviation system in technically correct answer which would be lations the answer. the world. this: What can help-I believe-is a stepped up Thank you.e Congress did not deregulate air safety . . . more highly visible . . . more efficient the same Federal Air Regulations-and and widespread surveillance campaign by more-that existed before deregulation exist both the FAA and the air carriers them H.R. 1961 today. Nor is there any data base that shows selves-particularly the new comers and the a decay in aviation safety since deregula newly-expanded older operators. There is a tion. need for an increased awareness-and a HON. KEN KRAMER In fact, one key indicator-the Board's dedication to spend the necessary "dollars" OF COLORADO to achieve that high standard of safety that own accident rate statistics-shows just the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES opposite-that the accident rates for small can help insure economic success. as well as large airlines have improved sig To put it another way: let the word go out Tuesday, January 31, 1984 that we in aviation have worked too long nificantly between 1978 and 1983. In the e Mr. KRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I fatal accident rate category alone, reduc and too hard to allow any situation to arise tions run as high as 45 percent. where a very few comer-cutters can smear would like to commend my colleagues Part 135 commuters are doing even better. our industry's reputation by putting the for their support yesterday of H.R. For the same period, their total accident public at risk. 1961, the Agent Orange and Atomic Again, I'm not talking about the need for Veterans Relief Act. Certainly the rate for every 100,000 departures was down more regulations-the Lord knows we by three quarters. Their fatal accident rate always seem to have a healthy supply of brave men and women who now suffer dropped by 87 percent. those. The answer may be simply a consist from serious diseases which may be Isn't this proof enough that deregulation ent and firm application of the existing reg the result of their exposure to atomic has not spawned safety problems? ulations by the regulator and those they radiation and toxic herbicides during The answer to that question is "no." Sta regulate. military service, should not be forgot tistics are wonderful, but at the Safety The Board's concern over surveillance pro Board we have been raised on the cross ten. grams is not new. For example, several As our knowledge of the adverse check . . . and as the political pollsters like months ago, the Board testified before Con to say the results of these cross checks are gress on what it believed were shortcomings health effects of radiation and agent still "out." in the FAA's air carrier maintenance sur orange exposure continues to mount, That is not to say we expect to find a veillance program. The shortcomings the need for recognition and compen problem. What it means is that the Safety which involved the efficiency of the service sation of these veterans has become a Board is doing what our Congressional man difficulty reporting system-were uncovered moral responsibility we can no longer date tells us to do-to be alert to any possi in 1979 after the crash of an American Air ignore. ble safety threat . . . to constantly probe lines DC-10 in Chicago, and still have not until we are fully satisfied that the air trav President ·Reagan took the initial been corrected to the Board's satisfaction. steps by proclaiming July 16 as "Na eler faces not even a hint of a safety hazard. Maintenance surveillance also is an issue For example, the Board is conducting an in the Board's on-going investigation of tional Atomic Veterans Day," finally on-going investigation into an accident in what could qualify as one of the most dra granting a long overdue recognition to volving Air Illinois, a 13-year-old regional matic incidents of 1983-the lack of engine the over one quarter of a million air carrier which, in recent years, has ex oil seals that forced the crew of an Eastern American servicemen who were ex panded its service to about 120 flights a day Airlines L1011 to shut down three engines posed to large doses of radiation covering a six-state area. over the Atlantic and glide to less than 3,000 during and after nuclear explosions On the night of October 11, 1983 an Air Il feet above the water before the crew was linois Hawker-Siddeley 748 crashed enroute able to get a restart on a single engine. between 1945 and 1962. from Springfield to Carbondale, Illinois, Operational surveillance also is an issue in However, our duty to these individ killing ten persons in what was one of only several on-going Board investigations, in uals does not end with this recogni three fatal air carrier accidents in the cluding a series of fueling incidents, one of tion. Thirty-eight years have passed United States during 1983. which involved a Republic Airlines DC-9 since the first nuclear weapons was As part of its effort to determine the that made an emergency landing at Luke detonated over the New Mexican cause of the tragedy, the Board held five Air Force Base outside Phoenix. A check desert on July 16, 1945. In those years, days of public hearings. showed less than five gallons of useable fuel veterans who witnessed nuclear tests What were the issues? The adequacy of left in the tanks. Air Illinois' maintenance procedures was In incidents such as these, the Board's in closeup-and those who occupied Hiro one. The airline's operational procedures vestigators are obviously interested in the shima and Nagasaki-have in many was another. And a third was the Federal Airline's fuel planning procedures . . . crew cases experienced severe health prob Aviation Administration's surveillance-was training . . . coordination, and discipline . . . lems. it effective? and the effectiveness of FAA surveillance of Leukemia, heart disease, sterility The Board's final report on the accident is these issues. What we are looking for is the and bone and muscle deterioration are not expected for several months-but Air Il source of the breakdown that led to the fuel just a few of the ailments atomic vet linois voluntarily surrendered its operating problem. certificate while it made the FAA-ordered Surveillance is the key to accident preven erans have encountered, years after corrections to its operational and mainte tion. It is the means to uncover the clues we exposure to nuclear fallout. More im nance procedures. need to tell us where the problems lie portantly, many children of atomic But Air Illinois was not the only airline in before those problems compromise airline veterans have been born with a variety 1983 with a serious problem triggered by its safety. of genetic disorders where no family 1142 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 31, 1981,. history of such problems existed KENNETH M. NELSON ON HIGH dustrialization, much the same way that. before. The possibility of multiple TECHNOLOGY since the 19th century, America's state col future generations feeling the genetic leges played a major role in creating Ameri ca's agricultural supremacy. impact of this technology must be ad HON. JOHN R. McKERNAN, JR. Fourth, those regions which see the link dressed. OF MAINE between their educational resources and Although testing and studies have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES their economic vitality will prosper. not been completed, Vietnam veterans Tuesday, January 31, 1984 A half century ago, Judge Learned Hand exposed to agent orange seem to warned that the fundamental challenge to suffer a high incidence of the skin dis e Mr. McKERNAN. Mr. Speaker, to American industrial leadership would be day America's industries are facing new whether the conflicts brought about by the order chloracne, soft tissue sarcomas, challenges both at home and abroad. ever-increasing special interest would pre and the liver disorder PCT. Our traditional industries need to mod vent us, at crucial times, from effectively We have compensated the citizens of ernize, our newer ones to innovate, if seeing and managing change. Times Beach for the health hazards of Today, there is no shortage of those who they are to meet rising competition in eulogize America's passing as a world indus living in a dioxin poisoned community. the international marketplace. The ad It trial force. But, America has a long record is important to note that veterans vent of high technology offers bright of fooling the forecasters of Apocalypse. En who served their county so valiantly promise for the future, and through it trepreneural economics are social, not scien during wartime were exposed to far America's industries may hope to over tific machines. What is to such forecasters greater concentrations of this same come the challenges they now face. the proof of pending doom is to others often chemical and should be compensated High technology is not a cure-all. All the trumpet call of opportunity. A few years for the illnesses which they may now ago, we were assured that gas lines were per too often, we use the term "high tech manent landscapes, that the world was have. Over 3,000 veterans would bene nology" without reflecting on what it bound to cartel dominance for decades. fit from H.R. 1961. . means. Recently, one of my constitu While necessity may be the mother of in This bill would allow agent orange ents, Kenneth M. Nelson, gave an im vention, challenge is often the midwife. and atomic veterans to qualify for VA portant speech entitled "High Tech Contrary to current forecasts, the evi disability benefits for medical prob nology: A State of Mind." In this dence is clear that our country is regaining speech, delivered at the Rotary Club a sense of direction, rediscovering the merit lems believed to be linked to dioxin system, and increasingly prepared not only and radiation exposure. Also, it would of Portland, Maine, Mr. Nelson exam to manage change, but to inspire it. With provide similar help to natural chil ined the meaning of the term "high apologies to my former profession, we even dren of atomic veterans where evi technology," and remarked upon the have discovered that overhead cannot be dence indicates radiation related ge important role this new science will our principal product. netic disorders. have in the future of our industries, America today is at the gate of a reindus There is much we still do not know universities, and regional economies. trialization, which involves the evolution of Mr. Nelson is president of Nelson & whole new industries, such as those in the about radiation and agent orange and electronics and the biomedical fields; but their effects on the human body. More Small, Inc., a distributor of electronics, which also involves the literal reconstruc research will undoubtedly confirm the appliances, marine and recreational tion of many mature industries through ad relationship between exposure to nu products, and flooring and building vanced technology methods. When you are clear fallout and dioxin to medical products. He is chairman of the Great the 45th poorest state in the Union, seeing problems, but this could take time. er Portland Regional Chamber of the country formulate a new vision is more Commerce Committee on High Tech than encouraging-it is a signal opportunity The projected completion date of the nology. He is a graduate of Bowdoin that there is room for participation. agent orange study in between 1987 College and the Boston University We hear voices telling us that high tech and 1989. Many of our veterans cannot School of Law. nology will result in less employment, or will benefit only a few advanced regions. afford to wait. H.R. 1961 would ad I would like to include Mr. Nelson's dress this problem now, and honorably Those views remind me of the planning speech in the record in an effort to commission which early in the century rec compensate the many men and women better acquaint Members with the ommended that the Patent Office be discon who defended their country and the challenges that the development of tinued since nearly everything had been in free world. I would urge my colleagues high technology present to this vented. The obvious truth is that no one in the Senate to join the House in ap Nation. knows how this revolution will change us. proving this important legislation.• But it will change us. We do know that we HIGH TECHNOLOGY: A STATE OF MIND are in a formidable, world wide race with Literally hundreds of committees are in the other industrialized nations for econom session today, around the country, trying to ic leadership, and that dominance will be understand this industrial revolution which won by those which inspire, invest in and PERSONAL EXPLANATION we have come to call "High Technology". manage change most effectively. So, it would be presumptuous of me to think My own discovery that high technology is that in 20 minutes I could summarize fairly a state of mind occurred when I represented HON.ROBERTJ.MRAZEK the findings of so many thoughtful men and an architect who specialized in hospital OF NEW YORK women, many of whom are from Maine. In design. To keep track of his billings, he had stead, let me share with you some thoughts, put in a computer (in those years a bold IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES my own to be sure, regarding just a few of thing to do>. Watching this marvel perform, Tuesday, January 31, 1984 the issues and challenges posed by the High Cliff Stewart began daydreaming. Suppose Technology era. Let me follow the lawyer's he could put into the computer's memory • Mr. MRAZEK. Mr. Speaker, on Jan habit of summarizing, at the beginning, the not just receivables, but building codes, uary 26, 1984, I was unable to be here thoughts I would like to leave with you zoning codes, utility and wiring require in Washington because my 2%-year today. ments for operating rooms, clearances, old son was undergoing surgery at First, more than anything else, High swing requirements. Suppose he could put Huntington Hospital. I would like the Technology represents a state of mind. into the computer the collective design ex Second, America is on the verge of rein perience of his whole firm. Suppose he REcoRD to indicate that if I had been dustrialization through high technology. could draw with a wand instead of a pencil. present I would have voted "yea" on The fuel for that reindustrialization is in He daydreamed sitting with a client listen House vote No. 10, proxy voting inves our educational system ... elementary to ing to the questions he had listened to for tigation; "yea" on House vote No. 11, university. A good education is no longer years, "What would be involved, if we add Agricultural Productivity Act; and just a personal asset. A poor education is no two operating rooms here? . . . or moved longer just a family's problem. Emergency to this wing." "yea" on House vote No. 13, the Na Third, America's universities are already He wondered if the computer could not tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad undergoing an enormous change. The most only tell him the implications of each ministration Authorization.• vigorous will emerge as· partners in this rein- change, but could then draw the revisions? January 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1143 Avoiding the waste of re-inventing the from the top of the pack. At one large col opments are copyrightable. With industry wheel. Some 18 years ago, with the help of lege of education, the academic record of increasingly recognizing its need to finance MIT graduate students, Cliff Stewart devel the 1983 entering class of soon-to-be teach basic research, in the last two years, we oped one of the first computer aided design ers is below the average of the university's have seen an explosion of research partner systems. He called it ARC 1. Their first com general student body. Think about it. Those ships between universities and private in puter could only store a few pages of data, who will be teachers increasingly are not as dustry. Usually, a company or group spon but it worked. Eliminate an operating room academic as those who will be their average sors specific basic research by the universi and a new bill of materials punched out. students. No wonder Carnegie finds a shift ty. The results of those labors are owned by Add hospital rooms and the printer not only from dialogue to lecture, from analysis to the university and then licensed back to the drew the floor plan, but reminded him that memorization. sponsor for use in its territory. the parking lot was too small. A friend of mine is fond of saying capital For example, in 1983, Stanford accepted Xerox and Carnegie Mellon joint ventured goes where it is treated kindest. Well, talent research grants of nearly $150,000,000 and a project which would far advance Stewart's is capital. The beginning salary for a Maine its partnership royalty income exceeded system, but today Stewart and his 30 archi public school teacher is $10,000. After ten $1,000,000. tects design hospitals with six computer sys years of experience, maybe $17,000. If we Many other similar basic research part tems with terminals right on the construc are not getting or keeping the teaching nerships opened this year. MIT and Har tion site so that change orders are tested talent we require, one obvious reason is that vard jointly received a $50,000,000 genetic against plans, and implicatio~ reckoned the talented are getting treated better doing research grant from a German pharmaceu with immediately. other things. tical company. Harvard obtained a High Technology is a state of mind which One of the unavoidable changes we will $6,000,000 grant from Dupont. Monsanto restores value to innovation, experimenta have to manage is a public school pay scale entered into a multi-year $25,000,000 part tion, productivity and efficiency. It is a state that recruits the people who must be re nership with Washington School of Medi of mind not just limited to the fields, which cruited, if we are going to have the superior cine for basis research in immunology, as are themselves high technology, but equally education system world competition dic well as a $50,000,000 long-term project at applicable to architecture, potato farming, tates. I think it will happen because Ameri Harvard. Six computer firms and Stanford tool making, shoe making and industrializa ca's commitment to education is more than have formed a partnership for biotechnol tion. just self-interest; it is historic. ogy process research. Michigan just an The fuel for a reindustrialization sparked The most striking thing about the ad nounced a $6,000,000 molecular biology re by high technology' is in the quality of our vanced technology revolution at the univer search grant. These are but a few of the educational system for at that core is sity level is the reunification of industry university-industry partnership ventures trained inquisitive brain power. and the academy. Our first hint of the rela underway. In all 50 states volunteer commissions are tionship was that the first great electronic There are now 1,650 faculty engineering at work trying to diagnose the ailments of business centers of advanced technology positions vacant nationwide. There has been public schools. It is now widely acknowl were Boston, Atlanta, Austin, Palo Alto, a 7-year decline in the number of PHD engi edged that we have come through nearly 20 even Singapore, which also happened to be neering candidates. Indeed more than one years of continuously less educated stu the homes of major universities and univer third of those engineering PHD candidates dents, declining aptitude and achievement sity research centers. I say reunification of are foreign students. Many state supported scores 31-059 Q-87-37 (Pt. 1) 1152 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 31, 1984 John Snider, Mike's brother. John recalled In testimony before the U.S. Senate Floretta McKenzie, Superintendent some of the years of practice with a laugh Labor and Human Resources Commit and admitted, "He nearly drove me crazy!" of the District of Columbia Public But those years were gone by the time tee, Harvard President Derek Bok Schools, says, Snider was married, said his wife, Sabrina. stated, I believe the proposed legislation has real "Now I just get to hear all the good stuff," Among the possibilities, the following merit. Apart from the intrinsic value, the she says. seem to represent the most promising ways Act would support, in a very substantial So Mike Snider came to Nashville and for the Federal Government [to improve way, teacher recruitment and professional played his banjo on the Grand Ole Opry the quality of our schools isl to act in con development, both financially and philo stage. The bright spotlights glistened off cert with universities: sophically. the white top of his banjo as the sun had "Offer scholarships or forgivable loans to gleamed off the snow-covered soybean fields highly talented undergraduates to prepare Writes Glenn Watts, president of along the interstate on this cold, clear Janu themselves as teachers, contingent on their the Communications Workers of ary Saturday. And when Snider reflected on actually serving for a stipulated period of America and member of the · Task what he had been through, he drawled, "I'm years. Such initiatives would spend federal dollars efficiently by using them only for Force on Education for Economic tickled. I don't know what'll come of it. If Growth: nothing does, well that's fine. I had a great academically talented persons who will actu time!''e ally teach in the schools. . . . I am also quite pleased about this legisla "Fund sabbaticals . . . for a stipulated tion you are proposing for talented teach number of exceptional teachers who wish to ers. As you correctly cited, it was one of the attend a university for further study in recommendations of the task force [on Edu · OUTSTANDING SUPPORT FOR their subjects or to prepare themselves as THE TALENTED TEACHERS cation for Economic Growth], and I think is master teachers or as school administrators. a preferable form of reward for talented ACT OF 1983 Such sabbaticals, with a commitment to teachers over merit pay. return to the public schools, could reward and renew able teachers and this help to James Sanders, past president of the HON. RON WYDEN retain those whose services are most Illinois School Boards, writes: OF OREGON needed." I will contract as many people that I can IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Sacramento Bee and the Fresno concerning cosponsoring HR 4477 which I Bee, two California newspapers, in think is an excellent bill. Tuesday, January 31, 1984 January editorials, wrote, • Mr. WYDEN. Mr. Speaker, last No Writes Robert Wilburn, Secretary of With a shell-full of recent reports be Education for the Commonwealth of vember, Chairman PAUL SIMON, Con moaning the state of American education, gressman BILL GooDLING, Congress the topic has become political excitement. Pennsylvania: man E. THOMAS COLEMAN, and I intro But thus far precious few good ideas have Federal assistance for the ablest teacher duced the Talented Teachers Act of emerged ... Now comes a modest sensible candidates and the most talented classroom 1983. proposal for Federal aid in one area where it teachers will very positively complement Since that time, we have received a can do some good: enticing able college stu our Scholars in Education and excellence in dents into teaching careers.... Teaching Awards. I commend you and the tremendous number of positive com Not even generous scholarships will turn co-sponsoring Congressmen for taking steps ments about the bill from education these recruits into career teachers however. to improve the quality of education and I experts and others across the country. That will require higher salaries, better strongly support your efforts. The Talented Teachers Act represents working conditions, and a commitment to one positive way for the Federal Gov excellence on the part of the schools. But at Anna Harrison, President of the ernment to: Recognize the tremendous $75 million, this measure is a blue-chip in American Association for the Advance importance of teachers in America; en vestment in education. ment of Science, writes: courage bright students to enter the In October, the Washington Post Two comments: First, I applaud your profession, and keep talented teachers wrote in an editorial that: action in this matter, and second, I hope at the front of the classroom. The Simon task force knows that large that it receives favorable action. I would urge my colleagues to con new Federal appropriations for school aid Dean Robert Barr of the Oregon sider these comments and to support are not likely. Nor, since they mean Federal State University-Western Oregon control of the public schools, are they desir this modest, but effective initiative. able. Instead, the task force offers two State College School of Education, Ernest Boyer, president of the Car modest but valuable suggestions. How about says, negie Foundation for the Advance Federal support for summer institutes to I was delighted to learn that you have ment of Teaching, writes: help classroom teachers improve their capa submitted the Talented Teachers Act of As you know, my own commitment to the bilities? Even better, how about Federal 1983 to Congress, Given my perception of improvement of the teaching profession in scholarships to draw unusually able stu the urgent needs of American education, cludes emphasis on ideas that connect close dents into teaching? At a time when great this legislation would be an important con ly with those emphasized in your legisla numbers of good students are having trou tribution. tion. I believe that Federal initiatives will be ble financing college education, the idea of important and necessary in securing out trading tuition aid for public service be Writes Penny Williams, a member of standing students for careers in teaching. comes increasingly appealing. the house of representatives in the And I agree that talented teachers must be Writes Dr. Anne Flowers of the State of Oklahoma: recognized-for what they have done and American Association of Colleges for The enactment of this bill should be a for what they can do as role models for Teacher Education, boon for the efforts to improve quality in their peers. I agree that attracting capable young stu education and to attract bright, lively Patricia Albjerg Graham, dean of dents into teaching and acknowledging the people to the field of teaching . . . Once the Graduate School of Education at achievements of outstanding educational again, many thanks for the enormous con Harvard University and member of the professionals are important priorities for all tributions the passage of this bill should 20th Century Fund Task Force, com levels of government. make in raising the level of literacy in ments: State Senator Robert Martin of America today. You and your colleagues are to be con Kentucky writes, Prof. Brewster Denny of the Univer gratulated for taking this important step, You have proposed legislation on two sity of Washington and a member of both in terms of addressing two of the more problems which I think are pertinent to the the 20th Century Found Task Force, critical problems confronting education, and improvement of the quality of education, writes: in terms of understanding what we on the namely, the recruitment and retention of 20th Century Fund Task Force considered excellent teachers. The legislation which The bill certainly sounds to be a very fine the overriding Federal interest in their you have proposed attacks these two prob step in the right direction and appears con prompt and successful resolution. lems and I think should be considered by sistent with what we are trying to do. I hope I hope that this legislation continues to the Congress if it is serious about improving that Congress will act on this legislation receive bipartisan support. education. soon.e January 31, 1981,. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1153 SOVIET ARMS CONTROL KH-11 imagery has the advantage of PUBLIC HOUSING VIOLATIONS availability in near real time. Sometimes the imagery is good and sometimes is not so good. While the U.S. has been playing bal HON. ROBERT GARCIA HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD ance-the-books with its reconnaisSance sat OF NEW YORK OF MICHIGAN ellite program, the Soviets have been sharp IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ening their classic skills in building Potem IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES kin villages. They are using concealment. Tuesday, January 31, 1984 Tuesday, January 31, 1984 They are using decoys. Simplest of all, they • Mr. GARCIA. Mr. Speaker, on Jan are operating at night when digital or opti uary 3, 1984, the Washington Post e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, cal imagery is out of business. President Reagan's report on Soviet Irrespective of how good or bad satellite printed a page 1 article highlighting arms control violations, which was re imagery is, there is the matter of coverage. the troubles of the Nation's public cently sent to the Congress, is predi If the satellite is not in the right place at housing program. Unfortunately, the cated upon the way in which arms the right time, high resolution is acadeinic. article failed to recognize some of the treaties are checked for compliance. The numbers of reconnaissance satellites successes that the program has experi Verification, the process by which our the U.S. is flying now are not nearly enough enced. Further, the article seemed to to verify an arms control treaty with a place all the blame on local housing country can tell if the Soviets are nation that has a special high-priority de cheating in relation to the provisions partment to mastermind concealment. authorities and not on the often inad of an arms control agreement, is the There is a parallel between prospecting equate and continuously changing critical element of arms control and is for intelligence by satellite and prospecting Federal policies. Overall, the story an important issue within the context for mineral wealth by satellite. Both have perpetuated the myth that all public of arms reduction talks. Finding paths their strong points, as in covering vast housing is badly managed and left the to mutual trust, based upon positive amounts of territory to find targets of inter reader with the impression that public est. Ground truth for confirmation and housing developments cannot work. proof, is crucial to the future of any detail is essential. Complete dependence on arms limitations, especially with such any one information-gathering technique is Robert Maffin, the executive direc newer trends in weapons development a delusion. tor of the National Association of as mobile missiles and delivery vehi How this figures in the 1984 election is Housing and Redevelopment Officials cles which can carry conventional ex with the issue of peace. The Democratic op has a different and more accurate per plosives or nuclear warheads. In this ponent of President Reagan will obviously ception of the Nation's public housing regard, I commend to my colleagues have a big peace plank in his platform. Pres stock. I would like to enter his letter sures from within the White House also to the Post in an attempt to correct the following editorial which appeared exist for the President to don a toga of in the January 16, 1984, edition of peace of his own. The climate is ideal to en some of these misleading impressions. NAHRO Aviation Week and Space Technology. courage the U.S. to abandon its tough January 3, 1984. SATELLITE INTELLIGENCE-AND ITS LIMITS stance on a new arms control agreement and settle for what it can get for a piece of Ms. MEG GREENFIELD, TO HONOR COACH FRANK Church Board of Deacons. He was & she did not want to leave it. She found SERRAO member of the YMCA board for 3 a way, with the help of Edison Princi years and for 28 years has been a pal Craig Sturgeon, to continue to con HON. JERRY LEWIS member of the Kiwanis Club. tribute to public education as manager OF CALIFORNIA A family man, Frank has been mar of the mathematics section of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ried for 37 years to his lovely wife, school's comprehensive education pro Joan. They are very proud of their gram. In her own words, "My work at Tuesday, January 31, 1984 four children and three grandchildren. Edison Senior High School has been • Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. During his career Frank inspired truly rewarding. In many ways, I be Speaker, it is with great pride that I many young people onto bigger and lieve I have learned more from my join with family, friends, and col better things in life. Through example youngsters than they have learned leagues in honoring a truly inspira and hard work he instilled a feeling of from me." tional leader among the students and pride and accomplishment in his play Reporter Lillie Harris of the Miami faculty at the University of Redlands, ers. He will not be soon forgotten by Edison Herald has written two articles Mr. Frank Serrao, who is retiring as those who learned so much from him about Agnes Conlin and the compre head football coach of the University nor by those gathered here tonight to hensive education program, and I of Redlands, Redlands, Calif. pay tribute to this fine American. Mr. would like to share them with my col Football has always played an im Speaker, it is my privilege to commend leagues. portant role in Frank's life. He played to the U.S. House of Representatives, As we debate and discuss ways to im ball for, and was graduated from Coach Frank Serrao.e Bucknell University. World War II prove the education of our children, temporarily interrupted his pursuit of which is perhaps our most important a career in football. He spent 3% years BYRON G. ROGERS responsibility to future generations of in the U.S. Army. Following the war, Americans, I hope we will all remem Frank continued his education and re HON. MORRIS K. UDALL ber that it all begins with hardwork ing, dedicated, caring teachers like ceived a master's degree at New York OF ARIZONA University in physical education. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Agnes Conlin. In 1957 Frank was appointed head Monday, January 30, 1984 GRANDMA'S BACK football coach at Redlands High e Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, I want to 31-{)59 Q-87-38 (Pt. 1)