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H.R. 154: Mr. FLORIO, Mr. HYDE, Mr. CORRA.­ H .R. 2254: Mr. LOTT, Mr. DORNAN, and Mr. GOODLING, Mr. BEARD Of Tennessee, and Mr. DA, Mr. SCHEUER, Mr. FRENZEL, Mr. VENTO, Mr. COLLINS of Texas. FROST. JACOBS, Mr. DICKINSON, Mr. SYMMS, Mr. H .R. 2291: Mr. CORCORAN, Mr. BIAGGI, Mr. STANGELAND, a.nd Mr. WHITLEY. MOTTL, Mr. PRITCHARD, Mr. FORSYTHE, Mr. H.R. 165: Mr. MOAKLEY, Mr. BOLAND, Mr. ADDABBO, Mr. LEDERER, Mr. PERKINS, Mr. MC­ PETITIONS, ETC. CLAY, Mr, TRAXLER, Mr. MADIGAN, Mr. LA.FALCE, DADE, Mrs. SNOWE, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. LA­ Under clause 1 of rule XXII, Mr. WEAVER, Mr. NOLAN, Mr. CONTE, Mr. RICH­ FALCE, Mr. LUNGREN, Mr. STRATTON, Mr. 96. The SPEAKER presented a petition of MOND, Mr. FLIPPO, Mr. LUND'INE, Mr. KILDEE, AKAKA, Mr. CLINGER, Mr. PASHAYAN, Mr. the City Council, Salem, Mass., relative to Mr. FORD O! Tennessee, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mrs. THOMAS, and Mr. ScHEUER, approval of the final environmental impact SPELLMAN, Mr. WHITLEY, Mr. HUGHES, Mr. H.R. 2447: Mr. FOWLER, Mr. MATSUI, Mr. statement on the proposed highway con­ ADDABBO, Mr. MIKVA, Mr. BLANCHARD, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. SEIBERLING, Mr. WALGREN, Mr. nection from route 128 at Lowell Street to BONIOR o! Michigan, Mr. LEDERER, Mr. COEL­ WEISS, and Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Interstate 95 in Peabody, Mass.; to the HO, Mr. BEDELL, Mr. DOWNEY, Ms. OAKAR, Mr. H.R. 3100: Mr. D'AMOURS, Mr. VAN DEERLIN, Committee on Public Works and Trans­ AKA.KA, Mr. FAZIO, Mr. ROSENTHAL, Mr. FORD Mr. ERTEL, Mr. BLANCHARD, and Mr. GOOD­ portation. of Michigan, Mr. OTTINGER, Mr. LUKEN, Mr. LING. MARKEY, Mr. ST GERMAIN, Mr. VENTO, Mr. H.R. 3159: Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. LEE, Mr. MOFFETT, Mr. CHARLES WILSON of Texas, Mr. STOCKMAN, Mr. COLLINS of Texas, Mr. KEMP, AMENDMENTS EDGAR, Mrs. FENWICK, Mr. WEISS, Mr. SOLARZ, Mr. CORCORAN. Mr. DEVINE, Mr. MOORHEAD of Ms. HOLTZMAN, Mr. CLINGER, Mr. FLOOD, Mr. California, Mr. LUNGREN, Mr. HYDE, Mr. LAGO­ Under clause 6 of rule XXIII, pro­ RODINO, Mr. PRICE, Mr. ROE, Mr. DAVIS o! MARSINO, Mr. LOTT, Mr. KELLY, Mr. RoussELOT, posed amendments were submitted as Michigan, Mr. GILMAN, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. DOR­ Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. MOORE, Mr. LIVINGSTON, follows: NAN, Mr. GUARINI, Mr. GEPHARDT, a.nd Mr. Mr. MADIGAN, Mr. GINGRICH, Mrs. HOLT, Mr. WOLPE. MARRIOTT, Mr. WALKER, Mr. TREEN, Mr. DAN­ H .R. 3324 H.R. 201: Mr. MCCLOSKEY, Mr. EVANS of IEL B. CRANE, Mr. ARCHER, Mr. LEWIS, Mr. By Mr. BONER of Tennessee: Georgia., Mr. McDONALD, and Mr. SYMMS. LENT, Mr. WAMPLER, Mr. FORSYTHE, Mr. -Page 46, after line 9, insert the !allow­ H.R. 202: Mr. MCCLOSKEY, Mr. DANIEL B . YouNG of Alaska, Mr. SYMMS, Mr. QUAYLE, ing: CRANE, Mr. EVANS of Georgia, Mr. McDONALD, Mr. WHITEHURST, Mr. SEBELIUS, Mr. ROBIN­ REDUCTION IN AUTHORIZATIONS and Mr. SYMMS. SON, Mr. DANNEMEYER, Mr. HANCE, Mr. FREN­ SEC. 602. (a) Notwithstanding any othe1 H.R. 277: Mr. PHILLIP BURTON, Ms. HOLTZ­ ZEL, Mr. CHENEY, and Mr. PAUL. provision of this Act, the amount apJ.JtO· MAN, Mr. HOWARD, and Mr. PRICE. H .R. 3335 : Mr. HUGHES. priated under any provision of this Aut-· H.R. 571: Mr. TREEN, a,nd Mr. HILLIS. H.R. 3370: Mr. NEDZI, and Mr. BLANCHARD. ( 1) for the fiscal year 1980 may not ex .. H.R. 662: Mr. COLLINS Of Texas, and Mr. H.J. Res. 196: Mr. GRASSLEY. ceed the amount specifically authorized to be ROBERT W. DANIEL. H.J. Res. 265: Mr. MINETA, Mr. LEVITAS, Mr. appropriated for the fiscal year 1980 by such H.R. 677: Mr. COLLINS of Texas. MURPHY of New York, Mr. CLEVELAND, Mr. provision less eight percent of that amount; H.R. 1140: Mr. McKINNEY. SOLOMON. Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. SIMON. and Mr. and H.R. 1290: Mr. GLICKMAN, and Mr. HAMIL­ ZEFERETTI. (2) for the fiscal year 1981 may not ex­ TON. H . Con. Res. 7: Mr. MCCLOSKEY, Mr. EVANS ceed the amount specifically authorized to H.R. 1297: Mr. BEDELL. o! Georgia, Mr. McDONALD, Mr. SYMMS, and be appropriated for the fiscal year 1980 by H.R. 1597: Mrs. SNOWE, Mr. HINSON, Mr. Mr. DANIEL B. CRANE. 1such provision less ten percent of that BROOMFIELD, and Mr. KRAMER. H. Con. Res. 54: Mr. BARNES. amount; H.R. 1598: Mrs. SNOWE, Mr. HINSON, Mr. H. Con. Res. 85 : Mr. BAUMAN, Mr. CLEVE­ except that, in applying this section with BROOMFIELD, and Mr. KRAMER. LAND, Mr. DERWINSKI, Mr. RATCHFORD , Mr. respect to appropriations to carry out chap­ H.R. 1600: Mr. GRADISON, Mr. MITCHELL of HARKIN, Mr. FISH, Mr. YATES, Mr. MURPHY ter 4 (economic support fund) of part II New York, Mr. MONTGOMERY, Mr. ARCHER, of Illinois, Mr. STARK, and Mr. FAZIO. of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Mr. ROTH, Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. BEDELL, Mr. H. Res. 57: Mr. MCCLOSKEY, Mr. DANNE­ amounts specified in section 532(b) (1) o! LA.FALCE, Mr. GRISHAM, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. that Act for Israel and Egypt shall be ex­ EVANS of the Virgin Islands, Mr. CLINGER, Mr. MEYER, Mr. EVANS of Georgia, Mr. McDONALD, and Mr. SYMMS. cluded in determining the aggregate BAFALIS, Mr. BROYHILL, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. amounts which may be appropriated. H. Res. 105: Mrs. SMITH of Nebraska. NOWAK, Mr. IcHORD, Mr. MARTIN, Mr. KEMP, (b) Not to exceed $96,600,000 for fiscal Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. ROUSSELOT, Mr. H . Res. 181: Mr. LIVINGSTON, Mr. BROYHILL, year 1980 and $117,000,000 for the fiscal ERDAHL, Mr. EVANS of Georgia, Mr. CORCORAN, Mr. STUMP, Mr. HEFNER, Mr. DAVIS of Mich­ year 1981 may be appropriated under sec­ Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. SYMMS, and Mr. MARRIOTT. igan, Mr. WHITEHURST, Mr. D'AMOURS, Mr. tion 121 (c) of the Foreign Assistance Act H.R. 1658: Mr. NICHOLS, Mr. EDWARDS of PATTEN, Mr. MAGUIRE, Mr. ZEFERETTI, Mr. of 1961. Alabama, Mr. BEVILL, and Mr. FLIPPO. CHENEY, and Mr. CLEVELAND. By Mr. RITTER: H.R. 1906: Mr. DORNAN, and Mr. TRmLE. H. Res. 190: Mr. CAVANAUGH, Mr. HINSON, -On page 24, immediately after line 25, in­ H.R. 1964: Mr. HAGEDORN. Mr. PEASE, Mr. NOLAN, Mrs. BYRON, Mr. sert the following new section: H.R. 2152: Mr. GOODLING, Mr. CORCORAN, MITCHELL of Maryland, Mr. BARNES, Mr. MIDDLE EAST PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. KEMP, Mrs. COLLINS of WILLIAMS of Montana, Mr. SHELBY, Mr. LOTT, SEc. 306. It is the sense of the Congress Illinois, Mr. BONIOR of Michigan, Mr. GLICK­ Mr. ANDREWS of North Dakota, Mr. YA.TRON , that the President take all appropriate steps MAN, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. PHILLIP BURTON, Mr. WEAVER, Mr. KINDNESS, Mr. YOUNG of to negotiate with other industrial nations and Mr DORNAN. Florida, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. an agreement for the creation of a Peace H .R. 2212: Mrs. BOUQUARD , Mr. CAVANAUGH, WEISS, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. BONKER, Mrs. Bou­ Development Fund whose purpose would be Mr. EVANS of the Virgin Islands, Mr. STARK, QUARD, Mr. LoNG of Maryland, Mr. EDWARDS of to underwrite the costs of implementing a Mr. WILLIAMS of Montana, a.nd Mr. WOLPE. Oklahoma, Mr. COELHO, Mr. ENGLISH, Mr. Middle East peace. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS NONPROFIT STATUS FOR U.S. the category of nonprofit organization to postal rate. I believe that extending this OLYMPICS the special postal rate. This inclusion privilege to organizations which perform consists of less than 50 organizations, a different type of educational function. some of which operate under the special training, and assisting amateur athlet­ HON. DON YOUNG rate. The cost of this special rate to the ics. is in order. OF ALASKA Postal Service would be no more than We demonstrated our support of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $500,000 per year. I recognize that a few athletics in the United States by the Wednesday, April 4, 1979 of the organizations entitled to the spe­ enactment of the Amateur Sports Act in cial rate under this bill have interests the 95th Congress. To further demon­ • Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, in areas unrelated to Olympic sports. In strate our support for national and in­ today I am introducing legislation which these cases, such organizations may use ternational sports organizations. this would entitle the U.S. Olympic Commit­ the special rate where their mail per­ measure would enhance our olympic tee, its national governing bodies, its af­ tains to amateur sports. team by freeing funds which could be filiated multisport organizations, and I would like to add that educational used to assist the training of such the Lake Placid Olympic Committee in orCharles Rangel of New York. to develop elsewhere in the country. Pres­ which he so richly deserved. He has left Hon. Fred Richmond of New York. ently, 800,000 barrels of oil are "shut in" in Hon. Robert Roe of New Jersey. Alaska and 300,000 in Elk Hills, California, many friends here on Capitol Hill and Hon. James Scheuer of New York. simply because pipelines have not been con­ he has left a rich legacy of photographs Hon. Olympia Snowe of Maine. structed to market these supplies. that future generations will value for Hon. Sam Stratton of New York. We must also seek to convert, where feasi­ their professionalism and for their his­ Hon. William Thomas of California. ble, to alternate fuels. Recent estimates by torical value. Hon. Ted Weiss of New York. the Department of Energy indicate that the It was typical of Dev to make certain Hon. G. Wm. Whitehurst of Virginia. conversion of energy supplies of public util­ that we would not be left without the Hon. Larry Winn of Kansas. ities from oil to natural gas would reduce our best of talent to replace his skills and we Hon. Leo Zeferetti of New York. oil demand by 400,000 barrels a day. can forever be grateful that one of Dev's Likewise, by using a mixture of gas and alcohol to fuel American automobiles, U.S. oil most able assistants, Keith Jewell, today LACK OF MINORITY MANAGERIAL imports could be reduced by fully one-fifth. runs the operations of the House Demo­ OPPORTUNITIES IN PROFES- I introduced legislation during the last Con­ cratic Photographers with the highest SIONAL SPORTS gress to require that all service stations sell level of skills that Dev himself would ap­ gasohol-a 90 %I1 O% gasoline/alcohol blend. preciate. The use of gasohol would require no altera­ To Dev's family and friends, I extend HON. JULIAN C. DIXON tions in current automobiles. The technology my deepest regrets at his untimely pass­ OF CALIFORNIA to produce it is well known. Alcohol is read­ ing. May he rest in peace in the knowl­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ily produced from woodwastes or surplus ag­ edge that he will long live in the mem­ ricultural products-all renewable resources. Wednesday, April 4, 1979 Over 500 stations in the Midwest are now ory of those he left behind. Thank you.• selling gasohol. I have once again introduced • Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, since 1947, this legislation and will work actively for its when the late Jackie Robinson broke the passage. GENERAL REVENUE SHARING color barrier in professional baseball, United States officials must break through blacks have made an incalculable con­ the morass which, until now, has impeded HON. JOHN W. WYDLER tribution to professional athletics in the the full use of Alaskan oil, and has seen OF NEW YORK United States. One need only review the progress on conversion of generating plants box scores of the morning's sports page from oil to alternate energy sources proceed IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to be reminded of the thrills, achieve­ at a snail's pace. Failure to do so will mean Wednesday, April 4, 1979 mentJ, and excitement generated by that U.S. prestige and influence in the world economy will continue to decline as larger • Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, I am to­ numerous gifted black athletes. trade deficits further weaken our domestic day adding the names of 19 additional I find it disturbing, however. that pro­ economy and drive down still further the al­ Members of Congress to H.R. 2291, to ex­ fessional sports opportunities for minor­ ready diminished value of the dollar. Our tend for 4 fiscal years the authorization ities seem to end with the athlete's re­ ability to bridge the gap between North and of appropriations for the State and Local tirement from active competition. The South-to exert strength and positive influ­ dearth of blacks in front office, man­ ence in the world-depends on a prosperous Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972, generally referred to as general revenue sharing. agerial, and coaching positions is highly and healthy American economy. disproportionate to their numbers, and There truly can be a New International This brings the total number of co­ Economic Order-but it should be an order sponsors to 41. their talents, on the playing field. It is which is not imposed by one group upon an­ More and more Members of the House astounding, for example, that baseball other-instead, it should be an order which are realizing the importance of con­ owners, who are known for changing encourages the growth of world commerce to tinuing the program as it is a vital part managers as often as they change their the benefit of all. Only this kind of New Eco­ of their district's revenue. There is no shirts, have hired only two blacks to nomic Order, of benefits to both developing formula change; no gimmicks; and no serve as their field generals. Professional and developed nations, constitutes a worthy football has yet to hire its first black goal.e increase in spending. Rather, the bill simply makes a 4-year extension of the head coach. Even in professional basket­ existing program. ball, where a majority of its players, and DEV O'NEILL WAS A GOOD FRIEND No one can deny the importance of the virtually all of its "stars" are black, only program to the States. The discontinu­ 3 out of its 22 coaches are black. This ance of it would be disastrous-a fact "double standard" casts serious doubts HON. ANTONIO BORJA WON PAT which we must all consider in evaluating upon the popular conception of profes­ OF GUAM the program's worth. sional sports as an avenue of advance­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The cosponsors of this bill are: ment and upward mobility for minority Wednesday, April 4, 1979 COSPONSORS OF H.R. 2291-GENERAL REVENUE youth. SHARING, APRIL 4, 1979 Recently, the Los Angeles Times pub­ e Mr. WON PAT. Mr. Speaker, I am Hon. Joseph Addabbo of New York. lished an interview between Will Grims­ greatly grieved today to hear of the re­ Hon. Dan Akaka of Hawaii. ley of the Associated Press and Frank cent death of an old friend and the Hon. Mario Biaggi of New York. Robinson, now a coach with the Balti­ former photographer of the U.S. Con­ Hon. Clarence Brown of Ohio. more Orioles. Mr. Robinson, a star out­ gress, Dev O'Neill. Hon. John Buchanan of Alabama. fielder with five major league teams and I am proud to number myself among Hon. James Cleveland of New Hampshire. Hon. William Clinger of Pennsylvania. the only man to win the Most Valuable those who called Dev a friend. And in Hon. Barber Conable of New York. Player award in both leagues, was also the great tradition of friendship, Dev Hon. Tom Corcoran of Illinois. the major's first black manager. More never let his friends down. On too many Hon. Charles Dougherty of Pennsylvania. significant. he is a proud, articulate and occasions to remember, Dev was always Hon. Arlen Erdahl of Minnesota. outspoken black athlete, with numerous present to take that all important photo­ Hon. Edwin Forsythe of New Jersey. astute observations on the problem I graph. His keen sense of humor and deep­ Hon. William Green of New York. have described. A copy of the article ::>eated knowledge of Congress and the Hon. Frank Horton of New York. follows: Hon. John LaFalce of New York. unique needs of Dev's own constituents­ F'RANK ROBINSON: DOORS CLOSED the Members of the House and Senate, H on. Robert Lagomarsino of California. assured us that he would do a perfect Hon. R ayn1ond Lederer of Pennsylvania. ( By Will Grimsley) Hon. Gary Lee of New York. MIAMI.-"The black ballplayer might as .iob every time. Hon. Norman Lent of New York. weli face it." said a disillusioned Frank 7296 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1979 Robinson. "When he gets through doing his CORPORATE FARMING the same tax laws, who are bidding up the thing on the field, he better look elsewhere- · price of land beyond its productive wcrth. there is no other place for him in baseball. Other forces als:::i share responsibility for "It's sad, but it's true." HON. PAUL FINDLEY encouraging larger farm units. Mechaniza­ The words are an echo out of the past, OF ILLINOIS tion and specialization are the principal ones. from the lips of another man named Robin­ Equipment is bigger, so one operator can son-the late Jackie Robinson tno kin). A IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES handle more acres. and because the equip­ couple of decades ago, Jackie was rattling the Wednesday, April 4, 1979 ment is more expensive, the operator has to game's foundations with the same explosive have more acres to pay for it. Many farmers rhetoric. e Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, the raise grain cnly-little or no livestick-and It didn't change things then. It isn't voices which warn of the growth of cor­ that takes more acres too. Some livestock changing them now. porate farming in the United States people have massive operations, so they have Although most of the country's old racial seem to be increasingly numerous and a big investment on fewer acres. barriers, in society as well as sports, have strident. The facts are to the contrary, Land cwnership in Illinois is not concen­ been erased-largely due lo Branch Rickey's at least in the heartland of American trated in a few hands. A look at a plat book­ bold move of signing Jackie Robinson to a agriculture. This theme is well treated a book of maps showing land ownership­ Brooklyn contract in 1947-one bastion re­ proves that. I counted approximately 150 mains unsullied. in a commentary by the editor of the different owners of land in one typical town­ That, argues Frank Robinson, is that the State Journal Register of Springfield, ship of 36 square miles in Central Illinois. black man was created to toil-whether it Ill. Editor Ed Armstrong's commentary That figures out to an average of less than be on the river levees or on the athletic follows: 200 acres per owner. field-and never to direct or lead. CORPORATE FARMING NOT THREAT YET It doesn't mean the average farm size is "Why don't we have black managers and (By Ed Armstrong) less than 200 acres. Many of those plots are black general managers in baseball?" he rented to farm operators who till several asked rhetorically. "Why aren't more retired A great amount of concern has been ex­ hundred acres. Many plots are owned by black stars in radio and TV? Why aren't there pressed recently by parties ranging from the absentee landlords-often heirs of persons more black quarterbacks in pro football? American Agriculture Movement to the U.S. who worked the land in earlier years-and "I'll tell you. It's a throwback to the slave secretary of agriculture about the demise of are now managed by banks. the family farm. days. There is a misconception that blacks It is understandable that those who revere don't have the intelligence to be leaders. There have been warnings that a few cor­ the small family farm as a way of life are They have muscles, and speed and natural porations may get control of food production unhappy with trends toward bigness. but skills. When these skills wear out, they have in this country with the result that the bigness is a trend throughout our economy. consumer will be at their mercy in regard nothing else to offer. Still, I see no evidence that corporate to food prices. "So people think. That is what discourages farming is really very near in central me." Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland told Illinois.e Robinson, still a lean, sleek athlete at age National Farmers Union members a couple 43, was a standout player for the Cincinnati of weeks ago: "I, for one, do not want to Reds for 10 years before joining the Baltimore see an America where a handful of giant Orioles where he played on four World Series operators own, manage and control the en­ A FRIEND IN NEED teams. tire food production system. Yet that is He is a certainty for the Hall of Fame. He where we are beaded." was named to the all-star team 11 times. He It may be the direction in which we are HON. MATTHEW J. RINALDO is the only player to win the Most Valuable headed. but we are still a long way from Player award in both leagues. there. OF NEW JERSEY He became the first black man to manage The American Farm Bureau Federation is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the majors. Late in 1974, he was traded by much less concerned about the trend, per­ Wednesday, April 4, 1979 Baltimore to the Cleveland Indians and haps because it is dominated by the larger, named to manage the team, starting in 1975. more successful farmers. But it cites some O Mr. RINALDO. Mr. Speaker, my atten­ He held the post until June 18, 1977 when figures from the U.S. Census Bureau to back tio!l has been drawn to a report in a U.S. he was released. He had a fiing last year at up its claim that corporate farming is not Marine Corps newspaper about an award managing Rochester in the triple-A Inter­ yet, at least, much of a threat to the family made bv the Armed Forces Benefit and national League but was not rehired after a farm concept. Aid Association to· a recruit who gave his losing season. He rejoined the Orioles as a According to the Farm Bureau. corporate coach. farming accounts for 11 percent of the land time and efforts to help friends in need. "I don't intend to be a coach the rest of being farmed and 18 percent of the value of The award went to L. Cpl. Russell K. my life," he said. "If nothing comes my way, agricultural products sold. Harmon, whose home is in the 12th Con­ I must look somewhere else." That leaks like a sizeable hunk, but there's gressional District of New Jersey. "Robby got a bad deal at both Cleveland a ringer in the term "corporate farm." The The report details unstinting service and Rochester," an Oriole spokesman said. Farm Bureau says 79 percent of all corporate given to others and reflects creditably "He did a good job at both places with lousy farms are family owned and operated. In material. I think the trouble was a clash of on Lance Corporal Harmon and on the many instances family farms have found it Marine Corps. personalities." to their advantage to incorporate, primarily Robinson indicates the motives ran deeper. because of tax laws. I have extended my congratulations They probably, he hints, had to do with the and personal commendation to L. Cpl. color of his skin. The farm organization claims that agri­ cultural corporations with more than 10 Harmon and am pleased to submit the "There are so many outstanding black gu~·s report from the San Diego Marine Corps in baseball who would make good managers." -"hareholders produce only 5.3 percent of total he insisted. "Maury Wills, Bill White, Larry U.S. farm sales. and only 3 percent of all Recruit Depot paper Chevron, for the Doby ... I don't like to name anybody be­ corporate firm<; are operated by conglomer­ attention of my colleagues: ates. cause I'd leave some worthy person out. But A FRIEND IN NEED the talent is out there. It ought to be Ccrporate farming is not presently a big Lance Corporal Harmon. a unit d1r;.ry clerk. taoped." thing in much of the Midwest. It is concen­ was recently recognized by the Armed Forces For years. baseball men plugged the Dod­ trated in the cattle feeding ares of the West Benefit and Aid Association for "notable and gers' late Jim (Junior) Gilliam as prime and Southwest and in the big fruit and vege­ outstanding achievement" in the aid of a managerial material. People wondered why table producing states such as California. local service family during a period of Hank Aaron. Ernie Banks and Willie Mays Florida and Hawaii. extreme ha:dship. got more than token front office posts. Ts it coming our way? I don't see much His award reads in part: "upon discovering Aaron, the home run king. never gave a evidence of it. friends EN2 (engine man second class) hint that he had dugout aspirations. Hall of Other trends that Bergland cited are. how­ Steven Snell. United States Navy, and his Farner Ernie Banks was regarded as too much e\·er. more app:lrent. He .said tax laws en­ wife Candace had both suffered broken knee­ of a "rah rah guy." Mays said. "I couldn't courage high-income non-farmers to pay caps. LCpl. Harmon volunteered to assist stand to manage-I'd be itching to play." more for land than its productive worth be­ them during their immobility. During this Frank Robinson is an exception. As a cause of benefits of·investment credits. capi­ period. LCpl. Harmon has done all the driving player, he was an inspirational leader. called tal gains taxes. accelerated depreciation and f :::i r the Snell family. including shopping and "The Judge" by his teammates. Like Jackie other tax devices. That. he said. encourages daily trips to and from the Naval Hospital Robinson. he is gutsy. strong-willed re­ the trend toward fewer and fewer farms. where Steven is assigned temporarily. House­ spected, not afraid to be disliked. Undoubtedly there's some truth to that cleaning. laundry and assisting with the He is managerial stuff. And he has a legiti­ analysis. but it appears to me that in Illinois Snell's five-year-old daughter were also in­ mate gripe.e it is the big farmers. perhaps stimulated by volved." April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7297 The 21-year Marine was introduced to the alized by virtue of their residences. My brought joy and vitality despite national snells while participating in a bowling fellow Alaskans and I pay the highest depression, war, and turbulence. His league. per capita tax in the country, nearly "Weary Willie" enriched the lives of all The Newark-born, Roselle, New Jersey­ double that of the next highest taxed he touched. With his passing goes an raised Marine plans to attend college at State. This, however, does not represent Montclair State in New Jersey when he leaves American symbol whose contribution to the Corps. He said that he would like to study a level of affluence double to residents of our national heritage is unrivaled. industrial security after which he would like the other 49 States, but rather nominal His own words best describe the kind to launch a civil service career. incomes adjusted for the high cost of of panacea he was for us: Marines are noted for their loyalty and living; that is, food, shelter, and cloth­ I am a sad and ragged little guy who is devotion, and LCpl. Harmon has upheld that ing. In addition, Alaskans on fixed in­ very serious about everything he attempts­ reputation through his unwavering devotion comes are faced with an extra burden as no matter how futile or how foolish it ap­ and loyalty to his duty and his frlends.e they pay their taxes under the current pears to be. I am the hobo who found out the hard way that the deck is stacked, the law. dice "frozen", the race fixed and the wheel I would like to point out that Alaska is crooked, but there ls always present that TAX RELIEF not the only State that encounters this one tiny, forlorn spark of hope still glim­ high cost situation. Hawaii and many mering in his soul which makes him keep Eastern States have the same problem. on trying. HON. DON YOUNG Mr. Speaker, the bill I am proposing All I can say beyond that is that there must be a lot of people in this world who feel OF ALASKA would remedy this inequity by allowing that way and that, fortunately, they come IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an individual to deduct a percentage of to the circus ... Wednesday, April 4, 1979 income equal to the percentage by which By laughing at me, they really laugh at the cost of living exceeds the national themselves, and realizing that they have • Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, average. done this gives them a sort of spirtual sec­ today I am introducing legislation that I am also proposing an alternative ond wind for going back into the battle.e proposes a solution to an historical in­ measure that would allow a non-Federal equity within our Tax Code. As you know, employee residing in high cost States to people in the United States are taxed at have an income adjustment to account a standardized progressive rate. Unfor­ for these costs. Currently, civil service WHEAT CARTEL tunately, this creates a very real prob­ emoloyees in Alaska receive a 25-percent lem for taxpayers who live in States with cost-of-living adjustment from the Fed­ HON. RICHARD BOLLING above average living costs for they are eral Government. This assistance is a taxed at an equal rate to people resid­ OF MISSOURI nontaxable adjustment that is added to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing in States with below average living the base pay of Federal employees, but it costs. is not available to non-Federal em­ Wednesday, April 4, 1979 The two bills that I propose today ployees living under the same cost-of­ • Mr. BOLLING. Mr. Speaker, the grain would rectify this inequity. My first bill living conditions. This tax burden upon merchants and traders at the Kansas is designed to allow a tax deduction based emoloyees within the private sector is a City Board of Trade have asked me to on the cost of living in certain areas. disincentive, therefore, this bill would bring to the attention of my colleagues The second measure would allow non­ equalize their tax responsibility with an article by Fred Kiewit of the Kansas Federal employees, working in States those federally employeed workers. The City Star in opposition to a proposal for where Federal employees receive an in­ bills which I have introduced in this re­ establishing a wheat cartel. The Board come exclusion level on the cost of liv­ gard contain limitations upon Federal of Trade of Kansas City, Mo., Inc., has ing, to be eligible for the same exclusion. emolovees who receive a nontaxable cost­ been both a cash grain and wheat fu­ Throughout the history of our Nation, of-living allowance. tures contract market for more than the Tax Code has addressed and at­ Mr. Sneaker, the legislation that I 100 years. My friends there feel that the tempted to correct inequities within the have introduced will correct some in­ article is of topical interest and makes tax system. I believe that our forefathers equities within our tax system. This Fed­ some significant points that should be in 1787 demonstrated the need to main­ eral tax relief will particularly aid States remembered as the wheat cartel issue is tain flexibility, sensitivity, and the neces­ where the cost of living is significantly considered: sity of having laws that generally apply above the national average. In short, WHEAT CARTEL IDEA: ECONOMICS, MORALITY to every American. At the same time, these measures would negate a perpetual QUESTIONABLE our forefathers showed us the import­ disincentive to live in States where there Farmers at the National Farmers Union ance of recognizing unique and uncom­ convention whooped it up here last week mon situations. It only follows that in is-a high cost of living and instead en­ courage economic and social progress in when three U.S. and Canadian senators said the situation described above, the law these areas. the time seemed ripe for major world grain should be amended to account for the producers to establish a wheat cartel. special nreds of areas with high costs of I urge my collea~ues to carefully con­ There is just one thing wrong with the living. sider the bills which I have proposed.• proposal from an economic viewpoint-to say nothing of the moral implications: It Our tax brackets are progressive so wouldn't work. that the higher one's income, the higher The reason an international agreement the rate of taxation. The progressiveness to fix world wheat prices would fail is sim­ EMMETT KELLY, A PANACEA OF ple. of this system has gone relatively un­ OUR ILLS challenged, however, the assumption First, unlike petroleum-which the sen­ ators used as an example when speaking that needs to be questioned is the notion to the Kansas City convention-wheat could that one's income has the same buying HON. EDWARD P. BEARD be grown almost anywhere in the world. power in all parts of the country and OF RHODE ISLAND Could be, that is, if the price was right. should, there!ore , be taxed at the same IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Second, there are many substitutes for rate. The economy of certain areas re­ wheat in both the human food and live­ sult in cost and price structures that are Wednesday, April 4, 1979 stock feed categories, whereas t here ls no unique to the respective areas. The tax reliable substitute now available for oil when • Mr. BEARD of Rhode Island. Mr. it comes to powering a mechanized western code unfortunately does not take this Speaker, Emmett Kelly's death on society. into account for taxes are levied as March 28, 1979 leaves a genuine void in Those two reasons do not even begln to though the cost and price structure of American society. When times were address the moral issues of further restrict­ each area were comparable. Taxpayers bleak, circumstances were dreary, and ing the distribut ion of a vital food source living in high cost areas whose high in­ things were blue, his "Weary Willie" in a world where at least 500 million o! the come levels reflect the cost of living in characterization made people smile. His world's more than 4 billion persons already their State are taxed as if their income uncanny brand of humor made hap­ are malnourished. level represented a greater purchasing Nor do they consider that the world's piness contagious. biggest wheat producer by far. the Soviet power. In essence, these people are pen- Emmett Kelly's incomparable style Union. likely never would be a party to 7298 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1979 the cartel. The USSR itself probably could location, but in most years it is sel!-sufftcient percent or the reported available rood sup­ undermine the combined efforts o! the U.S., in wheat, both !or feeding and for human plies o! all kinds in the world, according Canada, Australla and Argentina to raise food. At times of plenty it also is an exporter to the Rome-based Food and Agriculture wheat prices to levels suggested by the sen­ mostly within its trading bloc. Organization (FAO) . The exports !ram those ators. The authorities explain that if a price cartel two leading producers totaled 1.7 billion The same fundamental logic ought to put among the western producers boosted the bushels each year. to rest a proposal by Rep. James Weaver, world wheat price to $4 or $5 a bushel, the D-Oreg., who urges that a federal agency be USSR would simply join the action, sell its "I don't belleve history records any mo· created to sell U.S. grain and thus create wheat abroad for a bit less and then import nopoly has been able to have its way when !or this country the equivalent o! the oil corn or grain sorghums for one-half the price it controls only 2 percent of the world sup­ cartel. And even the suggestion o! a govern­ for livestock and poultry feeding. Roughly ply of a. good or its substitute," the spokes• ment monopoly, of course, set off shock one-third of the wheat grown in the USSR man said. waves in U.S. grain trade. now ls consumed as feed. That quantity No one argues that the three senators That is not to say Sen. George McGovern, thrown on the market would quickly be the and others of a similar bent are not indi· D-S. Dak.; Sen. Henry Bellman, R-Okla., and end of any efforts to stab111ze world wheat viduals trying earnestly to solve a sticky Sen. Hazen Argue o! Can ada were engaging prices at an artificial level. situation. But the best that specialists tn in a. bit o! fUm-fiam when they appeared on a That ls just one example. There are others the matter see coming out of it all ts per· seminar discussing the next steps in pricing involving rice, barley and other types of suastve conversation. Any attempts to black· grain in world markets. The problem !acing grains. mail the world on wheat as the OPEC na­ wheat growers in exporting countries is seri­ The key variety would be rice, whose use as tions have been able to do in petroleum ous: Many o! them are selllng wheat !or less human food far exceeds that of wheat. Ameri­ surely would backfire and result in an even than the cost of production, while importing cans fall to consider the role of rice because more unenviable predicament for the strug­ nations through various protective schemes they don't grow or consume much. But in gling wheat producers. are enriching national treasuries and their most other areas of t he world, especially One doesn't have to go very far back tn own farmers with that same wheat. throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa, history to find an example. In the early Bellman pointed out that Japan which buys the consumption of rice dwarfs the use of years o! this decade, when the world experi­ U.S. wheat for around $3 a bushel through a wheat. Yet they are to some extent inter­ enced a food shortage and the United States government agency, resells the same wheat to changeable, and an artificially high price of was fighting an earlier round of food infia· its own domestic users for roughly three times wheat would do one of two things depending tion, a. previous U.S. administration em­ that price. The European Economic Com­ upon economics : Stimulate the production of bargoed soybean shipments to Japan at a munity does about the same thing, using the wheat in rice areas and thus increase the time when there was no real shortage of proceeds from U.S. wheat to subsidize its own supply of wheat, or increase the human soybeans. inefficient agriculture, which then competes appetite for rice at the expense of wheat. In Japan, thoroughly alarmed because tt directly with U.S. farmers. either event, most authorities are certain, could no longer count on the U.S. as a de­ "I belleve our count ries ought to work to­ wheat and its growers' cartel would suffer. pendable supplier, invested hundreds of get her to see to it t hat money goes, not to Another inescapable result is that a high mllllons of yen in developing soybean pro­ governments, but to our farmers," Bellman world price for wheat would create a pro­ duction in Brazil. That country ts now on­ said. duction surge across the world where it can stream as a significant soybean producer, Argue said t he collapse of talks in Geneva be grown successfully. And given the wide though a drought this year admittedly hM that were designed to lead to a new Interna­ variety of adaptable wheats now being bred, cut its current crop. tional Wheat Agreement now opens the door that grain could be grown on every conti­ to some other kind of action, namely a multi­ nent and in almost every climate. World "That soybean area never will come back national agreement involving the four major grain production in a few years would be out of production, though there will be exporters. turned helter-skelter. weather fiuctuations," one observer noted. "It is there to stay. The same thing could McGovern said he thought a cartel might "The minute you start fixing price by help insure that growers receive at least t heir happen in wheat production through any government decree instead of demand, you artificial manipulation of the prlce."e cost of production, plus a reasonable profit. begin to affect something else in this dell­ He said the price of a bushel of wheat prob­ cately-balanced world agricultural picture," ably should be between $4 and $5 on the world one authority said. market . The South Dakotan also said the four CLAY HYDER TRUCKING CO. WINS Like any complex issue in today's world 1978 FLEET SAFETY CONTEST exporters control about 85 percent of the in which national destinies have become wheat moving internationally, and that they intertwined, there would be secondary effects could set the world price. Wit h the collapse of the senators failed to address. One grim op­ HON. ANDY IRELAND the IWA talks and the probab111t y t hey wm tion ls that certain governments would sim­ not be resumed in time for action this year, OF FLORIDA ply let some or its people die of starvation. McGovern said "the door ls now open for our IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES government and others to move with a clear It has happened. conscience." Then there is the matter or storage, !or Wednesday, April 4, 1979 McGovern also observed the grain produc­ example, that is highly important. It so happens the United States, Canada and to • Mr. IRELAND. Mr. Speaker, I am ers of the world also have been watching the pleased to call to the attention of my actions of the Organization of Petroleum Ex­ an increasing degree the USSR are the only porting Countries (OPEC), and have seen the nations with the storage capacity to put colleagues the fact that on March 28, value of co-operation instead of cut-throat their grain aside while waiting for buyers Clay Hyder Trucking Co. of Auburn­ competition. for their $4-$5 wheat. In commercial off-farm dale, Fla., was honored as the grand storage alone, the U.S. can hold about 7 prize winner in the 1978 fleet safety con­ The three presented one side of the coin b1llion bushels or grain, roughly twice the accurately and fairly. But they failed to men­ capacity it had just 20 years ago. On-farm test conducted by the common carrier tion, or even acknowledge, that coin has an­ capacity, never accurately measured, adds conference-irregular route, an affiliate other side. enormously to that total. of the American Trucking Association. Ignoring the fact that other similar com­ The award was presented to William modity agreements, including earlier wheat But the rest of the world is in more or pacts, historically have not worked because of less a hand-to-mouth situation. Indeed, Bostick, vice president of Clay Hyder, at breakdowns resulting from intense economic storage capacity in some of the emerging the 31st annual meeting of the confer­ competition, experts and long-time observers nations ls limited to burlap bags piled on a ence in Palm Springs, Calif. The con­ on the grain trade narrow t he current prob­ loading dock and covered with plastic or .ference represents more than 500 ir­ lem down to basics. 011, of course, has been grain dumped in crude structures, including regular-route motor carriers in the 48 the exception; yet even among the OPEC mud huts. Obviously, 1f such countries grew contiguous States. nations there is continuing a lot of argument wheat, and most of them might, their pro­ over pricing. duction would have to be used at home, sold Clay Hyder was selected a unanimous .Those fam111ar with world wheat trade take immediately or left to rot . winner of this prestigious national safety the USSR as one nation t hat could upset any "When you grow wheat in those countries, contest on its effective driver training, pricing cart. The USSR normally grows about you have to sell what you won't need irithe maintenance of equipment, participation twice as much wheat as even the United extremely short run," a Kansas marketing in safety programs and organizations St ates, whose production in 1978 was about 2 specialist noted. "To heck with the price. and safety incentive programs and over­ billion bushels. In the USSR, wheat is bot h a The only country that really can store grain all contribution to highway safety. feed and a food grain, whereas in the rest of over the long term is the United States." Clay Hyder trucks logged 20,492,614 t he world, wheat is u t ilized almost exclusively Another student of world grain marketing miles in 1978 with an accident ratio of as a human food. The USSR, of cou rse. is sub­ noted t he combined wheat exports from t he 2.49 per 1 million miles-an outstanding ject to crop failures more t h an most ot her United St ates and Canada in the crop years achievement. producing n ations because of its geographical of 1972-73 and 1973-74 were only about 2 I would like to congratulate this fine April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7299 Florida trucking company on its out­ tectors moved on to the larger town of that they were Sihanouk's forces to mislead Sisophon, 10 miles away, the emaciated sur­ public opinion." standing accomplishment and give a vivors of Ching Ha tagged along. The commentary did not specify whether it special salute to Mr. Guy Bostick, presi­ In Sisophon, the Vietnamese largesse ended was criticizing Cambodian or Vietnamese of­ dent of Clay Hyder Trucking Co., for as more and more refugees crowded into the ficials. But Hanoi remains in firm control of dedicationtoritghway safety. town. The group from Ching Ha-believing the revolutionary council. It has sent one of Thank you, Mr. Speaker.• claims that the new Heng Samrin govern­ its most able diplomats, Vo Dong Giang­ ment and its Vietnamese allies had estab­ a chain-smoking theoretician with weak­ lished full control of the countryside-de­ nesses for fancy watches and English ciga­ SAVAGERY IN CAMBODIA cided to return home to harvest the rice crop rettes-to act as its proconsul in Phnom they had left behind. Halfway there, they Penh. Experts in Bangkok saw Giang's hand were captured by a band of 30 Khmer Rouge in the priorities spelled out by Radio Phnom HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK guerrillas, who bound their hands and led Penh: first, the extermination enemy OF OHIO them to a camp close to the Thai border. forces "before the end of the dry season in The next morning, their captors marched July," followed by the improvement of living IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES them into the forest and set upon them with conditions. Wednesday, April 4, 1979 axes. "I fell after being hit in the face," Helplessness: Meanwhile, the kllling goes 24-year-old Suen Mot recalled last week at on. Cambodians are still fleeing their country e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, since a refugee camp in Thailand. "When they at the rate of 1,000 a month, and refugee the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer had finished, they left. I thought I was going officials in Thailand say the new arrivals are Rouge we have been hearing a steady to die, but later I found I could move." As in even worse shape than their predecessors, stream of horror stories f ram this small Suen crawled away from the killing ground, so dazed by the hardships they have endured Asian country. The savagery of the Com­ he came across a youth called Furn, whose that they can barely function. "They can't throat had been slashed, deeply but not build their own shelters, they don't want to munist forced migrations and labor pro­ go anywhere and they don't want to do any­ grams have been well documented by fatally, from ear to ear. The two then man­ aged to drag themselves across the border thing," says a camp worker. "They're those survivors who managed to escape to safety. zombies." e the slaughter. There does not seem to What they do best: Suen's report and be any end to the inhumanity. Cambodia others like it, as well as a remarkably frank has been ravaged by an invasion from commentary broadcast on Radio Phnom THE SAFETY FIRST CLUB OF Vietnam and now, according to a News­ Penh last week, indicate that the Vietnamese MARYLAND week magazine reporting team, the car­ invasion has not ended Cambodi•a's agony. In nage continues under the new rulers. some ways, it has deepened and perhaps HON. CLARENCE D. LONG Since the collapse of the pro-West prolonged the suffering. The 100,000 Viet­ governments in Cambodia and South namese troops control maior towns and road OF MARYLAND junctions. But the Khmer Rouge have free IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Vietnam we have not seen much of the rein in the countryside and continue to do peace and prosperity that many Claimed what they do best-kill people. Refugees from Wednesday, April 4, 1979 would arise in Southeast Asia. I remem­ villages only briefly occupied by the Viet­ • Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, ber many critics of America's involve­ namese say t hat the Khmer Rouge returned I would like to bring to the attention of ment in Vietnam declared that it was the as soon as the invaders left and executed anyone who had had any dealings with them, my colleagues the activities of the Safety United States that was causing all the First Club of Maryland, a nonprofit citi­ It even those who had only accepted food. The bloodshed. has been almost 4 years refugees talk also of Khmer Rouge cadres zens' organization formed in 1956 to pro­ since the United States had any influ­ who were captured by the Vietnamese and mote safety on our streets and highways. ence in this area. Since that time the turned over to Cambodian civilians to be I have just received the following letter Soviet Union and Communist China killed. from Mr. Maurice Shochatt, executive have held sway over events in that part Ty Kim An. a 34-year-old former school­ vice president of the club: of the world. The bloodshed continues teacher who wandered through Battambang at an alarming rate. We will probably Province for a month before he managed to The Safety First Club of Maryland wlll fea­ reach Thailand. told his debriefers: "I saw ture the theme, "Master Motor Menace" at never know the full body count under the organization's 23rd "Leader in Life­ Communist rule. dead, stinking bodies along the roads. heard the guns every night and saw many burned­ saving" Anniversary Banquet to be held This week we will be considering the out trucks and tanks." Geng Son, 33, who May l, 1979, at the Mercantile Club in Balti­ International Development Cooperation lived on a farming commune just outside the more, Md. "Leader in Lifesaving" Awards wlll Act of 1979, H.R. 3324. I will be offering Gambodian capital, said that when the Viet­ be presented at the Banquet t o the Hon. an amendment to prevent any of our namese forces arrived t hey threw open a Benjamin L. Cardin, Speaker of the Maryland tax dollars from going directly or indi­ Khmer Rouge warehouse and allowed the House of Delegates, the Motor Vehicle Ad­ people to take anything they wanted-rice. ministration of the State of Maryland and rectly, to either Cambodia or Vietnam. David Seidman, President of the Safety First Given the bloodshed that we have wit­ sugar, fish sauce radios and bicycles. Geng took a bicycle and pedaled 300 miles across Club of Maryland. nessed I do not think that our Nation Cambodi·a to the Thai border with his wife on The organization's major objectives are should reward two of the worst offenders the crossbar. "Many bridges were destroyed " to help reduce traffic accidents and fatalities; of human rights by being a partner in he said. "At some places along the road the;e Stress the importance of traffic safety among aiding their savage regimes. For my col­ were piles of dead civilians with their throats our youth; Work for the passage and en­ leagues information I submit the News­ slit. At other places there were dead Viet­ forcement of statutes aiming to reduce our week article entitled "Cambodian Car­ namese and Khmer Rouge. I was never far tragic t raffic toll; and give recognition to the nage" into the RECORD . I hope they bear from the sights, the sounds and the smells deserving for attainments in the field of traf­ of killing." fic safety. it in mind when they consider H.R. 3324: The Safety First Club of Maryland believes CAMBODIAN CARNAGE Self-protection: Last week's broadcast by that traffic supervision and control belong in Cambodia's new revolutionary council paint ­ the sphere of duly-constituted experts and (When V ietnam conquered Cambodia early ed a picture of bloodshed and anarchy. con­ this year, its avowed purpose was to put an authorities. Nevertheless, such groups as the ceding that Vietnamese attempts to annihi­ end to the murderous ways of the Khmer Safety First Club of Maryland can render Rouge regime. But the carnage in Cambodia late Khmer Rouge holdouts "have not been services through planned and consistent completely successful," the new regime dis­ goes on. From Bangkok, Newsweek's Hol ger safety programs, campaigns and activities Jens en reports:) closed that it had been forced to issue weap­ aimed at helping to reduce the mounting ons to Cambodian villagers for self-pro­ For the eighteen men, women and children toll. tection. In areas where the Vietnamese are To help call attention to the "Master Motor of Ching Ha village in northwest Cambodia, in firm control, it admitted , corrupt officials the arrival of Vietnamese troops nearly three Menace" theme of the organization's 23rd have been "toying with the job" and mis­ Anniversary Banquet, the Safety First Club months ago marked a brief but real libera­ treating the people. "Some have gone so far tion. More than a hundred of their fellow of Maryland is disseminating the "I'm Just as to keep concubines in the collectives to A S teering Wheel" message, prepared by the villagers had been executed for minor infrac­ serve their own pleasure," the broadcast Joseph Katz Advertising Company to stimu­ tions-or had simply died of overwork, said. It warned that such a situation could late interest in traffic safety. The company starvation or lack of medical care-during lead to a revival of the "feudal system"-a was headed by the late Joseph Katz, a Board the preceding four years of Khmer Rouge reference to the days of deposed Prince Noro­ m~mber of the Safety First Club. who gave savagery. The Vietnamese fed the peasants, dom Sihanouk. Indeed, the report cite::i one the organization full permission to reorlnt gave them pots and pans and told them that incident in Kratie Province where rebel the message whenever deemed appropriate. they were free to travel. So when their pro- forces "waved Sihanouk"s ftag and boasted The text is as follows : 7300 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1979 "I'm just a wheel. A steering wheel. And STATUS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL the second budget resolution was agreed you're my captain. Behind me you're the lord BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979 to, but rather because outlays for on­ and master of a miracle. You can make me going programs and activities are now take the kids to school. You can turn me estimated to cost more primarily because down the sunny road toward town. With me you can guide your goods to the market HON. ROBERT N. GIAIMO of the impact of the economy on the place . . . you can rush the sick to be OF CONNECTICUT budget. healed ... you can go in minutes to places IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It now becomes necessary, if CongreNJ hours away. You can do magic. is to handle emergency or urgent fund­ "Yet, in the blink of an eye, in the tick of Wednesday, April 4, 1979 ing situations, which Congress faces your watch, I can turn deadly killer. I can • Mr. GIAIMO. Mr. Speaker, in order to from time to time, to revise the second snuff out the life of a kid stlll full of life­ keep Congress advised of the effect of its budget resolution for fiscal year 1979. maybe your kid. I can twist a smile into spending and revenue actions compared tears. I can wreck and cripple and destroy. This should be done in May when we I can deal out death like the plague. And to the overall totals set in the second consider the :first budget resolution for I'm no respecter of persons. A child, a grand­ budget resolution, section 308(b) of the fiscal year 1979. mother. even you, my friend ... It's all the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 re­ · A copy of my letter to the Speaker and same to me. quires periodic reports to be issued to of the committee's report are attached: "I'm sensitive, I respond instantly in the the Congress. As chairman of the House COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET, hands you give me. Give me calm hands, Budget Committee, I submit to Congress Washington, D.C., April 4, 1979. steady hands, careful hands ... and I'm your from time to time, these parliamen­ Hon. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr., friend. But give me unsteady hands, fuzzy­ tarian's status reports reflecting the cur­ Speaker, U.S. House of Representative3, minded hands, reckless hands . . . then I'm Washington, D .C. your enemy, a menace to the life, the happi­ rent level. ness, the future of every person, every young­ The House Budget Committee today DEAR MR. SPEAKER: On January 30, 1976, ster riding, walking, playing." is notifying the Speaker of the House the Committee on the Budget outlined the of the current levels of congressional procedure which it had adopted in connec­ I was made for pleasure and usefulness. tion with its responsib111tles under sec. 311 Keep me that way. I'm in your hands. I'm action on the budget compared to the of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to just a steering wheel. And you're my captain. spending ceilings and revenue floors es­ provide estimates of the current level of reve­ Behind me you're the lord and master of a tablished by the second budget resolu­ nues and spending. I am herewith transmit­ miracle ... or a tragedy. It's up to you! tion for fiscal year 1979, which was ting the status report under H. Con. Res. 683, Citizens in Maryland and elsewhere adopted on September 21, 1978. Under the Second Budget Resolution for FY 1979. are urged to join the Safety First Club of the Budget Act a point of order lies This report refiects the resolution of Septem­ Maryland in its "Crusade for Safety" to against any measure that would cause ber 21, 1978, and estimates of budget au­ thority, outlays and revenues based on all protect their lives, their dear ones, their the spending ceilings or the revenue floor completed action on spending and revenue neighbors, and their fellow Americans.• established by a concurrent resolution on measures as of close of legislative business the budget to be breached. April 2, 1979. The estimate of current level included Sincerely, in this report covers all enacted budget RoBERT N. GIAIMO, HELP FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES IN authority, including the continuing reso­ Chairman. ALASKA lution, and estimates of entitlement au­ thority and other mandatory spending REPORT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE U.S. HOUSE items which require further appropria­ OF REPRESENTATIVES FR.OM THE COMMITTEE HON. DON YOUNG tions action. ON THE BUDGET ON THE STATUS OF THE FISCAL YEAR 1979 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OF ALASKA This report also includes reestimates ADOPTED IN HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLU­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the fiscal year 1979 budget which TION 683 were submitted by the President in his Wednesday, April 4, 1979 January 22, and March 15, 1979, budget (Refiectlng completed action as of • Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, submissions. A complete review of these March 29, 1979) today I am introducing two bills that revisions has been conducted by the (In millions of dollars] would correct inequities that exist for Budget Committees and the Congres­ Federal employees in Alaska. sional Budget Office and these agreed Budget Reve- The first bill would amend title 5 of upon reestimates have been incorporated authorlty Outlays nues the United States Code to provide addi­ in the new levels. Appropriate tional cost-of-living adjustments in civil Today's report indicates that the fol­ level------555,650 487,500 448,700 service retirement annuities of certain lowing amounts in the second budget Current leveL ___ 552, 469 491, 443 457, 465 retired employees in Alaska as long as resolution for fiscal year 1979 are still they continue to live in Alaska. Each available: For budget authority, $3,181 Under res- million and for revenues, $8, 765. Out­ olution _ 3, 181 retired employee who has performed 10 Over reso- years of service in Alaska prior to sepa­ lays to date for fiscal year 1979 have lution __ 3,943 8,766 ration and after the beginning date of exceeded the resolution ceiling by $3,943 his annuity, who continues to live in million. BUDGET AUTHORITY Alaska would receive an increase of 25 The outlay ceiling has been breached Any measure providing budget or entitle­ percent as long as he lives in Alaska. primarily because the costs of certain ment authority which ls not included in the ongoing programs and activities directly current level estimate and which exceeds This is also applicable to the annuity responsive to the economy have been $3,181 mi111on for fiscal year 1979, if adopted of survivors of the retired employee. reestimated and have turned out higher and enacted, would cause the appropriate I have also introduced a bill that will than was anticipated in the second level of budget authority for that year as set help clerical and managerial employees budget resolution last year. These pro­ forth in H. Con. Res. 683 to be exceeded. of the Alaska Railroad. These workers grams and actiivities such as interest OUTLAYS were brought under the Alaska Railroad on the debt and unemployment are di­ Any measure providing budget or entitle­ Retirement Act in June of 1940. This law rectly responsive to the economy. As in­ ment authority which is not included in the requires that a railroad employee retire terest rates increase, as they have in the current level estimate and which would re­ at age 62 with 15 years of service. There sult in outlays for fl.seal year 1979, if adopted past months, mandatory payments for and enacted, would ca.use the appropriate is no provision exempting clerical work­ interest on the Federal debt have in­ level of outlays for that year as set forth in ers from this requirement, which is an creased by almost $4 billion. Virtually H. con. Res. 683 to be exceeded. unjust restriction since they do not face all of the increase is for programs and REVENUES the same hazards as railroad transpor­ activities funded under law already en­ Any measure that would result tn a revenue tation employees. acted at the conclusion of the last ses­ loss exceeding $8,765 million for fiscal year This bill would exempt clerical and sion of Congress. In other wordi, the 1979, if adopted and enacted, would cause managerial employees from this provi­ outlay ceiling has not been breached revenues to be less than the appropriate level sion.• because Congress has spent more since for that year as set forth in H . Con. Res. 683. April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7301 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE, Congressional Budget Act, this letter and olution on the budget. This report for fiscal Washington, D.C., April 2, 1979. supporting detail provide an up-to-date year 1979 is tabulated as of close of business Hon. ROBERT N. GIAIMO, tabulation of the current levels of new budg­ March 29, 1979. et authority, estimated outlays and esti­ Chairman, Committee on the Budget, Wash­ This report incorporates CBO reestimates ington, D .C. mated revenues in comparison with the ap­ DEAR MR . CHAIRMAN: Pursuant to section propriate levels for those items contained in for FY 1979 resulting from review of the 308 ( b) and in aid of section 311 ( b) of the the most recently agreed to concurrent res- President's 1980 budget data.

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Budget authority Outlays Revenues

1. Enacted ------547,449 486,248 457,500 2. Entitlement authority and other mandatory items requiring further appropriation action ____ _ 5,744 5,228 3. Continuing resolution authority __ ------4. Conference agreements ratified by both Houses------724 -34 -35

Current level------552,469 491, 443 457,465

U'nderSecond resolution concurrent ______resolution------_ 555,650 487, 500 448,700 over resolution ______3, 181 3,943 8,765

Sincerely, ALICE M. RIVLIN, Director.

PARLIAMENTARIAN STATUS REPORT SUPPORTING DETAIL, FISCAL YEAR 1979 AS OF CLOSE OF BUSINESS MARCH 29, 1979 [In millions o! dollars)

Budget Budget authority Outlays authority Outlays

I. Enacted: Function 600: Permanent appropriations and trust funds __ 268,679 247,448 Department of Agriculture: Previously enacted (95th Congress, 2d ses- Food stamp program ______245 245 Child nutrition ______sion ------343, 997 304,026 150 10 Offsetting receipts (including amounts gen- Department of Health, Education, and erated by current appropriation action)_ -65, 206 -65, 206 Welfare: Enacted this session: Assistance payments program ______91 91 Sale of silver dollars (P.L. 96-2)------­ -20 -20 Federal old-age and survivors insurance Deferral resolution (S. Res. 50) ------1 (pay) ------72 Department of Labor : Total, enacted ______547,449 486,248 Unemployment trust fund-pay raise __ _ Office of Personnel Management: Civil II. Entitlement authority and other manda­ Service retirement and disabllity tory items requiring further appropriation (pay) ------action (Anticipated supplementals includ­ Railroad Retirement Board: ing pay) : Railroad retirement account (pay) ____ _ Function 050: Regional rail transportation protective Department of Defense: account ------­ 57 57 Civilian and military pay raises ______1,849 Function 700: Retired pay ______1,843 156 156 Veterans Administration: Function 150: Compensation and pensions ______1, 025 972 Payment to Foreign Service Retirement Readjustment benefits ______377 223 Fund ------4 4 Function 750: The Judiciary: Court of Appeals, salaries Offsetting receipts------4 -4 of judges ______Export-Import Bank (pay)------­ 4 3 Function 350 : Function 800: Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (pay)_ Office of Personnel Management: Function 370: Payment to civil service retirement ____ _ 335 335 Federal Home Loan Bank Board (pay) __ _ 2 Offsetting receipts ______------335 -335 Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. Function 920 : (pay) ------Allowances: Civil agency pay raises ______742 736 Function 400 : Department of Defense: Panama Canal Total, entitlements ______5,744 5,228 Corporation (pay)------Department of Transportation: Ill. Continuing resolution authority ______St. Lawrence Seaway Company (pay) __ _ Coast Guard retired pay ______4 4 IV. Conference agreements ratified by both Federal-aid highways (pay)------5 Houses ------Function 500: First rescission bill, 1979 (H.R. 2439) ______-724 -34 Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: Total current level, as of March 29, 1979_ 552,469 491,443 Grants to States for social services ____ _ 189 189 Student loan insurance fund ______243 Concurrent resolution of September 23, Human development services ______57 57 1978 ------555,650 487,500 Function 550: Department of Heal th, Education, and Over ceiling_-----_____ -----___ ----__ _ 3,943 Welfare : Grants to States for medicaid ______554 554 Under ceiling ______------3, 181 Federal hospital insurance (pay)------4

NoTE.-Detail may not add due to rounding.e 7302 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1979 SUSPENSION REFORM The resolution I am offering today lution under a suspension of the rules as to: would close this loophole by establishing (A) the number of the bill or resolution; (B) its short title or a brief description; (C) suspension criteria in the House rules whether any amendment w111 be offered HON. JOHN B. ANDERSON and giving the House, not the Democratic thereto; and (D) the date on which it is OF ILLINOIS Steering and Policy Committee, final scheduled to be considered; and the text of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES authority to determine by majority vote any amendments to be offered thereto, to­ whether a measure should be considereq gether with the notice, shall be printed in Wednesday, April 4, 1979 under suspension if any of these criteria the appropriate portions of the Record on the e Mr. ANDERSON of Illinois. Mr. are breached. day on which such oral notice is given to the Speaker, today I am introducing an Specifically, my resolution would pro­ House; and (3) the blll or resolution does not author­ amendment to House Rule XXVII which hibit the consideration of a measure un­ ize or appropriate in excess of $50,000,000 for would reform the procedure known as der suspension unless the committee of any fiscal year.". suspension of the rules. As my colleagues jurisdiction or chairman and ranking Rule XXVII, clause 2, ls amended to read know, this procedure has traditionally minority member of that committee spe­ as follows: been reserved for minor, noncontrover­ cifically authorize its consideration un­ "2. If a point of order ls sustained against sial matters since only 40 minutes of de­ der suspension, the House is given ad­ the consideration of any motion to suspend bate are allowed, no amendments may be vance notification by at least the last the rules and pass a bill or resolution for fail­ offered, and a two-thirds vote is re­ legislative day of the week preceding the ure to comply with any provision of clause quired for passage of a measure under scheduled suspension., and the bill does 1 (b) of this rule, it shall nevertheless be in this procedure. order to consider such motion if considera­ not authorize or appropriate in excess tion is agreed to by a majority of those pres­ The need for reform of the suspension of $50 million for any fiscal year. If a ent and voting, a quorum being present, and procedure became apparent in the last point of order is sustained against the such question shall not be subject to de­ Congress when a record number of bills consideration of any motion to suspend bate.". were considered under suspension (453), the rules for violation of any of the above Rule XXVII, clause 3(a), ls amended by comprising a record 28 percent of all criteria, it would then. be up to the House striking the words "or has been seconded measures passed by the House. Just a pursuant to clause 2 of this rule".e decade ago, in the 90th Congress, when to decide by a vote on consideration more measures were actually reported, whether to proceed with the bill under passed and enacted, only 167 were con­ suspension. In effect, the resolution re­ sidered under suspension, comprising stores the old seconding requirement for SAM FRIEDEL only 10 percent of the measures passed those cases in which any of the criteria by the House. Clearly, the reliance on are breached. the suspension procedure by the leader­ At this point in the RECORD, Mr. Speak­ HON. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR. ship in the last Congress had grown all er, I include a table of comparative data OF MASSACHUSETTS out of proportion to its intended use, es­ for the 90th through 95th Congresses IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pecially when one considers all the bills and the text of my resolution. Tuesday, April 3, 1979 involving expenditures in the hundreds of millions of dollars which were brought The information follows: • Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, it is with up under suspension. COMPARATIVE DATA : 90TH TO 95TH CONGRESSES, u.s· a saddened heart that I join my col­ In recognition of this overuse and HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leagues on this occasion in paying a abuse of the suspension procedure, the special tribute to a distinguished former Democratic Caucus at the beginning of 90th 9lst 92d 93d 94th 95th Member of the House of Representatives, this Congress took a peculiar, two-step Sam Friedel. approach to the problem. On the one Measurts reported .. __ 1, 745 1, 542 1, 401 1, 363 l, 495 l, 490 Sam came to the House of Represent­ Measures passed . ____ 1, E59 1, 642 1, 469 1, 914 l, 624 l, 615 atives the same year I did. In fact, we hand, the caucus adopted an amendment Publ ic bills enacted to its rules establishing guidelines for into law . . ------640 695 607 651 588 634 were both members of the spirited 83d Yea and nay votes.___ 478 443 457 632 807 1, 035 class. I knew and worked closely with the Speaker to follow in scheduling mat­ Measures considered ters under suspension. In essence, these under suspension. __ 167 185 194 255 325 453 Sam for 18 years. Sam was a -:opular guidelines prohibited the Speaker from (a) Passed ______(159) (181) (184) (254) (300)(420) and well-respected Member on both (b) Failed ______(8) (4) (10) (1) (25) (33) scheduling any matter under suspension Suspensions as per- sides of the aisle. He was a no-nonsense which involved expenditures in excess cent of total meas- Member of the House, hard-working, of $100 million in any fiscal year, but ures passed______10 11. 3 13. 2 13. 3 20 28 conscientious, and dedicated to repre­ permitted the Democratic Steering and senting the interests of Maryland's Sev­ Sources : Daily Digest, final issues; Congressional Research Policy Committee to exempt the Speaker Service. enth District. A consummate, grassroots from this requirement. The caucus also politician, Sam understood so well the proposed an amendment to the House H. RES. 204 important maxim that all politics are rules eliminating the requirement for a Resolved, That Rule XXVII of the Rules of local. second, or question of consideration, on the House of Representatives is amended in suspensions unless a copy of the measure the following ways: Many of us remember Sam's important was not available at least 1 legislative In Rule XXVII, clause 1, designate the work as the chairman of the House Ad­ day in advance of its consideration. existing paragraph as paragraph "(a)" and ministration Committee, as well as his Mr. Speaker, while the caucus guide­ add the following new paragraph: distinguished service as the ranking lines may be sufficient in curbing the " ( b) It shall not be in order to consider member of the Commerce Committee. a motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill Most importantly, we remember Sam use of the suspension procedure for con­ or resolution unless- sideration of bills which may involve for the admirable qualities of integrity, ( 1) consldera ti on of the blll or resolution fortitude, and principle and as a dedi­ the authorization or appropriation of under a suspension of the rules has been large sums of money, one must ask why specifically authorized by (A) the commit­ cated and devoted public servant who this was dealt with in. the caucus rules tee having jurisdiction over the bill or res­ always put first the interests of his be­ and not in the House rules. Presumably, olution, by rollcall vote, in open session and loved home State of Maryland. the Speaker could easily secure an ex­ with a majority present; or (B) the chair­ Sam was privileged to enjoy a long and ception to the guidelines through the man and ranking minority member o! the satisfying life. Those of us who served committee having jurisdiction over the bill with him were honored and proud to Democratic Steering and Policy Commit­ or resolution in a written request to the tee which he chairs, and yet the House have worked with such a great American Speaker; and fine public servant. would be deprived of a vote on whether (2) the House has been notified orally, that matter should be considered under while the House ls in session. by at least the My wife. Millie, joins me in expressing suspension by virtue of the elimination last legislative day of the week preceding the our sincere condolences to the family of of the seconding requirement. scheduled consideration of the bill or reso- Sam Friedel.• April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7303 SUBURBAN GUN PLAY whoever's at fault, including himself, Joe I am sure that all of us who know of Gonzalez no longer lives. and benefited from Mildred's noble and John Thrasher, in his early 20s, answered humanitarian efforts toward a better and HON. LIONEL VAN DEERLIN a knock on the door of his Paradise Hills home early last week. The callers were two healthier world, stand in recognition that OF CALIFORNIA youngsters, under 18. One pointed a gun at her passing is a real loss, both to her IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thrasher and shot him through the throat. family and to mankind.• Wednesday, April 4, 1979 Thrasher was hospitalized, and one of . the youngsters arrested. Police said drugs were e Mr. VAN DEERLIN. Mr. Speaker, in involved. all the hue and cry over gun controls, we Ray LaDuke, 44, had been told that driv­ PAX AMERICANA often overlook the fact that the misuse ing a taxi can be a dangerous business. Now of firearms is a problem that is just as he knows it. Two passengers ordered him to drive them to the corner of 3rd St. and E ubiquitous in the quiet suburbs as it is Ave. in National City. When he got there, HON. ELLIOTT H. LEVITAS in the big cities. they pulled out a gun, made him surrender OF GEORGIA Lowell Blankfort, former publisher of his wallet-then shot him through the head. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Chula Vista Star-News who now Somehow. though in agony, he managed writes a weekly column for the news­ to call on his radio for help. Otherwise, be Wednesday, April 4, 1979 paper, has ctoc1rn1°nt 0 d recent shootings would have died. • Mr. LEVITAS. Mr. Speaker, since the in San Diego's South Bay area, a mostly Now I have no way of knowing for sure whether-if there were tighter controls on Second World War, the world has been suburoau <..:tc...i. w~ii..:i, 16 pan; uf' rny con­ guns-Lori Risk and Joe Gonzalez would be dominated by what became known as gressional district. The six cases cited by alive today, or Armando Lopez and Thomas the "Pax Americana." The United States Mr. Blankfort all occurred since the first Hequet and John Thrasher and Ray LaDuke took its place as one of those rare na­ of this year, and all within a limited would have been spared the pain and an­ tions which, at a certain period in time, area. guish of hospitalization, or whether it would extend their influence to cover the known While it is true the victims might have be safer to sit on park benches or drive taxis world. The Romans and the British each been attacked in any event, the assail­ for a living, or even be sure you'll wake up when you go to sleep. influenced the world far beyond their ants could not have attacked with such own borders. deadly impunity if they had not had After all, as the Gun Lobby insists, people can do each other in by other means if The question is now being asked, will handguns. they're so determined (though a gun is a the Pax Americana go the way of the Mr. Blankfort is a skilled and provoca­ lot simpler to use than, say, a knife, and a Pax Romana? tive writer, and his essay is eminently lot less risky too) . In a recent CBS radio broadcast, Ben readable regardless of how one feels But I do know that all of the above gun incidents (plus others I don't have space Wattenberg addressed that question. about gun controls. He said, and I agree, that the Pax The article follows: for) have taken place merely since the first of this year, not in New York or Chicago Americana gave to the world a belief in HAVE GUN, WILL ? ? or Los Angeles, but in our own South Bay. the value of the individual, and not just (By Lowell Blankfort) I do know that the U.S. is the only coun­ in philosophical terms, but in a living, Nineteen-year-old Armando Lopez of Na­ try in the world without effective handgun breathing, workable democracy in which tional City and a half dozen friends from control laws-and also has the highest hand­ the individual is prized. the Chula Vista-National City area were re­ gun death rate of any country in the world. laxing on a bench near the Organ Pavillion And, I do know that, if you or someone Do we have the ability to continue in­ IP BJ,boa Park after seeing a Sunday night in your family owns a handgun, you are fluencing our world and making our in­ movie. twice as likely, as the average American to valuable contribution? Yes; if we have t.;.A.ldenly another group of youths came up be murdered, accidentally shot or commit the will to do so. to them, informed them it was their "terri­ suicide. Mr. Wattenberg's insp1rmg and tory" and told them to beat it. Not wishing Public opinion polls show that, by over­ thought-provoking remarks follow: any hassle, Armando and his friends did whelming majorities, Americans favor fed­ just that. As their car was about to leave, eral handgun registration laws and requir­ REMARKS OF BEN WATTENBERr. Armando stuck his head out the window. ing permits for buying a rifle. Even among I'm Ben Wattenberg. The next thing he remembered was a burn­ gun owners, 71 % favor gun control. Suddenly, foreign policy has taken center ing in his neck. He had been shot. Yet the gun lobby, primarily the National stage in the theater of American politics. The bullet lodged in his throat and came Rifle Assn., its coffers filled with millions Revolution in Iran, assassination in Afghan­ within a hair's breadth of killing him. A from gun and ammunition manufacturers, istan, insult in Mexico, incursion in Viet­ surgeon removed it, and later a young sus­ continues to terrorize our legislators into nam, war in the Yemen, abandonment in pect, also 19, was arrested. Armando still burying gun-control legislation. Taiwan-and, now, with hope in our hearts, wonders why anyone would try to kill some­ It's time the vast majority show their perhaps the beginning of peace in the one for sitting on a park bench. feelings are as strong as the NRA-brain­ Middle East. Lori Risk, 17, a Chula Vista High School washed minority. An initiative for gun con­ President Carter's critics have said that student, was sound asleep in the bedroom trol laws is being talked in California. And America is in retreat. The president has said when her boyfriend's 17-year-old brother public officials should be put on notice that, it's a new world, that a policy of restraint began cleaning the new gun he had bought if they don't vote gun control, they will is in our own best interest. But both sides just that morning. Lori never wol<"e up. The become targets for defeat. agree that foreign policy will be one of the boy forgot he had put in a cartridge that Only then will gunplay stop being an in­ greatest issues of the 1980 election. Well, morning, the gun accidentally discharged, creasing part of the American way of life­ it should be. For what is at stake is of and the bullet went through Lori's brain. and deatb.e monumental imnortance. Onite sim!JlV, the Thomas Hequet, 31, of Chula Vista and his issue is this: Is the American Century end­ former wife had their problems. Early this ing? month, Hequet had one be never antici­ After World War II, America became, for pated. Making a phone call at a bar on MILDRED PEPPER a third of a century, a member of the most Broadway, he turned and saw bis wife bran­ select club in human history. From ancient dishing a pistol. She fired four bullets into Greece and ancient Rome, to France of the him, wounding a finger, his right elbow and HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN 17th century, to Engl:>.nrl. ci'. t!ce !9th cen­ a shoulder. Doctors say he will recover. tury, certain nations at certain times have Nobody is sure exactly what happened, OF FLORIDA dominated their world, cont rolled eve1hs and but police say it seems to have had something IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES made great history. to do with a dispute over a girl friend. Any­ Wednesday, April 4, 1979 After World War II, America's military way, Joe Gonzalez, 21, a Chula Vistan, and force was the mightiest in the world. Our a companion were trying to break into an • Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Speaker, deepest technology spread around the globe. Our apartment along Imperial Beach's water­ sympathies and sorrows are with my dis­ movies and our television shows were watched front where several people they knew had tinguished colleague, CLAUDE PEPPER, in in a hundred lands. Our music set the gathered. world's tone. Our currency was the world's There were guns around and shots were the death of his lovely wife, Mildred. standard. fired, and suddenly Joe Gonzalez lav dead. Mildred was so strong, yet sensitive In ancient times, when Rome's power ruled Police, at first called it murder and ar­ and creative, and her strength so person­ the world, it was called "Pax Romana"-the rested a couple of youths, then released ified the best of her generation that Roman Peace. In our era it was called "Pax them, saying self-defense was involved. But moved this Nation to greatness. American." And now we must wonder 1! 7304 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1979 it's coming to an end. I think the answer A major problem with the structure of gov­ the people of Hawaiian Gardens not only to that question l.s self-contained l.n the ernment today is that Congress (which is answer to another question: Did the domi­ constitutionally mandated to make the law) with place to conduct the business of nance of the American Century indeed yield passes vague legislation, leaving it to execu­ government, but a social and fitness cen­ one of those great creative moments in his­ tive agencies (which are legally directed to ter as well. tory? I think it did. carry out the law) to write rules and regu­ The complex will house where the First, it's been an era of general peace­ lations to "fill the gaps". Unfortunately, the local charitable and civic groups in not total peace, but general peace. Second, rules and regulations do not necessarlly fol­ Hawaiian Gardens can hold meetings. it's been a time of massive prosperity, not low congressional intent. This bill would It will provide space for city council­ only for rich nations but for poor nations, require that all legislation authorizing new men to meet directly with their constit­ too. Third, a noble idea has spread under the programs contain language setting out the umbrella of Pax Americana. The notions that objectives and planned annual accompllsh­ uents. men can rise above class or station, that ments of the programs. It would also require It will also have a full-size gymnasium, men can speak their own mind and that agencies to submit annual reports on prog­ special gymnastics room, boxing and they have status above the state-these are ress toward their goals. weight lifting room, a crafts center, the only insurgent and radical ideas of our The Administrative Rulemaking Reform handball and racket ball courts, and time, and they have an American taproot. Act: More commonly known as the "con­ men's and women's locker room. Can all this continue? Well, I think history gressional veto," this bill would allow either In short, it is a real community gath­ tells us that great cultures only fiourish the House or Senate to examine proposed rules and regulations, and to reject them 1f ering place not just another government under the umbrella of great power. We and building housing courts and offices. our allies can stlll have that power; we can they appeared to be excessive, unreasonable, stlll wield it with both fortitude and modera­ or outside the bounds or congressional in­ This center is a little jewel to the peo­ tion 1f we agree that it's worth it. If we do, tent. Under this bill, Congress could more ple in Hawaiian Gardens. I think the American Century can continue. fully exercise its power as the national law­ I hope this facility will bring their And 1f we don't, sooner or later you may not making body. The congressional veto is the local government closer to them, and be hearing six divergent-viewpoints on best device I know to control runaway provide an opportunity to build even Spectrum from me, Ben Wattenberg, or from bureaucracy. closer ties among the people of Hawaiian anyone else.e Amendments to the Administrative Pro­ cedures Act: These amendments would re­ Gardens.• quire executive agencies to publlsh economic Impact statements for all new rules and reg­ ulations. In the context of comprehensive IMPROVING GOVERNMENT cost-benefit analyses, the Impact statements THE VIETNAMESE GULAGS PERFORMANCE would show the effects of the rules and reg­ ulations on consumers, businesses, markets, and government bodies. Too frequently, the HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK HON. LEE H. HAMILTON full effects of rules and regulations are not OF OHIO OF INDIANA considered. This bill would ensure that all IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES effects were considered. The Biennial Budgeting Act: This bill Wednesday, April 4, 1979 Wednesday, April 4, 1979 would aid Congress in its review and re­ authorization of programs by creating a two­ • Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, since e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I the fall of Saigon international aid has would like to insert my Washington year budget cycle. The first year of the con­ gressional term would be devoted to a de­ been going into the now united Com­ Report for April 4, 1979, into the tailed examination of programs, and the munist Vietnam. The United States pro­ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: second year would be used for the actual vides tax dollars to help finance the IMPROVING GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE appropriation of funds. Passage of this act international organizations that funnel Whenever I vis! t and talk to people in the would surely make sunset review much aid to Vietnam and other Communist Ninth District or see the comments of con­ easier. It would also force Congress to take countries. I think it is a sad commentary stituents who write to me, I get a message its responsibill.ty for oversight much more that after years of sacrifice to stop com­ that ls loud and clear: "Make the federal seriously. government work better!" Paperwork reduction bills: I have sub­ munism we are asking our taxpayers to The attitude of Hoosiers In particular and mitted two bills to reduce the burdensome watch their money being laundered Americans In general ls plainly one of disap­ amount of federal paperwork. The first, the through organizations and into Commu­ pointment with government. They belleve Paperwork Redtape and Reduction Act of nist Vietnam. Today Vietnam is one of that they are not getting their money's 1979, would establish an omce of Federal the worst violators of human rights worth from government. They feel that gov­ Information Management Policy responsible in Asia. The following article, from ernment ts more often a burden than a help for handling a centralized and more efficient Le Monde describes part of the tragedy to them. We in Congress need to address information system. The second, the Federal happening in Southeast Asia: ourselves to legislative solutions to the many Assistance Paperwork Reduction Act, would problems which have eroded the people's make several changes in application proce­ GULAGS IN NAME OF SECURITY trust and confidence in publlc institutilons. dures for federal grant-in-aid programs to cut (By Roland-Pierre Paringaux) That trust and confidence can be restored and consolidate the paperwork required In Ho CHI MINH CITY.-Since May 1975, a only 1f workable solutions are found. applying for and maintaining federal fund­ curtain of silence has fallen in Vietnam on I am sponsoring several bllls in the 96th ing. the subject of human rights, in general, and Congress which should help us tackle many Through these bills and others, many ot the fate of hundreds of thousands of de­ of the problems of government. The bllls my colleagues and I are attempting to over­ tainees, in particular. In Hanoi. and former will not solve all the problems immediately, come many of the dimculties that have Saigon, questions on this subject are con­ but they are a start toward a smaller, more cropped up as government has grown in size sidered, at best, "unfriendly," and at worst, emcient, and more compassionate federal and complexity. Such legislation can help intolerable "meddllng l.n Vietnam's domestic sector. The following are some of the b1lls to restore trust and confidence in govern­ I have introduced so far: affairs." So it is not possible to get an idea, ment by improving government perform­ even an approximate one, or either the num­ The Sunset Act of 1979: This blll would ance.e require that all federal programs be reviewed ber or the state of the prisoners, whether and reauthorized at leasti once every ten former military omcers and government em­ years. It would terminate funding for any ployees of the old Saigon regime now under­ program which Congress did not reauthorize. COMMUNITY GATHERING PLACE going "reeducation," polltical de~al.nees or It would also specify that all programs of Buddhist and Catholic priests, or common a sl.mllar nature be reviewed at the same criminals. time and in relation to one another. Quite HON. DAN LUNGREN With Vietnam on a war footing and squar­ simply, the object of this blll ts to have OF CALIFORNIA ing up on the Chinese and Cambodian Congress determine which programs are IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES frontiers to the "fifth columns" and "agents" needed and which are not, and to eliminate o! those countries, civilian and military se­ those programs that . have outllved their Wednesday, April 4, 1979 curity services once more hold unchallenged usefulness or have duplicated the functions e Mr. LUNGREN. Mr. Speaker, this power over the population in the North and of other programs. the South. But does the situation justify the The Legislativ e Overstght Act of 1979: Saturday a local community in my dis­ present Communist regime of Hanoi behav­ While the Sunset Act proposes to have Con­ trict, Hawaiian Gardens, will dedicate ing today exactly as the anti-Communist gress review programs already in existence, their new city hall and community com­ government of Saigon used to do and rou­ this b111 would have Congress provide more plex. tinely resorting to repression and preventive guidance for programs from the beginning. This long-awaited center will provide detention on mere suspicion or on the April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7305 strength o! a denunciation, which it has projects, either doing the whole stint at one without trial, he had this to say: "This is our elevated to a civic duty? Does it justify go or in spells of ten or 15 days at a time. regime." Hanoi's herding into camps of all those who After that, they must find work, and for this It could be the last word. But an unnamed do not fit in with the new order? The ques­ they must bribe corrupt bureaucrats. Those official had another to add: "Right now, se­ tion has been asked often enough in the who aren't authorised to live in cities are curity takes priority over everything else. It's past to be asked again today. practically forced to set up in the "new eco­ not possible in the present circumstances to Last April I put the number of former nomic zones" with or without their families, free people who could make use of their free­ collaborators of the Saigon government now or try to get out of Vietnam. dom to threaten us from within." e being held in camps and prisons at 80,000, No less alarming is the situation in the half of whom were in the North. Vietnamese prisons. The names of penitentiaries of sin­ refugees and opponents of the Hanoi gov­ ister fame we used to hear about in the days ernment living 1n Paris say the total figure of the Saigon government are cropping up THE VALUE OF TUITION TAX is 800,000-ten times higher and back it up again in conversations. These were the names CREDITS with fully documented details. The Viet­ which mobilised a part of world public opin­ namese authorities counter such allegations ion against Saigon. At the time the Demo­ with a stolid silence or react with propa­ cratic Republic of Vietnam quite rightly HON. PHILIP M. CRANE ganda which cannot help but reinforce one's never let a chance go of denouncing the worst suspicions. For instance, didn't Hanoi inhuman gulag. Now that they are in power, OF ILLINOIS keep . claiming that the lawyer Tran Van these same leaders are filling it with "reac­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuyen was alive and well even after he had tionaries," "saboteurs," "conspirators," "en­ Wednesday, April 4, 1979 died in prison? One example which doesn't emy agents" and "traitors." However, unlike lead one to have faith in Government pro­ what used to happen before, no foreign in­ e Mr. PHILIP M. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, nouncements. vestigating commission is allowed to verify as the costs o: a postsecondary education The Vietnamese leaders had declared that the accuracy of these ignominious as3ertions. continue to rise, students and parents after three years all detainees held in "re­ The well-known militants who, under the are faced with the likelihood of reduced education" camps and not liberated would be old regime, courageously devoted themselves choices as they approach the education tried in people's courts for their "crimes." t o defending political prisoners have all gone Three and a half years have gone by and silent. Some are in official jobs, others behind marketplace. The sad reality today is most of the prisoners are stlll in camps. None bars. that many students must secure more seems to have been formally tried. Besides, it Ho Chi Minh City's big Chi Hoa prison, than a good scholastic record in order to is clear the problem isn't even one of justice, which before April 1975 held some 10,000 peo­ enroll in a good college; they must also which in any case ls synonymous with power. . ple crowded in degrading conditions. is again secure outside financial assistance. As It depends on the goodwill of 17 men in the said to be full. Extensions are said to be this problem becomes more pervasive, party's political bureau. "Re-education" ls underway in Le Van Duyet prison. in t he the citizens of our Nation, individually not a punishment in the ordinary penal south of the city. Its four-by-eight metre cells and collectively, stand to lose. sense. At best it ls an administrative meas­ which used to hold up to 35 prisoners each To address this problem, I have intro­ ure of unlimited duration imposed by the until this year are now said to contain over victor on the vanquished. 50, with the prisoners taking turns to sleep. duced a bill which would provide a tax Moreover, the military authorities appear I was told of similar prisons in the proYinces, credit of $1,000 for expenditures of tui­ to be transferring detainees from the camps but of course these stories cannot be verified. tion, fees, books, supplies, and equipment under their jurisdiction to those run by the Last month (September) the authorities required for enrollment and instruction prison administration. Nobody knows what arrested a surgeon from a Saigon hospital at an institution of higher education or a the status of a "re-educated" person would who, it was said, talked too freely, complain­ vocational school. The full credit may be be following such a transfer. ing about working conditions and the lack of granted to those with a tax liability equal Celebrating National Day on September facilities. The same fate befell Cao Giao and to or greater than the amount of credit 2, Hanoi announced that prisoners would be Thai Lang last June, two journalists well offered, while those paying less than released. A few appear to have been !reed. known for their independent judgment and $1,000 in taxes would be eligible to re­ In the South, in some chays (usually a group opposition to the former Saigon regime. ceive a credit equal to their tax liability. of about 400 detainees, but the number With three other French journalists, I varies according to the size of the camp) , one tried to find out what had happened to a Immediately following its passage, this or two prisoners were let out. But not one number of people whose names we submitted bill would provide the full credit of $1,000 of a wide sampling of 100 former Vietnamese to the authorities. But it was a sheer waste for every subsequent taxable year. officers and government employees married of time. We did receive a few answers from A credit of $1,000 is necessary to meet to Frenchwomen, who on this account would officials. Here are some of them. current expenses in financing a college be entitled to come to France once they are Huynh Tan Phat, former president of the education. The College Entrance Exami­ liberated, had been freed up to the end of provisional revolutionary government and nation Board NS by shooting down an unarmed civilian plane ment in the nation's colleges and universities and then s lau gh t ering the survivors. Is down. Until passions cooled, a conference could Increasing costs could eventually re­ HON. WILLIAM L. DICKINSON not have succeeded. Now Smit h has renewed strict those pursuing a postsecondary ed­ OF ALABAMA his offer to meet. Mugabe and Nkomo have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES refused, and Mu gabe has published a list of ucation. Without a bill of this type, we "trait ors" he intends t o execu t e when he are endorsing financial discrimination Wednesday, April 4, 1979 seizes power. The list include Muzorewa , against middle income Americans. e Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, it is Sithole and Chirau. Morgan Frankel, an analyst in taxa­ St ill further, it is complained t hat the new tion from the Economic Division of the my belief that the Carter administration constit ution gives 28 percent or t h e seats Congressional Research Service, studied should reevaluate its position on the up­ in parliament for 10 years t o whit es who the benefit of a $1 ,000 credit for middle coming elections in Rhodesia. The Bir­ const it u t e 4 percent of the population. Sena­ income families. His report indicates that mingham News recently ran an editorial tor Hayak'.l.wa makes the point t hat this has by James J . Kilpatrick dealing with that been the patt ern in Africa as one-time colo­ those with incomes under $15,000 would nies have achieved independence. represent 51.3 percent of the cumulative very issue which I would like to share with my colleagues: FORMULA USED BEFORE percentage for the tax benefit, and those When Tanzania was created, 30 percent o! WHY WON'T U.S. Arn RHODESIA ELECTIONS? with incomes under $25,000 would bring the seats went to 1 percent or the popula­ the cumulative percentage benefit to (By James J . Kilpatrick) tion. In Kenya , 30 percent of the seats went 83.6 percent. It is worth returning to the Rhodesian to 4 percent. In Zambia, half of the 30 parlia­ This tax credit proposal will not create issue one more time, if only to plead wit h mentary seats were reserved for 84,000 Euro­ another bureaucratic regulation. In his President Carter to reconsider the obst ruc­ peans; half went to 3.5 million blacks. Such column, "A Valuable Tuition Credit," tionist position he and his advisers have provisions are transl tional, and they are es­ taken. In this crit ically import ant matter, sential. Washington Post, March 26, 1978, George Mr. Cart er is dead wrong; the senat ors who Finally, it ls objected that to dignify the F. Will cited this key virtue: "A tax credit oppose him are dead right. April elections, even by sending neutral ob­ involves no administrative burden" and Barely a month remains before Rhodesia is servers, would be to alienate such states as is not merely a " ... routine bureaucratic to conduct elections t o a new biracial parlia­ Mozambique, Angola, Tanzania, Zambia and reflex." This concept enables the amount ment under t he newly approved const itution. Botswana. But ls It supposed that these of credit to be subtracted directly from These are not sham elections. They represent states would sever all relations with the the amount owed by the taxpayer, hence a profoundly serious effort by white and West and make war upon Zimbabwe? Non­ these funds are utilized by the citizens black leaders to create a truly viable republic sense! in the heart of southern Africa. The sit uation could be peacefully resolved­ rather than the Government for the Now, "viable" ls one of t hose useful words but not hing will be peacefully resolved so means of education desired. that have been damaged in bu re a ucra tic long as Mr. Carter refuses to go the first In his book, "Crisis in College Finance? handling. It means "capable of living," and mlle.e Time for New Solutions," Roger A. Free­ that is precisely what ls at stake next moni;h man sums up the urgent need for a pro­ in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe-the birth of a gov­ gram to insure the freedom of choice ernment that ls capable of surviving the ter­ REMEMBERING REV. MARTIN and diversity for our Nation's young peo­ rible stresses that wm follow in the spring LUTHER KING, JR. ple pursuing the high level of education and summer. CIVIL WAR THE ALTERNATIVE which we have thus far afforded them, The United States makes all the differenc"!. HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. saying: With our help, and Britain's, the infant wlll OF MICHIGAN The scope and depth o! knowledge avail­ pull through; without it, the effort will die. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES able and required are growing at an explosive Chaos and civil war most surely wlll follow. r a.te; t he nation's future depends increasing­ What ls asked of Mr. Carter at this point? Wednesday, April 4, 1979 ly on having its citizenry more broadly edu­ Only t hat he authorize a team of observers cat ed, yet more thoroughly trained in sci­ for the April elections. It seems little enough • Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, 11 years ence, technology, and other special fields. to ask. After all, this is the key element t he ago today Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. United States has been demanded for years­ was tragically assassinated in Memphis, The cost of a tuition tax credit plan free elections open to all Rhodesians over the Tenn. The passing of time ordinarily has has been discussed in dollar terms as a age or 18. a way of dulling or tarnishing the mem­ "revenue loss," however, in the long run, But the elections will have little meaning ory of our national leaders. Such has the program would become a "revenue in­ if t hey are not certified as free and open by not been the case with the memory of Dr. vestment" as the revenues would lead to neutral observers. Without such certifica t ~on . King. In America's history he stands higher learning, better job opportunities, Unit ed Nat ions sanctions wlll remain in effect. among a small number of great leaders and consequently a more productive for whom respect. affection. and admira­ economy providing the Federal treasury A bipartisan group of senators clearly com­ prehends the situation. The group includes tion have grown with each passing year. with higher tax revenues. Martin Luther King. Jr. possessed ex­ As a former college educator, I firmly such liberals as McGovern of Sout h D a. l ~ o t a. such moderates as Schweiker of Pennsyl­ traordinary qualities. He was a deeply believe that the key to America's future vania and DeConcinl of Arizona, and such religious man. the son and grandson of lies in its young people. Revenue loss conservatives as Hayakawa of California. two prominent ministers. at whose can be printed simply in terms of dollars They are willing to have a look; they pereei ve church-the Ebenezer Baptist Church in and cents, but a monetary investment nothing that is wrong, and everything that 1s Atlanta-he too became a minister. In in our future cannot be itemized. Our tax right , in sending observers. his religious practice and his preaching system recognizes the need to encourage What are Mr. Carter's objections? The of the social gospel that it is man's duty capital investment by business to keep president himself has never spelled them out. not only to have faith. but also to serve the economy strong. Our tax code must Various spokesmen have complained that the elections cannot be regarded as open if the others (according to Luke: "To heal the also reflect the realization that educat­ brokenhearted, to free the captives, to ing our young people is an equally sound guerrilla factions of Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo "are not allowed to partici­ set at liberty them that are bruised") investment in the future of our country. Dr. King transformed the religious and Education is the key to an informed elec­ pate." That was how U.N. Ambassador Andrew secular life of the American people and, torate which, in turn, provides the foun­ Young put it a few days ago. But only their indeed, of peoples throughout the world. dation for our democracy. As our third own obduracy prevents the ZANU and Dr. King's stature rests on many other President, Thomas Jefferson, founder of ZAPU factions from voting with everyone qualities: A singular self-discipline and the University of Virginia, appraised the else. steadiness. an unshakable faith in the value of education, so would I: It also is complained that there never basic goodness of man, a dedication to I know no safe depository of the ultimate has been a multi-party conference that would raising up the lives of the disadvantaged, powers of societ y but the people themselves; brin g Mugabe and Nkomo t oget her with a n d if we t hink t hem not enlightened enough leaders of t he transitional government : exceptional courage. and an irrepressible t o exercise t heir control wit h a wholesome Smit h , Muzorewa, Sit hole and Chirau. But dream for racial and economic justice. dl<>c ret lon. the remedy is not to take it from Ian Smit h months ago t ried to n egotiate Like the great teacher before him. his t hem. but t o inform their discret ion by edu­ wit h Nkomo as the bet ter of t he two t er­ guiding lights-Christ. Socrates, Gan­ cation.e rorist commanders; Nkomo's rebels responded dhi-Martin Luther King, Jr. engaged April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7307 individuals in a process of seeking after dreams of all the peoples who compose That left 11-year-old Scott stlll in the this Nation. main current of the river-rapidly moving the truth. He was convinced in the basic out in the ebbing tide. goodness of individuals, but he also knew Dr. King championed justice and lib­ But first, Harrison says he had to deal that ignorance was widespread and erty for all Americans. He exemplified wit h Thaddeus, who thought the whole change, frightening. Many critics ac­ a very special ideal in human history­ episode was, "fun and games." cused Dr. King of fomenting violence the ideal of serving one's fellow brothers Harrison says he was swimming to the through his actions. They were unable to and sisters. In teaching us how to live in younger boy, but the dog kept interrupting see that the tragic violence that occurred justice and in freedom, and how to die t he rescue, trying to retrieve Harrison's as well, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hat. After t he dog put him under water once. during the civil rights struggle did not Harrison says he finally got Thaddeus turned arise out of the nonviolent civil disobe­ taught us a great deal, indeed.• around, back toward the shore, and he began dience of Dr. King's movement, but out t he 50-yard swim to Scott. of the conditions of anger, antagonism, The 11-year-old had been under water tension, and violence that existed very once by the time Harrison reached him. He close to the surface of everyday life. In CARNEGIE A WARD FOR HEROISM grabbed Scott's collar for the long swim Dr. King's words, the tension that al­ back. ready existed had to be "exposed, with All three were then taken to the Phillips' HON. DAVID F. EMERY home. Shortly afterward, Scott and Paul all the tension its exposure creates, to OF MAINE the light of human conscience and the were taken to Webber Hospital in Biddeford IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES b y the Kennebunk Fire Department ambu­ air of national opinion before it can be lance. The t wo were t reated there for cured." Wednesday, April 4, 1979 h ypothermia and shock and released, accord­ Martin Luther King, Jr.'s tireless ef­ • Mr. EMERY. Mr. Speaker, on Janu­ ing t o Kennebunk Police Officer Kent Bur­ forts in the North and South were large­ ary 28, 1979, an 11-year-old resident in d een, who arrived at the scene shortly after ly responsible for the vitality of the civil t he rescue. my district was rescued from certain Harrison says he was revived with a hot rights movement and the passage of the death on an ice-floe in Maine's 30-degree landmark civil rights laws in the 1960's. shower and some rum at t he Phillips' house. waters by an 18-year-old who risked his Harrison, at school t his morning, told It may be said that his counsel influenced own life to save a stranger. In recogni­ t he Journal Tribune in a t elephone inter­ Presidents Kennedy and Johnson in tion of this act of selfless courage, David view that he had taken basic first aid moving them toward leadership on civil Harrison of Kennebunk has been nomi­ classes at the high school, and had been rights. In all of his activities during the nated to receive the Carnegie Institute's enrolled in Red Cross swimming classes, civil rights movement, Dr. King spoke alt hough he's never had any lifesaving coveted award for individual heroism. inst ruction. for all people. "Black and White Togeth­ As we celebrate the International Year er-We Shall Overcome" was Martin Harrison says he learned later that the of the Child, it seems especially appro­ two boys were playing on an ice floe in a King's credo to the last. I do not think priate to share with you the following calm tida l pool, but t he current of t he river it is an exaggeration to say that Dr. King account of this remarkable incident and a nd t he rapidly-ebbing spring t ide turned helped change the face of America. to commend the courageous young Maine t he game into a life-and-death situation. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s memory is man who risked his life to save another. Alt hough his act ions Sunday may be con­ honored in a great many ways, at home sidered heroic, Harrison says he's "trying and abroad. Thirteen States, as well as [From the Journal Tribune, Jan. 29, 1979] to keep low," today in school.e most major cities in the United States, KHS SENIOR RESCUES 11-YEAR-OLD honor him through public holidays or (By John Young) days of observance. Dr. King's gravesite KENNEBUNK.-Tt was just anot her winter in Atlanta has become a national shrine Sunday afternoon for 18-year-old David SIGNIFICANT SAVIN GS CAN BE at which world leaders have paid their Harrison. REALIZED BY ELIMINATING LAN­ The Kennebunk High School senior decided GUAGE MINORITY GROUP PRO­ respects. to visit a friend, Tammy Phillips, and drove In each Congress from the 90th Con­ VISIONS FROM THE VOTING down to her family's Great Hill Road home RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 gress onward, I have introduced in the at Kennebunk Beach. House of Representatives a bill to des­ A few minutes later, he would be swim­ ignate Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth­ ming through the near-freezing ocean, risk­ HON. ROBERT McCLORY ing his own life t o rescue a st ranger. day a national holiday. I thank 118 of OF ILLINOIS my colleagues who have joined in co­ Harrison says he was talking wit h Tammy sponsoring this legislation, H.R. 15; and on the sun porch of her parent's home about IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES 2 p .m ., when Mrs. Brian Phillips-in near­ Wednesday, April 4, 1979 invite my other colleagues to earnestly hyst erics-interrupted. consider supporting and cosponsoring Their attention was t hen fixed on two e Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Speaker, today I the bill. Twenty-six Senators have joined young boys, caught on an ice floe which was am introducing legislation which will not Senators BAYH, KENNEDY, and DOLE in heading out to sea in the rapid currents of only cut enormous expenses from State cosponsoring S. 25, the companion bill. the nearby mout h of the rain-swollen Mou­ and Federal Government budgets but President Carter has also endorsed the sam River. also eliminate a great deal of confusion Martin Luther King, Jr. national holi­ Harrison says t he two bovs, lat er identified and dissension. This legislation is en­ day bill. as Scott Carney, 11 , of Kennebunk Beach, and Paul Chaisson, 14, of Portland, "tried t o titled "The Voting Rights Act Repealer I am aware that the public holiday is land themselves before t hey hit the tidal Amendments of 1979" and will eliminate an honor that, heretofore, has been re­ water," using sticks as oars. the requirement that so-called language served only for President Washington, They were not successful. minority groups be included within the Columbus, and great national events. Harrison ran from the Phillips' house as provisions of the Voting Rights Act. It May I respectfully suggest that this the boys tried to make a swim for shore. has the support from a number of my honor also be conferred on Dr. King, who He was followed b y the Phillips' dog, colleagues on both sides of the aisle. was the leader of the greatest modern Thaddeus. At the water line, Harrison says he Though I was an enthusiastic sup­ example of popular political action in dropped his shoes, coat, watch and wallet porter of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 this country. Martin King caused a re­ and ran into the churning tidal waters­ and 1970, the amendments in 1975 have birth in this Nation, a reaffirmation of where the temoerature was estimated to been fraught with difficulty and expense the ideas of freedom and justice which is be in the mid-30s. diverting funds from many more worth­ the cement which binds us togP.ther. Chaisson, the older of the two castaways, while projects to assist minority groups. We ought to have a way to honor this was able to swim out of the main current Under the mistaken belief that certain great human being and reaffirm the under his own power, says Harrison, but minoritv groups in this country were was unable to stand up because of the effects ideals he lived and died for. To honor of the frigid water. being discriminated against in the elec­ him through a national holiday would By this t ime, another Kennebunk High toral process because of a lack of pro­ also, of course, bestow a great honor on st udent. Robert Thibodeau, had arrived on ficiency in English, the Congress black Americans and represent another the scene, and Harrison says he helped amended the Voting Rights Act with step forward in reconciling the lives and Chaisson get to shore. provisions which sought to remedy this 7308 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1979 traditional coverage under the Act ln e.ny alleged discrimination. These am.e~d­ prison guards gouged out one of his eyes we.y. with a bayonet and beat another American ments provide that a State or pollt1cal Section 5. This section deletes from § 5 of prisoner to death in a Cuban prison. subdivision is now subject to the pro­ the Voting Rights Act, the preclearance re­ Grant, 27, of Milwaukee, Wis., is among visions of the Voting Rights Act if a quirements, based upon coverage by the bi­ six Americans who returned voluntarlly single language minority comprises 5 lingual triggering mechanism added by the from Cuba Tuesday to face air piracy charges percent of the total voting age citizen 1975 Amendments. This section does not af­ that could result in life prison sentences. population, and if the illiteracy ra~e of fect the preclearance requirements of § 5 Grant was the only one of the six to grant that group is greater than the national with respect to the Voting Rghts Act of 1965 an interview Friday inside the Duval County averages. The act defines "illiteracy" as or the 1970 Amendments. Jail where he is being held pending his re­ failing to complete the fifth primary Section 6. This section limits the coverage turn to face the skyjacking charges ln Mil­ of the Voting Rights Act to the fifteenth waukee. grade. amendment of the Constitution by deleting He was dressed in a. red flowered sport shirt The effect of these standards is that a references to the fourteenth amendment in e.nd grayish trousers. State, county, city, or town must provide § § 3 and 6 of the Voting Rights Act which He said he returned to the United States ballots and ballot information in the were inserted by the 197-0 Amendments. "because I found out I didn't like the Cuban languages which meet the 5-percent test. Rella.nee on the fourteenth amendment ts government ... Cuba is nothing but a pawn Many Members of Congress and offi­ unnecessary since traditional fifteenth of the Soviet Union." cials at the Department of Justice, which amendment guarantees have proven sumclent ''I'm glad I got to Cuba. It cost me my is charged with enforcing these provi­ in our ten yea.rs of experience under this eye e.nd almost my life," he said, but he Act. The voting guarantees of the fifteenth learned that Communist Cuban government sions, are beginning to realize the mis­ amendment sumciently safeguard any is prejudiced age.inst blacks. take which has been made. Numerous abridgement of voting rights on account of Grant said he went to Cuba by accident, cities and towns across the country are race or color. The courts have had little that his intended destination was Africa being forced to spend thousands of dol­ trouble in protecting the rights of language where he said he wanted to live. He said he lars to provide bilingual ballots printed minority groups under the fifteenth amend­ was concerned a.bout black Americans in the in such obscure languages as Cantonese, ment. This section. in no way affects rights United States, but soon learned Cuba was far Tagalog, and Mandarin, even though no protected by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 more racist than the U.S. He said he stm or the 1970 Amendments. wants to go to Africa. members of these minority groups re­ Section 7. This section deletes a cross-ref­ side within the voting district. Grant said he was in jail e.11 but two of his erence in §§ 2, 3, 4(a). 4(d), 5, 6, and 13 of seven e.nd a. half years in Cuba. Why did he One example of how the current law the Voting Rights Act to the guarantees es­ return to the United States, knowing he works is found in the city of San Fran­ tablished ln § 4(f) (2) of that Act. Section 4 could spend the rest of his life in prison? cisco. The registrar of voters has had to (f) (2) ls repealed in § 4 of this bill and any "I am 27 years old," Grant said. "I feel like bear the exorbitant cost of printing reg­ cross-reference in the Act to lt must be elim­ I'm a thousand years old. I knew I'd prob­ istration materials, ballots, and ballot inated. Section 7 in no way affects voting ably die in prison there." information in Cantonese, Mandarin, guarantees protected by the Voting Rights He couldn't control his emotions as he re­ Spanish, and Tagalog. Act of 1965 or the 1970 Amendments. called the death of another friend he knew e.s Section 8. This section deletes the defin,1- Allen Sweitzer, who had lived in Chicago. Very shortly, the General Accounting tion of "language minorities" e.nd "language Sweitzer was origina.Uy from Chicago e.nd Office will release a report of its study minority" groups from § 14(c) of the Voting came to Cuba via Jamaica. He was put ln of these provisions of the Voting Rights Rights Act. Repealing the other bilingual prison for 12 years because the Cubans sald Act. It is my hope that the GAO has con­ provisions of the Voting Rights Act removes he stole a car radio, Grant said. cluded that the statute is not only unen­ the need for a definition, of language minor­ He recalled that Sweitzer wore a "P" on hls forceable, but unnecessary. ity groups. This section does not affect the shirt. A drunken guard wanted to know what Mr. Speaker, the bilingual amend­ protection of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the "P" was for, and Sweitzer replied, ments of 1975 are overbroad and unnec­ or the 1970 Amendments. "prisoner of war." In to Section 9. This section deletes § 203 of the The guard then "asked him what hls na­ essary. order lift the outrageous Voting Rights Act which imposes bilingual tionality was and he said North American." burden on many of our cities and towns, election requirements in location.s where lan­ Grant said, "He told him, 'Don't you know I am introducing this legislation to re­ guage minority groups have a lower degree that if you're in this country, Americans a.re peal the 1975 bilingual amendments to of education than the national average. The dogs?'" the Voting Rights Act. I am including a onerous requirements of § 203 are identical Grant said the guard beat Sweitzer's head detailed section-by-section analysis of with the requirements in § 4(f) which ls against a steel gate, that Sweitzer com­ this legislation: repealed in § 4 of this legislation. Section 9 plained the next day of headaches and died also contains technical amendments re-num­ after being taken to a hospital. SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS bering successive sections in Title 2 of the Grant said that after Sweitzer dled at a Section 2. This section strikes language Voting Rights Act. This section does not af­ hospital, guards asked him and several other from §4(a) of the Voting Rights Act which fect traditional protections of the Voting prisoners, "Do you know judo?" and tried to incorporates a reference to the blllngual Rights Act of 1965 or the 19170 Amendments.e get them to sign papers saying they had been trigger established by the 1975 Amendments responsible for Sweitzer•s death. tn § 4(b). Section 2 does not affect the tra­ Ce.Im throughout most of the interview, ditional coverage of the Voting Rights Act Grant became violently .emotional while de­ accomplished by either the 1965 or the 1970 CUBA scribing the prison protest on Oct. 24, 1974, Amendments. the day after Sweitzer's dee.th, when he e.nd Section 3. This section deletes from § 4(b} seven other prisoners went up on a water of the Voting Rights Act the blllngual trig­ HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK tank to protest the killing. gering provision added by the 1975 Amend­ They refused to come down until they were ments. Section 3 does not affect the tradition­ OF OHIO allowed to talk to officials from the Cuban al triggering mechanism with respect to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Department of Immigration or Department. Voting Rights Act of 1975 or the 1970 Wednesday, April 4, 1979 of the Interior, Grant said. Amendments. Guards went up on the prison roof and Section 4. This section deletes § 4(f) of e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, this pointed AK-47 rifles at them, Grant said, but the Voting Rights Act which was added by week we will be considering foreign aid they still refused to come down, so guards the 1975 Amendments to the Voting Rights to a number of countries. As the House with sticks e.nd machetes surrounded the Act. Section 4(f} of the Voting Rights Act considers H.R. 3324, the foreign aid bill, water tower, and firemen came in with watnr is the heart of the b111ngual expansion ac­ hoses to force them to come down, he said. complished by the 1975 Amendments. That I hope my colleagues keep in mind that The water was forcing the prisoners off the section prohibits English-only elections by indirectly we have been aiding some of tower but then "the wind changed and the finding an English-only election to be a. the worst violators of human rights in water started going back on the Cubans.'' literacy test equivalent to the literacy test the world. I provide, for my colleagues' After that happened, he said, "the gates imposed ln the old South. Section 4(f) also attention, two recent examples of people O!Jened up and guards started coming tn mandates the printing of all registration or whose human rights have been abridged: with sticks and machetes." They forced the voting notices, forms, instructions, assist­ prisoners off the tower by throwing rocks ance, or other materials or information re­ RETURNED PRISONER CITES INHUMANITY IN at t hem e.nd savagely beat them once they lating to the electoral process, including bal­ CUBAN JAIL were on the ground, he sald. lots, in the language of any covered language (By Otis Perkins and Dick Hogan) Becoming increasingly more agitated as minority group. Section 4 (f) was not p·art of "When you are an American in Cuba it's he recalled t he event, Grant told how a guard t he Voting Rights Act of 1965 or the 1970 hell, baby," said Garland J . Grant, who de­ stabbed him in the eye. "At first I thought Amendments e.nd its repeal wm not affect scribed in an emotion-choked voice how it was just swollen." But when he was April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7309 taken to a hospital a.fter a four-hour wait, Cuban U.N. officials charged with clearing hair and eyebrow loss, stomach ulcers and a Russian doctor told him it would have to visitors. Once in Havana I rarely went on the circulation problems. Severe psychological or come out. programmed official tours. Instead I called on nervous disorders were also described to me: He said that at the hospital he was "yell­ the ex-prisoners, families and friends of pris­ uncontrollable head-fiicklngs, eyedartings, ing at them, cal11ng them names in Spanish." oners and other underground opponents of rapid gestures and sleeplessness, with some They gave him a form to sign for his con­ the Castro regime to whom I had brought prisoners reported screaming through the sent to have the eye removed, he said, and introductions. night. when he refused to sign told him they would TRADE UNIONISTS • remove it anyway. Estimates of current Cuban political pris­ A comparison ls striking: The case of He also raised his shirt to display long oners range from about 5,000 to more than former Chilean foreign minister Orlando scars, which he said were from wounds in­ 50,000. In comparison, Soviet dissident An­ Letelier, murdered in ostentatious gangland fiicted by guards' bayonets. drei Sakharov estimates the USSR may hold style, with possible complicity of right wing Conditions in Cuban prisons were "in­ about 10,000 political detainees: whatever fig­ Cuban exiles, received enormous publicity in human," Grant said. On a typical day food ure is used for Cuba, in proportion to popu­ the U.S. The case of nearly-murdered Huber consisted of half a cup of milk and a piece lation (9.5 million Cubans, more than 250 Matos, Jr., shot up with comparable Mafia of dry bread in the morning, rotten fish for million Soviets) Cuba has for more politi­ met hodology, ls almost ignored here. Amer­ lunch, "and a lot of rice," which was mainly cal prisoners. icans are properly outraged at the predations what prisoners were fed, he said. Among these prisoners are many trade of the Chilean DINA secret police, with its When reminded that he faces a possible union figures who fought against the old Ful­ possible link to the Letelier assassination. life sentence for his alleged crime, Grant gencio Batista regime with Castro but were But not a word about the Cuban DGI, which said, "life ls a gamble," and that an Ameri­ imprisoned in the early 1960s as the Cuban in turn may be tied to the Matos shooting, as can prison would be "paradise compared to Revolution became Communist. Among the ruthless a secret police apparatus as DINA, the Cuban prisons." Air piracy, a federal imprisoned Cuban labor leaders whose re­ as connected with political prisoner abuses offense, carries a prison term of from 20 lease has been sought in public human rights at home and assassinations abroad. years to Ufe. petitions from many other Latin American The Cuban government wants the embargo He said he plans to write a book about his trade unionists are: lifted and U.S. trade resumed to try to spur experiences in Cuba called "Castro's Paradise, Reinold Gonzales, national leader of the its stagnant economy. "End the embargo" Black Man's Problem," explaining that .he banking worker<> union; was the repeated demand of Cuban officials feels black Cubans are being exploited by Gabriel Hernandez Custodio, secretary gen­ I encountered, and communicating this mes­ being sent to Africa to fight in wars financed eral of the pharmaceutical workers union; sage seemed to me to be their government's by the Soviet Union. Arturo Martinez Pagalday, organizational main purpose in inviting Americans to the secretary of the retail clerks union in Havana Island. A REPORT FROM CUBA-CASTRO'S POLITICAL province; To my surprise, Cuban dissidents in Cuba PRISONERS Herberto Hernandez, secretary general of to whom I spoke agreed! Castro opponents (By Theodore Jacqueney) the Cuban Workers Confederation in Ca­ with whom I spoke want passionately to re­ "In our terrible plight, new winds of hope maguey province; sume trade and diplomatic relations with reach Cuban political prisoners," Eleno 0. Pedro Forcade, secretary general of the the U.S., although for very different reasons Oviedo wrote to President Jimmy Carter in chemical workers union; than the government officials It means open­ a letter smuggled out of Cuba from a Havana. Aldo Cabrera, secretary general of the food ing up Cuba to penetration," explained one area prison in February.• processors union; implacable Castro foe who took great chances Using the same underground postal serv­ Reinaldo Nunez, a leader of the Catholic introducing me around to other dissidents ice a few days later, Miguel Groero Morales workers union; and prisoner !am111es. Repeatedly dissidents wrote to the new American President to say Rodolfo Riesgo, a leader of the journalists told me that they hoped for an increase in that although his 15-year sentence was up union; and many others. American diplomats, businessmen, journal­ on March 15, his prison term was being ex­ Perhaps the most celebrat ed Cuban dissi­ ists, tourists and other visitors in Cuba. tended because he refused the government dent is Huber Matos, once Amnesty Inter­ Whether all Cuban dissidents would "rehab111tation" plan which requires politi­ national's "political prisoner of the year." agree--0r whether this should be the dec1- si ve consideration for U.S. policy toward cal prisoners to renounce .their political be­ He was a commander in Castro's rebel army Cuba-I don't know. But this was the view liefs. In protest, he planned a hunger strike. and became military governor of Camaguey province following revolutionary victory in expressed by the dissidents to whom I spoke. A close friend had died in a similar hunger My friends and I hear about the under­ strike response to another sentence exten­ January 1959. Ten months later he resigned, protesting increasing Communist domination ground in Russia," said another dissident, sion for rejecting "rehab111tation," Groero of the new government, and was arrested on "about Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov and oth­ wrote. The political prisoner told the presi­ the now-ironic charge of "slandering the ers of the Russian reslstnce. Do you think we dent that he "loves life" even though he has revolution by calling it "Communist'," a do not have our Cuban Solzhenltsyns, our been in prison for 15 years, but said he ls charge later changed to "treason." Sakharovs? How could we not, when we are determined to strike because he w111 not re­ Ping-ponged around the island's worst so close to your country and respect the ideas cant his religious beliefs or his views on prisons for more than 17 years, Matos has of your country, the democratic process, free­ democratic liberties. been held incommunicado in La Cabana dom, liberty? Of course we have people like Both letters were forwarded to the White prison for the past six years. Members of his them here. But how ls the world to know, a.nd House in March by Elena Mederos, Fidel family, including his father who is now more how can they be protected by world opinion, Castro's first minister of social welfare and than 90 years old. have tried repeatedly to like the Russians, if there are not journalists now the publisher of Of Human Rights, a visit him during this period, always unsuc­ here to meet them and write about them, if magazine devoted to Cuban political prison­ cessfully. Castro can arrest them and they disappear?" er issues. PRISON CONDITIONS Political prisoners in La Cabana prison In the 18 years Castro has governed Cuba, Earlier this year Matos was moved from La who provided me the information on Huber not one political prisoner has been am­ Cabana to Moralitos prison, about ten miles Matos also sent a message, put together in nestied. Only those who submit to the east of Havana, along with about 900 other consultation: Tell the world we are suffering ideology of their jallors are freed. Last Octo­ political prisoners. Although his present in Cuba's prisons. You asked about "human ber, when I travelled in Cuba, one dissident conditions are unknown, his treatment at La rights" in Cuba. In Cuba. t hese two words leader told me, "When I heard on a foreign Cabana was described to me through com­ are unknown. Cuba and Cubans would like radio broadcast of the Organization of Am­ munications with his prison mates when I to be free. Help them please. And guard the erican States investigating political prison­ was in Havana. Throughout his six years in liberty you have."e ers in Chile, I cried. Why don't they come La Cabana he was kept in a totally dark, 60 here and look into our political prisoners, square meter underground cell with between who have been treated as harshly as in seven and sixteen other men. The prisoners Chile and have been in prison so much were permitted to see daylight only three THE CHALLENGE OF THE FCMA longer?" times per week, for two-hour periods. The I visited Cuba with an invited group of cell was so hot and humid that "in the sum­ Ripon Society Republicans, neglecting to mer they have to carry water into the cell to HON. JOHN B. BREAUX mention my human rights interests to pour over themselves. Otherwise they could OF LOUISIANA not live, because of the heat," I was told. •Oviedo wrote that he had served more Almost all political prisoners in La IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES than two years in the U.S. Army after leav­ Cabana~alled "plantados"-allegedly suf­ Wednesday, April 4, 1979 ing Cuba, and had been employed by a fered the loss of many teeth; a few had lost Florida fishing concern when he and his all. Prisoners also complained of infestations • Mr. BREAUX. Mr. Speaker. at the be­ companions. taking refuge from a storm, of rats, mice and "all kinds of insects." The ginning of this Congress I assumed the were kidnapped from Bahamian terrLtory by inmates reported steadily worsening vision chairmanship of the Subcommittee on Cuban naval forces in 1963. caused by the lack of light, limb paralysis, Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and CXXV---460-Part 6 7310 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1979 the Environment of the Merchant Ma­ I say "opportunity" because while we have occur within 200 miles of our shores. Foreign rine and Fisheries Committee. Over the seen some progress toward domestic usage, fishermen continue to harvest nearly two we have not yet scratched the surface of the million metric tons of fish within that zone past few years, this subcommittee has potential that exists. And the benefits will be that under the allocation system that per­ been engaged in a continuing effort to realized only if we exercise our opportunity mits them to fish on stocks unused by revitalize the U.S. fishing industry. The The opportunity will not disappear, rather it domestic fishermen. first major step in this effort was the will remain as long as the FCMA stands in So, as I have indicated, the incentives for passage in early 1976 of the Fishery Con­ the statutes. But a failure on our part to development of the total fishing industry servation and Management Act, com­ open the door to opportunity relinquishes exist. But such development ls perceived monly known as the 200-mile Fishing that opportunity to foreign fishermen who differently by the various segments of the stand ready to continue their harvest pat­ industry. There are those who want the role Zone Act. terns of the past. of government reduced to the smallest possi­ A major contribution to the develop­ Why? How can thls be so? It always in­ ble. There are those who want harvesting ment of this legislation was made by a t rigues me when I receive correspondence on capacity fully developed and assured before then freshman Member from the State a law Congress has passed that demands my marketing or processing capacity is ad­ of Washington, Congressman DoN intervention because provisions of the law dressed. There are those who want domestic BONKER. He labored long and hard to are being ignored or disobeyed. Such ls the harvest and export of raw product. Some assure that the subcommittee was aware case with t he FCMA. The Unilateral Act by want joint ventures to take advantage o! of and responded to the needs of fisher­ the United States Congress to set aside an existing foreign technology and foreign de­ economic zone within two hundred miles of mand. And, there are those who shrewdly men and related industries in the State our shores was undertaken primarily to pro­ foresaw the enactment of the FCMA and of Washington and the Pacific North­ tect and preserve t he fish resources within invested heavily in domestic industry to west. DoN continues to be an active and t he zone for domestic use. However, the po­ avoid their interests and those of the foreign effective member of the subcommittee sition of the United States in the world com­ nations they represent. and I intend to make good use of his munity as a responsible leader did not al­ But underlying all these diverse opinions fisheries know-how as we consider fur­ low such unprecedented action without rec­ of the direction we should pursue to realize ther steps to realize the great potential ognition of the food needs of the world and the full potential of what we have carved t he preponderance (nearly one-fifth) of all out for this nation by enactment of the of this vital American industry. available seafood in the economic zone we FCMA is an incredible amount of investment In recognition of his efforts, DON was had established. So, the exclusiveness of the by those pioneers who traditionally have asked to make the principal address at domestic use of fish resources within the zone been in the forefront of any expansion un­ the Northwest/ Alaska 200-mile Fisheries extended only to t he limits of capacity for dertaken. Spearheaded by the hard-nosed, Impact Conference held in Seattle, harvest and processing by United States in­ weatherbeaten, independent, small business­ Wash., on February 27 and 28. This con­ dustry. Any stocks that exist beyond that men cusses that man our fishing fleets, new are to be provided for foreign interest on a keels for large, modern vessels are being laid ference was organized by the Washing­ permit system managed by the Commerce ait an unprecedented rate. And, as was dem­ ton State Department of Commerce and Department. onstrated when domestic harvest of tanner Economic Development, the U.S. Depart­ While many assumed passage of the FMCA crab increased spectacularly, processing ca­ ment of Commerce, the Pacific North­ would require all foreign fishing vessels to pacity expanded to absorb it and Japanese west Regional Commission, and the abandon our shores, just the opposite ls fishermen relinquished the major portion of Washington Public Ports Association. It true. If all foreign fishermen are to leave, it another species. As domestic harvest increases brought together a large gathering of is incumbent upon us to develop an industry on other species I have been assured by sev­ that preempts their rights within 200 miles eral of those who dominate the processing fish processors and harvesters and many of our costs by utilizing the full potential industry that capacity will expand to absorb others interested in the development of of the fish stocks found there. it. our underutilized species of fish and There is ample incentive to do so. A What should the government's role be in shellfish. dramatic increase has occurred in domestic this development process? And what special Mr. Speaker, Congressman DON BoN­ seafood consumption in recent years opening role should I play as chairman of the sub­ KER's remarks on that occasion provide expanded markets. The latest available sta­ committee on international development? tistics show annual per capita consumption Does my increasing seniority on the mer­ an excellent insight into the opportuni­ is approaching 20 pounds, up nearly seven chant marine committee, dominated by con­ ties available to America's fishermen and pounds in the past two decades. I! the cur­ gressmen from the Pacific Northwest (three processors and some of the problems rent price increases in beef continue, I am from Washington) , give us an advantage which must be overcome if we are to confident our per capita consumption o! beef, that could be exploited to expedite develop­ realize those opportunities. For that nearly 150 pounds, will fall off while seafood ment of our fishing industry in the ' Pacific reason and because my subcommittee in­ consumption leaps upward. Northwest? I am confident that such ls the tends to bring related legislation before At the same time worldwide demand for case. seafood has marched steadily higher. This As a. matter of fact, major legislation that the House later this session, I would like fact, coupled with a reduction of foreign will be cosponsored by a majority of the to share his speech with my colleagues fishing in the zone, could provide major members of the merchant marine commit­ and through them with all those inter­ markets that are already well established, tee, including chairman Murphy of New ested in the future of our fishing unlike the nearly fledgling domestic markets. York, is being drafted by my staff in con­ industry. Another incentive is the similar action junction with his. We are addressing a num­ ber of issues in the legislation as we attempt THE CHALLENGE OF THE FCMA taken by other countries to reserve the waters within 200 miles o! their shores for to approach a total development package (By Hon. DON BONKER) use by their own nationals. As a result, that best responds to the needs of existing Our fish and timber resources are un­ nations like Japan that consume the major industry. paralleled in the world. Perhaps that is why portion of available seafood products have Perhaps of primary importance is a con­ we have been so complacent while foreign found themselves with less and less fishing solidation of present federal involvement in fishermen have scooped up our fish and our area and more and more dependence on fisheries. No less than eleven federal de­ logs have been floated away from our shores imports. partments and agencies are involved in ad­ in ever-increasing numbers. While the export An additional incentive is the possibility ministering the fragmented hodge-podge o! logs has helped to some degree in Ameri­ of reversal of what is happening in many that makes up fisheries policy in our gov­ can jobs and the value of the dollar, the po­ of our fisheries on fully utilized species. By ernment. Even consolidation, central to tential that could be achieved by exporting developing harvest and processing capacity forming the foundation for the steps to come, finished product instead of raw resource far on these newly reserved underutilized stocks is viewed in many different ways from out­ outweighs the benefits of such exports. And, we can perhaps relieve the pressure on our right paranoia to indifference. And the as such discussion pert ains to fish, we have fully utilized species. motives of those who advocate it are often in the past defaulted nearly completely by The contributions of such development suspect. standing by as foreign fleets harvested our of fisheries to the United St ates economy But beyond that we have an obligation fish resources and exported to us the proc­ could more than double, expanding from just to review the present structure of govern­ essed product. over seven billion dollars to over 15 billion ment to assure that it lends itself to reali­ But we slowed the process in 1976 by en­ dollars. In the process, literally hundreds of zation of the potential established when we acting the Fishery Conservation and Manage­ thousands of jobs would be added. reserved the waters within 200 miles of our ment Act. Its provisions that protect fish Right now, while the United States ranks shores for domestic use after years of abdi­ products within 200 miles of our coasts from sixth among the fishing nations of the world, cation of the sea's bounty to foreign fisher­ foreign harvest provide us the opportunity to it accounts for only four percent of world men. We must coordinate the management Pxpand greatly the impact of fisheries on the landings. And again that is desoite the fact of the fish resources in cooperation with the United States economy. that one fifth of the world's fish resources states. We must stand as partner to the en- April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7311 tire fishing Industry to assist in providing have succeeded in promoting a higher degree tablishing uniform compensation policies the financial help to build fleets that can of confusion than is normal in congress as across the Nation in a developing area harvest the seafood necessary to meet do­ we debate the different approaches that such as this are great. mestic and worldwide demand, to provide should be taken. Just when we are satisfied the research fac111ties that allow us to fol­ we are on the right track on an initiative Another very important feature of the low t.he most direct path toward full ut111- that will greatly benefit our domestic fishing bill which I fully support is its call for za.tion 1! our fish resources by developing industry, another voice ls heard taking us to research on both the cause and effect the vessels and gear for efficient harvest, the task because our action is perceived to be relationships between disease and chem­ technology for processing, and a distribu­ either unduly advantageous to a segment ical exposure, and on the adequacy of a tion and marketing system that 1s respon­ other than their own or not fully concel ved variety of compensation mechanisms. sive to changing and increasing demand. to offer the greatest possible advantage to This latter study of the compensation Such a partnership should not be in­ the broadest range of the industry. trusive. However, standing back and throw­ I! 1t were possible to encourage a con­ systems would complement a study which ing money at various segments o! the fish­ solidation o! views I would be willing to I earlier proposed as an amendment to ing industry is not needed or, in many cases, undertake the task. Every report and analysis the Toxic Substances Control Act. The wanted. we should be ready to make fund­ I have read about problems we face in bring­ study to be conducted by the Council on ing available whenever and wherever it ls ing our fishing industry to a competitive Environmental Quality has been author­ needed but only on a basis where there ls a status with that o! the nations who have ized at a funding level of $2 million by demonstrated desire by the segment of the long exploited our fish resources begin their discussion with the caveat that nothing can the Consumer Protection Subcommittee industry involved. And then, we should as­ of the House Commerce Commitee. sure the program initiated ls designed with really be accomplished until our Industry is participation by those who wm be impacted totally unified on all issues. O! course that ls My goal for this study is that it pro­ by it. not true, but any consensus could make the vide the Congress with information We have begun to see major changes al­ task o! successfully moving some necessary needed to formulate wise legislative pol­ ready in the fisheries economic zone. The legislative initiatives a much easier one. icies which will adequately deal with the number of foreign vessels fishing off our I am excited about the positive future that lies before us. I believe we can form whole range of issues relating to human shores has fallen rapidly, although actual exposure to toxic substances. Thus, the harvest numbers have not changed so alliances, both within the fishing industry dramatically. All manner o! speculation and between it and government that will study will define the scope of the human exists about why this is so, and the observer allow us to change the entire structure o! exposure problem in our country. A sec­ program now initiated and scheduled fishing nations In the world. We have al­ ond key feature of this study would be to !or expansion will give us first hand infor­ ready, In just a few years, changed this na­ identify and evaluate a wide variety of mation to answer all questions. This re­ tion's attitude from one of laissezfalre to options for compensating persons in­ trenchment o! foreign fishing effort has not near bellingerence In Its policy on fishing jured or damaged by exposure to toxic been accompanied, to date anyhow, by ap­ and fish resources. The reversal of nearly 20 years of uncurtalled over-fishing on our fish substances both outside and within the propriate increases in domestic harvest and workplace. we must determine why this ls so. stocks Is underway along with domestic de­ This leads naturally to another area o! velopment of the Industry. We have taken The study will also include an anal­ importance that legislation must address. the first faltering steps and are at the end ysis and evaluation of the various op­ The uncertainty that surrounds nearly of the diving board. rt Is time to jump In and tions for financing compensation pro­ every fishery is universal. The !act is that finish what is only begun.e grams. Finally, the study is to provide we really don't know what has happened recommendations which address both in the past or what is happening presently in the harvest o! fish resources. As I said, the the critical questions of social policy as observer program on foreign vessels will be­ SOLVING THE HUMAN PROBLEMS well as the practical issues of how to gin to fill some gaps in our knowledge, but OF EXPOSURE TO TOXIC SUB­ design and carry out one or several com­ the harvest figures generated by domestic STANCES pensatory systems. Thus, in many re­ fleets have not been handled in a way that spects, it would be complementary to the promotes confidence by those who are go­ study proposed in section 14Cb) of S. 420. ing to have to be encouraged to invest large HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE amounts o! money i! the fishery industry ls However, Mr. Speaker, as much as I to develop properly. I !eel we must remove OF NEW YORK support these several features of the any obstructions that exist, or are thought IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES proposed National Workers' Compensa­ to exist, that would preclude enthusiastic Wednesday, April 4, 1979 tion Standards Act of 1979, in the vital financing when funds are needed !or ex­ area of compensation for work-related pansion. I believe a consolidation o! the • Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker. last week illnesses and diseases, I want to express many data collection !unctions will serve as I had the opportunity to address the Sen­ my fear that the bill may not go far the most practical method reducing the un­ ate Human Resources Committee on a enough. In specific, the highly tentative certainty and raising the confidence o! the subject that concerns me deeply-the ex­ financial community in the future of the nature of the "advisory" role which the fishing industry. posure of Americans to toxic substances bill foresees for Federal standards re­ We must move on another front if we a.re and the illnesses and diseases caused by lating chemical exposure to human in­ to realize the full potential of the FCMA. such exposure. A related and no less im­ jury threatens to limit the effectiveness The current high reliance of several fish portant problem is the difficulty which of this program as a compensation consuming nations on the fish resources persons injured and damaged by such mechanism for work-related diseases. It within our economic zone provides us with materials face in obtaining compensation may be so toothless that it will not serve ready ma.de markets. Our government, how­ for their losses. ever, must begin to remove the trade re­ the major objective of the bill, which strictions that have developed in past years. My remarks to the Senate committee is to bring uniformity to workers' com­ The fact that many nations have been forced dealt with this subject and a separate but pensation programs across the country. to curtall their fishing effort because o! related aspect of S. 420. the National In the past 10 years, we in Congress adoption o! 200 mlle economic zones by so Workers' Compensation Standards Act have recognized that the proliferation many nation (78) will assist in this. But our of 1979, my longstanding interest and in­ of chemical and other substances manu­ state department must be made to under­ volvement in the question of product factured and used in our country poses stand and fully support the emerging nature liability insurance reform, dealt with o! fishing and its increasing importance to a potential threat to the health of our our nation and the world. Only in this way under section 10 of the bill. citizens and our environment. In re­ can we !ac111tate the elimination o! any TOXIC SUBSTANCES sponse, the Congress passed a number of trade restrictions that are not in the best First, with respect to toxic substances, important bills aimed at protecting hu­ interests o! our domestic fishing industry. I fully support the efforts of that commit­ man health and environmental quality Finally, I would like to comment on tee to enact nationwide standards for the by regulating such substances to limit another area that 1s impeding the effort to award of compensation for work-related or prohibit their release into the envi­ move positively to develop a strong, modern injury, illnesses, and disease. Such uni­ ronment. Examples of such legislation in­ fishing industry to meet the challenge o! the FCMA. Any consolldation o! views or support formity is long overdue. This is especially clude the Toxic Substances Control Act, might be o! unestimable importance. The important in the occupational disease the Clean Air and Water Acts, the Fed­ ,·ery nature of the harvesting and transporta­ field since our understanding of disease eral Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenti­ tion operations made up as I mentioned be­ caused by occupational exposure is only cide Act, the Resource Conservation and fore of independent-minded entrepreneurs beginning to deepen. The benefits of es- Recovery Act, and the Occupational 7312 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1979 safety and Health Act, to name just ing and possibly injury workers on the The Toxic Tort Act acknowledges the a few. job every day. fact that before we can consider com­ I think it fair to say that while the Mr. Speaker, I have attempted to ad­ pensation for injured victims of expo­ long-term goals of each of these acts dress some of these problems through sure caused illness or disease, we must were to protect our citizens from un­ legislation of my own. To limit exposure have a major research effort into the reasonable exposure to hazardous sub­ from one source of chemical exposure; relationships between exposure and dis­ stances, they do not deal with the ques­ namely, abandoned hazardous waste dis­ ease, and it makes provision for such tion of how to compensate persons al­ posal sites, I have introduced H.R. 1048, an effort. But once that determination ready injured or suffering damages from the Hazardous Waste Control Act. This is made, it would, through the rebuttable exposure to such substances, nor do they act would address the Love Canal and the presumption and liberalized statute of consider compensation for future ex­ estimated 800 to 1,000 similar abandoned limitation. facilitate, without mandat­ posure-caused injuries and damages. toxic waste dumps across the country ing, compensation of innocent victims. Thus, our unfinished e~viron~ental by amending the Resource Conservation I need not remind the Congress that agenda should include dealing with the and Recovery Act to provide for the iden­ the state-of-the-art of knowledge which real and often tragic human problems tification, reclamation, and monitoring can match exposure to a particular caused by toxic substance exposure. of such sites. chemical with a specific illness is rudi­ Another of my legislative proposals di­ Indeed, Mr. Speaker, I predict that the mentary at best. Only for a few selected rectly addresses the human problems diseases, such as black lung for coal decade of the 1980's will see a shift in caused by chemical exposure. I refer to miners and certain cancers of asbestos focus from concern for the physical en­ H.R. 1049, the Toxic Tort Act. workers, do we have a reasonable under­ vironment to the human 6,nvironment The Toxic Tort Act would: standing of the cause-and-effect rela­ and specifically upon health effects ~f First. Create a Federal cause of action exposure to environmental contami­ tionship between exposure and disease. for victims of toxic substances, permit­ Thus, I applaud the efforts of the Sen­ nants. As we begin to take control of the ting them to seek redress against negli­ physical environmental problems, we ate committee to include within S. 420 gent manufacturers. a mandate to the Secretary of Health, should shift our focus to the i\pacts of Second. Establish an independent Education, and Welfare to conduct stud­ past and continuing exposur to toxic agency within EPA to compensate vic­ substances, both in and out of he work­ ies of diseases and recommend standards tims of pollution-related injuries regard­ for: place, upon our population. less of fault. This agency would func­ One. Determining whether particular We are only now beginning to appre­ tion, in principle, like a workers' com­ diseases arise out of and in the course ciate the scope of the chemical exposure pensation system. of employment; problem for our population. We are able Third. Require EPA to study the rela­ Two. Establishing criteria for diagnos­ only crudely to estimate the numbers tionships between exposure to toxic sub­ ing diseases; and of persons who may be ~uffering ill ef­ stances and human disease and authorize Three. Establishing criteria for deter­ fects as a result of chemical exposure. EPA to make a "requisite nexus" finding. mining whether death or disabiUty is our knowledge of possible occupational This would overcome the problem of due to such diseases. exposure, while certainly not complete, proving causation with traditional proof This mandate in many respects par­ suggests that the problem in the work­ requirements. allels that proposed by my "requisite place may be huge and spread across a Fourth. Modify the proof and limita­ nexus" determination. In fact, Mr. wide range of worksites. For example, tions, requirements which claimants Speaker, I consider the matter of im­ while the worker in a chemical plant must meet in State workers' compensa­ proving our knowledge and understand­ producing pesticides may seem a likely tion proceedings and in court actions, ing of the relationships between exposure candidate for exposure to toxic chemi­ permitting the use of the presumption and disease so critical that I would cals, we also know that certain hospital based on EPA's "requisite nexus" find­ recommend to this subcommittee the workers may also be among the highest ings. option of creating a separate study blll risk persons. Undoubtedly, there will be Fifth. Subrogate EPA to the rights of so that if, by some chance, S. 420 did many more discoveries in this field. the injured party, enabling EPA to seek not pass the Congress, this research Although the focus of the Senate hear­ reimbursement from a negligent manu­ could begin. ing was workers' compensation, and thus, facturer. The second issue which I raised re­ exposure in the workplace, I also chose As you can see, my Toxic Tort Act garding s. 420 also deals with the disease to say a few words about another type addresses several of the same issues ad­ section of the bill. With respect to occu­ of exposure with which I have become dressed by S. 420, the National Workers' pational diseases. S. 420 would allow the painfully aware in the recent past. I refer Compensation Standards Act of 1979. I Secretary of HEW to propase standards to the nonoccupational exposure to would like to focus on two of the key for the compensation of work-related chemicals, a problem which may be even features of these bills and explain what I diseases to the Labor Secretary who then more severe than occupational exposure, consider to be the optimum for legisla­ may propose a recommended Federal and about which we know even less. tion to address compensation for toxic standard. After a relatively comprehen­ As many of you know, Niagara Falls' exposure-related disease and illness. sive scientific and public review of the Love Canal is in my congressional dis­ My bill proposes establishment of a standard, the Secretary of Labor may strict. In the Love Canal, we have an so-called requisite nexus or cause-and­ then publish the standard as an advi­ example of persons exposed to and in­ effect determination, between exposure sory standard which each State's work­ jured by toxic materials purely by virtue to a toxic substance and the possible ers' compensation agency may choose to of where they live. Unfortunately, the health effects from that exposure. The implement. Love Canal is not unique. Nor are the Toxic Pollutant Compensation Agency, In my view, Mr. Speaker, the fact that issues it raises about liability for human an independent office within the En­ the published standard is only an ad­ injuries caused by chemical exposure and vironmental Protection Agency would visory standard which the States may or the possible mechanisms and funding to make the requisite nexus determina­ may not choose to follow in their work­ compensate victims of such exposure. tion. This finding would necessarily pre­ ers' compensation programs represents~ Although ex;posure from abandoned cede any award of compensation. How­ serious difficulty in the occupational dis­ hazardous waste dumps may seem only ever, once made, the requisite nexus ease compensation provisions of this bill. tangentially related to the subject of would create a rebuttable presumption It is true that the bill affords the Con­ occupational exposure, I suspect that the of causality and thereby provide the gress the opportunity to enact manda­ relationship is, in fact, very close. In standards for compensation in workers' tory standards, but only after a 3-year many instances, dump sites are located compensation proceedings in all the time period has elapsed after publica­ very near an operating plant or factory. States. tion of the advisory standard. I believe, In my own congressional district, for ex­ It would also provide standards for Mr. Speaker, that the problems of work­ ample, we have no less than six cases­ compensation for nonworkplace toxic related disease and illness caused by ex­ and who can say more will not be found­ exposure which would also be handled posure to toxic substances are so im­ where fumes and effluent from aban­ through the Toxic Pollutant Compen­ portant and so critical as to warrant the doned hazardous waste sites are affect- sation Agency. setting of mandatory standards once the April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7313 necessary cause and effect determina­ this insurance in much the same way CONCLUSION tion between exposure and a disease is that it is panic pricing product liability Mr. Speaker, I am, indeed, grateful made. insurance. for the opportunity you have given me PRODUcr LIABll.ITY Furthermore, making workers' com­ today to share my views on these im­ During the 95th Congress, the House pensation the sole source would result portant subjects with you. I support the Small Business Subcommittee which I in two related undesirable effects. Capi­ concepts embodied in S. 420, for, good chaired engaged in a most extensive in­ tal goods manufacturers, whose goods as it has been, I believe that the time has vestigation into product liability insur­ are used in the workplace, will lose their come for reform of our workers' compen­ ance-the other subject included in incentive to make sure that their prod­ sation system. S. 420 on which I, during the Senate ucts are manufactured with appropriate In particular, I applaud the balanced hearings last week, commented. safety f eaturs, since only the employer's approach it contains with respect to the Because of my own longstanding inter­ workers' compensation carrier will be li­ product liability issue-a recommenda­ est in this subject, I have followed devel­ able in the event of injury. Moreover, tion which closely parallels one my Small opments concerning product liability in­ this lack of incentive to manufacture Business Subcommittee came to inde­ surance in the Senate. I am immensely safe products can result in blatant dis­ pendently last year. pleased to note that the approach rec­ regard by such manufacturers for the I also applaud the bill's acknowledg­ ommended by Senators JAVITs and safety of the worker, resulting in a host ment of, and emphasis upon, the need WILLIAMS in section 10 of S. 420 adopts of unsafe products coming into the for more research into questions relating the conclusions reached by my subcom­ workplace. to toxic substances. Certainly we need to mttee last year and embodied in H.R. The proposal to permit the manufac­ know more-far more-about cause and 11788, introduced in the 95th Congress turer recourse against the employer on a effect relationships between exposure to on March 23, 1978, and H.R. 1675, re­ theory of indemnity or contribution was certain chemicals and particular dis­ introduced this Congress on January 13, likewise found to be unacceptable. From eases; it is equally important that we 1978. the vantage point of the total insurance look carefully into the options we might Our investigation, of course, dealt with system, this would not appear to reduce use to compensate innocent victims of a number of product liability issues. the overall claims paid nor act as a disin­ toxic exposure both in and outside the Among them, however, we singled out centive to litigation on the part of in­ workplace. workplace injuries as occurrences worthy jured employees. Because it would be However, I believe that the bill could of special consideration. The data avail­ creating a cause of action where one does go further in providing a mechanism for able to our subcommittee indicated that not now generally exist,• it is thought compensating persons who are injured by workplace injuries, while accounting for that, if anything, this would effect an exposure to toxic substances in the work­ a small portion of the number of product overall increase in the aggregate rate of place. One of the problems with respect liability claims, account for a very sub­ product liability and workers' compen­ to workers' compensation generally is the stantial portion of claims payments. sation rates; while it might over time re­ disparity among the various States' pro­ Specifically, 10.6 percent of all persons duce product liability rates, it would al­ grams. S. 420 seeks to deal with this by receiving product liability payments are most certainly increase workers' com­ reducing some of these disparities. injured in the course of their employ­ pensation rates. Hence, this too was Yet, with respect to workers' compen­ ment; however, these account for in ex­ rejected. sation for exposure to toxic substances, cess of 42 percent of all product liability Thus, Mr. Speaker, my subcommittee the bill's provisions would rely, at least bodily injury payments made, and on the opted for the same approach which Sen­ initially, on voluntary acceptance of this average represent more than three times ators JAVITS and WILLIAMS also later new basis for benefits on the part of the the mean bodily injury payment made decided to adopt, which is contained in States. In this economic climate, I have per incident. S. 420: Injured employees should main­ to wonder whether any State would take Therefore, by dealing with the work­ tain the right to bring suits against the risk of imposing additional costs on place injury problem, a substantial im­ manufacturers. However, the workers' its workers' compensation system, and pact will be made toward alleviating the compensation carrier's lien and/or right thus on the cost of doing business in that total product liability difficulties. In con­ of subrogation for the benefits that it State, without any assurance that other nection with our studies in this area, we disburses to the injured employee should States would do the same. considered several different proposals, be eliminated. Further, the employee's I would urge you, then, to give serious including making workers' compensation recovery would be reduced by the amount consideration to making the toxic sub­ the sole source for recovery, and alterna­ of workers' compensation benefits he stances standards that would be de­ tively, applying comparative fault doc­ has received. The effect of this is to veloped under this bill mandatory stand­ trines to apportion damages between the leave the injured employee with the same ards to be applied by all of the States in manufacturer and employer. benefits he would otherwise have under their workers' compensation schemes. We rejected the first of these due in the present system, while at the Mr. Speaker, I am very much encour­ part to the present inadequate compen­ same time cutting off the right of aged by the initi'ative S. 420 represents, sation levels in effect under many of the the workers' compensation carrier to and with this one proviso I support it State systems. Workers presently can shift its liability. A manufacturer at wholeheartedly. Congress can and should seek redress in two ways-through the fault will be responsible to the injured seek to deal with the very serious human workers' compensation system and employee, but for a reduced payment. problems which emanate from exposure through litigation against the manufac­ This would remove the incentive for the to toxic chemicals, both in and outside turer of an unsafe product. To eliminate workers' compensation carrier to insti­ the workplace, and I want to urge my this second right without providing a tute litigation against manufacturers, fell ow Members of the House to help counterbalancing change in benefit and would reduce the overall insurance meet this need by fully supporting this levels would, we felt, be inequitable at transaction costs since there can be no bill, hopefully with the change I have least and possibly a deprivation of the apportionment between employers and suggested, or a similar bill when it is con­ worker's constitutional right. manufacturers. sidered in the House during 1979.• However, even if compensation levels This approach, in my judgment, bal­ could be raised, there are still three other ances the need for equity and the de­ grave reservations with this approach. sirability of reduced transactions costs. CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS First, making workers' compensation the Workers will not lose, but society as a sole source of recovery with increased whole will gain. I am pleased at the benefits is likely to produce significant progress we have made toward adopting HON. JOHN J. RHODES increases in worker's compensation in­ this concept so far, and I hope that the OF ARIZONA surance rates for all employers. More­ Senate Human Resources Committee re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES over, the fact that the entire burden for tains this concept as it continues its these product liability claims would be deliberations on this matter. Wednesday, April 4, 1979 shifted to the workers' compensation o Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, as we all system might cause the insurance in­ • New York, Cali!ornla, Illlnols, and, to an know, the accuracy of our distinguished dustry to panic with respect to pricing extent, Minnesota are the exceptions. Speaker in the realm of political prog- 7314 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1979 nostication is virtually legendary. Last signed to serve the best interests of the eral Government with resultant in­ fall, for example, he predicted that Re­ American people or a collapse to organized creases in local property taxes. special int erests. Your financial assist ance ls publicans would gain about 10 seats in needed to insure that support for Democratic Unfortunately, as often happens, one the House, and his forecast turned out policies and programs continues. misconception begets another. Many of to be far more accurate than mine at The most important thing that you can those who cite the $82 billion figure also the time. do is to provide immediate financial support have come to the regrettable conclusion However, I have just come in posses­ to keep t he Democratic Congressional Cam­ that the only way to balance the budget sion of a fund-raising letter signed by paign Commit tee (DCCC) working to elect is to cut the general revenue-sharing THOMAS P. "TIP" O'NEILL, JR., whose con­ Joe Holsinger and Gary Goyke. The DCCC is program. Initially, their prime target tents would indicate that his famed poli­ a small organizat ion composed of specialists is to eliminate State participation in in campaigns committed to the election of tical radar may not be so 1nfall1ble after Democrats in the Congress. general revenue sharing. Later, revenue all. I'm writing to you to make a personal ap­ sharing aid to localities is certain to The letter, sent out under the auspices peal on behalf o! the DCCC-their best come under similar attack. It is ironic of the Democratic Congressional Cam­ etrorts are not enough! The Republicans wm that balancing the budget should be ac­ paign Committee, was an appeal for con­ overwhelm us with money. The Republicans complished by cutting the most efficient tributions for the Democratic candidates have spent an average of $275,000 in each of all the aid programs. We should keep who lost in yesterday's special elections special election held since January, 1977-we in mind that only 0.1 percent of all reve­ lost four out of six. They are already spend­ in California and Wisconsin. ing this amount-and more-in California nue-sharing moneys are used for pro­ In it, my distinguished colleague from and Wisconsin. gram administration. Massachusetts warned that the outcome You and I can't atrord to watch two more Revenue sharing stands for local deci­ of those races, "2,000 miles apart, will votes lost on the auction block rather than sionmaking. Since its inception in 1972, broadcast to the Nation the status of at the polls. the program has acted to counter the the Democratic Party." It certainly did, The DCCC has budgeted $91,720 for the steadily increasing role of Washington and I leave to my colleagues to conclude final etrorts in these campaigns. A $20 contri­ bureaucrats and their burdensome regu­ what that status is. bution from 4,586 staunch Democrats wm make the ditrerence I lation of local affairs. I suggest, Mr. However, the Speaker went on to note Speaker, that we would better serve the that, and I quote, "the DCCC has You know the candidates ... you know the Republicans' financial advantages . . . you taxpayer by carefully examining the 492 budgeted $91,720 for the final efforts in know we need your contribution and we need categorical programs and eliminate those these campaigns." it now. which no longer serve a useful purpose, Since Federal law limits direct con­ Please rush your contribution to us rather than focusing congressional ire on tributions from organizations such as today. With your help, I know we can win! general revenue sharing. the DCCC to a maximum of $10,000 in Sincerely, Our colleague, Mr. WYDLER, has intro­ yesterday's elections, or $20,000 total THOMAS P. "TIP" O'NEn.L, Jr. P.S. Our opposition ls banking on the duced legislation extending general reve­ for both campaigns, I am at a loss to nue sharing for another 4 years. As a. understand how the additional $71,720 hope that you wlll ignore my letter until it ls too late. Thank you.e member of the Subcommittee on Inter­ was to be legally contributed. governmental Relations and Human Re­ I know that the Speaker is a staunch sources of the Government Operations supporter of the Federal Election Cam­ Committee, I have been pleased to co­ paign Act. Therefore, I am perplexed AN $82 BILLION MYTH sponsor the legislation introduced by our that he would appeal for contributions ranking minority member. The gentle­ that would exceed those limits by so man from New York has also circulated much. HON. OLYMPIA J. SNOWE to Members of the House a letter detail­ Perhaps it was a typographical error at OF MAINE ing why State governments should be re­ the DCCC; or perhaps the Speaker sim­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tained in the program. Given the impor­ ply misread the numbers, just as he has Wednesday, April 4, 1979 tant nature of the subject I think it ap­ misread the mood of the electorate in propriate to call additional attention to these two elections. • Mrs. SNOWE. Mr. Speaker, we have Mr. WYDLER's position by including his Following is the full text of the letter: heard much in recent weeks concerning letter in the RECORD. I would also ask DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL Federal aid to State and local govern­ that the article from the National Jour­ CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, ments. In response to the call of many nal be included. I am hopeful that my WashingtO'TJ., D.C. State legislatures for a balanced Federal DEAR FELLOW DEMOCRAT: Aprll 3 ls a colleagues will find these views informa­ crucial day for the future of the Democratic budget, many lawmakers here in Wash­ tive as they begin to consider the future Party, as we know lt, and I need your help. ington have focused a critical eye upon of the general revenue-sharing program. Let me explain why . . . the $82 billion in "aid" given to States The material follows: Our Democratic Party-yours, mlne, John and localities. What is not heard in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTA.TIVES, Kennedy's, Lyndon Johnson's, Hubert Hum­ debate is much discussion as to the na­ Washington, D.C., March 19, :1979. phrey's, and Jimmy Carter's-faces a severe ture of such aid and the circumstances DEAR COLLEAGUE: I Tecently introduced test on Tuesday, April 3, 1979-election surrounding the growth of these pro­ legislation, H.R. 2291, extending the general day in San Mateo, California and Oshkosh, grams over the last 18 years. Revenue Sharing program for another four Wisconsin. The outcome of these two con­ years. Since February 22nd, twenty-three gressional elections, over 2,000 mlles apart, I recently came across an article by Members ha.ve agreed to cosponsor this leg­ will broadcast to the nation the status of Floyd and Terry Hyde which discusses islation, and I would like to take this op­ the Democratic Party. aid to State and local government and portunity to encourage additional members The two Democrats on the ballot April 3 the "$82 billion myth." The article, which to support the bill. are representatives of the new generation appeared in the National Journal, illus­ There are ample reasons to extend gen­ of political leadership in our Party and our trates that of the $82 billion, over $50 bil­ eral Revenue Sharing upon its expiration nation. Joe Holsinger, the top assistant to lion represents transfer payments and in October 1980. Revenue Sharing strength­ my friend, Leo Ryan, who was murdered in ens local decision making, thwM'ts the in­ Guyana, and Gary Goyke, the campaign other aid to individuals. Oftentimes the creasing role of the Washington bureaucracy manager in Wisconsin for Hubert Humphrey, only State and local connection is that in local atrairs, and ls relatively inexpensive are leaders needed in the United States Con­ such programs happen to be adminis­ tor the Federal government to administer. gress. They share our commitment .to a tered through State and local entities. In tact, on this last point, during 1978, only greater America--one that believes in the Other programs, such as pollution con­ .1 percent of all revenue sharing expendi­ strength and decency of its people. The Re­ trol and highways, could more accurately tures were used to administer the progt'am. publican alternatives in both districts are be described as aid to States and locali­ This compares favorably' with other pro­ the fam111ar, tired, negative voices of the grams such as HUD's Community Develop­ past, opposed to any progress. ties. However, even here we should not ment Block Grants, ln which admlnlstra­ As Speaker of the House, I know the im­ lose sight of the fact that expenditures tive costs ran at approxlmat~ly .7 percent o! portance of every single vote in the Con­ in many of these areas came at Federal the entire program. Operational costs in gress. One vote ls o!ten the difference be­ instigation. Further. many of these pro­ cat egorical programs run much higher. tween success for Democrat ic policies de- grams have been mandated by the Fed- Simply put, general revenue sharing ls one April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7315 federal program that performs in an effec­ sta.tes (48) are required to retain a balanced revenue sha:rlng ls fueled by Congressional tive and economic fashion. It ls the last one budget during the entire year, prudent man­ resentment over the constitutional conven­ that should be cut to balance the budget. agement requires that states retain 4-6 per­ tion/balanced budget drive. n the alterna­ I also believe that state governments cent o! revenues in the !orm of surplus bal­ tive, we should carefully exa ne the 492 should be kept in the program. Unfortunate­ ances. As the attached chart indicates, state categorical programs currently on he books ly, much misleading information a.bout the governments nationwide project a 3.6 percent and decide where cuts can be made. Cut­ fiscal condition o! the states ls being dis­ average surplus !or 1979, well within the ac­ ting one of the only federal programs which seminated. It ls certainly true that all states cepted norm. Finally, state governments cur­ has low delivery cost and no bureaucracy cumulatively project a surplus o! 4.3 blllion rently pass through approximately 30 per­ ls not a responsible way to proceed. tor 1979. However, almost ha.If the surplus cent o! their revenue sharing monies to local­ Back a. proven program that ls the best ts held in just three states: Texas, Alaska, ities. Cutting out the states ls sure to in­ example of federalism. a.nd California. The attached table mustrates crease the property tax le1vles in many Sincerely, that many other states are not nearly as places. JOHN W. WYDLER, fl~anclally secure. In addition, since most We all know that the current drive to cut Member of Congress.

TABLE A-1.-PROJECTED STATE GENERAL OPERATING FUND RESOURCES, EXPENDITURES, AND BALANCES, FISCAL YEAR 1979 (Dollar amounts in millions)

1979 projected 1979 projected 1979 projected 1979 projected resources resources operatina (inclufm 1979 1979 b~r:~~!i~~ (inclufm 1979 1979 balance as proJected pro)ected percentaae of proJected projected percentage of balances expenditures bafance 1 1979 balances expenditures balance 1 1979 State forward) expenditures State forward) expenditures

Alabama •••• ------•••••••. $1, 495. 5 $1, 495. 2 $0.3 0.02 Nebraska·---·------·-·-··- 574.1 550. 8 23. 3 4. 2 Alaska •••••.•...•. ------•••••• 1, 976. 1 1, 375. 0 601.1 47. 3 Nevada'- ______------...• ______._ •. _..•••••••••.. __ ..... ______.• ______...•• Arizona ••••• ----•• ------1, 053. 6 1, 023. 6 30. 0 2. 9 New Hampshire...... 235.0 219.0 16.0 7.3 Arkansas •••.•.•.•. ---- ____ .. __ 772. 5 772.3 0 0 New Jersey______4, 421. 6 4, 394. 4 27. 2 . 6 California. ___ ------•. __ .. ____ •. 18, 357. 7 17, 578. 4 779.3 4.4 New Mexico...... 760, 7 683.5 77.2 11.3 Colorado._ •• ______------•. 1, 254. 0 1, 208. 0 46.0 3.8 New York...... 12, 041. 2 12, 022. 9 18. 3 . 2 Connecticut. ••. ------______•• 2, 149. 6 2, 142. 2 7. 4 .4 North Carolina...... 2, 578. 0 2, 577. 9 . 1 . 004 Delaware •..••. __ .• ____ .• ____ •. 556. 7 539. 7 17. 0 3. 2 North Dakota 2 ______••••••• _ •• ______••• ____ •••••• _. ______• _. ______Florida •• --•••..•.• --••.••.•. -- 3, 050. 7 3, 021. 4 29.3 1. 0 Ohio...... 4, 895. 9 4, 719. 7 176. 2 3. 8 2, 487. 4 2, 379. 6 107. 8 4. 5 Oklahoma...... 779. 7 779. 7 0 O ~:~:i~·:======:::::: :: :: :: :: :: 915. 4 907. 9 7. 5 . 8 Oreaon...... 1, 287. 9 1, 035. 8 252.1 24. 3 Idaho •.••. __ •.•• __ .••••• ____ •• 319.0 319. 0 0 0 Pennsylvania...... 5, 786.0 5, 786.0 0 O Illinois •••••••• ____ ••.• ______.• 6, 944. 0 6, 848. 0 96.0 1. 4 Rhode Island...... 613. 5 603. 3 10. 2 1. 7 Indiana ••• ____ ••.••••••• --•• -- 1, 913. 6 1, 789. 9 123. 7 6.9 South Carolina...... 1, 400.1 1, 400. 0 .1 . 01 Iowa .••••• __ .• ____ •.•• __ ••.• __ 1, 594. 3 1, 491. 9 102.4 6.9 South Dakota...... 195. 2 185. 7 9. 5 5.1 Kansas . ••••• __ •• __ .• ____ ----•. 1, 100.1 988.2 111.9 11.3 Tennessee...... 2, 457.0 2, 456. 5 . 5 . 02 1, 734. 2 1, 715. 9 18. 3 1.1 Texas...... 4, 085.1 3, 383. 0 702. 1 20. 8 ~~~~~ii~t: :: :: :::: :: :: :: :::: :: 3, 857.1 3, 819.6 37.5 1. 0 Utah...... 665. 5 656. 9 8. 6 1. 4 Maine ..••• ______•••••• __ •. -· -- 471. 7 459. 0 12. 7 2.8 Vermont...... 207. 4 207. 4 0 O Maryland ______•...•.•. __ 2, 500. 2 2, 298. 0 202.2 8.8 Virainia...... 2, 289.0 2,276.5 12.5 .6 Massachusetts. __ ------•••. 3, 656. 4 3,601.0 55.4 1. 5 Washinaton...... 3, 011. 9 2, 839. 6 172. 3 6.1 Michiaan •• __ ------•••... ----•• 4, 260. 7 4, 256.4 4.3 .1 West Virginia...... 999. 7 965.1 34. 6 3. 6 Minnesota. __ ------____ ------3, 174. 0 3, 142. 0 32.0 1.0 Wisconsin...... 4, 960. 8 4, 866. 7 94.1 1. 9 944. 7 892.2 52. 5 5. 9 Wyomint------·------·-- 217,0 182.0 35.0 19.2 ~i::~s~:f.~~ == :::: :::: :: :: 1, 716. 2 1, 578. 4 137. 8 8. 7 Montana ••••••••:: :: :: _._ ••••••••••• 250.3 240.1 10.2 4.3 Total. ••••• _••••••••• __ •• 122, 968. 0 118, 675. 5 4, 292. 5 3.6

1 Balance does not equal resources minus expenditures in some States in view of statutory 'The reports from these States were incomplete and therefore were not included in this report. provisions to transfer part or all of the year-end balance to a separate fund for uses includin2 debt service, capital outlay, tax refunds or rebates, and future-year expenditures. Source: Fiscal survey of the States 1978-79, National Governors' Association.

How A BUDGET MYTH BECOMES REALrrY: FED­ EVERYBODY'S SAYING rr presents more o! a burden to them than a. ERAL NON-Am TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERN­ Newsweek said it on January 29, 1979: benefit. Thus, we maintain that this program MENT "Aid to state and local governments would should not be included ln the category of (By Floyd H. Hyde and Terry Hyde) stay static at $85 bllllon, equivalent to a 7 federal aid to state and local governments.) To those or you who have succumbed to per cent loss to infiatlon." If CETA monies and social services funds the myth that federal grants to state and U.S. News and World Report said lt on Jan­ to individuals ($3 bllllon) are deducted, a local governments currently exceed $82 bll­ uary 29, 1979: "The federal government ac­ more realistic and accurate figure of $31.2 Uon annually, and who belleve that this now counts for more than $1 out ot every $4 spent bllllon ls obtained. This figure representc; the constitutes over 25 percent o! their total ex­ by state and local governments-a.bout $85 "honest" amount o! federal aid to state and penditures, you are wrong; but, at least, you bllllon this year." local governments. Thus, more than $50 bll­ are in good company. Stuart Eizenstat, President Carter's Do­ Uon o! the widely-accepted $80 bllllon-plue President Carter said it on Ma.rch 27th, mestic Advisor said lt on January 25, 1979: does not reach state or local governments at 1977: " ... total assistance to state and local "Federal aid to state and local governments all. O! a total o! $532 bllllon in FY '80 out­ governments has already been increased by has now reached $82.9 bllllon." lays, actual state and local aid represents some 25 per cent, !rom $68 bllllon ln FY '77 Senator Muskie (D-Ma.) in March o! 1977 little more than 5.5 per cent o! the total to $85 bllllon ln FY '79." said he supported the Administration's deci­ federal budget. sion not to alloca.te tremendous a.mounts of David Broder o! The Washington Post said How could there be s.uch a wide discrep­ it on January 25, 1978: "In 1960, the !ede-ral money to cities in distress, citing $54 b1111on ln urban grants already in effect. ancy between .the conventional wisdom and government sent $7 bllllon to states and what we maintain 1s the "honest amount•· cities-a little less than 15 per cent o! their I! these eminent Americans and prestigious total expenditures. In 1970, !ederal aid pubUcatlons have said so, it must be right. o! federal aid? rea.ched $24 bllllon and provided almost 20 Rlg'h t? Wrong! DOCUMENTING THE MYTH per cent o! the state/local budgets. This year, In !act, those federal grants to state and The answer Hes in the method ln which it ls estimated to be over $80 bllllon and to local governments (including school dis­ the President's omce o! Management and .a.ccounrt !or 27.5 per cent o! state/local ex­ tricts) which actually become a. working pa.rt Budget complles and categorizes various penditures." o! their own budgets total approximately $43 kinds o! programs and benefits identified in Senator He.rt (D-Colo.) said it on Janu­ bllllon including $8.8 b1111on in CETA (Com­ the budget. Specifically, .the Special Analyses ary 31, 1979: "Every one o! these states that prehensive Employment and Training Act) budget document aggregates, without dis­ ls passing these resolutions to balance the monies which are passed through to 1nd1- tinction, those programs giving aid directly federal budget ls taking a. ton o! money !rom vlduals. (In Ught o! the new CETA Act which to tndlvlduals; those that pass aid through the federal government every year, $82 bllllon prohibits the substitution o! CETA empJoyees state and local governments to 1ndlvlduals: all told this year." !or regular city personnel, and makes them those that provide aid to autonomous entitles Senator Bumpers (D-Ark.) sald it on Jan­ truly temporary additional jobs, it ls clear other than state and local governments: ua.ry 31, 1979: "Total federal a.id to state and that local governments for the most part, wm those that fund other federal actlvltias; and local governments wlll approximate $85 bll­ receive no benefits from the program. Most those that do provide aid directly to state llon ln 1979, or nearly twice as much as the local omctals point out .that the cost of super­ and local governments to be used by them estimated federal budget deficit !or fiscal vising and training temporary employees as !or specified national objectives. In !airneHs year 1979 of $48.5 b1111on." "add-on" personnel, whlle socially desirable, to President Carter, this federal bookkeeping 7316 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1979 practice did not begin wLth his Admlnlstra­ and local budgets. it would constitute more A GALLUP POLL SHOWS STRONG tlon, but the rhetoric that accompanies this than 25 percent of their total expenditures. SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC FINANCING data ln the FY '80 budget documents and However, using the accurate figure of $31.2 which ls so oft-repeated by Administration billion, we find that federal ald actually con­ spokesmen generates additional confusion stitutes only about 10.4 per cent. Of thls HON. THOMAS S. FOLEY and misunderstanding. amount, the budget does not indicate how OF WASHINGTON To mustrate, the following list contains much remains with the states and how much items selected from the "Selected Analyses. is actually received by local governments. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Budget of the United States Government. The remaining $51.7 blllion might better be Wednesday, April 4, 1979 1980," pages 212 through 246. The text of this described as federal non-aid. to state and analysis states" . . . federal grant-ln-ald out­ local governments. • Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, a Gallup lays to state and local governments are esti­ What ts the significance of the above poll published recently shows that a ma­ mated to be $82.9 bllllon in 1980, sllghtly analysis? I! federal aid to state and local jority of the American people continue above the estimated 1979 total of $77.9 bil­ governments ts not $82.9 bllllon but, actu­ to support public financing of congres­ lion." Yet the actual items include such ally, no more than $32.1 b1111on, one might sional campaigns. categories as: stlll ask. "What difference does that make?" The !act ts that. at this writing, major It is important to note that the Gallup (In mllltons) questions affecting the future of our nation's survey polled the public about a system Direct payments to individuals: cities are being debated in Congress and far more extensive and far more costly Supplemental security income ___ _ $50 within the Admlnlstratlon. Central to each than the partial public financing system Medicaid ------12,354 of the debates is the constant repetition of 1. Public assistance ______6,704 proposed in H.R. Veterans benefits ______the myth that "state and local governments 87 are already receiving $82 bllllon ln federal The Gallup survey asked voters if they Student assistance ______77 would favor a system of total public fi­ Work incentives ______aid." 365 On January 31, 1979, senator Lloyd Bent­ nancing in which the Goverrunent would Food stamps (administration) __ ___ 342 sen of Texas introduced S. 263 on the floor provide each candidate for Congress with Child nutrition program ______2,521 of the U.S. Senate. The bill proposes to a fixed amount of money for his or her Housing payments ______2, 674 Refugee assistance ______amend the State and Local Fiscal Assistance campaign and in which contributions 75 Act of 1972 which provides !or general reve­ Payments to autonomous entitles from all other sources would be nue sharing by ellmlnatlng states from the prohibited. other than State and local gov­ program. In co-sponsoring the blll, Senator ernments: William Proxmire of Wisconsin urged that Fully 57 percent support this proposal, The Tennessee Valley Authority the entire program be abolished, presumably while only 30 percent consider it a "poor (TVA) ------125 because of his oft-repeated public statements idea." These results mirror the findings The Corporation for Public Broad- that federal aid to state and local govern­ of a 1977 Harris survey which, by a 49 casting ------152 ments has reached $82 bllllon annually. And to 28 percent margin, also confirmed Trust Territory of the Pacific lt was ln this environment that Senators public support for "having all primary Islands------91 Gary Hart of Colorado and Dale Bumpers of Commodity Credit Corporation ___ _ 75 and general elections for the House of Arkansas also voiced approval of the blll. Representatives and U.S. Senate pubUcly Center for Disease Control It ls critically important that, ln the frenzy (Atlanta) ------­ 109 to respond to Proposition 13 fever, accurate financed, as Presidential primaries and Funding of various strictly Federal elections are now financed." activities: information should be placed before Con­ Land and water conservation ____ _ gress and the American people. It could make H.R. 1 would not prohibit private con­ 287 a great difference, for example, ln determin­ Agricultural cooperative research __ 98 tributions. Instead, it provides for a National Highway Traffic Safety ing the future of general revenue sharing, mixed campaign financing system con­ to know that Congress would be cutting sisting of small contributions from in­ Admlnlstratlon ------­ 167 $6.8 bllllon from $32.1 bllllon, a 21 percent Office of Surface Mining Enforce- cut, rather than an 8 percent cut ln federal dividuals on the local level, public ment ------76 ald to state and local governments. should matching funds, party funds and PAC Fish and Wildlife Service ______88 funds. Aid for federal highways (trust the entire program be eliminated. In order to obtain a balanced picture of The system envisioned by H.R. 1 would fund) ------6.761 Airports trust fund ______570 the extent of federal aid to state and local be far less costly than that proposed in Drought assistance ______2 governments, the collection of revenues must the Gallup or Harris polls. Thus I be­ Bureau of Indian Affairs ______18 also be considered. During the past several lieve it is safe to assume, Mr. Speaker, Indian education ______67 decades, ln spite of any increase ln federal that H.R. 1 would command even greater Unemployment trust fund ______720 aid, local government's share of the total tax support from the American public. Unemployment trust fund (admin- dollar has dwindled dramatically, clearly out istration of payments)______1, 055 of all proportion to any claimed level of in­ Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is U.S. forest management______24 creased aid. If all federal, state and local taxes that campaign costs are out of control Federal Railroad Administration__ 82 are combined into one single tax dollar, we and are forcing candidates to become in­ find that, in 1930, local government kept 50 Although listed as such, these items are creasingly dependent upon so-called spe­ cents of every dollar. state government 17 cial interest PAC's to finance their cam­ not grants-in-aid to state and local govern­ cents, and the federal government 33 cents. ments at all. While the argument can be By 1978, the federal government collected 67 paigns. H.R. 1 would provide an alter­ made that most of them are worthy expendi­ cents of every tax dollar, state government native source of financing and at the tures. they belong neither ln the budget 20 cents and local government 13 cents. same time would provide a means of put­ document entitled "Federal Grants to State Whenever the issue of the adequacy of fed­ ting a ceiling on campaign spending. and Local Government" nor ln the narrative eral aid ls discussed, this critically important At this point, Mr. Speaker, I place in for the special analysis of such ald. data must also be added to the equation. For the RECORD an article from the April 2, Additionally, thls method of data aggre­ every additional one cent retained, an addi­ 1979, issue of the Washington Post which gation further creates confusion. in that lt tional $5 bllllon would be available for use by describes the Gallup poll on public implies that such funds go directly to state local governments. This would create a great and local governments to be used by them opportunity for real savings in reducing the financing: for inclusion in their own budget. The ac­ costly overhead of an ever-increasing federal LIMrr ON CAMPAIGN SPENDING Is URGED FOR companying text on page 226 ls clearly mis­ bureaucracy. In light of these facts, it may HILL CANDIDATES leading: "Table H-7 also shows grants-ln­ well be that the national debate ought not to (By George Gallup) ald as a per cent of state and local expendi­ be about general revenue sharing alone, but PRINCETON, N.J .-In the face of the stag­ tures. Thls per cent has increased from 15 lt should include a discussion of general rev­ gering amount spent on campaigning in last per cent ln 1965 to 27 per cent in 1978, and enue retention by local governments. !all's political races, a majority of the ls estimated to continue to finance afmost Thus, it ts hoped that the $82 bllllon myth American people, 57 percent, believe the fed­ one-fourth of total state and local expendi­ wm be di.spelled and that by using correct eral government should provide a. fixed tures through 1980." data, both as to actual grants and as to the amount of money !or the election campaigns sources and amounts of all governmental of candidates for Congress and at the same MYTH BEGETS MYTH revenues, Congress and the American people time prohibit all other contributions. Thus, the $82 blllton myth spawns another can make better-informed and more equit­ The cost of running !or Congress has great­ oft-repeated piece of mis-information. If able decisions regarding federal aid to state ly increased in recent years. In fact, it has $82.9 billion were, in fact, funneled into state and local governments.e been reported that in last fall's Senate and April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7317 House contests some 875 candidates for 470 he had tendered his personal thanks on is a shortage of funds or an abundance of seats spent almost $150 milllon on their pri­ Tuesday, February 13, to President Lopez qualified candidates. As now written, the mary and general election campaigns, a rec­ PortUlo and Minister of Foreign Relations funds would be distributed on a first-come, ord amount. Only two years earlier, the com­ Santiago Roel for the honor conferred on first-served basis. parable figure was below $100 million. him, his family, and the border area of the This means that in states where candidates Political observers feel that, in addition country he represents in the Congress. Plans can qualify by obtaining a small number to inflation, the key cause of the vast in­ for the presentation of the medal have not of signatures on a petition, small special crease in campaign spending has been the yet been made, DE LA GARZA said. interest groups could conceivably form po­ escalation in contributions from political ac­ Representative DE LA GARZA said, "This dec­ litical parties and raise enough private funds tion committees. It is estimated that these oration represents the character of our bor­ and beat the major parties to the punch for groups, which represent corporate, labor and der country, the generations of cooperation, the federal matching funds. other special interests, gave $35 million or good-will and understanding that have ex­ That clearly-whether you support or op• more to congressional candidates last year. isted among the people on both sides of the pose federal matching for congressional Those who favor limiting, by statute, the Rio Grande." candidates-is not the purpose of the legis­ amount available to each candidate argue Shortly after DE LA GARZA was notified lation. The loophole should be closed. Spon­ that this would eliminate the reliance of can­ about the Mexico decoration Speaker of the sors of the legislation say this can be accom­ didates on special-interest groups-which House of Representatives Tip O'Neill named plished easily in a. number of ways, includ­ could have an undue influence on a candi­ the South Texan Chairman of the United ing establishing a pro-rating system or de­ date's position on important issues. States-Mexico Interparliamentary group for laying federal funds until after the primary The proposal to limit congressional cam­ the second successive year, the third time process. Whatever, let's do it, post haste.e paign spending has broad bipartisan support DE LA GARZA will actually have served in this in the current survey, with 54 percent of capacity. The Parliamentary group will meet Democrats supporting the idea. in Mexico in May. Here is the question asked: The last Member o! Congress to have re­ NUCLEAR HEARINGS SCHEDULED It has been suggested the federal govern­ ceived the Order of the Aztec was Senator ON SAFETY, WASTES, AND RADIA­ ment provide a fixed amount of money for Mike Mansfield of Montana. when he was ma­ TION the election campaigns of candidates for Con­ jority leader of the U.S. Senate. He is now gress and that all private contributions from U.S. Ambassador to Japan.e other sources be prohibited. Do you think this is a good idea or a poor idea? HON. MIKE McCORMACK Here are the national results as well as OF WASHINGTON the findings by political affiliation: PUBLIC FINANCING MAY BE FRINGE IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES GROUP FINANCING Wednesday, April 4, 1979 Good Poor No idea idea opinion e Mr. McCORMACK Mr. Speaker, as HON. NEWT GINGRICH chairman of the Subcommittee on En­ National 57 30 13 OF GEORGIA ergy Research and Production, I have Republicans ____ 54 32 14 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES scheduled hearings on three of the lead­ Democrats ----- 57 29 14 ing issues concerning nuclear energy. Independents -- 60 30 10 Wednesday, April 4, 1979 The hearings, to be held during May •Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, one fear and June, will focus on nuclear power Virtually the same results were obtained many of us have had for a long time plant safety, high-level nuclear waste when the question was first asked, in 1977. about public financing is that any sys­ management and low-level radiation. The findings reported today are based on tem which is fair to established third The three nuclear energy subjects to personal interviews with 1,512 adults, 18 and parties will also encourage new fringe be considered are those that have re­ older, in more than 300 scientifically selected localities during the period Feb. 2-5.e parties. cently received the most publicity and H.R. 1 does nothing to solve this prob­ that are of current concern to Members lem. In fact, the bill would increase the of the Congress. The hearings will pro­ problem. Candidates would be able to vide a thorough review of the latest ORDER OF THE AZTEC EAGLE qualify for matching funds once they technical information and policy options AWARDED TO CONGRESSMAN E were qualified for the general election on these important subjects; and the "KIKA" DE LA GARZA ballot. Major party candidates would Congress will then be able to make in­ have to wait until any primary and run­ formed decisions on them. off election was complete before they Members, or a staff member, are, of HON. CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI could receive money. course, invited. OF WISCONSIN But most States allow third party and First, 3 days of hearings are sched­ IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES independent candidates to qualify for uled for May 15, 16, and 17 on the sub­ the general election ballot well before ject of nuclear waste management, in­ Wednesday, April 4, 1979 the primary. Conceivably they could cluding consideration of the high-level e Mr. ZABLOCKI. Mr. Speaker, I sub­ even use up all the funds allocated for wastes at West Valley, N.Y.; the inter­ mit for the RECORD the press release on a district. agency review group report on nuclear the award by the Mexican Government The Atlanta Constitution wrote an ex­ waste management; and proposed legis­ of the Order of the Aztec Eagle to our cellent editorial on this March 22, 1979, lation mandating the establishment of a colleague, Representative E "KIKA" DE LA and I would like to share it with the Government nuclear waste repository. GARZA, of Texas, which I referred to in Members: Next, 3 days of hearings are scheduled my 1-minute speech earlier today: FRINGE FINANCING for May 22, 23, and 24 on nuclear reactor Former Mexican Ambassador to the Hold it. We're not ready to finance just safety. These hearings will consider fed­ United States, Jose Juan de Olloqui-now anyone who wants to run for Congress. But erally supported nuclear safety research Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations-ad­ that apparently would be the result of a vised Representative E (Kika) DE LA GARZA loophole in the proposed public financing and development programs and the im­ Monday, February 12, that Mexican President bill for congressional candidates. plications of the recent incident at the Jose Lopez Portillo had instructed his De­ As it now stands, candidates sponsored by Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. partment to confer on the Texan Mexico's fringe groups such as the vegetarians or Finally, 3 days of hearings are sched­ highest a ward to foreigners-the Order of single-issue groups such as the anti-abor­ uled for June 5, 6, and 7 on the subject the Aztec Eagle. tionists could edge out candidates of major of low-level radiation. These hearings The Order of the Aztec Eagle was estab­ political parties for federal matching funds. will review the findings of current studies lished in December 1943 by then President Under the terms of the legislation recently Manuel Avila Camacho as an award to for­ introduced in the House, the government on the sources and effects of low-level eign Heads of State, foreign diplomats and would make available $180,000 in public radiation. other foreigners who have rendered distin­ matching funds in each congressional dis­ Hearings are tentatively scheduled to guished service to the Republic of Mexico. trict, or a maximum of $60,000 each for three be held in room 2318 of the Rayburn DE LA GARZA, whose family has lived on candidates. However, the bill contains no House Office Building beginning at 10 the border for many generations. said today provision for pro-rating the funds if there a m. \Vitnesses will be announced later. 7318 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1979 May 15, 16, 17-10 a.m., nuclear waste In fact, it is possible that the future of "aye" to the Santa Ana Indians bfil; management, 2318 Rayburn Building. the entire Philadelphia Naval Shipyard "aye" to the previous question on the debt May 22, 23, 24-10 a.m., nuclear re­ hinges on the assignment of this over­ limit bill; and "no" to final passage of actor safety, 2318 Rayburn Building. haul program. That means the fate of the debt limit bill. June 5, 6, 7-10 a.m., low-level radia­ some 20,000 jobs is up in the air at this I respectfully request that my absence tion, 2318 Rayburn Building.• time, in a region which has suffered for these important votes be noted in nothing but economic setbacks at the the RECORD •• hands of the Defense Department during the past few years. THE U.S.S. "SARATOGA" SHOULD BE Mr. Speaker, it is time to stop the mi­ OVERHAULED IN PHILADELPHIA gration of defense dollars and defense CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO THE establishments to the South at the ex­ HONORABLE ALVIN G. BLAU OF pense of the Northeast region. I need NEW JERSEY, DISTINGUISHED HON. WILLIAM J. HUGHES only call your attention to the Penta­ MAYOR, OUTSTANDING CITIZEN, OF NEW JERSEY gon's recommendation last week that AND COMMUNITY LEADER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the basic training mission be disestab­ Wednesday, April 4, 1979 lished at Fort Dix, N.J. This outrageous recommendation is only the latest in a HON. ROBERT A. ROE • Mr. HUGHES. Mr. Speaker, in July long series of attempts by the Defense OF NEW JERSEY of 1976, the Department of the Navy Department to dismantle military facili­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES recommended, on the basis of an initial ties in the Northeast. Wednesday, April 4, 1979 study, that the U.S.S. Saratoga and the This migration of military facilities is Navy's three other Forrestal-class air­ not only placing the Northeast at an eco­ • Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, craft carriers be overhauled as part of nomic disadvantage, but it is also reduc­ April 7, 1979, the residents of North the service life extension program ing our Nation's defense capabilities. An Haledon, my congressional district and CSLEP) at the Philadelphia Naval Ship­ imbalanced geographical arrangement State of New Jersey will gather in testi­ yard. of defense establishments is clearly not mony to the lifetime of exemplary Since then, this proposal has been in the interest of our national defense. public service of an outstanding citizen, studied in depth by other experts at the In the case of Fort Dix, this is the only community leader, and good friend, the Pentagon, and in ever~ case they have basic training facility in the entire Honorable Alvin G. Blau, the former reached the same conclusion. The over­ Northeast. Since the Northeast provides distinguished mayor of the borough of haul of the U.S.S. Saratoga can best be 20 percent of the recruits for the All­ North Haledon, whose dynamic and en­ accomplished at the Philadelphia Naval Volunteer Army, it is only fair and rea­ ergetic endeavors in community im­ Shipyard. sonable to have some military presence provement and development are ap­ Despite all of these studies, nearly 3 close to home. The entire New Jersey plauded by all of us. years have passed and the Navy's recom­ congressional delegation intends to fight Mr. Speaker, Mayor Blau has, indeed, mendations still have not been imple­ this proposal to shut down the training earned the respect and esteem of all of mented. I think it is time to bring this mission at Fort Dix, and I hope that us for the quality of his leadership and foot dragging to an end, and to assign other Members will be joining us in this standards of excellence in his dedicated this work to Philadelphia where it effort. service to our fellow citizens. He has belongs. The same holds true for the Philadel­ been a resident of the borough of North The simple fact is, Mr. Speaker, that phia Naval Shipyard. How is it in our Haledon since 1950 and served as the the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard is one national interest to jeopardize the fu­ borough's esteemed mayor from 1961 of the finest surface ship repair yards in ture of this facility, and to burden this to 1978. During his tenure as the com­ the business, whether public or private. region with yet another economic hard­ munity's chief executive officer, he served Since 1975, the Philadelphia Naval Ship­ ship? This portion of the SLEP program as the treasurer of the New Jersey Con­ yard has a record of no cost overruns or has already been delayed for 3 years. Any ference of Mayors. cost claims, and of consistent on-time further delays are only going to reduce Al Blau is a prominent realtor and has delivery. This impressive record is un­ the Navy's defense capabilities in the been a staunch supporter and active par­ matched by any other facility which has 1980's. I think it is time to quit playing ticipant in many civic and cultural en­ been considered for this work. games with this program, and to get this deavors. He is past president of the The Philadelphia shipyard possesses work underway in Philadelphia where it Passaic County Board of Realtors and a both the extensive carrier repair facil­ belongs.• member of the North Haledon Planning ities, and the experienced skilled em­ Board. He has served as a member of the ployees, that are needed to carry out this Board of Trustees of the North Haledon portion of the SLEP program. The ship­ Library and 1s a former trustee of the yard contains two carrier drydocks, a PERSONAL EXPLANATION Greater Paterson Mental Health Center. carrier pier, and all of the modem, spe­ The mayor organized the communtty•s cialized equipment which is needed for HON. TOM HARKIN Cultural Center Committee and Swim­ carrier overhaul work. The labor force OF IOWA ming Pool Committee which were in­ at the Philadelphia shipyard has had a strumental in establishing two major low turnover rate through the years, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES land.mark recreational fac111ties for many of its employees have had experi­ Wednesday, April 4, 1979 the relaxation and enjoyment of the ence with carrier repairs. • Mr. HARKIN. Mr. Speaker, I would people of the community-young and I am deeply disturbed by the injustice like to inform you of my plight in travel adults alike. In 1958, he organized and which would result from a decision not to to Washington from my home district in has served as chairman of a vitally im­ assign this work to Philadelphia. The Iowa this past weekend. Due to an airline portant lifesaving facility, the Blood economic consequences of such a decision stoppage, I was rerouted and found dif­ Bank in North Haledon. He 1s a founder would be felt, not only in Philadelphia, ficulty in boarding a plane that would of the North Haledon Stamp and Coin but throughout the entire Northeast part bring me to Washington in time for the Club. of the country. House proceedings on Monday, April 2. Mr. Speaker, we also commend Alvin If this work is awarded to Philadel­ Thus, I was absent for recorded votes on: Blau for his sincerity of purpose and phia, it will create an estimated 12,000 Roll No. 70: Santa Ana Indians bill. personal commitment in seeking to help jobs in the region by 1985, and generate Roll No. 71: Call of the House. the young people of our community. He a payroll of more than $135 million. Roll No. 72: Previous question on debt organized the Youth Guidance Council However, if this work is not aRsigned to limit bill. and served for 10 years as Cub Master Philadelphia, it will result in the direct Roll No. 73: Final passage on debt limit of Pack 70 in North Haledon. loss of 1,300 jobs by 1980, and the indi­ bill. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the oppor­ rect loss of at least another 1,300 jobs. Had I been present, I would have voted tunity to seek this national recognl- April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7319 the reallty of plentltude which she has pro­ the international energy program, and tion of Alvin Blau and all of his good vided !or me to enjoy. works. His compassion, benevolence, I care about America because she ts a has transmitted the finding to the Con­ leadership, and dedicated public service reality o! happiness. The ideal o! "happiness" gress together with a statement of the has truly enriched our community, State, is ditncult for me to appreciate until I re­ effective date and the manner for exer­ and Nation. We do, indeed, salute a dis­ member all the happy moments I experience cise of the plan. In addition, the gasoline tinguished citizen, community leader, every day. Moments llke going out for pizza. rationing contingency plan, if approved and great American-the Honorable with the gang, opening family gi!ts at by Congress within 60 days, may not Alvin G. Blau.• Christmas, reading a. book beside a. fire, or become effective unless the President's ma.king tee cream on the Fourth o! July. request to activate the plan is not dis­ When I think of all the happiness I experi­ approved by either House of Congress.• ence every day, I smlle and know that hap­ piness is a reallty !or me. I care a.bout Amer­ IOWA WINNER OF VFW VOICE OF ica because she has enabled me to experience DEMOCRACY CONTEST happiness in everything I do. I care about America because she has made happiness WILLIAM B. THORNTON HONORED more than an ideal for me-America has HON. NEAL SMITH made happiness a reallty in my ll!e. OF IOWA Why do I care about America.? Why do I HON. WILLIAM R. COTTER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES care a.bout a tree ll!e? Why do I care about OF CONNECTICUT a plentl!ul life? Why do I care a.bout a happy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, April 4, 1979 ll!e? Why do I care about America? • Mr. SMITH of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I ca.re about America because o! her proud Wednesday, April 4, 1979 this year's Iowa winner of the Veterans heritage of the ideals o! freedom, plenty, • Mr. COTTER. Mr. Speaker, I would of Foreign Wars' Voice of Democracy and happiness. I care about America because like to take this opportunity to congratu­ so many o! my ancestors have cared and late Mr. William B. Thornton on being contest is Barbara Regina Mattingly of have struggled so hard to preserve those Newton, Iowa. I am privileged to serve ideals. But above all-I care about America. selected as the 1979 recipient of the as Barb's Representative in Congress and because she has transformed. those ideals Greater Manchester Chamber of Com­ take special pride in sharing her prize into the wonderful reallties o! my ll!e of merce "M" Award. winning spee::h with my colleagues in the freedom, plenty, and happtness.e I have known Bill for many years and House. this community service award is well de­ It is as follows: served. He is a man of numerous IOWA WINNER OF 1978-79 V.F.W. VOICE OF achievements in Manchester. He is a DEMOCRACY ScHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ENERGY CONSERVATION AND GAS­ native of the town and the State. Ac­ America. A land o! freedom, plenty, and OLINE RATIONING CONTINGENCY cording to the "M" Award Committee, happiness. From her sparkllng eastern sea­ PLANS Mr. Thornton has made "Manchester a coasts to her majestic western mountains, better place to live and earn a living in America ls truly a. land richly endowed with understanding and harmony." proud and timeless ideals. America. A coun­ HON. HARLEY 0. STAGGERS Bill has been involved in many areas try whose very cornerstone ls her proud her- OF WEST VIRGINIA 1tage of freedom, plenty, and happiness. Why of interest in Manchester including the do I care about America? The answer should IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Economic Development Commission, the be apparent. I care a.bout America !or her Wednesday, April 4, 1979 Chamber of Commerce, and the Rede­ ideals o! freedom, plenty, and happiness. velopment Commission. In addition, Mr. But the answer ls not so simple as that, !or e Mr. STAGGERS. Mr. Speaker, today Thorn ton has expressed his concern I care, not so much about American ideals, I am introducing resolutions of approval through his direct involvement in the as about American rea.lltles-realltles which relating to energy conservation and gas­ community; as a member of the South are a product o! those ideals. Freedom, oline rationing contingency plans which plenty, and happiness are abstract concepts Methodist Church, a 32d degree Mason which I can't understand or appreciate un­ were submitted to the Congress on and Shriner, a member of the Kiwanis less I can exercise freedom, enjoy plentitude, March 1, 1979, by the President pursuant Club, and an adviser to the instructors and experience happiness. I ca.re a.bout Amer­ to the provisions of the Energy Policy of the handicapped. His worthy achieve­ ica. because I can experience her reallties­ and Conservation Act

10:30 a.m Select on Intelligence *Finance •commerce, Science, and Transportation To mark up, in closed session, proposed To continue markup on S. 350, S. 351, To hold hearings on S. 709, proposed fiscal year 1980 authorization requests S. 748, and S. 760, bills to encourage authorizations for fiscal years 1980 for intelligence operations of the Fed­ and facilitate the availability, through and 1981 for the U.S. Coast Guard, eral Government. private insurance carriers, of basic Department of Transportation. S-407, Capitol health insurance at reasonable pre­ 235 Russell Building 3:00 p.m. mium charges. 2:00 p.m. •Energy and Natural Resources 2221 Dirksen Building Environment and Public Works Business meeting on pending calendar 2:00 p.m. Environmental Pollution Subcommittee business. 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Act, and S. 745, Housing and Commu­ APRIL 12 457 Russell Building 9:30 a.m . nity Development Amendments, and Judiciary other related proposals. To hold hearings on S. 414, proposed Energy and Natural Resources 5302 Dirksen Building University and Small Business Patent Energy Research and Development Sub­ Judiciary Procedures Act. committee Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights 2228 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on S. 496, t o increase Subcommittee Judiciary the authorization ceillng for Title I To mark up S. 390, proposed Antitrust To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Procedural Improvements Act. tions for fiscal year 1980 for tJh e Land Control Act of 1974. 5112 Dirksen Building and Natural Resources Division, De­ 6226 Dirksen Building Veterans' Affairs partment of Justice. Environment and Public Works To hold hearings on S. 196 and S. 741. 318 Russell Building Resource Protection Subcommittee bills to extend certain veterans' health 10:00 a.m. To markup proposed legislation author­ benefits programs through fiscal year Appropriations izing funds for fiscal year 1980 for 1980. HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee programs under the Solid Waste Con­ 6226 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on proposed trol Act, and for the Environmental 9:30 a.m. budget estimates for fiscal year 1980 Protection Agency's research and de­ Environmental and Public Works for the Federal Emergency Manage­ velopment programs. Regional and Community Developments ment Administration. 4200 Dirksen Building Subcommittee 1918 Dirksen Building Judiciary To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Constitution Subcommittee tions for fiscal year 1980 for the Public Financial Institutions Subcommittee To hold hearings on S.J . Res. 34, to Works and Economic Development To hold hearings on S. Con. Res. 5 and extend the term of office of Members programs. S. Res. 59, both relating to the equity of the U.S. House of Representatives 4200 Dirksen Building for the small saver. to 4 years. 10:00 a.m. 5302 Dirk~en Building Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 5110 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation Select on Small Business Environment, Soll Conservation, and For­ To hold hearings on S. 758. authorizing estry Subcommittee Government Procurement Subcommittee funds for fiscal years 1980 and 1981 To resume hearings on the impact on To hold hearings on proposed legisla­ for programs under the Internat ional tion to create a Department of Natural small businesses of the International Investment Survey Act. Procurement Code being negotiated Resources. 6226 Dirksen Building 324 Russell Building as part of the multilateral trade Appropriations Commerce, Science, and Transportation agreement. To hold hearings on propo ~ect authoriza­ 424 Russell Building Interior Subcommittee tions for fiscal year 1980 for programs To resume hearings on proposed budget 10:00 a.m. under Sec. 305 of the Coastal Zone Appropriations estimates for FY 1980 for the Fish and Management Act of 1972. and title III HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee Wildlife Service. of the Marine Protection, Research, 1223 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on proposed budget and Sanctuaries Act of 1972. estimates for fiscal vear 1980 for the Energy and Natural Resources 235 Russell Building Department of the Treasury. Energy Conservation and Supply Subcom­ Energy and Natural Resources 1318 Dirksen Building mittee Energy Conservation and Supply Subcom­ Appropriations mittee To resume hearings on S. 688 proposed Interior Subcommittee To continue hearings on S. 688, proposed fiscal year 1980 authorizations for the To resume hearings on proposed budget Department of Energy. fiscal year 1980 authorizations for the Department of Energy. estimates for FY 1980 for the Bureau 3110 Dirksen Building of Mines. 3110 Dirksen Building •Finance 1223 Dirksen Building To mark up S. 350, S. 351, S. 748, and S. Environment and Public Works Approprla tions 760, bills to encourage and facilitate Environmental Pollution Subcommittee Transportation Subcommittee the availability, through private in­ To resume markup on proposed legisla­ surance carriers, of basic health insur­ To resume hearings on proposed budget tion authorizing funds for fiscal year estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the ance at reasonable premium charges. 1980 for programs under the Toxic 2221 Dirksen Building Department of Transportation. Substances Control Act. Safe Drink­ 1224 Dirksen Building 2:00 p.m. ing Water Act, Ocean Dumping Act. Commerce, Science, and Transportation and to consider the Environmental Banking. Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ Protection Agency's recommendation Financial Institutions Subcommittee tions for fiscal year 1980 for the Na­ to extend the period of availability of To resume hearings on S. Con. Res. 5 tional Advisory Committee on Oceans authorizations for wastewater treat­ and S. Res. 59, both relating to the and Atmosphere. ment construction grants. equity for the small saver. S-146, Capitol 4200 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building 7332 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1979 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Environment and Public Works Appropriations Surface Transportation Subcommittee Regional and Community Development Transportation Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 796, to imple­ Subcommittee To resume hearings on proposed budg­ ment railroad deregulation. To continue hearings on proposed au­ et estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the 235 Russell Building thorizations for fiscal year 1980 for the Department of Transportation. Energy and Natural Resources Public Works and Economic Develop­ 1224 Dirksen Building Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Re­ ment programs. sources Subcommittee 4200 Dirksen Building Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To resume oversight hearings on the Judiciary Economic Stabilization Subcommittee National Park Service's concession pol­ Constitution Subcommittee To continue oversight hearings on the administration's anti-inftation pro­ icy. To hold oversight hearings on the title 3110 Dirksen Building I provisions under the Speedy Trial gram, and to review the relationship between fiscal policy and inftation. 2:00 p.m. Act of 1974. Appropriations 2228 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building Transportation Subcommittee Labor and Human Resources *Commerce, Science, and Transportation To continue hearings on proposed budget To hold oversight hearings on the con­ Communications Subcommittee estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the ditions, trends, and new approaches To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed Department of Transportation. to linking education, health, and work Communications Act Amendments. 1224 Dirksen Building in the coming decade. and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ tions CompP.tition and Deregulation APRIL 23 4232 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Act. 10:00 a.m. 235 Russell Building Energy and Natural Resources Appropriations To hold oversight hearings on United Interior Subcommittee *Energy and Natural Resources States activities in Antarctica. To resume hearings on proposed budget Energy Regulation Subcommittee 3110 Dirksen Building estimates for FY 1980 for the Depart­ To continue hearings on S. 688, proposed ment of the Interior, to hear congres­ fiscal year 1980 authorizations for the APRIL 24 sional witnesses. Department of Energy. 8:00 a.m. 1223 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building Appropriations District of Columbia Subcommittee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Environment and Public Works To receive a briefing on proposed budget Economic Stabilization Subcommittee Water Resources Subcommittee estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the To resume oversight hearings on the To mark up proposed authorizations for Government of the District of Co­ administration's anti-inftation pro­ fiscal year 1980 for the Water Re­ lumbia. gram, and to review the relationship sources Council. S-126, Capitol between fiscal policy and inftation. 4200 Dirksen Building 9:30 a.m. 5302 Dirksen Building Labor and Human Resources Environment and Public Works *Commerce, Science, and Transportation Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ Regional and Community Development Comm uni cations Subcommittee mittee Subcommittee To continue hearings on S. 611, pro­ To hold hearings on proposed legislation To resume hearings on proposed author­ posed Communications Act Amend­ on biomedical research programs. izations for fiscal year 1980 for the ments, and S. 622, proposed Telecom­ 154 Russell Building Public Works and Economic Develop­ munications Competition and Deregu­ 1:30 p.m. ment Programs. lation Act. Environment and Public Works 4200 Dirksen Building 6226 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Resource Protection Subcommittee Appropriations *Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ Interior Subcommittee Energy Regulation Subcommittee tions for fiscal year 1980 for programs To resume hearings on proposed budget To hold hearings on S. 688, proposed under the Noise Control Act (P.L. 95- estimates for FY 1980 for the Bureau fiscal year 1980 authorizations for the 153). of Land Management. Department of Energy. 4200 Dirksen Building 1223 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building 2:00 p.m. *Commerce, Science, and Transportation Labor and Human Resources Appropriations Communications Subcommittee Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ Transportation Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 611 , proposed mittee To continue hearings on proposed budg­ Communications Act Amendments, To resume hearings on preclinical and et estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ clinical drug testing by the pharma­ Department of Transportation. ceutical industry. tions Competition and Deregulation 1224 Dirksen Building Act. 154 Russell Building 235 Russell Building APRIL 26 APRIL 27 Energy and Natural Resources 8:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Energy Conservation and Supply Sub­ Appropriations Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee District of Columbia Subcommittee Aviation Subcommittee To resume hearings on S. 688, proposed To resume oversight hearings on the fiscal year 1980 authorizations for the To continue hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1980 for gov­ Civil Aeronautics Board's plan to Department of Energy. implement the Airline Deregulation Room to be announced ernmental direction and support serv­ ices for the government of the Dis­ Act (P.L. 95-504). Energy and Natural Resources trict of Columbia. 235 Russell Building Energy Resources and Materials Production S-126, Capitol Subcommittee Finance 9:30 a.m. Taxation and Debt Management Gener­ To hold hearings on S. 688, proposed Labor and Human Resources fiscal year 1980 authorizations for the ally Subcommittee To continue oversight hearings on the To hold hearings on S. 103 proposed Department of Energy. conditions, trends, and new ap­ 3110 Dirksen Building Save Our Schools Act, and S. 449, pro­ proaches to linking education, health, posed Charitable Organizations Pres­ APRIL 25 and work in the coming decade. ervation Act. 8:00 a.m. 4232 Dirksen Building 2221 Dirksen Building Appropriations 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. District of Columbia Subcommittee Appropriations Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee estimates for fiscal year 1980 for gov­ To continue hearings on proposed budg­ HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee ernmental direction and support serv­ et estimates for fiscal year 1980 for To resume hearings on proposed budget ices for the government of the Dis­ the Department of Housing and estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the trict of Columbia Urban Development. Department of Housing and Urban S-126, Capitol 1318 Dirksen Building Development, and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. 9:30 a.m. Appropriations Commerce, Science, and Transportation Interior Subcommittee 1318 Dirksen Building Aviation Sub::ommittee To continue hearings on proposed budg­ Appropriations To hold oversight hearings on the Civil et estimates for FY 1980 for the Office Transportation Subcommittee Aeronautics Board plan to implement of Surface Mining Reclamation and To continue hearings on proposed budg­ the Airline Deregulation Act (P.L. 95- Enforcement. Office of Water Research et estimates for fiscal year 1980 for 504). and Technology. the Department of Transportation. 235 Russell Building 1223 Dirksen Building 1224 Dirksen Building April 4, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7333

•commerce, Science, and Transportation MAY~ MAY 7 Communications Subcommittee 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. To continue hearings on S. 611, pro­ Appropriations Appropriations posed Communications Act Amend­ District of Columbia Subcommittee Transportation Subcommittee ments, and S. 622 proposed Telecom­ To hold hearings on proposed budget To resume hearings on proposed budget munications Competition and Dereg­ estimates for fiscal year 1980 for ju­ estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the ulation Act. dicial services, and transportation Department of Transportation. 6226 Dirksen Building services and assistance for the govern­ 1224 Dirksen Bullding 2:00 p .m. Energy and Natural Resources ment of the District of Columbia. 1114 Dirksen Bullding Appropriations Parks, Recreation and Renewable Re­ Transportation Subcommittee sources Subcommittee 9:30 a .m. To continue hearings on proposed budg­ To resume oversight hearings on the Judiciary et estimates for fiscal year 1980 !or the National Park Service's concession Constitution Subcommittee Department of Transportation. policy. To resume oversight hearings on the 1224 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Bullding title I provisions under the Speedy MAY 8 Labor and Human Resources Trial Act o! 1974. 8:00 a .m. Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ ~228 Dirksen Building Appropriations mittee District of Columbia. Subcommittee To continue hearings on proposed legis· To hold hearings on proposed budget lation on blomedical research pro- 10:00 a.m. Appropria. tions estimates for fiscal year 1980 for grams. economic development and regulation 4332 Dirksen Building HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee To continue hearings on proposed services for the government of the APRIL 30 budget estimates !or fiscal year 1980 District o! Columbia. 9:30 a.m. for HUD and independent agencies. 1114 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Labor and Human Resources 1318 Dirksen Building Handicapped Subcommittee Appropriations Appropriations Interior Subcommittee To hold oversight hearings on the impli­ Interior Subcommittee cations of the Randolph-Sheppard Act To resume hearings on proposed budget To continue hearings on proposed estimates for fiscal year 1980 !or the Amendments of 1974. budget estimates for fiscal year 1980 Department of Energy. 4232 Dirksen Bullding !or the Smithsonian Institution. 1223 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. 1223 Dirksen Building •Appropriations *Commerce, Science, and Transportation Transportation Subcommlt.tee Communications Subcommittee •commerce, Science, and Transportation Communications Subcommittee To resume hearings on proposed budget To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed estimates !or fiscal year 1980 for the Communications Act Amendments, To cont inue hearings on S. 611, proposed Communications Act Amendments, Department of Transportation. and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ 1224 Dirksen Building tions Competition and Deregulation and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ 2:00 p.m. Act. tions Competition and Deregulation •Appropriations 235 Russell Building Act. Transportation Subcommittee 235 Russell Bulldtng Energy and Natural Resources To continue hearings on proposed Business meeting on pending calendar budget esti mates for fiscal year 1980 MAY 3 for the Department of Transportation. business. 8:00 a..m. 3110 Dirksen Building 1224 Dirksen Building Appropriations •Commerce, Science, and Transportation MAY 1 District o! Columbia. Subcommittee Communications Subcommit tee 8:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget To resume hearings on S. 611, proposed Appropriations estimates for fiscal year 1980 for hu­ Communications Act Amendments, District of Columbia. Subcommittee man support services for the Govern­ and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ To hold hearings on proposed budget ment of the District of Columbia. tions Competition and Deregulation estimates for fiscal year 1980 for public 1114 Dirksen Building Act. safety services and educational serv­ 9:30 a.m . 6226 Dirksen Building ices for the government of the District Environment and Public Works MAY 9 of Columbia. Resource Protection Subcommittee 8:00 a .m. 1114: Dirksen Building To markup proposed legislation author­ Appropriations 9:30 a.m. izing funds for fiscal year 1980 for pro­ District of Columbia Subcommittee Labor and Human Resources grams under the Endangered Species To hold hearings on proposed budget Child and Human Development Subcom­ Act, Anadromous Fish Act, and Noise estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the mittee Control Act. Temporary Commission on Financial To hold oversight hearings on the imple­ 4200 Dirksen Bullding Oversight of the government o! the mentation of the Older American Vol­ District of Columbia. unteer Program Act {P.L. 93-113). 10:00 a..m. 1114 Dirksen Building 4232 Dirksen Building Appropriations 10:00 a.m. Appropriations •veterans' Affairs HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee To resume hearings on proposed budget Interior Subcommittee To mark up S. 330, to provide for a judi­ To continue hearings on proposed cial review of the administrative ac­ estimates for fiscal year 1980 for HUD. 1318 Dirksen Building budget estimates for fiscal year 1980 tions of the VA, and for veterans' !or the Department of Energy. attorneys fees before the VA or the Appropriations 1223 Dirksen Building courts, and on proposed legisla. ti on Interior Subcommittee extending certain veterans' health •Appropriations To continue hearings on proposed budg­ Transportation Subcommittee benefits programs through FY 1980. et estimates for fiscal year 1980 !or the 412 Russell Building To continue hearings on proposed Department of Energy. budget estimates for fiscal year 1980 10:00 a.m. 1223 Dirksen Bullding for the Department of Transportation. Appropriations Appropriations 1224 Dirksen Building Interior Subcommittee 11:00 a .m. To resume hearings on proposed budget Transportation Subcommittee To resume hearings on puroposed budget •Appropriations estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the Transportation Subcommittee National Park Service. estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the Department of Transportation. To continue hearings on proposed 1223 Dirksen Bullding budget estimates for fiscal year 1980 2:00 p.m. 1224 Dirksen Bullding for the Department o! Transportation. •commerce, Science, and Transportation •commerce, Science, and Transportation 1224 Dirksen Building Communications Subcommittee Communications Subcommittee 2:00 p.m. To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed To continue hearings on S. 611 , pro­ •Appropriations Communications Act Amendments, posed Communications Act Amend­ Transportation Subcommittee and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ ments, and S. 622, proposed Telecom­ To continue hearings on proposed budget ~~~s Competition and Deregulation munications Competition and Deregu­ est imates for fiscal year 1980 for the lation Act. Department of Transportation. 6226 Dirksen Building 6226 Dirksen Building 1224 Dirksen Building 7334 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE April 5, 1979 •commerce, Science, and Transportation and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ 2:00 p.m. Communications Subcommittee tions Competition and Deregulation Appropriations To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed Act. Communications Act Amendments, 6226 Dirksen Building Transportation Subcommittee and S. 622, proposed Telecommuni­ MAY 11 To resume hea.rings on proposed budget cations Competition and Deregulation 10:00 a.m. estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the Act. •commerce, Science, and Transportation Department of Transportation. 6226 Dirksen Building Communications Subcommittee 1224 Dirksen Building MAY 10 To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed 10:00 a.m. Communications Act Amendments, CANCELLATIONS Appropriations and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica­ Interior Subcommittee tions Competition and Deregulation APRIL 6 To continue hearings on proposed budget 10:00 a.m. estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the Act. Department of Energy. 235 Russell Building Judiciary 1223 Dirksen Building MAY 15 To resume hearings on proposed authori­ Appropriations 10:00 a.m. zations for fiscal year 1980 for the Drug Transportation Subcommittee Energy and Natural Resources Enforcement Administration, Depart­ To resume hearings on proposed budget To resume hearings on S. 685, proposed ment of Justice. estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the Nuclear Waste Polley Act. Department of Transportation. 3110 Dirksen Bullding 2228 Dirksen Building 1224 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources MAY 17 APRIL 10 To hold hearings on S. 685, proposed Nu­ 10:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. clear Waste Polley Act. Appropriations Veterans' Affairs 3110 Dirksen Building Transportation Subcommittee 2:00 p .m. To hold oversight hearings on the role To resume hearings on proposed budget of the Federal Government in provid­ • commerce, Science, and Transportation estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the communications Subcommittee Department of Transportation. ing educational employment. To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed 6226 Dirksen Building Communications Act Amendments, 1224 Dirksen Building HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Thursday, April 5, 1979 Speaker, several of my first-term col­ The House met at 11 a.m. that the Senate had passed bills of the The Reverend A. L. Wyrick, United following titles, in which the concur­ leagues and I today had the privilege rence of the House is requested: of greeting six relatives and friends of Faith Foundation, Fresno, Calif., offered Soviet Jewish prisoners of conscience. the following prayer: S. 41. An act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey any interest held by These freedom fighters are here on a We beseech Thee, almighty God, gra­ the United States in certain lands located in nationwide tour with a freedom van to ciously incline Thine ear to this assembly Bell County, Ky., to the Board of Education, bring attention to the plight of those set before You. Hear us, O God of our Bell County, Ky.; and who have been imprisoned in the Soviet salvation. In these troubled hours con­ s. 832. An act to extend the authorization Union on falsified charges for their real fronting our Nation, hours which demand for the Federal Election Commission. "cr.ime" of applying for exit visas to decisions of the greatest magnitude, we Israd. My colleagues and I are concerned humbly ask for divine guidance in cor­ REV. A. L. WYRICK rectly deciding every issue before this about these cases of injustice and about House.

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