20832 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ADDRESS BY NAVY SECRETARY Force and a Marine Amphibious Brigade. erized war games within the Defense De JO.HN LEHMAN Thus we shall have the capability to under partment had forced a mechanistic fixation take major amphibious operations to secure on prograins, and a knee jerk response to our maritime security simultaneously in two military force probleins. That fixation HON.CHARLESF.DOUGHERTY separate areas of the world. brought forth a generation of military lead OF PENNSYLVANIA Finally, and most importantly, this new ers conditioned to think mechanistically, to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES class represents a large step in the revital manage "prograins" but disdain military in ization of our key national asset, the U.S. Wednesday, September 16, 1981 tuition and judgment. On the national level, Navy, and a quantum improvement in our strategy often focused on areas of immedi e Mr. DOUGHERTY. Mr. Speaker, on ability to safeguard U.S. interests overseas, ate concern, despite an increasing array of Tuesday, August 4, 1981, the Honora through the ability to project power from geopolitical shifts, which should have been ble John Lehman, Secretary of the sea to shore when needed. accommodated by adjustments in the This ship class has been a long, hard time planned use of naval forces. It is not neces Navy, addressed those present in Seat coming. Many of you here today are veter tle, Wash., for the keel laying of the sary to match Soviet force levels on a man ans of the Washington skirmishin'g neces for-man or ship-for-ship basis. Instead, what LSD-41. That event, most significant sary to bring this ship into being. Your was and is needed, is a maritime strategy in the history of America's amphibi vision and your persistence have triumphed. which concentrates superior power at the ous defense efforts, was a turning I congratulate you on that persistence. And point of confrontation, and does so with point and a renewal of our commit I do not speak of triumph in a narrow, bu precisely "tailored" forces. ment to our Nation's security. I would reaucratic sense. I speak of triumph in a na tional sense, as our country strives to regain An important prerequisite in formulating like to share Secretary Lehman's its sense of purpose and confidence and a maritime strategy, is to pay more atten words on that occasion with all Ameri builds to restore the unquestioned maritime tion to those military leaders who possess cans. superiority so vital to our existence. the foresight to recognize the requirements AnDRESS BY HON. JOHN LEHMAN, SECRETARY Clearly, an immense change has taken ahead, and the seasoned judgment to grasp OF THE NAVY place in the United States in the past year. its strategic implications. Such leaders clear We have come to realize that, as leaders of ly foresaw the requirements of amphibious General Barrow, Mr. Smith, Distinguished warfare in the decade preceding the Second Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is certain the free world, we have been possessed of a dangerous uncertainty for some time over World War. Fully a decade before that war, ly my pleasure to be with you here in the Admiral Chester Nimitz and General Hol Great Northwest. the utility of committing military force for Since assuming my duties as Secretary of national purpose. We had forgotten the les land Smith conceived and practiced the sons of two terrible world wars; That strategy of crossing the Central Pacific. the Navy-and Secretary of the Marine There were Marine and Navy officers who Corps-few events have been more pleasura strength, not weakness, halts aggressors; that strength is the only real deterrent, ignored the experts' suggestions in the late ble than to preside today at the keel laying 1940's that amphibious warfare was anach of the LSD-41, the lead ship of a new am weakness an open invitation. Today it is ob vious that America has now recalled these ronistic. Those men knew there would be an phibious class. Beginning a new class is "Inchon" in the 1950s. Others, on sighting always an important milestone in the histo important lessons. We are revitalizing. We are renewing our traditional American char the helicopter in the fifties, knew it would ry of the Navy, but the LSD-41 represents add a revolutionary dimension to amphibi much more: acter. And we are again becoming strong It is the first amphibious ship to be start and filled with resolve. ous warfare in the sixties and they were cor ed since the keel was laid for the LHA-5, The clear mandate of the last presidential rect. These were great and daring thinkers, almost five years ago. election was a call for renewed national not unlike those who today recognize the It is the fi.rst amphibious ship to be strength, prestige and self-confidence. This value of VSTOL, the LCAC, the LAV, and funded in ten years. resurgence of demand for national the LSD-41 class,-and have the military It is designed to carry the air cushion strength-and a Commander in Chief and judgment to grasp the strategic implications landing craft, or LCAC, which adds a revolu Congress dedicated to carrying out the will of the 1980s and beyond. tionary dimension to amphibious warfare. of the people-will inevitably ask the U.S. Our task in the decade ahead is clearly to As such, it represents a commitment to a Marine Corps to shoulder a major burden in deter Soviet aggression, a formidable goal in new technology. any commitment of military force for na the wake of unprecedented Soviet military The keel laying of the LSD-41 also signi tional purpose, as has always been the case expansion. Our response cannot be in num fies the reversal of one of the most senseless in the past. A Marine Corps of Americans bers alone. It must be in the ability to con conditions in the Navy today. The fact is who represent the best in soldierly virtue. A centrate warfighting capability at the that the U.S. Marines-that splendidly Corps which has held high the concepts of point-or points-of confrontation. The trained, superbly-disciplined team, and the duty and honor, and the qualities of large number of Soviet options is such that most ready fightilig force found in the strength and self-confidence, even in the landbased defenses overseas will never be world today-are fully prepared to go wher lean years of the recent past. A Corps sufficient for our needs, given even the most ever necessary in the world . . . yet are which, in the face of social and other pres optimistic budgetary and procurement envi unable fully to utilize that splendid readi sures, changed what needed to be changed, ronments, and assuming that the necessary ness because we lack sufficient sealift to get but staunchly maintained a tradition of dis basing arrangements were politically achiev them there. ciplined excellence and a world-recognized able. Nor is it prudent to assume that a Let me state my position unequivocally: expertise in amphibious warfare-a form of Soviet military confrontation, if it comes, the amphibious forces will be at the very warfare which may be more important to will occur where we are best able to counter forefront of the Navy in the decade ahead. our Nation's future in the years ahead than it. If history teaches us anything, the re The strategic requirements of the decade it has been anytime in our history, with the verse will probably be the case. The Soviets cry out for amphibious capability-forces possible exception of the Pacific Campaign must be made to understand-and be with the flexibility and combat power em in the Second World War. shown-that we intend to confront them bodied in the Marine Air Ground Task It is not enough, however, to build ships militarily wherever our interests require. If Forces-forces capable of safeguarding our and recruit men. We must begin with the we succeed in doing that, we may never vital interests by deterrence-, but if deter formulation of the strategy itself. It is a dif have to use our capability. It is the deter rence fails, by performing on the battlefield ficult matter, in that we have long focused rent value of strong naval forces which we as Marines have always performed. In this largely on the technical aspects of our naval seek, not confrontation. regard, the Department of the Navy, in ·the probleins. Too often, naval strategy was What I propose strategically is not new. first months of the Reagan Administration merely a function of the momentum of Mahan called armed naval capability sea established, in a dramatic break from Carter force structure and modernization. The force. He postulated that a maritime nation policies a firm policy to develop sufficient strongest arguments for new ships were should aim at acquiring a superiority in sea amphibious lift to transport simultaneously that old ships were old and due to retire. force that enables it to project its seapower the assault echelon of a Marine Amphibious The misuse of systeins analysis and comput- to the most distant quarters of the earth. It
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. September 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20833 is from that imperative that Mahan derived anced naval force of air, surface, subsurface, high risk, the legacy of our past mistakes. the concept of "Command of the Seas" so and amphibious elements brings to any situ Let the historians say in the decades to relevant today. ation may find application in the entire come, that we did not fail that test. The perceived capability to concentrate range from diplomatic signalling and crisis I recall that Secretary of the Navy James the Nation's naval resources and to project containment, to on-scene military action. Forrestal, observing from aboard a ship the . power ashore stabilizes the global environ In the event of a Soviet attack on our vital raising of the flag from the stormed heights ment, according to Mahan, into a condition interests in Southwest Asia, defeat of Soviet of Iwo Jima, turned to General Holland favorable to that nation possessing com naval forces at sea will be absolutely crucial. Smith and said: "The raising of that flag on mand of the seas. Recently, for the first Lacking secure sea lines of communication, Suribachi means there will be a Marine time · ever, Soviet naval expansion has no other military effort-afloat or ashore Corps for the next 500 years." threatened to overtake our sea superiority. can be sustained. The sea is the Soviets' I hestitate to refute a very distinguished Obviously, Admiral Gorshkov has carefully greatest vulnerability-a place where geog predecessor but that statement isn't true read the lessons of Mahan. raphy greatly disfavors them. As a conse any longer-if it ever was. The future exist Critical to the Soviets perception, is the quence, it is here that our superiority must ence of the U.S. Marine Corps simply will naval capability to provide presence. This be strongly maintained, enhanced, and ex not be dependent on an event that took unique naval mission is particularly relevant ploited. Naval forces will also make a major place 36 years in the past, however inspiring to a strategy which seeks to influence and contribution to the U.S. Air Force's respon that scene may still be. The Corps must jus deter. Naval presence does not require re sibility for air superiority ashore, which tify its existence and its claim to scarce De gional basing, a political irritant in many must certainly be attained before there can fense resources not on what it has done in parts of the world. Naval presence is also a be a successful employment of ground the past, but what it can do now and in the sine qua non in the perception of ·our allies forces in Southwest Asia. The geostrategic future to smite our enemies and confound and the Third World, and has much to do realities are such that naval air and surface their threats to the peace. No one with any with the way in which they regard Super forces would probably have to provide both real understanding of the complex and chal power balance. security of the seas and the air, working to lenging requirements of the decade ahead The world of the eighties is not only a gether as never before. Amphibious forces questions the utility of the Corps. Perhaps world becoming more interdependent. It is would then be the likely spearhead to more than ever before in American history, also a world of increased turbulence. Our secure a lodgement area, followed by the in our Nation will come to realize in the strategy must include the protection of troduction of other forces, as necessary. decade ahead just how vitally important the sources of raw materials and their convey Geographic reality, the growing threat, Corps is. And that says a good deal. ance to us and our allies, including the pro and our balanced Navy-Marine Corps capa The survival of America could well depend tection of our source of vital fossil products bility combine together, then, to mandate a on the capability resident in the Marine and strategic materials. strong and effective maritime strategy as Air /Ground Task Forces and the Navy The Middle East and Southwest Asia will the key U.S. national security requirement Team that takes them to the distant quar probably dominate the world's stage in the of the next decade. The effectiveness of ters of the earth where America's interests 1980s, as did Europe in the 1940s, Northeast such a strategy is unmatched, in that the lie. The U.S. Marines know well the sacri Asia in the 1950s, and Southeast Asia in the capability is exercised only at the point of fices which may be entailed in the commit 1960s. If we have learned from history, the confrontation, whether it be in Southwest ment of military force for national purpose. correct question today should be how best Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, or elsewhere. And they stand ready to make those sacri to protect our vital interests in the region, The unexceeded flexibility and mobility of fices. All the Corps asks for is sufficient sea without placing half a million or more naval forces enable them rapidly to provide lift to do their job; and our Marine Corps is ground troops in the area for an indetermi a powerful instrument of U.S. foreign policy going to get it.e nate period of time. in the most distant quarters of the earth. The kind of ground force presence which Continued equipment modernization will we have in Europe and Korea will not work be critical in developing this vital instru DYNAMIC TELEVISION in Southwest Asia-or in the Caribbean or ment to its maximum utility. Several prom PROGRAMING Africa for that matter. The U.S. simply does ising programs, all designed to provide sub not have sizeable forces in place, nor sup stantially increased tactical mobility for the plies prepositioned. Neither does it possess Marines, are uniquely associated with the HON. JAMES M. COLLINS the host-nation support agreements, nor the LSD-41. A new medium helicopter will even OF TEXAS binding alliances that we have in Europe tually replace the over-aged tactical assault and elsewhere. transport helicopters. Increased numbers of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES These combined problems of access and heavy lift helicopters will satisfy the need Wednesday, September 16, 1981 distance compel the U.S. to rely principally for more battlefield and ship-to-shore lift. on seapower, supplemented by amphibious Four of the new landing craft air cushion e Mr. COLLINS of Texas. Mr. Speak assault. Its "over the horizon" presence vehicles will be carried in the well deck of er, for many years in serving on the would not be a political liability, nor provide each LSD-41. Communications Committee, I have a raison d'etre for increasing instability. These revolutionary craft will enable wondered why TV does not have more Amphibious forces can move ashore without rapid ship-to-shore operations from stand actual true life stories. All this TV the degree of permanence-and thus risk off positions, and expose about three quar soap usually is humorous but provides associated with other ground forces. ters of the world's littorals to amphibious no inspiration. The comparative attractiveness of sea operations. is based forces for the kinds of tasks required I have referred to the partnership of the Nothing more interesting than the by the situation in Southwest Asia, and else Navy and Marines in meeting the amphibi truth. The young people in America where, has long been recognized. The distin ous challenges through the years. That need to hear the exciting stories of guished British strategist B. H. Liddell Hart, partnership always includes, and must rely people who have built great businesses observed in 1960: heavily upon, the experience and know-how in America. "An amphibious force of modern type, op of American industry. It is only through the I would like to see some of these erating from the sea and equipped with hel dedicated efforts of the designers, manag foundations in America invest in pre icopters, is free from dependence on air ers, and workers at this shipyard and others paring a series of 1-hour documenta fields, beaches, ports, and land bases with around the country that our plans for a all their logistical and political complica strategy of unquestioned maritime superior ries based on the lives of great indus tions: The use of ... any land-based force is ity and a thoroughly revitalized amphibious trial leaders of this country. I think a more irrevocable step, since its commit capability can be turned into reality. As the the oil industry would do well to make ment is more definite and its withdrawal Secretary of the Navy-and, as the Secre one on John D. Rockefeller. The Ford more difficult. A self-contained and sea tary of the Marine Corps-I feel that I can Foundation would provide a great based amphibious force, of which the U.S. speak for both services in extending heart service to this country if they would Marine Corps is the prototype, is the best felt thanks for your cooperation and your develop a series on Henry Ford. The kind of fire extinguisher, because of its contributions-in the past, today, and into Firestone Co. could do well to give us flexibility, reliability, logistic simplicity and the future. one on Harvey Firestone. A series of relative economy." We are all in this together-with the Navy Naval presence in Southwest Asia will and Marine Corps Team-as we move for programs on Thomas Edison would be clearly transmit the desired message, mili ward through this dangerous decade. We most valuable. tarily as well as diplomatically. The multi are now moving quickly in the right direc In my home State I thought of so faceted projection capabilities which a bal- tion, but we still face a time of testing and many opportunities. In our neighbor- 20834 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 16, 1981 ing city of Fort Worth, the Amon tening to their constituents, many of whom nomic program. An underlying tension in Carter Foundation should prepare one are deeply worried about the economy and the program-it stimulates the economy on Amon Carter. We have a living doubtful that the President's economic pro with an expansionary budget while restrain gram will provide relief soon. Mr. Reagan ing it with tight money-has led many ob legend in Eddie Chiles and I wish the remains a popular Chief Executive, but the servers to believe it will not work. Its princi Western Co. would film the story of developments of the past few weeks present pal objectives-economic growth, high em his initial years. him with a formidable challenge. ployment, and low interest rates and infla In my city of .Dallas we could pre Before the recess, the President was tion-now seem to be out of reach. pare the most exciting as well as moti riding the crest of a major legislative victo As Congress sets to work on the economy, vational series of shows. ry. He had persuaded Congress to pass a there will be the usual wrangle to keep The excitement of seeing how Texas radically reduced budget and a massive tax money flowing after the government's ap Instruments was started by Eric Jons cut. These initiatives were the fundamental propriated funds run out September 30. The elements of Mr. Reagan's economic pro deadlines for the second budget resolution son, Cecil Green, and Gene McDer gram, which promised faster economic and the appropriations bills will be missed, mott would make a great series. Two growth and lower inflation. His hopes were so it is likely that the government will be fi great insurance executives ·would be that economic problems had been tentative nanced again by continuing resolution, a Ted Beasley of Republic National and ly solved-at least in the short term-and stopgap, emergency measure. The resolu John Carpenter of Southland who that he could tum his and Congress' atten tion itself will produce some of the fiercest sparked their companies to greatness. tion to other issues. legislative battles of the remaining months The story of Jodie Thompson who But things have not worked out as the of the session. The President is expected to started the 7-11 stores from a small ice President expected. The economy, rather use the resolution to do more budget cut than spurting ahead, has shown some trou ting, and there may be a "yes-or-no" vote on house to where it is now a retailing bling signs. Interest rates have soared to a single large package of cuts, rather than a milestone would be a good show. record levels, and they seem to be holding series of votes during which members would There are so many great oilmen like there. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones aver be subject to strong pressures from their H. L. Hunt and Ed Cox where their age has dropped more than 100 points to a constituents. history should be told through their 15-month low. The Consumer Price Index So, as the President and the Congress experiences. rose strongly during July. Huge and infla begin business again, we find ourselves in an Perhaps the Haggar Co., which sells tionary budget deficits are looming just uncomfortable situation largely of our own more slacks than any company in the ahead. Older persons are very nervous making. The tax cut was exceedingly large world, would prepare the story show about proposed cuts in social security. To probably too large. The country may be de compound the problems, there are rum prived of revenue to support important mili ing how J. M. Haggar started as a trav blings of discord within the President's ad tary and domestic programs. One solution is eling salesman and eventually built ministration. One indication of discord a tax increase, but a tax increase is unlikely this great clothing Haggar factory. among his top advisors is the unusual under present circumstances. Another solu Two of our current business leaders number of contradictory statements from tion is a leaner budget in which all items are Norm Brinker and Ross Perot who them on the place of military spending in including defense and entitlements-are started from scratch and became the budget. scaled back to keep them in line with reve giants in industry. The bad economic news will force Mr. nue. The Congress must now act vigorously Or take Mary Kay Cosmetics which Reagan and Congress to tackle economic to prevent larger deficits by making further issues again. Indeed, it is now clear that eco reductions.e is one of the success stories of all nomic issues will dominate the congression times. Or we can study Mary Crowley al agenda for several months, just as they whose character is an inspiration. did before the August recess. Yet other mat BETHLEHEM STEEL LOOKS TO With production costs needing to be ters put off during action on the budget and FUTURE underwritten, we need to have founda tax bills are crowding in upon us. Among tions prepare these programs for them are extensions of the voting rights public television. Many privately and clean air legislation, the sale of radar HON. DON RITTER owned TV stations would also run equipped aircraft to Saudi Arabia, major OF PENNSYLVANIA "surgery" on social security, decisions on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES them as a public service. the basing of the MX missile and the pro We need more of the Horatio Alger duction of a new strategic bomber, the nom Wednesday, September 16, 1981 message to America. And what could ination of Mrs. O'Connor to the Supreme • Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, while have more of an impact on young Court, and social items such as crime, abor media profess gloom and doom about Americans than to have actual true tion, and prayer in school. These matters the effect of President Reagan's pro stories.e cannot be postponed indefinitely. In order to keep his pledge to slash taxes, gram on American industry and the rearm America, and balance the budget, the economy, I would like to share an edi MORE ACTION ON THE President apparently decided during August torial that appeared in one of my local ECONOMY to recommend a new round of budget cuts newspapers, The Easton Express, even before the $36 billion in cuts already August 19, 1981, regarding Bethlehem HON. LEE H. HAMILTON passed take effect. Out of a spending total Steel, whose home office is located in of about $700 billion in 1982, $225 billion the city of Bethlehem, Pa., in my con OF INDIANA will go for defense, $250 billion for social se gressional district. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES curity and other retirement, $100 billion for interest on the national debt, and $25 billion In the words of a top official at Wednesday, September 16, 1981 for veterans' programs. Only $100 billion Bethlehem Steel Corp., "I am thor e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I will be left for all other government func oughly convinced that the Reagan ad would like to insert my Washington tions. Large reductions in defense and social ministration is on the right track Report for Wednesday, September 16, security may be forced upon Congress. The • • •." As the editorial points out, 1981, into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: scope and details of possible reductions in Bethlehem Steel Corp. has made a defense are not known, but figures of $30 solid commitment to revitalize that in MORE ACTION ON THE ECONOMY billion to $50 billion for the multi-year plan dustry. Crucial decisions await the President and have been discussed. While such reductions Congress as we return from the August would be significant, the size of the tax cut Mr. Speaker, we all hope to see recess. These decisions will be made in a po makes me doubt that they would be suffi other industries follow the example of litical atmosphere remarkably changed cient to prevent a deficit greater than the Bethlehem Steel and make their com from that of a month ago. Many legislators $42.5 billion which Mr. Reagan is project mitment to get America moving again. who went home pleased with the work of ing. Most estimates now put the deficit at The editorial follows: Mr. Reagan and Congress have come back least $20 billion higher. Likewise, the [From the Easton Express, Aug. 19, 19811 in a panic on account of high interest rates. chance for a balanced budget by 1984 is Some are even suggesting remedies as dras thought to be slipping away. BETHLEHEM STEEL LoOKS TO FuTURE tic as credit controls to bring interest rates Complicating the upcoming work of Con Bethlehem Steel Corp. took full page ad down. Members of Congress have been lis- gress is the doubt about the President's eco- vertisements this week, not only in The Ex- September 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20835 press and area newspapers, but in the na September 11, 1981, to thank him for vich recently authored a tribute to tion's major publications like the New York his valuable contributions to the city. this outstanding Serbian resistance Times to tell the United States it was plan When Bob came to Campbell in leader, which appeared in the July 31 ning to make a solid commitment to im prove steel production. 1964, the city was in poor financial edition of "The Diocesan Observer," a The announcement contrasts with those condition. There was only $1,500 in leading Serbian newspaper published of many other major industries lately which the general fund and no one to in Libertyville, Ill. have been using their profits, not to mod manage the city's $200,000 in annual During World War II, over 500 ernize their own plants, but to diversify into expenditures. Bob quickly assessed the Americans who were shot down over other industries. situation and did what was necessary Yugoslavia were rescued by the forces Bethlehem Steel's board is showing that it to get the city back on its feet. of Gen. Draza Mihailovich. Most of is listening to President Reagan's economic Over the last 17 years, the city of the American airmen were evacuated philosophies, that it is going to prove that Campbell has grown and prospered revitalization of the industry will not only to safety by a series of dramatic air return the United States steel making to under Bob's guidance. The city has rescue missions, which picked them up the foreground, but will aid in the nation's gained a national reputation as being a in the heart of Axis-occupied Yugo economy recovery. stable and fun community that is will slavia and flew them to Italy. In fact, the key message of the advertise ing to try something new. For exam The American airmen involved have ment is "Mr. President, we're in steel to ple, the babysitting program that was organized into a National Committee stay. And to prosper." started by the firefighters and sup of American Airmen Rescued by Gen It is those kinds of words that could boost ported by Bob has received national eral Mihailovich, and are continuing receptivity of President Reagan's programs, attention and has been copied by the ones that he spoke about in pre-election their efforts to build a memorial in days and the ones that he has been discuss many cities around the country. And Washington, D.C., to honor him. As ing in national television talks. The presi this year the city's fire department sponsor of a bill to authorize this dent has promised that if taxes for business has become the first in northern Cali monument, I believe that the time has are cut and the national expenditures re fornia to join the We-TIP program to come for the great role which General duced, then industry will have more money try to control the problem of arson, a Mihailovich and his Chetniks played to put into modernization. The results that program Bob was behind all the way. in the cause of freedom during World should come, Steel says, will be more jobs, Bob's tenure in Campbell has also War II, to be properly recorded in his more production, more demand for steel. seen a growth of community spirit. In tory. Therefore, I urge my colleagues And the by-product will be to end the spiral ing inflation and to make the United States 1967, a major bond issue was passed by to join with me in supporting this leg economically sound again. the city's voters and later a program islation. I wish to insert Dr. Radoje This prime Lehigh Valley industry points entitled "Congress for Community vich's comments at this point to pro out. that its projects, when completed, will Progress" was established to involve vide information on General Mihailo bring about increased efficiency, substantial local residents in identifying commu vich's heroic actions: energy savings, better product quality, im nity needs and goals for the future. THE SERBIAN PEOPLE AND GENERAL proved customer service and job security. Bob helped bring about this kind of MIHAILOVICH It is heartening to see any industry make spirit. this kind of commitment today, but as Beth (By Dr. George M. Radojevich) lehem Steel said, it only demonstrates its Bob received his bachelor of science Serbia and her people have a long and glo confidence in the future. and master's degree from the Universi rious history. From the time of their arrival For too many years, United States indus ty of Washington. In addition, he has in the Balkans in the sixth century, the try has been developing its own negative taken many courses in continuing edu Serbs were constantly improving the regions image. Workers have felt that they were cation prograiDS on city management in which they lived and they often had to easily discarded resources as one industry and has received his secondary teach fight to protect them from foreign enemies. after another closed outdated plants to relo ing credentials. The great contributions of the Serbian cate in modern ones in cheaper labor mar Bob has participated in many con people to western civilization and the cul kets. ture of enlightened society are well known The example set by Bethlehem Steel ferences and seminars on labor rela everywhere and are accorded generous should be followed by other industries. The tions and enjoys a reputation as an treatment in all encyclopedias of the cul re-investment of profits by many industries able labor negotiator. He is currently a tured world. in their own plants-instead of being used to member of the International City The heroic struggle of the Serbian people try to take over other lucrative industries to Management Association, the League for liberation from Turkish captivity and fatten profits only-will demonstrate to the of Cities, the Kiwanis, and the Elks from other occupiers, lasting for five centur American people that industry is no longer Club. Much of his community involve ies, is also well known to the world. the ogre of the economy. ment centers around his love for Also generally recognized is the contribu It could go a long way to rebuilding the tion of the Serbian people in the Balkan faith Americans have in its industrialized sports and recreation. Bob has always War of 1912, when all the Balkan nations society, dispelling the almost universal worked closely with the city's recrea became free after five centuries of Turkish belief that industrial and business leaders tion prograiDS. captivity. thought only of the buck and not the socie Mr. Speaker, I ask you and all my Indeed, the heroic struggle of the Serbian ty as a whole.e colleagues in the House to join with people on the side of the Allies in World me in thanking Bob for his 17 years of War I won the admiration of the entire service to the city of Campbell and to world. Even the Germans, their Emperor, ROBERT STEPHENS HONORED and General Staff, were forced to publicly encourage his continued involvement admit that they were amazed by the hero in our community.e ism of the Serbian people and soldiers. HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA The Serbian King Peter I and Crown OF CALIFORNIA GEN. DRAZA MIHAILOVICH Prince Alexander, together with the govern IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment of Nikola, Paste, insisted pertinacious ly to the Allies that a Second Front be Wednesday, September 16, 1981 HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI formed in Greece. This proposal finally re e Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, it gives OF ILLINOIS sulted in the creation of the famed Salonica Front. On this front, the defenses of the me great pleasure to rise today to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES honor an outstanding public servant, Central Powers were smashed for the first Wednesday, September 16, 1981 time, the troops of Austria-Hungary and Mr. Robert Stephens, who is retiring Bulgaria capitulated, and from that front as the city manager of Campbell, e Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, this the entire Balkan peninsula was liberated. Calif., after serving the city for over 17 year marked the 35th anniversary of While the Serbian, French and English years. the death of Gen. Draza Mihailovich, forces fought shoulder to shoulder in the The city of Campbell will be honor the savior of American airmen during Salonica campaign, the Serbian units bore ing Bob with a testimonial dinner on World War II. Dr. George M. Radoje- more than their share of the battle and suf- 20836 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 16, 1981 fered the heaviest losses. This fact was pub most serious credibility test since the comet, it visited us and then departed quick licly recognized by all the Allies as well as November 1980 election. Having won ly, trailing only a long in the reality the Serbian people-prevented ants in recent history, called the crisis region of the Persian Gulf despite the Russia from being completely crushed by of confidence the equivalent of a West's enhanced interests and responsibil the Nazi offensive before the winter of 1941 Budgetary Dunkirk. In this same ities, with the naval balance deteriorating in and, in doing so, helped the Allies to win the essay, Mr. Schlesinger, an individual the Far East, and with trouble even in the war. Caribbean Germany would not have of modern times." For a man who Yet, all along the real question should have had reason to attack Yugoslavia, and Yugo served Republican Presidents as been-given the administration's fiscal pro slavia might have emerged from the war a Acting Budget Director, Director of posals-how to maintain adequate deter free country. the Central Intelligence Agency, and rence with growing responsibilities in the However, the Serbian people could not tol Indian Ocean and with resources dramati erate the shame of being allied to their tra Secretary of Defense, and a Democrat cally less than those invested by the Soviet ditional enemies against their proven ic President as Secretary of Energy, Union. friends. For this reason the Serbian people, these are not simple partisan slogans. Seven months have been wasted on an ir and no other nationality of Yugoslavia, de They are a stinging indictment of the relevant debate. We shall now have to make posed the pro-Axis government on March chaos now facing the Nation in the do with a smaller growth in defense re 27, 1941, and formed a new democratic, pro wake of an ill-conceived economic sources than that projected by the Carter Allied regime. policy. administration-previously denounced as At this point, Hitler dared not leave Less than a year ago, the American hopelessly inadequate. So much for behind his back a hostile and well armed people were told by a confident cam "making America strong again," "closing Yugoslavia which, in cooperation with the window of vulnerability" and the vaunt Allied armies in Greece, could become for paigner that we could balance the ed "superiority" so casually endorsed in the Germany a danger comparable to the Salon budget by 1984, undertake a massive Republican platform. lea Front in World War I. defense buildup, and cut taxes in a The unavoidable outcome, given its fiscal On April 6, 1941 Hitler attacked Yugoslav manner unprecedented to modern tax goals, seems genuinely to have surprised the ia with vastly superior forces and conquered policy. All of this was to be accom Reagan administration. Disregarding the it by pouring in troops from all sides, rein plished by cutting out only the waste normal laws of arithmetic, and bemused by forced by massive bombardment of its cities and fat in the Federal budget and its own distortions of supply-side economics, from the air. This action postponed Hitler's France and lion <$20-25 billion over ceiling). The ceiling age of 107, Mrs. Curtin was Bucks West Germany. for fiscal year 1983 in the revised Reagan County's oldest resident. She also had This bill would create a separate cat budget is $732 billion-a total in crease over the distinction of being the mother of egory for forming wire used in making 1982 of $12-$17 billion. Limiting spending to a gentleman familiar to many· of the capacitor paper and eliminate the this ostensible ceiling, given probable infla Members of this body-former Con tariff currently levied upon it. The tion rates, would imply a reduction of real federal expenditures by 6-7 percent. Not gressman Willard Curtin. United States presently imposes a 21.3 very likely. Far more probably 1983 expend Born in Staffordshire, England, in percent tariff on forming wire from itures will run roughly to $775 billion-a 187 4, Mrs. Curtin emigrated to this MFN-most favored nation-column 1 sum $45 billion over the presumptive ceil country in 1900. Her family settled in of the Tariff Schedules of the United ing. Substantially to reduce the outyear Trenton, N.J., where her father man States-countries. As a result of the deficits, given the growing difficulty in aged a pottery firm. Tokyo round of MFN negotiations, achieving non-defense cuts, would probably Mrs. Curtin married her husband 642.30, the category in which these require that some three out of four dollars William in 1911. The Curtins made wires are now placed, will be reduced in reductions come from defense. their home in Morrisville, Pa., while from its 1980 level of 23.1 percent duty One can always spend less-by doing less. Mr. Curtin formed an electrical con to 10 percent in 1987. Because forming Gone now are the fancies of nine additional tracting business in nearby Trenton. wire specifically for use in the manu tactical air wings, of three additional Army She was a charter member of the facture of capacitor paper is not man divisions. Gone, too, in all probability, is the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation ufactured domestically, it should be 600-ship Navy-unless, like Jefferson, we in Lower Makefield, and was also a classified in its own category with no provide mostly frigates or gunboats. Em member of the Order of the Eastern applicable duty. barking on major new systems like MX or Star, Chapter No. 22, in Trenton. Removal of this tariff will further B1 or new acquisitions like carrier task In addition to her son, she is sur forces will ultimately lead to an ill-balanced the goals of the Trade Act of 1974 by force by leaving insufficient funds for oper vived by two grandsons, Lawrence B., fostering economic growth in the ation, readiness and sustainability. of Tampa, Fla., and Jeffrey H., of United States and reducing barriers to The planned buildup for NATO will have Morrisville; three great-grandchildren trade-19 U.S.C. §2102 0976). In addi to be reduced-especially so in light of and several nieces and nephews. tion, removal of the tariff on forming Indian Ocean requirements. What an ideal Mr. Speaker, last April on the occa wire should reduce the total produc moment, given the anti-nuclear tide running sion of Mrs. Curtin's 107th birthday, I tion costs for capacitor paper. For ex in Europe, to increase the degree of depend had the privilege of attending a cele ample, one domestic producer of ca ence on nuclear weapons and diminish con bration in her honor. Even at her ad pacitor paper paid almost $100,000 in ventional capabilities. vanced age, Mrs. Curtin was a woman duties on forming wire in 1980. The international ramifications are disqui of infectious warmth and vitality; she The assignment of a new category eting-to say the least. The already appre thoroughly charmed everyone at the and removal of this tariff will not hensive Europeans will conclude that, while party. And I am delighted to report harm domestic industry because, as the United States is prepared to disturb the that her son Willard has inherited noted earlier, no U.S. company manu international scene by threatening to much of her good humor and gregar factures the high-grade forming wire launch an arms race, it is now seen to be un iousness. used to manufacture capacitor paper. . willing to provide the resources either to Congressman Curtin was first elect Because there is no domestic producer run the race or to provide additional mili ed to the 85th Congress in November to protect, there is no justification for tary muscle. The Soviets will not be loath to of 1956 and served in this body with imposing any tariff on imports of such exploit those European apprehensions. Moreover, the Soviets will conclude that, de distinction for a decade. Mr. Curtin is wire.e spite American bluster, they have little to a personal friend and has been of ines timable help to me. It has been a fear in terms of additional forces to narrow JOB OPPORTUNITIES the growing disparity in military capabili pleasure commemorating his mother.e ties. As for the Japanese Kennedy Center. force in our national economy and a ployer would be interested in. Last night, my feeling had not bulwark of our democratic society. He was, to hear him, looking not so much changed-! still do not have the time- The gains that unions have been able for work as for a position and the benefits but 1 and my wife, Kathryn, went to achieve have brought benefits, that he was sure would follow. And the anyway to the opening performance of direct and indirect, to the public as a clear impression was that he thought he the beginning of the second half cen- whole. In this past century, organized had it coming. tury of the National Symphony. labor has played a central role in the Some who watched the news that evening may have thought the young man insuffer It was a delightful evening in every elevation of the American standard of ably arrogant, or concluded that he didn't way with the program including sym- liviJ;lg. The benefits which unions ne really want a job. . phonies by Haydn and Stravinsky and gotiated for workers are, in most cases, . 'f now widespread in the economy and· I saw him as merely an exaggeration of then, f or the fma1 e, the magni icent enjoyed by millions of their fellow citi- the kind of attitude I see so often in inner third Organ Symphony of Saint city youngsters like him. Their problem saens, one of my favorites, to which zens. It is often not remembered that isn't arrogance or laziness or lack of ambi the audience responded with a pro- many benefits we now take for grant tion. Their problem is that they have no longed standing ovation. ed never existed on any meaningful sense of what work is really about. From their viewpoint-the only viewpoint Perhaps the most stirring moment, scale until unions, and labor's support they seem capable of considering-a job is a however, occurred at the beginning of ers in legislative halls, won them for conduit for delivering money to people who the evening when the music director, working people. need it. They think of jobs the way the Russian-born Maestro Mstislav Rosro- This perspective was eloquently wives in the old comic strips used to think povich, just introduced to deafening stated by AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasur of joint checking accounts; with utter un applause, took to the podium, called er Thomas R. Donahue in his Labor concern about how the money got in, so the orchestra to attention and then Day broadcast this year, a portion of long as they were privileged to take it out. turned to conduct us with great enthu- which I would like to share with my How do these youngsters become so sepa rated from reality? Many of them, I suspect, siasm and feeling in singing the Star- colleagues: live in homes where unreality is the norm: Spangled Banner. It was played for FoR ALL AMERICANs homes where income means a welfare check the first time in my memory in a key [Broadcast by AFL-CIO Secretary- unrelated to any regular exertion. Some that almost all could sing, and did. It Treasurer Thomas R. Donahue] may have been misled by the well-inten was as moving to me as the inaugura- All Americans have benefitted from orga- tioned job programs whose emphasis is on tion, and I recommend an evening at nized labor's uphill struggle to improve the the needs of the kid who applies for work the symphony to all you new Members standard of living for all workers. and not on his ability to produce anything It was the unswerving efforts of trade of value to an employer. and even to us older ones who have unions that won the basic eight-hour day The disjunction between being handed a forgotten perhaps that a little uplift most Americans now enjoy. paycheck and producing something of value to the soul and spirit is important to Unions fought for and won a decent mini- becomes more pronounced all the time, par- our own performances.• mum wage, and that is something we still September 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20839 defend in spite of the fact that virtually no R. L. SWEET LUMBER Co., slavia or somewhere ... and raised the dis union member earns so little. Kansas City, Kans., September 1, 1981. count rate a full point that day, from 11 to Unions brought an end to child labor and Mr. RoBERT L. BARTLEY, 12 percent, that was another signal. That they fought and they continue to fight, Editor, the Wall Street Journal, signal was clear to us ... it meant the end indeed, the sweatshops that exploit the des New York, N.Y. of one era-and the beginning of another! perately poor. DEAR MR. BARTLEY: This is, as they say, a If one cares to look it up, one might look "letter to the editor" . . . which probably back and see what the stock market did in America's trade unions led the fight to es won't get printed-but it sure is fun to the weeks that followed . . . most notably tablish both the private pension system and write. on October 8, 9 and 10, 1979. That signal social security to insure working people a It is a wondrous thing these days to sit was clear enough, too. decent and a dignified old age. out here . . . in the real world . . . and Now we have a discount rate of 14 ... We fought tirelessly-against very stiff watch the folks fret and stew if they are lo with a four-point penalty for banks that the oppostion-for protections such as unem cated near the comer of Broad and Wall. Fed thinks "borrow too much". So maybe ployment insurance and workers' compensa From all I read in The Wall Street Journal for some banks, the discount rate is now 18 tion. New York City probably gives much of a cent to Lord knows how high. damn what anybody thinks in Kansas. And in the public sector, we have schools American trade unionists have always The reason that interest rates stay so without enough money, cities ditto, counties been deeply concerned with human rights, high is that there is a liquidity squeeze in ditto, states ditto, to say nothing of the Fed human dignity and social justice. this county at the moment ... to say noth eral Government. So it is that the Treasury We will continue to defend the right of all ing of the rest of the world. Or, if you has to pay well over 15 percent for money in Americans to vote, to have the job of their prefer, you could also call it a "credit the Treasury Bill auctions, and it may well choice, to live in the neighborhoods they squeeze". get a whole lot higher as the liquidity choose, to educate their children to the best Every time I read about how some Wall squeeze gets worse, if it does, and it prob of their ability. Street Wizard is confused as to why interest ably will. Our fight against tyranny in the work rates don't go down, precipitously and im Now the fact of the matter is that the place and in the domestic affairs of our mediately, I have to stifle the urge to laugh U.S. economy has some pretty sick parts. nation translates easily into opposition to loudly. I read this kind of stuff often. Some Housing is sick as a cat, so are autos, so are tyranny anywhere in the world. times I even read it in the Journal ... but some savings and loans ... and, horror of you are usually quoting someone else. horrors, so are some banks. Wall Street Wiz The trade union movement has been a ve More often I read it in some dispatch cre ards and Treasury Wizards do not like to hicle for the expression-in the United ated by one of the other great dailies . . . talk overly much about these latter situa States and around the world-of the basic and if any of these organizations have many tions . . . but they seem to be there none human need for solidarity. People who really smart, understanding, knowledgeable theless, and may not go away too soon. share common goals, have a natural interest economic writers on their respective staffs, I Thus, the liquidity squeeze is on. And may in banding together to achieve them. guess I have missed the opportunity to read get worse. Look at your balance sheets, gen We in the labor movement plan to write much of their stuff. tlemen. How close is your current ratio to another chapter in the history of that labor The truth is, of course, that most business the old rule of two-to-one? Not many of the that day, the labor movement will be joined to understand that the Federal Government ones I look at are anywhere close . . . in by our allies in the civil rights movement, has been robbing Peter to pay Paul since cluding some that S&P even rates "A plus". the women's movement, by environmental about 1933. In that length of time, best There are some "old canards" that some ists and consumers, by senior citizens, the characterized by long-term profligate spend Wall Street Wizards find difficult to forget. religious community and many more people ing, a whole lot of people have lost track of There is the one about the "price-earnings all united by the common bond of a dedica history.... ratio" ... which some wizard devised back tion to human rights. When I went to college, in the proverbial in the "Golden Days". The "price-earnings We are going to march together, to reaf Dark Ages, they taught me about a subject ratio" means very little indeed today . . . firm our belief in the future of America and called "accounting". And one of the things but I still occasionally read about how some the promise of life, liberty and the pursuit they emphasized then was that any compa guy says the stock market is bound to go of happiness it holds out to all. We are ny would do well to have a "current ratio" up-simply because price-earnings ratios are going to march to reaffirm, in our centenni of at least two-to-one. Later, I even heard now so low. Baloney. al year, the labor movement's historic com that some folks would prefer something Lately we hear some thing about a "new" mitment to social and economic justice for closer to three-to-one. But, somehow, a lot canard. This new myth has to do with the everyone in America.e of folks apparently never got the word. fact that some of the Wizards say that the Look at the balance sheets of the titans of stock market is dropping because Wall American industry. I find few with a current Street is now "disenchanted" with the new ratio of even two-to-one. I even found today Reagan economic programs, spending cuts HIGH INTEREST RATES that one of the real giants is apparently and tax cuts, et al. I notice that when all trying to operate these days with a current the new budget cuts and tax cuts were first ratio of 1.3 to one ... whereas only as far announced, everyone I heard of from Broad HON. LARRY WINN, JR. back as 1972 they had a current ratio of 2.1 and Wall cheered ... or so it was reported OF KANSAS to one. They were a whole lot better off out here. Now, lo and behold, the stock IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES then. market drops and the bond market drops There was a signal, in 1978. that apparent and things look not so good and so some Wednesday, September 16, 1981 ly a lot of people missed. It was the signal in genius blames it on a "lack of confi September and October of that year that dence" ... which, supposedly, has recently e Mr. WINN. Mr. Speaker, as high in the dollar was dropping like a rock overseas struck Wall Street ... in Mr. Reagan's pro terest rates continue to cause concern . . . and finally Mr. Carter had something gram. throughout the business and govern that he called a "save the dollar program" Lord help us. Mr. Reagan's program does ment sectors of our economy, I believe which went into effect about November 1, not even go into effect until October 1. Any my colleagues will be interested in and 1978. reasonable man ought to give it some time That was a signal that was, to us, unmis after that to watch the thing and see if it intrigued by the following letter writ takable . . . but I guess not too many be does work ... without giving up on it now, ten by a constituent of mine to the lieved it-or chose to ignore it. weeks before it even is on the law books. It editor of the Wall Street Journal. I Then, on October 6, 1979, after Mr. is very difficult to correct years and years trust this view from the heartland will Volcker flew back early from that interna and years of funny money economics in five prove enlightening to all who read it. tional banker's meeting in Greece or Yugo- minutes ... or even five months! 20840 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 16, 1981 There is still a liquidity crisis. I repeat, site for the memorial. The emerging Arcane questions involving the ele look at the balance sheets. Vallejo Naval and Historic Museum ments of crimes, the appropriate That is the problem ... whether some of the wizards of Wall Street believe it or not, proved to be the most attractive alter mental states, or the definitions of de to say nothing of the governors of the Fed native and in September 1980, the fenses are of little importance to the eral Board and/or the Treasury. People are museum began work on the project. vast majority of defendants; over 80 still trying to do business in the Roosevelt The memorial includes a gallery of percent of them in the Federal courts Era and this is the Reagan . So the knife will drift toward de will be available to permit Congress to conservative commentator, I wonder fense. That will please liberals who think all make an informed decision regarding what the reaction of the conservative other spending is more important than de the value of such a system. Members of the U.S. Congress will be fense spending, and won't deeply distress There is little question that the cur to his remarks. Very interesting. conservatives who think nothing is more im rent sentencing procedures in Federal Mr. Will's article follows: portant than reducing government spend ing. The public is eager to believe that ev courts need reform. Studies have THE RETREAT ON DEFENSE shown wide disparity in the sentencing erything, including security, can be had cheaply. So the public wants to believe that decisions of Federal judges. By requir The nation's long underestimation of only "will," not costly materiel is required ing a statement of the reasons for a Ronald Reagan ended recently with the to restore American power. Maybe a one sentence, this legislation will subject swift apotheosis of him, but soon the assess minute scrap with Libya makes everything sentencing decisions to public scruti ment of him will turn on the success of his all right. ny, and encourage judges to take into policies rather than on his success in enact ing them. Already there is a striking con Reagan's election did not solve problems, account the sentencing decisions of it just made some solutions possible. But other judges, thus encouraging greater trast between the affection for him and the skepticism about his policies. the great question of the twentieth century uniformity. In addition, the existing Stock and bond prices are sagging and Ad remains: has the United States the stamina Federal law does not provide any co ministration criticism of the markets resem for what JFK called a "long twilight strug herent rationale for the imposition of bles Mayor Beame's criticism of New York gle" with the totalitarians? Reagan's retreat sentences. Under current practices, banks in 1975 for refusing to buy city bonds. on defense is disheartening. judges are given no guidance as to con The banks were right. Markets respect What is intended as a small retreat may gressional intent with regard to the mathematics and they say Reagan's sums become a rout as Congress seizes on defense purposes of sentences. By defining the don't tally. They think he adopted optimis cuts as alternatives to painful cuts in domes purposes of sentencing, and relating tic projections (of growth, interest rates, tic spending. The political climate has the different types of sentences to the spending, inflation), and they doubt that he changed a lot in two months. Legislators purpose to be served, the bill will pro can cut the budget enough to hold down have returned from a recess during which deficits. Interest rates are the core of the they met many elderly persons afraid of vide judges with this necessary guid contradiction in economic policy: the tax ance. Sentencing in Federal courts is social-security cuts, and almost everyone cuts are stimulating consumption but inter else was anxious about interest rates. Few also hampered by the lack of clearly est rates are depressing investment. And the delineated procedures for the resolu country's problem remains the high ratio of people were demanding more spending on tion of factual disputes, the absence of consumption to investment. Today's interest defense. Obviously, there is waste in de rates do not reflect short-term demand for fense; obviously, an accumulation of budget statutory provisions for ~he use of al authority cannot be equated with enhanced ternatives to incarceration, and inad money. They are a prophecy embodied as a premium in the price of money, an anticipa defense. But by retreating from its defense equate fine levels. The legislation tion of long-term upward pressure on infla program so soon, the Administration sends which I am proposing would remedy tion by Federal borrowing. a signal: rebuilding defense is less important each of these deficiencies. Cuts: What Reagan has done so far has than reducing government spending. I am introducing the Criminal Code been relatively small and easy. Many budget Taxes: Reagan's philosophy of Carne Sentencing Act at this time in the cuts came from enrichments added in the gieism-half Andrew and half Dale: 1890s hope that interested persons and orga 1970s to programs that didn't even exist in capitalism and 1950s charm-will not suf nizations will take the opportunity to 1960. Most of the cuts came from the poor fice. The fact that his tax cuts were wise study the legislation and will provide and the cities, constituencies of few Repub does not alter the fact that America is un the Criminal Justice Subcommittee licans or "boll weevil" Democrats. Even so, dertaxed-especially in light of the conserv with their opinions and recommenda the President, then in his honeymoon-and atives' agenda. The tax cuts were actually hero stage, barely won the cuts. And they tax-limitation measures, counteracting tax tions. A draft of the bill has already were a piece of cake compared with cuts been circulated to many persons con increases imposed by inflation. By 1984 that might touch the thin skin of the income and social-security taxes will be, as a cerned with the criminal justice middle class, which received the bulk of the portion of personal income, about where system. I plan to commence hearings benefits of social programs. Middle-class they were in 1978. But the conservatives' on this bill at 10 a.m. in 2253 Rayburn, people would not be middle-class people correct agenda for national security, and Washington, D.C., on September 23, were they not gifted at organizing and com concern for social equity and prudence GEORGE WILL'S REFLECTIONS nue system currently will provide. ON TAX POLICY senhower. In July, Democratic Rep. Patricia Schroe Many conservatives are obsessed by a der of Colorado, an implacable foe of de crude measurement-the percentage of HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE fense spending, proposed cutting $8 billion GNP taken by taxes. (By that measure, OF NEW YORK from Reagan's defense proposals. Now some Britain has been much better off than Ger IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of Reagan's senior aides, who are not bash many.) But more important is the incidence ful about anticipating and perhaps forcing of taxes-where they fall across society and Wednesday, September 16, 1981 his decisions, say he will go much further how they affect particular behavior. Today, e Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, George than Schroeder proposed to go. considerations of social policy as well as F. Will, who in my judgment is one of Regarding defense, unlike domestic policy, fiscal needs may call for a change in the de America's most insightful political Reagan campaigned candidly and received a ductibility of consumer-credit and mort commentators, recently wrote an in mandate for substantial spending. Domestic gage-interest payments. And it may be time teresting column in the September 14 spending cuts were not, shall we say, for a value-added tax-in effect, a national stressed. The theory was that the tax cuts sales tax. Conservatives should favor a tax issue of Newsweek. He takes some po would be basically self-financing, stimulat sitions that some individuals probably on consumption, one that would reduce the ing the economy to produce higher revenues progressiveness of the tax system while would be surprised at. For example, he from lower rates. states that "America is undertaxed"; Given the tax cuts, and the assumed un moving the budget toward balance. "the public sector needs more re . willingness of Reagan. to raise new revenues, What will history say of those who sacri sources than the revenue system cur the markets can only be assuaged by cuts of fice everything, including defense, to shrink a size that must come from social security the public sector's portion of GNP? In 1950 rently will provide"; that the percent or defense. Even when Reagan was bestrid a man was arrested for creating a public dis age of GNP taken by taxes is not as ing Washington's narrow world like a colos turbance. One witness said: "He was using important as "the incidence of taxes sus, Congress reacted vehemently against abusive language, calling people conserv where they fall across society and how his tentative ideas about touching social se atives and all that." Such a day could come they affect particular behavior." curity <96-0 in the Senate, 405-13 in the again.e 20842 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 16, 1981 PROTECT OUR NATURAL natural areas suffer. Sanitary systems AMTRAK COST SAVING EF HERITAGE strain under the stress. Traffic over FORTS DESERVE CONGRES flows its roads. Highways are built to SIONAL SUPPORT HON. THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA funnel yet more people into the park. OF PENNSYLVANIA Several years ago Congress author HON. WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ized the purchase of additional park OF CALIFORNIA Wednesday, September 16, 1981 land for Valley Forge. Adjacent to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES park are several tracts of wooded land e Mr. FOGLIETTA. Mr. Speaker, I Wednesday, September 16, 1981 join with my colleagues today in which have thus far been spared from asking the President to replace James development. The landowners would e Mr. DANNEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, Watt as Secretary of the Interior. As like to hold the land for us, but devel the omnibus budget reconciliation leg many of us stated in signing a petition opers are anxious to move in instead. islation signed into law by President to the President, we risk losing our It is unreasonable to expect the land Reagan on August 13 authorized $735 natural heritage unless Mr. Watt is owners to remain in limbo much million for Amtrak's Federal subsidy dismissed. longer. in fiscal year 1982. While I would have The Department of the Interior The American people have a right to favored the administration's original plays a difficult and sensitive role. The enjoy their national parks without request for $613 million, I think it is public servants of that Department crowding each other and endangering still important that Congress stand must protect our rich natural re ready to assist Amtrak in reducing its their assets. Congress recognized these cost of operation. sources and at the same time must problems and created the land and oversee the use and development of water conservation fund for the pur It is heartening that Amtrak's man the public lands. It is important for agement has reduced its headquarters chase of additional parkland. The staff by 25 percent. The route and the Secretary of the Interior to under future of the expansion of Valley stand his dual role as protector and schedule changes approved by the developer. Forge is held up because Secretary board of directors will only result in a Unfortunately, the current Interior Watt pas virtually eliminated that 10-percent reduction in service, despite Secretary does not have that under parkland acquisition fund. The land an earlier prediction by Amtrak presi standing. Mr. Watt has a distinct and and the people face uncertainty as dent, Alan Boyd, that a 15-percent re clear bias toward the exploitation of long as Mr. Watt is retained. duction would occur under the re our public lands. He has little sympa I have received an influx of letters duced subsidy level. thy or understanding for the lands from my constituents seeking my sup Despite some progress in the recon which are ecologically sensitive and port for ousting Mr. Watt. Nearly ciliation bill, Amtrak is still saddled rare. every responsible environmental group with costly and inefficient work rules Secretary Watt seeks to change the in the country has called for his and other encumberances. Amtrak is direction of the Interior Department. ouster. Many are circulating petitions not out of the fiscal woods as of yet. He wants to divert funding for park seeking his replacement, and they First of all, the current budgetary cli land acquisition to other uses. He have received hundreds of thousands mate strongly mandates additional re wants to open wildlife refuges and wil of signatures. Conservation leaders ductions in Federal spending. All items derness areas to oil and gas leasing. He have eagerly sought to work with Mr. in the budget-Amtrak included-will is defusing surface mining regulations. Watt and have been rebuffed, mocked, face reevaluation. Second, much of the He would allow motorboating and breathing space that Amtrak present snowmobiling in geologically sensitive and scorned. They are looking for an ly enjoys stems from the decision of areas, in violation of existing regula Interior Secretary with whom they the conferees to accept the provision tions. He does not see the need to limit can communicate. Newspapers across in the House-passed bill to defer inter grazing on public lands. He is suspend the Nation are editorializing against est payments that Amtrak owes the ing endangered species programs, Watt. Even the private interests who Federal Government until September some of which are just beginning to would support increased leasing, 30, 1983. The interest deferral will free enjoy success, such as the protection mining, and harvesting on public lands up $82 million in fiscal year 1982 and of our national bird, the bald eagle. He cannot keep up with the extent of the $100 million in fiscal year 1983 for op proposes turning the management of expansion Mr. Watt is proposing for erating costs and other expenditures. national parks over to private conces their programs. Over the long run, it goes without sioners whose existence depends on fi I hope this outpouring of public sen saying that it does not save Amtrak nancial profit. Many of my colleagues timent will convince the President any money. It buys time, to be sure, are enumerating further on the long that he must replace his Interior Sec but aside from the appropriateness of list of crimes Mr. Watt seeks to perpe retary with someone who is better able such a deferral, the key question is to trate on our environment and natural to balance his "multiple-use" responsi what purpose is the extra time put in resources. bilities. order to make Amtrak run more effi As a specific example, I would like to ciently. call your attention to the Valley Forge In the meanwhile, Secretary Watt has stated that he intends to make All of us in the House and Senate, National Park near my own district in regardless of our positions on the ap Pennsylvania. Valley Forge enjoys a changes in direction and policy by the propriate level of Amtrak subsidy, unique and critical place in our histo budget process rather than through ought to be able to support efficiency ry. George Washington and his army legitimate legislative channels. Fortu enhancing improvements. I want to wintered there and depended on its fa nately, Congress has been reluctant to take this opportunity to bring to the cilities for protection and for food and cooperate. We must continue to care attention of my colleagues an excel supplies. We depended on his army in fully monitor him and the programs lent article written by syndicated col turn for the birth of our Nation. The which have been placed in his trust. umnist Neal Peirce, which appeared in Valley Forge National Park now repre We must legislate to assure that his the September 13, 1981, editions of the sents the kinds of problems which are work conforms to the intent of the Washington Post. Peirce describes facing our National Park System as a Congress and the will of the American some of the outdated work rules and whole. More than 11 million people people.e other practices that drive up Amtrak visit it each year, and the number is costs without justification. The 100- growing. Recreational facilities cannot mile rule-which I have brought to support the demand. Vegetation and the attention of the House on previous September 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20843 occasions-allows an engineer to work Railway managements could break them already been reached with the Carley Cap a round trip between New York and only by risking strikes-for which they had ital Group to start a multimillion-dollar Washington in a single day and earn little stomach. And politics kept interven hotel-commercial-office project starting at 4V2 days' pay. These and other work ing. Fast diesels were introduced in the '30s. Philadelphia's 30th Street Station and ex Not only did diesels make the old idea of tending over the air rights of 30 acres of ad rules can be changed if Congress 100-mile workdays obsolete, they made fire stands behind Amtrak in a supportive jacent tracks. Construction should start men redundant, since there was no longer next year. role when Amtrak enters into labor coal for them to fire. But the Roosevelt ad negotiations later in the year. These ministration, to save jobs, pressured the Negotiations are under way with another direct negotiations will provide railroads to keep the firemen on duty. developer for a major office structure at Amtrak with a forum that it has not When Amtrak was formed in 1971, it was Chicago's Union Station. Amtrak would like had since its inception to directly con saddled with a legacy of expensive work a green light from Congress for a similar trol its destiny. The work rule changes rules and featherbedding. But Congress massive development at Washington's sharply limited Amtrak's ability to bargain Union Station, a building grossly mishan are by no means punitive measures directly with the locomotive and train crews dled by a succession of government policies against railroad employees. Rather, of the lines over which it ran its trains. In in recent years. they represent an attempt to draw the Northeast corridor where half its trains City by city, one can envision Amtrak ex rules that are consistent with the run, for instance, it could bargain with the ploiting its prime real estate for major prof technology of the 1980's and not the crews of Conrail . But, its. "We are looking," says Amtrak vice state-of-the-art in the early years of said the law, if there was an impasse, then president Lawrence Gilson, "for any and all this century. after 60 days the work rules would revert to ways to reduce our reliance on Congress, to Finally, Amtrak is to be commended those of the old Penn Central. Amtrak act more and more like a private company for acting like any smart corporation elected not even to start the charade. and less like a welfare recipient." Congress, however, has just this summer in today's business world by looking at repealed that provision. Amtrak is prepar Even the Reagan administration, which so ways to establish diversified profit ing direct, tough negotiations which it far has scorned Amtrak while continuing centers within its overall operations. hopes will wipe away most of the obsolete general subsidies for energy-wasteful fly The Peirce column and other news re work rules in the Northeast corridor and set and-drive transportation systems, should ap ports indicate that Amtrak is research a pattern for agreements with crews across plaud that fresh direction.e ing business opportunities that might the country. Instead of mileage compensa present themselves as a result of Am tion, Amtrak will demand a simple hourly trak's extensive real estate holdings in pay system. It will try to abolish such relics HOWARD WEXLER HONORED of the steam-engine age as "crew districts" key areas of major cities. The objec which require changes of crews every 100 or tive, of course, should be to remove 200 miles. This rule leads to such absurdi HON. CLARENCE D. LONG Amtrak from the Federal budget to ties as three different crews between Boston the maximum extent possible by en and New York. OF MARYLAND hancing its profit potential. But lab9r is sure to resist. A strike-per IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES haps next spring-is a distinct possibility. Mr. Speaker, I ask permission to Wednesday, September 16, 1981 insert the entire Peirce article at this Congress traditionally intervenes to settle point in the REcORD. Thank you. rail strikes. Will it now stand behind • Mr. LONG. Mr. Speaker, on Satur Amtrak management in a tough stance akin day, September 19, 1981, one of my con [From the Washington Post, Sept. 13, 19811 to President Reagan's action with the air THE SPECTER OF AN ENTREPRENEURIAL traffic controllers? Or will it knuckle under stituents, Mr. Howard Wexler, will be AMTRACK MAKING MONEY to rail labor pressures, thwarting Amtrak's honored by the State of Israel Bonds drive toward a subsidy-free future? civic and religious leaders, as well as his A railway locomotive engineer earns a This year, Congress saved Amtrak from family and friends, for his unselfish day's pay for every 100 miles he goes-a rule massacre at the hand of presidential dedication to the improvment of his set back in 1919. That means that if he budget-cutters. But it also disregarded Am community. guides an Amtrak train the 225 miles from trak's pleadings to mandate unified work New York to Washington, and then back to crews between regular Amtrak trains and A victim of cerebral palsy, Mr. New York in a single day, he earns four and the new, independent entity-"Amtrak Wexler has not allowed his physical a half days' pay. At eight days' work a Commuter"-which was set up to take over handicap to prevent him from serving month he can earn $35,000 to $40,000 a Northeastern commuter rail lines from the his community. Active in the Boy year. expiring Conrail system. Continued sepa Scouts of America, Mr. Wexler has Such is the historical baggage with which rate crews may help Rep. James Florio (D), Amtrak has been burdened ever since its a key House subcommittee chairman, ap been awarded one of scouting's high birth in 1971. If we are ever to have an effi pease organized labor and win election this est honors-the Order of the Arrow. ciently run, less subsidy-prone national pas year as governor of New Jersey. But it will He reactivated Boy Scout Troop No.3 senger rail system, that kind of baggage cost taxpayers $55 million annually. and serves as scoutmaster. He also must be unloaded along one of those What excites Amtrak's top management serves on the Jewish Council of Scout stretches of rusty, abandoned railroad track these days is the body of new profit-making ing. enshrined in folk songs. Then Amtrak must ventures it thinks would go a long way go on, in entrepreneurial fashion, to gener toward freeing it from its demeaning de Mr. Wexler has been instrumental in ate new profit centers out of its far-flung pendence on Washington. In renovating making improvements for the safety physical facilities. practically its entire passenger fleet, for in of his fellow members of the Randalls The good news is that Amtrak is at work stance, Amtrak built advanced railcar ren town Synagogue. Widening of Church on both fronts. The bad news is that it has a ovation facilities at Beach Grove, Ind. Now long, long way to go. it's ready to sell conversion work to other Lane, installing sidewalks and mercury The "crippling load of labor costs" of railroads or transit authorities, as well as to vapor lights in the synagogue parking which Amtrak president Alan Boyd com provide training in railroad operations and lot are just a few examples of his ef plains can be traced back to World War I. skills for domestic or foreign railroads and forts. Then, the federal government nationalized transit systems. A familiar figure in Baltimore the railroads and President Wilson made his Using its virtually uninterrupted Boston son-in-law, the politically ambitious William Washington right-of-way, Amtrak plans to County government, he is always will McAdoo, federal railway czar. Railway labor build-and get other investors to share in-a ing to give whatever it takes to get the at the time did face hazardous duty and $30 million fiber-optics communication job done. long hours, and the standard agreement system with broad capacity in telephone, Mr. Speaker, it is an honor for me to McAdoo authored in 1919 seemed reasona data communications and television signal join in paying tribute to this outstand ble enough at the time. Why not a full day's relay. pay for 100 miles, for instance, when passen Finally, Amtrak plans to get into real ing young man who serves as an inspi ger trains averaged 22 miles per hour? estate development in a big way, concentrat ration to all of us.e But for the railroad brotherhoods, the ing on the huge swatches of land it owns 1919 work rule became virtually sacrosanct. beside its big-city terminals. Agreement has 20844 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 16, 1981 PERSONAL EXPLANATION offered by my good friend from New this machine, I reflected-that will never York, Representative ADDABBO, to pro do. Even if I saved myself, the Messer HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER vide for a pay raise averaging the same schmitt would suffer serious damage, possi 14.3 percent that was authorized in bly beyond repair. Then, indeed, the cat OF NEW YORK would be out of the bag; nothi.p.g could be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the bill, but targeting it to those per sonnel in needed skilled positions. I be kept secret. The whole business would be re Wednesday, September 16, 1981 ported in the highest quarters and then all lieve pay raises should be targeted would be over-forever. e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, yes toward skilled personnel who are in So I told myself to "Stick it out, no matter terday I fulfilled a long-term commit short supply. Because the armed serv what happens!" ment to attend a seminar in Detroit, ices have already been successful in Then I had a stroke of luck. A veil of mist Mich., on strategies for the introduc achieving their recruitment goals, a hung over England. Its surface shone so tion of methanol into America's trans 14.3 percent across-the-board pay raise much in the evening light that nothing portation fleet. It was the first meet for all is unnecessary and would pre down there could be seen from above. I took ing between methanol producers and clude needed increases for personnel shelter, of course, at once, flying with the automobile manufacturers to explore who have critically needed qualifica throttle full out and coming slap down from the use of this important resource to tions.• a height of two thousand metres towards relieve our dependence on imported the coast at a truly terrific speed. The oil. action of that moment saved me then. I was therefore absent from votes on RUDOLF HESS-POLITICAL There was a Spitfire in pursuit which I out PRISONER NO. 1-PART IV distanced before I was aware of its presence. House Concurrent Resolution 153, to I could not look behind; I was too enclosed authorize a bust or statue of Dr. in my cabin and too dazzled by the reflec Martin Luther King in the Capitol; HON. LARRY McDONALD tions. Had I not been tempted to dive for the conference report on H.R. 4035, OF GEORGIA cover, but remained in the clear air at the Housing and Urban Development-In IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pace I had been going he could easily have dependent Agencies Appropriations Wednesday, September 16, 1981 shot me down. Act of 1982; and H.R. 3380, the Armed e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, As it was, I crossed the East Coast a little Forces Pay Act of 1981. Had I been below Holy Island at about ten o'clock and there is still a cultivated misunder after sunset, flying low over a little town present, I would have voted as follows standing of the Hess case, in that Hess whose inhabitants must have been terrified, on each of these measures: remains a war criminal in the popular so low did I roar past, barely higher than On rollcall No. 202, to authorize a mind, despite having been acquitted of the houses, at some 750 km. per hour with bust or statue of Dr. Martin Luther war crimes. His crime appears to have my two thousand h.p. engines at full throt King, Jr., to be placed in the Capitol, I been to seek a way to bring peace be tle and the exhaust echoing through the would have voted "yea." Clearly, Dr. tween Britain and Germany in order sleepy streets. At this level the visibility was King made a magnificent and historic suprisingly good. I could see several miles, to forestall the bloodbath on both but I must have been invisible to my pursu contribution to civil rights in America sides which did, unfortunately, take and deserves this kind of tribute. I am er. I took good care not to rise too high, but place. flew on at not more than sixteen feet from delighted that this measure passed by As part of the unique conditions of the ground-even less at times-skimming a vote of 386 to 16. imprisonment which Rudolf Hess has over trees, men, beasts and houses; what On the rollcall No. 203, the confer suffered for the past 40 years, he English airmen call "hedge-hopping". It ence report on H.R. 4034, Housing and cannot speak out in any way. There seeins to have impressed them a good deal, Urban Development-Independent was a relaxation of this iron-gag rule according to the Duke of Hamilton and Agencies Appropriations Act of 1982, I judging by the honour done me in a critique between May and July of 1947, during in an English flying journal! would have voted "yea." While I am which time Hess was able to tell his distressed at the reduced contract au family about the flight to Scotland on I enjoyed every minute of it! At home, thority for assisted housing, cuts in this sort of flying was forbidden, although I May 10, 1941, the flight which was his did ·occasionally do a bit of it-but not so operating subsidies for troubled hous last act as a free man, from that long drastically as on this flight over enemy ter ing projects, and the one-half reduc distant day to this. ritory. tion from the House level in funding Wolf Rudiger Hess, Rudolf Hess' "Father" Bauer 1 always said that what I for the solar and energy conservation son, writes that, really liked was to fly through barn doors, bank, it is clear that this conference My father's flight to Scotland is consid and it was in this spirit I aimed at the Chev report represents the best we are ered to be one of the most extraordinary iot, now looming out of the misty evening. going to be able to obtain for the es deeds in modern history. One man tried by This was my guiding point, as previously de sential programs covered under this a courageous and lonely action to end what termined, and keeping within a few yards of measure. he feared would become the greatest calami the ground I literally climbed up the slope. On rollcall Nos. 204 and 205, with re ty. The approximately fifty million war Never before had I ascended a mountain so spect to the Armed Forces Pay Act of dead are the dreadful proof of his vision. rapidly. With a slight alteration of course to 1981, I would have voted "yea" on Extracts from the letters of my father the right, I slid down on the other side. On I Long Island live in this district, the sur vidually and put it out in the morning. Five rounding country bearing the evidence of miles of gas mains were laid and residents high cultivation." Corn, potatoes and rad were installing gas in their homes. "When HON. JOHN LeBOUTILLIER ishes were grown on the farms surrounding walking through the village streets at night OF NEW YORK the station on Main Street. "The Mineola it is easy to see what stores and houses are IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Hotel and the various saloons are liberally using the new 'Reflex' gas light." Electric patronized, but for the traveler Mineola is lines were put up in 1903 but few people Wednesday, September 16, 1981 more interesting as a junction for Hemp made use of them until the 1920's when e Mr. LEBOUTILLIER. Mr. Speaker, stead." practically everyone had converted. this week, the Long Island village of 1880'S MAIN STREET Mineola is celebrating its Diamond Ju By the eighties Mineola had a population Main Street was the center of village busi bilee, commemorating 75 years as an of 313. Deitz's tubular lamps illuminated ness. Ehrich's big country general store sold incorporated village in a region that the village streets but "of the various street everything: wool, dry goods, feed and grain, has undergone a radical transforma lamps in our place, it is rarely that more hardware, dolls, silk stockings and groceries. tion from agrarian quietude to subur than two are burnt at night." Across the Fred Unser also had a general store on the ban sprawl. eastern part of the village was the Meadow northwestern corner of Harrison and Willis Since 1906, Mineola-which is now Brook Hunt Club where Mr. Hitchcock, Avenues, but the building burned down in master of the hounds, would go streaking 1915. On the southeast corner of Main and the county seat of heavily populated after a little, red fox across the Jackson and Firsts Streets was Van Wagner's General Nassau County-has been a jewel in Titus farms, starting at the fair grounds. Store, with a large section of hay, grain and the crown of communities that make According to the Gazetteer of Long feed. up Nassau County. Mineola has always Island, 1885, "Farming is largely and profit The post office was a little building next been at the center of things-as a vi ably carried on about these neighborhoods, to Ehrich's store. The boxes for mail and brant farm community, market center, a level surface and rich soil and convenient delivery windows filled the whole north depot, meeting place, and seat of railroad facilities affording favorable condi side. Each family called for the mail once or county government. tions." Every Monday, Wednesday and twice a day, until 1919 when carrier service Friday mornings a market train would stop was installed. The post office moved in 1920 Since 1945, Nassau County has un at the station to bring produce into New to the Meyer Building, on the northwest dergone one of the most radical York. "The market train is so liberally pa corner of Mineola Boulevard and First changes in population. The county has tronized by our farmers and those from Street, then to the southwestern corner of gone from a largely potato-farm-stud Hempstead that trains are run in sections, Third Avenue and Second Street until 1932 ded place to one where nearly 2 mil each containing thirty to forty wagons." when the old Seaman homestead was torn lion people live and work. In spite of MINEOLA down to make way for the present post this rapid and dizzying change, Mineo In 1844 John S. Wood opened the first office. la has retained its special sense of Branch post office. He received mail for the The first motion pictures were shown in Allen's Hall on Main Street . The picture many ways to the livelihood of their people of the Branch that it would be neces ran once in the afternoon and once in the community. sary to have a name. Samuel V. Searing told evening, changing pictures every day, rarely Mineola is no bland, faceless suburb. the writer that he read in a daily paper an having a vaudeville act. A male violinist and It has a distinctive life of its own, and account of an Indian uprising in the state of a woman pianist accompanied the silent pic is a most pleasant place to live. ture with "the same fast banging tune when Nebraska, led by an Indian chief by the horses trotted on the screen." The reels Mayor Ed Smith and the Mineola name of Mineola, and liking the musical always took a long time to change so during Board of Trustees govern a village sound of the word, immediately sent the the intermission the moviegoers would go that has given much to the past of name on to Washington which was ap next door to Rushmore's Pharmacy for an Long Island, and will add greatly to proved and adopted by the postal authori ties." The Branch was officially changed to ice cream soda. her future. Mineola in 1858. 1920'S North Hempstead town clerk, John At the tenth anniversary of the incorpora In the 1920's Mineola was affected by the DaVanzo has organized a jubilee festi tion of the village in 1916, George Little post-war housing boom which spread across val that reflects the special and decent john wrote a letter to the Smithsonian In the adjacent farmlands; the business district character of his hometown. Most im stitution Bureau of American Ethnology moved from Main Street to Jericho Turn portant of all, Mr. Da Vanzo's efforts asking them if they knew what Mineola pike and the town acquired its present look. are truly uniting Mineola. meant. They wired back saying that it TROLLEY LINE ABANDONED Main Street used to be populated by means "pleasing and pleasant," from the Delaware or Algonquin stock Indian name In 1923 the Port Washington, Mineola to cows, then trolleys, and then by a few of the original Meniologamike, which is "a Hicksville trolley, line was abandoned "since cars. Today, it is a bustling place, but pleasant or palisaded village." this line traversed rather rugged terrain, it not in so much of a hurry that the suffered badly in poor weather and had to community cannot look backward to a 1910'S fight a constant battle to operate during Before the roads were paved the streets winter storms. From 1913 to 1920, its busi worthy past. would resemble one large, muddy, hog ness gradually dropped on the Nassau sec In 1976, during this Nation's Bicen wallow whenever it rained. After a storm in tion of the line. Poor finances and power tennial, the village of Mineola printed 1912, the residents on Willis Avenue pro troubles finally spelled the end of the line a small history of their community. posed changing the name of the village to in May of 1920." The Mineola to Freeport Entitled "Mineola: Heartbeat of "Muddyola." During the summer, the roads line was in operation until Easter Sunday, Nassau," the tract is authored by would become dusty so a water wagon would April 4, 1926. "Only a few residents Thomas Barrick. come around and sprinkle the streets to mourned the demise of the ten-cent ride The history is an excellent descrip keep the residents from choking to death. from Freeport to Mineola on the clattering tion of a smalltown atmosphere, and I "On soine avenues," in 1913, "residents are trolleys." am taking the liberty of offering it so indifferent to its condition that weeds in NEW BUSINESS DISTRICT here for the benefit of my colleagues. the gutters almost hide the concrete curb During the 1920's the village business dis ing." These complaints kept Street Commis trict moved from Main Street to Jericho MINEOLA: HEARTBEAT OF NASSAU sioner Silas Andrews very busy. Turnpike and Mineola Boulevard. GAS LIGHTING In 1920, Hugh Kennedy purchased Allen's 1870- 80 In 1911 the Nassau and Suffolk Lighting Hotel, and the adjoining property on Main In a travel brochure of 1877, Mineola was Company was awarded the contract to light Street, and built small stores that com described as "an important junction and the the village streets with gas. Every evening manded high rent since they were near the center of the transportation of farming Robert DeSteffano would mount his little trolley terminal and railroad station. When September 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20849 the traction company discontinued the Min being that it would help the village's econo Corps members will be visiting Hill of eola line, and the railroad station moved in my. There were some married women al fices on September 21. Luncheons for 1923 to its present site, these stores lost ready on the faculty, but the unmarried the House and Senate will be held on most of their business. women were required to leave if they mar The Century Opera House became outdat ried, this was also a depression measure. September 22 and 23. There also will ed when the new Mineola Theatre opened Needless to say, there were some secret mar be an awards dinner, where the master in 1927. Ehrich's General Store was sold in riages. of ceremonies, Secretary of Labor 1925 to the Dordan Realty Company of AFTER THE 1930'S Raymond J. Donovan, will be joined Manhattan, who tore it down and erected by approximately 1,000 corporate ex-· the present brick building, which was used In the 1930's and 1940's, daisies and vio lets grew in abundance, as did locust and ecutives, labor officials, political lead as a dress factory. In 1928 the new Village ers, and center directors to honor the Hall and Firehouse was dedicated and Fire sumac trees, in the lots and fields surround man's Hall was sold for land speculation. ing Mineola, that were once farms. By 1940 competition winners. The first bank in Mineola, The Nassau Mineola's population was 10,064. After WW Following is a complete schedule of County Trust Company 79-059 0-85-11 (Pt. 16) 20852 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 16, 1981 ant United States Attorneys and state and/ b. That a waiting period be required for The Freedom of Information Act or local prosecutors. the purchase of a handgun to allow for a 31. The Attorney General should order a 8. The Attorney General should direct the mandatory records check to ensure that the comprehensive review of all legislation, National Institute of Justice and other purchaser is not in one of the categories of guidelines, and regulations that may serve branches of the Department of Justice to persons who are proscribed by existing fed to impede the effective performance of fed conduct research and development on feder eral law from possessing a handgun. eral law enforcement and prosecutorial ac al and state career criminal programs. 19. Title I of the Gun Control Act of 1968 tivities and take whatever appropriate 9. The Attorney General should take all prohibits the importation of certain catego action is necessary within the constitutional steps necessary to reduce substantially the ries of handguns. However, the Act does not delay in processing criminal identification framework. prohibit the ' importation of unassembled 32. The Attorney General should seek applications. parts of these guns. It is recommended that 10. The Attorney General should take all amendments to the Freedom of Information the Act be amended to prohibit the importa Act to correct those aspects that impede steps necessary to reduce substantially the tion of unassembled parts of handguns. delay in processing requests for technical criminal investigation and prosecution and 20. The Attorney General should support to establish a more rational balance among assistance from state and local criminal jus or propose legislation to authorize the tice agencies. individual privacy considerations, openness Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to in government, and the government's re 11. The Attorney General should expand, classify semi-automatic weapons that are where possible, the training and support sponsibility to protect citizens from criminal easily converted into fully automatic weap activity. programs provided by the federal govern ons as Title II weapons under the Gun Con ment to state and local law enforcement trol Act of 1968. Centralizing Federal law enforcement personnel. 21. The Attorney General should direct Junctions 12. The Attorney General should exercise the United States Attorneys to develop 33. The Attorney General should study leadership in informing the American public agreements with state and local prosecutors whether to transfer the firearms, alcohol, about the extent of violent crime. In that for increased federal prosecutions of con and arson law enforcement functions of the connection, the Attorney General should victed felons apprehended in the possession Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to seek to build a national consensus that drug of a firearm. the Department of Justice; to transfer the abuse, crime, and violence have no rightful 22. The Attorney General should direct Border Patrol functions of the Department place in the schools and, when these condi the National Institute of Justice to estab of Justice to the Department of the Treas tions are found to exist, vigorous criminal lish, a.S a high priority, research and devel ury; and to transfer the licensing and com law enforcement should ensue. opment of methods of detecting and appre pliance functions of the Drug Enforcement 13. The Attorney General should take a hending persons unlawfully carrying guns. leadership role in ensuring that the victims Administration to the Food and Drug Ad of crime are accorded proper status by the Crimes against Federal officials ministration of the Department of Health criminal justice system. 23. The Attorney General should support and Human Services. 14. The Attorney General should require, or propose legislation to make a federal of Housing Federal detainees in local jails and as a matter of sentencing advocacy, that fense any murder, kidnapping, or assault of State prisons federal prosecutors assure that all relevant a United States official or of a federal 34. The Attorney General should seek a information about the crime, the defendant, public servant who is engaged in the per waiver of the requirements of the Federal and, where appropriate, the . victim, is formance of official duties. Procurement Regulations for contracts en brought to the court's attention before sen 24. The Attorney General should support tered into for temporary housing of federal tencing. or propose legislation to make a federal of prisoners in local detention facilities and/or 15. The Attorney General should direct fense any murder, kidnapping, or assault on should seek legislation to amend the Grant officials in appropriate branches of the De a state or local law enforcement officer or and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 partment of Justice to give high priority to on a private citizen committed in the course (Public Law 95-224) to establish and author testing programs to reduce violent crime of a murder, kidnapping, or assault on the ize the use of intergovernmental agreements and to inform state and local law enforce President or Vice President. with local governments for detention space ment and the public about effective pro Arson and services for federal prisoners. grams. 25. The Attorney General should conduct 35. The Attorney General should support PHASE II. RECOMMENDATIONS a study of the feasibility of transferring the or propose a legislative appropriation for Federal law and its enforcement anti-arson training and research functions the implementation of a Cooperative Agree Narcotics of the United States Fire Administration to ment Program that would allow the United the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire States Marshals Service to assist local gov 16. The Attorney General should support arms. ernments in acquiring equipment and sup the implementation of a coherent, and con 26. Arson should be the subject of a spe plies necessary for jails to meet require sistent enforcement policy with regard to cial statistical study on a regular basis by an ments for housing federal prisoners and narcotics and dangerous drugs including- should support or propose a legislative ap a. A foreign policy to accomplish the appropriate agency as determined by the interdiction and eradication of illicit drugs Attorney General. propriation for capital improvements of de including the responsible use of herbicides 27. To eliminate problems that often tention facilities used to house federal pris domestically and internationally. emerge when gasoline or other flammable oners, with priority given to those facilities b. A border policy designed to effectively liquids are used in arson, current law creat under litigation or court order for over detect and intercept the illegal importation ing federal jurisdiction over arson started crowding. of narcotics, including the use of military by explosion where interstate commerce is 36. The Attorney General should support assistance. involved should be amended to encompass or propose legislation to amend 18 U.S.C c. A legislative program, consistent with arson started by fire as well as by explosion. 5003 to permit a quid pro quo arrangement recommendations in this report, to reform Tax cases whereby the federal government could the criminal justice process to enhance the 28. The Attorney General should support house state prisoners and the states house a ability to prosecute drug-related cases. similar number of federal inmates without or propose legislation to amend the Tax requiring an exchange of funds. Guns Reform Act to balance legitimate law en 17. The Attorney General should support forcement needs with personal privacy in Adequate personnel resources Jor Federal or propose legislation to require a mandato terests by permitting the limited use of In responsibilities ry sentence for the use of a firearm in the ternal Revenue Service records and infor 37. The Attorney General should seek a commission of a federal felony. mation by other l aw enforcement agencies. substantial increase in personnel reso.urces 18. The Attorney General should support 29. The Internal Revenue Service should for federal law enforcement and prosecute or propose legislation to amend the Gun be afforded adequate resources to investi rial agencies to enable them to effectively Control Act of 1968 to strengthen its ability gate tax offenses and financial dealings of perform their present responsibilities and to trace firearms used during the commis · drug traffickers and other illegal business the additional responsibilities recommended sion of an offense and prohibit dangerous activities that are associated with violent by this Task Force. individuals from acquiring firearms. Specifi crime. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE cally, the Act should be amended to provide 30. The Attorney General should review the following: and restructure if necessary the "Dual Pros Bail a. That, on a prospective basis, individuals ecution Policy" as it relates to prosecution 38. The Attorney General should support be required to report the theft or loss of a of tax offenders who have committed other or propose legislation to amend the Bail handgun to their local law enforcement offenses prosecuted by the Department of Reform Act that would accomplish the fol agency. Justice. lowing: September 16, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20853 a. Permit courts to deny bail to persons <2> the date of pronouncement of a feder Justice statistics who are found by clear and convincing evi al right which had not existed at the time 51. The Attorney General should ensure dence to present a danger to particular per of trial and which had been determined to that adequate resources are available for sons or the community. be retroactive, or the collection and analysis of statistics on b. Deny bail to a person accused of a seri <3> the date of discovery of new evidence crime, its victims, its perpetrators, and all ous crime who had previously, while in a by the petitioner which lays the factual parts of the justice system at all levels of pretrail release status, committed a serious predicate for assertion of a federal right. d. Codify existing case law barring litiga government and for the dissemination of crime for which he was convicted. these statistics to policymakers in the De c. Codify existing case law defining the au tion of issues not properly raised in state court unless "cause and prejudice" is shown, partment of Justice; other agencies of feder thority of the courts to detain defendants as al, state, and local government; the Con to whom no conditions of release are ade and provide a statutory definition for gress; and the general public. quate to assure appearance at trial. "cause." d. Abandon, in the case of serious crimes, FEDERALISM IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Disaster assistance the current standard presumptively favor Fugitives 52. The Attorney General should support ing release of convicted persons awaiting im 43. The Attorney General should seek ad or propose legislation to allow direct finan position or execution of sentence or appeal ditional resources for use in the apprehen cial assistance to supplement the resources ing their convictions. sion of major federal fugitives and state fu and efforts of state and local governments e. Provide the government with the right gitives who are believed to have crossed that have demonstrated that they are suf to appeal release decisions analogous to the state boundaries and who have committed fering a criminal justice disaster or emer appellate rights now afforded to defendants. or are accused of having committed serious gency of such unusual nature and propor f. Require defendants to refrain from crimes. tion that their own resources fall short of criminal activity as a mandatory condition addressing the need, and he should request of release. Training of State and local personnel adequate funds to support such assistance. g. Make the penalties for bail jumping 44. The Attorney General should estab more closely proportionate to the penalties lish, and where necessary seek additional re Federal funding for research, demonstra- for the offense with which the defendant sources for, specialized training programs to tion, evaluation, and implementation of was originally charged. allow state and local law enforcement per innovative programs Insanity defense sonnel to enhance their ability to combat se 53. The Attorney General should ensure rious crime. that: 39. The Attorney General should support 45. The Attorney General should seek ad a. Adequate resources are available for the or propose legislation that would create an ditional resources to allow state and local research, development, demonstration, and additional verdict in federal criminal cases prosecutors to participate in training pro independent evaluation of methods to pre of "guilty but mentally ill" modeled after grams for prosecutors. vent and reduce serious crime; for dissemi the recently passed Illinois statute and es 46. The Attorney General should ensure nating these findings to federal, state, and tablish a federal commitment procedure for that the soon-to-be established National local justice agencies; and for implementing defendants found incompetent to stand trial Corrections Academy will have adequate re these programs of proven effectiveness at or not guilty by reason of insanity. sources to enable state .and local correction the state and local level. Exclusionary rule al personnel to receive training necessary to b. Grant awards for implementing such 40. The fundamental and legitimate pur accommodate the demands on their agen demonstrated programs require a reasona pose of the exclusionary rule-to deter ille cies for managing and supervising increased ble match of state or local funds and be lim gal police conduct and promote respect for populations of serious offenders. ited to a reasonable time period. Exchange of criminal history information the rule of law by preventing illegally ob Assisting State and local corrections tained evidence from being used in a crimi 47. a. If the eight-state prototype test of nal trial-has been eroded by the action of the Interstate Identification Index is 54. The Attorney General should seek leg the courts barring evidence of the truth, successful, the Attorney General should islation calling for $2 billion over 4 years to however important, if there is any investiga direct the Federal Bureau of Investigation be made available to the states for construc tive error, however unintended or trivial. to begin immediately the development of tion of correctional facilities. Criteria for a We believe that any remedy for the viola the index and should ensure that adequate state's obtaining federal assistance under tion of a constitutional right should be pro computer support and staff are available to this program include <1> demonstration of portional to the magnitude of the violation. develop and maintain it for the federal gov need for the construction; <2> contribution In general, evidence should not be excluded ernment, all 50 states, the District of Co of 25 percent of the overall cost of the con from a criminal proceeding if it has been ob lumbia, and appropriate areas of federal ju struction; and (3) assurance of the availabil tained by an officer acting in the reasona risdiction outside of the United States. ity of operational funds upon completion of ble, good faith belief that it was in conform b. If the prototype test demonstrates that construction. Funds should be allocated by ity to the Fourth Amendment to the Consti- such an index is not feasible, the Attorney a formula which measures a state's need for tution. · General should direct the FBI to develop al prison construction relative to all states. Sentencing and parole ternative proposals for the exchange of fed 55. Within 6 months the National Insti tute of Corrections , which would ad 41. The Attorney General should support eral, state, and local criminal history infor mation, which may include a national data minister the program described in Recom the enactment into law of the sentencing mendation 54, would develop models for provisions of the proposed Criminal Code base of such records or message switching. 48. The Attorney General should support maximum, medium, and minimum security Reform Act of 1979 which provide for great facilities of 750 and 500 beds, er uniformity and certainty in sentencing or propose legislation to authorize and pro vide adequate resources for grants to state from which states would choose the appro through the creation of sentencing guide priate model for construction. In addi lines and the abolition of parole. governments to establish the central state repositories of records and the criminal jus tion, over the 4-year period, NIC would com Habeas corpus tice information systems required for par plete studies pertaining to the possible es 42. The Attorney General should support ticipation in the III program, or alternative tablishment of regional prisons, the feasibil or propose legislation that would: criminal history exchange programs as dis ity of private sector involvement in prison a. Require, where evidentiary hearings in cussed in Recommendation 47. management, and the funding needs of local habeas corpus cases are necessary in the 49. The Attorney General should direct jails. The Attorney General should review judgment of the district court, that the dis the FBI to revise its long-range plan to NIC's findings and other relevant informa trict court afford the opportunity to the ap reduce duplication of criminal history infor tion to determine the need for additional propriate state court to hold the evidentiary mation services between the Identification funding upon completion of the 4-year as hearing. Division and the National Crime Informa sistance program. b. Prevent federal district courts from tion Center to take into account the results 56. The Attorney General should support holding evidentiary hearings on facts which of the eight-state prototype test of the III. or propose legislation to amend the Federal were fully expounded and found in the state 50. The Attorney General should seek ad Property and Administrative Services Act of court proceeding. ditional resources for the FBI to reduce the 1949 to <1 > permit the conveyance or lease c. Impose a 3-year statute of limitations backlog of requests for fingerprint and at no cost of appropriate surplus federal on habeas corpus petitions. The 3-year name checks and to enable it to respond to property to state and local governments for period would commence on the latest of the such requests more promptly, including correctional purposes and <2> ensure such following dates: those from non-law enforcement users, and conveyances or leases be given priority over <1 > the date the state court judgment should assign high priority to swift comple requests for the same property for other became final, tion of computerizing fingerprint files. purposes. • 20854 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 16, 1981 57. The Attorney General should support on the frontline of defense for our so ysis. A machine is unnecessary in this proce or propose legislation to amend the Voca ciety, protecting the residents of cities dure, and the patient is fully ambulatory. tional Education Act and other applicable and towns from the dangers of fire The technique involves the instillation by statutes to facilitate state and local correc and disaster. gravity of 2L fresh dialysis solution into the tional agencies' ability to gain access to ex peritoneal cavity through a permanent peri isting funds for the establishment of voca Tomorrow, the city of West Bridge water, Mass., will honor a man whose toneal device. The solution is removed by tional and educational programs within cor siphon after six to eight hours, and re rectional institutions. record of devoted public service is un placed. This is repeated every six to eight JUVENILE CRIME surpassed in the Commonwealth: hours, seven days per week. Juvenile fingerprints former Fire Chief Edwin T. Gibson. The procedure is simple and can be 58. The Attorney General should direct, Chief Gibson served the people of learned quickly. Because the dialysis is con and if necessary seek additional resources West Bridgewater for 48 years, during tinuous, there are no fluctuations of body for, the Federal Bureau of Investigation to which time he earned the respect, ad chemistry, and as a result, patients report accept fingerprint and criminal history in miration, and friendship of all who feeling nearly normal most of the time, in formation of juveniles convicted of serious were privileged to work with him. He contrast to intermittent dialysis. crimes in state courts and should support or exemplified the courage, resourceful CAPD, however, demands strict adherence propose legislation to amend Section 5038 of ness, and integrity that are the hall to procedure in order to avoid peritonitis the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Pre mark of the municipal firefighting vention Act to provide for fingerprinting the major drawback of this method. Perito and photographing of all juveniles convict forces of Massachusetts. Upon his re nitis results almost exclusively from failure ed of serious crimes in federal courts. tirement he has left behind one of the to maintain compliance with the aseptic technique of the procedure, 1 and it can be Federal jurisdiction over juveniles most proud, and one of the most effi cient, fire departments in the Com fatal or result in loss of function of the peri 59. The Attorney General should support monwealth. toneal membrane for further dialysis. Com or propose legislation to amend Section 5032 pliance has presented a special problem of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency The citizens of West Bridg~water have lost the services of a great leader with CAPD, because the dialysis procedure Prevention Act to give original jurisdiction itself must be repeated at least three times to the federal government over a juvenile and a great friend. But as he marks who commits a federal offense. a day, seven days per week. This repetition his retirement tomorrow night he and the fact that the procedure is relatively Youth gangs must know that that friendship, and easy to integrate into one's daily lifestyle 60. The Attorney General, where appro that sense of respect and appreciation places a unique stress on continued compli priate, should expand the use of federal in he earned over so many years, will not ance that is not present with intermittent vestigative and prosecutorial resources now fade with time. I am proud to offer forms of self-care dialysis. The procedure in directed against traditional organized crime him my most sincere thanks and con evitably becomes routine and the absence of activities to the serious criminal activities of gratulations here today, and I ask all machinery and monitoring devices tends to youthful street gangs now operating in met de-emphasize the importance of technique. ropolitan areas of the country. my colleagues in this House to join me in tribute to this most distinguished Because of its great simplicity, CAPD ap Federal juvenile justice program public servant, Edwin T. Gibson.e pears to be very adaptable and widely appli 61. Funding of juvenile justice programs cable; however, in the majority of cases, should be done according to the criteria set CAPD is used only for home or self care. forth in Recommendation 53; such pro IDENTIFYING CANDIDATES FOR When initially presented with the options grams should be considered for funds along CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY of dialysis methods, patients may choose with all other programs within the adminis PERITONEAL DIALYSIS CAPD without having adequate insight into trative framework for general funding. the difficulties of self-care. A patient who is VICTIMS OF CRIME HON. BOB EDGAR compliant in an outpatient dialysis setting Federal standards for the fair treatment of may not be compliant with CAPD; reliabil victims of serious crime OF PENNSYLVANIA ity varies in the same patient with different 62. The Attorney General should establish IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES treatment situations. Errors in patient selec and promulgate within the Department of Wednesday, September 16, 1981 tion will result in increased morbidity and Justice, or support the enactment of legisla mortality. e Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, if the tion to establish, Federal Standards for the For these reasons, we have found it neces Fair Treatment of Victims of Serious Crime. Government is serious about saving sary to try to identify the factors which Third-party accountability money in the health care area, all of characterize a successful CAPD candidate 63. The Attorney General should study us should become aware of an innova and an unsuccessful one. Certain character the principle that would allow for suits tive new procedure of self-care dialy istics of patients and their environment may against appropriate federal governmental sis. Susan Perras, R.N., and Dr. Antho be considered risk factors. An attempt was agencies for gross negligence involved in al ny R. Lappacosta, of the Bryn Mawr made to associate these characteristics with lowing early release or failure to supervise Hospital in Pennsylvania gave me a patient success or failure measured by the obviously dangerous persons or for failure tour and a complete briefing of contin incidence of peritonitis or deteriorating to warn expected victims of such dangerous uous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. blood chemistries. persons. Their article which follows explains in From February 1979 to February 1980, 14 Victim compensation some detail the process. It is now up to patients with end-stage renal disease of di 64. The Attorney General should order us to make sure that our regulations verse etiologies and various clinical back that a relatively inexpensive study be con of dialysis do not discourage home or grounds were started on CAPD. New end ducted of the various crime victim compen self-care. The article follows: stage renal disease patients chose CAPD sation programs and their results.e after being presented with the Patient Bill [From Dialysis & Transplantation, February 1981] of Rights and various options of end-stage HONORING CHIEF EDWIN T. renal disease management. IDENTIFYING CANDIDATES FOR CONTINUOUS Our CAPD procedure is similar to that of GIBSON AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS Doctors Moncrief and Oreopoulos. 2 3 The Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis HON. MARGARET M. HECKLER :1077, 1979. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with success in performing CAPD, as meas 2 Moncrief, J. W. "Exchange Instructions and Wednesday, September 16, 1981 ured by incidence of peritonitis and deterio Sterile Tubing Change" . One of the most recent developments in a Oreopoulos, D. G., et al. a simple and safe tech is no higher calling in our Nation than dialysis methods is continuous ambulatory nique for continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis public service-and no more crucial peritoneal dialysis pilot procurement program to Criminal Law Subcommittee general obligation bonds to pay speci March 31, 1983. To hold hearings on S. 904 and S. 907, to fied eligible liabilities. 424 Russell Building provide penalties for the assassination, Room to be announced 20858 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 16, 1981 Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.m. 2:00p.m. Investigations and General Oversight Sub Energy and Natural Resources Judiciary committee and Labor Subcommittee Energy Research and Development Sub To continue hearings on proposed legis To hold joint oversight hearings on the committee lation to reform the Federal criminal activities of the Occupational Safety To hold oversight hearings on the viabil laws and streamline the administra and Health Administration. ity of the domestic uranium mining tion of criminal justice. 4232 Dirksen Building and milling industry. 228 Dirksen Building 10:30 a.m. 3110 Dirksen Building Environment and Public Works Environment and Public Works SEPTEMBER 30 To hold hearings on the nominations of Business meeting, to consider pending 9:30a.m. Matthew N. Novick, of the District of calendar business. 4200 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation Columbia, to be Inspector General, Foreign Relations To hold joint oversight hearings with Environmental Protection Agency, and the House Committee on Science and Lee M. Thomas, of South Carolina, to To hold hearings on the nominations of Ronald I. Spiers, of Vermont, to be Technology on Federal patent policy. be an Associate Director of the Feder Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of 235 Russell Building al Emergency Management Agency. Pakistan, and Harry G. Barnes, Jr., of Environment and Public Works 4200 Dirksen Building Maryland, to be Ambassador to India. Transportation Subcommittee 4221 Dirksen Building Business meeting, to mark up S. 1024, SEPTEMBER 24 Judiciary authorizing funds through fiscal year 9:00a.m. Juvenile Justice Subcommittee 1986 for the construction and safety of Commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold hearings to explore certain Federal highways. To hold hearings on S. 1402, establish issues relating to the early detection 4200 Dirksen Building ing uniform width and length stand of juvenile crime. 10:00 a.m. ards for commercial motor vehicles on 2228 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources interstate highways. Business meeting, to consider pending 1224 Dirksen Building SEPTEMBER 28 calendar business. •small Business 9:00a.m. 3110 Dirksen Building *Select on Indian Affairs Judiciary To continue hearings on the impact of To hold hearings on S. 874, providing Immigration and Refugee Policy Subcom high interest rates on business and to for additional protection of steelhead mittee examine their future credit needs of trout as a game fish. To hold hearings on matters relating to business. 1202 Dirksen Building the hiring of illegal aliens. 424 Russell Building 9:30a.m. 412 Russell Building 9:30a.m. Foreign Relations *Judiciary Commerce, Science, and Transportation International Economic Policy Subcom Separation of Power Subcommittee Merchant Marine Subcommittee mittee To hold hearings on proposals to restrict To continue hearings on S. 1593 and S. To hold hearings on international in the power of Federal courts in matters 125, bills revising and clarifying U.S. vestment policy. of school busing, focusing on the social regulation of international liner ship 4221 Dirksen Building impact of forced busing. ping in the U.S. foreign trade. Labor and Human Resources 2228 Dirksen Building 235 Russell Building Aging, Family, and Human Services Sub 2:00p.m. Judiciary committee Environment and Public Works •constitution Subcommittee To resume oversight hearings on the Transportation Subcommittee To resume oversight hearings on the im role of the Federal Government in Business meeting, to continue markup plementation of the Freedom of Infor family planning programs of Title X of S. 1024, authorizing funds through mation Act, and on S. 1247, S. 1235, of the Public Health Services Act. fiscal year 1986 for the construction and S. 587, bills providing for the pro 4232 Dirksen Building and safety of Federal highways. 10:00 a.m. 4200 Dirksen Building tection of certain confidential infor Ju,diciary mation from the disclosure require To hold hearings on proposed legislation OCTOBER 1 ments of the Freedom of Information to reform the Federal criminal laws Act. and streamline the administration of 9:30a.m. 2228 Dirksen Building criminal justice. Foreign Relations 10:00 a.m. 2228 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on the Airborne Warn Foreign Relations ing and Control System