October 11, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28699 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS LOISE RISHER DAY emplary life. She serves as a shining example rights fanaticism that led her to say that for us all. confirming David Souter would mean "ending freedom for women in this coun­ HON. MIKE PARKER try." OF MISSISSIPPI DAVID SOUTER AND THE This style of apocalyptic trembling, fit for FEMINIST MISTAKE an embattled speech at an abortion rally, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES puts Yard over the line that separates au­ Thursday, October 11, 1990 thentic social revolutionaries from cause­ HON. BOB McEWEN mongering pop-offs who are so sure of the Mr. PARKER. Mr. Speaker, today I stand in OF OHIO correctness of their stance that anything the Halls of Congress, the "people's cham­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES slightly askew-especially the near-harmless ber," to speak in honor of a great citizen of Thursday, October 11, 1990 remark of an 87 -year-old codger-is not al­ my district, Loise Risher. This day, October lowed to stand. 12, 1990, has been designated as Loise Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, David Souter of By bursting their veins before and during Risher Day, by the Mississippi Association of New Hampshire is now an Associate Justice the hearings over Souter's unknown views Life Underwriters and the Jackson Association of our Nation's Supreme Court. It is useful on abortion, did Yard and her tribalists really expect him to intellectually prostrate of Life Underwriters as a tribute to her for now to reflect on the hearings which preceed­ ed his confirmation. himself before the NOW demands? He re­ many years of devoted service to the insur­ fused to be cornered and, like Br'er Rabbit, ance industry and her community. Like many of his colleagues in journalism, uttered nary a peep from the brier patch. Loise is a native Mississippian. She was Coleman McCarthy wrote of NOW President On notice that nothing short of saying "I born Loise Shirley on November 12, 1920 Molly Yard's intemperate testimony and be­ pledge always to uphold Roe v. Wade" near Pineville, Mississippi. She was the oldest havior in his September 30 column in the would satisfy the abortion lobby, Souter fin­ of five children when her mother died. Loise Washington Post. It is insightful. essed it. He was well coached by the White had to assume many of the duties of keeping [From the Washington Post, Sept. 30, 19901 House and Justice Department in the art of no-answer answers, so as to appear a good­ a family together and seeing that their needs DAVID SOUTER AND THE FEMINIST MISTAKE guy moderate worthy of the Senate's sup­ were provided for. She came to Jackson, MS (BY CoLEMAN McCARTHY) port. after high school and attended business col­ High feminist dudgeon went higher at the Souter should be rejected-for rank inex­ lege. After she finished business school and Souter hearings when Sen. Strom Thur­ perience in federal law. Because abortion got her first job she used her first paycheck to mond said: "We have a lovely group of dominated his hearings, the public knows buy her family a new refrigerator. She married ladies here. We thank you for your pres­ little or nothing of his views on such consti­ John Chesney and they later moved to Ham­ ence. I have no questions." At the witness tutional issues as workplace safety, limits on mond, IN; Tucson, AZ; and Houston, TX with table, Molly Yard, president of the National corporate power, consumer rights or capital Organization for Women, rolled her eyes, punishment. John's job. John died in 1966 leaving Loise shrugged her shoulders and said later that In arguing against Souter, Yard had much with sons David, age 22, and John, age 4. Thurmond had "trivialized" her and other to say about women's rights and reproduc­ She then moved back to Jackson. women there to oppose David Souter's nom­ tive rights but nothing on fetal rights. She In 1967 Loise was hired to fill the dual role ination to the Supreme Court. defines women's freedom in a narrowness of executive secretary for both the Mississippi The South Carolina Republican, 87 and that she would find intolerable if expressed Association of Life Underwriters and the Jack­ the oldest member of Congress, belongs to by the other side. For Yard, women's free­ son Association of Life Underwriters. She has the school of chivalry that believes men dom means full empowerment to kill what is served in that capacity since 1967 and will should open doors for women, buss them on alive and growing, which is a bizarre defini­ the cheek rather than shake hands, and call tion of freedom. The state-the patriarchal retire at the end of 1990. Loise was the 1983 them lovely ladies as if they were wearing state-sanctions the destruction of fetal life recipient of the C. Carney Smith Award, which antebellum gowns and serving mint juleps for the same reason it has legalized the vio­ is presented each year by the National Asso­ to menfolk on the veranda. lence of war and capital punishment. ciation of Life Underwriters at its annual meet­ Molly Yard, tightly wound by half, picked Many credible feminists-female and ing. It honors the one outstanding association a useless fight. She might have had a case male-reject the violence of abortion be­ executive from the many affiliates of NALU. had Thurmond said "lovely girls" or, horror, cause they oppose all forms of violence. She has been active in numerous civic and "lovely gals," or fillies, chicks, or duckies. Molly Yard doesn't speak for them. Legal philanthropic organizations and served as Getting ticked off because an unreforma­ rights don't mean moral rights, a distinction ble old buck uses a double-standard phrase she doesn't discuss. 1973 president of the Public Relations Asso­ that was, at worst, the equivalent of a burp Alan Simpson, who has a solid record of ciation of Mississippi, and several years as a showed Yard caricaturing the humorless lambasting anyone who acts like a sidewind­ board member of the Southern Public Rela­ and hypersensitive side of feminism. Her er, should have gone further and told Yard tions Federation. pique gave Sen. Alan Simpson

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 28700 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 11, 1990 Thompson of Canterbury, NH, for his extraor­ through lectures, guided tours, and the he obviously still believes what he said all dinary dedication to the preservation of our media, have played a consequential part in those years ago. Nation's heritage. Throughout his life, he has the enormous growth of interest in the Some people still don't get it. Given what worked to preserve the culture of the Shakers Shakers that this century has witnessed. 2. He has brought "history to the people," has occurred around the world the past year, and other American utopian societies as well giving thousands of lectures to organiza­ it is incredible that Mr. Nader can go before as Native Americans. tions throughout New England on the con­ Russians waiting in line to buy bread or what­ Bud's interest in Shaker history and culture tributions of the American Indians, the ever and actually try to talk them out of priva­ began many years agb when he came across nature lore that was so much a part of early tizing because it would give opportunities to Shaker folk music while looking for new types American life, and various aspects of Ameri­ Western corporations. This is not rational con­ of traditional American music to perform. His cana. duct, and yet he is lionized by the media. interest in this nearly extinct lifestyle moved 3. He has made history live for thousands of school children, lecturing in their Below is an article that appeared in the him to visit the Shaker Village in Canterbury, September 17, Forbes magazine exposing NH. He later went on to found the museum at schools, leading them on tours through Shaker Village, and in 1973 organizing a fes­ Nader for the snake oil salesman he has this site, working closely with the few remain­ tival of Indian culture in Laconia which was become on many issues. Written by Peter Bri­ ing Shakers to conserve and restore the vil­ attended by schools throughout that area. melow and Leslie Spencer, the article ex­ lage. He also founded the American Institute 4. He was one of the leading participants poses the secret world of Ralph Nader, and it for Utopian Studies, which is dedicated to the in the preservation of the home of Franklin is not a pretty place. Because its length pre­ research of societies such as the Shakers. Pierce in Concord, for several years serving as the president of the Pierce Brigade, the cludes me from submitting it all at once, I will His interest in Native American culture only be able to put half of it in the RECORD, began with a collection of Indian artifacts. organization which worked so hard to save but I urge all my colleagues to read the whole Before long Bud was dedicating time to the the home from demolition. article in order that they might educate them­ preservation of Indian history and working to 5. He has given courses in several commu­ nity colleges on the Shakers, American uto­ selves on the true nature of one of America's help Native Americans throughout the United pian societies, and on Indian culture. foremost public policy ambulance chasers. States. For his efforts he has received many 6. He started a beautification project So here is "Ralph Nader, Inc.": awards, including the Catlin Peace Pipe Award which distributed hundreds of tree seedlings for humanitarian and cultural contributions to the general public and several historic [From Forbes magazine, Sept. 17, 1990] benefiting American Indians. sites at no cost. RALPH NADER, INC. 7. He has organized clothing shipments to Bud has also contributed time to preserving California's Proposition 103, SIONAL RECORD brief summary prepared by surrounded by those who loved her. The the auto premium roll-back and regulation a legacy she left is multi-faceted, but the initiative that threw the industry into chaos his son Darryl. I join Darryl in saluting this very greatest part of that heritage is the trans­ in 1988, they shrank from attacking Nader special gift from God-Bud Thompson. forming effect her love and spirituality had directly although he was campaigning as CANTERBURY, NH. on those around her. the measure's most visible advocate. Their DEAR CONGRESSMAN DOUGLAS: I arrived at Best wishes always, cowardly rationale: Polls showed he was the village to find a message from your DARRYL THOMPSON. simply too popular. office. They said they had not received the Nadar's popularity is based on an almost materials I sent on Dad. Evidently the unchallenged perception: that he is "Saint packet must have been lost or delayed in RALPH NADER, INC. Ralph," as New Republic magazine once put the mail. I did send it. But, in case it is lost it. "In all statistical probability, at least sev­ somewhere in the postal system, enclosed eral dozen of you who are reading this issue you will find the same material that I sent HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN of the New Republic would be dead today if in the first packet. OF CALIFORNIA Nader hadn't single-handedly invented the In addition to the enclosed articles, I want issue of auto safety," wrote editor Michael to give you a listing of my father's accom­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Kinseley, now co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" plishments. They are as follows: Thursday, October 11, 1990 and one of many ex-Nader employees strate­ 1. He has been instrumental in the preser­ gically placed in the elite media: "Ralph is vation of Shaker in Canterbury, a site of Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. Speaker, our living proof that there isn't much difference historic significance and the repository of colleague, JERRY SoLOMON, has again re­ between a fanatic and a saint." important collections of Shaker furniture, minded us that the annual Ralph Nader rating But saints attract myths as well as mir­ books, manuscripts, visual art, photographs, report will be coming out soon. As usual, Mr. acles. Nader did not single-handedly invent inventions, craft items and artifacts. His en­ SOLOMON has done us all a great service by the auto sa.fety issue. For example, Senator deavors sparked the initial efforts to con­ pointing out what Mr. Nader's goal is. Said Mr. Abraham Ribicoff . "It had 70-to-80 percent approval Nadar miracle has protected the New Re­ founder James Coyne asked Nader about his ratings among the public, and no one Un public subscription list. The fact is that U.S. plaintiff attorney funding at a press confer­ the plaintiff barl thought it could be taken traffic fatalities per 100 million miles trav­ ence in Washington, he stormed from the on directly . . . Finally I asked Ralph to eled had fallen rapidly throughout the cen­ podium and his supporter, Jay Angoff, help, and he did ... and I helped his 103 tury, from 24 in 1921 to 5.3 in 1965. They rushed over and punched Coyne in the eye. initiative, and it passed by a few points, and have continued to fall since, to a recent 2.2. . "I should think we give him a huge fusal to discuss the subject; (2) a "hysteri­ New York Times' Philip Shenon last year. percentage of what he raises." cal, personally abusive" counterattack; (3) a But neighbors say, and have said for Why? Says Austin's Bob Gibbins <$3.7 mil­ claim that the Center for Auto Safety was nearly 20 years, that Nader lives in a five­ lion): "Nader supports all of our issues, and independent of him, although Sanford later story townhouse, worth $1 million to $2 mil­ we support all of his." confirmed that Nader was intimately in­ lion and assessed at $7,400 annually proper­ The most visible aspect of this mutual volved in the organization, <4> a claim that a ty taxes, on Bancroft Place in northwest support is the devastating bombardment of New Republic note that its story did not say Washington, D.C. District records show the unfavorable publicity that Nader and his af­ Nader's position was actually "determined" deed is held by Nader's sister Claire, who filiates, through their unrivaled media con­ by ATLA's check was a "retraction." seems to work in his organization. Queens County, NY, whose tireless efforts to 122 participants. There are now 79 gradu­ ic, in fact, goes far to intensify his feeling of have brought into being the "Soup R Food ates in the program, 38 of whom are currently righteousness and his moral indignation." Van." The van will be dedicated on October Nader may be a genius at touching this attending 4-year institutions. Five are enrolled paranoid strain in the American people. 16 as part of the county participation in World in graduate programs. The remaining gradu­ He's also unsaintly-and untrustworthy-at Hunger Day. ates are either employed full-time or are com­ any speed. The "Soup R Food Van" was originally pro­ bining part-time employment and part-time posed by the Queens Catering and Restau­ college attendance. rant Association. In attempting to find charita­ The program owes much of its success to OUTSTANDING TREE FARMER ble uses for the surplus food of its member OF THE YEAR the financial support given through the U.S. establishments, the association began to co­ Department of Energy scholarships. Without ordinate its efforts with the Interfaith Hunger such assistance, the participants would find it HON. MIKE PARKER Network. A longstanding project of the necessary to secure part-time employment. OF MISSISSIPPI Queens Federation of Churches, the Interfaith This often prevents the student from success­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Hunger Network has already been successful fully completing degree requirements in a Thursday, October 10, 1990 in coordinating food pantries and raising dona­ timely fashion. tions throughout the county. With the assist­ Last summer, two very successful intern­ Mr. PARKER. Mr. Speaker, today I stand in ance of the Office of Queens Borough Presi­ ships programs were conducted at Brookha­ the Halls of Congress, in the "people's Cheim­ dent Claire Shulman, the network was suc­ ven National Laboratory on Long Island, and ber", to speak in honor of a great citizen of cessful in obtaining funding for the van. at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Califor­ my district, Mr. W.C. Johnson. The "Soup R Food Van" has already gotten Mr. Johnson was recently selected as the under way on a pilot basis. At present, the nia. Two students and a faculty member were Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year in van is picking up surplus food throughout the on similar assignments at Livermore. In addi­ Southwest Mississippi. A landowner and pulp­ borough from participating caterres and dis­ tion to paid internships, the students attended wood buyer, Mr. Johnson is still enjoying re­ tributing it to 70 food pantries. The pantries in physics and math classes at University of Cali­ wards from his first investment in forestland turn serve this food to 15,000 people a month fornia, Berkeley. 38 years ago because he manages his timber within the county. The van's drivers and the The program has not been without a few with an eye "always focused on the future". coordinating efforts in delivering the food problems. One that is often encountered by His concern for the future welfare of his for­ throughout the county have been volunteered graduating students is the cancellation of ad­ estland has required that he utilize timber by J-CAP, a substance abuse rehabilitation vanced classes in physics and math due to in­ management practices characteristic of an project. J-CAP's efforts not only assist the sufficient enrollment. Since the college budget outstanding tree farmer. hu,ngry of Queens County but also serve an is enrollment-driven, small classes for a few Mr. Johnson, who has been a certified tree important function in the rehabilitation of its advanced science students put a strain on farmer since 1959, bought his first timberland, clients. that budget. The college solved this problem a 160-acre tract, in 1952, and in 1960, he "Soup R Food Van," whose name is the by issuing registration permits to participants bought an additional 360 acres. The landown­ result of a contest within Community School who take the needed courses in a senior col­ er has harvested approximately 1.5 million District 27, is working to achieve the purpose lege while carrying the remaining academic re­ board feet of timber off the 520 acres over for which World Hunger Day was created, to quirements at Bronx Community College, the the years and still has at least that much create an awareness of hunger so as to bring partent institution. standing. This classic example of good forest people together for feeding the needy. Another problem is of a more personal management has allowed him to enjoy the Through the partnership of government, busi­ nature. It is not uncommon for students to be economic return on his investment and at the ness, and the nonprofit sector, the network is parents. These are bright and motivated stu­ same time insure that his timberland has re­ successfully moving to stamp out hunger in dents but they are sometimes obliged to miss mained productive for the future. Not only Queens County. classes when their children are ill or when does Mr. Johnson plant food plots for wildlife, I ask all my colleagues to join me in con­ baby-sitting arrangements collapse. Also, he utilizes game biologists to help him gratulating the Interfaith Hunger Network as it many students are on public assistance and produce top quality deer herds and big bucks. inaugurates the "Soup R Food Van." in-person bureaucratic procedures with a The best way to conclude these remarks is caseworker can consume precious hours of to quote Mr. Johnson's remarks to a local their time and this too adversely affects their newspaper which reflect his philosophy of MINORITY HONORS PROGRAM, academic performance. conservation and long-term planning. BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE Mr. Speaker, with the high crime rate, un­ I originally bought timberland with the intention of sending my sons to college on HON. JOSE E. SERRANO employment, and other unfortunate social the profits generated by harvesting. Now I conditions with which my constituents must am looking at the timber for the next gen­ OF NEW YORK contend, I am most gratified that this math eration. I have four grandsons, and I hope IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and science program provides some minority to leave my timber in good shape for them. · Thursday, October 11, 1990 students an opportunity to improve them­ I only hope they will do the same for their selves through education. For academic year grandchildren as they manage it. Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I have said on the House floor and on other occasions that 1990, there are 129 students enrolled in the Mr. Speaker, I would like for my colleagues everything that could go wrong in American program-63 Latinos; 51 African-Americans; to join me in saluting Mr. W.C. Johnson on society can be found in my district, the South 14 Asian-Americans; and 1 native American. this occasion of his being named Outstanding Bronx. This is due in no small measure to the Mr. Speaker, underrepresentation of minori­ Tree Farmer of the Year and for his commit­ fact that New York's 18th District ranks ties in the math and science professions stem ment to the values that made this country primarily from powerful underlying forces in great. among the poorest congressional districts in the United States. Despite the multitude of American society, including discrimination, negative South Bronx images, there are many poverty, and deficits in education. It is predict­ DEDICATION OF "SOUP R FOOD exemplary facets of daily life and diverse cul­ ed that by the year 2000, 85 percent of new VAN" tures and sadly they are often overlooked. entrants to the Nation's work force will be One such outstanding example is the Minority members of minority groups and women. HON.GARYL.ACKERMAN Honors Program in Energy-Related Curricula Bronx Community College cannot on its own OF NEW YORK at Bronx Community College, headed by Dean wipe out discrimination or educate every mi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Evelyn Kish. nority student who wishes to obtain a college The Minority Honors Program completed its education. But for the 129 students who are Thursday, October 11, 1990 1989-90 academic year with the highest en­ current participants in the honors program, the Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today rollment in its 5 year history. To date, the pro­ college is providing an opportunity that per­ to pay tribute to the Interfaith Hunger Network gram has awarded a total of 264 scholarships haps no other institution would have offered. October 11, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28703 I commend Dean Kish, the administration of The 4-H members in the Second Congres­ Dairy show champions-Amanda Coomer, the college, and especially the students for sional District of Kentucky, which I have the Barren; Mark England, Hart; Loren Jaggers, their efforts to bridge the knowledge gaps and privilege of representing in the U.S. Congress, Hardin; April Hollon, Marion; Anna Fisher, to increase the number of minorities in the have had many accomplishments during the Allen; Angela Crain, Hart; Martyn Wyatt, math and science professions. past year; 33,965 youth in the Second District Barren; Lonnie Crain, Hart; Corrie Harlow, Hart; Brian England, Hart; David Blanken­ were involved in 1,369 club/units and were ship, Allen; David 0' Bryan, Bullitt; Michael NATIONAL 4-H WEEK led by 4,518 volunteer teen and adult leaders. Rider, Hardin; Jesse Chaney, Warren; Keith Rogers of Hardin County is serving his James Chaney, Warren; Gini Lin Barlow, HON. WILLIAM H. NATCHER second term as president of the Kentucky 4-H Barren. Leaders Council, the State program advisory Swine champions-Chris Pontle, Daviess; OF KENTUCKY group. Bill Corum of Meade County continues Wendi Gardner, Barren; Mark Cochran, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to serve as president of Friends of Kentucky Hardin; John Poskin, Hardin; Anita Bar­ Thursday, October 11, 1990 4-H, the State 4-H Foundation, and Linda Jef­ nett, Daviess; Bart Jones, Warren; Frankie Mr. NATCHER. Mr. Speaker, once again it fiers of Spencer County was reelected for a Carroll, Hardin; Best County exhibits: 1st­ is a privilege to join with the members of 4-H second term as treasurer. Margie Brookshire Hardin; 2nd-Daviess. Sheep champions-Melinda Grimsley, Da­ as they celebra~e . National 4-H Week. This of Breckinridge County continues her years of year's theme is "4-H for Youth for America." service on both the State 4-H leaders council viess; Amy Marsh, Allen. Beef show champions-Mark Lundy, and the State 4-H teen council. She also Over 5. 1 million youth participated in 4-H Nelson; Craig Faulkner, Nelson; Steve Haw­ youth development programs in 1989. This is serves on the National Extension Advisory kins, La.Rue; Will Meng, Warren; Ashley an increase of 5 percent over the previous Board. Joe Spalding of Washington County, Davis, Washington; Katie Staples, Meade; ~ year. Individual members enroll in one or more Russell Lemons of Hardin County, and Larissa Stephen Gardener, Barren; Patrick organized projects each year. The most popu­ Jeffiers of Spencer County have just recently Durham, La.Rue; Jaret Farmer, Meade; lar projects were in the areas of animals and completed their year of service as immediate Tanya Robinson, Breckinridge; Charles All­ poultry, food and nutrition, natural resources, past State 4-H officers. These outstanding geier, Meade; Erin Remington, Washington; and individual and family resources. teen and adult volunteers have filled, and are Neil 0' Bryan, Daviess; Carrie Bittel, Da­ Last year, the Cooperative Extension Serv­ filling, some of the most important leadership viess. ice identified five national initiatives on which roles in the Kentucky 4-H Program. Dairy goat champions-Jason McCreary, to focus educational efforts-Revitalizing Sixteen 4-H'ers from the Second Congres­ Hardin; Sara Bell, Spencer; Amy Babb, Rural America; Water Quality; Improving Nutri­ sional District of Kentucky participated in the Hardin; Reuben Baker, Hardin; Loretta Kes­ senger, Hardin; Jeff Mosby, Hardin; Rose tion, Diet and Health; Youth at Risk; and Com­ American Heritage Program last year. They petitiveness of American Agriculture. The goal Conyers, Hardin; Loressa Kessenger, were among 177 youth and adults who trav­ Hardin. is to expand extension's outreach to more eled to Washington, DC, stayed at the Nation­ youth, particularly to those most vulnerable Wood science exhibit champions-Jacob al 4-H Center, and studied and learned about Jones, Washington; Travis Smith, Washing­ because of poverty, lack of parental and com­ citizenship and our Government. They also ton. munity support and negative peer pressure. visited with their Representatives and Sena­ Photograph exhibits champions-Jennifer Many States have already begun to refocus tors. One family from Warren County hosted a Decker, Grayson; Kimberly Dudgeon, Gray­ programs and resources. Japanese student through the 4-H LABO Ex­ son. To provide further support, a national exten­ change Program. Horticulture and plant science exhibits sion summit on "Youth at Risk-Developing County 4-H programs in the Second Con­ champions-Amy Graves, Simpson; Kim Youth Potential" was held on September 18. gressional District of Kentucky have become Akins, Washington; Tige Akins, Washing­ Regional workshops are planned to assist even more successfully involved in issues ton. county and district staff develop or refine their Food preservation exhibits champions­ based programs such as drug and alcohol "Youth at Risk" programming goals and agen- Nichole Meador, Simpson. da& · education, school drop out, latch key kids/ Electric energy exhabits champions-Ben The development of a national curriculum staying home alone, teen pregnancy/sexuality, Johnson, Nelson; Luke French, LaRue; for 4-H economics education was launched and building self-esteem through the new pilot Wesley Chancellor, Daviess. last year, with five States participating as pilot program "Being All You Can Be." Nineteen Breads exhibits champions-Christina States in the initial planning stages. State teen and adult leaders participated in the first Johnson, Warren; Holly Stemle, Daviess. teams explored international interdependence "Issues Conference" and received training to Clothing exhibits champions-Rebecca of the world economy and the role of young enable them to go back to their home commu­ Smith, Mead. Arts and crafts exhibits champions-April people in that economy. They developed nities and network with other organizations in seeking solutions to problems facing our youth Whitis, Bullitt; Christy Dykes, Nelson. back-home action plans for establishing or ex­ State beef derby contest champion team­ panding economic education programs in their today. The following 4-H'ers from the Second Meade County: Brian Stith, Kevin Stith, communities. Each pilot State received a Phillip Hardesty, Kyle Hardesty grant for 4-H curriculum development in eco­ Congressional District of Kentucky received Rabbit show champions-Rebekah Satter­ nomic education and entrepreneurship which recognition at the 4-H Talk Meet at the State ly, Hardin; Frankie Carrol, Hardin; Tommy will be shared nationwide. level: Leachman, Hardin; Jeff McBride, Hardin; For the past 3 years, 4-H has been in­ Junior 4-H demonstrations-Jerri Fields, Jason Leachman, Hardin. volved in the development and piloting of six Warren; Wesley Chancellor, Daviess; Mandy Feltner 4-H leadership recognition-Sue special projects designed to interest more Hatcher, Hart; Kathleen Phelan, Hardin; Erwin, Allen; Gail Holmes-Lee, Nelson; young people in science and technology. April Kirtley, Daviess; Sandy Wells, Da­ Ernie Stith, Meade; Mardy Smith, Spencer. These projects are now ready for adaptation viess; Bradley Atwell, Hart. Senior 4-H demonstrations-Angie Clark, At this time I would like to commend all of and adoption nationwide. Nelson; Derek Depp, Barren; Andy Wigging­ those associated with 4-H programs for their The 4-H hands-on, real-world, learning-by­ ton, Bullitt. past achievements and accomplishments and doing approach to sciences and technology Speech-Stephanie Murphy, Washington; wish them continued success in all their future will encourage young people to continue their Brian Mattingly, Marion; Lori Wilson, endeavors. study of math and sciences in school, and en­ Breckinridge; Tanya Whitehouse, Marion. courage our most capable youth to consider State 4-H record book champions -Karen Young, Daviess; technology. Heather Polge, Daviess; Kristie Powell, Da­ Last year, 222,582 young people in my viess. State 4-H tractor driving contest-Mat­ home State of Kentucky were involved in thew Oliver, Allen. 8,304 4-H clubs, special interest and school Meat animal judging contest-Bart Jones, enrichment units; 27,017 teen and adult volun­ Warren ; teers assisted. Jessica Grimsley, La.Rue 28704 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 11, 1990 ARKANSANS OF THE YEAR Little Rock and Hot Springs. Johnelle is sec­ port of the bill which passed in Congress retary and board member of One National naming this great Courthouse. And I extend Bancshares. She is chairwoman of the board that appreciation to all my old colleagues in HON. JOHN PAUL of One National Bank, Hot Springs. Congress who raised no voice against the HAMMERSCHMIDT J.B. is a member of the Arkansas Business bill and to the President who signed it into OF ARKANSAS Council, Baptist Medical System Founda­ law. Most all of this was done "behind my tion's board of trustees and the national ad­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES back". The bill was introduced and in Com­ visory committee of Northwestern Universi­ mittee for consideration before Wayne casu­ Thursday, October 11, 1990 ty's Transportation Center in Evanston, Ill. ally mentioned it to me. Of course I didn't He is also a member of the board of Daystar fight against it, but no affirmative lobby ap­ Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, re­ Inc., a media ministry of First Baptist cently the Easter Seal Society of Arkansas pears to have been needed to push it along. Church of Springdale. I never had things so good! sponsored one of the largest annual fundrais­ Johnelle is director of the University of Today my wife and our family and our ing events in our State-the Arkansan of the Arkansas for Medical Sciences Foundation dear friends and neighbors are grateful too. Year Dinner. Fund board and is co-chairwoman of the Ar­ This is our home, our native State. To be This worthy event recognizes outstanding kansas Center for Eye Research committee. honored by your own brings tears of joy. Arkansans who have made substantial contri­ She sits on the board of the Arkansas Let me introduce my wife of 56 years and butions to the State. Cancer Research Center, the national board our children and grandchildren. I ask each J.B. and Johnelle Hunt jointly share the of trustees for the Wildwood Center for Per­ to stand as I name them. forming Arts, and the Walton Arts Center. Phyllis Hart Moss whom I met in Granite honor of being the 1990 Arkansans of the She's a member of the UAMS Chancellor's Year, joining the company of many fine Arkan­ High School some 65 years ago. Now her Club and the President's Arkansas Advisory hair looks like that of Barbara Bush. sans who preceded them in receiving this Council for Winrock International. Marilyn Moss Armstrong-our first born, honor. The couple have two children, Jane with her daughter Allison and Allison's hus­ J.B. and Johnelle are good friends of mine Tinnin of Fayetteville and Bryan Hunt of band Clay Glad, then Ted Armstrong and and for the benefit of my colleagues, I am Springdale, and five grandchildren. Eric Armstrong. Thank you. pleased to enclose the following article from The Hunts follow in the footsteps of Edward Moss and Marilyn his wife with Walter Smiley, Ray Thornton, McLarty, the Arkansas Gazette, which outlines the ac­ three daughters; Julie Moss, Marianne Moss and Herschel H. Friday as Arkansans of the and Jeniffer Moss. Ed and Marilyn's son, complishments of this exceptional couple. Year. Arkansan of the Year dinners have [From the Arkansas Gazette, Sept. 30, 1990] Jim, is on an LDA mission in our 50th State. raised more than $223,000 for Easter Seals. . wanted to break free," says Heller, whose Established in 1966 to recognize the Cynics will say that this never will be. achievements of the country's more than mother wouldn't let her play sports for fear Well, did not many say the Berlin Wall 500,000 police officers, the award will be she'd get hurt. "I was a wild spirit. I wanted would never be breached? That Eastern presented to Katherine Heller in Tulsa on to be out there like Sea Wolf, pirating Europe would never be free; that the Oct. 9 at the IACP's annual convention. ships." U.S.S.R. and USA would never vote together Heller's decisiveness should lay to rest any After college, where she earned bachelor's in the Security Council? doubts about women's abilities as police of­ degrees in science and geology, she worked As you see, like my father, I am an ongo­ ficers, asserts U.S. Park Police Chief Lynn at jobs ranging from seismologist to inter­ ing optimist. There will be many road blocks Herring. "I hope her example will encour­ pretive ranger. Through a ranger friend, she but in the end freedom and justice will pre­ age young women to make the leap to law learned about the Park Police, a branch of vail. And we are making progress. enforcement," he says. the Department of the Interior that was I won't be around perhaps, to see all these It all started on a drizzly evening about started in 1791 to protect federal lands and exciting things, but my name on this great 7:30 p.m. last Feb. 22 in Lafayette Park, buildings in Washington, D.C. Today, the building will look down and smile when across from the White House, where Kathy Park Police encompass a force of 650, in­ international law shall go forth to all man­ Heller was on foot patrol. Officer Scott cluding 62 women, who police the capital kind. Dahl had dropped by on his motorcycle to region along with federal parkland in New I am grateful beyond words to be accorded give her a package. As he was leaving, he York City and San Francisco. this honor: today-and forever. saw a man with a gashed head staggering in Heller loves police work so much that My feelings-and those of my family and the park. "That guy just hit me with a when she was offered limited duty after the of my coworkers cannot be described. We brick," the man muttered, pointing at a va­ shooting, she turned it down. Group-ther­ grant across the street. apy sessions with other police officers in­ hope that our actions will reflect our grati­ While Dahl crossed the street to investi­ tude and our determination to seek peace, gate, Heller checked the wounded man, who volved in shootings helped her put the inci­ personal growth and joy through all of our was bleeding profusely. But looking up in dent behind her. She returned to work after years. Dahl's direction, she saw two figures grap­ 2¥2 months and asked to be assigned to the pling on the ground. The vagrant had at­ city's tough Anacostia beat, which she pa­ tacked the officer and begun digging at trols in a cruiser. Dahl's eyeballs. As the officer shouted for "As a police officer, you live on the edge," help, Heller rushed to his aid and beat the she says. "I went over the edge and was able attacker over the head repeatedly with her to come back. But I can never be the same." 28706 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 11, 1990 THE CONTINUING CRISIS IN ed 50,000 remain, facing certain death. It is There has been no such generous re­ LIBERIA not overstating the case to conclude that sponse, concern, or attention for the victims Taylor's forces plan genocide against the of the brutal civil war in Liberia. Their Krahn. plight, overshadowed by events in the Gulf, HON. TED WEISS Liberia, which was settled in this 1800s by is tragic, and demands urgent action. OF NEW YORK freed American slaves, has close political There have been difficulties in getting aid IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and historical ties with the United States. to the victims of the Gulf crisis. Many were We can and should do more to help the vic­ stranded in the middle of the desert, and no Thursday, October 11, 1990 tims of this brutal power struggle. clear international system existed for aiding Mr. WEISS. Mr. Speaker. While much of the European donors consider Liberia an people in their situation. However, through world's attention is rightly focussed on the American problem, and the response to the combined efforts-and political will-of crisis in the Persian Gulf, the international United Nations and Red Cross appeals has governments, international organizations, community seems to have quietly forgotten fallen short. The Bush Administration's an­ and private relief groups worldwide, high­ nouncement last week of increases in assist­ profile media coverage, and quite substan­ the genuine tragedy that continues to unfold ance to the refugees is too little and too tial amounts of money, the international in the West African nation of Liberia. After 10 late. The Liberians I visited in the Ivory community is finding ways to respond to months of brutal violence and civil war, the Li­ Coast were hungry and sick, and their Ivor­ their needs. berian conflict continues with no immediate ian hosts, who have shared their meager Difficulties also exist in aiding the civil­ signs of a peaceful resolution. homes and food, need assistance as well. In ians affected by the Liberian crisis. If the One of the most tragic aspects of this situa­ one town deep in the jungle, a mother international community could spare some tion is the plight of the hundreds of thousands thrust her ailing infant, covered with sores of its goodwill, creativity, and funds for of Liberian refugees who have been uprooted from sleeping on the ground with no blan­ them too, their suffering could also be alle­ ket, into my arms, as if I could help. All from their homes-some trapped in the be­ viated. around us, people were without the bare ne­ At greatest risk in Liberia are the 100,000 sieged capital of Monrovia; others forced into cessities of simple survival. They need blan­ to 150,000 civilians, mostly women and small exile in neighboring countries. kets, clothes, medicine, soap and above all, children and those too old or sick to flee, I would like to commend to the attention of food. who are trapped in Monrovia, the besieged my colleagues two recent articles about the The United States also should match the capital. Without water for five months, and continuing crisis in Liberia. These two arti­ generosity of Liberia's West African neigh­ food for two months, they are slowly starv­ cles-by Holly Burkhalter of Human Rights bors and permit refugees to enter our coun­ ing. Hundreds of thousands of other Liberi­ Watch and Hiram A. Ruiz with U.S. Committee try. Currently, it is almost impossible for Li­ ans have fled to the relative safety of refu­ berian refugees in West Africa to enter the gee camps in neighboring countries. But for Refugees-call attention to the extraordi­ United States, even if they have close they too are short of food, because the nary hardship and suffering of Liberian refu­ family relationship with Liberia, the State international community has been unwilling gees. These articles also point to the urgent Department should increase the number of to respond adequately to their needs. need for a more generous response from the refugee slots for Liberians, as was done two Besides the US contribution, the interna­ international community, including the United years ago for Soviet Jews. And the Immigra­ tional community has pledged $200 million States. tion Service should instruct our embassies to aid the Gulf's uprooted. Yet a United Na­ Ms. Burkhalter and Mr. Ruiz remind us that, abroad that applications for nonimmigrant tions appeal for just $12 million to assist even though the gulf crisis may have diverted travel visas by Liberian refugees should be nearly half a million Liberian refugees in favorably reviewed. Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leone has our attention to other issues, the Liberian trag­ The U.S. government should ease the anx­ yielded only $4.3 million from nations other edy has not disappeared-and it will not be iety of Liberians living here, who fear that than the US. adequately addressed until we provide the they will be returned home to face carnage Even more aid than that already request­ desperately needed assistance which the situ­ and famine. The INS has announced a six­ ed is likely to be needed. Assistant Secretary ation demands. month program of safe haven for Liberians, of State for African Affairs Herman J. [From the Los Angeles Times, Oct. 2, 19901 but it is limited to those who arrived before Cohen, who has just been in Liberia and late July. Safe haven should be granted to met with both main rebel leaders, said that PERsPECTIVE oN LIBERIA: A CRY FRoM OuR all Liberians here until they can return the prospects for increased warfare are DISTANT COUSINS home without fear of violence. growing. Anuther US official who also re­ ; there was no al­ considered to be the single most important finements of constitutional democracy have ready-established relief network to respond collection of aeronautical materials ever ac­ evolved over a period of nearly four centuries. to the emergency; and their plight has gen­ quired by one individual. It is a tribute to erated little international humanitarian re­ his love of Arkansas that he chose to keep We must be patient and offer our assistance sponse. the collection here, where it brings acclaim without attempting to impose our views. We Liberians are not sitting atop large oil re­ to us year after year. must show our Central and East European serves. The only "hostages" involved in the We will all miss Cass Hough. His amazing colleagues the most exemplary educational Liberian crisis have been other West Afri­ courage, vision and leadership will be long programs used in the United States to foster cans who had been working in Liberia. And, remembered. among our youth the knowledge, skills, and because of Liberia's historical links with the US, Liberia is viewed by many in the inter­ character traits that are required for the con­ national donor community as something of CIVIC EDUCATION EXCHANGE duct of democracy and for its preservation. At an American dependency. But the "Liberian PROGRAM the same time, we have an opportunity to problem" is not just an "American prob­ learn from the efforts of these countries in es­ lem." tablishing democratic institutions. HON. TOM LANTOS The United States has a number of re­ CASS HOUGH OF CALIFORNIA sources in the area of civic education that can IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES be helpful in this effort. I was delighted to HON.JOHN P.HAMMERSCHMIDT Thursday, October 11, 1990 note that our colleagues in the Senate have OF ARKANSAS recognized the Center for Civic Education Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, as the newly from my home State of California as such a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES free nations of Central and Eastern Europe resource and have recommended support for Thursday, October 11, 1990 struggle to make the difficult transition to con­ its programs under their legislation. For every stitutional democracy and free-market econo­ Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, it is 25 years the center has been developing and with deep sadness that I inform my colleagues my, we must provide them whatever assist­ ance we can to insure the success of their ef­ implementing exemplary programs in civic of the death of Cass Hough on September 17. education, focusing on the principles and 1990. forts. We have a profound stake in their suc­ values of constitutional democracy. Cass was an unusual, patriotic, talented and cess. Both World War I and World War II were The center conducts the highly regarded gifted citizen. He was also a longtime friend. triggered by events in this frequently neglect­ National Bicentennial Competition on the Con­ I join with his friends at Union National Bank ed region of the world. We now have an op­ of Arkansas in their tribute to Cass which fol­ portunity to assist and influence for good the stitution and Bill of Rights, which is cospon­ lows: future development of this important area. sored by the Commission on the Bicentennial UNION SALUTES CAss HouGH, LEADER, A principal focus of our attention should be of the U.S. Constitution and funded by Con­ AVIATION PIONEER AND FRIEND to help educators in these nations develop gress. The center also conducts extensive The directors, o.fficers and staff of Union and implement programs in their schools to teacher training programs and has adminis­ National Bank honor the memory of our foster among their youth an understanding of tered international cultural exchange programs friend, Cass Hough. He earned distinction as and commitment to the fundamental principles in civic education with European countries, a leader, not only in our company, but in and values of constitutional democracy. which is supported by the U.S. Information many walks of life. For this reason, Mr. Speaker, I strongly sup­ Agency. Recently the center held an educa­ We remember Cass Hough for far more port the provisions of title V, section 503 of than his prestigious accomplishments and tional conference in Santa Monica, CA, enlist­ honors in business and civic affairs, among the International Affairs Authorization Act of ing the views on citizenship education from them his valued service on our Board of Di­ 1990 (S. 2944) authorizing assistance for ac­ representatives of Poland, Czechoslovakia, rectors, the presidency of Daisy Manufac­ tivities of the comprehensive Support for East Germany, and Italy. turing and leadership of the Arkansas In­ European Democracy [SEED] Program which This legislation should enable organizations dustrial Development Commission. We also seeks to promote the political and economic such as the Center for Civic Education to play remember his humanity and high-flying transition of the countries of Central and East­ a unique role in assisting the countries of valor. ern Europe emerging from Communist rule. Central and Eastern Europe in the develop­ Serving as colonel and director of Techni­ Section 503 of this act includes important ment of their own programs of civic education. cal Operations of the Eighth Air Force in provisions for civic education exchanges be­ World War Two, he test-piloted the P-38 Mr. Speaker, these are extraordinary times. Lightning aircraft, risking his life in an 800 tween educators in Central and Eastern Euro­ pean countries and the United States. I want The spirit of home and democracy is alive and mile-an-hour veritical dive to prove the air­ thriving in the hearts of millions in the newly crafts' attack capability, an accomplishment to pay particular tribute to the distinguished chronicled in the 1944 Readers Digest arti­ Senator from Rhode Island and the chairman liberated nations of the world. As the world's cle, "Ten Seconds to Live" as an act of hero­ of the Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. PELL, leading democracy, the United States has a ism and, most probably, aviation's first for his leadership and foresight in including unique role to play in providing leadership and breaking of the sound barrier. this provision in the Senate version of this leg­ exchanging experience with these newly­ This and other deeds of courage in the air islation. emerging democracies. An ambitious program earned him the Air Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross and For almost five decades, the political educa­ of international civic education exchanges rep­ the Belgian Croix de Guerre with Palm tion of students in this area has been domi­ resents a vital first step in the critical effort to among many other citations. nated by indoctrination in Marxist-Leninist ide­ build a lasting foundation for constitutional de­ In 1974, he was named an "elder states­ ology. The difficulties which this background mocracy in Central and Eastern Europe. man of aviation" by the National Aeronau­ places in the path of reform should not be un­ tics Association, joining the ranks of world­ derestimated. These countries lack textbooks famous pioneer fliers such as Eddie Ricken­ in democratic government and civics, and they backer, Admiral Richard Byrd, and General lack teachers trained in providing the educa­ James Doolittle. A Michigan native and holder of Michigan tion required of citizens of constitutional de­ Pilot License number one , he it is clear that the new political and education­ "adopted" our state and was instrumental in al leaders of many of these countries are bringing Daisy Manufacturing, the company committed to overcoming these difficulties by 28708 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 11, 1990 PROVIDING COUNTER NARCOT- pares primarily low-income children to suc­ ment. A mental health professional must be ICS ASSISTANCE TO THE cessfully enter school, thus helping thousands available to every Head Start Program. ANDEAN COUNTRIES of children to look forward to a brighter future. Parents are the most important influence on A celebration will be held in honor of the 25th a child's development. An essential part of HON. ROBERT E. WISE, JR. anniversary of the Michigan Head Start Pro­ every Head Start Program is the involvement OF WEST VIRGINIA gram on October 11 , 1990 at the Detroit Holi­ of parents in parent education, program plan­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES day Inn. ning, and operating activities. Many serve as Since its inception in 1965, Head Start has members of Policy Councils and committees Thursday, October 11, 1990 provided educational, social, medical, dental, and have a voice in administrative and mana­ Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, as chairman of a nutritional, and mental health services to over gerial decisions. Through participation in subcommittee that has spent the past year re­ 9 million children and their families across the classes and workshops on child development viewing narcotics control efforts in the Andean Nation. Launched by the Office of Economic and through staff visits to the home, parents region, it is clear to me that continued United Opportunity, it is now administered by the Ad­ learn about the needs of their children and States assistance is needed by Peru, Bolivia, ministration for Children, Youth, and Families about educational activities that can be car­ and Colombia to disrupt the narcotics trade in the Department of Health and Human Serv­ ried out at home. Many parents also serve in and dismantle trafficking organizations. The ices. Project Head Start has played a major Head Start on a volunteer or paid basis as Colombian National Police antinarcotics direc­ role in focusing the attention of the Nation on aides to teachers, social service personnel, torate's efforts which resulted in a reduction the importance of early childhood develop­ and other staff members, and as cooks, story­ of the number of trafficker flights to producing ment, especially in the first 5 years of life. tellers and supervisors of play activities. countries during the past year is an example Head Start's educational program is de­ The social services component of Head of the kind of Andean initiative we should fully signed to meet each child's individual needs. Start represents an organized method of as­ endorse. It also aims to meet the need of the communi­ sisting families to assess their needs, and While I support funding Andean counter nar­ ty served and its ethnic and cultural character­ then providing those services that will build cotics law enforcement activities, I am more istics. If programs have a majority of bilingual upon the individual strengths of families to skeptical about the extent to which the military children, for example, at least one teacher or meet their own needs. The outreach and train­ institutions in Peru, Boliva, and Colombia will aide must speak their native language. ing efforts of Head Start programs have undertake this mission. The Committee on Every child receives a variety of learning ex­ helped provide low-income parents with the Government Operations recently released a periences to foster intellectual, social, and knowledge and service they need to build a report on Andean counter narcotics oper­ emotional growth. Children participate in better life for their children. ations prepared by my subcommittee which indoor and outdoor play and are introduced to A handicapped child can often learn more concluded that endemic corruption, particular­ the concepts of words and numbers. They are readily in a group with other children than in a ly by elements of each country's military, pre­ encouraged to express their feelings and to separate group for the handicapped. Handi­ cluded meaningful results from having been develop self-confidence and the ability to get capped children and their families receive the attained in Peru and Bolivia. along with others. full range of Head Start developmental serv­ In Colombia where interdiction efforts have Head Start programs have a low child staff ices. In addition, Head Start staff members been more successful, the Colombian Nation­ ratio. Staff members receive training in child work closely with community agencies to pro­ al Policy received only 16 percent of the $65 development and early childhood education. vide services to meet the special needs of the million emergency assistance we provided in They learn how to work with handicapped chil­ handicapped child. Head Start has had a significant impact on August 1989, despite the fact that the police dren who now account for 13.3 percent of community efforts for low-income families. A are responsible for nearly 90 percent of all Head Start's total enrollment. Staff at all narcotics seizures. study of 58 communities with full year Head levels and in all program areas receive train­ Our oversight also found that the Colombian Start programs showed that the program had ing to improve job performance and to provide military planned to spend the majority of our influenced local educational and health institu­ opportunities for career advancement within fiscal year 1990 antinarcotics assistance on a tions to become more responsible to the the program. counterinsurgency campaign in a region of needs of the poor. As a result of Head Start Head Start emphasizes the importance of Colombia not known for narcotics processing activities, for the first time many school dis­ early identification of health programs. Since or trafficking. tricts revised curricula to place more emphasis many preschool children of low-income fami­ During my subcommittee's three field trips on the needs of minorities; health institutions lies have never seen a doctor or dentist, Head to the Andean region, we found that besides changed services and schedules to serve the Start provides every child with a comprehen­ fighting insurgencies, police-military tension in poor more effectively; and there was in­ each of the three countries remained an im­ sive health care program, including medical, creased participation by low-income individ­ dental, mental health, and nutritional services. pediment to better coordinated narcotics con­ uals in policymaking decisions. All of these trol operations. Children receive a complete examination, in­ are major Head Start goals. For the above reasons Mr. Speaker, I am cluding vision and hearing tests, indentification Mr. Speaker, and my colleagues in the concerned that we closely monitor the Presi­ of handicapping conditions, immunizations, House, join me today in saluting the Michigan dent's determination required for providing this and a dental exam. Followup treatment is pro­ Head Start Program, for giving the children of assistance to ensure that specific antinarco­ vided for identified health problems. our great State educational, social, medical, tics program performance criteria contained in Many children entering Head Start have not dental, nutritional, and mental health services our agreements signed with the Andean coun­ received good, nourishing meals at home. In that provide them with the necessary founda­ tries are in fact met. the program, children are served a minimum tion to enjoy success throughout their educa­ of one hot meal and snack each day, in order tion and their lives. to meet at least one-third of their daily nutri­ CELEBRATE 25 YEARS OF HEAD tional needs. A trained nutritionist supervises START the nutritional activities of each Head Start THE 1991 INTERIOR APPROPRIA­ Program and helps the staff identify the nutri­ TIONS FOR THE LA· CROSSE HON. BILL SCHUEITE tional needs of the children. The nutritionist NATIONAL FISH LAB OF MICHIGAN plans an educational program to teach par­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ents how to select healthy foods and prepare HON. STEVE GUNDERSON well-balanced meals, and how to obtain food Thursday, October 11, 1990 OF WISCONSIN stamps and other community assistance when IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. SCHUETTE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to needed. celebrate and recognize the Michigan Head Head Start recognizes the importance of Thursday, October 11, 1990 Start Association for providing comprehensive providing mental health and psychological Mr. GUNDERSON. Mr. Speaker, in my testi­ developmental services to Michigan's pre­ services to children of low-income families, to mony before the Interior Appropriations Sub­ school children for 25 years. Head Start pre- encourage their emotional and social develop- committee, I made a request-for the second October 11, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28709 year in a row-for additional operations and search to achieve FDA and EPA approvals for and women-and the national security that maintenance funds for the National Fish Lab chemicals needed to produce or manage our depends on the operational performance of in La Crosse, WI. The lab is facing a severe fishery resources. And major fishery restora­ these weapons systems-at risk. operating deficit which threatens its very exist­ tion and maintenance programs in the Great No Member of the Congress would sanction ence. Lakes, New England, Washington, Oregon, such reprehensible greed and criminal behav­ I appreciate the efforts of the committee to and Idaho are dependent upon research at ior. The question is what we will do about it, to channel $500,000 in new research funds to the La Crosse lab. In addition, major river sys­ protect taxpayers and the men and women the lab to combat the zebra mussel problem tems across the country are, even now, imple­ whose lives depend on these contractors. now afflicting the Great Lakes region and menting programs established on the upper I am struck by how often I read of a new creeping down the Mississippi River. In a time Mississippi River by the fish lab center. charge, a new conviction, or a plea bargain, of severe budget constraints, I am proud of I hope the Fish and Wildlife Service will take and then receive a letter or see an advertise­ our lab in La Crosse for its ability to attract the time to contemplate the importance of the ment by the same contractor urging my sup­ funds for continued world class research. La Crosse National Fish Lab on our national port for a weapons system. The defrauders However, I must continue my plea for addi­ fishery efforts. For the record, let me repeat are, to put it plainly, back in business. tional assistance for the lab's maintenance my willingness to supply as much assistance Let's look at one well-publicized offender­ needs. The Speaker will recall my request­ as I can to the Service to meet these needs. Northrop. and our agreement-last year to increase the Here's a company that last February plead­ lab's base funding by $175,000 to make up REPRESENTATIVE MILLER TES­ ed guilty to 34 counts of making false claims for 8 years of real funding decline. That addi­ against the government. That's a nice way of tional funding was provided to the lab, but not TIFIES AGAINST MILITARY FRAUD saying they cheated taxpayers. In return, the as part of the lab's base allotment. Rather, it Justice Department dropped an additional 141 all went into the lab's maintenance account, charges! preventing any catchup assistance at all in re­ HON. GEORGE MILLER Earlier this week, the Air Force investigators search funding. According to my reading of OF CALIFORNIA looking into mismangement at Northrop con­ the language Congress included in the fiscal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cluded that many of the expensive weapons year 1990 appropriation for the lab, the addi­ systems built by that contractor-including the tional funds should have gone into the lab's Thursday, October 11, 1990 B-2, the Tacit Rainbow anti-radar missile, the base funding. Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, earli­ F-15's jamming system, the guidance system Second, the projected fiscal year 1991 op­ er today, I had the pleasure of testifying for the MX missile-are all riddled with fraud erating deficit at the lab is between $300,000 before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and $500,000. The total funding increase for on my legislation, H.R. 475, the Federal Con­ and performance defects. And yet the Pentagon is continuing to the lab's operating budget over 8 years has tract Crimes Sentencing Act. been $175,995. This amounts to a real de­ H.R. 4795 would apply mandatory debar­ award billions of dollars in new contracts to cline of 5 percent since 1983. ment to any Government contractor who is Northrop for these very systems, according to In order to relieve the pressure caused by convicted of repeated felonies in conjunction testimony at a hearing on Tuesday. Last year, the continuing shortfall, the lab has had to with a Government contract. This sanction Northrop was given $631 million in defense resort to chasing "soft money" research would apply to all contractors, in all agencies. contracts. projects. This results in attention diverted While my remarks today focused on the De­ Does that sound like punishment, or a away from critical research in favor of re­ partment of Defense, I do not intend to single reward, for fraud and incompetence? search of secondary importance funded out Defense contractors for special punish­ Now, I recognize that the Defense Depart­ through third parties. I support the lab's desire ment or special blame. ment has used debarments in the past, as to focus its research efforts on the most criti­ But the scope of fraudulent activity in the have other federal agencies. Indeed, the large cal projects, such as the Zebra Mussel Re­ Department of Defense is of breathtaking pro­ number of debarments-582 in 1985 alone­ search Program. portions, as is its cost to taxpayers. The fact highlights the widespread scope of the crimi­ While no additional funds have been appro­ is that the Pentagon's $2 trillion spending nal activity that infects our defense procure­ priated to relieve operations and maintenance spree during the 1980's was not accompanied ment system. needs at the lab, I'm hopeful the Fish and by vigilant oversight by those in the Defense And I also recognize that debarring a major Wildlife Service will look for ways within its op­ Department who were responsible for assur­ contractor has defense implications because erations and maintenance account to address ing rigorous levels of quality, safety, and per­ that company may be the sole supplier of a a number of minimal maintenance projects at formance. particular kind of weapon system or technolo­ the lab badly in need of funding. If ever there were a casebook on crime in gy. 1 have great compassion for the employ­ To repeat, I am encouraged by the fact that the suites, the record of Defense contractors ees of a company who might be affected by the committee sees the need to provide funds in the 1980's would surely occupy several debarment even they in no way were involved for the Zebra Mussel Research Program­ lengthy chapters. in the conspiracy to defraud the Government. $500,000 of which will be used for research at And that is really the origin of this legisla­ But 1 don't recall any large contractor, the La Crosse. Our lab has a solid history in re­ tion. I cannot even guess how often I have ones who steal millions and who admit to search on nuisance aquatic organisms. Lab read accounts of some contractor being ac­ dozens of criminal acts-1 don't remember efforts will focus on individual and integrated cused or convicted of some act of defrauding any of them losing their right to compete for control procedures for meeting the zebra the public. And very often, the accused admits contracts. And at a time when we throw small mussel threat. to serious charges in order to evade prosecu­ companies out, that is unreasonable. It says Unfortunately, none of the funds provided to tion on other counts. to a large contractor that your size, your influ­ the La Crosse lab through this project would Of the 100 largest Defense contractors, ence, and our dependence on your product help to eliminate the long-term and chronic nearly one third have been convicted of, or will insulate you from severe punishment and funding shortages in the lab's operations and pleaded guilty to, felony charges since the de­ continue to reward you with additional Gov­ maintenance accounts. Therefore, while La fense build-up began, including Northrop, ernment contracts. Crosse is best suited for the research, and GTE, TRW, and Rockwell International. Nearly That is ludicrous, and it must be stopped. while the mussel research project is important two-thirds of those top 100 contractors are There are those who will say this legislation to the continued mission of the lab, I now en­ currently being investigated. is unnecessary because debarment is already courage the Fish and Wildlife Service to look And we are not only talking about juggling an option, and we are all waiting breathlessly beyond this project at needs still unmet. the books. Some of these crimes include the to see if Secretary Cheney follows the recom­ Mr. Speaker, the La Crosse National Fish knowing supply of substandard materials to mendation of Justice Department officials and Lab provides critically needed research and the military, bribery of Government and foreign debars the Northrop Corporation for its truly technical assistance to State and Federal fish­ officials, and the falsification of test results. stunning record of criminal activity. ery programs throughout the entire United These criminal acts not only cheat taxpayers; I know debarment is an option; my com­ States. The center is the only source of re- they potentially place the lives of servicemen plaint is that it is not used adequately and 28710 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 11, 1990 therefore does not serve either to punish or to tion, whether that be debarment as my bill apartment blocks are tenuous constructions deter habitual criminal behavior. As recent ar­ would require, or receivership as the Schumer of corrugated metal and badly mortared ticles in the Wall Street Journal and Defense proposal suggests. Either course is preferable brick. I saw one ambulance, a creaking and rusted box-like vehicle that reminded me of News have pointed out, contractors accused to the present practice of rewarding with addi­ the ambulance Ernest Hemingway drove on and convicted of defrauding the Government tional contracts those who steal from taxpay­ the Italian front in World War I. In the continue to secure lucrative contracts. ers and jeopardize the lives of America's mili­ pharmacies, not even cough drops are avail­ That is why H.R. 4795 makes debarment tary men and women. able. mandatory upon a second conviction. Corpo­ In the poorest Third World countries, rate executives who persistently engage in children boa1 i buses and trains to sell chew­ this kind of theft from taxpayers ought to WAITING FOR THE EXPLOSION ing gum and other cheap items. In Albania, know they will not just pay a fine, that often IN ALBANIA children beg for gum, since it is unavailable. doesn't cover t~e cost of correcting the fraud, I watched a gang of semi-naked children or throw an underling to the prosecutors. If HON. HELEN DELICH BENTLEY fight over a packet of Chicklets that they OF MARYLAND knew was empty. Here is a primitive service they cheat twice, they're out of business with economy that produces nothing: Tailors and the taxpayers of America. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cobblers are abundant in Albanian towns be­ Now, there is more than one way to achievt:: Thursday, October 11, 1990 cause there are no factories producing this meritorious outcome, and I am confident Mrs. BENTLEY. Mr. Speaker, I have been clothes and shoes, and little or nothing is that the subcommittee will explore other effec­ imported. speaking frequently on this floor about the sit­ The countryside is defaced with tens of tive ways to discourage fraudulent behavior uation in the Balkan States and in particular and to extract meaningful punishment. I am thousands of domed, concrete bunkers, built on the crisis that threatens to destablize the impressed with the initiative by the distin­ in the 1960s to defend Albania against a whole region. joint invasion by "Anglo-American Imperial­ guished chairman of the subcommittee, Mr. The problems in Yugoslavia with the Albani­ ists" and "Russo-Bulgar revisionists." This SCHUMER, to subst.-Albania's World War to continue to function and its employees to when the Albanians were brought in to defuse II guerilla leader, who, until his death in remain on the job, while removing the culpa­ strong Serbian insurgencies against the Rus­ 1985, kept isolated from even the other com­ ble parties from management of the firm. munist states. in Eastern Europe. Hoxha's sian-backed government in Belgrade and by Another option is to deny guilty contractors name, face, and sage advice stare out at one the miserable totalitarian conditions existing their general and administrative costs, and from billboards that are just as ubiquit~..LS inside the nation of Albania today. . their profits, for contracts held by that compa­ as the bunkers he had built. Tirana's The Wall Street Journal today, October 11, "Museum of Enver Hoxha" is the only well­ ny. As with the receivership proposal, this ap­ had an excellent article reporting on these constructed edifice in Alabania. Its gray proach would punish the corporate officers conditions. Being aware of the criticisms of marble and polished copper interior, with and stockholders rather than the innocent em­ the Albanians in Kosovo-against the present reverential music piped in on JVC speakers, ployees of a guilty firm. governments of Sarbia and Yugoslavia-in a suggest the atrium of a shopping mall. Any of these approaches is preferable to situation where they are allowed freedom of The Shqiptars , as the Albani­ the current system of rewarding felons with ans call themselves, are already in revolt. worship, advantage of schooling-in their own Last June, thousands of young Albanians Government contracts, so long as rigorous language up through high school with access performance standards are applied to all crashed the gates of foreign embassies in to university degrees and many job opportuni­ Tirana, resulting in a mass exodus and a future activities of the company, and that de­ ties including in Politics-! am shocked at how nervous promise of reform from the regime, barment remains a mandatory action in the repressive the government in Albania is along with a crackdown by the sigurimi case of yet another felony conviction. toward all of its citizens-according to the in two recent reports-Federal Integrity Act; pounds, demanding asylum. Inadequate Controls Result in Ineffective Fed­ TIRANA, .ALBANIA.-Shqiperia, "The Land "Our hearts are pounding. We know what of Eagles, known in other languages as Al­ has happened in Romania and the rest of eral Programs and Billions in Losses and User bania, is a lair of towering limestone fast­ Eastern Europe. Albania is still alone, and Fees: Limited Survey of User Fees at the De­ nesses where people ride crammed together, we are not proud of this fact. There could partments of Commerce and the Interior-has on the backs of pick-up trucks to labor with be more blood here than in Romania," an documented the costly mismanagement of the cythes and shovels in the fields and in the engineer in his 30s told me in Durres. An­ executive agencies, mismanagement that has shadow of Marxist-Leninist billboards, only other young Albanian I met compared cost taxpayers hundreds of millions, if not bil­ to return to their homes at night to watch Hoxha to Adolf Hitler. And another told me lions, of dollars. "Dynasty" and CNN on Greek and Italian how he was secretly baptized. desa de San Juan y National Committee­ Ora. Isaura Santiago Santiago, Once again, Japan's harsh protectionism woman, del Partido DemOcrata en Puerto Presidents, Hostos Community College, Rico. Universidad de New York. rears its ugly head. Sra. Nitsa Navarro, National Committee­ Prof. Diana Caballero, I commend this article to my colleagues. woman, Partido Republicano de los Estados Chairwoman, Puerto Rico and Latino Edu­ JAPAN'S LATEST END RUN AROUND FREE Unidos, Capitulo de Puerto Rico. cational Round Table. TRADE Lcdo. Fernando Martin, Vicepresidente, Sra. Shirley Remeneski, del Partido Independentista Puertorri­ Directora Ejecutiva, Oficina de Asuntos

BIG SPENDER that the Reagan Administration negotiated [From the Omaha World-Herald, Oct. 3, It's the latest chapter in an all-too-famil­ with Japan in 1985. It allowed the Ameri­ 1990] iar story. Rather than rely on a foreign sup­ cans to show they can reliably supply a NEW CHAPTER IN EUROPE STARTS ON UPBEAT plier for a high-technology product, the high-quality product at a competitive price. NoTE Japanese government and a web of closely Without it, they maintain, even their tied companies obstruct imports while they present toehold in Japan would be impossi­ Another chapter of the World War II era race to clone the invention at home. If the ble. has come to a close. The two Germans, East past is any guide, in the next chapter, a Jap­ But the Japanese willingness to talk num­ and West, have become a sovereign nation anese company will begin aggressive exports bers has to be matched by a new pragma­ once again. of remarkably similar products to other tism among U.S. negotiators. When it comes This time the world can be optimistc. No countries. U.S. negotiators, in tum, will to selling in Japan, the bargainers should hint exists of the wild-eye nationalism of pursue the chimera of utterly free trade, in­ leave their Adam Smith ties in the closet. the 1930s, or the imperialism of the kaisers. sisting on written rules that Japan will side­ Reunion seems to signal a new era, better step. And once again, the message should days for the Germanys, for Europe and, hit home to non-Japanese businesses: When quite possibly, for the rest of the world. competing on home ground, the Japanese GERMAN REUNIFICATION West Germany has prospered under 40 don't hesitate to throw out the rulebook. MARKS NEW CHAPTER IN years of successful democracy. Its strong The current fight is over Metglas, an alloy EUROPE economy and progressive government have of iron, boron, and silicon that's heated to served it well, giving it the economic 1,000 degrees Celsius and cooled to room temperature in one one-thousandth of a HON. DOUG BEREUTER strength and political stability to make re­ second. The resulting substance has proper­ union possible. ties of both metal and glass and is a highly OF NEBRASKA Both parts of the country have made con­ efficient electrical conductor. Allied-Signal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cessions to ease the concerns of other na­ spent 15 years and more than $100 million tions. The very swiftness of the act both­ developing the alloy. It's used in the cores Thursday, October 11, 1990 ered. some of the countries in the region. of transformers and in the heads of tape re­ Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, Germany has But the Germans addressed the concerns corders and VCRs. The company estimates been reborn as a uniuted country. Amidst one by one. They promised to maintain a Metglas' potential world market at $2.5 bil­ limited role for their armed forces. They lion. celebration and pageantry, the Federal Re­ agreed never to acquire nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the Japanese government public of Germany and the German Democrat­ And, in a critical move, they unequivocally funded a successful five-year, $12 million at­ ic Republic merged into one single, cohesive gave up any claim to former German terri­ tempt by Nippon Steel Corp. to come up nation. And with this merger, the most endur­ tory that is now part of Poland. with its own version of Metglas. It also ing division of the Second World War has The West Germans have worked amicably formed a consortium of 33 companies to come to an abrupt end. with the nation's former enemy, France, for study the alloy's commercial applications. many years. Germany is deeply and enthusi­ As Japan Inc. swung into action, the Japa­ The speed that unification has taken place nese patent office sat on Allied-Signal's ap­ has astounded the entire world. Just one astically involved in the affairs of the Euro­ plication for 12 years while publishing de­ pean community. The military is clearly short y~ar ago East Germany was led by a to­ subservient to the political structure. The tails of the production process-as is its talitarian dictator who, though his iron grip had common practice. And because the clock ideals of democracy, embraced by West Ger­ starts running as soon as the application is begun to slip, was still felt to be in firm control mans more than 40 years ago, have been filed, the patent granted Metglas in 1984 ex­ of the country. The sudden collapse of Erich equally welcomed by East Germans who pires in 1993. At that point, Nippon Steel, Honecker's regime left a massive void-a void were pressing for reunification. which already has 50% of the world market that was filled through the democratic proc­ The spirit of the times has changed. for conventional silicon-steel transformer ess. East Germany's first-and only-free and World War II flowed in part from Germa­ cores, will be able to market a competing fair elections resulted in the election of Lothar ny's humiliating defeat in World War I. product it developed with the help of a gov­ Many German nationals felt embittered and ernment subsidy. De Maiziere as the Prime Minister tasked with angry because of the terms of the treaty of Where have we heard this story before? dismantling his government and merging with Versailles. Monsanto Co. was stymied in 1985 from en­ West Germany. For its part, West Germany, Hitler used the lingering bad feelings to tering the Japanese silicon wafer market with the leadership, drive, and ingenuity of manipulate and pervert the Germans' na­ until Japanese producers could catch up. The company sold its wafer division, claim­ Chancellor Helmut Kohl, worked hard to tional pride. He was able to propel Nazism ing that its failure to crack Japan was a ensure that unification soon became a reality. to the heights of blind nationalism, racism major factor in pulling out of the business. Surely, the new Germany will face innumer­ and aggression because of the atmosphere Motorola Inc. was blocked in its attempt able challenges during the process of reshap­ of hatred and resentment rampant in some to market its palm-size Micro T AC cellular parts of Germany between the wars. ing a single identity for the long reported Similar resentments are less in evidence telephone in Japan. Motorola finally won its parts. No one would suggest otherwise. Yet bureaucratic fight last summer, but it may today. West Germany has prospered under be too late. Matsushita Electric Industrial the signs are good. It is clear that Germany the victorious Allies. If there are any resent­ Co. is out with an even smaller phone. Says wishes to work with the Federal Republic of ments about Germany's defeat, they seem John P. Stem, a vice-president at the Amer­ Germany, its allies and neighbors to be a limited to individuals, not large groups of ican Electronics Assn. in Tokyo: "Allied's positive force within the European Community; people. case only proves once again that market unification will not change that direction. Ger­ Mankind should never forget the two access delayed is market access denied." many and the huge majority of its citizens world wars and the reasons they were NO QUOTAS seems well aware of the lingering fears and fought. Some of the problems that plagued the rest of the world in the latter half of The U.S. may also have muffed a chance suspicions that are the legacy of two world to build high-tech trade. While the Japa­ the 20th century were the legacy of German nese abhor the idea of depending on foreign wars. In short, the unified Germany shows aggression years earlier. sources for vital technology, they will every sign of being and remaining a construc­ But in the new, unified Germany of 1990, accept some percentage of imports. But U.S. tive member of the international community. all that has been left in the past. Now there negotiators often demand written rules to Mr. Speaker, this Member would commend is hope for a more rational world order. And assure a theoretical open market rather to his colleagues an editorial in the October 3, hope that the new commitment to liberty than bargain for a quota, which would at and freedom that has taken root through­ least ring up some sales. "One is dealing 1990 edition of the Omaha World-Herald and ask that it be inserted into the RECORD. In the out Germany will now spread eastward, with an issue of principle, and the other is through Poland and Czechoslovakia, across dealing pragmatically, and that's character­ words of this insightful essay: the Ukraine and Byelorussia and all the way istic of almost every case," says Charles No hint exists of the wild-eyed national­ to Moscow itself. Cook, a vice-president of MEMC, which ism of the 1930's, or the imperialism of the bought Monsanto's Japanese wafer busi­ Kaisers. Reunion seems to signal a new era, ness. better days for the Germanys, for Europe, At least one American industry, semicon­ and, quite possibly, for the rest of the world. ductors, is pleased with the market quota 28714 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 11, 1990 TRIBUTE TO JUDGE ROYCE R. the Missouri Beef Council. The award recog­ THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LEWELLAN nizes the restaurant as an innovator in Beef SLEEP DISORDERS RESEARCH preparation and presentation. Congratulations HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO to Shirley Danner, her staff, and employees HON. EDWARD A. ROYBAL OF CALIFORNIA on this fine honor. OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, October 11, 1990 TRIBUTE TO MR. JAMES H. Thursday, October 11, 1990 Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to PIETSCH pay tribute today to my friend, Judge Royce R. Mr. ROYBAL. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to Lewellan, on the occasion of his retirement advise my colleagues in the House of the from the Santa Barbara County Superior HON. PATSY T. MINK recent public meeting of the National Commis­ Court. OF HAWAII sion on Sleep Disorders Research. The Com­ Judge Lewellan is a longtime friend who IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mission met on Monday, September 25, in the served on the superior court from 1975 to this Rayburn Building. year. He was previously a judge of the Sol­ Thursday, October 11, 1990 The National Commission on Sleep Disor­ vang Justice Court, from 1969 to 1975, and Mrs. MINK. Mr. Speaker, as one who has ders Research was established by Congress carried out a private law practice in Solvang been in public service for many years, I be­ during last year's reauthorization of the Na­ from the time of his admission to the bar in lieve that there is no higher calling than to tional Institutes of Health. During the next 2 1958 until his appointment to the supreme devote one's life to improving the lives of years, the Commission will be developing a court, where he was twice reelected to the other people, especially the elderly, who have long range plan for Federal resources dedicat­ office. given so much to pave the way to a better life ed to sleep disorders research. Many of my colleagues may not be aware Judge Lewellan graduated with honors from for succeeding generations. It is with sincere of the important health aspects of sleep, and the University of Missouri in 1952. He is a respect and admiration that I rise today to pay the impact that sleep disorders can have on native of the gateway city of St. Louis. After tribute to an individual from my State, Mr. one's health and well being. Ranging from life graduation he served in the U.S. Air Force for James H. Pietsch, winner of the Paul Lichter­ 2 years, then went on to earn his law degree threatening to occasionally annoying, sleep man Award for 1990, presented by the disorders, such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy, from the University of California at Berkeley, Friends of Legal Services to Older Persons. Boalt Hall. insomnia, and others, have been recognized Without question, Mr. Pietsch, directing attor­ Royce is a member of the California Judges more recently as a major factor in one's ney of the elder law unit at the Honolulu office Association, where he served on the execu­ health status. Sudden infant death syndrome of the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, is a public tive board from 1983 to 1986, and was chair­ accounts for 7,000 infant deaths per year, the man of the Criminal Law and Procedure Insti­ servant of the highest order. United States' leading cause of infant mortali­ tute in 1984. He is a past California president I first want to take a few moments to outline ty during the first year of life. Elderly people of Rotary Club International, past president of the purpose of the Paul Lichterman Award. as well suffer disproportionately from sleep the Solvang Business Association, and is an Paul Lichterman, who died in 1983, was a disorders. elder at United Presbyterian Church, where he man who devoted his life to advancing quality Mr. Speaker, again, I am pleased to wel­ sang in the choir, chaired the building commit­ legal assistance to older persons. The Paul come to Washington the members of the Na­ tee and taught Sunday school, as well as Lichterman Award was established in 1986 by tional Commission on Sleep Disorders Re­ serving as a commissioner in the United Pres­ the Friends of Legal Services to Older Per­ search, and I look forward to reviewing their byterian Church General Assembly. He also sons to honor his work and to increase the recommendations. served on the Solvang Elementary School public's appreciation of people at the State Below is a listing of Commission members: Board of Trustees. and local level who do outstanding and nota­ William C. Dement, M.D., Ph.D., chair­ Mr. Speaker, Judge Lewellan has been a ble work to advance the cause of providing man, Stanford, CA. man of the church, a man of the court, and a quality legal assistance to the elderly. Mr. Joseph Piscopo, Oak Brook, IL. Mary A. Carskadon, Ph.D., East Provi­ member of his community for over three dec­ Mr. Speaker, there are a host of reasons dence, RI. ades, and we will miss his sage wisdom and why James Pietsch deserves this honor and Norman H. Edelman, M.D., Piscataway, counsel from the bench although I have no why I rise today to pay him tribute. Mr. Pietsch NJ. doubt he will be asked to sit on the bench played a significant role in developing Hawaii's James P. Kiley, Ph.D., National Heart, many, many times. We wish he and his bride landmark Dependent Adult Protective Services Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD. of 13 years, the former Margaret Brown, and Act. He is the first ever adjunct professor of Debra J. Myers, M.D., Indianapolis, IN. sons, Mark, Michael, and David, the very best legal problems of the elderly at the University Felix Strumwasser, Ph.D., Woods Hole, in the coming years, and thank him for his of Hawaii School of Law. Mr. Pietsch has MA. long labor in the vineyards of public service. June M. Fry, M.D., Ph.D., Philadelphia, worked tirelessly as an author and speaker to PA. Congratulations, Royce, and thank you. make the elderly more aware of their legal Mr. Jehu C. Hunter, Washington, DC. rights and their access to legal services. Mr. Floyd Brinley, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., National VICTORY RIVERTOWN INN Pietsch's contributions toward building a co­ Institute of Neurological Disorders and RECEIVES AWARD ordinated system of services involving the Stroke, Bethesda, MD. aging network, his advocacy for individuals, HON.IKE SKELTON and his service to the courts also deserve the STATEMENT OF highest praise and recognition. OF MISSOURI COMMENDATION James Pietsch was awarded his undergrad­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES uate degree from Georgetown University and Thursday, October 11, 1990 obtained his juris doctor degree from the HON. JIM BATES Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, I would like to Catholic University of America. In addition to OF CALIFORNIA recognize the Victory Rivertown Inn in my his work for older people, Mr. Pietsch serves IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hometown of Lexington, MO, for receiving the the Nation as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. 1990 Beef Backer Award. The Missouri Beef Army Reserves, working as a senior judge ad­ Thursday, October 11, 1990 Industry Council presented the award in a vocate at the headquarters of the IX Corps at Mr. BATES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ceremony which included a placque for the Fort DeRussy, HI. commend the thankless work being done by restaurant. Only 1 out of 10 Missouri restau­ Mr. Speaker, it is individuals like James Capt. Mike Sherman, the commander of the rants receive this award. Pietsch who helped make Hawaii and the U.S. Joint Information Bureau in Bhahran, The award was recently presented to Shir­ Nation what they are today, and will surely Saudi Arabia. Capt. Sherman leads a team ley Danner, the owner of the restaurant from play a key role in building their future. that toils daily to maintain access for U.S. re- October 11, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28715 porters to troops serving and now dying in the sense of reality, life, struggle, hope, laughter, TRIBUTE TO O.C. SILLS Persian Gulf crisis. and love. On Nightline last night, Capt. Sherman was El T eatro Campesino, having started from a HON. WILLIAM M. THOMAS attacked unfairly by a disgruntled newsman real life incident, was formed during the OF CALIFORNIA who had visited Saudi Arabia recently and ap­ famous California grape strike of the mid- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES parently decided he should have been placed 1960's. at the head of the line for special news cover­ In 1965, the rich agricultural farmland of Thursday, October 11, 1990 age opportunities. northern California was home to many Mexi­ Mr. THOMAS of California. Mr. Speaker, My staff, and in particular Tom Burgess, a can and American migrant farmworker families today I rise before my colleagues to pay trib­ former military affairs writer, is well aquainted who labored in unhealthy and inhumane con­ ute to O.C. Sills, a constituent from the 20th with Mike Sherman. He is a true believer in ditions. What began as a labor strike against District of California who is retiring as director providing as much access as possible for the Di Giorgio Grape Co., resulted in a 300- of the Kern County Department of Human newsmen in combat and is the first to con­ mile march from Delano, CA, to the State cap­ Services. Throughout his varied and illustrious cede past DOD media relations problems, like itol in Sacramento. It was during this symbolic career as director, his primary concern has the Panama invasion. always been for the poor and disadvantaged Mike Sherman is a true Navy professional expression of a people's political will, that El T eatro Campesino found its venue and began people in Kern. who is dealing with heat, sand, and unfamiliar Mr. Sills came to Kern County from Louisi­ and unforgiving terrain. He is in the midst of entertaining the strikers in their long march to justice. ana to accept the director's job in March of horrible logistical problems satisfying news re­ 1965. This has resulted in a tenure of a quar­ porters who understandably want to get to the El Teatro Campesino-the Farm Workers' Theater-at first began presenting striking ter of a century and makes him currently the scene of the action. longest serving county welfare director in Cali­ workers with a series of actos or skits on the Mike is also one who knows that his budget fornia. picket lines, at organizing meetings and rallies. is under scrutiny, as thus his expenditures. Mr. Sills has a strong commitment to volun­ Accompanied by music, these actos were for This means that the days of spending any teer organizations and has been active in a amount of money you want in order to shuttle the most part performed on the flatbed of a variety of nationwide organizations from the newsmen anywhere along the front they pickup truck. Later, El Teatro branched out to Disabled American Veterans to the American wanted to go, as the Defense Department did the universities, cities and towns taking the Public Welfare Associntion. during the Vietnam war, are gone. And good message of the farmworker's plight in the In addition, he has nlso received recognition riddance. grape fields to the public at large. for the lowest error rate in California in the ad­ A certain arrogance has remained in some This form of people's theater that was so ministration of two Government programs­ older newsmen who apparently believe that popular following the Great Depression, Aid to Families With Dependent Children and because special requests are delayed or gained rapid popularity with the public as El Food Stamps. denied, their right to access is under attack. T eatro rekindled this type of expression as Kern County and the State of California Poppycock! part of the migrant farmworkers' struggle to were fortunate to have had O.C. Sills as direc­ If Newsweek wants to get serious about wage a strike, set up a union, and win better tor of human services because of his personal this, they might consider that DOD is now en­ living conditions. and professional commitment and I am dowed with extra millions in funds for special Twenty-five years later, El Teatro has grown pleased to salute him today. coverage. The American public will only pay for what it wants: straightforward, uncensored culturally, politically and technically into a coverage of its troops and the conflict itself. superb theater company. In fact, many of us DOING BUSINESS WITH HRH Mr. Speaker, the public does not want to have been entertained with the mystical magic PRINCE MISHAAL BIN ABDUL pay for costly designer journalism. They will and social consciousness intertwined in Luis AZIZ OF SAUDI ARABIA-PART not sit still while military PAO's dress up pam­ Valdez' productions. II pered reporters in night vision goggles to hop The famous 1978 "Zoot Suit" play that ran expensively around in jets and military helicop­ in the Mark Taper forum in Los Angeles for 46 ters to experience the experience, as this re­ weeks to over 400,000 people, which won HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. porter wanted. There are 315 American jour­ many awards, including the Los Angeles Critic OF OHIO nalists alone from 146 news organizations in Circle Award for "Distinguished Productions" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Saudi Arabia. and eight Drama-Logue Awards for "Out­ Thursday, October 11, 1990 Mr. Speaker, I say Bravo! to Capt. Sherman standing Achievement in Theatre," is but one and other PAO's spearheading the media bu­ Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, on October example. 4, 1990, I entered remarks into the RECORD reaus in very difficult conditions-cost effi­ The next example is the major motion pic­ ciently-for the Defense Department and Gen. which outlined how Bucheit International, a ture "La Samba." Based on the life of Ritchie firm in my district, was ripped off by HRH H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander-in­ Valens, this feature film was released by Co­ Chief, U.S. Central Command. Prince Mishaal Bin Abdul Aziz, a senior prince lumbia Pictures and represented 10 years of of the Saudi royal family. You may recall that work, personal commitment and achievement these two parties signed a contract to con­ HONORING THE 25TH ANNIVER­ by Luis Valdez. struct a shopping center in Riyadh and that SARY OF EL TEATRO CAMPE­ As a son of a farmworker, Luis was beaten Prince Mishaal resorted to various unscrupu­ SINO AND ITS FOUNDING DI­ and jailed for doing theater. Twenty-five years lous practices to get Bucheit to acquiesce to RECTOR, LUIS VALDEZ later, Luis Valdez greatly deserves adulations demands that went beyond the limit of their from my colleagues today in the U.S. House contract agreement. Such practices include HON. ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES of Representatives. holding the president of the company, Mr. OF CALIFORNIA Mr. Speaker, on behalf of my colleagues Pete Bucheit, captive in his palace until he agreed to finance additional work on the mall, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and constituents, and all Hispanic Americans, I am proud to salute Luis Valdez and his detaining 15 Bucheit workers for the same Thursday, October 11, 1990 fellow theater workers of El T eatro Campesino purpose, fraudulently calling on a $1.3 million Mr. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, it gives me on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. The letter of credit that Bucheit had put up to guar­ great pleasure to congratulate El T eatro Cam­ unique vision of founder and artistic director antee the project's completion, and blocking pesino, and its founding artistic director Luis Luis Valdez has brought El Teatro Campesino removal of $500,000 worth of Bucheit's equip­ Valdez, in their 25th anniversary celebration. national and international recognition for its ment. At the time, I mentioned that I would be en­ For 25 years, this distinguished theater com­ artistic excellence. Congratulations and best tering the stories of some of the other compa­ pany has provided Americans of all walks of wishes. life, but in particular Hispanic Americans, with nies ripped off by the prince in the RECORD. an entertainment rooted in a community's Marc A. Miller of HICROPS Hydroponics Inter- 28716 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 11, 1990 national, a company that no longer exists, practice located in Flint. We are fortunate in know that their service is of extreme public in­ sent me a brief synopsis of his past business Michigan to have had the benefit of John's terest and necessity. The institution should be relationship with Prince Mishaal. He wrote: talent and dedication for many years. Among strongly supported in order to meet the health HICROPS, an American-owned company his long and diverse list of accomplishments is care needs of our great State. in the business of hydroponics (growing his service as Genesee County assistant pros­ vegetables and fruit in greenhouses in a ecuting attorney, speaker for the No-Fault water medium), formed a joint venture part­ Automobile Update, chairman of the Genesee TRIBUTE TO THE HOUSE nership with an experienced agricultural FOLDING ROOM partner in Saudi Arabia in 1979. This part­ County Bar Association Public Relations Com­ nership was formed at the request of Prince mittee, U.S. Federal Court Mediator, executive Mishaal; the prince was very impressed with member of the Arab-American Institute, and HON. MARTIN FROST the concept and products that were the honorary member of the Fraternal Order of OF TEXAS result of the growing process. Because he Police. John has also given generously of his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES was a "national leader and royalty," he said time, experience, and knowledge of the law by Thursday, October 11, 1990 he "could not profit from food sold to his lecturing and teaching at the Detroit College subjects". He wanted HICROPS to contract of law, the Mott School of Nursing, and at the Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, each Congress, with a Saudi business partner and vowed to as the general election draws near, the House do all in his power to make the new compa­ Flint Osteopathic Hospital. ny flourish. John is also an active member of the of Representatives folding room is severely However, when the joint venture was Democratic Party as a member of the execu­ pressed to handle the large volume of mail formed and extensive funds and commit­ tive committee, a delegate to the Democratic that is sent to various congressional districts ments were made by both partners, Prince National Convention. He serves on the fi­ throughout the Nation. Mishaal recanted his position and told me nance, fund raising, and resolution commit­ As a member of the House Administration that he would now be the partner and to get tees of the Genesee County Democratic Committee, I have been interested in the op­ rid of the other partner or "he will be a eration of the folding room and their degree of dead man." It seems that the other part­ Party. Throughout his long career John has ner's father had been in a business deal earned his well-deserved reputation for com­ success in handling the heavy mail schedule many, many years ago with one of Mishaal's petence, fairness, and thoroughness. that occurs prior to the 60-day cutoff of mass brothers. Mishaal had not been in on the Mr. Speaker, John Nickola has proven him­ mailings. deal and took it personally. After the ex­ self a distinguished lawyer and active commu­ Certainly I congratulate Doorkeeper Jim penditure of over a million dollars and thou­ nity leader to the people of Flint. I am hon­ Malloy and his publications and distribution sands of manhours trying to make the Mi­ ored and privileged to pay tribute to this fine service staff, headed by George Early and shaal/HICROPS partnership successful and Patrick McDonough, for their excellent record much chain pulling by Mishaal-he never man whose mind races with creativity and put his funds into the deal-HICROPS had whose soul is guided by love and respect for this year in getting every single piece of mail to withdraw from the Kingdom and its per­ human dignity. I am confident that he will con­ postmarked by the 60-day deadline. sonnel were secreted out of the Kingdom at tinue to work to solve the complex problems The folding room of the House of Repre­ night. The prince threatened to jail the re­ facing our community today, just as he has sentatives performs services which save the maining man in the Kingdom. With much done for the last many years. ·Congress hundreds of thousands of dollars luck and a preplanned escape route this last each year. Folding room functions, if per­ man out made it home safely. formed by outside vendors, would be far more This is a very brief synopsis of the grief, A TRIBUTE TO THE EXCELLENT expensive than is the case now. aggravation and financial bust from another STAFF AT CHARITY HOSPITAL of Mishaal's expartners. It is easy to point to organizations who fail IN NEW ORLEANS and to be critical; but, I am pleased to report I ask my colleagues to take these events that the House folding room has succeeded in into consideration when it comes time to vote its mission to clear its deck of Members' mail­ on a $6.74 billion arms deal to the Saudi's. HON. RICHARD H. BAKER ings, ~nd our congratulations should go to While the United States is spending approxi­ OF LOUISIANA them. mately $20 million a day to preserve Saudi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Arabia's independence and integrity, a Thursday, October 11, 1990 member of the Saudi royal family has no Mr. BAKER. Mr. Speaker, I would like to TRIBUTE TO OUTSTANDING qualms about nearly bankrupting American take this opportunity to express my deepest COMMUNITY WORKERS companies. We have done enough for the respect and admiration for the physicians, Saudi royal family. It is time they return the nurses, and other health care providers at favor. HON. NICKJOERAHALL II Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Those who OF WEST VIRGINIA perform service in the emergency room and in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONGRESSMAN KILDEE HONORS the neuro-surgery intensive care unit are de­ JOHN D. NICKOLA serving of special recognition. Thursday, October 11, 1990 Although the hospital has operated longer Mr. RAHAll. Mr. Speaker, I am honored to HON. DALE E. KILDEE than any other such facility in the country, take this opportunity to bring to the attention OF MICHIGAN support for the structure has not always been of my colleagues the noteworthy accomplish­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES readily available. The physical working condi­ ments of Arlene McGinnis, Marcia Evans, tions are not always satisfactory, while the pa­ James Bragg, John Baumann, Jim Bailey, Thursday, October 11, 1990 tient load has remained high. There is also a Rich Hulmess, Anita Cantley, John Thompson, Mr. KllDEE. Mr. Speaker, it is with great significantly high percentage of trauma cases, Valerie Harling, Billie lou Stover, Rhonda pleasure that I bring to the attention of my where immediate and very skilled actions are Harper, James Bailey, and Mina louise Bailey colleagues in the U.S. House of Representa­ required. With such circumstances, it is diffi­ of Beckley, WV, who were recently honored tives and the Nation the accomplishment of cult to understand the commitment of those by the Raleigh County Community Council, for Mr. John D. Nickola of my hometown, Flint, who daily meet the public need. their outstanding achievements in social work. Ml, for his endless commitment and dedica­ My family and I recently had occasion to uti­ Many people have benefited from the guid­ tion to the community and to the Democratic lize the services of Charity Hospital and have ance of the community workers. Their serv­ Party spanning many years. In recognition of a deep appreciation of the quality of care that ices have helped the handicapped, given his achievements, Mr. Nickola's family and is provided at this institution. There is a strong problem schoolchildren the power to be good friends will hold a surprise 50th birthday party commitment to excellence and attentive care students, and brightened the days of many in his honor on October 24, 1990. for those they serve. And most importantly, children who are residents of child care cen­ Mr. John Nickola was born and raised in the service is available for those who other­ ters, just to name a few of the many tasks Flint, Ml, and he was admitted to the bar as­ wise would be unable to afford such care. they perform. sociation in 1966. He is a highly respected I compliment those who serve the public We are indebted to these individuals who personal injury attorney with a successful need at Charity Hospital of New Orleans and I contribute a tremendous amount of their time October 11, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28717 and talents to those in need of special atten­ Herb's finest achievements. It is named in the gifted civic leader. In his honor, the street in tion and we are grateful to have these people memory of his father who took an active role front of his beloved St. Brendan's Church is serving in our communities. in the Israel Bond Program as general chair­ being named in his memory. It is a memory man of the Committee for Israel Bonds in full of inspiration. TRIBUTE TO EDWARD ATTMAN 1964. Herb continues the dedication of the In his 10 years as pastor of St. Brendan's AND HERBERT S. KASOFF Kasoff family to this organization as a long­ and after his retirement, Monsignor McCarthy standing member of the Food and Beverage worked hard for the rights of all members of Division. the community. He as a founding member of HON. BENJAMIN L. CARDIN I urge my colleagues to join me in saluting the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy OF MARYLAND the business and civic achievements of these Coalition, which has led the fight for afford­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fine individuals. able housing and the rehabilitation of buildings Thursday, October 11, 1990 in the neighborhood. He was a friend to many Mr. CARDIN. Mr. Speaker, on October 28, MISS HELEN HAYES children and a comfort to our senior citizens. 1990, the Maryland Food and Beverage In­ Monsignor McCarthy was also dedicated to dustries Division for State of Israel Bonds will providing quality education to the students of HON. ANDY IRELAND St. Brendan's school. In addition to the high­ be honoring two outstanding citizens in my OF FLORIDA district. Mr. Edward Attman has been chosen est educational standards, he stressed strong IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as the recipient of the 1990 Food Industries moral teachings and a commitment to family Guest of Honor and Mr. Herbert S. Kasoff will Thursday, October 11, 1990 and community. That is why it is most fitting receive the 1990 Beverage Industries Guest Mr. IRELAND. Mr. Speaker, yesterday that all the students who pass through the of Honor. marked the 90th birthday of the first Lady of door of St. Brendan's school for generations Ed is the founder and president of Acme the American Theater, Miss Helen Hayes. She to come will see the name of Msgr. John C. Paper & Supply Co., Inc., a large distributor of was born in Washington DC, the daughter of McCarthy on the street sign above them. His paper products and janitorial supplies serving actress Estelle Hayes and Mr. Francis Van legacy lives on each day in the parish, and his the mid-Atlantic region since 1946. Along with Arnum Brown. She began her acting career at memory will always be cherished by his his wife Mildred. Ed has raised Acme Paper the age of 5, playing Prince Charles in a pro­ friends, relatives, and former students. from its original 1,200 square-foot building on duction of "A Royal Family." by the age of 9 South Front Street, to its present 80,000 she was on the New York City stage and went square-foot warehouse on seven acres in on to an extraordinary career in stage, film, LUXURY TAX GN RECREATION­ Savage, MD. and television. AL BOATS IS A BAD IDEA Ed has received numerous awards for the Over the years Miss Hayes won two Acade­ years of service to the business world and the my Awards for her motion picture perform­ HON. E. CLAY SHAW, JR. community at large, including the Golden ances. The first came in 1931 for "The Sin of OF FLORIDA Eagle Award. Ed has also been an active Madelon Claudet" and the second in 1970 for voice in the campaign against narcotics and her supporting role in "Airport." She also re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES alcohol abuse, for which he won citations of ceived a Tony in 1947 for "Happy Birthday" Thursday, October 11, 1990 achievement from the Governors of Maryland and an Emmy Award in 1952. and Pennsylvania. Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker, America's boating Helen Hayes married Charles MacArthur in industry is in a slump. Sales of boats have de­ Ed has shown a strong allegiance to Israel 1928, and they had two children, Mary and Bonds as a long-term member of the organi­ clined sharply. Now, exacerbating matters Jim. After her daughter died from polio at the even more, some policymakers have recently zation. He has also served on the boards of a age of 19, Helen Hayes established the Mary number of organizations within the Baltimore proposed to further increase the tax on boat­ MacArthur Fund which enabled the Boston ers, by imposing a so-called luxury excise tax community including: Chizuk Amuno Congre­ Children's Hospital to open a respiratory ward. gation and Brotherhood, the Talmudical Acad­ on the sales of recreational boats. These new Miss Hayes also later worked with Dr. Jonas revenues would then presumably be used to emy of Baltimore, Basi Yaakov School for Salk to educate the public on his polio vac­ Girls, and the Bonnie View Country Club. reduce the Federal budget deficit. cine. However, enactment of this proposal would Presently, Ed is a board member of the Na­ In 1986, President Ronald Reagan awarded tional Jewish Fund. have a negative economic impact on the boat­ Miss Hayes the Nation's highest civilian The Attman family has deep roots within the ing industry, and the ripple effect of such an honor-the Presidential Medal of Freedom for Baltimore area and have been an integral part action would surely be detrimental to the local all of her efforts in the health field and her of the community since the founding of the economies where boating is prevalent. contributions to the dramatic arts. Attman's Delicatessen on the famed "Corned One local economy that would surely be af­ In 1987, Miss Hayes returned to her birth­ Beef Row." fected for the worse is the 15th Congressional place and served as the grand marshall for Herbert Kasoff has had an equally outstand­ District of Florida, which I represent. My dis­ the St. Patrick's Day parade in Washington. At ing career in the Baltimore area. He is the trict has perhaps more recreational boaters that time she demonstrated both her pride in president of Quality Brands, Inc., a wholesale than any other district in the Nation, and I am her Irish heritage and her fondness for her importer of fine wine, spirits, and beer in the especialy concerned about how this new tax Maryland, and Washington area. The Kasoff hometown. She probably is the most well­ would affect my constituents. family has been involved in the business since loved and respected woman in the Nation. I Boating is not only a pleasure, it is a major 1933, with Herb joining the company in 1960. congratulate Miss Helen Hayes on her 90th industry in my home State. For example, last With many years of experience in the bever­ birthday and I wish her continued health and year, more than 3.1 million Florida residents­ age industry, Herb has represented the State happiness. nearly 30 percent of the State's population­ of Maryland for over 9 years, serving as a di­ participated in some form of boating. Sales of rector of the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of HONORING THE MEMORY OF boats and motors totaled some $698 million. America. MONSIGNOR JOHN C. McCARTHY Overall, Florida's fleet of registered boats now Herb devotes much of his time to local numbers more than 644,000, making it the charities and philanthropic organizations. He is HON. ELIOT L. ENGEL fourth largest recreational boating fleet in the presently a board member at the Levindale OF NEW YORK United States. However, with all the recre­ ational boats that come to visit Florida from Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Save-A-Heart Foundation, and the Advertising other States, Florida probably leads the and Professional Club of Baltimore. In the Thursday, October 11, 1990 Nation in the amount of boats in its waters. past, he has served on the board of the Beth Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, when Msgr. John Boating also means jobs for Florida. Cur­ El Congregation. C. McCarthy, the pastor emeritus of Saint rently, there are 2,037 boat dealers, 216 major Serving as the president of the Morris A. Brendan's parish in the Bronx, died in July manufacturers of trailers, accessories and en­ Kasoff B'nai B'rith Lodge ranks as one of 1989, the community lost a true friend and a gines, 79 major production boat builders and 28718 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 11, 1990 1,266 marinas in the State. Boating is also a next year if the luxury tax is passed, while an while other so-called big ticket recreational major source of tax revenue for the State. estimated 12,000 people could lose their jobs. items like motor homes and vacation homes American boaters already pay almost half a Having 12,000 across this Nation lose their remain untouched. Additionally, this luxury tax billion dollars in State and Federal taxes. Im­ jobs, and also practically forcing an American will not be the only new tax boaters may be posing new taxes on this beleaguered indus­ industry overseas for $25 million in tax reve- saddled with this year; $25 Coast Guard user try, especially at this difficult time, will need­ nues, seems like a very poor trade-off indeed. fees, boat licensing and inspection charges, lessly cause further economic dislocation, and Mr. Speaker, I am committed to bringing and an increase on the excise taxes on motor will force American jobs overseas. According down the Federal budget deficit. However, we fueis are other tax proposals being seriously to preliminary statistics that I have seen, it is should bring down the deficit intelligently, not debated. It is obvious to this Member that the estimated that the Federal Government will indiscriminately. It seems arbitrary to me that luxury tax is bad fiscal policy, and I urge my only collect $25 million in new tax revenues boats should be singled out for new taxes, colleagues to reject this proposal.