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REMARKS OF GOV. ROBERT P. testing it. The success of this tactic is truly discussed in depth, in school or at home. My CASEY a public relations triumph, only possible in position was simply a part of me from the an environment which constantly very beginning. marginalizes and suppresses the pro-life mes­ When I was elected Governor in 1986, both HON. JAMFS M. TALENT sage. And despite 20 years of brainwashing, my Democratic primary opponent and gen­ OF MISSOURI the American people have not been fooled. If eral election Republican opponent were pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the majority of Americans support abortion, choice. The general election was a photo fin­ why have three of the last four presidential ish. When my opponent and I debated on Tuesday, March 23, 1993 elections been won resoundingly by pro-life statewide television shortly before the elec­ Mr. TALENT. Mr. Speaker, on March 11, candidates? If my position is irrelevant, then tion, the inevitable question was asked: "If 1993, I was in St. Louis, MO, where the Hon­ so, I'm afraid, are the views of some 80 to 85 the Supreme court overruled Roe v. Wade, percent of the people of Pennsylvania and and the Pennsylvania Legislature passed a orable Robert P. Casey, the Democratic Gov­ the United States. law banning all abortions except to save the ernor of Pennsylvania, delivered a thoughtful As I read the polls showing our continuing life of the mother, would you sign it?" My speech to the Cont erence on Abortion and unease with abortion, nothing makes me opponent said that, while there were "too Public Policy. Governor Casey has been a more proud to call myself an American. many" abortions in our country, and we leading voice on this important issue, and I Among the "herd of independent minds" who should work to reduce that number, he think his thoughts on abortion deserve to be make up our opinion leaders, abortion may would veto the law banning abortion. My an­ heard. For this reason, I would like to submit be taken as a mark of progress. But most swer was: "Yes, I would sign such a law." a copy of his speech for the RECORD. Americans have not followed. In the abortion My campaign people thought that my an­ lobby's strange sense of the word, America swer, with no qualifiers-no ifs, no ands, and REMARKS BY Gov. ROBERT p. CASEY has never been a "progressive" nation. For no buts-had lost the election. I won by All of us are joined in our conviction that we know-and this used to be the credo of about 75,000 votes. abortion is a bad thing. And although many my party-that progress can never come by When I ran for reelection in 1990, my Re­ of us are Catholics, we are also joined in the exploiting or sacrificing any one class of peo­ publican opponent was stridently pro-choice. conviction that abortion is not simply a ple. Progress is a hollow word unless every­ The abortion issue was the motivating factor Catholic concern. It's a catholic concern one is counted in and no one written off, es­ behind her candidacy. She was banking on with the small "c"-the concern of anyone pecially the most weak and vulnerable the conventional wisdom of that period-the who rejects the idea of human life as a dis­ among us. post-Webster period-when the pro-choice posable commodity. The concern of anyone Yo.u cannot stifle this debate with a piece groups tried to convince the country that with eyes to see, a mind to reason, and a of paper. No edict, no federal mandate can women. shocked by the Webster decision, heart to feel. put to rest the grave doubts of the American would rise up and drive all pro-life can­ It is not an arrogant boast, but a demo­ people. Legal abortion will never rest easy didates from public life. And their message graphic fact, that most Americans share this on this nation's conscience. It will continue was as cruel as it was direct. The leader of . conviction. Anytime the question is put to haunt the consciences of men and women the National Organization for Women in squarely to them, "Do you oppose abortion everywhere. The plain facts of biology, the Pittsburgh said that I was sick, and would on demand?" more than two out of three profound appeals of the heart, are far too un­ probably be dead before the election. (I had Americans answer yes. Asked if they favor settling to ever fade away. had open-heart surgery in 1987.) My opponent restrictions on abortion such as we have en­ The abortion issue has intersected with my called me "a rednecked Irishman." The Na­ acted in Pennsylvania, again a majority of 70 public life from the very beginning. It start­ tional Abortion Rights Action League re­ to 80 percent say yes. Perhaps the most tell­ ed in 1966, seven years before Roe v. Wade. leased a poll purporting to show the election ing survey of all found that 78 percent of the The occasion was the Pennsylvania Demo­ a dead heat when people were informed of my people would outlaw 93 percent of all abor­ cratic gubernatorial primary. New York had position on abortion. Pro-choice groups sent tions-all but the familiar hard cases. Even just passed a very liberal abortion law, and several dozen of their supporters to the Gov­ in the last election, in which all sides sought the question was, Would I sign such a law in ernor's Residence where they chanted, "Get to shelve the issue of abortion, exit polls re­ Pennsylvania if it were to pass? My oppo­ your rosaries off my ovaries." as the tele­ vealed its central importance in the minds of nent's answer was that this was an issue vision cameras whirred. And my opponent, most voters. only women fully understood; that he would who spent two million dollars, ran a tele­ To those who favor liberal abortion poli­ appoint a women's commission to study the vision commercial purporting to depict a cies, this persistent opposition is a mystery, issue, if elected; and that he would sign such rape, to dramatize my position of refusing to a disturbing sign of something backward and a law, if enacted, in Pennsylvania. My re­ recognize an exception for rape, in which it intolerant in our society. Sometimes the sponse was simple and unequivocal: If the was difficult to distinguish me from the rap­ abortion lobby pretty much concedes that law were to pass, I would veto it. ist. Americans by and large favor restrictions on I lost that primary by a narrow margin. I I won by over one million votes, the larg­ abortion-as when Pennsylvania's abortion am fairly certain that my abortion position est winning margin in Pennsylvania guber­ laws were upheld by the Supreme Court. hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, natorial political history. I am convinced Such setbacks to their cause: leave abortion where turnout is relatively low, liberal vot­ the abortion issue was a key factor in that advocates bewildered and alarmed, convinced ers turn out in disproportionately large victory. that Americans still need to be "educated on numbers and thus exercise a disproportion­ But, in between the 1986 and 1990 cam­ the issue." ate influence on the outcome. paigns, I came face to face for the first time Other times-like right now-their tactic The point I want to make about my with a conflict between my personal and is to obscure public opinion by marginalizing decisional process in 1966 is this: I took the public position on abortion, and what I re­ the pro-life side, dismissing critics of their position against a liberal abortion law in­ garded as the duty imposed by my oath of of­ cause as a handful of fanatics resisting the stinctively. I did not consider it to be a posi­ fice to "support, obey and defend" the Con­ tide of opinion. A quarter of a million people tion dictated by my Catholic faith. As a mat­ stitution of the United States. As a lawyer, may gather to protest abortion on the Wash­ ter of fact, the Catholic Church made it clear I was trained to believe that the Constitu­ ington Mall, and if the media notice them at that it took no position in the primary. And tion means what the United States Supreme all, they're treated almost in a tone of pity, many Catholics worked openly and actively Court says it means. The consequence of like some narrow fringe estranged from mod­ for my opponent. that line of reasoning was that I could not ern realities. As I discovered, even the gov­ For me, the imperative of protecting un­ sign a law which was, on its face, in direct ernor of a major state, who holds pro-life born human life has always been a self-evi­ conflict with what the Supreme Court had views, can be denied a hearing at his party's dent proposition. I cannot recall the subject decided, even when I personally did not agree convention without the national media pro- of abortion ever being mentioned, much less with the Court's ruling.

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. March 23, 1993 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6121 That issue was squarely presented when As everyone knows. the Court can be-and Just as the problem is an old one. so are our legislature, in December 1987, and before has been-seriously wrong. The Court erred the alternatives. One of these alternatives is the Webster ruling, passed an abortion con­ in the case of Dred Scott. And I believe that accommodation with power, a pragm'l.tic ac­ trol law which required the woman to notify the Court erred in the case of Roe v. Wade. ceptance of "the facts." In the abortion the father of the child. This meant the bio­ In this context, in this place, one cannot question, this position is summed up in fa­ logical father, whether or not he was the help but recall Abraham Lincoln's attitude miliar disavowal, "I'm personally opposed, spouse of the woman. The Supreme Court toward the Supreme Court's Dred Scott deci­ but ... " had already struck down as unconstitutional sion, which he and so many others believed The hard facts-so runs this view-are even a spousal notification requirement, to be disastrously wrong. against us. However we might oppose it, where the biological father was the woman's Lincoln viewed the Dred Scott decision as, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. Tol­ husband, and the two were living together in "not having yet quite established a settled erance is the price we pay for living in a free, a normal domestic relationship. doctrine for the country." A year after the pluralistic society. For the Catholic politi­ I vetoed the law, pointing to my constitu­ decision, he said, "If I were in Congress, and cian to "impose" his moral views would be tional duty, under my oath, and the futil­ a vote should come up on a question whether an act of theocratic arrogance, violating our ity-from the standpoint of protecting un­ slavery should be prohibited in a new terri­ democratic trust. The proper and prudent born human life-of passing laws which had tory, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, I course is therefore to bring change by " per­ no chance of ever taking effect to help the would vote that it should." Several years suasion, not coercion." Absent a "consen­ unborn. later, Congress did precisely that. In open sus," it is not the place of any politician to This is what I said in my veto message: defiance of Dred Scott, Congress outlawed change our laws permitting abortion. "Let me restate in summary tbe distinc­ slavery in the territories. I want to be careful here not to caricature tion between personal belief and constitu­ In his first inaugural address, Abraham this position. Some very honorable people tional duty as it applies to this legislation. I Lincoln, in referring to the Dred Scott case, hold it, and it is not my purpose to challenge believe abortion to be the ultimate violence. expressed the view that other officers of the their motives. Yet. as some politicians ad­ I believe strongly that Roe v. Wade was in­ government could not be obligated to accept vance this view it does seem an evasion, a fi­ correctly decided as a matter of law and rep­ any new laws created by the Court unless nesse rather than an honest argument. But resents a national public policy both divisive they, too, were persuaded by the force of the that, so far as I am concerned, is the secret and destructive. It has unleashed a tidal Court's reasoning. Any other position would . of their own individual hearts,. Here I mean wave that has swept away the lives of mil­ mean, in his view, that "the policies of the only to challenge the argument on its own lions of defenseless, innocent unborn chil­ government upon vital questions, affecting intellectual grounds, with the presumption dren. In according the woman's right of pri­ the whole people, [could] be irrevocably fixed of good faith extended all around. vacy in the abortion decision both exclusiv­ by decisions of the Supreme Court, the in­ We can dispense easily with the charge of ity and finality, the Supreme Court has not stant they are made, in ordinary litigation theocratic arrogance. That would certainly only disregarded the right of the unborn between parties, in personal actions." If that apply if we were trying to impose some child to life itself, but has deprived parents, were to occur, said Lincoln, "the people will uniquely Catholic stricture like church at­ spouses, and the state of the right to partici­ have ceased to be their own rulers, having to tendance or fast days on the general popu­ pate in a decision in which they all have a that extent practically resigned the govern­ lation. But the stricture to refrain from kill­ vital interest. This interest ought to be pro­ ment into the hands of that eminent tribu­ ing is not uniquely Catholic. And that, as a tected, rather than denied, by the law. This nal." purely empirical assertion. is how nearly all policy has had, and will continue to have, a After much thought and reflection since people of all faiths at all times have re­ profoundly destructive effect upon the fabric 1987, I must confess that I am more and more garded abortion- as killing. Just listen, for of American life. But these personal beliefs persuaded that Lincoln's view should be the example, to Frank Sussman, the lawyer who must yield to the duty, imposed by my oath standard for pro-life elected officials in 1993 represented Missouri abortion clinics in Web­ of office, to follow the Constitution as inter­ and beyond. ster. preted by the Supreme Court of the United The question I want to address tonight, "Neither side in this debate"-he said­ States.... then, is this: What are the responsibilities of "would ever disagree on the physiological "Most importantly, I emphasize again that a pro-life politician? facts. Both sides would agree as to when a we must-and we will- enact a strong and For no matter what the majority senti­ heartbeat can first be detected. Both sides sustainable Abortion Control Act that forms ments may be, the drift of law favors abor­ would agree as to when brain waves can first a humane and constitutional foundation for tion. Our courts, which do not operate on be detected. But when you try to place the our efforts to ensure that no child is denied majority rule, say abortion is legal, an im­ emotional labels on what you call that col­ his or her chance to walk in the sun and plied constitutional right to privacy found lection of physiological facts, that is where make the most out of life. I will sign this bill nowhere in the text of the Constitution. For people part company." when it reaches the end of the legislative a politician like myself, opposition to abor­ Or listen to former New York Mayor Ed process and attains those standards." tion may thus become opposition to the ex­ Koch, a fellow Democrat: "I support Roe v . Following the veto, my staff and I worked isting laws one is sworn to uphold. Wade wholeheartedly," he wrote in a col­ closely with pro-life groups and legislative What then do conscience and duty require? umn. " And I do it even while acknowledging leaders to draft the Abortion Control Act of I believe the first step is to understand to myself that at some point, perhaps even 1989 within the framework of the Supreme that such dilemmas are not new to our day. after the first trimester, abortion becomes Court cases, including the Webster decision. Any man who has ever tried to use political infanticide . .. " The law requires parental consent for mi­ power for the common good has felt an awful Or, for that matter, just listen to President nors, informed consent and a 24-hour waiting sense of powerlessness. There are always lim­ Clinton speaking last month in Chillicothe, period. These limitations were upheld in its on what we can do, always obstacles. al­ Ohio: "Very few Americans believe that all Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Penn- ways frustrations and bitter disappoint­ abortions all the time are all right. Almost . sylvania v. Casey. A spousal notification re­ ments. This was the drama a future presi­ all Americans believe that abortions should quirement in the law was struck down. dent once studied in Profiles in Courage, a be illegal when the children can live without Thus, while concluding that my oath of of­ book that now seems quaint in its simple the mother's assistance, when the children fice precluded me from signing an unconsti­ moral idealism. The founders of our country can live outside the mother's womb." tutional law, I also recognized a right, if not understood the limits of political power By referring to the unborn as "children," a duty, to work to change the law within the when they swore allegiance to something the President was not making a theological democratic process. First. by enacting a law higher, their " sacred honor." Lincoln felt claim; he was just putting all the physio­ that was designed to limit and reduce abor­ this tension when he sought to uphold the logical facts together. The same is true when tions within the constitutional authority of equality of men. His real greatness was in we say abortion " kills." We don't say it in the states. Second, to speak out in favor of seeing that political reform alone wasn't meanness. It's a unique kind of killing, for the protection of human life so as to influ­ enough; not only the slave had to be freed, the motive may not be homicidal; it may be ence others. including federal and state pol­ but the slave owner from the bonds of his done in ignorance of what actually is occur­ icymakers. so that they too would adopt this own moral blindness. Likewise, Thomas ring. We reserve a special compassion for view. More expressed the dilemma when, faced women who find themselves contemplating I have described how I understood my posi­ with the raw power of the state, he declared, abortion. But as an objective fact, that is tion in 1987 . But now, six years later, I feel "I die the king's good servant but God's what abortion is, and so mankind has always compelled to inquire further: What exactly is first." Far from being a new problem, this regarded it. Science, history, philosophy, re­ the relationship between the rulings of the tension goes all the way back to the Phari­ ligion, and common intuition all speak with United States Supreme Court and the Con­ sees and their challenge to declare for or one voice in asserting the humanity of the stitution I am bound to uphold? against Caesar. unborn. Only our current laws say otherwise. 69---059 0-97 Vol. 139 (Pt. 5) 7 6122 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 23, 1993 So much for theocratic arrogance. That is signature on each new life, was deflected by meaningful alternatives to abortion and to the more obvious fallacy underlying the human hands. No one has ever described offer children and families the help they "personally opposed, but ... " line of reason­ what happened more concisely than Justice need to live decent, healthy and happy lives. ing. Byron White in his dissent. It was an act of Fifth, political action which challenges But I believe it arises from a deeper intel­ " raw judicial power"-power stripped of all both major parties and their candidates to lectual confusion. It confuses prudence with moral and constitutional authority. protect human life and works for change in pragmatism, and mistakes power for author­ Roe v. Wade was not, then, one more natu­ national elections. ity. ral adaptation in our constitutional evo­ The need for constancy, activism and re­ Prudence we all know to be a virtue. Clas­ lution. It was not like Brown v. Board of Edu­ lentless effort cannot be overstated. In light sical thinkers rated it the supreme political cation, a refinement extending law and lib­ of recent events, there is no doubt that this virtue. Roughly defined, it's the ability to erty to an excluded class. Just the opposite: country faces a crisis of awesome dimen­ distinguish the desirable from the possible. It was an abrupt mutation, a defiance of all sions. It's a sense of the good, joined with a prac­ precedent, a disjuncture of law and author­ National commentators want to treat this tical knowledge of the means by which to ac­ ity. Where we used to think of law as above issue as settled. We can never let them get complish the good. A world in which every politics, in Roe law and politics became in­ away with that. This issue will never die. It unborn child survives to take his first breath distinguishable. How strange it is to hear will never be "over." is desirable. But we know that such a world abortion now defended in the name of "con­ We live in a time of anarchy-when those has never been. And prudence cautions us sensus." Roe itself, the product of a con­ who claim the right to choose deny pro-life never to expect such a world. Abortion is but trived and fraudulent test case, was a judi­ advocates the right to speak. Our voices one of many evils that, to one extent or an­ cial decree overruling a consensus expressed must be even more determined in response. other, is to be found at all times and places. in the laws of most states. It arose not from In summary, the role of the public official Men can make good laws, but laws cannot the wisdom of the ages or from the voice of must be to lead-to stand up and say to the make men good. the people, but from the ideology of the day people of this country who believe in pro­ But the point is that after facing up to and the will of a determined minority. It tecting human life: Press On! such facts, the basic facts of our human con­ compels us to ignore the consensus of man­ Let this, then, be our clarion call, our call dition, prudence does not fall silent. It is not kind about the treatment of the unborn. It to arms, the keynote of this gathering: Press an attitude of noble resignation; it is an ac­ commands us to disregard the clearest of On! tive virtue. The voice that says, "Ah, well, Commandments. After twenty long years, there is no consensus. We must take the the people of the United States have refused world as it is. There is nothing further to be to heed that command. TRIBUTE TO MARGARET WEGNER done"-that is not the voice of prudence. It Roe v. Wade is a law we must observe but is the voice of expediency. never honor. In Hamilton's phrase, it's a HON. DA VE CAMP Prudence compromises-it doesn't capitu­ piece of " parchment," a musty record bear­ OF MICHIGAN late. It's tolerant, but not timid. ing raw coercive power and devoid of moral IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Prudence asks: "If there is no consensus, authority. It has done its harm and will do how do we form one? What means of reform much more. But those who say we must Tuesday, March 23, 1993 are available to us? How, lawfully, can we learn to live with it still don't get it. Ulti­ Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, it is with great change the law?" mately, Roe cannot survive alongside our en­ pleasure that I rise today to recognize a spe­ And here is where the difference between during, unshakable sense of justice. It is no power and authority comes in. In the best of more permanent than any other act of cial individual, Margaret Wegner, from Mid­ worlds, the law commands both. The law human arrogance. It is no more unchange­ land, Michigan. Margaret is being honored at confers power or rightful authority, and in­ able than the laws which sent Dred Scott the Midland Exchange Club's "Book of Golden vests authority with power. The integrity of back to his master. Deeds" presentation. As I describe to you our laws rests on a continuity, a corpus juris This has been the generation of what Mal­ Margaret's contributions to and involvement in reflecting the accumulated experience of our colm Muggeridge called "the humane holo­ the community, you will see why she is so de­ civilization. Laws are the conventional ap­ caust." The loss can never be recovered. In­ serving of this honor. plication of permanent principles. And if deed, it can't even be calculated. Not even Margaret has been a hardworking and gen­ democratic government depends on any one the familiar statistic- 1.6 million a year-be­ central idea, it's that raw power alone, laws gins to express the enormity of it. One per­ erous individual, giving unselfishly of her time that flout those permanent principles. can­ son's life touches so many others. How can to benefit the Midland County Fair Board. The not command our respect. Our obedience. you measure the void left when so many peo­ first woman elected President of the Midland yes. Our allegiance, no. ple a,,ren 't even permitted to live among us? County Agricultural and Horticultural Society in Alexander Hamilton put it this way: "The The best we can do is change what can be 1980 (as the Fair Board is formally known). sacred rights of mankind are not to be rum­ changed, and, most importantly, stay the she is now in her 13th term and is instrumen­ maged for among old parchments or musty course. tal in organizing the Midland County Fair. records. They are written, as with a sun­ And there is no need to wait for some po­ There are hundreds of details that go into or­ beam, in the whole volume of human nature, litical consensus to form. That consensus is by the hand of Divinity. itself; and can never here, and it grows every time someone looks ganizing this event each year, over which Mar­ be erased or obscured by mortal power." for the first time at a sonogram. It needs garet has shown incredible mastery. Even the more secular-minded Thomas Jef­ only leaders-prudent, patient leaders. It Margaret has been responsible for the mas­ ferson agreed: The " only firm basis" of free­ doesn't need apologists to soothe us into in­ ter plan and upgrading of the fairgrounds. She dom, he wrote, is " a conviction in the minds action. It needs statesmen who will work for implemented the purchase of 40 additional of people that their liberties are the gift of change-change here and now. acres of property, saw the completion of a God." So, we must ask ourselves, what must the new water system for the grounds, and super­ American history has had its dark mo­ role of the pro-life public official be in 1993 in vised the construction of two livestock build­ m en ts, but only twice has this principle been the face of the catastrophic human carnage ings and the Hugh Glover arena. She has also radically betrayed. Only twice has mortal of abortion? power, using the instrument of the law itself, Let me be specific. computerized the managing facilities. sought to exclude an entire class of people First, relentless, outspoken opposition to Margaret's ongoing commitment and dedica­ from their most sacred human rights. passage of the so-called Freedom of Choice tion to the betterment of the fair allow for hun­ This place in which we meet today marks Act. dreds of hours of enjoyment for the people of the first time. Second, continuous effort to expand and Midland County. She is a leader in the Larkin One hundred and thirty-six years ago, a enlarge the protection of human life in state Livestock 4-H group and an advisor to the human being was declared a piece of prop­ and national laws and policies. Junior Fairboard, a group of teen-agers who erty, literally led off in chains as people of Third, a continuous drumbeat of public ex­ serve as an advisory panel to the fair associa­ good conscience sat paralyzed by a ruling of pression which makes the American people tion's Board of Directors. Through the 4-H, -the court. confront the facts about abortion in all of its The other time was January 21 , 1973. An evil. Margaret acts as a liaison among the different entire class of human beings was excluded Fourth, advocacy of a New American Com­ age groups attending the fair to see to it that from the protection of the state, their fate pact in this country which seeks to involve all needs are met. declared a " private" matter. That "sun­ all public and private institutions in a fight Margaret _is an outstanding role model that beam" Hamilton envisioned, the Creator's for policies and programs to offer women others look to because of her community dedi- March 23, 1993 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6123 cation and involvement. She states that she status of solid-waste disposal systems in represent her school in the wreath ceremony does her work "for the kids." She strongly be­ North Carolina. The state could contact a at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I urge lieves that children need good direction and number of residents by including an edu­ my colleagues to read Kendra's essay as she encouragement-two .characteristics that are cational mail piece in on-going state mailing talks of her grandfather and grandmother and such as tax forms. vital elements in the building blocks of our 11. Encourage firms to conduct waste­ all others who have sacrificed for our country. communities. stream analyses by publicizing the waste re­ It is indeed a wonderful essay. Mr. Speaker, Margaret Wegner is truly a re­ ductions and cost savings achieved by com­ ESSAY BY KENDRA TRACY OF LAKESIDE markable individual. I know that you will join panies who have performed audits. MIDDLE SCHOOL with me in congratulating Margaret on receiv­ IV. CONCLUSION There are three main reasons that I would ing this truly outstanding recognition and wish­ Federal, state and local governments are like to represent Lakeside Middle School in ing her success in future endeavors. reviewing their respective roles in the man­ the Wreath Ceremony at the Tomb of the agement of municipal solid waste. According Unknown Soldier. Each of them is very im­ to the Congressional Research Service, reau­ portant to me. I would be very proud to be RECYCLING MARKETS IN thorization of the Resource Conservation allowed to be a part of the ceremony. WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA and Recovery Act, the Nation's principal law My first reason is that my grandfather regulating the management of solid and haz­ served in the Navy during World War Two. ardous waste is one of the top environmental He was stationed on a ship in the South Pa­ HON.CHARLFSH. TAYLOR priori ties of the 102nd Congress. The CRS cific. My grandfather lost a lot of good OF NORTH CAROLINA says, "The key issues in the RERA debate friends, many who were lost at sea and never IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES concern the management of municipal solid buried so that their families could visit waste. About 70% of MSW goes to landfills, them. My grandfather was never able to visit Tuesday, March 23, 1993 but the number of active landfills has de­ the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and I Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. Mr. Speak­ clined from 20,000 in 1979 to fewer than 6,000 would like to do this for him. er, on February 3, I entered into the RECORD today (McCarthy 1)." My grandma served in the Army during a report on recycling markets in western North States are considering mandatory recycled World War Two, working as General Patton's secretary. She was with General Patton in Carolina prepared by the Western North Caro­ content legislation; and local governments Germany, and knew many people who never lina Environmental Council. The end of the re­ must continue to cope with public objections to landfills and incinerators. Within this came home from that war. A lot of those port, however, which included the council's broad setting, the recycling industry plays a people are buried somewhere in Europe in recommendations, was mistakenly excluded. I small role: unmarked graves. One of her friends could be would like to have those recommendations en­ However, Russ Duffner holds the view that, the unknown soldier who represents those tered into the RECORD at this time: "The best thing for a recycling market is to lost in the 2nd World War. My grandma RECYCLING MARKETS IN WESTERN NORTH keep government out of it." He continued, would be very proud if I was able to place the CAROLINA "Simple government regulations change the wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. whole market-place." Even the federal Office I know how sad it must be for the people III. RECOMMENDATIONS of Management and Budget concedes: who have lost someone in a war and do not Resulting from the presentations given to "Traditional formal rulemaking proce­ have a grave that they can visit when they the Western North Carolina Environmental dures may not always be the best tools avail­ need to feel close to that person. It's tragic Council, the sub-committee formulated the able to EPA to accomplish its goals of reduc­ enough that their loved ones died far away following recommendations concerning recy­ ing environmental risk and protecting from home while serving their country. After cling: human health. what those soldiers went through, and after 1. Both federal and state governments "(The) EPA will continue to experiment they've given their lives for their country, should pursue alternatives to traditional with negotiation and other forms of con­ they deserve to have a place where their regulation. Change the primary emphasis of sultation to enable all interested parties to families can come. It's sad that most of government environmental agencies in deal­ participate more fully in environmental these families aren't able to visit the Tomb ing with small business from regulator to rulemaking" (OMB 514). of the Unknown Soldier. I would be proud to ombudsman/consultant. To quote J. Winston Porter: represent these families by honoring their 2. To encourage the use of new tech­ "Aiming for unrealistic recycling rates heroes at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. nologies, restore research and development will not only discourage the public, but may These are my reasons for wanting to be in tax credits at both the state and federal lev­ lead to a fool's paradise where needed land­ the Wreath Ceremony at the Tomb of the els. fills and waste-to-energy facilities are dis­ Unknown Soldier. I would be representing 3. Investigate methods of long-term stor­ missed. A national goal of 25-30% recycling my grandfather, my grandma, and the many age and segregation of used tires until such is plenty ambitious for now. Also, we need to families who have lost someone in the war, time as a cost-effective recycling process has understand that local recycling rates will as well as Lakeside Middle School. It would been developed. vary significantly due to market conditions be a great honor, one that I'd always remem­ 4. Encourage the purchase of compost as well as costs of local waste management ber proudly. equipment by providing tax credits to indi­ al terna ti ves. viduals, businesses, or local governments "We've got a good thing going in recycling. who utilize such equipment to process yard Let's ride this wave awhile and see what we RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO refuse. can rationally do before trying to further LIBERTY 5. Encourage industries and utilities to legislate the law of supply and demand" (En­ reuse parts of the waste stream as fuel to off­ vironmental Science and Technology Sep­ set use of natural resources by publicizing tember 1991). HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON cost-effective, environmentally benign pro­ OF NEW YORK grams that have been used successfully in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the past. ESSAY BY KENDRA TRACY 6. Review Federal Procurement Specifica­ Tuesday, March 23, 1993 tions and state generated standards to en­ sure that they do not inhibit use of recycled HON. DUNCAN HUNTER Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, freedom and materials (e.g., use performance-oriented re­ OF CALIFORNIA independence in Russia and Eastern Europe quirements). IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are not yet assured. As the recent events in 7. Increase government purchase of recy­ Russia have so clearly displayed, the demo­ cled goods. Tuesday, March 23, 1993 crats in that part of the world still live a precar­ 8. Encourage industries with incentives to Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, I am proud ious existence. The Russian ex-Communist develop comprehensive programs such as today to insert into the CONGRESSIONAL nomenklatura is resurgent, desperately Dayco's. RECORD an essay written by a very special clinging to what power it still has and longing 9. Institute a moratorium on new legisla­ tion impacting recycling until existing regu­ constituent, Kendra Tracy. Kendra is making to regain that which it has lost. A victory by lations can be implemented and tested. her first visit to our Nation's Capitol with the these forces could have extremely deleterious 10. Increase public awareness of the impact Lakeside Middle School. Her essay is a very consequences not only for Russia, but for all of existing governmental positions and of the touching explanation of why she would like to of the former Soviet empire. 6124 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 23, 1993 This is why I consider efforts to consolidate of record deficits. But the efforts of the Clinton The Cold War is over, but democracy is not away the existence of Radio Free Europe and administration and Senator FEINGOLD are yet firmly rooted in formerly Communist so­ Radio Liberty to be such utter folly. It is by hasty and premature. Both the broadcasting cieties. Information, news and public discus­ now well known what a key role these organi­ and research arms of this unique organization sion are needed now in this time of transi­ tion. The radios can fill this need while local zations played in lighting the way to freedom can still play a key role in assisting the demo­ independent journalists and media are devel­ for the former prisoners behind the iron cur­ cratic transformations in the former Soviet oping. tain. The efforts of RFE/RL have been lav­ Union and Eastern Europe. The VOA does not and cannot do the same ished with praise by such notables as Lech Mr. Speaker, I would like to insert into the job as RFE and RL. It does not provide news Walesa, Vaclav Havel, and Boris Yeltsin. The RECORD the aforementioned articles by Am­ and information from inside the countries it Estonian Foreign Ministry has even nominated bassador Kirkpatrick and Mr. Laqueur: serves, but works from American .perspec­ RFE/RL for a Novel Peace Prize. tives and policies. But it is information NEEDED THEN, NEEDED Now: RADIO FREE EU­ about internal affairs that is especially need­ The broadcasts of RFE/RL were for years ROPE AND RADIO LIBERTY GIVE INFORMATION the only source of truth for those who endured ed in this time of transition to democracy. ABOUT INTERNAL AFFAIRS THAT IS ESPE­ Studies in 1991 of the two U .S.-sponsored the long night of communism. RFE/RL cor­ CIALLY USEFUL DURING THIS TRANSITION TO broadcasting systems make the point: A ran­ respondents are afforded the highest levels of DEMOCRACY dom sample of RFE programs in Hungary trust by politicians, journalists, and the general (By Jeane Kirkpatrick) found that they devoted more than 42 items, public in that part of the world. Less known, Once again the most successful inter­ or 40 percent of their first-run broadcast but no less important, is RFE/RL's unparal­ national information-broadcasting programs time, to Hungarian affairs. as compared to leled research and analysis ability. For years, ever run by the U.S. government are facing three items, or 4 percent, of VOA's first-run scholars, journalists, and Western policy­ extinction. The Clinton administration is time. A comparable survey of Russian broad­ makers have relied on RFE/RL's research re­ planning to phase out Radio Free Europe and casting revealed the same pattern. VOA ports as an invaluable source of information Radio Liberty this year. dealt mainly with American topics, but 85 From their founding in 1949 and 1951, Radio percent of RL's day had a Soviet focus. It is on Soviet and East European developments. Free Europe (which broadcasts to Eastern this local focus that makes the broadcasts of Now, however, it seems as though the Clin­ Europe) and Radio Liberty (which broadcasts the independent radios more interesting and ton administration and Senator Russ to the Soviet Union) have had a precarious, believable to Hungarian and Russian audi­ FEINGOLD no longer see the need for this controversial, gloriously successful exist­ ences. unique and invaluable organization. I could not ence- and made some powerful enemies. The RFE and RL will not be needed in Eastern disagree more. Those forces in Russia that diplomats of the State Department have al­ Europe forever, but they are needed now have recently been on the ascendancy have ways found them a nuisance and an inter­ while democratic media take root in the already moved to take some of the media ference with the department's management countries that they have served for four dec­ under their thumb. Some hardliners there have of foreign policy. The myth makers who saw ades. And they are urgently needed now in the former Yugoslavia to provide reliable in­ called for jamming Radio Liberty again. What Communist repression as a higher form of liberation have found the " radios" a dan­ formation and news to these societies closed is this other than proof that Radio Liberty is gerous provocation. The bureaucrats of the by repression and torn by war. still doing something right? United States Information Agency have si­ That is not all. If the Clinton administra­ In many of the other former Soviet Repub­ multaneously envied the freedom and cov­ tion is seriously committed to strengthening lics, especially in the Caucuses and Central eted the budgets of Radio Free Europe and and extending democracy, then it will want Asia, the free press still does not exist or, at Radio Liberty. Only their audiences have Radio Free Asia to do for China, Tibet, Viet­ best, is one decree away from extinction. Slo­ been enthusiastic about these independently nam, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, and other vak Premier Meciar has tried to intimidate the run, U.S.-financed radios. closed Asian countries what RFE and RL did nascent free press in his country. And, of By now, so many leaders of so many new for Eastern Europe. That will require an ap­ proach like that of RFE/RL. It will not be course, Serbian strongman Slobodan democracies in Eastern Europe have heaped achieved with a cautious approach fashioned Milosevic has used iron-fisted control of the so much credit on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty that no one publicly questions inside the U.S. government. It is not a job press to stoke the ethnic embers of the Bal­ their essential contribution to ending the for the Department of State-or any other kans. Cold War. Lech Walesa, now the president of foreign office. It is a job for an independent The repression in Yugoslavia and Bosnia Poland, described RFE as indispensable to agency with its own priori ties. has led some to call for the establishment of Solidarity: "The degree [of RFE's impor­ The incompatibility of conducting foreign RFE service in the Balkans. My esteemed col­ tance] cannot even be described. Can you policy and running international broadcast­ league HELEN BENTLEY of Maryland has once conceive the Earth without the sun?" And ing led the British to make the BBC World again sponsored a bill to establish a Radio Vaclav Havel, now president of the Czech Re­ Service an independent agency. Should the Free Asia. Mr. Speaker, I ask you, would not public, said of RFE, "You are the surrogate Clinton administration desire to make a sub­ stantial, substantive contribution to the it be easier to implement both of these sen ... of the free and independent communication media that ought to exist over here, but quality of U.S.-financed international broad­ sible ideas if RFE/RL retained its independ­ don't." With this comment Havel described casting, it should consider moving the Voice ence, instead of going through a wrenching the radios as being exactly what they are in­ of America out of the U.S. government rath­ consolidation process which would suck it into tended to be: surrogates for providing the in­ er than phasing out Radio Free Europe and the labyrinth of the State Department bureauc­ digenous news and information that would Radio Liberty. racy? have circulated in Eastern European and So­ Several leading authorities on this subject viet societies had they not fallen under to­ THE DANGERS OF RADIO SILENCE have registered their opposition to this idea. talitarian controls. (By Walter Laqueur) Former U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick But who needs surrogate media now that Last week in Moscow a collection of essays argued forcefully in a March 8 Washington the Cold War is over? Can't the countries do was published devoted to vilifying Radio Lib­ the job themselves? Can't the Voice of Amer­ Post article for retaining the independence of erty, the Munich-based broadcasting service ica do the job, as recommended by a presi­ that beams into the former Soviet Union. RFE/RL. Likewise, the noted historian and So­ dential commission that reported to George One essayist called Radio Liberty a "tool of viet scholar Walter Laqueur devastated the Bush in August 1992? Its chairman, Tom C. Satan scheduled to destroy the world." idea of abolishing the independence of RFE/ Korologos, concluded, " RFE/RL served the In the olden days, these campaigns were RL in a March 4 article in the Wall Street Jour­ country well, but with political changes, launched by the Communist Party of the So­ nal. Also, last week, right here in these halls, these programs increasingly resemble those viet Union. Now they are sponsored by the Yelena Bonner, the heroic human rights activ­ of the Voice of America." Apparently, the extreme nationalist. antidemocratic forces ist in the former Soviet Union, said that the Clinton administration agrees with George in the Russian capital. Meanwhile, the Mos­ disestablishment of Radio Liberty would be a Bush and his commission that the radios cow group that functions as the propaganda have outlived their usefulness. center of this political camp has called for big mistake. Mr. Speaker, you just could not I believe the presidential commission and the renewed jamming of Radio Liberty and get a more enlightened opinion on this subject the Clinton administration are mistaken its sister station, Radio Free Europe. than Yelena Bonner's. when they conclude, first, that the radios are These demands are perfectly logical. Radio Yes, the cold war is over. Yes, all budgets no longer needed, and, second, that the Voice Liberty and Radio Free Europe played an must come under intense scrutiny in this time of America can do the same job anyway. enormous role in the outcome of the Cold March 23, 1993 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6125 War. Now they are the main bulwark against tors like Sen. Russ Feingold (D., Wis.), who one of the Nation's premier nuclear weapons the strong forces opposing democratization has introduced legislation to " consolidate" research facilities, Los Alamos has an impres­ in the newly independent states of the the radios, know about the seriousness of the sive record of achievement. In these days of former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe. situation in the East. And how would they? defense cutbacks, I am pleased to report that These forces are gaining strength. Because I doubt whether there are more than seven or of terrible economic difficulties, antidemo­ eight analysts in this country closely follow­ Los Alamos has found ways to diversify and cratic extremists are once again trying to ing the antidemocratic forces in Eastern Eu­ utilize the unique talents of the men and control the flow of information in these re­ rope and Russia right now. None of them is women employed there. gions; independent newspapers and TV sta­ in government. If tomorrow the president As the article illustrates, Los Alamos will re­ tions in Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere have wanted a full and reliable report on this tain its commitment to basic science and been forced to shut down for lack of funds. threat, he would not get it from the State maintenance of the nuclear weapons arsenal, Yesterday's Communist Party officials, to­ Department or the CIA. The only place but lab scientists have also branched out into gether with some defectors from the demo­ where this information is available (as any energy research and development and envi­ cratic camp, feel that victory is in their Russian expert would tell him) is the re­ grasp. search department of Radio Liberty in Mu­ ronmental restoration and management activi­ PHASE OUT THREATENED nich, the very entity his administration ties. By utilizing cooperative research agree­ The greatest danger facing the Munich ra­ wants to "consolidate" and "streamline" out ments, Los Alamos and other national labora­ dios, however, comes from Washington, not of existence. tories have proven their value to the future of Moscow. The new administration apparently But why continue the radios, some ask, if American research and development. I urge wants to close the stations. Mid-level offi­ they overlap with the Voice of America? my colleagues to read the article that follows. cials, it has been reported, have decided to This question betrays yet another misunder­ LANL FINDS HAPPY UNION WITH PRIVATE phase out Radio Liberty and Radio Free Eu­ standing. There is no overlap. The task of SECTOR rope by 1994 and 1995 through a process of VOA is, to put it inelegantly, to " sell Amer­ "consolidation" and " streamlining," as out­ ica." The assignment of the Munich radios is (By Ann Lolordo) lined in the president's economic plan. The to act as a surrogate source of information Los ALAMOS.-Twice a year, a Maryland Cold War, they argue, is over, and in any in countries where the media are not yet biotechµology company's top researcher vis­ case the Voice of America can take over free-or where their freedom is threatened. its a m6untaintop compound here-the birth­ America's broadcasting tasks. This troubling media-condition can be found place of the atomic bomb-to provide up­ The two radios never had an easy life. In in all of Eastern Europe and the former So­ dates on a joint venture that could reduce a the 1970s, Sens. William Fulbright and Frank viet Union, with the possible exception of day's work mapping human genes to seconds. Church tried to close them down and almost the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovenia and The unusual venture links John D. Harding succeeded. They thought Leonid Brezhnev perhaps one or two others-out of 27 coun­ of Gaithersburg, Md.-based Life Technologies would be annoyed by the broadcasts. Accord­ tries. VOA has many merits, but its direct Inc. with scientists at one of the nation's top ing to official guidelines issued in the 1970s, political impact in Russia and Eastern Eu­ nuclear weapons laboratories. And that the radios " had no mandate to advocate the rope is almost nil, whereas that of the Mu- . blending of skills and lab techniques could establishment or disestablishment of any nich radios is immense. revolutionize technology and profits in the particular system, form of state organiza­ What is more, the Munich radios have built drive to tie nuclear weapons architects more tion, or ideology in the areas to which they up an unrivaled network of correspondents closely to business. broadcast." How the radios survived I do not and a unique research library that VOA does The legacy of the Los Alamos National know, but survive they did. Nor were they not need and cannot use. In any case, the di­ Laboratory has been the Manhattan Project deterred by a few bombs at their broadcast vision of labor between the two operations is and 50 years of nuclear weapons research, facilities or by the infiltration of some KGB obvious; the attempt to abolish it would but its future might increasingly depend on agents. probably ruin them both. linking nuclear, computer, laser and other The new administration's apparent deci­ TIME IS RUNNING OUT technologies to the needs of commerce. sion to shut down the stations-a decision President Clinton wants three nuclear that requires an executive order to become Democracy does not have that many weap­ weapons labs-Los Alamos, Sandia and Law­ official, or an act of Congress-is based on ons against its enemies. Why destroy the few rence Livermore in California- to earmark several misunderstandings. One is purely that exist, especially two that have proved 20 percent of their budgets for research not tactical. It assumes that closing the stations themselves so effective in the struggle connected to weapons and that can be trans­ would result in major savings in the near fu­ against tyranny? If a proposal to end the ra­ ferred to industry. ture. But the entire cost of the stations is dios had been mooted two or three years ago, Los Alamos officials say their lab can meet it would still have been wrong but at least negligible as these things go; it is less than that challenge. About 40 percent of its Sl.1 the cost of one F-16 airplane, a fraction of superficially plausible: The Cold War seemed billion budget involves nonweapons research, the cost of a submarine. Moreover, the sta­ over, the end of history was at hand. Today including mapping human genes, disposing of tions have contractual commitments that Eastern Europe and Russia face a critical pe­ nuclear materials and detecting fingerprints they cannot discard from one day to the riod that may decide their fates and that of with gold flecks. But only about 3 percent of next. the world for years to come. To a certain ex­ In any case, potential savings, or a lack of the budget goes to public-private ventures. tent America can influence the current " We want American industry to recognize them, should not be the decisive issue. If the struggle, but time is running out fast. radios do not fulfill a useful function any these labs, which they have felt have been What has the new administration done so closed to them" said Michael G. Stevenson, longer, they should be closed down irrespec­ far? Short of an executive order or congres­ tive of the fact that only the next adminis­ Los Alamos' associate director for energy sional action eliminating the radios, it has and environment. " We want them to recog­ tration's budget will feel the benefit. On the made a " negative" decision not to back other hand, if geopolitical realities warrant nize our value." them. And yes, it has appointed a " coordina­ But Lawrence J . Korb. a defense policy their continued existence, they deserve the tor" for its policy vis-a-vis Russia. Poor relatively small amount of money their op­ specialist at the Brookings Institution in man, he is likely to coordinate a policy and Washington, is concerned that nuclear weap­ erations require. a budget that will not exist. In my view, the present situation in East­ ons experts might be making decisions bet­ ern Europe and in the former Soviet states is ter left to marketing executives. critical and more than justifies a commit­ "It's an agency like any government bu­ LANL FINDS HAPPY UNION WITH reaucracy trying to stay in business after ment to America's Munich-based radios. PRIVATE SECTOR That this critical situation has a direct bear­ their basic job is over," Korb said. "You ing on U.S. security and interests is known have to realize those folks may understand to President Clinton, at least in general HON. Bill RICHARDSON how to blow up the world, but they don't terms. In a speech last Friday he said that if OF NEW MEXICO know what you and I want to buy." America had been willing to spend trillions Edward A. Knapp, a former director of the of dollars to ensure communism's defeat in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES National Science Foundation, summarizes the Cold War, " surely we should be willing to Tuesday, March 23, 1993 the lab's challenge this way: Can scientists spend a tiny fraction of that to support de­ skilled in basic research meet the specialized mocracy 's success where communism Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I com­ needs of industry? failed." mend to my colleagues the following article " It can be done, but it will be hard," said Unfortunately, it is not at all clear that from the Santa Fe New Mexican regarding the Knapp, who heads the Santa Fe Institute, an the president, his chief advisers and legisla- future of Los Alamos National Laboratory. As interdisciplinary research forum. " I don't 6126 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 23, 1993 think there are any opponents to making the friend Monserrate Flores. a man who will re­ When Dr. Michelen left Lincoln Hospital in shift. I think there are people who are very turn to Puerto Rico this summer after having 1969, the commissioner of the Department of worried about having some competency in exerted outstanding community leadership in Hospitals appointed Monserrate head of the nuclear technology in case the world became New York for the last 37 years. search committee, but then inexplicably re­ a hot spot again." Monserrate Flores arrived on the United jected Dr. Antero Lacot, the candidate the Los Alamos officials say their commit­ ment to basic research will continue and States mainland at the age of 19 just at the search committee, the medical board, and all that the labs will remain " stewards" of the end of World War II, when the return of U.S. local community groups endorsed. nuclear weapons arsenal. Their priorities, service men and women brought unemploy­ Mr. Speaker, Monserrate Flores defied a however, will shift toward maintaining the ment to a post-depression peak. His first jobs court restraining order and led 500 citizens of weapons arsenal and, more importantly, to­ were simple ones: washing dishes for a local the community in a takeover of the hospital ward cleaning up their own nuclear waste hotel, distributing telephone directories, and that ultimately led to then-Mayor Lindsay over­ dumps, which it is estimated will cost $100 working as the only Puerto Rican employee of ruling the hospitals commissioner and appoint­ billion and take decades to complete. the Ronay Handbags Corp. at a salary of $24 ing Dr. Lacot the new administrator of the hos­ Amid the pinons and cedars of the Jemez per week. By dint of hard work and dedication, pital. Mountains, LANL scientists are working to In 1972 Monserrate Flores resigned as harness energy from hot rocks at the earth's Monserrate rose to become production man­ core, to virtually eliminate the radioactivity ager at Ro nay for a work force of 100 employ­ chairman of the Lincoln Hospital Advisory of nuclear wastes and to track the movement ees. Board to develop a comprehensive election of radioactive material in air, water and soil. Monserrate Flores' activist career began in plan for a new community advisory board. Supercomputer software once used to de­ 1956, when he and several other members of After the election he joined the hospital admin­ termine the ability of a projectile to pierce the Puerto Rican community began organizing istration as director of community and public armor is being adapted to research and the first New York Puerto Rican Parade, which affairs. From that time until he joined Metro­ transport and storage of nuclear materials, was held in 1958. Around that same time he politan Hospital in 1990, Monserrate Flores oil exploration and chemical refining. joined the Spanish American Representation developed innumerable constructive innova­ In the past two years, LANL has entered tions, including the Patient Advocate Program, into 35 research and development agreements Movement, was soon elected chairman of the worth about $89 million, a cost shared by the Bronx chapter, and later became the organiza­ which he directed until July 1990 and which lab and its corporate partners. Those part­ tion's national president. was used as a model for hospitals throughout ners include big companies such as Hughes While leading a fundraising drive in New New York City. Aircraft Co. and small ones such as Life York for a hospital in his hometown of San Mr. Speaker, over the years Monserrate Flo­ Technologies. German, PR, Monserrate Flores discovered res has been a consistent voice for the peo­ "The labs have gotten off to a very fast that a great many people from his hometown ple. From 1964 to 1975 he produced a daily start. They have gone out and solicited coop­ were living in New York. Impressed by their 15-minute news and commentary program for erative working arrangements with indus­ public spiritedness, he organized many of a local radio station. He has been a frequent try," said Rep. George E. Brown Jr., D-Calif., them into the Sociedad Civica de columnist for newspaper in New York and chairman of the House Committee on Puerto Rico, and for many years was the edi­ Science, Space and Technology. "What we Sangermenos Ausentes, a civic society com­ don't have at this point is a measure of how prised of New Yorkers from San German. tor of a weekly newspaper called Pueblo. successful they have been in terms of trans­ Mr. Speaker, in 1960 Monserrate Flores He was the first director of community af­ ferring technology" to develop products and helped found and was later elected the first fairs for the school that was later to be called create jobs. president of United Organizations of the Bronx Hostos Community College. He served as a But Los Alamos has not been in the tech­ [OUB], a federation of Hispanic organizations special liaison between Governor Rockefeller, nology transfer business that long. Most co­ that very soon proved to be one of New York's the Puerto Rican community in New York and operative research agreements were signed most valuable public interest organizations. the Governor of Puerto Rico. He served on last year and cover two to three years. Under Monserrate Flores' leadership the the board of directors of the Metropolitan Mu­ And the lab has yet to undergo what its di­ OUB undertook a number of important initia­ seum and the U.S. Selective Service System. rector, Siegfried S. Hecker, calls "a business revolution," a fundamental change in the tives with lasting impact, such as a successful He was twice elected assembly Democratic way officials manage the lab's operations. drive to end capital punishment in New York leader for New York's District 73. "There are not many people in the lab that State, and a police-community program to pro­ Mr. Speaker, Monserrate Flores is the recip­ understand the commercial culture of a busi­ vide bilingual translators to local police pre­ ient of over 300 awards, including the John F. ness corporation," Brown said. cincts that has attained permanent status in Kennedy Award, the Roberto Clemente In recent years, Los Alamos' fledgling in­ the New York City Police Department. The Award, and the Distinguished Service to the dustrial partnerships have earned a small OUB runs a blood bank which serves the en­ Nation Award, which was presented by Presi­ amount in royalties through such licensing dent Gerald Ford. He was appointed to the agreements-about $100,000 annually. But of­ tire United States and has been rated by the American Red Cross one of the best orga­ Equal Opportunity Housing Commission by ficials say the payoff to lab scientists is usu­ President Richard Nixon, and was sought by ally in research dollars rather than royalty nized blood banks in the world. The organiza­ checks. tion also sponsors a 361-unit housing complex President Jimmy Carter for advice on urban If lab scientists seek big money, they usu­ called OUB Gardens. affairs. ally leave the federal payroll to start their In 1962 Monserrate Flores, as president of In summary, Mr. Speaker, Monserrate is a own businesses, officials say. At least 38 the OUB, acted upon community complaints to giant of New York's Hispanic community spinoff companies, almost all in the Los Ala­ launch an intensive investigation of the old whose accomplishments can be and are ap­ mos area, have been formed by former lab re­ Lincoln Hospital. The investigation revealed preciated across the Nation. I am personally searchers. Their work includes selling com­ very grateful to him for all the wisdom and puter security technology to banks, manu­ that the services being rendered by the hos­ pital were well below acceptable standards, leadership and love that he has shown me. facturing propane valves and marketing la­ I hope my colleagues will join me in paying sers. that the building itself was inadequate, and that the hospital's community advisory board tribute and wishing the best of luck to this very did not include and was not accessible to His­ special man. TRIBUTE TO MONSERRATE panics and African-Americans. FLORES Monserrate Flores pressed for sweeping TRIBUTE TO MAUREEN STANLEY changes at Lincoln Hospital, and succeeded in HON. JOSE E. SERRANO instigating the hospital's reconstruction, and in HON. DA VE CAMP having Dr. Nasry Michelen appointed the hos­ OF NEW YORK OF MICHIGAN pital's executive director-the first Hispanic ex­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ecutive director affiliated with the the City of Tuesday , March 23, 1993 New York. Monserrate himself was the first Tuesday, March 23, 1993 Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, it is with great Hispanic appointed to the community advisory Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, it is with great joy that I rise today to pay tribute to my dear board and became the board's chairman. pleasure that I rise today to recognize a spe- March 23, 1993 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6127 cial individual, Mrs. Maureen Stanley, from best possible education and learning environ­ all public employees must retire when they Laingsburg, Ml. Maureen is being honored as ment for students. As part of the award proc­ reach 70 years old. A few years ago, just be­ the 1992 Teach er of the Year by 1he Corunna ess, Professor Fine will present his ideal last fore his ?0th birthday, he prepared for his re­ Public School System. lecture to the university community. tirement from the classroom. Maureen has been active in teaching for 20 The debate over college professors' duties No one received this news well. Under­ years, and has served in her current position and responsibilities to their students and their graduates were upset that they would not be for 10 years. She has taught in many different research rages on campuses nationwide-the able to take his class. His former students areas within the high school since 1981, in­ University of Michigan is no exception. Univer­ could not believe that this man, as much a cluding pre-school, 5th grade, elementary spe­ sity of Michigan students sought to emphasize Michigan institution as the little brown jug, cial education, chapter 1 reading and high the importance of professors' teaching respon­ would no longer teach. school special education. With a concentration sibilities when they established SHOUT. So, his students, some of whom served in in special education, Maureen has contributed Sidney Fine's research is formidable. He the State legislature and who learned the right much throughout her career to the special has contributed to the history of our State and thing to do, changed the retirement law. Sid­ needs children of the Corunna school system. our Nation. His work has centered on Michi­ ney Fine, at the age of 72, continues to teach Her educational achievements are many. gan and the labor movement. His scholarship History 466 and History 467. He plans to con­ Beginning with graduation from Owosso High includes work on Frank Murphy, who served tinue to teach as long as he is able to give all School in 1969, she then went on to obtain a as mayor of Detroit, Governor of Michigan, his work 11 O percent. B.A. from Central Michigan University, and an and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, on the Gen­ We, Members of Congress, constantly see M.A. from Michigan State University. She has eral Motors sitdown strike of 1936-37, and on in this Capitol reminders of our Nation's his­ also completed pre-med requirements while Detroit during the Great Society era and the tory. We know the importance of history's les­ attending Michigan State, the University of 1967 riots. sons. Professor Fine has given his students Michigan, and Oakland Universities. Mr. Speaker, as a Member of Congress and the same appreciation of and inspiration from Maureen's involvement goes beyond the a Michigander, I have the greatest respect for history. I can think of no greater compliment classroom. She has been a part of the res­ Professor Fine's research. Members of Con­ than to say that the University of Michigan is piratory therapy team at the Owosso Health gress have the greatest respect for Professor a better institution because Sidney Fine teach­ Care Center for many years. She is also in­ Fine's research. Members of Congress rely on es there and his students are better off ·for volved with the American Cancer Society, the historical record to make decisions. Pro­ having him as a teacher. United Way, Students Against Drunk Drivers, fessor Fine has made a significant contribution Mr. Speaker, because I am and will always and adult literacy programs. She is also very to this record on labor and on Michigan. be a student of history, I plan to read the last supportive of a number of her students outside But, Mr. Speaker, to achieve a well-function­ lecture that he will present Friday. I will then of the classroom as she is the high school ing democracy we must make the historical be privileged to say that I, too, am a student coach for the porn-porn squad and the girl's record useful to all citizens. This process of Prof. Sidney Fine. varsity tennis team. takes a good teacher. Sidney Fine is such a In addition to all of this, Maureen enjoys teacher. He has taught at the University of time with her family, which includes her hus­ Michigan since earning his doctorate there in NEW YORK TELEPHONE RESPONSE band Paul, two stepchildren Melissa and 1948. His teaching has brought to students a TO . WORLD TRADE CENTER Penney, and her 100-pound English Lab. She sense of how our Nation has evolved and a BOMBING and her family enjoy such hobbies as sports, sense of the people who helped shape our reading, travel, and photography. Nation. From this, students have been able to HON. JERROLD NADLER Maureen has provided leadership and direc­ better understand present day society and OF NEW YORK tion for the students of the Corunna Public how to help it continue to change for the bet­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES School system, and her contributions will ter. reach far beyond their childhood and adoles­ Professor Fine is known across the campus Tuesday, March 23, 1993 cent years. Through her immeasurable com­ and across the State for his excellent teach­ Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I have ad­ mitment and dedication, Maureen has become ing. He teaches the university's most popular dressed the House to condemn the bombing a trusted individual to the friends and families nonrequired classes, U.S. History from 1901 of the World Trade Center and honor heroic of students throughout the area. She contin­ to 1933 and U.S. History since 1933. The first New Yorkers who were personally involved in ues to actively give of her time towards the question a University of Michigan history major this tragedy. Today, I wish to commend New betterment of the community through her dedi­ receives from a fellow alumni is: "Did you York Telephone, which kept the lines of com­ cation to education. have Sidney Fine?" In Professor Fine's lecture munication open on the day of the bombing, Mr. Speaker, Maureen Stanley is truly an hall, the aisles are crowded with students. providing the only lifeline for trapped and terri­ amazing individual. I know that you will join Many students who previously claimed no in­ fied workers after the tragic bombing on Feb­ with me and the Shiawasse County commu­ terest in history have been converted to his­ ruary 26, 1993. The staff of New York Tele­ nity in congratulating Maureen on receiving tory by Professor Fine's classes. phone planned effectively and worked swiftly this outstanding award and wishing her contin­ Professor Fine brings history alive. Let me to ensure that the network continued to func­ ued success in future endeavors. give you an example. Professor Fine lectures tion. I applaud the company and staff for their on World War II in Michigan's Haven Hall to excellent response to this crisis. his undergraduates. He tells them of one of Following the blast, New York Telephone's PROF. SIDNEY FINE RECEIVES their predecessors, an architecture student network continued to function despite the loss THE GOLDEN APPLE AWARD who studied in the West engineering building, of electrical power and the subsequent shut­ just across the diag. This architecture student, down of backup diesel generators. Backup HON. WIWAM D. FORD Raoul Wallenberg, went on to become the batteries kicked in and allowed New York OF MICHIGAN University of Michigan's most accomplished Telephone's three switches in the World Trade IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES student for his work saving Jews in World War Center to operate in the critical hours following II. A Swede, he was honored by the Congress the blast. The network never went down. Tuesday, March 23, 1993 in 1981 as an honorary American. Professor At great risk, New York Telephone person­ Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I rise Fine's lectures teach students to know history nel entered the building within 3 hours after today to salute Sidney Fine, a history profes­ for they may well be a part of it. the explosion to reduce the power drain on the sor at the University of Michigan. The Stu­ Professor Fine has taught over 25,000 stu­ batteries by eliminating redundant systems. dents Honoring Outstanding University Teach­ dents. His students have not forgotten the The risk was taken because if the batteries ing [SHOUT] have awarded him the 1993 value of his work. Working for a State institu­ had lost power before commercial electricity Golden Apple Award. Michigan's student body tion, Professor Fine falls under State law re­ could be restored, thousands of people has honored Professor Fine for providing the garding retirement. State law had stated that trapped in the twin towers would be severed 6128 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 23, 1993 from the outside world. By 7 p.m., the lights erside Chambers of Commerce. Mr. Goldware important policy tenet: the value of investment on the switches were dying, signaling the end is native of Riverside, and a graduate of the and preventative maintenance. By making rel­ of communication with the victims in the tow­ University of California at Riverside, where he atively minor investments in bridge structures ers. Then, at 7:20, light burst from the switch­ received a bachelor of science in economics now, we will inevitably save money, and more es as power was channeled in by Consoli­ in 1969. importantly, lives, in the future. I urge the pas­ dated Edison. In addition to serving as chairman of the sage of this commonsense, cost-effective leg­ While work proceeded in the World Trade board of the chambers of commerce, Nick has islation. Center, New York Telephone established a served as chairman of Riverside Community special command center at 140 West Street, a Ventures Corp., Riverside Community Hos­ company location across the street from the pital, as an executive board-member of the TRIBUTE TO LUTHER J. BATTISTE towers. Agencies including the New York Po­ economic development partnership, as presi­ lice Department, Fire Department, Emergency dent of the University of California Riverside HON. ROBERT T. MATSUI Medical Services, the Port authority, and the Athletic Association, as an executive board OF CALIFORNIA NYC Transit Authority used the command cen­ member of the United Way, and as a past IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ter to control their emergency operations. This board member of the Riverside City and saved on duplication of time and effort and County YMCA's. Tuesday, March 23, 1993 speeded up the rescue process. In recognition of his contributions to our Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to New York City's Department of Tele­ community, Mr. Goldware has received nu­ recognize and honor an outstanding individual, communications and Energy had led a cre­ merous awards, including recognition by the Luther J. Battiste, who is being honored on ation of a mu·tual aid agreement among the Riverside Junior Chamber of Commerce as April 10, 1993, at a dinner of family and area's telecommunications providers, who Man of the Year in 1978, the Riverside Police friends. worked closely to keep the customers con­ Department's recognition as Reserve Officer Luther graduated from Tomlinson High nected. The plan was activated within 26 min­ of the Year in 1983, and election to UCR's School in Kingstree, SC. In September 1944, utes of the explosion. This cooperation among Athletic Hall of Fame in 1988. he enrolled at South Carolina State College competitors resulted in New York Telephone With great appreciation for his many years where he earned both a B.S. and an M.S. de­ providing circuits to many companies. Thou­ of service to our community, I wish to express gree. Upon graduation, Luther remained at the sands of new lines were installed, and thou­ the gratitude of the people of Riverside County college to pursue a career. He began as a sands of displaced customers received serv­ to Mr. Nicholas Goldware for his leadership as supply clerk at the college in the Department ices. chairman of the board of the Greater Riverside of Buildings and Grounds and rose to the po­ The New York City 911 system functioned Chambers of Commerce from 1992 to 1993. sition of assistant superintendent of buildings flawlessly. An additional 30 lines were acti­ Thanks for a job well done. and grounds. He presently holds the position vated at 1 Police Plaza for 911 operators. A of director of physical plant. Luther's creativity, special emergency hotline was also activated loyalty, and expertise has transformed the for the New York City Police Department. INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION campus into a model of beauty for all other in­ In light of the extent of the tragedy in Man­ REGARDING FEDERAL BRIDGE stitutions to emulate. Since Luther entered the hattan, business is as close to normal as can FUNDS college as a student in 1944, he has wit­ be expected thanks to the flexibility of New nessed and, in his present role, overseen the Yorkers. The people of New York City have HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA construction of 70 campus buildings. reason to be grateful to the New York Tele­ OF CALIFORNIA In addition to his achievements at South phone Co. for so quickly and skillfully adapting IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Carolina State College, Luther has been a to this crisis. The work done by New York leader in his church and community. Luther Telephone services as a fine example for Tuesday, March 23, 1993 has served as the senior warden of St. Paul's those planning emergency response to follow. Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro­ Episcopal Church and as the polemarch of the ducing legislation to rectify a serious inequity Orangeburg Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fra­ in the interpretation of provisions enacted in ternity. Luther is also the vice chairm~n of the CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS the lntermodal Surface Transportation Effi­ South Carolina Association of State Planning TO NICHOLAS GOLDWARE ciency Act [ISTEA] of 1991 relating to the use and Construction Officials. He is a member of of Federal bridge funds for the seismic retro­ the National Association of Physical Plant Ad­ HON. KEN CALVERT fitting of bridges. ministrators of Colleges and Universities; the OF CALIFORNIA During the development of ISTEA, it was Southern Regional Association of Physical IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES our inient to make bridge funds eligible for Plant Administrators of Universities and seismic retrofitting activities. However, the Schools; the National Association of Edu­ Tuesday, March 23, 1993 Federal Highway Administration [FHWA] has cational Buyers; and the South Carolina Com­ Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, in his book, interpreted the ISTEA language as prohibiting mission on Higher Education's Task Force on "Democracy in America," Alexis de the use of bridge program funds for seismic Facilities. Tocqueville wrote with admiration of the many retrofitting activities unless the particular The numerous awards Luther has won over voluntary associations in which Americans bridge is determined to be structurally defi­ the years are further testimony to his dedica­ participate, and of the willingness of our citi­ cient. tion and success. A few of the many awards zens to give freely and unselfishly of their time The legislation I am introducing today he has received include the Kappa Man of the and talents to help make their communities amends the bridge rehabilitation and replace­ Year Award and the Army ROTC Award. He better places in which to live. ment program to permit the use of funds for also was the first recipient from South Caro­ Perhaps nowhere in the country is this won­ the seismic retrofit of bridges without regard to lina to be given a citation by the National derful American spirit more in evidence than in whether the bridge is· determined to require re­ Landscape Association for contributions to en­ the county of Riverside, CA, which has been placement or rehabilitation. vironmental and community improvement fortunate to have a long line of outstanding Mr. Speaker, it is vital that the bridge funds through landscaping which he received in men and women willing to accept roles of continue to fulfill bridge rehabilitation and re­ 1974. In addition Luther received the Distin­ leadership in our community. They have placement needs nationwide. This legislation guished Alumnus Award on Founder's Day, served without compensation, seeking only to addresses any concern about depletion of February 25, 1987, from the South Carolina improve life for their families, friends, and funds for rehabilitation work by adjusting future State College. Luther's achievements and con­ neighbors. apportionments to reflect the amounts ex­ tributions to South Carolina have been recog­ One such individual is Mr. Nicholas H. pended for a State's seismic retrofit activities. nized by Governor Carroll Campbell. Goldware, who will step down this week as Mr. Speaker, by adopting this measure, the Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me the chairman of the board of the Greater Riv- House of Representatives will be affirming an in honoring Luther J. Battiste for his commit- March 23, 1993 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6129 ment to service to South Carolina State Col­ so that only 67,000 defined benefit plans re­ the pharmaceutical manufacturers accountable lege, his community, and his family. He is a main in the system. This presents an addi­ for their promises to hold down the rate of pre­ citizen worthy of recognition and praise. tional challenge to maintaining the program on scription drug price increases. a self-supporting basis that is maintained sole­ My legislation creates a Prescription Drug ly from the premiums levied on all covered de­ Price Review Board, modeled after the Cana­ THE NEED FOR PBGC REFORM fined benefit plans, and initially set in 197 4 at dian board, to review drug prices, determine if $1 per plan participant, to pay for any PBGC they are excessive, and take action against HON. WIWAM F. GOODLING shortfall. In fact, per capita premiums have es­ those manufacturers that continue to price OF PENNSYLVANIA calated to $19 for fully-funded plans and to their products excessively. The Board will pub­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $72 for badly funded ones. These 2,000-plus lish pricing information on brand name and ge­ percent increases have not stemmed PBGC's neric prescription drugs to assist consumers Tuesday, March 23, 1993 flow of red ink. The increasing risk which has and health care providers in identifying safe, Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, a week does to be carefully weighed is that merely increas­ cost-effective prescription drug options. not go by without our hearing one story or an­ ing premiums on the well-funded plans may I urge my colleagues to join me in cospon­ other about the financial problems faced by accelerate their exit from the system, this soring this legislation, which will restore a the Government agency known as the PBGC. shrinking the tax base on which to levy the measure of reason to the pricing of prescrip­ The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation premiums necessary to finance present and tion drugs. [PBGC] was created in 1974 under ERISA title future deficits. I include my summary of the legislation to IV in order to guarantee the private pension As a result, alternative legislative ap­ appear in the RECORD following these re­ benefits of employees and retirees in the proaches have been proposed. Last year, the marks. event their company goes bankrupt and Bush administration, representative JAKE PICK­ THE PRESCRIPTION DRUG CONSUMER leaves their pension plans less than fully fund­ LE, and Senator JIM JEFFORDS proposed legis­ PROTECTION ACT OF 1993 ed. lation to help address PBGC's growing finan­ 1. Creates a Prescription Drug Price Re­ But now the 1992 financial statement re­ cial problems. Even though the bills differed in view Board modeled after the Canadian leased by the PBGC shows the single-em­ their exact approach, they all encouraged fast­ Board. ployer fund established to make up any pen­ er funding for underfunded pension plans. I 2. Requires that the Board be made up of 5 sion shortfall to also be underfunded to the am cosponsoring the bill reintroduced by Rep­ members, appointed by the President with tune of over $2.7 billion. Another S&L crisis in resentative PICKLE, H.R. 298, to encourage my the advice and consent of the Senate, se­ lected from experts in the fields of consumer the making? Some critics of the status quo colleagues to take a closer look at the prob­ advocacy, medicine, pharmacology, phar­ say that, if no action is taken, a taxpayer bail­ lems of pension underfunding and to consider macy, and prescription drug reimbursement. out in the range of $25 to $40 billion over the measures which will put the PBGC on a more 3. Empowers the Board to collect from next 30 to 40 years may be necessary. Of sound and insurance-like basis. pharmaceutical manufacturers information course, it should be understood that this pes­ Our Nation's pensioners and taxpayers de­ regarding domestic and international pre­ simistic view of the future course of the PBGC serve both a full accounting of the PBGC scription drug pricing, research and develop­ program is by no means a certainty. Sub­ problem and effective and timely legislative ment costs, and manufacturing and market­ committees of both my Committee on Edu­ action which might prove necessary. I look for­ ing costs. Requires manufacturers to report each new drug price and price increases to cation and Labor and the Ways and Means ward to any recommendations that the newly the Board. Committee have held oversight hearings to chosen PBGC Executive Director, Martin 4. Requires the Board to determine wheth­ determine the true extent of PBGC's problems Slate, will provide to the Congress on this er the prices and subsequent price increases and the remedies that may be needed to matter. I urge my colleagues to closely study of each prescription drug are excessive based avoid such a taxpayer bailout. and participate in the debate over this impor­ upon the following criteria: At these hearings, the U.S. General Ac­ tant retirement income security issue. Changes in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' counting Office [GAO] testified that the PBGC Producer Price Index and the prescription has made significant progress in financial drug component of the Producer Price Index, The price at which the drug was sold to management in the last several years under PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICE REFORM wholesalers in the United States and abroad the leadership of the former PBGC Executive during the preceding 10 years. Director, James B. Lockhart Ill, because of The price at which other drugs in the same these improvements, the GAO now hopes to HON. RICHARD J. DURBIN therapeutic class were sold to wholesalers in be able to certify PBGC's financial statement OF ILLINOIS the United States during the preceding 10 years, later this year. However, the GAO considers IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more important the fact that problems beyond The drug's Food and Drug Administration the PBGC's control continue to mount, posing Tuesday, March 23, 1993 therapeutic potential rating, The percentage of the drug's research and multi-billion-dollar risks, thus creating a need Mr. DURBIN. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro­ development costs contributed by the Fed­ for Congress to act. ducing legislation to protect American consum­ eral government, and That is not to say that PBGC today faces an ers from the high and rising costs of prescrip­ The cost of manufacturing and marketing overnight collapse. Retirees already receiving tion drugs. the drug. PBGC guaranteed pensions need reassur­ On February 17, the General Accounting Of­ 5. Requires the Board to publish the results ance, and should know that the PBGC already fice released its assessment of the efficacy of of its determinations of whether prescription has $6.3 billion in assets on hand to pay out Canada's Patented Medicine Prices Review drug prices are excessive in an easy to under­ annual benefits of about $700 million. The Board in restraining prescription drug costs. stand guide targeted to consumers and heal th care providers. GAP testified that the PBGC does not face GAO concluded that Canada's board not 6. Requires the Board to notify the manu­ cash flow problems in the short term. Unlike only restrained price increases for existing facturer of an excessively priced drug of the the savings and loan situation, the PBGC is drugs, but that drug prices in Canada would Board's recommendation for pricing the drug like a giant pension fund which pays out its be a third higher if their board did not exist. such that its price would no longer be con­ · pension obligations in monthly installments, It's time for the American consumer to have sidered excessive. not in one lump sum. You might say that the same protection from excessive prescrip­ 7. Empowers the Board to revoke the pat­ PBGC's safety tire can go flat with leaks, but tion drug prices as our Canadian neighbors. ent of an excessively priced drug. if that is not likely to incur a sudden blowout. It's time for us to protect senior citizens from drug is under patent. or to revoke the patent of another of that manufacturer's drugs, if However, the current cash flow accounting having to ration their prescriptions to make the excessively priced drug is not under pat­ used in the Federal budget to measure the ef­ them last longer. It's time for us to protect ent. fect of PBGC's evolving obligations is also in­ cancer patients who can't afford innovative 8. Provides a mechanism for resolving dif­ adequate. For example, the number of PBGC new drugs, even though they were developed ferences between the Board and manufactur­ insured plans has already declined 43 percent, in Federal laboratories. And it's time to make ers through the use of public hearings. 6130 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 23, 1993 9. Provides for a study by the National HONORING SHARON E. SIGESMUND the European economic community, 6,000 Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine tons of wheat from Syria and other private or­ to examine critical issues in the develop­ ganizations, and more tons of assistance from ment, regulation, marketing and provision of HON. J~ H. Bii.BRAY pharmaceutical products. OF NEVADA Project Hope. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The need continues to be great in Armenia. Tuesday, March 23, 1993 But countries like Turkey are helping by pro­ viding aid and expediting the shipment of as­ Mr. BILBRAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to TRIBUTE TO RUTH ECK sistance from others. Their efforts are greatly recognize the magnanimous gift of a generous appreciated. American to the Jewish Federation of Las HON. JOEL HEftEY Vegas. Sharon E. Sigesmund is a native of Detroit, Ml, who has adopted southern Nevada OF COLORADO TRIBUTE TO THE ORDER OF and the city of Las Vegas as her home. Ms. DEMOLAY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sigesmund is a strong supporter of the inter­ Tuesday, March 23, 1993 ests of the worldwide Jewish community. Sharon has played an active role in support­ HON. TIM HOLDEN Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, as Members of ing the community of southern Nevada, taking OF PENNSYLVANIA Congress, we are all familiar with the inevi­ a particularly vigorous interest in the Las IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES table staff turnover which occurs with some Vegas Jewish community. She has served as Tuesday, March 23, 1993 frequency in our offices. At the same time, we president of Temple Beth Shalom Sisterhood cannot help but feel a sense of loss when and the Silver Meadows B'nai B'rith Women. Mr. HOLDEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to faced with the retirement of a dedicated, long­ Sharon is also a member of the regional board recognize the Order of DeMolay, an active time staff member who has played such a sig­ of B'nai B'rith Women. young men's organization in my district. nificant role in the successes we have had. Ms. Sigesmund's generosity and devotion DeMolay helps build character in young men recently made it possible for the Jewish Fed­ and boys who are striving to become better I rise today in recognition of one such mem­ citizens and leaders for our future. Through ber of our team, Ruth Eck. eration of Las Vegas to acquire a 21,000- square-foot building. The structure will be uti­ civic participation, charitable projects, athletic Ruth dedicated herself to the Republican lized as headquarters for the federation, as competition, and social activity, these young Party in Colorado after hearing then-Con­ well as by several other affiliated organiza­ men have learned and will continue to learn gressman Ken Kramer speak at a local town tions. As a way of recognizing her outstanding valuable lessons about themselves and the meeting. Her volunteer work for Ken eventu­ support for the many members of the Las world around them. ally led to a permanent receptionist job in Vegas community, the newly acquired building And in Reading, PA, the DeMolay chapter is 1979. After 3 years, she was promoted to of­ will be dedicated in the name of Sharon E. the largest of the 38 DeMolay groups through­ fice manager. and Raymond H. Sigesmund. out the State. This is a testament to the com­ When I was elected to represent the Fifth So today I ask my colleagues to stand and mitment, strength, and enthusiasm of the local District in 1986, I sought Ruth's expertise and recognize a truly generous Nevadan who has, DeMolay chapter. The DeMolay leaders help asked her to join my staff in Colorado Springs through her work, made a genuine mark on instill a sense of pride in the accomplishments as district director. She agreed and came on the First District of Nevada, the Nation, and of all their members. board in February 1987. the world. Her contributions and accomplish­ The Order of DeMolay has declared March Thanks to Ruth and her flair for organization ments are worthy of recognition by this body. 1993 as International DeMolay Month. And, and management, my district office has an ex­ the Reading chapter has announced that they TURKEY'S HUMANITARIAN are celebrating their 74th anniversary this cellent reputation for responding to the many EFFORTS IN ARMENIA people who come to us for assistance. Wheth­ year. I would like to honor the Reading chap­ er it was the man whose Social Security was ter of DeMolay on the floor of the House, and terminated because the Social Security Ad­ HON. BOB CLEMENT commend the members for their fine contribu­ ministration had erroneously declared him OF TENNESSEE tions to the community. dead or the small company caught in a juris­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dictional dispute between the Government Tuesday, March 23, 1993 agencies, Ruth was on top of every situation. Mr. CLEMENT. Mr. Speaker, each day we HONORING THE TEXAS TECH UNI­ She brought the cases to my attention and, to­ learn more about the terrible plight of the citi­ VERSITY RED RAIDER MEN'S gether, we worked on solving the problems. zens of Armenia who are enduring unbeliev­ AND WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAMS Ruth and I share the philosophy that one of able hardships because of hostilities with their the most important jobs of a Congressman is neighboring country of Azerbaijan. to make Government work for the people. A very good Armenian friend of mine, who HON. Bill SARPAIJUS Without exception, Ruth conveyed a sense of lives in Memphis, has shared his own con­ OF TEXAS compassion and concern for everyone who cerns with me, and told me of the humani­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tarian efforts which are focused on his fellow came to us seeking assistance and instilled Tuesday, March 23, 1993 that same attitude in those she supervised. countrymen. Of particular interest are the ef­ Mr. SARPALIUS. Mr. Speaker, I would like It was Ruth who made sure I was where I forts being made by Armenia's neighbor, the to ask my colleagues to join me in congratulat­ needed to be when I was supposed to be Republic of Turkey. ing the Texas Tech Red Raiders and their vic­ there. It was Ruth who kept me informed Mr. Speaker, the Turks are shipping their own grain to Armenia. This grain is part of a tories at the Southwest Conference Basketball about what was happening in the district while shipment of 100,000 tons that Armenians Tournament. Both the women's and men's I was in Washington. And, it was Ruth who asked of Turkey when hostilities began. Tur­ teams did an outstanding job in clinching the gave selflessly of her time, her energy, and key agreed, and as of March 4 had delivered tournament championships. Mr. Speaker, it is her loyalty to serve the people of the Fifth Dis­ important to note this is only the second time trict. 47,330 tons of Turkish wheat. The Turks have done other things to insure in Southwest Conference history that teams For all of this and so much more, I want to the free flow of humanitarian aid to Armenia, from the same university have swept the thank Ruth-a true public servant in the best including expediting a train carrying 300 tons championships. sense of the term-and wish her well as she of French assistance through Turkey to Arme­ The Lady Raiders, under the direction of begins retirement with her husband John, with nia and passing through 16.5 tons of clothing Head Coach Marsha Sharp, had several im­ whom she celebrates 37 years of ma~riage on from the Swedish Red Cross. pressive wins including the 78-71 victory April 7, 1993. Last year, Turkey forwarded 1 ,690 tons of against the University of Texas which assured Ruth, you will be missed. milk powder and 500 tons of baby food from their placing at the NCAA Tournament. There March 23, 1993 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6131 is no question the Lady Raiders are blessed SWC tournament ranked fifth and went on to I've heard it said that a kite rises against the with talented young women, however, there is upset the University of Houston in the SWC wind and not with it. But to rise, the kite must a catalyst to their motivation and her name is Championship. The win assured them a place be anchored to a firm foundation and Texas Sheryl Swoopes. Ms. Swoopes was named at the NCAA Tournament. One thing which is Tech's young players had two foundations to 1992-93 women's basketball player of the most impressive about The Red Raiders is the cling to-seniors Will Flemons and Barron year by the Women's Basketball News Serv­ depth of their talent, and their youth. Lance Brown. Mr. Flemons was named to the all­ ice. Another of the Lady Raider's assets was tournament team selection and Mr. Brown's Hughes, a sophomore guard, led the Raider's Head Coach Marsha Sharp. Marsha has many leadership in the guard position was a winning scoring drive with 27 points and he will be re­ reasons to be proud of her team, but she can combination for Tech. Head Coach Dickey also be proud of her accomplishment of being turning to the Red Raider squad. Also, Mr. should be complimented for a job well done. named coach of the year by the Women's Hughes was named the SWC Tournament Mr. Speaker, Texas Tech basketball has Basketball News Service. The Lady Raiders MVP which his numbers clearly represent. been exciting in 1993 and there is no question sparked Texas Tech University at the SWC Lance is not alone-freshmen like Lenny that the Red Raiders will provide much excite­ Tournament and the men were next to follow. Holly, Koy Smith, and Jason Sasser were no ment in 1994. I ask my colleagues to join me Under the direction of Head Coach James strangers to Tech's win, and they undoubtedly in congratulating the Red Raiders for a very Dickey, the Texas Tech Red Raiders have will be a part of T ech's success in years to successful season. had an exciting season. They entered the come.