July 26, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21019 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE PEOPLE'S PARADISE Ukrainian language, literature, and arts to ence Monitor correspondent William Henry flourish. By the end of the decade, however, Chamberlin wrote soon thereafter, "but the regime had come to perceive both stark, outright famine, with its victims HON. JACK FIELDS trends as subversive. The NEP was sustain­ counted in millions." OF TEXAS ing a private peasantry-both Russian and One eyewitness, a city resident, described IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES non-Russian-that was hostile to the urban­ a visit to his parents' village: Tuesday, July 26, 1983 based Bolsheviks' collectivist goals; indeed, "Although it was not long since I had last the Party appeared to be drowning in a been there, I could hardly recognize it. The e Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, some "peasant sea." Meanwhile the cultural re­ Moscow government had taken away all the form of socialism/communism is domi­ laxation associated with NEP threatened to food long before. Now the village was bereft nant in many nations and every conti­ undermine the regime's decidedly great of even cats and dogs. The officials hunted nent. The idea of socialism is especial­ Russian character. And, as Stalin noted in them and put them into a pound, but the ly attractive to intellectuals who are 1925, both developments complemented hungry people caught and ate them. People each other: "The peasant question is the avoided one another in calm, unreal atmos­ able to maintain a comfortable dis­ basis, the quintessence, of the national phere for fear of being eaten. My mother tance from actual Socialist practices. question. That explains the fact that the and a few of her neighbors told me how H. Though socialism is a god that fails peasantry constitutes the main army of the Zhuk ate his mother; how a woman they continuously, and causes more human national movement, that there is no power­ knew ate her children; and how H. Skryn­ suffering and tragedy than any idea or ful national movement without the peasant nyk ate his mother." practice in history, there are those army, nor can there be.... " "This kind of grim, stark chronicle could who stubbornly cling to its high­ Stalin's solution to the peasant problem have been compiled in almost any village in minded idealism. They religously close was collectivization. The richer, more pro­ the Ukraine in that terrible winter and ductive, and politically more troublesome spring of 1932-33," wrote Chamberlin. up their eyes to the reality that the peasants-kulaks-were deported to Siberia "Every village I visited reported a death Socialist promise of instant utopia and thereby "liquidated as a class." There­ rate of not less than ten per cent." Small brings only the tyranny of a real dys­ maining "poor" and "middle" peasants were wonder that Malcolm Muggeridge, who trav­ topia. herded into collective farms. They respond­ eled to the Ukraine in the summer of 1933 It is for them that the following ed by slaughtering their animals, working as a correspondent for the Manchester glimpse of reality is provided. less, and engaging in "terrorist" acts against Guardian, recently termed the famine the [From the American Spectator, August representatives of the regime. Not surpris­ "most terrible thing I have ever seen." 1983] ingly, production plummeted; state extrac­ Most Ukrainians would agree with Cham­ tion of grain, however, increased. In all, berlin that "this famine may fairly be called THE GREAT UKRAINIAN FAMINE Soviet agriculture received a blow from political because it was not the result of any sanctioning a limited reintro­ resulted in the outbreak of a country-wide Stalin. . . . It is perhaps the only case in his­ duction of capitalism had allowed the famine-"not hardship, or privation, or dis­ tory of a purely man-made famine. It is also Ukrainian peasantry to prosper and the tress, or food shortage," as Christian Sci- the only major famine whose very existence

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 21020 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1983 was ignored or denied by the governmental Westerners to be more than willing to give army said in 1981, "a Sandismo without authorities, and even to a large degree suc­ the Soviet Union the benefit of the doubt. Marxism-Leninism cannot be revolution­ cessfully concealed from world opinion. Billy Graham's infamous behavior on his ary.'' "There seems little doubt that the main trip to the USSR last year was but one man­ The revolution also proclaims itself a issue was simply crushing the peasantry at ifestation of this attitude. friend of Christians. But its theological sup. any cost. One high official told a Ukrainian Directly responsible, however, were those porters stress that Christianity without who later defected that the 1933 harvest Western admirers of Stalin's "bold experi­ Marxism-Leninsim cannot be true Christi­ 'was a test of our strength and their endur­ ment" all too ready to overlook images that anity. ance. It took a famine to show them who is did not fit their preconceived schemes. Two In this regard, the Sandinistas have master here. It has cost millions of lives, but who in particular went out of their way to proved wiser than Castro. Instead of direct­ the collective farm system is here to stay.'" downplay if not ignore the famine were ly confronting Christianity, they have In this view, famine was a policy instru­ Walter Duranty, then head of the New York claimed that true Christianity is Marxist; ment directed against the most recalcitrant Times Moscow bureau, and Louis Fischer, instead of persecuting the church as a peasants, regardless of nationality. Moscow correspondent for the Nation. Ac­ whole, they have sought to divide it. A third, ethnically oriented "revisionist" cording to Duranty's colleague, former In fact, in fiercely Catholic Nicaragua, interpretation has recently been gaining Times critic John Chamberlain, Duranty, Marxists must be much more cunning than ground in scholarly circles. Its main propo­ "was not only heartless about the famine, they were in Cuba-especially when they nent is James Mace, an American historian he had betrayed his calling as a journalist face the growing unrest and rebelliousness who is preparing a book on the famine. As by failing to report it." But Duranty did suc­ of peasants, Indians and many former sup­ Mace puts it: ceed in something else-he actually won a porters. "The areas affected by the man-made Pulitzer Prize for his reportage. Will the Sandinistas succed? It is hard to famine all contained groups which could Fischer said it best: "History can be say. As Venezulean President Herrera plausibly be considered hindrances to Sta­ cruel," he wrote. "The peasants wanted to Campings recently said, "Nicaragua is a lin's plans to resurrect a politically homoge­ destroy collectivization. The government Latin American Poland that does not have a neous Russian empire. It did not, strictly wanted to retain collectivization. The peas­ Russian army at its borders.'' speaking, correspond with the main grain­ ants used the best means at their disposal. And there seem to be many would-be Wa­ producing areas, as would be expected were The government used the best means at lesas around. it solely a question of intensified extraction their disposal. The government won."e e Soil Region of Russia, while in the Ukraine NICARAGUA-ANOTHER it extended into Volhynia and Podillia, TROPICAL GULAG hardly part of the basic grain-producing TRIBUTE TO CORNELIUS area of the USSR. HON. HENRY J. HYDE "CORNIE" SCHNEIDER "If we ask ourselves which national groups were most likely to constitute a OF ILLINOIS threat to the new centralized and Russified IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. MARIO BIAGGI Soviet Union which Stalin was creating, we Tuesday, July 26, 1983 OF NEW YORK arrive at the following: Ukrainians, second IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES only to the Russians in numbers, who had • Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, Humberto fought a stubborn and protracted war for Belli, a former editor of La Prensa, the Tuesday, July 26, 1983 largest daily newspaper in Nicaragua, national independence ...; the Kuban and • Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, I wish to Don Cossacks, who had first given the had a short and, to me, fascinating White counter-revolution its base; and the column in the June 10 USA Today. I take this opportunity to pay tribute to Germans, who had welcomed the 1918 hereby share it with my colleagues: the late Cornelius "Cornie" Schneider a man of great stature and distinction German occupation in Ukraine.... These [From USA Today, June 10, 19831 were precisely the groups whose territories who was a mainstay in the Jewish War were affected by the famine.'' NICARAGUA-ANOTHER TROPICAL GULAG Veterans of the U.S.A. for almost 40 The three interpretations are not irrecon­

11-{)59 Q-87-38 (Pt. 15) 21032 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1983 our abiding friendship and affection. issues. Sarah is well known in the vet­ June A. Willenz, Bethesda, Maryland, Ex­ Long after the memory of specific eran community because of her pene­ ecutive Director, American Veterans Com­ events fades, the tie of friendship will trating and searching questions raised mittee, author and columnist.e remain. My staff and I wish Mr. at Presidential news conferences re­ Chung, his wife, daughter, and baby garding veterans issues and programs. soon to be all happiness and success.e When I see Sarah ask a President one POLITICAL ASYLUM FOR DENNIS of those penetrating questions, I can BRUTUS certainly sympathize with him. Sarah VA ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON represents a newspaper, Temple Daily HON. BARNEY FRANK WOMEN VETERANS Telegram, and TV station, KCEN-TV OF MASSACHUSETTS in my district, and I get that type of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. MARVIN LEATH question almost daily. She has covered OF TEXAS the work of the Veterans' Affairs Tuesday, July 26, 1983 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Committee down through the years • Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, the Mas­ Tuesday, July 26, 1983 and is, therefore, most knowledgeable sachusetts State Senate recently on all veterans programs. She has passed an eloquent resolution support­ e Mr. LEATH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, served her country with distinction ing the request of Dennis Brutus for today, there are approximately both in war and peace. She will bring political asylum. For the United States 742,000 women who have served in the to the advisory committee insight and to expel Dennis Brutus would be to U.S. Armed Forces, or about 2.5 per­ experience as a female veteran. betray the ideals of our country. He is cent of all living veterans. The United Administrator Walters is to be com­ a victim of one of the most brutal sys­ States has more women and a greater mended for establishing this most im­ tems in the world-the South African percentage of women serving in the portant Advisory Committee on racist system of apartheid. I am very military than any other country, ac­ Women Veterans and for appointing proud that the Massachusetts Senate, cording to a report in Newsweek maga­ Sarah McClendon as one of its distin­ with the leadership of my own State zine. Approximately 8 percent of the guished members. I am submitting for senator, Jack H. Backman, has urged current total military strength of the the RECORD the entire membership of that Dennis Brutus be given political U.S. military are women and this the committee for the benefit of all asylum. I ask that this resolution be figure is expected to reach 12 percent Members. printed here. by 1985. As the estimated number of MEMBERS OF VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS­ female veterans rises in the years ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON WOMEN VETERANS RESOLUTIONS REQUESTING POLITICAL ahead, it will be incumbent upon the Lenora C. Alexander, Ph.D., Washington, ASYLUM FOR DENNIS BRUTUS OF SOUTH Veterans' Administration, in carrying D.C. Director, Women's Bureau, U.S. De­ AFRICA out its mission, to give full consider­ partment of Labor. Whereas, Dennis Brutus, now a poet with­ ation to the problems of former Karen Burnette, Knoxville, Tennessee, out a country, has graced the Common­ female military personnel. Nurse, Visiting Nurse Team Leader, Home wealth of Massachusetts as a teacher within That is why I was pleased to cospon­ Health Agency. one of our free and independent colleges; Charles Collatos, Boston, Massachusetts, and sor H.R. 113"1, which proposes to es- Commission of Veterans Services, State of . tablish, in the Veterans' Administra­ Whereas, Dennis Brutus, came to our land Massachusetts. after an across-the-world journey from the tion, an Advisory Committee on SSG Cherlynne S. Galligan, Washington, apartheid state of South Africa, where from Women Veterans. Hearings were held D.C., Office of the Secretary of Defense, his youth he cried out for the freedom of on this legislation by the Subcommit­ U.S. Army. his oppressed people in a country where tee on Hospitals and Health Care on Pauline Hester, Greensboro, North Caroli­ na, Nurse/Anesthetist, Chief Nurse, 312 one's life is at risk for independence of March 3, 1983. At that hearing, VA Evac Hospital. spirit; and representatives indicated that Veter­ Jeanne Holm, Edgewater, Maryland, Whereas, Dennis Brutus is now a tenured, ans' Administrator Walters had taken Major General U.S. Air Force Retired, respected college professor in Illinois at one steps to facilitate the establishment of former Director Women in the Air Force, of our Nation's great universities, a free an Advisory Committee on Women former Special Assistant to the President man in search of peace for his people of and author. South Africa; and Veterans. On July 19, Administrator Whereas, the Senate of the Common­ Walters announced that he estab­ Margaret Malone, Trenton, New Jersey, National Vice-Commander American wealth of Massachusetts, the oldest, contin­ lished this advisory committee, and its Legion. uous constitutional legislative assembly of first meeting will be held in Washing­ Joan E. Martin, Tacoma, Washington, free men and women in the world, with a ton, D.C., September 14-16, 1983. Public relations and banking executive, heritage of independence of mind, and op­ The advisory committee will consult active in AMVETS. portunity granted to millions of the op­ with the Administra.tor on the needs Carlos Martinez, San Antonio, Texas, Ex­ pressed of the world, responds to the cry of ecutive Director, G. I. Forum, National Vet­ Dennis Brutus, which has gone unanswered of women veterans with respect to since he asserted in Nairobi, Africa in nine­ health care, rehabilitation, and all of erans Outreach Program. Sarah McClendon, Washington, D.C., teen hundred and sixty-seven, "How much the rights and benefits to which veter­ Journalist and author. longer must we doggedly importune in the ans are entitled. Most important, Estelle Ramey, Ph.D., Bethesda, Mary­ anterooms of governors of the world or female veterans must be reassured land, Professor of Physiology and Biophys­ huddle stubborn on the draughty frontiers that the Veterans' Administration will ics, Georgetown University. of strange lands? How long must we endure? take necessary actions to provide that Lorraine Rossi, Alexandria, Virginia, Colo­ And how shall I express my gratitude and female veterans have equal access to nel, U.S. Army Retired. love?"; and all Veterans' Administration benefits, Omega L. Silva, M.D., Washington, D.C. Whereas, Dennis Brutus is now requesting Research Associate anj Clinical Investiga­ political asylum in the United States and is especially in the area of hospital and tor, Veterans Administration Medical in imminent risk of deportation in proceed­ medical care. Center, Washington, D.C. ings before the United States Immigration One of the members of the 18- Jesse Stearns, Washington, D.C., Journal­ and Naturalization Service; Now, therefore member advisory committee is Ms. ist and author. be it Sarah McClendon, a nationally recog­ Alberta I. Suresch, St. Petersburg, Flori­ Resolved, That the Massachusetts Senate nized journalist. Sarah, a World War da, National Service Officer, Florida Dis­ asserts its support of the plea of Dennis II veteran, is a White House corre­ abled American Veterans. Brutus and calls upon the United States Im­ JoAnn Webb, Arlington, Virginia, Nurse, migration and Naturalization Service, the spondent, a former member of the De­ health planner. United States State Department, the United fense Advisory Committee on Women Sarah Wells, Washington, D.C. Brigadier States Congress and the President of the in the Service, and an adviser to the General U.S. Air Force Retired, former United States to grant political asylum to Department of Defense on women's head U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps. Dennis Brutus and that he be released from July 26, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21033 the status of pending deportation and be nomic wealth and get ahead. It has homebuilders and realtors throughout otherwise offered the privilege of residency virtually made capitalists out of the my district. It is a program that helps in this our land; and be it further lower-middle income class in this coun­ home buyers and the economy. It typi­ Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions try. be transmitted forthwith by the clerk of the fies the President's concept of New Senate to the United States Immigration Vital as the mortgage revenue bond Federalism and is responsive to indi­ and Naturalization Service, the United program is to lower-income first-time vidual community needs. States State Department, the Massachu­ home buyers, it is just as vital to the To date, approximately 700,000 setts congressional delegation, the President Housing industry and economic devel­ homes have been financed under the of the United States and to Dennis Brutus. opment. So far, the 1980's have been program through State and local Senate, adopted, July 12, 1983. dismal years for housing. Yet, this is housing agencies. I hope there will be WILLIAM M. BULGER, the decade that will see the Nation's many more. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased President of the Senate. greatest need for housing as the crest to be part of a strong bipartisan effort EDWARD B. O'NEILL, of the baby boom-42 million strong­ Clerk of the Senate. to continue the bond program and Offered by: enters the home buying years. urge the House to pass H.R. 1176 to JACK H. BACKMAN•• Although the housing industry is keep it going.e just beginning to get back on its feet, it is not at all clear that it's on solid THE MORTGAGE MAJORITY ground. The prospect of higher inter­ VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL est rate hikes loom over the financial HON. LES AuCOIN markets and carry with it the seeds of OF OREGON a faltering housing recovery. Last HON. CHARLES PASHAYAN, JR. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES month, we saw a rise in the interest OF CALIFORNIA rates of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Tuesday, July 26, 1983 FHA,. and VA. The Federal Reserve is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, it is rare poised to turn the screws on credit Tuesday, July 26, 1983 that a strong bipartisan majority of conditions which could further endan­ e Mr. PASHAYAN. Mr. Speaker, not Members can ever agree on an issue. ger housing recovery and housing af­ too far from the magnificent memorial But, that is indeed what has happened fordability. to President Abraham Lincoln on the in the case of legislation to extend the Certainly cost is a concern. As it Mall in our Nation's Capital stands a mortgage revenue bond program. should be. But to those who criticize newer, less imposing structure that is Over 350 Members in the House the program as merely a drain on the invisible from the busy nearby streets. have joined my colleagues Mr. Treasury, I would point out that the It is a monument whose design has DOWNEY and Mr. FRENZEL in sponsor­ flow of funds is not one way. Unlike generated controversy, perhaps from ing H.R. 1176 to repeal the sunset date most other industries, housing has the for single-family mortgage revenue ability to spawn sales and jobs not generations accustomed to the more bonds. And for good reason. only in the construction industry, but imposing structures. The mortgage revenue bond pro­ in numerous businesses directly and The full impact of this monument gram provides a host of social and eco­ indirectly spurred by housing activity. cannot be realized until one walks nomic benefits that cannot be ignored. Its tremendous ripple effect is job in­ across the grass and through the trees It is important not only to States with tensive and growth intensive. and then stands before the two slant­ a timber-based economy such as mine, In Oregon alone, the mortgage reve­ ing walls that form this belated re­ but also to State and local govern­ nue bond program has produced by a membrance to those Americans who ments and to home builders and home conservative estimate, more than 1,000 made the supreme sacrifice in the buyers across the Nation. It means ac­ jobs, over $7 million in Federal and Vietnam war. tualizing the dream of homeownership State revenues and over $123 million As one's eyes travel across the some for thousands of Americans. It means in economic activity. 58,000 names carved into those black economic development. It means jobs The reluctance on the part of the marble walls the words of Archibald and revenues. administration to continue the pro­ MacLeish from "The Young Dead Sol­ I can point with a great measure of gram is ironic when just 1 year ago, diers" echo: satisfaction to Oregon's experience the President embraced the mortgage The young dead soldiers do not speak. with the mortgage revenue bond pro­ revenue bond program as a life pre­ Nevertheless they are heard in the still houses. gram. Since the Oregon Housing Divi­ server for the floundering housing in­ They say we were young. son issued its first bonds in 1977, the dustry. At that time, the administra­ We have died. Remember us ... program has financed the shelter tion was favoring mortgage revenue needs of over 8,500 Oregonians who bonds in lieu of the direct emergency As one walks along those walls, one have never previously owned a home housing stimulus program I was fight­ is overwhelmed by the enormous sacri­ of their own. ing for. In fact, he told realtors at a fice made by those commemorated by With the use of this bonding author­ Washington conference last March this structure. ity, Oregon has been able to design that housing was a top priority and The MacLeish poem goes on to say: several innovative mortgage finance that he supported changes in the We leave you our deaths. programs. One example is the city of mortgage revenue bond program to aid Give them their meaning. Portland's recycled housing program. the depressed housing industry. Perhaps the finest meaning we can The recycled housing program has en­ Not withstanding the administra­ give to those whose names are in­ abled Portland to acquire 21 vacant tion's flip-flop on the benefits and scribed on these walls is to devote our deteriorating and abandoned proper­ need to continue this program, a ma­ lives to building a world in which it ties, fully rehabilitate them and sell jority in Congress and at the grass­ shall never again become necessary to them to low-income families-families roots level know firsthand just how construct a memorial to those who · who otherwise find themselves frozen valuable the mortgage revenue bond have fallen in combat. out of the housing market. program is. The 58,000 who are remembered on However, homeownership represents Earlier this year, the Oregon Legis­ these walls will have died in vain if we much more than shelter. Let us not lature passed a resolution asking that shall fail in our efforts to achieve a forget that since World War II, it has the bonding authority be continued. I world of peace. We shall be judged by been housing and homeownership that have received a number of supportive future generations for what we do, have enabled middle-income Ameri­ letters from the Governor's office, rather than for the monuments we cans to increase their personal eco- from local governments, and from build. 21034 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1983 Regardless· of how and why this war "You just don't give up," he said in an O'Connell joined the family business in began and ended, those who served interview earlier this year, following a near­ 1931, after apprenticing for the United En­ and fell did so with honor in a situa­ fatal bout with pneumonia. "The important gineers and Construction Co. in Philadel­ tion beyond their control. There could thing in this business, or any business, is to phia and Los Angeles. He took the reins in be damn sure you stay in there and give it 1940, moving deliberately to expand the be no more fitting remembrance for everything you've got." company•s· scope. He bid on larger, more them than the achievement of a last­ Bom in Holyoke on St. Patrick's Day, challenging projects and sought work out­ ing peace. 1907, O'Connell lived in the city all his life, side the area. As the poem reminds us: heading numerous business and civic groups That expansion climaxed in 1964 when Whether our lives and our deaths were for and receiving virtually every local distinc­ O'Connell's ventured a 1,700 unit housing peace and a new Hope or for nothing, we tion for public service. project in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, at the cannot say, it is you who must say this.e A fourth-generation Holyoker, his sense time the largest project in Latin America of history was acute; probably no other under the U.S. sponsored Alliance for person in his time embodied as much of the Progress. O'Connell subsequently limited THE DEATH OF DANIEL city as O'Connell did. his company's efforts to New England, O'CONNELL His great-grandfather, the first Daniel where they could be managed more strictly. O'Connell, came to Holyoke from Ireland in During the 1940s, O'Connell began three the 1840s to work on construction of the decades of civic and trade activity. He was a HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE first wooden dam at Hadley Falls-the city's trustee of People's Savings Bank, a director seminal building project. OF MASSACHUSETTS of Holyoke National Bank, president of His grandfather was the city's first super­ both the Community Chest, precursor of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES intendent of streets, quitting under protest United Way, and the Chamber of Com­ Tuesday, July 26, 1983 and forming his own road-building company merce. at the Hampden Street location where it He was marshall of the third St. Patrick's • Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, every still stands 104 years later. Day parade in 1954, and honorary chairman community has its leaders, be they in Today, the firm is contractor for the city's of the 1955 parade. He received the William government, industry, education, or two largest construcion projects-the Wang G. Dwight Award for distinguished commu­ religion. Every once in a great while, Laboratories plant and the second hydro nity service the same year. however, a community is graced with a unit at the Hadley Falls Dam. The company In 1960, he was named special sheriff, his also built most of Interstate 391, completed first official post, and was appointed chair­ leader whose works not only benefit last year and regarded by city officials as a his people while he is alive, but stand lifeline for downtown. man of the Planning Board in 1962. He was as lasting monuments to his works and forced to resign the following year after the "The closer a job gets to Holyoke," an as­ adoption of a new state conflict of interest achievements. sociate said recently, "the more interested law. Transcript­ miles around the Whiting Street reservoir College Advisory Board, the board on trust­ Telegram, July 14, 19831 and swam laps at the YMCA. ees of American International College, the DANIEL O'CONNELL, DEAN OF BUILDERS, DIES O'Connell had retired as chief operating board of directors of Our Lady of Provi­ AT 76 officer but remained board chairman of the dence Home for Children. He was a corpora­ "He was always willing to help, most of firm, which branched from heavy construc­ tor of the Holyoke Visiting Nurses Associa­ the time in quiet, unassuming ways . . . It's tion to property development and manage­ tion. just impossible to replace Tom Ski Area and several elderly housing nial parade the following year, and winner Daniel J. O'Connell was said never to quit, projects in Holyoke and Springfield. His of the United Way's Alice K. Lucey Volun­ even when quitting made sense. O'Connell dedication to low-cost community care for tarism Award in 1979-a record of distinc­ died early today at Holyoke Hospital after a the elderly eamed him the attention of ad­ tions unequalled here in recent years. long bout with cancer. He was 76. vocates nationwide and an honorary doctor­ Besides his wife, he is survived by two Dean of area builders, he ranked among ate from St. Anselm's College in New Hamp­ sons, Franklin of South Hadley and James Holyoke's leading citizens for four decades. shire in 1973. of Holyoke; a sister, Margaret Dwyer of His family-owned business, Daniel O'Con­ O'Connell was raised at the comer of Sunderland; a nephew, Leo A. Byrnes, attor­ nell's Sons Inc., emerged as one of New Eng­ Dwight and Linden Streets, and attended ney of law of Washington; and several cous­ land's largest and most respected general local schools before going on to Worcester ins. contractors under his direction. Academy and the Massachusetts Institute He was the son of the late Daniel and A tenacious but charitable man whose af­ of Technology, where he graduated in 1929. Bessie . College. An accomplished writer and West Germany (62 signatories, all mem­ economist before assuming leadership ity of Nicaragua to pursue its objectives of social justice and economic development for bers of West German Social Democratic of the Budget Office, she joined the the benefit of its people and to promote the Party and the West German Bundestag). Brookings Institution in 1957 and pluralism to which it is committed. Holland <47 signatories representing the went on to become a Senior Fellow in That we are appalled that regardless of entire Labour group in Dutch Parliament the Institution. She has served as As­ humanitarian conditions, the financial sup­ except one>. sistant Secretary for Planning and port provided for Nicaragua immediately Republic of Ireland (33 legislators repre­ Evaluation in the U.S. Department of after the revolution has been curtailed as an senting six parties>. Health, Education, and Welfare and act of deliberate policy by the Reagan ad­ Sweden <16 signatories, including all ministration and moreover, Nicaragua addi­ Social Democratic members of Parliament has been a vice president and member tionally has been deprived of financial re­ and all members of the Parliament's foreign of the Executive Committee of the sources from the private banks. policy group>. American Economic Association. And we resolve: Norway <10 signatories, all Labour Party The work of Dr. Rivlin has made the That Western European governments seek members of Parliament>. CBO a credit to the Federal Govern­ to participate in and stimulate Western Eu­ Belgium <8 signatories, including two ment. It is with genuine gratitude that ropean initiatives intended to promote dia­ spokespersons for Latin American Affairs in we review the proud record of her logue and peaceful resolution of the con­ the Belgian Parliament>. flicts in Central America. United Kingdom, Austria, France. years as Director of the CBO and with That Western European governments lend The entire Socialist Group in the French sincere wishes for a future of contin­ their support to bilateral negotiations to re­ National Assembly, about 280 members, as­ ued successes that we mark the end of store peace on Nicaragua's borders. sociates itself with this statement, but in ad­ her tenure as Director and the begin­ That the Nicaraguan government be given dition it provides its own, more comprehen­ ning of a new phrase in the promising political, financial, economic and technical sive statement, which emphasizes that Nica­ career of an astute administrator. support by the international community ragua cannot be isolated from the Central and by private sources and, in particular, American context. Following is a translation that Nicaragua be supported actively in the of their statement: EUROPEAN ALLIES CONCERNED following ways for which we are committed "The Socialist Group is concerned about ABOUT NICARAGUA POLICY to work: equitable treatment for Nicaragua the aggravation of the situation in Central from our respective governments, the Euro­ America, particularly in El Salvador and at pean Economic Community, development the northern and southern borders of Nica­ HON. GEORGE MILLER and other banks, export credit institutions, ragua. In this context the policy of support OF CALIFORNIA aid donors and international financial insti­ for peace initiatives undertaken by the four IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tutions such as the European Investment member countries by the Contadora group Bank, the World Bank and the Inter-Ameri­ and Tuesday, July 26, 1983 can Development Bank. by a growing segment of international • Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. That the Nicaraguan government be given public opinion is in line with the concerns of Speaker, I would like to submit a fair treatment from the media. the Socialist Party, as well as those of the statement signed by 488 European par­ We think that such steps will result in the French government. establishment of justice and peace in Cen­ This statement was signed by the follow­ liamentarians about the situation in tral America. ing in the name of the entire Socialist Nicaragua. Our counterparts in West­ Signed: Group of the French National Assembly: ern Europe have grave concerns about Olaf Palme1 Prime Minister of Sweden. Pierre Joxe, President, Socialist Group, the current course of U.S. policy in Hans Jochen Vogel, Leader, West German French National Assembly. Central America. Social Democratic Party. Jean Natier, Member of the Assembly. JOINT STATEMENT FROM THE COMMITTEE OF Pierre Joxe, President, Socialist Group, Andre Belon, Director, International Rela­ WESTERN EUROPEAN POLITICIANS AND PAR­ French National Assembly. tions Section of the Socialist Group. LIAMENTARIANS IN SUPPORT OF NICARAGUA David Steele, Leader, British Liberal Veronique Miertz, Assistant Director, Party. International Relations Section of the So­ We the undersigned, the Committee of Joop Den Uyl, Leader, Dutch Labour Western European Politicians . and Parlia­ cialist Group. Party. Guy Van De Pied, Assistant Director, mentarians in Support of Nicaragua, recog­ Harlem Brundtland, Leader, Foreign Af­ nize that it is not yet four years since the International Relations Section of the So­ fairs Committee, Danish Parliament. cialist Group.e people of Nicaragua overthrew at huge cost Michael Higgins, Chairperson, Labour in terms of lives and resources, one the most Party of the Republic of Ireland. barbarous tyrannies ever witnessed in Latin Jan Nico Scholten, Vice-Chairman, Dutch DELMARVA POULTRY INDUSTRY America, whose hallmark was murder, dis­ Foreign Relations Committee of Dutch Par­ appearances and torture and which perpet­ liament. BIRTHDAY COMMEMORATION uated a grotesque inequality without a hint Uwe Holtz, Chairperson, West German of pluralism. Parliamentary Committee of Development HON. ROY DYSON Against this background, coupled with Cooperation. natural disasters of flood and drought, it is Jose Prat, Senator and President of For­ OF MARYLAND utterly remarkable that in so short a time, eign Affairs Committee for Spanish-Amer­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Nicaraguan government has promoted a ica Affairs, Spanish Senate. Tuesday, July 26, 1983 successful program of land reform, provided Manuel Medina, Socialist member of Par­ better nutritional standards, the beginnings liament and President of the Foreign Af­ e Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, 1983 of a health service, purified water supplies, fairs Committee of the Spanish Congress. marks the birthday of the U.S. broiler substantially reduced illiteracy, made ad­ Karel Van Miert, Leader, Belgian Socialist industry on the Delmarva Peninsula, vances providing for the advancement of Party. the fertile extension of land comprised women, established an independent judici­ Relus Teer Beek, Chairman, Dutch For­ of the eastern shores of Maryland and ary and done so much to improve the lives eign Relations Committee, and Labour of the people. Party Member of Dutch Parliament. Virginia, and the State of Delaware. It is unacceptable that attempts are being Lord Chitnis, Independent Lord, House of The poultry industry is now six dec­ made to strangle the people of Nicaragua by Lords, United Kingdom. ades old. economic isolation and military attack. And Max Van Den Berg, Chairperson, Dutch The story of the chicken industry, we accordingly declare: Labour Party. from its roots in the past to its con- July 26, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21037 tinuing growth today is a very encour­ as our colleagues and the American number of years. The other nine federal aging tale. It is rumored that the in­ public should be, of the progress the agencies that were mandated to create dustry began in 1923 when Mrs. U.S. broiler industry on the Delmarva SBIR programs are just beginning to gain peninsula has made in the last 60 experience with this program. NIH, in par­ Wilbur Steele, an inhabitant of the ticular, has had to modify its approach to Delmarva Peninsula, ordered 50 chicks years.e proposal review in order to make this pro­ from a mail-order catalog-and re­ gram work. Setting aside research funds and ceived 500 instead, 3 or 4 months later, BEDELL-GORE AMENDMENT TO selecting qualified small business proposals she realized she would have a huge is a challenge, but it is certainly one worth flock of pullets, then hens, and then H.R. 2350 doing right. enough eggs to feed half the county. Because most federal agencies are only be­ She did what any industrious person HON. C. ROBIN BRITT ginning to gain some experience with their from the Delmarva Peninsula would OF NORTH CAROLINA SBIR programs, I do not believe it is appro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES priate to adjust the mandates of any agen­ do; she fattened them, and sold off cies at this time. Instead, we should be con­ most of them when they were still Tuesday, July 26, 1983 cerned with ensuring full and effective par­ tender enough to eat. Such began the • Mr. BRI~. Mr. Speaker, last year ticipation in this initiative by all agencies. broiler industry on Maryland's East­ the House passed the Small Business The Small Business Innovation Develop­ em Shore. Innovation Development Act, Public ment Act of 1982 was carefully crafted to The chicken business has since balance all interests in the research commu­ become the No. 1 industry on the Del­ Law 97-219, by a vote of 353 to 57. The nity, and it deserves a few years of imple­ marva Peninsula, and it is still grow­ act passed the Senate by a vote of 90- mentation before any deficiencies that ing. This fact is a testament to the in­ 0. This legislation established highly emerge are addressed through amendments competitive research and development to the legislation. genuity of the chicken farmers there. programs, known as small business in­ I am particularly interested in NIH gain­ Since 1955, the retail price of pork has novation research programs, for small, ing experience with its SBIR program. It is more than doubled, beef prices tripled. high tech companies at 11 Federal my understanding that NIH has set aside Yet chicken prices have risen a scant six million dollars this fiscal year for small 31 percent. Thus, the poultry industry agencies. Each Federal agency is re­ business projects. This amounts to between is a virtual textbook case of how effi­ quired to expend a small portion of 100 and 110 grants, for which 600 to 700 cient management and creative promo­ their R&D budgets, six-tenths of 1 proposals have been submitted. I expect a tion can simultaneously increase prof­ percent in fiscal year 1984, to support number of these proposals to have come its and serve consumers better. We, in the program. Last year the House from North Carolina; I personally know of voted twice, by large margins, to in­ numerous small businesses in North Caroli­ this great city should be extrasensitive na that are engaged in research of interest to this fact; Washingtonians eat more clude the National Institutes of Health as one of the agencies in the in NIH. And I am certain that proposals for chicken per capita than anyone in the NIH grants have come from states through­ United States, except for the citizens program. out the nation. As Chairman of the Nation­ of Norfolk, Va.-this, of course, does H.R. 2350, the Health Research Ex­ al Governors' Association Task Force not include the imprecise tally of tension Act of 1983, has been amended on Technological Innovation, I have become chicken brought back to Washington by the Committee on Energy and aware of the potential for new-technology in the stomachs of politicians return­ Commerce to include language that research throughout the United States, at threatens the SBIR program at NIH. I our universities, our research institutions ing from various fundraisers. and in our businesses, both large and small. The chicken is just about the most urge my colleagues to support the amendment that will be offered to sec­ At the Federal and the State level, we must efficient creature on Earth when it do everything in our power to ensure that comes to converting plant food and tion 489 of H.R. 2350 by Mr. BEDELL this potential is realized. waste into quality animal protein. For and Mr. GoRE that will strike the anti­ I hope you will convey to your distin­ example, 8 pounds of feed is required small-business language in the bill and guished colleagues my support for the SBIR to produce a single pound of beef; a substitute a requirement that the Sec­ program and for full participation by all modern-day chicken requires 2 pounds retary of the Department of Health federal agencies, particularly NIH. I hope and Human Services report to the you will succeed in your efforts to maintain or less to produce the same amount. the integrity of the SBIR program at the Breeders have exploited this fact, and Congress by October 1, 1984, on the progress of the SBIR program at NIH. National Institutes of Health. improved the bird to its greatest po­ My warmest personal regards. tential. An impact is felt throughout The SBIR program has attracted Sincerely, this industry if a major processor is widespread support around the JAMES B. HuNT.e able to cut a day off the growing time, Nation. I would like to submit for the save an ounce of feed per chicken, or record a letter written by the Gover­ improve the hatching rate by 1 per­ nor of North Carolina, the Honorable LEGAL SERVICES FOR MEMBERS centage point. In the 1960's, 10 pounds James B. Hunt, Jr., to the chairman of OF OUR ARMED FORCES of feed and 12 weeks of solid eating the Small Business Subcommittee on would send a 3-pounder broiler to General Oversight and the Economy, HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER market. Now it takes just 7 weeks and the Honorable BERKLEY BEDELL. This letter expresses Governor Hunt's sup­ OF COLORADO less than 8 pounds of feed to produce IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a 4-pound broiler. port for the SBIR program at NIH, Aside from its competitive price and and I submit it for my colleagues' Tuesday, July 26, 1983 comparative value, the chicken en­ review: STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, e Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I dears itself to health-conscious Ameri­ OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, would like to reintroduce a revised ver­ cans as a wonderful source of good nu­ Raleigh, N.C., July 13, 1983. sion of legislation introduced by me in trition. The chicken is high in protein DEAR REPRESENTATIVE BEDELL: It has come the 97th Congress. This worthy bill and low in fat, the prescription for a to my attention that amendments to the would provide legal services for mem­ long, healthy life. National Institutes of Health authorization bers of our Armed Forces. Please allow Chicken from the Delmarva Penin­ bill for fiscal year 1984 may me to also insert into the record a sec­ sula supplies the east coast: Washing­ jeopardize the Small Business Innovation tion-by-section analysis of the bill. Research program of this agency. ton, New York, and Boston, and even I would like to take this opportunity to SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS extends as far west as Cleveland. I cer­ express my strong support for the Small Subparagraph is designed to insure the tainly doubt the Mrs. Steele would Business Innovation Development Act of continuation and permanency of the provi­ have guessed what would become of 1982 and its SBIR programs. The National sion of legal assistance to military personnel the industry she began on the Delmar­ Science Foundation and the Department of and their dependents. The intent of this sec­ va Peninsula. But she would be proud, Defense have had SBIR programs for a tion is not to alter the existing discretion of 21038 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1983 the Secretary of each Department to direct ation and in visiting with numerous civilian One simply has to look at the evi­ how legal assistance will be provided within bar leaders and practitioners, the Commit­ dence: Heroin is more plentiful today that Department, but rather to assure that tee has found no evidence of any abuse of each Secretary require the continued provi­ the civil process or injury to the civilian bar than at any time in the last 5 years. sion of legal assistance to active duty per­ at any location where these programs have On our city's streets, the heroin is sonnel. Each Secretary also has full author­ been established. On the contrary, the ABA stronger and cheaper than it has been ity to continue to provide legal assistance to has found an expanded awareness of legal at any time in the last 5 years, and retired personnel and dependents of active rights and needs in each community. Where more young men and women are being duty and retired personnel subject only to the local bar association has encouraged found dead with a needle in their arm. the availability of resources within each De­ and participated in these programs, there The supply of cocaine is greater partment. has developed a professional rapport be­ Subparagraph clearly places upon the tween the military and civilian bar mem­ today than at any time in the history Judge Advocates General the responsibility bers, and between the military services and of the drug. DEA now says that per­ for the creation and operation of the legal the local judiciary and law enforcement au­ haps 20 million Americans are users of assistance programs. The reference to 10 thorities in a manner which has ultimately that powerful and dangerous drug. USC 801 is necessary so as to include the resulted in the improvement of legal assist­ Marihuana, despite recordbreaking Coast Guard. The Coast Guard has no ance. Where the state and local bar associa­ seizures, is still cheap and almost uni­ "Judge Advocate General" and the only tions have worked with the military lawyer place in the law where the term "Judge Ad­ community, the legal assistance program versally available. vocate General" is made applicable to the has produced a higher quality representa­ Every day, close to 1 million doses of Coast Guard is in the definitional section of tion, has reduced the areas of confrontation prescription drugs with strong psy­ the Uniform Code of Military Justice where­ between military and local authorities, and choactive properties are channeled in it is stated that the term "Judge Advo­ has increased the level and quality of civil­ into the black market. cate General" shall include the General ian bar legal services. This dismal report card on our drug Counsel of the Department in which the Question. What legal services are included enforcement effort is not due to any Coast Guard is operating. The language "by in "personal affairs" in Section 2 of this the Secretary concerned" refers, in this bill? failure of will, or lack of ability on the case, to the Secretary of Transportation. Answer. "Personal affairs" is intended to part of the thousands of dedicated law Subparagraph is designed specifically mean only those types of cases authorized enforcement officers at the Federal, to indicate that this legislation is not au­ by the regulations governing the provision State, and local level who risk their thority for the expansion of the legal assist­ of legal assistance issued by the military de­ lives in ferreting out the armed and ance program to include the representation partments. Those regulations include assist­ dangerous drug traffickers. Nor is this in court of those presently able to pay legal ance in and/or preparation of wills, powers fee-i.e. to continue the present expanded of attorney, tax matters, domestic relations a reflection of a lack of determination legal assistance program to the military in­ matters, consumer protection matters, land­ on the part of the administration to digent, but not provide any requirement or lord-tenant matters, and others. The regula­ creatively develop new tactical ap­ authority for expansion to others than the tions do not allow . representative of the administration services under this bill? Question. Will this bill require the addi­ who is in charge, we were told in per­ Answer. Except as limited by subpara­ tional expenditure of public funds ? Answer. No. The bill does not of the bill eliminates the agencies with drug abuse functions, and anachronistic term "drug traffic preven­ "* • • the problems of waste charging him to make recommendations tion" and substitutes the term "drug en­ disposal • • • have become a matter about the budgets to the President before forcement". The bill defines "drug enforce­ national in scope and • • • necessitate the budgets are submitted to Congress. ment function" in 21 U.S.C. 1103 to include: Federal action through financial and The bill attempts to track the language, <1 > The conduct of formal or informal dip­ technical assistance and leadership in policies and structures of the existing law lomatic negotiations of any kind relating to the development, demonstration, and where it is appropriate and not in conflict the drug traffic; with the purpose of clarifying the Director's <2> The following law enforcement activi­ application of new and improved authority. ties or proceedings: methods and processes to reduce the SUMMARY OF THE BILL The investigation and prosecution of amount of waste and unsalvageable Section 1 of the draft provides for a statu­ drug offenses and other investigations and materials and to provide for proper prosecutions of individuals involved in drug and economical solid waste disposal tory Director of the Office of Drug Abuse offenses; Policy in the Executive Office of the Presi­ The coordination of the drug enforce­ practices." dent who has Cabinet-level status Programs or activities involving inter­ tify alternative methods of waste dis­ national narcotics control; and posal. Much attention was placed upon for drug enforcement, who have sub-cabinet The detection and suppression of illic­ status and are also appointed it drug supplies. resource recovery that salvaged mate­ with the advice and consent of the Senate. <3> The interdiction of the illicit com­ rials or converted trash into energy. The term "drug abuse function" means both The funding in subtitle D of the Solid "drug abuse prevention function" and "drug merce in controlled substances and the sup­ enforcement function." pression of the cultivation of drug crops. Waste Management Act was author­ The remainder of Section 2 contains defi­ ized through 1982, but was zeroed out The Director's responsibilities are: nitional and technical and conforming <1 > To establish policies, objectives, and of the budget in fiscal year 1982. This priorities for Federal drug abuse functions; changes.e initiative to restore funding will (2) To coordinate and oversee the per­ enable States to again address a criti­ formance of drug abuse functions to insure AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2867 the implementation of the policies, objec­ cal national problem. tives and priorities so established; I would like to emphasize how this <3> To make recommendations to the HON. DAVID E. BONIOR money could be spent. In my own President regarding changes in the organi­ OF MICHIGAN State of Michigan, the State Depart­ zation, management and budgets of Federal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment of Natural Resources estimates departments and agencies, and the alloca­ tion of personnel to and within the depart­ Tuesday, July 26, 1983 that 150 or more illegal open dumps ments and agencies, as are appropriate to e Mr. BONIOR of Michigan. Mr. continue to operate. Although the implement the policies, objectives and prior­ Speaker, with the gentlewoman from State DNR is aware of the problem, ities; and Rhode Island, Mrs. SCHNEIDER, and the they have no money to pursue en­ <4> To consult with State and local govern­ gentlemen from New York, Mr. MoL­ forcement. Nationally, 3,000 such ments respecting their relationships with dumps are estimated to be in oper­ the Federal agencies . Control and Enforcement Act of 1983, States hard, and although they want To carry out his duties, the Director shall which authorizes the original funding to apply more muscle to their solid <1 > review the guidelines and procedures of levels established by the Solid Waste waste management programs, the the Federal agencies ; <2> con­ Disposal Act, section 4008(a)(2)(C). I funds simply are not there. To the duct evaluations of the performance of the want to commend my colleagues for agencies ; <3> seek to assure extent that subtitle D is not funded, that the agencies construe drug abuse as a their initiative and support of the and that States do not have the health problem requiring treatment and re­ measure. money to fund it, we are creating habilitation ; and most signifi­ I would also like to commend the future Superfund sites by neglecting cantly, <4> review the annual budgets sub­ members and staff of the Energy and the problem. mitted to the Office of Management and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee Cleanup costs can only rise exponen­ Budget for Federal agencies involved in on Commerce, Transportation and tially. This is not rhetoric and hyper­ drug abuse functions and make recommen­ Tourism for their hard work and their dations to the President respecting such fine result, H.R. 2867, the reauthoriza­ bole. Let me remind all of my col­ budgets before they are submitted to Con­ tion of the Resource Conservation and leagues that 65 of the original 115 In­ gress. Recovery Act. I offer an amendment terim Priority Superfund sites were The fourth sentence of section 20Ha>O>. open landfills. subsections 201 and , and sections 203 to strengthen H.R. 2867, by increasing through 206 carry forward existing law. funding of subtitle D, which assist By supporting my amendment to au­ Section 2 of the bill amends other sections States and smaller units of govern­ thorize $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1984 of the existing law relating to the declara­ ment to implement solid waste man­ to 1986 for the implementation of tion of national policy, definitions, and agement plans and conduct inventories solid waste management plans my col­ makes technical and conforming changes. of active and abandoned open land­ leagues have a rare opportunity to put Section 2 of the bill adds three addi­ the Congress on record supporting a tional paragraphs to the current four-para­ fills, among other activities. graph Declaration of National Policy <21 This Nation has long realized the relatively inexpensive program intend­ u.s.c. 1102): problemS we face to regulate open ed to prevent future health hazards (5) Coordination of law enforcement ef­ landfills and identify abandoned and the expensive alternative of reme­ forts of all Federal law enforcement agen­ dumpsites. Furthermore, for decades dial action. cies and cooperation and sharing of drug en­ we have been trying to establish Amendment to H.R. 2867, as reported, of­ forcement intelligence with State and local healthier and more sanitary methods fered by Mr. BoNIOR Coordination of all international ef­ forts to suppress drug trafficking, to control gress first took note of this in the ARI). drug crops, and to control precursor and Solid Waste Disposal Act, which Page 4, line 7, strike out "$2,000,000" and other essential chemicals; RCRA amends. While Congress stated substitute "$10,000,000" .e <7> Increased cooperation among nations that, "* • • the disposal of solid in carrying out the international effort to wastes should continue to be primarily 21040 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1983 H.R. 2867 HAZARDOUS WASTE LAWS MUST country. 1 This investigative activity has pro­ BE ENFORCED vided an excellent information base on which to assess the impact of the lack of HON. CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER law enforcement authority on this Agency's OF RHODE ISLAND HON. ALBERT GORE, JR. ability to pursue environmental criminal in­ OF TENNESSEE vestigations. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A review of this experience has demon­ Tuesday, July 26, 1983 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES strated that without full law enforcement authority, significant limits will be placed e Mrs. SCHNEIDER. Mr. Speaker, Tuesday, July 26, 1983 on EPA's criminal enforcement initiative. later this week we will have the oppor­ • Mr. GORE. Mr. Speaker, the House More importantly, the program will not be tunity to vote for legislation to reau­ is expected shortly to consider the bill able fully to ensure the safety of its investi­ thorize the Resource Conservation H.R. 2867, the Hazardous Waste Con­ gative staff, and of citizens that choose to trol and Enforcement Act of 1983, assist EPA in pursuing allegations of crimi­ and Recovery Act, the body of Federal nal misconduct. While no Agency-wide posi­ law providing cradle-to-grave disposal which provides a reauthorization for tion will be taken on the issue of law en­ for hazardous waste. I would like to the Resource Conservation and Recov­ forcement powers until the Administrator­ commend the bipartisan leadership of ery Act . In the legislation re­ designate has been confirmed and has had the Energy and Commerce Transpor­ ported by the Committee on Energy an opportunity to review the matter, it is tation Subcommittee for having and Commerce, we have greatly my personal belief that law enforcement worked so hard to produce a bill that strengthened the enforcement sections powers should be pursued for EPA's crimi­ all of us should be proud to support. of the law, which has been demon­ nal investigators immediately. The attached strated as desperately needed, to discussion of the issue is provided at your I am joining my colleague from request for use in preparing a Justice De­ Michigan, Mr. BoNIOR, in supporting enable the Environmental Protection partment position on H.R. 2478-the RCRA an amendment to strengthen H.R 2867 Agency to protect the public health reauthorization bill referred by Mr. Florio by increasing funding for subtitle D, a and safety and the environment. to the House Committee on Energy and small but vitally important component One of the provisions would grant Commerce. full law enforcement powers to the I have deliberately omitted any analysis of of the RCRA program. Briefly summa­ criminal investigators of the EPA, one theoretical alternative to law enforce­ rized, subtitle D, as authorized in 1980, thus enabling them to execute search ment powers within EPA: the transfer of en­ provides funding to assist the States in vironmental investigative jurisdiction to an­ warrants, make arrests, and protect other Federal law enforcement agency. I developing the solid waste manage­ themselves by carrying firearms. The ment plans mandated by the RCRA will, of course, give you my thoughts on this reason for this is the extraordinary also if you wish. statute. Why are the State plans so degree to which illegal activities are Please feel free to call on me at any time. important? Half of the 115 abandoned going on in the hazardous waste area, This issue is, I believe, the most important hazardous waste sites identified by the and convincing evidence of the in­ facing the program. EPA as the most immediately threat­ volvement of organized crime. Sincerely, ening to the public health were once I would like to share with my col­ PETER G. BEESON, solid waste facilities. These sanitary Associate Enforcement Counsel, leagues a communication sent on April Criminal Enforcement Division. landfills often operated as county or 21 of this year from the Associate En­ municipal dumps that received signifi­ forcement Counsel in the Criminal En­ THE NEED FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS IN cant quantities of hazardous waste as forcement Division of the EPA to the ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT part of their solid waste stream. Sub­ Chief of the Environmental Enforce­ There are two basic justifications for the title D was intended-with good ment Section in the Department of pursuit of law enforcement powers: oper­ reason-to give States the means to in­ Justice. I believe the materials should ational necessity and safety. Both are dis­ ventory their solid waste facilities to convince my colleagues of the desper­ cussed below. find out how many more had been ate need for the added enforcement A. OPERATIONAL NECESSITY used as a dumping ground for hazard­ powers which are contained in H.R. The absence of law enforcement powers is ous waste, and to develop statewide 2867 as reported by the Energy and placing significant obstacles in the path of management plans to minimize the di­ Commerce Committee, and trust they efficient, effective investigation by EPA's version of hazardous substances into will join in efforts to defeat amend­ field offices under all statutes. These oper­ solid waste facilities in the future. ments to weaken the legislation. ational constraints and impediments exist in If there is one thing we should have See the attached letter from USEPA a wide variety of areas: to Department of Justice, and attach­ (1) Prevention of illegal Conduct.-With­ learned after 13 years of environmen­ out law enforcement authority the offices tal regulation, it is that hazardous ment thereto "The Need for Law En­ are unable to intervene to prevent ongoing waste, like water running downhill, forcement Powers in Environmental illegal activity, such as roadside dumping, will follow the path of least resistance. Criminal Enforcement." the illegal use of pesticides or the use of un­ If we cannot keep hazardous waste U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, lawful discharge points by an NPDES per­ Washington, D.C., April21, 1983. mitted facility. As a result, environmental from being diverted to the city or STEPHEN RAMSEY, Esq., contamination is increased, subsequent county dump, then we will have left a Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, clean up expenses are greater, and potential potentially serious loophole in the Land and Natural Resources Division, defendants escape. Federal laws that guide the disposal of U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, (2) Warrantless Seizure of Evidence.­ hazardous waste. As the Federal fund­ D.C. Without law enforcement authority, the of­ ing for subtitle D has gradually been Re: Law Enforcement Powers for EPA In- fices can not seize evidence of a crime dis­ eliminated over the past 3 years, the vestigators. • covered in "plain view" without the consent DEAR STEVE: The five field offices of the of the owner. Alternate enforcement tools States' open dump inventory has es­ Criminal Enforcement Division have now are available to secure ment plans are on hold. The Bonior months. While a significant amount of time this evidence. However, evidence will cer­ amendment, which authorizes $10 mil­ has inevitably been devoted to start-up tainly be lost or destroyed during the time lion for subtitle D for each of the next tasks such as Regional coordination; safety necessary to implement these mechanisms. 3 fiscal years, will restore the States to training; office construction; personnel mat­ (3) Execution of Search Warrants.-With­ ters; secretarial recruitment; equipment re­ out law enforcement authority, EPA's inves- full partnership with the Federal Gov­ ceipt; and liaison work with outside law en­ ernment in the management of haz­ forcement and prosecutorial authorities; our 1 This number reflects active cases in all stages of ardous wastes.e field offices are now also involved in ap­ development-from preliminary inquiry to prosecu­ proximately 150 active cases around the tion and appeal. July 26, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21041 tigators are not authorized to execute crimi­ B. SAFETY inevitable part of environmental investiga­ nal search warrants, and therefore must Law enforcement authority, in addition to tions. rely on outside agencies to assist in this cru­ eliminating these significant operational C. TRAINING AND BACKGROUND OF EPA'S cial investigative function. limitations, would also ensure the general INVESTIGATIVE STAFF The offices of the United States Marshal's safety of EPA's investigative staff during Service while often cooperative, are pain­ EPA's new investigative staff has been field investigations under all statutes. EPA's drawn, without exception, from major State fully ~derstaffed, and frequently not avail­ existing Memorandum of Understanding able within the timeframe dictated by the or Federal Law Enforcement agencies, in­ with the Federal Bureau of Investigation is cluding the Drug Enforcement Administra­ investigation. This is particularly true in not a solution to this problem since danger­ light of the fact that the execution of envi­ tion; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and ous situations are not always, or even gener­ Firearms; the Federal Bureau of Investiga­ ronmental criminal search warrants can ally, predictable in advance. A genera~ in­ extend over a period of days dangerous situations is an equally inad­ politan Police Department ; and the during which time the site must be secured equate solution for the same reason. New York Police Department. Their experi­ by law enforcement officers on a 24-hour Unanticipated risks have already been en­ ence in the exercise of full law enforcement basis. Two recent warrants executed in New countered in several investigations. In one, a powers ranges from a minimum of five years Hampshire and Idaho lasted three and four weapon was discharged by an employee of to a maximum of 30. All have been qualified days respectively-placing a heavy strain on the target company during an otherwise routinely and throughout their careers on a the offices of the local U.S. Marshals. routine field sampling operation. In a variety of firearms. All have extensive oper­ Further, when an outside law enforce­ second, investigators came upon a "car strip­ ational experience in the execution of arrest ment agency agrees to commit significant ping" operation. In several investigations, and search warrants. The implementation resources to the execution of an EPA war­ individual targets have made veiled or ex­ of law enforcement powers will require no rant control of the evidence seized on the plicit threats concerning cooperative wit­ basic training of the Agency's investigative war~ant and of the ensuing investigation, is nesses. In a number of others. investigation staff. EPA will, of course, establish regular almost Invariably shared with the outside has disclosed past criminal records, or firearms qualification/training require­ law enforcement agency. The difficulties in­ known evidence of violent behavior, by sub­ ments for its investigators, should law en­ evitably present in coordinating the activi­ jects of the inquiry. forcement powers be implemented. ties of two separate agencies will often un­ Risks are certainly most pronounced in D. CONCLUSIONS dermine the efficient completion of the in­ hazardous waste investigations. 1 Evidence vestigation. . (1) Agents assigned to EPA's Criminal En­ has now been developed by the New York forcement Division are prepared, through Without law enforcement powers. EPA's State Select Committee on Crime; the New investigators are left without the requisite experience and training, to assume full law York State Organized Crime Strike Force; enforcement powers. authority to control resistance during the the Organized Crime Strike Force in the execution of the warrant and to protect ac­ <2> The absence of law enforcement Eastern District of Michigan; and the Din­ powers will significantly reduce the investi­ companying support personnel. gell subcommittee of significant organized Finally, search warrants are almost always gative reach and effectiveness of EPA's crime involvement in the hazardous waste criminal enforcement initiative. executed without prior notice, to ensure sur­ industry. While EPA's experience remains prise and the best opportunity to locate the <3> The absence of law enforcement limited, our investigations have developed powers leaves EPA's investigative staff with­ needed evidence. The current need to co­ some corroboration of this phenomenon. ordinate with outside State or Federal agen­ out the ability to protect themselves, other Equally important, independent truckers Agency officials, or cooperating private citi­ cies inevitably increases the opportunity for and landfill operators, often involved in sur­ an inadvertent security breach. zens, during the pursuit of environmental reptitious illegal disposal activity, frequent­ criminal investigations. <4> Exchange of Investigative Intelligence ly carry weapons-placing our investigators (4) A Memorandum of Understanding be­ and Criminal Record In/ormation with Out­ at a significant disadvantage in any case in­ side Law Enforcement Agencies.-The field tween EPA and any outside law enforce­ volving the activity of these individuals. ment agency is not a solution to these prob­ offices continue to encounter understand­ The risk is not, however, limited to haz­ able reluctance on the part of state and lems: Danger is frequently unpredictable. ardous waste investigations. Recommended Joint investigations are cumbersome and in­ local law enforcement agencies to provide investigations against placer miners in confidential information, motor vehicle efficient. Finally, EPA's investigative prior­ Alaska and Oregon are-because of the vio­ ities are not, and will never be, the investi­ data, and other forms of assistance, due to lent nature of the targets and the remote gative priorities of other law enforce~ent the agents' lack of status as law enforce­ area of their operations-currently not fea­ ment officers. agencies, particularly in light of the misde­ sible. Pesticide inspectors in South Carolina, meanor level of all but a few environmental <5> Potentially Dangerous Operations­ air inspectors in Pennsylvania and oil spill EPA Employees.-Investigative operations crimes. investigators in Ohio have all reported <5> A decision against law enforcement or activities that demonstrate the potential physical assaults, or verbal threats, that re­ for risk to the investigators or other EPA powers for EPA's investigative unit will flect the potential for violence in all areas result in the rapid disintegration of the ex­ employees are currently beyond the capabil­ of environmental field investigation. ity of the Division. These would include ex­ isting program. Morale will fall; investiga­ tended nighttime surveillances; interviews Appendix A Potentially Dangerous Operations­ and Federal office by the field offices of HON. TOM LANTOS this Division. It does not reflect exhaustive Non-EPA Employees.-A legitimate and OF CALIFORNIA widely-used criminal investigative technique research, either of the individual incidents is the use of informants. who may be asked or of the overall scope of the problem. It IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to participate in an ongoing manner to does, however, provide a reliable indication Tuesday, July 26, 1983 secure evidence against an investigative of the types of risks and dangers that are an target. This highly useful investigative tech­ e Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, today the Washinton Post published a story nique can not be fully utilized until field of­ • In the four most recent State hazardous waste fices have the ability to protect the inform­ enforcement programs, State offices have given full about congressional efforts to block ant, should his/her identity be discovered. Without law enforce­ staffs. These offices are: New York's EPA-funded "wound laboratory" by the Depart­ ment authority, this ability is non-existent. Mid-Hudson Demonstration Project; the New ment of Defense. The term "wound <7> Truck Stop Operation.-Manifest Jersey Attorney General's office; the New York De· check operations, a potentially-effective in­ partment of Environmental Conservation; and the lab" is a military euphemism for a vestigative tool, cannot be implemented Pennsylvania Attorney General's office. Ironically, soundproof target range where ani­ EPA's Criminal Enforcement Division stands alone mals are shot with high velocity bul­ without arrest powers. ment of law enforcement powers. living tissue are to be the focus of re- 21042 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1983 search. Military doctors are trained in open a firing range at the military that the murders transcend religious wound treatment, although there is no medical school in Bethesda where and political boundaries. intent to allow animals to recover. scores of dogs and other animals will In our media-oriented view of things, This gruesome plan was brought to be shot with high-powered weapons so if we do not see something on televi­ my attention about 6 weeks ago. I im­ surgeons and scientists can study their sion, it does not exist. Violence in the mediately began inquiries including wounds. It is my understanding that Middle East and in Central America discussions with Col. Richard Sim­ as many as 80 dogs per year will be gets more of its share of media expo­ monds at the Uniformed Service Uni­ shot in order to train seniors in a med­ sure-and, therefore, of public con­ versity of the Health Sciences ical course. cern. For the first time, In 1972, the U.S. gave the Russian mer­ in Canberra and Tokyo. the Russians' commercial shipping industry chant fleet its single biggest boost. That blankets the globe. Their ports, crew train­ year, under President Nixon's policy of de­ In short, they disrupted Western ship­ ing and ship communications have been tente and in line with U.S.-Soviet economic ping, and even now "it's unclear whether greatly improved. agreements, Washington eased restrictions the Russians will abide by the agreement or whether they signed it just to take the heat DESTABILIZATION POTENTIAL on Soviet ships. They began regularly scheduled calls at East Coast, Gulf and off them for a while," says Peter Goldmann, As a result, the Soviets, whose state­ Great Lakes ports for the first time since the editor of Seatrade Weekly, a shipping owned shipping companies can operate at a the Korean War. Inasmuch as perhaps one­ industry newsletter. loss for long periods, now are capable of de­ third of world trade touches a U.S. port, the A major concern to U.S. planners is the stabilizing shipping rates at will, on routes Russians now could play in the big leagues. military implications of the big Russian all over the world. They did it so ham-han­ But almost immediately, they got into commercial fleet. The focus of this concern dedly a decade ago on U.S. routes that Con­ trouble. During the 1973-75 recession, the is the several hundred roll-on roll-off ships gress cracked down. Today they are doing it Soviets suddenly cut their shipping rates as that the Russians have built since the mid- much more skillfully on Far Eastern routes, much as 40 percent to meet Moscow's ton­ 1970s, giving Moscow a clear numerical ad­ and some observers expect them to make vantage over the U.S. in these vessels. Mediterranean routes their next target. nage quotas. This stirred U.S. fear that the "I see a big commercial threat from the Russians would force out Western lines and BEST SUPPORT SHIP Russians," says Jerry Smith, the head of then raise rates again. That didn't happen, The ro-ro ship, as it is called, is "the best the Liberian Shipowners' Council, adding but the threat opened Congress' eyes to military support ship going," says Richard that when the Soviets force Western lines Soviet shipping's financial advantages. Banks, a former State Department maritime to cut rates to the bone to compete, "the PROFITS ARE SECONDARY expert. It can transport mechanized equip­ Western lines lose the financial capital they One advantage: The Soviet state pays for ment such as tanks and troop carriers, and, need to survive bad-times." all shipbuilding and ship insurance. Fur­ unlike the container ship, it doesn't need Equally important, some Western naval ther, Soviet crewmen get paid only one­ trucks or roads or dockside cranes to deliver experts say, Russia's merchant fleet now third the wages of their Western counter­ military cargo to t he battlefield. Analysts may be better able to support a military op­ parts. Most important, Soviet ships don't say the Russians are likely to keep their ro­ eration than the U.S.'s. Soviet shipping have to be profitable; it is often all right to ro advantage because of their emphasis on policy, in contrast to Western policies, con­ operate at a loss, as long as the line brings commercial vessels' being military ships siders every merchant vessel a military ship Moscow the hard currency it needs for food first. By contrast, Western shipowners first and a commercial ship second. Thus, and other imports from the West. This is es­ prefer to build container ships because they Western analysts say, the Soviets have built pecially true now that Soviet oil revenue have greater commercial practicality. a merchant fleet that is better at delivering has fallen because of lower world-wide Another area of concern is the so-called a military cargo to the battlefield during crude-oil prices. product tanker, which carries the fuel the first critical days of an engagement and With the Soviet emphasis on hard curren­ needed to refuel other ships. "It's an area better at electronic surveillance during cy, the Russians can "pitch their prices 25 that's often overlooked," says Stewart H. peacetime. percent below whatever . under the proce­ of the fuel or energy dures set forth in section 3 of the Cement, provided. OF MARYLAND Cement Clinker, and Concrete Block and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Brick Fair Trade Act of 1983, to be manu­ factured with the use of fuel or energy pro­ SEC. 3. PROCEDURES. Tuesday, July 26, 1983 vided by a government or a State-owned or The duty imposed under headnote 2 or 3 controlled enterprise at a price or cost that to subpart A of part 1 of schedule 5 of the • Mr. LONG. Mr. Speaker, It is an is less than the true value of such fuel or Tariff Schedules of the United States shall honor and a great personal pleasure energy . 703 . and no determination by the United tion to people as she did to her work. accordance with headnote 4) is subject to States International Trade Commission Mary has also dedicated herself to duty in the amount of the reduction in the shall be required. her community. She is an active cost of manufacturing cement block and SEC. 4. JUDICIAL REVIEW. member of the Edgemere Moose Lodge brick attributable to the difference between Section 516A of the Tariff Act of 1930 is and the Novi Democratic Club. Help­ the price or cost of the fuel or energy used amended by inserting after subsection ing to bring good theater to eastern in producing the cement and such true (a)(2)(B)(v) the following new subsection: value. In determining the amount of the "; entire political career, it is hard to re­ "4. For the purpose of headnotes 2 and 3, <2> by redesignating clause as clause member anyone who has shown as the true value of fuel or energy shall be the in local political efforts. mined: the following: In recognition of her dedicated serv­ "(a) The price at which the fuel or energy "(G) Cement and cement clinker specified ice to the community and efforts to is freely sold or, in the absence of sales, of­ in item 511.12 of the Tariff Schedules of the promote good government, I presented fered for sale to unrelated purchasers for United States, her with a congressional commenda­ exportation. "(H) Concrete block and brick specified in "(b) An arms-length price consisting of item 511.55 of the Tariff Schedules of the tion a year ago. Since then, she has the amount that was charged or would have United States, and". continued to richly deserve it. been charged in independent transactions SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. I am sure my colleagues join me in with or between unrelated parties in a rele­ Except as provided in subsection (b) of wishing Mary a retirement with as vant and uncontrolled market.". this section, the amendments made by this much joy and pleasure as she has (2) by inserting in numerical sequence the Act shall take effect on the date of enact­ brought to so many people in her life following new item: ment of this Act. so far.e 21048 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1983 COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC DE- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE CED POLICY To assure full consideration of needed im­ VELOPMENT CONSTRUCTIVE STATEMENT: STRENGTHENING THE FEDERAL provements, we recommend the establish­ BUDGET PROPOSALS BUDGET PROCESS-A REQUIREMENT FOR EF­ ment of a new Budget Concepts Commission FECTIVE FISCAL CONTROL composed of members appointed by the Budget deficits and the budget process President, Congress, and the public to study HON. JAMES R. JONES have moved to the center of national con­ the concepts that underpin the federal cern. This statement examines the evolu­ budget. In addition, we recommend the es­ OF OKLAHOMA tion of the process Congress and the Presi­ tablishment of a bicameral Congressional IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dent use to formulate the federal budget. study group drawing on leaders of both the Its basic conclusion is that it is in the best House and the Senate to deal explicity with Tuesday, July 26, 1983 interest of both the government and the Congressional budget procedures. e Mr. JONES of Oklahoma. Mr. nation to preserve, improve, and strengthen IMPROVING BUDGET CONCEPTS AND the basic elements of the Congressional INFORMATION Speaker, the congressional budget budget process. We believe that not only is process has been the focus of much it possible to bring order to national fiscal Congress should have the best possible in­ debate, controversy, and concern affairs, but that it is vital for this nation to formation when making budget decisions. during the past 2 years. There are do so. We believe that if Congress is to make opti­ The report recommends strengthening mal budget decisions, the budget needs to be those who have used and misused the both fully comprehensive and clearly under­ process who now want to deny that it key budget concepts and improving the in­ formation needed to allow policy makers to standable. exists. This administration, which make reasonable budget choices. It also calls Budget Presentation. We believe that con­ almost singlehandedly put their for specific improvements in the way budget tinued adherence to a comprehensive uni­ supply side economic theory into prac­ decisions are made and enforced. fied budget is essential. To make the budget tice by twisting and bending the more comprehensive, activities now classi­ WHY WORRY ABOUT THE BUDGET PROCESS fied as "off budget" should be moved back budget process to their goals, now Unless the nation is able to bring about into the unified budget. We oppose the scorns the process as "Mickey Mouse." sharp reductions in projected budget defi­ scheduled removal of Social Security from Some Members of Congress and cits, the prospects for a sound recovery will the unified budget and urge Congress to re­ others want to slay the process for be impaired. Failure to come to grips with verse recent actions calling for such removal bearing to us an unwelcome message. the budget problem, moreover, would seri­ by fiscal year 1993. They wrongly say that the budget ously threaten the long-term prospects for Ecomomic Assumptions and Analysis. the future health of the economy and for Reasonable and consistent, economic as­ process has broken down. In fact, the the kinds of productivity gains that are sumptions are critical to the budgeting proc­ process is working fine; it is the politi­ needed to provide adequate employment ess. We favor requiring that both the House cal/economic problems that we must and living standards for this country's citi­ and Senate budget committees agree on a face. Others insist that some constitu­ zens. common set of economic assumptions for tional hocus-pocus will solve all our Success in bringing the budget under con­ budget resolutions. problems in an easy, painless way. trol rests fundamentally with the political Both the Executive Branch and Congress process-the will to the people and the ac­ should continue to make active use of the In short, Mr. Speaker, the discourse tions of their elected representatives. How­ high-employment budget, or a similar con­ on the budget process has sometimes ever, a strong federal budget process is es­ cept, in analyzing budget developments. The fallen to a dismally low level. That is sential to the effective functioning of politi­ High-employment budget concept, originat­ why the efforts of the Committee for cal decision making in the areas of revenue ed by CED in 1947, helps to distinguish be­ Economic Development are so wel­ and spending. Abandoning the basic budget tween the impact of the budget on the econ­ process, the report concludes, would hinder omy and the effects of the economy on the come in this area. The CED, as most rather than help efforts to bring the budget budget. of us know, is well respected for the under control. Controlling Federal Credit Activities. Fed­ quality of their research and the con­ PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS eral credit programs should be subject to tributions they make to the public dia­ The enactment of the Congressional most of the budget-control procedures now logue on policy issues. Budget and Impoundment Control Act of used in connection with direct spending. Recently, the CED completed a com­ 1974 instituted a series of wide-ranging There should be a requirement for budget­ prehensive study of the Federal budget reforms. Before this time, no proce­ resolution ceilings on total new-loan exten· dure required Congress to consider federal sions and guarantees to be binding. budget process and issued its report, Congress and the Administration should entitled: "Strengthening the Federal expenditures and revenues in combination. The new law required Congress to vote develop means of allowing direct compari­ Budget Process: a Requirement for Ef­ twice each year, at two specific dates, on sons as well as trade-offs between direct­ fective Fiscal Control." The CED both the entire budget and major spending spending programs and the subsidy element study, flowing from its Subcommittee categories. The Act also prescribed detailed of credit programs serving similar goals. In timetables for all phases of the Congression­ this connection the report recommends that on Budget Concepts and Process the new Budget Concepts Commission study chaired by the distinguished former al budget process, established budget com­ mittees in both the House and the Senate, the possible establishment of a national head of the Government Accounting and founded the Congressional Budget lending fund that would be responsible for Office, Elmer B. Staats, makes several Office to serve as Congress's principal all federal loan and guarantee programs but recommendations to strengthen and source of fiscal information. would not be allowed to subsidize transac­ improve the work of the budget proc­ Even with the real improvements that tions or to take risks on its own account. In­ ess in Congress. The project coordina­ have been made, Congress does not yet have stead, government agencies sponsoring loans a truly effective means of controlling actual and guarantees would reimburse the lending tor, CED chief economist Frank W. fund to compensate it for the subsidy por­ Schiff, worked in close consultation budget expenditures and revenues. There is concern about the long delays that have tion of federal credit activities. with many of those most familiar with become common at virtually every stage of Capital Budgeting. We are opposed to pro­ the budget and budget process during the process. There is dissatisfaction with posals for a formal capital budget outside the past few years. The resulting available budget information and with un­ the unified budget. There is a strong risk report is something that all Members certainties about the budget's general mean­ that a separate capital budget would ing and scope. There is also the sense that become a giant loophole for evading budget of the House and Senate should take disciplines. However, we do favor substan­ the time to read and study. To facili­ the budget process is overloading Congress with money matters at the expense of sub­ tially greater focus on clearer presentation tate that effort, I would like to include stantive issues. of investment-type programs and on capital the executive summary of the CED's budgeting approaches within the unified study in my remarks at this time. In TOWARD MEANINGFUL REFORM budget. We strongly support continuation of the Tax Expenditures. Tax expenditures are conclusion, I would commend the basic elements of the present budget process reductions in federal revenue attributable to CED's budget motto to my colleagues: and believe that strengthening the process provisions in the tax law that allow special "If it needs fixing, don't break it." is vital for sound and effective economic deductions, exclusions, or exemptions from The summary follows: policies. gross income, or that provide a special July 26, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21049 credit, a preferential tax rate, or a deferral against any action that would abolish the KFWB RADIO SAYS THE F'O'l'ORE of tax liability. House and Senate budget committees, un­ IS NOW TO REBUILD AMERICA We are opposed to a ceiling on total tax dermine their essential functions or other­ expenditures in the budget resolution. How­ wise weaken the budget process. ever, we believe that in cases where the rele· A Constitutional Amendment on the HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON vant Congressional committees agree that Budget. We are opposed to a constitutional OF CALIFORNIA tax expenditure programs and regular amendment to balance the federal budget or spending programs serve the same purpose, to place specific limitations on budget out­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES such programs should be subjected to joint reviews whenever feasible. come. In our judgment, a constitutional Tuesday, July 26, 1983 amendment would be unworkable and would STRENGTHENING CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET likely do more harm than good. e Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, as PROCEDURES We believe that further strengthenirig of you well know, this Nation is currently Even if Congress has the best possible in­ the Congressional budget process is a vital faced with the enormous task of re­ formation and the best possible conceptual precondition for sound and effective fiscal building our basic infrastructure. This framework for budget options, it still must and economic polices. Improvements of the includes our highways, bridges, rail­ face up to making and enforcing specific present process along the lines indicated in budget decisions. We believe that the evolu· roads, mass transit systems, sewage tionary changes in the process introduced in this statement offer the best hope of bring­ treatment plants, water supply sys­ recent years have significantly strengthened ing the budget under control.e tems, and reservoirs. In addition, it is the process and should be retained. Howev­ our ports, waterways, locks, dams, er, some operational changes need to be courthouses, jails, police stations, made. In particular: THE RETIREMENT OF MAJ. BILL schools, post offices, and government The First Concurrent Budget Resolution SMITH should be made binding, thereby eliminat­ buildings. ing the need for a mandatory second resolu­ Currently, these essential facilities tion. Congress should, however, retain the HON. JIM WRIGHT are deteriorating faster than they are option to pass a subsequent revised resolu­ being repaired or replaced. In turn, tion if this appears necessary. OF TEXAS this threatens our Nation's economic The "elastic clause," should continue to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES well-being, its workers, and our ability be available as a needed means of providing a workable degree of flexibility in applying Tuesday, July 26, 1983 to satisfy the needs of today and to­ mor:::ow. budget process rules. e Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I would The "outyear" targets in the budget reso­ Through my position on the Com­ lution should be made binding. like to take time today to call atten­ mittee on Public Works and Transpor­ The shift toward the use of reconciliation tion to the retirement-at least on the tation, I am continually working to de­ in conjunction with the first budget resolu­ domestic record publishing scene-of velop immediate and long-range plans tion, its broadened application to existing Maj. Bill Smith, one of Fort Worth's to insure that we properly make the entitlements, and its implementation on a leading popular music producers. needed investment in capital projects, multiyear basis represent essential steps for In addition to his outstanding making reconciliation effective. However, such as those mentioned above. Unfor­ there should be some limitations in the combat service in the U.S. Air Force, tunately, the administration has had scope of the reconciliation procedure, such and his career in music, Bill Smith for the tendency not to make this a top as forbidding reconciliation bills to be vehi­ the past 25 years has sponsored and priority in its legislative agenda. cles for extraneous legislative proposals. run a Fort Worth alcohol rehabilita­ Granted, it is not a subject which Binding limits under budget resolutions, tion clinic. He is a credit to his com­ arouses much interest in the private enforceable by points of order, should be munity as a civic-spirited citizen, and sector unless, of course, a disaster tied to committee and subcommittee spend­ ing allocations, as well as to total spending. his .contributions to the music indus­ occurs-such as the recently collapsed Improving Congressional Timing. Because try, where he has earned nine gold span of bridge in Connecticut. Howev­ there are still many unresolved questions records, are known far and wide. er, all across the country the needs are about two-year budget cycles, we do not While Bill will continue to work in there and we must address them now. favor an immediate, across-the-board shift the international music field, his retir­ Recently, I received a copy of a to biennial budgeting. Instead, we recom­ ment from American music publishing timely editorial aired by KFWB News mend a gradual extension of the time period 98 Radio, located in Los Angeles, for budget and related decisions. This would recently was noted in the trade news­ paper Billboard. At this time, I would Calif., which drives home the point involve experimenting with two-year appro­ that we must work together now to priations and longer funding arrangements. like to call your attention to this news­ If a high percentage of programs turns out paper article: repair America's public infrastructure. to be suitable for two-year decision cycles, This editorial is as follows, and I urge there should probably be an eventual move INSIDE TRACK all of my colleagues to read it. to a biennial budget. At a minimum, howev­ After three decades in business and some [Radio KFWB News 98-Editoriall er, authorizing legislation should be for two 3,000 releases, the outspoken Major Bill years, and in some cases even longer. Smith is calling it quits domestically for his INFRASTRUCTURE: THE FuTURE IS Now We are opposed to any proposal under Fort Worth-based LeCam label, although Since 1965 we have been spending less and which Congress would be able to take up ap­ he'll continue its international presence via less on the Southland's infrastructure ... propriations bills as soon as the deadline for his deal with Pinnacle Records in the U.K. our strP-ets . . . public buildings . . . and the first Concurrent Budget Resolution has The Major, credited with such classics as sewer systems. And our multibillion dollar passed, whether or not the resolution has Paul and Paula's "Hey, Paula" and Bruce public works investment is in danger of seri­ actually been approved by Congress. We be­ Channel's "Hey Baby," is bowing out with ous decay. lieve that such a change would remove a two reissues, Amos Milburn Jr.'s "Long Tall Days of decision are at hand. major incentive for achieving timely budget Sally" and "Gloria," and "Singing The As the KFWB/Regional Affairs Council resolutions and could significantly weaken series noted maintaining our infrastructure the process. Blues" and"Tough" by Mac Curtis & the will carry a hefty pricetag. But if we don't To avoid unnecessary crises over continu­ Bill Smith Combo. The former journalist is invest in preservation efforts today, the ing resolutions, we recommend that, with going out with his humor intact, of course­ costs will be ten times as high tomorrow. appropriate safeguards, a continuing but re­ both singles carry the catalog number "30," Unlike the older areas of the east, the duced appropriation be automatically put familiar to newshounds as the code for a Southland's infrastructure is just beginning into effect at start of the fiscal year for any story's end. And the Major promises he's to crumble. Bad news? Yes! But the good account that has not yet received a regular going to be busy on the international front, news is that we have the opportunity to re­ appropriation. promoting Christy's "Crying" and planning verse that trend . . . and we must! Structural Realignments with Congress. a tour for "Major Bill's Texas Rock'n'Roll Three million new residents are expected While there should be careful study of pos­ Review."e in the Southland by the turn of the centu­ sible realignments in Congressional commit­ ry, further taxing the public works systems tee structures and functions, the report is in place. 21050 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1983 While the inclination among some politi­ In both of these cases, if the receiv­ WITH THE VETo GoNE cal leaders may be to go for new and more ing country was notified of the nature allies in the House, of course, including Rep. region a Zone of Peace. WASHINGTON.-U.S. Rep. Tom Bevill of Let us all, inheritors of the compelling Jamie L. Whitten, D-Miss., chairman of the Jasper sounded pretty cocky a couple of full Appropriations Committee. As part of vision of Bolivar, Benito Juarez, Jose Marti, weeks ago when he shrugged off the Sen­ Marryshow and all those other heroes who the Republican leadership, Rep. Jack Ed­ ate's refusal to give the Army Corps of Engi­ wards, R-Mobile, also has been in a good po­ fought for peace, progress and freedom, neers $9.5 million, for a new training center work together in this our America to ensure sition to help it. in Huntsville. But because he writes the energy and concrete and long-lasting solutions to the Dismissing it as a bargaining move, the real problems of the region-to poverty, un­ Alabama Democrat smiled and declared water bill each year, Bevill has been the employment, illiteracy, disease and transna­ that he had more chips on his side of the Tenn-Tom point man. tional exploitation of our resources. the table. The training center would be in the Last Thursda~ a day after the bill's pas­ vision of an America peaceful by virtue of final measure passed by Congress, Bevill sage, Bevill said it meant that "the Term­ its integrated development is still vibrantly promised. · Tom, as far as Congress is concerned, is alive. Last Wednesday both the House and the completed." Grenada reiterates its commitment to the Senate passed a compromise energy and "I feel a lot better now, a lot better," said Charter of our organization. Our nations water development appropriations bill, Bevill, 62. "It's a good feeling. must proceed without confusion believing which includes the Corps' budget. "Frankly, there was a window there. If that we will achieve the goals agreed to in And lo and behold, the $9.5 million for the this project had started one year later, we our Charter. Corps building was back in there. never would've finished it," he said. "It was Mr. Chairman, distinguished Ambassadors That wasn't the only Alabama project and representatives of our America, if we that close, in my judgment." snubbed by the Senate but restored or But Bevill says the Tenn-Tom success is lose the war on poverty and underdevelop­ beefed up in the compromise. ment and allow ourselves to move back into the result of a decade of hard work and sup­ To name a few, the bill approved Wednes­ port by a lot of representatives and sena­ the darkness of enslavement, we will have to day contained $1.8 million for the Franklin blame not the weapons of the enemy, but Ferry Bridge in Jefferson County, or a mil­ tors, including some of the powers that be our own divisiveness. lion dollars more than the Senate initially or have been in Congress. Forward to peace, genuine independence approved; the Black Warrior-Tombigbee ''I'VE: had some help from the leadership a and development in a United America-Our river system got $13 million for operation few times," said Bevill, although he declined America.e and maintenance, some $4.2 million more to talk about any specific instances of aid that the Senate figure; planning for a new from above. TOM BEVILL: A BUILDER OF Olvier Lock and Dam on the Black Warrior While the water projects got the most got $1.3 million, up from $600,000 in the press, Bevill scored other wins last week, AMERICA Senate bill; a $600,000 flood-control study of too. Threemile Creek in Mobile ended up with He had included $150 million for the Ap­ HON. RONNIE G. FLIPPO full funding, while the Senate had given it palachian Regional Commission's develop­ OF ALABAMA nothing; and the final measure upped the ment programs in his House bill, despite the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ante for a channel-deepening study for Reagan administration's opposition to any Mobile channel to $900,000 from the Sen­ ARC funding. The Senate's version gave Tuesday, July 26, 1983 ate's $700,000. ARC $125 million. e Mr. FLIPPO. Mr. Speaker, recently, "Everything in Alabama's in good shape, Chaired by Bevill, the House-Senate con­ Randy Quarles, Washington corre­ right on schedule," Bevill said late last ference committee increased the figure to spondent of the Huntsville Times, lo­ week. $145 million. Bevill had struck again. The Tennessee Valley Authority's budget cated in my district, published an arti­ As Chairman of the House Appropriations cle outlining the enormous contribu­ for non-power programs fared well in con­ energy and water development subcommit­ ference, too. It received $125.5 million, or $3 tions of my good friend and colleague, tee, Bevill is known as a friend to most TOM BEVILL, in building the Nation water projects nationwide, not just in Ala­ million more than in the Senate bill and and our State of Alabama. bama. But the Alabama projects get an only $450,000 less than in the House ver­ Edwin Markham, writing of Lincoln, extra boost because of Bevill's position, par­ sion. said: ticularly the smaller projects or ones like While he was at it, Bevill also managed to the Corps' training center that just as insert a little moral support for TVA and its Why build these glorious cities, if man un­ private partners involved in .the Murphy builded goes, easily, perhaps, could go to another area. If a representative from New Jersey was Hill coal-to-methanol plant. He added a sen­ In vain we build the world, unless the build­ tence the bill stating: "The conferees are er also grows. in Bevill's spot, for example, he or she prob­ to ably wouldn't feel called upon to insist on encouraged by recent progress in achieving ToM BEVILL is now beginning to re­ Senate approval of the new Corps facility at financial participation in the North Ala­ ceive some of the recognition he de­ the University of Alabama in Huntsville. bama Coal Gasification Project and hope serves as a builder of America. But he And something like an $80,000 channel­ that the Synthetic Fuels Corporation will has labored in relative obscurity for deepening study for Bayou La Batre might proceed to an early decision." many years to reach the position he get lost in the shuffle despite lobbying by The Synfuels board has been asked to pro­ now holds as chairman of the Subcom­ members from Alabama. vide loan guarantees and price supports for mittee on Energy and Water Develop­ "I don't know what we'd do without most of the private energy-related firms in Bevill,' one veteran Senate aide said last the Murphy Hill consortium. ment. week, shaking his head in admiration over I would point out to you that the Maybe Bevill was being a little bit cocky a Bevill's victories in the House-Senate con­ couple of weeks ago when he promised to re­ building mentioned in this article is lo­ ference committee that hammered out the cated in my district, not Mr. BEVILL's. funding measure for the fiscal year begin­ store money for the Corps' training center ning this coming Oct. 1. in Huntsville and the other Alabama He is known as "Mr. TENN-ToM" in the projects. But he did it.e House, yet the Term-Tom barely This probably has been one of Bevill's touches the corner of his district. better years, too, as far as water projects go. The biggie, of course, was his successful Mr. Speaker, ToM BEVILL has earned maneuver to assure the Tennessee-Tombig­ his reputation as a builder of America bee Waterway of enough federal money to because of his hard work, dedication, complete it by September 1985. and selfless devotion to building all of By "finding" a $180 million surplus in the America. He is also a pure Southern Corps' current budget, Bevill not only se- 21054 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1983 A TRIBUTE TO THE work could produce a publication so 13, and I wish to pay special tribute in PENNYSAVER CORPORATION successful that it has thrived and this Chamber to the hosts of that grown for two decades. show, Ed Slomkowski and Chet Kayer, HON.GARYL.ACKERMAN Seymour Katz and Herb Solomon, as well as to the management of the publishers of the Pennysavers of OF NEW YORK WJDM for supporting this valuable South Nassau and Queens, are com­ and entertaining show. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES munity activists in their own right, It has a large and loyal listening au­ Tuesday, July 26, 1983 championing many important causes dience of Polish Americans, as well as e Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I on behalf of the people of Nassau and other people who enjoy Polish polkas rise today to congratulate the Penny­ Queens Counties. and who wish to know what is happen­ saver Corp., publishers of the Penny­ It is indeed a pleasure to salute the ing in the Polish community. savers of South Nassau and Queens, publishers of the Pennysavers of Ed Slomkowski and Chet Kayer are on its 20th anniversary, which it will South Nassau and Queens on the 20th a source of good will, information, celebrate next month. anniversary of their distinguished family announcements, and entertain­ In 1963, the first South Nassau Pen­ publication. ment Sunday after Sunday. Many of nysaver appeared in Rqckville Centre, Mr. Speaker, I am sure that you will their listeners have been fans of the N.Y., and offered saturation advertis­ join me in extending the Congress show for the last decade. ing to the merchants of the area. This congratulations to Mr. Solomon and On any Sunday morning, Ed Slom­ innovative publication, delivered free Mr. Katz. I am very glad that they kowski and Chet Kayer fill the hour of charge to the home of every family plan to continue serving the people of with birthday greetings, family anni­ in each community it serves, has con­ New York for many years to come.e versaries, events of importance to Po­ tinued to this day a tradition of excel­ lonians, and plenty of foot stomping lence and service to the businesses and THE lOTH ANNIVERSARY OF polka music. It is one of the most im­ consumers of New York. THE ED AND CHET POLKA portant Polish cultural shows on the Currently, there are 19 editions of SHOW east coast. Letters from its fans pour the Pennysavers of South Nassau and in from throughout the metropolitan Queens, serving over 250,000 homes HON. MATTHEW J. RINALDO area. each week. The Pennysaver Corp. em­ OF NEW .JERSEY Broadcast in English, the program ploys almost 200 people, and is head­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES helps to stimulate interest in the quartered in one of the most prestigi­ many contributions of Polish Ameri­ ous landmark buildings in Rockville Tuesday, July 26, 1983 cans to our society. It is done with en­ Centre, N.Y. • Mr. RINALDO. Mr. Speaker, for the thusiasm, spirit, and a healthy respect The quality and service offered by past 10 years radio station W JDM in for Polish-American culture. the Pennysavers of South Nassau and Elizabeth, N.J., has originated a Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues tp Queens have been recognized by Gov­ number of stimulating programs that join me in congratulating W JDM and ernment agencies as well as by numer­ appeal to the wide variety of ethnic the Ed and Chet Polka Show for 10 ous citations and awards from local groups in Union County, N.J. One of years of wonderful entertainment that and national organizations. As a the most popular of these programs, is wholesome and invigorating, and former newspaper publisher, I can the Ed and Chet Polka Show, is ob­ symbolizes the richness and flavor of attest that only dedication and hard serving its lOth anniversary on August our society.e