September 19, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24729 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS LEGAL AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRA- Every nation has as one of its sovereign workers employed in this country-34 mil­ TION: THE IMPACT, THE rights, the right to control the flow of lion people-hold jobs in exactly the kinds CHOICES people into its country. Of the 165 nations of low-skilled industrial, service and agricul­ on this planet, 164 do so rigidly. Only the tural jobs in which illegal aliens typically United States has a lax immigration policy. find employment, and that 10.5 million HON. BILL LOWERY If you or I were to go to Mexico or Canada, workers are employed at or below the mini­ OF CALIFORNIA it would be next to impossible under their mum wage. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES laws for us to cross that border, get a job or LEGAL INEQUITIES become productive members of their soci­ Monday, September 19, 1983 eties. What we have to ask as a nation are Though there are necessarily two parties e Mr. LOWERY of California. Mr. three basic questions: in this offering and accepting of employ­ First, how many people will we admit to ment, only undocumented foreign nationals Speaker, we will soon be debating the are legally culpable. Worse yet, this legal in­ most important piece of immigration this country for permanent residency? Two, who will get the slots? Who, of the equity increases the dependence of undocu­ legislation to come before the Con­ 600 million people around the world who mented aliens on their employers, making gress in over 20 years. Accordingly, I want to migrate, most of them to the United them even more vulnerable to exploitation. would like to share with my colleagues States, will be allowed entrance to our coun­ In other words, as the law now reads, it is the following remarks by Charles R. try? illegal for an illegal alien to take a job; it is Stoffell of the Federation for Ameri­ And, three, how are we going to enforce illegal to harbor an illegal alien; but it is not can Immigration Reform. Mr. Stoffell the rules of our immigration policy? illegal to hire one. It must be understood brings a great deal of expertise to the I think this public debate, the answering, that undocumented workers do not make if you will, of these three questions is going less than the minimum wage. Recent gov­ immigration reform arena and I am to involve two stages. The first, and the one ernmental surveys have shown that the av­ sure Members will find his speech that Washington is grappling with now, is erage illegal alien makes between $4.00 and before the California Roundtable an attempt to form a consensus on the fact $5.00 per hour. To the extent that they take stimulating and informative: that we must limit immigration into this good jobs at good pay with the protection of LEGAL AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: THE IMPACT, country. the law, they are competing illegitimately THE CHOICES The second stage, the one that will come· and unfairly for the jobs that many Ameri­ Our Nation has a proud history of re­ after this agreement is what that limit cans want and need. sponding compassionately and humanely to should be. What is the number of people Former Secretary of Labor, Ray Marshall, the world's oppressed people. We are, after that should be allowed into our country has observed, "I am convinced that we are all, a Nation of immigrants. Most Americans every single year as immigrants? Will it be sowing the seeds of a serious future civil would agree that we should continue to 400,000-800,000-or over a million, as we're rights struggle. We would be better off if we honor our tradition of help. But it must not getting today from both legal and illegal im­ could confront it now." blind us to the fact our Nation's resources migration? ILLEGAL ALIENS TAKE NEEDED AMERICAN JOBS are limited, and that our economy cannot ECONOMIC IMPACT For years we have heard that undocu­ long sustain the pressures of a continuing What are the impacts of current and pro­ mented workers are a cost-free benefit to flood of immigrants. spective patterns of immigration in the U.S. the United States. The argument rests on IMMIGRATION CONCERNS AND FAIR labor market and economic system? There the belief that low-skilled American workers FAIR was founded in 1979 to tackle the are those who have driven across the at worst are lazy, and at best choosy, about intricacies of the immigration issue. Today, "empty space" of America and say that we the jobs which they will do, and that they it is still the only national non-profit organi­ have room to accommodate many, many, will no longer take jobs which they consider zation in the country that is educating the more people. What they don't understand is to be demeaning. Therefore, there exists a American people to the problems uncon­ the need for this empty space in America to number of jobs that, if they are to be done trolled immigration pose to our future. support our crowded urban population and at all, must be done by illegal immigrants. FAIR believes that unlimited immigration is the hungry world population which depends This widespread myth is not supported by contrary to the national interest, that ille­ in ever increasing amounts on our grain. any data. Nor is the data that Americans gal immigration can and should be ended, The economic competition felt by poor, mi­ won't take hard, dirty jobs supported by and that all legal immigration should be nority and lesser skilled Americans when surveys of thousands of Americans. An Ohio placed within a single, stable ceiling that is the volume of illegal immigration is high is State university study of young Americans consistent with our country's history of another major problem. The main victim of performed for the Labor Department found compassion and generosity for less fortu­ illegal immigration is the unskilled domestic that a majority of young people would take nate people. American worker. lowPaying jobs in fast-food restaurants, Immigration has always benefited Amer­ Dr. John Reid is a graduate professor in cleaning establishments, and supermarkets ica. But legal immigration at today's mas­ Sociology at Howard University. In Decem­ as well as washing dishes-exactly the types sive levels and illegal immigration that is ber, 1981, a study he did on the economic of occupations most associated with undocu­ completely out of control have numerous advancement of "Black America in the mented workers. A substantial number of negative results. These negative effects can 1980's," was released. Dr. Reid writes, the young people in the survey said they be seen in pressures on social welfare and "Blacks are affected more than any other would work at wages even below the mini­ health care systems unable to cope with this U.S. group by the massive increase in immi­ mum wage. growing population, in job competition be­ gration since the mid-1970's. The surge of A Los Angeles Times survey published on tween illegal immigrants and American mi­ legal and illegal immigrants and refugees, April 7, 1981, found that, "The widely ac­ nority and youth job seekers and in ethnic no longer white Europeans, but primarily cepted notion that some jobs are so menial conflicts. Conceivably a majority of Ameri­ Hispanics and Asians, ironically presents only illegal aliens will take them is untrue cans might in the end come to the conclu­ new competition for Black Americans, just . . . among unemployed people interviewed sion that all immigrants hurt the country, as they have finally begun to edge up the seventy-five percent said they would apply and this could be the greatest tragedy of all. socio-economic ladder . . . it is clear that for jobs paying between $3.35 an hour, the I think that this growing awareness has right now the masses of new immigrants are legal minimum wage, and $4.50 an hour." come about in part because of the realiza­ taking jobs away from disadvantaged Former Secretary of Labor, Ray Marshall, tion that our resources are not limitless. If Blacks, particularly Black teenagers. Fur­ stated in the Los Angeles Times on Decem­ we have learned anything from the long gas thermore, it cannot be argued that U.S. ber 2, 1979: lines and water shortages here in the West Blacks and Whites shun the kinds of jobs "It is false to say American workers in the past few years, it is that we are begin­ that illegal immigrants typically fill." cannot be found for all of the jobs filled by ning to run short-that our melting pot, like Then Dr. Reid presents evidence from the undocumented workers. The truth is that any pot, indeed has a bottom. Department of Labor that a third of all there are millions of American workers in

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member of the Senate on the floor. e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 24730 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 19, 1983 all of these low-paying occupations already. The available evidence suggests that pub­ automobiles, and were picked up. That The Job market in which they San Diego or San Francisco. And that tarian, is driven mainly by short-run profit does not count the estimated 500,000 from stitute of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, recently pub­ maximizing, and pays little attention to Mexico. The numbers are stagging: in Los long-run technological viability, This model Angeles County alone, it is estimated that lished "Work and Women in the is commonly contrasted with the Japanese there are 900,000 illegal immigrants; the 1980's"-a perspective by Ray Mar­ management system, which pays more at­ population of Santa Ana, in Orange County, shall on basic trends affecting tention to long-run technological viability is estimated at 25% illegal; San Jose, in women's jobs and job opportunities. and emphasizes worker participation in pro­ northern California, more than 30% illegal; Mr. Marshall describes the trends duction decisions and "life-time" employ­ at these levels, we are importing a new gen­ which have important implications for ment for workers. While there is some truth eration of poverty into this country every all parties involved in the labor in these models, both are stereotypes. Amer­ year. ican management across-the-board is more Kevin F. McCarthy of the Rand Corpora­ market-women's groups, labor organi­ zations, management, and govern­ productive than the Japanese. In addition, tion, a Santa Monica based Think Tank, was the Japanese system applies to only one­ quoted in the Torrance Daily Breeze on ment. National policy, he points out, third of the economy, provides security for January 20, 1983, as saying in an El Se­ must give greater weight to women's only about 15 percent of the work force, is gundo speech, "It is no exaggeration to say issues. While the Federal Govern­ made possible by less secure "shock absorb­ that California is really the Ellis Island of ment's antidiscrimination programs ers," and tends to discriminate against the 1980's." have been effective in improving the women. Moreover, well-managed companies To sum the major points, I feel very strongly it's essential to stop illegal immi­ economic position of women, they are everywhere have many characteristics in gration into this country for four central not enough. The report notes that common. Indeed, the Japanese management reasons: general economic policies to reduce system, while adapted to the Japanese reali­ Number One, illegal immigrants are in in­ employment, specially targeted pro­ ties, was developed from the experiences of creasing amounts using social services in grams to meet the needs of women, as enterprises in other countries, especially the this country at a time when those same well as systematic policies to deal with United States. social services are being cut back for disad­ Another important trend is the declining the reality that women are permanent reate of productivity growth, which reduces vantaged Americans. parts of the work force are all neces­ Two, there is increasing evidence that ille­ the competitiveness of American firms, gal immigrants take jobs that Americans are sary. Tax and spending policies en­ makes it difficult to improve real incomes, willing to take and that Americans des­ acted over the last 2 years have ad­ and aggravates social tensions. Real wages perately need in a time of high unemploy­ versely affected women. For example, in the U.S. declined during the 1970s, but ment. over 70 percent of the cuts now in real per capita incomes rose, mainly because Three, illegal immigrants, most of whom place affect programs serving low of the increased employment of women. Ob­ come to this country as undocumented viously, this is a self-limiting process, be­ income groups, in which women pre­ cause fewer and fewer families have wives workers, are the people sending countries dominate. can least afford to . lose because they're who are not already in the work force. In those that stand to make the greatest con­ An executive summary of Mr. Mar­ the future, greater attention will therefore tributions to improving their own societies. shall's article follows. have to be given to improving productivity And lastly, America currently takes in one The increased labor force participation of as a way to increase real incomes or to pre­ half of all people who emigrate from any­ women is one of the most important labor vent them from declining. where to anywhere else in the world and market trends of this century. From being The reasons for the decline in productivi­ America simply cannot be the home of the peripheral and often temporary parts of the ty are not well understood, but many ex­ world's dispossessed. labor force during the early part of the cen­ perts give heavy weight to capital formation However, we must insist that new policies tury, women have become permanent and and the American management system. not stop immigration. But, we must recog­ integral participants in the labor market. As While these and other things are important, nize that immigration, in the broadest late as 1950, 70 percent of American house­ uncoordinated, discontinuous, and unstable sense, is a solution to human problems holds were headed by men whose income national economic policies probably are which, though it seems to have worked for was the sole source of household income; more important causes of our productivity this country at a very different demograph­ today, less than 15 percent of American disadvantages relative to other countries. ic and ecological time, increasingly is a solu­ households fit this "traditional" model. The trends toward higher inflation and tion only for the very few. In fact, it delays Major economic and labor market tensions unemployment also have important implica­ the devising of solutions for the great are created by the fact that employment tions for the employment of women. The in­ masses of humanity whose lives will be policies are still based on the traditional flationary biases built into traditional spent not in escape, but in learning how to model. demand management macroeconomic poli­ manage to live where they are. Increased labor force participation by cies were aggravated by external shocks to We must balance the idea that the size of women has been accompanied by other im­ the economy during the 1970s. The mone­ the U.S. population must be controlled with portant trends which interact to condition tarist policies adopted to reduce inflation the desire that the American nationality the nature and extent of employment op­ have greatly increased unemployment. never be perceived as fixed in its ethnic or portunities for women. The international­ Structural unemployment is a serious prob­ cultural components. We must never allow ization of the American ecoonomy has in­ lem for the U.S. and other countries, espe­ our policies to be derived from, nor encour­ tensified competition, caused the policies of cially Third World countries, and is likely to age racial or ethnic discord or ideological in­ multinational corporations to be important continue to be a worldwide problem, at least tolerance. Our public policy, however, must labor market actors, intensified competition for the rest of this century. High levels of change as the world changes. Abraham Lin­ between workers in the U.S. and other coun­ unemployment limit the nature and extent coln said it well, "As our case is new, so tries and higher-paying jobs, model. which have been dominated by men. Part of Baron fans and citizens across my With respect to the trend toward higher the lower earnings of American women can district are proud of the team's accom­ eduction levels of workers, there have been be accounted for by such labor market fac­ plishments this season, and I share significant increases in female enrollments tors as less experience, discontinuous em­ their feelings. in professional training programs and, while ployment, and educational differences; how­ The text of an editorial that ap­ there are still important differences, male­ ever, detailed studies show a fairly large re­ peared in the September 13, 1983 edi­ female undergraduate college enrollments sidual that cannot be accounted for except by labor market segregation and discrimina­ tion of The Birmingham News, which are converging. Moreover, younger women highlights the outstanding efforts of have more than closed traditional gaps with tion. young men. There educational trends are In the U.S., the incidence of poverty is this very special team, follows: very likely to form the basis for continued very high among women, especially minori­ PENNANT AT RICKWOOD changes in the quality of the labor force ty women, who have been unable to work. For the first time since 1967, there's a participation by women. The poverty problem is particularly serious pennant for Rickwood Field. The Birming­ A more highly-educated work force is for women with young children; most of ham Barons are the 1983 champions of the likely to have more interest in what have these women do not receive support pay­ Southern League. traditionally been managerial decisions. ments from the children's fathers. And the beautiful thing was not only that While the worker participation movement These trends are very significant for they won, but how they won. After dropping women and the country. Private manage­ the first game of the championship series to in the U.S. has not reached the level that it ment systems and public policies must has in other industrialized countries, it is change to reflect the fact that women are the Jacksonville Suns here last Thursday, growing and could be important to women permanent and integral participants of the the Barons won three straight-the last two because decisions in which they participate labor force. For women, as for men, work in hostile Jacksonville-to take the pennant. are more likely to reflect the unique labor has become important not only as a way to Such play was no quirk. The club lost the market needs to women. improve incomes, but also as a unifying ex­ Western Division playoff opener to Nash­ Some important occupational shifts have perience and an important means for self­ ville before winning that series in five been significant for women workers. The fulfillment and identification. The domi­ games, with two of the three victories rapid growth of services, which now repre­ nant model has become the dual-earner needed coming at Jacksonville. sent about three-fourths of the American family where both the man and woman And what made those achievements even labor force, has greatly increased the work, even when there are young children. more impressive is a regular season in which demand for women workers. Technological Attention therefore should be given to a the Barons won only one game at Jackson­ changes which have lengthened female life family policy which will recognize this reali­ ville and lost every series at Nashville. expectancy. reduced the number of years ty. Of course, stable economic growth at low Clearly, there was something extraordinary spent in childbearing and child care, and levels of unemployment would improve the about this Birmingham team. mechanized housework have greatly in­ quality of family life, which is greatly Perhaps 21-victory pitcher Don Heinke! creased the time women have for work out­ strained by the social pathologies resulting expressed it best after evening the Jackson­ side the home. The growth in the informa­ from unemployment. Greater attention to ville series 1-1: "I would like to see this club tion occupations has decentralized economic human resource development would also stay together all the way up. It seems like activity, reduced the size of work places, and strengthen families. Policies likewise are there's something special about this club." greatly altered the nature of work. Most needed to meet the particular needs of That won't happen, of course. Double-A workers now produce information, not women: strengthening affirmative action reality is that next year's Barons will be goods. This has increased the demand for . changing year's team will be in Evansville or Detroit, "women's work." Moreover, the greatest policies which discriminate against women others will be down a rung or out of profes­ impact of these new information technol­ in the conditions of employment, providing sional baseball. Perhaps a third of the ogies is likely to be in office work, where supportive services to facilitate the entry championship team will return, and they women are concentrated. and reentry of women into the work force, will be looking to go up. These trends have been accompanied by and paying particular attention to the needs But next year's team will only have to significant shifts in female employment pat­ of female-supported poor families. Pressure look back one year to see what it takes to terns. Women have entered many nontradi­ for these changes will come mainly from make a true championship team. This year's tional occupations, especially in the profes­ women, but these pressures undoubtedly Barons, without certified blue-chip, major­ sions, but are still heavily concentrated in will be strengthened in the future by labor league prospects, hung together all season, occupations with other women. Moreover, organizations . by the political And that was something truly special, as tinal or male-dominated occupations. Much process Serious as that is, measures are being a drying rack for raw sewage. "This city could become uninhabitable taken, through the International Mon­ And the worst is yet to come. The . . . . It has drowned under mountains of etary Fund and other channels, to city population is expected to reach 35 garbage. It is overrun with rats and flies. deal with it, assuming the Congress million by the year 2000. The city's The number of assaults, kidnappings and as­ sassinations are growing. There is a collec­ has the courage to vote for the re­ top officials concede that roads, tive hysteria."-Ramon Aguirre Velasquez, quested increase in IMF's capital. houses, waterlines, sewage pipes, elec­ mayor of Mexico City. However, very little is being done so trical lines, and stores cannot even be MEx1co CITY.-For Mexico City, the far to help Mexico cope with the enor­ built quickly enough to cope with the future is now. The projections of urban mous social problems that have been city's annual growth rate. In the words doomsayers have come true. The roughly 17 building in Mexico for years because of one of the city planners, "The million residents in the largest city in the of its rapidly expanding population. future is a totally black panorama." world exist in an oppressive cauldron of These problems have been exacerbat­ Mr. Speaker, expert after expert on noise, dirt and stress. Traffic jams slow the average speed to less ed by the worldwide economic reces­ Lation America has pointed out that than 3 mph downtown and raise the average sion and the decline in oil revenues unless the economic and social prob­ noise level to about 90 decibels, which is that have accompanied it. lems of the countries of Central Amer­ akin to standing near a jackhammer. Poor Four or five years ago, Robert ica can be solved, the political prob­ distribution of 17 tons of fresh food a day McNamara, then the head of the lems are hopleless. We tend to relax causes frequent shortages of the milk, eggs 24736 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 19, 1983 and vegetables hauled in by 1,500 trucks to fineries and electric generating plants pump noes towering to 18,000 feet, the city must the 7,300-foot-high Valley of Mexico. 481 tons of sulfur dioxide into the air every pump all its water into the valley and then Blinding, disease-transmitting dust storms day. pump the waste out. sweep across downtown Mexico City in the The incidence of gastrointestinal diseases, The cost of pumping the water from more dry season, carrying pollution from a lake typhoid and various fungus-based lung in­ than 100 miles away makes Mexico City's bed used as a drying rack for raw sewage. fections increases during the dry season, water five times more expensive than that Chemical pollutants from 80,000 factories when there isn't rain to clean the air or of New York City or Sao Paulo, Brazil, two and businesses blacken the sky. Exhaust settle the dust. The dust flies off Lake Tex­ of the world's most populous cities. fumes from 2.3 million cars and 5,000 diesel coco, a raw-sewage deposit near the end of The city government claims 90 percent of buses billow up from streets and express­ Mexico City airport's two main runways. the city's residents get water, but the steady ways. Dr. Enrique Wolpert, an internist, said he flow of about 1,000 immigrants a day means The dust and smog combine with dried, sees "a marked increase" in infections that whole new sections of the city are built airborne refuse from 3,000 tons of garbage during the dry months. every year without water service. left daily on the streets to foul the air with Though Mexico's anti-pollution laws are The city forbids using wells in the valley, an estimated 11,000 tons of solid particle some of the world's strictist, government of­ but at least 40 wells still pump hundreds of pollution every day. One autonomous Uni­ ficials have not enforced them, preferring thousands of gallons of water out of the versity of Mexico study suggested that instead to take the same path that nearly ground every year. The old part of the city, breathing Mexico City's air is like smoking every Third World nation takes-develop, which is built on a lake bed, is sinking up to two packs of cigarettes a day. and don't worry about the environment. 8 inches a year as the water table drops. Even the city's top officials concede its Cesar Reyes, the new spokesman for the The city generates nearly 750 million gal­ future looks hopeless. They admit that Secretariat of Ecology and Urban Develop­ lons of sewage a day. Although some sewage roads, houses, water and sewage pipes, elec­ ment, criticizes the previous administra­ flows through a 300-foot deep sewage tube trical lines and stores can't be built quickly tion's program to control pollution. to a cesspool lake 40 miles north of the city. enough to cope with the city's annual Reyes said that despite public pressure to much of it still ends up in the sewage drying growth rate of 5 percent. By 2000, the city's stop new factories from opening unless they pit at Lake Texcoco. population is expected to reach 35 million. had adequate pollution-control systems, Of the 10,000 tons of garbage produced "The future is a totally black panorama," former President Jose Lopez Portillo's ad­ each day, the city admits it can pick up only said Javier Caraveo, a city planner. "Our ministration routinely handed out permits about 7,000 tons, so 3,000 tons remain in the problem is that we just got our first city so factories could start up without such con­ streets. In some lower-class neighborhoods, plan in 1980, after 450 years." trols. the medians of four-lane streets are stacked "That's not pollution. It's just fog." - "We are so far behind, it's hard to know with piles of rotting garbage. Manuel Lopez Portillo, former environmen­ even where to start," Reyes said. The secre­ The uncollected garbage also serves as a tal official. tary of urban development and ecology, spawning ground for rodents and flies. Fer­ Marcelo Javelly, and Mayor Aguirre Velas­ nando Leon Diaz a former official of the If there is one factor that is making the quez declined to be interviewed, claiming Health Secretariat's rodent control depart­ city unbearable and its inhabitants crazy, it they still don't know their domains well ment, estimated last year that 78 million is the air pollution. Mexico City residents enough to comment. rats lived in the Mexico City metropolitan face the unavoidable fact that walking out "There is the human potential in this area-about five per person. the front door each morning and breathing valley equal to some European nations. "The public security is in crisis. Life in the the air can be injurious to their health. There's no way the government can stop an street has become an exercise in faith." - During the city's hottest months, Febru­ entity of that size from growing. It just Victoria Adato De Ibarra, Federal District ary through May, the dawn sun faintly won't work."-Humberto Munoz, urban attorney general. glimmers through a huge, hanging bubble studies professor. There also are plenty of two-legged rats of brown air. Visibility on downtown streets The magnitude of the problem is stagger­ here. The city's crime rate has become a drops during the morning rush hour to less ing. The Federal District, which accounts growing problem, with more than 53,000 than three blocks, or shorter than a football for 60 percent of the metropolitan area, robberies reported in the Federal District field. Government statistics reveal that covers 543 square kilometers and contains alone in 1982. about 70 percent of the pollution can be at­ more than 10 million people. About 10 mil­ Official figures show there were 122 rapes tributed to automobile and bus exhaust. lion people live in the Los Angeles megalop­ last year, but one women's group claims About 15 percent to 20 percent comes from olis, which, with 1,200 square kilometers in there are about 16,000 rapes a year, or 43 a the day heavy industrial zones on the city's a five-county area, is more than twice as day. The group says the rapes go unreport­ northern perimeter. The rest comes from large as Mexico City. ed because women fear that police won't natural sources: animal feces, human excre­ Officially, the 1980 census puts the help. ment and the lake bed dust. Mexico City metropolitan area's population There were almost 1,000 murders in the In one 24-hour period in 1980, the latest at 14.4 million. Considering growth and city last year. year for which data is available, particulates those not counted, the actual figure is more Transportation can be aggravating at best in Mexico City's air reached 800 micrograms than 17 million. and deadly at worst. Of the 8,640 violent per cubic meter. The U.S. standard for safe "It's just going to be a bigger and bigger deaths in the city last year, 3,550 resulted levels is 260 micrograms. By contrast, the megalopolis," Munoz said. "It is urban stain from traffic accidents. highest level recorded in Los Angeles in in the heart of the country." A private businessmen's organization esti­ 1982 was 291 micrograms. The lack of planning is exhibited every· mates that 15 million man hours are lost Carbon monoxide concentrations, meas­ where. At least 5 million people live in slums every day because of traffic jams, too few ured over a one-hour period in the down­ or substandard housing. More than a mil­ buses and an incomplete subway network. town area, reached a high of 80 parts per lion homes were built illegally on private or Public transportation provides more than million in Mexico City in 1980. U.S. govern­ federal land. 21 million trips daily. Most of those trips ment standards put the maximum tolerable The city contains what has been called are on buses, although the expanding limit at 35 ppm. The highest level reached the world's largest slum, Netzahualcoyotl. It subway system now carries about 1 billion in Los Angeles in 1982 was 27 ppm. also is the country's second largest munici­ riders a year, or almost 3 million a day. The There are no hard facts about another pal entity, even though it is part of the met­ government subsidizes fares, so a bus ride source of automobile-based contamination: ropolitan Mexico City area. Two million to 3 costs 2 cents and a subway chit 0.6 cent. lead. But experts have cautioned that the million people live in a dusty maze of dirt The bus system, however, only has about heavy leaded gasoline made in Mexico has streets and concrete block houses on the 5,000 buses running at once. About 3,000 raised the level of toxic metal in residents' edge of Lake Texcoco. usually are broken down, according to the blood to intolerable levels. Regular joggers Two other areas, Naucalpan and Ecatepec, city government, which claims it needs twice on paths near highways have reported seri­ rank as the country's fourth and fifth larg­ that many new buses to meet demand. ous cases of lead poisoning. est cities, though they also form part of the Subway crowds press so tightly into the Ozone concentration, an indicator of in­ urban sprawl. These slums count thousands trains at rush hours that guards separate dustrial pollution, has been recorded in of homes built in steep ravines, on hillsides male and female passengers to cut down on Mexico City at 0.36 part per million, com­ and beside heavily traveled roads and rail­ complaints of molestations. pared with Los Angeles's high in 1982 of road tracks. Shacks are built with little Double- and triple-parking blocks the traf­ 0.40 ppm. The U.S. standard for safe levels more than thick tar paper, a few planks of fic flow on the narrow streets. But police­ is 0.12 ppm. wood and sometimes a tin roof. men permit the illegal parking because In addition, according to Dr. Alicia Bar­ Because of the high mountain ranges that there are 450,000 too few parking spaces cena Ibarra, the sub-secretary of ecology, re- ring the city, including several extinct volca- downtown.• September 19, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24737 PUERTO RICO AND SECTION dation of solid traditions. In contrast with labor-by paying workers less than their 936-PART I so many of our mainland cities, San Juan's contribution to total output and income. On urban progress has not been at the cost of the contrary, total real compensation in losing the beauty of the past. Old San Juan, manufacturing and real compensation per HON. ROBERT GARCIA for example, spans the centuries and re­ manufacturing employee soared over this OF NEW YORK minds one today of the sources of the intel­ 30-year period. Total real compensation for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lectual and cultural strength of the fine manufacturing employees increased by 740 people whose energy is transforming this percent; real compensation per manufactur­ Monday, September 19, 1983 land economically. ing employee was almost three times as e Mr. GARCIA. Mr. Speaker, I would The statistical record of that economic much in 1980 as in 1950. Over the period like to call to the attention of our col­ transformation is an extraordinary one. productivity of workers in manufacturing leagues an extremely informative Some of the major accomplishments over increased by more than 31/2 percent a year, report on the Puerto Rican economy. the last three decades may be highlighted on the average. by citing a few of the statistics which de­ As these data show, the growth in manu­ The article, published by the Institute scribe the changes in the amount and com­ facturing output and income was not for Research on the Economics of position of employment, output, and income achieved by importing cheap labor, an im­ Taxation was written by Dr. Norman in Puerto Rico. portant element in the rapid growth of cer­ B. Ture, IRET Board Chairman and Slightly more than three decades ago, tain European economies. Across the entire former Under Secretary of the U.S. Puerto Rico was one of the poorest lands in labor force spectrum, expanding employ­ Treasury Department. the western world-"The Poorhouse of the ment has meant expanding the number of '.~ • In the article, "Puerto Rico and Sec­ Caribbean." In a little over thirty years, the jobs filled by Puerto Ricans, almost one for Puerto Rican economy has been trans· one. Even in the most demanding manage­ tion 936: A Case Study of the Effective formed from an impoverished, predominant­ ment and technical jobs, over 93 percent of Use of Private Sector Incentives," Dr. ly agricultural economy to a technologically these positions are filled by Puerto Rican Ture describes Puerto Rico's economic advanced, industrial economy. It is difficult men and women. transformation during the past 30 to capture the full import of this transfor­ Particularly in the last decade, a very sub­ years from being the "Poorhouse of mation in simple words and numbers, but stantial share of the employment growth the Caribbean" to the technologically one cannot help but be impressed by them. has been in high technology industries. advanced industrial economy it is Measured in constant (1972) dollars, GNP In chemicals and allied products, especial­ today. Section 936, a carefully de­ increased from $1.565 billion in 1950 to ly pharmaceuticals, almost 9,000 jobs were $7 .383 billion in 1980. This is an increase of added from 1971 to 1981. In nonelectrical signed and tested tax incentive pro­ 372 percent. The percentage increase in real machinery manufacturing, particularly com­ gram targeted to a specific area, sug­ GNP in the U.S. as a whole was less than puters, employment increased almost five­ gests ways of modifying our current half-176 percent. fold in this period. Over 7,000 jobs were revenue code to encourage new pro­ Per capita real GNP in Puerto Rico in­ added in electrical and electronic machin­ ductive investment in distressed areas creased from $709 to $2,324 or by 228 per­ ery, equipment and supplies production. also. cent over these 30 years. In the United Employment in the manufacture of scientif­ The economic milestone which States, as a whole, per capita real GNP rose ic instruments more than doubled. Puerto Rico has accomplished and from $3,526 to $6,475 or by 84 percent. In the pharmaceutical industry alone, em­ The average yearly growth rate of real ployment gains have been remarkable. which Dr. Ture discusses has resulted GNP in Puerto Rico was 5.3 percent over From 1970 to 1980, almost 9,300 jobs were from the application of section 936. the three decades; it was 3.4 percent during added, nearly 6,400 of which were produc­ While calling this impressive economic the same period in the U.S. as a whole. tion workers. The size of pharmaceutical es­ progress "a marvelously successful lab­ Per capita real GNP increased by 4.0 per­ tablishments grew, from 20 workers per es­ oratory demonstration of achievement cent a year, on the average, in Puerto Rico, tablishment in 1960 to 143 per establish­ relying on the private sector," Dr. almost twice as fast as the 2.1 percent aver­ ment in 1980. Ture also cites Puerto Rico's lingering age annual growth in the U.S. as a whole The expansion of employment has not high levels of unemployment and ex­ during these years. been confined to manufacturing. Impressive presses the hope that future policy de­ This dramatic growth did not occur as a gains in jobs in trade and services occurred result of an explosion in the agricultural over the three decades. As one might velopments seeks to fortify the sector of the Island's economy. Quite the expect, this diversification of employment achievements of section 936. contrary; it came about as a result of a tre­ has been associated with a marked upgrad­ I enter Dr. Ture's article in the mendous shift of employment from agricul­ ing of employment. In just the eight-year RECORD so that we all may better un­ ture to other sectors, combined with a huge period from 1973 to 1981, white-collar em­ derstand the importance to the econo­ increase in labor's productivity. ployment grew by about 88 thousand jobs, my and the people of Puerto Rico of In 1950, more than a third-36 percent-of from 40.2 percent of total employment to the section 936 program. the employed labor force worked in agricul­ over 47 percent. Within this category, ture; manufacturing employment was 9.3 almost 43 thousand of the additional jobs The article follows: percent of total employment, little more were in professional and related positions. PuERTO RICO AND SECTION 936: A CASE STUDY than the amount of employment in home The rapid growth in the private sector of OF THE EFFECTIVE USE OF PRIVATE SECTOR needlework, which was 8.6 percent of the the Puerto Rican economy both gave rise to INCENTIVES-PART I total. In 1980, agricultural employment was increasing demands on the public sector and For those who have a professional concern only a fifth of what it had been 30 years provided it with the financial capacity to with ensuring expanding opportunities for earlier, accounting for only 5.2 percent of service those demands. In 1950, only 45,000 rewarding employment, there is no better total employment. Manufacturing employ­ persons were employed by government in setting for sharpening the focus of those ment has almost tripled in absolute terms, Puerto Rico. By 1980, the number had concerns than Puerto Rico. This beautiful and more than doubled-to 19 percent-as a reached 202,000, almost a quarter of total island has been a laboratory in which it has shre of total employment. In the U.S. as a employment. been demonstrated how strong and con­ whole, the number of manufacturing wage One final observation about this truly re­ structive the response of the private sector and salary workers increased by one-third markable record of employment growth and of the economy can be to appropriately de­ over the three decades; as a fraction of the economic progress is called for. It has not signed tax incentives. There is much for ev­ total of such employment, manufacturing occurred at the expense of jobs, output, or eryone to learn from the experience of employment fell from more than a third in income on the U.S. mainland or elsewhere. Puerto Rico with respect to public policy 1950 to 22.4 percent in 1980. As the data shows, the most imDres.sive em­ strategies for economic development initiat­ Net income originating in manufacturing ployment gains in the private sector of the ed in the private sector. was 14.5 percent of total net income in 1950; Puerto Rican economy have occurred in the Even a quick tour of San Juan brings by 1980, this share was 3 1/4 times the 1950 very same industries which have registered home to one a sense of the vitality of the percentage, accounting for 47.5 percent of the most pronounced growth in jobs and people who live and work in Puerto Rico, of total net income. This experience contrasts output on the mainland. their sense of urgency about progress in sharply with that of the U.S. as a whole Moreover, Puerto Rican economic growth their economic life. One of the most impres­ where income originating in manufacturing has required increasing imports, principally sive attributes of that progress is that fell by more than a fifth. from the mainland. In 1980, for example, rather than rejecting or destroying estab­ This growth in output and income in man­ Puerto Rican business establishments and lished cultural values, it is built on a foun- ufacturing was not financed by exploiting households bought $1.5 billion of goods and 24738 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 19, 1983 services from the mainland U.S. It is esti­ single rock and gully, could disappear into Clark finds it peculiar that the Marines mated that about 153,000 mainland jobs the woods that start just beyond Clark's are supposed to be protecting "the Lebanese were involved in producing these goods and grave. people"; the only Lebanese people he seems services. A year later, imports from the The only place in Minong big enough for to hear about are divided into warring mainland had increased to $5.7 billion, im­ Clark's funeral-more than 1,000 people at­ camps that want only for the Americans to plying an increase in mainland employment tended, twice the population of the town­ leave and let them settle their differences in to meet these output requirements. was the gymnasium of Northwood High their traditional fashion. If that includes Of course, there have been reverses along School, from which Clark had graduated massacre, Clark is in no mood to stop them. this economic growth path. The Puerto just 16 months ago. The choice of jobs in For the Clark family of Minong, Wis., Amer­ Rican economy is extremely sensitive to Minong at the time was between part-time ica's intervention in Lebanon is over for changes in economic conditions elsewhere, logging and part-time pulp cutting, and so good.e particularly in the mainland United States. Clark-an honors student and all-confer­ Recession developments on the mainland ence lineman on the high-school football lead quickly to even sharper downturns in team-decided to enlist in the service. "He TAX CUTS AND ECONOMIC Puerto Rico, and recovery on the mainland wanted to go into the military for the ad­ DEVELOPMENT transmits its expansionary impulse to the venture, like you see on TV," said his friend island economy only with a significant time Kevin Postl; and because their standards lag. In the 1979-1982 recession, the rising were the highest, Clark carefully chose the HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER Marines. unemployment rate on the mainland was OF COLORADO dwarfed by that in Puerto Rico, reaching FOURTH OF JULY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more than a fifth of the labor forces in 1981 Clark went to Lebanon last May, posted and 1982. first to guard duty outside the American Monday, September 19, 1983 Notwithstanding' such reverses, the overall Embassy in Beirut, and later among the record of economic development from the peacekeeping troops stationed around the e Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, early postwar years to the present is really Beirut airport. He was happy to be there at high technology companies looking to remarkable. It can be capsulized briefly by first: "He loved the country," his mother, relocate are more interested in a pointing out that in the late 1940's, the Is­ Norma, recalled; "he said it was so beauti­ State's educational facilities, transpor­ land's economic demography was a proto­ ful." It was even beautiful in the dark, with tation systems, and general quality of type of the sources of social unrest and up­ rockets and artillery fire lighting up the life than in the tax rate levels. heaval-a handful of affluent persons and hills-"like the Fourth of July every night," This is an important message from the overwhelming proportion of the popula­ he wrote to his parents. He sent them a pic­ Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm in the tion living in grinding poverty. No middle ture, but they were less interested in the class, generating social and political stabili­ view than in the M60 machine gun in the September 12, 1983, Rocky Mountain ty as well as a solid economic base, existed. foreground, wondering uneasily why it Business Journal, "Lamm Says Tax The contrast with today's economic profile clearly had no ammunition. Cuts Imperil High-Tech Future." is striking.e As the fighting intensified, Clark began to A related and equally significant worry. He wrote of how callous the Leba­ message comes from the Denver Post nese militia appeared about the casual senior editor, Bill Hornby, "Growth HOW MANY RANDY CLARKS? slaughter of civilians, about how awful it and Slow Learners: the West's Politi­ was to see bodies lying unburied for days. HON. DAVID R. OBEY He was happy to hear that he would be ro­ cal Tragedy," Denver Post, September tated out on Aug. 19-and crushed when the 11, 1983. Western States, which have OF WISCONSIN transfer was canceled. On Sept. 1 he wrote depended heavily on. Federal spending, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES about the shelling-said at the time to be are refusing to plan or pay for the Monday, September 19, 1983 accidental-that killed two Marines and future. wounded 14, all of them from Clark's Alpha The two articles follow: • Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, a little Company. " ... I'm all right," he told his over a week ago I had the sad duty to parents. "Not hurt. Just scared ... There LAMM SAYS TAX CUTS IMPERIL A HIGH-TECH visit the family of L. Cpl. Randy Clark were four or five of us that helped the FuTURE who had just been killed in Lebanon. wounded and carried out the dead to the larly senseless way for him to die. On the "I think the legislature . ought to take The conflict in which Marine Lance Cpl. morning that the two Marines came to great pride in all the tax relief it has given," Randy Clark died was ancient history Clark's house to deliver the news of his Lamm said. "There's some of those things before he was born, and up until last May death, a White House aide called his par­ I've been pushing for too to make our tax seemed to have as much to do with him as ents and asked them to stand by for a call structure more progressive. But the fact is the Peloponnesian War. All of Lebanon from the president; by the time the call they overdid it." would fit snugly into the corner of north­ came, six hours later, James Clark's shock The governor said the state's failure to western Wisconsin, roughly between had turned to anger. "I told him [Reagan] I properly fund higher education contributed Duluth, Minn., and Eau Claire, where Clark was very bitter," said Clark, a burly con­ to its failure to induce the new Microelec­ grew up and where he was buried last week struction foreman who supported Reagan in tronic Computer Consortium to come to in a little cemetery outside his hometown of 1980. "I asked him why we were over there, Colorado. Minong. The bloody Shouf mountains, and he said we were needed. I said I didn't The consortium is a joint venture of sever­ where generations have fought for every agree." al of the country's largest electronic compa- September 19, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24739 nies organized to undertake advanced com­ "There's been a lot of Republican feeling GOP leadership in the legislature is where puter-related research projects, including that all we have to do is cut the budget the real power lies. If it doesn't provide those related to the development of super­ again," he said. "Well, we've cut for seven more money for roads, schools, water, cul­ computers and fifth generation machines. years in a row now. The average per capita tural and recreation facilities, and the other It is widely considered one of the most im­ cost of government has gone down, down, basic elements of Colorado's quality life­ portant research ventures ever undertaken down, and now what we have to do is recog­ style, the state will inevitably decline. by private industry. nize we gave too much tax relief and take Under the Census Bureau's population Some 30 states were attempting to attract some of it back. projections, Colorado would climb from the consortium, which ultimately located in "We've given $2.2 billion worth of tax 28th ranking to 21st among the 50 states by Austin, Texas. Texas promised it a 20-acre relief in the past few years, and I need $46 the year 2000. Already its median family headquarters site on the University of million of it back," he said. income is much richer in state ranking than Texas Research Campus, a $20-million, Lamm said he has suggested increases in its population position. We rank 12th in 200,000-square-foot office laboratory build­ the state's personal and corporate income family income, as opposed to 28th in size. ing, $20 million in low-interest mortgage taxes "either through a surtax or something And we rank very low in the tax burden per loans, 30 new faculty positions at the Uni­ else" as the best way of getting the added capita, 39th. versity of Texas plus a $750,000 more for re­ revenues. The conclusion is obvious that Coloradans search, and use of a Learjet. "I don't think we need a permanent tax could afford a heavier tax load to prepare Lamm said in a view of Texas' very gener­ increase," he said. "The good news in Colo­ for the future. But whether we will encour­ ous package it is questionable if Colorado rado is that for two years from now our pro­ age our political leaders to take the long could have landed the center in any event, jections still show some very healthy sur­ view and the unpopular step of increased but that the quality of the state's universi­ pluses." public investment is doubtful, at least as ties took it out of the running early on. suggested by the past decade of legislative He said the consortium's president and FAST GROWTH AND SLOW LEARNERS: THE history. chief executive officer, former CIA head Ad­ WEST'S POLITICAL TRAGEDY What is true of Colorado is mostly true in miral Bobby Inman, told him the state's and Nebraska (5.9) are e Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. them that the jobs of the future we want at­ indicative that the population flow is Speaker, on Monday, September 26, tracted to the state are going to need higher toward the mountains and the energy re­ the people of San Bernardino County education facilities." sources and recreation they foster. will be honoring a very special man, He said Colorado "has been successful Colorado is expected to have 4,656,600 Dr. Gerald A. Smith, at a retirement beyond what we deserve to be [in attracting people by the year 2000, compared to dinner and ceremony dedicating the 2,888,800 at present, almost two more people industry] when you look at the foresight of Dr. Gerald A. Smith Hall of Anthro­ our public officials. The fact is economic de­ for every three you see today. At least two­ velopment has been very easy for Colora­ thirds of the new arrivals will jam into the pology in his honor. Unable to attend do." Front Range from Colorado Springs to Fort this gathering, I would like to take "However, our historic economies-tour­ Collins, given the now-obvious lack of lead this opportunity to ask the Congress ism, mining, and agriculture-are all under time to develop major population centers on to join me along with his many friends a great deal of pressure, and really the pros­ a more spread-out pattern. and admirers in expressing our deep pects in a lot of those are not for the kind of The Washington political journal, "Con­ appreciation and gratitude to this out­ jobs that are going to keep us going in this gressional Quarterly," has just surveyed the standing human being upon the occa­ state," he said. states, and of Colorado it says that this de­ "This state as far as we can say is the mographic packing of the Front Range is sion of his retirement after his many fifth in [attracting] high technology firms," good news for the state's Republicans. It years of dedicated service. he said, "and we've really done very well up notes the Democratic core cities of Denver Dr. Smith was born in Gravette, to now. and Pueblo are not sharing in the general Ark., but raised in the San Bernardino "The fact is that I think the competition growth, and that the heavily Republican Valley. He and his wife, Dr. Maxine is toughening and companies are looking for suburbs and rural areas will continue to Smith, live in Redlands and are the more than snowy mountains. Now they're dominate the state legislature. proud parents of daughters Jerilynn going to look and say 'what kind of engi­ If this is true, then the state Republican and Meredith; and sons Geoffrey and neering department do you have?' " he said. party bears the major responsibility for pre­ The governor said that in dealing with the paring for the huge population growth David. His professional education re­ present budget shortfall he has asked the ahead. The Democratic state administration flects his devotion and dedication to legislature "to cut a dollar and raise a can propose, as it has, a myriad of action his profession. He graduated from the dollar" in new taxes. programs to prepare for growth, but the University of Redlands in 1937 where 24740 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 19, 1983 he received his master's degree in hard work, contributed to his commu- recent newspaper article discusses this 1939. He earned his doctorate in edu­ nity in a most beneficial way.e anomaly. I include it as this point in cation from the University of South­ the RECORD for the benefit of my col­ ern California in 1953. HISPANIC WEEK leagues: Dr. Smith began his career as an ele­ [From the New York Times, Aug. 31, 19831 mentary and junior high school teach­ er in San Bernardino Valley schools; HON. BARBARA BOXER COMPETITION VERSUS RESEARCH coached the football and basketball OF CALIFORNIA

SUCCESSES The commission's proposal calls for "a hospitalized, the program has insured Students have won admission to some of level of mathematics, science and technolo­ requisite number of hospital days the nation's finest colleges and universities, gy education that is the finest in the world" their condition requires. most with advanced standing and scholar­ by 1995. It states that the country "is cur­ Under the guaranteed payment/hold ships and awards. rently failing to provide its own children with the intellectual tools needed for the harmless program, Blue Cross and The 138 members of the first graduating Blue Shield members have been as­ class in June 1982 were offered over 21st century." $325,000 in scholarships and awards. Over During a news conference at the school sured that they will not be required to 70 percent chose to attend North Carolina Wednesday afternoon, Dr. Selby said the pay for any service that is determined institutions, with most selecting North commission conducted a detailed study of to be unnecessary during claim proc­ Carolina State University and University of America's educational system. "We found essing. In turn, the program denies re­ North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The 1983 ourselves looking at models such as this imbursement to the hospital if the un­ graduating class of 148 were offered $1.4 school," she said. necessary services reach a certain million in scholarships and awards. In-state One of the commission's proposals is to create 1,000 elementary and 1,000 secondary level. To be successful in this program institutions were selected by 65 percent of requires the maintenance of an effec­ the class. schools that have "exemplary programs" in The high visibility of the school has likely mathematics and science. tive utilization review program to see contributed to the number and amount of "We're not looking at a network of elite that medically unnecessary services scholarship offers. situations," Dr. Selby said. The Criteria for are kept at the bare minimum. Victory The quality of the students is attested to admission to the schools should be "commit­ Memorial has succeeded in this area by NCSSM being second in the nation, after ted students and committed parents," she beyond all expectation. a New York school with over 2,000 students, said. With these and other cost contain­ in the number of National Merit Scholar­ Other changes recommended by the com­ mission include providing students with ear­ ment programs, Victory Memorial has ship awards during each of its first two generated an annual savings of years of operation. lier exposure to the fields of math and sci­ NCSSM has attracted visitors from for­ ence, retraining of teachers in those fields $2,720,000. eign nations and other states interested in and attracting high quality instructors, im­ I applaud Victory Memorial and its learning mpre about the concept. Louisiana proving the quality and usefulness of math fine staff for what clearly has been a is opening its own version this fall. and science courses, and taking advantage cooperative and extraordinary effort Another goal of the school has been to of new information technologies, especially to attain quality and cost-effective lead the way to improvements in all State computers. health care for the people of Wauke­ high schools. Already 500 science and math "We felt the most important thing to do was to try and put a price on everything we gan. Theirs is a standard well worth teachers have taken summer courses in com­ emulating.e puters in the classroom at NCSSM. Those recommened," Dr. Selby said. She said these teachers have held workshops at their home changes will require strong leadership along schools and taught another 500 teachers. with the $1.5 billion investment. Several professional organizations have JOSEPH J. BAKER, VETERANS FUND RAISING endorsed the plan, including the American SERVICE OFFICER When NCSSM was created, the legislature Federation of Teachers and the American realized the state could not finance it all. Association of School Administrators. HON. BOB EDGAR Thus, the school aggressively pursued pri­ "There's no question that committed pres­ vate funding. It has raised $7 million in idential backing would be the best thing to OF PENNSYLVANIA three years. happen to us," Dr. Selby said. "Top leader­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES When asked whether the concept of the ship is the key.''• Monday, September 19, 1983 school could work in other states, Taylor saw no limitations. " It needs political lead­ •Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, I would ership at the top," he declared. A STANDARD WORTH like to pay a special tribute to Joseph For North Carolina, the school has been a EMULATING J. Baker who recently retired after 37 highly visible indication of the state's long­ years in Federal service with the Vet­ standing commitment to education. Terry erans' Administration. Sanford, now president of Duke, started the HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER tradition during his term from 1961-65. But OF ILLINOIS During this distinguished career he Gov. Hunt has taken a leading role in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES coupled years of personal and compas­ state and nationwide in pushing education. sionate service to the veteran commu­ He started a reading program for the pri­ Monday, September 19, 1983 nity with an in-depth knowledge of mary grades, asking volunteers to work in • Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, at a veterans benefits and services. Mr. the classroom and volunteering himself. time when most hospitals in this coun­ Baker became one of the most knowl­ The concern over the crisis in science and try are struggling to adjust to more edgeable experts within the Veterans' mathematics education is spreading nation­ cost-conscious times, I am extremely Administration on the history, imple­ wide. But North Carolina is "proving that educational excellence is possible, practical, proud to draw your attention to a hos­ mentation, and incalculable benefit of adaptable to most communities, and, best of pital in my district which has set an VA educational programs, serving all, an idea whose time has come," wrote example for the entire health care three generations of our Nation's vet­ NCSSM Director Charles R. Eilber. community of Illinois. erans. His service to the agency and [From the Raleigh News and Observer, Victory Memorial Hospital of Wau­ particularly with the VA Regional Sept. 15, 19831 kegan, Ill., recently received the Blue Office and Insurance Center in Phila­ NORTH CAROLINA MATH, SCIENCE SCHOOL Cross and Blue Shield Award of Merit delphia will be sorely missed. As a TOUTED AS NATIONAL MODEL for its excellence in cost-effective man­ member of the House Veterans' Af­ agement. Victory Memorial was hon­ fairs Committee, and, on behalf of his coworkers and the veterans he served, DuRHAM.-The North Carolina School of ored for its outstanding utilization Science and Mathematics should be used as review program, its exceptional per­ I would like to commend and thank a model in a national effort to improve edu­ formance in the Blue Cross and Blue Joe Baker for a job well done. cation in the fields of math and science, a Shield guaranteed payment/hold Mr. Speaker, I submit for the co-chairman of a National Science Founda­ harmless program and for other ambi­ RECORD, a brief summary of Joe tion study commission said Wednesday. tious and effective cost containment Baker's accomplishments in Federal The commission issued a proposal this initiatives. service detailing an outstanding con­ week that calls for $1.5 billion in federal Victory Memorial's successful utili­ tribution in service to his country. We funds to go in part "to help start more are very grateful: schools like the N.C. School of Science and zation review program has meant that Math," said Dr. Cecily C. Selby of New York patients who once were hospitalized as JOSEPH J. BAKER, VETERANS SERVICES City, former dean of academic affairs and a matter of course have received high OFFICER chairman of the board of advisors of the quality outpatient care at a far lower Mr. Joseph Baker has held the position of Durham school. cost. For those patients who have been Veterans Services Officer for the September 19, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24745 Veterans Administration Regional Office nator for Outreach to the Aged and Liaison LAWYER EXEMPTION FROM FTC and Insurance Center in Philadelphia from for the Discharge Upgrade Review Program. JURISDICTION OPPOSED August 3, 1975 through July 29, 1983. His He also frequently conducted training ses­ extensive knowledge of all areas of veterans' sions for County Veterans Affairs Officers benefits coupled with his managerial skills and veterans services organizations, such as HON. JAMES J. FLORIO made him an invaluable asset to the Phila­ the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign delphia Regional Office and the Agency. Wars and United Vietnam Veterans Organi­ OF NEW JERSEY Mr. Baker's vast knowledge of veterans' zation. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES benefits began with his employment in the Throughout his career, Mr. Baker was Vocational Rehabilitation and Education presented with numerous performance Monday, September 19, 1983 Division in 1946. As he rose through the awards. He received an Outstanding Per­ e Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, I wish to ranks of the division, he acquired in-depth formance Award in 1956, Superior Perform­ knowledge of the broad spectrum of services supplement the background material I ance Awards in 1962 and 1967, and a Quality inserted in the RECORD on September available to veterans. His knowledge of vet­ Increase in 1969. In 1969, he was also award­ erans' benefits as well as his ability to com­ ed the Station Public Service Award for 15 (page E4305) regarding the propos­ municate with all types of people estab­ Direct Service to the Public for developing al to exempt lawyers from the con­ lished him as a leader. While in the Adjudi­ on-the-job training programs for the Phila­ sumer protection jurisdiction of the cation Division, Mr. Baker was called upon delphia Police Department, Fairmount Park Federal Trade Commission. to provide assistance to the VA Central Police, and the Fire Department of Phila­ That proposal is entirely unwarrant­ Office by conducting compliance surveys at delphia. He received a Public Service Award ed, and I am happy to note that many various stations and by revising the VA edu­ in Communications in 1972 for his develop­ cation manual. In addition, he was instru­ lawyers themselves recognize this. Fol­ ment of a summary of information regard­ lowing is a statement from the Asso­ mental in developing a ten-week college pre­ ing flight training and, in 1973 and 1974, he paratory course at Pennsylvania State Uni­ received Superior Performance Awards for ciation of the Bar of the City of New versity for educationally disadvantaged the training and supervision he provided York opposing the exemption: Vietnam veterans. concerning education benefits. THE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF As VSO, Mr. Baker managed the activities Over the years, Mr. Baker grained a repu­ THE CITY OF NEW YORK, COMMIT­ of over 80 employees in the Veterans Serv­ tation of which he can be proud. He earned TEE ON TRADE REGULATION, ices Division. He oversaw numerous changes the loyalty and respect of his co-workers New York, N. Y., August 26, 1983. in methods, procedures, and operations in and representatives of various agencies and Re FTC reauthorization bill CH.R. 2970), his division. His flexibility and talent for es­ veterans' organizations. He consistently proposed exemption of lawyers from ju­ tablishing new procedures quickly and effi­ maintained a fair and professional image risdiction of FTC. ciently was demonstrated through his assist­ and never lost sight of our ultimate goal­ Hon. JAM.Es J. Fr.ORIO, ance during the implementation of the "to provide the best possible service to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Commerce, TARGET system. In both the Adjudication veterans and their dependents." Transportation, and Tourism, Commit­ and Veterans Services Division, Mr. Baker On the day of his retirement, Mr. Baker tee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. pioneered the use of the TARGET system. was honored with awards and accolades House of Representatives, Washington, His efforts resulted in greater productivity from various colleagues and veterans organi­ D.C. and efficiency for both the veteran and the zations. The following is a partial listing of DEAR REPRESENTATIVE Fr.ORIO: The Com­ Agency. those who paid tribute to Mr. Baker. mittee on Trade Regulation on behalf of Mr. Baker's unique sense of responsibility Jewish War Veterans; the Association of the Bar of the City of and driving initiative inspired his staff to Disabled American Veterans; New York has adopted a position paper with achieve. During his tenure as VSO, the divi­ Veterans of Foreign Wars; respect to proposed legislation that would sion consistently ranked among the most American Legion; make lawyers exempt from regulation by rated Veterans Services Divisions in effec­ Red Cross; the FTC. A copy of this position paper is en­ tiveness and productivity. Under his direc­ Military Order of the Purple Heart; closed. tion, the last two Supervisory Visit Evalua­ AMVETS; and As set forth in the enclosed position tions resulted in excellent ratings for man­ paper, we strongly oppose any effort to agement. Because of his expertise in the PA Bureau of Veterans Affairs. The numerous commendations given to grant lawyers a blanket exemption from area of Veterans Services, Mr. Baker was Mr. Baker were evidence of the admiration regulation by the FTC. The Association of called upon by Central Office to be a sub­ and respect with which he is regarded.• the Bar of the City of New York has a mem­ ject matter expert for a job analysis of the bership of more than 14,000 lawyers, and VSO position. our committee is comprised of more than 20 Since his days as a Veterans Claims Exam­ active practitioners in the antitrust field. iner, Mr. Baker demonstrated the ability to GRACE TEMPLE NO. 424 OF Although our position is at variance with deal effectively with employees, veterans, TOLEDO, OHIO, CELEBRATES the position adopted by the House of Dele­ and the general public. Early in his career, 57TH ANNIVERSARY gates of the American Bar Association on he established himself as liaison between August 2, 1983, we believe strongly that ex­ local educational institutions and the emption of lawyers from the FTC's jurisdic­ VARIOC. His knowledge of VA educational HON. MARCY KAPTUR tion would not be in the public interest. benefits is unsurpassed and he was the OF OHIO Respectfully yours, source of expertise concerning educational GUY MILLER STRUVE. inquiries at the Philadelphia Regional IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Office. As VSO, he coordinated a network of POSITION PAPER social, political, and veterans' groups to Monday, September 19, 1983 There are two amendments to the FTC keep abreast of the needs of veterans and to e Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, this Authorization Act CH.R. 2970) presently acquaint the public with the benefit pro­ week Grace Temple No. 424, of pending in Congress that would affect the grams available through the VA. He was the Toledo, Ohio, is celebrating its 57th regulation of professionals by the Federal chairman of the local Vietnam Veterans anniversary. Grace Temple is one of Trade Commission ("FTC"). The first is the Civic Council. Under Mr. Baker's guidance, product of a compromise worked out be­ the Civic Council expanded and became an the oldest black women's organizations tween the American Medical Association active and important link in the VA's rela­ in the city of Toledo. For more than a ("AMA") and the FTC which provides, in tionship with the community. As the result half century, this fine organization pertinent part: of a proposal submitted by the local Civic has dedicated itself to community "The Commission shall not use its author­ Council under Mr. Baker's direction, the de­ service. Over the years, the members ity under section 5 or section 18 to prohibit limiting date and eligibility requirements of Grace Temple No. 424 have worked unfair or deceptive acts or practices engaged for educational benefits were liberalized. hard to make Toledo a better place in in by professionals in a particular State if Always searching for more effective ways to which to live. On behalf of the House such use of authority would result in the in­ serve the veterans in the community, Mr. validation of a State law of such State or Baker initiated various special studies and of Representatives, I offer congratula­ any part of such law if such law or part es­ outreach projects. At the time of his retire­ tions and best wishes to the women of tablishes- ment, he held the position of Station Coor­ Grace Temple No. 424 who have made "(1) Training, education, or experience re­ dinator for Consumer Affairs, Station Coor­ our community a better place for all quirements for the licensure of profession­ dinator for POW Activities, Station Coordi- people.e als, or 24746 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 19, 1983 "<2> Permissible tasks or duties which may The proposal of the Texas Bar Association IN SUPPORT OF CONCURRENT be performed by professionals and which is inconsistent with the principles articulat­ RESOLUTION OFFERED BY MR. are based, in fact, on specialized training or ed above. It extends the pre-eminence of the ANDREWS education. . . . " State's role beyond licensing activities into To that language, the House Energy and the commercial area. With its emphasis on Commerce Committee has added the follow­ regulation by "the state court of last resort" HON. JAMES H. SCHEUER ing proposal by Representative FLORIO : quite clearly designed to provide a special "Nothing in this section shall be deemed IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to restrict the Federal Trade Commission's exemption for lawyers. It is not clear why authority under this Act or any other Act such an exemption has been proposed, since Monday, September 19, 1983 with respect to commercial or business acts the FTC has never sought to regulate the e Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, I rise or practices of professionals." acts or practices of lawyers as distinguished in strong support of the concurrent The second amendment, a proposal draft­ from other commercial or professional ac­ ed by the State Bar of Texas, was intro­ tivities. Nor is it clear why the Texas Bar resolution offered by our distinguished duced by Representative SAM B. HALL, Jr. Association has chosen to focus on the FTC, colleague from Texas on June 14, 1983. That amend­ leaving the Justice Department's antitrust This resolution expresses the clear ment would prohibit regulation of unfair or jurisdiction over lawyers intact. intent of the Congress that it is not deceptive acts or practices by professionals We can envision few, if any, benefits that appropriate to sell the Government's "If such acts or practices are effectively would flow from such an exemption and can civil weather satellites to the private regulated by the state court of last resort in foresee a enormous potential for abuse. For sector at this time. civil cases or by such state court and state example, the proposal would make concert­ Since April of this year, the Subcom­ law." ed activity by a State's legal establishment mittee on Natural Resources, Agricul­ We support the AMA-FTC compromise, if to prohibit certain truthful advertising, the Florio amendment is included, and ture Research and Environment, oppose the Hall amendment. which also had the effect of reducing com­ which I chair, has had five hearings In the last Congress, several bills were in­ petition, immune from challenge by the on the proposed commercialization of troduced which would have given profes­ FTC. Similarly, if a state bar decided not to civil land and weather satellite sys­ sionals broad exemption from regulation by take action against certain types of decep­ tive advertising, the FTC would presumably tems. These hearings heightened my the FTC. In the face of opposition from the concern about how the decision to present administration, among others, those be powerless to act. bills were defeated after an all-night session It might be argued that the Texas Bar As­ commercialize weather satellites was of both Houses of Congress on December 17, sociation's proposal would not prevent reached. In April 1982, the Cabinet 1982. The Trade Regulation Committee, on action by the FTC in appropriate cases be­ Council on Commerce and Trade, behalf of the entire association, opposed cause it exempts from FTC jurisdiction only chaired by Secretary of Commerce those bills on the ground that there was no acts or practices that are "effectively regu­ Malcolm Baldrige, concluded that compelling reason why the commercial prac­ lated" by the State. This highlights an am­ "weather satellites should not be tices of professionals should not be subject biguity in the proposed legislation: does the transferred to the private sector." to the same strictures as the commercial word "effectively" refer to the effectiveness practices of other sectors of the economy. Eight months later, that decision was of the regulation or is it another way of reversed, even though neither the We also pointed out that, while many states saying, "in effect"? If the latter interpreta­ regulate professions through the licensure Cabinet Council nor any of its work mechanism, such regulation does not typi­ tion is correct, then it would prevent FTC groups had met in the interval. In cally cover commercial practices. Finally, we action even where the state regulation is in fact, if one examines the advice which noted that the proposed professional ex­ fact ineffective. If the former interpretation is correct, then it raises the question of who the administration received in the in­ emption seemed to be nothing more than terval, it is almost inconceivable to me special interest legislation, and we urged the determines whether the regulation is effec­ members of Congress to stand up for the tive and the standard by which that deter­ that the decision to commercialize principle of uniform application of the laws. mination is made. weather satellites could have been re­ We repeat and reaffirm those principles It must be recognized that we have en­ versed. today. Professional services are a growing tered an era in which lawyers are permitted Specifically: and important segment of the American to advertise as a matter of constitutional Thirteen of fourteen industry re­ economy. Public policy should strive to right and lawyers are increasingly engaging spondents to the Commerce Depart­ create an environment in which the highest in activities that extend across state lines. ment's request for information did not quality professional services are delivered to In these circumstances, it may become im­ endorse sale of weather satellites. the public at the lowest possible cost, with portant to have a consistent national policy The Commerce Department's Land the least amount of governmental regula­ governing the commercial practices of law­ tion required to achieve those ends. In pur­ Remote Sensing Satellite Advisory suing those ends, it should be remembered yers and the truthfulness of their state­ Committee concluded that "there is that the primary focus of state law has been ments to the public. The only real effect of only a small commercial opportunity the quality of professional services whereas the Texas Bar Association's proposal would associated with weather satellites• • • the primary focus of federal law has been be to deter development of such a national weather satellites were judged to be the commercial aspects of such services. policy, especially in the area of deceptive That is not to say that quality concerns and acts or practices, where the FTC is the only inherently governmental." commercial concerns never overlap; they federal agency with authority to act. A joint DOD/NASA study concluded sometimes do. In our opinion, however, this It has often been said that lawyers must that "there is considerable financial, does not justify the blank.et exemptions adhere to standards stricter than those of policy, and program risk to the govern­ that have been proposed. Experience has the marketplace if they are to command the ment in commercializing weather sat­ shown that it is almost always possible to public confidence that their unique position ellites and there is no clear policy or reconcile the competing considerations of in society requires. See e.g., Stone, "The financial benefit to be realized." quality and competition when they appear Public Influence Of The Bar," 48 Harv. L. Since President Reagan announced to conflict in a regulatory scheme. Rev. 1 <1934). The Texas Bar Association's The AMA-FTC proposal and the Florio his decision to sell both the weather proposal raises the spectre of lawyers being and land remote-sensing satellites in amendment are consistent with these princi­ held to a looser standard than the rest of so­ ples. The AMA-FTC proposal preserves the March of this year, we have heard tes­ State's traditional role in setting require­ ciety. Moreover, it places lawyers in the un­ timony from the President's own Pri­ ments for training, education and experi­ seemly position of advocating an exemption vate Sector Survey on cost control and ence, ·while permitting the FTC to pursue for their own profession. Passage of such a proposal can only have the effect of dimin­ from three congressionally chartered the national policy of free and open compe­ panels that transfer of weather satel­ tition. The Florio amendment clarifies the ishing public confidence in the bar while AMA-FTC proposal by making it clear that providing no tangible benefit in return. We lites is not a sensible or a cost-effective the FTC may proceed in situations where a strongly urge its rejection.e idea. We have heard disturbing allega­ state regulation purports to establish pro­ tions that the former Deputy Secre­ fessional qualifications but in fact deters tary of Commerce had extensive em­ competition. ployment negotiations with the one September 19, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24747 company that has consistently ex­ THE HUMAN RACE on the past but rather on the present pressed an interest in purchasing and and future. operating the weather satellites. We HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR., At this point in the RECORD, I wish have also reviewed the draft "RFP" to submit an article from today's New language which will be used to solicit OF INDIANA York Daily News entitled "Miss Mill­ bids from industry. The administra­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wood to Them." tion's plan would allow for free and Monday, September 19, 1983 MISS MILLWOOD TO THEM open distribution of weather data both e Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, the fol­ domestically and internationally, lowing constitutes one of the main The local girl made good. which guarantees that no significant things wrong with the human race: So while the rest of America spent yester­ new commercial venture involving "U.S. Says Soviet Downed Korean Air­ day getting to know Vanessa Williams, Miss marketing of weather data could de­ liner; 269 Lost; Reagan Denounces 'Wanton' America 1984, Millwood was busy bursting velop. It also guarantees that transfer Act."-New York Times, 9-2-83. with pride over their hometown heroine. of the weather satellites would create "Tass Accuses U.S. Of Provocation."­ The beauty pageant winner came to the Washington Post, 9-4-83. small, comfortable Westchester County a government-subsidized monopoly "Israelis Down A Libyan Airliner In The which might ultimately degrade the town while just a baby. Sinai, Killing At Least 7 4; Say It Ignored She grew up in Millwood population 2,500, level of services provided to the public Warning To Land."-New York Times, 2-22- and had the hopes and prayers of the com­ by the National Weather Service. 73. "Arab Nations Outraged; Soviet De­ munity with her as she paraded down the In light of this mounting evidence, runway in Atlantic City Saturday night. we in the Congress have expressed re­ nounces Israel."-New York Times, 2-23-73. "U.S. Reluctant To Criticize Israel For Air The town let loose when she won the title. peatedly our views that weather satel­ Attack."-London Times, 2-23-73. "Everybody in the room stood up, lites provide a legitimate public service Faults are things that make our screamed and hollered, poured champagne," and that any plan to sell them should said David Sarles Jr., 26, who watched the friends human and make our adversar­ pageant on television with about 15 of Wil­ be summarily dropped. Yet the admin­ ies inhuman.e istration has refused to listen to our liams' neighbors. suggestions and has refused to admit Some neighbors set off firecrackers when Williams was named winner. that it made a mistake. TRIBUTE TO VANESSA Edward Hart, Williams' former high It is never easy to admit a mistake, WILLIAMS-MISS AMERICA 1983 school principal, was almost as excited as and I could understand, and perhaps his former student when he heard the good even condone, the administration's in­ HON. MARIO BIAGGI news. transigence on this issue if it were not "He was howling and screaming around so costly. But this continued sham is OF NEW YORK the house," said Hart's son Christopher. costly, and in many ways. While no IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "We were afraid he was going to wake up one who understands the issue be­ Monday, September 19, 1983 the baby." Town firefighters made a banner reading lieves there is the slightest chance •Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, as a Rep­ "Welcome Home Vanessa Williams, Miss that Congress would ever approve the resentative from the State of New America 1984," which community leaders sale of weather satellites, private in­ York it gives me great pleasure to con­ hope to display on her return. dustry in the meantime is forced to gratulate the lovely Ms. Vanessa Wil­ Williams already has a prominent position spend millions of dollars to protect liams of Millwood, N.Y., who captured in one of the town's most popular spots. itself with defensive bids. More impor­ the Miss America pageant this past "I work in a deli down the road," said tantly, pursuing the sale of weather weekend in Atlantic City. Steven Santon, 15, a neighbor, "and we have satellites distracts from the real Vanessa, a student at Syracuse Uni­ a picture of her on the bulletin board."• issue-whether the U.S. Government versity, thus becomes the first black should act decisively to maintain its Miss America in our Nation's history. leadership in land remote-sensing. The She has joined the ranks of other TRADE ACT OF 1974 longer we argue over weather satel­ black pioneers who have broken down lites, the more we are allowing the arbitrary color barriers and have done HON. BOB EDGAR U.S. land remote-sensing capability to so on the basis of merit. Vanessa Wil­ liams was the class of the 1983 contest­ OF PENNSYLVANIA wither away, to be replaced by French IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Japanese capability. ants. She combined beauty with style and grace and blended them in such a Monday, September 19, 1983 Secretary Baldrige stated at a hear­ way as to make both a captivating and ing earlier this year that land remote­ compelling presence to not only the e Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, on sensing is the central issue in this judges at the contest but to the mil­ Thursday, September 15, I was debate and that a vigorous policy initi­ lions of Americans who watched on unavoidably absent when the House ative is needed or the United States television. was considering H.R. 3391, amending will lose its rapidly dwindling techno­ Vanessa Williams, I am proud to the Trade Act of 197 4. As a strong sup­ logical advantage in this field. I agree note, did live for a period of her life in porter of trade adjustment assistance, with his assessment of the Landsat the Bronx, which I have represented I would have voted against the two issue. But I do not agree, nor do any of in Congress for the past 14 years. All amendments to weaken the bill. As the experts who have looked at this of New York State is proud of our passed, H.R. 3391 will make needed problem, that we should sell a weather native daughter, Vanessa Williams, changes in the adjustment assistance satellite system that is working well in and her tremendous accomplishment. program, improving our ability to help order to cross-subsidize our land She has displayed a strong independ­ workers in industries affected by im­ remote-sensing capability. There are ent spirit in her dealings with the ports. Had I been present, I would many other options for preserving our media thus far and her reign as Miss have voted with the majority, against capabilities in this growing industry America promises to be interesting. the attempts to eliminate the special without selling our weather satellites. As President Reagan said in his con­ gratulatory phone call to Vanessa her account and entitlement provisions of I urge my colleagues to restore the bill.• sanity and leadership to this debate by selection was "a wonderful thing for supporting the Andrews resolution.• our Nation." Now as a Nation let us permit Vanessa to enjoy her year as Miss America and not focus so much

11-059 0-87-16 (Pt. 18) 24748 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 19, 1983 A TRIBUTE TO SENATOR JOHN the heart of its leadership on military mat­ When Tower leaves, the Senate will lose TOWER ters. half its contingent from the London School Tower has been in the Senate 22 years, 20 of Economics. miration of his colleagues and the Monday, September 19, 1983 gratitude of the Nation for his insight, Tower thinks probably rightly, he would his calm judgment, and his untiring have been re-elected. Polls show him 20 per­ • Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, on efforts not only on behalf of his State cent ahead of his nearest rival; his job-ap­ September 23, 1983, Max Turchen will proval rating is higher than ever. And he ac­ be honored for 29 years of dedicated of Texas but for all America. His expe­ tually likes campaigning across his unrea­ rience, knowledge, and leadership will sonably vast and complex state. service to my State of California at a be sorely missed in the Senate Cham­ However, the Texas electorate is 11 per­ special. retirement dinner given by his ber, in the Congress and in the coun­ cent black, 18 percent Mexican-American, friends and associates. Max Turchen's try. I personally hope his voice and ef­ and as the 1982 defeat of Gov. Clements activities over the years reflect his spe­ forts will continue wherever he goes. showed, Texas Democrats have been read­ cial interest in the welfare of fell ow JoHN TOWER assumed the chairman­ ing the Republican book on organizing turn­ State employees as well as his dedica­ outs. Tower would not have needed to spend tion to the community at large. ship of one of the most demanding a nickel to build name-recognition, so his committees in the Senate, the prestigi­ campaign might have cost "only" $7 million. Max Turchen was born in Sturgeon ous Armed Services Committee, at a Texas has 19 media markets. Four cover 70 Bay, Wis. He is a graduate of the Uni­ moment in history when this Nation percent of the electorate, but the other 15 versity of Wisconsin where he received had its attention riveted on the need can turn an election like the one Tower won a BA from the school of commerce. to reinvigorate our defenses in the in 1978 by 12,227 out of 2.3 million votes After graduation, Max joined the U.S. face of an unprecedented expansion of cast. Army serving a 4-year tour of duty the Soviet military threat. Since then, Beyond a desire for a fresh and less drain­ with the 1263d Combat Engineer Bat­ ing life, Tower's decision to leave the Senate talion in the European Theater. While no one in Congress has spoken more reflects dismay about the institution. Not forcefully or more effectively on long ago, he says, the Senate was more effi­ in the service he attended an Army behalf of a strong America or Presi­ cient and civil, in part because power was specialized training program in lan­ dent Reagan's defense program than concentrated in a few persons who received guages at the University of Michigan. the distinguished chairman of the considerable deference-persons like Rich­ In 1952, Max Turchen moved to Senate Armed Services Committee. ard Russell, Everett Dirksen, Styles Bridges, California. His career with the State Those who care about the defense of Lyndon Johnson, Bob Kerr. There never of California began in November 1954, was a record vote unless that leadership when he became an employment and our country sincerely hope that he wanted one. That saved time and, even more will continue to lend his voice and his important, prevented what has become claims assistant in the department of efforts to our national endeavor to common-the engineering of record votes, employment. He subsequently served remain strong, and free, and at peace. often on amendments that are going no­ as an employment security officer, in­ George Will has written a tribute to where, often for grandstanding purposes, or dustrial welfare agent, senior industri­ Senator TOWER, in an article that ap­ to get responsible incumbents to make al welfare agent and currently is an peared in the Buffalo Evening News themselves vulnerable to irresponsible chal­ area administrator with the division of lengers by casting politically dangerous labor standards enforcement. on September 14 entitled, "Another votes. Giant Is Leaving the U.S. Senate." Mr. Tower thinks the Senate has "lost its cor­ In 1954, Max became a member of Speaker, I ask that this tribute to my porate memory." Forty-three senators have the California State Employees Asso­ good friend be printed in the RECORD. been there less than six years, and 63 less ciation and began active participation ANOTHER GIANT Is LEAVING THE U.S. SENATE than 10. Too many of the new members are in chapter 4 in 1964 when he became a of the 20, and even more of Senate with those three men missing. tee Governing Council 1970-75; Region September 19, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24749 XI Employees Political Information formation and advanced technology to In the last 10 years alone, Western coun­ Committee Coordinator 1970 present; the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact tries have sold the Soviets $50 billion worth member CSEA Legislative Committee countries. of goods, including machine tools; power 11 years; member CSEA Ad Hoc Com­ During the last 2 years, there have lines; sophisticated technology that has gone into missiles and tanks; command, con­ mittee on Reorganization of Legisla­ been major improvements to the U.S. trol, and communications systems; spy satel­ tive Committee and Poltical Action export control system. Most impor­ lites; and radar. The Russians also have Policy 1973; Los Angeles Institutes of tantly, for the first time since the been able to purchase complete factories, Government, 1967, 1968; Organization early days of detente, the United designed and built by Western companies and southern chairman, California States is devoting increased resources and financed with Western credits, that Labor Standards Association; member, to the enforcement of export controls. produce a substantial part of their military board of directors, San Fernando This is a most difficult task because stockpile. Restraints on Western shipments Credit Union; chairman, Supervising the Soviets and their agents from East to the Soviets actually have weakened in recent years. This is partly because the Committee California . State Employ­ European countries have embarked on people and institutions that are supposed to ees Credit Union No. 3; recipient of a major campaign to acquire advanced regulate this traffic are generally ill CSEA Award of Merit 1979; president Western technology. Until quite re­ equipped to judge the possible impact of of La Cienega Cadillac Community As­ cently, no country within the Western technology transfer; and it is partly because sociation 1980-83; associate chairman alliance devoted the resources neces­ of a blind faith in the virtues of East-West of United Way Aid Campaign for sary to prevent the diversion of ad­ trade. State-Employees 1982-1983. vanced Western technology to the Last year, for example, Datasaab of In all of Max Turchen's endeavors, Soviet Union. At this time, we simply Sweden sold the Soviet Union an air traffic cannot rely on the enforcement capa­ control system that is able to detect any he has had the support of his wife kind of airborne object is an oversophisticated piece of midway through the Carter Administration, find themselves encircled, when Guderian technology whose worthlessness has been Cockburn's point of view is difficult to sus­ and his tank army are charging around demonstrated on the test range. How then tain. A book which treats Soviet weaknesses behind your own lines, when one division is were those Israeli A-4s and F-4s shot down? objectively and deals with qualitative issues fighting to the death for a small patch of Evidently they fell out of the sky of their remains to be written. As for The Threat, it ground, and others are taking to their heels own accord, victims no doubt of American is best summarized by the Soviet pamphlet at the first shot, when deafened switch­ gold-plating. Whence the Threat to Peace?, quoted by board operators, who have not slept for sev­ Other examples of Cockburn's peculiar Cockburn in a different context: "tenden­ eral nights, have to shout someone else's in­ logic abound. For instance, he spends a good tiously selected and deliberately distorted comprehensible orders into telephones-in deal of time documenting the poor quality information about the Armed Forces of the this sort of situation absolutely anything of life in the Soviet armed forces, citing low USSR." can happen. Imagine that, at a moment pay, bad food, inadequate health services, such as this, a division receives ten truck­ and high incidence of alcoholism as evi­ THE RED ARMY-AND Us loads of 7.62 mm cartridges. Suddenly, to dence that the Soviets will perform poorly his horror, the commander realizes that the on the battlefield. The actual relationship is INSIDE THE SOVIET ARMY consignment consists entirely of pistol am­ quite likely to be the reverse: a future war munition. There is nothing for his division's will not be a girls' school outing, and the THE THREAT: INSIDE THE SOVIET MILITARY thousands of rifles and machine guns and a Russian soldier, whose daily privation MACHINE quite unbelievable amount of ammunition merely reflects the lower standard of living Or take a grimmer piece of Soviet military serviceman who has opted for military serv­ S.L.A. Marshall, the great combat histori­ logic: according to Suvorov, the Soviet ice as an alternative to unemployment. an of the United States Army, once wrote forces on the front lines in Eastern Europe There are endless stories from World War II that "The basic study in all warfare is the do not get the most modern Soviet equip­ of the unbelievable toughness of individual mind and nature of the probable enemy, ment. This may seem odd to Americans and Soviet soldiers and the miserable quality of compared to which a technical competence other Westerners, who tend to assume that their service conditions as they fought their in the handling of weapons and engines of the units most likely to enter battle first way-often completely drunk-to Berlin. destruction is of minor importance." Accord­ ought, in fairness, to receive the best equip­ Cockburn's efforts to run down the Soviet ing to Marshall, what needs to be known is ment. The Soviets, however, reason that military would be simpler but for his coun­ not only the quantity and technical charac­ their first echelon will probably suffer near tervailing desire to give the American mili­ teristics of an opponent's military appara­ destruction in the opening battles of a cam­ tary no credit for doing things well. Indeed, tus-his "order of battle," in military paign; hence the most modern equipment the book's stated theme is that "there is jargon-but his culture and psychology, the should go to the follow-on troops, who will very little military rationale to be found in mind, the logic, and the ethos that shape win the war. It was this policy, argues Su­ any of the activities of the superpowers' his military organization. vorov, which enabled the Soviets to absorb armed forces." Cockburn therefore devotes These two books, both of which attempt the German Blitzkieg in 1941 and then sur­ much space to an across-the-board criticism to describe Soviet weapons, military organi­ prise the invaders with masses of troops of American weapons systems, including zation, and doctrine, must be measured by equipped with T-34 tanks, at the time the areas like tactical airpower or anti-subma­ the extent to which they also succeed in de­ best in the world. rine warfare where everyone is agreed we scribing and explaining Soviet military cul­ In short, Suvorov shows how thoroughly have a substantial lead. In his breezy treat­ ture. This task is an exceptionally difficult the Soviets have absorbed the bitter lessons ment of the enormously complicated Quan­ one, for the Soviet Army by design and his­ of the Eastern front in World War II. They tity-Quality debate, Cockburn predictably torical accident has swaddled itself in wraps favor mass and simplicity over quality and accepts James Fallows' criticisms of ad­ of myth, secrecy, and disinformation. technical refinement and he has no illusions about the typically uses it as a basis for attacking the Soviets introduced a 7 .62 mm pistol into an average soldier's commitment to the regime. CIA's competence.> Since the non-Vietnam arsenal already containing a 7.62 mm rifle: He predicts that in a lengthy war, Soviet September 19, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24753 troops would desert in the millions-assum­ armed forces are indeed the inferior of some in Camden County-a tribute he well ing, of course, that they could safely find of those in the West. Nonetheless, the Sovi­ deserves. their way to enemy lines. He describes in ets are increasingly willing to project force Seventy-three years young, Ray­ considerable detail the inefficiency of a mili­ and to sustain long-term and bloody mili­ tary-service system which allows senior re­ tary commitments abroad. The steadily ac­ mond happens to be one of the best cruits to bully and rob the younger ones, a cumulating proof of the use of chemical and known men in Camden and he may system which possesses no seasoned cadre indicates that the Soviets' callousness fully executed his role as elevator op­ of professional noncommissioned officers to toward their own troops is more than erator and managed his shoeshine train, discipline, and set standards for the matched by a willingness to destroy their stand for well over 40 years. He has rank and file. Nonetheless, he makes clear enemies by any means available. As Viktor not missed a day's work at city hall for his belief that the Soviet military machine, Suvorov's book suggests, in war a complete the past 30 years. I feel that the words because of its brutal realism operated by a stolid but third-rate tion and domestic programs, including Arab force. chapter 1 for disadvantaged children, Cockburn does not adequately examine­ RAYMOND WHITE CELEBRATES and cannot conjure away-the staggering 40 YEARS OF COUNTY SERVICES the Education of All Handicapped Act, numerical advantages of the Soviet Army, vocational education, WIC, the special particularly in such key items as tanks and HON. JAMES J. FLORIO supplemental feeding program for artillery pieces. As American campaigns in OF NEW JERSEY women, infants, and children, as well northwest Europe in 1944 and 1945 demon­ as the community services block grant, strated, superior numbers of inferior tanks IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and others. Cin our case, Shermans> backed by vast Monday, September 19, 1983 I would like to stress the importance quantities of artillery, can provide victory­ of several of these programs. Chapter perhaps not elegant or easy victory, but vic­ • Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, I would tory nonetheless. He ignores completely the like to bring to the attention of my 1 is extremely important in meeting advantages of geographical location and the colleagues a lifelong Camden City, the education needs of disadvantaged existence of subservient client states which N.J., resident, Raymond White, who children. This program has improved further enhance Soviet military power. Not has the distinction of celebrating more the achievement levels of poor, educa­ to mention the pervasive secrecy which in than 40 years as an employee of tionally deprived, and minority chil­ 1941, for example, enabled the Soviets to Camden County. I join with the dren; it has also closed the achieve­ surprise the invading Germans with a force Camden County Board of Chosen ment gap between minority and non­ almost twice as large as that estimated by minority students. Even Secretary of German intelligence. Freeholders in honoring this outstand­ Most important of all, Cockburn fails to ing individual. In tribute to Raymond Education Terrel Bell has described it weigh adequately the military advantages of White's dedication and dependability, as "a very successful federally funded Soviet ruthlessness. In quality of organiza­ Thursday, September 22, 1983, will be program." In spite of its effectiveness, tion, equipment, and training, the Soviet designated as "Raymond White Day" the Federal funding for this program 24754 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 19, 1983 was cut nearly 6 percent between nomic problems. I only hope that our During his tenure there, he was ap­ fiscal years 1980 and 1982. At the colleagues in the Senate will be wise pointed a bishop by Pope John XXIII present time, only 47 percent, or 5.2 enough to agree to the reauthorization and was consecrated on January 21, million, of the 11 million eligible chil­ of these programs in conference.e 1963. dren are being served. The new au­ After leaving the Seton Hall presi­ thorization would enable approximate­ dency, Bishop Dougherty served as ly 6.2 million children to be served. PERSONAL EXPLANATION OFFERED pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church in The WIC program has been equally Short Hills, N.J., until September effective in improving the health of 1977. He then returned to Seton Hall pregnant women, infants, and young HON. ROBERT E. WISE, JR. to become the university's first distin­ children who are nutritionally at risk. OF WEST VIRGINIA guished scholar in residence. Bishop Studies show increased birth weights IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Dougherty continues to serve as the and fewer infant health problems Monday, September 19, 1983 chairman of the New Jersey Catholic among WIC participants. According to •Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, according Historical Records Commission at the testimony, every dollar spent on the to the best information I was able to university. He also has recently taken WIC food package can save as much as obtain late last Friday afternoon, on the direction of a group that is ex­ $3 in immediate medical costs. there were not to be any recorded panding its service of reading to the Yet with a reported increase in votes today during proceedings in the blind over the campus radio station. infant mortality, the current WIC Bishop Dougherty's achievements funding level is unable to address the House. Based upon this knowledge, I needs of thousands of eligible women kept the longstanding obligations I and honors are many. During the Viet­ and children. In fact, without an in­ had made in my district. nam war, he established a national or­ crease in the authorization level Early this morning, I learned record­ ganization, Negotiations Now, to focus 500,000 women and children will have ed votes were scheduled for today. By on the "futility of the conflict." He to be dropped from the program. the time I learned of these votes, it was chairman of the Committee on The community services block grant was impossible to catch a commercial World Justice and Peace of the Na­ provides the only Federal pro­ airline flight back to Washington, tional Conference of Bishops and of gram with the specific objective of D.C., in time to cast my votes. the Interfaith Council on Religious ameliorating the causes of poverty. It I missed House rollcalls 342 and and National Affairs. He received a sponsors State and local initiatives, 343-on a motion that the Committee Sylvania award for his work on a Na­ through block grants to States, aimed of the Whole do rise, and final passage tional Broadcasting System documen­ at making poor people self-sufficient. of the State/Justice appropriations. tary, "Rome Eternal." He also has Title IV of H.R. 3520 will maintain the Had I been able to attend, I would been honored with a gold medal award community economic development have voted "aye" on both.• from the Freedoms Foundation. program, programs to address rural Bishop Dougherty has pubished many poverty, the national summer youth TRIBUTE TO BISHOP JOHN J. articles and books. The latter include sports program, programs for the el­ DOUGHERTY "Searching Scripture," a study of the derly poor, programs to assist the fam­ Dead Sea Scrolls, and the recently ilies of migrant and seasonal farm­ HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. completed "Personalities in the Bible." workers, and State and local communi­ To honor this distinguished clerg­ OF NEW JERSEY man, eminent scholar and beloved ty initiatives. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In 1981, when the President pro­ pastor, a pontifical mass will be cele­ posed his New Federalism concept, Monday, September 19, 1983 brated at 3:30 Saturday afternoon in Congress was assured that this was • Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, next the Sacred Heart Cathedral in not an effort to kill the poverty pro­ Saturday, September 24, 1983, a thou­ Newark. The Most Reverend Peter L. gram, but rather an effort to have sand friends and admirers will join Gerety, archbishop of Newark, will States participate more directly in with Auxiliary Bishop John J. Dough­ preside and deliver the homily. Bishop maintaining their own programs. Yet erty of the Archdiocese of Newark as Dougherty will be the principal cele­ for fiscal year 1984, the President has he celebrates the golden anniversary brant. The nine concelebrants will in­ proposed to terminate all assistance of his ordination into the priesthood. clude the other auxiliary bishops of for the community services block Bishop Dougherty's 50-year career the archdiocese, other bishops from grant. The need for a reauthorization as a priest is an illustrious one. A New Jersey, and two men who were of the CSBG was graphically illustrat­ native of Jersey City, N.J., he was classmates of Bishop Dougherty ed in the August 25 New York Times graduated from Seton Hall University during his time in Rome. article by Lisa Belkin entitled "Most in South Orange in 1930. He jour­ That evening there will be a recep­ of 166 Children Pass Health Tests at neyed to Rome to continue his prepa­ tion and dinner at Seton Hall to con­ Shelter." The children's health dete­ ration for the priesthood and was or­ tinue the celebration of Bishop riorated largely as a result of poor dained in Rome on July 23, 1933. He Dougherty's golden jubilee. Auxiliary housing and poverty. "None of them went on to earn advanced degrees in Bishop Joseph A. Francis will be the eat," said Bianca Carbera, the chil­ Rome, including a doctorate in Sacred principal speaker. dren's mother, "they don't like the Scripture. It is a pleasure and a privilege for roaches crawling on the food." Upon his return to the United me to join in honoring Bishop Dough­ The CSBG can directly address this States, Bishop Dougherty, a highly re­ erty for his invaluable contributions to kind of problem. Block grant funds spected scholar, became professor of the religious and educational life of can be used "to obtain and maintain Sacred Scripture at Immaculate Con­ my State and for his devotion to the adequate housing and a suitable living ception Seminary in Mahwah, N.J., in well being of our citizens. I wish him environment" as well as providing 1937. In addition, he conducted the well in his current labors and future emergency assistance to meet "urgent Catholic Hour, a highly regarded net­ endeavors. individual and family needs, including work radio and television program We are proud of Bishop Dougherty the need for health services, nutritious sponsored by the National Council of and all his accomplishments and I food, and housing." Catholic Men. want to thank the cochairmen of this The passage of the Rehabilitation In 1959, Bishop Dougherty was golden anniversary celebration, Bren­ Act Amendments of 1983 will insure chosen to be the 13th president of his dan T. Byrne, former Governor of that the poor and disadvantaged gain alma mater, Seton Hall. He held that New Jersey, and Robert R. Ferguson, some relief from their pressing eco- prestigious position for 10 years. Jr., chief operating officer of the First September 19, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24755 National State Bank Corp. of Newark Tenneco adopted the elderly housing traveled through several sub-Saharan and all the many others who orga­ project at 6000 Telephone Road. African nations. He wrote a series of nized this most fitting tribute to Texas Ea.stem is working with residents of enlightening reports which were pub­ Bishop Dougherty·• the Lyerly project at 75 Lyerly, and Bank of the Southwest has adopted Bellerive, 7225 lished in the Oregonian, Oregon's larg­ Bellerive. est daily newspaper. I believe it would CORPORATIONS "ADOPT" Ketelsen also is serving on a citizens com­ be useful to share with my colleagues ELDERLY mittee working with the housing authority Mr. Kristof's observations. His first to determine what should be done with report follows: Allen Parkway Village. HON. JACK FIELDS The theme of the program of HEART­ CHRONIC POVERTY MARKS SUB-SAHARA'S OF TEXAS Help Elderly Achieve Real Ties. It has the STAGNATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES enthusiastic support of Earl Phillips, execu­ . NAPPH is a nonprofit liner. certain the competitive forces that 24758 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 19, 1983 exist today would continue. We surely SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS as an executive department of the can do better than that. Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, Federal Government. Many segments of our society: con­ agreed to by the Senate on February SD-342 sumers, parents, women, minorities, Judiciary 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a Administrative Practice and Procedure and the elderly have all voiced their system for a computerized schedule of Subcommittee strong opposition to the proposed FCC all meetings and hearings of Senate To hold hearings on the substance of S. actions. committees, subcommittees, joint com­ 1080, to improve and modify the Fed­ They all fear that it would be the mittees, and committees of conference. eral regulatory reform process (pend­ end of competition in the television This title requires all such committees ing on Senate calendar). markets if the FCC succeeds in abol­ to notify the Office of the Senate SD-562 ishing syndication rights for produc­ •Labor and Human Resources Daily Digest-designated by the Rules Business meeting, to consider S. 1838, ers. Committee-of the time, place, and authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984, Mr. Speaker, we must preserve the purpose of the meetings, when sched­ 1985, and 1986 for the Legal Services competition and diversity in the televi­ uled, and any cancellations or changes Corporation, and other pending com­ sion industry. We must keep intact the in the meetings as they occur. mittee business. independent producer community, As an additional procedure along SD-430 with its vitality and energy. with the computerization of this infor­ Conferees I have cosponsored H.R. 2250, to pre­ mation, the Office of the Senate Daily On H.R. 3263, appropriating funds for vent the FCC from repealing the syn­ Digest will prepare this information fiscal year 1984 for military construc­ tion programs of the Department of dication rules for at least 5 years. for printing in the Extensions of Re­ Defense. If those rules are repealed, and the marks section of the CONGRESSIONAL S-128, Capitol FCC and its allies win, the American RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of 2:00 p.m. people will be the losers.e each week. Judiciary Any changes in committee schedul­ To hold hearings on pending nomina­ ing will be indicated by placement of tions. THE GLITTER OF GOLDSTEIN an asterisk to the left of the name of SD-226 the unit conducting such meetings. 3:00 p.m. Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, Conferees HON. MARJORIE S. HOLT September 20, 1983, may be found in On H.R. 3415, appropriating funds for OF MARYLAND fiscal year 1984 for the District of Co­ the Daily Digest of today's RECORD. lumbia government. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES H-302, Capitol MEETINGS SCHEDULED Monday, September 19, 1983 SEPTEMBER 22 •Mrs. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, on Sep­ SEPTEMBER 21 9:30 a.m. tember 28, the Mental Health Associa­ 9:30 a.m. Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry tion of Maryland will sponsor a testi­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Soil and Water Conservation, Forestry monial dinner to honor the 70th birth­ Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee and Environment Subcommittee day of Maryland State Comptroller, To hold hearings on S. 1821, proposed To hold hearings on S. 566, S. 1503, and Louis L. Goldstein, and his 45 years of Secondary Mortgage Market Enhance­ S. 129, miscellaneous land conveyance ment Act. bills. service to the State of Maryland. SD-538 SR-328A Another name for his job is tax col­ Commerce, Science, and Transportation Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs lector. It might seem strange to you To hold oversight hearings on the imple­ Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee that a person with that job would be mentation of the Motor Carrier Act To continue hearings on S. 1821, pro­ the most popular public figure in the CP.L. 96-296). posed Secondary Mortgage Market En­ State of Maryland, but that is the SR-253 hancement Act. truth of the matter. 10:00 a.m. SD-538 You could not possibly understand it Energy and Natural Resources 10:00 a.m. if you have not known Mr. Goldstein, Business meeting, to consider pending Energy and Natural Resources calendar business. Business meeting, to consider pending a man of such bouyant good cheer and SD-366 calendar business. enthusiasm that it would be impossi­ Environment and Public Works SD-366 ble to imagine his having an enemy. Business meeting, to consider proposed Foreign Relations I dare to say that most citizens of amendments to the Clean Water Act To hold hearings to review recent devel­ Maryland have met Mr. Goldstein on . women, and the substance of S. 372, to SD-138 SD-342 promote interstate commerce by pro­ Labor and Human Resources hibiting discrimination in the writing OCTOBER6 Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ and selling of insurance contracts. 9:30 a.m. mittee SD-430 Energy and Natural Resources To resume hearings on a Presidential 10:00 a.m. Energy Conservation and Supply Subcom­ commission report on excellence in Energy and Natural Resources mittee education, and to review Federal and Business meeting, to consider pending To hold hearings on S. 1366, to imple­ State efforts to impose higher stand­ calendar business. ment the recommendations of the In­ ards in education. SD-366 terim Report of the Northern Mariana SD-430 Finance Islands Commission on Federal Laws, Joint Economic Social Security and Income Maintenance and to revise certain provisions of the Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Programs Subcommittee Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Is­ Policy Subcommittee To resume hearings on S. 1691, to re­ lands and the Organic Act of Guam, To hold hearings on certain economic structure the administration of the and S. 1367, to repeal certain provi­ issues relating to the Soviet Union. child support enforcement program, sions of law relating to the territories 2203 Rayburn Building and a related proposal, S. 1708. and insular possessions of the United SD-215 States. SEPTEMBER 30 Labor and Human Resources SD-366 9:00 a.m. Family and Human Services Subcommit­ Labor and Human Resources Energy and Natural Resources tee Business meeting, to consider pending Public Lands and Reserved Water Sub­ To resume oversight hearings on the calendar business. committee breakdown of the traditional family SD-430 To hold hearings on S. 837, to designate unit, focusing on the role of govern­ 10:00 a.m. certain lands in the State of Washing­ ment. Environment and Public Works ton as wilderness. SD-628 Business meeting, to consider S. 23, S. SD-366 11:00 a.m. 532, and S. 1330, bills to develop long­ 9:30 a.m. Finance term job opportunities in public works. Finance Social Security and Income Maintenance SD-406 Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service Programs Subcommittee Joint Economic Subcommittee To resume hearings on S. 1691, to re­ To resume hearings on job training To hold hearings on S. 1262, to clarify structure the administration of the needs of American workers. and expedite Internal Revenue Service child support enforcement program, SD-138 audits of religious organizations. and a related proposal, S. 1708. SD-215 SD-215 September 19, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24761 OCTOBER7 OCTOBER 20 OCTOBER 27 9:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Joint Economic Labor and Human Resources Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on the employment/ Labor Subcommittee Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ unemployment statistics for Septem­ To hold hearings on proposed legislation mittee ber. to improve and clarify the employee To hold oversight hearings on Federal SD-106 retirement income security program. arts policy. SD-430 SD-430 OCTOBER 17 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Environment and Public Works NOVEMBER2 Environment and Public Works Business meeting, to consider pending 10:00 a.m. calendar business. Labor and Human Resources Toxic Substances and Environmental SD-406 Oversight Subcommittee To resume hearings to review Federal Labor and Human Resources and State efforts to impose higher To hold hearings to review environmen­ Aging Subcommittee tal research and development pro­ standards in education. To hold hearings to review certain pro­ SD-430 grams. grams for older veterans. SD-406 SD-628 NOVEMBER3 OCTOBER 18 OCTOBER 21 9:30 a.m. Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Labor Subcommittee Energy and Natural Resources Environment and Public Works To hold hearings on proposed legislation Energy and Mineral Resources Subcom­ Toxic Substances and Environmental to revise certain provisions of the Fed­ mittee Oversight Subcommittee eral Employees Compensation Act. To hold hearings on S. 1634, to repeal To hold hearings on ground water con­ SD-430 certain provisions of the Federal Coal tamination. Leasing Act Amendments of 1976. SD-406 NOVEMBER9 SD-366 Judiciary Courts Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. Judiciary Labor and Human Resources Security and Terrorism Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 1581, to grant congressional approval to the Central To resume hearings to review Federal To hold hearings to examine the influ­ and State efforts to impose higher ence of communism in liberation the­ Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact. standards in education. ology. SD-430 SD-226 SD-226 Judiciary OCTOBER 25 NOVEMBER 15 Administrative Practice and Procedure 10:00 a.m. Subcommittee 9:30 a.m. Governmental Affairs Labor and Human Resources To resume oversight hearings to provide Aging Subcommittee indemnification to Government con­ Oversight of Government Management Subcommittee To hold hearings to redefine old age tractors against the risks of cata­ provisions contained in the Older strophic accidents and noncatastro­ To hold oversight hearings to review computer security in the Federal Gov­ Americans Act. phic accidents for which the Govern­ SD-430 ment is primarily responsible. ernment and the private sector. Room to be announced SD-562 NOVEMBER 16 Labor and Human Resources Labor and Human Resources Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Subcommit­ To resume oversight hearings on alleged 9:00 a.m. tee illegal sales of union memberships or Labor and Human Resources books to unqualified welders by offi­ Business meeting, to consider pending Business meeting, to mark up S. 503, to calendar business. make it unlawful to manufacture, ad­ cials of local chapters of the Interna­ tional Brotherhood of Boilermakers, SD-430 vertise, distribute, or possess a drug 9:30 a.m. which is an imitation of a controlled Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forg­ ers and Helpers. Labor and Human Resources substance. To hold hearings to review the human SD-628 SD-430 resources impact of the U.S. Supreme Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.m. Labor and Human Resources Court's legislative veto decision. Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ SD-430 mittee Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ To resume oversight hearings on voca­ mittee To resume oversight hearings on voca­ NOVEMBER 29 tional education programs adminis­ 10:00 a.m. tered by the Department of Educa­ tional educational programs adminis­ tered by the Department of Educa­ Labor and Human Resources tion. Aging Subcommittee SD-430 tion. SD-628 To hold hearings to review targeted OCTOBER 19 scarce resource provisions of the Older 9:00 a.m. OCTOBER 26 Americans Act. Labor and Human Resources 9:00 a.m. SD-430 Business meeting, to consider pending Labor and Human Resources calendar business. Business meeting, to consider pending NOVEMBER30 SD-430 calendar business. 9:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. SD-430 Labor and Human Resources Labor and Human Resources 9:30 a.m. Business meeting, to consider pending To hold hearings to review Federal and Governmental Affairs calendar business. State efforts to impose higher stand­ Oversight of Government Management SD-430 ards in education. Subcommittee SD-430 To continue oversight hearings to DECEMBERS 10:00 a.m. review computer security in the Feder­ 10:00 a.m. Judiciary al Government and the private sector. Labor and Human Resources Security and Terrorism Subcommittee SD-628 Aging Subcommittee To continue hearings to examine the in­ Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings to review long-term fluence of communism in liberation To hold hearings to review volunteer ini­ care policy provisions of the Older theology. tiatives in health. Americans Act. SD-226 SD-430 SD-430