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October· 3, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 31725 You cannot have any housing for the Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. I thank the RECESS Chair. elderly unless you apply for subsidized Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, housing for family units. It is a rural if there be no further business to come area. We have no need for public hous- PROGRAM before the Senate, I move, in accordance ing. Our only need is with the elderly. with the previous order, that the Senate Mr. President, is it any wonder that Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, stand in recess until the hour of 12 noon people everywhere are critical of Gov- the Senate will convene at 12 o'clock on Monday. ernment, losing faith in it; and, hence, noon on Monday, October 6, and con- T he motion w as agreed to; and at by their words destroying the faith of sideration will be resumed of the pend- others in Government. 3:10 p.m., the Senate recessed until Mon- ing gas deregulation legislation, S. 2310. day, October 6, 1975, at 12 noon. I say to you Congress ought to find After the tw o leaders or their des- out what is going on in HUD, and there ignees have been recognized under the ought to be a renovation from basement standing order on Monday, the follow- NOMINATIONS to attic, and they ought to quit trying ing Senators will be recognized, each for to run people's lives and making deci- Executive nominations received by the not to exceed 15 minutes and in the order Senate October 3, 1975: sions that can better be made at the stated: Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD, Mr. GRIF- local level. FIN, Mr. MANSFIELD. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Mr. President, I feel very deeply about T here will then be a period for the Morton Corn, of Pennsylvania, to be an this. I do hope the committee will serious- Assistant Secretary of Labor, vice John H. transaction of routine morning business Stender, resigning. ly consider taking the housing for the of not to exceed 15 minutes, with state- elderly in the rural areas away from ments limited therein to 3 minutes each. HUD and putting it in the same agency At the conclusion of the period for that provides direct loans and insured the transaction of routine morning busi- CONFIRMATIONS loans for the building of homes—the ness the Senate will resume considera- Farm and Home Administration. tion of S. 2310. Rollcall votes may occur Executive nominations confirmed by Mr. President, I yield the floor. on Monday. the Senate October 3, 1975: Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, I Beginning with Tuesday, and contin- IN THE A RMY thank the Senator from Nebraska for his uing daily throughout the week, the ses- The following-named officer under the pro- very useful remarks. sions will likely be long, with early con- vision of title 10, United States Code, section Mr. President, I move that the Senate venings and late adjournments. I think 3066, to be assigned to a position of impor- concur in the amendments of the House tance and responsibility designated by the I should emphasize and reiterate the President under subsection (a) of section of Representatives to the amendments prospect that was voiced by Mr. MANS- 3066, in grade as follows: of the Senate numbered 2, 3, 5, 55, 56, 57, FIELD earlier today of a possible Satur- To be lieutenant general and 59. day session next week so that Senators The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ques- Maj. Gen. George Sammet, Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx , will arrange their schedules accord- U.S. Army. tion is on agreeing to the motion of the ingly. Senator from Wisconsin. The necessity for both long daily ses- IN THE N A VY A N D MA RIN E CORPS The motion was agreed to. sions and a possible Saturday session lies Navy nominations beginning Bernard J. B ortz, to be commander, and ending Lt. in the fact it is urgent that the Senate Oscar N. McNeil, to be permanent lieutenant ORDER OF BUSINESS act finally, if possible, on legislation deal- (j.g.) and temporary lieutenant, which nom- ing with the natural gas emergency, and inations w ere received by the Senate and The PRESIDING OFFICER. What is also on the Sinai technicians proposal appeared in the Congressional Record on the will of the Senate? before the Senate goes home for a week. September 3, 1975. Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, I sug- If the House overrides the President's Navy nominations beginning Richard E. gest the absence of a quorum. veto of the school lunch bill which, I un- Strutner, to be ensign, and ending Jose 0. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk Morales, to be commander, which nomina- derstand, is scheduled for Tuesday in tions were received by the Senate and ap- will call the roll. the other body, the Senate will immedi- peared in the Congressional Record on Sep- The assistant legislative clerk pro- ately vote on the override on receipt of tember 3, 1975. ceeded to call the roll. the House message in the Senate. Navy nominations beginning Richard Lewis Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, Conference reports and other meas- Aarnes, to be lieutenant, and ending Linda I ask unanimous consent that the order ures may also come up next week. But Marie Tomes, to be lieutenant, which nomi- for the quorum call be rescinded. the two main pieces of business will be nations were received by the Senate and ap- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the gas bill and the Sinai technicians peared in the Congressional Record on Sep- tember 16, 1975. objection, it is so ordered. proposal. M arine Corps nominations beginning Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I urge that all Senators keep in mind Joseph S. Agee, to be colonel, and ending what is the pending business before the the long daily sessions T uesday and Andrew D. Zinn, to be first lieutenant, which Senate? thereafter, with a Saturday session likely nominations were received by the Senate and The PRESIDING OFFICER. S. 2310 is if the business cannot be cleaned up appeared in the Congressional Record on Sep- the pending business before the Senate. beforehand. tember 3, 1975. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS PUBLIC POLICY AND THE FUTURE that distorts or ignores the reality of We have no national policy for enriching OF AGING growing old in America. the lives of our parents. Worse, the patch- This week, the National Council on the work of well-intentioned programs which, in piecemeal fashion, address the problems of Aging is holding its 25th annual confer- the aging have been poorly planned, under- HON. THOMAS J. DOWNEY ence in this city. Our colleague from funded, understaffed, and undercut by those OF NEW YORK Arizona, Representative MORRIS K. charged with carrying them out. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UDALL, was a featured speaker at that The outlook for older Americans today is conference, delivering an address on bleak. It is getting bleaker. And it cannot Friday, O ctober 3, 1975 "Public Policy and the Future of Aging." get better until all of us—professionals in Mr. DOW NEY of New York. Mr. In his speech, Representative UDALL the field, policy-makers in government, the analyzes the plight of our elderly— young, and the elderly themselves—look be- Speaker, there are 21 million Americans hind w hat it means to be old in America. over the age of 65. T'ney share the prob- poverty, failing health, decaying hous- lems of all of us, but their difficulties are ing, and particular vulnerability to crime. Representative UDALL proceeds to set compounded by "ageism"—the pervasive Surveying Government's response to the forth a number of specific proposals to attitude of our youth-oriented society problems, he concluded: help relieve the misery suffered by too 31726 EXTENSIONS OF-REMARKS October 3, 1975 many of our elders. His suggestions de the moral and legal brilliance of Holmes and the brown-and the gray. With limited in serve the active consideration of all of Black and Hand-all reached their greatest come and uncertain life expectancy, they a.re us in Congress, for our actions wm pro heroics years and decades beyond the age of shut oif from mortgage money and a.re foundly influence the shape of life, not 60. forced into other, more crowded substandard merely for the aged today; old age is the If, as I am convinced, the age of cheap housing further from their families and and abundant natural resources is irrevocably from essential commercial and governmental destiny of every human being, and our over, there can be no higher national priority services. Impoundments and red-lining assure actions do much to determine whether or than the full and creative cultivation of our that there are no funds to maintain or im not it will be an empty legacy. human resources-resources that flourish prove these neighborhoods. The text of Representative UnALL's with age and experience. We must heed the And the aged are the ea lest targets for speech follows: words of the philosopher Paul Weiss-himself the crime inevitably bred by such over a. victim of age discrimination while at the PUBLIC POLICY AND THE FUTURE OF AGING crowding and squalor. In 1970, more than height of his intellectual powers-who said, one third of the crime victims in the Dis I would like to think that this Bicenten "America will never be of age until it knows nial Year, marked by celebration and reflec trict of Columbia were over 50.