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April 26, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8535 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS BENEFITS OF AUTOMATION First-class mail delivery performance was "The mail is not coming in here so we ELUDE POSTAL SERVICE at a five-year low last year, and complaints have to slow down," to avoid looking idle, about late mail rose last summer by 35 per­ said C. J. Roux, a postal clerk. "We don't cent, despite a sluggish 1 percent growth in want to work ourselves out of a job." HON. NEWT GINGRICH mall volume. The transfer infuriated some longtime OF GEORGIA Automation was to be the service's hope employees, who had thought that they IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for a turnaround. But efforts to automate would be protected in desirable jobs because have been plagued by poor management and of their seniority. Thursday, April 26, 1990 planning, costly changes of direction, inter­ "They shuffled me away like an old piece Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, as we look at nal scandal and an inability to achieve the of furniture," said Alvin Coulon, a 27-year the Postal Service's proposals to raise rates paramount goal of moving the mall with veteran of the post office and one of those and cut services, I would encourage my col­ fewer people. transferred to the midnight shift in New Or­ With 822 new sorting machines like the leans. "No body knew nothing" about the leagues to read the attached article from the one in New Orleans installed across on the problems of innova­ change. "Nobody can do nothing about it," country in the last two years, the post of­ he said. tion. It has become rather obvious that auto­ fice's total work force declined by only 1.1 With more mall being sorted in processing mation alone is not the answer. Postal offi­ percent. In the area most affected by auto­ offices, the goal across the country is to cials will have to come up with innovative mation, mail processing, the worker pool ac­ have letter carriers spend more time on the methods of incorporating automation and the tually increased by 5,131 people, according street, with larger quantities to carry. But retraining of their employees. to postal figures. some carriers are not happy about that pos­ The article follows: Work-force reductions are complicated by sibility and they, too, admit to slowing their union contracts that provide postal workers [From the Washington Post, Nov. 26, 19891 work pace. with wages and benefits worth about $20 an "They knew the future," Joseph Williams, BENEFITS OF AUTOMATION ELUDE POSTAL hour and contain strict work and assign­ manager of the Carrollton post office in a SERVICE ment rules, strong seniority rights, restric­ section of New Orleans said of his disgrun­ tions on the use of part-time employees and tled carriers. At the giant mall-processing center in New bans on layoffs. Although automation was planned for Orleans, 22 clerks sit in front of pigeon The New Orleans post office is one exam­ years, some offices were caught off-guard holes, the kind used 214 years ago by Benja­ ple of how poor planning from above and when it finally arrived. For example, last min Franklin's office, slowly examining labor restrictions from below can play havoc fall a planned upgrade of some of the sort­ each letter before placing it into its proper, with efforts to cut costs. ing machines in the main D.C. processing numbered niche. Within an eight-month period, the facility center, which serves Washington, as well as Mail handlers unload letter trays from received seven new 60-foot-long letter-sort­ Montgomery and Prince George's counties, trucks, wheeling them inside where others ing machines, had two others taken away caused a drop in on-time deliveries from 93 haul, lift, toss and sort mail all night and and another four already in the plant retro­ to 79 percent because postal managers were half the day. fitted with new equipment. To make room, unable to adjust to the temporary shutdown concrete walls were knocked down overnight of some equipment. In the middle of this scene from the 1950s and some of the new equipment was used to is an island of innovation, the U.S. Postal hold down still-drying floor tile. The standard is 95 percent on-time arrival. Service's link to the 21st century: new, elec­ Despite drastic decreases in the volume of The most-advanced machine in the cur­ tronic sorting machines that flush 28,000 mail handled, the service had to hire addi­ rent automation plan is called a "multi-line letters an hour past blinking electronic eyes tional employees: technicians to run the optical character reader." nts electronic eye and into one of 100 steel traps, each repre­ new machines. Postal managers were unable can read a five- or nine-digit typed or print­ senting a carrier's route. to lay off people whose jobs were made re­ ed Zip code and up to four lines of address. But the sorted letters must be picked up dundant by technology. Instead, they trans­ The machine translates the address or Zip again by human clerks and delivered by ferred employees to areas where there was code into a bar code symbol, which it sprays human carriers. In the course of being more work and adjusted work hours to on the envelope, then sorts to a particular sorted and delivered, a typical letter is better coincide with the new mall flow. tray that represents a carrier's route. Bar touched by 14 humans' hands. The changes affected workers' personal code machines read and sort envelopes that Decades after its first stab at modernizing, lives and depressed morale. "You're talking contain the codes. the Postal Service-a $41 billion-a-year gov­ upheaval," said postmaster Charles K. Officials point to San Diego as a model of ernment owned corporation with more em­ Kernan, general manager of the New Orle­ the way automation should work. The suc­ ployees than the U.S. Army-has undergone ans division. cess there is due largely to the innovative the most expensive, traumatic technological About 550 processing clerks on the late­ work of local managers who devised their change in its history. The change has not night shift downtown were told to begin own strategy for using the machines and, yet been palpably beneficial. work at midnight instead of 10 p.m. This more important, figured out how to stop the Having poured $526 million into new sort­ meant a 10 percent pay cut because more of workers from feeling threatened by the ing machines and other technology in the the shift occurred in daylight hours. The change. past 12 months, the Postal Services faces a change also made it impossible for many "It's like a rock in the water," said San $1.6 billion loss this year, declining business parents to get home in time to send their Diego division postmaster and general man­ growth, lagging worker productivity and children to school. ager Margaret Sellers. "You start out with a raids on its most lucrative business by pri­ Wayne Cola, who works the letter-sorting ripple, if you don't do planning, you get a vate competitors. machine, said his three children now must tidal wave." "We've got to capture the savings dollar­ spend the night with his mother-in-law be­ First, Sellers created an automation team, for-dollar that these machines represent or cause he gets off later in the morning. "The with five subcommittees to manage the we can kiss the Postal Service as we know it kids don't like it," he said. change and to sell it to employees. When goodbye," Robert Setrakian, chairman of Postal officials in New Orleans also cen­ she received the first sorting machine, she the Postal Board of Governors told post­ tralized mail processing so they would have put it on display at a post office open house masters in September. more mail to feed into the machines. As a and then persuaded union leaders to hold Meantime, U.S. postal patrons can get result, 22 of the 34 manual clerks in a meetings and to walk the workroom floor ready to kiss the 25-cent stamp goodbye. As nearby suburb were forced into the down­ explaining to workers what the machines Postal Service costs continue to rise nearly town processing center because there was no could and could not do. 1¥2 times as fast as inflation, the board is work for them elsewhere. They were put in "Our reactton at first was against it," said prepared to raise postage rates again in one comer of the facility where they spend postal clerk Gary Pattee, an eight-year vet­ 1991, probably to 30 cents for a first-class the day under-employed, sorting letters by eran. "It was hard to sell it to us because we letter. hand. thought we were out of here."

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 8536 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 26, 1990 Instead, Pattee, like other workers, was Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank President Gorbachev is overplaying his encouraged to learn how to operate the me­ said the Voss scandal set the agency back 18 hand. He doesn't want to negotiate with the chanical letter-sorting machines, and he was months in its effort to automate. Lithuanians. He wants to make a terrible ex­ paid for doing it on his own time. Now his Foreign firms now dominate the field of skills and his position are more flexible. mail-automating equipment. Contracts for ample of them. Fast-growing San Diego has been insulat­ many of the newly installed machines went From my conversations with administration ed from some of the problems experienced to a Texas licensee of a West German firm, officials, it's clear to me that line has been elsewhere because redundant employees are AEG Telefunken. drawn by the White House. Where that line is used to handle an increasing volume of mail. Last week, reaffirming its long-term com­ precisely, I am not sure, but the Soviets are Still, the office has been able to reduce the mitment to automation, the Postal Board of coming awfully to crossing it. number of manual sorting clerks by 10 per­ Governors endorsed a five-year strategic Mr. Gorbachev wants to starve Lithuania cent during the first year of automation. plan that will cost over $5 billion. Frank has into submission. That's a short-sighted policy. The mission of the U.S. Postal Service is promised to keep costs 2 percent below in­ flation, to achieve historic productivity We should make it very clear to him that he indisputably ambitious. Each day a work may soon find his own economy starved for force of over 800,000 employees in 40,000 gains and to increase revenues. post offices and processing centers across "This is not a speed boat here. It doesn't lack of western assistance. the country, flies, ships, trucks and carries turn on a dime," Frank said in an interview. "It is changing, it is slow, it is frustrating an estimated 537 million pieces of mail to 92 THE MIAMI-DADE BRANCH OF million households and 7.3 million business­ once in a while, but so is every large corpo­ es. The alone produces 40 per­ ration." THE NAACP HOSTS SECOND cent of all the mail in the world and has ANNUAL FREEDOM FUND kept the cost of its first-class stamp well POST OFFICES FACE THE FAX To COMPETE AWARDS BANQUET below that of every other major capitalist The U.S. Postal Service has decided that if nation. it can't lick the competition, it will rent it HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHT~NEN Postal officials are lobbied by no fewer space. than 70 industry groups and must negotiate The Postal Service began leasing space to OF FLORIDA compensation and working conditions with fax machines in post office lobbies on the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES four labor unions and three manager's orga­ East Coast this month charging rent, keep­ Thursday, April 26, 1990 nizations. Once a repository for political pa­ ing part of the revenue generated by the tronage jobs, its relationship with Capitol machines and attempting to increase con­ Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, on June Hill today consists of 24 annual oversight venience, attract more customers and prove 9, 1990, the Mi.:.mi-Dade branch of the hearings before committees in both houses that the post office knows how to handle NAACP will be hosting the Second Annual of Congress. Its work has been made no competition. Last year, about 1.3 million Freedom Funds Awards Banquet, a very spe­ easier by constant turnover at the top­ commercial fax machines took in about $4 cial event which furthers our Nation's continu­ there have been four postmasters general in billion for their owners, according to indus­ ing pursuit of racial harmony. I would like to the last five years. try figures. The Post Service, which once carried vir­ thank the Miami-Dade branch of the NAACP The history of the service's efforts to for asking me to serve as co-chairperson, an automate is one that "makes me want to cry tually all the packages in the United States, when I rehear it," in the words of Deputy now has only 3 percent of that market, ac­ honor which I have happily accepted. Postmaster General S. Coughlin. cording to Postmaster General Anthony M. Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend the D.H. Shepard first invented an "apparatus Frank. United Parcel Service did $6 billion Miami-Dade branch of the NAACP for its tire­ for reading" addresses in 1951, according to in domestic and international business last less efforts to continue the struggle which records of the Patent Office. A handwritten year, according to Dun and Bradstreet. The began more than 80 years ago. It is unfortu­ memoir by Omer M. Long in the postal ar­ Federal Express Corp., another competitor, nate that a Nation as great as ours, conceived took in $5.2 billion here and abroad in its chives shows what during the late 1950s and on the highest ideals of life, liberty, and the 1960s the then-Post Office Department had most recently completed fiscal year. In 1988, the last year for which figures are pursuit of happiness, has had to endure the the lead in optical character readers. harsh realities of racial prejudice. "We were visited regularly by the foreign available, the Postal Service's Express Mail engineers trying to learn the state of the service, domestic and foreign, took in $551 The NAACP has built upon the ideals of art," Long wrote. "Unfortunately, manage­ million, postal officials said. men such as Frederick Douglass, Dr. Martin ment . . . changed so often . . . or were to­ Roughly 1 million magazines are being de­ Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and many tally unsuited for the position . . . that we livered by private delivery services, includ­ others who have been dedicated to the cause ing 800,000 by United Delivery Systems of minority rights, rights which all men are lost all respect for lack of performance in based in Grand Rapids, Mich., and several the field." thousands by a delivery service owned by guaranteed by their birthright. All Americans Lawrence F. O'Brien, postmaster general Time Warner Inc. in Atlanta. have a duty to emulate the ideals that these in 1965-68, called the post office's 1960s re­ In the international market, private com­ gentleman furthered, while the rest of America search and development investment "laugh­ panies now mail from the United wallowed in the ignorance of racial prejudice. able." States to foreign countries, bypassing the In 1978, then-Postmaster General William Outstanding individuals with the NAACP in my Postal Service. Although international mail district who have furthered this cause include: F. Bolger announced the invention of a has been growing, the Post Service's share nine-digit Zip code, which made it possible Johnnie McMillian, president; Oza Jenkins, of it has dropped nearly 25 percent in the general chairperson, Second Annual Freedom for new machines to read an envelope and last five years. sort it to a particular carrier's route. React­ Fund Awards banquet; A. Kate Kemp, first -Judith Havemann ing to opposition from commercial mailers vice president; Brad Brown, second vice presi­ and the public, Congress put a three-year dent; Richard Powell, third vice president; hold on the idea. When the nine-digit code GORBACHEV IS OVERPLAYING Shirley Johnson, fourth vice president; Peggy finally became policy, many fewer mailers HIS HAND IN LITHUANIA Demon, fifth vice president; Aroy Davis, sixth than predicted used it. There were other problems as well. In one vice president; Deloris Wright, secretary; 18-month period, the Postal Service gave HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD Janice Isley, assistant secretary; Willie Bar­ $25 million in rate discounts to business OF MICHIGAN nett, treasurer; C. Brian Hart, assistant treas­ mailers for using a nine-number Zip code IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES urer; and executive committee members Neal that the new machines could process, but Adams, Rev. Billy Baskin, Rev. Alexander then failed to press them on the machines, Thursday, April26, 1990 Bostic, Rev. Victor Curry, Betty Ferguson, according to the General Accounting Office. Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, in the past Doris Hart, Rev. G. David Horton, Rev. Flor­ Then in 1982, then-President Ronald several days, I've talked with President Bush ence Pratt-Hall, Mayor Robert Ingram, Billy Reagan appointed Peter E. Voss to the and other top administration officials, and Isley, Rev. Arthur Jackson, Jr., Joseph R. Postal Board of Governors. In 1986 Voss pleaded guilty to accepting kickbacks from a talked as well with the President of Lithuania. Kemp, Jr., Rev. Walter Richardson, Rodney Michigan lobbying firm for his help in Events in Lithuania are moving faster than Thaxton, Pat Tornillo, and David Honig, Esq. trying to steer a $250 million sole-source most people realize. President Landsbergis The funds raised from the banquet will sup­ contract for optical scanners to Recognition says the Soviet policy will soon lead to civil port programs to further the NAACP goals in Equipment Inc., a Texas firm. conflict and great human suffering. providing equal opportunity and full citizenship April 26, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8537 rights for all people. Among these include fair Jersey-Connecticut area are already participat­ REACHING OUT TO HISTORICALLY BLACK share directives, stay-in-school programs, ing in the Network with NYU. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES voters registration campaigns and get-out-to­ Since its inception in 1985, the Faculty Re­ With the expansion of the Network to in­ vote efforts. source Network has been a pathmaking pro­ clude ten new colleges, the advantages of the Network grow proportionately. It should be the hope of all Americans that gram in higher education which brings faculty Today, we reach out to institutions that one day we will no longer harbor racial preju­ memt>ers from smaller liberal arts institutions have played and continue to play a crucial dices, and realize that the color of one's skin to the NYU campus where they can take ad­ role in American higher education, and we does not limit the ability of individual's suc­ vantage of extensive research and library re­ are confident that the historically black col­ cess. We should all strive to learn from our sources and have the opportunity to work leges will bring a fresh perspective to the past inequities and do all that is possible to closely with colleagues in their disciplines. Network. end the differences which, unfortunately, still For these colleges clearly have great expe­ The recent addition of the 10 historically rience in teaching and advising undergradu­ exist in our country. black colleagues and universities to the Net­ The Miami-Dade branch of the NAACP is ate students from minority groups. They work, made possible by a grant from the Pew boast impressive records in the area of stu­ one of the many branches of the NAACP and Charitable Trusts, will bring important benefits dent retention. Beyond keeping their stu­ countless other organizations that will further to all participants. At a time when retention of dents on the path to complete their under­ our Nation's pursuit of racial harmony. graduate degrees, these colleges are highly minority students is a critical issue in higher successful in sending their graduates on to education, historically black colleges have a pursue advanced degrees. THE TEMPORARY DUTY SUS­ proven track record in retaining and graduat­ And as president of a university well­ PENSION ON IMPORT OF LISIN­ ing large numbers of their students. These in­ known for its outstanding graduate and pro­ OPRIL stitutions, therefore, can yield important in­ fessional schools, I hope many of the gradu­ sights into how best to educate minority stu­ ates of the colleges we today welcome to the Network will consider coming here-to New HON. TIM VALENTINE dents. For its part, University, as York University-to continue their academ­ OF NORTH CAROLINA the largest private research university in the ic careers. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nation, offers an impressive array of intellec­ Another sign of the success of historically black colleges is their alumni, who have Thursday, April26, 1990 tual tools and talent to stimulate faculty and curriculum development. emerged as leaders in their communities Mr. VALENTINE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today On January 25, 1990, at the announcement and in the nation. Some of them are here with us today. to introduce a bill which would suspend for a of this new initiative in , Dr. 3-year period the duty on Lisinopril. Lisinopril And, of course, one of the greatest leaders John Brademas, our former colleague and our country has ever known-the man is imported from Ireland for processing into now president of New York University, was whose birthday we celebrated only last finished dosage form in Wilson, NC. Lisinopril joined by Johnetta Cole, president of Spelman week-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a is also manufactured in , but the College; Leroy Reith, president of Morehouse graduate of one of these institutions, More­ domestically produced material is insufficient College; and other distinguished presidents house College. in quantity to satisfy market demands and im­ and officers of the participating institutions. MUTUAL BENEFITS portation is necessary. Lisinopril, a synthetic At this point, Mr. Speaker, I would like to re­ I'm sure that our relationship with the peptide derivative, is an oral long-acting an­ quest that the text of Dr. Brademas' remarks historically black colleges in the Network giotensin converting enzyne [ACE] inhibitor. It on this occasion be inserted in the RECORD. will give us at NYU deeper insight into the is used for the treatment of hypertension, education of minority students. And I have either alone or concomitantly with other anti­ REMARKS OF DR. JOHN BRADEMAS, PRESIDENT, doubt that our collaborative project will hypertensive agents. Lisinopril differs from NEW YORK UNIVERSITY have a significant impact not only on all other drugs in its class by virtue of its long Let me tell you why this is a great day for members of the Network but also on higher half life and resulting once daily dosage which New York University and its Faculty Re­ education nationally. may enhance patient compliance. source Network. Now having spoken to how I think we at Today, joining the Network, are ten his­ NYU will gain from this venture, I want to This measure is non controversial and I give you some examples of how our new urge my colleagues to support this bill as part torically black colleges. The significance of their inclusion has many dimensions. Network members will benefit. of any tariff suspension legislation that comes Faculty from our new-member colleges before the House. MISSION OF THE FACULTY RESOURCE NETWORK will be able to participate in the Network's First, the mission of the Faculty Resource scholar-in-residence program. Several books, Network is to strengthen and invigorate the articles and a variety of new courses have NYU'S FACULTY RESOURCE intellectual infrastructure of higher educa­ already resulted from research done here at NETWORK tion-the activities of teaching and learning. New York University under the auspices of The men and women of the faculty are the Faculty Resource Network. The Network plans a series of interdisci­ HON.AUGUSTUSF.HA~NS the heart of a college or university. It is they who carry out teaching and research. plinary seminars to address issues in current OF CALIFORNIA For the past five years, the Faculty Re­ scholarship and problems in curricular IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES source Network has linked New York Uni­ reform and teaching methods. And repre­ sentatives from each of the new institutions Thursday, April26, 1990 versity, a large urban research institution, with a group of smaller liberal arts colleges we honor today will be invited to partici­ Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to to foster development of faculty and new pate. share with my colleagues news about an ex­ curricular initiatives. And, of course, our new-member colleges citing new collaboration between New York will have the opportunity to take advantage Each year, the Network provides the op­ of New York City, a vibrant and exciting University and 10 of our Nation's historically portunity for one or more faculty members center for learning and culture. black colleges and universities: Benedict Col­ from each affiliated school to be in resi­ lege; Bennett College; Dillard University; John­ dence here either during the academic year son C. Smith University; Morehouse College; or over the summer months. Visiting profes­ THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF C.R. Spelman College; Stillman College; Talladega sors can audit courses at NYU, use our li­ SMITH College; Tougaloo College; and Xavier Univer­ brary and computer facilities and, in colle­ sity of Louisiana. Each of these colleges and gial fashion, intereact with NYU scholars and teachers. HON. RALPH M. HALL universities has joined NYU's Faculty Re­ The value of these cooperative efforts is source Network-a program that links New considerable. OF TEXAS York University with smaller liberal arts institu­ Although the aim of the Network is to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions in an effort to foster faculty development enrich the faculty experience and enhance Thursday, April26, 1990 and new curriculum initiatives. In addition to the profession of teaching, the Network has the 10 historically black colleges and universi­ another valuable benefit, keeping students Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Speaker, when C.R. ties, 14 institutions from the New York-New engaged and eager to learn. Smith was buried last week, he was eulogized 8538 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 26, 1990 as a man who left a great legacy-for aviation to utilize the vast expertise in its Federal lab­ to as the "Director"), is authorized and di­ and for the world at large. oratories-a subject explored in a hearing rected to create a Technology Extension Mr. Smith, founder and long-time president before RON WYDEN's subcommittee last fall. Pilot Program (hereinafter in this Act re­ Japan, by contrast, excels in commercializing ferred to as the "Program"). The Program of American Airlines, did more than build the shall run for five years from the date of en­ foundation of what has become the largest research, including American research, which actment of this Act. airline in the Western World. He was a pio­ is a main reason for its striking economic per­ (b) PuRPosE.-The purpose of the Pro­ neer and a builder of the entire air transporta­ formance since World War II. gram shall be to provide private businesses, tion system. A National Technology Extension Service is in States selected under subsection of Today that system is the lifeblood of our a way of harnessing our great strength in re­ this section to participate in the Program, economy-indeed, of the world's economy. In search for the needs of American industry. It with improved access to Federal and feder­ that sense alone, he was the kind of leader of would complement and enhance the effective­ ally-funded technology and expertise, as well as to equivalent technology and exper­ whom Thomas Carlyle said, "history is the bi­ ness of current technology transfer efforts, tise from States and other sources, in order ography of great men." such as those mandated by the Stevenson­ to accelerate the transfer of goverment-sup­ The values he expressed so clearly be­ Wydler Act of 1980 and its 1986 amendments. ported technology and expertise to business­ cause the foundation on which American Air­ It would give small firms in particular the op­ es and to improve the productivity and eco­ lines employees have built a vast enterprise. portunity to access technical expertise which nomic competitiveness of these businesses. American plans to honor C.R. Smith's pro­ can be crucial to their ability to compete and (C) ACTIVITIES.-The Program shall COn· found and unique contribution by creating an survive. Section I of our bill authorizes the Na­ sist, to the extent the Secretary and Direc­ aviation museum in his honor near the compa­ tional Institute of Standards and Technology tor deem appropriate, of the following- <1 > A database, accessible by computer to ny's Dallas/Fort Worth headquarters. The to create a user-friendly database of experts, private business in participating States, museum will perpetuate Mr. Smith's legacy technologies, and research projects in the which contains information on- both among company employees and the Federal laboratories, which a business could research projects in Federal laborato­ public at large. access directly on a personal computer. Sec­ ries; I believe it is entirely appropriate that tion II would authorize Small Business Devel­ other federally-supported research Member of this House of Representatives also opment Centers to defray the cost of access­ projects, including research in universities; join in acknowledging the contributions of C.R. ing the database, and others like it, for small reports and other documents available Smith. businesses. from the National Technical Information Service; The Extension Service is modelled loosely patents available for licensing from on the United States agricultural research and Federal laboratories and from federally­ A NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY EX­ extension system, which for nearly a century TENSION SERVICE: HARNESS­ funded research projects; has funded agricultural research and dissemi­ other technology resource services ING AMERICAN SCIENCE FOR nated the new technology to farmers. The available from the Federal government and AMERICAN INDUSTRY system has generated a rate of return far participating State governments; and higher than that on typical private invest­ technology transfer personnel and HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE ments. It is a major reason why agricultural services available at Federal laboratories and the Federal Laboratory Consortium for OF NEW YORK productivity growth has been higher over the Technology Transfer. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES last 50 years than in any other broadly-defined <2 > Direct access to experts in Federal lab­ Thursday, April 26, 1990 sector of the American economy, and why the oratories and elsewhere who are available, United States has long been the undisputed under terms too be set by the Secretary, to Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, today I join with world leader in agricultural productivity. answer technical questions by telephone. my colleagues Mr. WYDEN, Mr. BOEHLERT, The Extension Service would replicate the (3) Interactive access to databases of tech­ and Mr. BROOMFIELD to introduce legislation agricultural system on an economy-wide nical and business information in print. creating a National Technology Extension scale, using the latest computer and telecom­ (d) DATABASE CONTRACTOR.-The Secretary, Service, which, I believe, could have a major acting through the Director and using a munications technology. An informal survey of competitive selection process, shall select a impact on American economic competitive­ a representative sample of companies which ness and the American standard of living. non-Federal database contractor to create use a State-level service similar to the one we the Program's federal database and network Senator BOSCHWITZ is introducing companion are proposing found the average cost to be of experts and to manage them for the du­ legislation on the Senate side. The Extension $17,000 per year per firm, and the average in­ ration of the Program. The contractor must Service would enable American industry to tap crease in profits to be $290,000. Although it be able to provide access to experts other the expertise of scientists and engineers in can be hazardous to extrapolate to the entire than, and complementary to, State and Fed­ Federal laboratories and universities, in a way economy, these numbers suggest that a Na­ eral experts. The contractor will further be that has been demonstrated to be both inex­ required to provide a staff of information tional Technology Extension Service could searching professionals to facilitate interac­ pensive and very effective. have a major impact on our economic growth Hearings before the full House Small Busi­ tive accessing of technical and business in­ rate and standard of living, and on the interna­ formation in print, as well as Federal and ness Committee last September established tional competitiveness of American goods. State databases. the importance of technology to long-term Our bill would authorize $7 million in startup (e) PARTICIPATING STATES.-Within twelve economic growth and international economic funds for the first year. If the program proves months from the date of enactment of this competitiveness. New technology can have a successful, our hope is that the Service could Act, the Secretary, acting through the Di­ tremendous effect on the quality of a compa­ be made national in scope. The text of the bill rector and using a competitive selection ny's products, on its ability to produce at low process, shall select up to 5 States for par­ follows: ticipation in the Program. To be eligible for cost, on its ability to introduce new products, H.R.- and on its ability to compete in an internation­ selection, a State shall provide such match­ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ing funds as the Secretary shall deem ap­ al market. Nobel-prize winner Robert Solow of Representatives of the United States of propriate and shall establish a database of MIT and Edward Denison of the Brookings In­ America in Congress assembled, That this State research projects, licensable technol­ stitution have estimated that technological ad­ Act may be cited as the "National Technolo­ ogies and State services, as well as a net­ vances are responsible for more than half of gy Extension Service Act of 1990." work of experts available within the State. the growth in American GNP per worker SECTION 1. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF TECHNOL­ (f) F'EEs CHARGED TO BUSINESSES.-Private during this century. OGY EXTENSION PILOT PROGRAM.- In addi­ businesses within participating States that But technological advance in the United tion to such other technology resource and wish to take advantage of the information States is not as rapid as it might be. Although technical information activities of the De­ and other services provided by the Program partment of Commerce's Technology Ad­ shall be charged as follow- the United States is the undisputed world ministration, the Secretary of Commerce <1 > for businesses with gross annual sales leader in basic research and in many areas of for businesses with gross annual sales countries in commercializing that research. the National Institute of Standards and greater than $5 million but less than $15 For example, the United States has been slow Technology (hereinafter in this Act referred million, no charge during the first year April 26, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8539 after States are selected, 25 percent of cost Washington, there is a bipartisan organization CHILDREN'S TELEVISION of providing that information and services within the House of Representatives which is WORKSHOP OF NEW YORK CITY to the business during the next year, 50 per­ working to set a legislative agenda to en­ cent during the year after that, and 100 per­ cent thereafter; hance the economic benefits of tourism HON. BILL GREEN (g) COOPERATION.-The heads of Federal across the country. This organization is the departments and agencies shall provide the Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus. As OF NEW YORK Secretary with such information and assist­ a member of the caucus and presently serving IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ance as the Secretary may request in order on the steering committee, I enjoy the oppor­ Thursday, April 26, 1990 to carry out the requirements of this Act. tunity to promote the travel industry and am (h) EvALUATION AND REPORT.-After three Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to com­ sure that the experience will continue to be years of Program operation, and again after mend the Children's Television Workshop of the end of the Program, the secretary shall both rewarding and challenging. New York City for the achievements of its evaluate Program operations and business Today, travel and tourism is one of the public television series Square One TV. The use of the Program and shall report find­ world's largest industries. Statistics reveal that New York Times headline of March 1990 ings to the appropriate committees of Con­ 26, globally, tourism is increasingly becoming a is "Making Math Come Alive on Television." gress. major source of foreign exchange earnings for (i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.-TO That's what Square One TV is supposed to carry out the Program established under countries. do, and now we have new research proof that section 1 of this Act, there is hereby author­ Here in the United States, the travel indus­ the results it has been seeking are happening! ized to the secretary the following try generates more jobs than any other indus­ I am of course proud that my New York amounts- try except health services and is the largest neighbors are succeeding with this project. <1> for fiscal year 1991, $2,000,000; and "invisible" export for the United States in the But I take special pleasure in their accom­ <2> for each of fiscal years 1992, 1993, services sector. 1994, and 1995, $3,000,000. plishment because it reflects so well on the SEC. 2. (a) SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Just like the adventuresome explorers from help they receive from the National Science CENTER TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.­ another time, visitors from abroad are discov­ Foundation. The VA-HUD-Independent Agen­ The Small Business Act <15 U.S.C. 648) is ering a new land-America. During 1989, for­ cies Appropriations Subcommittee of which I amended by adding the following new sec­ eign visitors spent $34.3 billion in the United am the ranking member has provided the tion: States or $450 million more than Americans Foundation with funds to reach out to the "SEc. 24-Any applicant which is funded American people in science education direc­ by the Administration as a Small Business spent abroad. For the first time in this coun­ try's history more money was spent by visitors tions. Their support to Square One TV shows Development Center may apply for an addi­ just how effective these new approaches can tional grant to be used solely to increase coming to the United States than was spent access by small businesses in its service area by Americans traveling abroad. That means be. to on-line databases for the purpose of fa­ more jobs, more tax revenues, and more as­ The Square One programs are seen daily on public TV stations across the Nation at cilitating technology transfer, such as that sistance with international balance of pay­ created by Section 1 of this Act or other pri­ times when youngsters are at home. The re­ ments. vately or publicly-funded databases. The search just out indicates that these viewers Small Business Development Center may Mr. Speaker, tourism is also very important score up to 56 percent better on math tests seek to increase small business access by: in my home State of Missouri. In fact, during conducted on fifth graders in Corpus Christi, "(1) defraying part or all of the cost of my tenure in the Missouri Legislature, I had TX. The program's producer, David Connell, access to the databases for a limited period the privilege of serving on the Missouri Tour­ says, "We show kids that the stuff they are of time; ism Commission. Tourism is Missouri's "<2> training small businesses in use of the learning in class has application in the real · databases; second-largest industry, with a spending level world." I believe that is a very worthwhile goal "<3> demonstrating to small businesses the of more than $5.8 billion last year. for the programs and for the National Science benefits of accessing the databases." "Wake-up to Missouri" is our State's pro­ Foundation, and the research is welcome evi­ (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.­ motional theme. Since 1983, we've been dence that they are on the right track. We in There are hereby authorized to be appropri­ using that theme to let travelers know that the Congress can be very pleased that this ated to the Administration for each of the has worked so well! fiscal years 1991, 1992, and 1993 the sum of Missouri has a great deal to offer-from the $5,000,000 to carry out the provisions of sec­ culturally rich urban areas and idyllic rural set­ The article follows: tion 2(a) of this Act. tings, to the mighty Mississippi River and ma­ [From , Mar. 26, 19901 jestic Ozark Mountains-Missouri has it all. MAKING MATH COME ALIVE ON TELEviSION At home in Missouri's Second Congression­ al District there is variety of tourist attractions, There was the case of the robber in a WAKE UP TO TOURISM including the Six Flags Over America Theme monkey suit. Park, the outstanding collection of the Nation­ And of the woman who staged her own al Museum of Transportation, pristine Queeny kidnapping. HON. JACK BUECHNER And a woman who seemed to predict OF MISSOURI Park, home of the St. County Pops Or­ earthquakes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES chestra, plus picturesque St. Charles, popular The "" team solved them all. for its charming historic district and formerly With calculators in holsters under their Thursday, April 26, 1990 the State's capital. The district is served by uniforms with deadpan looks and with the Mr. BUECHNER. Mr. Speaker, man's spirit extensive transportation facilities, including background theme of the old "" de­ of adventure and willingness to challenge the one of the Nation's busiest airports, Lambert­ tective series, Kate Monday and George Frankly have unknown is what lead to some of history's St. Louis International Airport, Amtrak's Kirk­ greatest intrepid explorers, such as Christo­ been figuring things out on "Square One wood Station, and three primary interstate TV" since the mathematics series for 8-to-12 pher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and highways. year-olds made its debut two seasons ago on Marco Polo. Visitors are waking up to Missouri and the public television. These men possesed an unrelenting desire United States. Tourism is not just fun and Now, the daily half-hour program, which for a higher quality of life and self enrichment. is produced by the Children's Television It was their spirit to reach beyond themselves recreation-it's good business! Workshop-the "" crowd-is which led each of them to discover new I urge my colleagues to do all they can to pleased by some new calculations of its own. worlds, interesting people, and exciting oppor­ support the tourism industry. Everyone in Mis­ A study of fifth graders in Corpus Christi, tunities for cultural and economic exchanges. souri's travel industry works together-as part­ Tex., conducted by the workshop, reported Our world has become closer-more inti­ ners-to keep tourism growing. That kind of that those who watched "Square One TV" improved dramatically in problem-solving. mate-because of travel. cooperative efforts works great in my State­ Eve R. Hall, the director of research for The business of travel and tourism has a and it can be the key to our continued suc­ "Square One TV," said 48 youngsters were tremendous impact on the. global economy. In cess nationally as well. tested at the start of the study. Then half 8540 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 26, 1990 of them watched 30 episodes of "Square fessor at the University of Wisconsin in ganizations is an emotional lifeline for many One" and everybody was tested again. Madison, said that she was not convinced victims of sexual assault. Helpline volunteers Viewers improved by an average of 46 per­ that viewers learned much, that she and cent in the number and variety of tech­ youngsters she knew found the program offer assistance without interfering with police niques they used to solve problems, Ms. Hall boring and that it offered stereotypes of or medical work. They are there 24 hours a reported, and by an average 56 percent in women and minorities. day to provide comfort and information to the sophistication and completeness of their Dr. Elizabeth Stage, who has been on an those who are victims of this horrible crime. answers. Nonviewers did not improve at all, advisory committee to "Square One" and Also being honored is Edwardo Correia, a on average, in either category she said. who is executive director of the California resident of Yonkers, NY, and a marketing re­ Both groups reflected the socioeconomic Science Project at the University of Califor­ search assistant for General Foods, USA. He and ethnic mix of the area, which is two­ nia at Berkeley, said, "Everybody is stereo­ thirds Hispanic, she said, and the results typed" on the program because it is a has been a volunteer at Children's Village in held regardless of students' backgrounds or parody of television. "I think they've gone Dobbs Ferry, NY, for over 3 years. During this sex. to great lengths,'' she added, not to make time, he has tutored children, organized field The study, like the program, focused on fun of one group more than another. trips, and arranged birthday parties. He has ingenuity, not rote. One question, for in­ In fact, Dr. Stage said, her one reservation also been involved in INROADS, a national or­ stance, asked children to discover what was about the program was that, in using ganization dedicated to preparing minority wrong with a game and to fix it. The game parody, "they sometimes end up showing included a coin to be flipped, dials to be people as fairly silly." youths for corporate employment and commu­ nity leadership. Edwardo Correia is a prime spun, elasticized loops hugging numbers on MAKING MATH COME ALIVE example of someone who is committed to a board and cut-out players labeled "Green" But there is considerable praise for and "Orange." "Square One TV" among teachers familiar making his community a better place and is The flaw in the game was that it was with it. Dr. Francis Fennell, for one, noted willing to give of himself to see that it is. unfair to Green; it could be made fairer in Sylvia Begany, of Yonkers, is being recog­ various ways, including moving loops or that some teachers show the program or changing numbers on the dials. taped parts of it to their classes. nized for her work at the Home for the Aged "There is a great tendency among kids in Dr. Fennell, who recently headed an edu­ Blind and the Newman Center for Alzheimer's cational panel for The Arithmetic Teacher, Care. As a retired nurse and someone who our target age, when presented with a prob­ a journal of the National Council of Teach­ lem, to either see the answer right away or ers of Mathematics, and who teaches educa­ has experienced her own health problems and respond, "We haven't had that yet,'" said tion at Western College in West­ rebounded, she understands the difficulties Dave Connell, who developed "Square One many people with chronic illnesses face. She TV" and who writes much of its material. minster, Md., said, "I think that program makes math come alive." uses this experience to make a difference in THEY SIMPLY PRESS ON Mr. Connell was the original executive the lives of elderly patients. "Square One,'' which also includes game producer not only of "Square One TV" but Belinda M. Jackson from Mt. Vernon, NY, is shows, skits, music videos and animation, also of "Sesame Street" and "The Electric encourages children to search for solutions Company,'' a 1970's series for second grad­ a young person with exceptional energy and a without feeling defeated, he said. For in­ ers with reading difficulties. But he met strong desire to help others. She is involved in stance, on the "Mathnet" section, Jack with skepticism when he proposed a math Adolescents Karing About People, the Greater Webb-like Kate Monday and her naive but series. Centennial AME. Zion Church, the Leading smart partner, George Frankly, make mis­ "Math is not a spectator sport," the Youth of Mount Vernon, and the YMCA Lead­ takes but learn from them. "They do not doubters told him. "But,'' he said, "most ers club. In spite of consistently being commit­ get discouraged or depressed,'' he said. people think of math as being computation, ted to community service, Belinda still man­ "They simply press on." arithmetic-not thinking-which is what it "We describe various ways of tackling a is all about. One of our advisers said arith­ ages to excel at school. problem,'' Mr. Connell went on: by drawing metic is to math what spelling is to litera­ Another individual deserves to be acknowl­ a picture, for instance, by making a guess, ture." edged as one whose selfless actions have by recalling how a similar problem was In a country where it is almost fashiona­ made a noticeable difference in the lives of solved in the past or by asking an expert. ble to say "I'm no good at math,'' he said, many. Dr. Robert Schultz of New Rochelle, In the case of the monkey-suited robber, and in which many youngsters dislike and NY, has been working as a volunteer staff the initial suspect, a , is reported fear the subject, television can change atti­ missing from his cage, and the "Mathnet" tudes and provide role models. "We show person for AIDS-Related Community Services. duo determine how far it could have trav­ kids that the stuff they are learning in class As an AIDSiine volunteer for the past 2¥2 eled by learning, among other things, the has application in the real world,'' he said. years, Dr. Schultz has provided callers with length of ' strides. Well, sort of the real world. In the current, accurate information about AIDS. In A clue in the case of the phony kidnap­ monkey case, the gorilla winds up atop an light of the many misconceptions about AIDS, ping is a telephone message consisting only 80-foot Hollywood sign with helicopters it is comforting to realize that there are those of touch tones, each of which, it turns, out, hovering as George Frankly reads it its dedicated to providing the facts while main­ stands for one of three letters. rights to grunt with an attorney. And the fake quake-predictor is revealed taining compassion and understanding. after Kate and George learn about two While I am congratulating these and all vol­ kinds of earthquake waves. NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK unteers, and although this week, in particular, During the season, which just ended, is a tribute to their efforts, we should be "Square One TV" is seen at 5 P.M. on Chan­ thankful everyday for their tireless attempts to nel 13 and at 4:30 P.M. on Channels 21, 25, HON. NITA M. LOWEY OF NEW YORK make our world a better place, one where fu­ 31 and 49 in the New York area and at a wide variety of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES human beings will understand that others are times elsewhere-including school hours Thursday, April26, 1990 when few children watch. willing to give of themselves to make their "MATHNET" IS THE STAR Mrs. LOWEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, lives better. Even so, the program has a respectable National Volunteer Week is a celebration of audience. In the second season of "Square the human spirit. It is a recognition of the ac­ One,'' 3.5 million households tuned in complishments of the many people in this CHILDREN AID IN DRUG WAR during an average week. . Letters to "Square One" of hundreds of others on Friday, April 27, and word of mouth make it clear that the Thursday, April 26, 1990 "Mathnet" segment is the biggest hit of the 1990. series. Among the many outstanding groups and Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I The program does have its critics. For ex­ individuals honored is the rape crisis helpline submit this article for the benefit of the Mem­ ample, Elizabeth Fennema, education pro- in White Plains, NY. This important support or- bers. April 26, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8541 [From the Indianapolis Star, Jan. 11, 19901 Serving as State engineer since 1955, Reynolds was born and reared in Decatur, ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN ENLISTS AID OF Reynolds was recognized internationally as an Ill. CHILDREN expert on water issues in the Western United He received his mechanical engineering Eleven is now the median age at which States. He planned and supervised the execu­ degree at UNM in 1939. As a senior, Reynolds was captain of the youngsters first use an illegal drug, be it to­ tion of an estimated 1.5 billion dollars worth of bacco, alcohol, marijuana or any of the ter­ UNM football team and in 1963 was hon­ projects to conserve New Mexico's precious ored by Sports lllustrated. rible assortment of hard drugs. and scarce water supply. That is why an innovative citywide "Just Say No" campaign starting tonight aims at Some of these projects were the Navajo enlisting more than 15,000 school children Dam and Reservoir on the San Juan River, HELP AMERICA RECYCLE in the war on drugs. the Navajo Indian irrigation project, the San Jim Arvin, coordinator of drug education Juan Chama Transmountain diversion project, for the Indianapolis Public Schools, and the Ute Dam and Reservoir and the Canadian HON. LOUISE M. SLAUGHTER Christel DeHaan, president and chief execu­ River and the Brantley Dam and Reservoir on OF NEW YORK tive officer of Resort Condominiums Inter­ the Pecos River. national will kick off the drive at 7 p.m. in In his years as State engineer, Reynolds IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Public Assembly Room of the City­ County Building. served 10 Governors from both parties and Thursday, April 26, 1990 RCI is the corporate sponsor of the year­ was regarded as a model of nonpartisanship Ms. SLAUGHTER of New York. Mr. Speak­ long effort, first of its kind in the nation, and integrity. Like the water he devoted his er, today I am introducing the Recycling Initia­ which will involve fourth, fifth and sixth career to preserving, he was a precious re­ tives Grant Act [RIGA], which could add a graders at all 68 IPS elementary schools and source and will not be easily replaced. vital element to our solid waste management 30 parachial schools and three private I am enclosing for my colleagues' review an strategy. schools in Indianapolis. article reviewing Steve Reynold's life which Americans produce an astounding amount Youngsters in that age group are the most appeared in the April 25, 1990 edition of the vulnerable to tempting pleas to "just try it." of garbage; more than 160 million tons of mu­ Albuquerque Tribune. The audience of parents, teachers and ad­ nicipal solid waste per year. That's coming STATE ENGINEER REYNOLDS DIES, 73 ministrators from all 101 schools will be close to 1 ton per person, a truly shocking briefed by Arvin; DeHaan: Mayor William statistic. Almost as shocking is that only 10 H. Hudnut; Mickey Lentz, coordinator of Stephen E. Reynolds, the New Mexico percent of this trash is recycled. Another 10 support services for the Office of Catholic state engineer who was one of the most Education; Dr. James Adams, IPS superin­ powerful water officials in the West, died percent or so is incinerated and the rest is put tendent, and IPS School Board President this morning. in landfills. Stephen Hyatt. Reynolds, 73, died at 12:30 a.m. today at Landfilling is not a long-term solution. The Arvin will also introduce Becky Furste, co­ St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe of compli­ Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] esti­ chairperson of Indianapolis Challenge; Gary cations after surgery on March 24 for a mates that 50 percent of the landfills that ex­ Porter, project consultant for "Just Say blocked femoral artery. Doctors removed his No"; Chief Paul Annee of the Indianapolis isted in 1986 will be closed by next year. left leg below the knee the next day. Within 20 years, more than 80 percent of the Police Department; Marion County Sheriff As state engineer, Reynolds ruled New Joseph McAtee; Capt. Mike Sherman of the Mexico's water resources for 36 years. He Nation's landfills will be closed. IPD narcotics division; Jeff Oberlies, served under 10 governors. What can we do with the more than 200 Marion County deputy prosecutor; James Reynolds exercised the sole power to regu­ million tons of trash we bury each year? The Stutz, IPS supervisor of health, physical late water issues, a task that most water­ obvious solution is to cut down on the amount education and athletics, and Tim Mosier, short Western states assign to commissions of trash we produce and to recycle as much IPS coordinator of drug and family life edu­ and/or bureaucratic authorities. of the rest as possible. cation. Reynolds decided who got how much pre­ RCI has provided kits, which will be dis­ cious water and angered many over the Some States have already begun enacting tributed at the kick-off, for students who years. But even his opponents respected voluntary and mandatory recycling laws and join their schools' "Just Say No" clubs and him. people are participating. However, in many in­ take part in their varied activities, which In the June 1989 issue of Governing maga­ stances, recyclable items are collected but are designed to invite them to choose health zine, Reynolds was called "The West's last then simply stored because there is no market and fitness as an alternative to drugs. water buffalo." for them. The current glut of news print Arvin says there are 15,000 children in the "There is no other Steve Reynolds. He is means that many localities separate and col­ targeted grades who could join. Considering by far the most powerful individual dealing the low median age for first-time use, and with water in the West," Steven Shupe, a lect newspapers only to put them in the land­ because school is the place where it is most former Colorado assistant attorney general fill. likely to happen, getting them to join has a who consults on regional water issues, said For recycling programs to succeed and high priority. in the article. grow, we need to create new methods to "Drug abuse is the nation's most critical It's estimated the federal government lav­ reuse products and market these recycled problem," says DeHaan, explaining the in­ ished more than $1 billion on water develop­ volvement of RCI, the world's oldest and goods. We need to stop the debate about ments benefiting New Mexico during his which comes first, the supply of recyclable largest vacation-exchange company. tenure. Included was the big San Juan The Indianapolis program has the backing Chama project that diverts water from the items or the uses of this supply. We need to of the Bush administration and drug czar Colorado River system through the Conti­ develop new recycling techniques, find new William J. Bennett. It deserves the support nental Divide into the Rio Grande basin. uses for products, establish efficient ways to of everyone who wants the community's New Mexico sets a two-year term for the collect and redistribute these items, and children to grow up drug-free and healthy. state engineer, but 10 governors in a row, create the markets for these goods. Democratic and Republican never bothered The Recycling Initiatives Grant Act will pro­ to reappoint Reynolds. vide Federal grants to support research and TRIBUTE TO STEVE REYNOLDS In 1980 former Gov. Jerry Apodaca said that his administration in 1975 "took a long, development of innovative recycling tech­ HON. BILL RICHARDSON hard look" at Reynolds' operation, presum­ niques. At a total annual cost of $3 million, OF NEW MEXICO ably to have him removed as the water czar. this program would be a cost-effective aid in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "He'd been there so long, he practically the Nation's race to outpace our refuse pro­ had a monopoly on water policy. It was like duction. Each $100,000 grant can support de­ Thursday, April26, 1990

TRIBUTE TO ARIZONA'S Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ROBERTO RUIZ THE REMOVAL OF CRAIG pay tribute to an outstanding individual, Mrs. FIELDS Alfreda Kemp of Washington Township, MI. HON. JIM KOLBE Mrs. Kemp is being honored as Mother of the Year by the St. Barbara's Group 481 of the · OF ARIZONA HON. SANDER M. LEVIN Polish Womens' Alliance. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MICHIGAN It is no surprise to me that Mrs. Kemp is re­ Thursday, April26, 1990 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ceiving this high honor. I can personally attest recognize the accomplishment of one of my Thursday, April 26, 1990 to what a remarkable woman she is. I have constituents, Mr. Roberto Ruiz, president of Mr. LEVIN of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I join been proud to call her a friend of mine for Maya Construction Co., upon his selection as my colleagues today in expressing my deep many years. Her energy, kindness, and desire 1990 Small Business Administration's Arizona concern over the administration's decision to to help others are legendary. and Region IX Entrepreneurial Success remove Craig Fields as the director of the De­ Alfreda, her brother and her sisters attend­ Award. fense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This award honors businesses that began ed Transfiguration School, received the sacra­ Ironically, the firing of Mr. Fields sends one small, and after receiving Small Business Ad­ ments of Holy Communion, Confirmation and ministration assistance, have grown into large of the clearest messages coming from the Marriage, and their children were baptized and businesses. As the SBA Regional Entrepre­ Bush administration and it is a disturbing one. parents buried at this church. Alfreda has had neurial Success Award winner, Mr. Ruiz and It says the United States will continue to falter a longstanding commitment to her faith. She Maya Construction Co. become part of SBA's without a focused trade or economic policy. has been a member of group 481 for the last Hall of Fame. Mr. Fields was a visionary in an administra­ 50 years and continues to participate in many Mr. Ruiz established Ruiz Engineering Corp. tion dominated by economic advisers who are social functions with the group. and Maya Construction Co. in 1977, utilizing dangerously shortsighted. While others in the Alfreda is a widely traveled individual. The his years of experience as a civil engineer administration refused to admit that Govern­ both with the State and in the private· sector. focus of her travels during the past 18 years ment and industry must become partners in has been on her roots in Poland. She has His plan was to develop the consulting engi­ making the United States competitive in high neering component of his business prior to sponsored and successfully returned 13 technology, Fields created an oasis for fledg­ guests from Poland. Her Polish background undertaking construction activity. This enabled ling technologies at DARPA. him to develop a solid business track record and culture are deeply rooted-a feeling I be­ with projects across the entire spectrum of Mr. Fields was one of the first to recognize lieve all of us of Polish descent share. civil engineering. He then utilized the success that the United States was years behind in de­ and resulting profitability of the engineering veloping a high-definition television industry. However, no commitment is more important concern to start Maya Construction Co. DARPA funded research into high-definition to Alfreda than her responsibility as a wife and In 1978 Maya was approved for participa­ display screens for use in the military, and Mr. mother. Alfreda was married to Stanley Kemp tion in the Small Business Administration 8(a) Fields knew the connection this research had at Transfiguration Church. They are the par­ program. This proved to be a significant and to civilian technology. He also knew the con­ ents of five sons, Michael, Daniel, Edmund, positive turning point in the history of the com­ nection between commercial applications for Carl, and Fred and grandparents of nine, pany. Then, as now, Maya specialized in con­ advanced television and driver industries in Susie, Dan, Jessica, , Tim, Andrew, tracting activities requiring specialized engi­ electronics and semiconductors. Scott, Fred, and Stacey. Her strength and neering knowledge and skills. These include drive are surely motivated by these strong re­ But Mr. Fields was a lone voice in the wil­ concrete construction, highway and street lationships. derness. Early on, Commerce Secretary Mos­ construction, sewage and waterworks con­ struction and general building construction. bacher talked about the importance of a Gov­ One example of Alfreda's strength and drive The Small Business Administration 8(a) pro­ ernment role in developing advanced televi­ is her upcoming graduation from Macomb gram was extremely instrumental in providing sion technologies, but he was silenced by ide­ Community College [MCC]. At the age of 60, continued contract, financial, technical, and ological purists within the administration. when most people are satisfied with the management support throughout Maya's form­ Those purists argue that the Government knowledge they have lived a long and fulfilled ative years. The program enabled the firm to shouldn't be providing seed money in indus­ life, Alfreda began attending MCC. On May plan and organize for the future, and it provid­ tries that are too risky for private investors. 11, 1990, Alfreda, at age 68, will be receiving ed the business with the needed flexibility to What they fail to understand is that United her associate degree in general studies. further develop and expand its financial and States industry has been burned before, and management resources. is often wary of taking on competition that is Currently, Alfreda is serving on the Board of In 12 years, Maya Construction has grown heavily subsidized by foreign governments. Review for Michigan Property Taxes in Wash­ to become the largest Hispanic-owned busi­ United States television makers watched as ington Township. I have every expectation that ness in Arizona. The company has experi­ television sets from Asian competitors were Alfreda will continue to enrich not only her life, enced phenomenal growth during this period; dumped in the United States, virtually wiping but the lives of others in her active community from sales of $135,000 in 1979 to nearly $60 out United States firms. They watched as our involvement. million in 1989. The firm employs over 350 Ar­ consumer electronics industry went down the izonans. I am honored to recognize Alfreda on the Through the guidance of Mr. Ruiz, the busi­ tubes. floor of the House for her lifetime of giving to ness has been able to respond to the many The Chicago School ideologues may have others. Her unselfish disposition is instilled in problems encountered by a small and growing won their battle with Craig Fields. Let's just the hearts and minds of those she touches. concern. During this time, Mr. Ruiz has also hope the United States doesn't end up losing Alfreda's contribution to our community will found time to actively serve the community the war. not be forgotten. I wish her the very best. April26, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8563 WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY: A prise that this standard is being challenged in Tommy Martin has personally helped more DAY OF REMEMBRANCE AND court at this time. than 300 young people find jobs, in addition to COMMITMENT Yet even when OSHA may be inclined to many other positive activties. act, the agency must constantly look over its Tommy began his business career as a gro­ HON. BRUCE F. VENTO shoulder to determine whether the political cery clerk in 1931. He soon caught the atten­ OF MINNESOTA and financial gurus of the Office of Manage­ tion of the head of the Nashville agency for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment and Budget [OMS] approve of their ac­ Mutual of New York insurance, and embarked tions. 1MB's priority is not safety in the work­ on a career as a life insurance specialist. His Thursday, April 26, 1990 place; it is reducing Government spending or career has been outstanding, to say the least. Mr. VENTO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to call to regulatory activities that may well mean the He was unanimously chosen MONY Man of the attention of my colleagues that Saturday, difference between life and death in the work­ the Year for 1955, the company's highest April 28, is Workers Memorial Day. It is also place. honor, and he qualified for 50 company honor the 20th anniversary of the passage of the I was pleased to introduce legislation pro­ clubs and 36 National Quality Awards. Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, moting workers' right to know about hazards My alma mater, Middle Tennessee State which represented this Nation's commitment in the workplace in 1983 and 1985. After University, has endowed a chair in Tommy's to a safe and healthy workplace. much foot-dragging, OSHA finally took admin­ honor to provide instruction for students pre­ The national AFL-CIO, in conjunction with · istrative action and issued a modest hazard paring for careers in insurance. He served as its State affiliates and member unions have communications standard in 1987. That same a trustee of the university, as well as of Martin chosen this date to remember the thousands year, the House passed H.R. 162, the High College. of American workers who are killed or injured Risk Occupational Disease and Notification Tommy is famous around Murfreesboro not on the job every year. In fact, more than Act, by a vote of 225 to 186. Unfortunately, only for his achievements in the insurance 10,000 American workers die every year from the Senate did not act on this measure before business, but also for the amazing number of job-related injuries and disease. That's almost the end of the 1OOth session. Last August, community activities that have drawn his help. twice the number of Americans killed in the Chairman Joe GAYDOS of the Education and He once single handedly raised $32,000 in 10-year Vietnam war. Labor Subcommittee on Health and Safety re­ 5 hours to keep a hospital from closing. He Many of these workers are killed or injured introduced this legislation again as H.R. 3067. led a drive to help a blind man start a grocery because of unsafe working conditions. They This important legislation would establish a business. He sponsored parole for a prisoner. come from every craft and industry; agricul­ Risk Assessment Board chaired by the Direc­ Despite all these activities, he still managed ture, firefighting, grain handling, mining, con­ tor of the National Institute of Occupational to be a pillar of his and my church, St. Mark's struction, manufacturing, transportation, steel, Safety and Health [NIOSH] to identify classes Methodist, where he served as a steward, lay textiles, and many others. The hazards they of workers who may be at risk because of leader, and president of the Rutherford face include unguarded machinery, trench workplace exposures to toxic or hazardous County Methodist Laymen's Club. cave-ins, explosions, electrocution, asphyxia­ substances. The bill also establishes a proto­ He has served as president of the chamber tion, drowning, falls, poisoning, cancer from col for notifying these workers and providing of commerce, the Lions Club, the Jaycees, exposure to toxic and hazardous chemicals, health care monitoring and counseling. Hope­ the Rutherford County U.S. Savings Bond As­ and more. fully, this legislation will move forward during sociation and as cochairman of the local in­ Aside from actual workplace fatalities, ac­ this session of Congress. dustrial committee and as a director of Mid­ cording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics every Workers Memorial Day is an occasion for all South Bank & Trust Co. He also served as 6 seconds another worker is injured on the of us to remember those who have died work­ chairman of the board of the county hospital job resulting in a total of over 5.6 million inju­ ing for their livelihood on the job. It is also an and as leader of the area Boy Scout fundrais­ ries annually. Occupational exposures to toxic occasion for all of us to recommit ourselves to ing campaign. chemicals and hazardous substances can strict enforcement of our workplace health They call him unsinkable. He is truly unbeat­ cause cancer, lung disease, birth defects, and safety laws. able in his devotion to good deeds. Tommy nervous system disorders, and other health Martin is the perfect recipient of the first Jerry problems thay may not become apparent until Anderson American Hero Award. many years after exposure. The vast majority TOMMY MARTIN PERFECT of these workplace accidents and diseases CHOICE FOR "AMERICAN are preventable. HERO" AWARD JUDICIAL BRANCH ENCROACHES Safety on the job makes good business ON FUNDAMENTAL sense. Occupational injuries and illnesses HON. BART GORDON OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH cost our economy millions of dollars annually. OF TENNESSEE Employees suffer from losing their ability to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. PHIUP M. CRANE work and produce. Employers suffer by paying Thursday, April 26, 1990 OF ILLINOIS higher workers compensation costs and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES higher insurance premiums. Indeed, all of us Mr. GORDON. Mr. Speaker, I would like all bear the costs of workplace fatalities and inju­ of us today to recognize a man in my home­ Thursday, April 26, 1990 ries through higher costs. town who has distinguished himself both with Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, as many of my America's workers expect the Occupational his business success and his community serv­ colleagues are aware, the Supreme Court re­ Safety and Health Administration [OSHA] to ice. That man is my friend, Tommy Martin, of cently issued a decision which provides Fed­ be their guardian in ensuring a safe and Murfreesboro, TN. eral judges with the power to issue a court-or­ healthy workplace. Yet too often, OSHA has To honor Mr. Martin's years of good deeds dered tax increase as a remedy for a constitu­ become bogged down in endless bureaucratic for his community, he has been selected to tional violation. I believe this decision, Missou­ maneuvers which delay or prevent the issu­ receive the first American Hero Award by the ri versus Jenkins, should be viewed with great ance of needed safety standards in the work­ Jerry Anderson Foundation. The award is pre­ concern by all Members of this Congress. place. A case in point is the 12-year fight by sented to the individual who best helps meet The Supreme Court's April 18, 1990, deci­ grain handlers to push OSHA to issue a grain the foundation's goal, which is to find and nur­ sion expands judicial power beyond that al­ dust standard for elevators and other grain fa­ ture troubled and sisabled youth, get them lowed by the Constitution while at the same cilities. In the last decade, 60 workers have into a school environment, build self-confi­ time usurping a power which is the sole re­ been killed and 275 injured in grain dust ex­ dence and a desire for learing and excellence, sponsibility of the legislative branch-that plosions alone. The standard which OSHA fi­ help them stay in school through graduation, power being the ability to levy taxes. Speaking nally issued permits up to one-eighth of an and help them become productive citizens. for the four Justices in the minority on this inch of dust in some grain facilities; certainly a The foundation is named for Jerry Ander­ issue, Justice Anthony Kennedy stated that sufficient amount to lead to combustion under son, a former professional football player who the Court's "casual embrace of taxation im­ many circumstances according to expert testi­ lost his life in 1989 while rescuing two young posed by the unelected, life-tenured Federal mony. Therefore it should come as no sur- boys from the Stones River. judiciary disregards fundamental precepts for

39-059 D-91-28 (Pt. 6) 8564 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 26, 1990 the democratic control of public institutions." with 15 microcomputers. Swimming pools, a damages brain cells, the heart muscle, and In my view, the Court's decision clearly vio­ planetarium and a temperature-controlled the liver. lates the intent of the Founding Fathers and art gallery were mandated. And extras such as a broadcasting system, a 25-acre farm, Perhaps, the most important message pre­ the basic understanding that most Americans movie studios and a model U.N. with simul­ sented in the video is the fact that one's life have regarding the role of the judicial and leg­ taneous translation faclllties were found to can be full and complete without the influence islative branches of our Government. Article I, be necessary to vindicate constitutional of drugs and alcohol. Through the use of skits section 8, of the Constitution unequivocally rights. The judge, of course, didn't have to performed by several of the senior high states that "[t]he Congress shall have power consider the cost-hundreds of millions of school students and during a brief question to lay and collect taxes * * *." In this deci­ dollars-or the competing demands for city and answer period after the video, students sion, the judiciary is clearly invading the pre­ money for health, social services or law en­ learn that they are not alone when confronted rogative of the legislative branch. Even the forcement. by peer pressure to experiment with illegal Washington Post agrees that the Supreme The second astonishing aspect of the case is the expansion of judicial power into an substances. Above all, students learn to re­ Court has gone too far in this case as is evi­ area understood to be the prerogative of a spect themselves and to take responsibility for denced in the April 20, 1990, editorial which is representative body of elected officials. As their own actions. reproduced at the end of my statement. Justice Anthony Kennedy and three col­ We so often hear about the negative as­ Mr. Speaker, Congress must respond to the leagues protested, "[The court's] casual em­ pects of alcohol and substance abuse. For ex­ Missouri versus Jenkins decision, and to this brace of taxation imposed by the unelected, ample, we know that an estimated 72.4 million end I have today introduced legislation to pre­ life-tenured federal judiciary disregards fun­ Americans, age 12 and above, have tried vent Federal courts from being able to levy damental precepts for the democratic con­ marijuana, cocaine, or other illegal drugs at taxes. My legislation would exercise the power trol of public institutions." The precedent for court-ordered tax increases to provide least once in their lifetime. Or that in a 1989 given to Congress under article Ill of the Con­ all sorts of services when constitutional survey conducted by the National Institute on stitution to limit the jurisdiction of Federal rights are asserted is ominous. Imagine, for Drug Abuse, 60 percent of the high school courts. In brief, my legislation would state that example, three separate federal judges in seniors surveyed have reported drinking alco­ "no inferior court established by Congress this city resolving cases involving St. Eliza­ hol in the last 30 days while 33 percent stated shall have jurisdiction to issue any remedy, beths, Lorton and Cedar Knolls ordering that they consumed five or more drinks in the order, injunction, writ, judgment, or other judi­ massive tax increases without regard to last 2 weeks. cial decree requiring the Federal Government overall budget priorities, necessary expendi­ Mr. Speaker, I commend the efforts of or any State or local government body to tures not before the courts or even the cu­ mulative impact of these three separate these 16 students for their commitment and impose any new tax or to increase any exist­ orders. dedication to educating themselves and their ing tax or tax rate." Such legislation would It is very hard to understand how the Su­ peers about the devastating and life-altering ensure that in the future Federal courts could preme Court could have refused to review effects of substance abuse. I am proud of not resort to the remedy of ordering a govern­ the fantastic remedies ordered by the their accomplishment and believe that through mental body to raise taxes. Kansas City judge and why a majority of their actions, more young people will be in­ I urge my colleagues to familiarize them­ justices has approved the concept of judi­ spired to "be smart and don't start." selves with this Supreme Court decision if cially mandated taxes. There are other ways they have not done so already. I am con­ for a court to compel compliance with even an order like this without imposing a tax to vinced that once the details of this decision pay for it. CORPORATE TAKEOVER are known and its implications appreciated, LEGISLATION my colleagues will realize that a congressional response is absolutely necessary. Mr. Speak­ A TRIBUTE TO CROWN POINT, er, Congress must take immediate action on IN, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HON. BRIAN J. DONNELLY this matter in order to prevent such constitu­ AND THEIR VIDEO AGAINST OF MASSACHUSETTS tional abuses in the future, and I urge my col­ SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leagues to cosponsor my legislation. Thursday, April26, 1990 [From the Washington Post, Apr. 20, 19901 HON. PETER J. VISCLOSKY COURT-ORDERED TAXATION OF INDIANA Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. Speaker, I am intro­ ducing legislation today for myself and several The taxpayers of Kansas City, Mo., must IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other members of the Massachusetts con­ be wondering if they have for years com­ Thursday, April26, 1990 pletely misunderstood all the civics courses gressional delegation dealing with the issue of they took in high school: the ones where Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today corporate takeovers. they learned about the separation of powers to pay tribute to 16 Crown Point, IN, High Mr. Speaker, over the past several months, and the inequity of taxation without repre­ School students who have taken a positive every member of this House has become sentation. Here they have been going along and innovative initiative in educating their aware of increased attempts by foreign com- · innocently believing that elected officials­ peers about the effects of drug and alcohol panies to take over U.S. companies. Reports people whose positions must be in some measure responsive to the views of their abuse. of foreign companies doing business in the constituents and whose tenure in office is From what originally began as a research United States who are not paying their fair dependent on those constituents' approval­ paper assigned by their English teacher, Carol share of taxes have captured the attention of are the ones who set and impose taxes. But Wilson; these 16 high school seniors, Dee Members of the House such as Chairman in a case involving school desegregation in Ash, Cathy Benton, Rochelle Blankenship, ROSTENKOWSKI and Majority Leader GEP­ ' their city, a series of federal courts has in­ Jared Dowdy, Debra Feller, Angie Ferro, Jeff HARDT -as well as the Internal Revenue Serv­ sisted that these principles are flexible and Gang, Bill Hawkins, Noak, Chris Ortell, ice. Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI and Mr. GEPHARDT can be disregarded by a judge who assumes Chrystal Phillips, Sally Quasebarth, Chris have both recently introduced legislation deal­ ultimate authority for raising and allocating this burden. This week five justices of the Rogers, Sheryl Sacek, Tracy Sirbek, and ing with the foreign "tax gap." U.S. Supreme Court agreed that the Kansas Marcy Thalgott, wrote and produced a video In recent days, however, my colleagues in City judge could order local authorities to to inform sixth fellow students about the dan­ the Massachusetts congressional delegation double property taxes. gers of substance abuse. Their message, have reached a fuller appreciation of the prob­ This case is unprecedented in two re­ which is also the title of the video, is simple lem of foreign acquisitions of U.S. corpora­ spects. The first is the scope of the remedies yet powerful: "Be smart. Don't start." tions due to a takeover attempt of one corpo­ ordered by the judge. He ruled that in order The video includes informative and factual ration-the Norton Co. of Worcester, MA. to overcome the effects of previous segrega­ interviews with a local law enforcement agent Norton is the subject of a hostile takeover tion the Kansas City schools had to be made so exemplary that suburban young­ and a doctor. Students learn that long-term battle by the British conglomerate BTR. sters would choose to return to the inner use of marijuana can promote emphysema Today, we propose legislation which would city to school. All schools were required to and lung cancer, cause intrauterine growth re­ address, in a comprehensive, reasoned be completely renovated and air-condi­ tardation in females and low-birth weights in manner, the issue of foreign takeovers of U.S. tioned. Every classroom was to be equipped newborns, and that excessive use of alcohol corporations. April 26, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8565 Let me state for the record, Mr. Speaker, under the bill, the target corporation would VERDA WELCOME, 1907-90 that whereas our legislation is prompted by have to recognize gain on the appreciation the Norton case, it is by no means targeted in its assets. solely to that transaction. Many of the provi­ For purposes of determining whether HON. STENY H. HOYER sions of this legislation have long been rec­ there is a qualified stock purchase trigger­ OF MARYLAND ommended by some of the best and brightest ing the mandatory 338 election, the follow­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing rules apply. First, the person who makes corporate tax scholars in America. 1 Another the offer to acquire stock of a corporation is Thursday, April 26, 1990 provision of the bill is similar to a provision of treated as the purchasing corporation. the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, a great American Second, any stock acquired by a person leader from my home State of Maryland died 1989. acting in concert with the offereror is treated as this week. Verda Freeman Welcome, the first bers of this House dealt head-on with the being acquired by the offeror. Third, the female African-American State Senator in many loopholes in the tax laws which actually purchase is a qualified stock purchase, for American history, died over the weekend at provide incentives for foreign companies to purposes of the bill, if <1) the acquiring cor­ the age of 83. take over U.S. companies. In my view, these poration acquires more than 50% of the Verda Welcome was elected to the Mary­ changes should have been made as part of target corporation's stock or <2> the acquir­ land House of Delegates from in the 1986 Tax Reform Act; the whole purpose ing corporation has effective control over 1958, was elected to the Senate in 1962 and of that legislation was to take tax consider­ the target corporation. served until her retirement in 1982. ations out of economic decisionmaking. Under the bill, a foreign person can have I was fortunate to have been able to work These many tax incentives are especially effective control over a domestic corpora­ closely with Senator Welcome as a member troubling when foreign companies take over tion in several instances. As one example, of the senate and as its president. In particu­ U.S. companies, shut down U.S. operations, the sponsors intend that a foreign person lar, Senator Welcome and I worked together and cost American citizens their jobs. It has effective control over a domestic corpo­ on the Maryland Voting Rights Act. She was a seems perverse that American workers who ration where the foreign person controls the special senator, beloved by the people who board of directors of the domestic corpora­ lose their jobs are actually subsidizing­ elected her and by her colleagues. tion. This can occur even where the foreign through the income tax laws-this type of ac­ person does not own a majority of stock in Verda Welcome's devotion to service in her tivity. the domestic corporation at the time of the community is demonstrated in the fact that al­ Mr. Speaker, I urge that the Ways and acQuisition. though she retired from public office in 1982, Means Committee-on which I serve-take For example, if the acquiring foreign Senator Welcome continued to maintain an prompt action on my legislation. I insert a person succeeds in replacing a majority of office in the 3400 block of Holmes Avenue in technical description of my legislation at this the members of the Board of Directors of Baltimore to keep in touch with the neighbor­ point in the RECORD: the domestic corporation, the foreign hood until 1988. PROPOSAL RELATING TO CERTAIN HOSTILE person has effective control over the domes­ Senator Welcome was a courageous public TAKEOVERS OF U.S. CORPORATIONS BY FOR· tic corporation for purpose of the provision. servant, who banded together a group of EIGN CORPORATIONS Such a result could occur, for example, in black Baltimore women known as "the valiant SEC. !.-Mandatory Section 338 Election the case of a proxy fight. women" to defeat the Jack Pollack democrat­ in the Case of Certain Hostile Takeovers EFFECTIVE DATE ic machine in the Fourth district in 1958 when PRESENT LAW The provision applies to hostile qualified Ms. Welcome was first elected to the House Under present law, a corporation may stock purchases, with respect to which the of Delegates. elect to treat the purchase of another corpo­ acQuisition date is on or after April 26, 1990. Senator Welcome was born in Lake Lure, ration's stock as a purchase of the target SEC. 2-Additional Limitations on Earn­ NC in 1907. When her mother died, she corporation's assets under section 338 of the ings Stripping stayed in school by taking night classes so Internal Revenue Code. If such an election is made, the acquiring corporation may be PRESENT LAW she could help take care of her brothers and able to obtain a stepped-up basis for the tar­ Interest expenses of a U.S. corporate tax­ sisters during the day. get's assets; the target corporation must rec­ payer are, in general, deductible. The Omni­ She moved to Baltimore in 1929, and 3 ognize gain on the deemed sale of its assets. bus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 im­ years later graduated from Coppin Normal If the section 338 election is made, the old posed limitations on interest deductibility, School as a teacher. She taught in the Balti­ target is deemed to have sold its assets as of however, in the case of interest to a related more schools for 11 years. the close of the acquisition date for their fair market value in a single transaction, party that is not subject to current U.S. tax­ In 1935, she married the late Dr. Henry C. and the new target is deemed to have pur­ ation. Welcome. Before her political activity began, chased all of the assets of the old target as Under the provisions of OBRA '89, inter­ Verda Welcome was involved in many neigh­ of the beginning of the day after the acqui­ est deductions are disallowed for interest borhood causes. sition date. Thus, to the extent that the paid to related parties that are not subject One can imagine the obstacles in the way deemed purchase price of the stock exceeds to U.S. tax on the interest received if the of a black female state senator in the 1960's. the target corporation's adjusted basis in corporation's debt-to-equity ratio exceeds Once, while attending a legislative conference the assets, the target corporation must rec­ 1.5-to-1. The disallowance only applies to in Ocean City, then-Delegate Welcome was ognize gain. the extent that the corporation has "excess interest expenses", which is the excess of given a small, windowless room next to the EXPLANATION OF PROVISION furnace in the basement of the hotel. As a Under the bill, a section 338 election the corporation's interest expenses over 50% of its adjusted taxable income for the year. result, she introduced a public accommoda­ would be mandatory in the case of a hostile tions law that opened Maryland's hotels and takeover of a U.S. corporation by a foreign EXPLANATION OF PROVISION person (directly or through one or more cor­ public places to all citizens. It was my privi­ porations or other entities>. A hostile take­ Under the bill, no deduction for "disquali­ lege to work with her on that legislation. over is a takeover where a majority of the fied interest" as that term is defined under And in 1964, Senator Welcome successfully independent board members of the target present law is allowed, regardless of wheth­ evaded an assassination attempt in front of corporation disapprove the takeover. Thus, er the corporation has excess interest ex­ penses. The provision only applies in the her Baltimore home. case of a foreign person acquiring control of a domestic corpora­ complishments in the Maryland general as­ 338 of the Internal Revenue Code ; ffibright, of the bill. fights to ban cigarette smoking in public "Sec. 338 and Foreign-to-Foreign Stock Purchases,'' places. EFFECTIVE DATE Tax Adviser ; Emory, Swenson, Lerner, Verda F. Welcome's compassion, courage, Fuller, J., "Deductibility of Unamortized Intangible The provision applies in cases where con­ Assets Pursuant to Section 338 Election,'' Journal trol is acquired on or after April 26, 1990. and convictions were a special addition to the of Taxation (July, 1989>. and the entire State of Mary- 8566 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 26, 1990 land. She will be deeply missed, but her THE INDUSTRIAL DEFENSE ACT CONGRATULATIONS TO THE memory will be one which the State takes OF 1990 1989-90 WALTONVILLE SPARTANS great pride in for decades to come. Generations of African-American men and women will be elected to office in Maryland and across the country. They will be standing HON. LANE EVANS HON. GLENN POSHARD on the shoulders of Verda Welcome, a quiet OF ILLINOIS OF ILLINOIS trailblazer for justice. It is incumbent on those IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of us who knew her to make sure that Verda Thursday, April 26, 1990 Thursday, April 26, 1990 Welcome's legacy is not forgotten. Mr. EVANS. Mr. Speaker, as we debate the Mr. POSHARD. Mr. Speaker, one of my fa­ THE NEED FOR A BALANCED budget resolution today, we are about to vorite movies is "Hoosiers," based on the BUDGET AMENDMENT begin a new era in our country's national se­ story of an Indiana high school team that curity policy. The events inside the Soviet overcomes the odds to win a State title. It Union and eastern bloc have changed the could have just as easily been an Illinois HON. LARRY E. CRAIG shape of history forever. The threat to United school, because we take no back seat in our OF IDAHO States national security from the Soviet Union enjoyment of the game or quality of its play. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and its allies is now severely diminished. We That story is told in real life each year in our can finally start to reap the peace dividend Thursday, April26, 1990 State tournaments, and this year a team from that Americans have worked so hard for. my district lived that experience. They did not Mr. CRAIG. Mr. Speaker, today as each Yet, we must continue to be prepared for win the State title, but they did have a magical Member steps up and says his piece about future threats to U.S. national security from all year filled with thrilling victories and agonizing the budget resolution and calls for affirmative corners of the globe. While we certainly have defeats. action on our budget deficit, I would like to the luxury to reduce our defense expenditures I'm proud to represent the city of Walton­ remind my colleagues that not only do we from massive, cold war levels, we must also ville in Congress and to congratulate the need to focus on the particular proposals maintain our defense industrial base, the very 1989-90 Waltonville High School Spartans on within the budget resolution, but we also need foundation of our military readiness. Unfortu­ their season. The Spartans were guided to a to look at reforming the budget process as a nately, it is in sad shape. We have been in­ 20-10 season by Ed Belva, a man with whom whole. creasingly losing our Nation's capability to I started my brief coaching career. I envy Ed's Mr. Speaker, I am referring to enacting a produce defense goods at the expense of our ability to. teach the lessons you learn through balanced budget amendment to our Constitu­ foreign trade competitors. The saddest part of team sports. tion. Since I first entered the House in 1980, I the whole situation is that it is happening with have worked diligently with Members like Mr. the assistance of our own Defense Depart­ The Spartans reached the Eldorado Tourna­ STENHOLM of Texas to build a coalition on this ment. ment finals, claimed runner-up in the Mid­ issue. Slowly, we have done that, and today In a suit filed by the National Council of In­ South Conference, and then came on strong we have 246 cosponsors on our balanced dustrial Defense [NCID], the NCID accused to win regional and sectional championships. budget amendment, House Joint Resolution the Department of Defense of granting blan­ Waltonville was defeated in the class A super­ 268. Yet, even with a majority of support for ket waivers of the Buy American Act of 1933 sectional by the team that eventually won this measure, it has not been considered­ in negotiating memorandums of understanding third place in the State. indeed, no balanced budget amendment pro­ [MOU's] with foreign governments. These I congratulate everyone associated with the posal has been considered-by the Judiciary blanket waivers have come at a huge cost to team for the way they performed throughout Committee or the full House during this ses­ American workers and business. Currently the the year. I wish them continued success both sion. DOD estimates that foreign contracts make up on and off the court, and hope they will Now is the time, Mr. Speaker. Now is the close to $4 billion of the Pentagon's annual always draw great satisfaction from their ac­ time to have full debate on the floor of this procurement budget. Yet, the DOD fails to complishments this year. House on the merits of a balanced budget keep track of most foreign subcontracts. amendment to the Constitution. I hope the I am entering into the CONGRESSIONAL When the subcontracts are counted, NCID es­ RECORD the names of the people who played House leadership will recognize the bipartisan timates that between $20 to $30 billion of the support the balanced budget amendment has important roles in making this season so suc­ Defense Department's procurement budget cessful. and allow House Joint Resolution 268 come goes to foreign contractors. to the floor for a vote during this legislative DOD claims that it must be allowed to grant session. 1989-90 WALTONVILLE SPARTANS Back in my home State of Idaho, we price blanket waivers because it gets into political ROSTER ourselves on our fiscal responsibility. We work questions that should be decided by the exec­ utive branch in handling foreign policy. Yet, it Matt Carpenter, Scott Haley, John Kise­ hard and live within our means. Mr. Speaker, lewski, Ryan Norris, Jason Dees, Greg Win­ those are values all of us profess to believe runs contrary to Congress' original intent of the Buy American Act to allow this multibillion chester, Jason Newell, Tim Colle, Jeff Wil­ in, but Congress has not practiced any such liams, Josh Davis, Ryan Winchester, Brice fiscal responsibility in reality. Enacting a bal­ dollar farce to continue. Sheriff, Matt Dressler, James Copple. anced budget amendment to our Constitution Today, I am offering a bill that would require VARSITY CHEERLEADERS would move Congress back on to the road of the Department of Defense to follow Con­ Susan Wagner, Jennifer Schwankhaus, fiscal responsibility. I urge my colleagues to gress' . original intent in enacting the Buy Stephanie Allison, Beth Bauza, Michelle remember that voting for or against the American Act of 1933. The Industrial Defense Beckham, Liggett, Wendy Cook Dan­ budget resolution and its amendments will not Act of 1990 would require the Secretary of yiel Carpenter. solve our deficit problems. Our deficit prob­ Defense to grant waivers of the Buy American ADMINISTRATION lems are caused by the system within which Act on a case-by-case basis, opening up the Ed Belva, head basketball coach/athletic we work. The rules of the game presently en­ Defense Department's compliance with the director; Matt Fisher, Assistant coach; courage deficit spending. We need to change act to congressional scrutiny. I hope you will James Jenkins, superintendent/principal; those rules to ensure that they encourage join me in helping assure American workers Barbara Lentz, cheerleader sponsor; fiscal responsibility instead. Only then will our jobs and protecting the integrity of our Na­ Jill Garrison, Vicki Allison, Melody Lappn, deficit problems be resolved. tion's defense industrial base. 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April 26, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8567 JAPAN AND SUPER 301 "The Hunt for Red October." It is a real-life in­ Mu'ammar Qadhafi exemplified this when he cident, recounted by Robert Fox of the declared this spring that "if we had had a de­ HON. DOUG WALGREN London Daily Telegraph. terrent force of missiles able to reach New OF PENNSYLVANIA That incident reinforces a prospect of great York-during the American raid-we would IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES concern to United States strategic planners: have directed them at that very moment." that a Soviet civil war could eventually involve Therein lies the danger that SOl can avert. Thursday, April 26, 1990 nuclear weapons. Should this occur, an inter­ It is America's insurance policy against both Mr. WALGREN. Mr. Speaker, this morning's nal Soviet dispute could quickly be trans­ accidental launch and nuclear blackmail. paper quotes the Trade Representatives as formed into a global nuclear nightmare. Even Moreover, with a price not substantially great­ saying it is unlikely that the President will des­ today, if disgruntled elements within the Red er than some of the missile programs now de­ ignate Japan a Super 301 country. If the army purposely launch a missile toward our bated in Congress, SOl is financially feasible. Trade Representative is right, I can only con­ shores, there is nothing America could do. Not Importantly, though, the benefits of SOl do clude that the President is more concerned a thing. not stop at the ozone layer. Spin-off technolo­ about appeasing the Japanese investors who As democracy flowers throughout most of gy from SOl research is already reshaping our finance our national debt, than about standing the world, it is tempting to see America's Stra­ society and the promise of tomorrow's im­ up for the American businesses who can help tegic Defense Initiative-SOl-as spurious at provements is even greater. Computer engi­ us get back in the black. best and anachronistic at worst. "The enemy neers have incorporated SOl optical technolo­ Japan is the world's second largest econo­ is gone," we hear, "why spend billions on a gy to produce a generation of an inexpensive my with a GNP of nearly $3 trillion. It is the weapons system to defeat an enemy that supercomputer that works 1,000 times faster second largest trading partner of the United doesn't exist?" than ordinary models. A laser-treatment proc­ States and is by far the largest potential That is a good question-but it is based on ess orginally developed for the SOl program is market for new U.S. exports. While United a false premise. now used to wash blood supplies of diseases States exports to Japan have increased over The fact that the Soviet Union is pulling such as herpes, measles, hepatitis-B. and the last year, they remain far below what they troops out of Eastern Europe is irrelevant to AIDS. This could help reduce health care should be, based on the quality and competi­ the SOl program. SOl was never intended to costs. tiveness of American goods and the size of halt a blitzkrieg invasion of Western Europe. Even the U.S. auto industry will benefit. the Japanese market. Despite intensive efforts SOl is inherently a defensive weapon. It has Temperature-resistant carbon fiber developed by United States Trade Negotiators and no offensive utility and indeed would be used for SOl is being tested for use in car engines. United States businesses, our trade deficit if and only if another country launches a strike These components are more durable than with Japan has failed to fall below the $50 bil­ against America first. steel and will likely decrease maintenance lion range. For their part, despite pulling back from costs. The simple fact is that even America's most Eastern Europe, the Soviets have renewed These are but a few of the spin-offs Amer­ highly competitive industries-semiconductors, their drive toward ballistic missile superiority, ica has already realized from SOl research. telecommunications, wood products, automo­ modernizing their SS-18's and mobile SS- Clearly, more impressive spin-offs are tive parts, electronics, advanced metals, and 24's and SS-25's. So while Gorbachev is coming-but only if we spend the effort and many others-have been denied a fair chance idling on one front, his overall build-up pro­ resources needed to reach them. to sell their products in Japan. Japan's closed ceeds apace. For 7 years, America's SOl program has system is the product of economic policies Second and more important, the Soviets are been ridiculed by liberal Congressmen, mis­ and collusive business practices that have but one of the adversaries against which SOl guided peaceniks and concerned scientists. been outlawed in this country for 100 years. offers protection. Indeed, for all its imperialist Yet despite its rocky funding, the program has Failure to designate Japan under Super 301 designs, the Soviet leadership still, I believe, persevered. It helped prod the Soviets into ac­ will directly undermine the credibility of United understands the true horror of nuclear weap­ cepting Ronald Reagan's medium-range mis­ States positions advanced in ongoing negotia­ onry. They know-many of them first-hand­ sile reduction proposal, which culminated in tions with Japan, such as the structural im­ the devastation wreaked on their homeland the 1987 United States-Soviet arms reduction pediments initiative and signal acceptance of during World War 11-estimated Soviet casual­ the status quo. For American manufacturers, treaty. Owing to its clearly defensive nature, ties: 20 million. Seeing that sort of destruction the future of SOl may hold even more arms acceptance of the status quo is in fact surren­ from conventional weaponry alone must give der. reduction treaties. at least temporary pause to even the most That, however, will only happen if we make Our Nation's security depends on a strong ideology committed Marxist. America-both technologically and industrially. it happen. The choice is ours and the time to Clearly, the same cannot be said of leaders decide is now. I, therefore, call on the President to designate in, for example, Iran, Libya, and Iraq. Yet, they Japan as a priority country and its unfair trade too will soon be owners of nuclear weaponry. barriers as priority practices under Super 301 Look at the news: In late March, United ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE of the 1988 Trade Act. States and British agents arrested 5 people in UNITED STATES AND AROUND London for allegedly trying to smuggle 40 nu­ THE WORLD SDI NOW MORE THAN EVER clear weapons triggers to Iraq. Two weeks later, customs officials in Britain, Turkey, and HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA HON. BOB UVINGSTON seized pieces of steel tubing en route OF CALIFORNIA OF LOUISIANA to Iraq. Officials believe the tubing was to be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES connected to form a hardened artillery barrel IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES capable of firing nuclear missiles. Thursday, April 26, 1990 Thursday, April 26, 1990 Libya and Syria each dream of being the Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, recent events in Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, imagine the Arab world's preeminent power, so each is Central and Eastern Europe have captured following: Shortly after Christmas, Moslem racing to develop long-range ballistic missiles. our imagination and inspired ideas as have separatists in the Soviet Union assault an Brazil, , and Pakistan are also trying their very few international developments since the army depot believed to store nuclear weap­ best. "In all," states CIA Director William end of the Second World War. The burgeon­ ons. Taken completely by surprise, Soviet Webster, "at least 15 developing nations will ing democracies on the eastern side of what guards are overrun. The Kremlin reacts quick­ be producing their own ballistic missiles by the was the Iron Curtain are now actively seeking ly, however, and dispatches emergency rein­ year 2000." the aid and counsel of the United States and forcements who uproot the insurgents and With all those countries possessing literally the American people to help make a success­ secure the base. That night, Soviet television thousands of intercontinental missiles, ful transition to freedom. The central question informs the nation that "most of the material chances of a launch rise exponentially. Per­ before us is this: How can we best help. and ammunition has since been recovered." haps the launch could be accidental. More On April 8, 1990, an essay offering a Unfortunately, this scenario is not the plot likely, however, it would be the deliberate thought-provoking approach to the challenges of a new Robert Ludlum novel nor a sequel to work of a deranged mind. Libya's leader facing Central and Eastern Europe-and the 8568 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 26, 1990 United States-was published by the Los An­ science and business departments of nearby kets in those countries prove that these men geles Times. It's author is Mike Malone, a colleges and universities; credit lines from and women exist. Freedom and capital are well-respected contributor to the San Jose banks; equity money from venture capital­ what they need to grow. ists; suppliers and distributions and a whole Mercury News and the host of "Malone", a army of consultants on everything from real With help, the first new start-up firms in syndicated public television program produced estate and office equipment to public rela­ Eastern Europe would probably specialize by KTEH-TV in San Jose, CA. Mr. Malone tions, law and bookkeeping. simply in more efficient distribution of do­ argues forcefully, and persuasively, that it is Such an infrastructure is not easy to mestic and Western goods. But more sophis­ entrepreneurship which will bolster the free­ achieve. But when it works, as it did in Sili­ ticated technology and manufacturing com­ doms achieved in the Warsaw Pact. He be­ con Valley by the mid-1970s, an entrepre­ panies would appear soon thereafter. lieves that the United States should do all it neurial community is an extraordinary can to foster free enterprise and unleash the thing to behold: an unsurpassed generator Experience suggests, in this increasingly creativity which has been welled up these last of wealth and employment. internationalized business world in which The goal of the Terman Plan would be to we now operate, that venture capitalists, 45 years. foster such entrepreneurial communities in bankers and professional service providers, Mr. Speaker, Mike Malone in his article cor­ Eastern Europe. If similar structures can if given some guarantee of an enduring free rectly points to his home and mine-Califor­ create miracles in a decade's time in South market environment, will quickly be just as nia's Santa Clara County, better known to the Korea and Taiwan, why not on even shorter eager to work under a Terman Plan with world as Silicon Valley-for the model of crea­ notice in Bulgaria and Hungary, starting as new start-up companies in Prague as they tivity and free enterprise to help guide the they do with better-educated populations? are with young firms in Sunnyvale. transformation of Eastern Europe. I urge my Unlike Western Europe, which suffers colleagues to consider the course of action he from a class structure that looks with ill-dis­ The Terman Plan would have two distinct details, and I am pleased to provide my fellow guised contempt upon "shopkeepers," the tasks: Members of Congress with the text of Mr. Ma­ countries of Eastern Europe are, for the moment at least, societies of near-equals. It First, it would help create an environment lone's article. is precisely from such settings that econom­ in Eastern Europe conducive to entrepre­ How TO HELP EASTERN EUROPE ic powerhouses emerge. In fact, a leavening neurship. This could include providing of Eastern European entrepreneurship Overseas Private Investment Corp. insur­ Eastern Europe is in a race with calamity. might be the one thing that Europe 1992 ance against political instability; sponsoring Our immediate response, as always, will be needs to succeed. modern labs, student scholarships and guest to send money. But money to whom? To the Furthermore, as was the Marshall Plan professorships at Eastern European univer­ new governments? For the past 45 years, before it, the Terman Plan is something sities; extending small business loans; pro­ that's what we've done for foreign govern­ only the United States can do. Japan cer­ viding computer networks armed with in­ ments, both democratic and tyrannical, tainly can't help: It too is struggling to un­ ventory control software; building "garage­ benign and murderous-and the inevitable derstand-and imitate-our unique ability to type" industrial parks; helping underwrite result nearly everywhere has been billions create innovative new companies. second-sourcing agreements with U.S. man­ wasted on insane public works projects, Unfortunately, desire doesn't match abili­ ufacturers and even offering courses on dead currencies, poorly considered agricul­ ty. No one ever wants to help the entrepre­ writing business plans. tural ventures and blind temporary solu­ neur. Even here in the United States, a tions to serious long-term problems. country that was built by entrepreneurs and Then, building upon this environment, Our aid, for the most part, has harvested only retains its economic strength because the Terman Plan could form a venture fund resentment, intractable debt and misery for of them, they are undermined by govern­ directed by the U.S. electronic industry and its recipients when the initial cash infusion ment and resented by big business. And en­ venture capital veterans dedicated to the formation of new efforts towards Eastern Europe, even if help their cause. firms in those countries. made with the purest of motives, won't have Yet at the same time, entrepreneurial identical results? In a country such as start-up companies are the most democratic Such a fund would operate as its private Poland, with its combination of ecological of institutions. They are indifferent to race, counterparts do: soliciting business plans, destruction, weak infrastructure and obso­ age, class or gender, instead rewarding crea­ working with start-up teams and joining up lete industry, can any amount of money tivity, pluck and hard work. That's why, with other venture firms on investments. stave off decades of impoverishment and with communism effectively dead, and eco­ And, as do other venture capital firms, it unemployment? nomic and political democracy at last earn­ might actually make money as its new cor­ Yes. But only if the money is offered in­ ing its greatest hearing, we desperately need porate charges "went public." These gains telligently. That will mean abandoning tra­ entrepreneurs to plead our case. could be reinvested in the fund or even, re­ ditional aid programs and embarking upon Consider the Silicon Valley company Mips markably, be returned to the U.S. govern­ radically new ones. Government-to-govern­ Computer Systems Inc. On Dec. 12, just ment. ment money, food, even joint ventures with weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall and major U.S. corporations will not be enough. days before the revolution in Romania, Such a program would cost no more than There is only one proven way to turn an Mips had its initial public offering of stock. $300 million, two-thirds of that for invest­ economy around and create thousands of By the end of the day, given the closing ment. That's a tiny amount compared to our new jobs in the time that Eastern Europe price of $19.50 per share, the company was past wasted efforts in the rest of the world. has available: valued at about $400 million. About 20 of And we might even get the money back; Entrepreneurship. the largest shareholders made more than $1 that is, if government officials can resist We must aid the emerging entrepreneurs million that day. Perhaps 200 more-nearly in the newly freed republics of Eastern all employees-saw their net worth increase telling the fund directors where to invest Europe. Only they can save their societies by $100,000 to $500,000. for political, instead of sound economic, rea­ by quickly creating sufficient economic dy­ Mips isn't unique. Here in Silicon Valley, sons. namism and employment. we've become accustomed to meteoric com­ Would a Terman Plan actually work? There has been much talk lately about re­ panies bursting onto the stock tables. Hew­ Ironically, the closest precedent for such a viving the Marshall Plan. Consider an alter­ lett-Packard, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, program was the opening of the American native. Call it the Terman Plan, after the vi­ Amdahl, Rolm, Tandem Computers, Apple West-a legendary success. Still, success of a sionary Stanford University professor who Computer, Sun Microsystems-each in turn Terman Plan is not guaranteed. Every one created Stanford Industrial Park and helped among the fastest-growing firms in Ameri­ get Hewlett-Packard under way. nies, a half-million jobs, scores of life-en­ would be created might turn out to be un­ Fifty years ago, Frederick Terman real­ hancing products, tens of billions of dollars competitive and fail. But then again, there ized before anyone else that entrepreneur­ in revenue-and all of it arose in just 20 might be a Mips or even an Apple in there, ship was essential to the economic dynamo years from the minds of entrepreneurs. growing like topsy, spinning off dozens of of the modern high-tech world. But more You can be sure that there are at least as other businesses that would sprout like than that, he understood that for entrepre­ many budding entrepreneurs in Eastern seeds and grow into great plants. That's the neurship to survive it must be cradled in a Europe, notably in retailing, agriculture and thing about entrepreneurs. They are a complex web of supporting institutions: the consumer products. The thriving black mar- messy and unpredictable lot. April 26, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8569 MEMORIAL TO THE INDIANS OF both the U.S. House of Representatives and as an extension of , and he BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN the U.S. Senate. His 28 years of congression­ fought for an adequate navY and armed al service follows many other achievements, forces for our national defense. He passed the bill for fifteen new cruisers while a HON. RON MARLENEE most notably his service to the citizens of member of the Naval Mfairs Committee in Maryland whom he served in the Maryland OF MONTANA the 1930's. He also became Chairman of the House of Delegates and his recognized brav­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Territories Committee, and in that capacity ery during World War II. In fact, his he authored and secured adoption of the Thursday, April26, 1990 leadership on the battlefield not only saved Independence Bill. In 1946 he Mr. MARLENEE. Mr. Speaker, today I am lives, it also was the basis for a battle plan attended the independence ceremonies in introducing legislation that at last will give rec­ that was taught at West Point for years. Manila after the war. ognition to the fallen Indian warriors of the I am proud to inform my colleagues that Although he supported President Roose­ Senator Tydings was a resident of Maryland's velt and many of his measures to ease the most famous battle ever fought in the Indian ills of the Great Depression, he opposed a wars-the Battle of the Little Bighorn. First Congressional District. This year would number of the programs. Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has long have been Senator Tydings 1OOth birthday In 1938 he was one of the principal leaders been honored along with 268 of his forces and the mayor and city council of Havre de in the U.S. Senate in the fight against the who died in this battle at what is now known Grace, MD, have honored this great leader's "Supreme Court Packing Bill," which would as the Custer Battlefield National Monument memory by proclaiming 1990 as Millard E. have added four additional justices to the in my congressional district of eastern Mon­ Tydings Year. . Supreme Court, thus giving President Roo­ tana. In 1881, the U.S. Government erected a Mr. · Speaker, I am proud to share with my sevelt effective control of all three branches colleagues a short biography on Senator Tyd­ of our government. monument over the mass grave-site on Last This led to the famous Roosevelt Purge Stand Hill for soldiers, scouts, and civilians at­ ings during his centennial celebration. Campaign in 1938. President Roosevelt and tached to the 7th Cavalry who died there. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, HAVRE DE GRACE, five members of his Cabinet came into But the legislation I am introducing today PROCLAIM 1990 MILLARD E. TYDINGS YEAR Maryland to campaign against Senator Tyd­ will begin to restore historical balance to the The Mayor and City Council of Havre de ings in the Democratic primary. The Presi­ battle. While many members of the Cheyenne, Grace, Maryland have honored one of their dent did not succeed. Sioux, and other Indian nations gave their most distinguished citizens by proclaiming Mter World War II, the Senator authored lives defending their families and their tradi­ 1990, The Millard E. Tydings Year. Senator the Armed Forces Unification Bill and Millard Tydings was born Easter Sunday, became the first Chairman of the Armed tional lifestyle and livelihood, nothing {)tands April, 1890, and would have been 100 years Services Committee. He was also Chairman at the battlefield to commemorate those indi­ old this year. of the Senate Democratic Steering Commit­ viduals. Senator Tydings served his State and tee, and a member of the Foreign Relations My bill authorizes the design and construc­ nation his entire adult life, from 1916 to Committee, the Atomic Energy Committee, tion of a memorial to the Indians who gave 1950, the first half of the 20th Century. A and the Subcommittee on Appropriations their lives in defending their homeland, who graduate of the old Maryland Agriculture for Armed Services. He was urged strongly gave their lives in an effort to hold onto their and Engineering College at College Park, in some quarters for the Presidency. Gener­ heritage, their way of life. Maryland, he subsequently attended law al Omar Bradley said Senator Tydings knew school at the University of Maryland. He more about the armed forces of the U.S. and But this legislation will do more than bring became an engineer and a lawyer, and was its allies than any one in the Congress of recognition to one group of courageous Indi­ elected to the Maryland House of Delegates the United States. ans. This year marks the 1OOth anniversary of in 1916 shortly before his National Guard Senator Tydings was defeated for reelec­ the last battle fought by the Indians-the unit was activated. tion to the Senate in 1950. The campaign Battle of Wounded Knee. And, with the theme When the United States declared war on against him that year was condemned by a of "Peace Through Unity," this memorial rec­ Germany, Tydings' National Guard unit re­ Senate investigating committee as a "vile ognizes that only through peaceful relation­ turned from nine months service on the backstreet campaign." It featured the use of ships among people of all races can our Mexican border. He served in the American a "composite photo" in campaign flyers Expeditionary Forces on the battlefields of which inserted a picture of Earl Browner, Nation achieve the unity that is so vital to con­ France in Maryland's Blue and Gray 29th Communist Party leader, close to Senator tinued strength and prosperity. Division. He returned home a Lieutenant Tydings. Senator Tydings had, in fact, never I wish to note that the entire State of Mon­ Colonel in command of the division machine met him. Senator Tydings won the primary tana stands to benefit from erection of this guns. He was decorated with the Distin­ election in 1956, but shortly after was strick­ memorial. Its establishment will further en­ guished Service Medal, and the Distin­ en with illness, and had to withdraw from hance the already worldwide and national sig­ guished Service Cross, "for bravery beyond the election. nificance of Custer Battlefield National Monu­ the call of duty." He developed the battle He was a fighter for what he believed in ment, increasing its drawing power as a major plan for one of the first major machine gun and once said to a critic, "I don't want a seat barrages to protect advancing infantry in the U.S. Senate if I can't vote for what historical site in the United States. troops at the Battle of Etrayes Ridge. The my conscience says is right." Because of its significance in Indian history Ridge was the last German fortification His widow, Eleanor Davies Tydings, said as the site of the last major victory by the Indi­ along the middle of the allied lines. The Millard Tydings "had three great loves: the ans, Custer Battlefield has long deserved the Tydings plan was taught for many years at U.S.A., the State of Maryland, and the U.S. recognition it has received. Now, with the es­ West Point. Senate." His wife said, "I am proud to have tablishment of this memorial, its importance Mter the war he served in the Maryland been his fourth love." will be fittingly elevated in the pages of U.S. legislature where he was elected Speaker of the House of Delegates. During his term as history. Speaker, he was the author of the bill com­ INTRODUCING A BILL TO RE­ I ask my colleagues to join me in cospon­ bining the Maryland Agricultural and Tech­ STRICT LAND EXCHANGE AU­ soring this important legislation. nical College and the University of Mary­ THORITY WHEN AIR QUALITY land Technical School in Baltimore into the IS ADVERSELY AFFECTED present University of Maryland. FORMER SENATOR MILLARD E. In 1922 he was elected to the U.S. House TYDINGS HONORED BY MARY­ of Representatives. In 1926, he was elected HON. WAYNE OWENS LAND CITIZENS to the U.S. Senate where he served until OF UTAH 1950. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. ROY DYSON In the U.S. Congress he was a leader of the Conservative Jeffersonian Democrats. Thursday, April26, 1990 OF MARYLAND He believed that less government was the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. OWENS of Utah. I am introducing this best government, that economy in national bill today because of a glaring inadequacy in Thursday, April26, 1990 government was most important, and that a burgeoning national debt would be disas­ the way FLPMA land exchange authority is Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to trous. In the early 1930's, he was fighting currently implemented. It doesn't protect our salute and pay tribute to the memory of Sena­ for pay as you go legislation in the Senate. air. Specifically, I intend to insist that the Fed­ tor Millard E. Tydings, a former Member of He believed that World War II was coming eral land manager, with the concurrence of 8570 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 26, 1990 the EPA Administrator, determine that a pro­ I decided to get involved in this program. be­ Jersey earlier this month, he closed a chapter posed land exchange for construction of a cause of a group of outstanding high school that was rich in accomplishment for the bi­ powerplant will not degrade the air quality of a students in the Sixth District of North Carolina. state agency, for New Jersey, and for the nonattainment area. This determination must The Science Club at Page High School in metropolitan region. be made before the land exchange can be ap­ Greensboro, NC, has become the first high Phil is one of those public officials who proved. school in the United States to initiate a drive gives public service a good name; he viewed A 2,000-megawatt powerplant has been to locate and register students for possible his duties at the port authority as both a joy proposed just across the border from our two bone marrow donations. The students call and a high calling to contribute to a better States in northeastern Nevada. Because of their effort "The BMW Project." BMW stands future for the 17 million citizens of the region. prevailing winds and the 450-foot-high stacks for Bone Marrow Wanted. During his tenure, the port authority em­ which are envisioned, it is apparent that a siz­ While the students deserve praise for their barked on a complex multibillion-dollar capital able portion of the 64,000 tons of pollutants willingness to get involved in such a notewor­ plan to modernize our regional infrastructure generated annually will drift toward areas in thy community project, special recognition to meet the global competition of the 21st our States which are already struggling with must be given to Mr. Jim Woody, a biology century. He steered this program through air quality. Because of an incomplete environ­ teacher at Page High School. It was Jim many critical junctures, for which he deserves mental impact statement, determined by the Woody who first approached his students with EPA as inadequate, the effect of this plant on the idea of starting a student registry. The recognition as one of the region's master the air quality of nearby nonattainment areas idea came to him after watching a television builders. was not even considered. Our bill will make program about how whites have a better Beyond bricks and mortar, Phil Kalten­ that determination an integral part of any deci­ chance of getting a marrow transplant than bacher helped New Jerseyans come to under­ sion to exchange public lands for the purpose blacks. Only about 7 percent of the 96,000 stand better the opportunities and competitive of building a major powerplant facility. The potential marrow donors registered in a na­ challenges inherent in the State's fast-growing burden of proof will be on the Federal land tional registry now are nonwhite. While the role in the world economy. At the same time, manager to determine that the land exchange Page High School BMW Project began as an he assured that the benefits from this growth will not adversely affect air quality in a nonat­ effort to increase the number of minority regis­ flowed to the State's urban centers, as well as tainment area. trants, it has grown beyond that to include the its suburbs. Under section 206 of FLPMA, land ex­ entire school. Phil Kaltenbacher set a high standard of change authority is contingent upon the ex­ The students became completely involved leadership that I believe will be well-main­ change being in the "public interest." Our bill in The BMW Project. They went out and solic­ tained in the capable hands of his successor, states that the requisite public interest is not ited funds from the business community. They Dick Leone. As a friend of both men, I think it served if the purpose of an exchange is to sold cases of candy. They recruited other construct a powerplant which will adversely is appropriate at this time of transition to school clubs at Page to get involved. Their pause and take note that Phil Kaltenbacher's affect air quality in a nonattainment area. most important achievement was getting local years as port authority chairman were years This is a question which we will address lab interested in their efforts. Genetic Design, more and more often as the tentacles of Incorporated, of Greensboro, NC, agreed to when the public was extremely well served. energy-hungry, high-growth areas extend to do the blood tissue typing at cost. Because the relatively clean air of the West in order to this has become a fairly expensive procedure, spread their pollution around and build facili­ many people are reluctant to join a donor pro­ ties which would never be permitted in the gram. We are grateful that Genetic Design areas they are designed to serve. But Salt has decided to get involved in this effort, and FLIGHT ATTENDANT SAFETY Lake City's future growth should not be nega­ we commend company officials for their will­ PROFESSIONALS DAY tively affected by a plant in Nevada built to ingness to assist in such a worthy cause. supply power to California. Nor should the There is another Sixth District connection to HON. JIM UGHTFOOT cleanest air in the lower 48 States-centered today's registration of members of Congress. directly on the site of this proposed plant-be One of the labs which is used for the National OF IOWA degraded simply because its purity allows a Marrow Donor Program is located in our dis­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES permissible dilution of pollution. I do not look trict. Roche Biomedical Lab of Burlington, NC, forward to the bleak and dreary future of an is one of the three labs which will be used to Thursday, April26, 1990 evenly polluted Nation from coast to coast. type and test the blood of potential donors. Mr. LIGHTFOOT. Mr. Speaker, I was We would never allow a 1,000-mile sewer pipe We congratulate . Roche Biomedical for its in­ pleased to lend my support to legislation re­ from the West coast to pour effluent into our volvement in this program. cently introduced designating July 19, 1990, pure rivers in the mountain West. Neither As I said, I am honored to participate in this as Flight Attendant Safety Professionals Day. should we stand by while the same thing hap­ National Marrow Donor Program. We some­ Flight attendants are professionals trained pens to our air. times hear complaints about today's youth, to respond to various emergencies and make but you will not hear that from me. Thanks to split-second decisions in the best interest of a group of dedicated students at Page High their passengers. That, in fact, was the case School in Greensboro, NC, someone facing a when United Airlines flight 232 crashed in THE NATIONAL MARROW potential life-threatening blood disorder just Sioux City, lA, on July 19, 1989. Thanks to the might receive a second chance. Congratula­ DONOR PROGRAM professionalism and expertise of the United tions to everyone involved in The BMW Project. crew, many of the passengers on board were HON. HOWARD COBLE spared from an untimely death. OF NORTH CAROLINA It seems appropriate that July 19th be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES chosen as the day to recognize the courage and dedication demonstrated by individuals Thursday, April26, 1990 PHIL KALTENBACHER: who are entrusted with our safety. Traveling to Mr. COBLE. Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVANT and honor to join with my colleagues today to and from Washington, DC, I appreciate the take a simple blood test in order to join the HON. ROBERT G. TORRICELU role of our flight attendants. I hope my col­ National Marrow Donor Program. This worth­ leagues will consider my comments the next OF NEW JERSEY time they are flying back to their congression­ while effort is a national federal registry that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES matches unrelated marrow donors with those al district. You might stop and think how your in need of a life-saving transplant. I applaud Thursday, April 26, 1990 flights are more comfortable and secure due my colleague Representative BILL YouNG of Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. Speaker, when Phil to the performance and skill of the flight at­ Florida for leading the national registry effort Kaltenbacher stepped aside as chairman of tendants. Please join me in cosponsoring in Congress. the Port Authority of New York and New House Joint Resolution 533. April 26, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8571 FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING produce into Washington from The Plains by REMARKS BY RANDALL L. TODD, D.H.Sc., SEAS FOR LT. STEPHEN R. train. However, the charming old train station M.P.H CHAPIN, JR., U.S. NA"V;y is still there. So are the old well-kept country Mr. Chairman and members of the com­ houses with big lawns, lovely churches, and mittee, thank you for giving me the oppor­ HON. RICHARD A. GEPHARDT small village shops and businesses. Today, as tunity to speak on behalf of thousands of it was 80 years ago, farms, large and small, infants who are being adversely affected by OF MISSOURI border the town and sustain foxhunting in tobacco use. I understand that one of your IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Orange County Hunt territory and an agricul­ primary focuses has been on the effects of Thursday, April26, 1990 illicit drug use among pregnant women. I tural way of life. These physical characteristics would invite you, however, to consider the Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, it is a pleas­ of the The Plains are certainly comfortable to effects of a substance which is completely ure today to take this opportunity to recognize the eye and the spirit. legal in this country, which is used by more and honor Lt. Stephen R. Chapin, Jr., U.S. Even more important are the town's people than 25 percent of pregnant women and Navy for his outstanding service as congres­ themselves. The Plains' residents have knitted which has been scientifically demonstrated sional liaison officer for the U.S. Navy with the together a sense of community spirit evi­ to have serious adverse side effects on the House of Representatives. denced by smalltown friendliness and good unborn fetus and neonate. A 1985 U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Lieu­ neighbor practices. Everyone works together Smoking of tobacco during pregnancy is in civic endeavors from the town council to an important mofidiable risk factor for low tenant Chapin was selected for this demand­ birthweight, <1.2> and is also correlated with ing assignment as a result of his distinguished volunteer organizations like the Community league. The Plains Fire Department and increased risk of early fetal loss. (3.4) It is service as surface warfare officer in USS projected that if pregnant women Rescue Squad is noted for its competent, effi­ all Doyle (FFG-39). This included several exten­ stopped smoking, the number of fetal and sive deployments to the , cient service to the community. Perhaps one infant deaths would be reduced by 10 per­ , and Persian Gulf as part of the of the most interesting aspects about life in cent. <5> An estimate of the average cost of Navy's Expeditionary Force to that crisis­ The Plains is that the smalltown library, neonatal care is $189 higher <1983 dollars> plagued region. staffed by volunteers and nicely landscaped, for infants born to smokers. <6> Smoking in During his tour with the Bicentennial Con­ was once the town jail. pregnancy has also been linked to postnatal gress, I and many of my colleagues have Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the citizens of complications. Smoking doubles the risk of greatly relied on Lieutenant Chapin's superb the town of The Plains as they celebrate the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome . <7> Clearly, attention needs to be given to this knowledge of Navy policy and outstanding as­ 80th anniversary of their town and their spe­ cial, rural way of life. problem and methods need to be developed sistance covering a variety of military matters. that will help pregnant women quit smoking Of particular note, Lieutenant Chapin has or a least reduce their consumption of ta­ been a key liaison between the House of Rep­ PREGNANT WOMEN TO REFRAIN bacco during their pregnancy. Traditional resentatives and the U.S. Naval Academy. He FROM SMOKING smoking cessation programs generally uti­ has been instrumental in coordinating Military lize multiple educational sessions often Academy Orientation Programs for congres­ HON. RICHARD J. DURBIN spread over a time frame of several weeks. sional staff members. Additionally, on his Such programs often impose time and trans­ OF ILLINOIS portation barriers to the pregnant popula­ weekends and free time both he and his wife, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Julie, have been instrumental in supporting tion. Recently, there has been a significant Thursday, April 26, 1990 trend toward the use of self-help materials the House of Representatives Page Program for smoking cessation which can be utilized with orientation programs and tours to the Mr. DURBIN. Mr. Speaker, cigarette smok­ by an individual without the need for at­ U.S. Navy Academy at Annapolis. During ing during pregnancy is one of the major pre­ tendance at formal clinic sessions. these tours he has served as a positive role ventable causes of low birthweight births and These techniques must rely heavily on the model for the congressional pages, exemplify­ fetal and infant mortality. It has been estimat­ ability and motivation of the individual to ing the highest standards of the U.S. Navy. ed that the number of fetal and infant deaths read the self-help literature. It is my understanding that Lieutenant could be cut by 10 percent if all pregnant I would like to share with you an ap­ Chapin will be completing his current assign­ women would refrain from smoking. proach to overcoming these barriers which ment in May and will be transferring to the At a hearing held by the Select Committee was utilized on a pilot basis in the Kent Naval Reserve. A man of Lieutenant Chapin's on Children, Youth, and Families on April 23, County Health Department WIC Clinic. The Kent County WIC Clinic currently talent and integrity is rare indeed. While his 1990, Dr. Randall Todd described a promising program reduce maternal smoking. Dr. Todd is maintains an average monthly caseload of dedicated service will be genuinely missed, it just over 6,000 clients. We are presently in gives me great pleasure today to recognize director of health promption and disease pre­ the midst of expanding to serve an average him before this body and to wish him and his vention for the Kent County Health Depart­ monthly caseload of 8,000. At this level we wife Julie, "Fair winds and following seas," as ment in Grand Rapids, MI. The Kent County would anticipate approximately 4,000 preg­ he brings to a close his distinguished service Health Department initiated a test program for nant women would utilize the WIC clinic in support of the House of Representatives. pregnant women who were clients of the de­ over a 12 month period. Approximately 42 partment's WIC clinic, to encourage and assist percent of pregnant women utilizing smokers in quitting smoking. KCHD's WIC Program are currently smok­ THE PLAINS, VA, CELEBRATES Simply by providing a 20-minute one-to-one ers. This compares with an estimated 32 80TH ANNIVERSARY counseling session including both information percent of all women of child-bearing age about the risks of smoking and a self-help who smoke. manual to assist smokers in eliminating their During our pilot, 81 percent of the smok­ HON. D. FRENCH SLAUGHTER, JR. ers identified agree to participate. Partici­ OF VIRGINIA smoking, the program was able to achieve a pants were randomly assigned to one of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES quit rate of 11 percent. three groups. The usual care group re­ If this approach were replicated across the Thursday, April 26, 1990 ceived printed information about the risks country, thousands of women could be helped of smoking during pregnancy and completed Mr. SLAUGHTER of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I to overcome their tobacco habit and improve the clinic in the traditional manner. am pleased to bring to the attention of the the likelihood of a successful birth and healthy The multiple component group re­ House that today, April 26, 1990, marks the infancy for their children. ceived a 20 minute one-to-one counseling 80th anniversary of the incorporation of the It has been said that a healthy baby begins session which included both risk informa­ town of The Plains, VA. The Plains, located in with a healthy mother. Smoking hurts both the tion and behavior change components. The Fauquier County, VA, has a long and colorful mother and the child, and Dr. Todd has risk information component employed the "Because I Love My Baby" materials devel­ history. shown that something can be done about it. I oped by the American Lung Association. In these days of rapid urbanization and hur­ ask that his testimony and an evaluation of These materials include a "flip chart" used ried pace, The Plains is a delightful reminder this program that appeared in the January by the health educator in presenting the in­ of the simpler, more pleasant life in a sunny, 1990 issue of the American Journal of Public formation and a printed brochure given to country town. Farmers no longer send their Health be printed in the RECORD. clients to take home. 8572 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 26, 1990 The behavior change component of the Thank you for your attention and consid- gram implemented at a local health depart- MC intervention employed a self-help eration. ment WIC clinic. manual adapted from Windsor, et al (5), and REFERENCES METHOD from the American Lung Association's "Freedom From Smoking" program. Behav­ 1. Institute of Medicine: Committee to The study was conducted from August ior contracting and self-monitoring were the Study the Prevention of Low Birthweight: 1985 to August 1986 at the Kent County primary strategies. An individual behavioral Preventing Low Birthweight (Ch. 2 & Ap- Health Department in Grand Rapids, contract was developed during the session pendix A), Division of Health Promotion Michigan. A brief structured interview was which specified a quit date and selection of and Disease Prevention. Washington, DC: used to characterize an incoming pregnant some significant other as a co-signer. Self­ National Academy Press, 1985. women as a current smoker intervention D: Smoking: A risk factor for spontaneous Following informed consent, participants was a face-to-face session of about 10 min­ abortion. N Engl J Med 1977; 297:793-796. were randomly assigned to one of three utes duration. The health educator used the 4. Himmelberger DU, Brown BW Jr, groups. same "flip chart" as the MC group and pro­ Cohen EN: Cigarette smoking during preg- The usual care group received print­ vided the factual brochures, but did not nancy and the occurrence of spontaneous ed information about the risks of smoking present behavior change counseling, or fur­ abortion and congenital abnormality. Am J during pregnancy and completed the clinic nish the self-help manual. Epidemiol1978; 108: 470-479. in the traditional manner. Of the three groups, those clients receiv­ 5. Keeinman JC, Pierre MB Jr., Madans The multiple component group re- ing the MC intervention achieved the best JH, Land GH, Schramm WF: The effects of ceived a 20-minute one-to-one counseling results. The MC group had a quit rate of 11 maternal smoking on fetal and infant mor- session which included both risk informa­ percent. tality. Am J Epidemiol1988; 127: 274-282. tion and behavior change components. The Implementation of the MC methodology 6. Oster G, Delea TE, Dolditz GA: The Ef- risk information component employed the as a routine part of WIC care for all preg­ fects of Cigarette Smoking during Pregnan- Because 1 Love My Baby materials devel­ nant smokers would require the addition of cy on the Incidence of Low Birth Weight oped by the American Lung Association. professional staff at a cost of approximately and the Costs of Prenatal Care. Cambridge, These materials included a "flip chart" used $19,000. This is a relatively small amount of MA: Institute for the Study of Smoking Be- by the health educator in presenting the in­ money when compared to our overall havior and Policy, Harvard University, 1986. formation and a printed brochure given to County WIC budget of approximately 7. Haglund B, Cnattingus S: Cigarette clients to take home. $686,000. Unfortunately, increases in WIC Smoking as a Risk Factor for Sudden Infant The behavior change component of the funding are always attached to require­ Death Syndrome: A Population-based study. . MC intervention employed a self-help ments for increase in caseload thus making American Journal of Public Health 1990; manual adapted from Windsor, et al,& and it impossible to add even a part-time staff 80:29-32. from the American Lung Association's Free­ resource to address this important area. Lo­ dom From Smoking program. Behavioral cally, we are already contributing more than A RANDOMIZED EVALUATION OF SMOKING CES­ contracting and self-monitoring were the $130,000 to the WIC budget Just to meet the SATION INTERVENTIONS FOR PREGNANT primary strategies. An individual behavioral basic requirements. WoMEN AT A WIC CLINic contract was developed during the session I would also share with you the fact that (Jeffrey P. Mayer, PhD, Barbara Hawkins, which specified a quit date and selection of similiar approaches have been tried in other MA, and Randall Todd, HOSe, MPH) some significant other as a cosigner. Self­ local WIC programs in Michigan with less Abstract: Pregnant smokers attending a monitoring included charts for recording promising results. I believe it is important to local health department WIC clinic were daily smoking behavior, and the develop­ understand some of the differences which randomly assigned to one of two self-help ment of an individualized plan of action for led to better results in Kent County. First, smoking cessation programs or usual care. breaking recorded behavioral chains. our program delivered its intervention The multiple component program resulted The risk information intervention during the regular clinic visit. We would not in larger quit rates than usual care during was a face-to-face session of about 10 min­ have had an 81 percent participation rate if the last month of pregnancy <11 percent vs utes duration. The health educator used the we had asked smoking WIC mothers to 3 percent) and postpartum <7 percent vs 0 same "flip chart" as the MC group and pro­ return for a separate session. Secondly, we percent>. Achieving quit rates in WIC simi­ vided the factual brochures, but did not utilized our own staff to deliver the inter­ lar to those in studies conducted at prenatal present behavior change counseling, or fur­ vention. A WIC clinic is an extremely busy care settings, suggests that smoking cessa­ nish the self-help manual. and often confusing place. In order for tion programs for low-income pregnant WIC During the postpartum WIC visit, the smoking interventions to be truely integrat­ clients are feasible. is an unexplored setting for smoking cessation (28 percent of MC participants, 30 percent tegrated into the WIC clinic flow with a of RI participants, and 32 percent of UC minimal but critical addition to professional research. Analyses of matched WIC-birth certificate data for Missouri in 1982 indicat­ participants). Resource constraints did not staffing levels. Such brief interventions can allow collection of more complete data. be demonstrated to produce quit rates in ed that 45 percent of pregnant women WIC excess of 10 percent. participants were smokers, •• 50 percent Demographic and health service data were The WIC program should be expanded to higher than the 30 percent rate observed abstracted from WIC program records for include smoking interventions along with among all Missouri women that year. Data study participants and for the women who the nutrition education and provision of on 127,512 pregnant women enrolled in sev­ refused to participate. Agreement rates be­ supplemental food that have proven so ef­ eral state WIC programs from 1979 through tween different coders, and between the fective over the last 10-15 years. The addi­ 1985 suggested that smokers were 2.5 times WIC record and prenatal care medical tional cost of these interventions should be more likely to deliver a low birthweight record, for a 30 percent random sample, recognized with appropriate adjustments to infant, and that very few participants were 99.2 percent had 87.9 percent, respec­ the local staffing grants. In Kent County we stopped smoking following their enrollment tively. have had to interrupt our provision of this in WIC.• • • RESULTS needed service while we pursue other fund­ The present investigation is a randomized Two hundred and seventy-one of 641 preg­ ing mechanisms. trial of a self-help smoking cessation pro- nant women entering the clinic were identi- April 26, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8573 fled as current smokers <42 percent>; 291 TABLE I.-COMPARISON OF MULTIPLE COMPONENT, RISK annual meeting of the American Public Health As­ volunteered to participate in the study <81 INFORMATION, USUAL CARE, AND REFUSAL GROUPS ON sociation, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1986. percent>. Of these 219, posttest data were •• Land GH, Stockbauer JW: WIC prenatals: A SELECTED DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH CARE VARIA· major target population for smoking cessation pro­ collected from 186 <15 percent attrition grams, Jefferson City, Missouri: Missouri Center rate> . Self-payor the National Health Interview Survey, Advance other ...... 6.5 10.9 8.1 8.4 10.6 Data From Vital and Health Statistics, No. 119, Table 2 presents the quit proportions and Received advice DHHS Pub. No. 86-1250. Hyattsvllle, MD: differences by treatment group for both frorn=nto NCHS, Public Health Service, 1986. follow-up periods. The MC group quit rate quit percent): 2 Yes ...... 68.6 67.1 68.9 68.2 NA Ershoff DH, Mullen, PO, Quinn VP: A random­ was higher than the UC group at both post No ...... 31.4 32.9 31.1 31.8 NA ized trial of a serialized self-help smoking cessation time periods. While all UC participants had Mean number of program for pregnant women in an HMO. Am J returned to smoking postpartum, some pro· yea~ smokin~······ ·· 7.2 7.5 7.3 7.4 NA Public Health 1989; 79:182-187. portion of the participants in the MC and Mean age smoking s Sexton M. Hebel JR: A clinical trial of change in began ...... 15.1 15.8 15.1 15.3 NA maternal smoking and its effect on birth weight. RI groups remained smoke free. Number of quittin~ attempts prior JAMA 1984; 251:911-915. DISCUSSION pregnancy • Baric L, MacArthur c. Sherwood M: A study of (percent): health educational aspects of smoking in pregnan· The 42 percent smoking rate among preg­ None ...... 26.4 34.3 28.9 29.8 NA cy. Int J Health Educ 1976; 19:<2>1-17. nant women entering the WIC clinic was One or more ...... 73.6 65.7 71.1 70.2 NA 6 Windsor RA, Cutter G, Morris J, Reese Y, Man· Number of quitting zella B, Bartlett EE, Samuelson C, Spanos D: The similar to the estimates of Land and Stock­ attempts bauer, •• and was indicative of the important following effectiveness of smoking cessation methods for need for smoking intervention at WIC clin­ smokers in public health maternity clinics: A ran­ pregna~(percent : domized trial. Am J Public Health 1985; 75:1389- ics. The quit rate for the MC group <11 per­ None ...... 69.4 64.3 66.2 66.7 NA 1392. cent> was just under that found at prenatal One or more ...... 30.6 35.7 33.8 33.3 NA 8 Sexton M, Nowicki P, Hebel JR: Verification of care settings serving low-income women. Mean number per smoking status by thiocyanate in unrefrigerated, 11 day prior to Both Windsor, et al, and Seeker-Walker et pregnancy ...... 19.9 19.7 20.3 19.9 NA mailed saliva samples: Prev Med 1986, 15:25-34. al,* in studies conducted at low-income 1 Bliss RE, O'Connell KA: Problems with thio­ public maternity clinics, reported quit rates Note: All differences between MC, Rl and UC groups are not statistically cyanate as an index of smoking status: A critical of 14 percent. signifiCant at the .05 lew! using chi-square tests for categorical variables and review with suggestions for improving the useful­ AWJVA for differences between means. Differences between the total interven­ ness of biochemical measures in smoking cessation Although limitations of the present form­ tion group and the refusal group are also not significant. Sample size may vary research. Health Psychol 1984; 3:563-581. ative evaluation study include small sample slightly due to missing data. NA =not available from WlC record. size, and lack of complete biochemical verifi­ cation, the findings have preliminary impli­ A CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO cations for extending health education serv­ TABLE 2.-QUIT PROPORTIONS AND DIFFERENCES AT THE ices to pregnant smokers visiting WIC clin­ NINTH MONTH OF PREGNANCY AND POSTPARTUM LENNA VICTORIA McCARBERY ics. The high level of program acceptance among our WIC participants (81 percent> is At 9th month Postpartum HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON impressive. Although prenatal care settings see pregnant women more regularly, offer­ OF CALIFORNIA .lll .069 ing possibility of multiple health education Mu~~~ ·········· · ····· ···· · · ·· · ······· · · · (.039, .183) (.010, .128) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES contacts

HONORING THE lOOTH BIRTH­ THE EGALITARIAN DOCTOR, ABRAHAM M. SIDORSKY RE­ DAY OF THE WALDOBORO KENNETH SHINE TIRES FROM NATIONAL SERV­ WOMAN'S CLUB ICE HON. MEL LEVINE HON. JOSEPH E. BRENNAN OF CALIFORNIA HON. TONY P. HALL OF MAINE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, April 26, 1990 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, April 26, 1990 Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. Speaker, it is Thursday, April26, 1990 Mr. BRENNAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in with distinct pleasure that I rise today to ex­ recognition of the 1OOth birthday of the Wal­ Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, few men press my admiration, respect, and gratitude to and women in our Federal civil service have doboro Woman's Club in Waldoboro, ME. a good friend and a devoted doctor. Kenneth In 1890, the Waldoboro Woman's Club was compiled a record of achievement and dedica­ I. Shine, M.D., is a studious and caring leader tion as Abraham M. Sidorsky, who retires on originally founded by two women as a ·literary who has worked tirelessly to improve the qual­ club in order to pass the time during the cold April 30, 1990, from the Headquarters Air ity of medical care in our country. Dr. Shine Force Logistics Command at Wright-Patterson Maine winters. Since that time, the club has currently works as dean of the University of Air Force Base, OH. grown to become an organization that pro­ California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine vides many important services to its communi­ Mr. Sidorsky has honorably served his and is an active, practicing cardiologist. In ad­ country for nearly 4 7 years as an enlisted man ty. Just a few examples of the club's commit­ dition to his many academic and professional ment are its assistance in local blood drives, and an officer in the Army and Air Force; an duties, Kenneth Shine is highly regarded employee of the Veterans Administration, and providing scholarships and support for local throughout the United States as a strong and students and numerous boys and girls clubs, finally, a civilian Air Force employee. vocal advocate of the medical community. As a top specialist in procurement, Mr. Si­ and even providing the insurance money for Dr. Shine has made enormous contributions an oxygen tent that it had purchased for the dorsky has had a major role in planning the to the advancement of health through his 17- logistics support of our worldwide air de­ town. year involvement in the American Heart Asso­ fenses. His knowledge of contracting adminis­ The Waldoboro Woman's Club has had to ciation. The first Los Angeles resident to tration, management experience, and most of work very hard to be able to be so generous serve as president of the AHA from 1986 to to its community. Throughout the year the all-ability to work with people-have made 1987, Ken has been particularly active in him an exceptionally valuable civil servant. club sponsors raffles, cake sales, bazzars, working to prevent the incidence of heart dis­ and other fundraising activities to support the Our national defense depends on the exper­ ease among minorities. His commitment to im­ tise of men and women like Mr. Sidorsky who various projects in Waldoboro. proving the quality of life in minority communi­ I would like to take this opportunity to con­ work behind the scenes to keep our fighting ties is also evident in his work as a member of forces ready for combat. Thanks for a job well gratulate the Waldoboro Woman's Club on the the board of directors of the Charles Drew done. 1OOth anniversary of its founding, and I be­ University of Medicine and Science, which lieve that they have truly lived up to their participates in a joint medical school program motto: "There is only one proof of Ability­ with UCLA. HONORING DEPARTMENT COM­ Action". Among his numerous tasks, Dr. Shine en­ MANDER VINCENT COLASACCO, courages State legislators to provide more AN OUTSTANDING LEGION­ SUPPORT FOR H.R. 770 support of health care to indigent people and NAIRE other targeted groups. He has also devised HON. MORRIS K. UDALL several programs designed to educate legisla­ HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN OF ARIZONA tors on such matters as health care cost con­ OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tainment. On the Federal level, Dr. Shine is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES chair of the Workshop on Effectiveness of Thursday, April 26, 1990 Health Care, a committee of the Institute of Thursday, April26, 1990 Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, I wish to express Medicine. As chair, Dr. Shine advises our Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to my support for H.R. 770, the Family and Medi­ Government on such issues as the need to avail myself of the opportunity to call to the cal Leave Act of 1989. The provisions of this support more research and better health care attention of our colleagues an outstanding vet­ legislation will guarantee job security, seniori­ for those over 65. eran, one who has personified the American ty, and health benefits for workers who need A graduate of Harvard University and Har­ Legion and all that it stands for. to take leave from work to care for a new­ vard Medical School, Ken is also highly re­ Vincent Colasacco was born in Mamaro­ born, newly adopted, or seriously ill child. It garded as an innovator in medical education, neck, Westchester County, NY, in 1922. From also guarantees job security, seniority, and particularly for his work in ambulatory educa­ a young age, he was active in many sports, in health benefits for workers who need leave to tion. Under this approach to teaching medi­ which he excelled. He married the former Eliz­ recover from a serious medical condition. The cine, students work not only in hospitals, but abeth Morra of Mount Vernon, NY. Their many act also includes a family leave provision for also in medical offices, where patients in need years of happy marriage produced a son, the care of a seriously ill parent. of preventive services or with chronic prob­ James, and a daughter, Janice Vincent and American workers should not be forced to lems are most likely to be found. A loving hus­ Elizabeth enjoy six grandchildren. choose between having a job and meeting band and devoted father of two, Kenneth When our Nation went to war in the wake of their family needs. Our typical American Shine is a leading proponent of the medical Pearl Harbor, Vincent Colasacco was quick to family, where the father worked and the university which would provide a broad medi­ volunteer his services. During his 3 years in mother stayed at home to care for the child or cal education, incorporating the fields of law, the U.S. Army, Vincent participated in five aging parent is vanishing rapidly. Currently, management, history, and urban planning. major battles in the European theater: The Ar­ less than 10 percent of our families fit this Mr. Speaker, it is for all of these reasons dennes; Central Europe; Normandy; northern pattern. The majority of families are comprised that Dr. Shine has been presented the 1990 France, and Rhineland. He received many of two-earner couples or single women raising Outstanding Achievement and Community decorations as a result of his World War II April 26, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8575 service, including the Bronze Star Medal, the and protect our environment, and allows us to for chief judges is a definite improvement over Good Conduct Medal, the European-African­ better use Earth's resources to sustain human the previous pattern of very short or very long Middle Eastern Service Medal; the American life. periods of service". Campaign Medal, and the Army of Occupation Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to recognize this The reasons supporting the recommenda­ Medal. important work, and I congratulate Dr. Davis tion not to change the current method for se­ Upon the conclusion of his distinguished for his achievement. lecting the chief judges in the circuit court of service in the Armed Forces, Vincent became appeals and the district courts also provide active in the American Legion in his home­ SIX UNIVERSITIES CLOSED ON the reasons why the current method of Presi­ town of Throggs Neck. His hometown post, THE WEST BANK dential designation for selecting the chief No. 1456, always considered him to be the judge of the Court of International Trade embodiment of the American Legion Pledge: HON. HOWARD C. NIELSON should be changed to conform with the modi­ "devotion to mutual helpfulness." fied seniority methods applicable in the other Vincent's leadership abilities moved him OJ! UTAH courts. I urge my colleagues' strong support IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rapidly through the Legion ranks. He served in for this important legislation that modifies the many offices in his hometown post, which Thursday, April 26, 1990 term and succession procedures for the chief granted him a life membership on May 14, Mr. NIELSON of Utah. Mr. Speaker, for the judge of the Court of International Trade. 1981. On the county level, he served as chair­ past 2 years all six Palestinian universities on man of the military ball committee each year the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been for 20 years, as a chairman of the distin­ closed. As a result, some 15,000 university TRIBUTE TO JASON AND SUSIE guished guests committee for 12 years, as students as well as 40,000 high school gradu­ DITTLEMAN county vice commander, and finally as West­ ates have been left stranded. The Palestinians chester's County commander. have always taken pride in being the most In his District he served as a committeeman educated group in the Arab world. The closing HON. RONALD K. MACHTLEY for the National Commander's dinner for 25 of the universities has had a devastating OF RHODE ISLAND years prior to his election first as district vice effect on the morale of young Palestinians IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES commander, and finally as district commander. and is fostering an atmosphere of resentment Thursday, April 26, 1990 On the department level, Vincent served as against the Israeli Government. the Americanism chairman for 1988 and 1989. Today I am introducing a resolution that Mr. MACHTLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Then, he was elected department commander both acknowledges recent steps taken by to recognize Jason and Susie Dittleman, of for the State of New York. Israel to reopen some of the schools, and East Greenwich, Rl, who have been chosen This weekend, Vincent's fellow Legionnaires urges them to continue in this direction by re­ as the 1990 Small Business Persons of the will be honoring him for a jcb well done. For opening the universities. Year by the East Greenwich Chamber of over four decades, Vincent Colasacco has Reopening the universities would be an im­ Commerce. Jason and Susie were selected represented the best in the American Legion. portant step toward improving relations be­ for their outstanding entrepreneurial spirit as His unselfish devotion is a tribute to all of his tween the two parties and fostering an atmos­ well as for their generous community service. fellow veterans, and we are proud to have him phere conducive to peace. This is an educa­ Jason and Susie first opened their business represent our State. tion issue. Education should not be held hos­ in 1976. East Greenwich Photo began as a Mr. Speaker, I invite all of our colleagues to tage to the complex politics of the region. very small business, with Jason and Susie as join with me in saluting American Legion's De­ the only employees. Through their hard work partment Commander Vincent Colasacco, and METHOD OF SELECTING THE and enthusiasm, Jason and Susie made East his lovely wife Elizabeth, and wish him many Greenwich Photo expand and grow from its productive and happy years to come. CHIEF JUDGE OF THE COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE humble beginnings into a thriving store with a staff of over 20 employees. They have also TOP NSF HONOR GOES TO HON. FRANK J. GUARINI expanded their goods and services for their PENNSYLVANIAN customers over the last 15 years. Jason and OF NEW JERSEY Susie now have their own film processing lab IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and custom frame shop. They also carry a full HON. ROBERT S. WALKER Thursday, April 26, 1990 line of cameras and accessories, VCR's, OF PENNSYLVANIA Fax's, and cellular telephones. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. GUARINI. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro­ ducing legislation that would conform the Their entrepreneurial spirit and activities are Thursday, April 26. 1990 method of selecting the chief judge of the certainly impressive yet equally impressive are Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, ever since the Court of International Trade with the modified their activities outside of their business. Jason days of Ben Franklin, Pennsylvanians have seniority method established in 1982 for se­ and Susie raised two children during these provided the scientific and technological lead­ lecting judges of the circuit court of appeals years and have contributed countless hours to ership that has made our Nation the economic and the district courts. their community. East Greenwich Photo spon­ power it is today. In a continuation of that tra­ The present method for selecting the chief sors a Little League team each year. They dition, yet another Pennsylvanian has been judge of the court was established in 1980. It also donate photo materials to a local camp honored for his contributions to science. provides that the President is to designate for their photography classes. Jason serves Dr. Mark E. Davis, a native of Ellwood, PA, one of the judges of the court who is less as a member of the board of directors of the has been presented with the National Science than 70 years of age to serve as chief judge. East Greenwich Chamber of Commerce as Foundation's prestigious Alan T. Waterman The chief judge so designated continues to well as the East Greenwich Rotary Club. Susie Award. NSF makes this award annually to a serve as chief judge until he reaches the age does all the photography for the East Green­ single outstanding young researcher. of 70 years and another judge is designated wich Chamber of Commerce at no charge. Dr. Davis is currently a professor of chemi­ as chief judge by the President. Their largest charity is the Rhode Island Spe­ cal engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic In­ Recently, in the report of the Federal Court cial Olympics for whom they do photography stitute and State University. He received the Study Committee, appointed pursuant to the for free. Waterman Award for his work synthesizing Federal Courts Study Act, it was recommend­ It is with great pleasure that I salute Jason molecular sieves with microscopic pore sizes. ed that Congress should not change the cur­ and Susie Dittleman for their outstanding en­ This area of materials research has produced rent modified seniority method of chief judge trepreneurial and civic spirit. Their contribu­ the magic membranes used to remove salts selection in the circuit court of appeals and tions to their community not only in dollars but from seawater and separate out and recover the district courts. The report of the commit­ also in time and commitment are a tribute to industrial acids that would otherwise pollute tee concluded that the current method "oper­ their love of their community. I wish them, the atmosphere. Dr. Davis' work makes a val­ ates well in practice and is preferable to any their family, and their business continued uable contribution to our efforts to preserve other method. The statutorily specified term prosperity in the future. 8576 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 26, 1990 A TRIBUTE TO TERESA RECOGNITION FOR THE SOUTH DAKOTA REMEMBERS AMATURO EFFORTS OF GARY CLINGER AND HONORS AMERICA'S GRAIN WORKERS-APRIL 28 HON. GUS YATRON HON. BOB McEWEN HON. TIM JOHNSON OP PENNSYLVANIA OF OHIO OF SOUTH DAKOTA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, April 26, 1990 Thursday, April26, 1990 Thursday, April 26, 1990 Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. Speaker, grain workers pay tribute to a bright, talented, and deter­ recognize the outstanding efforts of Mr. Gary all across America have set aside tomorrow, mined young woman from Reading, PA. This Clinger, a mail carrier from Lucasville, OH. His April 28, as a very special day to remember young woman is a member of junior class No. willingness to serve above and beyond the and honor their fellow workers who have been 633 of the Girl Scouts of America, and she is call of duty has saved the life of a young killed or injured in the line of work, while en­ gaged in helping to bring America's bountiful actively involved in making the life of her com­ infant. grain harvest to the tables of Americans and munity better. While delivering mail, one of Mr. Clinger's hungry people throughout the world. On June 27, 1990, a special ceremony will patrons solicited his assistance. He was The workers in our Nation's grain mills, ele­ be held in honor of this young woman at handed a baby whose hysterical mother had vators, and processing facilities take on es­ Camp Woodhaven in Schuylkill County, PA, to indicated that it had stopped breathing. He at­ sential tasks with courage and commitment to recognize her successful completion of all re­ tempted to first revive the baby with a slap on a job well done-but it is dangerous work and quirements for the Girl Scout's Gold Award. the back with no success. Next, he tried the we need to do more to minimize the risks our Her hard work and constant effort to serve Heimlich maneuver, again without any suc­ grain workers face. In the last decade alone, her neighbors and fellow Scouts makes her a cess. Finally, he initiated mouth-to-mouth re­ 60 workers have been killed and 275 have deserving recipient of the Gold Award, which suscitation which opened the child's lungs so been injured in grain dust explosions. In my is the highest honor any Girl Scout can re­ that it could begin breathing on its own. home State of South Dakota, five such explo­ ceive. Mr. Clinger remained with the distraught sions took place during the past decade, re­ This young woman has been involved in mother and monitored the child's progress sulting in four deaths, numerous injuries and scouting for many years, and has proven her until an ambulance arrived to take the child to untold family suffering. A 1985 explosion in abilities and climbed the Girl Scout ranks. Her the hospital. His eagerness to serve the pa­ Marion, SO, resulted in three of these deaths. achievements simply reflect her concern for trons of the U.S. Postal Service demonstrate But explosions are not the only risk faced humanity, which has been cultivated by the a desire to live up to the tradition of care and by our grain workers: asphyxiation, exposure troop leaders who have helped this outstand­ reliability the Post Office desires to maintain. to pesticides, drowning, and construction acci­ ing Girl Scout earn the Gold Award. Mr. Speaker, as a public servant elected to dents also too often result in illness, injury or death. Mr. Speaker, it is indeed a pleasure for me serve the needs of our citizens, we can all Simply honoring and remembering the dead to recognize Teresa Amaturo before you and greatly benefit from Mr. Clinger's example of and injured is not sufficient. Grain workers and other Members of the House of Representa­ service. I hope you, and all our colleagues, Members of Congress must commit ourselves tives, as well as the rest of the Nation. There will join in commending the efforts of Mr. to addressing the job site health and safety is no doubt that the Gold Award will be the Clinger as I believe that we can all benefit laws needed to prevent such tragedies in the first of many awards for this young woman. from this fine example of service. future. For instance, accumulated grain dust is Let us take this moment to commend Teresa a deadly explosive, but reducing the amount for her accomplishments and to wish her the of dust allowed to accumulate would substan­ best of luck and success in all of her future tially minimize risks to workers. endeavors. All Americans owe a great debt of gratitude to our grain workers, and it is my hope and expectations that tomorrow will be a day of re­ membrance and honor, but also a day of polit­ ical commitment.