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A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE JEAN WHAT PRESIDENT BUSH SHOULD and economic reforms in Russia-has been YAWKEY DO AT THIS CRITICAL MOMENT virtually ignored. As a result, the United States and the West risk snatching defeat in the cold war from the jaws of victory. HON. JOHN JOSEPH MOAKLEY HON. WM.S.BROOMAELD We have heard repeatedly that the cold OF MASSACHUSETTS OF MICHIGAN war has ended and that the West won it. This IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is only half true. The Communists have lost IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the cold war, but the West has not yet won Thursday, March 5, 1992 Thursday, March 5, 1992 it. Communism collapsed because its ideas Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, as Yogi failed. Today, the ideas of freedom are on Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to trial. If they fail to produce a better life in pay tribute to the late Jean Yawkey who died Berra used to say: "It ain't over 'til it's over." In a few words, that's the import of a thought­ Russia and the other former Soviet repub­ of a stroke on February 27. For the past 59 ful commentary on the cold war that former lics, a new and more dangerous despotism years, Mrs. Yawkey has been the matriarch of will take power, with the people trading free­ President Richard Nixon sent to· me recently. the Boston Red Sox. Her involvement with the dom for security and entrusting their future President Nixon has been a leading figure in Sox began in 1933 when her husband Tom to old hands with new faces. international politics from virtually the begin­ bought the team and began building what has We are at a watershed moment in history. ning of the post-World War II era until today. The historical significance of the democratic become one of the classiest franchises in He believes that while the Communists may revolution in the Soviet Union compares major league baseball. After her husband's have lost the cold war, the West has not yet only with events like the defeat of Napoleon death in 1976, Mrs. Yawkey assumed the po­ won it. at Waterloo in 1815, the Versailles Peace sition of part owner in the team's front office Should President Y eltsin's reforms not suc­ Conference in 1919, and the creation of NATO and carried on the Yawkey legacy of kindness and the Marshall Plan in 1948. A century of ceed, President Nixon believes the West could and generosity toward everyone associated stability in Europe, the drift toward World face a new, more dangerous despotism based with the Red Sox organization. The world of War II in the 1920s and 1930s, and a half cen­ on extremist Russian nationalism. baseball mourns her passing as too does the tury of successful containment of the Soviet This is a critical moment for world peace, he Union were all determined by how the city of Boston, for she did so much for so believes; and America should be doing more statesmen of the major powers responded to many. to ensure that Yeltsin's reforms succeed. Oth­ these critical moments. While opportunities Not only did she commit her resources to erwise we may be forced to engage in a new and dangers on that same order of magnitude bring great baseball to Boston but also to cold war, losing the ability to focus sufficient face us today, the West has failed so far to seize the moment to shape the history of the many charities in the Boston area. Her long­ time and energies on solving our· domestic time association with the Jimmy Fund and the next half century. problems. Russia is the key to success. It is there Dana Farber Cancer Institute is legendary. President Nixon suggests that we help Through her late husband's foundation and that the final battle of the cold war will be Yeltsin in six crucial ways; but that we share won or lost. The stakes could not be higher. her own, millions of dollars have been donated the burden of foreign aid with other industri­ If freedom succeeds in Russia-if President to the Jimmy Fund and other charitable orga­ alized nations that are better able to afford it. Yeltsin's economic reforms succeed in creat­ nizations. These donations were just another What America can provide is its world lead­ ing a successful free-market economy-the extension of the Yawkey tradition of benevo­ ership, which he says President Bush bril­ future will hold the promise of reduced spending on arms, cooperation in coping lence toward others. She was loved by all who liantly demonstrated in mobilizing the coalition knew her, both fans and players alike. An avid with crises around the world, and economic for the gulf war. growth through expanded international fan of the game, Mrs. Yawkey loved her Red These comments on President Bush's lead­ Sox. At Fenway Park, she was always a fix­ trade. More important, freedom's success ership put me in mind of a New York Times will reverberate in the world's last isolated ture in her box seats keeping score of the oired article by former Education Secretary strongholds of communism-North Korea, game during Red Sox home stands. William J. Bennett that appeared today. Ben­ Cuba, Vietnam, and China. Their leaders will From her vantage point in Fenway, she wit­ nett argues that President Bush should re­ face irresistible pressures to take the first nessed many great players come and go, Ted claim foreign policy as an issue in this year's steps toward political reform. Williams, Carl Yazstremski, and Johnny Pesky If Yeltsin fails, the prospects for the next Presidential contest. fifty years will turn grim. The Russian peo­ to name a few. The performances of these That's good advice. Coverage of the 1992 players on the field fill our minds with memo­ ple will not turn back to communism. But a campaign seems to be proceeding on the as­ new, more dangerous despotism based on ex­ ries of Red Sox triumphs and heartaches. sumption that the next President will spend all tremist Russian nationalism will take Jean Yawkey was there for all of them, the of his waking hours grappling with dom13stic power. We must remember that even before good times and the bad. She treated all of her policy issues. That assumption runs against communism, Russia had an expansionist tra­ players with the respect they deserved and in the experience of every President who has dition dating back seven centuries. The lead­ return received lifelong devotion and admira­ served in the last 50 years. ers of a new despotism, who have already tion. The great ones, Carl Yazstremski and Here are two thoughtful commentaries that I been organizing themselves to take over in the event that Yeltsin's reforms fail, will Ted Williams loved her like a mother. Current hope will be carefully read in the White House. team members speak of her fondly and pay stoke nationalist passions and exploit the The implication of both of these commentaries tendency of the Russian people to turn to the tribute to her kindness and devotion to the is that good Government can be good politics, strong hand-even to dictatorship-during team. and vice versa. And that a President who is times of troubles. You can be sure that as spring rolls around such a gifted world leader would do well to If a new despotism prevails, everything and the baseball season begins again, that play to his strong suit-for the sake of his gained in the great peaceful revolution of Jean Yawkey will be in the thoughts and Presidency and for the sake of world peace. 1991 will be lost. War could break out in the hearts of each player. Mr. Speaker, I insert the two articles in the former Soviet Union as the new despots use She never had the chance to see her be­ force to restore the " historical borders" of RECORD. Russia. The. new East European democracies loved team win a World Series, but the Red How To LOSE THE COLD wAR would be imperiled. China's totalitarians Sox's time will come, and when it does you While the candidates have addressed scores would breathe a sigh of relief. The new Rus­ can bet that Jean Yawkey will be looking of significant issues in the presidential cam­ sian regime-whose leaders would cozy up to down and keeping score, rooting for her Bos­ paign, the most important issue since the the Soviet Union's former clients in Iraq, ton Red Sox. end of World War II-the fate of the political Syria, Libya, and North Korea-would

•This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4667 threaten our interests in hot spots around President Yeltsin's government in six crucial code or launching new domestic initiatives the world. It would sell conventional weap­ ways: will have little economic significance if a ons, ballistic missiles, and nuclear tech­ We must provide humanitarian food and new hostile despotism in Russia forces the nology to any buyer. A new Russian des­ medical aid to get Russia through the criti­ West to rearm. On the positive side, if potism inspired by imperial nationalism cal months until Yeltsin's reforms have a Yeltsin succeeds, a free-market Russia will shorn of the baggage of the dying faith of chance to start working. provide an opportunity for billions of dollars communism would be even more dangerous We must create a "free enterprise corps" in trade, which will create millions of jobs in than Soviet totalitarianism. that will send thousands of Western man­ the United States. Most important, a demo­ If freedom fails in Russia, we will see the agers to Russia to infuse newly independent cratic Russia would be a non-expansionist tide of freedom that has been sweeping over enterprises with free-market know-how. Russia, freeing our children and grand­ the world begin to ebb, and dictatorship We must reschedule Soviet debt incurred children in the next century of the fear of rather than democracy will be the wave of during the Gorbachev era and defer interest armed conflict because democracies do not the future. payments until the new market economy be­ start wars. In light of the stakes involved, the West gins to function. President Bush is uniquely qualified to must do everything it can to help President We must allow greater access to Western meet this challenge. The brilliant leadership Yeltsin succeed. Yeltsin has been maligned markets for Russia's exports. he demonstrated in mobilizing the coalition by friends of freedom in the West who should We must be ready to join with others to abroad and the American people at home to have known better. Some say that he is not provide tens of billions of dollars for cur­ win victory in the Persian Gulf War can en­ democratic enough politically, others that rency stabilization through the IMF or other sure that the cold war will end not just with he is not smart enough intellectually, and means as soon as Russia reins in the growth the defeat of communism but also with the still others that he is not smooth enough so­ of its money supply. victory of freedom. cially. A few who dismissed him as a boob in We must create a single Western-led orga­ the past now seem to be hoping for his fail­ nization to assess Soviet needs and coordi­ [From the New York Times, Mar. 5, 1992) ure so that they can claim to have been nate wide-ranging governmental and private BE PRESIDENTIAL-PUSH FOREIGN POLICY proved right. That thinking is not worthy of aid projects, as the United States did when (By William J. Bennett) the world's only superpower. embarking on the rebuilding of Western Eu­ WASHINGTON.-Patrick Buchanan is a thorn Like all strong leaders who try to make a rope after World War II. in George Bush's side, and he will remain so. difference, Yeltsin is not perfect. He has In light of the depth of the Russian eco­ In this season of political discontent, the made serious mistakes. But he is an extraor­ nomic crisis, there is no time to lose. Those President faces an almost automatic protest dinary historic figure. He is the first Russian who would put off major action on these vote of 30-something percent. leader in history chosen through free elec­ fronts until the next international aid con­ But he is not the issue. The Administra­ tions. Unlike Gorbachev, he has irrevocably ference in July 1992 could find that this is tion's political challenge, still, is to find def­ repudiated socialism as well as communism. too little and too late. inition and a clear raison d'etre for a second He risked his life in facing down a gang of Can we afford these initiatives? As Herb term. The good news is that what was self­ card-carrying killers in the coup attempt in Stein has pointed out, "The United States is inflicted can be self-corrected. August 1991. He recognized the independence a very rich nation. We are not rich enough to The President took a step in that direction of the Baltic states and the other republics do everything, but we are rich enough to do when he admitted that the 1990 tax increase of the former Soviet Union. He abandoned everything important." Forty-three years was a mistake. This was the first move to­ the Russian imperial tradition-throwing ago, the United States alone helped its allies ward re-establishing a broken bond of trust away the keys of what Lenin called the "jail­ and enemies in Europe and Japan recover and making a credible case against Congress. house of nations"-by dissolving the Soviet from World War II. A strong case can be The President now needs to follow up. Here Union and forging the voluntary Common­ made that the United States has carried the are some suggestions: wealth of Independent States. He risked his burden of foreign aid and world leadership 1. Pursue a Pennsylvania Avenue strategy. enormous popularity by embarking on pain­ for long enough and that it is time for Eu­ George Bush should run an engaged, aggres­ ful free-market economic reforms, including rope and Japan to assume the major finan­ sive strategy up and down Washington's the indispensable first step of allowing astro­ cial burden in helping Russia and the other Main Street. The President should, among nomical price rises. He has moved decisively former Soviet republics. But the United other things, index capital gains against in­ toward privatization of Soviet enterprises States as the strongest and richest nation in flation: exercise the line-item veto; cam­ and decollectivization of Soviet agriculture, the world must provide the leadership. paign for term limits; veto the House Demo­ steps Gorbachev refused even to consider. He At the same time, we must be willing to cratic tax bill; throw the full weight of his has completely cut off the $15 billion in for­ bear our share of the burden. To play in this office behind radical education reform and eign aid and trade subsidies that Gorbachev game, we must have a seat at the table. To school choice, and urge legal reforms and de­ in his 1990 budget continued to provide to get a seat in the table, we must be ready to regulation. Cuba and other anti-American Communist put some chips in the pot. The stakes are If the President is to seize the domestic losers in the developing world. He has not high, and we are playing as if it were a penny initiative, he needs to do so through the only matched but exceeded the cuts in nu­ ante game. force of political conviction. Exerting execu­ clear weapons proposed by President Bush. It is a tough call politically. Opinion polls tive authority through a series of Presi­ The bottom line is that Yeltsin is the most indicate that foreign policy rates only in the dential acts will allow him to regain politi­ pro-Western leader of Russia in history. single digits among issues that voters con­ cal ball control, marginalize the Buchanan Moreover, whatever his flaws, the alter­ sider to be important. The American people candidacy, demonstrate that he is serious native of a new despotism would be infinitely overwhelmingly oppose all foreign aid be­ about governing (and not simply presiding) worse. cause they want to see that money spent on and win back the confidence of conserv­ What has the United States and the West solving our problems at home. But the mark atives. done so far to help Russia's first democratic, of great political leadership is not simply to 2. Reclaim foreign policy as an issue. Inter­ free-market oriented, non-expansionist gov­ support what is popular but to make what is national relations is the arena in which ernment? We have provided credits for the unpopular popular if that serves America's George Bush is the most sure-footed and con­ purchase of agricultural products. We have national interest. In addition, what seems fident. held a photo-opportunity international con­ politically profitable in the short term may We face challenges in the wider world, in­ ference of fifty-seven foreign secretaries that prove costly in the long term. The hot-but­ cluding the turmoil and instability after the was long on rhetoric but short on action. We ton issue in the 1950s was, "Who lost China?" implosion of the Soviet empire, continued are sending sixty cargo-planes of surplus If Yeltsin goes down, the question of "who unrest in the Persian Gulf region, the dif­ food and medical supplies leftover from the lost Russia" will be an infinitely more dev­ ficult negotiations between Israel and Arab Persian Gulf War. We have decided to send astating issue in the 1990s. nations and the ever-increasing threat of the two hundred Peace Corps volunteers-a gen­ Those who oppose aid argue that charity proliferation of chemical, biological and nu­ erous action if the target of our aid were a begins at home. I agree. But aid to Russia clear weapons. small country like Upper Volta but mere to­ and other reformist republics of the former Why did President Bush's strategists de­ kenism if applied to Russia, a nation of al­ Soviet Union is not charity. We must recog­ cide to throw away his political trump card, most 200 million people covering one-seventh nize that what helps us abroad helps us at foreign policy? Public opinion polls, no of the world's landmass. This is a patheti­ home. If Yeltsin is replaced by a new aggres­ doubt. But this President showed how well cally inadequate response in light of the op­ sive Russian nationalist, we can kiss the he could shape public opinion when he led a portunities and dangers we face in the crisis peace dividend good-bye. Not only would the reluctant nation to war in the gulf. in the former Soviet Union. world become more dangerous, but our de­ After prevailing in the twilight struggle What is to be done? To meet the moment, fense and foreign policies would also become against Communism, it is not inevitable that the West must step up to the task of helping far more expensive. Tinkering with the tax Americans will become indifferent to world 4668 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992 events or succumb to the mindless appeal of LASTING MIDDLE-CLASS TAX For those who have not been exposed to in­ "Come Home, America." In that vital na­ RELIEF dividuals with black lung, please read Mr. tional seminar, the President can teach and South's account of what it is like to live with do so by articulating a coherent case for why this disabling condition. I encourage my col­ an active international presence and respon­ HON. CHESTER G. ATKINS leagues to keep Mr. South's comments in sible defense policy are still in our na­ OF MASSACHUSETTS tional-and economic- interest. To these IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mind as Congress considers important legisla­ ends, the Administration should: tion that will affect the lives of thousands of Push hard to conclude the new round of Thursday , March S, 1992 miners across the Nation. GATT agreements. Mr. ATKINS. Mr. Speaker, while I rise today STATEMENT OF MIKE SOUTH Threaten to veto deeper cuts in defense in support of the De~ratic tax plan, I must To those who are members of this commit­ budget, which is already the smallest mili­ express my concern that the plan does not go tee, we, the living and dead victims of Black tary budget as a share of the economy since far enough to provide true and lasting tax fair­ Lung, appeal to your sense of humanity. the 1930's. Those who do not suffer from lung disease Press hard for the development and deploy­ ness for the middle class. As it is structured the bill would give wage can in no way know the agony that it puts ment of a Strategic Defense Initiative. families through. When you mention a per­ Recognize the critical American stake in earners a credit of 20 percent of their Social son suffering from lung disease it involves Boris Yeltsin's success in Russia through a Security taxes in 1992 and 1993. While it is a the whole family. The spouse who tries to greater willingness to offer the essential po­ step in the right direction, it is a temporary t ake over the tasks once done by her hus­ litical and economic support he needs. measure only. It is apparent to me that strong band who once did all the heavy physical Fundamentally change our posture toward lasting reform is desperately needed. While chores. Israel, approving the SlO billion loan guaran­ this bill does provide that the wealthy pay their The children who sit and watch their fa­ tees and supporting Israel's security, instead ther pant and gasp for breath from such sim­ of insisting on territorial concessions. fair share, by raising the top tax rate and insti­ tuting a surtax on millionaires, such measures ple tasks as eating or speaking; and the man Entering his final campaign, George Bush himself who suffers even more than his fam­ would do well to reflect on the words of the are insufficient to provide lasting relief for ily realizes. historian Teddy White. " The forces that run those who were squeezed the most by 12 He suffers in ways that others may con­ in American politics in our age are many and years of Reaganomics. The bill does not pro­ sider foolish, especially his wife and chil­ varied," he wrote. "Yet one man must make vide a long-term plan which ensures equitable dren. He feels that he is no longer an asset to them all clear enough for the American peo­ tax treatment. his family. He can no longer provide mone­ ple to vote and express their desire. He is the I believe that any true reform bill must in­ tarily for the support of his family. He is President ... what the President of today nothing! He goes to doctors, but with little decides becomes the issue of tomorrow. He clude a plan such as the one that has been put forward by Senator MOYNIHAN. Rather than or no results, for his lungs worsen with time. calls the dance." He takes his breathing treatments four It is still President Bush's dance to call. providing a temporary tax credit, that plan times a day and stays on oxygen as rec­ would permanently reduce Social Security ommended by his physician but yet he still taxes. It would strengthen the financing of the sees his condition worsen as time goes by. Social Security Program, stimulate the econ­ There are times during the long breathless TRIBUTE TO PROFESSORS. omy, and provide a fair tax cut to 132 million nights that he lies awake thinking how SCHOENBAUM workers and 6 million employers and self-em­ much longer he has to endure the suffering ployed individuals. he is going through. Times when he gasps for HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ breath and is asked if he is all right and he Simple fairness demands that the average responds " yes". When in truth he often won­ OF NEW YORK American worker get a break. In constant ders if this might be his last gasp of life. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1982 dollars, average weekly earnings actually I would not be afraid to wager that not a . Thursday, March S, 1992 decreased $6.00 in the last 31 years from person in this room knows what it is like to $261.92 in 1960 to $255.89 in 1991. Mean­ get up from your bed and walk 10 ft. to your Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure while, FICA taxes rose steadily during the bathroom and be breathless before you get to to pay tribute to S. Schoenbaum, distinguished Reagan/Bush years, dealing another bk>w to the toilet. To take a shower and have to rest professor of Renaissance Studies at the Uni­ the struggling working class. It was wrong in several times during the procedure. To step out of the shower and into a thick terry versity of Maryland, on the occasion of his the 1980's when we cut income taxes for the 65th birthday, March 6, 1992. cloth robe because you haven't the breath to better off and raised payroll taxes for the low­ towel yourself dry. And, when you dress, it Although England claims William Shake­ and middle-class workers. seems like it takes forever to pull on your speare as its national poet, no one has more A Social Security tax cut would address the trousers and especially to try to tie your thoroughly and scrupulously presented Shake­ issue of tax fairness for the middle class in the shoes. speare's life to view than this American schol­ most direct way. Rising payroll taxes in the The longing to be able to do at least a ar. His books, "William Shakespeare: A Docu­ 1980's were the cause of this increased tax modicum of the things that you used to do in mentary Life," "William Shakespeare: Records burden. If we want to ·ease the middle-class the past before death took hold of your life. A slow and agonizing death that takes away and Images, Shakespeare's Lives," and tax burden, it makes the most sense to attack "Shakespeare: The Globe and the World" so many of life's simple pleasures. Not being the problem at its source-high payroll taxes. able to play with your children or pet. The among them, are exemplars of critical scholar­ It's time that we take a step toward restoring fire and passion that was so much a part of ship that gain added lustre by appealing to the tax equity for the forgotten average worker. I your life has been replaced by sedentary de­ general reader and erudite reader alike. urge my colleagues to support such strong pression. In testimony to Professor Schoenbaum's and lasting reform when the House and Sen­ Many breathless hours are spent trying to international renown, he was invited to provide ate meet in conference. do tasks that used to take minutes to ac­ the .program notes for Sir Peter HaU's produc­ complish. No more cutting the lawn, because tion of "The Merchant of Venice," starring you cannot push, or even less, walk behind THE TRAGEDY OF BLACK LUNG the mower. Maintenance on the cars and Dustin Hoffman: while his soft, New York-ac­ home is out of the question. cented voice has carried his vast knowledge Your life now consists of oxygen tubing ot Shakespeare and his age to gatherings of HON. ROBERT E. WISE, JR. and its 50 ft. life line. A line that you curse scholars around the world. OF WEST VIRGINIA day after day. Your world consists of a 50 ft. However, what truly distinguished Professor IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES radius in which you drag your life line like Schoenbaum is that, in the tradition of Thom­ an extension cord. A cord that you some­ as Jefferson, his mind is ever open to new Thursday, March S, 1992 times wish were attached to the coal com­ pany executives and members of the Depart­ ideas, just as his door is always open to Mr. WISE. Mr. SPeaker, I would like to intro­ ment of Labor. scholars who seek the benefits of his knowl­ duce for the RECORD a statement written by If only they could spend 24 hours in your edge, counsel, and friendship. It is in recogni­ Mike South, a constituent from Beards Fork, shoes. To get a taste of how worthless and tion of his contributions to our intellectual life WV. Those who have been exposed to the lifeless your existence is. I wonder if then and the honor he has brought the United devastating effects of black lung realize how it they would change their attitude towards States that I salute him on this occasion. affects the lives of victims and their families. those who suffer from lung disease. March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4669 I think not. They sit back and take their MAKE JAPAN PLAY BY THE is a question of fairness. The American pub­ apathetic stance hoping the victims will die RULES lic would never stand idly by if, in the up­ before any Black Lung claim is settled. And coming-summer Olympics, some teams were when the victim dies the claim goes with permitted to field seven players in basket­ him, for the widow stands no chance to prove HON. RICHARDT. SC:HUllE ball while we only got five. the existence of Black Lung in her dead OF PENNSYLVANIA Some apologists of Japan's cartels have ar­ spouse. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gued that the United States should adopt keiretsu-like structures. "They're efficient," The parties involved know the hardships Thursday, March 5, 1992 and years that are spent trying to prove that these experts argue. I agree, they are. The they are the "walking dead". Mr. SCHULZE. Mr. Speaker, the following keiretsus have efficiently kept most Amer­ ican business out of Japan. They've also effi­ Some men spend anywhere from eight to March 3, 1992, letter to the editor of the Washington Post, authored by T. Boone Pick­ ciently kept prices high for Japanese con­ sixteen years being shuffled from doctor to sumers, dividends meager -for shareholders doctor trying to obtain evidence that com­ ens, chairman of Mesa, Inc., and president of and working conditions horrible for Japanese pany doctors say does not exist. I often won­ Boone Co., sheds valuable light on the recent workers. If efficiency is what everyone der how these physicians can sleep at night, decision by U.S. Attorney General, William wants, I'll be happy to demonstrate how effi­ but I guess they just "blanket" themselves Barr, to use United States antitrust laws to ciently I could run a monopoly. with the money given them by the coal com­ combat Japan's importation of its corporate With each new political and financial scan­ panies. cartel-or keiretslT-practices into America. dal coming out of Japan, it's apparent what It has to be the love of money and greed As Mr. Pickens correctly points out, Attorney this efficient system has wrought--corrup­ that fuels these physicians and companies, General Barr's decision is right on track. It tion. And if my history is right, that's why for compassion has no part to play. Human Congress more than 100 years ago passed the suffering (physical) is supposed to be allevi­ states boldly that from this point on the Justice Sherman Anti-Trust Act-to protect our free ated by the healing compassionate hands of Department is going to enforce the Sherman markets from the corruption that comes a physician; instead, these hands are stained Antitrust Act, which has already been enforced from monopolies and cartels. "green" from the dyes of money and greed. against United States corporations for over I have'no fear that the American worker This stain has put many a miner in an 100 years, against Japanese and, if appro­ and American business can compete against early grave. A stain that has spread and en­ priate, other foreign corporations allegedly vio­ anybody in the world. All Washington has to gulfed a whole nation that has turned its lating such act. In other words, all firms oper­ do is insist that everyone play by the same back on the suffering that exists in the ating in the United States, be they American rules, and then get out of the way. Attorney "death" of a miner. A "death" that means General Barr is on the right track. or foreign, will be subject to the same scrutiny (The writer is chairman of MESA Inc., a nothing to any one except the miner's family under the Sherman Act. That sounds emi­ and friends. A nation that has put a man on natural gas producer, and president of Boone the moon and won countless wars, yet the nently fair to me. Co., an investment firm that waged an un­ suffering still continues for the coal miner. With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I insert successful Vh-year battle to gain representa­ A miner who has helped in all the endeavors the text of Mr. Pickens' letter into the CON­ tion as the largest shareholder of Japan's this county has put forth. Yet when he is GRESSIONAL RECORD immediately following my Koito Manufacturing.) down with failed health, he is spurned by the remarks, and hope that our colleagues will nation that he helped lead to such greatness. take the time to read it. A nation that is complacent in its attitude, MAKE JAPAN PLAY BY THE RULES BILL LEHMAN'S KINDNESS that it does not affect me, it does not exist. (By Boone Pickens) To the powers that be; listen I beseech you. HON. LAWRENCE J. SMilH Take a walk in my weary shoes and pass HR I take exception to The Post's Feb. 25 edi­ torial concerning Attorney General William OF FLORIDA 1637; for without it countless numbers of de­ serving men and their families will suffer in Barr's decision to use the Sherman Anti­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Trust Act against Japanese keiretsus. Why the quagmire of red tape involved in the Thursday, March 5, 1992 present system. A system established for the "keep the process of trade negotiations mov­ behest of big business and not the men, wlth­ ing along steadily," as The Post suggests, Mr. SMITH of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I was out whom they would not eXl!t. when it's clear tha.t negotiations a.re at a saddened to hear that my dear friend BILL standstill? Whoever wrote the editorial LEHMAN, one of the Nation's most effective And, as they reap their enormous profits, knows little about Japan. Rhetoric and phi­ they hire lawyers to protect their greed. A losophy, which are what The Post's editorial legislators, has decided to retire at the end of greed that does not encompass compassion seems to espouse, have gotten us nowhere so the year. for the men who die for their dollars. So, in far, and that's not about to change. It's time Bill has served the people of the 17th Dis­ reality, they trade "dollars for death" and to level the playing field by backing our trict of Florida with skill, compassion, and kind­ think none the less for it. Has the nation be­ words and ideas with tangible actions. ness. His kind become rarer with each pass­ come so callous that greed overrides every­ The attorney general's recent decision to ing year, and the House will miss him. thing that is supposed to be the make-up of begin enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act human existence? Has common decency and On March 1, Miami Herald political editor against Japan's corporate cartels, or Tom Fiedler wrote an eloquent and touching compassion gone by the way of the grave? I keiretsus, is a breath of fresh air in the suf­ would hope not, but from my point of view, focating world of trade talks. It is increas­ tribute to a man whose humanitarianism it has; for it seems that the plight of the coal ingly clear that these keiretsus block not should not go unnoticed. I am inserting into miner is forever to exist in poverty and suf­ only free trade with Japan but also fair com­ the RECORD the column for the benefit of my fering. petition here at home, where keiretsus have colleagues. become one of Japan's leading exports. Could this distinguished body exist on $600 BILL LEHMAN'S ACTS OF KINDNESS a month? I think not. Yet, that is all the For the first time in what seems like ever, monthly benefits that a miner receives from a high-ranking American official has stated (By Tom Fiedler) Black Lung. Some gentlemen pay $600 or the obvious: Let's demand of Japan the same How do you measure a worthy career in more for their suits, yet a miner is asked to rules we 4emand of America. What's wrong public service? For some in Congress, success survive a month on that amount. with that? might be weighed in the stacks of legislation Members of Congress say they cannot sus­ During our more than 200 years as a free to which their names are attached, the writ­ tain their lifestyle on less than $115 thou­ market, the United States has adopted a se­ ten legacy of a life's work. sand dollars a year. ries of laws and regulations guaranteeing For others, there are the tangible monu­ that the interests and rights of workers, in­ ments to their ability to break off a piece of Slip on my size 8 shoes and live on my vestors, consumers and competitors are pro­ the federal budget for the folks back home. yearly income, and then ask for a raise. It tected and treated fairly. While these rules They are counted in bridges, highways, fed­ comes to mind the words, "I once com­ may not be perfect, they are the rules, and eral buildings-often with the sponsor's plained of no new shoes, till I saw the man they have for the most part worked. name attached-that spring up in a congres­ who had no feet". With the world marketplace becoming sional district over the course of the law­ So remember, without good lungs you can­ more interdependent, isn't it reasonable that maker's tenure. not perform your daily tasks, for without the United States insist that everyone play There is nothing undeserving of such them the gift of speech means nothing. Pass by the same rules? This is not a question of things. And using either measure, Congress­ HR 1637 and let those who deserve their right enforcing some American cultural condition man William Lehman of Biscayne Park, to breath, breathe a little easier. Thank you. in Japan or the rest of the world. Rather, it whose district slices across northeastern 4670 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992 Dade County, could step down satisfied that or dentist for the care they need-while he some people, that would sound like the setup his successes would stack up favorably foots the bill. for a punch line. But not to him. against virtually any member of Congress. Many already know of the Cuban political " When I was selling used cars, I always His presence in Washington since 1972 has prisoners that Lehman, this unremitting lib­ tried to be on the same level as the person I in many ways transformed the face of Metro­ eral, was able to bring back from Havana and was trying to sell the car to without being a politan Miami with such projects as Metro­ of t he Cuban families he helped reunite. And phony," Lehman said in a 1989 interview. rail, the People Mover, the modern bridges we have written about the time that the con­ Over the course of the 20 years he spent in over Biscayne Bay, improvements at the gressman smuggled a heart valve into the Congress, many people might criticize Leh­ Port of Miami and the airports in Miami and old Soviet Union so a citizen there could man for his staunchly liberal voting record. Fort Lauderdale, to name a few. have life-saving surgery. But nobody called him a phony. The Coast Guard's evolution as an anti­ But few stories are as touching as that of drug force is largely Lehman's work. And he Debora Benchoam Rogers, nor as revealing was at the center of painstaking steps taken about Lehman's personal warmth. Debora THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF JOINT over the past two decades to foster a respect was a 16-year-old high school student in Bue­ ACTION COMMUNITY SERVICE, INC. for human rights in South and Central nos Aires when, on a winter night in 1977, America. plainclothes policemen blasted down the But there is yet another way to assess a door to the family's apartment and, behind a HON. STENY H. HOYER career that may be of even greater impor­ fusillade of bullets, burst into the bedroom OF MARYLAND tance. That is, by the acts of personal kind­ where she and her 17-year-old brother had IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ness, often unheralded, that touch the lives been sleeping. of others. One of the policemen fired two shots into Thursday, March 5, 1992 On such a measure, Lehman knows few the boy's body, apparently killing him im­ Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, in 1989, we cele­ peers. And I suspect that's precisely the mediately. The others grabbed Debora, brated the 25th anniversary of a great success standard against which he judges himself. shackled and gagged her, then took her to a story-the Job Corps. Today I want to call at­ Bill Lehman stunned his colleagues, his police station, a descent into hell. This pe­ tention to the 25th anniversary celebration of staff, his friends on Tuesday when he left a tite teenager would spend the next 41h years subcommittee hearing he had been presiding in various cells, subjected to harassment, in­ Joint Action in Community Service, Inc., on over, went to the House floor and in a no­ terrogation and, of course, robbed of what­ Monday, March 9, 1992 at the Ritz-Carlton nonsense statement, announced that he ever joys her youth may have held. here in the Nation's Capital. would not seek re-election. Debora was a victim of Argentina's " dirty JACS was formed by a coalition of national At 78 and still struggling against the para­ war," the attempt by right-wing elements to religious leaders who represented the National lyzing effects of a stroke he suffered more eradicate threats to the military-backed Conference of Catholic Charities, National than a year ago, Lehman quietly explained government that had toppled Isabel Peron. Catholic Community Service, Society of St. later that he felt he wasn't capable of serv­ She was never charged with any crime, how­ Vincent De Paul, U.S. Catholic Conference, ing his constituents with the full measure ever. they should expect. It was an act of tremen­ In all those years, however, Debora's spirit National Council of Churches and the United dous public humility and dignity, an act that never cracked. Word of this remarkable girl, Methodist Church. National in scope, yet local is all too rare in the political arena. who clung to dignity through her Jewish in force, JACS works in partnership with the But then again, we have come to know faith, spread outside Argentina and eventu­ Job Corps Training Program. that Lehman, the former "Alabama Bill'; ally reached Lehman. With a volunteer force representing all 50 used-car dealer who studied writing at Ox­ He arranged a trip to Argentina as a mem­ States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Is­ ford and Harvard, is a rare human being who ber of the House Appropriations Committee's lands, JACS has been and is committed to the never forgot that the first obligation of subcommittee on foreign opera:tions and, key principles of volunteerism and collabora­ those in power is to be of service to those through the Argentine foreign minister, was who aren't . able to meet with Debora in her cell. tion. Over the years, more than 34,000 volun­ " Liberals too often are trying to do things Lehman recalled being captivated by her teers have been recruited and trained by for the masses, rather than for the individ­ courage, her sense of humor and perspective. JAGS to offer encouragement and to provide ual," he once told an interviewer. " That's He left intent on getting her out. Months critical hometown, individualized assistance to why I try to help the individual." later, following top-level negotiations be­ over 500,000 young people when they leave The stories of people who benefited from tween the two countries, the Argentine gov­ Job Corps and return home to their commu­ Lehman's quiet acts would run for many ernment agreed to release Debora with one nities. The Job Corps Program has done and pages. Some have been reported; most have condition: not. But all say something about the spirit That she leave with Lehman as her legal continues to do what we should strive to do that guided his service. guardian and go to the United States. They better to serve as a link with the private busi­ John Schelble, Lehman's aide, recalls also extracted a promise from Lehman that ness community together with labor and com­ being with his boss at Parkland Hospital's he wouldn't publicize the case in a way that munity leaders to provide young people who trauma center in North Miami Beach a few would embarrass the Argentine government. are disadvantaged with the education and job years ago when an emergency-room nurse Lehman agreed. So in November 1981 the skills necessary to enter the work force · and came up to Lehman and asked if he remem­ young Argentine woman came with him to become self-sufficient. In thousands of docu­ bered her. Miami where the line between guardian and mented cases, this personal one-on-one as­ "'No, I'm afraid you'll have to refresh my congressman quickly blurred. She moved memory," he said. into a home that compensated in love what sistance has meant the difference between She told him that she had been a student it lacked in language skills. success and failure; between a life of poverty of his when he taught English in the 1960s. " Bill is like a second father to me," Deb­ and dependence, and one of ·responsible self­ One day, she said, he came upon her while ora said several years later. sufficiency for former Job Corps students as she was looking quite despondent and he With Lehman's help, Debora finished high they adjust to the transition from Job Corps asked what her concern was. school, graduated from Georgetown Univer­ training back into the community. She said she told him that she and her boy­ sity with a degree in political science and is Celebrating JACS is celebrating the spirit of friend couldn't go to the senior prom because today completing work on a doctoral dis­ volunteerism; people working to help people her boyfriend had no car. Lehman's solution: sertation at Columbia University. The dis­ work. JACS offers self respect necessary to Lend them one of his. sertation, ironically, is on "Creativity as a To Lehman, it seemed such a natural act tool of psychological survival in concentra­ embrace the future. I congratulate JACS for that he never gave it a second thought. To tion camps." their steadfastness in shaping dreams for the emergency-room nurse many years later, I called Debora Thursday night in Buenos those whose worlds are far from the ideal. it was an act of generosity she would never Aires, where she has returned to complete I am proud of the work JACS has performed forget. work on the paper. She hadn't heard of Leh­ for 25 years. JACS' vision is to continue its There are the stories, never told, about the man's decision to retire. commitment to serve those in need through in­ destitute and sick people who come to Leh­ " Bill is, for me, my family in the United dividualized assistance. man's office seeking help navigating the fed­ States. And he's still my family," she said. JACS works to ensure that the disadvan­ eral bureaucracy in the hope of getting bene­ " Most of my interest in human rights was fits that might help them treat their prob­ inspired by him. His values show a lot of hu­ taged youth served will become responsible, lem. And when Lehman's efforts to assist manity all around." self-reliant, employable members of their com­ come to naught, the people find themselves Lehman attributes what political skills he munities and through their positive attitude being taken to the congressman's own doctor has to having been a used-car salesman. For and behaviors, will become inspirations and March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4671 role models for others in similar cir­ Bunte says she has a simple solution: Con­ by mentally ill people, including most of the cumstances. tinue to house handicapped elderly people in 120 clients who were steered to the housing Mr. Speaker, many of my colleagues sup­ elderly housing and begin to house the authority and are still being monitored by port the Job Corps Program because we know younger handicapped people in public hous­ the state's Division of Alcohol, Drug Abuse ing for families. and Mental Health. it works. As we take time to celebrate the 25th "There is no argument that these people A few years ago, the federal government anniversary of joint action in community serv­ need housing," she says. "I like to think ruled that 15 percent of all public housing ice we are reminded that the personal commit­ that someone with good intentions tried to units had to be set aside for handicapped ment of JACS volunteers is why it works. ensure that some people who are helpless had people. In practice, most of those people are an opportunity for housing. But they handicapped by mental illness. In Wilming­ screwed it up because they didn't separate ton, a decision was made to place most of the PUBLIC HOUSING PROBLEMS them by age group. mentally ill people into the high rises de­ FACING THE ELDERLY "The law as it is now written pits two seg­ signed for senior citizens. Many of them ments of the needy against one another, and function well, but many do not. HON. BRIAN J. DONNELLY I think that is unfair. They are running the The result is a bizarre mix of terrified sen­ elderly out of their own developments. It is ior residents and strange behaving unsuper­ OF MASSACHUSETI'S essentially changing the population of elder­ vised mentally ill younger people. It's a mix­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ly housing. And it is happening everywhere. ture that makes no sense except among Thursday, March 5, 1992 It is a national issue. payroller bureaucrats who wouldn't recog­ Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Bunte and Donnelly want to reestablish nize common sense if it was about to fall on age 62 as the minimum requirement for eligi­ them. to call attention to H.R. 3425, legislation I in­ bility to public housing specifically des­ The mental health professionals con­ troduced last September, to insure safe and ignated for elderly people. centrate on the fact that the majority of affordable public housing for the elderly. This "We don't have a lot of time. Here in Bos­ "deinstitutionalized" people are doing quite is a national problem, and I urge all of my col­ ton, 60 percent of those moving into my el­ well in such settings. Too many ignore the leagues who are interested in safe and afford­ derly developments are younger handicapped fact that in such a small wprld it takes only able elderly-only housing to cosponsor H.R. people," says Bunte. "At the rate we are a few loose cannons to devastate the battle 3425. This issue needs immediate attention. I going, I'm afraid this problem is not going to field. get addressed until elderly developments are am enclosing for the RECORD two articles from On paper, the system looks good. Division no longer primarily occupied by the elderly. the Wilmington DE News-Journal, on this sub­ officials try to choose only people who can When that happens-and it already has in handle independent living; the housing au­ ject. As one article notes, "The policy must be some places-elderly who are afraid to live thority has the power to screen out any they changed before public housing for the elderly among younger mentally ill people will have have doubts about; security has been stepped in America has been destroyed." no place to go." up; an additional social worker has been ACT Now TO SAVE ELDERLY HOUSING How did this strange development occur added; managers are being trained to spat Doris Bunte, the executive director of the under the noses of public housing adminis­ problems among the mentally ill and they Boston Housing Authority, answers her own trators who should have known better? are empowered to evict problem residents. phone, so when she picked it up some weeks There was a point several years ago when That system isn't working. ago she got the shocking news directly. One most elderly public housing had vacancies, The selection procedures, both those of the of the residents in a public housing residence partly because HUD had tightened eligibility me~tal health professionals and the housing for the elderly had just had a baby in her requirements to guarantee space for the authority, don't even come close to weeding apartment. most needy. When advocates for the men­ out disruptive people Security is spread too Doris was relieved that all had turned out tally ill discovered this phenomenon, they thin. There are only two social workers. well, but after the moment passed, she real­ began to pressure HUD to allow handicapped Building managers already have their hands ized how absurd the situation was. people to use the "excess" elderly housing. full with administrative tasks. Electra Arms "Someone had had a baby in one of my el­ They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. wants a full time mental health professional. derly developments, and I thought, it can't The trickle became a flood about three The fear among the older residents is pal­ be an elderly development if some of the years ago, but as Bunte says, most housing pable. The fear may be exaggerated, as some residents can still be having babies. This is a administrators, being socially conscious, mental health professionals insist, but the real problem," she said. were afraid to speak out in opposition be­ fear is a reality in these people's lives. They Doris had just experienced another phe­ cause they didn't want to be seen as being are being told that they can protect them­ nomenon o! the "New Elderly Family." The against the mentally ill. selves by organizing "high-rise watches" to bureaucrats of the department of Housing It is now time to speak out. The policy keep an eye on each other and to report and Urban Development (and therefore also must be changed before public housing for problems. Most are too scared to participate. your local housing authority) have decided the elderly in America has been destroyed. that young handicapped people, including And here's some reasons why: those who are mentally ill, are officially "el­ At Crestview a mentally ill resident solic­ TRAGIC GAPS IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE ited quarters from the older residents sitting derly families" and therefore eligible for el­ (By Norman Lockman) derly housing. in the lobby by kicking them on the shins. Bunte, a former state legislator from the One of the toughest problems facing men­ Security discovered it only after the victims Roxbury section of Boston, has a reputation tal health professionals trying to implement had become too afraid to continue to use for being a hard-headed liberal with a heart de-hospitalization is find housing for their their favorite sitting area. that encompasses the neediest of the needy. clients. And one of the greatest gaps is the At Electra Arms, a young man known for But several months ago she picked up her one that now exists between reality and bizarre behavior and dress and feared for his phone and called U.S. Rep. Brian J. Don­ what those professionals wish were happen­ habit of staring fixedly at older residents, nelly, D-Mass. They had a conversation ing to unstabilized mentally ill people living tried to poison himself by swallowing a 9- about what brought about the mixing of in the community. vol t battery. He then leaped to his death mentally ill young people and old people in It is true that many, perhaps even a major­ from the 11th floor one day last June. senior housing. By the time it was over, U.S. ity, of the mentally ill people being treated Visitation rights are being abused by some Rep. Donnelly, (who was one of Doris' col­ in the community are doing fine. It is not mentally ill residents who allow homeless leagues in the Massachusetts House), was they we are worried about. It is the few friends, some of whom have been rejected for embarked on a course that will, hopefully, whose untreated disruptive behavior is im­ residency, to sleep in their apartments. restore the integrity of public housing for pacting lives of people who should not have What has happened, good intentions not the elderly, a concept that had been a gov­ to bear the burden. withstanding, is that Wilmington's once top­ ernment policy from the days of Franklin D. Nowhere is the impact of unstabilized men­ notch public housing for senior citizens is in Roosevelt. tally ill people living in the community danger of becoming unlivable because of un­ Rep. Donnelly has introduced a bill in Con­ more sharply drawn than in the Wilmington supervised, unstabilized mentally ill resi­ gress to make it legal to have "age specific" Housing Authority's four high-rise apart­ dents. The mental health system, faced with public housing. ments housing senior citizens. Those four a lack of adequate community facilities to "I don't think mixing old people and the buildings, Crestview Apartments on North make its dehospitalization drive work as fan­ mentally ill young together in housing is Market Street, Baynard Apartments of 18th tasized, is burdening yet another system not good policy," says Rep. Donnelly. Street, Lincoln Towers on Gilpin Avenue and designed to deal with its clients. "Nobody told us this was happening. And I Electra Arms on Broom Street have a total And once again, as with the homeless poor think I understand why. The policy defies all of 523 units, almost all of them occupied. Ap­ who must compete for resources with rules of common sense." proximately 20 percent of those are occupied unstabilized mentally ill people, another 4672 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992 group of vulnerable citizens, this time old The wily Osceola quickly got himself re­ THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY ones, who are suffering. leased by pretending that he had changed his Strange priorities. mind about the treaty and would sign it. As soon as he was free, he began to organize his HON. NEWT GINGRICH resistance campaign. OF GEORGIA BIOGRAPHY OF OSCEOLA Osceola was too experienced to attempt IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES open battle against the whites' superior mili­ Thursday, March S, 1992 tary power. Instead, he formed small parties HON. ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, I hope all my OF AMERICAN SAMOA of Indian warriors, instructed them to cause Government forces as much irritation as colleagues will read the following speech Vice IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES they could, kill when possible, and then van­ President QUAYLE presented to the New York Thursday, March S, 1992 ish into the wilderness. Women, children, Economic Club on February 27. He challenges and the old and sick.of the tribe were hidden Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Mr. Speaker, the basic principles of the welfare state that in the depths of the Florida swamps. The dominates our country today. through Public Law 102-188 (S.J. Res. 217, leading Seminole signer of the treaty, Char­ H.J. Res. 342), Congress and the President lie Amathla, was killed. REMARKS OF VICE PRESIDENT QUAYLE TO THE designated 1992 as the "Year of the American NEW YORK ECONOMIC CLUB So successful was Osceola's guerrilla war­ Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Dick Indian." This law pays tribute to the people fare that U.S. troops were sent into the field. who first inhabited the land now known as the Voel, thank you for the kind introduction. On Christmas Eve, 1835, more than 100 sol­ In the last ten days I have been in Dela­ continental United States. Although only sym­ diers under Major Dade set out from the ware, Maryland, Georgia twice, North and bolic, this gesture is important because it military post at Fort King, confident of cap­ South Dakota, Colorado, and Minnesota. shows there is sympathy in the eyes of a ma­ turing the Seminoles' leader. Three days There is only one issue on the minds of the jority of both Houses of the Congress for later all but three were dead, having been people-the economy and jobs. Job security those Indian issues which we as a Congress ambushed and cut down by Osceola and his is especially an issue for new sectors of the men. The Indian leader went on to avenge economy that have been somewhat insulated have been struggling with for over 200 years. the despised Payne's Landing Treaty by kill­ In support of the "Year of the American In­ in the past---like insurance, financial institu­ ing General Thompson and four other offi­ tions, and the media. dian," and as part of my ongoing series this cers. The Second Seminole War had begun. The starting point for any discussion these year, I am providing for the consideration of For the next 7 years a deadly game of cat days has to reference the end of the cold war. my colleagues a short biography of Osceola of and mouse was played in the Florida swamps Today, in place of one great threat, there are the Seminole Tribe who led the battle against and Everglades, as the U.S. Army tried to many smaller, less recognizable threats. And a forced move from Florida. This biography catch Osceola and his people. Immediately today, more than ever before, other nations was taken from a U.S. Department of the Inte­ after the December massacres, 700 men, sent look to America for leadership. Who will rior publication entitled "Famous Indians, A to bring in the most-wanted Indian, faced take up this responsibility if we refuse it-­ Collection of Short Biographies.'' Osceola and his warriors in the battle of the Germany? Japan? China? Ouithlacoochee River. After heavy losses on No, America is engaged in the world's OSCEOLA (CREEK) both sides, the Indians were forced to re­ economy, and there is no going back. Nor In 1832 a few members of the Seminole treat, but Osceola, although wounded, es­ should anyone want to go back. One of the tribe of Florida signed an agreement with caped. immediate imperatives in global economics U.S. Government officials which was to be­ and politics is the successful conclusion of come hated among the Seminoles as the Officer after officer, and more and more troops, went to Florida to bring in the elu­ the GATT negotiations. I can't think of any­ Treaty of Payne's Landing. thing worse than replacing the cold war with Under it, within 3 years the entire tribe sive Osceola, who remained invisible. In May of 1837, Gen. T. S. Jesup, latest in a long line a trade war. Yet, the political dynamics would surrender all its Florida lands, move around the world are threatening the conclu­ to Indian territory (Oklahoma), and there of commanders sent to bring the Seminole War to and end, called a peace council at­ sion of this agreement. As we seek economic join members of the Creek tribe. These harsh expansion at home, one of the keys will be terms became even more hateful with a later tended by Osceola and some 3,000 Indians. Jesup was so sure of success that he had 24 exports abroad. declaration that no Negro would be allowed transports standing by, ready to take the No longer will competition be limited be­ to accompany the tribe west. For more than tween New York and Los Angeles. It will be 20 years the Seminoles had given refuge to Seminoles west. But Osceola got wind of the plot. The next morning, every Indian had global competition-lots of it. And we should the escaped slaves of both Indian and white vanished. welcome competition. owners, had in turn enslaved them and inter­ And, let me add, we do not promise to married with them. The no-Negro decree "No Seminole proves false to his country, "protect" our economy. We believe in stimu­ would mean the breaking up of many Semi­ nor has a single instance ever occurred of a lating our economy. "Protection" is the cry nole families. first-rate warrior having surrendered," wrote of the weD.k and insecure. America did not Most members of the tribe indignantly re­ the · frustrated Jesup. Failing to capture make its way this far in the world by cower­ pudiated the treaty. As time for removal Osceola in battle or through "peacemaking" ing behind barriers. Our credo is not, "Take neared, their resistance to it intensified tactics, Jesup finally succeeding in seizing cover!" but "Let the competition come." under the leadership of Osceola, a handsome Osceola only by violating a flag of truce Where others will compete freely and fairly, young Indian of Creek and possibly some Eu­ under which the Indian leader was awaiting so will we. ropean ancestry. Jesup for a conference requested by the Gen­ What a tragedy it would be, ladies and gen­ Osceola was less than 30 at the time, and eral. Osceola and a group of his followers tlemen, if America were to lead in the tri­ not a chief either by election or inheritance, were imprisoned in Fort Moultrie, Fla. umph of free-market capitalism-only to but was acknowledged as the Seminoles' The Swamp Fox could not endure cap­ lose faith in it ourselves. Historians looking strong man. He had fully demonstrated his tivity, and rapidly wasted away in prison. back on our time would shake their heads in courage and intelligence as a warrior during Within 3 months, in January of 1838, Osceola amazement that such a sad thing could hap­ fights against General Jackson and his men died. pen at such a happy moment in our national in the First Seminole War (1819). Osceola ex­ life. pressed open contempt for the 1832 treaty The Second Seminole War was to go on for But I wonder if there is not a hint of that and repeatedly refused to sign it, despite 4 more years, as a succession of military loss of faith in what we're hearing now from pressure from Gen. Wiley Thompson, its leaders declared that the Seminoles could some quarters. All the world has spent the chief sponsor. never be defeated. The Indians came out of last two generations experiencing what Continuing his effort to get unanimous the swamp only in the fall of 1841, rather works in economics, and what doesn't. What Seminole approval, General Thompson called than forfeit the lives of a group of their elevates man, and what oppresses and de­ together a group of tribal leaders in 1835. tribesmen, who had been captured and held bases him. Most of the chiefs who opposed the treaty as hostages. After a peace treaty in 1842, It was our fate and good fortune to watch stood by silently, refusing to take the pen of­ most of the Seminoles moved to Indian terri­ the great collectivist experiment from out­ fered them, but Osceola furiously plunged his tory. side the laboratory. But those millions of hunting knife into the paper, declaring that Several bands refused to move. Their de­ souls who had to endure it---they are our wit­ he would never agree to the treaty's terms, scendants (some of whom, although unre­ nesses. And what they tell is simple and un­ and would do all he could to encourage Semi­ lated to the great resistance leader, bear the equivocal: socialism, or any glossed-over nole resistance. Thompson had Osceola ar­ name "Osceola") are still there, making up variation of it, won't work. It will diminish, rested, put into irons, and imprisoned. today's Seminoles of Florida. destroy, and devour resources, instead of ere- March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4673 ating and building. In man's economic life, And, finally, something that matters to less costly, and more fair. It's estimated that the State may be an uneasy ally but never a every American who owns a home, a farm, a a larger percentage of the costs of making a friend. business, or has a small investment-or car goes into the company's legal bills than As we seek our economic security in this needs a job: cut the tax on capital gains. into buying metal. uncertain world, we must learn what works Let me pause here with a personal thought In hope of improving this situation, the and what doesn't. Let us look at this great about Congress and how it operates. In the President and I have proposed the civil jus­ city. It attests to what becomes of those who category of baring one's economic soul, the tice reform plan. It would limit punitive put their faith in the benevolence of the most frustrating public policy problem that damages, speed up the delivery of justice, state. In what should be a liberal paradise, I've faced in my 15 years in office is the Fed­ and discourage frivolous lawsuits. These are what do we find instead? eral budget deficit. practical, common-sense reforms and would Honest, ambitious, hard-working New When I graduated from college in 1969, the in no way compromise our sense of justice. Yorkers struggling to pay the highest local Federal budget was $184 billion and we had a Whether they will meet the standards of law­ taxes in America-about $1,600 per person. surplus. This year the Federal budget will be yer&-62 of whom now sit in the Senate-is A business tax three times greater than $1.5 trillion and the deficit is projected to be unfortunately another matter. that paid by businesses in Chicago and Los close to $400 billion. Whether there was a Re­ One of your past speakers, Churchill, re­ Angeles. publican President or a Democratic Presi­ minded us that, "we make a living by what One in every eight people on the dole. dent, the Congress has been unwilling to get we get* * *but we make a life by what we Taxpayers investing $7 ,000 a year for each serious about spending restraint. give." public school student, compared to $3,000 per In fact, more and more our whole congres­ Hard times shake our confidence, cloud our student in private schools. The taxpayers' sional system favors excessive spending. The vision, divide us just when unity, is most investment in education gets a high-school appropriations bills that are annually heaved needed. But amid all the bickering and pos­ graduation rate of 38 percent. That means 62 upon the President's desk contain more than turing in Washington, I believe there re­ percent don't finish on time. 1,600 pages. Congress is very good at giving mains a simple, unselfish ideal worth fight­ Liberal economics may prevail here, but it the President 75 or 80 percent of what he ing for. The credo expressed long ago by sure doesn't work here. It's estimated that wants, and then adding 20 or 25 percent of Thomas Wolfe: by 1994, a total of 320,000 private sector jobs what he doesn't want. And it's this part of will be lost in New York City. When the tax­ To every man, regardless of his birth, his the budget that causes so many of our fiscal golden opportunity; payers meekly protest these high taxes, the problems. liberal deep-thinkers snap back that we lack To every man, the right to live, A philosopher wrote many centuries· ago: To work, "compassion" for the working man. But the "Our peril comes from those who seek to working man is usually the one most hurt by To be himself please us, rather than to serve us." He could And to become whatever thing his manhood this kind of thinking. Now, I know: it's an have been speaking of our modern Congress. election year. And I don't pretend to be en­ and his vision can combine to make We have Members of Congress who have -This, seeker, is the promise of America. tirely non-partisan. But ladies and gentle­ been there 30, 40, even 50 years. The problem men, I am not appealing to party affiliation. is that our Congress has become insulated, Thank you, Good night. And God bless you. I'm appealing to reason and tragic experi­ out of touch with reality, but very proficient ence: the liberal vision of a happy, produc­ in getting re-elected because· of the goodies tive, and content welfare state hasn't even they dispense. EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY worked on 22 square miles of the most valu­ According to Common Cause, only 6 per­ ENHANCEMENT ACT able real estate in the world. cent of House Members will face financially You don't build economic strength by tax­ competitive races, and about 98 percent seek­ ing economic strength. If you tax weal th, ing re-election will be re-elected-primarily HON. ROBERT E. WISE, JR. you diminish wealth. If you diminish wealth, because there is no genuine competition. To OF WEST VIRGINIA you diminish investment. The fewer the in­ get spending under control, we need serious IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vestments, the fewer jobs. Congress will have a classic battle over reform in Congress-and I'm not just talking Thursday, March 5, 1992 about the line-item veto. taxes in the next few weeks* * *. A Repub­ Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, it is no secret that lican approach and a Democratic approach Congress thinks it is good for the Nation to limit the President to two terms. The argu­ students today face two very difficult problems * * *. The Democratic approach holds out a tem­ ment for this is, of course, that too much when it comes to higher education-too few porary tax cut-right along with a perma­ power, for too long, has a way of making students can afford to go to college and too nent tax increase. For a family of four, this people arrogant and even corrupt. Well, it few college graduates earn enough to repay bold plan would offer a. savings of a.bout a sure does. And if it is good for the Nation to their student loans. That is why I recently in­ quarter a day per person. limit our President to two terms, then it is good for the Nation to limit the terms of troduced legislation that would make it easier Today the Democrats in Congress passed for more Americans to receive financial assist­ their tax bill surprise of surprises, it is noth­ Congress as well. ing more than a $100-million tax increase on Speaking of reforms and competitiveness, ance for education-legislation which attacks the American worker. In 1990, the President I'm compelled to mention our civil justice both of these problems. signed the Democratic Congress' tax in­ reform package. My competitiveness council This legislation expands eligibility for Pell crease, and the country got a recession. This has identified legal reform as a very serious grants and Stafford loans. It increases the time, the President will veto the Democratic competitiveness issue. An American business maximum Pell grant from $3, 100 to $4,500 Congress' tax increase and demand that his spends 15 times more for product liability and it increases the minimum Pell award from jobs package be passed. costs than a Japanese or German business. That, my friends, is a competitiveness dis­ $200 to $400. This means that students are You know, these last few days I've been eligible for more money through Pell grants. asked a lot about the message from New advantage, and we are determined to do Hampshire. The message is simple and di­ something about it. In my State, we have a situation where rect: The people are fed up with Washington. As you may know, I went before the Amer­ bright, talented individuals have to leave the They're fed up with big government. They're ican Bar Association a few months ago, and State after graduation because there are too fed up with high taxes. They're fed up with in my quiet, humble way tried to suggest few high paying job opportunities. One reason government regulations. And they a.re fed up that a reform or two might be in order. Well, graduates need higher paying jobs is to help with our bad economy. We agree with that never have I witnessed such a spontaneous outpouring of warmth and affection* * * repay huge student loans. By providing stu­ message. dents with a larger percentage of grants and Now let's look at the President's plan. No, Ladies and gentlemen, I mean my friends it would not make our troubles disappear. the lawyers no harm. Their calling can be a smaller percentage of loans, I hope to lower But it will steer us along the right road. Put among the most valuable and noble in a free their debt ratio as they start their new careers. simply, the plan will: society. Just think about it. America has 5 This legislation can help break the cycle of Establish, immediately, a $5,000 tax credit percent of the world's population. Do we student debt and spiraling wages required to for first-time home buyers. Our real estate really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? pay for that debt. incentives alone will generate e.s many as There were 18 million civil lawsuits filed in This legislation also changes the way ex­ 415,000 new jobs in six months. 1989. Were all those really necessary? pected family contributions are calculated. Give priority to all pro-growth government And more to the point, do you know how projects, especially in construction. great a burden all this litigation places on Ownership of principal residences, family Place a moratorium on all new Federal our economy? Altogether, about $300 billion. farms, and small businesses will no longer regulations that might hinder economic We're the most litigious society in the world work against families by being counted in their growth. and we need a legal system more efficient, financial aid asset formula. As a result, fami- 4674 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992 lies who have lower incomes but own their cient to pay for the full cost of postsecondary THE TAX BILLS own home, farm or small business will not be school education. And, in any case, fathers­ penalized. and mothers and grandparents should not HON. LEE H. HAMILTON One of the most important things this legis­ have to give their retirement savings to edu­ OF INDIANA lation does is to allow working students from cate their children and grandchildren. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES low-income families to use their income to Parents and their children are forced to rely Thursday, March 5, 1992 help support their families without being penal­ upon student loans, not because they want to, ized when they apply for financial aid. This bill Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I would like to but because the expense of education re­ would reinstate an offset for working students insert my Washington Report for Wednesday, quires such dependence. that existed in previous Pell grant computa­ March 4, 1992, into the CONGRESSIONAL tions. This provision would help more students If we are to grow and prosper as a Nation RECORD: qualify for all types of financial aid-both we must reinvest in our future. Education is THE TAX BILLS grants and loans. the primary building block of that future. An in­ Last week the House took up three alter­ The needs analysis formulas for all types of vestment in education is one which will pro­ native tax packages. The first incorporated financial aid are being combined for adminis­ vide returns for years to come. Moreover, we all of the President's tax proposals included trative simplicity. Currently, in calculations for now recognize that our economic viability as a in his State of the Union address and his budget submission, including an increase in Pell grants, if the available income from the Nation depends upon producing the human re­ the personal exemption for children, a tax family is calculated to be a negative number, sources that only education can provide. As credit for first-time homebuyers, and a deep that number can offset income earned by the the costs of education rise higher and higher, cut in capital gains taxe's. The second was a student. This bill would reinstate that offset in it is more important than ever to provide relief substitute crafted by House Republicans that the new, combined needs analysis formula, to those who, in attaining an education for had fewer provisions, dropping, among other helping students from lower-income families themselves, also provide for the future of their things, the President's proposal to increase who work to help support their families. country. Only in this way may we ensure an the exemption for children. These two pack­ Mr. Speaker, today it is popular to talk about ages were defeated in the House by wide mar­ educated work force for America's future. Mr. gins, largely because they were projected to competitiveness and building an economic in­ Speaker, I strongly urge the inclusion of full significantly increase the deficit. The main frastructure. To successfully accomplish this tax deductibility of educational loans when this vote was on the Democratic tax package, we must allow more people more access to bill returns from the Senate. which passed by a vote of 221 to 209. The de­ education with less of a debt burden. This is bate now shifts to the Senate. a vital component in our Nation's economic Outline of democratic package: The tax growth today and our Nation's future tomor­ package approved by the House has two main row. goals: improving tax fairness and boosting THE FORMOSAN ASSOCIATION FOR the economy. To improve the fairness of the PUBLIC AFFAIRS tax code, it would provide middle-income tax DEDUCTIBILITY OF STUDENT relief through a two-year, refundable tax credit on social security taxes that would LOAN INTEREST HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ provide up to $200 per year for singles and $400 for couples, That tax cut would be paid HON. CHFSTER G. ATKINS OF NEW YORK for by permanently increasing the top in­ OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES come tax rate from 31 % to 35% (which would apply only to individuals with taxable in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, March 5, 1992 come over $85,000 and families with taxable Thursday, March 5, 1992 income over $145,000), imposing a 10% tax Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, I am extremely surcharge on those making more than $1 mil­ Mr. ATKINS. Mr. Speaker, while I rise today lion per year, and extending a phase-out of in support of the Democratic tax plan, I must pleased to extend my hearty congratulations to the officers, board members, staff, chapter deductions and exemptions for high-income express my concern that the plan does not go taxpayers. far enough to make college education more leaders, and members of the Formosan Asso­ In an effort to boost economic growth, it affordable for middle-income students and ciation for Public Affairs on the occasion of its contains a variety of tax incentives, includ­ their families. 10th anniversary. ing a cut in capital gains taxes by exempting As it is structured, the bill would allow fami­ The creation of FAPA in 1982 under the the portion of such gains due to inflation and lies to subtract only 15 percent of the interest leadership of my good friend Dr. Trong Chai an extra first-year deduction for businesses for the cost of newly purchased equipment. on student loans-up to $300 for single peo­ was an important event in the life of the Tai­ It would allow real estate professionals to ple and up to $500 for a married couple. This wanese-American community. It signaled the deduct their rental losses from their active means that those just entering the job market engagement of that community in the Amer­ income, and make permanent the research are still saddled with significant debts. The es­ ican political system in efforts both to protect tax credit. calating cost of education places an enormous the community's interests in America and to The package has been estimated to lose strain on our students. Higher education is enhance the prospects for democracy and revenue over the first two years, but reduce rapidly becoming inaccessible to low- and mid­ the deficit by $14 billion over the six-year pe­ human rights on Taiwan itself. That such an riod through 1997. dle-income families. Interest payments on engagement occurred so quickly after the ar­ Merits: The House-approved package has these loans can virtually wipe out a new grad­ rival of significant numbers of Taiwanese in several positive features. First, it would re­ uate's income. our country is quite remarkable. store some equity to the tax code, giving middle-income taxpayers most of the tax That is why, along with 142 of my col­ Over the past decade, FAPA has joined the leagues, I am a cosponsor of a bill introduced cuts after a decade in which upper-income ranks of other American ethnic organizations taxpayers received most of the tax breaks. by Representative SCHULZE, which makes the which seek to play an active and constructive interest on these loans fully deductible. Second, it is more fiscally responsible than role in our country's political life. In the proc­ the alternative tax packages, which were es­ The Tax Reform Act of 1986 reclassified ess, it has made a profound contribution both timated to increase the budget deficit by student loan interest as consumer interest and to the welfare of the Taiwanese community in tens of billions of dollars over six years. made it nontax deductible. It made no distinc­ the United States and to the shaping of Amer­ Third, several of its tax incentives-from tion between interest incurred because of a making the research tax credit permanent to ican policy toward the Asian region in a way vacation to the Mediterranean and that in­ providing a tax credit for student loans-are that enhances the ability of the people on Tai­ curred because of payment toward a college reasonable. Fourth, it highlights the dif­ wan to shape their future. education. ferent emphases of the two parties when it The tax plan under consideration today al­ I am very pleased to have been associated comes to tax policy, in terms of favoring upper-income taxpayers or the middle class. lows parents to make penalty free I RA with­ with FAPA since its founding in 1982 in pro­ Drawbacks: Yet in the end I voted against drawals for tuition expenses. It is an important moting these important objectives. I look for­ the package for the following reasons: first step, but many families do not have IRA's ward to many more years of fruitful coopera­ First, my primary reason was that the on which to fall back. Or, the IRA's are insuffi- tion. package has the wrong focus. Important as March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4675 restoring some equity to the tax code and the biggest challenges facing the American HER AIM IS TO EVEN-UP GRAMMY trying to stimulate the economy during this economy, not partisan games. SCORE recession are, they are not the main prob­ lems facing the nation. Our major effort really should be boosting long-term growth, HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL and that means our priorities should be on STATEMENT HONORING HOME- OF NEW YORK reducing the budget deficit and making im­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES portant long-term investments-in infra­ STEAD AIR FORCE BASE ON ITS structure, research, education, training, 50TH ANNIVERSARY Thursday, March 5, 1992 children. Stagnant productivity growth ex­ Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to call to ceeds all other problems. What Americans the attention of my colleagues the following ar­ want most now are jobs and improvements in HON. DANTE B. FASCEIL ticle by Earl Caldwell, which appeared in the their standards of living, and this package is not designed for that. OF FLORIDA New York Daily News on Monday, February Second, the package seeks contradictory IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 24, 1992. aims. It tries to stimulate a weak economy In this article, Mr. Caldwell describes the without increasing the deficit. That cannot Thursday, March 5, 1992 tireless efforts of New York State be done. Overall, the stimulus proposed in Assemblywoman Geraldine Daniels, who rep­ the package would have only a modest im­ Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to resents the 70th District, in Harlem, to have pact on getting the U.S. out of the current honor Homestead Air Force Base on its 50th that community's contribution to our Nation's recession. anniversary. To commemorate this great mile­ musical history recognized. Third, the modest economic stimulus from stone in the history of our Armed Forces, the HER AIM Is To EVEN-UP GRAMMY SCORE the package may also be too late. Most fore­ State of Florida, and the national defense of casts suggest that the recession will end our own United States, I offer the following Hers was another side in the "we want our later this year because of actions already · piece of the action" argument. This time it taken by the Federal Reserve to lower inter­ proclamation: came from Assemblywoman Geraldine Dan­ est rates. If so, the tax changes in this pack­ Whereas Homestead Air Force Base which, iels. Her target was the National Academy of age could kick in after the recession is al­ since its inception in September of 1942, has Recording Arts and Sciences, the organiza­ ready over. The overwhelming consensus of been a defense stronghold for our nation, tion that sponsors the Grammy Awards. economists is that another rate cut by the helping to guide American forces to victory The way it turned out, Geraldine Daniels Fed would be a far more useful tonic to this in World War II, as well as playing a pivotal didn't win. recession than a tax cut. role in the Cold War and developments in The Grammy A wards are going ahead as Fourth, the overall impact on tax equity Cuba; scheduled tomorrow night at Radio City would be small. Although the House-passed Music Hall. Only a thin slice of the Grammy tax package makes a good effort at trying to Whereas Homestead Air Force Base, less action figures to get as far north as Harlem. restore some equity and fairness to the tax than 200 miles from the coast of Cuba, has But even though that's the case, code through the two-year tax credit for proven to be an invaluable asset in monitor­ Assemblywoman Daniels didn't exactly come middle-income Americans costing $46 billion, ing activity on the island and, in October of away from lier fight a loser. its various tax incentives cost some $29 bil­ 1962, when it was discovered that the Soviet "This was a beginning," she said, "And I lion over six years plus more thereafter, and Union was positioning medium-range mis­ want the Academy and the world to know would benefit primarily the wealthy. siles on Cuba, Homestead led the American that Harlem will continue its fight to have Fifth, the package would worsen the budg­ crusade against the spread of the Communist more of the Grammy week even ts.'' et deficit. Although crafted to have a posi­ specter; All of it is about "a piece of the action." tive impact on the deficit over six years, it Whereas Homestead Air Force Base has Just a week ago, the NAACP announced it is still the case that over the next two proven its worthiness to the United States, was urging blacks not to buy Japanese cars, years-when the federal government will be and really to all free lands, by continually explaining that Japan's car makers did not running annual deficits in the $300-400 billion standing ready to project air power around hire blacks at the same level that American range-the package will lose some $30 bil­ the globe while still maintaining an oper­ companies do and that Japan car makers lion. Moreover, estimates of the revenue loss ational, ready Tactical Air Force; also gave few dealerships to blacks. The from tax breaks-such as from indexing cap­ Whereas Homestead also participated in "Don't buy Japanese" decision was the ital gains or from the passive loss provi­ the Vietnam War and has trained countless NAACP's strategy to pressure Japan for "a sion-always seem to turn out to be to opti­ members of our Air Force during the past piece of the action." mistic. And perhaps most importantly, the fifty years; The "piece of the action" demand goes hugely optimistic assumption at the heart of back to the 1960s. Leaders of civil-rights or­ the package is that in the midst of the next Whereas, on its 50th anniversary, Home­ ganizations found that blacks suffered in election year, 1994, Congress will let the mid­ stead Air Force Base stands more ready and some ways as a result of integration. Their dle-income tax cut lapse. I think that is able than ever to assist in the tactical de­ feeling was something like this: We lost our highly unlikely. Instead, it would almost fense of our country through its superior black businesses, and then we got shut out of certainly be extended, and unless some pain­ personnel, resources and geographical loca­ the major businesses. Large white concerns ful offsetting cuts are made, that could dras­ tion; got our money through integration, and we tically increase the deficit. The risks that Whereas bases such as Homestead will al­ were left with nothing, not even jobs. We got the deficit created by this package would ways be of the utmost use to our nation as no piece of the action. grow are substantial. we seek to ensure our national security and So the battles began. In the late '60s the Sixth, the additional revenue gained from assist other countries in their fights for free Rev. Jesse Jackson and his organization, Op­ the higher taxes on the weal thy, some $73 rule: Now, therefore, I ask our colleagues to eration Push, signed "fair-share" agree­ billion over six years, is an enormous sum join me in proclaiming March 21, 1992, a day ments with major corporations. The NAACP that should not be squandered. It far exceeds of celebration commending and saluting soon followed with similar agreements. the President's proposed peace dividend from Homestead Air Force Base on its 50th anni­ When the economy was going strong, the the collapse of the Communist threat, and versary; fair-share agreements had an impact. Once under the House-passed plan it would be used Offering profound thanks to the officers, the economy began to slow, the old "we want for a tax break of about a dollar a day that enlisted men and women and civilians who our piece of the action" arguments resur­ few people are clamoring for and that is un­ are on duty this day and to the thousands faced. One of the voices heard was Geraldine likely to do much to help the economy. It is who came before them these past fifty years; Daniels' as she took on the Academy and the more wisely used for long-term investment Grammys. in infrastructure and education and for defi­ Acknowledging that Homestead Air Force The "piece of the action" Daniels wanted cit reduction. Base has been, is, and will continue to be a had nothing to do with recognition; she was Finally, this vote was to a large extent po­ great defense, educational, social and eco­ looking for dollars. litical maneuvering. There is no chance that nomic contributor to Homestead, the state The Grammy A wards is one of the big spe­ President Bush would sign the House-passed of Florida and the country, and cials from the entertainment world that tax package into law. It is a political re­ Recognizing that Homestead Air Force brings a lot of money to a city. Some esti­ sponse to the political challenges laid down Base and the men and women who serve mates are that the Grammys can pump as by President Bush in his State of the Union there have earned a rightful place in the po­ much as $60 million into a city's economy. In address. What is really needed at this time is litical and military annals of a grateful na­ 1972, in 1975, in 1981, in 1988 and in 1991, New statesmanship and a real plan to deal with tion. York had the Grammys. That meant all the 4676 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992 money that's a part of the package was spent introducing today has one distinct difference ployment benefits, with not more than 15% in New York. from the others. This act uses an existing local of the funds allocated for benefits. No more What put Geraldine Daniels into a mood to service delivery system in the Job Training than 25% of funds can be used for on-the-job fight was realizing, as she says, that "not a Partnership Act [JTPA] to expedite the ex­ training. No more than 10% of funds may be dime" of the Grammy money that came into used for tools, supplies and equipment. Ad­ New York in all of those years was spent in penditure of funds-enabling us to put people Harlem. back to work with little or no delay. ministrative and assessment expenditures So with the Grammys in New York again One of the principal criticisms of previous are limited to 10% of funds; and supportive this year, Daniels was determined to have a employment creation programs has been the services (i.e .. education, training, transpor­ different history written for that money. extensive delay in spending job funds and tation, child care) are limited to 20% of In the state Legislature, she represents the placing individuals. Under the Emergency funds. 70th District, which is Central Harlem. Her Jobs Act of 1983, the GAO estimated that only Eligible participants must be over 16 years office on 125th St. is just a few blocks from the Apollo Theatre. In telling of what Har­ one-third of the funds had been spent by the of age and unemployed for 30 days or work­ lem did for the world of music, Daniels starts end of the 1980's recession, a full 15 months ing part time because of being displaced at the Apollo. So many artists started there after the funds had been appropriated. In local from a full time position. Targeted unem­ and introduced so much music there that JTPA programs. working relationships have al­ ployed individuals with priority include: Un­ still feeds the music industry. Daniels asks, ready been developed with employers, service employment Insurance recipients for at least "So why shouldn't Harlem be recognized? providers, and educators, and can be ex­ 3 months, cash welfare recipients, basic Why shouldn't some of the Grammy events panded with relative ease. In addition, this bill skills deficient, veterans, the homeless, and be televised from the Apollo, so the world would encourage placement in community other groups defined to be at risk. can see what this community gave to the music?" service jobs, such as in child care and edu­ Participant wages shall not be less than All of it was her way of saying what Jesse cation services, which do not require as much the minimum wage plus 30%, or the amount Jackson and Benjamin Hooks said before. planning and design as public works jobs. of public assistance an eligible participant Daniels was saying that by bringing some of Hardly a day goes by that the media is not receives plus 15%, or the prevailing wage for the Grammy show to Harlem, in turn, the reporting a massive layoff or factory closing. In a construction job (under Davis-Bacon), community gets its fair share of the $60 mil­ the past few weeks, General Motors an­ whichever is higher. An eligible participant lion pot. nounced that a staggering 74,000 employees may not be employed for more than 40 hours In leading her fight, Daniels confronted or 5 days a week and may be employed in no Michael Green, who heads the Academy of will permanently lose their jobs over the next Recording Arts and Sciences. He found a lot few years; at IBM 20,000 employees will be other job for over 20 hours a week. Benefits of ways to say that Daniels was right in her laid off; and at DuPont another 10,000 will be shall be comparable to prevailing benefits at argument. " Harlem is most definitely an im­ laid off. the employment site. All eligible partici­ portant birthing and nurturing center for Many economists have predicted that the pants are also eligible for supportive serv­ many uniquely American music styles," he economy should turn around by mid-summer, ices. JTPA benefits and labor standards are acknowledged. but this will not eliminate the existing poverty required where applicable. · But for 1992, Harlem got only a small part and unemployment in our country. The cre­ SDAs must use f~nds for community serv­ of the Grammy action. "But it's not over," ice or community improvement job pro­ Daniels says. "We hope the Grammys come ation of jobs is as essential to rebuilding lives, back in 1993. We are ready to continue the as it is to rebuilding and renovating neighbor­ grams, employing individuals for not more fight." What she didn't say is that it is hap­ hood streets, housing, parks, and schools. than a year. Supplemental job training plans pening that way now on a lot of fronts. This act would authorize $5 billion in 1992 to must be submitted to the governor for ap­ create an estimated 360,000 jobs for the un­ proval and shall include a description of employed for a maximum of 1 year. I recog­ prioritized community needs, jobs to be INTRODUCTION OF THE EMPLOY­ nize that there are still millions more unem­ filled, work to be done, the duration of MENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH ployed, but I intend this proposal to be a mod­ projects, and assurances of participant as­ ACT est first step toward relieving the economic sessments. Participants who do not have woes of the unemployed. high school diplomas will be required to en­ HON. CARL C. PERKINS Finally, I would like to extend a special note roll in a basic skills or high school program and work toward a diploma or a GED. For OF KENTUCKY of thanks to Richard E. Johnson, retiring coun­ one half day each week participants will be sel to the Committee on Education and Labor, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES required to seek unsubsidized employment Thursday, March 5, 1992 for his assistance in developing this legisla­ through the use of the job placement serv­ tion. Dick Johnson has been a good friend Mr. · PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, today I am in­ ices in coordination with local employment and trusted advisor to me and my staff on the service offices. troducing a bill to address the true crisis of Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities, this recession-unemployment. This bill, the and he will be sorely missed. Community service jobs may be contracted Employment and Economic Growth Act, is de­ Mr. Speaker, attached is a summary of this with local nonprofit, governmental, or com­ munity-based organizations to improve serv­ signed to provide temporary, emergency em­ bill that I would ask to be printed in the ices to community residents. Community ployment and training for the unemployed with RECORD in its entirety immediately following the greatest need and to assist communities in improvement jobs may include the repair, my remarks. maintenance, and rehabilitation of public fa­ alleviating social and infrastructure deteriora­ THE EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH ACT tion. cilities or public lands. There is no more important issue facing our (Introduced by Carl C. Perkins) The number of supervisory personnel is country than the crises of unemployment and The Employment and Economic Growth limited to one-tenth of participants em­ economic dislocation. The U.S. economy Act is designed to provide temporary, emer­ ployed. Funds may not be used for activities slipped into a recession in July 1990, where it gency employment and training for the un­ such as revolving loans, capitalizing busi­ employed with the greatest need and to as­ nesses, and economic development. has remained for the longest period since the sist communities in their efforts to address 1930's depression. The jobless rate grew from social and infrastructure deterioration. Secretary has 30 days to notify recipients 5.4 percent to 7 .1 percent in just the last 19 The Secretary of Labor shall make grants of funds appropriated. SDAs have 30 days to months, and the unemployed population to states and service delivery areas (SDAs) develop requests for proposals for service surged from 6.8 million to 8.9 million. In addi­ to fund local jobs projects. Of the appro­ providers. SDAs or service providers have 30 tion to the jobless, at least another 1.2 million priated amount, 90% shall be for state allo­ days to assess and place eligible applicants. are discouraged workers who have stopped cation to SDAs, based on formula factors In FY 1992, there is $5 billion authorized for looking for work. and an estimated 6.7 ·million targeting substantial unemployment and poverty. The remaining 10% is the Sec­ this Act, and such sums thereafter for each work part time, because no full time work is retary's discretionary fund which is to be qualifying fiscal year. A qualifying fiscal available. used for grants to SDAs experiencing long­ year is if during a 6 month period, the na­ Numerous proposals have been introduced term or high unemployment or poverty. tional unemployment rate raises more than by a number of my colleagues to help create Not less than 70% of the funds allocated to 1 %. With full funding, an estimated 360,000 jobs and stimulate the economy. The bill I am the SDAs must be used for wages and em- unemployed would be provided jobs. March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4677 JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE RULE OF LAW IN UKRAINE cure the substantive legal legitimacy that DENIED "rule of law" denotes. HON. STENY H. HOYER QUESTIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY OF MARYLAND Standing in the way of that work, however, HON. RANDY "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM are two immediate problems. First, while the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ukrainian people have established their de OF CALIFORNIA Thursday, March 5, 1992 jure sovereignty, it is too early to be con­ Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, newly independ­ fident that de facto sovereignty is secure. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The disputes between Moscow and Kiev over ent Ukraine is making determined progress to­ Thursday, March 5, 1992 the Black Sea Fleet and the divisions in the ward becoming a democratic state. Indeed, ranks of the military between those who Ukraine's very act of independence has been Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise have pledged allegiance to Ukraine and those dubbed a "ballot box revolution." It was today to once again urge that the House enact who will return to Russia are only the sur­ achieved peacefully-through a popular ref­ face manifestations. Underlying these re­ a strong anticrime bill with meaningful habeas erendum in which over 90 percent of those configurations of the Soviet military are ter­ corpus reform. I believe the measure passed voting supported independence. Ukraine, ritorial issues. In early January, for exam­ by the House last year is inadequate and in­ along with nine other independent states of ple, the Russian parliament recommended a review of Khrushchev's 1954 decision that sulting to the millions of Americans who have the former Soviet Union, has also recently been victimized by crime. Crimea belonged within Ukraine's borders. joined the CSCE, and has pledged to live up Until these "international" issues are set­ I wanted to call the attention of my col­ to CSCE's human rights commitments. tled, they can only distract the Ukrainian leagues to an excerpt from California Attorney Ukraine, even prior to independence, was people from the pressing need to establish General Daniel Lungren's "State of Public making encouraging progress in the area of their domestic order on a sound legal foot­ Safety 1992" address. · human rights, and especially minority rights. ing. Nevertheless, profound challenges remain for A second problem frustrating this domestic Attorney General Lungren helped to orga­ agenda is that a large portion of Ukraine's nize the campaign for habeas corpus reform Ukraine in its transition from a command legal leaders, especially in parliament and the last year, marshaling a broad coalition which system to a rule-of-law state which would en­ courts, are carry-overs from the old order. included a majority of all State attorneys gen­ sure human rights for the individual and un- And many of them, by training and habit, to eral, all 58 of California's district attorneys, law derpin a free market economy. · say nothing of interest, stand in the way of enforcement, and other interest groups. His Mr. Speaker, United States Claims Court establishing anything like the rule of law as leadership is making a real difference in Cali­ Judge Bohdan A. Futey has made several re­ we know it. Nowhere was this more clear cent visits to Ukraine to advise on its legal than with members of the current judiciary fornia, but as he points out, California's efforts with whom I recently met. Given that one of to improve public safety have been stymied by transition, most recently in January with a rep­ resentative of the State Department's Bureau their principal interests was to find out who this House's failure to act. assigns housing to judges in the U.S., you of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. I Mr. Speaker, justice delayed is justice de­ know they have a long way to go. Already, ask that Judge Futey's February 11, Wall the concerns of the judicial elite with hous­ nied. The House should move quickly to re­ Street Journal article, "Ukraine's Legal Revo­ ing, telephones, purchasing privileges and open this question and enact a tough, lution," which describes both the current the like have found their way into legisla­ anticrime bill which the American people de­ changes and challenges ahead, be submitted tion. Before a legal order suited for a free so­ mand and the President can support. into the RECORD. ciety can arise, leaders who understand that order must come to the fore. ExCERPT OF REMARKS BY HON. DANIEL E. [From the Wall Street Journal Europe, Feb. 11, 1992] That need points to the deeper cultural is­ LUNGREN, CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL sues that must be overcome in all of the na­ No approach to crime can be complete, nor UKRAINE'S LEGAL REVOLUTION tions of the former Soviet Union. For under­ can the public's faith in our justice system (By Bohdan A. Futey) lying any legal system is a legal culture. In be fully restored, until we implement the Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall West­ the West, that culture developed over cen­ death penalty in California. ern attention has been riveted on eastern turies, especially in the private sector. A pri­ Europe's transition from a command to a vate bar, dedicated to securing the rule of Last year, the state Supreme Court upheld market economy. Meanwhile, political law that enabled a vast private sector to 24 out of 25 death sentences. In 1990, it upheld economists have largely neglected the tran­ grow and flourish, was the animating force 25 out of 27. That's a far cry from the record sition from a command legal system to the behind ordered liberty. But in Ukraine today of the Rose Bird Court which overturned vir­ rule of law-despite the fact that a legal there is no private bar as we would think of tually every death sentence. transition must underpin and structure any it, and only an inchoate legal culture to sus­ Unfortunately, the public removed the economic changes there. tain such a bar and be sustained by it. Rose Bird barrier only to find another obsta­ The nations of eastern Europe have long Soviet rule systematically destroyed near­ cle adding to the interminable delay-repet­ been ruled by a heavy hand from above. If ly everything that was private in Ukraine­ itive habeas corpus appeals in federal courts. they are to enjoy the benefits of liberty, in­ using Soviet "law," the law of command, to Those courts are under a duty to provide fair cluding economic benefits, they will need do so. Once the procurator and local party and prompt hearings, a duty which was un­ legal systems that allow those benefits to boss gave the command, the judge carried it derscored most recently by the U.S. Supreme flourish from below. But that legal transi­ out-with the "defense" counsel, an em­ Court in a strongly worded message to the tion will be no less difficult than the eco­ ployee of the state, resigned to an adminis­ 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers nomic one. trative role. Given that history of "tele­ California. Recent developments in Ukraine reflect phone justice," as it came to be known. Is it some of those· difficulties. Two months ago, any wonder that for many Ukrainians the I applaud the Supreme Court's action, but Ukrainian citizens voted overwhelmingly in idea of an independent judiciary is little un­ we need to go further. We need a federal favor of their country's independence from derstood-and even less appreciated? crime bill which contains provisions to limit the Soviet Union. Dubbed a "ballot box revo­ Yet for all this, there is a hope and con­ the number of death sentence appeals and set lution," the Dec. 1 referendum was a popular fidence in Kiev that one does not see in Mos­ time limits on the process. ratification of the parliament's Declaration cow-at least to the same extent. As they Last year, I led an effort-which was joined of Independence-proclaimed shortly after begin to build their legal culture, many of by all of California's district attorneys and a the August coup attempt in Moscow-and its Ukraine's new leaders-members of Rukh, majority of the nation's Attorneys General declaration of sovereignty a year earlier. the Ukrainian Popular Movement-are draw­ and throughout the law enforcement commu­ Ukraine has thus begun its legal revolu­ ing from their experience as dissidents over nity-to advocate these measures in the tion with due respect for the democratic the long and often brutal struggle for inde­ United States Congress. With the courageous principle: political legitimacy comes from pendence. During the Brezhnev crackdown, assistance of victims and their families, we the bottom up, not from the top down. But but especially following the signing of the won substantial reforms in the Senate, only the formal, political legitimacy rooted in Helsinki Accords in 1975, Ukrainian intellec­ to watch our efforts sabotaged late last year popular sovereignty is only half the equa­ tuals and activists repeatedly tried to work in the House of Representatives. We will tion-and the easier half at that, especially within the confines of Soviet law to insist carry the fight forward this year. In the when driven by the fever for independence upon a rule of law. Having developed a words of Winston Churchill, we will "never, that 70 years of tyranny engenders. Now the healthy respect for the regularity and con­ never, never give in." hard work begins that will be needed to se- sistency that are central to the rule of law, 4678 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992 those new leaders are now trying to build MESSAGE OF HATRED AND stead of working to bring us together, playing upon these ideas. RESENTMENT IS ALIVE AND WELL upon our racial fears and prejudices and de­ Although parliament is now focusing on veloping race-based political strategies. All of the immediate problem of creating and rein­ HON. HOWARD WOLPE us need to be very clear about how high the forcing institutions to protect Ukraine's sov­ OF MICHIGAN stakes of this cynical gam'e really are: The ef­ ereignty and independence-from military IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fort to manipulate racial divisions for political forces to a Ukrainian currency-work is also advantage will ultimately prove enormously Thursday, March S, 1992 underway toward creating new, constitu­ destructive to the entire Nation. tional institutions of government. Right Mr. WOLPE. Mr. Speaker, a message of ha­ Yet most white Americans, recent public now, government in Ukraine is composed tred and resentment is alive and well in this largely by institutions from the old order. opinion surveys indicate, are increasingly re­ But a parliamentary committee on the con­ country of ours. It has many messengers and ceptive to these race-based negative appeals. stitution is drafting a new one that they many different guises. It is seldom as direct They feel that the most egregious forms of hope to circulate among European and and overt as a white hood and robe, or a racism and discrimination are a thing of the American constitutional law experts this swastika. But it is the same essential message past. Moreover, as America's economic month. If present plans hold, a final docu­ of racism and bigotry-whether it takes the strength has eroded, white anxieties about ment could be ready for ratification by fall. form of a campaign commercial, or it is con­ their own economic status and future have in­ Speaking about the draft constitution be­ veyed through a deceptive attack on civil tensified. Middle-income Americans, in particu­ fore a Dec. 26 conference of Ukrainian rights legislation. It is a message that plays lar, are being squeezed as never before, and judges, President Leonid Kravchuk strongly upon the fears and prejudices of an increas­ they are frightened-for themselves and for endorsed the separation of powers and the ingly alienated, vulnerable, and insecure popu­ members of their families. So it is not surpris­ creation of an independent judiciary as a lation. It seeks to divide people, to sow hatred, ing that they have become increasingly resent­ third, co-equal branch of government. Legis­ and to sow distrust. ful of affirmative action programs that, in their lation has already reduced the once-powerful Mr. Speaker, it is a message that is work­ view, are designed to give to minority Ameri­ Procurator General's Office, stripping it of ing. It worked in Mississippi a few months ago. cans unfair and unjustifiable special advan­ many of its court oversight functions. And A race there did not attract the national atten­ the concept of trial by jury has sparked tages. great interest, although judges from the old tion of the Louisiana race because the can­ Given some dramatic changes that have oc­ guard remain skeptical. didate in Mississippi did not have in his history curred in the past three decades, current white the overt symbols of a Klan membership and perceptions are understandable. Increasing While institution building is underway, so a Nazi swastika. But the code words deployed numbers of blacks have in fact been elected too are changes in the substantive law-the rules by which Ukraine will be governed. were essentially the same as those used in to local governments, state legislatures, and Here, classic conflicts are arising between Louisiana-and they were effective. And the the Congress. Colin Powell is but one of a those who want to preserve much of the old message worked earlier in North Carolina­ long list of African-Americans that have risen order-"legitimized" by local institutions where 2 years ago a television commercial to prominence within America's military estab­ rather than received by "diktat" from Mos­ successfully stigmatized affirmative action pro­ lishment. The doors of corporate America cow-and those who want to move to a free, grams as providing unfair advantages to un­ have opened-and black college graduates private, market society. Not surprisingly, qualified minorities. Indeed, is there anyone find themselves in demand. More blacks have the nomenklatura is in the former camp who doubts that even now there are scores of entered the Nation's middle-class, with the since they have the most to lose from any highly paid political consultants out there pour­ percentage of black families with incomes over moves toward a market-at least in the ing feverishly over the Presidential primary $50,000 at its highest point ever, about 1O short run. election returns and post-election polls, seek­ percent. RUDIMENTARY ENFORCEMENT ing ways to manipulate racial fears and preju­ But as significant and hopeful as these de­ velopments have been, the harsh reality is Fortunately, liberals appear to be in the dices even more subtlely and effectively in the ascendant. Legislation was passed last fall to elections ahead of us. Because in a society that they have not touched the lives of the protect foreign investment and to enable the that has never really come to terms with the vast majority of minority Americans. Over two formation of economic partnerships. At the issue of race, it is a tactic that works. centuries of racial subordination and discrimi­ moment, however, these are limited, rudi­ Race has been described as the principal nation have taken their toll, and significant ra­ mentary changes, "enforced" more by politi­ fault-line of the American political system. But cial inequities persist. For the most part, Afri­ cal connections than by the rule of law. Con­ in the sixties and seventies, the emergence of can and Hispanic Americans 'continue to lack tinued movement in this direction is needed. a mass civil rights movement gave testimony the education, the skills and the resources to Privatization and a property law to secure it to the deep yearning of Americans to come to take advantage of the opportunities created by must be the first orders of business. terms with that part of our history that was so civil rights legislation. Minorities can now seek In Russia we are seeing what happens when at variance with American ideals. The voices redress in the courts if they are discriminated privatization is postponed while prices are of leaders such as Martin Luther King, Cesar against in their efforts to secure decent hous­ set free: The increase in supply that free Chavez, and John Kennedy inspired all of us ing, but few have the resources to purchase prices are meant to encourage never mate­ to dare to believe that we could in fact create housing outside of their ghettoized commu­ rializes because only private suppliers, who more just society and a more peaceful nities. Minorities can go to court if they experi­ stand to profit from rising prices, will re­ a world. And, as America celebrated the pas­ ence job discrimination, but few have the edu­ spond with greater production. If those prob­ lems are to be avoided in Ukraine a law of sage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Vot­ cation and skills to land the better paying jobs; property, and a closely related law of con­ ing Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing the number of middle-class minority families tracts, must be established quickly. Ukraine Act of 1968, the structure of law and custom may have increased, but 30 percent of black will doubtless follow the European code that had made minority Americans second­ Americans continue to live in poverty, three method in this since there is too little time class citizens and closed them out of the key times the percentage for whites. Black college to allow for an Anglo-American style com­ institutions of the society began to change. graduates may be in demand, but the number mon law to evolve. If that private law is to These legislative achievements did not occur of African-Americans entering and finishing be enforced, however, it is imperative that without struggle, but they gave expression to college is actually declining. Indeed, continued an appropriate judicial system also be estab­ the determination of the vast majority of the racial inequities are literally a matter of life and lished and a private bar emerge. American people to address the deep-seated death: A black baby is twice as likely to die But the business of nation building bas racial inequities of our society. within its first year of life as a white infant, and begun. In all of this, Ukraine, like every But if we look around America today, it ap­ African-Americans have over 6 years lesser other country in transition, can benefit from pears that all that we have worked so hard to life expectancy than white Americans. sound Western advice, especially from the achieve in past decades is now at risk. Racial That is the reality-but that is not the way private sector that has so much to gain from the world appears to middle-class working thriving societies to the east. The past year and ethnic tensions have intensified. Our soci­ bas seen epic change in the former Soviet ety is increasingly polarized along racial, eth­ Americans. These folks have seen their own Union. Now is the time to help keep that nic, and economic lines. And now we see cer­ living standards steadily erode this past dec­ change on course. tain of our leaders and would-be leaders,. in- ade. They have seen their hard-earned tax March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4679 dollars go to finance tax cuts for the rich and competition. We don't have to live each day oquent testament to the power of an aroused programs targeted at those who are even competing with our spouse, our children, our citizenry, motivated not by a divisive appeal to poorer than they. They have seen their jobs co-workers, our neighbors, and our friends. racial fears and prejudices, but by a unifying eliminated or threatened by foreign competi­ 'Who's winning in your marriage?' is a ridicu­ sense of new hope and possibility. tion, and they are struggling to send their chil­ lous question. If both people aren't winning, Mr. Speaker, the past two decades have dren to college or to provide medical care for both are losing." seen a dramatic withdrawal from political par­ themselves and the members of their families. "Most of life," Covey continues, "is an inter­ ticipation throughout our Nation. Some com­ These Americans have their own legitimate dependent, not an ind~pendent, reality, and mentators have read this decline in political set of grievances-and they have come to feel most results you want depend on cooperation activity as symptomatic of voter apathy and in­ increasingly powerless, the victims of eco­ between you and others. And the win/lose difference. I don't buy it. It is not indifference nomic and political forces they cannot control. mentality is dysfunctional to that cooperation." or apathy that has turned off the voters, but In a very real sense, America is at a turning And so it is with the politics of race. When- rather a profound sense of political powerless­ point. We can either continue down the path . ever we think black gains mean white losses, ness. Americans everywhere have come to of race-based political strategies, a path that or that the security of whites depends upon believe that the Government is divorced from can only lead to deeper inequalities, greater continued black subordination, we are still in a their real needs and concerns, and that aver­ divisiveness, and more intense conflict and vi­ win/lose mentality-which ultimately means we age citizens simply don't count for much-par­ olence-or we can begin to address-by ac­ all lose. ticularly in ·comparison with powerful economic tion, not by lip service-the real issues that Mr. Speaker, if ever there were a time for interests. And, while this sense of impotence confront all Americans, that transcend the Americans to be united, surely it is now. If is understandable, particularly given the unre­ boundaries of race and ethnicity, and that will ever there were a time for Americans to be re­ sponsive nature of our political institutions the permit us to forge a new sense of national minded of our interdependence, surely it is past several years, it has also produced a unity and common purpose. We can either opt now. If ever there were a time for our national self-fulfilling prophecy: Feeling powerless, peo­ for a politics that manipulates our divisions, leaders to remind us, not of our differences, ple have become powerless. Fewer people that feeds multiple hatreds and resentments, but of what we as Americans hold in common, have been voting, or petitioning, or dem­ or we can opt for a politics that offers a unify­ surely it is now. It matters not whether one is onstrating or, for that matter, even reading the ing vision of a more fair and secure future for black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Arab; it newspapers. all Americans. matters not whether one is Protestant or Jew Mr. Speaker, the real lesson that we must Mr. Speaker, my hope is that as we all re­ or Catholic or Moslem. What does matter is take from Louisiana and Pennsylvania is that flect on the political turbulence that is swirling that we are Americans all-believing in the people do count, and that we can make a dif­ all around us, we Americans will come to rec­ American dream of a just and open society, in ference, a profound difference. When we reg­ ognize that just as we will all be losers if racial which all might live out their lives in dignity ister and vote we have the power to change conflict becomes more intense and more vio­ and security, and in which every individual will our path, our Nation, our future. We, all of us, lent, so we will all be winners if we can move be free to realize his or her fullest potential. have the power-and we are now beginning to aggressively to attack the problems that are It is clear that the key to turning things use it. · making all Ame~icans feel threatened and in­ around, to creating a more secure and hopeful secure. future for all Americans, is to make those pub­ Our Nation faces challenges on many lic investments essential to economic perform­ INTRODUCTION OF OMNIBUS fronts, but surely none is more serious or trou­ ance. There is so much work to be done: We CRIME LEGISLATION FOR THE bling than America's economic decline. All should be investing, now, in education, in job DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Americans-whites no less than minorities­ training, in research and development, in envi­ will be hurt if this decline cannot be arrested. ronmental cleanup, in the rebuilding of our HON. 1HOMAS J. BULEY, JR. The real enemy of beleaguered workers today public ir:ifrastructure, in constructing a system OF VIRGINIA is not affirmative action programs designed to of national health insurance, in restoring IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES overcome a legacy of race prejudice and dis­ blighted urban areas. Instead of allowing our­ crimination, but an economy that does not pro­ selves to be played off against each other, we Thursday, March 5, 1992 vide secure employment for all Americans. must insist on an aggressive domestic agenda Mr. BULEY. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro­ The solution is not to fight over who gets the that would address the underlying problems ducing omnibus crime legislation for the Na-· limited number of jobs available, but to create that feed the anxiety of Americans and fuel ra­ tion's Capital. In recent days, the murder of a more jobs and to train people to fill them. cial and ethnic conflict. member of the Senate staff, the assault of This last point deserves special emphasis. Mr. Speaker, there is no question that the Senator CONRAD'S wife, and the attempted For it is increasingly clear that the only means message of David Duke will be heard again in murder of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House by which America will be able to hold its own the weeks and months ahead. But I am con­ of Representatives has focused new attention in international competition in the years ahead vinced that the vast majority of Americans will on the problem of crime in the District of Co­ will be the development of a better educated, reject this message, as long as they believe lumbia. These crimes which have so closely more highly skilled work force. When our edu­ that their grievances will be addressed, that touched the Congress provide but a glimpse cational system leaves large numbers of peo­ their Government will begin to respond to the at the immense human cost that crime has ex­ ple unable to perform in a modern economy, needs and aspirations of all Americans for a acted from the people who reside in the shad­ we all lose. And it doesn't matter whether the better and more secure future. Most Ameri­ ow of the Capitol dome and only hint at the uneducated and unskilled are black or white or cans understand the dangers that the David catastrophic failure of the District to control the brown. If our economy continues to lose Dukes of our country represent-and in Louisi­ crime epidemic that now engulfs it. ground to our trade competitors in Europe and ana voters turned out in record numbers to Under home rule, front line responsibility for Asia, we will all pay an increasingly heavy overwhelmingly repudiate the racism and big­ crime in the District rests with the Mayor and price. But if we can turn this economy of ours otry of the Duke candidacy. Likewise, in Penn­ the Council. Yet, the Constitution vests ulti­ around, if we can reinvigorate our educational sylvania, when voters were offered a positive mate responsibility for the Federal city with the system, if we can insure that American work­ alternative to do-nothing domestic policies-an Congress. If local authorities are unable or un­ ers will be given the necessary training and alternative responsive to the needs of working­ willing to take appropriate action to bring crime skills, if we can regain our competitive edge­ class Americans for tax relief, for national under control in the near term, then the Con­ then we will all win. health insurance, and for a more secure eco­ gress must act. Thinking about issues of social conflict in nomic future-they produced one of the most Mr. Speaker, it has become clear that, for win-win terms is often difficult. As author Ste­ extraordinary political upsets of the decade. whatever reason, local authorities either can­ phen Covey observes, most of us "have been Neither outcome was predict~d: Only a couple not or will not take the action that is needed deeply scripted in the win/lose mentality since of weeks ago, many commentators were say­ to stop the killing on the streets of our capital. birth." It is often taken as a gift that one per­ ing a Duke victory was almost inevitable. And, Indeed, not only has the city failed to take son's victory is another person's defeat. But, in Pennsylvania, a political unknown began necessary action against crime, they are now in Covey's words, "* • • most of life is not a with a 44-point deficit in the polls. What an el- proposing to cripple the local judiciary. lncred- 4680 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992 ibly, the Mayor has recommended cuts in the Attorney's Office, between January 1989 and CONGRESS MUST BE VERY fiscal year 1992 superior court budget that has January 1991, more than a third of all defend­ CAREFUL WITH ITS POWER forced the chief judge of that court to suspend ants charged with a violent crime and released all jury trials in August and will result in funds on bail committed another crime while on re­ HON. JON KYL for Criminal Justice Act attorneys for indigent lease. During that same time period, approxi­ OF ARIZONA defendants to run out in September. How can mately 3,000 bench warrants were issued for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the city expect the Congress to take its individuals who committed a violent crime or anticrime efforts seriously if they will not even drug felony while on release. Thursday, March 5, 1992 provide for jury trials and legal representation Second, my legislation would provide a Mr. KYL. Mr. Speaker, the Congress can for criminal defendants by the Constitution? mandatory term of life imprisonment without wield great power when it wants to. Our com­ The time for promises is over and the time parole for individuals convicted of first degree mittees have the capability of calling people for antics and posturing has long since past. murder. Such legislation has been buried in before them, as much as for effect as for It is time for Congress to take matters into its committee in the D.C. city council. If the coun­ effecting the basis for legislation. The term own hands and to act now. cil will not act to protect the citizens of the Dis­ "McCarthyism" springs from an abuse of con­ In 1991, 489 individuals were the victims of trict, Congress can and should do so. gressional power. Therefore, Congress must homicide in the District of Columbia. Since Third, the legislation provides stiffer pen­ be very careful to always use its power in ap­ 1986, the homicide rate in the District has in­ alties for individuals committing crimes involv­ propriate ways, giving due attention to the ef­ creased each year while the average age of ing drugs or firearms neat schools and play­ fect its actions may have on others. homicide victims has decreased. Over all, grounds and for illegal distribution of firearms The column below, which appeared in the since 1986 the number of killings occurring in to minors. Phoenix Gazette on March 1, 1992, illustrates Fourth, Mr. Speaker if a youth is old enough the District has increased 252 percent. More­ the power of Congress and the need to be to pull a trigger like an adult, he is old enough over, in 1990 alone, there were more than careful in its exercise. I commend it to my col­ to be punished like an adult-my bill would 27,000 violent crimes and more than 92,000 leagues. lower the age at which juveniles who commit crimes of all descriptions committed within the [From the Phoenix Gazette, Mar. 1, 1992] District of Columbia. For whatever reason, violent crimes may be tried as adults to 14 local leaders-despite much protest to the years of age. SYMINGTON SCOURGING "NOTHING PERSONAL, Fifth, the legislation would repeal the Youth JUST BUSINESS" contrary-have been unable to stop the killing. Offender Corrections Act-the Congress re­ As with violent crime throughout the Nation, (By John Kolbe) pealed the Federal equivalent of that law violent crime in the Nation's Capital dispropor­ Gov. Fife Symington's epiphany on the years ago. Simply put, most violent criminals tionately affects the most vulnerable members long road to becoming a full-fledged politi­ are young adults who should be held fully re­ cian-or at least understanding the game as of society: the young, the poor, and ethnic and sponsible for the pain which they inflict upon it's played in Washington-may have come racial minorities. the innocent. before a U.S. House banking subcommittee According to a 1988 report of the Bureau of Sixth, this legislation would make applicable the other day. Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of to the District existing tough Federal laws That's when the panel chairman, Demo­ cratic Rep. Carroll Hubbard, told him to Justice, the victims of violent crime are pre­ against witness intimidation and strengthen dominantly young, poor, and black ·or His­ "lighten up." current D.C. laws against assaulting law en­ Symington was there to respond to the panic. Incredibly, the lifetime chance of being forcement officers. a homicide victim is 1 in 30 for black men. panel's politically inspired probe into the Seventh, my legislation would strengthen failure of Southwest Savings, where he That compares with a 1 in 179 lit etime chance the rights of violent crime victims. Victims served as a director for 12 years until 1984, for white men. After accidents, homicide is the should have the right to appear and be heard and there was very little lightness in his leading cause of death for men and women at sentencing and the right to notice when the presen ta ti on. between the ages of 15 and 34. According to defendant is released on bail, parole, furlough, His lengthy blast at the Resolution Trust the same report, when calculated by house­ or when the defendant escapes custody. Corp. fairly bristled with hyperbole and holds, over 30 percent more black households These rights are available to crime victims in unconcealed rage: "A sneak attack, a politi­ cal smear * * * RTC's campaign to discredit are victimized by all types of crime than white a majority of States and should be available to households; and 40 percent more Hispanic me * * * broken promises, false allegations, victims in the Nation's Capital. lies * * * public ridicule and humiliation households are victimized by crime than are Eighth, my legislation would provide an in­ * * * ruining reputations and careers * * * non-Hispanic households. creased authorization to the local trial courts trampling individual rights* * *tyranny. Today, whether you are rich or poor, wheth­ provide four new judgeships-two this year And Congress, he added, is far from inno­ er you are black or white, if you are a law and two next year-and make technical cent, for it is "a party to this effort (to dis­ abiding citizen who lives in the Nation's cap­ amendments to the jurisdiction of superior credit Symington) because scandal is the fa­ ital, you are forced for safety's sake to live be­ court commissioners to allow more judges to vorite game in town." hind locked doors and barred windows while be shifted to criminal cases. This cut uncomfortably close to the quick, the lawless are free to roam the streets with which is why Hubbard suggested a lighter Finally, my legislation would require the Dis­ mood. impunity. The inability of the District to get trict to hold a referendum on the death pen­ In one sense, Hubbard's admonition was control over the homicide rate over the past 6 alty. Under the provisions of the bill, a death sound advice, Symington, by his own choice, years is itself sufficient reason for Congress to penalty for heinous murders would go into ef­ is a prominent member of the political com­ step in and exercise its constitutional authority. fect in the District unless the votes choose to munity, and as such, a ripe target for any On behalf of all of the residents of the Dis­ reject it. on-the-make bureaucrat or headline-hunting trict of Columbia, and on behalf of all citizens Mr. Speaker, it was my hope that local offi­ pol with a little ammunition, however innoc­ of our Nation who visit their Nation's capital, cials would have seen their way clear to un­ uous. Congress should no longer tolerate the intoler­ dertake many or all of these reforms through Maybe not always fair game, but a prize animal nonetheless, and the season is 365 able. And Congress should no longer accept the mechanism available to them under home days long. Being shot at goes with the terri­ the word of local officials who promise to rule. Yet for the past 6 years we have tory, and he might as well get used to it be­ produce results or to quit but do neither. watched the killing fields in the District grow fore he gets terminal ulcers. Mr. Speaker, my legislation takes a broad bloodier and the list of those who have fallen Besides, he's starting to sound a lot like approach involving tougher penalties for vio­ victim to criminal predation grow longer and Charlie Keating, which should not be the lent crimes, tougher restrictions on bail, in­ these reforms simply grow evermore overdue. goal of an upwardly mobile politician. creased rights for the victims of violent crime, Mr. Speaker, the time for action is now. I That much said, however, Hubbard's con­ and increased judicial resources. call on my colleagues on the District of Colum­ descending put-down also revealed more than the chairman probably intended about how First, this legislation will tighten the District's bia Committee to quickly mark up my bill and Congress views its own work. Loosely trans­ bail laws to keep violent criminals off the to bring it to the floor-even if ultimately with lated, what he was saying was this: streets. Time and again, the innocent fall prey a negative recommendation-so that the full "Don't take it so seriously; governor. We to violent criminals who are awaiting trial for House will have a chance to debate and vote certainly don't. Throwing around accusa­ another serious felony. According to the U.S. upon its provisions. tions and messing with people's lives (pref- March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4681 erably those of the opposing party) is what district who competed in Albertville, France tion to support the full protection of the African we do here. We do it because it's easier, and during February. Keith Tkachuk, a resident of elephant through the unqualified listing of all much safer politically (for us, not you), than Medford, MA, was a member of the U.S. hock­ African elephant populations on appendix I of grappling with serious policy issues, which require us to take unpopular positions. We 're ey team that surprised us all with its skill and CITIES. just using you to get some attention for our­ tenacity in the 16th Winter Olympics. The House must maintain its commitment to selves and gain some clout for the commit­ As a hockey player at my alma mater, the survival of this majestic animal and sup­ tee. If it hurts you, that's too bad, but that's Malden Catholic High School, Keith was a 4- port the House concurrent resolution (H. Con. the price of public office." year letterman. In his junior season as a Lanc­ Res. 256) which I introduced and was referred Tessio, the loyal family hit man of "The er, Keith scored 46 points, and was named to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Godfather," had another way of saying the the team's most valuable player. He was fur­ same thing: "It's nothing personal. Just Fisheries. business." ther honored as a Catholic conference all-star. African elephants have a history spanning 5 Such reassurance, of course, wasn't very Although Keith suffered debilitating injuries his million years but without our support to limit comforting to a guy with a piano wire senior year, he demonstrated his determina­ trade, their time will run out. around his neck, and more than it is to a tion by overcoming both a broken ankle and governor whose political future (not to men­ strained ligaments in his knee to continue on tion financial well-being) is under serious at­ as a great hockey player. SALUTE TO OREGON CITY PIO­ tack from a huge federal agency and a Con­ NEERS AND LAKE OSWEGO LADY gress hot in pursuit of scapegoats. On the national and international level, Keith If Hubbard were serious about the issues was honored by being chosen to play on a LAKERS GIRLS' BASKETBALL and not just scoring political points (which, U.S. select 17 team that played the Soviets in TEAMS of course, he isn't), he might pursue these a three-game series. The following summer, possible lines of inquiry: he was invited to the U.S. Junior Team Tryout HON. MIKE KOPETSKI Who at the RTC was responsible for crimi­ Camp at Colorado Springs. Further, Keith nally leaking to The Washington Post (1) a OF OREGON damaging memo containing allegations of played his freshman year for the perennial IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES powerhouse Boston University Terriers hockey self-dealing against Symington (which were Thursday , March 5, 1992 apparently so flimsy they were discarded in team. drafting the lawsuit). and (2) a copy of the It is a testament to Keith Tkachuk to know Mr. KOPETSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to lawsuit, only hours after RTC lawyers that he was the youngest member of the U.S. salute the members of the Oregon City Pio­ warned defendants not to reveal its contents squad, especially after having seen him play­ neers and Lake Oswego Lady Lakers Girls' to anyone? Why does the agency continue to refuse to ing against the professional teams of Europe. Basketball T earns who met in the Oregon release that memo? A document that's been Keith displayed an aggressive perseverance class 4A high school girls' basketball tour­ in the newspaper (thanks to the agency it­ that belied his age, and we are proud to have nament last weekend. In a hard fought game, self) can hardly be called "privileged" any had him represent our country and our area. Oregon City came back from a 14-point deficit more. I congratulate Keith Tkachuk on his success to beat Lake Oswego 47-44 to win its first Why, in a 34-month investigation, didn't in the 16th Winte~ Olympics, he is a credit to State championship. I am submitting an article the RTC once question the governor about the Bay State and the United States of Amer­ his activities as a director? And why, when from the Oregon City Enterprise-Courier which the agency notified the other directors of its ica. chronicles this exciting game. intention to sue them, did it fail to notify Mr. Speaker, I also want to point out that Symington? Why did it renege on its own re­ three high schools, Oregon City, Lake peated verbal and written promises by refus­ BANNING IVORY, SAVING Oswego, and Lakeridge, from the Three Riv­ ing to meet with his attorneys before the ELEPHANTS ers League were the top three finishers in the suit was filed? State class 4A high school division. This is the Why does the suit allege that Symington HON. JAM~ H. SCHEUER didn't quit the board until March 1984, when first time in the 17-year history of the State his letter of resignation was dated Jan. 30? OF NEW YORK tournament that this occurred. This is a true Bank regulators (RTC's predecessors) ac­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES testament to the caliber of the girls' basketball knowledged his departure two weeks after Thursday , March 5, 1992 program and the dedication of the student-ath­ the letter. Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, the African letes in the Three Rivers League. Why does the 53-page complaint repeatedly Mr. Speaker, I want to recognize all the stu­ accuse Symington (along with his co-defend­ elephant was near extinction because of ants) of breaching his fiduciary duty with rampant poaching which was driven by an es­ dent-athletes and coaches for both the Oregon several large loans to major developers (in­ calating ivory trade. In 1O years, the total Afri­ City Pioneers and the Lake Oswego Lady cluding Westcor and Tucson's George Mehl), can elephant population declined to 609,000 Lakers. when they were all approved months or years from a 1979 estimate of 1.3 million. The Oregon City Pioneers: Amy Alcorn (G), after he resigned from the board? At the 1989 meeting of the Convention on Jenny Gordon (PG), Sylvia Olvera (W), Mindi Hubbard won't pursue them, because Con­ Loiodici (G), Dina Haselip (P), Tammy Arnold gress isn't any more serious about probing International Trade in Endangered Species agencies that keep it supplied with fresh [CITES]. . 76 nations including 20 African na­ (P), Heidi Alderman (W), Jenny Criteser (P), scandals than it is the S&L mess itself, tions voted to list the African elephant in its Diana Smith (P), Alison Newman (G), Ingrid which it helped create. appendix I, banning all international trade in McCoy (G/F/W), J.J. Richmond (C/F), Brad So what was he up to? Here's a clue. Al­ ivory and other elephant parts and products. Smith, head coach; Carl Tinsley, assistant though the RTC has sued 32 thrifts and U.S. leadership was crucial to achieving this coach; Ken Alcorn, assistant coach; Stephanie scores of directors in the wake of the S500 Coughlin, assistant coach; and Liz Damon, as­ billion S&L debacle, only one-a Republican ban. governor from Arizona-was hauled before Since this ban was adopted, elephant sistant coach. the cameras and had his integrity attacked. poaching in many areas has dropped dramati­ The Lake Oswego Lady Lakers: Heidi No big deal, the chairman assured him. It's cally, there has been little movement of ivory Hackenbruck (F), Mary Scotty (G), Kerry all in good fun. As Tessio might say, just in the world market, and the price of ivory has Schultz (F), Mindy Campbell (G), Kari Steele business. dropped. The moratorium on the ivory trade is (G), Wendy Berg (G), Jaime Ellis (G), Laura protecting African elephant populations. Savage (F), Cynthia Lewis (F-G), Stacey Berg CONGRATULATING OLYMPIAN But, this endangered pachyderm is in jeop­ (F), Caroline Rich (F), Laura Martin (F), Gary KEITH TKACHUK ardy once again. CITES nations meeting this Lavender, head coach; Craig Hynes, assistant week in Japan are considering a proposal by coach; Mike Scotty, assistant coach; Reid five South African nations to downlist the Afri­ Segal, assistant coach; Sharlene Brells, as­ HON. EDWARD J. MARKEY can elephant to appendix II. This would, in ef­ sistant coach; Lisa Segal, student assistant; OF MASSACHUSETTS fect, lift the ban and allow the African elephant and Meredith McGrew, student assistant. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES once again to fall victim to the world ivory All of these student-athletes are winners. Thursday, March 5, 1992 trade. They are winners today and I'm confident they Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Yesterday, the Senate Committee on For­ will continue to be winners throughout their congratulate one of the Olympians from my eign Relations reported a concurrent resolu- lives.

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PIONEERS CAPTURE FIRST CAGE CROWN IN 0.C. Schultz found the basket from the outside derman 6, J.J. Richmond 2, Amy Alcorn, In­ HISTORY for Lake Oswego, making the score 44-39. grid McCoy, Sylvia Olvera, Mindi Loiodici, (By John Denny) But Gordon was fouled and made both ends Jenny Cristeser, Diana Smith, Alison New­ PORTLAND.-The Oregon City Pioneers did of a one-and-one, pulling Oregon City back man. to within three. Lake Oswego scoring-Cynthia Lewis 10, themselves and their community proud Sat­ Gordon followed with a major defensive urday in the championship game of the 1992 Mary Scotty 9, Wendy Berg 7, Kerry Schultz play. The Lakers were playing keep away 6, Heidi Hackenbruck 4, Kari Steele 4, Jaime state 4A high school girls basketball tour­ near midcourt, when Gordon challenged nament, rallying from a 16-point second-half Ellis, 4, Mindy Campbell, Laura Savage, Lake Oswego junior guard Mary Scotty one­ Stacy Berg, Caroline Rich, Laura Martin. deficit to drop Three Rivers League rival on-one and came up with a clean steal. Lake Oswego, 47-44. With a smile on her face, Gordon raced to With the spectacular comeback, the top the basket for a fast-break layup that ranked Pioneers earned the first state cham­ INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION trimmed the Laker lead to 44-43. TO REMOVE UNEMPLOYMENT pionship in girls basketball in the history of With 3:06 remaining, Oregon City's aggres­ the sport at their school. sive half-court trapping defense forced Laker COMPENSATION FROM FEDERAL The Pioneers had placed at state seven junior guard Kari Steele to travel. INCOME TAXATION times before, but the championship had al­ Haselip scored inside off a great baseline ways eluded them. pass from Ingrid McCoy, and the Pioneers HON. BARBARAB. KENNEilY Oregon City was.state runnerup in 1987 and were ahead for the first time since early in 1988. The Pioneers placed third in 1991, the second quarter, leading 45--44, with 2:44 OF CONNECTICUT fourth in 1983 and 1990, and fifth in 1981 and left to play. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1989. The Lakers were not without their scoring Thursday, March 5, 1992 The manner in which the Pioneers pulled opportunities down the stretch. out the state title game made their state Berg missed from 3-point range with just Mrs. KENNELLY. Mr. Speaker, I am intro­ championship all the more gratifying. It was over two minutes remaining. Scotty stole ducing legislation today that would eliminate a team effort. Every player on the team con­ the ball back moments later, and the Lakers the taxation of unemployment compensation tributed, both those on the floor and those had renewed life. benefits. on the bench. Scotty missed on an outside shot with 1:40 The Tax Reform Act of 1986 made all un­ They never lost heart, and they continued left, but a teammate collected the long re­ to give their all, even when the cir­ bound. employment compensation taxable effective cumstances made the situation appear in­ The Lakers continued to wind time off the December 31 , 1986. Prior to the 1986 act, credibly bleak. clock, until Berg drove the baseline with just only a portion of unemployment compensation It appeared extremely likely that the Pio­ under 20 seconds remaining. Her layup benefits was taxable. As is evident from the neers were destined to finish second fiddle a missed the mark, but Arnold was there to countless hours this body has spent over the third time when they found themselves trail­ gather in the rebound. past year in the course of enacting two exten­ ing 34--18 early in the third quarter. Berg, in apparent frustration at missing sions of unemployment benefits, the economy The No. 3 ranked Lakers had just gone on the shot, fouled Arnold. a 21-3 scoring binge during a 9-minute Arnold swished both of her gifters, and the is still in a severe recession. While the unem­ stretch that began at the start of the second Pioneers had a more comfortable lead, at 47- ployment rate nationally was 7.1 percent in period. The Pioneers had gone 1-for-11 from 44, with 16 seconds left to play. December, it was 7.3 percent in Connecticut­ the field and they had committed several Arnold followed with one of the top defen­ a 9-year high. Connecticut has lost 120,200 turnovers during that span. sive plays of the game at the other end of the jobs since February 1989. This figure i.s even Lake Oswego appeared to have the game floor. Lake Oswego's Cynthia Lewis, a player higher in some States. well in hand, still leading by 14 points, at 38- with great quickness, drove the lane from Thousands of my constituents have been hit 24, with 3:26 remaining in the third quarter. the top of the key. The apparent strategy But that's when the Pioneers said enough was for Lewis to blow by Oregon City defend­ with a triple whammy-they have lost their is enough, and they began to chip away at ers for a layup, or at the very least, a two­ jobs, they have seen their incomes drop be­ the Lakers' seemingly insurmountable lead. shot foul. cause unemployment compensation only par­ Apparently content to sit on their lead, However Arnold had other plans. As Lewis tially makes up for work, and they now find the Lakers turned from the up-tempo offense began her drive, Arnold knocked the ball that they have to pay taxes on unemployment that had gained them their advantage, to a loose and into the hands of Haselip. compensation. As we approach April 15, many more patient game. Haselip was immediately fouled. She of these individuals find themselves in an even missed the front end of a one-and-one with The change in strategy proved extremely more precarious situation as they discover that costly, because the Pioneers became the ag­ five seconds remaining. But it mattered lit­ gressors, and the momentum of the game tle, because Lake Oswego could not get off a because there has been no withholding they began to change. Oregon City went on to good shot before the final buzzer. · must somehow find a way to pay the tax. outscore Lake Oswego 23--6 in the final 11 Haselip finished up with a game-high 24 Therefore, the legislation I am proposing minutes of the game. points, connecting with 10-for-15 accuracy today would eliminate the tax on unemploy­ Early in the fourth quarter, Oregon City from the field. She tallied 16 of Oregon City's ment compensation benefits received after De­ senior post Dina Haselip intercepted a Laker 29 points in the second half, to lead the Pio­ cember 31, 1991. It is my hope that we can pass in the lane and turned it into two points neers in their dramatic comeback. Lewis led a balanced Lake Oswego attack enact this legislation when we consider per­ at the free throw line when she was fouled manent changes to the unemployment com­ taking the ball to the basket at the other with 10 points. She also had five steals. end of the floor. That made the score 41-32 Lewis also hauled down a game-high 10 re­ pensation system later in the year. I would Lake Oswego. bounds to lead her club to a 26-23 edge on the urge my colleagues' support. With just over seven minutes left to play, backboards. Haselip had eight rebounds to Haselip answered a Laker miss with a base­ lead Oregon City. line jumper in traffic, and it was a 41-34 ball The Pioneers outshot the Lakers CONGRATULATING OLYMPIAN game. percentagewise both from the field and from NANCY ANN KERRIGAN The two teams traded free throws. Then the free throw line. The Pioneers went 17 for senior playmaker Jenny Gordon added fuel 38 (.447) from the field and 13 for 21 (.619) to the Pioneer comeback with a steal near from the line. They were 10-of-17 (.588) from HON. EDWARD J. MARKEY the Laker basket. the field in the second half. OF MASSACHUSETTS Gordon fired an outlet pass to sophomore The Lakers were 18-of-44 (.409) from the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES guard Amy Alcorn near mid-court. Alcorn field and 8-of-15 (.533) from the line. Thursday, March 5, 1992 pushed the ball ahead to a streaking Haselip, With the win, the Pioneers finished the who completed the play with an uncontested year at 25--1. Lake Oswego finished up at Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, I proudly rise fast-break layup. The basket cut Lake 22-5. The victory over Lake Oswego was Oregon today to congratulate one of the Olympians Oswego's lead to 42-37. from my district who completed in the 16th Lake Oswego junior forward Kerry Schultz City's 12th victory in a row. Oregon City ..... 15 3 12 17 47 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France this past threw up a brick, and the Pioneers went on Lake Oswego 13 17 11 3 44 the run again. Alcorn hit freshman post month. Nancy Ann Kerrigan represents the Tammy Arnold with a crisp pass under the Oregon City Scoring-Dina Haselip 24, best America has to offer, and her stunning basket; Arnold canned the layup, and it was Tamany Arnold 9, Jenny Gordon 6, Heidi Al- performance was one of grace, beauty, and a 42-39 ball game. unmatched athletic prowess. Nancy Kerrigan March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4683 captured the hearts of all us watching wom­ United States cannot dictate terms in resolving Nation at risk for serious environmental dam­ en's figure skating with her bronze medal win­ the question of Cyprus, I do believe that age to our shores and natural resources. ning performance. American strength and resolve must be air Today, as a first step in correcting this dan­ A resident of Stoneham, MA, Nancy began plied to the problem of Cyprus, and that this gerous problem, I am introducing a bill to re­ skating at age 6, and for 15 years has worked untenable situation must end. quire these undocumented crewmembers on long and hard to become a national rising star. For that reason, today I am introducing, tugs, towboats, and barges to meet Coast Her grueling daily workouts on the ice have along with Representatives MRAZEK and Guard standards for employment. resulted in her outstanding athletic ability, as PELOSI, legislation to withhold United States Current Law prohibits employment of a mer­ well as painful back and neck problems. military and economic assistance from Turkey chant seaman on a vessel over 100 gross Undeterred, she worked harder to make her so long as that nation continues to occupy Cy­ tons unless that person has a merchant mari­ dream of becoming an Olympic champion a prus illegally. Turkey receives over $500 mil­ ner's document issued by the U.S. Coast reality. In 1988, she placed first in the New lion in United States aid annually. We must Guard. To qualify for this document, the indi­ England Seniors Championship and later use that aid as leverage to achieve a Turkish vidual must submit to drug testing, undergo a placed first in the National Collegiate Cham­ withdrawal from Cyprus. Since the 197 4 inva­ Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal record pionship. She has won numerous competitions sion of Cyprus by Turkish troops, our Nation check, allow the Coast Guard to review driving throughout the last 3 years . •Just before the has provided nearly $6 billion in military aid to records information contained in the National Olympic games in January of this year, Nancy Turkey, and yet virtually no progress has been Driver Register, complete 60-90 days of won the silver medal at the National Cham­ made in convincing the Turks to cease their seatime, and provide proof of commitment for pionships in Orlando, FL. occupation of Cyprus. The United States must employment. At only 22, Nancy is not only is a world­ use our political and economic muscle to back These important safeguards do not apply to class professional figure skater, but also a stu­ up the efforts of the United Nations to reach certain personnel on vessels under 100 gross dent working toward her business degree from a just settlement of the Cyprus problem. tons, so thousands of undocumented seamen Emmanuel College in Boston. She embodies Shortly after the gulf war, the problem of escape any kind of Coast Guard regulation or the true American heroine, a superb athlete Cyprus commanded the full attention of Presi­ oversight. Even more shocking, an individual and exemplary scholar. dent George Bush, who met in Turkey with whose documents have been revoked or sus­ Those of us who are familiar with Nancy's that nation's President Turgut Ozal on July 20, pended for alcohol or drug abuse may end up past successes were not surprised by her in­ 1991, the 17th anniversary of the Turkish inva­ employed on one of these vessels. spirational performance in Albertville. I am sion of Cyprus. I commend President Bush for According to Coast Guard statistics, air confident that this is only the beginning of the interest and activity he has given to this proximately 57 percent of towboat casualties Nancy Kerrigan's remarkable athletic career problem, but I believe the President must go between 1981 and 1987 were caused by per­ and I am honored to have this opportunity to further and assign the highest priority. to the sonnel. The Coast Guard defines "personnel pay tribute to her. I extend my best wishes to Cyprus problem in all United States discus­ causes" to include factors such as lack of a true Olympic champion. sions with the Turkish leadership. training and experience, intoxication, improper Cyprus must be permitted to benefit from safety precautions, and operator error. the greater atmosphere of peace and freedom From these figures, it is obvious that the RESTORING UNITY AND PEACE TO that is sweeping across so much of Europe. number of accidents should drop if the Coast CYPRUS Cypriots, both Greek and Turkish, deserve to Guard had some authority to ensure that only be free of the hostilities that have plagued qualified seamen were employed on these HON. Bill GREEN their land for over 15 years. Let us erase the vessels. My bill provides this authority by in­ OF NEW YORK green line and bring an end to the division of creasing the number of crewmembers on tugs, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Cyprus. Let us work to restore the civil lil:r towboats, and barges required to have mer­ Thursday, March 5, 1992 erties for the people of Cyprus. Clearly, the chant mariners' documents. Turkish military presence must end, so that While we cannot prevent every accident on Mr. GREEN of New York. Mr. Speaker, for the citizens of Cyprus may at last enjoy peace our waterways, we can reduce the chances of years Congress has deplored the continued and reunification. one occurring. Enactment of this bill will in­ division of Cyprus. Despite our best efforts, In closing, I enc.ourage my colleagues to crease navigational safety and alleviate one however, the crisis for that island nation re­ join Representatives MRAZEK, PELOSI, and me element of jeopardy for our shore environ­ mains unresolved. With the cold war over, the in sponsoring this important legislation. United ments. United States must now step up the pressure States policy must not perpetuate the division to reach a solution to outstanding regional of Cyprus, but rather, we must provide a cata­ problems such as this. The international com­ lyst for unification. We must let the Turkish A TRIBUTE TO OPERATION PEDRO munity stood united and resolute behind the Government know loud and clear that finding PAN rule of law last year in the war with Iraq, and a solution to Cyprus is paramount in defining that stand proved victorious. With United the future of United States relations with Tur­ HON. ILEANA ·ROS-LEHTINEN States leadership, we can bring that same de­ key. OF FLORIDA termination and sense of purpose to this out­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES standing conflict, so that Cypriot national sov­ ereignty can at last be restored. H.R. 4394, REGARDING MERCHANT Thursday, March 5, 1992 For nearly two decades, some 35,000 Turk­ MARINES' DOCUMENTATION Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I am de­ ish. troops have remained in Cyprus, prohibit­ lighted to bring to my colleagues' attention the ing that nation from finding a political solution HON. WALTER 8. JONF.S Operation Pedro Pan Group, a group of indi­ to its problems. My message today is simple­ OF NORTH CAROLINA viduals who are committed to helping some of Turkey must remove its troops immediately, so IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES south Florida's children. What is most special that all parties may work toward a peaceful about this group of individuals is that they resolution of the Cyprus problem. Thursday, March 5, 1992 were all children of Operation Peter Pan. They Turkish troop presence on Cyprus is unjust Mr. JONES of North Carolina. It may be were part of the thousands of frightened, un­ and in violation of international law. The situa­ hard to believe, but there are vessels operat­ accompanied Cuban children who came to the tion has dragged on for 17 years without reso­ ing in waters of the United States with crew­ United States and had nowhere to go. Oper­ lution, leaving a nation divided and a popu­ members who are not required to demonstrate ation Peter Pan calmed these children, took lation embattled. The international community their fitness for duty. Allowing undocumented care of them, and talked about being brave has repeatedly condemned the Turkish occu­ seamen to work on these vessels unneces­ and proud because they represented their pation of the island's northern third, and sev­ sarily increases the potential for injury or Cuban homeland. eral United Nations resolutions have called for death of other waterway users. In addition, Many years later, these children, who are all the immediate withdrawal of those troops. since many of these vessels transport oil or now adults, have launched Operation Pedro While I agree with President Bush that the hazardous substances, any accident puts this Pan Group to care for the children of south 4684 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992

Florida who desperately need love and care. that have served so well and so long as our costs across our country * * * costs of office In the closeness and unity of their shared ex­ economic foundation. The sanctuaries pro­ rent, employee wages, and medical mal­ periences as unaccompanied Cuban children, gram itself is a solid contributor to the goal of practice insurance, for example. True to bu­ they now have committed to help the children dependable marine conservation, and it de­ reaucratic fashion, it has an acronym as of today. serves our support. well-GPCI. Operation Pedro Pan Group's objectives in­ That is not to say that it doesn't need im­ But the number crunchers in Baltimore took clude to sponsor aid, promote, and assist pro­ provement. The National Marine Sanctuaries the quick and dirty route-one of their words grams that benefit children in need. Their first Reauthorization Act, which I am introducing on of art-in building the scientific data base, project is to help with the development of the behalf of myself and my colleagues, Mr. using that term loosely, for their GPCI. The Children's Village, a project of Catholic Com­ YOUNG, Mr. JONES, and Mr. DAVIS, would data is ancient-sometimes a decade old, munity Services which provides a home-like strengthen NOAA's ability to conserve marine doesn't measure what it pretends to, and in no atmosphere for children up to age 18. Another resources effectively and reaffirms the pro­ way even remotely reflects the actual costs of goal for Operation Pedro is to document their gram's commitments to research and edu­ practicing medicine in places as diverse as history and develop a directory of Peter Pans. cation. It takes the important step of defining New York City and Rockwall, TX. Last month, Operation Pedro Pan started a NOAA's authority to manage activities outside The practice costs for office rent are based tradition of meeting for breakfast on the last of sanctuary boundaries that are likely to in­ on rental data from a 1987 study by the U.S. Saturday of every month. In March, Operation jure sanctuary resources. This bill also stream­ Department of Housing and Urban Develop­ Pedro Pan will be hosting an encounter semi­ lines a lengthy and cumbersome designation ment of suburban apartment rents. nar with the objective of sharing their common process. Perhaps most importantly, it author­ The practice costs for employee wages are experiences. izes the kind of funding this program so des­ based on · a 20-percent sample of clerical I am especially pleased to recognize the perately needs to conduct even its most basic workers and nurses from the 1980 census. people of Operation Pedro Pan Group. I wish functions. Physician work is from the 1980 census of to commend Lynn Guarch-Pardo, Gerardo In short, Mr. Speaker, the National Marine average hourly earnings of nonphysician pro­ Simms, Alfonso Garcia, Elisa Vilano Chovel, Sanctuaries Program is very much worth our fessionals, like teachers and engineers. Silvia Gonzalez Munoz, Guillermo Rodriguez, endorsement, and I urge my colleagues to join Medical liability costs are from a company and Fulvia Almeida Morris for their tremen­ me in supporting its reauthorization. that, in Texas, underwrites only a couple of dous efforts to continue the pride and strength hundred out of 30,000 plus doctors, and only that was witnessed during Operation Peter for low-risk office type practices. Pan. INTRODUCTION OF THE MEDICARE The legislation we are introducing today GEOGRAPIDC DATA ACCURACY simply requires current, accurate data, and ACT OF 1992 regular updates of that data. THE NATIONAL MARINE SANC­ When the Federal Government tinkers with TUARIES REAUTHORIZATION ACT HON. RALPH M. HALL Medicare, it is fooling around with one of our OF 1992 OF TEXAS most vulnerable constituencies. A seemingly IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES minor statistical adjustment in Washington, barely making a peep or whimper, goes off HON. GERRY E. STIJDDS Thursday, March 5, 1992 OF MASSACHUSETTS like a sonic boom of seismic proportions when IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Speaker, today I, its multiplied across 50 States and millions of along with many of my colleagues, are intro­ Thursday, March 5, 1992 elderly people. We should at least be sure that ducing the Medicare Geographic Data Accu­ what we launch from here is truthful, reliable, Mr. STUDDS. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro­ racy Act of 1992, which will require the Health and accurate. ducing legislation that will reauthorize one of Care Financing Administration to use current, The doctors in Texas and other States as this Nation's most important marine environ­ accurate, and regularly updated data when varied as California, New York, Alabama, Flor­ mental protection programs-the National Ma­ computing the geographic-cost-of-practice indi­ ida, Arkansas and Georgia did, in fact, ask the rine Sanctuaries Program. ces, or GPCI, in conjunction with the new Health Care Financing Administration [HCFA] Since 1972, the National Marine Sanc­ Medicare payment system. to clean up their statistical act. In so many tuaries Program has worked to accomplish This would seem to be a humble request. words, HCFA replied, "Make me." what was once thought to be impossible-the Shouldn't even require congressional action. This bill makes them do the right thing. protection of special areas of the marine envi­ As my grandson and Saturday Night Live fans We respectfully request the favorable con­ ronment for conservation and multiple use. would say, "Not". sideration of this modest, budget neutral repair This program has worked against the odds What if I invented a new car, a politically to the "new" Medicare fee system formula so from the start, attempting to manage existing correct car, that was more fuel efficient, envi­ that all the moving parts of this shiny new sanctuaries and designate new ones with ronmentally cleaner, safer, and more available model are in perfect working order. We would grossly inadequate funding and with relatively to buyers? like to be able to issue a warranty to the phy­ little backing from its parent body, the National You'd buy it. We did. And so did the doctors sicians and Medicare beneficiaries in our re­ Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. in my State, and other States represented by spective States so that they won't be taken for In spite of these hurdles, the Sanctuaries those sponsoring this bill today. But, now a ride by their Government. Program now encompasses 1O very special we've got a dose of buyer's remorse. We've areas of our Nation's marine environment, discovered that we've bought a new unit with thanks in large part to its championship by 10-year-old parts and a drive train that only THE 225TH ANNIVERSARY OF many of my colleagues in the Congress and to works in certain States. It's a new looking car LENOX, MA the tremendous grassroots support for marine equipped with junk parts and the same old sanctuaries. Within these sanctuaries-from problems * * * spewing out pollutants and HON. JOHN W. OLVER California's Channel Islands to North Caroli­ breaking down right when you accelerate onto OF MASSACHUSETTS na's wreck of the U.S.S. Monitor, from Massa­ the freeway. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES chusetts' Stellwagen Bank-I may be a bit When the Federal Government trotted out premature on this one but ever optimistic-to its new Medicare payment reform system, the Thursday, March 5, 1992 Florida's Keys-environmentalists, scientists, RBRVS, they promised to deliver, in 187 or so Mr. OLVER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to fishermen, and others work together to con­ pages of regulations, a design that would honor Lenox, MA, which is celebrating its serve the fragile marine environment and its equalize the large payment disparities be­ 225th anniversary this year. Lenox is known resources for future generations. tween urban and rural settings and between for its rich and diverse cultural history. For coastal Massachusetts, effective marine specialized and primary care services. One of Tanglewood in Lenox is the summer home of conservation is an essential building block of the multipliers, as they call it, in this elaborate the Boston Symphony Orchestra as well as our economy and our future. Without it, we formula is supposed to modify the RBRVS to popular musical artists, both contemporary risk losing the fishing and tourism industries account for the obvious differences of practice and classical. Lenox is a wonderful place to March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4685 live. Lenox is known as the gathering place for Federal research. As a result, benefits are HATE VIOLENCE CONDEMNED its growing arts, tourism attractions, and re­ provided to the Government, to the participat­ sorts. ing small business, and to the public at large. HON. CONSTANCE A. MORELl.A Lenox was first incorporated in 1767 and Not only do we think of new ways to squeeze OF MARYLAND held its first town meeting on March 11 , 1767. more bang out of each buck since small busi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Lenox town government predates the United nesses are remarkably efficient-program par­ Thursday, March S, 1992 States. The Appalachian trail in the Berkshires ticipants also generate jobs and exports that travels through town. dramatically help our economy; they devel­ Mrs. MORELLA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to The Lenox Board of Selectmen have de­ oped weapons and defense systems that express my outrage over an act of hate and clared March 11, 1992, as a great day of cele­ served our troops well in Desert Storm; they violence which was inflicted Tuesday upon two bration honoring the town's 225th anniversary. have helped us to improve our health care young black women in Montgomery County, The town has many events planned through­ and to explore outer and inner space. The MD. The women were allegedly chased and out this year to celebrate this historic occa­ program has already produced billions of dol­ attacked by two white males who were later sion. lars in sales and financing commitments to pri­ taken into custody. One woman escaped Lenox is a town with a proud history deeply vate industries and billions more are projected. physical harm when taken into the home of rooted in the Berkshires. I hope all my col­ We needn't only take the word of small two good citizens who called police. The sec­ leagues will join me in honoring this Berkshire businesses for the success of the program. All ond had her clothes ripped from her and was town's 225th anniversary. of the participating agencies, no matter how doused with lighter fluid, after which her as­ reluctant they originally were in joining the pro­ sailant attempted to light her on fire. Fortu­ nately, police arrived and thwarted these ac­ SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION DE­ gram, now endorse it heartily. In fact, 53 per­ cent of the project officers in the field who run tions. VELOPMENT AMENDMENT ACT It is unconscionable that, after almost 30 OF 1992 research programs felt that SBIR would be more likely to produce commercial products years following the passage of the Civil Rights HON. IKE SKELTON than other Federal research, versus 12 per­ Act, we are still faced so pathetically with the cent who did not. ignorance and hate of racism. Black women OF MISSOURI Large industries know the value of having often suffer double discrimination as they be­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES small businesses perform research. In fact come the targets of hate because of their sex, Thursday, March S, 1992 over the last decade, they have doubled their as well as their race. It is imperative that we Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to intro­ use of small firms for research and develop­ continue our efforts to educate our youth · on duce the Small Business Innovation Develop­ ment while Federal small business use has re­ the value and beauty of diversity, but, at the ment Amendment Act of 1992. Eleven of my mained constant. same time, our laws must reflect a societal colleagues have joined me as original cospon­ The bill we introduce today, Mr. Speaker, condemnation for racial intolerance and all sors of this legislation which seeks to improve seeks to correct that situation by increasing hate crimes. This unfortunate incident is yet on the successful Small Business Innovation the amount of research that must be done by another example of our need to pass the Vio­ Research Program. First and foremost, our bill small firms and then encouraging those firms lence Against Women Act and other legislation would reauthorize and increase the SBIR Pro­ to develop products that can compete on which will assist in making this country safer gram. In addition, our bill would increase the world markets. This bill reaffirms that the best for women. emphasis which the program places on the ideas, including the SBIR Program, can be commercial potential of Federal research and found right here at home. A TRIBUTE TO BRUCE HAYDEN development. And finally, the amendments we AND THE SPECTRUM PROGRAMS propose would enhance the protection for par­ ticipating small businesses. MICHAEL H. HUDSON HON. ILEANA ROS.LEHTINEN Mr. Speaker, the Small Business Innovation OF FLORIDA Research Program has been in operation for HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a decade. If you consider the pilot program, OF ILLINOIS Thursday, March 5, 1992 the concept has been successfully providing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES top quality research to the Federal Govern­ Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I wish to Thursday, March 5, 1992 ment for over 15 years. It is one of the most acknowledge Mr. Bruce Hayden for his work studied and most copied programs that the Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, the many friends at the Spectrum Programs during the past 22 United States runs. Nations such as Japan, of Mike Hudson were saddened to learn of his years in which he has dedicated his life to the Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, and untimely death last week. For many years, war against drugs. Mr. Hayden's commitment Great Britain have shown an interest in the Mike had been a confidant and adviser to pub­ to those who suffer from substance abuse is program and in some cases, adopted similar lic figures in Illinois, and was widely respected certainly commendable. His work is a chal­ programs. for his knowledge, his professionalism, and his lenge to him and to those he helps and his The concept is a simple one: Building on love for our State and its people. work is their hope for a better life. Those who our knowledge that small businesses are often We first got to know Mike when he served come to Spectrum for help are not only his cli­ more focused and more imaginative than large Gov. Dick Ogilvie of Illinois in the early 1970's. ents, but also his friends. In a Miami Herald firms, the Federal Government should harness Throughout the years, he was always willing article entitled "Stint as Drug Volunteer Turns small business ingenuity in a special program. to take the time and effort to provide advice Into a Life's Work," Bea L. Hines reports: A large number of small awards are made to and assistance on issues involving Illinois. When Bruce Hayden joined the staff at small firms who believe that they can help the At the time of his death, Mike was vice Spectrum Programs, bell-bottom pants and Federal Government perform a research task. president, public affairs, of the Illinois Tool long hair were in. Heroin and LSD were big. Once the research is done, it is thoroughly re­ Works, Inc., in Glenview, IL. He was a mem­ Nobody had heard of crack cocaine. ber of many organizations, including the Chi­ That was 1970. Today, Hayden, executive viewed by experts in the field and, if the idea director of the largest substance-abuse treat­ shows promise, a larger award is made to de­ cago Area Public Affairs Group and the Foun­ ment program in South Florida, celebrates velop the idea and perhaps build a prototype. dation for Public Affairs, and was former chair­ 20 years of service to Spectrum. Finally, the best ideas developed in this way man of the National Association of Manufac­ Hayden came to South Florida as a VISTA have achieved astonishing success in finding turers Public Affairs Steering Committee. volunteer, after graduating from St. Mary's their way to the marketplace. Commercializa­ Our great democratic system needs the par­ College in California. He was stationed in tion has been achieved either through sales to ticipation of its citizens if it is going to do 'the Fort Lauderdale, assigned to work with teen­ the Federal Government, in outright production work of freedom. For many years, Mike helped age runaways. A new substance-abuse pro­ gram had just opened. and incorporation into products and services, make democracy work in Illinois, in official and " I volunteered to work as a counselor or through licensing agreements. nonofficial capacities. We all will miss him and there," Hayden said. " The idea was to spend The process makes it as simple as possible our condolences go to his wife, Linda, and his just a couple of years here and head back to for small business to involve themselves in son, Buell. California." 4686 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992 This week, Hayden, 44, reflected on the vic­ CONGRATULATIONS OLYMPIAN Over its quarter-century of existence, the tories, challenges and changes he has en­ JOE SACCO Hoosic Valley Senior Citizens have provided countered. untold benefits to the older residents of the "This could be a depressing job," he said. HON. EDWARD J. MARKEY area, including social activities, educational "But * * * there has never been a lack of · programs and advocacy on behalf of the challenge. The client population we work OF MASSACHUSETTS with is pleasurable. They don't all make it, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES needs of seniors. but we get an opportunity to see real, life­ Most of all, however, they embody collec­ long changes. That makes it for me." Thursday, March 5, 1992 tively all of the vital contributions which sen­ One victory, he said, is how "educated" the Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to iors everywhere in America have made to our general population has become about sub­ recognize one of the Olympians from my dis­ Nation, from raising families to keeping alive stance abusers. trict who competed in Albertville, France this the values and sense of patriotism which have "It used to be that people thought drugs past month. Joe Sacco of Medford, MA, was made America great. only affected a certain class of society. The a member of the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team Mr. Speaker, I ask you and all Members of message was hard to get across that drugs that thrilled the entire country with its perform­ this House of join with me, not only in saluting know no class," he said. the Hoosic Valley Senior Citizens on their sil­ The progress is evident, Hayden said, in ance at the winter Olympics. the number of drug-free work places, the cur­ Joe Sacco has displayed the hard-working, ver anniversary, but in thanking them on be­ riculum in schools, parental involvement persistent attitude that we saw on the ice in half of a grateful nation for all that they have and in television programs that include Albertville all of his life. He was a first line left done and continue to do for America. drug-free messages. wing all 4 years at Medford High School. Joe "Communication is happening that didn't set the Greater Boston League scoring record happen even 10 years ago. Today, even the while becoming the first Mustang to ever score MENTALLY DISABLED VETERANS Department of Corrections has developed over 200 points in his career. He was chosen substance-abuse programs because 70 percent to the Boston Globe All Scholastic Team dur­ HON. H. MARTIN LANCASTER of the people coming into the prison system have a drug problem," he said. ing his junior and senior years, and also OF NORTH CAROLINA Although there are four other substance­ played for T earn Massachusetts for two sea­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES abuse programs in South Florida, Spectrum sons. Thursday, March 5, 1992 is the only one that is accredited by both the · Joe continued his winning ways at Boston Joint Commission on the Accreditation of University, playing both left and right wing. He Mr. LANCASTER. Mr. Speaker, last month Health Care Organizations and the American was named the "Most Improved Player" as a the mentally disabled incompetent service­ Corrections Association. freshman, and then "Most Valuable Player" 2 connected veterans won a victory when the In the 21 years since it started, more than years later. He also tied the Terrier team .southern district of New York granted a pre­ 12,000 people have gone through Spectrum. record for game winning goals during his liminary injunction that prohibits the Depart­ Hayden said that Spectrum's success can sophomore year. ment of Veterans Affairs from implementing a be measured by the number of clients who Joe was selected to play on the U.S. Junior provision of law that suspends benefits for cer­ have completed the program and taken tain service-connected disability to certain "in­ charge of their lives. Team competing at the World Junior Cham­ pionships in Alaska, where he scored four competent veterans." Subsequently, Secretary Count among them Doreen Barton, 46, and Derwinski ordered that benefits be restored to Warren Samet, 43. times and had two assists. He also served on the affected individuals. Both came to Spectrum in the mid-'70s, the North's team at the 1989 National Sports strung out on drugs. They found the help Festival in Oklahoma City. It makes sense to continue the benefits until they needed-and a friend in Hayden. It was no surprise to see Joe Sacco se­ September 30, 1992 when the provision in the "He is a mentor and a friend," said Barton, lected to the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team after law expires. However, the Department of Jus­ who came to Spectrum as a heroin addict. his success in Massachusetts. It was a pleas­ tice has filed a motion for an expedited appeal "He is running a program that does not have ant surprise to see the team do so well in on the preliminary injunction, which was grant­ a popular clientele. Yet he stands up for us." international competition, taking fourth place ed by the Court of Appeals for the Second Cir­ Barton became the administrator of qual­ amongst a field of traditional hockey super­ cuit. As a result, the plaintiffs were given bare­ ity insurance training for Spectrum. powers. ly 3 weeks-to March 13-to prepare their ar­ Samet said he finally came to Spectrum Joe also recently scored his first goals in guments. By appealing the preliminary injunc­ for help after missing four previous appoint­ tion, the administration is merely postponing ments. After a year in the program, Hayden the National Hockey League, where he is cur­ encouraged Samet to get a job as a social rently playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs. substantive review of the merits through a pro­ worker. I would like to congratulate Joe Sacco on cedural gambit. If successful, it will have the "I've been working here 11 years now," his success and thank him for representing his effect of once again subjecting the plaintiffs to Samet said. "And the biggest single reason country so admirably during the 16th winter denial of the benefits they need while further I'm still here is because of his leadership. We Olympics in Albertville, France. I wish him depriving them of their day in court. are treated with respect and given room to good luck in the NHL. Legislation that I have introduced, H.R. grow." 1473, with my colleague, Congressman BOB Samet is supervisor of admissions for a DORNAN of California, would reinstate this ben­ program called Treatment Alternative to HOOSIC VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS, efit. However, I and many of the colleagues in Street Crime at Spectrum. CELEBRATING 25TH ANNIVER­ this House on both sides of the aisle who "As my mother would say, 'Bruce Hayden SARY, REPRESENT WHAT IS is a mensch.' That's Yiddish for human have cosponsored H.R. 1473, feel that the being," Samet said. BEST ABOUT AMERICA suspension of this benefit is not only discrimi­ How has Hayden lasted for 20 years at a job natory against the mentally ill, but also ap­ that causes burnout for many others? HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON pears to make reductions in the budget by cut­ "I guess people who get burned out can't OF NEW YORK ting benefits to those who are least able to de­ see the light at the end of the tunnel. And IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fend the merits of this reduction. Balancing the also, maybe I'm just a little bit crazy. But budget by reducing service-connected disabil­ I've always been able to see that light, no Thursday, March 5, 1992 ity compensation benefits of disabled veterans matter how dim." Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay cannot be justified under any circumstances. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Hayden's lifelong commit­ tribute to some of the most special and valued To single out the most vulnerable and de­ ment to the troubled lives of others has made citizens of the 24th Congressional District of fenseless category of disabled veterans, the a significant impact in the war against drugs New York, the members of the Hoosic Valley mentally incompetent, defines all reason and and it has certainly made a difference in the Senior Citizens. compassion. Requiring mentally incompetent lives of those who have come to him for help. This organization of people aged 55 and disabled veterans to deplete their modest sav­ His tireless efforts to rid our streets and our older in the towns of Schaghticoke and ings in order to qualify for benefits awarded in community of deadly substances are undeni­ Pittstown was founded in 1967 and will cele­ service of their country is cruel to their fami­ ably changing many lives. brate its 25th anniversary on April 14. lies, unconscionable and reeks of ingratitude. March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4687 U.S: District Judge Shirley Wohl Kram found Mr. Goldberger dedicates nearly all of his A TRIBUTE TO DANNY HALL AND that the current status is based on "irrational spare time to Beth Jacob congregation, serv­ HIS GARDEN AT WHISPERING discrimination against the mentally disabled." ing as a member of the board and as an offi­ PINES ELEMENTARY This is a bipartisan effort and I urge the 150 cer for many years. He currently serves as fi­ Members of this body who have cosponsored nancial secretary. He has served as president HON. ILEANA ROS.LEHTINEN our legislation, and others who have not, to of the West Coast Union of Orthodox Jewish OF FLORIDA convince the administration to advise the De­ Congregations of America, and is a founding IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES partment of Justice to withdraw their appeal of vice president of the West Coast Diamond Thursday , March 5, 1992 the preliminary injunction. Prolonging resolu­ Dealers Club. tion of this unfortunate situation will do nothing Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I am In all of their endeavors, Ernie and Regina but subject these veterans and their loved pleased to acknowledge the gardening work of ones to prolonged uncertainty and suffering. Goldberger share the support of their children, Mr. Danny Hall at Whispering Pines Elemen­ Sam and Yosie, and Yosie's wife, Sharon. I tary School in Miami. Mr. Hall has been a ask that my colleagues in the House of Rep­ source of motivation and encouragement to COMMENDATION FOR PEPSI COLA resentatives join me now in congratulating and the students, teachers and even the parents of OF PROVO AND SALT LAKE CITY honoring Ernie and Regina Goldberger on this students at Whispering Pines. Through his most wonderful occasion. gardening he has made the school grounds HON. Bill ORTON quite special, and the response has been re­ OF UTAH markable. His colleagues and the students at IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whispering Pines enjoy his kindness and TRIBUTE TO SISTER KAREN thoughtfulness as well as his beautiful plants Thursday, March 5, 1992 DIETRICH RECIPIENT OF 1991 and flowers. It seems Mr. Hall has made a Mr. ORTON. Mr. Speaker, recently, it was PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR EX­ home for himself and his friends. Jon O'Neill my privilege to present Pepsi Cola of Provo CELLENCE IN SCIENCE TEACH­ of the Miami Herald reports: and Pepsi Cola of Salt Lake City, UT a certifi­ ING At first glance, Whispering Pines Elemen­ cate of appreciation for their efforts in recy­ tary looks more like a botanical garden than cling. The recycling campaign, which was enti­ it does a school. tled "Reuse it or Lose it" featured special la­ HON. FRANK PAUONE, JR. The front of the building features more than eight little gardens, surrounded by bels which highlighted recycling facts. They OF NEW JERSEY rocks and dotted with poinsettias, palms and were distributed locally on Pepsi cans through other trees. The rest of the school at 18929 the month of November. Pepsi distributed over IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SW 89th Road is also lush with flowers, trees 1 million cases through Utah and Colorado. Thursday, March 5, 1992 and gardens. The information was designed to stimulate School custodian Danny Hall has created the consumer's interest in recycling. Among Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to the gardens during the past five years and la­ those I found especially interesting were facts bors over them every day. pay tribute to Sister Karen Dietrich of Belmar, "I'm just trying to create a special atmos­ such as, the energy saved from recycling a NJ. Sister Karen has been selected as a re­ phere," said Hall, 49. " I love doing this. It single aluminum can will operate a TV set for cipient of the 1991 Presidential Award for Ex­ shows people that I care, and it brightens up 3 hours, making cans from recycled aluminum cellence in Science and Mathematics Teach­ everyone's day." uses 90-percent less energy than making ing. Principal Eduardo Rivas, who started at them from scratch, and recycling creates six the school three years ago, liked Hall's work times as many jobs as do land fills and incin­ Sister Karen is a teacher of sophomore and so much he assigned him to care for the erators. I commend Pepsi Cola for their recy­ senior science courses at St. Rose High grounds full time. School in Belmar. She has been recognized " He's really incredible," Rivas said. "He cling efforts and I think it was especially im­ doesn't stop. He's constantly asking to work portant that they targeted young people, for both her outstanding ability in the class­ room and her many contributions to her pro­ on special projects, and he ends up vol­ whose future quality of life will depend on our unteering a lot of his own time. He's really wise stewardship of our natural resources. fession. Over the 9 years she has been at St. become a fixture here." Rose High School, Sister Karen has devoted That is obvious whenever the friendly cus­ much of her time and energy to improving the todian walks down the hall. A chorus of "Hi, ERNIE AND REGINA GOLDBERGER quality of scientific education. In her role as Mr. Hall" rings out from students, teachers HONORED WITH THE TIFERET department chair, she helps new teachers and parents. and many stop to compliment AWARD BY BETH JACOB CON­ learn the ropes. Sister Karen has spoken at him on the landscaping. GREGATION "The flowers and things make me feel many in-service trainings, sharing her exper­ good," said Sophia Hulst, a 10-year-old fifth­ tise and knowledge of effective teaching styles grader. "It makes our school look so much HON. MEL LEVINE with other faculties. The Governor of New Jer­ cleaner and prettier." OF CALIFORNIA sey selected her from among teachers across Kelvin Wat son. 11, agreed. " I think they're nice," the fifth-grader IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the State to write a section of a State-spon­ sored biology textbook. said. " Our school looks different than most Thursday, March 5, 1992 other schools." Everyone who knows Sister Karen is thrilled Hall has no real experience in horticulture Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. Speaker, on that her achievements have been recognized or landscaping, and he is modest about the Wednesday March 11, 1992, Ernie and Re­ by the Presidential Award for Excellence. All work he has done at Whispering Pines. He gina Goldberger, respected leaders of the gives a lot of credit to Rivas and head custo­ the sisters of St. Joseph of Chestnut Hill, PA, southern Californian Jewish community, will be dian Lula Coley. But he admits the gardens can take great pride in their gift to us of such honored with Beth Jacob Congregation's have become a personal mission. an outstanding teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tiferet Award in recognition of their foresight "Everyone tells me I've got a green thumb," he said. " It's just something I kind and devotion to the congregation and commu­ Dietrich of Ewing Township, Sister Karen's parents, have traveled to Washington to be of took a liking to. I just hope it makes ev­ nity. with their daughter as she receives the Presi­ eryone feel proud." Over the years, the Goldbergers have been dential Award. Originally from Chicago, Hall worked at closely identified with UJA and with State of Portland Cement for 15 years before starting Israel bonds. As past principal of Hebrew Of course, the people who know best just at Whispering Pines in 1986. At the time, school, vice president of Hillel Hebrew Acad­ how richly Sister Karen deserves the Presi­ Nereida Santa-Cruz was principal there. emy, and a member of the Board of Bureau of dential Award are the many students who "I looked at the grounds, and they were nude," he said. " I asked if I could try to Jewish Education, Ernie Goldberger has been have studied with her over the years at St. brighten them up, and she really supported consistently dedicated and committed to Jew­ Rose High School. I join them in congratulat­ me." ish education. The Goldbergers are active in ing Sister Karen and in wishing her continued Hall does a lot of work on his own. He Yeshiva University and Chabad as well. success in all her endeavors. makes numerous forays to nurseries around 4688 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992 South Dade, looking for plants to add to his Mr. Speaker, the striking and most memo- and members of the veterans of foreign wars, growing gardens. Rivas once went with him. rable feature of the Gallatin Valley and the national President Mary Sears and our auxil­ " It was amazing," the principal said. " He community of Bozeman is that it is pristine. iary, distinguished Members of the House went up and down Krome Avenue, stopped at The people of Bozeman are tenacious in their and Senate, outstanding voice of democracy every nursery and somehow convinced the ownership and pride in the Gallatin. They participants, ladies and gentlemen. people there they needed to donate plants to Four years ago, at your VFW convention in the school." know they've got a good thing in Bozeman, Chicago, I was deeply honored to have been Recently, Hall picked up more than 100 and they are understandably concerned that a the recipient of your VFW commander-in­ poinsettias from a nursery. To get them to permit may be issued, at any time, to burn · Chief's gold medal award. the school, he took out the back seat and the hazardous wastes at an existing cement kiln But this evening, I am even more proud passenger seat in his car and installed some plant on one end of the valley. and privileged to receive the VFW's highest makeshift shelves. We Montanans are and ought to remain citation, the Congressional Award. Hall says everything-the extra hours, the skeptical about the safety of burning hazard- Proud, because it allows me to join with work in the hot sun, the car modifications-­ ous wastes, which include oil sludges from re- those other Select Members of the House and are worth it. fineries, contaminated soils from wood pre- Senate, many of them here with us this "The people here, especially the kids, real­ serving, mining, refining, and other industrial evening, who have received this covetous ly make my day," he said. " So I do it for all award for what they have done for their of them." Superfund sites. We want evidence that mix- country and for the veterans of this great ing such materials together and feeding them Nation. Mr. Speaker, I am proud of Mr. Hall's beau­ tiful work at Whispering Pines. It is his into a high temperature burner will not result But, Commander Wallace, I am even more in the releasing of dangerous materials proud because this award comes from an or­ thoughtfulness and dedication to his work as through the smokestack and into the Big Sky. ganization of over 2 million brave men and well as his commitment to serve our commu­ Our skepticism is reasonable: When Mon- women, over two thousand of them here this nity that has earned him his success and the tanans have asked what specifically is known evening, all of whom, during times of great many friendships he has made at Whispering about the specific airborne pollutants involved peril of war. risked their own lives in defense Pines. I would also like to acknowledge Prin­ with burning these materials, the answer is al- of their country, and in defense of freedom Cipal Eduardo Rivas and past principal · h and democracy for all mankind. ways uncertain; ne1t er governmental nor Commander Wallace, the men and women Nereida Santa-Cruz for giving Mr. Hall this company officials know what the environ- of your organization are the true heros, who wonderful opportunity and for supporting his mental effect will be because it depends on not only served their . country in uniform, terrific green thumb. the combination of materials being burned at but continue to do so as Members of the Vet­ a given time. erans of Foreign Wars, a group that is always A TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL Mr. Speaker, this bill simply assures that we in the forefront of efforts to develop and will have 2 years in which to take a time out maintain adequate veterans bene'fit pro­ GIAMBATTISTA in order to find out. We want EPA to deter- grams. mine the implications of burning these wastes. Mr. Commander, the community work car­ HON. DAVID E. BONIOR We want EPA to review their existing regula- ried out by your local VFW posts in home- towns all across America is legendary. OF MICHIGAN tions pertaining to boilers and furnaces and And your promotion of pride, patriotism, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tell us if they are adequate in assuring the and good citizenship, as exemplified by your Thursday , March 5, 1992 safety of these projects. nationwide " Voice of Democracy Program" Montanans and all Americans are reason- and these wonderful, young people here to­ Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, today I am privi­ able in wanting to find appropriate solutions to night, are an inspiring and proud example to leged to congratulate an outstanding public the problems we have with hazardous mate- all Americans. servant who is retiring after 35 years with the rials. We ask only that full information be And Mr. Commander, the American people Michigan Employment Security Commission, available prior to making a decision which are grateful for what you and your organiza­ Michael Giambattista. could have a serious effect on their living envi- tion have done, and continue to do for Amer- For over three decades, he has worked pa­ ronment. This bill takes us in that direction. ica. tiently and professionally to ensure the eco­ This Nation has a great memory, and will never forget those who labored mightily in nomic security of Michigan's working men and CONGRESSMAN GERALD SOLOMON its cause, who suffered hardship in its de­ women. Michael has earned the respect and fense, or became disabled in its preservation. admiration of his coworkers who unanimously RECEIVES VFW CONGRESSIONAL No, America will not forget, nor will veter­ think of him as fair and dedicated. Michael has AWARD ans ever forget because those who wear the carried his responsibilities even further by proud label of "veteran" have great memo­ working closely with city and local govern­ HON. BOB McEWEN ries. ments as well as the Job Partnership Training OF OHIO They are memories of pain, glory, and Act [JPTA] to create a climate of hope and op­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES honor. They are memories of the horror of war portunity for our displaced workers. Thursday, March 5, 1992 and the preservation of freedom. Mr. Speaker, on all accounts, Michael Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, I wish to con­ They are memories we must never forget Giambattista has served his community with gratulate my colleague Congressman GERALD * * * because those memories are the very distinction and honor. On this special occa­ SOLOMON of New York, for receiving the 1992 reason we are the greatest, freest Nation on sion, I ask that my colleagues join me in salut­ Veterans of Foreign Wars Congressional earth. And it is those memories that brought ing this fine individual and extend to him our Award. best wishes in all his future endeavors. about the VFW's greatest accomplishment Those who have served in the defense of during the 1980's. freedom choose to give GERALD SOLOMON the And that was your never-ending support of HAZARDOUS WASTE BURNING VFW's highest award not only because of all the peace through strength philosophy of a he has done to help America's 27 million vet­ strong national defense second to none. erans, but because of his contributions toward That peace through strength concept HON. PAT WIWAMS strengthening our Nation's security. stopped international communism dead in OF MONTANA I have had the honor of serving with Con­ its tracks, it brought the Soviet Union to its IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gressman SOLOMON on the House Veterans knees; and it is the very reason that democ­ Affairs Committee and now on the Rules Com­ racy is breaking out all over Europe and Thursday, March 5, 1992 around the world. mittee. I congratulate him on this most de­ And it is the very reason that our military, Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, today I am in­ served award, and commend his acceptance troducing H.R. 4413, requiring a 2-year mora­ in magnificent fashion, and led by Gen. Nor­ speech to my colleagues: man Schwartzkopf, was so successful in Op­ torium on the burning of hazardous waste in REMARKS BY GERALD B.H. SOLOMON, VETER­ eration Desert Storm. cement kilns, and requiring the EPA to study ANS OF FOREIGN WARS ANNUAL DINNER, But, my fellow veterans, even though we the effects of handling, storing, and burning MARCH 3, 1992 have been successful, the war is not over. these wastes on human health and the envi­ Commander-in-Chief, Bob Wallace, your The threat to American freedom is still ronment. lovely wife Dianne, distinguished officers, there. Yes, the Berlin Wall has fallen and the March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4689 former Soviet Union is no more; but the cold join the military, become good citizens* * * Instead, we need to make hard choices on fact is that tens of thousands of armed nu­ and they learn these terribly important prin­ real spending cuts and work toward a bal­ clear warheads are still aimed at American ciples they, somehow, missed at home or in anced budget. To be sure, certain factors will cities. school. move us in this direction automatically. Three Four million Soviet troops still remain in And when their enlistment is over, when uniform and the new Russian confederacy is their service is done, they turn in their uni­ years from now we will presumably not need highly volatile and unstable* * *and no one forms and return home, bringing these in­ to spend the approximately $75 billion we are knows the future, or who will control it. grained principles along with them, to be spending this year on the banking, savings, There is also the very serious threat that spread about their community, and taught and loan bailout. And, a full employment econ­ no less than ten hostile anti-American ter­ to the younger generations to come. omy may increase tax revenues and lower rorist countries either have (or are on the Yes, these men and women are no longer spending on unemployment insurance and verge of having) nuclear missile capacity soldiers, sailors, marines or airmen, they now have a new responsibility. other support programs. * * * and any one of them would not hesitate But we have to do more. To start with, con­ a moment to launch a sneak terrorist attack They have now joined one of the most im­ on Americans, both here and overseas. portant groups of people in America, a group sider defense. There is near unanimous And of course we all know that deadly that is, without doubt, the most responsible agreement in Congress that the collapse of atheistic communism still enslaves almost for making America the greatest and freest the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war half of the world population in places like Nation on Earth. gives us an unprecedented opportunity. The Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and Mainland It is the group represented by all of you House Armed Services Committee has under­ China. gathered here tonight, those who have taken an extensive analysis on the question of And my fellow veterans that means the job earned the right to proudly call themselves veterans of the Armed Forces of the United military preparedness. Based on a realistic ap­ is not done* * *the war is not over. praisal of the need to sustain a number of And that is why we must never let down States of America. our guard. We must never again leave Amer­ Thanks to them, America is No. 1! foreseeable military operations at the same ica undefended, as we did on December 7, Commander Wallace, on behalf of all veter­ time, Chairman ASPIN has recommended that ans, I gratefully accept this cherished con­ 1941. we can make significant funding reductions gressional award. and still maintain force readiness. The Budget That is why we must absolutely continue God bless you * * * and God bless America. to maintain a peace through strength and Committee's reduction in defense spending of strong national defense, that can guarantee $15 billion in budget authority and $1 O billion the protection of American interests both at THE FISCAL YEAR 1993 BUDGET in outlays next year is based on Chairman As­ home and abroad. PIN'S recommendations. These recommenda­ Yes, while still protecting America's inter­ RESOLUTION est, we can reduce our defense budget within tions foresee cuts of some $100 billion over reason, as Secretary Cheney and Gen. Colin HON. Bill ORTON the next 5 years, while maintaining readiness Powell have recommended. OF UTAH to conduct a Desert Storm-type operation si­ And, yes, most of those savings should be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES multaneously with other military scenarios. I used to reduce the unconscionable deficit support this level of defense reduction, and that is ruining our Nation's economy. Thursday, March S, 1992 feel that the President's budget in this area is But, any of that savings that is not applied Mr. ORTON. Mr. Speaker, today the House too timid in taking advantage of the current to the deficit ought to go directly towards adopted a budget resolution for the next fiscal state of world affairs. restoring the Department of Veterans Affairs year. This completes a critical 2-week process However, it is in the use of this peace divi­ Hospital and Health Care Programs to a funding level that will guarantee our Na­ in which we have made major tax and budget dend that I part company with many of my col­ tion's obligation to provide the highest qual­ decisions that affect all Americans. leagues. Under the 1990 budget agreement, ity medical care to any, I repeat any, sick or I vote against final adoption of House Con­ we created the firewalls in an effort to enforce disabled veteran, and do it in veterans hos­ current Resolution 287, the budget resolution fiscal discipline. Under the firewalls, cuts in pitals * * * where only veterans are served. as reported by the House Budget Committee. spending in one category could not be added And so my fellow veterans, the fight is on. I also voted against the three substitute budg­ back to another category, if doing so would We must fight with all our might to see ets. I would like to take this opportunity to ex­ break the budget cap in that second category. that our military budget is not decimated. plain my reasoning behind these actions. Since we are at or near the caps on domestic We must fight to make sure that the fu­ Quite simply, I cannot in good conscience ture veterans of America, the young men and spending, many Members in Congress want to women serving in our all voluntary military support any budget resolution that produces a tear down the firewalls and allow three quar­ today, continue to be the brightest, the best deficit in the range of $325 billion. The debate ters of the defense savings to be poured back educated, the best trained, the best equipped, this week has centered almost entirely on a into domestic spending. and some of the most highly motivated sol­ question of spending priorities-primarily, how r oppose this approach and believe that 100 diers ·ever to serve. we allocate spending between defense and percent of the peace dividend should be used We must make sure that these volunteers, domestic projects. While this is an important to reduce the deficit. Shortly after adoption of coming from the inner cities of America, decision, it fails to ask the more fundamental the budget resolution, the House will be con­ from the suburbs, from the farms, from all across America, have an opportunity to pur­ question of how we can bring down spending sidering H.R. 3732, the Budget Process Re­ sue an honorable and proud military career. in line with revenues. form Act. This bill would tear down the fire­ Where they can accumulate up to $25,000 of With the exception of the Dannemeyer sub­ walls and allow us to spend the peace divi­ educational benefit$ through the Montgom­ stitute-which relies on refinancing gimmicks dend. I plan to vote against this bill. Eighteen ery GI Bill. and unrealistic Medicare/Medicaid cuts-all months is far too short a period of time to give And where they can learn something des­ three of the budget alternatives contemplate a up the small degree of fiscal discipline created perately needed in America today * * * how deficit in the range of $325 to $331 billion. As by the 1990 budget act. to be good citizens. a result, there is effectively no opportunity for The decade of the 1980's has dulled our In today's military, our young people learn me or other Members to vote for a budget that senses. We have become accustomed to bor­ things all too often neglected in our homes and schools. makes a serious effort to make real spending row and spend policies in which we borrowed They learn discipline and respect. cuts. The only choices involve business as trillions of dollars to pay for a military buildup. They learn teamwork and responsibility. usual. Now that we are able to reduce our large ex­ They learn the importance of being polite Such inaction on the deficit is unacceptable. penditures on defense, we characterize it as a and courteous. The deficit for the current fiscal year is esti­ dividend. It is not a dividend; it is only money They learn to live by the rule of law. mated by the President to be just short of that we will not have to borrow to spend. They learn not to use illegal drugs. $400 billion. This is a figure of unprecedented I recognize that this position may be charac­ They learn the meaning of the words pride proportion. If we continue along this path, our terized as being heartless. I know that we are and patriotism. national debt will overwhelm the economy. experiencing a recession and that it is attrac­ And more often than not they even get a little religion. The result is a mortgage on our children's fu­ tive to advocate increased social spending to . Yes, every year, hundreds of thousands of ture, the crowding out of the private sector cushion the hard times. But, aren't we being these kids, many from the inner cities, from from financial markets, and an increasing fis­ more heartless to our children and future gen­ broken homes, from middle class America, cal straitjacket. erations if we saddle them with so much debt 4690 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992 that ten or twenty years from now, we cannot In conclusion, I am disappointed that I was cipient of the National Farmworker Advocate even afford basic Government programs, such unable to support any of the budget plans. But Hall of Fame Award. I would like to call my as Social Security or education? I have not given up on the process. I intend colleagues' attention to the achievements of We must act now. There are many other to work constructively to support appropriate my longtime friend. John Arnold has spent areas in which we can make measured, but Government spending. At the same time, I much of his life exemplifying what America real spending cuts. Currently, entitlements are cannot and will not compromise on the need was built on. He has demonstrated commit­ rising at an astronomical pace. Reforms are to restore fiscal sanity to our process of budg­ ment, valor, and honor with his unsurpassed necessary. Welfare reform is an example. The eting and spending. I believe that our future efforts. John's work originated with the work­ State of Utah has instituted real changes in economic well-being hangs in the balance. ing people of Arizona, and improving the work­ their welfare system that are working to cut ing conditions of Arizona's farmworkers. costs drastically. We should apply these types The contributions that John Arnold made to of changes at the Federal level. In the areas A CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO improve the housing, training, and job place­ of Medicare and Medicaid, we need to take . MS. ELOISE BUSSIO ment of the farmworkers will be well noticed steps to keep costs under control. This does far into the future. John's commitment started not mean rolling back eligibility or cutting back HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON in 1954, when he began to employ his bilin­ on quality of care. But it does mean increased OF CALIFORNIA gual talents as a volunteer in order to improve attention to curbing the causes of runaway IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the lives of the Mexican farm laborers. Per­ health costs. Thursday, March S, 1992 haps one of John's most recognizable feats Domestic spending is another area where was the founding of PPEP [Portable Practical Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today cuts should be made. I am not one of those Educational Preparation], an organization that to pay tribute to an exceptional woman whom who claim that we can balance the budget was designed to provide instruction in practical I greatly admire, Ms. Eloise Bussio. On Friday, simply by cutting back on wasteful domestic educational experience which prepared the March 6, 1992, Ms. Bussio will retire after 24 spending, as some of my Republican col­ farmworkers to acquire basic survival skills. leagues seem to believe. But, it is true that years of dedicated service to the Los Angeles His untiring efforts focused on improving the significant savings can be achieved. I serve on Unified School District [LAUSD]. · lives and welfare of farmworkers. His commit­ graduation from the University of Cali­ the Democratic Caucus Task Force on Gov­ Upon ment to their cause endures and his work on fornia, San Francisco with an R.N., B.S., and ernment Waste.. Our preliminary report esti­ their behalf goes on. mates that there are $65 to $85 billion in sav­ P.H.N. in 1957, Eloise immediately entered Congratulations, John, on your achieve­ ings that can be achieved in the first year the University of California at Berkeley and re­ ment. alone from specific actions. ceived her M.S. degree in June 1959. She The President has recommended the termi­ began her career as an assistant head nurse nation of some 261 substandard projects and with Alameda County Hospital in psychiatric MILITARY MEDICAL FACILITIES 246 programs in his fiscal year 1993 budget. emergency admitting. She was quickly pro­ LEGISLATION Some of the projects targeted for termination moted to head nurse in June 1960. are in my congressional district. Their deletion For the past 7 years, Eloise has served as HON. JJ. PICKLE would undoubtedly cause some pain or eco­ the field coordinator of school nursing for the OF TEXAS nomic distress. Nevertheless, I could support LAUSD. Her position was a demanding but re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES termination of these projects, provided that all warding one, and her duties included the ori­ Thursday, March S, 1992 projects and programs on the President's list entation and supervision of all nurses with the were deleted. The problem, however, is that system. She was also instrumental in coordi­ Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro­ many Members of this body complain end­ nating a program designed to assist individ­ ducing legislation which would direct the De­ lessly about pork barrel spending, but flinch uals with exceptional needs. Prior to this post, partment of Defense to take into account the when it comes to any specific cuts in their own Ms. Bussio was a school nurse for 17 years needs of retirees and reservists when consid­ district. The result is that virtually nothing is with the Los Angeles city schools. ering whether or not to close a military medi­ ever cut. As I have indicated, I for one would As dedicated to her community as she is to cal facility. be willing to support· cuts for projects in my nursing, Eloise is a board member for the Under a current Defense Department direc­ district as a tradeoff for comparable cuts na­ Toberman Settlement House. In addition, she tive, DOD can only consider the needs of ac­ tionwide. We all must sacrifice and share the is an honorary life member of the PT A and the tive duty personnel when deciding whether to pain of cuts if we are ever to make progress recording secretary for the Council of School close a military medical facility. At a time when on deficit spending. Nurses. These noteworthy contributions to her the military is drawing ·down under the base Is it possible for the Congress to make the profession and community have not gone un­ closure process and many active duty service hard choices I have outlined to cut the budg­ noticed, Eloise has been chosen as Staff men and women are being asked to take early et? As a first term Congressman, I am not so Member of the Year and has been honored retirement or transfer to Reserve status, this cynical as to proclaim that it will never hap­ with the Outstanding Service Award. directive creates an unintended penalty on pen. At the same time, I have been here long My wife, Lee, joins me in extending our areas of the country which have substantial enough to realize that Congress needs a push thanks to Ms. Eloise Bussio in recognition of concentrations of military retirees and reserv­ in the right direction. her contributions to our schools and commu­ ists. That is why in addition to advocating spend­ nity. She is a very special individual who has Many of our military hospitals and phar­ ing cuts, I also support a wide range of budget devoted her talents and energies to making macies were built nearly 50 years ago and the process and Federal management reforms. To our school system a healthier and happier en­ populations around the facilities has changed begin with, we need a constitutional amend­ vironment. We wish her all the best in the considerably since that time, In some areas of ment to mandate a balanced budget. No orga­ years to come. the country there are too many medical facili­ nization can achieve certain goals without a ties and in other areas too few. In my district statement from the top defining those goals. there is only one veterans' hospital, yet there The budget being adopted today, with a deficit NATIONAL FARMWORKER ADVO­ are 65,000 veterans and 30,000 military retir­ of $325 billion, is the wrong statement to CATE HALL OF FAME AWARD ees. make. PRESENTED TO JOHN DAVID To close a hospital on the strict basis of ac­ Other needed reforms include enhanced ARNOLD, PH.D. tive duty personnel needs fails to take into Presidential rescission or impoundment power, consideration the needs of the thousands who in order to permit the President to delete HON. ED PASTOR would otherwise be deprived. My bill does not require the Defense Depart­ wasteful spending projects; sunset laws to re­ OF ARIZONA ment to keep all military medical facilities view and eliminate outdated programs; capital IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES budgeting to encourage long-term planning; open. It simply directs DOD to decide on a and a revision of the Federal bureaucracy, in Thursday, March S, 1992 case-by-case basis whether or not to close a order to adopt management and efficiency Mr. PASTOR. Mr. Speaker, in January of particular facility based on the needs of all of techniques common in the private sector. this year, Dr. John Arnold was named as a re- the users of the facility. March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4691 THE SYRIAN .BUILD-UP would mean that Congress was right and the on that bill. I supported the Democratic sub­ President wrong about the best way to stop stitute and want to explain the reasons for my China from helping increase the risk of war vote. HON. MEL LEVINE in the Middle East. OF CALIFORNIA Last Nov. 17, after giving Chinese leaders The tax and economic growth legislation we IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES diplomatic condonation by paying a visit to considered last week placed many Members Beijing, Secretary of State Baker announced in a serious quandary. Thursday, March 5, 1992 "clear gains in the fields of proliferation and My dilemma, and that of other Members, Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. Speaker, Syr­ trade." He told reporters this meant that the arose because this bill represents our failure ia's military buildup, financed by the Saudis, Chinese had agreed not to export M-9 mis­ to take advantage of a historic opportunity. raises not only serious questions about Syria's siles to Syria. This is the best chance we are likely to have commitment to Arab-Israeli peace talks, it also One week later, if my information is cor­ for the foreseeable future to address our No. rect, the Chinese secretly agreed to help the underscores the difficulty in implementing a Syrians construct their own missiles locally. 1 economic problem-the Federal budget defi­ multilateral arms restraint regime for the Mid­ This included the supply of Chinese equip­ cit. dle East. As William Satire reports in his com­ ment needed to assemble the advanced weap­ Mr. Speaker, like nearly all Members, I am mentary China's "Hama Rules" (New York onry. not opposed to the prospect of being identified Times, 3/5/92), the President's policy toward The plot: China would live up to the letter as one who cuts taxes. I want to reduce the proliferating countries like China undermines of its agreement with the U.S.-holding back tax burden on the citizens I represent when­ his own arms control efforts. By vetoing the the Pershing-type M-9's-but violate its spir­ ever possible. I particularly like the idea of re­ bill that would link China's missile restraint to it by making it possible for Syria to deliver ducing taxes for middle class individuals and destruction in a locally produced missile of MFN status, the President has acquiesced in equivalent range. families. the continuing flow of sophisticated arms and On Feb. 10, 1992, the Chinese scientists se­ ·At the same time, I believe that the greatest technology to dangerous proliferators. cretly visited the plants at Aleppo and help we can offer to the middle class and to In fact, the administration's current policy is Rama. · the entire Nation would be a significant reduc­ now allowing our own dual-use technology­ On Feb. 22, President Bush announced he tion in the budget deficit. No other single ac­ that which has both military and civilian appli­ would lift a ban on the export of satellite tion would do more to build confidence in the cation-to get into the hands of terrorist coun­ parts and highspeed computers to China. The American economy or send a clear signal that ban had been imposed, according to Senator tries. I recently introduced legislation, H.R. George Mitchell, "when a secret sale of Chi­ we are serious about putting our economic 4378, which places a flat-out prohibition on the nese missile launchers to Pakistan was re­ house in order. transfer of dual-use technology to terrorist vealed." While the Democratic substitute represents countries. If we are to tell countries like China Next day, as its supervisory delegation was a modest stab at deficit reduction over the and Russia not to sell Scud missiles or SU- returning secretly from Syria, Beijing an­ next 5 .years, I believe that we should do 24 aircraft to Syrai and Iran, then the United nounced that "Chiria will act in accordance much more. At a time when we can finally cut States must ensure that our own policy re­ with the Missile Control Technology Regime defense spending significantly, we could at­ stricts the flow of dangerous technology and * * * in its export of missiles and missile tack the deficit in a way that every American technology." arms to this volatile region. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress has been would understand. Such a direct assault on I urge my colleagues to review the following concerned about sales by China of missiles to the deficit, in my view, would do more for the report of the administration's latest foreign pol­ Syria and nuclear technology to Iran. To dis­ middle class than the temporary tax reduction icy blunder. courage any backing away from commit­ included in this bill. CHINA'S "RAMA RULES" ments made by China on the Baker visit, a Despite these misgivings, I find much of real (By William Safire) bill was passed to cut off Most Favored Na­ value in the Democratic proposal. First, even tion status it Beijing reneged on its prom­ on the question of the deficit, it clearly accom­ ises. plishes much more than either of the alter­ WASHINGTON.-When Syria's dictator, This week, on March 2, unaware of-or un­ Hafez al-Assad, decided to deal with an worried about-possible Chinese participa­ natives. The very last action we should take is intifada of Muslim fundamentalists in 1982, tion in local Syrian missile production, to increase the deficit-and that is exactly he did not bother with rubber bullets, depor­ President Bush vetoed the bill linking Chi­ what would happen under the Republican tations or the killing of a neighboring ter­ na's missile restraint to M.F.N. status. The plans. Under the Democratic substitute, we rorist leader. Senate vote to override was 59 to 39, six On the contrary, he leveled his guns on the are at least starting-again-down the road to votes short of the two-thirds needed. long-term deficit reduction. city of Rama and wiped out its center. About Might six more senators, if informed of the 20,000 people were bulldozed into mass Second, the Democratic proposal injects Chinese circumvention of agreements touted more fairness and equity into the Tax Code. graves. All such rules of firm dealing are now by Secretary Baker even as the voting took called "Rama Rules." place, have voted to override? · This bill will begin to reverse the trend of the Rama has been largely rebuilt and repopu­ This sort of story is difficult for a journal­ past decade in which the richest Americans lated with Assad loyalists and Syrian sol­ ist to check out; Rama's off limits for me. paid less in Federal taxes while middle and diers. South of the town is a facility under But I remember how a concern for verifica­ lower income citizens paid more. · construction of interest to the world's non­ tion two years ago constrained I}le from Especially in these difficult economic times, proliferation agencies because it has been re­ writing about Iraqi nuclear development for it is absolutely essential that those with the peatedly visited by delegations of Chinese months. (At first that story was universally missile technologists. These scientists shut­ most re.sources bear their fair share of the derided; it has since been confirmed.) burden. This plan raises desperately-needed tle between the secret Rama plant and an­ So I pose the question with apprdpriate ca­ other, larger facility under construction at veats. What are those Chinese scientists revenue without raising taxes for the vast ma­ Aleppo. doing in Syria? jority of Americ~ns or for those citizens who Parts of the Aleppo plant are being built can least afford it. underground. Its expert workers underwent Third, while I do not believe that this bill will training in China last year. Some suspect THE DEMOCRATIC BUDGET jump-start the economy out of the current re­ that the Aleppo plant will produce surface­ to-surface missiles. cession, it does contain a number of provi­ The Rama plant, say these sources, is sup­ HON. TIM VALENTINE sions that will promote investment, economic posed to make sophisticated guidance sys­ OF NORTH CAROLINA growth, and job creation. tems for these missiles. It may also be im­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Democratic substitute will encourage proving the accuracy of the Scud-C missiles, businesses to invest in research and develop­ with a range of 400 miles, sold to Syria last Thursday, March 5, 1992 ment, in their employees' education and train­ March by North Korea with Saudi financing. Mr. VALENTINE. Mr. Speaker, I was ing, and in new,. modern equipment. Over • The intelligence on the recent visits to the chairing a hearing of the Technology and Syrian sites by the Chinese groups is, I time, these investments will improve productiv­ think, "hard"; but the purpose of the new se­ Competitiveness Subcommittee during nearly ity and competitiveness and support the jobs cret plants has not yet been confirmed. all of the debate on the Democratic tax and of the coming decades. If the Chinese have been contributing to economic growth proposal last week and was The investment tax allowance, the research the indigenous Syrian missile production, it thus unable to come to the Chamber to speak and development tax credit, the modification of 4692 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992 the passive loss rules for real estate oper­ tims of violence, and to recognize the efforts mara Clark and Kellie Whittaker, and a proud ations, the accelerated corporate alternative of those who work to end the battering. Do­ grandmother of grandchildren, Kellie Jo and minimum tax depreciation, and the increased mestic violence is a daily reality. Victims need Wesley. Her brothers, Blaine and Blakely, live writeoff for new equipment purchased by small to know they can escape these brutal condi­ in Florida and New York. business will all provide relief to businesses tions, and our society must be adequately pre­ Mr. Speaker, I ask that you join me, our col­ that need it. pared to rescue the victims. Right now, half of leagues, and the many dear friends of Karen Small businesses will also benefit from the all counties in the United States have no bat­ Jo Dotson in recognizing this remarkable lady permanent extension of the 25-percent deduc­ tered women's programs. There are three for her lifelong spirit of giving. Her years of tion for health insurance for self-employed in­ times as many animal shelters Nationwide as dedication and community service are cer­ dividuals. This is clearly an improvement over shelters for battered women. tainly worthy of recognition by the House of the President's proposal to extend the uncer­ Awareness is crucial if we wish to break the Representatives today. tainty for small business owners by continuing cycle of violence. Violence is a learned behav­ this provision temporarily. ior. Children who have witnessed abuse or In short, Mr. Speaker, the Democratic sub­ who have been abused are 1,000 times more THE 17TH ANNUAL BROOKLYN stitute creates more opportunity for more likely to abuse their own spouse or child than IRISH-AMERICAN PARADE Americans. The more flexible Individual Retire­ children who have not been exposed to ment Account will help people buy homes, abuse. We must make it clear that domestic HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER educate themselves and their children, and violence is a crime and unacceptable in our OF NEW YORK meet unexpected medical expenses. Perma­ communities. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nently extending the exclusion for employer­ Often it is easier to pretend that this type of Thursday, March 5, 1992 provided education and adding a tax credit for violent behavior does not exist, but closing 15 percent of interest on student loans will one's eyes does not make the problem dis­ Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, March 22, allow more Americans to prepare for the ca­ appear. I urge my colleagues to join me and 1992, marks the 17th annual Brooklyn Irish­ reers of the 21st century. Congressman GEORGE MILLER in cosponsoring American Parade, honoring the cultural, edu­ The Democratic proposal also contains a this resolution to designate October 1992 as cational, and historical contributions of Brook­ reasonable compromise on the contentious National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. lyn's Irish-American community. issue of the capital gains tax. Indexing the Recognizing the widespread nature of domes­ It is with pride that I join my constituents in gain taxed for new capital assets will protect tic violence and educating our country about celebrating the culture and ancestry of the citizens from being taxed on illusory profits its detrimental and long-term effects can help Irish people, who maintained strong ties to that are due solely to inflation. end the tragedy of domestic violence. their country despite numerous hardships, in­ Finally, institutions that depend on charitable cluding religious persecution, famine, colonial donations, such as universities, will benefit occupation, and political oppression. from the provision that allows a tax deduction A TRIBUTE TO KAREN JO DOTSON This parade pays tribute not only to the ac­ of the fair market value, rather than the origi­ complishments of the Irish people, but also to nal cost, for gifts of appreciated property. HON. JERRY LEWIS the cultural diversity and richness of Brooklyn. For those reasons, I voted for the Demo­ OF CALIFORNIA The members of the Brooklyn Irish-Amer­ cratic substitute. I hope that passage of this ican Parade Committee deserve special rec­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES plan can be coupled with a commitment to ognition for their hard work and dedication; in take bold and unambiguous steps to reduce Thursday, March 5, 1992 particular, Mr. Peter Tuohy, this year's grand the deficit in the coming weeks. If middle class Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, in our marshal, and his family must be commended Americans deserve tax relief-and they do­ lives, each of us is touched by special individ­ for all they have done to ensure the success then the entire country deserves relief . from uals whose spirit of giving and caring for oth­ of this year's parade. the crushing burden of our deficit and debt. ers sets them apart from others. My longtime The parade will take place on the historic · dear friend, Karen Jo Dotson of San site of the Battle of Brooklyn, where Irish free­ Bernardino, CA, is one such person. Karen, dom fighters gave their lives to secure Amer­ NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE who has literally devoted her life to community ican independence. AWARENESS MONTH service, will be appropriately honored by many of our close friends and family on Saturday. HON. LOUISE M. SLAUGHTER Karen was born in Canton, OH in 1942. She OF NEW YORK later moved to New York where she attended ST. ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC PAR­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Long Beach High School and worked as a su­ ISH CELEBRATES lOOTH ANNI­ Thursday, March 5, 1992 pervisor at a garment factory. Karen moved to VERSARY Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, for the past California 21 years ago and has spent the last 3 years the month of October has been com­ 18 years managing some of the areas finest HON. RICHARD J. DURBIN memorated as National Domestic Violence establishments. OF ILLINOIS Awareness Month, and today I am introducing Karen is best known, however, as the lady IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this resolution to make this designation in that never says no. She has earned this rep­ 1992. Ten women are killed every day be­ utation over the years for her boundless en­ Thursday, March 5, 1992 cause of domestic violence, and each year, it thusiasm and willingness to help others. For Mr. DURBIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to con­ is responsible for 100,000 days of hospitaliza­ the last 14 years, she has committed her time gratulate St. Rose of Lima Catholic parish in tion, 30,000 emergency department visits, and and energy to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Quincy, IL, on its 100th anniversary in March 40,000 visits to physicians. While anyone can Over the years, she has also committed her­ of this year. The parish was formed in 1892 be the victim of domestic violence, in 95 per­ self to the Bethlehem House-a shelter for for the English speaking Irish in the northwest cent of the cases the victims are women. battered women and abused children-the part of Quincy. They had been served by Ger­ Domestic violence leaves no one un­ Make a Wish Foundation Golf Tournament, man language churches and parish schools touched. Police spend one-third to one-half of the Arthritis Foundation, the local firefighters before the new parish was formed. The new their time investigating domestic violence calls. association, and other organizations. parish was named for the first person born in Urban and rural women of all racial, social, re­ If there are things Karen is most known for, the New World to be raised to sainthood, St. ligious, ethnic, and economic groups are af­ they are her willingness to listen, to take peo­ Rose of Lima, Peru. fected. Fifty percent of all women will experi­ ple in under her wing, and to lend a helping The financially depressed year of 189?, just ence physical violence in an intimate relation­ hand. She has made, and continues to make, before the panic of 1893, was a Presidential ship, and in 25 percent of those relationships, a real difference in the lives of many people election year, just like this year of 1992. Gro­ the battering is continual. in need. ver Cleveland was running against incumbent National Domestic Violence Awareness Karen is a beautiful woman and a lovely Benjamin Harrison, who had unseated him 4 Month creates the opportunity to support vie- lady. She is mother to her two daughters, Ta- years earlier. In the heat of Harrison's cam- March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4693 paign, the Know-Nothing organ.ization~ "".er~ among their graduates a beauty contest win­ read its contents and even entertained by its being revived. The Know-Nothings d1scnm1- ner who became Miss Quincy. graphic art and easygoing style. nated against the Irish and Catholics in em­ The parish has set the date of March 15 to With former Student Government President ployment and government, forcing them to open the centennial officially. There will be a Brian Fry and other distinguished students in­ take the lowest paying jobs to survive. solemn High Mass that morning celebrated by cluding coeditor and artist Tom Welsh, art edi­ Nevertheless, the Irish of St. Rose under­ Bishop Daniel L. Ryan, bishop of the diocese, tor Steve Bobovnik, as well as Dan Lucas, took to build a church and school. They had and a dinner that evening in the parish hall. Duane Price, David Mularchik, Christopher faced persecution in Ireland, where it was a The present greatly loved pastor, Francis Byrne, Mike Yonkura, Rebecca Tally, Steve crime to teach Catholic children to read and Damian Lee, will celebrate his golden anniver­ write. The result was a large proportion of illit­ Farkas, Elaine Arvan, and Judy Terlecki, the sary as a priest on April 5. During this centen­ Malooner was established as a representation eracy among the Catholic Irish. The Cathol~c nial year many activities are planned for the of the student concerns. The Malooner en­ Irish in America were resolved to correct this parish and for its friends in the city and coun­ condition. compasses the interviews and editorials from try. the campus on national issues, social con­ On election day, November 8, 1892, Cleve­ Mr. Speaker, I salute the pastor and the pa­ land defeated Harrison and became the 24th troversies and local opinions. The unique rishioners of St. Rose of Lima on the 1OOth characteristic of this publication is its creative as well as the 22d President. Adlai Stevenson, anniversary of the founding of their parish. of Illinois, became Vice President. Before the approach to these issues. The magazine end of the month the first church of St. Rose forgoes the traditional layout in favor of col­ lege lingo and friendly interpretations. For the had been completed. The people of St. Rose TRIBUTE TO THE MALOONER were able to worship in their own church and student or alumni, the piece is illuminating and to receive comfort and strength from the sac­ inviting. raments in their own parish. The school HON. JAMFS A. TRAF1CANT, JR. I also compliment the writers of the opened January 3, 1893. OF OHIO Malooner for including local talent and artistic There were only 125 families in the parish IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES events in the work. I believe that the Malooner at first. But their numbers grew rapidly, and 20 Thursday, March 5, 1992 provides inspiration to other student~ signaling years later, in 1912, they built a new church, the overall increased awareness by the stu­ one of the most beautiful in a city of beautiful Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I would like dents at Youngstown State of the artistic and churches. Through the years, the parish has to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the governmental issues in our midst. grown and prospered, and it is thriving today. writers and creators of the Malooner, a publi­ Through the years, graduates of St. Rose cation by students at Youngstown State Uni­ Again, Mr. Speaker I rise on this occasion to School have gone on to college and outstand­ versity in my 17th District in Ohio. congratulate the writers of the Malooner at ing careers in business, government, the This piece of literature shows excellence in Youngstown State University in my 17th Dis­ courts, and science. They even number organization and creativity. I was proud to trict of Ohio.