1736 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1980

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

A COMPARISON OF WORDS -AND through, no basis in reality, no force of law some astounding statements and entirely . DEEDS or action. indefensible claims. It wa.S said of Winston Churchill that He said that he has "developed a very co­ during World War II, he enlisted the Eng­ operative and productive record with Con­ HON. RICHARD BRUCE CHENEY lish language in the cause of freedom. Presi­ gress". Such a statement is ludicrous. Most OF WYOMING dent Carter uses the language as an end in of his legislative intiatives, including some itself. His words are just that: words ... 25 he mentioned in his advance statement, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES they have no visible connection with his have yet to see the light of day. Monday, Februar1/4, 1980 action or with events as the rest of the He said, "major parts of a comprehensive world perceives them. energy program have been enacted ..."In e Mr. CHENEY. Mr. Speaker, the dis­ The State of the Union Address did not three years of inaction and confusion, we tinguished minority whip, Mr. MICHEL, reflect the state of world affairs, nor did it have but one expensive, inefficient Depart­ delivered an excellent speech recently reveal how the United States would actually ment of Energy to list ·among Mr. Carter's in his home State of Illinois in which react to world affairs. credits. he £ompared the Presi~ent's words to For example, to the Russians it must ~ He said, "We will -continue the steady eco­ his deeds regarding both domestic and mean little that our President said he wUI nomic policies which have worked to date." foreign affairs. stand up to them in the event of further ag­ What are these steady economic policies I urge my colleagues to read Mr. MI­ gression. which have worked to date? CliEL's remarks, which follow: As I assess the Russian hierarchy, they He said, "The deficit for the FY 1981 are not impressed by the threat, but the budget will be less than half of the· FY 1980 REMARKS OF CONGRESSMAN BOB MICHEL probability that the threat will be carried budget deficit and wUI represent a 75 ·per­ In Washington, those moments following out. President Carter has never stood up to cent reduction from the deficit I inherited." the President's State of the Union Address the Russians, whether they be in Cuba, In This was an insult to our intelligence. Presi­ to the Congress are as much a ritual as the Ethiopia. Angola. or in Afghanistan-not dent Carter failed by some $20-$30 billion to speech itself. It is during that period that anywhere. The Russians know him and they meet his goal of balancing tpe budget by Members of the House and Senate make the know his record. fiscal year 1981, and the reductions he did race to the television galleries above the Secondly, there is the matter of our will achieve were the result of $61 billion in House floor and line up to express their to react ·versus our ability to react. The higher taxes. views on the speech. state of our conventional forces is of critical He said, "The decline in defense spending The challenge of the members is to come importance in this war of nerves with the has been reversed." An interesting state­ up with the· catchiest, most descriptive, cap­ Soviet Union. Regardless of what the Presi­ ment, given the fact that reduced defense >ulized critique of the President's address. dent says in his speeches, the Soviets know spending was the cornerstone of the Carter He who expresses himself best shares those for a fact that our reserves are down, that presidential campaign three years ago, and precious network news seconds with the our army is poorly equipped, that our Navy has been the hallmark of the Democratic President himself. is barely seaworthy, and that through three Congress since he took office. It is also iri­ This year's State of the Union ritual was years of capitulation in the SALT negotia­ teresting ·that President Carter, while a no exception. It was played out like a tions,' the U.S. has steadily disarmed itself, reborn defense spender, has not learned the Broadway performance right up to the in­ .both strategically and conventionally. importance of getting your money's worth. stant analyses. Futhermore, the Soviets don't have to be He is spending our defense dollars on refur­ This year, however, there was a signifi­ told that "an attempt by an outside force to bishing outdated aircraft, building restrict­ cant difference in the atmosphere. Those gain control of the Persian Gulf region will ed-range cruise missiles, building slow con­ who are always the quickest with the quot­ be regarded as an assault on the vital inter­ ventional aircraft carriers, and deploying an able quotations and biting commentaries ests of the United States,'' and that military MX missile system the wrong way. seemed to be stumbling all over themselves force will be used, if neceSsary, to repel it. . Finally, he said inflation isn't his fault be­ reacting to President Carter's discussions of Nor do the American people have to be told cause the biggest single factor in the infla­ Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet-American rela­ that. tion rate increase last year was from sky­ tions and the rest. I, too,, had an extremely We do need to know, and the Soviets need rocketing OPEC oil prices. He did't tell the difficult time assessing his statements on to know, however, what is meant by an "at­ American people those oil prices contribut­ draft registration and the threat of military tempt to gain control of the Persian Gulf". ed no more than 3 points to the 12.7 rate of force against further Soviet aggression. Is it overt military aggression against Iran? inflation. He didn't mention that of 13 in­ When I got home and heard the newsmen How about the slow subversive, non-military dustrialized nations which are more depend­ hail the President's remarks as a "complete destruction of a Persian Gulf government? Emt on OPEC than we are, only two of them about face," a "tough message," and a "bold What will the United States respond mili­ have higher inflation rates. demonstration of American resolve,'~ I sud­ tarily to, how soon and with what, where? If Japan relies on OPEC for 99.8 percent of denly realized why I had failed the chal­ we are serious about the Southwest Asian its oil and has a 4.2 percent inflation rate. lenge of the post-State of the Union press crisis. then we have to talk seriously about competition. those questions, and forget the somber, rit­ West Germany relies on OPEC for 96.8 There really ·wasn't much in President ualistic political rhetoric. We have· to come percent of its oil and has a 5. 7 percent infla­ Carter's speech to criticize. As are most of back to the real world and face the reasons tion rate. the President's major addresses, it was a why the Soviets are occupying Afghanistan Belgium relies on OPEC for 100 percent of good speech, well-delivered, with something today. its oil and has a 5.1 percent inflation rate. for everyone. It was tailored to the mood of We have had three years of earnest, sin­ We get 46.8 percent of our oil from OPEC the country. The President said wliat every­ cere, well-written speeches enuniciating and our inflation rate as I said is 13 percent. one wanted to hear and said it the way ,they American domestic and foreign policies. As The same sad commentary can be made wanted to hear it, firmly. well-intentioned as they might be, the about what President Carter has said and is But the speech was still very troublesome. people at the top in the Carter Administra­ saying about other major issues, such as na­ I could not find the words to compliment it tion have been unable to tum policy into tional health, welfare reform and education. any more than I could find reason to criti­ practice. It has gotten so bad that the enun­ The words have lost their believabiJity be­ cize it. I realized that while the speech was ciation of Carter policy is no longer rele­ cause the J>r~sident . has lost his credibility. well done, it was also thoroughly and utter­ vant, to the American people, ·to the Con­ The State of the Union speech reflected ly irrelevent to the times and the situation. gress, and most importantly, to our allies the state of Jimmy Carter's hopes, dreams President Jimmy Carter has joined the and·. adversaries abroad. Now the time of and politicai illusions much more than the ranks of a very select group of American crisis has arrived, and our gestures are real "State of the Union". Presidents whose enunciations of American empty. our words . meaningless and our Since mo~t of the President's speech and policy came to mean absolutely nothing. warnings without weight. the public's attention has focused on inter­ In the case of this Administration, the This cavernous gap between what the national events I'd like to take a few more speech as a tool of political leadership is President says, and what he does, is not con­ minutes to recount some recent history so worthless. It has no substance, because for fined to foreign policy. The published, but that those who have already forgotten will the past three years, the president has dem­ not delivered, State of the Union and the have a better perspective of just why we are onstrated that his speeches have no follow- televised version of the address contained where we are! e This "bullet.. symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. February 4, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1737 After arriving. late last night I read those President was telling the world he was doing Revolutionary Iran didn't listen to him accounts the Journal Star carried of a and would continue to do. when he threatened them with military in­ random sampling of local peoples' com­ In the same news conference, the Presi­ tervention. So he dropped that idea and ments on the President's speech, and they dent said this about then-U.S. Ambassador threatened them with UN sanctions. For prompt me to go into a little more detail. to the United Nations Andrew Young: som~ reason this did not frighten them. The In words that are fast becoming a legend " ... in general I think that Andy Young President and his advisers must· have won­ in their own time, President Jimmy Carter has been a superb representative of our dered why. P&rhaps it is because after three said a month ago that the Soviet invasion of country ..." years of pious words, scare words, soothing Afghanistan "made a more dramatic change The name of Andrew Young. may not now words, bold words, words, words, words, in my own opinion of what the Soviet's ulti­ bring about the kind of emotional reactions from the Carter Administration, words mate goals are than anything they've done it once did. It may be useful to recall what never followed by action, no one really pays in the previous time I've been in office." · the Chief United States diplomat was attention. I have no doubt of the President's sincer­ saying in his hey-day: In 1978 in a speech to the graduating class ity when he said the Afghanistan invasion " ... Communism has never been a threat of the Naval Academy, the President said: "dramatically" altered his view of the to me ... Americans should not be upset, ''Our -long-term objective must be to con­ Soviet Union's intentions. The record of the because a thousand Cubans or 20,000 vince the Soviet Union of the advantages of past three years shows . that President Cubans or even 100,000 Cubans.anywhere in cooperation and the costs of disruptive be­ Carter was convinced, against the evidence, the world are no threat to the United States havior." · that his intelligence, good will and powers ... Cuban troops helped stabilize the situa­ That sounds nice. But for three years the of persuasion were working wonders with tion in Angola .. :• President did not teach the ·Soviet Union the Soviet Union. Carter . never publicly disagreed with or the costs of disruptive behavior. No wonder As .early in his administration as Tuesday, scolded or corrected Young at the time his words, like the American dollar, have June 14, 1977, he stated: "I think that in these statements were made. In fact he long since been,devalued in the world of in­ general we're moving in the right direc­ went out of his way time after time to stand ternational affairs. No wonder the gang in tion . . . we've not singled out the Soviet by Young, to "explain" Young's d\ltrageous the Kremlin weighed the President's words Union for criticism .. :• ing in. opposition to the Administration's Needless to say, the cynicism of the-.Soviet Those words remind me of that maxim we point of view, Young was simply saying in leaders is without limits. Thus, when Carter all learned in our childhood: great oaks public what the ·Carter Administration pri­ complained that Brezhnev had lied to him from little acorns grow. The seeds of the vately believed.· about Afghanistan 200 of them without losing a single white voted "aye." ~ man. When people tell me that one I tell Rollcall No. 17. on Wednesday, Janu- Don't call W. C. "Buck" Gover an old them they're crazy.'' ary 30. :Sy a vote of 370 to o. the man. The Dersch Massacre, Gover said. was the House agreed to House Concurrent At age 78, he's a young man who has been killing of the mother of Fred Dersch-who around a long time. was a friend of Gover's father. Resolution 267. expressing apprecia- That's how one of Gover's many friends . ".As-the story goes, the Indians came up to tion to the- Canadian Government for describes him-and the description couldn't the Dersch· place on Bear Creek and killed its assistance in securing the safe be closer to the mark. Mrs. Dersch. She had seen them coming and return of U.S.- Embassy personnel Gover sifted his hands through a small hid Fred in the brush. · from Iran. I would have voted "aye." trailer full of walnuts, their hard shells "It's true that several of the Indians who Rollcall No. 18. on Thursday. Janu-. gleaming from the day's long rains. He killed Mrs. Dersch were killed later, but ary 31. By a vote of. 285 to 122. the pace4 restlessly from an electrical pump they were cornered way up on Battle Creek, House agreed to the conference report that had stopped working to a pile of soggy up above Coleman. And for. a long time nuts that· awaited a motorized drying so after that; if a white man saw an Indian on H.R. 2440. the Aviation Safety ·and they could be loaded into a big semi-truck, anywhere in the country he'd take a shot at Noise Abatement Act of 1979. I would the engine of which rumb!ed impatiently at him.'' have voted "no.'' the delay. Gover said. except for the mass grave on Rollcall No. 20. on Thursday, Janu- "You know, if these ·rains don't let up Bloody Island. no other skeletons have been ary 31. By a vote of 185 to 221. the soon, it could mean trouble," Gover said, uncovered. He doesn't allow anyone to dig Committee of the Whole rejected an but his eyes were smiling as :he surveyed a for artifacts on the island anymore. amendment by Representative WYLIE leaden sky overhead. Much of Shasta County's colorful history of Ohio that sought to substitute the Whether the harvest is successful or loses happened in the Balls Ferry area where the money, there's orte thing that won;t be Gover Ranch ltes beside the Sacramento general revenue sharing formula for changed-Bu~k Gover is a happy man. River. Gover purchased Bloody Island tn the allocation provisions in H.R. 5980 · "I know people talk about the •good old 1943, but most of the stories he remembers for targeted fiscal assistance. I would days,' but I don't like to say the old days bei~g told by his grandmother were about have voted "no:• were better. I'm not the kind who thinka the main ranch and the men who ran it. February 4, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1739 "I was a "favorite of my grandmother trocuted when she moved a· floor lamp. "I'll never forget the day I saw my father Wilcox nearby had diverted a massive voltage dose down his face. He thought we were going to and she would tell me lots of stories about to the island instead. lose the ranch." the pioneer days," Gover said. Two men who were riding in a boat at the It was during the Depression, and neigh­ Many of the stories were about Maj. Pier­ lower end of Bloody Island were drowned bors were selling their homes, moving away. son B. Reading, a name familiar today to when their boat tipped over. And another The Govers felt the pinch, but they fought every ·schoolchild who has studied Shasta man was found in one of the buildings on back-and won. County history. Willivn Wilcox, Gover's the island with a .22-caliber bullet in his "My dad was just cer­ grandfather, was Reading's ranch foreman head. tain we weren't going to make it that day, for several years until Reading's d~ath. "The island's record is kind of rough," but I refused to give up," Gover said. "I told "Maj. Reading used to hire a lot of Indi­ Gover _said. "Makes ·you wonder if soine of him we were going to work as hard as we ans to work the ranch, and my grandmother those . Indians who got their skulls busted could and we weren't going to spend a riickel told' me about a tiriie when he fooled them might be back around there somehow.'' that we didn't have to. It was tough, but we into thinking what he said really made a Gover laughed heartily and led the way made it.'' difference." outside to the machine building. The rain With half of this year's walnut crop har­ Gover smiled as he recalled the story. had stopped for the moment, and blue sky vested and the other half waiting to be "The major· had been reading about poi­ showed through. Acres of wet, green fields picked, Gover still is working· hard to make sons to kill birds, and he had an idea. He stretched beyond sight to the west and the ranch work. His wife of 58 years, lla, has soaked strips of meat in strychnine and let north, and fat, curly haired Herefords helped him make the dream a reality. . the crows eat. them. Then he timed how m~nched contentedly in their pens. A patr The rain began falling again, making its long it took them to dle.' of hawks circled the ranch, seeming to way through the leaves and branches and "After he had it doym pretty well, so he admire the view more than they were hunt­ dropping on Gover's hat. He just smiled and could jusi about predict when they'd start ing~ walked back to continue his vacation.e falling down dead, Maj. Reading told some ''rve traveled a lot in my time-I guess of the Indians he could order crows to die. I've been to nearly every State in the "He walked over to the tree where the Union," Gover said. "But I've. never found ANALYSIS OF THE FEDERAL crows were perched-by this time the poison anyplace that could compare with this. PROCUREMENT BUDGETS was about to take effect-and he said, 'I "People ask me sometimes when rm·going command you to dle. The birds started fall­ to take a vacation. I Just tell them I am on ing out of the ttee and Maj. Reading didn't vacation. I've been on vacation all my life." HQN. ROBERT W. EDGAR have much trouble getting the Indians' re- Gover's younger son, Dan, shares his .fa­ OF PENNSYLVANIA speGt after that.'' · ther's love of the countryside, Gover said. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sightseers who drive on Balls ~erry Road His elder son, Doug, lives in the Bay area, today past Ba,J.ls Ferry Resort and Rooster's where he works for an airline. Monday, Februa_ry 4, 1980 Landing would have a hard time imagining "When Dan was growing up, Jilst a small e Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speak~r, the how the' area appeared in the 1890s. During Child, people would ask him what he wanted Northeast-Midwest Congressional Co­ that era, the community was thriving as to do when he grew up. And even when he never before-or since. alition has compiled the· following was that small, he would say he wanted to analysis of the · Federal procurement During its prime, the community boasted set up an operation just like Dad. Dan and I a store, post office, saloon, blacksmith shop, are business partners on the ranch now.'' budgets for fiscal year 198.1. I believe flour mill, hotel and dance hall that over­ Dan Gover also is a Shasta County super­ this analysis will be useful to all my looked the Sacramento River. There also visor whose firm policy of abiding by the colleagues and especlally those of the were several homes built on the hillsides county's general plan has angered some po­ Northeast-Midwest region of · the near the town. country. All that remains of the community today tential developers. Buck Gover bristles at the mention of a citizens' group that has The analysis follows: is the remnants of an old·surface water well discussed beginning a recall effort against where the hotel used to stand. his son. · BUDGET BRIEF-FEDERAL PROCUREMENT There's a story connected with each "I ran for supervisor twice myself, and HIGHLlGHTS person who used to live there, "but you lost by an eyelash, but I've told Dan that For fiscal 1981, the president has pro- wouldn't have room in your paper to put all lately it's a good thing he's up there instead posed $127 billion in outlays for the of them," Gover said. "I guess most of them of' me. Because I tell you, some of those purchase of goods and services · by the mov~d to Anders ·over the previ­ than attend the closer Anderson school. membered that. ous year -for Defense Department proctire- "The old Anderson High School was just a "And that's just what these people want ment and no increase in outlays (a 7.9 per­ shack of a thing built down in the ·nat part Dan to do-break the law. Well, ,he's soft- cent loss in real dollars> for civilian agency of town. And there were only four kids en­ ·spoken and quiet, ·but he:s also firm when procurement. Increases in the procurement rolled there. Red Bluff had just built a nice, he knows he's right.'' budget attributable to 1!-igher Defense De- new building and there were more students, Gover will brag ·for hours about his sons' partment spending probably will yield so I talked my parents into letting me go virtues. He'll tell you about the fine grades greatest benefits for Southern and Western there." they got •fn school and hbw they won almost - states. Gover later graduated from Stanford Uni­ all the awards at graduation. But Gover himself has a list of plaudits to versity. BUDGET SUM.MARY Gover stopped talking briefly to tend to a his name that covers several pages. huge industrial dryer that blew hot air over He has served on nearly every cattlemen's [In billions of dollars 1 mounds of brown walnuts. board in the county, state and country as "We can't do any picking today because of well as on walnut and grazing associations. the rains. Bloody Island floods in 'places and He is a past master of the Masonic Lodge, Estimated outlays • 1979 1980 1981 we're likely to get ·stuck out there. You also se.rving as an inspector in the 110th Ma­ ~justed know, some of Bloody Island':; recent histo­ sonic District. Actual lor ry is almost as interesting as. its past," The list has grown with the years, but the inflation Gover said, settling in his chair to tell his reaJ Buck Gover can't be known from a list. story. "Before they built the dam, it ·thT::s w~tt~~s ~=~CI~~~~ s~~~t t~em~~~ ~Jiri~~ea~~~~~~~~: ::: : :::::::::::: U 1H 1n ...... ~~::.. -H would flood pretty bad on Bloody Island­ plained in black and white. But you know washing away livestock and fences that be­ the feeling when you see it. He's a man who 1 The figures in this chart, not listed in the president's fiscal year 1981 longed to the people who lived there. likes to laugh and he finds plenty of things budget, are staff calculations based on est:mates provided by the Office of "There's no one living on the islan(j now, to laugh about. Management and Budget. but several people have tried it in the past­ '!There were some hard times here, and Although a comprehensive reporting pro- and a lot of them have run into bad luck." sometimes it looked like we wouldn't be able cedure has been established by the Office of Gover recalled how the wife of Bloody Is­ to keep the ranch," Gover reflected, stand- Federal Procurement Policy to provide a land's caretaker, when the 1,000-acre island lng beneath a huge, spreading oak near .)lis state-by-state breakdown of federal civilian .was owned by a bank, was accidentally elec- house. procurement, no figures are yet available. 1740 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1980 The Defense Department, however, pre­ federal government to restrict the bidding, and Rock Island Railroad bankruptcies are pares a state-by-state breakdown for prime on appropriate contracts·to firms in areas of the most notable examples." As a result, the · contract awards which shows that; on a per excessive unemployment, with the goal of administration has proposed substantial de­ capita basis, more defense procurement dol­ stimulating private-sector activity in such regulation of the railroad industry. For lars are spent in the South and West than areas. Although the policy-known as De­ fiscal 1981, the president has proposed in the Northeast-Midwest region . .In 1978, fense Manpower Policy Nl.Uilber .Four-has budget authority of $1.8 billion for the na­ the region's share of prime contract awards existed since 1952, it has until recently been tion's railroads, including $250 million to be was 39 percent, even though it contained largely Ignored ..In 1979, the goal for federal used under the· recommended deregulation more than 47 percent of the nation's popu­ . civilian agency set-asides for labor· surplus program. lation. areas was $1.2 billion. Several important "socioeconomic" pro­ Initial data for fiscal 1979 suggest this goal grams are designed to target federal pro­ was not met. For fiscal 1980 the tentative BUDGET SUMMARY curement dollars more narrowly to those goal has been set at $1.3 billion. The De­ areas in greatest need of economic stimula­ fense Department is prohibited by the May­ [In millions of dollars] tion. These include the Small Business Set­ bank amendment from setting aside con­ Percent change, 'Aside Program,. the 8 program for minor­ tracts for goods and services under the labor 1980-81 ity-owned businesses, and the· labor surplus surplus area program. This restrictive provi­ 1979 1980 1981 Adjusted area program. sion, routinely attached each year to the de­ Actual f()( fense appropriations b111, requires the De­ inflation ·1. Small business set-aside,program fense Department to purchase its goods and Background.-This program was estab­ services at the lowest possible price, thus Urban mass transit: lished to insure that small businesses re­ prohibiting it from restricting the bidding Budget authority...... 2,365 2,169 3,821 76 62.2 ceive a larger portion of federal contract on its contracts to firms in hlgh-unemploy- Outlays ...... 2,458 2,601 2,718 4 -3.8 awards. Small 'businesses generate more Jobs Bridges: Budget authority .. . 614 900 950 5.5 -7.9 . ment areas. Exceptions to this rule may be Northeast Corridor · than larger firms and, according to recent made only when an order can be split into improvement project: studies. account for more than half of all two separate production runs. Budget authority ...... 490 381 400 5.0 - 3.0 scientific and technological innovations in Regional implications. ...:..Even though 45 Outlays ...... 199 400 388 -3.3 -10.6 this century, including many of the major percent· of the nation's high-unemployment Inventions In high-technology industries. areas are located in the Northeast-Midwest l Urban Mass Transportation Research by the National Science Founda­ region, the labor surplus areas program to Administration tion indicates that small companies develop date has had a minimal impact on redistrib- · 24 times as many Innovations per research­ uting the government's procurement dol- Background.-In his 1980 State of the and-development dollar than the largest Iars. A major contributing factor has been Union message, President Carter said, "A firms. Nevertheless, most federal agencies the Det~nse Department's exemption from major goal during the 1980s is to bring do not actively seek the participation of the program for total set-asides. about a dramatic increase in the economic small firms in the contract .bidding process. The Defense Department spends the and energy efficit~ncy of our transportation Regional implications.-The Small Busi­ lion's share of the federal government's pro- systems." Accordingly, the President has ness Set-Aside Program is particularly im­ cur~ment dollars. Although much of its pro- proposed to use $16.5 billion over the next portant to the Northeast-Midwest region: A curement budget is. spent on items direc.tly decade from the windfall profits tax rev­ recent study showed that while small busi­ related to the nation's security and military . enues to Increase the energy e~ficiency of nesses generated just under two-thirds of all preparedness a substantial amount also is transportation. Of that, $13 billion would be new Jobs in the United ·States, they provided used to buy' such common items as nuts allocated to increase transit capacity, $2.5 three-quarters of all. new Jobs in the North­ bolts, office furniture, and s&forth. Repeai billion would be directed to promo!_e the east and Midwest. of the Maybank amendment ·would allow energy-:efficient use of the automobile, and Legislation recently introduced in Con­ the Def.ense Department to set aside some $1 billion f~r research on automotive f~el gress would require of these contracts for firins 'in high-unem- efficiency· a small business set-aside of at _least 1 per­ ployment areas, and oould result tn a sub- Congress has not yet agre.ed to this pro­ cent of research and development funds for stantial mcrease in federal procurement posal. House and Senate conferees still are agencies with R & D budgets of at least awards within the 'Northeast-Midwest trying ~o reconcile differenpes in the House $100 mi111on. This ·would affect about a region, the creation of many new Jobs, and a and Senate versions of the Windfall Profits dozen . federal agencies, and would insure reduction in the need for income mainte- Tax bill , that small nance payments for food stamps, unemploy- marlq; funds for increasing transportation businesses receive at least $270·million in re­ ment compensation, housing subsidies, and energy efficiency. search contracts. the like. The Senate bill contains $1 billion for im- 11. Disadvantaged business utilization . provements in the railroad system, includ­ ing $600 million for rail freight rehabilita­ Background.-Firms that are at least 51 BUDGET BRIEF_:TRANSPORTATION tion, $60 ~on for state rail freight. assist­ percent owned or managed by socially and HIGHLIGHTS economically disadvantaged individuals an()e programs, and $340 million to Amtrak qualify for preferenCe .under the 8 pro­ The president's fiscal 1981 -budget in­ for operating assistance and rehabilitation. gram. President Carter's · executive order of creases actual outlays for the Urban Mass -The Senate version origtn8.lly contained a January 20, 1979 committed his administra­ Transportation Adminlstration by $15 billion Transportation Trust Fund. This . tion to increasirig federal procurement dol­ $117 million. When this amount is adjusted fund would have helped many .states in the lars awarded to minority firms to at least for inflation, a real dollar decrease of 3.8 Northeast-Midwest region, but the proposal $3.8 billion by 1980. Although figures are percent results. was killed on the Senate floor. not yet available for total procurement dol­ The president's fiscal 1981 budget also In­ The fiscal l981 budget proposes $1.5 bil· lars awarded to minority firms in 1979, 1.01 creases budget authority for 'bridge repair lion in budget authority under the windfall percent was awarded in that year under the and replacement programs under the Feder­ profits tax program' for energy-related B program. The 1980 goal for the 8 al-Aid Highway Trust Fund by $50 million. transportation ·initiatives. program has been tentatively set at $1.3 bil­ This represents a·7.9 percent decline in real Also under the windfall profits tax pro­ lion. The 8 program allows the Small dollars. Becaus~ the budget authorizes a gram, the budget includes a proposal for a Business Administration to enter into con­ lower level of spending than last year, public transportation capital investment tracts with. any government agency with Northeastern and Midwestern states will program which would increase capacity and procurement authority. In effect, SBA be­ not be able to significantly expand bridge improve services by providing grants to comes the prime contractor, subcontracting repair and replacement programs using fed­ States and cities that nave adopted specific the actual work to a small firm eligible eral funds, and may even face some cut­ energy conservation plans. Budget authori­ under the sociallY and economically disad­ backs. ty of $1.1 billion is proposed for 1980 and vantaged criteria. The president's budget assumes that $750 $1.2 billion for 1981. · Public Law 95-507, enacted in October . million in additional funds for the comple­ The President increased UMTA's budget 1978, requires federal agencies to develop tion of the Northeast Corridor Improve­ by $117 million in fiscall980, representing a subcontracting goals for small and minority­ ment Project will be authorized by Congress 3.8 percent decrease in real dollars. owned businesses. Although it is too early to this year. But total outlays for the project Regional lmplications.-The Northeast­ document the increase in contracting dol­ in fiscal 1981, when adjusted· for inflation, Midwest region may benefit slightly from show a decline of 10.6 percent from fiscal the small increase in actual UMTA funding. lars for small and minority businesses as a 1980. ' result of this law, it is intended to subst~tn­ Larger Northeastern and Midwestern tlally increase present contract award levels. The fiscal 1981 budget notes: . "Federal·fi­ 'Cities-such as New York, Boston, Chicago, nancial support of the railroads is primarily Baltimore, .at:ld Philadelphia-contain the III. Labor surplus area program a phenomenon of the 1970s, resulting from oldest, most extensive colllil)uter transporta­ Backgro~nd.-This progl'am is designed to the collapse of railroads in the Northeast tion systems in the nation. In fiscal 19'19, encourage departments and agencies of the and Midwest. The Penn Central, Milwaukee, Northeastern and Midwestern· cities re- February 4, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1741 ceived 55 percent of the $444 million in FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY FUNDS AUTHORIZED FOR BRIDGE press my deep dissatisfaction with the UMTA capital or operating assistance avail­ REPAIR AND REPlAC£MENT-Continued final agreed-on provisions. able to all cities with populations of more Twenty years . ago we started this than 200,000. This share increased to 60 per­ [In 111illions of dollars) cent in fiscal 1980. As a result, large metro­ crusade to provide essential relief politan areas · in the Northeast-Midwest State Fiscal f'tscal from aircraft noise for communities region benefit under an inc.rease in UMTA 1979 1980 surrounding our Nation's airports. capital operat~g . · assistance, as do the Three years ago these regu1ations· States in which they are locatep. . =~c~~~~~~.::: :: ::: : : ::::: : :: : :::: : ::: : :: : ::: : : ::: : :::::::::: -:::::::: ::: : 1 ~ : 1 JU became a reality. FAR part 36 is long State Implications.-Please refer to the Minnesota ...... 21 .0 29.4 past the debate stage. Having been the New Hampshire...... 6.6 9.2 chart-"UMTA Funds Available for Capital New Jersey ... :...... 10.8 -151 subject of countless congressional or Operating Assistance in Urbanized Areas New York ...... ,...... 50.1 70.2 hearings and one of the Federal Avi­ of More than 200,000 in Population" -on Ohio ...... :...... ~...... 14.3 20.0 ation Administration's most intensive the following page. Pennsylvania...... 36.2 50.7 Rhode Island ...... 3.8 5.3 and comprehensive regulatory pro­ Vermont ...... 7.0 9.8 Wisconsi n ...... _1_4_.8 __20_ .8 ceedings, the time has come for imple­ UMTA FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR CAPITAL OR OPERATING . Total ...... 277.4 389.8 mentation without hesitation or ex­ ASSISTANCE IN URBANIZED AREAS OF MORE THAN ception. The report we are considering 200,000 IN POPULATION today will set this cause back beyond III. Northeast corridor improvement project redemption. [In thousands of dollars] Description of the issue.-The rehabilita­ Compromise may well be the mark tion of the Northeast rail corridor, which of reasonable men, and my colle.agues Fiscal Fiscal Statp, 1979 1980 stretches between Washington, New York· know that I am not an unreasonable ·and Boston, is a long-term investment for man. I have always been sensitive to Connecticut ...... 8.1 8.8 the entire nation. With rising transporta­ the needs of the aircraft industry, par­ Delaware...... 2.3 2.5 tion costs and shortages -of fuels, the suc­ Illinois...... 58.2 70.9 cessful completion of this project is em;en­ ticularly in light. of the fact that ~t is Indiana ...... 10.9 13.1 the single largest industry in my home Iowa ...... 2.3 2.6 tial for the economic vitality of the region. Early in 1980, the Administration _plans to area. In this instance, however, I am propose legislation that will provide an convinced that my constituents are added $750 million to complete the North­ long overdue in their entitlement to east Corridor Improvement Project. The bill some relief from aircraft noise, as I am also would extend the estimated completion also convinced that the industry will date thro'ugh late 1984 or early 1985. The president's budget assumes the $750 million not suffer unduly in Qteeting the cur­ in will be_~utJJ,Qrized by CQngress. _Of. thk; . in-_ rent approved phased requirements. lllliilll]l lllilil lilllllll=~~:r:r ~::1 crease, $105 million is included in bud~et au­ It is time for us all to face-up to the ~~=~n· :: : ::::: : :: :::: .... ::::: : ::: :: ::: :: ::: : :: : :::::: : ::::: : : : : : : :::~~ : ...... s.'f ... :.. ·i'o.s thority ·for fiscal 1981. Total outlays for the commitments made to the people. If Northeast Corridor Improvement Project, we do not reject this report, it is they Total...... «4.1 534.1 when adjusted for inflation, decreased by who will be compromised.e 10.6 percent. · II. Bridge_ repair and replacement Regional implications.-Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt has said that U.S. MILITARY SPENDING­ Background.-The crisis condition of our "the additional Federal ltlvestment of time ANOTHER VIEW nation's bridges rec~ived national attention and money In the Northeast Corridor rail with the January 7, 1979 Parade magazine system would enable Amtrak to attract cover story, "Deathtrap Bridges-A Nation­ enough riders so that, within five years HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK al. Disgrace." The article noted that "Ameri­ after the completion of the corridor, its OF CALIFORNIA ca's bridges are falling down at the alarming . annual revenues from operations over the rate of 150 a year." A study by the Federal Washington-Boston mainline shoUld cover IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Highway Administration has shown that its annual costs for that service." Monday, February 4, 1980 one-fifth of the nation's bridges are candi­ The proposed legislation also· has the po­ dates for collapse. The president's budget tential to directly benefit the rest of the e Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, how · increases the fiscal 1981 budget authority nation. The proposal allocates funds fo_r the much should we spend on the mili­ for bridge repair and replacement by $50 rehabilitation of other corridors throughout tary? Tne answer we hear these days million over the fiscal i980 allocation. This the country. Specific corridors have not yet is, "more." represents a 7.9 percent decrease in real dol­ been designated, but at least one is likely to Whenever there Is such widespread lars. · be located in the Midwest. Regional implications.-According to· a agreement on a national security The Senate version of the windfall profits matter, I begin to check my wallet. report by the Congressional Research Serv­ tax bill allocates $1 billion for improvement ice, 32 percent of all structurally deficient in the nation's railroads, including $600 mll­ That is an especially wise thing to do and functionally obsolete bridges on the lion for rail freight assistance, $60 million when it seems we are' about to give the federal~aid highway system are in North­ for State ran freight assistance programs, Pentagon billions of additional dollars. eastern and Midwestern states. In fiscal and $340 million for Amtrak operating as­ In an article in the Friday, February 1979, the region received 44 percent of the sistance and rehabilitation. The Northeast 1, Wall Street Journal, Barry R. Posen funds for bridge replacement and repair, Corridor· Improvement Project is specifical­ and Stephen W. Van Evera -do a very but only 32 percent in fiscal 1980. Despite ly excluded from receiving additional funds good job of "Raising Questions About 'this substantial drop in the region's share, under this program because it will receive U.S. Defense Spending-." The authors each of its states showed modest increases additional funding under a separate legisla· in actual dollar allocations. ' tive proposal.e are research 'fellows at the Harvard State implications.-Please refer to the Center for Science and International chart-"Federal-Aid Highway Funds Au­ Affairs. thorized for Bridge Repair and Replace­ DISSATISFACTION .WITH . THE The considerations they raise are ment"-on the following page. FINAL AIRPORT AND AIRWAY ones that I have raised on numerous DEVELOPMENT ACT CONFER­ occasions: One, NATO nations spend ENCE more on defense than the Warsaw FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY FUNDS AUTHORIZED FOR BRIDGE Pact countries-total 1978 NATO mili­ . REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT HON. JOSEPH P. ADDABBO tary spending exceeded total Warsaw [In millions of dollars] OF NEW YORJl. Pact military spending. Two, the United States carries an unf~ir propor­ Fiscal Fiscal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State 1979 1980 tion of the NATO defense burden. Monday, February 4, 1980 And, third, the current deJ>ate mis­ Connecticut ...... 2.1 3.0 e Mr. ADDABBO. Mr. Speaker, reads the Soviet military effort. I urge Delaware ...... 1.6 3.0 Illinois ...... 50.0 70.2 though I applaud the efforts of the my colleagues to read and seriously Indiana ...... 5.6 7.9 conferees ln ·reviewing the Airport and consider these points. They will reach 14.9 21.0 ~~~e: : ::::::::::·:: ::: : : : : : :::: : :::: : :::::: : :::::: : : :: ::: ::::::: :: :: : ::: : :::::: 4.4 6.2 Airway Development Act conference the same conclusions: "No defense Maryland ...... 11.7 16.4. recommended last week, I must ex- budget increase is justified today, least 1742 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1980 of all the increase in . intervention burden of European defense wnjle the Euro- being examined in relation to our forces recommended by the Presi­ pean economies recovered .from the. war. problems. Today, however, · the West European dent." standard of living approaches our own, and I know of no one more uniquely The artiCle follows: the total West European industrial.capacity qualified to comment on the current [From the Wall Street Journal, Feb. 1, equals ours. Yet we still subsidize Western state of affairs than former President 1980; Europe's defense. · Gerald R. Ford, who discussed some of RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT U.S. DEFENSE . Why should we now increase this subsidy? our foreign policy problems during a SPENDING Our European and Japanese allies depend January 23 speech in Rochester, N.Y. the Gulf is an exclusive American obliga- s PO n the RECORD for the bene- Even before recent events in Iran and Af­ tion. · fit of my colleagues. ghanistan, polls showed a dramatic upsurge Third, the current debate on defense EXCERPTS FROM SPE£CH BY GERALD R. FORD, in public support for more defense spend­ spending is preinised on a false image of the 38TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ing. The latest opinion survey, released last main direction Of both · the Soviet and BEFORE THE MONROE CouNTY REPUBLICAN week, showed a larger plurality favoring American mllitary effort. LuNcHEON more military spending than any national Recent press accounts picture a looming Now let me tum to foreign policy andre- poll since 1950. · Soviet military capacity to intervene in the lated programs. From the outset of my po­ This popular view became official policy developing world, and an atrophied Ameri- litical career in 1949 as a freshman member in December, as President Carter an­ can intervention capability. Administration of Congress, I believed in a bipartisan for­ nounced a decision to increase -defense statements indicate that most of the pro- eign policy. As a Republican, I consistently spending by 4.85% per year in real terms posed new defense spending will be allo- supported Democratic Presidents Truman over the next five years. His budget con­ cated to forces best structured for Third- and Johnson as they. sought to implement firmed the decision and already·there is talk World intervention, to counter this alleged foreign policy decisions in our national in­ of higher spending over and above the Soviet threat. terest. Since leaving the White House three budget figure. One former top national se­ In fact, the Soviets direct very little of years ago, President Carter has asked for curity official, John Lehman~ recently rec­ their Inilitary effort toward Third-World my.dir~ct assistance on a number of foreign ommended a 10% annual defense budget in­ contingencies, and their current interven- policy Issues. I responded affirmatively on crease, after , inflation adjustments. This tion capability is far inferior to our ·own the Panama Canal Treaty, the sale of mili­ newspaper .suggested 20%. which remains quite robust. ' tary aircraft to Israel, Egypt. and Saudi Three basic considerations have been widely overlooked in this national rush flo The Soviet naval infantry spends now facing this country will be in­ fiscal years 1976. 1977, and 1978 in budget nearly what she should. creasingly deba~ed in the weeks and authority and in fiscal years 1977 and 1978 This ineauity arose in the wake of World months ahead, and the record of the \n outlays reversed the , War II, when we agreed to carry the main current administration rightfully is downward trend in defense spending, de- February 4, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1743 spite annual reductions by a Democratic. I AM A FRIEND OF SHERIFF JIM Fayette County residents have maJority in the U.S. Congress. FLOURNOY mixed feelings about the retirement of The record shows President Carter in the Sheriff Flournoy. They realize this 77- 1976 Presidential campaign promised to year-old public servant deserves some reduce defense spending by $7 billion dol· HON. J. J. PICKLE rest and relaxation after a distin­ lars. Unfortunately, he lived up to those naive _promises. Within the first few months OF TEXAS quished and colorful law enforcement after taking office in January, 1977, he cut IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES career. But they also.realize it is ·hard the military budget by approximately $2 bil­ Monday, February 4, 1980 to replace a living legend, a living em­ lion. bodiment of Texas frontier justice. The Carter Administration reduced my e Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, Sheriff Fayette County is feeling the pres­ propased defense budgets for 1979 through Jim Flournoy of Fayette County, Tex., sures of growth, as it seeks new indus­ 1983 by $57 billion, an recently announced his retirement, try, while struggling to maintain a average cut of -$9.5 billion per year. Carter saying he will not seek another term high quality of life. Sheriff Jim Flour­ slashed our strategic program $24 billion this year. Sheriff Flournoy is not just noy has dedicated his life to maintain­ <26.9%}, general purpose forces were cut $25 any sheriff. He has the longest tenure ing that high standard. Regardless of billion <7.3%> and research and development of any sheriff ,in Texas, having wit­ was reduced by $10 billion <12.6%>. Presi- how Fayette County grows ..and dent Carter cut my planned Navy budget nessed quite a bit of local controversy changes, we will always appreciate over the six year period by almost $26 bil· in his 33 years as the county's top law Sheriff FlQurnoy's service and will lion <41% of the total>. Ford budget ap. enforcement officer. Thousands of sorely miss his leadership.e proved a five year Navy shipbuilding plan of Washington theater-goers are learning 157 new ships by 1982, an average of 31 per · about a slightly fictionized Sheriff Jim year. President Carter in his first two years F1 · in th 1 1 "Th in office slashed this program 54%. - ournoy e popu ar P ay• e WHY CONFRONTATION? The Ford Administration approved a plan Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." ·- h to deploy the MX Missile by FY 1984. Trag- It was Sheriff Flournoy who has un- HON. FOATNEY H. (PETE) STARK ically, the Carter Administration held back wittingly earned himself a place in our on the MX. Consequently, its deployment national folklore as the plain-talking OF CALIFORNIA date will be delayed at least four years at a gutsy frontier-cut sheriff in the play. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES time when our Minuteman missiles will . But in reality, this "Best Country Monday, February 4, 1980 become increasingly vulnerable to Soviet Sh iff in T " b 1 d strategic strength. er · exas ecame a egen e Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, I think President Carter in 1977 cancelled the B-1 many years before author and play- we ought to ask ourselves, "What will bomber program, of 244 modern aircraft wright, LarrY L. King, brought Flo~r- our young people be fighting for with no replacement to take its place. The noy to Broadway. A Dallas Moz:tmg should they be sent to war in South- aging B-52's, now 25 years old, are not ade- News article last July aptly described -_ west Asia?" - quate for the decade of the 80s. the sheriff: Would they be fighting-and dying- The Trident submarine procurement u Bi Jim, Mr J' under carter was cut back and the initial Jim Flournoy-a as g · un, for the best interests of America? Or operational deployment was delayed by two Sheriffin Jiln-ist Fr everything d" t you've ever seeni ht would they be fjghting-and dying- a wes em. om a 15 ance you m g for the big oil companies? Or for the years. mistake him for an early Texas Ranger: six- A legendary New York statesman-A! feet-six with his boots on, and even taller oil sheiks? Or for the weapons contrac­ Smith-used to say-"Let's look at the when he wears his crowning cowboy hat. tors? record." In this case the facts expose the Enormous ears, thin gray hair, the posture The President has made foreign Carter White House to a partisan distortion of a ponderosa · pirie and a mammoth, policy blunders that have led him to of history. Mr. Brzezinski, who should know Roman nose t.hat could smell trouble and the brink of declaring war. Given the better, is guilty of outright misrepresenta- still sniff out a eight-point deer in tne evidence- available, this could be a war tion. brush. between Russia and the United States During his 1976 Presidential debates, can- Sheriff Flournoy presides over law that we are not prepared for and a war dictate Carter repeated his campaign pledge enforcement in Fayette County from we would have to fight without allies. to reduce military budgets by at least $7 bil- the grand old limestone courthouse on The way to discourage communism lion. I challenged him during the debate to the square in La Grange. Both the is not to declare verbal war on the justify his commitment to irresponsible cuts man and the structure are symbols of Russians and plunge headlong into in defense spending programs. Now with the Soviet Union stronger militarily and more continuity in a changing world. ~e Southwest Asia. aggressive worldwide, in 1980 it would be in- sheriff has kept watch over the county More importantly, ·watfl;).re between teresting to see and hear in a debate, Presi- since becoming sheriff in 1947. Before· superpowers is not the way to combat dent Carter's alibies for his cutbacks in u.s. that, he served some time as a Texas communism. It will be escalated quick­ military programs and funding during his Ranger, worked for other sheriffs ln ly to nuclear dimensions. And no one three years in office. Fayette County and got his start as an wins a nucl_ear war. In the 1976 Presidential campaign and employee of the -sanitary livestock Survival.Of the Western World and during his first 2v2 years in office, Mr. commission, helping eradicate ticks our Third World friends depends on Carter naively misread Soviet military and from cattle in central Texas d\tring diplomatic intentions. In the last three the late 1920's strong, healthy, _prosperous societies years the Russians have beefed up their Pa- · • united in their resolve to oppose ag- cific fleet and now use the camranh Bay Shl!riff Jim is a tough man, the very gression. What the President's policy Navy base in Vietnam. There is a continuing embodiment of frontier justice. He has lacks is support from our allies and en­ build up of Soviet naval strength in Cuba kept Fayette County a law-abiding couragement from the countries in the· which has followed the introduction of a place. Stories about the sheriff can be region that are threatened. The Presi­ Russian combat brigade on Cuban soil in heard in great abundance. He is as dent has taken off and expects our the last two years. The Soviet Union has quick with a gun as with following the friends and allies to help us with the now moved into Afghanistan with the obvi- law. As the Dallas Morning News landing. This is not the way to make a ous target the vast oil reserves in the Middle writes· ibl d ff ti f i li East. Their Warsaw Pact military forces, · sens e an e ec ve ore gn po cy. augmented by the S.S. 20 missile and Back- Nobody 1ri his right mind would cross a Further, in a real emergency, a fire Bomber, are stronger not weaker. man who opens each deer hunting season by system of draft registration and the Yes, the United States faces the most seri- shooting the centers out of a dozen bottle draft itself could be implemented ous confrontation since the end of World caps from fifty feet away. quickly. The invasion of Afghanistan War II and the American people are ready But even Larry L. King, whose play is not the tnost severe threat to peace to follow strong leadership in this hour of about La Grange did not endear him since World War II. That is why I crisis. My advice to the President and his to Sheriff Flournoy, has said there is a oppose registration. The President's staff-admit your mistakes and don't falsely soft,· gentle side to the sheriff. Above call is a political act not justified by blame others. 221 million Americans- Democrats, Republicans and Independents all, Flournoy is a helpful public ser- events, and it raises fears about our will join together to save this blessed vant, a constant symboi of the commu- national security that are not justi- land."e nity. fied. 1744 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1980 The Middle East is not vital to this sive impulses; may not have been all there was the carrying of a big stick while speak­ country because of its oil. It is time we was to Soviet motivation, nor would they ing softly rather than the carrying of a rela­ have sufficed to justify the action; but they tlvely small stick while thundering all over changed our way of thinking about were relevant to it and should have -been the place, who could obJect? But do we not, that troubled area. If we must con­ given their due in any realistic appraisal of by this preoccupation with a Soviet military tinue to rely on oil from shaky sheik­ it. threat ·the reality of which remains to be doms to run our cars. heat o\lr homes. Instead of this, the American view of the proved run the risk of forgetting that the and fuel our factories. we might as Soviet action appears. to have run over- greatest real threats to our seeurtty in t~at well start the "doomsday clock" whelmingly to the assumption that it was a region remain what they have been all moving forward. America must become prelude to aggressive military.moves against along: our self-created dependence on Arab energy-sufficient once again. We have various countries and regions farther afield. oil and our involvement in a wholly unstable No one can guarantee, of course, that one or Israeli-Arab relationship, neither of which the resources. We have the will. We another such move wm not take place. A is susceptible of correction by purely mill­ lack the leadership. war atmosphere has been created. . Discus- tary means, and in neither of which is .the Mr. Speake·r. George Kennan ad­ sion in Washington has been dominated by Soviet Union the major factor? dressed these same issues February 1 talk of American military responses-of the If the Persian Gulf 1s really vital to our in the New York Times. His essay fol­ acquisition of bases and facilities, of the ere- security, it 1s surely we who, by our unre­ lows: ation of a rapid-deployment force, of the strained greed for oil, have made .it so. [From the New York Times, Feb. 1, 19801 cultivation of military ties with other coun- · Would it not be better to set about to elimi­ tries all along Russia's sensitive southern nate. by a really serious and detei'Dlil)ed GEORGE F. KENNAN, ON WASHINGTON's REAC• border. In these circumstances. anything effort. a dependence that ought never have TION TO THE AFGHAN CRISIS: "WAS THIS can happen. But the fact is, this extrava- been allowed to arise, than ·to try to shore REALLY MATURE STATESMANSHIP?" gant view of Soviet motivation rests, to date, up by military means, in a highly unfavor­ .PRINCETON, N.J.-On Christmas Day 1979, exclusively on our own assumptions. I am allle- region, the unsound position Into after more than a century of periodic in­ not aware of any substantiation of it in any- which the dependence has led us? Military. volvement with the internal affairs of its thing the Soviet leaders themselves have force might conceivably become necessary turbulent neighbor, and after many months said or done. On the contrary, Mr. Brezhnev as·a sUpplement to such an effort; it could of futile effort to find a pro-Soviet Afghan has specifically, publlcally and vigorously never be an adequate substitute for it. · figure capable of running the country, the denied any such intentions. The oddest expression of this lack ol bal· Soviet Government suddenly expanded In the light of these .assumptions we have · ance is perhaps in tl)e bilateral measures what wa8 alre'ady a sizeable military involve­ been prodigal with strident public warnings with which we conceive ourselves to have ment in Afghanistan into a full-fledged oc­ to the Russians, some of them issued even punished the Russian action. Aside from cupation, promising that the trool)s would prior to the occupation of Afghanistan, not the fact that it is an open question whom leave when their limited mission had been to attack this place or that, assuring them we punished most by these measures­ accomplished. that if they did so, we would respond by Russia or ourselves-:-we ha•e J)9rtrayed ·This move was not only abrupt-no effort military means. Can this really be sound them as mustrations of what could ·happen had been made to prepare world opinion for procedure? Warnings of this nature are im· to Moscow if it proceeded to one or ·another it-but it was executed with incredible polit· plicit accusations as well as commitments. of the further aggressive acts we credit it ical clumsiness. The pretext offered was an We are speaking here of a neighboring area with plotting. But that is precisely what insult to the intelligence of even the most· of the Soviet Union, not of the United these measures are not; for they represent credulous of Moscow's followers. The world States. Aside from the question of whether cards that have already been played and community was left with rio alternative but we could really back up these pronounce- cannot be played twice. There was never to· condemn the operation in the strongest ments if our hand were to be called, is it any -reason to suppose that the Soviet Gov­ tenns, and it has done so. really wise-is it not in fact a practice preg- ernment, its P:t:estige once. engaged, could be So bizarre was the Soviet actJon that one nant with possibilities for resentment and brought by open pressure of this nature to ·is moved to wonder whence exactly, in the for misreading of signals-to go warning withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. But closely shielded recesses of Soviet policy people publicly not to do things they have this means, then, that we have expended­ making, came the inspiration for it arid the never evinced any inten~ion of doing? for what was reany a hopeless purpose-all political influence to achieve its apptoval. It This distortion in our assessment of the the imp'lrtant nonmilitary cards we con­ was · a move decidedly not in character for Soviet motivation has affected, not unnatu- ceived ourselves as holding in our hand. either Aleksel N. Kosygin or Leonid I. rally, our view of other factors in the Barring a resort to war, the Soviet Govern­ Brezhnev. Andrei A. Gromyko, the insecurity of the present Government, statesmanship on our part? too, is unlikely to have approved it. These its recent callous jeopardizing of the lives of we are now in the danger zone. I can reflections suggest the recent breakthrough, our embassy personnel, its lack of candor think of no instance in modem history to positions of dominant influence, of hard­ about its nuclear programs:-and then to where such a breakdown of political commu­ line elements much less concerned for world invite humilitation by pressing upon it nications and such a triumph of unre­ opinion, but also much less experienced, offers of military aid that elicited . only strained military suspicions as now marks than these older figures. insult and contempt? What else _could ex- Soviet-American relations has not led, in Such a change was·not unexpected bY the plain, in the case of Iran, our sudden the end, to armed conflict. The danger is more attentive Kremlinologists, particularly readiness-if only the hostages were re- heightened by the fact that we do not know, in the light of the recent deterioration of leased-to forget not only their sufferings at this time, with whom we really have to Soviet-American relations, but it was as­ but all the flagburnings, the theatening deal at the Soviet end. If there was ever a sumed that it would take place only in con­ fists, the hate-ridden faces and the cries of time for realism, prudence and restraint in nection with, and coincidental with, the re­ "death to Carter," and to offer to take these American stateSlnanship, it is this one. tirement of Mr. Brezhnev and .other older very people to our bosoms in a. common re- Nothing in the passions of electoral politics Politburo members. That it could occur sistance to Soviet aggressiveness? What else could serve as the slightest. excuse for ignor­ with the .preservation ·of Mr. Brezhnev as a could explain our natve hope that the Arab ingthis necessity.e figurehead was not foreseen. states could be induced, just by the shc:>ck of Be that as it may, this m-considered move Afghanistan, to foreget their differen.ees was bound to be unacceptable to the world with Israel and to Join us in an effort to GNP SLIDES DOWN UNDER community, and the United States had no contain the supposedly power-mad Rus­ alternative but to join in the condemnation sians? CARTER of it in the United Nations. But beyond that This last merits a special word. I have al· point, the American official reaction has re­ ready referred to the war atmosphere in HON. JAMES M. COWNS vealed a disquieting lack of balance, both_in Washington. Never since World· War II has the analysis of the problem and then, not there been so far-reaching a militarization OF TEXAS surprisingly, in the response to it. of thought and discourse in the capital. An IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In the official American interpretation of unsuspecting stranger, plunged into its what occurred in Afghanistan, no serious ac­ midst, could only conclude that the last Monday, February 4, 1980 count a]>pears to have been taken of such hope of peaceful, nonmilitary solutions had e Mr. COLLINS of Texas. Mr. Speak­ specific factors as geographic proximity, been exhausted-that from now on only ethnic affinity of peoples on both sides of weapons, however used, could count. er, jobs for today are essential. Jobs the border, and political instability in what These words are not meant to express op­ are the backbone of our .economy. Men is, after all, a border country'of the Soviet position to a prompt and effective strength­ and women want to see business grow Union. Now, specific factors of this nature, ening of our military capabilities relevant to because thfs means more jobs and all suggesting defensive rather than offen- the Middle East. If what was. involved here ·higher productivity. February 4, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1745 In discussing economic downtrends the Navy facilities in the Manila _area tion required the highest technical caused by the present administration, and invaded the Philippines. In Janu- ability, _together with exceptional clar­ Senator ScHMITT said, "Jim, you ary 1942, with .other American: · civil- · ity, tact, and diplomacy in convincing missed the most important point. laos~ Joe Terry was interned by the reviewing officials of the need for the When Carter became President, our Japanese, He remained a Japanese new facilities. While in this position, real GNP was. growmg at. 5,9 .pere.ent, prisoner for -the next 3 years, first at Mr. Terry received from his supervisor but today we ~e · :at. ·o percent. GNP an internment· camp at Santo Tomas the following commendation -for his progress." · University in Manila and then at a . work: Gross national product must in­ camp in Los Banos on Luzon some 60 Mr· -Terry has profoundly impressed me crease or jobs will be cut back. There miles to the south. with his capacity for thoroughness and for can be no pay raises unless production During his years as a Japanese pris­ his unique ability to reach sound conclu· increases. Teenagers will not be able to oner, Joe Terry exhibited the kind of sions through nia.zes of conflicting and ob­ find new jobs unless GNP increases. leadership and courage which inspired scure data. The joint abilities to perceive all A big part of this problem arises his fellow prisoners to qtaintain hope. phases of a problem 8.nd to seek out the from lack of capital to build and mod­ Statements by his fellow prisoners in-­ buried heart of a problem set him apart as a ernize plant and machinery: Govern­ dicate the extent of his influence. person of unusually keen intellect. . . . Whfle ~his present position Mr. Terry has ment wastes too much from excessive One, William F. McCandlish, states: been calied upon to perforin a wide variety taxes and leaves too little capital for I Just cannot praise Joe enough for the of work covering the entire research effort business to reinvest for improving pro­ wonderful Job he did in maintaining morale of the Bureau of Ordnance. He has im· duction. at a high level under circumstances which pressed me by his ability to grasp the tech­ Under President Carter the entire were not too good for morale to begin with. nical phases of research activity in its multi­ country is sliding downhill. He took Another, Frank 0. Mortlock, echoes tudinous ramifications and still maintain a American inflation at 4.8 percent and the same sent1ment: level-headed understanding of administra­ tive problems. He can do equally fine work bh~ spending has raised it to a stagger­ A happy combination of competence, per­ in trouble-shooting, planning or administra­ ing 14 percent. The bank prime inter­ sonality, and physical fitness made Joe a tion. est rate was 6.2 percent and Carter's natural leader of men. Under the most pressure on money has caused it to trying of circumstances, folks felt comforted In. the early 1950's the Navy estab­ rise to 15 percent. by Joe's presence and his good spirits.•.. lished a factlity for the evaluation of He gave of himself beyond What was re­ the guided missiles which were being The world has lost confidence in quired in the Camp Labor Code and shared Carter's financial program and runs whatever he had with those less fortunate scheduled to go into service with the from the American dollar, as gold than he. fleet. That facliity, which developed zoomed from $125 to $680 an ounce. into the Missile Evaluation Depart­ And a third, Robert B. Jones, has ment of the Naval Ordnance Labora­ All of these Carter programs cause this to say: American production to lose momen­ tory at Corona, Calif., was headed by a I have always admired Joe for his honesty Navy engineer who had been a friend tum with the GNP dropping from 5.9 and concern for his fellow man which was percent to 0 percent.e proved· over and over.... He was a hero to and fellow prisoner of Joe Terry's at all of the youngsters throughout imprison­ Santo Tomas and Los Banos. That en­ ment, and I don't know of any man who did gineer persuaded Joe to leave his job JOSEPH E. TERRY-AN EXEMPLA­ not respect him at all times. in Washington, D.C., and to take part RY CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEE Following the. liberation of the pris­ in the challenging task of evaluating oners at Los Banos by the American these new weapons of warfare. In No­ HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. forces in February 1945, Mr. Terry vember 1954, Mr. Terry ·accepted the OF. CALIFORNIA position of Assistant Head of the Mis­ spent a month in a rest 'camp in the sile Evaluation Department, NOLC. IN THE HOUSE OF RzyRESENTATIVES Philippines and was then returned to Since that time, Mr. Tenoy has been Monday, February 4, 1980 the United States. At that time he became an employee of the Naval Ord­ an integral part of the Navy's missile • Mr. BROWN of Californi~. Mr. nance Laboratory, White Oak, Silver evaluation program at Corona. Begin­ Speaker, at a time when the civil serv­ Spring, Md. As a member of the Re­ ning with a project for the analysis of ice employees of this country are search Management Division_ of that Terrier ship-launched missile firing coming under criticism from various laboratory, he participated in the -performance, that program expanded quarters, I think it worthwhile to call planning and development of numer­ to cover the evaluation of ail Navy tac­ attention to one civil service employee ous research programs, including one tical missiles, both ship- ancl air­ whose career stands as a model of de· at Point Barrow, Alaska. An associate lalJnched, as well as quality·assurance votion to public service. In that career, of his at that time, James p.. Light• of the Navy's fleet ballistic missile which will draw to a close in February foot·, states that: weapon systems Polaris, Poseidon, and 1980, the employee of whom I speak. Joe was outstanding at NOLin the man­ Trident. The work has involved leader­ has exhibited the qualities of integri­ agement of personnel and facilities. His ship in the use of high-speed digital ty, dedication, and selflessness over good technical background plu:; a dandy computers for the processing not only the span of his illustrious career. personality made him a natural in the re­ of performance data but missile pro­ Joseph E. Terry was raised on a cruitment, placement, and management of duction · data and other information small farm. on Long Island. Early in scientific and engineering personnel and in relative to. missile evaluation. It ha.S life he showed the determination, the sponsoring and directing of technical also involved pioneering efforts in the good will, and sense of humor which projects for the Navy. · development of equipment and tech­ were to accompany him throughout Mr. Terry's outstanding work at niques for obtaining accurate and his life. In June 1936, near the lowest NOL Whit~ Oak led to his being of­ meaningful missile evaluation data, in­ point of the depression, he graduated fered a position on the scientific staff cluding telemetric data. At present, from Cornell University with a degree of the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance in the program includes the direct sup­ in electrical engineering, and for the Washington, D.C.-a position which port of fleet firing exercises through following 3 years was employed in pri­ he accepted in October 1949. ~ In that the operation of six telemetry installa­ vate industry.~ In December 1940 he position he·was responsible for the de­ tions located at the NATO allied Mis­ became a contract physicist with the velopment, coordination, · and support sile Firing Installation, Crete; Roose­ Navy's Bureau of Ordnance, where he of military construction projects for velt Roads, Puerto Rico; Oceana, Va.; worked on antimagnetic projects de­ all BuOrd research activities, includ­ Cherry Point, N.C.; Mount Cabuyo, gau~ing ships and submarines; and in ing NOL White Oa~. ·the Naval Avi­ Republic of the Philippines; and 'April 1941, he signed a 1-year contract ation Ordnance Test Station at Chin­ White Beach, Okinawa. Program per­ to establish a degaussing station at the coteague, the Naval Ordnance Missile sonnel are also operating· the Navy's Naval Station, Cavite, Philippine Is­ Test Facility at the White Sand& Prqv­ air combat maneuvering ranges at lands. He was at Cavite on December ing Ground. and the Naval Ordnance Yuma, Ariz., and at Oce~a. Va., 10, 1941, whtm the· Japanese attacked Test Station at China Lake. This post- which provide realistic training in air CXXVI--111-Part 2 1746 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1980 combat to Navy, Marine Corps, and tion, the increased breadth of responsibility, and shopping center displays. demon­ Air Force fighter pilots. · and the increased significance of technical strations, reports ·to mayors, and other contributions that the ·Station has· per­ related events. During the 25 years that he has formed .•. Your versatility, managerial ca­ been associated with this program, Mr. pability, and overall outstanding perform­ Other activities scheduled through­ Terry has played a .key role in its ance are reflected in the· attitude and out the year includ"e the Reader's design, development, and implementa­ output_of the personnel you supervise.e Digest Association-Boy Scouts of tion. Evidence of his accomplishments America Public Speaking Contest. is provided by the numerous commen­ Twelve regional winners selected on a dations he has received from higher SRI LANKA OBSERVES 32D ANNI­ competitive basis from _among an origi­ authority, including three superior VERSARY OF iNDEPENDENCE nal 2,000 participants will vie for performance awards. His sound techni­ $11,500 in college scholarships at the cal ability, together with his adminis­ contest finals on February 6 at Wash­ trative and supervisory skills, have en­ HON. GUS YATRON ington's Hyatt Regency Hotel. abled him to make major contribu­ OF PENN$YLVANIA Also, a revitalized emphasis on out­ tions in the evolution of the missile IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES door living skills will be seen with evaluation organization from a depart­ Monday, February 4, '1980 many ecology; and energy-related ac­ ment of the Naval Ordnance Labora­ e Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, Febru­ tivities; inclUding, President Carter's tory, Corona, to a separate and inde­ ary 4 is a day of great importance to energy conservation award program pendent act~vity-the Fleet Missile the people of Sri Lanka as this day for Boy Scouts, together with Proje~t Systems Analysis and Evaulation commemorates the 32d anniversary of SOAR-save our Amerfoan resources. Group-in 1962. Mr. Terry served a:s their independence from the British Instead of merely expressing criticism," Assistant Technical Director of Crown. Scouts are assuming an active, con­ FMSAEG from 1962 until 1973, at The proud nation of Sri Lanka structive role in cleaning up their envi­ which time he became Technical Di­ has dis­ ronment and restoring acres .of land rector. In 1971 the activity b~came an back to its or.iginal beauty. annex of the Naval Weapons Station, tinguished itself by the staunch pro­ Over the years, we have seen evi­ Seal Beach, and in 1976 its name wa.S motion .of world peace, the upholding dence· that these programs have been changed to the Fleet Analysis Center. of" human rights and the striving to very successful in preparing our youth It is from the post of Technical Direc­ create comprehensive and effective in­ to meet the-future with courage, and a tor of the. Fleet Analysis Center that ternal policies for its people. deep commitment to contribute to the Mr. Terry· will be retiring in February The people and the Government of growth of their community and coun­ 1980. - Sri Lanka are committed to establish­ ing a growing economy while main­ try-both morall-y and spi:ritually. In addition to his work directly con­ taining democratic liberties and pro­ As I have stated on numerous occa­ nected with Navy missile evaluation, viding a wide spectrmn of needed Gov­ sions·, I always enjoy recalling With Mr. Terry served from 1964 through ernment services. Their dedication to sincere appreciation the experiences 1967 on the Policy Bo~rd of the U.S. these ends has been praised by many and adventures that were mine as a Naval Laboratories in California, countries throughout the world. Boy Scout, and I firmly believe that Board of U.S. Civil Service Examiners the basic concepts of this fine organi·. for Scientists and Engineers at Pasa­ To the people of Sri Lanka I express zation cannot fail to generate a deep dena, and as Chairman of its successor my continuing sentiments of support realization of one's duty to God and organization; the Professional Council on this 32d anniversary celebration of country as well as a keen respect for for Scientists and Engineers. In Janu­ independence. I ~ow that my col­ the fundamental rights of all people. ary 1973, he received a letter from leagues will join with me in commend­ Ing the Government and people of Sri ·This group of young- men character­ then Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Lanka for their dedication to democra­ ize· the qualities every individual Laird thanking Mr. Terry for the sup­ cy and liberty and in wishing them should possess-a pride in each other port which he gave the President's and themselves. Their goal-to contin­ Inter-Agency Economic Adjustment every success in the future .• ue to improve and shape a bigger and Committee in its efforts to alleviate brighter world. In these troubled the economic . impact of Defense deci­ BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-1980 times, their desire to do a good turn sions that _adversely affected commu­ daily_makes Scouting the better life.e nities and individuals. Mr. Terry has also served the interests of the Navy HON. WILUAM H. NATCHER through his work as Director of the DR. TIM LEE CARTER: "A PLEA OF KENTUCKY FOR LIFE" Corona-Riverside Navy League Coun­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cil. Mr. Terry's contributions to the Monday, February 4, 1980 HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN Navy and the American people as e Mr. NATCHER. Mr. Speaker, the OF CALIFORNIA Techni~al Director of the Fleet Analy­ famous Scout motto, "Be Prepared," is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRF,:SENTATIVES sis Center were perhaps best summa­ most applicable as the 4.1 million rized by the Commanding Officer of members of Boy Scouts of America Monday, February 4,1980 the. Naval Weapons Station, Seal prepare to celebrate the 70th anniver­ • Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, Iio Beach, in a commendation to Mr. sary of their organization during issue before the House- is as divisive Terry several years ago. After citing Scouting Anniversary Week, February and emotional as abortion. Our last Mr. Terry's "extraordinary ability in 3-9, 1980. vote on this question was on a bill de­ managing a large engineering function Incorporated on February 8, 1910, signed to provide preventive health as well as a complex data management and chartered by Congress in 1916, the care for the poorest children of Amer­ system an"d an extensive interface wit_h Boy Scouts of America exists to pro­ ica-the child health assurance pro­ the Fleet," the Commanding Officer vide an e-ducational program· for boys gram-reported from my Subcommit­ stated: and young adults, designed to train in tee on Health and the Environment. You have managed over 600 employees in the full accomplish­ fitness, thus to. help in the develop­ care for the 5 million children who do ment of your most difficult mission. Your ment of American citizens. not now get it. contributions to the Station's professionlism in the areas of technical, financial, adminis­ Under the theme, "Scouting-the The antiabortion amendment on the tration, and personnel management are Better· Life," Scouts from Maine to floor sought to eliminate all Govern­ truly outstanding. The quality of yotir lead­ Hawaii-participating in.Scouting Anni­ ment .funding for abortion except ership is exemplified in the number of let­ versary Week will mark the celebra­ where the life of the mother was en­ ters of commendation received by the Sta- tion with spec-ial dinners, storefront dangered. It sought to eliminate cur- February 4, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1747 rent provisions of law which allow for Some congressmen privately admit that A TRIBUTE TO JIMMY LEA abortions ln circumstances involving they don't agree with t~e single•minded rape or incest. "pro-life'' forces, but fear to vote otherwise. HON. JOHN J. RHODES It was Dr. CARTER who spoke· so elo­ Some of the latter won't even concede tha,t a mother's life should have pri9rity over OF ARIZONA quently againSt the awful limitations IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of this amendment. In the highest tra­ that of a foetus, if only one can survive. (A "pro-life" bill before the 1980 Kentucky leg­ Thursday, January 31, 1980 ditions of his profes~ion, he asked the islature embraces that view. It would forbid House to affirm life and human digni­ publicly 'financed abortions even to save the' e Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, I join ty by rejecting the blind language of mother.> So these congressmen betray their my colleagues in the House in our ap­ the antiabortion proposal. No state­ own consciences, knowing that the Senate, preciation·for the quarter of a century ment was more characteristic of the its six-year terms better insulating members of service to the Congress given so gra­ man or the concerns he consistently from emotional tides in the electorate, will cious~y by Jimmy Lea. He has been has represented. repair at least the worst of the damage. around almost during the entire time I The Louisville Courier-Journal has This doesn't do anything, of course, for have been in the Congress, and he is recognized Dr. CARTER'S courage and the girl or woman-often desperate-who is one of those unsung efficient kind of the strength of his convictions in a poor but hasn't been raped and doesn't oth­ people who do so much to keep House recent editorial. I am honored to erwise qualify for federal help. The way procedures moving along. As clerk of insert that editorial into the RECORD: matters stand in this country_, abortions the Official Recorder of Debates, he are a has had a job that demanded detail [From the who Many citize~ saw fairness and wisdom in TWENTY ·YEARS AFTER THE can't afford it and aren't presently eligible the Supreme Court decision. They knew of for government heip. ,;TRIESTE" DIVE The speaker was Kentucky Republican the horrors of clandestine abortions. They Tim Lee Carter, who will retire from the acknowledged. the injustice of congressional House this year after eight terms. He's a curbs on the right of poor women to medical HON. PAUL N. McCLOSKEY, JR. doctor and very much opposes·abortion, as a attention· legally available to those with OF CALIFORNIA general rule. Yet he recognizes that there money. Above all, they supported a woman;s IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are certain situations, particularly rape and right to reject one of life's ultimate cruel­ incest, · in which a woman's life can be ties: bringing into the world an unwanted Monday, February 4, 1980 ruined if child. e .Mr. McCLOSKEY. Mr. Speak~r. last she is denied medical help in time. Those Americans haven't been as well or· year 53 of our colleagues asked the But most House members vote differently ganized or miu:le as much noise as the "pro­ President to dedicate the 1980's as a on even these situations. They have done so lifers." But they have sensitivities, too, and decade for ocean resource use and since the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling that they may be in a majority. It wouldn't take management. It is appropriate that ·we states may not Interfere with a woman's much to make theih angry enough to do do so. The oceans are a frontier which right to an abortion during the first three some shouting of their own. months of pregnancy and may impose only have not been developed to their full health regulations during the second three Maybe they won't have to. The Supreme potential, ~nd which must be, if we months. Every year, the House votes to Court agreed in November to consider var­ hope to ·maintain our standard of forbid Medicaid financing of abortions ious lower-court findings that Congress is living and raise the standard of living .except to save the life of the mother. IIi acting unconstitutionally in refusing federal of those who are currently less fortu­ 1977 and 1978 , it agreed to on welfare. And a U.S. district Judge in New a further exception: when two doctors agree York ruled earlier this month, in a sweeping Much of the groundwork for this de­ that continued pregnancy would result in decision four years· in the making, that the velopment has been done. The 1980's severe and long-lasting damage to the moth­ congressional restrictions violate individual will se~ the development of the miner­ er's health. But even this was dropped last rights of due process and of religious free­ als and petroleum of the deep seabed year. dom. If upheld on appeal, this would vastly· which was made possiDle only through The Senate, fortunately, has . been less expand the original Supreme Court ruling the technological'· advances made in rigid. One can criticize its agreeing to severe based on the right of privacy. the 1970's. The 1980's will also see in­ limitations on tax-paid abortions. But at Such a finding, of course, would be enor­ tensified fishing efforts which will be least it. insists on extending such funding to mousiy divisive. The "pro-lifers" feel deeply subject to manage1}lent regimes result­ cover cases of rape and incest, too. The that anyone defending abortion is-as a Senate has managed to prevail in reconcil­ ing from the imposition of fisheries ing differences between the two houses. Pre­ Kentucky lawmaker told the Frankfort management zones and the develop­ sumably if will prevail again ·this time, if it Right to Life rally last week-"really pro­ ment of biologically sound· manage­ death." But it is o.ur greatness as a n~tion passes the Child He~lth Assurance Program ment practices during the 1970's. In bill on which Representative Carter worked that we put such store by individual rights, addition, research during the past sev­ so long and hard. and that we recognize the. need to respect eral decades has resulted in the devel­ differences of opinion. opment of new uses and markets for IN PUBLIC, PRINCIPLES VANISH Dr. Tim Lee Carter would be the last marine life including underutilized Any Congressman, actually, can explain person anyone could fairly accuse of being species of fish, marine plants, and why the Senate wins on the rape/incest pro-death. Yet he eloquently _pleads that the abortion issue can have more than one other marine organisms. issue. Senators represent statewide constitu­ One of the Pioneers of basic oceans encies. And House elections are so close to­ dimension. Cannot the "pro-lifers" concede gether that campaigning to hold onto seats the same? Cannot they grant the possibility research i§ Don Walsh, currently di­ in that body never stops. So its members that others may be equally- concerned about rector of tbe Institute for Marine and dread divisive, emotional issues that can life but see the issue from a different' per­ Coastal Studies of the ·University of enrage large blocs of smgle-issue voters. spective on what being human, and in a free Southern California. Don has spent a Abor-tion is such an issue. America. is all about?e lifetime studying the oceans and is one 1748 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1980 of this country's experts in their use bathysphere is attached to the mother ship the Navy Electronics Laboratory: at for commercial, scientific, and military by the cable, any motion of the surface ship San Diego, California. I joined the project results in a similar motion of the ball. Thus at NEL in December 1958 and by March was purposes. One. of Doli's early projects, lf there were eight foot .high waves at the appointed Officer-in-Charge of the bathy­ involving both scientific and military surface the ball would also move up and seaph Trieste, a position I .held until leaving aspects ' of oceans research, was his down eight feet. This would make it very the project three years later. participation in the bathyscaph difficult to do ariy preciSion observations Essentially the bathyscaph has two major Trieste's dive to the bottom. of the close to the seafloor. Finally there is the components, the float and the Marianas Trench-the deepest known problem of "cracking the whip" when the cabin. The float is filled with a lighter-than­ place in the oceans. I am inserting in motion of the mother ship and the length water liquid; in the ca.Se of Trieste it was the RECORD a copy of Don's account of of cable are out of phase. If the whip aviation gasoline. This provided the buoyan­ motion is severe . enough, the ball can be cy, or lift, required to carry the weight of his experience which illustrates the snapped right off the end. A .better "inner­ the vehicle and its payload into the ocean's depths that some dedicated people go space ship" was needed. depths. to learn more about.the oceans: Professor Auguste Piccard was a Swiss The cabin was simply a steel sphere with VOYAGE TO THE BO'rTOM OF THE SEA physicist who was active in the study of very thick (5-7 inches) walls designed to submersible in cause the Earth's atmosphere shields this "shirtsleeve comfort". Inside the cabin the TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE TRIESTE DIVE radiation from space, Professor Piccard pressure was almost always at atmospheric Nearly twenty years J~,go two men crowded became an accomplished alpinist taking his pressure, so we did not have to contend with into the cramped interior of the United equipment up mountains to higher altitudes any of the pressure problems faced by States Navy's Bathyscaph Trieste. They to reduce thU; shielding effect. But this was divers. were loeated at a spot about 200 miles not enough and he designed a high altitude To submerge the bathyscaph it had to be southwest of the island of Guam in the free balloon to get better numbers for his made heavier than water. To slow down the Western Pacific. More significantly, they research. Incidental to getting the figures rate of descent, stop, or to ascend to the sur­ were just above the deepest known place in he set several altitude records. He was not face weight had to be gotten rid of to make the oceans: the Challenger Deep in the Mar­ only a good scientist, he was also a creative it become positively buoyant. For surface ianas Trench. and effective engineer. His book, Earth, Sky buoyancy the float had two large ballast Nine hours later, when they returned to and Sea is ·a delightful account of his scien­ tanks, one at each end of the float, which the surface, they brought with them the tific adventures in these ·three environ­ were filled with air during surface oper­ world's depth record. The official depth for ments. ations. To submerge, the air was' vented off the Challenger Deep dive was determined to Even before his balloon exploits Piccard and the Trieste became heavier than water. be 35,800 fee,t, almost seven miles down. has thought about applying the concepts of Weight reduction was through an ingenious But was this bit of exploration two dec­ the free balloon to an undersea craft. This system which employed two large contain­ ades ago just an event to gain publicity or would give the desired independence from ers hanging on the underside of did it have a real purpose? And what impact surface sbip and its cable tether. He began the float. Each container held about eight is to be seen today from this early pioneer­ the design of the first bathyscaph , was test dived. While it performed well both shot tubs could be jettisoned instantly. fessor Auguste Piceard, and how it eventual­ as a submersible, it had many deficiencies as Limited mobility at the seafloor was pro­ ly joined the United States Navy. a surface craft. Considerable modification vided by three small electrical maneuvering To set the scene we should go back about was called for and·the FNRS-2 was taken to motors mounted on the float. This did not fifty years to 1930-1934 when the American the French Navy yard at Toulon for rebuild-· make a submarine out of Trieste; mobility zoologist, Professor William Beebe was ex­ ing. In the early 1950s, prior to completion was limited to a few thousand feet from perimenting with his bathysphere in the of the conversion of the FNRS-2, into the where it landed. waters near Bermuda. Beebe and Engineer new FNRS-3, the Piccards left the French Navy control camera and strobe lights for the ment. program. They had been offered the oppor­ camera. Beebe's logic was simple. Why deny scien­ tunity to build a completely new bathy­ Basically, the bathyscaph represented a tists direct observations simply because the scaph to be supported by several sponsors in simple, effective means for the oceanogra­ research site was covered by ocean water? Italy. The principal sponsor was the City of pher to do in situ work. This very simple so­ On land biologists and geOlogists made Trieste. lution to a difficult set of oroblem.S is a direct observations in the field. But in the In mid-1953 the Bathyscaph Trieste was monument to the genius of Auguste Piccard. oceans the marine scientist was forced to launched at Castellemare di Stabia near Trieste had joined the United States Navy lower .various gadgets into the sea to bring Naples. By coincidence the French Nayy at the age of five. Though it was to be used up often mutilated samples. These artificial launched FNRS-3 at this same time. The to advance Navy interests in deep ocean re­ hands and eyes were poor substitutes for world now had two bathyscaphs. search, the first major task was to get the direct o~ervation. From 1953 to 1957 the Piccards operated submersible ready for its uitimate test, a The Beebe bathysphere was simply an Trieste on a variety of test and scientific dive to the deepest part ·of the ocean. · - iron ball which was fitted with ports for ob­ projects in the Mediterranean. However the The batqyscaph made its first dive as a servation and photography. An entrance cost of operating such a complex piece of Navy unit in December, 1958. This was a hatch provided scientific equipment made it clear to the checkout for the Navy crew of military and access for the two-man crew. The ball was Piccards that they would have to find a civilian personnel who had been assigned to then lowered by a cable into the sea. Electri­ permanent long-term sponsor for their the project at NEL. Jacques Piccard and his cal power and communications with the sur­ submersible. engineer, Giuseppe Buono, completed the face were through a second cable. In 1957 the United States Navy's Office of team. Buono had been with the Trieste Beebe's classic book Half Mile Down is an Naval Research sponsored a series of since its construction when he was the proj­ eloquent tribute to his imagination and his scientific dives with the .Trieste at Capri. ect foreman in the Italian shipyard and was dedicated team. The narrative of their This program permitted American oceanog­ in charge topside during diving operations. thirty-second dive in August, 1934 to 3,028 raphers from several different disciplines Piccard and Buono were brought to NEL feet is as exciting as any epic· of exploration.

t February 4, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1749 San Diego. From this vantage point I saw the support facilities we would require, lay Jacques Piccard and n;ayself nine hours to the depths of the ocean as few others had. only 200 miles from the Challenger Deep. complete. We were well beyond the penetration- of Less than two months after we had tested At 300 feet we encountered the thermo­ sunlight and were intO the domain of biolu· Trieste in its new configilration off San cline, a layer where the water temperature minescence, seeing, animal forms not found Diego, we had the :submel'Sible back tn the drops sharply. Since the cold water, was in any aquarium collection• . water at Guam for a post-a.SsemblY test ·dive.· denser· than the water we had beeri p'assing During that .. ;;p:flng, whUe we were busy Somehow otlr sm~ project team of fifteen through, we became relativeiy more ·buoy­ learning how to use Trieste, a much more people had gotten tons· of equipment ant and stopped. We had expected this.·Part important asj)ect of the project was being packed; the bathyseaph diSassembled into of our standard diving procedure was to use worked out: our pian to take the submers­ severalo ·major components; had got our-. this brief halt as an opportunity to make· a ible to the deepest place in the· ocean. Not selves out of Guam, and back In operation final instrument check. Then, by releasing a only was a great deal of preparation in­ in about six weeks time. little gasoline from our maneuvering tank, volved, but also many technical changes to Our plan was to conduct. a series of in· we got rid of some of our excess buoyancy the bathyscaph were necessary; Fortunate­ creasingly deeper dives untU we felt all was and started down agatn. ly, Lieutenant Larry Shumaker, an Annap­ ready for the deepest dive. BY 15 November At about 600 feet· we entered a zone of olis classmate of mine and a former ship­ 1959, Plccard and Rechnitzer brought the deepening twilight where colors faded off mate in submarines, joined the project as world's depth record home to the United into gray. By 1,000 feet the light :ttad gone Assistant Officer-in Charge. Larry immedi­ States with a dive to 18,150 feet. The previ­ completely. We turned out the lights in the ately took over responsibilities for the tech­ ous record had been 13,500 feet set by the sphere to watch for the luminescent crea­ nical side, under the careful guidance of Pic· French Navy's FNRS-3 off Dakar in West tures that are sometimes visible at this card and Buono. This left- Die free to work Africa in January 1954. level. We saw · very few. Eventually we out the planning detaUs for Project Nekton, But on this dive we also develQ~ a diffi­ turned the cabin l12hts back on and brietJy the name we had given to the deep-dive pro­ culty with the sphere that gave us some real tested the forward lights that throw a beam gram, wor~g closely with our project's problems. The Krupp sphere was made in in front o! the obsei'Vatton window. Form­ Chief Scientist Dr. Andreas B. Rechnitzer. three ring-like sections, held together by less Dlankton streamed past• .giving us a sen­ In the mid-1950s Andv Rechnitzer was a epoxy glue. In theory the water pressure, sation of great speed. marine biologist, fairly fresh out of his even at the surface, was sufficient to hold we·were now dropping 'fast, at about four training at Scripps, when he took a position the pieces in alignment. The epoxy was to feet per second. It was getting colder, and in the Marine Sciences Program at the Navy keep the .Joint. watertight and provide me­ we decided to put on dry clothing. It was Electronics Laboratory. When he heard chanical strength to hold the sphere togeth· quite· an operation: two grown men chang­ about the Office of Naval Research dives at er when it was out of the water. But because ing clothes in a space thirty-eight inches Capri with Trieste he got himself Invited as of the different metallic masses of the rinp square and only five feet, eight inches high. a participant. On 20 July 1957 _Andy made the epoxy glue taUed. The two outer ring&, There were minor incidents such as the his first dive and like myself, he was a con­ containing the entrance hatch and the view­ small leak that always developed in one of firmed "deep submerger'' from then on. As port, were much larger masses of steel than the hull connectors-a place where wires part of the post-dive review team for ONR, the center rlrul. ·Thus when the rings were from Hghts and instruments on the outside Andy was able to lend his voice to those warmed or cooled, they tended to expand of the sphere pass through the hull. The who wanted the Navy to buy the submers­ and .contract at different ·rates, the thinner leak started at about 10,000 feet. It was an Ible for undersea research. Furthermore he ring reacting more quickly. On the dive to old friend, a tiny drip, drip, drip. I timed the made a convincing case for bringing lt to the u~.ooo feet the sphere got very cold in drips and found no change from before, Navy laboratory at San Diego; He pointed watem where the temperature approached which meant that it had not become more out that this location offered deep water 33 F. When the submersible surfaced this serious. We expected it to disappear at near the coast, year-round goocf operating very_cold metal was bathed til surface water about 15,000 feet, when the water pressure weather, and the proximity of major Navy of about 80 F. With such severe stress on packed the plastic sealer in more tightly­ support facilities ana equipment. However, the epoxy Joint the glue finally pulled awa;y and lt did. his most Important act, In my view, was that with a great bang. Up to this point we had managed to main­ he recruited me Into the Trieste program! Whlle there was no danger of flooding we tain voice contact with the people on the were.coneemed about the small qyantltY of surface, using ProJect Nekton's specially de­ By the late spring of 1959 I had taken our seawater that was seeping through the veloped underwater telephone. Project Nekton plan to the to the Navy De­ partment and had gotten approval for it. Joint. The fQrmatlon of rust in the interio1 But now, at 15,000 feet, we lost them-possi­ The Navy approved the program but we Joint faces might cause a reduction ot bly because they were a good distance from were· directed to maintain a very low proflle strength. It was clear that we would have to us laterally as well as vertically. We were and not encourage any publicity or public put Trieste back Into her drydock, disassem­ truly on out own now- except for a crude announcement of our intentions. In fact, ble the sphere and work out a way to seali~. system of tone signals we had arranged. By one very senior naval officer, the Chief of We cleaned the sphere Joints carefully and means of a special keY' the underwater tele­ Naval Operations, told me that lf the Trl· sealed them with compounds and rubber phone can send out a tone that sounds strips from the outside. Our wizard machin­ some~hing like· a radio time signal. These este did not surface from the deep dive the ist, Navy Chief Petty Officer Jon .Michel, two men In lt would be the lucky ones! The carry fatther than voice transmission. In Implication was that those people left on designed and buUt a system of m:etal banda our code, all even numbered signals are for the surface would feel the full weight of his that would mechanically bind the sphere good news: two means allis well, four means wrath. This was a pretty full order . tor a rings together. We gave up on trying to glue we are on the bottom; six means we are on it again and instead relled on a mechanical the way up. The bad messages come in odd young lieutenant, but my quick educatton In fastening system. Even at that, we could not numbers: three means we are'havlng me­ how the }iavy makes decisions had paid off get all three rings in perfect alignment, chanical difficulty and are coming up but and we had olir green light to proceed. they were about 0.008 of an inch off, but not in distress, five means something has Concurrently ·Trieste was undergoing since the Joints were about five inches wide, gone wrong and we are coming up 1n an major modifications at the Navy's Ship we felt we had a good margin of safety. emergency. We never had to use the odd Repair Facility In San Diego. Basically we Needless to say, we did not bother to feed -numbem. needed to lricrease lts working depth capa­ our lnisgivtngs to superiom in Washington At 27,000 feet we checked our rate of de· bfilty ·trom 20,000 to about 40,000 feet. To or NEL. I knew we would probably be or­ scent to two feet per second by dumping do this we had to increase the gasoline ca­ dered home and that would be the end of some shot ballast. We were not too sure of pacity of the float , add more shot our attempt at the Challenger Deep. Since I the underwater currents here and we did ballast capacity and install a new· aphere was to make the deeo dive. J felt no one not want to go crashing into a wall of the that had greater depth capability. The first woula be more concerned about the poten· trench by mistake. As we neared 30,000 feet two items were done ln San Diego, but the tial safety of Trieste than I would. That I started thlnklng.about the changes we had new sphere had to come from the Krupp notion was to be my guide for the work that planned to make when we got·within 1,000 Works In Germany. Nevertheless, lt all was to follow. feet or so ot the bottom-which we now came together surprisingly quickly and by During the Christmas holidays we took were expecting to find only another 3,500 the late summer Trieste was back at NEL advantage of ·the quiet time to test the feet below us. I was running through a ready to begin local test dives. Trieste's new sphere joints ·and to train mental checklist when we heard and felt a The first dive was the eleventh of Septem­ Rechnitzer, Shumaker and myself as bath· pow~rful, muffled craek. The sphere rocked ber, followed by a second one four days yscaph pUots. By January, 1960 we were as though .we were on land and going later. We were pleased with the results and ready to resume our dive· series. and the through a mild earthquake. quickly began the business of dlsman~ Navy had its first three submersible pllots. We waited anxiously for what might' the bathyscaph for shipment to Guam In On January 8 we dove to 23.000 teet in the happen next. Nothing dld. We flipped off the Western Pacific. Nero Deep near Guam and on the twenty­ the instruments and the underwater tele­ One of the more fortunate aspects of our third of that month .we were ready for the phone so that we could hear better. Still plan tor ProJect Nekton was the proxlmlty profoundest plunge of all-the Challenger nothing hapoened. We switched the instru­ to Guam, where a major Navy baBe with all Deep. This final dive in Project Nekton took ments back on and studied the dials that 1750 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1980

would tell us if something critical ha~ ~- From late 1960 until I left the Trieste Pro­ sports opportunities available to all curred. No, we had our equilibrium J(nd gram in mid-1962 we operated at San Diego students. · were descending exactly as befote. irt support of various Navy research proj- Elected to the Manor School We dumped more ballast, checking our ects. Among the$e were seafloor studies, speed to one foot per. sec:ond. At 33,000 feet.· acoustics, deep scattering layer investiga­ Board-later to become part of the only about 600 feet (iff" the exnect.e~rbottom, tions and gravity measurements. Also we Hempfield Area District--in 1948, he we turned on· our:. -sensitive . ·fathemeter, spent nearly nine months doing a complete always has assumed an active and ag. which always before had quickly and· ·a.ccu- reconstruction of the. Trieste to reflect the gressive role. ·He Is considered by the rately picked up the floor. for us. It showed lessons learned in the submersible's first faculty, ad.niinlstration, · students, and nothing. seven years of operation. This gave us ave- district residents, to be a true asset. We checked our speed to half a foot a hicle that was much more capable for scien­ Without ,4oubt, they are saddened by second and continued. At that rate, time tific ·and technical -work' than the Trieste his retirement. and distance pass very slowly, and I think that the Navy purchased three years earlier. for the first time in the dive both of us ha.d New lights, cameras, instruments and sam· A brief capsulization of his service the feeling of awe that comes from explor- piing devices were developed. The first sub­ speaks well for his dedication over the ing the totally unknown. mersible applications of TV, CTFM sonar years. It is as follows: 1948-53 member I did not take my eyes off the fathometer and remotely operated manipulator were de· Manor School Board, 1954-61 Hemp­ and JacQues never stopped watching out of veloped. In addition, the Trieste team, de· field J9int School Committee, 1957-64 the tiny porthole with its weak probe of signed systems that made the submersible president, Westmoreland County light. No bottom was In sight at 36,60& feet, easier to service and handle at sea; new bat· School Board, 1961-63 president, or at 37,200. But at last at 37,500 feet the tery modules that Increased available Hempfield Area School Board, 1968-79 fathometer traced the beginnings of the power, . and techniques which improved bottom. Soon Jacques could see a difference operational safety. vice president and president, Hemp­ in the effect of our light in the water, as the But Trieste was still the only operational field Area School Board, 1977-79 vice rays ·reflected off the bottom. As we ap. submersible in the Navy and only one of president and president -of Westmore­ proached the floor I called the fathometer four in the world. We therefore spent a con· land County Vocational-Technical readings to Jacques in fathoms: "Thirty . . . siderable amount of our time at our "second School. twenty •.. ten ..." At eight, he called that job": the sellinJ of deep submergence to the It is a pleasure to bring the remark· he could see the gray-white bottom. Navy. It was not a task taken lightly since able and admirable service of this fine As we sank through the clear water near there were many who wanted to scrap the man your attention and the atten­ the bottom, we had a tremendous piece of Trieste once it had set the world's record for to luck. Peering through the tiny porthole, . the Navy. We In the project saw the record tion of our colleagues~ Hempfield Area Jacques spotted a fish. It appeared to be dive a little differently. This adventure -School Dlst:rict is fortunate to have browsing, searching for food along the helped us to gain access to the policy benefited by his leadership, wisdom, . ocean floor. It looked like a sole or flounder, makers who could help see that such pro­ and insight. He has been a fine modei flat with eyes on the side of its head. It was grams were supported and expanded. I • for those board members who will about a foot long. Our sudden appearance In guess we were successful In a general way carry on as Mr. Lauffer retires.e his domain, with our great light casting illu· because nearly 100 subm'ersibles have bee~ mination such as he had never seen before, built throughout the world since then. did not seem to bother him at all. After we While only about eleven have been United had been "!atching him for .a minute, he States Navy, the early Navy designs for the IOWA QUARRY OPERATORS: swam slowly off into the darkness again, submersibles and development of their sys· BEING "INSPECTED TO DEATH" beyond the range of our light. terns have influenced most of those that- At 1:10 p.m. we sank g:ntly onto the soft have come after them. floor. A great cloud of silt rose around us. . Looking back over two decades since we HON.THO~J.TAUKE We had found the bottom at 37,800 feet,' made our "voyage to the· bottom of the sea" OF IOWA 1,600 feet deeper than the rough soundings ' 1 would say_ we have met our early expecta: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES made from the surface had led. us to expect. ttons. It took longer than we had anticipat· The fifteen-man, Navy civilian/military ed, but this is true of every new frontier. All Monday, February 4, 1980 team had set a record that could not be of us who were with the original Trieste e Mr. TAUKE. Mr. Speaker, Congress broken. And as all good explorers do, we from 1959 to 1964 are proud to have been passed the Federal Mine _safety and planted the United States flag at the deep. among the first pioneers in thnerspace.e est spot in the ocean. Health 4ct of 1977 to respond to a Subsequent to the completion of Project series of very tragic coal mining disas­ Nekton, the project team went home for a ters. The basic le~slation is vitally im­ well-earned rest. We had worked virtually portant, answering a critical need to twelve hours a day, six days a week for five OUTSTANDING SCHOOL insure the safety of the men and months to reach our goal, and we all needed DIRECTOS HONORED women who work in the deep mines. a respite. Trieste stayed at Guam, as we in· However, the sweeping definition of tended to do Project Nekton II later •in the spring. HON. DON BAILEY what constitutes a mine and the types By- May the Nsk.ton II project team was OF PENNSYLVANIA of operations subject to the act in· assembled at. Guam. Piccard and two-thirdS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES elude many small surface operations of' the original military and civilian person· which simply do not present workers nel from ·Nekton had left. Thus we began Monday, F~bruarv 4, 1980 with.the same tyj)es of hazards associ­ the new program with only five of the origi~ e ·Mr. BAILEY. Mr. Speaker, this Na· ated with the deep, underground nal fifteen people . We planned only greatest in the world. The quality of Also, legitimate concern has been five ocean dives in this short program so we could get the Trieste shipped back to the its academic institutions Is unequalled raised about the number of Federal in· United States before August when the ty. anywhere. It Is a system that has spectors and the number of inspec­ phoon season reaches its peak at Guam. . achieved its prominence through tpe tions in my home State of Iowa. There We did not intend Nekton II to end quite. persistence, perseverance, and brll· is more than one MSHA inspector for so quickly, but on the July 9-dive we had a liance of many, many, women and·men every 1{)0 quarry workers,- despite a complete failure of the outside lighting from all walks of life. good safety record of Iowa mines. We system. Replacement parts were only availa­ One man who I feel deserves to be seem to have a classic case of Govern- ble in Europe and we felt that in the two to ment overkill. · three remaining weeks before the arrival of included in this most prestigious cate· the worst of the typhoon season there gory Is Harmon Lauffer, a 27-year .I have added my name to the grow­ would be not time to fix this system. member of the Hempfield Area School ing list of Members supporting legisla-. By the second of August, Trieste and all Board -of the 21st· Congressional Dis­ tion that would transfer enforcement 'ts equipment had been placed on a United trict. Since its inception, Mr. Lauffer of surfac~ operations from MSHA -to States-bound ship at Guam. The Guam pro· has devoted countless hours over the OSHA. Since this legislation may grams were now over. years toward constructing, expanding, come before ·the ·full House in the and constantly ·improving the Hemp­ future, I thought an article, ·"Iowa • After the dive, it was discovered that the field district's academic curriculum. Quarry .Operators: Being Inspected to fathometer had been calibrated in distilled water. Adjusted to seawater, it indicated a true depth of He also has· been instrumental in pro· Death", which recently appeared in 35,800 feet, a figure more in line with the sound­ moting expansion of extracurricular the Cedar Rapids Gazette would be of ings. activities, that Is, the outstanding• interest and help to my colleagues. February 4, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1751 I · ask unanimous consent that this Each time equipment Is moved to these different offices all over the country before article be lnserted in the CONGRESSION· ''holes in the ground," Federal inspectors the amount of a fine Is determined. He says AL RECORD immediately .following my move in. the whole process Is a waste of taxpayers'. remarks: · Often, inspectors look at the same ma­ money. (From 'the Cedar Rapids Gazette, Dec. 16, chinery they looked at a week before at an­ And, says Scott, "the whole intent of the 1919] other location. law has been misinterpreted. Inspectors, in­ In the case of Alpha, it has 28 different' stead of being safety professionals, are now IO~ QUARRY OPERATORS: BEING INSPECTED quarries, mbst of which are worked on a merely policemen .who play the numbers TO DEATH spot basis. In the past nine months, Alpha game with citations and fines." . Folks from this fedefai spections since February. One cruShing agency. "Our purpose Is I}Ot to browbeat agency, it ~ might be remembered, ordered plant has had six since July. people. What we're doing 1s trying to save the Cedar Rapids fire department to put a Another area quarry operatOr said one of lives and improve safety. The law mandates · railing around its fire pole. his company's portable crushing plants, in­ that we make a specified number of inspec­ But quarry operators in the Midwest, in· volving 10 employees, has been checked 10 tions, and we attempt to abide by the guide­ eluding a number around Marion and Cedar times 'this year. There ·have been no acci­ lines." Rapids, are pleading with lawmakers to dents at. the plant, and inspectors found just And, contrary to the views of quarry oper­ come under OSHA's Jurisdiction. It's not two mirior violations. ators, Fink contends conditions in mines that they're particularly taken with OSHA's Tom Scott, general manager of the Rlver and quarries are safer now than before regulations; it's Just that the quarry offl. Products Co. of Iowa City, says his company MSHA was created. "Fines ha.ve served a cials feel they would be easier to live with runs one underground mine and three sur­ purpose," he says. "Operators are more con· than exiSting fedeJ1Ll mlnlng laws. face mines which, by law, would be subject scious of safety than they used to be." Michael Wright, safety director for Alpha to 10 inspections a year, .The facil!ties have In any c~e. the inspectors are not likely Crushed Stone in Marlon, calls the- existing undergone 28 inspections this year. . to _go away-unless the law Is changed. In setup "bizarre." "MSHA has all this money, and all these fact, MSHA is scheduled to add more in­ Ken McNichols, executive director 'of the inspectors that don't have enough to do," spectors next year.e Iowa Limestone Producers Assn. in· Des Scott says. ·"So they go around looking for Moines, is even more harsh. He contends things. But the intent of the la.w has been the regulations under which Iowa qua,rries forgotten. There's little emphasis on safety. LIVING TOGETHER AND DYING operate are literally kllllng people. That's been lost in the bureaucracy." . ALONE 8 FATALITIES · HARASSMENT Since quarries h(lve fallen under the juris­ Wright, for one, has termed the MSHA in· diction of the Department of Labor's Mine spection procedure "overkill and out and HON. GUNN McKAY Safety and Health Act in early 1978, there out harassment." O.F UTAH have been eight mining fatalities in Iowa. In He has · voiced his complaints to Iowa IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the 15 years prior, all told there were eight Sens. John Culver and Roger Jepsen and fatalities. Rep. Tom Tauke. M9nday, February 4, 1980 "It's no mystery," says McNichols. "Safety Jepsen responded by saying he was "ap­ • Mr. McKAY. Mr. Speaker, I wish to directors are too busy following federal in­ palled" at the "excessive government regu­ place into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD spectors around, too busy trying to comply lation." excerpts from -the book "The Broken with rules and regulations and paperwork "This governmental disease of control Heart," by Dr. James J. Lynch. that they can't devote enough time to devel­ over our lives" has got to end, Jepsen wrote. oping safety programs. Tauke- agreed with Wright that the law This book discusses the importance Wright and other lOcal quarry representa­ needs to be changed to exempt stone, sand of human companionship in marriage tives agree with McNichols' assesslnent "I and gravel mining operations from the Fed­ to the physical and mental well-being used to devote almost full time to training eral Mine Safety and Health Act. In fact, of any individual. employees and working on our safety pro.­ both. he and Jepsen have sponsored bills in I believe my colleagues will find this gram," says Wright. "Now, about all my the House and Senate to that end. material both enlightening and shock­ time is spent on federal inspections. And "The law Is driving small entrepreneurs ing. I encourage those interested to little of value comes from tbe inspections." out of business," M.:!Nichols claims. "They obt.ain a copy of this book. It force­ Quarries used to be regulated bY· the De­ can't afford to have down ttme caused by partment of the Interior. Regular inspec­ ~ecessary inspections. And they can't fully underscores the importance of tions of the operations were made by feder­ afford to devote personnel to nothing but the family to the well-being of society. al officials and when safety violations were follow inspectors around. Hopefully, our actions in Congress found, the operators were forced to correct McNichols points out there are about will protect and defend the basic them. There was no. mechanism for fines, 2,000 people in Iowa employed in the metal family institution in America. however. and non-metal mining business. There are The article follows: Two years ago-on the heels of several about 30 federal inspectors working in the coal mine disasters, according to McNi­ state, McNichols says, 10 of them out of EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK "THE BROKEN chols-all underground and surf9,ee mines Cedar.:, Rapids. _ HEART" . were put under the umbrella agency of "If OSHA had the same ratio of inspec­ . White"males Nonwhite males All three 3.3pects of the Kraus and Lillien­ Cause of deatll feld review deserve special emphasis. First, Married Divorced Married Divorced all causes of death were higher in the non­ 176 362 142 298 married groups. Second, the differences 35 128 43 81 were greatest at the younger ages. Third, 28 65 29 75 27 48 42 88 the differences were more apparent in 24 58 73. 132 males. 17 73 10 21 Before we proceed to examine these con­ 11 79 12 53 8 20 49 90 clusions in greater detail, however, several 6 44 22 69 statistical concepts referred to by Drs. 4 30 51 129 Kraus and Lillienfeld need to be clarified. 3 30 15 54 The · first of these is the concept of age­ spect.tic death rates. Within any given age group, a certain percentage of people die. At As can be seen in the table, for U.S. males white population, it would be reasonable to younger ages, obviously, fewer people die heart disease is by far the leading cause of assume that they contributed to the bul.k of than at older ages. Excessive age-specific death. Wh11e in every aase there were sig­ the deaths given for nonwhite males. This death rates, therefore, refer to any increase nificantly · higher death rates for the di­ point is especially critical in light of the fact for a specific age group above the average vorced males, there were also Important dif­ that it has been a.sSumed by many that the death rate for that age. Quite often this is ferences in death rate patterns according to greatly elevated rates of hypertensive heart expressed in terms of a ratio. Thus, the 1.84 race. Death caused by strokes and hyperten­ disease and stroke among blacks reflect o-rerall age-adjusted death rate for divorced sion was significantly higher in the non­ some type of genetic· predisposition to these people in the United States means that·· white population, although again signifi­ diseases. And yet, as is clear .from the fig­ when the death rate at all ages is averaged cantly altered l>Y marital status. Unfortu~ ures, the incidence of hypertension is also together and adjusted for the average death nately, however, until very recently U.S. significantly affected by marital ·status, 1.84 rate ·at each age, divorced people die census data grouped all nonwhite races to-­ strongly sugjresting ~he possibfiity tJ:iat envi­ times more frequently than married people. gether, including Orientals, blacks, and In­ ronmental and psycholog1cal factors influ­ This is, of course, calculated from the rela­ dians, so that it is.impossible to. sort out the ence the course of this disease. tive numbers of divorced to married people relative manner in which these different Similar changes in death rate patterns by at each age. A second concept that must be :groups contributed to the nonwhite death emphasized is that of excessive mortality. If marital status can be seen in women. In. rates. · It is weii kn.own that hypertension order to show the generality of the influ­ for example, 1 out of every 100 males dies at and stroke afflict blacks significantly more the age of 30, while 2· out of every 100 30- . ence of marital status, the death rate pat­ year-old ·divorced males dies, then the exces­ . than whites. Since b,lacks in 1960 comprised terns of widowed women can be compared to sive mortality of divorced males is ·said to be -roughly 85 percent of the total U.S. non- those of married women. · - double . that of their married counterparts for that specific age. Premature death as a · DEATH RATES OF WIDOWED AND MARRIED FEMALES PER 100,000 POPULATION, AGES IN THE UNITED STATES, statistical concept refers to deathS occurring 15~64 before the ages of 65-70, while age-specific 1959-61 . death rates are the death-rate patterns at any and an ages. · Whitefem*s Nonwhite females Cause of death The Kraus-Lillienfeld finding of sharply Married Widowed . Married Widowed incre~ed death rates for nonmarried indi- '"------==--==--==-.....::::=::... viduals has been confirmed repeatedly over 44 6l 83 165 the last .two decades by other investigators, 21 21 19 28 20 24 25 41 and these findings stimulate many ques­ 19 31 72 147 tions. Why should nonmarried individuals 11 47 10 25 have so much higher death rates than mar­ 7 10 50 ·97 7 13 17 34 ried individuals? What diseases contribute 7 15 9 23 most to this marked increase in death rates? 6 12 3 ' 6 Why should the · younger nonmarried 1 6 4 11 groups suffer proportionally so much more than older indiViduals? Why should younger widows and widowers, . for example, die at Several features can be quickly seen. First two to three times higher than for married higher rates than older widows and widow­ of all, the overall death-rate before age 65 men. Similar trends were also true for ers, who themselves die at higher·rates than for women was significantly-. lower than for women. For almost every major cause of married individuals? men. As was true with men, marital status premature death there· were also marked in­ While the overall death rate for divorcea significantly influenced the death rates, creases for the nonmarried over the mar­ individuals in the United States is almost with married women always having lower ried, with differences in death rates as high 'double that of married individuals, a closer rates. Again, t.here were important racial as tenfold. Death rates for heart disease; Inspection of mortality figures reveals that differences; Stroke -.nd nypertensive heart motor vehicle accidents, cancer of the respi­ the death rates of nonmarrled individuals disease were much higher among nonwhite ratory system, cancer of the digestive are far greater than might be initially de­ females; as usual, the rate was double for organs, stroke, suicide, cirrhosis of the liver, duced from Kraus and Lillienfeld's sum­ widows. rheumatic fever, hypertension, pneumonia, mary statements. In summary then, for both men and diabetes, homicide, tuberculosis-all these In 1970, iii Marriage and Divorce: A Social women, white and nonwhite, cardiovascular were higher among single, widowed, and di­ and Economic Stud71 Hugh Carter and Paul disease vorced individuals. The consistently higher Glick reported overall increased death rates was listed as the major cause of premature death rates for so many different causes of very similar to those observed by Kraus and death. For divorced, widowed, and single death. is itself remarkable. Lillienfeld 14 years earlier. Their text, how­ inen, both white and nonwhite, the overall Of all these causes of death other than ever, provides additional valuable insights death rates ·for cardiovascular disease were neart.disease, cancer is perhaps the most in- February 4, 1980 · EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1753 teresting, not only because it is the secoftd The overall influence of marital status on same age had a comparable rate of 2,350 leading cause of death but also because it is premature mortality closely resembles the <23.5 times greater>. separated and divorced commonly thought of as a disease that is ratios cited earlier. Moreover, it is fascinat­ men around 1,000 and widowers about 500. \mambiguowily physical in nature . less dangerous than smoking a pack or more .set at 100, comparable rates were . nearly And yet, as is shown in the following table a day and. staying married," He adds with 1,000 for spinsters, around 500 for the sepa­ and in greater detail in Appendix B, almost · tongue in cheek that "if a man's marriage is rated and divorced, and 200 for widows" every type of cancer is significantly influ­ driving him to heavy smoking he has a deli­ which limit their activities, Levin, and Kessler recommended "We equation. · would suggest that a group of recently wid­ even though t.hey suffer slightly more owed and divorced persons be followed and In 1973, Kitagawa and Hauser attempted chronic diseases overall. This suggests that their mortality experience compared with to correct for statistical factors that might they can cope with diseases 'better than· that of a suitable married·group••.. similar have influenced the higher death rates that people who live alone. comparisons being made between those who have been routinely reported for the non­ On the other hand, the differential pat­ remain single and those who marry" , while riously distort reality. This issue reduces to among divorced white males and the general white male widow~ had a death rate of 78 one that health statisticians call an Analysis increase in death rates from this disease percent higher and single· males 75 percent of variance. If, for example, .. ten different among all nonmarried groups suggest that unmarried indl· ·an overall death rate 37 percent higher than diseas~. statisticians would try to determine· viduals in general consume more alcohol. that of married women, whereas the wi­ the relative importance of each factor-that There are marked increases in death rates dowed were 30 percent higher and the single is, how much of the "variance" in heart dis­ due to motor vehicle accidents and "acciden­ 34 percent higher~ Among nonwhite males, ease each factor accounts for. In the case of tal fires," with widowed men and women the widowed had the greatest increase, one of these factors, ·marital status, the having four- to sevenfold increases in death being 89 percent above the married levels, issue becomes even more complex. Marriage rates from these causes. Suicide increases while divorced nonwhite males had a death not only apparently influences the heart fivefold in the widowed white male and rate 87 percent above that of married non­ itself but also affects other behaviors, such fourfold in the widowed nonwhite male a.ild as eating, drinking, smoking, and general white female, while death by homicide also white males. Among nonwhite females of increased dramatically. This doubling of the same age range, the death rate for life-style, all of which also influence the cancer of the respiratory system and the widows was 65 percent, for divorcees 57 per­ heart. Thus, in many instances, marital tenfold rise in tuberculosis among .divorced cent, and for singles 42 percent above the status appears to co-vary with other factors. white males led Carter and 'Glick to suggest rate for nonwhite married females. In sum­ that also influence the heart. And as we that perhaps differential patterns of ciga..: mary, they pointed out that the greatest in­ have already seen with cigarette smoking, rette smoking had influenced these results. creases in death rates occurred for divorced the impact of such behaviors is in turn in­ Yet even something as obvious as tne rela.. . white maies and widowed nonwhite males, fluenced by marriage tlonship between cigarette smoking and with cardiqvasc~ar disease in all cases being Even beyond the manner in which mar­ health is not so clear-cut as one might the lea~ng cause of death. riage may act to change an individuars be-· think. Dr. Harold Morowitz, a professor of The influence ·of the nonmarried state on havior, the very process of selection in mar­ biophysics at Yale UniversitY •. recently health can also be gauged by" other indices. riage no doubt also tends to leave those who called attention to intriguing data he found Mortality is by no means the only statistic are sick unmarried. In general,· those who· buried among the masses of health statistics that reveals the strong relationship between are healthy are likely to marry, while those in the Hammond· Report. The Hammond marital status and health. Another barom­ who are seriously ill are less likely to find a Report, first published in 1963, was the partner. This selection factor is also likely eter of health Js the amount of time spent to influence death statistics, especially in study that followed the smoking habits of in all types .of residential institutions, both . about a half million men; it led, ultimately, early adult life leading to a higher statisti­ of a voluntary and involuntary n~ture. cigarettes that "smoking is dangerous to Almost every type of institution has ex­ uals. What percentage of the increased your health." Without quarreling with the· death rates among the nonmarried is due to traordinarily high proportions of the non~ .overwhelming mass of data which support married in their populations. For example, this type of selection factor has not beep that conclusion, Dr. Morowitz ·points out thoroughly examined. However, this selec­ Carter arid Glick 1poihted out that ·among that the relationship is not a simple one. tion factor cannot be the only factor ac­ middle-aged persons in institutions provid­ counting for the wide variety of causes of For example, he extracted the following ing long-term hospital care, "widows had table from the Hammond Report on the re­ death that are influenced by marital status, lationship between marital status, smoking, three times and widowers had, eight times 'or the differential manner in which people the institutional rate of comparable married· of different ages ar.e afflicted by the same and premature death: persons. Bachelors had a rate twenty-one AGE-STANDARDIZED DEATH RATES PER 100,000 MEN, AGES disease. It is hard to apply the same "selec­ times that of married men, and fully 9 per­ tion factor" to differences in death rates 40-69 cent of bachelors and 5 percent of spinsters from phenomena as diverse as tuberculosis, 45 to 64 years old were cpnfined to an insti­ automoblie accidents, fires, cancer, suicide, Smoke tution" . 20+ and coronary heart disease. Nonsmokers cigarettes a day Differential rates of mental hospital resi­ All these complicating factors make it im­ dence among the married and nonmarried perative for us to focus more carefully on Married .••• : •••~ •••••: •••••• :...... 796 1,560 reflect the same pattern. Carter and Glick just one cause of death, heart disease. The Single ...... 1.074 2,567 Widowed ...... 1,396 2,570 reported that "where rates of mental hospi­ multitude of factors that mix with marriage Divorced ...... ;...... 1,420 2,675 tal residence for married men of middle age to influence health can be sorted out more fn 1960 were set at 100, bachelors of the Clearly by concentrating on the heart.e 1754 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1980 SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS fiscal year 1981 f'Or the Department of Appropriations Defense. Labor-HEW Subcomtr.ittee Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, 212 Russell Building To hold heal'ings on propose(~ budget es­ $-greed to by the Senate on February Energy and Natural Resources timates for fiscal year 1981 ·for the Al­ 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a To resume hearings to review those cohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health system for a computerized schedule of items in · the President's budget for Administration. all meetings and hearings of Senate fiscal year 1981 which fall within its S-128, Capitol committees, subcommittees, joint com­ legislative jurisdiction and consider Appropriations mittees, and committees of conference. recommendations which ·it will make State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary thereon to the Budget Committee, to and Related Agencies Subcommittee· This title requires all such committees hear officials from the Department of To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ to notify the Office of th,e Senate Agriculture. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Ju· Daily Digest-designated by the Rules 3110 Dirksen Building diciary. Committee-of the time, place, and Environment and Public Works S-146~ . Capitol puri>ose of all meetings, when sched­ Environmental Pollutio~ and Resource Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs uled, and any cancellations or changes Protection Subcommittees To resume oversight hearings on the in the meetings as they occur. To continue joint markup of S. 1480, to New York City federal loan guarantee As an interim procedure until . the provide for the adequate and safe program. computerization of this -information treatment of hazardous substances :re­ . 5302 Dirksen Building becomes operational, the Office of the leased into the environment. Environment and Public and Works 4200 Dirksen Building Environmental Pollution and Resource Senate Daily Digest will prepare this Governmental Affairs Protection Subcommittees information for printing in the Exten­ To resume consideration of S. 262, to re­ To continue Joint markup of S. 1480, to sions of Remarks section of the CoN­ quire that all Federal agencies conduct provide for the adequate and safe' GRESSIONAL RECORD on Monday and a regulatory analysis before issuing treatment of hazardous substances re­ Wednesday of each week. regulations and. to require the use of - leased into the environment. Any changes in committee schedul­ less time-consuming ·procedures to 4200. Dirksen Building ing will be indicated by placement of decide cases. Finance an asterik to the left of the name of 3302 Dirksen Building Public Assistance Subcommittee the unit conducting such meetings. Select on Intelligence To continue hearings to examine · the To hold a closed business meeting. problems which welfare reform legisla­ Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, S-407, Capitol tion should address. February 5, 1980, may be foUnd in the Joint Economic 2221 Dirksen Building Daily Digest of today's RECoRD. To continue hearings on the st~te of the Judiciary U.S. economy. Criminal Justice Subcommittee MEETINGS ScHEDULED 2212 Rayburn Building To hold hearings on S. 1482, to set forth FEBRUARY6 2:00p.m. certain pretrial, trial. and appellate Appropriations· pro<;edures for criminal cases involving 9:00a.m. Labor-HEW Subcommittee classified information. Labor and Human Resources To continue hearings on proposed 357 Russell Building Child and Human Development Subcom­ ,budget -estimates for fiscal year 1981 Select on Indian Affairs · mittee for the National Institutes of Health. Business meeting, to begin markup of To hold hearings on S. 1843 and H.R. S-128, Capitol H.R. 3979, to modify and ease certain 2977, proposed Domestic Violence Pre­ *Finance Federal laws restricting commercial vention and Services Act. Public Assistance Subcommittee transactions between Indians and Fed­ 6226 Dirksen Building To hold hearings to examine the prob­ eral employees, S. 2222, to extend the 9:30a.m. lems which welfare reform legislation tim'e within which . the United States Ba,nking, Housing, and Urban Affairs should address. may bring an aetion for damages on Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee 2221 Dirksen Building behalf of an Indian tribe to Decem­ To hold hearings on S. 2177, proposed 3:30p.m. ber 30, 1984; and to resume considera­ Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Judiciary tion of S. 1464, to acquire certain lands Authority Amendments. Constitution Subcommittee _ for the benefit of the Mille Lacs Band 5302 Dirksen Building To resume consideration of -S. 1790, to of the Minnesota Chippewa Indians. Commerce, Science, and TranSportation establish nonconstitutional protec­ 4232 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on S. 2238, authorizing tions to all citizens not suspected of Joint Economic additional funds for fisCal year-1980, criminal activity and to all levels of To continue hearings on the state of the and S. 2240, authorizing funds for government against poss'ible abuses of U.S. economy. fiscal year 1981, both for research and the search warrant procedure. 2257 Rayburn Building development programs of the National 2228 Dirksen Building 1:00 p.m• . Aeronautics and Space Administra­ Judiciary tion. FEBRUARY7 To hold hearings on the nominations of 235 Russell Building 8:30a.m. Richard S. Arnold, of Arkansas, to be Labor and Human Resources Energy and Natural Resources U.S. Cil:cuit Judge for the Eighth Cir­ Handicapped Subcommittee To resume closed hearings to assess the cuit; Henry Woods, to be U.S. District To hold oversight hearings to examine political, military, economic, and social Judge for the District of Arkansas; current problems and programs of the factors affecting world oil production and Helen J. Frye, Owen M. Parmer, hearing impaired, and to explore and consumption over the next Jr., and James A. Redden, each to be a future technological developments de­ decade. U.S. District Judge for the District of signed to handle their problems. S-407, Capitol Oregon. 4232 Dirksen Building 9:30a.m. 2228 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation 2:00p.m. To continue hearings on S. 2238, author­ Appropriations Appropriations Labor-HEW Subcommittee Labor-HEW Subcommittee izing additional fundS for fiscal year 1980, and S. 2240, authorizing funds To resume hearings on proposed budget To continue hearings on proposed estimates for fiscal Year··1981 for the · budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 for fiscal year 1981, both for research and development programs of the Na­ Health Resources Administration. for the National Institutes of Health. S-128, Capitol S-128, Capitol tional Aeronautics and Space Adminis­ trati'On. Envirdmnent and Public Works Appropriations 235 Russell Building Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary 10:00 a.m. To resume hearings on S. 1521, proposed and Related Agencies Subcommittee Appropriations Nuclear Waste Regulation Act, and to To review those progTam.S administered Foreign Operations Subcommittee begin hearings on S. 1360, to establish by the· Office of the Secretary of Com­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es• a workable framework for Federal/ merce. timates for fiscal year 1981 and on State cooperation in the planning, S-146, Capitol supplemental funds for fiscal year siting, development, construction and Armed Services 1980 for programs adnlinistered by the operation of nuclear waste storage and To continue hearings on proposed mili­ Department of State. disposal facilities. tary procurement authorizations for 1114 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building February 4. 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1755 3:00p.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ the Bureau of the Census for statisti­ Conferees timates for fiscal year 1981 for the cal purposes. On S. 643, to reform the United States Arms Control and Disarmament 3302 Dirksen Building refugee and assistance program. by re­ Agency, Commission on Civil Righ~. Labor and Human Resources · pealing current discriminatory laws, Equal Employment Opportunity Com· Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ raising the annual limitation on refu­ mission, and the Legal" Services Corpo- mittee gee admission, providing procedures to ration. · To hold hearings on S. 1652, proposed,. meet emergency situations, and pro­ S-146, Capitol Nutrition Labeling and In,formation viding for Federal support of the refu­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Amendments. of 1979 to the Federal gee resettlement process. · To hold hearings on proposed legislation Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. EF-100. Capitol to renew the Home Mortgage Disclo- · 4232 Dirksen Building sure Act. · H.ules and Administration FEBRUARY ·8 5302 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on resolutions re­ 10:00 a.m. Governmental Affairs questing additional funds for Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Feder­ committees. Consumer Mfairs Subcommittee · al Services Subcommittee 301 Russell Building- To resume hearings on· S. 1928, proposed To resume hearings on S. ·1938, proposed 2:00p.m. Fair Financial Information Practices Federal Radiation Protection. Manage­ Appropriations Act, and S. 1929, proposed Privacy of .mentAct Labor-HEW Subcommittee Electronic Fund Transfers Act. 3302 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ · 5302 Dirksen Building Rules and Administration timates for fiscal year 1981 for Educa­ Environment and Public Works To hold hearings on resolutions request­ tion for the Handicapped, Rehabilita­ Environmental · Pollution and Resource ing additional funds for senate com­ tion Services and Handicapped Re­ Protection Subcommittees . mittees. search, and Special Institutions. To continue Joint markup of S. 1480 .to 301 Russell Buil,ding S-128, Capitol provide for the adequate and safe 2:00p.m. treatment of hazardous substances re­ Appropriations FEBRUARY21 leased into the environment. Labor-HEW Subcommittee 8:30a.m. 4200 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Energy and Natural Resources 10:30 a.m. timates for fiscal year 1981 for Emer­ To· resume closed hearings to assess the Appropriations gency School Aid, and Libraries and political, military, economic, and social Labor-HEW Subcommittee . Learning Resources. factors affecting world oil production To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ S-1~8 •. Capitol and consumption over the next timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Technology Assessment Board decade. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Business meeting on pending Board 8-407, Capitol Health, Scientific Activities Overseas, business. 9:00a.m. and Retirement Pay for Commissioned EF-1oo: Capitol Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Officers. Agricultural Research and General Legis­ S-128, Capitol FEBRUARY20 lation Subcommittee 9:00a.m. To hold oversight hearings on the activi­ FEBRUARY 13 Veterans' Mfairs ties of the Commodity Futures Trad­ 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on S. 1188, to revise ing Commission. Energy and Natural' Resources the vocational rehabilitation programs 324 Russell Building To resume hearings to review those administered by the Veterans' Admin­ 9:15a.m. items in the President's budget for istration." Veterans' Affairs fiscal year 1981 which fall within its To hold hearings on the Federal Gov­ 412 Russell Building ernment's efforts to assist Vietnam~era legislative jurisdiction and consider· 9:30a.m. recommendations which it will make veterans in readjusting to society and Commerce, Science, and Transportation finding employment opportunttJes. thereon to the Budget Committee, to Science, Technology, and Space Subcom- hear officials from the Department of 318 Ru!';sell Building mittee ' 9:30a.m. the Interior. To hold hearings on S. 2238, authorizing 3110 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science,·and Transportation additional funds for fiscal year 1980, Science, Technology, and Space Subcom­ and S. 2240, authorizing funds for mittee - FEBRUARY 18 fiscal year 1981, both for research and To continue hearings on S. 2238, 2:00 p~m. development programs of the National authorizing additional funds for fiscal Appropriations Aeronautics and Space Administra­ year 1980, and S. 2240, authorizing Labor-HEW Subcommittee tion. funds for fiscal year 1981, both for re­ To review those programs administered 235 Russell Building search and development programs of by the D&partment of Education. . 10:00 a.m. the National Aeronautics and Space S-128, Capitol Appropriations Administration. Appropriations Labor,HEW Subcommittee 235 Russell Building State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 10:00 a.m. and Related Agencies Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1981 for Voca­ Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ tional Education, Student Assistance Foreign Operations· Subcommittee timates fot fiscal year 1981 for the programs, and Student Loan Insur- To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Federal Communications Commission.­ anceFund · timates for fiscal year 1981 for the S-146, Capitol 8-128, Capitol Agency for International Develop­ Appropriations ment, Congressional Research Service, FEBRUARY 19 State, Justice, Commerce, the Judi.ciary · and the Senate Legal Counsel . Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ · 1114 Dirksen Building To resume closed hearings to assess the timates for fiscal · year i'981 for the Appropriations .political,-milita,ry, economic, and social Commission on Security and Coopera­ Labor-HEW Subcommittee factors affecting. world oil production tion in Europe, International Commu­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ and consumption over the next nications Agency, and the Japan-U.S. . timates 'for fiscal year 1981 for Higher decade. Friendship Commission. · and Continuing Educati<;m, Education­ S-407, Capitol S-146, Capitol al Activities Overseas, Higher Educa~ 10:00 a.in. Energy and Natural Resources tion Facilities Loan and Insurance, Appropriations Business meeting, to consider proposed and College Housing Loans. · Labor-HEW Subcommittee authorizations for fiscal year 1981 for · S-128, Capitol To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ the Department of Energy, and other Appropriations timates for Elementary .and Secondary pending calendar business. State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary Education and Impact Aid programs. 3110 Dirksen Building and Related Agencies Subcommittee · 8-128, Capitol Governmental Mfairs To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations To hold hearings on S. 2164 and 2165, timates for fiscal year 1981 for the State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary bills to protect the confidentiality of Small Business Administration. and Related Agencies Subcommittee certain export information required by S-146, Capitol 1756 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1980 Governmental Affairs Export-Import Bank of the United To resume hearings on S. 2238, authoriz­ To continue hearings on S. 2164 and States. ing additional funds for fiscal year 2165, ·bills to protect the confidential· 1114 Dirksen Building 1980, and S. 2240, authorizing funds ity of certain export information re~ Appropriations for fiscal year 1981, both for research quired by the Bureau of the Census Labor-HEW Subcommittee and development programs of the Na­ for statistical purposes. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ tional Aeronautics and Space Adminis­ 3302 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 ·for the tration. 2:oo·p.m. Health Care · Financing Administra­ 6226 Dirksen Building Appropriations tion. 10:00 a.m. Labor-HEW Subcommittee S-128, Capitol . Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations ·Labor-HEW Subcommittee timates for-fiscal year 1981 for special State, Justice-, Commerce, the Judiciary To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ projects of the Department of Educa­ and Related Agencies Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1981 for the tion. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Social Security Administration. S-128, Capitol timates for fiscal year 1981 for inter­ S-128, Capitol national organizations and confer­ Appropriations FEBRUARY22 ences within the Department of State~ State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary . S-146, Capitol and Related Agencies Subcommittee 9:00 a.rn. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Commerce, Science, and Transportation To continue oversight hearings on the timates for fiscal year 1981 for the In­ To hold hearings on a proposed·amend­ conduct of monetary policy. ternational Trade Commission, and ment to establish standards for devel· · 5302 Dirksen Building ·the Federal Trade Commission. oping a cost ratio trigger for burden of Budget S-146,-Capitol proof in rate cases, to S. 1946, to pro­ To resume hearings in preparation for Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs vide railroads with more pricing rate reporting the first concurrent resolu­ Housing and ·urban Affairs Subcommittee flexibility and contract provisions. tion on the fiscal year 1981 congres­ To hold oversight. hearings to examine 235 Russell Building sional budget. the scope of rental housing. 10:00 a.m. 6202 Dirksen Building · 5302 Dirksen Building Banking, Hous.ng, and Urban Affairs Energy and Natural Resources Energy and Natural Resources International Finance Subcommittee To continue hearings on s; 1280, pro­ Energy Conservation and Supply Subcom­ To resume hearings on the U.S. embargo poseri Energy Management Partner­ mittee Qf grain and technology exports to the ship Act. To hold hearings on S. 1934, proposed Soviet Union. 3110 Dirksen Building Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Act. 5302 Dirksen Building Governmental Affairs 3110 Dirksen Building · Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Feder­ Governmental Affairs FEBRVARY25 . al Services Subcommittee Energy, Nuclear· Proliferation, and Feder- 9:30a.m. To hold hearings on proposed legislation al Services Subcommittee I Commerce, Science, and Transportation to increase the authority of the Presi­ To continue hea.rjngs on proposed legis­ To hold hearings on S. 2245, proposed dent and Congress in postal operations lation to increase the authority of the Motor Carrier Reform Act. and to provide a sound financial base President and C~mgress in postal oper­ 235 Russell Building for the future of the Postal Service. ations and to provide a sound financial 10:00 a.m. 3302 Dirksen Building base for the future of the Postal Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Labor and Human Resources Service. To hold oversight hearings on the con­ To consider those matters· and programs 3302 Dirksen Building duct of monetary policy. which fall within the committee's ju­ Labor and Human Resources 5302 Dirksen Building risdiction with a view to submitting its Education. Arts, and the Humanities Sub· views and budgetary recommendations Energy and Natural Resources committee to the Committee on the Budget by Business meeting, to consider S. 1839, To hold. hearings on S. 1280, proposed March 15. Energy Management Partnership Act. authorizing funds through fiscal year 4232 Dirksen Building 1985 for programs under the Higher 3110 Dirksen Building Select on Indian Affairs Education Act. Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on S. 2066, to convey 4232 Dirksen Building· Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ certain land in Colorado to the Ute 2:00p.m. mittee Mountain Ute Indian Tribe. Appropriations To resume hearings on S. 1652, proposed 5110 Dirksen Building Labor-HEW Subcommittee Nutrition Labeling and Information 11:00 a.m• . To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Amendments of 1979 to the Federal Veterans' Affairs timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. To hold hearings to receive legislative Office of Inspector General. Office of 4232 Dirksen Building recommendations for fiscal year 1981 ·civil Rights, Policy Research. and De· 2:00p.m. from Disabled American Veterans. partmental Management. Appropriations 318 Russell Building S-128, Capitol Labor-HEW Subcommittee 2:00p.m. To hold hearings o.n proposed budget es­ Appropriations FEBRUARY28 timates for fiscal year 1981 for Human State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary Development Services. and Related Agencies Subcommittee 9:00a.m. S-128, Capitol To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ •veterans' Affairs Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1981 for ·Inter­ To resume hearings on S. 1188. to revise State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary national Commissions of the Depart­ the vocational rehabilitation programs artd Related Agencies Subcommittee ment of State, and the Office of the administered by· the Veterans' Admin· To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ U.S. Trade Representative. istration. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the ad· S-128, capitol 412 Russell·Bullding ministration of foreign affairs within Budget 10:00 a.m. the Department of State. To continue closed hearings in prepara­ Appropriations S-146, Capitol tion for reporting the first concurrent Labor-HEW Subcommittee resolution on the fiscal year i981 con­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ FEBRUARY26 gressiQnal budget. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the 6202 Dirksen BuUding Community Services Administration, 9:30a.m. and the Railroad Retirement Board. Commerce; Science, and Transportation · S-128, Capitol To continue hearings on ·S. 2245, pro­ FEBRUARY27 Appropriations posed Motor Carrier Reform .Act. 9:30a.m. State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary 235 Russell Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Related Agencies Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. To continue hearings on S. 2245. pro­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations posed Motor Carrier Reform Act. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Foreign Operations Subcommittee 235 Russell Building Board for International Broadcasting, ·To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Securities and Exchange Com­ timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De· Science, Technology. and Space Subcom· mission. partment of the Treasury. and the mittee S-146. Capitol February 4, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1757 Banking, Housing, and Ur.ban Affairs the crime and riot-reinsurance pro­ Labor-Management Services Adminis­ Insurance Subcommittee gram of the Feder'al Emergency Man­ tration, Pension Benefit Guaranty To hold hearings on proppsed authoriza­ agement Administration. Corporation, Occupational Safety and tions for fiscal year 1981 for the crime 5302 Dirksen Building Health Administration, and the Mine and riot-reinsurance program of the Safety and Health Administration Federal Emergency Management Ad· MARCH3 1114 Dirksen Building ministration. · ·9:30a.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 5302. Dirksen Building Labor and Human Resources Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee Energy and Natural Resour9es Handicapped Subcommittee To continue hearings on proposed legis­ Energy Conservation and Supply Subcom­ To hold oversight hearings on the im­ lation authorizing funds through mittee ··plementation of the Education for All fiscal year 1985 for the Urban Mass To continue hearings on B. 1934, pro­ Handicapped Children Act . 5302 Dirksen Building Energy Act. 4200 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources 31l0 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Business meeting, to continue cQnsidera­ Governmental Affairs Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs tion of proposed authorizations for Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Feder­ To resume hearings on proposed legisla­ fiscal year 1981 for the Department of al Services Subcommittee tion to renew the Home Mortgage Dis­ Energy, and other pending calendar To continue hearings on proposed legis­ closure Act. business. lation to increase the authority of the 5302 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building President and Congress in postal oper­ 2:00p.m. 2:00p.m. ations and to provide a sound financial Appropriations Appropriations base for the future of. the Postal Serv­ ·Labor-HEW Subcommittee Labor-HEW Subcommittee ice. To review those programs administered To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 3302 Dirksen Building by the Department of Labor. timates for fiscal year 1981 t:or the Labor and Human Resources S-128, Capitol Employment Standards Administra- . tion, Bureau of Labor· Statistics, and Education, Arts; and the Humanities. Sub­ MARCH4 committee President's Committee on Employ- Business meeting, to continue considera­ 8:00a.m. ment of Handicapped. . . tion of S. 1839, authoriZing funds Veterans' Affairs 1114 Dirksen Building through flscal year 1985 for programs To resume hearings on the Federal Gov­ ernment's efforts to assist Vietnam-era MARCH6 under the Hig~~r Education Act. 4232 Dirksen Building veterans in readJusting to society a.itd 9:30a.m. finding employment and education Veterans' Affairs Select on Indian Affairs · opportunities. Business meeting, to consider those To hold hearings on S. 2223, to allow .412 Russell Building Items in the President's budget for members of Indian tribes to transfer 10:00 a.m. fiscal year 1981 which fall within its restricted Indian lands to heirs who Appropriations legislative jurisdiction and to consider are not members of the reservation Foreign Operations Subcommittee . recommendations which it will make where the land Is located. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ thereon to the Budget Committee by 457 Russell Building timates for fiscal year .1981 for certain March 15. 2:00p.m. programs administered by the Depart­ 412 Russell Building Appropriations ment of State. 10.00 a.m. Labor-HEW Subcommittee 1318 Dirksen Building Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na­ Labor-HEW Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ tional. Commission on Libraries and To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1981 for certain Information Services; Corporation for timates for fiscal year 1981 for Public international Security' Assistance pro­ Public Broadcasting, Occupation Service Jobs, Special Youth Programs, grams of the Department of State. Safety and Health Review Commis· the Job Corps, and Jobs for the 11 ~ 4 Dirksen Building sion, Mine Safety Review Commission·, Elderly. · · Banking, Housing,_and Urban Affairs and the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. 1223 Dirksen Building Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee - S-128, Capitol Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To continue hearings on proposed legis­ Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee lation . . authorizing · fUI)ds through FEBRUARY29 To hold hearings on proposed legislation fiscal year 1985 for the Urban Mass 9:30a.m. authorizing funds through fiscal year Transportation program. Commerce, Science, and Transportation 1985 for the Urban Mass Transporta­ 5302 Dirksen Building Science, Technology, and Space Subcom­ tion program. Energy and Natural Resources mittee 5302 Dirksen Building Business meeting, to continue considera­ To resume h~arings on. S. 2238, authoriz: Energy and Natural Resources tion of proposed authorizations for ing additional funds for fiscal year Business meeting, to resume-- considera­ fiscal year 1981 for the Department of 1980, and s. 2240, authorizing funds tion of · proposed authorizations for Energy, and other pending · calendar for fiscal year 1981, both for research. fiscal year 1981 for the Department of business. and development programs of the Na­ Energy, and other· pending calendar 3110 Dirksen Building tional Aeronautics and Space Adminis­ busine~s. Select on Indian Affairs tration. · 3110 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on S. 1507, to provide 235 Russell Building 11:30 a.m. for the purchase of eertain facilities, Labor and Human Resources Veterans' Affairs lands, and water rights in and around Employment, Poverty and Migratory To hold hearings to receive legislative the San Luis Rey River, San Diego; ·Labor Subcommittee recommendations for fiscal year 1981 California, to be held in t~ust fer, and To hold hearings on proposed legislation from Veterans of Foreign Wars. operated and maintained by ·certain authorizing funds for fiscal year 1981 318 Russell Building boards of Mission Indians. for the Legal Services Corporation. 2:00p.m. 5110 Dirksen ·Building 4232 Dirksen Building Appropriations 10:00 a.m. Labor-HEW Subcommittee MARCH7 Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 10:00 a.m. Labor-HEW Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1981 for Gener­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ al Manpower Training programs, Pri­ International Finance Subcommittee timates for fls9al year 1981 for domes­ vate Sector Initiatives, State Employ­ To resume hearings on S. 864, 1499, tic programs· of ACTION, National ment Security Agencies. 1663, 1744, bills to facilitate the forma­ Labor Relations Board, Federal Media­ 1114 Dirksen Building tion of U.s. export trading companies tion and Conciliation Service, and the to expand export participation by National Mediation Board. MARCH5 smaller U.S. companies. ' 5-128, Capitol 10:00 a.m. 5302 Dirksen Building Banking,- Housing, and Urban Affairs Appropriations Insurance Subcommittee Labor-HEW Subcommittee MARCH 10 To continue hearings on proposed au­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 10:00 a.m. thorizations for fiscal year 1981 for timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · 1758 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1980 Consumer Affairs Subcommittee To continue hearings on S. 2144, pro­ 10:00 a.rn. To resume hearings on S. 1928, proposed posed ·Health Professions Educational Appropriations Fait Financial Information Practices Assistance and Nurse Training Act. Foreign Operations Subcommittee Act, and S. 1929, proposed Privacy of 4232 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed b\ldget es-· Electronic Fund Transfers Act. 2:00p.m. timates for fiscal year 1981 for certain 5:i02 Dirksen Building Appropriations programs of the Agency for Interna­ 2:00p.m. State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary tional Development, and for the Peace Appropriations and Related Agencies Subcommittee Corps. · State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary To hold hearings on-proposed budget es­ 1114 Dirksen Building. · and Related Agencies Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1981 for the To hOld hearings on proposed budget es­ Federal Prison System, and Office of MARCH24 timates for fiscal year 1981 for general Justice Assistance, Research and Sta­ 2:00a.m. administration and legal activities of tistics, Department of Justice. Appropriations the Department.of Justice. 8-146, Capitol State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary 8-146, Capitol MARCH13 and Related Agencies Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 9:00a.m. timates for . fiscal year 1981 for the MARCHll Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.m. Bureau of Census, general administra­ .-Child and Human Development Subcom­ tion, and economic and statistical Appropriations mittee analysis, Pepartment of Commerce. State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary To hold hearings on proposed legiSlation _8-146, Capitol and Related Agencies Subcommittee to establish Commissions on National To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Youth Service and Volunteerism. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the 4232 Dirksen Building MARCH25 Federal Bureau of Investigation, De­ 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. partment of Justice. Appropriations Appropriations 8-146, Capitol Foreign Operations Subcommittee . Foreign Operations Subcommittee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Consumer Affairs Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1981 for the In· timat_es for fiscal year 1981 for certain To continue hearings on ·s. 1928, pro­ ternational Development Cooperation · programs of the Agency f~r Interna­ posed Fair Financial Information Agency, and certain programs of the tional Development; the international Practices Act, and S. 1929, proposed Agency fbr International Develop­ ·narcotics control program of the De­ Privacy of Electronic Fund Transfers ment. partment of State; and for the Inter­ Act. 1114 Dirksen Building American Foundation. 5302 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building Governmental Affairs MARCH 14 Appropriations Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Feder- - 9:00a.m. State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary al Services Subcommittee •veterans' Affairs and Related Agencies Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 1699, proposed To hold hearili:gs on the recruitment To hold hearJngs on proposed budget es­ Energy Impact Assistance Act. and retention of qualified health-care timates for· fiscal year 1981 for the 3302 Dirksen _Building professionals to staff the Veterans' Economic Development . Administra­ Labor and Human Resources Administration's health:care facilities. tion, and Regional Planning Commis­ Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ 412 Russell Building- sion, Department of Commerce. mittee S-146, Capitol To hold hearings on S. 2144, proposed MARCH17 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Health Professions Educational Assist­ 10:00 a.m. Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee ance and Nurse Training Act. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings on proposed legislation · 4232 Dirksen Building International Finance Subcommittee authorizing funds for fiscal year 1981 2:00p.m. To hold hearings on · s. 2097, proposed for housing, community cievelopment Appropriations Joint Export ){arketing Assistance programs and the Urban Development State, Justice, -Commerce,· the Judiciary Act, and on the substance of S. 2Q40, Action Grant of the · Department of and Related Agencies Subcommittee proposed Small Business Export Ex­ Housing and Urban Development. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ pansion Act and S. 2104, proposed 5302 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for the lm· Small Business Export Development migration and Naturalization Service, Act. MARCli 26 Department o.f Justice. 5302 Dirksen Building 9:00a.m. S-146, Capitol Labor and Human Resourciis MARCH 18 Child and Human Develop.m,ent ·subcom­ MARCH 12 10:00 a.m. mittee 10:00 a.m. Appropriations Business meeting, to ma,rk up S. 1843 Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee and H.R. 2977, proposed Domestic Vio­ State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ lence Prevention and Services Act; and and Related Agencies Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1981 for certain proposed legislation to establish Com­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es- · programs of the Agency for Interna­ missions on National Youth Service timates for fiscal year' 1981 for the tional Development. and Volunteerism. Drug Enforcement Administration, 1114 Dirksen Building 4232 Dirksen Building Department of Justice. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 10:00 a.m. S-146, CapitOl International' Finance Subcommittee Appropriations Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To continue hearings on S. 2097, pro­ State, Justice Commerce, the Judiciary Business meeting, to consider those mat­ posed Joint Export Marketing Assist­ and Related Agencies Subcommittee · ters and programs which fall within ance Act, and on the substance of S. To hold hearings on prop'Osed budget es­ the Committee's jurisdiction with a 2040, proposed Small Business Export" timates for fiscal year 1981 for the In­ view to submitting its views and budg­ Expansion Act and S. 2104, proposed dustry and Trade Administration, Mi­ etary recommendations to the Com­ Small Business Export Development nority Business Development Agency, mittee on the Budget by March 15. Act. and the U.S. Travel Service. Depart- 5302 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building ment of Commerce. ~ S-146, Capitol Governmental Affairs Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Feder­ MARCH20 Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee al Services Subcommittee 9:00a.m. To continue hearings on proposed legis­ To continue hearings on S. 1699, pro­ Veterans' Affairs lation authoriZing funds for fiscal year posed Energy Impact Assistance Act. Business meeting, to consider S. 1188, to 1981 for housing, community develop­ 3302 Dirksen Building revise the vocational rehabilitation ment programs and the Urban Devel­ Labor and Human Resources programs administered by the Veter­ opment Action Grant of the Depart­ Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ ans' Administration. ment of Housing and Urban Develop- mittee 412 Russell Building ment. · 5302 Dirksen Building February 4, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1759 2:00p.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 10:00 a.m. . Appropriatio~ ._ _ timates for fiscal year 1981 for foreign Banking, H~using, and Urban Affairs State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary assistance programs_. International Finance Subcommittee and Related Agencies Subcommittee 1318 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on proposed au­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es· Appropriations thorizations for fiscal year 1981 for timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na· State, Justice, Commerce,. the Judiciary the international affairs programs of tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad· and Related AgenCies Subcommittee the Department df the Treasury; and ministration, Department of Com· To continue hearings on proposed on proposed legislation to increase the merce. budget estimates for fiscal year· 1981 U.S. quota in the International Mone· S-146, Capitol for the Department of Commerce. tary Fund. 8-146, Capitol 5302 Dirksen Building MARCH27 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 9:30a.m. Housing 'and Urban Affairs Subcommittee APRIL17 Veterans' Affairs To resume hearings on proposed legisla· tion authorizing funds for fiscal year 9:30a.m. To hold hearings to receive ·legislative Labor and Human Resources recommendations for fiscal year 1981 1981 for housing, community develop­ ment programs and the Urban Devel· To hold oversight hearings on the devel­ from A.MVETS. Paralyzed Veterans, opment of chlldren who benefit from Blinded Veterans, W.W.I. veterans, opment Action Grant of the Depart­ ment of Housing and Urban Develop­ adoption by facilitating their place· and Military Order of ·the Purple ment in adoptive homes. Heart. ment. 1202 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building 4332 Dirksen Building MAY1 10:00 a.m. APRIL2 10:00 a.m. Appropriations 9:30a.m. Labor and Human Resources State, Justice, Commerce, the Judicia.ry Veterans~ Affairs Child and Human Development Subcom­ and Related Agencies Subcommittee To resume bearings on the Federal go.v­ mittee TO hold hearings on proposed budget es­ ernment's eff-orts to assist Vietnam-era To hold hearings on issues Congress timates fol' fiscal year 1981 for the veterans in readjusting to society, and might consider which would affect Patent and Trademark Office, Nation· the use of excepted appointments for youth in the coming decades. al Telecommunications and Informa­ 4232 Dirksen Building tion Administration, and science and disabled veterans. technical research, Department · of · 412 Russell Building Commerce 10:00 a.m. MAY22 S-146•• Capitol Bankin-g, Housing, and Urban Affairs 9:30a.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Housing and 'Urban Affairs Subcommittee Labor and Human Resources Consumer Affv,irs Subcommittee To continue hearings on proposed legis~ Child and Human Development Subcom­ To resume heatlng8 on S. 1928, proposed lation authorizing frinds for fiscal year mittee Fair Financial Information Practices 1981 for housing, community develop­ To· hold oversigbt. hearings to examine Act, and S. 1929, proposed Privacy_of ment programs, and the Urban ~vel'­ issues affecting infant mortality, and Electronic Fund Transfers Act. opment Action Grant of the Depart· preventable birth defects. 5302 Dirksen Building ment of Housing and Urban Develop­ · 4232 Dirksen Building 2:00p.m. ment. Appropriations. 5302 Dirksen Building MAY29 State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary 9:30a.m. and Related Agencies Subcommittee APRIL 15 Veterans' Affairs To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 10:00 a.m. To bold hearings on proposed legislation timates for fiscal year 1981 for the to establish a cost-of-liYing increase Maritime Administration, Department Banking. UDwrlng, and Urban Affairs International Finance Subcommittee· for service-connected disability com­ of Commerce. pensation. 8-146', Capitol' To hold he&rings on proposed authoriza­ tions for fiscal year 1981 for the inter­ 41~ Russell Building national affail:s programs of the De· MARCH28 partment of the Treasury; and on pro· JUNEll 10:00 a.m•. posed legislation to increa.Se the U.S. 9:30a.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs quota in the International Monetary •veterans'" Affail'S Consumer Affairs Subcommittee Fund. Tb hold overSight hearings on the activi­ .TO continue hearings on S. 1928~ pro­ 5302 Dirksen Building ties ·of the Inspector General of the P)Jr posed-. Financial . Information Veterans~ Administration. Practices Act,. and S. 1929, proposed APRIL 16 412 Russell Building Privacy of Electronic Fund Transfers Act. 9:30' a.m. 5302 Dirksen Building Veterans' Affairs CANCELLATIONS' Business meeting, to consider proposed FEBRUARY7 MARCH31 legislation on the recruitment and re· ·tention of qualified health-care profes­ 9:30a.m. 2:00p.m. sionals to staff the Veterans' Adminis· Judiciary Appropriations tration health-care facilities, S. 759>, ta. To resume hearings 9n S. ·680. proposed State, Justice, Commerce, t,he Judiciary provide for the right of the United Citizens' Right to Standing in Federal and Related Agencies Subcommittee States' to recover their costs of hospi· Courts Act. To hold hearings on proJ:)osed budget es­ tal nursing home of outpatient medi· 2228 Dirksen Building timates. for fiscal year 190.1 for the De-. cal care furnished by the Veterans' 10:.00 a.m. parttnent of Commerce. Administration to veterans for non· Governmental Affairs. 8-146', Capito) service-connected · disabilities to the Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Feder· extent that they hav-e health. insur­ al Serv!ces Subcommittee APRIL I ance or similar contracts, and H.R. To resume hearings on s~ 742, proposed 10:00 a.m. 4015, proposed Veteran Senior Citizen Nuclear Waste Management Reorgani·· Appropriations Health Care Act. zation Act. Foreign Operatiqns Subcommittee . 412 R~ell Building 3302 Dirksen Building