March 10, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4103 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Monday, March 10, 1986 The House met at 12 o'clock noon That the House recede from its disagree And the Senate agree to the same. and was called to order by the Speaker ment to the amendment of the Senate and AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS, pro tempore [Mr. FOLEY]. agree to the same with an amendment as DALE E. KILDEE, follows: MAJOR R. OWENS, In lieu of the matter proposed to be in CARL c. PERKINS, DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO serted by the Senate amendment insert the TERRY L. BRUCE, TEMPORE following: DENNIS E. ECKART, The SPEAKER pro tempore laid That this Act may be cited as the "Older JAMES M. JEFFORDS, before the House the following com Americans Act Amendments of 1986". TOM COLEMAN, munication from the Speaker: COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION LEVEL OF ASSISTANCE TOM PETRI, PER MEAL TOMTAUKE, WASHINGTON, DC, SEC. 2. Section 311fa)(4J of the Older Managers on the Part of the House. March 6, 1986. I hereby designate the Honorable THOMAS Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3030a ORRIN HATCH, S. FOLEY to act as Speaker pro tempore on (a)(4JJ is amended- CHUCK GRASSLEY, Monday, March 10, 1986. (JJ by striking out "15 cents" and all that PAULA HAWKINS, THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr., follows through "30 cents per meal for", and EDWARD M. KENNEDY, inserting in lieu thereof "56. 76 cents per Speaker of the House of Representatives. SPARK MATSUNAGA, meal during fiscal year 1986 and during", Managers on the Part of the Senate. and PRAYER (2) by striking out "June 30, 1975" and in JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE serting in lieu thereof "September 30, 1986". The Chaplain, Rev. James David COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE Ford, D.D., offered the following AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS The managers on the part of the House prayer: SEC. 3. fa) There is authorized to be appro and the Senate at the conference on the dis priated $127,800,000 for fiscal year 1985, in agreeing votes of the two Houses on the Breathe into our souls, 0 gracious order to provide reimbursement at the level amendment of the Senate to the bill CH.R. God, the breath of life and fill our of 56. 76 cents per meal during fiscal year 2453) to amend the Older Americans Act of hearts with understanding that in all 1985, determined under section 311faJf4J of 1965 to increase the amounts authorized to things we will acknowledge the majes the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. be appropriated for fiscal years 1985, 1986, ty of Your creation and look to You 3030a(a)(4JJ, for meals served under section and 1987 for commodity distribution, and for guidance and direction. Forgive us 311 of such Act in such fiscal year. For pur for other purposes, submit the following when we stray from the path of right poses of subsections fa) and fbJ of section joint statement to the House and the eousness and give us the power to 311 of such Act, the sum authorized to be ap Senate in explanation of the effect of the propriated by this subsection shall be action agreed upon by the managers and amend our lives. That we walk the way deemed to have been authorized to be appro of justice, of mercy, and of peace. In recommended in the accompanying confer priated for fiscal year 1985 by section ence report: Your name, we pray. Amen. 311fc)(1) of such Act. For purposes of section 311fc)(l)(BJ of such Act, the date of the en The Senate amendment struck out all of actment of this Act shall be deemed to be the the House bill after the enacting clause and THE JOURNAL last day of each quarter of fiscal. year 1985 inserted a substitute text. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The for which reimbursement is claimed. The House recedes from its disagreement Chair has examined the Journal of fb) Subparagraph fAJ of section 311fc)(1J to the amendment of the Senate with an of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 amendment which is a substitute for the the last day's proceedings and an House bill and the Senate amendment. The nounces to the House his approval U.S.C. 3030a(c)(l)(AJJ is amended to read as follows: differences between the House bill, the thereof. "(A)(i) There are authorized to be appro Senate amendment, and the substitute Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the priated $144,000,000 for fiscal year 1986 and agreed to in conference are noted below, Journal stands approved. $144,000,000 for fiscal year 1987 to carry out except for clerical corrections, conforming this section (other than subsection fa)(JJ). changes made necessary by agreements "(ii) The provisions of the second and reached by the conferees, and minor draft CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. third sentences of subsection fa)(4) shall not ing and clarifying changes. 2453, OLDER AMERICANS ACT apply for fiscal years 198 6 and 198 7. ". EARLY NOTIFICATION TO THE STATES AMENDMENTS OF 1986 INFORMATION REGARDING FEDERAL FOOD Senate amendment Mr. KILDEE submitted the follow PROCESSING PROGRAMS ing conference report and statement SEC. 4. Section 311 of the Older Americans The Senate bill requires the Secretary of on the bill when appropriated amounts are crease the amounts authorized to be insufficient, and reductions are required in appropriated for fiscal years 1985, "fd) In each fiscal year, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and the cents per meal reimbursement as estab .1986, and 1987 for commodity distribu Human Services shall jointly disseminate to lished. tion, and for other purposes: State agencies, area agencies on aging, and House bill CONFERENCE REPORT CH. REPT. 99-487) providers of nutrition services assisted No provision. The committee of conference on the dis under this title, information concerning- agreeing votes of the two Houses on the "(JJ the existence of any Federal commodi ConJerence agreement amendment of the Senate to the bill 0 This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., D 1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 4104 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 10, 1986 AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS signed to ensure that the United [From the Washington Post, Mar. 9, 19861 House bill States has the same access to basic re WHITE HOUSE RAISES STAKES AS CONTRA The House bill provides authorization for search and technology developed in VOTE LoOMS-KEY HOUSE MEMBERS STILL such sums as may be necessary to provide other countries as our overseas com UNPERSUADED reimbursement at the level of 56. 76 cents petitors have to technology that is de Hefner . "That's where messing around with an untrained, dis the climate has changed-not only in the permission to address the House for 1 organized peasant army when we have South, but all across the nation." minute and to revise and extend his our own forces?" As a result, many Democrats and Republi remarks.) Mr. Speaker, let us support the free cans said that the March 19 vote is likely to Mr. WYDEN. Mr. Speaker, today I be the beginning rather than the end of this am introducing legislation that is de- dom fighters and avoid this specter. year's battle over aid to the contras .
• March 10, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4105 Ultimately, some said, there is likely to be Rep. Steven Gunderson . a key moderate involved in compro $100 million to rebel military forces in a for or 6 years we have pursued a policy in mise efforts. eign country while his constituents face cut Central America in which we have put Much of the current opposition among backs in domestic programs. not millions but hundreds of millions Democrats stems from assurances they said "One problem is the president has made of dollars. We call them training exer Reagan made when the House, after earlier the issue $100 million," he said. "Every one rejecting military aid, approved the $27 mil of my constituents understands that if you cises. We do have American troops lion nonlethal aid package last June 12 by a get the same amount in 1987 as you did in there. Yet the fact of the matter is vote of 248 to 184. 1986, you're doing well. This is not the year that our goal remains one that is, I Chief among those assurances were to ask for an increase." think, cloudy, that is murky. We start pledges of diplomatic efforts, both directly Others among last year's swing voters are ed out trying to limit weapons into El with the Sandinista government in Mana clearly lost to Reagan. Salvador but today I think the motive gua and through the four-nation Contadora Rep. Thomas J. Tauke , a leader of this administration in supporting group, to find a peaceful solution. of the so-called "92 Group" of House Re publican moderates, said he is more con the Contras is one that we should not Rep. William B. Richardson find peaceful solutions, seems bent on a will be helpful in resolving that problem BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, March 9.-President military campaign. They say he bills the and I suspect it could drive the people of Belisario Betancur, a leading opponent of campaign as essential to curbing commu Central America toward the Sandinistas," military intervention in Central America, nism before it reaches America's doorstep he said. says the Reagan administration's request but that it has little guarantee of success Lott, whose job as GOP whip is to count for $100 million in aid to anti-Sandinista no matter how much money is appropri the votes, said that to win, Reagan must Nicaraguan rebels is "wrong" and "will not pick up 12 to 20 of the 40 House Republi produce good results." ated-and no endorsement from the leaders cans who defected in last year's vote on mili of other Central American nations, includ tary aid and enjoy the support of at least 50 In an interview, the Colombian leader, a ing the democracies. founder of the Contadora group of eight Democrats, 10 more than last year. Latin American states proposing a negotiat "I wouldn't have a bit of trouble with If the administration is defeated on whatever [amount of military aid] it's going March 19, he said, "My recommendation ed peace in Central America, said "all of to take to win," said Rep. Charles W. Sten will be that we walk away from it and say Latin America doesn't like the Reagan pro holm refused to compro matter.) that privately they are sympathetic with mise on the current proposal, which Mccur the U.S. anti-Sandinista campaign. dy likened in part to "a $70 million blank Mr. VENTO. Mr. Speaker, do words Betancur's firm opposition was expressed check" for military operations. have any meaning or not? during a 45-minute interview Friday assess On the Republican side, Reagan enjoys The fact is with regard to the admin ing his four-year term in office, which ends strong support among southern and most istration's $100 million program re in August. Colombians went to the polls western conservatives. But most of the GOP quest almost every Central and South today to elect a new Congress in a vote that swing voters are moderates from the Mid American leader including Mexico has foreshadows presidential elections in May. west and Northeast, and here the results so spoken out in opposition to this. But The Colombian constitution prevents presi far are mixed. Even some who say they will the fact of the matter is the adminis dents from seeking a second consecutive vote for military aid appear to be less than term. enthusiastic. tration does not listen, they jump to A man of peasant background and popu One is Rep. Lynn M. Martin 71--059 0-87-35 (Pt. 3) 4106 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE March 10, 1986 having disintegrated in the face of mount trasting nature of various groups. F ARC, Jack Javits was considered a "Senate ing guerrilla warfare in Colombia and for instance, which Betancur said represents man." He believed in the institution heightened tensions between the United 90 percent of the insurgents, is linked to the and was committed to giving his States and Nicaragua. He said he had estab Communist Party, while the M19 is a na lished an "anti-Vietnam approach" to armed tionalist force with no clear international utmost to fulfill his obligations to his conflict in the region, an approach of "dia ideological connections. constituents and the American people. logue and agreement" that, he added, is now Moreover, said Betancur, violence has Once, when asked about his intense irreversible, at least in Columbia. been chronic in Colombia. "We are trying to energy, he responded: "It is also the philosophy of the Conta solve a problem 40 years old," said the presi You must remember, my own philosophy dora group," he said. "It consists in telling dent. "That not possible overnight. What is that you don't belong only to yourself. the guerrilla groups in Central America: I'm satisfied with is having brought the You have an obligation to the society which Why not talk, why not search for diplomatic peace process to a point of no return." protected you when you were brought into solutions and negotiate?" Betancur said investment in poor regions the world, which taught you, which sup The Contadora process is stalled at the where guerrillas recruit will be the govern ported and nurtured you. You have an obli moment over the refusal of the Sandinistas ment's best defense against subversion. He gation to repay it. to talk with the rebels known as contras said legislation passed last year authorizing Mr. Speaker, I knew Senator Javits short for counterrevolutionaries-and U.S. the election instead of appointment of refusal to resume conversations with the mayors starting in 1988, and facilitating the well. During most of my service in the Nicaraguan government under existing cir formation of new parties, will widen partici House of Representatives, Senator cumstances. pation in politics. Javits served in the Senate. It was my Despite Betancur's emphasis on negotiat pleasure and honor to work closely ed solutions, his own room to maneuver with him over those years. He was with guerrilla groups in Colombia was dra THE HONORABLE JACOB JAVITS truly a giant among those who have matically called into question last Novem served in the Senate. ber, when security forces stormed Bogota's New York "Without doubt he'll be remembered as logue, Betancur said he had passed the call State attorney general. His reputation one of America's all-time great U.S. sena to police Gen. Victor Alberto Delgado "be grew statewide and 2 years later he tors. He was a man of integrity and compas cause the operation taking place was a mili became the junior Senator from New sion and he'll be missed."-Sen. Robert Dole tary operation, directed by the police chief." York. He was a man of the wrong party at the The president was reluctant to discuss Jack Javits quickly earned accolades wrong time. He was too liberal to be elected other details of the incident. He noted that for fair play and hard work. He helped a leader of that party and too brusque to be a special judiciary commission was due to admitted to the cozy inner circle to which so report this month on the siege. to develop both the 1957 and 1964 civil many of his colleagues belonged. Countering public perceptions that full rights bills. Later, drawing upon his But Jacob Koppel Javits, a lonely politi scale guerrilla warfare has resumed, Betan family experience and his deep con cian who made his work his life, is sure to cur said that a two-year-old cease-fire with cern for the poor and oppressed, he be remembered as a giant of the U.S. the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colom authored the legislation which created Senate. bia, or FARC, the country's oldest and larg the Legal Services Corporation. His Javits died Friday. He will be buried in a est rebel movement, remains in effect, Gov mark in history was assured when he noon ceremony tomorrow at Central Syna ernment and FARC representatives signed secured passage of both the Pension gogue in midtown Manhattan. Speakers will an agreement a week ago extending the include Sens. Daniel P. Moynihan, D-N.Y., truce indefinitely, and F ARC has set up a Reform Act and the War Powers Act. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Charles political front, the Patriotic Union, which is The War Powers Act is now considered Mathias, R-Md. running candidates in this year's elections. one of the most important pieces of Blackballing by a senior Southern senator Betancur said dealing with Colombian legislation considered during this cen cheated him of power when he was a fresh guerrillas has been complicated by the con- tury. man; electoral defeat cheated him of power March 10, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4107 when he was on the verge of becoming the late Richard Russell of Georgia, man- return, never once did Reagan campaign for chairman of the Foreign Relations Commit aged to strip Javits of his seat on the Appro- D'Amato in New York state. tee. priations Committee in 1959 by insisting He didn't have to. Javits split the liberal Yet despite this, despite his being a Re .there were too many Republicans on the vote with Democratic candidate Elizabeth publican in the midst of a Democratic ma panel. Holtzman, giving D'Amato the Senate seat. jority, it was his voice and his brain that Javits always refused to ascribe anti-Se- But in the Senate, after his defeat, Jacob helped lead the fight for civil-rights legisla mitic motives to this act. Javits was admitted to the Club at last. The tion, his bills that assured private pensions His wife, Marion, had no love for Wash- Republicans had finally won control of the for millions of American workers, that pro ington. She remained in New York. When institution. But just before the defeated vided jobs for the unemployed and heat for their three children, Joy, 36, Joshua, 35, and senators made way for the victors, the soon the elderly, that became the War Powers Carla, 29, were all small, Javits made a spe- to-be-ousted Foreign Relations Committee Act limiting the authority of any president cial effort to return home on weekends. chairman, the late Frank Church, D-Idaho, to send troops into combat without the con Even Javits' friends said he lacked a sense stepped down. The committee, for one day, sent of Congress. of humor. Southerners in the Senate bitter- voted to make Jacob Javits its chairman. He kept his Republican credentials by ly opposed his civil-rights stand. The inner The intense energy that had been expend helping the financial community with tax circle of senators known as the Club would ed on the Senate floor and in committee legislation and other bills. not admit him. But loneliness did not stop hearings was confined to a body in a wheel For 24 years Javits served in the Senate, him. chair equipped with a portable respirator, longer than any other New York senator. It He set about gaining membership on as but his mind remained as active as ever. wasn't his charm that made him a power many Senate committees as he could. Although his illness subdued his voice to a there. As his memberships multiplied to a half- whisper at times, he would still speak at To some senators, he appeared to be a dozen committees, so did his staff. He had commencements and other ceremonies, give loud know-it-all, and he more or less was. at his command nearly 100 aides. With private counsel to his former colleagues and "My father-in-law, Everett Dirksen (the late them, he forged the · bill that created the go to the Capitol to testify on amendments Illinois senator), was never one to give me Legal Services Corp., fathered the landmark to some of the laws he had created. much advice," former Senate Majority Pensions Act, inserted key provisions in the In 1983, he went to Good Samaritan Hos Leader Howard Baker, R-Tenn., once said. now-defunct Comprehensive Employment pital in Los Angeles so that doctors there "But one piece of advice he did give me, and and Training Act, was a leader in the ere- could use him in research on a disease that he was right, was that Jack Javits has the ation of the National Endowment for the had cripped him. best legal mind in the Senate." Arts and, when the Carter administration And in his final years, there came at last a Jacob Javits was born at 85 Stanton St., a balked at providing funds so that the elder- great outpouring of affection for him. tenement on the Lower East Side of Man ly could heat their homes, he embarked on The president awarded him the Medal of hattan, on May 1, 1904. His father, Morris "an education program" that made the Freedom, the nation's highest civilian Jawetz, had emigrated from Austria-Hunga White House change its mind. ry and changed the spelling of his last Yet despite such innovations, despite his award. The federal office building at Foley name. His mother, Ida Littman, went from powers of analysis and his quick learning of Square is the Jacob K. Javits Office Build Palestine to Russia and then came to the the rules of the Senate, Javits was a cau- ing. There is the Jacob K. Javits Lecture United States. tious man. Center at Stony Brook, and the New York State Convention Center in Manhattan, His father was the janitor for three tena He came late in his opposition to the Viet- scheduled to be completed next year, will ments, among them 85 Stanton St., and the nam War, and he never, until the very end, . local ward heeler for Tammany Hall. called for the resignation of President Rich- · also bear his name. Javits would recount how his father, who ard Nixon. died when Javits was 15, used to distribute Because of his lack of action on Vietnam, $2 and $3 to his tenants so that they would his staff came up with the basis of what TRANSFER MONEY FROM FOR vote Democratic. would become the War Powers Act, a land EIGN ASSISTANCE TO RELIEF Javits' late brother, Benjamin, took up mark piece of legislation for the nation. OF DISASTERS IN THIS COUN the job of rearing him. Jacob took courses Javits made gestures toward the cause of TRY at night at Columbia University while work women's rights. He appointed the first ing in a pipe factory. He graduated from woman page ever to serve in the Senate. Subcommittee will take up my bill for Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, travel, the effects of airline deregula tion and the lack of air traffic control consideration. I urge my colleagues to once again I would like to direct my join in cosponsoring this legislation colleague's attention to that aspect of lers and FAA inspectors has clearly re duced the safety of the air system in and to send a clear and immediate our daily chores that has brought new message to the Ethiopian Govern meaning to the phrase "paper shuf this country. I will be introducing legislation this ment. The U.S. Congress will hopeful fling." ly not remain silent any more. Every week we find dozens of pieces week which will increase criminal pen of paper, congressional correspond alties for falsifications of airline ence we call Dear Colleague letters, in records such as maintenance records REORGANIZATION OF THE making them felonies instead of mis JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF our mailboxes. I am not raising issue demeanors and that legislation will with Members communicating with also increase the civil penalty for vio gressman SKELTON that describes H.R. that would be fair to every group. Mr. ROTH. Mr. Speaker, this morn ing's Washington Post contains this 3622. The article also indicates where I would also like to mention that headiine: "Ethiopians Risk Lives Flee the reorganization effort will proceed this subject has received a lot of atten ing Resettlement." Finally, Ethiopia's in this and coming years. For those tion by the media, and, as a result, holocaust is front-page news. who would like a summary of where from our constituents. They want to We find a story of an Ethiopian we have come and where we are going, know why so much time and energy is woman lured by the promise of free I commend the article to them. spent on "National Muffin Week" food, transported at gunpoint hun CHANCES Goon FOR JCS REFORM-NEW LEG when we have farmers going broke dreds of miles south, forced by Ethio ISLATION STRENGTHENS ROLE OF CHAIRMAN and workers losing jobs to foreign pian soldiers to abandon her children, competition? It's hard to defend this and tortured as she watched her hus The House of Representatives passed the practice, especially when 88 of the 240 band slowly die in a so-called resettle Joint Chiefs of Staff Reorganization Act of bills signed into law last year were ment transit camp. Her story echoes 1985
. Army chief March 10, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4109 of staff 0979-1982), triggered this latest Now that the committee has issued its The immediacy of the problem is ap effort in 1982 while still on active duty. staff report, "Defense Organization: The parent to many of us in southern Cali Each wrote separate articles describing the Need for Change," I am even more confi fornia as we see refugees and we see il problems of bad advice, poor staff proce dent that Congress will finally make the dures and interservice rivalry that have changes needed in the operation of the JCS. legal aliens coming to the United been the hallmark of the JCS system. Correcting the deficiencies in the JCS will States across our southern border. Those of us who have worked together in go a long way toward improving the per The impact of Central and South this effort-members of Congress, former formance of our defense establishment. America on our portion of the country high-ranking Defense civilian officials and Other important changes, however, are is very evident to us. Arid I do not retired military flag officers who have needed. question the patriotism of anyone who worked at the JCS level-want to improve Both the House and Senate Armed Serv the quality of military advice and planning ices Committees are considering significant might disagree with the President of offered to civilian leaders. measures that will alter the structure and the United States. I just question their Until now the chairman of the Joint functions of the office of the secretary of judgment. It seems to me the way that Chiefs has officially been the only spokes defense, the defense agencies, the three I can ensure my children that they man of the corporate views of the four serv military departments and the 10 unified and will not be fighting in uniform on bat ice chiefs. As a result. the chairman has specific commands responsible for maintain tlefields in Central America is for me been stuck with positions written by a com ing and employing U.S. forces throughout mittee that protects the institutional inter the world. In addition, both chambers are to assist the freedom fighters in Cen ests of each of the four services. looking at ways to improve "jointness" tral America to fight themselves. They The 1985 JCS bill strengthens the role of among the four services. What this comes are willing to put their lives on the the chairman by making him the "principal down to is improving the incentives for serv line. They are willing to try and strike military adviser" to the President and secre ing in joint duty assignments. a blow for freedom to create democrat tary of defense. As the only member of the Congress can help the Defense Depart ic processes there. If we do not assist JCS with no service responsibilities Select Committee on Intelligence, Mr. DORGAN of North Dakota. Mr. get help from the CIA so, therefore, flatly turned down the President's re the CIA cut him off, because he did Speaker, we have a deep disagreement quest for the approval of $100 million among various Members of this House not want to subordinate himself to the to the rebels, as they are called, or the majority of the Contras who are ex about what ought to be done in Cen Contras, as they are called, or what tral America. Somacistas, against whom he fought the President says is a motley crew when the revolution in Nicaragua suc I think we all understand that we that is the moral equivalent of our have an interest in that region, we are ceeded. Founding Fathers. But I think the question we ought to all concerned about what happens in Mr. President, being an actor, re Central America, all of us want to ask is a question of the President: Mr. sorts to exaggerated language, to say President, you invoke your emergency make certain we do not have another the least-quite a bit an insult to the Cuba in this hemisphere. powers. You first had to declare cate moral quality and the tremendous gorically that there is an emergency But the President and his cheering valor of the Founding Fathers of this squad, NCPAC, seem to be working situation that has led you to invoke an great Nation of ours. embargo, trade and otherwise, com themselves into a frenzy about wheth Nevertheless, the other Committee er or not this House, this Congress, mercial, against Nicaragua, at the on Foreign Affairs also rejected. same time you maintain an ambassa will send $100 million in additional aid However, the Armed Services Com to the Contra soldiers. mittee by a voice vote, seemed to have dor in Managua, Nicaragua, in other Let me say that I have been to the words, attesting to the world that you appro~ed at least some kind of full are at peace with that regime, that hills of Nicaragua and Honduras, I House consideration, and it is antici have been to a Contra soldier camp, I you recognize it as legitimate and that pated we will be discussing this in the you have your duly-qualified-with have studied that region. I think our House this week. And that is good, be policies there are fundamentally portfolio representative duly accepted cause every one of us will have to face by the Managua regime as a gesture of flawed. I think throwing money and the record as to just what it is we wasting money with that kind of a really stand for in the way of analyz friendliness and approval from our policy does not make any sense at all. country. Now, Mr. President, since you ing the seriousness of the develop are now asking us to give you $100 mil Now if we are so anxious to spend ments south of the border. $100 ~illion-and I question that, with lion without accounting for the $40 As I have said repeatedly and from million that was given in the guise of the deficit we have-I have got a Cen the outset, President Reagan has set tral America, Mr. President, you might humanitarian aid last year, you have course irrevocably, irreversibly, stead failed to come to the Congress to ac want to invest it in: Kansas, Iowa, fastly, that is catastrophic and ulti North Dakota, South Dakota. We have mately will lead to great loss in treas count just what was sent, how much farmers failing because of failed farm ury and in blood. of it was received, how much of it has policies. Maybe you want to consider ever been unloaded. If you want to When my colleagues talk about how come to the Congress, you have to tell the real Central America. But if you they do not want their children in want to talk about Nicaragua and volved in wars in the New World, the truth if you saw fit to do it, and Honduras and El Salvador and Costa when they support the requests un that is that over 50 percent of that Rica, and so on, it seems to me you questionably, such as President materiel is still unloaded because the ought to pursue a policy that works. Reagan is now asking of us, that is ex Government of Honduras has prob The Contadora process, by which lems that we have imposed on it. We actly what they are prescribing for are occupying Honduras without its neighbors attempt to determine how their children and grandchildren and they can get together and sign peace great-grandchildren. consent or will. Mr. President, what treaties guaranteeing the sovereignty I have said repeatedly that the has been the result of your economic of each other's borders, makes much reason why I am so sternly against embargo? more sense than funding the secret this mistaken policy is that it is based army which is destined to fail in the on a falsified or a misperception of the hills between Nicaragua and Hondu world that is in reality existing south D 1230 ras. We all want the same thing, but it of the border, beginning with the Re seems to me this President wants to public of Mexico which is in the throw $100 million of the taxpayers' middle of turmoil that hardly gets re RACKETEERING money away on a policy that is des ported in our own presses. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under tined to fail. I would like to see peace But I think it is significant that we a previous order of the House, the gen in Central America and I would like to look at it from a realistic point of view. tleman from California [Mr. LUNGREN] see our interests in that area furth The President, by invoking his emer is recognized for 60 minutes. ered. It will not happen if we agree to gency powers, delegated ever since the Mr. LUNGREN. Mr. Speaker, last the President's strategy. approval of the Espionage Act in 1917 Tuesday evening, CBS television and 1918 during time of war, last year broadcast "A Deadly Business," a film declared an embargo on the country of which profiled the control of parts of MY ADVICE TO THE PRIVILEGED Nicaragua. the toxic waste disposal industry by ORDERS Before the President could do that, organized crime. The film provided a The SPEAKER pro tempore ; to the Committee on Mr. HAWKINS: Committee of Confer 11. Foreign Affairs. ence. Conference report on H.R. 2453 99-176>; to the Committee on Public Works Mr. COURTER. and Transportation and ordered to be print· Mr. SENSENBRENNER. ed. Mr. ROTH. PUBLIC BILLS AND 2952. A letter from the Assistant Secre RESOLUTIONS Mr. LEWIS of Florida. tary of the Army ; to the Committee on Public Works and f erred as follows: Mr. FRANK. Transportation and ordered to be printed. By Mr. DAUB: Mr. DORGAN of North Dakota. 2953. A letter from the Deputy Adminis H.R. 4352. A bill to amend title 28 of the Mr. ANDERSON in 10 instances. trator, General Services Administration, United States Code to authorize the ap Mr. MONTGOMERY. transmitting a copy of the General Services pointment of one additional bankruptcy Administration's Public Buildings Service judge for the district of Nebraska; to the Mr. GONZALEZ in 10 instances. Capital Improvement Program for fiscal Mr. ANNUNZIO. Committee on the Judiciary. year 1987, pursuant to Public Law 86-249, By Mr. BREAUX ; to the Committee stances. YouNG of Alaska>: on Public Works and Transportation. H.R. 4353. A bill to authorize appropria Mr. JONES of Tennessee in 10 in 2954. A letter from the Administrator, En tions for the operations of the Office of En stances. vironmental Protection Agency, transmit vironmental Quality and the Council on En Mr. BONER of Tennessee in five in- ting a report on the discharge of hazardous vironmental Quality during fiscal years stances. wastes to publicly owned treatment works, 1987, 1988, and 1989; to the Committee on Mr. VENTO. pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 6939; jointly, to the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Mr. NATCHER. Committees on Energy and Commerce and By Mr. FUQUA : Mr. FASCELL. Public Works and Transportation. H.R. 4354. A bill to authorize appropria 2955. A letter from the General Counsel, tions to the Secretary of Commerce for the Mr. LIPINSKI. Department of Transportation, transmitting Mr. WYDEN in two instances. programs of the National Bureau of Stand copies of the fiscal year 1987 budget re ards for fiscal year 1987, and for other pur Mr. BIAGGI. quests of the Federal Avia ti on Administra Mr. LEVINE of California. poses; to the Committee on Science and tion to the Department, including requests Technology. for facilities and equipment and research, By Mr. MOAKLEY: ADJOURNMENT engineering, and development, pursuant to H.R. 4355. A bill to amend title 5, United Public Law 97-248, section 506<0; jointly, to States Code, to permit collective bargaining Mr. WYDEN. Mr. Speaker, I move the Committees on Public Works and Trans with respect to the subject of the attire to that the House do now adjourn. portation and Science and Technology. be worn by certain civilian employees of the The motion was agreed to; accord 2956. A letter from the Secretary of National Guard; to the Committee on Post ingly ; jointly, to the stantiation requirements for the deductions 2947. A letter from the Administrator, Committees on Energy and Commerce, Inte attributable to the business use of vehicles; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency rior and Insular Affairs, and Science and to the Committee on Ways and Means. Prevention, Department of Justice, trans Technology. By Mr. STAGGERS: mitting a copy of the "Report and Recom H.R. 4358. A bill to rescind certain funds mendations of the U.S. Attorney General's for international disaster assistance and to Advisory Board on Missing Children," pur REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON make supplemental appropriations for suant to 42 U.S.C. 5774<3>; to the Com PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLU impact aid disaster assistance for the De mittee on Education and Labor. TIONS partment of Education; to the Committee 2948. A letter from the Acting Assistant on Appropriations. Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs, Depart Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports H.R. 4359. A bill to raise the cap on disas ment of State, transmitting copies of inter of committees were delivered to the ter loans made available under section 7 national agreements, other than treaties, Clerk for printing and reference to the of the Small Business Act: to the Committee entered into by the United States, pursuant proper calendar, as follows: on Small Business. March 10, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4121 By Mr. WYDEN: By Mr. LEWIS of Florida: WAXMAN, Mr. STOKES, Mr. DORNAN of Cali H.R. 4360. A bill to establish U.S. trade H.J. Res. 559. Joint resolution to provide fornia, Mr. BONKER, Mr. TRAXLER, Mr. negotiating objectives regarding equitable that if construction of an additional space STUDDS, Mr. SHAW, Mr. BATES, Mr. LEVINE of access to technology; to the Committee on shuttle orbiter is authorized the name of California, Mr. YATRON, Mr. KOLBE, and Ms. Ways and Means. . such orbiter shall be selected from among KAPTUR. By Mr. BIAGGI (for himself, Mr. suggestions submitted by students in ele H.R. 4057: Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, Mr. GILMAN, Mrs. COLLINS, Mr. SAVAGE, mentary and secondary schools; and for NELSON of Florida, Mr. CHAPPELL, and Mr. Mr. FOGLIETTA, Mr. MANTON, Mr. other purposes; to the Committee on Sci COYNE. H.R. 4079: Mr. BATEMAN and Mr. WEBER. MURPHY, Mr. HORTON, Mr. PERKINS, ence and Technology. By Mr. GRAY of Pennsylvania (by re H.R. 4299: Mr. LIGHTFOOT, Mr. BROWN of Mr. RODINO, Mr. UDALL, Mr. COYNE, quest): Colorado, Mr. DORNAN of California, Mr. Mr. CONYERS, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. H. Con. Res. 296. Concurrent resolution HORTON, Mr. WILSON, Mr. KINDNESS, and FuSTER, Mrs. KENNELLY, Mr. BRYANT, setting forth the congressional budget for Mr. WORTLEY. Mr. PANETTA, Mr. LUNDINE, Mrs. the U.S. Government for the fiscal years H.J. Res. 381: Mr. GREGG, Mr. ROWLAND of BoxER, Mr. PEPPER, Mrs. LLOYD, Ms. 1987, 1988, and 1989; to the Committee on Connecticut, Mr. MILLER of California, Mr. OAK.AR, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. ERDREICH, the Budget. BROOMFIELD, and Mr. RANGEL. Mr. RICHARDSON, Mr. OWENS, Mr. H.J. Res. 421: Mr. BARTON of Texas. ORTIZ, Mr. HAYES, Mr. SMITH of H.J. Res. 451: Mr. McDADE, Mr. ANDERSON, Florida, Mr. LAGOMARSINO, Mr. PRIVATE BILLS AND Mr. BLAZ, Mr. WOLPE, Mr. McGRATH, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. SAXTON, Mr. BOUCHER, RESOLUTIONS WEAVER, Mrs. VucANOVICH, Mr. KRAMER, Mr. Mr. RANGEL, Mr. WORTLEY, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. ORTIZ, Mr. HANSEN, Mr. McGRATH, Mr. NEAL, Mr. PASHAYAN, Under clause 1 of rule XXII. MINETA, Mr. TowNs, Mr. LENT, Mr. FAUNT Mr. LUKEN, Mr. DARDEN, Mr. SOLARZ, Mr. PEPPER introduced a bill
