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INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLA persons most closely involved in its implemen with this project we can cure this dreaded af TION TO REAUTHORIZE CHAP tation. I hope to continue to work with my col fliction. TER 2 OF THE ECIA leagues in Congress in order to perfect this legislation so that it can best meet the needs COMMEMORATING LARRY VUIL HON. WILLIAM F. GOODLING of our Nation's schools. LEMOT'S SERVICE TO THE NATION OF PENNSYLVANIA THE MIAMI PROJECT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, April 1, 1987 HON. LAWRENCE J. SMITH HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER OF ILLINOIS Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, last week I OF FLORIDA introduced H.R. 1795 which would reauthorize IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Wednesday, April 1, 1987 Wednesday, April 1, 1987 Improvement Act through 1993. Chapter 2 Mr. SMITH of Florida. Mr. Speaker, a dedi Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to was created as part of the Ominbus Budget commend the work of Lawrence Donald Vuil Reconciliation Act of 1981 by combining over cation ceremony is taking place in south Flori da that is of interest to the entire Nation. On lemot who is retiring from a career devoted to 30 categorical programs into an educational excellence as the director I superintendent of block grant. Last year Congress appropriated April 3, 1987, the basic science laboratories of the special education district of Lake County $529 million for this purpose. the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis will be in Gurnee, IL. His commitment to this endeav Most Federal education funding comes with dedicated. or extends all the way back to May 1960. many strings attached. While this makes The project, based at the University of The special education district of Lake sense in most cases, it is also important for Miami Medical Center, has been the focus of County [SEDOL], is a centralized joint agree us to help schools implement innovative pro international media attention over the past ment serving 40 school districts, and presently grams based on their own ideas. Parents, stu year. employing more staff and providing more serv dents, and educators from across the country The project's goal is quite clear. In fact, it's have told members of the Education and stated in the organization's name. The Miami ices to more students than any other joint agreement in the State. In the Labor Committee that chapter 2 is an impor project aims to cure paralysis. It hopes to 1979-80, SEDOL Program served over 2,489 students, tant part of their school program. This reau bring the top physicians and scientists from not including those served by each of the thorization proposal retains the current flexibil around the world together to launch an attack member district's Speech Therapy and Learn ity in chapter 2, while specifying more clearly on this devastating affliction. what are its major goals. Mr. Speaker, the Miami project is a reality ing Disabled Student Programs. A total of 570 professional and clerical staff are currently The proposed chapter 2 legislation would: today because of Nick Buoniconti who, for employed, including classroom teachers First, retain the current 80-20 percent split many years, was a major player with the 325 representing all categories of special educa between local and State education agencies. Miami Dolphins football team. In 1985, Nick's son Marc suffered a severe spinal cord injury tion. Second, with the 20 percent money States while playing college football that has left him The cooperative joint agreement model has could find three general categories of activi a quadriplegic. Since that time, Marc has been requested and received Mr. Vuillemot's assist ties: State administration of the chapter 2 pro undergoing rehabilitation and has become an ance as a consultant since 1960. This model gram, technical assistance, grants to local international symbol of the Miami project's delivers services to Special Education Pro school districts, and statewide activities aimed goal: To make paralysis an affliction of the grams at numerous institutions including, the at achieving the goals of the act, and with 25 past. Minnesota State Department of Education, In percent of the State money-which is 5 per Nick Buoniconti's love for his son is so diana University, the University of Illinois, the cent of the total State grant-they must spe strong that his concern has grown beyond Montana State Department of Education, and cifically do "effective schools" programs. family needs. Nick's aim now is to help people the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Otherwise, the application process and the throughout the Nation and the world who Education. creation of the State advisory council remain suffer from paralysis. Mr. Vuillemot has served on the board of di much the way they are under current law. The dedication on April 3 marks an impor rectors of the Lake McHenry Regional Pro Third, with the 80 percent money, local tant step for everyone who has been or will gram since it's inception in 1967. His guidance school districts could choose among the fol be touched by the tragedy of paralysis. I be and counseling in that capacity has helped lowing educational areas in deciding how to lieve it's also a testimony to the courage of produce one of the State's outstanding pro utilize their local funds: programs for at risk Marc Buoniconti and the dedication of Nick grams in the provision of diagnostic services youth, instructional, educational materials and Buoniconti and the many citizens who are to children. equipment, educational personnel develop working for the success of the Miami Project In 1972, in cooperation with the special ment and training, effective schools programs, to Cure Paralysis. education department at Illinois State Univer and special projects-including gifted and tal To further the goals of the Miami project, sity at Normal, Mr. Vuillemot developed a ented and technology education. Nick Buoniconti's friends and former team unique off campus Teacher Training Program. I worked very closely with Chairman HAW mates will be hosting the second annual NFL This program has been responsible for train KINS in developing this bill and I am glad that Celebrity Roast on April 11, 1987, in Miami. ing an exceptional group of special education we have followed the example of H.R. 950, As the newest addition to the NFL Hall of teachers. which reauthorizes chapter 1, and introduced Fame, former Miami Dolphin great, Larry Through the years, Larry Vuillemot's profes this legislation jointly. In fact, H.R. 1795 repre Csonka will be roasted by members of the sional involvement has included work with sents the efforts of many people who provid 1972 team. The event will be a stroll down such groups as the American Academy of Pe ed input to our committee and who will see memory lane with members of the Miami Dol diatrics and the American Association of their finger prints in the bill. phins' great 1972 season, and will raise funds Mental Disorders-an active member since Chapter 2 is a program that started out as for this very worthy and important medical 1952. He has spoken three times at the na an orphan but has definitely been adopted by goal. I urge all my colleagues and the commu tional conventions of the American Associa the educators of this country. H.R. 1795 re nity to support this important step for those of tion of School Administrators-a member tains the original purposes of chapter 2 while our citizens who are suffering from forms of since 1967. He has been a member of the making some modifications suggested by the paralysis. With the devotion of all connected Council for Exceptional Children since 1954
• This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. April 1, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7731 and served as editor of the Illinois Council for [From the Albuquerque Tribune, Sept. 19, strength ... and I don't think the govern Exceptional Children Newsletter from 1962 to 1986] ment is doing enough to find out if our boys 1964. POW NIGHTMARE STILL HAUNTS SURVIVOR OF are really alive or dead," Montoya said, echoing the exasperation of Albuquerque From 1962 to 1964, he was also president THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH families still waiting for their men. of the Illinois Administrators of Special Educa He tapped his forehead with apparent tion. He has been involved with the Illinois Carlos Montoya's years of torment as a frustration. Commission on Children as a member of the Japanese prisoner of war drag on, paving a The memories open wounds that appar Committee on Emotionally Disturbed Children trail of ailments, disillusion and nightmares ently haven't healed. And he becomes common to the victims of torture. and as chairman of the Subcommittee on choked with tears recalling the ten years It is etched in his memory, he said: Every after being freed. But of those, he won't say Legal Mandates. Mr. Vuillemot was appointed moment from April 4, 1942, to Sept. 18, by Gov. Richard Ogilvie to the first Statewide much except to refer to his wife as "a strong 1945, when he was held prisoner in the Phil woman." His business, he said, was not set Council on Developmental Disabilities, and ippines and Japan. up to make money, but to hold on to his since 1981 he has been chairman of the Illi "In my nightmares, the Japanese are after sanity. nois State Advisory Council for the Education me, or I'm after them. I would like to dream "It's terrible how one race acts against an of Handicapped Children. of my little girl, Nora, but I don't," he said, shaking his head. "I would like to dream of other," he said, sighing. Other advisory boards that Mr. Vuillemot things that have happened since, but I has served on include those of the Lake don't. I've had disagreements recently, and I County Society for the Mentally Retarded, wish I could dream about those ... I just EAGLE SCOUT AWARD since 1960; the Illinois Regional Resources can't!" Center at Northern Illinois University; and the Montoya, 71, was one of the tens of thou sands of World War II American soldiers HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS Moraine Association Residential Daily Living OF PENNSYLVANIA Facility for the Adult Retarded. many from New Mexico-subjected to a 100 mile march known as the Bataan Death IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Vuillemot has received numerous March. Scores of men died on the march honors, including annual recognition by the from thirst and starvation. Wednesday, April 1, 1987 president of the Illinois Administrators of Spe Though Montoya was freed three and Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, so often we, as cial Education for dedicated service to the one-half years later, he at times is sorry he Members of this great deliberative body, tend IASE since 1966. In 1972, he received the is not among the dead soldiers. "I would have preferred to have been to overlook the extremely important achieve Lake County Mental Health Award, and in ments of our constitutents. Thus, it is with 1979 he received a certification of recognition killed at the beginning of the war than go through that and Missing in All three young men, Mark Henderson, Paul University of Illinois, College of Education. Action at Kirtland Air Force Base Ford Cranes, and Steven Kuhn, members of That same year he was also named the Ray has little practical meaning. Rather than symbolism, Montoya prefers relief. Boy Scout Troop, 594, will receive Boy mond E. Williams Memorial Lecturer at the Scouts' highest award-the coveted Eagle University of Illinois, Phi Delta Kappa, Pl chap He continues to fight with the Veterans Administration for full disability insurance. Award-before family, friends and their Con ter. Next week he will file yet another claim in a gressman at the Middletown American Legion, Mr. Speaker, Lawrence Donald Vuillemot's long series of unsuccessful attempts at in Post 599, this Sunday, April 5, 1987. record speaks for itself. I can only add that he creasing his 60 percent disability to full cov I would like to extend my congratulations to has worked his entire life to uphold one of the erage. each of these young men and would ask my basic tenets of SEDOL's philosophy, that the Montoya says he takes dozens of pills a colleagues in the U.S. Congress to join me in "provision of educational services designed to day for the asthma he contracted shoveling coal for the Japanese. His breathing is la paying tribute to them on this very special oc meet the individual's needs is an intrinsic casion. right." Larry Vuillemot's retirement after 27 bored because Paddlefoot, a Japanese guard, broke his nose. He said he has paid thou years of dedicated service to Lake County sands of dollars to heal his back, which he and the State of Illinois is well deserved. I am hurt falling 40 feet from a trestle in Japan. NATIONAL WEEK OF THE sure he will be both missed and remembered Montoya was beaten repeatedly with the AMERICAN TAXPAYER for years to come. butt of rifles, he said. His right hand bears the deforming mark of torture. He gets piercing cramps in his feet at HON. LEON E. PANETTA POW NIGHTMARE STILL HAUNTS night-he thinks from wearing only discard OF CALIFORNIA SURVIVOR OF THE BATAAN ed Japanese army pants and shoes and a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DEATH MARCH straw coat in freezing weather. The prison ers made the blankets into mittens because Wednesday, April 1, 1987 others had lost skin from their unprotected HON. BILL RICHARDSON palms while pushing searing carts of coal in Mr. PANETIA. Mr. Speaker, I am introduc OF NEW MEXICO a Japanese port city, Montoya said. ing today a resolution authorizing the Presi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "But no one compensates me for the dent to designate the week of April 12-18, cramps, could care less," he said, 1987, as "National Week of the American Wednesday, April 1, 1987 his voice rising. Taxpayer." Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I would V.A. spokesman Gerry Murphy said many This, of course, is the week in which April like to call the attention of my colleagues to New Mexico POW's get no compensation 15 falls, the date by which most Americans an article written in the Albuquerque Tribune. from the government because they have no are required to file their annual income tax re evidence to back their claims. The other It concerns a POW's nightmare existence POW's, he said, are compensated according turns. It is an appropriate time to pay recogni while in the service of the U.S. military during to the amount of damage their body suf tion to the American taxpayer, on whose World War II. The article gives people a fered. shoulders rest the burden of paying for Gov glimpse at the terrible pain suffered by men Montoya said he is awaiting documents ernment and on whose hard work the vitality who were tortured over long periods of time. that he said would complete his disability and security of this Nation depend. Much of that pain goes on today-both bodily claim. For millions of Americans, the chief form of and psychologically. I feel this article points Meanwhile, he is here, busy as always in contact with the Federal Government is out the sacrifice that Carlos Montoya gave for his successful Northeast Heights restaurant, through the annual filing of a tax return. This Cocina de Carlos, but 15 Albuquerque men his country, and the adulated praise that is are still missing in action or are prisoners of has often been an onerous experience. Last owed him and other veterans like him. Con war in Southeast Asia, 13 years after the year's tax reform bill was intended to ease gress would do well to bear in mind that our United States pulled out of Viet Nam. some of the burden of paying Federal taxes veterans deserve the utmost attention for their "It's horrible the United States was not for most Americans. Either through reducing service. able to win in Viet Nam because of lack of the taxes owed or by simplifying the system, 7732 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 1, 198 the bill was designed to stem the erosion of and dearest shipmates. As I stood at atten TRIBUTE TO THE FALLEN public trust in Government and taxation. tion at the gravesite with the other honor FIREFIGHTERS OF 1985 Ultimately, the new law may be successful ary pallbearers and as taps was played, the in this regard, but for now, the new W-4 forms men around me stood silently with tears and a general mistrust of new tax laws have coursing down their cheeks. Standing next HON. WILLIAM F. GOODLING to the grieving widow was the Secretary of OF PENNSYLVANIA combined to create the opposite effect of Defense, Cap Weinberger, whose eyes, like what was intended. The American taxpayer is mine, were brimmed with tears. And so we IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES feeling as put-upon as ever, and not without put to rest Admiral Arthur Stanley Moreau, justification. Jr., USN, who had served the Navy and his Wednesday, April 1, 1987 The resolution I am introducing would not country his whole life. Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, on October 4 reduce taxes, reform the Tax Code, or simplify I wanted to share this with you because 1981 the people of the United States dedicat tax forms. It would, however, pay tribute to the Art, like the other men who serve in this po ed a monument at the national Emergenc people who made Government in this country sition of responsibility, are the men of Training Center in Emmitsburg, MD known a possible. I hope my colleagues will join me in honor, integrity, discipline and courage, the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial. The sponsoring this resolution. who keep us free and liberty alive for us and monument pays tribute to America's firefight for our children. For me, when the last note Mr. Speaker, it is obviously too late to gain ers, who have been the bulwark of the Na the necessary 218 cosponsors to gain enact of taps ended, it was a moment of instant re dedication-to rededicate my life to the tion's civil defense effort since the foundin ment of this resolution in time for this April 15. memory of Art, the principles that he be days of our country. Throughout our history, However, I will soon introduce a new resolu lieved in and stood for as an American-a patriotic Americans have risked their lives ta tion for the week of 1988 that includes April free American. defend their communities against fire and dis 15. The American taxpayer deserves this rec KARL. asters. Therefore, it is only fitting to remembe ognition, and I hope we will give it to him. those who have given their lives unselfishly in Following is the text of the resolution: ADMIRAL ARTHUR STANLEY MOREAU, JR., U.S. service to their fellow man. H.J. RES. 225 NAVY On Sunday, October 12, 1986, the fifth Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep Admiral Arthur Stanley Moreau, Jr., U.S. annual Fallen Firefighters Memorial ceremony resentatives of the United States of America Navy Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval was held on the campus at the monument in Congress assembled, That the President Forces, Europe and Commander in Chief, site, honoring these who made the ultimate of the United States is authorized and re Allied Forces Southern Europe died of car sacrifice, the sacrifice of their life, in an effort quested to issue a proclamation designating diac arrest at the U.S. Naval Hospital, to save others during 1985. the week beginning April 12, 1987, as "Na Naples, Italy at 4:38 A.M. . pass surgery in 1977 he thought about retir Michael J. O'Neil, Chief Counsel, House HON. JOHN J. DUNCAN ing. Permanent Select Committee on Intelli OF TENNESSEE "But my doctor said to keep working and I thinks its been for the best. It has been gence. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 4. Moderator: Morton Rosenburg, Special good for my health." Wednesday, April 1, 1987 He leaving now because he has in enough ist, CRS American Law Division. years. Edward Correia, Chief Counsel and Staff Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, the Etowah En "I wanted to retire as soon as I could. I Director, Subcommittee on Administrative terprise accurately sums up the career of retir wanted to enjoy life." Practice and Procedure, Senate Committee ing general manager, Paul Sitzlar. Paul served But, he's not leaving without regrets. on the Judiciary. the Etowah Utilities Board for 37 years. "If I was younger I would like to stay on. Patrick M. McLain, Counsel, House Com The article follows: The job is interesting and demanding. It's mittee on Energy and Commerce, Subcom RED RETIRES AFTER 37 YEARS WITH EUB still enjoyable-most of the time." mittee on Ovesight and Investigations. What he will not miss is telephone calls in Charles Tiefer, Deputy General Counsel (By Richard McCoy) the wee hours of the morning. What he will to the Clerk of the House and Deputy Gen Paul "Red" Sitzlar's desk at the Etowah miss is the "involvement with things going eral Counsel, House Select Committee to In Utilities Board looks strange. It's clean. on." vestigate Covert Arms Transactions with It's usually cluttered with reports, files But, he plans to keep busy, He and his Iran. and whatever else a utilities general manag wife, Faye, plan to camp, travel and go to 1:30-3:00 -Panels: Top er needs. But he's getting ready to leave. UT football games. They have season tick ical Subjects. "I've given everybody everything they ets and make every home game. The Special Dimensions of Fiscal Oversight need," he explained. Friday he will retire They would like to tour the U.S., especial after 37 years with the cityowned utilities ly Hawaii and maybe Alaska. Moderator: Angela M. Evans, Specialist, department. Since 1971 he had been general He knows he has been lucky to have CRS Education and Public Welfare Divi manager. worked with one thing he really enjoys, sion. Sitzlar was born and attended school in electricity, even if he had had to put up Martha Grundmann, Analyst in Domestic Tellico Plains. From the earliest days elec with the problems of sewer, water and gas. Programs, House Committee on the Budget. tricity has always been a love of his. Rikki Sheehan, Staff Member, Subcom When he was 34 years old and working for mittee on Labor, HHS, and Education, himself as an electrician Frank Berry, then GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY Senate Committee on Appropriations. EUB general manager, asked him to come to Eugene F. Sofer, Budget and Appropria work in Etowah. tions Analyst, House Committee on Educa At first he was a linesman. He stayed on HON. WILLIAM 0. LIPINSKI the ground while others climbed the poles. tion and Labor. OF ILLINOIS Bayla White, Senior Budget Examiner in He was promoted and for the next four Education Branch, U.S. Office of Manage years he climbed the poles. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment and Budget. In 1955 there was another promotion. "I was made meter superintendent. I read the Wednesday, March 25, 1987 The Volatile Nature of Environmental meters." Oversight Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, as cochairman Ten years later he was named superin of the Democratic Council on Ethnic-Ameri Moderator: James E. McCarthy, Special tendent of the electric department. cans, I rise to pay tribute to the day-March ist, CRS Environmental and Natural Re Then, in January 1971, he was named sources Division. overall general manager of the utilities. 25, 1821-when Greek patriots rose up in re Richard Frandsen, Counsel, Subcommit Since he started with the EUB it has bellion against their Turkish oppressors. One tee on Oversight and Investigations, House grown, tremendously. hundred and sixty-six years later, many Ameri Committee on Energy and Commerce. In 1949 about 1 million kilowatt hours of cans of Greek descent still remember and Sue Morland, Executive Director, Associa electricity were sold. Now sales top 120 mil honor this most important and historic event. tion of State and Territorial Solid Waste lion kilowatt hours a year. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire in Management Officials. In 1955 there were 2,000 electric custom 1453, the Greek people lived for almost 400 Curtis A. Moore, Counsel, Senate Commit ers. Now there's twice that many. years under Turkish domination. But with cour tee on Environment and Public Works. Sitzlar likes to talk about the electric de partment. He says that if he had not age and conviction and after nearly 6 years of Resources for Oversight: Congressional Sup become EUB manager he would have liked war beginning in 1821, the Greek revolutionar port Agencies, Inspector General, and to have been manager of an electric coop ies finally won national independence from the Other Executive Branch Sources no gas, water or sewer. Sultan of the Turkish Empire. Moderator: Thomas W. Novotny, CRS If he couldn't do that he would have As a country committed to the ideals on Senior Specialist. stilled worked with electricity. which the Greeks based their rebellion, Amer Charles Dempsey, Management Consult "Electric work, that's what I like. That's ica provided much moral support and backing. ant . all I've ever known." President James Monroe, John Adams and Richard Schmidt, Scanlon, Hastings, and His biggest headaches have come from the sewer department. other prominent Americans at the time ex Schmidt . Roger Sperry, Senior Management Ana environmental regulations and maintenance Speaker, another American President, Harry problems. S. Truman, provided both moral and material lyst, GAO . working. Others have retired or died. all who live in our land. Mr. Speaker, I would James F. Fitzpatrick, Partner, Arnold and "I'm the last of the old ones." like to take this opportunity to convey my Porter. He's been through four general managers. Howard M. Messner, Assistant Adminis In addition to Berry, who hired him, there warmest wishes to those Greek Americans trator for Administration and Resources were C.E. McGee, J.G. Synder and Bill Hud who reside in the Fifth District of Illinois and to Management, Environmental Protection dleston. Sitzlar served as general manager all Americans of Greek descent throughout Agency. longer than any of the others. our Nation. 7738 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 1, 198 AMENDMENT TO IMMIGRATION CONGRESSMAN RICHARD H. HOME HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT LEHMAN HONORS MARCELLO LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE SALCIDO AS 1987 "LABOR HON. BILL RICHARDSON LEADER OF THE YEAR" HON. OLYMPIA J. SNOWE OF MAINE OF NEW MEXICO HON. RICHARD H. LEHMAN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA Wednesday, April 1, 1987 Wednesday, April 1, 1987 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ms. SNOWE. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I am plan Wednesday, April 1, 1987 ducing, along with a number of my colleagues ning to introduce an amendment to the State five bills concerning the Medicare horn Department authorization bill designed to Mr. LEHMAN of California. Mr. Speaker, health benefit. These bills address certain as assist former and present Cuban political pris am honored to recognize Marcello Salcido, a pects of home health care under Medicar oners in getting their freedom by permitting constituent of mine who has contributed a which have lately been weakened by incon visas to be issued to nationals of Cuba who great deal to the labor community in Fresno sistencies, insufficient communication, in are or were imprisoned in Cuba for political and to many of the people who work and creased denials, and insensitivity. I regar activities without regard to section 243(g) of know Marc as 1987's "Labor Leader of the these bills as links in a chain to strengthen the Immigration and Nationality Act. My Year." the home health benefit. amendment would exempt Cuban political I am pleased to see this award presented to Numerous factors have joined to increase prisoners from certain visa restrictions. The Marc because he has contributed a great deal the demand for home health care. As you are Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS] to the labor unions in the Central Valley, espe well aware, the elderly population is growing will not presently give visas to individuals who cially in the past 16 years as a recognized rapidly, especially the over-85 population. In are trying to enter this country from a third leader. In 1964, Marc was first introduced to addition, the new prospective payment system country. Cuban political prisoners who have the unions while working as an apprentice at a and the implementation of DRG's means that successfully left Cuba and made it to another supermarket in Reedley, which was a member patients are being released from hospitals "sicker and quicker." country such as Panama or Mexico are there of the former Amalgamated Meatcutters I believe that it was the intent of Congress fore denied visas to enter this country. This Union. In 1971, Marc was appointed business in voting for the prospective payment system action effectively turns these individuals back representative for the Amalgamated Meatcut that those discharged from hospitals more over to Castro-they have left Cuba with the ters Local and served as the recording secre quickly would be cared for in their own homes goal of achieving freedom in this country-and tary on the executive board. Following a through the provision of less expensive home then they are denied that freedom. The policy merger that brought the Amalgamated Meat health care services. However, we are now of this administration, designed purportedly to cutters and Retail Clerks Locals under the ju finding that the Department of Health and punish Castro backfires and the people who risdiction of the United Food and Commercial Human Services is limiting reimbursement for suffer are the Cuban political prisoners who Workers Union, Marc took on the job of presi home care in an arbitrary and capricious fash so desperately need our help. dent of the union. Today, the U.F.C.W. is the ion. Hearings held on human rights in Cuba late largest international union in the AFL-CIO and My first concern is that the elderly are not during the 99th session of Congress highlight represents a membership of 1.3 million. Marc receiving the medical care they need and to ed the dire circumstances of Cuban political has brought a great deal of experience to the which they are entitled. I am also concerned prisoners. Armando Valladares, a former long U.F.C.W. since the days of his apprenticeship that home health agencies, as secondary vic term Cuban political prisoner and author of a in a meatcutters shop in Reedley in 1969. tims of these increased denials, face the di poignant and disturbing book on his experi This award is a reflection of the appreciation lemma of either refusing services to many ill ences in Castro's prisons, stated that the of Marc's hard work. elderly who are of uncertain eligibility or bear most significant thing the United States can Marc Salcido is a leader that the Fresno ing the costs of care themselves. I am intro do for all Cuban political prisoners is to let community is proud of and is certainly some ducing five bills to address the problems them come to this country. My bill will ease one that we can look to for committed leader faced by both victims. passage into this country for a group of ship to our local labor groups. He has provid THE HOME HEALTH INFORMED CONSUMER ACT OF present and former Cuban political prisoners. ed growth and stability to local 126 by creat 1987 It is long past time for us to do so. ing an atmosphere in the union of coopera This bill provides for mandatory publication I originally offered this amendment to the tion. Marc believes that "proper communica and distribution of a booklet describing Medi Immigration Reform Act of the 99th Congress. tion is essential to making the members par care-reimbursed home care, including services It was incorporated into the original text of the ticipants rather than spectators of the collec covered, beneficiaries' rights, and the appeals process. Often potential patients have not legislation and passed the House. During the tive bargaining process and their union." His been provided detailed information on what House-Senate conference, it was turned into a commitment extends beyond local 126 to the Medicare home health benefit does and sense of Congress. It is good that the Con public service on committees such as the does not cover. This booklet would be made gress is on record as being for facilitating the State Human Rights Committee, chairman of available at hospitals, home health agencies, entrance of Cuban political prisoners into this Butchers and Employers Health and Welfare physicians' offices, senior centers, nutrition country-the INS, however, still has not been Trust Fund and executive board member of sites, and outpatient clinics. legally directed by the Congress to stop its the Fresno-Madera Counties Central Labor THE HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE CARE WAIVER practice of denying visas to Cuban political Council. EXTENSION ACT OF 1987 prisoners who have braved the odds and suc I join the Central Labor Council of Fresno This bill extends the waiver of liability for cessfully made it to other countries. This and Madera Counties in recognizing the denials based on services considered not amendment I am introducing today will be achievements of Marc Salcido and presenting medically necessary and reasonable or custo such a decisive step. I hope that it sees quick him with the 1987 "Labor Leader of the Year" dial to September 30, 1989. This would estab action, and I urge my colleagues to support it. award. Marc exemplifies rare qualities of lead lish a date consistent with the waiver exten ership of which the Fresno community, his sion for technical denials. Under the waiver of family and trade unionist colleagues can be liability, home health agencies with a denial proud. rate of 2.5 percent or less are paid for the denied services. The waiver is important to home health agenices because it allows a 2.5- percent cushion for error, meaning that home health agencies are not expected to be 100- percent perfect in their determination of Medi- EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7739 care eligibility. Home health and hospice Circumstances in Maine are a good exam strophic care, we must be aware of the impor agencies have faced loss of this waiver due to ple of the effects of this policy of limiting ben tant role that an effective home health care :an inconsistent application of Federal regula efits. Last September I held a hearing there to policy plays in strengthening the community ions. Loss of the waiver leads many agencies discover what difficulties Medicare benefici based provisions. Please join with me in sup o deny care when they are not completely aries and home health providers were experi porting this legislation to address some of the confident of reimbursement even if the patient encing. I found that agencies with no prior de problems facing elderly consumers of home ight reasonably deserve care. nials were having their claims denied at rates health care. THE HOME HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1987 of 20 percent or more. Currently HHA's in This bill requires fiscal intermediaries [Fl's] Maine have an average denial rate of 30 per to communicate with home health agencies cent, the highest denial rate in the country. CONGRATULATIONS TO LAKE [HHA's] within 7 days of receiving written or The initial impact of this rise in denials last LAND, FL, STUDENTS erbal communication from HCF A regarding a fall was to leave agencies "holding the bag" riodification, clarification, or any kind of policy for the cost of services already provided but interpretation which is not published in the not reimbursed by Medicare. One agency was HON.ANDY IRELAND Federal Register. This bill seeks to address denied 96 client claims totaling 1,208 visits in OF FLORIDA October 1986-as compared with eight client the internal procedures by which HCF A makes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES modifications and interpretations which are claims denied in August 1986. The October not subject to the Administrative Procedures denials for this one agency alone totaled ap Wednesday, April 1, 1987 ~ct [APA] and other rulemaking procedures. proximately $50,000. Mr. IRELAND. Mr. Speaker, I would like to There is concern that if this level of denials Home health advocates feel that HCFA and draw the attention of my colleagues to a most continues, it may result in the bankruptcy of a the Fl's make rules internally while HCFA significant occasion occurring in Florida's 10th maintains that it has not changed interpreta number of home health agencies, which will Congressional District. The music programs at tions of Medicare policy. Nevertheless, denial ultimately mean that fewer clients will be Lakeland High School and Southwest Junior rates have increased dramatically in Maine served. Further, the increased denial rate re nd have doubled nationally. This bill estab- sults in reduced service provision to the elder High School will receive awards from the John ishes a direct line of communication neces ly by home health agencies who are fearful Philip Sousa Foundation. It is unprecedented ary to address the need for better informa that their Medicare claims will be denied. Sta that two schools from the same area receive ion. tistics from Maine show that agencies are this recognition simultaneously. THE HOME HEALTH PROMPT RECONSIDERATION ACT screening their potential clients much more Lakeland High School will receive the OF 1987 closely; consequently, the Medicare caseload Sudler Flag of Honor and Southwest Junior This bill requires that Fl's make decisions for home health agencies has been reduced High will be awarded the Sudler Cup Award, on appealed denials-reconsiderations- by as much as 50 percent, patients receive both named after Chicago businessman and ithin 90 days. This bill also stipulates pay fewer visits, and are discharged sooner. arts patron Louis Sudler. The awards recog ment of interest on the amount of the claim in The problem, however, is not limited to nize sustained excellence over a number of question when the reconsideration decision Maine or even one region of the country. years. akes longer than 90 days. Currently Fl's take Indeed, the increase in home health care de One criteria for these awards is that the rom 45 days to a year to rule on appeals of nials has become a crisis of national propor concert band will have placed itself in situa denials of home health care reimbursement, tions. Nationally, HCFA statistics indicate that tions where there has been an opportunity for leaving the beneficiary uncertain as to wheth the percentage of home health agency claims evaluation by qualified persons or has been er services are covered by Medicare and leav denied rose from 1.2 percent in 1983 to over rated "superior" at State, regional, or national ing the home health agency with a cash flow 6 percent in 1986. The National Association levels in concert activities. problem while it waits for a decision on pay for Home Care conducted a nationwide survey The Sudler awards top a long list of ment. and found that 75 percent of all home health achievements for both schools' music pro THE HOME HEALTH MEDICAL NECESSITY STANDARDS care agencies report large increases in the grams. Lakeland High's wind ensemble was ACT OF 1987 number of elderly in their communities who chosen twice in 4 years to play at the Mid Currently many claims are denied on the are going without the home care they need. basis that the services provided were not To illustrate the problem, I quote from a west International Bank and Orchestra Clinic medically necessary or reasonable although a letter I received from a home health agency in in Chicago, which showcases top bands from physician had prescribed them. This bill: Odessa, TX: all over the world. No other Florida high (1) Puts the burden of proof on HCFA to • • • denial rate has gone from one per school band has been invited twice. show that the care was not medically reason cent or half of one percent to a 3-4 percent Southwest's symphonic band played at the able or necessary by using unbiased, expert denial rate. Not only do we face severe fi Mid-West in 1985, too, marking a first for a medical evidence; nancial troubles but we face moral and legal Florida junior high music group. (2) Gives physicians more control and in problems as well. • • • For example, one Lakeland High also set a State record this volvement in home health care; case involved a patient requiring a skilled year by having 25 students selected for 1987 (3) Encourages the Fl's to look at each nurse to change a foley catheter, monitor for signs and symptoms of concussion fol all-State bands. The school's marching band case on an individual basis, taking into ac lowing a fall, remove sutures and monitor played at the Tournament of Roses Parade in count particular circumstances for each indi episode of urinary tract infection. Agency Pasadena, CA, in 1985, and made a cameo vidual, rather than denying the visits and then was denied two skilled nurse visits that the appearance in an HBO film, "Long Gone," having the denial reversed after an appeal; intermediary termed not medically neces which will air this spring. (4) Addresses discrimination against individ sary. If agency staff fail to intervene in a Mr. Speaker, I would like to offer my con uals who have chronic illnesses as opposed patient's crisis, to monitor changes in pa gratulations to band directors at both schools, to acute. Medicare is supposed to cover acute tient's condition, then we could be put in Lakeland High's John Carmichael and South care; however, if an individual meets the nec the position of being charged with negli essary home health criteria of being under a gence by patient and patient's family and west's Frank Howes as well as to the current attending physician. • • •We have suffered physician's care, needing intermittent, skilled students and alumni who also should share in through Gramm-Rudman, delay in claims these achievements. Both schools are most nursing care and being homebound, then the processing time, change in intermediary, in individual should not be denied care. For ex creased paper workload, and now unjusti deserving of this tribute and I know that the ample, a person with congestive heart failure fied claims denial by intermediaries. It ap students' parents as well as the entire com occasionally falls into a medically unstable pears that HCFA can mandate any standard munity are extremely proud of this accom condition which requires skilled medical care. they wish. plishment. This bill would prohibit HCFA from denying I believe that Congress owes the 30 million Medicare coverage to this person solely be elderly of this Nation the Medicare benefits to cause congestive heart failure is considered a which they are entitled, no more, no less. chronic condition. Indeed, if ultimately we are to address cata- 7740 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 1, 1987w TRIBUTE TO MRS. ANGELA INSURANCE FAILURES PRESSURE STATES' BAIL more than all previous assessments sine LAROCCA OUT FuNDS 1980 combined. . because of financial problems, so the chelle schools and is a graduate of the West The organization counts 57 isolvencies demand on fund assessments is likely to chester Business School. Having successfully since 1984 a startling change from the recent past in which "five auto carriers continue to grow. completed the course requirements at the going under was considered a crisis," she In Pennsylvania-where the maximum as International Institute of Municipal Clerks at said. sessment is 2 percent of direct premium Syracuse University, she was certified as a More serious than the number of compa written-there is still some margin left, municipal clerk. nies going bust, however, is the unprece though it has shrunk as assessments have Committed to education and innovation, dented size of those that do. Nick A Verreso, skyrocketed. Mrs. LaRocca plans to study computers-the president of the PIA, estimated that there The 1985 Pennsylvania assessment of $41 path of the future-during her retirement. Her was $3 billion in insolvent companies; debt million was "greater than all prior assess interest in computers began after she installed that ultimately will have to be paid by the ments levied" added together, said Ron two word processors in her city hall office. funds. Chronister, deputy insurance commissioner. The biggest insolvency of them all-appar The 1986 assessment was higher still: $62 She appreciates the power of computers in ently the largest insurance insolvency in the voting process and intends to keep up million. history-is that of Mission Insurance Co. Chronister said that Pennsylvania actual with this rapidly advancing technology. and various subsidiaries, now entering liqui ly makes two assessments for the property Mrs. LaRocca has one daughter, Phyllis, dation. casualty fund, one for auto insurance and who is married to Victor Christiano. Her three California-based Mission is involvent by another for "all other" kinds of coverage. grandchildren, Victor, Terry, and Lisa-ages $448.1 million, and, according to Texas In There is plenty of room left in the auto 26, 24, and 20-also living in New Rochelle surance Commission Doyce Lee, "We believe assessment, he said. But in the other fund, and are all graduates of New Rochelle Public that most claims on these companies will be the maximum possible assessment last year Schools. I know her family is proud of her. We subject to the guaranty funds of the states." Each state and the District of Columbia was $54.5 million and the actual assessment certainly are. has a guaranty fund to cover policies writ was $43.5 million. We will miss Mrs. LaRocca when she ten by property and casualty insurers. Most, The Insurance Department hopes that spends the winter months at her Florida resi but not all, states have a similar fund to one major insolvency-that of Mutual Fire, dence, but she promises to always return in cover policies written by life and health in Marine & Inland Insurance Co. of Philadel the spring to her native New Rochelle which surers. phia-won't affect the guaranty fund at all, she calls "home." The property and casualty funds nearly because a rehabilitation is being attempted. all follow a model developed around 1970 by Should the Mission insolvency and others the National Association of Insurance Com ever exceed the fund's assessment limits, RISING TIDE OF INSURER missioners, in response to a brief wave of in Chronister says, claimants might have to INSOLVENCIES THREATENS solvencies of automobile insurance compa divvy up what was available one year and nies. wait for subsequent assessments to get the HON. JAMES J. FLORIO When an insurance company fails, the remainder. fund in each state calculates how much is Others wonder if the guaranty funds OF NEW JERSEY owed to its citizens and then assesses the ought to even try to reimburse the kinds of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other companies licensed in that state a pro corporate policyholders most affected by Wednesday, April 1, 1987 portional share of the amount. The Penn today's insolvencies, as opposed to the indi sylvania fund, for instance, would assess Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, the following arti viduals with automobile policies who first companies licensed in Pennsylvania to pay inspired the safety net. cle by Larry Fish in the Philadelphia Inquirer money owed to state residents from the provides an excellent account of the threat "I don't really think that the drafters of California insolvency. the guaranty fund system thought the com posed by a rising tide of insurance company In 1980, the total assessments for all the state funds were $12.4 million, according to merical lines would ever be a program," said insolvencies. The subcommittee on Com Marcus of the guaranty fund association. merce, Consumer Protection and Competitive the National Committee on Insurance Guar ness is currently investigating the huge Mis anty Funds. In 1984, when that number bal looned to $74.l million, the industry in its sion Insurance insolvency, referred to in the innocence considered "that was a real big article, as part of our broader study of industry assessment," said Richard J. Marcus, the solvency. Mr. Fish's article will provide Mem committee's executive secretary. bers of Congress with useful background on Things rapidly got worse: The 1985 assess this troubling situation. ment was a staggering $344 million, far April 1, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7741 GRAZING FEES ON PUBLIC public interest to charge a fee for livestock the United States, for its effectiveness in re LANDS grazing permits and leases on the public sponding to those in need of prompt emer land which is based on a formula reflecting gency care. Mr. Morrish himself has respond annual changes in the costs of production. HON. RON MARLENEE ed to over 20,000 emergency calls as a quali This concept of basing the formula on the fied emergency medical technician. OF MONTANA ability of livestock producers to pay is as true IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A member of several community organiza today as it was then. When livestock prices tions and a recipient of over a dozen distin Wednesday, April 1, 1987 are up and producers are able to pay more guished awards and commendations, Mr. Mor Mr. MARLENEE. Mr. Speaker, today I join the formula adjusts the fee upward. When the rish holds a special affection and concern for with 20 of my colleagues in introducing legis farm economy is depressed, the formula ad children. Indeed, he has dedicated an enor lation which would permanently reauthorize justs downward and producers pay less for mous amount of time and energy to such pro the grazing fee formula established in 1978 grazing their livestock on public lands. grams as the Special Olympics, the Ragamuf under the Public Rangelands Improvement It is no surprise then, that for the last sever fin Parade and Bridging the Gap for the Chil Act. This legislation establishes a formula al years the fee has adjusted downward to re dren, all of which attempt to involve young which sets grazing fees on a yearly basis ac flect the difficult economic times which farm people in activities which enrich and entertain. ers and ranchers have experienced. While cording to livestock market conditions as well In one particular youth council sports program, there continues to be tremendous economic as the cost of production. When prices re he demonstrated his versatility and stamina by disruption and harm to the livestock industry, ceived for livestock are down while prices serving, over a 15-year period, as president, the grazing fee charged by the Forest Service paid for farm supplies are up, the formula will vice president, secretary, treasurer, chief and Bureau of Land Management has not adjust the fee downward. When these factors umpire, football referee and team manager of contributed to this disruption. are favorable to livestock producers, the for the group. Mr. Speaker, recently there has been much mula will increase the fee ranchers pay for It is my privilege to bring the unselfish and debate about grazing livestock on public grazing livestock on public lands. meritorious accomplishments of Mr. Morrish to lands. Opponents of public lands grazing Mr. Speaker, the public lands are an impor the attention of my colleagues in the House. I claim that the public lands provide only 2 per tant part of our economy in the West. In Mon know they join me in commending the out cent of the grazing forage in the entire coun tana, the public lands account for one-third of try. Therefore even if we eliminated all of the standing service he has given his community the land area. In other Western States, the livestock from these lands, it would have a and the contributions he has made to the public lands account for up to two-thirds of minimal affect on the livestock industry. How social and cultural development of young the land. It is easy to understand then, that ever, those same people fail to realize that people in his area. the people who live and work in the West the public lands account for up to 60 percent need these lands to provide recreation, of the grazing in the Western States. In my JEWISH EXODUS IS timber, livestock grazing, and other multiple home district of Oregon, the small rural com uses. ENCOURAGING Livestock grazing on the public lands is a munities are socially and economically de particularly important use because many of pendent on livestock producers who use the the farms and ranches which are adjacent to public lands. HON. DUNCAN HUNTER Finally Mr. Speaker, I would add that ranch the intermingled Federal lands would not be OF CALIFORNIA viable economic units without the public lands; ers who use these public lands to produce food and fiber also provide a valuable service. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and without farms and ranches which use When they develop water for their sheep these public lands, there would not be a Wednesday, April 1, 1987 and cattle, wildlife have a new source of county tax base nor would there be much of Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, lllya Vaitsblit is water; when minerals such as salt and other an economy to support the small rural towns 69 years old. He is the only member of his nutrients are provided for livestock, the wildlife which exist in the West. family who survived the Holocaust. He has Mr. Speaker, in order to insure that these share in the additional supplements. In fact, never seen his only grandson and chances fragile western economies are not harmed, it from 1979 to 1983, permittees of the public are that he will never again see his son. He is is necessary to allow reasonable timber man lands contributed $14 million in rangeland im half blind and suffering from multiple sclerosis. agement on the public lands; it is necessary provements. Fortunately, his wife Inna, a retired pediatri to provide reasonable access for recreation; Mr. Speaker, the PRIA formula is a good cian, is able to care for this bedridden man. and . it is necessary that a reasonable fee is one. I encourage all of my colleagues to join In 1973 lllya retired from his job as a radio charged for the grazing of livestock on the me in supporting this fair and equitable legisla engineer because of failing health. He and his public lands. The formula that is established tion. family applied for an exit visa to Israel but by this legislation provides for a reasonable were refused because lllya had previous fee. TRIBUTE TO LARRY MORRISH access to classified material. Although their son was allowed to leave the Soviet Union, LIVESTOCK GRAZING ON HON. GUY V. MOLINARI lllya and Inna have been denied exit visas re PUBLIC RANGELANDS OF NEW YORK peatedly since 197 4. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We have been hearing a lot lately about Mr. HON. ROBERT F. (808) SMITH Gorbachev and his new policy-glasnost. But, Wednesday, April 1, 1987 Mr. Speaker, we must remember that there OF OREGON Mr. MOLINARI. Mr. Speaker, there is, in are over 400,000 people seeking to leave the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES every community, a select group of individuals Soviet Union. People like lllya and Inna who Wednesday, April 1, 1987 who care enough about their neighborhood to only want what we as Americans have every Mr. ROBERT F. SMITH. Mr. Speaker, I am labor tirelessly for improvements in the quality day-their freedom and the right to worship joining several of my colleagues in introducing of life in the area, particularly those that will and be with their family. legislation this week which would make per offer greater opportunities and assistance to Today's Jewish exodus is encouraging-I manent the formula used to determine fees children. Today, I rise to recognize one such pray it continues. But the fact remains that for the grazing of livestock on public range individual in the Bay Ridge portion of my dis aside from a few highly publicized releases, lands. trict, Larry Morrish. only 244 Soviet Jews have been allowed to In 1978 Congress passed the Public Range- The list of Mr. Morrish's accomplishments is leave the Soviet Union. Mr. Speaker, I believe land Improvement Act [PRIA] which author extensive and exemplary. He is a founding that if Mr. Gorbachev is serious about his ized the present fee formula. In the policy member of the Bay Ridge Volunteer Organiza glasnost policy he must allow more Soviet statement to PRIA, Congress made clear its tion [BRAVO], a highly praised volunteer am Jews to emigrate. intention in adopting the grazing fee formula: bulance service that is the largest and busiest For our part we must continue to show our To prevent economic disruption and harm in New York. BRAVO has received numerous support for the refuseniks and other Soviet to the western livestock industry, it is in the citations, including one from the President of citizens who long for freedom. I hope, Mr.
91 -059 0-89-21 , San Anto Mr. EVANS of Illinois, will conduct a hearing o HpN. G. V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY nio, Texas; recipient of Air Force Distin the status and concerns of women veterans. guished Service Medal; employed by Joint want to commend the gentleman for schedul OF MISSISSIPPI Hospital and Accreditation Commission. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MG Jeanne M. Holm, USAF Ronald Reagan. People born during the years 1917-21 bore and Social Security beneficiaries ended u THE WHITE HOUSE, the brunt of the benefit calculation change. with greater reductions in their benefits tha Washington, DC, March 26, 1987. This change created a disparity in benefits be were actually intended. I am delighted to send warm greetings to tween those born before 1917 and those born Under this new legislation, benefits woul everyone gathered to inaugurate the Duke after 1917. Ellington International Festival for the be computed under the old (1972) formul entire month of April in our Nation's Cap For several years, this change went unno and would be reduced by 3 percent. In addi ital. ticed. It was not until Abigail Van Buren spoke tion, benefits would be reduced an additiona The late Duke Ellington epitomized great out against the so-called notch effect in Sep 3 percent for each year of birth after 1916 ness in American music. His name has come tember 1983 that a large number of people This legislation would also include retroactiv to symbolize a richness in sound and orches born during those years became aware of this tration and high standards of musicianship. benefits for people affected by the notch. inequity. Since then, Congress has been be While some notch individuals might be His remarkably varied body of work attests sieged by letters from constituents affected by upset that this bill is not as comprehensive a to his musical genius, and his lasting contri the notch. Grassroots organizations have bution to American music has endeared him legislation in the 99th Congress, this new bil to music lovers the world over. been formed in many parts of the country, in cluding Iowa, Nebraska, California, Florida, is a reasonable proposal to put forward at thi I am delighted that Washingtonians will time. The estimated cost of the old notch leg honor Duke Ellington, their native son, with Pennsylvania, New York, and North Carolina. a month-long celebration. Nancy joins me in These groups have grown from a few inter islation was projected to be $243 billion ove extending our best wishes for a joyous and ested people to thousands of people. Groups, 1O years. The cost of the new legislation i memorable "Duke Ellington Month." God like Iowa's, have traveled to communities approximately $45 billion over 1O years. bless you. across the different States to inform people I hope my colleagues will take a seriou RONALD REAGAN. about the notch and what they should do to look at this new bill. It provides equity to notch individuals while ensuring the future solvenc OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, get it corrected. These grassroots coalitions Washington., DC. have also traveled to Washington, DC, to hold of the Social Security trust funds. This legisla PROCLAMATION-DUKE ELLINGTON MONTH rallies on the steps of our Nation's Capitol. tion also signals the willingness of several o APRIL 1987 The members of these grassroots coalitions us in Congress to work on a compromise Whereas, the month of April 1987 has are serious about seeking corrrection of the piece of legislation, such as this new bill, been designated as Duke Ellington Month in notch. They don't plan to let this issue die. which would finally make the Social Securi the District of Columbia; and Last year they worked hard to increase the System fairer for those people born during the Whereas, Edward Kennedy "Duke Elling number of cosponsors of Congressman ED years 1917-21. ton was born in the District of Columbia ROYBALL's notch bill, H.R. 1917. At the end of Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleague to and went on to become one of the most tal the 99th Congress, this bill had 17 4 cospon ented American composers of this century; join in cosponsoring this legislation and push and sors. This was a substantial increase over the ing for its passage. Whereas, during his long career, he re number of supporters from the 98th Congress. mained committed to the most rigorous However, it still wasn't enough to get Con standards of artistic excellence, yet always gress to address this issue. April 1, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7745 SHALL AMERICA BE DEFENDED?: Imagine if the newly inaugurated Ronald provided within 6 months after enactment of SDI DEPLOYMENT LEGISLATION Reagan had, in January 1981, politely request the legislation. ed Tip O'Neill's indulgence in cutting taxes, Together, these three bills will begin the reducing wasteful nondefense spending and necessary process of shifting the strategic de HON. JIM COURTER rebuilding America's military capabilities. The fense debate away from such obtuse issues OF NEW JERSEY thought is absurd on its face. as the broad versus narrow interpretation of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It is equally absurd for a serious minded the ABM Treaty, to the seminal national secu Wednesday, April 1, 1987 President to seek the acquiescence of his ad rity question of our time: Shall America be de versaries, either foreign or domestic, in provid fended against Soviet ballistic missiles? Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, I have recently ing for the common defense through early de It will no longer be possible for Members of introduced three bills which have as their logi ployment of strategic defenses. The American the House and the other body to vote cal underpinning the need to protect Ameri people want to be effectively defended "maybe" on strategic defense by endorsing a cans against the threat posed by nuclear bal against the Soviet ballistic missile threat, and lower funding level for SDI. My legislation is listic missiles of the Soviet Union. There is no they cannot understand why their Government not tied to any particular funding level for the greater vulnerability at this time than the total appears to have forsaken them. SDI Program; rather, it is directed toward the defenselessness of America in the face of the I have recently introduced two bills which, if fulfillment of a vital national security mission, Soviet ballistic missile force. Accordingly, enacted, would direct the Secretary of De which is the protection of our homeland. there is no higher obligation for the Congress fense to begin the process of deployment of The present defenselessness of the United than the deployment of systems that at least strategic defenses. A third bill would direct the States against ballistic missile attack is acute. begin to address this vulnerability. release of the ABM Treaty negotiating record, Accordingly, there is no cause more noble A little more than 4 years ago, President so that the American people can for the first and humane than the reduction and eventual Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Ini time understand the process by which U.S. elimination of this vulnerability. If we take our tiative [SDI] Program. This was not the begin strategic superiority was first compromised public and constitutional obligations seriously, ning of United States efforts to defeat ballistic and then irretrievably lost. then we must spare no effort in the service of missile attacks, for we had briefly deployed a The first bill, H.R. 1849, would simply direct this cause. rudimentary SDI system in the mid-1970's at the Secretary of Defense during fiscal year Grand Forks, ND, only to deactivate the 1988 to initiate the development of strategic system after a few months of operation. Nei defense systems that could be deployed be THE lOOTH ANNIVERSARY OF ther was it the beginning of a defensive arms ginning in 1993. The legislation would require THE HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM race or the militarization of space, for that oc that these strategic defenses be survivable, curred in the late 1940's when the Soviet capable of protecting wide areas, cost-effec Union began working on strategic defenses. tive against likely Soviet countermeasures and HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL After 4 years of research and some spec compatible with future, more advanced strate OF NEW YORK tacular demonstration projects, the promise of gic defense systems. System details and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stratgic defense remains just that-a promise. costs are not specified in the legislation. The Wednesday, April 1, 1987 The technology and the funding exist to Secretary of Defense would be required to deploy strategic defenses, but the indispensa supply this detailed information to the Con Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, it has been ble element of political will is almost com gress, so that intelligent decisions could be brought to my attention that Friday, March 13, pletely absent. The councils of excessive cau made about the future direction of the SDI marked the 1OOth anniversary of the founda tion are dominating national security decision Program. tion of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of the city making at this critical juncture in the Reagan The second bill, H.R. 1850, is considerably of New York. In its time the largest and most administration's tenure. The boldness and more detailed. It draws heavily upon the reknown Jewish orphanage in America, the vision required to manage a transition to a de recent report entitled "Missile Defense in the asylum was dedicated to helping discharged fense-dominated national security strategy are 1990's," which was issued by the George C. orphans find a home, a job, and a normal life nowhere in sight in the executive branch. Marshall Institute [GCMI]. The GCMI identified in the community. The Soviet leadership, so astutely attuned a comprehensive, multilayered strategic de In an age where social welfare agencies to the sounds of a wounded Presidency, has fense system which could begin deployment were nonexistent, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum escalated its propaganda and arms control at in 1993, cost approximately $120 billion upon was a shining example of the power of com tacks on the SDI Program. At the same time, completion and provide more than 90 percent passion. During the years of its operation the they are introducing new strategic defense effective defense against an attack by the asylum sheltered nearly 36,000 children, in systems of their own, to the tune of $20 billion entire Soviet ballistic missile arsenal of 10,000 cluding such well known figures as Art Buck per year. Their time-tested negotiating tactic warheads. wald, Edwin Franco Goldman, and Harold what's ours is ours and what's yours is negoti The legislation directs the Secretary of De Touish. able-is very much in evidence and is produc fense in the next fiscal year to begin pursuit of Mr. Speaker, today, as we face a plethora ing rich rewards. the GCMI deployment objectives for SDI. of social ills on an unprecedented scale, it is Mikhail Gorbachev denounces SDI as a Work would begin on the terminal, midcourse only fitting that we make note of the humani "voracious monster" based on a fundamental and space-based missile interceptors, along tarian spirit that fostered the creation of the ly inhumane concept, and the congressional with the necessary sensors and radars to sup Hebrew Orphan Asylum. It is for this reason majority signal their concurrence by cutting $2 port the strategic defense architecture. The that I am pleased to make note of the 1OOth billion from the President's fiscal year 1987 Secretary of Defense would be required to anniversary of this institution. We must honor SDI request. The message to the Soviets is report annually on the progress of the SDI de the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, and never forget · that the anti-SDI propaganda campaign is well ployment activities and to request the neces the valuable lessons that it has to offer us worth the cost required to conceive and sus sary supplemental funding to support the SDI about what we can do for the welfare of our tain it. deployment program. fellow man. The question remains: shall America be de The third bill, H.R. 1851, directs the Presi fended? The executive branch has through its dent to provide to the Congress the entire ne OIL: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS inaction on SDI already provided its answer. If, gotiating record of the ABM Treaty of 1972, according to the conventional wisdom, the including all relevant transcripts, memoranda "inside the Beltway" coterie will not be so of conversation and other documents. Be HON. LEE H. HAMILTON kind as to grant the administration permission cause much of this material is classified for OF INDIANA to lead the free world out of its vulnerability to political reasons and not for legitimate nation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ballistic missiles, then SDI deployment must al security reasons, the legislation also directs surely be a lost cause upon which it is sheer the President to justify any ABM Treaty mate Wednesday, April 1, 1987 folly to expend any further precious political rial that he insists upon providing in classified Mr. HAMIL TON. Mr. Speaker, I would like to capital. form. All the ABM Treaty material must be insert my Washington report for Wednesday, 7746 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 1, 198 April 1, 1987' into the CONGRESSIONAL mainly the Middle Eastern countries, for 60 THANKS TO OUR NEW YORK RECORD: percent of its needs. Heavy dependence on FRIENDS While the sharp decline in world oil prices Mideast supplies is highly risky. That region over the past few years has provided much contains over half of the known global oil re HON. HOWARD COBLE needed relief to consumers, it has had the un serves, compared to only 4 percent in the fortunate consequence of leading to higher United States. The prospect of higher prices OF NORTH CAROLINA U.S. oil consumption and increased reliance and increased foreign dependence could have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on imported oil. That raises important ques grave economic and political consequences Wednesday, April 1, 1987 tions about our future energy prospects. Are for our country. we again in for long gas lines, as during the Although estimates of future petroleum Mr. COBLE. Mr. Speaker, all of the sno and rain we received this winter has mad 1973 oil embargo? Or, are energy supplies supply and its price vary widely, I believe that and prices likely to stabilize over the next few it is prudent to develop U.S. energy policy on some of us forget about the drought we expe rienced last summer. But the people in th decades? the basis of the more conservative estimates, Sixth District of North Carolina have not for My view is that, despite the plentiful oil especially when the smooth functioning of our gotten. We suffered through one of the wors supply now, we still face a dangerous situation economy is dependent upon a steady supply combinations of drought and high tempera and are headed toward new oil shortages if of oil. As a result, we should develop a realis tures this century. we become complacent about America's tic energy policy which places greater empha We were able to survive the drought-i future energy needs. A closer look at our sis upon long-term needs-one that is now some cases-through the kindness and gen present energy sources bears this out. Oil, swayed by the short-term availability of a rela erosity of others. One group of people fro two-thirds of which is used to meet our trans tively cheap energy supply. upstate New York will come to my district thi portation needs, constitutes 43 percent of For our immediate oil problem, several ac summer to be honored. I would like to tak total U.S. energy use, coal: 23 percent, gas: tions are needed. First, the strategic petrole 22 percent, nuclear: 6 percent, and hydroelec this opportunity to thank these gentlemen fo um reserve should continue to be filled as a tric: 5 percent. All, except oil, are basically their efforts. guard against an energy emergency. For the available domestically, and supplies are ex Mr. Bruce Norris of Marcellus, NY, saw th past few years, the President has recom pected to be stable for years to come. Oil, problems his fellow farmers in the South wer mended against filling this reserve quickly in however, is our real problem. We currently facing last summer. A mild, wet spring in Ne rely heavily on foreign sources for oil, and that order to save Federal revenue. In light of the York had left him and other upstate farmer dependence is expected only to increase. For lower oil prices and the looming shortage, the with excess hay. In July 1986, Mr. Norris con the long haul, we clearly need to reduce our Congress rejected these recommendations. tacted Mr. Glenn Crutchfield of Oak Ridge, consumption of oil and move toward develop Second, while greater U.S. oil exploration and NC, which is in my district. Mr. Crutchfield ing a sound energy policy. production should continue to be pursued, acted as the liaison between the North Caroli Several potentially negative trends have de they should not be seen as the only answer to na farmers who needed relief and the New veloped as a result of the lower oil prices. our difficulties. Most experts suggest that few, York people who were so anxious to lend a U.S. oil consumption is again on the rise, in if any, domestic reserves are undiscovered helping hand. Thanks to the efforts of Messrs. creasing by 5 percent over the last 3 years. and that the cost of producing from some Norris and Crutchfield, much-needed hay Our oil imports last year increased 16 percent known reserves is quite high. While major tax found its way to farms in Guilford, Alamance, from 1985, and the United States now imports incentives have been used in the past to pro and Rockingham Counties. The story did not about 38 percent of its oil needs, about the mote exploration, I am not convinced that end there, however. same as preembargo levels. At the same they will be as effective in the future. Modest Mr. Kenneth Lincoln of Interlaken, NY, and time, our domestic production has declined. tax incentives from the Government, with pri Pastor David Ashby of Tully, NY, saw what Because oil prices remain relatively cheap mary reliance on market forces, seem the Mr. Norris was doing and decided to get in worldwide, about $18 a barrel, and because better approach. Finally, to the extent that im volved, also. These gentlemen helped in get the cost of getting American oil out of the ports must continue, alternate suppliers ting the truckers lined up who would transport ground is higher than in any other major pro should be sought. Our aim should be to have the hay from New York to North Carolina. Mr. ducing country, U.S. production has fallen a balanced set of foreign suppliers, continuing Lincoln set up a jug in a local store to collect from 9 million barrels a day in 1985 to about our past efforts to move away from heavy reli donations from other concerned residents. 8.3 million barrels a day now. In 1981, some ance on Middle Eastern oil producers in favor And Pastor Ashby convinced Church World 4,000 drilling rigs were operating in the U.S. of more stable suppliers such as Canada and Services to help pay for the costs of the By 1986, the total was down to 800. Similarly, Mexico. trucks. the amount invested in new exploration has Our long-term efforts must recognize the In all, it was a coordinated effort that suc declined by one-half, from $33 billion in 1985 limited prospects of oil, either domestic or for cessfully helped alleviate a serious situation to only $16 billion in 1986. eign, in meeting overall U.S. energy needs. thanks to these fine gentlemen. Many of Accompanying the increases in consump We must first renew our commitment to con those from New York who were involved in tion and oil imports has been a decline in our servation. Various conservation measures put this undertaking will be coming to the Sixth conservation efforts. As memories of the into place in recent years will continue to District of North Carolina in early July. The energy crises of the 1970's have begun to produce savings, but more needs to be done. people they so graciously helped last summer fade, conservation measures have started to While individual decisions and market forces want to personally show their thanks. lose their appeal. In addition, the Reagan ad can play an important role in shaping our con We look forward to welcoming our New ministration, driven both by stringent budget servation efforts, especially in the use of our York friends this summer. In the meantime, concerns and by the view that market forces autos, the Federal Government can also thanks to everyone who helped us overcome should operate, has reduced substantially the assist in promoting conservation, such as by a natural disaster. In these troubling times, it Federal Government's energy conservation continuing to support weatherization projects, is good to know that we Americans can pull programs. industrial efficiency initiatives, and research on together to help each other out. I know the Most experts do not believe that the world alternative vehicle fuels. At the same time, we people of the Sixth District wish to offer their glut of oil is likely to continue for very long. Al should continue to seek alternate sources of thanks to a group of people in New York who though the Organization of Petroleum Export energy. Solar energy needs to be given a went to a lot of trouble and expense to help ing Countries [OPEC] has had difficulty in sta greater degree of support. In recent years, re us last summer. We will not forget their ef bilizing production of some of its member search funding in this area has decreased, forts. countries as a way to raise prices, increased and ·it must be restored. We must also contin And to my colleagues, Congressmen consumption in the industrialized world may ue our efforts at improving clear coal technol GEORGE WORTLEY and FRANK HORTON, I do what OPEC has not been able to accom ogy. Greater attention to this alternate energy would like to take this opportunity to let them plish on its own. Some fear that, by the mid- source is especially important, since our know that they represent some truly generous 1990's the United States will be dependent Nation possesses more than one-fourth of the and thoughtful people. Congressmen WORT upon politically unstable foreign suppliers, world's coal reserves. LEY and HORTON can be justifiably proud of April 1, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7747 their constituents. The people who helped us surtax imposed in 1968, while there was none Please, examine the facts and give last summer have gained our respect and in 1967. Newman a chance. I am certain that you will gratitude the old fashioned way-they earned The effect of the agreement between the become convinced, as I am, that he has a it. partnership and the IRS was to retroactively right to take his invention to the American create phantom "income" taxable to the marketplace. Teichgraebers in 1967. In addition, because PERSONAL EXPLANATION the T eichgraebers were not partners in 1968 they could not reap the benefits of the "rolled BUDGET RESOLUTION RULE HON. WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER over" deductions in that year. Although the OF CALIFORNIA T eichgraebers were taxed on this phantom HON. WILLIAM H. GRAY III IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "income" for 1967, they never had the right to OF PENNSYLVANIA receive it from the partnership. Thus, they suf Wednesday, April 1, 1987 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fered an economic loss as well as taxation on Wednesday, April 1, 1987 Mr. DANNEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, I regret to nonexistent (in their case) income. announce that I was unable to attend the ses The tax court characterized this result as a Mr. GRAY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, sion yesterday, March 31, due to a longstand "harsh and mechanistic" application of the pursuant to Democratic Caucus Rule 35, I ing c0mmitment away from the District of Co subchapter K partnership rules, but felt con would like to advise the Members that I may lumbia. I subsequently missed four votes. Had strained to find for the Commissioner. The request, on the behalf of the Committee on I been present, I would have voted: counsel for the Commissioner also admitted the Budget, a modified closed rule for the Nay on approving the Journal of Monday, that the result for which he was arguing was consideration of the concurrent resolution on March 30; "harsh," but required by the mechanical appli the budget for fiscal year 1988. Nay on the vote to override the President's cation of the partnership tax rules. It is impor veto of H.R. 2, the surface transportation au tant to note that the tax court has no equity thorization; UNIVERSITY RESEARCH jurisdiction and could not hold for the Teich FACILITIES ARE OBSOLETE Yea on suspending the rules and passing graebers based on the unfairness of the situa House Concurrent Resolution 34, concerning tion. the continued violations by the Soviet Union On June 24, 1981, the Teichgraeber family HON. ROBERT A. ROE of its international human rights obligations, paid $171, 133 to the IRS. Subsequently, the OF NEW JERSEY especially the right to emigrate; and Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nay on suspending the rules and passing determination of the tax court, and the U.S. Wednesday, April 1, 1987 House Concurrent Resolution 121, to com Supreme Court denied certiorari in this matter. mend the member states of the European Since the T eichgraebers have exhausted all Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker, today I am introduc Community for the role which the Community legal recourse, private legislation is their only ing, along with 13 of my colleagues, a bill to has played in the development of the close available means of redress. help revitalize the Nation's academic research relationship between the United States and Mr. Speaker, I do not take lightly the many facilities. The bill, entitled, "The University Re Europe, on the occasion of the 30th anniver responsibiities and time constraints of this search Facilities Revitalization Act of 1987" sary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome House. Yet, in this instance, I must add to the authorizes a program in the National Science which established the European Community. work of this body by requesting a remedy for Foundation [NSF] for the repair, renovation, or a family that has been wronged. Given the replacement of laboratories and other re search facilities at universities and colleges. PRIVATE RELIEF ACT draconian application of the subchapter K partnership rules, and the exorbitant amount In 1985, Dr. William B. Baker, vice president of money which the T eichgraebers paid to the for Budget and University Relations of the HON. STEWART B. McKINNEY IRS, I urge prompt consideration of this pri University of California, in testimony before the Science and Technology Committee OF CONNECTI.CUT vate relief act. stated: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES If this Nation is to educate its citizens and Wednesday, April 1, 1987 GRANT PATENT TO JOSEPH W. create the knowledge that is the technologi Mr. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, for the fourth NEWMAN FOR HIS ENERGY cal foundation of our economy, our security, consecutive Congress, I am introducing a pri MACHINE and our way of life, we must replace higher education's backlog of obsolete scientific vate relief bill on behalf of the Teichgraeber equipment and related facilities. Just as the family of Greenwich CT. This legislation seeks HON. BOB LIVINGSTON Federal Government finds it in the national to remedy a gross inequity entirely unanticipat OF LOUISIANA interest to repair the country's deteriorat ed by Congress and resulting from an inflexi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing public roads, bridges, and harbors, the ble application of the subchapter K partner Federal Government must assist higher ship rules of the Internal Revenue Code. Wednesday, April 1, 1987 education to replace its own worn and wear The T eichgraeber case involves partners in Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, today I have ing out infrastructure. a stock brokerage firm. In 1967, certain part introduced legislation instructing the Secretary We are placing ever greater demands upon ners, the T eichgraebers, left the firm and their of Commerce to grant a patent to Joseph W. our research universities to use new techno share of the capital was computed, based Newman for his energy machine. Far too few logical abilities to produce breakthroughs in upon what the partnership then believed to be of my colleagues know the true story behind areas such as microelectronics, manufacturing its profits and losses for 1967. The Teich this American's struggle to obtain the legal research, and biotechnology to enhance our graebers were not members of the partnership rights to his own invention. It is a story of bu economic competitiveness. Yet, we cannot be in 1968. reaucratic bungling, thousands of wasted tax sure of the ability of our colleges and universi Close to 6 years after the Teichgraeber left payer dollars, and an appalling disregard by ties to deliver on our demands. Universities the partnership, the partnership and the Inter the U.S. Patent Office of normal patent proce are finding themselves ·with aging facilities, ob nal Revenue Service (IRS) agreed to "roll dures. solete equipment and shortages of both facul over" from 1967 to 1968 a substantial amount I am deeply disturbed by this situation, and I ty and students. A 1986 study by NSF of 165 of deductions originally claimed by the part urge my colleagues to look beneath the sur doctorate-granting institutions showed that nership in 1967. These deductions were taken face at the legal issues involved in this case. more than half of the research facilities at into account in computing the T eichgraeber This man may have an invention which could these universities were built or renovated capital in 1967. The partnership benefited change the world and dramatically improve before 1970. Lack of modern facilities and in from this agreement with the IRS because its the quality of our lives. If he does, it is we strumentation not only reduces the effective income in 1968 that was higher than in 1967. the American people-who are the victims of ness of current research efforts, but also dis There also was a surtax imposed in 1968 that the Patent Office's stubborn and foolish be courages many of our recent graduates from was higher than in 1967. There also was a havior. pursuing careers in university teaching and re- 7748 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS search, when the latest research instrumenta vate sources. Working together in this manner take over the controversial post of Nationa tion is available to them in the private sector. will ensure that Federal dollars are matched Intelligence Officer for Latin Amer We are not alone in recognizing that sci by all those who stand to gain from improve ica on the elite inter-agency panel tha turned out the intelligence community' ence and technology are critical to our future. ment in our facilities for performing research top-secret surveys known as Estimates. H Other nations recognize this and are investing and training future scientists. also knew that Horton was working on in science. Japan has led other nations in the Future advances in science and technology analysis of Mexico and the bagman wante investment of research and scientific and will depend on the best available facilities and to make one thing clear: Mexico was on th technical manpower for the past 15 years. instrumentation. The University Facilities Revi brink of collapse. To illustrate his point, h The emergence of Japan as a major econom talization Act is designed to reverse the trend somberly recounted the example of hi ic power in world commerce is a direct result toward obsolete university research facilities Mexico City business partner who was s of their strong investment in research. The and assure that the university environment is worried about the situation that he kept hi European Community is also banding together private plane constantly warmed up at th conducive to high-quality research and educa airport in case he had to get out in a hurry with programs like EUREKA and ESPRIT to tion. H.R. 1905 is a modest beginning but far The notion of a Lear jet purring on th reverse the trend of lagging technical capabil from the total solution. Therefore, I hope intro tarmac, racking up boggling fuel bills, tick ity. duction of this bill will encourage the Con led Horton's instinct for the absurd, but h In February 1986, the White House Science gress to consider additional solutions to be didn't give the story a second thought. Less Council Panel on the Health of U.S. Colleges administered by other agencies such as the than a year later, however, he recalled it and Universities released their report entitled National Institutes of Health, Department of neither humorous nor harmless. For him, i "A Renewed Partnership." The Council Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space had become omniously symptomatic of wha stressed the deteriorating health and capabil Administration, Department of Defense, and he saw happening at the CIA. Furious and ity of our universities and stated that the re disillusioned, he had quit after CIA Director Department of Energy, who share the respon William Casey ordered a report on Mexico verse of this trend was critical to the retention sibility to maintain a strong university science rewritten to depict that country as on the of our international leadership in science and base essential to our national future. verge of toppling, a conclusion Horton be technology. The report recognized that the Today's concerns over the costs of facilities lieved there was no intelligence evidence to Nation found itself in this dilemma when it im and equipment stem from a reluctance in the support. There were only allegations as posed budgetary restrictions on universities. past to recognize these costs as an integral flimsy as the Republican bagman's. Once, Forced to set priorities, universities chose to and essential part of research. Buildings and when Horton protested there was no data to protect their human resources at the expense instruments do not figure in press conferences back up the doomsday scenario, a senior in of facilities. But, it is now clear that this is telligence official cited a story he had heard heralding the newest scientific breakthroughs. from his Mexican maid. As Horton recently equally destructive to the synergism that must But, without them, there would be no break exist if science is to be successful. · wrote in the International Journal of Intel throughs to improve the quality of life for all of ligence and Counterintelligence: "In the Embodied in H.R. 1905 are four principles I us. I believe that this legislation represents an case of Mexico, a half-baked theory had feel are essential in addressing the university appropriate Federal response to a truly nation taken on the authority of gospel." infrastructure problem. First, funds allocated al problem. I invite my colleagues to join me in Within the CIA it was no secret that a for the conduct of research are not diverted to cosponsoring H.R. 1905. hidden agenda lay at the heart of the bitter modernize facilities. Rather, the bill creates a debate over the Mexican Estimate. Accord facilities fund within the National Science ing to other intelligence officials, Casey was Foundation. By setting aside specific dollars WHAT DID WE KNOW AND trying to win the official imprimatur of the WHEN DID WE KNOW IT? intelligence community on plans to put the for facilities and laboratories, the fund is de screws to a country that had become a med voted solely and entirely to upgrading, ren dlesome foreign policy opponent. At the ovating, and replacing university research fa HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. time, the government of President Miguel cilities. OF MICHIGAN de la Madrid was the most vociferous critic Second, the solution proposed is a long IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES among the United States' Latin allies of the administration's Central American policy. It term investment in our future. By authorizing Wednesday, April 1, 1987 funds for a 10-year period, the facilities revital vehemently disapproved of aid to the con ization act ensures stable and continued sup Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, both the CIA tras and was a prime mover behind the Con tadora process, the proposal for a negotiat port that will allow for more efficient planning and the NSC were armed with very question able Presidential "findings" authorizing clan ed peace with Nicaragua that was once and use of the new resources. The long-term again showing signs of life. With official security of our Nation's research enterprise re destine action against the Sandinistas. The proof that Mexico was a menace-another quires a program which assures that university creation of the Contras was based on a dis Iran on America's doorstep threatening research facilities are current and modern at torted CIA assessment that was suspect in even U.S. security with its instability all times. Congress but only drew an expression of con Casey reportedly hoped to win approval for Third, the proposal provides for merit review cern. In the year's to follow, the Contra oper economic and covert actions to destablize its to maintain, encourage, and exploit the long ation took on a life of its own. Marci McDon recalcitrant government. "There was a great established excellence of our research and ald's very excellent article capsulizes the his deal of resentment of Mexico for standing tory of Contra-United States relations as the in our way on Central American policy," educational institutions. Dr. Frank Press, presi says Horton. "There was almost a desire to dent of the National Academy of Sciences, in Contra tail wagging the administration dog and see Mexico punished." testimony before our committee stated, "What brings fresh insight to a historical perspective Horton has been one of the few CIA offi peer review can do is to assure that any facili on the CIA's role in foreign policy under the cials to quit in protest over the corruption ty finally selected merits its support in terms Reagan administration. of the intelligence process by what he terms of the overall health of scientific research." In The article follows: the administration's "zealotry." Having al addition, to ensure that all colleges and uni [From the Washington Monthly, March ready earned retirement, it was a luxury he 1987] could afford. In the two years since his exit, versities have an equal ability to compete for other top officials have left the agency in this pool of money, the bill requires that 15 WOULD You BELIEVE .•• IRANIAN discreet disgruntlement over the direction percent of the authorization in any fiscal year MODERATES? Casey has moved the CIA. Still more contin be made available for awards to universities Fidel Castro with Mafia hitmen and explod attack on Pearl Harbor. Without a central med Mossadegh, who had just nationalized ing cigars. "I took a conscious decision that ized inteligence organization, the Fortress the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. That brisk if I tried to stonewall, the agency would be America over which Franklin Delano Roose 1953 covert operation, which reinstalled the shattered," he says. "Congress was going to velt presided had not put together the hints young, uncertain Reza Shah Pahlavi on the pass a law saying, 'Thou Shalt Never Do that scattered U.S. military agents had been Peacock Throne, marked the CIA's first Any Covert Action Again.' " In the end, picking up about Japan's intentions. As soon paramilitary victory. So emboldened was Di after what Colby calls "50 pages of sancti as the war was over, Harry Truman moved rector Allen Dulles by the triumph that mony," the committee concluded that-if quickly to fill that vacuum. before it was complete he had optimistically used only when "absolutely essential to na The CIA's mission was sketched out in christened his next plot Operation Success: tional security" and when the operations only a few paragraphs. of the 1947 National the ouster of Guatemala's democratically "in no case" contradicted official U.S. Security Act. It was so vague that certain elected president, Jacobo Arbenz, who had policy-meddling in the internal affairs of factions of the intelligence community peri expropriated 400,000 acres of largely fallow other nations should not be outlawed. odically have demanded a detailed charter, banana plantations belonging to the United Colby, an old covert operations hand, draws either to protect the agency or rein it in. Fruit Company. himself up to full stature in his chair as he 7750 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 1, 198 recalls it. "I consider that a full victory," he ran could have predicted-the looming body to the good old days," says a forme says. shadow of an ayatollah on the horizon. CIA employee. "He generated a lot of nos The CIA that Admiral Stansfield Turner That lapse was not just a case of failing to talgia and everybody loved it. The trouble i inherited after Jimmy Carter's election in know that was happening beneath the that nostalgia was probably not the bes 1976 was an organization that had been gilded surface of Iran; it was also a case of thing for the agency, because, of course, th sorely discredited. But the furor over covert not wanting to know. For under Carter, in a times had changed." actions had in some ways provided a distrac different way than would occur under In a speech to New York's metropolita tion from the more fundamental intelli Casey, intelligence had been politicized. Ac Club in May 1985, William Casey aired hi gence failure that the months of damaging cording to the 1979 House Intelligence Com global perspective. Privy to the most sophis testimony had laid bare. mittee report, there was "conscious suppres ticated data and analysis in the Wester In a 1975 Harper's article, former CIA an sion of unfavorable news, but indirectly ... world, he nonetheless blamed "Marxist-Len alyst Sam Adams detailed how the Penta From an analysts' perspective, until recent inist policies and tactics" and the Sovie gon and the Johnson administration had ly you couldn't give away intelligence on Union's "subversive war" for "famine i purposely underestimated Vietcong Iran. Policymakers were not asking whether Africa, pestilence through chemical and bio strength during the war. They had both ig the Shah's autocracy would survive indefi logical agents in Afghanistan and Indo nored and suppressed Adams's figures that, nitely; policy was premised on that assump China, war on three continents, and deat if revealed, would have forced Lyndon John tion." everywhere." In a blanket indictment h son into a politically suicidal choice-either That humiliating blind spot produced one charged that "in the occupied countries vastly increase the draft or pull out of Viet swift result. With its national; pride held Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Angola, nam altogether. When Adams tried to cor ransom in Teheran, the American public Nicaragua-in which Marxist regimes have rect the misguided figures, he met hostility, wanted action. With that swing of the pen been either imposed or maintained by exter first within the CIA, where he received dulum, Carter launched a volley of oper nal force ... has occurred a holocaust com threats of dismissal, then later from the ations-all covert, including the botched parable to that which Nazi Germany inflict White House itself. Delta mission to rescue the embassy hos ed in Europe some 40 years ago." On top of Adams's revelations came leaks tages that ended in technical breakdown That world view, unsullied by fact or of secret testimony from the 1975 House and death in the desert. In the bitter Cen nuance and firmly rooted in Wold War 11- Select Committee hearings on intelligence. tral American debate, few critics are aware merely substituting the Soviets for the They chronicled six other glaring intelli that the initial covert action against Nicara Nazis as the villians-had won Ronald Rea gence flops-key moments when the CIA gua's Sandinista regime was launched in the gan's ear. Casey saw his task as not simply and its sister agencies were caught napping. fading days of the Carter administration. supplying the president the information With its vast resources the U.S. hadn't fore NO SISSIES and analyses necessary to forge foreign seen Ho Chi Minh's bloody Tet Offensive, a It was into this abruptly changed climate policy; as a trusted conservative strategist turning point in the war: the 1968 Russian that William Casey loped in 1981. With a and the first DCI ever awarded a seat in the Invasion of Czechoslovakia; the 1973 Middle mandate from the 1980 Republican plat Cabinet, he became a player in formulating East war; the 1974 military coup in Portu form as well as from Reagan himself, Casey policy. Some observers saw in that distinc gal; the overthrow of Archbishop Makarios set out to iriject new muscle and life into tion an inherent conflict of interest. Was in Cyprus; or India's 1974 nuclear test, the the ailing CIA. For years the millionaire tax Casey representing the CIA's case to the first proof that a Third World country had lawyer had been considered an "intelligence president, or was he imposing the presi an atomic bomb. In the case of the Indian groupie," avidly frequenting the fringes of dent's policy on the agency? Stansfield atomic blast, a Defense Intelligence analysis the espionage world, and under Gerald Turner had believed that "the ethic of intel had reported only months earlier that the Ford, sitting on the President's Foreign In ligence is independence from policy," but prospect of that nation pursuing a nuclear telligence Advisory Board. But he drew his Casey and his White House allies spurned weapons program soon was "not likely." As main inspiration for the job from the under that "traditionalist" view as out of date. for the surprise of the Yom Kippur invasion cover derring-do he had savored as one of They made no secret of their determination of Israel, the report concluded: "The Mid "Wild Bill" Donovan's trusted OSS lieuten to make intelligence better serve decision East war gave the intelligence community a ants in wartime London, dropping agents makers. That radical shift occurred as real test of how it can perform when all its behind enemy lines and basking in Dono Casey led the CIA into a key role at the cut best technology and human skills are fo van's credo: "In an age of bullies, we can't ting edge of secret diplomacy. Covert ac cused on a known world 'hot spot.' It afford to be sissies." tions were becoming not just hand-maidens failed.'' Casey personally supervised the revamp to foreign policy, but in some cases like Cen When Turner took over in the wake of ing of both the CIA's intelligence and oper tral America, the foreign policy itself. As that indictment, he concentrated on getting ations directorates, leaving other tasks to one congressional source with close ties to the CIA out of the covert operations busi his deputy, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, a re the agency notes, "The operations side has ness, firing several hundred agency employ spected intelligence professional who parted been driven by and large by Mr. Casey's ees in a purge known as the Halloween Mas ways with him within a year and a half. Pre view of the world.'' sacre. The axe fell squarely on the secret siding over the biggest build-up of the intel That same world view also guided an over warriors who had earned the agency its un ligence community since the agency's incep haul of the analysis side of the CIA. From savory reputation. Within the corridors at tion, Casey more than doubled the total in the age of 23, information had been Casey's Langley, the CIA's stripped-down budget telligence budget, pushing it toward an esti game. In his first job, writing for a Wash and mission were blamed on Turner's no mated $24 billion in 1986. With annual in ington newsletter that alerted businessmen ticeable lack of clout with Carter. But they creases of up to 20 percent a year, the to upcoming legislation, he learned how to were also a reflection of the times, when growth of the CIA's spending power out couch the most complex legalese in simple America was looking for reassurance that it stripped the Pentagon's. Casey went on a terms. Later, he made his fortune by found was a moral nation, and when the CIA was a hiring spree, boosting manpower by one ing the Institute for Business Planning, reminder of skeletons in the national closet. third, returning it to the highs of the Viet publishing under his own signature dozens Jimmy Carter appeared uninterested in in nam era. Many of those lured back were the of handbooks on real estate strategies and telligence-that is, until fist-waving Iranian familiar faces from the agency's paramili the merits of mutual funds for corporate militants brought his presidency to its knees tary past excised by Turner; in fact, some of readers. At the time he took over the CIA, with their hostage-taking at the U.S. embas them are now resurfacing in the Iranian the handbooks were still netting him sy in Teheran. Suddenly the U.S. was faced arms scandal. $300,000 a year in royalties. with the worst intelligence failure of its To observers, the most obvious mark of His canny appreciation of how to package postwar history. Casey's tenure was the dizzying expansion knowledge to meet the needs of an audience In part, the failure was the price of a long of the Directorate of Operations-the DO was particularly useful when he became di ago covert action. After 25 years of propping or, as it is euphemistically known in Lang rector of Central Intelligence. The intelli up the increasingly imperious and overly ley, the "international affairs division." gence community-through the inter sensitive Shah, the CIA had so much at Under him, covert actions, which the agency National Intelligence Council that stake in Iran that after the first energy Reagan administration preferred to dub reported directly to Casey-turns out top crisis in 1974 it decided the agency couldn't "special activities," again boomed; six years secret National Intelligence Estimates risk offending him. As a result, the CIA later, an estimated 50 are now in full swing. . grams. Business meeting, to mark up S. 79, to SD-366 SD-419 notify workers who are at risk of occu 2:30 p.m. Judiciary pational disease in order to establish a Finance Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks Sub system for identifying and preventing Health Subcommittee committee illness and death of such workers. To hold hearings to examine hospital To hold hearings on S. 568 and S. 573, SD-430 payment rates under Medicare's pro bills to protect patent owners from im Select on Secret Military Assistance to spective payment system . HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit grams. SD-138 tee SD-192 2:30 p.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es 9:30 a.m. Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1988 for the De Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu partment of Housing and Urban De Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu cation, and Related Agencies Subcom velopment, and independent agencies. cation, and Related Agencies Subcom mittee SD-124 mittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es To hold hearings on proposed budget es timates for fiscal year 1988 for the De MAY18 timates for fiscal year 1988 for the De partments of Labor, Health and 2:00 p.m. partments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and relat Energy and Natural Resources Human Services, Education, and relat ed agencies. To hold hearings on proposed legislation ed agencies. SD-192 to expand the clean coal technology SD-116 program. MAY12 10:00 a.m. SD-366 Appropriations 10:00 a.m. Transportation and Related Agencies Sub Appropriations MAY20 committee Foreign Operations Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es To hold hearings on proposed budget es Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1988 for the timates for fiscal year 1988 for certain Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, Federal A viati on Administration, and export financing programs. and Related Agencies Subcommittee the General Accounting Office . Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1988 for the Ju SD-138 Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, dicial Conference, Commission on the 2:00 p.m. and Related Agencies Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es Bicentennial of the Constitution, U.S. Energy and Natural Resources Sentencing Commission, and the State Research and Development Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1988 for the Legal Services Corporation, and the Justice Institute. To hold closed hearings to review the S-146, Capitol status of the Department of Energy's Equal Employment Opportunity Com- defense materials production facilities. mission. JUNE 23 S-407, Capitol S-146, Capitol 10:00 a.m. 2:30 p.m. MAY13 Appropriations Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to review proposed cation, and Related Agencies Subcom Energy and Natural Resources budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 mittee Business meeting, to consider pending for the Department of State. calendar business. To hold hearings on proposed budget es SD-192 timates for fiscal year 1988 for the De SD-366 partments of Labor, Health and 10:00 a.m. CANCELLATIONS Human Services, Education, and relat Appropriations ed agencies. Foreign Operations Subcommittee APRIL 2 SD-116 To hold hearings on proposed budget es timates for fiscal year 1988 for foreign 2:00 p.m. Appropriations MAYS assistance programs. S-126, Capitol Energy and Water Development Subcom 9:30 a.m. Appropriations mittee Appropriations Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, To hold hearings on proposed budget es Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu and Related Agencies Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1988 for energy cation, and Related Agencies Subcom To hold hearings on proposed budget es and water development programs. mittee timates for fiscal year 1988, to receive SD-192 To hold hearings on proposed budget es public testimony on certain programs APRIL9 timates for fiscal year 1988 for the De of the Departments of Commerce, Jus partments of Labor, Health and tice, State, the Judiciary, and related 1:00 p.m. Human Services, Education, and relat agencies. Appropriations ed agencies. S-146, Capitol Agriculture, Rural Development and Re SD-192 Appropriations lated Agencies Subcommittee Energy and Natural Resources Transportation and Related Agencies Sub To hold hearings on proposed budget es Research and Development Subcommittee committee timates for fiscal year 1988 for the De To resume hearings on proposals to re To hold hearings on proposed budget es partment of Agriculture, rural devel structure the Department of Energy's timates for fiscal year 1988 for the De opment, and related agencies. uranium enrichment program. partment of Transportation and relat SD-138 SD-366 ed agencies. 10:00 a.m. SD-138 APRIL 23 Appropriations 2:00 p.m. HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit MAY14 Select on Indian Affairs tee 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed legislation To hold hearings on proposed budget es Appropriations to revise certain provisions of the timates for fiscal year 1988 for the De Transportation and Related Agencies Sub Indian Self-Determination and Educa partment of Housing and Urban De committee tion Assistance Act