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8850 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 5, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ROHM & HAAS CO., EMPLOYEES public and private sectors working in part­ cal business, and the shop steward of Local WIN PRESIDENT'S VOLUNTEER nership to meet human needs. I salute 61, recruited other union members to sup­ ACTION AWARD Action and Volunteer: The National Center port this cause. Thirty-five other union for Citizens Involvement for their joint members agreed to apply their carpentry leadership on this vital program. The ongo­ skills and to provide the manpower neces­ ing work accomplished by this year's award sary to build the needed equipment. HON.CHARLESF.DOUGHERTY winners is a reflection of the contribution so Mr. Taylor enlisted the support of the OF PENNSYLVANIA many Americans make every day. In honor Rohm & Haas Company to provide the use IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of these award winners, and of all those who of the plant's facilities in building the items labor with unheralded perseverance, I am Wednesday, May 5, 1982 and to allocate the funds necessary to buy proud to invite all Americans to join in ap­ all materials. It was his intention that no e Mr. DOUGHERTY. Mr. Speaker, I preciation and celebration. costs be incurred by the Easter Seal Society. am very pleased and quite proud to RONALD REAGAN. All equipment was built on the union mem­ bers' own free time. inform the House of Representatives THE PRESIDENT'S VOLUNTEER ACTION AWARDS that employees of the Rohm & Hass Fifty-eight pieces of equipment-profes­ Co., have won the President's Volun­ The President's Volunteer Action Awards sionally built for strength and safety with a Program has been created to call public at­ total value of approximately $3,000-have teer Action Award. This honor was be­ tention to the contributions of our nation's resulted from the project. More important stowed on local 61 of the International volunteers and to demonstrate what can be than the financial savings to the Easter Seal Union of Operating Engineers, Phila­ accomplished through voluntary action. Society, however, is the impact of the equip­ delphia, and its shop steward Richard The 1982 President's Awards are co-spon­ ment on the children at the Rehabilitation Taylor, who recruited members to sored by Volunteer: The National Center for Center. The rehabilitative equipment en­ build physical therapy equipment for Citizen Involvement, a private, nonprofit or­ ables these handicapped children, aged 2 ganization, and Action, the federal agency through 8, to become more independent and the city's Easter Seal Rehabilitation for volunteer service, with program manage­ Center. to better reach their own full potential. ment responsibility resting with Volunteer. Norma Portnoy, director of the Rehabilita­ I recently visited the Rohm & Haas In keeping with the President's call for tion Center, estimates that more than 2,000 chemical plant in my cUstrict where greater private sector initiatives, funding children will benefit from the efforts of Richie Taylor works. Both the compa­ for the program has come from private these volunteers.• ny and Richie, along with all the mem­ foundations and corporations. Awards are made in the following catego­ bers of local 61, ought to be very ries: jobs, health, material resources, educa­ proud of this achievement. Because of tion, recreation and the environment, public PHIL FRATTI their efforts, more .than 2,000 Phila­ safety, arts and humanities, with additional delphia-area handicapped children will awards for special corporate volunteer ef­ benefit from the use of the rehabilita­ forts. The awards, sterling silver medallions HON. ALLEN E. ERTEL tive equipment. These dedicated especially created by Tiffany and Co. and OF PENNSYLVANIA contributed by Avon Products, are present­ people deserve our thanks and con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gratulations. ed to the recipients by the President at a special White House ceremony. Wednesday, May 5, 1982 Mr. Speaker, at this point in the Over 2,300 nominations were received RECORD I include the following: from local, regional and national voluntary •Mr. ERTEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to THE WHITE HOUSE, organizations, corporations and labor introduce my colleagues to Phil Fratti Washington, D.C., April 2, 1982. unions, civic and neighborhood groups, fra­ of Hershey, Pa. DEAR FRIENDS: Today in America we have ternal organizations and from Action's re­ I do so because as practitioners of an unprecedented opportunity to renew the gional and state offices and its · programs the art of politics, I think we can bene­ tradition of neighbor helping neighbor and grantees. Additional requests for nomi­ which made this nation great. Through acts nations were generated by announcement of fit from Phil Fratti's methods. Specifi­ of concern and compassion, we can rekindle the program in news stories, by syndicated cally, I am reminded of an incident at the spirit of generous giving in our people columnists and public service announce­ College Park, Pa., in the not too dis­ and bring a personal message to the lonely, ments on major radio networks. Nomina­ tant past. the needy and the forgotten that help and tions came from all 50 states, the District of Penn State's Nittany Lions were care are never far away. In so doing, we can Columbia and Puerto Rico. scheduled to meet Nebraska's Corn demonstrate to the world that the social Members of the National Voluntary Serv­ Huskers on the gridiron. As is the system which is most humane and most ef­ ice Advisory Council private citizens ap­ fective in meeting its members' needs is one pointed by the President to advise Action on custom, a delegation from Hershey, in­ which fosters both freedom and responsibil­ policy and program, served as the final cluding Phil Fratti, attended the ity. judges for the 1982 President's Volunteer game. During the game's tailgating Throughout our nation's history, Ameri­ Action Awards. preliminaries, Phil Fratti was discov­ cans have selflessly extended a helping The President's Volunteer Action Awards ered in the Corn Husker camp enjoy­ hand to their neighbors in times of trouble is not a one-year program. Rather, it is a ing warm beverage and good conversa­ and crisis. The energy expended by our citi­ continuing annual effort ·to celebrate the tion. zens in these direct problem-solving activi­ American spirit of volunteering and citizen In Nittany Lion country, less traitor­ ties is indispensable to the goal of maintain­ involvement. ing and improving the quality of life avail­ ous actions have ruined many a politi­ able to all Americans. LoCAL 61 OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF cian's career. Not so Phil Fratti's; My Administration is seeking ways, both OPERATING ENGINEERS, EMPLOYEES OF when confronted about his transgres­ new and old, to encourage voluntary action ROHM & HAAS Co. sion, Phil intrepidly explained, and private initiative and to ensure that Motivated by the good health of his own "They're Corn Huskers now, but next these efforts receive the recognition they children and concerned about helping those year they might be Hershey voters." deserve. We must make the cause of volun­ children less fortunate, Richard Taylor re­ In today's vernacular, Phil Fratti is a tary service to our fellow citizens and our sponded to a news release requesting assist­ communities part of our daily lives, engag­ ance in developing and building physical politician willing to go the extra mile; ing the unique talents and resources of each therapy equipment for the Philadelphia clearly, in a team of politicians, Phil individual at a new level of cooperation. Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center. Fratti is the lead horse. During his 50 The President's Volunteer Action Awards Mr. Taylor, an employee of Rohm & Haas years as a Hershey resident, Phil has Program is an excellent example of the Company, an international specialty chemi- served as: President of the Milton Her-

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. May 5, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8851 shey School Alumni Association, presi­ been terminated as the absurdity of the purchased each month. Similarly, the Gold dent of the Lower Dauphin County commitment became evident. Commission could have made a sensible rec­ Baseball League (5 years), president of The Commission . . . I tell this tale be­ ommendation-albeit one that I would not cause it is directly relevant to a recommen­ favor-by specifying limits on the amount to the Hershey American Legion Social dation adopted by the Gold Commission and be coined. Club, president of the Hershey VFW contained in its recently released report: Even before the commission reported, sev­ Memorial Home Association, president "We favor Treasury issue of gold bullion eral measures had already been introduced of the Dauphin County Tax Collectors coins of specified weights ... to be manu­ into Congress embodying the same fallacy: Association, president of the Hershey factured from its existing stock of gold and Senators Steve Symms and Jesse Helm's Italian Lodge, director and steward of to be sold at a small markup over the Free Market Gold Coinage Act and Rep. the Hershey Marching Club, com­ market value of the gold content ... Fur­ Larry Craig's Free Market Silver Dollar Act. mander of the Hershey Veterans of thermore, we recommend that the coins They will not be enacted, but at least they Foreign Wars, Derry Township Asses­ shall be exempt from capital gains taxes will provide future teachers of economics and that the coins shall be exempt from with some good exam questions.• sor, and Derry Township Tax Collec­ sales taxes." TAX ACT and community service. Phil, a veteran Omit the words "a small markup over" of World War II, also served as the and the first sentence repeats the silver fal­ senior vice commander of the Hershey lacy except for sales instead of purchases. HON. DUNCAN HUNTER Veterans of Foreign Wars before being What would the market price be if the elected its present commander. He is a Treasury were to offer to sell an unlimited OF CALIFORNIA amount of gold (in the form of coins) at IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES past trustee and officer of the Her­ "market value"? Answer: Whatever price shey Volunteer Fire Company and re­ would be low enough to exhaust the Treas­ Wednesday, May 5, 1982 mains an active member of the compa­ ury's stock of gold. The offer simply con­ Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, today I ny. He continues to be active in the sists of a thinly concealed auction of the e entire stock over an llidefinite period. introduced a Buy-American Deprecia­ Dauphin County Fireman's Associa­ tion Tax Act, an amendment to the tion, the Knights of Columbus, the Consider the situation at the beginning of Treasury coin sales. Whatever the initial Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981. Hershey Italian Lodge, the Hershey market price for gold, it could not subse­ This bill will allow millions of Ameri­ American Legion, the Grand Lodge of quently rise because purchasers could cans to stay on the job in beleaguered the Harrisburg Sons of Italy, the Mid­ always turn to the Treasury. But then other American industries. dletown Elks Lodge, the Elizabeth­ suppliers could get customers only by offer­ There is general agreement that town Moose Lodge, the Valley Trust ing to sell at a lower price. This downward Bank Advisory Board, and St. Joan of ratchet would in principle end only when bold action is required to expand Arc Catholic Church. the Treasury's gold stock was enhausted. In American industry. The administra­ I think, too, the family of Phil Fratti practice, this process would not be carried tion, to its credit, has articulated an should be recognized. Phil is married to its logical end. The frictions and delays approach which includes the reduction involved in minting gold bullion into coins of tax disincentives and the creation to Jennie A. Plebani of Hershey. To­ would slow it, and a sufficiently large "small of productivity stimulants. However, gether they are rightfully proud of markup over the market value" could re­ their one son, seven daughters and the administration's major emphasis strict the quantity demanded to any desired has been placed on substantial reduc­ four grandchildren. extent. Finally, if it came to that, the law Mr. Speaker, in closing, I am remind­ would be repealed when it became manifest tions in tax burdens on income from ed of Mark Twain's observation that what its effect would be. capital investments by accelerating de­ "* • • human nature is all alike; • • • Since I do not believe that the storage of preciation deductions. we like to know what the big people gold should be a nationalized industry, or, Depreciable property is now allocat­ are doing, so we can envy the • • • ." indeed, a function of government at all, I ed to one of four classes with recovery Phil Fratti ·is one of the world's "big have long favored auctioning off our gold periods of 3, 5, 10, and 15 years. Other stock to the highest bidder. However, the business provisions of the act include: people" and as we can see, he has been decision to do so should be made openly and doing and continues to do a lot.e explicitly, not by subterfuge. Increased investment credits for ex­ The Gold Commission's recommendation penditures to rehabilitate older nonre­ that the coins minted by the Treasury-and sidential structures, a temporary tax NONSENSE ABOUT GOLD presumably only such coins-be exempt credit for certain increased research from capital gains and sales taxes could give and development expenditures, and a them a marked advantage over gold coins 6-percent investment tax credit for 3- HON. HENRY S. REUSS now being marketed by private domestic year equipment, while the 10-percent OF WISCONSIN mints and foreign governments, thereby as­ credit is retained for other eligible IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES suring the Treasury a monopoly-though equipment. this, too, is an activity that I believe could Wednesday, May 5, 1982 better be left to the free market. If the rec­ The magnitude of the corporate tax •Mr. REUSS. Mr. Speaker, there fol­ ommendations were rigidly adhered to, the reduction resulting from accelerated lows an excellent statement by Prof. monopoly would be temporary, lasting only cost recovery schedule

of grants to schools. Radio Shack hasn't de­ people and their willingness to live in EXPROPRIATED LAND cided whether it would take advantage of peace with Israel. Therefore, I would the Stark bill, he addes. "The decision is up Today, of the total land surface of man­ to our board." like to call to the attention of my col­ dated Palestine <1948), the indigenous Pales­ Mr. Jobs believes that Apple's competitors leagues a statement prepared by the tinian population hold 19 percent, while the are sure to join in. "It really is something major political Palestinian leadership Israelis have accumulated 81 percent. 42 for nothing, and I think the private sector on the West Bank and Gaza-includ­ percent of the West Bank land has been will respond gallantly," he says. ing most mayors and leaders of reli­ confiscated. East Jerusalem, with an esti­ In fact, he reports, "one competitor mated Palestinian population of 100,000 gious, educational, and professional or­ people, was illegally annexed in June 1980. swears he isn't going to let a generation of ganizations. This is their statement. It kids grow up looking at our logo."e In December 1981, the Syrian Golan is intended to show the impact of the Heights was annexed entirely. The popula­ Israeli occupation on the daily lives of tion there has been on strike ever since. A PALESTINIAN APPEAL FOR Palestinians in the West Bank and RESTRICTED ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND UNDERSTANDING AND JUSTICE Gaza as seen from their eyes. It is a DEVELOPMENT compelling and grim document that As a predominantly agricultural society, everyone should read. It will make we make a living off our land. Water, more HON. PAUL FINDLEY ever more understandable the urgent precious than oil in an arid region, is divert­ OF ILLINOIS need for a peace settlement that will ed to Israeli settlements. Thousands of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES reconcile Israelis and Palestinians and acres of banana, citrus, olives, apricots and peaches were lost. The industrial sector has Wednesday, May 5, 1982 insure justice for all parties in the Middle East. been severely hampered as the occupation e Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, Israel's authories have banned any economic assist­ withdrawal from the Sinai on April 25 To THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM THE PALES­ ance from the Arab world and have limited TINIAN PEOPLE UNDER ISRAELI OCCUPATION economic assistance from American and can only be described as one of those IN THE WEST BANK, JERUSALEM, AND GAZA: international humanitarian organizations, rare and historic moments in history AN APPEAL FOR UNDERSTANDING AND JUSTICE including UNWRA, UNDP, UNESCO, and when mankind was able to make a sig­ THE VIEW FROM PALESTINE WHO. nificant and measurable step toward DESTROYED FAMILY HOMES AND BUSINESSES It We are the Palestinians from Palestine. peace. was ·even more remarkable in There are 4.4 million of us. In the past 15 years, more than 1,260 that it occurred despite: Deep misgiv­ Up until 1948, Palestinians lived and homes have been demolished and bulldozed. ings on the part of some Israelis; the worked in Palestine. Palestinians carried a In 1981, at least 23 homes were destroyed tragic assassination of President Sadat Palestinian passport. Palestinians have a and three others were sealed up for "securi­ who, with Prime Minister Begin, made Palestinian flag. Palestinian children read ty" reasons. The housing associations were it possible; unceasing turmoil in Leba­ about their history and sang Palestinian prevented from acting. The average dwell­ non; and the illegal annexation by songs. The first line of the Palestinian na­ ing houses 15 family members; the number Israel of the Golan Heights. tional anthem: of homeless is much higher. Scores of busi­ Moreover, the withdrawal from "Biladi, Biladi, Biladi. nesses were marked, then welded shut in Sinai proves that Israel can and will Biladi laki hubbi wa fuadi" Gaza. withdraw from occupied territories. tended curfews, road blocks, stops, searches and now feel the tremendous frustra­ Today, a Palestinian living on the West and house arrests are part of our everyday Bank and Gaza can get arrested for singing life. Color-coded license plates and photo tion of having their right to self-ex­ that song. Our song. He can get arrested for cards are assigned to all Palestinians and re­ pression, economic advance, and self­ waving the Palestinian flag. Our flag. Israeli quired for identification and military pur­ determination denied by Israel with­ military occupation is an iron fist of mili­ poses. During 1981 alone, curfews were im­ out any Palestinian participation in tary troops, military governors, and military posed on 15 towns, villages and refugee basic political processes. orders. In the past 15 years, since 1967 when camps for periods ranging from 2-23 days; A difficult situation exists in the Israeli military occupation began, there the affected population was over half a mil­ West Bank. I believe that it is now just have been over 850 military orders issued. lion inhabitants. Local leaders are regularly We Palestinians understand that Ameri­ placed under house or town arrest for ex­ a matter of time before the hunger for tended periods of time. peace between Israelis and Palestin­ cans also have an interest in our region. Per­ ians becomes so consuming that they haps paramount is your concern for peace, DETAINED AND TORTURED PRISONERS will be willing to make the compro­ security and stability in the Middle East. Since the beginning of occupation, ap­ We share with you that desire. proximately 200,000 security prisoners and mises necessary to come to an agree­ However, stability can not be achieved by detainees have passed through Israeli pris­ ment and achieve peace and mutual a repressive military rule over people who ons. That's nearly 20 percent of all inhabit­ recognition. But unfortunately, at the are determined to preserve their identity ants of the occupied territories. Throughout same time, the frustration in the West and unity in their land of birth. Both Israeli 1981, there were approximately 3,000 Pales­ Bank and Gaza is growing, at once policy and practices contradict its claim for tinian political prisoners incarcerated. making peace more urgent and yet peace and security. The Palestinians will There were over 40 instances of torture re­ more difficult to attain. The construc­ not yield to suppression, oppression, or inti­ ported in the Israeli press itself. tion of new Israeli settlements, the ex­ madation. Israel's desperate attempts to do Subhuman prison conditions and Israeli so will only invite instability and jeopordize torture practices used in interrogation to propriation by the Israeli Government everyone's hopes for peace and security. obtain confessions have been reported by: of land traditionally farmed and The situation in the Israeli occupied Pal­ Amnesty International, The International owned by Palestinians, military cen­ estinian territory is serious. In contraven­ Commission of Jurists, The Sunday Times, sorship, curfews, imprisonment, dem­ tion of the Geneva Convention and interna­ the Christian Science Monitor, The Nation­ onstrations that all too often turn vio­ tional law, Israel, the occupying power has: al Lawyers Guild, The Swiss League for lent-all of this has become a part of ADDED NEW OR ENLARGED SETTLEMENTS Human Rights, The Israeli League for the daily lives of Palestinians and Is­ Before Begin, there were 30 illegal settle­ Human and Civil Rights, the U.N. Human raelis, who both now seem to be ments. Today, East Jerusalem alone has 12 Rights Commission, The U.N. Special Com­ trapped. Unless a monumental effort illegal settlements with 60,000 Israeli resi­ mittee for Investigating Israeli Practices Af­ dents. The West Bank has 85 illegal settle­ fecting Human Rights of the Population of is made to reconcile growing Israeli­ the Occupied Territories, and the U.S. De­ Palestinian differences, they could ments with a population of 30,000; the Golan Heights has 30 settlements with a partment of State. grow so wide as to make eventual population of 6,000; and Gaza has 30 illegal ARRESTED AND DEPORTED PROMINENT FIGURES peace unobtainable. settlements with a population of 1,500. In AND PALESTINIAN LEADERS If Americans hope to promote peace, 1981 alone 17 new settlements were erected In the first ten years of occupation . All individuals region and to the exercise of our inalienable Society of Women, Nablus District, Yusrah human and national rights. Salah are obliged to obtain written approval from Our internationally recognized represent­ the military authorities before joining any Society of Women, Jenin District, Adalat ative must be the active participant in any Metar academic institution, either as a student or and all endeavors that discuss the fate of as a faculty member. This college admis­ Society of Women, Jericho District, Ayshah the Palestinians. We urge the American gov­ Tijani sions procedure via military authorities ap­ ernment to talk with our representative, plies to local residents as well as foreigners. President of Detainees and Political Prison­ All texts, lesson plans and academic and opt for the political advantage instead ers and Families Association, Khalil Abu of military solution. Zayyad courses must be approved by the Inilitary Military, economic and political support authorities. Approximately 3,000 books have Representative of the Society of Women, to the occupying power must be stopped. Bethlehem, Lydia Al Araj been banned from distribution in the terri­ The 1,300,000 Palestinian people of the tories by the Inilitary censor. Included are a President of the West Bank Society of Den­ West Bank and Gaza have been under Israe­ tists, M. Naser Eddin biography of Abraham Lincoln, Alexander li Military Occupation since 1967. Increas­ the Great, Christopher Marlow, Shake­ Chair, Gaza Lawyers Union, Abu Rahmah ingly, brutal violations of human rights President of the University Graduates Asso­ speare, and Orwell's classic, 1984. against the Christian and Muslim Palestin­ CENSORING THE PRESS ciation, Hebron, Adib Qaisi ians are being conducted with U.S. Inilitary Representative of the Palestine Women's Al-Fajr, the only English-language weekly equipment in the name of "Preventive Secu­ Association, Hebron, Yusra Shawar bringing news directly from the Occupied rity". The total U.S. aid to Israel between President of Hebron University, Dr. Khar­ Territories, was banned from publishing for 1948 and 1981 has exceeded $40 billion. several weeks last year. Its editor, Ma'moun The Palestinian people appeal to the ouf el-Sayed, along with the editors of Al­ American people in the name of the Ameri­ The Gaza Society of Engineers Sha'ab, and Al-Tali'a, who all live in Ramal­ can Declaration of rights to stand with us President of the West Bank Higher Educa­ lah, are forbidden indefinitely to travel any today as you have stood before-for the tion Society, Gabi Baramki where in the West Bank, including Jerusa­ right of men and women to live in peace and Representative of the Greek Catholic Com­ lem where their offices are located. Israeli freedom and to self-determination. munity, Jerusalem Inilitary censors, wielding unlimited author­ We urge you to direct your State and na­ The Central Committee of the Red Crescent ity, routinely cut a quarter of the materials tional representative to take back control of Society, West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusa­ submitted for publication. Many Palestinian your Middle East policy from the Israeli lem journalist have been imprisoned, deported, Inilitarists and to develop an even-handed The Faculty of Theology, University of Je­ or placed under house or town arrest. policy toward the Middle East, mindful of rusalem Threats against the Palestinian press have the American peoples' commitment to Representative of the Chamber of Com- filtered down even to the local newspaper human rights; justice and freedom. merce of Jerusalem, Fayek Barakat boy who attempts to sell the papers. Over The Gaza Medical Society Among the drafters and sponsors of this The Gaza Chamber of Commerce the past years, dozens of young boys have message: been attacked. Chair, Israeli League for Human Rights, Mayor of Gaza, Rashad Shawwa Israel Shahak VIOLATED INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION Mayor of El Bira, Ibrahim Tawil Mayor of Oalqiliya, Amin Nasr Felicia Langer, Lawyer, Human Rights Ac­ We are Palestinians. We are proud of our Mayor of Ramallah, Karim Khalaf tivist Palestinian people. We are proud of our cul­ Mayor of Tulkarm, Hilmi Hannoim President of Al Najah University, Nablus, tural heritage and history. Proud of our Mayor of Anabta, Walid Hamdallah Munthir Salah country. Palestine. Mayor of Duba, Mohamd M. Amr President of the West Bank and Jerusalem Our Palestinian pride is something no one Mayor of Belt Jala, Farah Al Araj Medical Society, Dr. Samir Katbeh can suppress without fear of response-not Elected Mayor of Jerico, Member of Munici­ The Student Council of Bethlehem Univer­ even the Israeli military forces of occupa­ pal Council, Jamil o Nasser sity e tion. Last vice-Mayor of Jerusalem, Amin Saleh Our flag is the flag of Palestine. When it Majaj was raised recently on a West Bank campus, Mayor of Nablus, Bassam Shaka WASTE AND ABUSE the university president along with several Mayor of Bethlehem, Elias Freij INFORMATION COLLECTION ACT hundred students were arrested. Rev. Falk Haddad, Anglican Archbishop, The colors of our flag are red, white, Bishop of Jerusalem green and black. Palestinian artists are pro­ Chairman of the Union of Charitable Soci­ hibited from using those colors because the eties of Jerusalem, Dr. Amin Al-Khatib HON. THOMAS E. PETRI Israeli Inilitary authorities find them 'offen­ President of the West Bank Society of Engi­ OF WISCONSIN sive' and a 'threat' to security. In September neers, Ibrahim Dakkak IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1980, the Israeli occupation authorities Chairman of the West Bank Society of Agri­ closed Gallery '79, the only permanent art cultural Engineers and Veterinarians Wednesday, May 5, 1982 gallery in the West Bank. Our young poets President of the West Bank Committee of •Mr. PETRI. Mr. Speaker, yesterday suffer the same fate. Last year, a 15-year old Jurists I introduced H.R. 6266, the Waste and girl from Tulkarm on the West Bank was ar­ Representative of the Women of Jerusalem Abuse Information Collection Act rested and detained for possessing a collec­ Society, Aminah Al Husseini tion of her own poems. Her crime: she used Last Director of Education for the Jerusa­ . The purpose of this bill is the word Palestine. lem District, H. Haydar to encourage employees of Govern­ These practices do not occur occasionally, Director of Waqf and Islamic Affairs for Je­ ment contractors and State and local but daily. They are not incidental. They are rusalem, Hasan Tahboub governments to report waste, fraud, May 5, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8865 and abuse in the handling of Federal ready in existence are a good channel this individual is unable to gain an funds and to protect these employees for reporting such information, and equivalent position elsewhere and if from reprisals by their employers. the Inspectors General are doing a the employer is unwilling to reinstate THE PROBLEM OF WASTE AND INEFFICIENCY fine job pursuing leads, but some co­ him, W AICA requires the employer to Those of us in Congress are not ordination is needed. For instance, a make up the difference between what strangers to the problem of waste and recent study of the Civil Service the employee once had and what he inefficiency. We work very hard at de­ system indicates that a key factor in can now get. In addition to making the signing programs and choosing sys­ motivating employees to report infor­ employee whole, this approach will tems only to feel later that our efforts mation is the availability of a later present a significant deterrent to the have gone down the drain because the confirmation that the lead is being Government contractor who would money we appropriated simply did not pursued. W AICA accordingly instructs consider making a reprisal in the first go where it was supposed to go. OMB to insure that such confirma­ place. We have made some progress in re­ tions are available. W AICA also au­ Hopefully, a situation will be fos­ ducing this problem. The Inspector thorizes OMB to prescribe regulations tered where the company itself will General Act of 1978 and the Civil under which the Inspectors General encourage the reporting of such infor­ Service Reform Act were both good in­ can enter into cooperative agreements mation. Indeed, several large corpora­ novations, and we are benefiting from with appropriate State agencies. The tions, such as IBM and Allied Corp., them. The administration is also to be bill also requires recipients of Federal have already implemented such pro­ lauded for the efforts of the Presi­ funds to inform their employees of grams voluntarily. Moreover, this ap­ dent's Council on Integrity and Effi­ their rights under this legislation. proach can be seen as a step toward ciency, located in the Office of Man­ This notice requirement is designed to the quality work circle which has been agement and Budget. be as inexpensive as possible, and it such a success for the Japanese. Despite these efforts, we could still can help the employer by clearly des­ It should be stressed that W AICA use more information. We order audits ignating which work is and is not cov­ does not leave the employer a captive by the GAO and others, but we also ered by the protections. Finally, of the whims of a disgruntled employ­ need to be more in touch with the day­ W AICA instructs the Inspectors Gen­ ee. These protections are not available to-day handling of these Federal dol­ eral to maintain the anonymity of the to the employee unless he acts in good lars so that we can insure that the dol­ contributors of information in pursu­ faith: Frivolous complaints do not trig­ lars will not be wasted. ing leads. ger any rights. Also, W AICA leaves an 2. PROTECTIONS FROM REPRISALS THE OPPORTUNITY employer free in any case to take any W AICA's second step is to prevent personnel action which has an inde­ Waste, fraud, and abuse rarely occur superiors from taking reprisals against without someone's being aware of it. pendent justification and is not a re­ employees who provide information. taliation. This is a reasonable balance Many times, only the perpetrators will Of course, many investigations can know about a scheme, but often of the interests of the employer and and will be carried out so that the em­ employee. others, particularly fell ow employees, ployer is unable to pinpoint the initial will suspect that something fishy is contributor of the lead. Protection will 3. INCENTIVE AWARDS going on. While the natural inclina­ obviously be unnecessary in such a W AICA's final step is to provide for tion of these employees might be to case. Some leads, however, cannot be a system of awards to these employees report wrongdoing, they may decline pursued without notifying the employ­ and other individuals so that they will to do so because the conspirators, who er, and the employer may be able to have some positive incentive to report are often superiors or may enjoy their conclude that a particular lead could wrongdoing or waste. The awards are support, are in a position t_o take only have originated from a certain discretionary and are limited by the reprisals. An important resource in source. Many employers will be projected savings. The maximum the battle against fraud thus goes un­ pleased to know about fraud on the award is a certain percentage of the harnessed. Similarly, even an employ­ part of their employees, but some savings, but this percentage declines as ee who notices simple waste may be re­ managers may be tempted to take re­ the savings get. larger. A major factor luctant to antagonize superiors by re­ prisals against sources of such infor­ to be taken into account when making porting it if he has nothing to gain. mation. W AICA provides a remedy for these awards is the encouragement of Only three things are needed to take any employee who has been unfairly other contributors of information. An­ advantage of this opportunity. First, victimized because of a good-faith dis­ other purpose is to help individuals employees must know how to report closure. whose protections may be inadequate. this information, and the information The remedy is in the form of an ad­ However, suffering reprisal is not a channel must be safe for the employee ministrative action subject to the prerequisite to receiving an award. and efficient for the Government. The normal procedures of judicial review. Since the purpose is to encourage the second requirement is that the em­ This approach is the least expensive flow of information, individuals who ployee have some protection from re­ and the most convenient from the per­ are not covered employees are also eli- prisal in the event his identity is dis­ spective of the employee, employer, gible for these awards. - covered. The third requirement is that and agency. Hopefully, the agency will ANALYSIS there be incentive awards to encour­ be able to induce a settlement in the Inevitably, this program will have age reporting. While many will act out course of its initial review of the em­ certain costs. Additional phone opera­ of civic duty, others may be spurred by ployee's complaint. The formal reme­ tors will have to be hired to receive the possibility of a reward. The awards dies available to the agency and the leads, more investigators will be will also help those for whom the pro­ court include reinstatement of posi­ needed to pursue worthwhile informa­ tections may be inadequate. The tion, rank, and duties, backpay, and tion, and more attorneys will be used awards should be available to all indi­ other equitable relief. Of course, exist­ to recover the proceeds of fraud. viduals, not just employees, since ing law provides that criminal immuni­ In effect, we have a choice: We anyone may have information to con­ ty can be granted to a conspirator in either pay a certain amount for fraud tribute. an appropriate case. and waste, or we pay a smaller amount DESCRIPTION OF WAICA Unfortunately, reinstatement may to reduce them. From a cost-benefit 1. INFORMATION AND INVESTIGATION CHANNELS not be practicable in some cases: Once perspective, we should spend money WAICA's first step is to expand a mid- or upper-level manager loses on reducing fraud until each dollar in upon existing resources to provide and the respect of his fell ow leadership, prevention brings in only a dollar in publicize channels for reporting such the confidence so essential to his posi­ fraud reduction. Wiping out all fraud information. The various hotlines al- tion may be very difficult to restore. If would be prohibitively expensive, but 8866 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 5, 1982 this proposal comes nowhere near that SEC. 3. In accordance with regulations (2) In any such action so instituted before point. What this proposal seeks to do prescribed by the Director of the Office of an agency on a complaint- is to made good use of a most valuable Management and Budget, each contract, alleging a violation of the stipulations resource, namely virtue-minded citi­ grant and loan application, and cooperative and representations required by subsection zens. Certainly no one should be pe­ agreement which is subject to the require­ ; ments of this section shall include the fol­ containing or accompanied by a show­ nalized for trying to save the taxpay­ lowing representations and stipulations: ing that the complainant provided, in good ers money, but that is exactly the con­ <1) that the direct recipient of Federal faith, information to a Federal officer or sequence of refusing to enact this leg­ funds under such contract, application, or employee concerning fraud, waste, or abuse islation. agreement will not take any adverse per­ in the expenditure of Federal funds under a The purpose of this bill is not to get sonnel action with respect to any employee contract, grant or loan application, or coop­ recipients of Federal funds. Indeed, to as a reprisal for providing, in good faith, in­ erative agreement; and the extent the public believes its tax formation concerning fraud, waste, or abuse alleging that the complainant suffered dollars are being spent effectively, in the expenditure of such funds to any some form of adverse personnel action as a Federal officer or employee will not take occurred except to the extent that the will not justify the costs. W AICA con­ any other action to infringe on the rights of agency determines that such personnel templates many such situations. For employees with respect to conduct protected action (i) was not adverse, that the information the case of some medical programs­ of Management and Budget- was provided by the complainant without a are covered. This threshold is not triv­ of the nature and extent of employee reasonable belief that it was evidence of ial. In fiscal year 1980, only 2.5 percent rights and remedies under this section and such fraud, waste, or abuse. of all Federal procurement actions in­ of the identity of the activities conducted (3) Agency actions taken pursuant to pro­ volved $10,000 or more, but these ac­ with funds subject to this section, ceedings under this subsection shall be re­ of the awards which may be available viewable in accordance with chapter 7 of tions accounted for 90 percent of the under section 5 of this Act, and title 5, United States Code. total procurement expenditures. Small of appropriate methods by which em­ To the extent practicable, agency pro­ businesses thus will not receive harsh­ ployees may provide information to any ceedings on complaints under this section er treatment under this bill. In addi­ Federal officer or employee that the direct recipient will, if found rectly or indirectly from the Federal Gov­ these cases so narrow exclusions could by the responsible Federal agency to have ernment. be drafted. violated paragraph (1) of this subsection, (2) A loan application is subject to this take such affirmative action as such agency section if any non-Federal party to the ap­ H.R.- may determine to be appropriate on the A bill to provide for the operation of facili­ plication will receive a loan or loans from basis of harm suffered by the employee as a the Federal Government of more than ties for the collection of information con­ consequence of the violation, including rein­ cerning fraud, waste, or abuse in the ex­ $150,000 in any calendar year or a loan or statement or hiring of an employee, with or loans guaranteed or insured by the Federal penditure of Federal funds, and to re­ without back pay, restoration of seniority or quire, as a condition of the receipt of such other rights, proper consideration for pro­ Government in any calendar year the total funds, the protection from reprisal of con­ motion, or other equitable relief, and pay­ principal amount of which is more than tributors of such information, and for ment of reasonable attorney's fees or other $150,000. other purposes (3) A grant application or cooperative costs of obtaining relief; agreement under title XVIII or XIX of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of <4> that the direct recipient will pay, if found by the responsible Federal agency to Social Security Act is subject to this section Representatives of the United States of if any non-Federal party to the application America in Congress assembled, That this have violated paragraph <1> of this subsec­ tion, and if that agency determines that or agreement will receive more than $50,000 Act may be cited as the "Waste and Abuse in any calendar year directly or indirectly Information Collection Act". relief under paragraph (3) of this subsection SEc. 2. The Director of the Office of Man­ is not appropriate, such damages as the from the Federal Government. agement and Budget shall provide for the agency may establish in lieu of or in addi­ (4) No grant application or cooperative operation of toll-free telephone facilities for tion to such relief; and agreement under any of the following provi­ the collection of information concerning (5) that the direct recipient will require of sions of law is subject to this section: fraud, waste, or abuse by any direct recipi­ any indirect recipient under any contract, the State and Local Fiscal Assistance ent of Federal funds under any contract, grant or loan application, or cooperative Act of 1972; grant or loan application, or cooperative agreement which is subject to the require­ title I of the Housing and Community agreement. Such facilities shall, in accord­ ments of this section, compliance with the chapter 2 of the Education Consolida­ rector, be operated in a manner to assure requirements of paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and tion and Improvement Act of 1981; that- (4). title XIX of the Public Health Service <1) complaints regarding such fraud, (b)(l) The head of each Federal agency Act; waste, or abuse by Federal contractors are shall provide for the receipt and prompt in­ title V of the Social Security Act; promptly referred to the Inspector General vestigation of complaints regarding adverse title XX of the Social Security Act; or other appropriate official of the Federal personnel and other actions in violation of and agency responsible for the supervision of the stipulations and representations made the Low-Income Home Energy Assist­ the contract; pursuant to subsection . and shall insti­ ance Act of 1981. <2> in making such referrals, the identities tute proceedings on any complaint for SEC. 4. In accordance with guidelines of individuals providing such information which there is reasonable cause to believe prescribed by the Director of the Office of who request confidentiality are protected; the allegations demonstrate such a viola­ Management and Budget, the head of a (3) individuals providing such information tion. In designating a hearing officer for Federal agency may enter into cooperative are notified of their rights under section 3 such a proceeding, the head of such agency agreements with appropriate agencies and of this Act and of the opportunities for in­ shall ensure that the officer is independent instrumentalities of State governments to centive awards under section 5 of this Act and impartial and has not been involved in provide for State assistance in the collection and are informed of any progress made in the operations to which the complaint re­ and initial investigation of <1> information the investigation of their complaint. lates. concerning fraud, waste, and abuse, and (2) May 5, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8867 complaints regarding adverse personnel and this section, designate an agency employee ment affairs for Consolidation Coal Co. and other actions in violation of the stipulations who has responsibility for the supervision of vice chairman of the National Coal Associa­ and representations made by the State gov­ audits and investigations of funds expended tion's government relations committee, tes­ ernment pursuant to section 3. by that agency. tified about the association's concerns. Cb> Such agreements shall provide that in­ The head of the Federal agency <1> concerning fraud, waste, or abuse documentation substantiating any award Certain locks and dams at several loca­ shall be provided by the State agency or in­ made under this section. tions on the Monongahela, Allegheny and strumentality to the Inspector General or <2> The Comptroller General shall, from Ohio rivers and others of our nation's other appropriate official of the Federal time to time, review awards made under this inland waterways system are not adequate agency concerned. section and procedures used in making such to handle present and projected traffic and Such agreements may provide that the awards to verify the cost savings for which some locks are in serious need of repair. State agency or instrumentality will insti­ the awards were made. Thus, the replacement of selected locks and tute proceedings on any such complaint for For purposes of this section, the term dams is necessary in order to upgrade and which there is reasonable cause to believe "Federal funds recipient" means any recipi­ expand waterways transportation capacity the allegations demonstrate such a viola­ ent of funds from the Federal Government and levels of service. tion. In designating a hearing officer for under any contract, grant or loan applica­ The National Coal Association recognizes such a proceeding, the head of such agency tion, or cooperative agreement which is sub­ that the inland waterways system has had, or instrumentality shall ensure that the of­ ject to this Act Such agreements may also provide for coastal and overseas shipments. Therefore, the rendering of recommendations of em­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NCA believes the federal government has a ployees by the State agency or instrumen­ Wednesday, May 5, 1982 critical role to play in the continued devel­ tality for awards under section 5. opment and maintenance of the inland wa­ SEc. 5. The head of a Federal e Mr. WILLIAM J. COYNE. Mr. terway system. agency, upon the advice or after consulta­ Speaker, the growth of coal produc­ Unfortunately, a five-year lapse in fund­ tion with the Inspector General of such tion to ease American dependence on ing of inland waterways improvements has agency whose disclosure of fraud, waste, ments are considered essential on these wa­ or abuse to the agency has resulted in cost record in these respects, however, is terways: savings for the agency. The amount of an not as good as it could be due to ne­ First, to arrest deterioration of the inland award under this section shall be deter­ glect of our waterway transportation waterways transportation system. mined by the head of the agency on the system. Barges carry a substantial por­ Second, to expedite construction of select­ basis of the factors in paragraph <2>. but tion of our coal from the mines to ed lock and dam replacements in order to may not exceed the lesser of $500,000 or an electric utilities, to industrial plants, accommodate increased shipments of coal to amount equal to the sum of- and to ports for overseas shipment. domestic and overseas destinations. 10 percent of the first $500,000, Stephen G. Young of Consolidation Third, to develop and maintain an effec­ 5 percent of the next $4,500,000, and tive inland waterways transportation alter­ 3 percent of any additional amount, Coal Co., in a Pittsburgh Business native to the railroads, thereby assuring ef­ of the agency's cost savings which the head Journal article, details this vital rela­ fective competition which keeps rates rea­ of the agency, after consultation with the tionship between coal and barge trans­ sonable and services adequate through the Inspector General of the agency "They are talking about Vietnam-era vet­ ing the budget on the shoulders of They've succeeded despite great adversi­ erans," say8 Baines. "Era is the key word. American workers. ty-blindness, crippling wounds, deep public Only 13,000 are Vietnam War veterans, out May 5, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8871 of 2112 million who served in Vietnam. That about his hospital experiences. He took over In this, Patterson is supported by major is less than half of 1 percent. Not much." last year as director of the Vietnam Veter­ studies that show little basis for the percep­ Baines recently began helping out in the ans Leadership Program in Chicago. tion of Vietnam vets as troubled individuals, Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, a The program, he says, is vital to Vietnam unable to fit into society. One federal federal project that got under way in six vets because, for the first time, it gives them survey finds fewer than 5 percent of all cities last year and is being financed for a place where they can discuss among them­ state-prison inmates ever served in Indo­ three years with a modest 6 million dollars selves the feelings of alienation and disap­ china. Still another survey indicates that 90 in federal funds. The goal is for the pro­ pointment that many have. percent of vets 25 and older are employed. gram to expand to 50 cities by 1984, when it "Most Vietnam veterans don't belong to What's more, those who went to Vietnam is to become privately operated and fi­ any organization," explains Eilert. "We feel are making more use of federal education nanced. estranged. I got tired of going to an Ameri­ benefits than have the veterans of earlier So far, says Baines, his value to other vet­ can Legion club, for example, and getting wars. erans has been mainly as a sounding board. bawled out at the bar for losing the war and Patterson himself came out of Vietnam "We get together, and it does a lot of good for not knowing what combat really is.'' determined to improve himself. A college for guys to get things off their chests," says SCALING THE HEIGHTS dropout before joining the Army, the De­ the ex-Navy man. "I can immediately relate Charles O'Brien, who lost a leg in Viet­ troit native worked his way through Michi­ to them. It's going to do a lot of good for nam, was once cautioned not to try college gan State after his discharge, earning a me, too." because amputees have trouble climbing degree in political science. "I'M GLAD I SERVED" stairs. Last summer, the former Army Now that he has settled into the job in John F. Nash, Jr., 35, doubts that he Ranger was among eight handicapped per­ Windsor, he is helping out in Vietnam veter­ would have wound up as a key congressional sons who scaled the heights of Mount ans' groups. "I look at it from the stand­ aide if the war had not intervened in his Rainier. point of receiving a request to help someone life. The Philadelphia lawyer's aim in the like an old fraternity brother," says Patter­ "I turned over a new leaf in the Marine climb, hard enough for someone with both son. "If there's something I can do, I am Corps," says the former platoon command­ legs, was to demonstrate the worth of in­ willing to make the effort." er. "I hadn't been living up to my family's jured veterans and other disabled persons. DROPOUT WITH A DOCTORATE expectations, and life had been easy-sort of It would, he thought, help build confidence There was a time, says Kip Becker, when Camelot. It wasn't until the Marines that I and self-esteem. he tried to hide from potential employers realized we have a meritocracy society. A O'Brien, 35, accepts no limitations as a that he had piloted an Army combat heli­ glib tongue isn't enough. I went back to result of his own injury. He has even copter in Vietnam. school with a vengeance." learned to ski again. "I'm an amputee, and Becker, 34, believes that most employers Nash, chief counsel of the Senate's Sub­ often that troubles me," he says. "It is hard do not identify with the veterans of Viet­ committee on Regulatory Reform, went to to walk on an artifcial leg, and yet I had to nam the way they did with soldiers who Vietnam with reservations about the war because I couldn't allow my disability to fought in other wars. Thus, he reports, "I but came back convinced he had done the interfere." kept Vietnam off my resume at first, and it right thing. "I'm so glad I served," he says. O'Brien, who says his younger brother kind of hurt to do that." "I came back, and my conscience is clean." performed alternative service as a conscien­ Now marketing-and-development director But his stint in Vietnam earned him tious objector during the war, feels too at Wilmington College in Delaware, Becker heavy criticism from some quarters. At one many who served in Vietnam have wasted wants to see the day when all Vietnam vet­ school where Nash tried to enroll, he time feeling sorry for themselves. "They erans can do as he did and "get out of the recalls,"an assistant dean of admissions told nurtured each other's bitterness," he says. closet." That is one of his goals as a volun­ me, 'We are not really partial to hired kill­ "I hate to call it self-pity, but that's what it teer worker in a veterans' group in Wilming­ ers here.'" was." ton. Nash graduated from another school, the He concedes, however, that the public University of California, and then entered failed to give Vietnam veterans the measure "I am not a joiner, but what I like about Georgetown University's Law School. While of understanding and gratitude they had a this program is that the people involved are studying in Washington, he was offered a right to expect from their countrymen. able to get along," reports Becker. part-time job with Senator Paul Laxalt ." proud of what he had done for his adopted tions. homeland. That's why he was shocked to (C) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.- find not all Americans were as pleased. Subtitle B-Repeal of Special Leasing Rules ( 1) RESTORATION OF MAXIMUM TAX ON PER­ "Those were the years of antiwar demon­ Sec. 211. Repeal of special leasing rules. SONAL SERVICE INCOME AND OF PRIOR LAW COM­ strations," says Sanz, who is today a faculty Subtitle C-Cre~ts PUTATION OF ALTERNATIVE MIMIMUM TAX, member at Georgetown University's Medical Sec. 221. Regular percentage of investment ETc.-Paragraph (1) of section 101(f) of the School. tax credit reduced to 7 percent. Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and paragraph (3) of sub­ uating at the top of his class, and then by Economic Recovery Tax Act of section shall apply to taxable years be­ earned a medical degree at Georgetown Uni­ 1981. ginning after December 31, 1981. versity. Sec. 232. ·Repeal of percentage depletion "(B) MAXITAX, ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX, The unrelenting grind of medical school, for oil and gas wells. PERSONAL HOLDING COMPANY TAX.-The says Sanz, plus his determination to do well, Sec. 233. Repeal of option to deduct intan­ amendments made by subsection and kept him from feeling the isolation that has gible drilling and development costs. paragraphs of subsection troubled other Vietnam vets. "All I did was Subtitle E-Treatment of Foreign Income shall apply to taxable years beginning after read and study," he says. "I put all my ener­ Sec. 241. Repeal of tax exemption for a December 31, 1983. gies into my books. DISC. (2) MAXIMUM RATE ON CAPITAL GAIN.-Sub­ "I'm not in the dumps," asserts Sanz. "I Sec. 242. Taxation of undistributed profits paragraph of section 102(c)(l) of the never was. I need no help, but I want to of foreign corporations. Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 is help others. That is the main point, getting amended by inserting", and before January TITLE III-ESTATE AND GIFT TAX 1, 1982" after "June 9, 1981". people together, making contact with other PROVISIONS veterans and helping them.e (3) WITHHOLDING CHANGES.-Paragraph (3) Sec. 301. Restoration of carryover basis of section 3402(a) , the amendments made by •Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. Speaker, yester­ AND 1983. this Act shall apply to taxable years begin­ day I introduced H.R. 6257, the Equity (a) REPEAL OF 1982 AND 1983 TABLES.-Sub­ ning after December 31, 1981. Tax Act. Because of the interest this sections . (b), (c), Cd), and of section 1 (2) WITHHOLDING AMENDMENT.-The bill has created among my colleagues I shall apply to remuneration paid contained in paragraphs (1) and <2> and in­ after the 30th day after the date of the en­ H.R. 6257 serting in lieu thereof "The applicable table actment of this Act. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code prescribed under subsection (g)." SEC. 102. REPEAL OF INDEXATION OF INDI­ of 1954 to limit the reductions in individ­ (b) REDUCTION IN INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX VIDUAL INCOME TAX AND OF DE­ ual income taxes to $700 in 1982 and an LIMITED TO $700 FOR 1982 AND $1,400 FOR DUCTIONS FOR PERSONAL EX­ additional $700 in 1983, and to further in­ 1983.-Section 1 is amended by adding at EMPTIONS. crease Federal revenues through tax the end thereof the following new subsec­ IN GENERAL.-Section 104 of the Eco­ reform tion: . nomic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, and the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of "(g) SECRETARY TO PRESCRIBE TABLES FOR amendments made by such section, are Representatives of the United States of 1982 AND 1983.- hereby repealed. America in Congress assembled, "(1) IN GENERAL.-Not later than 30 days (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.-The Internal Reve­ SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE, ETC. after the date of the enactment of this sub­ nue Code of 1954 shall be applied as if sec­ section, the Secretary shall prescribe- tion 104 of the Economic Recovery Tax Act (a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited of 1981 had never been enacted. as the "Tax Equity Act of 1982" "(A) tables which shall apply to taxable years beginning in 1982, and SEC. 103. DEDUCTION FOR NET CAPITAL (b) AMENDMENT OF 1954 CODE.-Except as GAIN LIMITED TO 50 PERCENT. otherwise expressly provided, whenever in " tables which shall apply to taxable this Act an amendment or repeal is ex­ years beginning in 1983. IN GENERAL.-Subsection of section pressed in terms of an amendment to, or "(2) METHOD OF PRESCRIBING TABLES.-Each 1202 repeal of, a section or other provision, the table prescribed under paragraph <1> for a is amended by striking out "60 percent" and reference shall be considered to be made to taxable year shall be the same as the corre­ inserting in lieu thereof "50 percent". a section or other provision of the Internal sponding table for such year enacted by the (b) TRANSITIONAL RULE.-Subsection (C) of Revenue Code of 1954. Economic Recovery Tax Act ot 1981; except section 1202 is amended to read as follows: that- "(C) TRANSITIONAL RULE.-If for any tax­ (C) TABLE OF CONTENTS.­ "(A) the maximum amount of reduction in able year ending after June 30, 1982, and be­ Sec. 1. Short title; etc. tax liability under such table as compared ginning before July 1, 1983, a taxpayer TITLE I-PROVISIONS PRIMARILY to the corresponding table for taxable years other than a corporation has a net capital AFFECTING INDIVIDUALS beginning in 1981 shall be- gain, the deduction under subsection Sec. 101. Limitation on reduction in individ­ "(i) $700 in the case of taxable years be­ shall be the sum of- ual income tax for 1982 and ginning in 1982, and "(1) 50 percent of the lesser of- 1983. "(ii) $1,400 in the case of taxable years be­ " the net capital gain for the taxable Sec. 102. Repeal of indexation of individual ginning in 1983, and year, or income tax and of deduction "(B) the portion of such table which is not "(B) the net capital gain taking into ac­ for personal exemptions. the same as the corresponding table enacted count only gain or loss properly taken into May 5, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8873 account for the portion of the taxable year Subtitle C-Credits SEC. 232. REPEAL OF PERCENTAGE DEPLE­ TION FOR OIL AND GAS WELLS. after June 30, 1982, plus SEC. 221. REGULAR PERCENTAGE OF INVEST­ "(2) 60 percent of the excess of- MENT TAX CREDIT REDUCED TO GENERAL RULE.-Section 613A IN GENERAL.-Subparagraph of sec­ (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.-The repeal made by " shall apply to taxable years into account under paragraph ( 1)." amended by striking out "10 percent" and beginning after December 31, 1982. (C) SPECIAL RULE FOR PASSTHRU ENTI­ inserting in lieu thereof "7 percent". SEC. 233. REPEAL OF OPTION TO DEDUCT IN­ TIES.-ln applying section 1202(c)(l)(B) of (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.- TANGIBLE DRILLING AND DEVEL­ OPMENT COSTS. the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with re­ (1) IN GENERAL.-Except as provided by spect to any passthru entity, rules similar to paragraph (2), the amendment made by sub­ GENERAL RULE.-Subsection of sec­ the rules of section 102 of the Economic section (a) shall apply to periods after De­ tion 263 is hereby re­ graph of section 170 is amended by strik­ subsection shall apply to taxable years made by subsection shall not apply to beginning after December 31, 1982. ing out "40 percent" and inserting in lieu property constructed, reconstructed, erect­ thereof "50 percent". ed, or acquired pursuant to a contract which Subtitle E-Treatment of Foreign Income (e) EFFECTIVE DATE.- was, on June 30, 1982, and at all times there­ SEC. 241. REPEAL OF THE TAX EXEMPTION (1) IN GENERAL.-The amendments made after, binding on the taxpayer. FORA DISC by subsections and (b) shall apply to tax­ SEC. 222. REPEAL OF FOREIGN TAX CREDIT. Section 991 IN GENERAL.-Subsection (a) of section of a DISC) is amended by adding at the end (2) CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS.-The 901 shall and of possessions of United States) is not apply to any taxable year beginning apply to contributions made after June 30, amended by striking out "If the taxpayer after December 31, 1982." 1982. chooses" and inserting in lieu thereof "In Cb> Section 992Ca> is amended by adding at the end ING BUSINESSES January 1, 1982, if the taxpayer chooses". thereof the following new paragraph: (b) CARRYOVERS.-Notwithstanding the "(4) TERMINATION.-No corporation shall Subtitle A-Lower Corporate Income Tax be treated as a DISC for any taxable year Rates Only Apply to Small Corporations last sentence of subsection (c) of section 904 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, in beginning after December 31, 1982." SEC. 201. LOWER CORPORATE INCOME TAX Section 995Cb><2> IN GENERAL.-Subsection of section cember 31, 1982, the amount of taxes deemed paid or accrued in such a year under following new subparagraph: 11 (relating to tax imposed on corporations) "CC) A corporation which, by reason of is amended to read as follows: such subsection shall be allowed as a deduc­ tion for such year. the provisions of section 992(a)(4), is a "Ca> IN GENERAL.-A tax is hereby imposed former DISC, for its first taxable year be­ for each taxable year on the taxable income Subtitle D-Provisions Relating to Oil and ginning after December 31, 1982, shall be of every corporation. The tax shall consist Gas treated, for purposes of this paragraph, as of a normal tax computed under subsection SEC. 231. TERMINATION OF CERTAIN having failed to satisfy the conditions of Cb) and a surtax computed under subsection CHANGES IN CRUDE OIL WIND­ section 992Ca> for such taxable year." (C)." FALL PROFIT TAX MADE BY ECO­ SEC. 242. TAXATION OF UNDISTRIBUTED (b) 19 PERCENT SURTAX.-Section 11 is NOMIC RECOVERY TAX ACT OF PROFITS OF FOREIGN CORPORA­ amended by redesignating subsection Cc> as 1981. TIONS. subsection Cd) and by inserting after subsec­ (a) TERMINATION OF EXEMPTION FOR ROY­ GENERAL RULE.-Part III of subchapter tion Cb> the following new subsection: ALTY 0IL.- N of chapter 1 SURTAX.-The surtax is 19.25 percent (1} IN GENERAL.-Subsection of section sources without the United States) is of the amount by which the taxable income 4991 (defining exempt oil) is amended by amended by adding at the end thereof the for the taxable year exceeds $100,000 but striking out paragraph (5), by redesignating following new subpart: does not exceed $200,000." paragraph (6) as paragraph (5), and by "Subpart H-Undistributed Profits of adding "and" at the end of paragraph (4). (C) TECHNICAL A:MENDMENT.-So much of Controlled Foreign Corporations subsection Cb) of section 11 as precedes <2> Subsection Cf) of section 4994 thereof is amended to read as INCOME OF UNITED STATES follows: <3> Paragraph (9) of section 4995Ca> is amended by redesignating sub­ 4991 as subparagraph CD and by subsection (a), is amended by striking out his gross income, for his taxable year in inserting after subparagraph the follow­ paragraph (5), by striking out", and" at the which or with which such taxable year of ing new subparagraph: end of paragraph (4) and inserting in lieu the corporation ends, his pro rata share of "(H) TERMINATION.- thereof a period, and by adding "and" at the the corporation's earnings and profits for "(i) IN GENERAL.-Subparagraph shall end of paragraph (3). such year. not apply to any agreement entered into on <2> Subsection (g) of section 4994 which would have been distributed vehicle shall apply with re­ made by this section shall apply to oil re­ 958) in such corporation if on the last day, spect to agreements entered into on or after moved from the premises after December in its taxable year, on which the corpora­ February 19, 1982. 31, 1982. tion is a controlled foreign corporation it 8874 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 5, 1982 had distributed pro rata to its shareholders porations to a foreign country or possession Bureau of Printing and Engraving, the an amount (i) which bears the same ratio to of the United States in accordance with the Supreme Court, and the Smithsonian its earnings and profits for the taxable year, special rules set forth in section 960." as the part of such year during which (b) TERMINATION OF SUBPART F.-Section Institutions. They will also tour the the corporation is a controlled foreign cor­ 951 during which such shareholder did tion of are: Joann Ballard, Katrenia Brewer, not own O> Cooper, Estella Dawson, Fran Downs, deficit in earnings and profits of any foreign is amended by striking out "under section corporation, for any taxable year- 951" each time it appears and inserting in Anglela Johnson, Sonya Turner, La­ "( 1) except as provided in section lieu thereof "under section 951 or 987", and Vonne Walker, Carmen Williams, Or­ 312<3>, shall be determined according to by striking out "under section 959" and in­ lando Wilson, Cathy Aldridge, Kevin rules substantially similar to those applica­ serting in lieu thereof "under section 959 or Bass, Tresa Brandon, Robin Brown, ble to domestic corporations, 987(e)(2)". Shelly Bundy, Lisa Cox, Alvin Craw­ "(2) shall be appropriately adjusted for (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.-The amendments ley, Lisa Crocetti, Cynthia Dorsey, deficits in earnings and profits of such cor­ made by this section shall apply to taxable Judy Eccleston, Ellen Finnegan, Ellen porations for any prior taxable year begin­ years beginning after December 31, 1982. Frizzell, Tanya Gadson, Hugo Jackson, ning after December 31, 1982, TITLE III-ESTATE AND GIFT TAX PROVI- Laurie Linville, Cory Lowry, Valerie "(3) shall not include any item of income SIONS SEC. 301. RESTORATION OF CARRYOVER Register, Karen Robinson, Rick which is effectively connected with the con­ . BASIS FOR DEATH. duct by such corporation of a trade or busi­ Samuel, Therese Sisco, Shanel Scott, Part III of subchaper 0 of chapter 1 ,vursuant to a inserting after section 1022 the section 1023 Monica Brockman, Donna Brown, Lisa treaty obligation of the United States, and Bush, Riley Cradle, Karen Christie, "(4) shall not include any amount of earn­ which was in effect before the enactment of Public Law 96-223, except that such section Bobbi Clark, LaWanda Conaway, Zina ings and profits which. could not have been Cooper, Carl Easley, Phyllis Ervin, distributed by such corporation because of shall only apply to decedent's dying after currency or other restrictions or limitations December 31, 1982. Rena Farmer, Senora Goins, Robin imposed under the laws of any foreign coun­ SEC. 302. REPEAL OF INCREASE IN UNIFIED Gould, Kim Greene, Nancy Haas, Earl CREDIT AND OF REDUCTION IN Jackson, Dwight James, Deric Jordan, try. MAXIMUM RATES OF TAX. "(C) COORDINATION WITH ELECTION OF A (a) IN GENERAL.-Sections 401 and 402 of Evelyn Lumpkins, Curtis Pullen, Al FOREIGN INVESTMENT COMPANY To DISTRIB­ the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, Pride, Katrice Royster, Randy Scrog­ UTE INco:ME.-A United States shareholder and the amendments made by such sections, gins, Kimberly Snowden, Harold Sand­ who, for his taxable year, is a qualified are hereby repealed. ers.e shareholder with TAX EXCLUSION FOR ANNUITIES. respect to such company. IN GENERAL.-Subsection of section HON. GENE SNYDER "(d) COORDINATION WITH FOREIGN PERSON­ 2039 shall apply to es­ e Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, Amer­ income of United States shareholders) on tates of decedents dying after December 31, ica has always been a caring country. income of a controlled foreign corporation, 1982.e A country in which citizens worked to­ the amount required to be included in gross gether to make life better for all, from income by such shareholder under subsec­ the frontier days when neighbors tion with respect to such company shall MILFORD MILL SENIOR HIGH would get together at a barn raising, be reduced by the amount included in gross SCHOOL income by such shareholder under section from Philadelphia, where Benjamin 551(b). Franklin pioneered the use of volun­ "(e) ADJUSTMENTS AND FOREIGN TAX CRED­ tary organizations to establish the Na­ ITS.-Under regulations prescribed by the HON. CLARENCE D. LONG tion's first public libraries, fire depart­ Secretary- OF MARYLAND ments, and to pave the streets to make "(!) Adjustments to the basis of stock on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the community a better place for all. account of earnings and profits taxed under Wednesday, May 5, 1982 subsection shall be made in the manner In fact, in the early days of this provided in section 961 ; young men and women from Milford spirit of community that impressed "(2) Elimination of double taxation of pre­ Mill Senior High School, Pikesville, foreign visitors more than our govern­ viously taxed earnings and profits when dis­ Md., will journey to Washington for a mental institutions or the productivity tributed shall be made in the manner pro­ firsthand look at their Nation's Cap­ of our business and industry. vided in section 959 ; and These students, accompanied by Mr. still alive today-and I know of no "(3) Corporations shall be deemed to have Bill Zepp, Miss Elaine Stumpf, Mrs. place where it is exemplified any paid income, war profits, and excess profits Jean Walker, Mrs. Helen Walker, and better than Ludlow, Ky., where, this taxes paid in my home State of New York. country, America. The people of America It is a position that he has held for 22 the hours he spent on his feet or on are her walls because they have explored years. his job. her, tamed her, helped to preserve her, and I venture to say that those of my Colleagues, I believe that George have made her name synonymous with free­ colleagues in this House who hail from Train-today 90 years of age-repre­ dom, with glory, with beauty and with sents the finest in American spirit. I home. A home for all who need her. My the most distant reaches of our Nation building is truly a grand monument. have heard about the Finger Lakes, a will have the opportunity to personal­ Yet, one very important aspect has been rich and beautiful land of hills and ly congratulate, and thank him, for his forgotten and without it my building will glacier-formed lakes, agriculture, and work. I ask you today to join with me tumble to the ground in a cloud of dust. I industry which has attracted visitors in the recognition due for such an out­ have forgotten the mortar which holds the from throughout the world. Many standing career of service to the bet­ bricks to the foundation and the bricks to have chosen to stay to make this area terment of his neighbors. The thanks each other. Each pa.st experience like their home. Most came because of the of this Nation are extended to George mortar on the bricks has brought us togeth­ enthusiasm of George Train in his today. er. The blood, sweat and tears of thousands leadership position. Thank you for this opportunity.e of Americans is the mortar of my building. Since 1960 when Mr. Train assumed American pioneers-soldiers-scientist the job of FLA president, the already among others have all in some way given of well-established organization has HOUSE RESOLUTION 8 themselves to help the mortar create a bond flourished. The association itself is the between us that is impenetrable. The wars, oldest regional tourism promotional the depression, the loss of some of our great agency in the country, started in 1919, leaders brought us tragedy, still our build­ and today the largest of its kind serv­ HON. DOUGLAS APPLEGATE ing has stood strong. Even when bits of OF OHIO mortar fall and bricks loosen from neglect, ing New York State. Though it was the building, America, revitalizes herself well footed with 356 members when IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Train became president, today it with the knowledge of our natural and Wednesday, May 5, 1982 human resources, with the knowledge of in­ holds nearly 1,900 members. Its dividuality and freedom for all, with the budget has multiplied to 10 times that e Mr. APPLEGATE. Mr. Speaker, the knowledge of a people who came and still of 1960; its publications have multi­ U.S. court system is at it again. John come to America because they are drawn plied by more than 4 times and today Hinkley, now on trial for attempting here by a compelling need. The need for those publications reach almost three­ to assassinate the President of the freedom, for opportunity, for the love of a quarters of a million readers. United States, now after more than a nation's ideals. America is that nation. The association itself, in Mr. Train's year since the shooting is now being Resting on the foundation and held in by tenure, has become a highly respected tried after having been medically de­ the bricks and mortar are the ideals that and admired voice in national tourism termined to be sane. But the judge, make America. These ideals make up and circles and within the industry itself. fill the many rooms of my building. Rooms the Honorable Barrington D. Parker Its current executive director, Mr. of the U.S. district court in the Dis­ which have no locks, no doors so that they Conrad T. Tunney, is familiar to many are forever open, then all people may freely trict of Columbia, says that the pros­ enter and share in the wealth and glory and of you in this Chamber as a represent­ ecution must now legally prove beyond pride and beauty of this building, this ative on the National Tourism and Travel Advisory Board created by Con­ a reasonable doubt that Hinkley is America. sane, adding that the defense will not We have from the first few to the millions gress just last year. It is obvious to you by now that be burdened by having to prove insan­ of today built an America strong in her ity. structural simplicity. We will, each of us, George Train is a dynamic leader, an continue to build her together for America organizer, and an important figure in What kind of twisted judicial logic is is not just a building or a monument but a the lives of my constituents and those that? Here we have a man who tried to home and perhaps the home of the world.• in my neighboring districts. But there kill the President and wounded three is more-possibly more revealing-in­ other people, yet a high-powered law f ormation which you should know firm argues he was insane at the time about the man who has dedicated of the shooting and Judge Parker tells these last 22 years to the well-being of the prosecution to prove him wrong. the Finger Lakes area of New York Remember House Joint Resolution State. 8?• May 5, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8877 MARYLAND'S SECOND CONGRES­ "Improve the courts, make the HUNGER FOR JOBS SIONAL DISTRICT POLL criminal pay for his crime so we can walk the streets again. We are prison­ ers in our homes," said one. HON. DAVID R. OBEY HON. CLARENCE D. LONG I am sponsoring the Justice Assist­ . OF WISCONSIN OF MARYLAND ance Act of 1981 to provide Federal IN THE HO.USE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES seed money toward improving local Wednesday, May 5, 1982 Wednesday, May 5, 1982 criminal justice systems, including e Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, Members e Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak­ victim and witness assistance, juvenile of Congress are often told by the ad­ er, more than 21,000 residents of crime prevention, career criminal pros­ ministration and others that there are Maryland's Second Congressional Dis­ ecution, "Sting" operations, and an­ plenty of jobs available for people if trict responded to my districtwide tiarson activities. My bill has already they would just look for them. That questionaire. won approval of the House Judiciary may be true where some people come Although many of my constituents Committee. It now awaits House and from, but where I come from people voiced continued support and affec­ Senate floor action. When asked about are used to working and feel humiliat­ tion for the President, there is grow­ defense and foreign affairs issues, my ed when they do not have the oppor­ ing doubt about his policies. Almost 60 constituents clearly want an America tunity. percent said they are not better off with muscle-not fat-in her defense. Existing national policy is keeping now than a year ago; only 4 in 10 Almost 7 in 10 agreed we should con­ 10 million people unemployed. If any thought the President is doing a good tinue our military buildup, but many Member believes that most of these job. had reservations. people would not accept a job if they People are most concerned about could find one, I invite them to read their economic outlook. They want The build-up should be continued, but in a lesser degree in order to slow down the defi­ the article which I am submitting for lower interest rates and are concerned the RECORD at this time. This story, about their social security retirement cit spending and work toward a balanced budget. which appeared in the Superior, Wis., benefits. Evening Telegram on April 27, 1982, Some comments: Our defense must be strong and we need to continue military buildup. However, what tells of 1,100 people who were apply­ I'm 64 years old, not in good health, but I ing for 85 jobs over a 5-day period at have to work part time to make ends meet. Reagan suggests is too great. Prices, taxes, etc, keep rising. All my savings the Superior, Wis., Job Service Office. Sixty-two percent thought we This Government had better quit are gone due to doctors' and hospital bills. should stop selling grain to the Sovi­ Now there are rumors that Social Security singing "Prosperity Is Just Around the will be frozen. Please do something. ets. The same number felt we should Corner" and start adopting policies My pay raises have not kept up with infla­ continue our defense of Europe that make it possible to start turning tion. through NATO. Commenting on both that corner and do it now. I work full time and part time to make questions, one man said: ends meet. Only the strong survive. 1,100 SEEK EMPLOYMENT AT INN HERE It's hard to believe that a single person It does not make sense to feed our so­ names will remain in Sincerely yours, more important that such invaluable our files which will entitle them to other JOHN G. FARY, service be suitably recognized and hon­ jobs as they become available. The Radison Member of Congress.• ored. Mr. Speaker, the seven of whom interviewing process has been great for up­ I speak are: Fred Dolan, retired assist­ dating our files," she said.e ant sports editor of the Fall River FARM BUREAU OPPOSES SMALL Herald-News; Helen Chatterton, cur­ AID TO POLAND BUSINESS INNOVATION ACT rently labor secretary for the United Way; Marjorie Kenney, former head nurse of obstetrical services at New HON. JOHN G. FARY HON. PAUL N. MCCLOSKEY, JR. Haven Hospital; Margot Cottrell, OF ILLINOIS OF CALIFORNIA president and art director of the Mer­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES imtime Museum; Jim Rogers, owner of Wednesday, May 5, 1982 Rogers Cigar Store in Fall River; Wednesday, May 5, 1982 •Mr. FARY. Mr. Speaker, May 3 was Robert Karam, vice president of Fei­ the anniversary of the Polish Consti­ e Mr. McCLOSKEY. Mr. Speaker, the telberg Agency Insurance and Karam tution of 1791. It was a time when the American Farm Bureau Federation, Insurance Agency; and William Shea, Polish people's cherished dream of in­ representing 3 million families nation­ chief armorer of the Brockton dependence and freedom was realized. wide, has announced its opposition to Armory. Mr. Speaker, the list of their Today, the situation in Poland is very the Small Business Innovation Act services and accomplishments are so grim. Peaceful demonstrations in sup­

89-059 0-85-16 (Pt. 7) 8880 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 5, 1982 erty, their families, and even their ing in recent years. Because innova­ Slotke, Sue Zuidema, Teri Thomas, lives. tion is important to bringing down in­ Sherry Hood, John DeFelice, Dave In 1981, the media joined this crime flation, improving productivity, and Deuterman, Michael Dudek, Brian prevention effort when KABC-TV Los stimulating economic growth, we must Edgar, Caryl Edington, Debbie Angeles and WeTIP together estab­ reverse this trend. Ehman, Pam DeHaven, Debbie Domo­ lished Eyewitness Anonymous. On One of the most significant influ­ jych, Anne Darres, Joann Tweed, An­ May 2, 1982, ABC ran the first in a ences the Federal Government has on thony Terosa, Laurie Rider, Laurie series of programs called "Counter­ innovation is through R. & D. policy. Holthaus, Karen Barger, Kathleen attack: Crime in America," based on Small businesses have been found to Straub, Joyce Croft, Laura Flanaga, crimes solved by calls to WeTIP. At be as much as 24 times as innovative Cheryl Falk, Susan Crooks, Mike the same time, WeTIP is going nation­ as large firms, yet they receive only Espendieri, Colter Wickmeyer, Steve al in scope, with a nationwide hotline 3.5 percent of total Federal R. & D. Christ, Darla Deardorff, Kym Lucero, operating 24 hours a day. Assisting in funding. Kim Gardner, Tim Tarplay, David Un­ publicizing this new program will be Because small firms are more inno­ derwood, Patti Durmoweiz, Walter Actor George Kennedy, national hon­ vative, a greater reliance on their tal­ Reckord, Karen Hollenbaugh, Susan orary chairman for 1982-83. ents by the Federal Government can Fisher, Tammy Flater, Rob Fleisch­ President Reagan has praised result in reduced costs for equal or su­ mann, Brian Garver, Debbie Gier, WeTIP as a "shining example of true perior research results connected to Elizabeth Gallentine, Jeff Forwood, community involvement." I hope you the missions of our Federal agencies. Mike Goodall, Milton Glasser, Brooke will join us in offering the many thou­ The National Science Foundation Kuhl, Susan Grandizio, Kim Scott, sands of WeTIP volunteers our grate­ program on which this set-aside is John Fraser, James Grane, Richard ful congratulations for a job very well based is flexible enough to permit the Gray, Claire Hall, Bob Hallet, Nancy done.e agencies to determine their own prior­ Green, Susan Heisler, Amy Harper, ities for small business funding. This Laurie Hammond, Cynthia Cox, Mark SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION program will not handicap in any way Hooker, Beth Isenock, Rick Jedlicka, RESEARCH ACT the efforts of Federal agencies to con­ David Kates, Priscilla Johnson, Greg duct high-quality basic research. Im, John Kane. Agencies have been reluctant to ini­ Jackie King, Paul Langrehr, Matt HON. STAN LUNDINE tiate efforts to increase small business Mann, Sheryl Kocha, David Kim, involvement in their research pro­ Cindy Krol, Kojii Kubota, Kequan OF NEW YORK grams. Therefore, a small, but mean­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Luu, Janet Lyon, Kim Lyons, Susan ingful set-aside is needed to set a MacKenjie, Tim Martin, Michelle Wednesday, May 5, 1982 meaningful program in motion. McLain, Greg Hoffmaster, Brian Mi­ e Mr. LUNDINE. Mr. Speaker, in the Look forward to debating these con­ chael, Ann Macedo, Susan Macedo, near future the House will consider clusions which I have reached after Doug Myers, Kathy Mendel, Alycia H.R. 4326, the small business innova­ examining testimony before the Sci­ Murray, Anne McNeil, Ron Milstead, tion research bill. This bill, which al­ ence and Technology Committee Joe Neubauer, Lee Pasquale, Katie ready has been approved by the during the forthcoming debate on this Payne, Te Person, Karen Plath, Lee Senate and is endorsed by the Presi­ issue in the House.e Michael, Farda Nodjomian, Joan Over, dent, establishes a small business R. & John Pezzulla, Lisa Perrera, Tracey D., set-aside in Federal agencies with DULANEY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Nozemack, Chip Powderly, Mary research budgets that exceed $100 mil­ Quananta, Dawn Regula, Bob Rich­ lion. The set-aside program designed ardson, Stacey Roberts, Edward Rus­ in the bill is modeled after successful HON. CLARENCE D. LONG sell, Karen Scharfe, Brenda Shaffer, programs underway at the National OF MARYLAND Michael Pipitone, John Ryder, Dianne Science Foundation and Department IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sichau, David Smith, Tracey Smith, of Defense that· provide a three-phase Danna Starkey, Paul Roop, Andrea approach to determining the feasibili­ Wednesday, May 5, 1982 Smyth, Cari Speno, Robert Sichau, ty of an idea and developing it to a • Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak­ Steve Rayner, Kevin Twit, Cathy point where commercialization can er, on Wednesday, May 5, 1982, 154 Tyer, Olga Valanos, Richard Wagner, occur in the private sector. young men and women from Dulaney Trung Tien, John Toomey, Sarabeth This bill is being challenged in the Senior High School, Timonium, Md., Whedbee, William Taylor, Jamie House by those who fear that this pro­ journeyed to Washington for a first­ Watson, David Wesley, Hans Wittels­ gram will do damage to our ability to hand look at their Nation's Capital. berger, Anne Wolfe, Kent Wyckoff, conduct basic research. As a member These students, accompanied by Dr. Jenni Woody, Terry Will, and Lori of the House Science and Technology Maynard Keadle, Mr. Anthony Cape­ Thomassen.• Committee, I reject that notion. The zio, Mr. Robert Webster, and Mr. program that will be administered James McNamara, toured the Capitol under this bill is both flexible and di­ and observed committee hearings on RAMP FUNDING rectly applicable to the conduct of their own. both basic and applied research in mis­ I am delighted these students have sion-oriented agencies. Even if it were taken the opportunity to visit with us HON. JOHN P. MURTHA not, an examination of the funding and I hope their interest in our Na­ OF PENNSYLVANIA patterns of the top five R. & D. agen­ tion's political process will continue. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Students visiting us Wednesday are: cies reflect that the money for the set­ Wednesday, May 5, 1982 aside could be taken solely out of ap­ Kathie Ahearn, Linda Amrhine, Susan plied research funds if the agency so Anderson, David Arsenault, Jane e Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, as Con­ desires. Arthur, David Ashe, Ron Barrans, gress talks about urgent spending pri­ I intend to support passage of this Ernie Bradbeck, Mike Armstrong, Joe orities, I want to talk about one not in­ legislation in the House for the follow­ Aversa, John Anderson, Tammi Ben­ cluded in this bill-Rural Abandoned ing reasons: nett, Nathan Bolick, Karen Bonner, Mine Program have not been available. We would nothing this year, while interest rates I have long considered those who dispar­ need $18 million to handle these prior­ sizzle and the housing industry burns, age our president for his Hollywood roots ities. Furthermore, nationwide, we and hopes the President gets the supremely obtuse. Every American pol is, au have over 182 projects at a cost of $58 blame in November. Then a more lib­ fond, an artist in false face, or he is no pol eral House will come back in 1983 to, at all. An aspiring statesman might be million that are more than 50 percent as Tyrrell says, "inflate the currency, brave, bold, and brilliant. He might also be planned and can be funded if the buy off more voters, and allow taxes to abounding in Christian charity and all the money is made available through the desiderata glorified by the masters of your appropriations process. rise." local mental health association, but unless It is important to note that we are Let me say a word about taxes. The he can actually demonstrate these personal also talking here about putting people President must not be led astray from treasures he might as well be a sausage. to work on these projects. At a time the fundamentals of his tax cut pro­ Last Wednesday Ronald Reagan was not when unemployment is rising across gram. He must continue to turn a deaf the only actor sitting in the ornate Presi­ ear to the siren songs of the media and dent's Room of the Senate discussing a the Nation, it is ridiculous that we do budget compromise. There was also the not spend this available money to the leadership that chant: get rid of the 1983 tax cut. I want to assure Hon. Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, who, had he create jobs as well as public improve­ not been engaged in the political arts to ments. President Reagan right now that these last four decades, might very well Now, many people may say, what is enough Members will support him on have become a Shakespearean player of the the difference? Why does it matter if a veto of any budget that undoes or first rank. What a rumpled and roisterous we delay some of these projects? Well, delays that 1983 tax cut. Falstaff he would make! Trimmed down and That tax cut, and the one 2 months cross-gartered, he would make a splendid let me answer this: from now, are vital to the working Malvolio; and with suitable alterations he is Ugly, and often dangerous aban­ families of this country. In the Wash­ the Constable Dogberry! Watching him pro· doned land remains untouched; ington Post of April 23, Thomas Edsall fess his solicitude for the poor and the lame Taxes paid by coal operators remain made mincemeat of the charge that and the halt reminds the theatergoer that unused; here is one of the great greasepaint moral­ Unspent money gathers no interest the remaining Reagan tax breaks are izers of all time. for the Government; in fact, we have primarily for the rich. Said Edsall: The illustrious Speaker blubbers that the [FJrom another vantage point, the Demo­ Reagan administration is thrusting orphans already lost about $13.5 million in in­ crats' position would appear to be signifi­ and cripples into the cold. He laments the terest that could have been used; cantly unfair to the working and middle cruelties of their budget cuts. He does not Inflation reduces the buying power class constituents they want to protect. Be­ reveal that the budget for fiscal 1983 is an of the funds, 10 to 14 percent less rec­ cause the 1981 tax bill immediately reduced estimated $38.1 billion more rotund than lamation can be purchased each year the top rate on unearned income from 70 to fiscal 1982; or that the budget for fiscal 1982 for the same amount of money; 50 percent, and the capital gains tax rate will probably expand in real terms by at 8882 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 5, 1982 least 5 percent over fiscal 1981 with the EHLERS GENERAL STORE CELE­ constructed as the present General Store. growth in non-defense roaring along, goug­ BRATES 120TH ANNIVERSARY The store is 3 floors high plus a full base­ ing a record 17.4 percent of the GNP, up ment. The shape of the building and the from 15.9 percent in fiscal 1979. inside are a duplicate of the original Zoar He does not reveal that the Reagan ad­ HON. DOUGLAS APPLEGATE Flour Mill. An old Tuscarawas County Atlas ministration is cutting only the rate of shows the Zoar Flour Mill and the similari­ OF OHIO ty of Ehlers Store. budgetary growth that he and his spend­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thrift colleagues built into the budget by Sterling Stone, son of Robert Stone began Wednesday, May 5, 1982 working in the store at a very young age. passing idiotic laws that enjoin the govern­ After two years in the military service ment to pay more and higher benefits e Mr. APPLEGATE. Mr. Speaker, during World War II, he continued working whether the funds are available or not and during this past weekend-on May l, there with his father and two uncles. After whether the taxpayers have approved or 1982, to be specific-the Ehlers Gener­ the death of his father in 1953, Sterling con­ not. al Store, located in my congressional tinued the partnership with his uncle, He pretends to be totally ignorant of one district of Zoarville, Ohio, celebrated Howard Stone. After the death of Howard of Washington's most appalling realities, its 120th anniversary in business, cer­ Stone in 1969, David Stone, son of Sterling namely: the growth of the federal budget is tainly an achievement for any busi­ Stone, became an employee of the store wholly out of control, insulated from the ness, large or small. In order to famil­ after having completed his army service will of the American people by a Keystone iarize my colleagues with this history­ during the Vietnam War. Timothy Stone, Cops guard of liberal Democrats and old­ another son of Sterling Stone, has been an time pork barrelers who have no intention rich event, I include in the CONGRES­ employee also and returned after two years of cutting it back. SIONAL RECORD a description of the of service with the United States Navy. The general store's part as written by Mrs. store was incorporated in 1976. With great flourishes of emotion the illus­ Sterling Stone) from the very same little fellow whom he Charles Ehlers, a member of the Separat­ claims to protect. Bear in mind that the ist Society of Zoar, was made overseer of HON. MARGARET M. HECKLER Democratic leadership through the Brod­ their land and industries in Sandy and Fair­ head Amendment has already lowered the field Townships near One · Leg Creek. In OF MASSACHUSETl'S top tax rate on the highest personal in­ 1862 he became Station Agent and estab­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES comes from 70 percent to 50 percent. As lished the Ehlers General Store across the Wednesday, May 5, 1982 Rep. Jack Kemp is pointing out, the Reagan tracks from the new station. The original cuts will merely preserve a tax cut for the village, laid out in 1854 had been known as •Mrs. HECKLER. Mr. Speaker, we ordinary American, the fellow earning less "Fairfield" until the station was built. Then observed Solidarity Sunday on May 2. than $60,000. Only a player of consummate it was called "Zoar Station" until the time For 11 years, the Greater Council on skill could claim as the Speaker did last of the division of the Zoar Society when it Soviet Jewry has sponsored this event, week that this final Reagan tax cut is a was renamed Zoarville. During this time, where thousands of Americans of all "program of giving billion-dollar tax cuts to Ehlers also became Postmaster; the post faiths march and rally in support of the rich." office being located in the store until May 1979. He and his family received the store as the Soviet Union's 3 million oppressed Yet the Speaker's most breathtaking bit their share when the Separatist Society dis­ Jews. Again this year we are showing of theater is his insistence that he wanted a banded in 1898. our solidarity with these people who, budget compromise. Actually all the accom­ The Zoar Society also operated their denied the freedom to observe their modation came from the president, as he Cheese House-Cow Barns, Ice House, and a religion at home, are further denied backed off on his tax policies and his budget large furnace in the Zoar Station Area. the choice of emigration to a place of cuts and his defense increases. The entitle­ Robert and Howard Stone, brothers, took ment programs were hardly touched. All the over the responsibility of helping operate freedom. Hon. O'Neill will agree to is more spending the general store at a very early age, and This year, our collective voice must and heavier taxes. If the president does not became the next owners. Ray Stone, their be firmer and more insistent, for this yield the Speaker will gladly sit back and brother, has been a pillar in the managment year has seen fewer and fewer Jews watch the economy stumble along until the of the store for over 50 years. He retired in granted permission to leave. From a fall elections when he will blame the econo­ 1979. 1979 peak of 51,320, the 1981 emigra­ my on the president and hope for more During this time before the turn of the tion total has slipped to only 9,447. century, the Stone brothers operated two February 1982 saw just 283 Jews al­ Democratic seats. Then he can return to his smaller outlets of Ehlers General Store for age-old policies of inflating the currency, several years in the mining towns of neaby lowed to leave the Soviet Union, as buying off more voters, and allowing taxes Johnstown and New England. Food and compared to 3,827 during the same to rise. merchandise from the store in Zoarville was month in 1979. And so, as we call upon Nonetheless, the Speaker did do the re­ transported to these areas via horse and the Government of the Soviet Union public some good last week. By sticking so wagon. These nearby stores flourished until to honor its international commit­ stubbornly to the profligate policies of the the mines were closed. ments-the Helsinki Final Act and the past he saved the president from doing The town was moved to higher ground universal declaration of human dreadful damage to the administration's across One Leg Creek when in the 1930's rights-we must do so with an added own policies. The president's willingness to the Muskinghum Watershed Conservancy District took over much of this land. Robert urgency on behalf of all those waiting do violence to his own program of tax and for permission to leave. budget cuts was an amazing spectacle. It and Howard Stone then purchased the old showed how deeply influenced he now is by flour mill owned and operated by the Sepa­ Sadly, emigration is not the only the pragmatic Republicans. They believe ratists of Zoar in the early days and moved problem faced by the Soviet Jewish they can stay in power by ingratiating it to its present site along Route 800 in new community. The heightened persecu­ themselves to the big spenders. Once again, Zoarville. tion, the growing incidence of official­ Every board and beam in the Zoar Flour ly sanctioned anti-Semitism, the in­ the pragmatic Republicans have been Mill was numbered as it was being disman­ proved wrong.e tled and moved. Two teams of horses pull­ crease in arrests of Jewish citizens-all ing a longwagon was used to move this dis­ of these demonstrate the absence of mantled flour mill to its present location. religious freedom of Jews within the These beams were then placed intact and re- Soviet Union. Schoolchildren are May 5, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8883 taunted, families are harassed, Hebrew casting is a complex and inexact science, but year and steadily declining deficits in future and Jewish culture classes are disrupt­ the result is that the initial deficit projec­ years. If the President and Congress fail to ed. Anti-Zionist propaganda is on the tions are invariably low. It is also true that find a compromise which clears the way for rise, and merely expressing the desire small inaccuracies in budget projections of a lower deficit and puts the budget on the to go to Israel is grounds for dismissal employment, growth, and inflation in the path toward balance, our economic difficul­ economy can lead to enormous mistakes in ties will not be resolved. The President and from any position of responsibility. It the budget figures. Another reason for the Congress must continue to try to break the is also used as as reason for denial of gap is the recession. Because of it, unem­ impasse into which they have fallen. employment. ployment has been higher and government I do not think that the American people Solidarity Sunday again provides an revenues lower. Since the recession has per­ expect miracles. If we produced a balanced, expression of the determination of sisted longer than anyone expected, project­ credible plan which progressively cut the freedom-loving people of all faiths and ed revenues have fallen even further. Cost deficits and strengthened key sectors of the nationalities that the Jews of the reductions in the federal budget have been economy over time, they would be satis­ less than anticipated, but government out­ fied.• Soviet Union will not be forgotten. We lays have been more. The major areas will not let the Government of the where additional future outlays are seen are Soviet Union forget either-that their social programs, military programs, and in­ COUNCIL OF JEWISH own constitution forbids such treat­ terest payments. The lower inflation rate of FEDERATIONS ment of its citizens. We will maintain the past year has also contributed to the the pressure and continue to speak out budget imbalance because a slowdown in in­ for the basic human rights denied flation reduces the receipts of government HON. HAMILTON FISH, JR. these 3 million J ews.e more readily than it reduces the spending. But even with these plausible explanations OF NEW YORK of the problem, members of Congress are IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DEFICITS still shaking their heads. They have seen the deficit figures climb week after week, Wednesday, May 5, 1982 regularly exceeding the best guesses of the •Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, the Council experts only a few weeks before. of Jewish Federations held its quarter­ HON. LEE H. HAMILTON This year's struggle with the budget has OF INDIANA put us in a position I would not have ly meeting in Washington, April 22-25, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thought it possible to occupy just a few 1982. The council, which is celebrating years ago. So strong has the growth in the its 50th anniversary, represents more Wednesday, May 5, 1982 deficit been that we now hear that $100 bil­ than 185 Jewish federations in com­ e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I lion in red ink the American in Tula. Most of his family, eight people !>verwhelmingly support strong envi­ aunts an uncles who previously lived cit. ronmental programs. Testifying before Con­ in Vilna, were exterminated with their But later clarification of the president's gress last Octobe1', pollster Louis Harris said young children during Worl War II. position makes clear that running room that ". . . not a single major segment of the In 1973, Mr. Beilin's father died does not include tax increases or defense public wants the environmental laws made after a long illness. Before he died, his cuts. less strict," and that "this message on the last stated wish was that his family There still is great public support for the deep desire on the part of the American Reagan program, although the outcry from people to battle pollution is one of the most move to Israel where his only sister re­ other elected officials inevitably is causing overwhelming and clearest we have ever re­ sided. This request the widow Beilin many to waver. decided to fulfill. corded in our 25 years of surveying public And it's fair to say that the president has opinion." Yakov Beilin's mother was granted not responded adequately to his critics who These attitudes are rooted in 12 years of permission to emigrate to Israel, but blame the enormous new deficits on his in­ growth in environmental awareness. On the Yakov Beilin, his wife, and two chil­ first Earth Day, only a handful of people creased defense spending and tax cuts. dren were refused. Despite her age and Martin Feldstein, professor of economics knew the meaning of the word "ecology." frailty, Yakov Beilin's mother decided Today, any schoolchild can define it. Envi­ at Harvard University and president of the ronmental protection-by which we mean to make the move. National Bureau of Economic Research, the husbanding of our natural resources for His mother remains most distressed offers a convincing response to those critics. long-term gain rather than shortsighted by being separated from her family. Dr. Feldstein recently wrote, " ... it squandering-has become a permanent part She writes: would be wrong to say that the . . . deficit of our political value system. I have but one desire. I beg you to help me figure is due to a massive cut in personal tax Nevertheless, the dichotomy between the bring my son and his family to Israel. The rates. The 25 percent reduction . . . will be expressed desires of the American people few years that I have left to live I would like just enough to prevent bracket creep from and the response of its current leadership to spend together with him. raising the share of income that is taken in indicates that something more than Mr. Speaker, as one of many con­ taxes. common sense persuasion-or even evangel­ ism-may be required in the years ahead. cerned Members participating in this "It would also be wrong to say that the Some environmentalists believe that politi­ year's vigil, I hope the Soviet Union prospective deficit is due to a major rise in cal action is the answer for the '80s. will exhibit respect for basic human defense spending since the 7 percent a year In Connecticut, a group called "ELECT" is rights and privileges, as guaranteed real increase . . . would raise defense spend­ devoting itself to the support of General As­ under the Soviet Constitution and the ing only from 5.5 percent of GNP in 1980 to sembly candidates with a demonstrated con­ Helsinki accords, and reunite the 6.5 percent in 1984." cern for conservation issues. Similar groups Beilin family and other Soviet families Feldstein vigorously opposes canceling are forming across the country. This new in similar circumstances.e personal tax cuts or increasing other taxes grassroots, or "green vote" movement, as it now because this would reduce pressure on has been dubbed, gives renewed zest to the Congress to hack away at unnecessary gov­ environmental movement at a critical time. SPENDING IS THE PROBLEM ernment spending. It tells us that all is not lost, that the envi­ The Reagan scenario for licking the defi­ ronmental movement, unlike poor botanist Nuttall, is capable of finding its bearings HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. cit problem-and it is a serious problem­ and is, indeed, already on its way back to its calls for an economic upturn later this year. original vigor.e OF KENTUCKY He has pointed out that a drop of 1 per­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cent in unemployment would shave $25 bil­ Wednesday, May 5, 1982 lion from the deficit. CALL TO CONSCIENCE VIGIL We continue to believe the president's •Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, the theory should be given a chance to work Kentucky New Era, Hopkinsville, Ky., before Congress returns to the same old way HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI one of the largest daily newspapers in of doing things. OF KENTUCKY my district, said in a recent editorial The government's money problems are IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the Government's money prob­ the result of spending too much, not collect­ lems are the result of the excessive ing too little.e Wednesday, May 5, 1982 spending practices of Congress. The e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, for the editorial, which was sent to me by Dr. past few years I have taken part in the George S. Beard of Hopkinsville, is congressional call to conscience vigil in very appropriate during these discus­ an attempt to draw attention to the sions on the 1983 budget. I believe the plight of Soviet Jews and other prison- editorial should be shared with my col- 8886 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 5, 1982 CLEAN AIR IS GOOD BUSINESS Senator Stafford, the chairman of the week. He had masturbated in front of three Senate's Environment and Public Works small children at "Fantasy Park." Committee, has chosen to think of his state According to police records, there has HON. JAMES M. JEFFORDS first and Reagan politics second by opposing been a 40 percent increase over last year in the act. A man of integrity in his own right, indecent exposure cases. Last month, 15 OF VERMONT Stafford calls it the "dirty air bill." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES were reported. Senator Stafford thus went against his The question arises: Is the individual who Wednesday, May 5, 1982 party and his president to oppose a measure engages in such an act considered dangerous he thinks is harmful for Vermont. and prone to violence? Or is he on par with e Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. Speaker, as For the same reason, Lloyd quit an orani­ the debate over the reauthorization of a voyeur, exhibitionist or peeping Tom? zation that has obviously benefits for him Florence McClure heads the Las Vegas the Clean Air Act continues in Con­ as a businessman. Rape Crisis Center and is considered by gress, I believe it is important for all Those are acts of integrity and leadership. many people to be a local authority on sex Members to keep in mind the popular­ But in going along with Reagan-endorsed crimes. She lectures at area high schools ity of this law throughout this coun­ "dirty air bill," the Vermont chamber is sup­ about rape, indecent exposure and other try. Moreover, those who argue that porting a measure that could harm both the sexual offenses. economics dictate a need to weaken state's beauty and its business in the long "These types of individuals gain sexual the act should bear in mind that clean run. satisfaction from their lewd sex acts in front That's not leadership. It's just blindly en­ of strangers," McClure said. "It's equal to a air is important to a sound economy in dorsing the Reagan administration.• many areas. My State of Vermont is a sexual climax when they hear women and children scream when they are seen naked. clear example of this and some in the "Usually the flasher doesn't have a good business community have broken with SEXUAL ASSAULT relationship with his peers or is unable to their national counterparts who sup­ cultivate a lasting relationship with the op­ port the so-called dirty air bill, H.R. posite sex." 5252. The following editorial from the HON. JIM SANTINI McClure said that typical flashers are not Brattleboro Reformer indicates that OF NEVADA known to commit rape or other forms of vio­ many Vermonters recognize that clean IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lence. On the contrary, they feel sexually inferior. They are just attempting to air is good business. Wednesday, May 5, 1982 VERMONT AND CLEAN AIR achieve sexual pleasure in their own per­ e Mr. SANTINI. Mr. Speaker, I am verted way. Sam Lloyd is businessman. But his recent She warns the worse thing a victim can do record as a Vermont legislator is what appalled by the unprecedented in­ crease in sexual offenses in the United is laugh. makes him important on the public scene. "They use the act as a way to gain sexual As a member of the Vermont House and States, and I would like to share with chairman of its Natural Resources Commit­ my colleagues an article which recent­ fulfillment. When someone outright laughs tee, Lloyd took many stands that led to the at him he can easily be thrown into a state ly appeared in the Las Vegas Review­ of turmoil and depression." protection of Vermont's environment, from Journal. The views of Florence the bottle bill to Act 250. Of the 15 cases reported last month, ac­ His environmental work and his bow ties McClure-head of the Las Vegas Rape cording to police reports, five involved His­ came to symbolize the man of integrity Crisis Center-which are found there­ panic males. from Weston. in, shed light on the growing problem "We don't know if it's their culture or Now Lloyd has taken another stand. He for my State and for the Nation. what. But Hispanics are reported as the top angrily quit the Vermont State Chamber of I would like to draw attention to the offenders in this category," one policeman Commerce this month because of an envi­ fact that in this Nation, there is a rape said. "They are really committing a dispro­ ronmental stand the chamber would not on the average of every 7 minutes. In portionate amount of this type of crime." take. McClure said Hispanics deal with such a Following the example of the U.S. Cham­ my own State of Nevada there has crime in their own countries by deadly war­ ber of Commerce, the Vermont chamber is been a 28-percent increase in reported fare with the family of the offender. Thus supporting a bill which would amend-and offenses of sexual assault within a the matter is resolved through the family weaken-the federal Clean Air Act. The year. Steps must be taken to reduce unit and seldom is learned by outsiders. wayward bill is endorsed by the Reagan ad­ drastically the number of acts of this However, many Hispanic women living in ministration. The state chamber also has nature, which can cause humiliation the United States are realizing police take been promoting a state bill which would au­ and distress in the lives of those of­ care of such matters and turn the crime thorize interstate advertisers to place direc­ fended. over to the proper authorities. The bottom tional signs on Vermont's highways. line? There's more Hispanics committing "It just dumbfounds me, "Lloyd said in [From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, crimes of indecent exposure because more quitting the state chamber. "I don't see how Nov. l, 1981] of them are being reported, McClure said. they can do these things." INDECENT EXPOSURE CASES ON INCREASE IN According to Sgt. John Somolovich of He said the directional signs, which would LAS VEGAS Metro's sexual assault detail, a flasher typi­ point motorists to ski areas and other Ver­ . The goal of WIN is al system and future productivity of OF CALIFORNIA to break the cycle of poverty, by re­ our country. A number of bills have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES quiring AFDC recipients to participate been introduced to rectify this injus­ in the counseling and placement serv­ tice which was done to the children of Wednesday, May 5, 1982 ices that WIN offers. Numerous stud­ retired, disabled, and deceased workers e Mr. ROYBAL. Mr. Speaker, yester­ ies have found that WIN does indeed who had long been planning for and day's passage of House Resolution 441 work-that it is able to successfully counting on this financial assistance to was anything but a proud moment for train and place AFDC recipients in put their children through college. the House of Representatives. Al­ paying jobs, thus getting them off I am the sponsor of H.R. 5193 which though I advocate the withdrawal of AFDC and into the labor market. calls for the total restoration of the Argentine troops from the Falkland Since this administration has end­ social security student benefit pro­ Islands, I believe that House Resolu­ lessly proclaimed the virtue of work, gram. However, since the Ways and tion 441 was an ill-timed and ill-consid­ and constantly derides welfare bums, Means Committee has not yet taken ered means. of expressing this or any its budget cuts in a clearly effective action on any of these bills, I am May 5, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8893 asking you to join in a bipartisan move and his lovely wife, Julie, health and of Congress in anticipation of a course to unite the efforts of the more than happiness in the years ahead.e of action designed to increase soybean 160 sponsors and cosponsors of reme­ yields. dial legislation by lending your sup­ SOYBEAN RESEARCH ADVISORY Mr. Speaker, all of us want what is port to H.R. 6183. This bill would INSTITUTE best for our farmers, our consumers, extend the college enrollment deadline our taxpayers, and our Nation. I from May 1 to October l, 1982. We strongly believe that the Soybean Re­ need to consolidate our efforts to HON. RICHARD C. SHELBY search Advisory Institute meets these insure expeditious passage of legisla­ OF ALABAMA objectives.e tion that allows this year's high school IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES class the opportunity to complete 4 years of college education with the aid Wednesday, May 5, 1982 HOUSE RESOLUTION 427- of social security student benefits. e Mr. SHELBY. Mr. Speaker, the soy­ WILDERNESS LEASING Please cosponsor H.R. 6183.e bean is a high-protein commodity and has many varied uses. In fact, the soy­ bean has become the economic super­ HON. MORRIS K. UDALL JOHN E. THURMAN star of American agriculture. In addi­ OF ARIZONA tion to being the No. 1 cash crop of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES our Nation, soybeans are also the No. Wednesday, May 5, 1982 HON. TONY COELHO 1 cash export of the United States. •Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, today, I OF CALIFORNIA This is quite a feat in and of itself am very pleased and gratified to an­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES when one realizes that our Nation dominates grain exports in the world nounce that more than 100 of my col­ Wednesday, May 5, 1982 market. Approximately 60 percent of leagues have joined with me and Rep­ e Mr. COELHO. Mr. Speaker, it is an the total world exports of grain origi­ resentative SILVIO CONTE in cosponsor­ honor for me to rise today to pay trib­ nate in the United States. Last year, ing our resolution opposing oil and gas ute to a dear friend and outstanding approximately $8.6 billion in U.S.-pro­ leasing in the Nation's wilderness representative, John E. Thurman, who duced soybeans and soybean products areas. is retiring from the California State greatly contributed to our balance of House Resolution 427 expresses our Assembly, when his term expires at payments. It is widely recognized that belief that these areas, and other the end of this year. John has repre­ our foreign trade debt would be in lands formally recommended for wil­ sented the people of the 27th assem­ total shambles if it were not for U.S. derness, should be the last places bly district for the past 10 years. His agricultural sales abroad. where we permit mineral leasing. It career in public service began in 1960 Unfortunately, the tremendous rise recognizes that the Wilderness Act of when he was elected to the Board of in soybean production in America has 1964 grants until December 31, 1983 Education of the Hart-Ransom Union not resulted from increased yields but discretionary authority to issue such School District. John was then elected from expanded acreage. In the past leases, but points out that previous ad­ to the Stanislaus County Board of decade, soybean acreage has grown ministrations have chosen not to exer­ Education, where he served until he from 42 million acres to 70 million cise this authority, and for good was elected to the State legislature in acres. When contrasted with other ag­ reason. It calls on Secretary James 1974. ricultural commodities, such as com Watt to refrain from approving any John Thurman's contributions to whose yield per acre has increased such leases, but warns that if he does, the people of California have been rec­ from 26 bushels per acre in 1929 to ap­ Congress will take appropriate action ognized in many forms. The County proximately 110 bushels per acre to prevent their issuance. Finally, the Supervisors Association of California today, average soybean yields have in­ resolution opposes the imposition of presented him with their President's creased only about one-third bushel any arbitrary deadlines or artificial re­ Award for his concern for county gov­ per acre annually over the last quarter straints on Federal land managers in ernments; and the Stanislaus County of a century. the consideration of future additions Medical Society has cited him for his Our record of soybean research is to the national wilderness preserva­ outstanding efforts to improve the not laudable and, in fact, is minuscule tion system. availability of health care facilities for relative to outlays for corn and cotton In the coming weeks, the Interior his constituents. John has been recog­ research. Obviously, there is a vital and Insular Affairs Committee, of nized by countless other groups, in­ need to find the means to increase soy­ which I am chairman, will be address­ cluding the Big Brothers of Greater bean yields through expanded re­ ing the need for legislation in this con­ Modesto, Progress Valley Association search efforts and through grower troversial and important area. This of Health Facilities, Stanislaus County education. As a result of an amend­ moderate and responsible resolution Safety Council, Muscular Dystrophy ment to the Agriculture and Food Act provides a solid basis on which to Association, the Boy Scouts, the Plan­ of 1981, a task force, known as the begin that consideration. ning Agency for the Aging, the Dis­ Soybean Research Advisory Institute, If you have not had an opportunity abled American Veterans, and the will be created. This task force should to add your name to the growing list American Legion. enhance the opportunity for achieving of cosponsors to House Resolution 427, As chairman of the assembly agricul­ the desired soybean yield break­ I urge you to do so by having your ture committee, since 1974, he has pro­ through. staff contact either Mark Trautwein vided strong leadership and has I urge Secretary Block to move expe­ of my office at x58331, or Missi Tessier worked hard to insure fair representa­ ditously and appoint the 11 members with Representative CONTE at x55335. tion for California agriculture. that will comprise the Soybean Re­ COSPONSORS OF HOUSE RESOLUTION 427 AS OF John Thurman exemplifies the phi­ search Advisory Institute in order that MAY 5, 1982 losophy that government exists to the task force may begin immediately Mr. Addabbo, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Barnes, Mr. serve the people. The fine example of assessing the effectiveness of the on­ Bedell, Mr. Beilenson, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Be­ going soybean research programs in reuter, Mr. Bingham, Mr. Boland, Mr. public service, which John has provid­ Bonior, Mr. Bonker, Mr. Brinkley, Mr. Brod­ ed, serves as a model for all of us in the United States. I look forward to head, Mr. Brown of California, Mr. John L. elective office. John will indeed be the comprehensive report to be sub­ Burton. missed by his friends, colleagues, con­ mitted by the Advisory Institute no Mrs. Chisholm, Mr. Clay, Mr. Conte, Mr. stituents, and fell ow representatives of later than March 1, 1983, to the Agri­ Corrada, Mr. D'Amours, Mr. Daschle, Mr. the people. I would like to wish John culture Committees of both Chambers Dellums, Mr. de Lugo, Mr. DeNardis, Mr. 8894 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 5, 1982 Dicks, Mr. Downey, Mr. Dwyer, Mr. Edgar, hunger; and "Habitat Housing," to A VISIT FROM PIKESVILLE Mr. Edwards of California, Mr. Emery, Mr. enable low-income families to buy MIDDLE SCHOOL Evans of Delaware. Mr. Fascell, Mr. Fauntroy, Mr. Fazio, Mrs. houses interest free at the cost of ma­ Fenwick, Ms. Ferraro, Mr. Florio, Mr. Fogli­ terials only. etta, Mr. Foley, Mr. Ford of Tennessee, Mr. As leader of Project Understanding, HON. CLARENCE D. LONG Frank, Mr. Gejdenson, Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Rev. Virgil Nelson demonstrates a OF MARYLAND Gore, Mr. Gray, Mr. Green, Mr. Harkin, Mr. deeply felt concern for the welfare of Hertel, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Kastenmeier, Mrs. Ken­ others, and is a tremendous asset to Wednesday, May 5, 1982 nelly, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Long of Maryland, the Ventura community. For his self­ Mr. Lowry of Washington, Mr. Markey, Mr. less help of many needy people, as • Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak­ Matsui, Mr. Mavroules, Mr. Miller of Cali­ well as his inspiring leadership in the er, on Thursday, May 6, 1982, 113 fornia, Mr. Mineta, Mr. Minish, Mr. Mitch­ battle against all forms of oppression, young men and women from the ell of Maryland, Mr. Moakley, Mr. Moffett, I ask that my colleagues join me in Pikesville Middle School, Pikesville, Mr. Morrison, Mr. Murphy. recognition of this deserving man and Md., will journey to Washington for a Mr. Neal, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Patterson, Mr. firsthand look at their Nation's Cap­ Pease, Mr. Peyser, Mr. Porter, Mr. Pritch­ the service he is performing.e ard, Mr. Ratchford, Mr. Richmond, Mr. ital. Rodino, Mr. Roemer, Mr. Sabo, Mr. These students accompanied by Scheuer, Ms. Schneider, Mrs. Schroeder. CALL TO CONSCIENCE VIGIL their teachers, Cynthia Schulz, Ange­ Mr. Seiberling, Mr. Shannon, Mr. Solarz, 1982: BERNARD AND ZINA lina Simpson, Alfred Sanders, Elmer Mr. St Germain, Mr. Stark, Mr. Studds, Mr. SHURAVIETSKY Murray, and Thomas Wilcox, will tour Sunia, Mr. Swift, Mr. Udall, Mr. Vento, Mr. the Capitol, the Smithsonian Institu­ Volkmer, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Weaver, Mr. tion and other museums. Weiss, Mr. Williams of Montana, Mr. Wirth, Mr. Wolpe, Mr. Won Pat, Mr. Wyden, Mr. HON.BERNARDJ.DWYER I . am delighted these students are Yates. taking the opportunity to visit with us, Total 102.e OF NEW JERSEY and hope their interest in our Nation's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES political process will continue. Wednesday, May 5, 1982 Students visiting us Thursday are: A TRIBUTE TO REV. VIRGIL Jonathan Abramowitz, Jason Benford, NELSON •Mr. DWYER. Mr. Speaker, 1 year Floyd Brown, Rodney Crawford, ago this month I addressed the Con­ Robert Dodd, Brian Fruman, Jason HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO gress in behalf of Bernard and Zina Glasser, Michael Graham, Brian OF CALIFORNIA Shuravietsk.y as part of the Call to Green, Jonathan Guth, Daniel Conscience Vigil. Hawtof, Stephen Hettleman, Rudolph IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Holley, David Jacob, Ira Katz, Sharon Wednesday, May 5, 1982 Today, their situation has not changed; in many ways it has wors­ Brockington, Gloria Davis, Modupeh e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, ened, but they still have not aban­ Davies, Olga Dean, Michellene I would like to bring to the attention doned their hope of reunification with Deaouvlt, Sotario Dyson, Karen of my colleagues the contributions of family members here in the United Garber, Danielle Grzbien, Beth Gug­ my constituent, Rev. Virgil Nelson, of genheim, Tina Hager, Lauren Halle, the community of Ventura, Calif. States. Karen Hendricks, Dawn Rich, Rodney Rev. Virgil Nelson is the director and It is appropriate today, too, to note Monk, Gregg Levin, Pam Hameroff, founder of Project Understanding, an the Solidarity Sunday activities May 2 Kevin McMichael, Russell Murray, organization designed to provide aid in New York City when thousands of Rebecca King, Jennifer Koors, Ami and assistance to people and bring an dedicated people gathered in behalf of Nash, Carol Kennedy, Shelley Millet, end to racism, hunger, oppression, and Soviet Jewish families like the Shura­ Alisa Kahn, Kelly Kennai, Heather injustice by building bridges rather vietskys who suffer daily the loss of Hoover, Paul Levy, Jon Lever, Ben than walls between persons and basic rights and alienation under Meisels, Alan Moskowitz, Jason Kotik, groups. It seeks to do this through its Soviet totalitarianism. Jon Lefko, John Morrow, Jerry New­ eight basic ongoing programs: "Focus For the Shuravietskys that totalitar­ berger, Tony Magginson, James Ming, on Food," a program providing food to ianism has taken the form of job dis­ Steven Marks, Aaron Lewitinn, David those in crisis situations-last year it crimination, imprisonment, and re­ Kaufman, David Lindenbaum, Charles provided food to 1,356 people; "Food peated denials for exit visas to visit Kines, Saul Tocker, George Uhler, Share," a program comprised of 400 Zina's elderly, ailing parents. They all Jason Vitaliano, Duane Wilkinson, volunteers who gather crops left in hope fervently to make their family Ethan Yankellow, Thomas Ziegler, fields after the harvest and distribute whole once more, despite the unrelent­ Tonya Sturdavant, Teresa Sugar, Amy them to the needy-last year it· gath­ ing despair and frustration they must Talbott, Stacy Thaman, Sara Kim ered and distributed 346 tons of food; Tossman, Michelle Uhlfelder, Lori "C.H.O.W.," otherwise known as Anti­ face as refuseniks. Wasserman, Marni Wiener, Claudia Hunger Coalition, which holds confer­ As with so many others who have Weinstein, Lissa Weiss, Aretha White, ences on world hunger; "Summer Food dared to defy the Soviet state in the Amy Yohe, Demian Seely, Jordan Service for Children," which serves name of simple human justice, life for Segall, Anthony Shipley, Walter over 2,100 lunches and snacks daily to the Shuravietskys and their two chil­ Smith, Allen Siegel, Andrew Siegel, Al­ needy children; "How to Get Food and dren is a constant struggle, reflective exander Shuster, Adam Smolen, Money: The People's Guide," a book­ of a worsening record of human rights Andrew Stern, Marc Sussman, Donald let that identifies local resource serv­ violations in the Soviet Union. Rice, Daniel Ritzes, David Robinson, ices for the needy; "Ventura County The congressional commitment to Thayer Robinson, Scott Rodman, Women's Employment and Educa­ Soviet Jews has been traditionally a Daniel Rosen, Michael Rosenblatt, tion," a function to assist women in lo­ strong one. We must continue in that David Russel, Patrick Russell, Eric cating employment in the private fight, so that individuals like Bernard Rutkin, Steven Sackey, Richard sector, enabling them to get off wel­ and Zina Shuravietsky can find the Scherr, Jason Reed, John Pride, Jef­ fare programs and become self-sup­ peace they so richly deserve.e frey Peres, Carey N ewbom, Michael porting; "Ventura Walk Against O'Sullivan, Heather Landes, Tracey Hunger," raised $15,000 in 1980 in a Laws, Darla Lee, Jessica Lintz, Emily show of concern for local and world Serpick, Marlo Shavers, Julie Snyder, May 5, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8895 Elise Song, Jody Spector, Ayelet Stei­ brake system, headlights, horn, steer­ State law and authority will be re­ man. Rosalie Steinberg, and Julie ing system, taillights, and tires are in a spected. Stonesifer.e safe operating condition-in other In summary, Mr. Speaker, the Used words the car is roadworthy. By its Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1982 is a H.R. 6283-USED MOTOR VEHICLE very nature, the safety certification bill which consumers of used cars SAFETY ACT OF 1982 will insure the consumer that essential need. Its requirements are simple, ef­ safety components are in good work­ fective, and involve minimal Federal ing order. Obviously, this will directly involvement and expense. For these HON. EDWARD R. MADIGAN promote the safety of used cars sold in reasons, I strongly urge all my col­ OF ILLINOIS the marketplace. leagues to join me as cosponsors of If a consumer should later find that this important legislation.e IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a certified component was not in a Wednesday, May 5, 1982 safe operating condition at the time of •Mr. MADIGAN. Mr. Speaker, today sale and he notifies the seller within LEGISLATION TO REOPEN SAN I am introducing the Used Motor Ve­ 10 working days of sale, he may re­ FRANCISCO MINT hicle Safety Act of 1982, a bill which quest the seller to repair or replace will promote motor vehicle safety by the component. In such a case, the requiring sellers of used cars to make seller may choose instead to rescind HON. DAVID DREIER important information available to the sale and return the buyer's money. consumers regarding the condition This remedy available to the consumer OF CALIFORNIA and safety of used cars that are of­ will not only promote the safety of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fered for sale. Unlike the FTC used used cars but will also give him the car rule, which the Energy and Com­ ability to enforce the certification re­ Wednesday, May 5, 1982 merce Committee voted to disapprove quirement by requesting the seller to e Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I would this morning, this bill really helps the repair the car. like to take this opportunity to intro­ consumer. This bill gives the consumer a fur­ duce legislation to clear up inaccura­ The Used Motor Vehicle Safety Act ther remedy. If the seller elects to cies surrounding a fine Government of 1982, amends title I of the National repair the component, rather than re­ institution which has served this Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act scind the sale, and does not do so Nation well. I call upon my colleagues of 1966, to require all sellers of used within 10 working days, section 126(d) to restore the San Francisco assay cars to perform two simple tasks. permits the buyer to rescind the con­ office to its rightful status as a mint, First, the seller must disclose infor­ tract of sale. This will hasten repair by which, in practice, it has been for over mation on the present working condi­ the seller and give the consumer an ef­ 15 years. tion of certain components of the car. fective remedy in the event that a In 1955, San Francisco's coinage op­ A second provision requires the seller seller cannot or will not repair the car. erations were shut down after over 100 to certify the safe operation of select­ Section 126(c) incorporates the years of service as a mint due to ex­ ed components of the car. I would like safety certification into the contract pansion and modernization of the to briefly elaborate on these impor­ of sale. Any inconsistent statements Denver and Philadelphia Mints. Its tant requirements. contained in the contract will be su­ services deemed unnecessary, the San Section 126(b) requires the seller to perseded by the certification. The Francisco operation was reserved for disclose to the consumer safety-related rights given to the consumer by this assay functions. Public Law 87-523, ap­ information on the present working bill can then be self-enforced by allow­ proved July 11, 1962, repealed obsolete condition of the tires, engine, battery, ing the consumer to sue a seller for laws relating to the mint and changed and brakes. For comparative purposes, civil damages for breach of contract. the San Francisco Mint's designation information on the original perform­ A consumer may waive, at his to that of an assay office. ance or operation of each component option, the disclosure and certification A critical coin shortage, which devel­ must also be supplied. requirements of the bill. By allowing a oped in the mid-1960's, marked the Consumers in the used car market waiver, the consumer is free to bargain San Francisco office's return to coin are often unsure of the present oper­ down the price of the car, knowing production. Though one section of the ating condition of the used car they that the car is not certified as to its Coinage Act of 1965 reiterated the pro­ are buying. The quality of a car's oper­ operating condition. These "as is" vision on assay functions, it also stated ation is a key factor in making a pur­ sales are common in the marketplace. that- chase decision. Sellers know or can Often a buyer will pay a low price for easily discover, at minimal cost, the a car and will undertake repairs him­ Until the Secretary of the Treasury deter­ mines that the mints of the United States working condition of the car they are self. The ability of the consumer to are adequate for the production of ample selling. Consumers often do not have engage in such a sale is preserved in supplies of coins, its facili­ access to that information. By requir­ this legislation. ties may be used for the production of coins. ing the seller to furnish the consumer The disclosure and certification re­ a written disclosure of the condition of quirements of the bill may also be en­ The mint has been producing coins the tires, battery, engine, and brakes, forced by the chief law enforcement ever since; in 1980 alone, it struck this legislation will provide the con­ official of a State, on behalf of con­ $32,267 ,900 in dollars and pennies, and sumer with better information, which sumers. In the absence of State en­ over 2 million 1980 proof coin sets. is otherwise difficult to obtain. With forcement, the Secretary of the De­ Correspondence I have received this in hand. A consumer will be able partment of Transportation may exer­ from the numismatically inclined and to assess, on his own, the value of the cise such authority. Since the State or concerned citizens alike indicates car. As a result, he or she can make a the consumer himself will be the pri­ strong feeling in favor of such a more informed purchasing decision. mary enforcers of the bill's require­ change. A southern California newspa­ Since the present working condition ments, Federal expense and involve­ per recently exhorted Congress to "re­ of the tires, battery, engine, and ment will be minimal. store it officially to the numismatic brakes also bears directly on the Existing State law on the disclosure hall of fame • • • give it back its safety of the vehicle, a consumer will of information and certification by name as a mint." be better informed as to the car's sellers of used cars will not be super­ In the interest, then, of both numis­ safety. seded by the bill, as long as the State matic history and the mint's employ­ Section 126(c) of the bill requires law is equal to or more stringent than ees, I urge your careful consideration the seller to certify in writing that the the bill's requirements. In this way, of this legislation.e 8896 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 5, 1982 SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS Energy and Natural Resources MAYll Energy and Mineral Resources Subcom­ 8:30 a.m. Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, mittee Appropriations agreed to by the Senate on February To hold hearings on S. 1877, S. 1908, S. Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a 1909, S. 1941, and S. 2481, bills provid­ tee system for a computerized schedule of ing for the reinstatement and valida­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ all meetings and hearings of Senate tion of certain U.S. oil and gas leases, timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Na­ committees, subcommittees, joint com­ S. 2095, directing the Secretary of the tional Endowment for the Humanities, Interior to issue a certain oil and gas National Capital Planning Commis­ mittees, and committees of conference. lease, and S. 2146, extending the lease This title requires all such committees sion, and the Office of Surface Mining terms of various Federal oil and gas of the Department of the Interior. to notify the Office of the Senate leases. 1114 Dirksen Building Daily Digest-designated by the Rules 3110 Dirksen Building 9:00 a.m. Committee-of the time, place, and Joint Economic Commerce, Science, and Transportation purpose of the meetings, when sched­ To hold hearings on the employment/ Business meeting, to consider pending uled, and any cancellations or changes unemployment situation for the calendar business. month of April. 235 Russell Building in the meetings as they occur. 2128 Rayburn Building As an additional procedure along Governmental Affairs 10:00 a.m. Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga­ with the computerization of this infor­ Environment and Public Works tions mation, the Office of the Senate Daily Toxic Substances and Environmental To resume hearings on the effectiveness Digest will prepare this information Oversight Subcommittee of the Federal Government to enforce for printing in the Extensions of Re­ Business meeting, to mark up proposed export controls, focusing on the trans­ marks section of the CONGRESSIONAL legislation authorizing funds for envi­ ronmental research and development fer of high technology to the Soviet RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of programs; and other pending business. Union and other Warsaw Pact nations. each week. 4200 Dirksen Building 3302 Dirksen Building Any changes in committee schedul­ Labor and Human Resources Office of Technology Assessment ing will be indicated by placement of Investigations and General Oversight Sub­ The Board, to hold a general business an asterisk to the left of the name of committee meeting. H-139, Capitol the unit conducting such meetings. To hold hearings to examine adverse 9:30 a.m. Meetings scheduled for Thursday, drug reactions from immunization, Appropriations May 6, 1982, may be found in the Federal efforts in preventive medicine, and characteristics of certain diseases. State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary Daily Digest of today's RECORD. 4232 Dirksen Building and Related Agencies Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ MEETINGS SCHEDULED MAYlO timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Ju­ diciary. 8:00 a.m. S-146, Capitol MAY7 Appropriations Foreign Relations 9:00 a.m. Legislative Branch Subcommittee To hold hearings on nuclear arms reduc­ Finance To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ tion proposals. timates for fiscal year 1983 for activi­ 4221 Dirksen Building Taxation and Debt Management Subcom­ ties of the Secretary of the Senate, mittee Sergeant at Arms, Architect of the Governmental Affairs Savings, Pensions and Investment Policy Capitol, and the Congressional Budget Intergovernmental Relations Subcommit­ Subcommittee Office. tee To hold joint hearings on S. 2214, pro­ S-128, Capitol To resume oversight hearings on the im­ viding for incentives to increase the 10:00 a.m. plementation of block grants. rate of personal savings and invest­ Commerce, Science, and Transportation 357 Russell Building ment by increasing the percentage of To hold hearings on S. 1929, establish­ Labor and Human Resources tax exempt net interest income to 25 ing an Interagency Committee on To hold oversight hearings on the De­ percent, making dividend income eligi­ Smoking and Health to coordinate partment of Labor's investigation of ble for the 25 percent exemption, Federal and private activities to edu­ alleged abuses with the International changing the enactment date to 1 year cate the public about the health haz­ Brotherhood of Boilermakers . to be Chairman of the Joint ing programs of the Department of Judiciary Chiefs of Staff. Education. To hold hearings on S. 2419, modifying 1202 Dirksen Building 4232 Dirksen Building certain provisions of the venue law to Energy and Natural Resources 2:00 p.m. allow cases to be heard in courts Business meeting, to consider pending Foreign Relations where the decision would have greater calendar business. To continue hearings on certain nuclear impact. 3110 Dirksen Building arms reduction proposals. 2228 Dirksen Building Environment and Public Works 4221 Dirksen Building 2:00 p.m. Business meeting, to resume consider­ Governmental Affairs Appropriations ation of proposed legislation authoriz­ Intergovernmental Relations Subcommit­ Foreign Operations Subcommittee ing funds for programs which fall tee To resume hearings on proposed budget under its legislative Jurisdiction. To hold hearings on S. 2386, providing estimates for fiscal year 1983 for the 4200 Dirksen Building for the establishment of a system to Agency for International Develop­ 2:00 p.m. collect data on the geographic distri­ ment, focusing on the Near East re­ Appropriations bution of Federal funds, and Office of gional and centrally funded programs. Foreign Operations Subcommittee Management and Budget Circular A- 1223 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 98, relating thereto. Foreign Relations timates for fiscal year 1983 for the 3302 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on the nomination of Agency for International Develop­ Judiciary Robert Anderson, of the District of ment, focusing on Latin America re­ To hold hearings on pending nomina­ Columbia, to be Ambassador to the gional, Asia regional, Africa regional tions. Dominican Republic. and the Sahel development programs. 2228 Dirksen Building 4221 Dirksen Building 1223 Dirksen Building Select Committee to Study Law Enforce­ Gov~rnmental Affairs Appropriations ment Undercover Activities of Compo­ Treasury, Postal Service, and General Federal Expenditures, Research and nents of the Department of Justice Rules Subcommittee Government Subcommittee To hold organizational business meet­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To resume hearings on proposed legisla­ ing. tion improving the efficiency of the timates for fiscal year 1983 for pro­ 301 Russell Building grams which fall within the Jurisdic­ Federal procurement system. 3302 Dirksen Building tion of the subcommittee, receiving MAY13 testimony from public witnesses. 1318 Dirksen Building 9:00 a.m. MAY14 Foreign Relations Appropriations 8:00 a.m. To continue hearings on nuclear arms Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Appropriations reduction proposals. tee Legislative Branch Subcommittee 4221 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for territo­ timates for fiscal year 1983 for the Li­ MAY12 rial affairs of the Department of the 9:30 a.m. brary of Congress, Congressional Re­ Interior. search Service, Office of Technology Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 1114 Dirksen Building Business meeting, to mark up S.2367 and Assessment, and the Copyright Royal­ 9:30 a.m. ty Tribunal. S.2377, bills authorizing funds Labor and Human Resources through fiscal year 1986 for Federal To resume oversight hearings on the De­ 8-128, Capitol transit assistance programs of the partment of Labor's investigation of 10:00 a.m. Urban Mass Transportation Adminis­ alleged abuses within the Internation­ Finance tration, Department of Transporta­ al Brotherhood of Boilermakers . tion rules and regulations. extending the funding level through 235 Russell Building 235 Russell Building fiscal year 1987 for airport improve­ Governmental Affairs Energy and Natural Resources ment and development programs. Federal Expenditures, Research and Energy Regulation Subcommittee 235 Russell Building Rules Subcommittee To resume hearings on S. 1626, remov­ Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings on S. 1782, eliminating ing the requirement for Federal regu­ To hold oversight hearings on Federal percentage retention on Federal Gov­ lation to allow the competitive market property management and disposal. ernment construction contracts, and S. system to establish petroleum pipeline 3110 Dirksen Building 1882, improving the effectiveness and transportation rates while maintaining Environment and Public Works fairness of the Federal Government's safeguards to protect the industry and Business meeting, to consider pending contractor suspension and debarment consumers against unlawful discrimi­ programs. nation. calendar business. 3302 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. 3110 Dirksen Building Select on Indian Affairs Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Governmental Affairs To hold oversight hearings on the imple­ Agricultural, Production, Marketing, and Oversight of Government Management mentation of Indian education pro­ Stabilization of Prices Subcommittee Subcommittee grams. To hold oversight hearings on the im­ 6226 Dirksen Building plementation of the Federal crop in­ To hold oversight hearings on social se­ 2:00 p.m. surance program of the Department of curity disability terminations, focusing Appropriations Agriculture. on the Social Security Administra­ Foreign Operations Subcommittee 324 Russell Building tion's decision to accelerate the re­ To resume hearings on proposed budget quired review of disability eligibility, Energy and Natural Resources the continuing deficiencies in the estimates for fiscal year 1983 for the To resume hearings on S. 1844, permit­ Agency for International Develop­ system, and the resulting impact on ting the development of coal pipelines claimants. ment, focusing on the trade and devel­ as part of the national energy trans­ opment program, international disas­ portation and distribution system. 1318 Dirksen Building ter assistance, and American schools 3110 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. and hospitals abroad program. Appropriations 1223 Dirksen Building MAY21 HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ 9:30 a.m. tee MAY19 Energy and Natural Resources To receive testimony from public wit­ 9:30 a.m. Energy Regulation Subcommittee nesses on proposed budget estimates Governmental Affairs To hold hearings on S. 1626, removing for fiscal year 1983 for certain pro­ Federal Expenditures, Research and the requirement for Federal regula­ grams under the subcommittee's juris­ Rules Subcommittee tion to allow the competitive market diction. To hold hearings on Senate Joint Reso­ system to establish petroleum pipeline lution 93 and S. 2278, measures reaf­ transportation rates while maintaining 1224 Dirksen Building firming the policy of relying on the safeguards to protect the industry and Environment and Public Works private sector to meet public require­ consumers against unlawful discrimi­ Business meeting, to consider pending ments for goods and services, and nation. calendar business. Office of Management and Budget 3110 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Circular A-76, relating to Federal pro­ Foreign Relations curement policy. Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 3302 Dirksen Building Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Business meeting, to mark up certain nuclear arms reduction proposals. Labor and Human Resources Stabilization of Prices Subcommittee Labor Subcommittee To continue oversight hearings on the 4221 Dirksen Building To resume oversight hearings to review implementation of the Federal crop in­ surance program of the Department of MAY26 the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corpo­ Agriculture. ration premium rate increases. 324 Russell Building 9:30 a.m. 4232 Dirksen Building Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 10:00 a.m. MAY24 Rural Development, Oversight, and Inves­ Appropriations tigations Subcommittee HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ 10:00 a.m. tee Appropriations To continue oversight hearings on the To continue hearings on proposed HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ energy needs of rural communities. budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 tee 324 Russell Building for the Department of Housing and To receive testimony from public wit­ 10:00 a.m. Urban Development and the Neigh­ nesses on proposed budget estimates Environment and Public Works for fiscal year 1983 for certain pro­ borhood Reinvestment Corporation. Toxic Substances and Environmental 1224 Dirksen Building grams under the subcommittee's juris­ diction. Oversight Subcommittee Environment and Public Works 1224 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on S. 1866, revising Toxic Substances and Environmental regulatory procedures relating to safe Oversight Subcommittee MAY25 drinking water requirements, and S. To resume hearings on S. 1866, revising 9:00 a.m. 2131, authorizing funds through fiscal regulatory procedures relating to safe Governmental Affairs year 1986 for the safe drinking water drinking water requirements, and S. To hold hearings on the annual report program. 2131, authorizing funds through fiscal of the Postmaster General. 4200 Dirksen Building year 1986 for the safe drinking water 3302 Dirksen Building Governmental Affairs program. 9:30 a.m. 4200 Dirksen Building Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga­ Select on Indian Affairs Rural Development, Oversight, and Inves­ tions To continue oversight hearings on the tigations Subcommittee To hold hearings on certain alleged mis­ implementation of Indian education To hold oversight hearings to review the management practices within the De­ programs. energy needs of rural communities. partment of Energy. 6226 Dirksen Building 324 Russell Building 3302 Dirksen Building May 5, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8899 MAY27 JUNE 10 awarded the Pembina Chippewa Indi­ 10:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. ans in specified dockets of the U.S. Governmental Affairs Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Court of Claims. Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga­ Securities Subcommittee 5110 Dirksen Building tions To resume hearings on S. 1869, S. 1870, To continue hearings on certain alleged S. 1871, and S. 1977, bills revising or SEPTEMBER 21 mismanagement practices within the repealing certain provisions of the Department of Energy. Public Utility Holding Company Act 10:30 a.m. 3302 Dirksen Building of 1935. Veterans Affairs 5302 Dirksen Building To hold hearings to receive American JUNES Legion legislative recommendations 9:30 a.m. JUNE 16 for fiscal year 1983. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 9:30 a.m. 318 Russell Building Securities Subcommittee Commerce, Science, and Transportation To resume hearings on S. 1869, S. 1870, Merchant Marine Subcommittee S. 1871, and S. 1977, bills revising or To hold oversight hearings on Federal CANCELLATIONS repealing certain provisions of the Government cargo preference. Public Utility Holding Company Act 235 Russell Building MAY6 of 1935. 10:00 a.m. 5302 Dirksen Building Environment and Public Works 9:30 a.m. Environment Pollution Subcommittee Select on Indian Affairs JUNE9 To hold oversight hearings on the im­ Business meeting, to consider pending 9:30 a.m. plementation of the Comprehensive calendar business. Select on Indian Affairs Environmental Response, Compensa­ To hold hearings on law enforcement tion and Liability Act of 1980