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Vol. 149 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2003 No. 16 House of Representatives The House met at noon and was Bless the personal lives of our lead- Reverend Carroll was born in St. Jo- called to order by the Speaker pro tem- ers, O God, granting them moments of seph, Missouri, and still has many rel- pore (Mr. ISAKSON). renewal in the midst of demanding atives in northern Missouri. After f days. Bless the people of the United graduating from high school in Des States and all people in Your world. Moines, Iowa, he attended Northwest DESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER Amen. Christian College in Eugene, Oregon, PRO TEMPORE f and later earned a Master’s of Divinity from Texas Christian University. The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- THE JOURNAL fore the House the following commu- Reverend Carroll is joined today by nication from the Speaker: The SPEAKER pro tempore. The his wife, Colleen, who is also an or- Chair has examined the Journal of the WASHINGTON, DC, dained minister, working alongside her January 29, 2003. last day’s proceedings and announces husband as an associate minister at the I hereby appoint the Honorable JOHNNY to the House his approval thereof. Community Christian Church. They ISAKSON to act as Speaker pro tempore on Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- have two children, Nathaniel, who is a this day. nal stands approved. senior at Camdenton, High School, and J. DENNIS HASTERT, f Tabitha, who is in the 7th grade at Speaker of the House of Representatives. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Camdenton Junior High School. f Reverend Carroll has devoted his life The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the to the ministry for over 20 years and PRAYER gentleman from Arizona (Mr. RENZI) has served the Community Christian The Reverend Tracy A. Carroll, Sen- come forward and lead the House in the Church in Camdenton since 1992. In the ior Minister, Community Christian Pledge of Allegiance. time that they have lived in Mr. RENZI led the Pledge of Alle- Church, Camdenton, Missouri, offered Camdenton, the Carrolls have become giance as follows: the following prayer: beloved members of the Lake of the God of all nations and the United I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Ozarks community. Both church mem- States of America, bless the House of United States of America, and to the Repub- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, bers and members of the community at Representatives as together they con- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. large talk about Reverend Carroll’s verse, contemplate and carve paths of compassion and his caring for others. f peace, purpose and prosperity for all Reverend Carroll has been very ac- people. Remind each statesman and ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER tive in community affairs, playing a stateswoman of sacred trust. PRO TEMPORE major role in the Lake Area Ministe- Grant assurance of the goodness of The SPEAKER pro tempore. The rial Alliance and with the LAMB people across this great land as we face Chair will entertain one 1-minute. The House, which provides food and cloth- various concerns in this generation. In remaining 1 minutes today will begin ing to those in need. He has been on gratitude for institutions of democ- at the end of the proceedings of today’s the board of the Citizens Against Do- racy, grant courage to stand and to session. mestic Violence, worked with Habitat build consensus. f for Humanity, the Salvation Army, and Guard from partisanship and polit- many other community and youth or- ical pressure. Help each to listen to INTRODUCING GUEST CHAPLAIN, ganizations. You and the voices of all people, until REVEREND TRACY A. CARROLL, I would like to thank Chaplain unity and harmony are discovered COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Coughlin for his kind invitation to anew for the least and the greatest, im- CAMDENTON, MISSOURI Reverend Carroll to offer the opening migrant and long-time citizen, orphan (Mr. SKELTON asked and was given prayer, and I would like to thank both and secure child, widow and married, permission to address the House for 1 Reverend Carrolls for traveling to our poor and rich, farmer and developer, minute.) Nation’s capital to be with us today. mentally ill and capable teacher, inves- Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, it is my f tor and consumer, employed and unem- privilege today to introduce to my ployed, physically challenged and House colleagues our guest chaplain, ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER strong athlete, soldier and protestor, Reverend Tracy A. Carroll, minister of PRO TEMPORE young and the aged, sorrowing ones the Community Christian Church in The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- and ones who rejoice. Camdenton, Missouri. ant to clause 8 of rule XX, the Chair

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VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A29JA7.000 H29PT1 H222 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 29, 2003 will postpone further proceedings There was no objection. minds and hearts of Americans, until today on the motion to suspend the Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Speaker, I yield many people stop whatever they are rules on which a recorded vote or the myself such time as I may consume. doing when it comes time for the Super yeas and nays are ordered or on which Mr. Speaker, it is a great day in the Bowl. the vote is objected to under clause 6 of State of Florida. The jubilation, the The Buccaneers’ magical season rule XX. celebration is still going on in the began at the Magic Kingdom, as the Any record vote on the postponed streets of Tampa and in large cities bucks held training camp at the Disney question will be taken later today. and small towns all over the Sunshine Wide World of Sports Complex. It f State as we rejoice in the victory of ended on Sunday with the Bucs defeat- the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the CONGRATULATING THE TAMPA ing the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl Super Bowl XXXVII, a decisive win, BAY BUCCANEERS FOR WINNING XXXVII for the franchise’s first world the second highest number of points SUPER BOWL XXXVII championship. scored in any Super Bowl. Buccaneers head coach Jon Gruden’s, Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Speaker, I move The Buccaneers brought forth a tal- masterful coaching throughout the 2002 to suspend the rules and agree to the ented offense and a legendary defense playoffs paid off in the Super Bowl as resolution (H. Res. 31) congratulating with undoubtedly several future Hall of the Bucs always seemed to make the the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for winning Famers. right call at the right time. Super Bowl XXXVII. Mr. Speaker, I would be remiss if we Facing the league’s most potent of- The Clerk read as follows: did not begin by recognizing the man fense in the first-ever Super Bowl H. RES. 31 who brought us to the top of that match-up of the league’s top-rated of- Whereas, on Sunday, January 26, 2003, the mountain, the youngest coach to ever fense and defense, the Bucs surrendered Tampa Bay Buccaneers dominated Super coach a winning team in the Super just 269 yards, only 78 by the time Bowl XXXVII, defeating the Oakland Raiders Bowl, Jon Gruden, who built on the Tampa Bay had built a 34–3 lead. The by a score of 48–21; Whereas the 27-year-old Buccaneers fran- foundation laid by Tony Dungy and Bucs controlled the clock for over 37 of chise won the National Football League’s brought spirit, hope and promise to the 60 game minutes. World Championship in their first-ever Super that team by repeating the same Joining the 1985 Bears as the only Bowl appearance; mantra: pound the rock, pound the team in National Football League his- Whereas coach Jon Gruden, in his first rock, keep pounding away at the oppor- tory to lead the National Football year as head coach of the Buccaneers, led the tunities, keep pounding away at the League in yards allowed, points al- team to the pinnacle of success; other team’s offense, seize the mo- lowed and interceptions in the same Whereas the Buccaneers overcame adver- ments and capitalize on the other season, the Bucs racked up five inter- sity and defeated the Oakland Raiders, a team credited with possessing the number- team’s mistakes and weaknesses. ceptions and five sacks in stifling the one ranked offense in the National Football Those outstanding players who were Raiders’ quarterback Rich Gannon. League; there to back him up, under the vision- The Buccaneers more than deserved Whereas throughout the season the Buc- ary leadership of the owners, the Glaz- the warm welcome when they returned caneers were led by a number of players, er family, were able to capitalize on an home to a packed Raymond James Sta- most notably veterans Warren Sapp, Derrick opportunity to bring the Tampa Bay dium on Monday night and victory pa- Brooks and John Lynch, who banded to- area their first Super Bowl champion- rade through the town on Tuesday. gether to form the number-one ranked de- ship. During the parade, thousands of fans fense in the National Football League; Mr. Speaker, the community spirit lined the street and screamed their ap- Whereas owner Malcolm Glazer’s unwaver- ing dedication to bringing together the most that was there, the fans who have suf- proval as the players drove by in talented coaches and players has resulted in fered through a number of seasons of convertibles and pickup trucks. the achievement of the most sought-after poor performances, of missed opportu- The Bucs were equally grateful. Man- honor in professional football: the Vince nities, they were well rewarded last ager Rich McKay said, ‘‘We have heard Lombardi trophy; Sunday afternoon in San Diego. Those a lot about the Eagles fans and we have Whereas the Buccaneers are an integral fans who have scrimped and saved to heard a lot about the Raiders fans. We part of the Tampa Bay community; purchase season tickets, they have en- have heard a lot about all these fans, Whereas the entire Tampa Bay community dured a series of coaches, a series of but I think we all know who the best is proud of the Buccaneers and their extraor- dinary season and tremendous accomplish- top-notch draft opportunities. They fans in the United States of America ment; have endured heart-breaking losses in are, and they are the Buccaneers fans.’’ Whereas this championship is especially the final seconds, and frankly, embar- The Bucs and their fans were simply satisfying to the dedicated Buccaneers fans rassing losses at the beginning of the happy that the Bucs have become the who have loyally supported the team since game for seasons on end. Their deter- world champs by a margin of 48 to 21, their inception in 1976; a very long journey mination, their patience paid off; and no less for the first time in the fran- that has culminated in a Super Bowl victory so this victory, while it is incredibly chise’s 27-year history. and the recognition that the Buccaneers are sweet for the team, it is very alto- I urge my colleagues to support this the best football team in the world: Now, therefore, be it gether fitting and proper for the own- resolution introduced by the gen- Resolved, That the House of Representa- ers, the real victory is for the fans who tleman from Florida (Mr. DAVIS) hon- tives congratulates the World Champion have done so much and given so much oring the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tampa Bay Buccaneers for their victory in to keep that team spirit alive, and the Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of Super Bowl XXXVII. Tampa Bay area is, therefore, rewarded my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- with this Super Bowl championship. Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 ant to the rule, the gentleman from Mr. Speaker, I urge adoption of this minutes to the gentleman from Florida Florida (Mr. PUTNAM) and the gen- resolution. (Mr. YOUNG), the distinguished chair- tleman from Illinois (Mr. DAVIS) each Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of man of the Committee on Appropria- will control 20 minutes. my time. tions and senior member of the Florida The Chair recognizes the gentleman Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I delegation. from Florida (Mr. PUTNAM). yield myself such time as I may con- Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, GENERAL LEAVE sume. we are rightfully proud in the Tampa Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Speaker, I ask I am pleased to join with the gen- Bay area of our team, the Tampa Bay unanimous consent that all Members tleman from Florida in consideration Buccaneers; and I want to thank the may have 5 legislative days within of this resolution, Mr. Speaker. Since gentleman from Florida (Mr. DAVIS), which to revise and extend their re- the first professional football game in my colleague from Tampa and my marks on the resolution under consid- the United States took place in 1895 in neighbor, for introducing this resolu- eration. the town of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, tion calling attention to the tremen- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there football has become one of America’s dous success of the team. objection to the request of the gen- favorite pastimes. As a matter of fact, Also, Mr. Speaker, I think it is im- tleman from Florida? it is so popular and so etched in the portant to compliment both teams. I

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.003 H29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H223 know we had the Raiders, their team me very proud and really speaks to bers of Congress in the Oakland area to and their coach, and we had the Buc- why these people are leaders on the support this resolution. I know it was caneers, our team and our coach. They field and off the field. tough to lose to the Bucs, but, clearly, gave America, and especially Amer- The other important thing that has the Bucs demonstrated they were enti- ica’s sports fans, a tremendous Sunday happened in my community, that my tled to this. afternoon. It was exciting. It was an colleague, the gentleman from Florida A lot of people talk about the west exciting time and the challenge was (Mr. PUTNAM), alluded to, is the tre- coast and the Bay area as a very im- real, and the Buccaneers really came mendous solidarity this team has portant part of the country. That has through; and as my friend, the gen- brought. It has brought together people been true for a long time. The San tleman from Florida (Mr. PUTNAM), of all walks of life, an important lesson Francisco, Oakland, Silicon Valley said, we had a dry season for quite a for Congress to learn, about how you area is what we all think of nationally while, but we finally made it. can get people to overlook differences when we think of the Bay area in the In the few seconds that I have left, I of all kinds that we can imagine to west coast. But, guess what? The Bucs wanted to make this comment, that focus simply on the goal, and cele- have helped us remember that part of since I have been in the Congress, brating victory that has been many, the future of this country is another many people have told me to quit talk- many years in the coming. west coast, another bay area, and it is ing so much about national defense be- I would like to share a few facts the Tampa Bay area. It is the west cause I have been here preaching about about the history of the team for those coast of Florida, as these terrific Mem- a strong national defense ever since I people that are just beginning to pay bers of Congress will speak to here came here many years ago; but I think attention to this truly amazing story today, all of whom are really over- Jon Gruden and the Tampa Bay Buc- about the Bucs’ victory. Since 1976, shadowed and humbled to be in the caneers proved there ain’t nothing like when the Bucs started as an expansion company of a wonderful group of play- a good defense. team, the Tampa Bay area has em- ers and competitors and citizens of Florida. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE braced this team and cherished and So, Mr. Speaker, I again would urge The SPEAKER pro tempore. The supported the team through some very adoption of the resolution. Chair would remind all persons in the tough times. In the first season, the Bucs went 0 and 26. The former coach, Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 gallery that they are here as guests of minutes to the gentleman from Palm the House of Representatives and that John McKay, was asked after one game what he thought of the team’s execu- Beach, Florida (Mr. FOLEY). any manifestation of approval or dis- Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank my tion, and his response was, he was all approval of proceedings or other audi- colleague for yielding me this time, for execution. ble conversation is in violation of the and of course I thank my colleague, the There were bright spots in those ear- rules of the House. gentleman from Florida (Mr. DAVIS). The Chair recognizes the gentleman lier years as well. Hall of Fame defen- Congratulations to the Tampa Bay from Illinois (Mr. DAVIS). sive lineman and current University of Bucs and all who live in Tampa Bay, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, South Florida athletic director Lee St. Petersburg, and all the environs. As it is my pleasure to yield such time as Roy Selmon and the 1980 NFC cham- a fan of the Dolphins, and coming from he might consume to the gentleman pionship team were a stellar perform- southeast Florida, many of us obvi- from Florida (Mr. DAVIS), my colleague ance for the Bucs, although the Bucs ously wished the Dolphins great suc- and classmate, who is the originator of lost that game barely. cess, the last team in Florida to win a this resolution. When Rich McKay, a former high Super Bowl until this outstanding vic- Mr. DAVIS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I school classmate of mine, took over tory of our west coast compatriots. thank the gentleman for yielding me the general manager position, and Governor Gray Davis will have to pay the time. Tony Dungy, who is just a wonderful up the debt to our own Governor, Jeb I think, what is a relatively somber person and terrific coach, hit the field, Bush, so we are excited that we had time in Washington as we debate issues things began to turn around. The two victories over this past weekend. about national defense and having a owner of the team, Malchom Glazer, But the thrill of competition and the strong and smart defense, that it is ap- began to invest the money in the team teamwork that took place was evi- propriate that we take time to honor that needed to be invested from the be- denced in that outstanding, incredible, another collection of heroes whom I am ginning. As a result, in the 6 years incredible victory. terribly proud to speak on behalf of after that, the Bucs made the playoffs I want to commend both gentlemen today. 5 times. They reached the NFC cham- that serve us in Congress representing pionship game in 2000 and became b 1215 the west coast of Florida for their lead- league leaders in Pro Bowl appearances ership on this resolution and for their As a lifelong resident of Tampa, and over that time and began to build this taking time to honor the skills of the now a representative of the Tampa Bay incredible, strong and smart defense. athlete. I think the gentleman from area, as all of us will be that speak John Gruden, who has been men- Tampa, Florida (Mr. DAVIS), spoke elo- today, along with some other Florid- tioned, is a story that speaks for him- quently about the members of the team ians, I take tremendous pride in offer- self. He is a wonderful coach. He who give back to their community out- ing this resolution, with others, not to showed true genius on the field. The side of their professional sports endeav- celebrate just a victory, because that is defensive coordinator, Monte Kiffen, ors; that actually mentor the kids; not exactly what happened on Sunday. showed how to play defensive football that work in the educational environ- The Bucs did not just win, I think they in ways that will be a model for years ment; help in inner-city schools, and do won with class and they won with to come. things that display the kind of char- style. It is not just about winning, it is The game is over now. No matter acter we hope all professional athletes about how you win, and the Bucs won what happens next, the Bucs will al- will emulate. the right way. ways be remembered as the winners of Oftentimes role models for young As a resident of the community, I am Super Bowl XXXVII. Nothing can ever kids who are struggling to find a role so terribly proud of each of these indi- take that away from them. I want to model to look up to are those that viduals, the attention that has come to congratulate not just the team and the make a lot of money and drive fancy them and will continue to come to coaches, but all the players and coach- cars. Many on the team take time out them, about the personal sacrifices es that came before them and laid the of their own lives and professional en- they have made to play their hearts foundation that we are celebrating deavors to help those children. So this out on the field, the terrific contribu- today, as well as all the players and is not only a victory for a team on the tions they are making to our commu- fans that have really sacrificed to sup- field, it is a victory for the kids off the nity as leaders, particularly with port this team. field. young people, and all kinds of scholar- I want to finally close by urging my So as Tampa Bay will continue to ships and charities that I do not have colleagues to support the resolution, celebrate this outstanding achieve- time to talk about today. It just makes and I want to especially urge the Mem- ment of a phenomenal team, we in

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.020 H29PT1 H224 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 29, 2003 southeast Florida are all proud Tampa Ms. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, I thank coaches, players and team staff, created the Bay Buccaneers, too. Mr. Glazer is a the gentleman for yielding me this solid foundation upon which today’s Super resident of Palm Beach, so we kind of time. Bowl Champion Buccaneers stand. share the opportunity to have the Mr. Speaker, as a seasoned ticket The youngest coach ever to win a Super owner of the team in our county, but holder of the Tampa Bay Bucs since Bowl, Jon Gruden has built upon that founda- we also have a chance now as all Flo- the beginning of their creation, I can tion and continued the legacy of hard work ridians to articulate the kind of excite- only tell my colleagues that we are so and responsibility. I commend him for leading ment we felt that night when the time thrilled over their victory, and I rise to the Bucs to their first-ever Super Bowl appear- ran out on the clock and we, in fact, congratulate the world champion ance and victory. The Buccaneers paid a hefty had another Super Bowl championship Tampa Bay Buccaneers for their ex- price for Coach Gruden, but it was a price well to put in the case of history. traordinary victory in Super Bowl worth paying, because football’s ultimate Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I XXXVII. treasure, the Lombardi Trophy, is where it be- yield myself such time as I may con- This season the Bucs epitomized longs—in Tampa Bay. sume. what Americans admire most in a Certainly, no congratulatory speech would I am sure that people throughout all champion. They won because of an in- be complete without honoring the players America join with our colleagues from credible defense and an effective of- themselves. Coming into the game as the un- Florida in paying tribute to the Tampa fense, which they built with out- derdogs, the Buccaneers stayed the course Bay Buccaneers. I join with them in standing talent and refined through ex- and fought hard to secure their championship. their enthusiasm, and urge swift pas- traordinary coaching. An outstanding defensive effort prevented the sage of this resolution. This championship did not emerge Raiders from gaining momentum. Tampa’s de- Mr. Speaker, I have no further re- overnight. It followed many years of fense returned three of a Super Bowl record quests for time, and I yield back the grit and perseverance, during which five interceptions for touchdowns, dashing any balance of my time. the Glazer family, general manager hopes Oakland may have had in winning the Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 Rich McKay, and former head coach title of World Football Champions. minutes to the distinguished gentle- Tony Dungy built a winner brick by Mr. Speaker, I am proud to represent part of woman from Florida (Ms. BROWN- brick. the Tampa Bay area and to be here today to WAITE). Head coach John Gruden brought this offer my congratulations to Coach Gruden and Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Flor- sleeping giant to life. Like the leader- the players. I urge my colleagues to support ida. Mr. Speaker, I was never a football ship of this great body, he united a this resolution honoring the Buccaneers for fan until I moved to the Tampa Bay team of diverse talents and personal- their hard work and their well-deserved Super area. I think it was the contagious en- ities behind his vision, flawlessly exe- Bowl title. thusiasm both from my husband and cuting his championship blueprint Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Speaker, I having my grandchildren that converted me to through his team’s discipline, dedica- no further requests for time, and I become a Tampa Bay Bucs fan. tion, and character. yield back the balance of my time. I rise today to congratulate the On behalf of the citizens of southwest The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Tampa Bay Buccaneers for their out- Florida, I congratulate Coach Gruden ISAKSON). The question is on the mo- standing performance and subsequent and the entire Bucs organization for a tion offered by the gentleman from victory in Sunday’s Super Bowl. The job very well done. They have made our Florida (Mr. PUTNAM) that the House Super Bowl was the most watched Tampa Bay region very proud. suspend the rules and agree to the reso- Super Bowl ever in history. I do not Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Speaker, I yield lution, House Resolution 31. know whether it is just because every myself such time as I may consume. The question was taken; and (two- television set in Florida was tuned in As you can see, Mr. Speaker, there is thirds having voted in favor thereof) or not, but it was the most viewed a tremendous amount of pride from the the rules were suspended and the reso- Super Bowl in history. Florida delegation in the Tampa Bay lution was agreed to. The Buccaneers’ victory of 48 to 21 Buccaneers. We certainly are grateful A motion to reconsider was laid on over the Oakland Raiders came at long to Tampa’s hometown Congressman, the table. last to very, very patient Tampa Bay the gentleman from downtown Tampa, f Bucs fans such as myself and my fam- Florida (Mr. DAVIS), for introducing ily, who endured many, many years of this resolution. He serves with a great GENERAL LEAVE sticking with the Bucs even when they deal of class, just as the Buccaneers Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, weren’t winning. We knew it was just a were victorious with class, and the fans I ask unanimous consent that all Mem- matter of time, and that time came have celebrated with class. bers may have 5 legislative days in this past Sunday. The Buccaneer de- This team gives back to the commu- which to revise and extend their re- fense scored three touchdowns from nity, and the community is rightfully marks on the motion to go to con- five interceptions, and that was a joyful in this celebration today. All of ference on House Joint Resolution 2, Super Bowl record. us are so proud of the work the Glazer making further continuing appropria- Aside from congratulating the team, family and Coach Gruden has done, and tions for fiscal year 2003, and for other I would also like to congratulate John so I urge adoption of this resolution. purposes, and that I may include tab- Gruden, the NFL’s youngest coach. In Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ular and extraneous material. his very first year, he took the Tampa offer my strong support for this resolution and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Bay Bucs on to victory. We would be salute the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for winning objection to the request of the gen- remiss if we did not also thank Tony Super Bowl 37. tleman from Florida? Dungy, the former coach, because he The Buccaneers have proven themselves There was no objection. was able to develop that team and de- through the years. From their humbling 0–26 f velop the team to the point where their start in 1976 and winless first season and a defense was so strong. half, the Bucs have evolved into a force with APPOINTMENT OF CONFEREES ON I would certainly congratulate all of which to be reckoned—the Champions of H.J. RES. 2, FURTHER CON- the members of the Buccaneer team Super Bowl 37. TINUING APPROPRIATIONS, FIS- and as well to the Oakland Raiders. It As a Bucs season ticket-holder and long- CAL YEAR 2003 was a hard-fought battle. Somebody time resident of the Tampa Bay area, I am Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, had to win, and I am just darn glad proud to have witnessed the years of change I ask unanimous consent to take from that it was the Tampa Bay Bucs. and hard work that culminated in Sunday’s tri- the Speaker’s table the joint resolution Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 umph over the Oakland Raiders. (H.J. Res. 2) making further continuing minutes to the gentlewoman from Former Coach Tony Dungy deserves much appropriations for fiscal year 2003, and Florida (Ms. HARRIS). of the credit for this victory. He changed the for other purposes, with a Senate (Ms. HARRIS asked and was given character of the team by instilling in them a amendment thereto, disagree to the permission to revise and extend her re- focus on community, character, and leader- Senate amendment, and agree to the marks.) ship. His hard work, and that of many other conference asked by the Senate.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 00:57 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.009 H29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H225 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there House floor whether the amounts re- to do with the reality as far as edu- objection to the request of the gen- quested or the sums recommended by cation is concerned. tleman from Florida? the committee were too much or too Unfortunately, even now we do not There was no objection. little, never allowed the elected rep- have an appropriate bill in front of us. MOTION TO INSTRUCT OFFERED BY MR. OBEY resentatives of the American people to We do not have specific funding levels Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I offer a mo- vote on any of these matters. proposed for specific programs. We tion to instruct conferees. The result, the party that is oh, so have the most confusing hodgepodge of The Clerk read as follows: noisy in talking about accountability numbers it would be possible to con- for teachers and schools is oh, so silent coct, and a motion to go to conference Mr. OBEY moves that the managers on the part of the House at the conference on the when it comes to the accountability of on those numbers. That is an open invi- disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the Members of Congress. You cannot be tation to have a small group of people Senate amendment to the joint resolution, held accountable for the choices you bring back an all-or-nothing omnibus H.J. Res. 2, be instructed to agree to the never make, and that is the game that package so big and so complex and so highest level of funding within the scope of has gone on here for almost a year. late in the year that we can claim that conference (1) for the programs within the Mr. Speaker, how can there be a we just had to vote for it, even though jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Labor, more fundamental breakdown of the in- it is on a program-by-program basis 180 Health and Human Services, Education and stitution? What a disgrace. What was it degrees at variance with what a large Related Agencies, including advance appro- priations in the Senate amendment, and (2) that we did all year that was so impor- majority of this body claims to sup- for veterans’ medical care and to insist that, tant we could not at least call these port. within the scope of conference, no item re- bills up? Today I want to give this House an quested by the President for homeland secu- I want to make it quite clear, there opportunity to send a different mes- rity (as identified in the OMB submission ti- is one person in this institution who I sage to the conference. I want to give tled ‘‘Homeland Security Funding’’) be fund- am not referring to, and that is the Members on the other side of the aisle ed below the level of the President’s request. gentleman from Florida (Mr. YOUNG), who truly believe what they say about The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the chairman of the Committee on Ap- resources in the classroom, better clause 7 of rule XXII, the gentleman propriations, who has gone to the mat teachers, small classes, stronger cur- from Wisconsin (Mr. OBEY) and the time and time again to try to get this riculum a chance to stand up and say gentleman from Florida (Mr. YOUNG) House to meet its responsibilities. He to Mitch Daniels and their leadership each will control 30 minutes. has spoken on the subject often and here in the House that they are for The Chair recognizes the gentleman eloquently, and it is in spite of his very real, that they insist on a bottom line from Wisconsin (Mr. OBEY). considerable efforts that we find our- that is much higher for education than Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- selves where we are today. the numbers that my friend, the gen- self 10 minutes. In my mind there is one issue at the tleman from Ohio (Mr. REGULA), has Mr. Speaker, Article I of the Con- bottom of this: the majority party been given to work with. stitution states that no money can be leadership in this House abandoned its Our motion to instruct simply says drawn from the Treasury except by act central responsibility under the Con- that the allocation to the bill that con- of Congress. stitution and to the American people tains education funding shall not be in order to get political cover on one smaller when the bill comes back to b 1230 issue. They love to talk the talk on the House than the sums contained in That is the essence of the separation education, but they are not willing to the Senate bill. If we take all of the in- and balance of power in this govern- walk the walk. They are not willing to creases the Senate says it would like to ment. It is the core function of this put their money where their mouths make in that bill, we find ourselves body. It is what makes this a legisla- are. Oh, yes, they like to visit schools. $9.55 billion over the level the House tive body, not a Soviet-style rubber They like to read to children when the has allocated to the Regula bill. Even stamp. cameras are around; and oh, they love after we subtract the remarkable So let me ask what some Members to make TV ads about how important across-the-board cuts contained in the might find to be a somewhat embar- education is and how much they care Senate package, this bill is about $5.7 rassing question: How did the House of about it. They like to vote for big, ex- billion above House levels. CBO has not Representatives get through an entire pensive authorization programs cre- scored it yet, and so we do not have session of Congress last year without ating new major responsibilities for precise numbers; but that is about ever even calling up for debate Senate local boards to meet, and they like to where we believe the Senate ends up. appropriation bills that fund more than promise huge sums of Federal money We are asking that the House direct three-quarters of the government out- to pay for them. They love to do all of its conferees to begin this conference side of the Department of Defense? those things. by agreeing with the Senate on that Now I am not asking why we failed to There is only one thing that they ap- overall funding level. It is not at the pass the bills. There can be numerous parently cannot and will not do, and level of increase in our schools that we answers to that question. I am not ask- that is pay the bill afterwards. Now have provided in any of the last 6 ing why we did not complete the con- most people have seen a con artist in years. It would mean that the result of ference report. That could easily be action, at least in the movies. They all of the time and debate we spent in blamed on the intransigence or inac- have the capacity to seem in almost enacting No Child Left Behind would tion of the other body. every respect to be someone quite dif- be to scale back the funds that we are What I am asking is how could be we ferent from whom they really are. That sending to schools. It is not the level fail to even call up for debate on this is what the majority party has done that we can and should provide, but floor, on this floor, the basic pieces of over the last several years with respect under the rules we are working under legislation to fund the government to education. Of course, the only time it is the best we can do; and it is with- when that is our fundamental responsi- they get caught at the game is when out any question the least we should bility as an institution. the appropriations bills are on the do. I would simply note, by the way, Mr. Speaker, this is the 108th Con- floor. That is the one point in time that the bludgeoning-nature of the gress. This is the 215th year in which when all of the pretty images fall across-the-board cuts provided by the this body has gathered to perform our apart, all of photo ops, press releases Senate has resulted in unacceptable duties under the Constitution. As a re- and slick TV ads, that is the time when damage to a number of other crucial sult, it is quite difficult to do some- they do not run true; and that is why activities in areas such as health and thing in Congress that has never been this day has been delayed for almost 8 science. done before, but I think this body in months, well after the election, well There are two other parts to this mo- the last Congress actually succeeded in after the opportunity of the American tion. One is that the level of funds for that respect. The House Republican people to measure whether the rhetoric homeland security activities in this leadership never even let these bills coming out of the Congress and this ad- package shall not fall below the levels out of committee, never debated on the ministration has anything whatsoever requested by the President so far as it

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.011 H29PT1 H226 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 29, 2003 is possible within the scope of the con- gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. OBEY) in them. Pending that, if the gen- ference. Yesterday, I catalogued just and I could be happier if that were the tleman would just confirm that he said how inadequate the President’s budget case. But the fact is, as we study that the conferees will be himself and the is for homeland security, for port pro- bill, it is not a bill that we can agree gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. OBEY), tection, for first responders. But the with; so it is essential that we go to I am ready to go home. Senate’s across-the-board cuts have conference. Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, taken more than a billion dollars from The Senate had to reduce the bills I thank the gentleman from Massachu- homeland security activities. Our in- that they had reported from their com- setts (Mr. FRANK) for his comments. At tent is to restore those funds. It, at the mittee by $9 billion just to get to the one point I actually suggested that we very least, will make clear that the top number that a majority of Mem- keep our side of the conference very, education funds will not be coming bers have agreed to. In addition to very small, meaning the gentleman from homeland security. that, they are going to have to make from Wisconsin (Mr. OBEY) and myself, Finally, we have a crisis in veterans’ some additional changes because even and maybe one other be conferees, but medical care. The across-the-board though they are at the top number, that did not work. cuts in the Senate bill significantly ex- there are many things in the bills that Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. acerbates that crisis. We direct in this our committee reported that are not in Speaker, if the gentleman would con- motion the conferees to go to the high- their bill, and they have included tinue to yield, the ‘‘maybe one other’’ est possible level for veterans’ medical things in their bill that were not in our just ruined it. care that is within the scope of the bill, so we have a lot of work to do. b 1245 conference. So as we go to conference, we need I will be very blunt about this in- flexibility. We need to be able to nego- Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, struction. If anyone votes for it, they tiate, to move, to make decisions, and I think I said all that needs to be said, are setting parameters on the con- to bring back to this House a respon- and I would like to advise the gen- ference that do not permit the con- sible omnibus appropriations bill, for tleman from Wisconsin (Mr. OBEY), my ference to come back within the alloca- fiscal year 2003 and conclude the busi- friend, I really do not have any other tion that Mitch Daniels and the gen- ness for fiscal year 2003 because fiscal speakers on the subject; so I am going tleman from Iowa (Mr. NUSSLE) have year 2004 is approaching us like a run- to reserve the balance of my time. established. This motion says to them away train, and thus we will be begin- Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 6 that the line that they have drawn in ning fiscal year 2004 activities almost minutes to the gentleman from Mary- the sand for education and other do- immediately. land (Mr. HOYER), the distinguished mi- mestic needs is unrealistic. We need to The gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. nority whip. move on and resolve these differences, OBEY) does not need to have this mo- Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank and we need to support local schools. tion to instruct conferees. He and I will the gentleman for yielding me this This is not the end of the process; this lead a very strong conference team to time. is step one. meet with our counterparts in the Mr. Speaker, the hollow promises If a majority of this body votes to other body. I will be speaking for the must end. Last night President Bush agree with the Senate that we need majority side, and the gentleman from said, and I quote, ‘‘Whatever action is this $5.7 billion increase for education, Wisconsin (Mr. OBEY) will be speaking required, whenever action is necessary, and the Congress then agrees to a con- for the minority side. He and I are I will defend the freedom and security ference report that rejects the position partners. We will go into this con- of the American people.’’ That was cor- taken by both Houses, the American ference knowing where we want to end rect that he said that. Last year he people will then know exactly what is up and knowing what we have to do to said, ‘‘Whatever it costs to defend our going on around here. They are going end up there. country, we will pay.’’ I think he was to know at that point exactly how We actually do not need a motion to right to say that. The late fees, how- phony all of these press releases and instruct conferees. If for some reason ever, on those promises are piling up. TV ads on education have been. the conference committee got bogged My friends on the other side of the Mr. Speaker, no one should vote for down, maybe we would need a motion aisle, not, by the way, members of the this motion if they intend to vote for a to instruct, but I do not think that is Committee on Appropriations, and not later conference report that scales going to happen. I have worked very under the leadership of the gentleman back funding for the very education closely with the chairman of the Sen- from Florida (Mr. YOUNG), who does an programs we are trying to protect by ate Committee on Appropriations, and extraordinary job in our committee, this motion. That would be an act of we believe that we have the ability to but some of my friends on the other hypocrisy that would be startling even reach agreements on very difficult de- side of the aisle are licking their chops by the standards of this town. cisions. Because of that, I think today at the smorgasbord of tax cuts that Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, is not a good time to instruct con- would fatten the wealthy and leave I yield myself such time as I may con- ferees. I would say at a later date if scraps for most Americans and force sume. that becomes necessary that maybe I our children to pay the bill. But they Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the effort would agree to it. Today I ask Members do not want to spend resources now that the gentleman from Wisconsin to reject this motion to instruct. that are needed for Federal agencies to (Mr. OBEY) is making here, and I would Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. respond to terrorist threats. The gen- say that these are some of the items Speaker, will the gentleman yield? tleman from Florida (Mr. YOUNG) and that we will definitely be dealing with Mr. YOUNG of Florida. I yield to the the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. as we go to conference. gentleman from Massachusetts. OBEY) tried to bring that to their at- But for those Members who have fol- Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. tention. Nor will they honor the bipar- lowed the budget and the appropria- Speaker, after listening to the gen- tisan pledge to improve our edu- tions process for fiscal year 2003, they tleman from Florida (Mr. YOUNG), it cational system. will recognize that we really have ac- sounded like the gentleman was saying Within the limits of parliamentary complished somewhat of a miracle to that the conferees would be himself procedures, we are limited in what can be where we are today, ready to ap- and the gentleman from Wisconsin. I be offered in this motion. However, its point conferees so we can go to con- want to say if that is the deal, if there purpose is critical. It is time to leave ference with the Senate. are going to be two conferees, the the hot air behind and the rhetoric be- If we agreed with the bill that the chairman and the ranking minority hind and to live up to our commitment other body has sent to us as an amend- member of the Committee on Appro- and the expectations of those who sent ment to our continuing resolution, we priations, I would urge the gentleman us here. It is time to live up to our could just agree to their amendment from Wisconsin (Mr. OBEY) to withdraw commitment to indeed leave no child today and our business for fiscal year the motion to instruct because if those behind. 2003 would be concluded, and I would are the two Members, as the gentleman We made a promise to help schools tell Members that I do not think the said, I would have complete confidence implement reforms to meet higher

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.014 H29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H227 standards. We have asked States and as the President said, in preventing cut, because we have other priorities. local school districts to do the work, just one catastrophic event. The gentleman from Wisconsin’s mo- and we must show that we were seri- I hope my colleagues will support tion is giving a chance to say do that. ous, that we meant what we said, that this motion. I hope my colleagues will I will say this: If people do not vote we will put the Nation’s money where stand and say we promise and we talk, for the gentleman’s motion, and if, as the Nation’s heart is. The House bill is but this motion says we are also pre- he stressed, even more importantly $5.7 billion less than the other body’s pared to take the walk. I believe Amer- they do not vote for a conference re- funding for the No Child Left Behind icans are prepared to take that walk as port that reaches that level, if they Act. If we pursue that number, we will well. vote for a conference report that has leave millions of children behind. Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 less than that, then any of them who This is simply inadequate, inad- minutes to the distinguished gen- then talk about how sorry they are equate to help local school districts tleman from Massachusetts, the new that veterans’ medical care is being cut meet the new mandates we insisted ranking member of the Committee on are indeed guilty of the grossest form upon just last year. Title I is intended Financial Services. of hypocrisy, as the gentleman from to help disadvantaged students meet Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Wisconsin said. high academic standards, a critical ob- Speaker, I thank the gentleman for There are other areas we cannot jective. Ten million children are eligi- yielding me this time. I have to say touch here because of the unwilling- ble for Title I services. Again, the with respect to the gentleman from ness of the majority to let the normal House only meets two-thirds of the $16 Florida (Mr. YOUNG) even if the con- process go forward. The Securities and billion we need. I say to my friends, ference was not just himself and the Exchange Commission even at the Sen- that is saying to over 3 million chil- gentleman from Wisconsin, if it was ate level will be substantially below dren in America there is no room in just himself, many on our side would what the President said they should this rich inn. The other body provides not be so nervous, but he is for all dedi- get when he signed the corporate re- an additional $500 million, and we cation not autonomous, less autono- sponsibility bill. The last time we de- ought to give them at least that level mous, less nearly autonomous than he bated this, the gentleman from Vir- so that we leave no child behind. used to be under the current regime, ginia, who is a subcommittee chair- The other body also provides $2 bil- and we fear that the instructions he man, said to me, ‘‘I am introducing a lion more in IDEA grants, children will be getting from the other side of bill to give them the money.’’ He intro- with disabilities who seek an edu- Pennsylvania Avenue will outweigh duced the bill. It remains introduced. cation. We promised the States we commitments that we think ought to It has not been voted on. It has not would participate; $2 billion light are be made to the people we are here to been acted on. we. The House level provides less than serve. Housing is also significantly under- half of the Federal contribution toward I wish we were not dealing with all of funded, and there will be terrible prob- the added cost of special education these issues in one instruction motion, lems in public housing, in Section 8. that is authorized under IDEA. Again, but it must be repeated again. The way But in the areas of the gentleman’s we as the representatives of the Amer- in which this House leadership has cho- motion, health care for veterans, re- ican people need to ensure the fact that sen to deal with the appropriations search at NIH, and education, a failure America lives up to its promises. process this year has been one of the not simply to vote for this instruction We must not forget our veterans ei- most thorough degradations of the motion, because I am not sure that we ther. Over 310,000 veterans are on wait- democratic process I have ever seen. may not be able to rope-a-dope here, in ing lists for medical care, and many And people have said, well, but the which people will vote for an instruc- veterans are waiting as long as 6 Senate did not pass a budget. What tion motion and then act contrary to months for an appointment to see a does that have to do with the constitu- it, and try and get coverage because doctor. To a person last night we stood tional right of this body to pass appro- they voted for the instruction motion, and cheered and clapped with respect priations bills? if we do not have an appropriation that and appreciation for those who serve us We, in fact, passed two appropria- at least reaches these levels for the Na- in uniform both here and abroad. tions bills for defense. There was no ob- tional Institutes for Health, for edu- Should we do any less for them when stacle there, and there was no obstacle cation, for veterans care, then we will they are through their active service with the other appropriations bills ex- have really thoroughly failed in our ob- but need the health care we have prom- cept the political reality that by the ligation to the American people. ised? It is an outrage to not do so. time you get through financing two We passed an education bill, and we Freedom’s defenders deserve better. We wars with three tax cuts, you do not cheered for it, and now we have im- must fully fund VA medical care. We have enough money left to meet funda- posed on the localities without giving do not do it. mental social obligations. them the money. We have done this Finally, with regard to homeland se- And what the gentleman from Wis- time and time again. The gentleman curity, the Council on Foreign Rela- consin is trying to do and he says, in a from Wisconsin’s motion and its being tions reported last October that we are burst of reasonableness, within the taken seriously by the conference com- ‘‘dangerously unprepared to prevent scope of conference, indeed I think that mittee is the minimum that decency and respond to a catastrophic terrorist might be the part of it to which the requires, and I wish I was not skeptical attack on U.S. soil.’’ The gentleman other side objects the most, because that we will achieve it. from Florida (Mr. YOUNG) and the gen- staying within the scope of the con- I thank the gentleman for yielding tleman from Wisconsin (Mr. OBEY) ference has rarely been their practice me this time. pleaded with the President of the in recent years, but the gentleman Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 United States to respond to this vul- from Wisconsin has correctly in par- minutes to the distinguished gen- nerability. The cost of addressing our liamentary terms framed his motion, tleman from California (Mr. GEORGE vulnerabilities is a mere fraction of the and he says we would have liked even MILLER), the ranking member of the President’s $674 billion tax cut. more in some of these areas. At least Committee on Education and the I was elected to State Senate in 1966. let us go to the level that the Repub- Workforce. Ted Agnew, who was then the county lican-controlled United States Senate (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California executive of Baltimore County, elected voted for. asked and was given permission to re- Governor that same year, and in the What happens if we do not do that? vise and extend his remarks.) inaugural address he said this: That Veterans get a good deal of rhetoric Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. the price of progress far exceeds the from this institution. I wish they got 25 Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of cost of failure. The billions of dollars percent as much help as they get rhet- the Obey motion because it keeps a that were suggested by the gentleman oric. In the New England region Cat- promise with the American public. It from Florida (Mr. YOUNG) and by the egory 8 veterans have been shut off al- keeps a promise with America’s school- gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. OBEY) together because we cannot afford it children, and it keeps a promise with could save us tens of billions of dollars, because we have got to do a big tax the parents of those children and the

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Mr. Speaker, I object to Federal role in education in this coun- cent weeks. the vote on the ground that a quorum try, that we would fully fund the I know the name of the game on the is not present and make the point of means by which the States and local- part of the White House and the major- order that a quorum is not present. ities and school districts could carry ity party leadership is to preserve The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evi- out those reforms. But almost before every possible dollar on the table for dently a quorum is not present. the ink was dry, the President sub- tax cuts, a huge percentage of which The Sergeant at Arms will notify ab- mitted a budget that, in fact, made are aimed at the most well-off 1 per- sent Members. cuts in that education promise. cent of the folks in our society who The vote was taken by electronic de- Last night the President talked make more than $300,000. I understand about the accomplishments that he had vice, and there were—yeas 200, nays that that is the name of the game. But 209, not voting 25, as follows: had. He talked about setting standards in my view, while I certainly wish and having young children achieve those folks well and while I think they [Roll No. 17] those standards. That is the promise, ought to share in the same tax cuts YEAS—200 but it is not happening. It is not hap- provided other people, I think that vet- Abercrombie Hall Napolitano pening in this country, and now it is erans need VA health care more than Ackerman Harman Neal (MA) even under greater threat because of Alexander Hill Oberstar someone who is earning $500,000 a year Allen Hinchey Obey the cuts that are taking place in edu- needs to have an extra jumbo-sized tax Andrews Hinojosa Ortiz cation because of the economic distress cut. Baca Hoeffel Owens in our country and the budgetary dis- Baird Holden Pallone So I would simply ask Members of Baldwin Holt tress in our States. this House, do not, please, pose for po- Pascrell The question for us is whether or not Ballance Honda Pastor litical ‘‘holy pictures’’ by having photo Bell Hooley (OR) Payne we will help these school districts ops at local schools, if the only thing Berkley Hoyer Pelosi Berman Inslee carry out these reforms so that these you are willing to send those local Peterson (MN) children can have a higher level of Berry Israel Pomeroy schools is a new set of mandates with- Bishop (GA) Jackson (IL) achievement, a higher level of accom- Price (NC) out the money to help pay for them. Do Bishop (NY) Jackson-Lee Rahall plishment, and a better chance of par- Blumenauer (TX) Rangel not do that. School districts are in too Boswell Jefferson ticipating in the American dream. big a squeeze and State governments Reyes That is what the Obey amendment is Boucher John Rodriguez with their financial problems are in too Boyd Jones (OH) about. That is what this vote is about. Ross big a squeeze already. Brady (PA) Kanjorski Rothman It is about whether or not this Con- All we are asking you to do is, within Brown (OH) Kelly Roybal-Allard gress will redeem that promise on be- Brown, Corrine Kennedy (RI) Ruppersberger the possibilities presented by this con- half of America’s schoolchildren. Capps Kildee Rush ference report, we are asking you to Capuano Kilpatrick We cannot have a freeze on those, as Ryan (OH) vote for the maximum amount possible Cardin Kind Sabo Cardoza Kleczka the House appropriations bill did. We Sanchez, Linda in order to come closer than we will Carson (IN) Kucinich cannot have the measly increase that T. Carson (OK) Lampson otherwise come to meeting the prom- Sanchez, Loretta the Senate has suggested. What, in Case Langevin ises so far unfulfilled of the No Child Sanders fact, we need is to add this additional Clay Lantos Sandlin Left Behind Act. Clyburn Larsen (WA) $5.7 billion so that the promise of no Schakowsky I urge a ‘‘yes’’ vote on the motion to Cooper Larson (CT) child left behind is, in fact, a reality. Schiff Costello Leach instruct. Scott (GA) And it is important because States are Cramer Lee Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance Scott (VA) required under this law to do many Crowley Levin Serrano of my time. Cummings Lewis (GA) things differently, many things better Sherman than they have done in the past, and Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, Davis (AL) Lipinski I yield myself the balance of my time. Davis (CA) Lofgren Skelton we believe, and most educators believe, Slaughter Mr. Speaker, I want to make the case Davis (FL) Lowey that the result will be that America’s Davis (IL) Lucas (KY) Smith (WA) Snyder schoolchildren will have a higher level very strongly that a ‘‘no’’ vote on this Davis (TN) Lynch motion to instruct does not deny any DeFazio Majette Solis of accomplishment, will have a higher DeGette Maloney Spratt level of performance. By the same of the things that have been discussed Stark today. It does not approve them; it Delahunt Markey token, those very same independent ob- DeLauro Marshall Stenholm Strickland servers of the American education sys- does not deny them. A ‘‘no’’ vote al- Deutsch Matheson lows us to have total flexibility as the Dicks Matsui Stupak tem understand that if the resources Tanner gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. OBEY) Dingell McCarthy (MO) are not there, this promise will be hol- Doggett McCarthy (NY) Tauscher low. and I lead this conference committee Dooley (CA) McCollum Taylor (MS) into a final solution for fiscal year 2003. Doyle McDermott Thompson (CA) b 1300 I listened to the debate, and I have a Edwards McGovern Thompson (MS) Emanuel McIntyre Tierney The President made the promise, the hard time disagreeing with things that Engel McNulty Turner (TX) President should keep the promise, and I have heard. But as I said, a ‘‘no’’ vote Eshoo Meehan Udall (CO) the Congress of the United States does not deny any of that. Etheridge Meek (FL) Udall (NM) So, Mr. Speaker, I would ask my col- Evans Meeks (NY) Van Hollen should help him to keep that promise Farr Menendez Velazquez by passing the Obey motion to in- leagues to reject this motion to in- Fattah Michaud Visclosky struct. struct. Let us go to conference, and let Filner Millender- Waters Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- us bring the best bill that we possibly Ford McDonald Watson Frank (MA) Miller (NC) Watt self 3 minutes. can back here for consideration by the Frost Miller, George Waxman Mr. Speaker, yesterday this House House. Gonzalez Mollohan Weiner refused to provide the financial assist- Mr. Speaker, I have no further re- Gordon Moore Wexler ance necessary to our local firemen and quests for time, and I yield back the Green (TX) Moran (VA) Woolsey Grijalva Murtha Wu policemen and other first responders balance of my time. Gutierrez Nadler Wynn whose responsibility it is to be our first The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without line of defense against terrorist at- objection, the previous question is or- NAYS—209 tacks in communities throughout this dered on the motion. Aderholt Barrett (SC) Bereuter There was no objection. Akin Bartlett (MD) Biggert country. Bachus Barton (TX) Bilirakis Today I would hope that the House The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Baker Bass Bishop (UT) would not take action to deny the ISAKSON). The question is on the mo- Ballenger Beauprez Blackburn

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.019 H29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H229 Blunt Graves Oxley Stated for: thought Mr. JEFFERSON would have ne- Boehlert Green (WI) Paul Boehner Greenwood Pearce Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. gotiated a little higher price from us, Bonilla Gutknecht Pence Mr. Speaker, I was unable to vote on rollcall but, in any case, it was a great deal for Bonner Harris Peterson (PA) No. 17, motion to go to conference on House America and a gracious gesture for our Bono Hart Petri Joint Resolution 2, because I am still recov- great champion of ideas. Boozman Hastings (WA) Pickering Bradley (NH) Hayes Pitts ering from surgery. Had I been present, I Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman would Brady (TX) Hayworth Platts would have voted ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall No. 17. continue to yield, the House will con- Brown (SC) Hefley Pombo Mr. BECERRA. Mr. Speaker, on Wednes- vene on Tuesday in pro forma session. Brown-Waite, Hensarling Porter Ginny Hobson Portman day, January 29, 2003, I was unavoidably de- On Wednesday we hope to consider the Burgess Hostettler Pryce (OH) tained, and therefore unable to cast my floor conference report on H. Res. 2, which Burns Houghton Putnam vote on rollcall No. 17, the Motion to Instruct will finish up the 2003 appropriations Burr Hulshof Quinn Conferees on H.J. Res. 2. process. However, if the conference re- Buyer Hunter Radanovich Calvert Hyde Ramstad Had I been present for the vote, I would port is not ready for floor consider- Cannon Isakson Regula have voted ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall vote 17. ation, the House will need to consider Cantor Issa Rehberg Stated against: another continuing resolution on Capito Istook Renzi Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speak- Carter Janklow Reynolds Wednesday. Castle Jenkins Rogers (AL) er, on rollcall No. 17 I was unavoidably de- In addition, we may consider some Chabot Johnson (CT) Rogers (KY) tained as my pager did not work. measure under suspension of the rules. Chocola Johnson (IL) Rogers (MI) Had I been present, I would have voted A list will be provided to all offices by Coble Johnson, Sam Rohrabacher Cole Jones (NC) Royce ‘‘nay.’’ Monday evening. There will be no votes Collins Keller Ryan (WI) Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 17 in the House before 6:30 p.m. on Cox Kennedy (MN) Ryun (KS) I was unavoidably detained and missed the Wednesday, and on Thursday we expect Crane King (IA) Saxton vote. to consider H.R. 395, the Do Not Call Crenshaw King (NY) Schrock Culberson Kingston Sensenbrenner Had I been here I would have voted ‘‘nay.’’ Implementation Act, to restrain ramp- Cunningham Kirk Sessions The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without ant telemarketers, and finish with leg- Davis, Jo Ann Kline Shadegg objection, the Chair appoints the fol- islative business for the week by 1 p.m. Davis, Tom Knollenberg Shays lowing conferees: Deal (GA) Kolbe Sherwood b 1330 DeLay LaHood Shimkus Messrs. YOUNG of Florida, REGULA, DeMint Latham Shuster ROGERS of Kentucky, WOLF, KOLBE, Mr. Speaker, I am happy to answer Diaz-Balart, L. LaTourette Simmons WALSH, TAYLOR of North Carolina, any questions. Diaz-Balart, M. Lewis (KY) Simpson Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank Doolittle Linder Smith (NJ) HOBSON, ISTOOK, BONILLA, KNOLLEN- Dreier LoBiondo Souder BERG, KINGSTON, OBEY, MURTHA, DICKS, the gentleman for the information he Duncan Lucas (OK) Stearns SABO, MOLLOHAN, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. VIS- has given to us. I understand we are Dunn Manzullo Sullivan CLOSKY, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. SERRANO and coming back at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday Emerson McCotter Sweeney and leaving no later than 1 p.m. on English McCrery Tancredo Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Everett McHugh Tauzin There was no objection. Thursday. I know the gentleman’s Feeney McInnis Taylor (NC) f party has its retreat. Ours is this week, Ferguson McKeon Terry as the gentleman knows. Flake Mica Thomas LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Fletcher Miller (FL) Thornberry I would ask the leader, Mr. Speaker, Foley Miller (MI) Tiberi (Mr. HOYER asked and was given he indicates that the conference com- Forbes Miller, Gary Toomey permission to address the House for 1 mittee report may come back on Fossella Moran (KS) Turner (OH) minute.) Wednesday. If that is the case, does the Franks (AZ) Murphy Upton Frelinghuysen Musgrave Vitter Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, in light of gentleman have any information as to Garrett (NJ) Myrick Walden (OR) the fact that both of us are brand new when the conference might meet? Gerlach Nethercutt Walsh in this job and this is the first time we Mr. DELAY. If the gentleman will Gibbons Ney Wamp Gilchrest Northup Weldon (FL) are doing this, I want the gentleman continue to yield, Mr. Speaker, parties, Gillmor Norwood Weller from Texas (Mr. DELAY) to know that both in the minority and the majority Gingrey Nunes Whitfield I am pleased to yield to him today and in both Houses, are speaking and talk- Goode Nussle Wicker will be pleased to yield to him in days ing to each other as we meet. Obvi- Goodlatte Osborne Wolf Goss Ose Young (AK) to come. I want him to stay leader; I ously, the chairman of the Committee Granger Otter Young (FL) would just like to change the designa- on Appropriations in the House and the NOT VOTING—25 tion, the adjective, but I yield to the chairman in the Senate will do their majority leader. own scheduling when the formal con- Becerra Hastings (FL) Smith (MI) Burton (IN) Herger Smith (TX) Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I appre- ference would be held. Camp Hoekstra Tiahrt ciate the gentleman yielding to me, We are hoping that, working with the Combest Johnson, E.B. Towns and I appreciate his interest in chang- minority and the ranking Members of Conyers Kaptur Weldon (PA) ing my title, but that will not happen both Houses, and working hard through Cubin Lewis (CA) Wilson (NM) Ehlers Olver Wilson (SC) for another 2 years, at least. the weekend, as hard as they can, that Gallegly Ros-Lehtinen Before I discuss next week’s schedule, they will come to some sort of resolu- Gephardt Shaw I would like to note for the gentleman tion next week. That is the schedule ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE and other Members of the House a very that the House would like to see hap- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. significant historical event that took pen; but we know, as all these things ISAKSON). The Chair would advise Mem- place in the House of Representatives happen, it could leak and we would bers that there are 2 minutes remain- during this week back in 1815. Mr. have to do another continuing resolu- ing on this vote. Speaker, the Library of Congress was tion for another week. Hopefully, by established back in 1800, and the Li- then all the work would be done. b 1324 brary was housed here in the Capitol, Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank Messrs. KINGSTON, TAUZIN, BAR- as many of us know, until 1814 when the gentleman for that information. TON of Texas, SAXTON, KING of New the British troops set fire to the build- Assuming that the conference report York, and Mrs. BONO and Mrs. ing and destroyed most of the books in would be offered on Wednesday, assum- NORTHUP changed their vote from our collection. Retired President ing that work gets done, can the leader ‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ Thomas Jefferson graciously offered give us any information on the kind of So the motion to instruct was re- his personal library from Monticello as rule under which that conference re- jected. a replacement, and Congress purchased port would be considered? And I say The result of the vote was announced the library 188 years ago today for the that, Mr. Speaker, to the leader in the as above recorded. sum of $23,950. context that most members of the A motion to recommit was laid on Now, after the job he did in the Lou- Committee on Appropriations, not to the table. isiana Purchase, one would have mention most Members of the House,

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A29JA7.002 H29PT1 H230 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 29, 2003 have not had the opportunity to see ex- which obviously from the House posi- So I would simply ask of the leader, actly what is in the bill. I think we tion is not what we want to see as nor- Mr. Speaker, again in light of the ex- just got the papers yesterday, so there mal practice, that the majority would traordinarily unusual process that has has not been much consideration. very seriously consider, in the inter- been pursued over the last 12 months in As the chairman, I am sure, knows, ests of democracy in this House, with a dealing with the appropriation bills, there will be a desire on, I am sure, small ‘‘d,’’ and in the interest of full and the fact that we did not bring the both sides of the aisle, perhaps, to offer debate on the priorities we are going to Labor-Health, one of the largest bills some legislative proposals to the con- set forth in this bill that deals with that our committee considers, to the ference committee report if they are over $360 billion of discretionary spend- floor or to full committee or to sub- made in order. Can the gentleman en- ing, to have a rule that is not tradi- committee for consideration, and yes, lighten us as to what kind of rule the tional, because we are not dealing with the chairman introduced a bill, but it conference committee report might be a traditional process. was introduced by the chairman alone; considered under? I would hope that the leader, in dis- it was not cosponsored by anybody Mr. DELAY. If the gentleman will cussions with the Speaker, with the else. That did not give us much input. continue to yield, Mr. Speaker, the majority whip, and with the gentleman I will not belabor this point further, gentleman, as well as this gentleman, from Florida (Mr. YOUNG), as well as but I would hope and ask my col- having served on the Committee on Ap- the gentleman from California (Mr. leagues, in light of the fact that this is propriations, understands that this is a DREIER), would consider a process the first substantive piece of legisla- very unusual process that we are going which would allow Members to have a tion that we are going to consider, that through. In fact, I do not think we have greater opportunity to express their it be considered with an opportunity gone through this process anytime that views on this particular bill. for those of us who represent some- Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I appre- I have served on the Committee on Ap- where in the neighborhood of 49 per- ciate the gentleman for yielding again. propriations, so we are sort of feeling cent of the people of the United States The gentleman is correct in correcting our way trying to get the appropria- to have their voice heard meaningfully me, that we only did 11 bills out of the tions done. in the deliberations. committee. I do remind the gentleman I remind the gentleman that the Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, if the gen- that the chairman introduced a Labor- Committee on Appropriations in the tleman will yield further, the gen- HHS bill, and it is my information that House passed out every one of the 13 tleman makes a very good point. We bills out of committee, so we do have that is what they are working from. Secondly, I would say that the con- want to be fair to all concerned. We something to look at as to what at ference committee as named has 12 Re- want to have this as open a process as least the committee had done in the publicans and 10 Democrats on it, so we possibly can make it. House; and they are trying to reconcile the minority is very well represented I just want the Members of this body that with what the Senate did or what on the conference committee, and will to know that we just received the the other body did. be, obviously, consulted and worked paper from the other body last night, As far as bringing it back, it is the with in as open a manner as possible. so it is going to take probably the en- tradition of this House and has been I would also point out the fact that tire time of the gentleman’s retreat for the tradition of this House to bring conference reports are privileged reso- the staff to go through that paper and back a conference report on an appro- lutions, and it would be highly unusual get it ready for Members’ consider- priations bill under a closed rule. To be for us to change the precedent and the ation. Obviously, the Members that are honest, I do not know that we would rules governing privileged resolutions. interested in having an impact on this want to change that. So we are trying the best we can to ac- conference will probably have an op- Mr. HOYER. Reclaiming my time, commodate any Member that is inter- portunity, or I know they will have an Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman. ested in what is going on in that con- opportunity, starting Sunday or Mon- Let me make a couple of comments. ference, whether they be Democrat or day, to have input into that process. I First of all, the gentleman is almost Republican, by opening up the process offer to the gentleman that if anybody right; we did 11 of the 13 bills. But the as much as possible and having a proc- feels that they have been shut out of second largest bill, of course, as the ess that Members can plug into so that the process, our office is open and we gentleman knows, on discretionary their voices can be heard in the consid- are more than willing to work with spending, not only did we not do it, but eration of the conference. them. it was not considered in subcommittee, Mr. HOYER. Reclaiming my time, Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman much less in full committee, the Mr. Speaker, I understand what the for his comments. Labor-Health bill, which is, of course, gentleman has said; but I am sure the f itself over $125 billion in discretionary gentleman also understands our con- ADJOURNMENT TO FRIDAY, JANU- spending, and somewhere approxi- sternation, because we are going on a mately $300 billion, when we include retreat for 2 days. We are leaving here ARY 31, 2003; AND ADJOURNMENT the mandatory spending within that tomorrow morning. I ask the gen- FROM FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2003, bill, as the gentleman recalls. tleman when the conference is going to TO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2003 But as the gentleman makes the occur. We really do not know when the Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan- point, this is the most unusual proce- conference is going to occur. imous consent that when the House ad- dure for the appropriations process As the gentleman knows, like him- journs today, it adjourn to meet at 10 that I have seen in my 20 years on the self, I am a ranking member on the a.m. on Friday, January 31, 2003; and committee. It is the least involvement, Committee on Appropriations. I have further, that when the House adjourns I think, that members of the Com- received no notice of a scheduled con- on Friday, January 31, 2003, it adjourn mittee on Appropriations in the House ference on this particular piece of leg- to meet at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, February have had on the product that now is islation. I am one of the higher-rank- 4, 2003. being sent to us by the Senate. ing Members in the House. Therefore, I The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. I know that the gentleman from Ohio would think the gentleman and I would ISAKSON). Is there objection to the re- (Mr. REGULA) on the Labor-Health bill have access; but the more junior mem- quest of the gentleman from Texas? introduced 2 days ago a Labor-Health bers of the Committee on Appropria- There was no objection. alternative, which presumably will be tions and those who do not serve on the f used as a basis for that title of the bill Committee on Appropriations, while to be conferenced. However, Mr. Speak- theoretically having some access to a INTRODUCTION OF INSTRUC- er, I would say to the gentleman, I conference, if the conference is never TIONAL MATERIALS ACCESSI- would very much hope that in light of held, if there is no scheduled meeting, BILITY ACT the extraordinarily unusual cir- if they have no opportunity to partici- (Mr. PETRI asked and was given per- cumstances under which this appro- pate in those deliberations, it is very mission to address the House for 1 priation bill is being considered, essen- difficult for them, short of acting on minute and to revise and extend his re- tially emanating from the Senate, the floor, to consider this legislation. marks.)

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.025 H29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H231 Mr. PETRI. Mr. Speaker, today my the shared values of American and In- nounced policy of January 7, 2003, and colleague, the gentleman from Cali- dian people have never been more ap- under a previous order of the House, fornia (Mr. GEORGE MILLER), and I are parent. Our countries share a love of the following Members will be recog- introducing the Instructional Mate- freedom; and both uphold the ideal of nized for 5 minutes each. rials Accessibility Act, which makes equality of all people, regardless of f sure that blind students will be able to faith, gender, or ethnicity. enjoy an equal opportunity to a quality As the co-chair of the House India HONORING FORMER CONGRESS- education. Caucus, along with the co-chairman, MAN LUCIEN BLACKWELL It often takes months for a blind stu- the gentleman from New York (Mr. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a dent to have the same materials as his CROWLEY), I commend both President previous order of the House, the gen- or her sighted peers because of the George W. Bush and Prime Minister tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. BRADY) cumbersome process needed to trans- Atal Bihari Vajpayee, elected leaders is recognized for 5 minutes. late a textbook into Braille or other of the world’s two largest democracies, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Mr. specialized format. This legislation for continuing to actively cultivate Speaker, I stand here today with a very will eliminate these delays by putting strong ties between the United States heavy heart as the passing of a dear, in place standards to assist States and and India. dear friend of mine and a dear friend of school districts in delivering instruc- f a lot of people, former Congressman tional materials to blind students. Lucien Blackwell. URGING CONGRESS TO PASS THE Lucien Blackwell was a Korean deco- I would urge my colleagues to sup- PRESIDENT’S LEGISLATIVE PRI- port this important bill. rated war hero. He was a Member of ORITIES, AND LEGISLATION this body. He was a member of the f HOLDING CRIMINALS RESPON- Pennsylvania State Legislature, a U.N. ABSURDITIES SIBLE FOR HARMING UNBORN member of city council, and he was a (Mr. PITTS asked and was given per- CHILDREN very famous labor leader. Lucien mission to address the House for 1 (Ms. HART asked and was given per- Blackwell was a champion for the little minute and to revise and extend his re- mission to address the House for 1 people. marks.) minute and to revise and extend her re- Two things come to mind when you Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, for 12 years marks.) talk about Lucien Blackwell: He was a we have amassed a mountain of proof Ms. HART. Mr. Speaker, last night warrior, and he had passion. He was a that Saddam Hussein has both weapons the President of the United States warrior and a fighter for the people of mass destruction and the missiles he challenged this Congress to tackle who could not fight for themselves, and needs to launch them. many problems facing our country, he spoke for people who could not Right now, Saddam Hussein is vio- such as health care reform and eco- speak for themselves. lating a long string of binding U.N. res- nomic growth. The President also Mr. Speaker, in my 18 years as a olutions. He continues to repeatedly urged Congress to pass legislation ban- party chairman for the city of Phila- violate the terms of the 1991 ceasefire, ning partial birth abortions and human delphia, he was my vice chair. He stood which amounts to a resumption of war. cloning. All of these are extremely im- beside me for 18 years, and for 18 years As we heard last evening, our Presi- portant goals. there was never a motion on the floor dent is determined to stop Saddam In addition, Mr. Speaker, I am con- that he did not make or he did not sec- Hussein before it is too late by dis- fident that we will again pass a bill ond. He was without question a man of arming him of weapons of mass de- that will hold criminals responsible for integrity and a man who will be struction. But over and over we hear harming unborn children. Last session missed. the President’s critics say that he we did pass such legislation, but under I was with him the day before he should not act without the United Na- current Federal law an individual could passed. We did our normal politicking tions. attack a pregnant woman, injuring and our famous back-room scheming, Now, President Bush agrees that the that woman and killing the child. always to try to help somebody else. U.N. can be very helpful, but some- While the assailant could be tried for I would not be here today if it was times the U.N. does the wrong thing. the assault against the mother, no not for Lucien Blackwell. When this Last year, the U.N. placed some of the legal action is available under Federal seat became vacant, the first congres- law to address the murder of the child. world’s worst human rights abusers on sional seat of Pennsylvania, he was This is not the case in many States going to fill it. He was going to come its Commission on Human Rights. in this Nation. In fact, 24 States, in- Now, of all countries, Libya is going to back and resume his career as a Con- cluding my home State of Pennsyl- gressman. And then 2 days prior to sub- chair that body. vania, have passed unborn victims’ If that is not bad enough, Iraq, Iraq is mitting the name, he said to me that laws. in line to take over the U.N. Con- he met with his family, was having ference on Disarmament. Could any- b 1345 breakfast with his granddaughters and thing be more ludicrous? These are effective laws that have grandsons, and they said to him, Pop- President Bush should do the right been upheld by the courts on a number Pop, if you went back to Congress we thing with or without the United Na- of occasions when they have been chal- could not be doing this with you. So he tions. lenged. In fact, all legal challenges to thought better of it. He thought better to stay with his family and not to f such unborn victims laws have failed. And a number of Federal courts have come back to this body, and that is COMMENDING INDIA ON ITS turned away challenges to State un- why I am here. He nominated me, and CELEBRATION OF REPUBLIC DAY born victims laws. I took that congressional seat. (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked An expectant mother who loses a I feel a little responsible for allowing and was given permission to address child as a result of an attack by a vio- his family to have him for 5 more the House for 1 minute and to revise lent criminal before she gets to hold years, which is a very short time. and extend his remarks.) her child deserves recourse. Well, this Mr. Speaker, the Nation, this body Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. recourse would never be a substitute lost a good man. The State of Pennsyl- Speaker, I rise today to join with In- for her terrible loss. I do not think it is vania lost a good man. The city of dian Americans across the Nation in too much to ask to have a similar un- Philadelphia and the labor movement recognition of India’s Republic Day, born victims laws on the books. Last lost a good man. His family, they lost which was celebrated this last Sunday. year we passed this act. I am confident a loving husband; his loving wife, city Fifty-three years ago India’s constitu- we will pass this bill again. council lady Janey Blackwell. His fam- ily lost a father, a brother, a grand- tion, greatly influenced by America’s f Founding Fathers, was adopted to so- father, a great grandfather. And, Mr. lidify its parliamentary democracy. SPECIAL ORDERS Speaker, I lost a good friend. He will Today, India is the world’s largest The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. never be forgotten, and for sure he can democracy, of over 1 billion people; and CULBERSON). Under the Speaker’s an- never be replaced.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.027 H29PT1 H232 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 29, 2003 HONORING FORMER CONGRESS- former Member, but someone whose form will take into account the need to MAN LUCIEN BLACKWELL life of service honored the House by protect rural areas, to protect the citi- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a him being a Member here, and for all of zens that are in rural areas, and to pro- previous order of the House, the gen- his service to our country we should be tect the economies of rural areas. tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. grateful. And I would just like to say At the moment the funding formula FATTAH) is recognized for 5 minutes. that for a lot of those people, the Linda for Medicare reimbursement discrimi- Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Speaker, I, too, Brickhouses, the Kentues at the grass- nates against rural providers and bene- rise to comment on the life and legacy roots political network, and all of the fits urban providers. That formula of our former colleague Lucien E. people he worked with, John Macklin needs to be adjusted. I believe this Blackwell, who served as a Congress- on the disadvantaged business efforts, matter has been addressed before in the man for the Second District, and prior the minority business efforts, and the House. I hope that the Rural Health to that served for two decades as a gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Care Caucus will be presenting to the member of the city council of Philadel- BRADY), who he worked with shoulder House a bill that will address this mat- phia, where he served as a chairman of to shoulder developing the political ter, and I also hope that the President the finance committee and moved machinery in our city, at least in and the House will support that bill. If through the council all of the critical terms of the Democratic Party, but he the President could incorporate the and major pieces of legislation that im- also reached across the aisle and concepts behind that bill, which during pacted the growth and development of worked quite well with our Republican the last session was called the Rural the city of Philadelphia as we know it colleagues to make our city what it is Community Hospital Assistance Act, today. And even before that service, he today. then I think the Medicare reform that served as an elected official in the We are indebted. And I join my col- is offered by the President could well State legislature in Pennsylvania. league from the First Congressional address the crisis in health care that I remember almost three decades now District in honoring his memory, his we see today in rural areas. ago when he led an effort with the late legacy, and I know that this House will f State representative David P. Richard- find appropriate ways as we go forward REPUBLIC VERSUS DEMOCRACY son of Pennsylvania to clean up the to more formally recognize his service. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under conditions at our youth detention fa- I thank the Speaker for allowing us cility headquartered in our side of the the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- this time. State of the Youth Study Center on the uary 7, 2003, the gentleman from Texas parkway. He fought in the city council f (Mr. PAUL) is recognized for 60 minutes and passed the first major minority The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a as the designee of the majority leader. set-aside legislation once he found out previous order of the House, the gen- Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, at the close that African American and women- tleman from California (Mr. FILNER) is of the Constitutional Convention in owned businesses were getting less recognized for 5 minutes. 1787, Benjamin Franklin told an inquis- than 2 percent of the city procurement (Mr. FILNER addressed the House. itive citizen that the delegates to the business, and created a program that His remarks will appear hereafter in Constitutional Convention gave the opened a door for disadvantaged busi- the Extensions of Remarks.) people a Republic, if you can keep it. nesses to have an opportunity at the We should now apologize to Mr. Frank- f procurement in Philadelphia. lin. It is obvious that the Republic is As my colleague, the gentleman from CRISIS IN RURAL HEALTH CARE gone, and we are wallowing in a pure Pennsylvania (Mr. BRADY), has indi- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a democracy against which the Founders cated, he started his public career, previous order of the House, the gen- had strongly warned. Madison, the Father of the Constitu- however, as a labor leader where he tleman from Georgia (Mr. MARSHALL) tion, could not have been more explicit leveled the Longshoreman’s Union in is recognized for 5 minutes. in his fear and concern for democ- Philadelphia. And immediately prior to Mr. MARSHALL. Mr. Speaker, this is racies. ‘‘Democracies have ever been that he served our Nation in the Ko- the first time I have had an oppor- spectacles of turbulence and conten- rean War conflict. He was a veteran of tunity to speak to the Speaker, and it tions, have ever been found incompat- that conflict, and he won medals for is an honor to do so. I speak on behalf ible with personal security or the his commitment and his service fight- of rural America, Mr. Speaker. It is an ing with the Korean War veterans, and rights of property, and have in general issue that is bipartisan. It is an issue was a part of the effort to create an ap- been as short in their lives as they that is of great concern to an awful lot propriate memorial for Korean vet- have been violent in their deaths.’’ of Americans. erans. If Madison’s assessment was correct, So Lucien E. Blackwell, who died Last night in his State of the Union it behooves those of us in Congress to suddenly at the age of 71, as it is re- Address the President said all seniors take note and decide, indeed, whether ported, leaves now his wife, who is a should have the choice of a health care the public has vantaged when it oc- city councilwoman in Philadelphia and plan that provides prescription drugs. I curred and what to expect in the ways a major leader in our city, and a host hope that the President’s plan when it of turbulence, contention and violence, of children and grandchildren, who are comes out takes the opportunity to ad- and above all else what can we and going to in their own way make a mark dress some of the weak points in Medi- what will we do about it. and live up to the legacy of Lucien care and to truly provide access to pre- The turbulence seems self-evident. Blackwell. scription drugs for seniors throughout Domestic welfare programs are not sus- And Philadelphians, Pennsylvanians, the United States, including in rural tainable and do not accomplish their and all across this country people re- areas. stated goals. State and Federal spend- member the passion of Lucien At the moment, Mr. Speaker, the for- ing and deficits are out of control. Ter- Blackwell, particularly his effort to be mula for deciding how to reimburse rorism and uncontrollable fear under- concerned about those who were con- medical providers discriminates mines our sense of well-being. sidered in some quarters to be little against providers that are in rural Hysterical reactions to dangers not yet people or outside of the mainstream of areas. In my district we have had two seen prompt the people at the prodding power. He fought with Maleek for ex- rural hospitals close in the last 2 or 3 of the politicians to readily sacrifice offenders. He fought to feed the home- years. One closed, then reopened, and their liberties in vain hope that some- less in Philadelphia, sometimes to the went through two or three different one else will take care of them and chagrin of the establishment. He sets of management. We have had a guarantee their security. fought to include labor fully in the dis- number of rural hospitals that have With these obvious signs of a failed cussions of economic development in struggled just to make ends meet. system all around us, there seems to be our city, major building projects and This is caused in part by our funding more determination than ever to an- every other respect. formula under Medicare, and I hope the tagonize the people of the world by Lucien Blackwell should be remem- President in crafting his plan for pre- pursuing a world empire. Nation-build- bered by this House as not just a scription drugs and for Medicare re- ing, foreign intervention, preemptive

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.030 H29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H233 war and global government drive our ering to amend the Constitution. It has society and undermine the Constitu- foreign policy. been met with only minimal but, fortu- tion convinced the recipients and even There seems to be complete aversion nately, growing dissent. For the first the victims of its necessity. to defending the Republic and the Con- 150 years of our history, when we were Since it was never a precipitous de- stitution that established it. The much closer to being a true Republic, parture from the Republic, the gradual Founders clearly understood the dan- there were no Federal laws dealing erosion of liberty went unnoticed, but gers of a democracy. Edmond Randolph with the serious medical problem of ad- it is encouraging that more and more of Virginia described the effort to deal diction. citizens are realizing just how much with the issue at the Constitutional The ideas of democracy, not the prin- has been lost by complacency. Convention: ‘‘The general object was to ciples of liberty, were responsible for The resolution to the problems we produce a cure for evils under which the passage of the 16th amendment. It face as a result of this profound transi- the United States labored; that in trac- imposed the income tax on the Amer- tion to pure democracy will be neither ing these evils to their origins, every ican people and helped us usher in the quick nor painless. This transition has man had found it in the turbulence and modern age of the welfare warfare occurred even though the word ‘‘de- follies of democracy.’’ State. Unfortunately, the 16th amend- mocracy’’ does not appear in the Con- ment has not been repealed as was the stitution and the Declaration of Inde- b 1400 18th. As long as the 16th amendment is pendence. The Founders explicitly de- These strongly held views regarding in place, the odds are slim that we can nounced it. the evils of democracies and the ben- restore a constitutional republic dedi- Over the last hundred years the goal efit of a constitutional republic were cated to liberty. The personal income of securing individual liberties within shared by all the Founders. For them, tax is more than symbolic of a democ- the framework of a constitutional re- a democracy meant centralized power, racy; it is a predictable consequence. public has been replaced with incessant controlled by majority opinion, which The transition from republic to de- talk of democracy and fairness. Ral- was up for grabs and, therefore, com- mocracy was gradual and insidious. Its lying support for our ill-advised par- pletely arbitrary. seeds were sown early in our history. In ticipation in World War I, Wilson spoke In contrast, a republic was decentral- many ways, the Civil War and its after- glowingly of making the world safe for ized and representative in nature, with math laid the foundation for the acute democracy and never mentioned na- the government’s purpose strictly lim- erosion that took place over the entire tional security. This theme has to this ited by the Constitution to the protec- 20th century. day persisted in all our foreign affairs. tion of liberty and private property Chronic concern about war and eco- Neoconservatives now brag of their ownership. They believe the majority nomic downturns events caused by an current victories in promoting what should never be able to undermine its intrusive government’s failure to fol- they call ‘‘hard Wilsonism.’’ principle and that the government low the binding restraints of the Con- A true defense of self-determination must be tightly held in check by con- stitution allowed majority demands to for all people, the necessary ingredient stitutional restraints. supercede the rights of the minority. of a free society is ignored. Self-deter- The difference between a democracy By the end of the 20th century, major- mination implies separation of smaller and a republic was simple. Would we ity opinion had become the deter- governments from the larger entities live under the age old concept of the mining factor in all that government that we witnessed in the breakup of the rule of man or the enlightened rule of does. The rule of law was cast aside, Soviet Union. This notion contradicts law? leaving the Constitution a shell of the goal of pure democracy and world A constitution in and by itself does what it once was, a Constitution with government. A single world govern- not guarantee liberty in a republican rules that guaranteed a Republic with ment is the ultimate goal of all social form of government. Even a perfect limit and regional government and pro- egalitarians who are unconcerned with constitution, with this goal in mind, is tection of personal liberty. liberty. no better than the moral standards and The marketplace, driven by vol- Today, the concepts of rights and desires of the people. untary cooperation, private property property ownership are completely ar- Although the United States Constitu- ownership, and sound money was se- bitrary. Congress, the courts, Presi- tion was by far the best ever written verely undermined with the acceptance dents and bureaucrats arbitrarily legis- for the protection of liberty, with safe- of the principles of true democracy. late on a daily basis, seeking only the guards against the dangers of a democ- Unfortunately, too many people con- endorsement of the majority. Although racy, it, too, was flawed from the be- fused the democratic elections of lead- the Republic was designed to protect ginning. Instead of guaranteeing lib- ers in a Republic for democracy by ac- the minority against the dictates of erty equally for all people, the authors cepting the rule of majority opinion in the majority, today we find the re- themselves yielded to the democratic all affairs. For majorities to pick lead- verse. The Republic is no longer rec- majority’s demands that they com- ers is one thing. It is something quite ognizable. promise on the issue of slavery. This different for majorities to decide what Supporters of democracy are always mistake, plus others along the way, rights are, to redistribute property, to quick to point out one of the perceived culminated in a civil war that surely tell people how to manage their per- benefits of this system is the redis- could have been prevented with clearer sonal lives, and to promote undeclared, tribution of wealth by government to understanding and a more principled unconstitutional wars. the poor. Although this may be true in approach to the establishment of a con- The majority is assumed to be in a limited fashion, the champions of stitutional republic. charge today and can do whatever it this system never concern themselves Subsequently, the same urge to ac- pleases. If the majority has not yet with the victims from whom the commodate majority opinion while ig- sanctioned some desired breach of ac- wealth is stolen. The so-called benefits noring the principles of individual lib- tion demanded by special interest, the are short lived because democracy con- erty led to some other serious errors. propaganda machine goes into oper- sumes wealth with little concern for Even amending the Constitution in a ation and the pollsters relay the infor- those who produce it. Eventually, the proper fashion to impose alcohol prohi- mation back to politicians who are programs cannot be funded, and the de- bition turned out to be a disaster. For- seeking legitimacy in their endeavors. pendency that has developed precip- tunately, this was rectified after a The rule of law and the Constitution itates angry outcries for even more short time with its repeal. have become irrelevant, and we live by fairness. But today, the American people ac- constant polls. Since reversing the tide against lib- cept drug prohibition, a policy equally This trend toward authoritarian de- erty is so difficult, this unworkable damaging to liberty as was alcohol pro- mocracy was tolerated because, unlike system inevitably leads to various hibition. A majority vote in Congress a military dictatorship, it was done in forms of tyranny. As our Republic has been enough to impose this very the name of benevolence, fairness, and crumbles, voices of protest grow loud- expensive and failed program on the equity. The pretence of love and com- er. The central government becomes American people even without both- passion by those who desire to remold more authoritarian with each crisis. As

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.032 H29PT1 H234 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 29, 2003 the equality of education plummets, Big business strongly supports pro- restraints on the printing of money. the role of the Federal Government is grams like the Export Import Bank, Private counterfeiting was a heinous expanded. As the quality of medical the IMF, the World Bank, foreign sub- crime, but government counterfeiting care collapses, the role of the Federal sidies and military adventurism. Tax and fractional reserve banking were re- Government in medicine is greatly in- Code revisions and government con- quired to seductively pay for the ma- creased. tracts mean big profits for those who jority’s demands. Foreign policy failures precipitate are well-connected. Concern for indi- cries for more intervention abroad and vidual liberty is pushed to the bottom b 1415 an even greater empire. Cries for secu- of the priority list for both the poor rity grow louder and concern for lib- and the rich welfare recipients. It is for this reason that democracies erty languishes. Prohibitions placed in the Constitu- always bring about currency A tax on our homeland form a mas- tion against programs that serve spe- debasement through inflation of the sive increase in the bureaucracy to pro- cial interests are the greatest threat to money supply. tect us from all dangers seen and imag- the current system of democracy under Some of the planners of today clearly ined. which we operate. In order for the ben- understand the process. And others, The prime goal of the concern of the efits to continue, politicians must re- out of ignorance, view central bank Founders, the protection of liberty, is ject the rule of law and concern them- money creation as a convenience with ignored. Those expressing any serious selves only with the control of major- little danger. That is where they are concern for personal liberty are con- ity opinion. Sadly, that is the job of al- wrong. Even though the wealthy and demned for their self-centeredness and most all politicians. It is clearly the the bankers support paper money, be- their lack of patriotism. Even if we motivation behind the millions spent lieving they know how to protect could defeat the al Qaeda, which is on constant lobbying, as well as the against its ill effects, many of them are surely a worthwhile goal, it would do billions spent on promoting the right eventually dragged down in the eco- little to preserve our liberties, while candidate in each election. nomic downturns that always develop. ignoring the real purpose of our gov- Those who champion liberty are rare- It is not a new era that they have cre- ernment. Another enemy would surely ly heard from. The media, banking, in- ated for us today, but more of the same replace it, just as the various groups of surance, airlines, transportation, fi- endured throughout history by so so-called barbarians never left the nancial institutions, government em- many other nations. Roman Empire alone once its internal ployees, the military industrial com- The belief that democratic demands republican structure collapsed. plex, the education system and the can be financed by deficits, credit cre- Once it becomes acceptable to change medical community are all dependent ation, and taxation is based on false the rules by majority vote, there are on government appropriations result- hope and failure to see how it contrib- no longer any limits on the power of ing in a high-stakes system of govern- utes to the turbulence as the democ- the government. When the Constitu- ment. racy collapses. Once a nation becomes tion can be subverted by mere legisla- Democracy encourages the mother of a democracy, the whole purpose of gov- tive votes, executive orders or judicial all political corruption, the use of po- ernment changes. Instead of the gov- degrees, constitutional restraints on litical money to buy influence. If the ernment’s goal being that of guaran- the government are eliminated. This dollars spent in this effort represent teeing liberty, equal justice, private process was rare in the early years of the degree to which democracy has won property and voluntary exchange, the our history, but now it is routine. out over the rule of law and the Con- government embarks on the impossible Democracy is promoted in the name stitution, it looks like the American task of achieving economic equality of fairness in an effort to help some Republic is left wanting. Billions are and micromanaging the economy and special interest group receive a benefit spent on the endeavor. Money and poli- protecting citizens from themselves in that it claims it needs or is entitled to. tics is the key to implementing policy all their activities. If only one small group were involved, and swaying democratic majorities. It The destruction of the wealth-build- nothing would come of the demands, is seen by most Americans, and rightly ing process, which is inherent in a free but coalitions develop and the various so, as a negative and danger. Yet the society, is never anticipated. Once it is groups ban together to form a major- response, unfortunately, is only more realized it has been undermined, it is ity, to vote themselves all those things of the same. too late to easily reverse the attacks that they expect others to provide for More laws tinkering with freedom of against limited government and per- them. expression are enacted in hopes that sonal liberty. Democracy, by necessity, Although the motivating factor is regulating sums of private money endorses special interest interven- frequently the desire for the poor to thrown into the political system will tionism, inflationism and corporatism. better themselves through the willing- curtail the abuse; but failing to under- In order to carry out the duties now ex- ness of others to sacrifice for what stand the cause of the problem, lack of pected of the government, power must they see as a good cause, the process is respect for the Constitution and obses- be transferred from the citizens to the doomed to failure. Governments are in- sion with legislative relativity dictated politicians. The only thing left is to de- efficient and the desired goals are rare- by the majority serve only to further cide which group or groups have the ly achieved. Administrators who ben- undermine the rule of law. greatest influence over the government efit perpetuate the programs. Wealthy We were adequately warned about officials. elites learn to benefit from the system this problem. Democracies lead to As the wealth of the nation dwindles, in a superior fashion over the poor be- chaos, violence and bankruptcy. The competition between the special inter- cause they know how to skim the demands of the majority are always est groups grows more intense and be- cream off the top of all the programs greater than taxation alone can pro- comes the dominant goal of all polit- designed for the disadvantaged. They vide. Therefore, control of the mone- ical action. Restoration of liberty, the join the various groups in producing tary and banking system is required market, and personal responsibilities the majority vote needed to fund their for democracies to operate. are of little interest and are eventually own special interest. It was no accident in 1913 when the seen as impractical. Power and public Public financing of housing, for in- dramatic shift toward democracy be- opinion become crucial factors in de- stance, benefits builders, bureaucrats, came pronounced that the Federal Re- termining the direction of all govern- insurance companies and financial in- serve was established. A personal in- ment expenditures. stitutions while the poor end up in come tax was imposed as well. At the Although both major parties now ac- drug-invested, crime-ridden housing same time, popular election of Sen- cept the principles of rule of majority projects. For the same reason, not only ators was instituted, and our foreign and reject the rule of law, the bene- do business leaders not object to this policy became aggressively interven- ficiaries for each party are generally system but they also become strong tionist. Even with an income tax, the different, although they frequently supporters of welfare programs and for- planners for war and welfare knew that overlap. Propaganda, demagoguery, eign aid. it would become necessary to eliminate and control of the educational system

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.034 H29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H235 and the media are essential to direct- affairs. The goal of making the world nancing and training. It is totally ig- ing the distribution of the loot the gov- safe for democracy was forcefully put nored by those obsessed with going to ernment steals from those who are still forth by Wilson. Protecting national war against Iraq. Saudi Arabia is the honestly working for a living. security had become too narrow a goal furthest thing from a democracy. As a The greater problem is that nearly and selfish in purpose. An obligation matter of fact, if democratic elections everyone receives some government for spreading democracy became a were permitted, the Saudi Government benefit and, at the same time, contrib- noble obligation backed by a moral would be overthrown by a bin Laden utes to the Treasury. Most hope they commitment every bit as utopian as ally. will get back more than they pay in striving for economic equality in an Those who constantly preach global and, therefore, go along with the firm- egalitarian society here at home. government and democracy ought to ly entrenched system. Others, who un- With the growing affection for de- consider the outcome of their philos- derstand and would choose to opt out mocracy, it was no giant leap to as- ophy in a hypothetical Mideast re- and assume responsibility for them- sume that majority opinion should gional government. If these people selves, are not allowed to and are mold personal behavior. It was no mere were asked which country in this re- forced to participate. The end only coincidence that the 18th amendment, gion possessed weapons of mass de- comes with the collapse of the system, alcohol prohibition, was passed in 1919. struction, had a policy of oppressive since a gradual and logical reversal of Ever since 1913, all our Presidents occupation, and constantly defies U.N. the inexorable march toward demo- have endorsed meddling in the internal council resolutions, the vast majority cratic socialism is unachievable. So- affairs of other nations and have given would overwhelmingly name Israel. Is viet-style communism dramatically generous support to the notion that a this ludicrous? No. This is what democ- collapsed once it was recognized that it world government would facilitate the racy is all about and what can come could no longer function, and a better goals of democratic welfare or social- from a one man, one vote philosophy. U.S. policy supports the overthrow of system replaced it. It became no longer ism. On a daily basis we hear that we the democratically elected Chavez gov- practical to pursue token reforms like must be prepared to send our money ernment in Venezuela because we do those that took place over its 70-year and use our young people to police the not like the economic policy it pur- history. world in order to spread democracy. sues. We support a military takeover The turmoil and dangers of pure de- Whether it is Venezuela or Colombia, as long as the new dictator will do as mocracy are known. We should get pre- Afghanistan or Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, we tell him. pared. But it will be the clarity with Korea or Vietnam, our intervention is There is no credibility in our conten- which we plan its replacement that de- always justified with the tone of moral tion that we really want to impose de- termines the amount of pain and suf- arrogance that it is for their own good. mocracy on other nations, yet pro- fering endured during the transition to Our policymakers promote democracy moting democracy is the public jus- another system. Hopefully, the United as a cure-all for the various complex tification for our foreign intervention. States Congress and other government problems of the world. Unfortunately, It sounds so much nicer than saying we leaders will come to realize the seri- the propaganda machine is able to hide are going to risk the lives of young ousness of our current situation and re- the real reasons for our empire-build- people and massively tax our citizens place the business-as-usual attitude, ing. to secure the giant oil reserves of Iraq. regardless of political demands and Promoting democracy overseas mere- After we take over Iraq, how long growing needs of a boisterous majority. ly becomes a slogan for doing things would one expect it to take until there Simply stated, our wealth is running that the powerful and influential strive are authentic nationwide elections in out, and the affordability of democracy to do for their own benefit. To get au- that country? The odds of that hap- is coming to an end. History reveals thority for these overseas pursuits, all pening in even 100 years are remote. It that once majorities can vote them- that is required of the government is is virtually impossible to imagine a selves largesse, the system is destined that the majority be satisfied with the time when democratic elections would to collapse from within. But in order to stated goals no matter how self-serving ever occur for the election of leaders in maintain the special interest system they may be. The rule of law, that is a constitutional republic dedicated to for as long as possible, more and more constitutional restraint, is ignored. the protection of liberty anyplace in power must be given to an ever-expand- But as successful as the policy may be the region. ing central government, which of on the short run, and as noble as it The tragedy of 9–11 and its aftermath course only makes matters worse. The may be portrayed, it is a major con- dramatizes so clearly how a flawed for- economic shortcomings of such a sys- tributing factor to the violence and eign policy has served to encourage the tem are easily understood. What is too chaos that eventually come from pure majoritarians determined to run every- often ignored is that the flip side of de- democracy. one’s life. Due to its natural inefficien- livering power to government is the There is abundant evidence that the cies and tremendous cost, a failing wel- loss of liberty to the individual. This pretense of spreading democracy con- fare state requires an ever-expanding loss of liberty causes exactly what the tradicts the very policies we are pur- authoritarian approach to enforce government does not want: Less pro- suing. We preach about democratic mandates, collect the necessary reve- ductive citizens who can’t pay taxes. elections, but we are only too willing nues, and keep afloat an unworkable Even before 9–11 these trends were in to accept some for-the-moment friend- system. Once the people grow to de- place, and proposals were abundant for ly dictator who actually overthrew a pend on government subsistence, they restraining liberty. Since 9–11 the democratically elected leader or to demand its continuation. growth of centralized government and interfere in some foreign election. This Excessive meddling in the internal the loss of privacy and personal free- is the case with Pakistan’s Musharraf. affairs of other nations, and involving doms have significantly accelerated. It For a temporary alliance, he reaped ourselves in every conflict around the is in dealing with homeland defense hundreds of millions of dollars, even globe has not endeared the United and potential terrorist attacks that though strong evidence exists that the States to the oppressed of the world. the domestic social programs and the Pakistanis have harbored and trained The Japanese are tired of us, the South policy of foreign intervention are com- al Qaeda terrorists, that they have Koreans are tired of us, the Europeans ing together and precipitating a rapid traded weapons with North Korea, and are tired of us, the Central Americans expansion of the state and an erosion that they possess weapons of mass de- are tired of us, the Filipinos are tired of personal liberty. struction. of us, and, above all, the Arab Muslims Like our social welfarism at home, No one should be surprised that the are tired of us. Angry and frustrated by our foreign meddling and empire-build- Arabs are confused by our overtures of our persistent bullying, and disgusted ing abroad are a consequence of our be- friendship. We have just recently prom- with having their own government coming a pure democracy. The dra- ised billions of dollars to Turkey to bought and controlled by the United matic shift away from the Republic buy their support for the new Persian States, joining a radical Islamic move- that occurred in 1913, as expected, led Gulf War. Our support of Saudi Arabia, ment was a natural and predictable to a bold change of purpose in foreign in spite of its ties to the al Qaeda, is fi- consequence for Muslims.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.036 H29PT1 H236 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 29, 2003 We believe bin Laden when he takes the moral justification of a democracy, help. Borrowing the needed funds for credit for an attack on the West, and a trend toward internationalism and the budgetary deficit, plus the daily we believe him when he warns us of an world government follows. We cer- borrowing from foreigners required to impending attack, but we refuse to lis- tainly witnessed this throughout the finance our ever-growing account def- ten to his explanation of why he and 20th century. Since World War II, we icit, will put tremendous pressure on his allies are at war with us. Bin Laden have failed to follow the Constitution the dollar. claims are straightforward. The U.S. in taking this country to war, but in- The time will come when the Fed will defiles Islam with bases on the Holy stead have deferred to the collective no longer be able to dictate low inter- Land and Saudi Arabia, its initiation democratic wisdom of the United Na- est rates. Reluctance of foreigners to of war against Iraq, with 12 years of tions. lend, the exorbitant size of our bor- rowing needs, and the risk premium persistent bombing, and its dollars and b 1430 weapons being used against the Pal- will eventually send interest rates up- estinians, as the Palestinian territory Once it is recognized that ultimate ward. Price inflation will accelerate shrinks and Israel’s occupation ex- authority comes from an international and the cost of living for all Americans pands. body, whether it is the United Nations, will increase. Under these conditions, There will be no peace in the world NATO, the WTO, the World Bank or most Americans will face a decline in for the next 50 years or longer if we the IMF, the contest becomes a matter their standard of living. refuse to believe why those who are at- of who holds the reins of power and is Facing this problem of paying for tacking us do it. To dismiss terrorism able to dictate what is perceived as the past and present excess spending, the as a result of Muslims hating us be- will of the people in the world. borrowing and inflating of the money cause we are rich and free is one of the In the name of democracy, just as it supply has already begun in earnest. greatest foreign policy frauds ever per- is done in Washington, powerful na- Many retirees, depending on their petuated on the American people. Be- tions with the most money will control 401(k) funds and other retirement pro- cause the propaganda machine, the the United Nations policy. Bribery, grams, are suffering the ill effects of media, and the government have re- threats and intimidation are common the stock market crash, a phenomenon stated this so many times, the major- practices used to achieve a democratic that still has a long way to go. Depre- ity now accept it as face value, and the consensus, no matter how controver- ciating the dollar by printing excessive administration gets the political cover sial and short-lived the benefits. money, like the Fed is doing, will even- its needs to pursue a holy war for de- Can one imagine what it might be tually devastate the purchasing power mocracy against the infidels who hate like if true worldwide democracy ex- of those retirees who are dependent on us for our goodness. isted and the United Nations were con- Social Security. Government cost-of- Polling on the matter is followed trolled by a world-wide, one man/one living increases will never be able to closely and, unfortunately, is far more vote philosophy? The masses of China keep up with the loss. The elderly are important than the rule of law. Do we and India could vote themselves what- already unable to afford the inflated hear the pundits talk of constitutional ever they needed from the more pros- cost of medical care, especially the restraints on Congress and the admin- perous Western countries. How long cost of pharmaceuticals. istration? No. All we ever hear are the would a world system last based on The reality is that we will not be reassurances that the majority support this absurdity? Yet this is the principle able to inflate, tax, spend or borrow the President; therefore, it must be all that we are working so hard to impose our way out of this mess that the Con- right. on ourselves and others around the gress has delivered to the American The terrorist attacks are related to world. people. our severely flawed foreign policy of In spite of the great strides made to- The demands that come with pure de- intervention. They also reflect the ward one-world government based on mocracy always lead to an shortcomings of a bureaucracy that is egalitarianism, I am optimistic that unaffordable system that ends with already big enough to know everything this utopian nightmare will never come economic turmoil and political up- it needs to know about impending at- to fruition. I have already made the heaval. Tragically, the worse the prob- tacks, but too cumbersome to do any- case that here at home powerful special lems get, the louder is the demand for thing about it. Bureaucratic weak- interests take over controlling major- more of the same government pro- nesses within a fragile welfare state ity opinion, making sure fairness in grams that caused the problems in the provide a prime opportunity for those distribution is never achieved. This first place, both domestic and inter- whom we antagonize by our domina- fact causes resentment and becomes so national. Weaning off of government tion over world affairs and global expensive that the entire system be- programs and getting away from for- wealth to take advantage of our vul- comes unstable and eventually col- eign meddling because of political pres- nerability. lapses. sure are virtually impossible. The end What has been our answer to the The same will occur internationally, comes only after economic forces make shortcomings of policies driven by ma- even if it miraculously did not cause it clear we can no longer afford to pay nipulated majority opinion by the pow- conflict among the groups demanding for the extravagance that comes from erful elite? We have responded by mas- the loot confiscated from the producing the democratic dictates. sively increasing the Federal Govern- individuals or countries. Democratic Democracy is the most excessive ment’s policing activity to hold Amer- socialism is so destructive to produc- form of government. There is no ican citizens in check and make sure tion of wealth that it must fail, just as ‘‘king’’ with an interest in preserving we are well behaved and pose no threat, socialism failed under communism. We the nation’s capital. Everyone desires while massively expanding our aggres- have a long way to go before old-fash- something, and the special-interest sive presence around the world. There ioned nationalism is dead and buried. groups, banding together, dictate to is no possible way these moves can In the meantime, the determination of the politicians exactly what they want make us more secure against ter- those promoting democratic socialism and need. Politicians are handsomely rorism, yet they will accelerate our will cause great harm to many people rewarded for being ‘‘effective,’’ that is, march toward national bankruptcy before its chaotic end and we redis- getting the benefits for the groups that with a currency collapse. cover the basic principle responsible support them. Effectiveness is never Relying on authoritarian democracy for all of human progress. measured by efforts and achievements and domestic and international med- With the additional spending to wage in securing liberty, even though it is dling only moves us sharply away from war against terrorism at home, while the most important element in a pros- a constitutional republic and the rule propping up an ever-expensive and fail- perous and progressive world. of law and toward the turbulence of a ing welfare state, and the added funds Spending is predictable in a democ- decaying democracy about which Madi- needed to police the world, all in the racy, especially one that endorses for- son and others had warned. Once the midst of a recession, we are destined to eign interventionism. It always goes goal of liberty is replaced by a pre- see an unbelievably huge explosion of up, both in nominal terms and in per- conceived notion of the benefits and deficit spending. Raising taxes will not centage of the nation’s wealth.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.037 H29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H237 Paying for it can be quite com- There are certain wonderful benefits intervention suppresses it. This release plicated. The exact method is less con- in recognizing the guidance that ma- of energy was never greater than in the sequential than the percent of the na- jority opinion offers. It takes a con- time following the American Revolu- tion’s wealth the government com- sensus or prevailing attitude to en- tion and the writing of the U.S. Con- mands. Borrowing and central bank dorse the principles of liberty and a stitution. credit creation are generally used and constitution to protect them. This is a Instead of individual activity being are less noticeable, but more deceitful, requirement for the rule of law to suc- controlled by the government or super- than direct taxation to pay as we go. ceed. Without a consensus, the rule of stitious beliefs about natural and mys- If direct taxation were accomplished law fails. This does not mean that the tical events, the activity is controlled through monthly checks written by majority or public opinion, measured by the individual. This understanding each taxpayer, the cost of government by polls, court rulings or legislative recognizes the immense value in vol- would immediately be revealed, and bodies should be able to alter the con- untary cooperation and enlightened the democratic con game would end stitutional restraints on the govern- self-interests. Freedom requires self- much more quickly. ment’s abuse of life, liberty and prop- control and moral responsibility. No The withholding principle was de- erty. But in a democracy that happens, one owes anyone else anything and ev- vised to make paying for the programs and we know today that is happening eryone is responsible for his or her own the majority demanded seem less pain- in this country on a routine basis. acts. The principle of never harming ful. Passing on debt to the next genera- In a free society with totally free one’s neighbor, or never sending the tion through borrowing is also a pop- markets, the votes by consumers government to do the dirty work, is ular way to pay for welfare and war- through their purchases or refusal to key to making the system tend to fare. The effect of inflating a currency purchase determine which businesses peaceful pursuits and away from the to pay the bills is difficult to under- survive and which fail. This is free- tyranny and majority-induced vio- stand and the victims are hard to iden- choice democracy, and it is a powerful lence. Nothing short of a reaffirmation tify. Inflation is the most sinister force in producing and bringing about of this principle can restore the free- method of payment for a welfare state. economic efficiency. In today’s democ- doms once guaranteed under the Con- It, too, grows in popularity as the de- racy by decree, government laws dic- stitution. Without this, prosperity for mands increase for services that are tate who receives the benefit and who the masses is impossible; and as a Na- not affordable. tion we become more vulnerable to Although this appears to be a con- gets shortchanged. Conditions of em- ployment and sales are taxed and regu- outside threats. venient and cheap way to pay the bills, In a Republic, the people are in lated at varying rates, and success or the economic consequences of lost em- charge. The Constitution provides failure is too often dependent on gov- ployment, inflated prices and economic strict restraints on the politicians, bu- ernment action than by consumers’ dislocation make the long-term con- reaucrats and the military. Everything voting in the marketplace by their sequences much more severe than pay- the government is allowed to do is only ing as we go. Not only is this costly in spending habits. Individual consumers done with explicit permission from the terms of national wealth, it signifi- by their decisions should be in charge, people or the Constitution. cantly contributes to the political not governments armed with mandates Today, it is the opposite. The Amer- chaos and loss of liberty that accom- from the majority. ican people must get permission from pany the death throes of a doomed de- Even a system of free market money, the government for their every move, mocracy. a redeemable gold coin standard, func- whether it is the use of their own prop- This does not mean that direct taxes tions through the principle of con- erty or spending their own money. will not be continuously raised to pay sumers always voting or withholding Even the most serious decisions, such for out-of-control spending. In a de- support for that currency. A gold as going to war, are done while ignor- mocracy, all earned wealth is assumed standard can only work when freely ing the Constitution and without a to belong to the government. There- converted into gold coins, giving every vote of the people’s representatives in fore, not raising taxes, cutting taxes, citizen a right to vote on a daily basis the Congress. Members of the global or granting tax credits are considered for or against the government’s money. government have more to say about ‘‘costs’’ of government. Once this no- It is too late to avoid the turbulence when American troops are put in tion is established, tax credits or cuts and violence that Madison warned us harm’s way than the U.S. Congress. are given only under condition that the about. It has already started. But it is The Constitution no longer restrains beneficiaries conform to the demo- important to minimize the damage and the government. The government re- cratic consensus. Freedom of choice is prepare a way for the restoration of the strains the people in all they do. This removed, even if a group is merely get- Republic. The odds are not favorable, destroys individual creative energy, ting back control of that which was but not impossible. No one can know and the ‘‘mainspring of human rightfully theirs in the first place. the future with certainty. The Soviet progress’’ is lost. The consequences are Tax-exempt status for various groups system came to an abrupt end with less less progress, less prosperity, and less is not universal but is conditioned on violence than could ever have been personal fulfillment. whether their beliefs and practices are imagined at the height of the Cold War. A system that rejects voluntary con- compatible with politically correct It was a pleasant surprise. tracts, enlightened self-interests and opinions endorsed by the democratic Interestingly enough, what is needed individual responsibilities permits the majority. This concept is incompatible is a majority opinion, especially by government to assume these respon- with the principles of private-property those who find themselves in leader- sibilities. And the government officials ownership and individual liberty. In ship roles, whether political, edu- become morally obligated to protect us contrast, in a free society, all economic cational or in the media, that rejects from ourselves, attempting to make us and social decision-making is con- democracy and supports the rule of law better people and setting standards for trolled by private property owners within the Republic. This majority our personal behavior. That effort is al- without government intrusion, as long support is essential for the preserva- ready in full swing. But if this attitude as no one is harmed in the process. tion of the freedom and prosperity with prevails, liberty is gone. The vast majority of the American which America is identified. When government assumes the re- people have come to accept democracy This will not occur until we as a Na- sponsibility for individuals to achieve as a favorable system and are pleased tion once again understand how free- excellence and virtue, it does so at the with our efforts to pursue Wilson’s dom serves the interests of everyone. expense of liberty and must resort to dream of making the world safe for de- Henry Grady Weaver, in his 1947 clas- force and intimidation. Standards be- mocracy. But the goals of pure democ- sic, ‘‘The Mainspring of Human come completely arbitrary, depending racy and that of a constitutional re- Progress,’’ explains how it works. His on the attitude of those in power and public are incompatible. A clear under- thesis is simple. Liberty permits the perceived opinion of the majority. standing of the difference is para- progress, while government interven- Freedom of choice is gone. mount, if we are to remain a free and tion tends always to tyranny. Liberty This leads to inevitable conflicts prosperous Nation. releases creative energy; government with the government dictating what

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.040 H29PT1 H238 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 29, 2003 one can eat, drink, smoke, or whatever. they know what is best for the econ- power for the sake of power and then One group may promote abstinence, omy, others, and foreign powers. They abuse it. Most members of society are the other tax-supported condom dis- inevitably fail to recognize their own complacent and respond to propaganda, tribution. Arguments over literature, arrogance in assuming they know what but they unite in the democratic effort prayer, pornography and sexual behav- is the best personal behavior for oth- to rearrange the world in hopes of gain- ior are endless. It is now not even per- ers. Their failure to recognize the like- ing benefits through coercive means missible to mention the word ‘‘God’’ on lihood of mistakes by central planners and convince themselves they are help- public property. A people who allows allows them to ignore the magnitude of ing their fellow man as well. A promise its government to set personal moral a flawed central government directive of security is a powerful temptation for standards for all nonviolent behavior compared to an individual or a smaller many. will naturally allow it to be involved in unit of government mistake. A free society, on the other hand, re- the more important aspects of spiritual C.S. Lewis had an opinion on this quires these same desires be redirected. life. For instance, there are tax deduc- subject: ‘‘Of all tyrannies, a tyranny The desire for power and authority tions for churches that are politically sincerely exercised for the good of its must be over one’s self alone. The de- correct, but not for those whose bene- victim may be the most oppressive. It sire for security and prosperity should fits are considered out of the main- may be better to live under robber bar- be directed inwardly rather than to- stream. ons than under omnipotent moral ward controlling others. We cannot ac- busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty cept the notion that the gang solution b 1445 may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may endorsed by the majority is the only Groups that do not meet the official at some times be satiated, but those option. Self-reliance and personal re- politically correct standards are more who torment us for our own good will sponsibility are crucial. likely to be put on the terrorist list. torment us without end for they do so But there is also a problem with eco- This arbitrary and destructive ap- with the approval of their own con- nomic understanding. Economic igno- proach to solving difficult problems science.’’ rance about the shortcomings of cen- must be rejected if we ever hope to live A system that is based on majority tral economic planning, excessive tax- again in a society where the role of vote rather than the strict rule of law ation and regulations, central bank government is limited to that of pro- encourages the few who thrive on manipulation of money, and credit and tecting freedom. power and exerting authority over interest rates is pervasive in our Na- The question I am most often asked other people’s lives, unlike the many tion’s Capital. A large number of con- when talking about this subject is why driven by sincere humanitarian con- servatives now forcefully argue that do our elected leaders so easily relin- cerns. Our current system rewards deficits do not matter. Spending pro- grams never shrink no matter whether quish liberty and have so little respect those who respond to age-old human conservatives or liberals are in charge. for the Constitution? The people of instincts of envy and greed as they Rhetoric favoring free trade is can- whom I speak are convinced that lib- gang up on those who produce. Those celled out by special interest protec- erty is good and big government is dan- individuals who are tempted by the tionist measures. Support of inter- gerous. They also are quite certain offer of power are quick to accommo- national government agencies that that we have drifted a long way from date those who are the most demand- manage trade such as the IMF, the the principles that made America ing of government-giveaway programs World Bank, the WTO, and NAFTA po- great, and their bewilderment continu- and government contracts. These spe- liticizes international trade and elimi- ously elicits a big ‘‘why?’’ cial interest groups notoriously come There is no easy answer to this and nates any hope that free-trade cap- from both the poor and the rich, while italism will soon emerge. no single explanation. It involves the middle class is required to pay. temptation, envy, greed and ignorance, The Federal Government will not im- It is not a coincidence that in the prove on its policies until the people but worst of all humanitarian zeal. Un- times of rapid monetary debasement, coming to Washington are educated by fortunately, the greater the humani- the middle class suffers the most from a different breed of economists than tarian outreach, the greater the vio- the inflation and the job losses that those who dominate our government- lence required to achieve it. The great- monetary inflation brings. When infla- run universities. Economic advisors er the desire to perform humanitarian tion is severe, which it will become, and most officeholders merely reflect deeds through legislation, the greater the middle class can be completely the economics taught to them. A major is the violence required to achieve it. wiped out. The stock market crash failure of our entire system will most Few understand this. There are lit- gives us a hint as to what is likely to likely occur before serious thought is erally no limits to the good deeds that come as this country is forced to pay given once again to the guidelines laid some believe need to be done. Rarely for the excesses sustained over the past out in the Constitution. does anyone question how each human- 30 years while operating under a fiat The current economic system of fiat itarian act by government undermines monetary system. money and interventionism, both do- the essential element of all human Eric Hoffer, the longshoreman philos- mestic and international, serve to ac- progress: individual liberty. opher, commented on this subject as commodate the unreasonable demands Failure of government programs well. ‘‘Absolute power corrupts even for government to take care of the peo- prompts more determined efforts, when exercised for humane purposes. ple, and this, in turn, contributes to while the loss of liberty is ignored or The benevolent despot who sees himself the worst of human instincts: authori- rationalized away. Whether it is the as a shepherd of the people still de- tarian control by the few over the war against poverty, drugs, terrorism, mands from others the submissiveness many. or the current Hitler of the day, an ap- of sheep.’’ We as a Nation have lost our under- peal to patriotism is used to convince Good men driven by a desire for be- standing of how the free market pro- the people that a little sacrifice, here nevolence encourage the centralization vides the greatest prosperity for the and there, of liberty is a small price to of power. The corruptive temptation of greatest number. Not only have most pay. power is made worse when domestic of us forgotten about the invisible hand The results, though, are frightening and international interventions go of Adam Smith, few have ever heard of and will soon even become more so. wrong and feed into the hate and envy Mises and Hayek and Rothbart, the in- Poverty has been made worse. The drug that invade men’s souls when the love dividuals who understood exactly why war is a bigger threat than drug use. of liberty is absent. all economic ups and downs in the 20th Terrorism remains a threat, and for- Those of goodwill who work to help century occurred, as well as the cause eign wars have become routine and de- the downtrodden do so not knowing of the collapse of the Soviet Union. cided upon without congressional ap- they are building a class of rulers who But worst of all we have lost our proval. will become drunk with their own arro- faith in freedom. Materialistic con- Most of the damage to liberty and gance and a lust for power. Generally cerns and desire for security drive our the Constitution is done by men and only a few in a society yield to the national politics. This trend has been women of goodwill who are convinced urge to dictate to others and seek sharply accelerated since 9–11.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:49 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.041 H29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H239 Understanding the connection be- lic and a protection of individual lib- dent and his people at HHS are doing tween liberty, prosperity and security erty. all they can to cut those Medicare has been lost. The priorities are back- f services to make Medicare function wards. Prosperity and security come more poorly so that Medicare does not from liberty. Peace and the absence of COMMUNICATION FROM HON. serve the public as well, justifying war come from a consequence of lib- NANCY PELOSI, DEMOCRATIC their privatization of Medicare. erty and free trade. The elimination of LEADER The retirement safety net was not ignorance and restraints on do-goodism The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. put in place by Democrats because we and authoritarianism in a civilized so- PUTNAM) laid before the House the fol- wanted to make the Federal Govern- ciety can only be achieved through a lowing communication from NANCY ment bigger, and it should not be dis- contractual arrangement between the PELOSI, Democratic leader: mantled by conservatives just because they want to make Federal Govern- people and the government, in our case HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, the U.S. Constitution. This document OFFICE OF THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER, ment smaller. The safety net was put was the best ever devised for releasing Washington, DC, January 29, 2003. in place because the private sector the creative energy of a free people Hon. J. DENNIS HASTERT, could not make a profit offering health while strictly holding in check the de- Speaker of the House of Representatives, The insurance to seniors; so they did not structive powers of government. Only Speaker’s Room, Washington, DC. offer it. That is why when Medicare the rule of law can constrain those who DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Pursuant to 50 U.S.C. was begun in 1965 by a Democratic 401, section 1002(b) of the Intelligence Au- President, Democratic House, Demo- by human instinct look for a free ride thorization Act, I hereby appoint to the Na- while delivering power to those few, cratic Senate, with only 11 Republicans tional Commission for the Review of the Re- supporting the vote on Medicare. That found in every society, whose only goal search and Development Programs of the in life is a devilish desire to rule over United States Intelligence Community: Rep- is why it was created, because 35 years others. resentatives Zoe Lofgren (D–CA) and Mau- ago 50 percent of seniors in this coun- The rule of law in a republic protects rice Sonnenberg. try had no health insurance. Today al- free-market activity and private prop- Best, most every senior has health insurance erty ownership and provides for equal NANCY PELOSI, because of one of the greatest programs justice under the law. It is this respect Democratic Leader. in American history: Medicare. for law and rights over government f But what the President of the United States basically said last night as he power that protects the mainspring of MEDICARE PRIVATIZATION human progress from the enemies of sat in this Chamber looking in this di- liberty. Communists and other Social- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a rection, looking out at Members of ists have routinely argued that the law previous order of the House, the gen- Congress, looking at the Ambassadors, is merely a tool of the powerful cap- tleman from Ohio (Mr. BROWN) is rec- looking at his Cabinet, the Supreme italists. ognized for 5 minutes. Court, looking at people in the gallery, But they have it backwards. Under Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the President said basically if they democracy and fascism, the last night the President said that sen- want prescription drug benefits, they pseudocapitalists write the laws that iors deserve enhanced preventative have got to join an HMO to get it. And undermine the Constitution and jeop- benefits and prescription drug cov- that is the story of the President’s ardize the rights and property of all erage. Medicare privatization. If they want citizens. They fail to realize that the Seniors do deserve these benefits. prescription drug coverage, if they real law, the Constitution, itself guar- What they do not deserve is being pa- want preventative care, then they have antees the rights and equal justice and tronized, manipulated, and short- got to join an HMO, and that is the President’s efforts to privatize Medi- permits capitalism, thus guaranteeing changed, particularly when the quality care. progress. of their health care and their future fi- So I ask my friends on the other side Arbitrary, ever-changing laws are the nancial security are at stake. of the aisle, I ask people listening friends of dictators. Authoritarians When the President said that seniors today in this Chamber to understand argue constantly that the Constitution happy with the current Medicare sys- that the President’s plan to privatize is a living document and that rigid obe- tem should be able to keep their cov- Medicare, that the President is using dience to ideological purity is the erage just the way it is, we all ap- the prescription drug benefit to try to enemy that we should be most con- plauded. What he obviously means is get his plans to privatize Medicare into cerned about. They would have us be- this: If they are unwilling to leave place. lieve that those who cherish strict obe- Medicare and join an HMO, then they dience to the rule of law in the defense actually do not deserve preventative b 1500 of liberty are wrong merely because benefits and drug coverage, and they Again, Mr. Speaker, this whole de- they demand ideological purity. They will not get any. bate is about the President saying if fail to demand that their love of rel- The President has every right to you want a prescription drug benefit, ative rights and pure democracy is push his privatization agenda, Medi- then you have to drop out of regular driven by a rigid obedience to an ide- care privatization, Social Security pri- Medicare and join one of those HMOs. ology as well. The issue is never rigid vatization, but not by co-opting an In some parts of the country there are beliefs versus reasonable friendly com- issue as emotional and as important as no HMOs available. In many parts promise. In politics it is always com- prescription drug coverage. The Presi- there are. It means you have to give up petition between two strongly held dent cannot go unchallenged when he your choice of physician. ideologies. The only challenge for men mischaracterizes Medicare as a failed The President talks about choice, but and women of goodwill is to decide the program. when you are talking about real wisdom and truth of the ideologies of- My friends on the other side of the choice, it is all about fee-for-service fered. aisle continue to lambast, continue to traditional Medicare. You can choose Nothing short of restoring a repub- criticize, continue to ridicule the Medi- your doctor, you can choose your hos- lican form of government with strict care program as a failed program so pital, you can choose your provider. adherence to the rule of law, and cur- that then they can justify their goal of Under the President’s plan, you have tailing illegal government programs, privatizing it. a choice. Your choice is stay in Medi- will solve our current and evolving The President in his budget, in his care and not have a prescription drug problems. orders from the White House at HHS, benefit, or you can take a prescription Eventually the solution will come recently dropped provisions to serve drug benefit and join an HMO. with the passage of the liberty amend- the general public, the Medicare pub- The Democrats’ prescription drug ment. Once there is serious debate on lic, in seminars asking questions, plan is to include a prescription drug this amendment, we will know that the learning more about Medicare so that benefit inside traditional Medicare. American people are considering the when seniors were overcharged, they Medicare works very well for the pub- restoration of the constitutional repub- would have some recourse. The Presi- lic. It works even better if there is a

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:55 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.043 H29PT1 H240 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 29, 2003 decent voluntary prescription drug 283. A letter from the Assistant General Commission, transmitting the Commission’s plan as part of Medicare. Counsel for Regulations, Department of final rule — Review of the Commission’s Mr. Speaker, I ask this House to re- Housing and Urban Development, transmit- Broadcast and Cable Equal Employment Op- portunity Rules and Policies [MM Docket ject these privatization plans and in- ting the Department’s final rule — Public Housing Total Development Cost [Docket No No. 98-204] received January 7, 2003, pursuant stead put a prescription drug benefit . FR-4489-F-02] (RIN: 2577-AC05) received Jan- to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on inside Medicare, and continue to serve uary 3, 2003, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Energy and Commerce. the Medicare population as well as to the Committee on Financial Services. 293. A letter from the Acting Deputy Chief, Medicare has in the past. 284. A letter from the General Counsel, WCB/TAPD, Federal Communications Com- Federal Emergency Management Agency, mission, transmitting the Commission’s f transmitting the Agency’s final rule — final rule — Federal-State Jt. Board on Uni- LEAVE OF ABSENCE Changes in Flood Elevation Determinations versal Service [Doc No. 96-45]; 1998 Biennial Regulatory Review-Streamlined Contributor By unanimous consent, leave of ab- — received January 6, 2003, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Fi- Reporting Requirements Associated with sence was granted to: nancial Services. Admin. of Telecom. Relay Service, N. Amer. Mr. EHLERS (at the request of Mr. 285. A letter from the General Counsel, Numbering Plan, Local No. Portability, & DELAY) for today on account of accom- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Universal Service Support Mechanisms [Doc panying the President on his trip to transmitting the Agency’s final rule — Sus- No. 98-171]; Telecom Services for Individuals with Hearing & Speech Disabilities, & the Grand Rapids, Michigan. pension of Community Eligibility [Docket No. FEMA-7797] received January 6, 2003, A.D.A. Act of 1990 [Doc No. 90-571]; Admin. of f pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- the N. Amer. Numbering Plan & N. Amer. Numbering Plan Cost Recovery Contribution SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED mittee on Financial Services. 286. A letter from the Deputy Secretary, Factor & Fund Size [Doc No. 92-237, NSD File By unanimous consent, permission to Securities and Exchange Commission, trans- No. L-00-72]; Number Resource Optimization address the House, following the legis- mitting the Commission’s final rule — Dis- [Doc No. 99-200]; Telephone No. Portability lative program and any special orders closure Required by Sections 404, 406 and 407 to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. 294. A letter from the Attorney Advisor, of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 [Release heretofore entered, was granted to: Federal Communications Commission, trans- The following Members (at the re- Nos. 33-8138; 34-46701; IC-25775; File No. S7-40- mitting the Commission’s final rule — Im- quest of Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania) to 02] (RIN: 3235-AI66) received January 27, 2003, plementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassi- revise and extend their remarks and in- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- fication and Compensation Provisions of the mittee on Financial Services. clude extraneous material: Telecommunications Act of 1996 [CC Docket 287. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, No. 96-128] received January 23, 2003, pursu- Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, for 5 Securities and Exchange Commission, trans- ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee minutes, today. mitting the Commission’s ‘‘Major’’ final rule on Energy and Commerce. Mr. FATTAH, for 5 minutes, today. — Strengthening the Commission’s Require- 295. A letter from the Director, Office of Mr. FILNER, for 5 minutes, today. ments Regarding Auditor Independence [Re- Congressional Affairs, Nuclear Regulatory Mr. MARSHALL, for 5 minutes, today. lease No. 33-8154; 34-46934; 35-27610; IC-25838; Commission, transmitting the Commission’s IA-2088, FR-64, File No. S7-49-02](RIN: 3235- Mr. BROWN of Ohio, for 5 minutes, final rule — List of Approved Spent Fuel AI73) received January 29, 2003, pursuant to 5 today. Storage Casks: Standardized Advanced U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Fi- NUHOMS-24PT1 Addition (RIN: 3150-AG74) The following Members (at the re- nancial Services. received January 6, 2003, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. quest of Mr. PAUL) to revise and extend 288. A letter from the Regulations Coordi- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and their remarks and include extraneous nator, Department of Health and Human Commerce. material: Services, transmitting the Department’s 296. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- Mr. JONES of North Carolina, for 5 final rule — Medicaid Program; External ment of Education, transmitting the semi- minutes, February 5. Quality Review of Medicaid Managed Care annual report of the activities of the Office Organizations [CMS-2015-F] (RIN: 0938-AJ06) of Inspector General during the six month f received January 23, 2003, pursuant to 5 period ending September 30, 2002, pursuant to ADJOURNMENT U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- 5 U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 5(b); to ergy and Commerce. the Committee on Government Reform. Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I 289. A letter from the Acting Principal 297. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- move that the House do now adjourn. Deputy Associate Administrator, Environ- ment of Energy, transmitting the semi- The motion was agreed to; accord- mental Protection Agency, transmitting the annual report on the activities of the Office Agency’s final rule — Federal Plan Require- of Inspector General for the period April 1, ingly (at 3 o’clock and 1 minute p.m.), 2002 to September 30, 2002, pursuant to 5 under its previous order, the House ad- ments for Small Municipal Waste Combus- tion Units Constructed on or Before August U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 5(b); to journed until Friday, January 31, 2003, 30, 1999 [AD-FRL-6995-3] (RIN: 2060-AJ46) re- the Committee on Government Reform. at 10 a.m. ceived December 23, 2002, pursuant to 5 298. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- ment of the Interior, transmitting the semi- f U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- ergy and Commerce. annual report on the activities of the Office EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, 290. A letter from the Acting Principal of Inspector General for the period April 1, ETC. Deputy Associate Administrator, Environ- 2002 through September 30, 2002, pursuant to mental Protection Agency, transmitting the 5 U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 5(b); to Under clause 8 of rule XII, executive the Committee on Government Reform. Agency’s final rule — Prevention of Signifi- communications were taken from the 299. A letter from the Secretary, Pension cant Deterioration (PSD) and Nonattain- Speaker’s table and referred as follows: Benefit Guaranty Corporation, transmitting ment New Source Review (NSR): Baseline the semiannual report on activities of the In- 280. A letter from the Administrator, Poul- Emissions Determination, Actual-to-Future- spector General of the Pension Benefit Guar- try Programs, Department of Agriculture, Actual Methodology, Plantwide Applica- anty Corporation for the period April 1, 2002 transmitting the Department’s final rule — bility Limitations, Clean Units, Pollution through September 30, 2002, pursuant to 5 Increase in Fees and Charges for Egg, Poul- Control Projects [AD-FRL-7414-5] (RIN: 2060- U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 8G(h)(2); try, and Rabbit Grading [Docket No. PY-02- AE11) received December 4, 2002, pursuant to to the Committee on Government Reform. 002] (RIN: 0581-AC10) received January 2, 2003, 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 300. A letter from the Federal Co-Chair- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- Energy and Commerce. man, Appalachian Regional Commission, mittee on Agriculture. 291. A letter from the Acting Principal transmitting the semiannual report on the 281. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- Deputy Associate Administrator, Environ- activities of the Office of Inspector General ment of Defense, transmitting a letter on the mental Protection Agency, transmitting the for the period April 1, 2002 through Sep- approved retirement Vice Admiral Martin J. Agency’s final rule — Prevention of Signifi- tember 30, 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. app. Mayer, United States Navy, and his advance- cant Deterioration (PSD) and Nonattain- (Insp. Gen. Act) section 8G(h)(2); to the Com- ment to the grade of vice admiral on the re- ment New Source Review (NSR): Baseline mittee on Government Reform. tired list; to the Committee on Armed Serv- Emissions Determination, Actual-to-Future- 301. A letter from the Chairman, Broad- ices. Actual Methodology, Plantwide Applica- casting Board of Governors, transmitting the 282. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- bility Limitations, Clean Units, Pollution semiannual report on the activities of the ment of Defense, transmitting a letter on the Control Projects [AD-FRL-7414-5] (RIN: 2060- Office of Inspector General for the period approved retirement of General Joseph W. AE11) received December 23, 2002, pursuant April 1, 2002 to September 30, 2002, pursuant Ralston, United States Air Force, and his ad- to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on to 5 U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 5(b); vancement to the grade of general on the re- Energy and Commerce. to the Committee on Government Reform. tired list; to the Committee on Armed Serv- 292. A letter from the Senior Legal Advi- 302. A letter from the Chairman, Consumer ices. sor, Media Bureau, Federal Communications Product Safety Commission, transmitting

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Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting rectors, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 315. A letter from the Chair, Federal Elec- the Service’s final rule — Gross Income de- transmitting the semiannual report of the tion Commission, transmitting the Commis- fined (Rev. Rul. 2003-12) received January 2, Office of the Inspector General for the period sion’s final rule — Increased Contribution 2003, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the ending September 30, 2002, pursuant to 5 and Coordinated Party Expenditure Limits Committee on Ways and Means. U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 5(b); to for Candidates Opposing Self-financed Can- 326. A letter from the Chief, Regulations the Committee on Government Reform. didates [Notice 2003-3] received January 21, Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting 304. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- 2003, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the the Service’s final rule — Election to Treat ment of Education, transmitting the twenty- Committee on House Administration. Trust as Part of an Estate [TD 9032] (RIN: seventh Semiannual Report to Congress on 316. A letter from the Deputy Assistant Ad- 1545-AW24) received January 2, 2003, pursuant Audit Follow-Up covering the period from ministrator for Regulatory Programs, to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on April 1, 2002 to September 30, 2002, pursuant NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ways and Means. to 5 app.; to the Committee on Government Administration, transmitting the Adminis- 327. A letter from the Chief, Regulations Reform. tration’s final rule — Fisheries of the Carib- Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting 305. A letter from the Inspector General, bean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic; the Service’s final rule — Duration of Farm Credit Administration, transmitting Reef Fish Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; COBRA continuation coverage (Rev. Rul. the semiannual report on the activities of Coastal Migratory Pelagic Resources of the 2002-88) received January 2, 2002, pursuant to the Office of Inspector General for the period Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic; Revision 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on April 1, 2002 through September 30, 2002, pur- of the Charter Vessel and Headboat Permit Ways and Means. suant to 5 U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) sec- Moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico [Docket 328. A letter from the Chief, Regulations tion 8G(h)(2); to the Committee on Govern- No. 021209298-2298-01; I.D. 120402C] (RIN: 0648- Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting ment Reform. AQ59) received January 6, 2003, pursuant to 5 the Service’s final rule — LIFO Recapture 306. A letter from the Chairman, Federal U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Re- [Notice 2003-4] received January 3, 2003, pur- Housing Finance Board, transmitting the sources. suant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- semiannual report on the activities of the 317. A letter from the Acting Principal mittee on Ways and Means. Office of Inspector General ending Sep- Deputy Associate Administrator, Environ- 329. A letter from the Chief, Regulations tember 30, 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. app. mental Protection Agency, transmitting the Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting (Insp. Gen. Act) section 5(b); to the Com- Agency’s final rule — National Pollutant the Service’s final rule — Application of sep- mittee on Government Reform. Discharge Elimination System Permit Regu- arate limitations to dividends from noncon- 307. A letter from the Administrator, Gen- lation and Effluent Limitations Guidelines trolled section 902 corporations [Notice 2003- eral Services Administration, transmitting and Standards for Concentrated Animal 5] received January 2, 2003, pursuant to 5 the semiannual report on the activities of Feeding Operations (CAFO’s) [FRL-6921-4] U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on the Office of Inspector General for the period (RIN: 2040-AD19) received December 20, 2002, Ways and Means. April 1, 2002 through September 30, 2002, pur- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- 330. A letter from the Chief, Regulations suant to 5 U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) sec- mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc- Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting tion 5(b); to the Committee on Government ture. the Service’s final rule — Income, war prof- Reform. 318. A letter from the Chief, Regulations its or excess profits tax paid or accrued (Rev. 308. A letter from the General Counsel, Na- Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting Rul. 2003-8) received January 3, 2003, pursu- tional Labor Relations Board, transmitting the Service’s final rule — Weighted Average ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee the semiannual report on the activities of Interest Rate Update [Notice 2003-7] received on Ways and Means. the Office of Inspector General for the period January 3, 2003, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. f April 1, 2002 through September 30, 2002, pur- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ways and suant to 5 U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) sec- Means. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS tion 8G(h)(2); to the Committee on Govern- 319. A letter from the Chief, Regulations Under clause 2 of rule XII, public ment Reform. Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting bills and resolutions were introduced 309. A letter from the President and Chief the Service’s final rule — Rulings and deter- Executive Officer, Overseas Private Invest- mination letters (Rev. Proc. 2003-5) received and severally referred, as follows: ment Corporation, transmitting the Corpora- January 3, 2003, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. By Mr. RANGEL: tion’s annual report in compliance with the 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ways and H.R. 436. A bill to suspend the phasein of Inspector General Act Amendments of 1988, Means. additional tax reductions under the Eco- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) 320. A letter from the Chief, Regulations nomic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation section 5(b); to the Committee on Govern- Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting Act of 2001 while the United States is in a ment Reform. the Service’s final rule — Rulings and deter- state of war or on high military alert; to the 310. A letter from the Director, Peace mination letters (Rev. Proc. 2003-6) received Committee on Ways and Means. Corps, transmitting the semiannual report January 3, 2003, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. By Mr. LARSON of Connecticut (for on the activities of the Office of Inspector 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ways and himself, Ms. DELAURO, and Mr. General for the period April 1, 2002 through Means. SHAYS): September 30, 2002, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. app. 321. A letter from the Chief, Regulations H.R. 437. A bill to direct the Secretary of (Insp. Gen. Act) section 5(b); to the Com- Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting the Interior to conduct a study of Coltsville mittee on Government Reform. the Services’s final rule — Rulings and deter- in the State of Connecticut for potential in- 311. A letter from the Inspector General Li- mination letters [Rev. Proc. 2003-4] received clusion in the National Park System; to the aison, Selective Service System, transmit- January 3, 2003, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Committee on Resources. ting a report in accordance with the Inspec- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ways and By Mr. WILSON of South Carolina (for tor General Act of 1978, as amended, pursu- Means. himself, Mr. COLE, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr. ant to 5 U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 322. A letter from the Chief, Regulations MCKEON, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. GREEN- 5(b); to the Committee on Government Re- Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting WOOD, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. PLATTS, Mr. form. the Service’s final rule — Exclusion of Gain TIBERI, Mr. BAKER, Mrs. WILSON of 312. A letter from the Administrator, from Sale or Exchange of a Principal Resi- New Mexico, and Mr. GRAVES): Small Business Administration, transmit- dence [TD 9030] (RIN: 1545-AX28) received H.R. 438. A bill to increase the amount of ting the semiannual report of the Office of January 2, 2003, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. student loans that may be forgiven for Inspector General for the period April 1, 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ways and teachers in mathematics, science, and spe- through September 30, 2002, pursuant to 5 Means. cial education; to the Committee on Edu- U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) section 5(b); to 323. A letter from the Chief, Regulations cation and the Workforce. the Committee on Government Reform. Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting By Mr. ANDREWS: 313. A letter from the Chairman, U.S. the Service’s final rule — Reduced Maximum H.R. 439. A bill to create a system of back- International Trade Commission, transmit- Exclusion of Gain from Sale or Exchange of ground checks for certain workers who enter ting the semiannual report on the activities Principal Residence [TD 9031] (RIN: 1545- people’s homes, and for other purposes; to of the Office of Inspector General for the pe- BB02) received January 2, 2003, pursuant to 5 the Committee on Energy and Commerce. riod April 1, 2002 through September 30, 2002, U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on By Mr. GUTIERREZ (for himself, Mrs. pursuant to 5 U.S.C. app. (Insp. Gen. Act) Ways and Means. NAPOLITANO, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. section 8G(h)(2); to the Committee on Gov- 324. A letter from the Chief, Regulations SERRANO, Ms. SOLIS, Mr. GRIJALVA, ernment Reform. Unit, Internal Revenue Service, transmitting and Mr. ACEVEDO-VILA):

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H.R. 440. A bill to amend the Immigration By Mr. DEFAZIO: offenses against children; to the Committee and Nationality Act to adjust the status of H.R. 446. A bill to establish an Emergency on the Judiciary. certain aliens with longstanding ties to the Malpractice Liability Insurance Commis- By Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin (for him- United States to that of an alien lawfully ad- sion; to the Committee on Energy and Com- self, Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota, Mr. mitted to permanent residence, to promote merce. NETHERCUTT, Mr. BAKER, Mr. family unity, to improve national security, By Mr. DEFAZIO: MCHUGH, and Mr. POMEROY): to modify provisions of such Act affecting re- H.R. 447. A bill to establish an Office of H.R. 457. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- moval of aliens from the United States, and Health Care Competition within the Depart- enue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross in- for other purposes; to the Committee on the ment of Health and Human Services to ad- come gain on the sale of a family farming Judiciary. minister the National Practitioner Data business to a family member; to the Com- By Mr. BROWN of Ohio (for himself, Base and to collect and make available to mittee on Ways and Means. Mr. CHABOT, Mr. COX, Mr. DAVIS of the public more information on medical mal- By Mr. HAYWORTH (for himself and Florida, Mr. HOEFFEL, Mr. ROHR- practice insurance under that Data Base; to Mr. GRIJALVA): ABACHER, Mr. SHERMAN, and Mr. the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H.R. 458. A bill to provide for the use and WEXLER): By Mr. DEFAZIO (for himself and Ms. distribution of certain funds awarded to the H.R. 441. A bill to amend Public Law 107-10 NORTON): Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indian Commu- to authorize a United States plan to endorse H.R. 448. A bill to modify the antitrust ex- nity, and for other purposes; to the Com- and obtain observer status for Taiwan at the emption applicable to the business of insur- mittee on Resources. annual summit of the World Health Assem- ance; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. HAYWORTH (for himself, Mr. bly in May 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland, and By Ms. DUNN (for herself, Mrs. WILSON CRANE, Mr. CANNON, Mr. CARTER, Mr. for other purposes; to the Committee on of New Mexico, Mr. NETHERCUTT, Mr. ISSA, Mr. WAMP, Mr. WILSON of South International Relations. DICKS, Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, Carolina, Mr. PITTS, Mr. SENSEN- By Mr. CAMP (for himself, Mr. MCGOV- Mr. BAIRD, Mr. MCDERMOTT, and Mr. BRENNER, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. GOODE, ERN, Mr. FOLEY, Mr. MATSUI, Mr. INSLEE): Mr. MILLER of Florida, and Mr. RAMSTAD, Mr. NEAL of Massachu- H.R. 449. A bill to amend title XXI of the SHAYS): setts, Mr. ENGLISH, Mrs. JONES of Social Security Act to permit the use of un- H.R. 459. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Ohio, Mr. HOUGHTON, Mr. HINCHEY, expended allotments under the State chil- enue Code of 1986 to provide economic stim- Mr. ROGERS of Michigan, Mr. EVANS, dren’s health care program for an additional ulus; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. PETRI, Mr. TIERNEY, Mr. HOEK- fiscal year, and for other purposes; to the By Mr. HAYWORTH (for himself, Mr. STRA, Mr. STUPAK, Mrs. MILLER of Committee on Energy and Commerce. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. MCINNIS, Mr. Michigan, Mr. FRANK of Massachu- By Ms. DUNN (for herself and Mr. NEAL RENZI, Mr. UDALL of New Mexico, setts, Mr. MCINNIS, Mr. WAXMAN, and of Massachusetts): Mrs. WILSON of New Mexico, Mr. Mr. WELLER): H.R. 450. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- KOLBE, and Mr. TANCREDO): H.R. 442. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- enue Code of 1986 to provide incentives to H.R. 460. A bill to establish Institutes to enue Code of 1986 to allow the Hope Scholar- small businesses to provide health insurance conduct research on the prevention of, and ship Credit to cover fees, books, supplies, and to their employees; to the Committee on restoration from, wildfires in forest and equipment and to exempt Federal Pell Ways and Means. woodland ecosystems of the interior West; to Grants and Federal supplemental edu- By Mr. FOLEY: the Committee on Resources, and in addition cational opportunity grants from reducing H.R. 451. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- to the Committee on Agriculture, for a pe- expenses taken into account for the Hope enue Code of 1986 to modify the at-risk rules riod to be subsequently determined by the Scholarship Credit; to the Committee on for publicly traded nonrecourse debt; to the Speaker, in each case for consideration of Ways and Means. Committee on Ways and Means. such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- By Mr. CAMP: By Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN (for himself, tion of the committee concerned. H.R. 443. A bill to amend part E of title IV Mr. HOLT, Mr. SAXTON, Mr. FER- By Mr. HILL (for himself, Mrs. of the Social Security Act to provide equi- GUSON, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. NORTHUP, and Mr. SOUDER): table access for foster care and adoption PASCRELL, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. H.R. 461. A bill to amend the National services for Indian children in tribal areas; PALLONE, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. PAYNE, Trails System Act to extend the Lewis and to the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. ROTHMAN, and Clark National Historic Trail; to the Com- By Mr. PORTER (for himself, Mr. Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey): mittee on Resources. BOEHNER, Mr. MCKEON, Ms. PRYCE of H.R. 452. A bill to direct the Director of the By Mr. ISAKSON: Ohio, Mr. BALLENGER, Mr. GREEN- Federal Emergency Management Agency to H.R. 462. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- WOOD, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. NORWOOD, Mr. designate New Jersey Task Force 1 as part of enue Code of 1986 to temporarily exclude DEMINT, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. PLATTS, the National Urban Search and Rescue Sys- long-term capital gain from the gross in- Mr. TIBERI, Mr. KELLER, Mr. WILSON tem; to the Committee on Transportation come of individuals; to the Committee on of South Carolina, Mr. KLINE, Mr. and Infrastructure. Ways and Means. BEAUPREZ, Mr. CUNNINGHAM, Mr. By Mr. GILLMOR (for himself, Mr. By Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut (for GREEN of Wisconsin, Mr. HAYES, Mr. NEY, Mr. BEREUTER, and Mrs. JONES herself, Mr. MATSUI, Mr. CAMP, and MCHUGH, Mr. NETHERCUTT, Mr. of Ohio): Mr. CARDIN): OXLEY, Mr. SIMMONS, Mr. SMITH of H.R. 453. A bill to amend the Federal De- H.R. 463. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- New Jersey, Mr. TIAHRT, and Mr. posit Insurance Act with respect to munic- enue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the WOLF): ipal deposits; to the Committee on Financial research credit, to increase the rates of the H.R. 444. A bill to amend the Workforce In- Services. alternative incremental credit, and to pro- vestment Act of 1998 to establish a Personal By Mr. GRAVES: vide an alternative simplified credit for Reemployment Accounts grant program to H.R. 454. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- qualified research expenses; to the Com- assist Americans in returning to work; to enue Code of 1986 to provide to employers a mittee on Ways and Means. the Committee on Education and the Work- tax credit for compensation paid during the By Mr. KELLER (for himself, Mr. force. period employees are performing service as BOEHNER, and Mr. CASTLE): By Mr. NADLER (for himself, Mr. BER- members of the Ready Reserve or the Na- H.R. 464. A bill to provide relief to teach- MAN, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, tional Guard; to the Committee on Ways and ers, administrators, and related services pro- Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. DAVIS of Means. viders from an excessive paperwork burden, Florida, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. FARR, Mr. By Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin (for him- and to reduce time spent by teachers on non- FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. HONDA, self and Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin): instructional activities, as required under Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. KENNEDY of H.R. 455. A bill to require the Secretary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Rhode Island, Mr. LANTOS, Ms. Agriculture to use the Department of Agri- Act; to the Committee on Education and the LOFGREN, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. MCCOLLUM, culture’s preferred Option 1B as the price Workforce. Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mrs. MALONEY, Ms. structure for Class I fluid milk under Federal By Mr. KING of Iowa (for himself, Mr. MILLENDER-MCDONALD, Ms. NORTON, milk marketing orders, to provide emer- POMEROY, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. OLVER, Mr. OWENS, Mr. RANGEL, gency market loss payments to dairy pro- Mr. REHBERG, Mr. WELLER, Mr. Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. SABO, Mr. SAND- ducers for any calendar year quarter in LAHOOD, Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota, ERS, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. STARK, which the national average price for Class III Mr. LATHAM, Mr. MORAN of Kansas, Mr. TIERNEY, Mr. WEINER, and Ms. milk under Federal milk marketing orders is Mr. BEREUTER, Mr. GRAVES, Mrs. WOOLSEY): less than a target price of $11.50 per hundred- EMERSON, Mr. BLUNT, and Mr. JOHN- H.R. 445. A bill to authorize the Secretary weight, and for other purposes; to the Com- SON of Illinois): of Housing and Urban Development to make mittee on Agriculture. H.R. 465. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- grants to States to supplement State assist- By Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin: enue Code of 1986 to allow allocation of small ance for the preservation of affordable hous- H.R. 456. A bill to amend title 18 of the ethanol producer credit to patrons of cooper- ing for low-income families; to the Com- United States Code to provide life imprison- ative, and for other purposes; to the Com- mittee on Financial Services. ment for repeat offenders who commit sex mittee on Ways and Means.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 23:55 Jan 29, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\L29JA7.100 H29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H243 By Mr. KING of New York (for himself, dividuals serving as caregivers of dependent authority to allow tandem trailers to use Mr. QUINN, Mr. WALSH, Mrs. KELLY, relatives with deemed wages for up to five Interstate Route 787 between the New York Mr. CUNNINGHAM, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. years of such service; to the Committee on State Thruway and Church Street in Albany, KENNEDY of Rhode Island, Mr. PAS- Ways and Means. New York; to the Committee on Transpor- TOR, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. MEEHAN, By Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Mr. CON- tation and Infrastructure. Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. PALLONE, Ms. ROS- YERS, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. FROST, Ms. By Mr. MILLER of Florida: LEHTINEN, Mr. SAXTON, Mr. WEINER, LEE, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. H.R. 482. A bill to authorize the Secretary Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida, WATSON, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. WYNN, of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. WOLF, Mr. and Mr. FARR): land in the State of Florida, and for other ISRAEL, Mr. CLAY, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. H.R. 474. A bill to amend title II of the So- purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture. LYNCH, Mr. SANDLIN, Mr. ENGEL, Mrs. cial Security Act to provide for increases in By Mr. MORAN of Kansas (for himself, BIGGERT, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. DEAL of widow’s and widower’s insurance benefits by Mrs. CUBIN, Mr. OSBORNE, Mr. Georgia, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. INSLEE, reason of delayed retirement; to the Com- REHBERG, and Mrs. MUSGRAVE): Mr. PAYNE, and Mr. HOLT): mittee on Ways and Means. H.R. 483. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- H.R. 466. A bill to amend the Federal Law By Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Mr. ABER- enue Code of 1986 to provide involuntary con- Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 1990 to ad- CROMBIE, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. FER- version tax relief for producers forced to sell just the percentage differentials payable to GUSON, Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, Mr. livestock due to weather-related conditions or Federal land management agency policy Federal law enforcement officers in certain FROST, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. HOLT, Ms. or action, and for other purposes; to the high-cost areas, and for other purposes; to KAPTUR, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. NADLER, Committee on Ways and Means. the Committee on Government Reform. Mr. PALLONE, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. By Mr. OSE (for himself, Mr. HOUGH- By Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Ms. LEE, SERRANO, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. SHERMAN, TON, Mr. CASTLE, and Mr. LEACH): and Ms. DELAURO): Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. ROTH- H.R. 484. A bill to make certain amend- H.R. 467. A bill to amend the Federal Food, MAN, Mr. STARK, and Mr. WEINER): ments to the Homeland Security Act of 2002; Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that foods H.R. 475. A bill to reestablish the Office of to the Committee on Homeland Security (Se- containing spices, flavoring, or coloring de- Noise Abatement and Control in the Envi- lect), and in addition to the Committees on rived from meat, poultry, other animal prod- ronmental Protection Agency, and for other Energy and Commerce, Science, and Govern- ucts (including insects), or known allergens purposes; to the Committee on Energy and ment Reform, for a period to be subsequently bear labeling stating that fact and their Commerce, and in addition to the Committee determined by the Speaker, in each case for names; to the Committee on Energy and on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a consideration of such provisions as fall with- Commerce. period to be subsequently determined by the in the jurisdiction of the committee con- By Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Mr. Speaker, in each case for consideration of BROWN of Ohio, Mr. CROWLEY, Ms. cerned. such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- By Mr. PALLONE: DELAURO, Mr. KILDEE, and Mr. tion of the committee concerned. MCDERMOTT): H.R. 485. A bill to provide for a Federal By Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Mr. AN- H.R. 468. A bill to amend the Federal Food, program to stabilize medical malpractice in- DREWS, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mrs. Drug, and Cosmetic Act relating to freshness surance premiums; to the Committee on En- dates on food; to the Committee on Energy CAPITO, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. ergy and Commerce. and Commerce. FILNER, Mr. FOLEY, Mr. FOSSELLA, By Mr. VITTER: By Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Mr. Mr. GILLMOR, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. H.R. 486. A bill to require the Food and HOLDEN, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. KILDEE, ENGEL, and Mrs. KELLY): Drug Administration to establish restric- H.R. 469. A bill to provide an enhanced pen- Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. tions regarding the qualifications of physi- alty for threatening to kill, injure, or intimi- MCGOVERN, Mr. NEAL of Massachu- cians to prescribe the abortion drug com- date an individual, or to cause property dam- setts, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. OLVER, Mr. monly known as RU-486; to the Committee age, by means of fire or an explosive on PAUL, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mr. RUSH, and on Energy and Commerce. school property; to the Committee on the Mr. STRICKLAND): By Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. Judiciary. H.R. 476. A bill to provide that service of DEFAZIO, and Mr. FRANK of Massa- By Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Mr. CON- the members of the organization known as chusetts): YERS, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. FROST, Ms. the United States Cadet Nurse Corps during H.R. 487. A bill to repeal the Military Se- LEE, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. World War II constituted active military lective Service Act; to the Committee on WATSON, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. WYNN, service for purposes of laws administered by Armed Services. and Mr. FARR): the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; to the By Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. GOODE, H.R. 470. A bill to amend title II of the So- Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and in addi- Mrs. MUSGRAVE, and Mr. DUNCAN): cial Security Act to repeal the 7-year restric- tion to the Committee on Armed Services, H.R. 488. A bill to limit the issuance of stu- tion on eligibility for widow’s and widower’s for a period to be subsequently determined dent and diversity immigrant visas to aliens insurance benefits based on disability; to the by the Speaker, in each case for consider- who are nationals of Saudi Arabia, countries Committee on Ways and Means. ation of such provisions as fall within the ju- that support terrorism, or countries not co- By Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Mr. CON- risdiction of the committee concerned. operating fully with United States YERS, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. FROST, Ms. By Mr. MCDERMOTT: antiterrorism efforts; to the Committee on LEE, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. H.R. 477. A bill to extend Federal recogni- the Judiciary. WATSON, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. WYNN, tion to the Duwamish Tribe, and for other By Mr. PAUL: and Mr. FARR): purposes; to the Committee on Resources. H.R. 489. A bill to amend title II of the So- H.R. 471. A bill to amend title II of the So- By Mr. MCINNIS (for himself, Mr. POM- cial Security Act and the Internal Revenue cial Security Act to eliminate the two-year EROY, Mr. HAYWORTH, Mr. HULSHOF, Code of 1986 to provide prospectively that waiting period for divorced spouse’s benefits Mr. HERGER, Mrs. CUBIN, Mr. HEFLEY, wages earned, and self-employment income following the divorce; to the Committee on Mr. BEAUPREZ, Mrs. MUSGRAVE, Ms. derived, by individuals who are not citizens Ways and Means. DEGETTE, Mr. TANCREDO, and Mr. PE- or nationals of the United States shall not be By Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Mr. CON- TERSON of Pennsylvania): credited for coverage under the old-age, sur- YERS, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. FROST, Ms. H.R. 478. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- vivors, and disability insurance program LEE, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. enue Code of 1986 to expand the rules for in- under such title, and to provide the Presi- WATSON, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. WYNN, voluntary conversions of livestock sold on dent with authority to enter into agree- and Mr. FARR): account of weather-related conditions; to the ments with other nations taking into ac- H.R. 472. A bill to amend title II of the So- Committee on Ways and Means. count such limitation on crediting of wages cial Security Act to provide for full benefits By Mr. MCNULTY: and self-employment income; to the Com- for disabled widows and widowers without re- H.R. 479. A bill to amend title 10, United mittee on Ways and Means. gard to age; to the Committee on Ways and States Code, to authorize Army arsenals to By Mr. PETRI (for himself, Mr. GEORGE Means. undertake to fulfill orders or contracts for MILLER of California, Mr. OTTER, Mr. By Mrs. LOWEY (for herself, Mr. ABER- articles or services in advance of the receipt DOYLE, Mr. DICKS, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. CROMBIE, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. CONYERS, of payment under certain circumstances; to MCDERMOTT, Mr. FRANK of Massachu- Mr. CROWLEY, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. FIL- the Committee on Armed Services. setts, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. NER, Mr. FROST, Mr. HASTINGS of By Mr. MCNULTY: WILSON of South Carolina, Mrs. Florida, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. H.R. 480. A bill to redesignate the facility MALONEY, Mr. GREENWOOD, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. NORTON, Mr. OBER- of the United States Postal Service located WALSH, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. BOS- STAR, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. SANDERS, Ms. at 747 Broadway in Albany, New York, as the WELL, Mr. HONDA, Mr. GREEN of SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, ‘‘United States Postal Service Henry John- Texas, Mr. TIERNEY, Mr. BACA, Mr. Ms. WOOLSEY, Ms. BERKLEY, Ms. son Annex’’; to the Committee on Govern- INSLEE, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. MILLENDER-MCDONALD, and Mr. ment Reform. PALLONE, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. WAX- FARR): By Mr. MCNULTY: MAN, and Ms. NORTON): H.R. 473. A bill to amend title II of the So- H.R. 481. A bill to amend title 49, United H.R. 490. A bill to improve access to print- cial Security Act to credit prospectively in- States Code, to grant the State of New York ed instructional materials used by blind or

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other persons with print disabilities in ele- such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- Mrs. BIGGERT, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr. mentary and secondary schools, and for tion of the committee concerned. BRADY of Texas, Mr. BURR, Mr. BUR- other purposes; to the Committee on Edu- By Mr. TANCREDO (for himself and TON of Indiana, Mr. CAMP, Mr. CRANE, cation and the Workforce. Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California): Mr. DAVIS of Florida, Mr. DEMINT, By Mr. PICKERING (for himself, Mr. H.R. 501. A bill to establish a student loan Mr. DREIER, Ms. DUNN, Mr. EHLERS, ROSS, Mr. GOODE, Mr. EVERETT, Mr. forgiveness program for nurses; to the Com- Mr. FLAKE, Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, Mr. TURNER of Texas, Mr. WICKER, Mr. mittee on Education and the Workforce. GILLMOR, Mr. HERGER, Mr. HOEKSTRA, CRAMER, and Mr. ALEXANDER): By Mr. TANCREDO (for himself, Mr. Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. ISSA, Mrs. JOHNSON H.R. 491. A bill to amend the Tariff Act of DEAL of Georgia, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. of Connecticut, Mr. KENNEDY of Min- 1930 to clarify the adjustments to be made in NORWOOD, Mr. SCHROCK, Mr. BART- nesota, Mr. KIND, Mr. KIRK, Mr. determining export price and constructed ex- LETT of Maryland, Mr. SMITH of KOLBE, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. LEACH, port price; to the Committee on Ways and Texas, Mr. WELDON of Florida, Mr. Mr. LEWIS of Kentucky, Mr. LUCAS of Means. ROHRABACHER, Mr. AKIN, Mr. GOODE, Kentucky, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. PAUL, By Mr. PLATTS: Mr. KING of Iowa, and Mr. MILLER of Mr. PENCE, Mr. PLATTS, Ms. PRYCE of H.R. 492. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Florida): Ohio, Mr. RAMSTAD, Mr. ROGERS of enue Code of 1986 to increase the standard H.R. 502. A bill to require identification Michigan, Mr. WICKER, Mr. SHAYS, mileage rate for charitable purposes to the that may be used in obtaining Federal public Mr. SMITH of Michigan, Mr. TIBERI, standard mileage rate established by the benefits to meet restrictions ensuring that it Mr. TOWNS, Mr. UPTON, Mr. HOBSON, Secretary of the Treasury for business pur- is secure and verifiable; to the Committee on Mr. HOUGHTON, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. poses; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Government Reform, and in addition to the PETRI, Mr. BASS, and Mr. GARY G. By Mr. PLATTS: Committees on the Judiciary, and House Ad- MILLER of California): H.R. 493. A bill to repeal the sunset on the ministration, for a period to be subsequently H. Con. Res. 23. Concurrent resolution urg- increased assistance pursuant to the depend- determined by the Speaker, in each case for ing the President to request the United ent care tax credit provisions of the Eco- consideration of such provisions as fall with- States International Trade Commission to nomic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation in the jurisdiction of the committee con- take certain actions with respect to the tem- Act of 2001 and to make the credit refund- cerned. porary safeguards on imports of certain steel able; to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. THORNBERRY (for himself, products, and for other purposes; to the Com- By Mr. PLATTS: Mr. STENHOLM, Mr. BONILLA, Mr. mittee on Ways and Means. H.R. 494. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- TURNER of Texas, Mr. COMBEST, Mr. By Mr. BURR: enue Code of 1986 to allow a full deduction SULLIVAN, Mr. SMITH of Texas, and H. Con. Res. 24. Concurrent resolution ex- for meals and lodging in connection with Mrs. CUBIN): pressing the sense of the Congress with re- medical care; to the Committee on Ways and H.R. 503. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- spect to the election of Libya to the chair- Means. enue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for the manship of 59th session of the United Na- By Mr. RENZI (for himself, Mr. production of oil and gas from domestic mar- tions Commission on Human Rights in Gene- HAYWORTH, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. ginal wells and to extend the credit for alter- va, Switzerland; to the Committee on Inter- GRIJALVA, and Mr. KOLBE): native fuels; to the Committee on Ways and national Relations. H.R. 495. A bill to approve the settlement Means. By Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin: of the water rights claims of the Zuni Indian By Mr. UDALL of Colorado: H. Con. Res. 25. Concurrent resolution ex- Tribe in Apache County, Arizona, and for H.R. 504. A bill to provide for the reclama- pressing the sense of the Congress that So- other purposes; to the Committee on Re- tion of abandoned hardrock mines, and for cial Security reform measures should not sources. other purposes; to the Committee on Re- force State and local government employees By Mr. SAXTON (for himself, Mr. sources, and in addition to the Committee on into Social Security coverage; to the Com- ABERCROMBIE, Mr. AKIN, Mr. AN- Transportation and Infrastructure, for a pe- mittee on Ways and Means. DREWS, Mrs. CUBIN, Ms. DUNN, Mr. riod to be subsequently determined by the By Ms. MCCOLLUM (for herself, Mr. ENGLISH, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. Speaker, in each case for consideration of ABERCROMBIE, Mr. ALLEN, Ms. BERK- FOSSELLA, Mrs. JOHNSON of Con- such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- LEY, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. necticut, Mr. KOLBE, Mr. LUCAS of tion of the committee concerned. CAPUANO, Ms. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. Kentucky, Mr. PAUL, Mr. ROHR- By Mr. UDALL of New Mexico: CROWLEY, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. ABACHER, Mr. SHAYS, and Mr. WILSON H.R. 505. A bill to establish the Northern DELAURO, Mr. DICKS, Mr. DOGGETT, of South Carolina): Rio Grande National Heritage Area in the Mr. ETHERIDGE, Mr. EVANS, Mr. H.R. 496. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- State of New Mexico, and for other purposes; GILCHREST, Ms. NORTON, Ms. KAPTUR, enue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to to the Committee on Resources. Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island, Mr. defer recognition of reinvested capital gains By Mr. UDALL of New Mexico: KING of New York, Mr. LANTOS, Ms. distributions from regulated investment H.R. 506. A bill to provide for the protec- LEE, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. MCDERMOTT, companies; to the Committee on Ways and tion of archaeological sites in the Galisteo Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. MEEHAN, Mr. Means. Basin in New Mexico, and for other purposes; MORAN of Virginia, Mr. OBERSTAR, By Mr. SENSENBRENNER (for himself to the Committee on Resources. Mr. OLVER, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. RA- and Mr. SMITH of Michigan): By Mr. UDALL of New Mexico: HALL, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. LO- H.R. 497. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- H.R. 507. A bill to declare that the United RETTA SANCHEZ of California, Mr. enue Code of 1986 to suspend all motor fuel States holds certain public domain lands in SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. TIERNEY, taxes for six months, and to permanently re- trust for the Pueblos of San Ildefonso and Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Ms. WATSON, Mr. peal the 4.3-cent per gallon increases in Santa Clara; to the Committee on Resources. WAXMAN, and Mr. WEINER): motor fuel taxes enacted in 1993; to the Com- By Mr. WICKER: H. Con. Res. 26. Concurrent resolution con- mittee on Ways and Means. H.R. 508. A bill to provide that, in estab- demning the punishment of execution by By Mr. SENSENBRENNER: lishing wage schedules for certain prevailing stoning as a gross violation of human rights, H.R. 498. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- rate employees with respect to whom the and for other purposes; to the Committee on enue Code of 1986 to allow employees of coun- Government is currently experiencing re- International Relations. ty and local governments and of schools to cruitment and retention problems, rates of By Mr. BLUMENAUER (for himself, maintain medical savings accounts; to the pay for comparable positions in the nearest, Mr. WU, Mr. WALDEN of Oregon, Mr. Committee on Ways and Means. most similar wage area shall be taken into DEFAZIO, and Ms. HOOLEY of Oregon): By Mr. SMITH of New Jersey: account; to the Committee on Government H. Res. 41. A resolution congratulating the H.R. 499. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Reform. University of Portland women’s soccer team enue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable credit By Mr. PLATTS: for winning the 2002 NCAA Division I na- against income tax for tuition expenses in- H.J. Res. 16. A joint resolution proposing tional championship; to the Committee on curred for each qualifying child of the tax- an amendment to the Constitution of the Education and the Workforce. payer in attending public or private elemen- United States to limit the number of con- By Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin (for him- tary or secondary school; to the Committee secutive terms that a Member of Congress self, Ms. HOOLEY of Oregon, and Mr. on Ways and Means. may serve; to the Committee on the Judici- KLECZKA): By Mr. STUPAK: ary. H. Res. 42. A resolution expressing the H.R. 500. A bill to amend title XVIII of the By Mr. KIND (for himself, Mr. BEREU- sense of the House of Representatives that a Social Security Act to provide for a perma- TER, Mr. BERMAN, and Mr. LANTOS): postage stamp should be issued honoring nent increase in payment amounts under the H. Con. Res. 22. Concurrent resolution hon- American farm women; to the Committee on Medicare Program for home health services oring Czech Republic President Vaclav Government Reform. furnished in rural areas; to the Committee Havel; to the Committee on International By Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin (for him- on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Relations. self, Mr. MEEHAN, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a By Mr. KNOLLENBERG (for himself, DOGGETT, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. PETRI, period to be subsequently determined by the Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. DOOLEY of Cali- Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, and Mr. Speaker, in each case for consideration of fornia, Mr. JEFFERSON, Mr. BLUNT, BERMAN):

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H. Res. 43. A resolution directing the Clerk By Mr. COLE: H.R. 167: Mr. TERRY. of the House of Representatives to post on H.R. 509. A bill for the relief of Lindita H.R. 172: Mr. PAYNE, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. RAN- the official public Internet site of the House Idrizi Heath; to the Committee on the Judi- GEL, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mr. PLATTS, and Mr. of Representatives all lobbying registrations ciary. ACKERMAN. and reports filed with the Clerk under the By Mr. PLATTS: H.R. 193: Mr. GOODE and Mr. WELDON of H.R. 510. A bill for the relief of certain Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995; to the Com- Florida. mittee on the Judiciary. aliens who were aboard the Golden Venture; H.R. 203: Mr. WALSH. By Mr. HAYES: to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 207: Ms. NORTON. H. Res. 44. A resolution honoring the serv- f ice and sacrifice of the United States Armed H.R. 208: Mr. TOWNS, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. Forces military working dog teams for the ADDITIONAL SPONSORS GRIJALVA, Mr. BAIRD, Ms. GINNY BROWN- part they have played in the Nation’s mili- Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors WAITE of Florida, and Mr. LANTOS. tary history; to the Committee on Armed were added to public bills and resolu- H.R. 235: Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. WICKER, Mrs. Services. tions as follows: MYRICK, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. GARY G. MILLER By Mr. JONES of North Carolina (for of California, Mr. ISTOOK, Mr. TIBERI, and H.R. 13: Mr. PLATTS, Mr. DEMINT, Mr. himself, Mr. BAKER, Mr. BARTLETT of Mr. DUNCAN. Maryland, Mr. BURR, Ms. WATSON, HOLT, Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. MAT- H.R. 254: Mr. KOLBE. Mr. EVANS, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. SUI, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. FRANK of Massachu- H.R. 282: Mr. DEMINT, Mr. UPTON, Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi, Ms. CORRINE setts, Mr. SNYDER, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. CLY- PITTS, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, BROWN of Florida, Mr. KLINE, Mr. BURN, Mr. UPTON, Mr. BECERRA, Mr. OWENS, Mr. NORWOOD, Mr. PAUL, Mr. KING of Iowa, MURTHA, Mr. SIMMONS, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. PETRI, Mr. BEREUTER, Mr. DOYLE, Mr. Ms. HART, Mr. WHITFIELD, Mr. SMITH of Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. TURNER of Texas, GORDON, Mr. QUINN, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. SLAUGH- Michigan, and Mr. BEAUPREZ. Mr. WHITFIELD, Mr. DEUTSCH, Mrs. TER, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. MILLER of Michigan, Mr. PETERSON of GRIJALVA, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. BER- H.R. 284: Mr. KANJORSKI, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. Pennsylvania, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. MAN, Mr. MCINTYRE, and Mr. BELL. MURTHA, Mr. PITTS, and Mr. SIMPSON. H.R. 14: Mr. UPTON, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mrs. BEAUPREZ, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. ISSA, Mr. H.R. 290: Mr. ANDREWS. MILLER of Michigan, Mr. PLATTS, and Mr. OWENS, Mr. WOLF, Mr. ENGEL, and H.R. 295: Mr. HOLDEN. SENSENBRENNER. Mr. MCNULTY): H.R. 296: Mr. HOLDEN. H. Res. 45. A resolution expressing the H.R. 24: Ms. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. CON- H.R. 302: Mr. LIPINSKI. sense of the House of Representatives that a YERS, Mr. GRIJALVA, and Ms. CORRINE BROWN commemorative postage stamp should be of Florida. H.R. 307: Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. NETHERCUTT, H.R. 107: Mr. BARTON of Texas and Mr. AN- issued in remembrance of the victims of the Mr. ETHERIDGE, and Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. DREWS. peacekeeping mission in Beirut, Lebanon, H.R. 312: Mr. JANKLOW. H.R. 108: Mr. RADANOVICH and Mrs. CUBIN. H.R. 342: Mr. GREEN of Texas, Mr. SOUDER, from 1982 to 1984; to the Committee on Gov- H.R. 110: Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. ernment Reform. H.R. 111: Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. LIPINSKI, and Mr. BEREU- By Mr. NADLER (for himself, Mr. Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania, Mr. BERRY, Mr. TER. WEINER, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. SERRANO, MICHAUD, Mr. BURR and Ms. MCCARTHY of H.R. 361: Mr. TERRY, Mr. BEREUTER, Mr. Mr. FILNER, Ms. LOFGREN, Ms. NOR- Missouri. WOLF, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. DEMINT, Mr. BOS- TON, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. H.R. 115: Mr. BAKER. WELL, Ms. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. ETHERIDGE, LEACH, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. OBERSTAR, H.R. 120: Mr. TANCREDO, Mr. PAUL, Mr. Mr. HEFLEY, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. OWENS, and Mr. KING of Iowa, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. SENSEN- BAIRD, and Mr. SOUDER. HINCHEY): BRENNER, and Ms. HART. H.R. 368: Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York and H. Res. 46. A resolution honoring the life of H.R. 133: Mrs. KELLY. Mr. BISHOP of New York. Al Hirschfeld and his legacy; to the Com- H.R. 156: Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. TAYLOR of Mis- H.R. 373: Mr. FROST and Ms. CARSON of In- mittee on Government Reform. sissippi, Mr. BROWN of South Carolina, Mr. diana. f PLATTS, and Mr. WALSH. H.R. 157: Mr. LIPINSKI. H.R. 383: Mr. KANJORSKI, Mr. LEWIS of Cali- PRIVATE BILLS AND H.R. 161: Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. fornia, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. RESOLUTIONS LATOURETTE, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. NEY, ENGLISH, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. BARTLETT of Mary- Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. TIBERI, Mr. KUCINICH, land, Mr. HOLDEN, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. SHER- Under clause 3 of rule XII, private Mr. HOBSON, Mr. TURNER of Ohio, Ms. KAP- MAN, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. DREIER, and bills and resolutions of the following TUR, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. OXLEY, Mr. REGULA, Mr. ISSA. titles were introduced and severally re- Mr. STRICKLAND, Mr. BOEHNER, Ms. PRYCE of H.R. 412: Mr. OSE, Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin, ferred, as follows: Ohio, and Mr. GILLMOR. Mr. MCNULTY, and Mr. WAXMAN.

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Vol. 149 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2003 No. 16 Senate The Senate met at 12:02 p.m. and was SCHEDULE The clerk will now read the titles of called to order by the President pro Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today the bills for the second time. tempore (Mr. STEVENS). there will be a period of morning busi- The assistant legislative clerk read The PRESIDENT pro tempore. We ness until 4 p.m. At this time, I ask as follows: will be led in prayer today by the guest unanimous consent that the time be di- A bill (S. 224) to amend the Fair Labor Chaplain, the Very Reverend Nathan D. vided as follows: Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an in- Baxter, Dean of the Washington Na- The time until 1 o’clock under the crease in the minimum wage. tional Cathedral. A bill (S. 225) to provide for emergency un- control of the Democratic leader or his employment compensation. designee; the time from 1 to 1:30 under A bill (S. 228) to amend title 18, United PRAYER the control of the Republican leader or States Code, to limit the misuse of social se- The guest Chaplain offered the fol- his designee; 1:30 to 2 o’clock under the curity numbers, to establish criminal pen- lowing prayer: control of the Democratic leader or his alties for such misuse, and for other pur- Let us pray. designee; 2 o’clock to 3 o’clock under poses. Blessed Lord, I commend to Your Republican control. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- grace and wisdom this day the Mem- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is tion to further proceedings being bers of this Senate and all who support there objection? heard, the bills will now be placed on their labors. I ask that You deepen Without objection, it is so ordered. the calendar. their passion for the fragile treasure of Mr. FRIST. During today’s session, Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I yield the democracy. As they engage the dif- the Senate is expected to complete the floor. ficult work of legislating, grant them short-term continuing resolution f always to be guided by a love for our which was received from the House. I RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME great Nation and a respect for its di- am not aware of any requests for a roll- verse people. Finally, we ask that You call vote on that resolution, and there- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under grant that the fruits of their labors in fore we would hope to pass the 1-week the previous order, the leadership time this and every session, begun and ended extension by unanimous consent. In ad- is reserved. in You, may assist the people of this dition, there are a couple of nomina- The distinguished minority leader. great land to build lives of mutual re- tions that are expected to receive com- f spect, well-being and service, so that mittee action shortly. I would expect STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS the full Senate to act on those nomina- poverty of body and mind and spirit Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I tions expeditiously following the com- may be made extinct among us, even in wanted to come to the floor this morn- mittee’s reporting of those nomina- our time. We offer these prayers in the ing to talk a little bit more about the tions. This afternoon, we will alert all Name of God from whom all blessings State of the Union Message we heard Members as to the expected schedule flow. Amen. last night from the President of the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. May I for any rollcall votes. United States. We all had occasion to ask that the distinguished minority f respond to members of the media last leader lead us in reciting the pledge to MORNING BUSINESS night, but I do think it is important, as our flag. we contemplate his message and as we f react to it, that, at least to a certain PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE MEASURES PLACED ON THE CAL- extent, we do so in an official capacity ENDAR—S. 224, S. 225, AND S. 228 The Honorable TOM DASCHLE, a Sen- here on the Senate floor. ator from the State of South Dakota, Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, there are The President came to Congress to led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: three bills at the desk that are due for deliver his annual State of the Union their second readings. I ask unanimous Message in fulfilling his constitutional I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Repub- consent that the three bills now be obligation to report to Congress and lic for which it stands, one nation under God, read for the second time, and I ask the American people on where our Na- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. unanimous consent that there be an tion is and the direction in which we f objection, en bloc, to any further ac- are headed. tion on these bills following the read- The reason our Founders included RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY ings. that obligation is they recognized that LEADER The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. democracy requires discussion. So I The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The HAGEL). Without objection, it is so or- want to take a moment today to add majority leader is recognized. dered. my thoughts to that discussion.

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VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1690 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 29, 2003 In many instances, the President’s $5.5 trillion surplus just 2 years ago. asked: So what did you do? What was words were powerful, and there are That represents nearly a $7 trillion your sacrifice in the war on Iraq?—the many areas where I see room for enthu- swing in a mere 24 months—$7 trillion only answer being, in the case of those siastic agreement. from surplus to deficit in 24 months. making more than a million dollars: I For example, his call, last night, for The economic plan the administra- got an $89,000 tax break. So the fairness a renewed commitment to address the tion passed in 2001 has, unfortunately, question has economic, as well as very international pandemic on AIDS was been an abject failure. Yet, last night, real and personal implications that are welcome. I can say, without equivo- the President seemed to be asking for troubling to many of us. cation, that our caucus, and I believe more of the same. Before this ditch Perhaps the third and final of all of Democrats in the Congress in its en- gets dug any deeper, the President the many concerns we have with regard tirety, will be supportive of the efforts must explain why he thinks this time to this particular plan is the reckless- made by the President and this admin- the results will be any different than ness. As I said, we are going from a $5.5 istration to address the international the last time. trillion surplus to a $2 trillion deficit AIDS crisis more effectively. Mr. President, I have expressed on in 2 years. But that doesn’t tell the Let me also say I was pleased that the floor in past speeches my concern whole story. States are now experi- the President made the announcement for his plan and how serious a concern encing deficits that, in total, exceed he did with regard to the Federal com- we have for the ramifications of that $100 billion. Economists have now pro- mitment to alternative fuels. plan. The President started by calling posed analyses that would suggest, in I wish he had gone further, frankly, his plan ‘‘stimulus.’’ I have noticed in addition to the $100 billion, the tax but a recognition of the importance of recent months or weeks that he has plan proposed by the President would continuing the development through chosen not to use that word, and I exacerbate that debt by at least $4 bil- research of hydrogen fuels is a welcome think for good reason. There is very lion to $6 billion more. So, ironically, bit of news. As we have progressed over little stimulus in the President’s pro- at the very time we are cutting taxes the course of the last couple of years, posal. In fact, by their own recognition at the Federal level, the President is the alternative fuels market, the need and acknowledgement, only 5 percent turning around and requiring Gov- for the continued development of alter- of the budget in the proposal made by ernors to increase taxes at the local native fuels, is important to the Pre- the President in his $674 billion tax re- and State levels. It just doesn’t make siding Officer, to myself, and to many duction plan is stimulative this year. sense. others who recognize that we will Ninety-five percent of what the Presi- It is reckless as well in the recogni- never rid ourselves of dependency upon dent is proposing takes place next year tion that we are going to be borrowing foreign sources until we make a more and the year after—5 percent. That 5 every dollar in resources that we turn complete commitment to the develop- percent is expected to raise 190,000 jobs. around and give out in the form of tax ment of alternative fuels. Ironically, 190,000 jobs is exactly the cuts. Every dollar in those tax cuts So the President’s willingness to do number of jobs lost in November and comes directly from the Social Secu- that, his prioritization of that ques- December of last year. So while we rity and Medicare trust funds. We have tion, is one that was received in a very have lost 2.3 million jobs, the President no other resources to send out. enthusiastic way, I am sure, on both is proposing that we enact an economic Finally, I simply say, as we consider sides of the aisle. plan that produces 190,000 jobs this this recklessness, as we consider our There are other areas, however, year. So we ought to be clear about priorities, there is no possible way that where the President’s words seemed that. we can fight a war in Iraq, that we can out of step with his actions and, frank- There is very little stimulative value dedicate ourselves to the priorities the ly, out of touch with his proposals. in what the President has proposed. President articulated in his address Today, and in the days ahead, the Let me say I could understand that if last night—which I will turn to in a real test of the President’s words is not there were some merit to the proposals moment—there is no way we can help whether they sound good but whether themselves. But the problem we have the States with the tremendous fiscal they lead to action and whether that with the proposals themselves is they crisis they are now facing—a crisis, we action leads to progress. are not broad based. Last night, the are told, that is the worst in 50 years— Today, the triple threat of war, ter- President noted there would be some and turn around and provide a $1.7 tril- rorism, and recession is combining to who would benefit by up to $1,200 and, lion additional tax cut this year. make Americans unsure about their fu- certainly, in some cases, because of his There is growing concern, as we con- ture and unclear about the course our advocacy of the child tax credit, that sider the ramifications of what the Nation is taking. would be the case. But there are thou- President is proposing, that we can On the economy, it is almost impos- sands and thousands of people who are cause even more serious damage to the sible to believe, but just 2 years after not able, because they don’t have chil- economy were we to take the proposals the longest economic expansion in his- dren, to benefit from the tax plan as of the President and enact them as tory, today we have more than 2 mil- the President proposed. In fact, in his they have been sent to us. It is essen- lion jobs lost in 2 years; the worst job plan, $20 billion in the first year goes tial that we go back to the drawing creation record of any administration to 226,000 people whose income exceeds board, essential that we live up to the in 60 years; the first back-to-back $1 million; $15 billion goes to the 92 economic principles that mainstream years of job loss in 50 years; middle- million Americans whose incomes are economists tell us are essential if we class income is down for the first time no greater than $50,000. So there is an are going to do this right. They tell us in 10 years; the highest unemployment extraordinary disparity between those whatever stimulus we pass ought to be rate in 8 years; the highest poverty who would benefit at the very top and immediate, ought to be time limited, rate in 8 years; and a Federal budget those who benefit in a much more mar- and, indeed, that is what Democrats more than half a trillion dollars in ginal way with incomes of $50,000 or have proposed—a limited, immediate debt. less. stimulus that will take effect this In fact, as the budget is about to be What troubles me the most about the year, not in the outyears; that it be fis- produced for the coming fiscal year, we fairness question is not the income dis- cally responsible; that we not exacer- are told we will see the biggest indebt- parity, but the notion that we could be bate overall indebtedness by $1.7 tril- edness that we have seen now in more sending people to war, that we could lion; that if anything we limit what ex- than 10 years. We started out 2 years actually be asking people to give their posure there is budgetarily to no more ago with the projection of $5.5 trillion lives in pursuit of a war with Iraq at than $100 billion to $150 billion—1.5 per- in surplus. We are now told because of the very time we turn around and tell cent GDP. Our Democratic plan will do the President’s tax cuts and, in part, those with incomes of more than $1 that. because of the recession and the poten- million they are going to get an $89,000 A third point they tell us is we ought tial for war, our projected deficit over tax break. It would be hard—in fact, to be broad based in our approach, pro- the course of the next 10 years will be impossible—for me to accept 10 or 15 or vide assistance to where it can do the $1.7 trillion, $1.7 trillion deficit from a 20 years from now, as the question is most good, spur consumption. We do

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1691 that with the $300 rebate, $1,200 for growing problems with overcrowded to prioritize how we confront these families with children; the business tax and obsolete school buildings, despite threats, and the President needs to ex- cuts we advocate for accelerated appre- the fact that higher education is slip- plain why he is approaching each one ciation, for expensing of equipment, ping farther and farther out of reach in the way he is. and for reducing the cost of health care for more families, despite the critical My concern is the President has not for employees, in addition to providing importance of education to the social adequately laid out to the American the unemployment compensation to and economic health of America’s fu- people or to the international commu- the millions of Americans who have ture—despite all the rhetoric, the Bush nity why our top priority, in light of not been provided those benefits in re- administration is proposing an edu- the other ones, ought to be war with cent weeks. cation budget that underfunds his own Iraq, and how we can ensure that if we We have done some analysis of fami- education reforms by more than $7 bil- go to a war with Iraq, we will not jeop- lies who were in the gallery last night lion. ardize our other priorities, including with the First Lady, people who were This, again, begs the question: How defending ourselves against terrorist invited to come because, according to in the world, if the President can pro- attacks at home. the President, they benefited from the pose $1.7 trillion, can he explain under- The President needs to lay out as plans the President articulated. funding his own education reforms by clearly and as compellingly as he is As we calculate those specific bene- $7 billion? able what imminent threat Iraq poses fits, we find, ironically, that they actu- Last night, the President spoke elo- for the United States and what we will ally do better under the Democratic quently about the environment. He do as a nation to ensure international plan than under the President’s plan. asked us to pass an initiative he calls cooperation and international support The Becks, for example, the senior citi- ‘‘Healthy Forests.’’ Healthy forests is a if war becomes an inevitability. I look forward to hearing more from zens he cited, get a 43 percent larger euphemism for logging without limits Secretary Powell next Wednesday, Feb- benefit under the Democratic plan than to many. It opens more than 20 million ruary 5, but if the President has infor- they do under the President’s plan. acres of national forests to logging and mation about what he will share with I start with that. I wish the Presi- thinning. It allows those projects to the United Nations and others on Feb- dent would have devoted more time to avoid environmental laws, public com- ruary 5, I ask that he share it with us the economy, more time to the con- ment, or judicial review. Democrats now. If there is information that has cerns that many of us have raised want a balanced approach to forest been withheld from Congress, if he has about his proposal, more time to how management. not provided the same information to we are going to address the deficit and The President also talked about a us that he intends to share with them, how we are going to deal with spurring proposal he calls ‘‘Clear Skies,’’ an- I ask that he do so immediately. Cer- the economy to bring down that deficit other euphemism. Clear Skies is actu- tainly, we have every right to know. than he did last night. But I stand ally weaker than the current Clean Air For us to know now would help us clar- ready to work with him. Act. It delays reductions in air pollu- ify the confusion and the lack of cer- I think it is critical we work to- tion and makes it harder for States to tainty about the threat posed by Iraq gether. I am hopeful we can find mean- limit pollution. which the President addressed last ingful bipartisan consensus, and I hope Again, the President is using all the night. we do it sooner rather than later. right rhetoric but clinging to all the There were also a number of things There are reports that some of our wrong policies. When he calls some- the President did not mention, which I colleagues would prefer to wait until thing ‘‘Healthy Forests’’ and it is not, think needed to be mentioned: Racial April or May before we take up eco- when he calls something ‘‘Clear Skies’’ reconciliation, hate crimes, diversity nomic stimulus. I think that would be and it will not, the credibility gap wid- in education, equal opportunity. Amaz- a lost opportunity and a real mistake ens. ing. There was not one word about if, indeed, we want to get this economy The President last night also prom- these issues, in spite of the fact that a back on track at the earliest possible ised a prescription drug benefit under hate crime occurs every 31⁄2 minutes in date. Medicare. What he proposed last night this country; in spite of the fact that Last night, the President also indi- is a prescription drug plan that comes the Supreme Court may be dealing cated in his comments that education at the expense of Medicare. It is not, as with the issue of diversity in education remained important, but what sur- the President said last night, the same and equal opportunity in the very near prised me about his assertion that it is as the health care choices that Mem- future and the administration has cho- important is that last night, in a 1- bers of Congress get. Members of Con- sen to oppose it; in spite of the fact hour speech, education got just one gress get a prescription drug program that we are troubled by our inability to line. The President said we had passed and benefit regardless of the plan they deal with these issues in a meaningful ‘‘historic education reform, which now choose. way legislatively in the weeks and must be carried out in every school and Under the President’s Medicare pri- months ahead without the direct in- every classroom so that every child in vatization plan, seniors can only get volvement and leadership on the part America can read and learn and suc- drug coverage if they drop out of tradi- of the administration. ceed in life.’’ tional Medicare and join an HMO. The The President did not address vet- Speaking of education reform and President omitted this crucial detail erans and health care, and veterans’ other measures passed over the last 2 last night. health in particular. There are 164,000 years, he said: Of all the decisions facing this Presi- veterans who may be forced off the Some might call this a good record. I call dent, none has more profound con- rolls because of new criteria involving it a good start. sequences than the launching of a war their eligibility. That, too, could have The President is right, it is a good against any country. We all know, in been addressed and should have been start but only a start. Right now, un- the case of Iraq, that Saddam Hussein addressed if indeed it was the priority fortunately, it appears to be a false is not a man to be trusted. We all know the President maintains. start because the President has refused that North Korea has nuclear weapons One million workers were left out of to adequately fund his own education and is the world’s biggest proliferator, unemployment insurance and the reforms. The Bush administration has and we face three very serious threats. President did not mention that as well. proposed the smallest education budget We face the threat that Iraq could ac- The President did not mention agri- in 7 years despite continued record en- quire and deploy weapons of mass de- culture, did not mention the rural cri- rollments in America’s public schools, struction. We face the threat of North sis we face, and the tremendous attri- despite new testing requirements and Korea, a country that already has nu- tion we find in small communities other mandates in new law, despite the clear weapons and is threatening to de- across this country. He did not talk worst State budget crises in 50 years— velop more. And we face the threat of about the issues involving agriculture crises that are forcing many States to additional terrorist attacks, including and the extraordinary challenges farm- cut education budgets—despite a loom- the horrific prospect of an attack with ers and ranchers are facing as we rec- ing teacher shortage crisis, despite weapons of mass destruction. We have ognize the extraordinary effect that

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To prevent that from American women, and undoing and fast. from happening, we need to work to- the progress we have made over the I have had the opportunity to watch gether. We need to make sure what is last 30 years. some great athletes play softball. Lori promised is done. Only then will we be Title IX of the education amend- Harrigan pitched and won games in two able to reduce America’s anxiety and ments of 1972 was the landmark legisla- successive Olympics. I recently had a truly strengthen our Union. tion that prohibits sex discrimination thrilling experience with a young lady I yield the floor. in federally funded educational ath- named Nicole Truax, an intern from The PRESIDING OFFICER. The as- letic programs. the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, sistant minority leader. In my career, as in the career of the a pitcher on one of their softball Mr. REID. Mr. President, I certainly Presiding Officer, I have had the oppor- teams. I love to talk to Nicole. When publicly acknowledge the statement tunity to meet some very outstanding she was 12 years old, her father could made by our leader. I approve of the people. One of the people I met was a no longer catch her ball. She threw the statement, as does our Democratic woman by the name of Molly Yard. ball so hard that her dad could not Caucus, and would simply say we look Molly Yard was five foot two, from catch it. forward to working on a bipartisan Pennsylvania, a graduate of That is what girls athletics is all basis with the President. There are a Swarthmore, born in China to mis- about. I went to a UNLV girls basket- lot of things we need to do, but this is sionary parents. She came back to the ball game recently and I went into the a democracy and we have to act ac- United States when she was age 13. locker room afterwards and talked to cordingly. So I look forward to work- Having participated in athletics in them about title IX, about the reason ing with the President on all of these China, when she came back to the they can participate in athletics, be- issues about which the Democratic United States there were no programs cause of a law we passed in Congress. leader spoke. for girls. She always felt less of a per- On the high school level, I recently f son than she could have been for not visited Gorman High School and having the ability to participate in watched Gorman High School play. The TITLE IX athletics. For this woman, who later in main reason I went was one of my Mr. REID. The time is now mine, and life became the president of the Na- friend’s two girls play. They are both I want to talk about something that is tional Organization of Women and was athletes, Danielle and Jackie Bates. real important to me, important to the heavily involved in all kinds of activi- They run track and play basketball. State of Nevada, and the country. I do ties, the one issue of utmost impor- I recently visited with and helped not think it would be a stretch to say tance to her was title IX and having present some awards to the Green Val- this administration does not have a young women involved in athletics. ley High School golf team. This golf good record on protecting civil rights. I met Molly Yard. I met her when she team set a national record for consecu- Republicans say they are for diversity, was an older woman. She was still very tive victories. On October 1 of last year but they are fighting against policies dynamic. Even though, after I met her, they broke the record of 128 straight that promote diversity. Embarrassed she had a stroke and was physically in- duel match wins by completing another and on the defensive following recent firm, she was still very enthusiastic unbeaten season, extending the streak events that focused attention on the about having worked for title IX and to 133 over 11 years. Girls playing golf; Republican Party’s position on civil young women, girls, participating in they won the State championship last rights, the President and other promi- athletics. year by 70 streaks. That is what girls nent Republicans professed a new will- EVAN BAYH, who is presently the Sen- do in athletics. ingness to support efforts to expand op- ator from Indiana, should be proud of Before title IX, it was rare to see portunities for all Americans. his father for many achievements. All girls and young women playing sports. Unfortunately, they have not taken of us who know Birch Bayh, a former Even if they wanted to play and were any action to suggest that they have a Senator from the State of Indiana, tall, they could not play in organized sincere change of heart. In fact, to the know what a fine man he is and what a competitions because high schools and contrary, the President has recently great legislative record he accumu- universities did not have women’s opposed affirmative action policies lated while in Congress, but EVAN teams. When I was in high school, my that open the doors of higher education should be most impressed with his fa- wife, who I am sure was more athletic to a generation of talented and moti- ther for being the sponsor of title IX. than I, could only be a cheerleader. She vated minority students, and he does In 1972, it was Birch Bayh who wrote could not play basketball. Of course, not oppose affirmative action that gets and introduced these amendments that she is only 5 feet tall. There are a lot people in some of our best schools be- made title IX what it is today. of 5-foot tall basketball players in cause they are children of alumni, that I will focus my remarks primarily on women’s sports. In those days, a young some students get into because of their equal opportunity in athletics, not the lady could only become a cheerleader; athletic ability, and a lot of other whole statute. there were no other athletic competi- issues that were not brought up in the As a sports fan, I love athletics. As a tions for her. brief the President filed with the young boy, my dream was to be a pro- My oldest child is a daughter. Title Court. fessional baseball player, but I was not IX was just coming into being. Pro- The President has to fully fund edu- good enough. So I am a Senator in- grams were very sparse when she was cation programs, including those tar- stead. As an avid sports fan, I wake up in school and she did not participate in geting minority and low income stu- in the morning and the first thing I do athletics. All my four boys partici- dents. The President has nominated is read the sports page. I do it because pated. There were programs all over for and continues to nominate judicial there is always good news on the sports them. candidates who have expressed and page. People may not always be happy Thanks to title IX, women today demonstrated hostilities to civil rights with the outcome of athletic events, have a much broader range of athletic enforcement and has placed opponents but there is always something good and educational opportunities at all of civil rights in positions of power. happening on the sports page; some- schools in Nevada and all over Amer- Now comes the disturbing news that body won this or won that. ica. It has helped to dramatically in- this administration is on the brink of I enjoy very much going out to our crease participation in sports among attacking title IX, programs that have university campuses in Nevada. I live female students. Since the implemen- made America better, stronger, and in the southern part of the State and tation of title IX, there has been an al- fairer by enabling millions of young go to UNLV most of the time to watch ready tenfold participation in high

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I am deeply concerned about the Unfortunately, according to reports This dramatic increase in women stealth attack on women. If the Presi- recently issued both by the National participating in athletics has taken dent agrees with recommendations of Women’s Law Center and the National place even though women athletes still this Commission—which, by the way, is Coalition for Women and Girls in Edu- do not get equal treatment or equal heavily weighed by very large schools cation young women continue to be funding that boys and men get. At with great big football programs—he subject to persistent gender segrega- schools in cities and towns and commu- can make revolutionary changes. Even tion and discriminatory counseling in nities across the country, the boys who though Congress and the courts and the high school vocational and technical play sports are worshipped as heroes American people and women and men education programs at American high and get fancy uniforms, sometimes two have consistently supported title IX, schools. They are often steered toward or three seats for each player, new he could do this, but it would be wrong. programs like cosmetology, health aide training facilities, and the best prac- Yesterday, new data released by the preparation, and child care training all tice fields and games and an expensive Women’s Sports Foundation found that of which lead to lower paying jobs travel budget. the proposed changes being made by while male students congregate in pro- I am sure women, before title IX, the President’s Commission could re- grams leading to higher paying careers would have welcomed a chance to play sult in a loss of as many as 931,000 op- in technology and the trades. This has on any school team, even if it meant portunities for girls to participate in significant negative implications for wearing an old worn-out uniform, play- high school sports each year. Is this women’s employment prospects and ing at less convenient times. But for bad or wrong? Of course. earning power. girls it is not enough just to play. They What are some of the facts about We need to vigorously defend and en- deserve equal treatment. That is the title IX? What is it and what is it not? force title IX in all of the areas it cov- law. Despite the inequality and unfair- No. 1, opponents of title IX claim they ers, so that we can sustain and expand ness, girls and young women partici- are in favor of title IX but not as poli- upon the progress we have made. We pate in record numbers. cies. They certainly do not want to Remarkably, some critics of title IX need not to weaken the programs but jeopardize men’s athletics. No. 2, in re- trot out old stereotypes, claiming that to strengthen them. ality, nothing in the law or policy re- women are not interested in sports. We need to recognize the importance quires schools to set aside a certain That is simply not true. The statistics of title IX in opening educational op- mandatory number of slots for ath- show otherwise. The participation rate portunities for women in math, letics. In fact, every court that heard of girls in high school athletic pro- science, engineering and technology grams since 1992 has increased 800 per- this argument has said title IX does and examine the underrepresentation cent. There are five times as many not require quotas. of female students at both the sec- No. 3, then, means title IX is not a women in college athletics. ondary and post-secondary levels in We all know young men are actively quota system. Although one way a traditionally male areas of study such pursuing opportunities to play sports. school can comply with the law is by as physical science, engineering and They see Michael Jordan and they ensuring the percentage of male and fe- technology programs, and the barriers want to be just like Michael, to jump male students is about equal—the race that women continue to face in these to new heights. Girls also admire of men and women in the student body programs. women who are successful in athletics, is not the only way you can do it— I am concerned that it the President such as a Mia Hamm or a Julie Foudy, there are many other ways. takes steps to deny girls and young who played on our World Cup cham- For example, schools can comply women equal opportunity in athletics pionship team, or Sheila Leslie, who with title IX simply by showing it is some will see that as a message that it plays basketball, or Gail Devers, who trying to expand opportunities for fe- is also okay to chip away at other laws can run faster than most men in the male athletes or that it has accommo- and programs that protect women and world. That is whom they admire. And dated interests of female students at promote fairness. even though there are the Greg the school, whatever the number of op- We need effective title IX enforce- Madduxes and Steve Youngs men ad- portunities it provides. One proposal ment—not weakening—to ensure mire and respect, there are women ath- apparently being reviewed allows col- women have the same opportunities as letes whom young women aspire to be leges and universities to limit the men to participate in science and tech- like, such as Tasha Schwikert from Las number of scholarships awarded to fe- nology programs and classes. Vegas, still in high school, a gymnast male athletes. Regardless of how many While we should be happy with all who is ranked No. 1 in the country and women are enrolled, a school would be the progress we have made providing fifth in the world. It inspires other allowed to limit women to just 43 per- girls and women with opportunities young ladies. They see Serena and cent of college scholarships. Why? On previously denied them, we must con- Venus Williams shining on the court average, women comprise 53 percent of tinue our efforts to promote gender and ask, Why not me? the student body’s division 1 colleges equality because the job is not com- Last summer, the Secretary of Edu- at the top level of competition, but plete. cation announced the appointment of a they are only 41 percent of the ath- Programs that have proven so effec- panel to study title IX. It would have letes, tive in helping girls and women are been great if he called for a review of For most Americans title IX is syn- under assault from critics who would how better to enforce the law, but he onymous with our efforts to provide like to turn the clock back. did not. Although no one in the admin- girls and women an equal opportunity We cannot allow these challenges to istration dares to criticize title IX, and to participate in sports, but title IX ad- succeed—and we will not. Secretary Paige praised it, they are dresses a whole range of important pro- The girls and women playing sports poised to gut it. American girls and grams and issues related to education. now, their ‘‘soccer Moms’’ and ‘‘basket- young women must be thinking that In fact, only a small fraction of the ball Dads’’ will not tolerate a reversal with friends like these, who claim to title IX complaints received by the De- of title IX—and neither will those of us follow the law and like the law but are partment of Education’s Office for in Congress who advocate equal oppor- acting to undermine it, who needs en- Civil Rights are related to athletics. tunity for women. emies. Maybe that is too bad, but it is a fact. We must continue to encourage par- This week, the President’s Commis- Title IX also has helped to provide ticipation in sports and provide girls sion on Opportunity in Athletics is women with equal access to higher edu- and women the same opportunities

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1694 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 29, 2003 that boys and men have traditionally ORDER OF PROCEDURE sands of Medicare patients—that sen- had. Athletic training and competition Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I ask iors and individuals with disabilities have the same benefits for females as unanimous consent that the time be- should have another option, another al- for males: teaching them not only how tween 1:30 and 2 be under the control of ternative. That is best understood by to score goals but also how to set Senator HOLLINGS; the time between 2 saying they will have an opportunity goals—and work hard to achieve them, and 3 be under the control of the ma- to choose from among a menu of op- promoting cooperation and teamwork, jority leader or his designee; the time tions, much like BILL FRIST does as a developing leadership skills, and in- from 3 to 3:15 be under the control of Senator or Senator KIT BOND from Mis- stilling self-confidence. Senator HARKIN; the time between 3:15 souri does or Senator HAGEL or others. We hear from the other side of forc- Mr. President, I have had the oppor- and 3:30 be under the control of Sen- ing people into HMOs. Let’s make it tunity to serve in the Senate with two ator CORZINE; the time between 3:30 very clear that the option the Presi- great athletes, two Hall of Fame ath- and 4 to be under the control of the dent began to spell out last night—that letes. One is Bill Bradley, who until re- majority leader or his designee. I believe in heartily—is that we should cently was a Senator from New Jersey. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without give seniors the same options we have What a fine man he is. A lot of his objection, it is so ordered. to choose from among a variety of greatness was as a result of his athletic Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest plans, not just HMOs, as the other side abilities. the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The of the aisle comes back to because they Senator JIM BUNNING from Kentucky, clerk will call the roll. know HMOs are demonized today, but with whom I have had the pleasure to an option of coordinated plans which serve and get to know, is a member of The assistant legislative clerk pro- ceeded to call the roll. include prescription drugs. the Baseball Hall of Fame, as Senator Nine million Federal employees have Bradley is of the Basketball Hall of Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for this option for a type of care that we Fame. JIM BUNNING is here for a lot of the quorum call be rescinded. all consider very good, that does allow different reasons, however most nota- us to choose our own doctors, if you bly, this man, as he went through his The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. choose such a plan. And those are the baseball career, developed this tremen- sort of options that will be made for dous confidence. Anyone who knows Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I under- stand we have the next 30 minutes on seniors. It works for us. It works for 9 JIM BUNNING knows of his tremendous our side in morning business. million employees. It works for our self-confidence. That came as a result staffs. So don’t seniors deserve the of his athletic prowess, ability, and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- jority leader is correct. same opportunities? hard work. That is what athletics is all It is going to take real courage for about, and it works for women as it f anyone to tell Americans they should does for men. REFLECTING ON THE PRESIDENT’S not have the same options that we At a time when far too many Amer- STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS have, which is the President’s proposal: to give those same opportunities to ican youth lead sedentary lifestyles Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I rise to and are obese, we must support pro- seniors and individuals with disabil- very briefly comment on the Presi- ities. grams that lead to improved fitness dent’s message last night and to ini- and health. Adolescent female athletes Opponents of choice in health care tiate my own reflection, which I hope for seniors are saying the President’s are more likely than non-athletes to to have the opportunity to continue develop a positive body image and less plan forces individuals to give up their over the next several days and weeks doctors, their family doctors, or forces likely to become pregnant. They also as we respond to the vision that he are at less risk for diseases and health them to use a particular physician. In- painted for us in a very eloquent, very deed, if a senior so chooses to go that problems that afflict women like direct, and very focused way last night. osteoporosis or breast cancer. route, maybe for larger benefits, higher Last night, the President said we will prescription drug coverage, that may In addition, sports provide a safe and not deny or ignore or pass along to- be one route to going in, but that is not health alternative to drugs, alcohol, day’s problems to future leaders and what we necessarily have to do. We and tobacco, and to anti-social behav- future generations. He said we will con- have that broader choice. To say that ior. Students who participate in these front them head on, we will confront people are going to be forced into plans programs feel a greater connection to them directly, we will do it with clar- where they have to give up their physi- school, have an additional incentive to ity, and we will do it with courage. cians, that is not what happens to 9 attend classes and keep their grades up He is right. We have much to do. And million Federal employees unless that so they can maintain their eligibility. our success in this body very much de- is what they choose to do. I am in the I am disappointed, if not surprised, pends on our own focus and our own same program, and I choose my own that some critics would like to halt clarity and our own courage. doctor. this progress. They are making mis- Let me begin with health care—spe- What we are hearing is a lot of the leading and unfair criticisms of title cifically, this whole issue of Medicare, same old, tired rhetoric. And it really IX. We are watching what this commis- strengthening and improving Medicare comes down to scare tactics. When we sion does this week in Washington. and prescription drugs. last talked about Medicare, improving Last night, the President made it Medicare, in the Senate, this word, So while we remain vigilant against clear that if seniors and individuals ‘‘Mediscare,’’ became popularized be- attacks on title IX, we must also push with disabilities are satisfied, if they cause that is what people saw, that is for its continued implementation and like and are pleased with the Medicare what the rhetoric resulted in. enforcement, and the only changes we coverage they have today—the way the Indeed, some people are using these will allow will be changes for the bet- Medicare system works for them ‘‘Mediscare’’ tactics to frighten seniors ter. today—that they will, in this vision and to create anxiety and insecurity. It Often, we hear that girls and women that he paints, have the option of not is time for us to pull together, in a bi- are the beneficiaries of title IX. I’m changing anything, for keeping it just partisan way, to elevate the discussion sure they are. But I think it is more the way it is. Remember, about two well above that. accurate to say that we all benefit out of three of our seniors and individ- The pursuit of these scare tactics re- from this important civil rights legis- uals with disabilities today do have sults in nothing but fear and anxiety. lation. Certainly, American society as some prescription drug coverage. Many Our seniors simply deserve better. a whole is better when women—who of those individuals may say: I don’t The President talked about the Fed- after all make up more than half of our want to change anything. eral employees’ health care program as population—are provided a fair and He also made it clear—and this is one model. Under that model, there is equal opportunity to develop their full what is exciting to me as a physician a strong public-private partnership potential. and as one who has taken care of thou- where you get the very best out of the

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The threat is real and cians. In my particular plan, that I ters close down—most notably in Ne- these biological agents are in the hands chose in the Federal Employees Health vada last year. And 6 weeks ago, we of our enemy. These agents are deadly. Benefits Program, I can go to any phy- saw the doctors in West Virginia—it When you talk about anthrax and sician I would like. So to say it takes hurts me to even think about going on Ebola, which the President mentioned away choice is, to me, not being en- strike in terms of what physicians are last night, and you talk about plague, tirely honest with what is being pro- doing. When you cannot stay in busi- you are talking about agents that are posed. ness, physicians really have no choice. more powerful than nuclear weapons. To do the right thing for our seniors We saw what happened in West Vir- These weapons of mass destruction— and individuals with disabilities is ginia. now in the hands of terrorists—are going to take a lot of the focus and the The President said frivolous lawsuits more powerful than nuclear weapons. A clarity that the President spoke about have not cured one patient. He is ex- biological agent is a tiny microorga- last night in his address. It is going to actly right. I can tell you what will nism that can be transported in a little take a lot of courage in this body to cure patients, and that is changing our vial in your pocket, unlike most nu- focus on the policy itself—on the policy medical liability system so doctors can clear weapons. They are cheap, they itself—and not on the politics and the afford to heal, so they can be allowed are easily transportable, and they are ‘‘Mediscare’’ tactics, to really get down to heal. more deadly than nuclear weapons. to the substance of the issue itself. Pol- Again, as a doctor, I will fight for the My closing point is on this particular itics and policy each have their time right of any patient to sue and receive facet of weapons of mass destruction. and their place, but when we are talk- fair and just compensation if they have We know our enemies—I speak now of ing about the health care for 40 million been a legitimate victim of a medical Saddam Hussein and his henchmen— Americans now and in the future—in malpractice incident or an error. That have in their possession quantities that essence, all Americans—we really do is critical and that is right. What is serve no purpose but that of weapons of need to put politics aside. Politics has not right, and what I will continue to mass murder. Saddam Hussein, we no place when we are talking about the fight against, is the reduction of access know, is a serial killer. He has used health of Americans. to good health care because doctors chemical weapons—they are not bio- My first priority—from medical and hospitals can no longer afford to logical weapons. There are chemical, school, internship, residency, fellow- continue doing what they do best—di- biological, and nuclear weapons. Chem- ship, and in the practice of medicine— agnose, treat, and heal, provide care— ical weapons are similar to biological has been to improve access to the best, because of these skyrocketing costs but a little bit different. Saddam Hus- most affordable health care. As major- that are associated with frivolous, ille- sein has used chemical weapons and, in ity leader, in working with the Repub- gitimate lawsuits. 1 day, killed 5,000 of his own people, lican caucus and the Democratic cau- It comes down to the fact that family and 10,000 people in addition to those cus, I want to continue that lifelong doctors are having a hard time staying who were injured, and tens of thou- commitment to improved access. in business and keeping the doors open; It is clear the current Medicare sys- sands between 1983 and 1988 were killed trauma units are shutting down; preg- tem, the 2003 system, has not kept up by these chemical weapons. We know nant women in rural America are hav- with the advances that have been made he has these weapons; we know he har- ing a hard time finding an obstetrician in preventive health care—in terms of bors terrorists. Why in the world would because they are having to leave that prescription drugs, in terms of chronic a rational person believe he would hesi- particular area because of the exorbi- care management—because the system tate to help others terrorize the United tant rates they are forced to pay, not has become too rigid. States or Europe or Asia or Israel, We are essentially operating with a because they are bad doctors but be- wherever anyone has an agenda of system designed in 1965, which has been cause of these skyrocketing lawsuits. hate? slow to change because the system It is going to take laser-like focus to Some question the wisdom of a pre- worked well through the late 1960s, fix this, and I agree with the President emptive attack against Saddam. It is 1970s, and even into the early 1980s. that we have no option but to fix it akin to being against preventive health However, we have now gotten to a now. care, against these deadly microorga- point where the current Medicare sys- The President introduced many posi- nisms which are used as weapons of tem is limiting choice, where our sen- tive policies last night. I want to com- mass destruction, for which there is no iors don’t even have a choice of pre- ment on one that means a great deal to cure. We have no cure or vaccine. The scription drugs. Prescription drugs has me that I think we will be able to ad- Ebola virus kills, and we have no vac- become equally powerful to the oper- dress in this body early in the session, cine right now. We have no treatment ating rooms, where I spent my career and that is the international pandemic for the Ebola virus today. It was over- using the surgeon’s knife. of the HIV/AIDS virus. What the Presi- looked, but the President introduced a A survey this month by the AMA dent said last night was truly historic, $6 billion program last night to best tells us that nearly half, 50 percent, of truly unprecedented in the history of protect us from these biological agents, all physicians today are considering ei- the world, addressing head on a prob- which we know other countries have ther reducing their Medicare patients— lem that has killed 23 million people in developed in the past as offensive the number of patients they will see— the last 20 years—a virus nobody knew weapons of mass destruction. or they are leaving the Medicare Pro- anything about in 1981 and that, in the I look forward to Secretary Powell’s gram. Why? Because of reduced Medi- best of all worlds, will kill, for every presentation at the United Nations care reimbursement year after year—a one person in the last 20, two in the next week, as this President continues 5-percent reduction last year and an- next 20, or almost 45 million people. I to use every diplomatic means to force other 5 percent this year, they see con- cannot begin to say how important this Saddam Hussein to fulfill his respon- tinued reimbursement below their cost, is and how impressed I am that the sibilities to the world community. I am and they simply cannot stay in busi- President is taking bold action, dem- proud this Congress voted overwhelm- ness. onstrating bold leadership, by making ingly to endorse the ability of our The President mentioned medical li- the United States of America a courier President to do whatever is necessary ability insurance last night. I think it of medical care, of education, and to protect America, including force, if

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Where will the next attack sively account for missing weapons of the same courage, clarity, and focus. be? Will it be against a soft target? mass destruction. The health of our Nation depends on it. Certainly the soft targets are the ones Secretary Colin Powell had it right I yield the floor. the terrorists say they want to attack. when he said it makes no sense for the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Will it be St. Louis, Kansas City, San inspectors to stumble around in the SUNUNU). The Senator from Missouri is Francisco, New York, or someplace in dark looking for evidence of non- recognized. New Hampshire or someplace in South compliance. It is instead Saddam Hus- Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I appre- Carolina? sein’s legal obligation to turn the ciate the thoughtful discussion our ma- What will it be the next time? More lights on and turn over the goods. jority leader has given on health airplanes flown into buildings? Prob- In addition, Saddam Hussein con- issues, on combating AIDS, and on the ably not. Truck bombs against sports tinues to violate U.N. resolutions by need to prepare vaccines and protec- stadiums? Suicide bombers in crowds? firing at coalition aircraft. He refused tion against the biological weapons More likely a toxin released in a sub- U.N. inspectors’ request for aerial sur- that terrorists may use. It was a very way or a skyscraper or at a large pub- veillance, and yet some still plead for important part of the President’s lic event. more time. speech last night, and certainly there Right now there are people who are We have drawn so many lines in the is no one more qualified in this body, sworn enemies of this Nation plotting sand that we are running out of desert, or elsewhere, than the distinguished the next attack. We know their inten- we are running out of sand in which to majority leader, the Senator from Ten- tions and, unfortunately, we know draw lines. nessee, to speak about these matters. their capabilities. What we do not The American people will not forgive Following on the State of the Union know is their next method of attack, us if another attack comes when we Message, some commentators were say- although they have a track record of dither with procedures and process in ing today they wish the President had intentional unpredictability. the corridors of the United Nations. spoken more about the economy. He Will they get their next weapon from What do we say to the victims then? did speak about the economy. He made Iraq? After 12 years of cat and mouse What words of comfort could we pos- it clear that his goal is to see that or rope-a-dope—whatever one wants to sibly give to widows or children who every American who wants a job and call it—we want to call Saddam Hus- have lost their parents? Can we say: I needs a job can find one, and he pro- sein’s strategy of delay and deception am sorry, but we had to enlist the sup- posed tax relief to make sure that the unacceptable. port of the French before we could act? money is there for small businesses to We cannot wait much longer. We al- What solace would that provide a fam- expand and grow and hire more people. ready know too well the true nature of ily mourning a loved one lost forever? Money for working families, for child the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. He What about our military troops or- care and health deductions on their tax has failed to live up to his obligations dered into harm’s way? Every moment returns, and putting a thousand dollars under the 1991 cease-fire after the gulf of delay allows Saddam Hussein to in the pocket of every American family war. Still, some friends on the other ready himself for battle, and the more is going to make the economy move. side of the aisle plead for more time. I ready he is will quickly translate into f cannot understand why anyone would higher casualties among U.S. and allied plead for more time for Saddam Hus- forces. IRAQ sein, a man who has been in clear Time, regrettably, is not on our side. Mr. BOND. Mr. President, the news breach of U.N. obligations since 1992. We know what we have to know to act. has been focusing, and much of the dis- Specifically, Iraq has been in mate- Indeed, I believe we would be failing cussion in this Chamber has been on, rial breach of U.N. Resolution 687 our sworn obligation to defend this Na- the threat that Iraq poses. I have lis- which was passed in the spring of 1991. tion if we fail to act in light of all we tened to some of my colleagues today That resolution called upon Iraq to know about the threats we face in Iraq. on the question of what to do about ‘‘unconditionally accept’’ the destruc- For all of my colleagues who are still Iraq. Over and over, there is this clar- tion, removal or rendering harmless asking for more time, I plead with ion call for more time: more time for ‘‘under international supervision’’ of them to read the key findings about inspectors to do their work; more time all ‘‘chemical and biological weapons Iraqi weapons of mass destruction ef- to enlist more allies; more time for and all stocks of agents and all related forts taken directly from the CIA’s un- Saddam Hussein to comply. subsystems and components of all re- classified Web site. It was reported With all due respect, I ask them: How search, development, support and man- there last fall. much is enough? We have already been ufacturing facilities.’’ We know from U.S. and British intel- at this for 12 years, 12 years since the Some may be unable to understand ligence reports that have been made end of the Persian Gulf war. Do we that Iraq has been in material breach public that since 1991, Iraq has repeat- need 12 more years? One more year? of the U.N. obligation since 1991. Sadly, edly been caught redhanded lying I would like to flip the question on this is nothing new. This latest round about the extent of its missile and my colleagues and ask: How much time under U.N. Resolution 1441 was weapons of mass destruction programs. do we have? Every minute we wait, Saddam’s last chance to get back into With the defection of Saddam’s son- Saddam Hussein’s efforts to acquire compliance. in-law, Hussein al-Kamel, in 1991, as weapons of mass destruction and to Dr. Hans Blix reported to the U.N. head of the Iraq WMD program, he re- share them continue. Every minute we Security Council on Monday that in vealed the extent of the continued ille- wait, the surviving al-Qaida terrorists large part, Saddam Hussein has failed gal operations in the face of sanctions plot their next attack. We fear it may to get back into compliance. Even the and prohibitions. Baghdad illegally re- be a weapon of mass destruction, par- Washington Post editorialized that it tained proscribed al-Hussein missiles ticularly chemical and biological at- is an ‘‘indisputable truth’’ that ‘‘Iraq is and launchers. It constructed a new tack. in material breach’’ of 1441. If Iraq is test engine for the development of mis- Sooner or later, either here or some- not complying, then it must be lying. siles capable of threatening much of where else in the world, we will run out Iraq has not only failed to disarm, it the region. And it pursued illegal pro- of time. We ran out of time in New has worked to obstruct and evade grams to procure materials for illegal York, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon international supervision. There are re- development of longer-range missiles. on September 11. Brave sailors on the ports Saddam Hussein has tried to in- We know that if Iraq acquires suffi- USS Cole ran out of time. Our two em- filtrate the U.N. teams; that Iraq has cient weapons grade material, it could

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His Iraq has recalled specialists to work leagues prefer the judgment of our Eu- budget set aside $1 trillion over 10 on its nuclear programs. All key as- ropean allies to that of our own best years for additional needs. That is one pects of Iraq’s biological warfare pro- experts and analysts? trillion additional reasons everyone gram are still active, and most ele- I think there is very little in the his- can feel comfortable supporting the ments are larger and more advanced torical track record of many of our old budget. than before the gulf war. Iraq has European allies that inspires con- I ask unanimous consent that a per- begun renewed production of chemical fidence in their ability to identify and tinent portion of the President’s ad- warfare. Iraq has mobile laboratories deal with threats. dress be printed in the RECORD. for military use, corroborating reports In particular, I find little in France’s There being no objection, the mate- about the mobile production of biologi- history to envy with regard to identi- rial was ordered to be printed in the cal weapons. Dr. Blix has corroborated fying and standing up to threats. RECORD, as follows: much of U.S. and British intelligence Frankly, I would be worried about My budget has funded a responsible in- citing unresolved disarmament issues crease in our ongoing operations. It has our course of action if the French were funded our nation’s important priorities. It and complaining Iraq’s cooperation is on board in full. They have a great in- has protected Social Security and Medicare. not active and should not be a game of terest in oil. Thirty percent of the oil And our surpluses are big enough that there catch-as-catch-can. out of Iraq goes to a French oil com- is still money left over. Mr. President, clearly, Iraq is in ma- pany. That is not grounds to trust Many of you have talked about the need to terial breach of its international obli- them. pay down our national debt. I listened, and I gations, and that should serve as a suf- It reminds me of when one of my agree. (Applause.) We owe it to our children ficient trigger for forced disarmament and grandchildren to act now, and I hope you hometown newspapers, the St. Louis will join me to pay down $2 trillion in debt by the international community led by Post-Dispatch, editorialized in favor of during the next 10 years,. (Applause.) At the the U.S. and its willing allies at the ap- something I had done. I immediately end of those 10 years, we will have paid down propriate time. told my staff that I must have taken all the debt that is available to retire. (Ap- After 12 years of consistent evasion, I an incorrect position on the issue. plause.) That is more debt, repaid more cannot foresee any circumstance in I have often found during my career quickly than has ever been repaid by any na- tion at any time in history. (Applause.) which the Iraqi regime would now that the right thing is often in direct change its stripes. Deception is a reflex We should also prepare for the unexpected, opposition to the professional stone- for the uncertainties of the future. We of Saddam Hussein’s government, and throwers and nay-sayers. should approach our Nation’s budget as any it will persist until the regime is gone. But in all seriousness, in contrast to prudent family would, with a contingency Iraq has had 12 years worth of oppor- many of my colleagues on the other fund for emergencies or additional spending tunity to avoid war. And at every turn, side of the aisle, I believe the root needs. For example, after a strategic review, it has chosen a course of action that is we may need to increase defense spending. cause of the disagreement between delivering us again toward hostilities. We may need to increase spending for our I believe that at this point, the only some of our old European allies and the farmers or additional money to reform Medi- way truly to disarm Iraq is by force. United States lies within more within care. And so, my budget sets aside almost a If France does not want to go along, the realm of political and naked eco- trillion dollars over 10 years for additional obviously, that is no excuse for inac- nomic interests than with matters of needs. That is one trillion reasons you can national security. feel comfortable supporting this budget. (Ap- tion. Multilateralism should not stall plause.) us. We took oaths as Members of this The irony of the current situation is that American unilateralism may be Mr. HOLLINGS. On September 6, body to defend this Nation against all 2001—I will never forget it—Mitch Dan- enemies, foreign and domestic, not on the last best hope of old Europe, the Middle East and the United Nations— iels, the director of the Office of Man- the condition that the United Nations agement and Budget, said we were and France agree. as it has been so many times over the last few decades. going to have a surplus at that time President Bush is well within his because we had passed the tax cut and duty and obligation to defend this Na- Our President is on the right course. It is not the easy path. But it is the we had actually passed the stimulus. tion by the use of force against Iraq at This is the Senator who forced the right one. And he deserves the support any time now. The Risks before this vote to have the stimulus in March of of this body and the American people. Nation and the world demand that he that year, because we were thinking of I yield the floor. be ready and willing to use military a $100 billion stimulus, 1 percent of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under force, with or without universal inter- GDP. What happened instead? They cut the previous order, the Senator from national support. it back. They did not give it to the This is a moment of truth for our South Carolina is recognized. wage earners, to the payroll taxpayers, longtime allies of France and Ger- f but they gave it to all the rich and many. By their action or inaction, will THE DEFICIT they cut it back some 40-some-billion they strengthen or weaken the inter- dollars and it did not work. It was Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, last national laws that protect all our na- passed in June, along with the tax cut. tions and citizens? evening, the distinguished President By September 6, just before Sep- Obviously, it is better to have inter- said we were not going to pass on our tember 11, Mitch Daniels came in and national support than to not have it. problems to the next generation. There he projected at that particular time a But as Colin Powell said, has to be a time of sobriety. We have to surplus of $158 billion. Three weeks multilaterialism should never be an ex- get off of this deficit binge and get to later we ended up with a deficit of $143 cuse for inaction. reality. The best way I know to really billion, a swing of some $300 billion. When I took the oath as a U.S. Sen- bring it to the attention of my col- They go into the litany now of the ator, I did not swear to defend this Na- leagues is to go right back to President recession, which they never wanted to tion against all enemies foreign and do- Bush coming into office. Everyone recognize except in debate, and corrup- mestic—only if the United Nations agrees and says, oh, the Clinton era tion and, of course, the war. They voted its approval. started the recession, and so it did. But never want to pay for the war. The I note the remarks of the senior Sen- in February of 2001, right after the President says when we have war, we ator from Delaware yesterday who la- President had taken office, at the end are going to run deficits. mented that never in his career had he of that month he acted like instead of Getting right to the point, I asked heard such disapproval from so many a recession it was an economic boom. the Congressional Budget Office to es- of our allies. He talked of $5.6 trillion in surplus, and timate the cost of September 11th at

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Annual in- U.S. Budget Borrowed trust Unified deficit Actual deficit creases in Pres. and year (outlays) (in funds (bil- with trust without trust National debt spending for billions) lions) funds (in bil- funds (in bil- (billions) interest (bil- lions) lions) lions)

Truman: 1947 ...... 34.5 ¥9.9 4.0 +13.9 257.1 ...... 1948 ...... 29.8 6.7 11.8 +5.1 252.0 ...... 1949 ...... 38.8 1.2 0.6 ¥0.6 252.6 ...... 1950 ...... 42.6 1.2 ¥3.1 ¥4.3 256.9 ...... 1951 ...... 45.5 4.5 6.1 +1.6 255.3 ...... 1952 ...... 67.7 2.3 ¥1.5 ¥3.8 259.1 ...... Eisenhower: 1953 ...... 76.1 0.4 ¥6.5 ¥6.9 266.0 ...... 1954 ...... 70.9 3.6 ¥1.2 ¥4.8 270.8 ...... 1955 ...... 68.4 0.6 ¥3.0 ¥3.6 274.4 ...... 1956 ...... 70.6 2.2 3.9 +1.7 272.7 ...... 1957 ...... 76.6 3.0 3.4 +0.4 272.3 ...... 1958 ...... 82.4 4.6 ¥2.8 ¥7.4 279.7 ...... 1959 ...... 92.1 ¥5.0 ¥12.8 ¥7.8 287.5 ...... 1960 ...... 92.2 3.3 0.3 ¥3.0 290.5 ...... Kennedy: 1961 ...... 97.7 ¥1.2 ¥3.3 ¥2.1 292.6 ...... 1962 ...... 106.8 3.2 ¥7.1 ¥10.3 302.9 9.1 Johnson: 1963 ...... 111.3 2.6 ¥4.8 ¥7.4 310.3 9.9 1964 ...... 118.5 ¥0.1 ¥5.9 ¥5.8 316.1 10.7 1965 ...... 118.2 4.8 ¥1.4 ¥6.2 322.3 11.3 1966 ...... 134.5 2.5 ¥3.7 ¥6.2 328.5 12.0 1967 ...... 157.5 3.3 ¥8.6 ¥11.9 340.4 13.4 1968 ...... 178.1 3.1 ¥25.2 ¥28.3 368.7 14.6 Nixon: 1969 ...... 183.6 0.3 3.2 +2.9 365.8 16.6 1970 ...... 195.6 12.3 ¥2.8 ¥15.1 380.9 19.3 1971 ...... 210.2 4.3 ¥23.0 ¥27.3 408.2 21.0 1972 ...... 230.7 4.3 ¥23.4 ¥27.7 435.9 21.8 1973 ...... 245.7 15.5 ¥14.9 ¥30.4 466.3 24.2 1974 ...... 269.4 11.5 ¥6.1 ¥17.6 483.9 29.3 Ford: 1975 ...... 332.3 4.8 ¥53.2 ¥58.0 541.9 32.7 1976 ...... 371.8 13.4 ¥73.7 ¥87.1 629.0 37.1 Carter: 1977 ...... 409.2 23.7 ¥53.7 ¥77.4 706.4 41.9 1978 ...... 458.7 11.0 ¥59.2 ¥70.2 776.6 48.7 1979 ...... 504.0 12.2 ¥40.7 ¥52.9 829.5 59.9 1980 ...... 590.9 5.8 ¥73.8 ¥79.6 909.1 74.8 Reagan: 1981 ...... 678.2 6.7 ¥79.0 ¥85.7 994.8 95.5 1982 ...... 745.8 14.5 ¥128.0 ¥142.5 1,137.3 117.2 1983 ...... 808.4 26.6 ¥207.8 ¥234.4 1,371.7 128.7 1984 ...... 851.9 7.6 ¥185.4 ¥193.0 1,564.7 153.9 1985 ...... 946.4 40.5 ¥212.3 ¥252.8 1,817.5 178.9 1986 ...... 990.5 81.9 ¥221.2 ¥303.1 2,120.6 190.3 1987 ...... 1,004.1 75.7 ¥149.8 ¥225.5 2,346.1 195.3 1988 ...... 1,064.5 100.0 ¥155.2 ¥255.2 2,601.3 214.1 Bush: 1989 ...... 1,143.7 114.2 ¥152.5 ¥266.7 2,868.3 240.9 1990 ...... 1,253.2 117.4 ¥221.2 ¥338.6 3,206.6 264.7 1991 ...... 1,324.4 122.5 ¥269.4 ¥391.9 3,598.5 285.5 1992 ...... 1,381.7 113.2 ¥290.4 ¥403.6 4,002.1 292.3 Clinton: 1993 ...... 1,409.5 94.2 ¥255.1 ¥349.3 4,351.4 292.5 1994 ...... 1,461.9 89.0 ¥203.3 ¥292.3 4,643.7 296.3 1995 ...... 1,515.8 113.3 ¥164.0 ¥277.3 4,921.0 332.4 1996 ...... 1,560.6 153.4 ¥107.5 ¥260.9 5,181.9 344.0 1997 ...... 1,601.3 165.8 ¥22.0 ¥187.8 5,369.7 355.8 1998 ...... 1,652.6 178.2 69.2 ¥109.0 5,478.7 363.8 1999 ...... 1,703.0 251.8 124.4 ¥127.4 5,606.1 353.5

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Annual in- U.S. Budget Borrowed trust Unified deficit Actual deficit creases in Pres. and year (outlays) (in funds (bil- with trust without trust National debt spending for billions) lions) funds (in bil- funds (in bil- (billions) interest (bil- lions) lions) lions)

2000 ...... 1,789.0 258.9 236.2 ¥22.7 5,628.8 362.0 Bush: 2001 ...... 1,863.9 270.5 127.1 ¥143.4 5,772.2 359.5 2002 ...... 2,011.8 270.1 ¥158.5 ¥428.6 6,200.8 332.5 Note.—Historical Tables, Budget of the US Government FY 1998; Beginning in 1962, CBO’s The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2003–2012, January 23, 2002.

Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, we The President had no choice but to repeal ‘‘There is some level of deficits that is trou- have run down all of these so-called or substantially dilute the tax cut. That blesome, that begins to tilt the financial deficits and interest costs from Presi- would have gone far toward restoring the markets. We’re not there yet. We’re a long dent Truman on through President stability of the strongest capitalist economy way from there.’’ Nevertheless, the numbers appeared to put Bush. You can find that the deficits in the world. Ronald Reagan chose to be not a leader but a politician. His obstinacy was to rest any prospect of a return to surpluses now of Presidents Truman, Eisen- destined to keep America’s economy hostage this decade. Two years ago, the White House hower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, to the errors of his advisers for a long, long and the Congressional Budget Office forecast for 6 presidents and almost—in almost time. a surplus of $5.6 trillion this decade. In July, 30 years, the cost of World War II, the Voodoo 1, long, long time. We had to the OMB projected a deficit of $109 billion in cost of Korea, and the cost of Vietnam, get President Clinton in to raise taxes, 2003, declining to $48 billion in 2004 before cumulative, add them all up, those surpluses return. Now, Daniels said he ex- get the best 8 years of an economy, and pects the 2004 deficit to be close to his 2003 deficits are $358 billion. Guess what we now we are going to have not only Voo- added up—we ended up with this past estimate. doo 2 in 2001, but now for 2003 we are Daniels said the White House will no September? The end of the fiscal year, going to pass, for next year, another longer issue 10-year budget projections. September 30, little less than 4 months tax cut. It is a foregone conclusion, ‘‘Those numbers would be, in my view, worse ago, we ended up with a deficit of $426 now that the Republicans have a ma- than a wasted effort,’’ he said. billion. They had estimated at that jority of the Senate as well as a major- The CBO in August projected deficits of particular time it was going to be $173 $145 billion in 2003 and $111 billion in 2004. billion. That was a swing of some $283 ity of the House. The CBO will update those projections today I commend everyone to read ‘‘The billion. with a relatively optimistic 2003 deficit of So when they say they are not going Triumph of Politics’’ and see what the between $165 billion and $175 billion, accord- to pass on the costs, and let’s not get Director of the Budget thought about ing to Senate Republican aides. The CBO will bogged down in all of these figures that particular tax cut. likely project a 2004 deficit of about $130 bil- I ask unanimous consent to have lion. around here, we are telling the Amer- But unlike the White House projections, ican GI we are going to war and we printed in the RECORD the article in this morning’s Washington Post: 2004 those figures do not include a new round of hope you do not get killed. But if you tax cuts or the increases in spending for de- are lucky enough not to get killed, Budget Likely to Show Record Defi- fense, homeland security and Medicare that come on home because we are going to cits; OMB Chief Projects Annual Short- Bush will be seeking in his new budget. give you the bill for the war. Have my falls of More Than $300 Billion for 2003– Daniels said the 2004 budget would propose colleagues ever heard of such a thing? 2004. more than $40 billion more for homeland se- I want to remind everybody of last There being no objection, the mate- curity, between a 7 percent and 8 percent in- year, we tried our best to be fiscally re- rial was ordered to be printed in the crease over last year. Military spending sponsible, and I commend our leader RECORD, as follows: would jump between 4 percent and 5 percent under the plan. Spending on the rest of the 2004 BUDGET LIKELY TO SHOW RECORD for withholding the budget. They said government would rise between 3 percent DEFICITS we could not pass one. Why didn’t we and 4 percent, Daniels said. pass one? Because we passed out the OMB CHIEF PROJECTS ANNUAL SHORTFALLS OF A senior administration official said Bush budget resolution, but if we had called MORE THAN $300 BILLION FOR 2003, 2004 will also seek about $400 billion over 10 years up that budget, they would have put on (By Jonathan Weisman and Mike Allen) to overhaul Medicare and add a prescription tax cuts. The distinguished Chair The White House is likely to project record drug benefit for some seniors. knows it because he was a member of budget deficits next week when President (Mrs. DOLE assumed the Chair.) the Budget Committee over on the Bush releases a 2004 budget that will include Mr. HOLLINGS. What we are headed House side—we would have put on rec- large tax cuts as well as big boosts in spend- for is deficits of $500 billion—if you onciliation and they, with the majority ing on homeland defense, Medicare and the have got just $426 billion and you are military. vote, could have passed those tax cuts. already $167 billion. Let me include the That is what we were holding up for. In a series of telephone interviews yester- day, White House Office of Management and debt to the penny. I want everyone to We did not want tax cuts on last year Budget Director Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. said understand. Do not give me all of this and that is why we held up the budget. the deficits for 2003 and 2004 would approach off budget, on budget, unified budget. Listen to what the former Director of 3 percent of the economy, or more than $300 Just find out how much you spend and the budget, Mr. David Stockman, said billion a year. That would surpass the 1992 how much you pay, and we can find out when he saw the disaster, the so-called record deficit of $290 billion, even before the the shortfall or the deficit. growth, how are we going to grow out cost of a possible war with Iraq is factored We are already in a shortfall this of it; all you do is just cut all your rev- in. It would also be nearly triple the $109 bil- lion deficit for 2003 that was forecast by the year, a little less than 4 months, the enues. public debt to the penny as of the 27th, Call up one of the Governors now White House six months ago. ‘‘We’re about to disappear into the deepest the most recent. I looked for one this with deficits—and they are trying to of red ink,’’ said Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV morning, $167 billion. I ask unanimous make it up—and say: Cut the taxes. (D–W.VA.). consent to have this printed in the They would be run out of the State Still, expressed as a percentage of the RECORD. capital. I cannot understand it. I can- gross domestic product, Daniels said, a $300 There being no objection, the mate- not run at home unless I promise to billion deficit is manageable and could be re- rial was ordered to be printed in the pay the bill; I cannot run for the Sen- versed easily if Congress and the president RECORD, as follows: ate unless I promise not to pay the bill. make it a priority. ‘‘If what the nation should care about most is getting back to It is the darndest nonsense I have ever THE DEBT TO THE PENNY engaged in. We were trying to cancel balance, it’s no great trick to do it,’’ Daniels said. ‘‘We can do it in a year or two. All we’d Amount the tax cuts. But what did David have to do is limit spending growth to infla- Stockman say about the Reagan tax tion and undertake no new initiatives.’’ Current: 1/27/2003 ...... $6,395,237,394,489.82 cuts? That contention was echoed by Treasury Current Month: 1–24–2003 ...... 6,392,119,196,353.47 On page 342 in ‘‘The Triumph of Poli- secretary nominee John W. Snow at his con- 1–23–2003 ...... 6,389,561,622,961.91 tics’’: firmation hearing yesterday, when he said: 1–22–2003 ...... 6,389,894,461,722.18

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I have whatsoever on the economy. They say 1–10–2003 ...... 6,382,620,048,983.48 heard that now, that chat on the week- by the next year we will have recov- 1–9–2003 ...... 6,381,926,712,367.35 1–8–2003 ...... 6,383,281,068,493.19 end shows—the party of Lincoln. Where ered. That is what they are telling us. 1–7–2003 ...... 6,387,381,983,103.35 is Abraham when we need him now? So they can’t give me that argument 1–6–2003 ...... 6,383,514,236,076.15 1–3–2003 ...... 6,382,650,489,675.40 President Lincoln taxed dividends to that the value added tax will weaken 1–2–2003 ...... 6,389,356,141,156.55 pay for the war. Go back and look at economy this year if it is passed. Prior Months: But I have a 1-percent VAT for the 12–31–2002 ...... 6,405,707,456,847.53 the record. He taxed dividends. 11–29–2002 ...... 6,343,460,146,781.79 President Bush, instead of inviting payment for the war—not for increased 10–31–2002 ...... 6,282,527,974,378.50 spending, not for tax cuts or anything Prior Fiscal Years: Alan Greenspan, invited Charles 9–30–2002 ...... 6,228,235,965,597.16 Schwab. He said: Eliminate the tax on else, but a tax to pay for the war. 9–28–2001 ...... 5,807,463,412,200.06 They say their economic initiative is 9–29–2000 ...... 5,674,178,209,886.86 dividends. And we call it a stimulus. 9–30–1999 ...... 5,656,270,901,615.43 Come on, who is kidding whom around going to be stimulative. Let me get 9–30–1998 ...... 5,526,193,008,897.62 right to the point. You are not going to 9–30–1997 ...... 5,413,146,011,397.34 here? When are we going to sober up 9–30–1996 ...... 5,224,810,939,135.73 and understand the American people? stimulate anything with the Demo- 9–29–1995 ...... 4,973,982,900,709.39 cratic or the Republican initiative. 9–30–1994 ...... 4,692,749,910,013.32 If you are in the war, we want to sac- 9–30–1993 ...... 4,411,488,883,139.38 rifice and we want to at least pay for President Bush wants a $674 billion tax 9–30–1992 ...... 4,064,620,655,521.66 cut, plus the interest costs of $300 bil- 9–30–1991 ...... 3,665,303,351,697.03 the war. 9–28–1990 ...... 3,233,313,451,777.25 In World War I, we went up to 77 per- lion, plus extending and making per- 9–29–1989 ...... 2,857,430,960,187.32 cent of personal income tax for the manent the tax cut they passed in 2001. 9–30–1988 ...... 2,602,337,712,041.16 9–30–1987 ...... 2,350,276,890,953.00 highest tax bracket; World War II, up All of this adds up to $4 trillion. I am looking at it the way my market Source: Bureau of the Public Debt. to 94 percent; the Korean war, 91 per- cent; Vietnam, 77 percent. We are at friends look at it. They say: Heavens Mr. HOLLINGS. There you are. We 38.6 percent right now. above, this fellow is going to take $5 are in a heck of a fix and somewhat Instead, in the Afghan, Iraq, and ter- trillion out of the economy in the next similar, if you please, to the situation rorism wars we say: Let’s cut taxes. We several years; I am not going to invest. we had with President Clinton. are not going to pay for it. And we are going to war, and we are I will never forget because I was ac- When we are running a $6.3 trillion not paying for the war. We are looking tive member and a former chairman of debt and, according to the morning at $500 billion deficits, or more. the Budget Committee. We had a $403.6 paper—you can interpret what Mitch I don’t know any better way to stul- billion deficit in 1992. That is the big Daniels says—we will be running a $500 tify this economy and make sure it reason our distinguished President lost billion deficit this year, who wants to doesn’t recover. I never heard of such reelection and lost to that little Gov- bet? Tell them HOLLINGS is here. Sep- things. This is the worst I have ever ernor down there in Arkansas. The tember 30 will come around, and we seen. President was running $403.6 billion will add it up, and I will bet your boots Why do I say it is not going to be a deficits. And they said: Yes, you did if we get all these things for homeland stimulus? If you just run $426 billion, wonderfully well in the gulf war. But security, for AIDS, for health care, pre- that is $35 billion a month. That is the heavens above, you have to get some- scription drugs, and everything else of deficit for just last year. And then Oc- one to get ahold of it. that kind, and put in this tax cut, we tober, November, December, January— We brought the Governor up who bal- will have a $500 billion deficit. And you are already up to $167 billion in anced budgets. And what did the Gov- they say: Don’t worry about it. deficits. That is $40 billion a month. We ernor do? Right after his nomination, Worse, they try to sell the dividend are spending $40 billion a month, and in Little Rock, he invited a group of tax cut. It is wrong. You tax the in- the President’s stimulus plan of $110 the best financial minds down to Little come of the corporation, and you tax billion is, let’s say, $10 billion a month. Rock, sat them all down, including the individual when he gets his divi- The Democrats’, Senator DASCHLE’s Alan Greenspan, the head of the Fed- dends. stimulus plan, is $143 billion, or $12 bil- eral Reserve, and said: I have won now, I remember my distinguished friend lion a month. I don’t think $10 billion but what is for the good of the country, from Texas, Phil Gramm. He stood over or $12 billion a month more is going to what are we going to do? there when we were increasing taxes stimulate this economy. You know Greenspan told him: Mr. President, under President Clinton in 1993 and that, and I know that. But it is buying you not only are going to have to cut could not get a single Republican vote. the vote and making the mistakes—the spending, you are going to have to in- And Senator Gramm looked at me and Democrats are—even calling either one crease taxes. said: You are increasing taxes on So- a stimulus. President Clinton went around the cial Security; they will be hunting you There is not going to be any stim- room and asked: Do you all agree with Democrats down like dogs in the ulus. It is just throwing away fiscal re- that, we have to increase taxes? They street. sponsibility, running up the debt, and said, to a man: That is what we need to You ought to look at the record. Now running up the interest costs. I have do. We need to cut down these deficits, we pay taxes in order to get the Social many quotes right here with respect to cut down this debt, and keep up the Security trust fund, and then when I where we are as a result of it. long-term interest rates because we are receive the Social Security benefit, I Let me show just exactly where we not investing in the stock market with pay taxes—double tax on Social Secu- are now. For a stimulus, we are going these horrendous interest costs, almost rity. Nobody mentions the Social Secu- to have one, whether we like it or not. $1 billion a day—and it is still almost rity tax. They all mention dividends If you listen to the President and you $1 billion a day. and all the other things for the rich. listen to us Democrats, we will agree The first thing the Government does And they are trying to say the econ- with him on homeland security, we will at 8 o’clock in the morning is go down omy is recovering when the economy is agree with him on defense, we will to the bank and borrow $1 billion and declining. You can’t go along with this agree with him on health care. It is add it to the debt—every Saturday kind of tax cut here. We tried our best just a matter of whatever it is. If you morning, every Sunday morning, and to stop it, and we will do our best here pay for defense, $20 billion; if you pay every Christmas morning. We have got when we show that you have taxed like for health care, another $40 billion; if the debt going up, up, and away. But this before. you pay for the first responders, if you the President says: Don’t worry about I have introduced a value-added tax pay for port security, if you pay for debt. It is a time of war. of 1 percent. I would like to have 2 per- rail security, if you pay for homeland

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Actual 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Debt held by the public at the beginning of the year ...... 3,320 3,540 3,766 3,927 4,013 4,045 4,034 3,983 3,894 3,766 3,501 3,062

Changes to debt held by the public: Surplus (¥) or deficit ...... 158 199 145 73 16 ¥26 ¥65 ¥103 ¥140 ¥277 ¥451 ¥508 Other means of financing ...... 63 27 16 13 16 15 14 14 13 12 12 11 Total ...... 220 226 161 86 32 ¥11 ¥51 ¥90 ¥127 ¥265 ¥440 ¥497

Debt held by the public at the end of the year ...... 3,540 3,766 3,927 4,013 4,045 4,034 3,983 3,894 3,766 3,501 3,062 2,565

Debt held by government accounts: Social Security ...... 1,329 1,489 1,664 1,858 2,070 2,302 2,552 2,820 3,106 3,409 3,727 4,057 Other government accounts 1 ...... 1,329 1,364 1,447 1,546 1,660 1,780 1,907 2,038 2,174 2,315 2,463 2,615 Total ...... 2,658 2,854 3,112 3,404 3,730 4,082 4,459 4,858 5,280 5,724 6,190 6,671

Gross federal debt ...... 6,198 6,620 7,039 7,417 7,776 8,116 8,442 8,752 9,046 9,225 9,251 9,236 Debt subject to limit 2 ...... 6,161 6,598 7,017 7,395 7,753 8,094 8,419 8,729 9,023 9,201 9,227 9,212 Memorandum: Debt held by the public at the end of the year as a percentage of GDP ...... 34.3 35.0 34.7 33.6 32.2 30.4 28.5 26.5 24.3 21.5 18.0 14.4 1 Mainly the Civil Service Retirement, Military Retirement, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, and Airport and Airway Trust Funds. 2 Differs from gross federal debt primarily because it excludes most debt issued by agencies other than the Treasury. The current debt limit is $6,400 billion. Note.—These projections incorporate the assumption that discretionary budget authority totals $751 billion for 2003 and grows with inflation thereafter. Source: Congressional Budget Office.

Mr. HOLLINGS. We would be subject contractors say one-third of those jobs are 2,500 young college-educated men and to a $20 billion to $50 billion fine right headed to India, where work that costs $100 women. They are processing claims for a quickly. an hour in the U.S. gets done for $20. Many major U.S. insurance company and providing We need to rebuild the economy. former BofA workers are returning to college help-desk support for a big U.S. Internet to learn new software skills. Some are get- service provider—all at a cost up to 60 per- They will invest. We will get jobs. ting real estate licenses. BofA acknowledges cent lower than in the U.S. Seven Wipro I ask unanimous consent to have it will outsource up to 1,100 jobs to Indian Spectramind staff with PhDs in molecular printed in the RECORD an article in this companies this year, but it insists not all biology sift through scientific research for week’s Business Week, on page 50. India-bound jobs are leading to layoffs. Western pharmaceutical companies. Behind There being no objection, the mate- Cut to India. In dazzling new technology glass-framed doors, Wipro voice coaches drill rial was ordered to be printed in the parks rising on the dusty outskirts of the staff on how to speak American English. U.S. customers like a familiar accent on the RECORD, as follows: major cities, no one’s talking about job other end of the line. [From Business Week, Feb. 3, 2003] losses. Inside Infosys Technologies Ltd.’s (INFY) impeccably landscaped 22-hectare Cut again to Manila, Shanghai, Budapest, ´ (By Pete Engardio, Aaron Bernstein, and campus in Bangalore, 250 engineers develop or San Jose, Costa Rica. These cities—and dozens more across the developing world— Manjeet Kripalani) IT applications for BofA. Elsewhere, Infosys have become the new back offices for Cor- THE NEW GLOBAL JOB SHIFT staffers process home loans for Greenpoint porate America, Japan Inc., and Europe The sense of resignation inside Bank of Mortgage of Novato, Calif. Near Bangalore’s GmbH. Never heard of Balazs Zimay? He’s a airport, at the offices of Wipro Ltd. (WIT), America (BAC) is clear from the e-mail dis- Budapest architect—and just might help de- patch. ‘‘The handwriting is on the wall,’’ five radiologists interpret 30 CT scans a day sign your future dream house. The name writes a veteran information-technology spe- for Massachusetts General Hospital. Not far SGV & Co., probably means nothing to you. cialist who says he has been warned not to away, 26-year-old engineer Dharin Shah But this Manila firm’s accountants may talk to the press. Three years ago, the Char- talks excitedly about his $10,000-a-year job crunch the numbers the next time Ernst & lotte (N.C.)-based bank needed IT talent so designing third-generation mobile-phone Young International audits your company. badly it had to outbid rivals. But last fall, chips, as sun pours through a skylight at the Even Bulgaria, Romania, and South Africa, his entire 15-engineer team was told their Texas Instrument Inc., (TXN) research cen- which have a lot of educated people but re- jobs ‘‘wouldn’t last through September.’’ In ter. Five years ago, an engineer like Shah main economic backwaters, are tapping the the past year, BofA has slashed 3,700 of its would have made a beeline for Silicon Val- global market for services. 25,000 tech and back-office jobs. An addi- ley. Now, he says, ‘‘the sky is the limit It’s globalization’s next wave—and one of tional 1,000 will go by March. here.’’ the biggest trends reshaping the global econ- Corporate downsizings, of course, are part About 1,600 km north, on an old flour mill omy. The first wave started two decades ago of the ebb and flow of business. These lay- site outside New Delhi, all four floors of with the exodus of jobs making shoes, cheap offs, though, aren’t just happening because Wipro Spectramind Ltd.’s sandstone-and- electronics, and toys to developing coun- demand has dried up. Ex-BofA managers and glass building are buzzing at midnight with tries. After that, simple service work, like

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1702 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 29, 2003 processing credit-card receipts, and mind- ice and engineering tasks to nations with a the adverse impact of free trade has been numbing digital toil, like writing software surplus of educated workers, the U.S. labor confined largely to blue-collar workers. But code, began fleeing high-cost countries. force and capital can be redeployed to high- if more politically powerful middle-class Now, all kinds of knowledge work can be er-value industries and cutting-edge R&D. Americans take a hit as white-collar jobs done almost anywhere. ‘‘You will see an ex- ‘‘Silicon Valley doesn’t need to have all the move offshore, opposition to free trade could plosion of work going overseas,’’ says tech development in the world,’’ says Doug broaden. Forrester Research Inc., analyst John C. Henton, president of Collaborative Econom- When it comes to developing nations, how- McCarthy. He goes so far as to predict at ics in Mountview, Calif. ‘‘We need very good- ever, it’s hard to see a downside. Especially least 3.3 million white-collars jobs and $136 paying jobs. Any R&D that is routine can for those countries loaded with college grads billion in wages will shift from the U.S. to probably go.’’ Silicon Valley types already who speak Western languages, outsourced low-cost countries by 2015. Europe is joining talk about the next wave of U.S. innovation white-collar work will likely contribute to the trend, too. British banks like HSBC Se- coming from the fusion of software, economic development even more than new curities Inc. (HBC) have huge back offices in nanotech, and life sciences. factories making sneakers or mobile phones. China and India; French companies are using Globalization should also keep services By 2008 in India, IT work and other service call centers in Mauritius; and German multi- prices in check, just as it did with clothes, exports will generate $57 billion in revenues, nationals from Siemens (SI) to roller-bear- appliances, and home tools when manufac- employ 4 million people, and account for 7 ings maker INA-Schaeffler are hiring in Rus- turing went offshore. Companies will be able percent of gross domestic product, predicts a sia, the Baltics, and Eastern Europe. to keep shaving overhead costs and improv- joint study by McKinsey & Co. and Nasscom, The driving forces are digitization, the ing efficiency. ‘‘Our comparative advantage an Indian software association. internet, and high-sped data networks that may shift to other fields,’’ says City Univer- What makes this trend so viable is the ex- girdle the globe. These days, tasks such as sity of New York economist Robert E. plosion of college graduates in low-wage na- drawing up detailed architectural blueprints, Lipsey, a trade specialist. ‘‘And if produc- tions. In the Philippines, a country of 75 mil- slicing and dicing a company’s financial dis- tivity is high, then the U.S. will maintain a lion that churns out 380,000 college grads closures, or designing a revolutionary micro- high standard of living.’’ By spurring eco- each year, there’s an oversupply of account- processor can easily be performed overseas. nomic development in nations such as India, ants trained in U.S. accounting standards. That’s why Intel Inc. (INTC) and Texas In- meanwhile, U.S. companies will have bigger India already has a staggering 520,000 IT en- struments Inc. are furiously hiring Indian foreign markets for their goods and services. gineers, with starting salaries of around For companies adept at managing a global and Chinese engineers, many with graduate $5,000. U.S. schools produce only 35,000 me- workforce, the benefits can be huge. Sure, degrees, to design chip circuits. Dutch con- chanical engineers a year; China graduates entrusting administration and R&D to far- sumer-electronics giant Philips (PHG) has twice as many. ‘‘There is a tremendous pool flung foreigners sounds risky. but Corporate shifted research and development on most of well-trained people in China,’’ says Johan America already has become comfortable televisions, cell phones, and audio products A. van Splunter, Philips’ Asia chief execu- hiring outside companies to handle every- to Shanghai. In a recent PowerPoint presen- thing from product design and tech support tive. William H. Gates III, for one, is dipping tation, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Senior vice- to employee benefits. Letting such work into that pool. Although Microsoft started President Brian Valentine—the No. 2 exec in cross national boundaries isn’t a radical later than many rivals, it is moving quickly the company’s Windows unit—urged man- leap. Now, American Express (AXP), Dell to catch up. In November, Chairman Gates agers to ‘‘pick something to move offshore Computer (DELL), Eastman Kodak (EK), and announced his company will invest $400 mil- today.’’ In India, said the briefing, you can other companies can offer round-the-clock lion in India over the next three years. get ‘‘quality work at 50% to 60% of the cost. customer care while keeping costs in check. That’s on top of the $750 million it’s spend- That’s two heads for the price of one.’’ What’s more, immigrant Asian engineers in Even Wall Street jobs paying $80,000 and up the U.S. labs of TI, IBM (IBM), and Intel for ing over three years on R&D and outsourcing are getting easier to transfer. Brokerages decades have played a big, hidden role in in China. At the company’s Beijing research like Lehman Brothers Inc. (LEH) and Bear, American tech breakthroughs. The dif- lab, one-third of the 180 programmers have Sterns & Co. (BSC), for example, are starting ference now is that Indian and Chinese engi- PhDs from U.S. universities. The group to sue Indian financial analysis for number- neers are managing R&D teams in their helped develop the ‘‘digital ink’’ that makes crunching work. ‘‘A basic business tenet is home countries, General Electric Co. (GE), handwriting show up on Microsoft’s new tab- that things go to the areas where there is the for example, employs some 6,000 scientists let PCs and submitted four scientific papers best cost of production,’’ says Ann Liver- and engineers in 10 foreign countries. GE on computer graphics at last year’s pres- more, head of services at Hewlett-Packard Medical Services integrates magnet, flat- tigious Siggraph conference in San Antonio. Co. (HPQ), which has 3,300 software engineers panel, and diagnostic imaging technologies Hyderabad, India, meanwhile, is key to in India. ‘‘Now you’re going to see the same from labs in China, Israel, Hungary, France, Microsoft’s push into business software. trends in services that happened in manufac- and India in everything from its new X-ray This is no sweatshop work. Just two years turing. devices to $1 million CT scanners. ‘‘The real out of college, Gaurav Daga, 22, is India The rise of globally integrated knowledge advantage is that we can tap the world’s best project manager for software that lets pro- economy is a blessing for developing nations. talent,’’ says GE medical Global Supply grams running on Unix-based computers What is means for the U.S. skilled labor Chain Vice-President Dee Miller. interact smoothly with Windows applica- force is less clear. At the least, many whit- That’s the good side of the coming realign- tions. Daga’s $11,000 salary is a princely sum collar workers may be headed for a tough re- ment. There are hazards as well. During pre- in a nation with a per capita annual income adjustment. The unprecedented hiring binge vious go-global drives, many companies of $500, where a two-bedroom flat goes for in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America ended up repatriating manufacturing and de- $125 a month. Microsoft is adding 10 Indians comes at a time when companies from Wall sign work because they felt they were losing a month to its 150-engineer center and indi- Street to Silicon Valley are downsizing at control of core businesses or found them too rectly employs hundreds more at IT contrac- home. In Silicon Valley, employment in the hard to coordinate. In a recent Gartner Inc. tors. ‘‘It’s definitely a cultural change to use IT sector is down by 30% since early 2001, ac- survey of 900 big U.S. companies that foreign workers,’’ says Sivaramakichenane cording to the nonprofit group Joint Venture outsource IT work offshore, a majority com- Somasegar, Microsoft’s vice-president for Silicon Valley. plained of difficulty communicating and Windows engineering. ‘‘But if I can save a Should the West panic? It’s too early to meeting deadlines. As a result, predicts dollar, hallelujah.’’ tell. Obviously, the bursting of the tech bub- Gartner Inc. Research Director Frances Corporations are letting foreign operations ble and Wall Street’s woes are chiefly behind Karamouzis, many newcomers will stumble handle internal finances as well. Procter & the layoffs. Also, any impact of offshore hir- in the first few years as they begin using off- Gamble Co.’s (PG) 650 Manila employees, ing is hard to measure, since so far a tiny shore service workers. most of whom have business and finance de- portion of U.S. white-collar work has jumped A thornier question: What happens if all grees, help prepare P&G’s tax returns around overseas. For security and practical reasons, those displaced white-collar workers can’t the world. ‘‘All the processing can be done corporations are likely to keep crucial R&D find greener pastures? Sure, tech specialists, here, with just final submission done to local and the bulk of back-office operations close payroll administrators, and Wall Street ana- tax authorities’’ in the U.S. and other coun- to home. Many jobs can’t go anywhere be- lysts will land new jobs. But will they be tries, says Arun Khanna, P&G’s Manila- cause they require fact-to-face contact with able to make the same money as before? It’s based Asia accounting director. customers. Americans will continue to de- possible that lower salaries for skilled work Virtually every sector of the financial in- liver medical care, negotiate deals, audit will outweight the gains in corporate effi- dustry is undergoing a similar revolution. local companies, and wage legal battles. Tal- ciency. ‘‘If foreign countries specialize in Processing insurance claims, selling stocks, ented, innovative people will adjust as they high-skilled areas where we have an advan- and analyzing companies can all be done in always have. tage, we could be worse off,’’ says Harvard Asia for one-third to half of the cost in the Indeed, a case can be made that the U.S. University economist Robert Z. Lawrence, a U.S. or Europe. Wall Street investment will see a net gain from this shift—as with prominent free-trade advocate. ‘‘I still have banks and brokerages, under mounting pres- previous globalization waves. In the 1990s, faith that globalization will make us better sure to offer independent research to inves- Corporate America had to import hundreds off, but it’s no more than faith.’’ tors, are buying equity analysis, industry re- of thousands of immigrants to ease engineer- If the worries prove valid, that could re- ports, and summaries of financial disclosures ing shortages. Now, by sending routine serv- shape the globalization debate. Until now, from outfits such as Smart Analyst Inc. and

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1703 OfficeTiger that employ financial analysts in If big layoffs result at home, corporations and unity to make America stronger India. By mining databases over the Web, and Washington may have to brace for a and prosperous. offshore staff can scrutinize an individual’s backlash. Already, New Jersey legislators From this call, will America get the credit history, access corporate public finan- are pushing a bill that would block the state leadership from its elected officials or cial disclosures, and troll oceans of economic from outsourcing public jobs overseas. At statistics. ‘‘Everybody these days is drawing Boeing Co. (BA), an anxious union is trying will it, instead, get just partisan ran- on the same electronic reservoir of data,’’ to ward off more job shifts to the aircraft cor? We all hope for the former but says Ravi Aron, who teaches management at maker’s new 350-person R&D center in Mos- begin to suspect the latter. the Wharton School at the University of cow (page 42). No one can imagine the awesome re- Pennsylvania. The truth is, the rise of the global knowl- sponsibility and burden of protecting Architectural work is going global, too. edge industry is so recent that most econo- the lives of millions of Americans and Fluor Corp. (FLR) of Aliso Viejo, Calif., em- mists haven’t begun to fathom the implica- ploys 1,200 engineers and draftsmen in the defending the free world. With such a tions. For developing nations, the big bene- daunting challenge as protecting Philippines, Poland, and India to turn lay- ficiaries will be those offering the speediest outs of giant industrial facilities into de- and cheapest telecom links, investor-friendly American lives, I have deferred to the tailed specs and blueprints. For a multibil- policies, and ample college grads. In the judgment of the President, whether a lion-dollar petrochemical plant Fluor is de- West, it’s far less clear who will be the big Democrat or a Republican. signing in Saudi Arabia, a job requiring winners and losers. But we’ll soon find out. On September 11, 2001, that challenge 50,000 separate construction plans, 200 young became immeasurably greater. An un- Filipino engineers earning less than $3,000 a Mr. HOLLINGS. ‘‘Is your job next?’’ I year collaborate in real time with elite U.S. have been at this 36 going on 37 years imaginable act of evil changed the and British engineers making up to $90,000 now. We said we were going to create world of today, tomorrow, and for dec- via Web portals. The principal Filipino engi- so many jobs when we had NAFTA. We ades ahead. Yet only the President neer on plumbing design, 35-year-old Art have lost exactly 57,100 jobs in textiles seems to have taken to heart that the Aycardo, pulls down $1,100 a month—enough alone in the State of South Carolina matrix of terror has multiplied. to buy a Mitsubishi Lancer, send his three since NAFTA—57,100. The options and choices and avenues children to private school, and take his wife We have lost 2 million jobs since for a terrorist to strike at America are on a recent U.S. trip. Fluor CEO Alan almost beyond human comprehension. Boeckmann makes no apologies. At a recent President Bush took office. He said: My meeting in Houston, employees asked point- economic plan last year is encap- The President must not only com- blank why he is sending high-paying jobs to sulated in one word—jobs. So he got prehend these new terrorist risks to Manila. His response: The Manila operation fast track. Everybody, as this article America, but he also must defend knocks up to 15 percent off Fluor’s project shows, headed to China. Not just the against them. Of all terrorist threats prices. ‘‘We have developed this into a core smokestack jobs, but the service jobs. to America and the world, is any great- competitive advantage,’’ Boeckmann says. Not just the service jobs, but the high- er than the terrorists of al-Qaida em- It’s not just a game for big players: San ploying the modern, destructive weap- Francisco architect David N. Marlatt farms tech jobs. our work on Southern California homes sell- What we need to do, like President ons of Saddam Hussein? ing for $300,000 to $1 million. He fires off two- Nixon, is take those States where we If outlaw regimes and suicide terror- dimensional layouts to architect Zimay’s PC have a deficit in the balance of trade ists conspire, entire cities—entire cit- in Budapest. Two days later, Marlatt gets and put in a 10-percent import sur- ies—not just buildings are at risk and back blueprints and 3–D computer models charge. I was here when we did it. We millions, rather than thousands, of that he delivers to the contractor. Zimay went around with Senator Mansfield to lives could be lost. charges $18 an hour, vs. the up to $65 Marlatt The time when America could sleep would pay in America. ‘‘In the U.S., it is explain it to all the heads of state— hard to find people to do this modeling,’’ nine countries in Europe—that is what and let outlaw regimes fester is over. Zimay says. ‘‘But in Hungary, there are too we ought to do: We ought to hold up on But before the President can prevent many architects.’’ this Eximbank financing the building this murderous alliance, many in this So far, white-collar globalization probably of your plants. Because if you did get Chamber say they need proof. They do hasn’t made a measurable dent in U.S. sala- the economy going, it is not going in not demand proof that a ruthless ter- ries. Still, it would be a mistake to dismiss rorist-supporting despot has disarmed, the trend. Consider America’s 10 million- America, instead it is creating jobs in strong IT workforce. In 2000, senior software downtown Shanghai. as required by the U.N. over a decade engineers were offered up to $130,000 a year, Right to the point, we ought to en- ago. Instead, they demand proof from says Matt Milano, New York sales manager force 301. We ought to do away with our President that Iraq is still armed. for placement firm Atlantic Partners. The that Bermuda thing. I am talking fast The proof is in, and the President has same job now pays up to $100,000. Entry-level because my time has reached the end- provided more. U.N. and U.S. intel- computer help-desk staffers would fetch point here. But right to the point here, ligence report that for a dozen years about $55,000 then. Now they get as little as Iraq has had materials to produce $35,000. ‘‘Several times a day, clients tell me we have to start rebuilding a competi- they are sending this work off shore,’’ says tive trade policy, on the one hand, and 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of Milano. Companies that used to pay such IT get ahold of ourselves like the Gov- botulism, 500 tons of sarin, mustard service providers as IBM, Accenture (ACN), ernors and the mayors, and start pay- and VX nerve gas, and 30,000 munitions and Electronic Data Service (EDS) $200 a ing the bill and cut out this nonsense capable of delivering chemical agents. hour now pay as little as $70, says Vinnie about tax cuts stimulating. He has used these weapons of mass Mirchandani, CEO of IT outsourcing consult- I yield the floor. destruction against his own people. ant Jetstream Group. One reason, besides I suggest the absence of a quorum. And the U.N. says there is no proof the tech crash itself, is that Indian providers that Iraq has rid itself of these chem- like Wipro, Inforsys, and Tata charge as lit- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The tle as $20. That’s why Accenture and EDS, clerk will call the roll. ical and biological weapons. Yet we are which had few staff in India three years ago, The legislative clerk proceeded to told the President must show proof. will have a few thousand each by next year. call the roll. Iraqi defectors tell of mobile biologi- Outsourcing experts say the big job migra- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I cal labs, but we need more proof, they tion has just begun. ‘‘This trend is just start- ask unanimous consent that the order say. U–2 surveillance planes over Iraq ing to crystallize now because every chief in- for the quorum call be rescinded. are blocked, but the critics say more formation officer’s top agenda item is to cut budget,’’ says Gartners Karamouzis. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. proof is needed. Globalization trailblazers, such as GE, SMITH). Without objection, it is so or- Iraqi security officers intimidate and AmEx, and Citibank (C), has spent a decade dered. threaten the lives and families of coop- going through the learning curve and now f erative scientists, but the critics say are ramping up fast. More cautious compa- more proof is needed. nies—insurers, utilities, and the like—are NATIONAL SECURITY AND OUR In the past, such demands for more entering the fray. Karamouzis expects 40 per- ECONOMY proof, in the face of overwhelming evi- cent of America’s top 1,000 companies will at Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, the dence, have been fully answered with least have no overseas pilot project under way within two years. The really big off- President of the United States stated such notable events as the invasion of shore push won’t be until 2010 or so, she pre- that America faces decisive days for Poland in 1939 and the attack on Pearl dicts, when global white-collar sourcing our economic and national security Harbor in 1941. The price of that proof practices are standardized. needs. He has called for strong steps was measured in millions of lives.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1704 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 29, 2003 What price of proof will America pay voted on, probably doubled that President detailed that progress. We before we act? The President says the amount. The President’s opponents have much more progress to make. I price will be a day of horror like none have called for a $300 tax rebate for in- am very pleased over the creation of we have ever known. dividuals and up to two children. So the Department of Homeland Security. As the President does everything to much for no child left behind. I have been a strong supporter of that prevent that day, too many see the Now, if we had a budget surplus and from the beginning. I remember, before U.N. inspections as a game of hide and the economy was humming along, fine, the White House staff decided we seek rather than life and death, which I would support a broad rebate. But should move in that direction, I was is the issue that it is. So that is really today we need to get the economy among those, with many others in the what is before us with regard to Iraq. going again; we need to prime the Chamber, who advocated that we move With regard to economic growth, eco- pump, not splash limited resources in the direction to create a separate nomic security for working Americans around in a manner that does nothing Department. We have done that. We and hope for those unemployed will not to grow the economy. have selected a fine Secretary and two come from growing the Government When it comes to our national and of his first deputies to take up the but only from growing the economy. economic security, the world changed heavy responsibilities. It is my hope To get the economy growing—to create on 9/11 and, more than anyone else, the that we will give it strong support in a job for every man and woman seeking President has realized this. His deter- this Chamber, that we will give it employment—the President has pro- mination to stamp out the outlaw re- strong financial support in terms of ap- posed broad tax relief for 92 million gime of Saddam Hussein is the Presi- propriations. taxpayers at an average of $1,100 each. dent’s realization that the threat to We must guard against a competitive The President’s plan will increase the national security today is far greater battle between the Department of reward Americans receive for working, than it was prior to 9/11. For national Homeland Security and the Depart- producing, saving, and investing—ev- security, we need to do more than we ment of Defense, because homeland se- erything that is part of a growing econ- have done before. His determination to curity begins on the far-flung battle- omy. Small businesses, married cou- enact an economic growth package is fields of the world. Today, it is Afghan- ples, families with children, and retir- based on the President’s understanding istan and Indonesia; it is all across the ees will all be the individual bene- that the impact to our economy from world. And to the extent that we can ficiaries. But the biggest winner will be the 9/11 attack was far greater than defeat the efforts of any one, two, the U.S. economy. For 40 years, every anyone imagined. three, or four groups of individuals tax relief proposal saw its opponents For economic security, we need to do who, through the mechanism of ter- try to divide and conquer taxpayers more than we have done before. He rorism wish to bring harm against the with claims of ‘‘tax breaks for the knows we need to do more, and the United States, let us hope we can do rich.’’ And again this year is no dif- American people know it, too. The only that in the far-flung lands of the world. ferent. question is when will this Congress fig- That is homeland defense. That is the What specific part of the President’s ure out that the world has changed and principal responsibility of the Depart- plan do they object to? Do they want to catch up? ment of Defense, with our troops in for- penalize marriage for a few more Mr. President, I suggest the absence ward projection. They are to deter, years? Do they think parents with kids of a quorum. first and foremost, to stop, discourage should wait longer for the $1,000-per- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The before it starts, any attack against the child tax credit? Should the tax rate clerk will call the roll. United States; but should that attack reductions be delayed along with the The assistant legislative clerk pro- occur, then engage. incentives to grow the economy? Some ceeded to call the roll. We have seen the heroism of the men of our colleagues across the aisle sup- Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask and women of our Armed Forces, to- ported these changes last year, but it unanimous consent that the order for gether with the Armed Forces of other seems there is always some reason now the quorum call be rescinded. nations in Afghanistan. While that op- is the wrong time for tax relief. In fact, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without eration is by no means complete—and I cannot remember when there was a objection, it is so ordered. certainly in the last few days we wit- right time for tax relief, listening to f nessed another outbreak of hos- our colleagues on the other side of the STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS tilities—we are making steady aisle. So it is always the wrong time. It progress. is always no, maybe later, or it is, yes, Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I was As we approach our budgetary re- but not now for you, or you, or you. privileged to be present last night at sponsibilities of the Department of De- We hear a lot of talk about the stock the President’s State of the Union Ad- fense, and now the new Department of market. But it sounds as if we are talk- dress. Earlier today, I said the State of Homeland Security, we don’t want to ing about the weather. Everybody the Union Address was delivered mag- see a competition and a push-pull. talks about it and complains but no nificently, in a way that I think Each is deserving of our full and one wants to do anything about it. The touched the hearts and souls of mil- strongest measure of attention and, President does something about it by lions of Americans. Certainly this eventually, authorizations and appro- ending double taxation of dividends. heart and soul was deeply touched. I priations. I hope to take a strong lead His plan will get the stock market was very proud for the manner in in that effort. growing again, but we have no Demo- which the President delivered that Returning to the remarks of our cratic plan for the stock market, other message—with sincerity, calmness, and great President last night, he outlined than to complain. If the President’s op- confidence. It happened to be my 25th the steps we have taken thus far with ponents would show the same deter- State of the Union Message. For a regard to the enormity of the threats mination to grow the economy as they quarter of a century I have been privi- posed by Iraq, most particularly under do in growing the Government—as we leged to represent the great State of the leadership of Saddam Hussein, and saw here on the floor of the Senate just Virginia and be a part of this institu- recited what we have done. The Presi- over the last couple of weeks with tion. I have never been more proud of dent did not have to come to the Con- amendments offered and, thankfully, any President at any time than I was gress of the United States, but he did defeated, that would have added in ex- of George Bush last night. come to the Congress, and he received cess of $300 billion to the deficit— I want to address those very clear re- an overwhelming vote of approval—77 America would be in fine shape. Over marks with regard to the state of the colleagues, I among them as one of the the last 2 weeks, as I just indicated, world and, most specifically, the lead- coauthors of the resolution—77 strong our friends on the other side of the ership that our Nation has given in the votes. aisle forced votes on new spending that worldwide fight against terrorism. We He has now indicated further steps he would have paid for almost half of the are committed, and committed until is taking, working with the community President’s tax cut. Other spending the end, and the end is nowhere in of nations in the world—the United Na- add-ons that were offered, but not sight. We made great progress. The tions and other nations such as Great

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But stop to think of the Britain in the coming days, talking curity resolution. progress that would have been made regularly with heads of state in govern- For 12 years, he has defied the United had Saddam Hussein just complied ment worldwide in an effort to Nations, and subsequent to Resolution with Resolution 1441 and shown the in- strengthen the already strong coalition 1441 we have had these 2 months or so spectors where his arsenal was located, of those nations willing, if force is nec- of inspections. Again, I commend you, such that it could be verified, such that essary, to use force, to join us in sup- Mr. President, for the calmness, for the it could be audited and eventually de- port. confidence, and for the wisdom to con- stroyed. If we are to undertake debate, The President has always said war is tinue on the course that you estab- whether it is today or tomorrow, as in- the last option. He reiterated that last lished, on the course that 77 of the col- dicated by my distinguished friend and night. Quite clearly, the steps he is leagues in this Chamber strongly colleague who serves on the Armed taking, this weekend with heads of backed, but at the same time, Mr. Services Committee, the first question state in government, by sending our President, reminding Saddam Hussein I put is: Is the debate timely in terms distinguished Secretary of State Colin and reminding the world that diplo- of the steps our President committed Powell to the United Nations to, once macy can be no stronger than the re- to take, and has taken, this week and again, undertake the persuasion, which solve of the nations to enforce it, and next week? Is the time of such a debate he has brilliantly displayed to date, are that resolve is there. helpful to our President? required among various nations in the In the words of the President, let Second, he says much has changed. Is course that is right and the course that there be no doubt, he will not let the there any indication Saddam Hussein is just and the course that will pre- security interests of this Nation or has done one thing to comply with the serve the integrity of the United Na- those of our principal allies and friends most recent Resolution 1441, much less tions as an organization. be put in peril by Saddam Hussein and the resolutions of the 12 previous Saddam Hussein has thumbed his his inventory of weapons of mass de- years? As an individual Senator, I have nose at that organization for 12 years, struction if diplomacy fails. worked and attended almost all the defied all the resolutions, even kicked No timetable was established. Again, briefings on this subject. I have partici- the inspectors out, inspectors who were step by step he is proceeding through a pated in most of the debates. I have not there pursuant to resolutions of the Se- process that is very important. seen a Senator bring to the forefront curity Council. That is a sad and dis- I draw a contrast to what happened clear and convincing evidence that tressing record, and we would not be in 1991. Again, I was privileged to be Saddam Hussein has done anything to where we are today with the world fo- the coauthor of that resolution. At the comply with the terms of Resolution cusing on this situation, with the time, I was, with Senator DOLE, one of 1441. If anything, he has taken steps to United Nations Security Council meet- the floor managers on this side of that thwart the efforts of the inspectors, to ing, acting, and passing Resolution historic debate. Mind you, we had some impede them. 1441, which is good and tough, had it 500,000 men and women of the United This type of inspection regime is not not been for the leadership of our States in position in the gulf region. new. It was implemented in South Afri- President working with Prime Minister We had a coalition of at least 12 na- ca successfully. It was implemented in Tony Blair and other heads of state in tions with combatant troops that were the Ukraine successfully. So there is a government. going to join. This Chamber had its track record with the United Nations We owe our leaders a great debt be- historic debate and, by a mere margin that is well known in the field of diplo- cause there may be a legitimate discus- of five votes, was the resolution ap- macy and among the nations of the sion about certain aspects of the policy proved. Action was taken, and, very world, but that does not have any par- on Iraq—and I welcome that debate; I quickly and properly, the Members of allel to what Saddam Hussein has think it strengthens our resolve—but this Chamber rallied behind the Presi- there can be no dispute that Saddam steadfastly refused to do. He has not dent and rallied behind the troops. budged an inch to comply with the cur- Hussein possesses these weapons of We have troops today and will have mass destruction, has used them in the rent Security Council resolutions. troops tomorrow, as they did yesterday That would be the second question I past, and today he is in absolute defi- and the day before, leaving their fami- pose to Mr. KENNEDY or other col- ance of Resolution 1441. lies, leaving their homes, leaving their An impartial observer, Hans Blix, leagues were they to come to the military assignments in the United charged with the mission of conducting Chamber. Is it timely? Show me what the inspections under the resolution States, individually and as units, and Saddam Hussein has done to merit this has now reported to the United Nations being forward deployed. Those forward further consideration, either by debate and reported to the whole world about deployments are essential because they or otherwise in this Chamber. the continuous noncompliance, lack of back up the resolve of those trying to Time is not on our side. I am not sug- cooperation by Saddam Hussein. settle this matter diplomatically gesting I can set a timetable. Under Let me read a part of the Blix report. through a group of nations. Were it not the Constitution, that is the preroga- In Mr. Blix’s words: for those deployments and the an- tive of the President of the United Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine nouncement by Great Britain and, in- States, in accordance with those provi- acceptance, not even today, of the disar- deed, some others to contribute forces, sions which say that the executive mament that was demanded of it and which a lot of the rhetoric, a lot of the effort branch shall negotiate. The executive it needs to carry out to win the confidence of would simply not send a message to branch sets the foreign policy of this the world and live in peace. Saddam Hussein. country. We have the right to disagree, Saddam Hussein has the power this I wish to commend our President. I but they set the foreign policy. And the afternoon, tomorrow, as he had for the notice there has recently been a state- President did that last night. 2 months of the inspections, to comply ment to the effect that some of our col- It is clear to me that every day that with Resolution 1441 and avoid even leagues might believe we should at this goes by, Saddam Hussein has the abil- the threat, much less the actuality, of time, which surprises me—we want to ity to take these weapons of mass de- the use of force. But he has been defi- stand solidly behind our President at struction, which nobody disagrees he ant day after day, night after night, this time as he continues his work with has—Hans Blix pointed it out clearly— and I commend Mr. Blix and his organi- the heads of state in government; as and proliferate them around the world, zation for doing their best and for put- our Secretary of State once again goes and not necessarily by truckloads. A ting forward to the United Nations and to the United Nations, we want to very small vial, one, two, or three the Security Council and, indeed, the stand solidly behind him. But yet our dozen, can be distributed into the whole world a very frank and candid colleague, Mr. KENNEDY, issued a re- hands of a terrorist network. Those report. lease yesterday which said: vials can make their way back and do Again, our President continues to Much has changed in the many months untold harm to free citizens in the work within the framework of nations since Congress debated war with Iraq. world. He has ability to disperse tons

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Time is not on our side. It is on with their economy not producing any any inflation, but that became the Saddam Hussein’s side. So I welcome money their level of taxation came no- number. We finally passed it this way the debate, if it is to come, and I hope where near the level of expenditure. We in order to get out, and then we started those questions which I have posed must ask ourselves, what is going to the next year. today can be answered. happen to the economy if the proposal At that period, Democrats were in I yield the floor. that the President’s tax cut be repealed charge of this Chamber and the spend- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- should pass? That question was put to ing went up significantly from that ator from Utah. Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the number. That is the new baseline. We f Federal Reserve Board, and he an- have seen in this Congress attempts made to take that baseline even high- TAX CUTS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM swered in a way that requires a little careful attention, because some people er. Mr. BENNETT. Mr. President, picked up on his answer and said: Aha, The most significant thing the Presi- throughout the day today there has Greenspan has said there will be no dent had to say about our long-term been a lot of discussion of the Presi- economic impact if the tax cuts are re- economic health in last night’s speech dent’s State of the Union Message. I pealed. had nothing to do with the tax pro- was interested in the comment that This is what he actually said—I do posals. The most significant thing he was in the press this morning that said not have his exact words to quote, but had to say is: My budget will hold the the President gave two speeches. in effect he said the markets have al- spending increase to 4 percent. If we The first one has been virtually for- ready assumed the tax cut will stay can hold the spending increase to 4 per- gotten. The first one was on our domes- and indeed will be made permanent. cent after years of 7 percent and 9 per- tic issues, on our economy, on what we Therefore, there is no further stimulus cent, one on top of the other, to estab- need to do to deal with some of our to come out of these tax cuts. lish a very high baseline for further in- problems at home. I think the Senator So everybody says the tax cuts were creases, it will be something of a mir- from Virginia has appropriately and not stimulative. However, he went on acle. But it will be far more important properly addressed the question of the to say—and this paragraph they do not than all of the other rhetoric we have second speech which had to do with quote—if they were now repealed, the heard on the tax side. If we can’t get Iraq, but since much of the rhetoric we markets would react negatively. Hav- the spending under control, we cannot have heard today has had to do with ing made the assumption that they will under any circumstances raise the the deficit and attacks on the Presi- be permanent, the market would react taxes to cover it. That is a funda- dent’s first speech, I will take a few negatively and the economy would be mental truth that we should remember minutes to go back to that first speech, hurt. over and over again. that forgotten speech, the first half of I raise that bit of history because I In concluding, I repeat something I the President’s statement on the state ask this rhetorical question: If the have said here many times, but I have of the Union, and talk about some eco- market has already assumed the tax discovered in the Senate there is no nomic impact of what would happen if cuts and acted favorably and positively such thing as reputation. Everything is we were to do what the President want- to that assumption, what would happen said as if it is brand new. But it is a ed us to do. if those tax cuts were not repealed, as fundamental truth we should under- From the rhetoric we have heard some people in this Chamber charge, stand over and over again. Money does today, all of our problems stem from but were produced more rapidly, accel- not come from the budget. Money does one thing and one thing only, and that erated, rather than repealed? I think not come from legislation. Money is the tax cut that passed very strongly the market would respond positively. comes into the Government from the in this Chamber and in the other body Say our first assumption that says productivity of the American economy. when the Presidency of George W. Bush they are going to remain permanent is If we can make the economy strong, if began. If we had only not passed that not only proven valid by this but we we can make the economy grow, we tax cut, we would not have a deficit. If will have the permanence come more will have the tax dollars that we need we had only not passed that tax cut, we rapidly than we thought. to pay for our expenditures. If we ig- would have enough money to fund ev- If the markets as a whole respond nore the health of the economy and erything. If we had only not passed positively, if the economy as a whole then get carried away with our desire that tax cut, somehow Medicare would responds positively, what does that do to increase our expenditures, we will be taken care of as far as the eye can to tax revenue? It increases tax rev- end up in fulfillment of the dire pre- see and Social Security would be se- enue so we can begin to have enough dictions we are hearing. That is not cure forever. Everything stems from dollars to deal with the challenges of what the President is proposing, but that terrible tax cut. the expenditure side. what some of his opponents are pro- I remind us once again of a few fairly I am a member of the Appropriations posing. I think the President was re- basic, fundamental truths. Committee. I remember attending the sponsible in his first speech last night We can choose, at least for a time, conference on the final appropriations on the domestic economy. We ought to what level of expenditures we will have bill—not this year because this year we pay attention and act accordingly. in the Federal Government. We can get did not get one until the new Congress I yield the floor. carried away with our ability to make convened; we did not have a final con- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- pledges for expenditures, and we can ference at the end of the last Congress. ator from New Hampshire. set the level wherever we want. We It was the final conference the year be- f cannot choose, by legislative fiat, the fore where Senator STEVENS came in level of revenue that will come to pay and said this is the number that we TERRORISM for that level of expenditure, because have all agreed on for total appropria- Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I rise to the level of revenue goes up and down tions and expenditures. It was substan- continue the discussion which was ob- as the economy prospers or falters. tially higher than the number where viously laid forth last night in defini- I have seen examples of countries in we began. He laid it on the table and tively strong terms by the President of Africa that laid out a budget of expend- said: This is the number. Even though the United States on the issue of our itures that was absolutely marvelous it is significantly higher than we national defense and how we address in all of the benefits that would come thought we would have and expendi- the terrorism and the linkage between from their government spending on tures more than we thought, this is terrorism and the Iraqi situation. The

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In fact, just the today that Senator KENNEDY will bring manity, who has killed thousands, who opposite has been the course they have forth a resolution which will essen- has used weapons of mass destruction, decided to pursue—one of obfuscation, tially say that. Certainly we have who has used gas on his own people, one of deceit, one of continued commit- heard from Members of the self-pro- who has tortured, raped, and murdered ment to possess and potentially use claimed peace movement, that is the his opposition—that that Government these weapons which kill thousands of case. represents an imminent threat to us as people, innocent people, weapons which However, the President made a a nation and to our allies. Until that they have used in the past. strong statement of facts that we as a Government disarms, it remains such a When the President calls our Nation nation are at risk. It is ironic that the threat. together and asks us as a society to Members who may subscribe to this We have sought to disarm Iraq for 12 join to protect ourselves and to protect self-proclaimed peace movement which years through a process of inspections the liberty which God has gifted to hu- might better be defined as an appease- guided by the United Nations resolu- manity, I believe we have an obligation ment movement, that they appear to tions. At every turn, Iraq has essen- to follow and to respect that call. This ignore the fact we are already at war. tially gamed the process and has re- Congress has voted twice, once under Approximately 3,000 people died in New tained its capacity to kill while deny- President Clinton and once under York; hundreds died here in Wash- ing that it has such capacity. President Bush, to empower the Presi- ington; over 100 died on a plane in At every turn, it has obfuscated and dent to use the necessary force, to take Pennsylvania; men were killed on a attempted to subvert the efforts of the the necessary action to protect our Na- ship, the USS Cole, a U.S. military inspectors, denying them access, just tion and to protect the liberty of the ship, in Yemen; Americans were killed in the most recent weeks, to legitimate world. This President has stepped up to at two embassies in Africa. We are at needs that they have as inspectors, of that charge. If he had failed to step up war. overflights, of access to the scientists to that charge, he would not be doing The representation that we should who produce the weapons of mass de- his job as Commander in Chief and as not fight that war with all our re- struction, of accurate accounting of President. I believe this Congress has sources and all our capabilities is, I be- where the weapons are that we know an equal obligation to step up to that lieve, inappropriate. are in existence, where the anthrax is, charge. How do you link Iraq into this war? If where the VX gas is, where the delivery I hope as we move down this road, we this were a period of the 19th century systems are for those weapons. will move united and recognize that or even large portions of the 20th cen- There was another period in history this is a time when it falls on all of us tury, you would not worry about Iraq. when we confronted a time such as to support the defense of freedom and You probably would not even worry this, and that was in the late 1930s to liberty as defined by the President in about al-Qaida. They would be, in the the run-up to World War II. During his extraordinary speech last night. Madam President, I reserve the re- case of Iraq, a government of a petty that period, once again people of good mainder of our time, yield the floor, despot; in the case of al-Qaida, a group intention said: Give Adolf Hitler a and make a point of order that a of Iraqi murderers. The difference chance. Give him the benefit of the quorum is not present. today is that this petty despot and doubt. Appease him. Try to work with The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. MUR- these petty murderers have in their him. Neville Chamberlain, in his fa- KOWSKI). The clerk will call the roll. possession or may gain the possession mous flight to Munich, attempted to The assistant legislative clerk pro- of weapons which can kill not hundreds accomplish that. ceeded to call the roll. but can kill tens of thousands of peo- But with people such as Adolf Hitler, Mr. CORZINE. Madam President, I ple, weapons which would be used, un- with people such as Saddam Hussein, ask unanimous consent that the order doubtedly, against Americans. They in- you do not reason in a Western, ration- for the quorum call be rescinded. tend America harm. al way; you do not reach accommoda- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without They have shown that in their at- tions, because their purpose is not to objection, it is so ordered. accommodate; their purpose is to use tacks to date where Americans have f died. The President, as our Commander their power aggressively and in a man- in Chief and the leader of our Nation ner which will harm the people we con- THE STATE OF THE UNION and the leader of the free world, is un- sider our allies, and which may harm SPEECH questionably correct in pursuing the ourselves, our Nation. Mr. CORZINE. Madam President, I individuals who possess those weapons So it is naive of us to presume we are will speak a little bit on part of the and who might use them or the individ- going to succeed here if we follow such main topic the President talked about uals who might seek those weapons and a course. We should look to history to last night, where we heard President use them across the globe. confirm that naivete. The President Bush eloquently address America’s There is absolutely no question but has outlined a definitive purpose for challenging agenda—an agenda of war that Iraq possesses weapons of mass de- our Nation and for the world. It is that and peace, of health care, and the struction, biological and chemical, and we protect the rights of free nations to American economy. that it has an intention to obtain nu- defend themselves from despots who In fact, as it relates to the economy, clear weapons. There is also virtually have weapons of mass destruction and he said our first goal is clear, that we no question, at least among anyone terrorists who would use such weapons must have an economy that grows fast willing to look at the facts, that Iraq is to kill thousands of innocent people. enough to employ every man and in communication with our enemies in We have that right. His words that woman who seeks a job. He suggested al-Qaida. ‘‘the liberty we prize is not America’s that we work to have a prosperity that The idea we should subjugate our na- gift to the world but is God’s gift to hu- is broadly shared. I am certain his tional security to others is also one manity’’ ring with incredible accuracy rhetoric resonated well with the Amer- that I find inherently difficult to de- and truth. We, as a nation have an obli- ican people. It sounds good. fend. Paris was not attacked. Berlin gation to protect that liberty. Today, I want to talk not about the was not attacked. New York City was Hopefully, working with the United rhetoric of the President’s address but attacked. It is our national security, Nations, we will be able to develop the of the reality of the policies that have America’s national security, that is at coalitions necessary to accomplish both been implemented and the pur- risk. that. It would still be appropriate to do poses and possibilities of the policies The President has made it abun- it in a peaceful way. But that is not he has laid on the table, which he sug- dantly clear that his purpose is to de- our call. We do not have the offense on gests would turn our economy around fend the homeland. He has every that issue. Saddam Hussein’s govern- and meet those lofty objectives.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1708 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 29, 2003 Let me be clear in my own view. one to think his plan would provide a $90 billion while we are putting $36 bil- There is a huge gap between the rhet- stimulus. But the reality is very dif- lion into the economy. I do not see how oric and the reality of the President’s ferent. Look at some of the facts. Only that relates to stimulating growth, and economic stewardship and certainly $36 billion of the plan’s $675 billion in it fits pretty clearly into a with respect to the policies and pro- total tax cuts would kick in this year. commonsensical analysis to say we are posals laid on the table. Let me begin By the way, that $675 billion—if you not on the right track to get this econ- by saying I am glad the President add the interest, it would be $950 bil- omy moving again. seems to finally recognize that our lion in the decade, and if you take the New York City, New Jersey’s neigh- economy has problems. You will recall acceleration of the tax cuts that the bor, is having to raise property taxes 18 that the Vice President, only 2 weeks President also has proposed, the cost to percent. In my State, property taxes ago, was arguing at the National Press the Federal Treasury would be about have been raised 7 percent. Everywhere Club and at the Chamber of Commerce $1.5 trillion—a relatively serious I go across the country, State and local that the President’s economic policies amount of money. governments are raising property taxes were succeeding. The $36 billion the President is tar- to offset those very actions we are try- In this particular case, we will take geting for fiscal year 2003 is a mere ing to take to stimulate the economy the President’s analysis because I drop in the bucket. It is not even half in Washington. think there is a need to get job growth of 1 percent of GDP. I do not read any- I do not understand why we are not and economic momentum back into where or hear in broad discussions thinking about this in a more holistic our economy. I am afraid he really from the Congress that this is going to and comprehensive approach. These doesn’t appreciate the depth of the do much of anything with regard to cuts in services and rises in taxes are problems we have in our overall econ- stimulating growth today and creating going to create more economic prob- omy and the compelling need to take jobs today. The right and the left—it is lems and lead to almost an antigrowth effective and strong action now. almost universal—talk about growth policy if we implement it as it now Since March 2001, 2.4 million Ameri- packages as opposed to stimulus pack- stands. The Federal Government needs cans have lost their private sector jobs. ages because it is such an insignificant to be a partner in this process. That is a lot of folks. The unemploy- amount of input into the current econ- By the way, in the long run, there are ment rate stands at 6 percent, which is omy. even more serious problems if there is the highest it has been in 8 years. In fact, the President’s plan, in my no help to the States. Dividend exclu- Mortgage foreclosures are at record view, actually could do real harm in sion is actually going to create an in- highs. The stock market has declined the short run. Its proposed dividend ex- vestment instrument that will compete dramatically in the past 2 years, losing clusion will encourage corporations to with how State and local governments about $5 trillion in value—a significant do something that is negative with re- borrow in the tax-exempt market. It is amount of value. Consumer confidence gard to growing the economy. It will going to increase the borrowing costs, has been seriously undermined. In fact, shift cash off the corporate balance that is at the same time we are laying yesterday we had an announcement sheet, away from investments, away down new mandates with regard to that the consumer confidence level is from employment into dividend pay- homeland security and education— at its lowest in 9 years. By the way, ments. It may be nice for the people Leave No Child Behind—where we are that is lower than in the 2 months that who receive it, the very narrow seg- underfunding the mandates we prom- followed September 11. Demand has de- ment of folks who actually will receive ised we would bring to bear, and I clined to such an extent in American dividend payments, but it reduces the think we are putting our State and business that businesses are operating capacity of business to do anything. local communities in a financial vise at about 75 percent of operating capac- Taking cash off the balance sheet is that is actually going to offset a lot of ity—well below the mid-1980s, which is the opposite of what we want to be what we are trying to accomplish in on average. We have had 2 years of de- doing if we are trying to stimulate the Washington, regardless of how one feels clining business investment. Our cur- economy. Accelerated depreciation about specific elements of the program. rent account deficit is exploding—it is puts cash on the balance sheets. It lets All these reasons—the very small at record highs—and our Federal def- business retain value of cash. It is hard amount of stimulus for 2003, its incen- icit is growing, with little improve- for me to understand why anyone tives to take cash off the balance ment in sight for years. thinks that is a stimulus program. In sheets, which is incomprehensible, in I think all of us know that as re- fact, as I suggest, it may actually be my view, and its failure to help cently as 2 years ago, we were talking antigrowth. States—make this plan one that is about projections of a $5.5 trillion sur- We cannot spend a dollar twice, so failed on arrival, even if it is not dead plus for America. Today, projections for each dollar distributed as dividends, on arrival, and I certainly believe it is over the next decade have us anywhere companies will have one less dollar to misguided. Again, the President’s rhet- from $2.5 trillion to $3 trillion in defi- invest in plant and equipment, one less oric sounds good. We are all for making cits. I think we have some serious dollar to plow into research and devel- sure every man and woman has a job, issues today. CBO announced they opment, one less dollar to hire or re- but I think the reality of the program project a $200 billion deficit for this tain personnel. The end result will be is substantially different and should be current fiscal year, and that is before lower investment and fewer jobs in the evaluated accordingly. tax cuts and any changes; and those es- short run. Let’s take a look at another part of timates are based on our activities in By the way, it takes a long time for the rhetoric of the speech last night: the Middle East and a war on Iraq. those dividends to work their way back The claim that somehow this plan I could go on. But, in short, we have into the job growth and economic ex- would benefit ordinary middle-class serious economic problems and we need pansion that all of us would like to see. families and create a broad-based pros- a serious and effective economic stim- Another point I believe is very im- perity. I feel strongly that it is not ulus program, something that will real- portant within the context of the view particularly an effective macro- ly deal with the soaring rhetoric the that this proposal is antigrowth, the economic stimulus program, but I President talked about to make sure President’s plan does absolutely noth- think there is a big gap in rhetoric and every man and woman who seeks a job ing to help our State and local govern- reality with regard to where the money can have one and make sure prosperity ments which are suffering severe fiscal goes. is broadly shared in the American crises throughout our country. The es- We talk about averages as opposed to economy. timates are that it is a cumulative $90 means. There is a general agreement I don’t think the prescriptions on the billion deficit for States. That is before among economists that people with low table do the job, frankly. I will try to the local governments. That is much or moderate incomes are more likely talk about it in specifics. In many larger than that $36 billion we are to spend; they have a higher propensity ways, I think some of the President’s going to put into the economy. of consumption for tax cuts than peo- suggestions are actually antigrowth. Back home, our State governments ple with higher incomes. This is a mat- The President’s rhetoric would lead are raising taxes and cutting services ter of general economic policy.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1709 Any stimulus plan ought to focus—if istration’s claim that the President’s mentary, a lot of it from business, they you are really trying to stimulate the plan benefits seniors. The reality is will find many of the views are that economy—largely on tax cuts for very different. There are 37 million this program has grave weaknesses as middle- and lower-income families. The seniors. I think most people would far as the stimulus program and needs Bush plan does exactly the opposite. agree with that number. Yet only to be rethought. I hope we can stand Over the next 10 years, those with an- about one-fourth of them, less than 10 back, work together, make a serious ef- nual incomes of more than $1 million million, receive dividends, according to fort to come together to produce an ef- will get a tax break worth almost the President. So 75 percent, or 27 mil- fective, efficient, bang-for-your-buck $90,000 a year. That is $900,000 over 10 lion, of America’s seniors will get abso- stimulus program, and get on with years. Yet some middle-class families lutely nothing from the President’s meeting those high-minded objectives with incomes—by the way, middle class dividend exclusion. that were part of the rhetoric. in New Jersey might very well fall into Moreover, only a small fraction of The quality of life for millions of this category—$75,000 to $100,000 would the wealthiest seniors would enjoy Americans depends on our success and get only about 2 percent of that tax most of the benefits. Nearly 40 percent being able to come up with that inte- break, about $1,800 annually or $18,000 of the dividend tax cut for seniors grated, cooperative, and bipartisan ap- over the 10 years. Consider people mak- would flow to those filers with incomes proach. There are a number of great ing between $30,000 and $40,000, which is exceeding $200,000. That may be a high ideas on the table. I hope we can sit closer to the $27,000 median income for concentration of seniors in a lot of down and work together to make that the U.S. as a whole, and that would be States, but I do not know too many happen. $350 from the Bush plan. seniors in New Jersey, 65 years and I yield the floor. We are looking at different segments older, who have $200,000 incomes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- of income earners and seeing what this That is a mere 2.5 percent of the tax ator from Arizona. actually means, and that is about four- returns filed by senior citizens. They Mr. KYL. Madam President, it is my tenths of 1 percent of the benefits get 40 percent of that so-called 10 mil- understanding I have until 4 o’clock to going to $1 million earners. It certainly lion seniors benefiting from the divi- speak. Therefore, if I need a unanimous does not jibe with trying to put the dend exclusion. It is less than 500,000 of consent request for that I will pro- stimulus into the pockets of people the 37 million seniors that we are talk- pound it at this time. If I do not, I will who will turn around and spend it to ing about. It can be cut and sliced in simply proceed. stimulate the economy. other ways, but we are talking about a The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- This is a hard sell. Consider the 25 very narrow segment of seniors in ator has the right until 4 o’clock. million taxpayers who reported ad- America getting the benefit from the justed gross income of less than $10,000. f dividend exclusion. These are people worrying how they It is great rhetoric to claim that sen- THE STATE OF THE UNION are going to put food on the table. iors will benefit, but the reality is it is Mr. KYL. Madam President, I will They are 20 percent of all taxpayers, if a very small number relative to those speak about the President’s proposals you consider payroll taxes. What will who are doing well and have a great articulated last night in his State of they get? They will get a grand total of deal of wealth. the Union speech to ensure job creation $5 a year. Let’s review: $90,000 a year More fundamentally, the truth is this and economic growth for the United for people over $1 million, $1,800 for plan will dramatically increase Federal States for the benefit of all American those with incomes of between $75,000 deficits in the long term, and the prob- families, and for our future. and $100,000, $350 for those with in- lem with that is, how are we going to I note with interest some of the com- comes between $30,000 and $40,000, and continue to sustain our Social Security ments my colleagues have uttered. I $5 a year for 20 percent of taxpayers programs and our Medicare programs if will respond to some of those before I below $10,000 adjusted gross income. I we are running serious deficits and get into what the President said last don’t know, it does not sound to me we they are going to explode as the baby night. are going to put money in the hands of boomers retire in the outyears. So if I noted that the Senator from New people who will spend it. Jersey and other colleagues have been This is not class warfare, it is how we one wants to put all of these programs very quick to criticize the President, are going to get an effective, efficient together, as we talk about seniors, I but I have heard absolutely no pro- stimulus program; how do we get this think we have a real gap between the posals emanating from that side of the turned around so the economy is grow- rhetoric and the reality of who is going aisle that offer an alternative to what ing. Businesses are taking inventories to benefit and how this is going to ben- the President has proposed. There is an off the shelf and restarting their busi- efit our economy. old phrase that you cannot beat some- nesses to restimulate those inventory I have some other examples with re- thing with nothing, and I think that is growths. We need to go back to the gard to small business. With most of principle of the President, which is we the numbers we hear talked about, the true here. If they have a better plan, want to promote prosperity for all rhetoric does not match the reality. I then I would like to see it. If they un- Americans, and to do that, we ought to think there are a whole series of flaws derstand better than President Bush make sure that a program works. with regard to that. I would love to see and his economic advisers how to en- I am not against people doing well in us go back on a bipartisan basis and sure and sustain long-term growth in our economy. As a matter of fact, we talk about an immediate, temporary this economy, how to provide more made more millionaires in the 1990s and substantial stimulus program more jobs for American families, how to bet- with an entirely different proposal fairly distributed across the breadth of ter protect the investments of our sen- with regard to taxes and structure with America, as suggested in the Presi- ior citizens and the like, then let us see regard to taxes than at any time in the dent’s opening remarks last night as he those proposals. history of America. Rising tides do lift talked about the economy. I think we It is easy to stand on the sidelines all boats, and I think it is important could all benefit. and criticize, but it is not as easy to that when we are thinking about our If there is growth in the economy, present good, solid information and be tax policy, we talk about how do we our deficits will be reduced. We will willing to defend it. I am ready to de- grow the total economy. have greater resources to take care of fend what the President has proposed, I think this program is focused in an the needs in this Nation. It is hard to and I would like to see those who have upside down way completely ignoring understand, at a time when we are been critical come up with some ideas payroll taxes, State, local, sales and talking about going to war, when we of their own rather than rhetoric. property taxes, and the distribution of are trying to ask people to sacrifice, Most of the people who have been all of those taxes together on all these that we have such an economic pro- critical of the President, especially if individuals, and we are getting too gram so focused on those already doing they are Members of the Senate, begin much of it going in one particular area. well and doing so little to stimulate that criticism by noting the Presi- The next type of Presidential rhet- the economy. If one reviews almost all dent’s proposal, in their view, will in- oric I want to address is in the admin- of the economic literature and com- crease the deficit and they regard this

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They cannot have it both a whole year for income tax collec- cause they did not pass a budget for fis- ways. They cannot argue on the one tions, which is the Federal Govern- cal year 2003, provided no tax relief for hand they are very concerned about ment’s means of financing to catch up fiscal year 2003, provided no way to deficits, about not having a balanced with revenue needs. stimulate the economy, provide eco- budget, and on the other hand vote I found it interesting that the Sen- nomic growth or job creation. over and over again last week to in- ator from New Jersey said the Presi- It was the Democratic Party that crease spending above what the Presi- dent’s plan ignored sales taxes and was in control of this body last year. I dent has proposed, above what the Ap- property taxes. Rightly so. Those are guess it could be fair to say that $34 propriations Committee has proposed taxes traditionally left to the States to billion is not enough, but it certainly on the floor, by over a half of a trillion fund needs of State governments—not beats what the Democratic leadership dollars in 1 year. Compound that the Federal Government. Woe be to the was able to produce last year, which spending over time and, of course, the Senate and the House of Representa- was exactly nothing. Is the answer a stimulus? It is hubris growth is exponential. tives if we begin collecting sales taxes in the first degree to suggest that the The bottom line is the critics of the and property taxes as a means of fi- Congress—in fact, the Government— President’s plan, A, need to come up nancing the Federal Government. Woe can really affect a multitrillion-dollar with a plan of their own if they are be to us. That is not right. economy very much in a rapid way by going to be credible and, B, if they are States and local governments can the policies we institute here. We can going to be credible about concern over raise those taxes if they want. The re- do far more to help the economy, as the deficit then they should recant the ality is most of them are not going to Alan Greenspan has said, by curbing votes they cast last week over and over do it. They understand, as most of us our appetite to spend taxpayer money again for over half of a trillion dollars understand, that taxing people more in new spending above what the appro- than almost anything else we do. Yet does not make them better off. It does my Democratic friends last week were priations bill called for and that we all not help to collect taxes at the State supported. willing to spend over half a trillion and local level and provide benefits to more than the appropriations bill pro- Let’s look at the specific criticisms the very same people who paid the they make. I note that almost all of vided and that the President had re- taxes. quested. I don’t think they are in a them say the President needed to pay What does make sense? What has al- very good position to argue about the more attention to the needs of States. ways made sense in the past? If the proper prescription here for economic This is a curious argument. It is true economy grows, it will create jobs, it that almost all States are suffering growth. will produce more wealth for American The reality is the best way to pro- from lack of finances to serve the needs families and, at the same time, more of the people of the States. That is true mote economic growth is to reduce the tax collections to the governmental en- tax burden of American businesses, in my State as it is in other States. tities that collect taxes. There are a lot of reasons for that. small businesses, and American fami- The Federal Government’s problems lies. That is what President Bush has First of all, the Federal Government are primarily a result of a sluggish imposes some unfunded mandates. attempted to do in the proposal he has economy. It was pointed out yesterday That is not fair or right. The Federal made. Does he pretend that in 1 year in the confirmation of the President’s Government should make up for those, we can turn everything around? No. As nominee for Treasury Secretary that but that does not explain the whole he said last night, if the tax relief we just a 1-percent difference in growth in problem. The problem of State and passed a year and a half ago, which was local governments is essentially the our economy from 3 percent to 4 per- phased in over time, is good in 5 years, same problem the U.S. Government cent means—I hope this figure is cor- 6 years, 7 years, why is it not even bet- faces: Namely, the economy is not as rect—$8 trillion over a 10-year period. ter to make it effective now? If my robust as it should be, as we would like That is a lot of money. It illustrates friends on the other side of the aisle it to be, as we hoped it would be. the fact that very small measures of are so concerned about doing some- Therefore, it is producing less in the growth differential can mean a great thing now to stimulate the economy, way of tax revenues. deal in tax collections for both the then I challenge them, let’s make the In the case of the United States Gov- Federal Government and the State gov- tax reductions we passed a year and a ernment, we can relatively easily go ernment. half ago, that were phased in over a 10- into debt. States cannot do that. As If we can encourage economic growth year period of time, effective now. the distinguished Presiding Officer on a sustained, long-term basis, we will That would do a lot of good. It goes up knows from her experience in State not have to worry about balancing and down the entire spectrum of Amer- government, you have to pay as you go budgets or about deficits or the finan- ican taxpayers, from those who are the in State government. So they are hurt- cial straits our States are in. A healthy wealthiest all the way down to those ing because the economy is not as economy not only helps families but it who are the least wealthy. strong. People are not making as much also helps the State and local govern- Interestingly enough, those small money, and the States are not col- ments and the Federal Government businesses that create most of the jobs lecting as much in tax revenues as they collect the necessary tax revenues to in this country—and we are very inter- had projected. So they are in a deficit provide services. ested in job creation—would benefit situation. Therefore, when critics—such as Gov- significantly because they are orga- What do we do about that? What is ernors—say the President ignored the nized under our laws to pay taxes at in- the Federal Government expected to do States, I guess I put the challenge back dividual tax rates. For the most part, about it? Should the Federal Govern- to them: Do you think the Federal their tax rate is higher than the cor- ment tax American citizens even more, Government should raise taxes from porate tax rate. So the small busi- bring the money back to Washington your citizens so you can give it back to nesses we are trying to encourage are and then write 50 checks to the States them? If so, why don’t you raise the paying a higher rate of taxes than the and send it back? How would that help taxes? big corporations. I ask, is that fair? Is the people who have just had the Fed- Tax increases are not the answer. Al- it a way to stimulate job creation, eral Government take their tax dollars, most all would agree that a robust given they provide more of the jobs in then write a check back to the States? economy is the answer. How do we get the country than the large corpora- I do not see the logic of that. to a robust economy? The Senator tions? States can raise their own taxes. If from New Jersey is correct that there Let’s look at the President’s program raising taxes is the answer, they all is not that much economic stimulus in in more detail. Some on the other side

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It is a matter of basic eq- expansions with debt. Debt is more those reductions in over a 10-year pe- uity and fairness and makes common risky because, while dividends can be riod of time. sense. reduced or eliminated during difficult Last night the President said, look, if But there are some who say, for some economic times, companies that fi- it was a good idea to reduce the tax reason or other, that is not a good idea. nance with debt must continue to pay rate 6, 7, 8 years from now, why isn’t it One of the arguments is that elimi- the interest regardless of the economy. an even better idea to do it right now? nating the double taxation of dividends That is what leads to the bankruptcies. I ask that question of my colleagues gives money to shareholders. As my In addition, eliminating this double who oppose this. Why is it not a better friend from New Jersey said a moment taxation of dividends will encourage idea to do it right now? ago, that may be nice for the folks who better corporate behavior. We certainly Some of them might say that will receive it—meaning the deduction for understand the need for that, given cost the Federal Treasury money. My dividends paid by corporations—but some of the shenanigans that occurred response to that is, Why did you vote does it do much to help the economy? during the last few years. Companies for an additional $502 billion in spend- Let’s break that into two parts. It is that pay dividends must have real cash ing? That also takes money out of the nice for the people who receive those earnings rather than possibly doctored Federal Treasury. Let’s just talk about this marginal dividends. Now, over half of the adults paper earnings—which was the case rate reduction in terms of economic in America are investors in equities. with some corporations over the last growth potential. This is where the Half of Americans are stockholders. A few years. economic growth really occurs, because large number of those will receive a It will help create new jobs. The reducing marginal tax rates provides benefit by not having their dividends main beneficiaries of the increased in- an ongoing incentive for all taxpayers taxed when the corporations pay the vestment activity will be the workers to work harder and longer, which is dividends to them. who are employed to use the additional what creates the increased economic The President’s object is not to pro- capital and the consumers who get to activity that we seek. It also creates vide for consumer spending. It is not to enjoy the cheaper products and serv- additional income which can be taxed, increase consumer spending. That is ices that it makes possible. so Government ends up making more not the problem with our economy I mentioned that it is simply unfair money in the long run. Most impor- now, but to increase capital formation, to tax the same income twice. We tantly, it allows taxpayers to keep which is the problem. For confirmation sometimes forget that basic argument more of their own money, which they of that, the White House has provided when we are talking about all the good can use to invest or spend or save as some information comparing personal reasons to eliminate the double tax- they choose. consumption expenditures with private ation of dividends, but in practice I When we talk about savings, we are investment. The top line, which is per- think we all appreciate that double really talking about investing. So re- sonal expenditures, is going up from $6 taxation of dividends means that even gardless of how this money is used, it trillion to $7 trillion in just over a 3- an investor of modest means is paying will benefit economic growth. If you year period. Consumer spending is not a higher tax rate on dividends that save it, you put it in a bank and the the problem. The problem is this wealthy taxpayers pay on their in- bank immediately turns that money squiggly line down here, capital forma- come. around, loaning it to others, and that tion, gross private investment. Gross What about this distribution of bene- will put the money to use creating private investment has actually de- fits? Roughly 35 million American more jobs. If you spend it, it is going to creased from just after the year 2000, households receive dividend income eventually find its way back into the from $1.8 trillion to currently $1.6 tril- that is taxable, and will directly ben- capital market and help create jobs. Of lion. The problem is the need to en- efit under the President’s plan. So this course if you invest it, that is the most hance investment, not to deal with per- is not something that just benefits a efficient way of all to provide capital- sonal spending. few—35 million American households ization to companies to hire new people The dividends being taxed today are receive dividend income that is taxable and produce new things. not going into reinvestment, into busi- and will directly benefit as a result of I spoke before about small businesses ness. But the President’s proposal is to the President’s plan. and the benefit of the President’s tax encourage this reinvestment by elimi- Almost half of all savings from the plan for small businesses. Reducing the nating the double taxation of divi- dividend exclusion under the Presi- top rate primarily helps these small dends. This attracts billions of dollars dent’s plan would go to taxpayers 65 businesses. The current top individual of new investment to the economy years and older. The average tax sav- rate is 38.6 percent. That is the rate at since increasing the aftertax returns to ings for the 9.8 million seniors receiv- which most small businesses are capital will make new investments suf- ing dividends would be $936. To the ar- charged. The top corporate rate is 35 ficiently profitable to be undertaken. gument that this dividend savings only percent. So the small businesses are Reducing the tax on dividends should goes to a very few, the point here is paying over 3.5 percent more in their raise share prices by many times the that the average will be almost $1,000 income tax rate than the big corpora- amount of additional annual dividend per senior receiving the tax break on tion. Accelerating these rate reduc- payments. The more real earnings a the dividends. tions to the year 2003 will harmonize company has, the more willing the It seems to me it is very difficult to the small business income tax rate managers are to pay dividends and the argue that eliminating this double tax- with the corporate rate. That is fair. It more the share prices increase—pros- ation of dividends is bad for seniors, is equitable. It is the right thing to do, perity for everyone. bad for shareholders, or bad for the and it will stimulate economic invest- Moreover, what is lost on some crit- economy. ment and job creation because, as I ics: To eliminate double taxation, this Let’s talk about the other aspect of said before, it is small businesses that harmonizes tax treatment of debt and the plan, though, the major piece of create most of the jobs. equity. We have been too favorable to the plan that the President spoke to The small businesses would receive debt creation in the corporations, so last night and that is the benefit of ac- about 79 percent, which represents over some major corporations have gone celerating the marginal rate reduc- $10 billion, of the $13.3 billion in tax re- into bankruptcy because they created tions. lief that comes from accelerating the so much debt. As soon as we had a What do we mean here? We are talk- reduction of the top bracket to 35 per- downturn in the economy, they could ing about the income taxes that we cent in the year 2003, as opposed to the

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We talked about where is Without objection, it is so ordered. the amount that small businesses may the alternative. We talked about the Mr. KYL. I thank the Chair. expense each year, that is to say that benefits to the States. We talked about Mr. REID. I appreciate the courtesy they can write off in their income the benefits to families. I haven’t even of my friend from Arizona. taxes. There is broad bipartisan agree- talked here about the child tax credit Mr. BYRD. Madam President, has the ment that allowing small businesses to or the marriage penalty elimination. able Senator from Arizona relinquished expense a larger amount of their in- All of these features of the Bush plan the floor? vestment in equipment will provide a are designed in one way or another to Mr. KYL. I have indeed. strong incentive for small business to help different parts of our economy, Mr. BYRD. I thank the Senator. expand. As I said, these are the busi- different types of families in America, The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. COR- nesses that provide most of the new so at the end of the day everybody ben- NYN). The Senator from West Virginia. jobs in our country. efits. Let me conclude by talking about It is possible to pick out one little f this class warfare. The previous speak- segment of the tax cuts proposed by er said he didn’t want to talk about the President and say that does not IRAQ class warfare but immediately got into benefit everybody. Of course. If you Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, President the same argument about who benefits. don’t have any children, the child tax Bush last night warned the American He also acknowledged something that credit isn’t going to help you. But for people to brace for war with Iraq. In is very true. John Kennedy is famous those families with children, it is going his State of the Union Address, he for saying, back in 1963 when he was to help a lot. Same thing if you are two vowed that if Saddam Hussein does not proposing a capital gains tax reduction single people; ending the marriage pen- disarm, the United States will ‘‘lead a and people pointed out that there were alty might not help you. If you are a coalition’’ to disarm him. not very many people who had capital married couple, you might get the ben- Although the President stopped short gains, President Kennedy said: efit of that. But you put it all together of a declaration of war, his message But a rising tide lifts all boats. and end up with a mosaic that provides was clear: In his view, Saddam Hussein If some taxpayers benefit, in the long not only help to all Americans but an constitutes an imminent danger to run all taxpayers benefit. That is an economic long-term growth package peace and security in the world, and acknowledged principle of economics. that can sustain the kind of living we the United States is prepared to wage One ought not be asking why do you want in this country, while providing war, with or without the support of the get a $3,000 benefit from President the kind of revenues to State and local United Nations, to remove him from Bush’s tax proposal and I only get a governments as well as the Federal power. The chain of events that Presi- $1,500 benefit? But rather, they should Government. dent Bush set into motion last year say, I am glad I got the $1,500 benefit That is the philosophy of the Bush when he inducted Iraq into what he and I am glad you got the $3,000 ben- tax plan. It is a good philosophy, and I called the ‘‘axis of evil’’ appears on the efit, because for all of it is going to look forward to a robust debate with verge of spilling over into battle and make the economy healthier and in the my colleagues who may disagree with bloodshed. long run it will make us all wealthier. portions of that plan. It is a very defen- The President’s remarks come amid a That is the attitude, fortunately, most sible plan, and I am proud to support firestorm of protest from some of our Americans have. what the President has proposed here. closest allies in Europe and the Middle According to the IRS data from 2000, I hope we will have plenty of oppor- East over the apparent willingness of the top 5 percent of tax filers paid more tunity to debate this in the near future the United States to ride roughshod than 50 percent of all income taxes, and so we can enact all of the President’s over the United Nations and dictate to the top half of all tax filers were re- proposal as soon as we possibly can for the rest of the world the terms of Iraq’s sponsible for nearly all of our taxes, 96 the benefit of the American economy disarmament. The President in his percent. but, more importantly, all American Who ends up paying a higher percent- State of the Union speech once again families. made clear that Iraq will be dealt with age or lower percentage after all of the f Bush tax plan is put into effect? It on his timetable, at his hands, accord- turns out that the wealthier people end EXTENSION OF MORNING ing to his agenda. up paying an even higher percentage of BUSINESS Mr. President, I am fully cognizant of taxes and the people in the lower Mr. KYL. Madam President, I ask the danger presented by the possibility brackets pay an even smaller percent- unanimous consent that morning busi- of chemical, biological, or nuclear age of taxes. So it does not help the ness be extended until 6 p.m., with the weapons in the hands of a ruthless dic- wealthy at the expense of the poor. In time equally divided between the two tator like Saddam Hussein. I am fully fact, if you want to just measure it by leaders or their designees. cognizant of, and frustrated by, the that measure, the wealthy pay even Mr. REID. Reserving the right to ob- fact that Iraq has consistently flouted more of the taxes than they do today. ject, Madam President. the United Nations mandates to dis- If your income is over $200,000, you The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- arm, and has apparently shown only are going to be paying 45.4 percent of ator from Nevada. token cooperation with the current in- all of the Federal income taxes. Cur- Mr. REID. Madam President, I under- spection regime. Iraq has much to an- rently, they pay 44.8 percent. So that is stand the leader wants to go out at swer for, and the President is correct an increase in the amount of taxes that around 6 o’clock tonight. As far as the in demanding that Iraq respond to the are going to be paid by people who Democratic time is concerned, I would United Nations. make $200,000 or more. If you are mak- like 25 minutes allotted to Senator What concerns me greatly, however, ing above $100,000 and less than $200,000, BYRD, who wishes to speak now, but is that this President appears to place you are going to be paying 27.9 percent during the remainder of the time, with- himself above the international man- of all Federal income taxes. Currently, out any specific designation as to when dates of the United Nations. He has you pay 27.6 percent—an increase. it starts, I would ask unanimous con- turned a deaf ear to the concerns of Under the Bush plan, families with sent that 20 minutes of our time be other nations and has vowed that the incomes of over $100,000 would end up given to Senator KENNEDY, 71⁄2 minutes United States will lead an assault on paying 73 percent of all Federal income to Senator SCHUMER, and 71⁄2 minutes Iraq regardless of the judgment of the taxes. to Senator FEINSTEIN. United Nations. President Bush has

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How is it that the threat from ducing a resolution urging that the that war is the only option left, and Iraq is more serious than the threat U.N. weapons inspectors be given suffi- that war cannot wait. from North Korea? How is it that the cient time to complete their work and The President in his address alluded threat from Iraq appears to have calling for the President to seek a to tantalizing evidence that Saddam eclipsed the threat from al-Qaida to United Nations resolution specifically Hussein is in collusion with al-Qaida our own country and the threat from authorizing the use of force before ini- and that Iraq possesses weapons of other terrorist organizations? tiating any offensive military oper- mass destruction which it is hiding Nor did the President attempt to pre- ation against Iraq. from the United Nations weapons in- pare the American people for the pos- Now, it may come to be that war is spectors. But the President has yet to sible consequences of war with Iraq— the only way to subdue the malevo- present that evidence to the public or the terrible toll on the lives on inno- lence of Saddam Hussein. But that is to demonstrate why it constitutes an cent Iraqis, the potential for hundreds not a decision for the United States to immediate cause for war. If the evi- or thousands of battlefield casualties of make unilaterally. President Bush, in dence is as compelling as the President American service men and women, the November, galvanized the United Na- indicates it will be, surely the member sharply increased threat of terrorist tions to act on the issue of Iraq. For states of the United Nations will close attacks on America and its allies. The that, the President is to be com- ranks behind the United States and de- President promised that the overthrow mended. Now he must follow through mand the forcible disarmament of Iraq. of Saddam Hussein would liberate the on his pledge to work with the United The President also set what appears people of Iraq, but he made no mention Nations. The United Nations has dem- to be a new deadline for the United Na- of what the American people could ex- onstrated in the past 2 months that it tions. On February 5, he said, the pect from a postwar Iraq. The Presi- is willing to act responsibly and vigor- United States will ask the U.N. Secu- dent made no mention of the burden ously in addressing the issue of Iraq’s rity Council to convene to hear evi- the United States would have to bear disarmament. No one could accuse dence of Iraq’s illegal weapons pro- to ensure that a postwar Iraq did not chief weapons inspector Hans Blix of grams and its links to terrorist groups. devolve into chaos. sugar-coating his interim report to the I look forward to learning the details In his State of the Union Address last U.N. Security Council on January 27. of that meeting. I wonder why the year, the President declared a global He made clear that Iraq is not ade- President is holding back for another war on terror, and he called on all na- quately cooperating on matters of sub- week if he has such information today, tions of the world to come together to stance. He made clear his frustration and perhaps has had it for some time. combat the curse of terrorism. In his with Iraq. But he did not slam the door I am confident that the U.N. weapons speech last night, the global war on on the possibility of disarming Iraq inspectors would welcome such evi- terror got remarkably short shrift. without resorting to war. dence, not next week but today, so that ‘‘We are working closely with other na- As long as that door remains open they could do their jobs more effec- tions,’’ the President said. ‘‘We have even a crack, as long as Iraq is not ac- tively. I wonder why the Senate has the terrorists on the run.’’ tively threatening its neighbors or the not been given this evidence. I wonder Unfortunately, having terrorists on United States, as long as the United why the American people, who are the run means that terrorists have es- Nations can maintain a stranglehold being asked to send their sons and caped our dragnet and, according to in- on Saddam Hussein’s ambitions, I be- daughters, mothers and fathers, broth- telligence assessments, are actively lieve that we have a duty to the Amer- ers and sisters into the battle zone, plotting new attacks on the United ican people to strive to find an alter- have not been made privy to this im- States and its allies. We still do not native to war. If war it must be, then it portant evidence. know the fate of Osama bin Laden. We should be a coordinated undertaking Perhaps the answer lies in the fol- may have him on the run, but we also authorized by Congress and sanctioned lowup comment by the President, when fear that he continues to pose a real by the member states of the United Na- he said: ‘‘We will consult, but let there and imminent threat to the United tions—not a preemptive strike initi- by no misunderstanding. If Saddam States. And unlike Saddam Hussein, ated by the President of the United Hussein does not fully disarm for the Osama bin Laden has demonstrated his States. safety of our people, and for the peace willingness to attack American citi- Mr. President, the consequences of of the world, we will lead a coalition to zens at home and American interests war are incalculable. Before we take disarm him.’’ Despite all his comments abroad. such a momentous step, before we to the contrary, it appears that the But instead of rallying the inter- place the lives of American military President has predetermined that war national community to the continued personnel and innocent civilians in with Iraq is the only recourse left. need to cooperate in fighting global harm’s way, we should stop to reflect If war is the answer, the support of terrorism, the President’s policies and on the possible consequences, and we the international community is essen- the President’s rhetoric are polarizing should redouble our efforts to find a tial. I believe that it would be a grave the world. peaceful solution to the disarmament mistake for the United States to pre- Mr. President, I believe the Senate of Iraq. If war is the only recourse, it empt the work of the United Nations has a duty to speak to the issue of war must be a war endorsed and fully sup- weapons inspectors and initiate an in- with Iraq, and I believe that the United ported by the United Nations. vasion of Iraq without first seeking the States has a duty under international Mr. President, if it must be war, we express support of the Security Coun- law to work within the structure of the may be lucky. I hope we will be. But we cil. The United States is already seen United Nations charter. If we indict may not be lucky. I think of the words by many as an aggressor in the Middle Saddam Hussein on the grounds that he of Croesus, when he said to Cyrus the East. Speculation is rife in Europe that has failed to disarm in accordance with Great of Persia: the United States is pressing to invade the United Nations resolutions, how There is a wheel on which the affairs of Iraq to give the U.S. control of the then can we turn around and act men revolve and its movement forbids the Iraqi oil fields. America’s reputation in against him without United Nations same man to be always fortunate. the court of world opinion is in tatters. support? What signal does the United Mr. President, I shall have more to Unfortunately, the President’s State States send to the world regarding re- say as the days come and go on this of the Union speech did little to allay spect for international law? The United matter that is so vital to the American the worries of the American people or Nations is acting responsibly. Iraq, if people and to their futures and to the the international community. The not fully cooperating, is at least futures of our children and grand- President signaled to the world that straitjacketed. America’s allies are children and their children.

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I thank the Chair. also for his cosponsorship of the sense- against the wall, decides to use chem- Mr. President, I thank my friend of-the-Senate resolution which I have ical or biological weapons? What will a from West Virginia for his eloquence just submitted. I thank him for his postwar Iraq look like? Who will gov- once again this afternoon. When the contributions to that resolution. ern? How long will our troops need to history of our time is written, there It is my understanding he will be stay? How many will need to stay? will be many important chapters on submitting a resolution. We have dis- What will be the impact on the war the contributions the Senator from cussed that as well, and I hope he will against terrorism? Will we be increas- West Virginia has made, certainly for add my name to his resolution. He can ing support for al-Qaida? his State, but I also think there will be be sure that, the Lord willing, I will be What will be the impact of our allies an important chapter that will be writ- speaking on this matter from time to in the region? Will stability be under- ten about his contributions to our Con- time, and I know that he will join me, mined? stitution as the principal guardian of as I hope others in this Senate will join How will our Nation be able to man- the Constitution in the Senate. He has us. I think it is time for the American age three foreign policy crises at the done this on so many occasions. I have people to hear more from the Senate. I same time—the war against terrorism, admired him so much for that effort do not think they have heard enough the crisis with North Korea, and now and the extraordinary insight he has from the Senate on this matter that is war with Iraq? brought to all of us as a student of his- so vital to them, to their loved ones, to When Congress voted on this issue in tory. their fortunes, and to their futures. October, the President had not yet de- All of us will remember very clearly As far as the Lord enables me to do cided to go to war. The President said the debates which were led by the Sen- so, I intend to have more to say on this war was the last resort. He said we ator from West Virginia some 3 months subject. I thank the Senator. I know he would work with the international ago on the issues of war and peace, and will have more to say. Again, I thank community to obtain Iraq’s disar- now once again, as we are coming to him for his remarks and for his cospon- mament. Clearly, we have not reached the most significant time, and that is sorship of the resolution. that last resort. Inspectors are on the the decision-making that will be made Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, may I ground in Iraq, and the international at the United Nations about whether be reminded when I have 3 minutes re- community wants the inspections to we will continue with a course of in- maining. continue; yet, the President is poised spections and whether we will try and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The to pull the trigger of war. galvanize the world community behind Chair will so inform the Senator. I am delighted to work with Senator a common purpose, or whether we will Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, last BYRD on this issue, and I am a cospon- go it alone. The Senator reminds us of October 16, President Bush signed Pub- sor of his resolution. We share the goal the dangers of going it alone, of the un- lic Law 107–243 which authorized the of ensuring that war will be the last re- foreseen challenges we will be facing, President to use military force, if nec- sort; that if we do have to go to war in and draws attention to the importance essary, to defend our country. Iraq, it will be with the support of Con- that this is a matter that is debated I voted against that resolution and gress, the American people, and the and discussed in the Senate; that the war with Iraq because I was not per- international community. people in West Virginia, like the people suaded that Iraq posed an imminent In light of the changed circumstances in my own State, are eager to have threat to our national security and be- since the previous votes by Congress, I more knowledge, more awareness, more cause of my belief that war with Iraq, am submitting another resolution sup- understanding as to exactly where we especially without broad international porting the inspection process and re- are going and the circumstances of support, would undermine our ability quiring the President to obtain ap- that commitment. to meet the gravest threat to our na- proval from the Congress before com- I thank the Senator from West Vir- tional security—terrorism against the mitting American troops to war. ginia so much for the thoughtful reso- United States by al-Qaida and other This decision may well be one of the lution which I am proud to cosponsor terrorist groups. most important that any of us will and for the comment he has made, Circumstances have changed signifi- make. which is that we will be back here cantly since Congress approved that So much has happened since Congress again to talk about this issue of war resolution last October. In the months voted to authorize force last October. and peace. that have passed, events have only On November 8, the United Nations Se- As he has said on many occasions, strengthened my belief that this is the curity Council unanimously approved a there is no vote that is more important wrong war at the wrong time. resolution that demanded unprece- than a Senator’s vote on war and In those 3 months, al-Qaida has esca- dented access to suspected weapons peace. There is no issue more impor- lated its campaign of terror. North sites in Iraq. The passage of this reso- tant that we address in the Senate. The Korea has revived its nuclear weapons lution demonstrated the resolve of the Senator reminds us of that very solemn program. And United Nations inspec- international community to disarm obligation and responsibility we have tors are now on the ground in Iraq. Saddam, and was soon followed by the on that issue and has, in his resolution, There is no doubt that Saddam Hus- arrival of several hundred weapons in- found ways of giving expression to the sein is a brutal dictator. He invaded spectors in Iraq. concerns of many of our fellow citizens. Kuwait. He oppresses the Iraqi people. On January 27, the inspectors sub- I again thank him for all of the work He murders his opponents. He has mitted a report to the Security Council he has done. I urge him to continue to gassed his own people. He has defied about Iraq’s cooperation with weapons lead this body to a better under- the world community. inspections. Chief weapons inspector standing of exactly what policy we are So I commend President Bush for Hans Blix stated that Iraq has so far undertaking, what the risks are, and going to the United Nations and for cooperated ‘‘rather well’’ but that addi- the challenges we face with the real working with our allies to put inspec- tional cooperation is necessary. The di- prospects of a war which may be initi- tors on the ground again in Iraq. The rector general of the International ated by the United States, in which the inspectors are making progress. Rather Atomic Energy Agency said inspectors United States may be effectively going than commit American troops to war ‘‘have found no evidence that Iraq has it alone with perhaps one or two of our with Iraq at this time, we should give revived its nuclear weapons program allies. I thank him so much for his at- the inspectors our full support and as- since the elimination of the program in tention and focus on this issue. sistance, including our best intel- the 1990s’’ and that inspectors ‘‘should

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Saddam Hussein is feeling the pressure bility of new al-Qaida terrorist at- Unlike Iraq, North Korea has no nu- of the international community. Noth- tacks. A unilateral invasion of Iraq clear inspectors on the ground to verify ing in the report suggests that war now would not advance our war against ter- disarmament. is the only option to disarm Saddam. rorism—it would undermine it. Our North Korea has a long and well-doc- Clearly, the inspections should con- highest national priority is to wage the umented history of selling its military tinue. unfinished war against al-Qaida and technology, especially ballistic mis- It is wrong for the administration to wage it effectively. siles, to whoever will pay the highest beat the drums of war. There is time In the last 4 months there have been price. Desperate and strapped for cash, for thoughtful deliberation about deadly new al-Qaida attacks worldwide, it is the country most likely to sell or whether war now is the right priority which have slaughtered hundreds. A transfer weapons of mass destruction for our Nation and we in Congress have French tanker was attacked in Yemen, to terrorists or nations that support a responsibility to the Constitution a nightclub bombed in Indonesia, a terrorism. and the American people to act again hotel destroyed in Kenya, missionaries In its single-minded focus on Iraq, on this all-important issue of war or murdered in Yemen. The frequency and administration officials at first refused peace. ferocity of these attacks is increasing. to acknowledge that a nuclear crisis The administration has totally failed It is only a matter of time before they even existed. Only very recently has to make the case that Saddam Hussein strike America again. the Administration begun to devote is an imminent threat to our security. The administration would like us to the attention this crisis deserves. No evidence, no proof, no ‘‘smoking believe that Saddam Hussein is public Nevertheless, the administration gun,’’ no intelligence has ever been re- enemy No. 1, ignoring the fact that continues to focus on Iraq. They are leased to suggest we must launch a pre- Osama bin Laden is still at large. now suggesting an easy war, with few emptive strike in order to defend Chilling new evidence has arisen sug- casualties. But our military leaders, America from an unprovoked attack. gests that he is planning new attacks. especially those with significant com- At home, we still remain vulnerable. Instead of making its case, the admin- bat experience are skeptical. On De- Last October, a Council of Foreign Re- istration simply says, ‘‘Trust us. We cember 18, a press report said that the lations task force chaired by former know more than you do.’’ commandant of the Marine Corps is Senators Gary Hart and Warren Rud- Many experts believe that Iraq—espe- concerned that civilian leaders in the man warned that ‘‘America remains cially without provocation—does not Pentagon are underestimating the dangerously unprepared to prevent and represent an imminent threat to our risks of war, and that military chiefs respond to a catastrophic attack on security. In fact, it may well be just have challenged the optimistic view U.S. soil.’’ the opposite. On October 7, CIA Direc- Another Task Force representative that Saddam Hussein’s government tor George Tenet released an unclassi- told a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee will collapse soon after a military cam- fied assessment in a letter to the Sen- that ‘‘a war with Iraq . . . elevates the paign begins. ate Select Committee on Intelligence risk in the near term of an attack on In December, we heard dire new fore- that suggested Iraq would only be a the United States . . . [and] will likely casts about what war with Iraq would threat if the United States attacked it consume virtually all the nation’s at- actually be like. U.S. intelligence offi- first. tention and command the bulk of the cials warned that Saddam Hussein may The letter said, ‘‘the probability of available resources, leaving little left pursue a ‘‘scorched earth’’ policy if the [Saddam Hussein] initiating an attack over to address our many domestic war goes badly. They said that Hussein [on the United States] would be low.’’ vulnerabilities.’’ may try to destroy Iraq’s oil fields, It also said, ‘‘should Saddam Hussein For some time, the administration power plants and food facilities. conclude that a U.S.-led attack could engaged in a complicated spin job to In the Armed Services Committee, no longer be deterred, he probably convince the American people that we heard testimony from General Hoar would become much less constrained in Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden and others about the dangers to our adopting terrorist actions. Such ter- are co-conspirators. According to this troops of urban guerilla warfare. rorism might involve . . . [chemical view, waging war on Iraq is part of the War will be a disaster not just for the and biological weapons].’’ war against terrorism. Last September, soldiers who suffer and die, but for the In spite of U.S. assertions that we our Secretary of Defense went so far as vast numbers of innocent civilians who have secret evidence of Iraq’s WMD to claim publicly that he had ‘‘bullet- will be affected. In December, the program, we have been transferring proof confirmation’’ of links between media reprinted a confidential U.N. this information at a painfully slow Iraq and al-Qaida. planning document predicting a hu- pace. It is only this month, that we fi- But the administration has never manitarian crisis in the wake of war nally began to hand over ‘‘significant presented any of this ‘‘bulletproof’’ evi- with Iraq. U.N. officials also predicted intelligence.’’ The administration dence. Most regional experts believe it a halt to Iraqi oil production, serious promises the release of new informa- is highly unlikely that fundamentalist degradation of Iraqi transportation, tion and all of us hope that it will be al-Qaida leaders would ever find much sanitation and power facilities, and the more convincing than what has been common cause with the secular dic- ‘‘outbreak of diseases in epidemic if made available so far. tator Saddam Hussein. Last October, not pandemic proportions.’’ The docu- Secretary Powell will go to the Secu- CIA Director George Tenet even con- ment also predicted a flow of up to rity Council to share intelligence on ceded that the administration’s under- 900,000 refugees. Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction pro- standing of the al-Qaida Iraq link was War will not be as easy as the admin- gram on February 5. But if the United ‘‘evolving’’ and based on ‘‘sources of istration would like us to believe. It States has significant intelligence, we varying reliability.’’ The administra- may well turn into the first great hu- should share it with the U.N. inspec- tion claimed again this week that they manitarian catastrophe of the 21st cen- tors today. We should not wait a fur- have new evidence of those ties, but so tury. ther week. If our goal is disarmament, far we have only seen a rehash of old The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- we should do everything possible to as- allegations and unreliable anecdotes. ator has 3 minutes remaining. sist the inspectors. As the administration emphasizes Mr. KENNEDY. The debate giving The disarmament of Saddam Hussein the threat from Iraq, it gives less at- the President authority to use force is essential. But the administration tention to other countries that pose an against Iraq occurred over 3 months has not made a persuasive case that even more immediate threat to our se- ago. Since then, circumstances have the threat from Iraq is so immediate curity. changed so significantly that Congress

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But in the world we live we wage this war without allies, the gress declares that this section is in- in, there is no such thing as knowledge United States will assume a massive tended to constitute specific statutory of imminence of attack. Had we known and lonely responsibility to rebuild authorization within the meaning of what was to happen to our country you Iraq, preserve its territorial integrity section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolu- September 11, 2001, there is no Amer- and prevent chaos. Going to war alone tion.’’ Congress has spoken, and its ican leader who would not have acted will impose massive new responsibil- message could not be clearer. to prevent it. ities that could extend for years, if not The Senator from Massachusetts Every one of us in this body had con- decades. spoke repeatedly and at length over templated what could have happened The Senate debated giving the Presi- the course of the Congressional debate had the September 11 terrorists em- dent authority to use force against on Iraq. He spoke eloquently and pas- ployed weapons of mass destruction. Iraq over three months ago. Since sionately, in the great tradition of the We cannot abide a world in which out- then, circumstances have changed so Senate. At the end of the day, his views law regimes deeply hostile to American significantly that Congress must con- did not prevail, but he made an impor- are free to develop weapons which, in sider the issue of war and peace again. tant contribution to the debate. the hands of dictators and terrorists, Since our debate last fall, we have fi- That debate is over. After a months- would be used against us. As long as nally implemented, with our allies, an long period in which the Bush adminis- those dictators reign, and as long as active process to verify Iraq’s disar- tration went to the Security Council— terrorists plot to strike us, the threat mament. That process is working and as the Senator called for last fall, se- can be understood to be imminent, be- should be allowed to continue. We must cured a new Council resolution de- cause we don’t know when the next at- help this process along and give persua- manding Iraqi compliance with it s dis- tack will happen—and as long as we sive intelligence information to U.N. armament obligations—as the Senator don’t act we can say with certainty weapons inspectors. called for last fall, and pursued patient that there will be another attack. It is possible that the inspections diplomacy while educating the Amer- Speaking of the nexus between rogue process will fail or that new evidence ican public about the threat Iraq poses states with deadly arsenals and the ter- will be uncovered about the threat to our interests—as the Senator called rorists with whom they conspire, the from Saddam Hussein. But under the for last fall, I agree with him that President said, ‘‘If this threat is per- current conditions, I continue to be- ‘‘much has changed in the many mitted to fully and suddenly emerge, lieve that this is the wrong war at the months since Congress last debated all actions, all words, and all recrimi- wrong time. war with Iraq.’’ nations would come too late. Trusting If we rush to pull the trigger against What has changed is that the Admin- in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Iraq, we will invite catastrophe and istration has pursued the careful diplo- Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not condemnation. America, which has macy the Senator had urged on it and an option.’’ long been a beacon of freedom for peo- has refrained from using force unilater- While I respect my colleague’s dif- ple around the world, will turn into a ally against Iraq. The President has ferences with the administration and symbol of brute force and aggression. worked to make the case for Iraqi dis- with a substantial majority of the Con- The world may come to see us as a dan- armament to America and the world. gress on the matter of Iraq, I believe gerous rogue state, needing to be con- The administration was able to unite the case for action to disarm Saddam tained and deterred. This is not the the Security Council behind our de- Hussein has only become more compel- America that Abraham Lincoln called mand that Iraq disarm or be disarmed. ling since Congress debated the author- ‘‘the last, best hope of mankind.’’ War And the administration has worked ization to use force against Iraq last now would be alien to our values, con- diligently to assemble a coalition that fall. trary to our interests, and must not be will stand with us in the event military When I heard earlier today—as the waged. action is necessary. word gets out around here—that the Mr. MCCAIN. I ask that I be recog- Iraq has provided more evidence of Senator from Massachusetts might nized for up to 20 minutes. its intentions, and its defiance, by its come to the floor and propose another Mrs. FEINSTEIN. I ask for a point of failure to provide anything resembling resolution to be debated, I must say I clarification. I was waiting in the an honest declaration of its arsenal of was of two minds. I thought this would queue. I have no objection to the Sen- banned weaponry, and its failure to co- be another marvelous opportunity to ator from Arizona going first. I ask operate substantively with the U.N. in- debate this amendment, this entire sit- unanimous consent that directly fol- spectors, as Hans Blix has stated. By uation, because in the intervening lowing Senator MCCAIN, I be granted a its own actions, Iraq has placed itself months, as I have stated, Saddam Hus- privilege of the floor for 20 minutes. before the world in material breach of sein has proven he is not in compliance The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the Security Council resolution the not only with the Security Council res- objection, it is so ordered. Senator from Massachusetts demanded olutions but going all the way back to The Senator from Arizona. the administration seek, and honor, in 1991 when he was required, according to MR. McCAIN. Mr. President, over 3 the congressional debate last fall. I Security Council Resolution 687, to months ago, I worked with Senators agree with the Senator, much has comply within 15 days and has not. He LIEBERMAN, WARNER, and BAYH to man- changed. has violated some 12 or 13 Security age the resolution authorizing the use As the President said last night, Council resolutions. I thought this of military force against Iraq on the ‘‘The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. would be a great opportunity because floor of the Senate. Over the course of To the contrary, he is deceiving.’’ The there is no doubt in my mind we would 8 days, we held a thorough, comprehen- price of his deception, if allowed to prevail again if a vote were held. sive, and honorable debate that allowed continue unchecked, could have cata- I also, on the other side of the coin, all sides to express their views quite strophic consequences for the United believe if we start a debate all over thoroughly. Seventy-seven Senators States which none of us, no matter how again that lasts for another week or 2 then voted to authorize the President we voted on the Iraq resolution, could weeks, or whatever it is, surely we to use our Armed Forces to ‘‘defend the ever countenance. would be plowing the same ground. But national security of the United States The Senator from Massachusetts ap- also, would we be sending a signal that against the continuing threat posed by parently believes we should revoke the the American people are not united? Iraq’’ and ‘‘enforce all relevant United President’s authority as Commander in Would the outcome of the vote be basi- Nations Security Council resolutions Chief to order our Armed Forces to de- cally the same? Would Senator LIEBER- regarding Iraq.’’ fend American national security MAN or Senator BAYH decide to

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Our values are answers to which clearly provide the ficult that any President of the United that all men and women are created evidence as to whether Iraq possesses States is faced with, the dispatch of with certain inalienable rights. Our in- chemical and biological weapons. young Americans into harm’s way—the terests are threatened by the certain The fourth item is the U–2 plane. The President knows full well that even knowledge that, sooner or later, Sad- United Nations, as we all know, has ac- though we will win an overwhelming dam Hussein would acquire these weap- cess to a U–2 plane to gather intel- victory, young Americans will lose ons and use them. There has been no ligence. However, Iraq has refused to their lives. evidence that would indicate the con- provide it safe overflight. This remains I believe that conflict will be short. I trary. another issue of major non-coopera- believe that in 1991 when I debated this I sort of regret we are coming to the tion. same situation where we contemplated floor to begin a debate that may last So the administration is correct in saying that Iraq needs to be imme- previously the subject of military ac- for some days, whether the Senator diately forthcoming and immediately tion against Iraq, colleagues on the from Massachusetts withdraws his res- cooperative with the inspectors. These other side of the aisle, including Sen- olution or not. I hope not. I hope the issues need to be resolved. These are ators who will speak and have spoken Senator from Massachusetts will recog- mega issues from anyone’s point of in opposition, said: It will be another nize that time was over 3 months ago, view. Vietnam; the body bags will be coming and the process moved on, a process of As long as the inspectors believe back; we should not do this; this is ter- constant consultation with the Amer- there is sufficient access and as long as rible; let’s delay; let’s give peace a ican people, and with the United Na- Iraq has said, specifically Tariq Aziz, chance. tions Security Council, and a speech that Iraq will even offer greater co- The conflict was short. We freed the that I think was remarkably eloquent operation, I would say there ought to nation of Kuwait, and for a period of last night to the American people by be a period of time where Iraq provides time we had peace in the Middle East the President of the United States. to the world and to the inspectors, the without significant threats to the But I want to say I believe some time answers to these questions. I think it is United States national security. Now from now we will be pleased as Ameri- vital. we have to finish the job, perhaps. cans that we placed this responsibility If Iraq is found to pose an imminent I say two things. One, I regret and in the hands of the President of the threat to the United States, then clear- grieve the loss of any American lives United States; that he acted with ma- ly we have to take action—with others that might occur as a result of this turity; that he acted with great and I hope, if we can. But right now that is military action. But our interests are sound judgment, and the world some not the case. If, indeed, after consulta- threatened, as the President said last time from now will be a far better tions with the Security Council, the night. place—not only for Americans but also administration has clear evidence that I also want to say a word about post- for Iraqi citizens. Iraq is continuing an illegal program Saddam Iraq, since that has been re- I yield the remainder of my time and to produce chemical and biological ferred to continuously by those who I yield the floor. weapons, or nuclear weapons, or pos- oppose any military action under any The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. COL- sesses these weapons, the time has circumstances. LINS) The Senator from California. really come to make it public. The people of Iraq are subjected to Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Madam President, What the President did, in my view, one of the most brutal, repressive, God- I thank the distinguished Senator from was present very clearly, not only to awful regimes in the world today. Last Arizona for his comments. He certainly the Congress of the United States but week’s New York Times told stories of is one who does know about war, and I to the entire world, significant ques- warehouses where people were hung believe he also believes that war should tions that need to be immediately ad- from hooks, of rape, of torture, of mur- be a last resort. dressed. Iraq must, in fact, step up to der. Claire Shipman did an interview I also thank the distinguished Sen- the plate. with one of Saddam Hussein’s previous ators from West Virginia and from The reason I believe this resolution— mistresses. He derived some kind of Massachusetts for introducing this leg- which essentially asks for time for in- pleasure watching films of people being islation which I have decided to be a spections to continue, essentially urges tortured. cosponsor. Because of my support for a second vote at the Security Council— These are bad people, a bad regime the resolution which gave the Presi- is right is because I believe this situa- that has killed and oppressed its own dent authorization for use of force, I tion must stand on its own. The degree people; a complete and total police felt I probably should come to the floor of threat and the degree of violation state. Where are the advocates for and explain my rationale for sup- must be separately evaluated. But it is human rights? porting the resolution offered by the also part of a much bigger scenario and I promise you there are many of us, Senator from West Virginia. I want to spend time discussing that at the time of the fall of Saddam Hus- Essentially, Hans Blix’s report Mon- scenario here today. sein, who will devote American effort day to the Security Council made it I believe America’s national security and treasure to the construction of a clear that, although there has been policy stands at a crossroads. I believe democratic, freely elected, free society progress, Iraq is not fully living up to in the wake of 9/11, last year was funda- in Iraq, and give those people a chance its obligations, nor is it fully cooper- mental in terms of the administra- to enjoy the human rights that it is ating. Then the President, in last tion’s articulation of what constitutes, our fundamental belief is the endow- night’s State of the Union Message, to my mind, a brand new approach to ment of all men and women. made clear, I think, some outstanding foreign policy by the United States. As far as the expense is concerned, I questions. Within about 8 months last year, the am sure any new Iraqi Government The first question is: What has Iraq administration put out three separate could cover those expenses. But done with 500 tons of Sarin, mustard documents. One of them was the Na- shouldn’t we give those people an op- gas precursor chemicals, and VX nerve tional Security Strategy. The second portunity to enjoy their God-given agents? That tonnage is missing. It has was the Nuclear Posture Review. The rights rather than continue under the not been declared. It has not been re- third was the Doctrine of Preemption dictatorship of this brutal, mad dic- vealed or has not been found. as represented in the President’s tator? He is the only one I know of who The second question is: What has speech at West Point. has used weapons of mass destruction really happened to the 8,500 liters of Although individually each may ap- on his own citizens. anthrax which Iraq has stated it uni- pear innocuous, taken together these

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That finding, that determination, re- ments, in fact, put forward a litany of Taken at face value, this means the quired by our resolution—for which 77 ways in which the United States will United States holds for itself the right of us voted—has not yet been made. make military activism and adven- to strike against another sovereign na- The evidence has not yet been laid out. turism the basic tool for pursuing na- tion—wage war, if you will—even in The conclusions have not yet been tional security. the absence of a clear and present dan- drawn. First, the National Security Strategy ger, an immediate threat or provoca- What happened to the missing an- quite pointedly moves the United tive action, but based solely on the per- thrax, the missing botulinum toxin, States away from the concept of deter- ception of a sufficient threat. the missing VX nerve agent, the miss- rence and, to a great extent, sub- I deeply believe the administration’s ing precursor chemicals, has not yet stitutes preemption in its place. course in these areas stands in contrast been determined. So that is why I come Secondly, the administration’s Nu- to the successful bipartisan tradition to the floor to say that it is critical clear Posture Review is extraordinarily of supporting a world ordered by law, that Iraq fully cooperate. It is critical provocative and dangerous. It blurs the with capable international institutions that the inspectors be allowed to con- line between the use of conventional and reciprocal restraints on action. tinue. If Iraq does not come clean, if Iraq and nuclear weapons. It suggests that But the administration’s emphasis on does not submit the documentation as certain events might compel the unilateral action, its dismissal of to the disposition of these chemicals United States to use nuclear weapons international law, treaties, and institu- and biological agents, then a legiti- first, even against non-nuclear states. tions, and its apparent focus on the mate conclusion can be drawn. But the And it calls for the development of a military, especially as documented in reason I believe arms inspections must new generation of United States nu- the National Security Strategy, the be given a chance to succeed and must clear warheads, including ‘‘mini- doctrine of Preemption and the Nu- continue is that I believe Iraq is just nukes.’’ clear Posture Review, have created one small part of a larger sea-change in As was well documented in the press widespread resentment in the inter- U.S. national security policy. It is a last year, the Review also discusses national community. small part of the doctrine of Preemp- contingencies in which nuclear weap- I believe that these documents are tion, in which we move against a per- ons might be used, including—and I the clearest statements in writing of ceived or real threat. It is a small part quote—‘‘a North Korean attack on the administration’s long-term inten- of the Nuclear Posture Review, which South Korea or a military confronta- tions, and I find them questionable and says the United States would coun- tion over the status of Taiwan’’ in seriously disturbing. tenance the use of nuclear weapons which our adversaries do not nec- I must also tell you that Secretary against hard and deeply buried targets essarily use nuclear weapons first. Powell essentially said to me: Well, the or biological or chemical weapons. The Review also addresses contin- Nuclear Posture Review really isn’t op- erative. But, nonetheless, that is a doc- So I believe that restraint is the gencies in which the United States proper course. It means that diplomacy might use nuclear weapons not in re- trine that was released. It is serious in its ramifications. And the way this re- is a prudent course, and it means that taliation to a nuclear strike on the if international law—if international lates to Iraq is Iraq may be the first United States but to destroy enemy bodies are to have any relevance in this test case. If there are chemical and bio- stocks of chemical or biological arms. new millennium—then the Security logical weapons—and there very well Karl Rove was specifically asked that Council itself must respond. question on television on Sunday, and might be—does this then justify the It is my deep belief that in the long he did not answer the question. use of a nuclear weapon to destroy run a foreign policy oriented toward This Review also states that in set- them? The Nuclear Posture Review cooperation and consultation will ting requirements for nuclear strike puts this on the table as an option. I prove to be a more effective guarantor capabilities, distinctions can be made think we need to know. of U.S. national security than one of among immediate, potential or unex- So I ask these questions because I unilateral impulse and confrontation. pected contingencies, and that North think they must be asked. And this is Let us remember that we are cur- Korea, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya are as good a time as any. rently engaged in a war on terror. It is among the countries that could be in- If we are going to depend on the a war that, if we are to win it, will re- volved in these immediate, potential or might of the sword to right wrongs, quire the cooperation of our friends unexpected contingencies. and in so doing risk committing our and allies. That is what makes what is being own wrongs, how are we better off? There is no doubt in my mind that if suggested here in Iraq—if you look at Coalitions, alliances, treaties, peace- the United States acts precipitously it, in its total expression—so troubling. keepers, inspection regimes—all can against Iraq, Taliban and al-Qaida The fact of the matter is that several and have been successful instruments fighters in the hinterland of Afghani- of the nations cited in the Nuclear Pos- in deterring adversaries, safeguarding stan are gathering today and are pre- ture Review’s contingencies lack nu- American lives and U.S. security inter- pared to strike against our forces there clear weapons. Using nuclear weapons ests, and in resolving disputes, con- and against the government of Hamid against them would be constitute first flicts, and crises. Karzai. use. Under the Nuclear Nonprolifera- So, Madam President, I remind this And let us recall that beyond Iraq, tion Treaty, the United States has body that since World War II, there has there are a host of other challenges— agreed not to use nuclear weapons been strong bipartisan support of a the situation in the Middle East, the against a non-nuclear state unless that United States which has embraced nuclear crisis on the Korean penin- country attacks the United States ‘‘in international cooperation, not out of sula—that require international co- alliance with a nuclear weapons state.’’ vulnerability or weakness but from a operation and action. So I am deeply And finally, the doctrine of Preemp- position of strength. concerned that if we are not careful in tion—which we may be seeing for the House Joint Resolution 114, which I our approach to Iraq, if we do not time with Iraq—asserts a unilateral supported, and which authorizes the present a just case, if we do not build right for the United States to preempt use of force against Iraq, specifically an international coalition, we may well a threat against our Nation’s security. calls for a Presidential determination, precipitate the very events we are try- The doctrine says: that—and I quote—‘‘reliance by the ing to prevent. For example, a preemp- [T]he United States can no longer solely United States on further diplomatic or tive unilateral attack against a Mus- rely on a reactive posture as we have in the other peaceful means alone either will lim nation may well create a divide be- past. . . . We cannot let our enemies strike not adequately protect the national se- tween the United States and the Mus- first. curity of the United States against the lim world so deep and so wide that it

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Its in- international community; and there is chemical, and biological weapons and the spectors, the eyes and ears of the civilized no doubt, as the President pointed out, missiles to deliver them. We simply cannot world, have uncovered and destroyed more that Saddam Hussein is an evil dic- allow that to happen. weapons of mass destruction capacity than tator. There is no more clear example of this was destroyed during the Gulf war. This in- threat than Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. His re- cludes nearly 40,000 chemical weapons, more But at this point I believe it would be than 100,000 gallons of chemical weapons a tremendous mistake for the United gime threatens the safety of his people, the stability of his region, and the security of all agents, 48 operational missiles, 30 warheads States to unilaterally attack Iraq, and the rest of us. specifically fitted for chemical and biologi- I urge the administration to go slow, I want the American people to understand, cal weapons, and a massive biological weap- let the inspectors do their work, and first, the past: How did this crisis come ons facility at Al Hakam equipped to build that international coalition. War about? And I want them to understand what produce anthrax and other deadly should be a last resort, not a foregone we must do to protect the national interests agents.... and, indeed, the interest of all freedom-lov- That is all we want. And if we can find a conclusion. diplomatic way to do what has to be done, to Madam President, I yield the floor. ing people in the world. Remember, as a condition of the cease-fire do what he promised to do at the end of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- after the Gulf war, the United Nations de- Gulf war, to do what should have been done ator from Alaska is recognized. manded—not the United States, the United within 15 days—within 15 days of the agree- f Nations—and Saddam Hussein agreed to de- ment at the end of the Gulf war—if we can clare within 15 days—this is way back in find a diplomatic way to do that, that is by A FORMER PRESIDENT’S SPEECH 1991—within 15 days his nuclear, chemical, far our preference. But to be a genuine solu- ON IRAQ and biological weapons and the missiles to tion and not simply one that glosses over the Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, I deliver them, to make a total declaration. remaining problem, a diplomatic solution That’s what he promised to do. must include or meet a clear, immutable, wish to read from a speech of a Presi- reasonable, simple standard: Iraq must dent of the United States. In order that The United Nations set up a special com- mission of highly trained international ex- agree, and soon, to free, full, unfettered ac- there be no question about its source, I perts, called UNSCOM, to make sure that cess to these sites, anywhere in the country. ask unanimous consent that at the end Iraq made good on that commitment. We had There can be no dilution or diminishment of of my remarks the speech in full be every good reason to insist that Iraq disarm. the integrity of the inspection system that printed in the RECORD. Saddam had built up a terrible arsenal, and UNSCOM has put in place. Now, those terms are nothing more or less he used it, not once but many times. In a The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without than the essence of what he agreed to at the decade-long war with Iran, he used chemical objection, it is so ordered. end of the Gulf war. The Security Council weapons against combatants, against civil- (See exhibit 1.) many times since has reiterated this stand- ians, against a foreign adversary, and even Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, I ard. If he accepts them, force will not be nec- against his own people. During the Gulf war, essary. If he refuses or continues to evade his intend to read excerpts of the speech. Saddam launched Scuds against Saudi Ara- It is too long to read completely in the obligation through more tactics of delay and bia, Israel, and Bahrain. deception, he, and he alone, will be to blame time allotted to me. I hope my friends Now, instead of playing by the very rules for the consequences. on both sides of the aisle will listen to he agreed to at the end of the Gulf war, Sad- I ask all of you to remember the record it because when I heard of this speech dam has spent the better part of the past here: what he promised to do within 15 days in the first instance, I was very im- decade trying to cheat on this solemn com- at the end of the Gulf war, what he repeat- pressed by it. I think the Senate should mitment. Consider just some of the facts. edly refused to do, what we found out in ’95, be reminded of it. I will start off with Iraq repeatedly made false declarations what the inspectors have done against all about weapons that it had left in its posses- odds. this paragraph, and it is not the first, sion after the Gulf war. When UNSCOM but I will call attention to it. The We have no business agreeing to any reso- would then uncover evidence that gave lie to lution of this that does not include free, un- President said: those declarations, Iraq would simply amend fettered access to the remaining sites by peo- I have just received a very fine briefing the records. For example, Iraq revised its nu- ple who have integrity and proven com- from our military leadership on the status of clear declarations 4 times within just 14 petence in the inspection business. That our forces in the Persian Gulf. Before I left months, and it has submitted 6 different bio- should be our standard. That’s what the Pentagon, I wanted to talk to you and all logical warfare declarations, each of which UNSCOM has done, and that’s why I have those whom you represent, the men and has been rejected by UNSCOM. been fighting for it so hard. That’s why the women of our military. In 1995, Hussein Kamel, Saddam’s son-in- United States should insist upon it. The President was speaking to the law and the chief organizer of Iraq’s weapons Now, let’s imagine the future. What if he of mass destruction program, defected to fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take force of generals of the United States. Jordan. He revealed that Iraq was continuing some ambiguous third route which gives him You, your friends, and your colleagues are to conceal weapons and missiles and the ca- more opportunities to develop this program on the frontlines of this crisis in Iraq. I want pacity to build many more. Then and only of weapons of mass destruction and continue you and I want the American people to hear then did Iraq admit to developing numbers of to press for the release of sanctions and con- directly from me what is at stake for Amer- weapons in significant quantities and weap- tinue to ignore the solemn commitments ica in the Persian Gulf; what we are doing to ons stocks. Previously, it had vehemently that he made? Well, he will conclude that protect the peace, the security, the freedom denied the very thing it just simply admitted the international community has lost its we cherish; why we have taken the position once Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law defected will. He will then conclude he can go right we have taken. to Jordan and told the truth. on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of dev- I will now move down in the speech. Now, listen to this. What did it admit? It astating destruction. And some day, some admitted, among other things, an offensive way, I guarantee you, he’ll use the arsenal. This is a time of tremendous promise for biological warfare capability, notably 5,000 And I think every one of you who has really America. The superpower confrontation has gallons of botulinum, which causes botulism; worked on this for any length of time be- ended on every continent; democracy is se- 2,000 gallons of anthrax; 25 biological-filled lieves that, too. . . . curing for more and more people the basic Scud warheads; and 157 aerial bombs. And I If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use freedoms we Americans have come to take might say, UNSCOM inspectors believe that force, our purpose is clear: We want to seri- for granted. Bit by bit, the information age Iraq had actually greatly understated its ously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s is chipping away at the barriers, economic, production. As if we needed further con- weapons of mass destruction program. We political, and social, that once kept people firmation, you all know what happened to want to seriously reduce his capacity to locked in and freedom and prosperity locked his son-in-law when he made the untimely threaten his neighbors. I am quite confident out. decision to go back to Iraq. from the briefing I have just received from But for all our promise, all our oppor- our military leaders that we can achieve the tunity, people in this room know very well He was killed, Madam President. objectives and secure our vital strategic in- that this is not a time free from peril, espe- Next, throughout this entire process, Iraqi terests. cially as a result of reckless acts of outlaw agents have undermined and undercut Let me be clear: A military operation can- nations and an unholy axis of terrorists, UNSCOM. They’ve harassed the inspectors, not destroy all the weapons of mass destruc- drug traffickers, and organized international lied to them, disabled monitoring cameras, tion capacity. But it can and will leave him

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But now my friends—and they U.N. in a masterful statement he made Following any strike, we will carefully are my friends—are saying that this when he went before the U.N. monitor Iraq’s activities with all the means President does not know what he is The time is now for us to come to- at our disposal. If he seeks to rebuild his doing. I believe the President knows gether and realize we are approaching weapons of mass destruction, we will be pre- what he is doing, and I think he made decision time. I served in combat in pared to strike him again. The economic a masterful statement last night of the World War II, and many of us know the sanctions will remain in place until Saddam awesome days we went through then. complies fully with all U.N. resolutions. . . . position in which the United States Now, let me say to all of you here, as all of finds itself. It is not different from the They were nothing compared to what you know, the weightiest decision any Presi- position President Clinton was in in this world will be if Saddam Hussein dent ever has to make is to send our troops 1998. Should he be in this position now? ever uses those weapons of mass de- into harm’s way. And force can never be the Should we have done something in the struction. I think we have changed our first answer. But sometimes it’s the only an- interim? The answer is simply yes. We way of life. We have changed our life- swer. You are the best prepared, best equipped, should have done something years styles. We have already been affected best trained fighting force in the world. And ago—gone to the U.N. and said: If you by his collusion with the al-Qaida should it prove necessary for me to exercise are going to have any meaning in the force, and those people who are part of the option of force, your commanders will do world at all, you must insist that Sad- that terrible force. everything they can to protect the safety of dam Hussein obey the mandates you President Clinton called it the un- all the men and women under their com- have issued. holy axis. President Bush called it the mand. No military action, however, is risk- I come from a State that has a great evil axis and has been criticized for free. I know that the people we may call saying so. President Clinton said we upon in uniform are ready. The American many of our military planes, and I talk people have to be ready as well. to our military pilots wherever I travel have to defend our future from these Dealing with Saddam Hussein requires con- in the world. One thing is clear: Our pi- predators of the 21st century, and I say stant vigilance. We have seen that constant lots, our Air Force pilots have been en- things are worse today than they were vigilance pays off, but it requires constant forcing the no-fly zones since 1991. in 1998. vigilance. Since the Gulf war we have pushed They have been flying every day in I am one of those who gets these in- back every time Saddam has posed a threat. harm’s way. They have been shot at telligence briefings. I have told my When Baghdad plotted to assassinate former wife when I come home after those President Bush, we struck hard at Iraq’s in- nearly every week. We retaliated, re- telligence headquarters. When Saddam taliated, retaliated, but young men and briefings I find it hard to think about threatened another invasion by massing his women are up there tonight flying the work I have to do other than just troops in Kuwait, along the Kuwaiti border planes over portions of Iraq, at the in- think about these terrible intelligence in 1994, we immediately deployed our troops, sistence of the United Nations that we reports. This is not a simple world we our ships, our planes, and Saddam backed prevent Saddam Hussein from having live in, but it is a world in which I be- down. When Saddam forcefully occupied Irbil any aircraft in those zones in the north lieve the freedom-loving people look to in northern Iraq, we broadened our control us for leadership. I say, thank God we over Iraq’s skies by extending the no-fly and south. We are following their re- zone. quest. We are carrying out that oper- have a leader who means what he says, But there is no better example, again I say, ation at our expense and with our pi- and I am willing to follow him when he than the U.N. weapons inspections system lots, with our planes, and we have been says it is necessary to use force if that itself. Yes, he has tried to thwart it in every doing it now since 1991. day ever comes. conceivable way. But the discipline, deter- How long will this continue? How I yield the floor. mination, the year-in, year-out effort of long do we have to fly to prevent Sad- EXHIBIT 1 these weapons inspectors is doing the job. Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President, And we seek to finish the job. dam Hussein from having weapons in Let there be no doubt, we are prepared to the air that are really minuscule com- for your remarks and your leadership. Thank act. But Saddam Hussein could end this cri- pared to what is on the ground—weap- you, Secretary Cohen, for the superb job you sis tomorrow, simply by letting the weapons ons of mass destruction, that President have done here at the Pentagon and on this inspectors complete their mission. He made Clinton described adequately and suc- most recent, very difficult problem. Thank you, General Shelton, for being the right a solemn commitment to the international cinctly and honorably in 1998. community to do that and to give up his person at the right time. Thank you, General Madam President, I think it is high Ralston, and the members of the Joint weapons of mass destruction a long time ago, time we came together. I am sincerely now. One way or the other, we are deter- Chiefs, General Zinni, Secretary Albright, mined to see that he makes good on his own disappointed that we do not have a uni- Secretary Slater, DCI Tenet, Mr. Bowles, Mr. promise. . . . form force here, that we do not have a Berger. Senator Robb, thank you for being That is the future I ask you all to imagine. uniform force right here on the floor of here, and Congressman Skelton, thank you That is the future I ask our allies to imag- the Senate saying: Mr. President, we very much, and for your years of service to ine. If we look at the past and imagine that understand that you—as did President America and your passionate patriotism, both of you, and to the members of our future, we will act as one together. And we Clinton—have in front of you a horren- still have, God willing, a chance to find a Armed Forces and others who work here to diplomatic resolution to this and, if not, God dous decision to make. When do we protect our national security. willing, a chance to do the right thing for have to go in and destroy these weap- I have just received a very fine briefing our children and grandchildren. ons? from our military leadership on the status of Thank you very much. How many weapons has he created our forces in the Persian Gulf. Before I left That speech was made by President since 1998? How much more difficult the Pentagon I wanted to talk to you and all Clinton on February 17, 1998. I find it will it be to find those weapons than it those whom you represent, the men and women of our military. You, your friends, very strange that my friends on the would have been in 1998? I say in all sincerity, as one who has watched over and your colleagues are on the frontlines of other side of the aisle—and they are this crisis in Iraq. I want you and I want the my friends—are attacking President the Defense Department’s appropria- American people to hear directly from me Bush for having made statements tions now since 1981, either I or my what is at stake for America in the Persian weaker than these statements. friend from Hawaii, the two of us joint- Gulf; what we are doing to protect the peace, If one reads this statement in full, ly have done that job. We have been to the security, the freedom we cherish; why we the President of the United States, this part of the world of the Persian have taken the position we have taken. then speaking to the generals who Gulf many times. I was thinking, as I sat up here on the plat- command all our forces, told them to This is an awesome problem that form, of the slogan that the First Lady gave faces the President of the United me for her project on the millennium, which be ready. He had just had the briefing. was: Remembering the past and imagining He had the briefing that convinced him States. We should help him, not chal- the future. Now, for that project, that means in 1998 that he might have to act as lenge his decision and what he is doing. preserving the Star-Spangled Banner and the President to take military action He is asking the world to come to- Declaration of Independence and the Con- against Saddam Hussein. gether to demand that Saddam Hussein stitution and the Bill of Rights, and it means

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But to be a genuine solu- States in this moment, I would argue, are ons stocks. Previously it had vehemently de- tion and not simply one that glosses over the living only in the moment. They have nei- nied the very thing it just simply admitted remaining problem, a diplomatic solution ther remembered the past nor imagined the once Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law defected must include or meet a clear, immutable, future. So, first, let’s just take a step back to Jordan and told the truth. reasonable, simple standard: Iraq must and consider why meeting the threat posed Now, listen to this. What did it admit? It agree, and soon, to free, full, unfettered ac- by Saddam Hussein is important to our secu- admitted, among other things, an offensive cess to these sites, anywhere in the country. rity in the new era we are entering. biological warfare capability, notably 5,000 There can be no dilution or diminishment of This is a time of tremendous promise for gallons of botulinum, which causes botulism; the integrity of the inspection system that America. The superpower confrontation has 2,000 gallons of anthrax; 25 biological-filled UNSCOM has put in place. ended on every continent; democracy is se- Scud warheads; and 157 aerial bombs. And I Now, those terms are nothing more or less curing for more and more people the basic might say, UNSCOM inspectors believe that than the essence of what he agreed to at the freedoms we Americans have come to take Iraq has actually greatly understated its end of the Gulf war. The Security Council for granted. Bit by bit, the information age production. As if we needed further con- many times since has reiterated this stand- is chipping away at the barriers, economic, firmation, you all know what happened to ard. If he accepts them, force will not be nec- political, and social, that once kept people his son-in-law when he made the untimely essary. If he refuses or continues to evade his locked in and freedom and prosperity locked decision to go back to Iraq. obligation through more tactics of delay and out. Next, throughout this entire process, Iraqi deception, he, and he alone, will be to blame But for all our promise, all our oppor- agents have undermined and undercut for the consequences. tunity, people in this room know very well UNSCOM. They’ve harassed the inspectors, I ask all of you to remember the record that this is not a time free from peril, espe- lied to them, disabled monitoring cameras, here: what he promised to do within 15 days cially as a result of reckless acts of outlaw literally spirited evidence out of the back of the end of the Gulf war, what he repeat- nations and an unholy axis of terrorists, doors of suspect facilities as inspectors edly refused to do, what we found out in ’95, drug traffickers, and organized international walked through the front door, and our peo- what the inspectors have done against all criminals. We have to defend our future from ple were there observing it and have the pic- odds. these predators of the 21st century. They tures to prove it. We have no business agreeing to any reso- feed on the free flow of information and tech- Despite Iraq’s deceptions UNSCOM has, lution of this that does not include free, un- nology. They actually take advantage of the nevertheless, done a remarkable job. Its in- fettered access to the remaining sites by peo- freer movement of people, information, and spectors, the eyes and ears of the civilized ple who have integrity and proven com- ideas. And they will be all the more lethal if world, have uncovered and destroyed more petence in the inspection business. That we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, weapons of mass destruction capacity than should be our standard. That’s what chemical, and biological weapons and the was destroyed during the Gulf war. This in- UNSCOM has done, and that’s why I have missiles to deliver them. We simply cannot cludes nearly 40,000 chemical weapons, more been fighting for it so hard. That’s why the allow that to happen. than 100,000 gallons of chemical weapons United States should insist upon it. Now let’s imagine the future. What if he There is no more clear example of this agents, 48 operational missiles, 30 warheads threat than Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. His re- fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take specifically fitted for chemical biological gime threatens the safety of his people, the some ambiguous third route which gives him weapons, and a massive biological weapons stability of his region, and the security of all yet more opportunities to develop this pro- facility at Al Hakam equipped to produce an- the rest of us. gram of weapons of mass destruction and I want the American people to understand, thrax and other deadly agents. continue to press for the release of the sanc- Over the past few months, as they have first, the past: How did this crisis come tions and continue to ignore the solemn come closer and closer to rooting out Iraq’s about? And I want them to understand what commitments that he made? Well, he will remaining nuclear capacity, Saddam has un- we must do to protect the national interest conclude that the international community dertaken yet another gambit to thwart their and, indeed, the interest of all freedom-lov- has lost its will. He will then conclude that ambition by imposing debilitating condi- ing people in the world. he can go right on and do more to rebuild an tions on the inspectors and declaring key Remember, as a condition of the cease-fire arsenal of devastating destruction. And some after the Gulf war, the United Nations de- sites which have still not been inspected off day, some way, I guarantee you, he’ll use the manded—not the United States, the United limits, including, I might add, one palace in arsenal. And I think every one of you who Nations demanded—and Saddam Hussein Baghdad more than 2,600 acres large. By has really worked on this for any length of agreed to declare within 15 days—this is way comparison—when you hear all this business time believes that, too. back in 1991—within 15 days his nuclear, about ‘‘Presidential sites reflect our sov- Now, we have spent several weeks building chemical, and biological weapons and the ereignty; why do you want to come into a up our forces in the Gulf and building a coa- missiles to deliver them, to make a total residence?’’—the White House complex is 18 lition of like-minded nations. Our force pos- declaration. That’s what he promised to do. acres, so you’ll have some feel for this. One ture would not be possible without the sup- The United Nations set up a special com- of these Presidential sites is about the size of port of Saudi Arabia, of Kuwait, Bahrain, the mission of highly trained international ex- Washington, DC. That’s about—how many GCC States, and Turkey. Other friends and perts, called UNSCOM, to make sure that acres did you tell me it was—40,000 acres. allies have agreed to provide forces, bases, or Iraq made good on that commitment. We had We’re not talking about a few rooms here logistical support, including the United every good reason to insist that Iraq disarm. with delicate personal matters involved. Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Portugal, Saddam had built up a terrible arsenal, and It is obvious that there is an attempt here, Denmark and The Netherlands, Hungary and he had used it, not once but many times. In based on the whole history of this operation Poland and the Czech Republic, Argentina, a decade-long war with Iran, he used chem- since 1991, to protect whatever remains of his Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, and our ical weapons against combatants, against ci- capacity to produce weapons of mass de- friends and neighbors in Canada. That list is vilians, against a foreign adversary, and even struction, the missiles to deliver them, and growing, not because anyone wants military against his own people. And during the Gulf the feedstocks necessary to produce them. action but because there are people in this war, Saddam launched Scuds against Saudi The UNSCOM inspectors believe that Iraq world who believe the United Nations resolu- Arabia, Israel, and Bahrain. still has stockpiles of chemical and biologi- tion should mean something, because they Now, instead of playing by the very rules cal munitions, a small force of Scud-type understand what UNSCOM has achieved, be- he agreed to at the end of the Gulf war, Sad- missiles, and the capacity to restart quickly cause they remember the past, and because dam has spent the better part of the past its production program and build many, they can imagine what the future will be, de- decade trying to cheat on this solemn com- many more weapons. pending on what we do now. mitment. Consider just some of the facts. Now, against that background, let us re- If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use Iraq repeatedly made false declarations member the past, here. It is against that force, our purpose is clear: We want to seri- about the weapons that it had left in its pos- background that we have repeatedly and un- ously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s session after the Gulf war. When UNSCOM ambiguously made clear our preference for a weapons of mass destruction program. We would then uncover evidence that gave lie to diplomatic solution. The inspection system want to seriously reduce his capacity to those declarations, Iraq would simply amend works. The inspection system has worked in threaten his neighbors. I am quite confident the reports. For example, Iraq revised its nu- the face of lies, stonewalling, obstacle after from the briefing I have just received from clear declarations 4 times with just 14 obstacle after obstacle. The people who have our military leaders that we can achieve the months, and it has submitted six different done that work deserve the thanks of civ- objectives and secure our vital strategic in- biological warfare declarations, each of ilized people throughout the world. It has terests. which has been rejected by UNSCOM. worked. Let me be clear: A military operation can- In 1995, Hussein Kamel, Saddam’s son-in- That is all we want. And if we can find a not destroy all the weapons of mass destruc- law and the chief organizer of Iraq’s weapons diplomatic way to do what has to be done, to tion capacity. But it can and will leave him

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And he will know that the inter- those who would follow in his footsteps will national community continues to have will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge I commend the Senator, and I do be- to act if and when he threatens again. that they can act with impunity, even in the lieve the resolution introduced today Following any strike, we will carefully face of a clear message from the United Na- ought not deter anyone from what we monitor Iraq’s activities with all the means tions Security Council and clear evidence of are doing. It ought not change minds in at our disposal. If he seeks to rebuild his a weapons of mass destruction program. But this Senate which voted overwhelm- weapons of mass destruction we will be pre- if we act as one, we can safeguard our inter- ingly in support of our President. I pared to strike him again. The economic ests and send a clear message to every thank the Senator for what he has said. sanctions will remain in place until Saddam would-be tyrant and terrorist that the inter- complies fully with all U.N. resolution. national community does have the wisdom The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Consider this: Already these sanctions and the will and the way to protect peace ator from Kansas. have denied him $110 billion. Imagine how and security in a new era. Mr. BROWNBACK. Madam President, much stronger his armed forces would be That is the future I ask you all to imagine. I am delighted to join my colleagues in today, how many more weapons of mass de- That is the future I ask our allies to imag- talking about the situation in Iraq and struction operations he would have hidden ine. If we look at the past and imagine that what the President has said and what around the country if he had been able to future, we will act as one together. And we some of our colleagues on the other spend even a small fraction of that amount still have, God willing, a chance to find a for a military rebuilding. diplomatic resolution to this and, if not, God side of the aisle are saying, that we We will continue to enforce a no-fly zone willing, a chance to do the right thing for need to wait, and wait longer. from the southern suburbs of Baghdad to the our children and grandchildren. I will make a few simple points. I Kuwait border and in northern Iraq, making Thank you very much. have served on the Middle East sub- it more difficult for Iraq to walk over Ku- Note: The President spoke at 12:37 p.m. in committee since I have been in the wait again and threaten the Kurds in the the auditorium. In his remarks, be referred Senate. I have chaired it for a good north. to President Saddam Hussein of Iraq. Now, let me say to all of you here, as all of portion of the time. I have worked on The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- the issue of Iraq since 1996. I have you know, the weightiest decision any Presi- ator from Virginia. dent ever has to make is to send our troops worked with the Iraqi opposition. I into harm’s way. And force can never be the Mr. WARNER. I commend our distin- have held hearings on this topic. We first answer. But sometimes it’s the only an- guished senior colleague from Alaska. have had meetings with the then swer. He speaks with a corporate memory UNSCOM inspectors. We have really You are the best prepared, best equipped, dating back to when at age 17 he went worked the full gamut of what is tak- best trained fighting force in the world. And into World War II and, as he said, flew should it prove necessary for me to exercise ing place in Iraq. My colleagues on the those combat missions. other side want to wait longer. We the option of force, you commanders will do I am proud of what the President has have waited 12 years. How much longer everything they can to protect the safety of shown by way of leadership, and I said all the men and women under their com- do we need to wait? the other night, yes, I feel I know most mand. No military action, however, is risk- They want to allow the weapons in- free. I know that the people we may call of the facts but he may know a few more, and I repose trust in his judg- spectors to work longer. We had them upon in uniform are ready. The American in there for a number of years and then people have to be ready as well. ment and his team to make the right Dealing with Saddam Hussein requires con- decision. I wish to associate myself Saddam Hussein threw them out. They stant vigilance. We have seen that constant with the remarks of my distinguished have only been back for a short period vigilance pays off, but it requires constant colleague. of time. I remind my colleagues that vigilance. Since the Gulf war we have pushed The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- we were not finding anything when the back every time Saddam has posed a threat. weapons inspectors were there prior to When Baghdad plotted to assassinate former ator from New Mexico. Mr. DOMENICI. Madam President, 1998. We did not find anything until we President Bush, we struck hard at Iraq’s in- had some high level defections on the telligence headquarters. When Saddam Senator STEVENS is the senior Repub- threatened another invasion by massing his lican in terms of time—I am sure many part of the Iraqis. That is when we troops in Kuwait, along the Kuwaiti border people do not know it, but I am sec- started finding things. in 1994, we immediately deployed our troops, ond—and I want to say I am very proud Iraq is a country the size of Cali- our ships, our planes, and Saddam backed that he has said what he said. fornia. It has a dedicated leader who is down. When Saddam forcefully occupied Irbil Many people speak all the time. The seeking to thwart the will of the inter- in northern Iraq, we broadened our control Senator from Alaska speaks when it is national community to disarm. He is over Iraq’s skies by extending the no-fly trying to hide items that may be the zone. important. He does not come to the But there is no better example, again I say, Chamber and engage himself in rhet- size of a 5-gallon bucket. He is manu- than the U.N. weapons inspections system oric. He is too busy doing tough work. facturing biological weapons and mov- itself, Yes, he has tried to thwart it in every He understands this issue. ing them on mobile units the size of a conceivable way. But the discipline, deter- Truly, many of the Democrats ought van. He is trying to hide them in a mination, the year-in, year-out effort of to be ashamed of themselves. We try to place the size of California, and there these weapons inspectors is doing the job. support Presidents. We would have sup- are only 120 inspectors in Iraq, as the And we seek to finish the job. President suggested last night, in some Let there be no doubt, we are prepared to ported President Bill Clinton if he had act. But Saddam Hussein could end this cri- done what he was talking about in that sort of scavenger hunt. The idea was sis tomorrow, simply by letting the weapons statement the Senator read. I do not not that we would go into Iraq and inspectors complete their mission. He made think there is any doubt about it. We have to find these items. It was that a solemn commitment to the international would not have questioned whether he Iraq would step forward and disarm and community to do that and to give up his had the right security briefing and say we agree, we are going to disarm. weapons of mass destruction a long time ago, whether he knew what he was doing. That was what they were supposed to now. One way or the other, we are deter- Our President has been warning us, do, come forward and disarm. Instead, mined to see that he makes good on his own we have this hide-and-seek that Sad- promise. he has been going back to the table, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq reminds us of what letting the inspectors go in again, com- dam continues. It is what he did when we learned in the 20th century and warns us ing to the American people, going to we had weapons inspectors in Iraq pre- of what we must know about the 21st. In this the U.N., and nothing happens. As a viously. It is what he continues to do century we learned through harsh experience matter of fact, I believe it is correct, now. that the only answer to aggression and ille- when the Senator cites the date that What happens if we wait? Let’s say gal behavior is firmness, determination, and, President Clinton gave that speech, I we agree we are going to wait. Maybe when necessary, action. In the next century, do not believe anything of a positive we will find something, maybe not. the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: nature has happened in Iraq at the What if we do find something else? Is a rogue state with weapons of mass destruc- hands of Saddam Hussein since that that going to be enough for us to move tion, ready to use them or provide them to time. It has gotten worse, if anything. forward and say we need to completely terrorists, drug traffickers, or organized He has not ameliorated or made any- disarm Saddam Hussein? I think we are

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But it has substan- logical and chemical weapons. He has fail to act. tial upside potential, and it does not terrorists on his soil. At any time, he I was raised in Kansas. On Saturday have the downside that not acting has. can easily start distributing the chem- night, we would watch ‘‘Gunsmoke.’’ ical and biological weapons to terror- That was a great show and a favorite of Clearly, the President and his Cabi- ists, who know no bounds. I could eas- mine. At the end of every ‘‘Gunsmoke’’ net and the people have thought this ily see us in 2 years with a special com- episode, Matt Dillon walks out on Main through. It is an extraordinarily dif- mittee of the Senate, holding hearings Street and the bad guy walks out on ficult choice. Saddam Hussein still has as to how did these biological weapons Main Street. They face off. The bad the choice. He can still choose today to come in from Iraq, that were distrib- guy pulls the gun, Matt shoots, and the disarm and to engage in the inter- uted to terrorists, to be used against other guy goes down. That is the way national communities and comply with U.S. citizens. I think it is a clear possi- every show ended: Nice, clean, good the 12 U.N. resolutions that have fol- bility that it would occur. versus evil. Evil at the last minute is lowed in the 12 years since he invaded Nobody wants to go to war. None of allowed to walk away. He could walk Kuwait. us want to do that. That is an absolute away or he is going down. He never I point out, we need to remember: last option. We have been working for does. He pulls his gun, and Matt Dillon 12 years with economic sanctions. We Saddam Hussein has attacked two ad- always shoots him down. jacent countries. He has used chemical have been working for 12 years with no- There is a sense of honor that we al- fly zones. We have been working with weapons against his own people and ways let the other side, the bad side, go against the Iranians. He has used these the Iraqi opposition. We have been first. You get to pull the trigger be- doing everything we can, and yet now weapons in the past. He has threatened cause you always have a chance to to attack, and has attacked, his neigh- we are at this point in time where he walk away. What if we do that with has terrorists and weapons of mass de- bors in the past. This is not a good terrorists? We have a sense of honor man. He is not good for the world. He struction together on his soil, and that we should let the other side go is certainly not good for the region. He more people are saying, wait. first. If you let terrorists go first, they Wait for what? So they can distribute does not get better with time, nor does do not walk out on Main Street of them further? So that he can attack the situation get better with time. The Dodge City and face Matt Dillon. They us? obligations only get worse. I realize we all have difficulty with go around the back alleys. They are For all these reasons, I applaud what moving forward to a war situation. We looking for people who are sleeping. the President has done. I applaud that do not want to do that. We want to re- They are looking for families. They are spond if somebody comes at us. The not looking for someone who is armed. he came to the Congress in the first problem with this new war on ter- They are looking for soft targets to place asking for a resolution. He got it. rorism is that the terrorists, when they hit, kill, and destroy. That is what He got broad bipartisan support. I ap- attack, attack civilian targets. They they will continue to do. plaud that he went to the United Na- want to try and kill as many people as Now, taking the other side of the ar- tions and got a resolution with broad possible. By our waiting, we actually gument, what if we do move? What if international support. He has done the invite them to come forward. Saddam Hussein is moved out of power, things we have asked. And now he is Some might suggest if we act, we are as has been the stated policy of the coming forward and saying: Look, Sad- going to further foment difficulty in United States since 1998 with the Iraq dam Hussein, the time is running out. the region of the United States. I point Liberation Act which President Bill Either act now or actions will be out that even prior to September 11, we Clinton signed into law? What if Sad- taken. dam Hussein is removed from power by had 10 years where there were attacks The President has done most of the a coalition of the willing—it will be an on the United States, on our people, in things we have asked him to do. He has international coalition—what takes foreign places by these terrorist tried to engage the world and get an place then? groups. We had two embassies in Africa international coalition. A number of that were attacked by terrorist groups. We have a group of people, Iraqi op- position and others, who have been other countries will join. We should We had the USS Cole attacked by ter- back the administration at this point rorist groups. We had Khobar Towers. working on a democratic Iraq with op- portunities for all people, for human and not try to do more second-guessing They have attacked us for a period of or buying of time for Saddam Hussein 10 years. rights, for people to be able to vote and People are saying, show restraint or to express their desires for that coun- to develop more weaponry, to develop else they will act more. We have seen it try. We have a country that sits on 10 more terrorist networks to supply and for 10 years, showing restraint. Then percent of the world oil supplies and an provide the things the terrorist net- we had September 11, and we responded ability to rebuild itself, an educated works want to be able to threaten and aggressively in Afghanistan. That was population that is willing to change. to kill our people. a fully appropriate way to respond. If They want to change now. Iraqi opposi- For all these reasons, I hope we will we wait for the terrorists, they will tion is united. We are hearing from not back a resolution calling for allow- continue to come at us. If we sit and people inside of Iraq who want to see a ing of more time and, instead, support wait, it does not mean they will stop. change. People inside the Iraq Govern- the administration’s efforts as they They will not stop. They have not ment, inside the Iraq military, want to move forward, trying to find a peaceful stopped in the past. They are going to get out and into a different situation. solution but, if not, forcing Saddam continue to come at the United States Look at the seeds of change sown Hussein to choose whether he is going because they do not believe in what we within Iraq and that region, if you to hold on to his weapons of mass de- believe. They are attacking our sets of have coming forward a democracy, struction or whether he is going to values by attacking our civilians, our with human rights, with religious free- hold on to power. It is a difficult choice civilian population. dom, with freedom for women, with the President has to make and we have No one wants to go to war. That is people able to vote and participate and to make. We have looked at this pretty the last thing anyone wants. In this a marketplace that allows people to thoroughly. situation, not to move forward is to in- participate. Look at the future for the I yield the floor and suggest the ab- vite more catastrophic events to hap- people there in that region, in that sence of a quorum. pen to our citizenry and to citizens country, if that is what takes place. around the world. There is a substantial positive benefit. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Remember, terrorists go at soft tar- It all is with risk. It all has risk. ALEXANDER). The clerk will call the gets. They go at the twin towers. They Whether you choose to act or whether roll.

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That number, I note, exceeds the num- of the clearest indices of this problem. f ber in the workforce of the new Depart- Rates of preterm birth vary signifi- ment. We often talk about what a man- cantly by race and ethnicity. In 2001, MORNING BUSINESS agement challenge it is going to be to rates for black women were highest Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask the leaders of this new Department to among all racial and ethnic sub- unanimous consent that there be a pe- oversee 170,000 civilian employees. As groups—17.5 percent for black as com- riod for morning business with Sen- Secretary of the Navy, Gordon England pared to 11 percent for white Ameri- ators permitted to speak therein for up has overseen a civilian workforce that cans. We simply do not know why these to 10 minutes each. exceeds that number, not to mention numbers vary so dramatically. But The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the sailors and marines under his juris- without further research, our public objection, it is so ordered. diction. policy options are limited. f Secretary England’s extensive expe- Our great health research institu- rience in managing large, complex op- tions also have an important role. I NOMINATION OF SECRETARY have fought for the five-year doubling GORDON ENGLAND erations in both the public and private sectors will serve him well in his new of NIH’s budget. With this significant Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I rise position. I have been very fortunate to increase in funding, the National Insti- tonight in strong support for the nomi- have had the pleasure of working with tute for Child Health and Human De- nation of Secretary Gordon England to him when he was Secretary of the velopment and the National Center on be the first Deputy Secretary of Home- Navy, and I look forward to continuing Minority Health and Health Disparities land Security. I thank the majority our partnership in his new capacity. cab expand research in this area. leader, in cooperation with the Demo- I urge my colleagues to support con- I ask all of my colleagues to join me cratic leader, for promptly scheduling firmation of this important nomina- today in congratulating the March of the Senate’s consideration of this very tion. The new Department of Homeland Dimes on its launch of this new na- important nomination. Security opened its doors officially last tional campaign to target the rising President Bush nominated Secretary Friday, and it is critical that we get rate of premature births. England on January 7. The Govern- the top management positions filled as f mental Affairs Committee, which I am quickly as possible. ERRONEOUS TIME MAGAZINE privileged to chair, held a hearing on Mr. President, I do hope this nominee REPORT his nomination last Friday, and today, will be approved unanimously. Mr. REID. Mr. President, last week I am pleased to report, the committee I yield the floor. in recognition of Dr. Martin Luther unanimously voted to discharge the Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I rise King’s birthday, I spoke about the im- nominee from consideration. The com- today to draw attention to an alarming portance of continuing his legacy and mittee thoroughly considered the nom- issue—the growing number of pre- working to ensure that the civil rights ination at a hearing on Friday. In addi- mature births. According to data re- of all Americans are protected. I dis- tion, Secretary England responded to leased by the National Center for cussed my concerns that some of the extensive prehearing questions about a Health Statistics, the percentage of ba- current administration’s policies jeop- wide variety of issues. bies born prematurely—birth at less ardize the gains our Nation has made. I have no doubt, based on my review than 37 completed weeks of gestation— In prefacing my remarks last week, I of the record, and my conducting of the has risen to nearly 12 percent, the criticized President Bush, based on a hearing, that Secretary England is ex- highest level ever reported in the disturbing report that recently ap- traordinarily well qualified for this po- United States. In 2001 alone, more than peared in Time magazine declaring sition. In fact, it is difficult for me to 476,000 babies were born prematurely in that this administration had reinstated think of two more qualified Americans the U.S. Unfortunately, in my own the tradition of delivering a floral than Tom Ridge and Gordon England State of Tennessee, 14 percent of births wreath to the Confederate Memorial at to head up this vital new Department. are preterm. There cannot be a clearer Arlington National Cemetery. Secretary England currently serves wake-up call for us. The information I referenced in my as Secretary of the Navy. As a member Today, the March of Dimes is launch- speech was inaccurate, as Time maga- of the Senate Armed Services Com- ing a national, five-year prematurity zine has subsequently issued a correc- mittee, I have gotten to know him well awareness, education, and research ef- tion clarifying that the wreath prac- in that capacity. I have enormous re- fort aimed at preventing prematurity, tice was not initiated by President gard for his ability. He has held that the leading cause of infant death in the Bush, but in fact had been done by pre- position since May of 2001. first month of life. I cannot imagine a vious administrations. I, therefore, Prior to becoming our Secretary of better organization to take on this se- apologize to President Bush, as my re- the Navy, Gordon England had an im- rious problem. Over its 63-year history, marks regarding the floral arrange- pressive portfolio of management expe- the March of Dimes has conducted two ment were inaccurate. rience. He served as executive vice highly successful national campaigns— I do think this exercise should be dis- president of General Dynamics Cor- the first focused on preventing polio continued by President Bush, regard- poration, and he previously served in and the second involved educating the less of the past history of the practice. various executive positions at a num- public and health providers on the role f ber of General Dynamics divisions. His of folic acid in preventing neural tube experience in both the public and the defects. My friend, former Health and LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT private sectors will provide him with Human Services Secretary, Dr. Louis OF 2001 exactly the experience and expertise Sullivan, is the honorary chair of this Mr. SMITH. Mr. President, I rise needed to oversee the merger of some campaign, and I salute him for his con- today to speak about the need for hate 22 agencies and 170,000 Federal employ- tinued commitment to the public’s crimes legislation. In the last Congress ees that will be transferred into this health. Senator KENNEDY and I introduced the new Department. I’m pleased to be able to salute and Local Law Enforcement Act, a bill that As preparation for being Deputy Sec- encourage this new campaign which would add new categories to current retary of Homeland Security, it would holds the promise of significantly re- hate crimes law, sending a signal that be difficult to beat a tour as Secretary ducing the incidence of premature violence of any kind is unacceptable in of the Navy. The Department of the birth throughout the country. Babies our society.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1725 I would like to describe a terrible banes-Oxley Act into law, Senator the new Acting Solicitor of Labor to crime that occurred November 4, 2001 GRASSLEY and I had to fight the admin- Senator GRASSLEY and to me he stated, in Hendersonville, N.C. A man shot istration to make sure that the law ‘‘It is the Department’s view that into the home of a Hispanic family. would not be gutted. On the same night under Sarbanes-Oxley, complaints to The assailant, Gene Autry Williams, 60, that the law was signed, the White individual Members of Congress are was heard to yell racial slurs at the House issued an interpretation that in- protected, even if such Member is not family before shooting at them in their correctly and narrowly interpreted our conducting an ongoing Committee in- home. Williams was charged with as- provision. Specifically, the White vestigation within the jurisdiction of a sault for pointing and discharging a House stated that corporate whistle- particular Congressional com- firearm, and for ethnic intimidation. blower’s disclosure to Congress would mittee.. .’’ The letter promised that I believe that government’s first duty not be protected unless the whistle- new rules and regulations effectuating is to defend its citizens, to defend them blower made the report to a congres- this policy change would follow. against the harms that come out of sional committee already conducting I am quite sure that when those regu- hate. The Local Law Enforcement En- an authorized investigation. This inter- lations come out that Senator GRASS- hancement Act is a symbol that can pretation was at odds with the legisla- LEY will once again be paying close at- become substance. I believe that by tive intent and the clear statutory lan- tention, as will I. Where the integrity passing this legislation and changing guage of the Act, which protected rea- of our financial markets and our Gov- current law, we can change hearts and sonable reports of fraud to ‘‘any Mem- ernment are concerned, we can do no minds as well. ber of Congress.’’ less. I look forward to working with f Senator GRASSLEY and I had good Senator GRASSLEY to protect the rights reason to write the law with such broad of whistleblowers in the 108th Con- CORPORATE WHISTLEBLOWER coverage. Most corporate whistle- gress, as we did in the 107th Congress. PROTECTIONS IN THE SAR- blowers do not know the ins and outs of It is an honor and a privilege to work BANES-OXLEY ACT the jurisdiction of Congress’s various with Senator GRASSLEY on these im- Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I rise to committees, nor should they be ex- portant matters. note an important victory in the fight pected to. Simply picking up the phone I ask unanimous consent that the to protect whistleblowers and to praise and calling your local Senator or Rep- letters I have referenced above and the my good friend Senator CHUCK GRASS- resentative to report a case of securi- Washington Post story, be printed in LEY for his leadership in this fight. ties fraud should be protected. In addi- the RECORD. The Washington Post reported yes- tion, by definition most ‘‘whistle- There being no objection, the mate- terday that the Department of Labor blowers’’ are reporting fraud that is rial was ordered to be printed in the has reversed its view on how it will in- not widely known. They are blowing RECORD, as follows: terpret an important provision of the the whistle. Thus, their revelations do U.S. SENATE, Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate mis- not come as part of already com- COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, conduct. The provision we enacted pro- menced investigations. They may lead Washington, DC, July 31, 2002. vides a Federal law protecting cor- to such investigations as well as con- Hon. GEORGE W. BUSH, porate whistleblowers from retaliation tribute to them. The White House in- President of the United States, The White for the first time. The law was designed terpretation would have excluded House, Washington, DC. to protect people like Sherron Watkins among the most important revelations DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: As coauthors of the recent corporate whistleblower provision in from Enron, who was recently named of corporate fraud made to Congress. one of Time magazine’s ‘‘People of the the Corporate and Criminal Fraud Account- The administration’s interpretation ability Act, section 806 of the Sarbanes- Year,’’ from retaliation when they re- was reinforced the next day when the Oxley Act, we are writing to express our port fraud to Federal investigators, White House spokesman repeated that shared concern about interpretive state- regulators, or to any Member of Con- there were limits on the types of dis- ments made by the White House staff only gress. The law was intentionally writ- closures to Congress that would be pro- hours after you signed the Act into law. ten to sweep broadly, protecting any tected. Finally, in addition to these According to media reports, the White employee of a publicly traded company White House interpretations, former House views this bipartisan provision, which was approved unanimously both by the Judi- who took such reasonable action to try Solicitor of Labor Eugene Scalia filed a to protect investors and the market. ciary Committee and the full Senate, as pro- troubling brief that adopted this nar- tecting employees only if they report fraud The reason that Senator GRASSLEY row interpretation not only in the con- to Congress ‘‘in the course of an investiga- and I know so much about the legisla- text of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but re- tion.’’ This narrow interpretation is at odds tive intent behind this provision is garding the environmental whistle- with the plain language of the statute and that we crafted it together last year in blower provisions, as well. risks chilling corporate whistleblowers who the Judiciary Committee and worked That is where Senator GRASSLEY wish to report securities fraud to Members of to make it part of the Sarbanes-Oxley stepped in. As he has done so many Congress. Act on the Senate floor. We had both times before, under both Republican The provision in question, codified at 18 seen enough cases where corporate em- U.S.C. § 1514A, states that it applies to dis- and Democratic administrations, he closures of fraud whenever ‘‘the information ployees who possessed the courage to went to bat for the rights of the lone or assistance is provided to or the investiga- stand up and ‘do the right thing’ found whistleblower against the huge bu- tion is conducted by . . . any Member of Con- out the hard way that there is a severe reaucracy. Once again, through his per- gress or any committee of Congress.’’ (em- penalty for breaking the ‘corporate severance, he has proven that you can phasis added). By its plain terms, there is no code of silence.’ Indeed, in the Enron fight not only city hall but the execu- limitation either to ongoing investigations case itself we discovered an e-mail tive branch of the Federal Government. of Congress or to matters within the juris- from outside counsel that noted that Working together, we wrote a series diction of any Congressional Committee. the Texas Supreme Court had twice re- of letters to the administration pro- The reason for this is obvious. Few whis- tleblowers know, nor should they be ex- fused to find a legal protection for cor- testing their narrow interpretations pected to know, the jurisdiction of the var- porate whistleblowers and that implic- and making the legal case that they ious Committees of Congress or the matters itly gave Enron the go ahead to fire were at odds with the legislative intent currently under investigation. The most Ms. Watkins for reporting accounting and clear language of the provision common situation, and one that the recent irregularities. that we wrote. Each and every time Administration’s statement excludes from Senator GRASSLEY has always been a that the administration responded by protection, is a citizen reporting misconduct leader in protecting the rights of whis- stonewalling or giving half answers, to his or her own Representative or Senator, regardless of their committee assignments. tleblowers, and I was proud to work Senator GRASSLEY was there to protect Such disclosures are clearly covered by the with him in the area of corporate re- the law we had worked so hard to terms of the statute. form to craft such a groundbreaking write. We request that you review and reconsider law. Finally, on January 24, 2003, almost a the Administration’s interpretation of sec- Unfortunately, from the very day half year after our first letter, the ad- tion 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. It em- that President Bush signed the Sar- ministration gave in. In a letter from bodies a flawed interpretation of the clearly

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Corporate whistleblowers will be Chairman. We look forward to your response. chilled form making reports of fraud unless CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Cordially yours, they are assured that the law protects them U.S. Senator. PATRICK J. LEAHY, from retaliation. It is incumbent upon the Chairman. Administration to clear up the ambiguity U.S. SENATE, CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, which it has helped to create from an unam- COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, Ranking Member, Sub- biguous statute. Washington, DC, August 1, 2002. committee on Crime Nor am I persuaded that, as you write, it Hon. ALBERTO R. GONZALES, and Drugs. would not be ‘‘appropriate’’ for the White Counsel to the President, The White House, House to provide a legal interpretation to a Washington, DC. U.S. SENATE, Member of Congress regarding a statute that DEAR MR. GONZALES: We appreciate your Washington, DC, January 15, 2003. the Administration is entrusted to enforce. letter received today seeking to clarify the Hon. GEORGE W. BUSH, The Executive Branch, unlike the courts, President’s statement regarding the cor- President of the United States of America, The provides such interpretive guidance on a fre- porate whistleblower provisions in the Cor- White House, Washington, DC. quent basis both to Congress and to its own porate and Criminal Fraud Accountability DEAR PRESIDENT BUSH: I am writing in re- employees. In fact, when questions are not Act, section 806 of the Sarbanes—Oxley Act. sponse to a letter of December 20, 2002, that posed as policy-based hypotheticals, as Sen- While the President’s earlier statement the White House sent in response to Senator ator Grassley and I took pains to do in our was: ‘‘Given that the legislative purpose of Grassley’s and my joint letters of August 1 letters, the Adminsitration often refuses to Section 1514A of title 18 of the U.S. Code, en- and October 31 expressing concerns regarding answer because the questions do relate to a acted by section 806 of the Act, is to protect the Administration’s enforcement of the cor- real, pending case. If the Executive Branch against company retaliation for lawful co- porate whistleblower provisions that we in- will not discuss policy on a theoretical basis, operation with investigations and not to de- cluded in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. I am dis- and refuses to discuss its actions on specific fine the scope of investigative authority or mayed at the Administration’s overly nar- cases, then what remains? Indeed, it would be nearly impossible to to grant new investigative authority, the ex- row interpretation of these important whis- conduct effective oversight or to craft legis- ecutive branch shall construe section tleblower protection provisions in the cor- lation designed to cure problems in the cur- 1514(a)(1)(B) as referring to investigations porate accountability legislation. rent law without a constructive dialogue be- authorized by the rules of the Senate or the While I appreciate your response, it does tween the Executive Branch and the Con- House of Representatives and conducted for little to clear the ambiguity created by the gress on precisely such issues. Understanding a proper legislative purpose.’’ prior statements by the Administration, as the Executive Branch’s current interpreta- Your letter now clarifies that contrary to set forth in our letters. It leaves potential tion of the law is particularly important in the sweeping language above, ‘‘the Presi- whistleblowers like Sherron Watkins of matters involving corporate reform. Our fi- dent’s statement provides guidance to the Enron (who recently shared the honor of nancial markets depend upon the confidence executive branch in construing the provision being selected Time Magazine’s ‘‘Person of of the American people that our markets only on a single, very narrow point. . . .’’ the Year’’ with two other whistleblowers) to will be effectively policed, and creating un- (Emphasis added). That narrow point being guess at whether or not they can be fired for certainty about the scope of important cor- what is defined as an ‘‘investigation’’ for reporting an allegation of corporate fraud to porate reforms can destabilize such markets. purpose of the Act, and not all of section their Representatives or Senators in Con- For these reasons, I urge you to answer all 1514(a)(1)(B), which you agree applies to gress. the questions posed in Senator Grassley’s more than merely investigations. The unwillingness to clarify this matter is and my previous letters. Specifically, I re- To ensure there is no confusion on this puzzling to me. After having confused the quest that you state definitively whether or matter, and in light of seemingly broader in- matter with a series of misleading and con- not you believe that 18 U.S.C. § 1514A pro- terpretations provided by Whitehouse tradictory statements, the White House can- tects a report of fraud or securities law vio- spokespersons, please respond to the fol- not simply state the scope of 18 U.S.C. § 1514A lations by an employee of a publicly traded lowing scenario. ‘‘will ultimately be addressed by the courts.’’ company to ‘‘any’’ member of Congress and An employee who works at a publicly trad- The ambiguity caused by the whether the Department of Labor and the ed company provides information to a Mem- Administrations’s own statements has now Department of Justice have been instructed ber of Congress (and assume for this question been allowed to persist for almost half a not to take any contrary position in future the Member is not a chairman or ranking year, and it threatens effective enforcement litigation. member of a Committee and is not a member of these important corporate reforms. In Thank you for your prompt response in of a Committee with jurisdiction) regarding fact, White House spokesperson Ari Fleisher this matter. a violation as enumerated under Section further fueled this ambiguity on July 31, 2002 Sincerely, 1514A(a)(1) of the Act. Finally, assume that by stating: PATRICK LEAHY, there is no investigation being conducted by ‘‘What the action taken last night [the in- U.S. Senator. the Member at the time the information is terpretive statement] does is say that it’s up provided. Do you believe that employee is or to Congress to determine, through its own U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, is not afforded the protections of Section rules and procedures, whether to grant indi- OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR, 1514A? vidual members of Congress investigative Washington, DC, January 24, 2003. There is no question in our minds that the powers that would trigger the statute. Hon. CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Congressional intent (and the clear language ‘‘Nothing in the statute or the signing U.S. Senate, of the statute) is that the answer to the statement prevents Congress from granting Washington, DC. above scenario is yes—the employee is pro- that authority to whoever it chooses. This is Hon. PATRICK J. LEAHY, tected, whether there is an investigation a congressional issue, and a congressional U.S. Senate, pending or not. Our desire is to protect the decision. Washington, DC. well-intentioned employee who contacts his ‘‘If Congress wants to allow individual DEAR SENATORS GRASSLEY AND LEAHY: It elected representatives (or any representa- members of the Congress, individual sen- was a pleasure meeting with your staff on tive for that matter) and not require that ators, individual House members, whether in January 7, 2003, to discuss issues relating to employee to consult the Congressional Di- the majority or the minority, no matter who the implementation of the whistleblower rectory and Congressional Record prior to they are, to conduct investigations, then provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. making his call to determine whether he/she that individual, if somebody was a whistle- The President and Secretary Chao, who has will be afforded the whistleblower protec- blower to that individual, the whistleblower responsibility to investigate and adjudicate tions of the Act. would have all protections. If Congress de- allegations of retaliation under this law, The statute reflects this intent, protecting cides that the only way to have an investiga- share your view that these provisions are the actions of an employee of a publicly tion is through the committee-authorized crucial to the federal government’s efforts to traded company: ‘‘(1) to provide information, process, then the whistleblower will go combat corporate corruption. cause information to be provided, or other- through that committee. So this is a con- In connection with the Department of La- wise assist in an investigation regarding any gressional matter and a congressional deter- bor’s implementation of the whistleblower conduct which the employee reasonably be- mination.’’ protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, I lieves constitutes a violation of section 1341, Thus, Mr. Fleisher’s public statements on have reviewed a series of letters you ex- 1343, 1344, or 1348, any rule or regulation of behalf of the White House leave the impres- changed with the Counsel to the President the Securities and Exchange Commission, or sion that the White House would require concerning the President’s signing state- any provision of Federal law relating to some type of additional Congressional rule- ment. In his December 20, 2002 letter, the

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1727 Counsel to the President explained that ‘‘the Sasse did not enjoy whistle-blower protec- (d) Open Meetings: Meetings of the com- President’s statement took no position on tion in his contacts with Rep. Dennis J. mittee and subcommittees, including hear- whether there is whistleblower protection Kucinich (D-Ohio), who was looking into re- ings and business meetings, are open to the for employees who lawfully report wrong- ports of toxic materials on federally owned public. A portion of a meeting may be closed doing to individual Members of Congress, nor land near the Cleveland airport. Only con- to the public if the committee determines by did it address whether whistleblower protec- tacts with investigative panel members are roll call vote of a majority of the members tion would be limited to those instances protected, Scalia wrote. present that the matters to be discussed or where there was an ongoing investigation or Scalia also urged that a federal prosecutor the testimony to be taken the disclosure related to a matter within the could not sue the Justice Department over (1) will disclose matters necessary to be jurisdiction of a particular Congressional workplace disagreements involving priorities kept secret in the interests of national de- committee.’’ The letter also indicated that in government litigation. fense or the confidential conduct of the for- representatives of the Department would be Sasse, who still has his job, said his super- eign relations of the United States; discussing the issues with your staff. visors downgraded his performance reviews, (2) relate solely to matters of committee It is the Department’s view that under did not grant him training opportunities and staff personnel or internal staff management Sarbanes-Oxley, complaints to individual removed him from some cases in retaliation or procedure; or Members of Congress are protected, even if for his contacts with Kucinich. An adminis- (3) constitute any other grounds for clo- such Member is not conducting an ongoing trative law judge ruled that the Justice De- sure under paragraph 5(b) of Senate Rule Committee investigation within the jurisdic- partment had retaliated against Sasse and XXVI. tion of a particular Congressional com- found that his contacts with Kucinich were (e) Broadcasting: mittee, provided that the complaint relates protected. (1) Public meetings of the committee or a to conduct that the employee reasonably be- The Justice Department appealed to the subcommittee may be televised, broadcast, lieves to be a violation of one of the enumer- administrative review board, which has not or recorded by a member of the Senate press ated laws or regulations. The Department yet ruled on the case. gallery or an employee of the Senate. currently is finalizing the draft of an Interim Whistle-blower advocates said Scalia was (2) Any member of the Senate Press Gal- Final Rule and accompanying Preamble im- attempting to use the case, which concerns lery or employee of the Senate wishing to plementing the whistleblower provisions of whistle-blower provisions in environmental televise, broadcast, or record a committee the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Although it would protection laws, to establish a precedent meeting must notify the staff director or the be inappropriate for me to provide you our that would undermine whistle-blowers in staff director’s designee by 5:00 p.m. the day draft text at this time, the Department’s cases against corporations. before the meeting. Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Em- current intention is to clarify in the pub- (3) During public meetings, any person ployees for Environmental Responsibility, a lished document our view that complaints to using a camera, microphone, or other elec- group that defends federal workers on envi- ‘‘any Member of Congress or any committee tronic equipment may not position or use ronmental issues, said a central question of of Congress’’ are covered by the whistle- the equipment in a way that interferes with the Sasse case—whether federal prosecutors blower provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. the seating, vision, or hearing of committee Thank you for your interest in this impor- can be whistle-blowers—remains unresolved. A Labor Department spokeswoman de- members or staff on the dais, or with the or- tant matter. derly process of the meeting. Sincerely, clined to comment on the case because it is in litigation. Rule 2. Quorums HOWARD M. RADZELY, Steven Bell, Sasse’s attorney, said the de- Acting Solicitor. (a) Business Meetings: At committee busi- partment’s reversal helps his client. ‘‘The ness meetings, and for the purpose of approv- [From the Washington Post, Jan. 28, 2003] Labor Department is acknowledging that the ing the issuance of a subpoena or approving substance of the brief it filed is legally inac- LABOR DEPT. SHIFTS WHISTLE-BLOWER VIEW a committee resolution, six members, at curate,’’ he said. least two of whom are members of the mi- UNDER ACT, WORKERS PROTECTED WHEN nority party, constitute a quorum, except as EXPOSING WRONGDOING TO LAWMAKERS f provided in subsection (d). (By Christopher Lee) COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT (b) Subcommittee Meetings: At sub- The Labor Department has changed its in- AND PUBLIC WORKS RULES OF committee business meetings, a majority of terpretation of a new corporate whistle- PROCEDURE the subcommittee members, at least one of blower law, a move that will afford workers Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, in ac- whom is a member of the minority party, who report wrongdoing to Congress greater cordance with the rule XXVI (2) of the constitutes a quorum for conducting busi- protection against retaliation, two senators ness. said yesterday. Senate, I ask unanimous consent that (c) Continuing Quorum: Once a quorum as In a letter Friday to Sens. Charles E. the rules of the Committee on Environ- prescribed in subsections (a) and (b) has been Grassley (R-Iowa) and Patrick J. Leahy (D- ment and Public Works, adopted by the established, the committee or subcommittee Vt.), Acting Solicitor Howard M. Radzely re- committee today, January 29, 2003, be may continue to conduct business. versed the department’s contention that printed in the RECORD. (d) Reporting: No measure or matter may only whistle-blower contacts with a ‘‘duly There being no objection, the mate- be reported to the Senate by the committee authorized’’ investigative committee of Con- rial was ordered to be printed in the unless a majority of committee members gress were protected, not those with just any RECORD, as follows: cast votes in person. lawmaker. That initial department reading (e) Hearings: One member constitutes a COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a corporate ac- quorum for conducting a hearing. WORKS RULES OF PROCEDURE countability law enacted last summer, con- Rule 3. Hearings flicted with what the two senators said they Rule 1. Committee meetings in general intended when they wrote the whistle-blower (a) Regular Meeting Days: For purposes of (a) Announcements: Before the committee protections into the bill. complying with paragraph 3 of Senate Rule or a subcommittee holds a hearing, the chair ‘‘It is the department’s view that . . . com- XXVI, the regular meeting day of the com- of the committee or subcommittee shall plaints to individual members of Congress mittee is the first and third Thursday of make a public announcement and provide are protected, even if such member is not each month at 10:00 A.M. If there is no busi- notice to members of the date, place, time, conducting an ongoing committee investiga- ness before the committee, the regular meet- and subject matter of the hearing. The an- tion,’’ Radzely wrote. ing shall be omitted. nouncement and notice shall be issued at Grassley said the reversal would ‘‘make it (b) Additional Meetings: The chair may least one week in advance of the hearing, un- easier for corporate whistle-blowers to be call additional meetings, after consulting less the chair of the committee or sub- protected when they speak out on wrong- with the ranking minority member. Sub- committee, with the concurrence of the doing in the boardroom.’’ committee chairs may call meetings, with ranking minority member of the committee ‘‘It’s a big victory,’’ said Blythe McCor- the concurrence of the chair, after con- or subcommittee, determines that there is mack, a spokeswoman for Leahy. sulting with the ranking minority members good cause to provide a shorter period, in Grassley and Leahy have sent several let- of the subcommittee and the committee. which event the announcement and notice ters to White House officials seeking assur- (c) Presiding Officer: shall be issued at least twenty-four hours in ances that the Bush administration under- (1) The chair shall preside at all meetings advance of the hearing. stood the intent of the law. In September, of the committee. If the chair is not present, (b) Statements of Witnesses: than-Labor Department solicitor Eugene the ranking majority member shall preside. (1) A witness who is scheduled to testify at Scalia filed a friend-of-the-court brief with (2) Subcommittee chairs shall preside at a hearing of the committee or a sub- an administrative review board seeking to all meetings of their subcommittees. If the committee shall file 100 copies of the written overturn a $200,000 punitive damages award subcommittee chair is not present, the rank- testimony at least 48 hours before the hear- won by Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory C. ing majority member of the subcommittee ing. If a witness fails to comply with this re- Sasse of Ohio in a whistle-blower case shall preside. quirement, the presiding officer may pre- against the Justice Department. (3) Notwithstanding the rule prescribed by clude the witness’ testimony. This rule may Scalia, who resigned his post this month to paragraphs (1) and (2), any member of the be waived for field hearings, except for wit- return to private practice, had argued that committee may preside at a hearing. nesses from the Federal Government.

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Statutory responsibilities and other mat- Construction, as well as a member of not provided to the committee at least 48 ters the Senate Select Committee on Intel- hours prior to the hearing cannot be used for (a) Environmental Impact Statements: No ligence. I was able to visit and talk purpose of presenting testimony to the com- project or legislation proposed by any execu- with U.S. troops and inspect facilities. mittee and will not be included in the hear- tive branch agency may be approved or oth- I also toured the DMZ, a chilling leg- ing record. erwise acted upon unless the committee has (3) The presiding officer at a hearing may acy of a war many Americans have al- received a final environmental impact state- ready forgotten. have a witness confine the oral presentation ment relative to it, in accordance with sec- to a summary of the written testimony. My visit could not have been more tion 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental timely. The combination of saber-rat- (4) Notwithstanding a request that a docu- Policy Act, and the written comments of the ment be embargoed, any document that is to Administrator of the Environmental Protec- tling in the North and anti-American be discussed at a hearing, including, but not tion Agency, in accordance with section 309 protests in the South has made Korea limited to, those produced by the General of the Clean Air Act. This rule is not in- front page news once again, as it faces Accounting Office, Congressional Budget Of- tended to broaden, narrow, or otherwise its most complicated, and potentially fice, Congressional Research Service, a Fed- modify the class of projects or legislative explosive, crisis since the Korean war, eral agency, an Inspector General, or a non- proposals for which environmental impact 1950–53. governmental entity, shall be provided to all statements are required under section The Korean peninsula is a land of members of the committee at least 72 hours 102(2)(C). before the hearing. stunning beauty and startling con- (b) Project Approvals: trasts. Divided at the end of World War Rule 4. Business meetings: Notice and filing re- quirements (1) Whenever the committee authorizes a Il, following a long occupation by project under Public Law 89–298, the Rivers Japan, Korea continues to be one of the (a) Notice: The chair of the committee or and Harbors Act of 1965; Public Law 83–566, the subcommittee shall provide notice, the few reminders of what the world was the Watershed Protection and Flood Preven- like during the cold war. agenda of business to be discussed, and the tion Act; or Public Law 86–249, the Public text of agenda items to members of the com- North Korea is a quasi-Stalinist state Buildings Act of 1959, as amended; the chair- which, since its formal creation in 1948, mittee or subcommittee at least 72 hours be- man shall submit for printing in the Con- fore a business meeting. If the 72 hours falls gressional Record, and the committee shall has been run by two men, Kim Il Sung, over a weekend, all materials will be pro- publish periodically as a committee print, a who died in 1994, and his son, Kim Jong vided by close of business on Friday. report that describes the project and the rea- Il. Still almost entirely closed to the (b) Amendments: First-degree amendments sons for its approval, together with any dis- Western World, North Korea is a stark must be filed with the chair of the com- senting or individual views. and isolated country marked by repres- mittee or the subcommittee at least 24 hours sion and poverty. before a business meeting. After the filing (2) Proponents of a committee resolution deadline, the chair shall promptly distribute shall submit appropriate evidence in favor of Then, on the other side of the demili- all filed amendments to the members of the the resolution. tarized zone, DMZ, perhaps the most committee or subcommittee. (c) Building Prospectuses: tense border on Earth, is South Korea, (c) Modifications: The chair of the com- (1) When the General Services Administra- a prosperous, Westernized democratic mittee or the subcommittee may modify the tion submits a prospectus, pursuant to sec- state. South Korea has been a staunch notice and filing requirements to meet spe- tion 7(a) of the Public Buildings Act of 1959, U.S. ally, and 37,000 U.S. troops have cial circumstances, with the concurrence of as amended, for construction (including con- been stationed there for the past 40 the ranking member of the committee or struction of buildings for lease by the gov- years. subcommittee. ernment), alteration and repair, or acquisi- Waged from 1950 to 1953, the Korean Rule 5. Business meetings: Voting tion, the committee shall act with respect to war ended in a virtual stalemate, with (a) Proxy Voting: the prospectus during the same session in the peninsula still divided. Mr. Presi- which the prospectus is submitted. (1) Proxy voting is allowed on all meas- dent, 54,246 American men and women ures, amendments, resolutions, or other mat- A prospectus rejected by majority vote of died during that war, and although the committee or not reported to the Senate ters before the committee or a sub- there are no precise figures for Korean committee. during the session in which it was submitted (2) A member who is unable to attend a shall be returned to the GSA and must then casualties, conservative estimates put business meeting may submit a proxy vote be resubmitted in order to be considered by the figure at approximately 4 million, on any matter, in writing, orally, or through the committee during the next session of the the majority of these being civilians. personal instructions. Congress. On my trip to South Korea on the eve (3) A proxy given in writing is valid until (2) A report of a building project survey of the Presidential elections, I was sur- revoked. A proxy given orally or by personal submitted by the General Services Adminis- prised at the widespread anti-Ameri- instructions is valid only on the day given. tration to the committee under section 11(b) canism. Indeed, it was this issue, a (b) Subsequent Voting: Members who were of the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as growing sense that the United States not present at a business meeting and were amended, may not be considered by the com- was an imperial power indifferent to unable to cast their votes by proxy may mittee as being a prospectus subject to ap- record their votes later, so long as they do so the needs and desires of the Korean proval by committee resolution in accord- people, that led Roh Moo Hyun to vic- that same business day and their vote does ance with section 7(a) of that Act. A project not change the outcome. described in the report may be considered for tory. (c) Public Announcement: committee action only if it is submitted as a It is difficult to appreciate the situa- (1) Whenever the committee conducts a prospectus in accordance with section 7(a) tion on the Korean peninsula without a rollcall vote, the chair shall announce the and is subject to the provisions of paragraph visit to the demilitarized zone. I was results of the vote, including a tabulation of (1) of this rule. taken there in a helicopter by Gen. the votes cast in favor and the votes cast (d) Naming Public Facilities: The com- Leon LaPorte, our four-star general in against the proposition by each member of mittee may not name a building, structure command, who pointed out North Ko- the committee. or facility for any living person, except rean troop concentrations. It is an (2) Whenever the committee reports any former Presidents or former Vice Presidents measure or matter by rollcall vote, the re- alarming sight, and in many ways a of the United States, former Members of port shall include a tabulation of the votes step back in time. Congress over 70 years of age, or former Jus- cast in favor of and the votes cast in opposi- I then paid a visit to Panmunjum, a tices of the United States Supreme Court tion to the measure or matter by each mem- small village frozen in time, unchanged over 70 years of age. ber of the committee. for half a century, which straddles the Rule 6. Subcommittees Rule 8. Amending the Rules line separating North and South Korea. (a) Regularly Established Subcommittees: The rules may be added to, modified, It was here that the Armistice ending The committee has four subcommittees: amended, or suspended by vote of a majority the war was signed. Transportation and Infrastructure; Clean of committee members at a business meeting Seventy percent of the 1.2 million Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety; if a quorum is present. man North Korean army is deployed

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U.S. actions. deployed North Korean troops have Currently, the 37,000 U.S. troops sta- Pragmatic realists, Krauthammer ex- been placed on high alert and are pre- tioned in South Korea are scattered plains, understand the absurdity of the pared to move instantly. among 41 troop installations and 54 liberal internationalist’s arguments, I believe the blame for precipitating small camps and support sites. Under but believe that, nonetheless, the U.S. this crisis lies squarely with North the Land Partnership Plan, the number needs from a practical standpoint, Korea, which clearly violated the of troop installations would be reduced international support to act. They be- Agreed Framework by beginning the to 23, a move that I support. lieve that shared decisionmaking will surreptitious development of nuclear When near the DMZ, I also visited result in good will, improved relations, capacity. Camp Casey, which is north of and greater burdensharing. But, as North Korea has also expelled all UijongBu and occupied by some 6300 Krauthammer demonstrates, our expe- international inspectors and equip- military and 2500 civilians. More than riences in the gulf war prove otherwise. ment; withdrawn from the Nuclear any other site I saw, Camp Casey clear- It is important to note that Kraut- Non-Proliferation Treaty; restarted its ly demonstrated the need for improved hammer does not see unilateralism as a plutonium processing plants; moved living conditions at the soldier bar- first choice. Rather, he advocates tak- thousands of plutonium rods out of racks. This is an issue that deserves ing actions that are in the best interest locked safe storage back into the nu- immediate attention in the 108th Con- of the United States, bringing others clear production line; and is enriching gress. along if possible. What he wisely cau- uranium for nuclear weapon purposes. As I mentioned earlier, I believe that tions against is allowing ourselves ‘‘to The government of Kim Jong Il has the present crisis can be resolved. The be held hostage’’ by the objections of clearly placed its focus, not on feeding United States should be more sensitive countries that don’t have America’s in- its people, but in developing its mili- to our longstanding ally, South Korea, terests at heart. He describes tary, its missiles and its nuclear capa- just as we should ensure that North unilateralism as ‘‘the high road to bility, all in defiance of treaties it has Korea not be allowed to bully or in- multilateralism.’’ This may sound signed. timidate its neighbors. paradoxical, but it makes sense. It is Yet it also appears that our own han- Finally, I believe that my trip could American leadership, asserting a firm dling of events on the Korean peninsula not have been more timely. It has position and committing to take what- over the past 2 years, as well as our given me a fresh and immediate per- ever actions are necessary to see if broader foreign policy rhetoric and spective on a land and a people for through, that enables a solid coalition statements have served, ironically, to which I have great admiration. Since to be built. fuel North Korea’s paranoia and made returning to Washington, I have met Charles Krauthammer’s remarks are the situation much more difficult to with both the South Korean National both timely and insightful as the manage. Security Adviser and their Ambassador United States discusses Iraqi non- Part of the problem has been our re- to the United States. compliance with members of the U.N. luctance to endorse outgoing President These talks, as well as those with my Security Council and contemplates Kim Dae Jung’s ‘‘Sunshine Policy,’’ a Senate colleagues and members of the military action in Iraq. I highly rec- diplomatic and economic effort by the Bush administration, give me con- ommend them to my colleagues in the South Korean government to ease ten- fidence that we will be able to work Senate. sions with the North. President Kim well with President Roh, and that our I ask unanimous consent that Mr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in bilateral relationship is strong enough Krauthammer’s December 2002 speech 2000 for precisely these initiatives. to weather any short-term setbacks. be printed in the RECORD. This move was perceived as a major Lastly, I would once again like to There being no objection, the mate- humiliation in South Korea, helped set thank Ambassador Thomas Hubbard rial was ordered to be printed in the the stage for the rising tide of anti- and Gen. Leon LaPorte for all their as- RECORD, as follows: Americanism, and was seen as a sign sistance while I was in South Korea. AMERICAN UNILATERALISM by the North that the administration f (By Charles Krauthammer) was intent on a policy of isolation and American unilateralism has to do with the CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER’S confrontation. motives and the methods of American behav- The North Korean situation offers no ‘‘AMERICAN UNILATERALISM’’ ior in the world, but any discussion of it has easy solution. We should keep the door Mr. KYL. Mr. President, In a Decem- to begin with a discussion of the structure of open to the possibility of high level ber 2002 speech delivered by the com- the international system. The reason that discussion. mentator, Charles Krauthammer, at we talk about unilateralism today is that we the Hillsdale College Churchill dinner live in a totally new world. We live in a This ongoing crisis has also led many unipolar world of a sort that has not existed to rethink America’s military presence entitled ‘‘American Unilateralism,’’ in at least 1500 years. on the Korean peninsula. Such periodic Mr. Krauthammer superbly articulates At the end of the Cold War, the conven- reviews are a good idea, but at the the necessity of American action to tional wisdom was that with the demise of same time, I strongly believe that we confront today’s challenges in the the Soviet Empire, the bipolarity of the sec- should not do anything hastily. international arena, most notably Iraq. ond half of the 20th century would yield to a And although overshadowed by the He makes a compelling case against multi-polar world. You might recall the crisis, much of my trip to South Korea the two kinds of multilateralist think- school of thought led by historian Paul Ken- nedy, who said that America was already in focused on determining how to best fi- ing that are common today: that of the decline, suffering from imperial overstretch. nance the reconfiguration of U.S. mili- liberal internationalists and that of There was also the Asian enthusiasm, popu- tary installations in South Korea. the pragmatic realists. larized by James Fallows and others, whose In the past 2 years alone, Congress Liberal internationalists, Krautham- thinking was best captured by the late-1980s has appropriated more than $500 mil- mer shows, cling to multilateralism as witticism: ‘‘The United States and Russia lion for military construction in South a shield for their real preference—in decided to hold a Cold War: Who won? Korea. Much of this money has gone to this case, inaction. He aptly points out Japan.’’ improve barracks and to begin to im- that those most strenuously opposed to Well they were wrong, and ironically no one has put it better than Paul Kennedy plement a program known as the Ko- U.S. military action in Iraq are also himself, in a classic recantation emphasizing rean Land Partnership Plan. the strongest supporters of requiring America’s power: ‘‘Nothing has ever existed This joint U.S.-Republic of Korea U.N. backing. The reason, Krautham- like this disparity of power, nothing. plan is designed to reduce the U.S. mer concludes, is that ‘‘they see the Charlemagne’s empire was merely Western

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1730 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 29, 2003 European in its reach. The Roman Empire U.S. in fighting Islamic radicalism, and so My point is not to blame the French or the stretched farther afield, but there was an- has cooperated in the war on terror and has Russians or the Chinese for acting in their other great empire in Persia and a larger one not pressed competition with the U.S. in the own national interest. That’s what nations in China. There is, therefore, no compari- Pacific. do. My point is to express wonder at Ameri- son.’’ This realignment accentuated a remark- cans who find it unseemly to act in the name We tend not to see or understand the his- able historical anomaly. All of our historical of our own national interest, and who cannot torical uniqueness of this situation. Even at experience with hegemony suggests that it see the logical absurdity of granting moral its height, Britain could always be seriously creates a countervailing coalition of weaker legitimacy to American action only if it challenged by the next greatest powers. It powers. Think of Napoleonic France, or of earns the prior approval of others which is had a smaller army than the land powers of Germany in the 20th century. Nature abhors granted or withheld on the most cynical Europe, and its navy was equaled by the next a vacuum and history abhors hegemony. But grounds of self-interest. two navies combined. Today, the American in the first decade of post-Cold War PRACTICAL MULTILATERALISM military exceeds in spending the next twenty unipolarity, not a single great power, arose So much for the moral argument that countries combined. Its Navy, Air Force and to challenge America. On the contrary, they underlies multilateralism. What are the space power are unrivaled. Its dominance ex- all aligned with the U.S. after September 11. practical arguments? There is a school of re- tends as well to every other aspect of inter- So we bestride the world like a colossus. alists who agree that liberal internation- national life—, not only military, but eco- The question is, how do we act in this new alism is nonsense, but who argue plausibly nomic, technological, diplomatic, cultural, world? What do we do with our position? that we need international or allied support, even linguistic, with a myriad of countries Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld gave the regardless. One of their arguments is that if trying to fend off the inexorable march of classic formulation of unilateralism when he a power consistency shares rule making with MTV English. said, regarding Afghanistan—but it applies others, it is more likely to get aid and assist- Ironically, September 11 accentuated and equally to the war on terror and to other ance from them. accelerated this unipolarity. It did so in conflicts—that ‘‘the mission determines the I have my doubts. The US. made an ex- three ways. The first and most obvious was coalition.’’ This means that we take our traordinary effort during the Gulf War to get the demonstration it brought forth of Amer- friends where we find them, but only in order U.N. support, share decision-making and as- ican power. In Kosovo, we had seen the first to help us accomplish our mission. The mis- semble a coalition. As I have pointed out, it war ever fought and won exclusively from sion comes first and we define the mission. even denied itself the fruits of victory in the air, which gave the world a hint of the This is in contrast with what I believe is a order to honor coalition goals. Did this di- recent quantum leap in American military classic case study in multilateralism: the minish anti-Americanism in the region? Did power. But it took September 11 for the U.S. American decision eleven years ago to con- it garner support for subsequent Iraq pol- to unleash, with concentrated fury, a fuller clude the Gulf War. As the Iraqi Army was icy—policy dictated by the original acquies- display of its power in Afghanistan. Being a fleeing the first Bush administration had to cence to that coalition? The attacks of Sep- relatively pacific commercial republic, the decide whether its goal in the war was the tember 11 were planned during the Clinton U.S. does not go around looking for dem- liberation of Kuwait or the liberation of administration, an administration that made onstration wars. This one being thrust upon Iraq. National Security Advisor Brent Scow- a fetish of consultation and did its utmost to it, it demonstrated that at a range of 7,000 croft, who was instrumental in making the subordinate American hegemony. Yet miles, with but a handful of losses and a sum decision to stop with Kuwait, has explained resentments were hardly assuaged, because total of 426 men on the ground, it could de- that going further would have fractured the extremist rage against the U.S. is engen- stroy, within weeks, a hardened fanatical re- coalition, gone against our promises to our dered by the very structure of the inter- gime favored by geography and climate in a allies, and violated the U.N. resolutions national system, not by our management of land-locked country that was already well under which we had gone to war. ‘‘Had we it. known as the graveyard of empires. Without added occupation of Iraq and removal of Sad- Pragmatic realists value multilateralism September 11, the giant would surely have dam Hussein to those objectives,’’ he wrote, in the interest of sharing burdens, on the slept longer. The world would have been ‘‘our Arab allies, refusing to countenance an theory that if you share decision-making, invasion of an Arab colleague, would have you enlist others in your own hegemonic en- aware of America’s size and potential, but deserted us.’’ Therefore we did not act. The terprise. As proponents of this school and ar- not its ferocity and full capacities. Secondly, September 11 demonstrated a coalition defined the mission. gued recently in Foreign Affairs, ‘‘Straining new kind of American strength. The center LIBERAL INTERNATIONALISM relationships now will lead only to a more challenging policy environment later on.’’ of our economy was struck, aviation was There are two schools of committed multi- This is a pure cost-benefit analysis of shut down, the government was sent under- lateralists, and it is important to distinguish between them. There are the liberal inter- multilateralism versus unilateralism. ground and the country was rendered para- If the concern about unilateralism is that nationalists who act from principle, and lyzed and fearful. Yet within days, the mar- American assertiveness be judiciously ra- there are the realists who act from prag- kets reopened, the economy began its recov- tioned and that one needs to think long-term ery, the president mobilized the nation and a matism. The first was seen in the run-up to hardly anybody will disagree. One does not unified Congress immediately underwrote a the congressional debate on the war on Iraq. go it alone or dictate terms on every issue. huge worldwide war on terror. The Pentagon, The main argument from opposition Demo- There’s no need to. On some issues, such as with its demolished western fac¸ade still crats was that we should wait and hear what membership in the World Trade Organiza- smoldering, began planning the war. The il- the U.N. was saying. Senator Kennedy, in a tion, where the long-term benefit both to the lusion of America’s invulnerability was shat- speech before the vote in Congress, said, U.S. and to the global interest is demon- tered, but with the demonstration of its re- ‘‘I’m waiting for the final recommendation strable, one willingly constricts sovereignty. cuperative powers, that sense of invulner- of the Security Council before I’m going to Trade agreements are easy calls, however, ability assumed a new character. It was say how I’m going to vote.’’ Senator Levin, free trade being perhaps the only transmuted from impermeability to resil- who at the time was the Chairman of the mathematicaly provable political good. ience—the product of unrivaled human, tech- Senate Armed Services Committee, actually Other agreements require great skepticism. nological and political reserves. suggested giving authority to the President The Kyoto Protocol on climate change, for The third effect of September 11 was the to act in Iraq only upon the approval of the example, would have had a disastrous effect realignment it caused among the great pow- U.N. Security Council. on the American economy, while doing noth- ers. In 1990, our principal ally was NATO. A The liberal internationalist position is a ing for the global environment. Increased decade later, the alliance had expanded to principled position, but it makes no internal emissions from China, India and other third- include some of the former Warsaw Pact sense. It is based on a moral vision of the world countries which are exempt from its countries. But several major powers re- world, but it is impossible to understand the provisions clearly would have overwhelmed mained uncommitted: Russia and China moral logic by which the approval of the Se- and made up for what-ever American cuts flirted with the idea of an anti-hegemonic al- curity Council confers moral legitimacy on would have occurred. Kyoto was therefore liance, as they called it. Some Russian lead- this or any other enterprise. How does the rightly rejected by the Bush administration. ers made ostentatious visits to little out- blessing of the butchers of Tiananmen It failed on its merits, but it was pushed very posts of the ex-Soviet Empire like North Square, who hold the Chinese seat on the hard nonetheless, because the rest of the Korea and Cuba. India and Pakistan sat on Council, lend moral authority to anything, world supported it. the sidelines. let alone the invasion of another country? The same case was made during the Clin- Then came September 11, and the bystand- On what basis is moral legitimacy lent by ton administration for chemical and biologi- ers lined up. Pakistan immediately made a the support of the Kremlin, whose central in- cal weapons treaties, which they negotiated strategic decision to join the American terest in Iraq, as all of us knows, is oil and assiduously under the logic of, ‘‘Sure, camp. India enlisted with equal alacrity. the $8 billion that Iraq owes Russia in debt? they’re useless of worse, but why not give in, Russia’s Putin, seeing a coincidence of inter- Or of the French, who did everything that in order to build good will for future needs?’’ ests with the U.S. in the war on terror and they could to weaken the resolution, then The problem is that appeasing multilateral- an opportunity to develop a close relation came on board at the last minute because ism does not assuage it; appeasement only with the one remaining superpower, fell into they saw that an Anglo-American train was legitimizes it. Repeated acquiescence on pro- line. Even China, while remaining more dis- possibly leaving for Baghdad, and they didn’t visions that America deems injurious rein- tant, saw a coincidence of interest with the want to be left at the station? forces the notion that legitimacy

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The main The key point I want to make about the reason that the U.S. opposed the land mine Washington, DC, Senate office, Cindy new unilateralism is that we have to be guid- treaty is that we need them in places like has been a model for other dedicated ed by our own independent judgment, both the DMZ in Korea. Sweden and Canada and and talented staff members to emulate, about our own interests and about global in- France do not have to worry about an inva- and an invaluable asset to everyone terests. This is true especially on questions sion from North Korea killing thousands of who had the honor of working with her. of national security, war making, and free- their soldiers. We do. Therefore, as the It is with deep regret I announce she dom of action in the deployment of power. unipolar power and as the guarantor of peace will be leaving my office and the Sen- America should neither defer nor contract in places where Swedes do not tread, we need ate in February. out such decision-making, particularly when weapons that others do not. Being uniquely Before coming to Washington, Cindy the concessions involve permanent struc- situated in the world, we cannot afford the tural constrictions, such as those imposed by empty platitudes of allies not quite candid worked as a kindergarten teacher in the International Criminal Court. Should we enough to admit that they live under the Wakonda, SD. In 1975, she began her exercise prudence? Yes. There is no need to protection of American power. In the end, we congressional career in the office of act the superpower in East Timor or Bosnia, have no alternative but to be unilateralist. former South Dakota Senator James as there is in Afghanistan or in Iraq. There Multilateralism becomes either an exercise Abourezk. She worked as a staff assist- is no need to act the superpower on steel tar- in futility or a cover for inaction. ant in Senator Abourezk’s office, and iffs, as there is on missile defense The futility of it is important to under- also a part-time employee of the Sen- The prudent exercise of power calls for oc- stand. The entire beginning of the unipolar ate’s post office. casional concessions on non-vital issues, if age was a time when this country, led by the only to maintain some psychological good- Clinton administration, eschewed unilateral- After Senator Abourezk’s retirement will. There’s no need for gratuitous high- ism and pursued multilateralism with a in 1978, Cindy joined the staff of then- handedness or arrogance. We shouldn’t, how- vengeance. Indeed, the principal diplomatic Congressman TOM DASCHLE, in his first ever, delude ourselves as to what psycho- activity of the U.S. for eight years was the term as a Member of the House of Rep- logical goodwill can buy. Countries will co- pursuit of a dizzying array of universal trea- resentatives serving South Dakota. It operate with us first our of their own self-in- ties: the comprehensive test ban treaty, the was during that time that Cindy began terest, and second out of the need and desire chemical weapons convention, the biological her long and distinguished career as a to cultivate good relations with the world’s weapons convention, Kyoto and, of course, scheduler for Members of Congress. unipolar power. Warm feelings are a distant land mines. Cindy worked as a consultant for sev- third. In 1997, the Senate passed a chemical weap- After the attack on the USS Cole, Yemen ons convention that even its proponents ad- eral years before rejoining Congress- did everything it could to stymie the Amer- mitted was useless and unenforceable. The man DASCHLE’s staff in 1985. She went ican investigation. It lifted not a finger to argument for it was that everyone else had on to become Senator DASCHLE’s first suppress terrorism at home, and this was signed it and that failure to ratify would Senate press secretary when he was under an American administration that was leave us isolated. To which we ought to say: elected to the Senate in 1987. She obsessively multilateralist and accommo- So what? Isolation in the name of a prin- worked for our South Dakota colleague dating. Yet today, under the most ciple, in the name of our own security, in the for another 11⁄2 years, before leaving to unilateralist American administration in name of rationality is an honorable position. work for another of our colleagues, memory, Yemen has decided to assist in the Multilateralism is at root a cover for inac- war on terrorism. This was not the result of tion. Ask yourself why those who are so Senator J. Robert Kerrey of Nebraska. a sudden attack of Yemeni goodwill, or of a strenuously opposed to taking action against For 12 years, from 1988–2000, she worked quick re-reading of the Federalist Papers. It Iraq are also so strenuously in favor of re- for Senator Kerrey, first on his cam- was a result of the war in Afghanistan, which quiring U.N. support. The reason is that they paign, and later as a senior member of concentrated the mind of recalcitrant states see the U.N. as a way to stop America in its his staff and a very integral member of on the price of non-cooperation. tracks. They know that for ten years the Se- the Kerrey team. I have been told that Coalitions are not made by superpowers curity Council did nothing about Iraq; in- little occurred in Bob Kerrey’s office going begging hat in hand; they are made by deed, it worked assiduously to weaken sanc- that Cindy wasn’t involved with. As asserting a position and inviting others to tions and inspections. It was only when join. What even pragmatic realists fail to un- President Bush threatened unilateral action one of Senator Kerrey’s closest and derstand is that unilateralism is the high that the U.N. took any action and stirred trusted advisers, she was responsible road to multilateralism. It was when the itself to pass a resolution. The virtue of for helping to execute the very strong first President Bush said that the Iraqi inva- unilateralism is not just that it allows ac- record of service that Senator Kerrey sion of Kuwait would not stand, and made it tion. It forces action. delivered for his Nebraska constitu- clear that he was prepared to act alone if I return to the point I made earlier. The ents. necessary, that he created the Gulf War coa- way to build a coalition is to be prepared to While I regretted Senator Kerrey’s lition. act alone. The reason that President Bush retirement from the Senate in 2000, his AMERICA’S SPECIAL ROLE has been able and will continue to be able to departure turned out to be my good Of course, unilateralism does not mean assemble a coalition on Iraq is that the Turks, the Kuwaitis and others in the region fortune, because it was at that point in seeking to act alone. One acts in concert time that I had the fortune of working with others when possible. It simply means will understand that we are prepared to act that one will not allow oneself to be held alone if necessary. In the end, the real divi- with Cindy. I needed to hire an experi- hostage to others. No one would reject Secu- sion between unilateralists and enced scheduler, and Cindy Dwyer was rity Council support for war on Iraq or for multilateralists is not really about partner- that answer. To show Cindy’s dedica- any other action. The question is what to do ships or about means or about methods. It is tion to the Senate and the Senators if, at the end of the day, the Security Coun- about ends. with whom she has served, she under- cil or the international community refuses We have never faced a greater threat than took a herculean effort by working in to back us? Do we allow ourselves to be dic- we do today, living in a world of weapons of mass destruction of unimaginable power. both offices. For a period of time in tated to on issues of vital national interest? 2000, she continued to work with Sen- The answer has to be ‘‘no,’’ not just because The divide before us, between unilateralism we are being willful, but because we have a and multilateralism, is at the end of the day ator Kerrey, helping to wind down his special role, a special place in the world a divide between action and inaction. Now is final few months of Senate service, and today, and therefore a special responsibility. the time for action, unilaterally if nec- began working in my office as my Let me give you an interesting example of essary. scheduler. Very few staff members specialness that attaches to another nation. f could have undertaken the responsibil- During the 1997 negotiations in Oslo over the ities that Cindy did, working well be- land mine treaty, when just about the entire HONORING CINDY DWYER ON HER yond a normal workweek, even by Sen- Western world was campaigning for a land RETIREMENT ate standards, to provide service to two mine ban, one of the holdouts was Finland. Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, I rise The Finnish prime minister found himself Senators. 1 scolded by his Scandinavian neighbors for today to call to attention of all Sen- During her 2 ⁄2 years of service, Cindy stubbornly refusing to sign on the ban. Fi- ators, the retirement of a dedicated helped to organize the day to day ac- nally, having had enough, he noted tartly public servant and an individual who tivities of my office and my schedule. that being foursquare in favor of banning has given much to the operation of four The efficiency and organization of my

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Strickfaden’s career with f the Senate. the Idaho State Police began in 1967 at Some have suggested that Cindy gets the conclusion of 4 years of service to PERIODIC REPORT ON THE NA- her political roots from her family. Her his country in the U.S. Air Force. He TIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RE- father, Gene Dwyer, still works as a started with the Idaho State Police SPECT TO THE WESTERN BAL- KANS THAT WAS DECLARED IN staff assistant in Senator DASCHLE’s serving at the King Hill Port-of-Entry Sioux Falls office. Her sister and broth- facility in King Hill, ID. He was made EXECUTIVE ORDER 13219—PM 2 er-in-law, Peter and Barbara officer-in-charge of the facility in 1969. The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- Stavrianos, have distinguished careers A year later, he was again promoted fore the Senate the following message working for Senators McGovern, and assigned to the District Two office from the President of the United Abourezk, and DASCHLE. in Lewiston. In all, Colonel Strick- States, together with an accompanying Cindy will be greatly missed, and faden served in six offices of the Idaho report; which was referred to the Com- Barbara and I wish her the very best on State Police throughout Idaho, in mittee on Banking, Housing, and all her future endeavors. It is an honor three of them as commander. The Urban Affairs: for me to share Cindy’s accomplish- year’s many changes and transfers af- To the Congress of the United States: ments with my colleagues and to pub- forded him vast experience in all as- As required by section 401(c) of the licly commend her outstanding service pects of Idaho law enforcement and National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. to my office and the people of South many opportunities to serve the people 1641(c), and section 204(c) of the Inter- Dakota. of Idaho. national Emergency Economic Powers f One of many salient moments that Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(c), I transmit here- defined Mr. Strickfaden’s distinguished ROWAN ANTON CRAIG with a 6-month report prepared by my career is a time when he dove into the Administration on the national emer- Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, I rise to icy December waters of the Clearwater gency with respect to the Western Bal- let my fellow Senators know of a very River to rescue a woman from a sub- kans that was declared in Executive happy addition to my family. merged vehicle, an action given special Order 13219 of June 26, 2001. On December 22, at 3:05 in the after- recognition by then-Governor Cecil GEORGE W. BUSH. noon, my daughter-in-law, Stephanie Andrus. This action typified the cour- THE WHITE HOUSE, January 29, 2003. Craig, with the help of her husband, age and dedication he was known for f our son Michael, and our grandson throughout his 35-year career. Aidan, gave birth to our newest grand- The invaluable knowledge and expe- REPORT ON ARMENIA, AZER- child, a beautiful baby boy named rience that Colonel Strickfaden gained BAIJAN, KAZAKHSTAN, Rowan Anton Craig. He came in bigger through many years of service became MOLDOVA, THE RUSSIAN FED- than his older brother at 8 pounds, 9 critical in 1998 when he was asked to ERATION, TAJIKISTAN, ounces and 21 inches long. serve as director of the Department of TURKMENISTAN, UKRAINE, AND At 3:15 that same afternoon, my wife Law Enforcement. Under Colonel UZBEKISTAN INDICATING THE Suzanne and I watched our new Strickfaden’s leadership, the former CONTINUED COMPLIANCE OF grandbaby being weighed and measured Department of Law Enforcement and THESE COUNTRIES WITH INTER- and swaddled, and we got to hold this State Police were combined into a sin- NATIONAL STANDARDS CON- bundle of life. What a thrill to be there gle agency. The new Idaho State Police CERNING FREEDOM OF EMIGRA- in the first few minutes of his life. has become an effective organization TION—PM 3 His middle name, Anton, comes from with numerous successes in the war on The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- his great-grandfather on his mother’s drugs and other enforcement issues in fore the Senate the following message side of the family. Anton was the pa- Idaho. True to this mission, Idaho has from the President of the United tron saint of animals, so we expect to experienced a decline in illegal drug States, together with an accompanying share with him our love of animals, use since Colonel Strickfaden served as report; which was referred to the Com- along with many other experiences. director of the Idaho State Police. mittee on Finance: Let me thank my colleagues for your Without the effective work of the Idaho indulgence in letting me share with all State Police, our ability to live in a To the Congress of the United States: of you one of the most unique experi- safe and secure environment would be On September 21, 1994, then-President ences in my life, a wonderful Christmas compromised. Colonel Strickfaden’s Clinton determined and reported to the present: a new grandchild in our fam- tireless efforts have helped reach the Congress that the Russian Federation ily. goal of making Idaho a safe and secure was not in violation of paragraphs (1), (2), or (3) of subsection 402(a) of the f environment for all of its residents. As he enters a new phase of his life, Trade Act of 1974, or paragraphs (1), (2), ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS I know my Senate colleagues will join or (3), of subsection 409(a) of the Act. me in thanking Colonel Strickfaden on On June 3, 1997, he also determined and reported to the Congress that Armenia, COL. EDWIN D. STRICKFADEN his distinguished career as an Idaho State Police Officer and wish him Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and ∑ Mr. CRAPO. Mr. President, I rise every success in his future endeavors.∑ Ukraine were not in violation of the today to ask the Senate to join me in same provisions, and made an identical f honoring the retirement of Col. Edwin determination on December 5, 1997, D. Strickfaden, director of the Idaho MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT with respect to Kazakhstan, State Police. Colonel Strickfaden re- Messages from the President of the Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, tired on December 31, 2002, after faith- United States were communicated to and Uzbekistan. These actions allowed fully serving the citizens of Idaho for 35 the Senate by Ms. Evans, one of his for the continuation of normal trade years. I join with many Idahoans in secretaries. relations for these countries and cer- recognizing Colonel Strickfaden’s ca- f tain other activities without the re- reer as a sterling example of dedication quirement of an annual waiver. to public safety and service to others. EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED On June 29, 2000, pursuant to section Enormous is the debt owed by us to As in executive session the PRE- 302(b) of Public Law 106–200, then-Presi- the men and women who work in law SIDING OFFICER laid before the Sen- dent Clinton determined that title IV enforcement, who, every day put their ate messages from the President of the of the Trade Act of 1974 should no

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A communication from the Chief, As required by law, I am submitting fications for 2003 (0648–AQ15)’’ January 21, Regulations and Administrative Law, United an updated report to the Congress that 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, States Coast Guard, Department of Trans- was prepared by my Administration Science, and Transportation. portation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the concerning the emigration laws and EC–767. A communication from Deputy As- report of a rule entitled ‘‘Safety/Security policies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, sistant Administrator for Regulatory Pro- Zone Regulations; Lower Mississippi River, Kazakhstan, Moldova, the Russian Fed- grams, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Do- Above Head of Passes, Mile Marker 88.1 to mestic Fisheries Division, National Marine 90.4, New Orleans, LA (COTP New Orleans 02– eration, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Fisheries Service, Department of Commerce, 022) (2115–AA97)(2003–0005)’’ received on Janu- Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The report transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of ary 21, 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, indicates continued compliance of a rule entitled ‘‘Interim 2003 total allowable Science, and Transportation. these countries with international catch (TAC) amounts for the groundfish fish- EC–776. A communication from the Pro- standards concerning freedom of emi- ery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- gration. management area (BSAI)’’ received on Janu- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule GEORGE W. BUSH. ary 21, 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives Fokker THE WHITE HOUSE, January 29, 2003. Science, and Transportation. EC–768. A communication from the Acting Model F.28 Mark 0070 and 0100 Series Air- f Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Do- planes; Docket No. 2001–NM–290 (2120–AA64)’’ mestic Fisheries Division, Department of received on January 21, 2003; to the Com- MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- At 3:47 p.m., a message from the the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Fisheries of the tation. House of Representatives, delivered by Northeastern United States; Atlantic Mack- EC–777. A communication from the Pro- Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, erel, Squid, and Butterfish Fisheries; Closure gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- announced that the House disagrees to of Fishery for Loligo Squid’’ received on Jan- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- uary 21, 2003; to the Committee on Com- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule the amendment of the Senate to the merce, Science, and Transportation. entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives Boeing joint resolution (H.J. Res. 2) making EC–769. A communication from the Direc- Model 737–600, 700, 700C, 800, and 900 Series further continuing appropriations for tor, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Airplanes; Docket No. 2002–NM–44 (2120– the fiscal year 2003, and for other pur- Marine Fisheries Service, Department of AA64)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the poses, and agrees to the conference Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, Committee on Commerce, Science, and asked by the Senate on the disagreeing the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Atlantic Highly Transportation. votes of the two Houses thereon; and Migratory Species Fisheries; Atlantic EC–778. A communication from the Pro- Bluefin Tuna (BFT) Quota Transfer and Re- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- appoints the following Members as the opening of the BFT General Category (I.D. tion, Department of Transportation, trans- managers of the conference on the part 112202D)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule of the House: Committee on Commerce, Science, and entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Dornier Mr. Young of Florida, Mr. Regula, Mr. Rog- Transportation. Model 328–100 and 300 Series Airplanes; Dock- ers of Kentucky, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Kolbe, Mr. EC–770. A communication from the Direc- et No. 2002–NM77 (2120–AA64)’’ received on Walsh, Mr. Taylor of North Carolina, Mr. tor, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National January 21, 2003; to the Committee on Com- Hobson, Mr. Istook, Mr. Bonilla, Mr. Marine Fisheries Service, Department of merce, Science, and Transportation. Knollenberg, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Obey, Mr. Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, EC–779. A communication from the Pro- Murtha, Mr. Dicks, Mr. Sabo, Mr. Mollohan, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Atlantic Highly gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Visclosky, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Migratory Species (HMS) Fishing Vessels tion, Department of Transportation, trans- Serrano, and Mr. Moran of Virginia. Permits; Charter Boat Operations (RIN0648– mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule AM91)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Hartzell f Committee on Commerce, Science, and Propeller Inc., Model () HC–()2Y ()–() Propel- MEASURES PLACED ON THE Transportation. lers; Docket No. 2002–NE–25 (2120–AA64)’’ re- CALENDAR EC–771. A communication from the Direc- ceived on January 21, 2003; to the Committee tor, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The following bills were read the sec- Marine Fisheries Service, Department of EC–780. A communication from the Pro- ond time, and placed on the calendar: Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- S. 224. A bill to amend the Fair Labor the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Atlantic Highly mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an in- Migratory Species Fisheries; Atlantic entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: McDon- crease in the Federal minimum wage. Bluefin Tuna (BFT) General Category Clo- nell Douglas DC 9, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 Series S. 225. A bill to provide for emergency un- sure (I.D. 121202A)’’ received on January 21, Airplanes; Docket no. 2001–NM78 (2120– employment compensation. 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, AA64)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the S. 228. A bill to amend title 18, United Science, and Transportation. EC–772. A communication from the Direc- Committee on Commerce, Science, and States Code, to limit the misuse of social se- tor, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Transportation. curity numbers, to establish criminal pen- Marine Fisheries Service, Department of EC–781. A communication from the Pro- alties for such misuse, and for other pur- Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- poses. the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Atlantic Highly tion, Department of Transportation, trans- f Migratory Species; Commercial Shark Man- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule agement Measures Emergency rule; request entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Boeing MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME for comments; fishing season notification Model 757–200 Series Airplanes; Docket no. The following bill was read the first (RIN0648–AQ39)’’ received on January 21, 2000–NM402 (2120–AA64)’’ received on January time: 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, 21, 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Science, and Transportation. S. 241. A bill to amend the Coastal Zone EC–773. A communication from the Chief, EC–782. A communication from the Pro- Management Act. Regulations and Administrative Law, United gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- f States Coast Guard, Department of Trans- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- portation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule EXECUTIVE AND OTHER report of a rule entitled ‘‘Safety/Security entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Boeing COMMUNICATIONS Zone Regulations; New York Marine Inspec- Model 747 Series Airplanes; Docket no. 2000– The following communications were tion Zone and Captain of the Port Zone NM–85 (2120–AA64)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, laid before the Senate, together with (CGD01–02–132) (2115–AA97)’’ received on Jan- uary 21, 2003; to the Committee on Com- Science, and Transportation. accompanying papers, reports, and doc- merce, Science, and Transportation. EC–783. A communication from the Pro- uments, which were referred as indi- EC–774. A communication from the Chief, gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- cated: Regulations and Administrative Law, United tion, Department of Transportation, trans- EC–766. A communication from Deputy As- States Coast Guard, Department of Trans- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule sistant Administrator for Regulatory Pro- portation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: McDon- grams, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Do- report of a rule entitled ‘‘Drawbridge Regu- nell Douglas Model DC 9 10, DC 9 20, DC 9 30,

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00045 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1734 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 29, 2003 DC 9 40 and DC 9 50 Series Airplanes: and entitled ‘‘Equivalent Safety Provisions for tion, Department of Transportation, trans- Model DC 9 81, DC 9 82, DC 9 83, DC 9 87 and Fuel Tank System Fault Tolerance Evalua- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule MD 88 Airplanes; Docket no. 2002–NM–53 tions (SFAR 88); Request for comments; entitled ‘‘Establishment of Class E Airspace; (2120–AA64)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to Docket no. FAA–1999–6411 (2120–AH85)’’ re- Wasilla, AK; Docket. No. 02–AAL–07 (2120– the Committee on Commerce, Science, and ceived on January 21, 2003; to the Committee AA66)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the Transportation. on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Committee on Commerce, Science, and EC–784. A communication from the Pro- EC–793. A communication from the Pro- Transportation. gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- EC–802. A communication from the Pro- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule tion, Department of Transportation, trans- entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Univair entitled ‘‘Noise Certification Standards for mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule Corp Models Alon A 2, A2 A, ERCO 415C, Subsonic Jet Airplanes and Subsonic Trans- entitled ‘‘Amendment of Class E5 Airspace; 415CD, 415E, and 415G, Forney F1 and F1A port Category Large Airplanes: Request for Tampa, FL: Docket No. 02–ASO–25 (2120– and Mooney M10 Airplanes; docket no. 2001– Comments; Docket no. FAA–2000–7587 (2120– AA66)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the CE–45 (2120–AA64)’’ received on January 21, AH03)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Science, and Transportation. Transportation. EC–803. A communication from the Pro- EC–785. A communication from the Pro- EC–794. A communication from the Pro- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘IFR Altitudes: Miscellaneous entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Textron Amendments; Docket No.30345 (2120–AA63)’’ Raytheon Aircraft Company Beech Models Lycoming Division, AVCO Corporation Fuel received on January 21, 2003; to the Com- 36, A36, A36TC, 58, and 58A Airplanes Doc. no. Injected Reciprocating Engines; Doc. no. mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- 2002–CE–07 (2120–AA64)’’ received on January 2000–CE–60 (2120–AA64)’’ received on January tation. 21, 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, 21, 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, EC–804. A communication from the Pro- Science, and Transportation. Science, and Transportation. gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- EC–786. A communication from the Pro- EC–795. A communication from the Pro- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule tion, Department of Transportation, trans- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- entitled ‘‘Amendment of Class E Airspace; mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware; Docket entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: SAAB entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Boeing No. 02–AEA–14 (2120–AA66)’’ received on Jan- Model 2000, SAAB SF340A, and SAAB 340B Model 747 Series Airplanes; Doc. No. 2002– uary 21, 2003; to the Committee on Com- Series Airplanes; docket no. 2002–NM104 NM–84 (2120–AA64)’’ received on January 21, merce, Science, and Transportation. (2120–AA64)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, EC–805. A communication from the Pro- the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Science, and Transportation. gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- EC–796. A communication from the Pro- Transportation. tion, Department of Transportation, trans- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- EC–787. A communication from the Pro- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule tion, Department of Transportation, trans- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- entitled ‘‘Amendment of Class E Airspace; mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule tion, Department of Transportation, trans- Wrightstown, NJ; Docket no. 02–AEA–15 entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Airbus mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule (2120–AA66)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to Model A330 Series Airplanes; Docket No. entitled ‘‘Establishment of Class E2 Airspace the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 2001–NM–396 (2120–AA64)’’ received on Janu- and Modification of Existing Class E5 Air- Transportation. ary 21, 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, space; Ainsworth, NE; Docket no. 02–ACE–8 EC–806. A communication from the Pro- Science, and Transportation. (2120–AA66)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to EC–797. A communication from the Pro- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- the Committee on Commerce, Science, and gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- Transportation. tion, Department of Transportation, trans- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule EC–788. A communication from the Pro- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Modification of Class E Airspace; gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: McDon- Caruthersville, MO; Docket No. 02–ACE–13 tion, Department of Transportation, trans- nell Douglas Model DC 9 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and (2120–AA66)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule 15F Airplanes; Model DC9 21 Airplanes; the Committee on Commerce, Science, and entitled ‘‘Revisions of Class E Airspace; Model DC 9 31, 32, 32 (VC–9C), 32F, 33F, 34, Transportation. Point Hope, AK ; Docket no. 02–AAL–6 (2120– and 34 F Airplanes; Model DC 9 41, Airplanes; EC–807. A communication from the Pro- AA66)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the Model DC 9 51 Airplanes: Model DC 9 81, DC gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- Committee on Commerce, Science, and 9 82, DC 9 83, and DC 9 87 & Model MD 88 Air- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- Transportation. planes; Docket no. 99NM–90 (2120–AA64)’’ re- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule EC–789. A communication from the Pro- ceived on January 21, 2003; to the Committee entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Air Trac- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. tor, INC Model AT 250, 300, 301, 302, 400, 400A, tion, Department of Transportation, trans- EC–798. A communication from the Pro- 401, 401A, 402, 402A, 501, 502, and 502A, Air- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- planes ; Docket No. 2000–CE–60 (2120–AA64)’’ entitled ‘‘Establishment of Class E Airspace, tion, Department of Transportation, trans- received on January 21, 2003; to the Com- Crisfield, MD; Docket no. 02–AEA–18 (2120– mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- AA66)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Pratt & tation. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Whitney PW4164, 4168, and 4168A Series Tur- EC–808. A communication from the Pro- Transportation. bofan Engines; Docket no. 97–ANE–44 (2120– gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- EC–790. A communication from the Pro- AA64)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the tion, Department of Transportation, trans- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- Committee on Commerce, Science, and mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule tion, Department of Transportation, trans- Transportation. entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Titeflex mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule EC–799. A communication from the Pro- Corporation, CORRECTION; Docket no. 2000– entitled ‘‘Picture Identification Require- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- NE–57 (2120–AA64)’’ received on January 21, ments; Docket no. FAA–2002–11666 (2120– tion, Department of Transportation, trans- 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, AH76)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule Science, and Transportation. Committee on Commerce, Science, and entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Airbus EC–809. A communication from the Pro- Transportation. Model A330 and A340 Series Airplanes; docket gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- EC–791. A communication from the Pro- no. 2002–NM–67 (2120–AA64)’’ received on Jan- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- uary 21, 2003; to the Committee on Com- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule tion, Department of Transportation, trans- merce, Science, and Transportation. entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Gulf- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule EC–800. A communication from the Pro- stream Aerospace LP Model Astra SPX and entitled ‘‘Robinson R–22/R–44 Special Train- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- 1125 Westwind Astra Series Airplanes; Dock- ing and Experience Requirements, EXTEN- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- et No. 2002–NM–114 (2120–AA64)’’ received on SION OF EXPIRATION DATE; Docket no. mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule January 21, 2003; to the Committee on Com- FAA–2002–13744; SFAR 73–1 (2120–AH94)’’ re- entitled ‘‘Amendment of Class E Airspace; merce, Science, and Transportation. ceived on January 21, 2003; to the Committee Durhamville, NY; Docket No. 02–AEA–10 EC–810. A communication from the Pro- on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (2120–AA66)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- EC–792. A communication from the Pro- the Committee on Commerce, Science, and tion, Department of Transportation, trans- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- Transportation. mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule tion, Department of Transportation, trans- EC–801. A communication from the Pro- entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Pilatus mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- Britten-Norman Limited BN–2A and BN2A

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A communication from the Pro- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule Department of the Treasury, transmitting, tion, Department of Transportation, trans- entitled ‘‘Airspeed Indicating System Re- pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule quirements for Transport Category Air- ‘‘Section 832 discount factors for 2002 (Rev. entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Aerostar planes; docket no. FAA–2001–9636 (2120– Proc. 2003–18)’’ received on January 23, 2003; Aircraft Corp Models PA 60–601, 6–IP, 602P, AH26)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the to the Committee on Finance. and 700P Airplanes; docket no. 99–CE–86 Committee on Commerce, Science, and EC–832. A communication from the Chief, (2120–AA54)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to Transportation. Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and EC–821. A communication from the Pro- Department of the Treasury, transmitting, Transportation. gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled EC–812. A communication from the Pro- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- ‘‘Relief from Filing form 990 by Certain U.S. gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule Possession Exempt Organizations (Rev. Proc. tion, Department of Transportation, trans- entitled ‘‘Noise Certification Standards for 2003–21)’’ received on January 23, 2003; to the mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule Subsonic Jet and Subsonic Transport Cat- Committee on Finance. entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: egory Large Airplanes; CORRECTION; EC–833. A communication from the Chief, Eurocopter France Model AS332C, –L, –L1, (DOCID: fr10ja03–110 AND fr 10ja03–111— Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, SA330F, SA3300G, and SA330J Helicopters; Docket no. FAA–2000–7587) (2120–AH03)’’ re- Department of the Treasury, transmitting, docket no. 2001–SW–35 (2120–AA64)’’ received ceived on January 21, 2003; to the Committee pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled on January 21, 2003; to the Committee on on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. ‘‘Determination of the Effectively Connected Commerce, Science, and Transportation. EC–822. A communication from the Chief, Income of Foreign Life Insurance Companies EC–813. A communication from the Pro- Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, (Rev. Rul. 2003–17)’’ received on January 23, gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- Department of the Treasury, transmitting, 2003; to the Committee on Finance. tion, Department of Transportation, trans- pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled EC–834. A communication from the Chief, mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule ‘‘Information Reporting for Securities Fu- Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: Bell Hel- tures Contracts (Notice 2003–8)’’ received on Department of the Treasury, transmitting, icopter Textron Canada Limited Model 206L, January 10, 2003; to the Committee on Fi- pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled L1, L3, and L4 Helicopters; Docket No. 99– nance. ‘‘Statutory Mergers and Consolidations SW–80 (2120–AA64)’’ received on January 21, EC–823. A communication from the Chief, (1545–BA06 Temporary/NPRM) (1545–BB46 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, FINAL)’’ received on January 23, 2003; to the Science, and Transportation. Department of the Treasury, transmitting, Committee on Finance. EC–814. A communication from the Pro- pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled EC–835. A communication from the Regula- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- ‘‘Applicable Federal Rates—February 2003 tions Coordinator, Centers for Medicare and tion, Department of Transportation, trans- (Rev. Rul. 2003–16)’’ received on January 23, Medicaid Services, Department of Health mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule 2003; to the Committee on Finance. and Human Services, transmitting, pursuant entitled ‘‘Airworthiness Directives: General EC–824. A communication from the Chief, to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Med- Electric Company CF 645, 50, 80A, 80C, and Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, icaid Program; External Quality Review of 80E1 Turbofan Engines; Docket no. 2001–NE– Department of the Treasury, transmitting, Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (0938– 26 (2120–AA64)’’ received on January 21, 2003; pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled AJ06)’’ received on January 23, 2003; to the to the Committee on Commerce, Science, ‘‘Revenue Procedure 2003–20—Valuation of Committee on Finance. and Transportation. Remanufactured Motor Vehicle Parts ‘Cores’ EC–836. A communication from the Regula- EC–815. A communication from the Pro- (Rev. Proc. 2003–20)’’ received on January 23, tions Coordinator, Centers for Medicare and gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- 2003; to the Committee on Finance. Medicaid Services, Department of Health tion, Department of Transportation, trans- EC–825. A communication from the Chief, and Human Services, transmitting, pursuant mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Medi- entitled ‘‘Service Difficultly Reports; Department of the Treasury, transmitting, care, Medicaid, and CLIA programs; Labora- DELAY OF EFFECTIVE DATE; Docket no. pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled tory Requirements Relating to Quality Sys- FAA–2000–7952 (2120–AH91)’’ received on Jan- ‘‘Disclosures of return information reflected tems and Certain Personnel Qualifications uary 21, 2003; to the Committee on Com- on returns to officers and employees of the (CMS–2226–F)’’ received on January 23, 2003; merce, Science, and Transportation. Department of Commerce for certain statis- to the Committee on Finance. EC–816. A communication from the Pro- tical purposes and related activities EC–837. A communication from the Regula- gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- (RIN1545–AY52)’’ received on January 23, tions Coordinator, Centers for Medicare and tion, Department of Transportation, trans- 2003; to the Committee on Finance. Medicaid Services, Department of Health mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule EC–826. A communication from the Chief, and Human Services, transmitting, pursuant entitled ‘‘Security Considerations for the Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Medi- flightdeck on Foreign Operated Transport Department of the Treasury, transmitting, care and Medicaid Programs; Hospital Condi- Category Airplanes; CORRECTION; docket pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled tions of Participation: Quality Assessment no. FAA–2002–12504 (2120–AH70)’’ received on ‘‘Notice 2003–12—Nonaccrual Experience and Performance Improvement (HCFA–3050– January 21, 2003; to the Committee on Com- Method of Accounting (Notice 2002–12)’’ re- F)(0938–AK40)’’ received on January 23, 2003; merce, Science, and Transportation. ceived on January 23, 2003; to the Committee to the Committee on Finance. EC–817. A communication from the Pro- on Finance. f gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- EC–827. A communication from the Chief, tion, Department of Transportation, trans- Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, REPORTS OF COMMITTEES mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule Department of the Treasury, transmitting, The following reports of committees entitled ‘‘Extension of Compliance Times for pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled were submitted: Fuel Tank System Safety; Docket no. FAA– ‘‘Rev. Rul. 2003–14, SWCA’’ received on Janu- 1999–6411 (2120–AG62)’’ received on January ary 23, 2003; to the Committee on Finance. By Mr. ROBERTS, without amendment: 21, 2003; to the Committee on Commerce, EC–828. A communication from the Chief, S. Res. 27. An original resolution author- Science, and Transportation. Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, izing expenditures by the Select Committee EC–818. A communication from the Pro- Department of the Treasury, transmitting, on Intelligence. gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled The following nominations were dis- tion, Department of Transportation, trans- ‘‘Rev. Rul. 2003–15, AMA’’ received on Janu- charged and confirmed from the Com- mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule ary 23, 2003; to the Committee on Finance. mittee on Health, Education, Labor entitled ‘‘Aging Airplane Safety; Interim EC–829. A communication from the Chief, and Pensions pursuant to the order of Final Rule; Request for Comments; docket Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, January 29, 2003: No. FAA–1999–5401 (2120–AE42)’’ received on Department of the Treasury, transmitting, January 21, 2003; to the Committee on Com- pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled NOMINATION DISCHARGED merce, Science, and Transportation. ‘‘Certain Financial Transactions Involving NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE EC–819. A communication from the Pro- Future Delivery of Stock (Rev. Rul. 2003–7, HUMANITIES gram Analyst, Federal Aviation Administra- 2003–5)’’ received on January 23, 2003; to the Harry Robinson, Jr., of Texas, to be a tion, Department of Transportation, trans- Committee on Finance. Member of the National Museum Services mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule EC–830. A communication from the Chief, Board for a term expiring December 6, 2003. entitled ‘‘Airspace Designation; Incorpora- Regulations Unit, Internal Revenue Service, Elizabeth J. Pruet, of Arkansas, to be a tion by Reference; Docket no. 29334 (2120– Department of the Treasury, transmitting, Member of the National Museum Services ZZ40)’’ received on January 21, 2003; to the pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled Board for a term expiring December 6, 2004.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1736 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 29, 2003 Edwin Joseph Rigaud, of Ohio, to be a By Mr. REED (for himself, Mr. KEN- SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND Member of the National Museum Services NEDY, Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. JEFFORDS, SENATE RESOLUTIONS Board for a term expiring December 6, 2007. Mr. DASCHLE, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. DODD, Dana Gioia, of California, to be Chair- Mrs. CLINTON, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. The following concurrent resolutions person of the National Endowment for the LEVIN, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. HARKIN, Mr. and Senate resolutions were read, and Arts for a term of four years. SMITH, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. CORZINE, Ms. referred (or acted upon), as indicated: LANDRIEU, and Mr. BAUCUS): By Mr. ROBERTS: INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND S. 238. A bill to reauthorize the Museum JOINT RESOLUTIONS and Library Services Act, and for other pur- S. Res. 27. An original resolution author- The following bills and joint resolu- poses; to the Committee on Health, Edu- izing expenditures by the Select Committee cation, Labor, and Pensions. on Intelligence; from the Select Committee tions were introduced, read the first on Intelligence; to the Committee on Rules and second times by unanimous con- By Mr. FRIST (for himself, Mr. KEN- NEDY, Mr. ENZI, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. and Administration. sent, and referred as indicated: ROBERTS, and Mr. GRAHAM of South By Mr. BYRD (for himself, Mr. KEN- By Mr. JOHNSON (for himself, Mr. Carolina): NEDY, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, HAGEL, Mr. REED, Mr. ENZI, Ms. STA- S. 239. A bill to amend the Public Health Mr. INOUYE, Mr. SARBANES, and Mrs. BENOW, and Mr. ALLARD): Services Act to add requirements regarding BOXER): S. 229. A bill to provide for the merger of trauma care, and for other purposes; to the S. Res. 28. A resolution expressing the the bank and savings association deposit in- Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and sense of the Senate that the United Nations surance funds, to modernize and improve the Pensions. weapons inspectors should be given sufficient safety and fairness of the Federal deposit in- By Mr. FITZGERALD (for himself, Mr. time for a thorough assessment of the level surance system, and for other purposes; to JOHNSON, Mr. HAGEL, and Mr. HAR- of compliance by the Government of Iraq the Committee on Banking, Housing, and KIN): with United Nations Security Council Reso- Urban Affairs. S. 240. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- lution 1441 (2002) and that the United States By Mr. CORZINE (for himself and Mr. enue Code of 1986 to allow allocation of small should seek a United Nations Security Coun- LAUTENBERG): ethanol producer credit to patrons of cooper- cil resolution specifically authorizing the S. 230. A bill to establish the Crossroads of ative, and for other purposes; to the Com- use of force before initiating any offensive the American Revolution National Heritage mittee on Finance. military operations against Iraq; to the Area in the State of New Jersey, and for By Ms. SNOWE (for herself, Mr. KERRY, Committee on Foreign Relations. other purposes; to the Committee on Energy Mr. MCCAIN, and Mr. HOLLINGS): By Mr. CAMPBELL: and Natural Resources. S. 241. A bill to amend the Coastal Zone S. Res. 29. A resolution demanding the re- By Mr. FEINGOLD (for himself and Ms. Management Act; read the first time. turn of the USS Pueblo to the United States COLLINS): By Mr. DOMENICI (for himself and Mr. Navy; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- S. 231. A bill to authorize the use of certain BENNETT): tions. grant funds to establish an information S. 242. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- By Mr. GRAHAM of South Carolina: clearinghouse that provides information to enue Code of 1986 to provide the same capital increase public access to defibrillation in gains treatment for art and collectibles as S. Res. 30. A resolution expressing the schools; to the Committee on Health, Edu- for other investment property and to provide sense of the Senate that the President that a deduction equal to fair market value cation, Labor, and Pensions. should designate the week beginning Sep- shall be allowed for charitable contributions By Mr. CORZINE (for himself and Mr. tember 14, 2003, as ‘‘National Historically of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly LAUTENBERG): Black Colleges and Universities Week’’; to compositions created by the donor; to the S. 232. A bill to direct the Director of the the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Finance. Federal Emergency Management Agency to By Mr. ROBERTS: By Mr. ALLEN (for himself, Mr. JOHN- designate New Jersey Task Force 1 as part of S. Res. 31. A resolution designating the SON, and Mr. CHAFEE): week of September 11 through September 17, the National Urban Search and Rescue Re- S. 243. A bill concerning participation of 2003, as ‘‘National Civic Participation sponse System; to the Committee on Envi- Taiwan in the World Health Organization; to Week’’; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ronment and Public Works. the Committee on Foreign Relations. By Mr. KENNEDY (for himself and Mr. By Mr. DODD (for himself and Mr. LIE- By Mr. ALLEN (for himself and Mr. BERMAN): BYRD): WARNER): S. 233. A bill to direct the Secretary of the S. 244. A bill to require the Secretary of S. Res. 32. A resolution expressing the Interior to conduct a study of Coltsville in the Treasury to redesign $1 Federal Reserve sense of the Senate with respect to the ac- the State of Connecticut for potential inclu- notes so as to incorporate the preamble to tions the President should take before any sion in the National Park System; to the the Constitution of the United States, a list use of military force against Iraq without Committee on Energy and Natural Re- describing the Articles of the Constitution, the broad support of the international com- sources. and a list describing the Amendments to the munity; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- By Ms. LANDRIEU: Constitution, on the reverse of such notes; to tions. S. 234. A bill to provide that members of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and By Mr. STEVENS (for himself, Mr. the Armed Forces performing services on the Urban Affairs. BYRD, Mr. FRIST, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. Island of Diego Garcia shall be entitled to By Mr. BROWNBACK (for himself, Ms. LUGAR, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. WARNER, tax benefits in the same manner as if such LANDRIEU, Mr. VOINOVICH, Mr. Mr. INOUYE, Mr. GREGG, Mr. BIDEN, services were performed in a combat zone, SHELBY, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. Mr. KYL, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. BROWNBACK, and for other purposes; to the Committee on SANTORUM, Mr. NICKLES, Mr. KYL, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. DODD, Finance. Mr. INHOFE, Mr. HAGEL, Mr. GRASS- Mr. KERRY, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. FEIN- By Ms. LANDRIEU: LEY, Mr. ENZI, Mr. GRAHAM of South GOLD, Mr. NELSON of Florida, Mr. S. 235. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Carolina, Mr. FITZGERALD, Mr. EN- CORZINE, and Mr. HAGEL): enue Code of 1986 to clarify the treatment of SIGN, Mr. DEWINE, Mr. CRAIG, Mr. S. Res. 33. A resolution expressing the dependent care assistance programs spon- CORNYN, Mr. BUNNING, Mr. BENNETT, gratitude of the United States Senate for the sored by the Department of Defense for Mr. ALLARD, Mr. THOMAS, and Mr. service of Arthur J. Rynearson, Deputy Leg- members of the Armed Forces of the United BOND): islative Counsel of the United States Senate; States; to the Committee on Finance. S. 245. A bill to amend the Public Health considered and agreed to. By Mr. NELSON of Florida (for him- Service Act to prohibit human cloning; to By Mrs. CLINTON: self, Mr. CORZINE, Mr. THOMAS, Mrs. the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, S. Res. 34. A resolution expressing support FEINSTEIN, and Mr. ENZI): and Pensions. for the emergency first responders and com- S. 236. A bill to require background checks By Mr. DOMENICI (for himself and Mr. munities which are the front lines of the Na- of alien flight school applicants without re- BINGAMAN): gard to the maximum certificated weight of S. 246. A bill to provide that certain Bu- tion’s homeland defense; to the Committee the aircraft for which they seek training, reau of Land Management land shall be held on Environment and Public Works. and to require a report on the effectiveness in trust for the Pueblo of Santa Clara and By Mr. MILLER: of the requirement; to the Committee on the Pueblo of San Ildefonso in the State of S. Con. Res. 3. A concurrent resolution rec- Commerce, Science, and Transportation. New Mexico; to the Committee on Energy ognizing, applauding, and supporting the ef- By Mr. GRAHAM of South Carolina: and Natural Resources. forts of the Army Aviation Heritage Founda- S. 237. A bill to amend the Fair Labor By Ms. SNOWE (for herself and Mr. tion, a nonprofit organization incorporated Standards Act of 1938 to clarify the exemp- BREAUX): in the State of Georgia, to utilize veteran tion from the minimum wage and overtime S. 247. A bill to reauthorize the Harmful aviators of the Armed Forces and former compensation requirements of that Act for Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Con- Army Aviation aircraft to inspire Americans certain construction engineering and design trol Act of 1998, and for other purposes; to and to ensure that our Nation’s military leg- professionals; to the Committee on Health, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and acy and heritage of service are never forgot- Education, Labor, and Pensions. Transportation. ten; to the Committee on Armed Services.

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Unfortunately, the bill benefits for members of the uniformed names of the Senator from Massachu- was not approved in the House of Rep- services and for veterans, and for other setts (Mr. KERRY) and the Senator from resentatives. I will work even harder in purposes. New Jersey (Mr. LAUTENBERG) were the 108th Congress to see that this im- added as cosponsors of S. Res. 25, a res- portant legislation passes both houses S. 52 olution designating January 2003 as and goes to the President’s desk for his At the request of Mr. WYDEN, the signature. I hope my colleagues will name of the Senator from Vermont ‘‘National Mentoring Month’’. support this legislation, and I ask (Mr. LEAHY) was added as a cosponsor f unanimous consent that the text of the of S. 52, a bill to permanently extend STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED bill be printed in the RECORD. the moratorium enacted by the Inter- BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS There being no objection, the bill was net Tax Freedom Act, and for other By Mr. CORZINE (for himself and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as purposes. Mr. LAUTENBERG): follows: S. 83 S. 230. A bill to establish the Cross- S. 230 At the request of Mr. DURBIN, the roads of the American Revolution Na- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- names of the Senator from South Caro- tional Heritage Area in the State of resentatives of the United States of America in lina (Mr. HOLLINGS) and the Senator New Jersey, and for other purposes; to Congress assembled, from West Virginia (Mr. ROCKEFELLER) the Committee on Energy and Natural SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. were added as cosponsors of S. 83, a bill Resources. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Crossroads to expand aviation capacity in the Chi- Mr. CORZINE. Mr. President, today, of the American Revolution National Herit- cago area, and for other purposes. along with Senator LAUTENBERG, I am age Area Act of 2003’’. S. 85 introducing legislation, the Crossroads SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. At the request of Mr. LUGAR, the of the American Revolution National (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— name of the Senator from Connecticut Heritage Area Act, to establish the (1) the State of New Jersey was critically important during the American Revolution (Mr. DODD) was added as a cosponsor of Crossroads of the American Revolution because of the strategic location of the State S. 85, a bill to amend the Internal Rev- National Heritage Area in the State of between the British armies headquartered in enue Code of 1986 to provide for a chari- New Jersey. I am proud to be joining New York City, New York, and the Conti- table deduction for contributions of my New Jersey colleagues, Representa- nental Congress in the city of Philadelphia, food inventory. tives RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN and RUSH Pennsylvania; S. 98 HOLT, who are introducing this legisla- (2) General George Washington spent al- most half of the period of the American Rev- At the request of Mr. ALLARD, the tion in the House of Representatives, with the support of the entire New Jer- olution personally commanding troops of the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. Continental Army in the State of New Jer- BENNETT) was added as a cosponsor of sey delegation. This legislation recognizes the crit- sey, including 2 severe winters spent in en- S. 98, a bill to amend the Bank Holding campments in the area that is now Morris- Company Act of 1956, and the Revised ical role that New Jersey played during town National Historical Park, a unit of the Statutes of the United States, to pro- the American Revolution. In fact, New National Park System; hibit financial holding companies and Jersey was the site of nearly 300 mili- (3) it was during the 10 crucial days of the national banks from engaging, directly tary engagements that helped deter- American Revolution between December 25, or indirectly, in real estate brokerage mine the course of our history as a Na- 1776, and January 3, 1777, that General Wash- tion. Many of these locations, like the ington, after retreating across the State of or real estate management activities, New Jersey from the State of New York to and for other purposes. site where George Washington made his historic crossing of the Delaware the State of Pennsylvania in the face of total S. 138 defeat, recrossed the Delaware River on the River, are well known and preserved. At the request of Mr. ROCKEFELLER, night of December 25, 1776, and went on to the names of the Senator from Wash- Others, such as the Monmouth Battle- win crucial battles at Trenton and Princeton field State Park in Manalapan and ington (Mrs. MURRAY), the Senator in the State of New Jersey; Freehold, and New Bridge Landing in (4) Thomas Paine, who accompanied the from New Mexico (Mr. BINGAMAN), and River Edge, are less well known and troops during the retreat, described the the Senator from Maryland (Mr. SAR- are threatened by development or in events during those days as ‘‘the times that BANES) were added as cosponsors of S. try men’s souls’’; 138, a bill to temporarily increase the critical need of funding for rehabilita- tion. (5) the sites of 296 military engagements Federal medical assistance percentage are located in the State of New Jersey, in- To help preserve New Jersey’s Revo- for the medicaid program. cluding— lutionary War sites, this legislation S. 185 (A) several important battles of the Amer- would establish a Crossroads of the ican Revolution that were significant to— At the request of Mr. LEAHY, the American Revolution National Herit- (i) the outcome of the American Revolu- name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. age Area, linking about 250 sites in 15 tion; and NELSON) was added as a cosponsor of S. counties. This designation would au- (ii) the history of the United States; and 185, a bill to authorize emergency sup- thorize $10 million to assist preserva- (B) several national historic landmarks, plemental assistance to combat the tion, recreational and educational ef- including Washington’s Crossing, the Old Trenton Barracks, and Princeton, Mon- growing humanitarian crisis in sub-Sa- forts by the State, county and local haran Africa. mouth, and Red Bank Battlefields; governments as well as private cultural (6) additional national historic landmarks S. 225 and tourism groups. The program in the State of New Jersey include the homes At the request of Mr. DASCHLE, the would be managed by the non-profit of— name of the Senator from Washington Crossroads of the American Revolution (A) Richard Stockton, Joseph Hewes, John (Mrs. MURRAY) was added as a cospon- Association. Witherspoon, and Francis Hopkinson, signers sor of S. 225, a bill to provide for emer- Simply put, we are the Nation that of the Declaration of Independence; gency unemployment compensation. we are today because of the critical (B) Elias Boudinout, President of the Con- tinental Congress; and S.J. RES. 4 events that occurred in New Jersey (C) William Livingston, patriot and Gov- At the request of Mr. HATCH, the during the American Revolution and ernor of the State of New Jersey from 1776 to names of the Senator from Georgia the many who died fighting there. By 1790; (Mr. CHAMBLISS) and the Senator from enacting the Crossroads of the Amer- (7) portions of the landscapes important to Alaska (Ms. MURKOWSKI) were added as ican Revolution National Heritage the strategies of the British and Continental

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armies, including waterways, mountains, tity for the Heritage Area designated by sec- (c) APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF MANAGE- farms, wetlands, villages, and roadways— tion 4(d). MENT PLAN.— (A) retain the integrity of the period of the (4) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—The term ‘‘man- (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days American Revolution; and agement plan’’ means the management plan after the date of receipt of the management (B) offer outstanding opportunities for con- for the Heritage Area developed under sec- plan under subsection (a), the Secretary servation, education, and recreation; tion 5. shall approve or disapprove the management (8) the National Register of Historic Places (5) MAP.—The term ‘‘map’’ means the map plan. lists 251 buildings and sites in the National entitled ‘‘Crossroads of the American Revo- (2) CRITERIA.—In determining whether to Park Service study area for the Crossroads lution National Heritage Area’’, numbered approve the management plan, the Secretary of the American Revolution that are associ- CRRE\80,000, and dated April 2002. shall consider whether— ated with the period of the American Revolu- (6) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ (A) the Board of Directors of the manage- tion; means the Secretary of the Interior. ment entity is representative of the diverse (9) civilian populations residing in the (7) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the interests of the Heritage Area, including— State of New Jersey during the American State of New Jersey. (i) governments; Revolution suffered extreme hardships be- SEC. 4. CROSSROADS OF THE AMERICAN REVO- (ii) natural and historic resource protec- cause of— LUTION NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA. tion organizations; (A) the continuous conflict in the State; (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established (iii) educational institutions; (B) foraging armies; and in the State the Crossroads of the American (iv) businesses; and (C) marauding contingents of loyalist To- Revolution National Heritage Area. (v) recreational organizations; ries and rebel sympathizers; (b) BOUNDARIES.—The Heritage Area shall (B) the management entity provided ade- (10) because of the important role that the consist of the land and water within the quate opportunity for public and govern- State of New Jersey played in the successful boundaries of the Heritage Area, as depicted mental involvement in the preparation of outcome of the American Revolution, there on the map. the management plan, including public hear- is a Federal interest in developing a regional (c) AVAILABILITY OF MAP.—The map shall ings; framework to assist the State of New Jersey, be on file and available for public inspection (C) the resource protection and interpreta- local governments and organizations, and in the appropriate offices of the National tion strategies in the management plan private citizens in— Park Service. would adequately protect the cultural, his- (A) preserving and protecting cultural, his- (d) MANAGEMENT ENTITY.—The Association toric, and natural resources of the Heritage toric, and natural resources of the period; shall be the management entity for the Her- Area; and and itage Area. (D) the Secretary has received adequate as- (B) bringing recognition to those resources SEC. 5. MANAGEMENT PLAN. surances from the appropriate State and local officials whose support is needed to en- for the educational and recreational benefit (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years of the present and future generations of citi- after the date on which funds are first made sure the effective implementation of the zens of the United States; and available to carry out this Act, the manage- State and local aspects of the management (11) the National Park Service has con- ment entity shall submit to the Secretary plan. ducted a national heritage area feasibility for approval a management plan for the Her- (3) ACTION FOLLOWING DISAPPROVAL.—If the study in the State of New Jersey that dem- itage Area. Secretary disapproves the management plan under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall— onstrates that there is a sufficient assem- (b) REQUIREMENTS.—The management plan blage of nationally distinctive cultural, his- shall— (A) advise the management entity in writ- toric, and natural resources necessary to es- (1) include comprehensive policies, strate- ing of the reasons for the disapproval; tablish the Crossroads of the American Revo- gies, and recommendations for conservation, (B) make recommendations for revisions to lution National Heritage Area. funding, management, and development of the management plan; and (b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act the Heritage Area; (C) not later than 60 days after the receipt are— (2) take into consideration existing State, of any proposed revision of the management (1) to assist communities, organizations, county, and local plans; plan from the management entity, approve and citizens in the State of New Jersey in (3) describe actions that units of local gov- or disapprove the proposed revision. (d) AMENDMENTS.— preserving— ernment, private organizations, and individ- (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall ap- (A) the special historic identity of the uals have agreed to take to protect the cul- prove or disapprove each amendment to the State; and tural, historic, and natural resources of the management plan that the Secretary deter- (B) the importance of the State to the Heritage Area; mines may make a substantial change to the United States; (4) identify existing and potential sources management plan. (2) to foster a close working relationship of funding for the protection, management, (2) USE OF FUNDS.—Funds made available among all levels of government, the private and development of the Heritage Area during under this Act shall not be expended by the sector, and local communities in the State; the first 5 years of implementation of the management entity to implement an amend- (3) to provide for the management, preser- management plan; and ment described in paragraph (1) until the vation, protection, and interpretation of the (5) include— Secretary approves the amendment. cultural, historic, and natural resources of (A) an inventory of the cultural, edu- (e) IMPLEMENTATION.—On completion of the the State for the educational and inspira- cational, historic, natural, recreational, and tional benefit of future generations; 3-year period described in subsection (a), any scenic resources of the Heritage Area relat- funding made available under this Act shall (4) to strengthen the value of Morristown ing to the themes of the Heritage Area that National Historical Park as an asset to the be made available to the management entity should be restored, managed, or developed; only for implementation of the approved State by— (B) recommendations of policies and strat- management plan. (A) establishing a network of related his- egies for resource management that result toric resources, protected landscapes, edu- SEC. 6. AUTHORITIES, DUTIES, AND PROHIBI- in— TIONS APPLICABLE TO THE MAN- cational opportunities, and events depicting (i) application of appropriate land and AGEMENT ENTITY. the landscape of the State of New Jersey water management techniques; and (a) AUTHORITIES.—For purposes of pre- during the American Revolution; and (ii) development of intergovernmental and paring and implementing the management (B) establishing partnerships between Mor- interagency cooperative agreements to pro- plan, the management entity may use funds ristown National Historical Park and other tect the cultural, educational, historic, nat- made available under this Act to— public and privately owned resources in the ural, recreational, and scenic resources of (1) make grants to, provide technical as- Heritage Area that represent the strategic the Heritage Area; sistance to, and enter into cooperative agree- fulcrum of the American Revolution; and (C) a program of implementation of the ments with, the State (including a political (5) to authorize Federal financial and tech- management plan that includes for the first subdivision), a nonprofit organization, or nical assistance for the purposes described in 5 years of implementation— any other person; paragraphs (1) through (4). (i) plans for resource protection, restora- (2) hire and compensate staff, including in- SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. tion, construction; and dividuals with expertise in— In this Act: (ii) specific commitments for implementa- (A) cultural, historic, or natural resource (1) ASSOCIATION.—The term ‘‘Association’’ tion that have been made by the manage- protection; or means the Crossroads of the American Revo- ment entity or any government, organiza- (B) heritage programming; lution Association, Inc., a nonprofit corpora- tion, or individual; (3) obtain funds or services from any tion in the State. (D) an analysis of and recommendations source (including a Federal law or program); (2) HERITAGE AREA.—The term ‘‘Heritage for ways in which Federal, State, and local (4) contract for goods or services; and Area’’ means the Crossroads of the American programs, including programs of the Na- (5) support any other activity— Revolution National Heritage Area estab- tional Park Service, may be best coordinated (A) that furthers the purposes of the Herit- lished by section 4(a). to promote the purposes of this Act; and age Area; and (3) MANAGEMENT ENTITY.—The term ‘‘man- (E) an interpretive plan for the Heritage (B) that is consistent with the manage- agement entity’’ means the management en- Area. ment plan.

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Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, sup- management plan by— (3) OPERATIONAL ASSISTANCE.—Subject to porting the war on terrorism in Af- (A) carrying out programs and projects the availability of appropriations, the Super- ghanistan. The second bill will exclude that recognize, protect, and enhance impor- intendent of Morristown National Historical from gross income child care benefits tant resource values in the Heritage Area; Park may, on request, provide to public and paid to members of our armed forces. (B) establishing and maintaining interpre- private organizations in the Heritage Area, These are small measures, but both tive exhibits and programs in the Heritage including the management entity, any oper- will be of great benefit to the men and Area; ational assistance that is appropriate for the women serving our country. (C) developing recreational and edu- purpose of supporting the implementation of Diego Garcia is a British Territory cational opportunities in the Heritage Area; the management plan. lying seven degrees South Latitude off (D) increasing public awareness of and ap- (4) PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC PROP- preciation for cultural, historic, and natural ERTIES.—To carry out the purposes of this the coast of India, in the middle of the resources of the Heritage Area; Act, the Secretary may provide assistance to Indian Ocean. The island is 40 miles (E) protecting and restoring historic sites a State or local government or nonprofit or- around and encompasses an area of and buildings that are— ganization to provide for the appropriate 6,720 acres, most of it dominated by a (i) located in the Heritage Area; and treatment of— large lagoon. The land mass is actually (ii) related to the themes of the Heritage (A) historic objects; or very small. It is home to a joint Brit- Area; (B) structures that are listed or eligible for ish—United States Naval Support Fa- (F) ensuring that clear, consistent, and ap- listing on the National Register of Historic propriate signs identifying points of public Places. cility, and while there are only a small access and sites of interest are installed (5) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The Sec- handful of British Royal Navy per- throughout the Heritage Area; and retary may enter into cooperative agree- sonnel on the island, there is a larger, (G) promoting a wide range of partnerships ments with the management entity and tight-knit team of American Air Force, among governments, organizations, and indi- other public or private entities to carry out Navy, Marine Corps and Army per- viduals to further the purposes of the Herit- this subsection. sonnel there. These men and women age Area; (b) OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES.—Any Fed- serving on Diego Garcia have been sup- (2) in preparing and implementing the eral agency conducting or supporting an ac- porting B–52 bombing missions and management plan, consider the interests of tivity that directly affects the Heritage Area diverse units of government, businesses, or- shall— other operations over Afghanistan. ganizations, and individuals in the Heritage (1) consult with the Secretary and the They will be called into service in the Area; management entity regarding the activity; event of war with Iraq, they served this (3) conduct public meetings at least semi- (2)(A) cooperate with the Secretary and the purpose in the previous Gulf War. annually regarding the development and im- management entity in carrying out the of As a Nation, we provide members of plementation of the management plan; the Federal agency under this Act; and our armed forces with a variety of ben- (4) for any fiscal year for which Federal (B) to the maximum extent practicable, co- efits, all of them deserved. They re- funds are received under this Act— ordinate the activity with the carrying out ceive hardship duty pay of $150 per of those duties; and (A) submit to the Secretary a report that month for serving in austere regions of describes for the year— (3) to the maximum extent practicable, (i) the accomplishments of the manage- conduct the activity to avoid adverse effects the World. They get imminent danger ment entity; on the Heritage Area. pay of $150 per month as compensation (ii) the expenses and income of the man- SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. for being in physical danger. One of the agement entity; and (a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be most generous benefits for those serv- (iii) each entity to which a grant was appropriated to carry out this Act $10,000,000, ing in the war on terrorism is the com- made; of which not more than $1,000,000 may be au- bat zone tax exclusion. Enlisted mem- (B) make available for audit all informa- thorized to be appropriated for any fiscal bers of the armed services do not pay tion relating to the expenditure of the funds year. Federal taxes on their compensation and any matching funds; and (b) COST-SHARING REQUIREMENT.—The Fed- (C) require, for all agreements authorizing eral share of the cost of any activity assisted for any month of service inside a com- expenditures of Federal funds by any entity, under this Act shall be not more than 50 per- bat zone. Officers pay tax on any that the receiving entity make available for cent. amount of income over the highest sal- audit all records and other information re- SEC. 9. TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY. ary for enlisted personnel. Both offi- lating to the expenditure of the funds; The authority of the Secretary to provide cers and enlisted personnel have to (5) encourage, by appropriate means, eco- assistance under this Act terminates on the serve one day in the combat zone to get nomic viability that is consistent with the date that is 15 years after the date of enact- this benefit for the entire month. The purposes of the Heritage Area; and ment of this Act. exclusion only applies to personnel who (6) maintain headquarters for the manage- ment entity at Morristown National Histor- By Ms. LANDRIEU: receive imminent danger pay. ical Park and in Mercer County. S. 234. A bill to provide that members On Diego Garcia, the pilots and flight of the Armed Forces performing serv- crews who fly the missions over Af- (c) PROHIBITION ON THE ACQUISITION OF ghanistan are eligible for the combat REAL PROPERTY.— ices on the Island of Diego Garcia shall zone income tax exclusion because they (1) FEDERAL FUNDS.—The management en- be entitled to tax benefits in the same tity shall not use Federal funds made avail- manner as if such services were per- receive imminent danger pay. Many of able under this Act to acquire real property formed in a combat zone; and for other them are from the 2nd Bomb Wing and or any interest in real property. purposes; to the Committee on Fi- the 917th Wing. Both units call (2) OTHER FUNDS.—Notwithstanding para- nance. Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana graph (1), the management entity may ac- their home. But the men and women quire real property or an interest in real By Ms. LANDRIEU: who load the bombers, fuel them, and property using any other source of funding, S. 235. A bill to amend the Internal maintain them are not eligible because including other Federal funding. Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the they do not enter the combat zone. SEC. 7. TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE; treatment of dependent care assistance Barksdale is also their home base. My OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES. programs sponsored by the Department office was contacted by some of the (a) TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL ASSIST- of Defense for members of the Armed Barksdale officers who fly the bombing ANCE.— Forces of the United States; to the missions about this discrepancy. They (1) IN GENERAL.—On the request of the Committee on Finance. asked me to help out their support management entity, the Secretary may pro- Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I rise crews, a gesture of selflessness that I vide technical and financial assistance to the today to reintroduce two bills that I Heritage Area for the development and im- seek to honor today. plementation of the management plan. originally sponsored in the 107th Con- I recognize that the support crews (2) PRIORITY FOR ASSISTANCE.—In providing gress. As our Nation prepares to go to may not receive imminent danger pay, assistance under paragraph (1), the Secretary war with Iraq and continues the war but their situation is not too different shall give priority to actions that assist in— against terrorism, my bills will give from Naval personnel performing the

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The least we tation Security Act that allows foreign (a) ALIENS COVERED BY WAITING PERIOD.— could do is treat everyone who has flight school applicants to train on Subsection (a) of section 44939(a) of title 49, served on the island the same. That is small planes without being subjected United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking ‘‘A person subject’’ and in- what my bill will do. to a background check. My second bill will correct an omis- serting: As we all know, in the wake of the ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A person subject’’; sion in the Tax Reform Act of 1986. September 11 terrorist attacks, it was (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) That Act contained a provision consoli- discovered that many of the hijackers as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; dating the laws regarding the tax received flight training in the United (3) by striking ‘‘any aircraft having a max- treatment of certain military benefits. imum certificated takeoff weight of 12,500 States. In addition, Zacarias The Conference Report to that Act con- pounds or more’’ and inserting ‘‘an aircraft’’ Moussaoui, the alleged ‘‘20th hijacker,’’ tains a long list of benefits to be ex- in paragraph (1) as redesignated; was apprehended by investigators in cluded from gross income of military (4) by striking ‘‘paragraph (1)’’ in para- Minnesota after accounts that he was graph (1)(B), as redesignated, and inserting personnel. According to the report, this only interested in learning to fly, not ‘‘subparagraph (A)’’; and list was to be exhaustive. The problem land, an airplane. (5) by adding at the end the following: is that child care benefits are not on ‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—The requirements of para- that list. Section 113 of the Aviation and graph (1) shall not apply to an alien who— I do not know if this omission was in- Transportation Security Act, which ‘‘(A) has earned a Federal Aviation Admin- tentional. Perhaps at that time, child was enacted in the 107th Congress, re- istration type rating in an aircraft; or care benefits were relatively unknown quires background checks of all foreign ‘‘(B) holds a current pilot’s license or for- in the military. The Conference Report flight school applicants seeking train- eign equivalent commercial pilot’s license gives the Treasury Secretary the au- ing to operate aircraft weighing 12,500 that permits the person to fly an aircraft with a maximum certificated takeoff weight thority to expand the list of eligible pounds or more. While this provision should help ensure that events like the of more than 12,500 pounds as defined by the benefits, but so far no Secretary has International Civil Aviation Organization in chosen to provide any guidance to the September 11 attacks are not per- Annex 1 to the Convention on International Department of Defense as to how these formed by U.S.-trained pilots using hi- Civil Aviation.’’. benefits should be treated for tax pur- jacked jets in the future, it does noth- (b) PROCEDURES.— poses. While military families are not ing to prevent different types of poten- (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days currently being taxed for child care tial attacks against our domestic secu- after the date of enactment of this Act, the rity. Attorney General shall promulgate regula- benefits, the Department of Defense tions to implement section 44939 of title 49, has indicated that it would like Con- Last year, the FBI issued a terrorism United States Code. gress to clarify that child care benefits warning indicating that small planes (2) USE OF OVERSEAS FACILITIES.—In order are not subject to tax. My bill will give might be used to carry out suicide at- to implement the amendments made to sec- our military families and the Depart- tacks. Small aircraft can be used by tion 44939 of title 49, United States Code, by ment of Defense a greater degree of terrorists to attack nuclear facilities, this section, United States Embassies and certainty. carry explosives, or deliver biological Consulates that have fingerprinting capa- I am pleased that my dependent care or chemical agents. For example, if a bility shall provide fingerprinting services to crop duster filled with a combination aliens covered by that section if the Attor- provision has been included in S. 19, ney General requires their fingerprinting in the Veterans and Military Personnel of fertilizers and explosives were the administration of that section, and Fairness Act of 2003. The same provi- crashed into a filled sporting event sta- transmit the fingerprints to the Department sion had been included in a similar dium thousands of people could be seri- of Justice and any other appropriate agency. package in the last Congress. I urge the ously injured or killed. We cannot The Attorney General shall cooperate with Finance Committee to consider this allow this to happen. We need to ensure the Secretary of State to carry out this package very soon and to include my that we are not training terrorists to paragraph. perform these activities. We cannot (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Not later than 120 Diego Garcia bill in the final package. days after the date of enactment of this Act, Throughout our history, in time of allow critical warnings to go unheeded. the Attorney General shall promulgate regu- war we have worked to make sure that My legislation would close the loop- lations to implement the amendments made our armed forces have everything they hole and answer the critical warnings by this section. The Attorney General may need and we have spared no expense in issued by the FBI. At the same time, not interrupt or prevent the training of any meeting that need. But the men and this amendment would provide an ex- person described in section 44939(a)(1) of title women on the ground often have fami- 49, United States Code, who commenced ception to the background check re- training on aircraft with a maximum certifi- lies back at home. We should make quirement for foreign pilots who al- cated takeoff weight of 12,500 pounds or less sure that we support them as well. I ready hold a pilot’s license or foreign before, or within 120 days after, the date of urge my colleagues to support this leg- equivalent allowing them to fly large enactment of this Act unless the Attorney islation. aircraft in and out of the United General determines that the person rep- States. Foreign pilots who have al- resents a risk to aviation or national secu- rity. By Mr. NELSON of Florida (for ready been approved to land large jets himself, Mr. CORZINE, Mr. (d) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after at U.S. airports need not be required to the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec- THOMAS, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, and undergo additional background checks. retary of Transportation and the Attorney Mr. ENZI): General shall jointly submit to the Com- S. 236. A bill to require background I am once again joined in this effort to close this dangerous loophole in the mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- checks of alien flight school applicants tation of the Senate and to the Committee without regard to the maximum cer- Aviation and Transportation Security on Transportation and Infrastructure of the tificated weight of the aircraft for Act by Senators CORZINE, ENZI, FEIN- House of Representatives, a report on the ef- which they seek training, and to re- STEIN, and THOMAS, and I look forward fectiveness of the activities carried out under section 44939 of title 49, United States quire a report on the effectiveness of to the Senate’s prompt consideration of this legislation. Code, in reducing risks to aviation and na- the requirement; to the Committee on tional security. Commerce, Science, and Transpor- I ask unanimous consent that the tation. text of the bill be printed in the By Mr. REED (for himself, Mr. Mr. NELSON of Florida. Mr. Presi- RECORD. KENNEDY, Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. dent, I rise to re-introduce legislation There being no objection, the bill was JEFFORDS, Mr. DASCHLE, Ms. that would close a serious loophole in ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as COLLINS, Mr. DODD, Mrs. CLIN- the current law regulating background follows: TON, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. LEVIN,

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1741 Mr. LEAHY, Mr. HARKIN, Mr. 2003 doubles the minimum State allot- Sec. 301. Purpose. SMITH, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. CORZINE, ment under the LSTA to $680,000. Sec. 302. Definitions. Ms. LANDRIEU, and Mr. BAUCUS): The minimum State allotment has Sec. 303. Museum services activities. S. 238. A bill to reauthorize the Mu- remained flat at $340,000 since 1971, Sec. 304. Repeals. Sec. 305. Authorization of appropriations. seum and Library Services Act, and for hampering the literacy and cultural ef- other purposes; to the Committee on forts of our Nation’s smaller States. An TITLE IV—NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION Health, Education, Labor, and Pen- analysis prepared by the staff of the SCIENCE ACT sions. Joint Economic Committee shows that Mr. REED. Mr. President, today I Sec. 401. Amendment to contributions. it would take approximately $1.5 mil- Sec. 402. Amendment to membership. rise to introduce that Museum and Li- lion for our small States to keep pace TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS brary Services Act of 2003. I am pleased with inflation. The library community to be joined by Senators KENNEDY, has instead suggested a modest, but es- Sec. 501. Amendments to Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act. COCHRAN, COLLINS, SNOWE, SMITH, sential doubling of the minimum state Sec. 502. National Children’s Museum. DASCHLE, JEFFORDS, DODD, HARKIN, allotment to $680,000. This will enable Sec. 503. Technical corrections. CLINTON, SARBANES, LEVIN, LEAHY, every State to benefit and implement Sec. 504. Conforming amendment. CORZINE, LANDRIEU, and BAUCUS in in- the valuable services and programs Sec. 505. Repeals. troducing this legislature to strength- that larger states have been able to put Sec. 506. Effective date. en museum and library services. in place. We heard about the impor- TITLE I—GENERAL PROVISIONS The Federal Government has a long tance of this change from David SEC. 101. GENERAL DEFINITIONS. history of supporting our Nation’s li- Macksam, Director of the Cranston Section 202 of the Museum and Library braries and museums, providing direct Public Library, during a Health, Edu- Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9101) is amended— aid to public libraries since the adop- cation, Labor, and Pensions Committee (1) by striking paragraphs (1) and (4); tion of the Library Services and Con- hearing that I chaired last April. (2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para- struction Act, LSCA, in 1956 and fund- Last year, efforts to move this legis- graph (1); ing to museums since the enactment of lation were stymied over concerns (3) by inserting after paragraph (1), as re- the Museum Services Act in 1976. As a about certain IMLS grants and how designated by paragraph (2) of this section, result of this support, our lives and the following: much funding should be authorized for ‘‘(2) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘Indian tribe’ culture have been enriched. library and museum programs. The means any tribe, band, nation, or other orga- My predecessor, Senator Claiborne President’s forthcoming fiscal year 2004 nized group or community, including any Pell, was instrumental in the creation budget will contain a modest, although Alaska native village, regional corporation, of the Museum Services Act, as well as record, increase in funding for these or village corporation, as defined in or estab- the development and enactment of the programs, which I hope will alleviate lished pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Museum and Library Services Act in these concerns. As such, I hope we can Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), which 1996. This law reauthorized Federal li- move forward early in this session of is recognized by the Secretary of the Interior brary and museum programs under a as eligible for the special programs and serv- Congress on a bipartisan basis on a ices provided by the United States to Indians newly created independent Federal swift reauthorization of the Museum because of their status as Indians.’’; and agency called the Institute for Museum and Library Services act. (4) by adding at the end the following: and Library Services, IMLS. I urge my colleagues to cosponsor ‘‘(4) MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES I am proud to continue Senator Pell’s this important legislation and work for BOARD.—The term ‘Museum and Library tradition of supporting libraries and its passage. Services Board’ means the National Museum museums by introducing this legisla- I ask unanimous consent that the and Library Services Board established tion to day to extend the authorization text of this legislation be printed in under section 207.’’. of museum and library services the RECORD. SEC. 102. INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY through fiscal year 2009 and to make There being no objection, the bill was SERVICES. several important modifications to Section 203 of the Museum and Library ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9102) is amended— current law. follows: (1) in subsection (b), by striking the last The bill ensures that library activi- S. 238 sentence; and ties are coordinated with the school li- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- (2) by adding at the end the following: brary program I authored, which is resentatives of the United States of America in ‘‘(c) MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES now part of the No Child Left Behind Congress assembled, BOARD.—There shall be a National Museum Act of 2001. It establishes a Museum SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. and Library Services Board within the Insti- and Library Services Board to advise This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Museum and tute, as provided under section 207.’’. the Director of IMLS, and it authorizes Library Services Act of 2003’’. SEC. 103. DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE. IMLS to issue a National Award for Li- SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Section 204 of the Museum and Library brary Service as well as a National The table of contents for this Act is as fol- Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9103) is amended— lows: (1) in subsection (e), by adding at the end Award for Museum Service. The bill the following: ‘‘Where appropriate, the Di- also ensures that a portion of adminis- Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. rector shall ensure that activities under sub- trative funds is used to analyze annu- title B are coordinated with activities under TITLE I—GENERAL PROVISIONS ally the impact of museum and library section 1251 of the Elementary and Sec- services to identify needs and trends of Sec. 101. General definitions. ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. services provided under museum and li- Sec. 102. Institute of Museum and Library 6383).’’; and Services. (2) by adding at the end the following: brary programs. Our bill also estab- Sec. 103. Director of the Institute. lishes a reservation of 1.75 percent of ‘‘(f) REGULATORY AUTHORITY.—The Direc- Sec. 104. National Museum and Library tor may promulgate such rules and regula- funds for museum services for Native Services Board. tions as are necessary and appropriate to im- Americans, a similar reservation is Sec. 105. Awards; analysis of impact of serv- plement the provisions of this title.’’. ices. currently provided for library services SEC. 104. NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY under the Library Services and Tech- TITLE II—LIBRARY SERVICES AND SERVICES BOARD. nology subtitle. Lastly, the bill up- TECHNOLOGY The Museum and Library Services Act (20 dates the uses of funds for library and Sec. 201. Purpose. U.S.C. 9101 et seq.) is amended— museum programs and increases the Sec. 202. Definitions. (1) by redesignating section 207 as section authorization under the Library Serv- Sec. 203. Authorization of appropriations. 208; and Sec. 204. Reservations and allotments. ices and Technology Act, LSTA, from (2) by inserting after section 206 the fol- Sec. 205. State plans. lowing: $150 million to $350 million and the Mu- Sec. 206. Grants to States. ‘‘SEC. 207. NATIONAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY seum Services Act from $28.7 million to Sec. 207. National leadership grants, con- SERVICES BOARD. tracts, or cooperative agree- $65 million. ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established I want to specifically highlight one ments. in the Institute a board to be known as the other provision in the legislation. The TITLE III—MUSEUM SERVICES ‘National Museum and Library Services Museum and Library Services Act of Sec. 300. Short title. Board’.

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‘‘(b) MEMBERSHIP.— ‘‘(A) TREATMENT OF MEMBERS SERVING ON ‘‘(1) COMPENSATION.—Each member of the ‘‘(1) NUMBER AND APPOINTMENT.—The Mu- EFFECTIVE DATE.—Notwithstanding sub- Museum and Library Services Board who is seum and Library Services Board shall be section (b), each individual who is a member not an officer or employee of the Federal composed of the following: of the National Museum Services Board on Government may be compensated at a rate ‘‘(A) The Director. the day before the date of enactment of the to be fixed by the President, but not to ex- ‘‘(B) The Deputy Director for the Office of Museum and Library Services Act of 2003, ceed the daily equivalent of the maximum Library Services. may, at the individual’s election, complete annual rate of pay authorized for a position ‘‘(C) The Deputy Director for the Office of the balance of the individual’s term as a above grade GS–15 of the General Schedule Museum Services. member of the Museum and Library Services under section 5108 of title 5, United States ‘‘(D) The Chairman of the National Com- Board. Code, for each day (including travel time) mission on Libraries and Information ‘‘(B) FIRST APPOINTMENTS.—Notwith- during which such member is engaged in the Science. standing subsection (b), any appointive va- performance of the duties of the Museum and ‘‘(E) 10 members appointed by the Presi- cancy in the initial membership of the Mu- Library Services Board. Members of the Mu- dent, by and with the advice and consent of seum and Library Services Board existing seum and Libraries Services Board who are the Senate, from among individuals who are after the application of subparagraph (A), full-time officers or employees of the Federal citizens of the United States and who are and any vacancy in such membership subse- Government may not receive additional pay, specially qualified in the area of library quently created by reason of the expiration allowances, or benefits by reason of their services by virtue of their education, train- of the term of an individual described in sub- service on the Board. ing, or experience. paragraph (A), shall be filled by the appoint- ‘‘(2) TRAVEL EXPENSES.—Each member of ‘‘(F) 11 members appointed by the Presi- ment of a member described in subsection the Museum and Library Services Board dent, by and with the advice and consent of (b)(1)(E). When the Museum and Library shall receive travel expenses, including per the Senate, from among individuals who are Services Board consists of an equal number diem in lieu of subsistence, in accordance citizens of the United States and who are of individuals who are specially qualified in with applicable provisions under subchapter specially qualified in the area of museum the area of library services and individuals I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code. services by virtue of their education, train- who are specially qualified in the area of mu- ‘‘(i) COORDINATION.—The Director, with the ing, or experience. seum services, this subparagraph shall cease advice of the Museum and Library Services ‘‘(2) SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS.— to be effective and the members of the Mu- Board, shall take steps to ensure that the ‘‘(A) LIBRARY MEMBERS.—Of the members seum and Library Services Board shall be ap- policies and activities of the Institute are of the Museum and Library Services Board pointed in accordance with subsection (b). coordinated with other activities of the Fed- appointed under paragraph (1)(E)— ‘‘(C) AUTHORITY TO ADJUST TERMS.—The eral Government.’’. ‘‘(i) 5 shall be professional librarians or in- terms of the first members appointed to the SEC. 105. AWARDS; ANALYSIS OF IMPACT OF formation specialists, of whom— Museum and Library Services Board shall be SERVICES. ‘‘(I) not less than 1 shall be knowledgeable adjusted by the President as necessary to en- The Museum and Library Services Act (20 about electronic information and technical sure that the terms of not more than 4 mem- U.S.C. 9101 et seq.) is amended by inserting aspects of library and information services bers expire in the same year. Such adjust- after section 208 (as redesignated by section and sciences; and ments shall be carried out through designa- 104 of this Act) the following: ‘‘(II) not less than 1 shall be knowledgeable tion of the adjusted term at the time of ap- ‘‘SEC. 209. AWARDS. about the library and information service pointment. ‘‘The Director, with the advice of the Mu- needs of underserved communities; and ‘‘(3) VACANCIES.—Any member appointed to seum and Library Services Board, may annu- ‘‘(ii) the remainder shall have special com- fill a vacancy shall serve for the remainder ally award National Awards for Library petence in, or knowledge of, the needs for li- of the term for which the predecessor of the Service and National Awards for Museum brary and information services in the United member was appointed. Service to outstanding libraries and out- States. ‘‘(4) REAPPOINTMENT.—No appointive mem- standing museums, respectively, that have ‘‘(B) MUSEUM MEMBERS.—Of the members of ber of the Museum and Library Services made significant contributions in service to the Museum and Library Services Board ap- Board who has been a member for more than their communities. pointed under paragraph (1)(F)— 7 consecutive years shall be eligible for re- ‘‘SEC. 210. ANALYSIS OF IMPACT OF MUSEUM AND ‘‘(i) 5 shall be museum professionals who appointment. LIBRARY SERVICES. are or have been affiliated with— ‘‘(5) SERVICE UNTIL SUCCESSOR TAKES OF- ‘‘From amounts appropriated under sec- ‘‘(I) resources that, collectively, are broad- FICE.—Notwithstanding any other provision tions 214(c) and 274(b), the Director shall ly representative of the curatorial, conserva- of this subsection, an appointive member of carry out and publish analyses of the impact tion, educational, and cultural resources of the Museum and Library Services Board of museum and library services. Such anal- the United States; or shall serve after the expiration of the term yses— ‘‘(II) museums that, collectively, are of the member until the successor to the ‘‘(1) shall be conducted in ongoing con- broadly representative of various types of member takes office. sultation with— museums, including museums relating to ‘‘(d) DUTIES AND POWERS.— ‘‘(A) State library administrative agencies; science, history, technology, art, zoos, bo- ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Museum and Library ‘‘(B) State, regional, and national library tanical gardens, and museums designed for Services Board shall advise the Director on and museum organizations; and children; and general policies with respect to the duties, ‘‘(C) other relevant agencies and organiza- ‘‘(ii) the remainder shall be individuals powers, and authority of the Institute relat- tions; recognized for their broad knowledge, exper- ing to museum and library services, includ- ‘‘(2) shall identify national needs for, and tise, or experience in museums or commit- ing financial assistance awarded under this trends of, museum and library services pro- ment to museums. title. vided with funds made available under sub- ‘‘(3) GEOGRAPHIC AND OTHER REPRESENTA- ‘‘(2) NATIONAL AWARDS.—The Museum and titles B and C; TION.—Members of the Museum and Library Library Services Board shall assist the Di- ‘‘(3) shall report on the impact and effec- Services Board shall be appointed to reflect rector in making awards under section 209. tiveness of programs conducted with funds individuals from various geographic regions ‘‘(e) CHAIRPERSON.—The Director shall made available by the Institute in addressing of the United States. The Museum and Li- serve as Chairperson of the Museum and Li- such needs; and brary Services Board may not include, at brary Services Board. ‘‘(4) shall identify, and disseminate infor- any time, more than 3 appointive members ‘‘(f) MEETINGS.— mation on, the best practices of such pro- from a single State. In making such appoint- ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Museum and Library grams to the agencies and entities described ments, the President shall give due regard to Services Board shall meet not less than 2 in paragraph (1).’’. equitable representation of women, minori- times each year and at the call of the Direc- TITLE II—LIBRARY SERVICES AND ties, and persons with disabilities who are in- tor. TECHNOLOGY volved with museums and libraries. ‘‘(2) VOTE.—All decisions by the Museum SEC. 201. PURPOSE. ‘‘(4) VOTING.—The Director, the Deputy Di- and Library Services Board with respect to Section 212 of the Library Services and rector of the Office of Library Services, and the exercise of its duties and powers shall be Technology Act (20 U.S.C. 9121) is amended the Deputy Director of the Office of Museum made by a majority vote of the members of by striking paragraphs (2) through (5) and in- Services shall be nonvoting members of the the Board who are present and authorized to serting the following: Museum and Library Services Board. vote. ‘‘(2) to promote improvement in library ‘‘(c) TERMS.— ‘‘(g) QUORUM.—A majority of the voting services in all types of libraries in order to ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro- members of the Museum and Library Serv- better serve the people of the United States; vided in this subsection, each member of the ices Board shall constitute a quorum for the ‘‘(3) to facilitate access to resources in all Museum and Library Services Board ap- conduct of business at official meetings, but types of libraries for the purpose of culti- pointed under subparagraph (E) or (F) of sub- a lesser number of members may hold hear- vating an educated and informed citizenry; section (b)(1) shall serve for a term of 5 ings. and years. ‘‘(h) COMPENSATION AND TRAVEL EX- ‘‘(4) to encourage resource sharing among ‘‘(2) INITIAL BOARD APPOINTMENTS.— PENSES.— all types of libraries for the purpose of

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1743 achieving economical and efficient delivery the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of TITLE III—MUSEUM SERVICES of library services to the public.’’. Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau to carry SEC. 300. SHORT TITLE. SEC. 202. DEFINITIONS. out activities described in this subtitle in ac- Subtitle C of the Museum and Library Section 213 of the Library Services and cordance with the provisions of this subtitle Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9171 et seq.) is amend- Technology Act (20 U.S.C. 9122) is amended— that the Director determines are not incon- ed by inserting before section 271 the fol- (1) by striking paragraph (1); and sistent with this subparagraph. lowing: ‘‘(ii) AWARD BASIS.—The Director shall (2) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), (4), ‘‘SEC. 270. SHORT TITLE. award grants pursuant to clause (i) on a (5), and (6) as paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), and ‘‘This subtitle may be cited as the ‘Mu- competitive basis and pursuant to rec- (5), respectively. seum Services Act’.’’. SEC. 203. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. ommendations from the Pacific Region Edu- cational Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii. SEC. 301. PURPOSE. Section 214 of the Library Services and Section 271 of the Museum and Library Technology Act (20 U.S.C. 9123) is amended— ‘‘(iii) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—The Director may provide not more than 5 percent of the Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9171) is amended to (1) by amending subsection (a) to read as read as follows: follows: funds made available for grants under this ‘‘SEC. 271. PURPOSE. ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to subparagraph to pay the administrative be appropriated to carry out this subtitle costs of the Pacific Region Educational Lab- ‘‘It is the purpose of this subtitle— $350,000,000 for fiscal year 2004 and such sums oratory regarding activities assisted under ‘‘(1) to encourage and support museums in as may be necessary for fiscal years 2005 this subparagraph.’’. carrying out their public service role of con- through 2009.’’; and SEC. 205. STATE PLANS. necting the whole of society to the cultural, (2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘3 per- Section 224 of the Library Services and artistic, historical, natural, and scientific cent’’ and inserting ‘‘3.5 percent’’. Technology Act (20 U.S.C. 9134) is amended— understandings that constitute our heritage; (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘not ‘‘(2) to encourage and support museums in SEC. 204. RESERVATIONS AND ALLOTMENTS. later than April 1, 1997.’’ and inserting ‘‘once carrying out their educational role, as core Section 221(b)(3) of the Library Services every 5 years, as determined by the Direc- providers of learning and in conjunction with and Technology Act (20 U.S.C. 9131(b)(3)) is tor.’’; and schools, families, and communities; amended to read as follows: (2) in subsection (f)— ‘‘(3) to encourage leadership, innovation, ‘‘(3) MINIMUM ALLOTMENTS.— (A) by striking ‘‘this Act’’ each place such and applications of the most current tech- ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this sub- term appears and inserting ‘‘this subtitle’’; nologies and practices to enhance museum section, the minimum allotment for each (B) in paragraph (1)— services; State shall be $340,000, except that the min- (i) by striking ‘‘1934,’’ and all that follows ‘‘(4) to assist, encourage, and support mu- imum allotment shall be $40,000 in the case through ‘‘Act, may’’ and inserting ‘‘1934 (47 seums in carrying out their stewardship re- of the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, U.S.C. 254(h)(6)) may’’; and sponsibilities to achieve the highest stand- American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the (ii) by striking ‘‘section 213(2)(A) or (B)’’ ards in conservation and care of the cultural, Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of and inserting ‘‘section 213(1)(A) or (B)’’; and historic, natural, and scientific heritage of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of (C) in paragraph (7)— the United States to benefit future genera- Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph tions; ‘‘(B) RATABLE REDUCTIONS.—Notwith- (A), by striking ‘‘section:’’ and inserting ‘‘(5) to assist, encourage, and support mu- standing subparagraph (A), if the sum appro- ‘‘subsection:’’; and seums in achieving the highest standards of priated under the authority of section 214 (ii) in subparagraph (D), by striking management and service to the public, and and not reserved under subsection (a) for any ‘‘given’’ and inserting ‘‘applicable to’’. to ease the financial burden borne by muse- fiscal year is insufficient to fully satisfy the SEC. 206. GRANTS TO STATES. ums as a result of their increasing use by the requirement of subparagraph (A), each of the Section 231 of the Library Services and public; and minimum allotments under such subpara- Technology Act (20 U.S.C. 9141) is amended— ‘‘(6) to support resource sharing and part- graph shall be reduced ratably. (1) in subsection (a), by striking para- nerships among museums, libraries, schools, ‘‘(C) EXCEPTION.— graphs (1) and (2) and inserting the following: and other community organizations.’’. ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding sub- ‘‘(1) expanding services for learning and ac- SEC. 302. DEFINITIONS. paragraph (A), if the sum appropriated under cess to information and educational re- the authority of section 214 and not reserved Section 272(1) of the Museum and Library sources in a variety of formats, in all types Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9172(1)) is amended by under subsection (a) for any fiscal year ex- of libraries, for individuals of all ages; ceeds the aggregate of the allotments for all adding at the end the following: ‘‘Such term ‘‘(2) developing library services that pro- includes aquariums, arboretums, botanical States under this subsection for fiscal year vide all users access to information through 2003— gardens, art museums, children’s museums, local, State, regional, national, and inter- general museums, historic houses and sites, ‘‘(I) the minimum allotment for each State national electronic networks; otherwise receiving a minimum allotment of history museums, nature centers, natural ‘‘(3) providing electronic and other link- history and anthropology museums, plan- $340,000 under subparagraph (A) shall be in- ages among and between all types of librar- creased to $680,000; and etariums, science and technology centers, ies; specialized museums, and zoological parks.’’. ‘‘(II) the minimum allotment for each ‘‘(4) developing public and private partner- SEC. 303. MUSEUM SERVICES ACTIVITIES. State otherwise receiving a minimum allot- ships with other agencies and community- Section 273 of the Museum and Library ment of $40,000 under subparagraph (A) shall based organizations; Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9173) is amended to be increased to $60,000. ‘‘(5) targeting library services to individ- read as follows: ‘‘(ii) INSUFFICIENT FUNDS TO AWARD ALTER- uals of diverse geographic, cultural, and so- NATIVE MINIMUM.—If the sum appropriated cioeconomic backgrounds, to individuals ‘‘SEC. 273. MUSEUM SERVICES ACTIVITIES. under the authority of section 214 and not re- with disabilities, and to individuals with ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director, subject to served under subsection (a) for any fiscal limited functional literacy or information the policy advice of the Museum and Library year exceeds the aggregate of the allotments skills; and Services Board, may enter into arrange- for all States under this subsection for fiscal ‘‘(6) targeting library and information ments, including grants, contracts, coopera- year 2003 yet is insufficient to fully satisfy services to persons having difficulty using a tive agreements, and other forms of assist- the requirement of clause (i), such excess library and to underserved urban and rural ance to museums and other entities as the amount shall first be allotted among the communities, including children (from birth Director considers appropriate, to pay for States described in clause (i)(I) so as to in- through age 17) from families with incomes the Federal share of the cost— crease equally the minimum allotment for below the poverty line (as defined by the Of- ‘‘(1) to support museums in providing each such State above $340,000. After the re- fice of Management and Budget and revised learning and access to collections, informa- quirement of clause (i)(I) is fully satisfied for annually in accordance with section 673(2) of tion, and educational resources in a variety any fiscal year, any remainder of such excess the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 of formats (including exhibitions, programs, amount shall be allotted among the States U.S.C. 9902(2))) applicable to a family of the publications, and websites) for individuals of described in clause (i)(II) so as to increase size involved.’’; and all ages; equally the minimum allotment for each (2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘between ‘‘(2) to support museums in building learn- such State above $40,000. the two purposes described in paragraphs (1) ing partnerships with the Nation’s schools ‘‘(D) SPECIAL RULE.— and (2) of such subsection,’’ and inserting and developing museum resources and pro- ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any ‘‘among such purposes,’’. grams in support of State and local school other provision of this subsection and using SEC. 207. NATIONAL LEADERSHIP GRANTS, CON- curricula; funds allotted for the Republic of the Mar- TRACTS, OR COOPERATIVE AGREE- ‘‘(3) to support museums in assessing, con- shall Islands, the Federated States of Micro- MENTS. serving, researching, maintaining, and ex- nesia, and the Republic of Palau under this Section 262(a)(1) of the Library Services hibiting their collections, and in providing subsection, the Director shall award grants and Technology Act (20 U.S.C. 9162(a)(1)) is educational programs to the public through to the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, amended by striking ‘‘education and train- the use of their collections; American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the ing’’ and inserting ‘‘education, recruitment, ‘‘(4) to stimulate greater collaboration Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of and training’’. among museums, libraries, schools, and

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00055 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1744 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 29, 2003 other community organizations in order to bequests, and devises of services or prop- ‘‘Subtitle B—Library Services and share resources and strengthen communities; erty,’’. Technology’’. ‘‘(5) to encourage the use of new tech- SEC. 402. AMENDMENT TO MEMBERSHIP. (d) SUBTITLE C HEADING.—The subtitle nologies and broadcast media to enhance ac- Section 6(a) of the National Commission on heading for subtitle C of the Museum and Li- cess to museum collections, programs, and Libraries and Information Science Act (20 brary Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9171 et seq.) is services; U.S.C. 1505(a)) is amended— amended to read as follows: ‘‘(6) to support museums in providing serv- (1) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘and ‘‘Subtitle C—Museum Services’’. ices to people of diverse geographic, cultural, at least one other of whom shall be knowl- (e) CONTRIBUTIONS.—Section 208 of the Mu- and socioeconomic backgrounds and to indi- edgeable with respect to the library and in- seum and Library Services Act (20 U.S.C. viduals with disabilities; formation service and science needs of the 9106) (as redesignated by section 104 of this ‘‘(7) to support museums in developing and elderly’’; Act) is amended by striking ‘‘property of carrying out specialized programs for spe- (2) by amending the fourth sentence to services’’ and inserting ‘‘property or serv- cific segments of the public, such as pro- read as follows: ‘‘A majority of members of ices’’. grams for urban neighborhoods, rural areas, the Commission who have taken office and (f) STATE PLAN CONTENTS.—Section Indian reservations, and State institutions; are serving on the Commission shall con- 224(b)(5) of the Library Services and Tech- ‘‘(8) to support professional development stitute a quorum for conduct of business at nology Act (20 U.S.C. 9134(b)(5)) is amended and technical assistance programs to en- official meetings of the Commission’’; and by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end. hance museum operations at all levels, in (3) in the fifth sentence, by striking ‘‘five (g) NATIONAL LEADERSHIP GRANTS, CON- order to ensure the highest standards in all years, except that’’ and all that follows TRACTS, OR COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—Sec- aspects of museum operations; through the period and inserting ‘‘five years, tion 262(b)(1) of the Library Services and ‘‘(9) to support museums in research, pro- except that— Technology Act (20 U.S.C. 9162(b)(1)) is gram evaluation, and the collection and dis- ‘‘(1) a member of the Commission ap- amended by striking ‘‘cooperative agree- semination of information to museum pro- pointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to ments, with,’’ and inserting ‘‘cooperative fessionals and the public; and the expiration of the term for which the agreements with,’’. ‘‘(10) to encourage, support, and dissemi- member’s predecessor was appointed, shall nate model programs of museum and library be appointed only for the remainder of such SEC. 504. CONFORMING AMENDMENT. collaboration. term; and Section 170(e)(6)(B)(i)(III) of the Internal ‘‘(b) FEDERAL SHARE.— ‘‘(2) any member of the Commission may Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the special ‘‘(1) 50 PERCENT.—Except as provided in continue to serve after an expiration of the rule for contributions of computer tech- paragraph (2), the Federal share described in member’s term of office until such member’s nology and equipment for educational pur- subsection (a) shall be not more than 50 per- successor is appointed, has taken office, and poses) is amended by striking ‘‘section cent. is serving on the Commission.’’. 213(2)(A) of the Library Services and Tech- ‘‘(2) GREATER THAN 50 PERCENT.—The Direc- nology Act (20 U.S.C. 9122(2)(A)’’ and insert- tor may use not more than 20 percent of the TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ing ‘‘section 213(1)(A) of the Library Services funds made available under this subtitle for SEC. 501. AMENDMENTS TO ARTS AND ARTIFACTS and Technology Act (20 U.S.C. 9122(1)(A))’’. INDEMNITY ACT. a fiscal year to enter into arrangements SEC. 505. REPEALS. Section 5 of the Arts and Artifacts Indem- under subsection (a) for which the Federal (a) NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND nity Act (20 U.S.C. 974) is amended— share may be greater than 50 percent. INFORMATION SCIENCE ACT.—Section 5 of the (1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘(3) OPERATIONAL EXPENSES.—No funds for National Commission on Libraries and Infor- ‘‘$5,000,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$8,000,000,000’’; operational expenses may be provided under mation Science Act (20 U.S.C. 1504) is amend- (2) in subsection (c), by striking this section to any entity that is not a mu- ed by striking subsections (b) and (c) and re- ‘‘$500,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$750,000,000’’; seum. designating subsections (d), (e), and (f) as and ‘‘(c) REVIEW AND EVALUATION.—The Direc- subsections (b), (c), and (d), respectively. tor shall establish procedures for reviewing (3) in subsection (d)— (b) MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES ACT OF (A) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘or’’ after and evaluating arrangements described in 1996.—Sections 704 through 707 of the Mu- the semicolon; subsection (a) entered into under this sub- seum and Library Services Act of 1996 (20 (B) by striking paragraph (7) and inserting title. Procedures for reviewing such arrange- U.S.C. 9102 note, 9103 note, and 9105 note) are the following: ments shall not be subject to any review out- repealed. side of the Institute. ‘‘(7) not less than $400,000,000 but less than SEC. 506. EFFECTIVE DATE. ‘‘(d) SERVICES FOR NATIVE AMERICANS.— $500,000,000, then coverage under this chapter From amounts appropriated under section shall extend only to loss or damage in excess The amendments made by this Act shall 274, the Director shall reserve 1.75 percent to of the first $400,000 of loss or damage to take effect on October 1, 2003. award grants to, or enter into contracts or items covered; or cooperative agreements with, Indian tribes ‘‘(8) $500,000,000 or more, then coverage By Mr. FRIST (for himself, Mr. and to organizations that primarily serve under this chapter shall extend only to loss KENNEDY, MR. ENZI, Mrs. MUR- and represent Native Hawaiians (as defined or damage in excess of the first $500,000 of RAY, Mr. ROBERTS, and Mr. in section 7207 of the Native Hawaiian Edu- loss or damage to items covered.’’. GRAHAM of South Carolina): cation Act (20 U.S.C. 7517)) to enable such SEC. 502. NATIONAL CHILDREN’S MUSEUM. S. 239. A bill to amend the Public tribes and organizations to carry out the ac- (a) DESIGNATION.—The Capital Children’s Health Services Act to add require- tivities described in subsection (a).’’. Museum located at 800 Third Street, NE, ments regarding trauma care, and for SEC. 304. REPEALS. Washington, D.C. (or any successor location), Sections 274 and 275 of the Museum and Li- other purposes; to the Committee on organized under the laws of the District of Health, Education, Labor, and Pen- brary Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9174 and 9175) Columbia, is designated as the ‘‘National are repealed. Children’s Museum’’. sions. SEC. 305. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. (b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, each year, Section 276 of the Museum and Library map, regulation, document, paper, or other nearly one of every four Americans are Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9176)— record of the United States to the Capital injured and require medical attention. (1) is redesignated as section 274 of such Children’s Museum referred to in subsection Among Americans younger than age Act; and (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the 44, trauma is the leading killer. While (2) is amended, in subsection (a), by strik- National Children’s Museum. injury prevention programs have great- ing ‘‘$28,700,000 for the fiscal year 1997, and SEC. 503. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. ly reduced death and disability, severe such sums as may be necessary for each of (a) TITLE HEADING.—The title heading for the fiscal years 1998 through 2002.’’ and in- injuries will continue. Given the events the Museum and Library Services Act (20 of September 11, 2001 and our Nation’s serting ‘‘$65,000,000 for fiscal year 2004 and U.S.C. 9101 et seq.) is amended to read as fol- such sums as may be necessary for fiscal lows: renewed focus on enhancing disaster years 2005 through 2009.’’. preparedness, it is critical that the ‘‘TITLE II—MUSEUM AND LIBRARY TITLE IV—NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LI- SERVICES’’. Federal Government increase its com- BRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE mitment to strengthening programs ACT (b) SUBTITLE A HEADING.—The subtitle heading for subtitle A of the Museum and Li- governing trauma care system plan- SEC. 401. AMENDMENT TO CONTRIBUTIONS. brary Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9101 et seq.) is ning and development. Section 4 of the National Commission on amended to read as follows: The direct and indirect cost of injury Libraries and Information Science Act (20 is estimated to be about $260 billion a U.S.C. 1503) is amended by striking ‘‘accept, ‘‘Subtitle A—General Provisions’’. hold, administer, and utilize gifts, bequests, (c) SUBTITLE B HEADING.—The subtitle year. The death rate from uninten- and devises of property,’’ and inserting ‘‘so- heading for subtitle B of the Museum and Li- tional injury is more than 50 percent licit, accept, hold, administer, invest in the brary Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9121 et seq.) is higher in rural areas than in urban name of the United States, and utilize gifts, amended to read as follows: areas. It is essential that all Americans

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1745 have access to a trauma system that is the widespread view that trauma is Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. President, I provides definitive care as quickly as an accident, an unfortunate and often rise today to introduce legislation that possible. unavoidable injury. But this is often would extend the 10-cents-per-gallon In recent years, Congress has sought not the case. small ethanol producers’ tax credit to to address this issue through the Trau- Proven preventive measures could small farmer-owned cooperatives. The ma Care Systems Planning and Devel- save up to 25,000 lives every year. Bet- measure, if approved by Congress, opment Act, which provides grants for ter treatment systems can give victims could help boost ethanol production at the purpose of planning, implementing, a better chance of recovery, by deliv- a time when domestic energy prices are and developing statewide trauma care ering quality care as quickly as pos- on the rise and the United States is systems. However, this important pro- sible. seeking to reduce its dependence on gram expired last year before Congress A trauma system is a coordinated ef- foreign oil. could reauthorize it. Therefore, I am fort to provide the full range of care to Under current law, small ethanol introducing bipartisan legislation all injured patients. Treatment begins producers, those who make less than 30 today, along with Senators KENNEDY, at the site of injury, and continues million gallons of ethanol per year, are ENZI, MURRAY, ROBERTS and GRAHAM of from prehospital to hospital to reha- eligible for an additional 10-cents-per- South Carolina to reauthorize this im- bilitative services. Resources, sup- gallon-tax credit for up to 15 million portant program. porting equipment, and personnel are gallons of ethanol each year. While the Despite our past investments, one- ready and trained to go into action. tax credit is intended to help maximize half of the states in the country are The skills and knowledge of health U.S. ethanol production by aiding still without a statewide trauma care care experts are not enough. Optimal small producers that otherwise may system. Clearly we can do better. We care is the result of advance planning, not be able to compete with larger must respond to the goals put forth by preparation, and coordination to companies, an unintended glitch in the the Institute of Medicine in 1999 that produce smooth transitions and the law bars small farm cooperatives from Congress ‘‘support a greater national proper sequence of interventions. Ef- passing this credit on to their farmers. commitment to, and support of, trau- fective trauma systems accomplish all Unfortunately, this glitch stifles pro- ma care systems at the federal, state, this, saves lives, and reduces costs. duction and penalizes farmers who join and local levels.’’ Much of the progress in developing cooperatives. Today’s bill, the ‘‘Trauma Care Sys- trauma systems has occurred as a re- Farm cooperatives can be an efficient tems Planning and Development Act of sult of Federal funding and involve- way for farmers to trim costs and 2003’’, reauthorizes this program with ment. In 1973, Congress passed the maximize income. We must ensure that several improvements: First, it im- Emergency Medical Services Act, pro- our tax code does not penalize farmers proves the collection and analysis of viding $300 million to States and com- for pooling their resources in coopera- trauma patient data with the goal of munities over an 8-year period. With- tives. With rising energy prices and a improving the overall system of care out that funding, patients in hundreds potentiality vast new market for eth- for these patients; second, at this time of regions in the Nation might not anol in the Nation’s clean air program, of increasing pressure on state budgets, have had prompt access to emergency we should encourage, not discourage, the bill reduces the amount of match- care. Even today, there are parts of the greater production by ethanol coopera- ing funds that states will have to pro- Nation without 911 access and imme- tives. vide to participate in the program so diate emergency transportation. This legislation would revise existing that we can extend quality trauma In 1990, Congress passed the Trauma tax law to permit farmer-owned co- care systems across the nation; third, Care Systems Planning and Develop- operatives to pass the small producers’ the legislation provides a self-evalua- ment Act, authorizing Federal grants ethanol tax credit on to their members tion mechanism to assist states in as- to States to develop statewide trauma through dividends and allow these pro- sessing and improving their trauma care systems. Funding for this program ducers to treat this income as if they care systems; fourth, it authorizes an has been inadequate. From 1995 to 2000, had generated it directly. Institute of Medicine study on the States received no funding at all. Last The bill would also expand the num- state of trauma care and trauma re- year, only $3.5 million was appro- ber of producers eligible for the tax search; and; finally, it doubles the priated for the entire country. As a re- credit by doubling the production limit funding available for this program to sult, only half of all States today have from 30 million gallons of ethanol a allow additional states to participate. fully functional statewide trauma sys- year 60 million gallons. Like most busi- I appreciate the assistance of Sen- tems. Clearly, we must do better in nesses, ethanol production facilities ators KENNEDY, ENZI, MURRAY, ROB- providing needed trauma care. must achieve economies of scale to be ERTS and GRAHAM of South Carolina on Our legislation reauthorizes and viable in a competitive marketplace. this important legislation, and look strengthens the trauma care program Doubling the limit to 60 million gallons forward to working with them, and to establish effective trauma systems simply modernizes the tax credit to re- with Senator GREGG, the Chairman of in all States. It asks the Institutes of flect current economic realities. the Senate Health, Education, Labor Medicine to investigate the quality of I believe we must approach the new and Pensions Committee, to see this trauma care and identify areas for im- millennium with a renewed commit- bill passed this year. provement. Surprisingly, given the ment to keep our environment clean Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, it is burden of trauma on society, less than and safe, and I also believes this objec- an honor to join Senator FRIST in in- 1 percent of resources at the NIH are tive is consistent with building and troducing the Trauma Care Systems devoted to trauma research. maintaining a strong economy. Renew- Planning and Development Act. Our Our legislation is supported by the able energy is central to our long-term goal in this bipartisan legislation is to Coalition for American Trauma Care, goal of energy self-sufficiency. By ex- enable all States to develop more effec- the American College of Surgeons, and panding eligibility for the small pro- tive trauma care systems. the American Trauma Society. Its en- ducers’ ethanol tax credit, this bill Trauma is the No. 1 killer of Ameri- actment is important to public safety, could stimulate ethanol production and cans under age 44. Traumatic injuries and I urge the Senate to approve it. ultimately help lessen our dependence robs, devastate families and cost the on foreign sources of oil. Nation an estimated $60 billion every By Mr. FITZGERALD (for him- Realizing this important benefit, the year. In 1995 alone, injuries were re- self, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. HAGEL, Senate included this legislation in the sponsible for 148,000 deaths, 2.6 million and Mr. HARKIN): comprehensive energy legislation, H.R. hospitalizations, and over 36 million S. 240. A bill to amend the Internal 4, which unfortunately, failed to emergency room visits. Revenue Code of 1986 to allow alloca- emerge from conference committee Despite this toll, we have done little tion of small ethanol producer credit to prior to the end of the 107th Congress. in recent years to prevent trauma or patrons of cooperative, and for other Additionally, this small ethanol pro- improve the chance of recovery from purposes; to the Committee on Fi- ducer tax credit legislation was incor- traumatic injury. Part of the problem nance. porated into Senator GRASSLEY’s ‘‘Tax

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In 1972, Congress responded to con- forward to working with our new Fi- (3) ALLOWING CREDIT AGAINST ENTIRE REG- nance Committee Chairman and my co- ULAR TAX AND MINIMUM TAX.— cerns over the increasing demands sponsor, Senators JOHNSON, HAGEL, and (A) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (c) of section being placed on our nation’s coastal re- HARKIN, to get this legislation signed 38 of such Code (relating to limitation based gions and resources by enacting of the into law. on amount of tax) is amended by redesig- Coastal Zone Management Act. These I ask unanimous consent that the nating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5) and by pressures have greatly increased since text of the bill be printed in the inserting after paragraph (3) the following the act was originally authorized. RECORD. new paragraph: Although the coastal zone only com- There being no objection, the bill was ‘‘(4) SPECIAL RULES FOR SMALL ETHANOL prises 10 percent of the contiguous U.S. PRODUCER CREDIT.— ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as land area, nearly 53 percent of all ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In the case of the small follows: ethanol producer credit— Americans live in these coastal re- S. 240 ‘‘(i) this section and section 39 shall be ap- gions, and more than 3,600 people are Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- plied separately with respect to the credit, relocating there annually. This small resentatives of the United States of America in and portion of our country supports ap- Congress assembled, ‘‘(ii) in applying paragraph (1) to the cred- proximately 361 sea-ports, contains SECTION 1. SMALL ETHANOL PRODUCER CREDIT. it— most of our largest cities, and serves as (a) ALLOCATION OF ALCOHOL FUELS CREDIT ‘‘(I) the amounts in subparagraphs (A) and critical habitat for a variety of plants (B) thereof shall be treated as being zero, and TO PATRONS OF A COOPERATIVE.—Subsection and animals. (g) of section 40 of the Internal Revenue Code ‘‘(II) the limitation under paragraph (1) (as of 1986 (relating to alcohol used as fuel) is modified by subclause (I)) shall be reduced This bill reauthorizes and makes a amended by adding at the end the following by the credit allowed under subsection (a) for number of important improvements to new paragraph: the taxable year (other than the small eth- the Coastal Zone Management Act. ‘‘(6) ALLOCATION OF SMALL ETHANOL PRO- anol producer credit). Under the authorities in this act, DUCER CREDIT TO PATRONS OF COOPERATIVE.— ‘‘(B) SMALL ETHANOL PRODUCER CREDIT.— coastal States can choose to partici- ‘‘(A) ELECTION TO ALLOCATE.— For purposes of this subsection, the term pate in the voluntary Federal Coastal ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a coopera- ‘small ethanol producer credit’ means the Zone Management Program. States tive organization described in section 1381(a), credit allowable under subsection (a) by rea- then design individual coastal zone any portion of the credit determined under son of section 40(a)(3).’’. management programs, taking their subsection (a)(3) for the taxable year may, at (B) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Subclause the election of the organization, be appor- (II) of section 38(c)(2)(A)(ii) and subclause (II) specific needs and problems into ac- tioned pro rata among patrons of the organi- of section 38(c)(3)(A)(ii) are each amended by count, and then receive federal match- zation on the basis of the quantity or value inserting ‘‘or the small ethanol producer ing funds to help carry out their pro- of business done with or for such patrons for credit’’ after ‘‘employee credit’’. gram plans. State coastal zone pro- the taxable year. (4) SMALL ETHANOL PRODUCER CREDIT NOT grams manage issues ranging from pub- ‘‘(ii) FORM AND EFFECT OF ELECTION.—An ADDED BACK TO INCOME UNDER SECTION 87.— lic access to beaches, to protecting election under clause (i) for any taxable year Section 87 of such Code (relating to income habitat, to coordinating permits for shall be made on a timely filed return for inclusion of alcohol fuel credit) is amended such year. Such election, once made, shall be to read as follows: coastal development. As voluntary program, the frame- irrevocable for such taxable year. ‘‘SEC. 87. ALCOHOL FUEL CREDIT. ‘‘(B) TREATMENT OF ORGANIZATIONS AND PA- ‘‘Gross income includes an amount equal work of the CZMA provides guidelines TRONS.—The amount of the credit appor- to the sum of— for State plans to address multiple en- tioned to patrons under subparagraph (A)— ‘‘(1) the amount of the alcohol mixture vironmental, societal, cultural, and ‘‘(i) shall not be included in the amount de- credit determined with respect to the tax- economic objectives. termined under subsection (a) with respect payer for the taxable year under section The health of our coastal zone is vi- to the organization for the taxable year, 40(a)(1), and tally important not only to the mul- ‘‘(ii) shall be included in the amount deter- ‘‘(2) the alcohol credit determined with re- titude of plants and animals that in- mined under subsection (a) for the taxable spect to the taxpayer for the taxable year habit this area, but also to the people year of each patron for which the patronage under section 40(a)(2).’’. and communities that are dependent (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 1388 dividends for the taxable year described in on it for their livelihood. For example, subparagraph (A) are included in gross in- of such Code (relating to definitions and spe- come, and cial rules for cooperative organizations) is coastal areas provide habitat for more ‘‘(iii) shall be included in gross income of amended by adding at the end the following than 75 percent of the U.S. commercial such patrons for the taxable year in the new subsection: fisheries and 85 percent of the U.S. rec- manner and to the extent provided in section ‘‘(k) CROSS REFERENCE.—For provisions re- reational fisheries. In turn, the com- 87. lating to the apportionment of the alcohol mercial fishing industry, along with ‘‘(C) SPECIAL RULES FOR DECREASE IN CRED- fuels credit between cooperative organiza- value-added services included, contrib- tions and their patrons, see section 40(g)(6).’’. ITS FOR TAXABLE YEAR.—If the amount of the utes $40 billion to the U.S. economy (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments credit of a cooperative organization deter- each year. Recreational fishing adds mined under subsection (a)(3) for a taxable made by this section shall apply to taxable year is less than the amount of such credit years beginning after the date of the enact- another $25 billion to the economy. shown on the return of the cooperative orga- ment of this Act. The Coastal Zone Management Pro- nization for such year, an amount equal to gram can be used to help balance the the excess of— By Ms. SNOWE (for herself, Mr. conservation of fish stocks with the de- ‘‘(i) such reduction, over KERRY, Mr. MCCAIN, and Mr. mands that we place on coastal areas. ‘‘(ii) the amount not apportioned to such HOLLINGS): In my State of Maine, a $150,000 study patrons under subparagraph (A) for the tax- S. 241. A bill to amend the Coastal of the State’s cargo needs led to a $27 able year, Zone Management Act; read the first million bond issue for cargo port im- shall be treated as an increase in tax im- time. posed by this chapter on the organization. provements. As a result, Bath Iron Such increase shall not be treated as tax im- Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, I rise Works built a new $45 million facility, posed by this chapter for purposes of deter- today to support the Coastal Zone En- creating 1,000 new jobs. Similar work mining the amount of any credit under this hancement Reauthorization Act of needs to be done with our fishing ports chapter or for purposes of section 55.’’. 2003. I am pleased to have bipartisan so that when fisheries stock rebound, (b) IMPROVEMENTS TO SMALL ETHANOL PRO- support for this bill and to be joined by the fishermen will be able to realize DUCER CREDIT.— the chair and ranking Democrats of the the returns. (1) DEFINITION OF SMALL ETHANOL PRO- Commerce Committee and the Sub- Unfortunately our precious coastal DUCER.—Section 40(g) of such Code (relating to definitions and special rules for eligible committee on Oceans and Fisheries. resources are being threatened by envi- small ethanol producer credit) is amended by Senators MCCAIN, HOLLINGS, and ronmental problems, including non- striking ‘‘30,000,000’’ each place it appears KERRY have been instrumental in de- point source pollution. Although the and inserting ‘‘60,000,000’’. veloping the wide range of support for States are currently taking action to

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1747 address this problem under existing au- State receives is determined by a for- I am pleased to support this legisla- thority, the Coastal Zone Enhance- mula that takes into account both the tion that will provide the States with ment Reauthorization Act of 2003 en- length of the coastline and the popu- the necessary funding and framework courages, but does not require, them to lation of each State. to meet the challenges facing our take additional steps to combat these However, sine 1992, the Appropria- coastal communities in the 21st Cen- problems through the Coastal Commu- tions Committee has imposed a $2 mil- tury. I urge my colleagues to support. nity Program. lion dollar cap per State on adminis- This initiative provides States with trative grants. This was an attempt to By Mr. DOMENICI (for himself the funding and flexibility needed to ensure equitable allocation to all the and Mr. BENNETT): deal with their specific nonpoint source participating States. Over the past 8 S. 242. A bill to amend the Internal pollution problems. The States will years, appropriations for administra- Revenue Code of 1986 to provide the have the ability to implement local so- tive grants have increased by $19 mil- same capital gains treatment for art lutions to a broad array of local prob- lion, yet the $2 million cap has re- and collectibles as for other invest- lems. Many States are actively en- mained. The result has been an inequi- ment property and to provide that a gaged in nonpoint source pollution pro- table distribution of these new funds. deduction equal to fair market value grams and all can benefit from this By fiscal year 2000, 13 States had shall be allowed for charitable con- new tool I am proud to say that Maine reached this arbitrary $2 million cap. tributions of literary, musical, artistic, has risen to the challenge and already These 13 States account for 83 percent or scholarly compositions created by spends close to 30 percent of its funding of our Nation’s coastline and 76 percent the donor; to the Committee on Fi- on such activities. This has led to the of our coastal population. nance. reopening of hundreds of acres of shell- It is not equitable to have the 13 Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I rise fish beds and the restoration of fish States with the largest coastlines and today to introduce again legislation to nursery areas. Even with these suc- populations stuck at a $2 million dollar eliminate one of the great inconsist- cesses, Maine is looking forward to this cap, despite major overall funding in- encies in the Internal Revenue Code. new opportunity to do more. creases. While smaller States have en- The bill I am introducing today with The Coastal Community Program in joyed additional programmatic success Senator BENNETT is designed to restore this bill also aides States in developing due to an influx of funding, some of the some internal consistency to the tax and implementing creative initiatives larger States have stagnated. code as it applies to art and artists. No to deal with problems other than In an attempt to reassure members of one has ever said that the tax code is nonpoint source pollution. It increases the Appropriations Committee that a fair even though it has always been a Federal and State support of Local fair distribution of funds can occur theoretical objective of the code to community-based programs that ad- without this hard cap in place, I have treat similar taxpayers similarly. dress coastal environmental issues, worked with Senator HOLLINGS to de- The bill I am introducing today such as the impact of development and velop language that has been included would address two areas where simi- sprawl on coastal uses and resources. in this bill that directs the Secretary larly situated taxpayers are not treat- This type of bottom-up management of Commerce to ensure equitable in- ed the same. approach is critical. creases or decreases between funding Internal inconsistency #1 deals with The Coastal Zone Enhancement Re- years for each State. It further re- the long-term capital gains tax treat- authorization Act of 2003 significantly quires that States should not experi- ment of investments in art and collect- increases the authorization levels for ence a decrease in base program funds ibles. If a person invests in stocks or the Coastal Zone Management Pro- in any year when the overall appropria- bonds, holds the asset for the requisite gram, allowing States to better address tions increase. period of time, and sells at a gain, the their coastal management plan goals. I thank Senator HOLLINGS for his as- tax treatment is long term capital The bill authorizes $135.5 million for sistance in resolving this matter and gains. The top capital gains tax rate is fiscal year 2004, $141 million for fiscal his commitment over the years to en- 20 percent, 18 percent, if the asset is year 2005 and increases the authoriza- suring that the states are treated fair- held for five or more years. However, if tion levels by $5.5 million each year ly. the same person invests in art or col- through fiscal year 2008. This increase The Coastal Zone Management Pro- lectibles the top rate is hiked up to 28 in funding is necessary to allow the gram enjoys wide support among all of percent. Art for art’s sake should not coastal programs to reach their full po- the coastal States due to its history of incur an additional 40 percent tax bill tential. success. This support has been clearly simply for revenue’s sake. That is a big Additionally, the Coastal Zone En- demonstrated by the many members of impact on the pocketbook of the be- hancement Reauthorization Act of 2003 the Commerce Committee who have holder. increases authorization for the Na- worked with me to strengthen this pro- Art and collectibles are alternatives tional Estaurine Research Reserve Sys- gram over the past several years. to financial instruments as an invest- tem, NERRS, to $13 million in fiscal I thank Senator KERRY, the ranking ment choice. To create a tax disadvan- year 2004 with an additional $1 million Democrat of the Oceans and Fisheries tage with respect to one investment increase each year through fiscal year Subcommittee, for his hard work and compared to another creates an artifi- 2008. NERRS is a network of reserves support of this bill. I would also like to cial market and may lead to poor in- across the country that are operated as express my appreciation to Senator vestment allocations. It also adversely a cooperative Federal-State partner- MCCAIN, the chairman of the Com- impacts those who make their liveli- ship. merce Committee, and Senator HOL- hood in the cultural sectors of the Currently, there are 25 reserves in 22 LINGS, the ranking Democrat of the economy. States. They provide an important op- Committee, for their support of this Santa Fe, NM, is the third largest art portunity for long-term research and measure and for their willingness to market in the country. We have a di- education in these ecosystems. Addi- discharge this bill out of the com- verse colony of artists, collectors and tional funds will help strengthen this mittee so that we may begin working gallery owners. We have fabulous Na- nationwide program which has not re- with our colleagues in the House of tive American rug weavers, potters, ceived increased funding commensu- Representatives to enact this critical and carvers. Creative giants like Geor- rate with the addition of new reserves. piece of legislation. gia O’Keeffe, Maria Martinez, E.L. I wish to address a very serious prob- This is a solid, reasonable, and a real- Blumenshein, Allan Houser, R.C. lem facing the Coastal Zone Manage- istic bill that enjoys bipartisan support Gorman, and Glenna Goodacre have all ment Program that we have tried to on the Commerce Committee. It is chosen New Mexico as their home and rectify in this bill. The Administrative time that we now turn to legislation as their artistic subject. John Nieto, Grant Program, section 306, serves as reauthorizing a program with a long Wilson Hurley, Clark Hulings, Veryl the base funding mechanism for the track record of preserving our coastal Goodnight, Bill Acheff, Susan States’ coastal zone management pro- environment while allowing sensible Rothenberg, Bruce Nauman, Agnes grams. The amount of funding each development. Martin, Doug Hyde, Margaret Nez, Dan

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00059 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1748 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 29, 2003 Ostermiller are additional examples of buoyant bond prices drive you berserk table deduction was approximately $48 living artists creating art in New Mex- and spiraling stock prices scare you, million over ten years. ico. art may be the appropriate investment. I hope my colleagues will help me put Art, antiques, and collectibles are a Because art and collectibles are invest- the internally consistent into the In- $12 to $20 billion annual industry na- ments, the long-term capital gains tax ternal Revenue Code for art’s sake. tionwide. In New Mexico, it has been treatment should be the same as for I ask unanimous consent that the estimated that art and collectible sales stocks and bonds. This bill would ac- text of the bill be printed in the range between $500 million and $1 bil- complish that. RECORD. lion a year. Artists will benefit. Gallery owners There being no objection, the bill was Economists have always been inter- will benefit. Collectors will benefit. ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as ested in the economics of the arts. And museums benefit from collectors. follows: Adam Smith is a well-known econo- About 90 percent of what winds up in S. 242 mist. He was also a serious, but little- museums like the New York’s Metro- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- known essayist on painting, dancing, politan Museum of Art comes from col- resentatives of the United States of America in and poetry. Keynes was a passionate lectors. Congress assembled, devotee of painting. Collecting isn’t just for the hoyty SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. Even the artistically inclined econo- toity. It seems that everyone collects This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Art and Col- mists found it difficult to define art something. Some collections are better lectibles Capital Gains Tax Treatment Par- within the context of economic theory. investments than others. Some collec- ity Act’’. When asked to define jazz, Louis Arm- tions are just bizarre. The internet SEC. 2. CAPITAL GAINS TREATMENT FOR ART strong replied: ‘‘If you gotta ask, you makes collecting big business. AND COLLECTIBLES. ain’t never going to know.’’ The flea market fanatics are also (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1(h) of the Inter- A similar conundrum has challenged avid collectors. In fact, people collect nal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to max- Galbraith and other economists who imum capital gains rate) is amended by the darndest things. Books, duck de- striking paragraphs (5) and (6) and inserting have grappled with the definitional coys, chia pets, snowglobes, thimbles, the following new paragraph: issues associated with bringing art handcuffs, spectacles, baseball cards, ‘‘(5) 28-PERCENT RATE GAIN.—For purposes within the economic calculus. Original and guns. of this subsection, the term ‘28-percent rate art objects are, as a commodity group, For most of these collections, capital gain’ means the excess (if any) of— characterized by a set of attributes: gains isn’t really an issue, but you ‘‘(A) section 1202 gain, over every unit of output is differentiated never know. You may find that your ‘‘(B) the sum of— from every other unit of output; art collecting passion has created a tax ‘‘(i) the net short-term capital loss, and works can be copied but not repro- predicament, to phrase it politely. Art ‘‘(ii) the amount of long-term capital loss carried under section 1212(b)(1)(B) to the tax- duced; the cultural capital of the Na- and collectibles are tangible assets. able year.’’. tion has significant elements of public When you sell them, capital gains tax (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— good. is due on any appreciation over your (1) Section 1(h)(9) of the Internal Revenue Because art works can be resold, and purchase price. Code of 1986 is amended by striking ‘‘collect- their prices may rise over time, they The bill provides capital gains tax ibles gain, gain described in paragraph have the characteristics of financial parity because it lowers the top capital (7)(A)(i),’’ and inserting ‘‘gain described in assets, and as such may be sought as a gains rate from 28 percent to 20 per- paragraph (7)(A)(i)’’. hedge against inflation, as a store of cent, 18 percent if the asset has been (2) Section 1(h) of such Code is amended by redesignating paragraph (12) as paragraph wealth, or as a source of speculative held for five or more years. (6). capital gain. A study by Keishiro Internal inconsistency #2 deals with (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments Matsumoto, Samuel Andoh and James the charitable deduction for artists do- made by this section shall apply to taxable P. Hoban, Jr. assessed the risk-ad- nating their work to a museum or years beginning after December 31, 2002. justed rates of return on art sold at other charitable cause. When someone SEC. 3. CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CER- Sotheby’s during the 14-year period is asked to make a charitable contribu- TAIN ITEMS CREATED BY THE TAX- ending September 30, 1989. They con- tion to a museum or to a fund raising PAYER. cluded that art was a good investment auction it shouldn’t matter whether (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (e) of section you are an artist or not. Under current 170 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (re- in terms of average real rates of re- lating to certain contributions of ordinary turn. Several studies found that rates law, however, it makes a big difference. income and capital gain property) is amend- of return from the price appreciation As the law stands now, an artist/cre- ed by adding at the end the following new on paintings, comic books, collectibles ator can only take a deduction equal to paragraph: and modern prints usually made them the cost of the art supplies. The bill I ‘‘(7) SPECIAL RULE FOR CERTAIN CONTRIBU- very attractive long-term investments. am introducing will allow a fair mar- TIONS OF LITERARY, MUSICAL, ARTISTIC, OR William Goetzmann when he was at ket deduction for the artist. SCHOLARLY COMPOSITIONS.— the Columbia Business School con- It’s important to note that this bill ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a qualified structed an art index and concluded includes certain safeguards to keep the artistic charitable contribution— ‘‘(i) the amount of such contribution taken that painting price movements and artist from ‘‘painting himself a tax de- into account under this section shall be the stock market fluctuations are cor- duction.’’ This bill applies to literary, fair market value of the property contrib- related. musical, artistic, and scholarly com- uted (determined at the time of such con- I conclude that with art, as well as positions if the work was created at tribution), and stocks, past performance is no guar- least 18 months before the donation ‘‘(ii) no reduction in the amount of such antee of future returns but the gains was made, has been appraised, and is contribution shall be made under paragraph should be taxed the same. related to the purpose or function of (1). In 1990, the editor of Art and Auction the charitable organization receiving ‘‘(B) QUALIFIED ARTISTIC CHARITABLE CON- TRIBUTION.—For purposes of this paragraph, asked the question: ‘‘Is there an ‘effi- the donation. As with other charitable the term ‘qualified artistic charitable con- cient’ art market?’’ A well-known art contributions, it is limited to 50 per- tribution’ means a charitable contribution of dealer answered ‘‘Definitely not. That’s cent of adjusted gross income, AGI. If any literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly one of the things that makes the mar- it is also a capital gain, there is a 30 composition, or similar property, or the ket so interesting.’’ For everyone who percent of AGI limit. I believe these copyright thereon (or both), but only if— has been watching world financial mar- safeguards bring fairness back into the ‘‘(i) such property was created by the per- kets lately, the art market may be a code and protect the Treasury against sonal efforts of the taxpayer making such welcome distraction. my potential abuse. contribution no less than 18 months prior to Why do people invest in art and col- When I introduced this legislation in such contribution, ‘‘(ii) the taxpayer— lectibles? Art and collectibles are the last Congress, the Committee on ‘‘(I) has received a qualified appraisal of something you can appreciate even if Joint Tax estimated that revenue for the fair market value of such property in ac- the investment doesn’t appreciate. Art the capital gains provision was $2.3 bil- cordance with the regulations under this sec- is less volatile. If buoyant and not so lion over ten years and for the chari- tion, and

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1749 ‘‘(II) attaches to the taxpayer’s income tax MAN in introducing legislation that de- mal agreement affirming the boundary return for the taxable year in which such clares the United States holds certain between the respective parcels on De- contribution was made a copy of such ap- public domain lands in trust for the cember 20, 2000. praisal, Pueblos of San Ildefonso and Santa The Pueblos of Santa Clara and San ‘‘(iii) the donee is an organization de- Ildefonso have worked diligently in ar- scribed in subsection (b)(1)(A), Clara in New Mexico. This body, in the ‘‘(iv) the use of such property by the donee 107th Congress, passed this legislation riving at this agreement. They have is related to the purpose or function consti- by unanimous consent. The House did also worked collaboratively in seeking tuting the basis for the donee’s exemption not act on it’s companion and so we are community support and garnering sup- under section 501 (or, in the case of a govern- here today to reintroduce the legisla- porting resolutions from Los Alamos, mental unit, to any purpose or function de- tion. Rio Arriba and Santa Fe Counties, the scribed under section 501(c)), In 1988 the Bureau of Land Manage- National Congress of American Indians ‘‘(v) the taxpayer receives from the donee a ment, BLM, pursuant to the Federal and supporting letters from the Na- written statement representing that the Lands Policy and Management Act, de- tional Audubon Society’s New Mexico donee’s use of the property will be in accord- ance with the provisions of clause (iv), and clared approximately 4,484 acres lo- State Office, the Quivira Coalition and ‘‘(vi) the written appraisal referred to in cated in the eastern foothills of the the Santa Fe Group of the Sierra Club. clause (ii) includes evidence of the extent (if Jemez Mountains in north central New This unique situation presents a win- any) to which property created by the per- Mexico, including portions of Garcia win opportunity to support more effi- sonal efforts of the taxpayer and of the same and Chupadero Canyons, to be ‘‘dis- cient management of public resources type as the donated property is or has been— posal property.’’ The Garcia Canyon while restoring to tribal control iso- ‘‘(I) owned, maintained, and displayed by surplus lands qualify for disposal par- lated tracts of federal disposal prop- organizations described in subsection tially because the track is an isolated erty. Upon transfer, the Pueblos of (b)(1)(A), and ‘‘(II) sold to or exchanged by persons other tract of land almost inaccessible to the Santa Clara and San Ildefonso intend than the taxpayer, donee, or any related per- general public. It is bordered on three to maintain these lands in their nat- son (as defined in section 465(b)(3)(C)). sides by the reservations of Santa ural state and use them for sustainable ‘‘(C) MAXIMUM DOLLAR LIMITATION; NO CAR- Clara Pueblo and the Pueblo of San traditional purposes including cultural RYOVER OF INCREASED DEDUCTION.—The in- Ildefonso, and by U.S. Forest Service resource gathering, hunting and pos- crease in the deduction under this section by land on the remaining side. The only sible livestock grazing. Where appro- reason of this paragraph for any taxable road access consists of unimproved priate, both tribes are interested in year— roads through the two Pueblo’s res- performing work to restore and im- ‘‘(i) shall not exceed the artistic adjusted gross income of the taxpayer for such tax- ervations. These factors have resulted prove ecosystem health, particularly to able year, and in minimal or no public usage of the support habitat for culturally signifi- ‘‘(ii) shall not be taken into account in de- Garcia Canyon surplus lands in recent cant animal and plant species. Both termining the amount which may be carried decades. Pueblos have experience Natural Re- from such taxable year under subsection (d). I understand that currently there are source Management and Environ- ‘‘(D) ARTISTIC ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME.— no resource permits, leases, patents or mental Protection programs and are For purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘ar- claims affecting these lands; nor is it capable of managing these lands for tistic adjusted gross income’ means that por- likely that any significant minerals both ecologic health and community tion of the adjusted gross income of the tax- exist with the Garcia Canyon transfer payer for the taxable year attributable to— benefits. ‘‘(i) income from the sale or use of prop- lands. The Garcia Canyon transfer We want to secure Congressional au- erty created by the personal efforts of the lands contain a limited amount of less- thorization to transfer control of these taxpayer which is of the same type as the do- er quality forage for livestock and have lands to the two Pueblos, with legal nated property, and not been actively grazed for over a dec- title being held in trust by the Sec- ‘‘(ii) income from teaching, lecturing, per- ade. However, the Garcia Canyon sur- retary of the Interior for each of the forming, or similar activity with respect to plus lands constitute an important Pueblos for their respective portions of property described in clause (i). part of the ancestral homelands of the the property. I urge my colleagues to ‘‘(E) PARAGRAPH NOT TO APPLY TO CERTAIN Pueblos of Santa Clara and San support this legislation as they did last CONTRIBUTIONS.—Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to any charitable contribution of any Ildefonso. term. I ask unanimous consent that letter, memorandum, or similar property Santa Clara and San Ildefonso are the text of the bill be printed in the which was written, prepared, or produced by two of the Tewa-speaking federally- RECORD. or for an individual while the individual is recognized Indian Pueblos of New Mex- S. 246 an officer or employee of any person (includ- ico. Both Pueblos have occupied and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- ing any government agency or instrumen- controlled the areas where they are resentatives of the United States of America in tality) unless such letter, memorandum, or presently located many centuries be- Congress assembled, similar property is entirely personal. fore the arrival of the first Europeans SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. ‘‘(F) COPYRIGHT TREATED AS SEPARATE in the area in the late 16th century. In this Act: PROPERTY FOR PARTIAL INTEREST RULE.—In (1) AGREEMENT.—The term ‘‘Agreement’’ the case of a qualified artistic charitable Their homelands are defined by geo- graphical landmarks, cultural sites, means the agreement entitled ‘‘Agreement contribution, the tangible literary, musical, to Affirm Boundary Between Pueblo of Santa artistic, or scholarly composition, or similar and other distinct places whose tradi- Clara and Pueblo of San Ildefonso Aboriginal property and the copyright on such work tional Tewa names and locations have Lands Within Garcia Canyon Tract’’, entered shall be treated as separate properties for been known and passed down in each into by the Governors on December 20, 2000. purposes of this paragraph and subsection Pueblo through the generations. Based (2) BOUNDARY LINE.—The term ‘‘boundary (f)(3).’’. upon these boundaries, about 2,000 line’’ means the boundary line established (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment acres of the Garcia Canyon surplus under section 4(a). made by this section shall apply to contribu- (3) GOVERNORS.—The term ‘‘Governors’’ tions made after the date of the enactment lands is within the aboriginal domain of the Pueblo of San Ildefonso. The re- means— of this Act in taxable years ending after such (A) the Governor of the Pueblo of Santa date. maining approximately 2,484 acres are Clara, New Mexico; and in Santa Clara’s aboriginal lands. (B) the Governor of the Pueblo of San By Mr. DOMENICI (for himself The Bureau of Land Management Ildefonso, New Mexico. and Mr. BINGAMAN): currently seeks to dispose of the Gar- (4) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Indian tribe’’ S. 246. A bill to provide that certain cia Canyon surplus lands and the Pueb- has the meaning given the term in section 4 Bureau of Land Management land shall los of Santa Clara and San Ildefonso of the Indian Self-Determination and Edu- be held in trust for the Pueblo of Santa seek to obtain these lands. In addition, cation Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b). Clara and the Pueblo of San Ildefonso the BLM and Interior Department for (5) PUEBLOS.—The term ‘‘Pueblos’’ means— in the State of New Mexico; to the years have supported the transfer of (A) the Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; and Committee on Energy and Natural Re- the land to the two Pueblos, provided (B) the Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mex- sources. the Pueblos agree upon a division of ico. Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I am the Garcia Canyon surplus lands. In re- (6) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ pleased to be joined by Senator BINGA- sponse, the two Pueblos signed a for- means the Secretary of the Interior.

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TRUST FOR THE PUEBLO OF SANTA (2) TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.—Before the other purposes; to the Committee on CLARA, NEW MEXICO. date on which the legal descriptions are pub- (a) IN GENERAL.—All right, title, and inter- lished under paragraph (1)(B), the Secretary Commerce, Science, and Transpor- est of the United States in and to the land may correct any technical errors in the de- tation. described in subsection (b), including im- scriptions of the trust land provided in sec- Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, I rise provements on, appurtenances to, and min- tions 2(b) and 3(b) to ensure that the descrip- today to introduce the Harmful Algal eral rights (including rights to oil and gas) tions are consistent with the terms of the Bloom and Hypoxia Amendments Act to the land, shall be held by the United Agreement. of 2003. This bill continues and builds States in trust for the Pueblo of Santa Clara, (3) EFFECT.—Beginning on the date on upon the research efforts established in New Mexico. which the legal descriptions are published (b) DESCRIPTION OF LAND.—The land re- under paragraph (1)(B), the legal descriptions 1998 by the Harmful Algal Bloom and ferred to in subsection (a) consists of ap- shall be the official legal descriptions of the Hypoxia Research and Control Act. proximately 2,484 acres of Bureau of Land trust land. I am very pleased to continue work- Management land located in Rio Arriba SEC. 5. ADMINISTRATION OF TRUST LAND. ing with my friend and co-sponsor Sen- County, New Mexico, and more particularly (a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning on the date of ator BREAUX on this important issue. described as— enactment of this Act— He and I represent coastal States that (1) the portion of T. 20 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 22, (1) the land held in trust under section 2(a) are directly affected by harmful algal New Mexico Principal Meridian, that is lo- shall be declared to be a part of the Santa bloom outbreaks and hypoxia, and we cated north of the boundary line; Clara Indian Reservation; and see the ecological and economic dam- (2) the southern half of T. 20 N., R. 7 E., (2) the land held in trust under section 3(a) Sec. 23, New Mexico Principal Meridian; shall be declared to be a part of the San age, as well as the risks to human (3) the southern half of T. 20 N., R. 7 E., Ildefonso Indian Reservation. health, that are caused by these Sec. 24, New Mexico Principal Meridian; (b) APPLICABLE LAW.— events. (4) T. 20 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 25, excluding the (1) IN GENERAL.—The trust land shall be ad- In Maine, for example, harmful algal 5-acre tract in the southeast quarter owned ministered in accordance with any law (in- blooms lead to paralytic shellfish poi- by the Pueblo of San Ildefonso; cluding regulations) or court order generally soning, a potentially fatal neurological (5) the portion of T. 20 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 26, applicable to property held in trust by the disorder. When humans eat shellfish United States for Indian tribes. New Mexico Principal Meridian, that is lo- that have fed on algae in the genus cated north and east of the boundary line; (2) PUEBLO LANDS ACT.—The following shall (6) the portion of T. 20 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 27, be subject to section 17 of the Act of June 7, Alexandrium, they are exposed to the New Mexico Principal Meridian, that is lo- 1924 (commonly known as the ‘‘Pueblo Lands toxins that have accumulated in the cated north of the boundary line; Act’’) (25 U.S.C. 331 note): fish as a result of the algae. Along with (7) the portion of T. 20 N., R. 8 E., Sec. 19, (A) The trust land. human, fish and marine mammals suf- New Mexico Principal Meridian, that is not (B) Any land owned as of the date of enact- fer and die from this exposure. This included in the Santa Clara Pueblo Grant or ment of this Act or acquired after the date of phenomenon, which occurs along thou- the Santa Clara Indian Reservation; and enactment of this Act by the Pueblo of Santa Clara in the Santa Clara Pueblo sands of miles of U.S. coastline, has in- (8) the portion of T. 20 N., R. 8 E., Sec. 30, creased dramatically in the Gulf of that is not included in the Santa Clara Pueb- Grant. lo Grant or the San Ildefonso Grant. (C) Any land owned as of the date of enact- Maine in the last 20 years. SEC. 3. TRUST FOR THE PUEBLO OF SAN ment of this Act or acquired after the date of Although we have learned a great ILDEFONSO, NEW MEXICO. enactment of this Act by the Pueblo of San deal about harmful algal blooms and (a) IN GENERAL.—All right, title, and inter- Ildefonso in the San Ildefonso Pueblo Grant. hypoxia in recent years, we still have a est of the United States in and to the land (c) USE OF TRUST LAND.— long way to go in understanding, pre- described in subsection (b), including im- (1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the criteria de- veloped under paragraph (2), the trust land dicting, and mitigating these events. provements on, appurtenances to, and min- Massive fish kills still occur along our eral rights (including rights to oil and gas) may be used only for— to the land, shall be held by the United (A) traditional and customary uses; or coastlines on almost a regular basis, States in trust for the Pueblo of San (B) stewardship conservation for the ben- leading to extensive impacts on fish Ildefonso, New Mexico. efit of the Pueblo for which the trust land is and shellfish populations and fishing (b) DESCRIPTION OF LAND.—The land re- held in trust. industries. Beach-goers and anglers are ferred to in subsection (a) consists of ap- (2) CRITERIA.—The Secretary shall work still being warned of ‘‘no swimming’’ proximately 2,000 acres of Bureau of Land with the Pueblos to develop appropriate cri- and ‘‘no fishing’’ alerts when condi- teria for using the trust land in a manner Management land located in Rio Arriba tions pose a threat to human health. County and Santa Fe County in the State of that preserves the trust land for traditional New Mexico, and more particularly described and customary uses or stewardship conserva- The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu- as— tion. tion, in a 2000 study, estimated the an- (1) the portion of T. 20 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 22, (3) LIMITATION.—Beginning on the date of nual economic impact from harmful New Mexico Principal Meridian, that is lo- enactment of this Act, the trust land shall algae to be $49 million, in lost tourism, cated south of the boundary line; not be used for any new commercial develop- fishing, and health costs. According to (2) the portion of T. 20 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 26, ments. the National Oceanic and Atmospheric New Mexico Principal Meridian, that is lo- SEC. 6. EFFECT. Nothing in this Act— Administration, in the U.S. approxi- cated south and west of the boundary line; mately $1 billion could be lost in the (3) the portion of T. 20 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 27, (1) affects any valid right-of-way, lease, New Mexico Principal Meridian, that is lo- permit, mining claim, grazing permit, water next decade due to harmful algae. cated south of the boundary line; right, or other right or interest of a person Harmful algal blooms and hypoxia (4) T. 20 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 34, New Mexico or entity (other than the United States) that present enormous challenges to marine Principal Meridian; and is— resource managers. For example, con- (5) the portion of T. 20 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 35, (A) in or to the trust land; and sider what happens in the Gulf of Mex- New Mexico Principal Meridian, that is not (B) in existence before the date of enact- ico. Thirty-one States drain into the included in the San Ildefonso Pueblo Grant. ment of this Act; Mississippi River, and the runoff from SEC. 4. SURVEY AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS. (2) enlarges, impairs, or otherwise affects a right or claim of the Pueblos to any land or this massive watershed is carried into (a) SURVEY.—Not later than 180 days after the gulf. When the waters heat up in the date of enactment of this Act, the Office interest in land that is— of Cadastral Survey of the Bureau of Land (A) based on Aboriginal or Indian title; and the summer, the heavy loads of nutri- Management shall, in accordance with the (B) in existence before the date of enact- ents in this runoff likely contribute to Agreement, complete a survey of the bound- ment of this Act; massive algal blooms. When these ary line established under the Agreement for (3) constitutes an express or implied res- algae die and decompose they are con- the purpose of establishing, in accordance ervation of water or water right with respect sumed by bacteria, which depletes oxy- with sections 2(b) and 3(b), the boundaries of to the trust land; or gen from the water. If the algal blooms (4) affects any water right of the Pueblos the trust land. are extensive enough, they will essen- (b) LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.— in existence before the date of enactment of (1) PUBLICATION.—On approval by the Gov- this Act. tially remove all oxygen from the ernors of the survey completed under sub- water. No sea life can live under these section (a), the Secretary shall publish in the By Ms. SNOWE (for herself and conditions, which creates a massive Federal Register— Mr. BREAUX): area in the water column known as the

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In developing this process, This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Harmful Harmful algal blooms and hypoxia we mirrored the process used for the Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Amendments Act of 2003’’. are just as much of a problem now as dead zone action plan, one of the prod- they were in 1998, when we passed the ucts of the Task Force from the 1998 SEC. 2. RETENTION OF TASK FORCE. original bill. It is clear that these prob- Section 603 of the Harmful Algal Bloom bill, to ensure widespread public par- and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of lems have not gone away. Algal blooms ticipation and involvement of the 1998 (16 U.S.C. 1451 nt) is amended by striking are still prevalent around the country, coastal governors. subsection (e). the dead zone still occurs each summer The dead zone action plan rec- SEC. 3. PREDICTION AND RESPONSE PLAN. in the Gulf of Mexico, and the manage- ommended a national framework for Section 603 of such Act, as amended by sec- ment and mitigation measures we set reducing nutrients entering the Mis- tion 2, is further amended by adding at the the framework for in our 1998 bill still sissippi River as well as regional plans end the following: need to be realized. to implement any needed measures. ‘‘(e) PREDICTION AND RESPONSE PLAN.— Our 1998 bill authorized a cross-sec- While a national framework is essen- ‘‘(1) DEVELOPMENT OF PLAN.—Not later tion of research and monitoring activi- tial for facilitating the widespread then 12 months after the date of enactment ties on harmful algal blooms and hy- of the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia changes that are needed, it is at the Amendments Act of 2003, the President, in poxia. These activities were to encom- local and regional level that solutions conjunction with the chief executive officers pass basic and applied sciences, looking must be developed and implemented. of the States, shall develop and submit to at the distribution and frequency of The regional plans will help avoid a the Congress a plan to protect environ- outbreaks, as well as how they may be one-size-fits-all approach, since local mental and public health from impacts of better mitigated and managed. This re- and regional variations in the types of harmful algal blooms. In developing the search, however, was never fully funded land use, landscape geology, and com- plan, the President shall consult with the at the authorized amounts for research munity input should be taken into ac- Task Force, the coastal States, Indian and monitoring, so many of these re- tribes, local governments, industry, aca- count when carrying out nutrient re- demic institutions, and non-governmental search activities still need to occur, duction and outbreak mitigation meas- organizations with expertise in coastal zone and many on-going projects need to ures of this magnitude. By tailoring management. continue. These amendments would au- mitigation and management measures ‘‘(2) PLAN REQUIREMENTS.—The plan shall— thorize the funding that will reignite to each location, the overall approach ‘‘(A) review techniques for prediction of these scientific activities. can be more effective. the onset, course, and impacts of harmful Our 1998 bill also codified an Inter- Local and regional assessments are a algal blooms including evaluation of their agency Task Force, chaired by the De- key component of this reauthorization accuracy and utility in protecting environ- partment of Commerce. Through this as well. Coastal states, Indian tribes, mental and public health and provisions for group, experts from the Environmental implementation; and local governments would be able to ‘‘(B) identify innovative response measures Protection Agency, the Department of request these local and regional assess- for the prevention, control, and mitigation Agriculture, the Department of the In- ments of hypoxia and harmful algal of harmful algal blooms and provisions for terior, the Department of Health and blooms, so they can better understand their development and implementation; and Human Services, and numerous other the causes, impacts, and mitigation al- ‘‘(C) include incentive-based partnership appropriate Federal agencies were able ternatives for these outbreaks. By hav- approaches where practicable. to start the long process of collectively ing the Commerce Department and the ‘‘(3) PUBLICATION AND OPPORTUNITY FOR understanding and seeking solutions to Task Force provide and assist in these COMMENT.—At least 90 days before submit- many aspects of harmful algal blooms ting the plan to the Congress, the President assessments, local and regional com- shall cause a summary of the proposed plan and hypoxia. This Task Force spear- munities can be more empowered to to be published in the Federal Register for a headed a technical assessment of the take action on reducing the magnitude public comment period of not less than 60 causes and consequences of the north- and impacts of these outbreaks. days. ern Gulf of Mexico dead zone, an action This bill would authorize $26 million ‘‘(4) FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary plan to eliminate this dead zone, a na- in FY04, and $26.5 million in FY05, and of Commerce, in coordination with the Task tional assessment of harmful algal $27 million in FY06. These funding lev- Force and to the extent of funds available, blooms, and a national assessment of els reflect modest increases in some of shall provide for Federal cooperation with hypoxia. I would like to express my ap- and assistance to the coastal States, Indian the research and monitoring programs tribes, and local governments in imple- preciation for the hard work and ac- authorized in the 1998 bill and provide menting measures in paragraph (2), as re- complishments of this group, yet I re- funding for the new assessments and quested.’’. alize—as do they—that much more implementation of their recommenda- SEC. 4. LOCAL AND REGIONAL ASSESSMENTS. needs to be done. tions. Section 603 of such Act, as amended by sec- The 1998 bill allowed the President to This reauthorization enables collabo- tion 3, is further amended by adding at the disestablish the Task Force after sub- rative, science-based research efforts end the following: mission of their reports. Considering that can help us to better understand ‘‘(f) LOCAL AND REGIONAL ASSESSMENTS.— the great challenges that lay before us how to predict and mitigate harmful ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Com- and this Task Force, we need to keep algal blooms and hypoxia events. It fa- merce, in coordination with the Task Force this group intact so that they can fol- cilitates action at the local and re- and to the extent of funds available, shall provide for local and regional assessments of low through on their previous rec- gional levels, which is a key element hypoxia and harmful algal blooms, as re- ommendations and continue much of for effectively addressing and mini- quested by coastal States, Indian tribes, and their ongoing collaborative efforts. mizing the adverse ecological, eco- local governments. This bill would repeal the Task Force nomic, and health impacts of these ‘‘(2) PURPOSE.—Local and regional assess- disestablishment clause in the 1998 bill. outbreaks. I wish to thank Senator ments may examine— This reauthorization continues to BREAUX for his continued vigilance and ‘‘(A) the causes of hypoxia or harmful algal seek the valuable contributions of important contributions on this mat- blooms in that area; Task Force members on a response and ter, and I encourage my colleagues to ‘‘(B) the ecological and economic impacts prediction action plan to protect envi- of hypoxia or harmful algal blooms; support this bill. ‘‘(C) alternatives to reduce, mitigate, and ronmental and public health from im- I ask unanimous consent that the control hypoxia and harmful algal blooms; pacts of harmful algal blooms. This text of the bill be printed in the and plan would review prediction tech- RECORD. ‘‘(D) the social and economic benefits of niques, develop innovative response There being no objection, the bill was such alternatives.’’. measures, and include incentive-based ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. partnership approaches. The Task follows: Section 605 of such Act is amended—

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STATEMENTS ON SUBMITTED first sentence and in the paragraphs (1), (2), They were charged by the Harmful RESOLUTIONS (3), and (5); Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and (2) by inserting ‘‘$26,000,000 for fiscal year Control Act of 1998 to put this strategy 2004, $26,500,000 for fiscal year 2005, and in the form of an action plan that SENATE RESOLUTION 27—AUTHOR- $27,000,000 for fiscal year 2007’’ after ‘‘2001,’’ IZING EXPENDITURES BY THE in the first sentence; could be undertaken by the States and (3) by inserting ‘‘and $2,500,000 for each of partner agencies at the Federal and SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTEL- fiscal years 2004, 2005, and 2006’’ after ‘‘2001’’ State level that make up the task LIGENCE in paragraph (1); force. They succeeded on both fronts, Mr. ROBERTS. submitted the fol- (4) by inserting ‘‘and $5,500,000 for each of not only delivering an action plan, but lowing resolution; from the Select fiscal years 2004, 2005, and 2006’’ after ‘‘2001’’ doing so by reaching consensus after a Committee on Intelligence; which was in paragraph (2); process of strenuous debate and discus- referred to the Committee on Rules (5) by striking ‘‘2001’’ in paragraph (3) and sion involving many stakeholders and inserting ‘‘2001, $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2004, and Administration: interests. That plan was delivered to $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, and $3,000,000 S. RES. 27 for fiscal year 2006’’; Congress in January of 2001 but has yet to be fully funded. Even so, it has been Resolved, That, in carrying out its powers, (6) by striking ‘‘blooms;’’ in paragraph (3) duties, and functions under the Standing and inserting ‘‘blooms and to implement sec- providing some significant benefits to Rules of the Senate, in accordance with its tion 603(e);’’ the Mississippi River Basin and the jurisdiction under rule XXV of such rules, in- (7) by striking ‘‘2001’’ in paragraph (4) and country. cluding holding hearings, reporting such inserting ‘‘2001, and $6,000,000 for each of fis- As the action plan states ‘‘the work hearings, and making investigations as au- cal years 2004, 2005, and 2006,’’; of the Task Force has provided a basin- thorized by paragraphs 1 and 8 of rule XXVI (8) by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon wide context for the continued pursuit of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the Se- in paragraph (4); of both incentive-based, voluntary ef- lect Committee on Intelligence is authorized (9) by striking ‘‘2001’’ in paragraph (5) and forts for non-point sources and existing from March 1, 2003, through September 30, inserting ‘‘2001, $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2004, 2003; October 1, 2003, through September 30, $5,500,000 for fiscal year 2005, and $6,600,000 regulatory controls for point sources.’’ The task force made it clear in the 2004; and October 1, 2004 through February 28, for fiscal year 2006’’; 2005 in its discretion (1) to make expendi- (10) by striking ‘‘Administration.’’ in para- action plan that efforts to reduce hy- tures from the contingent fund of the Senate graph (5) and inserting ‘‘Administration; poxia in the Gulf involve cleaning up (2) to employ personnel, and (3) with the and’’; and waters upstream and throughout the prior consent of the Government department (11) by adding at the end the following: Mississippi River Basin, and that the or agency concerned and the Committee on ‘‘(6) $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004, benefits, economic, as well as environ- Rules and Administration, to use on a reim- 2005, and 2006 to carry out section 603(f).’’. mental, can be achieved across the en- bursable or non-reimbursable basis the serv- Mr. BREAUX. Mr. President, I am tire basin as well. Their work is pro- ices of personnel of any such department or pleased to rise today to join Senator viding us with a way to unify the Mis- agency. SNOWE as an original cosponsor of the sissippi River Basin in terms of our SEC. 2.(a) The expenses of the committee Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia for the period March 1, 2003 through Sep- common interests and resources, pri- tember 30, 2003 under this resolution shall Amendments Act of 2003. mary of which is the Mississippi River, The Gulf of Mexico has a serious hy- not exceed $2,117,309, of which amount not to probably the most important piece of exceed $37,917 may be expended for the pro- poxia condition. The water flowing out infrastructure in the country. curement of the services of individual con- of the Mississippi River Delta is loaded In Louisiana, we value all of the re- sultants, or organizations thereof (as author- with nutrients, nutrients that help sources of that vast system, not only ized by section 202(i) of the Legislative Reor- things grow. In the gulf, the nutrients our productive coastal fisheries which ganization Act of 1946, as amended). fuel accelerated growth of algae and are endangered by hypoxia, but the (b) For the period October 1, 2003 through other plankton-like organisms. As the corn, grain, and other food sources that September 30, 2004, expenses of the com- organisms die and descent through the are shipped out through our port sys- mittee under this resolution shall not exceed $3,726,412, of which amount not to exceed water, they decompose and rob the tem. water of dissolved oxygen. This lack of $65,000 be expended for the procurement of Solving the problem of the ‘‘Dead the services of individual consultants, or or- oxygen, below a level which can sus- Zone’’ will require an unprecedented ganizations thereof (as authorized by section tain marine life, is hypoxia and creates degree of cooperation among many 202(i) of the Legislative Reorganization Act what we call ‘‘the Dead Zone.’’ In 1998, States, agencies, and stakeholders. The of 1946, as amended). the ‘‘Dead Zone’’ exceeded 7,000 square task force is continuing to provide us (c) For the period October 1, 2004 through miles, equivalent to the combined with a forum and a means for expand- February 28, 2005, expenses of the committee areas of the States of Rhode Island and ing that cooperation. under this resolution shall not exceed Connecticut. One of the prime research facilities $1,588,401, of which amount not to exceed As a Senator from the State that is on the hypoxia problem is taking place $27,083 be expended for the procurement of on the receiving end of this unprece- the services of individual consultants, or or- at the Louisiana University Marine ganizations thereof (as authorized by section dented problem and as a member of the Consortium, LUMON, in Cocodrie, LA. 202(i) of the Legislative Reorganization Act Senate Commerce Committee, Sub- LUMCON has been studying the hy- of 1946, as amended). committee on Oceans and Fisheries, I poxia problem in the Gulf of Mexico SEC. 3. The committee shall report its find- was very pleased to have worked with since 1985 under grants from the Na- ings, together with such recommendations Senator SNOWE on legislation that first tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- for legislation as it deems advisable, to the drew national attention to hypoxia and ministration’s Coastal Ocean Program. Senate at the earliest practicable date, but harmful algal blooms, the Harmful The combined efforts of the task not later than February 28, 2005, respec- Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Control Act force has become even more apparent tively. of 1998. over the past year, as the ‘‘Dead Zone’’ SEC. 4. Expenses of the committee under Among important issues, the enacted this resolution shall be paid from the contin- reached a new record size in the sum- gent fund of the Senate upon vouchers ap- legislation required an interagency mer of 2002, exceeding 8,000 square proved by the chairman of the committee, task force to develop an assessment of miles and extending from the mouth of except that vouchers shall not be required (1) hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mex- the Mississippi River well into the for the disbursement of salaries of employees ico. It also required the task force to coastal waters of Texas. paid at an annual rate, or (2) for the pay- submit to Congress a plan based on the I believe that the Harmful Algal ment of telecommunications provided by the assessment for reducing, mitigating, Bloom and Hypoxia Amendments Act Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Door- and controlling hypoxia in the north- of 2003 that Senator SNOWE and I are keeper, United States Senate, or (3) for the ern Gulf of Mexico. introducing today will provide much payment of stationery supplies purchased The Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico through the Keeper of the Stationery, United needed funding and direction to con- States Senate, or (4) for payments to the Watershed Nutrient Task Force was tinue the effort to mitigate and even- Postmaster, United States Senate, or (5) for given a large job, to come up with a na- tually eliminate the hypoxic problem the payment of metered charges on copying tional strategy to reduce the size and in the Gulf of Mexico and harmful algal equipment provided by the Office of the Ser- growth of the ‘‘Dead Zone’’ in the Gulf blooms in our Nation’s waters. geant at Arms and Doorkeeper, United

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There are authorized such sums as 27, 2003, that his agency has found no evi- (2) the United States and other member na- may be necessary for agency contributions dence that Iraq has revived its nuclear weap- tions of the United Nations Security Council related to the compensation of employees of ons program; should work together to exhaust all peaceful the committee, from March 1, 2003 through Whereas Dr. ElBaradei urged the Security and diplomatic means for disarming Iraq be- September 30, 2003; October 1, 2003 through Council on January 27, 2003, to allow the in- fore launching an invasion of Iraq; September 30, 2004; and October 1, 2004 spection process to ‘‘run its natural course’’ (3) international emissaries, including Eu- through February 28, 2005, to be paid from over the next few months; ropean and Arab leaders, should be given the Appropriations account for ‘‘Expenses of Whereas the United Nations weapons in- adequate time to pursue strategies to per- Inquiries and Investigations.’’ spectors have failed to obtain evidence that suade Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq volun- would prove that Iraq is in material breach tarily and avert war; SENATE RESOLUTION 28—EX- of the terms of the United Nations Security (4) before initiating any offensive military PRESSING THE SENSE OF THE Council Resolution 1441 (2002); operation in Iraq to enforce United Nations SENATE THAT THE UNITED NA- Whereas European and Arab officials are Security Council Resolution 1441 (2002), the TIONS WEAPONS INSPECTORS reportedly trying to persuade Saddam Hus- United States should seek a specific author- sein to leave Iraq voluntarily, and senior of- ization for the use of force from the United SHOULD BE GIVEN SUFFICIENT ficials in the executive branch of the United TIME FOR A THOROUGH ASSESS- Nations Security Council; States Government have said that they (5) the United States should re-engage in MENT OF THE LEVEL OF COM- would welcome exile for Hussein; the Middle East peace process in an effort to PLIANCE BY THE GOVERNMENT Whereas the emergence of a nuclear crisis end the violence between the State of Israel OF IRAQ WITH UNITED NATIONS in North Korea, and the contradictory re- and the Palestinians; and SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION sponses by the United States to the situa- (6) the United States should redouble its 1441 (2002) AND THAT THE UNITED tions in North Korea and Iraq, have cast efforts to secure the United States homeland STATES SHOULD SEEK A UNITED doubts on the consistency and propriety of in light of the growing number of intel- the United States doctrine of preemption, es- ligence assessments highlighting the NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL pecially in the international community; RESOLUTION SPECIFICALLY AU- vulverability of the United States for further Whereas war with Iraq to enforce United terrorist attacks. THORIZING THE USE OF FORCE Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 BEFORE INITIATING ANY OFFEN- (2002) should not be a unilateral decision as it is likely to have international ramifica- SENATE RESOLUTION 29—DEMAND- SIVE MILITARY OPERATIONS ING THE RETURN OF THE USS AGAINST IRAQ tions on the worldwide supply of oil, includ- ing the possibility of widespread economic PUEBLO TO THE UNITED STATES Mr. BYRD (for himself, Mr. KENNEDY, destabilization if Middle East oil supplies are NAVY Mr. BINGAMAN, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. interrupted; Mr. CAMPBELL submitted the fol- INOUYE, Mr. SARBANES, and Mrs. Whereas key members of the United Na- lowing resolution; which was referred BOXER) submitted the following resolu- tions Security Council, including Great Brit- ain, Germany, the Russian Federation, to the Committee on Foreign Rela- tion; which was referred to the Com- tions: mittee on Foreign Relations: France, and China, have expressed their be- lief that the weapons inspectors need more Whereas the USS Pueblo, which was at- S. RES. 28 time to continue their work and have urged tacked and captured by the North Korean Whereas on November 8, 2002, the United the United States not to rush to a decision Navy on January 23, 1968, was the first Nations Security Council adopted Resolution to invade Iraq without seeking the support United States Navy ship to be hijacked on 1441, stating that Iraq is in ‘‘material of the Security Council; the high seas by a foreign military force in breach’’ of its obligations under previous Whereas United Nations Security Resolu- over 150 years; United Nations resolutions, and giving Iraq tion 1441 (2002) does not authorize the use of Whereas 1 member of the USS Pueblo crew, ‘‘a final opportunity to comply with its dis- force but instead stipulates that the Secu- Duane Hodges, was killed in the assault armament obligations’’ and to accept ‘‘an rity Council will convene immediately to while the other 82 crew members were held enhanced inspection regime’’; consider any failure on the part of Iraq to in captivity, often under inhumane condi- Whereas Iraq formally accepted the return comply with the Resolution; tions, for 11 months; of weapons inspectors under the terms of Whereas the President, in his September Whereas the USS Pueblo, an intelligence United Nations Security Council Resolution 12, 2002, address to the United Nations re- collection auxiliary vessel, was operating in 1441 on November 13, 2002, and according to a garding Iraq’s failure to comply with pre- international waters at the time of the cap- joint statement issued January 20, 2003, by vious United Nations Security Council reso- ture, and therefore did not violate North Ko- the International Atomic Energy Agency lutions, pledged to work with the Security rean territorial waters; (IAEA), the United Nations Monitoring and Council for the ‘‘necessary resolutions’’ and Whereas the capture of the USS Pueblo re- Verification Commission (UNMOVIC), and has stated repeatedly since that time that he sulted in no reprisals against the Govern- Iraq, the Government of Iraq has provided has made no decision on whether to invade ment or people of North Korea and no mili- the weapons inspectors with access to all Iraq; tary action at any time; and sites; Whereas no evidence has been presented to Whereas the USS Pueblo, though still the Whereas on December 7, 2002, Iraq provided the Senate or the American people to link property of the United States Navy, has been a 12,000-page declaration of past chemical, Iraq with the September 11, 2001, terrorist at- retained by North Korea for more than 30 biological, and nuclear programs to the Se- tacks on the United States; years, was subjected to exhibition in the curity Council, which declaration, after pre- Whereas there is growing concern that war North Korean cities of Wonsan and liminary review, was described by Mohamed with Iraq would greatly heighten the threat Hungham, and is now on display in ElBaradei, the Director General of the IAEA, of terrorist attacks on United States citizens Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea: as incomplete and inconclusive, but which at home, including the possibility of chem- Now, therefore, be it produced no ‘‘smoking gun’’; ical, biological, or nuclear weapon attacks; Resolved,That the Senate— Whereas, according to the joint statement Whereas the terrible cost of war—in lives (1) demands the return of the USS Pueblo made by UNMOVIC, IAEA, and Iraq on Janu- lost in Iraq and potentially the United to the United States Navy; and ary 20, 2003, Iraq pledged to offer United Na- States, Israel, and other nations in the Mid- (2) directs the Secretary of the Senate to tions inspectors more help in their search for dle East and elsewhere, and in the massive transmit copies of this resolution to the evidence of weapons of mass destruction and drain on America’s treasure—is a cost that President, the Secretary of Defense, and the expressed a readiness to respond to questions the United States and its allies should strive Secretary of State. raised in connection with the December 7, to avoid if at all possible; and Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. President, I am 2002 declaration; Whereas a United States-initiated war pleased to submit a Senate Resolution Whereas Hans Blix, Executive Chairman of with Iraq is likely to inflame passions in the calling on North Korea to return the UNMOVIC, reported to the United Nations Middle East and could precipitate further USS Pueblo to the United States Navy. Security Council on January 27, 2003, that conflict between the Israelis and Palestin- The legislation I am reintroducing Iraq has been cooperating with the weapons ians as well as a surge in regional terrorism: inspectors on process but has failed to dem- Now, therefore, be it today is based on a resolution I intro- onstrate active cooperation on matters of Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate duced last year during the 107th Con- substance; that— gress, Senate Resolution 246. Whereas Dr. Blix earlier characterized the (1) the United Nations weapons inspectors On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo January 27, 2003, report to the Security should be given sufficient time to carry out was unjustly attacked and captured by

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One such action would be to operating as an intelligence collection return the USS Pueblo to its rightful SENATE RESOLUTION 31—DESIG- auxiliary vessel, and did not pose a owners, the United States Navy and NATING THE WEEK OF SEP- threat. the American people they serve and TEMBER 11 THROUGH SEP- This act of aggression resulted in the protect. TEMBER 17, 2003, AS ‘‘NATIONAL USS Pueblo’s 82 crew members being While returning the USS Pueblo may CIVIC PARTICIPATION WEEK’’ held in captivity for eleven months, not necessarily remove the 35 year-old often in inhumane conditions. Another scars inflicted by the attack of Janu- Mr. ROBERTS submitted the fol- brave crew member, Duane Hodges, was ary 23, 1968, and especially those suf- lowing resolution; which was referred killed during the initial attack and fered by the crew of the USS Pueblo to the Committee on the Judiciary: several more crew members were and by their families and loved ones, it S. RES. 31 wounded. On December 23, 1968, after would serve as a good will gesture, a Whereas the United States embarks on this nearly a year of being unjustly de- salve if you will, signaling hope for a new millennium as the world’s model of tained the surviving USS Pueblo crew brighter future between our two na- democratic ideals, economic enterprise, and members were finally released and al- tion’s peoples. technological innovation and discovery; lowed to return home. I stand with my colleagues back Whereas our Nation’s preeminence is a It is interesting to note that the USS tribute to our great 2-century-old experi- home in the Colorado State General ment in representative government that nur- Pueblo I am calling on the North Kore- Assembly in demanding the return of tures those ideals, fosters economic vitality, ans to return today is in fact the third the USS Pueblo to the United States and encourages innovation and discovery; ship of the fleet to be named in honor Navy. Whereas representative government is de- of the city and county of Pueblo, lo- I urge my colleagues here in the U.S. pendent on the exercise of the privileges and cated in my home State of Colorado. Senate to join me in supporting pas- responsibilities of its citizens, and that has The first ship of the fleet to be named sage of this important resolution. been in decline in recent years in both civic in honor of Pueblo was an armored and political participation; cruiser which had previously been Whereas Alexis de Tocqueville, the 19th SENATE RESOLUTION 30—EX- century French chronicler of our Nation’s named the Colorado. In 1916, the USS PRESSING THE SENSE OF THE political behavior, observed that the people Colorado was renamed as the USS Pueb- SENATE THAT THE PRESIDENT of the United States had successfully re- lo when a new battleship named USS SHOULD DESIGNATE THE WEEK sisted democratic apathy and mild despotism Colorado was authorized. The first USS BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 14, 2003, by using what he called ‘‘schools of free- Pueblo served until 1927. The second dom’’—local institutions and associations AS ‘‘NATIONAL HISTORICALLY where citizens learn to listen and trust each USS Pueblo was a city class frigate BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVER- which served from 1944 to 1946. She was other; SITIES WEEK’’ Whereas civic and political participation later sold to the Dominican Republic remains the school in which citizens engage where she serves today. Mr. GRAHAM of South Carolina sub- mitted the following resolution; which in the free, diverse, and positive political The third USS Pueblo is the ship now dialogue that guides our Nation toward com- wrongly held by the North Koreans. was referred to the Committee on the mon interests, consensus, and good govern- Built by the Kewaunee Shipbuilding Judiciary: ance; and Engineering Corporation, S. RES. 30 Whereas it is in the public interest for our Kewaunee, WI, the ship originally Whereas there are 105 historically black Nation’s leaders to foster civic discourse, served as a general purpose supply ves- colleges and universities in the United education, and participation in Federal, States; State, and local affairs; sel FP–344 for service in the U.S. Army Whereas the advent of revolutionary Inter- Transportation Corps when she was Whereas historically black colleges and universities provide the quality education so net technology offers new mechanisms for launched on April 16, 1944. During 1966 essential to full participation in a complex, empowering our citizens and fostering great- and 1967 the ship was converted, redes- highly technological society; er civic engagement than at any time in our ignated as the USS Pueblo and commis- Whereas historically black colleges and peacetime history; and sioned as an environmental research universities have a rich heritage and have Whereas the use of new technologies can vessel, AGER–2. played a prominent role in American his- bring people together in civic forums, edu- It is important to note that even to tory; cate citizens on their roles and responsibil- Whereas historically black colleges and ities, and promote citizen participation in this day the capture of the USS Pueblo the political process through volunteerism, has resulted in no reprisal against universities have allowed many underprivi- leged students to attain their full potential voting, and the elevation of voices in public North Korea, demonstrating remark- through higher education; and discourse: Now, therefore, be it able restraint by the United States. Whereas the achievements and goals of his- Resolved, Even though the USS Pueblo still clear- torically black colleges and universities are SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF NATIONAL CIVIC ly remains the legal property of the deserving of national recognition: Now, PARTICIPATION WEEK. United States Navy, the North Korean therefore, be it The Senate— Government has kept it on display as a Resolved, (1) designates the week of September 11 sort of traveling propaganda museum. SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF NATIONAL HIS- through September 17, 2003, as ‘‘National Recent events have made it clear TORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND Civic Participation Week’’; UNIVERSITIES WEEK. (2) proclaims National Civic Participation that many unresolved issues remain re- (a) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense Week as a week of inauguration of programs garding our Nation’s relationship with of the Senate that the President should des- and activities that will lead to greater par- North Korea. For example, North Ko- ignate the week beginning September 14, ticipation in elections and the political proc- rea’s recent high-profile resumption of 2003, as ‘‘National Historically Black Col- ess; and nuclear saber-rattling presents a seri- leges and Universities Week’’. (3) requests that the President issue a ous resurgent challenge that we, our (b) PROCLAMATION.—The Senate requests proclamation calling upon interested organi- allies in Northeast Asia and the rest of the President to issue a proclamation— zations and the people of the United States (1) designating the week beginning Sep- to promote programs and activities that the world community must take seri- tember 14, 2003, as ‘‘National Historically take full advantage of the technological re- ously. Black Colleges and Universities Week’’; and sources available in fostering civic participa- While I certainly agree that success- (2) calling on the people of the United tion through the dissemination of informa- fully resolving this situation is first States and interested groups to observe the tion.

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RES. 32 national relations, international security, the United States will be stronger if the first immigration, and the State Department, and Whereas more than three months have responders and our communities have the re- all matters relating to Senate consideration passed, and circumstances have significantly sources and tools that they need to bolster of international treaties; changed, since Congress acted in October emergency preparedness and response ef- Whereas Art Rynearson will retire on Jan- 2002 to authorize the use of military force forts: Now, therefore, be it uary 31, 2003, after more than 28 years of against Iraq; Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate service with the Congress, including more Whereas the United Nations Security that Congress should fully fund all tradi- than 2 years with the Congressional Re- tional first responder programs and appro- Council unanimously approved Security search Service of the Library of Congress; Council Resolution 1441 (2002) requiring Iraq priate substantial additional resources to as- and sist local communities and first responders to cooperate with strict weapons inspections Whereas Art Rynearson has met the legis- and give United Nations weapons inspectors in making the homeland defense of the lative drafting needs of the United States United States as strong as possible. ‘‘immediate, unimpeded, unconditional, and with unfailing professionalism, skill, and unrestricted access’’ to all suspected sites in- dedication: Now, therefore, be it volving such weapons; Resolved, That the United States Senate SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLU- Whereas United Nations weapons inspec- commends Arthur J. Rynearson for his more TION 3—RECOGNIZING, APPLAUD- tors arrived in Iraq on November 18, 2002, than 26 years of faithful and exemplary serv- ING, AND SUPPORTING THE EF- submitted their 60–day report to the Secu- ice to the United States Senate and the Na- FORTS OF THE ARMY AVIATION rity Council about Iraq’s cooperation with tion, including 4 years as the Deputy Legis- HERITAGE FOUNDATION, A NON- weapons inspections on January 27, 2003, and lative Counsel of the Senate, and expresses PROFIT ORGANIZATION INCOR- will report again on their activities on Feb- its deep appreciation and gratitude for his PORATED IN THE STATE OF ruary 14, 2003; long, faithful, and outstanding service. Whereas the President has not yet made a SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Senate shall GEORGIA, TO UTILIZE VETERAN compelling case to Congress, the American transmit a copy of this resolution to Arthur AVIATIORS OF THE ARMED people, or the international community that J. Rynearson. FORCES AND FORMER ARMY the use of armed force is the only alternative AVIATION AIRCRAFT TO INSPIRE to disarm Iraq; and SENATE RESOLUTION 34—EX- AMERICANS AND TO ENSURE Whereas Congress and the American people PRESSING SUPPORT FOR THE THAT OUR NATION’S MILITARY are increasingly concerned that the Presi- EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONDERS LEGACY AND HERITAGE OF dent is prepared to use armed force against Iraq without broad support by the inter- AND COMMUNITIES WHICH ARE SERVICE ARE NEVER FORGOT- national community, and without making a THE FRONT LINES OF THE NA- TEN compelling case that Iraq presents such an TION’S HOMELAND DEFENSE Mr. MILLER submitted the following imminent threat to the national security of Mrs. CLINTON submitted the fol- concurrent resolution; which was re- the United States that unilateral action is lowing resolution; which was referred ferred to the Committee on Armed justified: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate to the Committee on Environment and Services: that, before the President uses military force Public Works: S. CON. RES. 3 against Iraq without the broad support of the S. RES. 34 Whereas the Army Aviation Heritage international community, the President Whereas since the September 11, 2001 ter- Foundation, a nonprofit organization incor- should— rorist attacks on our country, first respond- porated in the State of Georgia in 1997, is an (1) provide full support to the United Na- ers—the men and women who serve as police all volunteer organization composed of vet- tions weapons inspectors to facilitate their officers, firefighters, and emergency services erans, their families, and civilian supporters ongoing disarmament work; and personnel—and communities all across the acting in concert to connect the American (2) obtain approval by Congress of new leg- United States have found themselves on the soldier to the American public through the islation authorizing the President to use all front lines of homeland defense in the war use of the story of Army Aviation; necessary means, including the use of mili- against terrorism on United States soil; Whereas the Army Aviation Heritage tary force, to disarm Iraq. Whereas we recognize that the first re- Foundation is not a part of the United States sponders and communities have been forced Army and receives no Federal funding; SENATE RESOLUTION 33—EX- to bear almost all of the financial burden Whereas funds for the activities of the PRESSING THE GRATITUDE OF that accompanies this responsibility; Army Aviation Heritage Foundation come THE UNITED STATES SENATE Whereas it is inappropriate for the first re- entirely from donations made by private in- sponders and communities to bear that re- dividuals and corporations; FOR THE SERVICE OF ARTHUR J. sponsibility alone; Whereas Army Aviation Heritage Founda- RYNEARSON, DEPUTY LEGISLA- Whereas State and local fiscal crises have tion volunteers devote a significant amount TIVE COUNSEL OF THE UNITED led to layoffs of first responders and the clos- of their personal time and resources to STATES SENATE ing of police and fire stations all across present the story of our Nation’s Armed Mr. STEVENS (for himself, Mr. America at a time when the homeland secu- Forces and the legacy of its veterans to the rity demands on our first responders and American people through extensive and BYRD, Mr. FRIST, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. local communities are greater than ever; elaborate living history programs presented LUGAR, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. WARNER, Mr. Whereas Congress has provided strong sup- at major public venues, such as air show INOUYE, Mr. GREGG, Mr. BIDEN, Mr. port for homeland security through the ap- events, and at numerous other smaller com- KYL, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. propriation of funds to help our first re- munity outreach initiatives; SARBANES, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. DODD, Mr. sponders and local communities improve Whereas these living history programs are KERRY, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. FEINGOLD, homeland defense, but the Senate recognizes designed and presented to honor the Armed Mr. NELSON of Florida, Mr. CORZINE, that not all of these resources have yet Forces and its veterans while inspiring the and Mr. HAGEL,) submitted the fol- reached our first responders and local com- public that ultimately supports the Armed lowing resolution; which was consid- munities; Forces and giving the public a glimpse of Whereas in addition to the homeland secu- military life, service, and devotion; ered and agreed to: rity funding that Congress has already ap- Whereas the Army Aviation Heritage S. RES. 33 propriated, additional homeland security re- Foundation has devoted over 150,000 volun- Whereas Arthur J. ‘‘Art’’ Rynearson, the sources are needed by our first responders teer hours and over $5,300,000 in donated Deputy Legislative Counsel of the Senate, and local communities; funds, aircraft, and equipment in organizing,

VerDate Mar 15 2010 22:06 Jan 14, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2003SENATE\S29JA3.REC S29JA3 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1756 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 29, 2003 developing, and conducting 35 public presen- Senator (R–TX); the Honorable John PN–84, Dana Gioia to be Chairperson of tations that have helped to foster patriotism Warner, U.S. Senator (R–VA); the Hon- the National Endowment For the Arts. and present our Nation’s military stories to orable Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Sen- I further ask unanimous consent that an audience of more than 5,500,000 people; ator (R–TX); the Honorable George all of the mentioned nominations be and Whereas the Army Aviation Heritage Voinovich, U.S. Senator (R–OH). confirmed, the motion to reconsider be Foundation is acting to provide America’s Panel II: Deborah Cook to be U.S. laid upon the table, the President be veterans a voice with which to tell their Court of Appeals Judge for the Sixth immediately notified of the Senate’s story and the tools with which to share with Circuit; John Roberts to be U.S. Court action, that any statements relating to the American public their legacy of service of Appeals Judge for the D.C. Circuit; the nominations appear at this point in and devotion: Now, therefore, be it and Jeffrey Sutton to be U.S. Court of the RECORD, and the Senate then re- Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep- Appeals Judge for the Sixth Circuit. sume legislative session, with all of the resentatives concurring), That Congress recog- Panel III: John Adams to be U.S. Dis- above occurring en bloc. nizes, applauds, and supports the efforts of the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation, a trict Court Judge for the Northern Dis- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without nonprofit organization incorporated in the trict of Ohio; Robert Junell to be U.S. objection, it is so ordered. State of Georgia, to pursue the following District Court Judge for the Western The nominations were considered and four primary purposes: District of Texas; S. James Otero to be confirmed en bloc, as follows: (1) To educate the American public regard- U.S. District Court Judge for the Cen- ing the military heritage of the United tral District of California. f States through the story of United States THE PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Army Aviation’s soldiers and machines. objection, it is so ordered. NATIONAL MUSEUM SERVICES (2) To connect the American serviceman BOARD and servicewoman to the American public as COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES an active and admired member of the Amer- Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask Edwin Joseph Rigaud, of Ohio, to be ican family. unanimous consent that the Com- Member of the National Museum Serv- (3) To inspire patriotism and motivate mittee on Natural Resources be au- ices Board for a term expiring Decem- Americans everywhere toward service to thorized to meet during the session of ber 6, 2007. their community and country by involving the Senate, on Wednesday, January 29 Elizabeth J. Pruet, of Arkansas, to be them in our Nation’s larger military legacy. at 9:30 a.m. to consider pending cal- a Member of the National Museum (4) To preserve authentic examples of endar business. Services Board for a term expiring De- Army aviation aircraft and utilize them in cember 6, 2004. educational living history demonstrations and presentations so that the symbols of BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA Harry Robinson, Jr., of Texas, to be a America’s military legacy may always re- Member of the National Museum Serv- Date put on main in our skies for future generations. Agenda item agenda Page ices Board for a term expiring Decem- ber 6, 2003. f 1. The Committee’s Budget Resolution for a two- year period, March 1, 2003 through February 28, AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO 2005 ...... 1/27/03 1 f MEET 2. The Committee Questionnaire for Presidential Nominees ...... 1/27/03 2 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC ARTS WORKS The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask objection, it is so ordered. Dana Gioia, of California, to be Chairperson of the National Endow- unanimous consent that the Com- SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE mittee on Environment and Public Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask ment for the Arts for a term of four Works be authorized to meet on unanimous consent that the Select years. Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 9:30 Committee on Intelligence be author- f a.m. to conduct a business meeting re- ized to meet during the session of the garding Committee Rules. Senate on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 LEGISLATIVE SESSION The meeting will be held in SD 406. at 2:30 p.m. to hold a business meeting. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ate will now return to legislative ses- objection, it is so ordered. objection, it is so ordered. sion. COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask TRANSPORTATION f unanimous consent that the Com- Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask mittee on Indian Affairs be authorized unanimous consent that the Sub- UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREE- to meet on Wednesday, January 29, committee on Science, Technology and MENT—EXECUTIVE CALENDAR 2003, at 10 a.m. in Room 485 of the Rus- Space of the Committee on Commerce, Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, as in exec- sell Senate Office Building to conduct Science and Transportation be author- utive session, I ask unanimous consent a business meeting to organize for the ized to meet on Wednesday, January 29, that on Thursday, at a time deter- 108th Congress by electing the Chair- 2003, at 2:30 p.m. on the science and mined by the majority leader, with the man and Vice Chairman of the com- ethics of human cloning. concurrence of the Democratic leader, mittee and to adopt the rules of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the Senate proceed to executive session committee and any other organiza- objection, it is so ordered. and that the nomination of Gordon tional business the committee needs to f England, to be Deputy Secretary of attend to. EXECUTIVE SESSION Homeland Security, be discharged from The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the Governmental Affairs Committee; objection, it is so ordered. NOMINATIONS DISCHARGED further, that the Senate then proceed COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask to its consideration; that there be 20 Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate minutes of debate equally divided be- unanimous consent that the Com- proceed to executive session, the fol- tween the chairman and ranking mem- mittee on the Judiciary be authorized lowing nominations then be discharged ber; provided further, that following to meet to conduct a Judicial Nomina- from the HELP Committee, and the the use or yielding back of time, the tions hearing on Wednesday, January Senate proceed en bloc to their consid- Senate proceed to a vote on the nomi- 29, 2003 in Dirksen Room 226 at 9:30 am. eration: nation, with no intervening action or PN–66, Edwin Rigaud to be member debate; that following the vote, the Tentative Agenda of National Museum Services Board; President be immediately notified of Panel I: The Honorable Dianne Fein- PN–64, Elizabeth Pruet to be member the Senate’s action, and the Senate stein, U.S. Senator (D–CA); the Honor- of National Museum Services Board; then return to legislative session. able Mike DeWine, U.S. Senator (R– PN–63, Harry Robinson to be member The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without OH); the Honorable John Cornyn, U.S. of National Museum Services Board; objection, it is so ordered.

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Whereas National Mentoring Month will desk. Mr. President, I am proud to sponsor The PRESIDING OFFICER. The encourage organizations of all kinds—busi- nesses, faith communities, government agen- this resolution, and I am proud to have clerk will report the joint resolution cies, schools, and other organizations—to en- known and worked with Art by title. gage their constituents in mentoring; and Rynearson. He has served his Nation The legislative clerk read as follows: Whereas the celebration of that month well for over 28 years, including 2 years A joint resolution (H.J. Res. 13) making would above all encourage more people to with the Library of Congress. I wish further continuing appropriations for the fis- volunteer as mentors, to the benefit of the Art and his wife, Mary Linda, the very cal year 2003, and for other purposes. Nation’s youth: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Senate— best for the future, especially time There being no objection, the Senate (1) designates the month of January 2003 as spent enjoying their retirement. proceeded to consider the joint resolu- ‘‘National Mentoring Month’’; and Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I am proud tion. (2) requests that the President issue a Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask proclamation calling upon the people of the to cosponsor with Senator STEVENS a unanimous consent that the joint reso- United States and interested groups to ob- resolution commending Mr. Art lution be read three times, passed, and serve the month with appropriate cere- Rynearson who is retiring as Deputy the motion to reconsider be laid upon monies and activities that promote aware- Legislative Counsel of the Senate on the table. ness of and volunteer involvement with January 31, 2003. I have had the pleas- youth mentoring. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ure of working with Art on many laws objection, it is so ordered. f relating to foreign policy matters. The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 13) EXPRESSING GRATITUDE FOR THE I wish to join with Senator STEVENS, was read the third time and passed. SERVICE OF ARTHUR J. and with all Senators, in expressing f RYNEARSON our deepest gratitude to Art Rynearson NATIONAL MENTORING MONTH Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask for his long years of service to the unanimous consent that the Senate United States Senate. He has been part Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask proceed to the immediate consider- of the Office of Legislative Counsel for unanimous consent that the Judiciary ation of S. Res. 33, which was sub- more than 26 years, including the last Committee be discharged from further mitted earlier today by Senators STE- 4 as Deputy Legislative Counsel; and consideration of S. Res. 25, and that VENS and BYRD. during that time he has provided valu- the Senate then proceed to its imme- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The able assistance to me and to my staff. diate consideration. clerk will report the resolution by The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without While overseeing the Office of Legis- title. lative Counsel as President pro tem- objection, it is so ordered. The clerk The legislative clerk read as follows: will report the resolution by title. pore, I appreciated the great dedication The legislative clerk read as follows: A resolution (S. Res. 33) expressing the and professionalism Art Rynearson dis- gratitude of the United States Senate for the A resolution (S. Res. 25) designating Janu- played in carrying out his duties and service of Arthur J. Rynearson, Deputy Leg- responsibilities. I know that his depar- ary 2003 as ‘‘National Mentoring Month’’. islative Counsel of the United States Senate. ture will leave a void that is difficult There being no objection, the Senate There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the resolution. to fill as he is truly a part of the insti- proceeded to consider the resolution. tutional memory of the Senate. In Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I rise passing this resolution, the Senate rec- unanimous consent that the resolution to commend Mr. Art Rynearson, the ognizes his years of commitment to the and preamble be agreed to; that the Deputy Legislative Counsel of the Sen- Senate. motion to reconsider be laid upon the ate, who retires on January 31, 2003, table; and that any statements relating after serving in the Senate for more Mr. President, I wish Art Rynearson to the resolution be printed in the than 26 years, including more than 3 and his wife, Mary Linda, well in his RECORD. years as Deputy Legislative Counsel. retirement. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without As President pro tempore of the Sen- Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, on be- objection, it is so ordered. ate, it is my pleasure to oversee the half of Senator BROWNBACK and myself, The resolution (S. Res. 25) was agreed work of the Office of the Legislative we welcome this opportunity to honor to. the outstanding career and contribu- Counsel. I appreciate the great dedica- tions of a truly dedicated and gifted The preamble was agreed to. tion and professionalism Art member of our Senate family, the Dep- The resolution, with its preamble, Rynearson has displayed in his role as uty Legislative Counsel of the Senate, reads as follows: an attorney in the Office and in his Art Rynearson. S. RES. 25 service as Deputy Legislative Counsel. Many of us have been very grateful Whereas mentors serve as role models, ad- The Office of Legislative Counsel to Mr. Rynearson over the years for his vocates, friends, and advisors to youth in plays a very important role in the leg- superb assistance in preparing legisla- need; islative process. We all rely upon the tion on foreign affairs. His many ac- Whereas numerous studies and research attorneys in the office to provide legis- complishments in this area include document that mentors help youth augment drafting, editing, and organizing the lative drafts to effectively carry out 2003 Foreign Relations Authorization social skills and emotional well-being, im- our legislative policy. Mr. Rynearson, prove cognitive skills, and plan for the fu- Act, the Iran-Libya Act, the Com- ture; in his role as Deputy Legislative Coun- prehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986; Whereas, for some youth, having a caring sel, has helped to see that we are all the Senate conditions to the Protocols adult mentor to turn to for guidance and en- served well by a professional, career, for the Expansion of NATO, the Chem- couragement can make the crucial difference and nonpartisan staff. ical Weapons Convention, the START between success and failure in life; In addition to his service as Deputy Treaty, and the Panama Canal Trea- Whereas 17,600,000 youth, nearly half the Legislative Counsel, Art Rynearson ties. youth population, want or need mentors to served for more than 26 years as the Senator BROWNBACK and I, and all the help them reach their full potential; principal drafter in the Senate on vir- members of the Immigration Sub- Whereas there exists a large ‘‘mentoring committee, are especially grateful to gap’’ of unmet needs, as evidenced by the tually all matters relating to inter- Mr. Rynearson for his skillful work in fact that just 2,500,000 youth are in formal national relations, international secu- legislation on immigration, naturaliza- mentoring relationships, leaving 15,000,000 rity, immigration and the State De- tion, and refugee affairs. Mr. youth still in need of mentors; partment, and all matters relating to Rynearson’s thoughtful insight, and his

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We now have a con- by all of us who know him and admire Counsel of the United States Senate for more sent agreement for the consideration of him, and millions of men and women than 26 years; the nomination of Gordon England, to and children who may never know his Whereas Art Rynearson has served as Dep- be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Se- name have benefited from his dedica- uty Legislative Counsel since October 20, curity. Votes are, therefore, possible tion and commitment. As he retires 1999, and demonstrated great dedication, pro- during tomorrow’s session. We will after 26 years of heart-felt service and fessionalism, and integrity in faithfully dis- alert all Members as the voting times high ability, he has the gratitude and charging the duties and responsibilities of become more certain. his position; f respect of all of us in the Senate, and Whereas Art Rynearson for more than 26 we wish him well in his retirement. years was the primary drafter in the Senate ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 11 A.M. Mr. BIDEN. Mr. President, today the of virtually all legislation relating to inter- TOMORROW Senate expresses its appreciation and national relations, international security, Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, if there is best wishes to one of the great unsung immigration, and the State Department, and no further business to come before the heroes who make this institution work. all matters relating to Senate consideration of international treaties; Senate, I ask unanimous consent that Art Rynearson, the Senate’s Deputy Whereas Art Rynearson will retire on Jan- the Senate stand in adjournment under Legislative Counsel, is retiring after uary 31, 2003, after more than 28 years of the previous order. over 26 years of exemplary service to service with the Congress, including more There being no objection, the Senate, this body. Art has been a backstage than 2 years with the Congressional Re- at 7:23 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, participant in many historic foreign search Service of the Library of Congress; January 30, 2003, at 11 a.m. policy decisions of the Senate, assist- and f ing the Foreign Relations Committee Whereas Art Rynearson has met the legis- to draft both legislation and resolu- lative drafting needs of the United States NOMINATIONS tions of advice and consent to ratifica- with unfailing professionalism, skill, and Executive nominations received by dedication: Now, therefore, be it tion of treaties. His actions were rarely the Senate January 29, 2003: Resolved, That the United States Senate THE JUDICIARY recognized or noticed by the public, but commends Arthur J. Rynearson for his more his contributions were essential. Art’s than 26 years of faithful and exemplary serv- LOUISE W. FLANAGAN, OF NORTH CAROLINA, TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN job was to ensure that our legislation ice to the United States Senate and the Na- DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA, VICE JAMES C. FOX, RE- clearly expressed the intent of the tion, including 4 years as the Deputy Legis- TIRED. RICHARD D. BENNETT, OF MARYLAND, TO BE UNITED committee and that it meshed properly lative Counsel of the Senate, and expresses STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARY- with existing law. He accomplished its deep appreciation and gratitude for his LAND, VICE FREDERIC N. SMALKIN, RETIRED. long, faithful, and outstanding service. THERESA LAZAR SPRINGMANN, OF INDIANA, TO BE that through marvelous attention to UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE NORTHERN detail and a complete absence of par- SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Senate shall DISTRICT OF INDIANA, VICE JAMES T. MOODY, RETIRED. transmit a copy of this resolution to Arthur JAMES V. SELNA, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE UNITED tisanship. STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT J. Rynearson. OF CALIFORNIA, VICE J. SPENCER LETTS, RETIRED. During the past 6 years, during which J. LEON HOLMES, OF ARKANSAS, TO BE UNITED f STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT I have served as either the chairman or OF ARKANSAS, VICE STEPHEN M. REASONER, RETIRED. ranking member of the committee, Art MEASURE READ THE FIRST PHILIP P. SIMON, OF INDIANA, TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDI- has borne a heavy burden—working on TIME—S. 241 ANA, VICE WILLIAM C. LEE, RETIRED. such matters as the Chemical Weapons Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I under- IN THE AIR FORCE Convention, NATO enlargement, and stand that S. 241, which was introduced THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT major legislation to restructure Amer- earlier today by Senators SNOWE and TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 AND 1552. ica’s foreign policy agencies. The com- KERRY, is at the desk. I ask for its first mittee owes him a great debt. reading. To be colonel It is not overstatement to say that The PRESIDING OFFICER. The JOSEPH P. DIBENEDITTO, 0000 the Senate could not function without clerk will read the title of the bill for THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR people like Art Rynearson. Every day— the first time. FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 AND 1552. and many a night—he was there, The legislative clerk read as follows: To be major unfailingly courteous and professional, A bill (S. 241) to amend the Coastal Zone JOHN C. LANDRENEAU, 0000 ready to assist the committee’s mem- Management Act. bers and staff to draft and refine legis- IN THE ARMY lation for consideration by the com- Mr. FRIST. I now ask for its second THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT reading and object to my own request. TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY mittee and the Senate. His knowledge AS CHAPLAIN UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: of foreign relations and immigration The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill To be colonel law, gained through his many years of will receive its second reading on the next legislative day. CHARLES R. BAILEY, 0000 service, will not be easily replaced. LAWRENCE M. BARRY, 0000 I know that I speak for all of my col- f GLEN L. BLOOMSTROM JR., 0000 KENNETH N. BROWN, 0000 leagues on the Foreign Relations Com- ROGER D. HEATH, 0000 ORDERS FOR THURSDAY, FREDERICK E. HOADLEY, 0000 mittee in saying thank you to Art JANUARY 30, 2003 STEVEN E. MOON, 0000 Rynearson. We wish him and his wife, TED W. NICHOLS, 0000 Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask ARTHUR C. PACE, 0000 Mary, every happiness as he begins his unanimous consent that when the Sen- RICHARD L. PACE, 0000 next stage in life. CHARLES D. REESE, 0000 ate completes its business today, it KENNETH L. SAMPSON, 0000 Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask stand in adjournment until 11 a.m., DAVID W. SMARTT, 0000 unanimous consent that the resolution Thursday, January 30. I further ask f and preamble be agreed to; that the unanimous consent that following the CONFIRMATIONS motion to reconsider be laid upon the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be Executive nominations confirmed by table; and that any statements relating deemed expired, the Journal of pro- the Senate January 29, 2003: to the resolution be printed in the ceedings be approved to date, the time NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HU- RECORD. MANITIES for the two leaders be reserved for their HARRY ROBINSON, JR., OF TEXAS, TO BE A MEMBER OF The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without use later in the day, and there then be THE NATIONAL MUSEUM SERVICES BOARD FOR A TERM objection, it is so ordered. EXPIRING DECEMBER 6, 2003. a period for morning business until 1 ELIZABETH J. PRUET, OF ARKANSAS, TO BE A MEMBER The resolution (S. Res. 33) was agreed p.m., with the time equally divided and OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM SERVICES BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING DECEMBER 6, 2004. to. Senators permitted to speak for up to EDWIN JOSEPH RIGAUD, OF OHIO, TO BE A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM SERVICES BOARD FOR A TERM The preamble was agreed to. 10 minutes each. EXPIRING DECEMBER 6, 2007. The resolution, with its preamble, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without DANA GIOIA, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE CHAIRPERSON OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS FOR A TERM reads as follows: objection, it is so ordered. OF FOUR YEARS.

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IN RECOGNITION OF THE MARCH Wendroff Early Enrichment Program and the resentatives. Having made the lengthy drive OF DIMES PREMATURITY CAM- organization’s camp. As a member, and cur- back and forth from Lansing to the central PAIGN rent co-leader of the Compassionate Friends, Upper Peninsula on a weekly basis while a a national and international organization help- State representative, I know the long solitary HON. J. DENNIS HASTERT ing parents to cope with the loss of a child, hours of driving Doug put in to represent the OF ILLINOIS she has been helped and continues to help 108th District. To emphasize what a long drive parents cope with their grief. it really is, you feel Eke you are close to home IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Some of Mrs. Wendroff’s honors include fi- when you get across the Mackinac Bridge on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 nalist for Teacher of the Year; recipient of the your way back to the district, even though Mr. HASTERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Governor’s Teachers of Excellence award; there are still over 100 miles to go. congratulate the March of Dimes on the and, listed in the ‘‘Who’s Who Among Amer- Doug diligently represented the men and launch of a national campaign to address the ica’s Teachers,’’ awarded by her students for women of Delta, Menominee, and Dickinson rising rate of premature births. her selfless dedication to teaching and her Counties in Lansing. Today in America, more than 1,300 babies lasting influence on their lives. In addition to working as an elected official, will be born too soon. Premature birthrates Varda Wendroff earned her B.A. degree a business owner and an educator, Doug have risen to the highest level ever reported in from Montclair State University, and M.A. from served as Executive Director of Operation Ac- the United States. In fact, a staggering one in New Jersey City University. tion U.P. Given his experience and dedication, eight babies are born preterm. And in my Varda Wendroff and her husband, Arnie, I am certain that Doug will find a way to con- home State of Illinois, some 20,000 babies have a son, Jason, and daughter-in-law, tinue to serve the residents of the Upper Pe- were born premature last year alone. Tracy. ninsula. On January 30th, the March of Dimes will Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in Mr. Speaker, Doug’s last day as a State launch a 5-year, national research, education honoring Varda Wendroff for being a guiding representative was January 2, 2003. Doug is and awareness campaign that seeks to pre- light in the lives of our youth and an inspira- too young a man for retirement and I am cer- vent premature birth. This campaign holds the tion to all of us. tain that he will find a way to continue to serve the residents of northern Michigan. promise of considerably reducing the rate of f prematurity throughout our nation. And the Mr. Speaker, I ask you and my House col- reasons for doing so are clear—babies born TRIBUTE TO FORMER MICHIGAN leagues to join me in saluting Doug Bovin, a prematurely bear an elevated risk of serious STATE REPRESENTATIVE DOUG public servant who has spent much of his life long-term health problems. Moreover, pre- BOVIN in service to others. mature birth represents the leading cause of f infant death in the first month of life. HON. BART STUPAK INTRODUCING LEGISLATION TO I commend the March of Dimes for their ef- OF MICHIGAN REPEAL SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT forts on behalf of the health and wellbeing of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES our nation’s unborn children and their families. Wednesday, January 29, 2003 HON. RON PAUL I am hopeful that this campaign will success- OF TEXAS fully and dramatically reduce the rate of Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, would like to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES preterm births in America. pay tribute today to Doug Bovin, a former rep- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 f resentative to the Michigan House of Rep- resentatives from the 108th District, which is Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, I am today intro- HONORING VARDA WENDROFF comprised of three counties in my congres- ducing legislation to repeal the Selective Serv- sional district. ice Act and related parts of the United States HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ First elected to the House in 1998, Doug Code. The Department of Defense, in re- OF NEW JERSEY Bovin has just concluded his service in that sponse to recent calls to reinstate the draft, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES body after seeking election to the Michigan has confirmed that conscription serves no mili- State Senate. Doug has represented both the tary need. This is only the most recent con- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 community where I grew up and the commu- firmation that the draft, and thus the Selective Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today nity where I and my family now live. Service system, serves no military purpose. In to honor Varda Wendroff, who was recognized Born August 24, 1944, Doug earned bach- 1999, then-Secretary of the Army Louis on Saturday, January 18, 2002, by the Rich- elor and master degrees in business adminis- Caldera, in a speech before the National ard A. Rutkowski Association at a gala dinner- tration from Northern Michigan University. He Press Club, admitted that ‘‘Today, with our dance at the Hi-Hat Caterers. and his wife, Bonnie, have two children. Doug smaller, post-cold-war Armed Forces, our An innovative and passionate teacher for has been a business owner and a high school stronger volunteer tradition and our need for over twenty years, Varda Wendroff is currently instructor and coach in addition to his lengthy longer terms of service to get a good return on the director of World Languages, ESL, and Bi- career in public service. the high, up-front training costs, it would be lingual Education for the Bayonne public Prior to being elected to the Michigan even harder to fashion a fair draft.’’ school system. House of Representatives, Doug served as Obviously, if there is no military need for the Varda Wendroff has given her heart and chair of the Delta County Board of Commis- draft, then there is no need for Selective Serv- soul to the community of Bayonne. The loss of sioners for 16 years and 9 years on the Glad- ice registration. Furthermore, Mr. Speaker, Se- her daughter, Lauren, and her family’s first- stone city council, including 4 years as mayor. lective Service registration is an outdated and hand experience in the Holocaust influenced With Doug’s longtime service in county gov- outmoded system, which has been made ob- and greatly impacted her life, making her an ernment came leadership positions in various solete by technological advances. admired healer, educator, and role model for organizations, including terms as president of In fact, in 1993, the Department of Defense the community. She has truly given back to the Michigan Association of Counties and the issued a report stating that registration could Bayonne, by investing in the families and the National Association of Counties. As president be stopped ‘‘with no effect on military mobili- young people of our community. of the Michigan Association of Counties, Doug zation and no measurable effect on the time it A two-year president of the Jewish Commu- had the opportunity to introduce President Bill would take to mobilize, and no measurable ef- nity Center and member of the Bayonne Clinton, when Mr. Clinton spoke to members fect on military recruitment.’’ Yet the American United Jewish Federation, Varda Wendroff of the association. taxpayer has been forced to spend over $500 teaches Holocaust studies for the United Jew- Doug represented the same district that I million dollars on an outdated system ‘‘with no ish Appeal, and assists with the Lauren represented in the Michigan House of Rep- measurable effect on military mobilization!’’

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Shutting down Selective Service will give of Senator SCHUMER, the Senate did not pass SEDBA is an innovative nonprofit commu- taxpayers a break without adversely affecting the needed legislation. nity organization established in 1934, by a vi- military efforts. Shutting down Selective Serv- Now, at the beginning of the 108th Con- sionary group of attorneys who recognized the ice will also end a program that violates the gress, and working closely with the administra- community’s need for affordable and credible very principals of individual liberty our nation tion, leadership of both parties and the Sen- legal assistance. Through a diverse member- was founded upon. The moral case against ate, the first piece of legislation I have intro- ship of over 200 lawyers, judges, and busi- the draft was eloquently expressed by former duced in the 108th Congress is a bill that will ness people, SEDBA has been continually President Ronald Regan in the publication help stabilize the Medicare+Choice program. providing legal assistance to over 7000 mem- Human Events in 1979: ‘‘. . . it [conscription] Since 1999 more than 2.4 million bene- bers of the community each year. SEDBA’s rests on the assumption that your kids belong ficiaries, including more than 85,000 Long Is- extensive network of prescreened attorneys, to the state. If we buy that assumption then it land seniors, have had their service inter- who specialize in a myriad of fields, continues is for the state—not for parents, the commu- rupted by a severe funding crisis. Millions of to be a source of expert service to all sectors nity, the religious institutions or teachers—to other beneficiaries have experienced a reduc- of the community. In connection with local decide who shall have what values and who tion in benefits or an increase in out-of-pocket schools, SEDBA has organized ‘‘Law Day’’ to shall do what work, when, where and how in costs. These problems are a direct result of give students a better understanding of the ju- our society. That assumption isn’t a new one. the fact that funding for the Medicare+Choice dicial system. In addition, SEDBA works with The Nazis thought it was a great idea.’’ program has not kept up with rising health local law enforcement agencies to collect holi- I hope all my colleagues join me in working costs. day gifts for the less fortunate. to shut down this un-American relic of a by- From the moment I came to Congress, sen- This year, I am also proud to recognize Ms. gone era and help realize the financial savings iors have been asking me when relief will ar- Rose Marie Gallegos, SEBDA’s first Latina and the gains to individual liberties that can be rive. They wonder what is taking so long and President and third woman to head the organi- achieved by ending Selective Service registra- why Congress can’t pass this and the Presi- zation. tion. dent sign-it. The fact is that while Congress For SEDBA’s dedication to service and blames HMOs for leaving Long Island, HMOs f commitment to the community, I urge my col- blame the administration, and Republicans leagues to join me in recognizing this remark- HONORING JESSICA HUGHES and Democrats blame each other, seniors are able organization. suffering. f HON. LARRY COMBEST As we begin a new session of Congress, it is essential that we put partisan politics aside TRIBUTE TO THE HONORABLE OF TEXAS and give seniors the help they so desperately MITCH GEISLER, MAYOR OF IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES need. Playing the blame game won’t help sen- MARSHALL, MO Wednesday, January 29, 2003 iors pay their medicine bills. The time has Mr. COMBEST. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to come to act. HON. IKE SKELTON Over the past three years, there has been recognize the outstanding achievements of OF MISSOURI a growing consensus in Congress that the Jessica Hughes, an individual who has over- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES come her physical disabilities and has become Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 has had Wednesday, January 29, 2003 an inspiration to all with whom she comes in the unintended effect of constricting the Medi- contact. care market as a whole, and Medicare+Choice Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, it has come to Jessica Hughes, a determined 16-year-old health plans in particular. According to a No- my attention that a remarkable public servant, from Idalou, Texas, was born with cerebral vember 2002 report by the Commonwealth the Honorable Mitch Geisler, Mayor of Mar- palsy, is visually impaired, and is confined to Fund, the BBA is limiting M+C payment rates, shall, MO, will not seek reelection in 2003, a wheelchair, but does not let her disabilities while health care costs are increasing. As a after 12 years of valuable service to the citi- slow her down. She actively participates in result, beneficiaries looking to Medicare HMOs zens of Marshall. State and local stock shows, in which she as an affordable supplemental insurance op- After high school, Mayor Geisler served his proudly shows lambs. She has been showing tion are being asked to pay more for fewer country through his tenure with the United lambs since she was in the third grade and benefits. States Army during World War II. He returned has won several ribbons at fairs in Lubbock. And that is only part of the problem. The ul- to Marshall, MO, and attended classes at Mis- At her home, she trains and exercises the timate result of this flawed system created by souri Valley College while working with the lambs every day, sometimes with the assist- the BBA is that HMOs in the program have Marshall Police Department. At the age of 23, ance of her father. Although she lacks the been deserting seniors on Long Island. Just 4 Mayor Geisler was selected to serve as the physical strength to lift the lambs, as many of years ago 12 HMOs offered seniors health Marshall Chief of Police. He was then selected the children showing them do, she has over- plans in Suffolk County; now only two remain. to serve Garden City, KS, in the same posi- come that barrier with a modification to her More than 85,000 Long Island seniors have tion. Mayor Geisler again returned to his home motorized wheelchair. All who witness her been dropped by their HMOs. This is unac- town of Marshall and dedicated 27 years of compete in these shows cannot help but be ceptable. service to the Wood & Huston Bank of Mar- It is for this reason that the encouraged by her indomitable spirit. shall. He retired as the bank’s Senior Vice I would like to call the attention of my col- Medicare+Choice Equity and Access Act is so President. leagues in the U.S. House of Representatives essential. It will stabilize the program and pro- In addition to these accomplishments, to the achievements of this remarkable young vide critical funding. The situation is uncon- Mayor Geisler has served his state and com- lady. Jessica Hughes is indeed an inspiration scionable. Our seniors are depending on us. I munity in many different capacities. He was to all and a fine role model for young people. urge my colleagues to quickly pass this bill elected twice to serve as the President of the and correct the funding inadequacies in f Western Missouri National Academy Associ- Medicare+Choice. ates. He also was a four year chairman of the HELP SENIORS LOSING HMO f State Land Reclamation Commission. Mayor COVERAGE SOUTHEAST DISTRICT BAR ASSO- Geisler also served as the President of the CIATION AND LAWYER REFER- Marshall Chamber of Commerce and was the HON. STEVE ISRAEL RAL SERVICE President of the Missouri Chief’s of Police As- OF NEW YORK sociation. He was the District Chairman of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Santa Fe Council, Boy Scouts of America, and HON. HILDA L. SOLIS served on the Lake Ozark Council’s Board of OF CALIFORNIA Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Directors. He also is a 50 year member of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. ISRAEL. Mr. Speaker, in the last Con- Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. In this gress, the House passed the landmark Israel- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 capacity, he flew with the Blue Angels Navy Johnson Medicare+Choice Improvement and Ms. SOLIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Acrobatic and demonstration team and also Stabilization Act that I cowrote with Repub- honor the Southeast District Bar Association had the chance to fly off the USS Theodore lican Representative NANCY JOHNSON. Unfortu- (SEDBA), the most prominent and largest Roosevelt. He was also invited by J. Edgar nately, despite a bipartisan consensus that legal association in the Southeast District of Hoover to attend the FBI Law Enforcement In- something must be done and the best efforts the Greater Los Angeles Area. stitution.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.004 E29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E93 In addition to this service, Mayor Geisler TROOPER THOMAS KOBESKI CHO- what the Tabor family of Kernersville did for also made many commitments to the service SEN FOR JOE SAPORITO LIFE- their fellow Tar Heels. Physicians Pharma- of his church. He was a fifteen year member TIME OF SERVICE AWARD ceuticals, their family business, offered to fill of his Church Board and also served as the the gap in NC CAN’s budget by donating the first president of the Mercy Academy School HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI $150,000 that the program needed. Physicians Board, where he also coached football for 5 OF PENNSYLVANIA Pharmaceuticals makes Revival soy protein years. Mayor Geisler and his wife, Dorothy, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES products, and it was a natural outgrowth of the company’s Christian philosophy that led them both had the privilege of meeting the Pope Wednesday, January 29, 2003 twice, invited the first time to meet the Pope to help the children of North Carolina. at the White House and then again in St. Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today I commend Physicians Pharmaceuticals for Louis, MO. to call the attention of the House of Rep- making this donation. It is very possible that resentatives to the honoring of the late Penn- children’s lives may be saved due to the com- Mr. Speaker, Mayor Geisler is a valuable sylvania State Trooper Thomas ‘‘Kubby’’ pany’s sacrifice. In a time of great discord in leader of his community and a role model for Kobeski with the Joe Saporito Lifetime of the world, this selfless act is an example of young Americans. I know that the Members of Service Award by the Sunday Dispatch of what good works are done in God’s name by the House will join me in paying tribute to Pittston, Pennsylvania. A reception will be held the faithful. Now all North Carolinians can feel Mayor Geisler for his outstanding commitment in his honor on February 2nd. better about the safety of their children be- to public service. Trooper Kobeski passed away last May and cause of Physicians Pharmaceuticals. is survived by his wife, Jackie, and their three f f children, Thomas, Matthew and Zachary. As the Sunday Dispatch states in an article PROTEST OF SCOTS GUARDS CON- RECOGNIZING THE CITY OF outlining why Trooper Kobeski was chosen for CERT AT SOVEREIGN BANK DRIGGS, IDAHO this award, ‘‘he was only 39, but he did an as- ARENA IN NEW JERSEY tonishing amount of good works in that short time. In an age of declining volunteerism, he HON. FRANK PALLONE, JR. HON. MICHAEL K. SIMPSON was the super volunteer.’’ OF NEW JERSEY Trooper Kobeski exhibited this spirit when IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF IDAHO he was still in high school. James Redington, Wednesday, January 29, 2003 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES principal at Seton Catholic High School, told the Dispatch, ‘‘He was the most dynamic boy. Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, for too long, Wednesday, January 29, 2003 He was a catalyst to get everybody moving Great Britain has used its military and police and shaking.’’ forces to oppress our friends, family and loved Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor ones in Northern Ireland. It is now time that one of Idaho’s finest. With a zip code of In addition to Seton Catholic, the many or- ganizations to which Trooper Kobeski donated Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British Par- 83422, Driggs, Idaho was recently featured in liament take immediate steps to right centuries National Geographic Magazine ZIPUSA sec- his time included the Stoners Youth Soccer League, St. John the Baptist School, and the of murders, anti-catholic bias and oppression. tion entitled, ‘‘Billionaires, Mormon potato As all of you know far too well, the case of farmers and skateboarders share an uncom- Pittston Little League. At the Pittston Little League, Secretary Nora Peter McBride is appalling and reprehensible. mon home in 83422.’’ The town was featured Shandra, told the newspaper, ‘‘It’s going to I find it unconscionable that the two men who in the publication because of its pristine loca- take 15 people to do what he did. He was were tried convicted and sentenced for the tion, nestled at the foot of one of the most equipment man, groundskeeper, coach, treas- murder of Peter, were not only released from photographed mountains in the world—the urer of the league and the auxiliary.’’ prison but were allowed to rejoin the Scots Grand Tetons. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to call to the at- Guard. This is absurd. Driggs, Idaho is also one of the fastest tention of the House of Representatives the I am proud to lend my voice in calling on growing towns per capita in the U.S. It’s easy well-deserved honoring of Trooper Kobeski Great Britain to immediately remove these two to see why. With friendly folks and beautiful with the Joe Saporito Lifetime of Service guardsmen. I also stand with you today in calling on scenery, Driggs is becoming a destination Award, and I wish his family and friends all the Great Britain to immediately reinstate the town. From Internet start up companies to best. power sharing government that was created third generation farmers, people flock and stay f by the Good Friday Accords. As many of you in Driggs. My wife Kathy and I are among know, last October, Prime Minister Blair sus- them. We enjoy spending our weekends and PHYSICIANS PHARMACEUTICALS pended the Belfast Assembly. The Good Fri- holidays at our home with an incredible view PROVIDES FUNDING FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA AMBER ALERT day Accords and more specifically the partici- of the Grand Tetons. SYSTEM pation of all parties in the power sharing gov- Driggs is reminiscent of small-town, USA. ernment are the only real solution to lasting The town’s idea of a traffic jam is waiting for HON. RICHARD BURR peace in Northern Ireland. a tractor to go by. It’s well known that in OF NORTH CAROLINA However, the only way for the agreements Driggs, the drivers you pass will wave at you, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and power-sharing institutions to succeed is with one hand still on the steering wheel. It’s for Unionists to immediately accept equality like feeling you’re home, even if you’ve never Wednesday, January 29, 2003 amongst all citizens and parties in the North. been there. There are no strangers in Driggs, Mr. BURR. Mr. Speaker, in the past year The Protestant ruling parties must cease their Idaho. Americans have become acutely aware of the stall tactics and work within the confines of the Main Street resembles the ideals of the horrible crime of juvenile abduction. We have agreement to create a government that will be past. You’ll see the neighborhood malt shop, also become aware that time is a crucial factor representative of all residents of Northern Ire- when attempting to recover an abducted child. locally owned grocery store and the town land. The Amber Alert system, which uses the Northern Ireland must also immediately im- bookstore, ‘‘Dark Horse Books.’’ The town is media to inform the public when a child has plement all of the Patten Commission’s rec- surrounded by fields of seed potatoes and been taken, has been an effective tool aiding ommendations. The North must provide its citi- gently sloping hills that roll to the foot of the in their rescue. zens with a full, fair and just reform of their mammoth Grand Teton Mountains. Perhaps The State of North Carolina is in a very tight police service. The PSNI (Police Service of Driggs’ most famous attraction, other than the budget year, and could not fully fund the North Northern Ireland) must be representative of all Grand Tetons, is the Spud Drive-in Theater. Carolina Child Alert Notification, or NC CAN. ethnic, religious and political groups in North- Locals like the old-time atmosphere of a drive When the budget was passed, NC CAN fund- ern Ireland. Prime Minister Blair should imme- in movie theater and the businesses’ mascot, ing came up $150,000 short. The program diately demand a full implementation of the a giant cement potato in the back of a flat bed could not expand from the current 15 counties Patten police recommendations and ensure truck. to all 100 counties in North Carolina without that Northern Ireland has a police service that I’m proud to represent and live in Driggs, the additional funds. is representative of all parties involved. Idaho. It’s a place worthy of National Geo- When good people see a problem, Mr. Once the Northern Ireland Assembly is rein- graphic praise and attention. Speaker, they step in to help. That is exactly stated, the first item on their agenda should be

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.008 E29PT1 E94 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 29, 2003 to provide the citizens of Northern Ireland with ness; investing in the community; and self- Brian Mattice, John O’Neill, Shaun Pynnonen, a Constitutional Bill of Rights. Northern Ireland lessly giving his time to making Bayonne a Josh Rich, Eric Roberts, Jake Skewis, Eric should draw from the experiences of the U.S. better place for all. Smock, David Speaker, Randy Sundell, Nick and South Africa, and create a binding docu- f Thompson, Dillan Thome, and Josh ment that specifically lays out the liberties and Wernholm. rights of all the residents of the North. Citizens TRIBUTE TO THE NEGAUNEE HIGH Team managers were Jacob Jandron and of Northern Ireland should be guaranteed the SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM IN Mario Marana. right against unreasonable search and sei- RECOGNITION OF WINNING A Mr. Speaker, I would also like to recognize zures, the right against being detained without STATE CHAMPIONSHIP the efforts of the Negaunee High School charges filed and the right to openly practice cheerleading team and its coaches who pro- one’s religion. HON. BART STUPAK vided invaluable support to the Miners football It is my hope that Prime Minister Blair will OF MICHIGAN team throughout the championship season. take immediate action on reinstatement of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Cheer Coach, Karen Saari, assistant coach Kathy DelAngelo and volunteer coaches Diane Belfast Assembly and come to his senses and Wednesday, January 29, 2003 terminate these two Scots Guards. I hope that Faust and Amy Pringle. we will honor Peter McBride’s memory by con- Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, I would like to Cheerleaders: Colleen Argall, Andraya tinuing our fight for equality and self-rule in pay tribute today to the coaches, players, and Mattila, Brittany Hewitt, Ashley Nault, Tashina Northern Ireland. Again, while we should managers of the 2002 Negaunee High School Kallionen, Kayla Pizzala, Ashley Kangas, Brit- never forget Peter’s murder, we should use Miners football team, in recognition of winning tany Rice, Stacy Kemper, and Amber Wetton. this atrocity as a basis for human rights and the Michigan Division 6 state football cham- Mr. Speaker, I ask you and my House col- police reform in the North. pionship on November 29, 2002 at the leagues to join me in saluting the coaches, I look forward to continuing to work for the Silverdome in Pontiac. The 2002 title was the players, managers and supporters of the 2002 right of all citizens of Northern Ireland. Miners’ first ever state football championship! Negaunee High School Miners-Division 6 Every high school football team in Michigan Michigan state football championship team. f begins practices with ‘‘two a days’’ under the f HONORING TONY BARBERI sweltering August sun with hopes of making it INTRODUCING THE ‘‘TERROR IMMI- to the Silverdome and winning a state cham- GRATION ELIMINATION ACT OF pionship. Only one of these schools in every HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ 2003’’ OF NEW JERSEY division will actually realize their title hopes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The valuable traits of teamwork, persever- ance, and sportsmanship are learned through HON. RON PAUL Wednesday, January 29, 2003 participation in athletics. In addition to instilling OF TEXAS Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today these traits, the hard work and dedication of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to honor the many accomplishments of Tony the coaches, players, and managers paid off Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Barberi, who was recognized Friday, January, with a state championship this season for the Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro- 24th, at Ireland’s 32 annual dinner dance held Negaunee Miners. ducing the ‘‘Terror Immigration Elimination Act at the Hi-Hat Club in Bayonne, New Jersey. Hard work and dedication are hallmarks of of 2003.’’ In 1973, Tony Barberi immigrated to Amer- the men and women of Michigan’s Upper Pe- The United States remains vulnerable to ter- ica, making Bayonne, New Jersey, his new ninsula. The residents of the City of rorist attacks more than a year after the trag- home. After working for a year in construction Negaunee, Marquette County, and the entire edy of 9/11. Our borders remain porous—a for a local contractor in Bayonne, Tony, along Upper Peninsula are proud of the accomplish- virtual revolving door and welcome mat for with his father and brothers, founded the ments of the Negaunee High School Miners those who would seek to harm us. This was Barberi Brothers Construction Company and state football championship team. never more evident than when news broke Graziella Tile Imports. What was once a family Defeating Hopkins High School 28–20 in an some time ago that the Immigration and Natu- dream rapidly became a great and wonderful exciting overtime thriller, capped a 13 and I ralization Service had actually renewed the reality. His family-run construction business season for the Miners. The Miners also cap- visas for several of the 9/11 hijackers after the grew, and over the years has continuously tured a 2002 Mid-Peninsula conference cham- attack had taken place. We cannot prevent provided top quality community development pionship. terrorism if we cannot keep terrorists out of to Bayonne and its residents. The Bayonne The Miners began their march to the state our country. Housing Authority received national acclaim championship with a hard fought 14–12 victory That is why I am introducing the ‘‘Terror Im- for the outstanding Roverson Homes project over rival Ishpeming High School. A 20–6 win migration Elimination Act of 2003.’’ This bill completed by none other than the exceptional over Suttons Bay High School gave the Min- will deny student and ‘‘diversity’’ visas to any- Barberi Brothers Construction Company. Tony ers a Division 6 Region 1 District 2 crown. The one coming from a country currently on the is currently the President of Barnac Builders Miners went on to defeat Iron Mountain 28– State Department’s list of terrorism-sponsoring and Developers. 17, for the Division 6 Region I championship countries. A soccer enthusiast, Tony, for the past 12 and a berth in the Division 6 state semi-finals. It may seem shocking that citizens from years, has been a coach and sponsor of the A close 32–28 win over Whittemore-Prescott these countries can even still receive these Bayonne Youth Soccer Association. He is a High School sent the Miners downstate for the visas, but it is true. We must put a lock on this state-licensed soccer coach, and since 1996, championship game against Hopkins High revolving door if we are going to protect Amer- has been the head varsity soccer coach at School. icans from the continuing threat of terrorism Holy Family Academy. Mr. Speaker, I want to take a moment to on our soil. Tony is a member of the following organiza- recognize every person involved in the Further, Mr. Speaker, it is time we face re- tions: the New Jersey State Contractors Asso- Negaunee High School Miners’ Division 6 ality regarding Saudi Arabia. We must remem- ciation; the Sicilian Citizens Club; the Nick state football championship. ber that most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi Capodice Association; National Soccer Coach- Head Coach, Paul Jacobson, and assistant nationals. Also, when al-Qaeda supporters es Association of America; and New Jersey coaches: Kevin Jacobson, Mark Marana, and were rounded up from Afghanistan and held at Girl’s Soccer Coaches Association. Dick Koski, provided the leadership and dis- Camp X–Ray, reports showed that of the 158 Tony dedicates his time to the Spinal Bifida cipline. prisoners more than one hundred were Saudi Foundation, the Simpson Barber Foundation Team members include: Donald Barr, John nationals. With such an evident level of in- for the Autistic, and Holy Family, St. Andrew’s, Bauman, Zack Brintlinger, Doug Byykkonen, volvement from Saudi nationals in these activi- and Our Lady of Assumption Parishes. David Cain, Dan Champion, Luke Cody, Cory ties, it is quite obvious that the Saudi govern- The son of Pietro and the late Grazia Cronkright, Adam Croschere, David ment is not doing all it can, or all it should, in Barberi, Tony has two brothers, Nunzio and Echelbarger, Eric Faulkner, Eric Faust, Chris resolving this urgent problem. Therefore, Mario. He is married to Fina, and has three Giletto, Ben Grossman, Ken Heikklla, Andy Saudi citizens will also be denied student and children, Pietro, Graziella, and Rosalia. Hill, Bryan Hill, Randy Howe, Cory Jandron, ‘‘diversity’’ visas to the United States under Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in Eric Jarvi, Jack Jarvi, Jesse Jezek, Bob this bill. honoring Tony Barberi for living the American Jurasin, Jeremy King, Josh LaBelle, Steve Mr. Speaker, we need to take concrete and dream: nurturing a family; establishing a busi- LaJoie, Kyle Lander, Eric Larson, Ryan Leaf, substantive steps to protect the United States

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.012 E29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E95 and its citizens against further terrorist attacks. Medicine at USC. She has published exten- Program in partnership with the Taiwan Min- One such step is passage of this bill. I urge sively and lectured nationally and internation- istry of Foreign Affairs. This unique program, my colleagues to support this legislation and I ally on her research in childhood diabetes. the only program of its kind in the United look forward to its passage. In addition to Dr. Kaufman’s busy clinical States, provides a language and cultural edu- f practice at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles cation program for junior diplomatic officers in and its satellite centers, Dr. Kaufman has the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Over 40 stu- HONORING THE FRENSHIP JUNIOR been the medical director at a summer camp dents have completed the program since its HIGH CHEERLEADERS for children with diabetes in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California inception in the early 1990’s, and many of HON. LARRY COMBEST for two decades. She has helped establish these graduates now serve their country in OF TEXAS standards of care for the American Diabetes diplomatic postings throughout the world. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Association where she currently serves as The program enables these junior officials to 2002–2003 National President. She has led Wednesday, January 29, 2003 increase their knowledge of the American po- many advocacy efforts at the local and na- litical system, enhance their language skills, Mr. COMBEST. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to tional levels to increase insurance benefits and gain a greater understanding of U.S. cul- recognize and honor the Cheerleaders of and to reduce discrimination against people ture. Instead of just learning about America in Frenship Junior High. Through their hard work with diabetes. and dedication, these young women won the I had the pleasure of working with Dr. Kauf- textbooks they have the unique opportunity to National Cheerleading Association National man while I was in the California State Sen- experience and participate in the American Championship. ate. Dr. Kaufman worked with me on legisla- system by way of local internships and inter- Since September, the girls of Frenship Jun- tion that would enhance diabetes treatment actions with elected officials. Additionally, they ior High have practiced their routines at least and management. can experience Idaho’s natural beauty and two hours a week. The competition began on I urge my colleagues to join me in honoring participate in numerous outdoor activities. Not December 28th, where the girls qualified for Dr. Francine Ratner Kaufman for her pio- only does this program benefit these officials, the finals competition the next day. They over- neering clinical studies, research and devotion but it also benefits the students of Idaho State came nerves and last minute alterations in to the field of diabetes. University who are exposed to a different cul- their routine to take the championship on De- f cember 29, 2002 with a score of 9.05 on a ture and perspective, broadening their world scale of 10. After so many months of practice TRIBUTE TO JUDGE BYRON view and understanding. and determination, the squad pulled through KINDER Recently, I had the opportunity to meet the with a spectacular victory. current group of junior diplomats studying at It is with great pleasure, Mr. Speaker, that HON. IKE SKELTON Idaho State University. They are an intelligent, I honor these dedicated young women for their OF MISSOURI energetic group who are eager to serve their commitment to their sport. The Frenship Jun- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES country. We had a healthy exchange of ideas ior High School cheerleaders stand out as and a good discussion regarding the American very dedicated and motivated individuals. I Wednesday, January 29, 2003 political system and current events in Taiwan. wish to congratulate these girls on their suc- Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, it has come to cess in such a competitive sport. my attention that a long and exceptionally dis- They are very interested in gaining as much knowledge and insight as possible during their f tinguished career in public service has come to a close. The Honorable Judge Byron Kinder stay in America and look forward to using HONORING BARRY A. KASTNER retired from his position as Cole County’s cir- what they have learned as they progress in cuit court judge on January 1, 2003. their diplomatic careers. HON. STEVE ISRAEL A graduate of the University of Missouri and I congratulate the 2002–2003 participants of Georgetown Law School, Judge Kinder has OF NEW YORK this very worthwhile program. Chen Sy-yun, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been a highly respected judge in Cole County for thirty years. Fu Yu-min, Huang Chien-tsai, Chin Tsung-kai, Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Judge Kinder is well known for his sense of and Hsiao Kuang-wei are very able represent- Mr. ISRAEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to acknowl- humor, his directness, and his ability to quickly atives of their country and I am sure that like edge the works of Barry A. Kastner. This out- get at the heart of the problem. Through his their predecessors they will serve their country standing individual from Long Island was hon- time in office, he has treated all before him with honor and distinction. I wish them suc- ored last night at the B’Nai B’Rith Banking and with the same sense of justice and respect. cess in all their future endeavors. Finance Distinguished Achievement Award In 1962, he entered private practice in Cole This exchange of ideas serves both coun- Dinner. County and served as an assistant prosecutor. tries well and reinforces the democratic bond Mr. Kastner’s leadership in the commercial In 1965, Judge Kinder was appointed pros- finance industry has been an example to ecutor by Governor Warren Hearnes, serving between the United States and Taiwan. Posi- many, and I am most grateful for his service until 1972, when he was elected circuit court tive associations such as this strengthen the to Congress Financial Corporation and to judge. tie between our two countries and further rein- Long Island. Mr. Speaker, I wish Judge Kinder all the force the importance of Taiwan as a trusted f best as he moves on to the next step in his ally. life. I know the members of the House will join DR. FRANCINE RATNER KAUFMAN I am honored to have this program in my me in wishing him well. congressional district and look forward to a f HON. HILDA L. SOLIS continued successful relationship with Taiwan. RECOGNIZING PARTNERSHIP OF OF CALIFORNIA I would like to thank the Honorable C. J. IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Chen, Taiwan’s chief representative in the ENGLISH AND PROFESSIONAL United States, for his contribution to the close Wednesday, January 29, 2003 DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AND and friendly relationship between our two TAIWAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN Ms. SOLIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay countries. I would also like to thank Mr. An- tribute to Dr. Francine Ratner Kaufman who is AFFAIRS thony Chung Yi Ho, Senior Assistant to the receiving the 2003 American Diabetes Asso- ciation’s Women of Valor Award for her dedi- Honorable C. J. Chen, for his expertise and HON. MICHAEL K. SIMPSON leadership in working with my staff, and cation to the field of diabetes. OF IDAHO Michelle Lewis, Director of the Idaho State Dr. Kaufman has devoted her clinical and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES research career to improving the lives of chil- University English and Professional Develop- dren affected by diabetes. Dr. Kaufman heads Wednesday, January 29, 2003 ment Program, for her dedication and commit- the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ment to this unique program. at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and is Pro- highlight the success of the Idaho State Uni- fessor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of versity English and Professional Development

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.015 E29PT1 E96 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 29, 2003 FRANK BARTOLI NAMED GREATER a daunting task with the economy stuck in a On January 26, 1950, India became a Re- PITTSTON PERSON OF THE YEAR post-Depression state. He succeeded: in 1960 public, devoted to the principals of democracy his work propelled North Carolina to a triple- and secularism. At that time, Dr. Rajendra HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI A credit rating. Prasad was elected as the nation’s first presi- OF PENNSYLVANIA Mr. Boyles succeeded Gill as Treasurer in dent. Since then, despite the challenges of 1977 and served honorably until his retirement IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sustaining economic development and pro- in 2001. In the forty years that he served as moting tolerance and cooperation amongst its Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Deputy and State Treasurer, he maintained many ethnic, religious and linguistic commu- Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today the Triple-A credit rating, resulting in millions to call the attention of the House of Rep- of dollars in savings for North Carolinians, one nities, India has stuck to the path of free and resentatives to the designation of Frank Bartoli of the Treasurer’s proudest accomplishments. fair elections, a multi-party political system and as Greater Pittston Person of the Year by the He was a respected man, sought for his the orderly transfer of power from one govern- Sunday Dispatch. He will be honored with a soft-spoken knowledge and economic genius. ment to its successor. reception on February 2nd, 2003. His approval was considered vital to pass On that special day in 1950, India adopted Frank is a native of Pittston who came back bond-related issues that came before the Leg- its Constitution. It should be noted that India to the area to tackle the challenge of turning islature. He began warning in the 1980’s that derived key aspects of her Constitution, par- around the Greater Pittston YMCA, of which North Carolina had a fiscal disaster looming ticularly its statement of Fundamental Rights, he is executive director. As the Dispatch stat- on the horizon. He used the past as guide and from our own Bill Of Rights. On the eve of Re- ed recently, ‘‘in just over a year he has more his uncommon intuition to foreshadow the eco- than succeeded in helping make the Y a via- nomic future of the State. Boyles argued that public Day several years ago, India’s Presi- ble Main Street entity again.’’ the government was growing faster than the dent K.R. Narayanan stated in his address to Frank, the son of Robert and Leota Bartoli, State could afford, maintaining that North the nation: ‘‘Let us remember, it is under the grew up in Inkerman and is a graduate of Carolina needed ‘‘better government, not big- flexible and spacious provisions of our Con- Pittston Area High School and Lock Haven ger government.’’ stitution, that democracy has flourished during University. He and his wife, the former Eileen Boyles was an expert at making an organi- the last fifty years and that India has achieved Burns, have two children, Brian and Ellie. zation perform at its peak, in part because he an unprecedented unity and cohesion as a na- When Frank returned to Pittston in August, was constantly seeking new ideas. The level tion and made remarkable progress in the so- 2001, the YMCA needed much improvement. of efficiency that he maintained at the Depart- cial and economic fields.’’ It was saddled with debt that was delaying the ment of Revenue was ahead of its time with India and the United States both proclaimed receipt of grants and other improvements, and the cutting-edge technology that he instituted. building maintenance had become a low pri- Computers were used everywhere possible to their independence from British colonial rule. ority. With the help of the board of directors, increase productivity. He did the job with one The Indian independence movement under the $240,000 in debt has been eliminated. of the smallest staffs in North Carolina govern- leadership of Mahatma Gandhi had strong New treadmills and other equipment im- ment. moral support from American intellectuals, po- provements have been made, but Frank is Arguably one of the most effective State litical leaders and journalists. Just this week, most proud of the YMCA’s focus on children Treasurers in American history, Harlan made we paid tribute to one of our greatest Amer- and families, including expanded day care and profound strides in his efforts to prepare the ican leaders, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. preschool, a night of entertainment for pre- State for the twenty-first century. During his Dr. King derived many of his ideas of non-vio- teens and the conversion of an old laundry tenure, the value of State employee pension lent resistance to injustice from the teachings room into a children’s room full of toys. Ath- funds rose from $7 billion to $67 billion and and the actions of Mahatma Gandhi. letics for adults have also been expanded. the total North Carolina workforce increased Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to call to the at- from 158,000 to 218,000. Without his leader- As the world’s two largest democracies, the tention of the House of Representatives the ship as Treasurer the security of our State United States and India have a natural rela- well-deserved designation of Frank Bartoli as employee retirement fund would not be the tionship, based on their shared values of di- Greater Pittston Person of the Year, and I guarantee that it is today for so many Tar versity, democracy and prosperity. These two commend him for his hard work and dedica- Heels. The measures that he took to ensure countries have steadily grown closer for the tion. the economic security of the State have yet to past ten years, and most recently, the United f be surpassed. States’ campaign to fight global terrorism has Harlan’s passing is not only a loss to North brought the two countries even closer. A TRIBUTE TO HARLAN EDWARD Carolina, but is indeed a loss to America. His Following the tragic events of September BOYLES legacy of service stands to direct the next 11, 2001 India was one of the first countries generation as they embark on their journey HON. RICHARD BURR into the new century. North Carolinians mourn to come forward to the United States with an OF NORTH CAROLINA his loss, and we keep in our prayers his loving offer of full assistance and cooperation in this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wife Frankie and his children, Lynn, Phyllis new global fight against terrorism. Prime Min- ister Vajpayee expressed his deep sympathy Wednesday, January 29, 2003 and Edward. The history of North Carolina is marked by the work of great men and their regarding the World Trade Center attacks. The Mr. BURR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today a ideas; Harlan Boyles is such a man and his attacks in fact took the lives of 250 Indians proud North Carolinian, to pay tribute to Har- legacy will live on to guide the future of sound and Indian-Americans. lan E. Boyles, long-time State Treasurer of economics and responsible leadership. Since September 11, there have been ter- North Carolina and beacon of fiscal integrity. f Born May 6, 1929, in Lincoln County, North rorist attacks against India on a near daily Carolina to a farming family, Boyles learned INDIA’S REPUBLIC DAY, JANUARY basis. India has sadly been afflicted with ter- from the Great Depression the importance of 26, 2003 rorism from Pakistani-based terrorist groups financial responsibility and the value of a dol- that are to be blamed for over 53,000 deaths lar. Along with economic hardships, he also HON. FRANK PALLONE, JR. of innocent Indian citizens throughout the last fought and finally overcame polio that plagued OF NEW JERSEY 15 years. These are in fact the same terrorist him from the age of fifteen. His perseverance IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES groups that belong to the terrorist networks was unshakable. He went on to graduate from the United States is now fighting against. It is Wednesday, January 29, 2003 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill only natural that these two countries are now in 1951 with a degree in accounting. Wasting Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I would like to united in the global fight against terrorism. no time he made his way to the Department pay tribute to one of the most important dates of Revenue and, as a junior level auditor, on the calendar for the people of India, as well Lastly, I want to note that throughout the began his lifelong career in public service. as for the people of Indian descent who have South Asian region, India stands alone as a Harlan served North Carolina for sixteen settled in the United States and around the pillar of democracy, stability and growth. I join years as the Deputy State Treasurer under his world. January 26th is Republic Day, an occa- both Indians in India and over 1.8 million Indi- mentor, Edwin Gill. Gill assigned Boyles the sion that inspires pride and patriotism for the ans living here in the United States in cele- challenge of upgrading the State’s bond rating, people of India. brating India’s Republic Day.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.021 E29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E97 IN HONOR OF DR. ROSS J. First elected to the Senate in 1990, Don States long enough to qualify for Social Secu- SIMPSON Koivisto has just concluded his service in that rity, the number of years worked in Mexico body because of the Michigan term limits law. would be added to bring up the total and thus HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ This law was enacted at the will of the voters make the Mexican worker eligible for cash OF NEW JERSEY of Michigan, but I must confess that I believe transfers from the United States. Mr. Speaker, press reports also indicate that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the law turns effective public servants out of office. Don has represented both the commu- thousands of foreigners who would qualify for Wednesday, January 29, 2003 nity where I grew up and the community U.S. Social Security benefits actually came to Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today where I and my family now live. the United States and worked here illegally. to honor and acknowledge Dr. Ross J. Simp- Born August 18, 1949 in Bessemer, Don That’s right: The federal government may ac- son. Dr. Simpson who was honored on Satur- earned a bachelors degree in political science tually allow someone who came to the United day, January 18, 2003, by the Richard A. from Central Michigan University. Don and his States illegally, worked less than the required Rutkowski Association at a gala dinner-dance wife, Pam, have four children. number of years to qualify for Social Security, at the Hi-Hat Caterers. Prior to his twelve years in the Michigan and then returned to Mexico for the rest of his A captain in the U.S. Army, Dr. Simpson State Senate, Don served three consecutive 2 working years, to collect full U.S. Social Secu- served our country as the chief of chest sur- year terms in the Michigan House of Rep- rity benefits while living in Mexico. That is an gery at the Osaka Army hospital in Japan dur- resentatives after first being elected to the insult to the millions of Americans who pay ing the Korean War, and was honored with the House in 1980. In addition to his service in the their entire working lives into the system and United Nations and Korean Service medals for Michigan legislature, Don has been a political now face the possibility that there may be his service. Upon his return from the war, in consultant to former Michigan House Speaker nothing left when it is their turn to retire. 1952, he started his surgical practice in Ba- Lewis Dodak and former Michigan State Rep- The proposed agreement is nothing more yonne. His medical career was extensive, and resentative Michael Griffin. than a financial reward to those who have will- Dr. Simpson worked as a chief of surgery at Don is a former school board member and ingly and knowingly violated our own immigra- Bayonne Hospital and the Pollack Hospital, served as a high school teacher and basket- tion laws. Talk about an incentive for illegal and as an attending surgeon at St. Francis ball coach. He also worked as a Ontonagon immigration! How many more would break the Hospital, St. Mary’s Hospital, Morristown Gen- County Juvenile Officer. law to come to this country if promised U.S. eral, and the French Hospital in New York It should be clear from my remarks, Mr. government paychecks for life? Is creating a City. Speaker, that Don Koivisto has spent much of global welfare state on the back of the Amer- Dr. Simpson has held leadership positions his adult life in public service. ican taxpayer a good idea? The program also ever since his service in the Army. At Ba- Mr. Speaker, Don’s last day as a state sen- establishes a very disturbing precedent of U.S. yonne Hospital, he served as president of the ator was January 2, 2003. Don is too young foreign aid to individual citizens rather than to medical staff, president of the Board of Trust- a man for retirement and I am certain that he states. Estimates of what this deal with the Mexican ees, and chairman of the Board of Trustees. will find a way to continue to serve the resi- government would cost top one billion dollars He has not only been a surgeon, but also a dents of Michigan. per year. Supporters of the Social Security to professor of surgery at the New Jersey Col- Mr. Speaker, I ask you and my House col- Mexico deal may attempt to downplay the ef- lege of Medicine and Dentistry. He is pub- leagues to join me in saluting Don Koivisto, a fect the agreement would have on the system, lished in the Annals of Surgery and in the public servant who has spent much of his life but actions speak louder than words: Accord- AMA journal for his nationally renowned work working for the betterment of others. ing to several press reports, the State Depart- on foreign bodies of the chest and heart. Dr. f ment and the Social Security Administration Simpson is a fellow of the American College are already negotiating to build a new building of Surgeons and the International College of INTRODUCTION OF SOCIAL SECU- in Mexico City to handle the expected rush of Surgeons, and a diplomat of the American RITY FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS applicants for this new program! Board of Thoracic Surgery. ONLY ACT As the system braces for a steep increase A founding member of the Simpson Barber in those who will be drawing from the Social Foundation for the Autistic, Dr. Simpson will HON. RON PAUL Security trust fund, it makes no sense to ex- serve as the Chairman of the 1st Annual Re- OF TEXAS pand it into a global welfare system. Social gatta of the Foundation. He is a communicant IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Security was designed to provide support for of St. Henry’s Church, and in 1995, he re- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 retired American citizens who worked in the ceived the Brotherhood Award from the Ba- United States. We should be shoring up the yonne Chapter of Christians and Jews. Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, today I introduce system for those Americans who have paid in Dr. Simpson is married to Marguerite the Social Security for American Citizens Only for decades, not expanding it to cover for- O’Reilly, the proud father of five, Ross Jr., Act. This act forbids the federal government from providing Social Security benefits to non- eigners who have not. Thomas, Christopher, Mary Anne, and Mar- It is long past time for Congress to stand up guerite, and proud grandfather of fifteen. citizens. It also ends the practice of total- ization. Totalization is where the Social Secu- to the internationalist bureaucrats and start Dr. Simpson earned his B.A. from St. Pe- looking out for the American worker. I there- ter’s College, and his medical degree from rity Administration takes into account the num- ber of year’s an individual worked abroad, and fore call upon my colleagues to stop the use NYU Medical School. of the Social Security Trust Fund as yet an- Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in thus was not paying payroll taxes, in deter- other vehicle for foreign aid by cosponsoring honoring Dr. Ross J. Simpson for his out- mining that individual’s eligibility for social se- the Social Security for American Citizens Only standing contributions to the medical commu- curity benefits! Act. nity, for treating the injured and the sick, and Hard as it may be to believe, the United for saving countless lives in times of war and States Government already provides Social f peace. Security benefits to citizens of 17 other coun- MARSHA SHARP SELECTED FOR tries. Under current law, citizens of those f WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HALL OF countries covered by these agreements may FAME TRIBUTE TO FORMER MICHIGAN have an easier time getting Social Security STATE SENATOR DON KOIVISTO benefits than public school teachers or police- men! HON. LARRY COMBEST OF TEXAS Obviously, this program provides a threat to HON. BART STUPAK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the already fragile Social Security system, and OF MICHIGAN Wednesday, January 29, 2003 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the threat is looming larger. Just before Christ- mas, the press reported on a pending deal be- Mr. COMBEST. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Wednesday, January 29, 2003 tween the United States and the government commend Marsha Sharp for her outstanding Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, I would like to of Mexico, which would make hundreds of dedication to the athletic and academic pay tribute today to Don Koivisto, a former thousands of Mexican citizens eligible for U.S. achievement of her student-athletes. Her ef- senator in the Michigan State Senate from the Social Security benefits. Totalization is the forts have gained her an induction into the 38th Senate District, which is comprised of ten centerpiece of this proposal, so even if a Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame for spring counties in my congressional district. Mexican citizen did not work in the United 2003.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.024 E29PT1 E98 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 29, 2003 Marsha Sharp will be among the fifth class tioned the Bishop of Newark to establish a partment. He then moved to the Grand Blanc of inductees into the Women’s Basketball Hall parish that would use the Italian language at Township Police Department, where he at- of Fame. The six individuals inducted in this mass and other services, allowing for both na- tained the rank of captain. The Ishpeming Po- class will bring the total number of individuals tive and non-native English speakers to ben- lice Department recognized his talents and in the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame to 73. efit from the service. The parish was officially named Ralph chief in June of 1976. He later Marsha Sharp is more than a coach; she is established in June of 1902, and Monsignor served as chief of the Menominee Police De- also a leader and role-model for many athletes Michael Mercolino delivered the first mass in a partment. He then moved downstate and took and students not only at Texas Tech, but all small store on 21st Street on June 3, 1902. the position of director of law enforcement with across the country. Monsignor Mercolino’s participation with the the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Depart- Her commitment to excellence has earned Church did not end there; he dedicated and ment. many successes for both her and the teams devoted his time to the parish until 1945. Ralph left the Grand Traverse County Sher- that she has led. Coach Sharp is in her 21st Our Lady of the Assumption has grown over iffs Department to become chief of the Tra- season as the head coach of the Lady Raider the past century from that first group of Italian verse City Police Department in 1981. Ten Basketball program and in that time has es- immigrants to a multicultural congregation that years later, Traverse City added the duties of tablished a career record of 479–153, She celebrates mass and other services in three fire chief to Ralph’s responsibilities. guided the Lady Raiders to the NCAA National languages: English, Spanish, and Italian. According to Ralph one of his major accom- Championship in 1993 and has led Texas Three church buildings have also been estab- plishments as police chief was bringing com- Tech to the NCAA Tournament 15 times, in- lished: the first in 1902, the second in 1911, munity policing to Traverse City. I had the cluding 13 straight. She has taken her team to and the third in 1976. The City of Bayonne is pleasure of working with Ralph in introducing the Sweet 16 nine times and the Elite Eight a better place thanks to the inclusive and gen- the U.S. Department of Justice’s Community three times. She has also led her teams to nu- erous ways of the ever-growing Our Lady of Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program to merous conference titles. Assumption Church. the Traverse City area. The Women’s Basketball News Service and Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in Having an advanced degree, Ralph has the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association honoring Our Lady of the Assumption Church taught criminal justice courses at many institu- named her coach of the year in 1993 and Centennial Day, a profound and monumental tions of higher learning in the United States 1994, respectively. Marsha Sharp has not only day in the history of the City of Bayonne. and abroad. In May of 1998 he spent five led her teams to success on the court, but f weeks in the Ukraine, working under the aus- pices of the Ukraine Militia, as an adjunct pro- also in the classroom, as 99 percent of her TRIBUTE TO RALPH SOFFREDINE student athletes have graduated during her fessor teaching and facilitating law enforce- tenure at Texas Tech. ment classes to visiting U.S. students from the It is with great pride that I commend Marsha HON. BART STUPAK Michigan State University School of Criminal OF MICHIGAN Sharp for her active involvement and leader- Justice. Closer to home, Ralph has taught IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ship both on and off the court, and I congratu- criminal justice courses at many colleges and late her on being inducted into the Women’s Wednesday, January 29, 2003 universities including: Northern Michigan Uni- Basketball Hall of Fame. Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to versity; Northwestern Michigan College; North- f pay special tribute to an individual, who in ad- western University; Michigan State University; dition to a long and distinguished career in law and his alma maters, Central Michigan Univer- HONORING MORRIS S. HODKIN AND enforcement and teaching, has dedicated sity and Eastern Michigan University. JOSEPH HODKIN many thousands of hours to community serv- Showing his dedication to law enforcement ice in northern Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I rise to beyond his administrative positions, Ralph has HON. STEVE ISRAEL honor Ralph Soffredine of Traverse City, been involved in many related issues such as OF NEW YORK Michigan. county jail program development, police IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ralph Soffredine has dedicated his life to school liaison programs, drug enforcement, education, law enforcement, community serv- crime prevention, police/fire training, internal Wednesday, January 29, 2003 ice and teaching. His perseverence and ac- investigation, chief contract negotiation, griev- Mr. ISRAEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to acknowl- complishments have been an inspiration to ance and discipline, unification and consolida- edge the works of Morris S. Hodkin and Jo- every one who has met Ralph. tion of police departments, central dispatch, seph Hodkin. These outstanding individuals Born in Detroit, Michigan on January 11, and records. Having a wide range of life expe- from Long Island were honored last night at 1937, he graduated from Sandusky High riences beyond law enforcement, Ralph has the B’Nai B’Rith Banking and Finance Distin- School, in Sandusky, Michigan in 1959. Nearly advised local officials on grants, personnel, guished Achievement Award Dinner. thirty six years ago he married Pam on March management reorganization, community orga- Mr. Morris Hodkin and Mr. Joseph Hodkin of 21, 1967 and the couple raised six children: nization, and city, township and county budg- Daley-Hodkin Corporation have dedicated Maureen, Pete, Patrick, Annie, Joseph, and eting. years of service to the corporate credit indus- Paula. Ralph and Pam also have nine grand- Ralph’s community service goes beyond his try in New York. They are also to be com- children. law enforcement and teaching duties. He cur- mended for their continued activities in chari- After serving in the U.S. Air Force from Sep- rently serves as chairman of the Grand Tra- table endeavors. tember 1954 until receiving an honorable dis- verse County Family Independence Agency, f charge as an Airman First Class in March the Camp Grayling Regional Training Facility, 1958, he continued his academic studies and and The Pavilion’s board. Showing his admi- IN HONOR OF OUR LADY OF THE earned a Bachelor of Science degree in rable community service, he serves on many ASSUMPTION CHURCH science from Central Michigan University, in other committees and boards including: the Mount Pleasant, Michigan, in June of 1966, Police School Liaison Committee, Northflight HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ While at Central he had a distinguished ath- Board of Directors, Munson Board of Direc- OF NEW JERSEY letic career as a football player and was in- tors, Women Resource Center Board of Direc- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame in tors, the Traverse City Planning Commission, and the Traverse City Area Public School Wednesday, January 29, 2003 October 2001. A continuing quest for education led Ralph Board of Education. Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to earn a Masters of Arts degree in community He has served as president of Grand Tra- to honor and celebrate the 100th anniversary administration from Eastern Michigan Univer- verse Families in Action and as a member of of Our Lady of the Assumption Church. The sity, in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in 1970. In addition the Michigan Justice Training Commission. church celebrated its anniversary on Saturday, to his academic work towards two degrees, Mr. Speaker, Ralph Soffredine’s wide rang- November 2, 2002, which Bayonne Mayor Jo- Ralph is a 1985 graduate of the ‘‘Police Staff ing law enforcement, teaching and community seph V. Doria, Jr., proclaimed as Our Lady of and Command School’’ at Northwestern Uni- service activities are admirable and amazing. the Assumption Centennial Day. versity, in Evanston, Illinois and a 1991 grad- Ralph and Pam Soffredine have been great In the early 1900s, a group of Italian-speak- uate of the FBI National Academy, in assets to their chosen careers, their fellow ing immigrants decided that the Bayonne com- Quantico, Virginia. workers, and their community. I am proud to munity needed a national parish that would Ralph began his criminal justice career in call Ralph and Pam Soffredine, friends of truly serve the needs of the people. They peti- 1966 as a police officer in the Flint Police De- mine.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.027 E29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E99 Mr. Speaker, Ralph’s last day as Chief of ZUNI INDIAN TRIBE WATER land coach Charles ‘‘Lefty’’ Driesell, who ear- the Traverse City Police Department is Janu- RIGHTS SETTLEMENT ACT OF 2003 lier this year retired after 41 years in the ary 24, 2003 and on January 25, 2003 there coaching ranks. When coach Driesell arrived will be a retirement dinner and program for HON. RICK RENZI in College Park for the 1969–70 season, after him at the Park Place Hotel in Traverse City, OF ARIZONA having turned small Davidson College into a respected Division I basketball program, his Michigan. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stated goal was to make Maryland ‘‘the UCLA Retirement will not slow Ralph at all. He will Wednesday, January 29, 2003 of the East.’’ And while no university has ever continue teaching criminal justice courses and Mr. RENZI. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of Rep- won titles at the rate of John Wooden’s Bru- training for power lifting competitions, an ap- resentatives KOLBE, PASTOR, HAYWORTH and ins, the fact is that Lefty Driesell established at propriate hobby for an individual who has GRIJALVA, I rise today to introduce the Zuni In- the University of Maryland one of the nation’s shouldered so many duties throughout his life. dian Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of elite basketball programs. Maryland fans now take for granted that the Mr. Speaker, I ask you and my House col- 2003. Senators KYL and MCCAIN will be intro- Terps will challenge for the ACC title, receive leagues to join me in saluting Ralph ducing the Senate version of this important legislation. an invitation to the NCAA tournament, and be Soffredine, a great person who has spent his among the handful of serious contenders for a life in service to others. The Zuni Indian Tribe Water Rights Settle- ment Act of 2003 codifies the settlement of the trip to the Final Four. But that wasn’t always Zuni Indian Tribe’s water rights for its religious the case. f lands in northeastern Arizona. The Zuni Heav- Consider that during the first 50 seasons of en Reservation was created by Congress in men’s basketball at the University, prior to the TRIBUTE TO BROADMOOR POLICE arrival of Coach Driesell, the Maryland men’s 1984 to protect and recognize long-standing CHIEF TIM GUINEY basketball team won 53 percent of its games, religious activities by the Zuni Tribe. twice finished the season ranked in the AP This legislation would go one step further poll, and played in the NCAA tournament one and provide the Zuni Tribe with the resources HON. TOM LANTOS time. In the 33 full seasons since Lefty came to acquire water rights and to restore and pro- to Maryland, the Terps have a winning per- OF CALIFORNIA tect the wetland environment that previously centage of 65 percent, have been ranked 14 existed on the Zuni Reservation. It’s important IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES times, and have made a remarkable 19 NCAA to note that the Zuni Tribe will acquire water tournament appearances. Wednesday, January 29, 2003 rights from willing sellers. In return, the Zuni Because of the level of success that has Tribe will waive its claims in the Little Colo- Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, it is with a mix- been achieved and maintained, the University rado River Adjudication. The Zuni Tribe will is now able to recruit from among the nation’s ture of pride and sorrow that I invite all of my also waive claims against any future water colleagues to join me in celebrating the career top high school players. But it is the initial suc- uses in the Little Colorado River basin and cess, or ‘‘turning a program around,’’ that is of Broadmoor Police Chief Timothy J. Guiney, grandfather existing uses. the difficult first step. Coach Williams’ two who is retiring after 33 years in law enforce- This legislation will not only avoid costly liti- Final Four appearances and National Cham- ment. gation by the United States, but it will allow pionship last year were built on the foundation Chief Guiney began his career in 1969 as a the United States government to satisfy its established by Lefty Driesell in the 1970s and full-time reserve Deputy Sheriff for the San trust responsibilities to the Zuni Tribe regard- 1980s. Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. After three ing water on the Zuni Reservation. Coach Driesell’s career numbers are almost Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend the years there he joined the Brisbane Police De- too much to comprehend, but a few are worth work of the parties to the Zuni Settlement. The partment. During the next 17 years, Tim noting. He retires with 786 wins, behind only parties consist of rural communities in the First Dean Smith, Adolph Rupp and Bob Knight; he Guiney served the Brisbane Police Depart- District of Arizona, including the City of St. ment with distinction as he held every rank in compiled 22 career 20-win seasons; he is the Johns, the Town of Eagar and the Town of only coach to win at least 100 games at four the department from Officer to Acting Chief of Springerville. In addition, the State of Arizona, schools, and one of only three coaches to Police. In 1990, the Broadmoor Police Protec- specifically, the Arizona Game and Fish De- take four schools to the NCAA tournament; he tion District persuaded Chief Guiney to as- partment, the State Land Department and the was twice voted ACC coach of the year and sume the title of Chief of Police and District Arizona State Parks Board, Salt River Project, won more games during his 17 seasons in Manager, where he continued to perform Tucson Electric Power Company, St Johns Ir- College Park than any other Maryland coach. above and beyond the call of duty. rigation and Ditch Company, the Lyman Water But Charles Driesell was not just the ‘‘Lefty’’ Mr. Speaker, Tim Guiney is the heart and Company and the Round Valley Water Users’ we all came to know and love as the Maryland soul of San Mateo County Law Enforcement. Association. basketball coach. Joyce Gunter, his wife of In addition to performing his job with extraor- Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to sup- more than 50 years, his four children and 8 dinary distinction, Chief Guiney has woven port the Zuni Indian Tribe Water Rights Settle- grandchildren know him as a loving and com- himself into the fabric of our community. He is ment Act of 2003. mitted father and husband. He has also been officially recognized by the founder of numerous programs including f the NCAA as a hero for his actions the night the Police Activities League and Adopt-A- HONORING COACH LEFTY of July 12, 1973. Driesell was surf fishing with School Brisbane, as well as the ‘‘Cops and DRIESELL some friends around midnight in Bethany Kids’’ North County Community Day. Addition- Beach, Delaware when they spotted flames ally, he is a Past-President and long time ex- HON. STENY H. HOYER shooting from a nearby townhouse complex. ecutive board member of the Daly City-Colma OF MARYLAND Coach Driesell broke down the door and start- Chamber of Commerce and a past-president IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ed getting the people out of the burning build- of the Daly City Employees Federal Credit Wednesday, January 29, 2003 ings, and he is credited with having saved the Union. An active member of San Mateo Coun- lives of ten children that evening. ty, Chief Tim Guiney truly is the personification Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, for the better part For his actions, Driesel received the NCAA of community policing. of a year University of Maryland basketball Valor Award in 1974, which is presented to a fans have been celebrating and enjoying the coach or administrator currently associated Combining the intellect of Eliot Ness, the National Championship won by the Terps in with intercollegiate athletics, or to a current or dedication of Joe Friday, Andy Taylor’s hon- April 2002. This was a wonderful accomplish- former varsity letter-winner at an NCAA institu- esty, Barney Miller’s patience, Steve ment for which coach Gary Williams and his tion who, when confronted with a situation in- McGarrett’s ability to delegate, and aspiring to- players have been widely praised, and they volving personal danger, averted or minimized wards Sonny Crocket’s sartorial splendor, deserve a tremendous amount of respect and potential disaster by courageous action or Chief Tim Guiney represents the best of credit for bringing, the University its first men’s noteworthy bravery. In the nearly 30 years American Law enforcement. Mr. Speaker, I basketball title, since its creation, the award has only been ask all of my esteemed colleagues to rise and But there is another individual whose con- presented eight times, which speaks to the join me in paying tribute to Chief Tim Guiney’s tributions to the 2001–02 championship sea- true heroism of Coach Driesell’s actions that lasting legacy of law enforcement excellence. son should not be overlooked—former Mary- night.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:44 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.031 E29PT1 E100 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 29, 2003 Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate says, a community in which all journeys are and African-American cultures that exist in Charles ‘‘Lefty’’ Driesell on his much-deserved respected. their respective countries. retirement and thank, him for his contributions This celebration is also evidence of the spe- The rector of the university system in Ire- to the University of Maryland, its fans and the cial place CBST occupies in the hearts of New land worked with Dr. Ferris and the National citizens of the great state of Maryland. Yorkers of all denominations and all Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher f sexualities, as a welcoming and loving place Education to facilitate the implementation of to celebrate one’s faith. Every year, for the this innovative program. The Association iden- IN HONOR OF THE BAYONNE HIGH High Holidays services, CBST moves its serv- tified a number of scholarly and well-rounded SCHOOL FIGHTING BEES ices to the Jacob Javits Convention Center in students from some of the most prestigious order to accommodate the 3,000 or more peo- African-American universities. The four stu- HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ ple who are a part of the extended CBST fam- dents who were selected for graduate study in OF NEW JERSEY ily. In 2001, just two weeks after September Ireland include: James Keeton of Albany IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 11th, CBST’s services for Kol Nidre, the Jew- State; Akisha Campbell of Florida A & M Uni- ish Day of Atonement, drew 6,000 people. I Wednesday, January 29, 2003 versity; Joseph Easter of Jackson State Uni- don’t think I could adequately describe the im- versity and Keisha Senter of Florida A & M Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today portant place CBST has had in the lives of so University. These four distinguished scholars to honor the Bayonne High School Fighting many of my fellow New Yorkers, but the num- will experience Irish culture through a planned Bees for winning the New Jersey North 1, bers certainly begin to tell the story. I am program of graduate study and through em- Group IV state championship for the first time proud to represent Congregation Beth Simchat ployment in an American corporation in Ire- in the school’s history. Their hard work, dedi- Torah in Congress. land. cation, and talent led them to victory, and to There have been many heroes in the history This unique project not only provides each the ultimate of high school football prizes, win- of CBST. This year, we will thank the con- participant with a superior graduate education ning the state championship. gregation’s rabbi, Sharon Kleinbaum, for ten but also an introductory employment experi- Coach Rich Rodriguez’s philosophy, that years of visionary leadership. In the course of ence and a perspective on American culture every play of every game was of the utmost ten eventful years, it has been her love of the seen through their new ‘‘Irish eyes.’’ importance, proved true in the 25–23 win over CBST community that has made CBST an I wish the Ferris Foundation and the Repub- Hackensack High. There was no room for the ever-growing force for positive social change. lic of Ireland and the National Association for players to let up on their intensity. Bryan CBST, like the larger gay community of New Equal Opportunity in Higher Education well as Smith took this philosophy to heart. Running York City, has lost too many members to they continue on the path of fostering cultural hard, he rushed for 233 yards on 23 carries, AIDS, and through the years, Rabbi exchange and embodying the motto of the Na- and his determination was an example of the Kleinbaum has helped many CBST members tional Association for Equal Opportunity in entire team’s tireless efforts to reach their through their own sickness, and the loss of Higher Education in ‘‘Keeping the Doors of goal. friends and loved ones. She is the leader of a Opportunity Open.’’ As they move on in life, the team can re- new generation of young Jewish leaders, f member the lessons that earned them the deeply committed to the Jewish tradition but honor of being able to call themselves cham- innovative and progressive in her view of its THE FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK pions—that with great effort, teamwork, and celebration, and passionate in her belief in the SYSTEM dedication to a cause, one can accomplish power of faith in people’s lives. Rabbi goals and win not only on the football field but Kleinbaum occupies a truly treasured place in HON. WM. LACY CLAY also in life. the gay community, the Jewish community, OF MISSOURI Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in and in the hearts of thousands of New York- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES honoring the Bayonne High School Fighting ers, and I am also proud to call her my friend. Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Bees for their accomplishments on the football f field. Congratulations, you make our commu- Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, I stand today to ask nity proud. TRIBUTE TO FERRIS FOUNDATION for further congressional scrutinizing of rec- f AND THE NATIONAL ASSOCIA- ommended changes to the Federal Home TION FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Loan Bank system. A TRIBUTE TO CONGREGATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION The Federal Home Loan Bank system has BETH SIMCHAT TORAH AND enjoyed continued success as a regionally RABBI SHARON KLEINBAUM HON. JAMES P. MORAN based cooperative that provides critical liquid- OF VIRGINIA ity to its constituent member institutions. HON. JERROLD NADLER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The currently proposed changes involve OF NEW YORK three major issues that include the assumption Wednesday, January 29, 2003 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of new powers, the dismantling of the regional Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I rise character of the System, both of which bring Wednesday, January 29, 2003 today to recognize the achievements of the into issue concerns about corporate trans- Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, it is my very Ferris Foundation and the National Associa- parency, and whether the FHLBank’s disclo- great personal pleasure to rise today to honor tion for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education sure practices are adequate. New York City’s Congregation Beth Simchat for understanding the importance of inter- It is thought by many in Congress and in the Torah and its rabbi, Sharon Kleinbaum. CBST, national education programs. industry that efforts by some members of the as it is known to thousands of friends through- In 1989, Dr. Richard Ferris created the Fer- FHLBank system to create a new market for out the city and around the world, is the ris Foundation for Graduate Education, Inc. to securitization of mortgages would expand its world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and nurture the strong bonds between the people mission in an era of economic uncertainty. transgender congregation, and on February 9, and institutions of the United States and Ire- Congress should have an opportunity to as- 2003, we will celebrate the start of CBST’s land. Since the beginning, the Ferris Founda- sess the effectiveness of any proposed re- 30th year of service to the community. tion has invested resources in the creation of forms before the system is allowed to abro- In 1973, ten people gathered in the base- academic projects providing postgraduate edu- gate its traditional mission. ment of the Church of Holy Apostles in re- cation to outstanding scholars of both coun- Moreover, the adoption of a multi-district sponse to a small classified ad placed in the tries. Over the years, the Ferris Foundation charter would undermine the strength of the Village Voice. At the time, none of the national has brought excellent young scholars from system which lies in its regional structure that Jewish organizations supported gay rights. No universities in Northern Ireland and the Re- allows each bank to have independence and synagogues officially welcomed gay members. public of Ireland to the United States for ad- flexibility in addressing its varying needs. As a The fact that we are able to join together, thir- vanced studies in management and finance. result, further consolidation could threaten ty years later, to celebrate and commemorate Last year, the Ferris Foundation and the competition and lead to a limitation of access CBST is a testament to the strength of what National Association for Equal Opportunity in to credit for home ownership. those first congregants established—a place Higher Education embarked on a partnership Finally, any expansion of FHLBank powers where it is possible to be both ‘‘openly gay to give both African-American and Irish stu- and activities should be accompanied by more and proudly Jewish,’’ as Rabbi Kleinbaum dents an opportunity to learn about the Irish stringent disclosure requirements; additional

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.034 E29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E101 statutory standards such as affordable housing other segments of our society to sacrifice for core BET network to include a theatrical film goals; and appropriate capital requirements. the cause. Only the poor will be forced to sac- company, a book publishing division and res- In order to safeguard the continued viability rifice through reductions in the domestic safety taurants. BET has flourished as the leading of the Federal Home Loan Bank system, any net. Other segments of our society are prom- African American multimedia entertainment changes to its fundamental mission should re- ised tax reductions, not sacrifice, with the company, now reaching more than 65 million ceive adequate congressional scrutiny. greatest tax reductions enjoyed by the wealthi- U.S. homes and more than 90% of all African- f est segment of our society. American cable households. The Department of Defense surveys clearly On December 12, 2002, the National Bas- IN HONOR OF ETHEL D. PEOPLES indicate that both active-duty and reserve ketball Association awarded Robert Johnson members of the Armed Forces are primarily an expansion franchise in Charlotte, NC, mak- HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ from low-income families. The fact that only ing him not only the first African American to OF NEW JERSEY one member of the Congress has a child in own an NBA franchise, but also the first Afri- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the enlisted ranks of the military is stark con- can-American to own a major professional Wesnesday, January 29, 2003 firmation of the accuracy of those surveys. sports team in North America. However every Member of Congress, by virtue The selection of Mr. Johnson completes a Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today of their congressional salary alone, will have long series of achievements by African-Ameri- to honor Ethel Davis Peoples or over 34 years sufficient income to enjoy large tax reductions cans in the NBA. Earl Lloyd became the of dedicated service to the children and fami- under the Bush Administration policy. NBA’s first African-American player in 1950. lies of Jersey City. Upon her retirement, she Mr. Speaker, the legislation that I am intro- Bill Russell became the league’s first African- was honored at Casino in the Park in Jersey ducing today will not increase taxes on any American head coach in 1966. Wayne Embry City, New Jersey, on Saturday, December 7, American above the level that is currently in became the league’s first African-American 2002. effect. It simply suspends all further tax reduc- general manager in 1972. Today, 85 percent Mrs. Peoples, an exemplary citizen and ac- tions under the 2001 Tax Act until the Presi- of the NBA’s rosters are filled with African- tive participant in the community, spent over dent certifies that the situations in Iraq and Americans, and 12 of the 29 coaches in the 30 years working at the Jersey City Child De- North Korea have been resolved, there has league are African-Americans. velopment Centers, Inc. She started her ca- been an adequate response to international It was his individual skills, his demonstrated reer working as a temporary food service em- terrorism, and no member of the Armed Serv- ability to build organizations, and his success ployee, and her outstanding work led to a full- ices is involuntarily on duty because of those in business and media that earned Robert time position. Over the years, Mrs. Peoples situations. Johnson such a grand accomplishment. He has worked in several Head Start Centers, Mr. Speaker, I recognize that the sacrifices will be an example for other team owners as and has been a joy to work with as she required by my legislation do not meet the he has committed to giving African-Americans shares her positive outlook with everyone. standard that this country has required in the opportunities within his team’s management Mrs. Peoples also invested countless hours past. It will not increase taxes, it will simply structure. as a volunteer worker with young adults at the defer future tax reductions. Our seriousness I would like to recognize the historical sig- Teen Post of the Catholic Youth Organization about pursuing action overseas will be highly nificance of Robert L. Johnson becoming the (CYO), located on Bergen Avenue. She was questionable if this Congress does not require first African-American to own a majority por- honored and recognized by the CYO for her that small sacrifice from those so fortunate to tion of a major sports team in the United devoted service and tireless work. be able to stay at home. States and North America. I salute Mr. John- Mrs. Peoples, a great-grandmother, is also I recognize that some will attack my legisla- son for his outstanding achievements and the mother of seven and grandmother of elev- tion as being ‘‘class warfare.’’ I would respond work as an African American businessman en. to that criticism by pointing out that all future and leader. I commend the NBA in choosing Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in tax reductions under the 2001 Act would be Mr. Johnson to own the new Charlotte fran- honoring Ethel D. Peoples for enriching the deferred by my legislation, including the lim- chise, and I salute the league’s understanding lives of so many throughout our community ited benefits promised to lower income individ- of the importance of diversity in making its se- and at the Jersey City Child Development uals. I recognize that the wealthiest segment lection. I would also like to encourage further Center, Inc. of our society would have the largest benefits efforts within the NBA and other professional f subject to deferral. However, that fact is not sports to support minority ownership and man- my doing, it is a simple reflection of the unfair agement of team franchises. SUSPENSION OF FURTHER TSP RE- nature of the 2001 Act. DUCTIONS UNDER THE 2001 TAX f The administration and many Republican ACT Members of the Congress have vociferously SHERIFF GARY T. CARLSON attacked the legislation that I introduced earlier HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL to reinstate the draft. It is clear that they do HON. DENNIS A. CARDOZA OF NEW YORK not believe that their cause in Iraq is of suffi- OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cient importance to risk the lives of their chil- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, January 29, 2003 dren. Now I am asking whether it is sufficiently Wednesday, January 29, 2003 important to sacrifice tax benefits promised in Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro- the future. Mr. CARDOZA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ducing legislation that will ask a simple ques- honor Merced County Sheriff Gary T. Carlson. f tion. Do Members of Congress feel that the Sheriff Carlson was born in Iowa and raised in threats posed by Iraq, North Korea, and ter- TRIBUTE TO ROBERT L. JOHNSON Illinois and graduated from Cathedral High rorism are sufficiently real that all Americans School in Chicago, Illinois. should bear some sacrifice in responding to HON. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON At the age of 18, Gary joined the United those threats? OF TEXAS States Air Force and after basic training was Our Nation in times of war always has re- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stationed at Castle Air Force Base in Atwater, sponded by requiring sacrifices from all seg- California. After over two years at Castle, he ments of our society. Individuals in our military Wednesday, January 29, 2003 received orders to Vietnam. Gary returned to are asked to bear the highest sacrifice. They Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. the U.S. in April 1970 and was honorably dis- are forced to leave their homes and risk their Mr. Speaker, I stand before you today to ac- charged at the rank of Sergeant at McCord Air lives overseas. Those fortunate enough to re- knowledge the accomplishments of Robert L. Force Base in Seattle, Washington. main at home during the war have been asked Johnson. Gary again returned to Merced, California to support the military through rationing, in- In 1980, Mr. Johnson launched Black Enter- and attended Merced College studying in the creased taxes, or diversion of government re- tainment Television (BET) with the help of a area of Sociology. He applied for and was sources from domestic programs. $15,000 loan. Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership, hired as a Merced County Deputy Sheriff in The President’s rhetoric about the serious- BET Holdings Inc. expanded, and in 1991 be- October 1971. His first assignment was work- ness of the risk posed by Iraq and terrorism is came the first African-American-owned Com- ing in the Jail Division. Sixteen months later, inconsistent with his actual program. He pany traded on the New York Stock Ex- he was assigned to the midnight shift Patrol places our military at risk but does not ask all change. Mr. Johnson has since expanded the Division, then to the Detective Division. Gary

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.038 E29PT1 E102 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 29, 2003 was promoted to Sheriff Sergeant in 1978. Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in Fran Wagstaff joined the Mid-Peninsula Since then, he has worked in Corrections, honoring Carol Cruden for her positive influ- Housing Coalition in 1983 and since that time Narcotics and Detectives, along with Adminis- ence and hard work on behalf of the nursing she has become known as the premier person trative Services. Gary was then promoted to community and all of Bayonne’s residents. and leader in affordable housing in the 14th Commander in May 1991. Thanks to Carol, Bayonne is a healthier and Congressional District of California and In addition to his work at the Department, happier community. throughout our region. With Fran Wagstaff’s Gary has taught Administration of Justice f leadership, Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition is classes at Merced College and possesses a considered the ‘‘gold standard’’ for providing lifetime teaching credential for California Com- TRIBUTE TO DAVID K. MORRIS affordable housing for the people of San munity College in the Law Enforcement Field. Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Alameda, He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Chapman HON. NORMAN D. DICKS Monterey, Solano, and Contra Costa Counties University in Administration of Justice and OF WASHINGTON in California. Today, thousands of families who graduated with honors. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES work locally but would otherwise be priced out Gary was appointed to the Office of Sheriff- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 of the local housing market have safe, attrac- Coroner of Merced County by the Merced tive, affordable housing. County Board of Supervisors and took office Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay Fran Wagstaff has been responsible for the on May 5, 2001. He has three children, Juli- tribute to a great American, Mr. David K. Mor- development of over 80 affordable housing ette, Matthew and Christian. He is married to ris. After 8 years as the Superintendent of the projects, creating more than 2,500 new afford- his wife, Linn. Olympic National Forest, David has accepted able housing units. Beyond the creation of It is my honor and privilege to recognize a position in the Peace Corps as the Country new housing, under her leadership MPHC has Sheriff Gary Carlson for his service to the Director for the African country of Zambia. been able to acquire and rehabilitate another Merced community and to our nation. David has worked for the National Forest 2,500 units for low-income individuals and Throughout his career, he has distinguished Service for 37 years, including as the Super- families. Fran Wagstaff and her team have himself as a leader and mentor. It is my honor intendent at Crater Lake National Park and also created six facilities for homeless fami- to call Sheriff Carlson my friend. I am de- Katmai National Park. In addition, he served lies, ensuring that everyone has a place to lighted to recognize his service and his retire- as assistant superintendent for Canyonlands live. Her work and her vision helped to create ment as I wish he and Linn all the best in their and Arches National Parks and Natural Shelter Network of San Mateo County, a high- future. Bridges National Monument. David has also ly respected nonprofit organization which oper- f served the Park Service in Hawaii and San ates local homeless shelters and programs to Francisco. IN HONOR OF CAROL CRUDEN help people end the cycle of homelessness. David began his service as the Super- She’s also been a leader in the effort to de- HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ intendent of the beautiful Olympic National velop a housing trust fund for San Mateo Park in November 1994. During his tenure at County. OF NEW JERSEY Olympic, David has overseen a number of im- Before joining MPHC, Fran served as exec- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES portant improvements and accomplishments, utive director of the Community Housing Im- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 including purchase of the two Elwha River provement Program, CHIP, a private nonprofit Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today darns, establishment of the Friends of Olympic housing agency that provides a variety of to honor the many accomplishments of Carol National Park and initiation of the park’s Gen- housing services to low-income households in Cruden, who was recognized Friday, January eral Management Plan. In addition, he has predominantly rural areas. Through her leader- 24th, at Ireland’s 32 annual dinner dance held worked toward the general rehabilitation of ship, CHIP was able to help thousands of peo- at the Hi-Hat Club in Bayonne, New Jersey. visitor’s centers, park roads, and over 600 ple find a place to live, whether it was through A Bayonne native, Carol Cruden has dedi- miles of park trails. Under David’s leadership, the conversion of vacant buildings, the devel- cated her life to creating a healthier and more the Olympic National Park has become one of opment of cooperatives for low-income fami- educated community. She is currently the the most visited National Parks in the Nation. lies or the rehabilitation of existing homes. president of the Hudson County School The National Park Service has recognized Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me Nurses Association, a member of the New David’s work with two awards, the Superior in honoring this great and good woman. Fran Jersey Association of Health Educators, and Service Award in 1991 and the Meritorious Wagstaff is one of the most exceptional, effec- the Family Life Education Council. She has Service Award in 1999. tive and respected leaders in our community been the director of Bayonne Public School David’s career has included two foreign as- and through her commitment and profes- Nurses for 25 years, supervisor of Employee signments, first as a Peace Corps park plan- sionalism, she has made our communities and Health Services for the Board of Education ner in Malawi, Africa, between 1974 and 1976 our country a better place for all. since 1991, and is a part-time nursing super- and later as a National Park advisor to Sri f visor at Bayonne Medical Center. For her work Lanka from 1987 to 1988. Additionally, he towards the prevention of child abuse, Carol completed short-term advisory assignments in SUPPORTING EFFORTS TO PRO- was nominated by the New Jersey School American Samoa, Costa Rica, Hungary, Ar- MOTE GREATER AWARENESS OF Nurses Association as the 2001 honoree of gentina, the Republic of Georgia, Russia, NEED FOR YOUTH MENTORS AND the New Jersey Child Assault Prevention United Arab Emirates, and South Africa. INCREASED INVOLVEMENT WITH Project. I thank David for his tremendous service to YOUTH THROUGH MENTORING She is a member of the Gold Star Wives of the Olympic National Park. I wish David all the America, Mayor’s Council on AIDS Aware- best in his future endeavors. SPEECH OF ness, Nursing Advisory Committee for Ba- f HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS yonne Medical Center School of Nursing, Ba- OF FLORIDA TRIBUTE TO FRAN WAGSTAFF ON yonne’s Community Health Steering Council IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Secretary for the Advocates of Bayonne Chil- THE OCCASION OF HER 20 YEARS Monday, January 27, 2003 dren, and Ireland’s 32. OF LEADERSHIP OF THE MID-PE- An accomplished student, Carol graduated NINSULA HOUSING COALITION Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I from Bayonne High School and Holy Name rise today in support of H. Res. 25, a resolu- Hospital School of Nursing. She earned her HON. ANNA G. ESHOO tion commending those who give their time B.A. and M.A. from Jersey City State College, OF CALIFORNIA and talents to supporting mentoring programs. receiving the academic distinctions of Magna IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I support the efforts to promote greater aware- Cum Laude and membership to the Kappa ness of the need for youth mentors and the in- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Delta Phi National Honor Society. Carol is a creasing involvement with youth through men- certified school nurse and a teacher of li- Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to toring. censed practical nursing. honor a great American and most distin- 17.6 million young people, nearly half of the Carol, the only child of Sarah and Hugh guished Californian, Fran Wagstaff, for her 20 youth population, want or need the help of Finney, married the late Marine Staff Sergeant years of leadership as the executive director mentors to help them achieve their full poten- Donald Cruden, and has three children, Dan- of the Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition, tial. Currently only 2.5 million young people iel, Michael, and Sally. MPHC, of Redwood City, CA. are in formal mentoring relationships, leaving

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.042 E29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E103 15 million young Americans without the aid of He is a member of the following organiza- a Member of the House Education and Work- mentors. tions: the Aspen Institute on the World Econ- force Committee, I will be working with Chair- Every child in our community should be omy; the Council on Foreign Relations; the man BOEHNER in the coming months to reau- given the opportunity to achieve their full po- World Economic Forum (Davos); the Associa- thorize the Individuals with Disabilities Edu- tential. The role of mentors in a child’s devel- tion of General Counsel, the Council of Chief cation Act. Over the past year, I have heard opment cannot be understated. Mentors serve Legal Officers; the Executive Committee of the from many teachers, in my home district of Or- as role models, friends, and advisors helping CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution; and the lando, Florida, about their concerns regarding our youth to develop important social skills, American Law Institute. He is a fellow of the the special education law. One issue was par- enhance emotional well being, improve cog- American College of Trial lawyers, the Amer- ticularly troublesome to me because it seemed nitive skills, and plan for the future. A mentor ican Bar Association, and of the American to be something that I felt could be easily can provide crucial guidance, and encourage- Academy of Appellate Lawyers. solved—the paperwork burden for special edu- ment, which motivates and nurtures our youth. Mr. McGoldrick graduated from Harvard Col- cation teachers. This legislation will work to Mentoring projects could be used to help lege and earned his law degree from Harvard pinpoint and alleviate the excess paperwork, control and lower the national high school Law School. thereby increasing the quality instruction time dropout rate, which continues to be a major Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in a teacher can spend with their students in the problem. An estimated 300,000 to 500,000 honoring John L. McGoldrick for exemplifying classroom while also ensuring that special students in grades 10–12 leave school each the American Jewish Committee’s vision; he education students are receiving a quality edu- year. If used effectively, I believe that men- has made a global impact, and his exceptional cation. toring programs could significantly lower the leadership and many accomplishments in the Last year I toured local schools in my dis- nation’s high school dropout rate. fields of healthcare, education, and justice trict of Orlando, FL, to get a first-hand under- This month is National Mentoring Month. have truly made this world a better place. standing of the problems that parents, teach- We must take this opportunity to recognize the ers and administrators face implementing a f importance of youth mentors and work to em- successful special education program. One brace and promote mentoring activities and TRIBUTE TO PAT SCHRIMSHER teacher took me into an office where he show- programs. KING cased a typical day’s work of filling out all of Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend the the required forms for a special education stu- efforts of the many mentors who provide the HON. ROBERT E. (BUD) CRAMER, JR. dent. I was shocked to learn that teachers youth of our communities with the invaluable spend so much of their time complying with OF ALABAMA gifts of education and self-confidence. process instead of being able to teach and as- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f sist students in the classroom. Wednesday, January 29, 2003 The Individuals with Disabilities Education IN HONOR OF JOHN L. Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Act was never intended to take teachers’ time MCGOLDRICK recognize an important member of my North away from the classroom, rather it was in- Alabama community upon her retirement, Ms. tended to ensure that special education stu- HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ Pat Schrimsher King. After more than 33 dents were able to receive the same class- OF NEW JERSEY years of combined service with the McDonnell room instruction as their general education IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Douglas Corporation and the Boeing Com- peers. Unfortunately, over time the paperwork Wednesday, January 29, 2003 pany, Pat is retiring on January 31, 2003. trail has grown as states and local districts try to ensure that they have complied with the Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Throughout her tenure, Pat has provided the federal law. The threat of being sued has en- to honor John L. McGoldrick for his out- leadership and guidance necessary for the couraged an overabundance of paperwork in standing contributions to our world community. success of many projects at the company and order to document the school’s compliance He will be recognized at the American Jewish in her community. with the law. When did ‘‘process’’ overshadow One of Pat’s major accomplishments during Committee Institute of Human Relations the importance of actual quality instruction and her time at Boeing is administrating the Boe- Award Dinner on Thursday, January 30, 2003, results? at the Hyatt Regency in Princeton, New Jer- ing Employees Community Fund, ECF. When a principal testifies that their IEP sey. Through her direction, the ECF has given hun- Teams spend an average of 83.5 hours filling Mr. McGoldrick is Executive Vice President dreds of thousands of dollars to health and out paperwork in preparation to sit down for of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Vice Chair- human service agencies throughout North Ala- an Individualized Education Plan, IEP, with a man of the Company’s Executive Committee, bama. I commend Pat King for her coordina- student’s parents—something makes me won- and responsible for global corporate policy. He tion of this initiative that has helped bring der about the 83.5 hours taken away from is general counsel and director of the Bristol- North Alabama business together with the classroom instruction time. IEP’s are of course Myers Squibb Foundation, and previously, community to help make our region an even an important aspect of IDEA, but there can be served as a senior partner of the law firm of better place to live and work. some commonsense reforms put in place to McCarter & English, LLP, where he sat on the Pat will be missed by her many friends and reduce the redundancy of the process. Executive Committee. fellow employees at Boeing, but I know she The ‘‘IDEA Paperwork Reduction Act of A man with a global vision, Mr. McGoldrick will remain active, continuing to work on a va- 2003’’ will call for a study by the Department played an integral part in Bristol-Myers riety of projects that improve and enhance our of Education to be furnished within 6 months Squibb’s HIV/AIDS initiatives in Africa, includ- community. I commend Pat for the inspiration of authorization to determine where the bur- ing the ‘‘Secure the Future’’ program in South- she has given to her friends, family, and col- den is stemming from, and provide sugges- ern and Francophone Africa, and the ACCESS leagues and for all that she has done to ben- tions to mitigate the issue. The Department program making antiretroviral therapy more efit the people of North Alabama. Mr. Speaker, will be required to issue a streamlined IEP for accessible in developing countries. I join the North Alabama community today in school districts to use as a model. It will also A man with both a national and local vision, wishing Pat a happy and healthy retirement call for a pilot program for 10 States to enter Mr. McGoldrick has served as a director of the and sending her my sincere congratulations into an agreement with the Department of United States third largest passenger rail and for a job well done. Education to perform their own paperwork re- bus company, the New Jersey Transit Cor- f duction programs to see if any reforms can poration, since its founding in 1979. In addi- stem from State innovation. tion, he has served as Vice Chairman, and is INTRODUCTION OF THE IDEA PA- In addition, the legislation would allow local currently the senior ranking member of the PERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF education agencies to offer parents the option board. He is director of Zimmer Holdings, Inc., 2003 of choosing a 3-year IEP—this would allow the the NYSE-listed manufacturer of artificial hips process to occur at natural transition points for and knees, and a member of the Board of Di- HON. RIC KELLER the child instead of every year. During a vol- rectors of AdvaMed, the medical devices trade OF FLORIDA untary 3-year IEP, should the parent decide at association. He has served on government re- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES any point during the 3 years that their child is form commissions in New Jersey, leading not receiving adequate services, they can call Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Bristol-Meyers Squibb’s efforts to support the for an IEP to be commenced within 30 days. State of New Jersey Commission on Holo- Mr. KELLER. I rise today to introduce the These commonsense reforms included in caust education. ‘‘IDEA Paperwork Reduction Act of 2003’’. As the ‘‘IDEA Paperwork Reduction Act of 2003’’

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.046 E29PT1 E104 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 29, 2003 will ensure that IDEA is results-driven, not teachers and administrators and the amount of atric rehabilitation hospital in the United process-driven. The legislation will improve the non-classroom time spent by teachers and ad- States. academic achievement of special education ministrators in order to comply with the re- William Dwyer, an active member of the students and empower parents, while also quirements of IDEA. It also directs the Sec- community, is currently the president of the doing away with an overly prescriptive and retary to identify, develop, and disseminate Kiwanis Club of Mountainside, New Jersey, burdensome process for teachers. It will en- model forms for individualized education pro- and head of the St. Andrew’s Cub Scouts. He able teachers to save valuable classroom in- grams (IEPS), procedural safeguard notices, is a member of the following organizations: the struction time for exactly that—classroom in- and prior written notice report requirements Board of Directors of the Healthcare Employ- struction. I encourage my colleagues to call that incorporate all relevant Federal statutory ees Federal Credit Union; the Executive Com- my office to cosponsor the ‘‘IDEA Paperwork and regulatory requirements under IDEA. mittee of St. Peter’s Prep parents organiza- Reduction Act of 2003’’. In addition, the legislation provides that local tion; and the parent teacher organization of School 14. He is a past President of the St. f educational agencies may offer to parents the opportunity to develop a 3-year IEP (in lieu of Andrew’s Parish Council, and past Vice Presi- INTRODUCTION OF THE IDEA PA- an annual IEP) for each child with a disability, dent of the Bayonne Rangers; a New Jersey- PERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF with IEP goals coinciding with natural transi- based youth ice hockey organization. In addi- 2003 tion points for the child. This would mean IEPs tion, he has volunteered at the Bayonne Little would be redeveloped close in time to the League CYO and City Basketball Leagues. William and his brother, Jim, founded the HON. JOHN A. BOEHNER transition of a child with a disability from pre- Irish singing group, The Bantry Boys, and re- OF OHIO school to elementary grades, from elementary cently celebrated their 20th anniversary of per- grades to middle or junior high school grades, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES forming together. The band enjoys playing Wednesday, January 29, 2003 from middle or junior high schools grades to their Irish folk music for all, especially for the high school grades, and from high school to Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, today I am students of Bayonne elementary schools and post-secondary activities, but in no case the children at the Children’s Specialized Hos- proud to join my colleague Representative longer than 3 years. In the ‘‘in-between’’ RICK KELLER in introducing the IDEA Paper- pital. years, the law would provide for a streamlined Bill attended Marist High School, and re- work Reduction Act of 2003. This legislation annual IEP review focusing on the child’s cur- will go a long way in providing relief from the ceived his B.A. from St. Peter’s College, and rent levels of performance and progress to- M.A. in Education from Seton Hall University. IDEA paperwork burden, and in reducing time ward meeting the measurable annual goals in William Dwyer, the youngest of four children spent by teachers on non-instruction activities, the IEP, but a comprehensive review and revi- born to Mary and John Dwyer, is married to as required under the Individuals with Disabil- sion of the IEP document would not be done the former Mary Reilly, and they have two chil- ities Education Act (IDEA). every year. dren, Bill and Megan. Last year, the House Education and the Most importantly, this is a voluntary option Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in Workforce Committee conducted an aggres- for parents. Many parents will choose to use honoring William Dwyer for his selfless dedica- sive series of hearings exploring major issues this flexibility, and some may not. But I agree tion to Bayonne’s residents and for brightening that would likely be addressed in the Commit- with Representative KELLER that it is important our days with music. tee’s reauthorization of IDEA. Numerous wit- to provide this flexibility and this choice to par- f nesses at these hearings testified to the need ents so that they can determine the best way WILSON GREEN APPOINTED TO for the Department of Education to identify to interact with their child’s school. THE NATIONAL MUSEUM SERV- and simplify burdensome regulations under Representative KELLER’s bill would also IDEA and for Congress to adopt statutory allow the Secretary to grant waivers of paper- ICE BOARD changes that would provide relief to the na- work requirements under IDEA to 10 States tion’s special education and general education based on proposals submitted by States for HON. J. RANDY FORBES teachers who labor with great dedication to addressing reduction of paperwork and non- OF VIRGINIA educate children with special needs. classroom time spent fulfilling statutory and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In our hearings, the Committee heard from regulatory requirements. This will promote in- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 school principals and administrators voicing novation and provide much-needed flexibility Mr. FORBES. Mr. Speaker, I would like to frustrations about their schools’ efforts to pro- as States grapple with better implementing take this opportunity to honor a friend and ad- vide services to students as required by their IDEA, and the Federal, State, and local regu- vocate of the museum arts. Wilson Greene of IEPs when unnecessary paperwork require- lations under it. Petersburg, Virginia, will be sworn in tonight to ments compete with the available instructional I am pleased to join my colleagues in intro- serve as a member of the National Museum time. Teachers find themselves between a ducing this bill, and I look forward to working Service Board. Mr. Greene will serve as one rock and a hard place, if you will, with with them to address these important ideas. of fifteen members of this advisory board of unyielding demands made on their time. When f the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences. something gives, the impact is either on the As a member of the National Museum Service IN HONOR OF WILLIAM DWYER teacher or the student, two of our most valu- Board, Mr. Greene will work to ensure high able resources. quality museum programs and services to the In fact, studies from the Department of Edu- HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ public. cation show that we are facing a significant OF NEW JERSEY Mr. Greene has been the executive director shortage of special education teachers, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the Pamplin Historical Park in Petersburg, many special educators leaving the field cite Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Virginia since 1992. Previously, Mr. Greene the burden of unnecessary paperwork as one served as President and CEO of the Associa- of the primary reasons for their departure. This Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today tion for the Preservation of Civil War sites, for crushing burden of paperwork serves as a to honor the many accomplishments of William which he serves on the National Advisory major disincentive for teachers to enter the Dwyer, who was recognized Friday, January Board. Mr. Greene has also worked for the field of special education, and as a result, too 24 , at Ireland’s 32nd annual dinner dance National Park Service, serving at several sig- many of our children with special needs do not held at the Hi-Hat Club in Bayonne, New Jer- nificant historical sites. have a qualified teacher in the classroom. sey. Wilson Greene’s devotion to academia is Representative KELLER’s proposed amend- A life-long Bayonne resident, William Dwyer apparent as well. Mr. Greene has been a fac- ments to IDEA are an excellent start to the has spent his career dedicated to the medical ulty member at several institutions of higher Education and the Workforce’s effort to iden- community. He has worked at Passaic Gen- learning including: Mary Washington College, tify and simplify burdensome statutory provi- eral Hospital and Columbia Presbyterian Med- Germanna Community College, and St. Ber- sions in IDEA. They are innovative and pro- ical Center, and was a past president of the nard Community College. Mr. Green is also vide much-needed flexibility to the nation’s New Jersey Healthcare Human Resources Ad- the author of more than twenty-five publica- special education system. ministrators. For almost 11 years, Mr. Dwyer tions dealing with Civil War and Southern His- This legislation directs the Secretary of Edu- has been the vice president of Human Re- tory. cation to submit a report to Congress detailing sources, Risk Management, and Corporate Based on his years of public service with regulatory proposals he may find advisable for Compliance, at Children’s Specialized Hospital the National Park service, commitment to edu- reducing both the IDEA paperwork burden on in Mountainside, New Jersey, the largest pedi- cation, and overall enthusiasm for the study of

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.050 E29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E105 history, I am confident Wilson Greene will from the traditional home that it has known dedication to helping these young women serve as a valuable member to the National within the Department of the Treasury to the grow and ultimately bring national recognition Museum Service Board. newly created Department of Homeland Secu- to their school and our state. Head Coach The Commonwealth of Virginia deeply ap- rity. It will be important for Customs to con- Clive Charles, Assistant Coaches Bill Irwin, preciates Mr. Greene’s service and his pas- tinue to offer the world class level of trade Garrett Smith, Nyla Stuckey, Trevor Warren sionate interest in helping Virginians and all service and facilitation that U.S. business has and Wynne McIntosh all deserve recognition Americans to better understand the very im- come to rely on while insuring that security for the work that they have done developing portant story of our nation’s past. needs are addressed. It will also be important an outstanding collegiate sports program. Mr. Speaker, please join me in honoring to maintain the revenue collection linkage with Coach Charles has built an impressive Wilson Greene, for his recent appointment to the Treasury Department that has historically record over the 14 years that he has coached serve as a member of the National Museum been so significant. women’s soccer at the University of Portland. Service Board. The U.S. Customs Service represents the Collectively, his men’s and women’s teams f United States at the Customs Cooperation have won 12 conference championships, los- Council (CCC). The number of Members in- ing only 31 league games, and earned 16 INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMS DAY creased over the years, and the Council sub- NCAA playoff berths, including seven Final sequently adopted the working name ‘‘World Four appearances, in a combined 27 seasons. HON. PHILIP M. CRANE Customs Organization’’ in order to better re- Twenty-five Pilots have earned All-America OF ILLINOIS flect the fact that the Organization was an status during Charles’ tenure. Early in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES intergovernmental body that genuinely made 1998 season, Charles won his 300th career Wednesday, January 29, 2003 the transition to worldwide status. The WCO college game. The Portland men and women won on the same day, making him just the Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, it was 50 years now speaks for 161 Customs administrations drawn from every continent and representing 11th coach in NCAA soccer history to amass ago, on January 26, 1953, that the World Cus- 300 wins. toms Organization, formally known as the every stage of economic development. The United States has been a member since No- I am honored to represent many of these in- Customs Co-operation Council, held its first dividuals in Congress and proud to have the meeting in Brussels, Belgium. In recognition of vember 5, 1970. At present, WCO Members are responsible University in my district. This resolution is a fit- this occasion, the Council observed January ting tribute to the accomplishments of the 26 as International Customs Day. This occa- for ensuring that more than 98 percent of international trade is conducted in compliance coaches, players, and the University of Port- sion also serves to recognize the role that land. customs services around the world play in fa- with national legislation and international cilitating trade while protecting national bor- agreements. The WCO renders technical as- TRIBUTE TO MELINDA OHLER ders from importations posing security threats. sistance in areas such as customs tariffs, I am particularly proud of the U.S. Customs valuation, nomenclature, and law enforcement. HON. TOM LANTOS Service for its great contributions to the Nation Its objective is to obtain, in the interest of OF CALIFORNIA over the past 214 years of its existence. U.S. international trade, the best possible degree of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES uniformity among the customs systems of Customs was once the sole revenue producer Wednesday, January 29, 2003 member nations. America benefits when both for the young United States. Although that role Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, it is with great has diminished over the years Customs col- exporters and importers operate in an atmos- phere of simple unambiguous customs oper- sadness that I rise today to pay tribute to lected a record $23.8 billion in revenue in fis- Melinda ‘‘Mindy’’ Ohler, a brave woman and cal year 2001. Today, Customs is still a major ations around the world. I want to take this opportunity to congratu- true trailblazer of the San Francisco Fire De- source of revenue for the Federal Govern- partment. Mindy’s passing, which occurred ment, returning about $8 to the taxpayer for late the U.S. Customs Service for its fine work both nationally and internationally, and I look while responding to a fire alarm at San Fran- every dollar appropriated by Congress. cisco International Airport, unfortunately For nearly 125 years, Customs funded vir- forward to the completion of work within the World Customs Organization to further harmo- marked the first death of a female San Fran- tually the entire government and paid for the cisco firefighter in the line of duty. Nation’s early growth and infrastructure. The nizing and simplifying the customs rules that affect international commerce. When Mindy joined the San Francisco Fire territories of Louisiana, Oregon, Florida and Department in 1989, she was one of the first f Alaska were purchased; the National Road women to become a firefighter in the depart- from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ment’s history. In the 13 years since her en- West Virginia, was constructed; and the SOCCER RESOLUTION listment, the number of women firefighters in Transcontinental Railroad stretched from sea- San Francisco has risen to an impressive 235 to-sea. Customs collections built the Nation’s HON. EARL BLUMENAUER (12 percent of the force). This increase is in lighthouses, the U.S. military and naval acad- OF OREGON no small part due to Mindy, whose hard work emies, and the City of Washington, and the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and total dedication to her duties changed the list goes on. In 1835, Customs revenues alone Wednesday, January 29, 2003 minds of many who had originally opposed the had reduced the national debt to zero. idea of women firefighters. Her inspirational Customs was the parent or forerunner to Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, today I power was ably summed up by one of her col- many other agencies. In the early days, Cus- am submitting to the House a resolution con- leagues at her memorial service who said, toms officers administered military pensions gratulating the University of Portland Women’s ‘‘Frankly, I was against women joining the de- (Department of Veterans Affairs), collected im- soccer team on their winning the 2003 Na- partment, but her willingness to do the job port and export statistics (Bureau of Census), tional Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) showed me women had a place here.’’ and supervised revenue cutters (U.S. Coast Division I Championship. This title marks the John Hanley, President of Fire Fighters Guard). Customs also collected hospital dues first national championship in any sport for the Local 798, expressed praise for Mindy and to help sick and disabled seaman (Public University of Portland. characterized her performance as a firefighter Health Service) and established standard The championship game between Portland as bold and versatile; she was able to handle weights and measures (National Bureau of and reigning 2001 champion Santa Clara was the challenges she faced with courage, he Standards). hard fought, going down to a rare double-over- said, whether it was a small fire or five-alarm During the first stages of the response to time. The victory by the Pilots brought their conflagration. In addition, Mindy’s lighter the terrorist attack on September 11th in New season record to 20–4–1 to tie the school side—she was a noted prankster—was cred- York and Washington, D.C., U.S. Customs record for wins in a season. The team’s per- ited with lifting spirits around the firehouse. quickly assumed a leading role. With terrorism formance garnered other records as well; A tireless worker who once held down six causing concern worldwide, the international Christine Sinclair set an NCAA tournament jobs at one time, Mindy, 46, was still working Customs community has a vital role to play. record with 21 points on 10 goals and one as- two other jobs in addition to her primary one Every administration is playing an active part sist, shattering Mia Hamm’s 1993 record of as a firefighter at the time of her death. in efforts to protect the international supply 16; Goalkeeper Lauren Arase set a record for In the spirit of solidarity with Mindy, over chain from terrorist acts, while at the same goals-against average, allowing just one goal 3,000 people from around the country—includ- time offering improved trade facilitation. in 6 games. ing many fellow firefighters and law-enforce- Today, the United States Customs Service I want to commend the coaches at the Uni- ment officers—came to St. Mary’s Cathedral in will have new challenges to face as it moves versity of Portland for their hard work and San Francisco to pay tribute to Mindy.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.054 E29PT1 E106 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 29, 2003 In addition, Mr. Speaker, I am proud to an- mail from the previous day. Concerned for a The initial screening program which ends nounce that Mindy’s name and contributions friend for whom he had been carrying mail for this July will screen only about 9,000 of the will be honored forever. Her name will join the 13 years, he walked toward the residence to approximately 40,000 rescue workers in need names of other men and women who made check on Mrs. Phillips. Upon hearing Mrs. of medical attention. The analysis reveals that the ultimate sacrifice while on duty as fire- Phillips calling for help from the garage, he over 50 percent of the sample study have pul- fighters at the National Fallen Firefighters’ Me- quickly alerted the police. Mrs. Phillips had monary illnesses, ear, nose and throat ail- morial’s Roll of Honor. The memorial, located fallen off a ladder in her garage and was suf- ments, or persistent mental health problems. in Emmitsburg, Md., was designated by Con- fering from hypothermia after lying incapaci- The Doctors at Mt. Sinai believe the same gress as the official, national memorial to fall- tated on the floor for almost an entire day. statistics will hold for the roughly 3,500 re- en firefighters, and it will be further sanctified Had Mr. Onusko not checked on Mrs. Phillips, sponders they have seen to date. 78 percent by the addition of Mindy’s name. help might not have arrived in time. of the participants reported at least one World Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me Mr. Onusko displayed a quality that all Dela- Trade Center-related pulmonary symptom that in recognizing and mourning the loss of wareans should look for in a role model—a first developed or worsened as a result of their Melinda Ohler for her sacrifice and contribu- deep sense of community and concern for fel- rescue efforts; 52 percent reported mental tions to the people of San Francisco. She will low citizens. We should all hope to emulate health symptoms requiring further evaluation; be sorely missed on the Peninsula, in her Mr. Onusko’s actions and reach out when we and only about one-third of the sample partici- birthplace of Valparaiso, Ind., and in the can to those in need. It is people like Mr. pants had received any prior medical care for hearts of many across this nation who had the Onusko who inspire others to do great things, any of their symptoms and conditions. privilege of knowing her. To know her was to and to realize that each of us is a part of a In other words, for about one-third of these admire her; her legacy will be one of compas- community, and a nation that can only suc- participants—their trip to Mount Sinai had sion, selflessness, and a commitment to being ceed if we look out for one another. America been their only source of medical care; em- all she could be. needs everyday heroes who display true con- phasizing the critical need to fully fund this f cern and goodwill when called upon to help program now, not later, not months down the their fellow citizens. I am proud to say that Mr. road. COMMEMORATING INDIA’S Onusko exemplified these qualities with his I urge my colleagues in the House to read REPUBLIC DAY actions, and his recognition, Mr. Speaker, is the findings from the Mt. Sinai report—which duly deserved. can be found on my website: http:// HON. JOHN LINDER Ordinary people who perform extraordinary www.wtcexams.org/. OF GEORGIA acts of public service, like Michael Onusko Medical monitoring delayed is proper health IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES from my great State of Delaware, are the true care denied. But again we face the challenge heroes in today’s world, and are the true role of securing the House support and the Admin- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 models for the next generation of leaders, istration’s support and leadership to make this Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to both inside and outside of Delaware’s borders. happen. acknowledge an important national holiday in f Medical monitoring delayed is proper health India, namely a celebration of the Indian peo- care denied. I hope that the conferees will in- FURTHER CONTINUING APPRO- ple’s long and protracted struggle for self-gov- clude in the final conference report the lan- PRIATIONS, FISCAL YEAR 2003 ernance and freedom: Republic Day. guage included in the omnibus bill by the On January 26, 1950, India’s constitution SPEECH OF other body. was ratified. The adoption of this constitution, The first responders were there for us when which was greatly influenced by our Founding HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY we needed them, now the question is will the Fathers, makes India a model for nations OF NEW YORK federal government be there for them. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES across Asia and throughout the developing f world. Tuesday, January 28, 2003 INTRODUCTION OF RESOLUTION As one of the world’s most populated de- Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in mocracies, India is also a natural ally for our URGING REVIEW OF STEEL TAR- strong support of the Obey Motion to Instruct. IFF CONSEQUENCES FOR STEEL War on Terrorism. With its strategic location, We are four months into fiscal year 2003, CONSUMERS India is a vital resource and a valued partner yet 11 of the appropriations bills have yet to of the United States. be enacted. In a region too often afflicted with non- I am happy to see that we are close to HON. JOE KNOLLENBERG democratic governments, and wracked by in- wrapping up this appropriations process. But OF MICHIGAN tolerance across religious or ethnic lines, India now is not the time to skimp on the people’s IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES truly stands out for its democracy and stability. priorities. In our rush to finish, we must ensure Wednesday, January 29, 2003 The Indian-American community within the that Homeland Security and our first respond- United States has played a critical role in ers are at the top of our list. Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, I rise building this bridge between our two great na- I urge the conferees to incorporate into the today to introduce a resolution regarding the tions, and I applaud their efforts. final conference report the language included Steel Safeguard Program that was initiated on f in the omnibus bill by the other body. March 5, 2002. This resolution asks for little, In particular, I support the $90 million to but could mean everything to steel-consuming HONORING THE HEROISM OF continue the health monitoring at Mount Sinai manufacturers in this country. MICHAEL ONUSKO Hospital for the men and women who were on By introducing this resolution I, along with the front lines of defense on September 11th 51 of my colleagues, are merely asking that HON. MICHAEL N. CASTLE and the days that followed. the President direct the International Trade OF DELAWARE The other body included specific instructions Commission (ITC) to include in its mid-term IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to FEMA on this $90 million. review of the Steel Safeguard Program an as- Yesterday, several firefighters and rescue sessment of the Program’s impact on steel Wednesday, January 29, 2003 workers who worked the pile at Ground Zero consumers. Currently the ITC is under no obli- Mr. CASTLE. Mr. Speaker, it is with great were here in Washington to call attention to gation to report on these effects. By affirma- pleasure that I rise today to pay tribute to and this very important issue. These brave heroes tively accepting our request, the President will honor the heroism of Mr. Michael Onusko of entered a battle zone of a new kind of war, have a complete picture of the economic ef- Lincoln, Delaware. His concern and care for and are really the first victims of the war. And fects of the Program when he considers in the fellow citizens in his community resulted in we need to ensure they receive the medical September of this year whether or not to ex- a life being saved. care they deserve. tend the tariffs for another eighteen months. Mr. Onusko, a mail carrier with the United The need for this money was underscored Last March, the Bush Administration im- States Postal Service, deserves a hero’s rec- in a report released this week by Mount Sinai posed tariffs on imported steel, some as high ognition for his actions that saved 81-year-old Hospital showing that a majority of ground as 30 percent, in an attempt to limit low-price Houston, Delaware resident Margaret Phillips. zero workers and volunteers screened for imports in order to give our domestic steel in- While on his delivery route, Mr. Onusko no- health problems have serious persistent ill- dustry time to reorganize and become more ticed that Mrs. Phillips had not picked up her nesses from the disaster. competitive. At that time, it was obvious that

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K29JA8.002 E29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E107 steel-consuming manufacturers were going to industry when the steel tariff regime is re- efit is an important component of the Presi- feel pain, but we didn’t know how bad the pain viewed. dent’s economic growth package, designed to would be. Nobody knew how bad it would be. This resolution is not anti-steel or pro-steel help unemployed workers find a job quickly. Mr. Speaker, the pain is real and it is deep. consumer. It is simply an attempt to ensure As the President discussed last month, Since last year, I have been hearing stories that when the President decides whether to Back to Work accounts will allow the One of skyrocketing steel prices, broken contracts, extend the Steel Safeguard Program for an- Stop Career Center system, where the unem- and supply disruptions. Now, we have layoffs. other 18 months, he has all the information he ployed already seek assistance in obtaining Now, we have companies buying more steel needs to make the best choice for our nation’s employment, to offer an important new benefit from foreign countries exempt from the tariffs. economy. to unemployed workers, in addition to an array And, now, more and more manufacturers, both This is a modest request. We are not asking of employment services these centers already large and small, are being forced to move pro- that the tariffs be lifted immediately and we’re provide. duction overseas. And once those jobs go, not attempting to change trade law. I urge all States will be able to target this flexible new they aren’t coming back. my colleagues to cosponsor this moderate, bi- benefit to unemployed individuals who are Two days ago, I was joined by representa- partisan resolution to simply consider the im- most in need of help by offering each indi- tives from six automotive parts supply compa- pact the steel tariffs have had on steel con- vidual a re-employment account of up to nies to discuss the effects of the tariffs. Let sumers. $3,000. With these Back to Work accounts, me give you just a taste of what these compa- f unemployed workers may purchase training, nies are doing to cope with the tariffs. supportive services (such as child care and Arvin-Meritor, which is based Troy, Michi- EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY EX- transportation), and intensive services (such gan, in my district, bought one million tons of TENDED UNEMPLOYMENT COM- as employment counseling and case manage- steel globally last year. They recently closed PENSATION ACT OF 2002 ment). down a Tennessee plant that employed 317 Recipients will be able to keep the balance people in part because of higher steel prices SPEECH OF of the account as a cash reemployment bonus and are now exploring options for buying HON. MARK UDALL if they become reemployed within 13 weeks. cheaper steel from non-U.S. suppliers who are OF COLORADO Because account recipients can keep the bal- exempt from the tariffs. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ance of their accounts when they become re- Dura Automotive Systems, Inc., which is employed quickly and stay employed, PRAs based in Rochester Hills, also in my district, Wednesday, January 8, 2003 create an incentive to get off unemployment cut 60 jobs after the tariffs were imposed and Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I am benefits and return to work quickly. The more business was lost. voting for this bill because it is urgently need- quickly a job is obtained, the larger the reem- Metaldyne, which is based in Plymouth, ed. Its enactment will prevent the cutoff of ployment bonus will be. Michigan, is expecting to source 30–40 per- some unemployment benefits—a cutoff that Of equal importance, the proposal author- cent of its steel from abroad within the next otherwise would occur very soon. izes $3.6 billion for states to set up Personal few years because of rising prices and supply In other words, by passing this bill we can Reemployment Accounts to aid unemployed shortages. They currently buy 98 percent of save many people who are out of a job from workers who need the most help getting back their steel domestically. the harm that otherwise would result from the to work. This additional support is intended to Dana Corp., which is based in Toledo, Ohio, refusal of the Republican leadership of the augment the funding provided under the Work- is considering not only buying more steel from House to deal with this last year. force Investment Act, which authorizes the abroad, but buying components and finished That is the right thing to do, even at this late federal government’s primary programs for parts from abroad as well because they can date—and so I will support it. helping our nation’s workers gain the skills be made cheaper in foreign plants that don’t But while this bill is necessary, it definitely they need to succeed in today’s workforce. have to pay inflated prices for steel. is not sufficient. It does not cover everyone These new Back to Work accounts and the All of these companies, and others through- who should be covered. In fact, it will do noth- job training services administered under the out the steel consuming manufacturing indus- ing to help a million or more people who are Workforce Investment Act are—both—essen- try, are forced to respond to this pain in order out of work and who have used up all their tial in helping displaced workers and assisting to remain globally competitive. Many of these federal benefits. The statistics I have seen in- adult workers in areas of the country facing companies will expand their purchases of fin- dicate that at least 17,000 Coloradans fall into skill shortages that will enhance the 21st cen- ished steel products from overseas, because that category. tury workforce. finished products are not covered by the tar- Those people are no less in need of assist- As this proposal moves forward, it is my iffs. Sourcing parts from overseas causes ance to enable them to pay their bills and feed hope that we will meet the President’s objec- more pain for companies up the manufacturing their families while they look for work. It is not tives of getting the economy back on its feet stream. Companies are being forced to make their fault that since the current downturn and workers back on the job. these decisions because of the steel tariffs. began more than 1.5 million jobs have been At the same time, I look forward to working Let’s be clear. Right now, the unintended eliminated from the economy—and while the to ensure that the system established under consequences of the steel tariffs are killing best response to their problems will be to re- the Workforce Investment Act, in particular, American jobs in steel consuming companies. vive the economy so that new jobs will be cre- the business-led local boards, have an appro- This clearly was not the intent of the Steel ated, in the meantime we need to make it pos- priate role in the administration of these ac- Safeguard Program. This is the collateral dam- sible for them to make ends meet until that re- counts. age. But we can’t ignore the fact that the tar- covery really gets underway. But make no mistake about it. iffs are costing jobs. In the meantime, this bill does need to be Personal Reemployment Accounts represent And I have to ask this question: what good passed. But it should be just the first step— a new, innovative approach to help unem- will the tariffs have achieved if there are no and not the last one—to respond to the eco- ployed Americans find a job by giving the un- customers left to buy steel from U.S. steel nomic problems of Colorado and the rest of employed more control over their employment companies? the country. search and access to training and services. I am not here to criticize the President. In f In the next few months, the House Edu- fact, I don’t think the President would’ve sup- cation and the Workforce Committee will begin ported these tariffs if he could’ve seen in a BACK TO WORK INCENTIVE ACT the process of reauthorizing the Workforce In- crystal ball the full damage they’re causing. vestment Act, where we will focus on improv- These effects have come about more rapidly HON. HOWARD P. ‘‘BUCK’’ McKEON ing the system to help achieve the original vi- and more severely than anyone predicted. OF CALIFORNIA sion of the law when it was enacted in 1998, And let me emphasize that I fully support a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which was to create a seamless workforce de- healthy domestic steel industry. These are velopment system for workers and employers. good American companies that employ good Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Over the past year and a half, the workforce Americans. Mr. MCKEON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to join my development system funded under the Work- But companies in my district and across the colleague, Mr. Porter of Nevada, in support of force Investment Act has adequately met the country are hurting. They are good American the Back to Work Incentive Act, which would training and employment needs of our nation’s companies that employ good Americans. They enact President Bush’s plan for Personal Re- employers and employees. States and local deserve the consideration along with the steel employment Accounts (PRAs). This new ben- areas have created comprehensive services

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.061 E29PT1 E108 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 29, 2003 and effective one-stop delivery systems with By providing choice and flexibility, we can get softwood lumber imports. Our hope was that streamlined access to training programs. In people back into steady, good-paying jobs. these duties would level the playing field be- addition, core, intensive and training services This new benefit supplements and en- tween our two countries. But that effort has provided under the law have been invaluable hances the services that are already available failed because the Canadian provincial gov- in assisting adult workers in areas of the coun- for those who are most likely to face obstacles ernments have simply expanded their sub- try facing skill shortages. Such continued as- in finding and keeping new employment. Back sidies to offset our duties. sistance is essential for enhancing the 21st to Work accounts will allow the nationwide In that light, Mr. Speaker, we are obliged to Century workforce during this downturn in the One Stop Career Center system to offer an- go a step further in our actions to promote fair economy. other important benefit to the unemployed, in trade. Today, I am introducing the Duty Parity I look forward to working with President addition to the array of employment services Act of 2003. This legislation will clarify U.S. Bush and my colleagues on the House Edu- these centers already provide. statute and ensure that our trade laws fully off- cation and the Workforce Committee on both A number of states have experimented with set the values of unfairly traded products. My pieces of legislation to continue to strengthen personal re-employment accounts and the re- legislation will treat countervailing duties im- our workforce development system to aid sults have been very positive. For example, posed by our government as costs of produc- those Americans most in need of help getting Iowa has used a similar approach with reem- tion when antidumping duties are calculated back to work. ployment accounts of up to $5,000 a person, by the Department of Commerce. Not includ- f called the New Employment Opportunities ing these duties as costs of production will Fund. Richard Running, the director of Iowa only permit continued unfair pricing by our INTRODUCTION OF THE BACK TO Workforce Development, recently said, ‘‘It has trade partners at the expense of U.S. compa- WORK INCENTIVE ACT OF 2003 worked a lot better than we had imagined it nies and workers. The Duty Parity Act will give would.’’ the Commerce Department the authority to ac- HON. JOHN BOEHNER This proposal is a compassionate one be- curately account for all subsidies and impose OF OHIO cause it provides workers with the flexibility properly valued duties. The EU and Canada IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and resources they need to help them get treat countervailing duties as costs of produc- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 back on the job quickly. I look forward to work- tion when determining antidumping duties. ing with President Bush, Subcommittee Chair- Why should we act differently? Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, today I am man MCKEON, and Congressman PORTER to I urge my colleagues to cosponsor this leg- pleased to co-sponsor the ‘‘Back to Work In- move this proposal quickly and make this in- islation to provide parity to our domestic lum- centive Act of 2003,’’ sponsored by Congress- novative plan a reality for working families who ber industry. We can ask our lumber mills to man JON PORTER, to create personal re-em- need the help the most. compete within the free market. But we can’t ployment accounts to help put unemployed f ask them to compete against the treasuries of Americans back to work. the Canadian provincial governments. During his State of the Union Address, INTRODUCTION OF THE DUTY f President Bush laid out a comprehensive plan PARITY ACT OF 2003 to speed our economic recovery and promote REINTRODUCTION OF INDIAN PRO- long-term job growth and investment. His eco- HON. CHARLES W. ‘‘CHIP’’ PICKERING GRAMS REAUTHORIZATION AND nomic stimulus plan also provides specific as- OF MISSISSIPPI TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS ACT sistance—in the form of personal re-employ- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment accounts—to help unemployed Ameri- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 HON. TOM UDALL cans who are struggling to return to work. OF NEW MEXICO The Back to Work Incentive Act reflects the Mr. PICKERING. Mr. Speaker, I rise before IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES President’s plan to create these accounts and the House today to express my sincere con- aid unemployed workers who need the most cern for the severe economic conditions faced Wednesday, January 29, 2003 help getting back to work. By introducing this by the U.S. lumber industry. For nearly two Mr. UDALL of New Mexico. Mr. Speaker, I measure, we are taking an important step to- decades our lumber industry has been at odds am pleased to rise today to introduce legisla- ward making his plan a reality. with the provincial governments of Canada tion, which I originally introduced in the 107th The President’s proposal—which is reflected over heavily subsidized softwood lumber. Congress, that declares that the United States in this bill—represents a new and innovative We’ve implemented numerous quick fixes to holds certain public domain lands in trust for approach to helping the unemployed get back provide relief for our domestic industry, but the Pueblos of San Ildefonso and Santa Clara on their feet. As President Bush has said, one since the expiration of the last U.S.-Canadian in New Mexico. worker out of work is one too many, and his Softwood Lumber Agreement in 2001, lumber Senators PETE DOMENICI and JEFF BINGA- plan will help working families in times when prices have continued to drop. If current mar- MAN sponsored the Senate companion bill dur- they need it the most. ket conditions continue, many lumber manu- ing the 107th Congress, and were successful States will be able to target this flexible ben- facturers will not survive the next 6 months. in incorporating it into S. 2711, the Indian Pro- efit to help the unemployed who are most in I represent the Piney Woods of Mississippi. grams Reauthorization and Technical Amend- need of help in the form of $3,000 Back to The timber industry is the second largest sec- ments Act of 2002, which I strongly supported, Work accounts. Recipients will be able to keep tor of our economy behind the poultry industry. during the closing days of the 107th Congress. the balance of the account as a cash reem- My constituents depend on the production of However, the House was unable to take up ployment bonus if they become reemployed lumber and timber harvest for jobs and eco- this legislation prior to its adjournment. within 13 weeks, creating an important incen- nomic stability. We are losing jobs and our I would also like to note that both Senators tive to return to work quickly. The more quickly economic base in the Third Congressional are reintroducing, in the Senate today, the a job is obtained, the larger the reemployment District of Mississippi because heavily sub- companion to this bill. bonus will be. sidized softwood lumber imports are being Accordingly, today I reintroduce this legisla- Workers can use their Back to Work ac- dumped in the United States by the provincial tion, which will formally restore control and counts for a variety of different services to governments of Canada. tribal authority of nearly 4,500 acres of cul- help them find a good job, including job train- Mr. Speaker, I realize the benefits of open turally significant ancestral lands. Located in ing, child care, transportation, and other ex- markets, and my record clearly reflects that I the eastern Jemez Mountains, roughly 2,000 penses to help in finding a new job. These re- am not against free trade. I am, however, op- acres of land located within the aboriginal do- employment accounts give the unemployed posed to unfair trade practices sometimes im- main of the San Ildefonso Pueblo will be the flexibility and resources they need. plemented by some of our trading partners. I transferred to that Pueblo; similarly, approxi- One of the exciting aspects of the new Back oppose dumping, and I oppose the practice of mately 2,484 acres of Santa Clara Pueblo’s to Work accounts is that they empower indi- the Canadian Government practically giving aboriginal lands will be transferred to that vidual recipients to make choices appropriate away trees to its mills for processing. Pueblo. for their own circumstances. Recipients will be The Department of Commerce knows that This transfer is the result of years of nego- able to create reemployment plans that help the provincial governments of Canada are en- tiations between the two Pueblos, and be- them navigate all the options available—such gaged in unfair trade practices. This is re- tween the Pueblos and the Department of the as career counseling or training for a new pro- flected by the countervailing duties and anti- Interior, and the Bureau of Land Management. fession in which they can become employed. dumping duties imposed on Canadian The Pueblos intend to maintain the natural

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.065 E29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E109 quality of the land and restore the health of and honor Interfaith CarePartners for their in- as production of Braille textbooks. Beginning the ecosystem of their traditional ancestral credible accomplishment and for their remark- in the 1960’s, though, blind children began at- lands. In addition, the lands will be used for able service to our community. tending schools in their home communities, ceremonial and other traditional purposes. Interfaith CarePartners, founded in 1985, and now the vast majority do so. As a result, Finally, Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Ala- has evolved into a national movement of faith- every local school district which has one or mos counties in New Mexico, the National based volunteerism that promotes, sponsors, more blind students must obtain or create the Congress of American Indians, and the Na- and conducts volunteer caregiving and associ- necessary specialized textbooks for these stu- tional Audubon Society’s New Mexico State ated activities in partnership with churches dents. However, again this is a laborious proc- Office, the Quivira Coalition and the Santa Fe and synagogues. They are ‘‘Houston’s care- ess that is beyond the capability of most Group of the Sierra Club support the acquisi- giver,’’ sponsoring the nation’s original and school districts to carry out quickly or easily. tion and transfer of these lands. largest faith-based caregiving program with I look forward to working with my colleagues 1,600 volunteers in 83 congregations who Although states already have the obligation on the Resources Committee to pass this im- serve approximately 1,000 families per year, under the Individuals with Disabilities Edu- portant legislation for the people of San and providing 60,000 hours of volunteer serv- cation Act (IDEA) and other federal statutes to Ildefonso and Santa Clara. ice for frail adults and children. Volunteers provide equivalent educational opportunities to f also provide in-home care and caregiver disabled and non-disabled students, it has be- respites to more than 3,600 Alzheimer’s and come apparent that specific and practical INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION dementia-affected families, frail elderly, and standards need to be put in place to anticipate TO CHANGE HOPE SCHOLARSHIP other chronically or terminally ill adults, se- and meet accessibility needs in this area. The PROGRAM verely impaired children, and people with Instructional Materials Accessibility Act (IMAA) AIDS. Partner congregations span the theo- takes several approaches that, taken together, HON. DAVE CAMP logical spectrum within Protestantism, Roman will greatly reduce the waiting time for blind OF MICHIGAN Catholicism, and Judaism. students to receive their textbooks. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Interfaith CarePartners has earned the grati- tude of all the families they have helped and This bill establishes a standardized elec- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 the admiration of everyone who knows their tronic file format for instructional materials. Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, the passage of the work and the depth of their selfless devotion Conversion into an electronic format is a nec- Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 represented a to improve the lives of their neighbors. Today, essary step in the process of creating a Braille watershed event in the relationship between we honor and thank Interfaith CarePartners for version of a textbook. Twenty-six states cur- student support and tax policy. The Act’s sig- their extraordinary achievement in reaching rently require publishers to provide electronic nature initiative, the Hope Scholarship Pro- one million hours of volunteer community serv- copies of textbooks but have no agreed-upon gram, provides annual benefits to students ice. I would like also to congratulate Nancy file format. This drives up costs for publishers and the families rivaling the support provided Reagan, Dr. John McGovern, and Chip Car- and often results in unusable electronic files through Pell Grants and other long-standing lisle and Wells Fargo for receiving the Sus- provided. And it does nothing to reduce the forms of federal aid. However, many of the taining Presence Award, an annual award pre- months-long period needed for production of students who need help the most do not ben- sented to distinguished individuals and organi- the specialized textbook. efit from the Hope Scholarship Program. zations whose commitments and activities Our bill requires statewide plans to ensure Today, Congressman JIM MCGOVERN and I constitute an exemplary contribution to the are reintroducing legislation that would ad- creation of caring communities. All of you ex- that students who are blind or visually im- dress these shortcomings. Currently, the Hope emplify the best of America. paired have access to instructional materials in formats they can use at the same time the tax credit can be used for only tuition and re- f lated expenses when college students must materials are provided to all other students. pay for much more than just tuition. Our legis- INTRODUCTION OF THE INSTRUC- Our bill will establish a national clearinghouse lation would allow Hope Scholarships to cover TIONAL MATERIALS ACCESSI- to provide ‘‘one-stop shopping’’ for local required fees, books, supplies and equipment, BILITY ACT school districts to acquire the needed mate- Additionally, a student’s eligibility is currently rials. In the future, publishers will be able to reduced by any other grants they receive— HON. THOMAS E. PETRI submit an electronic copy of a textbook to this federal, state or private. As a result, benefits OF WISCONSIN clearinghouse, rather than having to deal with have been limited primarily to middle and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES inconsistent state requirements. Finally, our upper-middle income taxpayers and explain Wednesday, January 29, 2003 bill authorizes a small capacity-building grant why less than one-fifth of all full-time students program to assist state and local educators in Mr. PETRI. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro- attending community colleges qualify for max- using electronic files supplied by publishers. imum Hope Scholarship benefits. Our legisla- ducing the Instructional Materials Accessibility tion would ensure that any Pell Grants and Act, which will ensure that, for the first time, This issue has been a bone of contention Supplemental Educational Opportunity grants blind students will be able to fully enjoy an between textbook publishers and the blind a student receives are not counted against the equal opportunity to a quality education. This community for quite a while. However, working student’s eligible expenses when the Hope same bill attracted 88 bipartisan cosponsors in together over a period of many months, both Scholarship is computed. the 107th Congress, most notably my friend communities finally arrived at a mutually This legislation has bi-partisan cosponsors GEORGE MILLER, the Ranking Member of the agreeable and practical solution to this prob- and support from numerous higher education House Committee on Education and the Work- lem and the publishers and the blind advo- organizations. I urge the House to bring up force, who has worked closely with me on cates strongly support the IMAA as introduced this legislation in the near future. I yield back crafting this legislation. in both Houses. Unfortunately, it is the exception rather than the balance of my time. In the 107th Congress, the support and the rule that blind students have access to f great need for this legislation prompted the textbooks for a given class at the beginning of INTERFAITH CAREPARTNERS the school year. Because of the cumbersome Department of Education to fund the develop- process needed to translate a textbook into ment of a voluntary standardized electronic HON. JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON Braille or other specialized format, it can take format for specialized instructional materials. Once completed, this standardized file format OF TEXAS up to six months for the blind student to have would implement a significant piece of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the same materials as his or her sighted peers. Only a heroic effort can save this stu- IMAA. However, a standardized file format by Wednesday, January 29, 2003 dent from being hopelessly behind in class. itself will not solve all the problems which Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, This was not much of an issue before the cause delays in the delivery of textbooks to February 2, 2003, Interfaith CarePartners will 1960’s. Before that time, most blind children visually impaired students. That is why this celebrate the unprecedented milestone of one attended centralized schools for the blind, and legislation is still needed. Once implemented, million hours of volunteer community service. there was (and is) existing infrastructure, such the IMAA will make life easier for states, pub- On behalf of the people of Texas’ Congres- as the American Printing House for the Blind lishers and most of all blind students, at a very sional District Seven, I want to congratulate in Kentucky, to provide support services such modest cost.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.068 E29PT1 E110 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 29, 2003 CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF THE tem and a good deal of our effort has been fo- Caroline’s southern charm has always been WIENERY cused on improvements to the education that a trademark of her personality. I know from disadvantaged students receive. The No Child my personal conversations with Congressman HON. DOUG OSE Left Behind Act calls for states to have a high- Spence that he held Caroline as an invaluable OF CALIFORNIA ly qualified teacher in every public school member of his staff and was always im- classroom by the end of the 2005–2006 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pressed with her dependability, loyalty and pa- school year. Since we are demanding that our triotism. In a place where many people come Wednesday, January 29, 2003 children be instructed by a competent teaching and go, Caroline is a symbol of commitment Mr. OSE. Mr. Speaker, in 1978, Anne Fox force, we must also do all we can to encour- and dedication from which many of us could founded a small restaurant in Sacramento age the best and the brightest to enter this learn. I congratulate her on her retirement and simply named The Wienery. This year The very important field. thank her for two decades of honorable serv- Wienery, and all those who enjoy its unique The Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act ice to this Congress and her country. On be- atmosphere and menu, is pleased to celebrate of 2003 will take a landmark step in address- half of the House Armed Services Committee its 25th Anniversary. ing the growing teacher shortage. The bill pro- and the U.S. Congress, I wish you the best of As the name implies, The Wienery offers its vides a strong incentive for individuals to enter luck as you begin this new and exciting chap- customers numerous varieties of hot-dog op- the field of teaching and to make a long-term ter of your life. tions. Among the most popular are the Hotsy commitment to the students that need them f Dog, the B.L.T. Dog and the Swiss Saute´ the most. We need to do all we can to encour- Dog. age college students to take on one of the IN HONOR OF BART DIRECTOR The Wienery buys its franks from another most challenging, rewarding and important ca- WILLIE B. KENNEDY family owned business in the region, Alpine reers that exist. Meats. Alpine Meats was founded by Swiss There is nothing more important to our na- HON. NANCY PELOSI sausagemaster Josef Kaeslin—who immi- tion’s future than the education of our children. OF CALIFORNIA grated to California—and its wieners are The Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2003 will help to fulfill our responsibility to chil- spiced by hand and smoked in a hardwood- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 burning smokehouse with no artificial additives dren by ensuring that our most competent and or preservatives. caring teachers are adequately supported in Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Using these top quality dogs, The Wienery their charge to educate our nation’s future. honor a remarkable woman, Mrs. Willie B. has attracted a dedicated clientele devoted to I urge my colleagues to support this legisla- Kennedy, who has served with distinction on appreciating their old-fashioned gourmet hot- tion and continue our commitment to the men the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit dogs as well as its homemade soups, chili and and women of this country who do so much to District (BART) Board of Directors since 1996. sauces. I am proud to consider myself one of advance our nation and its children. Mrs. Kennedy is retiring from the BART Board their devoted fans and have personally been f effective January 31, 2003. Thankfully, Mrs. Kennedy is not leaving public service entirely, eating at The Wienery for many years. RETIREMENT OF CAROLINE after working for over 60 years as a political As a small businessman, I know how hard STRICKLAND BRYSON it is to start a business, especially a res- and social activist and elected official in the taurant, and keep it running for many years. HON. DUNCAN HUNTER San Francisco Bay Area. She will continue her Current proprietor Cynthia Fox-Vanover car- work in the Hunters Point neighborhood with OF CALIFORNIA the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, ries on Anne Fox’s tradition of serving ‘‘fast IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES food with full service.’’ which oversees development there. In addition, The Wienery has been a proud Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Mrs. Kennedy is an outspoken advocate for member of the Sacramento community. It has Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to public transit and transit-oriented development. sponsored more than 20 local little league recognize and honor Caroline Strickland During her six years as a BART director, she teams, and supported the Special Olympics Bryson upon her retirement after 20 years of was chosen by her colleagues to serve as and the Disabled Veterans Association—to loyal and dedicated service to the United president in 2001 and vice president in 2000. name just a few. States Congress. Mrs. Kennedy pushed BART to begin a tradi- Our community is indeed proud of The Caroline was born on December 10, 1943, tion of donating special ‘‘flash passes’’ to com- Wienery and its history. And I am proud to in Columbia, South Carolina. She attended the munity organizations for train rides to and from congratulate the owners and my fellow cus- University of South Carolina in 1962–63 and San Francisco’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. tomers as we celebrate the 25th Anniversary the Institute of Financial Education in 1978. parade and memorial ceremonies. She works of the Wienery. Before coming to work for Congress, she diligently behind the scenes to respond to her constituents’ concerns about BART service f worked for 14 years with Lexington County Savings & Loan and served for four years on and facilities. She has been a long-time sup- INTRODUCTION OF THE TEACHER the Lexington Town Council. porter of the new BART extension to the San RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION Caroline began working on Capitol Hill in Francisco International Airport. ACT OF 2003 1983 with my good friend, the late Honorable As a BART board member, Mrs. Kennedy Floyd Spence of South Carolina as his Execu- served as vice chairperson of the Metropolitan HON. JOE WILSON tive Assistant and Office Manager, in which Transportation Commission Liaison Com- OF SOUTH CAROLINA she served for 18 years. In this capacity, mittee. She was a member of the Capitol Cor- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Caroline supervised the office staff, managed ridor Joint Powers Board, the San Francisco a million-dollar annual budget and served as Transportation Authority Liaison Committee, Wednesday, January 29, 2003 the public relations liaison for Congressman the San Mateo County Negotiation/SFO Ex- Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speak- Spence. For six of those years, Congressman tension Committee, and the Santa Clara er, today, I am proud to join my colleagues in Spence served as Chairman of the House County Policy Committee. introducing the Teacher Recruitment and Re- Armed Services Committee. As a result of her In addition to her years of service to BART, tention Act of 2003. This bill reflects the com- position and responsibilities in the Chairman’s Mrs. Kennedy is a former Supervisor of the mitment of the President and of this Congress office, Caroline regularly interacted not only City and County of San Francisco. She was to increase the number and enhance the qual- with Members of Congress, but with foreign appointed to the Board of Supervisors in ity of teachers in the nation’s classrooms. dignitaries, the press, and the President’s March 1981 by former Mayor and now U.S. Most pointedly, the bill expands the current Cabinet as well. Senator DIANNE FEINSTEIN. She completed the teacher loan forgiveness program from the Following her tenure with Congressman unexpired term of the late Supervisor Ella Hill current $5,000 to a maximum of $17,500 for Spence, Caroline served briefly as a Staff As- Hutch, was elected in her own right in 1984, teachers who commit to teaching math, sistant with the House Armed Services Com- 1988 and 1992, and served until May 1996. science, or special education for five years in mittee and later as the Executive Assistant for She has served as the President of the San some of our nation’s most disadvantaged Senator MIKE DEWINE of Ohio. In each of Francisco Transportation Authority and on the schools. these capacities, Caroline’s professional expe- boards of the Association of Bay Area Govern- Congress and the Bush Administration have rience, warm charisma, and friendly attitude ments (ABAG), the Bay Conservation and De- worked hard to improve the educational sys- led her to excel at all levels. velopment Commission (BCDC), the California

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.073 E29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E111 and National Associations of Counties, and COMMENDING INDIA ON ITS The President’s speech last night did not the California and National Leagues of Cities. CELEBRATION OF REPUBLIC DAY mention that his economic plan calls for cut- Willie Kennedy received her early education ting job training and employment funding by in Dallas, Texas and was awarded a Bachelor HON. DAVID VITTER $534 million while unemployment is increas- of Arts degree in journalism from San Fran- OF LOUISIANA ing. The President’s plan calls for reducing cisco State University. She is the widow of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $500 million from title 1, the Federal Govern- late Superior Court Judge Joseph G. Ken- ment’s primary program for targeting aid to the Wednesday, January 29, 2003 nedy, mother of one daughter and two foster most disadvantaged students. This cut means daughters, grandmother of nine, great grand- Mr. VITTER. Mr. Speaker, I would like to 447,000 fewer low-income students will be mother of 20 and great-great grandmother of join my colleagues today and take this oppor- served by this program. Also, the President’s one. tunity to commend India on its celebration of proposes to cut $250 million from teacher During her many years as a civic leader, Republic Day, which formalized India as a par- quality initiatives. For heating assistance, the Willie B. Kennedy has earned the respect of liamentary democracy. President is expecting a $300 million cut from all who have worked with her. I commend her On January 26th of this year India cele- the Low Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP) program at a time heating prices are for her many years of dedicated public service brated its 51st Republic Day. In that time India rising. and wish her the best of luck in the future. has grown into the world’s largest democracy and has helped illustrate the stabilizing force While some talk about tax cuts which will of democracy. primarily benefit the wealthiest 1 percent of f India is one of America’s foremost friends in taxpayers, and do nothing for the bottom 75 HONORING THE FOUR CHAPLAINS the South Asian region of the world and has percent, let me suggest that any serious eco- OF THE U.S.S. DORCHESTER continued to be a consistent and helpful ally to nomic stimulus package or plan must consider the United States in our on-going war against and be focused on the needs of the poor and terrorism. Increasingly, America must attempt the most vulnerable among us. HON. GARY L. ACKERMAN to engage the Muslim world through diplo- The President should propose a fair fiscal OF NEW YORK macy, and India, along with other nations, pro- policy that will provide more unemployment benefits and health coverage for low to mod- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vides an opportunity to do that. Most impor- tantly, we will need to identify our friends and erate income workers. These are the people Wednesday, January 29, 2003 to stand by those countries that reflect our who spend a larger portion of their earned dol- lars to make ends meet. By expanding unem- Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am hon- faith in ideals such as democracy, human ployment benefits for those who have already ored to rise today to pay tribute to the four rights and religious freedom. exhausted their extended benefits and con- brave Chaplains of the U.S.S. Dorchester who Over one billion Indian people of diverse tinue to seek jobs and health coverage to dis- sacrificed their lives in order to save those of faiths in India currently practice democracy located workers, it would be the quickest way others. and enjoy religious freedom. They look to courts for justice, respect human rights, and in to stimulate the economy. On February 3, 1943, a German U-boat off Only the Democratic plan focuses on work- short, embody American values in this impor- the coast of Greenland sank the U.S.S. Dor- ing families and small businesses that drives tant region of the world. The United States chester, carrying approximately nine hundred the engine of the American economy. Under and the Republic of India have a common American servicemen. A torpedo struck the its plan every worker will get a tax cut and ev- bond and a strong commitment to shared prin- Dorchester mid-ship, killing hundreds instantly, eryone receives the same $600 per couple. ciples. I sincerely hope that the partnership and sending those still alive into confusion and This fair and equitable tax cut will provide a that has been forged between our great na- terror. As the Dorchester began to sink it be- short-term stimulus for our economy while al- tions will continue to blossom. came clear to many on board that the situation lowing the budget to recover as the economy Because of these many accomplishments, I was becoming increasingly dire. Unable to sig- strengthens. wish to join my colleagues to express my nal for help, or call nearby ships due to secu- f rity reasons, the U.S.S. Dorchester faced dis- strong support that the friendship between our aster on its own. two countries continues, and to commend A TRIBUTE TO COMMISSIONER It was in spite of such confusion that India on its celebration of Republic Day. MILLIE TEUSCHER George L. Fox, Clark V. Poling, Alexander f Goode, and John P. Washington, the four THE PRESIDENT’S STATE OF THE HON. STEVEN C. LaTOURETTE chaplains of the U.S.S. Dorchester calmly UNION ADDRESS OF OHIO worked to bring order to the catastrophe. Dis- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tributing life jackets with composure, the chap- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 lains—one Catholic, one Jewish, and two HON. DANNY K. DAVIS OF ILLINOIS Mr. LATOURETTE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Protestant—worked together to save the lives IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to pay tribute to my dear friend, Millie of many American servicemen. They did this Teuscher, who recently stepped down as Lake Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at the cost of their own lives, giving the final County Commissioner after 14 historic years. four life jackets to needy American soldiers. Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, during Millie will be greatly missed by everyone in the Linked arm in arm, praying to the one God to the 90s’ we had ten years of solid economic county. She has the distinction of being the whom they all served, they sank with the Dor- growth. In the past two years, America has first and only female commissioner in the 162- chester, leaving America eternally in debt to entered an economic downturn. For the first year history of the body. their gratitude. time in a decade the economic indicators— Millie is one of my oldest and closest friends The inspirational service, and dedication of benchmarks showing where we are and where in Lake County. I first got to know Millie when these four courageous chaplains saved many we are going—all point down. Job losses in she was a councilwoman in Mentor, and later American lives in the frigid waters of the Atlan- technology and manufacturing have risen dra- was thrilled when she sought office at the tic. Their story continues to be one of inspira- matically and corporate bankruptcies were county level. She was part of a historic sweep tion to many religious communities throughout nearly double what they were two years ago. of county offices by Republicans in the late America. Furthermore, their willingness to Consumer confidence hit its lowest point in 1980s, and really changed the face and tone stand together, linked arm in arm, disregarding over a decade. Even though, the U.S. stock of county government in Lake County. She religious boundaries can be viewed as a true market saw a significant gain during the 90s’. brought an ‘‘every woman’’ sensibility to her testament to the beauty of religious freedom— However, the bottom has virtually fallen out as job, and while she played the role of govern- a moral value that the United States of Amer- a result of the events of September 11th. Now ment watchdog with zeal, she was also admi- ica has incessantly fought to protect. every industry is taking a huge hit as profits rably compassionate about the problems fac- Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues of the and employment figures head into a down- ing county residents and employees. Over her House of Representatives to join with me to ward trend. Presently, under the Bush’s Ad- many years of elected office, she probably honor George L. Fox, Clark V. Poling, Alex- ministration the country is averaging approxi- doled out an equal number of hugs and hand- ander Goode, and John P. Washington, the mately 68,000 workers losing their jobs per shakes. She was not one to exert ego or insist four courageous chaplains of the U.S.S. Dor- month. Resulting in the fastest pace for job on formalities, and was known to everyone as chester. elimination in more than 20 years. simply ‘‘Millie.’’

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.076 E29PT1 E112 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 29, 2003 Millie Teuscher will be remembered for JESSEE J. MCCRARY, JR. ESQUIRE: This brand of leadership has been tested time working diligently to improve Lake County and A LIFETIME OF ACCOMPLISH- and time again during his stint as Chairman of make it an economic leader in Northeast Ohio. MENT AND SERVICE TO OUR the Florida Correction Review Commission, Our county could never have a better guardian COMMUNITY the Florida Education Standards Commission, and cheerleader, and she will be sorely the Select Committee to Review Competency missed. HON. KENDRICK B. MEEK Testing in Florida, the Gubernatorial Commis- sion for the Study of Capital Punishment and I wish Millie the best in her retirement, and OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Judicial Reform, and the Constitution Revision know how much she is looking forward to Commission. spending more time with her beloved hus- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 The acumen of his intelligence and the band, Bob. On behalf of the 14th Congres- Mr. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise in depth of his sensitivity were felt at a time sional District of Ohio, I thank Millie for her honoring one of Florida’s most admired public when Miami needed to put in perspectives the years of friendship and public service, and servants and civil rights leaders, the Honor- agony of disenfranchised African-Americans wish she and Bob all the best in the world. able Jesse J. McCrary, Jr. This Saturday, Feb- and other minorities yearning to belong and ruary 1, 2003 at 6:00 p.m. at the Biltmore participate in the fruition of the American f Hotel in Coral Gables, Florida, a host of Dream. When government and community friends and admirers will join his family in cele- leaders met to douse the still-burning embers FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK brating the legend that he genuinely symbol- of the Miami riots in the early 1980s, Mr. SYSTEM izes. McCrary was the leader whose firm voice of This honoree epitomizes the preeminence of reason and understanding succinctly articu- a gentleman and a devout Christian. In 1956, lated his credo that one has got to learn and HON. HAROLD E. FORD, JR. he attended Florida A & M University with a live with one another in the community, or OF TENNESSEE major in political science. He went on to pur- shamefully reap the grapes of wrath from sue his legal studies at the Florida A & M Uni- those who have been left out of the ambiance IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES versity as well. He was subsequently honored of the rule of law and due process. Wednesday, January 29, 2003 with unprecedented accomplishments never He thoroughly understood the before achieved by an African-American in the accoutrements of power and leadership, and Mr. FORD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge history of our state. he sagely exercised them alongside the man- Congress to pay closer attention to proposed Among his most prominent achievements date of his conviction and the wisdom of his changes to the Federal Home Loan Bank sys- was his being the first African-American to be conscience, focusing them upon the good of tem. appointed Assistant Attorney General for the the community he has learned to love and State of Florida in 1967, the first African-Amer- care for so deeply. This stewardship motivated The two changes being considered would ican to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court by his Faith in God defines the authenticity of allow the Federal Home Loan Banks to buy, in 1969, the first African-American to sit on a his public service as exemplified by what he sell, and potentially securitize mortgages na- statutory Court of Appeals in Florida’s Indus- learned as a child that: ‘‘. . . it is better to give tionally, and would allow banks and thrifts to trial Relations Commissions in 1971, the first than to receive.’’ become members of multiple Home Loan African-American Secretary of State of Florida His word is his bond to those of us who banks. in 1978, and the first African-American from know him. He has exuded this bond not only As federal regulators including the Treasury Florida to be listed in the Best Lawyers in in moments of triumphal exuberance toward Department have noted, these proposals America in 1988. helping many a wayward youth turn the cor- would seem to expand the Federal Home Ever since I’ve known this giant of a leader, ners around, but also in his quest to transform Loan Banks’ charter to a sufficient extent to Mr. McCrary has always been at the forefront Miami-Dade County into a veritable mosaic of warrant congressional consideration. A num- of ensuring equality of opportunity for every- vibrant cultures and diverse races converging ber of issues must be weighed before they are one in our community and throughout Florida. to symbolize the noble idealism that is Amer- implemented. At the same time, his untiring advocacy in ad- ica. hering to the mandate of equal treatment As my community honors Jesse F. McCrary, For example, if the Federal Home Loan under the law not only in the halls of aca- Jr., Esquire, I praise the decent man and de- Banks enter the business of securitizing mort- demia, but also in every segment of govern- vout Christian that he is. My pride in sharing gages, it would seem appropriate that they be ment agency, has become legendary. In fact, his friendship is only exceeded by my deep subject to the same requirements as other countless others from every color, creed or gratitude for all that he has sacrificed on be- housing government sponsored enterprises, gender have been touched by his genuine half of all Floridians. This is the magnificent including limits on conforming loans, afford- commitment to their well-being, especially legacy with which he will always be honored. able housing goals, and mandatory mortgage those who could least fend for themselves. f insurance. By his passionate advocacy for due process TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM COPELAND The GSEs’ federal charter ensures that they and the rule of law, he won landmark cases serve the interests of their shareholders as he argued before the Supreme Court. The well as the public by expanding homeowner- most memorable cases that now emblazon his HON. MARCY KAPTUR ship opportunities—especially in communities legal triumphs are the right to have a jury of OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES where homeownership rates are lower than less than twelve persons and the prohibition the national average of 68 percent. The public for the state from dismissing jurors on the Wednesday, January 29, 2003 is also served through fair competition, which basis of race alone. The decisions handed Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, the end of the can only be maintained if competitors in a down by the Court now form part and parcel year 2002 brings with it the retirement of a given market are forced to play by the same of the history of our state’s legal precedents. distinguished public servant in Ohio. William rules. Aside from his role as our state’s legal lumi- Copeland will be retiring as a Lucas County, nary, Mr. McCrary has been the consummate In addition, unlike Fannie Mae and Freddie Ohio, Commissioner, bringing to a close 28 activist who abides by the dictum that those Mac, the banks have not taken the voluntary years in service to the people of our region. who have less in life through no fault of their Raised in Toledo, Ohio, Bill was a stand-out step of registering their stock with the Securi- own deserve to be helped by the government, baseball and basketball player at Woodward ties and Exchange Commission. The wave of be it at the local, state, or federal level. It is High School and gained All-City recognition. corporate accounting scandals last year dem- no wonder that the numerous accolades with After high school, he earned a degree in edu- onstrated the need for transparency, which is which he has been honored by various organi- cation from South Carolina State University. of utmost importance for enterprises serving a zations saliently represent an unequivocal tes- Following college, Bill played basketball for public mission. timony of the utmost respect and admiration New York’s Komedy Kings, a semiprofessional To ensure that the public is served by fair he enjoys from our community. team, which won sixty consecutive games dur- competition and appropriate oversight, any Imbued with a down-to-earth common ing Bill’s tenure. This feat earned Bill an invita- changes to the Federal Home Loan Banks’ sense, he has also been gifted with the rare tion to join the Harlem Globetrotters. charter must be given due congressional con- wisdom of being able to discern the strengths During this time, Bill was also working in To- sideration. and limitations of those empowered to govern. ledo and a member of the Laborers Union

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.080 E29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E113 Local 500. For over 30 years he served the Compensation Program established in 1986. credits can be used to help meet the costs of union as representative, business manager, Though this was a simple clarification of exist- other educational needs: (1) computers, edu- and business agent. Funds were raised under ing law, some people cried foul. They claimed cational software, and books required for his stewardship to build a hall which now these provisions were inserted into the bill as courses of instruction; (2) academic tutoring; bears his name in thanks from his union broth- a favor to pharmaceutical companies and that (3) special needs services for qualifying chil- ers and sisters. they would somehow take away the rights of dren with disabilities (within the meaning of In 1974, Bill was persuaded to run for To- unfortunate people who have experienced an the Americans With Disabilities Act); (4) fees ledo City Council and won. In 1983, having injury. In fact, it did no such thing. for transportation services to and from a pri- been the highest vote-getter, he was elected The vaccine ingredient provisions in the vate school, if the transportation is provided by by his council colleagues as Vice Mayor. With Homeland Security Act reaffirmed Congres- the school and the school charges a fee for his 1985 election as county recorder, Bill be- sional intent of the Vaccine Program’s jurisdic- the transportation; and (5) academic testing came the first African-American to hold a tion over all claims of vaccine related injuries, services. county office. He was appointed to the Board and that preservatives contained in vaccines Parents know the interests and needs of of Lucas County Commissioners in 1990— were not subject to some special exception to their children better than anyone else. If we again making history as the first African-Amer- the program. It did not change the state of the are truly going to ensure that ‘‘no child is left ican County Commissioner. For many years, law, but ensured that those experiencing inju- behind,’’ in our national education agenda, he was the only African-American serving on ries from vaccine ingredients were not given then we must make sure our children have a board of county commissioners among false hope or having their time wasted having every tool at their disposal to academically Ohio’s 88 counties. Commissioner Copeland their lawsuit dismissed by the court for not succeed. has handily won reelection to three successive going through the Vaccine Program. The wealthy in America already have the terms. He diligently pursued many major The controversy surrounding these provi- choice to send their child to the school that projects including new home ownership and sions is over the process by which they were best suits them. But middle and working class housing rehabilitation initiatives, a regional adopted, not the language itself Their repeal families often do not. Between tuition costs water study, new ballpark, juvenile justice cen- would not change the law in any way; as and out-of-pocket expenses like tutoring, com- ter, and the establishment of the Corporation courts have correctly decided, injuries alleg- puters, and transportation, the costs can add for Effective Government to name but a few. edly resulting from ingredients in vaccines fall up and pose an enormous obstacle to the An integral member of our community, Bill under the Vaccine Program. Furthermore, the child’s lifetime leaming opportunities. Copeland has devoted himself to public serv- lack of these provisions may add uncertainty In my own district in New Jersey, a parent ice while actively participating in numerous or- in the vaccine market and higher insurance who feels a Catholic elementary school is best ganizations. While an elected official, Bill rates for vaccine manufacturers something suited for their child, will pay somewhere be- worked with the Toledo Zoological Society, that our nation attempted to avoid in 1986 and tween $1,840 and $2,566 in tuition costs per Kidney Foundation, Indiana Avenue Mis- may be even more important in today’s envi- child, per year. If you want to send your child sionary Baptist Church, Lucas County Demo- ronment. Nevertheless, repealing the provi- to a parochial high school in the central New cratic Executive Committee, YMCA, NAACP, sions will remove the cloud cast over their Jersey area, a parent is looking at an average Labor-Management Citizens Committee, AFL- benefit. If this language is repealed, Congress tuition bill of $5,571 per student, per year. In CIO, Frederick Douglass Community Center, should reintroduce the provisions in another other areas of the country, the costs are very American Heart Association, Old Newsboys, separate measure so that we may have more similar. COMPASS, Toledo Jazz Society, Alpha Phi debate on the actual language and the public Without federal support, many parents Alpha Fraternity, and Toledo Civic Breakfast can be assured of the need for this clarifica- struggle—and in some cases forgo—a Catho- Club. It was often said and very true, that Bill tion of the law. lic school education, or any education in a Copeland was everywhere. f spiritual setting, because the costs are so Though he will receive dozens of accolades high. Learning in a religious setting is not for upon his retirement, I believe a statement THE EDUCATION, ACHIEVEMENT every one, and America’s public school sys- made by Toledo Blade associate editor Rose AND OPPORTUNITY ACT tem is critical to providing educational opportu- Russell sums up Bill Copeland best: ‘‘With so nities for all. We must continue to vigorously much power at his fingertips for more than two HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH support our public schools at both the federal decades, he will go down in Toledo history as OF NEW JERSEY and local levels. At the same time, however, a political stalwart who hasn’t found it nec- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES we should support those who seek the bene- fits of Catholic school and choose a religious essary to boast, be arrogant, or snub anyone. Wednesday, January 29, 2003 He merely has gone his way and worked for setting as the best, educational environment the people who elected him.’’ Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, as for their children. Humbly, quietly, with grace, honor, kindness you may know, this week marks the 29th An- In effect, parents of Catholic school children and dignity always, Bill Copeland went about niversary of National Catholic Schools Week, pay twice—they pay their fair share of taxes the job he was elected to do. Lucas County a week dedicated to honor the achievements necessary to support the public school sys- government will miss his dignified presence and successes of the more than 2.6 million tem, and they pay tuition at the school their and thoughtful governance. Politically, Bill children enrolled in the 8,114 Catholic Schools children actually attend. I urge my colleagues spurred people to get out and vote, giving throughout our country. Today is National to join me in addressing this inherent unfair- people in the central city the inspiration to Catholic Schools Appreciation day. ness and work for the passage of my tuition change their lives through their power at the It is fitting then that today I introduce legisla- tax credit program as the best way to help off- polls. These skills are his true legacy, and I tion designed to ensure the Federal Govern- set the double payment endured by those who join with the chorus from our community in a ment appropriately assists parents with the fi- send their children to Catholic and parochial heartfelt ‘‘Thank You.’’ nancial burdens associated with their child’s schools. education. My legislation, the Education, In America today, we have 59 million young- f Achievement, and Opportunity Act will provide sters in elementary and secondary school VACCINE INGREDIENT PROVISIONS refundable tuition tax credits for the edu- across the U.S.; about 10 percent of these IN THE HOMELAND SECURITY cational expenses incurred by parents for ele- students are enrolled in private, parochial and ACT OF 2002 mentary and secondary school. The legislation rabbinical schools. Those families who are al- would provide parents sending their child to an ready sending their children to such schools, HON. PETE SESSIONS elementary school with up to $2,500 in tax re- and others planning to send their children to OF TEXAS lief, while parents with children in a Catholic or them, would benefit enormously from my pro- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES parochial high school could claim up to $3,500 posal, because they are often struggling to in assistance. make ends meet. Wednesday, January 29, 2003 The tax relief contained in my proposal can It is important to note that my education pro- Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, in the Home- be utilized by parents to pay for a variety of posal is a tax credit, rather than a voucher, so land Security Act of 2002, Congress clarified educational expenses that are frequently in- the total amount of education resources avail- that all injuries allegedly related to an ingre- curred on behalf of their children. Most signifi- able for all school age children will increase. dient in a vaccine should be heard under the cantly the tax credit is designed to help with Under a voucher system, if a school loses en- quick and inexpensive, no fault Vaccine Injury the cost of tuition. But, beyond this, the tax rolled students to a competing school, that

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:31 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.084 E29PT1 E114 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 29, 2003 school may lose funding and have fewer re- ommends that the Bush administration recon- ementary, St. Colman Elementary and St. sources available for their educational pro- sider the funding levels that have been re- John Cantius High School for their love and gram. Under my plan, that outcome is avoid- duced for local agencies’’ in the police field, I guidance through my formative years. ed. It is a ‘‘win-win’’ scenario, whereas some believe this is an argument to which we I especially wish to recognize the delegation have argued that voucher programs can be- should pay attention. Mr. Speaker, I ask that of students, teachers and parents who will come a zero-sum situation with ‘‘winners and this very thoughtful and important resolution make the National Appreciation Day for Catho- losers.’’ be printed here. lic Schools a special day this coming Wednes- A tuition tax credit for education is a benefit HOMELAND SECURITY FUNDING day. Their commitment to ensuring an excep- tional education and maintaining quality that should be available to all, no matter what SUBMITTED BY DIVISION OF STATE their race, creed, or national origin. And make ASSOCIATIONS OF CHIEFS OF POLICE (SACOP) Catholic schools ensures that Catholic stu- dents in the future will continue to benefit from no mistake: the public school system will and WHEREAS, the approximately 740,000 law must continue to remain the backbone of our enforcement officers in local and state agen- outstanding educational opportunities. An nation’s education system. But we must never cies have the best knowledge of and access to overwhelming percentage of Catholic high forget that the public school system was cre- their communities, and those communities school graduates attend college, which is a ated to serve students—not the other way are turning to their local agencies for guid- sign of the excellent work of our Catholic around. If a student is performing poorly, par- ance and protection more than ever; and School system. WHEREAS, local law enforcement is the I would also like to recognize the National ents should have the opportunity to augment first to be called upon to respond to any Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) for the child’s education with help from the federal emergency or critical incident; and their efforts to promote educational and cat- government. WHEREAS, because of their daily inter- echetical goals. By sponsoring programs like If we are to truly make good on our promise action with the community, local law en- the Seton Awards, which recognize individuals that ‘‘no child is left behind,’’ we must ensure forcement has access to local information who have made outstanding contributions to and grassroots intelligence that is an invalu- that Catholic schools are included in this na- Catholic education, the NCEA works diligently tional promise and goal. A child is a child, re- able resource in the fight against terrorism; and to insure better education across America. gardless of which school system they are en- Providing quality educational opportunities rolled. The children enrolled in Catholic, pri- WHEREAS, demands on specialized train- ing (interrogation techniques, recognition of for all children is one of the most important vate, and rabbinical schools deserve nothing terrorist threats, federal immigration law, goals of our society. I wish to congratulate less than our full support and compassion. immigration documentation, response to Catholic schools, students, parents, and I urge my colleagues to support the Edu- critical incidents. response to biological, teachers across the Nation for their ongoing cation, Achievement, and Opportunity Act. chemical or nuclear terrorism), specialized contributions to education. They play critical f equipment (protective clothing, isolation roles in promoting and ensuring a stronger equipment, electronic surveillance and secu- and brighter future for America. PERSONAL EXPLANATION rity equipment), and drastically, increased manpower requirements, continue to take f HON. DAN BURTON their toll on already stretched law enforce- COMMEMORATING MR. WILLIAM T. ment budgets; and LEE OF INDIANA WHEREAS, the over 19,000 members of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES International Association of Chiefs of Police HON. CURT WELDON Wednesday, January 29, 2003 are concerned that while the federal govern- ment is proposing greatly increased funding OF PENNSYLVANIA Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, ‘‘dur- for Homeland Security programs, federal in- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing rollcall votes 15, 16, and 17, I was un- telligence programs, and additional in- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 avoidably absent. Had I been here I would creases for federal agencies, the local and have voted ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall vote 15 and ‘‘no’’ state agencies will be left with dwindling re- Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker on rollcall vote 16 and 17. sources in their daily response to local com- I rise to commemorate Mr. William T. Lee, a munity requirements, including those caused great patriot who served the United States f by increased threats and fears from ter- well for years. CHIEFS OF POLICE URGE ADMINIS- rorism; now, therefore, be it Mr. Lee passed away in his home in Alex- RESOLVED, that the lnternational Asso- TRATION TO SUPPORT IN- andria, Virginia on October 30, 2002 due to ciation of Chiefs of Police, duly assembled at complications associated with advanced can- CREASED FUNDING its 109th Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, strongly recommends that the cer. He was born in Pass Christian, Mis- HON. BARNEY FRANK Bush Administration reconsider the funding sissippi and grew up with his grandparents in levels that have been reduced for local agen- Missouri. He is survived by his former wife, OF MASSACHUSETTS cies, such as universal hiring programs, Dixie Lee. They had no children. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Byrne Grants, COPS Programs and others. Mr. Lee served as a Senior Intelligence Offi- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 We urge the administration to continue cer during the Cold War and was a vigorous these programs, or reconfigure the funding advocate for a national missile defense. He Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker for local agencies with the recognition that was a prominent figure and an insightful ex- One of the pieces of evidence that convinces these agencies are truly on the front line of pert concerning the assessment of the Soviet me that we have reduced taxes by too much the war against terrorism. Union’s economy, size and scope of its mili- in the face of the very significant demands f tary. that have been placed on our national security Mr. Lee was an accomplished analyst of both domestically and internationally since HONORING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS missile defense, a published writer and a for- September 11, 2001 is the refusal of this ad- midable lecturer. His life accomplishments in- ministration to support adequate funding for SPEECH OF clude an exceptional understanding of ballistic programs of assistance to local public safety missile defenses of the Soviet Union and Rus- officials. As we were adjourning, I and others HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH sia, authoring 6 books and numerous articles in the Massachusetts Delegation received the OF OHIO and lecture tours in Europe, Asia and South attached resolution from the Massachusetts IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES America. Chiefs of Police Association. I am very Mr. Lee embarked on his impressive career Monday, January 27, 2003 pleased to have a good working relationship with an induction into the Army Air Corps in with the chiefs of police in the district I rep- Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in 1944 where he supported the effort in the Eu- resent, and I know that these people are support of House Resolution 26, honoring the ropean theater during World War II. After the deeply committed to the protection of our citi- contributions of Catholic schools. As a Catho- war, Mr. Lee began his academic education zenry, against both the traditional forms of lic school graduate, I know the value of a with 2 years at The University of Puget Sound crime and against the newer threats we face. Catholic education. I know first hand that and 2 years at the University of Washington And they are not people who easily jump into Catholic schools teach students discipline, and emerged in 1950 with a degree in history controversies that are partisan or ideological in pride and respect for learning. I am so grateful with a concentration on Russian studies and nature. So when they report that they and to the priests, nuns and lay persons who economics. Later he received a masters de- their fellow chiefs of police across the country taught me at St. Peter’s Elementary, Holy gree from Columbia University in advanced adopted a resolution which ‘‘strongly rec- Name Elementary, Parmadale, St. Aloysius El- Russian and Chinese studies.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:44 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.087 E29PT1 January 29, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E115 As a Soviet economic and military affairs mates concerning the Soviet Union’s vast mili- was happening in both the Soviet Union’s mili- analyst for the CIA in the 1950’s and early tary expenditures. His judgments were mostly tary and its economy.’’ 1960’s, Mr. Lee, along with colleagues, con- embraced in 1976 by ‘‘Team B,’’ a committee In one of his books, The AMB Treaty Cha- tended that the Agency had underestimated of skeptics charged by then-Director of Central rade: A Study in Elite Illusion and Delusion, the share of the Soviet’s gross national prod- Intelligence George H.W. Bush with providing Mr. Lee showed how, as a matter of state pol- uct that went into the military for years before a second opinion on the capabilities of the So- icy, the USSR violated the requirements of the the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. viet military. The findings of Team B were con- 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty by building From 1964 to 1972 Mr. Lee lent his talents firmed as much more accurate than the Cen- and deploying a territorial AMB system explic- to the Stanford Research Institute as a senior tral Intelligence’s estimates by showing that itly prohibited by the accord. A second book, analyst who helped produce intelligence re- CIA and DIA continuously underestimated ports forecasting Soviet and Chinese conven- Moscow’s spending due to their faulty meth- written with Richard Starr, entitled Soviet Mili- tional and strategic weapons programs for the odologies. With regard to Soviet defense tary Policy Since World War II was translated office of the secretary of defense. spending Lee’s friends used to say there was by the PRC. After working as an independent consultant the CIA, the DIA and William Lee.’’ This book, considered a classic, enjoyed ex- to private research organizations on contract It is important to note Mr. Lee’s analysis of treme popularity in the United States, Europe to government agencies for a few years, he numerous documents including Kremlin ar- and Asia. After being translated by the Chi- joined the Defense Intelligence Agency in chives and the private diaries and memoirs nese military, Mr. Lee was invited to lecture 1979 and was promoted to a member of the published by officials associated with the the military several times. government’s Senior Executive Service by the Kremlin’s anti-ballistic missile programs. Lee’s His awards include the Army Distinguished time he retired in 1992. analyses and his books reflect his unwavering Civilian Service Medal and the Meritorious Mr. Lee was a vital intelligence professional determination to find the truth. ‘‘Lee was a during the Cold War. As a member of the cantankerous yet thoroughly focused analyst,’’ Service Medal from the DIA. Committee on the Present Danger, he was in- said Derek Leebaert, a Georgetown University Mr. Lee was neither a Republican nor a strumental in influencing the defense buildup professor. ‘‘His objective was not to prove the Democrat, a conservative nor a liberal but a during the Reagan administration. Lee never essential wickedness or aggressiveness of the rock solid patriot. His passing will be felt by received public recognition for his tough esti- Soviet system, but . . . just [to report] what many.

VerDate Dec 13 2002 04:34 Jan 30, 2003 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A29JA8.091 E29PT1 E116 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 29, 2003 SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS FEBRUARY 6 amine a legislative presentation of the Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to 9:30 a.m. Disabled American Veterans. by the Senate on February 4, 1977, calls for Armed Services SH–216 establishment of a system for a computer- To hold hearings on proposed legislation MARCH 6 ized schedule of all meetings and hearings of authorizing funds for fiscal year 2004 Senate committees, subcommittees, joint 10 a.m. for the Department of Defense, and the Veterans’ Affairs committees, and committees of conference. Future Years Defense Program. To hold joint hearings with the House This title requires all such committees to SH–216 notify the Office of the Senate Daily Di- Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to ex- gest—designated by the Rules committee—of FEBRUARY 11 amine legislative presentations of the the time, place, and purpose of the meetings, 9:30 a.m. Military Order of the Purple Heart, the when scheduled, and any cancellations or Armed Services Paralyzed Veterans of America, Jewish changes in the meetings as they occur. To hold hearings to examine the current War Veterans, the Blinded Veterans As an additional procedure along with the and future worldwide threats to the na- Association, and the Non-Commis- computerization of this information, the Of- tional security of the United States; to sioned Officers Association. fice of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare be followed by a closed meeting to be 345, Cannon Building this information for printing in the Exten- held in SH–219. MARCH 12 sions of Remarks section of the CONGRES- SD–106 SIONAL RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of 10 a.m. 10 a.m. each week. Energy and Natural Resources Veterans’ Affairs Meetings scheduled for Thursday, January To hold hearings to examine the Presi- To hold joint hearings with the House 30, 2003 may be found in the Daily Digest of dent’s proposed budget request for fis- Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to ex- today’s RECORD. cal year 2004 for the Department of the amine a legislative presentation of the MEETINGS SCHEDULED Interior. Veterans of Foreign Wars. FEBRUARY 4 SD–366 345, Cannon Building 2:30 p.m. FEBRUARY 13 MARCH 13 Budget 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the Presi- 10 a.m. Armed Services dent’s FY 2004 Budget. Veterans’ Affairs To resume hearings on proposed legisla- SD–608 To hold joint hearings with the House tion authorizing funds for fiscal year FEBRUARY 5 Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to ex- 2004 for the Department of Defense, and amine legislative presentations of the 9:30 a.m. the Future Years Defense Program. Retired Enlisted Association, Gold Judiciary SH–216 Star Wives of America, the Fleet Re- To hold hearings to examine judicial 10 a.m. serve Association, and the Air Force nominations. Energy and Natural Resources Seargents Association. SD–226 To hold hearings to examine the Presi- 345, Cannon Building 10 a.m. dent’s proposed budget request for fis- Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs cal year 2004 for the Forest Service of MARCH 20 To hold hearings to examine the nomina- the Department of Agriculture. 10 a.m. tion of William H. Donaldson, of New SD–366 Veterans’ Affairs York, to be a Member of the Securities To hold joint hearings with the House and Exchange Commission. FEBRUARY 25 Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to ex- SD–538 10 a.m. Budget Energy and Natural Resources amine legislative presentations of To continue hearings to examine the To hold hearings to examine the Presi- AMVETS, American Ex-Prisoners of President’s Fiscal Year 2004 Budget dent’s proposed budget request for fis- War, the Vietnam Veterans of America, Proposal. cal year 2004 for the Department of En- the Military Officers Association of SD–608 ergy. America, and the National Association Small Business and Entrepreneurship SD–366 of State Directors of Veterans’ Affairs. To hold hearings to examine possible so- 2 p.m. 345, Cannon Building lutions to the small business health Veterans’ Affairs care crisis. To hold joint hearings with the House SR–428A Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to ex-

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HIGHLIGHTS Senate passed H.J. Res. 13, Continuing Appropriations. House Committee ordered reported 9 sundry measures. Senate Nomination—Agreement: A unanimous-consent- Chamber Action time agreement was reached providing that on Routine Proceedings, pages S1689–S1758 Thursday, January 30, 2003, at a time determined Measures Introduced: Nineteen bills and nine reso- by the Leadership, Senate proceed to Executive Ses- lutions were introduced as follows: S. 229–247, S. sion, that the nomination of Gordon England, of Res. 27–34, and S. Con. Res. 3. Page S1736 Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, be discharged from the Committee on Governmental Measures Reported: Affairs; further, the Senate proceed to its consider- S. Res. 27, authorizing expenditures by the Select ation, there be 20 minutes of debate equally divided; Committee on Intelligence. Pages S1735–36 provided further that following the use or yielding Measures Passed: back of time, Senate proceed to a vote on the con- Continuing Appropriations: Senate passed H.J. firmation of the nomination. Page S1756 Res. 13, making further continuing appropriations Nominations Confirmed: Senate discharged from for the fiscal year 2003. Page S1757 the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and National Mentoring Month: Committee on the Pensions and then confirmed the following nomina- Judiciary was discharged from further consider of S. tions: Res. 25, designating January 2003 as ‘‘National Harry Robinson, Jr., of Texas, to be a Member of Mentoring Month’’, and the resolution was then the National Museum Services Board for a term ex- piring December 6, 2003. agreed to. Page S1757 Elizabeth J. Pruet, of Arkansas, to be a Member Expressing Gratitude for Senate Deputy Legis- of the National Museum Services Board for a term lative Counsel: Senate agreed to S. Res. 33, express- expiring December 6, 2004. ing the gratitude of the United States Senate for the Edwin Joseph Rigaud, of Ohio, to be a Member service of Arthur J. Rynearson, Deputy Legislative of the National Museum Services Board for a term Counsel of the United States Senate. Pages S1757–58 expiring December 6, 2007. Messages from the President: Senate received the Dana Gioia, of California, to be Chairperson of the following messages from the President of the United National Endowment for the Arts for a term of four States: years. Pages S1756, S1758 Transmitting, pursuant to law, the Periodic Re- Nominations Received: Senate received the fol- port on the National Emergency with Respect to the lowing nominations: Western Balkans that was declared in Executive Louise W. Flanagan, of North Carolina, to be Order 13219; to the Committee on Banking, Hous- United States District Judge for the Eastern District ing, and Urban Affairs. (PM–2) Page S1732 of North Carolina. Transmitting, pursuant to law, the report on Ar- Richard D. Bennett, of Maryland, to be United menia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, the Rus- States District Judge for the District of Maryland. sian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Theresa Lazar Springmann, of Indiana, to be and Uzbekistan indicating the continued compliance United States District Judge for the Northern Dis- of these countries with international standards con- trict of Indiana. cerning freedom of emigration; to the Committee on James V. Selna, of California, to be United States Finance. (PM–3) Pages S1732–33 District Judge for the Central District of California. D68

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York to the National Commission for the Review of COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION the Research and Development Programs of the Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on United States intelligence Community. Page H239 Trade met for organizational purposes. Quorum Calls—Votes: One yea-and-nay vote de- f veloped during the proceedings of the House today and appears on pages H228–29. There were no COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, quorum calls. JANUARY 30, 2003 Adjournment: The House met at 12 noon and ad- journed at 3:01 p.m. (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) Senate Committee Meetings Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES; COMMITTEE Health and Human Services, and Education, to hold hear- ORGANIZATION ings to examine Medicare reimbursement for physicians Committee on Energy and Commerce: Ordered reported and hospitals, 9:30 a.m., SD–192. the following bills: H.R. 389, Automatic Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the nominations of Paul McHale, of Pennsylvania, to be Defibrillation in Adam’s Memory Act; H.R. 399, an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Security, Organ Donation Improvement Act of 2003; H.R. and Christopher Ryan Henry, of Virginia, to be Deputy 342, Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Healthy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 9:30 a.m., Act; H.R. 398, Birth Defects and Developmental SH–216. Disabilities Prevention Act; H.R. 346, American Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: orga- Spirit Fraud Prevention Act; H.R. 395, Do-Not-Call nizational business meeting to consider an original resolu- Implementation Act; H.R. 361, Sports Agent Re- tion authorizing expenditures for committee operations, sponsibility and Trust Act; H.R. 337, to extend cer- committee’s rules of procedure for the 108th Congress, tain hydroelectric licenses in the State of Alaska; and and subcommittee assignments, 10 a.m., SD–538. H.R. 397, to reinstate and extend the deadline for Committee on the Budget: to hold hearings to examine the commencement of construction of a hydroelectric budget and current economic outlook, 10 a.m., SD–608. project in the State of Illinois. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: busi- Prior to this action, the Committee met for orga- ness meeting to consider an original resolution author- nizational purposes. izing certain expenditures for committee operations, to be followed by hearings to examine media ownership focus- VA’S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; COMMITTEE ing on consolidation in the radio industry, 9:30 a.m., ORGANIZATION SR–253. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: Held a hearing on the Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the Department of Veterans Affairs’ health care system. status of U.S. border security, 10 a.m., SD–215. Testimony was heard from Robert H. Roswell, Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to exam- Under Secretary, Health, Department of Veterans ine the January 27 UNMOVIC and IAEA Reports to the U.N. Security Council on Inspections in Iraq, 10 a.m., Affairs; and representatives of veterans organizations. SD–419. Prior to the hearing, the Committee met for orga- Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to nizational purposes. hold hearings to examine the challenges and next steps COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION; OVERSIGHT in regard to the smallpox vaccination, 10 a.m., SD–430. PLAN Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD–226. Committee on Ways and Means: Met for organizational Special Committee on Aging: organizational business purposes. meeting to consider pending committee business, 2:30 The Committee approved an Oversight Plan for p.m., SD–430. the 108th Congress. COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION House Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on No Committee meetings are scheduled. Health met for organizational purposes. Joint Meetings COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION Joint Economic Committee: to hold joint hearings to ex- Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on amine the Administration’s growth and job plans, 10 Oversight met for organizational purposes. a.m., SD–628.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 11 a.m. , Thursday, January 30 10 a.m., Friday, January 31

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Thursday: After the transaction of any Program for Friday: Pro forma session. morning business (not to extend beyond 1 p.m.), Senate will, at a time determined by the Leadership, consider the nomination of Gordon England, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Hastert, J. Dennis, Ill., E91 Ose, Doug, Calif., E110 Hastings, Alcee L., Fla., E103 Pallone, Frank, Jr., N.J., E93, E96 Ackerman, Gary L., N.Y., E111 Hoyer, Steny H., Md., E99 Paul, Ron, Tex., E91, E94, E97 Blumenauer, Earl, Ore., E105 Hunter, Duncan, Calif., E110 Pelosi, Nancy, Calif., E110 Boehner, John A., Ohio, E104, E108 Israel, Steve, N.Y., E92, E95, E98 Petri, Thomas E., Wisc., E109 Burr, Richard, N.C., E93, E96 Johnson, Eddie Bernice, Tex., E101 Burton, Dan, Ind., E114 Kanjorski, Paul E., Pa., E93, E96 Pickering, Charles W. ‘‘Chip’’, Miss., E108 Camp, Dave, Mich., E109 Kaptur, Marcy, Ohio, E113 Rangel, Charles B., N.Y., E101 Cardoza, Dennis A., Calif., E101 Keller, Ric, Fla., E103 Renzi, Rick, Ariz., E99 Castle, Michael N., Del., E106 Knollenberg, Joe, Mich., E107 Sessions, Pete, Tex., E113 Clay, Wm. Lacy, Mo., E100 Kucinich, Dennis J., Ohio, E114 Simpson, Michael K., Idaho, E93, E95 Combest, Larry, Tex., E92, E95, E97 Lantos, Tom, Calif., E99, E105 Skelton, Ike, Mo., E92, E95 Cramer, Robert E. (Bud), Jr., Ala., E103 LaTourette, Steven C., Ohio, E112 Smith, Christopher H., N.J., E113 Crane, Philip M., Ill., E105 Linder, John, Ga., E106 Solis, Hilda L., Calif., E92, E95 Culberson, John Abney, Tex., E109 McKeon, Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’, Calif., E107 Stupak, Bart, Mich., E91, E94, E97, E98 Davis, Danny K., Ill., E111 Maloney, Carolyn B., N.Y., E106 Dicks, Norman D., Wash., E102 Meek, Kendrick B., Fla., E112 Udall, Mark, Colo., E107 Eshoo, Anna G., Calif., E102 Menendez, Robert, N.J., E91, E94, E97, E98, E100, E101, Udall, Tom, N.M., E108 Forbes, J. Randy, Va., E104 E102, E103, E104 Vitter, David, La., E111 Ford, Harold E., Jr., Tenn., E112 Moran, James P., Va., E100 Weldon, Curt, Pa., E114 Frank, Barney, Mass., E114 Nadler, Jerrold, N.Y., E100 Wilson, Joe, S.C., E110

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