H3640 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 18, 1996 they care about our community and No task is too big. No challenge is looking to repeal the New Deal, but care deeply about helping others. too great. These dedicated young peo- much of the Great Society simply did These heros reach out and lend a ple are faced with amazing challenges not work. Not all of it, but a good part helping hand to at-risk schoolchildren. but they never give up. of it. Motivate Our Minds—MOM’s for A special gift that these young men I was coming to Washington this short—is a very special organization in and women have received, is something week, I noticed on my calendar, I have my hometown of Muncie. that I, too, learned at an early age: quotes on my calendar. This one hap- Mr. wife, Ruthie, visited the MOM’s ‘‘Always do your best, hard work will pened to have been from Ann Landers. program just a few weeks ago. She be rewarded and never, never give in.’’ I think it defines something that is ab- shared with me the love and friendship Mr. Speaker, the volunteers and espe- solutely essential. It says, ‘‘In the final the volunteers at the MOM program cially the children involved with the analysis, it is not what you do for your give to inner city schoolchildren. MOM program in Muncie, Indiana are children, but what you have taught MOM’s first started in 1987, when two Hoosier heroes. That is my report from them to do for themselves that will women, Mary Dollison and Raushanah Indiana. God bless. make them successful human beings.’’ Shabazz (Ra-shanna sa-bez) opened up f I look at this and say this is abso- their home and went to work helping lutely the center of what we need to do ‘‘at risk’’ schoolchildren. PRESIDENT’S CATHOLIC as a Government. In the final analysis, They knew in their hearts that the STRATEGY it is not what you do for your citizens, key to a bright future for a disadvan- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under but what you have taught them to do taged child is a strong and loving hand the Speaker’s announced policy of May for themselves that will make them to guide them. Special children need 12, 1995, the gentleman from California successful human beings. motivators. [Mr. DORNAN] is recognized for 60 min- As a moderate Republican, someone Mary Dollison knew that when chil- utes as the designee of the majority who has voted for a number of pro- dren feel good about themselves they leader. grams that would be part of the Great do well in school. They become suc- Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, in the Society, I have had to analyze and say, cessful adults. and their contribute full sense of collegiality here, I would where have I been doing the right positively to their communities. like to yield, and I will stay on my thing, where I have helped make a dif- MOM’s has grown from helping 16 feet, the first 20 minutes of my special ference, and where have I actually students tutored in Mary’s home, to order to my good friend, the distin- caused problems? providing assistance for more than 69 guished colleague from Connecticut, If I am honest with myself, there is a at-risk students today on East High- part of me that recognizes that I could CHRIS SHAYS, to speak about our budg- land Street. et crisis and getting America’s fiscal go and vote for some of these programs Mom’s teaches at-risk students: ‘‘To and say, you know, I have dealt with house in order. think they can, until they know they your need. I can pat myself on the can.’’ Parent volunteers like, Lola THE WORK ETHIC IN AMERICA back. I can go to certain groups and McGregor, Ball State students, com- Mr. SHAYS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the they can say, oh, isn’t it nice that you munity leaders, parents, and the chil- gentleman for yielding I will not be care? dren can witness first hand young men using the full time. I do appreciate his Well, I would contend that some of and women striving to achieve new willingness to allow me to participate my caring has resulted in caretaking, goals and forming new hopes and in your hour’s time. not in caring, and that what I need to dreams for their own future. Mr. Speaker, this Republican major- truly do is be a caring person. And a Dedicated volunteers, and the true ity, this new Congress, has three objec- caring person is going to do more what Hoosier Heroes of the MOM’s program. tives. Our first objective is to get our Ann Landers says, and that is what Volunteers, like Wilma Ferguson, a re- financial house in order and balance have you taught them to do for them- tired school teacher, gives her time and our Federal budget, and at the same selves that will make them successful friendship every single week. time grow this economy. That is the human beings? Beth Quarles, the office manager, at first objective, and it is absolutely es- I have made a point in the last 4 the MOM program, has worked tire- sential that we succeed in it. years of my 9 years in Congress of ask- lessly to ensure that the program has Our second objective is to save our ing anyone who has had a difficult life, the funds and the resources needed to trust funds for future generations, par- that is perceived as difficult, and obvi- keep the center growing. Frances Gar- ticularly Medicare, from ultimate ously nobody walks in someone else’s rett makes sure that the students’ bankruptcy. In fact, Medicare part B, moccasins, all of us face difficult school projects and their art work is the health services that Medicare re- things, but people who have been raised displayed at the center. cipients receive, started to go insolvent in poverty, been raised by one parent Mrs. McGregor has two daughters— last year, not this year as expected. in poverty, people who may have had LaRessa and LaNeice, who are 5th Our third objective, Mr. Speaker, is an experience on drugs, a whole host of grade students enrolled in the program. to transform our caretaking social and different challenges that have faced Mrs. McGregor witnessed how the MOM corporate, I would even say farming them, and I have said what made a dif- program helped her own daughters and welfare state, into a caring oppor- ference in your life? Why are you the she decided to give something back. tunity society. successful person you are today? What She is now one of the top volunteer at Now, the words opportunity society was it in your life that made you so the MOM program. are words used by conservatives pri- successful? When I was young, I can remember marily. They are great words, and are Almost to a person, it was ‘‘Someone my mom tacking my drawings and as- words that have existed in this country in my life, my father, my mother, my signments to the refrigerator door—it in particular for well over 200 years. brother, my sister, my aunt or my was something so small, but it sure And they are preceded by the word uncle, my grandparent, somebody, a made me feel good, but you know, I ‘‘caring.’’ mentor, someone took an interest in took that for granted. Some of these This is not a conservative agenda me and taught me how to grow my own children, have never had their work that throws up our hands in the air and seeds.’’ tacked up on the refrigerator door. says, ‘‘You live in the cities, you were I think of parents who are raising But Frances Garrett makes sure raised by a crack mother, you did not their children, and I think well, in the their precious drawings, paintings, have much of an education. Too bad. final analysis, it is what you did for spelling tests, and high scored home- You are on your own.’’ your children or what you taught your work assignments are displayed. That is not the agenda. This agenda children to do for themselves that This is important to send a message is an agenda that is trying to help peo- made the difference? And to a person that hard work and accomplishments ple grow the seeds. they would not tolerate doing some- are honored. Students leave MOM pro- Mr. Speaker, we have an incredible thing for their children without teach- gram knowing in their hearts that opportunity to do what we have failed ing them what they can do for them- there is nothing they can’t do. to do for so many years. We are not selves, making them independent. April 18, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3641 So I speak as someone who has been ference is the deficit. At the end of hard as they should, that police and part of this political process, saying I each year, these deficits just keep get- firemen simply were getting increases feel I have done a lot of things that ting added to our national debt. That is in salary without corresponding in- have made a positive difference in peo- what I want to focus in on. creases in productivity, and this very ple’s lives, but I have also looked and The national debt in 1945 was $260 bil- liberal Republican said, ‘‘I am going to seen that there are things that I have lion. Today it is $4.9 trillion. But I fight it,’’ and he fought it. not done, or things that I have done could go back to just 1974. After the The result was that the police went that have been in fact the exact oppo- Vietnam War, it was only about $430 on strike, the firemen went on strike, site of what I intended. billion. $430 billion. It is now $5.2 tril- the sanitation workers went on strike, This may sound a little harsh, but I lion, or $5,200 billion. It has gone up the welfare workers went on strike, the believe it to be true: Poor people do not well more than tenfold, 10 times. Not subway workers went on strike. They create jobs. Poor people need jobs. And one time or doubled or tripled, quad- all went on strike. The city shut down. sometimes the people who are going to rupled. It has gone up tenfold, 10 times, Did the people of City create those jobs happen to be people in 22 years. blame the workers for going on strike? No. They blamed the mayor. They who are well-to-do. b 1815 I went to a housing seminar and I thought he was incompetent, this in- was confronted by a group of people That is a disgrace. It is just simply a competent mayor that could not keep who think that we have given tax cuts disgrace. When people say to me that the city running. for the wealthy at the expense of the the deficits do not matter, I say I do And I draw parallels today. People poor, which simply is not true, but that not understand it. I simply do not un- are saying we cannot shut down the is what they think. But at the same derstand how it does not matter that Government; our job is to keep it run- time, they said to me, ‘‘Why aren’t you our national debt has grown 10 times in ning. Our job is to keep it running in a stronger advocate of the low income 22 years. the right way but not keep it running housing tax credit?’’ I think historians will look at the in the wrong way. This is a tax credit to provide hous- Congresses of the past and, frankly, the This mayor tried to confront that. ing for low income people. And I said to White House of the past, Republicans What was the result? The result was this group, think of what you are ask- and Democrats. Some Members of Con- that people thought he was incom- ing. It has a wonderful name. It is in gress on both sides of the aisle have petent. His polls went down, and he re- fact a fairly effective program. But the been wanting to control spending. The sponded to the polls and the people of low income housing tax credit is going White House never submitted balanced the city. He got the firemen back to to benefit the poor and the well-to-do. budgets from either party, and Con- work and the policemen back to work The people who get the tax credit are gresses never gave back balanced budg- and the sanitation workers back to the well-to-do. So the very group that ets. work. He got the welfare workers back was accusing me of having a tax credit So I basically make the argument to work. He got the subways running for the wealthy were asking me to vote that both parties have had their fingers again, but he did it by selling the city for a tax credit for the wealthy that in this mess called the national debt. down the river. had an intention to help the poor. But we have a party now in the major- He basically caved in. He gave up, This is really what we have to wres- ity that is willing to change that, will- and he got reelected. That was the tle with as a country. We have to be ing to stop it, willing to slow the message: Cave in, get reelected, sell honest with ourselves about a lot of growth in spending so it, ultimately, in the city down the tubes. This city went things. One, poor people do not create 7 years, equals the revenue that we re- bankrupt because of what happened. jobs, they need jobs. The people who ceive. No more deficits; therefore, no The city of New York went bankrupt, can help create these jobs are people increase to our national debt. and then again he was considered in- who have the financial resources to in- I think historians will look at the competent. He was considered incom- vest in new plant and equipment and last 20 years, will look at it much the petent when they went on strike. They invest in jobs in the process. way they looked at the Reconstruction liked him when he put everybody back There is another statement that I era after the Civil War, not a particu- to work, failing to realize that in order just have pondered a lot. I do not un- larly proud time in our history. I do to get them back to work he basically derstand how people can be pro-jobs not think it is a particularly proud had to agree to their side of the posi- and antibusiness. How can you say you time in some respects in terms of the tion. He basically sold out and paid want to create more jobs and they you national debt and what has happened them the increases in wages without want to be against the very people who to our society in a while host of dif- the corresponding increases in produc- create jobs? The fact is, you cannot. ferent ways since 1974 to this year now, tivity. Now, the Republican majority de- 1996, 22 years. I liken that to what I am experienc- cided to do something that no other I look at the national debt and I look ing today. I will not say it happens all majority in Congress has ever at- at what historians will say. I used to the time, but when the Government tempted to do in the past. We have de- just blame Republicans and Democrats, shut down during Thanksgiving I did cided to get our financial house in the White House and Congress. I have not want to open it up, and I would order, and we are doing it in a very rea- come to the conclusion that the Amer- vote to this day to keep it shut until sonable way. I am not saying every- ican people have a lot more to do with this generation is responsible to our thing we are attempting to do is per- this than I ever realized in the past, children. I would not have increased fect. I would not make that claim. But and I speak from personal experience the national debt because I think it is I have never been more proud to be on this issue. irresponsible to allow this national part of a party and part of a majority There was a Member of Congress who debt to keep growing when we have not than I am today. was a very liberal Republican named controlled the growth of entitlements. We are trying to slow the growth in John Lindsey, and he ran for mayor of But let me give everyone an example spending so it ultimately intersects New York City. He won. This moderate of a letter I received from a constitu- and is no greater than the revenue that to liberal, in fact very liberal Member ent, a good friend. I received a letter we receive. of Congress, made a determination that from a constituent outraged that the Now, people say we have a revenue he thought that the city could not af- Government had shut down. This hap- problem. That would be a hard one to ford the large increases in public sala- pened to be the shutdown during the understand, since revenues keep grow- ries that were happening without a cor- Christmas holidays, not a great time to ing. We do not have a revenue problem, responding increase in productivity. have Government shut down, not some- we have a spending problem. Our He felt it was wrong that sanitation thing I particularly liked, but I did spending keeps going up more than our workers completed their work before 11 know why it happened. revenue does. It never intersects, it o’clock in the day, did not work a full It happened primarily, not entirely means that we continually have reve- 8 hours. He thought it was wrong that but primarily because the President nue and then an expense, and that dif- welfare workers were not working as had vetoed certain appropriations bills. H3642 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 18, 1996 When he vetoed these bills, we ended is right out there in front, our deficits ple participating. Well, even with more up with no budget. When we had no are taking away money that could be people it is growing at 49 percent per budget, we had to shut down the Gov- invested in new plant and equipment, person. ernment. and the money that is being set aside So in response to the polls, one, I say I had constituents who said, well, we in savings, 42 percent of it is being gob- when the American people know the should give the President a budget that bled up to fund the national debt. truth, the polls will tell us to do what he wants. The problem is the budget he Why are we spending so much money we are doing. I really believe that. If I wants, in my judgment, bankrupts this of our savings to fund the national am wrong, I will be looking for a new country. I did not feel right about that. debt? Because our deficits keep grow- job. But I also think something else But this is the argument that I was ing and our national debt keeps grow- about the polls. Sometimes at critical receiving from some of my constitu- ing. moments in our history we have to do ents. Some of my constituents, not all I want to stop these deficits. I want what is right even if the polls tell us to but too many, frankly, said—one of interest rates to come down. I want do something slightly different or sig- them said, in so many words, ‘‘Dear businesses to be able to look at the in- nificantly different. CHRIS, I have always liked you, I have terest rates and know that it can pay I would make this comparison to always respected you and voted for for them to invest in new plant and what Abraham Lincoln found when he you, but never again. Your job was to equipment. came forward and was sworn in as keep this government running. You So what about the polls? Well, the President. When he was sworn in as failed in a very basic responsibility, polls tells us that 47 percent basically President, they had to sneak him into and I will not only not vote for you say the President is right, Congress is Washington. I want everyone to imag- again in the future, but I am going to cutting too much; 46 percent say Con- ine what it must have been like in Lin- actively work against you.’’ gress is right, we are cutting just right coln’s time when they literally had to Now, I could have accepted all of that or not enough. sneak him into Washington. They had to that point, but then he gave me his But they think that when we dealt to sneak him into Washington because big reason why. His big reason why was with the earned-income tax credit we his life was threatened. that his daughter wanted to study were cutting. They thought $19 billion When he was sworn in, seven States abroad, and she went to get her visa was going to be less in the 7th year, but decided to leave the Union. They said, and the passport office was closed the fact is the earned-income tax cred- we are out of here. When the seven down. So basically he was saying for it is a payment paid to people who States left the Union, a lot of the peo- his daughter he was outraged. work but do not make enough. They ple in the North said, what an incom- I began to think about it, and I actually get a payment from the tax- petent President. Already, practically thought, this is unbelievable. Mr. payers, a government check. Instead of before he has done anything, we have Rabin, the former Prime Minister of Is- giving the government money, as low- lost our country. It is breaking apart. rael, said politicians are elected by the income workers they actually get A lot of people in the North began to adults to represent the children, and I money from the Government, from the look with disdain at this, quote-un- am thinking about this. taxpayers. That is growing from $19 quote, incompetent, bumbling Presi- This is about his daughter, not about billion to $25 billion under our plan. dent. her getting a passport so she could The school lunch program is growing After the first few battles, and the study abroad. It is about the fact that from $5.2 to $6.8 billion. That is not a first year and second year and even if we continue our neglectful ways, our cut; that is an increase. The student into the third year, as the battles con- deficits will keep growing. Our debt loan program is growing from $24 bil- tinued and there was tremendous loss will keep growing and ultimately his lion to $36 billion. is growing of life and some of the battles went daughter, his precious dear daughter, from $89 billion to $127 billion. Medi- against the North, a good number, will be paying anywhere from 60 to 80 care from $178 to $289 billion. there was even a greater conviction. percent of all the money she makes in Only in this place when we spend so All the powerful people in the North, taxes to Federal, State, and local gov- much more do people call it a cut. But the businessmen and women who were ernments. That is what this is about. It the press reports it as a cut, and the tied in with the military-industrial is about his daughter. And the fact is, unbelievable thing is that they think complex, for the most part were look- he just did not get it. we are cutting too much when we are ing to find a replacement for this, Now, I have to blame myself, because spending more. quote-unquote, incompetent president. I am an elected official and my job is Now, when the pollsters point out Abraham Lincoln could not have to help explain it and to teach and to that the student loan program is grow- been listening to the polls when he learn and to pay the consequences if I ing from $24 billion to $36 billion, and went to Gettysburg, the greatest vic- am not doing the right thing. There are they tell Americans the student loan tory to that point, and he was there to many things that we could probably be program is going to grow 50 percent, celebrate the victory of the North. He criticized for, but the one thing we can- the 46 percent that says we are cutting went there and gave a speech, and part not be criticized for is not wanting to just right or not enough actually grows of the speech talked about the brave do the right thing about getting our fi- to 66 percent, and the group that men, living and dead, who fought here. nancial house in order. This Repub- thinks we are cutting too much, that 47 He did not say the brave northern men. lican majority is determined to grow percent, drops down to about 33 per- Think of the temptation, given the this economy by ending these obscene cent. polls, to rally the North against the deficits that add to this national debt So one aspect of the polls is that South, to get them to hate the South, that has grown 10 times in 22 years. when the American people learn the to get people to say, what a great I had a number of constituents who truth, they want us to do what we are President, he is finally getting every- said, ‘‘Don’t you listen to the polls? doing. In fact, when we tell the Amer- body together. He could have unified Don’t you see what is happening?’’ I am ican people the truth, they will tell us the only people who could really vote thinking, yes, I am listening to the to do the right thing. I would contend for him, the North. polls. I see a lot of concerned and angry that they are not really hearing or He did not give in to that temptation people. There is reason to be con- learning from what they hear from the because he was a great President. He cerned. We have deficits that are grow- press what is happening. did not give in to the polls. Had he ing and growing and growing. I am con- Earned-income tax credits, school given in to the polls, he would have cerned. lunch, student loans, Medicare, and said ‘‘the brave northern men who There is reason to be disappointed Medicaid are growing. Medicare is fought here.’’ He just said ‘‘the brave with the growth of our economy that is growing on a per-person basis from men, living and dead, who fought only about 1 percent a year in the last $4,800 to $7,100 in the 7th year. It is here.’’ 20 years on average. I would contend growing, in dollar amounts, 60 percent He knew our country, knew there there is a very simple reason for it. from this year to the 7th year. Then were families that had to bury their There are probably a lot, but one that people say, yes, but we have more peo- northern son and their southern son. In April 18, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3643 fact, one father during that time bur- tles around America. I am going to that died, but of the six crewmen on ied both sons in the same grave and the read that to set the scene on how the that airplane, the pilot was the same tombstone read, ‘‘Only God knows Clintons think they will retake the as our pilot, Ashley J. Davis; that is a which one was right.’’ White House, have 5 more years, be- man’s Ashley as in Ashley Wilkes. Ash- b 1830 come a rare Presidency like Eisen- ley was the cocommander on our flight, hower’s, Reagan’s; both had 8 years; on that C–43, used to be called a T–43, Mr. Speaker, I would just conclude, Roosevelt’s, 12 years and 82 days, small a civilian 737, and I was correct that T. thank God Abraham Lincoln did not part of a fourth term, and Teddy Roo- Sgt. Shelly A. Kelly, who was the prin- listen to the polls. Had he listened to sevelt’s short term of 8 years because cipal cabin steward for all of us in the the polls, we would not be one Nation, he achieved, was given the office, congressional section up front and got under God, indivisible. We would be through the tragic assassination of to know her at Aviano, going through two nations, very much divided. And I William McKinley, and Wilson who had the PX to get some shaving gear. She put the context of the debate that we earned 8 years, World War I saving told me a story about how on each trip are having today in the same context him, as it got Roosevelt a fourth term she buys two bottles of wine, her hus- that I put back in Lincoln’s time. We in the second World War I, part two of band is also assigned to Ramstein Air are doing what Mr. Rabin said we the greatest slaughter of all mankind, Base in Germany, and that he would do should do. We were truly elected by the World Wars I and II. But other than the same when he was on a cross-coun- adults, but we are trying to represent Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, Franklin try, they would drink one in celebra- the children. We are trying to make Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Reagan, tion of reuniting with their two chil- sure that our children have a future those five people, nobody in this cen- dren, and then they would save one. and a country they can be proud of. tury has had two terms. And she said, ‘‘We have quite a collec- And with that, Mr. Speaker, I just Clinton thinks the key to a second tion of wine from around the world’’. thank the gentleman from California term is the, quote, Catholic vote, so I Well, Shelly Kelly died serving her [Mr. DORNAN]. You were very nice to am going to read this analysis of what country, as did Capt. Ashley Davis, and give me this time, and I apologize to Mr. George Weigel, the President of the I am going to fly flags on the Capitol you for going over a little bit. Ethics and Public Center here in Wash- next week for them, get every one of Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, when I ington, DC, thinks is the Clinton strat- the Congressmen who were on CODEL said to my colleague I was enjoying it, egy, then read an article from Jose Callahan, and fly flags for the other I truly was. Kennard, who is head in Texas of the four crew members who were on the ill- PRESIDENT’S CATHOLIC STRATEGY Hispanic Caucus, and that letter was fated Secretary Ron Brown delegation. Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, some- read in part yesterday or the day be- I will just briefly give their names times when I take a special order be- fore by people on both sides of the now. On our aircraft on March 1, 2, 3, cause there are good folks across the aisle. I am going to read it in toto, and and again on my birthday, April 3, country who follow the proceedings of then I will read, as I promised yester- when 35 people were killed: 35-year-old this House, they will call and say, ‘‘I day, the full text of this amazing his- Capt. Ashley J. Davis of Baton Rouge, enjoyed your words.’’ They never call, torical letter from eight princes of the LA, also married with two children; and say, and insult you, and say, ‘‘I am plus the Most Rev- again, T. Sgt. Kelly, Shelly A. Kelly, glad there was nobody there to hear erend Anthony Piela, President of the 36, Zanesville, OH, husband, two chil- you.’’ I guess maybe the negative calls National Council of Catholic Bishops. I dren; and the other four crew members, are smarter than the positive ones. will read this letter, and then I will Timothy Schafer, captain, 33 years of They know that a million people are leave it to people’s imagination to fig- age, just outside my own district, hearing you. But a lot of good people ure out how rough this fight is going to Costa Mesa, CA, 33 I said. T.Sgt. Cheryl will call in and say, ‘‘I appreciated be in the next 201 days, less than 200 Turnage 37, Lakehurst, NJ; Sgt. Robert what you were saying, I appreciated days when we adjourn again for legisla- Farrington, 34, Briarfield, AL; and the what Mr. SHAYS was saying, but no one tive business and votes on Tuesday youngest, 29-year-old S. Sgt. Gerald B. was listening.’’ next. Adlrich, from Louisiana—excuse me, Now the audience averages between a Then I will point out how we have a Louisville, IL; all six of them assigned million and a million and a half, and serious Catholic problem right in this to Ramstein. because of that, again as I seem to House with the numbers, and I would Much has been talked about across have closed out the Congress on the suggest to all of my Jewish and Protes- the country, justifiably so, about Mr. last two breaks, my special order is tant brothers, please listen intently. If Brown’s service to country, captain in final tonight, and I want to pick up on you think you have got division and Europe and in Korea, and all of the my 5 minutes last night where I said I problems in your denomination, listen CEO’s who will be so grievously missed would read in totality one of the most to how split the Catholics are in this by their families and their children. amazing letters in American history House. However, not a single Repub- But here are the six great Air Force from any Christian cleric or Christian lican Catholic, good, bad or indifferent, young folks: 29, 33, 34, 35 and 37, that leaders; in this case, they are Catholic voted for this partial-birth execution- went down on that ill-fated flight. cardinals, every one of them an arch- abortion in this Chamber when it Mr. Speaker, tomorrow I will be bishop, joined by the bishop who is the came back from Senate conference going to a funeral for a true one-of-a- head of the National Catholic Con- with the slight differences worked out. kind, outstanding American hero, ference of Bishops against Mr. Clinton Before we do that, I want to take Medal of Honor winner, Vice Adm. for his veto of an overwhelming, over- care of three housekeeping things here. John D. Bulkeley. Vice Adm. John whelmingly passed bill in both the One is the crash of Ron Brown’s Air Bulkeley became known to me as a House and the Senate, a little tighter Force aircraft on my birthday, April 3. young 8-year-old boy, child , in 1942, 54- in the Senate, but overwhelmingly We had a unanimous vote for Mr. years ago, when as a PT boat com- passed here, against execution-style Brown, Secretary Brown, expressing mander, PT–41, he, under orders from partial-birth abortion of fetuses that our deep sorrow at losing for the first Washington, DC and Franklin Delano are children and babies in the process time in the line of duty a Cabinet offi- Roosevelt, tied up again in Corregidor of being delivered that absolutely cer in over almost a century and a half. and Bataan was soon to fall; this was could live outside the womb. I said yesterday that I thought the March 11 of 1942; and took Gen. Douglas So what I have done is picked up an majority of the crew was the crew that MacArthur, then a four-star, soon to be article that skillfully gives Mr. Clin- had flown me and five other Members, a five-star. Mrs. MacArthur and their ton’s Catholic strategy. That is the led by SONNY CALLAHAN of Alabama, to young son, name after another Medal title of the article from the newspaper Tuzla and Sarajevo and Hungary, two of Honor winner, Arthur MacArthur, in Los Angeles, the Tidings; used to be of the bases in Hungary and to Zagreb, Gen. Douglas MacArthur of course also my archdiocese newspaper, Mr. Clin- Croatia, and to our major air base, a Medal of Honor winner, the only fa- ton’s Catholic strategy. It is a syn- Aviano, in . I was mercifully ther-son team in that hall of valor in dicated column, and it has different ti- wrong, not for the four other crewmen the Pentagon, the MacAruthurs, young H3644 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 18, 1996 Arthur MacAuthur was just a small New Republic, April 15 issue, Goodies early in his KGB career delivered by child. I think he was under 10 years of from the Venona files. That is the Akhmerov. According to Gordievsky, the age. The three of them and key staff name for some once top-top-top-secret ‘‘silver-haired’’ Akhmerov, who seemed to be got on PT–41, and through a Japanese Russian files. ‘‘Hiss’ Guilt’’ by Eric in his 60s, discussed Hiss and other American agents he’d controlled. Gordievsky—who did submarine screen made it down to Breindel. not have access to the Venona cables when Mindenao and eventually to Australia. b 1845 he produced his memoir—reports without That was in the end of Vice Admiral reservation that Alger Hiss’s Soviet Bulkeley’s service to his country. He is the editorial page editor of the codename was ‘‘Ales.’’ In a 1989 essay in The Building up to then he had earned the New York Post, a well-read syndicated New York Review of Books, intelligence his- nickname ‘‘Wild Man From Borneo,’’ columnist. torian Thomas Powers likewise declares that and I will do a special tribute to him Mr. Speaker, I include the article at Hiss was known to Moscow as ‘‘Ales.’’ next week. this point in the RECORD: Akhmerov, meanwhile, also turns up in ex- I had the honor of spending time with GOODIES FROM THE VENONA FILES: HISS’S NKVD General Pavel Sudaplatov’s 1994 mem- his daughters and sons-in-law and his GUILT oir, Special Tasks. It seems the high-level lovely wife at D-Day on the morning of (By Eric Breindel) ‘‘illegal’’ had direct responsibility not just for Hiss, but also for Michael Straight, a D-Day. Clinton infringed upon what Earlier this month, the National Security Agency released another batch of Soviet in- young aide to Interior Secretary Harold was to be Admiral Bulkeley’s moment Ickes. Straight, a former owner and editor of of memorial to all the people who died telligence cables intercepted during the Sec- ond World War and decrypted under the aus- the NEW REPUBLIC, knew his Soviet control- at sea in the D-Day invasion 2 years pices of the long-secret Venona project. The agent as ‘‘Michael Green.’’ Akhmerov also and 3 months after he had saved Gen- cables in question, which span a three-year came to supervise Elizabeth Bently—later an eral MacAruthur. He commanded all period (1943–1945), were dispatched to Moscow FBI informant—who knew her control only the PT boats at the Normandy inva- from New York, Washington and various as ‘‘Bill.’’ sion, went on to be a destroyer com- other North American stations. Gordievsky maintains that Akhmerov also mander and sink two German ships at In serious quarters, the authenticity of the managed to develop a secret relationship the end of the war, but he was to throw Venona cables has not been challenged. Even with Harry Hopkins, FDR’s top lieutenant hard-left historians long committed to the and closest political confidante. This claim the memorial wreath into the English innocence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg provoked considerable controversy when Channel at dawn at the beginning of all have accepted them as genuine, despite the KGB: The Inside Story first appeared. In- the memorial ceremonies. fact that the intercepts prove the guilt of deed, the British historian Christopher An- The Congressmen that I was with the Rosenbergs and their confederates. drew—who co-authored the book with were not able to go out on the ship ex- The intercepted messages show that Mos- Gordievsky—prevailed upon the latter to de- cept two senior Democrat chairmen, cow, had at least 100 American agents pro- pict Hopkins as an ‘‘unconscious rather than and President Clinton asked to hold viding Soviet intelligence with classified in- a conscious’’ Soviet agent, implying that the wreath with John Bulkeley, throw formation during the war years. Even now, Hopkins merely saw Akhmerov as a useful many of these agents remain unidentified— back-channel to Stalin. it into the water. Given his own lack of due both to the use of ‘‘covernames’’ and to service and avoidance thereof three The Venona documents, however, suggest Washington’s failure to fully crack Moscow’s otherwise. In one cable—released late last times, it was a little rough for Admiral code. But it’s plain that most of the spies year—‘‘deputy’’ is the covername for a So- Bulkeley, but in the afternoon services were members or close associates of the viet agent who says he attended a May 1943 I asked him, I heard that the honor was American Communist Party. And this puts meeting in Washington, D.C., at which only taken away from me. He said, well, we the lie to the ancient claim that American two other parties were present. American ar- both held the wreath, but God under- Communists were merely New Deal ideal- chival records demonstrate that the meeting stood. ists—‘‘liberals in a hurry’’—who didn’t con- in question did, in fact, take place: the So I will go to his funeral tomorrow stitute any sort of fifth column. attendees were FDR, Churchill and—yes— The single most interesting document in Harry Hopkins. The decrypted cable makes morning, 10 o’clock, the Memorial the new Venona batch is a March 30, 1945, Chapel at Fort Myer. Any naval folks reference to Roosevelt, to Churchill and to Washintgon-to-Moscow message concerning ‘‘deputy.’’ The latter, apparently, briefed in the area or Army, Marine Corps of an agent whose covername is ‘‘Ales.’’ The ac- Akhmerov in detail directly after the ses- Air Force, you may not be able to get companying NSA glossary—prepared for in- sion. ternal use only, long before there was any in- in the church, but please come to the The meeting itself focused on an issue of dication that the intercepts might be re- ceremony and send this Medal of enormous importance to Moscow: whether or leased to the public—explains that ‘‘Ales’’ is Honor, great one-of-a-kind American not—and when—the Western allies would ‘‘probably’’ famed State Department official hero; well, he is already in heaven, but open a second front in the war on Hitler. In- and ostensible martyr of the American left, formation about how Churchill and Roo- give him a great fanfare and memorial Alger Hiss. Among Hiss apologists, much sevelt saw this matter certainly wasn’t sendoff. He was the Capitol here sev- will likely be made of the ‘‘probably.’’ But meant to reach Stalin—not by a back-chan- eral times. I was planning a lunch with careful perusal of the document—and the rel- nel and not by any other path. him with the freshmen, constructing a evant corroborating evidence—demonstrates PT boat 41, PT–41, to present to him, beyond doubt that Hiss was indeed a Soviet ‘‘Vadim’s’’ March 30, 1945, summary of Akhmerov’s ‘‘chat’’ with ‘‘Ales’’—who is and he always procrastinated, delay agent. In fact, almost everything in the mes- sage conforms to representations about Hiss identified specifically as a State Department things with heroes, and suddenly they official—confirms Chambers with respect to are gone to their regard. He was here in made by previous sources, including Whit- taker Chambers, the journalist (and Soviet important details. The Washington-Moscow the crypt area, where Washington and agent) who first exposed him. cable explains that ‘‘Ales’’ has been working Martha Washington were supposed to The cable in question was sent to Moscow with the ‘‘Neighbors continuously since be interred, to put a beautiful ceremo- by ‘‘Vadim’’—or Anatoli Gromov (actual sur- 1935.’’ The codebreakers determined that nial case to the Medal of Honor with name Gorski)—the NKVD’S station chief in ‘‘Neighbors’’—a term which appears regu- the original parrot Medal of Honor for Washington, D.C. (The NKVD was the fore- larly in the Venona intercepts—denotes a Soviet intelligence organization other than the great train chase in the Civil War runner of the KGB.) ‘‘Vadim’’ reports on a ‘‘chat’’ between ‘‘A’’ and ‘‘Ales’’ [Hiss]. Ac- the NKVD. The contest in which it is used in and he was there for that. other messages indicates that ‘‘Neighbors’’ When you call him at home, he would cording to the codebreakers, ‘‘A’’ is Iskhak A. Akhmerov * * *. As an ‘‘illegal,’’ refers to the GRU—Soviet military intel- answer the phone, ‘‘Report.’’ Quite a Akhmerov wasn’t attached to an official So- ligence. man. Served on active duty longer than viet mission. He lived in America—mostly in Chambers consistently described himself any naval officer I can thing of, with New York and in Washington—under various as a GRU—rather than NKVD—agent; and he the possible exception of our great nu- false names, assisted by forged documents. claimed, by extension, that Hiss, too, was af- clear scientist, the world’s No. 1 sub- Akhmerov, it should be noted, was first filiated with the GRU. On this point, many mariner. But Vice Adm. John Bulkeley identified as Hiss’s control-agent by ex-KGB will recall a ridiculous 1992 attempt to ‘‘ex- was either one or two. Colonel Oleg Gordievsky in the latter’s 1990 onerate’’ Hiss—trumpeted by The New York Next week I will also do a special memoir. Gordievsky, the KGB’s London sta- Times and the New Yorker—that came tion chief, defected to the West in 1985; he’d crashing down when Russian historian order on one of the most infamous trai- served as a British mole in Soviet intel- Dimitri Volkogonov, who’d announced his tors in American history, Alger Hiss. ligence for the prior eleven years. In his inability to locate archival material impli- Here is an article from, not a conserv- book, KGB: The Inside Story, Gordievsky re- cating Hiss in espionage, admitted that he ative magazine, but tries to be fair, the calls having attended a training lecture hadn’t examine any GRU files. (Volkogonov, April 18, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3645 a serious scholar, appears to have been mis- ment of Hiss as Secretary-General of the Catholic orphanage? Has your bishop led by a Hiss acolyte affiliated with The Na- U.N.’s founding conference. The gesture, ob- been brought to the Oval Office to dis- tion, long America’s leading forum for Alger viously, wasn’t as generous as it appeared. cuss welfare reform?’’ Hiss apologia.) This article puts it away for any in- Or I might add the minimum wage. The key point is that Chambers—even on the issue of which Soviet intelligence service telligent thinking person. Alger Hiss, ‘‘Do you detect a far milder, less employed Hiss—is vindicated by an internal who is in his 80’s, going to take a life confrontational State Department atti- Soviet cable. Also noteworthy is ‘‘Vadim’s’’ of lying to his grave with him, kind of tude toward the , the Vatican, report that ‘‘Ales’’ had worked as an agency the counterpart to Admiral Bulkley. at last September’s world conference ‘‘continuously’’ since 1935. Chambers testi- He was a Russian spy in the 1930’s. He on women at Beijing? fied repeatedly that Hiss began providing in- was the Secretary-General of the World Conference on the culture of formation for transmission to Moscow in founding convention for the United Na- death. 1935. To be sure, Chambers also told authori- tions in San Francisco. He was at ‘‘Did you notice the President invok- ties that he couldn’t be sure whether or not Yalta in a room alone with Stalin, ing a conversation with the Holy Fa- Hiss continued to spy for Moscow after 1938, ther when he made his case for sending which is when Chambers himself broke with Churchill, and Franklin Delano Roo- the communist underground. Judging from sevelt passing everything he could to U.S. troops to Bosnia?’’ the 1945 cable, Hiss—undeterred by the most evil regime in terms of kill- Boy, did I ever and could not find out Chambers’s defection and unaffected by the ing human beings and torturing them if it was even true. 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact—served the Soviets than any regime in the world including ‘‘Has Mrs. Clinton been spotted arm- at least through the end of the war. Hitler. American boys and allied men in-arm with Mother Teresa on the The newly released document explains spe- front page of your local daily? cifically that ‘‘Ales’’—‘‘for some years’’— and women died all over this planet to shut Hitler down in 12 years but Stalin ‘‘To borrow from medievals: We may functioned as ‘‘the leader of a small group of be reasonably sure that this is about Neighbor’s probationers, for the most part had 29 years to kill and murder and tear that country apart and the issue is substance, not accidents. consisting of his relations.’’ Insofar as the ‘‘Actually, that pun is philosophi- term ‘‘probationers’’ translates as agents, it still in doubt whether the great Rus- cally misplaced. For the substance of would seem that Hiss was running a small sian people can ever re-find their reli- Clinton administration policy, which GRU agent-group dominated by ‘‘relations,’’ gious roots or seek the free enterprise, has put it at cross-purposes with i.e., family members. free market system they are fighting Chambers—like Elizabeth Bentley—in- Catholic teaching on a host of issues, to achieve without crime completely sisted to the FBI that Alger’s brother, Don- hasn’t changed all that much. But the swallowing them. They went from serf- ald Hiss, was also a Soviet agent; Chambers accidents—the appearances, or as the dom right into Communist slavery and further claimed that Hiss’s wife, Priscilla, TV folks say, the images—have been was a communist who assisted her husband’s American traitors like Alger Hiss retooled more extensively than the 1996 espionage activities by copying classified helped extend that agony and he has State Department documents. Once again, Ford Taurus. his, I do not even want to call them lib- ‘‘And the reason why is self-evidently therefore, Venona buttresses Chambers’s tes- erals, they are beyond that, they are timony as well as Bentley’s. clear: The President is seeking re-elec- The March 30, 1945, cable refers to ‘‘Ales’s’’ rock hard radical leftists still in a tion and his handlers have concluded role as a member of the U.S. diplomatic sense fellow travelers still running that the Catholic vote is the key to his team at the Yalta summit, which took place around the country trying to express success. Thus the administration and earlier that same year. Hiss, of course, was doubt about his guilt from Ivy League the Clinton re-election campaign have part of the American delegation at Yalta. colleges to great universities on the been aggressively conducting Oper- This, in fact, is why the FBI focused on him west coast. Unbelievable. Alger Hiss is shortly after Igor Gouzenko—a code clerk at ation Catholic Seduction for months. guilty. It has never been said clearly ‘‘On the face of it, it seems a rather the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa who defected on this House floor. I am going to ask in 1945—told Canadian and British security brazen strategy.’’ officials that Moscow had its own agent in other Members to join me and see if we This is a month before the veto on Washington’s Yalta delegation. Gouzenko can do an hour on that. execution style abortion, by the way. identified the agent in question as an aide to Now the theme from here on, this ‘‘This is, after all, the President Secretary of State Edward Stettinius. Hiss, amazing historical letter. I am going to whose very first acts in office were to though several levels beneath the Secretary give the signatures first before I read sign executive orders widening the of State in the bureaucratic pecking order, George Weigel’s column and the res- availability of abortion-on-demand and did enjoy a notably close working relation- ignation from all positions of respon- lifting the ban on fetal tissue research. ship with Stettinius. The two men even sibility by Jose Kennard in Texas. called each other ‘‘Alger’’ and ‘‘Ed.’’ This is the President whose surgeon- According to the decrypted cable, ‘‘Ales’’ Signing the letter besides the afore- general, the unforgettable Joycelyn El- went on to Moscow after the Yalta summit. mentioned Bishop Pilla is Joseph Car- ders, was known for mocking a, quote, Here a single question seems central: Did dinal Bernardin, , Chicago; celibate, male-dominated church, un- Hiss, in fact, head to Moscow after Yalta? James Cardinal Hickey, archbishop of quote.’’ The answer is yes. Washington, DC. I will read it the way Attack on Catholicism. Actually, only four Americans who weren’t they signed it because they took the ‘‘This is the administration that U.S. Embassy staffers did so; most, like traditional placing of ‘‘Cardinal’’ in- President Roosevelt himself, managed to vastly expanded foreign aid funding for avoid the grueling trip through wartime stead of the middle name and they put Planned Parenthood,’’ the world’s larg- Russia. The four who traveled to Moscow— it at the beginning, so I should read it est abortion provider. all of whom flew on the Secretary of State’s the way they did it. ‘‘This is the administration that plane—included Stettinius himself, two ca- Cardinal Bernard Law, archbishop, hired Faith Mitchell.’’ reer diplomats and Hiss. None—apart from Boston; Cardinal , ; What a first name. Hiss—can plausibly have been ‘‘Ales.’’ Cardinal , Phila- ‘‘You don’t know Faith Mitchell? For The chief significance of the ‘‘Ales’’ docu- delphia; Cardinal Keeler—who spoke shame. She was the State Department ment consists not in the fact that it proves from the pulpit about this driving a so- official who, during the administra- Hiss’s role as a Soviet agent—only the will- fully blind still believe in Hiss’s innocence. called Catholic U.S. Senator to get up tion’s battle with the Vatican over a What’s important is that the intercepted and remove herself from the church— universal, quote, right to abortion, un- cable provides strong new evidence that Hiss Cardinal Keeler of ; Cardinal quote, at the 1994 Cairo world popu- continued to serve Stalin long after Whit- Mahony, Los Angeles; Cardinal John lation conference, said that the taker Chambers severed his own ties to Mos- O’Connor, my good friend up in New Clintonistas, quote, suspect that the cow. Alger Hiss, it’s now plain, was still a York. ’s opposition to the Clinton posi- Soviet agent in 1945—the year he traveled to Before I get to that letter, listen to tion has to do with the fact that the Yalta and organized the founding session of this, Mr. Speaker. Here are George conference is really calling for a new the United Nations in San Francisco. No wonder, then, that the young soviet dip- Weigel’s words: role for women, calling for girl’s edu- lomat Andrei Gromyko—in a rare moment of ‘‘Has your diocesan newspaper editor cation and improving the status of post-war Soviet-American cooperation—told been invited to interview the Presi- women, unquote.’’ his U.S. counterparts in the summer of ’45 dent? Has Hillary Rodham Clinton In other words, Faith Mitchell said that Moscow wouldn’t object to the appoint- made an appearance at your local that the Vatican was really trying to H3646 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 18, 1996 crush women and hold them down. Kennard of El Paso, TX, is probably a ‘‘Mr. President, with all due respect, That is why we objected to that dis- loyal Hispanic American and a good there is no valid reason for your ac- grace in Cairo. loyal Roman Catholic. He writes to tion, ethically or politically. And, it is Weigel continues: Clinton April 12, 6 days ago. certainly inconsistent with other posi- ‘‘This is, to make an end of it, the ‘‘Dear President Clinton: tions you have taken. President whose own ambassador to ‘‘Wednesday evening when I learned ‘‘Your presence and comments in the Vatican, a former Democratic that you had vetoed the partial-birth Oklahoma last week on the anniver- mayor of Boston,’’ I will put his name abortion bill, I felt stunned and angry. sary of the bombing tragedy—which in, Ray Flynn, ‘‘said he was embar- But mostly, I felt betrayed. will be tomorrow—reflected your deep rassed by the, quote, ugly anti-Catholic ‘‘Betrayal is a strong word. However, concern for those who perished, espe- bias shown by prominent Members of President Clinton, this is the anguish cially the children. Yet, you signed the Congress and the administration, un- that I and many Democrats across the death certificate on Wednesday— quote.’’ Nation feel now. As a dedicated Demo- Easter week, Easter Wednesday—for Thank you, former Mayor Ray Flynn, crat, I believed Bill Clinton during the countless, equally innocent children. Ambassador Flynn. primary campaign in Texas in 1992, and Several weeks ago I saw you visibly ‘‘Given this history, Operation in the general election as our nominee shaken when speaking of the mass Catholic Seduction set something of a when you vowed to protect the rights murder of children in Scotland. You record in campaign chutzpah.’’ You of individuals and to forge an era of the had a chance, with your vote, to pre- have to go to a good Yiddish word to New Democrat. An era that would vent a much greater tragedy. Mr. convey that hubris. Chutzpah. avoid extremism of either side. I cam- President, you choose instead to trade ‘‘Imagine James G. Blaine, fresh paigned for that Bill Clinton and stood those future lives for votes that you from denouncing Rum, Romanism, that proudly in the cold in Washington at perceive are crucial for your reelec- is, Catholicism, and Rebellion in your inauguration when you gave your tion.’’ 1884’’—he lost, of course—‘‘inviting message of hope for those who had no What does it profit a man to regain Cardinal Gibbons to tea and pleading voice. But last Wednesday, with your the White House even than jeopardize his undying affection for Pope Leo XII. veto, you ignored the rights of inno- his immortal soul. Those are my words, But President Clinton, whose political cent little children and literally sen- Mr. Speaker. skills no one should deny, can count. tenced them, thousands probably be- Jose continues: Catholics are heavily represented in fore this madness is brought to an end, ‘‘In the past 3 years I have seen you the States the Clinton-Gore team has to their deaths. time and time again speak out to the ‘‘Unlike the debate over abortion to win in November: California, and the thousands, maybe millions, of young that has been ongoing for decades, this big, electoral vote-rich states of the Americans who have been lost to the procedure is clearly the brutal taking Northeast and Midwest. streets in a life of murder, destruction of a human life.’’ ‘‘The Clinton handlers also know and mayhem, drugs and disease. You I want to repeat that line, Mr. Speak- have pleaded with them to have respect that, in the 1994 off-year election, the er. This partial-birth, execution-style Catholic vote went majority Repub- for human life. But, with this veto, you procedure is clearly the brutal taking did the opposite. And we, as party offi- lican—for the first time in history— of human life. and the result was that the Democrats cials, have been put in the untenable ‘‘The right-to-choose position of the position of having to live with that de- lost control of the House of Represent- Democratic Party has largely been atives for the first time since Dwight cision. driven by the belief that a fetus cannot ‘‘Mr. President, I cannot and will not D. Eisenhower was resident at 1600 survive outside the mother’s womb. Avenue Northwest. Fool support this action. Therefore, I cannot But in this case, medical evidence is in good conscience support your can- me once, shame on you; fool me twice, clear that these babies could survive shame on me. didacy. but are destroyed in the most vicious ‘‘As I contemplated this matter over ‘‘Does Operation Catholic Seduction and inhumane way possible. Our soci- these past days, I was reminded of the have a chance?’’ ety demands that even dogs be de- words of the late President John F. Does it, Mr. Speaker? stroyed in a more humane fashion. ‘‘It’s already working in some quar- Kennedy when he said: Quote, some- ‘‘For what purpose, Mr. President, times party loyalty asks too much, un- ters. One bishop, fresh from an encoun- did you do this? To satisfy a minority ter with the President in the Oval Of- quote.’’ of extremists whose votes you would It is unbelievable that his nephew fice, reportedly told a friend, you have gotten anyway? And please, con- JOE voted for this partial-birth, execu- know, he speaks our language on a lot sider again your rationalization that tion-style abortion. of issues, quote-unquote. you acted, quote, to protect the safety ‘‘Thus, it is with regret and sorrow ‘‘Perhaps he does. But there is abun- of the mother, unquote, when the bill that on this date, April 12, 1996, I have dant evidence that this President has a permitted an exception if a doctor submitted my resignation as a member genius for suggesting one thing when deemed the procedure necessary to of the Texas State Democratic Execu- you’re in the room with him and doing save a mother’s life.’’ tive Committee and the Chair of the something else after you leave. More- That is never going to happen, be- Mexican-American Caucus. I have in- over, shared but highly contingent cause you do not protect any mother’s formed our State Chairman, Bill White. judgments on welfare reform do not life by holding a baby in the birth While I do not intend to actively sup- trump the encyclical evangelium canal, Mr. Speaker, and killing it, and port or vote for any Republican or vitae’’—getting the word out on life, exaggerating in extremis the birth Independent candidate, I will be asking preaching life—‘‘which poses a fun- process for the mother. What an absurd other Democrats to consider withhold- damental and unambiguous challenge thought. And that was made on the ing their support of your candidacy to the administration.’’ Senate floor and shut up one of the while continuing to support Democrats It is coming up, that challenge by lady Senators when BOB SMITH of New for other offices. every single cardinal in America. Hampshire asked her how that helped ‘‘Very truly yours, Jose R. Kennard, ‘‘Given what seems to be the Repub- the mother to delay the birth and hold State Committeeman, District 29.’’ lican instinct for suicide’’—I hear you, the baby in the womb so you could kill b George, it is there—‘‘Operation Catho- it and not be charged with infanticide 1900 lic Seduction may be a sideshow by the 60 seconds or 5 seconds later. Mr. Speaker, let me see if I can get fall. But it’s going full blast, just now. Back to Mr. Jose Kennard’s letter: through the Cardinals’ letter. This is And it’s having an effect on experi- ‘‘You know full well the bill would dated on my 41st wedding anniversary, enced people who ought to know bet- not have received the support of the my wife’s birthday, April 16, two days ter.’’ Council on Legislation of the American ago. Well, Operation Catholic Seduction Medical Society—and it did receive ‘‘Dear President Clinton: It is with may have come to a screeching halt. I that—and 73 Democrats in the House if deep sorrow and dismay that we re- do not know, but I believe Jose R. it did not.’’ spond to your April 10th veto of the April 18, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3647

Partial-Birth,’’ and I add execution an’s overall ‘well beginning.’ For exam- Get this RECORD and read these style, ‘‘Abortion Ban Act.’’ Your veto ple, most people have no idea that if a Catholic names and pray for these 33 of this bill is beyond comprehension for woman has an abortion because she is people that would not come home and those of us who hold human life sacred. not married, the law considers that think they no more than Mother The- It will ensure the continued use of the abortion a ‘health’ reason.’’ resa, the Vicar of Christ of Earth and most heinous act to kill a tiny infant Mr. Speaker, I am going to jump to every single Catholic Cardinal in just seconds from taking his or her the signature page. ‘‘Writing this re- America. first breath outside the womb.’’ sponse to you in unison is on our part Mr. Speaker, the documents referred Mr. Speaker, when did we ever be- virtually unprecedented.’’ I believe it to follow: lieve that eight Catholic Cardinals, is unprecedented, not virtually. NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC what in my faith we call Princes of the It will, we hope, underscore our,’’ the BISHOPS, OFFICE OF THE PRESI- DENT, Church, two liberals, a couple of mod- Cardinals and all the 300 Bishops, ‘‘re- solve to be unremitting and unambig- Washington, DC, April 16, 1996. erates, and the rest generally conserv- President WILLIAM CLINTON, ative on theological issues, all of them uous in our defense of human life.’’ The White House, united, and they are deadly serious on Overwhelmingly the Episcopalian Washington, DC. this. Bishops, the Board of Governors of the DEAR PRESIDENT CLINTON: It is with deep Clinton with his 4 year Jesuit Southern Baptists, and every other de- sorrow and dismay that we respond to your Georgetown education; I had 7 years of nomination will weigh in in the major- April 10 veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion ity on this. Jewish Orthodox Rabbis Ban Act. Jesuit education. I asked my pal, Cato Your veto of this bill is beyond comprehen- Byrne, what is his thinking there? As have already condemned this. This whole page, page 2 of the 3 sion for those who hold human life sacred. It they say to people in the conservative will ensure the continued use of the most wing of the Republican Party, where pages, I do not have time to read, it is heinous act to kill a tiny infant just seconds else are they going to go if we pick a hard hitting language. I am coming from taking his or her first breath outside pro-choice Vice President candidate? back to the well to read this entire let- the womb. ter at the beginning of a special order. At the veto ceremony you told the Amer- We always say we man the phone But I want to close in about the ican people that you ‘‘had no choice but to banks, we energize a lot of races across minute I have left with this. veto the bill.’’ Mr. President, you and you this country. Not a single pro-life per- We have a Catholic problem in this alone had the choice of whether or not to son lost at the Governor, House or Sen- allow children, almost completely born, to House, Mr. Speaker. We have 129 be killed brutally in partial-birth abortions. ate level in 1994. Catholics here, almost 30 percent, 29.4 Cato Byrne told me the analysis is Members of both House of Congress made percent of the House. That is beyond that Clinton said we not only need their choice. They said NO to partial-birth the 23 or 24 percent American average. abortions. American women voters have them, sure they will be with us if I ac- This is the biggest denomination of made their choice. According to a February cept this ban, but we have to have Christians, by a long shot, in this 1996 poll by Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & As- them energized. They are our core House, 128. sociates, 78 percent of women voters said NO base, like the homosexual activists. Fifty-seven are regularly pro-life; 59 to partial-birth abortions. Your choice was They are our fund raisers, they are our to say YES and to allow this killing more are regularly pro-death. Twelve are all akin to infanticide than abortion to con- phone bank people. over the place. All 12 voted against par- What a role of the dice he made here. tinue. tial-birth execution-style abortion, as During the veto ceremony you said you I will read the words of one Bishop, all did all 57 pro-lifers. Of the 59 who have had asked Congress to change H.R. 1833 to the Bishops are unified, 300 them, but been pro-abortion for the last year and allow partial-birth abortions to be done for eight Cardinals. 3 months, 26 we won back. But that ‘‘serious adverse health consequences’’ to the ‘‘It will ensure the continued use of leaves 33 Catholics, every one of them mother. You added that if Congress had in- the most heinous act to kill a tiny in- cluded that exception, ‘‘everyone in the a Democrat, who are subject to this world will know what we’re talking about.’’ fant just seconds from taking his or letter from the eight Cardinals just as her first breath outside the womb.’’ On the contrary, Mr. President, not every- much as President Clinton is. one in the world would know that ‘‘health,’’ ‘‘At the veto ceremony you told the Two of them are running for the Sen- as the courts define it in the context of abor- American people that you ‘had no ate with Catholic in their bio; one of tion, means virtually anything that has to choice but to veto the bill.’ Mr. Presi- them has already been banned from do with a woman’s overall ‘‘well being.’’ For dent, you and you alone had the choice speaking in New York City high example, most people have no idea that if a of whether or not to allow children al- schools. I guess I figured he lost it all woman has an abortion because she is not most completely born to be killed bru- married the law considers that an abortion anyway. Three Republicans who regu- for ‘‘health’’ reason. Similarly, if a woman is tally in partial-birth abortions. Mem- larly vote abortion did absent them- bers of both Houses of Congress made ‘‘too young’’ or ‘‘too old,’’ if she is emotion- selves. Out of courtesy to them I will ally upset by pregnancy, or if pregnancy their choice. They said no to partial- not mention their names. Thank heav- interferes with schooling or career, the law birth abortions. American women vot- ens they did that. considers those situations as ‘‘health’’ rea- ers have made their choice. According We got back a Catholic doctor from sons for abortion. In other words, as you to a February 1996 poll,’’ it is only 2 the heartland of America. One Senator know and we know, an exception for months ago, ‘‘by Fairbank, Maslin, was notably absent. We got back JOE ‘‘health’’ means abortion on demand. You say there is a difference between a Maullin & Associates, 78 percent of BIDEN. God bless you, JOE. you have women voters said no to partial-birth ‘‘health’’ exception and an exception for ‘‘se- been through a lot in life with family rious adverse health consequences.’’ Mr. execution style abortions. Your choice and your own surgeries. You are back. President, what is the difference—legally— was to say yes, to allow this killing But here are 10 Catholic Senators between a woman’s being too young and more akin to infanticide than abortion, with beautiful Polish names, mostly being ‘‘seriously’’ too young? What is the dif- to continue. Irish-American names, and one of them ference—legally—between being emotionally ‘‘During the veto ceremony you said is running for reelection in the senate, upset and being ‘‘seriously’’ emotionally you would ask Congress to change H.R. three are running for reelection. The upset? From your study of this issue, Mr. 1833 to allow partial-birth abortions to President, you must know that most partial- whole Boston delegation of Catholics is birth abortions are done for reasons that are be done for ‘‘serious adverse health torn apart by this. We won back a lot purely elective. consequences to the mother.’’ You of Good Democrats on this one vote. It was instructive that the veto ceremony added that if Congress had included Mr. Speaker, I am going to put this included no physician able to explain how a that exception, everyone in the world list in the RECORD at the end of my woman’s physical health is protected by al- will know what we are talking about.’’ speech. Then I will come back for page most fully delivering her living child, and ‘‘On the contrary,’’ the eight Car- 2, as a matter of fact, all three pages, then killing that child in the most inhumane dinals say, ‘‘Mr. President. Not every- manner imaginable before completing the next week. delivery. As a matter of fact, a partial-birth one in the world would know that Mr. Speaker, Let people who care get abortion presents a health risk to the ‘health’ as the courts defined it in the the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of Jimmy woman. Dr. Warren Hern, who wrote the context of abortion means virtually Doolittle’s Bombing Tokyo Day, April most widely used textbook on how to per- anything that has to do with a wom- 18th, 54th anniversary. form abortions, has said of partial-birth H3648 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 18, 1996 abortions: ‘‘I would dispute any statement Ms. WOOLSEY, for 5 minutes, today. ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED that this is the safest procedure to use.’’ Mr. ABERCROMBIE, for 5 minutes, Mr. THOMAS, from the Committee Mr. President, all abortions are lethal for today. on House Oversight, reported that that unborn children, and many are unsafe for (The following Members (at the re- committee had examined and found their mothers. This is even more evident in quest of Mr. JONES) to revise and ex- truly enrolled bills of the House of the the late-term, partial-birth abortion, in tend their remarks and include extra- following titles, which were thereupon which children are killed cruelly, their neous material:) signed by the Speaker: mothers placed at risk, and the society that condones it brutalized in the process. Mr. MCINTOSH, for 5 minutes, today. H.R. 255. An act to designate the Federal Justice Building in Miami, Florida, as the As Catholic bishops and as citizens of the Mr. WOLF, for 5 minutes, today. ‘‘James Lawrence King Federal Justice , we strenuously oppose and Mr. GOSS, for 5 minutes, today. Building’’; condemn your veto of H.R. 1833 which will Mr. WELLER, for 5 minutes, today. H.R. 869. An act to designate the Federal allow partial-birth abortions to continue. (The following Member (at her own building and United States courthouse lo- in the coming weeks and months, each of request) to revise and extend her re- cated at 125 Market Street in Youngstown, us, as well as our bishops’ conference, will do marks and include extraneous mate- Ohio, as the ‘‘Thomas D. Lambros Federal all we can to educate people about partial- rial:) Building and United States Courthouse’’; birth abortions. We will inform them that H.R. 1804. An act to designate the United Ms. PELOSI, for 5 minutes, today. partial-birth abortions will continue because States Post Office-Courthouse located at you chose to veto H.R. 1833. (The following Member (at his own South 6th and Rogers Avenue, Fort Smith, We will also urge Catholics and other peo- request) to revise and extend his re- Arkansas, as the ‘‘Judge Isaac C. Parker ple of good will—including the 65% of self-de- marks and include extraneous mate- Federal Building’’; scribed ‘‘pro-choice’’ voters who oppose par- rial:) H.R. 2556. An act to redesignate the Fed- tial-birth abortions—to do all that they can Mr. MILLER of California, for 5 min- eral building located at 345 Middlefield Road in Menlo Park, California, and known as the to urge Congress to override this shameful utes, today. Earth Sciences and Library Building, as the veto. f ‘‘Vincent E. McKelvey Federal Building’’; Mr. President, your action on this matter EXTENSION OF REMARKS and takes our nation to a critical turning point H.R. 2415. An act to designate the United in its treatment of helpless human beings in- By unanimous consent, permission to States Customs Administrative Building at side and outside the womb. It moves our na- revise and extend remarks was granted the Ysleta/Zaragoss Port of Entry located at tion one step further toward acceptance of to: 797 South Zaragosa Road in El Paso, Texas, infanticide. Combined with the two recent Mr. HYDE and to include extraneous as the ‘‘Timothy C. McCaghren Customs Ad- federal appeals court decisions seeking to le- material notwithstanding the fact that ministrative Building.’’ gitimize assisted suicide, it sounds the alarm it exceeds two pages of the RECORD and f that public officials are moving our society is estimated by the Public Printer to ADJOURNMENT ever more rapidly to embrace a culture of cost $2,221. death. Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I move (The following Members (at the re- that the House do now adjourn. Writing this response to you in unison is, quest of Mr. ABERCROMBIE) and to in- on our part, virtually unprecedented. It will, clude extraneous matter:) The motion was agreed to; accord- we hope, underscore our resolve to be ingly (at 7 o’clock and 8 minutes p.m.), Mr. CLEMENT. unremitting and unambigous in our defense the House adjourned until tomorrow, of human life. Ms. DELAURO. Friday, April 19, 1996, at 10 a.m. Sincerely yours, Mr. CLAY. f Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop Mr. MCNULTY. of Chicago; James Cardinal Hickey, Mr. HAMILTON in two instances. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. ; Ber- ETC. Mr. TOWNS. nard Cardinal Law, Archbishop of Bos- Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, execu- Mr. BONIOR in two instances. ton; Adam Cardinal Maida, Archbishop tive communications were taken from of Detroit; Anthony Cardinal Mr. BENTSEN. the Speaker’s table and referred as fol- Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philadel- (The following Members (at the re- lows: phia; William Cardinal Keeler, Arch- quest of Mr. JONES) and to include ex- bishop of Baltimore; Roger Cardinal traneous matter:) 2419. A letter from the Acting Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Depart- Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles; Mr. EHLERS. ment of State, transmitting the Depart- John Cardinal O’Connor, Archbishop of Mr. NEY. ment’s report on conditions in Hong Kong of New York; Most Reverend Anthony interest to the United States for the period Pilla, President, National Conference Mr. WATTS of Oklahoma in two in- stances. ending March 31, 1996, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. of Catholic Bishops. 5731; to the Committee on International Re- List is as follows: Mr. TORKILDSEN. lations. Mr. ALLARD. PRO-ABORTION CATHOLICS IN CONGRESS 2420. A letter from the Secretary of Veter- Mr. HORN. ans Affairs, transmitting the annual report Pastor, Becerra, Eshoo, George Miller, under the Federal Managers’ Financial In- Pelosi, Roybal-Allard, DeLauro, Kennelly, Mr. BURTON of Indiana in two in- stances. tegrity Act for fiscal year 1995, pursuant to Pete Peterson, McKinney, Durbin, Evans, 31 U.S.C. 3512(c)(3); to the Committee on Gutierrez, Visclosky, Baldacci, Joe Kennedy, Mr. KING. Government Reform and Oversight. Markey, Meehan, Luther, Vento, Clay, Mr. CUNNINGHAM. f McCarthy, Pat Williams, Menendez, Pallone, Mr. RADANOVICH. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON Hinchey, Rangel, Velazquez, DeFazio, Coyne, Mr. BLILEY. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Reed, Gonzalez. (The following Members (at the re- f Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of quest of Mr. DORNAN) and to include ex- committees were delivered to the Clerk SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED traneous matter:) for printing and reference to the proper Mr. PACKARD. By unanimous consent, permission to calendar, as follows: address the House, following the legis- Mr. FRANKS of Connecticut. Mr. ARCHER: Committee on Ways and lative program and any special orders Mr. ROBERTS. heretofore entered, was granted to: Means. H.R. 2754. A bill to approve and im- Mr. BURTON of Indiana in two in- plement the OECD Shipbuilding Trade (The following Members (at the re- stances. Agreement; with an amendment (Rept. 104– quest of Mr. ABERCROMBIE) to revise Mr. SPENCE. 524 Pt. 1). Ordered to be printed. and extend their remarks and include Ms. ESHOO. Mr. SHUSTER: Committee on Transpor- extraneous material:) tation and Infrastructure. H.R. 2594. A bill to Mr. PALLONE, for 5 minutes, today. Mr. MARTINI. amend the Railroad Unemployment Insur- Mr. WISE, for 5 minutes, today. Ms. FURSE. ance Act to reduce the waiting period for Ms. DELAURO, for 5 minutes, today. Mr. LANTOS. benefits payable under that act, and for Mr. FAZIO of California. other purposes (Rept. 104–525). Referred to Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD, for 5 min- the Committee of the Whole House on the utes, today. Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. State of the Union. Mr. RAHALL, for 5 minutes, today Mr. ROMERO-BARCELO´ . Mr. YOUNG of Alaska: Committee on Re- Mr. MARTINEZ, for 5 minutes, today. Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. sources. H.R. 2660. A bill to increase the