25554 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE HIGH TEMPERATURE The concept of HTS technology is relatively win the race: intensive research and develop­ SUPERCONDUCTIVITY ELECTRIC basic: certain ceramic materials lose all resist­ ment, and the precommercialization of HTS POWER SYSTEMS ACT OF 1991 ance to electricity at low temperatures. Recent energy systems technologies. Our legislation scientific breakthroughs have overcome the would authorize the Secretary of Energy to MARKEY major technical difficulties of HTS and have carry out a program to develop the major ele­ HON. EDWARD J. created a wave of support within the energy ments of a HTS electric energy system includ­ OF MASSACHUSETTS community. ing transmission lines, generators, and mag­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES According to a report by the Electric Power netic storage rings. Moreover, the HTS Elec­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 Research Institute, our electric power trans­ tric Power Systems Act empowers the Sec­ mission lines are not far from copper wires retary of Energy to facilitate the Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, today, I join hanging from pine trees. A high temperature precommercialization phase of HTS electric with Representative DON RITIER to introduce superconducting electric transmission line energy technologies. The precommercializa­ the High Temperature Superconductivity Elec­ would be able to transmit over 100 times the tion phase of HTS energy applications is par­ tric Power Systems Act of 1991. This timely amount of a copper wire without losses. This ticularly important because it ensures that the legislation would promote energy efficiency by quality makes HTS transmission lines ideal for United States maintain a stronghold in the de­ carrying out a program of research and devel­ heavily populated urban areas where space is velopment of the underlying technology which opment and joint ventures for high tempera­ limited and the demand is high. In addition, is essential to the future of a U.S. domestic ture superconductivity electric power tech­ high powered compact HTS electric genera­ manufacturing base. Our legislation also au­ nologies. tors and motors have enormous energy effi­ thorizes at least one joint venture program to First, I would like to state that this legislation ciency potential and offer attractive space sav­ encourage cooperation between the nationals is the product of long-term study and consider­ ing possibilities. Because HTS technology al­ labs, industry, and universities to develop ation in which my distinguished colleague, Mr. lows electricity to conduct without resistance, commercial HTS energy applications. The RITIER, has been an active participant, as well motors would use sizably less electricity and; United States has dropped the ball at this criti­ as many Government agencies, universities, generators would expend less energy, while cal stage more times than we like to acknowl­ and private industry. One result of these ef­ producing larger yields. HTS magnetic energy edg~small electronics and televisions in the forts, and largely due to Mr. RITIER was a re­ storage rings also have tremendous energy ef­ 1970's, VCRs in the 1980's-we can not allow port on high temperature superconductivity ficiency potential. These rings would be able HTS electric equipment to be the next victim. mandated in the Omnibus Trade and Competi­ to store electricity during off-peak hours for Thus, it is crucial for both the public and pri­ tiveness Act of 1988. The executive summary later use in high-peak hours. This electric load vate sectors to collaborate on HTS electric en­ of the report articulates the pressing need for management tactic would generate both mon­ ergy systems technologies to ensure that the the United States to embark on research and etary and energy gains. High temperature United States is the first to implement this en­ development for high temperature super­ superconductivity electric systems will be one ergy system of the future. conductivity energy applications. Similarly, of the major elements of the next generation HTS electric energy applications hold the every national critical technology list includes efficient and environmentally sound energy promise of revolutionizing the electric energy this important technology. There is a clear technologies. systems sector bringing new levels of effi­ record which establishes that high temperature The HTS Electric Power Systems Act would ciency and environmental gains to the genera­ superconductivity energy applications should charter the course for the United States re­ tion, delivery and storage of electric energy in be a part of the long-term goals of the national search and development, and precom­ the United States. I urge my colleagues to join energy strategy. mercialization of HTS electric power tech­ Mr. RITIER and myself in supporting this vital Within the next 20 years the United States nologies. The HTS energy applications market legislation. will need to invest an estimated $4 trillion into is already a highly competitive sector in which the existing electric public utilities infrastucture our opponents are our leading economic ri­ to replace antiquated technology and improve vals, including Japan and Germany. There are THE HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPER­ efficiency to meet the rising demands of the already 20 companies in Japan developing ad­ CONDUCTIVITY ELECTRIC POWER United States. These demands will also have vanced superconductors for energy applica­ SYSTEMS ACT OF 1991 to be met under severe environmental con­ tions. Last year the Department of Commerce straints such as urban crowding. If the United reported that the United States is about even HON. DON RIITER States is to meet this challenge, we need to with Japan in the race to commercialize OF PENNSYLVANIA invest in the research and development, the superconductors, but will lose badly if current IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES precommercialization of efficient energy sys­ trends continues. The United States invests tems technologies. High temperature approximately 70 percent of it's high tempera­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 superconductivity [HTS) is one such tech­ ture superconductively funds in defense relat­ Mr. RITIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to join my nology-initial estimates of a HTS electric ed research and development; while Japan in­ distinguished colleague from Massachusetts power system show that energy losses could vests 99 percent of the equivalent amount on as an original sponsor and co-author of the be reduced by as much as 33 percent or $12 precommercial development and new mate­ High Temperature Superconductivity Electric billion per year using transmission lines and rials research. This ratio clearly illustrates that Power Systems Act of 1991. I am pleased to generators alone. These savings would trans­ if the United States is to avoid what has be­ have contributed to this legislation, which late into significantly lower costs for American come known as the trilogy of terror-invented would focus America's efforts in high tempera­ consumers, businesses, and industry; addi­ in the United States, developed in Germany, ture superconductivity. tionally, HTS is a clean energy technology and made in Japan-we need to take imme­ Since October, 1986, when scientists dis­ which would improve the accessibility of other diate action. covered a ceramic compound that exhibited environmentally sound renewable energy re­ If the United States is to capture this bur­ superconducting properties at higher tempera­ sources such as wind, solar, and geoning market which has been estimated to tures than ever before, I have been a strong photovoltaics. In sum, HTS electric energy ap­ reach $3 to $5 billion in the United States proponent of a Federal effort in high tempera­ plications would enhance energy security and within the decade, we must build a solid foun­ ture superconductivity [HTS] research and de­ result in a reduction of pollution like acid rain, dation today. There are two essential activities velopment. Superconductivity is a special at­ nuclear wastes and other toxics. that the United States must concentrate on to tribute of materials. In a superconducting wire,

•This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25555 an electric current can flow forever without any ago, the first group of German settlers arrived TRIBUTE TO WISCONSIN resistance or loss of energy. in America. They sought to build a new life for MANUFACTURER In 1987, I introduced the first legislation to themselves and in so doing, began a tradition establish a coordinated Federal role in promot­ of helping to build a better America for every­ HON. GERAID D. KLECZKA ing superconductivity research and develop­ one. OF WISCONSIN ment, which eventually was signed into law as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Ritter-Mccurdy National Superconductivity I would like to pay tribute to our Nation's and Competitiveness Act of 1988. That legisla­ German-Americans as we look forward to Thursday, October 3, 1991 tion recognized the need for directed, coordi­ celebrating German-American Day this week­ Mr. KLECZKA. Mr. Speaker, today I am nated Federal support over the 5 to 10 years end, on October 6. For more than 3 centuries, pleased to bring to the attention of my col­ needed for successful commercialization of their contributions to America's growth and leagues the 90th anniversary of MagneTek HTS technology, setting forth a 5-year blue­ world standing have ranked among the great­ Louis Allis, a manufacturing firm operating in print that Federal agencies are now following. est of any people's. my hometown of Milwaukee. The bill we introduce today would build It is significant that we note for the record The firm's longevity is a tribute not only to upon that effort, by amending the Renewable the accomplishments of German-Americans its competitive achievements, but to its con­ Energy and Energy Efficiency Act to provide today, for 1 year ago on this date-October tribution to our Nation in helping build a strong for joint ventures in HTS technology, with cost­ 3-West and East Germany were reunified industrial base, which led us through two sharing by private sector. The Markey-Ritter into one nation, thus marking the beginning of World Wars and on toward economic expan­ legislation is similar to language offered in the the end of the cold war. The Berlin Wall was sion. Senate by Senator BINGAMAN and incorporated Through the years, Magne Tek Louis Allis torn down, and with it one of the most stark in S. 1220, the Johnston-Wallop energy plan. has compiled an impressive list of manufactur­ The use of the new high-temperature and brutal reminders of the oppression that ing innovations in the categories of specialized superconductors in energy systems, including had haunted Europe and the world since the motors and electric generators. Among the motors, generators, cables, and energy stor­ end of World War II. firm's numerous innovations are cement mill age devices, could significantly improve elec­ Today, Germany looks with eagerness to a and rapid reversing motors, and submarine trical efficiency. In turn, this could result in re­ future bright with promise and vibrant with pro­ outboard motors. In fact, during World War II, ductions in the amount of electricity we ductivity, even as we look fondly to its past the firm was the first electric motor producer to consume, and significant cost savings to the that has sent us so many of our most promi­ receive the U.S. Navy's prized "E" award for producers and consumers of electricity across nent citizens. excellence in production, as well as the cov­ the nation. eted Fifth Star award for continuous outstand­ On October 6, 1683, after a 75-day Atlantic Researchers in the field of high temperature ing contribution to the war effort. Today, every superconductors are rapidly solving the con­ crossing aboard the vessel Concord, 13 Ger­ U.S. naval submarine is equipped with a siderable technological hurdles that once mans led by a young Franconian lawyer, MagneTek Louis Allis generator. stood between the laboratory and the market­ Franz Daniel Pastorius, made a settlement at Mr. Speaker, manufacturing has been the place. With support from the Federal Govern­ what is now called Germantown in Philadel­ backbone of U.S. economic strength through­ ment, fabrication of reliable, efficient phia. As part of William Penn's holy experi­ out the 20th century. The Milwaukee area has superconductors may become a reality in the ment, they were fleeing European religious historically been a critical part of the industrial near term. persecution. base, and MagneTek Louis Allis, founded in The potential benefits of the new technology It didn't take them long to initiate their own 1901, has been there since it all began. The are enormous. Industrial motors alone experiment in steadfast industriousness. With­ firm has a rich history of accomplishments, consume nearly 65 percent of the electricity in the year, they had harvested their first crop and I have only outlined a few of its achieve­ used nationwide. According to one estimate, of flax, erected looms and spinning wheels ments. high temperature superconductors which in­ and were conducting business in Philadelphia. Let us wish them the best for continued crease the efficiency of electric motors by 5 strong performance, and look forward to see­ This diligence and dedication to craftsmanship percent would save over 100 million barrels of ing MagneTek Louis Allis motors and genera­ has been a hallmark of the German-American oil per year. tors power our Nation's economic engine for If reliable ceramic cables could be made to people to this very day. the next 90 years. carry high currents, superconducting power The rollcall of honored German-Americans transmission could help avert much of the is a vocal testament to this fact. These men $8.75 billio~n 1985 dollars-which the U.S. and women have contributed right across the TRIBUTE TO MILTON HOFFMAN loses each year in transmitting electricity. Rob­ spectrum in art, literature, industry, science, ert Jaffe of the Electric Power Research Insti­ and politics among others. Names such as HON. ELIOT L ENGEL tute in Palo Alto, CA, has estimated that Levi Strauss, Albert Einstein, Marlene Dietrich, OF NEW YORK superconducting power lines might eventually Babe Ruth, H.L. Mencken, Henry Kissinger, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES save $5 billion per year. and Thomas Mann need no explanation of Thursday, October 3, 1991 That would make the R&D investment called their importance to our society and our history. for in our bill a sound investment in our energy Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I wish to pay trib­ future. I urge my colleagues to support the They helped shape, not only America, but ute to a man who has accomplished a feat Markey-Ritter legislation, and I commend the the world as we know it and as generations to which few others in his field would even at­ gentleman from Massachusetts for his fore­ come will continue to know it. Today, German­ tempt. This month, Milton Hoffman is celebrat­ sight in the development of this legislation. I Americans continue to work actively to ing 40 years of employment with the same look forward to working with Mr. MARKEY as strengthen the bonds of friendship and news organization, the Gannett Suburban the bill makes its way through the legislative progress between the United States and Ger­ Newspaper group. process. many. Through four decades of reporting and edit­ Mr. Speaker, as the Representative of Flor­ ing, Milt has developed into the undisputed dean of the local press corps. In his current ida's Ninth District, home to a large and active GERMAN-AMERICAN DAY role as editorial page editor, he helps shape German-American community, I can testify to the opinions of the most respected news orga­ HON. MICHAEL BIURAKIS the many civic, cultural, scientific, and busi­ nization in the region. ness contributions of this special group of Every important politician and community OF FLORIDA Americans. Therefore, I am pleased and privi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leader in Westchester County has seen Milt leged to have this opportunity to pay tribute roaming the halls of the county office building, Thursday, October 3, 1991 today to this tradition of service. asking the tough questions at the right time. Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Each of them, in turn, rushes directly to Hoff­ recognize the fact that more than 300 years man's columns to read what he and other in- 25556 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 siders have to say about the issues of the At this point in the RECORD, I have submit­ win the National League Pennant. The Giants day. Often, Milt's writings have a profound ef­ ted a more detailed explanation of the taxes to had trailed the Dodgers by 13-and-a-half fect on policymakers and, therefore, an impact be extended in this bill: games in mid-August. The Giants rallied and on the quality of life in the area. It is the Amer­ SMALL BUSINESS JOBS AND TAX BENEFITS ACT finished the season in a tie with the Dodgers ican tradition of the fourth estate carried out in OF 1991 which set up a three-game playoff series. all its glory. SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. Many people have forgotten that Bobby Thom­ As Milton Hoffman enters his fifth decade of This Act may be cited as the "Small Busi­ son hit a two-run homer off Branca to help the journalism, I extend on behalf of my constitu­ ness Jobs and Tax Benefits Act of 1991 ". Giants win the first game 3 to 1. The Dodgers ents-his readers-hearty congratulations and SEC. 2. RESEARCH CREDIT. crushed the Giants in game two, ten to noth­ best wishes for the future. (a) IN GENERAL.-Subsection (h) of section ing. Behind the great Don Newcombe, the 41 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (rela­ Dodgers took a 4 to 1 lead into the bottom of tion to termination) is amended- the ninth inning in game three of the playoffs. INTRODUCTION OF THE SMALL (1) by striking "December 31, 1991" each The Giants rallied and Bobby Thomson ended BUSINESS JOBS AND TAX BENE­ place it appears and inserting "December 31, 1992",and the game by hitting one of baseball's historic FIT ACT OF 1991 (2) by striking "January 1, 1992" each place home runs. Moments like these are the reason it appears and inserting "January 1, 1993". that baseball is our national pastime. HON. GARY A. FRANKS (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.-Subpara­ In today's edition of USA Today Erik Brady OF CONNECTICUT graph (A) of section 28(b)(l) of such Code (re­ has two wonderful articles about this great IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lating to qualified clinical testing expenses) baseball moment and about the two central is amended by striking "December 31, 1991" figures, Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca. Thursday, October 3, 1991 and inserting "December 31, 1992". Mr. Speaker, I will now also include in the Mr. FRANKS of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.-The amendments RECORD these two excellent articles for the in­ earlier today, I introduced the Small Business made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1991. formation of the other Members. Jobs and Tax Benefits Act of 1991. After re­ LEGENDARY HOMER LINKS PAST, PRESENT cent disucssions over the extension of unem­ SEC. 3. TARGETED JOBS CREDIT. (a) IN GENERAL.-Paragraph (4) of section (By Erik Brady) ployment compensation benefits, I believe it is 51(c) of the Internal Revenue Code in 1986 (re­ Once upon a time, Bobby Thomson and time to move to discussions about ways to im­ lating to termination) is amended by strik­ Ralph Branca were enemies. And their hos­ prove the economic climate for businesses. ing "December 31, 1991" and inserting "De­ tility was never more real than at one pre­ Small businesses are the fastest growing sec­ cember 31, 1992". cise moment 40 years ago today. tor of the labor market. A healthy business cli­ (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.-The amendment The place: New York's Polo Grounds. The mate will lead to better employment opportuni­ made by this section shall apply to individ­ score: Branca's Brooklyn Dodgers led Thom­ ties for all Americans. uals who begin work for the employer after son's New York Giants 4-2. The situation: The Small Business Jobs and Tax Benefits December 31, 1991. One out, two men on in the bottom of the ninth inning. The stakes: 1951's National Act is a package of benefits which are crucial SEC. 4. EMPLOYER-PROVIDED EDUCATION AS­ SISTANCE. League pennant. to small businesses across the Nation. The (a) IN GENERAL.-Subsection (d) of section Branca fired a fastball . . . Thomson legislation would extend for 1 year five tax 127 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (re­ swung mightily .. the ball flew into the benefits which are critical to the health and lating to termination) is amended by strik­ left-field stands ... Giants 5, Dodgers 4. growth of small businesses. Without any ac­ ing "December 31, 1991" and inserting "De­ The rest, as they say, is history. Only in tion by Congress, these tax benefits will expire cember 31, 1992". this case it's more-it's also theatrical leg­ at the end of this year and small businesses (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.-The amendment end and belated camaraderie. History linked made by this section shall apply to taxable their names. Commerce made them friends. will face a tougher business climate. These Thomson and Branca appear now at half a benefits will allow small businesses to utilize years beginning after December 31, 1991. SEC. 5. QUALIFIED SMALL ISSUE BONDS. dozen card shows each year, signing their tax benefits which have allowed them to pro­ names on bats and balls and old photographs. mote continued education and training, allow (a) IN GENERAL.-Subparagraph (B) of sec­ Lately they've been making the rounds of tion 144(a)(12) of the Internal Revenue Code talk shows in New York and Washington, the self-employed to afford basic health care of 1986 (relating to termination) is amended coverage and ensure that small businesses selling LeRoy Neiman prints of their shared by striking "December 31, 1991" and insert­ moment of glory/infamy. continue to have another option in accessing ing "December 31, 1992". capital for increased growth, research, and de­ "I hated him then," says Branca. "He was (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.-The amendment a Giant." velopment. made by this section shall apply to bonds is­ "We're friends now," says Thomson. "We These tax benefits are set to expire Decem­ sued after December 31, 1991. talk a lot." ber 31 , 1991. Last year they were part of the SEC. 6. HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS OF SELF-EM· "We don't have a choice," says Branca. 11 popular tax credits that were extended PLOYED INDMDUALS. "We're always coordinating schedules." through last year's budget package. There (a) IN GENERAL.-Paragraph (6) of section "The card shows," says Thomson, "want have been discussions about making these 162(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 both of us." (relating to termination) is amended by benefits permanent, an idea which I support. Of course they do. One rarely thinks of one striking "December 31, 1991" and inserting without the other anymore. They are the However, until the discussions have been re­ "December 31, 1992". ying and yang of what is arguably baseball's solved, I believe that they must not expire and (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.-The amendment most memorable moment: Thomson as hero, that Congress should extend them another made by this section shall apply to taxable a giant among Giants; Branca as victim, the year. An additional year would allow busi­ years beginning after December 31, 1991. nonartful Dodger. nesses transition time for budgeting without It is always the same. Fans, reporters, au­ these heavily used benefits. tograph seekers-everyone asks the same Specifically, this bill would extend through THE SECOND SHOT HEARD 'ROUND questions. And the old pros give the same an­ December 31, 1992 the research and develop­ THE WORLD swers-patiently, graciously, cheerfully. "I think I could give Ralph's answers and ment tax credit, the targeted jobs tax credit, Ralph could give mine," says Thomson. the employer provided educational benefits, HON. ANDY IRELAND "Don't you think so, Ralph?" the tax exemption of small issue bonds and OF FLORIDA "I could've given that one," says Branca. the health insurance deduction for self-em­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES They both laugh. They've become a vaude­ ployed. ville act now: Bobby and Ralph-raconteurs, The extension of these tax benefits are es­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 good sports, symbols of a simpler time. sential to the growth of small businesses Mr. IRELAND. Mr. Speaker, on a beautiful They are completely comfortable in each other's company. They are of the same gen­ across the country, their expiration would deal fall afternoon (yes, I said afternoon-that's eration (Thompson is 67, Branca 65), region a severe blow to the small business commu­ when they played baseball in the daylight, as (Thomson lives in New Jersey, Branca in nity. I urge my colleagues to work toward the it should be) 40 years ago today Bobby Thom­ New York, about a 00-minute drive apart) adoption of the Small Business Jobs and Tax son of the New York Giants hit a home run off and profession (both are businessmen, Thom­ Benefits Act of 1991 . of Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers to son in paper products and Branca in pen- October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25557 sions). They share a common past (baseball Neither one guessed they might one day be Up to the last pitch the scenario was simi­ in the 1940's and '50s), family life (both proud friends. There was a time when nothing lar to Casey at the Bat-men on second and grandfathers) and political views (conserv­ seemed more preposterous. The Giants and third in the bottom of the ninth inning with ative). Dodgers hated one another. Thomson re­ the home team trailing by two runs. They served as co-chairmen of Athletes for members being traded to the Milwaukee Call this one Bobby at the Bat. Thomson Nixon in 1972. Watergate still bugs them. Braves and seeing his teammates chat with struck the homer Casey never did. And this "That was so dumb," says Branca of the the Dodgers by the batting cage. time, there was joy in Mudville, just none in break-in. "Like having an 18-nothing lead "I couldn't believe it," he says. "The Gi­ Brooklyn. and throwing a:t the batter's head." ants would have never done that. We didn't What was this latter-day Casey thinking as Branca shakes his head. Lost presidencies, talk to the Dodgers. We hated 'em." he rounded the bases on air, poetry in mo­ lost pennants. Regrets, he's had a few, but Thomson slaps Branca's back. The irony is tion? Ralph Branca, like Frank Sinatra, says too not lost on either of them. They spend more "I was hyperventilating," says Thomson few to mention. time' i.th each other now than with their old sheepishly. "I was having trouble breathing, "People always ask if I had one wish, teammates. if you can believe that." would I take that pitch back," he says. "And And why wouldn't they like each other? I wouldn't. If there's one thing I could Who wouldn't like either one? These guys change it would be my injury. It's not the are so eminently likable you are pleased to SOLID WASTE METALS REDUCTION pitch that bothers me. It's that I never got meet them. You feel glad-grateful, even­ ACT to make up for it." that the principals of baseball's grand excla­ Branca fell from a chair in 1952 and hurt mation point are such hail fellows well met. his back. He played a few more years but was "Pals?" says Thomson, smiling. "I can't HON. HOW ARD WOLPE never the same. The promising pitcher who stand the guy." OF MICHIGAN won 21 games at age 21 finished his career at "I hate him, too," says Branca, sad eyes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a respectable 83-68. twinkling. Thursday, October 3, 1991 Thomson, a lifetime .270 hitter who was a These are shots heard 'round the room, un­ star in the late 1940s and early 1950s, lost derscored by affectionate laughter. Mr. WOLPE. Mr. Speaker, today I am joined some of his luster later. Thomson was traded by my colleagues Mr. ECKART, Mr. RINALDO, from team to team and might now be re­ THOMSON SURPRISED FEAT HAS BECOME and Mr. GREEN in introducing the Solid Waste membered as a journeyman, were it not for STUFF OF LEGEND Metals Reduction Act. This bill would require that one stirring journey around the bases. (By Erik Brady) the reduction and ultimate elimination from You've probably seen black-and-white film At a bit before 4 this afternoon it'll be 40 packing materials four toxic heavy metals; of his home run: the cat-quick swing, the lit­ years since Bobby Thomson's home run won lead, cadmium, mercury, and hexavalent chro­ tle skip as he approached first base, the two­ the 1951 National League pennant for the mium. The bill is similar to legislation devel­ footed jump onto home plate. And you've New York Giants against the Brooklyn probably heard the near-hysterical call of oped by the Coalition of Northeastern Gov­ Dodgers. ernors [CONEG] and has already been en­ broadcaster Russ Hodges. "The Giants win "I never imagined it would be talked about the pennant" he shouted four times. 40 years later," says Thomson. "We had to acted into law in the 10 States of Maine, Ver­ Roger Angell of The New Yorker calls that play the New York Yankees in the World Se­ mont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Con­ moment baseball's "grand exclamation ries the next day." necticut, New York, Iowa, Wisconsin, Min­ point." Tradition calls it something else­ The Yankees won the Series in six games. nesota, and Washington. the shot heard 'round the world. But the more amazing story is not what hap­ Solid waste management is a major concern It wasn't really that, of course. The names pened after Thomson's homer, but what hap­ Thomson and Branca mean little in Lithua­ of government, environmentalists and industry pened before it. alike. Past landfilling practices have caused nia, say, or even Scotland, where Thomson 1 The Dodgers led the Giants by 13 h games serious threats to public health and the envi­ was born. Aug. 11, but the Giants caught the Dodgers But echoes of that shot still can be heard to set up a three-game playoff. ronment. Almost 200 old landfills are on EPA's around North America 40 years after the The Giants won Game l, 3-1. Thomson hit Superfund list of the Nation's most hazardous fact. And isn't that the most remarkable a two-run homer off Dodgers pitcher Ralph waste sites, and incineration poses environ­ thing of all? Branca. Funny how foreshadowing can hap­ mental problems of its own. The actual and "It is to me," says Thomson. "I did a book pen in life as well as novels. potential hazards associated with landfills and fair not long ago, and everyone who came up, The Dodgers won Game 2 10--0 and they led incinerators are stalling the location of new the ones who were old enough, told me ex­ 4-1 in Game 3 as the Giants came to bat in disposal sites. Moreover, the costs to industry actly where they were when it happened. I the bottom of the ninth. guess until then I didn't know what this "(Dodger pitcher Don) Newcombe was of waste treatment and cleanup have become meant to people." cruising and, frankly, I thought we were staggering. Given all of these factors, it is only He knew what it meant at the time. The dead," says Thomson. "But then we started reasonable to conclude that the most desir­ Giants win the pennant. What he did not getting hi ts." able solid waste initiative is to reduce, as know, could not know, is what it would mean Alvin Dark singled, Don Mueller singled much as possible, the amount of waste pro­ 40 years later. Dark to third. Monte Irvin popped up. One duced in the first place. Branca didn't either. The ordeal was tough out. Whitely Lockman doubled down the These source reduction efforts must include enough then without seeing 40 years into the left-field line, scoring Dark and moving the reduction of the toxicity of the waste future. "Murderers, they get a life sentence Mueller to third. and they get parole in 20 years," he says. Mueller pulled a tendon rounding third. stream. In the case of heavy metal contamina­ "Me? I never get parole. Until they lay me in Thomson went to see about his fallen friend. tion of solid waste, which we are addressing the pine box, I'm never allowed to forget." Meanwhile, Branca came in from the bullpen with this bill, the threat to health and safety is There is no trace of bitterness in his voice. to relieve Newcombe. self-evident. Heavy metal contamination from There is a smile on his face. But his eyes­ "The injury to Mueller broke the tension incineration ash and from landfill leachate is sad, like a bloodhound's-betray some sor­ for me," says Thomson. "I watched as they poisoning our environment. Lead, mercury, row even now. carried him off on stretcher. Until I got back cadmium, and hexavalent chromium, which Why put himself through it? Why endure to the plate, I didn't even notice that they'd are currently used in packaging materials, are the interviews and card shows designed to re­ brought this guy in." What was Thomson mind him of the one moment he'd surely thinking? "I wanted to hit the ball hard," he among the chief offenders. They are respon­ rather forget? Another kind of guy would not says. "That's all. I wasn't thinking home sible for nervous system damage, mental re­ want to show up across the land with the run." tardation, and cancer. Leachate from landfills man who knocked his pitch out of the park. The first pitch zipped fast across the mid­ can and does poison our drinking and surface Another kind of guy would tire of playing dle. Strike one. water, and incineration emissions poison the second banana to history's hero. "I would have felt bad if he hit that one," air we breathe. With the removal of these four Branca shrugs. "I'm not that guy," he says Branca. toxic heavy metals from packaging materials, says. Branca wanted the next pitch out of the which comprise nearly 30 percent of the mu­ Thomson is a humble man who still moves strike zone, high and tight. He was setting with an athlete's grace. Branca is a gregar­ Thomson up for a curve down and away-the nicipal solid waste stream, we have an un­ ious man who tells mildly off-color jokes. third pitch that never came. precedented opportunity to prevent this toxic They o~en golf together. And there is some "I didn't get it inside far enough," he says. contamination of our environment at its justice-Branca usually wins. "It needed to be three more inches inside." source. 25558 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 Mr. Speaker, not only do we have a compel­ step to eliminate the addition of lead, mer­ els set forth in section 12002(b) but for the ling incentive to reduce these heavy metals cury, cadmium, and hexavalent chromium to addition of post-consumer materials. from packaging materials, we also have the packaging. "(b) PETITION PROCEDURE.-A manufac­ (6) The purpose of this Act is to achieve technology. Industry informs us that, in most turer, supplier, or distributor of packages such a reduction in toxicity without imped­ and packaging component may petition the cases, these contaminants can easily be re­ ing or discouraging the expanded use of post­ Environmental Protection Agency for a 2- placed by harmless substitutes. While industry consumer materials in the production of year exemption from section 12002 for a par­ has begun efforts to reduce these contami­ packaging and its components. ticular package and packaging component nants voluntarily, this legislation will reinforce SEC. 3. TOXIC METALS IN PACKAGING. on the basis of showing that the addition of and accelerate industry's effort to find and im­ (a) AMENDMENT TO SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL lead, cadmium, mercury, or hexavalent chro­ plement alternatives. Let this legislation inspire ACT.-The Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 mium to the package or packaging compo­ industry, government and environmental U.S.C. 6901 et seq.) is amended by adding at nent during the manufacturing, supply, or groups to work together to find and implement the end the following new subtitle: distribution process (1) is necessary to com­ Subtitle K-Toxic Metals in Packaging ply with health or safety requirements of feasible and cost-effective alternatives. Federal law, or (2) is essential for the protec­ In pursuit of this goal, the bill we are intro­ "SEC. 12001. DEFINITIONS. tion, safe handling, or function of the con­ ducing today would prohibit the intentional ad­ "As used in this subtitle: tents of the package. The Administrator dition of these substances 2 years after enact­ "(1) The term 'package' means a container may grant the exemption if warranted by the ment. In addition, instances in which these that provides a means of protecting or han­ circumstances. metals occur incidentally-for example, in resi­ dling a product, including a unit package, an "(c) TERMINATION OF EXEMPTIONS.-(1) Ex­ dues on printing presses or naturally-occurring intermediate package, a shipping container, cept as provided in paragraph (2), the exemp­ and unsealed receptacles, as defined by the amounts in tin-would be gradually phased tions referred to in subsections (a)(2) and American Society for Testing and Materials (a)(3) shall cease to be in effect on and after out to 600 ppm in 2 years, 250 ppm in 3 years under 1987 designation D996. The term in­ the expiration of the 6-year period following and 100 ppm in 4 years. It would allow ex­ cludes containers that provide a means of the date of the enactment of the Solid Waste emptions for packages made from recycled marketing a product, and receptacles such as Metals Reduction Act. materials and packages for which no feasible carrying cases, crates, cups, pails, rigid foil "(2) An exemption referred to in subsection alternative is available. Cases where the met­ and other trays, wrappers and wrapping (a)(2) or (a)(3) may be renewed for a des­ als are required to comply with Federal safety films, bags, and tubs. ignated time period after the 6-year period law or are essential for the protection and safe "(2) The term 'packaging component' specified in paragraph (1) if the Adminis­ means any individual assembled part of a handling or function of the package's contents, trator makes a determination under section package, including interior or exterior 12006 that the renewed exemption is war­ would fit the as feasible alternative exemption. blocking, bracing, cushioning, weatherproof­ ranted by the circumstances. The legislation would further require that ing, strapping, closures, labels, and tinplated "SEC. 12004. CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE. manufacturers, suppliers and distributors of steel that meets the American Society for ''(a) MANUFACTURER REQUIREMENTS.-(1) packages retain and present certificates of Testing and Materials 1987 specification Effective 2 years after the date of the enact­ compliance. Finally, the bill would require the A623, or any additive to a package, including ment of the Solid Waste Metals Reduction EPA to report on the effectiveness of the leg­ coatings, inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, Act, a manufacturer or supplier of a package islation and whether or not other materials and stabilizers. or packaging component shall certify, with "(3) The term 'distributor' means a person respect to each type of package or packaging should be prohibited from being used in pack­ who takes title to goods purchased from a aging. component manufactured or supplied, that manufacturer or supplier for sale or pro­ the package or component is in compliance Mr. Speaker, our bill enjoys a broad base of motional use. support from industry, State governments, and with the requirements of this subtitle, or, in "SEC. 12002. PROHIBITIONS ON CERTAIN HEAVY the case of a package or component that is environmentalists. Passage of this bill will fa­ METALS IN PACKAGING. exempt from the requirements of this sub­ cilitate one of the few, but hopefully ever-in­ "(a) PROHIBITION ON ADDITION OF METALS title pursuant to section 12003, the specific creasing, opportunities to promote successful DURING MANUFACTURING OR DISTRIBUTION.­ basis upon which the exemption is granted. cooperation among these groups. Let us dem­ Except as provided in section 12003, effective Such certification shall be contained in a onstrate how we can work together to seek 2 years after the date of the enactment of certificate of compliance signed by an au­ reasonable and cost-effective alternatives to the Solid Waste Metals Reduction Act, no thorized official of the manufacturer or sup­ person may intentionally introduce lead, plier. reduce toxic waste. cadmium, mercury, or hexavalent chromium I urge my colleagues to support this legisla­ "(2) A copy of the certificate shall be kept to a package or packaging component during on file by the manufacturer or supplier for as tion. manufacturing or distribution. long as the manufacturer or supplier contin­ I insert the Solid Waste Metals Reduction "(b) MAXIMUM CONCENTRATION LEVELS.­ ues to manufacture or supply such package Act in the RECORD. The sum of the concentration levels of lead, or packaging component. If the package or H.R.- cadmium, mercury, and hexavalent chro­ packaging component is reformulated or re­ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep­ mium present in a package or packaging placed, the certificate shall be kept on file resentatives of the United States of America in component may not exceed the following: until at least 1 year has expired after com­ Congress assembled, "(1) Effective 2 years after the date of the mencement of distribution of the reformu­ SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. enactment of Solid Waste Metals Reduction lated or replacement package or packaging This Act may be cited as the "Solid Waste Act, 600 parts per million by weight (0.06 per­ component. Metals Reduction Act". cent). "(3) manufacturer or supplier shall provide "(2) Effective 3 years after the date of the to each of its distributors a copy of each cer­ SEC. 2. FINDINGS. enactment of such Act, 250 parts per million The Congress finds the following: tificate of compliance required under para­ (1) The management of solid waste can by weight (0.025 percent). graph (1) for packages or packaging compo­ pose a wide range of hazards to public heal th "(3) Effective 4 years after the date of the nents purchased by the distributor. and safety and to the environment. enactment of such Act, 100 parts per million "(4) If the manufacturer or supplier of a (2) Packaging comprises a significant per­ by weight (0.01 percent). package or packaging component reformu­ centage of the overall solid waste stream. SEC. 12003. EXEMPI'IONS. lates or creates a new package or packaging (3) Packaging that contains heavy metals "(a) EXEMPT PACKAGES AND PACKAGING component, the manufacturer or supplier is of special concern, because the metals are COMPONENTS.-Section 12002 does not apply shall provide an amended or new certificate likely to be present in emissions or ash that to the following packages and packaging of compliance for the reformulated or new may be produced when the packaging is in­ components: package or packaging component, in the cinerated or in leachate that may be pro­ "(1) Packages and packaging components same manner as the original certificate was duced when the packaging is disposed of in a with a code indicating that date of manufac­ provided under paragraph (1). landfill. ture was prior to the effective date of section "(b) DISTRIBUTOR REQUIREMENTS.-Effec­ (4) Lead, mercury, cadmium, and 12002. tive 2 years after the date of the enactment hexavalent chromium, on the basis of avail­ "(2) Packages and packaging components of the Solid Waste Metals Reduction Act, a able scientific and medical evidence, are exempted by petition under subsection (b). distributor of packages or packaging compo­ known to cause harmful effects on human "(3) Packages and packaging components nents shall request from the manufacturer or health and the environment. containing lead, cadmium, mercury, or supplier of the packages or components the (5) To reduce the toxicity of emissions, hexavalent chromium in amounts that would relevant certificates of compliance and shall ash, and leachate, it is necessary as a first not exceed the maximum concentration lev- keep such certificates on file for as long as October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25559 the distributor continues to distribute such spect to toxic metals in packaging that is he endorsed a black candidate for lieutenant package or packaging component. more stringent than a standard or require­ governor and later governor. "(c) AVAILABILITY.-(1) The manufacturer, ment relating to toxic metals in packaging Mr. Philpott reigned in the assembly as supplier, or distributor of a package or pack­ established or promulgated under this sub­ Virginia moved away from courthouse poli­ aging component shall provide certificates of title.". tics and into the era of the golden crescent compliance, or copies thereof, to the Envi­ (b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.-The table of dominance on state issues and priorities. Yet ronmental Protection Agency upon its re­ contents for the Solid Waste Disposal Act his influence grew, as he learned who was quest and to members of the public within 60 (contained in section 1001 of such Act) is who and which buttons to push to get things days after requested in accordance with amended by adding at the end the following done in Richmond. paragraph (2). new items: The results of getting things done are visi­ "(2) A request from a member of the public Subtitle K-Toxic Metals in Packaging ble in the growth of Patrick Henry Commu­ for a copy of a certificate of compliance from nity College's campus, the Virginia Museum the manufacturer, supplier, or distributor of "Sec. 12001. Definitions. "Sec. 12002. Prohibitions on certain heavy of Natural History's acceptance as a state a package or packaging component shall- agency, and the planned U.S. 58 super­ "(A) be made in writing, with a copy pro­ metals in packaging. "Sec. 12003. Exemptions. highway project. vided to the Administrator; and However, the signs of his influence are not "(B) specify the package or packaging "Sec. 12004. Certificate of compliance. "Sec. 12005. Enforcement. just left in bricks and mortar, but can be component with respect to which compliance told by the many people he helped over the is certified in the requested certificate. "Sec. 12006. Regulations and review by the Environmental Protection years. Whether it was helping to secure SEC. 12005. ENFORCEMENT. Agency. scholarships for a son or daughter of our "(a) AUTHORITIES OF ADMINISTRATOR.­ "Sec. 12007. Non-preemption.". area, helping a deserving student further his Whenever on the basis of any information education, or supporting business in its deal­ the Administrator determines that any per­ ings with Richmond, Mr. Philpott, the son has violated or is in violation of this sub­ Speaker of the House, was our spokesman in title, the Administrator may issue an order PHILPOTT LEFT LEGACY TO US Richmond. assessing a civil penalty for any past or cur­ Mr. Philpott knew that nurturing and rent violation, requiring compliance imme­ HON. LF. PAYNE helping businesses-retail, industry, bank­ diately or within a specified time period, or OF VIRGINIA ing, insurance and others-meant fostering both, or the Administrator may commence a jobs for local residents as well as those state­ civil action in the United States district IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wide. Just as a decade ago if you had a prob­ court in the district in which the violation Thursday, October 3, 1991 lem with the federal government, you called occurred for appropriate relief, including a Fifth District U.S. Rep. W.C. "Dan" Daniel, temporary or permanent injunction. Mr. PAYNE of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, on Sat­ for the past years if you had a problem with "(b) CIVIL PENALTIES.-(1) Any person who urday, September 28, 1991, A.L. Philpott, the state government, you called Mr. Philpott. violates any requirement of this subtitle Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates In both cases, problems were solved. shall be liable to the United States for a civil died after a 20-year battle with cancer. So what happens to this area now, without penalty in an amount not to exceed $25,000 He will be missed. the influence of the Speaker? A newcomer to for each such violation. Each day a violation The Commonwealth of Virginia owes A.L. elected state office will succeed him. Our continues shall constitute a separate viola­ Philpott an enormous debt of gratitude for his state legislators certainly will have to work tion. hard to make sure this area does not become "(2) Any person who willfully violates, or many years of public service, first as Henry the step-child of the golden crescent power, fails or refuses to comply with, any order of County Commonwealth Attorney, later as a with far fewer bargaining chips than Mr. the Administrator under subsection (a) may, delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates, Philpott stored up in his 33 years in state in an action brought in the appropriate Unit­ and finally as Speaker. government and didn't hesitate to use when ed States district court to enforce such He will be missed in Southside, VA, which necessary to fight for what he believed was order, be fined not more than $25,000 for each he served so ably throughout his long and dis­ best. day in which such violation occurs or such tinguished career. But Del. Roscoe Reynolds and Sen. Virgil failure to comply continues. He will be missed in Richmond. Goode are not the only people in Richmond "SEC. 12008. REGULATIONS AND REVIEW BY THE watching out for the best interests of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION I have known no one in public life who was Martinsville, Henry County and Patrick AGENCY. more decent, honest, or more effective than County. Mary Sue Terry of Patrick County "(a) REGULATIONS.-Not later than 1 year A.L. Philpott. He was an inspiration to me and is attorney general and expected to run for after the date of the enactment of the Solid to many others in Virginia who have chosen to governor; Jay Shropshire of Martinsville is Waste Metals Reduction Act, the Adminis­ enter public life. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder's chief of staff, and trator shall promulgate regulations to im­ Mr. Speaker. I would like to share an edi­ Elizabeth Haskell of Martinsville is sec­ plement this subtitle. torial from the Martinsville, VA Bulletin. retary of natural resources. And former Gov. "(b) REVIEW.-The Administrator shall re­ Gerald Baliles, a native of Patrick County, view their effectiveness of this subtitle not [From the Martinsville Bulletin, September has friends with influence. later than 42 months after the date of the en­ 29, 1991) Perhaps that was one of Mr. Philpott's actment of the Solid Waste Metals Reduc­ PHILPOTT LEFT LEGACY To Us most important legacies-the people he tion Act and shall report to the Congress the With Saturday's death of House Speaker helped settle in Richmond, taught the politi­ results of such review. The report shall con­ A.L. Philpott, we have lost a friend, a guard­ cal ropes, and saw climb to positions of influ­ tain (1) a recommendation on whether to ian, a mentor to leaders, and a state leader ence. They may be the ones who, now that renew for a designated time period either or the likes of whom we never may see again in our friend is gone, can carry on the tradi­ both of the exemptions referred to in sub­ our lifetimes. tions of A.L. Philpott. sections (a)(2) and (a)(3) of section 12003, and Mr. Philpott died three days after he an­ (2) a description of the nature of the sub­ nounced he would withdraw from the Nov. 5 stitutes used in lieu of lead, mercury, cad­ House race. His final public gesture had sig­ THE NATIONAL EYE CARE mium and hexavalent chromium in packag­ naled a changing of the guard at the General PROJECT HELPS SENIORS KEEP ing and packaging components. In carrying Assembly, and changing times for this area's THEIR SIGHT out the review, the Administrator may re­ influence in Richmond. quest from a person subject to this subtitle, Since arriving at the state Capitol in 1958, and the person shall provide, such informa­ Mr. Philpott had built a reputation for being HON. RICHARD J. DURBIN tion as may be necessary to complete the re­ a conservative, although when he was elect­ OF ILLINOIS view. The report may contain recommenda­ ed House Speaker on Jan. 9, 1980, he de­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions to add other toxic substances con­ scribed himself as "fundamentally a tradi­ tained in packaging and packaging compo­ tionalist." Thursday, October 3, 1991 nents to the substances covered by this sub­ Yet he was a traditionalist who could title in order to further reduce the toxicity Mr. DURBIN. Mr. Speaker, everyone needs change with the times, and the past 33 years access to eye care to maintain their sight, but of packaging waste. have been interesting times in the Common­ "SEC. 1200'7. NON-PREEMPnON. wealth of Virginia. This was a man who kept not everyone can afford it. In particular, many Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed a proposed Martin Luther King holiday away of our Nation's senior citizens are on fixed in­ as prohibiting a State from enacting and en­ from a House vote for eight years but later comes and may not be able to afford the forcing a standard or requirement with re- played a pivotal role in state politics when copayments associated with eye examina- 25560 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 tions. Without such examinations, they may be services of the NECP. There are over 8,900 lo­ IN HONOR OF DR. JENNIFER HICKS vulnerable to a variety of eye diseases that cations nationwide where volunteer ophthal­ can cost them their sight. mologists will see NECP patients. HON. MIKE FSPY That is why I would like to commend our HOW DOES THE PROGRAM WORK OF MISSISSIPPI Nation's State Ophthalmological Societies and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Foundation of the American Academy of The program works like this: The public Ophthalmology for its National Eye Care may hear about the toll-free Helpline num­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 ber through a newspaper story, a radio an­ project. For the past 5 years, ophthalmologists Mr. ESPY. Mr. Speaker, today, I am nouncement, a television public service an­ pleased to recognize a woman, and a per­ associated with the National Eye Care project nouncement, or through a senior citizen or have been providing volunteer eye care at no Area Aging center. Those who call will reach sonal friend, whose career of service to the out-of-pocket cost to low-income senior citi­ an operator and be asked a few questions to people of Vicksburg and west central Mis­ zens. determine eligibility. This information is en­ sissippi is an impressive example of dedica­ Across the country, the project has received tered into a computer. tion and commitment to those who are most more than a quarter-million calls on its toll-free For those who are eligible and would like vulnerable in our society. helpline, 1-80~222-EYES. If they are eligible to see an ophthalmologist, the computer will For the last 8 years, Dr. Jennifer Hicks has for the assistance of this program, patients are match the caller to the volunteer ophthal­ served the people of Mississippi with compas­ referred to an ophthalmologist who will con­ mologist nearest the caller's home. Each re­ sion. The only woman obstetrician-gyne­ duct an eye examination. ferred caller is mailed a letter which pro­ cologist in Vicksburg, at last count she had In Illinois alone, 4,290 patients were seen vides the name of the ophthalmologist to delivered more than 600 babies in our com­ by a doctor who volunteered to waive any call and provides details about guidelines of munity. She has worked tirelessly, for those charges not covered by insurance. Of these the project. Each volunteer physician is who have much, as well as for those who patients, 2,279 had cataracts, 225 were diag­ mailed a diagnosis form listing the patient's have little. Yet, she has always given every nosed with glaucoma, 94 were diagnosed with name, which alerts the doctor that the pa­ mother and child the same love, the same tient will be calling. diabetic retinopathy, and 482 had macular de­ care, the same consideration. generation. All of these eye diseases can Those who wish information only are Now that Dr. Hicks is leaving Vicksburg, I cause blindness. In addition, many other eye mailed an easy-to-read brochure about eye want to share with the Congress the following diseases and problems were identified. diseases of the aging. Those who are not eli­ article by Leslie Criss, from a recent issue of Mr. Speaker, in the absence of the National gible are also provided with information the Vicksburg Evening Post. Ms. Criss elo­ about how to contact a local ophthalmol­ Eye Care project, many of these elderly pa­ quently summarizes Dr. Hicks' love for and ogist if they desire a second opinion. (The contributions to our community, and also how tients would have needlessly lost their vision. NECP is not designed to serve as a second But the National Eye Care project was there to opinion program.) much we all will miss her. help them keep their sight. DR. JENNIFER HICKS I commend the Illinois Association of Oph­ WHAT CARE WILL PATIENTS RECEIVE WHEN THEY (By Leslie Criss) thalmology, the other State Ophthalmological VISIT THE OPHTHALMOLOGIST "You can't go home again." Societies, and the Foundation of the American Every patient will be given a comprehen­ Thomas Wolfe wrote it. But Jennifer Hicks didn't believe it. Academy of Ophthalmology for their foresight sive medical examination for eye diseases to And home she came. in establishing this program, and I hope that determine what care may be necessary to Back to the family who supported her they will continue to offer this important serv­ protect the patient's vision. (This is not an dream of becoming a doctor. ice for many years to come. I ask that their eyeglasses program.) Those with previously A carpenter father and an educator mother summary of the National Eye Care project be undetected eye disease will be provided care who taught her to trample the limitations for whatever condition or disease is diag­ printed in the RECORD so that others may be placed on her by those who didn't under- nosed. (A caller may mistakenly say he or made aware of its availability. stand. · she does not have an ophthalmologist, but is Home. 1-800-222-EYES-THE NATIONAL EYE CARE actually under the care of one. These pa­ "Because I wanted to give something PROJECT tients will be referred back to their regular back," she has said. WHAT IS THE NATIONAL EYE CARE PROJECT ophthalmologist,) So for the last eight years she has given. CNECP) And given. The NECP is a public service program IS THERE A COST TO NECP PATIENTS With patience. With compassion. sponsored by the State Ophthalmological So­ Not usually. Services rendered by a volun­ With commitment. cieties and the Foundation of American teer ophthalmologist are provided at no out­ And with little relief. Academy of Ophthalmology, and is designed of-pocket expense to the patient. Each vol­ These days, with mixed emotions, Dr. to provide medical eye care for those who unteer has agreed to bill the patient's Medi­ Hicks prepares to pack up her Vicksburg might otherwise go without. The primary care or other insurance, and for this program memories and head down the Muddy Mis­ purpose of the project is to help reduce the only, accept this as payment in full. The vol­ sissippi to New Orleans. number of blinding eye diseases which occur unteer physician will not bill the patient for In mid-October she will close her medical in the 65 and older population, more than 50 the remaining amount (the coinsurance or practice at the Olivia House and her years as percent of new cases of blindness occur in any unmet deductible). This is provided at Vicksburg's only woman obstetrician-gyne­ this age group each year. no charge. cologist will come to an end. Over a quarter million calls have been re­ For those without insurance or means to When Dr. Hicks and her daughter Brandis ceived and more than 165,000 patients have move to New Orleans, she will join the fac­ been referred to ophthalmologists for care. pay, volunteer services are provided at no cost. ulty of Tulane Medical School and will also HOW DO CITIZENS BECOME ELIGIBLE TO be involved in a medical practice in an on­ PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM There are circumstances whereby a patient campus clinic. To serve those who most need medical eye may be responsible for payment to someone The decision to leave here wasn't made care, volunteer ophthalmologists are provid­ other than the volunteer ophthalmologist. overnight. And it wasn't made easily. ing care for U.S. citizens or legal residents The following services are not covered: But the decision made, Dr. Hicks is re­ who are 65 and older and do not have access signed to leaving. Eye glasses, contact lenses, and prescrip­ Her years in Vicksburg, practicing alone, to an ophthalmologist they may have seen in tion drugs. the pa.st. Although there is no financial qual­ have not been easy. But when she speaks of ification for the program, the emphasis of Hospital services (which the hospital the babies she has delivered, at last count 600 the project is on helping those without pre­ charges for). or more in five years, her eyes sparkle and vious access to a medical eye physician (an Associated services of another medical pro­ her smile becomes contagious. ophthalmologist) and on helping those who fessional, such as an anesthesiologist, etc. From her very first delivery, she knew she may be without the means to pay. had found her calling. It is important that patients have a clear At first the doctor tried to deliver babies HOW MANY OPIITHALMOLOGISTS HAVE understanding of possible charges. All callers at both hospitals, but after having a patient VOLUNTEERED who receive a referral are mailed an informa­ at each hospital at the same time in the More than 7,400 physicians have volun­ tion sheet which provides details about same stage of labor, she realized her hands teered to care for seniors who may need the project guidelines. were full. October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25561 Especially when Sheriff Paul Barrett sent TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH L. COLOSIMO 1270, my bill applies to all businesses, regard­ word to her that she was going to have to AND FANNY PIEMONTESE: less of size, and requires businesses to give slow down on her treks between hospitals. "CHAMPIONS OF ITALIAN HERIT­ rehiring preferences to employees who take Along the way, she may have tried to take AGE" leave for up to 6 years to care for a child or on far too much. But she made a commit­ for up to 2 years to care for a seriously ill fam­ ment to care-for everyone-not just for ily member. those who were well-educated, well-dressed HON. ELIOT L ENGEL and could easily pay their bills. OF NEW YORK In addition, my bill would also provide a re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hiring preference for employees who take So they sought her outr--indigent patients leave for up to 2 years for their own serious from a four- and often five-county area. And Thursday, October 3, 1991 she took them in. illness, or for up to 1 year to participate in a Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay qualified educational program. It's a shame in this world today that altru­ tribute to two outstanding members of the Under the provisions of my bill, an em­ ism is rarely rewarded. In some instances it may even be suicidal. Yonkers community, Mr. Joseph L. Colosimo ployee who takes leave is granted a pref­ and Mrs. Fanny Piemontese. On Friday erential rehire status and is entitled to be rein­ And Jennifer Hicks is tired. evening, October 4, 1991, both Mr. Colosimo stated in the original or a similar position, if The help that could have been offered and Mrs. Piemontese will be individually hon­ one is available. If an appropriate position is never came. ored by the Yonkers Columbus Day Celebra­ not open when the employee applies for reem­ When she inquired on more than one occa­ tion Committee at the annual dinner dance in ployment, the employee is entitled to the first sion about a possible place for her in one of recognition of their many contributions and ef­ similar position which becomes available, and the local clinics, the response was always po­ lite. But it was always the same. forts on behalf of the Yonkers and Italian­ the employer must give the employee notice American communities. of all similar positions which become available Now the responsibility to care for the Mr. Colosimo has been actively involved in for a period of 1 year. In order to be eligible "least of these" will rest with others, who, too late, may discover what a treasure once the Yonkers community since 1960, donating for leave, an employee must have worked for walked among them. his skills and time to such organizations as the 2,000 hours during the previous 14-month pe­ When I moved to Vicksburg two years ago, Yonkers Junior Chamber of Commerce and riod. I was impressed to find not one, but two hos­ the Yonkers Urban Renewal Committee. Businesses would be allowed to deny rein­ pitals, and enough physicians to circle a cou­ Through the years, he has continued his civic statement to an employee if circumstances ple of city blocks in most small communities involvement to include the chairmanship of the had so changed during the period of leave as in the state. Columbus Day celebration committee, trustee to make reemployment unreasonable, or if the It's nice to know qualified physicians are of the Westchester County Medical Center employee was subject to disciplinary action at available, but, personally, I'd rather have and member of the order Sons of Italy. the time leave was requested. In addition, root canal work done every day of the week Mrs. Piemontese has also played an active businesses with 50 or more employees may than see a medical doctor. and varied role as a community leader. She deny reinstatement to the highest paid 1O per­ As a kid I suffered from too many sore has selflessly given her time and talents to cent of employees or 5 highest paid employ­ throats to count, so I visit our family doctor such causes as the Sicilian Disaster Relief ees, if necessary to prevent substantial and quite often. Fund, the United Fund of Yonkers and Big grievous economic harm to the employer's op­ I remember all too well his nurse Elmira's Brother-Big Sisters of Yonkers. Through the erations. coming into the room, hypodermic hidden years she has also played an important role My bill also provides greater flexibility for behind her back, while the doctor spouted off as chairperson of the Benefit Shop of St. employers and employees in defining the some nonsense about a "little bug bite." John's Riverside Hospital, county chairman of terms of employment benefit packages, effec­ Perhaps it was then and there my aversion the Yonkers Cancer Society and member of tively creating a cafeteria plan of benefits. Ab­ to those in white coats began. But those the board of trustees of the Enrico Fermi sent coercion, the employer and employee fears ended the day I met Jennifer Hicks. Scholarship Fund. can agree in writing to vary the requirements Taking time she really didn't have to Mr. Speaker, I ask all of my colleagues to and conditions of the reemployment rights or spare, she sat down with me and talked. And join me in congratulating Mr. Colosimo and substitute another arrangement or employment before I left her office, we talked some more. Mrs. Piernontese for their leadership and fine benefit package. Realizing that I had not been to medical efforts that have benefited the Yonkers com­ Most importantly, my bill would grant em­ school, she explained things in a way I could munity. They both certainly deserve the honor ployers an important tax incentive in the form understand. And when I talked, she listened of an additional 50-percent deduction of the patiently, even though her waiting room was bestowed upon them as "champions of Italian overflowing. heritage." cost of providing certain employee benefits­ including health care coverage, educational She is eminently qualified as a profes­ sional. Of that there is no question. benefits, sick leave, child care, salary and THE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AND pension benefits-in order to encourage em­ But even more reassuring are her qualifica­ JOB SECURITY ACT ployers to provide such benefits. tions as a human being. She is kind and gentle. She is selfless and warm. And though SUMMARY OF THE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AND she has ample reason to be bitter, her sense HON. MICHAEL BILlRAKIS JOB SECURITY ACT of humor thrives. OF FLORIDA CONDITIONS OF LEAVE Regardless of her circumstances, she has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The bill grants employees unpaid leave for never been a quitter. She is a survivor. up to six years to care for a child, for up to Thursday, October 3, 1991 two years because of serious illness or to I, for one, am thankful that in this South Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, this week, I in­ care for a seriously ill family member, or for of my birth I had parents who taught me up to one year to participate in a qualified along the way that differences in people troduced H.R. 3443, the Employee Benefits and Job Security Act, as an alternative to educational program. make life more interesting. And an artist An employee who takes leave is granted a mother who showed me that every color on mandatory unpaid leave. This legislation is de­ "preferential rehire" status and is entitled her palette was important to the outcome of signed to provide job security for employees to be reinstated in the original or a similar the big picture. who take leave from work for a legitimate per­ position, if one is available. I am grateful for the opportunity to know sonal reason, to encourage employers to con­ Upon reinstatement, the employee retains Jennifer Hicks as my physician and as my tribute toward the costs of leave-related ex­ any seniority and benefits accrued before friend. penses, and to provide greater flexibility for taking leave. Vicksburg's loss is truly a gain for the peo­ employers and employees in selecting benefit The employee has the burden of proof in ple of New Orleans. showing that he or she is qualified to assume packages, regardless of the size of the com­ the position in question. I just hope she will continue to believe pany. If an appropriate position is not open when that Thomas Wolfe was consummately My bill is similar in approach to the Amer­ the employee applies for reemployment, the wrong. ican Family Protection Act-H.R. 1270--intro­ employee is entitled to the first similar posi­ You can come home again. duced by Representative STENHOLM. Like H.R. tion which becomes available, and the em- 25562 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 ployer must give the employee notice of all Only 32 schools nationwide were great win­ Stokes and Meg Oberlin, director of staff de­ similar positions which become available for ners of the national Exemplary School Award, velopment and student services for Traverse a period of one year. Traverse City having been recognized in City schools. ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES 1983-84. But then that is the kind of excel­ An autumn rain forced the cancellation of a planned White House ceremony and the In order to be eligible for leave, an em­ lence that is an ongoing picture: a montage of ployee must have worked for 2,000 hours dur­ President instead delivered his address in the supportive citizens, capable and dedicated ad­ hotel ballroom where the teachers gathered ing the previous 14 month period. ministrators and teachers, involved parents, An employee must provide the employer 30 for the awards ceremony. days written notice of his.!her intent to take and, of course, enthusiastic and interested "We had planned on hosting you all on the leave, unless impossible. students. White House lawn, and here I am the one The provisions of the bill apply to employ­ That is a winning combination, and in this making the field trip," Bush quipped. ees in all businesses, regardless of the num­ case the winners are all us, because such a Bush also paid special tribute to the 32 school produces young folks who are ready schools, including Traverse City Junior ber of employees. High, that were being honored for the second EXEMPTIONS for the challenges of high school and adoles­ time. The school was also selected as an out­ Businesses would be allowed to deny rein­ cence. With a solid foundation, they can pre­ standing institution in the 1983-84 school statement to an employee if circumstances pare themselves during their high school years year. had so changed during the period of leave as for whatever future they seek, and be con­ "We're glad that we maintained the excel­ to make reemployment unreasonable, or if fident of continued success. lence,'' said Bates of the schools repeat suc­ the employee was subject to disciplinary ac­ Because success does breed success. At cess. "The biggest factor is the staff. Our tion prior to leave. the institutional level, clearly, the Traverse City staff is just flatout outstanding." Businesses with 50 or more employees may Junior High School continues to succeed, in­ The Traverse City school was one of the deny reinstatement to the highest paid 10 few to be doubly honored at the ceremony, percent of employees or 5 highest paid em­ deed to excel. At the student level we know being one of only 25 schools nationwide rec­ ployees, if necessary to prevent "substantial that the young people who benefit from this ognized for it's outstanding fine arts pro­ and grievous economic harm" to the employ­ excellence, and who are a part of it, will take grams. Those schools, selected by the Na­ er's operations. sound study habits, an enthusiasm for learn­ tional Endowment for the Arts, were chosen SUBSTITUTION/WAIVER ing, and a sense of community into their form­ for using art to teach "creative problem Absent coercion, the employer and em­ ative young adult years. And the fact that, solving, self expression, and understanding of ployee can agree in writing to vary the re­ combined with overall educational excellence, world cultures," according to NEA Chairman the Traverse City experience brings a sensitiv­ John Frohnmayer. quirements and conditions of the reemploy­ "These 25 schools are now models as to ment rights or substitute another arrange­ ity to the arts means that these young people how the arts can be integrated into other ment or employment benefit package. will bring a well-rounded openness to beauty areas." Frohnmayer said at the awards cere­ REMEDIES as well as books. mony. An aggrieved employee can file a charge We in Michigan's Ninth Congressional Dis­ with the Department of Labor and may file trict are proud of the Traverse City community a civil action directly against the employer and of this very special achievement. The Tra­ H.R. 3033, JOB TRAINING REFORM if the DOL is unable to resolve the com­ verse City Eagle details the story of the AMENDMENTS plaint. awards, past and present, of the Traverse City Damages in a civil action are limited to the amount of lost back pay and benefits, Junior High School. I offer this narrative for HON. CARL C. PERKINS plus reasonable attorney's fees. the review of my colleagues and ask that they OF KENTUCKY join me in a hearty congratulations. TAX INCENTIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES [From the Traverse City Record Eagle, Sept. The bill would grant employers an addi­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 tional 50 percent tax deduction of the cost of 26, 1991] providing certain employee benefits (includ­ TC JUNIOR HIGH OFFICIALS GET PRESIDENTIAL Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, the Committee ing health care coverage, educational bene­ PRAISE on Education and Labor has reported to the fits, sick leave, child care, salary and pen­ (By Steve Hendrix) House H.R. 3033, the job training reform sion benefits), in order to encourage employ­ WASHINGTON.-Traverse City Junior High amendments, a bill to reform and restructure ers to provide such benefits. School officials, for the second time in seven the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 years, traveled here to receive presidential [JTPA]. It is anticipated that this measure will congratulations for their educational suc­ cess. be scheduled for consideration under "suspen­ ANOTHER GREAT ACCOMPLISH­ sion of the rules" on Monday, October 7. MENT BY TRAVERSE CITY JUN­ At a lunch banquet Wednesday, four junior high teachers and administrators joined H.R. 3033 retains the public-private partner­ IOR HIGH SCHOOL'S STUDENTS, their counterparts from all 222 "Blue Ribbon ship that forms the basic delivery system for FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION Schools" named by the Bush Administration JTPA, and preserves the emphasis on pro­ as the best of the nation's schools for the gram outcomes through the use of revised HON. GUY VANDER JAGT 1990-91 school year. performance standards. Throughout the bill an President Bush, joined by his wife Barbara OF MICHIGAN and U.S. Secretary of Education Lamar Al­ emphasis is placed on serving the hard-to­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES exander, told educators that honoring their serve, with barriers to employment in addition Thursday, October 3, 1991 success was part of his effort to improve edu­ to their poverty. Longer, more comprehensive cation throughout the country. services, are mandated with an assessment Mr.VANDERJAGT. Mr. Speaker, to be the "Part of reform is shining a spotlight on and service strategy provided for each partici­ best. We all strive, a very few succeed. Even the schools that work, on the people that pant. The Secretary, in consultation with the fewer can claim to be among the very best make them work," Bush said. "You are the inspector general, would be required to issue success stories. We're charting a new course twice in a decade. detailed procurement standards to address the But then very few schools are like Traverse for our nation's schools and you are the pio­ neers." numerous program integrity abuses reported City Junior High School. At a ceremony at Schools win the blue ribbon designation over the last few years. which President George Bush and First Lady after a lengthy review process that includes In anticipation of any questions Members Barbara Bush recognized the U.S. Department nomination by state education departments, may have on this bipartisan legislation, I am of Education's 1990-91 Blue Ribbon National school visits by national officials and, ulti­ including with this statement a summary that Exemplary Schools, the Traverse City school mately, selection by the Secretary of Edu­ has been prepared by my staff on the Sub­ received awards from not only Education Sec­ cation. Winning schools receive a plaque and committee on Employment Opportunities. a "Blue Ribbon" flag to fly for the coming retary Lamar Alexandar, but also from John SUMMARY OF H.R. 3033, THE JOB TRAINING Frohnmayer, the Chairman of the National En­ year and, of course, two days of pomp and ceremony in the nation's capital. REFORM AMENDMENTS dowment for the Arts. You see, the Traverse "It's the highlight of my teaching career," H.R. 3033 to the Job Training Partnership City Junior High School is also one of the 25 said reading teacher Shirley Forton, who at­ Act (JTPA) makes a number of improve­ outstanding schools in the Nation for integrat­ tended the ceremony along with Assist.ant ments and modifications. This legislation is ing arts into the curriculum. Principal Steve Bates, choir director Tom designed to reform and strengthen the Act's October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25563 services for economically disadvantaged STATE SET-ASIDES ments to ensure that these requirements do adults and youth. Of the funds appropriated for title IIA and not discourage program participation. The H.R. 3033 retains the public/private part­ TIC, 19 percent will be set-aside at the state establishment of uniform standards and nership that forms the basic delivery system level for the following activities: 6 percent automated intake procedures are encour­ for JTPA, and preserves the emphasis on for incentive grants to local SDAs who have aged. program outcomes through the use of revised exceeded all performance standards while The bill adds a new requirement that any performance standards. Throughout the bill also exceeding performance standards for the additional state or SDA imposed rule, regu­ an emphasis is placed on serving the hard-to­ hard-to-serve; 5 percent for state administra­ lation, policy. or performance standard re­ serve, with barriers to employment in addi­ tion and monitoring of programs; and 8 per­ lating to this program must be identified as tion to their poverty. Longer, more com­ cent for state education coordination and a state or SDA imposed requirement. prehensive services, are mandated with an grants. ON-THE-JOB TRAINING assessment and service strategy provided for The existing 3 percent state set-aside for The bill limits on-the-job training (OJT) to each participant. The Secretary, in consulta­ older worker programs would be replaced 6 months and prohibits SDAs from contract­ tion with the Inspector General, would be re­ with a requirement at the local level that at ing with employers who have exhibited a quired to issue detailed procurement stand­ least 8 percent of an SDAs funds under title pattern of failing to provide OJT partici­ ards to address the numerous program integ­ IIA be targeted at participants aged 55 or pants with continued long-term employment rity abuses reported over the last few years. older. as regular employees with wages and bene­ ADULT AND YOUTH PROGRAMS ASSESSMENT fits at the same level. H.R. 3033 separates the year round youth The education, skill level, and service ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES services provided in the existing title IIA needs of each title IIA and IIC participant The legislation prohibits the use of funds adult and youth program into a new title IIC will be assessed, and a service strategy must for activities such as: economic develop­ youth program. To be eligible for services be developed. In these two titles, each partic­ ment, employment generating activities, re­ under title IIA, individuals must be economi­ ipant must be provided, directly or through volving loan funds, contract bidding resource cally disadvantaged adults age 22 or older, arrangement, the education, skills training centers, and other activities that do not re­ and at least 60 percent of these adults must and supportive services necessary when the sult in the direction creation of jobs in have at least one prescribed barrier to em­ assessment indicates such a need. which JTPA participants are placed. No ployment in addition to poverty. As in cur­ In title IIB each participant must be as­ funds under title II or m are to be used for rent law, 10 percent of these participants sessed for basic skills and support services. foreign travel. No funds shall be used to as­ may be non-economically disadvantaged if Other assessment tools are encouraged, as is sist or encourage business relocations. If they face at least one other barrier to em­ the development of a service strategy. such a violation is alleged the Secretary ployment. In title IIA and IIC, each SDA shall ensure shall consult with the appropriate labor, The proposed title TIC program for youth, that each applicant who meets the minimum business, and public agencies in making a de­ aged 16 through 21, will have the similar eli­ income eligibility criteria be provided infor­ termination of whether a violation has oc­ gibility requirements to the adults listed above. High school dropouts under the age of mation on all appropriate services along curred. with a referral to other appropriate pro­ PERFORMANCE STAND ARDS 18, however, must return to school or some grams to meet the applicant's basic skills form of alternative educational program as a H.R. 3033 amends adult and youth perform­ part of their participation in JTPA. Of the and training needs. ance standards to include employability title IIC participants, 60 percent must be COST CATEGORIES competencies, such as the attainment of a out-of-school. With limited exceptions, a Under current law, SDAs must spend at high school diploma or its equivalent. The governor may lower the service delivery area least 70 percent of their funds on training ac­ bill mandates that each Governor adjust the (SDA) requirement to a minimum of 40 per­ tivities, with a maximum of 15 percent on standards to reflect economic, geographic, cent. These exceptions are: a dropout rate of administration, and the remainder on sup­ demographic and other different factors in less than 10 percent, or excluding from the port services. This bill proposes a minimum the state and SDAs. computation of the 60/40 percent ratio all of of 50 percent be spent on direct training ac­ H.R. 3033 amends the incentive grants to the in-school youth served in a schoolwide tivities, a maximum of 20 percent on emphasize exceeding performance in services project. adminsitration, and the remaining 30 percent to the hard-to-serve, or those with additional Schoolwide projects are authorized under or less on support services and training-re­ barriers to employment. The Secretary is re­ title IIC to target in-school youth in neigh­ lated services. quired to establish uniform criteria defining borhoods with a poverty rate over 30 percent. Each of these categories is defined, includ­ failure to meet performance standards by an In these high poverty areas, in high schools ing the addition of work experience, counsel­ SDA. where at least 75 percent of the students face ing, assessment, and case management into The legislation requires the Governor to the additional barriers to employment listed the training category, and the inclusion of report final performance for each SDA, and in title TIC, the entire school would be eligi­ financial assistance in the support services on his or her plans to provide technical as­ ble for services without income certifying definition. With limited prescribed excep­ sistance to SDAs failing to meet these stand­ each individual youth. tions, all costs must be charged to the appro­ ards. The Governor is required to notify the The title IIB Summer Youth program will priate cost category. Secretary of continued failure (2 program years), along with plans for reorganizing and retain the same eligibility requirements as PROCUREMENT in current law. Language is added to this restructuring the SDA and the private indus­ part to encourage the concurrent enrollment The Secretary is required to prescribe reg­ try council. If the Governor fails to address or transfer of summer youth into the title ulations establishing detailed, uniform pro­ the SDA's failure to meet performance TIC year round youth program. curement standards and cost principles to standards, the Secretary shall withhold one­ ensure fiscal accountability and prevent FUNDING fifth of the five percent state's administra­ waste, fraud and abuse in these programs. In tion set-aside to provide these services. The bill includes a declaration of policy establishing these standards the Secretary that encourages the expansion of the title II shall consult with the Inspector General and DATA COLLECTION program by increasing funds by at least 10 take into consideration the relevant OMB The amendments would require improved percent each year to increase the 5 percent circulars. The standards prescribed shall en­ and expanded data collection, particularly of eligible youth and adults currently served. sure that procurements are competitive, in­ on sex, race, age and occupation. The cross Increased funding will be required simply to clude an analysis of the reasonableness of tabulation of various state and SDA pro­ maintain current service levels, since these costs, do not provide excess program income duced data will also be required. amendments require longer, more com­ or profit, and that no conflict of interest ex­ TITLE III prehensive training services. ists in the grant selection. The title ill dislocated worker program is Only technical changes are proposed in the This legislation allows SDAs to use ad­ amended to change the cost category cal­ funding formula, such as the exclusion of vance payments of up to 20 percent when culations to be based on "allocations" in­ college students and individuals in the contracting with nonprofit organizations, stead of "expenditures" now required in cur­ armed forces from the poverty data. based on the financial need of the organiza­ rent law. Since precise expenditures are not Subject to the approval of the Governor, tion. SD As may transfer up to 10 percent of their known until after the end of the grant pe­ DOCUMENTATION riod, it is difficult to keep these costs within title IIA and IIC funds between these titles their limitation. It makes planning difficult, (I!A and IIC), depending upon local need to Instructs the Secretary to provide guid­ serve more adults or more youth. ance and technical assistance to states and particularly for unexpected plant closures. A new reallotment and recapture provision SDAs on minimizing documentation to ver­ JOB CORPS is added for excess carryover funds in title II ify eligibility, demonstrate additional bar­ Amends Job Corps to increase the ceiling programs. riers to employment, and conduct assess- on the proportion of nonresidential slots in 25564 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 the program from 10 to 20 percent, with a Last Sunday, that last bastion of "demo­ appeared in the August 28 edition of The priority given to parents with dependent cratic socialism," Sweden, turned strongly Washington Post titled Oil and the lnupiat Es­ children. Prohibits private contractors from away from its welfare-state roots and threw kimos. The article was written by Ms. Brenda out the ruling Social Democrats. In their managing a Civilian Conservation Center. Itta-Lee, vice president for Human Resources Includes a provision for a 1 percent minimum place came a conservative coalition united management fee for all Job Corps contrac­ behind a 42-year-old leader, Carl Bildt. He for the Arctic Slope Regional Corp., of which tors. promises tax cuts, privatization, reductions some lnupiat Eskimos are shareholders. Ms. YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED in Sweden's bloated bureaucracy and a sig­ Itta-Lee's regional corporation is from Barrow, Creates a new Youth Opportunities Unlim­ nificant overhaul of the state's national AK, and they own much of the land in ANWR ited program under title IV to provide train­ health system. which is under debate for oil exploration and By contrast, the Democratic candidate development. ing grants to high poverty communities in a who has been getting the most media atten­ target area with a population of 25,000. These tion in the United States, Sen. Tom Harkin She speaks for the lnupiat Eskimos of the grants would allow communities to provide of Iowa, is heading in the opposition direc­ ASRC and I feel it is important that their voice comprehensive services to all low-income tion. Sen. Harkin is preaching more class be heard. youth in need. A 50 percent state or local warfare, more welfare-state socialism, mas­ match is required. sive tax increases and national health insur­ OIL AND THE lNUPIAT ESKIMOS DISASTER RELIEF ance program just as comprehensive as Swe­ An Aug. 12 news story reported that the el­ The bill adds permanent authority of Sl5 den's. ders of the Gwich'in tribe from Arctic Alas­ million each year to fund public service em­ Not all Democrats agree with Sen. Harkin, ka and Canada met in Arctic Village to op­ ployment for disaster relief as defined in the of course. Two other Democratic candidates, pose legislation that would open the coastal Disaster Relief Act of 1974. Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder and Arkansas plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge STATE HUMAN RESOURCE INVESTMENT COUNCILS Gov. Blll Clinton, have voiced criticism of to oil exploration and development. The el­ An amendment ls included to add an op­ the Harkin approach. Said Gov. Wilder re­ ders said they are working to protect the tional state human resource investment cently, "We don't need divisiveness to pit caribou, which they depend on for much of council, as long as an agreement is reached one group against another. We shouldn't talk about taxing the rich. We should not tax their food. by the state agencies responsible for admin­ However, the Gwich'in, some members of istering affected programs. anyone until we eliminate waste and spend­ ing." Congress and many environmentalists are And Gov. Clinton criticized Harkin's "orgy telling the Inupiat Eskimos that we cannot of Bush-bashing" and challenged Democrats develop our native-owned lands, even though SWEDEN RIGHT, HARKIN LEFT to put forward their own growth program they do not live here or even own a part of that would "get America moving again." the land. HON. PHILIP M. CRANE But it's not clear that either Govs. Clinton The Inupiat Eskimos do the actual day-to­ or Wilder have the ear of the aging 1960s ac­ OF ILLINOIS day work to protect the caribou and the en­ tivists who still run the Democratic Party. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vironment on Alaska's North Slope. My par­ Their hearts are clearly with the Harkin ents taught me, as their parents taught Thursday, October 3, 1991 brand of Beltway bolshevism, a vision that them, that if we do not take care of our envi­ thinks all the country needs is a big surtax Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, it is indeed ironic ronment, we will die, because it is a very on mlllionaires to finance redistribution to harsh and an extremely cold place to live. that while the entire world seems to be moving everybody else. toward free market principles and away from The so-called "third way" between capital­ Therefore, in order to survive, for centuries big centralized governments and planned ism and Communism very nearly destroyed we have been stewards of the land and ani­ mals and have attained a reputation of being economies, we find the leaders of the Demo­ the otherwise homogeneous and industrious Swedish economy, chasing capital invest­ the best of environmentalists and conserva­ cratic Party moving exactly in the opposite di­ tionists anywhere. rection. The Democratic Party apparently be­ ment out and forcing rich-man's tax rates on We live in harmony with and off the land. lieves that the Federal Government holds the the middle and lower classes. More than 60 percent of national income now goes to gov­ We demand that all who come into our area solution to all our problems big and small, and ernment, nearly double the U.S. level, even if share our respect for the land and the ani­ that Democrats should have license to con­ you include state and local government. mals. When Prudhoe Bay oil was discovered, tinue to tax and spend the hard-earned in­ In a global marketplace where information the Inupiat Eskimos were also the ones who come of the American people with impunity­ is king, bureaucracies and their command­ did the day-to-day work to persuade the oil after all Big Brother knows best. Although and-control regulations are increasingly ob­ companies to meet our demand to operate in Democrats may believe that the sky is the limit solete under both Marxist and non-Marxist an environmentally sensitive and scientif­ when it comes to spending other people's regimes. Sen. Harkin is called a "populist" ically correct way. by his apologists. In fact, he is just another money, we have now found that even in a We feel that the oil industry so far has old-fashioned socialist. He was one of the complied with our demands to protect the country like Sweden, the penultimate welfare strongest and most open supporters of state, there are limits to what politicians may environment. The caribou herd at Prudhoe Nicaragua's Sandinista regime on Capitol Bay has increased six-fold since the oil dis­ get away with. Hill in the 1980s. And for a period he met rou­ covery there. The caribou and other wildlife Astonishingly, more than 60-percent of Swe­ tinely with the Institute for Policy Studies, and their habitat are treated with great den's national income goes to fund govern­ a far-left think tank in Washington with care. ment. Apparently the Swedish people are now roots in Marxist thought. That does not mean Democrats have to The Arctic Slope Regional Corp., which fed up with this state of affairs, and have sound like Republicans. But they don't have represents 6,000 Inupiat Eskimos of Alaska's elected a conservative government promising to sound like warmed-over Swedish social­ North Slope, favors extending oil develop­ tax cuts and cuts in government spending. Al­ ists, either. Sen. Harkin's failure to embrace ment to the coastal plain of the Arctic Na­ though the United States has yet to reach the the basic market economic system marks tional Wildlife Refuge. The national needs 60 percent mark, we are approaching that fig­ him as not only outside the American main­ domestic oil. So do my people. ure all too rapidly. Despite the misguided rhet­ stream, but increasingly outside the world At a minimum, the approximately 92,000 oric of the junior Senator and Presidential mainstream. As one perceptive Swedish com­ acres of private lands owned by the Arctic hopeful from Iowa, one can only hope that mentator summed it up recently, "The third Slope Regional Corp. should be allowed to be way leads only to the Third World." Democrats will learn from the failure of social­ developed. Revenues from the only economy ism in Sweden and around the world, and will we have-the oil industry-have provided high schools in each of our eight villages for abandon their welfare state mentality which OIL AND THE INUPIAT ESKIMOS the first time in our history. We now have has only led to economic and social decline. health clinics, utilities, a local senior citi­ I commend to my colleagues the following edi­ HON. DON YOUNG zens' home and other basic public services torial which appeared in the September 20, OF ALASKA that most Amercans take for granted. 1991, Detroit News. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Inupiat Eskimos are the ones who SWEDEN RIGHT, HARKIN LEFT Thursday, October 3, 1991 have worked hard daily to protect Alaska's It is a sign of the Democrats' disarray that North Slope, because we have chosen to live even as socialism collapses overseas, it is Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, I would here. I hope Amercans and Congress listen to alive and well in their own party. like to submit for the RECORD an article which our side too. October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25565 TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH J. LAMB over 50 years to Boys Town. He never took 5164 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitive­ credit for this or any of the other multiple ness Act of 1988 (P.L. 10Q-418). That act re­ HON. RICK SANfORUM charities that he silently donated to over the quires all Federal agencies to use the metric years. My father always said there is no system of measurement in its procurements, OF PENNSYLVANIA limit to the good a man can do if he doesn't to the extent economically feasible, by the end IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES care who gets the credit. During the second world war at age 25, he of fiscal year 1992. It also calls for Federal Thursday, October 3, 1991 volunteered for duty in the Army and gave agencies to provide assistance to those com­ Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. Speaker, on July 31, up a safer desk position that he could have panies seeking to convert to metric. It 1991, the 18th District, the State of Pennsylva­ had in the Merchant Marines, to his younger changed our national metric policy from ac­ nia, and the Nation experienced the loss of a 19 year old brother Dan. He neglected his commodating the increasing use of metric to a own safety so that his brother would be out declared preference for metric in U.S. trade true model citizen and veritable hero. For 75 of harms way. Dan never forgot the sacrifice years, Joseph J. Lamb exemplified and gave that my father made. They remained forever and commerce. All Federal agencies are now genuine meaning to the words "service to fel­ close, and the best of friends. directed to implement the new policy through low man." His strength of character guided his My father served in North Africa, Italy, specific metric usage initiatives. actions in all aspects of his life, always in the France and Germany during the war. He was I am pleased that through the issuance of right direction, a direction of selfless service to wounded in action in France and was award­ this Executive order the President has dem­ his family and his country. ed the Purple Heart. In the battle of the onstrated the commitment of the administra­ Rhineland, he rushed into enemy fire to res­ I respectfully offer the eulogy for Joseph J. tion to achieve the objectives contained in the cue a young private, risking his life for a legislation. The Executive order notifies Gov­ Lamb, entitled "My Father, My Hero," given by person he didn't even know. For that act, he his son, Michael G. Lamb, on August 3, 1991. was given the Bronze Star for heroic achieve­ ernment agencies that they must have their It is the story of a man from whom we all can ment. metric conversion plans completed and ap­ learn a great deal as we confront the various Dad seldom talked of these events, and in proved by their department or agency heads tests and crises thrust upon us in our lives. He fact purposely concealed them for many by November 30, 1991. The Secretary of remains a hero, not for the sake of heroism, years, because he did not wish to glorify war. Commerce is required to report to the Presi­ but for the ideals of right and justice. We can Even today, some of his family and many of dent annually on the progress made in imple­ his friends never knew that he had won the only hope to follow in his footsteps. menting the order, and by October 1, 1992 to Bronze Star. Dad felt he was lucky to have recommend any additional measures needed MY FATHER, MY HERO survived the war and believed that what he to achieve the full economic benefits of metric (Eulogy for Joseph J. Lamb, 191~1991) did was no more than his duty. The real war heroes, he said, lie buried in France. usage. I would like to thank my family, Father Mr. Speaker, I am especially pleased by the John, Father Newmeyer, and all our many In his last years, despite a terrible illness, friends for their tremendous support during he retained his wonderful sense of humor, issuance of this Executive order because of this difficult time. I would also like to share joking with nurses and family even during the importance of metric conversion to our with you my thoughts regarding my father. his final few days. He suffered with dignity country's economic competitiveness. The Unit­ His death is hard to accept. But I believe it and gallantry, with the disease never really ed States is the only industrial country which has a meaning; a meaning that in part lies in besting him. In spirit, he was the winner and the illness the loser. My father's valor, was has not adopted the metric system of weights learning from the lives of those who have and measures, and companies that cannot gone before us. exemplified best, not so much in his military record as in the way he adhered to his ideals manufacture in metric will increasingly find In the last days of Dad's life, his brother doors closed to them. Japan has recently Carl recalled to me how vividly he remem­ and beliefs in his daily life. He was a decent bers my father returning from basic training courageous man who did his best for his fam­ identified the United States' non-metric activi­ during the war. "I can still see him", Carl ily, his fellow man, and his country. ties as a strategic impediment to trade, and said, "I was 13 years old and he was my And yet, there will be no 21 gun salute for the European Community has threatened to hero." The day that my father died Carl my father today, the flag will not be at half keep nonmetric products out of their economic whispered the same words at his bedside, "he mast and he won't make the big headlines on the evening news. That's the way he would union. Strong government leadership is need­ was my hero". Since then those words have ed to help American small manufacturers remained fixed in my mind. What is a hero? have wanted it. His will be the fanfare of the common man, although he was a very un­ thrive while using world measurement stand­ Is he the baseball slugger, or the movie star, ards. The text of the Executive order follows: the army general, the famous political lead­ common man. To my mother, who he loved very dearly [Executive Order 12770 of July 25, 1991] er or the talented singer? Somehow, I don't for 44 years, he was her hero. think these are our real heroes. It seems To my brother, who he helped become a METRIC USAGE IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT every evening, the news reveals yet another successful salesman, he was his hero. PROGRAMS scandal involving such pseudoheroes, the To me, he was my father, he was my hero. By the authority vested in me as President athlete who abuses drugs, the movie star's by the Constitution and the laws of the Unit­ perversions, the politician's corruption, and ed States of America, including the Metric the wealthy businessman's extramarital af­ NATIONAL METRIC WEEK Conversion Act of 1975, Public Law 94-168 (15 fairs. U.S.C. 205a et seq.) ("the Metric Conversion Yet I think my father truly was a hero. OCTOBER 6-12, 1991 Act"), as amended by section 5164 of the Om­ For in an age rampant with divorce and infi­ nibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, delity; he was happily married for 44 years. HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. Public Law 100-418 ("the Trade and Competi­ In an age in which families fall apart, he OF CALIFORNIA tiveness Act"), and in order to implement always kept his together. For him the word IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the congressional designation of the metric "family" meant everything. system of measurement as the preferred sys­ In an age of selfishness, he thought of oth­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 tem of weights and measures for United ers first. Mr. BROWN. Mr. Speaker, beginning with States trade and commerce, it is hereby or­ In an age of dishonesty, he championed the the 1988 passage of the Omnibus Trade and dered as follows: truth, and in all his affairs he was scru­ Competitiveness Act, the Federal Government Section 1. Coordination by the Department of pulously honest. Commerce. (a) The Secretary of Commerce In an age of racial strife, he abhorred prej­ policy on metric conversion changed from pas­ ("Secretary") is designated to direct and co­ udice and his company in the Hill District of sive to active. The long-term objective of this ordinate efforts by Federal departments and Pittsburgh employed blacks and whites as shift is to establish metric as the preferred agencies to implement Government metric equals long before there were civil rights measurement system for United States trade usage in accordance with section 3 of the laws. and commerce. As National Metric Week, Oc­ Metric Conversion Act (15 U.S.C. 205b), as In the world of business he was very suc­ tober 6-12, approaches, I would like to call to amended by secti9n 5164(b) of the Trade and cessful and he retired with many friends and the attention of my colleagues Executive Competitiveness Act. no financial worries, but he never had to (b) In furtherance of his duties under this cheat anybody to get there. As a boy at age Order 12770, Metric Usage in Federal Govern­ order, the Secretary is authorized: 2, his mother died and though he didn't know ment Programs, signed by President Bush on (1) to charter an Interagency Council on her, Dad always felt that loss. He extended July 25, 1991. Metric Policy ("ICMP"), which will assist this feeling to others who suffered similarly The order was issued to implement the Met­ the Secretary in coordinating Federal Gov­ from losing their parents, contributing for ric Usage Act which became law as section ernment-wide implementation of this order. 25566 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 Conflicts and questions regarding Implemen­ cure the maximum benefits of this order TRIBUTE TO THE MORRIS tation of this order shall be resolved by the though proper communication among af­ HEIGHTS HEALTH CENTER ICMP. The Secretary may establish such fected sectors. subcommittees and subchairs within this Council as may be necessary to carry out the (d) formulate metric transition plans for HON. JOSE E. SERRANO purposes of this order; the department or agency which shall incor­ OF NEW YORK (2) to form such advisory committees rep­ porate the requirements of the Metric Con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES version act and this order, and which shall resenting other interests, including State Thursday, October 3, 1991 and local governments and the business com­ be approved by the department or agency munity, as may be necessary to achieve the head and be in effect by November 30, 1991. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to maximum beneficial effects of this order; Copies of approved plans shall be forwarded recognize the outstanding service of the Mor­ and to the Secretary of Commerce. Such metric ris Heights Health Center. Located at 85 West (3) to issue guidelines, to promulgate rules transition plans shall specify, among other Burnside Avenue, Morris Heights has been and regulations, and to take such actions as things: providing comprehensive, quality health care may be necessary to carry out the purposes (1) the total scope of the metric transition to the citizens of my district, the south Bronx, of this order. Regulations promulgated by task for that department or agency, includ­ and to constitutents of other nearby areas for the Secretary shall function as policy guide­ ing firm dates for all metric accomplishment lines for other agencies and departments. the past 10 years. (c) The Secretary shall report to the Presi­ milestones for the current and subsequent In the late 1970's, so few medical service dent annually regarding the progress made fiscal year; providers existed in the Bronx, that concerned in implementing this order. The report shall (2) plans of the department or agency for citizens joined together to establish a health include: specific initiatives to enhance cooperation care facility that would provide excellent serv­ (1) an assessment of progress made by indi­ with industry, especially small business, as ice at a reasonable cost. During this period, vidual Federal agencies towards implement­ it voluntarily converts to the metric system, the medical community practically abandoned ing the purposes underlying this order. and with all affected parties in undertaking the Bronx area, leaving behind a predominant (2) an assessment of the effect that this the requirements of paragraph (a) of this sec­ minority population with towering health and order has had on achieving the national goal tion; and social needs. Not only did the community of of establishing the metric system as the pre­ ferred system of weights and measures for (3) specific steps and associated schedules the Bronx face a fundamental lack of health the United States trade and commerce; and through which the department or agency services, but the problems of poor housing (3) on October l, 1992, any recommenda­ will seek to increase understanding of the and other social ills that afflict impoverished tions which the Secretary may have for addi­ metric system through educational informa­ neighborhoods began to entrench upon the re­ tional measures, including proposed legisla­ tion and guidance, and in department or gion. It was at this point that citizens lobbied tion, needed to achieve the full economic agency publications. to change these dismal conditions, and to benefits of metric usage. (e) designate a senior-level official as the press for the foundation of a center that would Sec. 2. Department and Agency Responsibil­ Metric Executive for the department or effectively meet their demands. ities. All executive branch departments and agency to assist the head of each executive Mr. Speaker, the Morris Heights Health agencies of the United States Government department or agency in implementing this Center serves as an example of what occurs are directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the pro­ order. The responsibilities of the Metric Ex­ when citizens mobilize and act to respond to visions of this order. Consistent with the ecutive shall include, but not be limited to: a community's pressing needs. Morris Heights mission, the head of each executive depart­ (1) acting as the department's or agency's exemplifies the success that results when peo­ ment and agency shall: policy-level representative to the ICMP and ple work together to improve their quality of (a) use, to the extend economically feasible as a liaison with other government agencies life. by September 30, 1992, or by such other date and private sector groups: With determination and conviction, the or dates established by the department or founders of the Morris Heights Health Center agency in consultation with the Secretary of (2) management oversight of department or agency outreach and response to inquiries stuggled tirelessly to attain funding for their fa­ Commerce, the metric system of measure­ cility. In 1978, they received a demonstration ment in Federal Government procurements, and questions from affected parties during grants, and other business-related activities. the transition to metric system usage; and grant of $75,000 from the Public Health Serv­ Other business-related activities include all (3) management oversight of preparation of ice through the Urban Health Initiative Pro­ use of measurement units in agency pro­ the department's or agency's metric transi­ gram. Following 2 years of diligent planning, grams and functions related to trade, indus­ tion plans and progress reports, including the center finally became a reality. In March of try, and commerce. the Annual metric Report required by 15 1981, Morris Heights opened its doors to the (1) Metric usage shall not be required to U.S.C. 205j and OMB Circular A-11. community of the Bronx with a staff of only 10 the extent that such use is impractical or is people. likely to cause significant inefficiencies or (4) preparation by June 30, 1992, of an as­ sessment of agency progress and problems, The Morris Heights Health Center was ea­ loss of markets to United States firms. gerly embraced by the community. The call for (2) Heads of departments and agencies shall together with recommendations for steps to establish an effective process for a policy­ assure successful implementation of the the services provided by the center was so ex­ level and program-level review of proposed Metric Convention Act. The assessment and tensive that after 3 short years the center out­ exceptions to metric usage. Appropriate in­ recommendations shall be approved by the grew its original goals. As a result, Morris formation about exceptions granted shall be head of the department or agency and pro­ Heights purchased and renovated a building at included in the agency annual report along vided to the Secretary by June 30, 1992, for a cost of $4.5 million, and in May of 1987, the with recommendations for actions to enable inclusion in the Secretary's October l, 1992, center moved operations to its current loca­ future metric usage. report on implementation of this order. tion. (b) seek out ways to increase understand­ Sec. 3. Application of Resources. The head of From its inception until today, the center has ing of the metric system of measurement grown to successfully address the demands of through educational information and guid­ each executive department and agency shall ance and in Government publications. The be responsible for implementing and apply­ the community. Presently, Morris Heights, with transition to use of metric units in govern­ ing the necessary resources to accomplish a staff of over 130 and an operating budget of ment publications should be made as publi­ the goals set forth in the Metric Conversion $7 .5 million, tends to a patient population of cations are revised on normal schedules or Act and this order. over 20,000. Some of the services provided by new publications are developed, or as metric Sec. 4. Judicial Review. This order is in­ the center include medical, dental, mental publications are required in support of met­ tended only to improve the internal manage­ health counseling, childbearing care, WIC, and ric usage pursuant to paragraph (a) of this ment of the executive branch and is not in­ HIV to guarantee a compendium of services. section. tended to create any right or benefit, sub­ The HIV Treatment and Prevention Program, (c) seek the appropriate aid, assistance, stantive or procedural, enforceable at law by one of three demonstration projects in the Na­ and cooperation of other affected parties, in­ a party against the United States, its agen­ tion funded by the Centers for Disease Con­ cluding other Federal, State, and local agen­ cies, its officers, or any other person. cies and the private sector, in implementing trol, is the last service being provided at Mor­ this order. Appropriate use shall be made of GEORGE BUSH. ris Heights. governmental, trade, professional, and pri­ THE WHITE HOUSE, July 25, 1991. Because of the community's vision and de­ vate sector metric coordinating groups to se- termination, Morris Heights stands today both October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25567 as a model of excellence and a beacon of colleagues and I communicated with the Presi­ agreed, including all 26 current consultative hope to other communities facing similar chal­ dent on this subject. A response to this com­ parties. If so, the parties would also have to lenges. However, Morris Heights' struggle is munication and similar communications by agree at that time on a new legal regime to far from over. In order to address the special regulate such activities. other Members of Congress was recently re­ Some of the terms of this agreement-par­ needs of the diverse and growing population ceived. I ask unanimous consent to include ticularly with respect to the prohibition on in the area, the center has once again this exchange of correspondence in the mineral activities-go beyond the previous reached the point where expansion has be­ RECORD. U.S. position on this subject. This was to come a necessity. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, support an indefinite ban (see Pub. L. Nos. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Bronx com­ Washington, DC, June 4, 1991. 101-594 and 101~20) comprised of a medium­ munity I would like to thank the Morris Heights The PRESIDENT, term moratorium followed by an arrange­ Health Center for its untiring commitment to The White House, Washington, DC ment incorporating the terms of a pre­ provide quality health care, and to better the DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: A few weeks ago in viously-negotiated but unratified agreement quality of life in our community. I hope that the Madrid, representatives of the United States (the Convention on Regulation of Antarctic participated in the drafting of a new inter­ Mineral Activities, CRAMRA) or an equally community continues to aggressively support restrictive regime. Nevertheless, we feel that the center's endeavors, and that Morris national agreement to protect the Antarctic environment. U.S. representatives will soon the proposed agreement on this issue is ade­ Heights continues to receive the necessary return to Madrid to conclude these negotia­ quate to protect U.S. interests while provid­ funding crucial to maintaining its operations. tions so that this agreement can be formally ing for long-term protection of the Antarctic adopted at the next regular consultative environment. meeting of the parties to the Antarctic Trea­ With regard to other activities, the agree­ ANTARCTIC ENVIRONMENTAL ty this fall. ment includes important new standards PROTECTION The proposed agreement will make an im­ while at the same time preserving our na­ portant contribution to protection of the tional jurisdiction to conduct scientific re­ Antarctic environment through improved search and regulate other activities that are HON. WM.S. BROOMflELD subject to U.S. law. At the same time, the OF MICHIGAN international standards and procedures. At the same time, it would protect important proposed agreement lays the basis for im­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES national interests such as scientific research proved control of activities subject to na­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 and possibly even future mineral develop­ tional supervision, such as tourism. Positive consideration of these provisions Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, today and ment. Above all, it will help preserve the re­ markable consensus among the Antarctic is warranted for the following reasons: tomorrow in Madrid, United States negotiators Treaty parties that has kept this continent a First, the new agreement would put into will put the finishing touches on the Protocol zone of peace, free from international dis­ place important new protections for the Ant­ on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic cord. arctic environment. This pristine area is be­ Treaty. The protocol will be signed tomorrow, We urge the administration to review the coming subject to higher levels of human ac­ concluding a negotiating process that officially latest draft expeditiously so that the United tivity for scientific and other purposes, in­ began only last November. States will be prepared to take action at the cluding fishing and tourism. In view of the The conclusion of the environmental proto­ upcoming negotiating session. We also rec­ fragility of this polar environment and the ommend that you make a favorable decision thin margin of existence of living species, col comes during the 13th anniversary year of the time has come to put into place further the Antarctic Treaty. This treaty is a model of on the proposed agreement so that the Unit­ ed States will be in a position to sign it at international principles and procedures to international cooperation which has kept the the consultative meeting. regulate the activities conducted by nations peace and promoted common human objec­ We feel that the proposed agreement rep­ active in the Antarctic. The Protocol and an­ tives, particularly scientific research, in the resents a balanced and realistic approach nexes would achieve this objective without Antarctic. both on its own terms and with reference to undue regulation of important national pro­ Most of the attention concerning the Proto­ the current negotiating climate and world grams. col on Environmental Protection focused on public opinion. Attached is an analysis of the Second, the prohibition on mineral activi­ the question of mineral exploitation. Under the proposed agreement and a more detailed ties-while perhaps unneeded at the current time-will help preserve international con­ protocol, mineral activities in the Antarctic are statement of the reasons we believe it should be approved. sensus on this difficult issue while not fore­ prohibited until such time as their necessity Thank you for this opportunity to state closing future options. It is generally con­ and desirability are reviewed by the parties. A our views on this important subject. ceded that it will be a generation or more be­ conference could be called after 50 years for Sincerely, fore the technology would be in place and this purpose. Even after the 50-year period, ROBERT W. DAVIS, market conditions could be right for the de­ however, mineral activities would be permitted Ranking Republican Member, Committee on velopment of Antarctic mineral resources. only if there were a new agreement on this Merchant Marine and Fisheries. This is due to the extreme harshness of the subject. ROBERT S. WALKER, Antarctic environment-particularly the ex­ While mineral development is an issue for Ranking Republican Member, Committee on tremely challenging ice and sea conditions-­ Science, Space, and Technology. and the remoteness and high costs of Ant­ the future, the Antarctic environment has be­ WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD, arctic operations. come subject to other infringements even now. Ranking Republican Member, Committee on The U.S. position on the minerals issue to These include the establishment and operation Foreign Affairs. date has been motivated in large part by the of national bases, as well as private activities recognition that inability to maintain con­ such as tourism. Some of these activities have PROPOSED ANTARCTIC ENVIRONMENTAL sensus under the Antarctic Treaty on this already affected certain wildlife habitats and PROTECTION AGREEMENT-JUNE 4, 1991. issue could lead to a breakdown in negotia­ resulted in unacceptable instances of pollution. The proposed agreement would constitute tions. Failure to agree on a minerals ar­ The protocol will enable the United States a new Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty on rangement now could lead to an uncontrolled and the other Antarctic Treaty parties better to Environmental Protection, accompanied by "gold rush" in the event exploitation of Ant­ arctic minerals becomes feasible sometime review activities in the Antarctic and their several annexes on technical matters. The po­ draft Protocol calls for the Antarctic to be in the future. Clearly, however, the long lead tential environmental effects. The protocol and treated as "a natural reserve, devoted to time before these events might occur means its annexes contain standards and guidelines peace and science" (Art. 1). It includes new that, practically speaking, the issue of how for various activities and for their review by the environmental principles (Art. 2) and envi­ to regulate potential mineral activities is parties and the international community. ronmental impact assessment procedures really one for future decision. Mr. Speaker, the Environmental Protocol to (Art. 7 and a special annex). Mineral activi­ Third, failure to agree on environmental the Antarctic Treaty is an important milestone ties would be prohibited for the foreseeable safeguards for the Antarctic due to the min­ in international environmental cooperation. future (Art. 6). erals issue could delay agreement on other The President is to be commended for his de­ The provisions of the Protocol could be activities in the Antarctic that are more en­ modified or amended by consensus, under the vironmentally significant right now. Inabil­ cision to instruct our negotiators to sign this Antarctic Treaty, or at a special review con­ ity to agree on the Protocol and annexes agreement, which is fully responsive to public ference called after 50 years at the request of could delay the adoption of standards and opinion in support of these measures. any party (Art. 24). With respect to mineral procedures for the conduct of tourism and While this agreement was still being re­ activities, the prohibition could be modified other commercial activities. Continued focus viewed by the administration, two Republican only if % of the parties at the conference on the minerals issue could also detract at-

49--069 0--96 Vol. 137 (Pt. 18) 12 25568 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 tention from the need for improved regula­ framework for the development, review, and THE POOR GET POORER: THE tion of commercial fishing under the Con­ implementation of environmental protection CENSUS REPORT ON POVERTY vention on the Conservation of Antarctic measures pursuant to the Treaty. It sets Marine Living Resources. forth basic principles on the protection of Absence on an international agreement on the Antarctic environment, establishes an HON. CHARLFS B. RANGEL environmental protection could also result advisory body, and includes a system of an­ OF NEW YORK in increased pressure to bring scientific and nexes that incorporate detailed mandatory IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other important national programs under rules for environmental protection. The some form of direct international regulation. present annexes establish legally binding Thursday, October 3, 1991 This could impede national science programs measures on the conversation of Antarctic Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I want to bring which are extremely important for the mon­ fauna and flora, waste disposal, marine pol- to the attention of my colleagues a very impor­ itoring of planetary systems such as the 1ution, and environmental impact assess­ tant report that was released last week on upper atmosphere, glaciers, climate change ment procedures. Future annexes could be poverty in America. and the marine ecosystem. added following entry into force of the proto­ It used to be, Mr. Speaker, that many of us Fourth, it is also important to recognize col. that the procedures for re-examining the The Protocol also addresses the issue of in positions of elected and appointed leader­ minerals issue under the proposed agree­ Antarctic mineral resources. It prohibits ac­ ship looked at our obligation to ease the pain ment, while onerous, are not unreasonable. tivities relating to Antarctic mineral re­ of those in our society suffering in poverty as The parties are not limited to proceeding sources, except for scientific research, and one paralleling a war effort. We once saw the only in the manner contained in the Proto­ provides for an amendment and review proc­ challenge to eliminate the shackles of poverty col itself (Art. 24). Since the Protocol is com­ ess, based on the analogous provisions of the as a special responsibility of our status. pletely dependent on the Antarctic Treaty Antarctic Treaty. Specifically, this process: But today, worrying about those in poverty for its force and effect (Protocol, Art. 3), the a) provides that the articles of the Proto­ is not fashionable. It does not fit in with the parties could also avail themselves of the col may be amended at any time by consen­ new so-called mainstream view of social re­ rights and procedures of the Treaty itself in sus of all Antarctic Treaty Consultative Par­ order to pursue changes in the environ­ ties (ATCPs); sponsibility. No one wants to be burdened with mental regime. b) provides that a conference shall be held the problems and the afflictions of the down­ Proceedings under the Treaty have tradi­ to review the operation of the Protocol at trodden and forgotten, and it is coming back to tionally been conducted on the basis of con­ any time fifty (50) years after its entry into haunt us in the form of crime and drugs and sensus, i.e., the absence of objection by any force if requested by any ATCP; other social ills. party. But the Treaty system represents a c) provides that an amendment to the Pro­ In its report, "Money Income of Households, careful balance between international inter­ tocol proposed at any such review conference Families and Persons in the United States: ests (such as scientific research and environ­ be adopted by a majority of the Contracting 1990", which is based on the 1990 census, mental protection) and national interests Parties including three-fourths of the cur­ (such as unfettered research and even unrec­ the Census Bureau illustrates America's dan­ rent ATCPs (specifically 20 of the now 26 gerous drift toward a tale of two cities, two so­ ognized claims of sovereignty, as well as the ATCPs); prerogative of pursuing commercial uses cieties-one poor, and the other able to plot under appropriate conditions). When cir­ d) provides that an amendment to the Pro­ tocol so adopted enter into force when rati­ out a course of progress on its own without cumstances have changed and parties have fied by three-fourths of the ATCPs at the any need for assistance. strongly advocated new approaches-such as time, including all 26 of the current ATCPs; This report on poverty in America tells us enhanced environmental protection-the very clearly that no matter how hard we try to other parties have generally responded after e) accords the right to any Party to with­ careful consultation and negotiations. draw from the Protocol upon two years no­ forget it or ignore it, the fact is that poverty is Finally, it is important to appreciate the tice if an amendment adopted at a review very real in America, and it is getting more current negotiating situation and climate of conference has not entered into force within and more prominent every day, especially public opinion. Following the decision of two three years; given the prolonged recession that has seen nations not to ratify CRAMRA, an increas­ O provides that the prohibition of activi­ even middleclass people with educations and ing number of Antarctic Treaty parties have ties relating to Antarctic mineral resources high-income jobs laid off or fired from their changed their policy on mineral activities to shall continue unless there is in force a le­ gally binding regime including agreed means jobs-some of the Government jobs-because include some sort of prohibition. By the time there is no money to pay them. of the recent meeting in Madrid, the United for determining whether such activities States was one of only a small number of would be acceptable and, if so, under what From 1989 to 1990, the poverty rolls in this countries unwilling to include a prohibition conditions; and country grew by 6. 7 percent, the Census Bu­ on mineral activities as part of the new envi­ g) requires that any amendment to the reau tells us. While the richest of the rich con­ ronmental protection agreement for the Ant­ prohibition on activities relating mineral re­ tinued to shakedown the leaves of opportunity arctic. Failure to subscribe to such a regime sources proposed at a review conference in­ from the tree of progress that grew tall during would in all likelihood prevent the finaliza­ clude such a binding legal regime. the free-spending 1980's decade, the poorest tion of such an agreement for the Antarctic The compromise provision for amending of the poor got poorer, moving farther out on at the present time. Meanwhile, intense lob­ the prohibition on mineral activities emerged at the last round of negotiations in the shaky limb of existence. bying by non-governmental organizations In America, two groups at directly opposite has resulted in considerable public sympathy June and represented the last outstanding for such measures, perhaps including long­ issue in the negotiations. All Treaty Parties ends of the social spectrum are continuing on term restrictions on minerals development. have now indicated their acceptance of this strongly divergent parts. We will never be able formulation. As a result, the Government of to close that gap, thereby eliminating the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Spain has invited the Parties to conclude stranglehold of crime and drugs until we learn Washington, DC. and sign the Protocol in Madrid during the to focus on the root causes of these problems. Hon. WILLIAM s. BROOMFIELD, first week of October. We need to invest in people to keep them out House of Representatives. The successful negotiation of this environ­ of trouble, rather than wait until after the fact. DEAR MR. BROOMFIELD: Thank you for your mental agreement is a testimony to the suc­ It is more costly to address these issues on letter in support of the Protocol on Environ­ cess of the Antarctic Treaty in the year of mental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. its thirtieth anniversary. Pending its entry the back-end rather than on the front-end. As you may know, on July 3, 1991, Presi­ into force, the United States will work to­ How long before we wake up and see the dent Bush announced that the United States wards early implementation of its provi­ dangers in ignoring the unmet needs of the wlll sign the Protocol on Environmental sions. masses? Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. Protec­ We are very pleased that the negotiations When people are hopeless, helpless, and tion of the Antarctic environment has long on comprehensive measures for protection of without any skills or education, or lacking in been a basic objective of United States for­ Antarctic environment have reached a suc­ housing and living in poverty, where they are eign policy. We believe that this new proto­ cessful conclusion. I believe that the Proto­ locked out and left out, they tend to see life as col will add important elements to the broad col, much of which results from U.S. initia­ a losing proposition and tend to drift to illicit range of measures already taken within the tive, is a good agreement. Antarctic Treaty system to secure that ob­ Sincerely, drugs as a tonic. Consequently, they place lit­ jective. JANET G. MULLINS, tle value on their own lives and do not have Specifically, the protocol builds upon the Assistant Secretary, respect even for themselves, let alone others. Antarctic Treaty to provide an improved Legislative Affairs. We must put ourselves in their shoes. What is October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25569 there to lose when you have nothing to lose these countries have managed to sustain States with operating sites and the 47 unsited and no hope of ever attaining or achieving large trade surpluses despite competition from States, a consensus was reached which en­ anything worth preserving and protecting? low-wage nations, while America has been re­ abled Congress to pass the Low-Level Waste I want to highlight some key points from this porting large deficits in recent years. Policy Act Amendment of 1985. report: The bill establishes the American Workforce This act provided that the States of Wash­ The number of people below the poverty Quality Partnerships and the American Indus­ ington, Nevada, and South Carolina would line totalled 33.6 million in 1990, compared to trial Quality Foundation. The Partnerships Pro­ agree to continue to make their sites available 31.5 million in 1989. gram creates local work force training consor­ to the entire country for an additional 7 Half of the poor in this country are the truly tia between industry and institutions of higher years-but only if the unsited States and re­ helpless-children under age 18, or elderly education. The companies joining these part­ gions demonstrated specific progress toward persons. nerships must first agree to substantially re­ developing new disposal capacity. The final The poverty rate for African-Americans re­ structure their organizations by adopting high date when sited sites could exclude waste mained the highest of any other ethnic group performance or total quality management from outside their regional borders was ex­ in America-31.9 percent. strategies or other plausible strategies to tended to January 1993. In exchange, the About 28 percent of the poor received no renew their competitiveness. other States and regions were required to assistance of any type. The purpose of the Foundation is to identify meet a series of specific dates and mile­ In 1990, real household income declined. and disseminate certain best practice for in­ stones. Among other provisions, the 1985 act Per capita income also fell for the first time in dustrial competitiveness. The Foundation will also specified precisely which categories of 8 years. conduct classes, seminars, and conferences low-level radioactive waste would be the Mr. Speaker, I want to ask my colleagues to on competitiveness topics. State's responsibility and made the Federal please get a copy of this report and read it. The bill also establishes the Youth Tech­ Government responsible for the disposal of Let us pledge ourselves here in the House of nical Apprenticeship Program and a program commercial low-level radioactive waste ex­ Representatives to make life in America a win­ to encourage State governments to unify pro­ ceeding "class C" concentration limits. ning proposition for everyone, not just for a grams of technical education and training into Today, as we all know, the low-level radio­ few. It remains our obligation. statewide systems akin to our systems of uni­ active waste siting process is ongoing in many versity education. states. As the 1993 deadline approaches, many States, both individually or in regional AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL QUALITY compacts, have begun to select and study AND TRAINING ACT OF 1991 LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE candidate sites for disposal facilities. To date, POLICY AMENDMENTS ACT OF 1991 all these candidate sites have been in loca­ VALENTINE tions isolated from the population centers and HON. TIM facilities. OF NORTH CAROLINA HON. SAM GEJDENSON Mr. Speaker, when the Congress enacted IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CONNECTICUT the 1980 and 1985 Low-Level Radioactive Thursday, October 3, 1991 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Waste Acts, we did not have the foresight to Mr. VALENTINE. Mr. Speaker, today I am Thursday, October 3, 1991 prescribe specific siting criteria. In fact, author­ introducing the "American Industrial Quality Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Speaker, in 1979, ity to do so was delegated to the Nuclear Reg­ and Training Act of 1991." The bill establishes two of the three low-level radioactive waste ulatory Commission [NRC]. In turn, the NRC new programs under the Technology Adminis­ operating facilities in Hanford, WA and Beatty, developed four performance based objectives tration of the Department of Commerce and NV, were temporarily closed while the third by regulation to protect the public health and safety and minimize the long-term burden on the Departments of Labor and Education, to site, at Barnwell, SC, reduced the annual vol­ society. The objectives set out in regulation by promote a skilled work force and U.S. indus­ ume of waste that it would accept by 50 per­ that NRC attempt to ensure: First, protection trial competitiveness. cent. These actions by the host States were from releases of radioactivity, second, inad­ Today, we have major national problems in due primarily to a series of transportation and vertent intrusion, third, safe operations, and education, literacy, and industrial competitive­ packaging incidents. These three States with fourth, site stability. ness. All of these problems are linked and are operating waste disposal sites made it clear Unfortunately, we find ourselves today in the eroding our national prosperity and the stand­ that they would no longer accept all the Na­ position where States are selecting candidate ard of living of our citizens. We must begin to tion's low-level radioactive wastes. Initially, the sites in locations that run contrary to common think anew and place renewed priority on U.S. Congress considered a federally oriented sense-in proximity to residential neighbor­ human resources and our national economic solution to the problem of assuring adequate hoods, schools, and other public facilities. infrastructure. low-level waste disposal capacity. Common sense dictates that if one of the ob­ In the past, much of our economic growth Eventually, however, in response to policy jectives is to secure a site from public intru­ was due to a rapid expansion in the size of recommendations from State-supported orga­ sion, we shouldn't locate a site in a neighbor­ the American work force. Because of a slow­ nizations, including the National Governors' hood where the likelihood of school-aged chil­ ing population growth rate, the Nation will Association and the National Conference of dren wandering onto the sites is great. have to depend more heavily upon increases State Legislatures, the Congress enacted the This is one reason why I am introducing the in national productivity growth rates in order to Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act fuel economic expansion. Achieving vastly 1980. Amendments of 1991 today. The NRC has higher rates of growth in productivity will re­ The 1980 act made each State responsible recommended in its regulatory guidelines that quire a change in American business organi­ for providing disposal capacity for low-level ra­ low-level waste facilities be at least 2 kilo­ zation practices and a much stronger empha­ dioactive waste generated within its borders. meters from residential boundaries. My bill sis on work force training and quality edu­ The act also encouraged States to form re­ seeks to codify this as a siting requirement cation at all levels and of all types. gional compacts to collectively meet their obli­ and further protects the public health and America must compete with low-wage na­ gations to provide for disposal capacity, and safety by increasing the threshold distance to tions like Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, and allowed those compacts ratified by the Con­ 5 kilometers between the site and residential Korea. Wages in these countries are only a gress to exclude waste generated outside their boundaries or facilities that primarily serve fraction of those in this Nation. This wage gap borders, beginning in January 1, 1986. children such as schools and community cen­ must be made up by organizing work more ef­ By late 1984, it was evident that regions ters. ficiently, reducing waste, and avoiding large without waste sites were not progressing rap­ This siting criteria will move States in the di­ and costly inventories. Put simply, each em­ idly enough to have new facilities operating by rection of at least ensuring that whatever ployee must create more with less waste and the 1986 deadline. A change in the law ap­ screening techniques are utilized to select an in less time. This requires advanced skills peared necessary in order to allow for the environmentally safe site, that it at least will training for America's workers. Many compa­ construction of the additional disposal sites not be near housing or schools. nies in high wage nations like Germany and foreseen in the 1980 act. After extensive ne­ The second provision of this bill seeks to Japan have been able to accomplish this. And gotiations between representatives of the ensure that the waste that is sited in States is 25570 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 the least dangerous by reclassifying class C ment also includes a 14-percent increase for NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATIONS IN waste from the low-level radioactive waste the FBI. THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA program into the high-level radioactive waste With respect to environmental priorities, par­ program. NRC regulations currently allow ticularly those pertaining to the State of Mary­ HON. BENJAMIN A. GIIMAN three classes of waste for near-surface dis­ land and the Chesapeake Bay, the conferees OF NEW YORK posal: class A, class B, and class C. Low­ included $1.5 billion for the National Oceanic IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Level radioactive waste typically contains both and Atmospheric Administration for fisheries, Thursday, October 3, 1991 short-lived and long-lived radionuclides. Three marine, environmental and other programs. important time intervals are relied on in setting The report includes $227 million, or 7 percent Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to the waste classification system. One is the more than for fiscal year 1991, for national rise today to commend the Republic of China length of time the Government will actively marine fisheries service conservation and on its 80th national day on October 10, 1991 control access to the site-an upper limit of management activities and assistance to and congratulate that nation on the positive 100 years was used. The second is the ex­ States. changes they have brought about in their na­ pected life of the waste for~a 300-year pe­ tion over the past 5 years. Mr. Speaker, I want to take moment to riod of life expectancy was used. The third is a Throughout its history, the island of Taiwan thank the chairman for his and the commit­ the expected lifetime of engineered barriers or has played an integral role in the political tee's attention and strong support for funding assured burial depth, and the time when total struggles of the whole of China. Its modern two other accounts that I have pursued with failure of the system is anticipated to occur. A history begins in 1945, with control over the is­ him: American relations with Eastern Europe 500-year period was assumed. land returning to the Republic of China. Unfor­ and the former Soviet Republics, and the Of the three categories of waste, class C tunately, in a few years, the island would be­ Americans with Disabilities Act. comprises the smallest volume, but highest come the last bastion in China for the nation­ levels of radionuclides. In fact, it is class C The conferees have included $30 million alists. In late 1949 and early 1950, Chiang which requires sites to have both a 300-year within the State Department's foreign buildings Kai-Shek and his nationalists completed a stabilization period and 500-year engineered account for facilities in the Baltic Republics massive withdrawal to the island of Taiwan, barriers. It has become evident that this and other sites in the Soviet Union and East­ where the seat of the Republic of China re­ waste, primarily from nuclear powerplants, ern Europe. sides today. should not be the responsibility of the States, I want to thank the committee for its interest Over the subsequent 40 years, the Republic but rather the Federal Government. in these issues as well as for its continuing in­ of China, realizing that the struggle against the My bill achieves this objective by removing terest in political reform in Eastern Europe, as communists would be a difficult, long process, class C waste from the Low-Level Radioactive well as for its support for the work of the Hel­ established a first-rate military defense, a Waste Policy Act and therefore placing it sinki Commission itself. modern economic base, and a democratic and under the responsibility of the Federal Govern­ Mr. Speaker, I also want to make sure that free state. ment in its high-level nuclear waste program. all of my colleagues recall the great fanfare, When viewed from a historical perspective, As drafted, any waste greater than class B including a Rose Garden ceremony celebrat­ the political developments over the past 40 would be the responsibility of the Federal Gov­ ing enactment of the Americans with Disabil­ years in the Republic of China are extraor­ ernment. ities Act [ADA] on July 26, 1990. dinary. However, it is the most recent develop­ As States struggle with the difficult task of ments over the past 5 years which dem­ siting low-level waste radioactive waste facili­ My involvement with the ADA has been one onstrate the ROC's continued commitment to ties, passage of my legislation will ensure our of the most fulfilling experiences of my career. democracy. In 1987, the late President Chiang constituents that whatever site is finally se­ I will not recount today the numbers of Ameri­ Ching-Kuo initiated political and economic lib­ lected, it is not near schools or growing popu­ cans who will have the opportunity to partici­ eralization measures enabling his people to lation centers. Moreover, passage of this bill pate in the mainstream of American society as enjoy much greater political and economic will remove from these sites the most dan­ a result of the years of work so many dedi­ freedom. Most important among these liberal­ gerous type of wastes. cated citizens and legislators in the House and izations was the repeal of emergency provi­ It is my hope that these provisions would be the other body devoted to enactment of the sions prohibiting the formation of new political acted on soon so States involved in the site ADA. parties. selection process would have further guidance I do, however, want to make the point that After President Chiang's passing on January from the Congress on protecting the public without provision for effective education and 13, 1988, President Lee Teng-Hui continued health and safety. information sharing to businesses, and em­ his predecessor's reforms with conviction. Tai­ ployers who bare new responsibilities for en­ wan stands today as a model of democracy suring equal opportunity under the ADA, its and free market values. Its prosperity and its H.R. 260S-COMMERCE, STATE, enactment will have been an empty and hol­ people have one of the highest standards of JUSTICE CONFERENCE REPORT low exercise for us all. living in Asia, and it is my hope, as well as of Helping buJiness and the disabled to under­ many of my colleagues, that the Republic of HON. STENY H. HOYER stand their new rights and obligations under China on Taiwan will never waiver in its deter­ OF MARYLAND the ADA, and providing support for education mination to expand economically and to grow IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and enforcement of the act costs money. politically in the future. Mr. Speaker, I invite my colleagues to join Thursday, October 3, 1991 As we all know, fiscal year 1992 is not a good year to incur new obligations at the Fed­ me in expressing heartfelt congratulations to Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to eral level. None the less, the conferees have the Republic of China on the occasion of its voice my support for the conference report on provided funds to both the Justice Department 80th national day on October 10, 1991 and for H.R. 2608, the Commerce, Justice, State ap­ and the Equal Employment Opportunity Com­ their commitment to democracy and freedom. propriations bill. Mr. Speaker, the chairman of the sub­ mission to begin to undertake these respon­ sibilities. committee, Representative NEAL SMITH, the TRIBUTE TO NANCY BELSKY: WIN­ ranking minority member, Representative HAL Although I wish there had been more funds NER OF THE 1991 PRESIDENTIAL ROGERS, and the other members of the com­ available for these activities, the subcommittee AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE mittee worked diligently to bring back a strong dug deep and has made a good start. I want bill. to express my personal gratitude for their ef­ HON. DICK swm The conference agreement includes $696 fort, as well as the appreciation of every American, those who are disabled and those OF NEW HAMPSHIRE million for the Office of Justice Programs, $89 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES million more than requested. Within this total, who are not, who look forward to achieving the conferees provided strong support for real equal opportunity for every American. Thursday, October 3, 1991 State and local enforcement grants and juve­ Mr. Speaker, I urge each of my colleagues Mr. SWETI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to nile justice programs. The conference agree- to support the conference report. pay tribute to an outstanding elementary October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25571 school teacher from my home State of New cal time during the early days of World War II. BEST WISHES ON THE OCCASION Hampshire. Nancy Belsky, a Mathematics Over the years, the Crane mission has ex­ OF TAIWAN'S 80TH NATIONAL DAY teacher at Westmoreland School, has been panded from its sole function in the field of selected as one of the recipients of the "1991 Army ammunition to a Naval Sea Systems HON. PAULE. GILLMOR Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science Command Center of excellence that employs OF OHIO and Mathematics Teaching for Elementary more than 4,000 highly skilled civilian engi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Teachers". neers, physicists, technicians and workers The National Science Foundation recog­ who support research, production, trouble­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 nized Nancy for her outstanding teaching shooting and design in microelectronics tech­ Mr. GILLMOR. Mr. Speaker, in recognition methods and for the example she has set for nology, microwave components, acoustics of the economic and political growth engi­ others in her field. In addition to the award, sensors testing, electronic warfare, electro­ neered over the last few decades by the Re­ the National Science Foundation will make a chemical power systems, conventional ammu­ public of China of Taiwan, I would like today $7,500 grant to the Westmoreland School nition engineering, pyrotechnics and small to extend my support and best wishes on the which will be used under Nancy's direction en­ arms. The Crane Army Ammunition activity on occasion of Taiwan's 80th National Day. hance mathematics programs and to supple­ Crane is a tenant activity and part of the U.S. Recently, I was fortunate to have an oppor­ ment other resources. Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical tunity to visit Taiwan. During my stay, I was Nancy qualified for this award by creating Command, Rock Island, IL, employing more impressed by the spirit and enthusiasm of the innovative programs and teaching methods, than 700 people. people of Taiwan, and I support the efforts of such as a "hands-on" teaching techniques their leaders to bring even greater democracy using real-life simulation, and kite making and The nearly 5,000 employees of the Crane and prosperity to the Republic of China. flying. Naval Center provide a strong presence in Congratulations to our Chinese friends and Mr. Speaker, I am also pleased to note that southwest Indiana communities surrounding their leader, President Lee Teng-hui of the Re­ Nancy is one of only 108 elementary school Crane. Crane is the largest industrial employer public of China on Taiwan, on this day of cele­ teachers nationwide chosen to receive this in southern Indiana and will generate more bration. award. The people of New Hampshire are that $150 million over the next several years. very proud of her. Crane has hundreds of buildings which include Nancy is more than just an outstanding spe­ overhaul and storage facilities that are linked THE CHINESE ON TAIWAN HAVE A cialist in mathematics, she has also devoted by a 175-mile railway system and more than LOT TO CELEBRATE her time and energy to her students outside of 380 miles of roads. the classroom by serving as yearbook advisor The vast facility includes 63,000 acres of HON. GUS YATRON and mathcounts coach. land which feature an innovative forestry pro­ OF PENNSYLVANIA Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me gram of hardwoods that are harvested through IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in congratulating Nancy Belsky on receiving a natural conservation program and shared Thursday, October 3, 1991 this most-deserved award. It is reassuring to with the public through various community acknowledge that there are still dedicated and projects. Nearly all surrounding communities Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, October 10, hardworking individuals devoting their lives to have received assistance in the form of ex­ 1991 will commemorate the Republic of Chi­ our nation's children and the future of the cess materials and properties, in particular, na's 80th birthday. The Chinese on Taiwan country. the building of homes for the homeless by the have a lot to celebrate. Evidence of the still Habitat for Humanity. Despite its demanding flourishing Taiwanese economy is a new 6- year national construction plan that has a total THE SOTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE defense mission, Crane established these in­ novative community service programs, garner­ budget of $303 billion. I hope that United NAVAL WEAPONS SUPPORT CEN­ States companies will aggressively bid for TER, CRANE, INDIANA ing recognition and receiving numerous pres­ tigious environmental awards in the process. these projects in order to further decrease Tai­ wan's trade surplus with the United States. HON. FRANK McCLOSKEY Crane also participates in the local commu­ Apart from its continuing economic success, OF INDIANA nity by promoting mathematics and science Taiwan's program of democratization is on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES education by providing assistance to teachers track and going forward with dramatic speed. in more than 40 southern Indiana schools In the very foreseeable future, lawmakers Thursday, October 3, 1991 through its visionary School Partnership Pro­ elected on the mainland will be replaced by Mr. MCCLOSKEY. Mr. Speaker, for the past gram. Crane also has established partnerships those born on the island. Other political re­ 50 years the Naval Weapons Support Center, in continuing engineering education programs forms, such as constitutional reform under the Crane, IN has served the Nation's defense with Vincennes and Purdue Universities. leadership of President Lee Teng-hui, will fur­ needs in an unparalleled manner. The south­ Crane has banded with the Naval Avionics ther Taiwan's place as a showcase of democ­ west Indiana Naval Weapons Support Center Center, private manufacturers, and State and racy in Asia. has served the country faithfully through World local government to bring an exciting new fa­ It is certainly in our best interest to see an War II, the Korean war, the Vietnam conflict, cility, the Electronics Manufacturing Productiv­ economically strong and politically progressive Grenada, Operation Just Cause in Panama ity Center to Indianapolis, IN. In a realignment Taiwan. So on October 10, Taiwan's National and recently in Operations Desert Shield and of the Navy command structure, Crane will Day, I extend my best wishes to the people of Desert Storm. Crane continues to support the gain the Naval Ordnance Station at Louisville, the Republic of China. Nation in the aftermath of Operation Desert KY, a new division of the Naval Surface War­ Storm in its logistical function of storing thou­ fare Center. Through these partnerships with sands of munitions in the more than 2,000 INTRODUCTION OF THE EL SAL­ Naval Avionics Center, the Electronics Manu­ magazine facilities on Crane. It represents a VADOR PEACE AND SECURITY facturing Productivity Center and the incorpo­ true national asset, ready to serve the defense ACT OF 1991 ration of the Louisville center, Crane is prepar­ needs of the country for decades to come. The center was named after the Navy's first ing itself for excellence and service in the HON. MEL LEVINE Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, Cmdr. Wil­ technically demanding and cost-conscious Navy of the 21st century. OF CALIFORNIA liam Montgomery Crane, who established a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES reputation for excellence in engineering. The Naval Weapons Support Center, Crane, Crane's original mission and purpose when it IN and its nearly 5,000 military and civilian Thursday, October 3, 1991 was established on December 1, 1941 , was to employees are to be congratulated for their Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. Speaker, prepare, load, renovate, receive, store and critical contributions to the nation, the Depart­ today I am introducing legislation that will bol­ issue all types of ammunition, including pyro­ ment of Defense and to the State of Indiana ster the prospects for peace in El Salvador technics and illuminating projectiles, and to act on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Octo­ and make clear the view of the U.S. Congress as a principal source of supply at a most criti- ber 12, 1991. that any future military assistance to El Sal- 25572 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 vador must be conditioned on respect for I have attached a summary of the legislation As we all know, this subcommittee has juris­ human rights. Mr. BERMAN, MR. KOSTMAYER, that I ask to be included at the end of this diction over a set of the most disparate ac­ and Mr. FEIGHAN have joined me as original statement. counts conceivable, including veterans ceme­ cosponsors of this bill. SUMMARY OF LEVINE BILL ON EL SALVADOR teries and medical care, manned space explo­ This legislation closely parallels a proposal (1) Policy Objectives: Sets forth the follow­ ration and space science, public and sub­ introduced by Senator DODD and LEAHY. The ing policy objectives: sidized housing, and hazardous waste dis­ main difference is that our bill updates certain To promote a permanent settlement and posal. policy language to reflect important changes cease-fire to the Salvadoran conflict through Reconciling important national priorities with that have taken place in El Salvador's political the mediation of the U.N. Secretary General; very scarce resources, gives Chairman TRAX­ To foster greater respect for basic human situation. LER and his subcommittee one of the toughest rights and the rule of law; and jobs in the House. There are reasons to be hopeful that an end To advance political accommodation and to the civil war in El Salvador is close at hand. national reconciliation. The conference agreement reflects their Late last month, through the agile and commit­ (2) Funding Cap: Caps Military Assistance strong efforts to provide adequate funds for ted leadership of U.N. Secretary Perez de at $69 million for FY '92. important programs. They deserve our grati­ Cuellar, the Government of El Salvador and (3) Funding Prohibition: Prohibits all U.S. tude. the FMLN signed a political agreement estab­ military assistance to El Salvador if the The conference agreement includes $1.5 President determines and reports to Con­ billion for title II of the National Affordable lishing a framework for the process of national gress that: reconciliation. This agreement has been her­ Housing Act, the Home Investment Partner­ The Government has failed to negotiate in ships Program. The home program provides alded by both of the parties as a watershed good faith; event in the tragic history of the Salvadoran The Government has ceased to support the support for State and local jurisdictions to in­ civil war. The United States must not miss this mediating role of the UN Secretary General; crease the supply of affordable housing in this opportunity for peace and should use its influ­ The Government has not acted in good Natio~rhaps the most pressing concern ence to ensure that this progress in negotia­ faith to carry out its portion of the UN-bro­ for Americans in many communities through­ tions is not only preserved but also built upon kered agreement of September 25; out the country. The Government has failed to conduct a The home program will allow communities to facilitate a permanent cease-fire and to professional investigation into evidence of make a national reconciliation a reality. to work toward increasing affordable single­ involvement or subsequent cover up of high and multi-family and housing with a new de­ It is precisely for this reason that we are in­ ranking Salvadoran military officials in the gree of creativity and flexibility. murder of the Jesuits; troducing the El Salvador Peace and Security The committee's decisions in this regard Act of 1991. The central focus of the legisla­ The military and security forces of El Sal­ vador are assassinating or abducting civil­ make it a full participant in efforts to empower tion is to keep the parties negotiating within and expand opportunities for low and middle the framework of the U.N. agreement and in ians. The determination made under this section income Americans. Housing authorities, advo­ good faith. Under the terms of this legislation, must be made in accordance with the cates, and nonprofit sponsors of low and mid­ military assistance to El Salvador may be ter­ reprogramming procedures of the Foreign dle income housing in the State of Maryland minated if the Government fails to continue to Assistance Act. are fully prepared to take advantage of these negotiate with the FMLN. Conversely, none of (4) 50 Percent Withholding of Funding: expanded opportunities, and I again want to Withholds 50 percent of U.S. military assist­ the assistance authorized in this bill would be thank the chairman and the subcommittee for withheld from the Government if the FMLN ance available to El Salvador in FY '92, and 50 percent of any existing military assist­ their attention and responsiveness. fails to continue to negotiate in good faith. Mr. Speaker, this bill also includes other This cut-off-in-funding mechanism provides a ance in the pipeline, unless the President de­ termines and reports to Congress that: provisions that are noteworthy, including fund­ compelling incentive to both parties to stay en­ The FMLN has failed to negotiate in good ing for the renovation and conversion to low gaged in the negotiation process. faith; income single-room occupancy apartments of Aside from the recent developments in the The FMLN has ceased to support a mediat­ a motel in New Carrollton, in my district. As peace process, significant changes also have ing role for the UN Secretary General. we all know, affordable housing is a very taken place in the status of the trial of the The FMLN is not acting in good faith to carry out its portion of the UN-brokered scarce commodity, especially in the Washing­ murdered Jesuit priests at the University of ton metropolitan area. The difficulty that local Central America. Last weekend, a jury con­ agreement of September 25; The survival of the constitutional govern­ residents face in finding adequate housing, victed two of the nine defendants for their in­ ment of El Salvador is being jeopardized by however, pales beside the problems confront­ volvement in the killings. While this is an un­ a substantial military offensive by the ing the minimum wage worker, the disabled, precedented event in that the veil of immunity FMLN; and the relatively young who have limited in­ traditionally extended to members of the Sal­ Proof exists and has been provided to Con­ comes but are otherwise prepared to live inde­ vadoran military for involvement in human gress that the FMLN continues to receive pendently. rights abuse has finally been pierced, the trial military assistance from foreign sources; I want to express my appreciation to The FMLN is assassinating or abducting Again, failed to produce a just result in some very the committee for including this project, which substantial ways. For instance, numerous de­ civilians. The determination required under this sec­ will help Prince Georges County to reach the fendants who admitted to the killings were ac­ tion must be made in accordance with the goal of significantly expanding affordable rent­ quitted on the grounds that they were simply reprogramming procedures of the foreign as­ al housing units in the next 5 years. carrying out orders. Additionally, the judicial sistance act. Mr. Speaker, my time is limited, but I would process failed to account for all of the military also like to mention a few other projects which officials implicated in the murders. Persuasive were included in the conference report which evidence, suggesting that the order to execute H.R. 2519, VA-HUD CONFERENCE will benefit the Nation and the State of Mary­ the Jesuits was given by higher ups, continues REPORT land. to linger. The committee included $20 million for the This bill also addresses the human rights HON. STENY H. HOYER Christopher Columbus Center for Marine Bio­ problem in El Salvador. It provides for a cut­ OF MARYLAND technology in Baltimore. These funds will help off of aid to El Salvador if the Government IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES assure that the Columbus Center remains in fails to investigate and prosecute to the fullest the forefront of efforts to maintain America's extent of the law all those responsible for the Thursday, October 3, 1991 leadership in the budding field of marine bio­ murders of the Jesuits including high ranking Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to technology. When America's leadership is officials who authorized or covered up these thank the chairman of the VA-HUD and Inde­ being challenged in so many areas, this sub­ crimes. pendent Agencies Appropriations Subcommit­ committee wisely chose to invest in America's I am hopeful that enactment of this bill will tee and the members of the subcommittee for future. accomplish two objectives: to facilitate an ex­ their diligence and attention to some of the The committee also included funds for the peditious and lasting peace to El Salvador and most important domestic concerns we face in Chesapeake Bay water quality model and the to foster greater respect for human rights. the conference report on H.R. 2519. Patuxent River. Again, the committee has cho-

' • • • • "( .j • • _. r~ ' .-- --t;;• r I October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25573 sen to support research and programs that im­ THE ADMINISTRATION'S Washington's attacks on Israel, its dispar­ prove and protect our natural resources and MISGUIDED ISRAEL-BASHING aging personal remarks about the Israeli enhance the quality of life for future genera­ prime minister, its demand for unilateral tions. concessions from Israel in advance of the HON. DICK SWE'IT conference, and the administration's appar­ Mr. Speaker, I have briefly described only a OF NEW HAMPSHIRE few of the items that are praiseworthy in this ent effort to use U.S. pressure to bring to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES power a more moderate, Labor-led govern­ bill. Thursday, October 3, 1991 ment in Jerusalem have all served to make Once again, I want to express my apprecia­ Shamir dig in his heels. tion to the subcommittee chairman, Bos TRAX­ Mr. SWETI. Mr. Speaker, I join many of my LER, The ranking member Representative colleagues in the Congress in expressing my Now, on the eve of the U.S.-sponsored peace conference, the Israeli prime minister GREEN, and the entire subcommittee for their profound dismay at the administration's deci­ has decided to adopt a new strategy: it was attention to important domestic programs. I sion to oppose until January 1992 the consid­ reflected in an uncompromising interview he strongly support the conference report and eration of housing loan guarantees to assist gave me last week. Shamir will speak out urge all of my colleagues to do so as well. Israel in its massive effort to resettle Jewish publicly to let Washinton know just where refugees from the Soviet Union, Ethiopia, and he stands: although he will attend the up­ other countries. coming conference, he has no plans to SUPPORT UNEMPLOYMENT The Government and people of Israel will change his fundamental positions. Shamir EXTENSION take the grave risks for peace in the Middle holds that there will be no territorial conces­ East only if they are convinced that the United sions: "We are * * * the owners of these ter­ HON. GLENN POSHARD States is supporting them in the difficult and ritories * * * This land belongs to us. OF ILLINOIS perilous decisions they will have to make. The If the administration genuinely wants to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES policies which the administration is pursuing bring about a political settlement between are self-destructive and will not lead to the the Arabs and the Israelis, it must take into Thursday, October 3, 1991 conclusion of the peace agreement we all so account Israel's need to be military secure Mr. POSHARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong earnestly seek. and on close terms with the United States. support of the conference report on S. 1722, Mr. Speaker, today's Washington Post pub­ Washington should also understand that Is­ which both the U.S. House of Representatives lished an excellent Oped piece by Lally Wey­ rael can only be asked to take risks for and Senate have approved. This emergency mouth which discusses intelligently and per­ peace-and any concession on territory rep­ extension of unemployment benefits is des­ ceptively the negative impact of the adminis­ resents a risk-if its qualitative military perately needed, and I wish to state my sup­ tration's policies on the goals we are pursuing. edge over the Arabs is maintained. port for this legislation in the strongest pos­ I ask that this article be placed in the RECORD, Ironclad U.S. security guarantees, includ­ sible terms. and I urge my colleagues to give it serious at­ ing an American troop presence, are one I wish to emphasize how vital this effort is tention. path toward this goal. It should, of course, be noted that longterm mistrust of Washing­ to the working men and women of southern Il­ [From the Washington Post, Oct. 3, 1991] linois. I am deeply concerned that without ton's ability to keep commitments-from BUSH'S MISGUIDED ISRAEL-BASHING some assistance, and for my State it would be Saigon to Beirut-makes even this a prob­ (By Lally Weymouth) only 7 additional weeks, these fine people will lematic solution. suffer even further. TEL Av1v.-The Bush administration has The best viable alternative is to persuade shrewdly disguised its real intention-to I support the extended unemployment com­ the Arab countries to substantially reduce gain leverage over Israel at the upcoming their vast conventional forces. Unless Arab pensation package because it recognizes the peace conference-by arguing that Washing­ emergency here at home. I am not oblivious to conventional superiority over Israel is essen­ ton merely wants a 120-day delay before it tially eliminated, Israel is in no position to world events, and I am glad to know the Presi­ grants Israel U.S.-backed loan guarantees. surrender territory. dent is not either. That is in part why the peo­ President Bush initially maintained that his ple elected a President. But they also elected sole goal was to enhance the likelihood of Shamir and his government understand the him to guide our domestic affairs, and I must success at the impending U.S.-sponored con­ seriousness of the threat posed to Israel by say I believe the President is misguided in his ference. Hafez Assad's Syria. For one thing, Syria The administration subsequently argued maintains a standing army of 11 divisions, decision to veto this bill. that, particularly during a recession, U.S. while Israel maintains only three standing We are proposing to supply long-term un­ tax dollars should not-even indireclty (loan divisions. (At present, it requires 48 hours for employed workers with a little breathing room. guarantees, after all, are not foreign aid)-­ Israel to call up its reserves.) Moreover, I do not believe American workers want any­ fund settlements in the territories Israel Syria has an ample supply of chemical weap­ thing more than the chance to continue their seized in 1967. President Bush, it is well to ons. And now there is strong evidence that job search while keeping their pride and dig­ note, has yet to explain why it was appro­ Damascus is developing a sophisticated nu­ nity intact. They want to work, not collect un­ priate for Washington just this year simply clear program, thanks to assistance from employment, but if that is their only option until to forgive Egypt's S7 billion debt to the Unit­ China. ed States. their situation improves, it is a reasonable last Bashing the Israelis-and Americans who Thus was Jerusalem especially dis­ resort. support Israel-proved popular: polls appear concerted by the apparent American decision The unemployment trust fund has a suffi­ to show that most of the public backs the to represent Syria-long a sponsor of anti­ cient balance to afford this expenditure. After President. As an added bonus, from the ad­ Western international terrorism-as a new all, that is the reason for its existence, and if ministration's standpoint, Bush managed to regional diplomatic ally. (On Sept. 1, as it this isni an emergency, I would hate to see create an unprecedented rift between Amer­ happens, in a hushed-up development, a what is. There is definitely an emergency in ican Jews-anxious to avoid a confrontation group of terrorists were arrested in Egypt. my district, and as I look around the country, with the president- and Jerusalem. They had planned to attack an American Some members of the Israeli opposition, I suspect our situation is not much different ship in the Suez Canal, using rockets and the Labor Party, view the conflict between missiles. The group was based in Damascus.) from everywhere else. the Shamir-led Likud government and the I urge President Bush to take a second look American president as a prospective opening Should the administration recognize a at this position on this bill. I know we have de­ for a Labor comeback. Indeed, some ranking need to change directions, as it almost cer­ clared emergencies for people overseas, and Laborites have actually gone to Washington tainly will, Washington's recent experiment I do not begrudge them that aid, but I certainly to urge the administration to keep the pres­ in Israel-bashing has rendered its task more don't want it to come at the expense of our sure on Shamir. difficult. This is particularly true if it elects people here at home. But the Bush initiative is profoundly mis­ to station U.S. troops in the Middle East in I am proud to stand with the large majority guided. To achieve a genuine agreement of a peace-keeping capacity and needs to con­ any kind between Israel and its Arab neigh­ vince the American public of the wisdom of of my colleagues who see this emergency ex­ bors, Israel must appear to be strong; the this path. tension of unemployment benefits as the right Arabs must perceive the U.S.-Israel alliance thing to do, and will continue my efforts to en­ as close, and the Israeli prime minister must courage the President to sign this bill. trust the U.S. administration. 25574 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL wish to start a new business, expand a busi­ ized citizens to vote, a privilege she is proud OPPORTUNITY ness, or take over the management of an ex­ to exercise. isting business. The primary goal of the center Earlier this year, Mrs. Le was diagnosed HON. JOHN P. MURlllA is to prepare women to run businesses that with a rare form of brain cancer. Doctors ex­ OF PENNSYLVANIA will succeed. To achieve these goals, the Cen­ pected her to either slowly succumb to the dis­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ter for Entrepreneurial Opportunity will focus ease or not survive a complicated operation. on educating women on how to handle the fi­ I am proud and pleased to announce to you, Thursday, October 3, 1991 nances of running a business, offer advice or Mr. Speaker, and my distinguished colleagues Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, I want to take solving problems specific to a woman-owned of the House of Representatives that Mrs. this opportunity to discuss the establishment business, publish educational newsletters and Thang Le not only endured the surgery but is of a Center for Entrepreneurial Opportunity at reports on needs and responses to the prob­ now anticipated to make a full and complete Seton Hill College located in Greensburg, PA. lems of women-owned or managed busi­ recovery. Seton Hill College an outstanding liberal arts nesses, coordinate regional networks of I am certain that this modern miracle could college founded by the Sisters of Charity, women businessowners who will assist in the not have been achieved without the strong takes pride in its 73-year history of leadership education of other women, and provide semi­ and loving support of the Le family who com­ in higher education for women. Recently, nars in the region responding to the needs of forted and prayed for her. Seton Hill College was chosen "one of the women. The miraculous story of Mrs. Le's faith and 100 best buys in private education in the Women are becoming entrepreneurs at courage triumphant against long odds is here­ country" by Money magazine. such a fast rate that fathers are now consider­ by memorialized into this permanent RECORD There is a clear need in both the existing ing their daughters to take over their business of the Congress of the United States. entrepreneurial and the would-be entre­ for the first time rather than the way it used to preneurial community for the kind of education be, whereby a father would only be succeeded and training to be provided through the Seton by a son or son-in-law. There are many con­ TRIBUTE TO MILES DAVIS Hill Center for Entrepreneurial Opportunity. A flicts involved and special needs that need to comprehensive study by the Pennsylvania be addressed when a woman becomes the HON. RONALD V. DELLUMS Economic Development Partnership Board head of a company. Employees may be dou­ OF CALIFORNIA concluded that the women businessowner is bly hard on a daughter when she takes over IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an untapped resource that needs to be sup­ her father's business. Customers who are Thursday, October 3, 1991 ported, expanded, and capitalized in the Na­ used to dealing with a man on top, may not tion. treat a woman owner with respect. Women Mr. DELLUMS. Mr. Speaker, one of the true Prior to 1970, women owned less than 5 have to work twice as hard to prove them­ geniuses of American music in this century is percent of the country's businesses. Today, selves when on top of a family business. no longer with us. After a life filled with per­ they own 30 percent of the businesses overall. Seton Hill is particularly well-positioned to sonal pain, physical agony-and incredible The U.S. Small Business Administration pre­ provide education and information sharing. Of musical accomplishments-Miles Davis has dicts by the year 2000 more than one-half of the 50 States, Pennsylvania ranks fifth in its passed into eternity. all nonfarm businesses will be owned by concentration of women-owned businesses. From the time he left an achievement-ori­ women. Women today are entering new areas The environment at a womens' college­ ented family in East Saint Louis, Illinois, to go of business with increases shown in high tech where role models in leadership and achieve­ east to the Juilliard School of Music in New services, manufacturing, insurance, and legal ment abound-is the ideal environment for York City, Miles Davis was a musician of rare services. In publicly held firms, women fill at women to learn management skills and feel potential. His stay at Juilliard was a short one the most 3 percent of high executive jobs. In empowered to succeed. Our center will help because he soon moved on to the challenge family-owned businesses, they hold 33 per­ women deal with their unique entrepreneurial of the improvisational jazz clubs that fes­ cent of the executive positions. Without appro­ problems and send a message to American tooned Fifty-Second Street in the late 1940's priate preparation for the steps they take in women that their work is taken seriously. and early 1950s. There he developed his inim­ starting new businesses, their risk for failure is Mr. Speaker, I appreciate this opportunity to itable muted trumpet style, while playing with high. discuss with you today the Center for Entre­ such jazz immortals as Charley Parker, Can­ Here are a few examples of specific cases preneurial Opportunity at Seton Hill College. nonball Adderly and, later, among others, I have run into in my region alone. There are John Coltrane and the young Herbie Hancock. thousands of more examples. A woman with In 1949 he recorded his first hit album­ her husband owned a trash hauling business. THE INDOMITABLE SPIRIT OF "The Birth of the Cool." It was an immediate The couple had nine children. Her husband MRS. THANG LE sensation among jazz afficianados, and died a few years ago. When the widow went marked the first truly innovative departure in to the bank to request continued financing the HON. RANDY "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM the culture of jazz trumpeting since the early tone was very negative. This was not the case OF CALIFORNIA days of Louis Armstrong. when her husband was alive. Obviously, the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES At the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 Miles bank felt uncomfortable lending money to a Davis first came to the attention of a wider lis­ woman for a typically defined male-dominated Thursday, October 3, 1991 tening audience, with his virtuoso rendition of business such as trash hauling. Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, as one "Round Midnight." The tumultuous standing A woman in business for herself said during who has witnessed both the wondrous devel­ ovation that he received seemed to inspire the first few years her arts supply company opment of three beautiful children, as well as him to make new forays into uncharted was in business, she signed all business cor­ the life-robbing horror of war, I am still muscial waters. respondence "C. Morreo." She indicated "I amazed by the joyous, unexplained phenome­ This resulted in a series of extraordinary al­ picked up right away that I'd get better results non that can only be described as a miracle. bums in the next dozen years that included: if I didn't use my full name." Recently, friends and family celebrated the "Walkin'", with the Miles Davis All Stars; Many women I have spoken with do not miraculous recovery of Mrs. Thang Le of San "Miles Ahead"; Kind of Blue"; "Sketches of have credit in their own names. They don't Diego, California. Mrs. Le's triumph is a wel­ Spain"; "Sorcerer"; "Seven Steps to Heaven"; know where to go for money or how to deal come relief to those who love and know her, and "Miles Smiles". During this period he also with banks or other lending institutions. They and it should be an inspiration to us all. recorded two albums, "Porgy and Bess" and admit being too shy about asking for financing, Having fled the tyranny and oppression of "My Funny Valentine", that featured moving discussing financing, or asking tough ques­ communist Vietnam in 1979, Mrs. Le, her hus­ interpretations of "old standards." tions. band and daughter quickly embraced their In later years, between recurring bouts of ill­ The objectives of the Center for Entre­ new American homeland. After earning United ness and other afflictions, his creative musical preneurial Opportunity are to address situa­ States citizenship, Mrs. Le became a familiar melancholy came through in such albums as tions such as these by offering educational as­ spectator at weekly naturalization ceremonies. "Jack Johnson", "On the Corner", and his sistance to women across the country who She would often register other newly natural- 1980 rendition of "The Man With The Horn."

. ·- . .. . - - . - .. October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25575 Miles Davis's life-song has ended-but the the University of California at Berkeley, noted about the mail problems that affect every per­ legacy of his music will linger on. He was­ the following: son in this country. and will remain-a musical treasure trove for Unlike employees of the Nation's news My resolution, House Resolution 194, is a the people of this Nation and the planet at media, professional scholars of Congress start. It asks the President to create a com­ large. So Miles, a eulogy of thanks and appre­ have no regular, institutionalized, independ­ mission to take a good hard look at the Postal ciation for your magical music and the happy ent access to Congress. There is no such Service. I hope my colleagues will join me in memories it has evoked in so many for so thing as a scholars' gallery, where profes­ cosponsoring this important legislation. sionals studying Congress for the purpose of long. writing books or scholarly articles might perform such elementary tasks as taking notes or gathering up news releases. HONORING DR. GWEN THOMAS TRIBUTE TO ROGER MOORE I learned of this anomaly when my wife, a college social studies instructor, was asked to HON. ELIOT L ENGEL HON. DAVE CAMP refrain from taking notes during a debate she OF NEW YORK OF MICHIGAN had come into hear. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I am urging my colleagues who have not yet Thursday, October 3, 1991 Thursday, October 3, 1991 done so to cosponsor this resolution that will Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, it is my distinct enable serious studies of the Congress to Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, it is with great ad­ honor to extend congratulations and best miration that I rise today to congratulate Roger study, first hand, the proceedings conducted in the House of Representatives and record in wishes to Dr. Gwen Thomas, who is being Moore on being named an Outstanding School honored this week upon her retirement from notes their observations and impressions of Principal in America. His commitment to serv­ service in the New York City public school our work on this floor. ice and excellence in education certainly dem­ system. onstrates how much he deserves this award. I have known Gwen Thomas for many Tomorrow, Mr. Moore will be officially hon­ DOUBLE TENTH years, and I can personally attest to her dedi­ ored as one of the 1991 National Distin­ cation and commitment to excellence. Every guished Principals. He has had a long and student, family, teacher and administrator who prosperous career in the Lake City, Ml, school HON. ROBIN TAILON has worked with her knows of the thorough­ system and is admired and esteemed not only OF SOUTH CAROLINA ness and understanding Gwen brings to the in the principal's office, but also in the class­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES job. Her attributes will be missed but her leg­ room, on the playing field, and in the hallways Thursday, October 3, 1991 acy will live on, especially at Public School of the schools. Mr. TALLON. Mr. Speaker, our friends in No. 68, where she most recently served as After receiving his degrees from Adrian Col­ principal. lege and Central Michigan University, Mr. Taiwan will soon be celebrating the Double Tenth, their version of our July Fourth, held on Clearly, our Nation and our communities Moore began his career in Lake City as a need more people like Dr. Gwen Thomas. In teacher in September 1969. Throughout the October 10. As we know, the Republic of China was founded in 1911 by Dr. Sun Yat­ her retirement, I know Gwen can reflect on all years he excelled not only as a teacher, but the lives she has touched in a positive way as athletic director, as transportation director, sen. Dr. Sun overthrew the Ch'ing Dynasty and ushered in a modern democratic republic and recognize that her career has made a dif­ and as principal of the middle school. In 1984, ference for so many people. On behalf of my Mr. Moore became principal of Lake City Ele­ founded on the principles of nationhood and liberty. constituents, and on a most personal level. I mentary School. offer thanks to Gwen Thomas and wish her Mr. Moore is an inspiration to the students, Now, 80 years later, on the island of Tai­ good luck and good health. the parents, and the community. He is a lead­ wan, Dr. Sun had finally realized his dream of er of the Kiwanis and is active in the First building a modern nation which is free and Presbyterian Church. With his wife Cindy, and prosperous. It is my hope that the Republic of China will continue to have good fortune and MIKE ADRAY: DEARBORN CITIZEN children Chad and Ryan, Mr. Moore is a role NO. 1 model for the importance of education, family, good economic and political growth into the fu­ and community involvement. ture. Mr. Speaker, please join me in congratulat­ HON. JOHN D. DINGELL ing Mr. Moore. While he may be awarded a OF MICHIGAN National Distinguished Principal of 1991, he FORWARDING ORDER EXPIRED: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THE BUCK STOPS HERE will be an outstanding school principal, teach­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 er, family man, community leader, and friend HON. WM. S. BROOMFlEID Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to for many, many years to come. honor a very special friend who lives in my OF MICHIGAN congressional district, Mr. Michael Adray, on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SCHOLARS' GALLERY the occasion of his 70th birthday. I am de­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 lighted to take this opportunity to salute the HON. H. MARTIN LANCASTER Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, today the truly remarkable contributions Mr. Adray has House is completing its work on the Postal made to our community. OF NORTH CAROLINA Service appropriation for fiscal year 1992. We Proclaimed as Dearborn's No. 1 citizen, Mr. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES should not, however, fool ourselves by think­ Adray is president and owner of Adray Appli­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 ing that our work vis a vis the Postal Service ance and Photo Center Inc., in Dearborn. For Mr. LANCASTER. Mr. Speaker, today I am is complete. over a quarter of a century, in Dearborn and introducing a resolution to establish a schol­ Postal management may ignore the com­ throughout southeastern Michigan, Mr. Adray ars' gallery in the House of Representatives. plaints that pour in daily about their arrogant has helped thousands of people by taking Academics are presently barred from the policies and indifferent service; this body can­ leadership roles in amateur athletics, higher press galleries, and those who sit in the public not. education, and other community causes. galleries are not allowed to take notes. This A management review is badly needed and Mr. Adray has worn many hats in his career. resolution simply amends the rules of the long overdue, yet the Committee on Post Of­ He was a tool and die maker at Ford Motor House to require the Speaker to set aside a fice and Civil Service Committee continues to Co. He was a bombardier-navigator in the portion of the gallery for the use by scholars shield the Postal Service from scrutiny. Army Air Corps. He returned to work at Ford of Congress. Scholars would be admitted to As my friend Ray McGrath said last night, Motor Co., while attending mechanical engi­ this gallery under regulations prescribed by the time for stalling and passing the buck is neering classes at Henry Ford Community the Speaker. past. So long as the Government maintains College and Wayne State University, as a pro­ In a Roll Call article, Nelson Polby, director responsibility for the Postal Service, we in duction process engineer, and launched his of the Institute of Governmental Students at Congress have an obligation to do something business in 1955. 25576 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 Mr. Speaker, throughout his career, Mr. This is First United Methodist Church of "This is a courageous, committed con­ Adray has demonstrated a remarkable diver­ Miami at 400 Biscayne Blvd. In the heart of gregation. They voted to stay downtown a sity and worth to his community, often helping downtown, it is "a beacon of light to the number of years ago and they remember that city," says Ed Simon, 77, a member since commitment," Barnes said. "We believe God to raise much needed money for community 1946. gives us the gift and the strength we need to projects. Mike and his wife, Louise, contrib­ First United Methodist was born out of a persevere, and that He honors our faithful­ uted academic college scholarships to the merger in 1966 of two of Miami's pioneer ness with His faithfulness." Adray Community Hockey League and I com­ churches (White Temple, organized in 1896, I am happy to pay tribute to Pastor William mend Mike Adray's commitment to America's and Trinty, which began two years later in Barnes and his dedicated congregation by re­ 1898). Its members recently celebrated the young athletes, which goes well beyond dol­ printing this article from the Miami Herald. The lars and cents. In 1956, he sponsored his first church's 95th anniversary. According to William Barnes, pastor of the church has served the community in many class E baseball team. He now sponsors church for the past seven years, the church ways, from providing reading rooms to soldiers 1, 138 Little League teams, as well as numer­ has a membership of about 1,014, "with about during the Spanish-American War, to feeding ous baseball teams, softball teams, basketball 220 regulars attending Sunday morning wor­ today's homeless in downtown Miami. teams, in addition to a 100-member wrestling ship," he said. Through wars, hurricanes, fires and refugee club. President of the All-American-Amateur Dorothy Phelps, 85, still drives to Sunday influxes, the First United Methodist Church morning services from her home in Coconut Baseball Association in 1981-1983, Mr. Adray has always been ready and willing to serve. sponsors three Adray Baseball Leagues Grove. She has been a member since 1920. Said Phelps, "We have always felt there is throughout Michigan. Among his numerous a need for the church to be in the city." awards for such dedication, Mr. Adray re­ "Some [members] feel the homeless are THE TELEPHONE DISCLOSURE AND ceived Sponsor of the Year Award from the not very inviting, but if Jesus was here, this DISPUTE RESOLUTION ACT American Amateur Baseball Congress. He has is where He would be," she said. also received the United Foundation Sports­ Phelps praised the church's younger, new members who also see the need, and the Rev. HON. AL SWIFf man of the Year Award 1982-83, and has OF WASHINGTON been honored with the Michigan Sports Hall of Barnes who, she said, "preaches a passionate and powerful sermon each Sunday." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fame and the Amateur Softball Association A widow (her late husband, Grady, was one Thursday, October 3, 1991 Hall of Fame. of the nine men who were incorporators of Mr. 'Adray has hit home run balls for health First United Methodist), Phelps is the moth­ Mr. SWIFT. Mr. Speaker, today I am joining care institutions and the medical profession in er of two children and the grandmother of my colleagues, Congressmen MARKEY, RIT­ his capacity as chairman of the Oakwood Hos­ four. TER, and RINALDO to introduce comprehensive pital Foundation Board of Trustees in 1988, "I'm still loving that church," she said. legislation to deal with the growing problems and as a member of the board of trustees of "It's a real part of my life." in the pay-per-call, 900 number industry. At the merger in 1966, Simon was another Abuses in this industry have generated tre­ Henry Ford Hospital, and has chaired with de­ of the incorporators. He agreed with Phelps termination Dearborn's American Cancer Soci­ that the role of the two early churches had mendous numbers of consumer complaints to ety. always been to serve the physical and spir­ the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal A leading figure in the business community, itual needs of the community. Communications Commission, the State attor­ Mr. Adray is director of Dearborn Bank and Service to the community started with the neys general, and to public and private Trust, and is a member of the Governor's Err Spanish-American War, Simon said, when consumer agencies. I am pleased to say that trepreneurial and Small Business Commission. White Temple provided reading rooms for the legislation we are introducing has been For his service to the business community, in the soldiers stationed here. developed with the active participation of all Later, in the fall of that year, there was the above groups. 1982 he received the chamber of commerce the yellow fever epidemic and the church Outstanding Citizen of the Year Award and in furnished soup kitchens," he said. "Then, I am also very pleased to say that this legis­ 1986 was awarded an honorary doctor of hu­ during the first World War, both churches lation is the joint and constructive effort of manities from the Detroit College of Business. provided recreation rooms and suppers for both the Transportation and Hazardous Mate­ Mr. Adray's life has also been filled by the the soldiers." rials Subcommittee' and the Telecommuni­ love of his family and many, many friends. Mr. Simon said that during the 1926 hurricane, cations and Finance Subcommittee. The ma­ Speaker, you can see that Michael Adray is rooms in both churches were converted to jority and minority of both subcommittees have emergency hospitals and refugee centers for worked together and with the telecommuni­ truly deserving of recognition. Let us therefore casual ties. rise as a body and pay our tribute to Mr. Mi­ He remembers how even before Fidel Cas­ cations industry to craft legislation that will chael Adray, who in addition to being a hard­ tro, when an influx of Cuban refugees came protect consumers from fraudulent and decep­ working and successful businessman and to Miami, it was the churches who welcomed tive behavior in the use of 900 numbers. huge community leader, is a great American them. For White Temple's efforts in helping The pay-per-call industry has grown and a man I am proud to call my friend. to get the refugees settled, the church was exponentially in the past few years, in part be­ recognized by Guideposts magazine. cause it offers both consumers and vendors a But the services to the community didn't payment mechanism that is convenient and FIRST UNITED METHODIST end there. White Temple, with a seating ca­ cost-effective. Unfortunately, this very useful pacity of more than 2,000, became the site of technology has gotten a bad reputation from CHURCH: DOWNTOWN MIAMI'S many concerts and other cultural events, BEACON OF LIGHT Simon said. Both churches had radio broad­ consumers because of problems with the qual­ casts every Sunday. ity of services provided and in abusive billing HON. ILEANA ROS.LEHTINEN On New Year's Eve in 1964, an arsonist set and collection practices. The lack of nationally fire to White Temple's main sanctuary, burn­ uniform regulatory guidelines has led to confu­ OF FLORIDA ing it beyond repair. It was the fire, Simon sion not only for consumers, but industry and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES said, that probably brought on the union of regulatory agencies as well as to the rights of Thursday, October 3, 1991 the two churches. callers and the oversight responsibilities of the Miami-Dade Community College bought Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN Mr. Speaker, I am the property of both churches and in 1978 the regulatory authorities. This has allowed some pleased to recognize the First United Meth­ ground-breaking for the present church was pay-per-call businesses to engage in practices odist Church, which was recently featured in held. The first service in the new sanctuary which have abused the rights of customers. the Miami Herald. The article by Bea L. Hines was in 1980. This legislation-the product of both sub­ tells of how the church has served as a bea­ Simon, who still practices law, said it has committees with jurisdiction in this area-ad­ not been an easy thing for First United dresses those concerns. con of light to the downtown area, throughout Methodist to stay in the city. He credits the city of Miami's history since 1896: The continued growth of the legitimate pay­ Barnes with doing "a magnificent job" of per-call industry is dependent upon consumer It occupies a corner of downtown Miami helping the church to remain downtown. and its neighbors are Bayside, banks, hotels The church has no plans to move, Barnes confidence that unfair and deceptive behavior and parking meters. Elderly citizens and said. "The Lord needs us here. We continue will be effectively curtailed and that consumers homeless people find warm food and friends to remind ourselves that this is a special will have adequate rights of redress. I hope under its roof. calling. that Congress will enact this legislation to offer October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25577 both consumers and vendors necessary pro- lion Americans now have as much income as our bill, decedents or their executors will have tections and help facilitate the growth of a ro- the 100 million Americans with the lowest in­ two options: First, recognize any appreciated bust and competitive pay-per~ll marketplace. comes. value from the initial basis, pay the capital President Bush's response is to prolong the gains tax due, and receive a step-up in basis; supply-side fantasy. He proposes to reduce or second, carryover the initial basis for the DOMESTIC VIOLENCE the tax rate paid on capital gains in the vain assets. Thus, the appreciation of assets will hope it will boost economic growth. not escape taxation, but individuals will retain HON. ROBERT T. MATSUI He does this knowing full well that there control over when to dispose of the assets. OF CALIFORNIA isn't any evidence that capital gains enhances The legislation has been carefully crafted to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES economic growth, that it will add billions of dol­ take care of legitimate concerns regarding lars to the Federal budget deficit, and that 77 family farms and businesses. The operation of Thursday, October 3, 1991 percent of all capital gains go to the top 1 per­ family farms would be unaffected by this legis­ Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I rise to salute cent of Americans. lation. Farms which are eligible for the re­ the fine work of Women Escaping a Violent Mr. Speaker, the fact is that the very duced estate tax under section 2032A would Environment [WEAVE]. an organization dedi­ wealthy in this country already enjoy many tax be allowed a supplementary $250,000 step-up cated to reducing domestic violence in the advantages that most lower- and middle-in­ in basis. Sacramento area. come Americans do not. Before we race off to Under this proposal, a farm that is passed On October 7, Lifetime television and Sac­ grant new tax advantages, we need to exam­ down to a farmer's children will never be re­ ramento Cable will present a special WEAVE ine the ones that already exist. quired to pay capital gains taxes at death. The benefit showing of "Prisoners of Wedlock," a One of the largest and most egregious is family would be able to continue the enterprise documentary on domestic violence. The im­ the loophole that allows the capital gains on without interruption. Taxes would only be due portance of this film and of awareness of do­ assets held at death to pass untaxed to the if the heirs sell the farm, at which time only mestic violence cannot be overstated. Accord­ next generation. If an individual sells an asset farms with a fair market value exceeding ing to the Surgeon General, domestic violence today, that person is taxed on the appreciation $850,000 will face taxes. is the largest cause of injury to women in the of that asset. But if he or she holds an asset Likewise, a family business, as defined in United States. Sadly, domestic violence is also until death, the appreciation of that asset is section 6166(b), would be eligible for an addi­ one of the leading causes of death among not taxed and the basis of the asset is tional $250,000 supplementary step-up in women. Every 15 seconds, a woman is the stepped up to fair market value before being basis. This additional basis, when combined victim of domestic violence in the United passed on to the heirs. The result is that the with the $600,000 minimum basis and the car­ States. capital gains earned during the individual's ryover basis option, would ensure that families Mr. Speaker, this trend of increased domes­ lifetime will never be taxed. never face liquidity problems due to tax on tic violence must not continue. At a time when Mr. Speaker, it's not right that these gains capital gains at death. there is so much talk about improving the in­ completely escape taxation. They should be Family run businesses can pass from gen­ stitution of family, let us take the first steps by taxed like all other capital gains. Furthermore, eration to generation without recognizing any promoting awareness, providing safeguards, this loophole creates an enormous incentive to capital gains, while receiving substantial step­ and establishing strong punishments for the hold assets until death. Not only does that hurt up under the minimum basis and supple­ crime of domestic violence. I ask my col­ economic growth by locking investments into mentary basis rule. Taxes would only be due leagues to join me in recognizing National Do­ less productive uses, but it costs the Treasury if the heirs sell their interest in the business, mestic Violence Awareness Month and to enormous amounts of revenue. at which time estates under $850,000 would work toward ending this tragedy that affects so Finally, it perpetuates the unfairness of our be exempted entirely from paying taxes. many of this country's families. Tax Code. The rich are allowed to stay rich I hope that during the coming debate over through no effort of their own, while lower- and economic growth and tax fairness, we look at middle-income Americans are asked to help this legislation as a way of making the Code INTRODUCTION OF CARRYOVER make up for the lost revenues. work in a more fair and economically produc­ BASIS ACT OF 1991 The bill we are introducing today addresses tive manner. Mr. PEASE and I look forward to this inequity by eliminating the step-up in basis working with our colleagues to correct his in­ HON. SANDER M. LEVIN for assets received from estates valued above equity in the code. OF MICHIGAN $600,000. Estates valued at less . than IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $600,000 would continue to receive a step-up in basis under section 1014 of the Internal UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Thursday, October 3, 1991 Revenue Code. Mr. LEVIN of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I rise The basis of property received from estates HON. FREDERICK S. UPTON today to introduce legislation with Congress­ valued at more than $600,000 would be deter­ OF MICHIGAN man PEASE of Ohio that will help restore a de­ mined under a new section 1022. The basis of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gree of fairness and progressivity to our Tax this property would be the property's initial Code and encourage investment in more pro­ basis increased by the section 1022 adjust­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 ductive economic activities. Our bill would cor­ ment. Initial basis is defined as the basis of Mr. UPTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to tell rect a longstanding deficiency in tax policy that the property in the hands of the decedent in­ the American public how Congress handled allows capital gains held until death to escape creased by the fresh start adjustment provided the extension of unemployment benefits. taxation. in the bill. This week I voted to extend additional bene­ There's been much discussion recently, Mr. The fresh start adjustment increases the fits to help unemployed families across Amer­ Speaker, about policies to promote economic basis of the property to its fair market value as ica. My home State of Michigan has the Na­ growth and tax fairness. During the 1980's, of December 31, 1991. This adjustment was tion's second highest unemployment rate, and the Nation was asked to participate in a sup­ included so that the bill would apply on a pro­ families are struggling to put food on the table. ply-side experiment. The engineers of the ac­ spective basis only. But instead of directly addressing this prob­ companying tax and budget policies promised Further adjustments are provided under sec­ lem, Congress argued and delayed while de­ booming economic growth and a higher stand­ tion 1022 to assure that only large estates will serving Americans continued to bear the ard of living for all Americans. be impacted by this change. These adjust­ weight of this Nation's prolonged economic re­ Precisely the opposite occurred. The ments will allow, in many cases, the basis of cession. underpinnings for economic growth-a sound inherited property to be increased to at least As a fiscal conservative I, like the President, fiscal position, good roads, well-educated stu­ $600,000. Some qualified farms and closely don't think we have to increase the deficit to dents-were weakened. Only a very few in held businesses will get to increase the basis relieve this pain. We could have quickly pro­ this country accumulated tremendous wealth of this property to as much as $850,000. vided additional benefits through offsetting while the vast majority of Americans struggled A central feature of the legislation is the es­ cuts in other programs. Senator DOLE offered just to make ends meet. The richest 2.5 mil- tablishment of carryover basis rules. Under such a measure, but unfortunately was 25578 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 rebuffed. Here in the House, we did not even I have three objections to this widespread guilty, then I say that we are mocking the get the chance to vote on offsetting cuts. I'm belief regarding people with AIDS and HIV. examples of their lives. angry we were only given the choice of provid­ The first is discrimination. Despite the If we are to find some good in the tragic tragedy in Africa-where countless millions cases of Kimberly Bergalis, Ryan White and ing no benefits, increasing the deficit, or rais­ of both sexes have contracted AIDS through countless others, it should be to restore our ing taxes. heterosexual contact-many Americans con­ passion and humanity for all of those who Congress abrogated its responsibility to un­ tinue to view AIDS as a "gay disease" and, are battling the disease. Goodness knows, employed Americans when our help was therefore, not deserving of compassion. This they face enough challenges without soci­ needed the most and then acted to spend misconception has lingered even though ety's blame. money we doni have. It's not too late to do it AIDS now ranks as the second leading cause right, and I will continue to push for more re­ of death among all American men between sponsible ways to pay for these critical needs. the ages of 25 and 44 and the fifth leading IN REMEMBERANCE OF BABI YAR cause of death among American women of But then, you may ask, why did I vote for the the same age group. bill that increases the deficit in this way? Be­ My second objection to the term "inno­ HON. JOHN W. COX, JR. cause it is not fair unemployed families pay for cent" is its imprecision. At what point are OF ILLINOIS our irresponsibility, and I won't put the burden people to blame for AIDS? Is it when they IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on their shoulders because we couldn't do our learn that they are homosexual or decide to Thursday, October 3, 1991 job. That's why I voted for the extended bene­ use drugs? Or do people become "guilty" fits. when they engage in unprotected sex or use Mr. COX of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, this week­ dirty needles? If this is true, then a lot more end marked the 50th anniversary of the Babi individuals deserve the sympathy that most Yar massacre, one of the most harrowing AIDS AND INNOCENCE Americans seem to be reserving for the "in­ episoles of the Nazi Holocaust. nocent." Consider: Until the development of the It is critical that we take this opportunity to HON. MEL LEVINE HIV-antibody test in the mid-1980s, it was remember the tragedy of Babi Yar, a tragedy OF CALIFORNIA virtually impossible to determine exposure of senseless death and a tragedy which for so to AIDS unless physical symptoms had long went unrecognized. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES manifested themselves. The lack of wide­ In 1941, in the week between Rosh Hasha­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 spread educational programs until this time, nah and Yorn Kippur, over 33,000 Jews were Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. Speaker, moreover, hindered the ability of individuals taken to Babi Yar, stripped of their clothes and to take precautions that would have pre­ brutally massacred by Nazi and Ukrainian sol­ would like to draw my colleagues' attention to vented transmission of the disease. an article in yesterday's Washington Post by a Because it typically takes a number of diers. In addition, during the next 2 years, tens close friend, Scott Hitt. Scott is a respected in­ years for any physical symptoms to appear of thousands of Jews and non-Jews were ternist in the Los Angeles area who special­ after infection with the human immunode­ murdered at the ravine. These tragic events izes in treating HIV-positive patients. ficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, it is were, for too long, left unrecorded in Soviet In his article Scott dispels a number of com­ likely that most individuals who develop history. mon misperceptions about people with AIDS. AIDS over the next few years-are "inno­ I speak today to commemorate the lives lost Since its discovery the public has regarded cent." After all, they contracted the disease at Babi Yar. I speak in hopes that our memo­ before receiving information that might ries of this tragedy do not fade. We must dis­ AIDS as a disease which afflicted other people have altered their behavior. like gays, drug addicts, and the poor. The My third objection to the term "innocent" cuss, understand and remember this event, for harsh reality is that Al OS is a deadly disease is that it diverts attention from those who, silence only allows history to repeat itself. We which, if it has not already, will soon affect all in reality, are to blame. must say today, never again. of us, no matter where we live or how we live According to the National Commission on our lives. As Scott points out, it is already the AIDS, "our nation's leaders have not done second leading killer of adult men between the well" in fighting the epidemic. The White INTRODUCTION OF THE EXPANDED ages of 25 and 44 and fifth among women of House "has rarely broken its silence" on EAST COAST PLAN ROLLBACK ACT AIDS during the last decade, and Congress the same age group. "has often failed to provide adequate funding Congress and the Administration must get for AIDS programs." As a result, "the United HON. DICK ZIMMER on with the task of finding a cure for this hor­ States, which has more people with AIDS OF NEW JERSEY rible and deadly disease. Until we do so. all of than any country in the world, is one of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES us are at risk. I urge my colleagues to take a few developed nations with no national Thursday, October 3, 1991 moment to read Scott's article. It will be well plan." worth your time. Because of this inaction, Americans won't Mr. ZIMMER. Mr. Speaker, today I intro­ [From the Washington Post, Oct. 2, 1991) be able to categorize people with AIDS as duced legislation that would provide much­ "innocent" or "guilty" much longer. In AIDS AND INNOCENCE-IT Is NOT AN 'Us' needed relief from the burden of aircraft noise some rural areas, the ratio of HIV infection for many of my constituents. VERSUS 'THEM' DISEASE is evenly divided between men and women, Kimberly Bergalis, the young Florida thereby increasing the likelihood that AIDS This bill would require the Federal Aviation woman who reportedly contracted AIDS will become a heterosexual epidemic in the Administration to reroute air traffic currently from her dentist, has captured the sympathy United States, similar to Africa. flying over New Jersey and New York to air of the nation. Recently, America's media Even "innocent" teenagers are now at routes over the Atlantic Ocean. In cases carried accounts of her testimony on Capitol risk. According to recent studies, AIDS pre­ where aircraft cannot be rerouted over the Hill. "AIDS is a terrible disease that we vention messages are failing to reach young­ ocean, the legislation requires the use of air must take seriously," she stated. "I didn't er Americans. Meanwhile, many parents' routes used before the Expanded East Coast do anything wrong, but I'm being made to groups seek to limit teenagers' access to Plan was adopted in 1987. suffer like this.'• condoms, fearing that this will lead to more The FAA would have 18 months to change Why, out of the nearly 200,000 people who permissive attitudes regarding sex. In the fu­ have developed AIDS in the United States ture, will those teenagers who did not have the routes. over the past decade, have millions of Ameri­ the opportunity to learn about "safe sex" be The final provision of the bill would require cans been transfixed by Kimberly Bergalis's labeled "guilty" as well? the FAA to prepare an environmental impact plight? If the tragic example of Kimberly Bergalis statement examining the effects of the modi­ Because Kimberly Bergalis, like Ryan makes Americans remember the plight of fication of the Expanded East Coast Plan. White before her, is perceived by some to be untold millions who suffer from AIDS around The Expanded East Coast Plan has failed to an "innocent" victim of AIDS. The National the world, then I am all for publicizing her meet its goal of reducing delays, has resulted Commission on AIDS documented this view plight-even as I am saddened by her per­ in safety problems and has generated exces­ in its just-released final report. In the Unit­ sonal tragedy. ed States, it said, there is "a thinly veiled However, if she and Ryan White serve only sive noise over dozens of communities, some feeling that those who acquired the virus are to reassure Americans that AIDS is an "us" of which are 40 miles from the nearest airport. getting what they deserve and a collective vs. "them" disease, with the "us" being Enactment of this legislation will put an end indifference to their fate." somehow innocent and the "them" somehow to the noise pollution that has afflicted large

~ • • -- • - •• •• _ ... ~ ..i:.r ...... • ••• .... '~ ,,_ , .. l",.L ~ J --- • ' • • 1 r. _, . -~ r .L ,. ....__, October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25579 portions of the New Jersey-New York metro­ 123,000 Laotians have been resettled in the untary repatriation nor forced repatriation politan area since the Expanded East Coast United States. This year, the State Depart­ is acceptable to the Hmong and Laotian refu­ Plan was implemented. ment projects that 6,500 to 7 ,000 Hmong and gees, because the returnees have been per­ secuted and killed by the Communist Pathet Lao refugees will come to the United States. Lao Government. The concerns raised by my Hmong constitu­ 7. We request that the U.S. Government re­ HMONG-LAO REFUGEES FACE ents are justified on a number of grounds. quest that the Thai Government and UNCHR GROWING DANGER First, some refugees are not accorded any of grant "refugee status" to Laotian refugees the protections enjoyed by those who have at­ in Thailand. HON. TOBY ROTH tained refugee status. And second, these 8. We request that the U.S. Government re­ screened-out refugees are currently not ac­ quest that the Thai Government allow OF WISCONSIN Hmong and Laotian refugees in Thailand to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES corded the protection of UNHCR supervision of their repatriation back to Laos. stay there until it is safe to return to their Thursday, October 3, 1991 homeland. The refugees will return to Laos In short, these so called screened-out refu­ under the 15 Principles, which was drafted by Mr. ROTH. Mr. Speaker, the Laotian Ameri­ gees are viewed as illegal aliens by the coun­ the Lao-Hmong Human Rights Council and cans of Wisconsin, many of whom reside in try of Thailand. Accordingly, their return to approved by the refugees on January 20, 1991. my Eighth Congressional District, have ex­ Laos is now governed exclusively by bilateral 9. We request that the U.S. Government, pressed grave concern for the safety of family agreements between Thailand and Laos. Thai Government, and UNCHR continue hu­ members and friends who are currently lo­ In August 1991, these governments agreed manitarian assistance to the Laotian refu­ cated in Thailand but facing the possibility of that all screened-out refugees will be returned gees. forced repatriation back to Laos. to Laos over the next 3 years. 10. We request that the U.S. Government Many fear that if these refugees are forced As a nation that prides itself as a leader in not provide any type of foreign assistance to the United Nations, Laos, and Thailand for to return to Laos they might very well be international human rights, we should draw refugee repatriations from Thailand to Laos. slaughtered on trumped-up charges of political worldwide attention to the issue of the poten­ 11. We request that the U.S. Government crimes. tially tragic outcome of the forced repatriation recognize the linkage between the political In order to bring this important matter to the of the Hmong and Laotians back to Laos if settlement in Cambodia and in Laos. We re­ attention of the American people, I ask that a those people are not provided at least some quest that the U.S. and the United Nations resolution drafted by the Lao Human Rights protection. link the political and military problems in Council be inserted into the CONGRESSIONAL I commend the following resolution to the Cambodia with settling the question on RECORD at the conclusion of my remarks. peace and war in Laos. We request that the U.S. Congress. Vietnamese occupation of Laos and Cam­ I would first like to outline the plight of the EIGHTEEN POINTS ON LAOS: LAOTIAN REFU­ bodia by invasion of Vietnamese troops be Lao refugees now located in Thailand and why GEES NEED HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE OF recognized by the U.S. Government. they deserve our best efforts to help them. THE U.S. GoVERNMENT 12. We request that the U.S. Government These refugees include thousands of Laotian (By the Laotian Americans and Refugees in recognize that peace, democracy, stability, highlanders known as Hmongs. the United States) and national reconciliation in Laos be based United States military involvement in Laos is We, the participants in the Lao Human upon the Paris Peace Agreement on Indo­ well documented. Americans are known to Rights Conference on Refugees of September china and the Vientiane Peace Agreement on have helped to train, equip, and support 14-15, 1991, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, have en­ Laos of 1973. 13. We request that the U.S. Government Hmong-Lao forces as far back as the 1950's. dorsed and adopted the following eighteen points to find solutions to the Laotina Refu­ pressure the Vietnamese Government to In fact, at the height of the Vietnam war, the gee Crisis in Thailand and in Loas. We agree withdraw all its troops from Laos uncondi­ secret Hmong-Lao force was reported to num­ that the deaths of more than 300,000 Laotian tionally and completely. The end of foreign ber 30,000 men. people in the past fifteen years and the more aggression and occupation and human rights Since 1975, when the Government of Laos than 70,000 Vietnamese troops who are sta­ violations will end the troubles of Laotian fell to the Communists, over 300,000 Hmong tioned inside Laos in 1991 are the main Refugee Crisis. and Lao have fled the country. Most of those causes of the refugee crisis. Human rights 14. We request that the U.S. Government sought safety in Thailand. Today. according to violations and Vietnamese aggressions and support the objectives of the Laotian free­ domination are unacceptable to the Laotian dom and democracy movement, reconstruc­ the United States State Department, there are tion of a democratic government under the more than 60,000 asylum-seekers in Thailand. people. We need the U.S. Congress to recog­ nize these matters. We propose that the U.S. rightful heir to the throne, pending free elec­ Of these, approximately 52,000 are Hmong Government consider the following points: tions under international supervision in and 8,000 are Laotians. 1. We request that the U.S. Government Laos. The procedures governing the issue of repa­ and UNCHR send a committee to supervise 15. We request that the U.S. Government triation are governed by bilateral agreements and bring peace and freedom to the returnees admit more Laotian refugees into the United between Thailand and Laos, as well as prin­ to Laos from Thailand. In addition, the U.S. States. However, we request that the U.S. ciples of international law. Government and the UNCHR must sent a Government not permit persons loyal to the Under these provisions, the basic protection committee to investigate the future and con­ Communist Pathet Lao Government into the United States. In addition, in order to pro­ afforded to people comes from the determina­ ditions of three Hmong returnees who es­ caped to Thailand from prison camps in tect peace, freedom, and democracy, we pro­ tion that a party is a refugee and thereafter Laos, and who were then forced by the pose that the U.S. Government revoke the termed "screened-in." In general, refugee sta­ UNCHR and Thai authorities, on August 16, citizenship of Laotian refugees or individuals tus is accorded to those that have fled Laos 1991, to return to Laos. who are engaged in and have cooperated on with a well-founded fear of persecution on the 2. We request that the U.S. Congress, the information and security matters for the grounds of race, religion, nationality, member­ White House, and the Department of State Communist Pathet Lao Government. ship in a particular social group or political immediately request the Thai Government 16. We request that the U.S. Government party. Once a person is deemed to have ac­ and the UNCHR to stop on the policy of not establish full diplomatic relations with Laos until there are free elections, multi-po­ quired refugee status, international law pro­ forced repatriation of Hmong and Laotian refugees from Thailand back to Laos. litical parties, human rights, peace, demo­ vides certain protections. 3. We request that the U.S. Government cratic principles, freedom, and government In addition, under other international agree­ recognize that the returnees are murdered, by the and for the people in Laos. ments, such screened-in people are provided persecuted, imprisoned and tortured by the 17. We request that the U.S. Government the opportunity to be repatriated to third coun­ Communist Pathet Lao Government. not establish diplomatic relations with Viet­ tries under the supervision of the U.N. High 4. We request that the U.S. Government nam until all Vietnamese troops leave Laos Commissioner For Refugees [UNHCR]. recognize that the policy of forced repatri­ completely and unconditionally. Neither the It is through this process that many Laotians ation has been going on the Thailand. government of Laos nor of Vietnam have fully cooperated with the U.S. Government decided to come to the United States. In fact, 5. We request that the U.S. Government recognize that the Thai Government and on American POW/MIA issues. These govern­ today, the United States remains the largest UNCHR have reversed their policy, from vol­ ments do not tell the truth to the U.S. Gov­ resettlement country for Hmong and Lao refu­ untary repatriation to forced repatriation. ernment. gees. According to the State Department, 6. We request that the U.S. Government 18. We request that the U.S. Government since 1975, roughly 100,000 Hmong and recognize that neither the policy of vol- cut off all foreign assistance and other types 25580 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 of aid to Laos, because the crop substitute 2, and we should stop the program at the cur­ that year were amazing. Soviet troops were projects have resulted in the power of offi­ rently authorized level of 15 planes. The origi­ vacating Eastern Europe as quickly as they cials of the Communist Pathet Lao Govern­ nal program called for 132 B-2's. Then it was could. Communist governments were ousted. ment to produce and export more opium for national revenues. The Communist Pathet scaled back to 75 bombers by the Administra­ Germany was reunified. The Soviet-led War­ Lao Government has been heavily dependent tion. Both figures were based on the strategic saw Pact threat to Europe was gone. on opium production for survival of Com­ nuclear mission. For that misison, the number In this country, it took us a while to sort this munist power. of planes is determined by the number of tar­ out. A debate went on during the first half of Please consider the above 18 points. Thank gets you want to hit, since there would be no 1990 over whether the decline in the threat you very much in advance for your consider­ second trip on the nuclear mission. could be reversed. Those who said it was ation of these proposals.-Vang Pobzeb, On conventional missions, however, planes irreversable prevailed and three things re­ Chairman, Lao Human Rights Council. can make repeated sorties. A smaller number sulted. One was the decision to reduce U.S. of planes can hit a larger number of targets by forces by 25 percent. Another was the Base THE FUTURE OF DEFENSE making return trips. Ten planes could cover 50 Force concept for the remaining U.S. forces, targets in 5 trips. Five planes in ten trips, and and the third was the White House-Capitol Hill so on. That's why the 15 B-2's already au­ budget agreement establishing guidelines to HON. LFS ASPIN thorized would make a potent conventional set spending levels into fiscal 1995. OF WISCONSIN force, if they can overcome recent problems Now it looks like we may have a second IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES over stealthiness. We don't need any more. revolution following the failed coup in Moscow Thursday, October 3, 1991 Nothing in the President's speech chal­ in August. In truth, we don't know how this Mr. ASPIN. Mr. Speaker, the debate over lenged this analysis. Perhaps that's why some one will end up. It did not simply restore the the right defense for the future has taken a were so unhappy with it. status quo ante after the coup failed. It gave significant turn, one that favors the vision of The House has already moved to restruc­ the reformers a jump start. Its ultimate results the future that a majority of the Members in ture ballistic missile defenses to concentrate could be more fundamental that the first revo­ this House shares. That turn occurred follow­ on three areas: One, theater defenses; two, lution. That was the end of the Warsaw Pact ing Friday's dramatic action by President Bush limited, ground-based defense of the United threat. This could mean the end of the Soviet on nuclear weapons. States against accidental or unauthorized threat, itself. The President acted to remove unilaterally a launch, and a future Third World threat; and The President's speech on Friday, in effect, whole class of weapons-tactical nuclear three, research on breakthrough technologies. responded to both revolutions. The response weapons on land and at sea-and sought to The House steered the program away from to the first revolution was pulling back U.S. put the genie of multiple warheads on land­ space-based defenses against a massive, de­ tactical nuclear weapons. Basically, it was an based ballistic missiles back in the bottle for liberate Soviet attack, which seems less likely action he could have taken after the fall of the good. These were commendable actions. with each passing headline. Nothing in the Berlin Wall. When the Soviet Union and its But the cheers for the President had hardly President's speech challenged this analysis. Warsaw Pact allies seemed to have the edge died down before the hard questions began. Perhaps that's why some were so unhappy in non-nuclear military power, we felt we need­ Mr. Bush may feel as if he were mugged on with it. ed nuclear weapons to compensate. Now, with the way home from a moment in history. On One other issue we are dealing with in the the demise of the Pact, the United States has the evidence we have seen since Friday, the 1992 budget is humanitarian aid for the Soviet the edge in conventional military forces, and President's far-reaching speech reached far­ people this winter. This has become an issue we're concerned with such things as weapons ther than he would have liked. The speech did since the failed coup in Moscow accelerated falling into terrorist hands, and unauthorized or two things that have caused the present tur­ the disintegration of the Soviet Union. I have accidental use. So, the fewer nuclear weapons moil in the defense debate. proposed using up to $1 billion from the fiscal there are, the better off we are. First, the speech legitimized the notion that 1992 defense budget for this emergency aid. The President's speech also responded to unilateral cuts could be in the U.S. national in­ It belongs in the defense budget because it is the potential for a second revolution when he terest. The President was correct to act unilat­ defense by another means. We don't want so­ took U.S. bombers off alert, when he decided erally on tactical nuclear weapons but now cial chaos in a country with 30,000 nuclear to stop work on mobility for U.S. land-based others are saying we should not stop there. warheads and we don't want the first winter of missiles and when he speeded up the reduc­ Second, the speech raised arguments freedom in 70 years to be a disaster for the tions in U.S. forces required by the START against some nuclear systems that can be Soviet people. agreement. The implicit judgment was that the used more broadly than the President applied So, missile defenses, B-2 and humanitarian Soviet Union after the coup was a place much them. If the Soviet threat is now so blunted aid to the Soviet people this winter are the less likely to start a nuclear war than it was that we can take bombers off alert and do chief issues still in contention for the 1992 before. Clearly, this decision was made on a away with mobility for our land-based missiles, budget. The House is on the right side of calculation of Soviet intentions. This is a big then surely, the reasoning goes, we can do these issues, Mr. Speaker. We passed the de­ change. The administration has been firm in more. In short, he blurred the line between fense authorization bill in May and it looks the past that decisions had to be based on systems he wants and those he doesn't want. pretty good. We got the numbers right and we Soviet capabilities since intentions can These points, in turn, opened the Presi­ got them right for the right reasons. The change. For the first time, the President was dent's position to erosion on two fronts, one in House heard history coming. willing to base actions on intentions. Washington and one in Moscow. In Washing­ That's the 1992 budget. Some are already But, as with the first revolution, it is going to ton, the President will be pressed for more looking ahead, asking whether we should take a while for us to sort this second one out, cuts in the defense budget. In Moscow, he will abandon the budget agreement for 1993 and if a revolution is what it turns out to be. How be pressed to broaden the agenda to meet beyond to make more cuts. should we respond? traditional Soviet concerns-such as multiple­ We can again use the President's Friday The first revolution irreversibly ended the warhead ballistic missiles aboard U.S. sub­ speech as a point of departure for considering Warsaw Pact threat to Western Europe and marines, and the continuing desire for a ban how we will approach those questions. the right response was judged to be a 25 per­ on nuclear testing. The President's speech, in effect, re­ cent reduction in our forces. If this second rev­ In Washington so far, the debate has con­ sponded to one revolution whose outcome we olution results in the end of the Soviet military centrated on the defense budget for Fiscal know and another one that seems to be taking threat to the United States, can't we go fur­ Year 1992. We have heard claims that the place now. ther? Some say no, that we hold at the 25 President's speech was a blow to the B-2 The first revolution lasted from December of percent reduction. I don't think that position Stealth bomber and strategic defenses. Mr. 1988 until November of 1989. Soviet President can be held if the Soviet threat is really gone. Speaker, from the point of view of the House, Mikhail Gorbachev began this one in a speech We on the House Committee on Armed the speech had nothing to do with either de­ to the United Nations in December, 1988, that Services are preparing a major effort to inves­ fenses or the B-2. Here's why. announced unilateral, a symmetrical cuts in tigate this, to help determine what defenses The House position on the bomber is that Soviet forces. It ended in November of 1989 we need at the spending levels we can justify there is no compelling strategic mission for B- with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The results of by the real threats we face. This effort will in- October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25581 elude a comprehensive look at the lessons for munications systems [PCS] represent just Joining her in the spotlight tomorrow the future we can draw from the war with Iraq. some of the regulatory challenges that the evening will be Joseph Colosimo. An accom­ It will also include hearings on new develop­ FCC must face in the near future. These is­ plished public engineer and a Yonkers civic ments in the Soviet Union, and on the pro­ sues, where technology meets regulation, re­ leader, he has made it his work to ensure that posed Base Force concept and how it will quire technical, as well as economic, legal and the accomplishments of Italian-Americans are meet the needs of a new era. political expertise. widely recognized. After seeing a children's Our general approach to this task will have That is why I believe that one of the FCC text book which purported that Lief Erikson two parts. commissioners should be required to have an and not Christopher Columbus discovered First, we have to make sure the decline in engineering background. This will give a new America, he led a crusade to have New York the Soviet conventional military threat is irre­ level of technical sophistication to the FCC. It State school syllabi recognize the important versible. There are a number of indicators we will give the Commission greater ability to han­ contributions that people of Italian descent should watch. Chief among them is the fate of dle the complex technical engineering ques­ have made, and particularly the importance of the massive Soviet military industrial complex. tions that will be coming before the Commis­ the events whose quincentennial we will all If the complex is dismantled and the resources sion in the years to come. celebrate together next year. Working together now devoted to military production are di­ I urge my colleagues to cosponsor this bill with the State Sons of Italy, he was able to rected into civilian goods, the demise of the so that our telecommunications regulators will convince the Federal Government to fund a Soviet military colossus will be irreversible and be able to keep up with this the fast-paced in­ curriculum study by the New York State Edu­ we can respond with reduced defense spend­ dustry that it oversees. cation Department to evaluate the Italian­ ing. American experience. He was also appointed Second, we'll have to figure out how to FANNY PIEMONTESE AND JOSEPH to the Education Department's Advisory Coun­ spend our remaining defense dollars smartly. COLOSIMO: YONKERS' COLUMBUS cil of Ethnic Studies. Thanks to Joe Colosimo, The war with Iraq showed that simply buying DAY HONOREES students all over New York are taught about a smaller version of the force we built to deal all of the things that members of the Italian­ with the Soviets isn't necessary the way to go. HON. NITA M. LOWEY American community have done to make In sum, we are on the right course for fiscal America great. 1992. The right response to the failed coup in OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Columbus Day Celebration Committee the 1992 defense budget is the House position has chosen wisely in naming this year's Thursday, October 3, 1991 on B-2 and SDI and humanitarian aid. When honorees. Fanny Piemontese and Joseph we look beyond the 1992 budget in the com­ Mrs. LOWEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, Colosimo are making a difference in the Yon­ ing weeks, our efforts will help determine the Columbus Day is a special day for all Ameri­ kers Italian community and throughout our future of the budget agreement, the 25 per­ cans. It is particularly so for Americans of Ital­ area. I am sure that all of my colleagues join cent build down and the base force concept. ian descent, who take this time every year to me in wishing these two great individuals well They will help determine what our national de­ celebrate their myriad contributions to the de­ and in congratulating them for that honor that fense looks like for years to come. That is the velopment of American society, and to pay they are receiving. defense debate we must now have. tribute to members of their community whose recent achievements are of special note. For 499 years, Italian-Americans have played a INTRODUCTION OF THE FEDERAL vital role in the growth, and the greatness, of KATHERINE AFENDOULIS, MICH­ COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING the United States. IGAN TEACHER OF THE YEAR 1991 SCIENCES QUALIFICATION ACT Tomorrow, members of the Yonkers Italian­ OF 1991 American community will gather for the annual Columbus Day Celebration Committee dinner­ HON. PAUL 8. HENRY HON. DON RITTER dance. They will honor two very special indi­ OF MICHIGAN OF PENNSYLVANIA viduals for their lifetimes as champions of Ital­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ian heritage. I want to join them in paying trib­ ute to Fanny Piemontese and Joseph Thursday, October 3, 1991 Thursday, October 3, 1991 Colosimo. Mr. HENRY. Mr. Speaker, education is the Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, today, I have in­ Fanny Piemontese was born and received key to our future, and our hopes for the Nation troduced the Federal Communications Com­ her formal education in Italy. After coming to can only be as bright as the people we entrust mission Engineering Sciences Qualification this country as a young woman, she settled in to develop our children's minds. Act of 1991. Yonkers with her husband, Morris. Together, So, it is with great pride that I rise today to The bill requires that at least one member of they built a successful clothing business, and tell you about Michigan's Teacher of the Year, the Federal Communications Commission Fanny became a leader of the community. Katherine Afendoulis. [FCC] have an engineering background. She is a past-president of the Westchester The FCC is charged with regulating one of Women's Division of the American Committee Katie teaches third grade at Collins Elemen­ the fastest growing and technologically dy­ on Italian Migration, and has been chairman of tary School in Grand Rapids. In her 19 years namic industries in this country. Since its for­ such organizations as the Soroptimist Fund as an educator, she has demonstrated a deep mation in 1934, there have been 64 FCC Raising Committee for Yonkers youth pro­ commitment to the many young lives she has Commissioners. Of these, only eight have had grams, the United Fund of Yonkers, Boys' touched. an engineering background. Town of Italy, the Benefit Shop of St. John's She has particular concern for children who Engineering talent is now more necessary Riverside Hospital, the Enrico Fermi Stamp need special help in the critical early years of than ever at the FCC. The FCC deals with Committee, the Yonkers Cancer Crusade, and education. At Collins Elementary, she is in­ many complex telecommunications engineer­ the Yonkers Cancer Society. She has raised volved in the gain academic power program, ing issues and until 1982, the Communications funds for the Sicilian Disaster Relief Fund and aimed at helping high-risk youngsters. Act required that one professional staff assist­ Fruili earthquake victims, organized Italian Mr. Speaker, on October 23, Michigan ant for each Commissioner had to be an engi­ classes at the Yonkers Y.M.C.A., gave tele­ Teacher of the Year Katie Afendoulis will be neer. Yet today only 1 of the 15 professional vision commentaries for Italian-speaking view­ here in Washington, along with Teachers of staff assistants to the current FCC Commis­ ers, and helped win approval by the Italian the Year from the other 49 States, the District sioners has a background in engineering. Government of a stamp honoring Enrico of Columbia and Puerto Rico, for a sympo­ The technical sophistication and complexity Fermi. Her tireless and effective work has sium on the critical issues in education. I urge of communications regulatory issues has in­ been recognized and honored numerous my colleagues to take the time to meet with creased dramatically over the 57 years since times. I am very pleased to add my name to these important educators, to learn from their the FCC was formed. Advances in technology, the many others who have recognized Fanny's knowledge and experience what we in Con­ such as digital audio broadcasting [DAB], high accomplishments. She is one of our commu­ gress can do to better meet the needs of our definition television [HDTV] and personal com- nity's finest assets. Nation's young people. 25582 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 COMPLETE DISCLOSURE RE- as being one of the bravest persons in the panying America's Armed Forces on the O­ QUESTED OF THOSE WHO HAVE country. day invasion of France. Soon afterwards, Mr. ABUSED HOUSE BANK PRIVI­ Hasboro toys has chosen 7-year-old Leon Stacey arrived on the homefront and began to LEGES as a national winner in the G.I. Joe Search for serve his community. He has been the presi­ Real American Heroes for the courage he dis­ dent of the Ohio Clerk of Courts Association. HON. TIIOMASW. EWING played when rescuing his two brothers, Jona­ Currently, he is the longest serving office­ OF ILLINOIS than age 4, and Gregory almost 2 years old, holder in the history of Columbiana since IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES from their burning home. Leon's ability to think 1803. Thursday, October 3, 1991 rationally during this critical situation saved the lives of both his brothers. Again, Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to Mr. EWING. Mr. Speaker, the time has Leon has proven himself a true hero. He Mr. Carl L. Stacey. He is most worthy of con­ come for a full accounting of all those who has certainly saved his family from much grief. gratulations as he retires at the end of this have abused the House bank privileges. The I commend you, Leon, on your bravery and month. American citizens have a right to know exactly your use of common sense. You have truly who is involved in this scandal and those shown that you are worthy of this award. Members of Congress who are innocent de­ serve the opportunity to clear their names. A MUCH NEEDED BREAK TO I appreciate the efforts of the Speaker and HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY, TAIWAN PENSION PLAN PARTICIPANTS the minority leader to resolve this issue, but frankly the American people deserve to know HON. BOB LIVINGSTON if their representatives have abused the ex­ HON. DEAN A. GAilO traordinary privileges available through the OF LOUISIANA House bank. Like it or not, elected representa­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF NEW JERSEY tives of the people are held up to a particularly Thursday, October 3, 1991 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES high standard and how we conduct our per­ Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, this Thurs­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 sonal lives does concern our constituents. day, October 10, the Republic of China on When a Representative has conducted his fi­ Taiwan will celebrate it's 80th Independence Mr. GALLO. Mr. Speaker, Today, I am intro­ nancial affairs in a way which clearly raises Day. As I know from personal experience, the ducing legislation to address an immediate di­ ethical questions, the citizens do have a legiti­ Taiwanese are a very proud people, and they lemma facing many employers and employees mate right to know. have every right to be. who participate in IRS section 403(b) annuity The irresponsible actions of repeat check­ Taiwan is a modern, industrialized, demo­ bouncers have cast a dark shadow over the programs through insurance companies that cratic nation. I think it's worth special note that have become impaired or insolvent. whole House. Those who have not written bad its people enjoy a standard of living far higher checks and those who have made honest mis­ than that of their colleagues on the mainland. As you know, the State of New Jersey has takes have been tainted by this scandal and I would also like to make note of the Repub­ recently taken over the operation of Mutual deserve the opportunity to have their names lic of China's increasing willingness to shoul­ Benefit Life, which has left hundreds of em­ cleared. This can only be done with complete der more international responsibilities. As the ployers and thousands of employees con­ disclosure. world turns away from communism and state­ cerned about the security of their investment owned, state-run enterprises, there is going to in the 403(b) annuity program. be dramatic need for capital investment world­ GERMAN REUNIFICATION DAY Many employees have already instructed wide. their employers to cease salary reductions. The United States cannot accept these bur­ However, current IRS regulations have left HON. DAVID E. BONIOR dens alone and that's why the support and ex­ these employees and employers with few al­ OF MICHIGAN pertise of other free countries is so indispen­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sable. The Republic of China should be ap­ ternatives in which to protect existing plan as­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 plauded for its efforts to be a responsible sets. Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I would like to international partner. Specifically, under current IRS regulations, join with people around the world who are Also in that spirit, I am glad to see that there is a limitation on the number of salary celebrating the Day of German Unity. President Bush is now on record as support­ reduction elections permitted for any taxable It is extremely important that we all remem­ ing Taiwan's entry into GATT. year for any given employee under 403(b) ber the momentous and truly historic events Mr. Speaker, to all the citizens and leaders plans. This means that if an employee in­ that led to the realization of German reunifica­ on the Republic of Taiwan, I send my best structs an employer to stop salary reductions, tion. The mass demonstrations in Leipzig and wishes for a happy independence day. that employee cannot make another election the collapse of the Berlin Wall are events that until January 1 of the following year. In the al­ propelled the wave of freedom that swept TRIBUTE TO CARL L. STACEY ternative, if an employee continues to have his across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. salary reduced but the employer places the The images of people taking hammers and salary reduction amounts into an escrow ac­ chisels to the wall are indelibly etched upon HON. JAMFS A. TRAflCANf, JR. count, this would not be deemed a second the minds of freedom-loving people every­ OF OHIO election. However, if this money is placed into where. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an interest bearing escrow account, the em­ While the struggle of the past was for free­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 ployer must issue a Form 1099 for the income dom, the struggle of the future will be eco­ Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today earned and the employees must pay taxes on nomic. However, I am optimistic that Germany to pay tribute to Carl L. Stacey, a loyal public said income. faces a bright and prosperous future in which service employee in Columbiana, OH. He has all people will enjoy the blessings of freedom. Therefore, in order to give these employers served the people in my 17th District for 33 and employees more flexibility to respond to years, and is now retiring. the situation, I am introducing legislation to Mr. Stacey was elected in 1958 to the clerk TRIBUTE TO LEON STEWART override the yearly election limitation under of common pleas court in Columbiana. To this 403(b) annuity programs. This exception day, Mr. Stacey has served his constituents HON. RONALD K. MACHTLEY would only apply when an insurance company with steadfast allegiance. Such a commitment OF RHODE ISLAND cannot go unnoticed. I congratulate Mr. Stacey who issues these plans becomes impaired or IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and wish him well as he retires on October 31 , insolvent. Thursday, October 3, 1991 1991. I appreciate the support of my colleagues in Mr. MACHTLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Previous to his present position, Mr. Stacey this effort and welcome your cosponsorship of to recognize Leon Stewart of Pawtucket, RI, served his country in World War II accom- this bill. October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25583 INTRODUCTION OF CARRYOVER MODIFICATION OF SECTION 1014 THE GREAT BUDGET BUST OF 1992 BASIS ACT OF 1991 Except for small estates as defined above, the step-up in basis under Section 1014 is HON. NEWT GINGRICH limited to those instances where the execu­ HON. DONALD J. PEASE tor of the estate elects to include the OF GEORGIA OF OHIO untaxed appreciation of such assets, subject IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to the basis adjustments provided in the bill, Thursday, October 3, 1991 on the final income tax return of the dece­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 dent. If an executor makes this election, the Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, over the past Mr. PEASE. Mr. Speaker, today, Congress­ basis of the assets used to calculate the gain 2 months, the House has considered legisla­ man LEVIN of Michigan and I are introducing on the decedent's final income tax return tion to extend unemployment compensation the Carryover Basis Act of 1991 which will im­ would reflect the minimum basis, family benefits four times. It would be much more farm, closely held business and "fresh start" useful if the House were allowed to vote to prove our tax laws by removing a loophole adjustments as described below. which allows some capital gains to go com­ create jobs for the unemployed not just to pro­ For estates for which this election is not vide them a Government check. pletely untaxed. made, the basis of such assets in the hands of Under current law, the wealthiest families in Twice, now, I have testified before the Rules a person acquiring the property is deter­ Committee and requested that my legislation this country are afforded a tremendous tax mined under the rules provided in new Sec­ break when they pass assets from one gen­ tion 1022. H.R. 3130, the Economic Growth Act, be made in order as an amendment to the Demo­ eration to another. This occurs through section BASIS DETERMINATION UNDER NEW SECTION 1022 1014 of the Internal Revenue Code which in­ crats' unemployment extension bills. Twice, The basis of property, in the hands of a creases inherited property's basis-usually the now, my request has been denied. person acquiring such property from a dece­ Mr. Speaker, the October 1, 1991, Washing­ property's original cost-to its fair market dent, which is subject to this Section is the value at the date it is received. For example, ton Times editorial titled "The Great Budget sum of: Bust of 1992" makes the case for economic a share of stock that cost $10 and has a fair 1. the property's adjusted basis for pur­ market value of $100 automatically receives a growth. I commend it to your attention, and poses of determining gain in the hands of the ask that it be printed in its entirety at this point basis of $100 when it is handed down through decedent, as adjusted for the "fresh start" a bequest. The result is that no income tax is provision, plus in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. ever paid on the $90 of gain. 2. a "minimum basis adjustment" equal to Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Our bill would correct this inequity by re­ the amount by which $600,000 exceeds the [From the Washington Times, Oct. l, 1991] pealing section 1014 for property received property's adjusted basis for determining THE GREAT BUDGET BUST OF 1992 from estates valued above $600,000. Estates gain in the hands of the decedent (#1 above), A year ago the Washington establishment limited to the fair market value of the prop­ made a "budget" deal with itself. The right valued at less than $600,000 would still qualify erty, plus for the beneficial treatment under section hand of the establishment, represented by 3. either a "family farm adjustment" or a Republican President Bush, agreed to $163 1014. "closely held business adjustment", which­ billion in new taxes. In return the left hand, The basis of inherited property received ever applies, equal to the amount by which represented by the Democratic Congress, from estates valued at more than $600,000 $850,000 exceeds the adjusted basis for pur­ promised to hold increases in federal spend­ would be determined under new section 1022. poses of determining gain in the hands of a ing within preset limits. The goal was to The basis of this property would be the proi:r decedent (#1 above) and any "minimum basis hold the growth of the national debt to $527 erty's initial basis increased by the section adjustment" applicable (#2 above), limited billion over five years. But when fiscal 1991 1022 adjustment. Initial basis is defined as the to the fair market value of the property, plus ended yesterday, it was estimated the gov­ basis of the property in the hands of the dece­ 4. an adjustment for estate taxes paid. ernment had spent $279 billion more than it The executor will allocate any adjustment had taken in-eating up more than half the dent increased by the fresh start adjustment five-year deficit allowance. And as fiscal 1992 provided in the bill. to basis of the estate's property to individual assets in whatever manner is appropriate so begins today, both houses of Congress will The fresh start adjustment increases the long as no individual asset is allocated basis vote to break last year's budget deal. They basis to the property to its fair market value at in excess of the fair market value of the will approve a $6.4 billion extension in unem­ December 31, 1991. This adjustment was in­ asset. ployment benefits, and they will offer no means to pay for it. cluded so that the bill would apply only on a FRESH START PROVISION UNDER SECTION 1022 prospective basis. It assures that no apprecia­ Democrats pushing the unemployment ex­ tension, including Senate Finance Chairman tion accruing before this date would be subject The fair market value of property at De­ cember 31, 1991 will be substituted for its ad­ Lloyd Bentsen and Budget Chairman Jim to tax. justed basis if the fair market value exceeds Sasser, have argued that the nation's unem­ Section 1022 provides for additional adjust­ the adjusted basis. This "step-up" will only ployed deserve extended benefits because ments to assure that only the largest estates apply for purposes of calculating gain on the they have paid premiums into a federal un­ will be impacted by this change. These adjust­ decedent's final tax return. Therefore, the employment trust fund worth $7.6 billion. ments will, in many cases, allow the basis of decedent will not be able to recognize losses Real growth in the gross national product inherited property to be increased to at least on his or her final return merely as a result has averaged only 0.6 percent per year on Mr. $600,000. Some qualified farms and closely of this adjustment to fair market value. Bush's watch, they add. We face a true eco­ For purposes of the fresh start adjustment, nomic emergency, so it's time to pay down held businesses will get to increase the basis the trust fund and provide relief to the long­ of this property to as much as $850,000. the fair market value of marketable securi­ ties at December 31, 1991 will be their value term unemployed. It is time that this loophole is closed. We as reported on a recognized stock exchange The problem here is that the Washington cannot continue to provide substantial tax or over-the-counter market. establishment has already spent the ex­ breaks to this country's wealthiest families Other property will be valued at December tended unemployment trust fund and more. while increasing the tax burden of middle-in­ 31, 1991 using one of the three following When Americans pay unemployment taxes come families. (as well as Social Security taxes and taxes methods, whichever produces the highest purportedly earmarked for trust funds to The summary of the bill follows: value: build highways and airports), the money is SUMMARY OF LEVIN/PEASE BILL To MODIFY 1. discount the property's fair market not held in trust. It is spent. Every cent is STEPUP OF BASIS RULES UNDER IRS SEC­ value as of the decedent's date of death back dumped into the federal treasury. TION 1014 to December 31, 1991 using an inflation fac­ As of this morning, New Year's Fiscal 1992, tor, EFFECT ON CALCULATING ESTATE TAX LIABILITY the federal government owes $3.614 trillion. 2. allocate the property's appreciation over It owes $889 billion of that to various trust The bill makes no changes to the calcula­ time, from the date the property was pur­ tion of estate tax liability under current law. funds, including the unemployment fund. If chased to the decedent's date of death, as­ Congress and the president agreed to zero SMALL ESTATES suming that the appreciation occurred rat­ out the entire defense budget for the next Estates in which the aggregate fair market ably over the period it was held by the dece­ three years, it would save just enough money value of all the property is $600,000 or less dent, or, to pay back this one portion of the debt. will continue to qualify for a step-up in basis 3. appraise the property as of December 31, So what's the answer? Economic growth. provided by Section 1014. 1991. And you achieve that by cutting taxes and 25584 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 providing people with incentives to work and TRIBUTE TO MURIEL RUSSELL H.R. 1414, THE PASSIVE LOSS save. CORRECTIONS ACT Growth-minded Republicans in the House and Senate, including Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas and House Minority Whip Newt Ging­ HON. WIWAM LEHMAN HON. JOAN KEI!Y HORN rich, have offered such a plan. It would re­ OF FLORIDA OF MISSOURI duce the capital gains tax rate, create inner­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES city and rural enterprise zones and establish IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an ffiA-savings plan that would allow Ameri­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 cans to receive tax-free interest on retire­ Thursday, October 3, 1991 Ms. HORN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in sup­ ment accounts started with after-tax sav­ Mr. LEHMAN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I re­ port of H.R. 1414, the Passive Loss Correc­ ings, among other things. But so far, it has tions Act. This legislation presents an oppor­ gone nowhere. cently had the pleasure of attending a recep­ The president should veto the Democrat's tion honoring my dear friend, Muriel Russell, tunity to correct an injustice made in the 1986 budget-busting unemployment bill. But if he for the many contributions she has made to Tax Code by reinstating the passive loss tax deduction for real estate investors. I feel this doesn't counter that bill with a proposal to our community and particularly to the Michael­ legislation is neither over zealous nor impru­ ease the burdens on the nation's businesses Ann Russell Jewish Community Center. It was and taxpayers, he should expect more unem­ dent. The reestablishment of a passive loss ployed Americans, less federal revenue and a genuinely happy occasion, and one Muriel tax deduction for losses incurred in the real intensified Democratic efforts to further Russell truly deserves. estate market corrects an inequity. It is unfair bust a budget that is already in pieces. Muriel is a person of great strength, caring, when investors in financial markets are per­ and vision. She was able to overcome per­ mitted a tax deduction when they lose money sonal tragedy and turn adversity and sorrow on their investments and investors in real es­ SHARON'S SESQUICENTENNIAL tate have no similar deduction. CELEBRATION into happiness and hope for hundreds of peo­ ple. Her hard work and dedication are legend­ I feel this deduction is needed to achieve ary, and our community has been enriched in three aims. First, it will allow real estate in­ HON. 1HOMAS J. RIDGE so many ways because of her efforts. vestment for the long-term by lessening the fi­ OF PENNSYLVANIA nancial burden of holding properties. This will Muriel Russell is a precious community re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES help to carry investors through a soft market, source. She is more than just appreciated and Thursday, October 3, 1991 such as the one the United States is experi­ admired; she is genuinely loved. I am privi­ encing now. Second, it will help move the Mr. RIDGE. Mr. Speaker, on October 6, leged to join with her many friends in saying properties currently held by the FIDC and the 1991, the people of Sharon, PA will be mark­ thank you for all the wonderful things that she Resolution Trust Corporation back to the pri­ ing the 150th anniversary of the establishment has done. vate sector where they belong. Finally, H.R. of their community. Mr. Speaker, I would like to share with my 1414 encourages investment in completed Sharon has grown from a handful of pio­ colleagues some additional information about projects and will not promote the construction neering families-the Budds, Bentleys, Renos, this remarkable lady. of new and unnecessary properties because it Stokleys, Hoaglands, McBrides, and Loves­ does not reestablish a tax shelter. to the largest community in Mercer County MURIEL RUSSELL In order to claim a tax deduction in the new with an approximate population of 17 ,000 peo­ Muriel Russell, with her late husband rules set forth in H.R. 1414, a minimum of 50 ple. percent of one's professional time and 500 Those early pioneers soon discovered coal. Robert, was the moving force behind the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Com­ hours annually toward the property must be in­ Mining became the staple industry in the early vested. In other words, by definition, individ­ 1800's. This discovery also brought improve­ munity Center. Muriel was born in Brooklyn, NY and has lived in Florida uals who qualify under these new rules would ments in the transportation system which have to be committed to the profitability of for many years. She became involved made Sharon more accessible to people trav­ their investment. This will prevent the use of eling through the area and which made in the center's activity when her late this provision by people who are looking only Sharon's coal and other products more avail­ daughter, Michael-Ann attended the for a tax break. able to the rest of the young Nation. The com­ nursery school at the YM-YMHA, the In the St. Louis metropolitan area alone munity was growing and with the development forerunner of our present Jewish Com­ there are currently 1, 145 multiple family units of blast furnaces and the birth of the steel in­ munity Center. for sale and an additional 798 which are no dustry, Sharon soon became one of the top Muriel was president of the Center longer listed but were never sold. Fewer than steel producing communities in the United for four years. She has always been in­ one-third of the properties for sale in the last States. volved in our community. Her many 2 years have changed owners. While these The steel and iron industry brought great activities include: board positions in figures are staggering, they are rectifiable with prosperity to Sharon throughout the late Greater Miami Jewish Federation, the passage of H.R. 1414. This legislation will 1800's and well into the 1900's. Generations Jewish Welfare Board (now called the provide a much-needed catalyst to the real es­ of hard working men and women gave their all tate market nationwide. Moreover, H.R. 1414 to the mills. In return, Sharon prospered. JCCA), Temple Israel, Florida Congres­ sional Committee, American Israeli will help to stabilize plummeting property val­ That all ended in the early 1980's. But ues for home and business owners. Sharonites, like their pioneering ancestors Public Affairs Committee, American were determined to stay in the area even in Tel Aviv University, Cedars of Leb­ tough times. Even during the hardest times, anon, and many more. Her latest INTRODUCTION OF A BILL TO DE­ the community pride and spirit never wavered. awards are from Tel Aviv University, CLARE CERTAIN PORTIONS OF As we embark upon this new decade, Shar­ and the JCC for her "Ongoing Support WAPPINGER CREEK IN DUCHESS on is still an industry based city, but with more and Leadership at the J". In spite of COUNTY, NJ, TO BE NONNAVIGA­ diversification than ever before. The hard her many activities, the Michael-Ann BLE WATERS working citizens of Sharon have broadened Russell JCC will always be first in her their horizons and explored new ideas and heart and her affection is certainly re­ HON. NORMAN F. LENf avenues for success. Sharon once again is ciprocated by our members. OF NEW YORK back on track heading for a very bright future. She continues to be a leading force in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES So today I join together with all the citizens the JCC. Her support goes beyond the of Sharon and congratulate them on the 150th Thursday, October 3, 1991 resources that she shares, as she offers anniversary of their city. As we all look forward Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, I have introduced focus, vision and dedication to the pur­ to the 21st century with determination and legislation today to reclassify part of a small courage, I hope for many more years of suc­ pose and mission of MAR-JCC. creek branching off the Hudson River as non­ cess and prosperity for this area. navigable waters. The purpose of the admit- October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25585 tedly obscure measure is to help preserve a John J. Manton was born on October 7, middle-aged persons for every one elderly form of transportation that is not waterborne-­ 191 O, in Roscommon, Ireland, to Bridget person. Further, the age group over 80 is the our railroad service. Wappinger Creek, the Connell and Thomas Manton. He was 1 of 10 fastest growing segment of the population. small stream affected by this bill, is crossed by children including Patrick, Barney, James, Mi­ Since its enactment in 1976, the dependent a railroad bridge that carries the passenger chael, Joseph, Mary, Catherine, Della, and my care tax credit has provided significant Federal traffic of Amtrak, the commuter traffic of the father, Thomas. To his many friends and fam­ assistance to millions of families with child and MetrerNorth Railroad, and the freight traffic of ily he is known as "Jack" or "Uncle Jack." adult dependents. The credit is available to Conrail through the Hudson Valley. The bridge Like so many others in 1926, he left the taxpayers who incur work-related expenses for is actually owned by MetrerNorth. About 70 Emerald Isle to settle in New York City. Ar­ the care of a child under age 13, a disabled trains-60 of them passenger and commuter rived during the Roaring Twenties and surviv­ spouse, or any other dependent who is phys­ serve-traverse the bridge each day. ing the Great Depression, Jack Manton went ically or mentally incapable of caring for him or In earlier times, the entrance to Wappinger on to serve his new country during World War herself. However, the value of the credit has Creek off the Hudson needed to be accessible II by joining the U.S. Army and achieving the eroded in recent years, particularly for low­ for waterborne commerce, and so the original rank of corporal. and moderate-income families. railroad bridge was configured as a drawspan. After the war Jack returned to his job at the In 1981, Congress replaced the previously Now, however, that requirement no longer ex­ Long Island Railroad where he worked for flat credit rate for dependent care with a slid­ ists, and to maintain the bridge as a drawspan more than 30 years. In 1949, at a hurling ing scale that focused the maximum benefit of not only imposes sizable unnecessary ex­ match in Gaelic Park, he met his future wife, the credit on lower income families. penses on its rail users, but also impede the Nora Cronin. The couple married in October Currently, a taxpayer with an annual income use of the latest continuous-welded-rail tech­ 1950, and set up residence in Sunnyside, of $10,000 or less can claim 30 percent credit nology to make rail service faster and smooth­ Queens. for work-related dependent care expenses up er. The last requested nongovernment open­ Since settling in Sunnyside, Jack Manton to $2,400. The credit is then reduced by 1 per­ ing of the drawspan occurred in the late has been actively involved in the community. centage point for each $2,000 of income be­ 1970's. Beside normal deterioration, the Jack has been a member of the Holy Name tween $10,000 and $28,000 to a minimum of drawspan mechanism was damaged by a sus­ Society of St. Teresa's Parish and has served 20 percent. Using this scale, a family earning pected arson fire several years ago. as an usher of St. Teresa's Parish for more $10,000 would have to pay $2,400 in taxes a To bring the bridge back to current oper­ than 20 years. Jack also serves as the treas­ year, nearly one-fourth of its income, to re­ ational drawspan standards would cost ap­ urer of the Anoroc Democratic Club and is an ceive the maximum credit. proximately $6 million, and would impose siz­ active and tireless campaigner for the Demer Present tax laws, however, preclude most able continuing maintenance costs. There is cratic Party. Finally, Jack is a long-time mem­ families with an annual income of $10,000 or no marine usage sufficient to justify this ex­ ber of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. less from the tax liability necessary to receive pense, and those dollars are sorely needed by Mr. Speaker, for his devotion to his commu­ the credit. In other words, a family that does Amtrak and MetrerNorth in these times of fis­ nity, Jack has become known as "the Unoffi­ not owe taxes cannot receive the benefit of cal austerity. Amtrak receives Federal tax dol­ cial Mayor of Sunnyside." We are all grateful the credit, even though they may incur work­ lars for those expenses that it cannot cover to Jack Manton for his contribution as a citizen related dependent care expenses. from revenues, just as MetrerNorth receives and patriot. As he begins another exciting My legislation is intended to solve these funds from the State of New York through the year, I know all my colleagues join me in wish­ problems. The dependent care tax credit ex­ Metropolitan Transportation Authority for ex­ ing Uncle Jack a very happy birthday. pansion I am proposing would address the in­ penses not covered by fare collections. By re­ creased needs and costs relative to depend­ classifying Wrapping Creek as nonnavigable, ent care and respite care by expanding the the Congress can bring the legal requirements HELP FOR WORKING FAMILIES credit to more realistically reflect tax liability affecting the bridge into harmony with the levels. First of all, the sliding scale would be transportation realities of the situation and raised to 50 percent of work-related depend­ help conserve funds for transportation projects HON. OLYMPIA J. SNOWE OF MAINE ent care expenditures for families earning of real importance. $15,000 or less. The scale would be reduced Changing the status of this former draw­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by 1 percentage point for each additional bridge due to evolving patterns of commerce Thursday, October 3, 1991 $1,000 of income, down to a credit of 20 per­ and travel is similar to the change from an Ms. SNOWE. Mr. Speaker, today I am intrer cent for persons earning $45,000 or more. earlier era here in the immediate vicinity of the ducing legislation to expand the dependent In addition, my legislation would index the Capitol. Until the last 20 years or so, all Poter care tax credit, make it applicable for respite dependent care tax credit to the cost of living mac River bridges below Georgetow~includ­ care expenses, and make the credit refund­ and make it refundable, so that those families ing Memorial Bridge and the railroad bridge able. with incomes too low to have tax liability or that connects the Northeast corridor with all The increase of women entering the whose credit exceeds their tax liability would southerly routes-were required to be built workforce and the aging population, has have access to the credit. In this way, my bill and maintained as drawspans to assure navi­ brought a corresponding increase in the need would ensure that low-income families have gability. Now times have changed, and the for both child and elderly care. The expenses the same access to the credit benefit as do drawspan requirement has been dropped. The incurred by such care can significantly strain a middle and higher income families. bill I am introducing today would merely recog­ family's budget. Finally, this legislation would expand the nize similar changing realities at Wappinger Bureau of Labor Statistics 1990 data reveal definition of dependent care to include respite Creek's intersection with the Hudson River. that over 54 percent of women with children care, thereby offering relief from this additional under 6 years old work outside the home. expense. A respite care credit would be al­ MANY HAPPY RETURNS TO JACK Costs for out of home child care vary widely, lowed for up to $1,200 for one qualifying de­ MANTON with the average cost of full-time care approxi­ pendent and $2,400 for two qualifying depend­ mating $3,500 per year, per child. Managing ents. This money could go, for example, ter HON. THOMAS J. MANTON child care costs is difficult for many families, ward hiring an attendant for an elderly de­ but is exceptionally burdensome for single pendent during the work day, or for admit­ OF NEW YORK heads of households, whose incomes are tance to an adult day care center. The credit IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES much lower, on average, that those of other for respite care expenses would be available Thursday, October 3, 1991 families. regardless of the caregiver's employment sta­ Mr. MANTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to In addition, many working families are strug­ tus. pay tribute to John J. Manton who will cele­ gling with the cost of caring for elderly de­ Such a respite care credit will save dollars brate his 81 st birthday on Monday, October 7, pendents. Parent care responsibilities have for both caregiving families and the Govern­ 1991. I am proud to honor this Sunnyside been steadily increasing since 1920 when ment by postponing, or even avoiding, expen­ community leader who also happens to be my there were five middle-aged persons for every sive institutionalization. Further, it is an impor­ Uncle Jack. one elderly person. Today there are only two tant way to address the needs of elderly citi- 25586 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 3, 1991 zens, the fastest-growing and increasingly vul­ but simply prevent other stimulatory sub­ the ~-receptors and which are very useful for nerable segment of our Nation's population. stances from acting by competitively occu­ treating hypertension as well as other condi­ The dependent care and respite care tax pying the receptors. These are called antago­ tions such as angina. credit provisions of this bill offer a compas­ nists or blockers. The existence of more than one type of re­ Research over the past ten years in my ceptor for a particular substance like adren­ sionate and prudent approach to helping fami­ laboratory and many others has led to the aline is good news and bad news. The bad lies provide for their loved ones. I urge my col­ biochemical identification of these impor­ news is that drugs which affect the particu­ leagues to join me in this effort by supporting tant receptor molecules, their isolation, de­ lar receptors you want to target will also this important piece of legislation. termination of their molecular structures often bind to other types of receptors which and unraveling of the mechanisms which reg­ you don't want to target. This leads to side ulate their function. I've been particularly effects. For example, some of the antihyper­ CONGRESSIONAL BIOMEDICAL interested in the receptors for epinephrine tensive drugs which are blockers of a or ~ re­ RESEARCH CAUCUS (also known as adrenaline) which are re­ ceptors will not only lower blood pressure, markably important in human physiology. but may cause the heart rate to drop too low Adrenaline and its close relative causing dizziness, or they may have the op­ HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS noradrenaline act on many cells and control posite effect causing the heart rate to in­ OF PENNSYLVANIA such important bodily functions as heart crease causing palpitations or they may lead IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rate and force, blood pressure, sweating and to sexual dysfunction. These side effects are caused by the drugs reacting with receptors Thursday, October 3, 1991 gastrointestinal function to name just a few. I'd like to give you some examples of how which are not specifically involved in regu­ Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to basic research on these receptors impacts on lating blood pressure but rather with these share with my colleagues remarks made by an important clinical problem--hyper­ other functions. So what's the good news. The good news is Dr. Robert Lefkowitz at a recent congressional tension. More than 60 million people in the United that if we could but isolate, characterize and biomedical research caucus briefing. Dr. test drugs against all the different closely Lefkowitz came from the Duke University Med­ States have hypertension. Its more common among blacks than whites and it increases related receptor types it might be possible to ical Center to describe his work with epineph­ with age. Uncontrolled, hypertension can design drugs specific enough to fit only a sin­ rine receptors and other hormones which have lead to significant morbidity due to failure gle receptor type very effectively without resulted in the development of more effective of the kidneys and the heart. Untreated, hy­ binding to other closely related types. Re­ and specific drugs for heart disease. cent fundamental research has brought this pertension also significantly predisposes to once seemingly distant goal to hand. In 1950 After Dr. Lefkowitz' remarks, I would like to strokes and heart attacks. we knew of only two types of receptors for share some general remarks made by Dr. W. Despite decades of research the specific adrenaline. By 1975 the tally was four. With­ Virgil Brown, president of the American Heart cause of hypertension remains unknown in in the last five years the number has jumped Association. 95% of cases. Nonetheless, giant strides have to nine. The reason is that powerful, re­ been made in the medical treatment of the DRUG RECEPTORS: GATEWAY TO THE CELL, cently developed techniques for gene cloning disease. Presently blood pressure levels in which you have already heard about, have al­ KEY TO NEW THERAPEUTICS hypertension patients can be adequately con­ (By Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz) lowed us to isolate genes for a whole spec­ trolled by medical therapy in 85-90% of trum of closely related adrenaline receptors. I too would like to thank Congressman cases. This is true because although we do Each of these genes can be inserted back into Gekas for the opportunity to speak to you not understand the basic underlying cause of cells and now used in the laboratory as test today about some of my perspectives on fun­ hypertension, we do understand a great deal reagents for screening for highly selective damental biomedical research, its current about the factors which normally regulate new agents. Such work is proceeding right and future impact on heart and cardio­ blood pressure. As you can imagine this is a now and should lead to very selective drugs vascular disorders and the importance of remarkably complex subject, to which entire capable of targeting specific receptor your support. text books are devoted. For the purposes of subtypes thus avoiding limiting side effects I am a Professor of Medicine and an Inves­ our discussion suffice it to say that several and toxicities. With the adrenaline receptors tigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Insti­ major systems are involved. One of the most alone this approach will lead to novel drugs tute at Duke University Medical Center in important is the so called "sympathetic for treating not only hypertension, but also Durham, North Carolina. My research career nervous system" . This system consists of CHF, and angina. But the implications are dates to 1968. In July of that year, together certain nerves which secrete noradrenaline not only for cardiovascular diseases. Other with Mike Brown and his colleague Joe Gold­ and the adrenal gland which makes adrena­ conditions where drugs interacting with stein as well as Hal Varmus another Nobel line. A good example of the functioning of adrenaline receptors play a major role in­ laureate who recently addressed this group, I this system is the classic involuntary "flight clude asthma, and more recently prostatic arrived at the NIH. We were all right out of or fight" response that one has to a frighten­ disease and impotence. our medical residencies, newly appointed of­ ing or alarming stimulus. This consists of I want you to bear in mind that the spe­ ficers in the USPHS who had come to the rapid heart beat, increased strength of car­ cific examples I have just given you with mecca of biomedical research in the world. diac action with palpitations, constriction of adrenaline receptors provide a paradigm Two years later, our assignments completed, blood vessels, with elevated blood pressure, which appears to be quite general. Important we all returned to academia to finish our sweating, enlargement of the pupils-you get physiological control systems exert their ef­ training as fellows in NIH supported training the idea. These responses occur because fects through numerous closely related re­ programs. Since that time all of us have con­ adrenaline and noradrenaline, released by ceptor subtypes many of which have yet to tinuously been supported by various NIH sympathetic nerves and the adrenal gland be discovered. Basic research provides ap­ grants. I suspect that the importance of NIH bind to receptors on various cells and stimu­ proaches to discovery of these receptors, iso­ research support is just as striking for most late them. In patients with essential hyper­ lation and manipulation of their genes and of the scientists who have appeared at this tension these normal physiologic mecha­ development of specific drugs which target caucus. nisms may be hyperactive leading to some each one. My own research is focused on trying to elevation of blood pressure and heart rate I wish that I had more time to tell you understand the nature and regulation of mol­ even in the absence of specific alarming about some of the other recent exciting dis­ ecules called receptors. These molecules are stimuli. coveries with receptors which have direct present on the surface of essentially all cells This physiological understanding forms implications for treating cardiovascular and and represent the initial points of contact of the basis for various therapeutic approaches other diseases. For example, we've recently various hormones, drugs and to hypertension. For example, drugs have discovered how the function of the receptors neurotransmitters with the cell. Each par­ been developed which bind to the receptors can be switched on and off by novel control ticular class of hormone or drug has its own and block the actions of adrenaline and systems within the cell. It turns out that a types of receptor molecules. The molecular thereby lower blood pressure. very general property of almost all agonist shapes of the particular hormone or drug and It turns out that there are various types of or stimulatory drugs is that their effects de­ its receptors are exactly complementary. receptors for adrenaline, which perform dif­ crease over time. Apparently cells have You might think of the receptors as locks ferent functions. Some control heart rate, evolved mechanisms for protecting them­ and drugs or hormones as the keys which fit some control tightening of blood vessel selves from such stimulation. This phenome­ them and thereby unlock the cell. Once a walls, some work on receptors in the brain. non is called desensitization, and while it substance binds to a receptor it may either These receptors are generally called by plays an important adaptive role in some stimulate some cellular process (these are Greek letters-alpha receptors, beta recep­ physiological circumstances it also mark­ called agonists) or in the case of many useful tors and so forth. I'm sure many of you have edly limits the therapeutic effects and dura­ drugs they may cause no such stimulation heard of so called "~-blockers" which block tion of action of many drugs. October 3, 1991 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25587 We recently discovered that when an the major way in which we can improve the Some in this Chamber may not realize it, agonist occupies its receptors and stimulates quality and increase availability of medical but after the Catholic Church the Orthodox a cell it also stimulates other reactions care while reducing the costs. Church is the largest Christian body in the which chemically inactivate the receptors, Appropriate and misdirected therapies are world with 6 million Orthodox Christians in the thereby limiting the drugs' effects. Recently, expensive. And most expensive are treat­ we've isolated the enzyme responsible for ments which are partially effective-often United States, and millions of followers in Rus­ this inactivation reaction and even cloned applied very late in the disease. The exist­ sia, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere. its gene. It appears that there are a whole ence of these problems is a natural part of Patriarch Demetrios was installed in 1972 family of such enzymes which likely inac­ medical practice but this can and does as Archbishop of Constantinople and was tivate many different kinds of receptors. By change most dramatically and definitively known as primus inter pares, or first among developing inhibitors of these enzymes it with scientific research fundings which clar­ equals, of the five senior eastern European should be possible to block or attenuate the ify issues and make definitive treatments leaders. Patriarch Demetrios was born in Con­ desensitization process initiated by many possible. drugs and thereby prolong and extend their The existence of the Congressional Caucus stantinople, once known as the new Rome, of therapeutic effects. I'm sure you can imagine for Biomedical Research gives new hope for the ancient Byzantine empire. The Orthodox the remarkable therapeutic implications of unleashing the tremendous research talent Church is broken down into 14 churches in­ being able to control the function of such re­ available in this country. cluding many ethnic groups: Greeks, Serbians, ceptors by gaining control of the systems The AHA believes we are at a crucial point Russians, and Albanians. which inactivate them. And imagine, we in our history when we could address our ig­ Mr. Speaker, Patriarch Demetrios was the didn't even know of the existence of these norance about key health care issues in a 269th successor to St. Andrew, the apostle. St systems just a few years ago. manner that could be extremely beneficial Andrew, to whom Orthodox Christianity is I hope that my brief remarks have helped for our people and for the world. you to better understand but one or two ex­ The AHA is dedicated to making this hap­ traced, founded the church in Constantino­ amples of how basic research into the nature pen. We have 3.2 million volunteers and 2,000 ple-which is known as Istanbul. However, and regulation of such important biological divisions across this country-They will many Orthodox Christians still refer to this molecules as receptor can be rapidly trans­ complete the dispersement of our first bil­ great and historic city as Constantinople. lated into important clinical advances which lion dollars for research this fiscal year. And The partiarchate parallels the office of the can improve the quality and duration of life. we are committed to awarding another bil­ Pope, and whereas the Pope is the successor lion by the year 2000. to the Apostle Peter, the Orthodox Patriarch is COMMENTS OF W. VIRGIL BROWN, M.D. We are very excited about the new leader­ Good Afternoon, we are very pleased to ship in Congress which an help convince the successor to the Apostle Andrew. have the opportunity to visit with you today their colleagues of the central role research Patriarch Demetrios was truly a man dedi­ to talk about the Biomedical Science Enter­ plays in addressing the heal th needs of the cated to Christian unity in 1987, the Patriarch prise in the U.S. There are few issues which nation. We believe your strong interest and visited the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and more directly concern the American people dedication will lead to the support needed to the Archbishop of Canterbury in London. He than their health-and the greatest threat to take full advantage of our Biomedical Re­ also met with Pope John Paul II at the Vati­ their health is cardiovascular disease. search Enterprise. can. The result of this historic meeting was a Six million Americans know that they Such support will prove to be tremendous joint declaration in which both the Pope and have coronary heart disease and millions investment. It will pay great dividends in more have the disease without learning of its the near future. But best of all new knowl­ the Patriarch issued a Declaration of Ecumeni­ presence-and they learn all too often by edge (unlike most investments) is not de­ cal Commitment expressing hope that through having a heart attack. Nearly three million pleted by its use-it will be there to serve further dialog a full communion of the two people are living with the consequences of a our children and their children. churches might be possible. stroke. What happened on that visit was truly re­ These statistics exist in spite of the tre­ markable-the two men recited the liturgy of mendous progress we have made in diagnosis, IN MEMORY OF THE LATE PATRI­ the word together, the first time in a millen­ treatment and prevention, and without this progress patients with known Coronary Ar­ ARCH DEMETRIOS I-SPIRITUAL nium that the Pope and the Orthodox Patri­ tery Disease would number 10 to 12 million LEADER OF 300 MILLION ORTHO­ arch have joined together in reading the lit­ and stroke patients approximately 6 to 8 mil­ DOX CHRISTIANS urgy. lion. Patriarch Demetrios was the leader of the Having those sick and disabled people in HON. MICHAEL BIURAKIS Greek Orthodox community in the United our population would have added signifi­ OF FLORIDA States-and my 7,000 Greek-American con­ cantly to the cost of medical care and would stituents in Tarpon Springs, FL, are saddened have reduced the productivity of the nation. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by the passing of the Patriarch. Memorial We believe we are making progress because Thursday, October 3, 1991 of our growing knowledge of the causes of services are being held today at the Saint vascular disease, the new technology for its Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Tarpon diagnosis and new, much more effective express my sadness over the passing of one Springs and similar services are being held treatments. of the world's great religious leaders-Patri­ nationwide. You are going to hear about some of that arch Demetrios I. The world has experienced Mr. Speaker, again I would like to ask that research today. Wonderful examples of how a terrible loss with the death of this remark­ all of us here in the House of Representatives placement of dollars into an environment with highly motivated medical investigators able man yesterday, October 2. Partiarch pause and reflect on the Patriarch Demetrios' leads to fundamental understanding. Demetrios will be remembered for his suc­ grace, devotion, and desire to seek Christian It is our ability to improve our knowledge cessful tenure as ecumenical patriarch, his unity. He was a remarkable man and we pray which makes the future bright. Research is warmth, humility and his vision. that his legacy will live on forever.