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CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO Jack began his union career as an organiz­ summarized the results of our seven public MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS er for the International Pulp, Sulphite & Paper hearings as follows: "Our country faces seri­ AND JACK SHEINKMAN Mill Workers before joining the Amalgamated ous problems with respect to our long-term Clothing Workers of America in 1953. At the energy security, and these problems could ACTWU, he led the union in two historic labor become critical unless action is taken without HON. ROBERT A. ROE struggles, the EPIC campaign on the Texas­ delay"-"Subcommittee Investigation Discov­ OF NEW JERSEY Mexican border to bring social and economic ers Dangers to U.S. Energy Security That Call justice to workers at the Farah manufacturing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for Action Now," remarks on the House floor, plants in El Paso and San Antonio, which took CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, November 20, Tuesday, October 23, 1990 22 months before its successful conclusion. 1989, page H9424. In addition, he led the struggle to permit We concluded by imploring the President to Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pride unionization of the J.P. Stevens textile plants publish a national energy policy without delay. and admiration that I rise today in tribute to which had begun years earlier by the Textile We pointed out that "lead times are long in two outstanding Americans, Msgr. George G. Workers ·Union of America and which was the energy field and the next 5 to 10 years Higgins and Jack Sheinkman, president of the continued by the ACTWU after the merger. are critical." Because of this time element, we Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers of His efforts culminated with contractual agree­ concluded that: "Every passing month without America. Through their actions, these two indi­ ment being reached in 1980. an energy policy * * * cuts down the coun­ viduals have contributed so much to the labor Jack is a vice president of the AFL-CIO and try's margin of safety in energy security; every movement of our country and working people its industrial union department and chairman passing season sees us forfeit export opportu­ everywhere. of its executive council committee on benefit nities for energy techologies that this country On November 15, 1990, the eighth annual funds. He also serves as vice president of the should be developing; every passing year Sol Stetin Award Dinner will be held in my International Textile Garment & Leather Work­ without direction in this vital field erodes the Eighth Congressional District at the West­ ers' Federation. leadership capability of the United States in mount Country Club in West Paterson, NJ. As part of his work on behalf of ACTWU organizing responses to global energy and en­ This festive occasion will honor Monsignor members, Jack plays an active and leading vironmental problems." Higgins and President Sheinkman who are role in a number of organizations working to this year's recipients of the prestigious Sol SITUATION IN AUTUMN OF 1989 achieve greater equality and justice in the At the time of our first report, the situation Stetin Award. workplace, promote civil liberties, defend The dinner will benefit the Botto House, was as follows: workers' rights, improve collective bargaining The dependency of the U.S. economy of oil which was declared a national landmark in and labor management relations. He is also 1983. The Botto House played a major role as imports had grown from 28 percent in 1982 involved in efforts to promote world peace and 1983 to 38 percent in 1988, according to a haven for free speech and assembly during and establish free trade unions and democrat­ a stirring chapter of U.S. history, the 1913 Pa­ the Department of Energy's conservative net ic institutions in other countries. import method of calculation-or, about 43 terson silk strike. The 6-month strike involved Mr. Speaker, it is indeed an honor to pay more than 23,000 silk workers and is consid­ percent according to the American Petroleum tribute to these two outstanding American citi­ Institute's gross import method; ered to be a milestone toward reform of the zens who have done so much to aid the work­ American workplace, eventually resulting in President Rea~an had made a formal find­ ing men and women of our great Nation. I ing that the 1988 level of imports "threatens the acceptance of the 8-hour day, minimum salute Msgr. George G. Higgins and Jack wage standards, and other worker benefits to impair the national security"; Sheinkman, the 1990 recipients of the Sol Oil imports were running about 42 percent now broadly enjoyed by Americans. Stetin Award. Mr. Speaker, Msgr. George G. Higgins of of U.S. consumption-Department of the Catholic University of America is one of Energy-for the first three-quarters of 1989, the leading spokespersons for the Catholic INTERIM REPORT ON SUBCOM­ the fourth highest level in U.S. history; Church in the United States on matters affect­ MITTEE INVESTIGATION AND The margin of safety for electricity genera­ ing labor. He is currently an adjunct lecturer at SENSE OF CONGRE~SS RESOLU­ tion stood only two points above minimum re­ the department of theology at this fine univer­ TION THAT THE PRESIDENT quirements for the Nation as a whole, and 2 sity. COMPLETE A NATIONAL points below minimum safety standards for Monsignor Higgins was born in Chicago, IL, ENERGY POLICY the Atlantic Seaboard, from Florida to on January 21, 1916. He was educated at Quebec; Catholic schools in the Chicago area, graduat­ HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR The administration did not have a national energy policy to address these problems, as ing from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in OF OHIO mandated by statute in 1977. The administra­ Mundelein, IL, in 1939. Graduate study in eco­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion was studying the matter, including a nomics and political science followed at the Wednesday, October 24, 1990 Catholic University of America, where he series of hearings that began on July 31, earned his Ph.D. in 1944. One of the proudest Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, before the 101 st 1989. moments in his life came on May 18, 1940, Congress adjourns, I want to update the Mem­ SITUATION IN THE AUTUMN OF 1990 when he was ordained a priest. He was sub­ bers on a 2-year long inquiry of the Subcom­ A year later the situation has changed for sequently named monsignor in October 1953, mittee on Economic Stabilization on energy the worse: and domestic prelate in December 1959. security, and to place before this body a reso­ Oil imports for the first 7 months of 1990 Mr Speaker, tonight we also honor Jack lution that embodies my conclusion that the were running at 45 percent of U.S. consump­ Sheinkman, president of the Amalgamated President should comply with the Energy Or­ tion-Department of Energy, or 50 percent ac­ Clothing & Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO, ganization Act of 1977 by developing and an­ cording to API, the second highest level in CLC. Jack was elected to the presidency of nouncing a national energy policy on or before American history; the union in June 1987, after serving as sec­ December 31, 1990. The Gas Research Institute estimates that retary-treasurer and cochief executive officer SUMMARY OF 1989 REPORT TO THE HOUSE the United States will be 60 percent depend­ of the union since 1972. Prior to 1972, he Last year at about this time, as chair of the ent on foreign oil by the year 2000 and 65 served as a vice president of the union. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization, I percent by 201 0;

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 33828 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 24, 1990 The pending Clean Air Act amendments, LEGISLATION OF 1977 REFLECTS WISE DIVISION OF were incorporated into this year's Housing bill according to the Electric Power Research In­ LABOR (S. 566). stitute and the North American Electric Reli­ The congressional decision of 1977 to The House Energy Committee, under the ability Council, hold the potential of driving the place the responsibility on the President, in able chairmanship of the gentleman from safety margin for electricity generation down my judgment, reflects a proper division of Michigan [Mr. DINGELL] and the Energy and to 3.6 percent below minimum standards for labor between the legislative and executive Power Subcommittee under the equally able the entire Eastern United States by the mid- branches. chairmanship of the gentleman from Indiana 1990's, making a series of blackouts and The President, as chief executive officer, [Mr. SHARP] have made extremely important brownouts almost inevitable; can call upon approximately 2 million employ­ contributions to the Nation's energy security Events in the Middle East removed 4.3 mil­ ees, including 16,000 full-time employees of during this 1OOth Congress, including the leg­ lion barrels per day of oil from the world the Department of Energy, as well as the ex­ islation to increase the strategic petroleum re­ market; pertise of the Council of Economic Advisors, serve to 1 billion barrles. the Department of Transportation, and the En­ Our subcommittee had conducted 11 public CONGRESS CAN NOT DO THE JOB ALONE hearings on various aspects of energy securi­ vironmental Protection Agency to assist him in making energy policy. There is no comparable But the press and the public should recog­ ty; nize that no single Member of Congress can The administration still does not have an organizational mechanism in the Congress to coordinate the work of a dozen or more com­ do this job alone and no committee or group energy policy for addressing the problems of mittees of the House and Senate having juris­ of committees can do this job. Leadership energy security, although the Energy Depart­ diction over various facets of energy policy, must come from a unified execuitve under ment, has now held 15 hearings around the and to do so on a continuous basis. To make strong direction of the President. country, and President Bush has had nearly 2 truly national decisions in the national interest, CURRENT EVENTS MAKE ENERGY POLICY IMPERATIVE years since his election to ponder the gravity we must look to the President as the chief na­ Events in the Middle East have underscored of these matters. tional executive. that the time of this fundamental issue of THE PRESIDENT'S DECADE OF INVOLVEMENT In my opinion, those that say Congress energy security has come. Finally, the issue It is pertinent to note that President Bush should develop the national energy policy, are seems to be on the cover of every magazine. was also Vice President for 8 years under the missing the point: Congress has already made Fortune magazine's special report of Septem­ administration that found oil imports at 38 per­ a decision, in 1977, which I believe was wise, ber 10, 1990, states: "This country is hostage cent constituted a threat to the national secu­ that the President should be responsible for to the unpredictable politics of a region that is rity. Does President Bush acknowledge any formulating an overall national energy policy. a perpetual powder keg. What is needed now responsibility for that decision? Does he agree TASK IS DIFFICUI.. T is a clearer vision of where we go from here with it or disagree with it? Does he think that Certainly, that task is not easy. But, if the * * * All those calls we keep hearing for an the present levels of oil imports impair the na­ President is not supposed to make difficult de­ energy policy numb the ears, but they are tional security? Does he think that 60 or 65 cisions, what is he supposed to do? Not only righf'. percent dependency levels will be a threat to does the President have the resources to One unfortunate consequence of not having the national security and independence? If he decide upon energy security policies, he also an energy policy is that vital energy decisions believes there are problems, what does he has a political advantage in doing so. In our are being made piecemeal in other contexts think should be done to address them? system of government, the President repre­ that do not bring to light their full implications The answer is that the Congress and the sents all of the American people. In contrast, or interrrelationships. A prime example is the public are totally in the dark because Presi­ Members of Congress represents individual pending Clean Air Act, which is probably the dent Bush is not telling the American people States and districts that may contain a pre­ most important energy policy statute of the what he thinks about energy security. ponderence of one kind of interest or another decade. But, what thought has been given to FURTHER DELAY PROMISED that they must take into account. The Presi­ energy security during consideration of this Furthermore, spokespersons for the Presi­ dent alone is in a position to balance all the bill? Precious little, in my opinion. Does the dent have said that it will not be until some­ interests and resources concerned and to legislation to restrict exploration for oil and time in April 1991 that the President will an­ arrive at an energy policy in the national inter­ gas in widely separated areas consider energy nounce his energy policy or plan or strategy, est. He is also in the best position to focus at­ security? The budget agreement will make far­ or whatever he choses to call it. tention and effort on the achievement of reaching decisions on excise and personal energy goals and programs. taxes that will undoubtedly influence the fur­ GUIDANCE REQUIRED NOW CONGRESS IS WILLING T.O HELP ture energy climate. Have the implications for Mr. Speaker, I submit that it is unreasonable I believe Congress has been offering to energy security been considered? I think not. and dangerous for the President to wait an­ assist the President in this matter. For exam­ To paraphrase President Lincoln, the occa­ other half year before Congress and the ple, I feel that our extensive hearings have sion is piled high with difficulty, and we must public can see an energy policy. In my opin­ helped the cause by educating the public to rise to the occasion-the leisurely approach of ion, this leisurely pace became unacceptable the issues on which we must reach a national the quiet past to energy policy is unequal to after the Reagan-Bush administration made a consensus. I have also made specific policy the stormy present and the perilous future. finding in, January 1989, that a 38.1- percent suggestions to the President by letter follow­ THRUST OF THE RESOLUTION level of import dependence threatens to ing the invasion of Kuwait. I would be glad to The resolution I am introducing today calls impair the national security. make additional suggestions, if consulted. upon the President to complete and submit to MANDATE OF THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT I would be glad to work in the future the Congress his national energy policy by ORGANIZATION ACT through subcommittees and committees on December 31, 1990. This timing will permit In my opinion, Congress should express its which I serve to evaluate, possibly improve, Congress, industry, and the public to benefit opinion that further delay is even more unac­ and implement recommendations that are a from its guidance and to begin the essential ceptable because of lessons taught by current part of a national energy policy. processes of analysis and implementation. events in the Middle East. Congress plainly ENERGY INITIATIVES OF THE 101ST CONGRESS For all of these reasons, I hope my col­ mandated in the Energy Department Organi­ . In addition to our subcommittee's 11 hear­ leagues will join in the sponsorship of the res­ zation Act of 1977 that the President should ings on energy security, I have taken some olution, so that an immediate message can be establish an energy policy for the guidance of specific legislative initiatives in the energy se­ sent to the White House on energy security: producers, industry, business, homeowners, curity area. The Defense Production Act, "Mr. President, get the job done." consumers, environmentalists, and State and which was drafted by my subcommittee and is H. CoN REs.- local governments, and that he update that close to passage, provides a number of meas­ Whereas oil import levels in the United policy every 2 years. That decision was made ures to enhance energy security for the Na­ States reached 28 percent of total United by a Congress consisting of both parties, and tion's defense industrial base. In March of this States oil consumption in 1982 and 1983; was made while a President of the other party year, I proposed a comprehensive program for Whereas, when oil import levels in the was in the White House. It was not a partisan increasing energy efficiency in residential United States reached 38 percent of total action; it was an institutional action. buildings. A number of my recommendations United States oil consumption in 1988, October 24, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33829 President Reagan declared that such levels I ask that my colleagues join me in paying Fourteen other nuns were similarly seized threatened to impair the national security; tribute to Ms. Morrison for her outstanding ac­ when they attempted to join their sisters in Whereas oil import levels in the United complishments and successes. I submit for protest. These courageous nuns were calling States have now reached approximately 50 percent of total United States oil consump­ your review the following article which was for freedom for their country and for, of all tion; written by Rosalyn Retkwa and featured in the things, the cessation of forced blood dona­ Whereas oil import levels in the United October 15, 1990, edition of Crain's Business tions by political prisoners. At first the latter States are expected to reach 60 percent of magazine. may strike Members as a strange demand­ total United States oil consumption in 2000 YVONNE FLORANT MORRISON untl they realize the savage policy that lies and 65 percent of total United States oil behind it. consumption in 2010; Whereas the current interruption in In 1979, Yvonne Florant Morrison quit a To avoid further international outcry over il­ United States oil importation of 4.3 million "beautiful" job at American Express Co. legal executions, Chinese authorities are ap­ barrels per day from Kuwait and Iraq dra­ after five years as a senior electronic data parently forcing political prisoners to make fre­ matically illustrates the dangers of reliance processing auditor. quent blood donations to the Army. This prac­ The job with AmEx had its benefits, in­ on imported oil for the security and inde­ tice, combined with near-starvation conditions pendence of the United States; cluding international travel. But, Ms. Morri­ son recalls, "For a long time I was the only in the prisons, condemns these innocent cap­ Whereas the current interruption in tives to a gradual, tortuous, yet apparently United States oil importation from Kuwait female in the audit department of about 50 and Iraq is the 4th oil shock generated by people. I was training guys who were being natural, death. These brave men and women events in the Middle East since 1956; promoted over me." are literally having their life slowly siphoned Whereas section 801 of the Department of As an independent programming consult­ out of them. Energy Organization Act requires the Presi­ ant, Ms. Morrison flourished. "I had an ex­ To inform Members of this latest of human dent to prepare and submit to the Congress pertise in a type of programming widely used by banks and financial companies," she rights atrocities, I am placing in the CONGRES­ a proposed National Energy Policy Plan SIONAL RECORD a report I receive today from every 2 years; says. "And I got paid big bucks." Whereas the President has not prepared In 1983, she founded Stanley Computer the Office of Tibet, a human rights monitoring and submitted to the Congress a proposed Systems Inc., a Manhattan-based company group based in New York. National Energy Policy Plan during the 21 specializing in systems design and program­ Hopefully greater awareness by the world months he has been in office; ming. She now employs 50, and revenues community can force an end to this inhuman Whereas the President can call upon the have doubled annually over the last three form of execution and 1 day permit the winds resources of the entire Federal Government, years to an estimate $1.8 million. In recognition of those successes, Ms. of freedom now sweeping the world to blow including the Department of Energy, to also across the board mountain uplands of assist him in preparing a proposed National Morrison was recently singled out by the Energy Policy Plan; Small Business Administration, which Tibet. Whereas, pursuant to section 801 teaching mathematics. Nepalse tourists learned in Lhasa that the can implement appropriate energy-related In 1968, while studying for her doctorate Chinese prison authorities had forced the practices: Now, therefore, be it resolved in nuclear physics at Columbia University, Tibetan prisoners to donate blood for the Resolved by the House of Representatives she was recruited by International Business Chinese Army. "Till now the Tibetan politi­ fthe Senate concurring), That it is the sense Machines Corp. to its systems degree divi­ cal prisoners, and only political prisoners, of the Congress that the President should sion, where she spent six years. have been subjected three times to be blood prepare and submit to the Congress a pro­ On weekends, the SBA awardee, who also extraction," the Tibetans told the Nepalese. posed National Energy Policy Plan under earned a master's degree in business admin­ "Afraid of international outcry over exe­ section 801 of the Department of Energy istration from New York University, escapes cution of Tibetan prisoners, the Chinese Organization Act <42 U.S.C. 7321) before to a country home in Vermont. Her three have resorted to this practice in order to December 31, 1990. children, now in their 30s, all work for their give them a slow and apparently natural mother's company. death", the Nepalese had been told. The tourists had also been informed of the poor IN RECOGNITION OF YVONNE condition in prison and near starvation diet FLORANT MORRISON A NEW KIND OF POLITICAL which combined with "so much blood ex­ EXECUTION IN TIBET traction would definitely kill the prisoners." The mood in Lhasa among the Tibetan HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS people is that of fear and anxiety, said the OF NEW YORK HON. CHUCK DOUGLAS Nepalese travelers. "We were told that the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Chinese police have regular night arrests. Wednesday, October 24, 1990 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRgSENTATIVES People just disappear at nights." Wednesday, October 24, 1990 "The Chinese have also stopped issuing Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, it is with great travel permits to the Tibetans as they sus­ pleasure that I rise to recognize an astounding Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. Speaker, Members are pect that the Tibetans will go to Sarnath in woman, Ms. Yvonne Florant Morrison. well aware of the cruel occupation of Tibet by Varanasi, India, to receive Kalachakra Ms. Morrison's desire to own and operate a the Communist Chinese and the brutal sup­ teachings from the Dalia Lama. What's successful business is heroic and should pression that for 30 years has plagued the more, they have stepped up restrictions on people of that troubled land. What they may the movement of people with so many check stand as a shining example of what is possi­ points on the roads to Nepal that it is im­ ble with determination and a belief in oneself. not know is that Chinese authorities have now possible for the Tibetans to escape." I join the Small Business Administration in descended to new levels of barbarity. Earlier, on 13 September 1990, some nuns their tribute to Ms. Morrison as the Minority On September 28, 14 Tibetan nuns from demonstrated in Tsethang, Lhoka, Central Small Business Person of the Year for the the Gari Convent were arrested by Chinese Tibet, against the Chinese rule. The sources New York region. police for demonstrating in the city of Lhasa. could not give more details on this event. 33830 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 24-, 1.990 ATTLEBORO, MA, CHAMBER OF His wife of 13 years, the former Patti The Digest, the Chamber's monthly maga­ COMMERCE ANNOUNCES Martel, has supported his work. The couple zine, summed up his selection: PERSON OF THE YEAR has informally "adopted" several Cambodi­ "Donlevy's record of community service an children from a single-pa.rent family or it has been achieved at considerable financial could be said the Cambodians adopted Don­ cost and personal sacrifice. He is most de­ HON. BARNEY FRANK levy. The youngest of these today is 19 serving of the honor of receiving the OF MASSACHUSETTS years old. "Person of the Year Award." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "Presently I need them more than they need me," says Donlevy, "Tlhey keep memo­ Wednesday, October 24, 1990 tivated. They keep me focused and I see the SOUTHERN MARYLAND TRI- Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, I want to con­ light at the end of the tunnel." COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION gratulate the chamber of commerce of the At­ The Donlevys had met a.t Marathon Co. COMMITTEE CELEBRATES 25TH tleboro, MA, area for its selection of William where she still works. It was also at Mara­ ANNIVERSARY thon that Donlevy got his introduction to Donlevy as the 1990 Person of the Year. the social service field. He was asked to con­ The Attleboro Chamber is an excellent or­ duct an English class as a second language HON. ROY DYSON ganization which makes a very significant con­ program for Spanish speaking employees. OF MARYLAND tribution to the economic life of the Attleboro After a year the program was discontinued IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES area. I have found the chamber and its execu­ and Donlevy began holding classes in his tives and offices to be a valued source of in­ home at night. Wednesday, October 24, 1990 formation and advice on matters of affecting Before long others sought his help not Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to economy activity in the region. Executive Di­ only to speak English but al.so for assistance at reading and writing. pay tribute to the men and women who have rector Gerry Keane has been especially help­ For five years, Donlevy worked from his contributed to the success of the Southern ful. home. He then worked with the Attleboro Maryland Tri-County Community Action Com­ It is typical of the good work that the cham­ Area Center for Training to get classroom mittee whi~h is celebrating its 25th anniversa­ ber does that its leaders has selected William space and to raise support for the educa­ ry on October 27. 1990. Donlevy for this award. As director of compre­ tional program. Mr. Speaker, since its beginning in 1965, hensive social services, Mr. Donlevy has As director of CSSA, Donlevy adminis­ this agency has had nine executive directors: worked very hard, very creatively, and very tered the Gateways program which provid­ George Beschner, Charles Cain, Donald ably to help immigrants realize the American ed interpreter and English as a second lan­ guage to the Cambodian community. Fund­ Curtis, George Shawell, William Welch, Duane dream. Personally and professionally Mr. ing for the program ended at the end of Yoder, Jacque Lee, Terrance Conn, and its Donley exemplifies the blend of effectiveness June 1989. current executive director, Dana Jones. The and compassion that is so important in our One of the programs for Gateways provid­ programs which this fine agency has devel­ effort to live up to our national ideas. ed an interpreter for health issues seminars oped over the years continue under the direc­ The accompanying article from the Sun at the family planning center. tion of Mr. Jones. The Community Action Chronicle, October 17, gives the full flavor of One of Donlevy's most recent efforts was Committee has filled an important gap and Mr. Donlevy's work, and I insert it here. assisting the Girl Scouts in establishing a has provided hope and assistance for count­ troop in the Asian community which, in At­ DONLEVY EMBRACED BY CHAMBER FOR HIS tleboro, is mostly Cambodia.n. In four meet­ less residents of southern Maryland. OUTREACH TO IMMIGRANTS ings, the interest has grown from three to I would like to share the background of this -A staff of one, coordinates and ad­ unity. One only has to look at the resourses our being in Vietnam," he feels "deep ministers the distribution of commodity of the many nations involved to realize that regret" that he never experienced the "de­ food, maintains and implements the Tri­ once harnessed, vast economic power could pendent connection to one another" of so­ County Fuel Fund, and provides informa­ be wielded. liders "thrown into an incomprehensible tion and referral services. EASP also assist But before we Americans sell our homes harrow." Watching him on the MacNeil/ in providing temporary shelter and home­ and enroll in foreign language classes, we Lehrer News-Hour sent me searching less prevention to area rsesidents through should closely study the poHtical, social and through my own Vietnam experiences for a CSBG, FEMA and Salvation Army Funds. economic foundations of several major Eu­ clue to this curious longing for memories of Senior Companion-A staff of three pro­ ropean nations, especially their labor poli­ combat. vides daily ':>r regular scheduled visitation cies. My job in 1968 was to pilot C-141 trans­ and persona1 services for elderly and handi­ Over the years, the Europeans, under port planes of the type now hauling U.S. capped persons. The program also provides heavy pressure from pro-labor forces, have soldiers and gear to Saudi Arabia. Except meaningful services and income opportuni­ saddled their business sectors with wage and for one close call when a battle-damaged ties for men and women who are 60 years benefit mandates. The liberal vacation poli­ Phantom jet crashed and exploded near my and older. cies, high minimum wages, unusually long plane at Da Nang Air Base, I never came in Energy Conversation Assistance Program periods of par2ntal leave amd government­ harm's way. My own knowledge of combat

39-059 0-92-39 (Pt. 23) 33832 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 24, 1990 scribed a photograph in his duffel bag, of an in the Persian Gulf is worthy of the blood­ view of the damage man has wrought. The American GI holding the severed heads of shed it would entail? idea is to educate and activate. two Viet Cong prisoners. The hapless pris­ In my view, no American should ever be Many of those missions have been success­ oners were grabbed and beheaded as re­ required to kill or die simply as a test of ful. Three years ago Lighthawk helped shut venge for the death of an American, killed manhood- particularly if that test involves down a copper-smelting plant in Douglas, when another Viet Cong prisoner turned some politician's perception of manhood. Ariz., after state officials saw its 900-foot­ himself into a human bomb by detonating a And certainly no Ameriean should die high smokestacks spewing tons of toxic concealed grenade in his own armpit. In the simply because as a nation our imagination sulfur dioxide into the air. Legislators are eerie darkness seven miles above the Pacific, is too poverty stricken to figure out how to also heeding Stewartt's dire warnings. If our narrator described the sound a bullet live without cheap oil. For lethal force to passed by Congress, the Ancient Forest Act made as it plowed through a friend's body have any legitimate role, we must strictly would limit the cutting of old-growth for­ two feet away. He thought it wise not to and dispassionately confine it to legitimate ests. "I've logged thousands of miles with make close friends in combat. His homecom­ questions about international law and ing plan: lock himself in the bathroom, sit Lighthawk, "says Colorado Sen. Tim Wirth, homeland defense. War is too brutal to be who sponsored a similar bill protecting the on the john, smoke cigarettes and shake for used as a rite of passage for a college dean, several hours. Tongass rain forest in Alaska. "Michael has for an essayist, or even for a U.S. president. helped me get to places where we've stopped Pondering this survivor's tale, I entered I don't know why Roger Rosenblatt feels the cargo bay and sat with the coffins of a a lot of clear-cutting. We couldn't have done the way he feels, but I'm glad he didn't it without him." dozen veterans who had undergone the ulti­ fight in Vietnam. I wish nobody had. mate combat experience. The young soldier Stewartt insists that the battle over clear­ on the flight deck may have embellished his cutting has just begun. With only 4 percent war stories, I thought, but the boys in the LIGHTHAWK'S IMPORTANT of the nation's virgin forest still standing, conservations and loggers are at odds over boxes were testament to the truth. I was MISSION struck by how lonely one feels in the compa­ how to preserve the forests and still keep ny of the dead. the sawmills running. Stewartt says he's Two years later in Thailand, a Thai veter­ HON. BILL RICHARDSON sensitive to the loggers' plight but argues an made a point of showing me snapshots of OF NEW MEXICO that old-growth trees should only be cut Vietnamese bodies stretched out in a row. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRI!:SENTATIVES down for special purposes-like making mu­ He had helped kill them. A fresh haircut on sical instruments from the tight, ringed the corpse closest to the camera caught my Wednesday, October 24, 1990 wood of spruce trees. "Either we protect a eye; I wondered if the man with the haircut Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I would few forests now and get some support for had sensed it would be his last. My host like to take this opportunity to acknowledge people who have been in these jobs a long seemed to invite me to explain the meaning time, or we wait until all these forests are of the carnage, but I was still young enough the important work of a constituent, Michael gone," he says. "Either way you slice it, to believe people should live forever, and Stewartt of Santa Fe, NM. Michael is the they're still going to be out of work." like the then young Mr. Rosenblatt, I saw founder and director of LightHawk, a nonprofit Stewart hasn't always been a man of such no sufficient reason for that particular war. conservation organization based in Santa Fe. strong convictions. Born in Tucson to a den­ ' BLOODY SHREDS' For the past 15 years LightHawk and its vol­ tist and a housewife, he enrolled at Stand­ Combat is unique in the way it celebrates unteer pilots have flown policymakers, Con­ ford but dropped out soon after. For the untimely death at the hand of fellow gressmen, journalists, businessmen, and next two years, he traversed the country, human beings. Mark Twain saw the horror others over our national forests to give these living out of a backpack and occasionally in this, and, in a poem called "The War panhandling to survive. In 1968 he attended individuals a real look at thE! practices which college in Australia, only to drop out again Prayer," wrote of a ghostly old man who often lead to the destruction of our national disrupts a church service as the preacher and work odd jobs. When he returned to heritage. Tucson the following year, Stewartt decided delivers a patriotic war prayer. The old man Michael and LightHawk have been the sub­ offers his own grim version. " 0 Lord our to become a pilot, and got his license a year God, Help us to tear their soldiers to bloody ject of numerous articles and were recently and a half later. shreds with our shells . . . to drown the featured in People magazine. Mr. Speaker, For a time Steward worked a variety of thunder of the guns with the shrieks of this organization is one of a kind. I encourage jobs to make ends meet: in 1975 he combined their wounded, writhing in pain .. . to lay my colleagues to learn more about Light­ his interest in flying with his growing con­ waste their humble homes with a hurricane Hawk's important mission and insert the cern about the environment. He became of fire". Persuaded that it could be consid­ particularly alarmed when he learned about People article into the RECORD for their plans to build a coal-powered energy plant ered sacrilegious, Twain had his poem pub­ review. lished posthumously. In his bitter assess­ on the Arizona-Utah border, less than 30 ment, " ... only dead men can tell the truth [From People Magazine, Oct. 15, 1990] miles from Grand Canyon National Park. in this world." But his warning, when it ap­ IN A RACE AGAINST TIME, MJ[CHAEL STEWARTT When conservation groups organized a press peared, was widely ignored. TAKES WING ON AN AERIAL MISSION To conference n Page. Ariz., Stewartt and five War is like other human activities in that SAVE AMERICA' S VANISHING FORESTS pilot buddies he had recruited loaded their people who enjoy it the most will do it the Soaring above Olympic National Forest in planes with reporters. Afterward newspaper best, and be chosen to run it. Obviously, not northwest Washington. Michael Stewartt stories raised questions about the plant's everyone enjoys it, but there is a common dips the wings of his six-seater plane and controversial location, and the proposal was notion that all combatants should somehow swoops down to offer his passengers a better scrapped. The idea for Lighthawk was born. love war, and benefit from it. The premise view. The vista below, however, is far from But Stewartt couldn't get his fledgling of the typical Hollywood action movie is inspiring: The entire side of one mountain idea off the ground. He approached conser­ that real men love each other most when has been laid bare by loggers, leaving only vation groups, for funding, but their re­ locked in a deeply fraternal exercise de­ occasional tree stumps, some as wide as 10 sponse was less than enthusiastic. "I signed to demonstrate how short life can be. feet, where a thick growth of 500-year-old couldn't convey my vision with enough If war is such an ennobling experience, why Douglas firs once stood. "Welcome to our power to the people who could back it,' he does it bring out the worst of people, not national forest," yells Stewartt over the recalls. Stewartt abandoned the idea until the best? roar of the prop engine. "You know. four years later, when a Wyoming rancher I have always believed that I might kill or Smokey Bear and all that." Shaking his contributed $50,000 toward Lihthawk's first die for a worthy enough cause. It's the way head in disgust, he makes a pass over an­ plane. boys were raised in my native South, as in other patch of devastation where from 300 The organization, whose $500,000 annual most other places, and for good reason. feet in the air, the felled trees look like budget comes from individual contributions During much of history, a successful army spilled match sticks. and grants, works in tandem with such con­ was the most important institution a people The flight is a typical o:ne for Stewartt, servation groups as . the Wildnerss Society could possess. A bad day on the battlefield 40, who for 15 years has used his skills as a on projects ranging from preservng fragile meant extinction for a number of ancient pilot to further environmentalist causes. In desert lands to teaching schoolchildren civilizations. However, this country has 1979 he founded LightHawk, a small non­ about clear-cutting. Lighthawk FREEDOM the remarks of Istvan Gereben at the Arling­ Hungary, Major General. Alexander As­ ton service and a special message sent by both's native land, her people and the HON. C. CHRISTOPHER COX the President of the United States, George American-Hungarian community are filled Herbert Walker Bush: with pride in recalling the life of this Hun­ OF CALIFORNIA Alexander Asb6th was born on garian Freedom Fighter. thi.s General of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 18, 1811 at Keszthely, in the Hun­ . His example: imple­ Wednesday, October 24, 1990 garian county of Zala. The descendent of an mentation of the principl•es of liberty in English family, which was granted nobility every day life, love of Hungary, commit­ Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, 34 years ago today, and the surname Nemesker>. Asb6th studied ment to the tenets of the United States, re­ Soviet tanks and troops rolled through the at the Engineering Academy of Selmec­ spect for God given rights of all human streets of Budapest and the Hungarian coun­ banya. At the outbreak of the Revolution­ beings, give us inspiration, teaches us the tryside, brutally suppressing the Hungarian ary War of 1848 against the Hapsburg difficult lesson of how to harbor two coun­ people's attempts to throw off the shackles of Empire, he joined the military in an engi­ tries in one heart. communism. Fortunately, this movement has neer battalion. He participated in many bat­ We bid farewell to his earthly remains never been fully extinguished. Today, the col­ tles and in the last months of the war joined today and dedicate ourselves to his spiritual lapse of the Iron Curtain and Hungary's first General Klapka and Louis

ing and subcontracting. Some of these im­ tor is not in compliance, it may not -~ aw~~­ In short, this bill is designed for enforce­ pediments included emphasis on long track ed any other defense contracts and it must ment. We were serious abou1t our commitment__ - ·· - -- records and imposition of bonding and capital­ provide DOD with information concerning its to these concerns when we wrote them into ization requirements, all of which favored outreach efforts, why it chose not to subcon­ our laws. Now we must take steps to elimi­ older, more established firms. By and large, tract with specific SOB's ancl what it plans to nate the obstacles which prevent them from SOB's were not given serious consideration do in the upcoming year to bring itself in com­ being effective. The section 211, section 1207 as prime contractors. Of equal importance, pliance. and EEO programs each need bolstering. The the administration was diffident toward the Third, the section 1207 set-aside goal is SOB Fair Share Act will make them work ef­ systematic exclusion of SOB's from subcon­ raised from 5 percent to 10 percent. In the fectively, as Congress originally intended. tracting under Federal contracts. The Reagan mid-1980's, despite the heigi1t of the Reagan Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to administration had a similarly dismal record on administration's influence, the House of Rep­ support this bill and lend their cosponsorship. enforcement of our Nation's equal employ­ resentatives voted in favor of the 1207 Pro­ ment opportunity laws. All in all, the Reagan gram having a 10 percent goal. It is time for era contracting policy seemed to disdainfully the House to do so again, atnd, this time, for thumb its nose at minorities, forgetting that the Senate to join us. In a country where, by people of African, Hispanic, Native-American conservative estimates, at least 25 percent of and Asian ancestry are Americans, too. the population is composed of minorities, it is SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS To remedy these obvious inequities, Con­ a pathetic illusion of equality to assert that a 5 Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, gress passed into law Public Law 98-661, percent set-aside will actually help so many agreed to by the Senate on February section 1207, the Department of Defense set­ millions of people. 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a aside program. It was believed that section Fourth, although it is common with large system for a computerized schedule of 1207 would compel greater SOB participation contracts for the contractor to subcontract all meetings and hearings of Senate in the largest slice of Federal contracting. But with a number of firms, section 1207 presently committees, subcommittees, joint com­ instead, the noncompliance with section 1207 sets an arbitrary limit. Currently, 50 percent of mittees, and committees of conference. merely showcased the problems. the contract must be performed by the SOB This title requires all such committees With the exception of a scattered handful of contractor who was award•ed the contract. to notify the Office of the Senate conferences in the past year, the DOD has That is simply unfeasible under certain situa­ Daily Digest-designated by the Rules made virtually no effort to outreach to SOB's, tions, and it can actually function as an im­ Committee-of the time, place, and as reflected by their repeated protestations pediment to an SOB being awarded especially purpose of the meetings, when sched­ that there were few if any qualified SOB's large and complex contracts. So, my bill uled, and any cancellations or changes ready, willing and able to contract with it. The would allow, as an alternativt3 to the "50 Per­ in the meetings as they occur. 5-percent goal for contracting with SOB's re­ cent Rule", a "75 Percent Rule": that it is an As an additional procedure along sulted in a paltry 2.3-percent performance, acceptable performance of the contract when with the computerization of this infor­ most of which contracts were for janitorial and 75 percent of it is attributablE! to the contract­ mation, the Office of the Senate Daily kitchen services. Little if any direction was ing-SOB OR other SOB's. Thus, as long as 75 Digest will prepare this information given to non-SOB contractors to subcontract percent of the contract i:S performed by for printing in the Extensions of Re­ with SOB's, in direct contravention of Public SOB's, the "50 Percent Rule" is deemed to marks section Of the CONGRESSIONAL Law 95-507, section 211, which directs Fed­ be met. This also has the benefit of inviting RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of eral contractors to subcontract with SOB's to more minority-owned businesses into the Gov­ each week. the maximum extent practicable. The total ab­ ernment contracting arena. Meetings scheduled for Thursday, sence of any monitoring mechanism or rec­ Fifth, the "nonmanufacturer rule" presently October 25, 1990, may be found in the ordkeeping further underscored the lack of says that an SOB contractor cannot partici­ Daily Digest of today's RECORD. support for these programs. pate under the 1207 Program for a supply or Something must be done to salvage these distribution contract when the product in­ MEETINGS SCHEDULED programs and rectify the problems. We cannot volved is not manufactured by an SOB. But afford to rest idly, relying on the administration some products-such as photocopiers, trucks to take the initiative, which it has refused for and televisions-have no SOB producers. FEBRUARY 26 years. Thus, my bill would waive the "nonmanufac­ 9:30a.m. Consequently, today I am introducing the turer rule" in these cases. Veterans' Affairs Small and Disadvantaged Business Fair Share Sixth, it has been well established that the To hold joint hearings with the House Act. It addresses the situation by imposing a Committee on Veterans' Affairs to 1207 Program is prohibited from having any review legislative recommendations of set of signposts which give the DOD and its adverse effect on various programs benefiting the Disabled American Veterans. prime contractors better direction in satisfying small businesses. Nonetheless, my bill in­ 345 Cannon Building its legal requirements. At the same time, it cludes language to statutorily ensure that provides greater accountability which will small businesses shall be affected by the FEBRUARY 28 make it easier for the Department and Con­ 1207 Program neither in the· number of con­ gress to monitor the results of the section tracts nor in their dollar va1Ut3. Furthermore, it 9:30a.m. 1207 set-aside and the section 211 subcon­ encourages the DOD to create new contract­ Veterans' Affairs tracting directive. ing opportunities for small businesses and To hold joint hearings with the House The bill has seven components. First, the SOB's by dividing large contracts into smaller Committee on Veterans' Affairs to DOD is directed to improve its efforts in out­ ones and generally avoiding consolidation. review the legislative recommenda­ reaching to potential SOB contractors through Finally, my bill calls for a subtle expansion tions of the Paralyzed Veterans of business organizations and direct contracts. of the application of Equal Employment Op­ America, Blinded Veterans Associa­ This could involve databases, registers and tion, Vietnam Veterans of America, portunity requirements. Prese•ntly, a contractor Military Order of the Purple Heart, local government SOB offices. must certify that it is in comiPiiance with EEO and Non-Commissioned Officers Asso­ Second, non-SOB contractors would have requirements once it has been awarded a ciation. to prepare plans for achieving their SOB sub­ contract. Thus, EEO is enforced within that 345 Cannon Building contracting goals in accordance with the re­ one company. However, if 10 other compa­ quirements of section 211. The plans would nies had submitted bids, those are 10 other MARCH5 have to aim for"* * * spending 10 percent of companies in which conformity with EEO re­ the total amount of the contract on subcon­ quirements are not enforced. My bill would 9:30a.m. tracting with * * *" SOB's. Proof of having impose EEO compliance as a condition for eli­ Veterans' Affairs actually subcontracted with SOB's must be gibility to bid on a contract, not simply to be To hold joint hearings with the House provided by the contractor and, if the contrac- awarded a contract. Committee on Veterans' Affairs to October 2.4, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33855 review legislative recommendations of APRIL 17 review legislative recommendations of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. 9:00a.m. AMVETS, Ex-Prisoners of War, 345 Cannon Building Veterans' Affairs Jewish War Veterans, and World War To hold joint hearings with the House I Veterans. Committee on Veterans' Affairs to 345 Cannon Building