3058 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE February 14, 1974 carriers that have joint fare arrangements It is Ordered- ticket and deplane at Memphis, either de­ with .Allegheny over Washington. Obviously 1. That the tariff provision of Allegheny stroying or reselling the remaining Memphis­ Eastern is not going to lose Providence traf­ Airlines, Inc., containing the proposed rout­ Little Rock ticket coupon and saving $6.48 fic to any such proportion of volume. ing 30, to the extent that it is a rule or regu­ in coach service. United maintains that it In its brief Eastern raised for the first lation affecting the fares between Hartford could lose $150,000 in revenue in the Mem­ time following the entry of the investigation and Washington as contained on 18th revised phis market if all its passengers used the order a contention that Allegheny cannot use page 26 of Agent C. C. Squire's CAB No. 44, lower Little Rock-Los Angeles joint fares it Providence as an intermediate point between be allowed to become effective; would be forced to establish. Washington and Hartford/Springfield to 2. That the investigation instituted by American has not answered United's com­ ccmply with the condition in its certificate order E-16614 on April 5, 1961, be termi­ plaint. that it shall schedule service to a minimum nated; Upon consideration of all relevant matters, of one intermediate point, exclusive of New 3. That the complaints of American Air­ the Board finds that the complaint does not York, between Washington and Hartford/ lines, Inc., in docket 12255, and Eastern Air set forth facts sufficient to warrant suspen­ Springfield. Allegheny has moved to strike Lines, Inc., in docket 12253, be dismissed. sion, and consequently the request therefor those pages of Eastern's brief directed to will be denied. This matter is already under this argument. It is clear from the order of investigation in Phase 9 of the Domestic Pas­ investigation that the Board did not intend [United States of America, Civil Aeronautics senger-Fare Investigation. to place this question in issue and in any Board, Washington, D.C., Order 71--4-119] We recognize that the propooal will result event Eastern should have raised the ques­ ORDER DISMISSING COMPLAINT in an anomaly in the fare structure, in that tion at the prehearing conference. The mo­ Little Rock-Los Angeles passengers traveling tion of Allegheny will be granted and ac­ Adopted by the Civil Aeronautics Board cordingly the language in Eastern's brief on at its office in Washington, D.C., on the 19th via Memphis will pay less than Memphis­ pages 7, 8, and 9 directed to this issue has day of April, 1971. Los Angeles passengers. On the other hand, been ignored. Fare and routing changes proposed by it will result in additional service alterna­ On the basis of the foregoing findings and American Airlines, Inc., Docket 23228. tives for Little Rock passengers at the direct­ conclusions and all the facts of record, it By tariff revisions 1 marked to become ef­ route fa.re. is found- fective on April 25, 1971, American Airlines, American's proposal will, as alleged, make it 1. That the proposed routing 30 to the ex­ Inc. (American) proposes to revise its fares possible for a Los Angeles-Memphis passenger tent that it is a rule or regulation affecting and applicable routings between Los Angeles to purchase a lower-priced Los Angeles-Lit­ the fares between Hartford and Washington and Little Rock. Presently American pub­ tle Rock ticket for his transportation. How­ as contained on 18th revised page 26 of Agent lishes two local fares, one applying to direct ever, we are not persuaded that abuse of this C. C. Squire's CAB 44 will not be unjust or service, and a second applicable via Memphis sort will occur in significant degree. In any unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory, or at a level equal to the Los Angeles-Memphis event, if such abuse should occur, we would 'Qnduly preferential, or unduly prejudicial, or fare. American's proposal would cancel the expect that American would take appropriate otherwise unlawful. second-level fare and routing and apply the measures to curtail it, since it likewise has 2. That said tariff provision should be al­ direct fare to service via Memphis. an interest in preserving its revenues from lowed to become effective. United Air Lines, Inc., (United) has filed servi~e to Memphis. 3. That the investigation instituted by or­ a complaint urging suspension and investi­ Accordingly, pursuant to the Federal Avia­ der E-16614 on April 5, 1961, should be tion Act of 1958, and particularly sections terminated and the complaints of American gation of the proposal, alleging that charging the direct-route fare for service via Memphis 204, 403, 404, and 1002 thereof, Airlines, Inc., in docket 12255, and Eastern It is ordered that: Air Lines, Inc., in docket 12253, should be would cause substantial revenue losses for both American and United, since it would 1. The complaint of United Air Lines, Inc., dismissed. in Docket 23228 is dismissed; and An appropriate order follows. undercut both existing joint fares which ap­ 2. A copy of this order be served upon ORDER ply for services conneoting at Memphis and American Airlines, Inc., and United Air Lines, A full public hearing having been held in the direct Memphis-Los Angeles fares. United Inc. the above-entitled proceeding, and, upon is concerned that Memphis-bound passengers This order shall be published in the Fed­ consideration of the record, there having would purchase the lower-priced Little Rock eral Register. been issued an initial de<:ision containing By the Civil Aeronautics Board: :findings and conclusions which is a.ttached 1 Revisions to Airline Tariff Publishers, Inc., HARRY J. ZINK, hereto and made a part hereof: Agent, Tariff C.A.B. Nos. 99 and 136. Secretary.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Thursday, Februa1·y 14, 1974 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. ceedings and announces to the House Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. Mr. The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, his approval thereof. Speaker, under clause 8 of House rule D.D., offered the following prayer: Without objection, the Journal stands XI, the Committee on Government Oper­ approved. ations has jurisdiction over studying the Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and There was no objection. operations of Government activities at a light unto my path.-Psalms 119: 105. all levels with a view to determining its O God and Father of us all, guardian economy and efficiency. In the fall of of our pilgrim way and guide of our REQUEST TO TRANSFER CONSENT 1970, the Foreign Operations and Gov­ spirits through life, for this moment we CALENDAR ernment Information Subcommittee, would turn away from the clamor of a which I chair, began a study of the econ­ busy world to lift our hearts unto Thee Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the business in omy and efficiency of international air that we may discern more clearly Thy travel by Government officials. We found will for us and for our Nation. Cleanse order under the Consent Calendar rule, clause 4, rule may be transferred that the Department of Defense travel­ Thou our minds, strengthen our souls, xm, ers--both civilian and military-were give us wisdom, and make us ready for from Monday, February 18, to Tuesday, February 19', 19'14. transported by the U.S. international air the responsibilities of these disturbing carriers at substantially lower rates than days. The SPEAK.ER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Mas­ were the official travelers of the non­ Thy love divine hath led us in the past; sachusetts? defense agencies. Efforts had been made In this free land by Thee our lot is cast; Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I object. over the years to CJbtain the lower rates Be Thou our ruler, guardian, guide, and for all U.S. Government official travelers stay, but to no avail. Thy word our law, Thy paths our chosen By unanimous vote, the House Com­ way. ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY OF IN­ mittee on Government Operations ap­ In the spirit of Him who is the Way, TERNATIONAL AIR TRAVEL BY proved and adopted our report entitled GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS "Economy and Efficiency of International the Truth, and the Life, we pray. Amen. Air Travel by Government Officials." (M1·. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania House Report No. 93-599, October 19, THE JOURNAL asked and was given permission to ex­ 1973. In the report it was recommended tend his remarks at this point in the that: The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam­ RECORD and to include extraneous mat­ In view of the progress made during the ined the Journal of the last day's pro- ter.) course of the subcommittee's study-though February 14, 1974 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 3-059 tardily in most instances-the Committee's to include all Government official travel­ governmental use of chartered aircraft to recommendations are limited to the follow­ ers and their dependents. transport official governmental travelers ing: Essentially what this means is that of­ and was assured that there were not. In 1. The Administrator of the General Serv­ view of the 14 years' history of the De­ ices Administration should immediately is­ ficial Government travelers will be trans­ sue appropriate policy directives to permit ported in planeload groups between, say partment of Defense plane load charter the Department of Defense to place a char­ Dull.es Airpo1·t and major airports over­ system and the assurances from the Civil tered air shuttle system into operation and seas such as London, Frankfurt, Madrid, Aeronautics Board, it became apparent l·equire the Government's official travelers Rome, Athens, Istanbul, Ankara, Tokyo, that new legislation is not needed to ex­ to use such system except when use of other Hong Kong, Saigon, Bangkok, Panama, pand the already existing Department of means of overseas transporta-tion are spe­ and San Juan. Many of the Govern­ Defense airlift system. Interestingly, the cifically justified on individual travel author­ ment's travelers are traveling on official Secretary of the Department of Trans­ ization and individually approved by the in Head of the Department or Agency concerned. business to these precise points. Others portation commenting on the proposed 2. The Secretary of Defense should-im­ may be going to other nearby cities in expansion of the airlift system stated mediately upon receipt of a delegation of connection with their official duties. In that he felt the proposal has merit and authority from the Administrator of the those cases, they will be transported to should be developed. General Services Administration-direct its one of the foregoing major airports-at Equally important, during our delib­ Military Airlift Command to establish and a cost of 2% cents per passenger-mile­ erations we considered how expansion of operate, under charter, a worldwide air from which they will proceed to their the Department of Defense airlift sys­ shuttle system for the overseas transporta­ final destination on regularly scheduled tem to include all governmental overseas tion of all official overseas travelers. flights at regular commercial rates. For travelers would affect usage of our fuel In concluding our 1972 hearings on example, a State Department official supplies. Simply stated, it is more effi­ this subject, I urged officials of the Gen­ assigned to Oslo, Norway, would be trans­ cient, in terms of fuel usage, to fly a plane eral Services Administration to again at­ ported to London, England-3,658 with a 100-percent seat occupancy than tempt to negotiate fair and equitable miles-at 2 % cents per mile-on the gov­ to fly with only a 50- to 60-percent seat rates with the scheduled airlines. I also ernmental air shuttle at which point he occupancy. Also, looking to further fuel asked the Comptroller General to deter­ would transfer to PanAm flight 102 and conservation in light of the present fuel mine whether the procedures followed continue on to Oslo-730 miles, at 7% emergency, the Civil Aeronautics Board, by the Civil Aeronautics Board in deter­ cents per mile. Should this official instead on November 16, 1973, issued an order to mining special Department of Defense be assigned to Moscow, why, of course, permit the U.S. scheduled international rates were adequate to produce a fair and he could connect with a PanAm flight air carriers to transport Department of equitable return for the airlines. Subse­ from London to Moscow. Currently, our Defense plane load charter passengers quently, I was advised that the special Government is paying $291 to transport on their scheduled flights-at the special Department of Defense rates are in real­ this State Department official to Oslo. charter rates. Not only can we save fuel, ity adequate to provide efficient carriers Under the expanded Department of De­ we can also fill up some of those empty with an opportunity to earn 10.5 percent fense airlift system, we will be paying seats for the air carriers-but at special profit on this .segment of their business. less than $150. Savings on transporting Government charter rates, which is as OIDcials of the General Services Ad­ our officials to locations in the Far East it should be. ministration testified, during our 1973 are even more impressive because of the Mr. Speaker, what it all comes down to hearings, that neither of the two larger initial longer distances involved-Wash­ is this: What is the Government going to U.S. international air carriers would con­ ington to Tokyo equals $207 as compared pay to transport its overseas travelers? sider lower rates for the Government's to our current cost of $585. For the past 14 years, the Department nondefense business in spite of the fact As U.S.-fiag carriers service the major of Defense has been transporting its that many elements of their costs-such overseas airports mentioned, I foresee overseas travelers in plane load groups as travel agency commissions, special no increased usn.ge of foreign-flag car­ at rates which are roughly one-third the promotional advertising cost, credit card riers to transport our Government trav­ rate paid by our other Government agen­ fees, and billing costs-are not attribut­ elers. Naturally, I will expect the General cies. The Civil Aeronautics Board has able to Government passengers. Thus, it Accounting Office to monitor this expan­ reviewed these special rates yearly-for became necessary for our Government sion of the Department of Defense airlift the past 14 years-and has concluded to look for other more efficient and more system to insure full use of U.S.-flag that the special rates will permit an economical methods of transporting its carriers. efficient air carrier to earn a 10 ~-per­ official travelers. Likewise, I foresee no increased cost to cent profit on this segment of its busi­ Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to report the Government as a result of layovers ness. The General Accounting Office that officials Df the Department of De­ while travelers wait for ongoing trans­ auditors have checked the Civil Aero­ fense, the General Services Administra­ portation. Under current Government nautics Board review system and found tion, the Department of State, and other regulations, official Government travelers nothing to criticize. Thus, it seems only agencies heavily involved in U.S. overseas are permitted a rest stop in connection proper that the Government expand the operations-through mutual cooperation with most international flights because Department of Defense airlift system to with one another-have developed a sys­ of the long distances involved. It is not include all its overseas travelers. tem for the mass transportation of all unreasonable for an official traveler­ We also are faced with the necessity of official overseas Government travelers. after having flown for more than 17 hours fairly distributing the Government's The airlift system-the initial phase of on his way to an official duty station 1n business to all segments of the U.S. air which will commence by May 1, 1974- the Orient-to be permitted a rest stop carrier industry. With the termination will reduce the cost to the Government in, say, Tokyo before completing his trip. of direct U.S. involvement in South Viet­ in transporting our overseas travelers Here again, I would expect the General nam, the Government's business with from 7% to 2% cents per passenger-mile Accounting Office to monitor this expan­ the U.S. international air carriers h~,s for the initial long leg of the travelers' sion of the Department of Defense sys­ dropped from a high of about $700 mil­ tem to insure the utmost of economy and lion in 1968 to roughly $400 million fer journey. The Department of Defense efficiency. After all, this airlift system 1973. . computers estimate that the savings to has worked efficiently and economically Our Government has a responsibility the America:u taxpaye1·s will be $20 to $30 for the Department of Defense for the to see that this reduced Government million per year---eaeh and every year. past 14 years; thus, there is no reason to business is fairly distributed to all seg­ During the past 14 years, the Depart­ believe that it will not work equally well ments of the U.S. international air ment of Defense has contracted with for the balance of the Government trav­ carrier industry. This we can better do certified U.S. air carriers-at rates set elers. through the expansion of the Depart­ by the Civil Aeronautics Board-for plane Early during the deliberations on ex­ ment of Defense airlift system to cover load transportation of its civilian and panding the Department of Defense sys­ all governmental overseas travelers. military travelers and their dependents tem to include all Government travelers, The expanded airlift system to London from the east and west coasts of the I asked the Chairman of the Civil Aero­ and Frankfurt will be in operation by Unlted States to appropriate points over­ nautics Board whether there were any May 1, 197·4. Airlift service to the seas. This system is now being expanded governing factors which might preclude Mediterranean area will commence in 3060 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE February 14, 1974 July 1974, followed by inclusion of the Wilson did think of when he thought of ecstacy in that extempore speech are as mov­ non-Department of Defense passengers mankind. It is clea.r that once he entered ing as anything in the language of the Ameri­ in the currently existing Defense plane politics he oame more and more to think of can presidency: the working masses whose party he was soon "Again and again, my fellow citizens, load charters to the Far East by the fall to lead. (I have argued elsewhere that the mothers who lost their sons in France have of this year. role of the International Labor Organization come to me and, taking my hand, have shed Mr. Speaker, let there be no doubt, I in his view of the League system was larger tears upon it not only, but they have added, come here firmly convinced of the than generally appreciated, as was also the 'God bless you, Mr. President I' Why, my fel­ wisdom of this proposed system. I will role of the ILO in the defeat of the Cov­ low citizens, should they pray God to bless be most pleased to explain this matter enant.) He came to think, surely, of man­ me? I advised the Congress of the United further to any of our colleagues. Al.'30, the kind as inclusive of persons who spoke other States to create the situation that led to the subcommittee staff is available for in­ than English, and on his great Western tour death of their sons. I ordered their sons over­ in quest of the Covenant, would say so with sea. I consented to their sons being put in depth explanation of the mass trans­ a candor now quite lost to American public the most difficult parts of the battle line, portation system to be used to trans­ life: where death was certain, as in the impene­ port our overseas travelers. "Do you know where Azerbaijan is? (He trable difficulties of the forest of Argonne. I will also be most plea.sed to provide asked his audience speaking of the Peace Why should they weep upon my hand and copies of our printed hearings and re­ Oonference in San Francisco on September call down the blessing of God upon me? Be­ port on this subject matter to any col­ 18, 1919). Well, one day there came in a very cause they believe that their boys died ifor league who wants copies. For immediate dignified and interesting group of gentle­ something that vastly transcends any of the delivery, please phone the subcommittee men from Azerbaijan. I did not have time immediate and palpable objects of the war. until they were gone to find where they They believe, and they rightly believe, that office-extension 5371-and ask for came from, but I did find this out immedi­ their sons saved the liberty of the world. House Report 93-599. ately, that I was talking to men who talked They believe that wrapped up with the liberty the same language that I did in respect of of the world is the continuous protection of ideas, in respect of conceptions of liberty, that liberty by the concerted powers of all in respect of conceptions of right and jus- civilized people. They believe that this sacri­ ADDRESS BY DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN, tice ...." fice was made in order that other sons should VICE CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF It is at such points, of course, that one not be called upon for a similar gift--the inclines to quarrel with Wilson: How can gift of life, the gift of all that died-and if TRUSTEES, WOODROW WILSON he a;sk us to believe that he believed such we did not see this thing through, if we ful­ INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR things? Worse: What if indeed he did? And filled the dearest present wish of Germany SCHOLARS, ON THE OCCASION OF for a new generation influenced at most by and now dissociated ourselves from those THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE what I should suppose is now an attenuated alongside whom we fought in the war, would DEATH OF PRESIDENT WOODROW Wilsonianism there are vastly greater dif­ not something of the halo go away from the WILSON ficulties of his concluding assertion: gun over the mantelpiece, or the sword? "And I did find this out, that the Azer­ Would not the old uniform lose something (Mr. BRADEMAS asked and was given baijanis were, with all the other delegations olf its significance? These men were crusad­ permission to extend his remarks at this that came to see me, metaphorically speak­ ers. They were not going forth to prove the point in the RECORD and to include ex­ ing, holding their hands out to America and might of the United States. They were going traneous matter.) saying, 'You are the disciples and leaders forth to prove the might of justice and right, Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, I was of the free world; can't you come and help and all the world accepted them as crusad­ us?'" ers, and their transcedent achievement has privileged to be present on February 3, I suppose there are among us those who made all the world believe in America. as it 1974, at the Smithsonian Institution for would be willing to advise the Azerbaijanis believes in no other nation organized in the an event marking the 50th anniversary of on the correct pricing policies for crude oil, modern world. There seems to me to stand the death of President Woodrow Wilson. but for the rest ... no, we fall hack in dis­ between us and the rejection or qualification Two distinguished Americans, former belief. Even such as I do, who were taught, of this treaty the serried ranks of those boys Ambassador George F. Kennan, and our if anything, to move forward in acceptance. in khaki, not only these boys who came present Ambassador to India, the Hon­ What then does it matter what he thought home, but those dear ghosts that still de­ orable Daniel P. Moynihan, delivered of mankind? It matters because therein re­ ploy upon the fields of France." sides the essence of his quest for legi.timacy He tells of visiting a cemetery in France outstanding addresses on this occasion. in the world order, a quest which still eludes where French women tended American The event was sponsored by the Wood­ us, and which, if I am not altogether wrong, graves: row Wilson International Center for honesty requires that we acknowledge can­ "France was free and the world was free Scholars, of which Dr. James H. Billing­ not any longer be successfully pursued in because America had come! I wish some men ton is director. Wilsonian terms. in public life who are now opposing the set­ Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent There is no mystery here. Wilson's was a tlement for which these men died could to insert at this point in the RECORD the profoundly optimistic, Christian view of visit such a spot as that. I wish that the man's condition. His vision of a world order thought that comes out of those graves text of the address of Ambassador Moy­ was a religious vision: of the natural good­ could penetrate their consciousness. I wish nihan, who also serves as vice chairman ness of man prevailing through the Holy that they could !feel the moral obligation of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Ghost of reason. That it were Calvinist I will that rests upon us not to go back on those Wilson International Center for Scholars. not contest; the distinctions are small, given boys, but to see the thing through, to see it The address follows: the gulf between belief and disbelief, and it through to the end and make good their re­ ADDRESS BY DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN, VICE CHAIR­ was neither reformed nor unreformed in its demption of the world. For nothing less de­ MAN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, WOODROW WIL­ fundamentally Christian conviction that pends upon this decision, nothing less than SON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR ScHOLARS such visions are not in fact attained on the liberation and salvation of the world." ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY earth. Or at very least, in its susceptibility to such conviction. WILSON'S LEGALLY OF THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT WOODROW What is one to make of this? Was he WILSON THE PUEBLO SPEECH right? We have almost given off asking such Woodrow Wilson once began an address to We gather on the anniversary of his death questions, much less answering. But this, an occasion such as this by saying that when in Washington in 1924, but of course he died surely, is clear. It was very late in the his­ he thought of mankind he did not think of in the public sense on his way back from tory of the West to put any large public men in dinner jackets. This is not precisely Pueblo, Colorado, on the night of September question in such terms. Carl J. Friederich so recorded by Arthur Link, but I was taught 25th, 1919. He was only once ever again to and Charles Blitzer are correct, surely, that it by Ruhl Bartlett, and so much more of the speak in public, on Armistice Day in 1924, a with the religious revival of the 17th Cen­ same as to qualify as a third generation Wil­ few weeks before the final end. The Pueblo tury, and the wars of that Century, "Once sonian, studious of texts, but accepting as speech is to be reread: the last of thait West­ ag.ain, and for the last time, Life was seen equally of apocrypha. that evoke the spirit ern tour. It is surely a premonition, an evo­ as meaningful in religious, even theological, and the mystery of the man, as of the lit­ cation almost, of death. A speech from the terms ..."For the last time. A half century Cross. A speech to be sure by a Presbyterian from Wilson, official belief is trivialized to eral and undemanding facts. I will speak, as St. Jerome, contesting texts to the very end, the point of contempt and contemptibility. it were, from a mixture of both, for there is but a Passion withal. It is a premonition of What will be more wondrous in two years a Wilson who to any such as I still summons his own death, and a prophesy, I suppose, of time: that the Republic has survived two one to belief and dis·belief and to a search the death of the Western civilization that centuries, or that in a mere two centuries for understanding of things necessary if not would not be saved, excepting always that it has wholly lost the power to celeb;rate possible to know. those who believed would be saved, the City that survival. But one is not to pity the WILSON'S VIEW OF MANKIND would not be saved: the City would be lost Bicentennial Commissioners, if there are One would like to know, for it would mat­ now to war and rumors of war. any left, for their fumblings mirror our gen­ ter, just what, if not men in dinner jackets, The Biblican iambic, the New Testament eral fate. Nor for that matter lament the February 14, 1974 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3061 loss of the halo round the gun over the I respectfully solicit the support of my the request of the gentleman from Mas­ mantlepiece. A world without God, Woodrow colleagues for this realistic propasal for sachusetts? Wilson's or whomsoever's, is necessarily a giving a measure of tax relief to those There was no objection. world without pity. Sentiment is not the same, and its origin ls in fear not faith. who need it most. The world does not share his faith, much as individually we might wish otherwise; nrcREASING THE PRODUCTIVITY and we do not share his optimism. But we LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM OF SMALL FORESTS can share his sense of personal and national honor, his ethic of effort, his nerve of failure, :nal the President who has brought his e>ther hnpc>rting more and more ferrochrome structure, the on:IY' way we can give administration to such a state would be to meet customer demands, we a.re forced them that kind of Executive is by the into the unenv:ia.ble position of exporting an required to turn over the Government to important par't of the U.S. ferroa.lloys busi­ drastic remedy of impeaching the in­ his Vice President to act. in his stead. ness to offshore producers. cumbent. As Lord Bryce said: Here is the rationale for the amend­ This situation is certainly not healthy for The remedy of impeachment ls so heavy ment. the stainless steel producers in the U.S., it is unfit for ordinary use. First, if the President has managed to especially when ~ because of rising costs and The House Judiciary Committee is now weaken his administration to such a imports. expansion of capacity cannot be point that Congress is willing to vote no justified and domestic producers will have to embarked on an investigation to deter­ 1elJ on imports to fulfill much of their needs. mine whether grounds do exist for the confidence, and call for new elections, Consider what would happen H, say, for­ impeachment of the President. However ihat President should not be left in oftlce eign steel producing interests contracted to much the public may fear, and miscon­ to muddle through until new elections buy South Africa's total ferrochrome o\ltput. ceive, the impeachment. process, I am a::re held. But, in order to relieve any Jii'or one thing, U .S. stainless steel producers sme that we will not :flinch our duty to unease that a Congress in the h8Jlds of :would have· to reduce their production rates an opposition party would use the vote tll'astically (for lack of ferrochrome>, and do what we must upon the completion of the investigation. It may be that the of no confidence as a narrow )>artisan Btainless steel impol'ts would soar. It would weapon to get rid of the President. the certainly take too long to try to expand fer­ committee will find that the President rochrome capacity here to forestall perma­ has committed !mpeachable otrenses. We proper recourse is to follow the line oi Dent dislocations in the stainless steel will act on that finding. It may be that succession established by the Constitu­ business. the committee will :find to the contrary. tion and .statute. Passing the ofiice- to the We will act on that finding. Vice President would mean that the same ~ But inability to lead, loss of moral party would retain the Presidency. Such t leadership, presiding o.ver an admin­ a step would also deter narrow partisan­ 'A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ship, inasmuch as the new acting Presi­ TO PERMIT REMOVAL OF A PRES­ istration i:n shambles, possessing an ap­ titude to choose the wrong a.ides and dent, would be expected to enter into a IDENT WHO HAS FORFEITED CON­ honeymoon with public opinion and thus FIDENCE subordinates-all these and many other faults are not impeachable offenses. If would be a leading candidate in the elec­ The SPEAKER. Under a previous. order it is not shown that Presidential com­ tion. of the House, the gentleman from Wis­ plicity in wrongdoings-whether indict­ Second, the special Presi«iential elec­ consin (Mr. REUSS) is recognized for 20 able offenses or not-exists. we will not tion that. follows the vote of :nc-confi­ minutes. impeach, and we will not convict.. dence will take place in 90 to 110 days, Mr. REUSS. Mr. Speaker, I am today And the Presidency will stumble on. <>r at the mid-term congressional elec­ Introducing a resolution, House Joint Things will grow worse. Congress can do tion date if the :no-confidence vote occurs Resolution 903 proposing an amendment a lot, but it cannot shoulder the bmden after June I of that year. Jn practice,. to the Constitution to remedy a grave alone. if the n&-confidence vote occurred dur­ problem in representative government Therefore, it seems clear that the ne­ ing the :first l'Z months of the Presiden­ that the past year has shown to exist. By cessity exists to develop an alternative tial termp or during the third or fourth no stretch of the imagination could the method of removing the President-one years-in which a. vote of no confidence amendment be enacted and ratified in that lets the people make the ultimate would be increasingly less likely, because time to atrect the outcome of the con­ decision. o:f the term's prospective nmning its stitutional crisis thrust upon us by Mr. A parliamentary system has that al­ course-the special election would occur Nixon. But we must give thought tofu­ ternative, of course. When the govern­ in this 90 to 11 O days. ture times. ment loses the confidence of the people If the election occurs at the regular The problem is how the United States and of the legislature, it falls. and re­ November midterm congressional elec­ is to be well governed, or perhaps gov­ course is had to a new judgment of the tion date, the President would se:rve a erned at all, when the President is people. regular 4-year term, right in phase with deemed to have lost the confidence of the In the Federalist. Hamilt-On described congressional elections. Congress and the public, but refuses to the ideal of constitutional government-­ If the special Presidential election is step aside for the good of the country. the idea of a constitution as a contriv­ set at 90 to 110 days from the date of Public opinion polls are the least of ance which not only empowers but con­ adoption of the concurrent resolution, the President ~s worries, of ccmrse. But the fines government. He said: the term would be the time between that catastrophic plunge in the President's special election and the next congres­ In framing a government which ls to b~ approval rating from 68 percent to 26 administered by men over men the greatest sional election, plus 2 years-a total of percent or lower symbolizes the demise difficulty lies in this: you must first enable around 3 years or so. Such a term is long of bis ability to govern with the full effec­ the government to control the governed; and enough to make the special election proc­ tiveness that modern times demand. in the next place oblige it to control itself. A ess worthwhile, while at the same time it The people are convinced that he has dependence on the people is, no doubt, the gets back into phase with the regular Jost the moral authority needed to lead. primary control on government; but expe­ congressional election dates at the ear­ They have lost faith in him and his ad­ rience has taught mankind the necessity of liest possible time. ministration. auxiliary precautions. Third, since the incumbent President Yet they draw back from the trauma Among the auxiliary precautions is, of against whom no-confidence is voted will of impeachment. In the absence of a course, impeachment. But the framers have sat out a substantial part of his viable alternative, they prefer a crippled also structured the powers conferred in term, it seems only fair and equitable to Executive to the dimly perceived evils the Constitution to include an intricate exempt him from the two.-term limita­ they fear lurking throughout the im­ system of checks and balances. Impeach­ tion and permit him to submit himself peachment process. ment, as we have seen, is so frightful a to seek vindication from the voters if he The same polls show a similar decline remedy as not to be readily invoked. wishes to have a referendum on his con- February 14, 1974 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 3065 duct in office-assuming, of course, that America in Congress assembled (two-thirds Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at his party will nominate him. of each House concurring therein), That any time make or alter such regulations. The following article is proposed as an "SEc. 8. Congress shall have power to en­ Fourth, while the vote of no-confidence amendment to the Constitution of the Unit- · force this article by appropriate legislation." and the stepping aside of the President ed States, which shall be valid to all in­ EXPLANATORY NOTE is new in the U.S. system, it is by no tents and purposes as part of the Constitu­ SECTION 1. The language of the first sen­ means a radical proposal. It is common tion when ratified by the legislatures of tence is intended to make clear that this to parliamentary systems, and its devel­ three-fourths of the several States within amendment would not supersede either the opment in England preceded the Amer­ seven years from the date of its submission impeachment clause nor the Twenty-fifty ican Revolution. To adopt the no-confi­ by the Congress. Amendment. The second sentence is designed dence procedure would be a long way "SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any other to make a resolution of no confidence privi­ provision of this Constitution, the President leged so that it could not be bottled up in from adopting the total parliamentary of t he United States may also be removed system, however, since the new govern­ committee but would have to be brought from office upon the adoption of a Resolu­ to the :floor for a vote; the difference of lan­ ment to emerge from the election would t ion of No Confidence by the Congress in the guage as between the two Houses recognizes be the American Presidential govern­ manner hereinafter provided for. A Resolu­ the fact that the Senate does not really ment, not a British parliamentary prime tion of No Confidence shall be privileged in have any provision for privileged bills or minister-cabinet system. the House of Representatives and shall have resolutions as the House does. The language Fifth, we should not think of the spe­ precedence over all other b111s, resolutions, would not deal with the matter of the fili­ cial election as something unheard of in and motions in the Senate. A three-fifths buster in the Senate. our system. At the Philadelphia Conven­ vote of the Members of each House present SEC. 3. The language is intended to make and voting shall be necessary to adopt such the special election subject to all the other tion the framers deliberately structured a r esolution as a concurrent resolution. provisions of the Constitution dealing with the language of Article II, section 1, "SEC. 2. Upon the adoption by Congress of the election of the President. As with the clause 5, so as to give Congress the option a Resolution of No Confidence, the President Constitution itself, the amendment would of calling a special election whenever shall relinquish all the powers and duties of not deal with the selection of candidates by both the office of President and the office his office to the Vice President, or, if the of­ the parties through conventions or otherwise. of Vice President became vacant at the fice of Vice President be vacant, to the next SEC. 7. The section is taken from Article I, officer in line by law to succeed to the office section 4, clause 1, dealing with the election same time. Acting upon this authority, of the President, who shall thereafter act as the Congress in the act of March 1, 1792, of Representatives and Senators. There is no President until he is discharged pursuant similar provision in the Constitution deal­ dealing with presidential succession, did to this article of amendment. ing with presidential elections, and this ab­ provide for a special election in that "SEC. 3. In the resolution of no confidence, sence has left in doubt Congress' power to event. This provision was law for some Congress shall fix a date flalling not less than legislate in this area. See the opinions of 80 years and, while the occasion never 90 days and not more than 110 days from the Justices Black and Harlan in Oregon v. arose for its utilization, its existence date of adoption of the resolution for the Mitchell, 400 U.S. 112 (1970). It is intended to calling of a special election for the choosing to apply to all presidential elections. should dispel any inclination view of electors for President and Vice President: with alarm this proposal. Provided, that if the date of adoption occurs Incidentally, the same act also ap­ on or after the June 1 of the second year of pears to have intended to give the vic­ STATEMENT ON INTRODUCTION the President's term, and at least 90 days OF E-'IY.IERGENCY PROPERTY TAX tor of such a special election a full 4- prior to the date of the choosing of Repre­ year term rather than the remainder of sentatives in Congress in that year, the spe­ RELIEF ACT the vacancy. cial election shall coincide with the choosing The SPEAKER. Under a previous or­ Sixth, it should be noted that the of Representatives; and Provided further, der of the House, the gentleman from amendment is not intended to make, and that if the date of adoption of the resolution Utah e by regulations. SECURITY PAYROLL TAX TO LOW- AND MODERATE-INCOME Payments may be made to a jurisdiction only OLDER INDIVIDUALS if its application is approved by the Secre­ to 42 U.S.C. 1962a-3(b); to the Committee on ute and to revise and extend his re­ Mr.CRANE. Interior and Insular Affairs. marks.> Mr. RINALDO. 1893. A letter from the Director, U.S. Wa­ Mr. KEMP in fow· instances. ter Resources Council, transmitting the re­ Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, in view of port of the Council, together with the re­ the tremendous amount of the people's Mrs.HOLT. port of the Great Lakes Basin Commission business that was not accomplished this Mr. HANRAHAN. and the final environmental statement of week and the unbw·densome schedule for Mr.VANDERJAGT. the Council on Environmental Quality, on the next week, including two bills on the Mr. BIESTER. Genesee River Basin, N.Y. and Pa., pursuant program for next week on which rules Mr. CONABLE. to 42 U.S.C. 1962&-3(b); to the Committee have not even been granted, I would sug­ Mr.TREEN. on Interior and Insular Affairs. Mr. SHRIVER. 1894. A letter from the Director, U.S. Water gest that Members of the House give a Resources Council, transmitting the prelimi­ second thought and a second look at the Mr. STEELMAN. nary report of the Council on a comprehen­ 25-percent pay increase that has been Mr. DERWINSKI. sive early-action plan for the Big Muddy recommended for them by President Nix­ 1895. A letter from the Chairman, Federal Members of Congress. Mr.MAHON. Trade Commission, transmitting the annual Mr. EDWARDS of California in two in- report of the Commission on its implementa­ That leads me to another observation tion and administration of the Fair Packag­ and that is the groaning and crying and stances. ing and Labeling Act during fl.seal year 1973, weeping in Congress, especially in the Mr.McFALL. pursuant to section 8 of Public Law 89-755; House of Representatives, about the pow­ Mr. DINGELL. to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign er wielded by the President, the usw·pa­ Mr. BIAGGI in :five instances. Commerce. tion of pawer on the part of the President Mr.NATCHER. 1896. A letter from the Administrator, Na­ and the delegated powers to the Presi­ Mr. RONCALIO of Wyoming. tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, dent. It was this House and the other Mr. ULLMAN in three instances. transmitting a report on the proposed dis­ Mr. GONZALEZ in three instances. posal of NASA land at the Goddard Space body which gave him the authority to Flight Center, pursuant to section 207 of the determine pay increases for Members Mr. RARICK in three instances. National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, of Congress. Mr.DENT. as amended (42 U.S.C. 2476a); to the Com­ It seems to me the least the Members Mr. ADAMS in :five instances. mittee on Science and Astronautics. of the House of Representatives can do Mr. ANDERSON of California in four in- 1897. A letter from the Secretary of Labor, to demonstrate responsibility is to vote stances. transmitting a draft of proposed legislation up or down on the issue of whether they Mr.BROOKS. to extend and improve the Nation's unem­ Mr. DONOHUE. ployment compensation programs, and for get a 25-percent pay increase before the other purposes; to the Committee on Ways expiration of 30 days from the date the Mrs. SULLIVAN in two instances. and Means. President recommended the pay increase. Mr.BREAUX. On the basis of accomplishment since Mr. BURKE of Massachusetts. RECEIVED FROM THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL this session opened the Members do not 1898. A letter from the Comptroller Gen­ deserve an inc1·ease in pay. Nor do they eral of the United States, transmitting a. re­ ADJOURNMENT TO MONDAY, po1·t on how more intensive reforestation and deserve an increase that is handed to FEBRUARY 18, 1974 timber stand improvement programs by the them on a platter by the White House Forest Service could help meet timber de­ and on which those who may be opposed Mr. JAMES V. STANTON. Mr. Speak­ mand; to the Committee on Government Op­ are precluded from a vote. er, I move that the House do now ad­ erations. journ. The motion was agreed to; accordingly REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUB­ SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED , LIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS under its previous order, the House ad­ By unanimous consent, permission to journed until Monday, February 18, 1974, Under clause 2 of rule xm, reparts of address the House, following the legisla­ at 12 o'clock noon. committees were delivered to the Clerk tive program and any special orders for printing and reference to the proper heretofore entered, was granted to: calendar, as follows: (The following Members communications were taken from the October 27, 1972, establishing the Golden Mr. ROBISON of New York, for 10 min­ Speaker's table and referred as follows: Gate National Recreation Area. in San Fran­ 1889. A letter from the Secretary of the cisco and Marin Counties, Calif., and for utes, today. other purposes; with amendment (Rept. No. Mr. KEMP, for 10 minutes, today. Army, transmitting a draft of proposed legis­ lation to amend section 2575 of title 10, 93-800). Referred to the Committee of the (The following Members the custody or control of military depart­ PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Mr. DIGGS, for 10 minutes, today. ments; to the Committee on Armed Services. Under clause 4 of rule XXII, public Mr. REuss, for 20 minutes, today. 1890. A letter from the Secretary of Health, bills and resolutions were introduced and Mr. GONZALEZ, for 5 minutes, today. Education, and Welfare, transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to amend the Older severally referred as follows: Ms. ABZUG, for 10 minutes, today. Americans Act of 1965 to extend the nutri­ By Mr. McCORMACK (for himself, Mr. Mr. OWENS (at the request of Mr. tion program for the elderly; to the Com­ PRICE of Illinois, Mr. HOLIFIELD, and JAMES v. STANTON). for 5 minutes, today: mittee on Education and Labor. Mr. HOSMER) : and to revise and extend his remarks 1891. A letter from the Administrator, Na­ H.R. 12823. A blll to amend the Atomic and include extraneous matter. tional Aeronautics and Space Administra­ Energy Act of 1954 to provide for improved tion, transmitting a report that no special­ procedures for planning a.nd environmental ized or technical services were provided by review of proposed nuclear powerplants, and EXTENSION OF REMARKS NASA to State or local governments during for other purposes; to the Joint Committee calendar year 1973 under title III of the on Atomic Energy. By unanimous consent, permission to Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968, By Mr. ADAMS: revise and extend remarks was granted pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 4224; to the Committee H.R. 12824. A bill to amend title 38, United to: on Government Operations. States Code, to increase the rates of dis• February 14, 1974 CONGRESSIONAi. RECORD-HOUSE 3069 ability compensation for disabled veterans, By Mr. HALEY (by request) : H.R. 12846. A bill to repeal the Emergency and for other purposes; to the Committee on H.R. 12834. A bill to authorize the measures Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Veterans• Affairs. necessary to carry out the provisions of Min­ Act of 1973; to the Committee on Interstate H.R. 12825. A bill to amend title 38 of the ute No. 242 of the International Boundary and Foreign Commerce. United States Code in order to increase the and Water Commission, concluded pursuant By Mr. STAGGERS (for himself and rates of educational assistance allowances; to to the Water Treaty of 1944 with Mexico Mr. DEVINE) ! provide for the payment of tuition, the exten­ (TIAS 994), entitled "Permanent and Defini­ H.R. 12847. A bill to amend the Federal sion of educational assistance entitlement, tive Solution to the International Problem Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Fair acceleration of payment of educational as­ of the Salinity of the Colorado River"; to the Packaging and Labeling Act to improve the sistance allowances, and expansion of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. protection of the public health and safety, work-study program, to establish a Vietnam By Mrs. HANSEN of Washington (for to repeal the Filled Milk Act and the Filled Era Veterans Communication Center and a herself and Mr. MEEDs) : Cheese Act, and for other purposes; to the Vietnam Era Advisory Committee, and to H.R. 12835. A bill to implement the Fed­ Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ otherwise improve the educational and train­ eral responsibility for the care a.nd educa­ merce. ing assistance program for veterans; to the tion of the Indian people by improving the By Mrs. SULLIVAN: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. services and facilities of Federal Indian H.R. 12848. A bill to amend the Federal H.R. 12826. A bill to amend title 38, United health programs and encouraging maximum Boat Safety Act of 1971 in order to increase States Code, to improve the veterans' edu­ participation of Indians in such programs, the Federal Government's share of the costs cation loan program, to authorize an action and for other purposes; to the Committee on of State boat safety programs during fiscal plan tor employment of disabled and Viet­ Interior and Insular Affairs. year 1975 and thereafter, and to increase the nam-era veterans, and for other purposes; By Mr. HECHLER of West Virginia: authorization for appropriations for such to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H.R. 12836. A bill to amend the Wild and programs; to the Committee on Merchant By Mr. ANDERSON of California: Scenic Rivers· Act of 1968 by designating seg­ Marine and Fisheries. H.R. 12827. A bill to amend title 38 of the ments of the New River as a potential comi><>­ By Mrs. SULLIVAN (for herself and United States Code to make certain that nent of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Mr. DINGELL) : recipients of veterans' pension and compen­ System; to the Committee on Interior and H.R. 12849. A bill to establish a compre­ sation will not have the amount of such Insular Affairs. hensive program to insure the wholesome­ pension or compensation reduced because By Mr. LATTA: ness of fish and fishery products; to the of increases in monthly social security bene­ H.R. 12837. A bill to require that a per­ Committee on Merchant Marine and Fish­ fits; to the Committee on Veterans• Affairs. centage of U.S. oil imports be carried on U.S.­ eries. By Mr. BOWEN: fiag vessels; to the Committee on Merchant By Mr. SYMINGTON (for himself, Ms. H.R. 12828. A bill to amend the Public Marine and Fisheries. ABzuG, Mr. BADILLO, Mr. BINGHAM, Works and Economic Development Act of By Mr. MOLLOHAN: Mr. BRASCO, Mr. BROWN of California, 1965 to extend the authorizations for an ad­ H.R. 12838. A bill to amend the Federal Mrs. BURKE of califo.rnia, Ms. CHIS­ dltional 1-year period; to the Committee on Salary Act of 1967, and for other purposes; HOLM, Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois, Mr. Public Works. to the Committee on Post Office and Civil CORMAN, Mr. DENT, Mr. DELLUMS, By Mr. BURKE of Massachusetts (for Service. Mr. FRASER, Mr. FULTON, Mrs. GRASSO, himself, Mr. ADDABBO, Mr. ANNUNZIO, By Mr. OWENS: Mr. HARRINGTON, Mrs. HOLT, Ms. Mr. BOLAND, Mr. BRASCO, Mr. BROWN H.R. 12839. A bill to provide for pubfic HOLTZMAN, Mr. LONG of MARYLAND, of California, Mr. CARNEY of Ohio, and regular disclosure of lobbying activities Mr. METCALFE, Mrs. MINK, Mr. MOAK­ Ms. CHISHOLM, Mr. FAUNTROY, Mr. undertaken to encourage the taking of l!lpe­ LEY, Mr. MURPHY of New York, Mr. HARRINGTON, Mr. HECHLER of West cific actions by the Federal Government, and PEPPER, and Mr. RIEGLE) : Virginia, Mr. HELSTOSKI, Mr. HICKS, for other purposes; to the Committee on the H.R. 12850. A bill to designate the birthday Mr. MOAKLEY, Mr. MORGAN, Mr. NIX, Judiciary. of Susan B. Anthony as a legal public holi­ Mr. O'HARA, Mr. PEPPER, Mr. PODELL, H.R. 12840. A bill to encourage State and day; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. RANGEL, Mr. RIEGLE, Mr. ROSEN­ local governments to reform their real prop­ By Mr. SYMINGTON (for himself, Mr. THAL, Mr. SEmERLING, Mr. STUDDS, erty tax systems so as to decrease the real ROE, Mr. ROGERS, Mr. RoSENTHAL, Mr. and Mr. TIEaNAN) ! property tax burden of low and moderate in­ SARASIN, Mr. STARK, Mr. STOKES, Mr. H.R. 12829. A bill to amend the Social come individuals who have attained age 65; w ALDIE, and Mr. CHARLES H. Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to the Committee on Ways and Means. WILSON of California) : of 1954 to provide for Federal participation By Mr. PEYSER: H.R. 12851. A bill to d~ignate the birth­ in the costs of the social security program, H.R. 12841. A bill to make it clear that the day of Susan B. Anthony as a. legal public With a substantial increase in the contribu­ bonus value of food stamps ls to be included holiday; to the Committee on the Judiciary. tion and benefit base and with appropriate in the "hold harmless" amount guaranteed By Mr. TAYLOR of Missouri (for him­ reductions in social security taxes to refiect to recipients of supplemental security income self, Mr. HAMMERSCHMmT, Mr. MC­ the Federal Government's participation in SPADDEN, Mr. BROWN of California, such costs; to the Committee on Ways and benefits under the Booial Security Amend­ ments of 1972, so as to assure that recipients Mr. ANDREWS of North Dakota, Mr. Means. MAYNE, Mr. FISHER, Mr. BRAY, Mr. By Mr. CONTE (for himself and Mr. in ea.sh-out States do not suffer reductions in the. benefits they actually receive; to the BEVILL, Mr. FLYNT, Mr. LITTON, Mr. BIESTEB) ! !CHORD, Mr. HAMILTON, Mr. DaINAN, H.R. 12830. A bill to amend title 38 of the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. PRICE of Texas: Mr. RANDALL, Mr. CHARLES WILSON United States Code to make certain that of Texas, Mr. ROBISON of New York, recipients of veterans' pensions and compen­ H.R. 12842. A bill to repeal the Emergency Daylight Savings Time Conservation Act of Mr. J. WILLIAM STANTON, and Mr. sation will not have the amount of such DUNCAN)! pension or compensation reduced because of 1973; and to amend the Uniform Time Act of 1966 to repeal daylight saving time; to the H.R. 12852. A bill to amend the Emergency increases in monthly social security benefits; Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 to rollback to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ merce. the price of propane gas; to the Committee By Mr. DE LA GARZA: on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H.R. 12831. A bill to a.mend the Internal By Mr. ROBISON of New York: H .R. 12843. A b111 to amend the Small By Mr. VIGORITO: Revenue Code of 1954 to permit taxpayers H.R. 12853. A bill to amend the Food Sta.mp to utilize the deduction for personal exemp­ Business Act to provide low interest operat­ tions as under present law or to claim a ing loans to small businesses seriously af­ Act of 1964, as amended, and for other pur­ credit against tax of $200 for each such ex­ fected by a shortage in energy producing poses; to the Committee on Agriculture. emption; to the Committee on Ways and materials; to the Committee on Banking and By Mr.HOWARD: Means. Currency. H.J. Res. 902. Joint resolution to authorize the President to issue a proclamation desig­ By Mr. DIGGS (for himself, Mr. FRASER, By Mr. smPLEY: Mr. DELLUMS, Mr. REES, Mr. ADAMS, H.R. 12844. A bill to provide for the co­ nating the month of May 1974, as "National Mr. FAUNTROY, Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, Mr. operation between the Secretary of the In­ Arthritis Month"; to the Committee on the STARK, Mr. NELSEN, Mr. GUDE, and terior and the States with respect to the Judiciary. Mr. SMITH of New York) : regulation of surface mining operations, and By Mr. REUSS: H.R. 12832. A bill to create a Law Revision the acquisition and reclamation of aban­ H.J. Res. 903. Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commission for the District of Columbia, doned mines, and for other purposes to the and to establish a municipal code for the United States relative to a congressional vote Committee on Interior ad Insular Affairs. of no confidence in the President; to the District of Columbia; to the Committee on By Mr. SHRIVER (for himself, Mr. the District of Columbia. Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. GUDE: HUDNUT, Mr. WYMAN, and Mr. RoY) : By Mr. ANNUNZIO: H.R. 12833. A bill to amend the Internal H.R. 12845. A bill to amend the Commu­ H. Con. Res. 431. Concurrent resolution Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the nity Mental Health Centers Act to provide expressing the sense of Congress concerning tax on the amounts paid for communication for the extension thereof, and for other pur­ recognition by the European Security Confer­ services shall not apply to the amount of the poses; to the Committee on Interstate and ence of the Soviet Union's occupation of Es­ State and local taxes pa.id for such services; Foreign Commerce. tonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; to the Commit­ to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. SLACK: tee on Foreign Affairs. 3070 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 14, 1974 By Mr. LONG of Maryland (for him­ conference to limit the sale of arms to the recommendations of the President with re­ self, Mr. TmRNAN, Mr. BRASCO, Mr. Middle East; to the Committee on Foreign spect to the rates of pay of Federal officials DELLUMS, and Mr. En.BERG): Affairs. transmitted to the Congress in the budget H. Con. Res. 432. Concurrent resolution ex­ for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976; to pressing the sense of the Congress that the By Mr. ANDERSON of California: the Committee on Post Office and Civil United States should call an international H. Res. 868. Resolution disapproving the Service.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

FEDERAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT, Committee on Reduction of Federal Ex­ Employment in the Legislative Branch in DECEMBER 1973 penditures: December totaled 34,105-an increase of 265, and the Judicial Branch decreased 257 dur­ FEDERAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT, ing the month to a total of 8,682. These DECEMBER 1973 figures are from reports certified by the HON. GEORGE H. MAHON Total civilian employment in the Execu­ agencies as compiled by the Joint Committee 011' TEXAS tive, Legislative and Judicial Branches of the on Reduction of Federal Expenditures. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Federal Government in December 1973 was EXECUTIVE BRANCH 2,810,239 as compared with 2,795,567 in the Thursday, February 14, 1974 Civilian employment in the Executive preceding month of November-a net in­ Branch in December, as compared with the Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I include a crease of 14,672. Total pay for November preceding month of November, with June release highlighting the December 1973 1973, the latest month for which actual ex­ six months ago and with December a year civilian personnel report of the Joint penditures are available, was $2,965,256,000. ago, follows:

Full-time in Temporary, permanent part-time, Total positions Change etc. Change employment Change

Monthly change: November 1973 ••• :. ••• ..:.:.·•• ___ •. :: .·.:: ______••. ------.:-=-- _____ :; -=-. ______..: 2, 426, 093 ------= 326, 685 ------2, 752, 778 ------~------2, 432, 473 +6, 380 334, 979 +8, 294 6-monthDecember change: 1973 •• __ -············------···------····------2, 767, 452 +14, 674 June 1973 •• ------· •.••• ..:.::. =------_....•• :.::::.:.:.:. ...•••.•.••. _. ..: 2, 421, 700 ------359, 189 ---·····------= 2, 780, 889 ------=------..: December 1973 •••• _. ··----__ •• ------___ ••.••• ·------___ ·----· ------2, 432, 473 +10, 773 334, 979 -24, 210 2, 767 I 452 -13, 437 12-month change: 2, 457, 667 ______.; December 1972 •• ;; ••••. ::••• : .:. •••••••• __ ••.•• ------..: •••:. • ..:.: •••• ______.; 331, 083 -·······------.: 2, 788, 750 .;::.:..:.-••.••••• .: December 1973. __ • ··-----····-.. _____ ------. ··-· ___ _ 2, 432, 473 -25, 194 334, 979 +3, 896 2, 767, 452 -21, 298

Some highlights with respect to Executive in Postal Service, Health, Education, and Wel­ 1975 budget document submitted by the :Branch employment for the month of De­ fare, and Treasury; and the Defense agencies President on February 4, 1973: cember and during the first six months of showed a major offsetting decrease over the ~cal year 1974 are: six month period. Civilian Military Total employment in the month of De­ Based on the present level of full-time agencies agencies Total cember for executive agencies shows an in­ permanent employment in December it crease of 14,674, primarily in Postal Service would appear that the President's new budget December 1973 •..••••• ..: 1, 449, 641 982, 832 2, 432, 473 with 14,397, Treasury with 1,947 and Health, requests would provide for an increase of June 1973. ______1,434,419 987,281 2,421, 700 Budget projections: Education, and Welfare with 1,543. The major more than 48,000 by the end of the current June 1974 ______1,455,300 1,025,300 2,480,600 decrease was in Agriculture with 1,771. fiscal year on June 30, 1974 and an addi­ June 1975 ______1,477,800 1,025,000 2,502,800 During the first six months of fl.seal year tional 22,200 by the end of fiscal year 1975. 1974 total employment in the executive agen­ BUDGET PROJECTIONS In addition, Mr. Speaker, I would like cies decreased 13,437, primarily due to a. de­ The following 1s a summary of full-time to include a tabulation, excerpted from crease of 19,175 in Defense agencies. Much permanent employment-the relatively stable of this six month cha.nge 1s due to seasonal hard-core of federal civilian employment the joint committee report, on person­ factors and summer youth employment. (excluding categories of temporary employ­ nel employed full-time in permanent Full-time permanent employment in the ment which are subject to sharp seasonal positions by executive branch agencies executive branch increased 6,380 during De­ :fiuctuations)-comparing December 1973 during December 1973, showing compari­ cember and 10,773 over the first six months of with June 1973 and with the budgeted p['ojec­ sons with June 1972, June 1973, and the fl.seal year 1974. The increases were primarily tions for June 1974 and 1975, contained in the new budget estimates for June 1974:

FULL-TIME PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT

Estimated Estimated June June December June 30, June June December June 30, Major agencies 1972 1973 1973 1974 1 Major agencies 1972 1973 1973 19741

Agriculture ______._ •• __ •••• _••• .: ••• __ .::: 82, 511 81, 715 78, 997 80, 200 Environmental Protection Agency •• :. ••••••••. ..::: 7,835 8,270 8, 537 9, 200 Commerce •••• _____ ------_____ .. _•• ----··· • ..: 28, 412 28,300 27, 975 28,600 General Services Administration ______.; 36, 002 35, 721 35, 469 37, 200 Defense: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 27, 428 25,955 25, 682 25, 000 Civil functions·----·-- ·------~:: 30, 585 29, 971 28, 506 28, 700 Panama Canal.------:: 13, 777 13, 689 13, 709 14, 000 Military functions ------1, 009, 548 957, 310 954, 326 996,600 Selective Business Administration ______.: 3,916 4, 050 3, 955 4, 100 Health, Education, and Welfare______105, 764 114,307 120, 942 2 123, 900 Selective Service System ______..: 5, 791 4,607 3, 437 3, 100 Housing and Urban Development______.; 15, 200 15, 820 15, 194 14, 800 Tennessee Valley Authority ______..; 14, 001 13, 995 13, 553 14, 000 Interior ••••. ------56, 892 56, 771 56, 708 58, 900 U.S. Information Agency ______..: 9,255 9,048 8,871 9, 100 Justice ••••• ------..: 45, 446 45, 496 46, 892 48, 900 Veterans'All other agenciesAdministration ______..•. ------__ ----- ..: 163, 179 170,616 171, 526 173, 400 labor------__ ------_____ ..: 12, 339 12, 468 12, 216 12, 700 Contingencies ______33, 499 34,603 34, 449 .;: 37, 300 State ______.------.------__ ------..: 22, 699 22, 578 22, 460 23, 400 2, 000 Agency for International Development_____ 11, 719 10, 108 9,618 9,900 Transportation______67, 232 67, 885 67, 249 69, 500 SubtotaL------1, 910, 854 1, 874, 417 1, 875, 706 1, 942, 700 TreasurY---·-·-·------····------..: 95, 728 98,087 102, 043 104, 700 U.S. Postal Service______594, 834 547,283 556, 767 537, 900 7, 145 7, 305 7,400 ~l~;T1~~~~!~oc,g~;~;r;~~~::::::::::::::::::: ~; ~~g 5,911 6,087 6, 100 Total 3···-···-···------···-----· 2, 505, 688 2, 421, 700 2, 432, 473 2,480,600

1 Source: As projected in 1975 budget document submitted by the President on Feb. 4, 1974. a December figure excludes 972 disadvantaged persons in public service careers programs as 2 Excludes 4,000 positions involved in proposed transfer of St. Elizabeths Hospital to the District compared with 1,043 in November. of Columbia.