June 5, 1984 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 14931 SENATE-Tuesday, June _5, 1984 The Senate met at 11 a.m. and was SENATE SCHEDULE The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ called to order by the Honorable Mr. BAKER. Mr. President, today pore. Without objection, it is so or­ DANIEL J. EVANS, a Senator from the the Senate convenes pursuant to the dered. State of Washington. adjournment of yesterday. Under the Mr. BAKER. Of course, this is to ac­ order previously entered, the reading commodate the requirement for Sena­ PRAYER of the Journal is dispensed with, no tors to attend caucuses by both par­ The Chaplain, the Reverend Rich­ resolutions may come over under the ties, which are held away from the ard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the fol­ rule, the call of the calendar has been Senate Chamber. lowing prayer: dispensed with, and morning hour has Mr. President, I do not anticipate been deemed to have expired. that today will be a late day, but, once Let us pray. Mr. President, this is no surprise, of more, I do expect us to be in for a full Gracious Father in Heaven, we ac­ course, to the minority leader as to week, including Friday. knowledge the abundance which Thou why that was done yesterday. It cre­ Mr. President, there is a messenger hast lavished upon us. We live in ated a new legislative day in the at the door from the House of Repre­ luxury compared to most people in the Senate with respect to the availability sentatives. world including many in our land­ of measures which have now reached some just a few blocks from this build­ the calendar. I am thinking particular­ ing. We always have more than ly of the defense authorization bill. enough of everything while most The 3-day rule on the defense authori­ MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE never have enough of anything. We zation bill, I believe, will expire at 2:58 At 11:08 a.m., a message from the live in comfort, freedom, and securi­ p.m. today. The 1-day rule will have House of Representatives, delivered by ty-many are oppressed, persecuted, expired by reason of the adjournment. Mr. Berry, one of its reading clerks, perennially unsafe and in bondage. There is also a budget waiver resolu­ announced that the House has passed Help us, Lord, never to be isolated tion which was reported on yesterday the following bill, in which it requests from-insulated against-or indiffer­ by the Budget Committee. the concurrence of the Senate: ent to those who suffer indignity, pov­ All of this was in preparation for erty, hunger, and disease without H.R. 5713. An act making appropriations asking the Senate to turn to the con­ for the Department of Housing and Urban relief. sideration of the DOD authorization Development, and for sundry independent The New Testament identifies in­ bill, perhaps this afternoon. agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, gratitude with godlessness-save us Before we do that, however, Mr. and offices for the fiscal year ending Sep­ from the idolatry of things and help tember 30, 1985, and for other purposes. us never to take for granted common President, it would be the hope of the benefits and presume upon Thy good­ leadership on this side that we can ness. May we be compassionate and complete debate and action on the Wilkinson nomination. unselfish in our private lives and in APPROPRIATIONS BILLS our public responsibility. In the name Mr. President, I have conferred with of Him who was love incarnate. Amen. the minority leader on that. He has Mr. BAKER. Mr. President, I would not yet been able to give me a reply, note that that is, I believe, the second but I am mentioning it now so Sena­ of the regular appropriations bills APPOINTMENT OF ACTING tors on both sides of the aisle may be from the House of Representatives. I PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE aware of the desire of the leadership should have said earlier that I hoped on this side in that respect. in addition to the Wilkinson nomina­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The I can see in my mind's eye the possi­ clerk will please read a communication tion and the DOD authorization, that bility of taking up and completing we can do at least these appropriations to the Senate from the President pro action on the Wilkinson nomination tempore

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 14932 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE June 5, 1984 THE PERSIAN GULF WAR AND tively, above the current world crude tory equipment and mmmg equip­ THE NATION'S ENERGY PRE­ oil price of circa $29 per barrel. These ment. The Nation's farmers, who are PAREDNESS higher prices would lead to immediate already facing economic hard times, Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, yester­ increases in the price of gasoline and would have to face grim prospects of day's Washington Post carried several other petroleum products. drastically higher fuel bills to run stories on the war in the Persian Gulf, In the face of substantial price in­ their tractors and combines, to dry and the administration's approach to creases, the Post reports, the adminis­ grain, and to get their crops to market. addressing the domestic consequences tration says it will not use its author­ Mr. President, as the Persian Gulf of a major oil supply disruption. These ity to allocate oil supplies, or to con­ war intensifies, I am more and more stories make it clear that the situation trol prices. Energy Secretary Hodel is concerned that this administration's in the Persian Gulf continues to dete­ quoted as saying that, "We have got to approach to energy emergency pre­ riorate, and that we are not prepared remain firm, and be willing to take the paredness is far too limited to deal to deal with the economic effects of a bumps that occur from relying on the adequately and fairly with the prob­ major oil supply disruption. market." Mr. President, what this lems this Nation will face in the event The first article reported that, on means is that the administration's ap­ of a major oil disruption. Sunday, Iraqi missiles hit and dam­ proach is to let oil go to those who can We could make it for a time. We are aged another tanker in the gulf. The pay the price. far less dependent than are our allies second article, entitled "U.S. Expects There is no basic plan on the part of on oil from the Middle East. We could Gulf Crisis to Worsen," reports that the administration at this time with not turn our faces aside, however, the State Department is " 'certain' reference to the allocation of oil in the from the very serious and perhaps that Iran will launch a full-scale event of a severe national emergency. critical impact on the economies of ground attack into Iraq, probably on ·This was the sum and substance of the those countries in the event of a major the Basra front, with the 300,000 to testimony of administration officials oil shutoff. We would not escape un­ 500,000 Iranian troops that have been before the subcommittee to which I scathed even though, as I say, we pres­ massed along the border for several referred a moment ago. That subcom­ ently are not, to my knowledge; as de­ months." I think it is important to mittee of the Appropriations Commit­ pendent as some of our allies are. We point out that Basra is a key center in tee raised this question at the subcom­ would have to eventually, if not imme­ Iraq's oil industry, so a successful Ira­ mittee meeting during the week prior diately, help to supply our West Euro­ nian attack would be a major blow to to the Memorial Day break. From the pean allies, help to supply Israel and Iraq's economy. responses it was obvious the adminis­ Japan, and this would have an unfor­ If the Iranians were successful in tration had no plan and does not tunate impact upon the price and their attack, they would be at the intend to develop one. It is going to supply here in this country. gates of the oilfields in southern Iraq, rely, instead, upon market forces en­ tirely. When I asked the Assistant Secre­ and only about 30 miles from Kuwait, tary for International Affairs and one of Iraq's major financial support­ I see that the President is urging our allies to plan for such an emergency Energy Emergencies, Helmut Merk­ ers in the war. One might hope that lein, what the administration's plans Iran may not be in a position to fur­ and to draw down from their reserves are for allocating oil in this country ther expand the war by attacking of oil earlier than they might other­ wise anticipate doing so as to lessen during an emergency, he just went Kuwait. However, even without round and round. I col}ld never get launching an attack, Iran could be in a the risks of suddenly increasing the any straight answer. There was all of position to exert more and more influ­ price of oil. The ironic thing to me is this beating around the bush and ence over Arab OPEC oil policies. that while the President and others in dancing around the head of a pin. Of That is a prospect which I do not find the administration are advocating that course, I was listening carefully, and particularly comforting. our allies make plans, the administra­ by listening carefully one can detect I was especially concerned by the tion itself has no plan for allocating when the witness is not answering the third Post article entitled "In Persian oil in our country so that, indeed, question. So after having asked several Gulf Crisis, DOE Plans To Let Market what it means is that the administra­ times, I knew that there was obviously Allocate Oil and Set Price." According tion's approach is to let oil go to those no plan. to the article: who can pay the price. In other words, Even more disquieting is the testi­ After studying what the government who has the bucks gets the oil. mony Mr. Merklein gave in 1981 should do here if the conflict in the Persian The administration has no plans for before a House subcommittee. And Gulf seriously disrupts the world's oil sup­ allocation which would provide fair granted, this was prior to his nomina­ plies and an energy crisis develops, the De­ distribution of the oil to the elderly or partment of Energy has decided to do as to hospitals or to coal miners and tion as Assistant Secretary, but Mr. little as possible. Merklein said last month that he steelworkers and factory workers who stands by the testimony he gave in This is particularly distressing, since have to drive considerable distances to 1981. administration officials are expecting and from work. This is not laissez-faire significant oil price increases in the but less-than-fair. In 1981, Mr. Merklein testified: event of such a crisis. The economic burdens of another oil It is not a question of having oil or not having oil. It is a question of having a little This news did not come as a surprise price shock would be borne dispropor­ less oil at a higher price ... The question to me because, in a recent appropria­ tionately by disadvantaged groups, rather is in terms of the sacrifice we will tions subcommittee hearing, this is such as the poor and the elderly. Oil have to bear in an emergency. Whether what the testimony of administration price increases of the magnitude esti­ people would agree, for example, to live in officials amounted to. Last year, the mated by DOE officials would have a the wintertime for 90 days in a home where Department of Energy estimated that devastating impact on the lives of the only one room is heated. the price of oil could go as high as $98 people in my State of West Virginia, So there you have it. We advise a barrel in a severe oil supply disrup­ who have rugged terrain and must other nations to plan, but we ourselves tion. travel long distances to work. West have nothing by way of plans except The Post has reported that a more Virginia is an energy storehouse, with to depend upon market forces. recent DOE simulation, which in­ coal for the Nation. West Virginia also Mr. President, I ask unanimous con­ volved a drawdown of oil from the produces other forms of energy. Oil sent that the articles from the Wash­ strategic petroleum reserve, resulted price increases and supply interrup­ ington Post to which I have referred in oil prices rising to between $40 and tion would have an impact on people be printed in the RECORD at this point, $80 per barrel. This would be a price all over this country who depend upon together with a June 4, New York increase of 40 and 180 percent, respec- gasoline and diesel fuel to operate fac- Times story carrying the headline June 5, 198.4 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 14933 "Reagan To Offer Plan for Coping commodity that can easily be moved from vided the Iraqi government with an official With Oil Crisis." one place to another. permission to continue its attacks on the oil There being no objection, the arti­ The key to the strategy, devised over tankers." recent months by an interagency task force The last previously confirmed attack on a cles were ordered to be printed in the representing seven or more agencies, is to ship was on May 24, when a U.S.-made RECORD, as follows: move quickly to head off the panic-buying Phantom jet of the Iranian Air Force dam­ REAGAN To OFFER PLAN FOR CoPING WITH and hoarding that helped double prices in aged an empty Liberian-registered naptha OIL CRISIS 1979 after the revolution in Iran. tanker off Saudi Arabia. The Government also believes that early The attack on the Buyuk Hun underlined agreement, at least in principle, for "joint, Iraq's determination to stop all Iranian oil WASHINGTON, June 4.-President Reagan mutually supportive action" might help pre­ exports as a way to deprive Tehran of the has taken to the economic summit meeting vent the fighting from increasing to the means of continuing the 44-month-old war. a plan calling for joint allied point where military action would become Turkey has good relations with both sides action in case of a major oil disruption in necessary. President Reagan has on several in the war. But since Iran destroyed Iraq's the Persian Gulf, a State Department offi­ occasions said the United States would use outlet to the Persian Gulf, the oil terminal cial disclosed today. force to keep the gulf open to international at Fao, shortly after the war began-and The plan calls on Europe and Japan to shipping. since Syria closed the pipeline to the Medi­ draw on their stocks of crude oil quickly to "The more we can demonstrate we're pre­ terranean in 1982-the only Iraqi crude ex­ avoid a suddent shortage in wholesale and pared to deal with that situation, the less ported runs through the so-called "strategic retail markets. Such a response might be likely it is that the situation arises," the of­ pipeline" across Turkey to the Mediterrane­ made without waiting for world oil supplies ficial said, Iraq and Iran, which have been at war for three and a half years, are heavi­ an port of Iskanderun. to fall by 7 percent, the point where the ex­ Last week, Turkish Prime Minister Turgut isting oil-sharing agreement administered ly dependent on oil revenues and would be less likely to close the gulf if they knew it Ozal was told by Iraqi officials during a visit by the Paris-based International Energy to Baghdad that all shipping in the exclu­ Agency would be activated. The agreement would not increase-and could reduce-their economic leverage, he suggested. sion zone would be attacked regardless of its was drafted after the 1973-74 Arab oil em­ flag. bargo. The American plan is based on the as­ sumption here that the world oil and eco­ Iran, which has refrained from a policy of Mr. Reagan's proposal also calls for allied strict tit-for-tat retaliation after every governments to request that oil companies nomic situation could become critical long before the 7 percent shortfall in supplies claimed Iraqi air strike, served notice again sharply limit purchases in the spot market today that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and its to avoid driving up prices and to take other needed to activate the I.E.A. sharing agree­ ment was reached. four Arab partners in the Gulf Cooperation steps to discourage industrial hoarding of Council must stop bankrolling Iraq or face fuel and panicky buying of gasoline. Although there is now ample spare pro­ duction capacity, enough to bring supply "the consequences." Meanwhile, Defense Department officials "There can be no partial security of this said today that the Reagan Administration and demand into balance in almost any fore­ seeable circumstance, this process would waterway," said a statement by the Iranian has dispatched to Saudi Arabia an Awacs Foreign Ministry, adding that "preventing warning and control aircraft equipped with probably take too long, the American offi­ radar that can detect ships as well as air­ cial said. Iranian oil exports will lead to the destruc­ "The problem is the economic cost of get­ tion of all exports in this region." craft. American intelligence officials said Since Iraq stepped up its attacks on ship­ signs were accumulating that Iran might fi­ ting it into balance," he declared, noting nally launch its long-expected offensive that here could well be unacceptably high ping in Iranian waters in late April, oil against Iraqi positions near the port of inflation, employment and other side-effects sources have said Iranian oil exports needed Basra. in the interim. to finance Tehran's war effort have declined The Awacs deployment, which took place from 1.8 million barrels a day to 700,000. over the weekend, will vastly improve the IRAQIS SET ABLAZE TuRKISH TANKER SOUTH Meanwhile, Tehran radio announced that ability of the United States Air Force to fur­ OF KHARG at the Kremlin's request an important Ira- . nish Saudi Arabia with air and naval intelli­ of its oil from the gulf but recognizes that Baghdad's unilaterally declared exclusion Reagan administration officials who have the consequences of a cutoff could quickly zone surrounding Kharg Island. reacted with caution and calculation to the be felt in this country as well. Iran's official Islamic Republic News latest upsurge of military conflict in the "We can't isolate our market from the Agency said the attack was a direct result of Persian Gulf, say they are convinced that world market," the State Department offi­ the U.N. action: "Iran believes that the Se­ the crisis will become more serious and U.S. cial said. "Oil is a fungible commodity," curity Council resolution, because of having decisions more difficult in the months meaning that it is a more or less uniform failed to condemn the Iraqi regime, has pro- ahead. 14934 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE June 5, 1984 A senior State Department official said it U.S. and global oil preparedness. Two spe­ what the United States is and is not able to is "certain" that Iran will launch a full-scale cial NSC committees-on U.S. energy securi­ do under present circumstances. ground attack into Iraq, probably on the ty and international economic prepared­ These points were made even more explic­ Basra front, with the 300,000 to 500,000 Ira­ ness-have been meeting since January. De­ it in a May 21 letter from Reagan to Saudi nian troops that have been massed along tailed preparations were made to use the Arabia's King Fahd, the text of which has the border for several months. U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve quickly to not been released, and in recent public The official also anticipated more air at­ forestall panic in the event of a gulf shut­ statements by U.S. spokesmen. tacks by both Iraq and Iran against oil ship­ off. Other countries were asked to increase If the Saudis and others wish direct U.S. ping in the Persian Gulf, with a growing their strategic reserves. military involvement in their defense, they danger of involving Saudi Arabia and other The current oil glut, an unprecedented will need to request it publicly, they were Arab oil sheikdoms in the hostilies. degree of international consultation among told. For such involvement to be effective The administration's provision of Stinger oil-consuming countries in recent months on any but the most temporary missions, antiaircraft missiles and in-flight refueling and the existence of strategic reserves have U.S. military forces would have to be grant­ services for Saudi Arabia and backing for an created many options for U.S. policy makers ed access to such facilities as airfields, logis­ Arab resolution in the U.N. Security Council in dealing with a disruption. "We're pre­ tical depots and ports. are symbols of a policy of limited and indi­ pared" on the oil front, a White House offi­ Those points, while sometimes assumed or rect U.S. involvement adopted in a recent cial said. understood by U.S. officialdom, were made series of National Security Council meet­ Nonmilitary support for Iraq. Administra­ explicit and definite in the recent maneu­ ings. tion officials concluded late last year that verings, in part because the legacy of failure These decisions were rooted in more than an Iraqi defeat and a resounding victory for in Lebanon left the administration very sen­ a decade of internal U.S. government adopt­ Iran's Islamic revolutionaries would be sitive about both political and military sup­ ed in a recent series of National Security "contrary to U.S. interests." Gulf Arab port for faraway intervention. Council meetings. states were informed of this by a State and Short of large-scale intervention, adminis­ These decisions were rooted in more than Defense Department mission early last De­ tration officials agreed to provide weaponry a decade on internal U.S. government dis­ cember. and training to help the Saudis and, to a cussion of Persian Gulf security and nearly The administration also encouraged a Jap­ degree, other Arab countries, defend them­ a year of active contingency planning as the anese initiative led by Deputy Foreign Min­ selves. Such indirect U.S. assistance is exem­ current crisis slowly developed. ister Toshijiro Nakajima, who sought to per­ plified by the Stingers and in-flight refuel­ The stakes for the United States, its allies suade Iran to permit Iraq to resume its oil ing for Saudi Arabia announced last week. and its adversaries are very high. Although exports through the gulf. These had been The gulf states insisted, in reply to U.S. only 3 percent of the oil currently consumed stopped by Iranian attacks in the early days messages, that they are determined to in the United States originates in the gulf of the war. In return, Iraq would ease its at­ handle their own defense, diplomatically area, a White House official said, the global tacks on Iranian oil exports, and Japan and militarily. That is what they are doing petroleum market operates as a pool and would restart work on a long-dormant Irani­ now and, by many reports, are preparing to "we couldn't possibly isolate ourselves in an petrochemical project. The deal was re­ do more of in the future through an Arab case of a temporary interruption." jected in Tehran late in January. "safety zone" for neutral shipping in the A large-scale, long-lasting interruption of The Reagan administration encouraged gulf. Administration officials have ex­ the flow of gulf oil could not have a disas­ the improvement of an Iraqi oil-export pipe­ pressed strong hopes that the Arabs suc­ trous effect on the world economy, which line across Turkey and the construction of ceed. has not yet fully recovered from the qua­ pipelines across Saudi Arabia and Jordan so druping of global oil prices as a result of the more Iraqi oil could be exported even 1973 oil embargo by the Organization of Pe­ IN PERSIAN GuLF CRISIS, DOE PLANs To LET though the traditional Persian Gulf tanker MARKET ALLOCATE OIL AND SET PRICE troleum Exporting Countries and the redou­ route remains closed to Baghdad. The ad­ bling of global oil prices following the fall of aircraft to help protect envoy Richard Fairbanks to shut off the ment intervention, although Energy Secre­ Saudi Arabia. Zbigniew Brzezinski, then na­ flow of military supplies to Iran. Officials tary Donald P. Hodel has emphasized that tional security affairs adviser, wrote in his believe this had substantial success with Eu­ this does not mean his department would memoirs that Secretary of State Edmund S. ropean nations and South Korea. They said stand by idly. Muskie objected that "we are plunging there also are "inscrutable" indications that He said it would move quickly to sell oil headlong into World War III." China may hold back on a large arms ship­ from the 400-million-barrel Strategic Petro­ After the Reagan administration came to ment that had been expected to go to leum Reserve to stem shortages and brake power, the United States was involved only Tehran. rises in the price of oil. It also would mount peripherally in the continuing gulf conflict The situation with Iraq is more complicat­ a campaign to prevent panic and reduce oil and the administration paid little heed de­ ed. The United States is tacitly backing Iraq consumption, he s~.id. spite the staggering human toll from the by saying it should not be permitted to lose But the key difference between this ap­ long, grinding war. the war, yet it wishes to avoid the supply to proach and those of Presidents Richard M. High-priority contingency planning in the Iraq of weapons that could escalate the con­ Nixon and Jimmy Carter in the crises of the National Security Council's Crisis Pre-Plan­ flict into an international crisis. 1970s lies in what the administration will ning Group was·touched off by Iraq's assess­ U.S. arms sales are banned to both com­ not do. ment last summer that it was losing a "war batants. For a brief period last fall, the ad­ It will not use its power to allocate sup­ of attrition" to larger, wealthier Iran. In a ministration opposed U.S. military backing plies in the event of shortages or to control decision first relayed to Washington for Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf what is certain to be an oil price increase of through intelligence reports and later pre­ Arab states. This has been a central issue 25 percent or more, according to officials. sented bluntly to Undersecretary of State for policy makers ever since the British an­ "We are strongly committed as an admin­ Lawrence S. Eagleburger by an Iraqi envoy, nounced their withdrawal from the oil-rich istration to the proposition that we must Iraq acquired new French Super-Etendard area "east of Suez" in 1968, and especially not permit the government to be brought in warplanes and Exocet missiles to attack Ira­ since the fall of the shah in 1979 eliminated to try to allocate this tremendously complex nian oil-export facilities and shipping in the the most powerful local "pillar" for the and diversified energy system of ours," gulf in an attempt to bring the war to a United States. Hodel told reporters recently. "When that swift if dangerous climax. A series of missions to the area since last has been done in the past, it has not worked In more than a half dozen fullscale NSC fall, particularly a trip in April by Assistant at all. It has been a miserable failure." meetings involving Reagan, and many more Secretary of State Richard W. Murphy and As an example, he recalled the 1979 crisis planning and policy-making sessions at Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter, deputy when the government allocated a surplus of lesser levels, the administration developed White House national security affairs advis­ oil to vacation areas, adding to gas station U.S. responses that can be grouped in four er and chairman of the Crisis Pre-Planning lines in cities and keeping would-be tourists areas: Group, acquainted the Arab states with away from the gas-rich resorts. June 5, 1984 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 14935 "We have got to remain firm, and be will­ needed and will level off more quickly than the Gulf of Mexico have been sold in the ing to take the bumps that occur from rely­ if there are controls. wake of the oil industry recession. One has ing on the market . . . , " Hodel said, "be­ Chief among the doubters of this scenario been converted to a natural gas pipeline; the cause we will get the same bumps, only they are farmers and small refiners, who contend other is scheduled to be converted. will be much harder ... if we create a fed­ that the oil would remain in large metropol­ In order to meet the reserve's goals by the eral bureaucracy trying to manipulate this itan areas and that farmers could not afford 1990's the Energy Department is preparing economic system." to bid. to ask Congress for $100 million to build two Congress has sternly opposed this hands­ Said Michael Scanlon of the National Oil off approach. Jobbers Council, a group of independent federal pipelines and improve marine termi­ While many economists agree with the ad­ gasoline marketers: "The gas that did get to nals. For now, critics say the department ministration that the market would allocate farmers would cost so much that nobody cannot move significant reserves to mid­ oil more effectively than the government, could afford a head of lettuce." western refineries without the two pipe­ they and many legislators warn that the ad­ An emergency aid plan for low- and fixed­ lines. ministration is unprepared to deal with seri­ income people, who rapidly would be priced For all the anxiety over events in the Per­ ous shortages that could develop in key sec­ out of the market in a crisis, has the sup­ sian Gulf, many experts believe that the tors, such as agriculture, or with the eco­ port of a wide range of economists and has United States could avoid an oil shortfall nomic hardship on the poor. been proposed in legislation sponsored by and a domestic crisis even in a partial cutoff Congress voted by a large margin in 1982 Sen. Bill Bradley

31-059 Q-87-18 (Pt. 11) 14948 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE June 5, 1981, By Mr. DECONCINI: so. One of those certified, but nonpar­ data is reliable, and I assume it is, S. 2725. A bill to amend part A of ticipating, hospices is located in my then let us give the hospice program a title XVIII of the Social Security Act home State of Arizona. chance to realize medicare savings with respect to payment rates for hos­ The cost of medicare is escalating at while, at the same time, providing a pice care; to the Committee on Fi­ a dramatic rate. If we hope to preserve more humane approach to the care of nance. this vital health care program for the terminally ill. We can do so by es­ PAYMENT RATES FOR HOSPICE CARE future generations of our elderly citi­ tablishing more reasonable medicare Mr. DECONCINI. Mr. President, zens, then we must find more cost effi­ reimbursement rates and I urge your today I am introducing legislation re­ cient alternatives to traditional care. support for this legislation. garding a component of health care Hospice care is one of those alterna­ I ask unanimous consent that the which should be of concern to us all. I tives and we must give this program a text of this legislation be printed in am referring to hospice care for the chance to succeed. the RECORD. terminally ill and, more specifically, to The legislation I am proposing today There being no objection, the bill the medicare reimbursement rates es­ would raise the medicare daily reim­ was ordered to be printed in the bursement rates for hospice care to RECORD, as follows: tablished by the Health Care Financ­ the levels originally proposed by ing Administration final stages of cancer and many other These reimbursement rates are unreal­ section 1814{i)(l) of the Social Security Act terminal illnesses. And all of us are in­ istic and have discouraged participa­ is amended- terested in preserving the quality of (!) by inserting "(A)'' after "{i)(l)", and tion in the medicare hospice program. <2> by adding at the end thereof the fol­ life to terminal patients. Hospice care HCFA justified the lower reimburse­ lowing new subparagraphs: is designed to alleviate the pain and· ment rates by relying on data accumu­ "(B) In establishing rates of payment for suffering of terminal patients rather lated from the 26 HCFA hospice dem­ hospice care under subparagraph , the than to continue conventional thera­ onstration projects. These projects do Secretary shall not establish a rate of pay­ pies, many of which diminish the not provide an accurate measure of ment which is less than- mental and physical capacity of pa­ costs since the range of services pro­ "{i) $53.17 per day for routine home care, tients thereby depriving them of the vided under the demonstrations was " $271 per day for general inpatient much more humane and less costly al­ in general, much larger than the vast care. ternative to orthodox institutional majority of hospices which resulted in "(C) The Secretary shall not less often care for the terminally ill, and it economies which cannot be realized in than annually review and, as appropriate, should be encouraged. the typical, smaller hospice. increase the payment rates established In the Tax Equity and Fiscal Re­ The following is a chart of the com­ under this paragraph, and report to Con­ sponsibility Act of 1982 shall apply to hospice care provided on of the medicare hospice benefit is Types of daily rates August December Under or after the first day of the first month be­ today in jeopardy because of the unre­ this bill ginning after the date of the enactment of this Act. alistic reimbursement rates which Routine home care...... $53.17 $46.25 $53.17 have been established by HCFA. Continuous home care ...... 311.96 358.67 358.67 Inpatient respite care...... 65.65 55.33 61.65 By Mr. MELCHER (for himself, Unless we have a sufficient number of General inpatient care...... 271.00 271.00 271.00 participants in the medicare hospice Mr. DOMENICI, Mr. ANDREWS, program, Congress will not have an The rate increases I am proposing in Mr. INOUYE, Mr. DECONCINI, adequate data base on which to evalu­ this legislation are modest, but they Mr. GOLDWATER, Mr. MATSU­ ate its effectiveness. And unless we es­ are essential to have a successful hos­ NAGA, Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. KENNE­ tablish reasonable reimbursement pice program under medicare. In addi­ DY, Mr. BURDICK, and Mr. rates, we will not be able to attract tion, they will result in long-term sav­ BINGAMAN): sufficient participants to have a repre­ ings for the medicare program. At a S. 2726. A bill to promote the devel­ sentative sample. This is our dilemma time when traditional hospital costs opment of Native American culture as well as our challenge. are escalating at wholly unacceptable and art; to the Select Committee on An alarming number of hospices are rates, we ought to be encouraging pro­ Indian Affairs. choosing not to participate in medi­ grams which provide a cost effective NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE AND ART care because, quite simply, HCFA's re­ alternative to conventional institution­ DEVELOMENT ACT imbursement rates do not begin to al care. The hospice program meets e Mr. MELCHER. Mr. President, cover their costs. As of May 23, 1984 that standard. during the 97th Congress, I introduced only 81 hospices, out of approximately Ironically, HCFA's own study pro­ S. 792, a bill for the preservation and 1,500 nationwide, have been certified vides evidence that an increasing por­ development of Native American art by HCFA for medicare reimbursement. tion of the medicare dollar is being and culture. After extensive hearings, Another 21 hospices are currently in spent for intensive hospital care in the the bill was reported by the Select the final stages of the certification ap­ last year of life. According to the Committee on Indian Affairs on April proval process. Simple arithmetic tells study, almost half the cost of that 29, 1982, and adopted by the Senate on us that less than 100 hospices may care occurs within the last 60 days of May 10, 1982. Unfortunately the elect to participate in the program. To life, with costs for cancer patients House did not act on the bill during compound the problem, some hospices higher than all other diagnostic cate­ the last Congress. In the interim Sena­ that have been certified are not apply­ gories. Thus, according to the study, tor DoMENICI and I have worked close­ ing for reimbursement because it is "hospice care could potentially impact ly with numerous groups and individ­ not financially feasible for them to do on a large amount of costs." If this uals with a deep interest in this legis- June 5, 1984 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 14949 lation which has allowed us to clarify Mr. President, I ask unanimous con­ and control of a Board of Trustees estab­ a number of issues in the bill. sent that the text of this bill be print­ lished under section 5. Today we are introducing another ed in the RECORD. (b) The corporation established under version of the Native American art There being no objection, the bill subsection shall have succession until dissolved by Act of Co:.gress. Only the Con­ and culture bill which incorporates was ordered to be printed in the gress shall have the authority to revise or many of these suggestions. This legis­ RECORD, as follows: amend the charter of such corporation. lation will provide Federal support for s. 2726 Indian art and culture. While the ar­ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of BOARD OF TRUSTEES tistic and cultural heritage of the Representatives of the United States of SEc. 5. The Board shall be composed of United States has had numerous influ­ America in Congress assembled, That this 18 members as follows: ences, the only genuinely native herit­ Act may be cited as the "Native American (1) twelve members appointed by the age derives from the Indian people, Culture and Art Development Act". President of the United States by and with FINDINGS the advice and consent of the Senate from Unfortunately, without impetus from among individuals from private life who are the Federal Government, there is a SEc. 2. The Congress finds and declares that- Native Americans widely recognized in the clear danger not only that much of field of Native American art and culture; (1) Native American art and culture has our existing Indian art and culture contributed greatly to the artistic and cul­ <2> three members appointed by the Presi­ will be lost to future generations but tural richness of the Nation; dent pro tempore of the Senate, upon the continuing artistic expression will be (2) Native American art and culture occu­ recommendation of the majority leader and stymied. pies a unique position in American history the minority leader of the Senate, and The unique aspects of American as being our only native art form and cul­ (3) three members appointed by the Indian art and culture must be pre­ tural heritage; Speaker of the House of Representatives, served and fostered by a sensitive and <3> the enhancement and preservation of upon the recommendation of the majority concerned approach both to the his­ this Nation's native art and culture has a leader and the minority leader of the House fundamental influence on the American of Representatives. torical and ongoing contributions of people; (b) In making appointments pursuant to native Americans. Current Federal ini­ (4) although the encouragement and sup­ subsection (a)(l), the President of the tiatives in this area are fragmented port of Native American arts and crafts are United States shall- and inadequate. primarily a matter for private, local, and ( 1) consult with the Indian tribes and the This bill would establish an Institute Native American initiative, it is also an ap­ various organizations of Native Americans; of Native American Culture and Arts propriate matter of concern to the Federal and Development directed by a board of Government; (2) give due consideration to the appoint­ trustees, a majority of which will be (5) it is appropriate and necessary for the ment of individuals who will provide appro­ Federal Government to support research priate regional and tribal representation on Indians. The primary functions of the and scholarship in Native American art and the Board. Institute will be to provide the schol­ culture and to complement programs for (c)(l) The term of office of each member arly study of, and the instruction in, the advancement of Native American art of the Board appointed pursuant to subsec­ the arts to culture of native Americans and culture by tribal, private, and public tion (a)(l) shall be six years, except that of and to establish programs which cul­ agencies and organizations; such members first appointed, four shall minate in the awarding of degrees in (6) current Federal initiatives in the area serve for a term of two years, four for a of Native American art and culture are frag­ term of four years, and four for a term of various fields of native American art mented and inadequate; and and culture. six years, as designated by the President as <7> in order to coordinate the Federal of the time of appointment. Any member of It is important to note that the In­ Government's effort to preserve, support, stitute's programs would be designed the Board appointed pursuant to subsection revitalize, and disseminate Native American < 1) to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the to complement existing tribal pro­ art and culture, it is desirable to establish a expiration of the term to which his prede­ grams for the advancement of native national Institute of Native American Cul­ cessor was appointed shall be appointed for American art and culture. The Insti­ ture and Arts Development. the remainder of the term. No member of tute would pay a crucial role in coordi­ DEFINITIONS the Board appointed pursuant to subsection nating efforts to preserve, support, re­ SEc. 3. As used in this Act- The term "Institute" means the Insti­ congressional term of office which such Cultural Exchange and will incorpo­ tute of Native American Culture and Arts Member holds at the time of such appoint­ rate the functions of the existing In­ Development established by this Act. ment. stitute of American Indian Arts. <3> The term "Native American" means (d) The President of the United States The establishment of an institute any person who is a member of an Indian shall designate the initial Chairman and encompassing the art and culture of tribe or is a Native Hawaiian. Vice Chairman of the Board from among Indian people is not a new concept (4) The term "Indian tribe" means any the members of the Board appointed pursu­ but, I believe, it is one whose time has tribe, band, nation, or other organized ant to subsection (a)(l). Such Chairman and group or community of Indians, including Vice Chairman so designated shall serve for come. The Senate Special Subcommit­ any Alaska Native village The term "Native Hawaiian" means Chairman, such vacancy shall be filled by The information such as an Institute any descendant of a person who, prior to could disseminate, as well as the research the members of the Board appointed pursu­ 1778, was a native of the Hawaiian Islands. ant to subsection (a)(l) and the member fill­ which it would conduct, would greatly in­ (6) The term "Secretary" means the Sec­ crease public knowledge and understanding ing such vacancy shall serve for the remain­ retary of the Interior. der of the unexpired term. of the American Indian Unless otherwise provided by the Trustees established under section 5. bylaws of the Institute, a majority of the Fifteen years have passed since the ESTABLISHMENT OF INSTITUTE members of the Board shall constitute a Senate received that recommendation. SEc. 4. There is hereby established a quorum. With the introduction of this bill, the corporation to be known as the "Institute of (f) The Board is authorized- Senate will have the opportunity to Native American Culture and Arts Develop­ <1 > to formulate the policy of the Insti­ consider this proposal. ment", which shall be under the direction tute; 14950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE June 5, 1984

<2> to direct the management of the Insti­ sions of section 3109 of title 5, United States NONPROFIT AND NONPOLITICAL NATURE OF THE tute; and Code, and to accept and utilize the services <3> to make such bylaws and rules as it INSTITUTE of voluntary and noncompensated personnel SEc. 9. The Institute shall have no deems necessary for the administration of and reimburse them for travel expenses, in­ its functions under this Act, including the power to issue any shares of stock, or to de­ cluding per diem, as authorized by section clare or pay any dividends. organization and procedures of the Board. 5703 of title 5, United States Code; (g) Members of the Board appointed pur­ (b) No part of the income or assets of the (9) to solicit, accept, and dispose of gifts, Institute shall inure to the benefit of any di­ suant to subsection O> shall, for each day bequests, devises of money, securities, and they are engaged in the performance of the rector, officer, employee, or any other indi­ other properties of whatever character, for vidual except as salary or reasonable com­ duties under this Act, receive compensation the benefit of the Institute; at the rate of $125 per day, including travel­ pensation for services. 00) to receive grants from, and enter into (c) The Institute may not contribute to, or time. All members of the Board, while so contracts and other arrangements with, serving away from their homes or regular otherwise support, any political party or Federal, State, or local governments, public candidate for elective public office. places of business, shall be allowed travel and private agencies, organizations, and in­ expenses The Board shall appoint a nicipality, Indian tribe, or local taxing au­ carry out the purposes of this Act; thority. President of the Institute. The President of 02) to use any funds of property received the Institute shall serve as the chief execu­ by the Institute to carry out the purposes of TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS tive officer of the Institute. Subject to the this Act; and SEc. 11. (a) There are hereby transferred direction of the Board and the general su­ 03) to exercise all other lawful powers to the Institute, and the Institute shall per­ pervision of the Chairman, the President of necessarily or reasonably related to the es­ form, the functions of the Institute of the Institute shall have the responsibility tablishment of the Institute in order to American Indian Arts established by the for carrying out the policies and functions carry out the provisions of this Act and the Secretary of the Interior in 1962. of the Institute, and shall have authority exercise of the powers, purposes, functions, (b)(l) All personnel, liabilities, contracts, over all personnel and activities of the Insti­ duties, and authorized activities of the Insti­ personal property, and records as are deter­ tute. tute. mined by the Director of the Office of Man­ (b) The President of the Institute shall be agement and Budget to be employed, held, compensated at an annual rate not to FUNCTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE or used primarily in connection with any exceed that prescribed for GS-18 of the SEc. 8. The primary functions of the function transferred under the provisions of General Schedule under section 5332 of title Institute shall be- this Act, are transferred to the Institute. 5, United States Code. {1) to provide scholarly study of, and in­ (2) Personnel engaged in functions trans­ (C) The President of the Institute, with struction in, the arts and culture of Native ferred by this Act shall be transferred in ac­ the approval of the Board, shall have the Americans, and cordance with applicable laws and regula­ authority to appoint and fix the compensa­ (2) to establish programs which culminate tions relating to the transfer of functions, tion and duties of such officers and employ­ in the awarding of degrees in the various except that such transfer shall be without ees as may be necessary for the efficient ad­ fields of Native American art and culture. reduction in classification or compensation ministration of the Institute. Such appoint­ (b) There shall be established within the for one year after such transfer. ments and compensation may be made with­ Institute- All laws and regulations relating to the out regard to the provisions of title 5, (!) a Center for Culture and Art Studies Institute of American Indian Arts trans­ United States Code, governing appoint­ to be administered by a director (appointed ferred to the Institute by this Act shall, in­ ments in the competitive service, and chap­ by the President of the Institute, with the sofar as such laws and regulations are appli­ ter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of approval of the Board), which shall include, cable, remain in full force and effect. With title 5, United States Code. but not be liinited to, Departments of Arts respect to such transfers, reference in any GENERAL POWERS OF THE INSTITUTE and Sciences, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, other Federal law to the Institute of Ameri­ SEc. 7. In carrying out the provisions of Language, Literature, and Museology; and can Indian Arts, or any officer so trans­ this Act, the Institute shall have the power, (2) a Center for Research and Cultural ferred in connection therewith, shall be consistent with the provisions of this Act­ Exchange, administered by a director (ap­ deemed to mean the Institute. <1) to adopt and alter a corporate seal, pointed by the President of the Institute, ANNUAL REPORT which shall be judicially noticed; with the approval of the Board), which SEc. 12. The President of the Institute (2) to make agreements and contracts shall include- shall submit an annual report to the Con­ with persons, Indian tribes, and private or a museum of Native American arts, gress and to the Board concerning the governmental entities and to make pay­ {B) a learning resources center, status of the Institute during the twelve cal­ ments or advance payments under such programs of institutional support and endar months preceding the date of the agreements or contracts without regard to development, report. Such report shall include, among section 3324 of title 31, United States Code; research programs, other matters, a detailed statement of all (3) to sue and be sued in its corporate (E) fellowship programs, private and public funds, gifts, and other name and to complain and defend in any (F) seminars, items of a monetary value received by the court of competent jurisdiction; publications, Institute during such twelve-month period {4) to represent itself, or to contract for scholar-in-residence and artist-in-resi­ and the disposition thereof as well as any representation, in all judicial, legal, and dence programs, and recommendations for improving the Insti­ other proceedings; inter-institutional programs of coop­ tute. (5) with the approval of the agency con­ eration at national and international levels. cerned, to make use of services, facilities, (c) In addition to the centers and pro­ HEADQUARTERS and property of any board, commission, in­ grams described in subsection (b), the Insti­ SEc. 13. The site of the Institute of Ameri­ dependent establishment, or executive tute shall develop such programs and cen­ can Indian Arts, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, agency or department of the executive ters as the Board determines are necessary shall be maintained as the location for the branch in carrying out the provisions of this to- Institute of Native American Culture and Act and to pay for such use foster research and scholarship in Arts Development. To facilitate this action to be credited to the applicable appropria­ Native American art and culture through­ and the continuity of programs being pro­ tion that incurred the expense>; resident programs, vided at the Institute of American Indian (6} to use the United States mails on the cooperative programs, and Arts, the Secretary is authorized to enter same terms and conditions as the executive (C) grant programs; into negotiations with State and local gov­ departments of the United States Govern­ (2) complement existing tribal programs ernments for such exchanges or transfers of ment; for the advancement of Native American art lands and such other assistance as may be <7> to obtain insurance or make other pro­ and culture; and required. visions against losses; <3> coordinate efforts to preserve, support, APPLICATION WITH OTHER ACTS <8> to obtain the services of experts and revitalize and develop evolving forms of SEc. 14. The Institute shall comply consultants in accordance with the provi- Native American art and culture. with the provisions of- June 5, 1984 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 14951 (1) Public Law 95-341 <42 U.S.C. 1996), spectful of local customs and tradi­ or articles create a substantial risk of popularly known as the American Indian tions. We are taking the currently injury to children. Religious Freedom Act, fragmented pieces of the Federal <2> the Archeological Resources Protec­ s. 2719 tion Act of 1979 <16 U.S.C. 470aa, et seq.), effort and forging a new tax exempt, At the request of Mr. LAUTENBERG, and federally chartered and supported in­ the name of the Senator from Illinois <3> the National Historic Preservation Act stitute that will not be subject to the took reports on election. In other words, he was saying that prayers to Him who is the Way, the Truth 1592 missing youngsters. Every single one of the people had forgotten what he had tried and the Life, you can help to bring a regime those children has since been accounted for, to come home for, what he had tried to ac­ of justice and prosperity back to the Philip­ most within a few weeks of their disappear­ complish, what he had bled and died for. pines. Thank you very much and God bless ance. No doubt, the President can pointedly ask you all!e Last summer, I accompanied two IPD offi­ everyone to look at the election results and, cers as they cruised the city's south side. with a gloating note that he will not try to Suddenly, a call came over the police radio: suppress, he will say that he was right, that THE CITY THAT FINDS ITS a three-year-old girl wearing green shorts Ninoy, indeed, was not an issue in the polls. MISSING CHILDREN had been reported missing from her home My dear brothers and sisters in Christ: two blocks away. The officers turned the you who knew and loved Ninoy, you who • Mr. QUAYLE. Mr. President, an ar­ ticle appeared in the April issue of corner and there she was, green shorts and cannot understand why the Filipino people all, with four older children. seemed to have forgotten him so quickly, Reader's Digest detailing the fine Detective Larry Summers called in: you who are confused because you cannot work of the Indianapolis Police De­ "Cancel that missing three-year-old. She's believe how the sense of outrage experi­ partment in its efforts to locate miss­ on her way home." enced by the Filipinos over his death could ing children. As the article states, 1592 "That must be the quickest return on so magically have turned into indifference reports of missing children were taken record," I said. and complacency, let me tell you this: in 1982. "Every single one of those "We told you we worked fast," said Sum­ Ninoy may have been the stone whom the children has since been accounted for, mers, smiling. builders regarded as useless, but he will turn Obviously, not all children are found so out to be the most important of all. most within a few weeks of their dis­ appearance.'' easily. In October 1981 more than 30 offi­ When democracy finally returns to the cers searched four days before one 19- Philippines, after the darkness of oppres­ No doubt there are many reasons for month-old child was found in an abandoned sion shall have yielded to the light of free­ the positive outcome of these cases, house. Police looked for two weeks last dom, you will say that Ninoy made it possi­ however, I believe several factors are summer before a 13-year-old runaway final­ ble. You will say that Ninoy died so that the crucial. The Indianapolis Police De­ ly turned up at a local high school. "We'll idea of freedom will continue to live in the partment places a priority on locating spend as much time as necessary to find Philippines. missing children and the officers con­ these kids," says Sgt. Joe St. John, 48, head This, believe me, is not just empty, mean­ of the IPD's missing-persons unit. ingless rhetoric. duct their work in an atmosphere of When Ninoy died, shock waves of anger dedication and caring. A cooperative In 1983 nearly ten percent <149) of the and outrage engulfed the Philippines. The effort with the news media in the Indi­ IPD's missing-child reports involved chil­ anger made the people forget their fear-a anapolis area also contributes to the dren under age 11. Ninety percent of these fear induced by many years of martial rule were false alarms-youngsters who had gone success rate. Supportive assistance to visit friends or who were simply late and oppression, and they took to the streets from the Indianapolis community and in vigorous but peaceful protest. coming home. That left 15 very young chil­ Despite their sense of outrage, the people surrounding jurisdictions provides dren who were truly missing. They were all remembered that Ninoy came on a mission needed encouragement. found: The older missing juveniles, 1,627 of of peace. So they kept their demonstrations Our children are our most valuable them, were mostly runaways. By year's end, peaceful; they kept faith with Ninoy by con­ resource and I am proud of the efforts only 43 of those cases were still open. St. fining themselves to non-violent forms of the Indianapolis Police Department John expected to find them, too. protest. and the community have made to keep What is responsible for this excellent Then, after the national leadership made record? First and foremost is the high prior­ this resource secure. ity given to missing youngsters. "There is no substantial concessions like the restoration I would urge my colleagues to read of the vice-presidency and the elimination waiting period to report a missing child in of block-voting, the demonstrations died this article and to encourage their Indianapolis," says St. John. "We take re­ down and the people began to gird for the local communities to follow this fine ports 24 hours a day, and missing-persons elections. example. detectives are on call around the clock. Each Then the disillusionment crept in again. I ask that the article from Reader's case is assigned, often within 20 minutes, to The conduct of the elections was such that Digest be printed in the RECORD. one of the five full-time detectives whose it became clear that the government had no The article follows: primary job is to locate the missing." intention of being fair, of giving the opposi­ Many other police departments insist on a tion a chance to win. The results of the elec­ THE CITY THAT FINDS ITS MISSING CHILDREN 24-hour wait before even taking a report on tion are proof of that. (By Gary Turbak) a missing child, particularly an older one And the people, who had been lulled into tool is the FBI's National Crime by facts that are foreign to our coun­ her talking to two men in a truck near the Information Center computer. Since park. President Reagan signed the Missing Chil­ tries and beyond the control of our St. John had found the missing girl, but dren Act in October 1982, parents have had governments." she was not a pretty sight. She was dirty the right to ask the FBI to enter informa­ This declaration coincided with the and disheveled and appeared to have been tion about missing children into this com­ issuance of the Inter-American Dia­ using drugs. Her thighs and stomach were puter system, if the police have not already logue's second report. In that report, a worn raw from repeated sexual activity. In done so. Then it's available to law-enforce­ group of 50 business, labor, govern­ her desire to make friends, she had fallen ment agencies all over the country. ment, academic, political, and church prey to pimps. In August 1983, two girls, ages 12 and 14, When the girl and her family were tear­ leaders from the hemisphere conclude fully reunited, St. John told her mother, and a 16-year-old boy were reported as run­ that "no single year in the last 50 was "You're lucky. Sometimes when pimps have aways from Indianapolis. Suspecting they more disastrous for the economies of no more use for a girl, they kill her." had left the city together, St. John entered Latin America and the Caribbean than St. John never really goes off duty. Head­ their names and descriptions into the NCIC 1983. Since 1981, the gross product of quarters has orders to wake him whenever a computer. Latin America as a whole has fallen by youngster cannot be found at night. That's A few days later police spotted three about 6 percent. Per capita incomes another secret to Indianapolis's success: the youths hitchhiking in London, Ky., and willingness of so many to go beyond what is took them in for questioning. Their names have declined some 13 percent since asked of them. The IPD officers' caring atti­ were fed into the NCIC computer. The 1980, and are now back to what they tude does not end once they locate a run­ three were identified as the runaways from were in 1976. The external debt of away. They try to find out why each child Indianapolis and were returned home Latin America soared from $27 billion took off. "In some cases, sending the run­ safely. in 1970 to more than $350 billion by away home may be a bad thing to do," says The IPD unit has fostered cooperative ef­ the end of 1983." St. John. forts in surrounding Marion County. In Sep­ The leaders of Latin America recog­ Officers work closely with child-abuse of­ tember 1982 Captain Turner instituted the nize the dimensions of this crisis. In ficials to determine whether a returned run­ Inter-Agency Missing Juveniles Program, away needs to be removed from the home. their declaration they announced a linking the IPD, the Marion County Sher­ prompt meeting of Foreign and Fi­ Such a youngster may go to Stopover, a iff's Department, the Indiana State Police crisis service offering temporary housing nance Ministers from their countries and intense counseling for youngsters and and local police departments in nearby Law­ to which other Latin American gov­ their families. Other runaways are placed rence, Speedway and Beech Grove. "Before ernments would be invited. They pro­ temporarily in the Marion County Chil­ this program," explains St. John, "one juris­ diction might not have given high priority posed "adoption of concrete measures dren's Guardian Home, a facility for de­ to reach substantial transformations pendent, neglected and abused kids. to a missing youngster from another juris­ The IPD's concern for missing children re­ diction. Now they do." in international financial and commer­ flects a community-wide attitude. "When a "Our children are our future, the most cial policies that will widen the possi­ child is missing, people are quick to offer precious commodity we have," sums up Cap­ bilities of access of our products to the help," St. John reports. In April 1983, for tain Turner. "We're proud of our record in markets of the developed countries, example, six-year-old Maria failed to appear Indianapolis, proud that we find our missing that will mean substantial and effec­ for dinner. When a neighbor heard the kids. But I believe that any city where tive relief of the debt burden and will news, he walked to the child's house. "We've people care and work together can do the assure renewal of development financ­ never met," he said, "but I'd like to help." same." ing." . At one time, about 20 neighbors were looking for Maria. Just after dawn, the girl HOW TO PROTECT YOUR CHILD Resolving this crisis requires the co­ walked home. Afraid of being scolded for Experts say it is far easier to prevent a operation of all members of the inter­ coming in late, she had spent the night child from being taken than to find missing national community. I hope the hiding. "Those people who had been help­ youngsters. Their advice to parents: United States will play a full and cre­ ing could have been angry," says Maria's 1. Teach your child your phone number, ative role. As we develop our response, mother. "But the only thing that mattered including area code, and your full address. we must bear in mind that the future to them was that Maria was safe. I never ra­ 2. Keep up-to-date photographs of your of democracy in the region, which has lized how much of a community we had child on hand. been enhanced over the past several until this happened." 3. Make a mental note of what your child The news media play an important role in is wearing every day. years, is in the balance. the Indianapolis success story too. Televi­ 4. Be sure your child knows what to do I ask that the full text of the Presi­ sion airs photos of missing children. News­ should you become separated from him or dent's May 19 statement be printed in papers publish their pictures, and descrip­ her. the RECORD. tions go out on the radio. At least one life 5. Obtain dental records of your child as The statement follows: may have been saved because of media pub­ licity. Last July, a 14-year-old mother ran early as possible; keep them up-to-date. JOINT PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT CALLING TO A away with her three-month-old son, who 6. Have a set of your child's fingerprints MEETING OF LATIN AMERICAN FOREIGN MIN­ suffered from a potentially fatal illness and taken by the police or other professionals ISTERS AND FINANCIAL AUTHORITIES TO DIS­ needed daily injections. The IPD arranged and keep it at home. CUSS THE INTERNATIONAL DEBT CRISIS for the girl's picture to be shown on TV. 7. Make sure your school will phone you if We, the Presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Soon she appeared with her baby at a local your child is absent. Colombia and Mexico: Raul Alfonsin, Joao hospital. She had apparently seen the TV For information on what you can do to Figueiredo, Belisario Betancur and Miguel message and realized how serious her son's help solve the missing-children problem at de la Madrid, express our concern that the illness was. the national level, call 1-800-KID-FIND, or hope for the development of our peoples, Another reason for IPD success is its write: Find the Children, 11811 W. Olympic the progress of the democratic tendencies of monthly bulletin with photos of missing Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90064.e the region and the economic security of our June 5, 1984 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 14955 continent are being seriously undermined item veto constitutional amendment. I Whereas, it has been estimated that the by facts that are foreign to our countries am a cosponsor of exactly that propos­ use of copper as the material for such canis­ and beyond the control of our governments. al Senate Joint Resolution 178. ters would require as much as two million We have confirmed that the successive in­ Mr. President, I ask that the full tons of copper; and creases of interest rates, the perspective Whereas, copper presently is a surplus that there will be new increases and the text of the memorials be printed in commodity on the world market, and selec­ proliferation and intensity of protectionist the RECORD. tion of it as the material to be used for nu­ measures have created a sombre scenario The memorials follow: clear waste containment and purchase of for our nations and for the region as a SENATE CONCURRENT MEMORIAL 1001 the necessary copper from domestic produc­ whole. Whereas, the United States Department ers would stimulate the market and thereby Our countries cannot accept these risks enable copper producers in Arizona and indefinitely. We have asserted our firm de· of State recently amended diplomatic travel restrictions so that Soviet diplomatic per­ other states to resume operations on a full termination of overcoming imbalances and capacity basis, with subsequent economic to restore the conditions that will renew or sonnel in the United States now have access strengthen economic growth and the proc­ to Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma from which benefits to the people of Arizona and those ess of improving the living standards of our they had previously been barred; and other states where copper mining is an im­ peoples. Whereas, the director of the Federal portant factor. We have been the first to demonstrate our Bureau of Investigation, William Webster, Wherefore your memorialist, the House of efforts to fulfill our obligations in terms was quoted in the Washington D.C. "Times" Representatives of the State of Arizona, the that are compatible with the interests of of April 25, 1983 as saying "there are about Senate concurring, Prays: the international community. We do not three thousand Soviet bloc diplomats in the 1. That the Congress of the United States accept being pushed into a situation of United States and thirty to forty percent direct the Department of Energy to fully in­ forced insolvency and continuous economic pursue U.S. secrets especially military infor­ vestigate the feasibility of utilizing copper stagnation. mation and laser and computer technolo­ canisters for the burial of nuclear wastes We consider indispensable that without gy."; and and to use copper as the material for such further delay the international community, Whereas, in addition to important mili­ canisters if the department's study confirms especially in the inter-related sectors of tary bases in this state there are according that copper canisters would provide greater commerce and international finance, should to the Arizona International Trade Directo­ periods of waste containment than canisters begin a concerted effort to agree to actions ry a large number of firms located in this fabricated from steel or other ferrous and measures of cooperation that will state whose operations make them prime metals. permit the resolution of these problems. targets for Soviet technology espionage. 2. That the Secretary of State of the State Therefore we, the Presidents of Argenti­ Wherefore your memorialist, the Senate of of Arizona transmit copies of this Memorial na, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, propose the State of Arizona, the House of Represent­ to the President of the United Staters the adoption of concrete measures to reach atives concurring, Prays: Senate, the Speaker of the House of Repre­ substantial transformations in international 1. That the Secretary of State of the sentatives of the United States and to each financial and commercial policies that will United States and every Member of the Member of the Arizona Congressional Dele­ widen the possibilities of access of our prod­ Congressional Delegation from this state gation. ucts to the markets of the developed coun­ support the restriction of travel by Soviet tries, that will mean substantial and effec­ bloc diplomats in this state. tive relief of the debt burden and will assure 2. That the Secretary of State of the State HOUSE CONCURRENT MEMORIAL 2001 the renewal of development financing. Espe­ of Arizona transmit copies of this Memorial Whereas the persecution of the three cially needed are adequate amortization and to the Secretary of State of the United hundred thousand members of the Baha'i grace periods, reductions of interest rates, States and to each Member of the Congres­ religious community in Iran has received spreads, commissions and other financial sional Delegation from this state. worldwide attention and charges. Whereas the entire civilized world was For the above reasons we convoke a meet­ HOUSE CONCURRENT MEMORIAL 2002 shocked by the news from Iran of the June ing of Foreign Ministers and Ministers re­ Whereas, by enactment of the Nuclear 1983 summary executions of six men and sponsible for the financial affairs of our ten women, including three teenage girls, countries, to take place as soon as possible, Waste Policy Act of 1982 mittee as well, and worked for Senate pas­ Thus, I am delighted to join as a co­ Either Ronald Reagan promises to make sage of a resolution urging the President to sponsor of Senate Joint Resolution his next appointment to the Federal Re­ make the next appointee to the Federal Re­ 389, which will appropriately com­ serve Board someone with firsthand experi­ serve Board someone with experience in memorate the unique contributions ence in small business, "or, we'll raise some small business. He created a political action the Screen Actors Guild and its mem­ money and raise some hell," Bill Nourse committee to direct money at congressional promises. "Maybe we'll do what we did for candidates friendly to the small business bers have made to our culture and to direct expensing." cause. He even set up his own "kitchen cabi­ our heritage.e Nourse doesn't make empty threats. net"-a lawyer, an accountant, a public rela­ Direct expensing of small capital expendi­ tions specialist, and other businesspeople in tures became part of the 1981 tax bill, de­ Tennessee and in Washington with whom BILL NOURSE: TENNESSEE'S spite Administration objections, in large SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCATE he plots strategy and tactics. part because he worked to get it there. The "There's no other system on earth that'll • Mr. SASSER. Mr. President, I would state of Tennessee has a new and perma­ let a guy with only two or three employees like to call to the attention of my col­ nent small business office and tightened un­ affect it," Nourse marvels. " If that's not a leagues once again the activities of Bill employment compensation laws, again, in system that's working, I don't know what part, thanks to Nourse. is." Nourse, a small business person from "I never thought a man who ran a hard­ Nashville, Tenn. Those of my col­ ware store could have so much influence on Nourse is not alone, however; instead he is leagues who know Bill will agree with so many issues as I have," Nourse admits. "I emblematic of a new breed of political me that he illustrates the tremendous wasn't satisfied being a small businessman. I mover and shaker. Like the small business wasn't contributing to society at my highest community from which they come, these impact one individual can have if they new, politically active entrepreneurs are a choose to become actively involved in potential. But now I'm plugged in to the power structure." diverse group, committed to the cause of our political process. Bill has played a The transformation of Bill Nourse-and small business rather than any partisan central role in helping shape small hundreds, if not thousands, like him-began line, and frequently and enthusiastically business legislative policy on both the with the planning for the White House Con­ disagreeing with one another on specific State and National level. And he has ference on Small Business in January 1980. issues. For example, Nourse and Morris taken the time to travel throughout Back then, Nourse was a middle-age father Womack, president of All-Seals Texas Inc. the country to speak to other small of five, happy to tend his growing West in Houston and another graduate of the business persons to spread this gospel Nashville, Tenn., hardware store. He wasn't White House conference, have clashed over well connected, especially articulate, par­ the jobs tax credit during meetings of the of political activism. ticularly gregarious, or exceptionally well­ Senate Small Business Committee's adviso­ I have had the good fortune to know to-do. Nor was he a public person, limiting ry panel. Womack is an avowed Republican. Bill as more than an advocate for his political involvement to a trip to t he Nourse has drifted into the Democratic small business. He is a trusted adviser voting booth on election day. Being a father Part y. "I don't think there's any fertile on many issues of importance. I value and a businessman kept him busy enough. ground in the G.O.P. for small business," his counsel and am thankful for his But something happened during a meet­ Nourse argues. "I think the Republicans are imput. Bill also serves on the Senate ing Nourse attended in Nashville in 1979. "I married to Wall Street." On the other hand, Small Business Committee's National got the strong conviction that we were let­ he's disgusted with the Democratic party ting incentive die out in our system," here­ leadership for changing the party's Small Advisory Board and has been active in calls," I felt a strong urge to speak out." Business Council from a policy forum into a the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's That meeting was just one of dozens held fund-raising vehicle. Small Business Council. Clearly, many across the country in preparation for the Nourse and Womack agree easily on one of us here in Washington are benefit­ January White House conference. And point, however, which is that whatever their ing from Bill Nourse's breadth of Nourse was just one of more than 30,000 political leanings, just have more people knowledge about small business policy. people, most of whom ran their own small from small business participating in internal Bill has focused his attention this business, to attend one or more of those pre­ party debates, legislative lobbying-the year on several pressing matters. Top­ liminary sessions. But Nourse was hooked. whole spectrum of political activities-has He had never run for office, but he got him­ got to be an improvement over the days not ping his list is securing a promise from self elected as one of 2,000 delegates to the long past when "business's" position on an President Reagan that the next ap­ four-day conference at the Washington issue really reflected the opinions of a few pointment to the Federal Reserve Hilton. He had no technical knowledge of influential, mostly big, businessmen. Bill Board will be someone with firsthand tax law, but he worked the phone talking to Nourse has proved that a small businessper­ experience in small business. Securing experts and made tax reform one of his con- son-if he can combine vision, determina- June 5, 1984 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 14959 tion, and drive-can speak loudly on policy to the Federal Reserve Board. Paul A. of the act, North Dakota Aging Serv­ issues. Volcker, Federal Reserve chairman, is the ices has been able to encourage out­ Four years after the White House confer­ most powerful figure in government as far ence, however, some of his enthusiastic ex­ as the small businessman is concerned, he reach into these smaller towns, coordi­ citement has been replaced by a recognition said. It is essential that small businesses nate services, and provide valuable or­ of the challenges any small business advo­ have representation on the Federal Reserve ganizational expertise to local senior cate faces. Nourse has shed some of his Board of Directors, Nourse said. citizen groups. idealistic-if not naive-assumptions about High interest rates are causing the col­ As a cosponsor of the 1984 amend­ the ease of shifting the course of the ship of lapse of small businesses, and the huge fed­ ments, I think we have developed a state. "In that sense I've grown up," he says, eral budget deficits are pushing the interest "or maybe I'm still growing up." Change rates up even higher, he continued. The good bill. I am concerned about one comes slowly, and there is still a business to Reagan administration's "piecemeal ap­ provision, however. That is the one run. Sales at Nourse's Brookmeade Hard­ proach" to reducing the deficits is "simply that places a statutory 12-percent cap ware & Supply Co. fell short of the $1 mil­ not acceptable to small business," he added. on administrative costs for the Senior lion he projected for last year and he is in URGES BROAD APPROACH Community Service Employment pro­ the process of selling the retail end of the Nourse called for a "broad-based ap­ gram. business. He wants to concentrate on ex­ proach" to reducing the budget deficits, sug­ While I would hope that sponsors panding his wholesale distribution of apart­ ment building janitorial and maintenance gesting a combination of tax increases and could operate within a 12-percent cap, supplies, not only in Nashville but through­ cuts in federal spending. The tax increase I question the wisdom of making this a might include a national sales tax, he said. statutory requirement, for I am con­ out the Southeast. On spending cuts, he said, "The military But what Bill Nourse calls "the move­ could stand a fair cut, but entitlement pro­ cerned that it could have a negative ment" still absorbs him, even if he can't grams must also be cut." impact on smaller, minority contrac­ spend as much time with it as he has in the tors and on those that serve rural past. "I travel within circles of influence Nourse said that small businesses aged in such a way that it will be balanced. current lending levels without making other changes in adjusted for inflation through the year such a clarification-known as the Sten­ the loan program, appropriations would be 2010. It would not ensure solvency, however, holm amendment-and we intend to support necessary to cover the fund's losses. The ap­ because the interest-rate formula uses all of a similar modification to S. 1300. propriations necessary to maintain the pro­ the funds net income to subsidize the inter­ CONTRIBUTION OF BORROWERS gram would depend on the timing and est rate on future loans. As a result, the fund's net worth would gradually be eroded, Much of the discussion about S. 1300 has method of appropriations. The earlier ap­ propriations were provided, the greater and ultimately, the interest-rate formula focused on the cost of the Federal Govern­ would produce standard rates above the ment's contribution to making the revolving would be the impact on the fund and the Treasury borrowing rate. fund self-sufficient. However, it should be less the required funding in the long term. Thus, appropriations to cover losses in ad­ The Stenholm amendment to H.R. 3050 noted that, under S. 1300, the balancing of seeks to address these problems by requiring the fund will be a joint effort with REA bor­ vance would be less, over time, than appro­ rowers and, therefore, the 25 million con­ priations to cover losses after they occurred. that the interest rate on REA loans be suffi­ For example, if appropriations were made cient to produce total interest income equal sumers served by REA-financed utilities. to the interest expense on the fund's past Under S. 1300, CBO estimates that REA using the formula applied for the 1984 ap­ and future obligations. The amendment borrowers will make additional payments of propriation generally use a method that pro­ rest of the country. e Mr. PRESSLER. Mr. President, I duces a rate lower than emerges from the This in not only especially impor­ support the legislation making the CBO analysis. When such a lower rate is as­ tant in the Western States but also ex­ Select Committee on Indian Affairs a sumed, the funds interest income is less, and tremely important in the Eastern permanent member of the Senate the fund would not remain solvent through States in the settlement of Indian committee system. As a cosponsor of the year 2010-with or without the Sten­ claims. Three States have had settle­ this bill I urge our distinguished col­ holm amendment. The fund would, howev­ ments of Indian claims, those States leagues to join us in supporting this er, be able to continue its lending activity being Maine, Rhode Island, and Con­ throughout the period.e plan. necticut. But there are at least a half In South Dakota, there are eight Mr. BAKER. Mr. President, I sug­ dozen other Eastern States that will Indian reservations. We have an obli­ gest the absence of a quorum. require settlements on Indian claims. gation to Indians in South Dakota and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Last fall, knowing full well that the across the Nation to provide them clerk will call the roll. time had come in this Congress to with permanent standing committee The legislative clerk proceeded to fully debate this issue, the Senate de­ representation. call the roll. cided that it would, by resolution, tem­ I have long supported this legisla­ Mr. MELCHER. Mr. President, I ask porarily extend the life of the select tion which many of my South Dakota unanimous consent that the order for committee for 6 months into this year. constituents endorse as the best the quorum call be rescinded. That extension was until July 1. Mr. HECHT. Without objection, it is That left the resolution on the cal­ method of providing effective repre­ so ordered. endar. The resolution was not dealt sentation to the Indian populations of with, but it remained on the calendar this Nation. Passage of this bill will until the majority leader in his send a strong signal that the U.S. SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN wisdom, and I compliment him for it, Senate is truly committed to serving AFFAIRS stated that early in this session, the and working with Indians on a full­ Mr. MELCHER. Mr. President, I am second session of this Congress, this time basis. pleased that the majority leader has matter would be brought up either by The Select Committee on Indian Af­ sought, and is continuing to seek, an unanimous consent or he would move fairs deserves to become a permanent opportunity to call up the resolution to bring it up. member of the Senate committee concerning the Select Committee on It is significant that we take up this system. It is foolish to extend the com­ Indian Affairs, Senate Resolution 127. resolution and resolve the issue now. mittee's existence every 2 years, as we This resolution was placed on the There will be appropriations bills that have been doing, when we can give it calendar on November 2, 1983. Those will be before the Senate or available permanent authority. The need for who have been following the issue will for the Senate to consider. The armed the committee is obvious, it has per­ recall that last fall, in the last few services authorization bill is ready to formed worthwhile legislative work for minutes of the first session of the 98th be considered in the Senate. The com­ years, and it is time to put it on equal Congress, before the adjournment sine bination of one or two appropriations footing with other Senate essential die of that session, unanimous consent bills and the authorization bill for de­ committees. was sought to call up the resolution fense, plus other necessary items, will I would ask that our colleagues join and to agree to it. take up all of the remainder of this us today in supporting this legisla­ The Select Committee on Indian Af­ month prior to recess for the Fourth tion.• fairs has been operating for 7 years, of July observance. and has served the Senate well, served Not only that, but it is important the Indian community well, and has that it be called up because this com­ ORDER OF PROCEDURE also served the country well during mittee goes out of existence on July 1. Mr. BAKER. Mr. President, I had those 7 years. Either we deal with the matter now or hoped, as Members know, that we At each stage the Senate found itself the committee ceases to exist. could take up the Indian affairs reso­ constrained to limit the years of exist­ Mr. President, I am not being critical lution today by unanimous consent. It ence of the Select Committee on of any one of our colleagues for want­ is clear now that we cannot. The alter­ Indian Affairs. Because we found ing to offer amendments to this reso­ native, of course, would be to move to these temporary extensions to create lution, but I would like to point out that measure, but I think for a strain and stress not only on the mem­ that, given the time when the resolu­ number of reasons, that is not a desir­ bers of the committee but also on the tion first appeared on the calendar, able procedure. To begin with, it staff of the committee, we sought in November 2, 1983, there has been con­ would have the effect of placing the this Congress to make sure that, by siderable time to develop amendments, bankruptcy bill back on the calendar, resolution, we extended the Select and develop a strategy for however which I am not sure would be a wise Committee on Indian Affairs perma­ those amendments would be offered, thing to do at this time. nently, not just for 2 years or 3 years by any Senator or group of Senators The second thing it would do is per­ or even 1 year. A permanent commit­ who would like to amend the resolu­ haps interrupt our ability to proceed tee is needed so that all of the Senate, tion. Again, I do not criticize any Sena­ to other matters that may be more all of the Indian tribes, and all the tor or group of Senators for attempt­ compelling tomorrow and the next States know that the select committee ing to do that. day. So, Mr. President, I shall make no of the Senate would continue to re­ My remarks are not intended to be further effort to reach the Indian af­ solve those matters on Indian affairs critical at all. My remarks are only fairs bill this afternoon. that, from time to time, come before meant to dramatize the situation and What I am prepared to do, Mr. Presi­ the Congress. to inform the Senate that time is of dent, is to ask the Senate to go out It has been quite a productive com­ the essence. The resolution has been until tomorrow. The minority leader is mittee, I might say at this point. Hun­ pending for a long time. When it is here and I shall, in a moment, ask him dreds of bills have been considered in called up, it will be open for amend­ if he will consider approving a unani­ the past 7 years in that committee. ments and those amendments can be mous-consent request to provide for Scores of bills have been enacted into considered and voted upon. adjournment of the Senate until to­ law. There have been extensive func­ There are 60 cosponsors of the reso­ morrow. The purpose of that is to tions by the committee. I might add lution, and I think some other Sena- qualify certain measures on the calen- June 5, 198# CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 14963 dar under the 1-day rule. Then it is my way for the Senate to proceed tomor­ be very awkward to try to do this by intention to announce that it is the row. I have to note that many Sena­ any method other than unanimous hope of the leadership on this side tors have waited a long time for the consent this afternoon. Therefore, I that tomorrow, after the routine open­ resolution on the Indian Affairs Com­ announced, as the Senator knows, that ing ceremonies are out of the way, we mittee's continuation to be called up. I would not make any further effort to can shortly get to the energy-water ap­ In fact, it was once passed by unani­ do that today, but that does not mean propriations bill. That is a request mous consent and the vote was then that I will not do it at all. that is not yet cleared, I believe, on vitiated at the request of the majority Now, Mr. President, I renew the re­ both sides, but it is my hope that it leader when he found that one or quest. can be cleared and that we can dispose more Senators on that side of the aisle The PRESIDING OFFICER. With­ of that matter during the day tomor­ wanted more time. out objection, the majority leader's re­ row. If we now prolong the calling up of quest is agreed to. In any event, Mr. President, it is the this resolution and proceed on these Mr. BAKER. I thank the Chair. intent of the leadership on this side to other matters, the resolution for the Mr. President, I am prepared to go ask the Senate to turn to the Depart­ continuation of the Committee on out. I regret that; we are wasting a ment of Defense authorization bill as Indian Affairs will wait until almost good part of the day. We have pre­ the last item of business tomorrow so time for the recess for the Fourth of cious few days between now and June it will be the pending business when July, and that happens to be the time 29 to try to do an awful lot of work, we return on Thursday. Orders have when the committee goes out of exist­ but I do not know of any practical al­ already been entered for the Senate to ence. ternative. convene on Wednesday and Thursday. I find it difficult to oppose the ma­ May I inquire of the minority leader Mr. President, it is not the intention jority leader on these matters of if there is anything further he would of the leadership to permanently dis­ laying out the schedule for the Senate, like to try to attend to this afternoon? place or to return to the calendar the and I know the majority leader is at­ Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I know of bankruptcy bill. In both instances, we tempting to accommodate the consid­ nothing. I shall proceed between now shall attempt first to reach these eration of the Indian Affairs Commit­ and tomorrow to further explore the other matters by unanimous consent. tee resolution. I think we are ap­ possibility of getting an agreement to That is the situation as it now exists, proaching a period of time when we lay down the energy and water bill Mr. President. If the minority leader is are going to have to be very serious and also the DOD bill, and I will be prepared for me to do so, I shall now about calling up the matter. I realize able to tell the majority leader tomor­ put this unanimous-consent request. the majority leader's reluctance to make a motion to proceed to it and row what the results are. place the bankruptcy bill back on the Mr. BAKER. I thank the Senator. ORDERS FOR WEDNESDAY calendar. However, I am just taking Mr. BAKER. Mr. President, I ask this time and making these comments ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT unanimous consent that if the Senate to indicate to the majority leader that UNTIL 10 A.M. TOMORROW stands in adjournment today, it recon­ I am getting into a position-and per­ vene on tomorrow at the hour of 10 haps other Senators are, too-of des­ Mr. BAKER. Mr. President, I ask a.m.; that at that time, the reading of peration and we might have to resort unanimous consent that the order for the Journal be dispensed with; that no to desperate means notwithstanding the Senate convening tomorrow be resolutions come over under the rule; the operation of the Senate on these changed to read that when the Senate that the call of the calendar be dis­ other matters. completes its business today, it stand pensed with; and that following the Mr. BAKER. Mr. President, I thank in adjournment until 10 a.m. tomor­ recognition of the two leaders under the Senator. Let me assure him that I row. the standing order, there be a special do not mean I have permanently aban­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. With­ order in favor of the Senator from doned my effort to get up the Indian out objection, it is so ordered. Wisconsin