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States-as well as governments in Can PROGRAM MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1976 ada and Japan-should be prepared to SATURDAY, J'UNE %6, 1976 help. As I result, I believe it is appropri The Senate on Monday will take up ate for the President to go on record at Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, ~e HEW appropriation bill. There is no Puerto Rico in support of the basic ob the Senate will convene tomorrow at 9 time agreement thereon. If that bill is jective of recovery and development for a.m. After the two leaders or their desig not dispo_sed of by 2 p.m. Monday, the the Italian economy, as tangible evidence nees have been recognized under the Senate will resume consideration of the of our firm commitment to Italy's future standing order, the Senate will proceed unfinished business, the tax reform bill. and the close ties of friendship that have to the consideration of Calendar Order The pending question at that time will long existed between our two countries No. 919, H.R. 14235, the military con be on the adoption of an amendment and peoples. struction appropriaJtion bill. There is a dealing with the maximum tax. There is limitation on debate thereon the debate a time agreement on the maximum tax, being limited on the bill to 1 hour, with a with the understanding that: final dis UNANIMOUS-CONSENT AGREE time limitation of debat.e on any amend position thereof will occur no later than MENT-H.R. 14233 ment of 30 mmutes, and with a time limi 8 p.m.. Monday. So there will be rollcall votes on Monday. Mr. ROBERT c. BYRD. Mr. President, taition on any debatable motion or appeal I ask unanimous consent that on the of 20 minutes. There will be at least a. Each day next week the Senate will rollcall vote on final passage of that bill. convene at hour of 9 a.m., Monday HUD appropriation bill, the-re be- a time through Saturday. Hopefully, the order agreement for debate allowing 1 hour on There may be a rollcall vote on any the bill, equally divided, between Mr. amendment thereto. It is possible a. roll !or the Senafie session on Saturday may call vote could ooour as early as 9 :30 a.m. be vitiated, but that will depend upon PROXMIRE and Mr. MATHIAS; that there developments in the interim. be a time limitation on any agreement I would rather thtnk, however, that a rollcall vot;e would not occur prior to the There will be rollcall votes daily, early of 30 minutes, a time limitation on any and late, thoughout;-the week, and each debatable motion, appeal or point of hour of 10 a.m. Upon the disposition of the military afternoon the senate will resume con order, if such is submitted to the Sen sideration of the tax bill. The business ate, of 20 minutes, and that the agree-· construction appropriation bill, the Sen ate will take up the Interior appropria w1Il be transacted on a multiple track ment with respect to the division and basis throughout next week. control of time be in the usual form. tion bill, H.R. 14231. There is a time limitation on that bill of 1 hour a time The HEW appropriation bill will be The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the first item daily until disposed objection, it is so ordered. limitation on any amendmeni of 20 track minutes, and a time limitation on any of. In any event. the manpower training debatable motion or appeal of 20 minutes. bill, under an agreement and under a EXECUTIVE SESSION There w1Il be a rollcall vote on final pas general understanding, will be taken up Mr. ROBERT c. BYRD. Mr. President, sage of that bill. I do not expect any on the first track 1 day next week. I I ask unanimous consent that the Sen amendments thereto, but I would not rule believe that about sums it up. ate go into executive session to con them out, in which event a rollcall vote sider the nomination of Kay Balley, of could occur on any amendment. Texas, to be a member of the National Upon the disposition of the Interior Transportation Safety Board for the appropriaition bill, the HUD appropria RECESS UNTIL 9 A.M. TOMORROW term eXPiring December 31, 1979. tion bill, H.R. 14233, will taken up under Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, There being no objection, the sen a time agreement. There fs a time limita if there be no further business to come ate proceeded to the consideration of ex tion of 1 hour on that bill, with a time before the Senafie, I move. in accordance ecutive business. limitation on any amendment thereto with the previous order, that: the Senate of 30 minutes. A rollcall vot;e will occur stand in recess until the hour of 9 a.m., on final passage of that bill. tomorrow. NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION There may be rollcall votes on amend The motion was agreed to; and at 7: 39 SAFETY BOARD ments to that bill, but, in any event, the p.m. the Senate recessed until tomorrow, The assistant legislative clerk read the rollcall vot;es and final passage of the Saturday, June 26, 1976, at 9 a.m. nomination of Kay Bailey, of Texas, to three appropriations bills have already be a member of the National Transpor been ordered. tation Safety Board for the term ex There will be at least three rollcall piring December 31, 1979. votes tomorrow. I would anticipate more CONFIRMATIONS The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without than three rollcall votes, however I should think that the Senate might' be Executive nominations confirmed by objection, the nomination is considered the Senate June 25, 19'T6-: and confirmed. in until 4 or 5 o~clock before completing NATIONAL AERONAUTICS ANI> SPACE" Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. President, I ask ac~ion on the three appropriation bills. that the President be notified. With some luck, the action may be com ADMINISTRATION pleted earlier. While I always count on Alan M. Lovelace, of Maryland, to be The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Deputy Administrator of the National Aero objection, it is so ordered. a little luck, I think we ought to also count on not having such luck and being nautfcs and Space Administration. in until 4 or 5 o'clock tomorrow. And it NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD LEGISLATIVE SESSION could be longer, depending upon the Kay Bailey, of Texas, to be a member of Mr. ROBERT c. BYRD. Mr. Presi number of amendments which are called the National Transportation Safety Board for up. the term expiring December 31, 1979. dent, I ask unanimous consent that the The above nominations are approved sub Senate return to legislative session. When the Senate completes its busi ject to the nominees' commitment to respond The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ness tomorrow, it will stand in recess to requests to appear and testify before any objection, it is so ordered. until the hour of 10 a.m. on Monday. duly constituted. committee of the Senate.
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS NEW JERSEY'S FREDERICK SONTAG constituents, is being honored by the economic effects trade hearings a suc RECEIVES USITC AWARD U.S. International Trade Commission cess. for Special Achievement. As I have re The Chairman of the USITC, Will E. turned recently from abroad and a care- Leonard, of Louisiana, and the Vice HON. JOSEPH G. MINISH ful inspection of several countries whose Chairman, Daniel Minchew, of Georgia, OF NEW JERl>E:Y trade policies are being studied by the wisely last spring retained my constit IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES USITC, I am delighted to share with uent to help get the most substance my colleagues the fact that one of our Friday, June 25, 1976 possible into the 21 regional hearings leading New Jersey consultants is being that the USITC held outside of Wash Mr. MINISH. Mr. Speaker, Frederick publicly recognized for those 7 -day ington for the first time and which re H. Sontag of South Orange, one of my weeks he put in last year to make the sulted in the 66 volumes about the trade June 25, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20759 negotiations they prepared for the Con panded activities, importance, and service to ors and his business won the respect and gress and the President. this nation. To be honored at such a time admiration of his fellowmen. commands special respect and admiration Whether as a player for the old Frederick In my congressional district and by all of us and represents a degree of Hustlers' baseball team, an umpire, a busi throughout New Jersey we have some achievement to which all of us might aspire. nessman, a civic worker, a church worker, a very skilled and courageous individuals "The Commissioners join in extending member of the Lions (his other great love), who deserve further recognition by their their personal congratulations and very sin as a political worker or in his judgeship Government. I think the Civil Service cere appreciation to you as you are being since 1970, he served well and with unblem Commission might well expand its award honored today, knowing that it is such indi ished integrity and responsib111ty. and recognition program to cover the viduals as yourself that make us proud of His credits were ma.ny_past president of experts and consultants who, like the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Frederick Lions Club, chairman of the its accomplishments." Red Cross, leader in the Frederick Athletic USITC's Mr. Sontag, make major con In receiving the a.ward, Sontag was told: Association, business manager and player tributions to vital Federal programs. "This award is in recognition of work per with the Frederick Hustlers baseball team The New York Times, the Newark formed outside of a regular assignment for which fielded a professional and semi-pro Star-Ledger, the Maplewood-South performance above and beyond the call of team at McCurdy Field 20 years, and much Orange News-Record, and the Washing duty. With this award the six Commissioners more. ton Post have recognized the unique express their thanks and appreciation to an As president of the Frederick Athletic work being done at the USITC by Chair individual member of the staff for that extra Club he worked with his fellow boosters to I measure of interest and service. One receiv have Mccurdy Field equipped with bleach man Leonard and Frederick Sontag. ers and lights and had the field improved am very proud that someone whom I ing recognition is to be congratulated, for such performance is the substance on which for night baseball and football. have watched grow in experience in wis exemplary records of public service are built." He was affiliated with the National Asso dom over the years is :finally being pub ciation of Basketball and Baseball om.cials, licly honored. was an executive member of the Maryland As I returned to America from abroad JUDGE AUSTIN F. ANGLEBERGER State Baseball Association, and a charter I was again impressed with the mag member of both Little League and Babe nitude of the challenge before Congress Ruth. He was president of the Frederick County Umpires Association which provides and the Executive in implementing our HON. GOODLOE E. BYRON qualified omcia.ls for Little League, Babe legislative intent of the Trade Act of OF MARYLAND Ruth, high schools and college baseball. 1974. The USITC as the economic re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES During World War II he served in the search arm of both the Congress and om.ce of Defense Transportation and on the the Executive and as an independent Friday, June 25, 1976 Maryland Manpower Commission. agency must continue to develop in the Mr. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, with the re In the Lions, he was a past president and years ahead. I am reassured that Chair cent passing of Judge Austin F. Angle as secretary the past 10 years served on the man Leonard in 1976, and hopefully berger, Frederick County, Md., lost one club's board of directors. As a key member Vice Chairman Minchew in 1977, will of Lions, he held membership in "Interna of its most distinguished citizens. He tional Roaring Lions." have independent, intelligent, far-seeing spent a lifetime in pursuit of excel An accountant, he had served as an audi people around them. lence-whether as leader in civic organi tor with the Maryland Public Service Com Below are the citation and excerpts zations or on the playing field. mission and had been successful in the ac of remarks made at the award cere Judge Angleberger was a judge of the counting and auditing business in Frederick mony: Frederick County Orphan's Court. He 35 yea.rs, being licensed in securities, life FREDERICK H. SONTAG RECEIVING FEDERAL was active in the Frederick Lions and and variable annuities in Maryland, dealing SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD the Red Cross. He took an active part in in stocks, bonds, taxes, estate and retirement Frederick H. Sontag of South Orange, N.J. many organizations and local projects planning. and Seal Harbor, Me. is receiving the Spe · He was well qualified in his field and the leading to his election as a judge of the voters recognized th.is in electing him to two cial Achievement Award of the U.S. Inter orphan's court. national Trade Commission that ls granted terms as a judge of the three-member Or for outstanding performance of a specific Judge Angleberger will be greatly phan's Court of Frederick County. major assignment. missed by those who knew him and Austin Angleberger was well-known and Sontag, who is the Senior Advisor to worked with him. He was well known in well liked. He leaves his loving wife, Idalene USITC Chairman Will E. Leonard, ls receiv local sports circles as well having played Kelley Angleberger, who was his constant ing the citation which reads: baseball and worked for the betterment companion, and his son, A. Gary Angle "For distinguished special achievement in berger, a minister in Ohio, and two grand of sports facilities in Frederick. children. transacting arrangements on numerous oc I would like to share with my col casions for the conducting of hearings and As long as people talk about lo:-al baseball other Commission activities outside of Wash leagues the recent editorial on Judge and people who nurtured it in Frederick ington, D.C. and for demonstrated accom Angleberger from the Frederick News County, the name of Austin Angleberger will plishment in assuring that Commission Post: be mentioned . • . by men who played the actions and decisions receive broadest pos AUSTIN ANGLEBERGER game and their sons, men who knew this sible dissemination and accurate interpre Judge Austin F. Angleberger of the Fred man either as player, umnire or as a source tation, all of which materially advanced the erick County Orphan's Court showed "a lot of encouragement in sports and in life. accomplishment of the Commission's mission of hustle" in life. Judge Angleberger gave it the "old hustle" 1n international trade." And if what baseball players and fans call in everything he did. He was one of those The public affairs and research consultant "hustle" means drive, determination, forti men of rare quality like t1'e la.te great 1s also being given a check award. tude or Just "sheer guts," then Austin umpire Bill Klemm who once exclaimed, Sontag, a graduate of Phillips Academy, Angleberger had it ... and showed it right "I've never called one wrong ..."and, hold Andover and Colby College, is a member of down to the last out Monday morning as he ing his hand over his heart added with a numerous professional and civic organiza scored death's final victory over cancer. certain finality, " ... from in here!" tions. Judge Angleberger was 67. Competition That's the way Frederick will remember The USITC ls the chief international eco was the game of his 111e, and the record Austin Angleberger--1i. man who played it nomic research arm of the Congress and the shows he played it well. From early youth from the heart . . . to the very end. May his Executive Department. It is an independent to way past his prime baseball was his great soul, through the Mercy of God, rest in peace. agency. love outside his family. When he could no Sontag, who is a nationally recognized longer play the game, be turned his love lecturer, is the co-author of "Parties: The and knowledge of the game to the even SOYBEANS AND RESEARCH Real Opportunity for Effective Citizen Poli more challenging undertaking of umpiring. tics" (Alfred A. Knopf, hardback; Vinta.ge He umpired for years and helped organize Random House, softcover). his fellow umpires in Frederick County. HON. PAUL FINDLEY Chairman Leonard said: "In a year when About four years ago when interest in this OF ll.LINOIS the U.S. International Trade Commission seemingly thankless enterprise waned, he has taken on additional responsibilities and once again showed the "hustle" that was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a corresponding increase in workload, my needed to bolster the program, taking over Friday, June 25, 1976 co-worker more than met the challenge. tbe helm of the Frederick County Umpires Excellence in any capacity is worthy of Association and rejuvenating it. Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, the Amer recognition and the Commissioners feel that As the "now generation" says, "he got it ican soybean farmer is willing to face this past year in particular represents a sig together" early in life. world competition from other oilseed nificant period in the history of our agency Austin Angleberger's constancy in his crops. But to face this competition, he a period that marked the beginning of ex- many undertakings, his community endeav- needs our support and assurance that 20760 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1976 he has a fair chance to compete. Our STATEMENT OF PERSONAL, FAM All of the above were speeches in the Na help need not come in the form of tariff ILY, OFFICIAL AND CAMPAIGN tion's Capital except the Mlcrographlcs As or quotas because these are a sign of FINANCES 1975 sociation which was in New Orleans, Louisi weakness and defeat. Rather, our help ana.. It is my policy not to accept honoraria or can come in the form of research to as expenses from persons, groups or organiza sure that the American farmer can face HON. FRANK HORTON tions for appearances within my Congres competition and meet this competition OF NEW YORK sional District. head on. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES B. During 1975 my wife received several A recent editorial in the Prairie small honorarla totalling $337 .58 in connec Farmer entitled uone Way To Fight for Friday, June 25, 1976 tion with her work with Christian organiza Our Soy Oil Markets"' outlines the com Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, increased tions and they are listed as follows: Women's Aglow Fellowship (several sep- petition that the American soybean public awareness of government and its arate events), $192.58. farmer is facing. It also outlines what o:m.cials and increased public concern Washington Prayer Group, $10.00. can be done to assure that the American about the way in which the stewardship Palmyra Methodist Church, $35.00. farmer is properly prepared to meet this of public trust and of public funds is Westminster Presbyterian Church, $50.00. competition. Competition can produce conducted has led me for the past 2 years Prayer Breakfast, $100.00. both an adequate food supply and a fair to enter into the RECORD a complete The total amount of $387.58 was contrib income for the farmer if it is given a statement of my personal, family, o:m.cial uted to Christian charitable organizations by chance. and campaign finances. I am pleased to my wife. The article from the June 5, 1976 day to enter into the RECORD a similar Total 1975 joint income: $46,353.76. Prairie Farmer follows: statement covering the calendar year C. Summary of Personal Assets and Lia ONE WAY To FIGHT FOR OUR SOY OIL MARKETS 1975. bilities: At least one seed company predicts that I make this annual disclosure state 1. Family residence at 9607 Hillridge Drive, hybrid soybean seed will be available com ment for two purposes. My first purpose Kensington. Maryland: Approximate value, mercially within the next few years. Other is to go far beyond the minimal disclo excluding furn1shings, $70,000.00; jointly efforts to increase soybean production are sure requirements of the House Commit owned with Marjorie Horton; mortgage being made by our land-grant universities. tee on Standards of o:m.cial Conduct in amount oustanding as of June, 1976, $35,- By increasing crop yields, other things making clear that I conduct my omee 525.39. being equal, you cut your per-unit costs. This with neither actual nor potential con 2. Cottage at Big Moose Lake (Herkimer is what happened, In an absolute sense, with fiicts of interest. My second purpose is to County). New York; Approximate value, ex the introduction of hybrid corn. cluding furnJshfilgs, $35,000.00; jointly No other country can compete with US provide sufficiently detailed information owned wtth Marjorie Horton; mortgage corn farmers because of our advanced meth to my constituents to illustrate what is amount outstanding as of June, 1976, $7,- ods. These can be copied, of course, but they involved financially in the proper opera 500.00. give us substantial lead time. tion of a congressional office and in the Note: My residence in the 34th District is Currently, US farmers are faced with some conduct of a Congressman's job. a rented apartment at 2123 East Avenue In respectable competition from Brazil soy It is for these reasons that I submit the Town of Brighton, New York, in which r beans and East Indies palm oil. Some have the following summary of my personal, have no ownership Jnterest.) · been panicked into demanding that the 3. Common Stocks (all owned jointly with palm oil competition be turned ofr. But family, official and campaign finances for 1975. The statement includes full disclo Marjorie Horton): tariffs and quotas are a sign of weakness and a. 10 shares of Eastman Kodak Company defeat. sures of my personal and family tax pay stock, valued in June, 1976 at $100.75 per The US is In the midst of negotiations in ments, income and sources, personal as share, total value $1,007.50. Geneva aimed at a broad lowering of trade sets and debts, my official expenditures barriers internationally. b. 1 sha.re of Xerox Corporation stock, val and my use of Federal reimbursement ued in June, 1976 at $56.50 per share, total Other US groups are clamoring for pro value, $56.50. tection from competition like the shoe and accounts, funds returned to the U.S. c. 10 shares of Rochester Community Base specialty steel industries. Fortunately, Presi Treasury, my campaign finances during dent Ford has rejected their demands. 1975, my organizational affiliations and ball, Inc., stock, valued in June, 1976 at $5 per share, total value $50.00. He's in the same mood about palm oil. Re my handling of congressional papers and 4. Automobiles~ strictions on trade, even palm oil, could se records. riously hurt farmers in the long run. Cur REPORT a. 1973 Buick valued in June, 1976 by a Washington area Credit Union at $2,375.00. rently we are exporting $2 billion worth of I. PERSONAL AND FAMn.Y FYNANCES AND TAXES b. 1972 Buick valued in June, 1976 by the agricultural products a month. How long do A. Taxes: you think this would continue if we started same Credit Union at $2,150.00. 1. Federal income tax paid for 1975 (Joint 5. other assets: telling the world "we want you to buy from return filed by Frank and Marjorie Hort.on), us, but we won't buy anything from you"? a. I am owed $34,700.00 by the partnership $6,460.60.• Curtailment of agricultural trade would be of Johnson, Reif and Mullan law firm as the a disaster for farmers. 2. New York State income tax paid for proceeds for my sale (to them) of shares of 1975 (joint return), $2,546.90. • So what is the answer? We dropped a hint stock in Blackacre. Inc., a Rochester, New at the beginning of this editorial. What we 3. Montg<>mery County, Maryland real es York real estate corporation which owns the need is more research to break the soybean tate tax on personal residence (Jointly building at 47 S. Fitzhugh Street in which owned) paid for 1975, $1,504.74. the law firm of Johnson, Reif and Mullan production barrier, thus lowering per-unit has its offices. I ceased all active practice of costs. This could make it difficult, if not 4. Herkimer County, New York real estate tax on cottage (jointly owned) paid for 19'75, law at the time of my election to the Con impossible, for far-off lands to deliver palm gress in 1962, and I am no longer aftlliated oil on our doorstep at prices lower than $477.93. with this or any other law firm. I no longer soybean oil. Total Income and Real Estate Taxes Paid hold a.ny stock in Blackacre, Inc. In fact, as this is written, palm oil and $10,900.17. b. Not included in this statement of assets soybean oil are selling for almost eKaCtly 5. Other: During 1975, I received a total are such miscellaneous items as clothing and the same price in Ililnois. It's hard to under of $2,050.00 in honoraria for speeches and household !furnishings, and cash value of life stand why anyone would buy palm oil with lectures to various groups, as follows: insurance, which have not been appraised the saturated fat level of lard when he could a. National Tool and Die and Precision Ma and all of which are within the normal range gft unsaturated soybean oil at the same chining AssoQiatlon $300.00. of expectation for a man of my age and in- price. b. National Audio Visual Association. come. • We could perform a greater service to soy $500.00. D. Personal Debts: bean farmers by enhancing the soybean's c. National Wholesale Druggists, $2.50.00. 1. Mortgage liabilities for home and cottage competitive position. This could be done with d. National Micrographics Association, are disclosed under C.1 .. assets summary. more effort for research. $1,000.00. 2- I owe $5,000.00 on a loan account with This makes infinitely more sense than hid the National Bank of Washington. Washing ing behind a protective shield of tariffs and (•see II.B. regarding deductions of offi.cia.1 ton, D.C. quotas. We could easily fall aisleep there. expenses not reimbursed by the government.) 3. I owe $269.00 to Blackacre, Inc., as part June 25, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2076l of the purchase price of stock in Blackacre, or my staff and the bulk of them were con under federal campaign finance disclosure Inc., which I have since sold. sumed in co:m:munica.tions to constituents laws. These reports are available for public Except for the honoraria listed and the in Monroe and Wayne Counties about federal inspection at those offices. assets shown as jointlY' owned by my wife matters affecting the 34th District~ Summary oJ: the Committee's finances in and me, ~rrs. Horton has no assets of hel" 7 ~ Ea.ch Congressman was permitted :reim 1975: own and no independent sources of income. bursement up to $6,000.00 in 1975 for the rental of space for District Offices. Since my Cash on hand, 1/1/75, $1,4.67.68. II. OFFICIAL EXPENSES AND REIMBURSEMENTS Total receipts, $1,943.94. CONNECTED WITH MY DUTIES AS A U.S. CON Rochester office is in th~ Federal Building, Total expenditures, $1,606.15. GRESSMAN and my Wayne County office is in the County Office Building, I did not claim any portion (Note: With the single exception of the Cash on hand, 12/31/75, $1,805.47. of this amount. Thus, $.6,000.00 reverted to Note: None of the funds in this Commit Stationery Allowance, any unused poi:tion the U.S. Treasury. of which is taxable to a Congressman as in tee is subject to my personal control. 8. Each Congressman was permitted reim B. Ea.ch Republican Congressman was al come, none of the other accounts accrue any bursement up to $2,000.00 for District Office personal benefit to a Congressman or to lowed $2,000.00 by the National Republican Expenses in 1974. Since my District Office Co_ngressional Committee for use to defray members of his staff.) expenses exceeded this amount, I claimed · A. Office Accounts: public infol'llllation expenditures in 1975. I the full $2,000.00 utilized $1,998.16 for purposes. such as the 1. In 1~75, each Congressman was author 9. Each Congressman was permitted reim ized a Stationery Allowance of $6,500.00 for production of public service radio and tele bursement up to $1,200-.00 for District Office vision broadcasts, photographic serVices and office use. I expended the entire amount fol! Telephone expenses for the first half of 1975. the operations of my Washington, Rochester other public information expenses related to I utilized $1,021.52 of this amount. After my duties as a Member o! Congress. and Wayne County offices~ At the end of June 1975, District Office Telephone reim 1975, this account showed a debit" balance bursements were combined with the tele :rv. AFFILIATXONS of $265.49 which was carried over to my 1976 phone units allowance for the Washington A. I hold no directorsllips. or partnerships Stationery Allowance. I withdrew no cash office. My use of telephone and telegraph in any professional or corporate profit-ma.k from the stationery account for personal or units is discussed in item number 6 above. ing entity, except; I do serve, without pay,. as other use. 10. Each Congressman is permitted to a director of Rochester Community Baseball, 2. Each Congressman was authorized a obligate the House of Representatives for a Inc... which I served a.s President prior tO' my postage allowanee of $1,140.00' in stamps for total of $8,100.00 in office equipment rental election to Congress in 1962. the year, of which I withdrew the full payments for 1975. I utilized $7,150.30 of t.fiis B. I also serve on the board of the Genesee amount, some of which was carried over for amount for rental of photocopying, type Valley Arts Center, Inc. and on the advisory use in 1976. writing, telecopying and other articles of boards of the Center for Migrant Studies at 3. Each Congressman is permitted an actual ofiice equipment. An unused portion $949.70 the SUNY College at Geneseo, 01 som, a transportation expense ( a;uto mileage or air reverted ta the U.S. Treasury. Each Member non-profit group which promotes invest fare) reimbursement for 26 round trips to of Congress is also able to authorize expendi ments in low and moderate incom..e h'<>using his home district per year. I. claimed reim tures from a continuing allowance of projects around the countryy and of a group total bursement for all of there trips, a.t a re $5,500.00 a year which the House o! Repre called Citizens for Decent Literature. imbursement of $3,949.96. In additk>n to sentatives uses to purchase omce equipment (Note: These a.re relatively inactive, hon these 26 trips, I made at least 13 additional for use in the Congressmen's offices. At the orary positions in which I serve without fee. trips to the 34th District at my own per close of 19'15, I had an unused balance in the I am also a dues-paying member of a large sonal expense. Transportation expenses for office equipment purchase account of number of Rochester area civic, masonic and these additional trips, for car rental, meals $2,279.32. comm.unity organizations, a list of which I and other expenses not reimbursed by the U. Each C-Ongre1S.Sman was permitted $5,- would gladly provide upon request.) government amounted to personal travel ex_ 0:00.00 on 1975 for Constituent Comm.u.nica penses of $3,411.64 for me in 1975. c. In my official capacity as a Member of tion's Expenses. I used $1,515.00. Congress, I serve as Ranking Minority Mem. 4. The staff of each Congressman is allowed 12. Each Congressman ls entitled ti<> a spe a total of six government-reimbursed round ber, House Committee on Government Oper cral $3,000 tax deduction for liVing expenses ations, Member, Joint Committee on Atomic trips to the home d.lstric1< per year. As in the in Washington. Since living expenses at a case of the Congressman, the reimbursement Energy, Chairman, CommlSSion on Federal temporary place of employment are gen Paperwork, Vice Chairman, Select Committee is limited to aetuaal transportation expense erally deductible for all citizens, and since (auto mileage or air fa.re) . Meals, lodging on Professional Sports, and Member, U.S. living expenses dming_ the year in Wash Naval Academy Board of Visitors. and other expenses are not reimbursed. ington tar exceed this figure, this "allow Similarly, there is no reimbursement for ance" is not a :financial advantage but a V. TRAVEL ABROAD mileage expenses of sta1f members or Con limitation on the deductibility of special I made one trip abroad at gnvernment ex gressmen who travel within the Congressional living expenses. pense in 1975, to Scotland and France, as Di.strict on official busineSB. In 1975, three :re B. Official Expenses Met Personally. OUt of member of the Joint Committee on Atomic imbursed trips were utilized by my Admrn-. a my personal income in 19'75, r expended $7,- Energy. The purpose 0£ this trtp was to re istrative Assistant, for a total reimbl.ll'se. 390.85 for official expenses above and beyond meD.lt of $353.32. He made several additional View the status of breeder reactor technology the amount of reimbursements I received in France and the Ui:J.ited Kingdom. trips to the District at his perrona.1 ex from accounts listed above. These official ex pense in 1975. I believe th01t personal con penses met with personal funds were prop VI. CONGRESSI.ONAL PAPERS tacts with government officials and con erly deducted from my Federal and New In 1967, I selected the University o1l stituent groups in my District by professional York State taxable income. Rochester as the !l'eposit.01'y for all files and staff members contribute a great deal to. S'Ulnm.ary: papers resulting from my sernce in the the quality-of my service and representation. Total allowances (not including telephone However, this practice has had to be carried Congress. In that year, I executed a docu units) $255,539.56. ment making a gift to the University of my out at considerable expense to myself and Total expended, $220,950.23. members of my staff. Congressional papers then in existence as Returned to. the U.S. Treasury, $34,589'.33. 5. Each Congressman was permitted 18 well as those that would result from further staff positions and a total annual staff salary Official expenses met personally (not reim- years of service as a Congressman. A sub aillowance of $220,686.00 in 1975. The num bursed) $7,390.86. stantial portion of my pap.ers, from my first ber is uneven because one change was made m. POLITICAL AND CAMPAIGN FINANCES 13 years in the House are already filed at in this allotment during the calendar year. A. It has been my piractice neither to ac the University. At the time ot_ this gift, Uni I utilized a total of $197,320.13 from this cept nor expend any monies personally for versity officials brought to my attention the amount, with the balance of $23,365.87 re campaign purposes. All campaign contribu availability of a tax deduction for the ap verting to the U.S. Treasury. I currently em tions for my re-election campaigns have been praisal of these papers. Because much of the ploy 11 full-time and two part-time statf received and expended by one campaign com paper itself as well as much of the staff members, with seven of the full-time people mittee which has been organized for this work, which created the files, was properly and one part-time person serving in Wa.sh purpose. paid for by the government, through sta ingron and the remain and servin~ to dispel anti-Semittsm. She of this drug. Oi"- that Chemical in.. order to Yea on Rolleall No. 457, the rule pro helped convey the comm.unity's conviction determine if the drug is carcinogenic. It viding for the consideration of H.R. that people of all faiths can grow together, matters not what the normal use of the prod 14260, foi:eign assistance and related pro work together and learn together which con uct might be in terms of dosage, and it grams appropriation bill for 1977. tributed in large measure to the success of doesn't even matter whether the product is Israel Expo '76. detectable after simpfe withdrawal periods Through her guidance, she helped the (as is the case with some animal :fed drugs) , community make a. singular and remarkable the answer ts always the same: if it ts pos contribution to the the advancement of an sible to produce tumors in laboratory ani COST OF H.H.H.'S JOB BILL awareness and a better understanding of her ma~. no matter how unreasonable or un People, their contributions, th~ir hopes and likelyi the- dosage, the product is considered their aspiraitions which will be felt for years carcinogenic and is removed from the market. HON. MARVIN L. ESCH tooome. N<> one in !his right mind could condone the exposure of humans to substances that would OF MICHIGAN poison them or create caTcinogenic hea.Ith IN THE HOUSE OF REP.RESENTATIVES REGULATION PROLIFERATION hazards. But thMi's the point where emo tionalism begins to fog up the works. Friday, June 25, 1976 Several yea.rs ago, FDA's decisions on drugs Mr. ESCH. Mr. Speaker, an article ap HON. ED JONES were based on tests designed to detect the peared in the Dispatch a month ago presence of drugs or their metabolites in which dealt with the Humphrey-Haw OF TENNESSEE pa.l'!ts per milll-0n. The advent of more so kins bill,. H.R. 5-0. The paper's, editors IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES phisticated laboratory equipment and tech nology has now enabled scientists. to meas summarW.ed well some of the key prol:> Friday, June 25, 1976 ure the presence of substanees in parts: per Iems with this measure. They noted that billion (ppb) . From a layman's point of most of the cost of the bill would have to Mr. JONES of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, view, ppb can be compared to one :fluid the more I observe the actions of the be borne by the taxpayers, with the usual ounce in 10,000 full railroad tank cars; one e:trects of more deficit spending, in their regulatory agencies in the United States, penny out of $10,000,000 or one kernel of the more I become convinced that they corn oUit of 7,143 bushels of corn. words- have created more problems-and are The absurdity of FDA paranoia and that of ••. more lnflation, mor~ talreS, less incen tive 'Cor busiDess expand and hire, imd continuing to do so-than they have a few of OU1J' citizenry who race with fear to 'therefore more unemplO!JIIlell't, to, be relieved solved. One recent example of this that rather than reas~n. can most easily be dem onstrated in the recent controversy over the by more Government hiring.· The classic has caused a great deal of controversy Vici«>UK circle. was the proposed :field sanitation rules nitrites argument with bacon. What. this really boiled down to was FDA's objecti to The authors also note thait the man published by OSHA. Under these rules, the presence Qf. nitrobopynolid.ilxe in bacon. farmers would have to have water foun It makes no d.iderence to FDA that a human dated publle service jobs. are to draw the tains. and Jiffy Johns in the field with would have to consum~ 46,24.5 pounds of same pay as the prevailing market rate, any hired workers. bacon containing 10 pa.rta per blllion.. o-t the and therefore there is no incentive for The latest example of this mentality nitrite to ingest as much of this chemical the worker in public employment to re or lack of it-is a proposal by FDA to substance as is eontained ln one dally dose turn to a productive job in the private ban, without even a public hearing, the level of a compound prescribed for many sector. 1 believe thell' conclusion as to women going through what vl commonly the wisdom of this proposal is correct: use of the chemical Furazolidone. The called the "change of life". major usage of this chemical is in the Of particular concern to llvestock and "Humphrey-Hawkins adds up like any prevention of disease in laying hens,. tur poultry producers today 1s FDA publication other numbers game-; the pl.a.yers almost keys, and broilers. FDA is considering in the Federal Register (May 13) of a Notice always lose." banning this chemical because there 1s of Opportunity for a hearing on a Petition Mr. Speaker, the entire article is here a passibility that it is a carcinogen. In to withdraw Approval of Fura.zolldone. Thts with inserted in the RECORD for the bene other words, it may caus-e cancer, drug, components of which are derived from fit of all Members: been a mainstay in con Initially, the :tact that Furaizolidone corn cobs, has the- COST OF H.H.H."s JOB BILL trol of bacterial infections, not the least of may cause caneer would seem to be which is salmonella, a disease-causillg orga The most controversial piece of legislation enough to justify banning the drug. But, nism, in both animals and man. now betore congress is the so-caned full estimates are that the economic impact What prompts this FDA action, asid& from employment bill. Minnesotans might most of such a ban would be approximately agitation from Rep. John Moss (.D. Cal.if.), con.Teniently identify it as the "H" bill $2 billion per year. More importantly, is the refusal ot_ FDA to accept the testing for HubeJrti Horatio Kumphrey and Augustus Furazolidone is the only drug available data and techniques b-y which manufacturers llawidna, its principal sponsors-. Ot"her may that can be used for the contl'ol of sal of the product claim they can detect the prefer to ca.11 it. simply the 50>-50 bill : S-50 in the Senate, HBc--5D in the House. And 50-50 monella in adult poultry. And we know product down to the level o~ two ppb. The fact that literally hundreds of thousands of ts said to describe its approximate chan.ces of what salmonella does. So, do we take a tons of fura.zolidone have been consumed by becoming la.w _ maybe or a sure thing? livestock for more than 20 years, without a And of course 50 and 50 add up to 100, The following article from the Poultry single instance of any kind of health prob and 100 describes the percentage of support Times very correctly, I think, points out lem attributable to the use of the product, it gets from Democratic presidential candi some of the problems we get into. with is of no consequence to FDA. Furthermore, dates, labor leaders and liberals, and 1lhe regulatory agencies overreacting without the product, in many forms, is undetectable deg;re.e: of opposition shown by President considering all of the facts that they in livestock. or poultry after a very brief with F01Td, Ronald Reag~ and> fiscal conserva them. drawal period, tives. have before The potential cost to consumers, if fura The important numb.ers a..ssociated with The article follows: zolid<>ne is removed from the market as an the bill are neither so amusing nor so sim PRICE OF EMOTIONAL HYSTERll COME& HIGH anti-bacterial agent, is estimated by FDA in ple. They are the numbers associated with (By John F. Yarbrough) its own "Inflationary Impact Analysts" to its cost to the country. If there is anything more detrimental to run from $218 million to $2.6 billion an The Humphrey-Hawkins bill, simply de the progress Qf. mankind than ignorance, it nually. scribed, is the most sweeping economic plan must be scientific technology confused by How long can the American public afford ning-social welfare legislation ever seriously emotionalism. And there ts no placec on earth this expensive emotional hysteria? championed in Congress. It proposes to where the mixture of technology and emo achieve "full employment" in thts country tionalism exhibits its destr.uctive tendencies (defined in the bill as no more than 3 per more completely than in the machinations UNAVOIDABLY ABSENT cent unemployment) through (a) the in of the Food and Drug Administration. tegrated plans and fiscal programs o~ the Time after time in recent years the public President, Congress and the Federal Reserve, has been whip-sawed into a frenzy of fear HO . MARTHA KEYS and (b) using the federal government as over the "imminent hazard to public health" OF KANSAS employer of last resort. In other words, if the which accompanies sozne "out of the blue" coordinated economic planning of the gov pronouncement that FDA is kicking this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ernment doesn't achieve the goal of "full product or that product off the market be Friday, June 25, 1976 employment and balanced growth" the gov cause it believes the product is potentially a ernment will hire the remailling jobless carcinogen in animals or man. Mrs. KEYS. Mr. Speaker, on Thurs presum.a.bly until the 3 per cent goal is The poor rat gets it in the neck every time. day, June 24, 1976, I was unavoidably reached. Hundreds of these research animals are lit absent for one rollcall vote. Had I been Estimates by its sponsors put the cost of erally bombarded with blockbuster doses present, I would have voted as follows: this program at anywhere from $20 billion 20764 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1976 to $40 billion per year, but they claim this POET LAUREATE IN MIAMI BEACH SECRETARY KISSINGER'S TOAST cost would be more than balanced by the TO MEXICAN PRESIDENT LUIS extra income tax revenues coming from a now fully-employed work force. This is ECHEVERRIA Mickey Mouse arithmetic at best. The cost HON. CLAUDE PEPPER estimate, too, is questionable. Opponents OF FLORIDA claim costs would run from $40 billion to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRF.sENTATIVES HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL $80 billion. OF NEW YORK Friday, June 25, 1976 Any cost over additional tax income would IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of course have to be borne by the taxpayers Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, may I di and would tend to have the usual effects of rect your attention to a very patriotic Friday, June 25, 1976 d eficit spending: more inflation, more taxes, less incentive for business to expand and poem especially appropriate to the Bi Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, while it is hire-and therefore more unemployment, to centennial, which I received from Dr. not often that I feel moved to commend be relieved by more government hiring. The Roberta Gans Brin of Miami Beach, and our Secretary of State for his positions classic vicious circle. which I would like to make available to that he takes in respect to many mat And what of the cost on a per-case basla? all of. our colleagues. Mrs. Brin, active ters, I do particularly want to call the Though the blll ls a little vague on the after a long career in teaching pharma Members' attention to the address he point, the implication ls clear that the pub cology in New York State, and one of delivered in Mexico City this June 11, lic service jobs to be created to take up the employment slack are to be paid at rates the poet laureates of that region, has 1976, in which he combined high praise equal to those prevailing for similar Jobs come to Miami Beach, Fla., where she for the achievements of President Luis elsewhere. In other words, make-work Jobs writes daily on current topics and enjoys Echeverria with firm respect for the in with pay so high there la virtually no incen the sunshine in our area. She also belongs tegrity and independence and develop tive to get into private, productive jobs as to the Lambda Kappa Xi medical sorority ment of our sister nation of Mexico. Mr. openings develop. and B'nai B'rith, and with her permis Kissinger's remarks are especially rele Are, then, we to have added to e.n already sion I include her uplifting poetry at vant in view of the recent nomination overstuffed bureaucracy another layer of well-paid public "servants" contributing vir this point: by my distinguished colleague from Cali tually nothing to the gross national prod M'l COUNTRY-BICENTENNIAL fornia, Mr. HAWKINS, of President Eche uct and virtually impossible to dislodge from (By Dr. Roberta Gans Brin) verria for the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, which I wholeheartedly support. I also the public teat? Is this the definition of There is no perfect country, "bale.need growth" according to HHH e.nd H? Nor 1s there an ideal land, note that the distinguished majority Humphrey-Hawkins adds up like e.ny other For whatsoever our Lord created leader of the Senate, Mr. MANSFIELD, h as numbers game: the players almost always With his Godly command joined in this nomination. I persona lly loee. Has some fiaw or imperfection, want to add my appreciation for the A delineation from the divine- vigorous e:ff orts being made by Mexico And yet my country, perfect or imperfect, under President Echeverria's leadership WABASH CANAL FOUND I'm so happy you are mine-- UNFEASIBLE to eradicate the drug traffic into the For nowhere under the setting sun United States. Exists there such a land, The Secretary of State's address fol Offering liberty, freedom and justloe lows: HON. PHILIP H. HAYES With such a bounteous hand- OF INDIANA ToAST BY THE HONORABLE HENRY A. KISSI N GER My country-right or wrong; SECRETARY OF STATE AT His DINNER FOR H I S IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES My country-weak or strong; EltCELLENCY LIC. LUIS ECHEVERRIA ALVAREZ My country's dynamic might, PaEsmENT OP MExxco Friday, June 25, 1976 My country's stars and stripes so bright, Mr. HAYES of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, it My country-in peace or war: I want to begin by saying that it gives me My country's open door. the greatest satisfaction to be able tonight is with great pleasure that I have learned to reciprocate to my Mexican friends a small the Louisville district om.ce of the Army My country-bound in unity measure of the hospitality which this great Corps of Engineers, has, in a preliminary Survives every disunlty- and beautiful country has so warmly ex finding, confirmed my belief that a My country-for law and order tended to me on so many occasions in t he Wabash Canal extending from the Ohio Against each vicious, gross marauder. past. I spent my honeymoon here; I have River to Mount Carmel, DI. would not My country's fifty states: deep professional and personal ties to Mexico. Freedom's spirit at your gates: I have never come to this land without be an economically feasible undertak With equal rights and equal laws sensing deeply both the glory of Mexico's ing. Although the corps has yet to re Stand together for a united cause. ancient past and its dynamism today-the lease exact figures, the district om.ce has My country-melting pot for the world, thousands of years of civilization that cul informed me the cost-benefit ratio of A welcome banner for all unfurled; minated in the panorama of splendor that such a canal would be less than 1 to 1, a My country-a haven for people from other so a.wed the first conquistadores--and now negative ratio which leave no rationale lands, the vibrant course of modern Mexico, whose struggle for political and economic inde for the construction of such a canal. For downtrodden masses, for persecuted I strongly commend the district office pendence, dignity and social justice has won bands- for it the admiration of the community of on their finding. Constructing a canal My country-200 years ago you were born, nations, as well as a growing role of leader along this 42 mile segment which so From Mother England you were spawned. ship in international affairs. greatly impacts on my congressional dis To be free born men, free born sires, The impact which Mexico is ma.king on our trict, would have meant the loss of You burled your dead on fl.a.ming pyres- interdependent world, as all of us here know, nearly 10,000 acres of rich and produc For religious freedom from the despot's yoke, ls attributable in large part to the boundless tive farmland. In addition, the U.S. Fish For the degradation of . slavery, freedom energy e.nd broad vision of President Luis and Wildlife Service has clearly warned awoke. Echeverria. He is an inspirationa.l leader. I have had the privilege of working with him For the right of assembly that the negative repercussions on tlie for nearly six years. He will be remembered area's environment and wildlife, should And to speak the truth- in history for his great contributions to a canal be built, would be irreversible. For equality and justice, peace, progress and justice. National landmarks, such as the village Against oppressions uncouth- Tonight I want to discuss two great tasks of New Harmony, where substantial Taxation 's burden draining the nation dry, which are deep and permanent concerns of amounts of taxpayers' dollars have al Drove our patriot Fathers to defy our two nations. Both bear the personal Boston's Tea Party with cunning guile mark of President Echeverria: ready been invested in restoration and Bitterly served the British to rlle maintenance costs, would be threatened The global challenge of helping to con Lexington and Concord, and Paul Revere, struct a new and peaceful international or by :flooding, drainage and seepage prob Made our swaddling nation's path so clear. der offering justice and prosperity to all peo lems, according to the service. Washington and Lincoln, leaders strong, ples; The Army Corps of Engineers district The Star Spangled Ba.nner--our nation's and the state of the special, indeed unique office's finding confirms my view of the song. bond between the United States and Mexico. proposed canal as a boondoggle at the And from the smoulderin g ashes of bloody The United States respects and values taxpayers' expense. I certainly hope the discontent Mexico's role on the world scene. We also corps has the wisdom to accept their Was born our nation-its bicentennial advent cherish our close historical, practical and district office's finding and thus save the From your anguish-both 200 years a.go, persona.I ties as neighbors. There is no con taxpayers untold millions. My country, My country-I love you so! flict between these realitt ~ s . In"'eed they offer June 25, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20765 our two nations a precious advantage as we share. By continuing to grow in strength and technology, investment and trade, the United approach together the great · issues of our international participation, Mexico, and in States and Mexico and with us the other time. deed all the nations of Latin America can nations of the Hemisphere, ha.ve outstripped Mexico and the United States are inde in important respects act as a bridge be the world as a whole. Our habits of prac pendent, and self-confident nations. We are tween the different groups that exist in the tical cooperation give us a head start. The mature enough to encounter the trials uf world today. efforts we take together can thus make a our era without crises of identity, and with The United States has accepted the chal special and positive contribution to the out allowing differences permanently to lenges of an interdependent world. We are course of development around the world. divide us. We are serious enough to disagree committed to the cause of cooperation on an Beyond peace and prosperity lies a deeper without rancor; creative enough to cooper equal basis between all nations-whatever universal aspiration for dignity and justice. ate without threatening each other's inde their stage of development. We have pursued Our two countries are both committed to pendence. In this, we are truly at the fron this course at the Seventh Special Session the rule of law and extending the reach cf tiers of Western Civilization. As North Amer of the United Nations General Assembly; in international law in world affairs. This is ican nations we are irrevocably linked by the Conference on International Economic most urgently needed with regard to the geography, history, interest and principle. Cooperation; at Kingston in January; at last great frontiers of our planet-the oceans. We need sign no documents to insure our Nairobi last month. There have been set They are the common heritage of mankind, kinship of thought and action as free and backs of course, but we believe a new and but they can become arenas for confiict if friendly peoples. We have a relationship all positive atmosphere has been created, and not governed by law. The differences between the more special for being unwritten. we join with your President in the view us on the issues involved have led to ten THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE FOR PEACE, PROSPERITY, that the serious and responsible nations of sions, but they are issues which nations AND JUSTICE the world now have an unprecedented op everywhere will have to solve. Our two na portunity to advance mankind's age-old History has presented this generation with tions have a special advantage and thus a dreams of a better life. special responsibility to res.ch agreement on two great and unique challenges: the im The United States knows that while our our ditrerences in the context of a rapid and perative of peace in the nuclear age; and speci1ic approaches to these problems may successful conclusion to the Law of the Sea the need to give purpose to peace by helping differ, Mexico shares our aspirations for a Conference this year. We have agreed to to shape a new structure of international better world of peace and prosperity. Mexico urgent consultations on this important issue. relations that speaks to the positive aspira has used its growing international influence And we have as well an obligation to the tions of all peoples. to focus on the great global effort to secure Every nation has a stake in, and a respon deeper sources of our common humanity. peace and enhance the quality of human life. No peoples have been more dedicated to the sibility for, the problem of global peace. Mexico's example is proud and compelling, Each has its special circwnstances and its cause of human dignity and liberty than not only for the peoples of the Americas but ours. The struggle to secure the peace, or special role. for all who value peace, prosperity and The United States, uniquely among the to widen prosperity ultimately will have no justice. meaning unless the peoples of the world can free nations of the world, bears a heavy Mexico's economic growth and progress responsibility to maintain the balance of pursue their aspirations without fear; in stability upon which world peace depends. have made it a vital force in international af societies which foster the fundamental rights fairs. Mexico had a major influence on the of mankind. At the General Assembly of the This ls why we are committed to oppose the course of the Seventh United Nations Special forces of intimidation and oppression when Org>anization of American States in Santiago Session and is an active participant in all earlier this week I reaffirmed the unequivocal ever they threaten the global equilibrium, international efforts to accelerate develop But we know, as Mexico knows, that peace ls commitment of the United States to the ment through a fair and cooperative global American Declaration of the Rights and tenuous, and progress is fragile without a economic system. Mexico's energetic promo curb, and eventually an end, to the arms Duties of Man. The United States endorsed tion of the Charter of Economic Rights and the reports presented there by the Inter race. This ls why we have embarked on the Duties of States-which you yourself in difficult and complex negotiations to limit American Human Rights Commission, whose spired, Mr. President-itself symbolizes the powers we proposed be broadened. we did strategic arms; to reduce these arms and to need for a new awareness that interdepend ease the economic burden of the arms race. so in the recognition that the precious her Mexico, whose voice is heard by all the ence is not a slogan but a reality. itage of our Western Hemisphere is the con major groupings of the world's nations, also And since the Revolution of 1910, Mexico viction that human beings are the subjects, bears a responsibility for peace. Mexico has has presented the International community not the objects, of public policy; that citi been among the staunchest proponents of with the example of a proudly independent zens must not be the mere instruments of disarmament and the use of national re nation committed to progress and social jus the state. The traditions of our two coun sources for development rather than the ac tice. Today, Mexico's voice is heard and tries and our heritage as free American Re cumulation of arms. Mexico was the leader heeded in the leading councils of the world. publics places upon us a special trust to de in negotiating the Treaty of Tlatelolco estab It is my profound conviction that Mexico fend and carry forward the principle that lishing a nuclear-weapons-free zone in Latin and the United States together have a price progress is sterile unless it enhances the America. And Mexico has raised its voice in less advantage upon which to base common areas of human freedom. support of the dignity, security and self efforts in virtually every major area of hu These are some of the great global chal determination of nations threatened by ex man and international concern. Mexico's lenges we both face. Let me turn now to the ternal intervention. history, economic growth, institutional sta bilateral process through which we shape But the ultimate purpose of nations is to bility and political imagination enable it to our progress as friends and partners. look beyond a peace that rests exclusively bring independent new dlm.ensions to the MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES: INDEPEND- on a precarious balance of power to a new global cooperation so essential to our shared ENCE AND INTER-DEPENDENCE era of international economic c.ooperation. hopes for a less divided and more prosper ous world. The imperatives of the relationship of We must offer our children the hope of a Mexico and the United States are not to be better future by mastering the great eco The United States believes that the uni found in words but in geography. Our shared nomic and social challenge of building a versal search for an enduring structure of new, equitable, and productive relationship destiny is literally written in stone. But the peace for all peoples is possible only if it is special relationship we have today represents among all nations, and particularly those of based upon the free commitment of strong, north and south. as well an achievement of human will and stable, and responsible nations. Mexico's responsibility. The problem of economic development is growing national strength and development not merely a technical but a profoundly and deepening participation In global coun The work we are doing together serves political and moral issue. It ls not possible cils strengthens the voice of this Hemi not only to strengthen our own tles; it is a to build a world community which is divided sphere and has given a special projection to demonstration to the world that two nations between the rich and the poor. If we are to the nations of North America in the vital can resolve, in a reasoned and responsible live in a world of peace and justice, all na debates of our time such matters as dis manner, problems of acute sensitivity in tions must have the consciousness that the armament and global security. areas touching upon: world community listen to their concerns. The higher stage of economic progress National sovereignty; This is why we attach such importance to that Mexico has attained has brought it economic advantage; and to the dialogue now taking place between into the company of economies which are human concern. the developed and developing nations. For vulnerable to global infiation, to sudden Let me briefly review the record c,f shared beyond the technical solutions we may fluctuations in world patterns of supply and effort we have compiled and the work yet reach, the spirit we help engender can con demand, to important technological change before us in each of these thr~ areas. tribute to a world of peace and to a sense and investment capital shortages. At the First, how many nations of the world could of community. This ls why we are disturbed same time, our economies are among the accept as natural and coxnfortable an unde by attitudes of confrontation, and concerned world's most open and fiexible. We can re fended boundary of nearly two thousand by those who seek gains through technical spond to change quickly and effectively. We miles? Our active day-to-day cooperation majorities. It is the essence of an effective have the opportunity and the responsibility along our border is a rare phenomenon. international structure today in our inter and the will to shape the course of economic Through the years, our joint International dependent world that solutions cannot be im events rather than to acquiesce in the stale Boundary and Water Commission has solved posed by one group on another, but that a determinism that paralyzes so many nations major problems of shifting boundaries, flood consensus must be established in which all of the world. In the key areas of finance and control, and water distribution. The solu- 20766 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1976 tlon of the Chamlzal and other territorial erful forces affecting the quality and tone For 2¥2 years, Mr. and Mrs. Dawson issues, the resolution of the problem of Col of the future course of our relationship. have worked side by side as partners in a orado River salinity, the coordination of air All these are issues of immediate and direct traffic control arong our border have all been concern to our two nations. But they are forestry project in tropical Ecuador. I approached cordially, persistently, and con also variations on the larger themes of sov would like to commend them for their structively. This ls a record of which we ereignty, economic interest, and human con service to the people of this developing can be proud, and on which we can build cern that affect nations everywhere. Our nation. as we take up further aspects of coopera struggles and our successes in dealing effec Their work has involved evaluating tion along the border, such as widened coop tively a.nd creatively with our own inter experimental stands of trees used in re eration on search and rescue operations and dependence ls relevant to the rest of the f oresting an overpopulated, overfarmed problems affecting the environment. increasing interdependent world in which we Ecuadorean province. Second, we have acted and are acting with live. In a period when mankind faces inter They are both natives of Illinois, grad mutual respect and great responsibility on national problems which are not only com issues of substantial economic Interest, such plex but fraught with ultimate rlsks, it is uating from Southern IDinois University as the desire of Mexican workers to seek unrea.llstic as well as unwise to expect easy at Carbondale in 1973. He is the son of employment in the U.S.; and of Mexican solutions. What we can and must seek to Amelia and the late Walter- Dawson of exporters to sell in our country's markets. bring about 1s an atmosphere--in bilateral, Lebanon. m She is the daughter of Lot After decades of relatively satisfactory ac regional, and global relations-in which tie and Edward Kozuch of Round Lake. commodation to the question of undocu problems are addressed positiv,ely and con Mr. Dawson's undergraduate degree was mented workers, we now face a number of structively, in which divergent views are expressed. openly and freely, without wound in forestry, and he hopes to enter for new issues requiring mutual study and estry graduate school, after returning to heightened cooperation-and that must take ing and sterile rhetoric, and in which the into account the legitimate concerns both objective ls an e:trort to solve problems prag the United States this summer. of the people of the United States and the matically, not aggravate them ideologically. Working in forestry, the Dawson& have human rights of Mexican citiz~ Our long record of experience together seen few immediate results come from We share MeXico's concern over your large makes clear that cooperative effort serves us their labors. However, I applaud the con trade deficit in 1975. The economic recovery both much better than recrimination or cern about the future their lChicago Tribune on June community, serving many years on school church, First United Methodist. There he 23. and hospital boards and taking an ac served as chairman of the boa.rd of stewards, The article follows: tive role in civic organizations. He also finance committee and boa.rd of trustees as THERE'S A BIG AGGRESSOR MISSING FROM THE was a leader in the Methodist Church. well as being church treasurer. SOVIET LIST In 1974, the University of Alabama recog (By John Gaspar) He was an inspiration to all who knew nized Duckworth's usual record of service to him, and we will miss him greatly. My the community where he lived. The school You can always be sure of two things family and I extend our deepest sympa conferred the degree of honorary doctor of about the Kremlin's view of history: It sel thy to members of the Duckworth family. laws on him. dom is dull and it always ls one-sided·. To acquaint my colleagues and others It was an honor he had most certainly In the first of an eight-volume series pub earned. lished la.st week, the Soviet Military Encyclo with the life and accomplishments of Mr. pedia lists 29 countries as aggressors in 60 Duckworth, I offer the following edito For the record of Joseph A. Duckworth's life ls a truly remarkable one. He was a man mllltary conflicts between 1945 and 1973. rials from the Tuscaloosa News and the a.head of his times in many of his ldeas Who heads this list of post-war "aggres Graphic, our hometown newspapers, for who had the ability to make those ideas sors"? Britain, with 21 violations. It is close!y inclusion in the RECORD: reality. followed by the United States with 17. [From the Tuscaloosa News] Conspicuous by its absence from this [From the Tuscaloosa Graphic] roster of aggressors is the Soviet Union. A LEADER-DUCKWORTH IDEAS PROGRESSIVE China, Cuba, and Ea.st Europe are absent, The Tuscaloosa area lost a community JOSEPH A. DUCKWORTH too. They are depicted as the defenders of the service bulwark this week with the death of Joseph A. Duckworth was 96 years old when oppressed peoples of the world. Joseph A. Duckworth, 96. he died June 14. The figure correctly traced However, a more objective look at history Duckworth was a kingpin in commercial his time on this earth. But it belled the certainly shows the Communists, and the and community development here for nearly youthful spirit of this pioneer Tuscaloosa Russians in particular, to be aggressors in 70 years. His life reflected a broad spectrum business, civic, and church leader. many a conflict. of interest and dedication. Mr. Joe was young in heart. He was always Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hun He played a major role in development of young because he was always interested in gary, Bulgaria, and East Germany fell under Druid City Hospital, in the growth of the everything about him, especially people. He the hammer and sickle during the closing public schools and the location of a modern never ceased delving and seeking into those days of World War II. The Russians came, hotel in the downtown in addition to the things important to his community. He made saw, conquered, and stayed. other business interests. new friends and he inspired young people. Were the Russians blameless in the Com A native of Salem, Mo., Duckworth started His career in Tuscaloosa. tells a story of our munist fighting in Greece in 1947-49? Only his career as a school principal after gradu city's growth and development. It was a small the intervention of the U.S. prevented that ation from Southeast Missouri College at sleepy town when Joe Duckworth came here country from being smothered by Iva.n's pro Cape Girardeau. as a business man in 1907. He had a vision of tective hug. His career in the insurance business be what Tuscaloosa would be someday. With the Did the Hungarian freedom fighters invite gan in San Francisco, Calif. with Pacific Mu late Charles Morris he founded Duckworth the Soviet army to invade their country in tual Life Insurance Co. His association with Morrls Insurance Agency in 1918. 1956? Ivan sa.ys he definitely was invited. 20768 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1976 Thousands wha fled the country suggest Clark has made a special contribution to at it are. discouraged a.t the many pitfalls, that the invitation did not come from the new techniques and new perspectives for weary of the long- hours. of reading and re ''masses.'' reporters. As a theorist and as a prac search, and abandon it for a more comforta Where the people of Prague cheering when titioner, Clark has earned the respect ble existence as: a political pundit, columnist, the troops of the Soviet. Union and other or editor. Or better yet, they stick to a career Warsaw Pact countries crushed their brie! of his professional peers and of all of as a humor coluni.nist or sports writer where 11 eralization movement in 1968? Nobody us who know how great an impact his the turn of a phrase is an end in itself, which heard any request for such intervention from work has made on journalism and on is certainly more pleasant than turning over thP legal government of Alexander Dubcek. many of the central issues of our times. stones or dead bodies. Who supplied the MIG warplanes and the on June 20~ Clark spoke before the With an that I have said, you must wonder military hardware for the North Korean Investigative Reporters and Editors why anyone would take up investigative re invasion of the south in 1971? The Russians Group in Indianapolis, presenting his porting as a career. Why would George Bliss, supplied the arms while the Red Chinese Sandy Smith, Blll Lambert, Wally Turner, provided thousands of troops. insights on the status of investig tive reporting in America, its possibilities, Bob Green, Clark Mollenhoff, and a. host of It wa.s the "peace-loving" Russians who others take it up, and stay with it !'or 25 imposed a military blockade of Berlin in and its pitfalls. Clark's informed obser yea.rs or more? 1948 in an at.tempt to starve out western vations are interesting reading for any When investigative reporting pays -0ff influences. Communism topped this in 1961 one who recognizes the continuing sig quickly with million-dollar dividends such when it erected a wall to keep the East nificance of investigative reporting in as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein a.re Germans from fleeing into the West. America today. receiving, it can seem glamorous and highly In 1962, the world was stunned to learn The article follows : rewarding-. There is drama in the story of that the Russians had supplied the Cubans two young, and relatively inexperienced, re THE PRECAJUOUS PROFESSION with mis81les. Under heavy pressure from the porters who had an 1m ortant role in the U.S .• Khrushchev reluctantly removed them. Investigative reporting is a precarious development and breaking of exclusive news The Russian role also figured heavily in profession, and don't forget it. For the. stories that helped keep the Watergate in the Viet Nam war. Along with China and most pa.rt it is hours and days-and some vestigation alive. Eventually the Watergate other Communist nations, they supplied the times weeks--of tedious work in combing investigations brought Prestdent Nixon arms that eventually led to the conquest records, endless interviews with people who tumbling down, which added an unprece of South Viet Nam, Cambodia., and Laos. do not really want to talk to you., the run dented touch of drama to cap the Wood'Wa.rd More recently, the Russians and their Cu ning out of endless leads, the frustration Bernstein saga. ban cronies played a vital role in planting a of ha. ving most o! the leads end as very The Woodward-Bernstein story had the Marxist regime in Angola. Russian weapons dry holes or, worse yet, with inco.nclusLve ingredients for an excellent book, "All The also were a key factor in bringing Mozam results, and the impenetrable stonewalling President's Men." and an excellent movie bique under the Soviet umbrella. in Africa. of responsible officialdom. that gives realistic treatment to one slice of Then. too, there's the Soviet skulduggery This ls not an easy way to make a living the Watergate story. But, it is important to a newsm.an, even under the best of cir in Somalia, the Sudan, and the C-Ongo. It's as remember that this was just one slice of tbe anybody's guess who is to blame for the cumstances; and. I believe I have been blessed with the best practical circumstances Watergate story-a part of the Washington frequent border clashes between the Rus Post slice of Watergate, but not even all, or for more than thirty yea.rs with the Des sians and the Red Chinese. the most important part, of the Washington Moscow has also been labeled as both hero Moines Register and Tribune. Investigative reporting is not an auto Post's contribution. and villain in the several wars between Israel It is understandable that Robert Redford and the Arabs. The Egyptians finally had matic way to consistent front page stories, nor is it the best path to a vast admlrlng ke9t the story line as lean as possible in the enough of their Red benefactors and told movie, and did not include the vital con them to go home. However, Russian arms a.re audience or into the heart of your editor and your publisher. tributions o! Barry Sussman or the many still being sent to Syria, Iraq, and the Pales important, closely related stories developed tinian guerrillas. If you are doing your job right, it is al most certain that you will become con and written by Morton Mintz, Larry Stern. The Soviet Union also has to be considered Ronald Kessler, Spencer Rich, and George an aggressor for its interference in Yugo troversial and subject to accusation that you favor one political party, political figure, Lardner, among others. slavia and Albania, even though no mllita?? While the dram.a critics and book review invasion occurred. Those two countries re or political ideology. If you play it aggres sively on one side of the political street, you ers need only concern themselves with the jected Moscow influence and followed their question of whether the story line was gen own forms of Communism.. will have one group of dear, dear friends, but you will have another group of bitter erally realis.tic and the characters believable, The Russian view of history also fails ta we must a.void the pitfalls of oversimplifica note the Chinese Communists' invasion of enemies. Unless you are meticulously careful in tion and try to see through and around the Tibet, the Chinese-Indian border clashes. uevtces or the dramatist if we a.re to learn and the Cuban involvement in various Latin developing your story as wen as in writing it, you are ·Ukely to be under attack on charges anything practical from the Watergate. story. American countries. We owe Woodward and Bernstein, Robert A quick tally shows th.at the Russians of "irres onsibllity" or "character assassina tion." Well-financed adversaries and their Redford and the Washington Post a great have intervened, meddled, or had a key role deal from the standpoint o! putting major in 27 countries, in some cases more than lawyers will pounce upon your most incon sequential procedural mistake, and it is likely focus on the importance o! investigative re once. This would suggest that the Soviet porting as a force against abuses of power Union is the world's worst postwar aggressor. that you will have to defend every word in a critical story. by the President of the United States and Henry Ford may not have had the Russian other high fed.era! officials. The impact of the viewpoint in mind when he said, "History When you hit it big, you will find poli book and the movie has only begun to be ts bunk," but the Russian version fits this tician s, reporters, editors, and publishers felt in our journalism schools and in our description. clustered a.round with smiles, handshakes, newsrooms. and pats on the back for "great work." But, ~~------~~ Hardly a week passes that I do not hear if you are under attack, and a.re seemingly o! some new incident of' an editor with a CLARK MOLLENHOFF AND "THE vulnerable, only a handful of reporters and .,Deep Throat" problem. This situation is PRECARIOUS PROFESSION" editors will have the depth of knowledge and widespread, and serious. for young and inex understanding to stick with you and give perienced reporters a-re turnin g up with you encouragement and support. "confidential sources" on a wide range of HON. EDWARD MEZVINSKY And when your target for criticism is a exotic political shenanigans that would very influential personage, you must know amount to libel problems if printed. Oli" IOWA that a whole new standard must be applied Often reporters refuse to identl!y their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to your procedures and to the story approach. sources to the editor, a.nd at the same time Unless you take it upon yourself to make Friday, June 25, 1976 hint, give the impression, and occasionally sure you a.re knee. deep in facts, law. and charge that the editor or the newspaper, or Mr. MEZVINSKY. Mr. Speaker, pro reasonable justlflcations for everything you both, are "gutless" or are a part of a "cover fessional journalists have always played have done and written. you will be courting up" for crooked politicians. an important role in the public life of disaster. The inexperiencecr reporter may see his. this Nation. The development of modern Also, there a.re some circumstances with "Deep Throat" as the way to fame and investigative reporting techniques, powerful public :figures when no amount of fortune, and be thoroughly frustrated and fact, law, and logic can p-revail. You will be angered if editors and publishers are less though, has added a new dimension and fortunate if you always recognize those cases single-minded and less dedicated than Kay a new significance to the impact of the far enough in advance to a.void a confronta. Graham and Ben Bradlee in the Watergate press on our national affairs. tion. story. Clark Mollenhoff is a lead:r in that All of those facts of life on the real pitfalls We must be realistic about whether our development. In a 30-year reporting should be enough to make any sensible per publishers and editors should be expected to career and as Washington Bureau Chief son wary of investigative reporting as a ca put their reputations and fortunes on the of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, reer. And, I must say, many who take a turn line on the word of an untri ~ d reporter who June 25, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20769 says he has a "confidential" source. Such a preservation of evidence that ma.de the ex Reporting.. which Ben Reese dubbed my risk is unreasonable with an inexperienced posure possible. "Follow the Dollar" speech. In the same reporter. And, it is even a bit precarious And, likewise, all of the best work of the API forum, I developed the first check list when dealing with such experienced profes press and the government investigators for investigative reporters which was later sionals as George Bliss, Sandy Smith, or Bill would have meant nothing if it had not expanded by John Siegenthaler, Reese, Lambert, who know and understand what been for the courage, ability, and integrity Monty Curtis, and others. corroborative evidence is and have years of of Representative Wright Patman, Sena.tor Paul Willia.ms is presently working on a experience in judging the reliability of in Sam Ervin and United States District Judge book that will compile this material, his own formants. John J. Sirica in late 1972 and early 1973. important experiences, and the experiences Realistically, it is unlikely that many of us Remember the persistent probe by Repre of others in a comprehensive study of sys will have a publisher or editor with the dedi sentative Patman's banking and currency tematic investigative reporting. cation of Kay Graham and Ben Bradlee to committee that produced a massive factual The system of program evaluation review exposing the truth ,a.bout Richard Nixon's report on the Mexican laundry before it was techniques can be used on any city, county, administration. The question of whether aborted by Gerald Ford and Garry Brown state, or federal agency, or on any private this was solely a dedication to obtaining the and the White House in October, 1972. enterprise institution. It involves an analy whole truth on Watergate is immaterial now, Remember the persistent search for truth sis of the history of the agency, its purposes, and the rights of a free press should not be by Judge Sinca. in the trial of the Water and a study of how those purposes a.re being and cannot be, contingent upon passing some gate burglars that frustrated the initial advanced from a standpoint of possible con litmus pa.per test on purely nonpartisan, cover-up of the White House role and made flicts of interest and the administration of' objective motivations. it possible for Senator Sam Ervin to dem its laws and regulations. It comes complete They were right on the basis of the over onstrate the need for a Senate inquiry. with a check list for investigative reporters whelming weight of the evidence as we know Judge Sirica.'s initially controversial pres so you don~ for~t any areas of potential today, and were basically right in the ag sures for the truth and the impending Sen mismana.gem.ent or corruption. gressive questions raised and pursued as ate probe by Sam Ervin created the condi George Anthan, Jim Risser and I. have used theil' sta.:ff pushed forward on a dozen fronts tions for the defections of James McCord, the system successfully on a four-year proj to make certain that official Washington John Dean, and Jeb Magruder. ect involving the- commodity market regula would not forget the unans.wered questions. It is true that the free press aggressively tions. We took the old, ineffective Commodity But. they did take chances. They did go reported these matters and, in this~ fulfilled Exchange Authority apart, and those articles into print on a number of occasions on the its responsibility to keep the public in stimulated five congressional investigations basis of eyidence that many other expe formed. But there were powerful political which resulted in the creation of a new, in rienced and objective editors would have forces at work in Congress--!. mentioned dependen~ agency-the Commodity Futures found inSufficientL They did make mistakes, only the ~O as one--tha.t were more Trading Commission. We a.re hopeful that as all of us may when we press the known important than any segment of the press in this Commodity Futures Trading Commis evidence to the frontier of projection, and finally persuading the House Judiciary Com sion will be a more aggressive and more effec when we make judgments based upon sec mittee to launch the impeachment proceed tive regulator. ond- and third-hand hearsay for corrobora ings. We did not receive journa.lisin awards on tion. It iS refreshing that many of those er Although Watergate is behind us. the les the commodity trading investigation which rOl'S and questionable tactics are admitted sons of Watergate should be remembered in spread over several years while the maj,or in the book, even though they a.re passed proper perspective or we will be destined attention of the press was concentrated on over lightcy in the movie. to make misjudgments in the future. The Watergate and related matters. However, an We must all take some chances with regard next time we might not be so fortunate as outgrowth of that investigation won for Jim to the really big expose, for it is seldom that to find the free press so courageous, or to Risser, of our Washington Bureau, a. Pulitzer ;we can pin down all aspects of a highly con find men of the tough, deep integrity of prize for national reporting on the grain trovel'Sial story with solid evidence that Sam Ervin, Wright Patman, John Sirica., or inspection scandals. Risser's work was a fol would be admissible in a court. However, tha.t Special Prosecutor Archie Cox in the right low through on one aspect of grain trading should be our goal, for every time we deviate place at the right time. activities, using the same solid techniaues lfrom that standard we do have some de We must recognize that ii there were a we had used in our investigation of the s~ gree of vulnerability "that cain be ignored single person with the all-encompassing dals in commodity market regulation. only when there are compensating advan knowledge of "Deep Throa.~·· such an all We also did a comprehensive series on the tages on other points. knowing source is unlikely to surface in operation of the Packers and Stockyards Since Watergate is the overwhelming story Washington in the next crisis. But, if we Administration. This investigation of the of our- era. it is necessary that we analyze analyze ..Deep Throat's" actual contribution, :flaws in the laws that regulate the market it carefully !or what it was and what it it was insignificant except that it encour ing of Uvestock was planned and structured was not. aged the Washington Post to move with by our three-man team in the same manner First, it was a great example of what a stories it had obtained from other confiden as the commodity trading investigation and newspaper can do when it is dedicated to ob tial sources. the grain inspection probe. taining the whole truth, as the Washington "Deep Throat" said he would give no in While systematic inveatiga.tive reporting Post was in this case. formation, and pretty well lived up to that will not make you popular with those you Second, it was an excellent example of promise. He only confirmed that certain facts a.re investigating, it can perform a. much what young and relatively inexperienced re might or might not be true. A rookie cop needed public service, win journalism. porters can do with one hell of a lot of leg would be fired for presenting such anony awards, and cut the odds on your being a work, persistence, and luck. mous material as corrobation. and no ex casualty of our precarious profession. Pub But, it is a mistake to oversimplify and perienced inveatigative reporter would give lishers and editors rather unirormly are state that two young reporters exposed it more than casual consideration as a possi pleased with solid investigative jobs that Watergate and forced t.he resignation of ble source :for leads. keep their headaches at a minimum and do President Nixon. While their contribution Some Post people say today that "Deep not result in unreasonable libel risks for the was significant. it was not vital to any cru Throat" was not important in any decisions newspapers. cial development, for the FBI bureaucracy, to move with stories. I would stress the im They may not know precisely all the in the Federal ElectiOn Office, and civil litiga portance of the tireless leg work of Wood gredients that go into the successful job, tion by the Democratic party had accumu ward and Bernstein and the availability of but it is not necessary that they know how lated most of the hard evidence, and many "leaked" information from government in to do the job if they are understanding of other reporters and newspapers were on the vestigators who did not want the Watergate the importance of the job and give thought trail of the same stories. cover-up to succeed. ful encouragement to those who know how Except in the rare, rare case where a. to do it. It isn't necessary for the owner of It. was important to get that information a football team to be able to pass or catch into the public domain, and it was sim newspaper actually starts an investigation of government CQrruptlon or mismanage a football or to know much more than how ply a. matter of the Washington Post being a. to read the scoreboard. The coach must be bit more agile and aggressive in getting into ment. most of the newspaper•s success is contingent upon good, knowledgeabl& sources able to recognize talent. even as he may not print a.head of the New York Times, the be able to execute the plays he devises in Washington Star, the Los Angeles Times, within the investigative or prosecution ap his overall strategy. paratus.for "exclusive lea.ks." Newsday, the Chica.go Tribune, the Scripps Over a period of more than 30 years. I Howard newspapers, and others. Each of the I want to mention briefiy a system of in have had understanding and encouragement above listed news organizations had a good vestigative :reporting that starts from that has permitted me freedom to pursue many exclusive news breaks that were prob scratch. It is a system developed at the any and all investigations in a responsible ably as important as anJ single story the American Press Institute under the great way, and to call them as I saw them as Ion"'0 Washington Post carried. late editor Ben Reese and J. Montgomery as I was right on the facts and law. The press as a whole did a great job, in CUrtis. It is a system of solid investigat,ing I.twas an unusual experience, and I believe the finest tradition, but it would be a. bit of that has been in use on dozens of papers it was unusually successful. I have worked a myth to suggest that the free press did it from Los Angeles to Long Island. from Mi hard, have taken the job seriously at all alone. The press was dependent upon the in ami to Philadelphia and Bangor, Me. times, and have had a. measure o! luck. r tegrity of the FBI bureaucracy and the Fed At the American Press Institute, I devel have also had the common sense to make eral Election Office for the production and oped my first "Blueprint for Investigative sure that I, personally, could defend all of 20770 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1976 my investigations and stories before any ness of delivering the mails. We have before long forty or fifty townspeople will forum. been particularly distressed with the be crawling around the ground on all fours, There are those who say there ts too much throwing envelopes over their shoulders while investigative reporting. Occasionally these Postal service's ill-conceived plan to close 12,000 small rural post offices they look for one that belongs to them. Col critics point to examples of irresponsibllity laboration of this kind might conceivably and incompetence that make me shudder. around the country. lead to a heightened sense of comm.unity, There are always too many well-meaning ir We in northern New England would be but we doubt it; we tend to think it will responsibles in this business and too many particularly hard hit by this latest Postal produce some sharp exchanges of views when scoop-happy opportunists. Service plan because our States are rural Calvin Skinner plants his knee by mistake But there are never too many good, solid by nature and we depend very greatly on on Malcolm Cooper's hand, or when old Mrs. investigative reporters for the systematic Arbuthnot finds someone standing on her analysis of government operations-men and our small, hometown post office, not only for the dispatch and receipt of letters social security check. The sorting process is women who know how to find out if there ts bound to take quite a while, especially in a political favoritism or fraud in the way gov and packages but as a center of com high wind, and some mail will be undeliver ernment is operating. munication and socializing for towns able since addresses written in ink will wash There can't be enough reporters to deal folk. off after prolonged exposure to rain or snow. effectively with scandals in a $400 billion-a I would like to share with you one of But we hope everyone will be philosophical year federal government, without taking into the finest articles I have seen to date about the inconvenience; after all, it isn't account the multiplicity of local and state which describes our particular postal every day we can play a part in saving the agencies. We are the communication line Postal Service money. And when you con that is vital to final government accounta needs and how they might be met by the Postal Service if we let them. I have at sider how many good things our taxes buy bllity to the public, and we should all do grain for the Russians, aid for foreign dicta our utmost to make certain that the life line tached an especially well written article tors, bombers for Arabs and Jews. bribes for of democracy is not cluttered with irrespon by Richard M. Ketchum, editor, Blair Japanese businessmen and Lord knows who- sible debris or superficial froth. & Ketchum's Country Journal, a monthly we surely can't begrudge the Postal Service Every irresponsible story provides fuel for magazine published in Vermont but cir its economy measures. the fires of those who would discredit in culated throughout rural New England. vestigative reporting and would turn us all Apparently, the mistake we made all along into fawning political lap dogs. We cannot Mr. Ketchum and the publisher, Mr. was in thinking that the Postal Service control a truly free press, but we can take William S. Blair, are both refugees from would be what its name implles--a service. the responsibility for analyzing the output more urban and more hectic centers of It turns out that an argument has been of the free press and expressing our views. commerce who several years ago brought going on since the earliest days of the re We have the responsibllity to praise good their talents to rural New England and public-dating back to Hamilton and Jef investigative reporting, but to analyze and ferson-as to whether the nost omce should invested them-along with some money, be profitable. George Washington saw the criticize the most glaring examples of ir I presume-quite generously in this responsibiUty. There may be times when we postal system's function as drawing the na do not wish to criticize, but prefer to re monthly publication which many of us tion together-"with a. chain that can never main silent a.bout the errors of others. But delight in reading each month. This arti be broken"-and later the Jeffersonians under no circumstances should we defend cle, aside from conveying a very neces argued successfully that any profit the sys irresponsib11ity other than to state: The sary and prophetic message, is a com tem might produce should be used to im free press must have a right to be wrong, or mon, garden variety of the journalistic prove service generally. That happy view 1t is not a free press. excellence they produce each month. prevailed until the late 1960s, when a com If we do not criticize the free press or The article follows: mission headed by Frederick R. Kappel rec other investigative reporters from time to ommended that the Post omce Department time, we are really in no better position than LETTER F'aOM THE COUNTRY be reorganized as an independent branch of the doctors who will not criticize other doc "We are all helpless," the letter said, "and government and become self-su1ficient, or tors, or the lawyers who feel compelled to we should not be." Our friend was speak free of subsidy from Congress, by 1984. In defend the entire legal fraternity as well as ing of the decline and fall of the U.S. postal endorsing reform of the Post omce Depart some crooked judges. system and of how that demise affects every ment in 1969, President Nixon said that what If we fall to involve ourselves in a thought one living in the country. He mentioned the Americans wanted was "fast, de'9endable, ful, critical analysis of investigative report mounting cost of malling a letter, the deteri and low-cost mail service. They want an end ing, irresponsible reporting will grow and orating service, the closing of small rural to the continuing cycle of higher deficits 11.ourish, and the sound practitioners of our post offices, and the nondelivery and mutila and increasing costs." And certainly no one precarious profession will find themselves tion of mail without explanation or apology, would argue with that. But what has befallen in even more precarious circumstances. and as we read on we wondered how many us, as a result of the reorganization, 1s slow It is not stretching the point to say that, more times we would receive a letter from er, more erratic deliveries, greatly increased as our government grows bigger and more him, since the post omce in his little town postal charges, and staggering deficits. complex, the public and even the Congress in California. and ours in Vermont are prob At times, in fact, our postal system appears are more reliant upon nonpartisan, thought ably high on Washington's list for extinc to be about as badly off as Italy's was a few ful, and serious investigations by the press tion. years ago. Mountains of mall accumulated for understanding when there 1s corruption Some visionary in the capital has calcu there and the Italians, ever pragmatic. fi-· or mismanagement in government and po lated that 12,000 of our 81,000 post omces nally decided that since there was no tential confiicts of interest. could be closed (presumably as the Postal straightening out the mess, they would begin Any superficiality or irresponsibility adds Service's bicentennial gift to the people) at again from scratch-and threw the entire to the ditHculty of doing the vital job prop an annual saving of $100 million. In case you stack of mall into the river. erly. There a.re no rules or guidelines that are have missed it, the message coming through Of all branches of government, the Postal infallible. Each of us, as an 1nd1vidua.l, has from Washington is that small-town Amer Service is the one that touches the lives of the responsib111ty to do his or her best to ica-the section of the country most depend most Americans on every day but Sunday. contribute to the solution and to avoid being ent upon mail-is being phased out by the For two centuries it has been their principal part of the problem. Postal Service. The nation that brought you channel of communication with the world a piece of the moon can no longer afford to outside their homes. Without the mails, deliver a picture postcard to Cousin Fern American business would have collapsed. in Shreve, Ohio. Through the malls, knowledge and informa POSTAL SERVICE PLAN TO CLOSE We are not exactly certain how the mall tion and ideas are disseminated, largely will arrive in our town once our post omce through a diverse range of magazines and 12,000 RURAL POST OFFICES has been abandoned or demolished, but in newspapers. And in many communities, the our mind's eye we construct a scene some mails are the only channel through which thing like this. Every ten days or so (always, books may be obtained. HON. DAVID F. EMERY as we see it, on stormy mornings) a large Yet for some reason or other the folks OF MAINE truck bearing the familiar red, white, and down in Washington decided that the Postal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES blue emblem of the U.S. Postal Service will Service-unlike any other federal agency roar through town and someone in the truck should make money. No one has seen fit Friday, June 25, 1976 will heave out a canvas bag, which will slide to ask the Secretaries of Agriculture, State, Mr. EMERY. Mr. Speaker, as you and to a stop in the general vicinity of the v1Uage of Health, Education and Welfare to turn a green. Then, presumably, if the sack ha.snot profit. Nor are the Joint Chiefs of Staff being my other colleagues are well aware, I fallen open of its own accord, the first pass urged to put Defense in the black. Closer have been one of several Members of erby will untie it, pour the contents onto to home, we are not asking our firemen, Congress who have expressed our dis the ground, and begin rummaging through teachers, pollcemen, hospital employees, san pleasure over the way the U.S. Postal the pile for his or her letters and packages. itation workers or any othe::s involved in Service goes about the rather basic busi- other neighbors will join the search, and vital services, to make a profit. (You see June 25, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20771 how ridiculous this becomes when you think Service budget is for labor and benefits. For McGrory which appeared in the Wash about it?) the sake of comparison, that $13,400 is about ington star on June 25, 1976. I join many Unfortunately, like so many other aspects $2,000 a year more than the national average of my colleagues in Congress and millions of life in this country, the Postal Service has salary for policemen, firemen, and teachers. of Americans in voicing my agreement simply gotten out of hand. It just isn't It is the same salary, in fact, that is re ceived by the average assistant professor at with Ms. McGrory's comments. working any more. You see this when your The article follows: copy of Country Journal arrives, looking as a four-year college. And no end ts in sight: though it's been through a cabbage shred the average pay of postal workers will rise O'NEILL HAS MADE Hrs CHOICE KNOWN der. We see it when we walk into our local to $16,500 by 1978-an increase of more t han (By Mary McGrory) post office and read the sign on the stamp 23 per cent over present levels. House Majority Leader Thomas P. O'Neill ma.chine in rthe lobby-"Out of Order." During the past several months, Country laid out the case for one of his own as vice Somehow you would suppose that a nation Joiurnal's circulation department has been president to Jimmy Carter's designated rep deluged with complaints from subscribers that spends $14.2 blllion a year on its postal resentative, Charles Kirbo, last Wednesday whose copies have arrived damaged or, in system ought to have stamps that will stick morning. many cases, have not arrived at all. What to an euvelope. But we can't even seem to "I don't want you to think I'm parochial," manage that any more. we learned upon investigation is that copies of the magazine were being routed through O'Neill said by way of introduction, "and Our new streamlined Postal Service has two bulk-mail handling centers by the Postal that I would be for someone just because spent millions of dollars developing what Service, thus increasing the likelihood of he's a member of the House, but my first is called a "bulk mail system; " and we think damage or loss· by some geometric factor. choice would be Peter Rodino." some of the results are worth reporting. Not We are, of course, taking every step possible O 'Neill went on to explain in practical. long ago it was found that the system ex to correct this situation and to ensure that explicit terms befitting a man who has spent pends more than eight days, on the average, subscriber copies arrive safely and intact. his life in the ultra-polltioal cllma.te of getting a. parcel from WaShington D.C., to But in the meantime, we can only ask our Boston. Los Angeles. (That is slightly less than the subscribers' forbearance for the Postal Serv "When I go through the Italian areas of Pony Express required to carry the mall from ice's heavy-handed machines. my distriot, I go into the bakeshops and I st. Louis, Missouri to Sacramento in 1861, Country Journal, like most small maga see pictures of Rodino and Judge Sirica. This but the Pony Express was a lot more re zines, is almost totally dependent. upon the man gave the Italian people a tremendous liable than the U.S. Postal Service-in its Postal Service. More than 60 percent of our lift. And there a.re 30 million of them eligible brief heyday it covered 650,000 miles and subscribers live in small towns or rural areas; to vote in this country." lost only one mail.) Another test revealed our subject matter is country living~ and O'Neill went on to tell Kirbo that Rodina's that almoin half of the fragile items sent by there is no way we can reach new prospects appeal extends far beyond his own ethnic parcel post arrive broken. (Sorting bins are for the magazine except through third-class group. The New Jersey congressman gets usually located from five to twenty-five feet mailings. That is how we mnst build our more mail than any othe1' member-an a.ver away from the clerks who sort parcels circulation. age of 350 letters a day from Americans just far enough to encourage the throwing Second-class mail provides our means of who are still grateful to him for what he of packages. And in certain post offices, auto distribution-the only method by which we did as chairman of the Impeachment Com matic sorters drop packages a.nywthere from can deliver copies of the magazine to mittee. one to four feet.) subscdbers. 0 He knows the feelings of the American But the difficulties are not restricted to And first-class mail is what we rely on to people," O'Neill said. "He represents every parcel post. Take first-class mail. During one communicate with advertisers, with sub thing that ls decent and just." six-month period, 13 mlllion letters were scribeirs, and with authors and illustrators O'Neill conceded that Rodina's age oould mlssorted in a New York post office. In Wash and photographers. be a problem-he was bOl"ll. in 1909-but not ington, the Postal Service has a letter-sort It ls perhaps worth reminding our friends when you think a.bout it. ing machine it describes as "the equipment that this venture is still a small and some "He is in great physioal shape, works out of the future." And alas for all of us, it may what fragile one--progressing nicely, thank in the gym every day, ple.ys paddle-ball, and be. This 91-foot-long sorting device, which you, but not yet in the black. The two part he's sharp, able, talented. He would be capa is manned by twenty employees, has an error ners are staunch believers in the free enter ble of being president if it came to that." factor that has run as high as 17 per cent. prise system-a system that has treated us "Nobody is better liked in Congress," That is, there are times when one letter out well until now, convincing us that this is the way the nation will :flourish and prosper. O'Neill wound up in a Roman-candle finale. of every six is going to the wrong destina He is a Northeastern Oatholic, comes from a So, feeling a.s we do, we find it ironic that tion. And every time a letter is missent, it big city, is an excellent speaker and a natt y may be delayed as long as five days. They this year $1 out of every $5 we spend wm go dresser." will tell you that this sorting machlne- to the U.S. Postal Service. That is an awe• some bmden for a venture of this size to A number of House members agree with ;yvhich, with others like it, was supposed to O'Neill. Some 50 of them nave signed a peti save taxpayers $1 billion a year--can cor carry. Our postal bill !or 1976, in fact, will be the biggest single item in our budget tion that is being circulated in Rodina's rectly sort 1,100 letters per man hour. And behalf by two New York congressmen, Charles that sounds impressive until you learn that more than we spend on paper, on printing, Rangel and Mario Biaggi. A couple of "Rodino in the old, pre-sorting-machine days 1,700 on paying our employees, or on purchasing the articles and illustrations for the maga for Veep" buttons have sprouted on the floor. letters per man hour were being sorted. How, Some of the others are not so sure. They you ask? By a method devised by Benjamiri Eine. wonder if Rodina's skilled and patient man Franklin when he was running the postal We launched Country Journal in May 1974. system, in which letters are placed, one by OUr bill for postage two years later will be agemen~ of the infinitely perilous business one, into the proper pigeon holes. more than the total amount of money it of cornering Richard Nixon ls a vivid memory took to start this magazine. with the voters. And there are. naturally, For those who are not impressed by claims those who believe that if Jimmy Carter turns for the sorting machine, we call attention Rates are one thing, however; service an other. What is most disturbing about the to the House, he would be better advised to to the Postal Service's cancelling machines, choose one of them. After he brought it off, which print postmarks on letters faster than remedies now being proposed by the postal authorities is that all of them reduce or some felt free to go back to their original the eye can see. The trouble seems to be judgment thftt Peter Rodino was a nice little that these labor-saving gadgets jam as often eliminate mail service. We believe that everyone in this country man from Newark who was not equal to the a.s every ten or fifteen minutes, and when job. they do, they rip up large quantities of has a right to such service, and we remind Only one opinion counts in all this, of letters, which then have to be taken away you that this is an election year-an ap course. and that is Jimmy Carter's. . He has and mended painstakingly by hand in an propriate time to inquire about your con other part of the post office. gressman and senators' stand on the postal said that it would not be appropriate !or Issue. Just be sure to write while the Postal him to tip his hand until after he ha.s been We had assumed, somehow, that the al Service is still delivering letters. R.M.K. nominated. But he did say during a pause in most universal use o! zip codes would speed the Capitol Hill hosannas that were being the delivery of mail and, indeed, tha.t is the heaped on him that "someone from Washing impression the Postal Service likes to give O 'NEILL HAS MADE ms CHOICE ton would be the best choice.'.. The line gave you. But in truth, zip codes don't achieve KNOWN infinite encouragement to Rodino's partisans, much positive effect. They merely stave off who began immediately to point out that disaster. For if a substantial segment of the Rodino symbolizes the best ot Washington population quit using them, the entire postal its occasional ability to rise to an occasion system would collapse. HON. DON EDWARDS OF CALIFORNIA and to demonstrate that even the most The Postal Service's machines were de powerful are subject to the law. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES signed to replace people, but since the ma Although Carter owes fewer men than any chines don't work properly, the Postal Serv Friday, June 25, 1976 all-but-anointed nominee in history. he ice continues to rely on people. And since may be slightly beholden to Rodino, whose there are some 700,000 postal employees, with Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. stubborn refusal to join a. pro-Humphrey, a.n average basic wage of $13,400 a. yea.r, it Speaker, I would like to commend to my "uncommitted" slate in New Jersey elimi is no wonder that 85 per cent or the Postal colleagues the following article by Mary nated what could have been a bump along 20772 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1976 the road. The man to whom he owes the Plans are to distribute pamphlets and ROSLINDALE HISTORY most, Rep. Andrew Young of Georgia, the bumper stickers during the registration cam young black who established Carter's creden paign. tials with white liberals, is a long-time Persons who are 18 and who have not reg HON. JAMES A. BURKE istered, or persons who have registered, but Rodino fan. OF l!4ASSACHUSETTS Rodino, it will be argued, although perhaps have changed precincts since voting last, will not to the nominee's face, provides a nice be required to register to vote in the primary IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES temperamental ha.la.nee. As poor as Carter election. Friday, June 25, 1976 growing up-Rodino used to write poetry on It has been pointed out that a person may tenement fire-escapes-he ls much more register now at the courthouse in Huntsville Mr. BURKE of Massachusetts. Mr. humble and much less self-righteous. or in the basement of the courthouse in Mo Speaker, in the past 200 years, this coun And since Carter will undoubtedly want berly. The deadline for registering is July 7 try has developed from a largely agricul two terms, he might feel more comfortable for the primary to be held in August. tural country into a highly developed, with a partner without ambition. Sen. Walter At 7 :30 p.m. June 22, there will be a meet F. Mondale of Minnesota, who is being pushed ing of service groups on the Little Stage of industrialized one. Areas that once were as an equally strong lure for the liberals, is the Municipal Auditorium to discuss the sparsely settled have become bustling a much younger man with a future, which campaign and make plans. centers of activity. might be held against him. Sen. Frank Mike Foelsch, assistant administrative in One area ir~ the 11th District of Massa Church of Idaho is another and most eager tern, thought up the plan for Mayor's Voter chusetts which is a fine example of this contender. Some in the Carter circle are say Registration and Awareness Week, and as far movement and change is Roslindale, in ing that his style, which is also on the as is known it is the first such week any preachy side, would disqualify him because a where. the southern part of Boston. Although we campaign conducted on such an unrelenting The proclamation follows: are honoring the 200th anniversary of ly high moral pitch on both ends would re Whereas, Moberly, Missouri, and the State our country's founding, Roslindale has a mind voters of a long Sunday afternoon in of Missouri is fast approaching the August history much older than that. Glasgow. primary and November genera.I elections; and The Indians who were the first in Senator Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, bearer Whereas, We being a nation of, by and habitants of this area first met the white of a beloved and famous name, guarantor of for the people, the decision as to which can Mayor Daley's favor, is being considered as a didate and program to support will be man in 1630, when the first settlement bright and moderate liberal who would be brought before us for our opinion; and was made in what was then ca&ed Rocks expected to know his place in a Carter ad Whereas, citizens of all eligible age have bury. In the western part of t.t.at settle ministration. Sen. John Glenn of Ohio is still apparently lost the will to become involved ment, a brave group of pioneers began to in the running because of his celebrity, al in the affairs of their community; and establish a community which, by 1712, though he has yet to establish a record. Whereas, this loss of interest is reflected had built a church of its own on Peter's O'Neill and company hope that Carter will in the ever increasing number of young and Hill. That church and its successors be won over to Rodino because the danger old alike who fall to register, and if registered formed the focal point of what was to be of any skeleton popping out of the closet is fa.11 to vote. non-existent. The full force of the Nixon Now, therefore, I, Lionel B. Thompson, come Roslindale. White House was set to discovering dirt Mayor of the City of Moberly, Missouri, do The growth of Roslindale was influ on the chairman of the Impeachment hereby proclaim the third week in the month enced by th.3 changing transportation Committee. of June, 1976, as Mayor's Voter Registration patterns of the Boston area. The Dedham "They came out of the woodwork," says and Awareness Week in Moberly, Missouri, Post Road, now known as Centre Street, O'Neill, "but they couldn't find a thing. Car and encourage all citizens to register to vote ter could rest absolutely easy with Peter." carried many people tv and from Boston. and to exercise their right to vote in all To travel on that road is to follow in the elections. footsteps of Miantonime, King of the Mayor Thompson sent the following letter Narragansetts; the Minutemen and mi VOTER REGISTRATION to businesses: As you are probably aware, the Moberly litia on their way to Bunker Hill; Nathan City Council is urging the community's Hale, Benedict Arnold, and George HON. WILLIAM L. HUNGATE churches and civic clubs to adopt a voter Washington. It was to the Peacock Tav ern on this road that Washington retired OF MISSOURI awareness and registration program. It is hoped that such a program will generate for refreshment after selecting Weld Hill IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the desire for citizens of all eligible age to as a battle line for the seige of Boston. Friday, June 25. 1976 register and vote in the upcoming August With the coming of the railroad, the primary and November general election. area became known as South Street Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, as this In order that the Council might alert as Presidential election year occurs as we many citizens as possible to the im Crossing, because the trains crossed celebrate our Nation's Bicentennial, it r orta.nce of registering and voting within South Street at the street level. In 1870 gives us the opportunity to refiect on the a very limited time frame, it naturally seeks the a1·ea declared its intention to estab importance of voting to our democracy. areas where high concentrations of citizens lish its own identity by forming a sepa Exercising the right to vote has kept of voting age occur for distribution of rate postal district. The existing name our democracy going for the past 200 brochures, bumper stickers, etc. was not considered to be of sufJ.cient dis years and it is that which will keep us This is why we have contacted you. The tinction, so, at a meeting of the land Moberly City Council is seeking your per owners, the name Roslindale was going for the next 200 years. Every effort mission to place volunteer workers (who should be made to encourage those who would represent various civic clubs, churches, adopted. are eligible to register and vote. orgapizations, etc.) in the parking lot of It took, however, a tragic disaster to With this in mind, I am pleased to call your place of business. The volunteer workers significantly change the rural character to the Members' attention a program would be given instructions prior to their ar of this new town. On March h, 1887, the initiated by the city of Moberly, Mo., in rival to in no way interfere with the normal morning train of the Boston and Provi my congressional district. The following operation of commerce, to pick up all dis dence Railroad, bringing over 300 com article from the June 14, 1976, Moberly carded materials, etc. muters into Boston, fell off a weakened Monitor-Index describes this program: The dates we have in mind for this ac bridge and into a 75-foot chasm. The tivity have tentatively been set for the 19th MAYOR PROCLAIMS VOTES REGISTRATION, and 26th of June. tragedy brought many people out from AWARENESS WEEK The Moberly City Council sincerely hopes Boston to see the wreckage. In Roslin Moberly's Mayor Lionel Thompson today that you will seriously consider letting us dale, they found a lov.~ly village with announced an all-out effort to get "young place volunteer workers on your lot. The open space and a salubrious climate, and and old alike" registered to vote. success of the "Mayor's Voter Registration there was a resultant mini-exodus from In a proclamataion, he designated the week and Awareness Campaign" will ultimately the smoky and crowded neighborhoods of of June 21 as "Mayor's Voter Registration lie in contacting as many citizens as possible and Awareness Week." the innercity. Physicians often recom During the proclamat ion-signing this and to do this we need your assistance. mended that patients suffering from lung morning at city hall, Mayor Thompson said, Please reply your willingness to help us in ailments move to Roslindale for their "I always have been strong on voting. I think the efforts to Mike Foelsch, Administrative health. everyone should vote. I want to see youth in Assistant, 109 North Clark, Moberly, Mo. The coming of these new residents, government, and if we get 200 young people 65270. registered this will be fine." Please help us insure the constitutional however, caused Roslindale to lose the From 1 p.m. to 7 p. m. June 26, there will right of every qualified citizen to vote his rural atmosphere which had charac be a registration booth in the lobby at the mind by the adoption of the "Mayor's Voter terized its first 175 years. By the turn Municipal Auditorium, and on July 3, same Awareness Program." of the century, several est.ates had been time, on the main floor of the auditorium. He sent a similar letter to civil groups. divided into lots, a new railroad had June 25, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20773 been built to accommodate the com One, H.R. 14298, would make perma TEXT OF ADDRESS BY JEROME M. BECKER muters, and Roslindale had become a nent the 8 percent increase in pension Distinguished Government offi.cials; Jewish garden suburb. rates for eligible veterans and their sur communal leaders; ladies and gentlemen: In vivors which went into effect last Jan behal! of the Metropolitan New York Co Some sense of the quickly disappear ordinating Council on Jewish Poverty and its ing rural atmosphere of Roslindale was uary 1 and authorizes a further increase 45 constituent member organizations rep preserved in the Arnold Arboretum, the of 7 percent to begin on January 1, 1977. resenting the entire spectrum of Jewish or former Weld farm. Bequeathed to The other, H.R. 14299, increases the ganizational activity in New York City, we Harvard in 1873, which set up a profes rates of disability compensation for dis welcome you to our second annual seminar sorship of tree culture to honor the abled veterans and their survivors at an on Jewish poverty issues. donor, James Arnold, the arboretum of across-the-board rate of 8 percent with Our concern is the Jewish poor of New fers a memory of Roslindale's pastoral additional compensation for 50-100 per York City: our purpose to raise the level of cent disability. Under the House bill, the governmental awareness of the plight of the heritage. Jewish poor and to motivate the expansion The town's new residents changed not increase in disability compensation would of governmental programs to service basic only its physical character, but its social go into effect on October 1, 1976. Jewish poverty needs. character as well. Old stock Yankees, The President's :fiscal year 1977 budget In New York City today, the Jerusalem of who had first settled there, were re had excluded cost-of-living increases for America, one out of every five Jews is a placed by the sons and daughters of the veterans programs. Congressional con potential welfare risk. This makes the Jewish Catholic immigrants of Boston. As one cern about this policy position was, and poor the third largest poverty group in the resident has put it: is, strong. Over the years, Congress h,as city of New York. This should shatter the adjusted veterans disability and pension myth of Jewish affi.uence and shock the com My street was a League of Nations. We posure of Jewish complacency. Yet, somehow, had Italians, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish payments to keep pace with the rising the myth has not died. It persists. It per no group ever dominated culturally. coot of living. To deny equitable in sists in the minds of government which re Few problems resulted from this mix creases in these programs would be un gards Jewish poverty with malevolent neglect. ture. In fact, this cultural diversity has reasonable. Consumer Price Index sta Yes, the myth of Jewish affiuence still lives tistics and . projections made by the but so too does the reality of Jewish pover been a source of pride for Roslindale. ty-and the problem is growing. It is eating Roslindale also has a great deal of House Budget Committee indicate that the increases recommended by these two at the heart of the Jewish community and pride in some of its citizens who have gnawing at the vitals of neighborhood sta taken their place in our history. The first bills are justified to maintain the pur bility. man to die in the service of the United chasing power of the payments made to In 1972, as these issues surfaced, the States in World War I, Irving Adams, veterans and their dependents. Metropolitan New York Coordinating Coun was a native of Roslindale. In his mem The House initially took up the issue cil on Jewish Poverty was formed. It was ory, the Roslindale American Legion of cost-of-living increases in these vet created to be the organized Jewish com erans programs during debate on the munity's central instrument to deal with the was named, and a park was established. communal problems of the Jewish poor. It Another World War I veteran, Fred first concurrent budget resolution in April and overwhelmingly approved by serves as the coordinating force and forum Fuller, competed in the European Allied of the Jewish community in New York City games and returned home a champion 396 yeas to 6 nays an amendment to on the issue of Jewish poverty. Sitting here runner. In the national 10-mile race the resolution earmarking funds for vet today are representatives of the New York after the war, he broke the American erans services and benefits. I voted in sections of major national Jewish organiza record, and his time stood until 1959. He favor of this amendment, as I did for tions: city-wide Jewish social service agen was the first man to win the AAU cross H.R. 14298 and H.R. 14299, the bills au cies: and boro-wide and neighborhood Jewish country and the national 10-mile race thorizing the increases in the veterans community councils. They represent a wide for 2 consecutive years. disability and pension programs. I urge variety of ideologies and programs but all are the Senate to take up these measures united as concerned partners in actively And no history of Roslindale would be planning and developing a communal re complete without mentioning "Gramp" quickly so the legislation can be signed sponse to Jewish poverty. The coordinating Hodgkins, a naturalist who, in the early into law and the nearly 5 million vet council serves as the advocate of the Jewish part of the 20th century, taught the erans, widows and children who are eli poor: the catalyst for services, programs, and boys of the area about the pleasures of gible can begin to receive increased research as well as the interlocking bridge the great outdoors. Or Parker Weeks' benefits. between governmental agencies and com munity groups. But what are our issues? blacksmith shop, which served as the What are our needs? meeting place for the politicians of the SEMINAR ON JEWISH POVERTY In a way, the problems of the Jewish poor day. HELD BY THE METROPOLITAN are no different from those of the poor of Roslindale has not, however, been NEW YORK COORDINATING other ethnic or minority groups. The Jewish trapped in nostalgia. Since 1968, it has COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY poor have physical, medical, emotional, and had one of Boston's "Little City Halls," legal problems. They need food clothing and in 1972, the "Roslindale First" jobs, and a variety of services s~ilar to a1i movement was founded, with the in HON. EDWARD I. KOCH others and a variety of such issues has been tention of asserting Roslindale's iden detailed in fact sheets to all. But, in some OF NEW YORK wa~s, Jews are different and so, too, are tity and strengthening its residents' IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thell' problems and it is these distinctive solidarity. problems of the Jewish poor that I want to Mr. Speaker, I am proud to represent Friday, Jur:e 25, 1976 underscore today. such a vital community, and am grate Mr. KOCH. Mr. Speaker. on May 23, New Yo~k City's major poverty program, ful for this opportunity to share the his 1976, the Metropolitan New York Co the Council against Poverty, by its thrust tory and experience of Roslindale with ordinating Council on Jewish Poverty and format, drastically neglects the Jewish my colleagues. poor. The city of New York was divided into held its second annual breakfast seminar 26 poverty areas. Each area was to facilitate on Jewish poverty issues. I attended and the development of a variety of numerous found the information provided at that vital social welfare, health, legal and com HOUSE APPROVES VETERANS' seminar by the speakers to be extremely munity action programs to the poor. BILL thought-provoking and helpful. Three major criteria were established for I should like to place in the RECORD, for designating a poverty area. the benefit of our colleagues who are in 1. The incidence of live births in city hos HON. JOSEPH L. FISHER terested in dealing with poverty, not on a pitals. OF vmGINIA racial or religious basis but rather on a 2. The incidence of cases of juvenile delinquency. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES need basis, the text of the statement de 3. The number of people on welfare. Friday, June 25, 1976 livered by Jerome M. Becker, president of the Metropolitan New York Coordi These criteria eliminate Jewish involve Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, on June 21, nating Council on Jewish Poverty, and ment. The majority of the Jewish poor are the House of Representatives approved aged who certainly are not giving birth or an appendix which provides information committing delinquent acts. Jews, moreover, two bills which are of considerable im on the extent of the Jewish poor in New have an ingrained cultural aversion to ac portance to the American veteran. York City: cepting welfare. As a result, the vast number 20774 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1976 of the Jewish poor reside out.side the desig New York City-yet another blow to the This makes the Jewish poor, numbering ap nated poverty areas and are not eligible for Jewish poor. proximately 350,000, the third largest poverty vital programs. Even those Jews residing Compounding the problem was the fact group in the City of New York. within poverty areas are neglected and un that even thls meager funding was never derserved. In recent years, out of a total secure. With blood, sweat and tea.rs Jewish DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS budget o! approxlma.tely 41 million dollars, leadership had to constantly experience 1. The aged poor-A large a.mount of Jew CAP provided less than 1 % of such funds to trauma and uncertainty be!ore the conclu ish poor a.re aged who subsist on fixed in serve Jewish programs. A portion of the Jew sion of ea.ch funding cycle. Last year, for comes and are most adversely affected by the ish community of East Flatbush, for example, example, the commissioner of HRA had of current depression/lnfia.tion. Due to language resides within the boundary lines of the ficially recommended a 55% cut 1n funds to barriers, a. cultural aversion to seeking wel Brownsvllle Poverty Corporation. What has ethnic programs. Thus, not only are Jewish fare, and bureaucratic problems, only a small been the allocatlon of funds to serve poor, poverty programs drastically under-funded proportion obtain the entitlements for which lonely and frightened Jews 1n that area? but even the minimum they do receive ls they are eligible. For example, <>nly a.bout zero. subject to uncertainty and cuts above and 30,000 aged Jewish poor have registered for This sad scene ls replicated throughout the beyond those threatened or experienced by SSI. As a result of fear and crime, many a.re city. other poverty groups. homebound prisoners in slum residences. The issue has been brought to the atten To Government officials we say--ellmina.te 2. The poor Hasidim and other Orthodox tion of governmental officials and agencies. the brinkmanship and make permanent at Jews-Basic religious values necessitate Time and a.gain they have voiced interest, least the minimal government response to added expenditures for kosher food products concern, and recognition of the problem but, the Jewish poor. The Jewish poor and their and yeshiva education for their children. As a. 1n pragmatic terms, the status quo of neglect programs have already suffered enough. - result, many live 1n poverty even though the continues. Indeed, the error ls continuously The Second major issue relates to the family Income may somewhat exceed official compounded. For example: the Department distinctive quality of Jewish llfe and its poverty levels. for the Aging noted that the thrust of its relationship to cuts in human services man 3. Russian immigrant s-These people lack programs wl11 be upon the aged 1n the poverty dated by the current fiscal crises. A poor, :fluency in English and the ability to imme areas. We have testified 1n hearings on these aged, Jew wl11 not stand 1n welfare or SSI diately adapt to American life due to culture tssues; written report.s; and yet, in New York lines to submit forms and seek benefits. shock. The process o! socialization 1s gen City, the 26 poverty areas stm function: still They have language barriers, cultural dis era.Uy marked by a transient status of pov serve as the major vehicle for the delivery tinctions and !ear of strangers, mobs, and erty. of poverty funds. different national or racial groups. (This 4. Laid-off Jewish civil servants and edu In addition, Government service programs problem exists within many cultures). They cational personnel-Hard data based upon for minorities restrict Jewish involvement. want someone from their own culture and the actual number of workers note that the By Federal regulation, a Yiddish-speaking neighborhood to help them. They look to Jewish civil servants and educational per Jew is not a minority but a Spanish-speaking J ewish community councils !or help. They sonnel were the hardest-hit group In the person ls. If so, why should not the non recognize that local councils are fighting to recent layoffs due to the city's fiscal crises. Eng11sh speaking Jew also be eligible to save the neigborhoods and to prevent crime 5. The sick and the marginals--Jewish poor participate 1n the same category and clas.si and ghettoization. They need local fa.c111- Include those who, due to physical and fication as other limited English-speaking tors who can explain services, !orms, and help mental impairments, simply could not work persons? Why are the Yiddish and Russian "walk papers" through the bureaucratic and fell below poverty levels. Children of speaking Jews considered second class minor mazes. single parent homes and ill-trained persons ities? All non-English speaking Jews should The State and city government should be who simply could not "make it" 1n society be granted full rights 1n such programs. aware of these Issues. They should recognize form a unique level o! Jewish poor. Thus, the Another factor, not generally considered, that the centralization o! services outside Jewish poor run the gamut of age levels and 1s that Hasidim and other pious Jews are o! neighborhoods wlll mitigate on<:e again the spectrum of human problems. Yet, their mandated by firm religious commandments against Jewish involvement. Our local pro needs have been traumatically neglected by to expend funds for kosher food products grams and services have been drastically government. and religious education for their children. curtailed as a result o! the cuts that have As a result, many of them surely live 1n been imposed. Any further decrease 1n fund GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE poverty, even though the family may ea.rn ing would cripple and destroy these pro Out of a total budget of approximately somewhat above official poverty Income grams. $42 mllllon, CAP-CDA has allocated less than levels. Who 1s to care for them? What pro The delivery of services on a neighborhood one per-cent to programs with any Jewish grams meet their needs? basts ts not a luxury but a necessity that content. Thus, the bUlk ot support for Jew In short-range pragmatic terms, two basic will, 1n fact, provide comprehensive service. ish communal poverty programs comes from Issues most a.trect the status of the Jewish Government must begin a dialogue with New York City's Human Resources Admin poor. local leadership. Government must come to istration. 1. Funding-This is the bread and butter the communities to discuss the most effec However, due to the city's current fiscal basic concern of the Jewish community. Un tive means o! service delivery. In our city crisis, HRA was forced to cut these already der the aegis of the metropolitan New York today any diminution of neighborhood satel underfunded programs by some 20 per-cent coordinating council on Jewish poverty, two lites 1n the name · of fiscal necessities or during the current fiscal year. As a result, local Jewish community councils were theoretical concerns will be a further nega Jewish poverty programs must engage 1n a funded to serve the Jewish poor: the Con tive wedge against the interests of the Jewish constant battle for sustenance and survival, course Jewish Community Council 1n the and ethnic poor. with no illusions of vitally needed expansion. Bronx and the lower east side 1n Manhattan. Now, we Jews shall no longer be silen t on In addition, Yiddish and Russian-speaking As a result of the success of these projects, these issues. Yes, it 1s true-Jews do not make Jews are not considered 1n the same eligibility the coordinating council funded simllar but violent demonstrations: do not generally category as Spanish-speaking persons for par more limited programs in such other areas threaten: do not commit acts of disorder. In ticipation 1n government-funded programs of high concentrations of Jewish poor as: deed, this may be the reason why our needs for persons of limited English-speaking abil Boro Park, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, have been neglected. There 1s no reason to ity. Crown Heights, Rockaway Peninsula., Rugby alter our character. What we shall do 1s to SPECIFIC ACTION REQUESTED East Flatbush, Queens and Washington utilize more dynamically our major resource. To provide relief !or the Jewish poor, sup Heights-Inwood. All these Jewish Commun We Jews vote. Jews vote 1n large numbers 1n port and action a.re needed from all levels ity Councils are true grass root leadership regular elections and primaries. No longer can o! government to increase Human Service organizations. They assist the Jewish poor Jews rely on promises. It's performance that benefits. The following specifics are sug in such soft service areas as: housing, em counts. It's performance in the area of pro gested: ployment, medicare, medica.Id, welfare, SSI, grams and funds to serve the Jewish poor and 1. Guidelines for distributing poverty homemaker services, reduced fare, escort it is performance that the Jewish commu !unds 1n New York City (CAP) must be re services and neighborhood stabilization. nity wm recognize at the polls. vamped to reflect the needs o! the Jewish The existence of these vital services de These are the issues-these are the prob poor. pends exclusively upon Government grants. lems-the basic survival program for the 2. The federal governmen t must make di Many programs were drastically cut back Jewish poor now awaits government action. when a Federal grant to the coordinating rect grants to ca.re for the needs of the Jewish We hope-we pray-that no longer will con poor as well as the poor of the other white council was terminated 1n December 1974, cerned neglect be the basic response. The ethnic groups. as a result of a bureaucratic entanglement Jewish poor have waited long enough. Now among the city government, CAP, and OEO. is the time for action. 3. All levels of government must sustain Thus our basic support was derived from Jewish poverty programs and secure their the human resources a.d.mlnistration of the funding on a permanent basis. city of New York for the fiscal year ending METROPOLrrAN NEW YORK CoORDIN ATING 4. Non-English-speaking Jews must be af June '75, a total of $475,000 was allocated COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY- PROBLEMS OF forded full and equal benefits for participa !or this program. For the current fiscal year, THE JEWISH POOR tion in government-funded programs to serve Jewish poverty groups were cut nearly 20% E XTENT OF POVE RTY disadvantaged minorities. and the total ls less than $400,000. This One out of every five Jews living 1n New Rabbi JACK SIMCHA COHEN, means, about $1.00 for each poor Jew in York City today is a pota-ntia.l welfare risk. Executive Director. June 25, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20775 HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION FOR I am including a summary of the Ma related to pregnancy during the 12 weeks ternal and Child Health Act and a cost following the termination of pregnancy. MOTHER AND CHil.DREN ( d) Services in connection with abortion breakdown of this legislation: are excluded, except to prevent the death of SUMMARY OF THE MATERNAL AND CHU..D the mother. HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR HEALTH CARE ACT 2. Institutional services: OF MINNESOTA PEOPLE COVERED (a) All hospitalization required during IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES All children from birth to age of 18 years pregnancy and for delivery. (b) All hospitalization required for the Friday, June 25, 1976 and all pregnant women who are legal resi dents of this country are eligible for the diagnosis and treatment of conditions related Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, yester benefits of this program. to pregnancy during the 12 weeks following day I introduced legislation establ!shing the termination of pregnancy. SCOPE OF BENEFITS (c) Excludes services in connection with a comprehensive medical and health pro The program provides for children a. wide abortion except to prevent the death of the gram for mothers and children. The leg range of health care benefits. Pregnant mother. islative provisions for health services for women are provided with full prenatal, de 3. Other services: mothers and children, which began in livery and post delivery care. (a) All laboratory diagnostic services re 1935 with formula grants to States for Children's benefits quired during pregnancy and during the 12 weeks following the termination of preg maternal and child health services and 1. Professional services: services for crippled children under title (a) Provided by a physician or a physician's nancy. (b) All drugs prescribed during pregnancy V of the Social Security Act, have been extender under the supervision of a P"hysi a.nd during the 12 weeks following pregnancy broadened and expanded over the years. cian. which are t.o be taken for longer than four In 1967, Public Law 90-248, in a major (b) Preventive health services including screening medical history and physical exam weeks. revision of title V, consolidated all of the ( c) Excludes any other services in connec health ination and such screening and preventive child authorizations into a single health measures as are appropriate to the tion with abortion. authorization with percentage alloca age of the $ild. The fr",quence and the de Other benefits tions to three broad categories of formula ta.lls of these preventive health visits are to a The Maternal a.nd Child Health Board grants to States for maternal and child be determined by the Maternal and Child is mandated to designate certain regions or health and crippled children's services, Health Board in consultation with the Ma populations as medically underserved and project grants for maternity and infant ternal a.nd Child Health Advisory Councll. to allocate additional funds for services re care, health services for children and (c) All professional services for sick chll quJred to ensure access and appropriate use youth, dental care and services, and dren with a. 10 % coinsurance fee paid by the of the benefits of the program. Such services grants for research and training. patient to the provider. include transportation, social services, out Under the maternal and child health (d) Dental services include preventive reach a.nd counselling. services, dlagn-OStic services, and therapeutic ADMINISTRATION and crippled children's programs, States services, for children over the age of 4 years. A three person Maternal and Child Health use Federal funds, together with state (e) Limitations of service. and local funds, to extend and strengthen (1) Private psychiatric ca.re. Mental health Board within the Department of Health, health services for mothers and children, services are covered only when delivered in Education, and Welfare is responsible for the such institutional settings as community admlnistration of this program. The mem especially in rural areas and in areas ex bers of the Board a.re appointed by the periencing severe economic distress. mental health or child guidance clln1cs. (2) All major surgery to be performed only President with the advice and consent of However, there is no comprehensive cov by Board eligible or certified surgeons. the Senate. The responsibilities of the Board erage for all the children of this Nation. (3) Tonsmectomies and adenoidectomles include the formulation of regulations, the Given the premise that the best way to to be performed only after a second oplnlon negotiation of reimbursement schedules for insure the health of a child is through from an independent physician. institutions and of fee schedules for prac proper prenatal, delivery, and ;>ostnatal (4) Dental orthodontic services are ex titioners. cluded except for therapy requJred for A National Maternal and Child Advisory care, I have covered these needs in the Council consisting of 6 consumers and 4 ex bill. handicapping malocclusion. ( 5) Services in connection with abortion perts in Maternal and Child Health are ap The legislation I introduced is similar a.re excluded, except to prevent the death of pointed by the Secretary of Health, Educa to that introduced earlier by the gentle the mother. tion, and Welfare. The Council advises the man from New York (Mr. ScHEUER). The 2. Institutional services: Maternal and Child Health Board on matters program to be instituted will be financed (a) Hospital Services-100 days annually. of policy and the operation of the program. by a small additional payroll tax and by (b) Skilled nursing homes limited to 120 The Council reports to the Board and to general revenue, $100 million transferred days annually. Child may be admitted upon Congress annually. from the Treasury to the trust fund for certification of need for such service only FINANCING initial capitalization of the program. after a physical examination performed The program is financed through the fol The bill creates a Maternal and Child within 24 hours of admission. lowing sources: Health Board within the Department of ( c) Home health services including home A. 0.1 % tax on employee's wages up to maker services limited to 120 days annually $20,000 annually; Health, Education, and Welfare which with a ten percent coinsurance. administers the program; the Social (d) Rehabilitative services provided in an B. 0.1 % tax on employer's payrolls; Security Administration supervises pay organized setting limited to 60 visits an C. 0.1 % on self-employed income up to ments to providers of care. nually. $20,000 annually; and All children up to their 18th birthday (e) Mental health and social services pro D. contributions from general revenues will receive professional medical and vided in an organized setting limited to 60 equal to the amount necessary to implement visits annually. the provision of this program. dental services, as well as preventive (f) Excludes institutional services in con services. Also included are up to 100 days PAYMENTS OF PROVIDERS OF MATERNAL AND nection with abortion except to prevent the CHILD HEALTH CARE of hospitalization, 60 visits for rehabili death of the mother. tation, laboratory diagnostic services, 3. Other services: A. Institutional reimbursement will be by and medication which has to be taken (a) Laboratory diagnostic services. a method of prospective reimbursement ne for longer than 4 weeks. (b) Drugs prescribed to be taken for long gotiated by the institutions with the Ma er than 4 weeks. ternal and Child Health Board or their re All pregnant women are provided with spective delegates. full professional services, prenatal, de (c) Devices, appliances and equipment with a 10 % coinsurance fee. B. Individual professional providers will livery, and postnatal care, up to 12 weeks (d) Excludes any other services in con be reimbursed by fee schedule negotiated following the termination of pregnancy. nection with abortion. between the professional providers and the I particularly want to point out that Maternity benefits Maternal and Child Health Board. The Ma the bill has a strict prohibition against ternal and Child Health Board may not ap 1. Professional practitioner services: prove any fee schedule which exceeds the abortion and against any funds being (a) Provided by a physician or by a physi used in any way to finance abortion prevailing fee schedule existing on Decem cian extender under the supervision of a ber 31, 1974, and which has been adjusted by services. physician. appropriate economic in.dices. Professional This legislation will supercede title V (b) All professional services required dur providers may elect to be reimbursed through and those provisions of title XIX of the ing pregnancy and delivery. the capitation method of reimbursement. Social Security Act in regard to maternal ( c) All professional services required for The Board may provide up to a 10 % bonus and child health services. the diagnosis and treatment of conditions to those practitioners electing capitation as 20776 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1976 a mode of reimbursement. No co-insurance propriations, on which I have the honor provisions relating to the el ibility for wm. be paid by patients using providers re to serve as chairman, on many occasions imbursed through ca.p1tation. food s ...,amps and administrative respon C. Payment to dispensers of drugs or ap and he has always been articulate, in sibility for the fDod stamp program. pliances will be based upon wholesale cost formed, and knowledgeable-he has A report to the Joint Economic Com and a dispensing fee negotiated between the demonstrated his great abilities and tal mittee estimated that by 1977, at pres dispensers and the Maternal and Chlld ent as an administrator and as an ent growth rates, 1 in 4 Americans Health Board or their delegates. engineer. could be eligible to receive food stamps EFFEcr ON OTHER GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS Major General Morris will assume his at least 1 month during the year. When Direct medical care benefits for mother new duties on July 1-he is presently the program was initiated in 1965, 442,- and children under Title XIX and Title V Deputy Chief of Engineers. 359 persons received food st mps. Last a.re superseded by this Act. During his 33 years of active service year that number had grown to 19,142,- OTHER MAJOR PROVISIONS in the CorPs of Engineers, General Mor 145, an increase of 4,277 percent. A. Only hospitals with 1500 deliveries in ris has acquired a broad range of expe Supporters of the current program an urban area and 500 deliveries in a rural rience in public works, military construc argue that reasons for the rapid in area will be approved as institutions for tion, military staff and command, and crease in recipients include infiation, the maternity benefits of this program. The in working with Congress. Board may waive this provision in areas in increased unemployment, and decreas which it creates a hazard for the health and General Morris has commanded troops ing real income. welfare of pregnant wo-men. at every level from platoon to a separate I realize that in the last few years our B. Only hospitals with defined pediatric brigade of 15,000 engineer officers and country has been suffering from eco units of at least 12 beds and a 70% occupancy men during his service. nomic difficulties, but I do not believe rate will be ellgible institutions for the pe Positions in which he has served in that these problems have been so severe diatric benefits of this program. clude Director of Civil Works Office of that 25 percent of our citizens are in C. Fam.llies who are indigent are exempted the Chief of Engineers, Washington, imminent need of financial assistance from the coinsurance fee. D.C.; Division Engineer, Missouri River from the Federal Government to feed EFFECTIVE DATE Division, Omaha, Nebr.; Deputy Chief of themselves. A. Tax collection will begin durlng the fl.s Legislative Liaison for the Secretary of The reform legislation which I intro eal year following enactment. the Army, and Deputy Commandant, duced will simplify the program, dis B. Maternity benefits and those for chil U.S. Military Academy. dren up to the age of 2 years will begin twenty courage fraud, and expand benefits to four months following enactment. General Morris is an excellent choice the truly needy. for appointment as Chief of the U.S. C. Benefits for children, ages 2 through 4 Let us examine its major provisions years, will begin 40 months after enactment. Corps of Engineers-he is deserving of which will save the taxpayers approxi D. Ben efits for children, ages 4 through 12 promotion and advancement, and I know mately .$1.2 billion a year. years, Will begin 60 months following we all wish him the very best of good Under existing regulations, eligibility enactment. luck and success as he assumes his new for the food stamp program is deter E. Benefits for children, ages 12 through and broader responsibilities. mined by a family's or individual's in 18 years, will begin 72 months following come after various deductions. These enactment. deductions include income taxes, social ESTIMATED TOTAL COST OF THE MATERNAL AND REFORM OF FOOD STAMP security payroll taxes, mandatory union CHILD HEALTH BILL PROGRAM dues, health care and child care costs, Pediatric component______$7, 561, 561, 883 and alimony, among other things. There l\olaternity componeL.t______3,036,201,500 is no maximum gross income level at Dental component______2 , 276, 650, 752 HON. THAD COCHRAN which persons become ineligible, so long Drug cost______360,635,693 OF MISSISSIPPI Nursing home cost______79, 901, 875 as allowable deductions bring gross in Laboratory cost______635, 755, 362 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES come within the range of net income Total cost______13, 950, 707, 065 Friday, June 25, 1976 eligibility. Plus 7 % administrative Mr. COCHRAN~ Mr. Speaker, I sub The original purpose of the food stamp cost---~------~--- 14,927,256,559 mit a plea to my fellow colleagues ask program was to provide an adequate diet. Minus current Federal out Instead, as you can see, it now subsidizes lays (medicaid, title V of ing them to support meaningful reform the Maternal and Child of the food stamp program. The cur medical care and other household costs Health Act) OEO pro rent system of food stamp distribution, with its itemized deductions. For every grams, and regained lost like some other Federal programs, has dollar deducted for a nonfood expendi Federal revenue ______~3,237,000, 000 become bogged down in waste, fraud, ture, purchase requirements for food and mismanagement. And it does not stamps are increased. Net cost of maternal provide, in many cases, the nutritional The Food Stamp Reform Act of 1975 and child health would cut out itemized deductions and bill ------11, 690, 256, 559 benefits to poor people for which it was designed. call for a single deduction of $100 per In my own Fourth Congressional Dis family and $125 for the elderly. A 1975 NOMINATION OF MAJ. GEN. JOHN trict of Mississippi. I receive letters every survey of food stamp households showed W. MORRIS FOR CHIEF, CORPS day asking why this program has not that households with larger gross in OF ENGINEERS, IS EXCELLENT been cleaned up. Economically, my con comes claim la.rge deduct ions while CHOICE stituents are in an excellent position to households in the lowest gross income make such a judgment about the pro range claim relatively small deductions. gram. Mississippi has the lowest per The major benefit of itemized deductions, HON. JOE L. EVINS capita income in the Nation, yet many it is evident, accrues to the higher and OF TENNESSEE of the observers of the program in my middle income households and not to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State recognize its inadequacy in truly truly needy. Deduction of a standard serving the poor. amount from the gross income could Friday, June 25, 1976 The food stamp program which be remedy some of these problems by pro Mr. EVINS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker. gan as a $60 million experiment has viding larger benefits at the lower end the President recently nominated Maj. mushroomed into a $6 billion catas of the scale while curt iling those at the Gen. John W. Morris to be the next chief trophe, transparent with loopholes. The higher end. of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Corps of program has created a climate in which My bill also redefines income, restrict E ngineers, and I wanted to take this corruption has flourished. Constituents ing to households below the poverty m eans of congratulating General Morris protest to me almost daily of incidents level the eligibility to purchase food on his nomination to this important posi involving misuse of food stamps. stamps. As defined by the Office of Man tion, and commending him for his out Because of my deep concern about the agement and Budget, the poverty level standing record of service in the Corps need for reform, I have introduced a bill is $5,500 for a family of four. Currently, of Engineers. entitled the Food Stamp Reform Act of a family of four with an income of $6,636 General Morris has appeared before 1975 and am cosponsoring two others to is eligible for food stamps. It is esti the Subcommittee on Public Works Ap- improve and make more realistic various mated that 57 percent of those house- June 25, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20777 holds eligible for food stamps are above THE PROBLEMS AND PROMISES OF both backers and critics point out. The con "SUNSET" LEGISLATION cept actually 1s intended more to force legis the poverty level. latures to review their offspring than to I also recommend that the price paid wipe out a lot of agencies. And the workload by participants for their food stamps be of such reassessments may make sunset laws set at 30 percent of gross income. Pur HON. WILLIAM R. COTTER unworkable or ineffective. chase price of stamps would be allowed OP CONNECTICUT The problem sunset seeks to remedy is to vary according to regional food price IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that government programs and agencies of ten seem to mushroom out of control. "We variations, and allotments would be in Friday, June 25, 1976 creased 20 percent for those still eligible. tend to create things and then forget abo- t This purchase requirement would pre Mr. COTTER. Mr. Speaker, various them," acknowledges Rep. Gerald Kopel, "sunset" and "zero-base review" pro who backed sunset in the Colorado House. vent some higher income families from A case 1n point was Mr. Rodrlg ez's De using the food stamp program to sub posals are now before the House and partment regulatory agencies. The de sidize nonfood expenditures. Senate. Among them is H.R. 14077, the partment's 31 occupational licensing boards The Bureau of Labor Statistics in ana Government Economy and Spending and eight major regulatory agencies, such lyzing studies of the food stamp program, Reform Act, which requires the termina as the PubUc Utilities Commission, consist found that the 30-percent purchase re tion of any Federal program that is not of fixed-term appointees who ar us ial y quirement benefited to a great extent reviewed according to a strict zero-base nominated by the industries and occupa the elderly poor and large poor house procedure. tional groups they regulate. Their rulings A glance at any of these b11ls will reveal aren't subject to gubernatorial or legislative holds. review. (The legislature does have the power Other provisions of my bill would close the massive undertaking they propose. to abolish the regulatory boards, b t as a numerous loopholes in the food stamp We have created an unwieldy complex of practical matter, Inertia and lobbyist pres program. For able-bodied recipients who F'ederal departments and agencies. In sure means that this option ls rarel.)-if do not have children under 6 years of spite of the Budget Reform Act, this ever--exercised.) age, there would be a work registration complex still defies effective con WHO CUTS MEN'S HAm? requirement. College students and strik gressional oversight and control. This system, common to most states, h as ers would be disquallfied from the I believe the sunset approach must be come under harsh crltlclsm here 1n recent program. given a chance, if only on an experi years. "These agencies were protecting t he mental basis. The natural momentum of Industries they regulated, not acting in the In fiscal year 1975, the Department of public Interest," charges Rosalie Schiff, e - Agriculture reported that there were bureaucratic expansion must come to an end. I hope the House and Senate will ecutlve director of Colorado's Common $9,562 in counterfeit food stamps found Cause chapter. As examples, critics here in circulation, and almost $1,000,000 in clear some form of this legislation later cite a recent Jurisdictional dispute between counterfeit food stamps were seized be this year. the cosmetologists' and barbers' boards fore circulation. Recipient fraud An interesting summary of Colorado's over who could cut men's hair. The critics amounted to $320,000, while caseworker experience with this approach appeared have also charged that boards licensing elec fraud totaled about $10,000. Thefts this morning in the Wall Street Journal tricians, plumbers and court re orters set amounted to $450,000 and over 500 re The article also describes the problems ridiculously high standards. The medical we in the Federal Government may en examiners' board was criticized for falling tailers were disqualifled from participat to discipline doctors !or malpacti~e. ing in the program. counter if we try a similar approach. The article follows: The solution that caught on here deve - Treasury Secretary, William Simon, oped out o! some notepad scribblings by NEW "SUNSET LAws" SEEK To Ct1BB GROWTH Craig Barnes, a young Denver lawyer, dur confirmed the widespread misuse of food OF BIG 00VERNll4ENT--CoLOBAD0'8 ACT Is A stamps in a report to the Senate Select ing a Common Cause meeting. Althou h the MODEL; IT WILL DmBAND AGENCIES THAT idea of automatic terminations wasn't new, Committee on Nutrition and Human DON'T SERVE PuBLIC Mr. Barnes claims credit for naming it sun Needs last October. Secretary Simon THE QUESTION: WILL IT WORK? set. "It's like the end of the day for t hese cited such abuses as using food stamps (By Robert L. Slm1son) agencies, and It's Inexorable," he says. to buy meat for restaurant, post a to DENVER.-Raul N. Rodriguez, executive The resulting Colorado law, hich passed bond for a speeding ticket, and to pay director o! Colorado's Department o! Regu with Common Ca.use backing, sets 13 of the for gasoline charge accounts. latory Agencies, doesn't sound like a bu 39 agencies !or automatic termination every My bill is designed to discourage this reaucrat. He says things like, "Regulation is other year. But before an agency is disman kind of fraud associated with the current bad." And, "I'd like to do away with this tled, the law mandates public hearings at department." which "the agency shall have the burden of program. I propose issuing photo identi demonstrating a public need for its contin fication cards to recipients and having He doesn't act llke one either. Besides ued existence ...." Agencies that pass the them countersign each food stamp urging the dissolution o! certain o! hJs de test can then be restructured or renewe for coupon at the grocery store. I also sup partment's agencies, he h&S helped pass a up to six years. law that could do away with them all: Colo port the requirement of developing an rado's new "Sunset Law." The experimental TRYING TO SHAPE UP earnings clearance system to check ac measure would terminate in six years the There's evidence the law is already hav tual earned income against income re state's regulatory agencies, representing a ing the desired effect. With the first batch of ported by households. third o! all its executive units, unless they terminations looming next year, "these Today, there are far too many current justify their existence. Some 39 agencies agencies are all trying to shape up," Mr. recipients of food stamps who should not regulating businesses ranging from mobile Rodriguez says. legally be entitled to them. The Federal home dealers to ut111ties are affected. If an An agency that has reason to try espe agency falls to convince the legislature it cially ha.rd ls the one that licenses court re Government should not continue to sub should be reestablished, the agency's sun porters. Legislative hearings aired com sidize those who are voluntarily poor. Will set. plaints that, among other things, the Short It is imperative that the administra In a year when opposing government hand Reporters Board artifically restricted tive procedures, which now allow for growth is popular, the sunset approach is entry Into the profession by ma.king its qua.1- rather loose handling of Federal re catching on. "People are !ed up with big l!ying test almost impossible to pass. (In ceipts in payment of food stamps, be government and want to do something re two examinations last year, only three of 84 sponsible about it," says a spokesman for persons were certified.) In the !ace of inten tightened to bring about a more expedi Common Cause, the self-styled citizens' sive lobbying, a bill to abolish the board tious handling of the enormous amounts lobby. cleared the house. The bill died 1n the Colo of Federal moneys which, according to Thus, it's no surprise that similar propos rado Senate after the sunset law slated the recent disclosures, have been allowed to als are dawning elsewhere. In Washington, agency for termination next year. accrue interest to the benefit of indi one federal proposal already ha~ 56 Senate Since that close call, the shorthand re viduals and groups who sell the stamps. and 112 House backers. Following Colora porters board has been conducting a "mas Therefore, with these arguments, I do's lead, the Florida legislature has pa.ssed sive housecleaning," according to John rest my case and ask for a verdict which a sunset measure that will apply to 108 laws Bovarle, board secretary. In a revised ex will that regulate 77 industries and professions, amination given this year, 22 o! 43 appli bring swift action in reforming this and the Maryand legislature has set up a. cants passed. "It's a. good thing this came program to help the poor people of our panel to draft a sunset blll. Legislators in a up." Mr. Bova.rte concedes. "Now we can cor country who really are unable to pay for score of other states are also studying the rect some things that needed correcting." the food they need and to eliminate the bill. The legislature's move to abollsh that opportunity for misuse and waste of our ELECTION YEAR PIZZAZZ? board was no idle threat. After overwhelm tax dollars which are allocated to this However, sunset laws may have more elec ingly clearing the sunset bill, the legislature effort. tion-year ptzzazz than long-term utility, repealed statutes requiring licencing of mid- CXXU--1311-Part 17 20778 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1976 wives and ore buyers, eliminated boards that FARM CENSUS REFORM NEEDED the 1974 fa.rm census data to update our licensed landscape architects and tested doc information on current total amounts of tors on basic sciences and burled the cem fuels used by farmers. etery board (its duties were transferred to HON. NEAL SMITH Mada.me Chairman, it is important to mea the insurance division). It also turned down sure the increased ca.pita.I intensiveness of licensing bids by such groups as dog groom OF IOWA farming in order that adequate capital is to ers and massage-parlor operators. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES be available to farmers for both production Similar measures aimed at tightening legis Friday, June 25, 1976 and ownership loans. It is necessary to know lative control over agencies have drawn in the amount of machinery, fertilizer, pestici cerased attention elsewhere in recent years. Mr. SM'.ITH of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, the des, and other farm production inputs used The most important of these is zero-based House Census and Population Subcom by farmers if new plants are to be planned budgeting, a system initiated under former mittee earlier this week held hearings on and built when and where needed to meet Gov. Jimmy Carter in Georgia and since a bill I have introduced, H.R. 12397, to expanded needs of farmers. adopted by a handful of other states. Under For example, during the pa.st decade many reform the agricultural census. thousands of acres of our forest lands have this system, which Mr. Carter proposes to My bill, in brief, would lift a heavy apply to the federal government, ea.ch de been converted to pasture. If we are to meet partment or activity of state government paperwork burden on the Nation's farm the long-range needs of the farmers involved, must justify every dollar it seeks to spend ers, abolish perhaps 13 mi111on needless we must know the number of acres converted every year rather than simply justify pro Government forms, and save some $30 and the amount of fertilizer and seeds used posed spending increases. The various Sunset million. on these new pastures. laws seek to use a different mechanism to A statement in support of my bill was The 1974 farm census, when finally re impose the same result: top-to-bottom re prepared by Mr. L. C. Carpenter, vice leased, will be the best source of informa assessment on a regular basis. president of the Midcontinent Farmers tion available for our assessing the ever In Washington, the sunset bill getting the changing situations within agriculture. Association, for the hearings, It is an It is also important to have an update on most attention combines both ideas. Ini excellent statement and I am inclucllng social and economic data of the farm sector tiated by Sens. Edmund S. Muskie and Wil it in the RECORD for the benefit of my such as the age of farmers, sources of in liam V. Roth, the bill would put all govern colleagues. come of farmers, and the a.mount of land in ment programs and activities on a five-year production. Only then can proper economic schedule of reauthorizations. In ea.ch year's The statement follows: and social planning be accomplished. "zero-based" review, Congress would evalu STATEMENT OF L. C. "CLELL" CARPENTER It must be remembered that the agricul ate the effects of various spending levels, in Madam Chairman and Members of the tural census information needed by private cluding zero, on the goals of each agency Committee: I a.m L. c. "Clell" Carpenter, industry and government is provided by and program. Vice President of Midcontinent Farmers As farmers. If farmers are to provide the in However, even backers are wary of apply sociation, headquartered in Columbia. Mis formation needed primarily by others it is ing sunset to the entire federal government souri. MFA is a farm organization represent essential that they have an input in how and before it has been tested on a smaller scale. ing over 162,000 farmers in the mid-central when the information is to be collected. "We can't even guarantee to anybody that United States. · We see several problems with the collec this will work," says Sidney Brooks, chairman We appreciate your holding these hearings tion and dissemination of the census data. of Colorado Common C.i.use, who calls the on a subject of vital concern to farmers and as now done by the Commerce Department. Colorado law a pilot project. the Nation-the agricultural census. With Foremost among these is that the ques Both the Florida and California legisla assets of $600 billion, agriculture is the Na tionnaire is too complex and burdensome tures have backed away from measures that tion's la.rgest industry. One of every four to be handled by mail. Until the 1969 agri would have applied the suru;et approach to persons in private employment works in a cultural census. the information was most functions of state government. In both job related to agriculture. Therefore, the gathered through personal interviews. states, a feeling that the idea was prema welfare of the farm sector is of prime con The questionnaire is far more complex cern to a much broader segment of our than the Internal Revenue Service forms. ture contributed to the retreats, although society than only farmers. It requires searching past records on pro the Florida legislature did enact a measure Because change is continually occurring in duction, expenses, inputs a.nd Income jn applying sunset to regulatory matters. The agriculture, it is important to measure these order to complete the 38 sections, with over Louisiana legislature is still weighing a sun changes and provide updated information 250 questions plus sub-questions, and over set bill; other sunset measures were intro to farmers, to their suppliers, to local, sta.te, 1500 spaces for answers. Of course, most duced too late for action in the Alaska, Min and national governments, and to the gen farmers did not have to fill in a majority of nesota and Illinois legislatures. Texas voters era.I public. the spaces, but considerable time had to be in 1975 defeated a proposed new state consti The information most needed by farmers spent in deciding which ones to answer and tution containing a provision limiting to 10 in making their short-run production plans which ones to pass. The Office of Manage years the life of most i.';atutory agencies, is provided by those monthly, quarterly and ment and Budget has estimated that the though the sunset feature isn't blamed for annual reports now made available on a 1974 agricultural census form was five times the defeat. state and national basis by the Statistical more burdensome for farmers to complete The chief doubt a.bout sunset relates to Reporting Service of USDA. In contrast, the than all USDA forms completed during the the legislative review it seeks to force. Colo information needed by farmers, a.nd even year. rado's bill falls to set specific guidelines for more so by business and governments, for A second major problem is the incom evaluating agencies, contend£ John Reese, long-range planning related to agriculture pleteness of the fa.rm census returns. Due editor-in-chief of the American Bar Associa is the historical information provided on a to the difficulty of responding to the ques tion's Administrative Law :1.eview. And even local, state and national basis through the tionnaire, many farmers failed to complete if it did, "It's ridiculous to pass a bill telling agricultural census. them, in spite of their being required by us to do what we could have been doing any Especially important is that specialized law to do so. It has been estimated that the way," says Sen. Ruth Stockton, the only information is provided only by the agri 1974 agricultural census had a much poorer member of the Colorado Senate who voted cultural census. rating of completeness than the 1969 census. against the bill. To mustrate--ln the fall of 1973 when the Prior to 1969, the agricultural census was Limited time in session would further OPEC imposed an oil embargo, agriculture used to measure the accuracy of the figures was vitally affected. Farmers were faced with arrived at by SRS through probabllity sam hamper thorough review by legislatures, a fuel shortage, primarily because the major pling. Now SRS figures are used to measure critics add. The result could be that "legis oil companies withdrew from the rural mar the incompleteness of the census figures. lators will have to vote based on whatever kets. Farmer cooperatives had to supply both A third problem farmers, agribusinesses lobbying pressure is applied," says James C. their own member-patrons during a time of and government agencies have with the agri Perrill, a lobbyist for the Colorado Medical fuel shortage and those farmers deserted by cultural census is the long delay between Society. Such pressure could make the re the major oil companies. collection of data and publication of find newal of terminated agencies simply a To meet the immediate and long-range fuel ings. We have not received even preliminary routine matter, critics believe. Further, re needs of farmers, it wa.s essential to know figures, yet we know there has been a change views would make agencies "spend all their the amount of fuel they used by geographic in the cattle cycle since the data was time fighting for their lives instead of doing areas. The major oil companies, naturally, gathered. ' their jobs," contends a Texas lawmaker. did not make information available. The Because of the importance of the agricul Recognizing these limitations, Colorado state agency administering the gasoline tax tural census to farmers, agribusiness, and intends to go slow with ·;;he concept. "We could not supply the information needed. The governmental agencies, and because of the need to see how it works before we go fur only source was the agricultural census. Our deficiencies in the present census collection ther," says Gov. Richard D. Lamm. But, he planners used the 1964 and 1969 census data system, we propose several improvements. adds, "we're going to have to tighten the to project the fuel needs of farmers during H.R. 12397 provides for several improvements belt of government. We can't raise more the mid-1970's. which we support. But it does not go far taxes, l ut we can a.bol: -·· things." We a.re anxiously waiting for the release of enough. We propose the following: June 25, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20779 1. The present definition of farms and the Although we believe USDA ts best suited NATURAL GAS SHORTAGE same statistical classification of farms in and equipped to make the farm census, farm effect on January l, 1975, should be ers are not concerned over which adm1nistra continued. tlve agency secures the needed information. If HON. JAMES J. FLORIO A primary function o! the census is to the provisions called for above are enacted provide !acts useful for comparison. Chang into law, farmers are willing for Congress to OF NEW JERSEY ing the farm definition or classification decide which agency ts best suited to make IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES would weaken the usefulness of the informa the fa.rm census. Friday, June 25, 1976 tion for determining agricultural trends. 6. USDA should not have authority to se 2. The farm census information should be cure access to or examine Federal income tax Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, every year collected by probab1llty sampling. returns in order to make their fa.rm census throughout the Northeastern States, and A major complaint by !armers against the records more complete. particularly in the southern New Jersey census ts its complexity and the time in We would go beyond this provision called volved in completing the census form. By for by H.R. 12397 and extend it to eliminate area which I represent, we are consist using a probability sampling, many farmers the present authority of the Census Bureau ently inundated with threats of natural would be relieved of providing the informa to have access to IRS records. gas curtailments for our industries and tion. Yet the reliab1llty of the data would Madame Chairman, we believe that most our homes. As all of my colleagues are not be less than under the present system complaints of farmers concerning the farm aware, there has been an ongoing dis where 20 % of the farmers do not complete census will be eliminated if provtslons of cussion as to the accuracy of informa the questionnaire. H.R. 12397, plus others set out ln this testi tion available regarding natural gas re Having a smaller number of respondents mony are incorporated into law. serves and much speculation as to the would enhance reducing the time required to Thank you for the opportunity of mak legitimacy of the alleged shortages. analyze and publish the farm census data. ing the views of farmers known to your Because of the importance of having data committee. The president of the New Jersey De on a county basis, it ts necessary to have a partment of the Public Utilities has large enough sample within each county to brought to my attention his observa assure the rellabllity of county data. There tions on this matter which comprises fore, we believe that at least 200 samples per THIS IS QUINCY, MASS. much of the work of his department. county should be taken. Overall the sample Therefore, I would like to share his com would comprise 25 % of the total. In a state such as Missouri, which has a large number ments with my colleagues. The text of of small family farms, the 200 per county HON. JAMES A. BURKE the letter follows: STATE OF NEW JERSEY, would be considerably below 25 % of the OP KASSACHUSETl'S total. An individual !armer's chances of be• DEPARTMENT OF PtmLIC UTILITIES, ing included in the fa.rm census would be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 22, 1976. reduced from the present once every five Friday, June 25, 1976 Hon. JAMES F'LoBio, years to about once every twenty years. Longworth House Office Building, 3. The collection of sampling should be Mr. BURKE of Massachusetts. Mr. Washington, D.a. by personal interview rather than by maiL Speaker, while our Nation is celebrating DEAR CONGRESSMAN FLORIO: It has been my As stated above, the census form is d1111- its 200th birthday, Quincy, Mass., 1s cele long held view that in the natural gas crisis cult and time consuming !or farmers _to brating its 351st. The Quincy Sun, one facing this nation there ts an invisible line complete. Computing the answers to some of the finest weekly newspapers in the between fact and fiction lea.ding to an arti questions is an almost impossible task. Com ficial supply gap designed to drive prices up puting the number of acre feet of water country, recently observed these two oc and to force deregulation of the cost of this used 1n irrigation serves as an example of currences with the publication of a spe precious commodity. the difilculties involved. cial edition entitled "Historic Quincy." Without any sense of gloating or indulging Yet, for the census to be of value, it must Over the next few days, I will be bring in "I told you so," I call your attention to a be comprehensive. Having enumerators to ing to your attention excerpts from this Federal Power Commission staff report of personally interview each respondent would Bicentennial salute to the birthplace of June 21 which reflects such a broad disparity make the task much easier for the farmers John Adams and John Quincy Adams. in estimates of natural gas to indicate a involved. It should increase the accuracy of climate of contrivance on the pa.rt of the gas the replies. THIS Is QUINCY • • • producers to attain their goals. 4. The mandatory requirement for complet This ts Quincy . . . The FPC found a 1.7 trillion cubic feet ing the fa.rm census reports should be de It's a Mount overlooking a Bay on which gap between its estimates and those of the leted for individual and family farmers, but adventurers gamboled and feasted and traaed gas producers and the American Gas Asso should be continued for corporate farms. in the wilderness and a man named Thomas ciation in reporting off-shore Louisiana gas Such a change would be in keeping with re Morton of Clifford's Inn, gent., for whatever discoveries in 1971-72. The FPC estimated cent farm corporation reporting requirements dark and selfish reason, treated an Indian the gas resources at 4.85 TCF while the pro enacted by the legislatures of Missouri and as a fellow human being. ducers and the AGA came in with a figure of many other states. It's a Swamp where a Governor of the Bay 3.15 TCF. Also the importance of a few large feedlots Colony named John Winthrop sought in Why the more than 25 percent gulf be to the total beef produced ts such that with dustrial independence from the Old World tween the figures? The FPO staffers dis out their cooperation, a true picture would by turning ore from the bog into iron in the covered a lag by the producers and the AGA not be obtained. The same ts true of other first commercial blast furnace in America. 1n reporting some 1.3 TCF of newly discovered large producers. We have one large hog pro It's two small red Houses at the foot of a gas. ducer in Southwest Missouri whose output ts Hill, the birthrooms of which produced the The FPC notes that the AGA publishes once such that If he ts missed, reliable hog figures Second and Sixth Presidents of the United a year the only estimate of total gas reserves could not be given for either the county States and a long line of distinguished men in the United States. This suggests to me where located or for the Sta'te. named Adams who made their country a that Judicious application of the figures by 5. The responslbllity for collecting the farm better place simply by their being. those seeking further enrichment from the census should be transferred from the De It's a Hill of Granite where often unwel sale of gas could be a potent weapon in any partment of Commerce to the U.S. Depart come workers from a.Hen shores came to campaign for higher prices authorized by the ment of Agriculture. gether and remained to wrest the rock from FPC or the ultimate goal of deregulation by USDA already collects much of the data the earth and shape it and send it to market Congress. included 1n the agricultural census. It has on the crude progenitor of all the railroads While the FPC concluded that despite the enumerators who understand farmers and of America. lag in reporting their estimates and those of farm problems now securing data through It's a River, wide and deep, where the the producers in total were reasonable, I personal interview. In fact, many of our great ships of their times were born 1n wood submit that the failure to have prompt and farm members requested the assistance of and steel and went down to the sea to sail current reporting of gas discoveries does SRS enumerators in completing their 1974 the world over, spewing fire and ball in time create an artificial supply condition. farm census form. This indicates the rap of war, tending to ma.n's needs and comforts This condition, I believe, has been a major port such enumerators have with farmers. 1n time of peace. ingredient in the cliff hanger situation fac SRS also has a complete and current list of It's a Coast, sheltered and protected from ing those of us in the Northeast and parti farmers by state. Such lists would prevent the Main, where people from time immem cularly New Jersey in which we go from year the kind of mistakes made by the Census Bu orial have met to refresh themselves 1n its to year under the threat of such severe short reau when it missed thousands of farmers waters and scud their small boa.ts with gay ages that could lead to industrial shutdowns, for the 1974 farm census who had completed sails before the wind in competion or re massive unemployment, cold homes and the 1969 census and who were still farming laxation. schools and dire economic and social ms. in 1974. This is Quincy We have been forced on numerous occa- 20780 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1976 sions to resort to significantly higher priced aided the Philippine Government in sions aimed at revision of the military synthetic ga.s to cover the shortfall in the various counterinsurgency actions. And bases agreement, with President Marcos pipeline supply. This has been the sad and they have done so, it seems, without reportedly pushing for an annual rental costly case in South Jersey where the natural gas situation cannot be called a mere crisis much concern for the implications of payment of $40 million from the United but a calamity. their actions. States. The Mar.cos move is obviously in I ask that you members of the Congress In 1973, a Senate Foreign Relations tended to insure a continued flow of begin an independent inquiry into this re Committee staff report noted that "base arms-convertible money from the De porting system which I am sure you will agree officials told us that they were pleased fense Department in the event that of puts a severe strain on the credibility of a.11 to have the opportunity to assist the ficial military aid is cut off under the parties in the mind of the public. Filipinos. They did not seem concerned aegis of the human rights amendment. Sincerely, about the problems which could arise as JOEL R. JACOBSON, It is my hope that both the American President. a result of the use of a U.S. base for people and the Congress will respect the counterinsurgency operations." Such ac genuine interests of the Filipino people tivity could very conceivably develop into by phasing out U.S. military aid to the greater U.S. involvement in Philippine Marcos government and by reexamining UNITED STATES MAINTAINS RIGHT internal affairs, and this possibility is the need for maintaining U.S. bases in FOR 24 MILITARY BASES particularly menacing at this time when the Philippines. the Marcos government is involved ill a major two-pronged internal war against HON. BERKLEY BEDELL domestic insurgencies. OF IOWA The argument is often made that, A PARDON FOR TOKYO ROSE? while the U.S. military clearly benefits IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES from its agreements for bases in the Friday, June 25, 1976 Philippines, so does the Philippines. How HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD M:. BEDELL. Mr. Speaker, on June 12, ever, upon closer examination it is ap OF PENNSYLVANIA 1898, with U.S. troops encamped on the parent that the real beneficiary of these IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES outskirts of Manila and Admiral Dewey's agreements is the Marcos government Friday, June 25, 1976 :fleet riding at anchor in Manila Bay, rather than the Filipino people. While Gen. Emilio Aquinaldo proclaimed the Marcos publicists contend that the bases Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. first Philippine Republic. Independence, provide a great stimulus to the Philip Mr. Speaker, recently there has been however, was a short-lived affair, and pine economy, this argument appears much discussion in the media concern after a bitter and bloody war which took overstated. The bases employ less than 1 ing a Presidential pardon for Iva Toguri 600,000 Filipino lives and 7,000 American percent of the nonagricultural labor D'Aquino, or "Tokyo Rose", as she and lives, the United States replaced Spain force, and base spending probably ac some other women were dubbed when as the Philippines' colonial ma.ster. counts for a significant portion of the they made propaganda broadcasts f o:r U.S. troops have not left the Philip infiationary pressures in the Philippines the Japanese during World War II. pines since that time. The formal grant economy. Jim Daniell, a well-known businessman ing of political independence to the What is even more disturbing is the and former standout college and profes Philippines in 1946 was not followed by role which the bases play in helping siona.l athlete from the Pittsburgh area, U.S. troop withdrawal, but rather by the President Marcos maintain martial iaw has written to the Pittsburgh Press con implementation of a military base agree in the Philippines. In the words of Ameri demning the idea of a pardon for Iva ment which gave the United States the can Ambassador Sullivan, the American D'Aquino. . right to maintain 24 military bases and military presence in the Philippines has Daniell was a naval officer, serving in installations in the country. The ration "allowed the country to concentrate its the Pacific during World War II, and ale for this agreement was to contribute defense budget on law and order instead was the subject of one of Tokyo Rose's to the strategic position of the United of spending huge amounts on the build broadcasts. States in the Far East and to help pro ing of a bigger Navy and Air Force." Judge John Hester, of Allegheny tect the Philippines from external Com The economic, political, and social County's Common Pleas Court wrote to munist aggression. Today, those bases costs of the bases for the Filipino peo me concerning Mr. Daniell's position and contain 15,000 American servicemen, and ple should not be minimized, and a per asked me to put his letter into the REC they constitute a state within the Philip suasive case can be made that their im ORD. pine state, possessing their own eco pact far outweighs any economic bene The following is Judge Hester's letter nomic, political and judicial systems. fits they might bring to the country. and the letter Mr. Daniell sent to the In recent years, the changing com Eighty years have passed since the Pittsburgh Press: plexion of the domestic situation in the declaration of Philippine independence. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Philippines and the changing nature of In my judgment, it is time that the Pittsburgh, Pa. the U.S. role in Southeast Asia have Hon. WILLIAM s. MOORHEAD, United States genuinely respect the in Member of Congress, raised significant new questions about dependence of the Philippines by re Washington, D.C. the current U.S. military presence in the assessing the nature of and need for its DEAR Bn.L: Enclosed herewith please find Philippines. While the bases were orig military presence in that country. It is copy of a communication directed by James inally established to protect the "terri time for the administration to present its L. Daniell to the Editor of The Pittsburgh torial integrity of the Philippines," De .case for our present posture in the Phil Press under date of March 16, 1976. On partment of Defense officials have regu March 15, 1976, the Press carried a. syndi ippines. The U.S. bases in the Philippines cated column dealing with the proposed larly admitted that no viable external have become pawns in the dangerous threat to the Philippines now exists. probation and/or pa.role of the infamous game of threat and veiled threat that the World War II character known as "Tokyo Moreove::-, a strong case can be made Marcos regime is playing in order to as Rose". The Daniell letter appeared in The that, rather than acting as a deterrent sure continued U.S. military assistance. Pittsburgh Press as an answer to said article to foreign aggression, the U.S. military Much of this aid is used to maintain its in the Letters to the Editor. presence in the Philippines actually repressive rule over the Filipino people. Jim Daniell is now serving as an Execu serves the negative function of increas tive with United States Steel Corporation. ing the possibility of external attack to This aid can only come to President Prior to OUR War, he and I served the the Philippines, especially in light of the Marcos in two ways-through direct mil County of Allegheny as life guards at the fact that the Philippines is reportedly 1 itary assistance, a channel which would South Park Pool. During that time, Jim was subvert both the letter and the spirit of named an All American on several of the of the 12 foreign countries where nuclear the so-called human rights amendment; great football teams produced by Paul Brown capable fighter bombers are stationed or in the form of rental dues for base at Ohio State. As you know, his older brother, and where nuclear warheads are stored. Avarell was an All American at the University Moreover, it is indeed paradoxical that property-payments which could then of Pittsburgh during the latter years of the the bases themselves have constituted a be utilized by the regime to purchase great Jock Sutherland. significant source of external interfer American weapons. Following his graduation from Ohio State, ence in the domestic affairs of the Philip The Marcos regime and the Defense Jim went into the Navy, becoming a Line pines. Base officials have in the past Department are now engaged in discus- Officer in the Destroyer Division. He had June 25, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20781 the misfortune to lose three Destroyers dur many soldiers, sailors and marines who sentatives at the State House about viable ing the campaign in the South Pacific. His landed on Leyte Gul! and other points in alternatives to the miasma that we now refer conduct under fire was such that he was the Paciflc that are there for eternity and to as our criminal justice system. awarded the Silver Star and practica.lly every will never be pardoned except by God in his But where can we start? For one, with sen other recognition for bravery under fire, realm. tencing reform measures. Justice in this short of the Congressional Medal. Follow From my memories of Tokyo Rose, I feel country is not equitable. Sentences are so ing his discharge from the Navy, he played she is as guilty today as she was in October discretionary that while one individual professional football for the Chicago Bea.rs of 1944; therefore, I would criticize any par might receive a mild sentence another might of the National League, and then the Cleve don that generous, misled and misinformed receive, for essentially the same crime, an in land Browns of the American Football Americans might attempt to offer. determinate sentence of 10 to 15 years. League. Sincerely yours, To quote from the prestigious Twentieth The opinions expressed by Mr. Daniell in JAMES L. DANIELL. Century Fund's Task Force on Criminal fJen his letter to the Press, reflect most accurate tencing: "Where equal treatment is not the ly, the opinions maintained by all of h1s rule, potential offenders are encouraged to contemporaries. PERSONAL EXPLANATION play the odds, believing that they too will be We are requesting that Congressman among the large group that escapes serious Gaydos and yoursel! consider inserting the sanctions." Thus rendering the supposed de within letter into The Congressional Record. HON. PIERRE S. (PETE) du PONT terrent factor grossly ineffectual. Trusting that you survived the recent Pri OF NEW YORK President Ford has called criminal sen mary in excellent health, both physically, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tencing "often erratic and inconsistent" emotionally and financially, and with kindest stating that the resulting "lack of uniform personal regards, I am Friday, June 25, 1976 ity is profoundly unfair and breeds disre Very sincerely yours, Mr. nu PONT. Mr. Speaker, yesterday spect for the law." JOHN P. HEsTER. The task force calls for a shorter period of I had to return to Delaware on business, sentencing for a higher percentage of indi and missed several recorded votes in the viduals rather than a long period of incar PrrrsBURGH, PA., March 16, 1976. I I Mr. JOHN '!'ROAN, House. Had been present, would have ceration for a small minority of those found Editor, the Pittsburgh Press, voted in the following manner: guilty. Pittsburgh, Pa. Rollcall No. 453, "no." The implementation of a sentencing pro DEAR MR. TRoAN: The article reported by Rollcall No. 454, "no." cedure of a mandatory-mtnlmum sentence Lois Wille, Monday, March 15, 1976 with Rollcall No. 455, "o.ye." which would be set legislatively to flt the in headlines, Tokyo Rose: "I Still Love This Rollcall No. 456, "no." dividual crime should be sought. Such a pro Country," triggered memories for me of many Rollcall No. 457, "aye." cedure would end the discrepancies currently days in October, 1944 while aboard the USS found in the system. Mullaney, DD 528 operating in and about But this is only one area of a much larger Leyte Gulf. In the latter part of the first week problem. Solutions are available but only of October, we departed Ullthi as part of through intensive etfort by those who are af the Seventh Fleet Task Force which would THE INEQUALITY OF INDETERMI fected by socletal crtme--all of us. return General MacArthur and the American NATE SENTENCING Commissioner DlGrazla is attempting to troops to the Philippines. We arrived three -place the situation in its proper forum, the days prior to "A-Day" and along with three light of public discussion. Effort should im other destroyers entered Leyte Gul! at Se.mar HON. WILLIAM R. COTTER mediately be directed toward realizing the and were quickly bombarded by shore bat OF CONNECTICUT sorely needed reforms of the criminal justice teries, made smoke and returned to the vast system. expanse of the ocean. After exchanging many IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES volleys from our five-inch .38 caliber rifles, Friday, June 25, 1976 INEQUALITIES OF CRIMINAL SENTENCING NEED we determined this was no place for four REFORMS "tin cans" and awaiting the heavy batteries Mr. COTTER. Mr. Speaker, I would of the battleships and cruisers as well as like to bring two excellent editorials in In a continuing effort to bring to public aerial support. In the morning hours of attention some of the inequalities and fail the Hartford SENATE-Saturday June 26, 1976 The Senate met at 9 a.m., on the ex conduct of routine morning business of The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem piration of the recess, and was called to not to exceed 30 minutes, with a time pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. order by Hon. RICHARD STONE, a Senator limitation on statement.a therein of 3 Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I de from the State of Florida. minutes each. sire no time. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem Mr. GRIFFIN. I yield back the time PRAYER pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. on this side, Mr. President. The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward L. R. Elson, D.D., offered the following EXECUTIVE SESSION ROUTINE MORNING BUSINESS prayer: Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem o God, Lord of all wisdom and might, unanimous consent that the Senate go pare. Under the previous order, there will keep us this day in health of body and into executive session to consider nomi now be a period for the transaction of clarity of mind, in purity of heart and nations on the Executive Calendar under routine morning business of not to exceed cheerfulness of spirit, in contentment "New RePorts." 30 minutes, with a 3-minute limitation with our lot and charity with our col The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem on statements therein. leagues; and further all our proper ef pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. forts with Thy blessing. Grant us strength to rise above all impatience and weariness that here the right thing may MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMISSION REPORTS OF COMMITTEES be done in the right way. In our work The second assistant legislative clerk The following reports of committees strengthen us; in our pleasure purify us; read the nomination of Brig. Gen. Elvin were submitted: in our travels protect us; in our troubles Ragnvald Heiberg m, Corps of Engi By Mr. KENNEDY, from the Committee on comfort us; and lead us to the fullness neers, to be a member of the Mississippi the Judiciary, with amendments: of Thy kingdom. River Commission. 8. 800. A bill to amend chapter 7, title 5, Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. United States Code, with respect to proce The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem dure for judicial review of certain adminis pore. Without objection, the nomination trative agency action, and for other purposes APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESI· is confirmed. (Rept. No. 94-996). DENT PRO TEMPORE By Mr. MAGNUSON, from the Committee on Appropriations, with amendments: The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk APPALACHIAN REGIONAL H.R. 14232. An act making appropriations will please read a communication to the COMMISSION for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Senate from the President pro tempore Education, and Welfare, and related agen cies, for the fl.seal year ending September 30, (Mr. EASTLAND). The second assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of George G. Sei 1977, and for other purposes (Rept. No. 94- The assistant legislative clerk read the 997). following letter: bels, Jr., of Alabama., to be Alternate U.S. SENATE, Federal Cochairman. PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem DEVELOPMENTS IN AGING: 1975 AND Washington, D.C., June 26, 1976. Pore. Without objection, the nomination JANUARY-MAY 1976-REPORT OF To the Senate: is confirmed. THE SPECIAL COMMITI'EE ON Being temporarily absent from the Senate on official duties, I appoint Hon. RICHARD AGING-REPORT NO. 94-998 STONE, a Senator from the State of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Mr. CHURCH, from the Special Com to perform the duties of the Chair during The second assistant legislative clerk mittee on Aging, submitted a report en my absence. titled "Developments in Aging: 1975 and JAMES 0. EASTLAND, proceeded to read sundry nominations in January-May 1976," pursuant to Senate President pro tempore. the Department of Justice. Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask Resolution 62, 94th Congress, 1st session, Mr. STONE thereupon took the chair unanimous consent that the nominations which was ordered to be printed. as Acting President pro tempore. be considered en bloc. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem THE JOURNAL pore. Without objection, the nominations ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask are considered and confirmed en bloc. s. 3584 Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Journal of At the request of Mr. PROXMIRE, the unanimous consent that the President be Senator from Minnesota (Mr. MONDALE) the proceedings of Friday, June 25, 1976, immediately notified of the confirmation be approved. was added as a cosponsor of S. 3584, to The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem of these nominations. extend and increase authorization for the pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem extension of the winter navigation sea- pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. son for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence ORDER DESIGNATING PERIOD FOR Seaway System. ROUTINE MORNING BUSINESS LEGISLATIVE SESSION AMENDMENT NO. 1902 Mr. MANSFIELD. I ask unanimous Mr. MANSFIELD. I ask unanimous At the request of Mr. TAFT, the Senator consent that after the two leaders have consent that the Senate resume the con- from New York (Mr. BUCKLEY) was been recognized, there be a period for the sideration of legislative business. added as a cosponsor of amendment No.