March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5419 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS PORT USER-FEE PLANS REQUIRE harbor would be 1.7 cents, Duluth-Su­ Kudrna, chairman of the commission, MORE STUDY perior's 1.4 cents, Toledo's 3.2 cents, testified: and New York-New Jersey 2.7 cents. We do not believe that the impacts of the That type of disparity raises serious proposed deepdraft fees have been studied HON.HENRYJ.NOWAK questions about the potential impact in sufficient detail. Without better impact OF NEW YORK on traffic diversion from port to port information it seems to the GLC that we IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES or to other modes of transport. Even are sailing into a storm without a navigation system. Wednesday, March 24, 1982 'more basic is the question of the po­ tential adverse impact any port user e Mr. NOWAK. Mr. Speaker, among Following are 13 areas the GLC sug­ fee would have on ports like Buffalo's, gested for detailed analysis: the administration's proposals for re­ which deal heavily in bulk cargo for ducing Federal expenditures is a plan the hard-pressed auto, steel, and grain THE 13 AREAs SUGGESTED BY GLC to establish a system of user fees that would shift the financial responsibility milling industries. 1. DOUBLE CHARGES FOR DOMUTIC FREIGHT for harbor maintenance and improve­ The seriousness of those questions Application of charges directly by each ments from the Federal Government are compounded when one considers port may cause domestic freight to incur a to the deepwater ports. that the administation is also propos­ double charge-one at the origin and one at ing a separate user-fee plan to recoup the destination ports. This would be par­ This would cover both ongoing ticularly true when connecting channel ex­ annual maintenance dredging and con­ the cost of services the Coast Guard provides commericial-as well as recre­ penditures are allocated to ports for collec­ struction dredging for the deepening tion. This double charge may cause a price or widening, for example, of existing ational-vessels. shift sufficient to make it more economical navigation channels. The U.S. Army A large question is what impact will to import certain commodities than to use Corps of Engineers has had this re­ this have on the Great Lakes area, or own domestic sources. The example I sponsibility since 1824. which is served by the St. Lawrence have given earlier was for taconite pellets or The House Public Works Subcom­ Seaway which already charges user iron ore. mittee on Water Resources, on which I fees? What impact would double 2. PORT LEGISLATION CHANGES charges have on our interlake ship­ have the privilege of serving, has had Port authorities are generally established several days of hearings in recent ping, where a vessel would be charged under State and municipal law, and they op­ weeks on the deepwater port user-fee to leave one port and charged to enter erate with limited authority. The collection concept. I have become convinced that another on the Great Lakes? of fees for the federal government in a cost this is an idea whose time has not yet These are the kinds of questions we recovery /user charge system could require come. must explore and get hard answers to amending legislation to permit ports to per­ From the strictly bookkeeping point before we precipitately enter into any form this function. Prior to any implemen­ of view of the Office of Management user-fee arrangements. tation, whether staged or total, the current Another serious concern is the re­ enabling statutes for the various port com­ and Budget, the user-fee concept may missions and port operating agencies should be a quick, simplistic way to reduce quirement in either the Senate bill or be reviewed to determine the overall impact the Federal deficit. Yet, the testimony the administration's proposal leaving on governmental structure. It would also be on this issue I have heard thus far in­ future financing of new port develop­ helpful if this Committee was able to ascer­ dicates this is a very complex matter, ments or improvements entirely to tain the probability of the ports' enabling whose full economic implications and local authorities. The Corps of Engi­ legislation being changed in sufficient time regional impacts have yet to be fully neers currently is in the third year of to permit uniform implementation of a new studied and fully understood. a $2 million study of potential Buffalo federal policy. The administration's proposal calls Harbor navigational improvements, re­ 3. PRIVATE PORTS for 100 percent cost recovery of all viewing the feasibility of deepening Some ports have been constructed solely harbor maintenance and improvement the Buffalo River and Ship Canal or essentially with permits under the Corps costs. The Senate Environment and from 22 to 27 feet and making outer of Engineers' authorities. The construction, Public Works Committee has approved harbor improvements for 1,000-foot dredging, maintenance, operations of these a bill that would require local authori­ vessel operation. port facilities is undertaken by private in­ ties to pay the full cost of new port I believe we need additional study of dustry. There would appear to be no vehicle through which users of these ports could be improvements and up to 25 percent or whether or not port authorities would charged a fee for use of the connecting the equivalent of 6.9 cents per ton of be able to finance such development channels. commercial cargo shipped through the projects. The Senate report lists gen­ port. Under either of these proposals, eral obligation bonds, revenue bonds, 4. EXISTING LEGISLATION there would be no national, uniform and industrial development bonds as The locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, port fee charge. The charges would the type of financing options port au­ were originally constructed under a grant vary from port to port, varying on the thorities might consider using. from the State of Michigan. The State oper­ ated these facilities for a number of years cost of annual dredging and the I think we ought to know more until, under the authority of the Rivers and volume of commercial traffic. about how viable those options are Harbors Act of 1880, the Secretary of War Thus, even with the scenario of the before we cut off port development was authorized to accept on behalf of the Senate committee bill it is apparent from direct Federal asistance. United States from the State of Michigan, that small- and medium-sized ports In summary, we need to look more "the St. Mary's Canal and the public works with a need for regular, extensive exhaustively at the ramifications of thereon, provided that the transfer should dredging would be at a disadvantage the proposed switch to user fees on be made leaving the U.S. free from any and compared to larger ports which could our port system. all debts, claims and liability, and that the Canal after the transfer should remain free charge smaller user fees. According to We need to answer a variety of ques­ for public use." While laws are made to be the Senate report on S. 1692, for ex­ tions, many of them raised in testimo­ changed, this type of legislation and other ample, using 1978 tonnage figures, ny by the Great Lakes Commission similar legislation must be fully reviewed Buffalo's non-Federal cost per ton last week before the House Water Re­ prior to implementation of a new user would be 5.8 cents, while Baltimore's sources Subcommittee. As Frank charge.

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89-059 0 - 85 - 43 Part 4 5420 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 5. NORTHWEST ORDINANCE OF 1787 sels not effectively served by the improve­ ONE-MINUTE SERIES: THE LAW The Northwest Ordinance which estab­ ment they would likely be driven out of the OF THE SEA lished the territories northwest of the Ohio port or possibly out of the trade. River included Article 4 relating to naviga­ 10. MAINTENANCE OF EXISTING PROJECTS ble waters: "The navigable water's leading Into the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence, Both the "Committee blll" and H.R. 3977 HON. JACK FIELDS and the carrying places between the same call for the Corps of Engineers to establish OF TEXAS shall be common highways, and forever a five year program for maintenance of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES free, as well as to the inhabitants of said ports and related facilities. The Congres­ territory, as to the citizens of the U.S., and sional review process appears to provide a Wednesday, March 24, 1982 those of any other states that may be ad­ veto over the Administration in terms of e Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, the mitted to the Confederacy." Clearly, the maintaining or not maintaining an existing banner under which the Law of the drafters of the Northwest Ordinance ex­ project, but it does not set priorities for Sea Treaty supporters march is the so­ pected that these waterways and any devel­ maintenance. Priorities are currently estab­ called new international economic opments in the "carrying places" between lished . Users of the Seaway are also return­ Poland. transhipment point in Quebec would pass ing capital to the U.S. Treasury. Over $62 The feudalistic mentality of the through the Soo Locks at Sault Ste. Marie, million has been returned to the Treasury NIEO pervades the text of the seabed Michigan, the channels of the St. Mary's mining provisions of the LOS Treaty. River, Lake St. Clair channels, and the De­ by the St. Lawrence Seaway Development troit River, all of which are operated and Corporation. If there is a new national The American citizen would be ex­ maintained by the United States. Some con­ system of user fees or tolls, especially one posed to confisc.atory fees, taxes, and sideration would need to be given to affect­ that grandfathers investment in existing fa­ royalties fit for a serf; and would ini fee collection for these vessels. other­ cilities, will the $62 million be returned to suffer near extortion in the form of wise U.S. vessels/cargo traveling from the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Cor­ mandatory technology transfers. Duluth/Superior to the same Quebec trans­ poration, or to the users, or will the St. Law­ Mr. Speaker, I request all my col­ shipment point will be less able to compete. rence Seaway Development Corporation and leagues to join me in supporting Am­ 7. POTENTIAL IMPACT ON DOMESTIC TRADES OP' the Seaway remain a freestanding debt? It bassador Malone in carrying the con­ OTHER NATIONS would seem fair that at least the past cap­ cerns of our people and our President Corollary to the impact on the U.S. trade Ital payments be returned to the SLSDC and the Congress appropriate funds to meet to the other delegates at the LOS Con­ competitive position problem is the poten­ ference now underway in New York. tial impact on the domestic trade of Canada. the extraordinary maintenance cost . The new international economic order is not for Americans, or free­ opment Corporation operated facUlties are 12.STRATEGICPREPAREDNESS apparently excluded from pending legisla­ dom-seeking peoples anywhere.e tion, the Great Lakes connecting channels The legislation, as introduced on behalf of and locks wUl not be. Therefore, any the Administration appears to give no con­ changes applied wlll affect the domestic sideration J.o the national defense capablli­ KARL KUKUROWSKI: A MAN OF trade of Canada. To avoid a North American ties which ports contribute to the U.S. In COMPASSION international incident we suggest the follow­ the Great Lakes, this is of particular impor­ ing language be adopted: "That no tax, toll, tance. During World War II, incredible vol­ fee or other user charge which is now or umes of cargos moved through the Lakes to HON. DENNIS M. HERTEL which may in the future be imposed upon support the national defense objectives. In OF MICHIGAN the use of the navigable waters of the addition to the cargos moved, I am informed United States shall apply to any use of such that over 50 percent of WWII U.S. mllltary IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE$ navigable waters which regularly serve the and commercial ship production was accom­ Wednesday, March 24, 1982 domestic waterborne commerce of another plished in the Great Lakes. Prior to imple­ country until such other country has agreed mentation of any user fee or cost recovery e Mr. HERTEL. Mr. Speaker, each to the application of such tax, toll, fee or system, the full impacts on strategic mlll­ and every generation has faced a time other user charge to Its domestic com­ tary preparedness should be analyzed. of uncertainty, a time when complex merce." issues make solutions difficult to 8. JUDICIAL REVIEW 13. TRANSPORTATION MODE SHirrS grasp. This generation is no different. Some of the "fast track" proposals appear Implementation of user charge legislation The problems confronting them are no to remove all Judicial review to the federal whether on a national or port by port basis less serious and the solutions all the courts, even though one of the participants may change competition between the vari­ more intricate. It is easy to become in any cost sharing/user fee/cost recovery ous modes of transportation. thereby dislo­ agreement is a nonfederal entity. While we disillusioned in a world where change cating regional economies. In the Great is the order of the day. It is easy to be realize this is an effort to reduce delay. seri­ Lakes, we note that freight rates by other cynical with the idealism of our youth ous question regarding this procedure must modes and from other seacoasts vary with be raised. State courts must retain primary the seasons. When the Great Lakes are as they naively attack the problems of Jurisdiction in areas of State authority, in­ open and the St. Lawrence Seaway is com­ the day. Yet. if there is one wish that cluding State authorized port authorities. peting, rates on the Gulf coast are lower unites both young and old, it is per­ 9. IMPACT ON VESSELS/CARGOS NOT DIRECTLY than they are during the 3 Y2 months that haps a desire to live in a world where BENEFITING FROM IMPROVEMENTS the St. Lawrence Seaway is closed. Should simple acts of compassion and love Should vessels and/or cargos not profiting user charges Induce slgntftcant rate touch a part of our lives. directly from or not requiring the port im­ changes. changes In the transportation pat­ There is one man who has helped provement be required to participate In the terns would also be included.e that wish become a reality. The con­ cost recovery? If new charges apply to ves- cern shown by Karl Kukurowski is a March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5421 rich legacy spanning 95 years of loving HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME PERSONAL EXPLANATION devotion to his family, friends, and community. Born in Poland in 1887. he, like most Americans came to this HON. 80881 FIEDLER HON. MARGE ROUKEMA OF NEW JERSEY country as an immigrant and worked OF CALIFORNIA to make this new land his home. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It was not an easy task; challenges Wednesday, March 24, 1982 seldom are. His determination, com­ Wednesday, March 24, 1982 • Mrs. ROUKEMA. Mr. Speaker, on passion, and understanding have made e Ms. FIEDLER. Mr. Speaker, it is March 23, 1982, I was unavoidably his adventure a success story. As the with great pride that I take this op­ absent from the floor of the House of oldest living founder of Queen of portunity to inform the Members of Representatives for nine recorded Apostles Parish and president of the the House that, as we meet today, an votes. Had I been present, I would Polish National Alliance-2384-Karl historic event is taking place in Los have voted in the following fashion: Kukurowski has served his community Angeles. Many of the Members are Rollcall No. 32: H.R. 5014, Gateway and in turn his country very well. aware that in Los Angeles, the Holly­ National Recreation Area Commission, His roots are deeply embedded in his wood Walk of Fame is a perpetual tes­ "no"; native Polish heritage, but they read­ tament to those who have made the Rollcall No. 33: H.R. 4750, Roosevelt ily mix with his love for his proud movie, radio, television, and recording Memorial, "no"; American tradition. For Karl Kukur­ industries a vital part of southern Rollcall No. 36: H.R. 4709, Prompt owski the American dream was more California's economy. Payment Act, "yes"; than a dream of economic success; it Today, a company that has been the Rollcall No. 31: House Concurrent was rather a chance to live a life that backbone of the movie industry is Resolution 100, expressing the sense was rich with the joy of giving to being so honored. That company, I am of Congress regarding religious free­ others. proud to say, is in my congressional dom in the Soviet Union, "yes"; His compassion, coupled with his district. The company is the Magna­ Rollcall No. 35: S. 2166, to permit strong sense of responsibility have en­ sync/Moviola Corp.-the company the ICA to provide distribution of the riched the lives of all who have come that makes the machines upon which slide show, Montana, "yes"; Rollcall No. 37: H.R. 2528, Economy to know this man. He has been a living the vast majority of all movie editing Amendments Act, "yes"; legacy of a man willing to sacrifice for is done. Rollcall No. 38: H.R. 5708, National others. He is an inspiration to all. It is The star on the Walk of Fame will Housing Act extensions, "yes"; in this sense that Karl Kukurowski is also go jointly to Mr. Mark Serrurier, Rollcall No. 39: S. 2254, Flexible and a man for all generations and a source the son of the machine's inventor, Compressed Work Schedule Act exten­ of strength to all.e Iwan Serrurier. sion, "yes"; The first Moviola Midget, Mr. Rollcall No. 34: S. 146, historic pres­ Speaker, was delivered by Iwan Ser­ CYPRUS DAY, APRIL 22 ervation for Camden, S.C., "no." rurier to the Douglas Fairbanks Stu­ As a cosponsor of H.R. 2036, the dios on September 16, 1924, and over­ predecessor of H.R. 4709, the Prompt night transformed the process of film Payment Act, I am particularly HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD editing from a razor blade and lamp­ pleased that the House has passed the OF MICHIGAN well ordeal to a mechanically per­ latter. This will place the Federal Gov­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES formed precision technique. Thanks to ernment on the same footing as every­ this precision of control, the process of one else by allowing interest to accrue Wednesday, March 24, 1982 sound-synchronization was improved on a bill on which the Federal Govern­ e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I tremendously and provided the basis ment has not made timely payment. In wish to briefly mention to my col­ for making the talkies feasible. addition, the denial of the ability of leagues that on April 22 Congressman Twenty-five years later, Mark updat­ the Government to take early pay­ Y ATRON and I will be sponsoring a spe­ ed his father's invention and the new ment discounts where unwarranted and the establishment of intragovern­ cial order calling for a peaceful resolu­ Moviola became the state-of-the-art mental controls will add to the fiscal tion of the conflict in Cyprus. Since technology for film editing once again. credibility of the Federal Government. 1974, Turkish troops have been illegal­ This very same model is used today in This, in turn, should promote health­ ly occupying 40 percent of Cyprus. Ef­ such studios as MGM, Disney, Univer­ ier competition for Government con­ forts by the United Nations to resolve sal, Paramount, and scores of others tracts and cause a reduction in the the dispute, and obtain the withdrawal worldwide. number of inflated bids received. I of Turkish forces, have been unsuc­ In addition, and without exception, commend the Government Operations cessful. As long as this problem contin­ every television series shot in Holly­ Committee for its fine work on this ues, NATO's southern flank will be se­ wood today is edited on a Moviola. bill and the diligent efforts in this riously weakened, the Cypriot people Surely, Mr. Speaker, there would area by my distinguished colleague will be denied self-determination, and have been a Hollywood, producing cel­ from California, Mr. LAGOMARSINO .• the status of over 200,000 refugees will luloid dreams for the world to share remain uncertain. without the Moviola, but the contribu­ I urge my colleagues to participate tion the Serruriers have made to the A TRIBUTE TO JOHN T. DALLY in the special order on April 22, and I industry can be likened to the advent encourage them to include remarks for of the railway to the West-making HON. DON RITI'ER the REcoRD in advance of this date to those dreams come true before anyone would have thought them possible. OF PENNSYLVANIA demonstrate their clear support for a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES resolution of this important issue.e I am happy today to add my voice to those praising Magnasync/Moviola Wednesday, March 24, 1982 and Mark Serrurier for their contribu­ • Mr. RITIER. Mr. Speaker, I would tion to the economy of southern Cali­ like to take this opportunity to pay fomia and the enjoyment of the tribute to one of the Lehigh Valley world.e and Slate Belt's most distinguished 5422 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 citizens, Mr. John T. Dally, the former to by P. T. Barnum, when he said: Mrs. Levinson was inducted into two mayor of Pen Argyl, Pa. "There is one born every minute." education honor societies, Phi Delta Jack Dally recently retired as mayor Nor do I speak of a piece of sugar Kappa and Kappa Delta Phi. She is of Pen Argyl after 16 years of serving candy on a stick. While Barnum has also a member of the Association for the borough in that position. It is no been proved right and candy suckers Supervisors and Curriculum Develop­ small measure of the value of his serv­ are a nice treat, neither can compare ment, the Long Island Association of ice-and his popularity in the bor­ to the sucker, a fish of doubtful par­ Personnel Administration, Nassau ough-that he had. originally planned entage, which, on its special day is Reading Council, New York State to step down in 1978, but his constitu­ pulled from the James River, scored Reading Association, and the Soropti­ ents would not hear of it. Even though with a sharp knife, then immediately mist International of Central Nassau­ he was not on the ballot, and even placed into huge black kettles set up the oldest women's organization for though he did not campaign, Pen on Main Street, where it is cooked professional and business administra­ Argyl's. voters .wrote }lim in anyway. crisp and golden by some of the finest tors. He consented to serve one last term, cooks in the Ozarks. Betty Levinson is an outstanding ex­ which ended last January. The sucker, when consumed with a ample of one who has given untiringly The former mayor's record of com­ generous pile of fried potatoes and a munity service in those 16 years-as mound of cole slaw, is one of the most of her talents for the benefit of her well as before and after-is matched delicious meals a gourmet would ever community. As an educator, a busi­ by few. In addition to serving in his of­ throw his lip around. nesswoman, a civic leader, and a ficial capacity as mayor, he has been There will be a parade on the 6th, mother, Mrs. Levinson has displayed active in literally dozens of other com­ bingo will be played on the city park­ excellence and perspicacity. She will munity organizations and activities. ing lot both days, there will be many be missed by the students, parents, Jack has been active with the Boy arts and crafts displayed, and digni­ and educators in Lynbrook who have Scouts and the Salvation Army. He is taries from all over the State will be benefited from her influence. a member of the Allentown-Bethle­ present. The suckers will be fried on I wish Betty a happy and fruitful re­ hem-Easton Airport Authority. He is the 7th. tirement.e active in St. Elizabeth's Catholic It will be a great event. Two days Church in Pen Argyl, and he is trustee that will be enjoyed by thousands of emeritus of the Northampton County people and it will be made possible by THE TRUTH ABOUT PROP 13 Area Community College. He is also the hard work of some 250 citizens of active in the Maroon Club and Alumni the Nixa community who volunteer Association of Lafayette College. He is their support every year. HON. WIWAM E. DANNEMEYER on the executive committee of the Pen I plan to be there for the fun and OF CALIFORNIA Argyl Centennial. festivities and I would like to extend As mayor he chaired the Slate Belt an invitation to all to join me.e IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Municipalities Association and the Wednesday, March 24, 1982 Northampton County Municipal Con­ AN OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR ference Committee, and was a member e Mr. DANNEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, I of the Northampton County Overall submit the following Wall Street Jour­ Economic Development Committee. HON.RAYMONDJ.M(GRATH nal editorial, "California's Fiscal Jack also served his country during Crisis," for inclusion in the RECORD as OF NEW YORK essential truthtelling in the debate World War II as an Army Air Corps IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lieutenant. He flew 17 missions out of over tax cuts, spending cuts, and the Italy as a bombardier-navigator. Wednesday, March 24, 1982 Federal budget. In appreciation of his service, the e Mr. McGRATH. Mr. Speaker, I California's fiscal crisis illustrates community recently held a roast in his would like to draw the attention of my our national economic crisis: The need honor, which I was privileged to colleagues to the accomplishments of to maintain tax reform and adopt attend. After those of us speaking had an outstanding educator in the town overdue spending reforms. California had our fun, I remember something of Lynbrook, which lies within New is facing a $1.5 billion deficit not be­ Jack said, and it sums up his approach York's Fifth Congressional District. cause of Prop 13 and insufficient reve­ to service. He said, "get involved in After serving for 22 years as an edu­ nues, but because of insufficient your community, do a job that has no cator in Lynbrook, Assistant Superin­ spending reforms since Prop 13 was pay to it. Good humanitarian acts are tendent of Schools Betty Levinson has enacted by the people of California. the best thing in life." announced that she will retire at the This Nation is confronting a $100 bil­ Indeed they are. And Jack Dally has end of the term. Mrs. Levinson, a lion deficit in fiscal year 1983, not be­ set an example for all of us to follow. former teacher and principal of Atlan­ cause we were undertaxed but because And thanks to Jack Dally, Pen Argyl tic School, has held her present posi­ we have overspent for the past 25 and the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania tion since 1976. years. are better places to live.e She is regarded by her peers as a California's post-Prop 13 fiscal histo­ "dynamic influence in the growth of ry illustrates the need for spending NIXA SUCKER DAY Lynbrook education," who has always reform: remained idealistic about academic Since 1978, the State budget has ex­ learning. She describes teachers as ploded from $11.7 billion to $23.2 bil­ HON. GENE TAYLOR "the instruments of change and the lion; continuing culture of civilization." OF MISSOURI Since 1978, overall government IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Originally trained in the business field, Mrs. Levinson was once the only spending in the State has stayed Wednesday, March 24, 1982 woman in the accounting division of ahead of inflation; and e Mr. TAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, I am Western Electric. She joined with her Since Prop 13's enactment, 10,125 pleased and honored to inform my col­ children in Brownie and Scout activi­ employees have been added to the leagues that the 25th anniversary of ties, and was an officer in the parent­ State's rolls. Sucker Day will be held in Nixa, Mo., teachers' association. Her involvement We should heed the experience of on May 6 and 7, 1982. with youngsters motivated her to California. We have had the tax When I speak of suckers in Nixa I embark on a second career in educa­ revolt. We now confront the spending am not talking about the kind referred tion. revolt. Let us abandon neither. March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5423 [From the Wall Street Journal, Mar. 23, centive effects-it remains that such an in­ nuclear weapons escalations, and to 19821 crease was not acceptable to the voters. actively seek a reduction in the CALIFORNIA'S FISCAL CRISIS But California's economy lost some of its post-Prop 13 robustness last year, tax number of existing weapons, consist­ The Golden State has just finished scram­ reform critics like to point out. Civilian em­ ent with U.S. national security inter­ bling to close a $350 million gap in its cur­ ployment had only one fourth the growth ests. rent budget. But the package of revenue ac­ of the department of finance originally pro­ I commend President Reagan for ini­ celerations, special fund borrowings and the jected; the unemployment rate was higher; tiating the intermediate nuclear range like signed March 15 by Governor Brown residential building permits fell through the missile talks in Geneva. His proposal solves its current problem at the expense of floor. So where was the economic benefit of a zero option is a reaffirmation of the coming fiscal 1982-83 budget. The state from all those tax cuts? is now looking at a shortfall in next year's Well, it's still there if you remember that our willingness to seek peaceful agree­ revenue that m_ay reach $1.5 billion. California is part of the national economy. ments with the Soviet Union. It is a Is this the bitter fruit of the Tax Revolt? Even with a bad year, personal income first step toward reducing the nuclear Is the bloom off Proposition 13? The tax­ growth was higher in the state than the arsenals aimed at one part of the nu­ and-spend set would have us believe so; one nation and the gap is projected to widen in clear arena. can already hear their chortling. Before we 1982. The state unemployment rate nudged Strategic nuclear weapons talks, buy their version, however, we had better over the nation's in January for the first held in abeyance since the Carter ad­ take a; closer look at the numbers. time since 1979, but the forecasting consen­ ministration negotiated the seriously Next year's problem budget features gen­ sus is that it will fall more quickly and stay eral fund spending of $23.2 billion. In the below the U.S. average for the rest of the flawed SALT II treaty, must once fiscal 1977-78 budget, the year of Proposi­ year. Until Prop 13, the state's unemploy­ again become a matter of top priority. tion 13, this figure was $11.7 billion. In ment had consistently run from one and a Again, I commend President Reagan other words, in the five budgets since the half to two percentage points above the na­ for not rushing off unprepared to beginning of the Tax Revolt, California's tion's. Moscow to plead for Soviet agreement spending has just about doubled. That's In short, California is going through the on a marginal scenario. To quote the quite a spending spree for any "era of interest rate wringer like the rest of the President from his November 18, 1981, limits." country, with an extra squeeze on residen­ address to the National Press Club: State officials will say that we're counting tial construction and agricultural profits. in the "bailout" money, the state surplus But its base for recovery remains much We can make proposals for genuinely seri­ that was turned back to local governments stronger than average. Revenues are falling ous reductions but only if we take the time to make up for Messrs. Jarvis and Gann's off in part because the voters wanted them to prepare carefully. The United States has butchery of the property tax. In the after­ to, through indexing. Yet Sacramento has been preparing carefully for resumption of math of Prop 13, this kitty reached $6.3 bil­ only recently awakened to the notion that it strategic arms negotiations because we do lion, so it's only natural that the budget might have to cut back its own rate of not want a repetition of past disappoint­ that year should have grown by 40%. spending. The current and proposed budgets ments. We do not want an arms control But California was paying substantial are the only ones that have grown at less process that sends hopes soaring only to end local propery tax relief before Prop 13, and than a double-digit rate in much more than in dashed expectations. the governor folds this sizable sum into the a decade. The public support for the Tax This resolution supports the Presi­ bailout figure as well. So any way you in favor of it now than on the day it passed cut it, state spending has been booming. by a landslide. ages him to continue the process al­ Nor have local governments been as devas­ A while ago, some Californian politicians ready begun on intermediate range nu­ tated as you might think from their Prop 13 smuggly contrasted their Prop 13 experi­ clear missiles. It calls for the President loss of $6.1 billion in property taxes. Assess­ ence with other states with tax initiatives. to begin strategic talks at the earliest ments have run well ahead of the nominal They could make it work unlike the folks in practicable date. I strongly believe Jarvis-Gann limits. The city property tax Massachusetts, they bragged, because Cali­ that this is the only correct approach take this coming year is already expected to fornia had such a large surplus to cushion to this delicate issue. To call for a match the pre-Prop 13 receipts. With a shift the blow. It now looks like the surplus was a freeze now on all nuclear weapons is to to fees and other taxes and a dip in the curse and not a blessing. It allowed the poll­ large but uncounted local budget surpluses, ticians to defer serious cuts for years, during play into Soviet hands. To reduce the overall government spending in the state which their locked-in spending base grew by existing Soviet advantage, and to pro­ not only hasn't declined, it has managed to blllions. The current crisis in Sacramento vide the incentive to achieve future re­ stay ahead of the rate of inflation. isn't the price of the Tax Revolt; it is the ductions, the administration must But what about the shortfalls in state rev­ price of the government's reluctance to face have a card to play against the Sovi­ enues Californians have heard so much the new reality·• ets. A freeze would preserve the Soviet about this year? For the first time in a advantage. The message would be decade, the department of finance has been clear to the Soviets. All they would overestimating state tax collections . Doesn't this mean that the Laffer be to deploy a new weapons system Curve is kaput, that the lowered tax rates and then call for a freeze in that par­ aren't generating a surge of growth? Well, HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD ticular area. even with the state's post-Prop 13 income OF MICHIGAN Others would prefer a resolution tax cuts, this revenue source has grown by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES calling for the immediate beginning of 75% since fiscal 1977-78. This personal strategic talks. I understand that this income tax, with indexing, is expected to Wednesday, March 24, 1982 It produce $8.2 billion in the coming budget, has an appeal to some. is, for exam­ up from $4.7 billion in the year of Jarvis­ e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, ple, better than calling for a freeze. Gann. And almost no one, in or out of the Congressman LAGOMARSINO and I are But it still does not give the President state, understands what a huge difference cosponsoring a resolution today ex­ the flexibility that is needed to negoti­ indexing has made. pressing the sense of Congress that ate with a tough adversary such as the Legislative Analysts, a research arm of the the United States and the Soviet Soviet Union. Nuclear weapons talks legislature, estimates that indexing has re­ Union should engage in substantial, are extremely complex. Not only are duced the cumulative income tax take since equitable, and verifiable reductions of highly sophisticated weapons involved, Jarvis-Gann by $5.4 billion and will lop off a their nuclear weapons in a manner but advanced surveillance and verifica­ further $3.6 billion this year. In other words, the income tax take in the coming which would contribute to peace and tion systems are also an integral part budget would have soared two and a half stability. At a time when the nuclear of the negotiations. I believe it would times since Prop 13 had it not been indexed. arms race is being driven by new tech­ be contrary to the best interests of our Without pausing to ask if the take would nology and distrust is manifest on country to push the administration have grown as fast as the analysts think­ both sides, I believe it is essential for into strategic talks before they believe since such a rise would have had large disin- the superpowers to negotiate an end to it appropriate to do so. Let us face 5424 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 facts. We are not talking about negoti­ FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE Tenn. He was in 1809 a State Senator ating some relatively insignificant in Tennessee and admitted to the bar international agreement. We are talk­ in 1811. Benton moved in 1815 to St. ing about our most serious, vital area HON. MARILYN LLOYD BOUQUARD Louis where, as editor of the Missouri of national security. We are talking OF TENNESSEE Enquirer and in the enjoyment of a lu­ about the survival of our country, of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES crative law practice, he speedily identi­ our allies, and probably of the human Tuesday, March 16, 1982 fied himself with his adopted State. race if we fail to achieve a stable nu­ Benton was first elected to the U.S. e Mrs. BOUQUARD. Mr. Speaker, I Senate in 1820 and took his seat in clear world. Let us act, but let us act would like to thank my colleagues on 1821. In 1821, Senator Benton married prudently. the Banking Committee for the work Elizabeth McDowell. In the Senate he The Congress should support this they have done to bring House Con­ became involved in his lifelong legisla­ resolution. It puts us squarely on current Resolution 290 to us. What we tive interest, the defense of sound record as demanding an equal, verifia­ have done by passing this resolution is money. He favored settlers and dis­ ble, and stabilizing nuclear reduction. reaffirm a pledge the Congress made couraged land speculators. He de­ It also lets the Soviets know that we to the people of this country in 1933. plored the sacrifice of Texas in 1819. are unified behind the President in That pledge simply promised Ameri­ and lauded, to an uncomprehending seeking a peaceful, yet balanced, solu­ can depositors that their funds would public. the significance of Oregon. He tion to the nuclear dilemma. It further be safe. Since enactment of that Bank­ brought salt within the reach of West­ sends a signal that we will accept only ing Act not one insured depositor has em farmers. and in the interest of a well-reasoned nuclear treaty, one ever lost any money in these insured Missourians, defended a tariff upon institutions. And while the security of lead. He promoted the navigation of that safeguards America's overall in­ our financial system is being called terests. A treaty that recognizes that the Mississippi. and advocated a na­ into doubt by problems within the tional highway to New Mexico. After nuclear weapons are one part of our thrift industry, we are saying once comprehensive defense strategy, devel­ losing his bid for reelection to the again that deposits of up to $100,000, Senate in 1850, Benton secured elec­ oped in large part because of the over­ the statutory limit, are backed by the whelming numerical superiority of tion to the House of Representatives financial resources of the U.S. Govern­ where he vainly fought the Missouri Soviet conventional weaponry and ment. No depositor will lose money in troops. Compromise repeal. In his retirement an insured account in a federally in­ from the political arena while compos­ I urge my colleagues to support this sured depository institution. ing his memoirs, his house and papers specific resolution. It addresses all of I would like to associate myself with were burned. However, he composed at our concerns in both the security and the remarks made on Tuesday by my top speed, made possible by his re­ weapons reduction areas. It is impera­ colleague from Pennsylvania. We did markable memory, the elaborate tive that Congress express itself on so not consider this resolution out of "Thirty Years' View," 1854-56, in vital an issue as arms control. panic; there is no emergency requiring which he surveyed the whole course of Mr. Speaker, at this time, I wish to congressional action. But the reports politics as he had seen it intimately insert the text of our resolution. of troubled institutions have the po­ from 1820 to 1850-one of the out­ tential of creating a quiet run and it is standing autobiographies of politics. Expressing the sense of the Congress that important that the Congress take this the United States and the Soviet Union Side by side with this book, he com­ step to restore public confidence in pleted another monumental work. should engage in substantial, equitable, and federally insured depository institu­ verifiable reductions of their nuclear weap­ "Abridgement of the Debates of Con­ ons in a manner which would contribute to tions. We are saying to the American gress from 1789 to 1856." 1857-61. Sen­ peace and stablllty. people that their deposits are as safe ator Benton is one of two honorees Whereas President Reagan, on November today, and will continue to be so, as chosen by Missourians to be included 18, 1981, stated that the United States "will they have been in the past.e in Statuary Hall here in the U.S. Cap­ seek to negotiate substantial reductions in itol. nuclear arms which would result in levels SENATOR THOMAS HART One of my constituents, Fredrick D. that are equal and verifiable"; BENTON Redeker of Jefferson City, Mo., re­ Whereas the Congress also urged the members the competition to select the President to seek at the earliest practicable five greatest U.S. Senators of all time moment reductions in strategic arms; HON. WENDELL BAILEY to be honored with portraits in the Whereas the U.S. has already proposed to OP' MISSOURI U.S. Senate reception room. And he the Soviet Union In Geneva a Treaty em­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES said if his memory served him correct­ bodying dramatic reductions in nuclear ly. Benton was a close runner-up, if forces: Now, therefore, be it Wednesday, March 24, 1982 not sixth, in that selection. As Mr. Resolved by the House of Representatives e Mr. BAILEY of Missouri. Mr. Redeker so aptly points out. though fthe Senate concurring), That it is the Speaker I would like to make mention Benton narrowly missed selection, it sense of the Congress that the United in the RECORD of one of Missouri's States should seek substantial reductions in gives you an idea of the rank accorded greatest statesmen, Senator Thomas him.e strategic nuclear arms that will result in Hart Benton, this being the bicenten­ lower levels of forces that are equal, verifia­ ble, and stabillzing. To achieve this goal the nial year of his birth, March 14, 1782- United States should begin the Strategic April 10. 1858. Benton was born at RON BOOK Arms Reduction Talks with the Soviet Hillsboro, N.C., and the son of Jesse Union at the earliest practicable date. Benton and Ann Gooch Benton. On It is further the sense of the Congress the death of his father, Thomas HON. WIWAM LEHMAN that the United States should continue its Benton was 8 years old and became OF FLORIDA efforts in the ongoing negotiations in the head of the household. After some IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Geneva to seek Soviet agreement to the preliminary study with a friend of his mutual elimination of longer-range land­ father, a short term in grammar Wednesday, March 24, 1982 based intermediate range nuclear mlsslles.e school, and a partial course at the Uni­ e Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Speaker, our versity of North Carolina, he under­ congressional office has enjoyed a very took the supervision of the family good relationship with the office of farm of 3,000 acres with a claim to Governor Graham in Tallahassee. One some 40,000 acres near Nashville, of the reasons for the excellent coop- March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5425 eration between our two offices was ST. PATRICK'S DAY-1982 standing young San Diegans who have the presence of Ron Book, one of my been honored by the San Diego Chap­ constitutents who until recently ter of the National Football Founda­ worked for the Governor. Ron is now HON. JAMES A. COURTER tion and Hall of Fame. looking forward to a political career of OF NEW JERSEY Each of these young men have dis­ his own, and I would like to pay trib­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES played excellence in academics, athlet­ ute to his dedication to public service. Wednesday, March 24, 1982 ics, and extracurricular activities and as they are deserving of their honors, Following is part of an article that e Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, last was published recently in the Miami they are also deserving of our praise week many of our colleagues in the and recognition. Herald. Congress participated in ceremonies I present to the House, San Diego's The article follows: and festivities honoring all Americans of Irish extraction and the people of scholar-leader-athletes of the year, BooK's CoVER Is SAME, BUT NEW CHAPTER and list with pride the accomplish­ BEGINS both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, on the occasion of ments of those I have the honor of what that means for Americans tomor­ Wednesday, March 24, 1982 It is fair to say that the Environmental row. For millions of college students, Protection Agency and other regula­ Reaganomics means the loss of loans • Mr. MATTOX. Mr. Speaker, the ad­ tory agencies may have occasionally been a to assist in paying for the high costs of ministration's economic policy is near­ little overzealous during the past decade. education, or the loss of student social ing collapse. The business community Their requlations sometimes appeared ex­ security benefits that are an essential cessive, capricious, expensive, and counter­ source of support. For millions of stu­ has no confidence in it; organized productive. So with the coming of President dents who are able to continue college labor rejects the policy; farmers are on Reagan, "regulatory overkill" begat "regula­ in spite of the economic burdens, grad­ the verge of open rebellion because of tory relief." uation holds few promises. The deep­ the administration's economic policy; Let us trim the fat, said the new adminis­ and the overwhelming majority of tration, and simplify, decentralize, econo­ ening recession, brought on by an un­ mize, and optimize. Let us be efficient. Let sound and unfair economic program, Americans think "Reaganomics" is not us unbind the business community from has virtually dried up the hopes of working. Washington's oppressive authority and lib­ finding a challenging, well-paying job Interest rates are the key to change. erate free enterprise-the spirit that made that is the best ticket to economic se­ Let us examine what has happened to this country great. We will work with indus­ curity. "real" interest rates since President try, not against it. If the question was "How For those young working men and do we spell relief?" the answer was "non­ Reagan took office. regulatory." women who have found a job but must It did not seem like such a bad idea, pro­ struggle with the traditionally low viding it didn't go too far. Things might be starting income, Reaganomics means fine, in fact, as long as the federal agencies March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5427 didn't cede their responsibilities altogether was in the right place. That was necessary, Washington, D.C., includes a state­ and the new thrust was the product of although clearly not sufficient. "We need to ment by Rabbi Marvin Gross of people who were sensitive, knowledgeable, learn from the experience of the last ten Temple Sinai in Glendale, Calif., en­ competent, and committed to protecting years," says Quarles, now chairman of the those areas Congress mandated them to Clean Air Act Project of the industry-spon­ dorsing the freeze. I recommend Rabbi protect. sored National Environmental Association. Gross' statement to my colleagues. Although many an environmentalist ex­ "We must reduce. complexity, uncertainty, The material mentioned above fol­ pressed horror at the prospect-ten years' and the general stress injected into the lows: work would be undone by Reagan's "wreck­ economy by intrusive federal regulations." ing crew," they predicted-some of us were CALIFORNIA RABBIS CALL FOR A HALT TO THE This streamlining is also necessary, but NUCLEAR ARMS RACE more hopeful, even while watching one un­ not sufficient either. As Victor Weisskopf, likely appointee after another march into professor of physics emeritus at M.I.T., is power. Maybe, we thought deliver an unfocused the inherent shortcomings of the market­ ern California joined a growing number of and uninformative hodge-podge of a speech place. According to economist Lester Lave groups within the religious community of more suited to a Monty Python satire than : "Regulation California who are promoting the Bilateral to a serious discussion of federal policy. And strives for equity, not efficiency. It is expen­ Nuclear Weapons Freeze Initiative. it was confirmed later that day by Kathleen sive, and agencies can address only a few The Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis Bennett, an EPA assistant administrator, problems a year. Thus, other forces must· is the western regional organization of the who matter-of-factly described the federal always pick up where the agencies leave off. Reform rabbinate, with 140 of its 200 mem­ noise-pollution-abatement program as But cutting an agency's budget means that bers from California. PARR endorsed the "ready to be packaged" for use by the its capability is vastly decreased." To many Freeze Initiative at its annual convention in states-even while David Hawkins, its devel­ of us, it seems that the capabilities of EPA Palm Springs on January 6. oper and her predecessor, was acknowledg­ and several other agencies are decreasing past an acceptable point, and that the ad­ The Board of Rabbis of Southern Califor­ ing there and then that the abatement pro­ nia, whose 200 members represent all gram was still immature. After a year of un­ ministration is making it very difficult for "other forces" to step in. branches of Judaism, voted to endorse the prosecuted cases, delayed deadlines, unini­ Freeze Initiative on January 12. tiated programs, and large voluntary reduc­ On the other hand, there may be a silver tions in budget, personnel, and authority, lining-if unintended-to the cloud. Accord­ The object of the Freeze Initiative is to these performances symptomized for me the ing to one career bureaucrat in EPA : "The changes are not would be realized when the U.S. and the distinguished Washington consultant once part of some well-orchestrated conspiracy U.S.S.R. agree to the bilateral cessation of told me: that the best way to neutralize an among EPA's leaders. In fact, there seems testing, production, and deployment of all operation with high visibility and public to be little structure. The top people clearly nuclear weapons in a manner which could appeal, such as EPA, is not to kill it out­ want to roll back regulations and avoid new be checked and verified by both sides. If the right-that is politically unwise-but to ap­ programs, but they are too much separated Freeze Initiative is placed on the November point hostile, uninspired, or incompetent from the rest of us to do much direct 1982 California state ballot and passed by managers and then let nature take its damage. There is a vacuum. And although the voters on Election Day, governor Brown course. they do have a good point about inefficiency would be required to urge President Reagan A dearth of federal authority wouldn't be in government, they don't seem to have a to enter into negotiations with the Soviet so terrible if the bureaucrats abdicating plan." As Hawkins observed at AAAS, leadership toward effecting such a bilateral their responsibilities recycled their data to "What will probably protect clean air most freeze on nuclear wea"ons. state agencies. That, in fact, is supposed to is the unavoidable requirement that the ad­ In order to insure the inclusion of the be the goal. But the past year's track record ministration write a specific bill to change Freeze Initiative on the November ballot, indicates the opposite: state environmental the Clean Air Act."e 500,000 signatures must be gathered by officials have been continually frustrated by April 22nd. To date, a largely volunteer EPA's foot-dragging, noncooperation, and corps of signature-gatherers has collected a penchant for secrecy. Limits on travel, pub­ CALIFORNIA RABBIS ENDORSE total of 280,000 signatures across the state. lication, and dissemination of data have NUCLEAR FREEZE Intensive effort is now underway within the been imposed with a vengeance. religious and general communities to garner "There is a distinct change from the previ­ the additional 220,000 signatures. Spear­ ous administation," notes one state water­ HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM heading the drive is the Interfaith Center to pollution control official. "I simply don't Reverse the Arms Race located in Pasadena. have the feeling that they're trying to help OF NEW YORK The Interfaith Center was established as a us solve our problems. For example, I used IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES joint project to Leo Baeck Temple, Los An­ to have no trouble getting data; they'd give Wednesday, March 24, 1982 geles and All Saints Church, Pasadena. us their numbers freely, if with qualifica­ Following the endorsement of the Freeze tion. But starting last May [coincident with e Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, the Initiative by the two rabbinic groups, mobi­ the appointment of Anne Gorsuch as EPA movement for a nuclear freeze contin­ lization of Jewish community support for administrator], agency staffers have not ues to garner popular support. I am the nuclear freeze has been undertaken by been allowed to talk. I've had to spend a pleased to note that two of the Na­ area rabbis and congregational social action great deal of time duplicating information tion's largest rabbinical organizations, committees. In addition, endorsement of the that EPA already had. Is this what they the Pacific Association of Reform Freeze Initiative is now under consideration mean by 'power to the states?' " Rabbis and the Board of Rabbis of by the Community Relations Commission of The old EPA may well have the Los Angeles Federation-Council. Numer­ bitten off more than it could chew-"our Southern California have endorsed ous synagogues and churches throughout eyes were bigger than our tummies," says the bilateral nuclear freeze. The cur­ California are planning to focus on the John Quarles, former deputy administrator rent issue of Menorah, published by Freeze Initiative during a "Freeze Sabbath" under President Ford-but at least its heart the Center for Jewish Renewal in scheduled-for March 12-24. 5428 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 The California nuclear freeze campaign is In the face of such data, it is incumbent It is vital that the United States and the the latest and most ambitious in a series of upon us to pose fundamental questions European Community grow closer and that similar grassroots efforts that have been grounded in religious and ethical values. Is knowledge of and understanding between mounted by religious, labor, and citizens such an excessive defense posture truly de­ our peoples should increase. By focusing on groups across the country. The state legisla­ fensible? Can the magnitude of destruction matters of common interest, and by encour­ tures of Massachusetts, New York, and which we are capable of inflicting upon aging constructive dialogue, it is our hope Oregon have already endorsed the nuclear other peoples ever be justified? Is nuclear that the American-European Community freeze proposal. In November 1980, 60% of war ever really "winnable?" Association will find common sense solu­ the voters in three Western Massachusetts The only humane answer to these ques­ tions to differences which might otherwise State Senatorial districts voted in favor of a tions is: no. A defense strategy based on the splinter solidarity and threaten survival of nuclear freeze. Of the 33 towns in those capacity for nuclear warfare is no defense. the North American Alliance. three districts in which Ronald Reagan re­ The prospect of mutual nuclear destruction ceived a majority of votes cast in the Presi­ breeds insecurity, not security. Nor can This is both a statement of the ob­ dential race, the voters in 30 out of the 33 anyone who holds a religious faith and the jective and a challenge which has also backed the nuclear freeze. On March 3, belief in human dignity tolerate the loss of faced our nations and has eluded us 1981, a majority of Vermont voters support­ millions upon millions of lives. In fact, nu­ for years-for too long we have paid ed the freeze concept in each of the 14 cities clear war will have no victors, only masses only lip service to the historical im­ and towns in which the proposal appeared of victims. peratives for peace: understanding and on the ballot. Yet, while the superpowers continue an cooperation. These are also the two While each of these statements by legisla­ arms race that is simply a race to the abyss, axioms of the association and the in­ tive bodies and voting citizens demonstrates a majority of the American people want to both profound concern about the arms race see a change. Last June, the Gallup Poll dis­ dispensable ingredients for maintain­ and the appeal of the nuclear freeze option, covered the 72% of the U.S. population ing peace and security on both sides of the California initiative campaign has spe­ favors "an agreement between the U.S. and the Atlantic. cial significance. If the Freeze Initiative is the U.S.S.R. not to build any more nuclear The American-European Community adopted by a majority of California voters weapons in the future." Association has called together men in November, the message to the Adminis­ Achieving such an agreement is the goal and women from the United States tration and Congress delivered by the most of the Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze and the European Community-from populous of the states, as well as the presi­ Initiative. That is why many members of every sector of the society. These dent's home state, will be both dramatic and the California Jewish community are vigor­ impossible to ignore. ously working toward its passage. If Jews people represent corporations, unions, A refusal to ignore or acquiesce to the cat­ and others across the country became ac­ consumers, the universities, and the astrophic and unprecedented threat inher­ tively involved in similar efforts, the arms arts, collaborating on a variety of ent in the nuclear arms race is what lies at race could be reversed. For a people coven­ projects and issues. the core of the "halt the arms race" move­ anted to Adonai toward the passionate pur­ As an example, the AECA recently ment. It is clear that the nuclear weapons suit of tikun olam, there is no greater chal­ concluded a conference on the subject gamesmanship in which this country and lenge today. the Soviet Union are now engaged defies all of a proposed European Community logic and all morality. Consider some of the directive requiring information and facts of what we and the Soviets have cre­ PEOPLE TO PEOPLE: THE AMERI- management consultation with em­ ated: CAN-EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ployee representatives. The confer­ <1 > The combined nuclear arsenals of the ASSOCIATION ence was the combined effort of gov­ U.S. and the U.S.S.R. contain approximate­ ernment, labor, and corporate leaders ly 50,000 strategic and tactical nuclear to discuss the points of contention and weapons. In the next decade, the two coun­ tries plan to manufacture an additional HON. GUY VANDER JAGT to offer constructive alternatives to re­ 20,000 such devices. Source: Center for De­ OF MICHIGAN solve the impasse. This conference demonstrated a commitment to act as fense Information, Washington, D.C. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES <2> The combined U.S. and Soviet nuclear a nonpartisan forum in which major arsenals have a destructive power equal to 3 Wednesday, March 24, 1982 issues of foreign policy, trade and in­ tons of TNT for every person on earth. e Mr. VANDER JAGT. Mr. Speaker, I vestment can be debated and dis­ Source: The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists want to take this opportunity to bring cussed. No. 43 . In the future, the American-Europe­ <3> At the current rate of production, the to the attention of my colleagues the U.S. defense industry manufactures 3 nucle­ work and purpose of the American-Eu­ an Community Association plans an ar weapons every day. It is projected that ropean Community Association, as ambitious program of seminars and the rate of production will double over the well as extend my congratulations to discussions on such subjects as the next five years. Source: Center for Defense Sir David Nicolson, Member of the Eu­ NATO Alliance, barriers of trade, and for Defense Information. ropean Parliament and the founder­ European trends in employment, to <4> A single U.S. Navy Poseidon submarine chairman of the Association, for his name a few. In addition, the Associa­ is equipped with enough destructive power tion will be launching a university lec­ to wipe out all 250 cities in the U.S.S.R. outstanding efforts in the past year to with a population over 100,000. Twenty such promote a greater understanding and ture series on American and European vessels are on undersea patrol at all times. closer ties between the great nations issues; and a tour of art and musical Source: Center for Defense Information. of the European Community and of presentations. (5) The Soviet Union has the capacity to the United States. Sir David has characterized the destroy all 5,000 U.S. cities and towns with a The American-European Community United States and the European Com­ population over 5,000 and still have 2,000 Association was founded by Sir David, munity as "the twin pillars of the nuclear weapons left over. Source: Dr. who recognized the need to form a Western World"-it is through such Marvin Goldberger, President California In­ stitute of Technology . bridge of people across the Atlantic. It organizations as the AECA that these <6> A single 20-megaton nuclear weapon is a new venture but one which will pillars will continue to support our de­ detonated over downtown Los Angeles build on the experiences of such dis­ mocracies against those who would en­ would result in 1.8 million deaths within a tinguished internationalists as former croach upon our freedom. It is true few minutes following the explosion. Ambassadors Robert Strauss and that our governments are charged Twenty one-megaton weapons detonated si­ George Ball and Dr. Henry Kissinger with the responsibility of preserving multaneously over the entire Los Angeles in the United States, and Edward world peace. but in the final analysis it Basin would result in 5.5 million deaths. Heath, Roy Jenkins, Philipp von Bis­ will be our nations' peoples who will One megaton equals the explosive force of one million tons of TNT. The atomic bomb marck, and Sergio Pininfarina in play a major role in preserving peace. dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 was 1/50 of a Europe. In a recent address before in­ In this connection, the American-Eu­ megaton. Source: Nuclear War in Los Ange­ dustry and labor leaders, Sir David ropean Community Association has les, Los Angeles Federation of Scientists spoke about the principal objectives of added a new dimension to foreign rela­ (1980). the Association: tions between Europe and the United March 24-, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5429 States; with the support of our respec­ gambling casinos, like small children sud­ this country and fear, centering on political un­ torium in foreign purchases of U.S. bank Wednesday, March 24, 1982 certainty; as events in France have proven, stocks. Another sign of the American nerv­ • Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, a few foreign business is always subject to politi­ ousness is a new policy by the State Depart­ years ago I became aware of the very cal vagaries. And nationalization isn't the ment, making it harder for Japanese busi· serious issue of foreign ownership of only threat; to the European business com­ nessmen to get American visas. U.S. banks, businesses, and real estate. munity, particularly, there is the ever­ But the main source of foreign investment present threat of unrest and war that would in this country continues to be the Arab oil The Subcommittee on Commerce, smash business empires only recently built producers, and this investment is by far the Consumer, and Monetary Affairs, since the Second World War. most dangerous. Despite numerous warn­ chaired by my distinguished colleague, So last year, according to official Ameri­ ings the American government has done ev­ Mr. RosENTHAL, on which I serve, was can government statistics, over $15 billion erything possible to ensure greater Arab in­ conducting a series of hearings on the flowed into the United States from foreign vestments in the American economy, invest­ issue. The hearings made clear the ab­ investors, a 500-percent increase over the ments that the government has protected sence of any Federal policy in moni­ amount invested in 1977. Most of the non­ by allowing a veil of officially protected se­ toring, let alone evaluating and con­ Arab money is from large European, Cana­ crecy to conceal their extent. And well they dian, and Japanese multinational companies might, for there are indications that Arab trolling, foreign ownership in the that now own either all or large parts of investments are playing a growing role not United States. American business enterprises. Some of the only in the American economy but in other The April, 1982 issue of Penthouse more visible examples of such foreign own­ world economies as well. By May of 1976, Magazine contains a very thorough ar­ ership include the Marine Midland Bank, the Arabs owned about 20 percent of the ticle on the subject. Written by Ernest Howard Johnson, Saks Fifth Avenue. Alka­ world's entire monetary reserves, and two Volkman, "The Selling of America" Seltzer, Bantam Books, the Pierre Hotel in years later. when the Arabs decided that the defines the seriousness of the foreign New York, and Baskin-Robbin Ice Cream. English pound was no longer worth keeping, ownership question. I commend it to Moreover, foreign investors own about 6 their dumping of billions of dollars' worth million acres of American land, mostly of pounds on the monetary market nearly my colleagues. prime farmland. All told, the book value of caused the pound to collapse, and it was res­ THE SELLING OF AMERICA all direct foreign investment in this country cued only after an elaborate propping-up For the sophisticated Frenchmen who run now totals about $62 billion, and it is grow­ operation conducted by other nations, espe­ the gambling casino at the Hotel Majestic in ing fast. policy to at­ Abdul Aziz, member of the Saudi Arabian between gold and the dollar, allowing ex­ tract Arab business. royal family, complete with entourage and change rates to "float." Which meant that The prospect of petrodollars, further­ several young women. The prince, clearly, almost overnight the American dollar more. has lured a wide range of business in­ was ready for a night of heavy gambling. became cheaper when measured in terms of terests and former government officials to From what appeared to be an inexhaustible non-American currencies. Combined with set up operations to snag these dollars. The bankroll, he proceeded to buy chips as the increasing nervousness foreign compa­ former officials who have significant Arab though they were mere pennies; hundred­ nies felt about their own assets, the invest­ investment operations in this country in­ dollar chips were either thrown with aban­ ment opportunity offered by the floating clude former Texas Gov. John Connally; don at waitresses and croupiers or recklessly American dollar set off something of a former presidential adviser Clark M. Clif­ bet. The Hotel Majestic is accustomed to boom in foreign investment in this country. ford, former Senate Foreign Relations Com­ high rollers, but even their wildest dreams Today foreign companies have stakes in just mittee chairman William Fulbright, and the had never prepared them for Fahd. In about about everything made in this country, most execrable of the lot, former Vice-Presi­ six hours Fahd lost about $2,500,000, a dis­ from soy sauce to computers, and nearly 70 dent Spiro Agnew. who has adopted anti­ aster that did not seem to bother him percent of all the major companies outside Semitism as his chief selling tool with the unduly: at the end of the night, he simply America now have subsidiaries in this coun­ Arab oil products. shrugged his shoulders and left the casino, try. It is no accident that a growing anti-Zion­ entourage in tow, accompanied by the British and Canadian investors were the ism and anti-Semitism have been emanating devout wishes of the management for his first non-Arab investors to take advantage from much of this steadily enlarging com­ imminent return. of the new opportunity in this country, munity of American business interests that This event attracted a good deal of atten­ joined later by much more aggressive West concentrate on Arab investments. Fulbright, tion in the world press and set off much be­ German and Japanese outfits. More recent­ whose Senate career was marked by many mused clucking about the profligacy of ly, large chunks of French capital, the effusions of support for assorted downtrod­ newly enriched oil barons spending their French being upset about France's national­ den peoples, now no longer sees much merit new millions in the world's fleshpots and ization policies, are beginning to move into in the grievances of the Israelis, a Middle 5430 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 East minority, and others in that communi­ exceeds 5 percent of any given corporation. holdings had not been detected by the gov­ ty have spoken much and often about the Moreover, the Commerce Department fig­ ernment's detection process, and the Treas­ necessity of a more "realistic" Middle East ures measure only what they can find; as we ury Department found about $40 billion un­ polfcy by this country that takes into ac­ shall see, there is a great deal they are not accounted for in its estimates on OPEC sur­ count desires of the Arab oil producers. finding. plus funds. Often it takes the form of anxiety about One of the things they are not seeing is Nongovernmental sources deduce that American foreign-policy support of Israel the true extent of Arab investments in this there is at least $100-blllion worth of Arab threatening to anger the Arabs, which in country. Under the agreement worked out holdings in the United States. a deduction tum would compel them to withdraw their by former Treasury Secretary William they arrive at by taking the Treasury De­ billions of investment dollars from the Simon in 1974, the United States agreed partment's official figure of $51.3 billion of United States. It is an anxiety that has that it would never list publicly a detailed total Arab investments by the end of 1980, found some haven even In Congress; witness breakdown of Arab holdings in the United adding the $6.2 billion known to have ar­ this statement by Sen. Charles Percy during States. Thus. the most recent Treasury De­ rived here in the first four months of last hearings in 1975 on Arab petrodollars in partment figures list only the combined year, then adding the $20 billion of Arab American banks: "If Saudi Arabia and totals for all thirteen OPEC members money deposited thus far in foreign Kuwait withdrew their bank deposits, the . Without a breakdown, it is diffi­ Arab money flowing into this country from community, centered in New York, would be cult to say, how much money Saudi Arabia, offshore banks and other sources. That the largest loser. . . . " Kuwait, the United Arab Emitrates, and brings the total to well over $100 billion, This amounted to a warning to the Ameri­ other Arab nations have in the U.S. which is probably approximately correct can Jews, and others, to forget about trying According to one study by the Mideast . of Arab money in thls country. It is only the Arab investments in fact total over $200 Where does all the money go? How much in­ one of the reasons why many people have billion in this country, with less than a third fluence does it buy? become progressively nervous about the pe­ detected by American government agencies Let's begin with the Saudis. Saudi Arabia trodollar problem. They are concerned, for because of highly sophisticated third-party funnels its money through an organization instance, about the fact that twenty-one of and foreign syndicate operations designed to known as the Saudi Arabian Monetary the largest American banks now have over conceal just how much Arab money is pour­ Agency . which receives $320 million $19 billion of OPEC money, about $15 bil­ ing ln. Concerned over these reports, the each day in oil revenues and is then sup­ lion of it from Arab oil-producing states. House Committee on Banking's Subcommit­ posed to figure out ways to invest it. This is Money buys l.nfiuence is an old principle of tee on Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary no simple task, for the Saudis now receive American economics; so lt is perfectly logi­ Alfalrs last year held hearings in an at­ about $120 billion a year in oil revenues. cre­ cal to wonder about the role of such major tempt to get the real figures from govern­ ating a surplus of more than $100 billion. American banks as Citibank of New York, ment officials-and met a stone wall. Treas­ SAMA generally follows a conservative in­ which in 1976 was revealed to be holding ury Department officials flatly refused to vestment policy, buying sale U.S. Treasury $1.7 billion in deposits from Kuwait alone. give a country-by-country breakdown of for­ bills and notes plus another $15 billion in loans to the American business community most di­ agreement-insisting that revelations of maJor American corporations. including rectly involved with the Arab investments; Arab investments would cause the Arabs to $650 million to American Telephone and their argument is that the Arab investment withdraw all that money. The same argu­ Telegraph, $200 million to U.S. Steel, and strategy is very conservative, that the sole ment was made by various business inter­ $300 million to IBM. . having no desire to l.nfiuence American unmentioned the motive of very fancy fees Up to this point, the Saudis generally Middle East policy with the power of those banks and investment houses in this coun­ have refrained from using any of the muscle billions of petrodollars. try collect for husbanding Arab invest­ all that money represents, but that may be The problem with this assertion is two­ ments). changing: last year SAMA agreed to lend to fold. In the first place, the Arab regimes What that amounts to is a $60-bUlion dis­ the International Monetary Fund, for that now direct the investment strategies crepancy between what the United States which it demanded a permanent and decide how the petrodollars are to be government says is the total Arab invest­ seat on the fund's executive board. That spent are for the most part in the hands of ment in this country and the actual figures, board, which decides which nations will get highly conservative sheikdoms: what hap­ as partially reflected in the American bal­ monetary help from the international-aid pens when another generation, not nearly ance-of-payments accounts-the figures agency, may now not only a.cquire a new so pragmatic, comes to power-or seizes It simply do not gibe, and what's worse, it is anti-Israel trend but also get a new forcefully? What happens If more doctri­ obvious that the government's poltcy of al­ member-the Palestine Liberation Organiza­ naire Arab politicians take power-or lowing the Arabs secrecy in their American tion. The Saudis for some time have de­ Moslem fanatics, as in the 1969 revolution investments has led to a pronounced dearth manded that the IMF give observer status in Libya, which brought the fanatic Qaddafi of knowledge on exactly how much Arab to the PLO, and it is a virtual certainty that to power? Secondly, how does the United money is now in the American economy. they will now use their new clout in the States government propose to ensure that One interesting indication of how far this international organization to bring in the the Arab billions are not used to force lack of knowledge extends occurred during PLO. When that happens, the potential for changes in American foreign policy, in a the hostage crisis, when Treasury Depart­ mischief is nearly incalculable. blackman operation similar to the one that ment officials, under orders to freeze Irani­ There has also been some unwelcome pub­ caused such drastic increases in oil prices? an assets in this country, tried to find out Hetty Over billion and ties with the banking community other Americans also badly affected and above that, Khashoggi has been very in nineteen countries, including the United by the twin maladies of high interest busy in American economics. By 1976 he States. rates and double-digit unemployment. had fifty-three subsidiaries operating under There is no pending government investiga­ the umbrella of his Triad Holding Corpora­ tion of what obviously are the serious impli­ [From the Goshen News, Mar. 20, 19821 tion, based in Luxembourg for tax reasons. cations of PLO investments in American GET TO WORK corporations. For that matter, with the ex­ Armed with all that oil money, he bought Congressman John Hiler is giving himS'elf the controlling interest in the National ception of a few congressional subcommit­ tees, there are no investigations at all into and other members of Congress a spanking Bank of Walnut Creek, Calif. ; a Japanese steak house in San Fran­ even a good monitoring system to determine just how much foreign money is coming into parently Federal Reserve Board Chairman cisco; a Colorado manufacturer of truck Paul Volcker thinks so too, and right now trailers; a $250-million business complex in this country-recently, the Commerce De­ partment admitted that its compilation of Volcker is one of the most important men in Salt Lake City; and the largest stockholding Washington. in an Arizona cattle operation. Khashoggi total foreign investments in this country was collected from newspaper clippings, Volcker told some congressmen this week had one brush of trouble with the U.S. Jus­ that "nothing is more urgent in these tice Department, which wanted to know meaning that the government really hasn't the foggiest notion. coming weeks than for Congress and the ad­ about his dealings with various American ministration to reach a consensus of how to arms manufacturers, including a $45-million Not that the Commerce Department-and the rest of the federal government-is losing deal with that budget problem. "fee" for helping to arrange the sale by "Nothing would be more effective for in­ Lockheed to Saudi Arabia of an $850-million much sleep over the problem. Plainly, there continues to be a policy of covert encourage­ suring an early recovery." And Volcker went arms contract. needs the stimulus of outside investment. Besides, as the Commerce Department high interest rates will not come down for • • • • • never tires of arguing, foreign investors are the short term unless lenders see credible What controls was the American govern­ prohibited from investing in certain "sensi­ progress on narrowing the red-ink gap. ment instituting to make sure that more tive" American businesses, including the Hiler isn't too happy about the slow pace banks would not be taken over by Arabs? aerospace and defense industries. But that of government. Most newly elected govern­ None; as a matter of fact, the government assumes the American government has a ment officials have problems coping with behind the scenes has encouraged even good idea of just where the foreign money is the slow and usually ineffective way our greater Arab investment, which is in turn going; the evidence is persuasive that it does government deals with problems. On Friday aided by help from the American business not.e Hiler announced that he and 38 other fresh­ establishment-in the Detroit bank deal, man Republican congressmen introduced the John Connally law firm handled the legislation to cancel the House of Repre­ legal end, which in turn brought forth into HIGH INTEREST RATES sentatives' Easter recess in April, spending play a wide range of establishment-connect­ the time instead on the budget. That sounds ed contacts who also helped. For much the like a fine idea but veteran members of Con­ same reason, there was not a flicker of in­ HON. JOHN HILER gress aren't likely to go along with this pro­ terest from the government when the OF INDIANA posal. Saudis bought a 37 .6-percent share of a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Hiler says, "As of March 17. 75 days have Houston industrial contractor, nor was already passed in 1982. Yet Congress has there any interest when the Kuwaitis Wednesday, March 24, 1982 met in session less than 25 times and consid­ bought 16 percent of Reynolds Securities, • Mr. HILER. Mr. Speaker, 53 of my ered but a handful of issues, none of which Inc. concern for our lack of action on the At last count, there were some five or six • • • • • fiscal year 1983 budget cannot be "plans" for the 1983 fiscal year budget, in­ There is another even more ominous de­ found beyond these Chambers, they cluding the White House budget submitted velopment: the Palestine Liberation Organi­ are badly mistaken. The millions of Feb. 8. Economists are concerned that a zation has begun to invest in American cor­ Americans now suffering from high in­ budget impasse might cause more problems porations. The investments, carried out in terest rates and the unemployment it for the economy. the greatest secrecy and currently on a low helps cause want action by this Con­ We have had enough political oratory on scale, are part of a $100-million PLO invest­ gress now. Not make-work, dead-end the budget, taxes, federal spending, etc. It's ment venture that seeks to raise funds for time for action. The Republican leadership the organization and sever the lifeline now Government jobs, but real jobs that has duly informed the president that he extended primarily by Saudi Arabia . The PLO portfolio includes in- northern Indiana's leading daily news- spending is essential if we are to make much 5432 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 headway in cutting the budget deficit, and fellow California conservative, and where it which his forefathers fought. What is that the president isn't keen on cutting military should be heading from here. cause? It is the basis upon which our nation spending. But Rep. Clausen has daisies on his mind. was founded, it is the force which holds it The problem, of course, that causes most He writes seeking support for a bill he has together through all its trials, it is freedom. of the delays Hiler talks about is that our introduced to establish the Luther Burbank For more than two hundred years, men members of Congress put politics ahead of Shasta Daisy as the national flower. great and small have contributed to the statemanship. A good example that should Though his passion for daisies can't com­ building of our America. George Washing­ be deplored is a recent statement by House pare with the eloquence Sen. Everett Dirk­ ton, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln­ Speaker Tip O'Neill that there was no sen used to expend on marigolds, that is not all of our great leaders have strived to unite chance in the world for Social Security revi­ the reason we won't support his bill. us, to free us, to teach us, and to defend us. sions unless the president first proposed What's worrying us is, if he and his fellow We are the body of America-those who them. "The onus," said O'Neill, "is not congressmen don·~ get on with matters of follow faithfully rather than lead, those going to be on the Democrats." more consequence than daisies and pota­ who "do the dirty work" rather than wear O'Neill also has been making all sorts of toes, the feeling of uncertainty in the coun­ the white gloves. Without the common man statements about the Reagan budget defi­ try will be prolonged, and so will high inter­ there would be no leaders and no America. cits. But O'Neill has been the man in power est and high unemployment. It is the common man with his diverse back­ in the House that has approved big budget Rep. John Hiler's reaction to this procras­ ground, his unshakeable faith in his God, deficits for years, long before Reagan ar­ tinating is to call for keeping Congress in and his willingness to risk even what he rived on the scene. session over Easter. That's a good idea, if holds most dear who has built America. He Everyone knows that there must be some there's some prospect of getting action on is, in fact, the stuff of which America is reduction in entitlement increases in this the budget. built-the two-by-fours, the bricks, the nation. And four House Democrats recently Maybe Hiler and the other Republican mortar. had the courage to propose such changes freshmen can shame the leadership to get America's 205 years have been filled with that would give recipients 75 percent of moving. On the other hand, Washington is growth and change. Her floors have rocked their cost-of-living increases savings billions pleasanter than many parts of the country with the blasts of war; her timbers have of dollars. Good for them. "Wonder what at Eastertime. If the lawmakers stay for the creaked with the pains of growing up. Still O'Neill thinks of those Democrats? Presi­ golf and flowers, that's no help to the rest she survives, because her builders have pa­ dent Reagan has been reluctant to make of us. Better than that would be for them to tiently laid the foundation of joy and concrete proposals because he draws so come home to the districts and hear what sorrow, blood, sweat and tears. They have much flak from the Democrats each time he people have on their minds. It isn't daisies.e learned to stand up for what is right; they brings up the subject. But he better endorse have come to rely on themselves for entitlement changes too. Both parties strength. Most of all, they have learned to should share the blast that will come from CASSIE L. JACOB, VOICE OF come together and face challenges as one. senior citizens. AMERICA CONTEST WINNER They know the value of education. and they The time has come for some soul search­ appreciate the value of the gifts their ing by the president and the members of nation has given them. Congress. The American people elected HON. JAMIE L. WHITIEN Many Americans today are frightened; them to serve and to operate our govern­ they fear that the roof over their heads is ment to the best of their ability, not play OF MISSISSIPPI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES about to fall in. Russia threatens our securi­ politics and try to save their own jobs. ty with nuclear weapons; the Middle East Americans deserve some action in the halls Wednesday, March 24, 1982 threatens our lifestyles with ever-rising oil of Washington, D.C. All our political leaders Mr. WHITTEN. Mr. Speaker, each prices; we threaten ourselves with our prej­ must be willing to compromise if a reasona­ e udices, our selfishness, and our indifference. ble budget is adopted, Americans are ready year the Veterans of Foreign Wars Some of the builders are lying down on the and waiting. and its Ladies Auxiliary conduct a job. Others are concerned only with person­ Voice of America contest. This year al gain. America's foundations are set deep [From the Elkhart Truth, Mar. 22, 19821 more than 250,000 secondary school in the rich soil of her ideals, though; as long HIDING IN THE DAISIES students participated in this exempla­ as she believes in herself and her abilities, We try, each week Congress is in session, ry contest under the theme, "Building the job will go on. to tell readers how their senators and repre­ America Together." The statements of We truly are building America together. sentatives vote on important bills, under the Each day brings us closer to the attainment heading "Congress on Record." Last week the students in this contest serve as testimony to the value the youth of of our goals, and each question answered we skipped it, because we couldn't find any­ presents new challenges to explore. America thing significant that Congress had done. our Nation place in our demo'!racy and is a nation of thinkers, workers, dreamers, The Senate spent its time debating the in our country's ideals. and teachers-and together we can create a fate of Sen. Harrison Williams but never got I am extremely proud, Mr. Speaker, better life for an .• on record, as Williams resigned. Highlights that the winning speech from the in the House were a unanimous vote in State of Mississippi was delivered by favor of Afghanistan Day and a change in Miss Cassie Lynn Jacob, a constituent SPACE WAR-THERE IS STILL the rules for the National Potato Promotion TIME TO PREVENT IT Board. from Clarksdale, Miss. Cassie is a 15- Meanwhile the financial markets hang in year-old sophmore at Clarksdale High suspense over what Congress will do about School where she has exhibited an the 1983 budget. Interest rates are staying outstanding record and been the recip­ HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. higher than they should, considering the ient of many awards of excellence. OF CALIFORNIA drop in inflation, because investors don't It is my great pleasure, Mr. Speaker, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES know what may happen next. Will taxes be to submit Cassie's inspirational speech Wednesday, March 24, 1982 raised? Will spending go up? What about to the RECORD. the deficit? Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Congressional leaders spend their time VFW VOICE OF DEMOCRACY SCHOLARSHIP e blowing hot air into trial balloons, and PROGRAM WINNER, CASSIE L. JACOB Speaker, in recent weeks there has watching them deflate. As time passes, the The rising sun sparkles on the golden been a deluge of articles about space stronger the chances that the 1983 budget wheat in the field as a farmer in faded over­ weapons and the threat of U.S.S.R. will sink into stalemate. With uncertainty alls surveys his crop. In the brisk morning military superiority in space. Most holding back the economy, House and air a fisherman drags his nets aboard his Members know that these articles are Senate leaders refuse to set a direction. little boat while the fog rolls around him. In highly speculative, and that there is at What are the other congressmen doing the hill country of West Virginia a coal least as much concern in the Soviet meanwhile? Well, we've received a letter miner walks uphill to begin his day's labor Union about U.S. intentions in outer from Rep. Don Clausen. Rep. Clausen is a with his lunch pail clanking against his leg. conservative Republican from California This is America-the pride of the common space as there is in the United States with long tenure in the House-someone man as he performs his tasks, the laugh of a concerning Soviet intentions. who might be expected to have given some child as he plays in the autumn leaves, and As with most new weapons systems thought to how the country is doing in the the faith of the soldier in the goodness of or forms of warfare, one cannot be second year of the administration of a that cause for which he fights and for sure of how it would develop. We can March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5433 be sure that the concept of superiority The confusion over the actual state of af­ Large-scale commitment would require a is transient, and almost certain to fairs is not limited to the press: not even second policy decision: whether or not to any two government studies can agree on create a new operation branch of the armed become outdated. We can also be sure the level of technology or the requirement services for space warfare. Why? Currently that attempts to develop military su­ for national strategy and policy. Quoting the DoD is no better equipped than NASA periority in space will be extremely White House officials, Clarence A. Robin­ to run an operational space system. DoD's costly, and may be the ultimate arms son, Jr., recently wrote in Aviation Week: space operations are currently run out of race. "Basing defense weapons in space, especial­ the Space Division of the Air Force Systems All is not hopeless, however. Space is ly beam weapons, is a continuing topic of Command-a research and development already well developed for peaceful controversy polarizing Pentagon and service wing. All other operational military systems uses. Even the military and intelli­ officials, physicists and engineers as per­ have their specific command: Strategic Air gence uses of space are generally haps no subject since the emergence of the Command, Tactical Air Command, and the peaceful and benign. But we are on U.S. and USSR as nuclear superpowers." like. If the DoD makes a policy decision to the threshold of a major weaponiza­ The controversy is fuelled by apprehen­ commit to a larger role in space, it would sion over the intelligence that the U.S.S.R. probably create a Space Command. tion of space-and an unnecessary and already has tested killer satellites in orbit 18 avoidable arms race in space. times with 11 successes, and has an oper­ Such an operation space command would Mr. Speaker, we have opportunities ational antisatellite capability, making U.S. need its own basic policy defining its pur­ to prevent this development. This spacecraft in low earh orbit vulnerable to pose and roles: would it be strategic. tacti­ June, there will be the Second Special attack. According to Robert Fossum, former cal, or both? So far most of the uses for Session on Disarmament at the United director of the Defense Advanced Research space-based weapons discussed in the popu­ Projects Agency . whoever con­ lar press have centered on their strategic Nations. On the agenda will be the uses, such as ballistic concept of an international peacekeep­ trols space will be able to direct the shape of events on earth-even who has access to missile defense. But laser weapons would also be potent tactical de­ als for verifying arms control. The The arguments in Washington, D.C. are fenses-indeed, their tactical uses are prob­ United States should embrace this op­ no longer centering on whether or not space ably simpler and could be operational portunity and support initiatives to weapons are feasible, but whether or not within the 1980's. limit and reverse the arms race, both compared to other weapons they are eco­ As tactical weapons lasers could stand as on the Earth and in the space around nomical. Remarked one observer: "is it cost­ space "sentries," guarding our assets al­ it. effective to put up a one-billion-dollar 'zap­ ready in space. The survivability of our sat­ Another opportunity will arise at sat' when an enemy can knock it down with ellites is of grave concern, and measures are the Second United Nations Conference a hundred-million-dollar homing missile?" already being taken to harden their surfaces But even the cost-effectiveness arguments to make them more resistant to lasers. or on the Peaceful Uses and Exploration miss (indeed, often obscure> the central making their sensors less susceptible to of Outer Space to run an Force, Navy and defense contractors. have received wide public attention. Calling operational shuttle system. The question space "the new high ground" of modern lying ahead is: now that we have Space The whole history of past conflicts-par­ warfare, numerous articles in publications Shuttle technology, will the U.S. commit to ticularly bitter lessons such as Vietnam­ ranging from Aviation Week & Space Tech­ building a larger fleet than the nominal has shown that the course of an interna­ nology to general interest magazines have four already planned? Will the DoD contin­ tional engagement is determined not by depicted guided warheads homing in on un­ ue to "charter" needed flights from NASA weapons alone, but by an interaction of friendly satellites while laser battle stations or will it build up its own dedicated fleet of technology, tactics and policy. Technologi­ in orbit wield laser or particle-beam "death Shuttles ... or take over the entire oper­ cal capability and economics obviously influ­ rays" at the speed of light to destroy ballis­ ation of the Shuttle? ence policy-but the reverse is equally true. tic missiles rising off the earth-all of it The principal policy question is a question Danger lies in obscuring policy questions by often likened to Buck Rogers or Star Wars of scale. If the DoD wants to maintain its technical and economic arguments. One coming true. current relatively modest commitment to must even question whether some negative A somewhat smaller number of articles of space-with communications, weather and technical arguments, such as those ad­ more sober tone, such as those by Kosta reconnaissance satellites simply supple­ vanced by Kosta Tsipis, are selectively in­ Tsipis in Scientific American, have argued menting the main military activities on voked to try to prevent "thinking the un­ to the contrary: that directed energy weap­ land, sea and air-then expendable boosters thinkable"-a laudable aim, but one that ons such as lasers and particle beams have are cheaper than the Shuttle. But if the works only when all parties concerned feel inherent technical limitations that would DoD intends to commit to active control of the same end is unthinkable. Something, prevent them from being built on the scale the space "high ground," such as building such as space warfare, that is truly unthink­ required, or even if technically feasible they laser battle stations in orbit, it will need the able but technically possible should be pre­ would be prohibitively expensive, and that capacious cargo bay and lifting power of the vented by hardnosed negotiation and verifi­ in any case they would be vulnerable to cer­ shuttle to boost the materials into orbit, cation of treaties-not cloaked in silence in tain relatively straightforward countermeas­ and the remote manipulator arm to assem­ the hope that by refusing to acknowledge ures. ble them there. its existence it will go away. 5434 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 We can no longer afford to commit the sin to teach our partners to pronounce The Knights of Columbus is an of omission of assuming that an absence of rec-i-proc-i-ty in English, and to under­ international organization of Roman policy is de facto a policy of absence. stand it. Catholic men founded by Father Mi­ The mind's eye can almost see him chael McGivney in 1882 to supply in­ PROMISCUOUS TRADE BINGE: standing at a lecturn at the front of a surance benefits to Catholic families. CAN BALDRIGE END IT? class in thej,Ministry of International Today, it is one of the largest frater­ Trade and' Industry in Tokyo saying, nal organizations helping the handi­ "All together now: R-e-c-i-p-r-o-c-i-t-y; capped and needy and sponsoring reli­ HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS rec-i-proc-i-ty, a mutual exchange of gious, welfare, and educational pro­ OF PENNSYLVANIA privileges." grams. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In addition, the Secretary said in Mr. Speaker, it gives me great per­ Pittsburgh last week that he does not sonal pleasure to salute the Knights of Wednesday, March 24, 1982 want a negotiated settlement that Columbus on this anniversary of their e Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, the would stop the current steel dumping lOOth year. I am grateful to Mr. result of free trade as it has been prac­ and subsidy cases, and that existing Edward A. Ronaghan, Grand Knight ticed by the United States is not trade laws will be enforced to the full­ of the Farmingdale Council No. 2204, unlike the result of free group love­ est extent. for informing me of this special occa­ when the transactions are over, we Compared to· U.S. trade policy of the sion. I am confident that he and the know we have been had, but we are past, this is bold, and as a 16th centu­ other members of the Farmingdale not sure by whom, or how badly. ry Italian writer advised: Council will continue to maintain this Furthermore, the benefit is only Boldness is good in all things, and nothing very fine tradition of community serv­ transitory, our partners are not always which is done well is done doubtfully and ice and humanitarian activity.e considerate and the consequences can fearfully. be far-reaching. Doubt and fear and meekness have And they do not respect us in the been problems in regard to trade. FORMER REPUBLICAN VICE- next quarter, either. Therefore, I worry that the emerg­ PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Only in matters of trade do I speak WILLIAM E. MILLER LOOKS AT ing attitude may not be bold enough. THE DEFENSE BUDGET from experience, Mr. Speaker, but in Perhaps there should be more official trade I speak from the experience of a discussion of the proven character political lifetime. modifiers: quotas and import surcharg­ In trade, we have given promiscuous es to offset subsidies. The former have HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE and careless access to the biggest, given pressed industries time to recov­ OF NEW YORK richest market in the world; and we er from subsidized and targeted at­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have asked little and received virtually tacks in the past, and the latter can nothing in return. Wednesday, March 24, 1982 balance unfairly gained advantage • Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, I would My remarks are couched in the past that has become institutionalized. tense, Mr. Speaker, because I hope we like to bring to the attention of our are beginning to think about forging a Nevertheless, Mr. Baldridge and colleagues remarks made recently by those in the Government who are con­ William E. Miller, the 1964 Republican new attitude for ourselves and for our cerned with the trade war being waged trading partners. Vice-Presidential candidate, in an In his recent public remarks, Secre­ on the United States are showing the interview reported in the Lockport tary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige right instincts. Union Sun and Journal. Mr. Miller has been outspoken in proposing new And Congress should do all it can, echoes the words of President Eisen­ bylaws for our no-longer-happy including passage of a reciprocity law, hower, who warned this Nation of the menage-a-trade. to encourage and help them in this rise of a military-industrial complex Mr. Baldrige is very close to explain­ effort to raise up and restore to virtue which could dominate defense policy ing trade to the Europeans and the a pathetic example of the excesses of despite the constitutional doctrine of Japanese in the terms used almost two careless trade.e civilian rule of our Nation's Armed decades ago by a clear-thinking British Forces. official, R. A. Butler, when he said: THE lOOTH ANNIVERSARY OF In the interview, Mr. Miller voices It takes two to make love and two part­ THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS his concern that "• • • there is too ners to make trade agreements work. Unre­ much fraud, cronyism, and waste in quited trade ... pays no better than unre­ the military-industrial complex • • ... quited love. HON. GREGORY W. CARMAN Mr. Miller offers the B-1 bomber, a And this is an attitude I endorse. OF NEW YORK weapons system that I have consist­ While I do not agree with all that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ently opposed, as an example of how Secretary Baldridge does-I think he weapons systems often acquire a is too hesitant to discuss the proven Wednesday, March 24, 1982 raison d'etre which bear no relation­ character modifiers like quotas-he is • Mr. CARMAN. Mr. Speaker, on ship to our Nation's legitimate defense nevertheless the highest U.S. official March 29, 1982 the Knights of Colum­ needs. Improvements in Soviet air de­ in a long time to persistently point to bus will be celebrating their lOOth an­ fenses, and the anticipated deploy­ the harm that careless trade is doing niversary. The members of this excel­ ment of the Stealth bomber make de­ to workers and to the Nation; and to lent organization should be very proud velopment of the B-1 a highly suspect suggest that our partners' use of subsi­ of their exceptional heritage and out­ undertaking at best. Yet the adminis­ dies and sales below cost and market standing record of service to the tration has asked the Congress to au­ protection are not to be tolerated. church and the community. thorize the expenditure of over $4 bil­ He also recognizes that the difficulty Over the years I have had frequent lion for the B-1 in its fiscal year 1983 with Japan is far deeper than the fail­ contact with the Knights of Columbus budget request. ure of Americans to learn to speak and their very worthwhile projects. I Mr. Speaker, as we continue to Japanese, which the habitual practi­ consider myself privileged to live in a debate the budget in the hope that tioners of careless trade say is a big community served by such a dedicated the President will cease his stand-firm reason we cannot sell there. and committed organization. Their rhetoric and enter into a constructive While I may not agree with all Mr. leadership and devotion to their fellow dialog with us to reduce the projected Baldridge says, he is putting the em­ man have been an inspiration and en­ deficit and restore balance to our Na­ phasis on the right syllables in trying couragement to us all. tion's spending priorities, I believe March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5435 that all of our colleagues will benefit there right now for countries which have Therefore. Congress should scrutinize the from Mr. Miller's counsel. I am includ­ nuclear weapons to destroy world civiliza· Pentagon budget on a line-by-line basis to tion. The problem, he said, has to do with cut the fat to the bone. It can be done.e ing at this point in the RECORD the ar­ the high technology, known only to a few, ticle reporting Mr. Miller's remarks, which surrounds defense, often shrouding and an accompanying editorial in the military-industrial complex in mystery. which the Lockport Union Sun and "Can anyone really give us an answer to RECOGNITION OF MRS. CAMPBELL AND MRS. HILL Journal endorses Mr. Miller's conclu­ how much defense we need?" ~iller asked sion that the proposed $240 billion de­ rhetorically. fense budget can be trimmed without With the weapons now available to Russia weakening our Nation's defense capa­ and the U.S., he wonders "if there would be HON. DOUGLAS APPLEGATE bility. enough people in the world left to rebuild OF OHIO it," if a war ever started. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES [From the Lockport Union Sun and ~iller, who once served as national Re­ Journal.~ar.4, 19821 publican chairman and also chairman of the Wednesday, March 24, 1982 ~ILLER BLASTS HUGE DEFENSE BUDGET; SAYS GOP Congressional Campaign Committee, e Mr. APPLEGATE. Mr. Speaker, I IT CAN BE CUT and who in 1945 was assistant prosecutor of would like to take this opportunity to Nazi war criminals during the famous trials at Nuremberg, Germany, emphasized the recognize two constituents of mine, ~any areas in President Reagan's pro­ Mrs. Robert R. Campbell, Jr., and Mrs. posed defense budget could be cut without importance of a strong economy above all. endangering our country, says former Re­ "You cannot wage successful war unless Ann Hill, both of East Liverpool, Ohio. publican vice presidential candidate William you have a strong and secure economy," he Due to their willingness to get in­ said. E. ~iller, a Lockportian, who, though re­ volved, a young man's life was saved. ~iller, also a veteran attorney and a On January 25, 1982, Mrs. Campbell tired from the political arena, doesn't miss a former chairman of the Niagara Frontier stitch when it comes to following national Transporation Authority, said he does not and Mrs. Hill were driving through the politics. in the least miss politics, and prefers to East Liverpool Cemetery when they ~er, a longtime congressman from this spend time with his family, living in a spotted a young man lying on the district, who ran on the ticket with Barry healthful way and keeping fit. ground. At first they thought he was Goldwater in the 1964 presidential and vice dead, but found he was nearly frozen. presidential race, said in a recent interview, [From the Lockport Union Sun and "There must be many areas in that defense Mrs. Campbell went to the cemetery Journal, ~ar. 6, 19821 budget that could be cut without seriously caretaker's house and told him to call damaging our military program." ~ILLER'S DEFENSE REMARKS WELL TAKEN the police. Shortly thereafter the ~iller, trim and fit at 67, offered strong When William E. ~iller of Lockport was police and ambulance arrived and took approval of most of President Reagan's ef­ in Washington, he was very much "a guy in the boy to the hospital. Medical au­ forts to get the faltering United States econ­ the know." And it was not too many years thorities reported that if Mrs. Camp­ omy back on its feet. "I think he's done ex­ ago that he was not only a part of the Cap­ bell and Mrs. Hill had not insisted for tremely well," ~iller said of Reagan, when itol Hill scene, but an integral part of it. asked to evaluate his overall performance. Consequently, his well-reasoned remarks help for the boy, he would have frozen But the veteran politician and staunch of the other day, that the proposed $240 bil­ to death. But through their efforts Republican does not feel the same way lion defense budget, submitted to the Con­ and because they cared, this young about Reagan's proposed defense budget. gress by President Reagan, can be trimmed man is alive today. He said that is the one thing that worries without seriously affecting America's ability Mrs. Campbell's and Mrs. Hill's ac­ him about the president's policies. Although to defend itself, should be taken seriously. tions as concerned citizens and caring ~iller feels a strong national defense is im­ When you come down to the nitty-gritty, people are an inspiration for us all.e perative, he is afraid the military, industrial if Washington means business about making complex is not being monitored carefully major revisions in the budget to substantial­ enough. ly curb the anticipated $90-billion-plus defi­ He acknowledged that this has been an cit in 1982-83, defense is basically where the JOB SERVICE PROGRAM CUTS ongoing concern, and was brought to the money is going to have to come from. country's attention by former President Ei­ Responsible people should take ~iller se­ senhower, himself a general, when he was riously when he speaks of the "fraud, crony­ HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. ism and waste in the military-industrial leaving office. OF KENTUCKY "I fear there is too much fraud, cronyism complex" because he knew the score when and waste in the military-industrial com­ he was in Washington and, in those days, it IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES plex," ~iller said. "Eisenhower warned us was just beginning. Today it has reached Wednesday, March 24, 1982 against it a long time ago." proportions probably beyond the compre­ ~ilitary contractors, ~iller explained, can hension of those leaders of the late 1950s e Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, become "entrenched," once hired by the De­ and early 1960s. Brenda Stone of Henderson, Ky., in a fense Department. Fraud, waste and dupli­ But ~iller's point about scrapping plans recent letter to me, details how Feder­ cation in other federally-run programs, are for the B-1 bomber, because it may become al budget cuts have affected the abili­ "nothing compared to what there is in the obsolete before it is airborne, is well taken. ty of her office to deliver service to military," ~iller commented. And this is only one area where major those in need of a job. I believe that He explained the problem. Generals who budget reductions could be made. There are my constituent's letter is one which retire, he said, are often in demand for posi­ others of course. tions with defense contractors. Since We were especially interested in Defense should be shared with my colleagues they've worked for the Defense Depart­ Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger's remark and I wish to do so at this time: ment, they have what ~iller termed "en­ to the Armed Services Committee that a $10 DEAR REPRESENTATIVE HUBBARD: As a Ken· trees" into the inner circles, and are helpful billion cut from defense spending will mean tucky Department for Human Resources in securing lucrative contracts for the de­ 350,000 people could be deprived of jobs. employee, I am concerned about the impact fense contractors, as you might expect. This is faulty reasoning. And, if it is on this that budget cuts are having on the state Job ~iller pointed to cost overruns on many basis that our defense planners have operat­ Service programs. contracts the defense department enters ed over the years, it stands as one of the I have been a state employee for the past into and said they are not justified. reasons the nation's fiscal condition is in 11 years and until this past fiscal year, I ~iller zeroed in on the B-1 bomber as a the perilous state it is today. have never experienced the turmoil that we project that it may not be sensible to begin Defense necessities should not be tied to as state employees have had to go through. developing, because another type of jobs. Defense spending should be geared The tension, morale and lay offs that we bomber, the Stealth Bomber, which is re­ only to the areas required to maintain have faced have undoubtedly affected our puted to be able to "penetrate Soviet radar" America's superiority in technological weap· work performance and now we are facing may "make the B-1 obsolete." If the B-1 is onry and an adequate force for conventional another obstacle in reducing our budget. going to be obsolete, he said, there's no real contingencies. ~ulti-billion dollar aircraft I have always been a dedicated employee, sense in spending money to develop it. carriers which could be blown out of the working above and beyond my responsibil­ He also used the now familiar word, "over­ water by one N-blast do not measure up to ities that were required within my job and kill" or, in other words, the potentiality is this criteria. now I ask why? The public is in more need

89-059 0 - 85 - 44 Part 4 5436 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 now than ever before for our services that THE SOVIET GRAIN EMBARGO­ It is inherent in the composition of U.S. are available, e.g., Work Incentive Program VI exports to the USSR that agriculture and , CETA classroom training programs, especially grain is singled out by such an employer relations representatives, job action. In recent years, our agricultural ex­ search and job development, etc. HON. PAUL FINDLEY ports, mostly grains, have been about 80 At present, our office staff has been re­ percent of our total exports to the USSR in duced drastically and we only have one full OF ILLINOIS value terms. time employment interviewer to serve our IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES As a result, a general trade embargo is es­ sentially a grain embargo. A few large U.S. local office area and with the employment Wednesday, March 24, 1982 rate so drastically high, the people are companies, but no major industries apart e Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, in from agriculture, transport and farm suppli­ coming into this office in such great num­ ers would be seriously endangered by a gen­ bers, those of us who are working special recent days, I have shared with my colleagues the summary and first four eral economic embargo. The ultimate ef­ programs, such as myself, are having to ne­ fects, of course, would spread throughout glect our programs to help on intake. Is this chapters of a National Corn Growers the economy as shown in Section 3. fair? Association report entitled "Effects of Indirect, intangible, and future effects of I feel my job, working for the WIN pro­ the 1980 and 1981 Limitations on both the 1980 action and its unofficial re­ gram, plays a very important part in the Grain Exports to the U.S.S.R. on Busi­ sumption in 1982 have far reaching implica­ state Job Service. If I have to neglect my ness Activity, Jobs, Government Costs, tions for the U.S. job, then I'm neglecting not just a programs and Farmers." The U.S. has become the residual instead but people's needs. That report has clearly shown the of the principal supplier of agricultural No one seems to really understand our sit­ devastating effect that the last grain products to the Soviet Union. uation unless you experience the operation embargo had on our Nation's econo­ The U.S. may export only very small ton­ of a local Job Service office. nages or perhaps no grain at all to the my. Considering the minimal damage USSR in some future years under certain Please understand our needs. done to the Soviet Union, I think it is economic and political conditions. Respectfully, now clear that this approach to for­ It will be very difficult to negotiate a fa­ BRENDA STONE.• eign policy is ill advised under all but vorable U.S.-USSR grain agreement in view the most hostile conditions. of export availabilities from other countries. Even President Reagan, in a speech Encouraged both by an expanding world ASSOCIATION OF BLACK to agricultural editors earlier this grain market in the 1970's and by U.S. "stop WOMEN LAWYERS and go" export policies, other exporting week, acknowledged the futility of this countries have increased both their trans­ effort, saying: port and loading capabilities and their grain The bottom line is that the Soviet embar­ production. HON. JAMES J. HOWARD go was bad for our farmers: Bad for our A general trade embargo banning the OF NEW JERSEY economy, but not that bad for the aggres­ export of U.S. goods to the Soviet Union in sors we were supposedly going to punish 1982 would almost inevitably cut off or seri­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Further, the President stated that ously reduce this trade for many years. Wednesday, March 24, 1982 future actions of this sort will be un­ Such an action would be inherently an action whose direct impacts would fall prin­ • Mr. HOWARD. Mr. Speaker, while dertaken only as a part of a complete cipally on the farm sector and allied indus­ State bar associations frequently spon­ embargo and only if we have the coop­ tries, since most of our exports to the USSR sor swearing-in ceremonies before the eration of other nations so that we do are of farm origin. U.S. Supreme Court, March 8 marked not end up hurting ourselves while If such an action prevented the shipment doing little harm to those we are of 24 mmt or 945 mil. bu. of corn over three the first time the Association of Black trying to influence. years, plus 12 mmt or 441 mil. bu. of wheat Women Lawyers of New Jersey spon­ For those who would counsel the use and 3 mmt or 110 mil. bu. of soybeans sored such an event. of limitations on farm product trade in before it could be ended in 1985, the Association president, Dolores overall economic costs would be as shown in the future to influence Soviet behav­ the table below. Pegram Wilson, Esq., of Freehold, ior, let me share the final chapter of N.J., and Ceremony Chairperson Pa­ the NCGA report. This chapter deals IMPACT OF LOST EXPORTS TO U.S.S.R. IN 1982-85 ON THE tricia E. Fleming, Esq., coordinated with the probable costs of future em­ U.S. ECONOMY plans for the ceremony and the Hon­ bargoes. It will, I hope, prompt anyone orable James H. Coleman, Jr., who sits to think twice before calling for ac­ Nationwide losses in- in the appellate division of the Superi­ tions that so cripple our own economy. Output Personal or Court of New Jersey, moved the ad­ 5. PROBABLE COSTS OF MAINTAINING THE (millions) Employment (Man-years) income missions before the Court. PRESENT DE FACTO EMBARGO OR OF AN OFFI­ (millions) Participating in the ceremony were CIAL EMBARGO ON U.S. EXPORTS TO THE USSR, 1982-85. Corn $16.588 458,346 $4.365 the following individuals: Betty J. Wheat 11.474 302.731 3,260 Lester, presiding judge, municipal Since early January, 1982, the Reagan Ad­ Soybeans ...... 4,814 124.740 1.368 ministration has been considering a general Total... .. court, Newark; Robert B. Brennan, embargo against exportation of any U.S. 32,876 885,817 8,993 judge, municipal court, Newark; Sever­ products to the USSR and possibly to iano Lisboa III, judge, municipal Poland and other countries of E. Europe, to court, Jersey City; Marva A. Allen, be applied under unspecified political condi­ • Esq.; Robert D. Herpst, Esq.; Moon­ tions. These are generally thought to be: more serious repressions in Poland than FREEDOM FLOWERS yene S. Jackson, Esq.; Andrea P. M. took place in late 1981 and January 1982; or Johnson, Esq.; Althear A. Lester, Esq.; (b) failure to lift martial law and to begin to Constance S. McAllister, Esq.; Stanley restore certain rights to the Polish people at HON. JIM SANTINI J. Rand, Esq.; and Gloria E. Soto, Esq. an early date. OF NEVADA The President and others in the govern­ In addition to members of the New IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jersey Bar, participants included at­ ment have repeatedly stated: that such an action would be taken only if it could not Wednesday, March 24, 1982 torneys from Airco, Inc., of New be avoided; and that agriculture will not Jersey, the New York Bar, the Penn­ be singled out in any trade sanctions against e Mr. SANTINI. Mr. Speaker, the sylvania Bar and the Hispanic Bar As­ the Soviet Union. Both these conditions are martial law crisis in Poland has stirred sociation of New Jersey.e ambiguous, since the President can avoid many hearts in the United States. Our such an action if he chooses, and because own heritage, based on the struggle agriculture eventually will bear most of the for human rights and freedom, closely costs of such an action. parallels that of the Polish people as March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5437 they try to wrest themselves from the sponsibility than ever before by estab­ company has been able to earn a profit and grasp of Russian dominance. lishing social service programs and provide a fair return to thousands of share­ making charitable contributions. Avon holders. Meanwhile, we have provided American camaraderie with the growth opportunities for our employees and Polish people has taken many forms in Products, Inc., one of the leading cor­ independent sales representatives. these past weeks. Though the martial porations in the State of New York Yet, we recognize that the success of a law crackdown is only a few months and our country. has set a fine exam­ company should be measured not only by its old, many persons of Polish American ple for other corporations to follow. profits, but also by the degree of its concern descent have empathized in the Polish Avon's vice president of public af­ for the societies and environments in which struggle for much longer. In Nevada, a fairs, Mr. Robert R. McMillan, a con­ it functions. In this context, it is our firm Las Vegas resident who is proud to be stituent of mine, recently addressed belief that the pursuit of profit and the pur­ of Polish American background was the Children's Aid Society's 128th suit of social objectives are compatible inspired to write a song embodying the annual meeting and symposium, where goals. In fact, they make good business he outlined the many ways corpora­ sense. strength and determination of the Therefore, while financial contributions Polish people in this time of concern. tions can help. His address, entitled to not-for-profit organizations are an essen­ The song is written by Mrs. Joan Bald­ "Federal Budget Constraints and the tial element in business philanthropy. par­ win Zalewski were mixed. As we began to see paychecks and printing services. They can offer the grow a few dollars fatter, social programs use of a corporate facility to host a recep­ VERSE took it on the chin. Consumers rushed to tion so that corporate contributors can Years ago in Poland, red flags consumed the buy new tax-exempt savings certificates learn about the programs of nonprofit orga­ land. while many local governments struggled to nizations. Papa spoke of a garden, with flowers rare cope with reduced federal funding-from Matching gifts programs: Hundreds of and grand. aid to families with dependent children and companies have brought employees into the He said: "Grow up, my brave one. Grow school lunches to medical aid for the poor. process of grant-making. A matching gifts quickly as you can. Thus, Reagan is now looking to and invok­ Then find my special garden, when you program doubles the amount of money non­ ing a "spirit of volunteerism" to help bridge profit organizations can receive by having become a man." the gap created by the massive withdrawal corporations match donations made by their CHORUS I of funds from health and social programs. employees. The donations, in many cases, Go and find the freedom flowers, He has asked the private sector to take on extend beyond education to include health Plant them deep so they will grow. more responsibility for providing social serv­ areas such as United Way and cultural pro­ Shade them from the summer sun, ices. grams such as performing arts. Shelter them from winter snow. However, despite efforts in Congress and Scholarship programs: Many companies Harvest time will come, my son, elsewhere to encourage private giving, cor­ offer scholarship programs for children of In our land, 'twas ever so. porate officers and other experts on charity employees and others. We fund institutions Ah, how fair the freedom flowers! say that businesses, foundations, and indi­ of higher education and organizations that How I pray one day you'll know. vidual givers combined will be unable to provide scholarship programs for minorities, Kwiaty Wolno~ci, Dla Polski, Dla Polski. completely offset the federal cuts. women over the age 25 who are returning to Kwiaty Wolno~ci, Dla Polak6w, Dla Mnie. Funding for nonprofit organizations in school, and fellowships to women conduct­ CHORUS II the areas of social welfare, health, environ­ ing cancer research. I have found the freedom flowers ment, the arts, and government-financed Student internships: Such programs allow Blooming in the eyes of men. housing and food programs will be cut back by $135 billion over current spending students to receive an educational work ex­ They remember years gone by, perience and an understanding of the corpo­ Polish hearts were happy then! growth patterns during the next four years. In 1980, contributions to nonprofit groups rate perspective. Nonprofit agencies as well Harvest time will come, my friends, as corporations can take on summer interns. One day soon, I know not when. by companies and some 600 major company­ operated foundations totaled only $3.5 bil­ Joint ventures: One corporation serves as Guard them well, the freedom flowers, a catalyst in linking other corporations and 'Til my land is free again! lion. The difference between the amount of funds lost and the total corporate contribu­ foundations to support a common interest. Kwiaty Wolno~ci, Dla Polski, Dla Polski. For example: The New York Regional Asso­ Flowers of freedom, for Poland, for Poland. tion is of such dimensions that companies cannot possibly pick up the whole tab. ciation of Grantmakers has asked Avon to Kwiaty Wolno~ci, for my people, for me!e My purpose is not to debate the reasoning be a part of a group of corporations and or whether the curtailment of programs is foundations funding summer youth work IMPACT ON HUMAN SERVICES correct, but to deal with what is and to programs. focus on ways that corporations can help. Employee volunteerism: Most companies To begin, the situation is not hopeless. begin with the premise that people are their Last year, for the first time, corporate phi­ most important resource. Often what is HON.RAYMONDJ.McGRATH lanthropy edged ahead of nonprofit founda­ needed most to fill community requirements OF NEW YORK tion giving. are people with skills. compassion, and time. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A recent Conference Board survey of the Donatable merchandise: Where appropri­ ate, companies can donate merchandise to Wednesday, March 24, 1982 more than two million corporations in the United States estimates that fewer than 30 needy organizations. Each year Avon do­ • Mr. McGRATH. Mr. Speaker, one of percent reported making any charitable nates its "daily needs" products to homes the most effective ways to help solve contributions. However, we can look at this for the aged, children's homes, and hospi­ our country's economic problems is in another way. There is a challenge and op­ tals. through private sector initiative. In portunity for thousands of other companies While the above activities represent the this area, two extremely important to begin making philanthropic donations. many ways corporations can lend assistance Some door-to-door asking by charitable or­ in the "spirit of volunteerism," we must also factors emerge: The free enterprise ganizations is in order to get more compa­ be aware of the economic reality of our system of private capitalism and pri­ nies to give. world. We are in a recession. U.S. families vate good works. For example, at A von, we are keenly will be affected by federal budget cuts in President Reagan is calling upon aware that by offering quality merchandise the areas of food stamps, school lunch pro­ corporations to take on greater re- and using ethical marketing methods, our grams, aid for families with dependent chil- 5438 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 dren, public housing, and many other social unemployed marketable work skills. In addi­ serious issue of unemployment among service benefits. tion, attention will be given to retraining our country's youth. Corporations today need to monitor con­ laid off workers for jobs in other industries. tinuously the shifting trends and be adapta­ The CPETA will retain the current em­ Recently, William Raspberry wrote a ble to the needs of the current workforce. phasis of Federal programs on youth train­ column in the Washington Post which Business wants to be socially responsible. ing with special attention to minority youth highlights this outstanding program. There is no doubt that business will do more who are experiencing a combined unemploy­ In order to share it with my col­ and can do more. ment rate of 39.9 percent. The staggering leagues, I ask that the article be in­ However, corporations must take a closer number of displaced workers necessitates cluded at this point in the RECORD. look at the dollars they donate and the re­ the implementation of training programs to The article follows: sults of their donations. Contributions must equip these workers with the skills they provide direct help for the needy and not be need to assume other jobs. No MIRACLES-JUST JOBS tied up in the transmission channel. In Major provisions of the bill include: the other words, corporations must look to requirement that the CPETA program will WILMINGTON.-The 1978 unemployment foster progress and results, not the process. be based on Federal Performance Standards rate for Delaware youths aged 16 to 24 was The value of volunteerism cannot be including placement in unsubsidized jobs. 45 percent. It's still higher than Gov. Pierre measured in billions of dollars. It is not bil­ This requirement is expected to assure that S. du Pont IV would like, but those aren't lions of dollars that makes for social high quality training will be provided and the numbers he wants to talk about. change, but the concern of individuals that thereby lead to permanent jobs for partici­ will effect change.e pants. Three of the five billion dollars of He wants to talk about a special group of program funds will be earmarked for the youngsters with a job placement rate ap­ economically disadvantaged. At least half of proaching 86 percent, who earn an average POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE TO this three billion dollars must be used for of 38 cents more per hour and who work FESTERING UNEMPLOYMENT serving youth 16-21 years of age. Federal more hours per week. funding will have to be matched with other The special youngsters are alumni of an public and private resources. The prime goal innovative program called Jobs for Dela­ ware Graduates . and the numbers HON.AUGUSTUSF.HA~NS of the bill will be to promote those activities which lead to permanent job creation in the take on added significance when you learn OF CALIFORNIA community. who they are. In order to get into the three­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This Administration has done nothing to year-old program, you have to be a high school senior in the general education cur­ Wednesday, March 24, 1982 provide positive alternatives to the festering unemployment crisis. This bill is a positive riculum-neither college-bound nor in voca­ e Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, it is step to deal with the problem of unemploy­ tional training. clear that the No.1 economic problem ment. "We deliberately screen out those young­ facing America is unemployment. The However, we must act now, without delay sters who know where they are going," du administration's solution is to slash to initiate a comprehensive manpower pro­ Pont says. "We concentrate on those who, job training funds further. This is un­ gram to deal with the economic problems statistically, are the most likely candidates acceptable to the American people and confronting this nation in terms of wasted for unemployment, and we find them jobs." human resources resulting from misguided The jobs aren't necessarily that impres­ I hope to the Congress as well. I have fiscal and monetary policy. sive, says Bebe Coker, JOG's director of ad­ introduced and held hearings on H.R. In the absence of any program designed to ministration. "We place kids in everything 5320, the Community Partnership for deal with the unemployment problem being from fast foods and hotel work to factories Employment and Training Act. I in­ proposed by the Administration, we have and insurance offices, although very, very clude the text of my weekly column "put up" a workable program to address few in public service jobs. The important which discusses this bill. I urge my col­ this economic and human disaster. Now the thing is that we are dealing with kids who leagues to consider the importance of ball is in the hands of the Administration. I would very likely be unemployed. Sure, quickly and effectively attacking this hope for the good of our nation that they there are a few superstars, like the young do not fumble.e lady who's earning $16,500 a year as a lab economic scourge. If the unemploy­ technician, after making a string of D's in ment time bomb explodes, we will general education. But there aren't many of have no one to blame but ourselves. JOBS FOR DELAWARE these. In fact, we don't even include them in With the release of the February 1982 un­ GRADUATES our statistical reports because it would be employment statistics it is clear that the misleading. Still, our graduates earn an av­ January dip in unemployment was but a erage $4.12 an hour." passing fancy in the eyes of the beleaguered HON. THOMAS B. EVANS, JR. Results aside, there is nothing particular­ Administration. OF DELAWARE ly magical about the JOG program. Young­ At the present time, almost half of all sters who volunteer for the program spend states are paying extended unemployment IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES two or three sessions a week-either in lieu benefits. Simultaneously, many states find Wednesday, March 24, 1982 of regular course work or, if their schools their unemployment benefits exhaused and won't excuse them, in their free time during are borrowing from the Federal government • Mr. EVANS of Delaware. Mr. Speak­ or after school-learning such things as how in order to continue paying benefits. er, my home State of Delaware is not to write resumes, how to handle job inter­ In the wake of this great human tragedy, called the "First State" simply be­ views, how to look for work, how to make a President Reagan has branded as "sob sis­ cause it was the first to approve the good impression and what to do if you have ters," those would speak out against this in­ Constitution. We are equally proud of trouble on the job. justice. Unfortunately for Mr. Reagan, some other firsts, such as the jobs for But mostly they learn salable work atti­ though, the "sob sisters," number in the Delaware graduates program. tudes. "We help them understand that all millions-and their ranks are growing. The program was created back in productive work is dignified," says Coker. With no alternative or even any plans to 1978 by Gov. Pierre S. du Pont IV to "We help them understand the importance alleviate the current unemployment crisis, of that first job-not because they will be in an empty gesture, the Reagan Adminis­ combat the pressing problem of youth there the rest of their lives, but because tration has called for its critics to "put up or unemployment. This innovative plan that is where they develop their basic atti­ shut up." has enlisted the resources of local tudes. We find that people who can keep a In light of this total disregard for a prob­ Delaware businesses with an aggres­ job for as long as nine months tend to stay lem which many Americans rate as the most sive State effort to identify Delaware employed." urgent issue facing the country, and in re­ high school seniors who are most JOG was born in 1978 during a brain­ sponse to the President's call to put up or likely to face employment problems storming session in du Pont's office. "It was shut up, I have recently introduced and one of those feet-on-the-desk sessions where held hearings on legislation entitled the when they graduate. Jobs for Dela­ ware graduates has turned out to be a we try to look several years down the road "Community Partnership for Employment instead of focusing on tomorrow's crisis," he and Training Act." proven success in placing these gradu­ said. The Community Partnership for Employ­ ates in their first real jobs. It has also "We started talking about our tremendous ment and Training Act is a $6 billion job been hailed as a model program for problem with youth unemployment. It was training bill aimed at teaching the hard core the rest of the Nation to deal with the obvious that we could not hope to have a March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5439 prosperous state if nearly half of our young time, 70 percent said no, while 20 per­ have the opportunity to share this people were out of work." cent said that a youth wage would with you. to The decision was made enlist local busi­ open the summer job market. Ten per­ COLIN JONES, FLORIDA VOICE OF DEMOCRACY nesses in a program to train high school stu­ cent were not sure. When asked if WINNER dents who would be going directly from school to the job market. The idea didn't they felt there would be jobs available My school day had ended on a sour note. I catch on immediately. Business was reluc­ when they were ready to start their was running late. trying to catch a city bus tant. The state legislature refused to appro­ careers, there was a good deal of un­ to my part-time job, and as I ran I could priate money for the first year's operation. certainty. About 38 percent said yes, only think of my own problems. Then. as Even high school counselors resisted the and 22 percent said no. A full 40 per­ the bus rolled along I heard the driver talk­ idea, because JDG uses its own counselors. cent of the respondents were not sure. ing to a man in one of the front seats. "Yeh, I know it's election night:· said the driver. But nearly all of those early antagonisms On the proposed reduction of guar­ have evaporated, and now the JDG program "but why should I vote? They·d only do is in 24 of the state's 25 high schools. anteed student loan and grant moneys, what they want in the end anyway:· Indeed, under the name Jobs for America's almost half of those responding, or This struck me hard and I sat sorting the Graduates, the idea has spread to several 49.4 percent, said this would strongly implications of what the driver had said. other states, including Arizona, Massachu­ affect their decision to go to college. Just who are "they•• I wondered. Then it setts, Michigan, Missouri and Tennessee. Forty percent said it would not, and 10 came to me that in a democratic society Each state tailors the program to its own percent did not know. such as I enjoy where the people are the government, I am one of the proverbial pattern. In Delaware, for instance, half of On the New Federalism, where the funding is from the federal government, "they." So are all of us. with the rest split between the state and major responsibility for funding and Suddenly. I felt a part of something vast. I private foundations. Arizona's program gets administering Federal programs would was a part of a great experiment. A country virtually all of its money from the state leg­ be returned to the States in return for that provided its citizens with the opportu­ islature, while Michigan's will be funded pri­ full Federal operation of the medicare nity to be what they wanted. vately. program, about one-third of the stu­ But at the heart of every great endeavor But the basic idea is the same: that the dents said this was a good idea. there lies hard work and our Country is no best way to treat youthful joblessness is pre­ Roughly half of the respondents said different. America was built from a solid vention. One of the key attractions is its rel­ it should not be put into practice. foundation of truth and justice. Its walls atively low cost: an average of $1,500 per were woven from the cloth of freedom. Its placement in Delaware, for instance-a I submit tabulation of the responses roof constructed from the mortar of the quarter of the cost of the CETA program­ as a percentage of those polled for the Constitution. principally because JDG does not pay its en­ review of my colleagues: But for all the merits of hard work it can rollees. only be utilized on a large scale if a goal is It is clear the lame-duck governor of Dela­ instilled in the hearts of a group. Great ware thinks he is on to something very spe­ Percentages things are built by people working together. cial. Our Country was carved out of a wilder­ The numbers suggest he's right.e Yes No Not sure ness by a group of people with a vision. I. The President's new budget package will Some of them helped push it to the summit result in a ''swap" of some programs of technology through industry. Some had STURGEON BAY, WIS., HIGH between the Federal and State govern- helped to feed it through agriculture, while ments. Should this new federalism a~ SCHOOL STUDENTS SPEAK OUT proach be put into practice? ...... 36.7 16.5 46.8 others had orchestrated the whole affair 2. Should welfare eligibility requirements be through government. ti~tened to improve the system? ...... 76.0 15.1 8.9 But building a country is not a one shot 3. Ill the tougher stand on guaranteed HON. TOBY ROTH student loans strongly affect your decision deal, so to speak. Maintenance is the young­ OF WISCONSIN about going to college? ...... 49.4 40.1 10.5 er brother of establishment. It is for us to 4. Do you feel there will be a job !Of you realize that we are a part of that great IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES when you are ready to start your career? ..... 37 .8 22.4 39.8 5. Should the minimum wage !Of workers "they." By actively participating in the af­ Wednesday, March 24, 1982 under age 18 be lowered to help provide fairs of our Country we can change the 20.0 69.9 10.1 course of history. • Mr. ROTH. Mr. Speaker, I would 6 ~ iu~~eds~a:'~iciiijiief ..iri .. ii's .. I feel in my heart a responsibility to a like to share with my colleagues the IOfeign policy toward aggressors ...... 62.7 17.4 19.9 7. Do you faYOf a 2-year militaiY draft? ...... 22.8 55.0 22.2 nation where I was allowed to grow up un­ results of a survey recently taken of 8. Should there be mandatory minimum sen- hindered and get a free education. The new Sturgeon Bay, Wis., high school stu­ tencing !Of those who commit felonies frontier is, in a sense, the same as the old. dents on a number of current issues. I 73.7 12.7 13.6 Where would we have been if our founding believe my colleagues will find the re­ 9. ~~ --~~}~~ -~~~~~ : :~~ ::~~~~ :: 62.9 21.8 15.3e fathers had shrunk from the cause when sults interesting and indicative of confronted with history. There will always what young people really think about be self appointed critics and prophets of doom. It is my task however, to see the issues before the U.S. House of Repre­ future as it can be if we support our Coun­ sentatives. try and work together. More than 400 students responded 1981-82 VFW VOICE OF DEMOC­ As I got off that bus I was awakened spir­ to the questionnaire. They favored RACY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM itually to a fundamental of truth that had tougher mandatory minimum sentenc­ arisen out of the cynicism of the bus driver. ing for those who use a dangerous That great "they" were we, and we are the weapon in the commission of a crime HON. DAN MICA keepers of our own fate. We are building by a 3-to-1 margin. Sixty-three percent OF FLORIDA more than a country. We are building an idea based upon work and mutual respect. of those polled also favored the death IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES penalty for certain crimes. You and I are together building America.e The questionnaire posed nine oppor­ Wednesday, March 24, 1982 tunities for the students to air their • Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, today I am GRIT CELEBRATES 100 YEARS views. By a 2-to-1 margin students sup­ submitting for the record a copy of ported tougher foreign policy for the the winning speech for the State of United States, but opposed by 55 per­ Florida VFW voice of democracy HON. ALLEN E. ERTEL cent, a 2-year military draft. scholarship program. This year's OF PENNSYLVANIA Employment generated a great deal winner, I am proud to say, is one of my IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of interest among these students, constituents, Mr. Colin K. Jones of many of whom will be entering the job Riviera Beach, Fla. Wednesday, March 24, 1982 market soon after graduation. When I am sure that all who read this e Mr. ERTEL. Mr. Speaker, Williams­ asked if the minimum wage for work­ speech will feel moved by the honesty port, Pa., is the home of Grit, the well­ ers under age 18 should be lowered to of the words, and the sense of hope known weekly newspaper that has help provide more jobs in the summer- felt by the author. It is my pleasure to served several generations of rural and 5440 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 2/j, 1982 small town residents throughout our The grand drawing was on Thanksgiving OPERATION BOOTSTRAP country. This year, Grit has reached Day, 1885. After it was over, Grit had a weekly circulation of 14,000, all bills were an impressive milestone as it cele­ paid and there was a cash balance of $400. brates its 100th year of publication. The three partners shook hands and gave HON. ROBERT GARCIA Grit has been a leader over the years themselves a raise-from $12 a week to $15 a OF NEW YORK in helping inform millions of Ameri­ week. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cans about the good in the heartland As the years went by, Lamade developed a of our Nation. Today, with many direct mail method of reaching customers Wednesday, March 24, 1982 people moving to less populated areas, and appointed young salesmen-the system • Mr. GARCIA. Mr. Speaker, there Grit continues to bring its practical still used today to maintain much of Grit's local, state and national circulation. has recently been a great deal of dis­ and down-to-earth perspective to this Hundreds of thousands of boys have re­ cussion of Operation Bootstrap, its growing number of Americans. ceived valuable business and character impact on the Federal budget and its Edwin W. Goodpaster, president and training selling Grit, and many-such as a effectiveness in encouraging develop­ publisher of Grit and a respected jour­ Gen. Alfred Gruenther, Sen. Karl E. Mundt, ment on the island of Puerto Rico. nalist, is working hard to see that Grit former Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, The Reagan administration, having al­ keeps up its impressive tradition. With poet Carl Sandberg and cowboy star Gene ready substantially hurt the Puerto Grit's dedicated staff, I am sure he Autry-became leaders in business, industry, the professions and government. Rican people with over $400 million in will succeed. From the time it was first published, Grit Federal cutbacks has now indicated an In order for all Americans to know has changed in many ways, but the basic ap­ interest in removing a series of tax in­ more about Grit-where it is going and peals to small-town families has remained a centives to stimulate development on where it has been-I would like to in­ definite goal of the newspaper. the island. The irony of the situation clude the following article in the Improvement and modernization of the is that this administration, through RECORD from the January 3 issue of newspaper have been steady-a tabloid the Caribbean Basin Initiative, also Grit. format was adopted in 1944; a copy process­ ing system and modern high-speed press plans to increase aid to many Latin GRIT Now IN SECOND CENTURY OF were put into operation; the price has in­ American countries and offer special PuBLICATION creased from its initial 5 cents per issue to export incentives to them in an effort the present 50 cents on newsstands and 45 designed to spur their development. Grit, an institution in the households of cents delivered; circulation has gone up and Now, I certainly do not oppose eco­ small-town and rural America for nearly a down-but the style and tone of Grits con­ nomic aid to Latin American nations, century, begins its 100th year of publication tents have been altered only slightly. but I ask my colleagues, how can we with this issue. Grit's home has grown from a small one­ take away programs of financial and A year-long series of anniversary events is story wood frame structure to the present planned during 1982 culminating with a three-unit four-story brick building. fiscal assistance from U.S. citizens on celebration on Dec. 16-the date on which Although Grit sometimes reflects the the island of Puerto Rico while offer­ the publication's 100th birthday actually characteristics of many different kinds of ing it to foreign nations within the occurs. magazines-articles on communities, recrea­ same region? "The values that were the basis for the tion, living hints, women, sports and family In 1921, the U.S. Congress enacted founding of Grit are just as relevant today entertainment-it remains geared to the legislation to exempt earned income of as they were 100 years ago," said Edwin W. needs and interests of small-town residents. American affiliates in Puerto Rico Goodpaster, president and publisher. "We Lamade, who died in 1938, steered his just don't hear as much about them. We are paper through many a business vicissitude, from U.S. tax. This program was de­ going to work very hard to see that people through panic, depression and flood. But he signed to stimulate investment and job get a chance to hear more about them. never took his eye from an editorial stand­ creation by U.S. firms in U.S. posses­ "The newspaper will continue to serve the ard he adhered to all his life-"Always keep sions. These exemptions were later audience it has served for almost a century. Grit from being pessimistic." Lamade be­ embodied in section 936 of the IRS But it also will reach out to that new popu­ lieved in emphasizing the good and staying code and served to attract labor inten­ lation that is making small-town and rural away from anything that might cause fear, sive firms and their employment op­ America the fastest-growing part of the discomfort or temptation. portunities for a large unskilled labor nation." After his death, Lamade's two sons, force which existed outside the agri­ Established in Williamsport, Pa., by Die­ George R. and Howard J., succeeded him in trick Lamade, a German immigrant, and operation of the newspaper and continued cultural sector. In recent years, the in­ now called "America's Family Newspaper," in his beliefs. centives have attracted more sophisti­ Grit began with a circulation of 1,500, Ownership of the Grit stayed in the cated industries which has worked mostly in the Williamsport area. Today it is Lamade family until March, 1981, when the well within the changing structure of distributed each week to homes across the company was purchased by Advo-System, the Puerto Rican economy. With sub­ nation. Inc., of Hartford, Conn. sequent changes in the U.S. Tax Code, Dietrick Lamade was 23 and an advertis­ Bright as the past has been, Goodpaster the island began to lose some of its ing compositor on a Williamsport evening said, Grit looks forward to even greater ac­ comparative advantage to the main­ newspaper when Grit was launched as a complishments during its second century­ Saturday edition on Dec. 16, 1882. He hand­ not only in circulation and advertising land and the potential for economic set the first nameplate and made up the growth, but also in increased service and in­ growth began to lag. This has caused forms in which the type was placed fluence in small town America. many to say that Operation Bootstrap throughout the first year. "For the first time since 1820, the census has not been a success. However, a During the first two years, the newspaper showed in 1980 that small towns and rural quick look at the legislative record will made little progress. Then a small weekly areas in America are growing faster than reveal that Congress, as recently as newspaper plant was put up for sale and cities," Goodpaster said. "That means that 1976, endorsed the effectiveness of the Lamade persuaded two men to go into part­ people are moving from urban areas to the program by reauthorizing it in the nership with him. The three bought the less populated areas. They are doing it to "good will" of Grit and the equipment of improve their quality of life. Tax Reform Act of that year. the small weekly. Thus their publication "Grit has always been the link that tied Today however, the administration was started as an independent Sunday news­ these people together, and it will continue and members of the Senate Finance paper with a capital investment of $1,000 to be. They want to read about similar Committee are undermining the effec­ and a circulation of 1,500. people and similar situations, and they do tiveness of Operation Bootstrap in two The going was rough from the start, but not get that information in other mass ways. First, the administration has in­ in 1885 Lamade got an idea on how to in­ media. dicated that it is interested in chang­ crease circulation. He deciced to hold "Grit will continue to be the voice of the IRS "drawnings." He traveled throughout Penn­ people of small towns and rural areas, and ing the rules which govern the sylvania, promoting Grit and announced a the people whose hearts are there." tax incentives. The uncertainty as to big "drawing" with five prizes to be award­ Details on the events of the anniversary what the administration will do is ed. year will be released later.e causing many firms to withhold new March 2#, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5441 investment or to defer existing com­ N.Y. TIMES, MARCH 19, 1982 its ladies auxiliary conduct a Voice of mitments to build or expand. VoTING RIGHTS ARE NoT QuoTAs Democracy contest. This year more Second, and potentially even more The Reagan Administration is stepping up than 250,000 secondary school stu­ devastating to the development of the its opposition to a strengthened Voting dents participated in the contest com­ Rights Act by playing on fears of racial peting for the five national scholar­ Puerto Rican economy, is the recent quotas. Attorney General Smith told the suggestion from the Senate Finance ships which are awarded as top prizes. United Jewish Appeal recently that if civil This year's winner, Mr. Jeffery K. Tal­ Committee to lower the Federal deficit rights forces have their way, local govern­ by eliminating the special tax credits ments will be forced to "mirror the racial or bott, of Kimball, Nebr.. wrote the fol­ for corporations doing business in U.S. language makeup" of their constituencies. lowing exceptional speech. possessions. This unworthy argument does not impress The speech follows: I would like to emphasize that this the Senate, where the voting bill continues The 1981-82 VFW VOICE OF DEMOCRACY to attract new sponsors. It is nonetheless SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM, NEBRASKA WINNER should not be a Democratic or Repub­ discouraging because it portrays the Admin­ lican issue or for that matter, a liberal istration as needlessly hostile to valuable Miraculous is the only word I can associ­ or conservative issue. Consider the re­ legislation. ate with the essence upon which America marks of such diverse newspapers as No oppressive regime of judicially imposed was built. For indeed it was miraculous that the Wall Street Journal and the New quotas will spring forth if the Senate passes our founding fathers chose to sail to Amer­ the voting rights extension that the House ica in search of religious freedom not know­ York Times. The Journal writes that ing what pitfalls they would encounter, only the past successes of Operation Boot­ approved last fall, 389 to 24. Indeed, the bill specifically prohibits the use of only racial knowing that they loved life too much to strap have been "nothing short of proportions to find a voting rights violation. want to succumb to the dictates of others. spectacular" and that the uncertainty In amending Section 2 of the 1965 act, the And so our first builders arrived in a new over the future of the section 936 pro­ House sought to put the law back where it land, and they began plans for what was to gram and by cutbacks in Federal pro­ was before 1980, when a deeply divided Su­ become, several centuries later. one of the grams has sparked an investment preme Court made discrimination harder to greatest of all nations in the world. slump on the "troubled island". prove. The Court indicated that challengers That first century was a real struggle for existence, and when life began to become The New York Times has also indi­ to election statutes and practices in place before 1965 must prove an intent to dis­ unbearable, a Revolutionary War was cated its support for the program by criminate. That is extremely difficult; the fought and love for freedom once again won urging the President to "lean on the House said the legal burden was heavier out over aggression. The states became IRS to see that the stricken island than necessary. united through a mutual bond of love of gets a better tax break." Take Mobile, Ala., where the Court said country. Statesmen and farmers alike gath­ Undersecretary of the Treasury proof of discriminatory effect was not ered in Philadelphia to pen a Constitution Norman Ture made another important enough. That city's black population is which is still today being proven the fairest more than one-third of the total. But to the type of government of any nation existing. point according to the Wall Street extent that blacks vote a group interest, America had become more than just a Journal: "Puerto Rico is our mainstay they find it extremely difficult to gain influ­ framework of existence. It now had a foun­ in the Caribbean; we certainly don't ence-partly because the city's three com­ dation-a Constitution whose Preamble em­ want to injure them." missioners are all chosen at large. Under the phasized liberty and justice for all. Eliminating Operation Bootstrap House bill such facts, though not alone deci­ The challenge of expansion, building a while also eliminating many important sive, could at least be part of a discrimina­ bigger America was at hand. And so the social programs, will undermine the tion case. Westward Movement, the interruptions of As Senate hearings have made clear, the fighting wars to uphold freedom, the excite­ stability of the Puerto Rican economy. law could be invoked only with additional ment of a continuous array of new and I urge my colleagues to join me in proof that the system operated to deny mi­ better ways to progress all became realities opposing any change to Operation norities political power. And the proper because of the type of love that somehow Bootstrap. The few dollars we may remedy would be an order requiring elec­ seemed to survive all fates- save by closing down the program will tions from properly apportioned districts­ LOVE OF COUNTRY be far outweighed by the dollars the not districts that would be sure to elect blacks in proportion to population but only Truly miraculous, I keep thinking, and Government will need to support the districts that do not strangle a cohesive mi­ here I am today, a citizen of perhaps the mass unemployment that will occur as nority's bid for influence. most progressive country in the world, but I a result of repealing Operation Boot­ From 1965 to 1980, when the law favored am only an apprentice to today's builders. strap.e civil rights lawyers, no judgment of discrimi­ But I am going to be a part of the continu­ nation was entered without substantial evi­ ation of building America together. I am dence that minorities were systematically almost ready for college, this experience will excluded from politics. In no case was a prepare me to move from apprenticeship to VOTING RIGHTS ARE NOT builder-hopefully a master builder-for I QUOTAS quota imposed. By talking so anxiously about quotas at want to prepare myself to be a truly great this point, the Administration unnecessarily American. I am excited about the future inflames the debate over voting rights re­ years of America, and I am determined to be HON. DON EDWARDS newal. Given all the dismal signals to mi­ a part of that continuous plan which began so many years ago. OF CALIFORNIA norities from the White House and Justice Department, that is discouraging indeed. Each person works for his own personal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Senate Judiciary subcommittee, which goal, and, for the most part, each goal is a brick in the wall called United States of Wednesday, March 24, 1982 takes up the bill soon, should resist such ill­ founded pleas for weakening amendments. America. For what is America, but a web of e Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. intertwined hopes and dreams, foresights Speaker, an editorial in the March 19, and hindsights, failures and successes? In THE 1981-82 VFW VOICE OF DE­ falling, the child wishes to walk all the New York Times, points out that the more-and in each little failure. the founda­ White House and Justice Department MOCRACY SCHOLARSHIP PRO­ GRAM, NEBRASKA WINNER tion is formed on which a new hope, a new are stepping up their opposition to the dream for tomorrow can be built. House passed extension of the Voting People, each aiming for their own stars, Rights Act by "playing on fears of HON. VIRGINIA SMITH are working together to bring about the suc­ racial quotas". This is a nonsense ar­ cess that is America. Each drop of sweat is gument, and the editorial urges the OF NEBRASKA an ounce of love, each dose of courage is a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES strand of hope-hope for tomorrow. and for Wednesday, March 24, 1982 all the tomorrows yet to come. charge of the bill to "resist such ill­ Yes, the future is exciting planning and founded pleas for weakening amend­ • Mrs. SMITH of Nebraska. Mr. always working for peace. exploring in the ments". Speaker, each year the Veterans of areas of science. electronics. space, experi­ The editorial is printed in full below: Foreign Wars of the United States and menting in science and medicine and involv- 5442 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 ing myself in the affairs of my country. Is it Successful negotiations would not only Democratic parties, the opposition already any wonder that excitement builds as my end the war in El Salvador, but would has agreed to begin negotiations without generation becomes challenged to prepare reduce tensions throughout the region, conditions. Christian Democrats in the Gov­ to become master builders of our time? remove the main obstacle to better relations ernment are also prepared to negotiate but There is a star shining on the horizon­ between the United States and Nicaragua, have been blocked from doing so by the that star is the personification of our one allow Honduras to continue its transition to armed forces. Only Washington can force dream. What is that dream? That dream is democracy, and increase Guatemala's the military to the table. that which is borne in the heart of every chances of avoiding a full scale war. For negotiations to succeed, both sides American-it is the dream of peace, and a I commend this important article to must be certain that they will not suffer dream of happiness, and a dream of free­ militarily. Thus, the first step must be an dom. What are we all? We are nothing with­ the attention of my colleagues: [From the New York Times, Mar. 7, 1982] in-place ceasefire and an end to all foreign out our dreams, and we are all a conglom­ military aid. The next step is to draw up a eration of dreams, with the fortitude to AN ERROR ON SALVADOR constitution and procedures for conducting work for those dreams. Working for those could guarantee a democratic outcome by must join our hearts together in a cause of WASHINGTON.-The Administration's pol­ committing all sides to a set of constitution­ love-we must bring about enthusiastically icy increasing the United States' military al principles. To guarantee its honesty, the the optimistic spirit of America. We must involvement in El Salvador is producing an electoral process would have to be super­ tear down the barrier of pessimism that has outcome that is exactly the opposite of the vised by a nonpartisan international body been growing. Together, we become one one intended. such as the Organization of American voice-one candle that shines light into the Washington's efforts to shore up the States or a combination of countries accept­ darkness, and that light, is the light of junta with increasing amounts of military able to both sides. An international peace­ America! That light is in each one of us­ aid has only deepened the war, and the Sal­ keeping force would be necessary to monitor that light is the glowing spirit of America vadoran military's brutality has become the the ceasefire and oversee the transition that we each hold. process. When Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the guerrillas' best recruiter. According to Chambered Nautilus, he was comparing United States intelligence estimates, for The most difficult task would be integrat­ man's growth to that of the shell-fish. I every civilian that the Salvadoran Army ing the opposing armies. But reformist army visualize my generation comparing its part kills, at least 25 guerrilla sympathizers officers, who, led by the now-exiled Col. in the building of America together by the spring up. Adolfo Majano, ousted the dictator Gen. closing stanza of his poem and I quote- As the military situation deteriorates, the Carlos Humberto Romero in 1979, and prag­ Reagan Administration's options narrow. matic guerrilla leaders could form the core Build thee more stately mansion, 0 my soul, The guerrillas have refused to participate in of a unified force, perhaps under Colonel As the swift season roll! the March 28 election, designed and admin­ Leave the low-vaulted past! Majano's leadership. Let each new temple, nobler than the last, istered by their opponents, for a constituent Under very similar conditions, a compara­ Shut thee from heaven with a dome more assembly to write a constitution and select ble formula-including the merger of oppos­ vast, an interim president. This election, which ing armies-succeeded in ending the war in Till thou at length art free, United States officials concede will not stop Zimbabwe. And the process was overseen by Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's un­ the war, might not produce a center-right a British Government no less conservative resting sea! Christian Democratic government, but than Mr. Reagan's and equally opposed to rather one of right-wing extremists. nationalist guerrillas similarly dubbed Truly, now is the time for this generation If current efforts fail to break the existing to begin working with each other for this "Marxist terrorists." stalemate, Washington will be faced with Successful negotiations would not only ever-existing America. Step by step, we are only two options: allowing a victory for the all Building America Together.e end the war in El Salvador but would reduce leftist guerrillas or sending in ground tensions throughout the region, remove the combat troops on a large scale. Either out­ main obstacle to better relations between AN ERROR ON SALVADOR come would profoundly destabilize Central the United States and Nicaragua, allow America. Honduras to continue its transition to de­ A guerrilla victory, which might radicalize mocracy, and increase Guatemala's chances El Salvador, would further polarize Guate­ of avoiding a full-scale civil war. If the guer­ HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER mala, strengthen the band of antidemocrat­ OF NEW YORK rillas are as unpopular as the Reagan Ad­ ic factions in the Honduran armed forces, ministration claims, Washington has noth­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and probably demolish relations between ing to fear from such a negotiated settle­ Wednesday, March 24, 1982 the United States and Nicaragua. United ment. Without negotiations, the war will go States intervention, on the other hand, on, and a stable, democratic E! Salvador will e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I am could spread the war throughout the region be the least likely outcome.e including in today's RECORD an excel­ with no guarantee of victory. Landing lent article by Mr. Robert A. Manning 50,000 Marines in Central America would be and Mr. William M. LeoGrande, which far easier than getting them home and A SELDOM HEARD recently appeared in the New York would have cataclysmic domestic political consequences. Moreover, a wider war would ENCOURAGING WORD Times, detailing the administration's only serve to create opportunities for great­ shortsighted policies toward El Salva­ er involvement by the Soviet Union and dor. Cuba-the very thing the Administration is HON. JIM JEFFRIES As this article points out, the admin­ determined to prevent. istration's policy of increasing U.S. By portraying the Salvadoran conflict as a OF KANSAS military involvement in El Salvador is superpower confrontation, President IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Reagan is painting himself into an ideologi­ thwarting President Reagan's stated Wednesday, March 24, 1982 goal of halting Soviet expansionism cal corner where nothing short of victory and bringing stability to Central will vindicate Washington's investment of • Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Speaker, I want power and prestige. But the investment is to share with you and my other col­ America. Our military commitment in still relatively small. Before raising the El Salvador has deepened the war stakes any further, the Administration leagues here in the House an editorial there, and has created opportunities ought to reconsider a third option backed which was aired recently by Jerry for the Soviet Union to become in­ by a growing chorus in Congress and by key Holley, vice president of broadcasting volved in the region. allies such as President Jose Lopez Portillo at WIBW-TV and radio, a respected A sensible policy aimed at restoring of Mexico: negotiations. Midwest broadcaster located in strength and stability to Central The essential conditions for beginning ne­ Topeka. America would stress a negotiated set­ gotiations already exist: a bloody stalemate, The message conveyed is one not tlement to the conflict, as recently a broad international consensus in favor of talks, and the dependency of both the Sal­ often heard here in the Halls of Con­ enunciated by Mexico's President vadoran Government and the opposition on gress. It conveys the novel thought Lopez Portillo. As Mr. Manning and external powers that can use their leverage that perhaps the economy is not in as Mr. LeoGrande point out in their arti­ to bring both sides to the bargaining table. bad a shape as many leaders, and cle: Prompted by Mexico and Europe's Social those who report their actions, would March 24-, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5443 have us believe. In fact, the economic PHILIP AND MURIEL BERMAN: lishing a campership fund. He has news might even be good. DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS been a key ingredient for Scouting's Too often in Washington we develop success in the council. a tunnel vision of what is happening in Phil's international contributions America. We talk to ourselves too HON. DON RITTER and influences are equally impressive. much. Perhaps we should more often OF PENNSYLVANIA An international traveler, he is a be listening to the folks out in the rest IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES member of the Explorer Club in New of the country-folks in Topeka and Wednesday, March 24, 1982 York and has participated in good will other communities, who, from afar, e Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, for sev­ missions for the United States, the have a little more balanced view of the eral decades, Philip and Muriel United Nations, and numerous organi­ state of the Nation. Berman of Allentown, Pa., have given zations. He is a board member and Mr. Speaker, in order to dispel some unselfishly of themselves to improve member of the foreign affairs commit­ the quality of life in the Lehigh tee of the American Jewish Commit­ of the needless gloom to which we are tee. subjected, I would like to share this Valley, the State and the Nation. WIBW editorial with my colleagues These two dynamic individuals seek Muriel, like her husband, also wears here in the Nation's Capital, where, to no reward. They want only to help many hats. A doctor of optometry, she paraphrase our Kansas State song, their fellow man. They do so quietly. is vice president of Hess' Department "there seldom is heard an encouraging They let their deeds speak for them· Stores, Inc., a director of Hess' Fine selves as they leave their indelible im­ Art Gallery, and underwriting member word, and the airwaves are clouded all of Lloyd's of London and president of day." prints in the fields of business, the arts, finance, education, community the Jewish Publication Society. The editorial follows: revitalization. The list could go on and The mother of three grown children, WIBW EDITORIAL on. all successful in their own fields, she To hear some people talk, the nation Phil and Muriel will be honored next continues a keen interest in education, today is in dire straits economically, and Wednesday when more than 700 having served as board chairman and a true, things are not what they should be. people associated with the Lehigh trustee of Lehigh County Community But perhaps they are not as bad as some "Friends of Scouting" of the Minsi College, a trustee of Kutztown State people would have us believe. Trails Council, Boy Scouts, will pre­ College and a member of the advisory We are a little bit upset with the major sent them with the organization's Dis­ board of Cedar Crest College. network news departments and the major tinguished Citizens Award. metropolitan newspapers. All they seem to On a broader scale, she has been an I consider Phil and Muriel more active supporter of the United Na­ be able to report are negative stories. All we than just friends. I think we could all see is the guy who has lived off government tions. She has served as a Nongovern­ welfare for 30 years and has had his check learn from their shining examples of mental Organizations representative cut back and is complaining. Or the student service. People all across this Nation to the U.S. Mission of United Nations who gets a government loan to go to college could look to them in helping to make for Hadassah and has attended and uses the money to buy a new car and is this Nation and the world a better UNICEF executive board meetings screaming that the administration is taking place in which to live. around the world. a long look at student loans and cutting Let me share with you some of the Muriel stands as a giant in helping some of them back. We would just like to highlights of their careers. to enrich cultural and artistic growth see one inte.rview with a student who is Phil, a flower ever present in his in the Lehigh Valley. She has taken a washing dishes or cleaning out barns to lapel, served with the Marine Corps in work his way through college. Or a worker prominent leading role in such events World War II. He is the chairman of as the Hadassah-Israel Art Show; the who gets up every morning, works hard all the board of Hess' Department Stores, day and even though times are tough, Episcopal Diocese Bicentennial Art Inc., of Allentown, a 25-store chain Committee; served on the Art Selec­ doesn't complain. which today ranks among the Nation's Today some 99 million Americans are tion Committee at Muhlenberg Col­ working. Practically the most in our history. fastest growing retail companies. lege; and actively supports the Allen­ Unemployment is still below the post war His service to the community knows town Symphony Orchestra. peak set in 1975. We have a single digit in· no bounds. As chairman of the Allen­ town Redevelopment Authority and Phil and Muriel are internationally flation rate for the first time in years which known art collectors. More than 10 art went as low as 4.4 percent last October. The the Citizens for Lehigh County growth in federal spending has been Progress, he has been a strong voice exhibitions from their personal collec­ trimmed from the over 14 percent average for growth and vitality in his commu­ tion are in circulation among Eastern of the past three years to 7.5 percent now. nity. He was the prime force in bring­ colleges and universities. Other works The stock market, although shaky, is hold· ing a Hilton hotel and conference have been donated or are on loan to ing its own and some say a surge is near. center to downtown Allentown. many local public buildings and parks. The prime interest rate which was 21.5 per­ He is the first American underwrit­ They have actively participated in the cent in January of last year is down to 16.5 ing member of Lloyd's of London, art in U.S. embassies program which percent and was down a full point to 15.5 president of Fleetways, Inc., and a di· places art in 100 embassies around the percent at the end of last year. Some ex­ world. perts say it will drop more this spring. Per­ rector of Crown American Corp. sonal savings of Americans rose to 5.9 per­ Phil, an intense proponent of educa­ Last year, they contributed $500,000 cent last October and people are whittling tion television, was a founding to the Allentown Hospital for estab­ down their installment debt. We think the member and chairman of the Pennsyl­ lishment of sophisticated cancer treat­ prevailing negative mood appears to be one vania Public Television and Network ment facilities and equipment. The ra­ that is politically inspired and maybe there Commission and had served for several diation therapy center was named in is a psychological element. Grumbling just years as president of the Lehigh Val­ their honor. seems to bring people closer together. ley's Educational TV channel 39. That Many other deeds and contributions The Christian Science Monitor in a March broad concern for education also led are performed behind the scenes. Phil 8th editorial said, "While the U.S. Economy him to serve as deputy chairman on and Muriel want only to offer their is in a bad way at the moment, the nation needs least of all a feeling of panic which the board of Hebrew University. friendship and their generosity to help could sway the government from holding to He has long held a keen interest in their fellow man. They have succeed­ steady, measured actions aimed at putting Scouting, having been a recipient of ed. They deserve our deepest grati­ the economy on a sure footing. What the the Silver Beaver Award and serving tude. We can all look on their accom­ nation does need is patience and a cool on the executive board of the Minsi plishments as an inspiration on how head."e Trails Boy Scout Council and estab- we can contribute to making this 5444 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 2.4, 1982 world of ours a better world in which that it was this week 9 years ago that taking all necessary action to obtain to live and grow.e the first POW's were returned in Op­ the release of any Americans who may eration Homecoming. be held captive in Indochina, and to This morning, March 24, 1982, the obtain the fullest possible accounting VOTING RECORD American Spirit was dedicated to the for those whose fate remains un­ prisoners and those who are still miss­ known, including the repatriation of ing in Southeast Asia in a brief cere­ the remains of those who have died. HON. LAWRENCE COUGHLIN mony in the Russell Building rotunda. It is my hope that 1982 will mark a OF PENNSYLVANIA My distinguished colleagues in this year of more success in obtaining an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nation's upper Chamber, Senator accurate accounting of any American Wednesday, March 24, 1982 THURMOND and Senator HAY AKA WA POW /MIA's from the Vietnam war. both impressed upon those present e Mr. COUGHLIN. Mr. Speaker, on The display of the American spirit will that our Nation must undertake great­ greatly enhance public awareness of March 18, 1982, I was in Pennsylvania er initiatives to seek an accounting for and missed several rollcall votes that this humanitarian tragedy. Please en­ our brave men in Indochina. My dis­ courage your staff and your constitu­ day. Had I not been in Pennsylvania, I tinguished colleague on the house would have voted as follows: ents to view the eagle which will be on Task Force on American Prisoners and display through March 30, 1982.e Rollcall vote No. 23: Approval of Missing in Southeast Asia, Congress­ Journal, "no." man BEN GILMAN, has devoted count­ Rollcall vote No. 24: H.R. 3620, Ho­ less hours of his own time in an effort REGARDING OUR FIRST LADY boken Pier properties, "yes." to bring our men home. Rollcall vote No. 25: H.R. 4468, BEN, who has been active on this Secret Service zones of protection, issue for over 10 years also stresses our HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO "yes." obligation to the families of our coura­ OF CALIFORNIA Rollcall vote No. 26: H.R. 4688, Mili­ geous heroes, and to the men them­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tary Personnel and Civilian Employ­ selves who have sacrificed their lives Wednesday, March 24, 1982 ment Claims Act amendments, "yes." for the freedom to be Americans. Rollcall vote No. 27: H.R. 3345, I was exceedingly heartened that Lt. e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, patent and trademark laws and civil Col. John Fer, former POW and now I would like to bring to the attention rights of institutionalized persons, adviser on POW/MIA affairs at the of my colleagues an article from the "yes." Department of Defense was present, March 8, 1982, issue of Time magazine, Rollcall vote No. 28: H.R. 2329, Cher­ as well as Mr. Morton Blackwell, Spe­ regarding our First Lady, Nancy okee Nation of Oklahoma, "no." cial Assistant to the President for Reagan. It is refreshingly positive. Rollcall vote No. 29: House Concur­ Public Liaison representing the White The text is as follows: rent Resolution 290, federally insured House, and Col. Earl P. Hopper, Direc­ FROM BRICKBATS TO BOUQUETS deposits, "yes. "e tor of the National League of Families. They are like butterflies, iron or lace, These individuals and many others are caught in the political turbulence created responsible for their undying devotion by their husbands. They can be flashes of THE AMERICAN SPIRIT beauty and grace in the dark crevices of so­ to increasing public awareness on the ciety or symbols of comfort and quiet hope POW/MIA issue. in times of national despair. First Ladies HON.ROBERTK.DORNAN I am encouraged by this administra­ have an impossible job, and each has a dif­ OF CALIFORNIA tion's involvement in this area. I know ferent challenge. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that not a week goes by without the Nancy Reagan was as much of a shock as President asking his top aides what her husband. Her principal duty as she saw Wednesday, March 24, 1982 new developments have occurred re­ it was to be wife and home manager for the e Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. garding our men. I have met with President, something she described as "nest­ ing," which meant "trying to make the Speaker, I would like to bring to my Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense White House as attractive and inviting as I colleagues' attention that beginning for Asian and Pacific Affairs, Richard can." It was, to her mind, a worthy and re­ Tuesday, March 23, 1982, the Ameri­ L. Armitage, regarding his trip to warding goal. can Spirit, a 200-pound eagle hand Hanoi in February, and I am pleased She collided with a city that for 50 years carved by Sculptor Robert Yoakum, that his delegation was successful in had based its culture on spending more and will be on display in the Russell rotun­ impressing upon the Vietnamese that more of the taxpayers' money. Her husband da. The eagle is part of the Red this humanitarian issue is indeed of came to slow the trend. Nancy Reagan was Ribbon-Red Badge of Courage Cam­ concern to the American people and judged harshly by some lingering partisans paign, a public awareness program to of the counterculture: the devoted wife was that we will continue to press for an somehow suspect, the pursuit of everyday draw attention to the fact that Ameri­ honorable resolution to this tragic excellence often judged a waste of energy, can servicemen are still missing in page in the darkest chapter of Ameri­ and mediocrity celebrated in dress, manners Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Korea. can history. and mind. Lace butterflies can get crushed. The 200-pound eagle is covered with I would also like to alert all of you to She almost did. 23-carat gold and has an 11-foot wing­ two resolutions I have introduced on "I'm starting to enjoy it more now," she span. It is an accurate representation behalf of our American prisoners and said the other day in her sitting room, lus­ of the American bald eagle in an air­ those who are still missing as a result trous from the deft touch of her decorator and the afternoon sun. That very act­ borne attack position and was created of our conflict in Southeast Asia. White House redecoration-was one of con­ by Yoakum as "a tribute to our coun­ House Joint Resolution 385, which troversy. The Franklin Roosevelts contin­ try's resurgent patriotism." designates July 9, 1982, as National ued their aristocratic life of yachts and It is important to note that George POW /MIA Recognition Day, has over grand homes. The John Kennedys poured Washington originated the bald eagle 240 cosponsors and is before the House huge sums into clothes and antiques. Nei­ as the Great Seal of America 200 years Post Office and Civil Service Commit­ ther suffered because Government was ex­ ago. He first used the seal in a letter tee pending approval to be brought panding to help the underprivileged. Now to the British requesting the success­ before the House for a vote. My other each dollar the Reagans spend is publicly juxtaposed against a budget cut. Butterflies ful return of the American men held measure, House Concurrent Resolu­ can get bent out of shape in that house of captive from the Revolutionary War. tion 275, calls on the executive branch mirrors. March 23-30, the week that has been of the U.S. Government to place the Nancy Reagan admits now that the at­ selected for the dedication of the eagle highest priority on achieving an hon­ tempt on her husband's life hit her harder to the POW /MIA's is significant in orable resolution by immediately and the shock stayed longer than she real- March 2.4, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5445 ized. "You are never the same," she says. From that grew Diet Center Inc.. a nation­ helped further Diet Center's growth. The Then there were four specific controversies al network of 1,322 centers that sold about Fergusons chose to rebuild in Rexburg, that further clouded her dreams: the mil­ $140 million in weight·reducing services and where many townspeople had cash to invest lionaire friends, the White House refurbish­ products in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30. from federal reimbursement for flood dam­ ing, the new china, the loaned designer Diet Center itself earned $3.4 million on ages. Prompted by stories about successful dresses. about $19 million in revenue. Now Mrs. Fer­ Diet Center franchises. many put their Given the normal dynamics of public guson's Cadillac and her husband's sit in re­ money into the company. opinion, Mrs. Reagan by this time should be served spaces at the company's headquar­ "The fever started," says James Meyers, a locked in her closet. Instead, she is headed ters in Rexburg, Idaho; a nearby hangar Rexburg tax accountant who figures he and out into the world on her Foster Grandpar­ houses a company airplane and a small heli­ his wife will earn more than $100,000 this ent program and her promotion of drug re­ copter Mr. Ferguson is learning to fly. year from their one-third interest in a com· habilitation. Further, something has hap­ Diet Center's success is largely the result pany holding 30 franchises in New York pened in the press. The stories have soft­ of good timing and its owner's good business State-and that is only a portion of his total ened. There has been a backlash in favor of sense. Mrs. Ferguson's diet program came interest in Diet Center. Merrill W. Rudd, a the resolute First Lady with the Adolfo pat­ along when fitness was becoming as Ameri­ Rexburg accountant who audited Diet Cen­ tern. After writing a particularly harsh can fetish and any new way to lose weight ter's books until last year. warns, however, piece, a Washington Post columnist was del­ was almost sure to attract interest. And that not all franchise buyers have been so uged with mail expressing outrage-at the Mrs. Ferguson's husband, Roger, president fortunate. "There's a lot of people who have columnist, not Mrs. Reagan. George Gallup of the company, was an experienced fran­ worked at it and failed," he says. polled Americans and found her the woman chise manager with financial acumen. "I There are two routes the buyer of a fran­ they most admired. come up with the ideas, and he tells me chise can take. He can manage the diet Digging in White House mail suggests whether we can afford them," says Mrs. center in his territory by himself. paying that the Nancy problems may always have Ferguson, who shares control of the compa­ the 95-cents-per-client-per-day license fee to been more media figment than real. Of the ny with her husband but holds the titles of Diet Center and charging the going rate for 60,000 letters addressed to Mrs. Reagan in secretary and treasurer. the diet program-about $200 per dieter. the year, 90 percent are supportive or in­ The diet idea caught on quickly. Mrs. Fer­ Before opening up shop and offering diet quisitive, not negative. The great dress loan guson's doctor, Lester P. Petersen, soon counseling, however. the franchise holder. if episode, believed by writers to be the most began referring overweight patients to her. he is to counsel clients himself. must have scandalous, drew 50 letters, barely a public "Nothing medical could give the results," he lost weight on the program. nod. Decorating the White House with says. Moreover, Mrs. Ferguson provided money donated by millionaires was support­ daily diet counseling, a major feature of her A francise buyer also can sell his operat­ ed 10 to 1. The new dishes were approved 3 current program. ing rights to a subfranchisee. He retains to 1. With those results in. it is not much Customers became enthusiastic disciples: ownership of the territory and continues fun for the press to be against nesting. one wanted to set up a branch of the busi­ paying the 95-cent fee per client to Diet "I haven't changed," says Mrs. Reagan. ness in nearby Idaho Falls. To Mr. Fergu­ Center. But he now acts as a supplier. sell­ "I'm doing what I did in California, I'll con­ son, these were favorable signs: "We just sat ing diet supplement and other products to tinue. I want the White House to be warm down and said there has to be a business in his subfranchisee. He makes less money and elegant. I want it to be right. I want to this." than he would by operating the center him­ show what is best in America." The Fergusons decided on a franchise self, but he also has far fewer responsibil­ Among her reasons is the feeling left by a system after ruling out direct management ities. lady from Bangladesh, a desperate comer of of diet centers as being to costly and compli­ Most franchise buyers have chosen the world poverty. The guest stood near tears in cated for them to handle at first. As a re­ second approach, but now Diet Center is fol­ the glow of a White House dinner, a magic gional manager for a company which sold lowing the lead of some big companies that moment in which warmth and beauty bound an agricultural soil conditioner, and a have found it is often more profitable to her to this land. She was inspired. former owner of one of the company's fran· own a successful franchise directly. Last That, in the end, may be the importance chises, Mr. Ferguson had learned how it Monday, Diet Center opened five corporate­ of being Nancy.e made money from continuing license fees owned centers in Indianapolis and expects based on the amount of product sold. to have a total of 100 such centers operating Soon after incorporating in January 1972, by the end of 1982.e IDAHO'S BUSINESS GETS the Fergusons sold their first franchise for AMERICA IN SHAPE $2,500. Half the sum provided "go money" for their company, says Mr. Ferguson. The YOU'VE GOT TO BE THERE following June he quit his $30,000-a-year HON. GEORGE HANSEN job. The Fergusons planned to devote a year to Diet Center, calculating that they and OF IDAHO their five children each, including his commission of $2,500. He tention of my colleagues to the two ar­ It's the sort of story that would be busi­ sold one in a year. Potential buyers, he told ticles which appeared in the March 21, ness owners dream about. For nearly the the Fergusons, saw the deal as too good to first 20 years of her marriage, Sybil Fergu­ be true. Washington Post. These articles con­ son was 50 pounds or more overweight. In In early 1976, Diet Center began offering tain information about the entertain­ the late 1960s, desperation drove her to a $900 bonus to existing franchise holders ment and lodging which will be avail­ devise her own diet based on vitamins, basic for any additional buyers they found. A able to visitors during the fair. After foods and exercise. It worked for her and flood that wiped out the company's head­ reading these stories, I think you will her friends and became a tiny business. quarters the same year may also have agree with the advertisements for the 5446 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 1982 World's Fair and realize, "You've explain the sun's role in energy develop­ separate company, not the fair. The vari­ got to be there." ment. Another, Anheuser-Busch, will bring able, or controllable, costs-transportation, its famous team of Clydesdale horses and souvernirs. housing and meals-will largely IT's FAIR To SAY ... operate a beer garden, serving you know determine the overall price of going to the will cost somewhat more in and the acrid aroma of diesel exhaust sting­ Federal Express, for instance, is putting Knoxville this summer than they would if ing the nostrils, you scan the building skele­ $2 million into a laser sky show, among there were no World's Fair. tons hereabouts and think, who are they other things. And Stokely-VanCamp, a can­ Whatever you do, Shelley urged, make kidding, saying the 1982 World's Fair will ning company, will sponsor two exhibits, a your plans and reservations now. open here in two months? folk life festival and a sports hall of fame. "I'd say May and September are the best Then you shut out all of the above and Judging from the advance billing, scientif­ months to come, if you can come then. The consider the hard facts that fair officials ic exhibits alone should be enough to enter­ weather would be cooler, the crowds not as have laid out and you figure, yep, it prob­ tain and instruct the interested layman for big and the traffic not as bad. The flowers ably will open May 1. the good part of the summer. Electronics of bloom in May and the leaves are ready to It does take imagination, though. all sorts, the latest computers and the turn in the fall. October would be good, The 1982 fair, a $100 million extravagan­ hotest things in solar energy will be all over too." za, won't be on a scale with, say, the World's the 72-acre site. Some visitors may want to see the fair Fair held in New York. But it is a genuine And there will be entertainment. when specific entertainers play the off-site World's Fair, sanctioned by the Bureau of Shelley said the entertainment list is in­ stadium. Dates of their appearances can be International Exposition in Paris, the orga­ complete because new acts and performers obtained by writing to Neil Miller, World's nization that says you may or may not call are being booked every week. It's so long Fair, Box 1982, Knoxville, Tenn. 37982. your fair a World's. now it's overwhelming. Among many others: There's one celebrity who won't be on the Already, fair officials say, they've sold Chet Atkins, the Ink Spots, Peter Nero, list because his trips are no longer an­ 104,739 season tickets and 993,948 regular Rudolf Nureyev with the Boston Ballet, Ro­ nounced in advance-President Reagan. tickets. They expect 11 million to attend. berta Peters, Maxene Andrews, the Warsaw He's due in May. The fair is to open May 1 and run through Philharmonic, the Kingston Trio, the Four Oct. 31. Freshmen, Victor Borge, the Lipizzan Stal­ THE LoGIC OF FAIR LoDGING Now, the site is a 72-acre muddy gully run­ lions the Grand Kubuki Theatre of Japan, ning alongside the Tennessee River in down­ the London Symphony, Carlos Montoya, and some eucalyptus and fern cheap. Winnebago 10 miles away at $79 for two trees. "There's no reason why anybody can't people per night. The recreational vehicles, From Saudi Arabia will come not oil, as come," said publicist Shelley. "If you had parked several miles from the fair, will sleep you would expect. but a solar model of some to, you could hitchhike here, eat hamburg­ four more at $6 apiece. The price includes sort, plus an animated diorama of the ers and stay in a nearby college dorm for shuttle bus service to the fair. Grand Mosque. $10 a night. Anybody can afford it." Even more imaginative, and probably Hungary will feature its Rubik's Cube; Maybe, but not everybody would be happy more romantic, would be a houseboat. A Panama, its canal. doing it that way. craft that sleeps four costs $175 a night; one Visitors to the Japanese pavilion will be One cost is fixed-admission to the fair­ to sleep eight is $225. escorted by Japanese robots. They will ex­ gounds. It's $9.95 a day for adults, $9.25 for The best way not to be gouged, said Dick plain things as they go, and even be pro­ those over 55, and $8.25 for kids 4 to 11. Rogers, the fair's director of housing, is to grammed to answer questions. Under 4, it's free, the best deal the fair book housing through the fair. "We've in­ The U.S. pavilion, a unique structure re­ offers. A two-day ticket is $15.95 for every­ spected all these rooms," Rogers said, "and sembling a gigantic drive-in screen, is six one. A season pass is $85 until May 1, when approved the rates. Of course we can't guar­ stories tall and the largest of all the inter­ it climbs to $100. antee them, but the great majority of opera­ national edifices. It will be solar powered Admission entitles you to everything tors here are on the up and up. and feature video terminals with talk-back except rides, meals, drinks, souvenirs, a ride "By calling 615-971-1000." Rogers said, computers, among other things. up the Sunsphere and the superstar enter­ "we can tell you what's available where and Among the 45 corporate exhibitors will be tainent in the U-T stadium. That extra­ at what price, and make your reservation." Sun Oil, which, like the Saudi Arabians, will charge entertainment is being offered by a Sharpe is a professor of political sci­ terpreted as a threat to other Central Amer­ ence at Swathmore College. ican countries. Their reaction could spur an The Reagan administration is clear­ arms race that would harm economic devel­ HON. AL SWIFr ly engaging in short-sighted policies opment and risk spreading conflict through­ toward Nicaragua which promote in­ out the region. OF WASHINGTON stability and thwart the President's Nicaragua is also concerned about the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stated goal of halting Communist ex­ buildup. It needs every penny to rebuild Wednesday, March 24, 1982 from the civil war and develop a strategy for pansion. The administration issues growth and equitable distribution of wealth. e Mr. SWIFT. Mr. Speaker, I am bellicose statements against Nicara­ Its austerity program keeps down wages not pleased today to be able to introduce gua, condones the military training of only to make capital accumulation by the with Congressman DicKs a bill to Nicaraguan exiles allied with former state possible but to encourage the private stimulate the production and sale of dictator Samoza on U.S. soil, a clear sector, the principal force in the mixed family housing. This 1-year emergency violation of the Neutrality Act, and economy, to invest. As in the United States, homeownership assistance plan will loudly proclaims that it will sponsor vast sums spent on arms drain resources provide immediate relief to the home­ clandestine operations by the CIA from civilian investment and hurt crucial sectors of the population, often the poorest. building industry and will make family against the Sandanists. These incred­ A major obstacle to a successful, nonviolent, housing accessible to prospective ibly illogical policies are forcing the pluralistic social revolution is economically homebuyers. Sandanists to side with Moscow. destructive military spending. As we know, the time for supporting Mr. Sharpe argues that it is not too Are the Nicaraguans, then, acting irration­ the homebuilding industry is now; the late for some logical diplomacy. He ally by strengthening their military? No. time for providing families with noted: The irony is that Washington has created affordable housing is now. With hous­ The Nicaraguans are eager to talk. Wash­ conditions that make it rational for the San­ dinists to engage in such spending-and to ing starts running at over a million ington could open channels it has closed, units a year short of potential assure the Nicaraguans of good will, and turn to Havana and Moscow for help. create conditions that would make their Guided by an East-West preoccupation, demand, many homebuilders are going continued military spending irrational. the Administration views the Nicaraguans to the wall, and their employees are as Cuban and Soviet proxies and blames going to other jobs or on unemploy­ I commend this important article to them for the conflict in El Salvador. While ment. The breakup of these efficient, the attention of my colleagues: some arms may flow into El Salvador, there effective homebuilding teams means [From the New York Times, Mar. 17, 19821 is no evidence that they are significant in sustaining the fundamentally internal that the skills will not be available, SERIOUS DIPLOMACY ON NICARAGUA NEEDED struggle, and there is no public evidence the tools will not be in place to meet that Managua is actively supporting or even our Nation's housing requirements SWARTHMORE, PA.-The Administration's condoning arms shipments. Yet the Admin­ when the housing market finally re­ public briefing provided little new data on istration has justified sanctions and threats bounds. If we cannot keep our housing Nicaragua's arms buildup and role in El Sal­ on these shaky grounds. It has cut off eco­ teams together now, the time will in­ vador. But the dramatic presentation of evi­ nomic aid. It permits the training of the late evitably come when housing demands dence did obscure possibilities for creative President Anastasio Somoza Debayle's Na­ will exceed supply, and we will have diplomacy with Managua. Secretary of tional Guardsmen in Florida and California. another-unnecessary-round of hous­ State Alexander M. Haig Jr.'s reiteration President Reagan is reported to have ap­ Monday of proposals made last August proved clandestine operations by the Cen­ ing inflation. cannot be taken seriously by Nicaragua be­ tral Intelligence Agency against what the The $3 billion emergency homeown­ cause of Washington's reported plans for Administration says are Cuban arms sup­ ership assistance plan is for a single covert action. plies in Nicaragua, and has approved a plan year; supplying homebuyers with a re- EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 21,, 1982 capturable 4 percent interest buy­ Below are excerpts of remarks made services: last year, for example, from adver­ down for the first 5 years of homeown­ by James Robinson, chairman of the tising to insurance to health care, our ex­ ership. Because it is a 1-year emergen­ board and chief executive officer of ports amounted to at least $60 billion. cy program, all funds authorized the American Express Co. to the Na­ Are service workers productive? Yes. Be­ tween 1967 and 1979, for example. produc­ would be put immediately to work­ tional Press Club and printed in the tivity in goods increased by 10 percent. Pro­ now-while the need is greatest. We Christian Science Monitor of February ductivity in services, however, increased by need to target housing support to the 22, 1982, and an excellent editorial 20 percent. This was especially true in infor­ trough of the homebuilding depres­ from the Monitor. I commend these mation-related businesses because of the sion; to authorize funding for longer articles to my colleagues. revolution in computers and telecommunica­ spans of time will dilute the money ECONOMY: Do NOT PREPARE FOR YESTERDAY'S tions. that can immediately be put to work, WAR In spite of this increase in worker produc­ and will create unnecessary competi­ tivity, the service industry has been a strong tion with unassisted mortgages when When it comes to job creation, by the way, I think most of us agree that there is If we fail to take account of today's reali­ it's interesting to consider facts like these: ties, we may find ourselves behaving like restaurants and hotels are especially impor­ a compelling need for some sort of im­ generals preparing for yesterday's war. We tant sources of jobs for minorities and mediate assistance to homebuilders are in danger of addressing-inadequately­ women. For both, employment in tourism is and homebuyers. I believe that this economic problems of the 1980s with as­ high compared to other industries, particu­ bill, the emergency homeowners assist­ sumptions and perceptions of decades past. larly in our large cities. ance plan, will be the most cost-effec­ Let me be more specific. But we are not acting at present as if we tive method of meeting that need. I In the last few years, we have seen a new fully understand what services can mean to urge my colleagues to support this slogan rise to importance: Reindustrializing our domestic economy and our international measure.e America. Two presidents as different as trade. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan have em­ When you think of unemployment, do you braced the idea-as a way to provide more think-first-of factory unemployment? ECONOMIC POLICIES MUST PAY jobs, to cure productivity problems, and to When you think of tax depreciation and MORE ATTENTION TO SERV­ make America more competitive in world other incentives for investment in plant and ICES AND INFORMATION markets. equipment, do you think-first-of industri­ Of course they are right. We do need more al plant and equipment? modem plants, better technology, more pro­ When job training and vocational educa­ HON. TIMOTHY E. WIRTH ductive factories. Reindustralization is nec­ tion are mentioned, do you think-first-of essary-urgently necessary. But it will not training for assembly-line jobs? OF COLORADO be sufficient alone. If so, you're not alone. Many of our law­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Why? Because in recent years our Ameri­ can economy, for the second time in two makers and policymakers have been think­ Wednesday, March 24, 1982 centuries, has been transformed. ing the same way. And so our tax laws, our • Mr. WIRTH. Mr. Speaker, an eco­ The 19th century, as you know, brought employment and training programs, our eco­ nomic transformation as profound as our first great transformation: from an nomic policies, our plans to improve produc­ economy dominated by agriculture to one tivity simply don't take adequate account of the industrial revolution is taking the service industries, of their importance­ place in the United States, and yet few dominated by industry-by manufacturing and mining. and their rich potential-and of their of our economic policies acknowledge Now the mid-20th century has brought unique characteristics, especially as they the scope of the changes which are another transformation-from an economy relate to job creation. sweeping our economy. driven by manufacturing, mining, and farm­ If we persist in viewing our economy We have moved in the past genera­ ing to one in which services are centrally through that single industrial eye, we will tion from an economy centered around important. find ourselves misperceiving economic reali­ manufacturing to one in which most What's included in that catch-all term, ty. In many respects, it appears that as­ employment is now in services. Most "services"? A great deal: sumptions about the economy and mone­ Your local bank or thrift institution, your tary policy are based on an industrial econo­ Americans today work in jobs based on insurance agent, stockbroker, lawyer, and my rather than a service-dominated econo­ the development, storage, transfer, doctor, for example. my. and use of information, and not in jobs Hotels, restaurants, airlines, and railroads I advocate a total review not only of in which they make something tangi­ are services. money supply measures but of all our eco­ ble. And services contribute a surplus The exploding information industry-data nomic indicators to reflect the economy as to our international balance of pay­ processing, software development, news it is, not as it was. ments. gathering, publishing, and broadcasting are This new economic age holds great services. ECONOMY: As IT Is-NoT WAS Advertising, real estate, engineering, re­ potential for sustained economic tailing, education-all these belong to the It is no news that most of America's econ­ growth, but only if our national poli­ service sector. So does government. omy has long shifted from producing goods cies recognize the importance of this In 1979-the lastest year for which we to providing services-banking, insurance, shift. We must encourage investments have full information-manufacturing rep­ transportation, fast food, retailing, health in human capital-in areas like educa­ resented 23 percent of our GNP. The farm­ care, communication, education, data proc­ tion, research, and training, which will ing slice was 3.2 percent: mining, 2.9 per­ essing, the whole realm of information han­ allow an information-based economy cent. dling. to flourish. Services, however, constituted 66 per­ The news is a growing recognition of the cent-two thirds-of our economic pie. More need to take more account of this great sea Certainly it is important to attend to than seven out of every 10 American work­ change when shaping American policy. the needs of our Nation's basic indus­ ers are employed in services. A prime example on the international tries, and to those whose jobs depend And services are not just important in our scene is the Reagan administration's initia­ upon them. But it is equally important domestic economy. Over the past 10 years, tive for new trade talks focused on freeing for us to provide the proper incentives our balance of payments in services has up the commerce in financial and other for the information-intensive service been growing steadily-while the balance services. This round, sought for November industries to continue to create new for goods has been declining. And our trade in Geneva, would contrast with the previous jobs and economic growth. in services was responsible for the first over­ ones concentrating almost totally on the all surplus since 1976. export and import of goods. It is high time, I am pleased that some private deci­ So services are a growing force in world what with America's balance of payments in sionmakers are also beginning to real­ trade. In fact, they now account for 20 per­ services steadily increasing over the past ize the importance of policies which cent of all world trade. And the United decade while the balance for goods has been take into account this transformation. States is the world's largest exporter of going down. Last year US exports of serv- March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5449 ices, the world's highest, added up to $60 industry "product," though time also is a posed external threat, including the strange billion. large part of service transactions. Selling a disappearance of Miskito Indians from their Washington's push for such talks signals thing means the seller no longer has it. Sell­ tribal homeland. Similarly, one of the first an awareness of the importance of services ing information means both the buyer and things Indochina's Communists tried to do to the American economy. After all, the seller have it. It is more like sharing than in Laos was exterminate those Hmong who number of American workers in services has exchanging. Unlike physical resources, in­ did not agree to be "resettled." Totalitarians risen to more than seven out of ten. Services formation is not scarce, is not depleted cannot tolerate heterogeneity, tribal or oth­ account for two-thirds of the gross national when used. The whole outlook can be to erwise. product, trailed by manufacturing's less spread shared benefits rather than hang The Sandinist and Cuban lines have than a quarter and farming's less than 4 onto selfish ones. This would be profitable played with some success in this country, percent. for any nation in a sense beyond its shifting partly because there's a tendency to roman­ The question is whether this awareness economic structures.e ticize revolutionaries and the supposed un­ has sufficiently affected the administra­ derdog. But there is also a double standard. tion's domestic economic policy. Like the Those who would like to forgive what's hap­ previous administration, it has made much NICARAGUA MAKES IT OFFICIAL pening in Nicaragua are usually the first to of spurring "reindustrialization." It has pro­ AND RADIO CATOLICA CLOSED withhold forgiveness from other countries, vided tax and other support for capital for­ usually friends of the U.S., that may be less mation and investment in plant and equip­ than pure but at least are working in the di­ ment. But it is far from providing similar HON.ROBERTJ.LAGO~INO rection of expanded political rights. support for the investment in training and OF CALIFORNIA There was, after all, an election in Guate­ education necessary to enhance the nation's mala a week ago Sunday, and an election is human capital. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES scheduled in El Salvador in another week or There is no question that America's basic Wednesday, March 24, 1982 so. Doubtless both will be found to be less manufacturing industries, such as cars and than perfect expressions of democracy, and steel, need to become more productive and e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, neither will induce the insurgents to lay competitve. But the efforts in their behalf recent reports from Nicaragua only down their arms and prove their social have to be accompanied with regard for that serve to confirm what many of us have democratic credentials. As in Guatemala, larger part of the economy represented by been saying since 1979: The Sandinis­ the election in El Salvador will probably services. For example, as robots replace tas are establishing a Marxist-Leninist result in a badly split vote, leading to workers in manufacturing, it will become in­ state in Central America. I urge my charges of fraud. But if elections are ever creasingly important to have Americans colleagues to give thoughtful consider­ held under the present Sandinist regime, ready for the jobs opening up in the ex­ ation to the two following articles: you can rest assured there will be no split panding field of high-technology services. decision. Obviously the necessary training is not NICARAGUA MAKEs IT OFFICIAL just a favor to the person receiving it; it is a Nicaragua, like Poland, has finally made it RADIO CATOLICA CLOSED contribution to the good of the country. official: It has declared itself a police state. Part of the benefit lies in the morale of a The Sandinist junta has suspended all indi­ [Textl The General Directorate of Com­ nation where people are prepared for satis­ vidual rights and guarantees, including munications Media today ordered the indefi­ fying jobs. Part of it lies in dollars and what little press freedom remained, the nite closure of Radio Catolica for having, cents. Consider what Theodore Schultz, a right to carry out political and union activi­ according to the charges, repeatedly violat· Nobel prize-winning economist, has said: ties and the right of habeas corpus. Previ­ ed regulations on the broadcast of news "The rate of return on education has tended ously the junta had "deferred" elections for items detrimental to state security. We shall over time to exceed the rate of return on five years, saying that the necessity for re­ now bring you, from the General Director­ physical capital." construction made it impossible to carry out ate of Communications Media, the reading It should be a word to the wise that the the elections that the Sandinists had prom­ of the notification of the indefinite closure Soviet Union and Japan are investing in ised for last year. of Radio Catolica, the voice of the church. youthful human resources by sharply rais­ There is, of course, no surprise in any of [Begin recording] Issued at 1400 on 15 ing both educational spending and educa­ this. It follows the classic pattern of Marx­ March 1982. tional standards. The United States already ist revolutionaries everywhere. First destabi­ Considering: 1. On 15 March, the newscast has a serious shortage of the highly skilled lize the society, then masquerade as social "Now" broadcast by Radio Catolica, re­ people required for the swing to service pro­ democrats while seizing power with armed vealed information dealing with events fessions and high technology-prime fields force, then declare that emergency condi­ which occurred in Ocotal on 14 March. for the US to maintain a competitive edge tions make it necessary to "mobilize" socie­ 2. Paragraph 3 of our General Communi­ in as traditional industries take a lesser po­ ty, i.e. impose totalitarian conditions. The cations Media Provisional Law stipulates sition in the structure of the economy. script was written in 1917, it worked well in that the broadcast of new items that involve Boost industry, yes, but not like generals Eastern Europe and Cuba, and now we are the station in matters contrary to the coun­ preparing for yesterday's war. This warning seeing it in Central America. try's internal security or national defense, came from the heights of the services sector Already we are hearing how the rebels in and the communication or publication of in­ recently when James D. Robinson III, El Salvador, headed by hardened Marxists, formation on matters such as armed clashes American Express's chairman of the board, are becoming more "flexible." Reputable between government forces and other sec­ spoke to the National Press Club in Wash­ newspapers in this country print such non­ tors to which paragraph K refers, should be ington. As he says in excerpts in today's sense next to pictures of the same rebel previously confirmed and verified with the Opinion and Commentary pages, the na­ leaders pow-wowing with the PLO. Junta of the Government of National Re­ tion's economic assumptions, policies, and All of this is accompanied by claims that construction or in the Defense or Interior plans remain based on an industrial econo­ if the U.S. just wouldn't appear so threaten­ Ministries. my. They do not take adequate account of ing, the Nicaraguans wouldn't find it so re­ 3. Therefore, Radio Catolica has expressly the dominance of the service sector and its grettably necessary to take such harsh violated the three annexes considered in our rich potential for such goals as job creation. measures. This, too, is a familiar claim, es­ General Communications Media Provisional Mr. Robinson advocates a complete review pecially from the early days of the Castro Law. of all economic indicators "to reflect the regime. But it is just as phony. In retrospect 4. An information medium is responsible economy as it is, not as it was." To this basic it is clear that Castro was a Communist for everything broadcast or published step might be added the kind of long-range from the start; the amazing thing is how through it. thinking being given to the very positive as­ friendly the U.S. was toward him in the 5. In the past months this directorate has pects of a service economy. These include: early days, not how threatening. on several occasions sanctioned the news­ Preserving the honorable essence of serv­ Likewise, it is clear that the Reagan ad­ casts broadcast on Radio Catolica and these ice as something done for others, not sub­ ministration has made good faith efforts, new violations of the General Communica­ serviently but helpfully-"service above both publicly and privately, to reach at least tions Media Provisional Law are merely pro­ self," as Rotarians say. One economic con­ a modus vivendi with the Sandinists over vocative actions which tend to intensify the sultant has proposed government support the last year or so. Yet Nicaragua and Cuba critical situation existing in the country. for a US private sector program toward solv­ continue their aid to subversives through­ We therefore resolve: 1. To order the in­ ing world problems while, for example, in­ out Central America, then complain that definite closure of Radio Catolica starting creasing US exports and jobs. U.S. and Central American reaction unfairly from the present notification. This radio Seeing the switch from trade in "things" threatens them. There is little they seem station will not be allowed to broadcast to information, which is a principal service- unable to justify in the name of the sup- until a new order has been issued by this di- 5450 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 rectorate. Issued in Managua on 15 March guans-a government which has not been Scientists and doctors all over the world 1982. [end recording] elected, as you suggested. have learned Latin. That does not necessi­ I certainly agree with you on the need for tate the rest of the population learning it. economic aid, which has been proposed by The same should be true for the measure­ NICARAGUA IN PERSPECTIVE President Reagan. But, as long as terrorism ment system. destroys road and communication facilities, Trying to change gradually is not a worth­ social assistance programs, and food deliv­ while effort. Few people notice the changes HON. GEORGE HANSEN ery systems, it forces us to provide some or pay attention to them. military aid to get the economic aid to the OF IDAHO If the Metric System is forced upon us, we people. America is being more honorable will have to know and relate both systems. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and practical in dealing with the Central This would be confusing and could cause Wednesday, March 24, 1982 American problem than many are led to be­ major problems, even chaos. lieve by news-reporting that is too often The Metric System causes the use of ex­ e Mr. HANSEN of Idaho. Mr. Speak­ grossly distorted. tremely large numbers. Most people cannot er, the plight of Central America, and Thank you for expressing your concern. completely comprehend the actual size of Nicaragua in particular, concerns us Sincerely, such great numbers. all. However, I was directly involved GEORGE HANSEN, Finally, we would like to state, as previ­ more than perhaps any other Member Member of Congress.e ously mentioned, that it would be tremen­ of this body in the effort to preserve dously advisable not to convert.e stability in the Caribbean by rejecting THE METRIC SYSTEM the proposed transfer of the Panama Canal and the acquiescence of our for­ SUPPORT FOR A FREEZE ON eign policy toward allowing the Sandi­ HON. GENE SNYDER NUCLEAR WEAPONS nista to overthrow an essentially OF KENTUCKY friendly government in Nicaragua IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which would have been dealt with HON. TED WEISS more readily in terms of reform and Wednesday, March 24, 1982 OF NEW YORK human rights. Certainly the hostile e Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, every IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES revolutionary regime has gone the op­ year, during the appropriations Wednesday, March 24, 1982 posite direction in refusal to hold elec­ season, this body debates the question tions, suppression of the free press, re­ of whether or not the U.S. Govern­ e Mr. WEISS. Mr. Speaker, I strongly pressive political measures, ethnic ment has any business spending support legislation calling for a freeze purges, and other police state tactics. money to encourage the voluntary on the nuclear arms race, House Joint In response to concern for Reagan conversion to the metric system. Resolution 434. This proposal is a administration Caribbean policy regis­ The young people in the technical long-overdue first step toward halting tered by one of my constituents re­ math class at Oldham County High the arms race. cently, I have drafted the following School in Buckner, Ky., recently Never has the specter of nuclear war letter which I would like to share with looked at both sides of this perennial hung so ominously over the human my colleagues since I believe it puts issue and came to the conclusion that race as it does today. We have entered the situation into proper perspective. metric conversion doesn't make much an era of renewed nuclear escalation that poses graver threats to human DEAR SIR: I deeply appreciate your con­ sense. cern over the plight of Nicaragua and doing Since the President has proposed existence than we have ever faced. the right things for Central America. I have the termination of the U.S. Metric House Joint Resolution 434 offers a also been there, including being in Managua Board this year in order to save sever­ workable framework for beginning to during the week Somoza left. al million dollars, I thought the con­ dismantle the seemingly self-perpet­ I must remind you, though, that Cubans clusions of my young constituents uating arms buildup by urging an im­ are there and we are not there, among the from Oldham County High might be mediate, bilateral freeze on nuclear doctors and teachers of Nicaragua, because weapons leading to a reversal of the the Marxist dominated Sandinista wanted of interest to my colleagues here in Cuba in and rejected the U.S. Speaking of the House. And I would like to share arms race. The importance of taking interfering in Nicaraguan affairs, I am sure their letter with you. these steps can not be overempha­ you remember that it was President Carter, The letter follows: sized. more than the Sandinista, who forced Due to the controversy of conversion from The United States, which produced Somoza out of power opening the way for the English System of measurement to the the first nuclear weapons and main­ the new unfriendly Junta to rule. Metric System, we, the Technical Math tains a nuclear stockpile capable of de­ Under such circumstances you would Class at Oldham County High School in stroying the world several times over, think the Ss.ndinista would have asked Buckner, Kentucky, having thoroughly holds a special responsibility to help President Carter for teachers and medical studied and compared the two, have con­ reverse reckless nuclear escalation. personnel. They could have easily done so, cluded that although the Metric System is because the President immediately sent re­ by far the simpler of the two, it would be But the Reagan administration is lock­ quests to Capitol Hill for nearly $200 mil­ advisible not to change. ing our Nation into a nuclear arms lion in aid to Nicaragua, most of which was Our reasoning for this conclusion is the buildup that not only will make nucle­ approved. extreme expense that would be involved. ar war more likely, but will sap our At the time, I feared President Carter was The replacement of equipment and products Nation's economic vitality as well. being betrayed by the Sandinista, and which are currently in existance, construct­ Nuclear weapons present the poten­ events since have proven that his effort, to ed for the English System would be useless tial to commit genocide by killing mil­ upset the existing government and impose under the Metric System. Teacher training lions of people with a single device. the foreign-dominated Sandinista, was a co­ programs as well as teaching the public are lossal error which has sewn a disease now further expenses to be considered. This alone should make nuclear weap­ plaguing the whole area with terrorism and At this time of recession in our economy, ons anathema to us. killings. there is no need to enlarge the national debt The technological advances that I agree with you that the U.S. should not by disrupting an efficient system unneces­ have been made in nuclear weapons­ interfere in the government of other na­ sarily. missile delivery systems, multiple-inte­ tions and attempt to impose our will. We did Our nation supposedly stands for individ­ grated, reentry vehicles . is the would be only a temporary measure in Coach Hardage has been a most ef­ following letter from a doctor in the our effort to halt the nuclear weapons fective role model for countless young Midwest. race, I believe it is a key step in deter­ people, instilling the values of hon­ On November 15, I had an opportunity to ring the increasing possibility of nucle­ esty, integrity, and good character, a watch a presentation by 60 Minutes in ar war. sense of personal worth, and a desire regard to the unfair tactics used by the IRS to achieve individual potential. He has against the citizens of the USA. The reason Another resolution I have intro­ I am writing this letter is because during duced in the House of Representa­ inspired students, faculty, and parents throughout the Annandale community this show, it was pointed out that several tives, House Resolution 153, calls for a legislators in the past had tried to investi­ moratorium on the production of Per­ and all of Fairfax County. gate them, and they, themselves were shing II and cruise missiles intended I join with Coach Hardage's friends ruined politically because of it. for placement in Europe. These mis­ in paying tribute to this great man.e I have been audited every year since 1966, siles, authorized by NATO in 1979, and I would have to say that for the most part, I was always treated very fairly and have been the subject of the current SALUTE TO RHODE ISLAND'S gentlemanly. My last auditor however, made Geneva arms negotiations and a pri­ FIREFIGHTERS statements like "I am the judge, the jury mary cause of the strong European and the prosecutor". I can prove this, as my disarmament movement. This resolu­ accountant and my wife were present at the tion offers an opportunity for real HON. FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN time. He also stated it would do me no good arms control simply by restraint. The OF RHODE ISLAND to take my case to court, as the IRS could overrule the court, regardless of what the Soviet Union has indicated its willing­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ness to freeze nuclear missile deploy­ court's findings were. Last of all, he stated Wednesday, March 24, 1982 that if I were to hire an attorney, it would ment if these missiles are not put in be a total waste of time because he, as the place. e Mr. STGERMAIN. Mr. Speaker, I IRS agent, would have the final say so Since entering Congress I have led rise to salute three dedicated firefight­ about everything. the fight to stop neutron weapons. ers from Cumberland, R.I.: Michael Needless to say, when you have gone Most recently I offered an amendment Pratt, age 21, Steve Garon, and Robert through this experience and you hear about to the Department of Defense authori­ Coleman, who on March 8, 1982, saved other people having the same kind of expe­ zation legislation that would have 10-year-old James Perry of North At­ rience, I feel it is time that we as free citi­ stopped all funding for research and tleboro from drowning in freezing zens, do something about it. I think it is production of neutron weapons. This waters. Mr. Pratt was off duty but re­ time the legislators stand up and be count­ ed. If we are going to be prosecuted one at a amendment would have precluded sponding to his scanner he ran to the time, then I suppose there will be no end President Reagan's senseless decision pond where he saw young James until the IRS becomes the final autonomy to produce this type of weapon. Neu­ struggling in the water, and immedi­ in this country. Then we will have, as it was tron weapons seem certain to spur fur- ately plunged into the pond to rescue stated on the 60 Minute program, a "Gesta- 5452 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 po" with the only difference being that we In addition to this work, Mr. Rowe TRIBUTE TO THE RED AND have not put our people in the black uni­ has participated for 14 years in a pro­ GREY form. gram serving local teenagers. A past I think it would behoove all of you to see that particular segment of the program to vice president, he has received the know that this is not something to be han­ club's perfect attendance award each HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. dled lightly. I would appreciate very much, year. The international organization, OF NEW JERSEY your comments on this matter and what you called the Optimist Club, receives no IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES intend to do about a branch of government Federal funds and keeps itself operat­ Wednesday, March 24, 1982 that there is no question, has not only ing through regular fundraisers. Each "gotten too big for its britches", but is be­ year they send handicapped children • Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, history coming a destructive force within our socie­ was made last Sunday, March 21, at ty.e to summer camp. The rest of the year they help teens learn about physical Clifford J. Scott High School, in East Orange, N.J. Sunday afternoon, the fitness, good citizenship, and leader­ boys' and girls' basketball teams VOLUNTARISM-A BEAUTIFUL ship. WAY TO SPEND TIME became the first public school teams In her remaining spare time, Mrs. in New Jersey to win State champion­ Rowe helps tape books for use by ships in the same year. HON. STEVE GUNDERSON blind students at the University of The boys' team defeated a tough OF WISCONSIN Wisconsin at Eau Claire. The job is te­ Salem team by the score of 76 to 74, to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dious and requires at least 4 hours per win their second straight group 2 title. week. But time does not seem to Scott was trailing by 11 points at half Wednesday, March 24, 1982 matter to the Rowes. time, but fought back to win on a last­ e Mr. GUNDERSON. Mr. Speaker, They do not ask who their neighbors second shot by Eric Bowman. Troy Neighborliness is not a quality in other are. They help as many people as they Webster, a 1981 all-stater, scored a people; it is simply their claim on ourselves. can with whatever time they have. game high of 33 points, in leading Clif­ Every moment and every situation challeng­ ford Scott to the title. He was also es us to action.... We have literally no time And based on their extraordinary in­ volvement I have nominated them for voted most valuable player. to sit and ask ourselves whether so-and-so is The girls scored 31 points in the our neighbor or not. We must get into one of the President's Volunteer action-we must behave like a neighbor. Action Awards to be presented during fourth quarter to defeat St. Rose, of National Volunteer Action Week in Belmar. Countess Irvin, a junior, The urgency of these words, written scored 24 points and was most valuable by theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer April. player for the girls. nearly 50 years ago, is only intensified As Mrs. Rowe has explained: Mr. Speaker, it is truly an honor to today as we begin revitalizing the vol­ This is a beautiful way to spend our time pay tribute to the fine students at unteer spirit in America. Two of my since we have it to give. We would probably Clifford J. Scott High School, who constituents, residents of Eau Claire, do more if we could fit it in.e have worked so hard and diligently to Wis., have risen to this challenge. bring the two titles to East Orange. Allard Rowe, 70, and his wife Eliza­ The Clifford Scott fans and the beth, 65, have participated in "Trini­ AMVETS ARE GOOD CITIZENS marching band are also to be com­ team" for the past 5 years. The pro­ mended for their support and loyalty. gram, operated through the local I would like to include in the CoN­ prison, helps ex-offenders, those on probation, and even current prisoners HON. MARJORIE S. HOLT GRESSIONAL RECORD, an article that ap­ OF MARYLAND peared in the Newark Star-Ledger, de­ cope with daily life. From the small scribing the team's accomplishments: fund, supported through various local IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES projects, the organization helps ex-of­ [From The Star-Ledger, Mar. 23, 19821 fenders reestablish themselves-pro­ Wednesday, March 24, 1982 GREAT ScoTT! EAsT ORANGE HoNoRs ITs Two viding friendly support, clothing, rent • Mrs. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, The CHAMPIONS or fuel assistance. Each week, the AMVETS, American Veterans of Rowes help host meetings where cur­ World War II, Korea-Vietnam, De­ There was reason to smile yesterday in rent prisoners can visit with family partment of Maryland will be holding East Orange. and friends. The program includes re­ their 16th annual "Operation Driver Make that two reasons. freshments, dancing, card games, and Sunday afternoon at the Meadowlands Excellence" program, on Sunday, Arena, Clifford J. Scott High of East bingo. Prizes are awarded from dona­ April 18, 1982. This contest is open to Orange became the first public school to tions received or inexpensive items all high school students in the State win two state basketball championships, found at local church sales by the who have completed an approved driv­ boys' and girls'. in the same season. Rowes. ers training course within the past The girls' team made way for the sweep This couple also helps run social pro­ year. This contest promotes an alert, when it ran past St. Rose. 75-54, in the grams for many mentally retarded and Group 2 state title game with a 31-point disabled individuals in the community. able, and responsible driver through fourth quarter. The boys did the same. a In fact, Mrs. Rowe is treasurer and driver education programs. Because of little more dramatically, when Eric Bowman Mr. Rowe acts as vice president of the this and similar efforts, we are devel­ scored in the final second for a 76-74 tri­ organization which receives no Federal oping the best educated and most com­ umph over Salem and their second Straight petent young drivers in our history. Group 2 crown. funds. They host a weekly gathering St. Rose turned in double state champion­ for this group as well. The organiza­ The winner of the Maryland finals will ship teams in 1977 when the girls won in tion, called Par-Te-Rec, serves about compete for scholarships totaling Group 2 and the boys took the Parochial B 125 people in the small community. $25,000 at the national finals in Rose­ title. Since a handicapped workshop oper­ mont, Ill., on May 15 and 16. I com­ "I thought they both had a chance from ates in the community, many, many mend the AMVETS for their sense of Day 1," said a pleased mayor Thomas H. handicapped persons have relocated community service and awareness, and Cooke. "I went to the Meadowlands to see two victories. I thought both teams were ex­ there. Sometimes the Rowes receive I encourage all eligible teens to par­ emplary in their good sportsmanship and more than five phone calls per day ticipate.• play on the court. I'm so exhilarated I can't from handicapped people needing as­ explain it." sistance at home or just someone to The mayor, acting superintendent of talk to. schools Greta Shepherd, principal Dr. March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5453 Robert Max and Mary Lett, board of educa­ The Clifford Scott fans and the school's Supporters note that everything from tion president were present at the high marching band added to the festive mood of streptomycin to the zipper was invented by school yesterday when the entire school the state championship games. small entrepreneurs. If Washington were gathered in the auditorium to honor the "All you could see was red and gray willing to look beyond the Fortune 500 two victorious teams. after the boys won," said when it doles out research funds, they "We thought it appropriate to let them Cooke. "This afternoon, it was like the old insist, more of the same would emerge. Be­ know how proud we were of them and their days when everyone was strung out on sides, a 1 percent cut in R & D fund­ conduct," said Cooke. "Everyone was in the sports, like an old-fashioned bonfire before ing would only force the big researchers to spirit of things and it was a real family an East Orange-Barringer football game." look a little harder at their paperclip bills. affair. All over East Orange, everyone is full Ed Lyons, who did the color commentary There's no question that in some indus­ of smiles." for Suburban television was the 1958 boys' tries, smaller companies are strikingly inno­ Following the ceremonies at the school in coach when the Scotties won their first vative. But they already get a fair shake the early afternoon, the student body was state title and was associated with the from Washington. Small companies employ given the rest of the day off from school. school for 17 years. 5.5 percent of the scientists and engineers in "I'll be working with the board of educa­ "I'll always be a Scottie," said Lyons, who the private sector, but get 6.8 percent of tion and the students on organizing an ath­ won close to 300 games at Scott-including Government funds for private research. letic banquet for these athletes," continued the only Essex County Tournament champi­ What difference would an extra few per­ Cooke. "The coaching staff and those that onship in 1962. "It's almost unheard of to cent make? The fear, expressed by Stanford volunteer their services have done an excel­ win both championships. I think it's great." Former athletic director Barry Cohen, in University's President, Donald Kennedy, is lent job. I expect the banquet to take place that most of it will come out of the small in the next month or so." for a visit from Long Island, agreed. Many feel that the best part of the whole proportion of Government R & D devoted Countess Irvin, a junior guard, scored 24 to basic research. Few agencies would will­ points to earn MVP honors for the Scottie championship situation is how the two teams encouraged each other through the ingly redirect funds tied to specific develop­ girls. ment projects like new weapons systems. Troy Webster, a 1981 Star-Ledger All­ season. Stater, tossed in 19 of his 33 points in the "All through the state tournament we And small businesses simply aren't prepared second half, including 13 in the fourth quar­ would play before them or they would play to do the basic research now mostly per­ ter, to lead Scott's return from an 11-point before us," said Webster. "We'd cheer for formed at the big Government-owned labs. halftime deficit and earn MVP recognition them if their game was first and it felt good Actually, the potential loss is still greater. for the boys. It was the third Group 2 cham­ when we would hear them rooting for us At the Stanford Linear Accelerator much of pionship for the boys, fourth state champi­ during our games. the budget must be spent on equipment onship overall. "I thought both teams would do well this maintenance, whether the machinery is Enjoying the success of the East Orange season but I never thought we could both used or not. So a 1 percent cut in funding school among the crowd of 4,742, which in­ win state championships. It's the best thing forces a much larger cut in research oper­ cluded the entire Scott band, was Carol that ever happened to Scott.e ations. The same is true for capital-intensive Clark. Clark, now the womens' basketball basic research in fields like biogenetics. coach at Essex County College, started the These arguments have made headway in girls program at Scott in 1973. H.R. 4326 the House, where one committee after an­ "I was elated," said Clark, a graduate of other has expressed reservations about the East Orange High. "I thought Malissa Ste­ bill. California's Pete McCloskey will lead a phenson was spectacular down the stretch. HON. PAUL N. McCLOSKEY, JR. floor fight against it, but few other Con­ Regina Love kept them going with her out­ OF CALIFORNIA gressmen seem willing to stick their necks side shooting and Countess Irvin and Pia IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES out. The Federal budget office wants no Frazier were just great in the backcourt. part of the set-aside. But President Reagan "I was just tickled to see them win it. The Wednesday, March 24, 1982 is said to have promised neutrality in return boys' game was dramatic. The boys' game e Mr. McCLOSKEY. Mr. Speaker, the for Senator Rudman's support for the turned around when Seth Jones came into Small Business Innovation Act and Rep. John J. LaFalce the Scotties closely. The measure seemed harmless enough-so . Their idea, which appears lauda­ "I think it's one of the best things that harmless that it passed the Senate last De­ ble enough at first glance, is to set aside re­ ever happened to the school," said Bonard, cember without dissent. In fact, however, search funds for small businesses on the the MVP and shortstop of Scott's only state the Small Business Innovation Development theory that they have produced many of baseball champion in 1973. "I was surprised Act is a special interest grab that threatens the nation's innovative ideas. But if you set that they won both titles because they were to siphon off hundreds of millions of Feder­ aside money for something in these days of just starting the girls program when I was al dollars for basic research. tight budgets, you are probably setting it in high school. I always look for the Scotties Hardly anyone is more cherished by Con­ aside from something else-in this case, uni­ in the paper." gress than the owners of small businesses. versities. King and Greg Tynes, the boys' coach, So when New Hampshire's Senator Rudman The Senate's version of the legislation, had visions of a double championship at the proposed that 1 percent more of the $40 bil­ which swept through 90 to 0 in December, end of last season. lion that goes for research and development provides that 1% of the research money "It seemed like we were destined when we on Government projects be set aside for going through five agencies-or $400 mil­ both got to the final," said Tynes. "Coach companies with fewer than 500 employees, lion-would be earmarked for small busi­ King called me the morning of the finals nobody blinked. And when Representative nesses; those agencies are the National Sci­ and said that the girls team was going to John LaFalce of New York raised the ante ence Foundation, the Defense Department, build bridge for us to walk across and they to 3 percent, he had no difficulty finding the Health and Human Services Depart­ did." 180 House sponsors. ment, the National Aeronautics and Space 5454 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 Administration and the Energy Depart­ its intended beneficiaries. And with good Under an innocuous name-"Small Busi­ ment. The House bill, which sailed through reason. ness Innovation Development"-the bill pro­ the House Small Business Committee on a HR 4326 would require the 18 federal federal agencies to use a portion of their re­ nesses 3% taken from 13 agencies' research­ agencies with R&D budgets over $100 mil­ search money for grants to businesses that and-development budgets within four years lion to set aside 1 per cent of those funds to are trying to commercialize new products or after passage-that is, $1.5 billion a year. finance projects by firms with fewer than new concepts. The intent is to support tech­ The size of the votes that the bills received 500 employees. The basic idea, laudable in nological advance. One effect, however. makes us suspect that they have not been itself, is to give such firms access to govern­ would be to substitute an agency staff's examined closely. ment money that now goes mainly to larger judgment about what is commercially feasi­ Rudman thinks the legislation is neces­ corporations. After initial federal support, ble for the judgment of investors and finan­ sary because big business has frequently those projects with the greatest merit would cial markets. Given the source of the "turned its back on uncertain technology or be expected to obtain private financing. money, and congressmen's interest in how it unproven new products" in favor of short­ The bill had already moved unopposed might be distributed, some grants would term profits, while small business lacks the through the Senate and one House commit­ doubtless be influenced by political consid­ capital to develop its ideas and has been tee before opposition developed. Leading erations. The political factor would height­ frozen out of federal research contracts. He the counterattack are a number of major en financial risks in a high-risk field. And argues that small business is responsible for universities already subject to federal cut­ those risks of commercial development creating 55% of the new jobs in this coun­ backs in research funds; the American Elec­ would be shifted to the public purse, instead try, and so deserves this support. tronics Association, 80 per cent of whose of being left with private parties using their It seems to us, and to the universities that members would qualify for grants, and a own money. are opposing the legislation, that Rudman number of federal agencies. Even the Na­ Using government money as risk capital in is, first of all, confusing basic and applied tional Science Foundation, whose $5 million private projects-whether undertaken by research. Donald Kennedy, president of Small Business Innovation Research Pro­ small businesses, auto manufacturers or Stanford University, is a good source on this gram serves as the bill's model, is cool. synthetic-fuel conglomerates-is poor topic; Stanford knows well the value of the Why? policy. Occasional exceptions are appropri­ small, highly innovative electronics and bio­ Objections stem from the fact that small ate, no doubt. But in this case poor policy is technology companies that are its neighbors high-technology firms already get a large made worse by explicitly taking the funds in the so-called Silicon Valley of California. share of R&D money, especially when sub­ from pre-commercial basic research. Spon­ Kennedy points out that fundamental dis­ contracts are factored in; that capital gains soring such research, largely in universities coveries of devices or processes such as the tax reductions and new tax credits enacted and largely selected by panels of independ­ laser or recombinant DNA "most usually in the late 1970s have brought forth larger ent scientists, is a proper government func­ arise as a consequence of fundamental re­ amounts of cash from venture capital firms, tion. Applying such research for marketable search activities, 70% of that kind of that set-aside programs with their bureau­ products should remain the responsibility of activity takes place in our nation's universi­ cratic controls violate basic free-market industry and investors. Slighting the gov­ ties." principles, and that the mandatory govern­ ernment function in order to intrude on the The intermediate process-known as the mentwide nature of the proposed law would private-sector function is both practically transfer of technology, in which the discov­ lead to an even more bloated bureaucracy, and theoretically a large mistake. ery is refined and applied to commercially higher costs and the inevitable temptation The bill embodying this mistake has significant needs-sometimes occurs in uni­ to pad the program to meet spending passed the Senate and is pending in the versities, sometimes in research institutes, quotas. And since the entire cost of the pro­ House. The House should defeat it.e sometimes in corporate settings, Kennedy gram would come out of existing R&D adds. A third process-the development and budgets-no new funds would be appropri­ application of specific innovative products­ ated-university research programs, which FOCUS ON THE FAMILY takes place mostly in small firms, he says. have lost 16 percent in real dollars of their "That is our central argument with the funds for basic research just since 1980, present 'egislation," Kennedy says. "For the would be further pinched. best of motivations, it actually reallocates Opposition in the House has been led by HON. FRANK R. WOLF federal dollars between totally different sets Rep. Paul McCloskey, R-Calif., who has suc­ OF VIRGINIA of purposes. That, we submit, is not good ceeded in reducing the set-aside total from 3 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES policy." percent to 1 percent, subjecting the pro­ On a second point-whether small compa­ gram to annual congressional review and ex­ Wednesday, March 24, 1982 nies have been frozen out of federal con­ empting several agencies, among them the • Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I would tracts-the American Electronics Assn. says Pentagon with well over half the federal like to share with my colleagues an ex­ that small businesses employ about 5.5% of R&D total. But the measure still has exten­ cellent article in the April 1982 issue the nation's scientists and engineers, and re­ sive backing in Congress, and at least nomi­ of The Saturday Evening Post about ceive about 6.8% of the federal govern­ nally from the administration. It may yet ment's prime research contracts. It would become law. Dr. James Dobson, a dedicated author seem, then, that their resources are used in That would be regrettable. Small high­ and educator whose values and princi­ proportion to their ability to handle the technology firms are perhaps the most dy­ ples of living focus on the importance work. namic segment of the U.S. economy at of the family and set an example for The association represents 1,800 high­ present, and to the extent that their all to follow. technology concerns, 80% of which would progress is hampered solely by a lack of cap­ qualify for help under these bills. Yet the ital they need support. This bill, however, is Focus ON THE FAMILY association opposes the idea. Historically, it not the way to provide it. In the present New York City, that the loss of their funding sources will fill the void left contribution to the cause is commendable. expansion arts grant will result in by the withdrawal of Federal funds. More than a clever title, "What Wives Wish their having to double the fees The facts, however, tell a different Their Husbands Knew about Women" charged low-income ballet students. story. Miriam Colon, director of the (900,000 copies in print> could be subtitled Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, put it "Try a little Tenderness." Domestic dol­ Many of these young people come drums are probed as Dobson delves into the from families that are already reeling graphically when she claimed that she breakdown of understanding between from the effects of reductions in wel­ could virtually wallpaper the Empire mates. Depression is dissected and the doc­ fare grants, food stamps, and housing State Building with the multitude of tor's diagnosis is presented: "What do allowances. For them, ballet lessons private sector refusals for support she women most want from their husbands? It for the children have become a focal has received. is not a bigger home or a better dishwasher point, the highlight of their week. A historical perspective may help to or a newer automobile. Rather, it is the as­ clarify the relationship between pri­ surance that 'hand in hand, we'll face the Now, this too, will be denied them. best and worst that life has to offer-to­ I propose that our Nation's security vate and Federal support for the arts. gether."' is as much dependent on the spirit of In 1966, just after the establishment While he candidly acknowledges that its citizenry as on its outlays for mili­ of the Endowment, American business women, not men, usually attend family-life tary defense. was contributing only $22 million to seminars, read books on marriage and buy The establishment of the National the arts. By 1979, that figure had tapes on parenting, he makes an all-out at­ Endowment for the Arts ush­ reached $436 million, a 2,000-percent tempt to coax men into the fold with increase. "Straight Talk to Men and Their Wives" ered in an era of unprecedented public (200,000 books sold to date>. His message is support of, and participation in, cul­ It would behoove a budget-conscious macho and is certain to raise a few hackles tural events. The NEA's "Guide to administration to keep in mind the in the feminists' camp. He urges men and Programs" eloquently sets forth the grave economic consequences of un­ women to refute the current unisex trend basic convictions on which the NEA dermining the arts industry in this and assume the clothes, customs and func­ was founded, the- country. Since 1965, the number of tions traditionally assigned to their sex. He • • • distinctive perception of the aesthetic symphony orchestras has grown from champions the beleaguered homemaker dimension of our physical and social envi­ 25 to 150. The number of professional who is so often abused in the media today, ronment, • • • is unique to humankind. • • • opera companies has increased by 82, and he claims men are the key to bringing It is through the various arts that this per­ order and calm back into society by assum­ professional dance troupes by 370, and ception of the world is sharpened, enliv­ serious theater groups by 132. Three ing their protective, dominant role. If the ened, expressed, and developed as a celebra­ message is strong, the delivery is warm, tion of life in all its forms. Cultivation of studies of the economic impact of the thanks to Dobson's recollections of his fa­ this awareness is a societal good as it quick­ arts on the economy of New England, vorite role model, his father. ens the experience of life and enhances its conducted by the New England Foun­ Rounding out the ever-expanding line of quality. Thus, the condition of the arts is an dation for the Arts, report that the self-help books by the California doctor is appropriate concern of the people, and arts industry in New England alone af­ his latest provocative title,"Emotions: Can hence a proper concern of the Government. You Trust Them?" If that question doesn't fects $1.5 billion in business and ap­ pique readers' interest, he poses others: Is Today, however, the Endowment's proximately 40,000 jobs. Love at first sight really love? Will genuine demonstrated successes are being The record is clear. Federal support love last a lifetime? Is anger wrong? How threatened as the administration once for the arts has been not only instru­ can I learn to bring my temper under con­ again proposes drastic cuts in Federal mental, but critical, in generating pri­ trol? Full of checklists for parents, self funding for the arts. vate support for the arts. tests, quizzes and blueprints for better living, the book attempts to provide answers It would do well to reiterate the ob­ One cannot emphasize too strongly and prompt discussions within church jectives of the NEA as stated in the the importance and effectiveness of groups and among seminar participants who NEA Guide, which are to foster excel­ the NEA's panel review system for de­ might use it as a resource. lence in American arts, to help create termining who shall receive NEA At a time when the tired phrase "What's a climate in which the arts can flour­ grants. The Presidential Task Force your problem?" has been elevated to cliche ish, to preserve our cultural heritage on the Arts and Humanities emphati- March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5457 cally endorsed the panel review proc­ HOUSE DISCHARGE PETITIONS of Newark, N.J .• in my congressional ess, stating that it"* • • has proved to NOS. 10 AND 11 district, as one of a new class of well be a fair and effective system for educated law enforcement personnel grantmaking at both Endowments." serving our cities. I was interested to The report also recognized the impor­ HON. GARY A. LEE read Director Williams' insightful tant catalytic functions served by the OF NEW YORK comments and I commend the article panels in encouraging private support IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to my colleagues. and in providing a stamp of approval Wednesday, March 24, 1982 Mr. Speaker, I ask that it be includ­ ed in the RECORD as follows: by which potential private supporters • Mr. LEE. Mr. Speaker, colleagues, I can recognize merit. am today presenting to the Clerk of THE FuTURE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT By its very nature, art is experimen­ the House discharge petitions Nos. 10 tal-a risky business, some would say. and 11. They ask that this House be It is 15 years since the President's Com­ It is the rare corporation that has an given the opportunity to see, and con­ mission on Law Enforcement and Adminis­ tration of Justice reported that law enforce­ understanding of the arts that reaches sider, bills which I introduced back in ment agencies in the U.S. needed reform. beyond its public relations value. Yet, October which I believe can provide a We asked Julie Lewin, former executive as­ traditional private contributors to the significant new emphasis on restoring sistant to the Connecticut commissioner of arts will support experimental, innova­ the integrity of the House itself. correction, to examine what progress, if any, tive, or emerging arts ventures if they The first deals with House Joint has been made across the land. have received approval from the re­ Resolution 344, an amendment to the In San Jose, the guy with the badge has a Constitution. The second with H.R. Ph. D. from Harvard, won with his disserta­ spected professionals serving on NEA tion on "Organizational Decision-Making panels. The continued support of 4807, a bill to accomplish the same purpose. and Public Policy: An Analysis of Police these experimental undertakings is es­ Drug Enforcement." Their purpose, colleagues, is simple. In Minneapolis, an erst-while dishwasher sential to the continued health of They seek to defer-until the start of American art. If funding for the arts who has lectured at Harvard and Princeton the Congress following-any increase employs Socratic questioning in discussing diminishes further, arts groups may be in compensation for Members of Con­ minority police recruitment. forced to undertake only tried and gress. They would not make judg­ In Newark, a ghetto youth turned lawyer true projects and productions, in an ments about questions which should argues passionately against capital punish­ effort to increase attendance and reve­ remain the exclusive venue of Mem­ ment. nues. Such an eventuality would liter­ bers, the how much or why of specific In Madison, Wis., an ex-marine with de­ ally doom the American arts as our gTees in Russian studies and sociology amounts which a Member of Congress speaks on the relevance of Gandhi to myriad sources of creativity withered is to be paid. modem policing. on the proverbial vine. They would, however. prevent In Atlanta, a former field hand touts One of the NEA's missions is to anyone from receiving an increase police-community relations, which he wrote make the arts available to the widest before the voters have had the oppor­ about for his Ph. D. from the University of possible public. In these days of com­ tunity to decide whether he or she de­ California. bined inflation and recession, the price serves that increase. No longer may They are the new police chiefs, tough the personalities in each office be con­ street-comer cops who say they "just of admission to cultural events is soar­ needed a steady job." Most are Ivy League ing beyond the reach of most Ameri­ sidered to have created compensation educated, and all are intellectual. They are cans. An outing to a concert for a changes. For once, the office can be part of a gTowing gTOUP that wants to revo­ family of four can cost upward of $75. considered paramount instead of the lutionize policing. If the arts are not to become the prov­ officeholder. "Years ago, a young man could be made a This is not a new idea. As a matter cop by barely being literate," says Patrick ince of the wealthy alone, the Federal of fact, it is older than the Congress Murphy, who heads the Police Foundation Government must continue to play a itself. In 1789, our original Bill of in Washington, D.C. The foundation, cre­ prominent role in its support. Rights carried these same 24 words. It ated in 1970, has undermined some of law Programs that bring cultural events was not ratified, however, because enforcement's most cherished beliefs. to those who otherwise would be To the old guard, research is a curse and back then the States would not believe its supporters heretical "eggheads." But to unable to see or afford them find that Members could so flagrantly defy the new chiefs and their rank-and-file fol­ themselves in mortal danger. The reason by approving raises that the lowers, it carries a wide range of blessings elimination of touring programs is voters could not tolerate. that are helping them bring about spectacu­ being seriously contemplated in an These measures have been available, lar reforms. effort to trim budgets. Orchestras that and in committee, since introduction. The top cops emerged from a push toward used to visit rural areas and perform There is no better time than now to police professionalism that began in the late 1960s, when a national crime commission for schoolchildren may no longer be begin stating our demands, that these convened by President Lyndon B. Johnson able to provide these services. be brought to us for action before the revealed that the nation's 17,000 police de­ The demise of the expansion arts integrity of this body is eroded any partments were "essentially unsophisticat­ program would not only result in vio­ more. ed, lethargic, erratic and inefficient," says lations of the Endowment's stated Thank you for your help.e Gerald M. Caplan, former director of the National Institute of Justice, a federal re­ goals, but it would also consign Ameri­ search agency. can arts to a living death. A TRIBUTE TO HUBERT Many millions of federal dollars were sub­ We are living in stressful times­ WILLIAMS sequently pumped into police training, edu­ times that call for tender ministra­ cation and research. After 15 years of feder­ tions to our country's battered spirit. al loans for tuition assistance and incen­ That spirit is deftly expressed through HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. tives, perhaps 250,000 cops . Newark's director of police, who co­ that there would be significant biparti­ role in conservation operated with the Police Foundation and san opposition to a budget that was R&D." As for the administration's Harvard in the study. "But we also found skewed in this fashion. The letter claim that the marketplace will pro­ that the presence of foot patrol significant­ vide incentives for conservation re­ ly increases citizens' feelings of safety and stated that the OMB budget proposal mobility." "underscores once again that while search, the Board rejects the premise. Williams, who grew up in a slum, eventu­ your administration is more than will­ The administration is also ignoring ally landed in the Newark Police Depart­ ing to let marketplace principles apply the advice of the Georgetown Univer­ ment. He later became a law school fellow to conservation and renewable energy, sity Center for Strategic and Interna­ at Harvard. He has a degree from Rutgers these same principles are waived for tional Studies, a group composed of Law School. nuclear power. This lack of consisten­ many of the advisers on Reagan's Williams is vice president of Law Enforce­ cy, apart from being unsound national energy transition team. They conclud­ ment Against Death, an association against capital punishment. "Historically, the death energy policy, will impede your effort ed in a recent report that "the Presi­ penalty did not deter even Colonial pick­ to bring the budget under control." dent's failure to take the energy crisis pockets," he says, "and recent studies con­ We urged the President to intervene seriously is a prescription for disaster firm its impotence as a crime deterrent. I and redirect the priorities of the draft later this decade." think representatives of the law have a spe­ budget document before submitting Mr. Speaker, this Nation cannot cial obligation to fight it." the formal request to Congress. afford to abandon the balanced energy March 2,4, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5459 policy crafted over the past decade Billy Tauzin, Bob Traxler, Morris K. SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS with the hard work of both political Udall, Bruce F. Vento, Harold L. Volkmer, Doug Walgren, Harold Washington, Henry Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, parties. We cannot afford to be lulled A. Waxman, Jim Weaver, Ed Weber, Ted agreed to by the Senate on February into complacency by the current oil Weiss, Pat Williams, Charles Wilson, Timo­ 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a glut. I think this resolution and its thy E. Wirth, Howard Wolpe, Ron Wyden, system for a computerized schedule of broad list of cosponsors demonstrates Sydney R. Yates.e all meetings and hearings of Senate that once again Congress will reject Whereas the Congress over the past committees, subcommittees, joint com­ the administration's budget proposals decade has sought to establish a national mittees, and committees of conference. and will maintain its commitment to energy policy that pursues a balanced and This title requires all such committees vital energy conservation and renew­ broad-based range of programs for new and alternative energy technologies; to notify the Office of the Senate able energy programs. Daily Digest-designated by the Rules The text of the resolution and the Whereas relieving our dependence on for­ Committee-of the time, place, and list of original cosponsors follow: eign oil is vital to our national security and international stability; purpose of the meetings, when sched­ H. RES. 409 Whereas the conservation of energy has uled, and any cancellations or changes Resolution to restore balance in the Federal substantially improved our energy security, in the meetings as they occur. energy budget and is the cheapest, quickest, cleanest and As an additional procedure along LIST OF COSPONSORS safest means of relieving our dependence on with the computerization of this infor­ Joseph P. Addabbo, Daniel K. Ak.aka, imported oil; mation, the Office of the Senate Daily Frank Annunzio, Les .Aspin, Les AuCoin, Mi­ Whereas renewable energy resources Digest will prepare this information chael D. Barnes, Berkley Bedell, Anthony C. afford the potential to significantly improve for printing in the Extensions of Re­ Beilenson, Mario Biaggi, Jonathan B. our energy security; marks section of the CONGRESSIONAL Bingham, Lindy Boggs, David Bonior, Don Whereas conservation and renewable re­ RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of Bonker, William M. Brodhead, George E. sources are potential energy resources each week. Brown, Phillip Burton, Bill Chappell, Shir­ which market forces will not fully or quick­ ley Chisholm, Don H. Clausen, William ly utilize without adequate information and Any changes in committee schedul­ Clay, Cardiss Collins, John Conyers, Jr., federal support: ing will be indicated by placement of Baltasar Corrada, George W. Crockett, Jr., Whereas in 1981 the cost of energy to the an asterisk to the left of the name of Norman E. d'Amours, Thomas A. Daschle, economy of the United States was approxi­ the unit conducting such meetings. Larry DeNardis, Norman Dicks, John D. mately $400 billion and the direct cost of Meetings scheduled for Thursday, Dingell, Julian C. Dixon. imported oil was approximately $77 billion; March 25, 1982, may be found in the Byron L. Dorgan, Thomas J. Downey, Jim Dunn, Mervyn M. Dymally, Dennis Eckart, Whereas the Congress has mandated in Daily Digest of today's REcoRD. Bob Edgar, Don Edwards, David Emery, the Department of Energy Organization Arlen Erdahl, John G. Fary, Dante B. Fas­ Act, the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Re­ MEETINGS ScHEDULED cell, Vic Fazio, Millicent Fenwick, Geraldine search and Development Act, the Solar A. Ferraro, Hamilton Fish, Jr., James J. Energy Research, Development and Demon­ MARCH26 Florio, Thomas M. Foglietta, Harold E. stration Act, the Energy Policy and Conser­ vation Act, the Energy Conservation and 9:00a.m. Ford, William D. Ford, Wyche Fowler, Jr., Commerce, Science, and Transportation Barney Frank, Martin Frost, Don Fuqua, Production Act, the National Energy Con­ servation Policy Act, the Energy Security To hold hearings on proposed legislation Robert Garcia, Samuel Gejdenson, Sam authorizing funds for fiscal year 1983 Gibbons, Benjamin A. Gilman, Newt Ging­ Act, and authorizations of the Department of Energy that strong, effective energy con­ for the U.S. Coast Guard, Department rich, Dan Glickman, Henry B. Gonzalez. of Transportation. AI Gore, William H. Gray, Bill Green, servation and renewable energy programs be carried out by the Department of 235 Russell Building Frank J. Guarini, Ralph M. Hall, Tony P. Judiciary Hall, Lee H. Hamilton, Tom Harkin, Charles Energy; Hatcher, Augustus F. Hawkins, Margaret M. Whereas, in the Omnibus Budget Recon­ To hold oversight hearings to review the ciliation Act of 1981, the Congress provided effects of merger policy on the nation­ Heckler, Ken Holland, Harold C. Hollen­ al railroad system, focusing on the beck, Frank Horton, James Howard, Steny for an energy conservation program of over H. Hoyer, Carroll Hubbard, William J. $500 Il'illion, and a renewable energy pro­ Burlington Northern Railroad. Hughes, Andrew Jacobs, James M. Jeffords, gram of over $300 million for fiscal year 2228 Dirksen Building Ed Jenkins, Robert W. Kastenmeier, Bar­ 1982; 9:30a.m. bara Kennelly, Dale E. Kildee, John J. La­ Whereas 1982 appropriation Acts provided Appropriations Falce, William Lehman, Mickey Leland, El­ funding of over $385 million for energy con­ Agriculture, Rural Development and Re­ liott Levitas, Clarence D. Long, Mike Lowry. servation activities, and over $375 million lated Agencies Subcommittee Stanley N. Lundine, Edward J. Markey, for renewable energy activities; and To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Robert T. Matsui, Jim Mattox, Nicholas timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Whereas the Department of Energy has Food and Nutrition Service, Depart­ Mavroules, Romano Mazzoli, Paul N. requested less than $22 million for its entire McCloskey, Dave McCurdy, Matthew ment of Agriculture. energy conservation program and less than 1318 Dirksen Building McHugh, Stewart B. McKinney, Barbara A. $83 million for renewable energy efforts in Mikulski, George Miller, Norman Mineta, Labor and Human Resources fiscal year 1983, representing 1 percent and Employment and Productivity Subcom­ Joseph G. Minish, Parren J. Mitchell, Joe 4 percent respectively of the request for Moakley, Anthony Toby Moffett, Ronald M. mittee energy technologies: Now, therefore, be it To resume hearings on productivity in Mottl, William Natcher, Stephen L. Neal, Resolved, That the House of Representa­ Bill Nelson, Henry Nowak, Mary Rose the American economy. tives strongly reaffirms that the Federal 4232 Dirksen Building Oakar, James L. Oberstar, Leon E. Panetta, Government should demonstrate its com­ Jerry Patterson, Carl Perkins, Donald J. 10:00 a.m. mitment to energy conservation and renew­ Environment and Public Works Pease, Claude Pepper, Peter A. Peyser, able energy by restoring balance to the De­ Melvin Price, Joel Pritchard. To hold hearings on proposed legislation partment of Energy's fiscal year 1983 authorizing funds for fiscal year 1983 Tom Railsback, Charles B. Rangel, Wil­ budget by- liam R. Ratchford, Frederick W. Richmond, for the public buildings program of Matthew J. Rinaldo, Robert A. Roe, Benja­ <1 > maintaining a strong funding base for the General Services Administration. min S. Rosenthal, Edward R. Roybal, energy conservation and renewable energy; 4200 Dirksen Building Martin Olav Sabo, Jim Santini, James H. <2> continuing funding for the weatheriza­ Foreign Relations Scheuer, Claudine Schneider, Patricia tion of low-income residences, schools, and Closed briefing to discuss United States­ Schroeder, Charles E. Schumer, John F. hospitals; and China-Taiwan relations. Seiberling, Bob Shamansky, James M. <3> promoting conservation and renewable S-116, Capitol Shannon, Philip R. Sharp, Paul Simon, energy by providing for the distribution of 11:00 a.m. Joseph F. Smith, Neal Smith, Olympia essential information to citizens and busi­ Armed Services Snowe, Stephen Solarz, Fortney H. Stark, nesses which enables them to increase effi­ To hold open and closed hearings on Louis Stokes, Gerry E. Studds, Fofo Sunia, ciency of energy use and utilize renewable allied contributions to Western de· A1 Swift, Mike Synar, Thomas J. Tauke. energy. fense and the implications of U.S. 5460 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 force withdrawals from Western Appropriations for the U.S. Coast Guard of the De­ Europe. Energy and Water Development Subcom­ partment of Transportation. 1114 Dirksen Building mittee 1224 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on proposed budget Environment and Public Works MARCH29 estimates for fiscal year 1983 for Business meeting, to resume markup of 9:00a.m. energy and water development pro­ proposed amendments to the Clean Commerce, Science, and Transportation grams. Air Act . Business meeting, to consider pending 1114 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building calendar business. Judiciary 10:30 a.m. 235 Russell Building To resume oversight hearings on certain Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 9:30a.m. activities of the Public Integrity Sec­ Soil and Water Conservation Subcommit­ Finance tion of the Department of Justice, fo­ tee Savings, Pensions and Investment Policy cusing on the investigation of alleged To hold oversight hearings on the im­ Subcommittee bribery attempts by Robert Vesco. 2228 Dirksen Building plementation of the Resource Conser­ To hold hearings on S. 2105 and S. 2106, vation Act . bills providing for pension reform for 324 Russell Building State and local public employee retire­ MARCH30 11:00 a.m. ment systems. 9:00a.m. Foreign Relations 2221 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources Business meeting, to consider pending 10:00 a.m. Energy Conservation and Supply Subcom­ calendar business. Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry mittee S-116, Capitol To hold hearings on proposed legislation To hold oversight hearings to review 11:30 a.m. authorizing funds for fiscal year 1983 budget proposals for fiscal year 1983 •veterans' Affairs for the food stamp program. for energy conservation programs of To hold hearings to receive Veterans of 324 Russell Building the Department of Energy, focusing Foreign Wars legislative recommenda­ Appropriations on state grant, research and develop­ tions for fiscal year 1983. Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ ment, and solar energy programs. 318 Russell Building committee 3110 Dirksen Building 2:00p.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Foreign Relations Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1983 and pro­ Closed briefing on the administration's Energy and Water Development Subcom­ posed supplemental appropriations for plans for beginning the START talks mittee fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, and possible negotiating strategies. To continue hearings on proposed for the Civil Aeronautics Board. S-116, Capitol 9:30a.m. budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 1318 Dirksen Building for energy and water development pro­ Armed Services Appropriations Closed business meeting, to mark up S. Agriculture, Rural Development and Re­ grams. 2248, authorizing funds for fiscal year lated Agencies Subcommittee 1114 Dirksen Building 1983 for military procurement pro­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Judiciary grams of the Department of Defense. timates for fiscal year 1983 for the To continue oversight hearings on cer­ 212 Russell Building Foreign Agricultural Service, Food for tain activities of the Public Integrity Peace program . and the Mine Safety 9:00a.m. committee and Health Administration, Depart­ Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ ment of Labor. Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ timates for fiscal year 1983 and pro­ 1114 Dirksen Building tee posed supplemental appropriations for To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, APRIL 23 for the Federal Railroad Administra­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the tion of the Department of Transporta­ 9:30a.m. Office of the Federal Inspector, tion, and Amtrak. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Alaska Natural Gas Transportation 1318 Dirksen Building Consumer Affairs Subcommittee System, Bureau of Mines of the De­ partment of the Interior, and the Na­ Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings on the role of the Fed­ eral Reserve Board in the operation of tional Endowment for the Arts. Business meeting, to consider pending 1318 Dirksen Building calendar business. automated clearinghouse services. 3110 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building 9:30a.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.m. Appropriations Securities Subcommittee Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ To hold hearings on S. 1869, S. 1870, S. mittee Labor, HHS, Education, and Related To hold hearings on S. 1889, authorizing Agencies Subcommittee 1871, and S. 1977, bills revising or re­ funds for fiscal years 1983 and 1984 To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ pealing certain provisions of the for the establishment of a national in­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for Bureau Public Utility Holding Company Act stitution to promote international of Labor Statistics, departmental man­ of 1935. peace and resolution of international agement services, and the President's 5302 Dirksen Building conflict. Committee on Employment of the 10:00 a.m. 4232 Dirksen Building Handicapped, Department of Labor. Appropriations 2:00p.m. 1114 Dirksen Building HOD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Environment and Public Works Appropriations tee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Transportation Subcommittee Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ To continue hearings on proposed legis­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Na­ lation authorizing funds for the Feder­ committee tional Science Foundation. al aid highway program, To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 1224 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1983 and pro­ Appropriations posed supplemental appropriations for Labor, HHS, Education, and Related APRIL 22 fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, Agencies Subcommittee for the Urban Mass Transportation 9:00a.m. To hold oversight hearings on programs Appropriations Administration, Department of Trans­ of the Departments of Labor. Health Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ portation. and Human Services, Education, and tee 1318 Dirksen Building related agencies. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Labor and Human Resources 1114 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1983 for certain Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ Energy and Natural Resources functions of the Forest Service, De­ mittee Business meeting, to consider pending partment of Agriculture. To hold hearings on S. 2002, proposed calendar business. 1318 Dirksen Building Bilingual Education Amendments of 3110 Dirksen Building 9:30a.m. 1981, and other related proposals. Environment and Public Works Appropriations 4232 Dirksen Building State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, Business meeting, to consider proposed and Related Agencies Subcommittee legislation authorizing funds for pro­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ APRIL26 grams which fall under its legislative timates for fiscal year 1983 for certain 10:00 a.m. jurisdiction. programs which fall within the juris­ Appropriations 4200 Dirksen Building diction of the subcommittee, receiving Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ 2:00p.m testimony from public witnesses. committee Appropriations S-146, Capitol To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Labor and Human Resources timates for fiscal year 1983 and pro­ Agencies Subcommittee Aging, Family and Human Services Sub­ posed supplemental appropriations for To continue oversight hearings on pro­ committee fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, grams of the Departments of Labor, To hold hearings on promoting volun­ for the Federal Aviation Administra­ Health and Human Services, Educa­ tarism in America. tion of the Department of Transporta­ tion, and related agencies. 4232 Dirksen Building tion. 1114 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. 1318 Dirksen Building APRIL28 Appropriations Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Energy and Natural Resources 9:30a.m. Agencies Subcommitte Energy Regulation Subcommittee Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold oversight hearings to review State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary timates for fiscal year 1983 for the programs administered by the Office and Related Agencies Subcommittee Labor-Management Services Adminis­ of Federal Inspector, Alaska Natural To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ tration, Pension Benefit Guaranty Gas Transportation System, and the timates for fiscal year 1983 for certain Corporation, and the Employment Economic Regulatory Administration programs which fall within the juris­ Standards Administration, Depart­ and Federal Energy Regulatory Com­ diction of the subcommittee, receiving ment of Labor. mission, Department of Energy. testimony from public witnesses. 1114 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building S-146, Capitol Environment and Public Works Environment and Public Works 10:00 a.m. Environmental Pollution Subcommittee Environmental Pollution Subcommittee Appropriations Business meeting, to mark up S. 1018, To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ Labor, HHS, Education, and Related prohibiting the Federal Government tions for programs of the Resource Agencies Subcommittee from funding commercial and residen­ Conservation and Recovery Act. To continue oversight hearings on pro­ grams of the Departments of Labor, tial growth on undeveloped barrier 4200 Dirksen Building beaches and islands. Health and Human Services. Educa­ 4200 Dirksen Building Labor and Human Resources tion, and related agencies. 2:00p.m. Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ 1114 Dirksen Building Appropriations mittee Appropriations Labor, HHS, Education, and Related To resume hearings on S. 2002, proposed Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ Agencies Subcommittee Bilingual Education Amendments of committee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 1981, and other related proposals. To hold hearings to receive testimony timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Oc- 4232 Dirksen Building from Congressional and public wit- 5464 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 nesses on proposed budget estimates Appropriations 9:30a.m. for fiscal year 1983 and proposed sup­ Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ Labor and Human Resources plemental appropriations for fiscal committee To hold oversight hearings on activities year ending September 30, 1982 for To hold hearings to receive testimony of the Equal Employment Opportuni­ certain transportation programs. from Congressional and public wit­ ty Commission. nesses on proposed budget estimates 1318 Dirksen Building 4232 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources for fiscal year 1983 and proposed sup­ plemental appropriations for fiscal 10:00 a.m. Business meeting, to consider pending year ending September 30, 1982, on Appropriations calendar business. certain transportation programs. Labor, HHS. Education and Related Agen­ 3110 Dirksen Building 1224 Dirksen Building cies Subcommittee LP,bor and Human Resources Environment and Public Works To hold hearings to receive testimony Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ Business meeting, to mark up S. 1018, from public witnesses on proposed mittee prohibiting the Federal Government budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 To hold oversight hearings on the im­ from funding commercial and residen­ for certain programs under the sub­ plementation of' guidance and counsel­ tial growth on undeveloped barrier committee's jurisdiction. ing programs of the Department of beaches and islands. 1114 Dirksen Building Education. 4200 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources 4232 Dirksen Building 10:30 a.m. Business meeting, to consider pending 1:30 p.m. Veterans' Affairs calendar business. Conferees To hold hearings to receive AMVETS 3110 Dirksen Building legislative recommendations for fiscal On S. 1193, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1983. Environment and Public Works years 1982 and 1983 for the Depart­ Room to be announced Business meeting, to resume consider­ ment of State, authorizing funds for 1:30 p.m. ation of proposed legislation authoriz­ fiscal year 1982 for the Arms Control Conferees ing funds for programs which fall and Disarmament Agency, authorizing On S. 1193, authorizing funds for fiscal under its legislative jurisdiction. funds for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 years 1982 and 1983 for the Depart­ 4200 Dirksen Building for the International Communications ment of State, authorizing funds for 2:00p.m. Agency, and authorizing funds for fiscal year 1982 for the Arms Control Appropriations fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the and Disarmament Agency, authorizing Labor, HHS, Education. and Related Board for International Broadcasting. funds for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 Agencies Subcommittee S-116, Capitol for the International Communications To hold hearings to receive testimony 2:00p.m. Agency, and authorizing funds for from public witnesses on proposed Appropriations fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Board for International Broadcasting. for certain programs under the sub­ Agencies Subcommittee S-116, Capitol committee's jurisdiction. To continue oversight hearings on pro­ 2:00p.m. 1114 Dirksen Building grams of the Departments of Labor, Appropriations Health and Human Services, Educa­ Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee MAYS tion, and related agencies. 9:30a.m. 1114 Dirksen Building To continue oversight hearings on pro­ grams of the Departments of Labor, Commerce, Science, and Transportation APRIL29 Health and Human Services, Educa­ To hold hearings on the nominations of tion, and related agencies. Vice Admiral James S. Gracey, U.S. 9:00a.m. 1114 Dirksen Building Coast Guard, to be Commandant, and Appropriations Rear Admiral Benedict L. Stabile, U.S. Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ APRIL30 Coast Guard, to Vice Commandant, tee 10:00 a.m. each for the U.S. Coast Guard. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations 235 Russell Building timates for fiscal year 1983 for fossil Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ Labor and Human Resources research and development and fossil committee Business meeting, to consider pending construction programs of the Depart­ To hold hearings to receive testimony ment of Energy. calendar business. from Congressional and public wit­ 4232 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building nesses on proposed budget estimates 9:30a.m. for fiscal year 1983 and proposed sup­ 10:00 a.m. Appropriations plemental appropriations for fiscal Appropriations State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, year ending September 30, 1982, for BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ and Related Agencies Subcommittee certain transportation programs. tee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 1318 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for inter­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Na­ national organizations, Securities and MAY3 tional Aeronautics and Space Adminis­ Exchange Commission, and the Feder­ 2:00p.m. tration. al Trade Commission. Appropriations 1224 Dirksen Building S-146, Capitol Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Appropriations Judiciary Agencies Subcommittee Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Criminal Law Subcommittee To hold hearings to receive testimony Agencies Subcommittee To resume hearings on proposals provid­ from public witnesses on proposed To hold hearings to receive testimony ing for a ban on the manufacture or budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 from public witnesses on proposed sale of nonsporting handguns, manda­ for certain programs under the sub­ budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 tory sentences for the use of a firearm committee's jurisdiction. for certain programs under the sub­ in committing a felony, and a preclear­ 1114 Dirksen Building committee's jurisdiction. ance procedure for the sale or transfer 1114 Dirksen Building of any handgun. MAY4 9:00a.m. Energy and Natural Resources Room to be announced Business meeting, to consider pending 10:00 a.m. Appropriations Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ calendar business. Appropriations tee 3110 Dirksen Building Labor, HHS, Education, and Related To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 2:00p.m. Agencies Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Appropriations To continue oversight hearings on pro­ Smithsonian Institution, Woodrow Labor, HHS, Education. and Related grams of the Departments of Labor, Wilson International Center for Schol­ Agencies Subcommittee Health and Human Services, Educa­ ars. and the Advisory Council on His­ To hold hearings to receive testimony tion, and related agencies. toric Preservation. from public witnesses on proposed 1114 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 March 24, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5465 for certain programs under the sub­ tiona! Endowment for the Humanities, Environment and Public Works committee's jurisdiction. Institute of Museum Services, and the Business meeting, to consider pending 1114 Dirksen Building Office of Surface Mining, Department calendar business. of the Interior. MAY6 1114 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building 9:00a.m. 9:30a.m. Select on Indian Affairs Appropriations Appropriations To hold oversight hearings on the im­ Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ State. Justice, Commerce. the Judiciary plementation of Indian education pro­ tee and Related Agencies Subcommittee grams. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 6226 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1983 for the timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Ju­ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Depart­ diciary. ment of the Interior, and the National S-146, Capitol MAY19 Capital Planning Commission. Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.m. 1318 Dirksen Building Aging, Family and Human Services Sub­ Appropriations committee Commerce, Science, and Transportation BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ To hold hearings on the extended tee Communications Subcommittee family. To hold hearings on S. 604, requiring all 4232 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on proposed new telephone receivers to be 10:00 a.m. budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 equipped with hearing aids for the Appropriations for the Department of Housing and handicapped. BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Urban Development, and the Neigh­ 235 Russell Building tee borhood Reinvestment Corporation. 9:30a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 1224 Dirksen Building Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Na­ Select on Indian Affairs State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary tional Institute of Building Sciences, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and To continue oversight hearings on the To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ National Credit Union Administration. implementation of Indian education timates for fiscal year 1983 for the 1224 Dirksen Building programs. care of the U.S. Supreme Court Build­ Energy and Natural Resources 6226 Dirksen Building ing by the Architect of the Capitol, Business meeting, to consider pending U.S. International Trade Commission, calendar business. MAY24 Federal Maritime Commission, and 3110 Dirksen Building the Marine Mammal Commission. 10:00 a.m. S-146, Capitol Environment and Public Works Appropriations Labor and Human Resources Business meeting, to resume consider­ BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Business meeting, to consider pending ation of proposed legislation authoriz­ tee ing funds for programs which fall calendar business. To receive testimony from public wit­ 4232 Dirksen Building under its legislative jurisdiction. 4200 Dirksen Building nesses on proposed budget estimates 10:00 a.m. for fiscal year 1983 for certain pro­ Appropriations MAY12 grams under the subcommittee's juris­ Labor, HHS, Education, and Related diction. Agencies Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings to receive testimony Energy and Natural Resources 1224 Dirksen Building from public witnesses on proposed Business meeting, to consider pending budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 calendar business. MAY25 for certain programs under the sub­ 3110 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. committee's jurisdiction. Appropriations 1114 Dirksen Building MAY13 BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Environment and Public Works 9:00a.m. tee Business meeting, to resume consider­ Appropriations ation of proposed legislation authoriz­ Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ To receive testimony from public wit­ ing funds for programs which fall tee nesses on proposed budget estimates under its legislative jurisdiction. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ for fiscal year 1983 for certain pro­ 4200 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1983 for territo­ grams under the subcommittee's juris­ 2:00p.m. rial affairs of the Department of the diction. Appropriations Interior. 1224 Dirksen Building Labor, HHS, Education, and Related 1114 Dirksen Building Agencies Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. Environment and Public Works To hold hearings to receive testimony Environment and Public Works Business meeting, to consider pending from public witnesses on proposed Business meeting, to resume consider­ calendar business. budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 ation of proposed legislation authoriz­ 4200 Dirksen Building for certain programs under the sub­ ing funds for programs which fall committee's jurisdiction. under its legislative jurisdiction. JUNE9 1114 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building 1:30 p.m. 9:30a.m. MAY7 Appropriations Select on Indian Affairs 10:00 a.m. Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ To hold hearings on law enforcement Appropriations tee problems on Indian reservations in­ Labor, HHS, Education, and Related To continue hearings on proposed cluding the authority and effective­ Agencies Subcommittee budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 ness of the Bureau of Indian Affairs To hold hearings to receive testimony for territorial affairs of the Depart­ police, tribal police, and the Federal from congressional witnesses on pro­ ment of the Interior. Bureau of Investigation, and the qual­ posed budget estimates for fiscal year 1114 Dirksen Building tty of U.S. prosecution of criminal of­ 1983 for certain programs under the fenses. subcommittee's jurisdiction. MAY18 6226 Dirksen Building 1114 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Appropriations SEPTEMBER 21 MAY11 BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ 9:00a.m. tee 10:30 a.m. Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Veterans' Affairs Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the De­ To hold hearings to receive American tee partment of Housing and Urban De­ Legion legislative recommendations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ velopment. for fiscal year 1983. timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Na- 1224 Dirksen Building 318 Russell Building 5466 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 24, 1982 CANCELLATION a member of the Equal Employment Indiana, William J. Olson, of Virginia, Opportunity Commission, and William MARCH25 George E. Paras, of California, and L. Earl, of Florida, Harold R. DeMoss, Robert S. Stubbs II, of Georgia, each 2:00p.m. Jr., of Texas, Clarence V. McKee, of to be a member of the Board of Direc­ Labor and Human Resources the District of Columbhl, Marc Sand­ tors of the Legal Services Corporation. To hold hearings on the nominations of strom, of California, Howard H. Dana, Tony E. Gallegos, of California, to be Jr., of Maine, William F. Harvey, of 4232 Dirksen Building