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AMERICORPS: ANOTHER FAILED ton administration promised would be work "volunteer" exceeds the median income of ELITIST PROGRAM ing as teachers, doctors and police officers to workers in the private sector, including help improve communities. The reality, how those with years of experience. The edu ever, is that the majority of these highly cational benefits also exceed those available HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON paid "volunteers" work in federal or state to veterans. In addition, at least $15,000 per OF NEW YORK bureaucracies, government-funded programs participant goes for overhead and adminis IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES or even political action organizations. tration. Tuesday, April 4, 1995 For example, more than 2,800 AmeriCorps Worse than President Clinton's good inten participants work in federal departments or tions gone awry and the litany of waste and Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, in typical lib agencies, including 1,200 in the U.S. Depart abuse is AmeriCorps' effect on the essence of eral fashion, the President 2 years ago chose ment of Agriculture, 525 in the Interior De volunteerism. Private sector community to respond to declining voluntarism by throw partment, 210 in the U.S. Department of Jus service is thriving. The Labor Department ing Federal money and bureaucrats at the tice, 135 at the Environmental Protection estimates that there are currently three mil problem. At the time, .1 warned against this Agency and 60 at the National Endowment of lion unpaid volunteers between the ages of 18 wasteful use of limited tax dollars because it the Arts. and 25, most of whom work for religious or The federally funded Legal Service Cor would jeopardize worthwhile and necessary ganizations, the backbone of community ac poration, the chief litigator for the welfare tivism. projects. state (which for example, represents drug The laudable goals of AmeriCorps do not Lo and behold, 2 years later, that is exactly dealers when they are threatened with evic match its reality. If the goal is to expand what happened. President Clinton's pet project tion from public housing), was awarded 44 educational opportunity, the AmeriCorps was funded at the expense of needed veter AmeriCorps volunteers, cost the U.S. tax budget would be better spent on direct aid to ans' health care projects. Mr. Speaker, veter payer $959,000 plus an additional $1,242,784 in students. If the goal is to stimulate service, ans are people who know all there is to know "matching funds." In San Francisco, the Congress should amend the tax code to allow about national service and deserve the assist AmeriCorps "Summer of Safety" program for tax credits or increased deductions for ance our limited resources can provide. To organized 40 groups to rally against the fed those who donate their time and money. that end, my good friend and chairman of the eral crime bill's "three strikes and you're out" provision. Veterans' Committee, BOB STUMP, and I spon More than half of the money spent on sored an amendment to restore the funding for AmeriCorps ends up funding bureaucracies THE HOME RUN READER SUMMER VA outpatient clinics by rescinding funds from and paperwork. 'Educrats' at Northwestern READING PROGRAM AmeriCorps. University, for example, were given $140,000 Like all other liberal programs, AmeriCorps by AmeriCorps to develop "a plan to com HON. JIM UGHTFOOT plete for more AmeriCorps money next is wrought with abuse and spends half its OF IOWA money on bureaucracies and paperwork. Just year," without funding a single "volunteer." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES like their School Lunch Program, which sup Similarly, Americorps gave bureaucrats a $100,000 planning grant to study a volunteer ports bureaucrats instead of feeding hungry Tuesday, April 4, 1995 corps in the Virgin Islands and gave the children, this volunteer program, intended to Council of Great City Schools, which is de Mr. LIGHTFOOT. Mr. Speaker, I would like provide student aid, funds even more bureau voted to the "advancement of education in to bring the Members' attention to a reading crats rather than directly aiding students. Fur inner-city public schools through public and program in my district which has done a great thermore, Mr. Speaker, the liberals and Presi legislative advocacy," a $200,000 planning deal to motivate young people to read. It dent Clinton have succeeded in exacerbating grant. Again, none of this money went to seems commonplace to hear about American the problem of voluntarism by throwing money help students ·pay for college. students who do not meet the strenuous cri at it. Their volunteers receive more money and Despite the rhetoric, AmeriCorps does lit tle to help working families pay for college. teria we must require of them. Unfortunately, benefits than many of our hard-working citi At a 1993-94 price tag of $155.5 million, about it is not unusual to hear about young Ameri zens. On top of that, the tax dollars funding one-tenth of one percent of the 16 million cans who graduate from high school without this program often go to wealthy families, students enrolled in post-secondary edu adequate reading skills. maintaining their elitist pool of feel-gooders in cation participated in AmeriCorps. Even if This program is sponsored by the Daily stead of inspiring do-gooders. Supporting ex Congress expands the program to 150,000 par Tribune newspaper in Ames, lA, and the Iowa isting community based groups who already ticipants by 1997 as the Clinton administra Cubs baseball team and is entitled, appro perform charitable duties would incite civic vir tion has requested, less than one percent of priately enough, "The Home Run Reader students will be able to participate. tue and activism amongst others. Summer Reading Program." This program Mr. Speaker, since my warning 2 years ago Furthermore, the majority of the students recruited come from wealthy, not poor or was conceived with the sole purpose of help wasn't enough to discourage my fellow Mem needy, households. The AmeriCorps program ing children discover the pleasure of reading. bers from creating another wasteful, bureau is not means-tested (the liberals in Congress The program has been successful. cratic program, I would like to offer the follow defeated conservative efforts to develop a Last year marked the launch of the program ing article that appeared in the Hill newspaper means test). Thus, the children of wealthy and over 5,000 children and 26 libraries in 4 as evidence of its failure. "AmeriCorps: Rhet and influential people can elbow out poor Iowa counties were involved. The students oric vs. Reality" provides justification for re students for participants in the program. As ranged in age from 2 to 16 years of age and Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.) noted on the Sen scinding valuable tax dollars from this mis read or had read to them an astounding guided program. ate floor, instead of sending one AmeriCorp participant (who may or may not need finan 50,000 books, according to Mary [From the Hill, Mar. 29, 1995] cial assistance) to college, five needy stu Youngerman, a constituent in my district who AMERICORPS: RHETORIC VS. REALITY dents could qualify for Pell Grants. served as the coordinator of the program. This (By Allyson Tucker) Nor does AmeriCorps promote "volunteer summer, the program will span eight counties Thanks to a $1.7 million public relations ism". Each AmeriCorps "volunteer" is paid a and its estimated that 12,000 young people budget, AmeriCorps, the Clinton administra $7,400 stipend and a $4,750 tuition credit, will participate. tion's national service program created in worth approximately $7.27 per hour, plus It is my hope that participating in this pro 1993, remains a sacred cow despite a cost of medical benefits and free child care. The $30,400 per "volunteer" and abundant evi total, tax-free AmeriCorps package is worth gram will initiate a love of reading in children dence of waste and abuse. nearly $20,000 annually, more than the in that will last them for the rest of their lives. Ac Consider the facts. In 1993-1994 AmeriCorps come of 39.3 million working Americans. The cording to Ms. Youngerman, this program was had about 20,000 "volunteers" who the Clin- total, non-taxable income of an AmeriCorps inspired by a similar program in Illinois.
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. 10336 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1995 Mr. Speaker, I hope other Members will feel DAVID LOUIE: A SHINING EXAM lions of taxpayer dollars each year in the form free to contact me if they are interested in de PLE OF EXCELLENCE IN JOUR of illegal water subsidies to a few selected veloping similar programs in their districts. NALISM owners of corporate farm operations. The Hopefully, bringing attention to the Home Run water subsidy abuses have for years been a Reader Summer Reading Program will moti HON. TOM LANTOS huge embarrassment of Presidents of both po vate others to get involved at the local level to OF CALIFORNIA litical parties. But the Clinton administration encourage young people to read and learn. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has published new regulations that will once and for all close the loopholes in the Federal Tuesday, April4, 1995 Water Program. The San Diego Union last Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to week published an insightful description of this WIZARDS OF WESTWOOD RECLAIM honor and commend Mr. David Louie, a two resource ripoff. I urge my colleagues to closely NATIONAL TITLE time Emmy Award winning reporter for KGO read the following editorial. TV in San Francisco, for his long and distin [From the San Diego Union-Tribune, Mar. 29, guished career. After 25 years of excellence in 1995] HON. ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES broadcasting and a bright future ahead of him, REDISTRIBUTE STATE' S WATER David is and will continue to be one of the OF CALIFORNIA LARGE CORPORATE FARMS SHOULD NOT BE premier television reporters in the Nation. SUBSIDIZED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In the many years that I have known David, The future of San Diego County, and all of he has always been a shining example of in Tuesday, April4, 1995 Southern California, depends on water. In tegrity and intelligence in broadcast journal average years, we can supply only 5 percent Mr. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ism. David has been at KGO-TV since 1972, to 10 percent of our own needs. We have to starting as a general assignment reporter, and import the rest from Northern California and pay tribute to the new NCAA National Basket the Colorado River. ball Champion UCLA Bruins. now is the business editor and money reporter as well as a contributing reporter on "Market The first thing businesses must know be It was a night for the ages. It was a night place," the station's weekly business program. fore they can operate in San Diego is wheth for the new to replenish the old, a night to Recently, David Louie was elected as chair er they will have a guaranteed water supply cast-off the shackles of history of the glory of in the future. Without that, little else mat man of the National Academy of Television ters. As San Diego continues to grow, and as the present, a night for old ghosts to summon Arts and Sciences [NAT AS], a nonprofit . orga our economic future increasingly depends on new heroes. It was a night for the UCLA Bru nization of 10,000 members committed to en attracting new business or expanding exist ins to sustain its magnificent legacy with a riching the quality of television programming. ing ones, a guaranteed water supply will be performance worthy of its storied past. The Elected to the NAT AS board in June 1994 and come more important than ever. Bruins delivered-emphatically. currently serving a 25-year term, David is California has plenty of water for San Diego and everybody else, but for decades it The game between the UCLA Bruins and known nationally for his remarkable contribu tion to the field of journalism. has been locked up in the Central Valley. Ag defending national champion Arkansas Razor riculture uses about 80 percent of all the backs was truly a battle of titans. The Razor David's active involvement in the community water delivered in California, and Central backs were trying to become only the second and in promoting the advancement of broad Valley agriculture accounts for most of that. NCAA basketball champion to repeat in 22 cast journalism prompted Mayor Frank Jordan In the Central Valley, most farmers get years. The Bruins were trying to win their first of San Francisco to declare July 19, 1994, as water subsidized by taxpayers. Some pay as championship in 20 years. They did not dis "David Louie Day." Also, David was inducted little as $10 to $20 per acre-foot. Contrast that with farmers in San Diego County, who appoint. They played with the skill, intensity, into the prestigious NAT AS Silver Circle, com posed of media professionals who have pay the same retail rate as the city- $550 to and determination that befitted champions, $700 per acre-foot. past and present. It was like Ali and Frazier, served as broadcasters for 25 years and who have made notable contributions to Northern The artificially low water rates in the Secretariat and Affirmed, Magic and Bird. Central Valley, locked in by contracts as Champions who transcended their sport and California television programming. long as 40 years, help explain why so much of brought out the best in each other. In 1990, David was elected as national the state's water never gets south of the president of the Asian American Journalists Tehachapi Mountains. At such cheap prices, The game was played with Bruins past and Association, an organization encouraging eth there is no incentive for farmers to conserve. present watching from the sidelines. The Wiz nic diversity in our Nation's newsrooms. He But there is plenty of incentive to waste ard of Westwood, John Wooden, was in the has and continues to serve with distinction in water by farming marginal land and growing stands. Tyus Edney, the Little General, was this extremely important capacity. water-intensive crops in a virtual desert. sitting on the bench with a badly sprained Mr. Speaker, these numerous awards and In recent years, the Central Valley's grip on the state's water supply has begun to wrist. It was said that the Bruins could not honors speak volumes about one of our Na match the Arkansas bench. It was said that loosen. In 1992, President Bush signed the tion's finest reporters. In friendship and admi Central Valley Project Improvement Act, Bruins could not match Arkansas size and ration, I extend my most heartfelt congratula which for the first time allowed Central Val strength. Finally, it was said that the Bruins tions to this extraordinary American. ley farmers to sell their water to cities. simply could not match the skill and resiliency Now, the U.S. Department of Interior's Bu of the defending champions. But the Bruins reau of Reclamation is moving to undo a dec were more than a match for the Razorbacks. WELFARE REFORM FOR WESTERN ades-old inequity that has allowed huge cor WATER CHEATS porate farms to skirt acreage limits for sub When the Razorbacks pressed, the Bruins sidized water. If the feds are successful, attacked with speed and precision. When the Central Valley farmers will have even more Razorbacks took it to the hole, the Bruins HON. GEORGE MILLER impetus to sell water to cities like San blocked shots, stole passes and held the OF CALIFORNIA Diego. vaunted Arkansas inside game to season lows IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Federally subsidized water was only sup in points and rebounds. When the Razorbacks Tuesday, April 4, 1995 posed to be for small, family farms. Up until shot the rock from the perimeter, the Bruins 1982, the limit was 160 acres, although it was Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, almost universally ignored. Then it was held Arkansas sharpshooters to an abysmal while the House has been rushing to cut child raised to 960 acres, but huge farms of thou 10 of 28. And when the Razorbacks made a care, school lunches, and a host of other pro sands of acres continued receiving taxpayer final frenzied run, the Bruins kicked out the grams for poor people, the Bureau of Rec subsidized water by simply dividing their jams and ran away for a 89-78 victory. lamation has been quietly writing the last land into 960-acre trusts in the names of fam ily members. One of the nation's largest cor The critics have been silenced. Digger chapter of new rules that will help eliminate porate farms, J.G. Boswell, sold its acreage Phelps, Dickie V. and the rest of hoop punditry one of the most abused subsidy programs in to its employees' trust fund. It was all done must now pay the Bruins their due respect as government. If you want to hunt down welfare on paper; nothing changed on the ground. the 11th NCAA National Championship banner cheats, look to California's Central Valley, The Bureau of Reclamation, which for is hung from the rafters of Pauly Pavilion. where the Federal Government doles out mil- years winked at such practices, now intends April 4, 1995 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10337 to crack down on them. Central Valley farm Since 1992, Woody has worked closely with HONORING STANLEY 0. ers will fight back with their substantial po many of us in the House on issues important IKENBERRY, PRESIDENT, UNI litical clout. But the Bureau of Reclamation to the Coast Guard. I worked especially close VERSITY OF ILLINOIS, UPON HIS should hang tough. Taxpayers should not be subsidizing huge ly with Commander Lee from 1993 to 1995, RETIREMENT corporate farms. But there also must be a when I served as the ranking Republican free-market redistribution of water re member of the House Merchant Marine and HON. THO~W.~NG sources in California. Fisheries Committee. During those years, OF ILLINOIS California's cities are the industrial and commercial engines that drive the state's committee staffers, Chairman GERRY Sruoos, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES economy. To survive and prosper, San Diego and I all relied on advice and information sup Tuesday, April4, 1995 and other cities need more Central Valley plied by Woody to better understand the Mr. EWING. Mr. Speaker, this week the Illi water. Eliminating taxpayer subsidies for needs of the men and women of the U.S. nois congressional delegation and alumni of huge corporate farms would free up water for Coast Guard as they worked to carry out their the University of Illinois in the Washington, cities. Federal officials should strictly en many diverse missions. force the 960-acre limit for subsidized water. DC, area will honor U of I president, Stanley Throughout the years I worked with him, I 0. Ikenberry. At the conclusion of this aca was always impressed with Woody's tireless demic year, President Ikenberry will be retiring TRIBUTE TO VFW POST 2151 efforts on behalf of the Coast Guard, and his from his post after 16 years of outstanding efforts to improve communication between top service to the U of I, the Champaign-Urbana HON. PETER J. VISCLOSKY Coast Guard officials and those of us on Cap community, the entire State of Illinois, and in OF INDIANA itol Hill charged with overseeing the Coast deed to the country. His daily presence in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Guard's activities. president's office will be deeply missed, but his influence will be felt for many years to Tuesday, April 4, 1995 Commander Lee coordinated hundreds of come. Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Coast Guard presentations at congressional Among the highlights of President to pay tribute to the past commanders and hearings and briefings, including annual budg Ikenberry's tenure are the establishment of the auxiliary presidents of the Veterans of Foreign et briefings and updates on Coast Guard oper U of I at Chicago campus, the Beckman Insti Wars Post 2151. On April 8, 1995, V.F.W. ations during the Cuban and Haitian refugee tute for Advanced Science and Technology, Post 2151 will hold a commemorative dinner crises. Woody coordinated more meetings and the President's Award and University Scholars at their Post in Gary, IN, to honor their past of appearances on Capitol Hill by the two Coast Programs, and the National Center for Super ficers. Guard commandants under whom he served computing Applications, in addition to con The past commanders of V.F.W. Post 2151 than had been coordinated during the entire struction of a host of new academic buildings include: Harold James, Otha Williams, Dan L. previous decade. Woody's efforts to foster a and laboratory space. President Ikenberry's Williams, Joe Dishman, Bob Wilson, Jesse leadership and dedication to these and other Rogers, Bill Woodard, William Rapier, Lee G. better relationship and improved communica projects have earned the U of I its continued Coleman, and Virgil Fields. tion between top officials of the U.S. Coast The past auxiliary presidents for V.F.W. Guard and those of us in Congress resulted in paramount reputation in the academic and sci Post 2151 include: Bertha Harvey, Dorothy widespread and bipartisan support in the entific research community not only in Illinois Jordan, Bessie Jones, Prestine Fontleroy, Ada house for the U.S. Coast Guard as it worked but throughout the country. Indeed, President Williams, Jennie Young, Mary Clay, Elouise to carry out its many varied responsibilities. Ikenberry's visionary and bold leadership over Woodard, Jessie M. Shackelford, Doris Dan the years has helped to establish the U of I as But Woody always believed that telling the one of the premier and most highly respected iels, Mary Pendelton, Mattie Gault, Lula Mar Coast Guard story involved more than partici shall, Doris Daniels, Verlee Perry, and research institutions throughout the world. pating in congressional hearings. In his years On a personal note, President Ikenberry has Vanessa Jenkins. as the Coast Guard's liaison officer in the These former commanders and auxiliary been a good friend and someone with whom House, Woody organized and managed more presidents have been dedicated to preserving it has been a fine pleasure to work closely than 30 field trips for House staff members. the memory of the service of the U.S. soldiers with over many years both as a Member of Those trips provided staffers with invaluable to defend our country in foreign wars. Be Congress and during my service in the Illinois cause of the V.F.W.'s efforts in the preserva first-hand information and a better understand General Assembly. I am pleased that Stan tion of the history of the United States and for ing of Coast Guard operations, missions, and and his wife Judith will continue to call Urbana eign affairs policy, our citizens can learn from needs. home and I look forward to continuing our past experience in hopes for a better world. In the same way, Woody understood the friendship in the years ahead. Mr. Speaker, I ask you and my other col need for his fellow Coast Guard officers to Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the entire Illinois delegation I offer our congratulations to Presi leagues to join me in commemorating these better understand how the Congress works. dent Ikenberry for his life-long commitment to honorable men and women of V.F.W. Post That's why he volunteered to speak at the the highest quality education, the advance 2151 for their dedicated service to our great Chief Petty Officer's Academy and the Re country. ment of research, and distinguished service to serve Training Center Group Commander's students at the U of I, as well as all of the course. That's also why he has taken the time people of Illinois and our country. We cannot SALUTING U.S. COAST GUARD to advise field commanders on how they can thank him enough for his contributions toward COMDR. WILLIAM J. "WOODY" foster greater understanding of Coast Guard the betterment of all our lives. LEE ON HIS RETIREMENT missions by the public as well as by Federal level elected officials. HONORING PAUL J. MANAFORT HON. JACK F1ELDS A 1974 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard OF TEXAS Academy, Woody deserves our sincere thanks IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for the 21 years of distinguished and selfless HON. NANCY L JOHNSON Tuesday, April 4, 1995 service he has given to the U.S. Coast Guard OF CONNECTICUT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, those of us who and to his country. Woody informs me that have worked on issues important to the U.S. he's accepted an exciting and challenging po Tuesday, April4, 1995 Coast Guard have enjoyed the opportunity to sition at Raytheon, and that he plans to con Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speak work with Comdr. William J. "Woody" Lee. tinue his marathon running. I know you, Mr. er, on Wednesday evening, April 26, 1995, Woody will retire from his position in the very Speaker, and all of my colleagues join with me Paul J. Manafort, a friend and admired com near future after 21 years of active duty serv in wishing Comdr. William J. "Woody" Lee munity leader will be honored as Citizen of the ice in the Coast Guard, and I would like to as well as his wife, Dona, and their two chil Year by the New Britain Lodge of Elks. Paul's take a moment to salute his efforts on behalf dren-continued success and happiness in the remarkable leadership and contributions to the of the U.S. Coast Guard. years ahead. greater New Britain community have spanned 10338 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April4, 1995 many decades and represent a broad spec We must never forget the true nature of the heroin trafficking problem and seizures trum of civic, professional, community and World War II. It was a war of aggression by of heroin have increased rapidly in the past charitable endeavors. military dictators and their followers in Japan few years ..." Nevertheless, a unilateral ef Paul will be honored for his leadership, and Germany. Our Armed Forces fought with fort of any country is not enough to win a complete victory against drugs. My govern dedication and many achievements, both per supreme bravery and sacrifice to save our ment, therefore, has thoroughly cooperated sonally and professionally. He has dedicated way of life, to save democracy, to give suffer with American as well as other international his life to his family and community. Paul ing people back their freedom. And it was law enforcement agencies to crack down on Manafort's elective service began on the New fought and won by great patriots like Hayne all drug related crimes and will continue to Britain Board of Aldermen. He was elected as W. Dominick. do so. The State report also indicated that, mayor in 1965 and served three terms during in the last year, the ROC government not a period of great cultural and societal change. only "continued to cooperate well" with the His thoughtful and proactive leadership re TAIWAN'S SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS Drug Enforcement Agency but also explored TO FIGHT NARCOTICS with U.S. authorities the possibility of sign sulted in strong economic development and ing a bilateral counternarcotics agreement. responsive public policies for the city. The re The people and the government of the ROC spect Paul earned during his elective tenure HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL are as committed as you are to fighting drug led to his appointment as commissioner of the OF NEW YORK problems. ·we hope you will take note of our department of public works where his state IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES strong commitment and vigorous actions on this important matter. wide service was widely acknowledged. Tuesday, April 4, 1995 Community service and volunteerism have With warmest regards, Sincerely, been the cornerstone of Paul's commitment to Mr. RANGEL. Mr Speaker, in August 1993, had the privilege to attend a Regional BENJAMIN LU, enriching the quality of life in New Britain. He Representative. has enjoyed membership in numerous civic, Counter Narcotics Conference in Taipei, Re community and charitable organizations. His public of China. The conference was held in work with ethnic, veterans, disabled and conjunction with the Republic of China's Min TRIBUTE TO REVEREND AND MRS. church organizations is legendary. His active istry of Justice, and was attended personally BURGOS participation on the boards of the Boys' and by Justice Minister, Dr. Ma Ying-jeou. The de Girls' Club, New Britain General Hospital, the cision to hold the conference in Taipei, to HON. ROBERT MENENDFZ Police Athletic League, his leadership with the gether with Minister Ma's participation, was yet OF NEW JERSEY another indication from our friends on Taiwan Greater New Britain Opera Association, the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sons of Italy, the Colombian Federation, St. of the seriousness of their antidrug efforts. Tuesday, April4, 1995 Ann Church and civic groups such as the I have just received a letter from Benjamin Elks, Lions Club, and the Knights of Columbus Lu, the Republic of China's Representative Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I would like have afforded Paul many awards and much here in the United States, which details some to take this opportunity to congratulate Rev. acknowledgment throughout his many, many of the further steps undertaken by the Repub Gregorio Burgos and his wife, Lucia, on the years of service. Those who have known and lic of China since the conference. I would like celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. worked with Paul know that his tremendous to include it in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Reverend and Mrs. Burgos were united in contributions to the community are founded in because I feel it is important that such efforts marriage in Puerto Rico on April 19, 1945. the deep personal satisfaction he has found in do not go unnoticed here in the Congress. I They are a fine example of family unity and to helping others and his commitment to the city strongly commend the Republic of China's gether have contributed a great deal to our of New Britain and her citizens. antinarcotics efforts, and submit the following community and country. Veterans, the disabled, young and old citi letter from Representative Lu: Rev. Gregorio Burgos has been actively in zens alike, fellow volunteers, his family and TAIPEI ECONOMIC AND volved as a pastor and minister for the past 52 friends will gather on April 26 to share their CULTURAL REPRESENTATIVE, years. He and Lucia have dedicated their lives very great appreciation, respect and admira Washington, DC, March 14, 1995. to helping others. Through their religious work tion for one of the very great gentlemen and Hon. CHARLES B. RANGEL, in the community they have touched the lives U.S. House of Representatives, of many in need. As a minister of the Church leaders in the city of New Britain. Washington, DC. DEAR REPRESENTATIVE RANGEL: I am writ of God of the 7th Day, the Burgos have nur ing to update you regarding an issue of great tured the spirits and minds of congregants IN HONOR OF HAYNE W. DOMINICK importance, international narcotics control. throughout New Jersey. They have worked to This is also a matter of mutual concern to gether to build congregations in many New HON. BOB GOODLATIE the United States and my country, the Re Jersey cities, including Paterson, Jersey City, OF VIRGINIA public of China (ROC) on Taiwan. Newark, and Camden. In the State of New According to reports released by the Min IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES York they established parishes in the Bronx istry of Justice of the ROC, drug related and Rochester, and in addition they have Tuesday, April 4, 1995 crimes such as drug abuse, trafficking and money laundering were increasing in the taken their message of love to Pennsylvania Mr. GOODLATIE. Mr. Speaker, with all of Taiwan area in recent years. However, the and the Caribbean. the recent discussion about Enola Gay and ROC government has taken effective meas The Burgos have dedicated most of their some academic types trying to rewrite history, ures to put the problems under control, and lives to their congregants and have known all I'd like to talk a moment about a great Amer the achievements were duly noted by Amer the joys and sorrows of the religious life. ican living in my district who knows much ican authorities. As commended by the When there was illness among their about the subject of World War II. "International Narcotics Control Strategy congregants, they comforted the sick and their His name is Hayne W. Dominick, and as a Report of 1995" of the United States Depart families. When a child was born, they were 21-year-old machine gunner for the Army Air ment of State, officially released on March 1, my government has launched nation-wide there to join in the celebration. Whenever Corps he fought the Japanese across the Phil anti-drug programs and passed harsher laws there was death, they were also there for con ippine Islands and then made the last stand at against traffickers. In addition, although not solation and to give the family strength to go Corregidor. Days later, he survived the brutal a member of the United Nations, the ROC on. and infamous Bataan death march. Like thou has introduced "legislation in conformity Their strong love and commitment for each sands of his comrades in that march, Mr. with the 1988 UN Convention in the areas of other and their community helped inspire the Dominick demonstrated bravery, endurance, money laundering, precursor chemical con writer Adalberto Mendez in his book entitled constancy in the face of torture and inhumane trols and 'illegal drug' schedules." "History of the Church of God of the 7th Day." treatment, and compassion for his hurting Both the record-breaking volume of drug Although both Gregorio and Lucia are seizures and an impressive number of offend comrades that is perhaps unmatched in mili ers indicted in Taiwan in recent years proved semiretired, they remain actively involved in tary annals. Then, for another 4 years, his that our efforts have been fruitful. The re their congregation as counselors. Reverend courage carried him through the horrors and port also noted that "the Taiwan authorities and Mrs. Burgos have five children, Raquel, brutality of a Japanese prison camp. have mounted a concerted effort to attack Wilfreda, Elieser, Irma, and Sara. They are April4, 1995 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10339 also the loving grandparents of 15 grand status. The legislation will also provide the resentatives to advise the Administrator on children and 4 great grandchildren. FAA with the major personnel, procurement, management, policy, spending, and regulatory Please join me in wishing Rev. Gregorio and finance reforms needed to keep America's matters. And it will mandate that final action Burgos, 79, and Mrs. Lucia Burgos, 68, a air traffic control system the best in the world. must be taken on all FAA rulemakings within happy golden anniversary. A celebration will Although our national air transportation sys 18 months after the date of their initiation. be held in their honor on April 9, 1995. I am tem is the best in the world-it should be bet I'm offering my bill as a starting point for de sure that their family and friends are inspired ter. As a pilot and flight instructor, I've seen a veloping consensus towards a meaningful and by the example that they have set. I wish lot of problems with the FAA bureaucracy. And realistic reform effort. I hope you will join me them continued happiness and prosperity. I've heard from far too many people who've as I continue to work with the leaders of the had first-hand experience with the mis aviation community-the airlines, general avia management and inefficiencies at the FAA. tion, FAA employees-to shape these ideas A TRffiUTE TO CENTRAL FALLS These are exemplified by the advanced auto into the kind of package all of us can support. illGH SCHOOL STUDENTS mation system, which is the core of the air space modernization effort-a project bungled HON. PATRICK J. KENNEDY so badly that it is billions over budget an years TAXPAYERS, TIGHTEN YOUR BELT OF RHODE ISLAND behind schedule. TO PAD INDUSTRY'S PURSE? We're clearly not doing our best to ensure IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that ours is the safest and most efficient sys HON. GEORGE MillER Tuesday, April 4, 1995 tem possible. We've reached a point in the de OF CALIFORNIA velopment of our aviation system where we Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island. Mr. Speak IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES er, I rise today to honor a group of 25 stu can no longer postpone action. It is clear that dents from Central Falls High School who won everyone, the administration, Congress, and Tuesday, April 4, 1995 the Rhode Island title in the "We the People" the aviation user groups agree on the need for Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, as competition on the Constitution and the Bill of reform at the FAA. Congress nears the end of the first 100 days, Rights which was held March 12 at the Com At the appropriations committee, we heard let us examine some of the choices the new munity College of Rhode Island. Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena Republican majority has made to find ways to The 25 juniors are all students in the U.S. testify that the Clinton administration's pro reduce the Federal deficit. In January, the Re history class taught by Bertrand Brousseau, posal for a Government-owned ATC Corpora publican majority passed its balanced budget who is the chairman of the social studies de tion is the only solution to the problems that amendment without explaining to the Amer partment at Central Falls High School. The exist at the FAA. Yet there is near-universal ican citizens which Federal programs will be students will compete for national honors in agreement that the administration's proposal is sacrificed for the sake of deficit control. The joining 1,200 students from across the Nation no solution at all. The General Accounting Of Republican's rescissions bill, however, pro in Arlington VA; and Washington DC, from fice's analysis of the administration's proposal vided a glimpse of the programs on the chop April 29 to May 1. strongly suggests the proposal has been ping block, those which provide summer jobs The competition involves students dem rigged with financial assumptions to make the for our youth, those which provide housing for onstrating their knowledge of constitutional concept superficially attractive. the elderly and poor, those which provide While I recommend the administration for principles and their relevance to contemporary community service volunteer placements in taking a proactive role in FAA reform, the issues. Making the feat more impressive is our inner cities, and those which provide plans has earned almost no support from the that 14 of the 25 students from Central Falls healthy lunches for our schoolchildren. This industry or from Congress. But there has been High School learned English as a second lan week, Republicans would widen the gap be one positive outcome to the discussions about guage. Some of the ·students or their parents tween the rich and the middle-class by pass privatizing the nation's ATC system. It has are natives of Portugal, Mexico, Puerto Rico, ing a healthy tax break for the wealthiest helped focus the debate, allowing several El Salvador, Mozambique, Colombia, Liberia, members of society. common complaints about the FAA to emerge. Poland, and Vietnam. My legislation seeks to address those key Of course, reducing our $4 trillion deficit is I will be visiting these award-winning stu obstacles which nearly everyone agrees are a responsibility for all Americans. However, if dents in their classroom on April 10 to wish hampering our efforts to keep pace with tech the average American thinks that everyone is them the best of luck in this competition. I am nology and the growth of the aviation industry. equally sharing the burden of balancing the very proud of their accomplishments. They For example, the DOT structure hinders the budget, it's time for a wake-up call. While have shown that hard work and desire, along FAA from doing its job in the most effective many Americans will have to learn to do more with proper parental and educational support, manner. By reestablishing an independent with less and while many worthwhile Federal can overcome any language barriers. FAA, we eliminate the many layers of review programs are facing the Republican firing I'd like to offer my congratulations and best by Department of Transportation political ap squad, some industries have been granted wishes to Mr. Brousseau and his students: pointees and their staffs. While no former FAA clemency from deficit reduction efforts. The Kelly Bianchi, Berta Couto, Elizabeth Diaz, Administrator supports the ATC Corporation mining, grazing, timber and agricultural indus Elizabeth Gartska, Linda Layous, Juan proposal, restoring FAA to independent status tries, which use Federal mineral resources Menzano, Christine Patricio, Hannah Tarawali, is supported by 10 of the 11 living former FAA and operate on public lands, continue to Alexandra Zaldana, Janet Blandon, Yolanda Administrators. shamelessly receive billions of taxpayer dol DaSilva, Michelle Doucet, Martha Gutierrez, My bill provides an independent FAA with lars in Federal subsidies each year, and Re Rebecca Lussier, Nelci Paiva, Celina Sackal, the personnel and procurement reforms need publicans plan to do nothing to ensure Ameri Halena Taveira, Melenie Casto, Daisy Diaz, ed to ensure the safety of the users of our in cans a better return for their resources. Susan Freitas, Melanie Kowal, Mike Macedo, creasingly complex and busy aviation system. I'd like to submit for the RECORD and urge Beatriz Patino, Kathy Siwy, and Agnes Wee. It establishes two pilot programs; one to ex my colleagues to read a March 27 op ed by empt the FAA from procurement regulations Mr. Jim Gogek that highlights some of the cir which hamper its ability to acquire the cutting cumstances under which public resource in FAA SHOULD BE AN INDEPENDENT edge technology it needs, and another to ex dustries continue to receive Federal handouts. AGENCY empt FAA from most civil service rules except In his San Diego Union-Tribune editorial, Mr. those relating to employee benefits. Gogek describes some of the egregious Fed HON. JIM UGirnOOT The bill creates a select panel to review and eral policies that pad the pockets of natural re OF IOWA report to Congress on innovative funding source development companies with billions of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mechanisms, such as loan guarantees and re dollars each year. structured grant programs, to ensure that the Understandably, the taxpayers are outraged Tuesday, April 4, 1995 money is there for future improvements of the by these massive handouts to multimillion dol Mr. LIGHTFOOT. Mr. Speaker, today I am Nation's aviation infrastructure. lar industries and are calling for an end to cor introducing legislation to restore the Federal My bill will establish a management advisory porate welfare, but most Republicans appear Aviation Administration to independent agency board made up of high-level industry rep- indifferent to their demands. How much longer 10340 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1995 will the taxpayer have to watch the new major trict paid $8 per acre-foot of water whose full TRffiUTE TO THE NORTHWEST IN ity in Congress cut valuable programs in order cost was actually about $46 per acre-foot. DIANA HISPANIC COORDINATING to pay for timber sales in our national forests Some federally subsidized water goes to ir COUNCIL that lose money? How much longer will large rigate surplus crops, which receive an agri mining companies be able to extract gold and culture subsidy. A federal study in 1986 found that California crops receiving subsidized HON. PETER J. VISCLOSKY silver from our public lands for only $2.50 an OF INDIANA acre? How much more money in subsidized ir water were also getting nearly $500 million in crop subsidies. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rigation must we give to huge agribusinesses for surplus crops? How much longer will we One of the nation's largest corporate Tuesday, April4, 1995 allow the annual giveaway of hundreds of mil farms, J.G. Boswell Co., tills about 192,000 Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today acres in the Central Valley that are irrigated lions of dollars to ranchers in the forms of with federally subsidized water. to commend the efforts of the Northwest Indi cheap grazing leases and free livestock feed? ana Hispanic Coordinating Council for their How much longer must we all tighten our belts Farmers receiving federally subsidized numerous contributions to northwest Indiana. water are negotiating contracts to sell that so that these industries, many of which are water to cities like San Diego-at market Founded on November 15, 1988, the His not even controlled by American citizens, may prices. panic coordinating council is composed of leaders from over 40 different Hispanic organi continue to grow rich from our tax dollars? Besides water and crop subsidies, most In February 1995, I introduced the Public Central Valley farms benefit from subsidized zations. These people have committed them Resources Deficit Reduction Act, legislation power from government-built hydroelectric selves to improving the quality of life for the which will recover more than $3 billion a year dams to pump subsidized water to their Hispanic residents of northwest Indiana. Coun lost through these unreasonable Federal sub fields. Some farms also receive millions to cil president and cofounder Benjamin T. Luna sidies. I am pleased that 44 other Members, help market products overseas. has been instrumental in providing the His from both sides of the aisle, have joined me Over the last decade, $1.3 billion in agri panic community with motivation and opportu as co-sponsors of this legislation which will culture subsidy checks were mailed, not to nities for excellence. end this corporate welfare. As Congress con rural areas but to major cities and their sub On April 8, 1995, the coordinating council tinues to work toward increasing fiscal ac urbs, where corporate farms and absentee will present honors to 42 top scholars and ath countability and boosting returns to the Treas farmers have their offices. San Diego re letes throughout northwest Indiana. The coun ury, I urge my colleagues to consider joining ceived $11.8 million, Los Angeles $10.8 mil cil will also present their annual recognition lion and San Francisco $13.9 million. Sac awards to deserving individuals. The council us in our efforts to achieve fair-market value ramento received $102 million. A corporation for the use of the public's resources. based in Rancho Bernardo got almost $1 mil will honor these distinguished people at a ban [From the San Diego Union-Tribune, Mar. 27, lion for a farm in Montana. quet which will be held at the American Legion Post 369 in East Chicago, IN. 1995] Those are only some of the agricultural BIG AGRICULTURE ALSO DRAINS THE FEDERAL subsidies in California alone. Imagine the cu The students who will receive awards for TILL mulative sum we pay for the whole nation. outstanding academic achievement include: Patricia Alvarado, River Forest High School; (By Jim Gogek) Then there are subsidies for grazing, min My Republican colleagues promise that ing and timber. Here's a few goodies: Albert Davila, Merrillville High School; Alyssa House GOP members will soon begin taking Diaz, Highland High School; Guadalupe Gon on federal subsidies to business-dubbed The National Forest Service alone incurred zalez, East Chicago Central High School; Jes "corporate welfare"-now that they have cut $557 million in net losses in 1993 in timber sales, grazing leases and mining subsidies. sica Herrera, Martin Luther King Academy; funding for such social programs as job Tania Higareda, Clark High School; Maria training, drug courts, vocational education, A 120-year-old mining law doesn't require Lule, Bishop Noll High School; Karla Madrigal, summer jobs for kids, housing for the poor royalties based on the value of metal ores and elderly and food subsidies for low-in taken from federal land. The only payment Hammond Morton High School; Xochilt Me come women, infants and children. for ownership of a claim is a fee of between dina, Hammond Gavit High School; Becky Ra San Diego's freshman Republican, Rep. $2.50 to S5 an acre. A mining company holds mirez, Crown Point High School; Edwin Rami Brian Bilbray, was here recently and made a claim to a huge platinum strike in na rez, Horace Mann High School; Robert Rami the same promise: Subsidies are next on the tional forests in Montana estimated to be rez, Calumet High School; Jennifer Ramos, block. However, he admitted that it might be worth $32 billion. The federal government Munster High School; Albert Rodriguez, Lew a tough battle cutting some agriculture-re will receive at most about $10,000 for patent Wallace High School; Melissa Rodriguez, lated items, such as the $500 million ethanol ing the claims and acreage fees. Hammond High School; Joshua Rodriguez, subsidy that goes mostly to one company in Ranchers pay $1.86 a month per animal Illinois. Griffith High School; Elvin Roman, Horace unit, which equals one cow and calf or four Mann High School; Aaron Vela, Lake Central Big Ag greases the skids in Washington as sheep, to graze on public land. The fee on pri well as anybody. The constituency favoring vate property is $10 a month. Federal grazing High School; Cara Velez, Portage High corporate subsidies has a lot more money for leaseholders are allowed to sublease their School; and Brett Sweet, Lowell High School. greasing than does the poor people's con land-at a substantial profit. Many lease The students who will receive awards for stituency. So don't hold your breath. holders are huge corporate ranchers. One outstanding athletic achievement include: Here in California, federal subsidies are rancher in California leases 5 million sub Aerie Arreguin, Highland High School; Robert themselves a cash crop. Central Valley agri sidized acres in California, Nevada and Wyo Avila, Andrean High School; Phil Benavides, culture floats on the federal dole. Timber, ming. mining and ranching operations also belly up Lowell High School; Juan Carlos Buezo, Lew to the trough. These are the same folks, by In California alone, the private use of pub Wallace High School; David Brugos, Clark the way, who vehemently oppose any govern licly owned timber. grazing and mineral re High School; Arturo Corral Ill, Wirt High ment regulation on their land. But they have sources on national forest property resulted School; Jessica Figureroa, Merrillville High no problem accepting a government handout. in a $34 million net loss for taxpayers in 1993. School; Victor Garcia, Griffith High School; Let's take a look at some of California's Not all public subsidies to business are Eusebio Gonzalez, Gavit High School; Jerame natural resource subsidies, starting with ag bad. Some, such as certain research subsidies Hicks, East Chicago Central High School; riculture: for medicine and science, return much great Daniel Mayorga, Hammond High School; The Central Valley Project, a huge federal er social benefits than the original cash out project that provides water to farmers in the lay could buy. Jason Mendoza, Munster High School; Rich San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys, has ard Mendoza, Hammond Morton High School; cost taxpayers between $34 billion and $70 But providing millions of dollars to David Ortiz, Portage High School; Matt wealthy corporate farms? Giving away bil billion since passage of the Reclamation Act Rodriguez, Calumet High School; Vincent of 1902, according to the Congressional Budg lions in valuable minerals and timber on public land? And perhaps worst of all, subsi Rosado, River Forest High School; George et Office. Torres, Bishop Noll High School; James Of the nearly $1 billion spent just to con dizing the destruction of our forests, wilder struct its irrigation facilities, only about $50 ness, grasslands and fisheries? Torres, Lake Central High School; Erin million has been paid back by users. What do you call a public policy that does Valdivia, Hobart High School; and Tom Central Valley Project water districts pay all that while at the same time slashes funds Zelaya, Crown Point High School. a fraction of the full cost of water. According for summer jobs for kids? I can think of sev Aisha Ceballos of Gary Emerson High to a 1991 federal study, Westlands Water Dis- eral words, but this is a family newspaper. School will be awarded both an academic and April 4, 1995 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10341 athletic award by the coordinating council at everything else in America. Now, Schoharie of the Westfield High School concert band-as their annual banquet. County employs only 5 percent of its popu well as conductor Philip Geiger-on this sig The council will also present the outstanding lation in agricultural and forest work. Still, it nificant achievement, and I know you join with family award to Rafael and Doritila Fletes of has retained its small town character and me in wishing everyone associated with the East Chicago. This distinguished couple was charm and the Schoharie Valley remains one band continued success in the years ahead. carefully selected from many qualified families of the most scenic regions in New York State. on the basis of their unity and dedication to One thing that thankfully hasn't changed, one another's successes. Ms. Eliza Vela will Mr. Speaker, is the pride and values of the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE EX receive the community service award. The citizenry. On June 3d, residents of Schoharie PLAINS REPUBLICAN WELFARE labor award will be given to Mr. Robert Flores. County will take part in day-long festivities REFORM Mr. Francisco Loza, president of the River commemorating their heritage. There will be Forest and Lake Station School Corporation tours of the various historical sites which mark HON. TOM LANTOS Dual District Bilingual and Migrant Education the region as well as parades and plenty of OF CALIFORNIA Program, will be awarded the president's small town camaraderie. I commend the peo IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES award. Finally, Ms. Maria DeLaLuz Murillo ple here for their commitment to their region Tuesday, April 4, 1995 Tellez will be honored with the distinguished and the Schoharie County Bicentennial Com Caesar Chavez Award, in honcir of the late mittee for their hard work in organizing this Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, the San Fran charismatic president and founder of the Unit event. cisco Chronicle has done a superb job cutting ed Farmworkers. Today, Mr. Speaker, I ask all Members to through the deceptive rhetoric of the majority Media recognition awards will go to Mr. Mi join me in an anniversary tribute to Schoharie in Congress to reveal the real reason behind chael Puente and Mr. Michael Gonzalez, of County, a great place to live. welfare reform, Republican style: massive tax the Post-Tribune; Mr. Mark Arrendondo and cuts for the rich paid for by cutting benefits to Mr. Jose Alvarez, of the East Chicago News; the millions of poor, elderly, disabled, and Mr. Christian B. Candelaria, of the Herald CONGRATULATING THE WEST- legal aliens of our country. As the editors so News Group; Mr. Tom Gutierrez, Jr., of WJOB FIELD HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT aptly point out, simply cutting benefits to our radio; Ms. Terry Serna, of La Voz Newspaper; BAND most vulnerable citizens will do absolutely Mr. Joe Arrendondo, of channel 56/WYIN; Ms. nothing to solve the most difficult problems Sylvia Lopez, of WGN; and Mr. Carmello HON. JACK F1EIDS facing them and our society as a whole. Melendez. OF TEXAS Meaningful welfare reform must replace de Mr. Speaker, I ask you and my other col IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pendency with independence while maintain ing the safety net for those truly in need. Al leagues to join me in applauding all of the Tuesday, April4, 1995 award recipients chosen by the Hispanic co though real reform will not be simple and it will ordinating council. I feel that all of the partici Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate this not be cheap, the alternative-cutting off our pants are most deserving of the honors that opportunity to congratulate the Westfield High most needy citizens-is the epitome of short will be bestowed upon them. It is my privilege School concert band in Houston, TX, on re sightedness. Mr. Speaker, I commend your at to commend them on their achievements. cently winning the Sudler Flag of Honor, which tention and the attention of my colleagues to is presented to the most outstanding high this excellent and timely editorial, and I ask school concert bands in the United States and that it be placed in the RECORD. SCHOHARIE COUNTY, NY, Canada. [From the San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 3, CELEBRATES BICENTENNIAL Under the direction of Mr. Philip Geiger, the 1995) Westfield High School concert band is just the WELFARE ON THE CHEAP Is NOT REFORM HON. GERAlD B.H. SOLOMON 31 st concert band to earn the Sudler Flag of Any hope that the Senate might salvage OF NEW YORK Honor in the 12 years that it has been award some glimmer of actual "reform" from the House-passed welfare bill largely vanished IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ed. The award is presented by the John Philip Sousa Foundation and is intended to recog last week when Senate Finance Committee Tuesday, April 4, 1995 nize and salute high school concert band pro chairman Bob Packwood, R-Ore.-who will Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I have always grams of international-level excellence. draft the Senate version-indicated he would go along with the House in ending the fed been proud of the heritage and physical beau Winning the Sudler Flag of Honor proves eral entitlement nature of most welfare pro ty of the 22d Congressional District of New what many of us have known for along time: grams and turning them into block grants to York which I have the privilege of represent that the Westfield High School concert band is the states. ing. It is for this reason, to savor the history among the very best concert bands in North That basic approach has everything to do and character of the picturesque towns and America. with cutting spending for the poor in order counties, that I return home every weekend. The Sudler Flag is designed in red, white to heap tax cuts on the rich- and virtually We often forget, Mr. Speaker, that the real and blue and features the logo of the John nothing to do with welfare reform. America is not Washington, but the small As Senator John Chafee, R-R.l., noted last Philip Sousa Foundation. The flag becomes week: " Instead of focusing on employability towns and villages where real people live and the property of the band. Each member of the * * * out-of-wedlock births and * * * work. I would like to talk about a collection of band receives a personalized certificate and intergenerational welfare dependency, the such towns today. the band director receives a personalized focus (of the House bill) seems to be entirely On Saturday June 3d, Schoharie County, plaque. on how to save money.* * *" NY will celebrate its 200th anniversary. This To be eligible for the Sudler Flag, a high That, in fact, is the basic flaw in the Re county was formed by the New York State school must have maintained a fine concert publican approach: the contradiction be Legislature from parts of Albany and Tryon band for at least 7 years. Although the band's tween saving money and reforming welfare. Real welfare reform, the kind that ends de Counties in 1795. However, its history began concert activities receive the most attention in pendency and self-defeating behavior by put long before this official action. The area was the selection process, the high school's band ting people to work, costs money, it doesn't settled by German explorers in 1712 when program must be a complete one and must in save it. It requires, at a minimum, paying they arrived from the lower Hudson Valley. clude a marching band, small ensembles, and for job training, child care and job creation This frontier region prospered with its rich solo participation by its members in contests none of which are adequately provided today. farmlands, rolling countryside, and quiet and festivals. Also, the band conductor must The original GOP contract spoke of spend streams. In fact, this county adopted the In have been at the same high school for at least ing $10 billion on jobs programs. The House dian name for the river which ran through the 7 consecutive years and is expected to be in passed bill offers nothing-simply the re quirement that welfare recipients must work valley, Schoharie. volved in professional band and music edu after two years, whether there are any jobs With its splendid forests and fertile river cation organization and activities on the local, or not, or lose benefits. bed, the Schoharie Valley was an agricultural State and national level. Trying to do welfare on the cheap will re hotbed for many years. However, the county Mr. Speaker, I know that you join with me sult only in a system even less effective and has changed since those days, like just about in congratulating the young men and women more wasteful than the present one. It is not 10342 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1995 simply foolish, but mean-spirited, for it years since, including, Whitney Young, Vernon CLINTON RELISHES HIS arises not from any desire to improve an im Jordan, and the current president and chief UNNECESSARY INVASION perfect system, but from the barely disguised motive of trying to pay for $190 billion worth executive officer, John E. Jacob. of middle- and upper-class tax cuts at the ex The Monmonth County League has sought HON. CHRISTOPHER COX pense of the weakest, most disenfranchised to bring together a broad cross-section of pub OF CALIFORNIA members of society: poor women and chil IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lic and private sector leaders representing the dren, who are the major beneficiaries of wel Tuesday, April4, 1995 fare, and legal resident aliens, who have paid corporate, banking, legal, government, and taxes and played by all the rules but can't educational communities. Among the major Mr. COX of California. Mr. Speaker, the oc vote. goals of the Monmouth chapter of the league casion of President Clinton's visit to Haiti is What would real welfare reform look like? occasion to reflect on the ill wisdom of his pol are programs to assist unemployed and un It might well include the GOP demand to icy there. It is "his" policy because, as he did turn programs over to the states, as Presi deremployed people to become self-sufficient with Mexico, he bypassed the Congress. The dent Clinton has also urged, so that flexibil through job readiness counseling, job develop following article by Sir Eldon Griffiths is a so ity and experimentation might flourish free ment, job bank and referral services, and en bering analysis of the Clinton Haiti policy. of burdensome federal mandates. It would trepreneurial advocacy. The league also works · also include more money, not less, for inno CLINTON RELISHES His UNNECESSARY vative jobs programs. to address the housing needs of the commu INVASION But the Republican block grant approach nity, through the development of affordable By the time you read this, U.S. troops in simply replaces liberal federal mandates housing and counseling to assist families and Haiti will be pulling out in favor of a U.S. led, U.S.-munitioned, and largely U.S.-fi with conservative ones, and it further con individuals who may qualify for various forms stricts the states by reducing overall pro nanced U.N. army. President Clinton is in jected spending by some $65 billion over five of rental or home ownership assistance pro this tiny speck of an island, ready to pass years in order to pay for tax breaks. grams. The league also works in developing the baton-! almost said the buck!-to U.N. As the Economist magazine observed last leadership through the support of young adults Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, whose thankless task now becomes to hold week, the Republicans are passing up a and professionals serving in mentorship and chance •' to do welfare reform in a way that the ring in Haiti while the smallest, poorest is right rather than merely right wing." If tutorial programs. Efforts also focus on health country in the Western Hemisphere struggles the Senate goes along, the only hope for real education and prevention programs. to construct a "viable democracy." welfare reform will be the veto pen. I wish the United Nations better luck than Mr. Speaker, it is a great honor for me to its hapless multinational forces experienced pay tribute to the work of the Monmouth after the United States handed over Somalia. TRIBUTE TO THE MONMOUTH County Urban League, and to wish for its con Let's also acknowledge that six months-and COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE tinued success in the future. several billion dollars-after Jimmy Carter brokered his deal and Bill Clinton sent in an air-sea armada with more firepower than all HON. FRANK PAllONE, JR. the armies of Latin America combined. Port OF NEW JERSEY au Prince is probably less dangerous than it IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN RECOGNITION OF LORIN AND was under the rule of Raoul Cedras and his ANN WASHER thugs. With the U.S. embargo lifted, some, Tuesday, April 4, 1995 though by no means all, of Haiti's services Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, and small firms are back in business. Most of April 6, 1995, the Monmouth County, NJ, HON. BILL BAKER those Haitian boat people intercepted by the Urban League will hold its Second Annual U.S. Coast Guard as they tried to get to Equal Opportunity Awards Dinner at the Long OF CALIFORNIA Florida are being repatriated, many forcibly, from the unsanitary camps that shame Branch Ocean Place Hilton. I would like to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES America in Cuba and Panama. take this opportunity to congratulate the Mon Last Tuesday's high-noon murder of a mouth County Urban League, and its new Tuesday, April 4, 1995 prominent Haitian lawyer who had criticized president Dr. Webster Tremel!, for the excel Mr. BAKER of California. Mr. Speaker, re President Aristide is, however, a reminder lent work that the league has done in lending that Port au Prince still is driven by dan cently a couple from my district, Lorin and Ann a helping hand to those in our community who gerous elements, but thanks to the U.S. Ma need it most-and to give my strongest en Washer, needed to cancel a long-awaited trip rines (and a growing Haitian police force), couragement for their future endeavors. to the Nation's Capital due to health reasons. the situation in the capital has improved to It would have been a special trip for them, as a point where it's less frightening to walk in Mr. Speaker, the mission of the Urban the streets at night than it is in, let's say, League as a nonprofit community-based social 50 years ago this month they met in Washing Washington, D.C. service and civil rights organization is to assist ton on a blind date. That night, April 12, 1945, Clinton has every reason to praise the U.S. African-Americans and other minorities and was the day President Roosevelt died. Ann forces. They did what he told them to do. low-income families and individuals to achieve and Lorin had to change their plans to dine But his claim that his Haiti was a " triumph" is none the less as spurious as it is self-de social and economic equality. The league, out and instead ate at the home of a friend. whose national headquarters is in New York ceiving. This version of events may sit well Obviously the location of their meal was unim with those Haitians who've done well from City, has 114 affiliates across the nation. portant, as their courtship began in earnest Aristide's return; it may also carry the day Working through social work, economics, and shortly thereafter, and they were married in with the liberal press and what's left of the the law, the league seeks to secure equal op October 1946. Black Caucus in Congress. But history, I pre portunities in all sectors. While seeking to im dict, will judge Clinton's Haitian adventure prove the quality of life for racial minorities, Mr. Speaker, although Ann and Lorin cannot less generously. More likely it will be seen as the league is also devoted to the goal of build come to Washington to celebrate the April 12 an unnecessary, grotesque mismatch of U.S. ing bridges between the races. anniversary of their first meeting. I am pleased power to U.S. interests. The league was founded in 1910 in re Is that too harsh a verdict? If you think so, to honor them for a relationship that has en just ask three questions: sponse to the needs of southern blacks who dured 50 years. It is increasingly rare in our Did Haiti under Cedras (or any other ruler) migrated to New York seeking enhanced eco society that a couple exhibits the qualities of pose a threat to U.S. security? It didn't. It nomic opportunities, only to be confronted with loyalty and love demonstrated by the Wash couldn't. It doesn't. Haiti has no military unemployment, scarce health care, and over airfields, no naval ports, no missiles sites ers, and I am pleased to draw attention to this crowded housing. The league was created like those in Cuba that enemies of America through the merger of several organizations outstanding couple as the reminisce about not might use. Militarily, Clinton's invasion was dedicated to assisting these new arrivals and only their courtship, but so many years of mar a classic case of using a billion dollar ham ried life. Couples like the Washers have much mer to crack a 20-cent nut. combatting the racism of that era. In the years Was Haiti crucial to the economic inter since, the league has expanded into a nation to teach and much to remember, and deserve ests of the United States? No. it wasn't. It wide organization, and many distinguished our congratulations on this unique day in their isn't. It couldn't be. Haiti has no oil, no min leaders have presided over the league in the lives. erals, no products of any kind the United
------·------April 4, 1995 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10343 States needs to earn its living. Trade with INTRODUCTION OF THE CHLORINE A 1990 EPA analysis revealed that as many Haiti is so insignificant that when the Unit ZERO DISCHARGE ACT OF 1995 as 1 in 10 subsistence and sports fishing indi ed States imposed a total embargo, few viduals could get cancer by eating fish con Americans even noticed, outside a few travel HON. BnLmCHARDSON taminated by releases from certain pulp and agents in Miami. OF NEW MEXICO paper mills. Additional studies have found that Were the lives of American citizens at risk IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pulp and paper mill workers tend to have high in Haiti? No, they weren't. Despite all the ef er rates of particular forms of cancer, such as Tuesday, April 4, 1995 forts of the State Department, not one exam soft-tissue sarcomas and respiratory cancers, ple was found of Americans suffering oppres Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I am than the population as a whole. A 1988 EPA sion or wrongful imprisonment in Haiti. pleased to rise today to introduce the Chlorine survey of 104 U.S. pulp and paper mills found Lacking these or any other reasons of U.S. Zero Discharge Act of 1995. This legislation, bleached pulp from nearly every mill to contain national interest, President Clinton based which has already been cosponsored by near the most dangerous forms of dioxins and his case for invading Haiti on the need to im ly 30 Members of the House, is identical to furans. pose-or restore-democracy. But why in H.R. 2898 which I introduced in August 1993. A 1992 report issued by the International Port au Prince, but not-as Ronald Reagan That legislation, although not enacted by the Joint Commission on the Great Lakes Basin sought to do in the face of Clinton's criti 103d Congress, garnered nearly 60 bipartisan [IJC] concluded that "the use of chlorine and cism at the time-in Salvador or Panama or cosponsors. its compounds should be avoided in the man Nicaragua? The Chlorine Zero Discharge Act will, if en ufacturing process." A 1994 report from the Okay, Cedras was a rightwing brute, just acted, result in the elimination within 5 years same organization reported that "mounting as Aristide is a leftwing demagogue. But if of the use of chlorine and chlorinated com evidence continues to reinforce concerns Cedras was grinding down the Haitian people pounds as bleaching agents in the production about the effect of persistent toxic sub to a level that justified U.S. intervention, of pulp and paper. Specifically, the bill would stances" including reproductive, metabolical, why didn't Washington first try to overthrow amend the Clean Water Act to require a re neurological and behavioral abnormalities, him with the CIA (as it did in Guatemala and duction to absolute zero of the discharge or suppression of the immune system and in Cuba)? And how come, when Jimmy Carter release into water of any organochlorine com creasing levels of breast and other cancers. went to Haiti with Colin Powell and Sam pounds, byproducts, or metabolites formed as Former IJC and Indiana Republican Party Nunn, Carter claimed the U.S. embargo was a result of the use of chlorine or any other Chair Gordon Durnil has been even more "shameful" and called Cedras "an honorable chlorinated oxidizing agents in the pulp and forceful, warning "the heart of our message is man" with whom the United States could do paper manufacturing process. that the integrity of the human species will be business? The use of chlorine and chlorine compounds increasingly compromised unless we act deci When the full story comes to be told, Haiti, in the pulp and paper industry is the second sively to bring the growing problem of persist I suspect, will turn out to have been the un largest use of chlorine in the United States ent toxic substances under control. We are necessary invasion. The United States got and Canada. Chlorine and its compounds are convinced that the dangers posed to humans sucked into it in large part because can used as bleaching agents to remove residual will increase with each passing generation." didate Clinton publicly broke with George lignins from wood pulp to make the resulting The American Public Health Association Bush's policy of sending back the Haitian paper white. [APHA], a nationwide membership association boat people, with the result that hundreds of The use of chlorine as a bleaching agent in of over 30,000 health professionals, passed a thousands set off for Florida, creating a the production of pulp and paper results in the resolution in October 1993 "calling for measur problem that Clinton in office found he release of an estimated 1,000 organochlorines able and progressive reduction toward the couldn't handle. Clinton was then humiliated in the wastewater of pulp and paper mills. The elimination of the use of chlorine-based when he sent in the USS Harlan County sup average pulp mill in America releases 35 tons bleaches in the paper and pulp industry and of ply ship with a bunch of officials on board of toxic organochlorines each day. However, ozone-depleting chlorinated organic chemi who turned tail at the first whiff of grape only 3 of the 1,000 organochlorines released cals." In February 1994, APHA endorsed the shot from Cedras's goons on the dock. And so are currently regulated by the EPA: dioxin, Chlorine Zero Discharge Act. it came to pass that stopping the flow of ref furan, and chloroform. Only the State of Or Despite repeated claims to the contrary, al ugees (that Clinton himself had invited), and egon regulates organochlorines as a class of ternatives to the use of chlorine and putting Aristide back in Cedras's place, be pollutants. chlorinated compounds do exist. Totally chlo came the leitmotifs of U.S. foreign policy. Although dioxin is produced as a byproduct rine-free [TCF] alternatives such as hydrogen Never mind Cuba, where the dictatorship of pulp and paper bleaching in only very small peroxide and ozone are in use today in mills was harsher and the outflow of migrants amounts, scientific studies by the Environ around the world, especially in Europe. Unfor larger. Forget Rwanda, where millions died, mental Protection Agency [EPA] and inde tunately, although these alternatives are in or Angola and all the rest. Haiti was a case pendent scientists have shown that even in creasingly relied upon by our competitors in of presidential pique and strategic misjudg minute amounts, organochlorines such as Sweden, France, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, ment, of liberal idealism, and Florida's dioxin are persistent and bioaccumulative. and Germany, American industry has stead Democratic politics getting in the way of This means that they remain in the environ fastly refused to adapt to the changing market any objective long-term assessments of U.S. ment for years and buildup over time reaching conditions affecting the worldwide paper mar diplomatic priorities and America's true na levels that have been linked to cancers and ket. Only one mill in North America, the Louisi tional interests. development and behavioral disorders in hu ana-Pacific pulp mill in Samoa, CA, has made So when the president returns to Washing mans and death in animal and plant life. For the switch to TCF production. ton, let's hope he lays aside his mantle of example, although DDT was banned in the Such intransigence in the face of changing Liberator-or is it Conqueror?-of Haiti. 1970's, trace amounts now linked to animal world-wide market demands for white paper Time has come to return to the real world of deaths still persist in the environment more that does not destroy the environment and global issues. Clinton's relations with Father than 20 years after its last known use in this threaten human health could spell disaster for Aristide may just be hunky-dory, but with country. the American pulp and paper industry. Failure most of the other leaders of Europe and Asia, In its recent reassessment of dioxin-The New York Times, The Washington Post, tion and/or use over time and replace these mitted facility, together with a list of each the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the At substances or the processes that produce permitted facility's location and quantities them, or both, with safer alternatives; lanta Constitution, the Portland Press Herald of combined organochlorine compound dis (5) among the persistent and/or bioaccumu charges into water. The report shall contain and countless other newspapers from coast to lative toxic substances of greatest concern recommendations for achieving a zero dis coast. CNN has aired several reports on the are organochlorines discharged in the pro charge policy for important categories of use of chlorine in the pulp and paper industry duction of pulp and paper as a result of the organochlorine pollution sources. In order to and ABC News' Prime Time Live is currently use of chlorine or any other chlorinated oxi develop such recommendations, the Adminis planning a similar story for airing in the near dizing agents in the pulp and paper manufac trator shall convene an advisory panel. The future. The public is clearly getting the mes turing process; advisory panel shall conduct public hearings sage. Now it is time for American industry to (6) the Great Lakes Water Quality Agree and solicit public and expert comment. The ment between the United States and Canada panel shall consist of 15 members, including pay attention to the public outcry for paper concludes that "the discharge of toxic sub at least 1 independent expert in each of the production processes that do not harm the en stances in toxic amounts be prohibited and fields of public health, occupational health, vironment or threaten public health. the discharge of any or all persistent toxic technology change, toxics use reduction, and By eliminating the use of chlorine and substances be virtually eliminated"; and ecology, 2 affected citizens, and technical chlorinated compounds in the pulp and paper (7) in the Sixth Biennial Report on Great and policy experts from industry, labor, pub bleaching process, the Chlorine Zero Dis Lakes Water Quality, the International lic interest groups, and State environmental charge Act provides a responsible, effective Joint Commission on Great Lakes Water agencies. solution to the environmental and economic Quality concluded that "the concepts of vir "(d) DEFINITION.-For the purposes of this degradation of chlorine use in the pulp and tual elimination and zero discharge are con section, the term 'zero discharge' means ab sistent and a clear statement or direction to solutely no output or release, including paper industry. Federal intervention to ensure take to achieve the Agreement's purpose. nonpoint source output or release, into that the use of these unnecessary, dangerous The overall strategy or aim regarding per water. The term 'zero discharge' does not chemicals is eliminated is necessary to protect sistent toxic substances is virtual elimi mean a less than detectable output or re the public from potential life-threatening health nation, and the tactic or method to be used lease.". and environmental impacts. to achieve the aim is through zero input or I am pleased to introduce this bill today discharge of those substances created as are along with the support of my colleagues sult of human activity. DON'T SWINDLE THE CHILDREN'S JERROLD NADLER, NEIL ABERCROMBIE, GARY (b) ZERO DISCHARGE OF ORGANOCHLORINE LUNCHES AWAY ACKERMAN, HOWARD BERMAN, DAVID BONIOR, COMPOUNDS, BYPRODUCTS, OR METABOLITES. Title III of the Federal Water Pollution Con GEORGE BROWN, ANNA ESHOO, LANE EVANS, trol Act is amended by redesignating section HON. ~ORR O~S ENI FALEOMAVAEGA, SAM FARR, BOB FILNER, 519 as section 520 and by inserting the follow OF NEW YORK MAURICE HINCHEY, MATIHEW MARTINEZ, JIM ing after section 518: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MCDERMOTI, CYNTHIA MCKINNEY, FRANK "SEC. 519. DISCHARGE OF ORGANOCID..ORINE Tuesday, April 4, 1995 PALLONE, NANCY PELOSI, CARLOS ROMERo COMPOUNDS, BYPRODUCTS, OR BARCELO, LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, MARTIN METABOLITES. Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, the final word SABO, PATRICIA SCHROEDER, JOSE SERRANO, "(a) ZERO DISCHARGE.-(!) Effective 5 years has not yet been said about the Republican ESTEBAN TORRES, NYDIA VELASQUEZ, BRUCE after the enactment of this section, each swindle of the children who receive free pulp and paper manufacturing facility shall VENTO, HENRY WAXMAN, LYNN WOOLSEY, and lunches in the schools across our Nation. But achieve zero discharge into water of the final, most authoritative figures have been SIDNEY YATES. organochlorine compounds, byproducts, or I urge the my other colleagues to join me in established by the Congressional Budget Of metabolites formulated as a result of the use fice. The very conservative but thorough CBO supporting this important health and environ of chlorine or any other chlorinated oxidiz mental protection legislation. ing agent in the pulp and paper manufactur has estimated that the Republicans will cap The full text of the bill follows: ing process. ture slightly more than $2 billion from their H.R.- "(2) Effective 5 years after enactment of block-granted School Lunch Program. This will Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep this section, all existing and new permits be $2 billion more to go into the tax cut for the resentatives of the United States of America in under this Act for paper and pulp mills rich. This is a scenario filled with horror. It Congress assembled, which use chlorine or any other chlorinated conjures up the image of the poster where SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. oxidizing agent shall require compliance Uncle Sam is pointing his finger and saying to This Act may be cited as the "Chlorine with the zero discharge requirement set potential military recruits: "I need you!" While Zero Discharge Act of 1995". forth in paragraph (1). "(b) SAFE ALTERNATIVES ASSISTANCE. the Republicans advocate a $50 billion in SEC. 2. ZERO DISCHARGE OF TOXIC PERSISTENT crease in the defense budget and turn their AND BIOACCUMULATIVE SUB- Within one year after the enactment of this STANCES. section, the Administrator shall evaluate al backs on welfare for corporations and rich (a) FINDINGS.-The Congress finds that--- ternatives to the use of organochlorines in farmers, they are saying to the children of (1) substances that persist and/or bio the manufacturing of pulp and paper, and America: "This nation needs your lunch." accumulate in the environment, build to shall publish a report on the transfer of tech THE NATION NEEDS YOUR LUNCH nology in the pulp and paper industry from higher and higher concentration over time, Kids of America reaching their greatest levels in the tissues organochlorine to chlorine-free technology as a model for pollution prevention. Within There is a fiscal crunch of species high on the food chain, including This great nation humans; 18 months after the enactment of this sec (2) toxic substances that persist and/or bio tion, the Agency shall begin providing tech Now needs your lunch accumulate in the environment are bio nical information and support to assist per To set logically active in infinitesimal quantities, mit applicants in the use of alternatives to The budget right causing reproductive failure, birth defects, organochlorine compounds in the production Go hungry developmental impairment, hormonal dis of pulp and paper. For one night ruption, behavioral disorders, immune sup "(C) REPORT TO CONGRESS ON Don't eat pression, and cancer at low doses, and mix ORGANOCHLORINE ZERO DISCHARGE CAN What we could save tures of these substances may cause these ef DIDATES.-Within 18 months after the enact Be brave fects at even lower doses; ment of this section, the Administrator shall Patriots stand out April4, 1995 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10345 Above the bunch forced labor at the farm as a "forced-job cruel acts. In winter, we were suspended in Proudly surrender lunch placement" (jiuye) worker. I was once again the air and then cold water was thrown on Kids of America labeled a "counter-revolutionary element" us; during hot summer days, cold water was Nutrition's not for you in 1974 because of my "political attitudes", replaced by building a fire beneath the sus Sacrifice for the rich few and the controls over me at the Laogai pris pended prisoner. Other forms of ill-treat When tummies burt on farm were further strengthened. I was de ment in this position included being lashed Go to bed tained straight through until my release in with a leather belt and being beaten with an Be a soldier 1983. During the twenty-five years I spent in electric cattle-prod or an iron bar. Our feet And play dead the Laogai, I suffered innumerable beatings were also fettered with iron manacles while and torments; I clearly remember one occa self-tightening handcuffs and thumb-cuffs The F22 then sion when I was unable to fulfill my produc were used to tie our hands and thumbs. The Might rescue you tion quota because I was very sick, the pub sharp edges on those handcuffs often resulted The Sea Wolf sub lic security police stripped me of my clothes, in prisoners hands getting cut completely Might bring hot grub tied me to a tree trunk, and allowed the off. I still have many scars on my wrists as Now hear this mosquitoes and insects to bite me for more a result of these sharp instruments. There is a fiscal crunch than two hours. In 1962, I managed to escape from Panam This nation needs your lunch The Baimaoling Farm is internally known District Prison with six other political pris Pledge allegiance to the flag as the Shanghai Number Two Laogai General oners. But we got caught just when we Mobilize your own brown bag Brigade. It is located in the southeast area of reached Tonsher township to worship near The enemy deficit Anhui Province. Its scale is enormous and it the Indo-Tibetan border, and my prison term Must be defeated holds, on average, 50,000 Laogai prisoners, was increased to 15 years as result. The im Nutrition suicide squads laojiao prisoners, and jiuye personnel. It pro position of the additional eight year prison Are desperately needed duces tea, rice, valves, and toys, as well as term was preceded by indiscriminate beat Kids of America other goods. My father and I were detained ings, then the use of iron shackles on both There is a fiscal crunch in different sections of the farm, and we were my hands and feet, night and day for six This great nation not permitted to see each other. The public months. The leg shackles were not removed Now needs your lunch. security police only told me in 1973 that he for more than two years, during which I was had died, and I bad to go and claim the taught how to, then forced to, weave carpets. corpse. Once at the crematorium, I saw his Mr. Chairman, I completed my Laogai TESTIMONY OF LIU XINHU old and pale body. I was given those clothes. term in 1975 but was not allowed to return I cried bitterly. I felt that my father was home. Rather, I was sent to the Nyethang more brave than I was because he dared to Laogai camp, located some 15 miles west of HON. FRANK R. WOLF determine his own end to this difficult life Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Prison life re OF VIRGINIA and gain his freedom. sumed, though with a slightly relaxed at IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I now live in the United States and have a mosphere. In 1979, I took advantage of this to family and children of my own. I deeply hope sneak out of the Laogai camp in the middle Tuesday, April4, 1995 that my children and all other children, as of the night to go to Lhasa, where I put up Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, I sub well as all future generations, do not have a number of posters calling for Tibetan inde mitted for the RECORD the testimony of three ever to suffer through these kinds of tortures pendence. I was finally caught, and on Au and difficulties. Thank you all very much for gust 26, 1983, I was rearrested and sent to the survivors of the Chinese laogai. The witnesses your concerns about the Chinese citizens Old Sangyip Prison in northeastern Lhasa. testified before the International Relations who continue to suffer in the Laogai to this In April 1984, I was sentenced to a nine Subcommittee on International Operations and very day. year prison term during a one hour trial Human Rights on April 3. where I was denied legal representation or The stories are powerful accounts of brave TESTIMONY OF PALDEN GYATSO, LAOGAI opportunity to defend myself. I was taken to Chinese men and women who have suffered SURVIVOR the Outidu Prison Fourth Unit, which is tremendously because of their religion or polit Thank you, Mr. Chairman. today a part of the Sangyip Prison Adminis ical views. Today, I am submitting the testi I have spent 33 years of my 64-year-old life tration in the remote northeast valley of mony of two more survivors-Mr. Liu Xinhu, in Chinese prisons and Laogai camps in Lhasa, in April of 1985. In that Laogai, we Tibet. During those years I yearned for a mo had to do all sorts of filthy work, including who was imprisoned at the age of 13 because ment such as this one. I express my whole the handling of human excrement used to his father was a so-called counter hearted thanks to you, Mr. Chairman, and to grow vegetables. Sometimes we were forced revoluntionary and Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan all the members of this Committee for giving to do the personnel work of the prison monk who spent 33 years in the laogai. I hope me this great opportunity to appear before guards. But the guards routinely expresses my colleagues and the American people will you today. I feel that it is an honor, but also dissatisfaction with our work and often beat be enlighted and moved by these stories. my responsibility, to inform the United us afterwards. We were also often subjected Many people like Mr. Xinhu and Palden States Congress about the mistreatment I to other abuses by drunken prison guards. Gyatso are still suffering in China today. We and other Tibetans have suffered in the Other forms of ill-treatment at the Laogai were rampant. For example, in November must not forget them. Laogai at the hands of the Chinese govern ment. 1987, a prison official poked me with an elec TESTIMONY OF LIU XINHU, LAOGAI SURVIVOR My name is Palden Gyatso. I became a tric cattle-prod and poured boiling water My name is Liu Xinhu. monk when I was ten years old. At 28 years over me just because he said he did not like Because my father was an official in the of age in 1959, at the climax of the Chinese my attitude. No medical treatment was former government, the Communist Party, military invasion of Tibet, I was arrested given after that. on the pretext that be would disrupt labor and accused of being a "reactionary ele Throughout my 15 year imprisonment that discipline, arrested and sent him to a "reedu ment" and sentenced to a seven-year prison started in 1959 and the nine year confine cation through labor" (laojiao) prison camp term to be served at the Panam District ment in the Laogai thereafter, I was never in 1958. He was sent to the Baimaoling Farm Prison in southern Tibet. This prison was allowed any visits or meetings with my rel to serve his sentence. In 1973, having lost all previously a monestary named Norbu atives and family members. hope and deeply impoverished in the hell of Khyungtse. In the prison, I was made to do In November 1987, five prisoners from the bard labor farm, he committed suicide. hard labor, ordinarily for nine hours a day, Guojo District in eastern Tibet, imprisoned I was born in 1945. When I was 13 years old and some times even more. We prisoners at Gutsa Prison in Lhasa, were sentenced in 1958, because I was the eldest son in the were yoked to plows like animals to till pris and two of them put to death. On the day of family of a counter-revolutionary, the Com on lands. When we got exhausted and became the announcement of the sentences, all of munist government found an excuse which too weak to pull the plow, we were kicked the prisoners of Gutsa Prison (near Sangyip) had absolutely no legal precedent, and sent and whipped from behind. Since we were were ordered to attend. The two prisoners me to live at the same Laogai prison farm as never given enough to eat, we were forced to who were sentenced to death were told by my father. In 1964, when I had just turned steal food meant for the pigs in the Chinese the Chinese police that since the were to be eighteen years old, the Communist govern pig sties. We were also driven to chewing and executed in two days, they should sing loud ment sentenced me to two years reeducation eating things like used leather items, bones ly and dance in front of the crowd of other through labor because of what they called of different kinds of dead animals, mice, prisoners. They were forced to comply with "counter-revolutionary activities". After worms, and all kinds of green grasses. this order with their iron leg and hand being released from the laojiao sentence at The treatment of political prisoners at the shackles on. Many prisoners cried spontane the farm in 1966, I was ordered to continue Laogai in Tibet involves d.ifferent types of ously and even the Tibetan officials looked 10346 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1995 saddened by the spectacle. I was told this in Drapchi Prison in Tibet have come to I thank you Mr. Chairman. Tashi delegl story by a number of nur.s and others who light recently. In June 1993, for example, were in that prison at that time. Such a fourteen nuns were found to have clandes sorry state of affairs clearly shows that tinely composed and recorded a freedom TRIBUTE TO KAMI GRUDZIEN AND there really are no rights at all for prisoners song, resulting in a brutal beating. A 20- KRISTINA CANNON in Tibet. year-old nun named Phuntsok Yangkyi died. In another incident around that time, po The other thirteen suffered varying degrees lice guards at Gutsa Prison repeatedly raped of permanent physical impairments, with HON. JACK REED nun political prisoners then sexually vio one 18-year-old nun named Ngawang Sangdol OF RHODE ISLAND lated them with electric cattle-prods. Before having both hands deformed. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thrusting the cattle-prod into the sexual Despite the sweltering heat and the fetid organ of one, the assailant said, "You have atmosphere, prisoners are required to remain Tuesday, April4, 1995 not yet experienced this." The name of this in the greenhouses all day, year round, to Mr. REED. Mr. Speaker, it gives me great prison guard is Sonam Tsering; he was still grow vegetables and sell them in the market pleasure to rise today to pay tribute to two on duty when I escaped from Tibet. Such is in Lhasa. While not being paid for their young women who are extraordinarily ambi the conduct of the police, who we are also work, the prisoners who fail to fulfill their told are humanitarians. quotas are punished and liable to have their tious and creative. Kami Grudzien and Kristina Mr. Chairman, I was transferred from prison terms extended. The health of many Cannon, of Coventry, Rl, are two of the seven Outidu Prison to the nearby Drapchi Prison, prisoners has been effected by continual ex winners in the National Teen Business Plan known as the " Tibet Autuonmous Region" posure to the greenhouse atmosphere, ren Competition. Number One Prison on October 13, 1990. Im dering them barely conscious of the sur This competition, sponsored by the Income mediately upon my arrival, the chief admin roundings. of Her Own organization, encourages teen istrator of the prison's Fifth Unit, a man On August 25, 1992, I finished my prison agers to create their own businesses and de named Paljor, asked me, "I see you have term and was finally released from prison. velop their economic skills. Kami and Kristina been imprisoned three times. What brought Thirteen days later I escaped from Tibet. Be you here this time?" I replied, "I was ar fore escaping, I made arrangements to ac produced an extremely ingenious idea which rested because I had put up posters saying quire some of the instruments of torture in incorporated their vision, creativity, and com Tibet is an independent country, separated order to show them to the outside world. I passion. Their plan is to start a company from China." He replied, "I will give you Ti have brought a few of them here to show to called World Cheerleading Dancers. This busi betan independence." He then proceeded to you. One is the type of electric cattle-prod ness will stage two competitions each year for give me a number of vicious kicks and inter that was rammed into my mouth and also young girls who want to develop dance and mittently jabbed the electric cattle-prod on the sexual organs of nun political prisoners. cheerleading moves into a choreographic rou various parts of my body. Finally, after This is the type of thumb-cuff that is used to tine. This competition will provide young about half an hour, he rammed the cattle tie the detaineees diagonally across their prod into my mouth and pushed it in with backs by the thumbs. This is one of the spe women with the opportunity to simultaneously great force. I passed out. When I regained cial type of knives used by the Chinese police develop self-confidence and performance consciousness, I found myself in a pool of to stab prisoners. These are just some of the skills. blood and excrement and in extreme pain. No torture instruments used in the Laogai of In addition to becoming entrepreneurs, Kami medical treatment was given. I lost most of Tibet. and Kristina also plan to make a positive con my teeth. Mr. Chairman, the Tibetan people have tribution to the community with their enter In April 1991, Ambassador James Lilley, been suffering under the repressive Chinese prise. Five percent of the profits made by this then Ambassador to China, came to visit the rule since 1949. Thousands and thousands of venture will be donated to the Impossible Drapchi Prison. I, along with some of my fel innocent Tibetans have lost their lives and low prisoners, presented him with a petition the six million that remain are struggling to Dream Foundation, which makes dreams detailing the torture and suffering at the keep the Tibetan culture alive under very come true for ailing and handicapped children. prison. But it was snatched away from his difficult conditions. Besides being seasoned performers and hand and given over to the head of prison ad As the power dynamics in Beijing shift budding entrepreneurs, Kami and Kristina are ministration. After the ambassador left, two over the next several months, there will be a also successful students at Coventry Middle political prisoners, Lobsang Tenzin and tremendous opportunity for the inter School. Kristina is an accomplished student Tenpa Wangdak, were detained in solitary national community to foster a more demo athlete in softball and volleyball, and Kami has confinement while being interrogated. To cratic society in China. I appeal to you and received national recognition for an outstand gether with three other prisoners, they were to the United States government to remain later transferred to the Powo Tramo Laogai vigilant in your effort to hold China ac ing 500-word poem on the Holocaust. Camp in southeastern Tibet. That day, the countable for its actions against the Tibetan These two young women are among our Army was called in and all of us political people. Nation's most promising leaders. Their exam prisoners were beaten with r ifle butts or Just a few weeks ago, I testified before the ple is a source of pride for all Rhode Island stabbed with bayonets. The sticks and elec United Nations High Commission on Human ers. I am truly inspired by individuals like Kami tric prods used to beat us were almost all Rights, where a resolution condemning Chi and Kristina, who pursue the American tradi broken from the verocity of the beatings. na's human rights violations against both tion of creativeness and ingenuity in business Ngawang Kunga, a political prisoner, was Tibetan and Chinese people was narrowly de beaten until he lost consciousness with an feated. This was a very important effort, and while having a positive impact on the commu iron chain used to tie a prisoner's legs. I humbly urge your government to return to nity. Ngawang Phuljung lost consciousness after Geneva next year with a renewed effort con Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me he was beaten with a rifle butt to his temple. cerning human rights in Tibet and China. I in saluting these two outstanding young Phurbu Tsering was stabbed with a bayonet, sincerely believe that unless there is strong women as they begin to plan to hold their first causing a deep vertical cut in the back of his international condemnation of the Chinese competition later this summer, and wish them head which bled tremendously. The list of government's treatment of the Tibetan peo continued success. those beaten is too long to enumerate. The ple, they will continue to commit such hor latter two are still in the same prison today. rors as described earlier against innocent po I would humbly request, Mr. Chairman, litical prisoners who insist on the fundamen TAX RELIEF FOR THE AMERICAN that in the future visits to the prisons by US tal rights of freedom of speech, association, FAMILY officials, that there be substantial follow-up and religion, as well as the recognized right to ensure that these sorts of atrocities are of self-determination. not committed against political prisoners I am exceedingly grateful to you Mr. HON. RON PACKARD who are simply trying to provide informa Chairman, and to all members of this Com OF CALIFORNIA tion about the true situation and conditions mittee, as well as all others for listening to of prisons in Tibet. this short description of my life in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I have recounted only a few instances of Laogai in Tibet. I am only one of the few Tuesday, April4, 1995 the inhumane atrocities committed against lucky ones who survived and managed to es Mr. PACKARD. Mr. Speaker, as we con Tibetan prisoners in the Laogai. Tibetans cape to the outside world. Many of my still continue to be subjected to untold ter friends and other political prisoners died in sider tax cuts this week the difference be rors day and night, and I appeal to your con the prisons and Laogai in Tibet. With them tween the Democrat and Republican philoso science to seek their freedom. Many in also went the story of their untold phies underlying becomes crystal clear. stances of brutal ill-treatment of prisoners sufferings. Democrats believe that taxpayers exist to April4, 1995 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10347 serve Government. They really think that Gov First, it will substantially increase the level of Let me conclude by underscoring that Pro ernment confers upon its citizens the privilege contributions that they can deposit in an IRA. gressive Caucus members believe if there is of earning and keeping money. Republicans Since IRA's were first made possible in 1981, to be tax cut legislation enacted this year that work under a completely different mindset. the contribution levels governing how much tax relief should be focused upon middle- and Taxpayers-also known as citizens-come can be contributed annually and who can de low-income taxpayers. Well-to-do individuals first, not the Government. Republicans believe duct their contributions, in sum or in part, have and corporations already received dispropor that individuals know best how to spend the eroded due to inflation. tionate tax cuts throughout the 1980's. money they earn-at least better than some Our bill increases contribution levels to It is fitting and proper that the tax relief to bureaucrat sitting in a Washington office. make up for inflation since 1981. It also in be provided under our bill is to be financed, at That is why we are proposing to let Amer dexes contribution levels yearly to keep pace least in part, by taking a first step to cut tens ican families keep more of the money they with inflation. of billions in corporate welfare in the Federal earn. The American family represents the Second, our bill authorizes higher IRA con budget-the establishment of a minimum tax backbone of our society. Our current tax sys tribution levels for nonworking spouses in on the income of foreign-owned companies tem penalizes families with children. It does households with one or more children under earned from business activities in the United not properly reflect the cost of rearing a child the age of 6. That contribution level will also States. today. The average family spends more on be indexed to keep pace with inflation. taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and This provision could be called the IRA shelter combined. Many families now need a MAKING GOVERNMENT WORK IN homemaker provision. Arguably, those Ameri FALL RIVER second earner not to support the household, cans who most need to save for retirement but to support the Government. Republicans are those who stay at home-women pri know this and are working to relieve American marily-to nurture their children in their most HON. BARNEY FRANK families of this tax burden. important formative years. That financial sac OF MASSACHUSETTS It cost middle-income families more than rifice should · be recognized and redressed by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $5,000 per year to rear a child. The American allowing nonworking spouses with young chil Tuesday, April 4, 1995 family deserves a $500-per child tax credit. Our bill allows families with annual incomes of dren to better save for later years. Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, Third, our bill will also allow middle-class up to $200,000 to receive a full tax credit of many more people talk about making Govern $500 per child. For incomes exceeding taxpayers greater flexibility to withdraw their ment more efficient than actually doing any $200,000, the tax credit is proportionally re IRA funds without being subject to the 10 per thing about it. One organization that has done duced to zero so that families making cent penalty in order to pay for expenses for something about it is the housing authority in $250,000 or more receive no credit. As a re higher or vocational education, to pay cata the city of Fall River, MA. Recently I was privi sult, over 29 million families and 51 million strophic medical expenses, to start a small leged to attend a ceremony in which the Fall children will benefit. Nearly 70 percent of business, to buy a first home, or to meet un River Housing Authority announced an agree those families benefiting have incomes of less employment emergencies. Arguably, wealthier ment among itself, the Citizens Conservation than $75,000. taxpayers don't have commensurate cashflow Corporation, the Eastern Utilities Corporation, Mr. Speaker, the most important thing we problems vis a vis their IRA's and should still and HUD wh ich will promote energy conserva can do for the American family is to get Gov be encouraged to keep their money in sav tion, and provide additional funds for the im ernment off of their back. The Republican ings. provement of public housing at no cost to the child tax credit provision gives American fami There is no question that more Americans taxpayers. lies more of what they earn. Our bill increases are confronting daunting educational ex The major recipient of these funds will be the resources available for parent to meet penses. At the rate tuition costs continue to Cardinal Medeiros Towers, a high-rise devel their child-rearing cost, not Government costs. rise-at least twice the rate of inflation--4 opment for people with handicaps which was years at a State university by the year 2000 built 24 years ago, and is in need of improve may cost over $50,000. Also growing numbers ments. This program is an excellent example INTRODUCTION OF THE AMERICAN of American workers are returning to class of how public officials, citizen groups, and pri HOMEMAKERS/CAREGIVERS AND rooms ·to prepare for midcareer changes or to vate corporate entities can work together for MIDDLE-CLASS FLEXIBLE SAV upgrade existing job skills. This legislation will our mutual benefit. Because I was so im INGS ACT OF 1995 permit withdrawals for higher education and/or pressed with this, I asked Richard Viveiros, vocational education for many of these Ameri executive director of the housing authority, to HON. BERNARD SANDERS cans who are struggling to put themselves or prepare for me a summary of this effort, which OF VERMONT their children through college. I wish to insert at this point in the RECORD. I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES With health care costs skyrocketing, we sim do so because I hope this will encourage oth ers to emulate the excellent work of Mr. Tuesday, April 4, 1995 ply must find ways to help ease the burden of sudden medical expenses for American work Viveiros and his colleagues. And I want to Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased offer my congratulations to all of those in to be an original cosponsor of the American ing families. A serious illness can be finan cially devastating to all but the very wealthy. volved. Homemakers/Caregivers and Middle-Class SUMMARY Flexible Savings Act of 1995. This bill is being Our bill will allow individuals and families to withdraw IRA funds penalty-free for cata On March 20 , 1995, the Fall River Massa introduced by my colleague, MAURICE chusetts Housing Authority signed a con HINCHEY, on behalf of the Progressive Caucus strophic medical expenses during the taxable tract with Eastern Utilities Corporation/ as part of our 11-point alternative to the Re year to the degree that the amount of such ex Citizens Conservation Corporation [EUA/ publican Contract With America. penses does not exceed 7112 percent of ad CCC] enabling both parties to enjoy the ben My constituents have impressed upon me justed gross income-that is, the existing efits of private investment in a public hous the growing financial plight of many middle threshold for deductibility of medical expenses ing authority. and low-income working Americans. They are for itemizers. Individuals could draw upon their CCC will invest S2.1 million to implement a IRA's for themselves, spouses, children, and/ host of energy efficiency improvements that working harder and longer and finding it more will save the authority at least $7.5 million difficult all of the time to make financial ends or parents. over the next 15 years. The authority will meet, let alone put any money into savings. It is also true that most of the new jobs pay CCC for the cost of design, construction, This legislation will make it easier for middle being created are to be found in America's and legal fees associated with this project and low-income Americans who earn up to small businesses. Therefore, it should be out of energy savings projected as $500,000 $75,000 to save more, while giving those made easier for entrepreneurial Americans to per year as a result of improvements to 7 fed Americans who are in an unforeseen financial amass startup capital when they decide to erally aided developments for elderly/dis start a new business in midcareer or other abled. pinch greater penalty-free access to their Indi Cardinal Medeiros Towers, a 208-unit high vidual Retirement Account [IRA] funds. wise. rise development for the physically impaired This Progressive Caucus bill will help Finally, our bill also extends a helping hand and constructed in 1970, will be the major re middle- and low-income taxpayers in four fun to unemployed Americans as well as first-time cipient of the CCC investment. Approxi damental ways. homebuyers. mately $600,000 of CCC moneys is slated for 10348 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1995 the replacement of an antiquated and ineffi tives Act, the Newsprint Recycling Incentives REGARDING UNFAIRNESS OF THE cient steam heating system with new high Act, the Lead Battery Recycling Incentives SOCIAL SECURITY EARNINGS TEST efficiency boilers, which will dramatically Act, and the Used Oil Recycling Incentives improve the comfort level of the building and dramatically reduce energy costs. Other Act. Let's do something together that is both HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH economically and environmentally responsible. improvements for this facility include new OF NEW JERSEY thermostats, new windows, and upgraded ex terior lighting. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The 6 other federally aided developments VIOLENCE IN KARACHI Tuesday, April4, 1995 for elderly/disabled will enjoy similar phys ical improvements and energy savings. HON. GARY L ACKERMAN Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, this The Fall River Housing Authority experi week we will have the opportunity to reduce OF NEW YORK ence marks the first time that private mon the Social Security earnings test and bring ey's have been leveraged for public housing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES parity to America's work force. energy conservation and physical improve Tuesday, April4, 1995 ment tasks and was hailed as an avenue for This obsolete tax punishes senior citizens other public housing authorities to consider, Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today simply because they take the initiative to work in light of dwindling HUD resources. to speak to my colleagues about a great trag in their retirement years to supplement their Both the authority's director, Richard J. edy that is now occurring in Karachi, Pakistan. Social Security income. Furthermore, the earn Viveiros, and congressman BARNEY FRANK, Karachi is by far Pakistan's most important ings test is detrimental to America's work advocated increasing private/public ventures place. It deprives the work force of the talents as funding alternatives. Viveiros, at a for city, as well as its largest and wealthiest. It is mal, public contract signing ceremony, the country's only port and therefore accounts of our most experienced laborers. termed the partnership as a win-win situa for almost two-thirds of its trade and industry. The earnings test stands as a monument to tion for all involved. "There are no losers The population of 10 million is a varied one the decline of the work ethic upon which this here," stated viveiros, "CCC gets a reason that includes trades of the Karachi Stock Ex Nation was founded. At a time when we are able return on its investment, our housing change, businessmen affiliated with inter asking Americans to take more responsibility stock is substantially upgraded, and resi national firms and over 3,000 United States for their personal welfare, we cannot allow this dents enjoy a safer and more comfortable Depression-era tax to continue to exist. housing environment-all without any gov citizens. Karachi's potential for growth on the ernmental funding." international business scene is immense, yet The mechanics of the earnings test are sim this promise is also tempered by the underly ple, but it is founded upon no sound principle. ing currents of a troubled society. The Federal Government instructs men and REINTRODUCTION OF THE Long before two Americans in the U.S. con women between 65 and 69 years of age that RECYCLING INCENTIVES ACTS sulate were brutally slain on March 8, violence if they earn more than $11,280 in a year, they and terror had gripped this city with a firm will face an additional 33-percent tax. When HON. FSTEBAN EDWARD TORRES chokehold. Since the beginning of 1994, 1,260 combined with the 7.65-percent FICA with OF CALIFORNIA people have been murdered, 340 since the holding tax and a 15-percent Federal income IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES start of this year and 100 in the month of tax, hard-working, low-income seniors are bur Tuesday, April 4, 1995 March alone. Kidnapings, ambushes, and dened with an effective marginal tax rate of bank robberies have become a daily occur 55.65 percent. The earnings test is wrong, Mr. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, 6 years ago, ~ence. Worst of all, the city's inhabitants have counterproductive, and should be abolished. along with the late Senator John Heinz and lost all faith in its frightened police force and A key element to H.R. 1215 is the incre former Senator Tim Wirth, I introduced a new mental increase of the earnings test threshold concept in environmental protection. The idea corrupt judicial system. Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto remains con to $30,000 per year over a 5-year period. was simple-use market forces to achieve en While it does not eliminate the earnings test, vironmental protection. fident that the city can and will right itself be My ideas for tire recycling, newspaper recy fore it is too late. Unfortunately, she is very H.R. 1215 is a positive step toward ending this cling, oil recycling and lead acid battery recy much alone, among her countrymen, in think substantiated bias against working seniors and cling were well received. The bills attracted ing that. The Prime Minister is scheduled to I encourage my colleagues to support it. hundreds of cosponsors. But, unfortunately, no visit the United States shortly, where she will I would also encourage my colleagues to action has been taken on any recycling issues undoubtedly plead her case. Karachi, as with work toward a full repeal of the earnings test, during the past three Congresses. all of Pakistan, is in desperate need of foreign such as that introduced by Representative Today, I am reintroducing each of these four investment, and because of the city's present HOWARD COBLE in H.R. 201. Both the reduc bills with an impressive group of colleagues. situation, it is losing it far faster than receiving tion of the earnings test and its full repeal are Now is the time for Congress to get serious it. important elements in our covenant with Amer about addressing the country's solid waste Pakistan is a country with which the United ica's seniors. problems. Now is the time to begin putting States has had a long history of trade. Their creative solutions to work. potential for increased economic growth ex The common approach of these bills rep ists, but they will need help in combatting the THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRITH resents a radical departure from the traditional ugliness that now pervades their coastal city. SHOLOM approach to environmental policy-that of To achieve this end the Pakistani Government "command and control." We can no longer af must take firm steps to vanquish the terrorist ford to commit scarce dollars to environmental presence that has now found comfort in this HON. ROBERT A. BORSKI programs that either do not work or work only country. OF PENNSYLVANIA at enormous cost to all of society. The con This fact was only illuminated more clearly IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cept of using market forces to achieve envi when Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the alleged mas Tuesday, April 4, 1995 ronmental goals is gaining influence all over termind behind the World Trade Center bomb the world. The era of using proactive strate ing in 1993, was captured and extradited from Mr. BORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to gies to develop markets for recycled products Pakistan on February 7. The Government has pay tribute to Brith Sholom, on the occasion of has arrived. And the United States needs to already begun the cleansing process by its 90th anniversary. get with the program. targeting Peshawar, in the northwest frontier As a representative of Philadelphia, the cra Mr. Speaker, our constituents are demand province, as the home base for most of these dle of American liberty, I am proud to call the ing that we produce results. Join me in dem terrorist organizations. attention of the House of Brith Sholom, the onstrating that those of us committed to sound When pressure is finally brought to bear only national membership organization in the environmental protection at the least cost to upon these elements, Pakistan will be on the Jewish community. Brith Sholom was founded society have produced legislation of which we road to recovery. It is in the interests of Paki in the very shadow of Independence Hall in can be proud. stan and the United States to promote stability 1905 and still maintains a vigorous program I invite my colleagues on both sides of the and to stamp out terrorism wherever it may dedicated to humanitarian service and the aisle to cosponsor the Tire Recycling lncen- take root. strengthening of our democratic institutions. April 4, 1995 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10349 Established in response to the immigration missions in Vietnam. For his valor, courage AMERICA' S ROLE ABROAD of large numbers of individuals fleeing perse and heroism, he received a Distinguished Fly Most Americans accept the need for the cution and oppression and drawn by the free ing Cross with oak leaf cluster, Air Medal with United States to remain engaged in the dom and opportunities of America, Brith Sha 17 oak leaf clusters and the Vietnam Service world. And most will agree that clearly de lom played a major role in helping to transform Medal with two service stars. Following his fined national interest should guide that en gagement. But many are finding it difficult a predominately immigrant community into a tour in Vietnam, General Schnelzer embarked in this complex post-cold war world to reach fully integrated mainstream American commu on a mixture of flying and development and consensus on what engagement means and nity. Since that time, Brith Shalom has made acquisition tours, which included assignments where the national interest lies. significant contributions to the welfare of all to the Cambridge Research Laboratories, as a In the current debate over these issues we citizens, regardless of race or religion. C-130 pilot at Dyess Air Force Base, and as sense a tendency among some to equate a Brith Shalom has given generously to its a program manager for the successfully dem pragmatic pursuit of vital interests with country and community, including a 65-acre onstrated antisatellite weapon system. He then unilateralism-arguing that international tract of land for the establishment of Eagleville held a string of jobs of increasing responsibil engagement must be a one-way street and that our interests are best served when the Sanitorium, a cardiovascular and pulmonary ity with the Strategic Defense Initiative Organi US dictates the terms or acts alone when research laboratory at Hahnemann Hospital by zation ending as deputy director [acting]. Fol ever it chooses. This appeal of unilateralism Brith Shalom women, and the Brith Shalom lowing a short assignment at Los Angeles Air doubtless arises from varied impulses, one of Cancer Research Laboratory at the Albert Ein Force Base as special assistant launch mat which could be the disappointments we have stein Medical School of Yeshiva University. ters, he assumed his current position in Feb encountered from the shortcomings of the The organization has also founded and main ruary 1990. United Nations. tained the Brith Shalom House, an apartment Due directly to his efforts, the nation has But in a world of instant communications, seen its space heavy launch capability re globally linked financial markets, easy mi complex for senior citizens in Philadelphia. gration of devastating diseases and impover The generosity and commitment of Brith stored, the deployment of the Global Position ished peoples, threats to the earth's oceans Shalom also extend beyond the borders of our ing System, the launch of the first Milstar sat and atmosphere, terrorist networks operat Nation. The organization founded the Brith ellite and the initiation of an advanced space ing without heed to frontiers, it is inconceiv Shalom Beit Halochem in Haifa, Israel, a reha based missile detection and warning system. able that the United States could go it alone bilitation, social, and recreational center for Is These systems are the force multipliers which successfully. When nuclear weapons can be rael's permanently disabled war veterans. ensured our dominance in Desert Storm and delivered by missile, ship, or in the baggage Prior to World War II, a successful Brith Sha will ensure our continued superiority in the of a terrorist the necessity for active inter national collaboration is self-evident. lom mission rescued 50 Viennese Jewish chil 21st century. The United States can and will do some dren, ages 5 to 14, from certain death, bring In addition to the combat awards I men things alone. Recent negotiations with China ing them to Camp Shalom near Collegeville, tioned earlier, General Schnelzer has received over protection of cultural and artistic prop PA, where they were housed, clothed, fed, other numerous awards and decorations, in erties and their direct relevance for jobs at and educated. cluding the Defense Distinguished Service home serve the point. But similar success Faithful to the traditions of our national Medal, the Distinguished Service Mepal, the with more intricate and strategic issues-ex American heritage and Hebraic values of so Defense Superior Service Medal, the Meritori tending the Non-Proliferation Treaty cial justice and responsibility to our society, ous Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, against nuclear and other weapons of mass Brith Shalom looks forward to the next 90 the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with destruction-plainly demands engagement with others. It is illusory to think that the years of service. Mr. Speaker, I ask that Mem Palm, and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign nation's needs are so limited that they can bers of the House join me in saluting Brith Medal. be served without a high degree of planning Shalom's officers and members and wishing General Schnelzer plans to answer a higher and effort with other nations, including at them success in their future endeavors. calling and will be working for the Episcopalian the UN-the example of the Gulf War surely Bishop in San Antonio. There, he will · be co not forgotten. ordinating the activities of all the Episcopalian No country has so large a stake in the ef TRIBUTE TO MAJ. GEN. GARRY A. churches in south Texas. On behalf of my col fective functioning of such institutions as SCHNELZER, USAF the IMF and World Bank and in the evo leagues and the congressional staff who have lution of the new World Trade Organization. known and worked with General Schnelzer we Development of export markets and invest HON. DAVE WELDON wish him and his wife Helen the very best in ment opportunities is vital to our general OF FLORIDA their future endeavors. prosperity. But these require a framework of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES international rules and cooperative action as for that matter does coping with vola Tuesday, April 4, 1995 AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE WORLD tility in international currencies and any Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, a threat to the stability of our financial sys friend of the Congress and a long time leader tem. In today's world we have no monopoly HON. LEE H. HAMILTON on new technologies, nor on competition in in this nation's space and ballistic missile de OF INDIANA fense programs is retiring from the U.S. Air the burgeoning global marketplace. The fact IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is that to a greater degree than ever before Force on March 31 of this year, Maj. Gen. Tuesday, April 4, 1995 the economic well-being of virtually every Garry Schnelzer. His most recent position has American is affected by what happens out been as the Air Force program executive offi Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, many Ameri side our borders. cer for space, Office of the Assistant Secretary cans remember Bruce Laingen as the able Finally, it should be clear that of the Air Force for Acquisition, Washington, diplomat who acted with superb professional unilateralism today, like isolationism in the DC. In this position, he has provided program ism while being held hostage in Iran more past, would risk nullifying American leader management for the development and pro than 15 years ago. Now Ambassador Laingen ship in the world. With the cold war at an curement of the major Air Force space and continues to serve American interests as end, our allies and friends are no longer automatically responsive to our judgments launch systems and Air Force ballistic missile president of the American Academy of Diplo on security concerns. Nor are we able or defense programs. macy. In response to the foreign policy debate ready unilaterally to devote massive finan General Schnelzer has had a long and dis now underway, the academy has adopted a cial resources to the solution of inter tinguished career of over 30 years of military very brief but important statement on Ameri national economic issues. Effective leader service. After being commissioned through the ca's role in the world, and I commend it to my ship, therefore, cannot be dictated by the Bowling Green State University Reserve Offi colleagues. Much has been written and said United States; it depends on recognition by cer Training Corps as a distinguished grad recently about what I consider a false debate: others that we share security and economic uate in July 1964, he started his military ca Whether we should pursue our foreign policy interests in common. To protect and advance our own national reer by successfully completing pilot training at unilaterally, or through multilateral institutions. interests as we go forward will require care Laughlin Air Force Base, TX. He served in a Obviously, we will want to do both, depending ful articulation of those interests, their variety of flying duties cumulating over 3,300 on the circumstances. I ask that the acad alignment where possible with those of oth flying hours and completing over 300 combat emy's statement be printed in the RECORD. ers, and a commitment to lead cooperative 10350 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April4, 1995 efforts. To do otherwise would invite forms from the Honorable Fred J. Cassibry, U.S. dis LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT of international anarchy both dangerous and trict judge, retired, and now a member of the AND GAMING CORPORATION, costly to our own national interests. Louisiana Economic Development and Gam New Orleans, LA, March 9, 1995. Mr. MICHAEL SHAHEEN. ing Corp. Judge Cassibry, a Democrat ap Department of Justice, Office of Professional TRIBUTE TO SAN ANTONIO'S EAST pointee to the bench, was an outstanding jurist Responsibility, Washington, DC. CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL throughout his 20 years on the bench. He is DEAR MR. SHAHEEN: Your attention is a superlative human being, and he has docu called to my previous letter of February 8, mented some truly outrageous conduct by rep 1995, in which I requested an investigation HON. FRANK TEJEDA regarding the actions of certain members of OF TEXAS resentatives of the U.S. Justice Department. the United States Attorney's Office in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES His concerns should be immediately ad Eastern District of Louisiana. To date I have Tuesday, April 4, 1995 dressed by the Judiciary Committee. received no response. However, I did receive correspondence from the Deputy Assistant Mr. TEJEDA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND GAMING CORPORATION, Attorney General in the Criminal Division, a recognize the outstanding achievement of the copy of which is enclosed. · boy's basketball team of East Central High New Orleans, LA, March 31, 1995. As you can see from the copies of cor Hon. BOB LIVINGSTON, School· in San Antonio, TX. This remarkable respondence I previously sent to you, specifi House of Representatives, cally my letter of January 30, 1995 to Attor team capped a 35-win, undefeated season by Rayburn Building, Washington, DC. winning the university interscholastic league's ney General Reno and Assistant Attorney General Harris, I had requested their inter SA State basketball championship on March DEAR CONGRESSMAN LIVINGSTON: I serve as ·a member of the Louisiana Economic Devel vention to secure a postponement of the 11 , 199S. The East Central Hornets were the opment & Gaming Corporation [LEDGC] and scheduled grand jury appearances for myself only undefeated team in the league this year, I previously served as a United States Dis and other members of the Louisiana Eco and the first undefeated Sa champion since trict Judge in the Eastern District of Louisi nomic Development and Gaming Corporation 1987. As a testament to its basketball prow ana for twenty years. I write to you regard (LEDGC). They did not fit to grant that re ess, East Central was ranked as the No. 1 ing arrogance of power. In a flagrant and quest. I therefore wrote to you requesting an boy's basketball team in Texas for the entire shameless abuse of the authority entrusted investigation as to what had transpired. season. to it by the American people the United It is my understanding that you are charged with the responsibility of investigat The Team included Stanley Bonewitz, Donte States Attorney's Office in New Orleans has ing allegations of impropriety by members of Mathis, Charles Jackson, Chip Moxley, David sought to interject itself into the functions the United States Department of Justice. I White, Keith Rice, Oliver House, Josh Barnes, of LEDGC. The conduct was so egregious and renew my request that you do so. While Mr. Blake Sims, Eric Luke, Stacey Dubley, Ben obvious that two of Louisiana's largest news Keenan offers his unsolicited opinion that Lakey, Jeremy Lear, Steve Shrum, Curtis papers editorialized against what was taking the Assistant United States Attorneys in Lundy, Marquieth Braziel, Jason Minica, and place. question acted professionally, it is my under Matt Divin. Three Players averaged over 20 By way of explanation I enclose copies of standing that it is your function, not his, to points per game for the season, and all 3 those editorials together with a copy of my make such determinations. letter to Attorney General Janet Reno. I respectfully suggest to you that it simply have scored over 1,000 career points. Stanley does not suffice to respond to citizens' com Bonewitz averaged 31.1 ppg, Donte Mathis When she did not see fit to intervene as re quested I then wrote a letter of complaint to plaints, as did Mr. Keenan, by stating that averaged 21.3 ppg, and Charles Jackson criminal investigations are secret and there averaged 21.1 ppg. the Office of Professional Responsibility for the United States Department of Justice fore the actions of the investigators cannot The Hornets averaged over 109 points per which is charged with investigating such discussed. I assume that all criminal inves tigations by the Department of Justice are game during the regular season, and set a matters. I enclose copies of those letters. It State tournament record for a 2-game series confidential. If that were reason enough to has now been five weeks since my original foreclose citizen inquiries and complaints with 21S points. the 108 to 86 victory in the request for investigation and three weeks final tied the State record for most points in a there would be no need for your office to since my follow-up letter. I have received ab exist. The proceedings in question are not championship game. Most valuable player solutely no reply or response on any kind. confidential as to you and members of your honors for the SA state tournament went to Thousands of years ago the philosopher staff. I do not question the underlying right east Central's Stanley Bonewitz, who scored Plato in commenting on the nature of gov of the United States Attorney's Office to 42 points in a 107-94 semifinal win and 36 ernment asked the question, "Who guards conduct any investigation it deems appro points in the final game. His 78 total points set the guardians?" That question is as perti priate. However, you well recognize that it is a SA record. nent today as ever. Society gives tremendous possible to conduct legitimate investigations Under the direction of coach Stan Bonewitz power to the United States Department of employing improper methods for ulterior for the past 14 years, East Central has gone Justice, a power which has great potential motives. The letter sent by the United for abuse. The only recourse given to citizens States Attorney's Office-signed by three as 343-120 and captured 10 district champion sistant United States attorneys-to Bally's ships, 7 area championships, 3 regional cham to check that abuse is that the Department supposedly has an Office of Professional Re attorney and the timing of the subpoenas to pionships, and 1 state championship. Assist the members of the Casino Board, con ant coaches Jay Mead, Matt Oden, Steve sponsibility to investigate complaints. I find it astounding that when I, as a member of a stituted flagrant abuses of prosecutorial power. Ochoa, and head trainer Charlie Trevino also state board, supported by editorials in two played a key role in the team's success. Here I would appreciate receiving a response highly respected newspapers, make a formal from you. If your office is going to inves is an example of teamwork at its best, with our complaint about Justice Department mis young people coming together to play hard tigate my complaints I would like confirma conduct to the very office that is charged tion of that. If you are declining to do so I and strive for success. This year, for the Hor with investigating such complaints I cannot would at least like a definitive statement nets, that effort garnered the state trophy. I even get the courtesy of a response. from you to that effect so that I can deter have no doubt that the positive experiences Hence, I call upon you as an elected rep mine what further action I should take. from this past season will yield continued suc resentative of the people of Louisiana for as Awaiting your reply, I remain, cess both on and off the court to the East sistance. The facts of the case clearly sup Very truly yours, Central players and coaches. port the allegations of abuse of power which FRED J. CASSIBRY, I have made and I would hope that the Con United States District Judge, (Ret.) gress would see fit to conduct its own inves Board Member, LEDGC. ARROGANCE OF POWER tigation into the tactics of the Justice De partment. At very least I request you help in LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND GAMING CORPORATION, requiring the Justice Department to inves HON. BOB UVINGSTON New Orleans, LA, January 31, 1995. OF LOUISIANA tigate itself. Hon. JANET RENO, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Awaiting your reply, I remain, Department of Justice, Washington, DC. DEAR GENERAL RENO: Following up my cor Tuesday, April 4, 1995 Very truly yours, FRED J. CASSIBRY, respondence to you of January 30, 1995, en Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, attached United States District Judge, (Ret.) closed you will find an editorial that ap are copies of correspondence received by me Board Member, LEDGC. peared in the Baton Rouge Morning Avocate, April 4, 1995 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10351 one of the leading newspapers in our state. I understand the President's decision that have to vote on such an important matter again request your prompt response to my Bally Gaming, Inc. did not satisfy that bur knowing that they would incur the ire of the request. Since I will be at the federal grand den of proof. federal prosecutors before whom they would jury you can get a message to me by calling The attorneys for Bally had no credible re have to appear the next day. Mr. Letten re the Attorney Conference Center at the fed buttal to the President's decision and to the sponded to my attorney that a continuance eral court at (504) 58S--6111. contrary expressed an inability to even dis was not possible. Rather, he, Mr. Irwin and Thanking you for your prompt attention cuss .the allegations because of the pending Mr. Perricone (the same three Assistant to this matter and awaiting your reply, Ire federal prosecution. The primary argument United States Attorneys that sent the letter) main. submitted by Bally's attorneys to the Presi felt that it was imperative that the grand Very truly yours, dent was that the United States Attorney's jury hearing go forward. When a meeting was FRED J. CASSffiRY, Office felt that Bally's had been a "victim" requested with United States Attorney Eddie United States District Judge, (Ret.) and therefore was not a knowing party to Jordan so that that decision could be re Board Members, LEDGC, what had taken place. The President in ar viewed, Mr. Letten responded that the Unit riving at his decision never questioned ed States Attorney had recused himself in LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT whether Bally was a victim, but correctly the matter and that he, Letten, was the AND GAMING CORPORATION, pointed out that it had at best been ex United States Attorney as far as this par New Orleans, LA, January 30, 1995. tremely negligent in allowing itself to have ticular matter was concerned. Hon. JANET RENO, become partners ·with alleged organized I am therefore required to write to you for Department of Justice, Washington, DC. crime figures and clearly did not qualify review of this decision. I request that there DEAR GENERAL RENO: I address this letter under the suitability requirements of Louisi be a postponement of my appearance before to you because I have been advised that the ana law. the federal grand jury and that when I do ap United States Attorney for the Eastern Dis I was shocked and dismayed to find the at pear that the proceedings be handled by a trict of Louisiana, Mr. Eddie Jordan, has torneys for Bally introducing into the record special assistant United States attorney ap of our proceedings a letter signed by three pointed by you. recused himself in the matter about which I In closing I emphasize that I write this let am requesting assistance, I have been fur Assistant United States attorneys expressing ter as an individual Board member and do ther informed that in light of Mr. Jordan's concern regarding the President's findings not purport to speak for the Board as a recusal all decisions in the matter have been and support for Bally Gaming, Inc. A copy of whole or any of the other members. However, referred to First Assistant United States At that letter is attached for your ready ref I can state to you without equivocation that torney Jim Letten. Since it is the conduct of erence. In my 20 years as a federal judge I the interference by the United States Attor Mr. Letten, in part, about which I complain have never seen the Department of Justice ney in the Board's proceedings has had a I am required to write to you directly. Be interject itself in such a flagrant fashion chilling effect on its deliberation. I suggest cause this matter relates to a criminal inves into the proceedings of a state board. You that if you will take the time which I am re tigation being conducted by the United will note that the letter contains conclusory questing to check into this matter you will States Attorney's office I am also sending a and unsupportable statements. For example, find that there is not in fact any urgency copy of this letter to the Assistant Attorney the letter states the corporation did not do that would dictate against my request for a General in charge of the Criminal Division, anything wrong, rather it was its president, reasonable postponement of the grand jury Ms. Joann Harris. as though a corporation could act other than appearance. If there is ever any information By way of background, I am a retired Unit through its officers. which I am able to provide to the United ed States District Judge having served over At a public meeting attended by Bally's at State's government I am perfectly willing to twenty years in the Eastern District of Lou torneys I expressed my opinion about the do so. I simply request that the inquiry be isiana. A little over a month ago I was asked questionable conduct of the United States conducted in an appropriate manner by pros by the Governor of the State to serve on the Attorney's office in writing such a letter. At ecutors who do not have what is, at very Louisiana Economic Development and Gam very least we had the obligation to hear least, the appearance of ulterior motives. ing Corporation (LEDGC) which regulates sworn testimony in support of the conclu Thanking you for your prompt attention the landbased casino in New Orleans. The sions if the government's attorneys wanted to this matter and awaiting your reply, Ire Harrah's Corporation has been awarded the to give their views. They declined an invita main, contract to run the casino and the Board is tion to testify, and when we issued subpoe Very truly yours. presently in the process of evaluating an ap nas to them they predictably invoked execu FRED J. CASSlliRY, plication by Bally Gaming, Inc. to be the tive privilege and refused to testify. Bally's U.S. District Judge, (Ret.) supplier of slot machines and other gaming attorneys then decided to "withdraw" the Board Member, LEDGe. devices to be used in the casino. letter from the three assistant United States The President of LEDGC, Mr. Wilmore attorneys as though they somehow expected [From the Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA., Jan Whitmore, declined Bally's application based that the Board members were supposed to ig 31, 1995] upon its poor performance in monitoring the nore what had already been presented. FEDS SHOULD EXPLAlN PROSECUTORS' ACTIONS sale of its video poker machines in the State It was on January 26, 1995 that the United Appearances can sometimes be deceiving, of Louisiana. A copy of the President's rul States Attorney's office wrote to us telling but it certainly appears as if federal prosecu ing is attached for your ready reference. A us that they would not agree to testify be tors are attempting to influence a decision memorandum supporting his decision is also fore the Board. On January 27, 1995 one of the by the state casino board. enclosed. Under the laws of our state Bally same assistant United States attorneys who We question whether interference in the af has the right to appeal the President's deci wrote the letter issued a subpoena for all of fairs of the casino board is the proper role sion to the full Board. the Board members to appear before the for the federal prosecutors and think a pub As an individual member of the Board I United States Grand Jury on January 31, lic explanation is in order. was predisposed to support the President's 1995. The Board is scheduled to vote on the At issue is a casino board decision on the decision. The United States Attorney's office Bally appeal the next day. February 1, 1995. issue of whether Bally Gaming Inc. should be for the Eastern District of Louisiana had in A copy of the subpoena is attached. issued a license to supply to the New Orleans dicted seventeen (17) persons that it alleged As I am sure you are aware a federal grand casino $6.2 million in slot machines and the had ties with organized crime, specifically jury subpoena can be disconcerting under the computer software to control the machines. the Genovese LCN family in New York, who best of circumstances. However, just before Wilmore Whitmore, chief executive officer were distributing Bally video poker ma issuing the subpoena to the Board members of the casino regulatory agency, earlier this chines in Louisiana. Bally Gaming had the United States Attorney's Office had al month had banned Bally from doing business loaned in excess of $25 million dollars to ready gotten the President of LEDGC, Mr. with Harrah's Jazz Co. Whitmore cited these individuals who in turn were skimming Whitmore, before the Federal Grand Jury Bally's involvement in the Louisiana video the profits off the machines, thereby de and grilled him in a most antagonistic man poker industry with two companies named frauding Bally and the State of Louisiana. ner. They made it very plain to him that by federal prosecutors as organized crime The companies through which they were op they disagreed with his assessment of Bally's fronts. erating, Worldwide Gaming of Louisiana activities. it was clearly not a session de Federal prosecutors have said Bally was (WGC) and Louisiana Route Operators signed to secure information, but rather to the victim of the alleged scheme by orga (LRO), went into bankruptcy. The President challenge Mr. Whitmore's conclusions. nized crime to make inroads into Louisiana's of Bally Gaming, Inc. Mr. Alan Maiss pleaded Through my attorney, Julian Murray, I ex video poker gambling industry. guilty to a felony arising out of these trans pressed to Mr. Letten how ill timed and in Whitmore contended, however, that Bally actions. Our regulations require that a com timidating were such subpoenas. I inquired was negligent in its rush to capitalize on the pany seeking to do business with the casino as to whether the grand jury appearances lucrative video gambling industry in Louisi prove by clear and convincing evidence a could be postponed for a reasonable amount ana and failed to exercise sound business record of prior reliability. I certainly could of time so that the Board members did not practices. 10352 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1995 In the early stages, Bally Gaming ad New York and New Jersey to become in sultant" to Worldwide, taking instructions vanced thousands of dollars to the two Lou volved in Louisiana's gambling business. from Bally officials. isiana companies without meaningful over But we don't believe the involvement of If that is true, it goes to the heart of Ca sight, Whitmore said. This business associa the prosecutors in attempting to take up for sino Board President Wilmore Whitmore's tion "afforded organized crime the oppor Bally now is appropriate. ruling that Bally was unsuitable for a license tunity to infiltrate the Louisiana video The actions of the federal prosecutors are in part because Bally failed to aggressively poker industry." sufficiently serious that they deserve the at address concerns about mob ties in Whitmore also said Bally directors knew or tention of-and an explanation by-Attorney Worldwide's operations. should have known about a year before fed General Janet Reno. There is a larger issue at stake here than eral indictments were returned against 17 in whether Bally Gaming does or does not have dividuals that the two companies in which [From the Times-Picayune, Feb. 3, 1995] a license. some of the indicted men were involved were WRONG DECISION, WRONG MESSAGE Under the best of circumstances, a state linked to criminal elements. By granting Bally Gaming Inc. a license to should do everything in its power to place a The former president of Bally Gaming. sell $6.2 million worth of slot machines and gambling license in the hands of operators Alan Maiss of Reno, Nev., pleaded guilty ear computer equipment to the temporary ca who are above reproach. lier this month to two counts of misprision sino, the state Casino Board this week rein A gambling license is a privilege, not a of a felony-having knowledge of crimes forced the notion that Louisiana's gambling right. State regulators need not prove that being committed but failing to report them regulators are more concerned with protect an applicant for a gambling license is unsuit to proper authorities-in connection with ing the powerful casino interests than the in able; the applicant has to prove beyond a the case. tegrity of the industry in our state. reasonable doubt that it is suitable to hold a Bally appealed Whitmore's denial of a li Bally Gaming made a terrible business de license. cense, and the casino board conducted a cision when it picked Worldwide Gaming as In deciding to overturn Mr. Whitmore's de hearing last week on that appeal. its exclusive Louisiana distributor for Bally cision, the gambling board in essence decided During the hearing. new casino board video poker machines three years ago. As that the interests of a casino equipment ven member Fred Cassibry of New Orleans, a this newspaper reported in our December se dor outweighed the public's right to an un former U.S. District Judge, was critical of ries, "Stacking the Deck: The Birth of Lou tainted gambling industry. federal prosecutors for writing letters to the isiana Gambling," in less than a year, World There are many companies across the casino board in response to a Bally request. wide had squandered $13 billion Bally had country that would leap at the chance to The letters portrayed Bally as a victim in lent it and was in bankruptcy. supply the casino with equipment-compa the scheme which led to the indictment of 17 And that was the good news. nies whose reputations, judgment and atten people last May. A year later, 17 people associated with tion to detail are not in question. "I consider this a serious breach of ethics Worldwide were indicted by the federal gov By granting Bally a license, the Casino and law." Cassibry said of the letters. "It is ernment on charges that they operated Board has announced what kinds of past be a disgusting and disgraceful attempt to in Worldwide as a front company for organized havior it will overlook in its applicants, fluence this board." crime. All but Stephen Bolson, a co-founder what kinds of questions it will leave unan The board instructed Whitmore to invite of Worldwide, pleaded innocent and await swered, what kinds of issues it will overlook. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jim Letten, Steven trial. The board has set the bar at an all-too-fa Irwin and Salvador Perricone, along with a Enter now the U.S. attorney's office in miliar low level, and the citizens of the state state police representative, to testify at the New Orleans, which wrote a letter for Bally are ill served by its action. hearings. responding to the Casino Board's concerns After the federal prosecutors offered to and claiming the company was an innocent speak only with "one or two of the commis victim in the Worldwide affair. HONORING THE CESAR CHAVEZ sioners," the board issued a subpoena for The office's view that Bally was an inno WRITING CONTEST AWARD WIN them to testify, Cassibry said Monday. The cent victim in the Worldwide scheme was al NERS OF THE EAST SIDE UNION subpoena was ignored, he said. r~ady clear from court documents they filed HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Now, the U.S. attorney's office has issued in the case. Writing a letter on behalf of subpoenas to all nine members of the casino Bally can only create the impression that board to appear today before a federal grand the federal government was weighing in on HON. ZOE LOFGREN jury. Bally's side in a regulatory dispute where OF CALIFORNIA The casino board is scheduled to meet the U.S. attorney has no role. Wednesday to consider whether to uphold Whether a company is completely innocent IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whitmore's denial of the license. of criminal wrongdoing in its business deal Tuesday, April 4, 1995 Cassibry said the U.S. attorney's office is ings is an entirely different matter from Ms. LOFGREN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to trying to intimidate the casino board into is whether a company is suitable to receive a suing the license to Bally. gambling license. recognize the winners of the first annual Cesar It certainly looks as if Cassibry is correct. In fact, there is much in the record of Chavez writing contest held by the East Side If that is the case, it is a highly inappro Worldwide's bankruptcy and in court docu Union High School District in San Jose, CA. I priate role for federal prosecutors to take. ments and depositions taken in the case to had the great privilege of attending the award Based on the information presented during raise serious questions about Bally's suit ceremony honoring the student winners on the three-day hearing last week we believe ability to do business in Louisiana's gam March 31, 1995, which, as you know, marks Whitmore was justified in his denial of a li bling industry. the birthday of the late Cesar Chavez. I would cense for Bally's to do business with the New Here are a few of the details that raise le Orleans casino. Bally's failure to exercise gitimate unanswered questions about Bally like to especially thank Joe Coto, superintend due diligence in regards to its associations Gaming. ent of the East Side Union High School Dis certainly seems to be sufficient cause to be Jerry Flynn, Bally Gaming sales manager trict, for organizing this important event. lieve that Louisiana is better off without in 1992, testified in a court deposition that I am very proud of all the students who par further association with the firm. then-Bally president Alan Maiss knew of ticipated in the Cesar Chavez Writing Contest, Louisiana has enough mud on its face al Worldwide's ties to alleged mobsters but and would like to congratulate each of them ready for its inept regulation of gambling continued to do business with the company. on their achievement. By participating in this without adding more by waffling on a license Maiss denies the allegation. writing contest, these students paid tribute to for a firm which allowed the tentacles of or In a plea agreement with the federal gov ganized crime to reach into video poker gam ernment, Mr. Maiss earlier this month plead Cesar Chavez, who dedicated his life to the bling in the state. ed guilty to a felony count of failing to re struggle for equal rights and equal opportunity. Cassibry said the federal prosecutors be port that one of Worldwide's founders, Chris His work fighting for human beings and fair came involved because they want Bally to be topher Tanfield, did not have a Louisiana working and living conditions for farmworkers clean so they can portray the firm as the vic gambling license. was an inspiration to those who joined him tim. Mr. Tanfield, one of the people indicted in and those who supported his efforts around "If Bally is the victim, they can stick it to the Worldwide case, testified last week in a the world. all of those people they are trying to convict deposition for the Casino Board that his Cesar Chavez will be remembered for his ... That's the only reason I can think of for agreement to resign from Worldwide in 1992 this outlandish behavior," he said. after a newspaper article linked him to tireless commitment to improve the plight of We appreciate the federal prosecutors for members of a New York organized crime farmworkers and the poor throughout the Unit their role in bringing to light the efforts by family was essentially an artifice-that he ed States. And, he will be remembered for the organized crime families in New Orleans, continued to work 20-hour days as a "con- inspiration his heroic efforts gave to so many April 4, 1995 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10353 Americans to work nonviolently for justice in and poems of these students. I will start by " THIS SPIRIT WE FOLLOW" their communities. sharing with you the poems of the two grand Why are people of past struggles as well as These students who participated in this writ prize winners, Rosalinda Gonzalez of Inde successes remembered in spite of their ing contest have been an inspiration to me in pendence High School, and Nicole Perez of death? Why, because they are leaders. Cesar my efforts as a recent cosponsor of a resolu Mt. Pleasant High School. Their poems follow: Chavez died in 1993 and still, today, he serves tion that would declare March 31 a Federal Rosalinda Gonzalez of Independence High as a model for youth throughout the world. holiday in honor of Cesar Chavez. The resolu School. Cesar Chavez had fire in himself, a spark of divine madness as he would march, boycott, tion which is sponsored by Congressman BOB ''CESAR CHAVEZ'' and strike to win rights for migrants. But FILNER of San Diego currently has 20 original Lying there in death above all, Cesar Chavez helped all Hispanic cosponsors and will be introduced this Con In a hot room people to dignify their deepest desires, con gress. With only a fan to cool him vinced many to follow his own footsteps in Mr. Speaker, the students who participated A crate-looking casket the making of a great history, and finally, in ·the Cesar Chavez Writing Contest deserve I saw him gave people a sense of glory about them to be recognized individually for the wonderful In the flesh selves. essays and poems they wrote in his honor. A great man's death Today people may wonder who Cesar Cha Rosalinda Gonzalez of Independence High People in mourning vez really was and, as a youth, one may ques School and Nicole Perez of Mt. Pleasant High Over the end of an era tion how Cesar Chavez became the person he An era in which is remembered to be. Cesar Chavez helped School were the two grand prize winners. I had no part Each wrote poems about Cesar Chavez's life. people to dignify their deepest desires, no The marches, boycotts, fasts, matter what they were to be. In doing so, Rosalinda Gonzalez' poem is titled "Cesar La huelga people's desires today are to keep Cesar Cha Chavez" and Nicole Perez' poem is titled I had only heard of them vez' spirit alive in the hearts of his followers "Recollection." from my Dad and, most of all, in the hearts of the youth. The first place winners are listed as follows: Assembled for a funeral We , the youth of today, will become the lead Sabrina Hernandez of Andrew High School March ers of tomorrow. In order to become success who write the essay titled "This Spirit We Fol Was when I understood ful adults, we need people like Cesar Chavez, low"; Aberin Rodrigo of James Lick High It is about people who struggled to keep his dreams alive so School who wrote the essay titled "Cesar By the thousands they could become a reality. Together we Chavez"; Kathryn White of Oak Grove High They came may look up to and follow in his footsteps, School who wrote the essay titled "Making the Men, women, children determined to reach our goals despite the Different races, lifestyles, and creeds hardships that we may come to face. World a Better Place"; Lisette Muniz of W.C. Cesar Chavez was like a mirror, reflecting Overfelt High School who wrote the poem ti Unity As I marched back to people their own sense of purpose, tled "Cesar Chavez"; Ahmed Desai of Pied I felt it putting into words their hopes and dreams, mont Hills High School who wrote the essay ti I was brought back transforming their needs and fears in to co tled "Dedicated to a Dedicator"; Maria Gon To the days herent policies and programs. On July 29 , zalez of Santa Teresa High School who wrote My Dad Spoke of 1970, Cesar Chavez and his followers signed the poem titled "Battle"; Brenda Reyes of Sil Marching for a cause union contracts with the U.F.W. known to be ver Creek High School who wrote the poem ti Together as one the United Farm Workers union. This union tled "Who is He?"; and Eulala Reynolds of Now helped migrant farmworkers join together to Yerba Buena High School who wrote the Is the time dramatize the plight of America's poor farm hands. Today youth are able to look upon poem titled "Cesar Chavez." For action Our generation is this heroic man and into the future so that The second place winners are listed as fol we may finally realize, "Yes, we can be lead lows: Lauren Droira of Andrew Hill High Next in line Educate and make a ers too." In the mid 1900's, people had glory School who wrote the essay titled "Cesar Change in themselves, though they did not know it. Chavez' Testimony to Modern Society"; Eve The birth of a new era They were too busy working the fields, pick Zuniga of Independence High School who ing lettuce, picking fruits, and least liked of wrote the essay titled "Charity"; Troy Arevalo Nicole Perez of Mt. Pleasant High School. them all, picking grapes. Now that we are of James Lick High School who wrote the ' 'RECOLLECTION' ' approaching the year 2000 , thanks to Cesar poem titled "Cesar Chavez"; Marie Aloy of Mt. My eyes looked up at him longingly, Chavez, farmworkers, some from our own Pleasant High School who wrote an untitled the man my parents often spoke of. families, do not have to suffer as much to earn a living. We still have to work, yet we essay; Mark Papellero of W.C. Overfelt High " There he is hija," " He's the one," the one that helped us. have time to hope, to wish, and to dream. School who wrote the poem titled "The Lives Our strength made him strong; our deter of Workers"; Raymond Ramirez of Piedmont He shook my fathers hand, with a firm grip, and a subtle smile. mination made him determined; our courage Hills High School who wrote the poem titled He was wearing very simple clothes, yes, made him a hero; he was and still is, in the "Chavez y La Causa"; Ester Martinez Estrada a very humble man. final analysis, the symbol of our dreams and of Santa Teresa High School who wrote the Yet he held a world of power, hopes, shaped by our own spirit and will .. . essay titled "A Hero to the Mexican Commu in his strong, worn out hand. his name, Cesar Chavez. He lead the making nity"; and Anthonette Pena of Silver Creek I remembered all the things he did, of memorable history and today our grand High School who wrote the essay titled "Cesar all the things he did for us. parents and our parents are able to tell us Chavez." The strikes, the vigils, his leadership against the story of this wonderful man. Cesar Cha Mr. Speaker, it is with great pride that I ask the one's who tried to conquer us. vez' beliefs were bolder than a pair of eagle's wings. He stood strong and tall surpassing you to join me in recognizing these distin My mother told me the stories, the stories of the past. his own hardships while achieving dreams guished students and award recipients from Of how Mr. Chavez held on, never letting go, that were interlocked in his heart and the my district, who looked to see Cesar Chavez strong and always stead-fast. hearts of us that believed in him. He worked as a great citizen worthy of respect, praise, I held on tightly and whispered in my hard to break the wall of obscurity that and emulation. Mr. Speaker, we all look in our mama's ear seemed to combine work with pain. The history with respect and love for the men and " I'm gonna be just like him mama," paths that Cesar Chavez traveled are here for women who devote their lives to the cause of " I'm gonna be just like him." us today so that, we too, can experience social and economic justice to all citizens. There were eight first place winners. Of life's forsaken treasures. Cesar Chavez is such a man. His memory will these eight, I will enter the essays of the first Cesar Chavez was a leader and today, for live on through · the heart-felt poems and es three first place winners today. The essays of many, still remains a leader. He spent his says of these students. I commend each of whole lifetime uniting people, a quality he Sabrina Hernandez of Andrew Hill High possessed even in death. He dignified, he con these remarkable students for their important School, Aberin Rodrigo of James Lick High vinced, and he gave his life to all those that contribution to preserving the memory of School, and Kathryn White of Oak Grove High . believed in him. What Cesar Chavez stood for Cesar Chavez. School follow: is relevant in our world and lives today, and Mr. Speaker, over the next several days I Sabrina Hernandez of Andrew Hill High now he is able to serve as a model for all will be entering into the RECORD the essays School. youth to believe in, to follow, and to become. 10354 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 4, 1995 (Aberin Rodrigo of James Lick High School) passed away two years ago, he will always be has captured the 1994-95 North Carolina high CESAR CHAVEZ remembered and looked up to. Chavez was a school 1N2A dual team wrestling champion In this crumbling society, where every man who dedicated his life to improving the ship. What makes it even more special, is that lives of the American farm worker. He orga thing seems to retrogress instead of it is the same team which won both titles. progress, role models are needed to guide the nized the powerless migrant farm workers of youth of the world in a positive direction. California and forced the growers to pay bet On February 11, the Golden Eagles of East One might suggest that the youth today do ter wages and provide better working condi Davidson High School won the State 1N2A have role models, but these role models are tions for the workers. His struggle was dual team wrestling championship with a 28- tough, but his commitment to the farm usually athletes or superstars. These ath to-25 sudden-death overtime victory against letes and superstars may be rich and famous, workers was stronger than any of those who but they hide behind them the real models of opposed him. It was Chavez' honor, dignity, Mount Pleasant High School. Head Coach today. Ordinary people who struggle and bat and sense of duty that make him one of the Bobby House, who has guided East Davison tle for what they believe in should be the best role models a child growing up in to wrestling to an outstanding 159-33 dual team role models of our youth because they dis day's world could possible have. record over the last 11 seasons, told the play characteristics that are not often shown Many children today look to violence to Thomasville Times that this year's squad was today. There are so many of these "second solve their problems. Their only role models ary" role models, but one seems to stand are those that they find on the "big screen," special: out. This man was not very big physically, and because of this many important varues This is a different group of kids. That yet his heart was one of enormous propor are being replaced by superficial beliefs in group in '93, I wouldn't trade 'em for noth tions. A courageous and determined leader the lives of children everywhere. Yet, it is ing. And I wouldn't trade these kids for noth was what he was, and his name was Cesar people such as Cesar Chavez who can bring ing. They're fantastic. These parents here Chavez. about change in children's lives. Chavez was work crazy for us and do everything we ask Starting out his life as a farmer, Chavez a nonviolent and hardworking man who fol them to do. The booster club gave us a great began to realize how poor the conditions lowed his heart and used his time and energy were that migrant farmers faced. They lived practice facility. I mean, what can I say? to promote peace and make a better life for Danny Ward, the A.D., has done everything in shacks that were merely chunks of wood those around him. The qualities which made piled on one another. The food they were for us we could possible ask. All the coaches Chavez the great man that he was are those participate in doing things. It's just a fantas given were of the worst quality and plumb that children everywhere should want to in ing was not available in these shacks. To tic situation to be involved with-a chance still in their lives. to win a state title. make it worse, these farmers were given no Chavez had a mission, and although he was benefits, even though they worked approxi opposed by many who did not agree with Coach House would be the first to note that mately sixteen hours a day, six to seven him, he never gave up. He had a commit times a week. these ridiculous facts awak it takes a total team effort to compile a record ment, and his promise to the farm workers of of 24-1 as the Golden Eagle did this season. ened the leader which was hidden in Chavez. America was one that he intended to keep. His calm rage became visible when he orga The life and hard work of Cesar Chavez dem Special notice must be given, however, to nized the United Farmworker's Union. With onstrates to children the rewards for having heavyweight wrestler Jeremy Perry who this union he planned to call upon the na scored an escape point with 4 seconds re tion's attention concerning the rights of a goal and working hard until it is reached. these "invisible people." He wanted to let ev Chavez can serve as a role model to children maining in overtime to seal the win for East eryone know how pitiful the migrant farm around the world in that he was a dignified Davison. Sophomore David Children who led ers' living conditions were. If some people man who made a promise to himself and the the Golden Eagles with 29 wins against only could be reached by Chavez's actions, which people around him and through hard work 3 losses this season, told the Times it was included going on two hunger strikes, then and determination reached his goal. With a role model like this, children can learn that only fitting that Perry clinched the champion maybe these people could help make these ship. "He said at the beginning of the year he conditions less ridiculous and heinous. One working hard and helping others not only might say, "Well, why did they not just makes the other person feel good but will didn't want anything but a state championship, leave and find another job?" They could not. bring about a sense of self-pride, a huge re and that's the man to have on the _mat when Who else would give them a job knowing ward for honest hard work. it happened. So, I'm glad it was him.' ~ Cesar Chavez taught the world that work their background? Even though they were We are glad for all of the members of the paid so little, and were treated so poorly, no ing together accomplishes in much more ------one else would pay and treat them better. than working alone. He taught the farm East Davidson wrestling squad. Congratula This is what Chavez tried to change, and workers, the Latino community, and every tions to Head Coach Bobby House, Assistant with great patience, determination, courage one around the world that pride in one's self, Coach Brian Lingerfelt, and each member of and leadership, he would die trying. belief in those around you, and unending de the team. Best wishes to Doug House_{1 03), All of Chavez's accomplishments were done votion to a worthy cause can make the world Michael Tucker (112), Jeff Lowman (ft9), with many characteristics not often shown a better place. With a role model like Cha Brad Moore (125), Chris Burkhart (130), Tony in modern life. His courage was displayed vez, children everywhere can see that having when he spoke his mind representing the honor and duty, not giving up when things Peters (135), John Musser (140), Shane Se opinions of the migrant workers. His deter get tough, and working together with others bastian (145), Chris Waddell (152), Daryl mination was displayed in his starvation will provide a better more unified world Childress (160), David Lackey (171), Tim Daut protests, while his leadership was displayed where everyone can live together in peace. (171 ), Jay Rollins (189), and Jeremy Perry in his organization of the Grape Boycott and (heavyweight). Special thanks is also given to the United Farmworker's Union. His pa managers David House and C.J. York and to tience undoubtedly was the force behind his TRIBUTE TO THE GOLDEN EAGLES the "Wrestlerettes" Lori Blake, Megan Gordon, continuance to fight for what he believed in. OF NORTH CAROLINA IDGH and Jamie Fleming. These are the characteristics lacked by the SCHOOL youth today, and even though Chavez has To Principal Ben Terrell and Athletic Direc passed on, maybe, just maybe he might have )JON:110WARD COBLE tor Danny Ward, and to all of the students, influenced a few youths-youths who need faculty, staff, families, and fans of East David guidance. ~ OF NORTH CAROLINA son High School, we offer our congratulations IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAKING THE WORLD A BETI'ER PLACE on capturing the State of 1N2A dual team (Kathryn White of Oak Grove High Scliool) Tuesday, April 4. 1995 wrestling championship. The entire Sixth Dis Cesar Chavez was not just a man, in the Mr. COBLE. Mr. Speaker, for the second trict of North Carolina is proud that you have eyes of many he was a hero. Although Chavez time in 3 years, a school in the Sixth District won this title 2 out of the last 3 years.