3222 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-' HOUSE February 18, 1975 war progressed and the tide turned It is to our credit that we have not, May Thy children ever follow and will not, abandon our support of the Their heroic fathers against Germany Lithuania returned not In devotion to their country to independence but to Soviet domina Lithuanian people's aspirations for a And good will to others. tion. free and independent existence. I share The United States has never recog with Lithuanians everywhere their pride May the sun of our loved shore Shine upon us everm.ore; nized the Soviet incorPoration of Lithu and hopes as reflected in the words of May the right and the truth ania and the other two Baltic States, their national anthem: Keep our pathway lighted. Estonia and Latvia. Though stripped of Lithuania., land of heroes, May the love CY! our dear land their freedom, these brave people con Thou our Fatherland that art, Make us strong of heart and hand, tinue to strive to maintain their national From the glorious deeds of ages May our land ever stand identity and their dignity. Shall Thy children take heart. Pea.ceful and united.
HOUSE OF' REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, February 18, 1975 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. RABBI LEIB PINTER Mr. SOLARZ. I yield to the gentle Rabbi Leib Pinter, B'Nai Torah, therefore, the brighter child should be tions of doing so, at this tender age. Thus B'NAI TORAH INSTITUTE LOOKS TO THE taught differently than the average child. he is able to devote a year or two, or FUTURE Unfortunately, in a mass educational more, exclusively to his Hebrew studies, As long as there are human differ system with large classes, it is almost im which in any event is at the heart of his ences, there will be a need for special possible to teach each child according to lifestyle. He enters the bais hamedrash educational programs for the gifted. In his own needs, at his own speed. And literally, house of study-and delves deed, as educational opportunities be while, on the elementary level, there are deep into the profundities of the come more broad based, there will be a in some instances sufficient pupils in a Bible, the Talmud, and other rabbinic continually growing need to encourage school to organize parallel classes based commentaries and ethical teachings. An the intellectually superior student to on slow, average, and advanced achiev exceptionally high caliber staff of in reach for, and achieve, his maximum ers, this is not ,the case on the higher structors-a number of whom have potential. levels of education. Only a separate authored and published learned articles B'nai Torah Institute can already see, school, devoted especially to the need of and books-works with small groups of by the increasingly large number of ap the gifted, intellectually superior student, students in an academic style that blends plicants they cannot accept only because could prove successful. a clear-cut analytical approach with a their present facilities are inadequate, The Jewish people, from time im warm and positive attitude toward the that it must expand its horizons. They memorial, have been known as the Peo subject matter. consider it their sacred duty to their ple of the Book. Learning and study are Post-high-school students who show people and to our country, to make ex among their highest values; their rab exceptional promise are encouraged to cellence in education available to all who bis and scholars are venerated and re continue their studies even after mar seek it. spected beyond measure. Education for riage. The chosen and the willing, upon all, and especially for the gifted, is one committing themselves to spend at least PRESIDENT'S POWER TO DECON of their prime concerns. 3 years .in this program called the TROL OLD OIL MUST BE CURBED With this goal in mind, the B'nai Kolle!, are offered a stipend which al Torah Institute was founded. Through lows them to study undisturbed by the (Mr. VANIK asked and was given per careful screening of applicants, the insti concerns of supporting their young fam mission to address ,the House for 1 min tute was able to gather a select group ilies. While far from lavish, the B'nai ute and to revise and extend his re of outstanding Jewish high school stu Torah grant enables the Kolle! men to marks.) dents who could benefit most from its provide for their dependents with dignity Mr. VANIK. Mr. Speaker, in accord unique program. The minimum stand and peace of mind. These young men are ance with his state of the Union speech ard is excellence: In intellectual ca destined to become the instructors and and repeated statements since, Presiden).; pacity, in moral inclination, in a desire deans of future generations of young Gerald Ford has announced he will de for influence and leadership. Once these Jewish scholars. control "old oil" on April 1. He tells us standards are met, and openings are DORMITORY AND DINING FACILITIES that it is a part of his energy pclicy to available, no other conditions are placed While many of B'nai Torah's students permit the price of old oil on that date on entry, certainly not financial condi reside in the immediate or adjacent to rise from its present level of $5.25 per tions: students pay whatever they can neighborhoods, others come from far and barrel to $11 per barrel or the present afford. wide to benefit from its unique program. world price. A 3-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM To enable the latter to participate in According to the National Academy of One of the basic assumptions of the every aspect of the schedule, dormitory Sciences, there are approximately 37 bil American educational system is that a lion barrels of old oil reserves which have facilities are provided in nearby apart a present controlled price of $5.25 per student cannot tolerate, or function well ments. for, more than a 10-month school year, barrel, or a total worth of $194.25 billion. Three nutritious meals are served to It is the President's intention on April 1 with frequent minivacations even in each student every school day, and tea that time span. For the average student to increase the value of these reserves this is possibly true, although this too and coffee are available throughout the principally held by eight major oil com 1s a controversial matter; in fact, the day. panies-to $11 per barrel, or to a total more demanded of a student, the more A COMMUNITY-MINDED INSTITUTION worth of $407 billion. he can accomplish. "No man is an island unto himself," Never before in the history of this B'nai Torah Institute demands more. the poet said, and B'nai Torah Institute Nation has a President possessed such A B'nai Torah student devotes a mini subscribes to that wholeheartedly. As an tremendous economic power to make a mum of 13 hours a day to his studies, institution steeped in the moral con few nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars beginning with prayer services at 7:30 cepts of traditional Judaism, it cherished richer-and all of the rest of the people a.m. and ending with an independent of America that much poorer. The con the ideal of loving one's neighbor as one's sumers will face a thunderous inflation study/review session at 9 p.m. During self. The administration of B'nai Torah the day he partakes of an intensive and ary jolt as tlhey begin to pay the new Institute has chosen to inculcate this price for a resource which has already accelerated program of both Hebrew and ideal in its students not merely by secular subjects. Classes are small and been developed through billions of dollars intimate, allowing f'or close one-to-one preaching it but by practicing it. - of past tax subsidy. contact between student and teacher. B'nai Torah Institute is actively en I am currently preparing legislation And this program continues, in one gaged in managing and supervising sev which will limit this horrendous power form or another, 12 months of the year! eral public assistance programs of direct of the President's pen, and I hope that Ten months are spent on the school benefit to the underprivileged in a num Members of this body will take immedi campus in Brooklyn, 1 month of full ber of Metropolitan New York's neigh ate steps to limit or restrain this power curriculum is mandatory on the school's borhoods. Summer lunch programs, un before the April 1 deadline. campgrounds in the Catskills, and 1 der the aegis of U.S. Department of Ag month offers an option between con riculture, provide a well-balanced nu tinuing the full curriculum at camp or RECOMMITTAL OF H.R. 2302 TO tritious meal to thousands of improver COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT a program of assigned study projects ished children. Manpower training pro OPERATIONS wherever the student chooses to be. grams, under the auspices of the U.S. Mr. BROOKS. Mr. Speaker, I ask As a result of this intense and ac Department of Labor, offer training and . celerated program a student is able to unanimous consent to recommit to the new skills to members of the disadvan Committee on Government Operations complete his high school studies in only taged minorities who seek a better sta 3 years. the bill H.R. 2303 to revise cert.ain provi tion in life. sions rela ting to per diem and mileage POST-HIGH SCHOOL STUDIES By observing this example of concern expenses of Government employees and Having graduated from high school a for the poor and the needy, B'nai Torah disabled veterans and for other purposes. year earlier than most, the Institute's students are imbued with the noble ideal The SPEAKER. Is there objection to student rarely feels the pressure to enter of shouldering the burden with their the request of the gentleman from Texas? a secular college, even if he has inten- fellow man. There was no objection. 3224 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE February 18, 1975 PERMISSION FOR COMMITTEE ON (f) financial assistance to State Marine last Congress as H.R. 13296, and would RULES TO FILE CEI?iTAIN PRIVI Schools, $2,973,ooo. have been enacted but for an unaccept- LEGED REPORTS SEc. 2. In addition to the amounts author- able Senate amendment. H.R. 3 is identi ized by section 1 of this Act, there are au- cal to H.R. 13296, 93d Congress, as it Mr. McFALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan thorized to be appropriated for fiscal year passed the House of Representatives, ex- imous consent that the Committee on 1975 such additional supplemental amounts Rules may have until midnight tonight for the activities for which appropriations cept that it does not contain the Senate are authorized under section 1 of this Act as amendment found objectionable by the to file certain privileged reports. may be necessary for increases in salary, pay, administration. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to retirement, or other employee benefits au- The bill was reported unanimously by the request of the gentleman from Cali thorized by law. the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com- fornia? SEc. 3. Section 809 of the Merchant Ma- mittee after full and careful considera There was no objection. rine Act, 1936, as amended (46 u.s.c. 1213), tion of the entire record, and I am un is amended (a) by inserting "(a)" imme- diately before "Contracts" in the first sen- aware of any opposition to it. I strongly PERMISSION FOR COMMITTEE ON tence thereof; and (b) by adding at the end urge the House to support this very im APPROPRIATIONS TO FILE RE thereof the following new subsection: portant legislation so that the new mari- PORT ON BILL MAKING FURTHER "(b) There shall be established and main- time program provided by the Merchant URGENT SUPPLEMENTAL APPRO tained within the Maritime Administration Marine Act of 1970 can continue to be PRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR such regional. offices as may be necessary, in- implemented as directed by the Congress. eluding, but not limited to, one such office Mr. MOSHER. Mr. Speaker, I yield ENDING JUNE 30, 1975 for each of the four port ranges specified in subsection (a) of this section. The Secretary myself such time as I may consume. Mr. McFALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan of Commerce shall appoint a qualified indi- Mr. Speaker, the distinguished chair imous consent that the Commit"i;ee on vidual to be the Director of each such re- man of the Merchant Marine Com Appropriations may have until midnight gional office and shall carry out approprtaite mittee (Mrs. SULLIVAN) has carefully tonight to file a rePort on a bill making functions, activities, and programs of the described the provisions of H.R. 3, further urgent supplemental appropria Maritime Administration through such re- authorizing appropriations for the Mar tions for the fiscal year ending June 30, gional offices.". time Administration for fiscal year 1975. The SPEAKER. Is a second de- 1975. I believe it is necessary to state Mr. BAUMAN reserved all points of manded. only that this authorization bill reflects order. Mr. MOSHER. Mr. Speaker, I demand the continuing commitment of the ad- The SPEAKER. Is there objection to a second. ministration and the Congress to the the request of the gentleman from Cali The SPEAKER. Without objection, a goals of the Merchant Marine Act of fornia? second will be considered as ordered. 1970. There was no objection. There was no objection. The principal thrust of the 1970 act Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield was toward the creation of a bulk carrier APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF myself such time as I may consume. capability under the U.S.-fiag. The legis- COMMITTEE ON HOUSE RECORD Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge passage of lation we are now considering provides ING STUDIO H.R. 3, which is identical to H.R. 13296, the seed money, if you will, to insure the vetoed by the President on January 4, cons·truction of vessels which will give The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro 1975, with the exception of the nonger- the United States a minimal degree of visions of section 105 Cc), Public Law 624, mane amendment that had been added independence in the carriage of our bulk 84th Congress, the Chair appoints as on by the Senate and to which the Presi- imports and exparts. At the subsidy rates members of the Committee on the House dent directed his veto. H.R. 13296 origi- prevailing in fiscal year 1975 of from Recording Studio the following Members nally passed the House on June 4, 1974. 16% to 37 percent, the construction funds on the part of the House: Mr. REES of Section 1 of the bill would authorize authorized in this legislation will sup CeJifornia; Mr. RosE of North Carolina, appropriations for fiscal year 1975 for port almost a billion dollars worth of and Mr. CRANE of Illinois. certain maritime programs of the De- ship construction in U.S. yards, and partment of Commerce, in the total many thousands of man-hours of em amount of $562.9 million-to be appor- ployment not only in the shipyards AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS tioned as follows: themselves but in the steel industry and FOR FISCAL YEAR 1975 FOR CER Construction subsidy, $275 million; all related industries that contribute to TAIN MARITIME PROGRAMS OF Operating subsidy, $242,800,000; the building of a ship. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Research and development, $27,900,- The operating subsidies authorized in Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, I move 000; this legislation will provide a minimum to suspend the rules and pass the bill National Defense Reserve Fleet, $3,- of support for liner companies operating CH.R. 3) to authorize appropriations for 742,000; on essential trade routes and bulk car- the fiscal year 1975 for certain maritime Federal Merchant Marine Academy, riers in various worldwide services. While programs of the Department of Com $10,518,000; and · great strides have been made with re- merce. state marine schools, $2,973,000. spect to the construction of technolog- The Clerk read as follows: Section 2 of the bill is a technical ically advanced liner vessels, such as con H.R. 3 amendment to avoid having to amend tainer and barge-carrying ships. The Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of the fiscal year 1975 authorization request liner companies of the U.S. merchant Bepresentattves of the United States of if supplemental appropriations for fiscal marine are beset by a number of competi America in Congress assembled, That funds year 1975 are required for the remunera- tive problems which have seriously un a.re hereby authorized· to be appropriated tion of Maritime Administration employ- dermined their financial stability. The Without fiscal year limitation as the Appro ees at the National Defense Reserve technological revolution which swept the priation Act may provide for the use of the Fleet and the Federal Merchant Marine liner trades in the 1960's made this a Department of Commerce, for the fiscal year 1975, as follows: Academy. An identical provision was in capital-intensive industry. The liner in (a) acquisition, construction, or recon the authorization act for fiscal year 1974. dustry is no longer in truth a shipping struction of vessels and construction-differ When we enacted the Merchant Ma- industry but has become an integrated ential subsidy and cost of national defense rine Act of 1970, the Congress gave spe- land-sea transportation industry, where features incident to the construction, recon cific recognition to the Great Lakes as terminal facilities, containers, and trucks struction, or reconditioning of ships, $275,- the fourth major seacoast of the United are as imPoNant elements in the busi- . 000,000; States. While maintaining a regional ness as the ships themselves. The pur (b) payment of obligations incurred for ship operating-differential subsidy, $242,- office for the Atlantic, gulf, and Pacific chase of modern container and LASH 800,000; coasts, the Maritime Administration has ships has seriously strained the resources ( c) expenses necessary for research and yet to establish such an office for the of our liner companies. A number of development activities, $27,900,000; Great Lakes. Section 3 of the bill them have become subsidiaries of major (d) reserve fleet expenses, $3,742,000; would require that this be done promptly. conglomerate organizations in order to (e) maritime training at the Merchant Mr. Speaker, the proposed legislation Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, set forth in H.R. 3 passed both the House secure the great amounts of money re $10,518,000; and of Representatives and the Senate in the quired to pay for the ships, containers February 18, 1975 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3225 and other facilities essential to a modern We are, however, a legislative body, and on the difference between United States liner service. the administrative agencies which have and foreign shipbuilding costs, and paid While the technological revolution in the basic expertise in this field must to U.S. shipyards so that our vessels can shipping began in the United States, it come forward and present at least the compete in international trade. The con quickly expanded to Europe and Japan broad outlines of a program which will struction subsidy request of $275 million and the major shipping nations of the permit the U.S. liner fleet to compete will permit the Maritime Administration world have now fully equalized whatever effectively with those of other nations to contract for nine ships in fiscal year competitive edge the U.S. merchant with whom we trade. 1975, as part of the new maritime pro marine may have enjoyed during the late In addition to providing the routine gram provided by the Merchant Marine 1960s'. Both the North Atlantic and the authorization of funds for the maritime Act of 1970. These contracts will come transpacific trades, our principal trade programs for the Commerce Department, within the declining construction subsidy routes, are heavily overtonnaged and will this legislation directs the Secretary of rates provided by that act. The Merchant remain so for years to come under cur Commerce to establish and maintain re Marine Act of 1970 generally provides for rent projections of trade growth. In this gional offices of the Maritime Adminis the reduction of subsidy from 45 percent highly competitive international en tration to serve each of our four sea· in 1971, until 35 percent is reached in vironment, the American carrier with a coasts. For many years, the Maritime 1976. In 1975, the construction subsidy substantially higher cost structure is at Administration has maintained large re rate will decline from 39 to 37 percent. a distinct disadvantage. Subsidy ls a gional offices in New York, New Orleans, The next element in the authorization mixed blessing. It imposes rigidity, and and San Francisco to facilitate contact request is for operating subsidy that is in return for money to meet the higher between the shipping industry and the generally based on the difference between U.S. costs, the carrier must forego the Government. These offices are staffed United States and comparable foreign flexibility which its foreign competitor with personnel who are familiar with the operating costs, and paid so that U.S. enjoys. At the S'ame time, the U.S. sys varying problems of shipowners and oµr flag operators can provide essential ship tem of shtpping regulation impases con exporters utilizing the ports on these ping services. The authorization request straints upan U.S.-fl:ag carriers of which ocean seacoasts. of $242,800,000 for this activity in fiscal the foreign competition is largely free. The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 es year 1975 would e used for the operation This year under the auspices of the tablished the Great Lakes as our fourth of U.S.-flag passenger, cargo, and bulk United Nations a so-called Code of Con seacoast and directed that the programs vessels in our foreign commerce. duct for Liner Conferences has been of the Maritime Administration be ad I am pleased to be able to inform the promulgated and is open for ratification. ministered so as to promote the interests House that not all U.S.-fiag vessels re During the negotiaitions over this Code in of all our seacoasts, including the Great quire operating subsidy. A number of Geneva, the U.S. delegation sought inter Lakes. Unfortunately, a statutory dec capital intensive vessels, such as con national ,approval of our system of open laration of equality has not proven suf tainer ships, are operated without sub steamship conferences and free competi ficient and for the 5-year period since sidy in our foreign trade by operators tion for trade. These concepts, which we enactment of the Merchant Marine Act such as Sea-Land. More significantly, 19 have adhered to in the U.S. foreign trade of 1970, we have had to struggle against vessels that were formerly operated un since enactment of the Shipping Act of bureaucratic indifference, if not outright der subsidy by United States Lines and 1916, were resoundingly defeated by the opposition, to our efforts to improve American Export Lines, now compete in international community during the shipping services in the Great Lakes. our foreign trade without such Govern Code of Conference Practice delibera In response to considerable interest ment assistance. tions. Apparently, what the rest of the expressed by many of us in the Congress, The research and development author world wants is free open competition in the Maritime Administration late last ization request of $27,900,000 would be the U.S. foreign trade and closed cartels year did announce that it would estab used by the Maritime Administration to in all other trades. The effect of this is lish a Great Lakes regional office. In view, increase the productivity of the Ameri that the Japanese and European carriers, however, of the gr.eat reluctance exhib can shipping and shipbuilding industries and now most recently the Russians, are ited in the past to come to grips with in order to improve the competitive posi aible to come into the U.S. trades at will Great Lakes shipping problems, we felt tion of the U.S.-ft.ag merchant marine. and skim off the most lucrative cargo that we could not afford to leave this Priority will be given projects with near while effectively denying to U.S. carriers matter to the discretion of the Secretary. term benefits. Industry participation and any opportunity to engage in foreign-to Therefore, this legislation mandates the cost sharing will be expended. With the foreign trades. establishment of a Great Lakes regional skyrocketing cost of fuel oil, I am pleased Understandably, the Maritime Admin office under a qualified director, and the to note that the largest single element of istration has concentrated attention on various functions of the Maritime Ad the research and development program the tanker shipbuilding program dur ministration that bear upon Great Lakes concerns the development of competitive ing the past 4 years. It is time, how problems will be handled through this nuclear ships. ever, to take a serious look at the prob office. The authorization request of $3,742,000 lems that beset our liner industry. Re It is noteworthy that within the past for the National Defense Reserve Fleet sponsibility for this is divided between few weeks an application for subsidy to would be used by the Maritime Adminis the Federal Maritime Commission, which establish a U.S.-fiag Great Lakes liner tration to continue to maintain ships un administers our regulatory statutes, the service has been received by the Maritime der preservation to supplement the active Maritime Administration, Justice De Administration. We will be watching the fleet in time of war or national emer partment, and the State Department. progress of this application filed by gency. Two hundred and ninety-four Unfortunately, none of these agencies Prairie Shipping, Inc., of Chicago, with merchant ships would be retained for has exercised any leadership in tackling great interest. Great Lakes ports, labor national defense purposes. the problems of our liner industry. The and management interests, have ex The last two authorization requests time is growing short, and I urge these pressed a strong support for direct U.S. concern maritime training. Section 1 (e) agencies to undertake a thorough review flag service from lake ports. It is hoped of the bill would authorize $10,518,000 for of our promotional and regulatory poli that through the enactment of H.R. 3, the continued operation of the Merchant cies with respect to liner shipping with a the Maritime Administration will come Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. view toward developing a system of ship to realize how serious the Congress feels Section l(f) would authorize $2,973,000 ping subsidy that will not place our car about our fourth seacoast. for Government aid to the State marine riers in a straitjacket, and a system of Mr. DOWNING. Mr. Speaker, I rise to schools. In this regard, an Ad Hoc Com regulation which will recognize the real urge passage of H.R. 3. Sections 1 and 2 mittee on Maritime Education and ities of international trade in this dec of the bill would authorize appropria Training, of the Merchant Marine and ade. Undoubtedly, such a review, to be tions for fiscal year 1975 for certain mari Fisheries Committee, is putting the fin meaningful, must involve fundamental time programs of the Department of ishing touches on a comprehensive eval statutory changes. I know that the Com Commerce, and I would like to comment uation of all of our Nation's maritime mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisher briefly on them. schools. ies is prepared to consider seriously the The first element of the authorizati-On Section 2 of H.R. 13296 is basically a highly discriminatory climate in which request is for construction subsidy. As technical amendment to avoid having to the U.S. liner fleet must operate today. you know, construction subsidy is based amend the fiscal year 1975 authorization CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE February 18, 1975 request if supplemental appropriations trade. With respect to exports, it gener reconstruction, or reconditioning of ships, for fiscal year 1975 are required for the ates about 40 percent of manufactured $275,000,000; remuneration of Maritime Administra goods, 50 percent of agricultural prod (b) payment of obligations incurred for tion employees at the National Defense ucts, and over 20 percent of mineral ex ship operating-differential subsidy, $242,- Reserve Fleet and the Federal Merchant 800,000; ports. With respect to imports, the fig ( c) expenses necessary for research and Academy. An identical provision was in ures are about 35 percent for general development activities, $27,900,000; the authorization act for fiscal year 1974. cargo, over 40 percent for capital imports (d) reserve fleet expenses, $3,742,000; The annual authorization request of to be used in manufacturing, and al (e) maritime training at the Merchant the Maritime Administration is one of most 50 percent of agricultural imports. Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, the most important pieces of legislation For a variety of reasons, most of this $10,518,000; and to come before the Merchant Marine and cargo is not moving through Great Lakes (f) financial assistance to State marine Fisheries Committee each year. Every ports. For example, during the past 4 schools, $2,973,000. item has been carefully reviewed. After years, there has been a drastic decline SEC. 2. In addition to the amounts author ized by section 1 of this Act, there are au full and careful consideration of the en in shipments of general cargo in the thorized to be appropriated for fiscal year tire record, H.R. 3 was reported unani ocean trades of the Great Lakes. Trade to 1975 such additional supplemental amounts mously, and I am unaware of any oppo Continental Europe has decreased 21 for the activities for which appropriations sition to it. percent. During that same period, U.S. are authorized under section 1 of this Act as Mr. Speaker, as the distinguished commerce from the Great Lakes area has may be necessary for increases in salary, pay, chairman of the committee pointed out, increased 18 percent. U.S. trade to the retirement, or other employee benefits au the proposed legislation set forth in H.R. Mediterranean through Great Lakes thorized by law. 3, passed the House of Representatives in ports has decreased 61 percent. During SEc. 3. Section 809 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 1213), is the 93d Congress, and subsequently was the same period, U.S. commerce from amended (a) by inserting "(a)" immediately vetoed because of a nongermane Senate that area has increased 10 percent. Addi before "Contracts" in the first sentence amendment. H.R. 3 does not contain this tionally, six liner services have been lost thereof; and (b) by adding at the ~nd thereof objectionable amendmen , and should be in the continental European and Medi the following new subsection: passed. terranean trade routes, and no U.S.-ft.ag "(b) There shall be established and main This authorizing legislation should ships have served the Great Lakes in the tained wlthin the Maritime Administra tlon have been enacted in the last Congress. overseas trade. such regional offices as may be necessary, in As it was not, the Maritime Adminis The Great Lakes have unique prob cluding, but not limited to, one such office for each of the four pos,t ranges specified in tration, of the Department of Commerce, lems. We can possibly overcome some of subsection (a) of this section. The Secretary is currently operating under a continu these problems with a little help. The of Commerce shall appoint a qualified indi ing resolution that will expire on Febru regional office of the Maritime Adminis vidual to be the Director of each such re ary 28, 1975. I strongly urge the House tration to be provided by the bill would gional office and shall carry out appropriate to quickly pass this very vital legislation. insure that our situation is not ignored, functions, activities, and programs of the Mr. ASHLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to and that our problems may be consid Maritime Administration through such re join the other members of the Merchant ered. gional offices.". Marine and Fisheries Committee to urge In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I wish to AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MRS. SULLIVAN the passage of H.R. 3. emphasize that H.R. 3 is a sound piece of Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, I offer Our distinguished chairman and other legislation that passed the House of Rep an amendment. members of the committee have spoken resentatives in the 93d Congress. I The Clerk read as follows: on the maritime authorization aspect of strongly urge the House to vote for it Amendment offered by MTs. SULLIVAN,: H.R. 3. Permit me to comment briefly on today. Page 3, line 4, strike the word "post" and section 3 of the bill. The SPEAKER. The question is on insert in lieu thereof the word "port". Mr. Speaker, section 3 would amend the motion offered by the gentlewoman The amendment was agreed to. section 809 of the Merchant Marine Act, from Missouri (Mrs. SULLIVAN), that the 1936, in order to accomplish what we House suspend the rules and pass the The Senate bill, as amended, was or thought we had accomplished with the bill, H.R. 3. dered to be read a third time, was read Merchant Marine Act of 1970 (Public The question was taken; and Ctwo the third time and passed, and a motion Law 91-469) . That act amended section thirds having voted in favor thereof) to reconsider was laid on the table. 809 to officially designate the Great the rules were suspended and the bill A similar House bill (H.R. 3) was laid Lakes as the fourth ma jor seacoast of the was passed. on the table. United States. A motion to reconsider was laid on In the 4 years since the enactment of the table. GENERAL LEAVE the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, the Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask Maritime Administration has done very unanimous consent to take from the Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask little with respect to our unique situation Speaker's table an identical Senate bill unanimous consent that all Members who on the Great Lakes, and it is clear that a CS. 332) to authorize appropriations for desire to do so may have 5 legislative regional office is required. Section 3 the fiscal year 1975 for certain maritime days in which to revise and extend their would amend section 809 of the Merchant programs of the Department of Com remarks on the bill just passed. Marine Act, 1936, to generally provide merce, and ask for its immediate con- The SPEAKER. Is there objection to that the Maritime Administration estab sideration. · the request of the gentlewoman from lish and maintain regional offices on the The Clerk read the title of the Sen Missouri? Atlantic, gulf, Pacific, and Great Lakes ate bill. There was no objection. coasts of the United States. As that The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Agency now maintains regional offices on the request of the gentlewoman from the Atlantic, gulf, and Pacific coasts, the Missouri? PEACEFUL RELATIONS STRESSED practical effect of this amendment is to There was no objection. AT BELGRADE CONFERENCE require a regional office on the Great The Clerk read the Senate bill, as fol (Mr. JARMAN asked and was given Lakes. lows: permission to address the House for 1 The Great Lakes is a vital national s. 332 minute and to revise and extend his re asset that requires the services of a re Be it enacted by the Senate and House marks.) gional office. The Great Lakes serve a of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That funds Mr. JARMAN. Mr. Speaker, last week, hinterland area of 14 States that con over 200 parliamentarians from 27 coun tain: First, over 35 percent of our popu are hereby authorized to be appropriated without fiscal year limitation as the Ap tries gathered in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, lation; second, over 42 percent of our in to reaffirm their support for realistic dustrial activity; third, over 50 percent propriation Act may provide for the use of the Department of Commerce, for the fiscal progress toward a more secure peace in of our agricultural output; and fourth, year 1975, as follows: Europe and a freer exchange of its people over 25 percent of our mineral produc (a) acquisition, construction, or recon and ideas. I was pleased to participate in tion. struction of vessels and construction-dif this Interparliamentary Union Confer The hinterland of the Great Lakes de ferential subsidy and cost of national de ence on European Security and Coopera velops a high percentage of our foreign fense features incident to the construction, tion in collaboration with seven distin- February 18, 1975 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 3227 guished colleagues in the House and books, and coproduction and exchange of IPU Conference in two key areas: Senate. films, radio and TV programs; First, furthering common understanding During our trip, we met formally and To improve working conditions for among concerned parliamentarians; and informally with leaders of four countries journalists and improve the dissemina second, achieving results favo~able to our playing key roles in Europe and the tion of information through all available country's own efforts to establlsh durable Mediterranean. media; and and peaceful relations among the coun In Yugoslavia, we visited top govern To insure greater respect for human tries and the peoples of Europe and North mental and parliamentary leaders, in rights. America. cluding Mr. Djemal Bijedic, Prime Min I believe the House will welcome these ister, and Koro Gligorov, President of the results in view of its own deep concern National Assembly. In these meetings, we for the observance of human rights, par SAN BENITO SENIOR IS HEART exchanged views on measures eacp of om· ticularly in the countries of Eastern POSTER GIRL countries could take to achieve stable Europe. Credit for much of this accom (Mr. DE LA GARZA asked and was given economic growth, both within our coun plishment must go to our distinguished permission to address the House for 1 tries and internationally. While noting colleagues from Illinois, Mr. ROBERT minute, to revise and extend his remarks no major problems in our bilateral rela MCCLORY, and from Florida, Mr. CLAUDE and include extraneous matter.) tions, we discussed how those relations PEPPER. The Conference also accepted Mr. DE LA GARZA. Mr. Speaker, a 16- might be further strengthened, partic Mr. McCLORY's proposal to endorse In year-old high school senior in my area, ularly by increased American business ternational Women's Year-1977-and the 15th Congressional District of Texas, participation in Yugoslavia's economy. promote through the parliamentary sets an example which all of us might Following the conclusion of the Bel process the legal and constitutional observe and follow with great benefit to grade Conference, and at the invitation rights to which the women of all nations ourselves. of the Egyptian Parliamentary Group, are entitled. Geraldine Gonzales is happy just to be our delegation spent several days in The Conference centered its economic alive. Born with congenital heart defects, Egypt. Just prior to Secretary Kissinger's discussions on the· widely shared belief this fine young woman has been named visit, we met several prominent Egyptian that obstacles to greater trade and eco as the American Heart Association poster leaders, notably the remarkable leader nomic cooperation between East and personality for my south Texas area. She of that country, President Anwar al West should be removed. Senators BIRCH has undergone a series of major opera Sadat. President Sadat impressed us with BAYH and LEE METCALF very ably repre tions, the first of which occurred when his ·deep commitment to peace and his sented our delegation on this committee. she was only 6 months old. conviction that progress toward this goal Largely because of our Member's per "I just want to be normal,'' says Ger is an urgeht necessity. sistence, the Conference also emphasized rie Gonzales, "not a celebrity." Later, in Algeria, we met with Presi the need for a stable international mone To me and to her many other friends dent Houari Boumedienne, a dynamic tary system, cooperation to resolve en in south Texas, she is more than a ce leader who assured us of his country's ergy problems, and concrete measures to lebrity. She is an inspiration because of interest in improved relations with the preserve the human environment. her courage and her happiness in living. United States. On the Arab-Israel con In the crucial sphere of political and I know that her parents, Mr. and Mrs. flict, he carefully explained his view that security affairs, our group was repre Claudio Gonzales of San Benito, are very Israeli withdrawal from occupied terri sented by the distinguished Senator from proud of her. They have a right to be. tories and an early resolution of the Pal Vermont, our former colleague, ROBERT The story of Gerrie Gonzales was pub estinian problem were prerequisites for STAFFORD and by the very energetic gen lished recently in the Valley Mol"I\ing peace in that area and for Israel's own tleman from Illinois, Representative Star, and for the inspiration of my col security. EDWARD DERWINSKI. Senator VANCE leagues I append this article as part of Finally, in Morocco, we met with the HARTKE of Indiana also made a real con my remarks: articulate Prime Minister, Ahmed Osman tribution to the work of the delegation. SAN BENITO SENIOR Is HEART and his close associates. We noted the The Conference reaffirmed the prin PosTER GmL close United States-Moroccan ties dating ciples which should guide nations in the SAN BENrro.-Geraldine Gonzales, a senio. from the time of George Washington. conduct of their mutual relations in Eu at San Benito High School, is a happy per The Moroccan leaders stressed their view rope, and determined that all such prin son-happy just to be living. that strict conservation of raw materials ciples must be 31pplied equally. Perhaps Gerrie, as she prefers to be called, has been by producing countries and adequate and selected as the American Heart Assoctation significantly, the Soviet deleg,ates ac poster personality for South Texas. She was stable world prices for such commodities cepted this major point of doctrine, even born with five congenital heart defects and are necessary to assure both the eco though Soviet representatives in other underwent her first operation at the age of nomic development of these countries as forums had hitherto found it unaccepta six months. And now she is 16, having gone well as the longer term availability of ble. through major operations in that period. such raw materials to the industrialized With the aim of creating a climate of In 1970, at the age of 12, an artificial pace nations. greater confidence in Europe, the Con maker was implanted in Gerrie's abdomen to Since cooperation in Europe was the ference also endorsed measures to reduce take over the job of the heart's natural func main focus of our journey, I would like to tion. A pacemaker is an electronic device the burden of armaments borne by the which sends an impulse to specialized muscle outline several important recommenda countries of Europe and North America. tissue, making the heart pump at a steady tions contained in the Belgrade Confer It called for the acceleration of agree pace. For Gerrie, the operation insures re ence declaration. ment on mutual reduction of conven ceiving the balanced amount of oxygen and Above all, the Conference adopted tional forces in Europe, and for an early nourishment to the body cells. clear and practical suggestions for estab and successful conclusion of other impor Today, Gerrie lives quite a normal ·life, lishing greater human contacts, a freer "just like any other teenager" as she puts tant arms ~ontrol negotiations, such as it. In May, she will be graduating from San ft.ow of information, and more numerous the SALT talks. Further action contem exchanges in the fields of education and Benito High School, and like most other high plated by the Inter-Parliamentary Decla school seniors, her future is her ma.in con culture. Significantly, these recommen ration in these areas will help to ..·educe cern. In college, she hopes to major in dations were supported by the delegates the unilatera1 costs of maintaining such pharmacy. from Eastern Europe. They included the "I know that I want to go to college," she following: forces while at the same time assuring that the conventional and nuclear bal said, "but where exactly I'm not sure. I've To permit greater emigration by pro ance of forces in Europe is adequately always had an interest in pharmacy, and moting freer movement of nationals of later I hope this comes through for me." one state to other states, by facilitating maintained. Gerrie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. the reunification of families, and their Mr. Speaker, this is but a brief sum Claudio Gonzales of San Benito. Her parents free choice of domicile; mary of the accomplishments of our trip. also view Gerrie as just another person. To encourage students and teachers to The U.S. delegation w111 be submitting a "On December 19, 1974," Mrs. Gonzales work and study in other countries; full report in due course. But I wanted to said, "Gerrie had surgery again to check he1 To increase contacts in the cultural draw this body's attention to the prog pacemaker. Her previous pacemaker lasted sphere, including wider distribution of ress we believe was made at the Belgrade two years and four months. With this new 3228 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE February 18, 1975 pacemaker, she can plan for at least four H.R. 3165 employee welfare benefit plan) amounts years of college." A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act equal to the premiums or other charges pre Much of Gerrie's daily activity is centered to establish an emergency health benefits scribed for such benefits plus any additional around the band in which she plays the flute. program for the unemployed administrative expenses reasonable incurred "I guess I liked the flute because it's about Be it enacted by the Senate and House of by the carrier (or by the employer or health my size. I love the band trips the most, and welfare trust) in securing such benefits especially doing some of the crazy things Representatives of the United States of. America in Congress assembled, That this under the arrangement, and that students aren't supposed to do." Act may be cited as the "Emergency Unem "(2) enter into agreements with the State On weekends, Gerrie works as a cashier at ployment Health Benefits Act of 1975". agency of each State under which such a large grocery store. She loves to read, agency will be utilized by him for the pur "though riding around with kids" also keeps SEC. 2. The Public Health Service Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the pose of making determinations, in the case her busy. Her dark searching eyes and gentle following new title: of individuals in the State, of eligibility of smile make her attractive to many. such individuals for the health insurance The American Heart Association's annual "TITLE XVII-EMERGENCY HEALTH benefit~ provided by this title, and for the raising drive will be held in February and BENEFITS PROGRAM purpose of making payments to carriers (and Gerrie will be attending several meetings to "ELIGIBILITY FOR HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS employers or employee welfare benefits promote the volunteer activities. Gerrie's "SEC. 1701. (a) It is the purpose of this plans) through whom such benefits are se greatest concern over being named Heart title to provide- cured for individuals in such State; and any Fund poster personality was the attention " ( 1) to each individual who- such agreement shall provide that the Secre she might receive. "I've never been too much "(A) is unemployed and is entitled to re tary will pay to each State agency which is for dresses," she said. "I just want to be ceive weekly compensation under a State a party thereto amounts equal to the admin normal-not a celebrity." or Federal unemployment compensation law istrative and other expenses reasonable in Taking everything into consideration, one (including the special unemployment assist curred by such State agency which is a can be certain that Gerrie, without a doubt, ance program established by title II of the party thereto amounts equal to the adminis is truly normal. Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assist- trative and other expenses reasonably in The South Texas Heart Association office ance Act of 1974), and . curred by such State agency in performing is located in Harlingen, and anyone inter the functions specified in the agreement. "(B) would, if his employment by his pre ested in working with the campaign or need "DEFINITIONS ing heart information may call 425-3924. vious employer had not been discontinued, be covered under an employer sponsored "SEC. 1703. As used in this title-- health insurance plan, and "(1) the term 'Secretary' means the Secre "(2) to each dependent spouse (as defined tary of Health, Education, and Welfare; THE EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT in regulations of the Secretary) and to each "(2) the term 'employer sponsored health HEALTH BENEFITS ACT OF 1975 dependent child (as defined in such regula insurance plan' means a health insurance The SPEAKER. Under a previous tions) of an individual described in clause plan which covers some or all of the em (1)' ployees of an employer and the premiums order of the House, the gentleman for whioh are pa.id or collected wholly or in from New York (Mr. HASTINGS) is rec health insurance benefits of the type and part by the employer; ognized for 5 minutes. scope which would have been provided to "(3) the term 'health insurance · plan' Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, as of such individual (or to such dependent spouse means an insurance policy, contra.ct, or or dependent child) under the health insur other arrangemenit under which a carrier January the unemployment rate in the ance plan referred to in clause ( 1) (B), if the Nation had risen to 8.2 percent with the undertakes in consideration of premiums or individual described in clause (1) were still other periodic payments, to provide, pay for, grim forecasts of even greater increases. employed by his previous employer. or reimburse the costs of, health services re More than 5.61 million persons are cur "(b) For purposes of subsection (a), an ceived by individuals covered by the plan; rently out of work. For these jobless and individual is unemployed for any week if, "(4) the term 'carrier' means a voluntary their families, a total of about 25 million for such week, such individual is entitled association, corporation, partnership, or persons al together, the prospects are (or would, except for illness or disease, be other nongovernmental organization which bleak. entitled) to receive compensation under a is engaged in providing, paying for, or reim State or Federal unemployment compensa bursing the cost of, health services under Unemployment insurance, which for tion law. The Secretary may, in order to $68 group insurance policies or contracts, med the average person is about a week, facilitate the administration of this title, ical or hospital service agreements, mem is barely sufficient to keep a family fed provide by regulation that an individual will, bers.hip or subscription contl'acits, medical or and pay the utility bills. While the Gov for purposes of subsection (a), be deemed to hospital service agreements, membership or ernment has moved to meet these prob be unemployed for ali of the weeks in any subscription contracts, or similar group ar lems through the recently enacted emer period of weeks (not in excess of 6 weeks) rangements, in consideration of premiums or gency public employment legislation and if such individual is for one or more of the other periodic charges payable to the carrier; weeks in such period unemployed within the "(5) the term 'employer' shall have the extension of unemployment benefits, meaning of the preceding sentence. there is still a major area of concern meaning given such term in the applioable "(c) No health insurance benefits shall be State or Federal unemploymeillt compensa that needs immediate attention. provided under this title to any person- tion law described in section 1701(a) (1) (A); That is the area of health care. " ( 1) during any period for which he is and When a person loses his job he also covered (without regard to the provisions of "(6) the term 'State agency• means the loses his medical care insurance cover this title), or' has the opportunity to obtain agency of a State which adm1n1sters the un age. The anxieties that this can cause (by reason of action on his part or on the employment compensation law of that State, for the unemployed worker and his fam part of any member of his family) coverage, approved by the Secretary of Labor under under any employer sponsored health insur section 3304 of the Internal Revenue Code ily are enormous, especially when you ance plan, or consider the high cost of health care of 1954. "(2) who would have received benefits "TERMINATION DATE today. During the past 10 years hos under an employer sponsored health insur pital costs have more than tripled and ance plan which provided health benefits to "SEc. 1704. Notwithstanding any other pro today the daily average rate exceeds formerly employed persons which plan was visions of this title, no health insurance in effect on February 7, 1975. benefits may be provided under this title $100. With respect to any week ending after June The result is that families living "ARRANGEMENTS WITH CARRIERS AND STATE 30, 1976.'' on meager unemployment compensation, AGENCIES are going to postpone medical care even "SEC. 1702. In carrying out the purpose of at the risk of serious illness. Losing one's this title, the Secretary shall (whenever he AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES SEEK is able to do so)- ALTERNATIVES job is tragic enough without adding the " ( 1) enter into arrangements with the grim specter of sickness and catastrophic carriers (and in appropriate cases with em The SPEAKER. Under a previous medical bills. ployers or employee welfare benefit plans (as order of the House, the gentleman from That is why today I am introducing defined in section 3 (i) of the Employee Re Maryland (Mr. BAUMAN) is recognized the Emergency Unemployment Health tirement Income Security Act of 1974)) for 15 minutes. Benefits Act, an emergency measure to whereby individuals covered for benefits Mr. BAUMAN. Mr. Speaker, last week continue premium payments of unem under this title will be provided such benefits the 1975 Conservative Political Action under the particular health insurance plan ployed workers who are not covered by by which such im;iividuals were covered Conference met for 4 days in Washing a spouse's or parent's health insurance while employed by their previous employer ton, D.C., sponsored by the American policy. and there will be paid to such carriers (or, Conservative Union and Young Ameri The bill follows: in appropriate cases, to such employer or cans for Freedom, in cooperation with February 18, 1975 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3229 Human Events and National Review • sentiment of the vast majority of Republi other leaders in this country. Even magazines. More than 500 leading con cans; and, staunch supporters of the United Na servatives from both parties were pres Whereas, millions of Democrats are alien tions are disturbed by some of the reso ated by the increasingly radical orientation lutions which passed during the 1974 ses ent including a number of State legis of the Democratic Party; and, lators, Republican Party officials, as well Whereas, a growing number of independent sion of the General Assembly. There has as rank and file Democrats, Republicans, voters reject both major parties; developed in the last several years a and Independents. Therefore be it resolved, block vote composed of Third World na I had the honor to give the keynote ad That the Committee on Conservative Al tions and some Communist countries. dress at this imperative gathering, and ternatives be formed to provide a formal The vote of this majority has literally a number of my congressional colleagues mechanism to review and assess the cur swept through the General Assembly spoke before various panels and meet rent political situation and to develop future many resolutions which have had little ings including the Senator from New opportunities; regard for the interests of the United That the Committee initially be composed States and other Western countries. This York, Mr. BUCKLEY, the Senator from Qf the following members: North Carolina, Mr. HELMS, and the Sen Representative John Ashbrook of Ohio. was particularly evident in 1974. ator from South Carolina, Mr. THUR Representative Robert Bauman of Mary John Scali, U.S. Ambassador to the MOND, as well as the gentleman from land. United Nations, in a speech before the New York, Mr. KEMP, the gentleman Ronald F. Docksai, National Chairman, members of the Assembly suggested that from Illinois, Mr. CRANE, the gentleman Young Americans for Freedom. such resolutions cannot be implemented from Ohio, Mr. AsHBROOK, the gentle M. Stanton Evans, National Chairman, without the support of the Western American Conservative Union. countries who supply the major portion man from California, Mr. RoussELOT, Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. and also the Governor of New Hamp Eli Howell, political consultant and former of U.N. funds. Therefore, he warned, shire, Meldrin Thompson. assistant to the Governor of the State of such resolutions are meaningless, and if While this conference is an annual Alabama. they continue to be passed without con event which has been held for several State Senator Cyril Joly, Republican Na sideration of the interests of all the mem years, it obviously took on a new mean tional Committeeman from the State of bers the United Nations can be expected ing this year as evidenced by the press Maine. to lose its credibility and therefore its James Lyon, Harris County (Texas) Re support among Americans. What are and media coverage. Many conservatives publican Finance Committee Chairman. in both parties have grown increasingly some of the resolutions which have met J. Daniel Mahoney, Chairman, New York with such disapproval not only in the dissatisfied with the leftist radicalization Conservative Party. of the Democratic Party and the appar W1lliam Rusher, Publisher, National Re United States but in European countries ent drift away from .conservative prin view, New York City. as well? ciples in the Republican Party. Phyllis Schlafly, author and commentator, First, there was the barring of South Naturally, the news media placed a Alton, Illinois. Africa from participation in the 1974 great deal of emphasis on the possibility Robert Walker, former political aide to General Assembly. This was accom that this conference would produce a Governor Reagan of California. plished through a General Assembly res Thomas Winter, Editor, Human Events, olution which was passed in spite of a third national political party. Washington, D.C. My own thought was, and is, as I ex That the Committee membership may be decision of the Security Council not to pressed in the conference keynote: increased by a majority voting of the mem expel South Africa from the U.N. organi I am of the opinion that this country does bers named herein; zation. According to U.S. diplomats, this not need a third party; but by any objective And that the Committee on Conservative Assembly action was clearly an illegal analysis/it badly needs a second party. Alternatives periodically report back to the one, contrary to the U.N. Charter, which attendees at this conference and other in specifies that members of the organiza I think it is obvious that many Ameri terested conservatives and call another na tion can be expelled or suspended only cans are greatly concerned with the defi tional meeting, if deemed necessary, to chart on the recommendation of the Security cit financing and inflation philosophy more explicitly the future course of con Council. that have caused our economic problems. servatism. It has also been suggested by some They fear the elevation to high office of Mr. Speaker, I need not review here that many of the member countries men they cannot support. They fail to the great dissatisfaction on the part of which voted for the resolution are no agree with amnesty for those who would Americans with their Government and more innocent in the realm of human not fight for their country and they op with the Congress. The fact that nearly rights than is South Africa's much criti pose a foreign policy which seeks a con 62 percent of the people failed or re cized aparetheid policy on which the U.N. stant accommodation with communism. f used to vote in the last election is proof action was based. Examples are Uganda's They are just as repelled by the so-called enough. The conservative mandates ex forcibly expelling 26,000 Asians and ex reforms within the Congress that are, in pressed in the elections of 1968 and 1972 propriating their possessions, the Soviet truth, an ultimatum to conservatives in remain as yet unfulfilled. There is a tre Union's treatment of its Jewish minority the Democratic Party that their time of mendous potential in this country for a as well as its citizens who dissent from influence is gone. conservative national party, which is the government's current political posi Although the conference most definite what I have always understood my own tion, and the massacring of 75,000 mem ly did not endorse the creation of a third party, the Republican Party, was to be. bers of Burundi's Hutu majority. party, it did create a "Committee on Con In the coming months, the future of Second, there was the Assembly's in servative Alternatives" which has been both parties, and far more important, the vitation to the Palestinian Liberation commissioned with the task of reporting future direction of our Nation will be Organization-PLO-to participate in back to the delegates periodically with decided. I do not think that the dissatis the debate on Palestine and the treat specific recommendations for the future faction of the many millions if conserv ment of Arafat, who was accorded hon course of conservatives. I include at this ative Americans should be overlooked, ors normally reserved for heads of state. point in my remarks a resolution adopted and the Conservative Political Action Such action significantly reduced the by the conference dealing with the crea Conference has made thrut fact abun United Nations' credibility as a peace tion of this committee: dantly clear. keeping organization because it clearly COMMITTEE ON CONSERVATIVE ALTERNATIVES indicated that a great many U.N. mem Whereas, the severe problems facing Amer bers support terrorist methods. However, ica constitute both a challenge and an op NEED TO REASSESS VALUE OF portunity for conservatives; and, this was not all. In addition to allowing Whereas, conservatives have been forced UNITED NATIONS the voice of the PLO to be heard, the into a political position which leaves us with The SPEAKER. Under a previous or General Assembly restricted Israel's out a serious leadership role in either major der of the House, the gentleman from right to reply during the debate to 10 party; and, Florida Far from telling Mayor McAllister that negotiate its contract. And tha~ was the ministration's demand that Nm set a pri highest single priority the company had. ority on GRS is like asking a man which he San Antonio should switch to gas, Wyatt wants most--gas or oil for his car? You wrote him a letter claiming that Coastal Disinterested in local politics? Not Oscar don't go anywhere without gas but you also had plenty of gas to cover its contract. He Wyatt. don't go very far without oil. With a gun to was only worried about the long-range So San Antonio had the misfortune of one's head, of course, the choice is gas in future. Here is what Wyatt really said entering into a contract with a company the hope of escaping to better days. 4 years ago: that deceived its customer from the very GRS is very much analogous to the oil When we entered West Texas, we bought beginning. It had the further misfortune which keeps the biomedical research ma gas at 10 cents to 20 cents in subst antial of being caught up in a national energy chinery of the nation operating smoothly. quantities, and this puts Coastal in an ade crisis--a crisis made far worse by the fact Please keep it available so that we won't have quat e position to su pply San Antonio for t he that it was dealing with a chronic liar, to watch decades of painful development go remainder of its con tract. (Letter of Oscar up in the smoke of burnt out bearings. Oscar Wyatt-a man, who the records Respectfully yours, Wyatt to Walter W. McAllister, Sr., April 6, plainly show, still cannot and will not tell 1971) the truth. He must have gotten out of the This was no letter saying that San An habit. JANUARY 29, 1975. tonio should go to coal. It was a letter Congressman FATHER DRINAN, saying that everything would be all right HEALTH RESEARCHERS REACT TO House of Representatives, until 1982. Wyatt was not claiming that IMPOUNDMENT OF NIH FUNDS Washtngton, D.C. he had a problem then; he was not insist DEAR FATHER DRINAN: The President's Of ing that coal should be used in the stead The SPEAKER. Under a previous order fice of Management and Budget has ordered of natural gas. Not even the friends and of the House, the gentleman from Massa the National Institutes of Health to operate chusetts aid it up with the money that's already authorized. a good look at his statements on this would take a long time, but I guess I have Let President Ford release 19 billion dollars subject. to try anyhow. Maybe you can give us an of impounded funds~ funds that are there. On many occasions, I have recom abbreviated version of how you think the Let him release these funds. labor movement can get the help it needs All of these things've got to be done. Let's mended that we return to some form of in Congress when you've already said you revive the housing tndustry; let's get six direct lending for home mortgages-! or don't !ike the programs-the economic pro per cent mortgage money, a.nd the housing people in the low- and moderate-income grams--of so many people-Senator Hum industry will revive itself. All of these things brackets who simply cannot afford and phrey, Senator Mansfield and so forth. have got to be done to meet this problem, who cannot obtain mortgages bearing Mr. MEANY. Well, the immediate bill in but I don't think the White House nor the interest rates of 8, 9, and 10 percent. Congress, of course, is the one that the Ways Congress realizes the dimensions of the prob Our colleague, Mrs. LEONOR SULLIVAN of and Means Cammittee worked on the other lem. The problem is getting worse every d·ay, Missouri, has done a great deal of work night- and the projections-the projections of Alan on this subject and she has proposed in HERMAN. The tax cut. Greenspan and people like that--you've got Mr. MEANY. Now that's-that's the tax in to always realize that they're on the low side. previous Congresses the establishment of centive bill, and that's tremendously impor There's a political angle in every one of a Home Owners Loan Corporation to tant, and we were hopeful that we could get these. For instance, Greenspan said six weeks provide direct lending. quick action on that. In fact, I talked to ago that he expected to see unemployment A program of direct loans-limited to Mr. Ullman the second or third day he was peak at eight per cent next July. Well, un those persons priced out of the mortgage Chairman, some weeks ago, and he was for employment is now at 8.2 per cent, and it's market--would enable us to provide long quick action. Now I would say that the blll just February. I think unemployment may term mortgages as low as 5 percent and, that they've come up with is much heavier go to 10 per cent by next July. So the ques weighted on the low income side than the tion is, can this country--can we live with more importantly, put millions of hard this sort of a. situatiop? working, deserving Americans in decent President's proposal. It adds up to twenty point billion-twenty- Now, Arthur Burns can live with it. Alan sanitary homes. We can reach the goals HERMAN. Twenty point two. Greenspan can live with it, and maybe a few in this area-the kind of goals which Mr. MEANY.-Twenty point two billion other people. But the millions of American George Meany has been discussing-and dollars, and it's a much better proposal than workers can't live with it. Now when you the Congress should act. the President's. But we're in an emergency, realize that the President has projected un At the present time, most of our Fed and I don't think the members of Congress employment from-his projections were eral homeownership programs are all de realize the dimensions of the problem we seven points--or eight per cent this year, have; because what's going to hap.pen with down to 7.9 by '76, and down to 7.5 by '77, signed for financial tollgates-for guar and down to 5.5 by 1980. Well, by 1980, 5.5 anteed loans. These guarantees-carry this bill-they're going to load on the oil tax business, you know, the depletion allow will mean millions of people unemployed, ing the full faith and credit of the U.S. ance. They're going to try to cut that out because the work force wlll be so much Government-have been attached to in the House, and they'll most likely succeed. larger by 1980. We've got to have two million some of the most expensive mortgage And then the bill will go to the Senate, and new jobs a year just to break even. paper in the history of this Nation. We will be the subject of a filibuster over there, HERMAN. Mr. Meany-- are doing nothing for the great majority and it'll be months before we get this relief Mr. MEANY. And what bothers me about of American people when we pass out that we need. And this worries me very this thing is-is the philsophical approach, Government guarantees for mortgages much. well, this is the way it is and we've got to Now I certainly want to see the oil deple suffer it. The American people, I don't think, which more than half the population are going to take it. cannot afford. tion allowance taken away from these oil . companies. I think it's completely unfair. Mr. HERMAN. Mr. Meany, what is that 10 Mr. Speaker, I want to place in the But by loading it on this particular measure, per cent figure? You say you think unem RECORD a copy of a transcript of Face it's going to mean months of delay. So as ployment may hit it--10 per cent-by next the Nation on which George Meany, I say, I don't think Congress realizes the July. Is that just a round number that you president of the AFL-CIO was the guest. dimensions of the problem. I think the prob picked out of the air, or have your people The transcript follows: lem is much worse now than when Congress come up with a computation on it? CXXI--205-Part 3 3236 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE February 18, 1975 Mr. MEANY. Well, we-our projections go HERMAN. You want to subsidize the mort Mr. MEANY. Because of his action on the a.long the line of the economists for the fed gages-- trade bill, because of his phonying around eral government, except that they start Mr. MEANY. No, we-- with Henry Kissinger, deceiving the Amer higher; because-in other words, ours are HERMAN. -or do you want to roll them ican people in regard to the so-called Jack much more realistic than theirs. We don't b ack? son amendment. No, I think he was less than put a political angle-a political figure in Mr. MEANY. Yes-yes, to the extent that forthright in that situation. He didn't tell them. We don't depress them because of po we're subsidizing Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia the American people what was going on, he litical considerations. We're much more real gets six per cent money, and not from Chase was a party to the deception, and I just don't istic. National Bank, but from you, George, and like deception, eve·n from a fellow who claims HERMAN. Well, I'm not sure I understand me-from the American taxpayer, because to be a friend. you. Are you saying, for example, that the the Ex-Im Bank in our bank, and they get SHABECOFF. Nelson Rockefeller was close to figure of 8.2 per cent, which is published for six per cent money, and Henry Kissinger the unions in New York, particularly the January, is a political figure and not real wants to give them unllmlt.ed six per cent construction trades? Do you have much con istic? money to build anything they want. Well, tact with the Vice President these days? Mr. MEANY. No, no, no, no, I don't-- let the American homeowner get six per Mr. MEANY. Oh, I see him once in a while. HERMAN. Or were you talking about the cent money. SHABECOFF. What do you see him about, projection-- HERMAN. From federal banks? Mr. Meany? Mr. MEANY. -I don't say that. I say that Mr. MEANY. And if you say where do you Mr. MEANY. Well, I saw him and had lunch Alan Greenspan's figure of six weeks ago was get six per cent money?-you pass a law. with him the other day, and I enjoyed hav a political figure, and he said that we would Suppose we passed a law that limited in ing it. That's the first time I've talked to peak at 8 per cent in July, Well, we're already terest rates in this country, would there be him-I talked to him on the phone a cou at 8.2 per cent. So I'm just taking his projec something wrong about that, or would that ple of times-I had lunch with him the tions with an add-on, and I say by July be socialistic? Well, let me tell you, if that's other day. We talked about the very things we'll most likely have 10 per cent. socialistic, there are a lot of other socialistic we're talking about here today. SHABECOFF. Mr. Meany-- things that we ought to think about. SHABECOFF. Do you see any circumstances Mr. MEANY. Now of course, this does not Twenty-four per cent, eighteen per cent under which the AFL-CIO could support reflect--it does not reflect the full unem you buy some furniture you pay 18 per Nelson Rockefeller for President of the ployment. We don't count the under-em cent. Is that the American wa.y of life? United States? ployed; we don't count those who have be HERMAN. Without getting into the question Mr. MEANY. I don't want to preclude any come discouraged and are no longer looking of the American way of life or socialistic, if thing. for jobs. When you stop looking for a job you had money to put in a bank and it had HERMAN. You said something very interest and you &top registering for a job, you are to be by law loaned at six percent when in ing in an interview with Dick Cavett. You considered employed. If you work two days flation was going up ten or 11 percent, would said if you'd known then what you now a week, you're considered employed. Now-so you leave your money ln that bank to be know about Viet Nam, you would not have the figures do not reflect the extent of the loaned at five-- backed President Johnson's pollcles in Viet unemployment. Mr. MEANY. If by law I had to leave it Nam. What was it that you didn't know SHABECOFF. Mr. Meany, in view of the seri there or the bank had to loan by law, I would then? ousness of the unemployment situation, do obey the law. Mr. MEANY. Deception-we were deceived you and the AFrr-:CIO favor a new WPA HERMAN. Yes, but you as an individual we were deceived-- tha.t is, the kind of thing they had during wouldn't want a law that says you have to HERMAN. On what? the depression, when the fedei"al government leave your money-- Mr. MEANY. ---all the way down the line. created massive projects-- Mr. MEANY. How do you know I wouldn't- We were deceived on what was going on in Mr. MEANY. No, no, no, we don't favor that. what makes you think I wouldn't want that Viet Nam. Now as far as the general overall We haven't even considered that. But I just kind of a law? As far as I'm personally con purpose, I haven't changed one bit on that, listed a number of things that must be cerned, if that was the limit and that's all to help the South Vietnamese people achieve done-reactivate the housing programs, get you could get, that would be fine for me-if a society under which they would govern the building industry back, do something to that was the law-if four percent was the themselvs, to prvent them going down the create public service jobs for the millions law, it would be all right for me. Now, what drain, as far as that was concerned. But I of workers. Now- we've got is a situation where this country certainly, looking back at it, would not have SHABECOFF. Well, why are you against a is going into a depression. We're past the re gone blindly along and accepted the idea of newWPA? cession stage, we're going into a depression, the Commander-in-Chief, and this was the Mr. MEANY. Well, I don't think it answers and I say we've got to take some measures, philosophy that the Commander-in-Chief the problem at all. We want to turn the like you take when you are fighting a war; had all the information and so forth. I economy around. We don't want a welfare when you are fighting a war and everybody think we were deceived, I think we were economy. In other words, if you're talking is all up tight, you do a lot of things that deceived by Kissinger, I think we were de about a dole, we're not talking about a dole. you wouldn't do otherwise. We a.re now fight ceived by Nixon. The secret bombing of Cam If you could revive the construction indus ing a war to preserve our way of life, as far bodia, the bombing of civllian population in try-and I think the thing that would revive as I'm concerned, and we have people in North Viet Nam-we didn't buy that and I it would be six per cent mortgage money; Congress and ln the White House who seem wouldn't buy it now. Now, as far as the South that alone-if Uncle Sam could say there's to be insensitive to the problems of the Vietnamese people are concerned, I think going to be six per cent mortgage money-- people of America. What are we going to do we should discharge our obligations there HERMAN. Would you favor a subsidy? with these two million kids that go into the that- Mr. MEANY. Why the FHA-why don't labor market every June? What are we going HERMAN. Continue the aid? we have FHA six per cent money, or VA six to do with them for the next five years? Mr. MEANY. The financial aid that we are per cent money-because of the policies of SERAFIN. Mr. Meany, President Ford has to committed to give them, I think we should the Nixon administration, the policies of some degree tied the question of whether or give it. the people who are still running this show, not he'll run in '76 to how the economy and SERAFIN. What about the suppiJ.emental re and who a.re the architects of our ruin. unemployment are doing. What are his quest? Arthur Burns is a national disaster. chances? Mr. MEANY. I think the idea that if we HERMAN. Would you favor-- Mr. MEANY. Well, I don't know. I'm not a lea.ve them a.lone, that the fighting will Mr. MEANY. This-what we've been through political expert. I would say that he says-I stop-the fighting may stop, but the killing here in the la.st five years in Arthur Burns' understand Ron Nessen says that he's going won't stop. If they go down the drain, sev plan. It's his blueprint. He's the architect, to run no matter how bad the depression ls eral mllllon people will be murdered, just and he is still running the show. His atti and no matter how bad the economy ls. I as soon as the North Vietnamese can get to tude, I would say, ls inhuman. He doesn't would say that if the economy is as bad then them. understand people. All he understand is his as it ls now, his chances would be pretty SERAFIN. Do you endorse this supplemental economic theories, and they a.re completely slim. request for aid? out of date. And we've got to turn this SERAFIN. Senator Jackson has now an Mr. MEANY. Yes, I think we're committed around. nounced as a Democratic candidate and is to give that aid, and I think that if we Now for instance-I get back to the hous considered probably the front-runner. What don't give lt, I think we are put in the posi ing industry-24 per cent of that industry do you think of him? tion of walking out on someone that we've is unemployed; 24 per cent of the automobile Mr. MEANY. I'm not going to comment on considered an ally and someone that we're industry ls unemployed. Now lf we could the lineup, because the lineup ls not full yet; committed to help. I think we become a revive the housing industry-and the way we've got about five, and generally you have paper tiger, ln the parlance of the Far East, to do lt ls to provide six per cent money a baseball team, you have about nine, and I if we walk away from them. now-- think we'll have nine Democrats in the field HERMAN. You must be aware, Mr. Meany, HERMAN. Where are you going to get it? before-- of a rash of books and articles in the last Mr. MEANY. -it's the pollcy-lt's the policy SERAFIN. Are you as enthusia.sitic about few years, saying that you and the AFL and of this administration to give-- Senator Jackson as you were a couple of the AFL-CIO we·re principal conduits for HERMAN. But where are you going to get years ago? CIA and other government money to anti six per cent money? Mr. MEANY. No, by no means. communist groups in Europe amd in Asia, Mr. MEANY. Uncle Sam. SERAFIN. Why? and in South America. February 18, 1975 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3237 Mr. MEANY. That is absolutely untrue, and I've known him for a quarter of a century, SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED they can say all they like-my records are and I've never had any problem getting along open and they can get any records they want. with him, and I assume I'll get along with By unanimous consent, permission to We were not a conduit and had nothing him as Secr·etary of Labor. address the House, following the legis to do with it. SHABECOFF. But isn't he part of the same lative program and any special orders HERMAN. Did you receive any federal old Nixon crowd that did such disastrous heretofore entered, was granted to: money? things to the economy? Mr. SIKES, for 10 minutes, today. Mr. MEANY. Not a penny. You see, what Mr. MEANY. No, no, no, no. He came in for (The following Members (at the re they do, these people, they buy the com the Cost of Living Council, he came in on munist propaganda. We've had contracts with the CISL, which was really a continuation quest of Mr. GRADISON) to revise and ex the AID for yea.rs. We build houses in Mex of what he'd been doing for a quarter of a tend his remarks and include extraneous ico City, we bulld houses in Rio de Janeiro, century, working as a moderator in the material:) we set up a bank in Lima, we built a labor building trades industry. No, John is not Mr. KEMP, for 30 minutes, today. center in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, we operate political, as far as I'm concerned. I 'fuink Mr. STEELMAN, for 5 minutes, today. all over the world-in Saigon, in Indonesia, he's a registered Democrat, but I'm not even Civil Rights Act of 1964 to pro tion to allot funds appropriated by this Act the improvement of street lighting in urban hibit sex discrimination in programs and to local educational agencies to assist in areas. activities receiving Federal financial reducing crime against the children, em H.R. 566. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. assistance. ployees and facilities of their elementary Makes bribery of State and local officials a. H.R. 539. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Pro and secondary schools. Federal crime. hibits any civilian or m111tary officer from H.R. 554. January 14, 1975. Interstate and H.R. 567. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. utilizing the Armed Forces or a State m111tia Foreign Commerce. Authorizes the Secretary Amends the Immigration and Nationality to investigate civ111ans. of Health, Education, and Welfare to make Act with respect to mega.I entry and volun H.R. 540. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. loans to certain cities and counties for the tary departure of certain aliens in the United Creates a Special Counsel to represent the establishment of nonprofit clinics for the States. United States in all litigation pertaining to spaying and neutering of dogs and cats. H.R. 568. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. the Presidential materials of Richard Nixon. Requires the use of professional and para Amends the Immigration and Nationality H.R. 541. January 14, 1975. Ways a.nd professional personnel by the clinics. Au Act to grant alien children adopted by un Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code thorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, married United States citizens the same im to allow a llmited deduction from gross in and Welfare to make grants for the purpose migrant status as alien children adopted by come for dependent care expenses for married of training paraprofessionals. married United States citizens. pa.rt-time employees and married students. H.R. 555. January 14, 1975. Interstate and H.R. 569. January 14, 1975. Merchant Ma H.R. 542. January 14, 1975. Banking, Cur Foreign Commerce. Prohibits discrimination rine and Fisheries. Prescribes standards with rency and Housing. Amends the Credit Con solely on the basis of sex by the insurance respect to the construction, alteration, and tro: Act of 1969 to fix maximum interest business with respect to the a.vaila.bllity and repair of oil tankers in order to prevent pol charges in connection with credit trans scope of insurance coverage. lution of the marine environment. Requires actions. H.R. 556. January 14, 1975. Interstate and the use of best available pollution prevention H.R. 543. January 14, 1975. Interior and In Foreign Commerce. Establishes, under the technology by oil tankers. Authorizes the sular Affairs. Includes under the coverage of Public Health Servtces Act, a National Cen Secretary of the department in which the the Rehabilltation and Betterment Act ex ter for Clinical Pharmacology within the De Coast Guard is operating to establish ma penditures of funds on a.ny project con partment of Health, Education, and Welfare rine environment protection standards for structed With funds provided by the Small for the purpose of supporting the study of United States flag vessels engaged in the Reclamation Projects Act, or on any irriga clinical pharmacology. coastwlse trade which are more strict than tion or drainage system authorized by a Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos those applicable to vessels engaged in for State-authorized public agency. metic Act with respect to regulation of the eign trade. H.R. 544. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af manufacture, distribution, and sale of drugs. H.R. 570. January 14, 1975. Post Ofllce and fair. Authorizes the Administrator of Vet H.R. 557. January 14, 1975. Interstate and Civil Service. Requires Federal agencies to erans' Affairs to contract with private facili Foreign Commerce. Amends the Public make ava.llaible to employees a certain per ties near the homes of veterans for the Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary centage of positions on a. flexible hours b&sis. medical care and treatment of ve.tera.ns. of Health, Education, and Welfare to make Directs the Secre·tary of Labor to develop H.R. 545. January 14, 1976. Interstate a.nd grants to public and private entities for proj procedures and regulations to cwrry out this Foreign Commerce. Amends the Communi ects of research and training in fertility and Act. cations Act of 1934 to revise the procedure sterility in humans and the human repro H.R. 571. January 14, 1975. Public Works for consideration of applications for renewal ductive process. Authorizes the Secretary of and Transportation. Authorizes the Admin of broadcast licenses. Extends the maximum Health, Education, and Welfare to establish istrator of the General Services Administra tenn of license for the operation of broad in the National Institutes of Health special tion to transfer airsipace over public build casting stations from three to five years. ized treatment centers to provide infertility i:ngs of the United States to developers for H.R. 546. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. diagnosis and treatment and to study the the construction of low and moderate-in Amends the Clayton Act to prohibit persons human reproduction process. com.e housing. with nonfarming business assets in excess of H.R. 558. January 14, 1975. Interstate and H.R. 572. January 14, 1975. Public Works February 18, 1975 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE ,3241 and Transportation. Empowers the Execu ary, music•a-1, or artistic composition or sim H.R. 601. January 14, 1975. Ways and tive Protective Service to provide police pro ilar property to be deducted at its fair mar Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code tection to foreign diplomatic missions lo ket value. to tax unmarried individuals at the same cated in the United States, its territories, H.R. 586. January 14, 1975. Ways and rate as married individuals filing jointly, and and possessions. Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to apply the same requirements for requir Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to exempt from the excise tax on net invest ing a declaration of estimated income tax to set the number of members for the Execu ment income, private foundations organized and for withholding income tax from wages. tive Protective Service. and operated exclusively as a library or mu H.R. 602. January 14, 1975. Ways and H.R. 573. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af seum for the public. Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code fairs. Revises the procedure for determining H.R. 587. January 14, 1975. Education and to permit a taxpayer to deduct from income eligibility for veterans' benefits, including Labor. Authorizes the Commissioner of Edu as a child care expense amounts paid to in requiring the Administrator of veterans' cation to make grants to develop and carry dividuals related to the taxpayer. Affairs to produce a list of such documentary out comprehensive education programs for H.R. 603. January 14, 1975. Ways and information or other evidence as is likely to severely and profoundly mentally retarded Means. Amends the Intern.al Revenue Code support a claimant's case, and by creating children. to permit a taxpayer who has attained the a presumption of entitlement to the claim. H.R. 588. January 14, 1975. Interstate and age of sixty-five to take a credit against his H.R. 574. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af Foreign Commerce. Requires the Secretary income tax for real property taxes paid by fairs. Entitles conscientious objectors who of Health, Education, and Welfare to direct him, or for the amount of his rent constitut performed civilian work under the Mllitary each federally related health oare facility to ing such taxes. Selective Service Act to veterans' educational conduct a medical testing program for in H.R. 604. January 14, 1975. Ways and assistance and home loan benefits. fants born in the facility or brought to it for Means. Amends the Social Security Act by H.R. 575. January 14, 1975. Ways and health care. removing the limitation upon the amount of Means. Amends the Social Security Act by H.R. 589. January 14, 1975. Interior and In outside income which an individual may removing the limitation upon the amount of sular Affairs. Authorizes the Secretary of the earn while receiving Old-Age, Survivors and outside income which an individual may Interior to relieve the Santa Ynez River Disability Insurance benefits. earn while receiving Old Age, Survivors and Water Conservation District of payments on H.R. 605. January 14, 1975. Merchant Disability Insurance benefits. a specific reclamation project loan. Marine and Fisheries. Authorizes the appro H.R. 576. January 14, 1975. Ways and H.R. 590. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af priation of all fines collected from unau Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to fairs. Authorizes and directs the Admin thorized vessels and masters of vessels for allow a credit or refund for all Social Se istrator of Veterans' Affairs to establish a fishing in United States territorial waters curity taxes paid after the month of the national cemetery at Vandenberg Air Force to the fund maintained by the Secretary of individual's sixty-fifth birthday. Reduces the Base, California. the Interior for the development and preser self-employment tax on individuals who H.R. 591. January 14, 1975. Ways and Means. vation of United States fisheries. have attained the age of sixty-five. Increases the amount of outside income H.R. 606. January 14, 1975. Merchant Ma H.R. 577. January 14, 1975. Ways and which an individual may earn without a re rine and Fisheries. Increases, from 30 per Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code duction in Old-Age, Survivors and Disabil cent to 70 percent of the gross receipts from to redefine the term "tenant-stockholders" ity Insurance Benefits under the Social Se duties collected under the customs laws on in the case of a cooperative housing corpora curity Act. fishery products, the amount the Secretary tion as "a person" rather than as "an indi H.R. 592. January 14, 1975. Banking, Cur of Agriculture may transfer to the Secre vidual". rency and Housing. Amends the .tfational tary of the Interior for research programs H.R. 578. January 14, 1975. Ways and Housing Act to prohibit Federal Housing pertaining to the United States fisheries. Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code Administration insurance of blanket mort H.R. 607. January 14, 1975. Merchant Ma to allow a tax deduction to tenants for their gages on condominium projects, and Fed rine and Fisheries. Amends the Fishermen's proportionate share of the taxes and interest eral National Mortgages, where the developer Protection Act of 1967 by authorizing the paid by their landlords. retains a leasehold interest in the common President to direct the Secretary of the H.R. 579. January 14, 1975. Ways and areas and facilities of the project involved. Treasury to prohibit the importation into Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to H.R. 593. January 14, 1975. Education and the United States of any products which permit the taxpayer to satisfy the support Labor. Amends the Age Discrimination in are the growth, produce, or manufacture of test for claiming a dependency exemption Employment Act of 1967 by prohibiting dis any country engaging in harmful fishing op where the dependent is sixty-two or more crimination on the basis of age within the erations, as defined by the Act. years of age and where a stipulated amount Federal Government. Redefines the term H.R. 608. January 14, 1975. Education and has been contri:mted to the dependent's sup "employer" under the Act to include States Labor. Amends the Higher Education Act of port. and political subdivisions of the States. 1965 to require that institutions of higher education and vocational schools, in order H.R. 580. January 14, 1975. Ways and H.R. 594. January 14, 1975. Government Operations. Directs the Administrator of the to be eligible for purposes of federally as Means. Amends the Social Security Act to sisted student loans, establish a policy of prohibit termination of widow's, widower's General Services Administration to pre scribe regulations regarding the amount of tuition refunds for students who withdraw. or pa.rent's insurance benefits if the recipient H.R. 609. January 14, 1975. Education and remarries. recycled paper to be used by the Federal Government or the District of Columbia. Labor. Amends the Occupational and Health H.R. 581. January 14, 1975. Ways and Act of 1970 by authorizing the Administra Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code H.R. 595. January 14, 1975. House Admin istration. Requires the use of recycled paper tor of the Small Business Administration to to tax unmarried individuals at the same render onsite consultation and advice to cer rate as married individuals filing jointly, and in the printing of the Congressional Record H.R. 596. January 14, 1975. Interstate and tain small business employers to assist such to apply the same requirements for requiring employers in complying with the health and a declaration of estimated income tax and Foreign Commerce. Revises the warning statement required by the Federal Cigarette safety standards of the Act. for withholding income tax from wages. H.R. 610. January 14, 1975. Foreign Affairs. H.R. 582. January 14, 1975. Ways and Labeling and Advertising Act to be placed on cigarette packages to include various smok Prohibits assistance under the Agricultural Means. Permits a taxpayer who has donated Trade Development and Assistance Act to any his own blood to specified organizations to ing-related disea::>es. H.R. 597. January 14, 1975. Interstate and country which the President determines is deduct under the Internal Revenue Code, not making reasonable and productive self as a charitable contribution, an amount spec Foreign Commerce. Amends the Federal Power Act to prohibit public utilties from help efforts to stabilize population growth, ified for each pint donated. and thereby reducing the need for assistance H.R. 583. January 14, 1975. Ways and increasing rates for electric energy which re flect increased fuel cost by means of a fuel under the Act. Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code H.R. 611. January 14, 1975. House Adminis to ·increase the penonal exemption and the adjustment clause in a wholesale rate schedule. tration. Amends the Legislative Reorganiza amount of a withholding exemption for a tion Act of 1970 by directing officers of the taxpayer. Increases the gross income level H.R. 598. Januarv 14, 1975. Judiciary. Au thorizes the compensation r.,f persons injured House of Representatives. to prepare and con requirement for filing a return and the·gross duct seminars for freshmen Members of income level which allows a later joint re by certain violent crimir.al acts. Establishes within the Department of Justice the Violent Congress. turn t::> be deemed filed as of the date of the Authorizes freshmen Members to employ separate return or returns filed for the same Crimes Compensation Commission to carry out the purposes of this Act. our interim staff during the period beginning tax year. on the day such freshman is declared elected H.R. 584. January 14, 1975. Ways and H.R. 599. January 14, 1975. Post Office and Civil Service. Requires Federal agencies to and the first day of the regular session of Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code Congress. to increase the excise tax on cigarettes, and make available to employees a certain per centage of positions on a flexible hours basis. H.R. 612. January 14, 1975. Interstate and to establish in t:he Treasury of the United Directs the Secretary of Labor to develop Foreign Commerce. Prohibits distributors States the National Cancer Research Fund procedures and regulations to carry out this and refiners of petroleum products from can to be partially funded by the increased reve Act. celling franchises Without cause and Without nues generated by this Act. H.R. 600. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af prior notice. H.R. 585. January 14, 1975. Ways and fairs. Directs the Administrator of the Vet H.R. 613. January 14, 1975. Interstate and Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to erans' Affai,rs to establish a national cemetery Foreign Commerce. Prohibits the use of Unit permit a charitable contribution of any liter- in Broward County or Dade County, Florida ed States fuel to .train pilots who are foreign 3242 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE February 18, 1975 nationals of any country which places an version Coordinating Committee to imple purchase, transfer, receipt, possession or embargo on shipment of petroleum products ment the recommendations of the United transportation of handguns except as au to the United States. States metric study. thorized by the Secretary of the Treasury o:r Directs the Federal Energy Administrator Directs Federal agencies to convert to the by members of the Armed Forces and law to determine when any foreign nation im international metric system as soon as pos enforcement officials. poses such an embargo and to make. appro sible. H.R. 639. January 14, 1975. Education and priate notification. Declares the international metric system Labor. Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act H.R. 614. January 14, 1975. Public Worki:; to be the sole official system of weights and of 1938 by exempting certain individuals em and Transportation. Amends the Federal measures in the United States for trade and ployed at sporting or recreational events Aviation Act of 1958 by requiring the Civll commerce as of 1986. from the child labor provisions of the Act. Aeronautics Board to disapprove certain H.R. 628. January 14, 1975. Armed Services. H.R. 640. January 14, 1975. Interstate and pooling and other agreements between ah· Prohibits the Central Intelligence Agency Foreign Commerce. Exempts all production carriers unless the Board finds that no party from engaging in the incitement, organiza of natural gas from wells commencing pro to any such agreement, continue to earn a tion, supervision, assistance, or conduct o:f duction in 1973 or later, and all new dedica profit during any period of labor dispute any military, paramilitary, or political activ tions to the interstate market, from regula between such party and its employees. ity. tion by the Federal Power Commission. H.R. 615. January 14, 1975. W:ays and Means. H.R. 629. January 14, 1975. Agriculture. H.R. 641. January 14, 1975. Ways and Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to re Provides that under the Agricultural Act o:f Increases the amount of outside earnings quire the Secretary of the Treasury to re 1949 the price of milk shall be supported at allowed before any reduction in Old-Age, port to the Joint Committee on Internal not less than 85 percent of the parity price Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits, Revenue Taxation the specific criteria and therefor. Declar~s it the sense of Congress under the Social Security Act, may be made. procedures used to audit returns and to re that the President shall limit meat imports H.R. 642. January 14, 1975. Banking, Cur port certain information regarding audits and refrain from increasing import quotas rency and Houstng. Establishes the National completed in the previous twelve months. on butter, butter oU, cheddar cheese, and Development Bank for the purpose of mak H.R. 616. January 14, 1975. Ways and Means nonfat dry milk above the levels prevailing ing long-term, low-interest loans to ind.ivid- Declares all income tax returns to be con as of June 1, 1971. . uals, State and local governments, and cor fidential, and prohibits the disclosure or in H.R. 630. January 14, 1975. Armed Services. porations in order to increase employment spection of such returns unless specifically Directs the Secretary of the Navy to conduct opportunities, and foster public works and authorized by this Act. programs of exploration for oil and gas in low and moderate-income housing projects. H.R. 617. January 14, 1975. Ways and Alaska. H.R. 643. January 14, 1975. Agriculture. Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code H.R. 631. Januaa:y 14, 1975. Education and Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to con to impose an excise tax on every passenger Labor. Authorizes the Commissioner of Edu duct research and development related to automobile sold by the manufacturer whose cation to make grants for teacher training, new methods of protein production, fertil fuel consumption falls below a stipulated pilot and demonstration projects, and com izer production, and processing vegetable fuel economy standard. prehensive school programs, with respect to protein. health education and health problems. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to H.R. 644. January 14, 1975. Armed Services. establish test procedures for determining the H.R. 632. January 14, 1975. Education and Entitles former members of the armed forces fuel consumption rate for each new auto Labor. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to and their dependents to medical and dental mobile subject to this tax. grant, under certain circumstances, a lim ited waiver of the child labor provisions o:f care and post exchange and commissary priv H.R. 618. January 14, 1975. Public Works ileges for sixty days :following separation. and Transportation. Increases the appropria the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to em ployers desiring to hire children for the pur H.R. 645. January 14, 1975. Armed Services. tion authorization ceiling for bridges on Amends the Military Selective Service Act to Federal dams. Authorizes funds for recon pose of harvesting crops. H.R. 633. January 14, 1975. Foreign Affairs. give former employees of States and their struction of a bridge across the Chickamauga political subdivisions who are discharged Dam in Tennessee. Directs the President to halt all exports o:f gasoline, distillate fuel oil, and propane gas from the Armed Forces the same reemploy H.R. 619. January 14, 1975. Ways and ment guarantees as former employees of pri Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code until Congress determines that no shortage of such fuels exists in the United States. vate employers who are discharged from the to eliminate as an income tax credit, any Armed Forces. income, war profits, or excess profits tax paid H.R. 634. January 14, 1975. Interior and Insular Affairs. Authorizes the Secretary o:f H.R. 646. January 14, 1975. Armed Services. to any foreign country for income from Revises the method of computing military petroleum production. the Interior to make grants to States to assist in land use planning activities. Establishes retired pay and civilian service retirement H.R. 620. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. annuities for members and former members States that it shall not be unlawful to in requirements for statewide land use planning processes and programs. of the Armed Forces who were in a missing tercept communications where all parties to status while serving in the Vietnam conflict. the communication have given their consent Creates an Office of Land Use Policy and Planning Administration in the Department Directs the Secretary of Defense to pro unless the communication is intercepted for vide special health benefits to former mem the purpose of committing any criminal or of the Interior and a National Land Use and Planning Board to coordinate Federal land bers of the Armed Forces who were in a tortious act. use policy. missing status while serving in the Vietnam H.R. 621. January 14, 1975. Ways and Establishes a public land policy and re conflict and their dependents. Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code quires development of land use plans for all H.R. 647. January 14, 1975. Armed Services. to exclude from income interest earned on public lands. Authorizes disability discharges for mem any deposit or withdrawable account in a H.R. 635. January 14, 1975. Interstate and bers of the Armed Forces who have a drug savings institution. Foreign Commerce. Revises the Mineral dependency. Directs the Secretary of each H.R. 622. January 14, 1975. Atomic Energy. Lands Leasing Act to establish a public cor military department to petition the appro Prohibits the transfer of atomic or nuclear poration to explore and develop oil shale priate United States attorney for the civil energy technology or materials to foreign energy resources on Federal lands. Authorizes comm•itment of a drug dependent member of nations without the express approval of the issuance of bonds to finance oil shale the Armed Forces to a Public Heal th Service Congress. exploration and development. facility. Directs the Secretary of each mili H.R. 623. January 14, 1975. Education and Establishes an envlronmental advisory tary department to review dishonorable dis Labor. Sets forth guidelines to be followed committee and requires that adverse en charges which were granted on the grounds by educational institutions in the preserva vironmental impacts be avoided. Prohibits of drug possession or drug dependency. tion, review, and release of the records of the public corporation from use of surface Revises the Uniform Code to Military Jus teachers and other employees. Prohibits ed mining techniques. tice by specify·lng the maximum penalties ucational funding to any educational agency H.R. 636. January 14, 1975. Interior and for offenses involving certain drugs. or facility that does not comply with the Insular Affairs. Authorizes the Secretary of H.R. 648. January 14, 1975. Armed Services. guidelines stated in this Act. the Interior to establish, develop, improve Prohibits the Navy from making contracts H.R. 624. January 14, 1975. Interior and and maintain regional centers for the per to have its vessels constructed outside the Insular Affairs. Releases all interest of the forming arts. United States. United States to certain real property in H.R. 637. January 14, 1975. Banking, Cur H.R. 649. January 14, 1975. Banking, Cur Sandoval County, New Mexico. rency and Housing. Establishes in the De rency and Housing. Authorizes the Secretary H.R. 625. January 14, 1975. Post Office partment of Housing and Urban Develop of Labor to make loans to industry and busi and Civil Service. Allows credit under the ment a low-interest loan program to assist ness in certa'in areas to aid in the financing civil service retirement program for military low and middle-income homeowners in the of pollution control facilities. service performed by a United States citizen maintenance and improvement of their H.R. 650. January 14, 1975. Education and in the armed forces of an allied nation dur homes. Directs that an annual audit be made Labor. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, ing a period of war. by the General Accounting Office of the Education, and Welfare to make grants to H.R. 626. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Re housing and related programs administered States for the establishment of vision quires the registration of handguns. by the Department of Housing and Urban screening programs for public school stu H.R. 627. January 14, 1975. Science and Development. dents. Technology. Establishes under the Secretary H.R. 638. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Pro H.R. 651. January 14, 1975. Education and of Commerce the United States Metric Con- hibits the importation, manufacture, sale, Labor. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, February 18, 1975 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3243 Education, and Welfare to make grants for of federally owned real property in the dis municipal bonds to register with the Secur>i the education and training of professional trict he represents. ties and Exchange Commission. and paraprofessional personnel in the field of H.R. 664. January 14, 1975. Government Directs the Commission to prescribe reg early childhood development. Operations. Requires the Secretary of State to ulations governing the rating of municipal H.R. 652. January 14, 1975. Education and pay to each State or political subdivlsion an bonds. Labor. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to amount equal to the amount of property tax H.R. 676. January 14, 1975. Interstate and develop and implement programs to provide revenue that would be derived from tax ex Foreign Commerce. Amends the Communica year-round recreational opportunities for empt United Nations property if such prop tions Act of 1934 to prohibit harassing tele underprivileged youth. Authorizes grants to erty were taxed. phone calls made to collect alleged debts. localities for urban recreational facilities and H.R. 665. January 14, 1975. House Adminis Requires all telephone companies to notify program · planning. tration. Amends the Legislative Reorganiza each telephone subscriber by means of a H.R. 653. January 14, 1975. Education and tion Act of 1970 by directing the Librarian of notice on the front of the local telephone Labor. Authorizes the President to call and Congress to prepare and conduct seminars directory of his right to be free from such conduct a White House Conference on Edu for freshmen Members of Congress. harassing calls. cation in 1976. Authorizes freshmen Members to employ H.R. 677. January 14, 1975. Interstate and H.R. 654. January 14, 1975. Education and an interim staff during the period beginning Foreign Commerce. Establishes the Health Labor. Directs that local educational agencies on the day such freshman is declared elected Action CorJ)s t·o provide opportunities for shall not receive Federal financial assistance and the first day of the regular session of young Americans to participate in programs from the Commissioner of Education unless Congress. which provide training and practical work they provide educational services to all hand H.R. 666. January 14, 1975. House Adminis experience in the allied health field including icapped children at levels of expenditure at tration. Authorizes the Secretary of the Inter career counseling, exposure to various health least equal to expenditures for other chil ior to permit the construction of the General related occupations, and training and work dren. Draza Mihailovich Monument in Washington, experience in cHnical settings. H.R. 655. Ja.nuary 14, 1975. Education and D.C. Authorizes the Administrator of the Health Labor. Directs the Secretary of Health, Edu H.R. 667. January 14, 1975. Interstate and Action Corps to select volunteers, to provide cation, and Welfare to develop and imple Foreign Commerce. Amends the National allowances and incentive bonuses to vol ment youth camp safety standards. Mental Health Act by establishing within unteers. and to enter into agreements with H.R. 656. January 14, 1975. Foreign Affairs. the National Institute of Mental Health a any public or nonprofit private entity where Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 National Center for the Control and Preven by the Administrator will make grants to by directing a twelve-month suspension of tion of Raipe to conduct a continuing study assist such entity in providing training and assistance to any country which fails to take and inves·tigation of rape. practical work experience to volunteers. reasonable action to prevent damage by mob H.R. 668. January 14, 1975. Interstate and H.R. 678. January 14, 1975. Interstate and violence to any property of the United States. Foreign Commerce. Requires the Director of Foreign Commerce. Directs the Secretary of H.R. 657. January 14, 1975. Government Op the National Institute of Child Health and Health, Education, and Welfare to appoint · erations. Amends the Federal Property and Human Development to plan and develop a a National Commission to develop a national Administrative Services Act of 1949 by au coordinated autism research program. Au plan for the control of epilepsy and its thorizing the Administrator of Genera.I Serv thorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, consequences. ices to assign surplus real property to the and Welfare to make grants, loans and loan H.R. 679. January 14, 1975. Interstate and head of any executive agency, to be disposed guarantees, to public or private nonprofit Foreign Commerce. E.5tablishes, under the of in certain qualified areas. residential or nonresidential centers with Public Health Services Act, a National Cen H.R. 658. January 14, 1975. Government Op education programs for autistic children. ter for Clinical Pharmacology within the erations. Directs the Administrator of Gen H.R. 669. January 14, 1975. Interstate and Department of Health, Education, and Wel eral Services to assist Federal agencies with Foreign Commerce. Amends the Communi fare for the purpose of supporting the study respect to records creation, maintenance, use, cations Act of 1934 by extending the maxi of clinical pharmacology. and disposition. Directs the Administrator to mum term of license and license renewal for Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos make inspection and formulate rules regard- . the operation of broadcastng stations from metic Act with respect to regulation of the ing Federal records. three to four years. Revises the conditions for manufacture, distribution, and sale of drugs. Esta.blishes a Records Review Board to re approval of applications for licensing or li H.R. 680. January 14, 1975. Interstate and view orders issued by the Administrator. cense renewal. Foreign Commerce. Prohibits the introduc Grants the Administrator custody and con H.R. 670. January 14, 1975. Interstate and tion, or manufacture for introduction, of trol over the National Archives Building and Foreign Commerce. Amends the Commun1- switchblade knives into interstate commerce. its contents. cations :Act to require that certain television H.R. 681. January 14, 1975. Interstate and H.R. 659. January 14, 1975. Government Op broadcasting stations include foreign lan Foreign Commerce. Amends the Federal erations. Establishes a Department of Social, guage subtitles in programs of local origin. Power Act with respect to the jurisdiction Economic, and Natural Resources Planning to H.R. 671. January 14, 1975. Interstate and of the Federal Power Commission over nav study and report to various Federal entities Foreign Commerce. Authorizes the Federal igable portions of water which lie within a on the status and goals of natural resources Communications Commission to establish single State. and social programs. Transfers to the Depart regulations for networks to prevent or pro H.R. 682. January 14, 1975. Interstate and ment from other Federal agencies all func hibit policies and practices which may have Foreign Commerce. Establishes a National tions and duties relating to long-range plan the effect of substantially lessening compe Oancer Research Administration to plan, ning for natural resources. tition or adversely affecting the duty of direct, and conduct the cancer research ac H.R. 660. January 14, 1975. Government broadcast licensees to operate their stations tivities of the United States and to acquire, Operations. Establishes the Department of in the public interest. construct, improve, repair, operate, and Health in the executive branch to be headed H.R. 672. January 14, 1975. Interstate and maintain laboratories, research and testing by the Secretary of Health who shall have Foreign Commerce. Makes it a violation of sites, and other facilities for the performance transferred to him the health functions of the Federal Trade Commission Act for any of its duties under this Act. Imposes a two the Secretary of Health, Education, and Wel retailer to increase the price of a consumer percent income tax surcharge to cover the fare. commodity after the retailer has marked the · cost of this Act. Establishes the National Advisory Commis price on that item. H.R. 683. January 14, 1975. Interstate and sion on Health Planning to determine what Authorizes the Federal Trade Commission Foreign Commerce. Amends the Federal Trade health functions carried on by the segments to issue a cease and desist order and to order Commission Act to exempt from the anti of the Government should be transferred to the restitution of moneys received by a re trust laws certain market allocation agree the Department of Health. tailer in violation of this Act. ments made as part of a licensing contract H.R . 661. January 14, 1975. Government H.R. 673. January 14, 1975. Interstate and for· the manufacture, distribution or sale of Operations. Requires the President to include Foreign Commerce. Makes unlawful acts in trademarked foods. in the budget transmitted to Congress addi defraud of consumers. Defines such acts as H.R. 684. January 14, 1975. Interstate and tional information showing the regional im those unfair or deceptive practices which are Foreign Commerce. Requires the Secretary of pact by State and Congressional districts of unlawful under the Federal Trade Commis Health, Education, and Welfare to establish budget proposals. Requires the Director of sion Act or under State law. Authorizes con and maintain a blood donor registration sys sumer class actions under the Federal Trade tem whereby a prospective donor may be the Office of Management and Budget to file certified by an examining physician to be with the Congress certain information relat Commi&sion Act. H.R. 674. January 14, 1975. Interstate and free of previous diseases or personal habits ting to Federal expenditures within the States Foreign Commerce. Amends the Flammable which might predispose him to be a carrier and Congressional districts. Fabrics Act by extending its provisions to of the hepatitis agent. Directs the establish H.R. 662. January 14, 1975. Government construction m!l.terials used in the interiors ment.and maintenance of a research program Operations. Limits the sale or distribution of of homes, offices, and other places of assem in the National Institutes of Health to dis mailing lists by Federal agencies. bly or accommodation. Authorizes the Secre cover a medical test which can detect serum H.R. 663. January 14, 1975. Government tary of Commerce to establish toxicity hepatitis. Operations. Requires that each Member of standards. H.R. 685. January 14, 1975. Interstate and Congress be notified by the Administmtor of H.R. 675. January 14, 1975. Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Empowers the Attorney General Services of the intended diaposition Foreign Commerce. Requires persons rating General, the Secretary of State, and the Sec- CXXI--206-Part 3 3244 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE February 18,' 1975 retary of Health, Education, and Welfare to dividual to contract with any other person ment and the Panama Canal Company resid execute the obligations of the United States after the expiration of such contract. ing in the Republic of Panama. under the international treaty entitled the H.R. 695. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. H.R. 709. January 14, 1975. Merchant Ma "Convention on Psychotropic Substances" Permits the Attorney General to apply for a rine and Fisheries. Authorizes subsistence which is designed to establish suitable con court order for registrars and Federal elec allowances for individuals enrolled in the trols over manufacture, distribution, trans tion officials to facilitate registration and Coast Guard officer candidate program. fer and use of certain psychotropic sub voting in a State or political subdivision H.R. 710. January 14, 1975. Merchant Ma stances. Stipulates that the Comprehensive where a certain percentage of persons whose rine and Fisheries. Establishes a contiguous Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act uf primary language is not English, have not fishery zone beyond the territorial sea of the 1970 is the appropriate framework for control registered to vote or voted. United States. Extends United States juris of psychotropic substances. H.R. 696. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Pro diction to anadromous fish wherever they H.R. 686. January 14, 1975. Interstate and hibits possession of a firearm by certain may range in the oceans except in the ter Foreign Commerce. Amends the Public classes of individuals. ritorial waters or fishery zone of another Health Service Act to entitle any individual Repeals those provisions of the Omnibus country. suffering from hemophilia to file a claim with Crime Control and Safe Streets Act which H.R. 711. January 14, 1975. Merchant Ma the Secretary of Health, Education, and Wel regulate unlawful possession or receipt of rine and Fisheries. Authorizes commercial fare for benefits equalling one hundred per firearms. fishermen to apply to the Secretary of the cent of his actual treatment costs. Directs H.R. 697. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Interior for grants to cover losses of earn the Secretary to provide for the establish Makes additional immigrant vis.as available ings due to Federal or State restrictions on ment of no less than fifteen new centers for for immigrants from certain foreign coun fishing imposed because of a deterioration the diagnosis and treatment of hemophilia tries. of the aquatic environment. and to establish a program utillzing facill ties H.R. 698. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. H.R. 712. January 14, 1975. Merchant Ma of the Public Health Service for the diagnosis Makes the bribery of State and local law en rine and Fisheries. Requires advance notice and treatment of h&moph111a. Establishes a forcement officers or other appointed or to the United States Fish and Wildlife Serv National Hemophilia Advisory Board within elected officials a Federal crime. ice and certain State agencies before initia the National Institutes of Health to establish H.R. 699. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Al tion of any Federal program involving the guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment :if lows the redistribution of quota visa num use of pesticides or other chemicals for ani hemoph111a. bers not used during fiscal year 1975. mals or plant pest control. H.R. 687. January 14, 1975. Interstate and H.R. 700. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Es Establishes administrative procedures to Foreign Commerce. Requires the Secretary tablishes an om.ce of the United States Cor evaluate potential adverse impacts of pest of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the rectional Ombudsman to investigate either control agents on fish and wildlife resources. Public Health Service Act, to make grants upon complaint or upon its initiative cer H.R. 713. January 14, 1975. Merchant Ma to assist the States in bringing publicly op tain administrative acts of the Bureau of rine and Fisheries. Amends the Merchant erated or publicly assisted facillties fot the Prisons or of the Board of Parole. Marine Act, 1936, to extend the services of mentally retarded Into conformity with H.R. 701. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Pro the United States Merchant Marine Academy standards which will assure humane care, hibits the transportation of contraband ciga to persons in the maritime industries other treatment, habilitatlon, and protection of the rettes in interstate commerce. than merchant marine ofiicers, to expand the mentally retarded in residential facllities. H.R. 702. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. scope of the educational program at the Establishes a National Advisory Council on Establishes under the Immigration and Na Academy, and to change the name o! the Standards for Residential Fac111ties for the tionality Act a Board of Visa Appeals as a Academy to the "United States Maritime separate agency within the Bureau of Secu Academy." Mentally Retarded in implementing and re H.R. 714. January 14, 1975. Merchant Ma viewing the standards established by this rity and Consular Affairs to review decisions of a consular officer refusing or revoking an rine and Fisheries. Amends the Fishermen's Act. Protective Act of 1967 to require the return H.R. 688. January 14, 1975. Interstate and immigration visa. Revises the Act with re spect to the numerical limitations on lawful to the United States of United States vessels Foreign Commerce. Prohibits distributors loaned or leased to foreign countries which and refiners of petroleum products from can admissions, revocation of naturalization, and limitations on deportation. have seized any United States fishing vessels celing franchises without cause and without in water recognized by the United States as prior notice. Establishes a Select Commission on Nation ality and Naturalization to study the Nation international waters. H.R. 689. January 14, 1975. Interstate and H.R. 715. January 14, 1975. Merchant Ma Foreign Commerce. Establishes the Bureau ality and Naturalization provisions of the Im migration and Nationality Act. rine and Fisheries. Requires that a minimum of Travel Agents Registration in the De percentage of United States oil imports be partment of Transportation for the purpose H.R. 703. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Au carried on privately-owned United Sta.tea of regulating standards of performance and thorizes the Attorney General to make grants flag commercial vessels. conduct in the travel agency industry. to the States for the construction and mod H.R. 716. January 14, 1975. Post Office and H.R. 690. January 14, 1975. Interstate and ernization of correctional institutions. Civil Service. Requires the posting in post Foreign Commerce. Requires each State to H.R. 704. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. offices of information regarding voter regis have a motor vehicle mechanic licensing pro Specifies that fingerprints submitted to the tration, voting, and communicating with the gram approved by the Secretary of Labor. Federal Bureau of Investigation from regis President, Vice-President, and Members o! Sets forth criteria for such approval. Au tered national security exchanges and brokers Congress. thorizes the Secretary to pay not in excess and dealers registered With the Securities and H.R. 717. January 14, 1975. Post Office and of 80 percent of the cost of such licensing Exchange Commission shall be treated in the Civil Service. Designates the birthday of programs. same manner and subject to the same terms Susan B. Anthony a legal public holiday. H.R. 691. January 14, 1975. Interstate and and conditions as those from insurance com H.R. 718, January 14, 1975. Post Office and Foreign Commerce. StipulP.tes active service panies and national banks. Civil Service. Designates the birthday of of commissioned officers of the Public Health H.R. 705. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Martin Luther King, Junior, as a legal pub Service to be active milltary service in the Makes it a Federal crime to kill or assault a lic holiday. Armed Forces of the United States for the fireman or law enforcement officer engaged H.R. 719. January 14, 1975. Post Office and purposes of all rights, privileges, immuni in the performance of his official duties when Civil Service. Permits Government officials ties, and benefits provided under the Sol the offender travels in interstate commerce and employees to participate in political diers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940. or uses any facillty of interstate commerce management and in political campaigns. Pro H.R. 692. January 14, 1975. Interstate and for such purpose. hibits the use of official authority or influence Foreign Commerce. Authorizes the Secre H.R. 706. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. for the purpose of affecting the result of an tary of Health, Education, and Welfare, un Amends the Gun Control Act of 1968 to make election. der the Public Health Service Act, to make it unlawful to sell any firearm, other than a H.R. 720. January 14, 1975. Post Office and grants and enter into contracts for projects rifle or shotgun, which the Secretary of the Civil Service. Makes It unlawful for officers of to provide Huntington's disease screening, Treasury determines to be unsuitable for law Federal agencies, the armed forces, or the and in the diagnosis, treatment. and preven ful sporting purposes. Civil Service Commission to require that Fed tion of Huntington's disease. Directs the Sec H.R. 707. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Re eral civilian employees and applicants dis retary to disseminate Information on Hunt quires the establishment of a system for the close certan personal information. ington's disease and to provide voluntary redress of law enforcement officers' grievances Creates a Board of Employees Rights to screening, counseling, and treatment there and acceptance of a law enforcement officers' enforce this Act. for within the Public Health Service. bill of rights by the States and local g0vern H.R. 721. January 14, 1975. Post Office and H.R. 693. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Pro ment units as a condition to receiving grants Civil Service. Prohibits government agencies hibits the transportation or use in interstate •.Jnder the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe from furnishing mailing list.s to the public. or foreign commerce of counterfeit, ficti .Streets Act of 1968. H.R. 722. January 14, 1975. Post Office and tious, altered, lost or stolen airline tickets. H.R. 708. January 14, 1975. Merchant Civll Service. Amends the Postal Reorgani H.R. 694. January 14, 1975. Judiciary. Marine and Fisheries. Amends the Merchant zation Act of 1970 with respect to the ap Makes unenforceable certain provisions of Marine Act to extend eligibility for appoint plicability of certain civil service laws and professional athlete's contracts which re ment to the United States Merchant Marine regulations to the Postal Service. quire performance for an unreasonable pe Academy to the daughters, as well as the sons, Repeals that section of the Act which reg riod of time or limits the right of the in- of personnel ·of the United States Govern- ulates laibor disputes, Makes employee-man- February 18, 1975 CO~GRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3245 agement relations in the Postal Service sub training in firefighting techniques and pro· fairs. Extends the entitlement of veterans to ject to certain provisions of the Labor-Man cedures. educational assistance from thirty-six agement Relations Act of 1947. H.R. 735. January 14, 1975. Science and months to forty-five months. H.R. 723. January 14, 1975. Post Office and Technology. Directs the Secretary of Com H.R. 749. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af· Civil Service. Reduces the mandatory retire merce to make grants to local fire depart fairs. Requires the Administrator of Vet ment age for non-United States citizen em ments for the purchase of advanced fire erans' Affairs to pay pension benefits to each ployees of the Panama Canal Company or fighting equipment. veteran who served in the active military, the Canal Zone Government employed on H.R. 736. January 14, 1975. Science and naval, or air service at any time during World the Isthmus of Panama. Technology. Directs the Secretary of Com War I and who is otherwise not eligible for H.R. 724. January 14, 1975. Public Works merce to establish and maintain a National pension or to the widow and children o:f and Transportation. Mollifies the existing Fire Data and Information Clearinghouse such veteran. flood control project at East Rockaway Inlet within the National Bureau of Standards. H.R. 750. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af to Rockaway Inlet and Jamaica Bay, New H.R. 737. January 14, 1975. Science and fairs. Entitles veterans of the Me.Xice.n border York, to authorize work on the beach erosion Technology. Establishes a national program period or of World War I and their widows aspect of the project independently of the to further the research and development of and children to pensions on the same basis as hurricane-flood protection aspect. geothermal energy resources. veterans of the Spanish-American War and H.R. 725. January 14, 1975. Public Works Authorizes the Director of the National their widows and children. Increases the and Transportation. Amends the Federal Science Foundation to fund basic and ap pension rate for these veterans and their Aviation Act of 1958 to require the National plied research activities relating to geother survivors. TranspC>l'tation Safety Board to consider in mal energy development. Directs the Na H.R. 751. January 14, 1975. Ways and their duties foreign laws which discriminate tional Aeronautics and Space Administra Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code against American citizens traveling as visitors tion to develop a program of demonstrations to permit a deduction from gross income for on the basis of race, color, or religion. in commercial utilization of geothermal en expenses paid during the taxable year for Requires the Board to hold hearings on ergy technologies. the education of a dependent attending any cases of alleged discrimination, and to sus H.R. 738. January 14, 1975. Science and primary or secondary educational institution. pend air carrier service to such countries Technology. Directs the National Aeronau H.R. 752. January 14, 1975. Ways and where discrimination exists. tics and Space Administration to develop Means. Amends the Social Security Act ta H.R. 726. January 14, 1975. Public Works ground propulsion systems designed to re exclude general and cost-of-living increases and Transportation. Amends the Federal duce current levels of energy consumption. in Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insur Aviation Act of 1958 to include "young H.R. 739. January 14, 1975. Science and ance benefits from being considered income people" in the class of those eligible for re Technology. Creates a United States Fire Ad for the purpose of determining an individ duced rate air transportation on a space ministration and a National Fire Academy in ual's eligibility for supplemental security available basis. the Department of Housing e.nd Urban De income benefits. H.R. 727. January 14, 1975. Public Works velopment. Includes provisions for Federal H.R. 753. January 14, 1975. Ways and and Transportation. assistance to State and local governments Means. Amends the Social Security Act by Directs the Secretary of Transportation and to facilitate education e.nd training of ( 1) revising the method of computing the to carry on a national educational cam fire prevention personnel. primary insurance amount; (2) authorizing paign designed to educate drivers and H.R. 740. January 14, 1975. Science and a 50 percent increase in Old-Age, Survivors pedestrians with respect to the dangers of Technology. Directs the Secretary of Com and Disab111ty Insurance benefits; and (3) driving and improved methods of safety. merce to provide Federal assistance to loce.l increasing the amount of outside income H.R. 728. January 14, 1975. Public Works fire departments in the purchase of certain allowed before any reduction will be made and Transportation. Amends the Federal firefighting equipment. in Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insur Aviation Act of 1958 to i:.uthorize reduced air H.R. 741. January 14, 1975. Science and ance benefits. fares on a space-available basts for per Technology. Authorizes the Secretary of H.R. 754. January 14, 1975. Ways and sons who are sixty-five years old or older. Commerce to make grants to States and lo Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code H.R. 729. January 14, 1975. Public Works calities to assist in the financing of training to allow an income tax credit to employers and Transportation. Amends the Federal programs for firemen. who hire unemployed Vietnam veterans if Aviation Act of 1958 to require the Secretary H.R. 742. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af the position for which the veteran ts hired of Transportation to prescribe regulations fairs. Increases the maximum income level either reflects his prior civilian, military, or governing the humane treatment of animals at which certain veterans remain eligible for education experience or it provides training transported in air comruerce. pensions. which leads to self-improvement or job ad H.R. 730. January 14, 1975. Publl.c Works H.R. 743. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af vancement, as certified by the Secretary of and Transportation. Authorizes free or re fairs. Authorizes the Administrato·r of Vet Labor. duced rate transportation under the Fed erans' Affairs to provide financial assistance H.R. 755. January 14, 1975. Ways and eral Aviation Act of :.958 to handicapped in the form of grants to States to enable Means. Increases the amount of outside in persons and persons who are sixty-five them to establish and maintain veterans' come which an individual may earn without years of age or older. Amends the Interstate cemeteries. a reduction in Old-Age, Survivors and Dis Commerce Act to authorize fre<' or re H.R. 744. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af ability Insurance benefits under the Social duced rate transportation for persons who fairs. Increases the percent guaranteed by Security Act. are sixty-five yea.rs of age or older. the Federal Government for certain business H.R. 756. January 14, 1975. Ways and Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Edu loan programs for veterans. Increases the Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code cation, and Welfare to make grants to pub maximum allowable interest rates for such to allow an income tax credit to employers lic and private entities to plan, research, loans. Extends the eligibility for these loan who hire unemployed Vietnam veterans. and develop special transportation systems programs to include veterans who served H.R. 757. January 14, 1975. Ways and for the handicapped and the elderly. after January 31, 1955. Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code H.R. 731. January 14, 1975. Public Works H.R. 745. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af to allow an income tax credit to employers and Transportation. Relieves airline ticket fairs. Authorizes the Administrator of Vet who hire a physically handicapped Vietnam agents of liability for the usage of airline erans' Affairs to pay for any eme·rgency hos veteran. tickets stolen from them without their com pital care and medical services provided to H.R. 758. January 14, 1975. Ways and plicity. any veteran by a private hospital if the Ad Means. Entitles any veteran who was a pris ministrator finds that such care was related oner of war or missing in action during the H.R. 732. January 14, 1975. Public Works Vietnam conflict to import into the United and Transportation. Amends the Federal to an adjudicated service-connected disabil ity, that no government facilities were rea States free of duty any personal and house Aviation Act to prohibit air carriers from hold effects in connection with the arrival abandoning any route or discontinuing any sonably available, and that delay in receiving such care would have endangered the vet of such person into the United States. service for which the Civil Aeronautics Board H.R. 759. January 14, 1975. Ways and has issued a certificate without a finding eran's health and life. by the Board that such abandonment or dis H.R. 746. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code fairs. Authorizes and directs the Administra to allow an additional personal and with continuance ts in the public interest. holding tax exemption for a taxpayer, his H.R. 733. January 14, 1975. Public Works tor of Veterans' Affairs to insure that during the twenty-four month period after the dis spouse, or a dependent who is disabled. and Transportation. Extends the duties of H.R. 760. January 14, 1975. Ways and the Executive Protective Service to include charge of a veteran, such veteran will have available to him employment, the salary for Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code the protection of United Nations buildings, to tax married and unmarried individuals and buildings used by the missions of United which is not less than the lower of his high est rate of pay in the Armed Forces, his high filing jointly. Nations member states in New York City. est civilian pay, or the prevailing rate of pay H.R. 761. January 14, 1975. Ways and Increases the number of officers authorized for equivalent employment. Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to be employed in the Executive Protective H.R. 747. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af· to allow as a deduction from gross income Service. fairs. Increases the monthly rates of disability the cost of acquiring recycled solid waste H.R. 734. January 14, 1975. Science and and death pension for veterans and their sur materials for manufacture by the taxpayer Technology. Creates a National Academy of vivors. into useful raw materials or salable products. Fire Prevention and Control to provide for H.R. 748. ·January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af- Permits an optional amortization deduction 3246 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE February 18, 1975 of any solid waste recycling facility acquired either listed as missing in action or prisoner residence. Permits an owner of rental prop by the taxpayer. of war. erty as an option to amortize expenditures H.R. 762. January 14, 1975. Ways and H.R. 774. January 14, 1975. Ways and for the restoration of rental housing. Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to Means. Revises the eligib1lity requirements H.R. 787. January 14, 1975. Interstate and exclude from gross income Umited amounts for Disability Insurance benefits for blind Foreign Commerce. Requires the Federal received as dividends or interest on deposits persons under the Social Security Act. Re Trade Commission to establish regulations in a savings institution. vises the method of computing the primary to require the labeling of all packaged for H.R. 763. January 14, 1975. Ways and insurance amount for blind persons under eign dairy products to indicate that such Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code the Social Security Act. foreign dairy product will be readily identi to allow a limited deduction for amounts H.R. 775. January 1, 1975. Ways and fiable as being imported. paid as tuition or fees during the taxable Means. Amends the Social Security Act to H.R. 788. J1:1.nuary 14, 1975. Public Works year to an educational institution for the authorize payment to married couples of Old and Transportation. Authorizes the Secre education of the taxpayer, his spouse, or Age, Survivors, and Disa.b1lity Insurance tary of the Army to study and undertake dependents. benefits which have been computed on the remedial measures to provide relief from H.R. 764. January 14, 1975. Ways and basis of their combined earnings record. shore damage attributable to high water Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code H.R. 776. January 14, 1975. Ways and levels in the Great Lakes. to permit individuals to deduct contribu Means. Amends the Social Security Act to H.R. 789. January 14, 1975. Interior and tions to a qualified fund, where the bene permit officers and employees of the Federal Insular Affairs. Authorizes the Secretary of ficiary is a dependent of the taxpayer, and Government to elect coverage under Old-Age, the Interior to acquire additional lands for where the distributions from the fund are Survivors, and Disab1lity Insurance. Sets the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. to be made only to defray the cost of room, forth the procedures by which Federal em H.R. 790. January 14, 1975. Merchant Ma board, and tuition at an institution of higher ployees may elect such coverage. rine and Fisheries. Directs the Secretary of education. H.R. 777. January 14, 1975. Ways and the Interior to regulate the trapping and H.R. 765. January 14, 1975. Ways and Means. Creates a national sysrtem of health capture of mammals and birds on Federal Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code insurance. Establishes a Health Security lands. Establishes an advisory commission to allow an individual a credit against the Board in the Department of Health, Educa to recommend to the Secretary acceptable tax imposed for amounts paid by him during tion, and Welfare to administer such health methods for trapping and capture of mam the taxable year as tuition for the education insurance program. Repeals the Medicare pro mals and birds. in a private nonprofit elementary or second visions of the Sod.al Security Act and · all Prohibits use of unacceptable traps in in ary school of any dependent for whom he health benefit plans for employees of the terstate ol." foreign commerce. Prescribes reg niay claim a personal exemption. Federal Government. ulations to prohibit the interstate shipment H.R. 766. January 14, 1975. Ways and H.R. 778. January 14, 1975. Judiciary Stand of hide, skin, feathers, or resulting products Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code ards of Official Conduct. Creates a Federal of the use of unacceptable traps. to permit a taxpayer to deduct as an expense Lobbying Disclosure Commission. H.R. 791. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af during the taxable year expenditures for the Requires lobbyists to (1) register with the fairs. Requires the Administrator of Veterans' purpose of making any facllity owned or Commission; (2) make and retain certain Affairs to pay pension benefits to each vet leased by the taxpayer for use in connection records; and (3) file report with the Com eran who served in the active military, naval, with his trade· or business more usable by mission regarding their aictivi ties. or air service at any time during World War handicapped and elderly individuals. Repeals the Federal Regulation of Lobby I and who is otherwise not eligible for pen H.R. 767. January 14, 1975. Ways and ing Act. sion or to the widow and children of such Means. Permits a taxpayer who has donated H.R. 779. J•anuary 14, 1975. Merchant Ma veteran. his own blood to specified organizations to rine and Fisheries. Judiciary. Amends the H.R. 792. January 14, 1975. Ways and deduct under the Internal Revenue Code as National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code a charitable contribution an amount speci to permit clMs action suits in United States to allow the deduction from gross income of fied for each pint. District Courts against persons responsible adoption fees as a medical expense. H.R. 768. January 14, 1975. Ways and for creation of air, water, and noise pollution. H.R. 793. January 14, 1975. Ways and Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to H.R. 780. January 14, 1975. Interior and In Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income limited amounts sular Affairs. Designates a .segment of the permit a deduction from income for the received as compensation for service as a New River in North Carolina. and Vtrginia M purchase and installation of qualified insula full-time law enforcement officer in the em a potential component of the National Wild tion or heating equipment in the taxpayer's ploy of the United States, or a State or local and Scenic Rivers System. residence. political entity. H.R. 781. January 14, 1975. Interior and In H.R. 794. January 14, 1975. Ways and H.R. 769. January 14, 1975. Ways and sular Affairs. Amends the Wild and Scenic Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code Means. Directs the Secretary of Transporta Rivers Act to prohibit construction of any to permit a taxpayer who has attained the tion to carry on a national education cam dam, reservoir, or similar facility on the age of sixty-five to take a credit against his paign designed to educate drivers and pedes New River in Virginia until the Secretary of income tax for real property taxes paid by trians as to the danger of the improper use the Interior has completed study of the river him, or for the amount of his rent constitut of motor vehicles on the highways. for potential designation as a component of ing such taxes. Imposes an additional tax on gasoline and the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. H.R. 795. January 14, 1975. Ways and other motor fuels to pay for the costs of H.R. 782. January 14, 1975. Interior and In Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code such campaign. sular Affairs. Amends the Wild and Scenic by increasing the exemption for purposes of H.R. 770. January 14, 1975. Ways and Rivers Act to prevent construction of any the Federal estate tax. Means. Makes it the duty of doctors, teach dam, reservoir, or similar fa.cility which H.R. 796. January 14, 1975. Ways and ers, social workers and welfare workers to would directly affect a certain segment of Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code report all suspected child abuse. Requires the New River in Virginia, unless such a proj to permit an individual, at his election, to the Secretary of Health, Education, and ect is specifically authorized by the Congress. take a limited credit against the income tax Welfare to provide for the issuance of a H.R. 783. January 14, 1975. Interstate and for charitable contributions in lieu of a de social security acocunt number for every Foreign Commerce. Prevents the construc duction as otherwise provided by the Code. child born in the United States in order to tion of any dam, reservoir, or similar facility H.R. 797. January 14, 1975. Agriculture. establish an effective national child-identifi which would directly affect a certain seg Provides that the support price of milk shall cation system. ment of the New River in Virginia, unless be not less than 90 percent of the parity H.R. 771. January 14, 1975. Ways and such a project is specifically authorized by price therefor. Declares it the sense of Con Means. Amends the Supplemental Security the Oongress. gress that the President shall take appro Income provisions of the Social Security Act: H.R. 784. January 14, 1975. Ways and priate action to limit the quantity of meat ( 1) authorizes emergency and temporary Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code imports. Declares it the sense of Congress grants; (2) eliminating the third-party payee to tax unmarried individuals at the same that the President, with the concurrence of requirement for certain recipients; (3) re rate as married individuals filing jointly, the Secretary of Agriculture, issue a procla vising the method of determining income and to apply the same requirements for re mation not to increase the import quotas on for the purposes of the program; (4) revis quiring a deduction of estimated income tax butter, butter oil, cheddar cheese, and non ing certain eligib1lity requirements; (5) and for withholding income tax from wages. fat dry milk. authorizing cost-of-living increases in bene H.R. 785. January 14, 1975. Ways and H.R. 798. January 14, 1975. Agriculture. fits; and (6) entitling recipients to food Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agri stamps on a permanent basis. to permit a deduction by a taxpayer for culture, through the Commodity Credit Cor H.R. 772. January 14, 1975. Ways and depreciation of his principal residence poration, to purchase animals and animal Means. Revises the Internal Revenue Code property. food products for use in foreign and domestic to allow an income tax credit to employers H.R. 786. January 14, 1975. Ways and food relief programs. who hire unemployed Vietnam veterans. Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code H.R. 799. January 14, 1975. Interstate and H.R. 773. January 14, 1975. Ways and to allow as a deduction the ordinary and Foreign Commerce. Defines the term "food Means. Allows income tax credits under the necessary expenses paid during the taxable supplemen't" as it appears in the Federal Internal Revenue Code to employers who hire year for the repair or improvement of prop Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Disallows the unemployed Vietnam veterans who have been erty used by the taxpayer as his principal requirement of warning labels for and the February 18, 1975 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3247
limiting of ingredients in "food supple pension rate for these veterans and their ties in strengthening and expanding existing ments" by the Secretary of Health, Educa survivors. programs of housing code enforcement in tion, and Welfare unless such article is H.R. 812. January 14, 1975. Ways and order to prevent the loss of structurally intrinsically injurious to health in the rec Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code sound buildings through neglect. ommended dosage. to allow a person to elect to take a deduc H.R. 825. January 14, 1975. Banking, cur H.R. 800. January 14, 1975. Post Office and tion for the amorization of a. qualified oil rency and Housing. Prohibits the granting Civll Service. Abolishes the United States shale or coal conversion fac111ty in lieu of of Federal financial assistance to any State Postal Service. Repeals the Postal Reorgani the depreciation deduction authorized by development agency unless such agency pro zation Act. Re-establishes the Post Office the Code. vides ~atisfactory assurances that it Will take Department as an executive department of H.R. 813. January 14, 1975. Ways and no action inconsistent with local zoning laws. the Federal Government. Means. Amends the Internal Revenue Code H.R. 826. January 14, 1975. Education and H.R. 801. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Affairs. to ut111ze in calculating the retirement in Labor. Establishes, under the Elementary and Entitles veterans of the Mexican border pe come credit the maximum amount of old-age Secondary Education Act of 1965, a Director riod or of World War I and their widows and insurance benefits which could be paid, and of Consumers Education whose duty shall children to pensions on the same basis as the maximum amount of earnings which be the making of grants, and contracts With veterans of the Spanish-American War and may be received in a calendar year as deter educational and governmental entities to de their widows and children. Increases the mined by the Secretary of Health, Educa sign projects to provide consumer education pension rate for these veterans and their tion, and Welfare under the SOcial Security to the public, survivors. Act. H.R. 827. January 14, 1975. Education and H.R. 802. January 14, 1975. Ways and Means. H.R. 814. January 14, 1975. Ways and Labor. Revises the provisions of the Higher Amends the Social Security Act by removing Means. Revises the tax rates for Old-Age Education Act of 1965 relating to the interest the limitation upon the amount of outside Survivors and Disability Insurance and hos: on educational loans which a student is en income which an individual may earn while pital insurance under the Internal Revenue titled to have paid by the Federal Govern receiving Old-Age, Survivors and Dise.bility Code of 1954. Raises the ceiling on income ment. Insurance benefits. taxable for Old-Age, Survivors and Dis H.R. 828. January 14, 1975. Education and H.R. 803. January 14, 1975. Banking, cur ability Insurance under the Social Security Labor. Directs the Secretary of Health, Edu rency and Housing. Establishes the Recon Act and Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Pro cation, and Welfare, under the Older Ameri struction Fina.nee Corporation to make loans vides that one-third of the cost of the Old cans Act of 1965, to approve a State plan and loan guarantees to business concerns Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance pro to establish and maintain an ombudsman which would otherwise be unable to obtain gram be borne by the Federal Government. office which Will receive and investigate com needed financing. H.R. 815. January 14, 1975. Ways and plaints from residents and patients, and their Authorizes the Corporation to issue notes, Means. Amends the Social Security Act by relatives, in long-term care fa.c11ities. debentures, bonds, and other such obliga eliminating the waiting period for medicare H.R. 829. January 14, 1975. Education and tions which will be fully guaranteed by the coverage in the case of certain disabled indi Labor. Directs the Secretary of Labor to es United States. viduals under age 65 who are applying for re tablish a. volunteer employment program for H.R. 804. January 14, 1975. Banking, Cur entitlement to such coverage. retired persons. rency and Housing. Directs the Secretary of H.R. 816. January 14, 1975. Ways and H.R. 830. January 14, 1975. Education and Housing and Urban Development to carry Means. Amends the Social Security Act by Labor. Amends the Elementary and Secon out to the fullest extent possible those pro ( 1) prohibiting the payment of Survivors In dary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the grams of the National Housing Act designed surance benefits to individuals entitled to a the Commissioner of Education to make to assist low-income families who own their survivors annuity under the Rallroad Re grants to local education agencies for the homes or live in rental or cooperative hous tirement Act; and (2) prohibiting the pay stimulation and support of interscholastic ment of a Survivors Insurance lump-sum ing. athletic programs at secondary schools asso H.R. 805. January 14, 1975. Education and death payment to individuals entitled to a ciated with certain community development Labor. Amends the Age Discrimination in lump-sum death payment under the Railroad programs. Employment Aot by extending the coverage Retirement Act. H.R. 831. January 14, 1975. Education and of the Act to individuals sixty years of age H.R. 817. January 14, 1975. Ways and Labor. Establishes a Federal Scholastic and Means. Amends the Social Security ·Act to or over. Amateur Sports Commission within the De H.R. 806. January 14, 1975. Education and eliminate the reduction in disabiUty benefits partment of Health, Education, and Welfare Labor. Amends the Federal Coal Mine Health received by individuals who also receive for the purpose of protecting and promoting and Safety Act of 1969 by eliminating the workmen's compensation benefits. the interests of collegiate and other amateur support requirements for divorced wives and H.R. 818. January 14, 1975. Ways ·and athletes in the United States engaging in surviving divorced wives. Means. Amends the Social Security Act by international competition. H.R. 807. Janua.ry 14, 1975. Ways rund lowering the age at which a woman becomes H.R. 832. January 14, 1975. Foreign Affairs Means. Amends the Social 'Security Act by re entitled to widow's insurance benefits. Directs the President to suspend economi~ moving the limitation upon the 'amount of H.R. 819. January 14, 1975. Banking, and military assistance under the Foreign outside inoome which an individual may earn Currency and Housing. Directs the Secretary Assistance Act of 1961 and sales under the while receiving Old-Age, Survivors and Dis of the Treasury to issue $2 Federal reserve Foreign M111tary Sales Act or the Agricul notes commemorating the Bicentennial of a.bllity Insurance benefits. tural Trade Development and Assistance Act Revises the method of computing income the American Revolution. of 1954, to any country whose government for the purpose of determining eligibility for H.R. 820. January 14, 1975. Interior and has failed to take appropriate steps to pre supplemental security income benefits under Insular Affairs. Establishes ·the National Con vent narcotic drugs produced in such country servation Area of the California Desert. Di from entering the United States unlawfully the Social Security Act. rects the Secretary of the Interior to develop H.R. 808. January 14, 1975. Education and H.R. 833. January 14, 1975. Ways an:ci Labor. Authorizes the Commissioner of Edu and implement a comprehensive plan for the Means. Requires the Secretary of Agricul cation to provide Federal financial assistance management, use, and protection of the ture under the Export Administration Act to those State teacher retirement systems natural resource lands within the conserva to determine the amount Of any agricultural which allow retirement credit to teachers for tion area. commodity that Will be ava.llable for export H.R. 821. January 14, 1975. Interior and Requires the Secretary of Commerce to pub~ out-of-State teaching service. Insular Affairs. Prescribes penalties and es H.R. 809. January 14, 1975. Interstate and licly announce the ·determination. Prohibits tablishes arrest authority with respect to the exporting of any agricultural commodity Foreign Commerce. Authorizes the Federal violators of certain laws and regulations re Energy Administration to establish a pro unless the person exporting such commodity gram of mandatory allocation of scarce sup lating to the protection or use of public lands has been issued an export license. plies of natural gas. Directs that mandatory administered by the Secretary of the In H.R. 834. J·anuary 14, 1975. Government allocation regulations give high priority to terior or the Secretary of Agriculture. Operations. Grants child care centers status those industries which use natural gas an an H.R. 822. January 14, 1975. Agriculture. as educational institutions for purposes of essential element in their production proc Decreases the amount of funds allocated un receiving surplus Federal property under the der the Emergency Livestock Credit Act of !"edrea.l Property and Administrative Serv esses. 1974 from $2,000,000,000 to $1,000,000,000. H.R. 810. January 14, 1975. Science and ices Act;. H.R. 823. January 14, 1975. Banking, Cur . H.R. 835. January 14, 1975. House Admin Technology. Amends the National Science rency and Housing. Amends the National Foundation Act of 1950 to authorize the Di ~stration. Requires the use of recycled pa.per Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of rector of the National Science Foundation m the printing of the Congressional Record. Housing and Urban Development to insure to establish a program of research and devel H.R. 836. January 14, 1975. Interstate and opment in the production of synthetic liquid loans to finance improvements to long-term Foreign Commerce. Amends the Federal care facilities required to correct deficiencies Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the fuels. identified in State surveys and Federal cer H.R. 811. January 14, 1975. Veterans' Af Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, tification procedures. fairs. Entitles veterans of the Mexican border after consultation with the Secretary of period or of World War I and their widows H.R. 824. January 14, 1975. Banking, cur Agriculture, to establish standa.rds for grad rency and Housing. Authorizes the Secretary ing system by which retau purchasers may and children to pensions on the same basis of Housing and Urban Development to estab as veterans of the Spanish-American War determine the relative nutritional value of lish a program of grants to assist municipali- and their widows and children. Increases the different foods for human consumption. 3248 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE February 18, 1975
H.R. 837. January 14, 1975. Interstate and craft in the United States be subjected to leased by the taxpayer for use in connection Foreign Commerce. Authorizes and directs search for weapons or explosive devices. with his trade or business more usable by the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commis H.R. 849. January 14, 1975. Public Works handicapped and elderly individuals. sion to appoint a task force to study the ex and Transportation. Extends the duties of H.R. 860. January 14, 1975. Ways and Means. tent that supermarkets engage in the prac the Executive Protective Service to include Amends the Supplemental Security Income tice OSENATE--Tuesday, February 18, 1975 The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian · COMMI'ITEE MEETINGS DURING numbers, perhaps we can go through the and was called to order by the Vice SENATE SESSION alphabet and arbitrarily assign them President. Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask every letter from A to Z, except X. Since unanimous consent that all committees X indicates franchise and a voter's PRAYER may be authorized to meet during the choice, no candidate will be entitled to The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward session of the Senate today. X until after the two conventions and L. R. Elson, D.D., offered the following The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob the election. But reserving X and mov prayer: jection, it is so ordered. ing, if necessary, into the AA category, and so on, might aid the public's view Eternal Father, the Strength of all of the candidates. that is good, the Light of all that is true, I would suggest that some of the can we thank Thee that Thou hast put within A MODEST PROPOSAL didates really should be labeled Y, be us some spark of the eternal flame, some Mr. HUGH SCOTT. Mr. President, I cause one wonders why, indeed, they desire for goodness, some craving for should like to make a modest proposal. I have bestowed upon us the inestimable whatsoever things are lovely. May the would comment first by saying that it privilege of viewing them as sufficiently penitential season upon which we have would have saved considerable confusion talented to qualify for this high office. entered be to us a time of cleansing and had the various Presidential candidates However, like most things proposed in renewal. As Thy searching spirit reviews been able to agree among themselves to the Senate, including energy legislation, and reveals what we really are, with the make their announcements in alphabet nothing will come of it. imperfections and sins which we share ical order. Since that has not been done, with our common humanity, bring us to confusion will be compounded. a new awareness of Thy forgiveness and ORDER OF BUSINESS grace. And if we see ourselves in need of I propose, therefore, that hereafter Thee, come quickly, O Lord, to be with us, Presidential candidates be assigned num The VICE PRESIDENT. Under the banishing our doubts, assuring us of Thy bers which they wear prominently, so previous order, the Sena tor from Illinois infinite love, lighting our pathway before that to facilitate reference, we may point is recognized for not to exceed 15 min us. When the Lenten days at length bring out that candidate No. 17 has moved utes. us face to face with the cross, may we sharply to the left to receive a forward yield to its redemptive love and be ready pass; that candidate No. 21 has faded COMMEMORATION OF LITHUANIAN for the dawn of the resurrection morning. back to the right; that for candidate No. INDEPENDENCE DAY 23 a substitution has been offered on be We pray in His name who came to seek Mr. PERCY. Mr. President, as today we and to save. Amen. half of candidate No. 27. The various candidates, being so simply designated, commemorate the 57th anniversary of would be more readily identified by the Lithuanian independence in the U.S. public. Senate, we are keeping faith with the THE JOURNAL Since many of them are not too well people of Lithuania whose freedom and Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask known by name, I think it would be eas independence were taken from them in 1940. We want the people of Lithuania unanimous consent that the reading of ier to remember them by number. We to know that they are in our hearts and the Journal of the proceedings of Mon could, therefore, have a Presidential con that we have not forgotten them. day, February 17, 1975, be dispensed test by the numbers, and thereby allevi For me, this anniversary is a special with. ate some of the public's confusion. one. It is special because we in Congress The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob I hope that my suggestion will be given have had two successes on behalf of the jection, it is so ordered. careful consideration. If they do not like Lithuanian people within recent months.
