September 2.4, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS CONGRESSIONAL BLACK This is an award that I deeply appre­ Farmers have traditionally paid back ASSOCIATES ciate, and one in which I take great their commodity support loans, and pride. It also will be a constant re­ when they have not, the Government HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. minder that I share with this group a has been able to sell the commodities OF NEW JERSEY continuing responsibility to go on that it obtains as a result of the terms IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES working to correct injustices and im­ of the loans at a profit. Under the loan prove the quality of life for all Ameri­ program that was in effect for the Thursday, September 24, 1981 cans. It is an award I will long treas­ early years of the Carter administra­ e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I wish ure. tion, . the Government actually made to express for the record my support more than $67 million on the loan pro­ for and appreciation of the contribu­ PERSONAL EXPLANATION gram. tions to the Congress and the commu­ Mr. Speaker, today's Wall Street nity of the Congressional Black Asso­ Journal published a story titled ciates. HON. HAL DAUB "Sugar Growers See Losses as Prices This organization of black employ­ OF NEBRASKA Hit 2-Year Lows on Expected Bumper ees on Capitol Hill was founded 1 year IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Crops." This story very clearly demon­ ago. Its mission, in its own words, is to enhance "the political, social, and eco­ Thursday, September 24, 1981 strates the problems that our sugar • Mr. DAUB. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I beet and cane growers are facing this nomic capabilities of black Americans year, and lends further evidence to the nationwide and throughout the inadvertently missed three rollcall world." It is "dedicated to the pursuit votes. If I had been present I would belief that we need a sugar price sup­ have voted "yes" on rollcall votes 217, port program in the farm bill this of black advancement and black excel­ year. lence in all aspects of life." 218, and 222.e Two valuable members of my staff, I commend this article to all of my Arlene Williams and Mary Turner, are colleagues, and ask permission to THE DOMESTIC SUGAR insert the article in the RECORD at this active members of this organization, so INDUSTRY IS LOSING MONEY I am personally aware of the services point. it is providing. The members have or­ [From , Sept. 24, ganized drives to provide food for the HON. BOB TRAXLER 19811 poor people of Washington. They have OF MICHIGAN SUGAR GROWERS SEE LOSSES AS PRICES HIT 2- provided forums of discussion to edu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES YEAR LOWS ON EXPECTED BUMPER CROPS cate citizens here on some of the key Thursday, September 24, 1981 (By Anne Mackay-Smith) issues that confront our society. They • Mr. TRAXLER. Mr. Speaker, those The roller coaster of sugar prices is near have sponsored field trips for area the bottom again, as anticipated bumper pupils to Capitol Hill, so that they who oppose efforts to provide for a sugar price support loan program crops have sent prices to two-year lows. might witness firsthand the workings The news is bad for sugar producers, who of the Congress. They have conducted often claim that this kind of assistance is not needed. They claim that our do­ have enjoyed unusually high profits for the memorial services for murder victims past 18 months and now figure to start here and in Atlanta. mestic producers can weather the bad showing losses. But users from Coca-Cola The motto of Congressional Black years because they have a few good Co. to housewives can expect reduced costs. Associates succinctly states its inten­ ones. For Washington policy makers, there is a tions and its determination: "We're a When we last considered sugar price new headache: The low price, about 12 cents community connection. We've come support legislation in the House, I a pound yesterday, revives the politically argued that we need to have a support complex issue of supporting the price of too far to give up." CBA members' sugar knowledge of the political process and program in order to restore some sta­ their determination to make the bility to the marketplace. We cannot A system designed in 1979 to support afford to have the roller-coaster price prices at 15 cents a pound has come into system work put them in an excellent effect again with a penny-a-pound levy on position to press toward their goals. scheme that we have encountered imported sugar, which accounts for about All my life, I have shared those since the Sugar Act expired in 1974. half of U.S. usage. The aim is to allow do­ goals: To eliminate racism from our so­ Every time prices go down, sugar pro­ mestic producers to sell their sugar for ciety and to provide decent education, ducers, both beet and cane, go out of more. Congress is considering legislation a chance to work, housing fit to live in, business. Processing plants close, and that would support a 17-to-18-cent a pound adequate health care, equal justice, never has one of these plants re­ price for domestic farmers. equal opportunity for all still denied opened. "Nonetheless, we expect all but the most these basic human rights. We are again receiving reports that efficient sugar producers to lose money next I therefore am honored to have been our entire domestic sugar industry-an year," reports Lee Tawes, a sugar specialist selected to receive the Congressional industry that provides a little more at Oppenheimer & Co. Black Associates Award for meritori­ than 50 percent of all of the sugar MIDDLEMEN LOSSES ous service to the black community of consumed in this Nation-is facing Players from all sides of the market are America. I am proud that the distin­ severe economic difficulties. Prices are trying to discover how the supports are guished mayor of Newark, N.J., Ken­ below the cost of production, and likely to affect them. All consumers will pay neth Gibson, also will receive the serv­ farmers cannot survive while losing more than the world price, but far less than ice award from the Congressional money. It has always amazed me that they did last year when prices skyrocketed we are willing to let farmers go out of to 43 cents a pound. Middlemen who hadn't Black Associates this week. Mayor counted on prices falling this far may be se­ Gibson's efforts on behalf of social production when we need to turn to rious losers because they sold long-term con­ justice for black Americans are ad­ the farmer three times a day for our tracts at fixed prices. And some particularly mired by people all over our country, meals. profitable producers, whose costs are below but we in Newark hold a special affec­ Sugar price support loan programs the support level, may find themselves well tion for him. do not cost the Government money. rewarded.

e This "bulle:" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 21976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 24, 1981 Florida growers, who benefit from an ex­ A TRIBUTE TO CHARLES about the mechanisms of excess mucus cellent climate for sugarcane growing, are MENDEZ production in cystic fibrosis. While foremost among the profitable producers. this is still very b,asic research, it could Oppenheimer estimates that both U.S. lead to better means to control this Sugar Corp. and Gulf & Western Industries HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER Inc., two of the nation's largest producers, OF NEW YORK important aspect of cystic fibrosis. have costs of only 12 cents a pound-far IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Immunology, the study of the body's defenses against infection, is a growing below the protected prices being considered Thursday, September 24, 1981 by Congress. area of cystic fibrosis research. Scien­ e Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise tists are developing a better under­ Other producers, however, aren't in such a to pay tribute to Charles Mendez of comfortable position. Major producers standing of why pseudomonas infec­ Amstar Corp. and Amfac Inc. have costs of Boy Scout Troop 395 Resurrection tions are so common, and so hard to 19 cents a pound or more, Mr. Tawes esti­ Church, Gerittsen Beach, Brooklyn. I combat, in cystic fibrosis. This under- mates. Small producers may be even less have ttie pleasure of announcing that . standing could lead to new strategies profitable, other analysis add. Higher trans­ Charles has attained the highest rank to treat the infections that are the portation and fertilizer costs, together with in Scouting before his 18th birthday, most serious of cystic fibrosis' effects the need to replace aging machinery, are that of Eagle Scout. on the body. driving many growers out of the sugar busi­ A liberal arts student of Brooklyn In terms of effort and support, the ness. Price supports of 17 cents or 18 cents a College, Charles has proved himself a last few years have shown a great ac­ pound may help them stay in business tem­ fine example to his friends, family, celeration in cystic fibrosis research. porarily, but in the long run may just pro­ and his community. Charles is a young In 1977, the Cystic Fibrosis Founda­ long the agony, an analyst says. man of great quality; we in Brooklyn tion was funding slightly more than $1 "It comes down to a choice of how you are proud to call him one of our own.e million in research, while the Federal prefer to die-slow starvation or a bullet through the head," he adds. Government, through the National In­ NATIONAL CYSTIC FIBROSIS stitutes of Health, funded grants, con­ PRICE SUPPORTS EFFECT WEEK tracts, and other research into cystic Price supports may not affect industrial fibrosis totaling about $4.6 million. sugar users very quickly, because most con­ HON. JOSEPH D. EARLY These figures have grown signifi­ tract for sugar well in advance, fixing prices OF MASSACHUSETTS cantly. The current research budget of at levels where they believe they can make a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is $2 profit. Companies may be paying prices million, and it now includes innovative ranging from 15 cents to 40 cents a pound Thursday, September 24, 1981 programs to attract new investigators for unrefined sugar, depending on when • Mr. EARLY. Mr. Speaker, President and to provide money for feasibility they decided to buy, says a sugar economist Reagan has signed a proclamation des­ studies. At NIH, cystic fibrosis re­ for a major refiner. ignating the week of September 20-26 search exceeds $12 million for the cur­ The lower costs of the past six months as National Cystic Fibrosis Week, to rent fiscal year, with important re­ have been good for the food industry, focus the Nation's attention on the search in six different institutes and though spokesmen say they won't come as a disease and to pay tribute to the thou­ windfall. Many food companies absorbed divisions. More scientists are investi­ much of the last year's huge price gains in sands of courageous children and gating more research leads than ever sugar to avoid losing customers. Extra prof­ young adults who wage a daily battle before. its now make up for previous losses and pro­ with this number one genetic killer of These researchers need continued, vide a cushion in case of future volatility, children and young people in the and growing, support. Congress must they say. United States. continue to consider health research a "You can look at it one time and say, 'Hm, Throughout its 26-year history the priority, even in a time of restraint. Coca-Cola really made a killing on sugar.' Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has been because very little that Congress does But we can show you a lot of other times engaged in a race against time. It is touches so many people in such an im­ when that wasn't the case," says Carleton not a race with a clear finish line. portant way as the effort to conquer Curtis, a spokesman for Coke. Every year they succeed when life ex­ disease and disability.e Sugar dealers who play a middleman role pectancy of people born with cystic fi­ between growers and users may bear the brosis is extended. Every day the need brunt of import duties and fees. When a to do more is underscored when addi­ NATIONAL JOB CORPS IS A dealer agrees to sell sugar to a user over a tional children and young adults die GOOD FEDERAL INVESTMENT period of time, he sets a price equal to the from cystic fibrosis. market price for sugar plus a comprehensive But, the record of progress is prom­ HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. fee, for duties, import fees and transporta­ ising. Data from the patient registry OF MICHIGAN tion costs. Many dealers believed prices of CF centers show that the life ex­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wouldn't fall to levels low enough to war­ pectancy of people born today with rant import fees, so they charged only cystic fibrosis is now 21 years, a figure Thursday, September 24, 1981 about 2.5 cents a pound for all these costs. Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker. I want Taxes and transportation today are about important in both human and symbol­ e 4.5 cents a pound, and the dealers must ic terms. to take this opportunity to make some absorb the extra two cents, which currently Major research efforts are underway comments about the National Job is more than 10% of their cost of sugar. to find a genetic marker for cystic fi­ Corps program that has resulted in ''The operators are the ones who ·are left brosis and to understand the basic ge­ significant benefits to the Nation since holding the bag, because they'd be guaran­ netic problem that causes the disease. its inception. As you know. the first teed the price," says Donald Westfall. sugar Scientists in Europe and North Amer­ National Job Corps Competition Expo­ analyst for Schnittker Associates in Wash­ ica, many with Cystic Fibrosis Founda­ sition is being held this week in the ington. "Some of them are hurting very tion support. have reported positive Nation's Capital to give participants badly right now," another analyst adds. findings from a number of different from throughout the United States an If the farm support price of sugar is raised approaches. All of these findings are opportunity to exhibit their training to 17 cents or 18 cents a pound. as now very preliminary, and the results need techniques and skills to the American seems likely, import duties and fees must be to be confirmed by other scientists and people. The Job Corps. one of the raised to those levels. A 15-cent-a-pound standardized before they could be put oldest national efforts to increase the price is supported by duties and fees. Sugar into use. but there is more cause for skills of our youth. offers services to dealers will be liable for the extra costs if optimism than ever before. economically disadvantaged youth be­ the fees are raised.e Research into the process of secre­ tween the ages of 14 and 21 at 105 resi­ tion is developing new information dential training centers throughout September 21,, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21977 the country. These centers, operated young men and women who have grad­ malnutrition and other aspects of pov­ by private and public organizations, uated from the Job Corps, is involved erty, as to be beneath any rational def­ offer services ranging from basic liter­ in helping those enrolled in the pro­ inition of human decency. acy and high school equivalency gram realize that they can make it, Poverty of this magnitude drastical­ through advanced skill training in a too. ly aggravates the hunger problem in variety of occupational areas. A re­ I would encourage my colleagues certain regions of the world. In its cently instituted advanced center who have not visited the exposition on training of this subsection, the aggregate value of who seek more learning and advanced venting and alleviating hunger, with spe­ skills. cial emphasis on food security in Sub-Sa­ all agreements entered into under this title haran Africa for the fiscal year 1983 and each fiscal year I feel privileged to be among that thereafter shall be not less than 25 percent huge body of students, faculty, col­ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of of the aggregate value of all agreements en­ leagues, and friends who have in some Representatives of the United States of tered into under title I of this Act for such America in Congress assembled, way reaped the benefits of Middlesex fiscal year.". County College's stunning growth SHORT TITLE (2) The amendment made by paragraph under Joe Klegman's leadership.e SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the <1) of this subsection shall take effect on "Hunger Prevention and African Food Secu­ October 1, 1982. rity Act". (b) Such section is further amended by A TRIBUTE TO FORMER CON- FINDINGS adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: GRESSMAN JOHN LEONARD SEc. 2. The Congress finds that, ac­ "(d) In order to help lessen the severity of PILCHER cording to the International Bank for Re­ food shortages in famine-prone countries, construction and Development, approxi­ the agreements entered into under this title HON. CHARLES HATCHER mately 40 percent of the population of the for the fiscal year 1983 and for each year developing countries The appalling conditions among im­ TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH KLEGMAN limited to the U.S. House of Repre­ poverished people in Sub-Saharan Africa sentatives. Before becoming a Member underscore the need for United States de­ of the 83d Congress, he served as a velopment assistance to be more carefully HON.BERNARDJ.DWYER targeted to benefit the needy. Efforts OF NEW JERSEY councilman and mayor of Meigs, Ga. Congressman Pilcher's community in­ should also be undertaken to prepare in ad­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vance for anticipated food shortages in terests led him to serve on the board famine-prone African countries. Thursday, September 24, 1981 of education and the county commis­ ASSISTANCE TO THOSE LIVING IN ABSOLUTE • Mr. DWYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise sion in Thomas County. POVERTY today to pay tribute to Joseph Kleg­ From 1940 until 1944 he served in SEc. 3. Chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign man, a pioneer in quality community the Georgia General Assembly as, Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by adding college education in New Jersey and first, a member of the house of repre­ at the end thereof the following new sec­ one of its most dedicated spokesmen. sentatives, and, then, the senate. tion: Joe is retiring at the end of this He served as a State purchasing "SEC. 128. ASSISTANCE TO THOSE LniNG IN month from his present post as chair­ agent in 1948 and 1949 and attended ABSOLUTE POVERTY.- (a) In carrying OUt this chapter for the fiscal year 1983 and each man of the board of Middlesex County every State and national Democratic fiscal year thereafter, the President shall College. He is one of the founding fa­ convention for 30 years. use not less than 50 percent of the funds thers of this institution, recognized Just as he was a man of the people, made available to carry out this chapter for nationally as an innovator in the field he was also a man of the soil and en­ that fiscal year to provide facilities, goods, of higher learning. It stands as a pow­ gaged in agricultural pursuits for over and services which will be used primarily by erful monument to his two decades of 35 years. He operated a general mer­ those individuals who are living in absolute service, years marked by a profound cantile business, a cotton gin and was poverty as determined under the standards commitment to excellence. a warehouser. He operated a fertilizer adopted by the International Bank for Re­ manufacturing plant as well as a syrup construction and Development and the That commitment has manifested International Development Association. itself in a number of ways. Since the canning plant. Such facilities, goods, and services may in­ early sixties, Joe has been active on a As a businessman he was owner of J. clude, for example, irrigation facilities, ex­ number of committees, commissions, L. Pilcher & Sons and served as presi­ tension services and credit for small farm­ and task forces which first brought dent of a bank in Meigs, Ga. ers, roads, safe drinking water supplies, and about the creation of our 2-year insti­ His community involvement led him health jl.nd family planning services. tutions and then assisted in bringing to memberships in the Masonic Lodge "(b) In carrying out subsection (a), special them to their current level of impor­ and the Hasan Temple of Albany. He emphasis shall be placed on alleviating hunger in Sub-Sahara Africa. Particular at­ tance in the State. was a devoted member of the Meigs tention shall be paid to facilitating the par­ The challenge of maintaining this United Methodist Church. ticipation of women in agricultural produc­ system during these difficult fiscal Congressman Pilcher was a hard tion in the Sub-Sahara region.". times has probably never been greater. working and conscientious man who PREVENTION OF HUNGER AND INCREASING FOOD But Joe has faced similar challenges served our country, State. and district SECURITY during his tenure, with tenacity, drive well. SEc. 4. O> Section 302 of the Agricul­ and a willingness to chart new courses, Those who knew him personally will tural Trade Development and Assistance so important in educational endeavors. miss him as a good friend. Those who Act of 1954 <7 U.S.C. 1727a) is amended by What remains in his stead is a strong, knew him through his many good September 24-, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21979 deeds will miss him because of the that has led to her being one of the years, rising to chairmanship of the contributions he made.e best known and best loved citizens of Interior and Insular Affairs Commit­ Florence. tee in this House. AN AMBASSADOR TO IRELAND She made immeasurable contribu­ His stewardship of the Nation's re­ tions to the young people of Florence. sources, his commitment to preserving Some were her history students, many our environment, and his tireless devo­ HON. JAMES M. SHANNON were participants in the innumerable tion to assuring that the beautiful OF MASSACHUSETTS activities she sponsored, but still more Nation passed on to us by our forefa­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES were just Coffee students. thers would be left unsullied to our Thursday, September 24, 1981 Mrs. McDonald gained the nickname children, were hallmarks of his serv­ e Mr. SHANNON. Mr. Speaker, on St. Miz Mac from her students. There are ice. Patrick's Day at the Embassy of Ire­ many reasons for this nickname. But he was more than just an effec­ land, President Reagan expressed Among the reasons are the fact that tive committee chairman. pride in his Irish heritage and concern Miz Mac symbolizes the spirit of He was a man of whom any other over the current situation in Northern Coffee High School. She has always would be proud to proclaim friendship. Ireland. That was 6 months ago. The been willing and anxious to give of her Already a veteran of 10 years in Con­ President has been in office now for 8 time and ability to do anything neces­ gress when I arrived in this House, months. In Ireland, that time has been sary to promote pride and spirit for Jim Haley was always available to marked by increasing political division Coffee High School. counsel me on the job of being a repre­ and by increasing violence. But the In 1947-48, the 0 Club, under her sentative of the people. His guidance United States still has not sent an am­ sponsorship, won every oratorical con­ and advice served me well through the bassador to Ireland. test in the State of Alabama. She con­ early years of my own service and I Irish Americans are troubled and ducted the coronation of Mr. and Mrs. feel a deep debt of gratitude to his pa­ frustrated by failed attempts to re­ Coffee High School from 1946 until tience, understanding, and wisdom. solve the causes of the conflict in Ire­ 1972. Jim Haley was a true friend, a tire­ land; they are beginning to question Mrs. McDonald sponsored the stu­ less Congressman, and a great patriot. President Reagan's expressions of con­ dent council at Coffee from 1952 until His service to this House and the cern. I hope it will be possible for our 1972. During her years of sponsorship, American people will be long remem­ ambassador to be appointed with no Miz Mac and the student council as­ bered and his memory cherished by all further delay, so the United States sumed not only the normal responsi­ who were fortunate enough to know can take an active, constructive part in bilities of student government but also him.e bringing about an end to the violence decorated the school at Christmas and and division that have troubled the decorated floats at homecoming. Many breakfasts and receptions were held at EXTENSION OF THE VOTING Irish people for so long. The good will RIGHTS ACT and the concern of the United States her house for Coffee athletes. In gen­ must not go unrepresented in Ireland eral, Miz Mac and her students did any longer.e anything that contributed to the spirit HON. DON EDWARDS of Coffee High School. OF CALIFORNIA The community is much richer be­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN TRIBUTE TO "MIZ MAC" cause of her contributions. In 1968 and Thursday, September 24, 1981 1969, Mrs. McDonald's history stu­ HON. RONNIE G. FLIPPO dents put on the production, "My e Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. Land Is the Red Land" depicting this Speaker, I am pleased to submit for OF ALABAMA the record a resolution in support of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES area's early history. Frequently, she speaks to civic clubs, schools, and the extension of the Voting Rights Act Thursday, September 24, 1981 other groups regarding history. passed by the San Diego City Council • Mr. FLIPPO. Mr. Speaker, "It is one Because of this lifetime of public on August 11, 1981. The resolution of the most beautiful compensations service, the community has designated specifically endorses the extension of in this life that no person can sincere­ October 2, 1981 as Miz Mac Day in the bilingual election provisions which ly try to help another without helping Florence, and she will be honored by have been vitally important in opening himself," Ralph Waldo Emerson said. city, county, and State government, as up the political process to American The more one gives to others, the well as the legions of her former stu­ Indians, Asian Americans, Eskimos, more he has for his own. dents. and Hispanics in my home State of If that be true, Mrs. Elizabeth I want to thank Miz Mac for the California and throughout the coun­ Womack McDonald is probably the contributions she has made to my life try. richest person I know. and the lives of my children, and to RESOLUTION NUMBER R-254798 Though she retired several years ago recognize her for being a model that Adopted on August 11, 1981. at age 70, "Miz Mac" has still not all young people would do well to Whereas, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as stopped giving of herself. She devoted follow.e amended is presently before Congress for 45 years of her life to teaching young reauthorization; and people, but her greatness lies in the Whereas, the Voting Rights Act has had a TRIBUTE TO JAMES A. HALEY major impact on the minority communities fact that when the final bell rang by increasing their political participation; every day, Miz Mac did not stop teach­ and ing and giving. HON. DON FUQUA Whereas, the Voting Rights Act has af­ The first 10 years of her teaching OF FLORIDA forded minorities at the local level protec­ career were spent in the Lauderdale IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion from manipulation of local voting laws County School System teaching at that dilute their voting strength; and Stony Point, Cloverdale, Weeden Wednesday, September 23, 1981 Whereas, the Voting Rights Act has af­ , Sept. 24, 1981] Sept. 18. And John F. Herrity, chairman of the scriptions for the source of our prob­ PARRIS HALTS PuBLIC UNIT HOUSE PLAN Fairfax Board of Supervisors and another lems. The administration could not Coventry opponent, has summoned housing call for a massive increase in defense Northern Rep. Stanford Parris, authority officials to the board's Monday expenditures, an enormous decrease in capitalizing on his position on a key housing meeting to explain the land purchase. Al- tax revenues, and a sizable budget def- September 2.4, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21981 icit without forcing the Fed into a ticipants and provide them with the family are able today to receive Iso­ tight monetary policy. The adminis­ training and education they need in prinisine at all. tration has clearly shown its tacit sup­ order to cope in today's dismal job I hope that each of our colleagues port for soaring interest rates by fail­ market. With the cuts approved in the will take a moment to read Michelle's ing to institute any alternative policy budget, this coming year envisions testimony to our subcommittee. It is a to fight inflation. New York City taking a 31.2-percent story told with simple eloquence and Mr. Speaker, high interest rates reduction in funds from last year in great courage in response to a terrible entail enormous suffering for virtually these three titles to $120.1 million. test of faith and character. It is also a every sector of the economy: For This will mean that the number of moving plea for a more reasonable and homeowners and homebuilders, for CETA participants will shrink nearly responsible FDA policy on the approv­ land developers, for farmers, for small 30,000 to 69,910 at a time when the al of safe, effective, and lifesaving new businessmen, and eventually for every economy threatens continued decline. drugs. American. The administration now This is but one example of the real has the nerve to claim that Congress effect that these budget cuts-adopted With the help of Dr. Arthus Hayes, must make deeper cuts in domestic in this House-will mean for people. the FDA's new Commissioner, and social programs as the only way to cut On October 1 when the new Federal with the help of other concerned pol­ these interest rates. The American year begins, and more and more pro­ icymakers, I hope that we will soon see people will not stand for this shirking grams are eliminated, the suffering in the day when needless obstacles to the of responsibility. Mr. Speaker, the human terms will become graphic ex­ prompt approval of new, break­ time is now for the administration to amples of what so-called economic re­ through drugs will be removed. When take positive steps to reduce the over­ covery really means.e that day comes, Shelly Gackstetter whelmingly high interest rates.e and her remarkable family will know that they have played an important A STORY OF HOPE AND part in achieving relief for many thou­ AFTER OCTOBER 1-THEN COURAGE sands of Americans who are afflicted WHAT? with diseases that can only be treated HON. JAMES H. SCHEUER with the newest and most dramatic HON. MARIO BIAGGI OF NEW YORK pharmaceutical drugs. OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Michelle Gackstetter's testimony of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, September 24, 1981 September 16, 1981 follows: Thursday, September 24, 1981 Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ladies and e Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, I rise Gentlemen for the opportunity to be here. • Mr. BlAGG!. Mr. Speaker, as an today to pay tribute to a very coura­ My name is Michelle Kay Gackstetter. I will ardent opponent of President Rea­ geous family, the Gackstetters, of be twenty-two years old on November 10 of gan's budgetary priorities as reflected Sunland, Calif. They were here in this year in the Omnibus Reconciliation Act Washington last week to give testimo­ When I was about ten, I got very sick with Amendments of 1981, I begin an ongo­ ny before the Sl.lbcommittee on Natu­ SSPE. Once before I went to the hospital I ing series of articles discussing in ral Resources, Agriculture Research thought I had died and gone to Heaven be­ human terms-the impact of the and Environment, which I chair. The cause I saw my grandmother. budget cuts approved. The President Gackstetters gave us a very personal After I went to the hospital, they operat­ has stated on numerous occasions that view of the implications for human ed on me. I started to take a medication it is premature to criticize his econom­ life and health which are posed by the called Isoprinisine. Since that time, for over ic program because it has not even policies of the Food and Drug Admin­ ten years, I have taken that medicine every taken effect. That is true and my pur­ istration . a trade Rennie now has an "organized" export Minish. association for New England firms with 500 campaign, and is looking beyond Europe to Ed Weber, Guy V. Molinari, Don Bailey, or fewer employees. The two organizations South America, India and Malaysia. Dan Lungren, Nicholas Mavroules, maintain what Miss Hagan describes as a John Hegarty of Cohasset Colonials, Co­ Mike Lowry, William Lehman, Gerald "dynamic relationship-an open marriage." hasset, Mass., made his Massport trip to B. H. Solomon, Glenn M. Anderson, Massport, an agency of the Common­ Europe only last June. His 27-employee Frank Guarini, Tom Harkin, Berkley wealth of Massachusetts, runs the export company makes antique furniture kits that Bedell, Bob Edgar, James Scheuer, Vic program on an annual budget of $100,000, buyers can assemble into authentic repro­ Fazio, Charles F. Dougherty, Edward but Miss Hagan says the port incurs indirect ductions of Colonial era furniture. J. Markey, Buddy Roemer, Don costs that make the expense somewhat Massport's interest-free loan for trip ex­ Banker, Raymond McGrath. higher. The return on this investment is ex­ penses was an inducement for Hegarty to Clement J. Zablocki, Robert T. Matsui, pected to be a boost to the New England participate, because "financing is always a Tom Lantos, Jack Kemp, Mary Rose economy and to increase cargo revenues for problem. Without Massport, he doubts that Oakar, Dale E. Kildee, James J. Blan­ the port over the years. he could have accomplished so much- cer­ chard, Michael D. Barnes, William J. Since the program began in 1977, 42 com­ tainly not for the money. "If I had made Hughes, Thomas Foglietta. panies have taken part in seven trade mis­ the trip on my own, it would have taken me Mr. Speaker, it is my fervent hope sions to Europe. They have sold more than eight or more times as much time and cost that all of us, regardless of race, creed, $5 million worth of products and signed 23 me ten times as much money," he estimates. color, ethnic background, or religious foreign distributors. Nineteen European "I never worked harder-11 business ap­ companies have sent representatives to the pointments in six countries," he recalls. affiliation will always remember this United States for further negotiations. "The trip was very compressed, but I was terrible event and other events like In recognition of these achievements, never late for an appointment." them, for we most certainly know that Massport received the President's "E" As a result of the trip, Hegarty is now those who forget the past are doomed Award for Excellence in Export Service last talking with good sales prospects in Den­ to repeat it. Thank you.e January. At the award ceremony, Francis J. mark, France, England, Belgium and Hol­ O'Connor, Director of the Boston District land. Even now, he is getting follow-up Office of the U.S. Department of Com­ counseling from Massport, which recently MASSPORT: THE SMALL merce, said that the Massport staff inter­ helped him confirm a shipping date for a BUSINESS EXPORT PROGRAM acts regularly with Commerce specialists. sale in France. The Massport program accepts only firms Alvin Stallman, president of Pak Foam HON. JOE MOAKLEY that do little or no exporting. The typical Products of Pawtucket, R.I., kept a dozen participant has been in business in New business appointments in eight European OF MASSACHUSETTS England for 28 years, employs 55 people and countries in seven days on a Massport trade IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has annual revenues of $1.9 million. mission in 1979. His company manufactures Thursday, September 24, 1981 Massport is very careful in selecting par­ gear for backpacking, camping, mountain­ ticipants. Before taking a firm on a trade eering and bicycling. He credits the trip e Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, the mission, the staff must satisfy themselves with "opening up my eyes to the advantages Massachusetts Port Authority is attracting nationwide attention. Its economy round-trip air fare plus $100 per own, pay for the introduction to the Euro­ success during the past four years in help­ diem during the trade mission and $200 per pean market it received on a Massport trade ing small New England manufacturers trip for such services as secretaries and in­ mission a year ago. The firm cans clam break into international markets has terpreters. chowder, clam fritters, lobster bisque and prompted many inquiries. States, port au­ On a typical trade mission, the partici­ other seafood products. thorities and other groups from all over the pants fly on Friday to London. They areal­ Massport helped Laundon establish that United States are asking Massport for its lowed to rest much of Saturday to help there is a "wide open" market overseas for formula. them recover from jet lag. On Saturday his New England seafood products. He be­ A staff of three in Boston and three in night and Sunday morning they attend lieves that advance groundwork such as dis­ Antwerp, Belgium, teaches small New Eng­ briefings. On Sunday afternoon, they go tributing samples in Europe and introduc­ land manufacturers about the intricate, their separate ways to keep business ap­ tions by telephone assured the success of often intimidating, details of selling over­ pointments in several European countries. his trip. Laundon is now following up on seas. They arrange week-long trade missions They return to London on Friday night for sales contacts made in France, Belgium and to Europe, so the manufacturers can make a debriefing. On Saturday they fly home. England. contacts. The staff supports them every The Massport staff is on the scene "Before this is over, exports will be a sig­ step of the way, scheduling business ap­ throughout to make sure everything goes nificant part of our business," Laundon pre­ pointments in advance, obtaining transla­ like clockwork. dicts. In October, Abbott's will take part in tors, making hotel and travel arrangements . "They spoonfed me through the 'get feet a special seafood trade mission to Cologne, and helping to convert currencies. Partici­ wet' stage," says Jack Rennie, who went on Germany, organized by Massport. Along pating firms pick up their own tabs but re­ Massport's first trade mission to West Ger­ with companies from the Boston Fish Pier ceive Massport's assistance free. many in 1977. He is the president of Pacer and other New England seafood firms, it Kathleen F. Hagan, program director in Systems, Inc., of Burlington, Mass., which will display its products at ANUGA '81, the Boston, says that although other U.S. ports makes flight simulators and airspeed equip­ World Food Market exhibition. conduct trade promotion programs, Mass­ ment. Tod H. Schweizer, president of Tradition­ port is the first to zero in on small business­ The trade mission taught Rennie that al Management Company, Inc., of Hanover, es that do not export and to offer individ­ "there are lots of people to help with the N.H., estimates that he received the benefit ualized, guided assistance straight to the details of exporting, such as freight for­ of "tens of thousands of dollars" in market door of foreign buyers. warders and the Commerce Department ... research alone from participating in Mass­ In carrying out these functions, Massport Now I know how to put together a team of port's trade mission in November 1980. The works closely with the Small Business Asso- people to help me." research indicated that a market existed in September 24, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21987 Europe for his firm's pre-cut log housing SACRED HEART CHURCH'S activities to meet the special needs of and post and beam housing. FIRST 100 YEARS the parish's oldest members. Church Massport arranged 12 appointments for volunteers also assist at the Wick­ Schweizer in Belgium, France, Germany, HON. BRUCE F. VENTO laugh Center for the mentally handi­ Austria and England. Five months later his capped, and the church's community business partner revisited four of those con­ OF MINNESOTA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leadership is further exemplified by tacts in a follow-up trip. its service and support for the patients Schweizer is particularly optimistic about Thursday, September 24, 1981 and staff at nearby St. John's Hospi­ sales in France. He has printed a brochure e Mr. VENTO. Mr. Speaker, this in French with attractive outside and inside tal. weekend Sacred Heart Catholic Since the German immigrants first pictures of his log homes. Church in St. Paul, Minn., celebrates Our reason for the rapport between these founded Sacred Heart Church, it has its first 100-year anniversary. It is a served its parishioners and the local companies and the Massport staff, in Kath­ genuine example of the important role leen Hagen's view, is that "we are firmly community well. This first 100 years rooted in the private sector. We are per­ that churches and their parishioners are filled with a long list of notable ceived as an independent agency." have played in the development of our achievements and contributions to the Massport's export program resulted from communities and our country. entire city. Under the direction of a request by the Smaller Business Associa­ Sacred Heart Church stands-like an Father Gieson, Sacred Heart Church tion of New England for the Port Authority impressive, inspirational monument­ is entering a new era. I wish the pa­ to devise a program to benefit the small on a high bank in the Dayton's Bluff rishioners of Sacred Heart well and I businesses of New England. In its first year neighborhood on St. Paul's East Side. am certain that they will carry on <1977>, the program was open only to Massa­ It is really appropriate that this mag­ their work in the same rich and full chusetts companies; it was expanded in the nificent edifice dominates the entire tradition.e fall of 1978 to include firms throughout the skyline for, since it was founded in six New England states. 1881, Sacred Heart has been a strong So far, all of Massport's trade missions spiritual and moral leader in the com­ AGENT ORANGE CLARIFICATION have gone to Europe. The staff hopes to munity. send a mission soon to Singapore, which it The church was built a century ago HON. JIM DUNN considers an entry point for all of Southeast to meet the needs of the large popula­ OF MICHIGAN Asia. tion of German immigrants who had Massport provides a variety of other fled the religious persecution in their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES export services in addition to its trade mis­ homeland and settled in St. Paul. Rec­ Thursday, September 24, 1981 sions. It helps individual firms find answers ognizing the unique needs of its pa­ e Mr. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, as a to such questions as "How do I find a rishioners, the Archdiocese of St. Paul member of the Subcommittee on Hos­ freight forwarder?" or "How do I do busi­ requested that the Franciscan Friars ness in Eastern Europe? It recently pub­ pitals and Health Care of the House lished a handbook on "How to Export." It assume the pastoral duties at Sacred Veterans' Affairs Committee, I would distributes trade leads and information Heart. The Franciscans have nobly like to further explain recent an­ about international trade fairs, helps cham­ carried out this responsibility since nouncements concerning agent orange. bers of commerce and other business groups 1909. Yesterday, Health and Human Serv­ with export seminars, and conducts semi­ With the growth of the East Side­ ices Secretary Richard S. Schweiker nars of its own; it held one in June on "How Dayton's Bluff community, it became announced that the administration's to export services."e apparent that a new, larger church Agent Orange Working Group had re­ was needed. It was because of the sup­ ceived significant new data about port and generosity of the parishion­ emergency aerial dumpings of herbi­ A TRIBUTE TO THE STATE OF ers that the Franciscans were able to cides that could help scientists deter­ HAWAII build the new church. mine the possible long-range health Education has always been an im­ effects of the defoliant agent orange HON. DANIEL K. AKAKA portant priority for the parishioners on Vietnam veterans. of Sacred Heart. Sacred Heart School Upon hearing this announcement, I OF HAWAII was built in 1925 and in 1960, an addi­ immediately contacted both the Veter­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion was constructed. I grew up in the ans' Affairs Committee and the Air East Side neighborhood and I have Force officer who designed the ranch­ Thursday, September 24, 1981 many fond memories of Sacred Heart hand study-an ongoing study that is e Mr. AKAKA. Mr. Speaker, this year School. As a teenager, I spent many clearing out Defense records on defoli­ the World Trade Club will honor the weekends in the gymnasium for the ant sprayings in Vietnam. State of Hawaii during its internation­ weekly Sacred Heart roller skating I have learned that while some of al nights program. This is a singular parties. Later on I worked with Father Secretary Schweiker's statement was honor for Hawaii since the World Charles Strack on community prob­ old news, he did indeed present us lems. with some new information. Trade Club traditionally only honors Since its inception, Sacred Heart has foreign countries. It is a fact that on September 16, been under the direction of the School 1980, Maj. Alvin Young, the Air Force Countries are selected by the World Sisters of Notre Dame. The sisters Trade Club for their importance to officer who designed the ranch-hand have been responsible for instilling the study, testified before the Medical Fa­ the United States, specifically to highest standards oi academic and cilities and Benefits Subcommittee of northern California in the areas of spiritual excellence in all Sacred Heart the House Veterans' Affairs Commit­ trade and commerce. There can be no students. tee that a number of herbicide mis­ doubt that Hawaii plays an important As it begins its second century, sions had been jettisoned, forcing the role in trade in the Pacific from the Sacred Heart Church continues to dumping of thousands of gallons of Orient to the coast of California. The play a vital role in strengthening the herbicide. The text of that conversa­ crossroads of the Pacific is an apt de­ families who live in the local commu­ tion betwen Major Young and Con­ scription of the role Hawaii plays in nity. The Christian Youth Center, gressman DASCHLE follows: under the direction of Brother Bene­ world trade. I am proud to have Mr. DASCHLE. Major Young, in going Hawaii recognized for its contribution dict Baer, has been extremely active in through your reports of the history of the to world trade by the World Trade its work with teenagers and young use of this, did you have any records where Club.e men and women. The senior citizen or­ the herbicide was dumped at a time when ganization provides spiritual and social perhaps they were under attack or had to '21988 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 24-, 1981 flee a given area? Was the 1,000 gallons ever The personnel conducting the ranch­ YoUNG: "[The action by the United dumped on a given area? hand study are now in the process of States] will cost American corporations bil­ Major YouNG. Indeed, any time that the verifying the time of the release of the lions as black Africans take their business crew found that it was necessary because of elsewhere. Supporting racist South Africa in any number of circumstances, but usually aborted missions, the altitude and the Angola [we are] thereby sanctioning the the aircraft was in danger of crashing, they speed of the aircraft in order to deter­ slaughter of blacks by 4.5 million whites in a then would jettison the tank. Jettison the mine what populations in the area at continent of 450 million blacks." herbicide not the tank itself. They would the time of the aborts might have the the aircraft so most likely that would h~ve pose of eliminating SWAPO terrorist departure of the Portuguese, and (b) the fallen in a very concentrated form on a bases. Having done so, the South Afri­ confusion in Washington over the loss of given area? can forces pulled out of Angola. The Saigon, to do to Angola what the Commu­ nists were simultaneously doing to Mozam­ Major YouNG. Exactly. It would just be whole exercise was conducted much as like pouring it out of a bucket. bique, and would later do to Ethiopia. I.e., Israeli raids into southern Lebanon, establish Communist dictatorships aimed at Mr. DASCHLE. You poured it out of a and for the same reasons of self-de­ bucket. bringing convulsion to non-Communist Afri­ Major YouNG. The hose was 6 inches in di­ fense. can states. ameter. You can imagine how quickly it However, some reports in the press, The United States was enjoined by such poured out? as well as hysterical speeches in the as Senators Church, Cooper, and Javits from resisting the colonization of Angola by I called Major Young yesterday for U.N., have distorted these facts. Also, the statements of U.S. Ambassador Cuba. However, anti-totalitarian forces, no­ further clarification. According to tably championed by Jonas Savimbi, have Major Young, as a result of recent Kirkpatrick have been distorted. ever since continued to resist the central data comparison with the HERBS Mr. Speaker, for the benefit of my Communist tyranny. colleagues, I am pleased to place in the tape, a record of the missions of herbi­ South Africa, which has been running Na­ cide sprayings in Vietnam from 1965 RECORD a commentary on these recent mibia the issue health effects of the defoliant on Viet­ Ambassador to the UN, now running for before the UN is the action against Angola, nam veterans. mayor of Atlanta.) not the domestic policies of South Africans, September 21,, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21989 as to which the U.S. is fully on record. And DIVISION OF THE FIFTH suffered the ignominy of discrimina­ finally, e) there would not seem to be much CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS tion in schools, in housing, in employ­ point in discussing the future of Namibia, which is governed by South Africa, without ment, and in other aspects of their the participation in those discussions of HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. lives. South Africa. OF NEW JERSEY I am confident that these two new This is a complicated world, but it really IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES circuits will improve the administra­ isn't so complicated that CBS News should Thursday, September 24, 1981 tion of justice in these States, that leave us feeling that we would get a clearer they will benefit all citizens and that account of what is going on by reading • Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, a year they will continue the traditions of comic strips than by listening to three U.S. ago we enacted legislation that divided the old fifth circuit, and, divided, black leaders who find nothing to criticize the U.S. Court of Appeals for the become two citadels of civil rights for in the Cuban totalitarianization of Angola, Fifth Circuit into two autonomous cir­ the Nation.e and who seek to frighten us into good be­ cuits. That division will take place for­ havior by the awful specter of a black Africa mally on October 1. boycott of American industry.e On September 30 and October 1 there will be ceremonies in New Orle­ NOTICE OF HEARING ans marking the closing of the old FARM BILL fifth and the opening of the new one, HON.JAMESJ.BLANCHARD which consists of Mississippi, Louisi­ OF MICHIGAN HON. TOBY ROTH ana, Texas, and the Canal Zone. Cere­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES monies in Atlanta on October 2 will Thursday, September 24, 1981 OF WISCONSIN celebrate the opening of the new 11th e Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speaker, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES circuit, which comprises Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. the House Subcommittee on Economic Thursday, September 24, 1981 This formal division of the unwieldy Stabilization will conduct a hearing at fifth circuit into two smaller courts of 10:30 a.m., Thursday, October 1, in • Mr. ROTH. Mr. Speaker, I am room 2128, Rayburn House Office alarmed at the Senate's action on the workable size is a historical occasion for these six States of the South, the Building, on the proposed $1.1 billion farm bill. Shortly, my colleagues will loan guarantee for the Colony shale be called upon to debate the merits of Southeast, and the Southwest and their 40 million residents. It is the project in Colorado. At that time, we legislation which decimates the dairy result of 10 years' work by judges of will ask the Department of Energy price support program and protects to­ the court, Members of Congress, and and the Department of Defense for bacco and sugar subsidies. private citizens. their comments on a recent GAO Mike Austin, a man who is uniquely As you will recall, Mr. Speaker, review of the project contract. qualified and follows farm issues daily many of us for years were wary of This hearing was originally sched­ from Green Bay, Wis., summed up splitting the fifth circuit, which has uled for Monday afternoon, Septem­ dairy farmers' concerns this way: been a bastion for civil and constitu­ ber 28, but is being changed to permit The dairy price support program was es­ tional rights to which the oppressed the attendance of more Members.e tablished to provide a reliable market for have looked for justice. It has been de­ consumers, not dairy farmers. The farmer scribed as- can live with 70 to 90 percent parity; what The best Federal court of appeals on the TRIBUTE TO LEONARD W. bothers him is the wide discretionary au­ civil rights issues in the Nation • • •. BROCK thority of the Secretary of Agriculture to We hesitated to divide the circuit, eliminate yearly adjustments in the Sen­ even though we were fully aware of HON.GLENNM.ANDERSON ate's farm legislation. the serious problems of effectively ad­ OF CALIFORNIA Mr. Austin went on to say: ministering justice in a court that in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cluded 26 active judges and stretched Projections for 1982 and 1983 indicate Thursday, September 24, 1981 that Government dairy surplus purchases from El Paso, Tex., to Miami, Fla.­ will exceed the $750 million limit imposed in the largest appellate court in our his­ e Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, this the Senate's farm bill, and that accordingly, tory. September 30, Leonard W. "Lenny" the Secretary of Agriculture will be empow­ We were cautious because we feared Brock, the director of oil properties ered to eliminate adjustments for those that dividing the circuit could create for the city of Long Beach and a years. The effects on the dairy. farmer will an imbalance that might prevent the friend of mine for many years, will be be disastrous. Dairy farmers' incomes will be continuation of civil rights advance­ honored by the California Independ­ frozen for 4 years while costs of production ment through our judicial system. ent Refiner's Association on the occa­ are conservatively estimated to rise from 15 In the course of our hearings last sion of his retirement. The 59-year-old to 20 percent. year, my reservations about dividing Brock has spent his entire career, I hope that my colleagues reject the the circuit were allayed, and I became apart from 3 years in the Navy, in the arbitrary provisions in the Senate's convinced that division along the lines petroleum industry. In 1949, Lenny plan for dairy price supports. Can we we wrote into law would in no way di­ graduated from the University of in good conscience freeze dairy farm­ minish the cause of equal justice in Southern California, where he earned ers' incomes for 4 years and continue these States. In fact, a convincing case a B.E. in petroleum engineering. the gratuitous support of tobacco sub­ was made that, with 26 judges render­ During the 3 succeeding years, he sidies? ing more than 2,000 written opinions a worked as a trainee with the petrole­ year, there could be an adverse effect um engineer for the Long Beach Oil I urge my colleagues to reject this on the quality of justice in civil rights Development Co. In 1952, Lenny left regressive legislation and subject all cases. the Long Beach area and went over­ commodity support programs to the The direction that some in govern­ seas to work as a drilling engineer for same test of fairness and common­ ment appear to be taking on issues in­ the International Petroleum Co. in sense when considering the Food and volving individual rights and liberties Branquila, Colombia. After a year in Agriculture Act of 198l.e demands that we have Federal courts Colombia, Lenny Brock realized how that continue to hold out the promise much he missed southern California, of equality and justice for all Ameri­ and he returned to Long Beach to cans. There can be no retreat from full work in the Wilmington oilfield. Here, judicial protection, for those who have as the project engineer for the first 21990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 21,., 1981 pilot water flood in the Wilmington DO NOT BLAME WALL STREET Reagan administration, by the supposed field, he authored the "Brock Subsid­ FOR REAGAN'S PROBLEMS magic of supply-side economics that could translate huge Treasury tax losses into ence Report", which was the most con­ Treasury revenue gains. Even if the process clusive proof that compaction in the HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE took time, the supply-siders told Reagan, oil zones caused surface subsidence OF NEW YORK the intervening budget deficits didn't really that eventually reached 29 feet in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES matter. Businessmen didn't buy that notion, areas of Wilmington and Long Beach. either. Thursday, September 24, 1981 Reagan's monetarists also assured him As a member of the California State e Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, it has that the deficits wouldn't be inflationary so Land Commission for 8 years, 1959-67, often been said that, "in hindsight, ev­ long as the Federal Reserve didn't "mone­ and as chairman of the commission for eryone has 20/20 vision." And now tize" the debt-that is, print money to cover several years, I can attest firsthand to that the tax cut bill, which James R. the deficits. But in the real world, deficits the leadership Lenny has shown Schlesinger has dubbed "the single­ do matter: The government is forced to during these crucial years. The Cali­ borrow huge amounts of money, and the most irresponsible fiscal action of American economy doesn't generate enough fornia State Land Commission and the modern times," has been signed into savings to supply all of the demands for city of Long Beach worked closely to­ law for some weeks, many noted credit from the government and the private gether in developing what has proved economists and commentators have sector together. to be a most successful program. theories on who is to blame for bring­ What happens, of course, is that the In 1962, Lenny became petroleum ing to bear upon the country the stag­ people with money to lend insist on-and get-a higher rate of interest. And those adviser to the city of Long Beach. gering deficits which are likely to who borrow have a choice: pay the rate or During this period he expanded the result. go without. potential of the east Wilmington field The President blames Wall Street That's the way a market economy works, and encouraged the referendum that for not getting behind his economic re­ and it's interesting-to say the least-to find ended the city's ban on offshore drill­ covery package. Wall Street responds: an administration like Reagan's, theoretical­ ing. "Nothing personal, mind you, but the ly committed to the free-enterprise system, As result of his demonstrated abili­ President's income and outlay num­ grumbling at the market's response to its bers just don't add up to ariy kind of a policies. ties, Brock was appointed director of A review of the facts will show that, from the Department of Oil Properties by figure which instills confidence in the the very beginning, respected Wall Street the city of Long Beach in 1965. Under financial markets." Hobart Rowen has analysts, notably Henry Kaufman of Salo­ articulated, rather succinctly, that mon Bros, and Albert Wojnilower of the his guidance, contractors built Long this frantic search for a scapegoat is Beach's offshore drilling islands and First Boston Corp., warned that the arith­ rather ironic. Indeed, if it were not for metic of Reaganomics didn't add up, and no commenced a water-injection program the suffering which the impending act of faith, for which the president had that brought subsidence under con­ Federal deficits will cause, the specter begged in his April 28 speech to ·Congress, trol. During his 16-year directorship, of the administration and Wall Street could change the numbers. which extended from 1965 to the trading barbs over who is to blame for How could you cut taxes $732 billion over present, the city of Long Beach re­ the resulting mess would almost have a four-year cycle and come up with a bal­ ceived $169,000,000 and the State of anced budget? they said. How could you a touch of humor. brag about cutting civilian expenditures $40 California $722,000,000 from the oil Perhaps if some of the Members of billion this year at the same time you were properties operated under his supervi­ the Congress read Mr. Rowen's edito­ making a $1.5 trillion commitment for de­ sion. During this same time an active rial they may find the responsibility fense by the year 1986? How could you stim­ exploration program led to the drilling lying closer to home than they had ulate economic growth when a stringent of 810 new wells. More recently, Lenny thought-or wanted to believe. monetary policy would depress business ac­ Brock has been a leader in developing Mr. Rowen's column, reprinted from tivity? and testing new methods of tertiary Now the predictions made by Kaufman, the September 17, 1981, Washington Wojnilower and others are turning out to be recovery. These developments have Post, follows: highly accurate, we have a classic situation the potential of recovering many mil­ DON'T BLAME WALL STREET FOR REAGAN'S in which the messenger boy-in this case, lions of barrels of oil from wells PROBLEMS Wall Street-is being chastised for the mes­ throughout our Nation that are no Returning home after a couple of weeks in sage conveyed on the ticker tape showing longer producing by customary recov­ Japan, and reading the newspapers and sharp declines in stock and bond prices. But ery techniques. newsmagazines, I am struck by two facts. jawboning Wall Street to be more support­ First, the political pundits have discovered ive isn't going to work. Brokers and their Throughout his career, Leonard the economy and the importance of eco­ customers still know how to add and sub­ Brock has been active in numerous nomic issues. Second, some of them join the tract. Says Edgar Fiedler, vice president for professional societies. He is, or has Reagan administration in accusing Wall research of The Conference Board, an asso­ served as a director of the following Street of "nonsupport" of Reaganomics. ciation of industrialists in New York: organizations: Independent Petroleum My colleague, David S. Broder, for exam­ "Seeing is believing-behavior has to Association of America, California In­ ple, is concerned "to see the big wheels of change." dependent Producers Association, Wall Street so callously scuttling the very Unhappily, the genie may be out of the program that American business, in a liter­ bottle on tax cuts, but the president still West Coast Division American Petrole­ ally unprecedented fashion, had pressured has a chance to reduce the outlandish size um Institute, Society of Petroleum En­ Congress to pass just a few weeks ago." of the defense commitment, and to make gineers, Independent Oil and Gas As­ In looking for scapegoats (apart from the other budget cuts as well. The pending $13 sociation, member of the Fe<;leral While House and its ideologues> for the billion reductions (in proposed increases> in Energy Administration's Petroleum present mess, congressional Democrats defense spending announced last weekend and Natural Gas Exploration, Devel­ would be a much more logical target than aren't enough. Wall Street. The Democrats, mesmerized by If there is a hopeful sign in a dismal pic­ opment and Production Advisory Com­ the president's political charisma, played a ture, it is that Reagan may be beginning to mittee, advisory committee to the me-too game on Capitol Hill. In fact, Demo­ recognize that he was sold a bill of goods by California Conservation Committee, crats on the House side bid up the ante on fanatics who told him that rose-colored ex­ and committee member to Interstate the tax bill enough to make the final legis­ pectations are a substitute for reality. Compact Commission. lation even more inflationary than the origi­ To me, the big mystery is not Wall My wife, Lee, joins me in wishing nal Republican proposals. Street's highly rational lack of confidence It is true, as Broder says, that business­ in Reagan, but why the Democrats continue the very best in the years ahead for men supported Reagan's budget-cutting as to sidestep a golden opportunity to jump all Leonard Brock, his wife Marilyn, and well as personal and business tax-rate pro­ over Reagan and Reaganomics. Where are their children Michael, Steve, and posals. But businessmen, in or out of Wall Teddy Kennedy, John Glenn, Gary Hart, Luanne.e Street, never were seduced, as was the Jimmy Carter, Fritz Mondale, Hugh Carey, September 24, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21991 Jerry Brown, or any other Democrats with California fruit industry, the Packer, tention, whic.h benefits the few at the pretensions to high national office? . has recently editorialized in favor of expense of the many, which under­ There appears, still, to be no Democratic the elimination of the "pro rate," or alternative to Reaganomics. By default, the mines efficiency and initiative by sub­ only effective political criticism I hear volume control, in the navel orange in­ sidizing inefficiency. Before we comes from the AFL-CIO.e dustry. Under marketing order 907, a become too emotional about the small number of powerful growers claims of supporters of the marketing have been unwisely given the author­ order that the system preserves small PERSONAL EXPLANATION ity to order their competitors and all farmers, let us recall that these are growers to restrict the flow of perfect­ the same spokesmen who have de­ HON. STENY H. HOYER ly edible and marketable produce to nounced and are attempting to under­ OF MARYLAND the fresh market. mine the Federal reclamation program IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The pro rate does not serve grower, on the ground that small farming Thursday, September 24, 1981 packer, or consumer. I have intro­ cannot be preserved through Govern­ duced H.R. 3022, which would modify ment action. I believe small farming is e Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I was not the current marketing order process to desirable and can survive, and that it able to be present yesterday during assure that consumers are better rep­ can thrive without the market manip­ House proceedings on H.R. 4, the In­ resented on that board which makes telligence Agencies Protection Act. I ulations imposed by the pro rate. decisions under order No. 907. In addi­ The Packer has spoken forcefully on would have supported the bill in the tion, however, the right to order the form reported by the Permanent this subject, and I want to share those withholding of perfectly good food views with my colleagues. While I Select Committee on Intelligence, be­ against the wishes of growers should cause I think it is vitally important to know that no one challenges my own be prohibited, as it is in the case of strong support for California agricul­ the security of our country to protect most other marketing orders. the lives of the men and women who ture, the Packer has even a stronger The General Accounting Office re­ reputation for advocating what is in gather intelligence information. The cently completed a review of the 1980- committee did a good job in drafting a the best interest of the agriculture 81 navel orange season and the impact community and the American con­ bill on a difficult subject, and dis­ of the marketing order, and the re­ played sensitivity to the important sumer. sults of that survey further support The Reagan administration is cur­ civil liberties concerns raised by the the need to reform the marketing legislation. It was a balanced pro~u~t, rently conducting several reviews of order program. While GAO did not the marketing order program. At a and, in my view, served the public In­ find that food was actually destroyed, terest. recent hearing in Exeter, Calif., nu­ it did conclude: merous witnesses documented the However, I could not support the bill First the Navel Orange Administra­ after the adoption by the House of the abuses and unfairness of the present tive C~mmittee is not representative system, moving a high ranking De­ amendment offered by the gentleman of the diversity of views within the in­ from Ohio