April 11, 2000 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E531 [From the San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 6, age CEO of a pharmaceutical company re- HELP FOR THE NATION’S PREMIER 2000] ceived $14.9 million in salary, bonus, and TEACHING HOSPITALS QUALCOMM CHIEF NAMED SCIENTIST OF THE stock options in 1999. YEAR BY WOMEN’S GROUP Rather than maximizing the R&D of new HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL (By David E. Graham) therapies and cures for diseases, they are OF NEW YORK Technology is emerging now that will blur spending it on pay for their executives. To- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the distinctions between a cellular phone day's Wall Street Journal article shows what Tuesday, April 11, 2000 and a desktop computer, Irwin Jacobs, the the pharmaceutical industry's real priorities CEO of Qualcomm, said last night at an are. Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to awards banquet in his honor. The top five highest compensated CEOs of join today with Senator PATRICK MOYNIHAN,and The leader of the San Diego wireless tele- pharmaceutical companies surveyed were: (1) a number of my House and Senate colleagues communications company was named sci- in introducing legislation to stop further Medi- entist of the year by the San Diego chapter Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., $44 million, Bristol- of Achievement Reward for College Sci- Myers Squibb; (2) Richard Jay Kogan, $36.7 care cuts in the indirect medical education entists. The women’s group raises money for million, Schering-Plough; (3) Ralph S. Larsen, (IME) program. scholarships for university students studying $34.9 million, Johnson & Johnson; (4) Sidney IME payments are extra payments made to science. Taurel, $33.3 million, Eli Lilly; and (5) Fred teaching hospitals for the fact that they are While celebrating the need for talented Hassan, $15 million, Pharmacia & Upjohn. training the next generation of doctors, and students to fuel innovation, Jacobs said his The income of these 5 men is roughly half that the cost of training a young doctorÐlike company is interested in expanding the capa- the cost of discovering a blockbuster drug that any apprenticeship or new person on the bilities of digital cellular phones. ‘‘That de- could cure millions of people. jobÐis more expensive than just dealing with vice is able to do many, many things for us,’’ Mr. Speaker, we shouldn't let this industry experienced, older workers. The young person Jacobs said. The company’s code-division-multiple-ac- tell us they can't afford to participate in a requires mentoring, orders more tests, and cess technology is a standard technology for Medicare drug benefit and continue research. makes mistakes unless closely supervised. It transferring information to the phones. f is natural that a group of young residents in a Soon, however, cellular phones will be able hospital will reduce a hospital's efficiency and to tell users that location in a city or within HONORING GILBERT SERVIN increase its costs. Medicare should help pay a building, using a global-positioning tech- for these extra ``indirect'' costs, if we wantÐas nology. Other changes likely will include the HON. GEORGE RADANOVICH we surely doÐfuture generations of com- ability to connect to the Internet and OF CALIFORNIA petent, highly skilled doctors. download and store great amounts of infor- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Balanced Budget Act took the position mation—and even download and play back music. Tuesday, April 11, 2000 that the extra adjustment we pay a hospital Holding a cellular phone, he told the audi- Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, today I per resident should be reduced from 7.7% in ence: ‘‘I believe for many people it will be honor Gilbert Servin, the outgoing President of FY 1997 to 5.5% in FY 2001. This provision their computer.’’ the Central California Hispanic Chamber of was estimated to save about $6 billion over 5 When someone needed a larger keyboard Commerce. The Central California Hispanic years and $16 billion over tenÐin addition to for writing and a screen for large display of about another $50 billion in hospital cuts in information, the phone could be dropped into Chamber of Commerce (C.C.H.C.C.) is the largest Hispanic business organization in the other portions of the BBA. In the Balanced a device at a hotel or airport, for example, Budget Refinement Act which was enacted where work could be done. Central Valley. The information could be used from within Servin, a founding Board member of the last November, we recognized that these cuts the phone set or against plugged into an- C.C.H.C.C., was the California Hispanic were too much, and froze the fiscal year 2000 other larger display at another site, he said. Chamber of Commerce President for one rate at 6.5%, reduced it to 6.25% in 2001 and Many consider Jacobs a voice not to be ig- year. Along with his achievements as Presi- then dropped it to 5.5% thereafter. nored. Buoyed by the CDMA technology used dent of the Central California Hispanic Cham- Mr. Speaker, last fall's delay and spread out in portable phones and by other business of the cuts is helpfulÐbut these cuts are still moves, Qualcomm has been a darling of Wall ber of Commerce, Mr. Servin was also elected to serve for two years as treasurer for the too much. The nation's teaching hospitals, Street, its stock having soared last year. which do so much to serve the uninsured and Jacobs said he also is interested in the dis- State Hispanic Chamber. tribution of cinematic film to theaters Gilbert Servin graduated from California poor, and which are the cradle of new clinical digitally rather than on traditional film. State Polytechnic University in Pomona in research and technical innovation, are hem- Jacobs was chosen for the Achievement March 1976. For the next fifteen years he was orrhaging red ink. Reward for College Scientists award ‘‘be- employed by the Clinicas de Salud Del Pueb- Our bill stops further scheduled cuts in the cause of his great contributions to tech- lo, In., in Brawley, California, as a Business IME, freezing the adjustment factor at 6.5% nology,’’said Toni Nickell, president of the Manager and Assistant Executive Director. In rather than letting it fall to 5.5%, and saving group’s San Diego chapter. 1980 Gilbert Servin accepted the opportunity teaching hospitals about billions of dollars that The chapter provided $425,000 in scholar- would otherwise be taken from them. ships last fall to 49 graduate and under- of serving as Business Manager for United Health Centers of San Joaquin Valley, Inc., a I hope this legislation will receive consider- graduate students at UCSD, SDSU and The ation this year, before the cuts resume, and Scripps Research Institute. considerably larger health center. Since the chapter was organized in 1985, it Gilbert Servin's experience and expertise, these premier medical institutions are faced has given more than $2.4 million in scholar- obtained while employed by the United Health with cuts, layoffs, and reduced service that will ships to 375 students. Centers and the Clinicas de Salud, propelled literally cost us lives in the years to come. f f him to become an independent consultant in healthcare financing and management in HONORING THE CENTENNIAL OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY March of 1983. In addition, Gilbert Servin, THE U.S. SUBMARINE FORCE CAN AFFORD A MEDICARE DRUG CEO for CAGSI International (previously Gil- BENEFIT AND MORE RESEARCH bert Servin Associates), and his highly experi- HON. SAM GEJDENSON enced staff provide professional services in OF CONNECTICUT the preparation of financial feasibility studies. HON. FORTNEY PETE STARK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA Currently, Gilbert Servin has focused his ef- Tuesday, April 11, 2000 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES forts in expanding its services to assist local governments and community groups in financ- Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Speaker, it is with Tuesday, April 11, 2000 ing projects. These projects will promote eco- tremendous pride that I rise today to congratu- Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, the pharma- nomic development, with an emphasis on rural late the U.S. Navy Submarine Force on the ceutical industry alleges that government inter- areas. occasion of its 100th anniversary of service to vention will lead to cost containment and price Mr. Speaker, I want to honor Gilbert Servin America. controls which will stifle research and develop- as the outgoing President of the Central Cali- We have a rich maritime heritage in south- ment of new drugs. In fact, they are not fornia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. I urge eastern Connecticut and a long legacy of out- spending enough on R&D. my colleagues to join me in wishing Gilbert standing craftsmen as well as patriots. When According to today's Wall Street Journal Servin many more years of continued suc- the Navy purchased the Holland from a rel- survey on executive compensation, the aver- cess. atively unknown shipyard on April 11, 1900, it

VerDate 202000 05:25 Apr 12, 2000 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A11AP8.012 pfrm04 PsN: E11PT1 E532 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks April 11, 2000 set in motion a legacy unequaled in our na- Hyman G. Rickover, who provided the major ownership of the digital access package shall tion's history. Commanded by Lt. Harry H. impetus behind the development of nuclear- be transferred to the employee; options for Caldwell, the Holland traveled through yet un- powered submarines and surface ships, EB the technological refreshment of the benefit package; restrictions on commercial adver- charted depths, setting the standard for all built the world's first nuclear-powered sub- tising to subsidize benefits; measures to pre- who followed. For shipbuilders and sailors, marineÐthe U.S.S. Nautilus (SSN±571). EB vent unauthorized tracking of computer use having set the technological clock in motion, followed less than a decade later with the and to protect the user’s privacy; measures the Submarine Force has never looked back. Navy's first fleet ballistic-missile submarineÐ to prevent unauthorized sale or release of The Submarine Force has met challenge after the U.S.S. George Washington (SSBN±598). names or other identifying information; op- challenge head onÐfirst identifying them, then Improving on that accomplishment it designed tions for the renewal or extension of bene- dissecting them, and finally overcoming them. and developed the mammoth 560-foot Ohio- fits; provisions to make benefits accessible In April 1775, the first Minute Men con- to persons with disabilities, such as appro- class ballistic-missile submarine capable of priate modifications or accessories; meas- fronted the British regulars to begin the Amer- carrying a total of 24 Trident missiles. The ures to permit the donation of used equip- ican Revolution. One hundred and 25 years company constructed the U.S.S. Seawolf ment to schools or community-based organi- later, the early patriotsÐWashington, Adams, (SSN±21) and the U.S.S. Connecticut (SSN± zations; and measures to terminate, when Hancock, Revere, and HaleÐwere joined by 22)Ðthe two fastest, quietest, most heavily the employee leaves the government, access the likes of Nimitz, O'Kane, Dealey, Cromwell, armed submarines in the world. Today, Elec- to Government databases, sites, and other Fluckey, and Gilmore. While Nathan Hale's tric Boat is designing and building the first of functions not extended to non-employees. OPM shall establish guidelines and speci- defiant proclamation ``I only regret that I have the New Attack Submarines, now known as fications for the program. OPM shall also: but one life to lose for my country!'' was im- the Virginia-class after the first ship in the line. provide technical assistance to GSA or any mortalized as unselfish patriotism, so was that It will team with Newport News Shipbuilding to other agency, on Internet-based training for of Commander Howard Gilmore, who com- produce the remainder. employees, communication of information to manded, ``Take her down!'' Helping to turn the On behalf of the citizens of the Second and from employees, procedures for election tide in the Pacific, United States submarines Congressional District, our State of Con- of benefits, and general oversight and coordi- nation functions to ensure the efficient de- sank 51¤2 million tons of Japanese naval and necticut and the Nation, I congratulate the ex- livery of the program. merchant shippingÐ55 percent of Japanese ceptional performance of the Submarine Force Under this section, OPM shall establish shipping destroyedÐat a loss of 52 sub- and extend our deepest appreciation to our provisions for any employee abroad to whom marines and more than 3,500 valiant men. submariners and their families for a century of it may be impracticable to provide this ben- Adm. Chester A. Nimitz, commander of the service to America. efit; and in the case of an employee who has United States Navy in the Pacific during the f previously received or declines benefits, how Second World War, said: ``It is to the ever- that employee will be eligible for benefits lasting honor and glory of our submarine per- THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE based on subsequent employment. DIGITAL ACCESS ACT The GSA and OPM shall consult with each sonnel that they never failed us in our days of other to execute their duties and responsibil- great peril.'' ities under this section. Each employing During the cold war, the ``Forty-One for HON. ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS agency shall keep records and furnish infor- Freedom'' Polaris/Poseidon and succeeding OF MARYLAND mation to GSA and OPM to carry out their Trident submarines ensured that our nation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES duties and responsibilities. would never be the target of nuclear aggres- Such sums as may be necessary will be ap- sion. Daring intelligence missions provided a Tuesday, April 11, 2000 propriated annually to each agency, includ- ing OPM and GSA, both as employing and clear picture of the capabilities and the goals Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, today I have administering agencies, to carry out this of the Soviets and other nations which threat- introduced the Federal Workforce Digital Ac- Act. The costs associated with furnishing ened our national interests. As Secretary of cess Act. A section-by-section analysis fol- this benefit will be payable by the employ- Defense William S. Cohen said, ``the peaceful lows: ee’s employing agency to GSA as specified by end to 45 years of confrontation is the modern Section 1 provides that the title of this leg- applicable requirements. legacy of the Submarine Force.'' Following in islation is the ‘‘Federal Workforce Digital The amounts paid by the agency shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United the footsteps of the Minute Men, our modern Access Act.’’ Section 2 amends title 5, United States States to the credit of the Employees’ Dig- day submariners are ready at a moment's call ital Access Fund. The fund is available for and spend every moment in constant vigi- Code, to include digital access, for the pur- pose of residential use, a computer and Inter- all payments to persons providing goods and lance. net service as a benefit option for employees services under this section, and to pay the But even in peace time, our submariners in the executive, legislative, and judicial respective administrative expenses of GSA were not free from the dangers of the sea. branches of Government. and OPM within the annual limitations spec- Along with the many sacrifices during wartime, Provides that a permanent employee who ified by Congress. Section 3 amends chapter 79 of title 5 to completes a probationary period, or who has there were other tragic losses, such as the S± state that the Office of Management and been employed not less than 1 year, will be 4, the Thresher and Scorpion. Budget (OMB) shall submit to the President eligible to receive a computer and Internet The insignia of the Submarine Force is a and Congress a report on the operation of the service at home at no charge. The employee submarine flanked by two dolphins. Dolphins program based on the first 3 years of its op- has the option of declining the digital access or porpoises are the traditional attendants to eration. The report shall address the fol- package or choosing Internet service only. Poseidon, Greek God of the Sea and patron lowing aspects of this program: any cost sav- In order to promote greater technological ings, efficiencies, improved individual or col- deity of sailors. They are symbolic of a calm proficiency within the Government’s work- sea and are called the ``sailor's friend.'' Every lective organizational performance; in- force, the General Services Administration creased productivity; greater work flexibili- individual who sports this insignia may truly be (GSA) and the Office of Personnel Manage- ties; enhancement of Government recruit- recognized for their significant contributions to ment (OPM) shall, in addition to duties and ment and retention efforts; reduced printing a tranquil sea of peace in which they valiantly responsibilities assigned to each of them by and mailing costs, improved communica- fought and sacrificed so much. the President, establish and operate the dig- tions with respect to individuals in rural or Supporting the greatness of their achieve- ital access benefit program. remote locations; new Internet-based train- ments are the ships in which they sail. John The digital access benefit must allow the ing opportunities; best practices of par- employee to perform office automation and ticular agencies; the extent that family Holland, a schoolteacher born in Ireland, de- e-learning functions. Internet-based and on- signed the Navy's first submarine. Isaac Rice members utilize the computer; and the ex- site training in the use of the computers and tent to which it helps to bridge the digital merged the Electro-Dynamic Company with software applications, shall be included in divide. Each agency shall submit to OMB the Holland Torpedo Boat Company in 1899, the package. Upgrades to the digital access such information as the Office requires to to form the Electric Boat Company of Groton, benefit will be made at the employee’s re- prepare for the report. CT, Electric Boat has continued to be in the quest and expense. Section 4 provides that any contract under forefront of design and construction over the Section 2 also provides that residential this Act shall be subject to such amounts past century. Internet service must link the employee to provided for in advance in appropriations Government sites and resources, and support Acts. During World War I and the years imme- communication between Government agen- Section 5 provides that the benefits pro- diately following, Electric Boat built 85 sub- cies and the employee. vided under this Act will be furnished to marines for the U.S. Navy. It produced an- GSA may contract with any qualified per- those employees who made elections during other 74 submarines during World War II. son to carry out this section. The contracts the 48 month period beginning 1 year after Working under the watchful eye of Adm. shall include: the time and manner in which the legislation is in enacted.

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