May 20, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11039 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS IVAN LOUIS COTMAN: A VOLUN­ vate corporation known as the Alpha Phi can serve to undergird an education and TARY RESPONSE TO THE NEW Alpha Education Foundation. I serve as youth development effort. FEDERALISM Vice-President of the Foundation which is a PROGRAM ACTIVITIES PROPOSED BY THE separate and distinct entity from Alpha Phi FOUNDATION WERE Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Career Guidance.-A high quality Career BACKGROUND ON THE ALPHA PHI ALPHA Guidance Program will be established. The HON. WILUAM M. BRODHEAD EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN Program will provide guidance to youth Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. since its with regards to: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES founding in 1906 at Cornell University in Careers and life-long experiences; Thursday, May 20, 1982 Ithaca, New York, has been vitally con­ Speech and dress patterns during job cerned and dedicated to the improvement of interviews; e Mr. BRODHEAD. Mr. Speaker, re­ educational opportunities among blacks. cently Ivan Louis Cotman, one of my Academic experiences and performances; The "Go To High School-Go To College" and constituents and an associate superin­ effort begun in the decade of the twenties Use of role models for youth (high school tendent of the Michigan Department and continuing until the fifties was an and college) motivation. of Education, spoke before the Sev­ action program to encourage and stimulate Experiences will take place via intern­ enth Annual Conference of the Na­ Blacks to do just as the slogan states. ships, summer enrichment activities, semi­ tional Association for Equal Opportu­ There was recognition, however, that a nars, advisement and will be supervised by nity in Higher Education here in more systematic approach had to be devel­ persons who have achieved some success in Washington. oped to assure higher educational opportu­ their chosen careers. nities. With this in mind, the Alpha Phi Chapters will establish partnerships with I would like to commend Mr. Cot­ Alpha Education Foundation, Inc. was au­ man's speech to the attention of my local schools to provide for career cluster­ thorized by the Fifty-first General Conven­ ing. A career cluster is one which focuses colleagues: tion of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. for upon a certain career with appropriate role The speech follows: the purpose of accepting tax exempt monies models in various disciplines-e.g.-science, IVAN Lours CoTMAN: A VOLUNTARY RESPONSE for educational activities. Following this allied health, etc. TO THE NEW FEDERALISM General Convention, the)i'oundation was in­ Leadership Development.-A national Good afternoon, my name is Ivan Louis corporated under the laws of the State of Il­ thrust in the area of Leadership Develop­ Cotman and I am an Associate Superintend­ linois on September 3rd 1965. The purposes ment is a must for the Fraternity. The goals ent with the Michigan Department of Edu­ of the Foundation as stipulated in its Con­ of the thrust will be to: cation. I am a native of Detroit, Michigan stitution and By-laws are as follows: Increase leadership awareness; who received his B.A. from Kentucky State "To accept and receive donations in pro;>­ Build leadership skills; University in 1962. In 1964, I was awarded a erty or money from Alpha Phi Alpha Fra­ Provide reinforcement for youth in leader- M.S.W. from the Atlanta University in ternity, Inc., its members and others and to ship positions; and social work. In addition, I have done doctor­ use and make the same and the income Provide citizenship education. al work at the University of Manchester in therefrom available for use solely and exclu­ The curriculum will include: Manchester, England. In 1975, I was granted sively for charitable, scientific and educa­ Communication skills development; an Ed.D. in Educational Administration tional purposes, no part thereof, principal Management/ organization: from Wayne State University in Detroit, or interest, ever to be used for carrying on Problem-solving; Michigan. propaganda or otherwise attempting to in­ Establishment of goals and objectives; I have served as an elected member of the fluence legislation, but the same to be de­ Evaluation; Detroit Regional Board of Education; have voted to purposes only of providing finan­ Organizational development; consulted with school districts, state boards, cial assistance including grants and non-in­ Conduct of meetings; and school superintendents in both the terest bearing loans to students beyond high Decision-making; public and private sectors and now serve as school; to promote continuing education for Leadership: a member of the Executive cabinet for the constructive citizenship; to encourage the Theories; Michigan Superintendent of Public Instruc­ production of scholarly works by members Parliamentary procedures; tion. But most of all, I am a proud graduate of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and Group Dynamics: of two black institutions of higher educa­ others; to collect, systematize and preserve Management; and tion in the public sector are not given during their high school Linkages to Insure Education and Youth educational programing for the Fraternity. tenure. Young people will receive informa­ Development: A Voluntary Response to the These are but a few of its activities. tion on colleges and other post-secondary New Federalism." The Foundation has as its major goal the education institutions. They will obtain in­ CLARIFICATION OF INTENT development of projects for which private formation on e.vailable scholarships and as­ The model I'd like to describe today is not or public funds may be secured. Contribu­ sistance with designing programs of study at designed nor intended to highlight any one tions to the Foundation are deductible for the high school level which will enable organization in contrast to another. More­ income tax purposes. IDtimately, the Foun­ them to pursue collegiate studies. over, it is singularly a model which is in ex­ dation hopes to finance projects entirely on Youth Motivation.-In order to inspire istence, does work, can be replicated and its own. young people to continue to achieve at high might be adopted by a consortium of frater­ EDUCATION AND BLACK YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: A levels of excellence, recognition activities nities, sororities or fraternal orders. FOUNDATION EFFORT will be made at Chapter, State or District, I also want you to know that the model I As has been suggested, I believe that the Regional and National echelons. Chapters want to describe is the IRS tax exempt pri- foundation model with appropriate funding will be encouraged to recognize outstanding

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 11040 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 20, 1982 local youth at a Founders' Day dinner or Fund-Raising.-The Education Founda­ tion and that the basis of our survival is luncheon with appropriate plaques and cer­ tion will plan and implement a vigorous vested in our own initiatives on our own tificates. Such recognition should be afford­ fund-raising program involving grants and behalf. ed for academic, service, community and gifts from Brothers, corporations and foun­ I close with this note of optimism from citizenship achievements. The most out­ dations. Although the Fraternity provides William Ernest Henley's immortal poem In­ standing youth from each Chapter will be the Education Foundation with $1.25 per fi­ victus, sent, at Chapter expense, to compete at the nancial Brother, this financial base is too Out of the night that covers me, State or District meeting. The process will small to support this proposed program over Black as the Pit from pole to pole, be repeated at a luncheon at the State or a long period of time. The Foundation will I thank whatever gods may be District with the most outstanding person establish goals and objectives for the effort For my unconquerable soul. being sent. at Chapter expense, to the Re­ which will involve the entire fraternal struc­ gional meeting. ture. In the fell clutch of circumstance The Regional participants will be feted at The effort will embrace a five-pronged ap­ I have not winced nor cried aloud. a luncheon and will be judged on their proach: Under the bludgeonings of chance achievements. The most outstanding youth The Foundation will propose the enact­ My head is bloody, but unbowed. will be sent, at the expense of each Region, ment of a social-action tax, as part of the Beyond this place of wrath and tears to the National Convention for similar judg­ national fee structure, which will support Looms but the Horror of the shade, ing and recognition with a National Youth only social action programs. And yet the menace of the years of the Year award ($500 and a plaque) pro­ Individual donations by Brothers via cash Finds, and shall find me, unafraid. vided the winner. Other participants will re­ and property gifts, wills and insurance pro­ It matters not how strait the gate, ceive plaques and $150 each. grams. How charged with punishments the scroll, Press releases and media coverage will Corporate support will be sought for im­ occur at each level of recognition. I am the master of my fate: plementation and continuation of social I am the captain of my soul. Employment opportunities.-The Frater­ action programs. In addition to gifts of nity and its subordinate Chapters will un­ money, support will include in-kind services WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903). dertake the task of assisting in the employ­ and use of company equipment and person­ With our collective will and inconquerable ment of Black Youth and young adults. It is nel. committment to better Educational oppor­ well recognized that many talented Blacks , Proposals will be developed which seek fi­ tunities for our black youth, I have shared are unable to attend College and must seek riancial support via grants and contracts with you one model that has the potential gainful employment; however, it is well from various federal and state agencies for for improving our present situation. Thank known that the unemployment rate is ex­ the implementation of eligible social action you.e tremely high among such persons and, as a thrusts which meet the missions of such probable consequence, the crime rate is also agencies. high. This thrust will employ the following Support will be sought from interested A TRIBUTE TO CHIEF WILLIAM strategies via Job Fairs: · Foundations for the youth development and T. "BILL" HOCKING ·Employers, with jobs, will receive invita­ educational efforts. tions to set up interview booths with compa­ ny displays at the Job Fair. Unemployed CONCLUSIONS persons will be sought and brought, by the ( 1) The establishment of an IRS tax HON. JAMES A. COURTER local Chapter, to the Job Fair for contracts exempt private education foundation can OF with potential employers. provide for tax deductible contributions for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Local civic and business leaders will serve use in distributing scholarship grants and/ as advisory and contact persons in order to or funding tutorial or remedial programs for Thursday, May 20, 1982 promote and gain credibility for the pro­ black students in higher educational set­ e Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, I gram. tings. The Alpha Phi Alpha Education would like to rise on this occasion to Potential employers will undertake sensi­ Foundation model can and should be repli­ say a few words of appreciation for a tivity awareness seminars in order to under­ cated. highly respected and greatly admired stand and empathize with the plight of un­ (2) The creation of an IRS tax exempt pri­ employed Black youth. vate foundation can be replicated to provide individual, Wharton Police Chief Wil­ Black youth will receive job counselling Inter-Greek organizational linkages to bene­ liam T. "Bill" Hocking: and information regarding training opportu­ fit black students by adoption under the On June 6, Bill Hocking's family, nities. auspices of the national Inter-Greek Coun­ friends, and colleagues will honor him Black History.-Alpha Phi Alpha Frater­ cil or other appropriate panhellenic umbrel­ with a dinner-dance celebrating his 25 nity should encourage Black youth to read la organization. years of dedication and fine work on about successes of Blacks not only during (3) The National Association for Equal the Wharton police force and in the Black History Month, but thorughout the Opportunity in Higher Education

89-059 0-85--40 (Pt. 8) 11046 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 20, 1982 own, are already reconciled to a temporary recent activities of the Congress-on voters next fall when the Speaker and the withdrawal of their ambassador from Wash­ some actions we have taken and on Chairman of the Ways and Means Commit­ ington and a "symbolic" downgrading of re­ some we have not. I am entering a por­ tee go forth to explain why it is that there lations with the US for a short time. In this tion of that editorial in today's CoN­ has finally been a complete breakdown in way, Deng-Xiaoping could give mainland the ability of the House to manage the na­ China the appearance of a more independ­ GRESSIONAL RECORD. I commend its wisdom to my colleagues. I hope that tion's finances. And the irony is that if the ent position, situated apart from both House were doing its most important job, its Washington and Moscow. all of us will find the time to read it That Peking has already decided upon a and take appropriate action and advice members wouldn't have to be dreaming up temporary but highly visible public rupture to heart. schemes to bail out savings and loans and with Washington can be detected from sev­ others who are in trouble because of federal [From the Wall Street Journal, May 13, irresponsibility.e eral policy pronouncements in recent 1982] months. Chinese officials spurned coopera­ tion with Washington's economic sanctions THE HOPELESS HOUSE in response to the Polish crisis of last De­ One thing you can say about the House of A TRIBUTE TO FOSTER A. DAY cember, actually increasing its level of trade Representatives, it sure is a busy place. Just with Poland by 30 percent after imposition in the last three days: of martial law. Peking has openly attacked An overwhelming majority of members US support for El Salvador, calling for a voted to spend $1 billion the government HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN "national liberation movement" to defeat doesn't have to give young folks a subsidy so OF CALIFORNIA superpower interference in that country. It they can afford to buy that dream house has warned the Reagan administration they've been thinking about; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Banking Committee approved an $8.5 against "providing assistance and making Thursday, May 20, 1982 loans, compromises or concessions," to its billion bill, put forward by Chairman St enemy in the south, Vietnam, in view of Germain of Rhode Island, to try to restore • Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. recent contacts between Washington and the relaxed life style savings and loan ex­ Speaker, I would like to take this op­ Hanoi. ecutives once enjoyed. All that money, also After a hiatus of several years, Peking re­ wafted out of thin air, would go for "net portunity to hail the lifetime work of sumed demands that the U.S. withdraw its worth guarantees," an instrument the sickly Foster A. Day who has selflessly con­ armed froces from South Korea which it institutions could put on their balance tributed to improving the community claims "impede the relaxation of tension in sheets as assets ~uced a bill to bring back the energy For nearly 40 years, Mr. Day has term "hegemonists" to the U.S. A recent as­ cnsis. Congress has been pining for the good been actively involved in community sertion by one senior U.S. official that old days of the 1970s when all the govern­ organizations including the Rotary "when it comes down to it, we don't have ment's mistakes could be blamed on the oil companies. This bill would put a big new tax Club of Redondo Beach, the B.P.O.E. any contradictions [with Peking] except Redondo Beach Lodge, the Redondo Taiwan" seems naive and misleading in the on crude oil production, at a time when in­ current context. dustry profits are falling, thus discouraging Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Re­ Should Peking carry out its plans to tem­ oil output and giving us a chance to have dondo Beach Round Table, the Harbor porarily downgrade political relations with gasoline lines again in a few years. Congress Review Board, the YMCA Board, and Washington, it nevertheless will not allow would then be able to re-engage itself in the Salvation Army Board. Foster Day this move to damage more substantive com­ crisis ma?agement, meddling in the energy, automobile, housing and other businesses. has been a leader in all of these orga­ mercial and cultural ties or the fundamen­ nizations, taking the initiative in plan­ tal strategic relationship it now enjoys with The only thing neglected amid all this ac­ the U.S.-all of which benefit China so tivity is the thing the Founding Fathers ning projects such as the Harbor area much. Therefnre, it would be a serious mis­ once fondly hoped the House would take in Redondo Beach. take indeed for American diplomats to make the primary responsibility for, seeing to it Mr. Day has also devoted many major concessions now in a futile effort to that the government was prudently manag­ ing its finances. Tip O'Neill, who theoreti­ hours toward improving Redondo reverse Peking's preordained decision on a Beach's school system. He was elected largely cosmetic, diplomatic maneuver. cally presides over the present maelstrom of The U.S. Congress devoted a great deal of irresponsibility, is mainly interested in to the Redondo Elementary School conscientious bipartisan effort to the care­ making the people pay for electing Ronald Board, served twice as its president, ful drafting of the Taiwan Relations Act in Reagan in 1980. Hence, he has devoted his and then was appointed to the El 1979. It is all the more important now to energies to once more baiting the Social Se­ curity trap, which he sprang on the Presi­ Camino College Board, where he also ensure that those thoughtful commitments served as president. During his tenure are not slowly undone by diplomatic maneu­ dent so successfully last year.... vers carried on outside the realm of public The upshot is that Congress probably in the school system, between 1945 scrutiny. Any binding limitations on the won't even take the first, relatively simple, and 1957, Mr. Day's leadership abili­ level or time frame of future U.S. arms sales step ~f the budget process on time this year, ties resulted in successful and well-co­ are premature and should be subject to con­ that Is to say passing the first joint budget resolution that is due next Saturday. Mr. ordinated expansion of educational fa­ gressional hearings and amendment of the cilities to meet growing population de­ Taiwan Relations Act. O'N~ill is carrying an outrageous budget, in­ volvmg enormous tax increases around in mands. his hip pocket. Phil Gramm and'Jack Kemp Mr. Speaker, Foster A. Day is one of THE HOPELESS HOUSE have their own proposals but there is very those rare individuals in our society little incentive this year to put up a first resolution budget and have it blown to bits who take it upon themselves to im­ in the appropriations process in the fall. prove the lives of others around them. HON. DOUGLAS K. BEREUTER The result is stalemate, with the House I want to commend his efforts to you OF NEBRASKA leadership laying back and trying to force and our colleagues, in the hope that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Republicans and conservative Demo­ the accomplishments of such a unique Thursday, May 20, 1982 crats to take the responsibility and the po­ litical heat for the spending cuts that will community leader will be appreciated e Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, the be necessary if the budget is to be brought by others and emulated by all.e Wall Street Journal, in an editorial under control. It's a cute game but we published on May 13, reflected on wonder how it will really play with the May 20, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11047 HIGHER EDUCATION AMONG Seventy-four per cent of the nurses who More people are signing up at the college NATIVE AMERICANS graduated from OSCC have passed the state now than in the past. Enrollment this boards. spring reached 670, a big jump from the 348 The school's adult education program has who registered for classes in the fall of '72. HON. THOMAS A. DASCHLE trained 756 people for their high school One interesting fact emerged from the equivalency degrees, as well as the 163 grad­ survey: 85 percent of the OSCC graduates OF SOUTH DAKOTA uates with A.A. degrees. are women. Only 15 percent are men. "The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Officials say they are pleased to see that women are more aggressive. They're really Thursday, May 20, 1982 one of their goals for the college has been out there pushing for what they want," Cor­ achieved: manpower coming out with the delia observed. "I notice, in my own classes, e Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. Speaker, it is school's A.A. (associate of arts) degree is that the men will be going along fine, then with enthusiasm that I, along with going back to work for the community. The they drop out for a semester. They're not as Congressman PAUL SIMON and other college is producing directors of local pro­ steady." colleagues, introduce the reauthoriza­ grams, government representatives, nurses "I think they're too used to being forced for the local hospital, and teachers for the to go to classes in high school. They find it tion of the Tribally Controlled Com­ local schools. munity Colleges Assistance Act. This hard to make themselves do it on their own. bill has greatly enhanced higher edu­ SELF-DETERMINATION They're just too used to being told what to cation among native Americans and "There's been a big push for self-determi­ do," she said. nation and local control," comments OSCC Montileaux, who is trained to observe has, as its title suggests, been written graduate, Francis Montileaux, "but we need people in his field, psychiatric social work, with much guidance by tribally con­ Indian people with credentials. Until we get offered his own theory on the high number trolled community colleges. them, programs will select non-Indians who of women in college: "I think Indian women Indian people are at the low end of are qualified." The director of Human Serv­ are more responsible, more concerned about the economic ladder in this country­ ices at the Public Health Hospital says the future of their children. The male chil­ they have a poverty rate 300-percent that's why education and credentials are so dren are favored, even catered to, and are greater than the national average, the important. not given many responsibilities. Montileaux was in the first graduating "So the women-in all Native American highest unemployment rate, and the class from OSCC, in the spring of 1974. worst health conditions in the Nation. groups, not just Sioux-mature emotionally That first degree propelled him forward, way before the men. They're more motivat­ The investment we make in Indian and he went on to get his B.A. from Cha­ ed." He said he'd seen the same thing in education is one of the best things we dron State, and then his master's degree graduate school: there would be eight as a Congress can do. The modest from the University of Utah. women in a class to every man. "It's unbe­ amount of money we expend is paid "I really believe I would never have gone lievable, but it's true," he said. further than high school if the college back over and over again, both in mon­ hadn't been here," he said. "I didn't have One hundred and thirty nine women have etary and nonmonetary terms. The the ambition, then, to leave the reserva­ graduated from the school since '74. In the costs of a lack of education to individ­ tion-and junior colleges, across the coun­ same seven-year period, 24 men graduated. uals and society as a whole by any try, are very expensive. It's been a real ad­ The overwhelming majority of graduates measure-economic, social, spiritual­ vantage for us to have a local college, right are Indian (89 percent). But there have are much more than the investment here, where people can get to it." been some white students <18, or 11 per­ we make to insure an educated popu­ "It was sort of a catalyst in my life," he cent)-even some from off the reservation. said. Montileaux, who is the only Lakota on Maxine Watson is one of them. Maxine is lace. the reservation with a master's degree in from Rushville, and is now director of nurs­ I would like to submit for inclusion health, became director of Human Services ing at the Parkview Lodge Nursing Home in in the RECORD an article from the at the hospital last month. He had been Rushville. Lakota Times regarding the success of chosen as acting director last year, after "I didn't have to give up being with my one tribally controlled community col­ heading the BIA Social Services program. family to go to college," she said. "OSCC lege, the Oglala Sioux Community Did he think he'd be in the position he is provided a place for a lot of men and women College located on the Pine Ridge now if he had not gone to OSCC and pur­ to go to school who wouldn't have gone, Indian Reservation. I urge my col­ sued higher education. "I doubt it serious­ otherwise." ly," he said. Maxine said she was one of only two white leagues to read this success story and Cordelia Attack Him also talked about the students in her class, but she was never to support the Tribally Controlled benefits she received from her two years at made to feel uncomfortable by the Indian Community Colleges Assistance Act. OSCC. She graduated from the college in students. "We got along fine," she said, OGLALA SIOUX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: 1978, after being married and raising a looking back. WORKING OR NoT? fainily. Cordelia, who now teaches Lakota Several graduates said they thought the both at the National the words of Dr. Allan Bromley, the It is for this reason that I ask for Institutes of Health and point to their former president of the American As­ your continued support to maintain effectiveness in the development of sociation for the Advancement of Sci­ the life and vitality of these two very scientific expertise in students of mi- ence, who in a presentation at the Jan- significant programs, MARC and 11050 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 20, 1982 MBRS at the National Institutes of The need to do so is apparent; the an­ Some concern has been expressed­ Health.e ticipated effect persuasive. Each $1 by me and by other members of the billion of exports, for instance, sup­ Banking Committee-as to the amount ports 32,000 American jobs. One of NL'S SAYREVILLE, N.J., PLANT of risk that a bank participating in an every three jobs in agriculture-and ETC should be allowed to take. The RECEIVES NATION'S HIGHEST one of each eight jobs in manufactur­ ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD concern is well advised. The soundness ing-is related to exports. of our banking community is essential The United States used to be the to a healthy economy. I am convinced, HON.BERNARDJ.DWYER marvel of the industrial world in its however, that while this bill will allow ability to trade overseas to its advan­ enough bank participation to make OF NEW .JERSEY tage. Throughout the entire 20th cen­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ETC's profitable, it provides adequate tury-up until 1971-we enjoyed a safeguards against excessive risks to Thursday, May 20, 1982 trade surplus. Since 1971, however, we have been in surplus only 2 years. the participating banks. Their invest­ e Mr. DWYER. Mr. Speaker, the Na­ Moreover, the annual trade deficits ment in ETC's would be limited to 5 tion's highest award for air pollution have become large. Over the last 3 percent, and Bank Holding Companies control has been earned by a pioneer­ years, in fact, the annual deficits have would be subjected to the lending ing industry in the 15th Congressional been $34 billion, $30 billion, and $28 limits between a parent and its affili­ District-NL Industries, Inc., of Sayre­ billion, respectively. In the first quar­ ate, as specified in the Federal Reserve ville, N.J. ter of 1982, we had a deficit of $5.9 bil­ Act. In short, this bill would induce This titanium pigment plant has lion in the merchandise trade balance. banks to invest in ETC's, while guard­ been given the 1982 National Environ­ While this was better than the $9.1 ing against undue risk to our banking mental Industry Award for Excellence billion deficit of the preceding quarter, system. in Air Pollution Control, awarded most of the improvement was due to While there is much bipartisan sup­ jointly by the White House Council on 311 8-percent decline in imports; ex­ port for ETC's, several provisions of Environmental Quality and the Envi­ ports rose only 3 percent. H.R. 6061 are still subject to debate. ronmental Industry Council. Mr. Speaker, without a concentrated We can all be proud of the advance­ Concern has been expressed that effort to drum up trade in foreign H.R. 6061 would exclude small andre­ ments made toward curbing air pollu­ markets, the prognosis for American tion but none of us more so than gional banks from participating in foreign trade is not particularly en­ ETC's. To alleviate this, there has tho;e innovators and achievers like NL couraging. Many predictions indicate Industries whose efforts make it all been proposed an amendment which that there will be slow growth in the would allow banks with less that $300 possible. world economy during the next 10 NL Industries has achieved a 99.6- million in assets to establish export years. International competition will subsidiary corporations. percent reduction in atmospheric increase. I would surmise that it also emissions through a new liquid phase will become more intense; that other Other aspects of the bill still being digestion based in moan about with such passion. It was $100 billion is earmarked for nuclear weap­ Pontiac, Mich., filed for bankruptcy in Feb­ ons. When one considers that $500 billion ruary. the experts who developed the entire equals the entire annual income of the An independent practice association with concept of strategic counterforce, poorer half of the earth's 4 billion people, 18,000 members, the plan had $5.6 million in probably the most likely cause of nu­ one begins to grasp the magnitude of that debts. Approximately $3.5 million was owed clear war in the world today. It was expenditure. Meanwhile, we are cutting pro­ to physicians, numbering 900, who had con­ the experts who supported the Presi­ grams that benefit the elderly, the handi­ tracts with the HMO. dential candidate who now brings us capped and the poor. More cheery news: The organization went out of business less closer to war by refusing to ratify Our Secretary of the Treasury Donald than two years after it opened and only two Regan says, "Our economy is dead in the months after Blue Cross Blue Shield of SALT II. It was an expert in this ad­ ministration who said we will all make water." Michigan made a rescue attempt by assum­ The standard reference is the Hiroshima ing the administration of the plan. it through a nuclear war if there are bomb. It destroyed the city with the equiva­ Before Blue Cross Blue Shield, the HMO enough shovels to go around. It is the lent of 12,500 tons of TNT. The newest nuclear bomb is not meas­ serious efforts to encouraging Soviet ured in kilotons, but megatons. The yield ANN LANDERS ON NUCLEAR aggression by proclaiming imagined would be equivalent to approximately 12 and nonexistent U.S. military weak­ million one-ton trucks filled with TNT. WAR ness. It is the experts who are prepar­ The Poseidon submarine carries 16 mis­ ing to take us a giant step closer to the siles, each with 10 warheads. Each warhead brink by giving us silo-killing SLBM's has three times the explosive force of that HON.THO~J.DOWNEY single bomb dropped on Hiroshima. We can OF NEW YORK to which they may in time add de­ already kill every Russian seven times. Now pressed trajectories and space weap­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES we are trying to build our anns supply so we ons-if there is anyone left to build can kill each Russian 14 times. The United Thursday, May 20, 1982 anything by then. States and other major powers are spending e Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. Speaker, yester­ So, yes, Ann Landers misstates the themselves broke on a war we dare not let day the columnist Ann Landers wrote yield on the new nuclear warheads, happen. a response to a concerned reader, in and she oversimplifies counterpopula­ Jonathan Schnell wrote in The New tion effects to the point of misstate­ Yorker, "The machinery of destruction is in which she urged everyone to write to place, poised on a hair-trigger, waiting for President Reagan urging that we re­ ment. No matter. Her counsel is more the button to be pushed by some misguided verse our present lemming-like rush to fundamentally sound than that of the or deranged human, or for some faulty com­ the brink of nuclear annihilation, and experts who have brought the proba­ puter chip to send out the instructions to that we stop wrecking our economy in bility of nuclear war to its present fire." the service of that enterprise. She con­ dismal state. I implore every person to sign his or her cluded: "Do it today. Nothing on your [From the Washington Post, May 17, 1982] name across this column and mail it to calendar can be more important." ANN LANDERS President Ronald Reagan, the White House, Washington, D.C. An overwhelming re­ Well, it may be I disagree with Ms. Dear Ann Landers: Can you stand another letter about the sponse might prevent a nuclear holocaust Landers a little bit. For anyone con­ that would mean the end of all life on this cerned about nuclear war, the most woman who didn't know whether to leave planet. Do it TODAY. Nothing on your cal­ important date on your calendar is not her gold crowns to relatives when she dies, endar can be more important.e the day you write the President. It is for fear she might need them when she re­ turns to life for the resurrection? the day in November 1984, when you If the two strongest nations in the world, pick the next President and the Con­ the United States and Russia, don't agree to RESOURCES URGENTLY NEEDED gress that will serve with him. And the put a freeze on nuclear weapons she won't FOR DRUG AGENCIES second most important day is in No­ have to worry about her teeth or anything vember of this year, when you decide else because they will be vaporized in a who will be in Congress to make the matter of minutes-along with millions of HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN people. decisions on war and peace over the OF NEW YORK Talk about a limited nuclear war and next 2 years. What you do on those 2 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES days, and on the days leading up to plans for civilian defense are insane. It would be impossible to evacuate the cities. Thursday, May 20, 1982 them, may well determine whether Where would people go? What would they you and I and our families live or die. eat? What would they drink? Who would • Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, one Setting this aside, her column was take care of them? The physicians and hos­ major issue that has not received magnificent, and I am going to insert pitals would be blown to smithereens. enough attention during the battle it in the REcoRD at the conclusion of You are more than an advice-to-the-love­ over the budget is the urgency for my remarks. I recognize that by doing lorn columnist, Ann Landers. You mold funding our Nation's war on drug traf­ public opinion. People believe in you. For so I will provoke a certain number of the love of mankind and its survival, please fickers and drug abuse. This issue letters and phone calls to my office, address yourself to this issue.-Terrified in must be elevated to a top priority making disparaging reference to allow­ D.C. within the Oval Office and the Con­ ing nuclear policy to be set by an Dear Terrified: gress and we must address the need to advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist. So Thank you for writing about a subject provide sufficient funds to combat our this is what I have to say about that: that is plaguing us all. Nation's drug problems. 11056 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 20, 1982 At a time when drug law enforce­ tons of hashish, and when between 40 Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Ad­ ment officials throughout the world to 48 metric tons of cocaine and be­ ministration, appeared before our Nar­ are reporting massive seizures of tween 9,500 and 14,000 metric tons of cotics Select Committee, of which I heroin, cocaine, marihuana, quaaludes, marihuana were imported annually am a member, and stated: and other dangerous drugs by the into the United States, the administra­ NIDA will continue to disseminate public planeload and the boatload, this ad­ tion has been cutting back on alloca­ information and sponsor programs of active ministration has yet to fully commit tions of equipment, personnel, and re­ discouragement of drug misuse and abuse, itself to combating the drug problem. sources for our various drug agencies. following hard on the heels of a nationwide Our Nation cannot rely, as some con­ During the first 6 months of fiscal media campaign involving many, many vol­ tend, primarily on volunteers to year 1982, our drug law enforcement untary community groups throughout the reduce the supply and demand for agencies seized more than 207 pounds Nation. drugs. A Federal drug strategy will not of heroin with a street value exceeding Mr. Speaker, how will NIDA fulfill succeed if it focuses primarily on drug $131 million, compared to the 269 this function when the production of prevention, at the expense of the pounds of herion valued at more than NIDA brochures and research mono­ other three critical drug supply and $166 million during the entire fiscal graphs have already been severely cur­ reduction foundation blocs: Law en­ year 1980. More cocaine was seized by tailed? forcement, drug treatment and reha­ our law enforcement agencies during Dr. Mayer further states: bilitation. the first half of fiscal year 1982 than We will be launching a nationwide media Furthermore, a national drug strate­ for the entire 12 months of either campaign directly, explicitly, no holds gy will fail if it focuses primary atten­ fiscal year 1980 or fiscal 1981. Over barred, directed toward the use of pot and tion upon a single drug of abuse, such 5,500 pounds of cocaine were seized in directed at the youngsters. . . . as marihuana, while failing to recog­ fiscal year 1982, compared to the more Six months later, I am at a loss to nize that many of our citizens are than 4,700 pounds of cocaine seized in see this nationwide drug media cam­ polydrug abusers. fiscal year 1981. The 56,691 pounds of paign, let alone one that is narrowly A drug strategy will fail if it singles hashish seized by our law enforcement directed at a single drug, marihuana, out one age group of drug abusers, agencies during the first half of fiscal and targeted to a single group of drug such as youngsters, while failing to year 1982 far exceeds the combined abusers, youngsters. Where is this recognize that drug abuse adversely seizures of 32,666 pounds of hashish mass media drug campaign that was to affects the health of all our citizens: for fiscal year 1981 and 1982. During be viewed on our television sets, aired The young and the elderly, the rich fiscal year 1981, law enforcement on our radios and advertised in news­ and the poor, individuals from all sec­ agencies seized more than 5.1 million papers, magazines, and other periodi­ tors of society. pounds of marihuana with a street cals? Where is our comprehensive, co­ A national drug strategy will fail if value of $3.1 billion, compared to the ordinated Federal drug strategy? we do not intensify our efforts to raise nearly 2.4 million pounds of marihua­ As a member of the Narcotics Select the consciousness of the public regard­ na seized for fiscal year 1980. Further­ Committee and the Foreign Affairs ing the dangers of drug abuse and if more, intelligence reports predict that Committee that held separate hear­ we do not back up our well-intentioned 8,800 pounds of heroin, nearly 92,000 ings on different aspects of the drug words with an intensified commitment pounds of cocaine approximately 28.6 problem, I can assure my colleagues to wage war on the drug problem by million pounds of marihuana will be that drug trafficking and drug abuse providing the funds needed for effec­ smuggled into the United States both in this Nation and abroad is not tive law enforcement and to meet the during 1982. Against that background, getting any better; rather, the situa­ needs of our drug demand reduction the U.S. Customs Service will be cut tion is getting worse for every region agencies. from a force of 15,065 to a proposed of the world, and the problem is not A strategy built upon the well-inten­ force of 12,120 for fiscal year 1983, and going to go away today or tomorrow. tioned efforts of volunteers to prevent the Coast Guard's budget will be re­ Fighting drug abuse is a never-ending drug abuse, while cutting back on ur­ duced by more than half a billion dol­ battle. It is a cancer eroding our socie­ gently needed equipment and profes­ lars: From $2.512 million for 1982 to a ty, contributing to a massive under­ sional personnel in the areas of law proposed $1.998 million for 1983. ground economy, corrupting. public of­ enforcement, prevention, treatment, At a time when increased numbers ficials, and causing suffering to citi­ and rehabilitation is a strategy built of our citizens are succumbing to drug zens from every sector of society. An upon sand. overdose and are being reported to endless wave of illicit drugs is inundat­ After 16 months in office, this ad­ hospital emergency rooms, the Nation­ ing our shores. ministration still does not have a com­ al Institute on Drug Abuse plug a major hole through which so H.R. 5922, the Urgent Supplemental My trip to Rome, Egypt and Israel was much illicit drugs reach our shores. Appropriations Act of 1982, providing something that I will never forget. The task force plays an important role a supplemental authorization of $48 The first day upon landing in Rome we in our efforts to combat drug traffick­ million for the Coast Guard. But went by bus to Vatican City, a city-state ing. Unfortunately, vital resources are much more resources are needed if our within the city of Rome. We saw the Pope being diverted to that area, leaving drug agencies are going to be capable in a general audience and then had a tour other regions exposed to the shifting by bus of Rome where we saw the Colosse­ of effectively waging war on drug um, the Arc of Constantine and a number of trafficking patterns of the highly or­ abuse. churches. We left Rome by plane and ar­ ganized and well-financed drug traf­ Mr. Speaker, as we debate our rived in Cairo Wednesday evening. fickers. The drug task force should be budget priorities, I urge my colleagues We were bussed from the airport to the El an ongoing operation not only in Flori­ to consider supporting increased fund­ Nasr school where Egyptian families were da but throughout our country and ing for our drug agencies, and I urge waiting to take each one of us to their they should be backed up with suffi­ the administration to elevate the drug homes. The boy I stayed with was named cient equipment and personnel to per­ problem to the highest level of nation­ Amr Reda. I had supper and slept with Amr form their mission. al priorities.e everyday I was there. Each morning his But rather than adopt a "borrow­ mom or dad took us to the school where we from-Peter-to-pay-Paul" drug strategy, all met and had a tour of different, interest­ OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF ing sites. our drug policymakers and budgeteers The first day we visited a Mosque, this is must recognize that drug trafficking ADDISON, ILL., VISITS ROME, EGYPT, AND ISRAEL an Islamic church and you have to take off and drug abuse constitutes a clear and your shoes before entering. We also saw the present danger to our society and to oldest Jewish Synagogue in Cairo and a the international community requiring HON. HENRY J. HYDE Coptic Christian church. adequate equipment, personnel, and The second day we had a free morning. I resources to contain an estimated $90 OF ILLINOIS played with Amr and some of his friends. billion illicit activity that undermines IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We had a game of soccer. We went to lunch Thursday, May 20, 1982 at the Sheraton Hotel and did some swim­ the political, economic, and social ming there. foundations of our society. Against • Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, March 16, On Saturday, we visited the Egyptian this illicit drug activity, it is estimated 1982, was a historic day for 24 elemen­ museum where we saw the King Tut exhibit that the administration proposes to tary school-age students from Oak El­ with the six tombs, his jewels and the small spend far less than the estimated $900 ementary in Addison, Ill., as they em­ gold mummies where his organs are kept. million that was spent by previous ad­ barked on a 10-day visit to Rome, We did not see the mummy of King Tut ministrations to control drug traffick­ Egypt, and Israel. Their trip was the since it is kept in the museum in Luxor, a ing, to prevent drug abuse, and to first ever student exchange program city in upper Egypt and we did not go there. treat and rehabilitate individuals vic­ at the elementary school-age level. We were also a guest of the El Ahram timized by drugs. The idea began in the summer of Newspaper, the largest publication in Cairo, Mr. Speaker, it is pathetic that the 1980 when Dr. John Czech, principal with a tour of the building. On Saturday afternoon, we left for Alex­ south Florida task force must draw of Oak Elementary School, concerned andria by bus and saw the countryside, upon at least five major Coast Guard about the fate of the American hos­ passed some small villages and larger cities. vessels from the Northeast, New York, tages in Iran, proposed the student ex­ Alexandria is a port city on the Mediterra­ mid-Atlantic regions, thereby reducing change program as a means of improv- nean Sea. We visited a Roman museum, had 11058 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 20, 1982 lunch on the grounds of King Faruk estates of Constantine and an Italian pyramid. I es­ was back with the people I knew. We re­ and swam in the Mediterranean Sea. pecially liked the Vatican and St. Peters turned to Cairo very late. On Monday, we went to see the pyramids square, because my teacher who has been to The following day was my favorite. We and the sphinx and in the evening, we saw Italy had shown my class pictures of it. went to Giza. Giza is the place where the the Sound and Light program. The pyra­ We then went to Cairo Egypt. It was first 3 pyramids and the first sphinx was mids and the sphinx are lighted up and the about 9:30 p.m. when we arrived so we built. We spent most of the day in Giza. It history is explained. It is hard to believe couldn't really see anything that night, but was surprising when you first see the pyra­ that the pyramids were built 4500 years ago we did see the El Nasr School. The school mids because we had been passing areas of without the help of machinery. was very big. It taught from 1st grade to trees and plants and all of a sudden every­ On Tuesday after meeting at the school, high school. That night at the school all we thing was desert with pyramids sticking out we left for the Suez Canal, a canal cut in did was meet our Egyptian families. of it. 1869 between Africa and Asia to connect the On my first night sleeping in the Egyptian At lunchtime we went to a hotel in Giza. Red Sea with the Mediterranean. This canal home, I was very nervous. I started crying We met the manager of the hotel. It was a is navigated by large ships and submarines because I was nervous and scared. It was very big and nice hotel. We had a few hours and 109 nations have the right to use it. pretty scary being with a family you know to wait so we went to a bazaar. The bazaar Wednesday morning, we went shopping at nothing about. Also the people in Egypt was different than American stores. At the the Khan El Khalili Bazar in Cairo, a very honk their car horns alot all night long, so bazaar anything you want to buy you can crowded place with stores on both sides_of while your sleeping with the windows open try to get the price down. We all learned to very narrow streets. The interesting thing it is hard to sleep with all the racket going do this very quickly. · about this place was the way you could talk on. It was pretty lonely because all the After shopping we returned to the pyra­ down the prices. If what you wanted cost people I knew were somewhere else. I was mids for the sound and light show. The ten pounds, you could offer four pounds and up crying for a while, but the Egyptian show has lights set up at different points probably settle at six pounds. In the evening mother stayed up with me. She also made shining on the pyramids and sphinx. They we met with the Minister of Education. me hot chocolate. She was very nice. make it sound like the sphinx is talking to Thursday we stayed at the El Nasr school The next day we all met at the school at you. It was really nice. It was told in English and had a game of soccer. Americans about 8:30 a.m. Egypt time which was 12:30 which surprised me. Later I found out it is against Egyptians and lost 8-0. In the a.m. American time. We would always meet told in a different language each night, and evening we had a farewell party and now it in the morning to go on our daily sightsee­ that night was in English for us. was time to leave our new friends. I shall ing. We would go on little buses with our The next day we went to the Suez Canal. never forget the warm and friendly people, Egyptian kids. There were two buses. The Suez Canal is the biggest Canal in the interesting sights we saw. the different On the first day we saw a Jewish Syna­ Egypt. We were able to take a boat ride food we had and the sunny Cairo weather. Friday morning we left the Cario Airport gogue, a Mosque, and an Islamic Church. through a small part of the canal. We then for our way to Israel. We landed at the Ben­ We saw alot of Cairo. It was very crowded went to a beach park along the canal. I saw Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and were bussed and everybody had a horn and they use it a few submarines. I don't know what coun­ to Jerusalem. The countryside was very constantly. try they were from. We couldn't go swim­ beautiful and Jerusalem is built in a bowl­ That night I was able to catch up with my ming but some kids rolled up their pants like surrounding on small hills. We had a sleep because the next morning we had free. and walked around in the water. We ate at a nice tour of the city by bus and stopped at I woke up at 10:30. After I was dressed and nearby club and returned to our homes. different. interesting sites. Just before had eaten, my Egyptian friend, Walleed, The next day was our shopping day. We supper, I got my little finger cut in a door and I went to the biggest club in Egypt. At went to Khan El Khalili which is a big and had to go to the hospital. We then went the club we met a few other kids who were bazaar. I bought a lot of stuff, but mainly to the Youth Hostel. on the trip. At the club there was every­ plates. I got my mom a big platter. One On Saturday morning, we left for Old City thing. There was two pools, soccer fields, place wanted 10 pounds for one mahogany and had a full day of walking. We visited basketball courts, and tennis courts. That plate. I asked for 5 pounds but the man said churches, the western wall, Temple Mount, afternoon we had lunch at the Sheraton no, so I settled on 8 pounds. Mosques, the way of the cross that Jesus Hotel and went swimming. That night we met the Minister of Educa­ took, it was like living 2000 years ago. In the The next day we went to the Cairo tion. He was in a big conference room. evening, we went to a Folklore Performance. Museum and saw the King Tut Exhibit. I There were reporters and TV men. After he On Sunday, we met with Mr. Zilka, the ad­ really liked seeing the exhibit because I talked with us a few kids were interviewed. I visor to the mayor of Jerusalem, he gave us missed it when it was in Chicago. After that was pretty nervous being with a top official. a brief history of the city and also a flag of we went to the El Ahram newspaper, which A gift was given to each of us. It was a key the city to bring to our schools. We then vis­ is the biggest paper in Egypt. We saw the chain, a passport folder, and some kids got ited a school and met with the students. We printers. I thought it was very un-modern, Nefertitis and got sphinxes, made out of exchanged addresses and will write to each but they are d~veloping ultra-violet print­ this marble like rock which is very common other. After lunch, we went to a Kibbuts, ing. They put an article about us in the in Cairo. I got a sphinx. this is like a little village where some 60 paper. We also had lunch at the paper. It The following day we met at the school at families live and work together and do not was very good. I met one person working 1:00 PM, to play the Egyptian kids a game get paid, everything is shared alike. We there, who I think put my name in the of soccer. Soccer is the official game of then went to Bethlehem and saw the place paper. Egypt. They always play soccer. We played where Jesus was born. In the evening, some We went back to our Egyptian homes them and we didn't do too bad. We only lost of the children from the school came to the early to get to sleep because the next day 8 to 0. Hostel and we had a party. would be very busy. Later that day my Egyptian family and I Monday morning we returned to Tel Aviv We met at the school at 7:30AM because went to the Concorde Hotel for a farewell and started our trip back home. We arrived we were going to Alexandria, and it was a 4 party. Dr. Czech talked with most of the at O'Hare Airport at 3:30 and were greeted hour drive. Most of us stayed up but a few Egyptian parents at the party. After the by our families and friends. slept. Only 6 Egyptian kids went with us. party John Pebler and I went to the club This was an experience I shall never We went into a hotel where we were to stay with our Egyptian kids. Joe my Egyptian forget. We made new friends, saw many in­ overnight. John Pebler and I were room­ friends cousin, who was born in America, teresting sights and I now can appreciate mates in the hotel. Once I got to my room I went along. We played soccer before return­ the way of life we have in the United States. changed clothes and went down to the lobby ing home. to eat. Then we went back to our rooms and I had to wake up at 3:00 AM the following A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME got ready to go to sleep. We had phones in morning because our plane left at 7:00 AM.

More than 100 of her friends will toast her ment at adequate levels. GAO indicates that 1 1 tonight at Tardi's. Joan Pipolo doesn't just State and local capital assets are deteriorat­ 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 talk about the old neighborhood, she lives ing despite the fact that most State and National defense: in it. Thanks to Joan, the neighborhood is local governments operate under capital Construction and changing-for the better.e budgets. rehabilitation of physical assets 2.3 2.3 2.6 2.8 3.6 4.5 At the Federal level, a capital budget Acquisition of major would create additional complications in the equipment and other CAPITAL BUDGET RESPONSE budget but would not likely lead to better physical assets .. ... 20.1 26.8 30.3 36.9 43.2 57.2 Conduct of research allocation of budget resources. This conclu­ and development...... 12.1 12.1 14.6 16.9 20.4 24.5 sion is suppor1ied by data showing Federal Other ...... 5 .4 .3 .2 .I .3 HON. BOB EDGAR investment-type spending (physical and fi­ OF PENNSYLVANIA nancial investments and investments in Subtotal .... 35.1 41.6 47.8 56.8 67.2 86.4 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES human capital-both for research and devel­ Grants-in-aid ot State and opment and for education and training) for local governments: Thursday, May 20, 1982 Construction and the past several years and as projected in rehabilitation of e Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, in the in­ the President's 1983 Budget. These data are physical assets ...... 18.0 19.8 22.2 21.8 21.2 19.1 shown in the enclosed table, and in a com­ Conduct of education terest of keeping the House informed 9.5 16.0 15.5 14.4 10.9 7.5 on the issue of public infrastructure parsion of the basic trends relative to the Oth~~~ ..t~a · i·n~ .~~. ::::::::::::::: .7 .6 .7 .8 .7 .6 total economy said by less than the CPI, 5 per­ issue has been taken out of the budget ployee productivity by providing per­ cent <7 percent) said by more than the debate. sonal, health, financial and job coun­ CPI, and 40 percent (27 percent) said I, like many others in this body, was seling, flexible work hours, education­ by about the same amount. gravely concerned over the wild and ir­ al and transportation assistance, and Further, the public misinterprets responsible statements about social se­ the like. As a result, employee turnov­ discussions about COLA reductions to curity that reverberated throughout er is well below the industry average, mean reductions in the dollar amount the media. Grandstanding and cheap and the company saves $10 million a of social security checks or in the shots are easy. Finding workable and year in reduced medical costs, in­ number of persons receiving benefits. equitable solutions to the financial creased efficiency, and other econo­ Seventeen percent of all respondents problems besetting the system require mies. 11074 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 20, 1982 Control Data believes that job secu­ proven to be a valuable tool in slashing a different field and the company ombuds­ rity will be the big issue in the 1980's, turnover, according to Reed. At one plant, man, who will be a nonvoting member. Reed and is looking for ways to insure job the turnover rate fell from 30 percent to 3 says the system is expected to speed up the percent just two years after it was intro­ time it takes to resolve disputes and also security during hard times. I agree duced. assure that "the employee point of view is that job security will be a major issue The success of Fair Break convinced man­ given every reasonable chance to be heard." in the 1980's, and a bill I have intro­ agement that the productivity of all em­ Looking ahead, Control Data believes that duced, the Productivity Incentive ployees could be enhanced through various job security will become a major issue in the Act-H.R. 5682-would give the com­ programs addressing their personal prob­ 1980s, and Deputy Chairman Norbert R. pany a way to adjust its total labor lems. One of the first and most important Berg and other executives are currently costs without laying off workers. was the Employee Advisory Resource, or studying ways in which the company can Under my bill, a portion of the em­ EAR, hot-line service set up in 1974. Staffed provide better job security to employees by 26 full and part-time counselors, EAR is during economic downturns. ployee's pay would be received as a used by around 15,000 employees and family This ongoing approach, Control Data bonus, which would be based on the members a year, Reed estimates. Approxi­ management believes, is the key to any suc­ annual profits or growth in productivi­ mately 55 percent of the calls deal with per­ cessful productivity-boosting program. "In ty, or both, depending on agreement sonal problems, he says, the rest with job­ order to achieve sustainable productivity in­ between the employees and employer. related ones. Contact between employee and creases," says Roger G. Wheeler, vice presi­ The full text of the article follows counselor is strictly confidential, and em­ dent of the human relations department, these remarks. ployees need not identify themselves. "companies must formulate long-term stra­ [From Dun's Business Month, May 1982] EAR not only assists employees, but helps tegic plans in the human relations area alert the company to trouble spots. For in­ much as they do in the financial or market­ CREATING A CLIMATE FOR PRODUCTIVITY stance, an increase in the number of calls ing areas."e from a particular plant often indicates some To boost productivity, Control Data Corp. problem at that plant. "People call with has put together a multifaceted program marital or health problems, and if there are COOLING INFLATION aimed at meeting employee needs. It reports an inordinate number from any one loca­ considerable success. Since "productivity" tion, that's a signal to us that something-it became an industry buzzword in the late could be the plant manager-is wrong," HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. Reed says. 1970s, U.S. companies have experimented OF KENTUCKY with all kinds of techniques to increase the Control Data's health program, called efficiency of workers. Most of these produc­ StayWell, includes fitness courses and pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tivity-boosting ideas, though, attempt to grams to help employees manage stress, Thursday, May 20, 1982 mold workers into pre-structured programs stop smoking, lose weight and the like. In based on company needs. Control Data addition, group activities such as jogging, e Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, Corp., the Minneapolis computer company, exercise, aerobics, and softball are coordi­ Donna Bishop, a student at Morgan­ has taken a very different tack-and reports nated through the "health managers" at field Elementary School in Morgan­ considerable success. various company locations. "People from field, Ky., has written me a well Believing that the responsibility for im­ different departments and facilities have thought-out letter on the problem of proving productivity lies with management, been able to meet each other through these inflation and how to deal with it. I be­ not employees, Control Data has set up a group activities," says Raymond Rafalik, system that examines both the personal and program manager, "and that fosters better lieve that Miss Bishop's letter is one on-the-job needs of its employees and then relations between the departments on the which should be shared with my col­ structures programs to meet those needs. job." leagues and I want to do so at this Among other things, it has installed a 24- The financial advisory program offers em­ time. The letter follows: hour advisory hot line for employees and ployees computer courses on financial plan­ DEAR SIR: My name is Donna Bishop. I am their families, health and financial advisory ning, as well as free home energy audits and an 11112-year-old student at Morganfield Ele­ programs and a program to train the disad­ car and van pooling. It also provides infor­ mentary in Kentucky. vantaged. mation on such things as where to get edu­ Now, you might think that we children These programs have produced some envi­ cational loans and volume discounts on food don't know much of what is going on in this able results. Control Data has reduced its purchases. world. Well, you're wrong. employee turnover rate to 13 percent in the Like many other companies, Control Data I know, as well as many others, that the last five years, well below the average for allows its employees to work flexible hours inflation is getting worse, and food and American industry. During the same period, as long as they work the same number of health problems have become like a disease its productivity, based on revenue per em­ hours every day and the work flow is not throughout the world, in addition to many ployee, has risen 46 percent. And Chairman disrupted. More than 75 percent of its more problems. William C. Norris estimated that the hat­ 60,627 employees are on flexitime, and the Well, I know it won't do much good to ask, line service alone saves the company $10 company considers the results well worth it. but it probably won't hurt. million a year in reduced medical costs, in­ Lateness dropped 46 percent and sick leave I am asking you to slow down on the taxes creased efficiency and other economies. 16 percent over a two-year period. so people can get more food. Also, put some The Control Data program began in the In formulating its productivity improve­ ice on the inflation to cool it down. Thank late 1960's, when Norris decided that the ment programs, Control Data has made con­ you for your time. company should create jobs in economically siderable use of its own computer technolo­ Thank you, deprived areas. A plant was built in a de­ gy, much of which is designed to solve such DONNA BISHOP.e pressed northern Minneapolis neighbor­ problems. The company's PLATO comput­ hood, but once hiring began, management er-based education courses, for example, are quickly discovered that good intentions utilized in many ways-from providing on­ AN APPEAL TO RESIST EFFORTS were not enough. In order to make produc­ the-job training for disadvantaged employ­ tive workers out of employees who were pre­ ees to helping disabled workers learn new TO WEAKEN THE REHABILITA­ occupied with day-care, financial and other skills to teaching secretaries how to manage TION ACT OF 1973 personal problems, the company's tradition­ their personal finances. The computer also al methods of dealing with workers would allows disabled workers, or clerical workers have to be altered. "We learned that em­ who cannot leave their families, to work HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR ployees don't leave their problems in the from their homes using terminals linked to OF MINNESOTA parking lot when they report for work," company offices. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES notes David Reed, general manager of the After a decade of experimentation, Con­ hot-line service. "Those problems vie for trol Data is still coming up with new pro­ Thursday, May 20, 1982 their attention on the job." grams. Right now, management is putting Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, the To deal with the situation, Control Data together a "justice system" to help solve e began its so-called Fair Break program, employee-management disputes that cannot Reagan administration has deter­ which offers employees on-the-job training be otherwise resolved. Under the system, an mined that the section 504 guidelines to learn skills and counseling to help them employee complaint will be heard by a of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 need with personal problems. The program is board of review composed of two people to be revised. I believe the administra­ now in place at several plants and has with similar jobs, an executive who works in tion is headed in the wrong direction. May 20, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11075 The Department of Justice and the tunities for comment regarding reasonable The sections for education in the pro­ Office of Management and Budget accommodations and modifications that posed guidelines are exceedingly brief. They have drafted changes to these guide­ may be needed; to notify others of the com­ neglect to reference key provisions that lines which would substantially ments received; to consider all comments, appear in the current regulations and that objections and proposals; and to make a need to be referenced if educational rights weaken them and virtually eliminate written determination accepting, rejecting are not to be substantially diminished. the hard-fought gains of our disabled or modifying such objections or proposals. Under the proposed DOJ guidelines. fed­ citizens over the last 5 years. I com­ Nowhere is the recipient actually required eral agencies are responsible for issuing "im­ mend to my colleagues' attention the to provide remedy for discrimination. No plementing directives, either as regulations following summary analysis of the checks or balances appear in this process to or policy guidelines." There does not appear proposed DOJ agency-wide guidelines stop a recipient from interpreting the re­ to be any requirement for publication or a for section 504 prepared by the Minne­ quirements of the law in a manner that is public comment period on agency proposals sota State Council for the Handi­ convenient to itself but may not in fact re­ if the agency issues its directives as policy flect the meaning or intent of 504. guidelines rather than as regulations. With capped: Throughout the proposed guidelines DOJ changes as substantial as those being pro­ Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act has also made wording changes that imply posed, it is essential that the public be noti­ is a major piece of civil rights legislation for that an effects burden of proof will not be suffi­ spond prior to implementation of any new the point, so its implementation has relied cient in discrimination cases brought under directives.e to a great extent on the individual 504 regu­ 504. Proving intent to discriminate has been lations issued by each federal agency. In virtually impossible to do in courts of law, order to assure that the various agency reg­ even in cases where the evidence of the ef­ REPRESENTATIVE TIMOTHY E. ulations were similar, the Department of fects of the discrimination is quite strong. Health, Education and Welfare was given This shift is of grave concern for those who WIRTH ON COALITION BUDGET the responsibility of drafting a set of seek protection by section 504. agency-wide guidelines to which all the 504 DOJ has also dropped all use of the words regulations were to adhere. These guidelines "equal" and "as effective as." Thus the pro­ HON. TIMOTHY E. WIRTH were issued in 1978. poseq 504 guidelines do not explicitly guar­ OF COLORADO Responsibility for these guidelines was antee that qualified handicapped persons transferred to the Department of Justice must receive opportunities, aids, benefits or IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in 1981. DOJ is now proposing services that are equal to and as effective as Thursday, May 20, 1982 changes that would substantially weaken those provided for others. In addition, dis­ the guidelines; this would affect the agency abled persons could be segregated for pro­ • Mr. WIRTH. Mr. Speaker, this has regulations and the status of civil rights for grams and activities that are not considered been a difficult winter and spring for disabled people in this country. The follow­ "significant" if the proposed DOJ guidelines those of us in Congress who know that ing analysis is based on an unpublished copy are not changed. a deadlock on the 1983 budget could of DOJ's proposed 504 guidelines dated Jan­ DOJ is also proposing changes to the basic have very dangerous consequences for uary 27, 1982. definition of who is a disabled person cov­ our ailing economy and ultimately for According to the statute, section 504 pro­ ered by section 504. DOJ has dropped all vides protection from discrimination for reference to persons with emotional illness all Americans. But I am more hopeful "otherwise qualified handicapped individ­ and to persons whose disabil­ Congress will reach agreement soon on viduals are defined in the proposed DOJ ity is drug addiction or alcoholism. a bipartisan budget. guidelines as those who "with reasonable ac­ On the positive side, DOJ is maintaining At this juncture, we have a clear commodation can perform the essential that employment discrimination is covered choice. Either we can let the budget functions of the job or service in question" by section 504. DOJ is under pressure, how­ debate degenerate into a partisan and those who "with reasonable accommo­ ever, from the Office of Management and dation meet the essential eligibility require­ Budget to drop all reference to employment standoff and keep the Government ments and can achieve the purpose of the in the guidelines. It would be a major loss afloat through continuing resolutions, program." The proposed definition of rea­ for the disabled community if employment or we can build a winning coalition sonable accommodation is therefore critical. were to be dropped from section 504. and find a reasonable and balanced Unfortunately, DOJ has explicitly stated DOJ makes the ATBCB Minimum Guide­ compromise. that reasonable accommodation "does not lines and Requirements for Accessible If we allow ourselves to continue include modifications in the fundamental Design the accessibility standard to be used down the road of partisan finger nature of a program or steps that would for compliance in new construction, addi­ impose an undue hardship on a recipient or tions and alterations. However, DOJ ex­ pointing, all Americans will be the other beneficiaries." Nowhere does DOJ empts from coverage the "design, construc­ losers. Recordbreaking budget deficits define "fundamental nature" or "undue tion, of alteration of any portion of a build­ will keep interest rates at a crippling hardship." Nor does DOJ provide guidelines ing which need not, because of its intended level and recovery from the recession that would prevent a recipient from claim­ use, be made accessible to or useable by, the will be aborted. ing that any cost for public or by physically handicapped per­ That is why those of us here today which money is not readily available is an sons." Through this exemption, DOJ has al­ have instead sought to build a coali­ undue hardship. Far too frequently per­ lowed the use of stereotyped notions about ceived excessive costs and inflated cost esti­ the "proper place" of disabled persons to de­ tion and develop a compromise. Each mates have been used as a "red herring" to termine where disabled persons will be al­ of us working alone might have drawn disguise an unwillingness to grant handi­ lowed to enter. This exemption overlooks up a different budget; the budget we capped Americans their rights and their op­ and forecloses employment opportunities are releasing today represents the portunities. DOJ does nothing to prevent for disabled persons in such buildings and it product of many hours of working to­ this abuse in its proposed guidelines. fails to take into consideration future uses gether, realizing there are no easy or In addition, the reference to "other bene­ of such buildings. Failing to require accessi­ magic solutions, and reaching a pro­ ficiaries" in the definition of reasonable ac­ bility in all new buildings also ignores the posal which we believe will best serve commodation would allow peers of disabled fact that when accessibility features are de­ persons to signed into a building at the planning stage, the Nation. We hope it will gain the use stereotypical thinking about disabled the additional cost associated with accessi­ support of thoughtful Members of persons and to claim that the participation bility is less than 5 percent of the total cost both parties. It is the first comprehen­ of a person with a disability, in and of itself, of the building. Accessibility provided later sive bipartisan budget to be offered would cause an undue hardship. This is in­ can be much more costly. during these long months. imical to the spirit and intent of the 504 DOJ has proposed guidelines for the con­ We believe it is worthy of support statute. troversial mass transportation section that because: To make matters worse, DOJ has added a appear to address the critical issues and con­ section that outlines a four-step process. Re­ cerns in an even handed manner that pro­ It is fair to all Americans. We believe cipients that follow this process will be vides both local flexibility and safeguards the American people are willing to deemed to be in compliance with the reason­ against abuse and discrimination. DOJ has make sacrifices for the sake of getting able accommodations requirements. This also added a good section on accessibility for our economy off the rocks, as long as process requires recipients to provide oppor- historic preservation programs. those sacrifices are equitable to all sec- 11076 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 20, 1982 tors. This proposal does not ask those Budget Committee to increased reve­ TIMES ARE TOUGH ALL OVER with the least in our society to sacri­ nues by $31.7 billion. fice the most. It rejects cuts in social It further includes savings in discre­ security and it offers support rather tionary programs of $2.5 billion in HON. DANIEL K. AKAKA than discouragement to those seeking 1983, which more than offsets addi­ OF HAWAII jobs. It does not ask those who have tional discretionary spending amount­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES earned their retirement benefits to see ing to $1.4 billion in 1983 outlays. them eroded through inflation, and it Thursday, May 20, 1982 restores money to programs critical to The coalition budget slows the ex­ our most needy, like the woman, cessive growth of defense spending by • Mr. AKAKA. Mr. Speaker, there is a infant, and child feeding program. $9.4 billion in 1983, compared to the phrase which all of us have heard ut­ It reduces the deficit more than $8.9 billion in the House Budget Com­ tered countless times recently by vari­ either the House or Senate Budget mittee's proposal. But over 3 years, ous representatives of the current ad­ Committees, or the substitute pro­ the coalition plan cuts slightly less in ministration. This phrase, used to jus­ posed by the House Republican leader­ defense increases than the House tify almost any kind of budget cutting ship. Our budget would reduce the Budget Committee proposal. and slashing, is: "Times are tough all amount of Federal Government red over." In short, this compromise, which not While I could not agree more with ink by $86.25 billion in 1983, by $143.1 perfect, represents, I believe, our best billion in 1984, and $194.6 billion in the sentiments of economic despera­ hope of passing a budget soon which tion expressed by this statement, I 1985, and provide for deficits of $95.1 can help prompt an end to unbearably billion, $72.2 billion, and $37.5 billion strongly oppose using this kind of rea­ high interest rates and the deep reces­ soning to justify a failure to invest in respectively. Such deficit reductions sion. will, we hope, send an important signal the long-term future of this Nation. I to our Nation's financial markets and I have also submitted for the com­ am speaking specfically about the de­ lead to lower interest rates. mittee's consideration two elements of cline in the Federal Government's in­ It includes positive initiatives includ­ the coalition budget which I request vestment in non-defense-related re­ ing a package of investments key to be made in order as amendments indi­ search and development. The fact is solving our Nation's long-term produc­ vidually to House Concurrent Resolu­ that although the total Federal tivity problem. At a time when many tion 345. The first of these is an im­ R. & D. figure is up $3 billion for of our Nation's economic competitors portant proposal designed to improve fiscal year 1983 when compared to the are eagerly trying to claim our tradi­ our Nation's productivity and fiscal year 1982 budget, it is also true tional distinction of being the idea strengthen our university research that the only increases are for the capital of the world, these investments and development capacity. The pro­ military. It is further true that when in university research and develop­ posal, funded through the National Federal R. & D. drops in the civilian ment, graduate fellowships, and up­ Science Foundation and other agen­ sector, so does the incidence of tech­ graded research laboratories are essen­ nology transfer and spinoff potential cies, would: First, provide increased to industry. tial to rebuilding a healthy economy funding for university research and for the rest of this decade and beyond. development; second, increase the Under the new budget, applied R. & D. will be severely cut. Energy They are critical to restoring our number of federally funded research economy's competitiveness in world conservation programs have virtually fellowships; and third, establish a pro­ disappeared in the Reagan budget. markets in the eighties and beyond. gram to upgrade our Nation's aging It includes funding for the cleanup Solar programs have been cut from of hazardous waste sites which now university research instrumentation $257 million to $72 million. NASA's are threatening the health of millions and facilities. technology transfer program has been of Americans. Our country generates The second amendment is one that eliminated. Funds for the National 43 billion pounds of hazardous waste is critical to both public health and to Science Foundation's engineering and every year. Under the administration's protecting our environment. It would science education programs have been budget, communities located . near provide additional funding for the En­ slashed since fiscal year 1981 by a active dumps could not be assured of vironmental Protection Agency's oper­ total of $55 million-to bottom out at their safety for at least another 15 ating budget and for the Superfund $15 million in fiscal year 1983. years, and those endangered by poten­ hazardous waste cleanup program es­ I am concerned by this decline not tial Love Canals might have to wait tablished by Congress in 1980. Over because I think it is bad to invest in until the end of the century for clean­ the past 4 years, through the Super­ military R. & D. On the contrary, I up to occur. This budget would pro­ fund legislation and the Resource think that we must continue to invest vide funding for the Environmental Conservation and Recovery Act, the in military R. & D. if we are to have Protection Agency to do the job Con­ Congress has mandated a major new every technological advantage we need gress has directed it to perform-to mission for the agency: The manage­ in the art of warfare. But to invest in protect the health of millions of ment and control of the more than 43 military R. & D. to the total exclusion Americans. billion pounds of hazardous waste gen­ of increased investment in civilian It includes increased funding for stu­ R. & D. constitutes one of the biggest dent aid, elementary and secondary erated annually in the United States. mistakes this administration has ever education, vocational education, veter­ This effort goes virtually unfunded in contemplated making. As a Congress, ans medical care, Middle East peace­ both the President's budget and under we must neither condone nor permit keeping, rental rehabilitation, crop in­ the discretionary spending freeze in­ this particular brand of shortsighted­ surance, soil conservation, which the cluded in the House Budget Commit­ ness. I urge all of my colleagues to coalition believes are also important to tee proposal. Under these low levels of bear in mind the fact that investing in the health of our society now and in funding, no more than three to five civilian R. & D. is one of the smartest the future. sites could be cleaned up under Super­ things that we in this country can do The proposal also asks for revenue fund each year. We must make much to insure our long-term economic increases smaller than included in the more rapid progress, and I urge the health and our ensuing ability to com­ House Budget Committee proposal. committee to make this amendment in pete successfully in the international The coalition directs the House Ways order. marketplace. If we want to continue and Means Committee to find $29.8 Thank you for your consideration.• our tradition of technological superi­ billion in revenue increases in 1983, ority, then we must continue to invest less than the recommendation of the substantially in civilian R. & D. If we May 20, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11077 fail to do so, then we have only our­ matches FY82 levels, but it will buy less due Recent haggling between small business selves to blame for future weaknesses to inflation. Federal R&D funds should and universities over government set-asides, in our technology base. help stimulate productivity and new prod­ along with the feeling among university re­ I ask that an article from High uct development in a time of recession, say searchers that industry is unwilling to fund Technology magazine entitled "Fiscal critics, while simultaneously meeting feder­ long-term, high-risk research, suggest that al needs. They cite the weakness of the U.S. the budget cuts and ensuing competition for Year 1983 Budget Dramatically Shifts consumer electronics industry versus over­ dwindling funds may strain industry-univer­ R. & D. Funding" be inserted in the seas competitors, and point out that mili­ sity relationships even further. REcoRD immediately following my re­ tary R&D is increasingly specialized and marks. therefore not easily transferable to commer­ FISCAL YEAR 1983 DRAMATICALLY SHIFTS cial uses. SMALL BUSINESS FAILURES: A R. & D. FuNDING Congress will challenge the R&D budget KEY INDICATOR OF THE DEEP­ Money talks, and President Reagan's and will likely increase requests for such pe­ ENING RECESSION budget for fiscal 1983 eloquently states his rennial favorites as the National Institutes shifts in priorities from previous administra­ of Health, Agriculture Department, and Na­ tions. tional Science Foundation

89- 059 0-85-41 (Pt. 8) 11078 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 20, 1982 torialized in three related editorials on cost-of-living increases could be put on ice­ OMB GIMMICKRY THREATENS the budget debate over social security especially if inflation rates dip further. A FERC BUDGET outlays. There seems to be more misin­ freeze on increases won't cut basic benefits. formation than accurate reports on And it can ease the need for harsh cutbacks the subject of social security, and most later. HON. RICHARD OTTINGER But it would violate the social contract to of it emanates from Washington. I OF NEW YORK wish to insert these editorials as I be­ cut benefits sharply now. And there's no lieve they express especially timely need to do so. The basic problems are long­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and practical recommendations. They term. Thursday, May 20, 1982 follow for the Members' attention: One of the costliest is the Social Security benefit structure, which is geared to give e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I SOCIAL SECURITY'S WOES each year's crop of retirees more spending would like to bring to the attention of Democrats, with help from some Republi­ power than people who retired the previous my colleagues a serious case of budget cans, may defeat a Senate GOP proposal to year. In 1970, the typical Social Security gimmickry by the Office of Manage­ save $40 billion in Social Security outlays over three years. Both sides really would benefits paid to a married retiree and de­ ment and Budget which threatens to rather keep Social Security out of this pendent spouse equaled about 60 percent of close down the operations of the Fed­ week's fight to cut President Reagan's econ­ the worker's last take-home pay. Now those eral Energy Regulatory Commission. omy-crippling budget deficits. payments are about 90 percent. That's My concerns on this matter are But can they? Says economist Rudolph G. unfair. shared by FERC Chairman C. M. Penner of the conservative American Enter­ As our chart shows, Social Security out­ Butler III, who wrote to me. prise Institute: lays of only $29 billion 12 years ago are ex­ We face the "unpleasant fact that de­ The consequences [of the OMB actions] pected to reach $173.5 billion in fiscal 1983. would be that at times throughout the year, fense, Social Security and net interest out­ Congress should consider gradually ad­ lays compose almost 60 percent of the 1982 the Commission would be unable to meet its vancing retirement ages as people work obligations, and hence unable to operate. budget." longer. Economist Geoffrey H. Moore of Said Penner, "Without [cuts] in defense And conceded that there is a dispute and Social Security, prospects for control­ Rutgers University's Center for Internation­ al Business Cycle Research also has a pro­ between FERC and OMB, over the ling total spending in the long run look OMB approach. bleak." posal to streamline the way cost-of-living in­ Right. Yet the notion is confusing, too, be­ creases are figured. It would have saved $4 At issue is some novel budget gim­ cause Social Security is a self-supporting billion this year. mickry by which OMB hopes to hide entity, funded by payroll taxes. In that Yet even changes to save Social Security the FERC budget by showing a net ap­ sense, it has no business being in the can't come without bipartisan support. The propriation, rather than a gross appro­ budget. political reality is harsh: To merely mention priation. For reasons known only to But because it is a massive and ever-great­ revising the system brings instant abuse OMB, it seeks to permit FERC to er chunk of total government spending, from fearful elderly voters-a potent bloc. retain its fees-estimated optimistical­ Social Security worries financial experts Able members of both parties agree that who see rising budget dificits blocking an ly at $60 million-rather than to de­ changes must come. And the sooner they do, posit the fees in the Treasury, as other economic recovery. And its ever-heftier pay­ the less painful they'll be. roll taxes can create the same drag on the agencies do. Thus, according to OMB, economy as raising income taxes. Reagan should throw his support to spe­ they are at present scoring this net Holding down excessive growth in entitle­ cific ideas like those mentioned here. In­ budget authority at $32.5 million, ment programs-including Social Security, stead, he is even waffling on the Senate rather than $92.5 million. Medicaid and government pensions-can GOP plan that he endorsed earlier. Limp FERC recognized the dangers of this help the economy. Look at a growth com­ leadership is no way to put Social Security parison: in order. approach, and on March 25, 1982, Proposed increases in Social Security for Chairman Butler expressed his con­ 1983 from 1982 total nearly $19 billion. The ANn WHAT NoT To Do cerns to OMB Director Stockman. Al­ jump alone almost equals spending plans for though OMB then changed the lan­ all food stamps <$12.6 billion) and all Aid to A presidential commission led by former guage of its budget request, FERC still Families with Dependent Children <$7.2 bil­ President Ford's chief economist Alan did not find its budget secure. Recog­ lion) added together. Greenspan is studying Social Security re­ nizing that its budget continues to be Such unsustainable growth didn't begin forms. We hope its report will not recom­ with Reagan. Former Commerce Secretary mend: "scored" at $32.5 million, Chairman Peter G. Peterson notes that for 15 years Dipping into general revenues to fund Butler believes that FERC might be entitlement payments have increased at an Social Security. That non-remedy would "unable to operate." annual rate of 15.4 percent. How many com­ kick budget deficits much higher or force Chairman Butler is correct in this panies, he asks, boast such growth? Growth higher income taxes and inhibit economic concern. As long as OMB continues to in entitlements doubles the annual rate of recovery. pretend that the FERC budget is $32.5 increase for all other non-defense programs. million, FERC may likely get only As Peterson says, the average Social Secu­ Raising the Social Security tax. That hits rity benefit grew 30 percent in real terms workers and employers, imposing greater that amount. during the 1970s, while the real after-tax drag on an already struggling economy. The administration must stop play­ wages of workers declined nearly 10 percent. Tying benefits to need, which would cor­ ing games with the budget. Until OMB Why? The answers suggest the remedies. rupt the principle of Social Security and in­ heeds the advice of FERC and the spire a backlash that could kill the program. Congress to play straight with the fig­ SHOW WHERE To MAKE CHANGES As an equitable alternative, Congress ures, the FERC budget is in jeopardy. Annual increases paid to Social Security could tax Social Security benefits as other I in no way wish to suggest that the recipients are tied to the Consumer Price pension income is taxed. High-income recipi­ entire FERC budget is justified. How­ Index. Benefits rise to help retirees keep ents could afford it. Low-income retirees ever, it must be considered on its pace with inflation. But that worthy goal normally pay no income tax and would not has been distorted because the CPI has be affected. merits, not on the basis of gimmicks. overstated inflation rates by overemphasiz­ I stand prepared, as chairman of the ing mortgages. As shown earlier in this series, top econo­ Energy Conservation and Power Sub­ One short-term solution is obvious: Revise mists choose the path of reduced deficits to escape the wilderness of recession. But little committee, to consider the administra­ the law to end 100 percent CPI indexing. As tion's proposed legislation on FERC the Congressional Budget Office notes, low­ is left to cut from already bleeding pro­ ering increases to 85 percent of the CPI grams for the poor. Wisdom and fairness charges. In fact, the subcommittee could save nearly $44 billion in five years. demand reforms in indexed entitlements. staff and the GAO are currently re­ Give annual increases when costs rise, but Given the massive size of the entitlements viewing the issue. However, I will not don't let the payment exceed inflation rates. system, small changes produce big savings. consider the proposal until the admin­ We reluctantly agree that, because of But getting the job done requires bipartisan istration stops playing hide and seek overcompensation in the past, this year's political cooperation-and courage.e with budget numbers. The issue is far May 20, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11079 too important to permit such shenani­ Seneca, with a population of under 1,800, favorably the Immigration Reform gans.• becomes the first of the nation's Bell cen­ and Control Act of 1982. tral offices to go on-line with No. 5 ESS. This is an historic step. I want to Currently, there are 10,000 local switching systems serving about 85 million customer thank my six devoted, diligent sub­ TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECH- committee colleagues for their untir­ NOLOGY GROWING IN ILLI­ lines. By the end of the decade, Bell pro­ jects 20 percent of some 100 million lines ing efforts in supporting the passage NOIS will be routed through a No.5 ESS. By 1984, of this milestone legislation. Bell plans to be shipping out one new Congressman HAM FISH, the ranking system daily. member, and Congressmen SAM HALL, HON. TOM CORCORAN ffitimately, the Seneca installation will BARNEY FRANK, GEORGE CROCKETT, DAN OF ILLINOIS become a remove switching unit, which will LUNGREN, AND BILL McCOLLUM deserve IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES serve as a switching office from the host unit in Morris that will control the No. 5 high praise for their professional Thursday, May 20, 1982 ESS. labors and my sincere thanks for e Mr. CORCORAN. Mr. Speaker, an The system was manufactured by the having been so supportive of their important use of high-technology Western Electric's Northern lllinois Works chairman along the way. products is in telecommunications. In in Lisle and cost $644,000 to install. The bill emerged from the subcom­ mittee markup as it had gone in, my own State, the first application in [From the Bell System's Network News, the United States of such a product­ May-June, 1982] namely, a fair and balanced approach to immigration reform. In the words in telephone switching-was made. SENECA GoEs HIGH TEcH The device was largely developed, de­ of the New York Times, it is not nativ­ (By Nancy Hwastecki) ist, it is not racist, it is not mean. signed, manufactured and implement­ The Information Age moved into Seneca, ed in Illinois. Illinois, on March 25 in the form of the first Since amendments to the bill were All Members are aware of the eco­ generation of a new Bell System local call­ adopted, the subcommittee decided to nomic benefits which stem from do­ processing system. And the No. 5 Electronic introduce a clean bill for full Judiciary mestic high-technology production fa­ Switching System, as the machine is called, Committee consideration. cilities. I am pleased that so much of drew attention from the media as well as When that clean bill is introduced, I this new technology was and is pro­ American and international telecommunica­ will provide a summary of it for my duced and made in Illinois by Illinois­ tions experts colleagues so that they can continue In fact, this spring the interest continues to follow this important matter-and ans. As the House considers telecom­ with two British telecommunications man­ munications legislation, we must be agers being the latest visitors to make the cosponsor it if that is their desire. careful not to unduly hinder the ad­ trip to Seneca, a town of 2,100 people