4302 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS REMARKS OF KEITH W. ECKEL rier to democracy over which people were commodity supply control, conservation shot trying to escape, and proclaimed, "Ich provisions, trade measures, research, credit bin ein Berliner!". Who this last August programs, food stamps and other related HON. JOSEPH M. McDADE could not feel the tremendous emotional public policies. OF PENNSYLVANIA relief as Berliners scaled the wall, stopped Although we support the general direction IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to dance on its heights, and ran to openly set by the 1985 farm bill, some modifica Tuesday, March 13, 1990 embrace their family members and fellow tions need to be made. These changes that countrymen in West Germany. The ever we are recommending would enhance Mr. MCDADE. Mr. Speaker, Keith W. Eckel, present physical barrier to democracy and market orientation and allow farmers to president of the Pennsylvania Farmers Asso communism ... capitalism and socialism manage their operations in response to eco ciation, shared his thoughts on the 1990 farm ... could not withstand the people's desire nomic, environmental and technical consid bill with the Pennsylvania congressional dele for freedom. erations and opportunities. gation and 200 visiting members of the PF A at I read the other day that most of the We want all programs though to meet a breakfast meeting last week in Washington. guard dogs pulling sentry duty along the three overall objectives: <1) reaffirm our Mr. Eckel is a respected voice in the agri great wall were fakes. They were not commitment to competitiveness; <2> assure trained killers, but lambs in lions' clothing. the opportunity for an adequate level of cultural community, and I know my colleagues As we look at the communistic world today farm income; and (3) maximize freedom for would benefit from his comments as the farm that's very symbolic-its perceived strength farmers to respond to market conditions. bill debate continues. He is a lifelong farmer was its weakness, while its perceived weak Yes, the proposed farm program should who currently grows vegetables and grain in ness is its strength . . . its people seeking not impede the economic growth of produc Lackawanna County, PA. He has been presi freedom with the right to chart their own tion agriculture, and needs to live within dent of PF A since 1981 and is a member of destiny. budgetary guidelines. the board of directors of the American Farm Yes, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, The farm legislation that you eventually Bureau. "Nothing is more certainly written in the approve will set the tone for the business of book of fate than that these people are to U.S. agriculture, and will establish the game Mr. Speaker, I submit Mr. Eckel's remarks be free." rules for most of the world. to be inserted in the RECORD, and I commend Freedom, our heritage, is spreading like a The issue at hand is extremely important. his speech to all of my colleagues: prairie fire, whipped by the winds of man's Quickly, let's examine some of the pro SPEECH BY KEITH W. ECKEL, PFA PRESIDENT basic desire to be free. gram components which need some revision. What a year we've seen for the develop Farming, agriculture in general, in the Target prices should be frozen at 1990 ment of peace and democracy! Certainly it United States has been the beneficiary and levels. Additional reductions would result in has been a year of strong testimony for the the shining example of the success under eliminating the safety net level of current free capitalistic system advocated by the our system of government. We have not just target prices that have been reached after United States since its founding over 200 survived, but we have progressed and freed five years of steady reduction. years ago. our population to pursue other professions Acreage flexibility should permit farmers Our great statesman, one of our founding and avocations. to plant other program crops or approved fathers, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Nothing Our system of freedom, capitalism and de non-program crops on permitted acreage for is more certainly written in the book of fate mocracy works to the advantage of the indi the crop which has a base acreage. Deficien than that these people are to be free." vidual and eventually the state. cy payments and loan eligibility will be re Eastern Europe is experiencing a rebirth In America we spend more on recreation stricted to the original program crop. ... a rejuvenation. Its peoples have come than most nations have to spend on food Dairy support price adjustments need to alive with the freedom to choose democracy and fiber. We worry ourselves about quality, be made in the calculation of milk equiva as a way of life. By and large it has been a while they worry about quantity. lents so that increases and decreases more peaceful revolution with the exception of a We must be thankful for our freedoms accurately reflect current demand. Govern few violent eruptions such as in Rumania. and forever cautious in protecting these ment purchases for federal use and pro The charge to democracy has been led by rights. As former President Ronald Reagan grams should not be used in calculation of the people of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslo· said even after his most successful negotia· surplus. Stand-by supply control programs vakia, Bulgaria, East Germany, and now the tions in his quest for peace, "Trust, but should mitigate impacts on and make resti Soviet Union. verify". tution to all affected commodities. This charge, this stampede toward democ· The freedom to choose; the opportunity Conservation reserve program land should racy is demonstrating anew the desire to to succeed; the freedom to fail . . . all are meet conservation compliance plans at the work under the guidelines of capitalism precious and absolute necessities for the conclusion of the contract. Farm Bureau with many of the personal freedoms that we future of our democracy. Securing just the supports the farmer having the option of re take for granted. Many anti-capitalists have right combination ... the proper mix is dif turning his land to production, or bidding it become outspoken advocates of our system. ficult. For example, the proposed farm legis back into the reserve. Who could have predicted this assault on lation now before you, the Congress. Crop Insurance must not be linked to socialism and the communistic way of life? The 1985 Food Security Act becomes his· farm program participation; be available on If anyone had such foresight, would they tory this year and will be replaced by new an equitable basis for all program and non have guessed that the President of the legislation which you are developing. program crops; coverage must be increased, U.S.S.R. would be the person leading, or at The American Farm Bureau Federation and the program must be simplified. It least making it possible for this rush to free and the Pennsylvania Farmers' Association seems illogical in this day and time to elimi dom. have been strong supporters of the 1985 nate crop insurance as proposed by the I can remember Nikita Khrushchev Food Security Act for very good reasons. Bush Administration. Without crop insur pounding on his U.N. desk with his shoe, It has moved agriculture toward greater ance, agriculture turns to the Congress for and later making the ultimate threat, "We market orientation that allows our products bailouts during natural disasters. Crop in will bury you!" to compete in domestic and international surance is the business approach versus the West Germany might be in the process of markets while maintaining a safety net for political approach. seeing that prediction come true, because it farm income. Research must be expanded to increase is being buried with a flood of East German A proper mix was achieved and resulted in product markets, solve environmental con refugees seeking the rewards and opportuni reducing the burdensome surpluses of com cerns and lower production costs. We as ties of capitalism and freedom. modities that had suppressed farm prices. farmers continue to seek new techniques in I recall on a visit to Germany, John Ken Farm exports increased and so did farm which to cut our dependency on farm nedy captured the essence of the American income. chemicals, but cutting traditional research commitment to all freedom loving people as The new farm bill will include programs funds is not the way to accomplish this ulti he stood at the Berlin Wall, the great bar- for commodity price and income support, mate goal.
e 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 13, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4303 We urge you to take these factors into netic development which has produced the quality of life in Maryland by utilizing the consideration in the formation of a new hybrid seeds that have enabled hundreds of dedication and diverse skills of the young men farm bill, and we pledge ourselves to work millions of people to escape starvation in and women of Maryland. Their distinguished diligently with you in the development of the third world during the Green Revolu the best possible farm program. tion? tradition continues today through the efforts of At our national convention, we initiated a And who would compel America's family its 5,200 members in 88 chapters throughout petition urging Congress to support legisla farmers, their productivity the envy of the the State. tion to slash the current capital gains tax. world, to exchange their freedom of choice, Community service and leadership training We need to enact legislation to restore the free enterprises, for mandated, centrally are two phases that Maryland has come to capital gains tax exclusion to all capital planned farming operations while the rest associate with the efforts of our jaycees. assets including land, livestock and timber. of the world rushes to copy our system. Whether raising funds for charities, sponsoring There is not any justification for a capital You, the members of Congress, must community improvement programs, or working gains tax from an economic standpoint. One apply a cost-benefit test to all proposals accurate description of a capital gains tax is being surfaced surrounding the 1990 Farm on individual development programs, Maryland an inflation tax. Any tax on capital gains is Bill.· Don't be swayed by emotion! Analyze can count on its Jaycees to be there. Their ultimately a tax on jobs and opportunity. the facts. Strengthen our system! Don't work on "just say no" drug programs, the Out Farmers who sell their land would be cripple it! standing Senior Citizen's Award Program, the among many other beneficiaries. A lower Yes, fine tune the farm legislation to pro Outstanding Young Marylander's Program, capital gains tax will increase the sale of vide the proper atmosphere for us to suc and the millions of dollars they have raised assets and allow people to reinvest their ceed and fail, the same atmosphere the rest over the years for muscular distrophy and funds in more productive alternatives. of the world is striving to achieve. Thank other important charities are but as brief list of Everybody wins with a cut in capital gains you for your efforts to improve the competi taxes because more jobs are created with in tiveness of American agriculture, and for their contributions to the welfare of Maryland. creased total federal tax revenues. The cut making it possible to compete on an interna We cannot begin to thank the Maryland in capital gains taxes would also foster tional basis while providing the safest and Jaycees for their years of service to Maryland. international competitiveness, raise venture highest quality food in the world. I ask my colleagues to please join with me in capital and help stimulate small business saluting their lengthy achievements and ac growth. complishments. There should be a rate reduction of cap HAWAll STUDENT'S VIEW ital gains taxes for the sale of land, live ABOUT RACE RELATIONS stock, forestry products, nursery stock and IN MEMORY OF GEORGE A. other depreciable assets. Some leaders claim capital gains tax cuts HON. PATRICIA F. SAIKI JOPLIN III are a "boon for the wealthy." In 1985, OF HAWAII almost 70 percent of the taxpayers who paid IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. HAROLD ROGERS a tax on capital gains had reported earnings Tuesday, March 13, 1990 of less than $50,000. Another three million OF KENTUCKY that earned less than $20,000 also reported Mrs. SAIKI. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES capital gains. troduce a "Poem About Bliss," written by a Congress and the Administration have little girl from Hawaii, which encompasses the Tuesday, March 13, 1990 treated agriculture fairly well in recent ideals of the "aloha spirit." Sabrina Hall is 9 Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, proverbs tells ut years. You have made it possible for agricul years old and completed the following as part that the greatest evidence of a man possess ture to look to the market place for its income. You have made it possible for agri of a class assignment. She and her family re ing true wisdom is his quiet discipline-having culture to come out of a servere slump cently moved here from Hawaii. and using his knowledge for the good of his through your policy positions enacted into POEM ABOUT BLISS community, while remaining approachable so the Food Security Act of 1985. (By Sabrina Hall) that people may learn from his ways. We do not wish to return to heavy govern I grew up in Hawaii far across the sea. Such a man was George A. Joplin Ill, of ment involvement in the business of agricul Where kids of all races lived together happi Somerset, KY, who was called from this Earth ture. In all fairness, such a move can not be ly. There were Japanese, Chinese and Kore Tuesday, February 14, 1990. justified. Hold the Food Security Act's ans. But we all knew we were human beings. Jop's 31 years as managing editor, then major thrust, and fine tune it. Agriculture is We played games. We never called each on the path of economic recovery. Don't publisher of his family's Somerset Common other names. I even have two half-brothers wealth-Journal-formerly the Common make us stumble by placing government that are "hapa." That means their mama is hurdles in our way, or by failing to elimi wealth-established his reputation as a a different race than their papa. seeker of truth, a father of his community, and nate others like a cut in the capital gains Tongans and Samoans were the giants in tax. our school. But with all of us, brotherhood a newspaperman's newspaperman. He served Resist the pressure of fringe groups, react was the rule. Whoever we passed along the as president not only of the Kentucky Press ing to emotional beliefs rather than to sci lanai, we'd be sure to give a happy "hi". Association, but also of the National Newspa entific and medical facts, who are pushing Race was not something we thought much per Association. He quietly and persistently for crippling regulations that would trans about. We just plain liked each other with built his newspaper to serve as the mirror of form the greatest and most efficient agricul out a doubt. Everyone there liked people southern Kentucky's past, so that the commu tural system into a centrally planned, ineffi the same. So when it came to party, every cient agriculture incapable of feeding this nity could prudently gauge its path toward the one came. I wish that everyone would be future. nation, let alone the world. like this. Then the whole world .will be In the name of misinformed sensitivity to closer to bliss. Scouting was another of the passions of the well-being of our environment and to this quiet man. The Boy Scouts are by their the safety of our constantly growing world very nature not an organization of superstars, population, these fringe groups would stifle THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF but a haven for maturing young men who in technological progress and prohibit the use MARYLAND JAYCEES of vital production inputs while removing stintively become part of a team. Scouting be all opportunities for private decision stowed on Jop many high honors. However, making. HON. C. THOMAS McMILLEN none of the honors meant as much to him as Is there anyone in this room who would OF MARYLAND knowing that in his devotion to Scouting, he wish to deny one of our family members the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nurtured young men and women in quiet and use of insulin in their fight against the de selfless discipline so that they could improve bilitating disease, diabetes, because it is a Tuesday, March 13, 1990 all the lives of Kentucky's sons and daugh product of biotechnology just as BST is. Mr. McMILLEN of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, ters. Is there anyone in this room who would today I rise to salute the Maryland Jaycees Jop, ever the team player, also was a de prohibit the use of a cancer fighting chemo therapy treatment because it is a product of which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary voted Rotarian, scarcely missing a single the chemical industry? this month. Since the issuance of their State meeting of his Somerset Club for two decades Is there anyone in this room who would charter on June 12, 1940, the Maryland Jay running. He savored the comradery of the divert research dollars dedicated to plant ge- cees have committed themselves to improving Rotary Club, as well as its opportunities for 4304 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1990 building coalitions of people to improve his housewife following her marriage. The couple Spain (Muslim), Latin America, and Ancient community. have one son, Johnny, Jr., who lives with America. His wisdom and his dedication to building them. Dr. de Montequin has dedicated his life to character in young people also led to his life Mr. and Mrs. Wells serve as an example to academia. He has taught at the University of long involvement in the affairs of his alma those around them. They demonstrate that New Mexico, Hamline University in Minnesota, mater, Centre College in Danville, KY. love can endure, and can bring happiness to a Skidmore College in New York, the University His immense knowledge of the community man and a woman for 5 years, 10 years, 15 of Georgia in Athens (where he also served and his selfless character built Jop a reputa years and even 50 years and more. Johnnie as chairman of the Art History Department), tion as a sage advisor to many people, includ and Gladys Wells are proof of that, and all of as well as his present position at the Virginia ing myself. Jop's door, in the Commonwealth us can learn valuable lessons from this won Commonwealth University. Among them are: Journal Building across the street from my derful couple. "Forms and Expression in Pre-Columbian office, was always open to me. The people Mr. Speaker, the verse which comes to Art", "Spanish Colonial Urban Planning: The who relied upon him as a confidant trusted mind when I think of Johnnie and Gladys Fortified Coastal City of Campeche in New him greatly because his words were borne of Wells is that often-quoted, but never truer line Spain"; Dr. de Montequin has also written arti a lifetime of wisdom, knowledge, and pru that describes how love can endure over time: cles such as "Spanish St. Augustine During dence. Grow old along with me/The best is yet to the Colonial Period: Evolution of the Oldest Jop devoted his life to what would last: his be,/The last of life, for which the first was City in the United States," "Colonial Cities of family, his church, the truth in his newspaper, made. Spain and France in the United States: Docu the Boy Scouts, the Center College communi Mr. Speaker, thank you for this opportunity mentation and Methodology of Research,'' ty, and of course his beloved hometown of to recognize-belatedly-the golden wedding and "The Essence of Urban Existence in the Somerset, KY. Upon his passing, the people anniversary of Johnnie and Gladys Wells of World of Islam," for which he received an he touched are left with his words, his legacy Houston, TX. I know that you join with me, " Honorable Mention," the Creswell Award for of quiet wisdom, and his devotion to his com and all who love them, in wishing them much Islamic Art from the American University of munity and his fellow citizens. happiness and good health for many, many Cairo. May your soul rest in peace, George Joplin. more year to come. Outside of his academic work, Dr. de Mon I know that your greatest wish would be that tequin has organized and consulted in several Kentuckians and all Americans learn from and art exhibitions, among them: "Art of the East practice the high standard you set-by pa TRIBUTE TO DR. FRANCOIS ern World" at the Skidmore College Art Gal tiently seeking the truth, and using that truth AUGUSTE DE MONTEQUIN lery; " Black Kingdoms,'' at the Minneapolis In to establish an honorable community for the stitute of Arts, and "The Gregorian Collection better welfare of men and women, and their HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN of Antique Oriental Rugs,'' at the Hamline Uni sons and daughters. OF FLORIDA versity Art Galleries. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, I believe Dr. de Montequin is THE 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSA Tuesday, March 13, 1990 an example of the American dream come RY OF JOHNNIE AND GLADYS true. He has recently been awarded a Full WELLS Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, it is a bright Scholarship to spend a year in Santo pleasure and an honor to share with you the Domingo, Dominican Republic. Dr. de Monte achievements and accomplishments of Dr. quin is a true Renaissance man, and I am HON. JACK FIELDS Fran~ois-Auguste de Montequin. Dr. de Mon OF TEXAS most proud to share his achievements with tequin is professor of Art History and chair my colleagues. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES man of the Department of Art History at Vir Tuesday, March 13, 1990 ginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, in these times VA. He is a true gentleman and a dedicated CONGRESSIONAL CALL TO when little is permanent, I would like to ask scholar who has contributed so much to the CONSCIENCE you to join me in observing the recently ob study of art history, architecture and colonial served 50th wedding anniversary of Johnnie art in Latin America. HON.ROBERTJ.MRAZEK and Gladys Wells of Houston, TX. Dr. de Montequin was born in Santa Clara, OF NEW YORK While I was not able to be with Mr. and Mrs. Cuba, of French and Spanish origins. At age IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 12, on January 4, 1961, he left Cuba for Wells at their 50th wedding anniversary recep Tuesday, March 13, 1990 tion held at the Memorial Baptist Church in Miami. He left his parents, siblings, and all Houston, I certainly would have liked to have that he knew behind, for a new life in the Mr. MRAZEK. Mr. Speaker, I would like to had the opportunity to do so. I would have United States. He lived in the Kendall Refu share with the House an account of how one liked to have met these two remarkable indi gee Camp and later was sent to an orphan family has been split by an uncaring bureauc viduals who have successfully weathered the age in Pennsylvania. He later returned to Flor racy engendered by the anti-Semitism preva many trials and tribulations which tear so ida, and was eventually moved to a home for lent in the Soviet Union. many marriages apart. exiled Cuban children in Albuquerque, NM. David Mikhalev, a Soviet mathematician, Both Mr. and Mrs. Wells are in their early Three years after arriving in the United States, first applied for an exit visa in 1978. Not only seventies. They were married on December in 1964, he was finally reunited with his was he refused a visa-he lost his job as well. 11, 1939, in Nacogdoches, TX, where they mother, and eventually his entire family was Unable to find work in his field, Mr. Mikhalev lived for several years. But in 1945, following brought together. He became an American cit barely kept his small family fed through a World War II-in which Mr. Wells served in izen in 1970. series of odd jobs. the U.S. Army-the couple decided to move Dr. de Montequin received a B.A.F.A. from He applied again in 1979, 1980, 1981, to Houston. the University of New Mexico, magna cum 1982, 1983, and 1988. No go, said the Soviet Once settled in Houston, Mr. Wells operat laude, specializing in history of art and archi authorities: He had worked for the Institute of ed a series of small businesses in the Aldine tecture. During his undergraduate years he Communications until 1975, and Mr. Mikhalev area. He built horse trailers, then operated an studied at the Universita ltaliana per Stranieri could not be allowed to leave the country as a antique shop and then owned a welding busi and the Accademia di Belle Arti Pietro Van "matter of security," they said. ness. Today, he still deals in antiques from his nucci in Perugia, Italy. He received a doctor The truth is, being an applied mathemati home. During much of this time, Mr. Wells ate degree in history and theory of architec cian, Mr. Mikhalev never dealt with secret in served as a member of the Harris County ture and art from the University of New formation during his tenure at the Institute of Sheriff's Mounted Posse, eventually rising to Mexico in 1974. During his years of graduate Communications. He never was engaged in the rank of first lieutenant in that voluntary law study, Dr. de Montequin studied at the Univer any purely technical studies. And he has not enforcement organization. sidad Complutense de Madrid, in Madrid, held a job that required a security clearance Mrs. Wells formerly worked for an attorney Spain, with a concentration in the history and since 1975. The charges that he holds secret in Nacogdoches, but chose to become a theory of architecture and art of Medieval information are a total fabrication. March 13, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4305 If anything, Mr. Mikhalev has been denied jority leader delivered an outstanding address the ''long twilight struggle" of which John work in his field and has faced constant har here in Washington in which he discussed F. Kennedy spoke is truly over. Then we assment because he was born a Jew in a these historic changes and their significance must candidly assess whether American for state that historically has persecuted Jews. for the United States. He made a series of eign policy is adequately responding to the thoughtful and perceptive criticisms and pro challenges and changes we face. Next we And that same state will not allow him to must begin to articulate what lies beyond. leave, either. posals regarding how our Nation should re We must have a coordinated, coherent plan During these years, Mr. Mikhalev, his wife spond to these new circumstances. for making certain that the changes occur and daughter lived hand-to-mouth from what This excellent address was greeted with ring are changes for the good. Finally we ever work he . could find. Held up in Moscow, harsh criticism by some Members, including must be willing to take risks. We must have Mr. Mikhalev gave his time to the struggle of prominent leaders of the other party. An im the vision to know what to do, and the cour other refuseniks for their rights to emigrate. passioned exchange took place here on the age to get it done. He has been an active member of the Refuse floor of this House, and the television net IS THE COLD WAR OVER? nik's Law Seminar and is cochairman and works and the other news media were abuzz It's important to recognize that the poli secretary of the Public Council of Refuseniks. over the weekend with stories about the con cies we pursued to achieve our Cold War ob However, his daughter fell ill and was diag troversy. jectives-successful though they were nosed with a rare genetic disorder that leaves Mr. Speaker, our majority leader's careful weren't handed down from Mt. Sinai on the body underdeveloped. Treatment for this proposals deserve thoughtful consideration. stone tablets, meant to be followed for the disease is available only in the United States, Instead, what we have seen is a vicious per ages. Rather, they were a response to a set and Soviet authorities would not allow the sonal attack on the majority leader for raising of events-a means to shape a safer world. family to emigrate despite these circum these issues. Criticizing the person who ad The Cold War itself was not inevitable. It evolved principally from three events or stances. vanced an idea is not a reasonable and re sponsible approach to political dialogue. conditions: Seeing no other alternative, the couple had First, the Western European democracies to obtain a divorce so the mother and daugh Mr. Speaker, I insert the full text of the ma were no longer in a position to lead on world ter could seek treatment in the United States jority leader's excellent speech in the events. Second, Germany and Japan were in in 1988. Mr. Mikhalev has been granted U.S. RECORD, and I urge that my colleagues in the a site of ruin. And third, the Soviet Union refugee status, but still needs a visa. Congress give his proposals and ideas the se solidifed its hold on the nations its armies Mr. Mikhalev's case was referred to Soviet rious and thoughtful consideration and evalua had swept through on the way to Berlin, leader Mikhail Gorbachev on a short list of re tion they deserve: with Stalin breaking his promise of free AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN THE NEW WORLD elections and refusing to allow participation fuseniks during the Malta summit in Decem in the Marshall Plan, the World Bank or ber. Now he has been told he needs to reap Today, each of those three conditions has say that's a stalling tactic. AN AMERICAN VIEW OF EASTERN EUROPE fundamentally changed. Western Europe Mr. Speaker, the plight of Mr. Mikhalev and Two months ago, I led a Congressional and Japan have strong, stable democracies his family is not an isolated incident, but an Delegation to Eastern Europe. As I traveled and free economies; and the Soviet Union is unfortunate, widespread tragedy-50,000 through Central and Eastern Europe this tolerating free elections and free markets in Jews applied for exit visas from the Soviet winter, I felt that I was witnessing history Eastern Europe. in the making. Let me state it plainly, once and for all: Union in October alone, each for his or her In Czechoslovakia, especially, I was struck The Cold War as we have known it for four own personal reasons, in many cases similar by the depth of the commitment to democ decades is over. It has ended just as the to the Mikhalev family's circumstances. In my racy. The nation that was founded by a giants of a half-century ago knew it would. own district, concerned constituents have former resident of Pittsburgh-the nation Surely if men of vision such as Churchill brought to my attention the plight of individual whose flag is red, white and blue-is the and Truman; DeGaulle and Marshall; families, such as the family of Gennadi Ba nation whose "Velvet Revolution" echoes Monnet and Spaak could somehow return byrov; the family of Esther Brustein; the family the goals and aspirations of the American today, they would be leading the fight to of Mark Kaganov; the family of Mikhail Raikh Revolution. In Prague I presented the lead change the very structure they created. Be ers of the Civic Forum with a copy of the cause they intended them to serve a pur man; the family of Alexander Schlain; the Bill of Rights. With tears in their eyes they pose, and that purpose has been served. family of Svetlana Sorkin; and the family of told me of how the ideals embodied in that While retrenchment in the Soviet Union nuclear physicist Boris Vugmeister. Their Bill of Rights inspired them while they is always a possibility, the essential charac names are only part of a rollcall that grows were imprisoned for advocating basic teristics of the Cold War-a spiralling arms too long each day. human rights. race and superpower competition for U.S. intercession on behalf of refuseniks As I talked with those young patriots in spheres of influence-have changed in fun has achieved positive results. We must keep the basement of a Prague beer hall, I was damental ways. flooded with emotions. Yes, pride that these Moreover, one of the main effects of the the pressure on the Soviet Union to follow courageous young men and women look to Cold War-a million troops facing off across through on its promises to respect the basic America for inspiration. But more than a the inner-German border-is changing as rights of humans. Let us not forget these fami little anger, too. I was angry that at the well. Even as we speak the process of lies, for if we forget them, the Soviet Govern very moment when the power of ideas for German unification continues. The position ment most certainly will, also. which America has fought are winning the of the United States on the issue of German world over, America may be losing its power unification is clear. It is a position I support. to help secure and consolidate that victory. A unified and democratic Germany must be HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER I believe that America is at risk of losing part of the community of free nations and RICHARD GEPHARDT'S AD its position of leadership in the world econo allied with other democratic nations. We re DRESS ON U.S. FOREIGN my. I believe that if steps are not taken to spect and support the right of self-determi POLICY: "AMERICAN LEADER recapture our strength and reassert our nation, and believe the "two plus four" ap SHIP IN THE NEW WORLD" leadership we endanger not only prosperity proach is well-suited to address the concerns at home, but stability around the world. of all of us who have been drawn into two And I believe the current Administration European wars in this century. But it must HON. TOM LANTOS lacks either the vision to know what steps be made unequivocally clear that the United OF CALIFORNIA we must take, or the courage to take them. States recognizes the existing border be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The lens of bipolar ideological struggle tween Poland and Germany, and that the through which we saw the last half-century Germans do as well. The end of the Cold Tuesday, March 13, 1990 has been shattered by events. Now through War cannot be a cause for resurrecting any Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, 2 months ago, I the broken pieces a pattern is beginning to of the conditions that led us into the last emerge-a vision of a world in which eco had the great pleasure of joining our distin World War. nomic competition will take precedence over As we sail with breathtaking speed into guished Majority Leader DICK GEPHARDT for a military conflict. the future, it is absolutely essential that we visit to Eastern Europe where we witnessed Our first duty is to the truth of our cir be guided by the constellation of democratic first hand the incredible transformation that is cumstances. We must realistically assess our values. 1848 was called "the springtime of taking place in that region. Last week, the ma- present situation-by asking whether or not nations." I believe 1990 will be remembered 4306 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1990 as the springtime of democracy, with free dent Bush hasn't done more to promote de sented an investment that would cost $82 dom in full bloom. With spring elections mocracy in Eastern Europe is because there billion today. One hardly needed Mr. Gallup planned in the G.D.R., Hungary, Poland, are no votes there. Indeed, there are votes to know such a proposal would face strong Bulgaria, Romania, and in Czechoslovakia, to be lost by being too closely identified resistance. we truly face a world that has changed. with what is disparagingly and inaccurately President Truman was not in much better If we have the fortitude and the determi called "foreign aid." There are votes to be shape. To this day no President-not even nation to seize the day, we can ensure that lost in taking a risk for peace, in appearing Nixon in the depths of Watergate-has been the days of the Cold War will never return. insufficiently "tough" on the Russians. And as unpopular as Truman was as he headed PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP there are votes to be lost in calling on the into the election of 1948. Perhaps sensing Up until this point, however, the day has American people to make some changes to the political advantage, mainstream Repub seized us, rather than the other way around. adapt to the changing world. licans like Robert Taft and extremist Re Thus far in these remarkable times, events So what we are left with is government of publicans like Joseph McCarthy opposed have been happening to us, and we have the polls, by the polls and for the polls. The Truman and criticized the Marshall Plan. been left groping for a reaction. To be sure, President, who defends foreign policy The record resounds with attacks like "so some of this is a function of the dizzying choices by pointing at his soaring popularity cialistic", "dangerous", "simple minded", pace of change. But there is no escaping the polls, seems to take seriously the mocking and "giveaway." One Republican Senator conclusion that America's lack of leadership words of Mark Twain, who said: "Its name is William Jenner of Indiana-summed up in this most crucial moment of this half Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It much of the opposition when he said: "It century is due in large measure to the fact settles everything. Some think it is the voice seems to be Mr. Truman's thesis that the that our President is not providing the di of God." international crisis can only be solved if we rection we need. The President's pollster is frequently trot buy off the dangers of communism by If the nature of the challenge is indeed ted before the captive White House media. giving large cash donations from the Ameri self-evident, why is it unseen or unfathoma He criticizes Democrats for decrying the can taxpayer's pocket to already shaky Eu ble to our President? Why, for example, is President's lack of leadership. He cites poll ropean governments most of whom are, in he asking the American people this year to data as proof that the President is doing fact, only a degree or two removed from the give him a military budget that consumes what the American people want. menace from which we are supposed to be nearly one out of every three federal dol Yes, the President is doing what America protecting them." lars-to meet yesterday's challenges? Why says it wants in his latest poll. But is he But Truman did not flinch. He knew it does he want to spend $112 million on the giving the American people the information was an investment that would reap tremen LANCE missile for West Germany when it they need to make an informed decision dous benefits in new markets for America can only reach East Germany? Why does he when his pollster calls? Of course, every pol and more stability for the world. So he want to spend billions of dollars on arma itician has to listen to the voice of the pressed on, despite the political repercus ments aimed at "communists" who don't people-there's nothing wrong with that. sions. Ignoring the polls, Truman worked want to be communists anymore-and yet But the reason the American people seem with the Republicans who controlled the has to be pushed into spending a tiny frac reluctant to embrace the changes in Eastern Congress, especially Senator Arthur Van tion of that to assist the anticommunist pa Europe; the reason they oppose increased denberg, and signed into law what one Brit triots that have replaced our old adversaries investment in democracy in that region; the ish newspaper called "an act without peer in in Eastern Europe? reason they aren't sure if the Cold War is history." It's as though George Bush's Pentagon over, is because their President is not lead Harry Truman lived by Sam Houston's budget were written by someone who hadn't ing them. He is not explaining and inter maxim: "Do right, risk consequences." the read a newspaper in a year. It was almost preting these startling events for them. His maxim of the Bush Administration seems to certainly written by someone who hadn't not helping them understand the new world be: "Do polls, risk nothing." read William Webster's CIA analysis of the we live in-its challenges, its opportunities, There is no substitute for Presidential unlikelihood of a renewed Soviet threat its dangers. leadership. And given the fact that Presi even if Mikhail Gorbachev is ousted by the The President's lack of vision, and Ameri dent Bush has record-high levels of popular hardliners. Indeed the question on the ca's lack of leadership, have consequences ity and more than two years to go before he minds of people everywhere is: With peace that are both real and grave. The President faces re-election, he is in the perfect posi breaking out the world over, why is our of the United States retreats from the world tion to lead. President intent on beating plowshares into by failing to lead the American people to If he were to come to Congress the way swords? see our self-interest in the success of democ Truman did, I can assure him we would I believe the answer lies in the President's racy and free markets in Eastern Europe work with him the way Vandenberg did. If lack of vision. George Bush campaigned for and the Soviet Union. But his timid posture he would use his bully pulpit to lead, the the Presidency without any sense of what may well create a self-fulfilling prophecy American people would follow. And if he he disdained as "the vision thing." As his that at best confirms the status quo and at would summon us all to the challenges we campaign and the early days of the Presi worst condemns the fragile new democracies face, this country would rise to meet them. dency showed us, he would much prefer to to failure. The American people will support democra occupy his time and the nation's attention In short, the Bush foreign policy is a cy in Eastern Europe if our President tells with issues like Willie Horton and yet an policy adrift; without vision, without imagi us it's in our deep self-interest to do so. But other tax cut for the privileged. It's not that nation, without a guiding light save precious we risk freedom dying on the vine if our issues like crime and fiscal policy are not im public opinion polls. But if he wanted to. President doesn't take the lead. portant-of course they are. But at some President Bush could seize the day and mar The President should carefully articulate point it is the job of the President to shal the American people into a mighty to the American people the risks and bene summon the nation to meet new challenges army marching for change. fits of the new world. He should remind us on the horizon. History teaches us that it can be done. of how fragile young democracies are. He Thus far the President has failed to do so. In 1947 the American people, having should distinguish today's circumstances Just last week he flew to California to fought two world wars in thirty years, were from those of 1947-why it is we don't have pledge his opposition to crime, drugs-and loathe to be caught up in foreign entangle to replicate the Marshall Plan-the Europe traffic jams. As for the President's plans for ments. They desperately desired to focus ans don't need it, and we Americans cannot the rest of 1990, the White House says, their pent-up energies on domestic de afford it. Of course, each nation is unique, "We're going to spend more time on politics mands. but by and large the Eastern European than you ever dreamed possible." But President Truman and the wise men countries have stronger physical founda The country cannot afford that-events who advised him realized that the changing tions for their economies than the Wes tern will force the President to react to impor times demanded that we change with them. Europeans had in 1947-their dislocation tant international matters. In the past, he And so Truman shaped the change by pro was caused by the communist system, not has reacted-sometimes well, sometimes posing that America commit itself to build by the destruction of war. However, while not-but react is all he has done. ing democracy and free enterprise in they have stronger economic bases than the And so, without the vision to see where we Europe. The Marshall Plan was a classic Western Europeans had after the war, many must go, the President is reduced to making case of principled pragmatism. Eastern European nations have weaker tra every decision on the basis of polls and poli But it was unpopular. In fact, in the ditions of free government and free enter tics. Gallup Poll of 1947, only 14% of the Ameri prise. When Governor Earl Long of Louisiana can people supported foreign loans and as So the President should call on America was asked why he didn't favor prison sistance. No wonder why-the American not necessarily to spend a lot more on for reform, he said, "Because there ain't no economy was only about one-fourth as large eign aid-but to spend a lot smarter. For ex votes in prison." I believe the reason Presi- as it is today, and the Marshall Plan repre- ample, the new military base in Italy the March 13, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4307 President's budget calls for will cost more domination for all his adult life can call on Europe is rekindling the revolutionary spirit this year than the total amount of savings us to assist the Soviets in moving to democ of America at a time when we badly need it. we will receive from all the proposed base racy, the least we can do is listen. We have as much to gain from this as closings here in America. But do we need I believe that support of the process of de anyone. another military base to defend Western mocratization in the U.S.S.R. is in America's Europe-or can we better advance freedom self-interest. We have a stake in the success UNITED FOR THE CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE and democracy in all of Europe through of peaceful change towards a pluralist But America cannot, need not and should economic, technical, political and moral sup system in that nation. A stronger Soviet not go it alone. History teaches us that a co port? By the same token, do we need an in economy will facilitate the process of peace. ordinated response from both sides of the crease of almost a half a billion dollars in How can the Soviets pull Red Army troops Atlantic has been the answer to all the military assistance in our foreign aid out of Eastern Europe if they have no jobs great challenges of this century. budget, and converting another $400 million and no homes for them to return to in For several years I have advanced the idea in military loans to grants, while at the Russia? of forming an economic alliance as stable same time reducing UNICEF emergency aid So America must think creatively and act and as strong as the NATO military alli for children and United Nations Environ boldly. Rather than pouring more and more ance. Over time, economic cooperation will mental Program assistance at a time when money into weapons systems, we should be be as indispensable as the military and polit famine and disease and pollution are becom investing in our own self-interest. And sta ical dialogue of the United Nations Security ing more clear and present dangers than su bility, democracy and a market economy in Council. As Trade Ministers become more perpower conflict? the Soviet Union are in America's strong vital to their nations' security than Defense The President should lead America in re self-interest. Ministers, I would like to see more and more assessing and changing our priorities to On this point I must say that President international dialogue and cooperation. meet the new challenges. Otherwise history Bush has been right-as far as he's gone. He A Union of Nations for International will remember the Bush foreign policy as a has lent important political and moral sup Trade and Economic Development latter-day Maginot Line. He should let us port to the process of reform in the Soviet [UNITEDl-might be a means of giving know that if we invest a small amount in Union. I'd like to enlist American farmers structure to such cooperation. UNITED freedom today, we can reap a tremendous and business people to make more substan would bring together, on a regular basis, the benefit down the road-a benefit that can tive investments as well. Anyone who has leaders of the major trading democracies include billions of dollars in savings from seen the lines outside the McDonald's in the nations of the European Community, defense, new markets for American prod Moscow knows the Soviets would appreciate the United States, Canada, Japan and Aus ucts, new jobs for American workers, new American food and American goods. And tralia. By working together, and discussing freedom to address old domestic difficulties. American farmers and workers would appre our problems and opportunities, we could But most of all we stand to gain peace and ciate the markets. We should waive trade re bring more order and stability to issues of stability. We have an historic opportunity strictions such as Jackson-Vanik and the development, trade and competition-issues to lower the deadly levels of tension in the Stevenson Amendment, relax restrictions on which threaten to divide us as much in the nuclear age, and pull our children farther high-tech exports, and encourage private in future as ideology did in the past. back from the brink of Armageddon. vestment in the Soviet Union. We provide UNITED would not be a new bureaucracy, With the demise of the Cold War, the Export-Import Bank loans and OPIC assist but rather a new approach; an expansion American people are awaiting a new vision ance to China, why not to the Soviet Union? and extension of what has worked so well a new way of looking at the world and un Another aspect of President Havel's for NATO and what is being done through derstanding these momentous events. In speech that moved me was his point that G-7, the European Community, GATT, and Eastern Europe and around the world, the rather than a hand out, the people of East IMF, the World Bank and others. challenge for the United States is to help ern Europe want a hand up. The United UNITED's mandate will be to coordinate, free people consolidate their gains, and States can offer that hand through a series not to dictate. It can address so many of the build nations that are free, prosperous and of exchanges on a scale never before seen. topics facing leading nations today: from de secure. Here at home the challenge is to re We need a Freedom International pro veloping the economies of Eastern Europe invigorate the American economy and gram for the 1990's-a modern-day Berlin to formulating new rules of international renew the American spirit. The most impor Airlift bringing planeloads of people across economic engagement to addressing the tant tools for achieving both goals are eco the Atlantic in both directions: religious burden of Third World Debt. nomic rather than military. educational, and political leaders from Bu The lessons of the past offer evidence that America must once again assert itself as a dapest and Bratislava coming to work in economic engagement can work-and that leader. To do that we must change the way churches and schools and offices in San all sides can "win." The Marshall Plan's ini we think about national strength, and arm Francisco and San Antonio. If each of tial commitment to Europe has grown to ourselves for the economic competition al America's fifty states could offer scholar the point where we invested some $1.2 tril ready underway. America must begin by ships to just forty Eastern European stu lion in the 1980's alone for the common de helping to shape the change in Europe, or dents, we will have doubled the number of fense of the Continent. Today we are in a we will surely be a victim of it. To that end Eastern Europeans studying in the U.S. position to realize a dividend from 40 years there is much that we can do right away. We should support conferences on issues of prudent investing. We must reinvest a THE AMERICAN ROLE affecting the environment, the arts and the part of that dividend. It's just good sense. A The Congress is taking steps to ensure military. We should encourage discussion of nation that spent trillions to contain Com that the tremendous risks taken by brave the sources and solutions of ethnic preju munism must be willing to spend a minus people are rewarded with the better future dice and religious intolerance. We have so cule fraction of that to consolidate democra promised by free governments and free mar much to learn from each other. So let the cy. Only a prosperous and peaceful Europe kets. We are making progress in granting exchanges begin. The Congress will soon be will allow us to reduce our military commit many nations of what we used to call the considering a bill which will provide $190 ments without reducing our national securi "Eastern bloc" Most Favored Nation status. million worth of technical assistance, Peace ty. Next we should expand the role American Corps programs, and exchanges to Central If we hesitate now, if our resolve falters agriculture plays in encouraging change in and Eastern Europe. In all, legislation cur just at the moment when we are about to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. I pro rently before Congress will provide over a realize the peace and prosperity that our fa pose a Food for Freedom program that will half a billion dollars in immediate invest thers fought for, the consequences could be share the strength of America's agricultural ment in Eastern European democracy. And disastrous. I realize the political risk such abundance with the Eastern European and that is only the beginning. reinvestment entails. But as President Ken Soviet people. There is no doubt that pri America is well-postioned to take a leading nedy said, "there are risks and costs to a vate ownership of farm land and the hard role in providing the technical and manage program of action. But they are far less work of our family farmers are the keys to rial assistance the Eastern Europeans need. than the long-range risks and costs of inac America's success in agriculture. But while So much of the strength and the soul of our tion." Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union are nation has its roots in Eastern Europe. How Ultimately the attention of the world moving in that direction, it is in our inter wonderful it would be if we could encourage must move beyond responding to individual ests to help sustain them on that journey. experienced Americans-as part of a Free crises and toward building vigorous and vi President Havel of Czechoslovakia made Enterprise Corps-to return to the nations brant economies in the developing countries that very point about the Soviet Union in from which their parents came to help a of the world-which will be the focus of so his recent address to Congress. If someone new generation have a new birth of freedom many of the new challenges we face. Herein whose nation was invaded by Soviet troops, in their old countries. We in America would lies the greatest challenge and the greatest who was imprisoned by Soviet puppets, who be benefitted by a return to those roots as opportunity of the next century. For too was pinned under the boulder of Soviet well. The fight for freedom in Eastern. long we have allowed the threat of military 4308 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1990 confrontation between East and West to ob a duck. Their criteria for acknowledging What's the harm in recognizing a limited scure the threat posed by the growing gulf Indian tribes, however, are significantly number of tribes? between the superpowers and the super more demanding. Unfortunately, like most problems in our poor. Consider the dilemma faced by 21 tribes in society, it boils down to money. According to CONCLUSION California. The federal government signed the federal budget office, if the BIA ac Over time, I want to see a Europe in 18 treaties with California tribes in the knowledges more Indian tribes, there won't which America's young students have re 1800s, but the U.S. Senate caved in to politi be enough money to go around. Besides, placed our young soldiers; a Europe in cal and economic pressure and refused to who wants to open the federal coffers to which American technology has replaced ratify them. In the fashion of the times, the new claims when the deficit is so bad? This American tanks; a Europe in which new Senate then concealed for 50 years the em rationale neatly and unfairly pits recognized American lasers replace aging American barrassing fact that the treaties had even tribes against unrecognized ones. It also Lance missiles. been made. For many more years, the feder feeds the misguided perception that the fed But it is a grave mistake to think that the al government continued to abrogate its re eral government is somehow doing a favor focus of history has shifted completely sponsibility to protect Indian groups from for the poor, incapable Indians, as if this away from the United States and onto the local non-Indian population. As a result, were charity and not a matter of treaties Europe. The difficulties we face here-and most of the California tribes were driven off signed in good faith. Governmental debts how we rise to meet them-will determine their lands, relocated away from populated and obligations cannot be ignored just be whether a strong America leads the world in areas and forced into indentured service. cause it suits some to do so. the new era of economic competition, or a Their culture was brutally repressed and, to Fortunately, Sen. Daniel K. Inouye Tennessee Valley Authority, and Army IN RECOGNITION OF INNOVA mate beneficial public uses, encourage deci Corps of Engineers. TIVE EFFORTS IN HAWAII sions which result in the maximum public ben Major responsibilities of the Council would CHILD CARE efit, and, most importantly, encourage consen be: sus building and input from all interests and at Cutting Federal redtape.-Review current all stages of the decisionmaking process. programs and recommend opportunities to im Congress has passed landmark legislation prove their effectiveness, promote interagency HON. PATRICIA F. SAIKI over the past 20 years affecting rivers. And coordination, and eliminate inconsistencies in while the Clean Water Act, Wild and Scenic Federal programs. OF HAWAII Rivers Act, and the Coastal Zone Manage Developing interagency training programs to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment Act, to name just a few, are important, provide the specialized Federal personnel to there are still many other rivers and river seg assist State and local communities find solu Tuesday, March 13, 1990 ments which need additional Federal assist tions to their problems. This assistance would Mrs. SAIKI. Mr. Speaker, as the Congress ance. These areas are subject to many com provide a range of innovative, cost-effective peting uses, and in many instances, decisions continues its lengthy debate on child care, options to local communities. corporations and States are successfully at are being made with little regard to reviewing Third. A national clearinghouse of informa all significant river values and uses and most tempting to resolve their own child care prob tion on funding sources, technical assistance, lems. Hawaii is a stellar example of how de importantly, without consensus from all user model programs, and practical state-of-the-art groups in a community. termination, ingenuity, and dedication can ac technical data. complish what Congress has been unable to What public laws and regulations some Fourth. Create a National River Register times fail to recognize is that river values and achieve even after years of trying. which would formally recognize rivers or seg uses are quite broad. The spectrum of interest Hawaii is fortunate in that we have a well ments exemplifying successful multiobjective established network for parents in search of stretches from preservation of rivers in their approaches. Nominations would be made by care for their children. This network is part of natural state to multiple use, which historically the States. All recipients of the award will be a group called PATCH-or People Attentive to and practically, have been the most accepta eligible for matching implementation grants. Children. PATCH serves hundreds of families ble use throughout history. each month and successfully places many While advocating a policy which recognizes One of the most significant portions of the children in quality and affordable child care. and balances conservation needs with high bill concerns the protection of private property However, their success would not be so dra quality economic uses seems logical, achiev rights. Section 205 mandates that: matic without support from the private sector. ing the goal is often quite difficult for commu Each Federal agency in the Council and An example of a very creative type of pro nities. all recipients of assistance under t his title shall, in their planning, implementation, gram are those facilities which provide care to The legislation I am introducing today was sick children. The Queens Medical Center sick drafted to recognize and promote a wide vari and management of river corridors involving private lands, give full consideration to <1) child care program reserves a number of beds ety of river uses-recreation, fishing, wildlife the concerns of private landowners, groups for the benefit of local working parents whose habitat, and economic revitalization. It also is and nonprofit organizations; (2) continued children are not seriously ill, but sick enough designed to help local communities control private traditional and new use of river cor to prevent attendance at school or child care. sources of pollution, reduce flood and storm ridor lands where such uses are consistent Castle Medical Center offers a unique op water losses, and preserve the historical and and compatible with established goals and portunity for parents with infants and toddlers, heritage values of their rivers and waterfronts. the wise use of significant river resource the most difficult population for which care Most importantly, the bill is intended to make values: and (3) the creation of a project task can be found. The program is for the benefit Government more responsive to the State and force which includes representative private of Castle employees and is run out of a cot landowners to assist in decisionmaking. local communities it serves through a combi tage on hospital grounds, thereby making it nation of matching grants, technical assist I urge my colleagues to sign on as cospon accessible to parents during work hours. ance, and interagency cooperation. sors of this local river initiative. The legislation Mauna Lani Resort in Hawaii has joined the A four-pronged legislative approach is used is innovative, cost effective, and balanced. It child care effort since determining that child to achieve these objectives: acknowledges the need for national leader care is a major factor in attracting and main First. Matching grants and techn!cal assist ship which encourages cooperative partner taining employees. In response to the growing ance to States, local governments, and pri ships with State and local communities. need for care for pre-school children, Mauna vate nonprofit groups. Eligible projects would This is a bill that recognizes that river revi Lani will be completing an on-site center for include river restoration, greenway and herit talization efforts begin with local community 100 of its employees' children by September. age parks, individual river corridor projects, in initiatives and that the Federal Government The program is to be education-based and will urban, suburban and rural areas, and state should be a cooperative partner in those ef be open for 16 hours a day so that all employ wide river assessments. forts. ees will be able to take advantage of its serv ices. Major criteria for eligibility area: This multiobjective approach is certainly not a new concept, but the issues, concerns, Another outstanding idea was recently pilot All significant public and private values and needs, and proponents for such an approach ed by First Hawaiian Inc. First Hawaiian has uses of land and water must be considered. and the new innovative techniques available established a program where an employee Decisionmaking process which reflects a can contribute to a special pre-tax child care in the 1990's are far different than in the past. high degree of consensus at all stages of de account to which the company will deposit up Because of these factors and the continued cisionmaking process and includes input from to $200 per month. In addition, this bank hold local landowners. reduction in Federal dollars, it is even more ing company will reimburse employees for the The project shall be publicly supported and critical that we begin to broaden the traditional cost of care at a Queens sick child care facili reflect significant commitment by States, local Federal role of acquisition and regulation to ty. With this type of system, families have the government, and private interests of the area. include the encouragement of informed, bal opportunity to select any type of child care Second. A multiobjective River Corridor anced State and local river corridor decision they prefer. Council would be established. Members would making. Our goal should be developing a co The State of Hawaii recently implemented a be the Secretary or Department heads of the operative approach that will garner the experi revolutionary statewide afterschool program Departments of Interior, Agriculture, Transpor ence and expertise of our Federal agencies for latchkey children called A+. Thousands of tation, Commerce, Housing and Urban Devel and integrate this know-how with the needs children are currently enrolled and are benefit opment, the Environmental Protection Agency, and sensitivities of State and local govern ing from afterschool learning activities for only Federal Emergency Management Administra- ments and the citizenry they serve. $1 a day. March 13, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4311 All of Hawaii's fine child care programs de RETIREMENT OF JOHN DOUG sense, and his uncanny talent for stretching serve recognition, but more importantly, they LAS PHELPS, A TRUE PUBLIC people's abilities beyond their ordinary means deserve assistance under a Federal child care SERVANT made him a valuable adviser and dear friend plan as well. To quote Maui Land and Pineap to many people, especially myself. ple Co. 's benefits administrator, Alec McBar HON. HAROLD ROGERS In his retirement, I am quite sure John net, "* * * child care should no more be con OF KENTUCKY Phelps shall never resign his nature of helping sidered a luxury item than should a quality IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES his fellow man. I personally will miss his fre quent visits to my Washington and my Somer public education system. * * * Rather it is a Tuesday, March 13, 1990 necessity in order to live and work in Hawaii." set offices on behalf of southern Kentucky Mr. Speaker, please bring a child care con Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, President projects. Now that John Phelps is retiring, per Woodrow Wilson said that "there is no idea ference report to the House floor for a vote so haps he can stop by more often, bearing so uplifting as the idea of the service to hu that all American families can have access to wisdom and sound advice in his own warm, in manity." imitable way. convenient, affordable, and high-quality care. John Douglas Phelps, throughout his career, has put himself in the service of humanity. His mission as a public servant was to enable WELCOMING THE AMERICAN others to help themselves; and so upon his FILTRATION SOCIETY NATION THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF retirement early this summer, the work of AL CONVENTION TO WASHING THE HAMMOND HARWOOD John Phelps will continue in the lives of the TON, DC HOUSE many people he served. His beginnings were modest, having grown HON. JACK FIELDS HON. C. THOMAS McMILLEN up on a Russell County, KY, farm and begun OF TEXAS his education at the one-room schoolhouse in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MARYLAND the tiny farm community of Esto. In the rolling IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hills of southern Kentucky, John grew up Tuesday, March 13, 1990 learning the ability to build a team, to work for Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, the American Fil Tuesday, March 13, 1990 the benefit of people, whether it would be har tration Society will hold its annual national Mr. McMILLEN of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, I vesting the family's crops, repairing a neigh convention here in Washington from March rise today to acknowledge a national historic bor's barn, or participating in a church service 18-22. I would like to take a moment to salute landmark, the Hammond Harwood House, a project. this organization and its members for the museum that has preserved the heritage of John Phelps never got rural southern Ken many important services they provide in the 18th-century Annapolis for the past 50 years. I tucky out of his blood. Fortunately, for the fields of environmental engineering, minerals also wish to commend the efforts of the Ham many people he helped in the region, south and material science, oil well and reservoir mond Harwood House Association, a volun ern Kentucky never loosened her grip on John technology, ceramics, pulp and paper, the teer group that has taken it upon themselves Phelps. Except for his 3 years in service of his food and beverage industry, clean rooms, air to purchase and restore this historical site. country in the military service, John Phelps conditioning, hydraulic fluids, plating, medicine In 1774, Mathias Hammond commissioned has been a lifelong Kentuckian, and a south and biotechnology, and the chemical industry. the renowned English architect William Buck ern Kentuckian for most of that. The American Filtration Society unites prac land to design this home. The house remained His professional career in service to Ken titioners in these and other diverse fields who tuckians began in 1963, when he was em are involved in fluid-solid separation. Current in the family until the death of the last heir in ployed as a social worker for the State of ly, the AFS has approximately 800 individual 1924, when St. John's College became the Kentucky. By 1967, John Phelps accepted an members and more than 40 corporate mem owner. The house remained relatively empty opportunity to further build people to help bers; 10 chapters, including one in my home until 1938 when the Hammond Harwood themselves, as assistant director, then direc State of Texas; and its well-respected Fluid House Association was created with the goal tor, of the West Lake Cumberland Community Particle Separation Journal. of restoring and purchasing the historic home. Action Agency. His experience with Govern The first chapter of the American Filtration In 1940, through its dedication, it raised ment-related social and community programs Society was organized in Texas in 1968, when enough funds so that it was able to purchase led him to become the Federal Programs Di several individuals with shared interests decid the Hammond Harwood House from St. rector of the Lake Cumberland Area Develop ed to get together on a regular basis to dis John's College. ment District [LCADD], a 1a-county communi cuss filtration issues. Since then, additional Since 1940 the Hammond Harwood House ty development organization, in 1973. Nine chapters have come into existence. Association has been committed to restoring years jater, he was promoted to the LCADD's The society consists of individuals and cor this Golden Age monument as closely as pos executive directorship. His work at LCADD porations involved in the separation of parti sible to its original 1O century atmosphere. was instrumental in the development of cles from fluids. Fluids may be gases or liq The architecture retains its original carved scores of economic development projects and uids, and particles include solids, liquids within woodwork, without any modern alterations, the construction of facilities to help improve liquids, bubbles, mists, and foams. The size of and the house also retains contents original to the lives of southern Kentuckians, and to these particles may be as ionic, as in reverse the era. Notably, the works of local craftsman teach them to help themselves. osmosis; macromofecular, as encountered in John Shaw, and Charles Willson Peale, an But the professional career of John Phelps biotechnology; in the micron range, as typified 18th-century Annapolis artist, are displayed. In does not begin to describe the depth of his in by clays and aerosols; or larger. the drawing room, a formal colonial music pro tegrity and his dedication to strengthening his The society's objectives are as diverse as gram is offered which allows opportunities for beloved southern Kentucky home. Yes, he its members. The society strives to: served with distinction on several important Chart a path leading to the recognition of the public to learn about music of the time civic and corporate boards. And through his fluid/particle processing and separation as a period and local musicians to perform music career, he placed a high emphasis on improv recognized science and engineering; of the 18th century. This exact preservation ing his education far beyond his studies at Facilitate the transfer of technology among allows the community to fully experience this Campbellsville, KY, College and the University manufacturers and users of fluid/particle sep era. of Kentucky. Moreover, his work drew honors aration equipment; It is with great pride that I extend my sincer from organizations such as the Russell County Provide guidance to industry and govern est congratulations to the Hammond Harwood Farmers Market and the chamber of com ment concerning fluid/particle separation and House Association for their 50 years of histor merce. its significance in preserving man's quality of ic community service. I know that my col In his service to southern Kentuckians, and life through protection of the planet's environ leagues will be pleased to join me in offering in his own family, John Phelps has had an in ment; best wishes for the continued preservation stinct for practicality, and an astute sense of Assist members to solve existing problems, and success of this prestigious landmark. the possible. His knowledge, his common exchange information with individuals having 4312 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1990 similar interests, and to strengthen and numerous articles, essays, novels, and a play Linda Popeleski, a close friend and fire expand their technological knowledge; and entitled, "The Gallows Gate." medic, was with Ms. Sowle at the time of Support organized programs of study and Writing one article about the Miami River the accident. She said, "Ingrid has a heart research at the university level in fluid/particle led many publishers to request further articles of gold. She joined the fire medics because systems. she wanted to give more to others. She was on environmental issues. As a journalist she always making desserts for the Company. While few of us here in the House are likely gathered facts that led her to become a key She was always there for everyone. She was to fully appreciate the benefits we receive on leader for the environment in south Florida. sincere, kind, and loving." a daily basis as the result of fluid/particle sep Her most famous book, "Everglades: River of Fire Chief Peter Zwerlein said, "We are aration, there is no denying that fluid/particle Grass," helped raise our awareness of the very saddened. It hits home again because separation plays an integral role in a variety of beauty and majesty of the Everglades and we just lost Bobby Dayton and some of our industries. The scientists, engineers, and tech Florida's wetlands. Ms. Douglas served on the members are still recovering from the nologists who belong to the AFS are among original committee to establish Everglades Na Avianca air crash rescue, she was a good member who was always available when our brightest product designers, research per tional Park. The first session of this Congress needed. She was a typical volunteer fire sonnel, consultants, academicians, end users, recently enlarged Everglades National Park. fighter. She was professional in her actions, and distributors. Today Marjory Stoneman Douglas is presi dedicated and wanted to help the communi The society conducts a variety of technolo dent of the Friends of the Everglades, which ty." gy meetings each year, attracting participants is an organization that protects endangered Ed Oldak, president of the Port Washing from across the United States and from species and water quality in the Everglades. ton Fire Medics, said, "Ingrid joined us a abroad as well. For example, in March 1988, Her current project is studying and supporting year ago. Her application said she wanted to an International Technology Conference was the Florida Kissimmee-Okeechobee-Ever serve the Port Washington community. She put in a lot of hours. She enjoyed her work held in Ocean City, MD, and additional confer glades basin. and was proud of her membership in the ences were held last year in Pittsburgh and I would like to thank Ms. Douglas. The State fire medics." Houston. The annual meeting of the AFS in of Florida owes a debt of gratitude to Ms. Washington later this month will be a major Douglas for all her dedicated, hard work. I am international conference. delighted to wish Ms. Marjory Stoneman CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO I would like to congratulate one of my con Douglas a very happy 1OOth birthday. THE GERACI LEAGUE OF PAS stituents-Guy E. Weismantle, president of SAIC COUNTY, NJ, ON ITS 60TH Weismantle International of Kingwood, TX, TRIBUTE TO INGRID SOWLE ANNIVERSARY who serves as executive secretary of the American Filtration Society. Mr. Speaker, I hope you and my colleagues HON.ROBERTJ.MRAZEK HON. ROBERT A. ROE OF NEW YORK will join me in welcoming the members of the OF NEW JERSEY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES American Filtration Society to their conference IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in Washington, and join me in saluting all that Tuesday, March 13, 1990 Tuesday, March 13, 1990 the organization-and its members-does for Mr. MRAZEK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to our country. pay tribute to Ingrid Sowle, a fine medic with Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker, it is with the greatest Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for the opportunity the Port Washington, NY, Fire Department, pride that I rise today to salute a truly out to recognize the American Filtration Society, who was killed in the line of duty on February standing fraternal organization based in my its members, and its upcoming annual meeting 19, 1990. Eighth Congressional District of New Jersey to be held here in Washington, DC. Ms. Sowle was hit and killed by a hit-and which, in 1990, is celebrating 60 years of run driver while she was returning to her car making its community, its State, our Nation, MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS after assisting the rescue squad at an acci and our world a far better place to live. dent scene. She was 52 years old and had I am speaking of the Geraci Citizens been a member of the rescue squad of the League of Passaic County, NJ, which will be HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN Port Washington Fire Department for the past marking this historic milestone with its 60th OF FLORIDA year. Annual St. Joseph Dinner Dance on March IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, this is the second such trage 16, 1990, at the Princess in Lodi, NJ. I know Tuesday, March 13, 1990 dy in a period of 15 months for the Port that, as it always is, this exceptional event will be well attended, for the Geraci League has Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, on Washington Fire Department. In November of truly established a reputation that has made it behalf of the Floridians who take great pride 1988, Lt. Robert Dayton was killed while bat a special organization while at the same time in preserving our abundant natural resources, tling a fire. being a vital part of the community. it is my honor to highlight an outstanding ac The tragic death of Ms. Sowle underscores Mr. Speaker, as a means of conveying to tivist from Miami, FL. Marjory Stoneman Doug the great sacrifices of the men and women you and our colleagues the rich background of las has spent most of her life preserving the who make up our volunteer fire departments. the Geraci Citizens League, I would like to natural beauty of south Florida. Each day, often without any recognition or insert into the RECORD a copy of the official With a tremendous history behind her, Ms. fanfare, these people give of their time, effort, history of this distinguished organization. Marjory Stoneman Douglas is celebrating her and sometimes their lives to serve their com 1OOth birthday on April 7, 1990. As a graduate munities. THE GERACI CITIZENS LEAGUE OF PASSAIC from Wellesley College in 1912, Ms. Douglas Mr. Speaker, at this time I request permis COUNTY, NJ started her professional career as an educa sion to enter in the RECORD excerpts of an ar The Geraci Citizens League, founded in tional director for department stores from Mis ticle that appeared in the Port Washington 1930, today is one of the most unique frater News on February 22, 1990, which contained nal organizations in the North Jersey area. souri to New Jersey. After her marriage, she Its membership comprises American citizens came to Florida in 1915 and soon became the some of the many words of tribute for Ms. Sowle from her colleagues: whose families emigrated from the moun society editor of the Miami Herald. Ms. Doug tain village of Geraci Siculo, hidden high in las was the first woman from Miami to join the FIRE MEDIC KILLED BY DRUNK DRIVER the mountains in North Central Sicily, or U.S. Navy in World War I. She served with the viet Union. out commensurate benefit. Spy satellites are and more evident. With freedom having come But the sooner Mr. Bush begins to plan for needed to monitor arms control agreements, cuts, the sooner savings will accrue. but keeping a dozen or so in orbit will gener to much of Eastern Europe, President Bush ate more pictures than analysts can assess. still has before us a budget which recom THE PEACE DIVIDEND IS REAL Close students of defense acknowledge Canceling one imaging radar satellite and mends that we spend billions of dollars to pre one photo satellite a year would save $2 bil vent Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria from join that significant cuts can be made. William Kaufmann, who advised Republican and lion. ing the Soviet Union in a land invasion of Democratic defense secretaries, has demon There will not be easy agreement on all West Germany and France. strated in a recent study how to halve out these cuts. But they are not reckless or The President asks what our hurry is in cut lays in a decade. The time to begin is now, speculative. A plausible plan of reductions ting this obviously unnecessary spending. The with the five-year defense budget the Pen could save $150 billion a year by 1999. Even answer is that we do not wish to wait to make tagon will soon submit to Congress. if some cuts aren't made, any large part of $150 billion amounts to real money. real cuts in the deficit, nor do we wish to put There are two principal tasks: Reduce con ventional forces, and slow the introduction The next question is, what should Amer off helping the elderly with medical bills or ica do with it? The President says, reduce providing education benefits to children. of new weapons, both conventional [see box] and nuclear. the huge Federal deficit. So does the All of these objectives and others are hurt Reduce conventional forces.-Ships, Senate. They're right that the deficit clouds by the President's refusal to stop subsidizing planes, tanks and troops are the place to the future and demands reduction. But the our wealthy allies against nonexistent threats. start. They are where the money goes-four question here is what to do with the peace In the New York Times of March 8, the edi of every five defense dollars. Much of that dividend windfall, and the best answer is, tors make a powerful, specific, logical case for is keyed to an improbable Soviet attack in use it for positive investments in the future? military cuts and note that President Bush's Europe. Conventional force talks contem refusal to reformulate his outdated budget is plate reducing U.S. troops from 305,000 to WHERE TO START "baffling." I hope the President will heed the 225,000. Come 1992, that will save about $7 The Pentagon is building a number of new billion a year. Subsequent Soviet withdraw weapons useful primarily in the event of good sense of the New York Times and als could trigger more troop cuts, down to, others-including his own Director of Central war in Europe. The weapons they would re say, 75,000, saving $12 billion more a year. place are already as advanced as any in the Intelligence, Mr. Webster-and help us reduce And cutting six backup divisions in the U.S. world. Here is what canceling or deferring unnecessary military expenditures. would save $14 billion a year. acquisition would save in outlays, 1991 to Mr. Speaker, I insert the thoughtful editorial Meanwhile, with a diminished Soviet 1995: threat, it's absurd to insist that third world from the New York Times here: Billion CFrom the New York Times, Mar. 8, 19901 perils require 14 Navy carrier battle groups. Reducing 14 to 12 by 1994 would save $6 bil Army light helicopter...... $2 A $150 BILLION A YEAR-WHERE To FIND IT lion a year. Reducing to six by 2000 could Advanced tactical missile ...... 1 It's as though America just won the lot save an additional $22 billion a year. Forward area air defenses...... 3 tery with Communism collapsing, the It is difficult to calculate the total savings C-1 7 cargo plane...... 12 United States having defended the free for such cuts in force size because, beyond world for half a century, now stands to save operating costs saved, there would be untold Advanced tactical fighter...... 8 a fortune. Defense spending could drop by savings in hardware and personnel. F-16 fighter plane (new model)...... 10 $20 billion next year and $150 billion a year Slow Down Nuclear Modernization.-This A-12 attack plane...... 12 before the decade ends. year's bill for missiles and bombers is $52 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft...... 8 What a precious moment; what a Heaven billion, and present plans could make that Advanced air-to-air missile...... 4 sent opportunity for a political leader to $87 billion by 2000. By slowing moderniza capture attention and resources and do tion, outlays could be held below $30 billion DDG-51 guided missile destroyer...... 8 great good. President Bush, however, resists a year. The Strategic Arms Reduction Seawolf attack submarine...... 9 turning in his winning ticket. What will he Treaty, expected to be signed this year will do with this peace dividend? He says there help make cuts of this magnitude safe. 5-year total...... 77 March 13, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4315 BASE CLOSURE PROPOSAL nance, recreation and dining rooms. The ef and economic impact for at least a year. ficiency of the base in unchallenged. Then the President will propose actual clo Geographically, the Myrtle Beach Air sure at the initiation of a future budget HON. ROBIN TALLON Force Base is an ideal location for future cycle. Then we face a heated political battle OF SOUTH CAROLINA military uses in the face of a changing Euro throughout Congress to determine the fate IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pean front. We will no doubt need a more of the base. state-side defense structure in the coming What happens to our base and our local Tuesday, March 13, 1990 decades. community in the meantime? Well, things Mr. TALLON. Mr. Speaker, I would like to As ground to air support for missions at will deteriorate. The Pentagon has already share with the Members my testimony to be Fort Bragg, Fort Stewart, and Fort Ben stopped construction on two projects cur given on base closings: ning, Myrtle Beach will continue to play a rently under construction pending final res great role in our Southeastern defense. olution of the base closure. One is the con CONGRESSMAN TALLON'S TESTIMONY ON BASE The flight conditions are excellent due to struction of the Base Civil Engineering Ad CLOSURE PROPOSAL the mild climate and the lack of civilian ministration Facility and the other project Madam Chair, as much as I'd like to say flight traffic over Horry County. It has all is an upgraded to the heating, ventilation, so, it is not a pleasure for me to be here the advantages of training troops near a ci and air conditioning systems in various today. But I do want to express my sincere vilian population without being a threat. buildings on the base. In short, the Penta gratitude to you and to the Subcommittee While the base is located in the heart of the gon is discriminating against bases being for allowing me to testify on this terrible city, its proximity to the ocean means that studied for closure by making sure it doesn't issue of closing military bases. flight maneuvers can be safely carried out spend any money for the general up-keep of We are fortunate, to be witnessing a dra over water. The water would also open up the base. matic reversal in military tension in the the prospect for training in air-to-air re The communities will also suffer if we world-especially in Europe. America is for fuelling. continue on the present base closure alter tunate in these events not only because de The base has a huge tract of land which is native. In our case, the Air Force Base has mocracy has finally prevailed over commu the only strip of land on our demestic bases been a great asset for the large retirement nism, but because all of this has happened available to train troops for a European population of the area with a military retir at a point when it is critical for this nation combat scenerio. Presently, this training ee population of 4,110 which depend on the to make a dramatic commitment to cutting ground is under-used but it could become in base for health care and commissary serv spending-especially defense spending. valuable when we begin troop withdrawal ices. If they keep hearing that the base is on But I don't see the Air Force, the Depart from Europe. the hit-list, many of these retirees will ment of Defense, or the President seizing There are many other plusses of the Base choose to locate elsewhere. In addition, real this opportunity. .They've just got out their to the Air Force and to the military, but the estate prices will plummet if there is contin machetes and they are slashing away at main one is the support from the Myrtle ued speculation about the closure of the "tried and true" military bases with no Beach community. The Air Force Base is base. rhyme or reason. And at the same time the largest employer in Horry County and The process just doesn't make sense. The they've found the money to increase Star has a significant economic impact on the Air Force says that they are preparing for Wars by 22 percent and they want more for surrounding South Carolina counties of the elimination of the A-10 and yet I don't the B-2. Georgetown, Marion, Dillon, Williamsburg, see them realigning or closing the other do The Administration is asking for a $301 and Florence. As well, Brunswick and Co mestic and foreign bases that have the A-10 billion for the defense budget this year lumbus countries in North Carolina benefit. aircraft. when it spent only $296 billion last year. If we were to lose the base, it would result For the past year, I have joined with the How can the Pentagon expect local commu in a 12 percent loss in the average per capita Myrtle Beach community in working with nities to cough up savings that don't show income for Horry County. local base officials as well as officials in the up in the big picture? Unlike bases in other parts of the country, Pentagon to see that the Air Force presence I am here to try to spare the Myrtle we are proud to have the Air Force in the remains in the Grand Strand by encourag Beach Air Force Base in my district from heart of our city, Myrtle Beach. Located in ing the Air Force to expand and diversity its the capriciousness of the perverse base clos a resort area, it is one of the Air Force's role at our base. ing process that is a part of this disappoint showcase bases. The base is host to over The Pentagon now tells me that it cannot ing budget. We've got a great base that can 75,000 visitors annually. It has a hospital give the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base an do a lot more for this nation's defense and and commissary facilities which are the best other mission because there will be fewer I'm angry that the Pentagon refuses to ac the Air Force has to offer. If all bases af missions in the future. Yet they have failed knowledge one of their most valuable assets. forded their personnel such an environment to come up with a complete list of missions The United States military has been a there would be a lot higher retention rate in that will be changing or the aircraft they part of the Myrtle Beach Community since our military. are going to expand, eliminate, or realign. 1940 when the Municipal Airport became The base has more than 3,400 active duty I think they just don't know what they part of our national defense program. members and over 7 ,600 military dependents have. They lack a plan. They lack a vision During World War Two, Myrtle Beach that rely on the base. In addition, we have of what our national defense should look became a critical training ground for Army almost 900 civilian employees on the base. like in the next five to ten years. That is a fighter squadrons. In 1954, the Air Force lo In a relatively small area, these base em dangerous oversight in light of our changing cated at Myrtle Beach to become the instal ployees and their dependents make up a world. lation's first tenant unit. very viable part of the economic activity of In a perverse sort of reasoning, the Penta The versatility of the base is reflected in Horry and surrounding counties. gon is bucking it off on Congress to decide the many missions the base has accommo Unlike bases across the country. the per what our long-term defense priorities dated in the past. It has been the home base sonnel on the Air Force Base are a highly should be. They have given us no alterna for B-25s, T-33s, C-45s, F-80s, SA-16s, and active part of our community. Many fami tive but to reject their base closing propos the F-100 Super Saber jets. Towards the lies choose to live off-base. If these employ als wholesale. end of the Vietnam War, the base became ees left the area, we would have 1,500 extra Besides, we all know what works in shut home to the A-7D Corsair II weapons housing units left empty in a housing ting military installations-a commission. system. By 1978, the 354th Tactical Fighter market which already has more units than We closed over 80 bases as a result of the Wing at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base was our population needs. We expect that utility 1988 base closing commission's impartial the first combat ready A-10 wing in the Air rates for the community would jump any work. Sure there were some proble1ns, some Force and has served as back-up to NATO where between five and ten percent if the communities fought the closure, but over-all and a member of the Rapid Deployment base were to close. the Commission's actions were a success in Force. For all these reasons and more, it is not overcoming the highly politicized act of The Myrtle Beach Air Force Base contin the time to close the Myrtle Beach Air closing unnecessary military bases. ues to be a viable national defense facility. Force Base. Still, the Pentagon has chosen I commend Chairman Aspin for introduc It often wins major efficiency and produc to embark on a political collision course by ing new Base Closing Commission legisla tivity awards. For example, it is now the Air targeting bases in an antiquated and insuffi tion because it improves on last year's Force representative in competition for the cient process. effort. The Commission would make commander-in-chief's installation excellence There are 32 communities nation-wide changes in both domestic and foreign instal award. it is not unusual for the Base to re that are in for a long up-hill battle that will lations in response to a defense strategy for ceive Tactical Air Command and Air Force last at least two years because of the the 1990's. The Commission will be given an awards in many areas, both in combat readi whimsy of this process. Our bases will be ample period of time to decide on closures. ness and in areas such as accounting, fi- "studied" for their environmental, financial, Most importantly, the Commission would be 4316 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1990 insulated from the highly charged political time when thrifts are working hard to bring Government bureaucracies, that if an agency games which plagues the current process. their capital levels up, these extra examina fails in its mission, it will be held accountable. It is my wish to ensure that the Aspin tions are an unwelcome expense and, as im Base Closure Commission legislation estab That is the way it works in the private sector; lish a moratorium on the current closure portantly, a redundant regulatory burden. it should be no different in the public. process in order that the installations now Accordingly, I am introducing legislation not targeted for closure would be given a fair only to give the FDIC supervision of State trial by a non-partisan Cqmmission process. chartered thrifts, but also to dissolve the OTS MOSAIC-JEWISH LIFE IN My constituents want the base to stay and give the Office of the Comptroller of the FLORIDA open until it can be proven that the nation Currency, which now regulates federally char al defense can best be served by its closure tered banks, supervision of federally chartered HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN in the perspective of a long-term defense thrifts. The bill also gives the Federal Reserve strategy. Secretary of Defense Cheney does OF FLORIDA not expect to complete his strategy until at authority over thrift holding companies. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES least nine months to a year from now. As a These changes will provide a symmetrical member of Congress with a responsibility to regulatory framework more in tune with chang Tuesday, March 13, 1990 the pursestrings of the government, I am ing market conditions and the need for effec Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I would ready to do whatever I can to ensure that tive governmental oversight. The changes, in like to call the attention of my colleagues to we shut our bases in a rational and cost-ef addition, will help propel more homogeneous the merits of a Florida project called Mosaic. fective way. regulation between two industries more alike The individuals involved in this project ex than dissimilar. plored the role of Jews in Florida history. Of INTRODUCTION OF THE SAV Philosophically, these changes underscore special interest to me, is the study of how His INGS ASSOCIATION REGULA the principle of institutional accountability. In panic Jews worked over five decades to help TORY RESTRUCTURING ACT the private sector, when mistakes are made, create the Florida we know today. OF 1990 businesses go out of existence. In the public "Mosaic-Jewish Life in Florida" is a spe sector, analogous discipline is lacking. In the cial traveling exhibit which will be exhibited at HON. JIM LEACH wake of the biggest institutional failure in 8 cities throughout Florida during the period of modern history-one that will cost every man, 1990 to 1992. This exhibit will include the spe OF IOWA women, and child in America upwards of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cific processes of the American immigrant ex $1,000 each over the next 30 years-Con perience as illustrated by the history of one Tuesday, March 13, 1990 gress moved not to dismantle, but to rename; group, the Jews. The exhibit will focus on their Mr. LEACH of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, today not to take authority away from a failed regu interactions with the larger, and diverse, popu am introducing the Savings Association Regu lator, but to give him more power. lation of non-Jews in the formation and devel latory Restructuring Act of 1990 to abolish the The 1980's have taught us that comparabil opment of Florida. The exhibit will examine Office of Thrift Supervision and transfer its au ity of financial regulation is an imperative the socio-cultural pressures which flavor as thorities and responsibilities to existing Feder social goal because deposit growth will always similation into the mainstram of American life. al bank regulators. be impelled in institutions with the weakest As well, Mosaic is an official Columbus Last year, with the passage of FIRREA, regulatory oversight. A system in which the quincentenary project. In 1992, Americans will Congress transformed the old thrift regulator, strongest are restrained and the weakest celebrate the quincentenary of its discovery. the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, into a given a green light to grow is a system which Americans will pay homage to the· numerous new agency, the Office of Thrift Supervision, puts the taxpayer most at risk. groups which have forged its strength and its under the umbrella jurisdiction of the Depart Competition should be the hallmark of the unique character. The organizers of the exhibit ment of the Treasury. During consideration of private sector, not government agencies. feel that we must begin to understand our FIRREA, the Senate rejected an amendment When regulatory agencies develop too close multicultural roots in order to "reconnect" with of mine which the House had accepted giving ties to the institutions they regulate and a our collective cultural memory. the FDIC, as the Federal regulator of State vested interest in their growth, a tendency de I commend the project director, Dr. Henry chartered banks, primary jurisdiction over velops to acquiesce to imprudential rules, reg Green, and the State coordinator, Marcia Zeri State-chartered thrifts. If it had been accepted ulations, and oversight. Hence, the appropri vitz, for their colossal effort on this project. by the Senate, this provision would have ateness of regulatory comparability. Hence, Mosaic is an exciting opportunity that contrib made the regulatory structure for thrifts similar too, the appropriateness of rewarding the reg utes in making America still greater. to that of banks, thereby protecting the histori ulatory institutions with firmer rules and hold cal dual system of banking, giving more regu ing accountable those responsible for forcing latory authority to the insurer-rather than the taxpayer to pick up a multibillion dollar tab COSPONSORS OF THE MEDI charterer-and preventing expensive and re for a macroeconomic peacetime recessionless CARE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF dundant duplication in regulatory oversight. mistake. 1990 It is becoming increasingly apparent that in The introduction of the Savings Association an effort to acquiesce to the siren calls of Regulatory Restructuring Act of 1990 is not in HON. FORTNEY PETE STARK over-stretched thrift managers who preferred tended to imply that the thrift industry should OF CALIFORNIA to maintain a semblance of the old clubbish be abolished. While Congress fn FIRREA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES regulatory apparatus and the concerns of clearly mandated the goal of making thrift and those in the political arena who wanted to pro bank standards and regulation symmetrical, it Tuesday, March 13, 1990 tect a single regulator's job, Congress erred. wisely did not call for abolition of the industry. Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to Today, less than a year after passage of There still is a place in the American financial report that we now have 107 cosponsors of FIRREA State-chartered thrifts are rushing to services sector for a locally oriented lending the Medicare Benefit Improvement Act of convert themselves into federally chartered institution the primary mission of which is the 1990. This bill would provide for new mam thrifts. In my home State of Iowa, for example, making of home mortgages. mography, home health, hospice, and respite there are only a handful of State-chartered in Neither does introduction of this bill reflect care benefits under Medicare at a cost of 80 stitutions left, and in California, where approxi unhappiness with the vast majority of employ cents per month in additional part B premiums mately one-quarter of all thrift deposits exist, ees at the OTS. Line employees are not re in the first year. the State thrift regulator is being dismantled sponsible for "too" political appointments at We hope that other Members of the House because so few institutions prefer to retain the top or the loose laws passed by legislative will be joining us in cosponsoring this impor their State charters. bodies. Consequently, this bill encourages tant legislation. The mammography benefit, for The State-chartered thrifts that do still exist quality employees to transfer to the appropri example, is estimated to result in the saving in some cases have been subject to examina ate Federal banking agencies. of some 4,000 lives per year. tion by three different regulators-the FDIC, · Finally, let me underscore a point made ear The list follows: the OTS, and the State regulator-and thus lier: Enactment of this bill is intended to send Rep. Pete Stark CD-CA). have to pay for extra costly examinations. At a a signal to the American public, and to all Rep. Bill Gradison . March 13, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4317 Rep. Henry Waxman . Rep. Ralph Regula CR-OH>. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Rep. Edward Madigan . Rep. John Rhodes . Washington, DC, March 6, 1990. Rep. Bill Coyne . Rep. Robert Roe . Administrator, U.S. Maritime Admi nistra Rep. Sander Levin . tion, Washington, DC. Rep. Jim Moody . Rep. Edward Roybal . DEAR CAPTAIN LEBACK: As Members of Rep. Ben Cardin . Rep. George Sangmeister . fense and sealift capability, we would like to Rep. Charles Rangel . Rep. Gus Savage . strongly urge the Maritime Administration Rep. Harold Ford . 9 of the Shipping Act of 1916 to sell the Rep. Christopher Shays . Rep. Tom Downey . United States-flag vessel SS Monterey for Rep. Beryl Anthony . Rep. Louise Slaughter . operation under a foreign flag. Rep. Ronnie Flippo . Rep. Christopher Smith . Rep. Morris Udall . maritime policy perspective, for allowing Rep. James Scheuer . Rep. Jolene Unsoeld . this vital sealift asset to operate under a Rep. Doug Walgren . Rep. Bruce Vento . foreign flag and to leave the control of the Rep. Gerry Sikorski . United States. We believe very strongly that Rep. Jim Bates Cardiss Collins . operation of this ship in order to best pro Rep. Daniel Akaka . states. Rep. Chester Atkins . SHIPPING OUT OUR SECURITY As you know, the SS Monterey is one of Rep. Les Aucoin . only three operational United States-flag Rep. Sherwood Boehlert . HON. RONALD K. MACHTLEY three vessels under the direct control of the Rep. Bill Clinger . tary contingency or emergency, through the Rep. Silvio Conte . IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES transport of troops and supplies. Rep. Lawrence Coughlin . Tuesday, March 13, 1990 It is our understanding that there are Rep. George Crockett CD-MD. Americans ready and financially able to pur Rep. Peter DeFazio . what I have just learned, the Maritime Admin dollars in this country. In order to obtain Rep. Lane Evans . these benefits, the Maritime Administration Del. Walter Fauntroy . istration is on the verge of making such a de must make clear that the foreign sale of Rep. Edward Feighan . cision, a decision totally unsupportable from a this vessel would be inconsistent with the Rep. Tom Foglietta . and maritime policy perspective. 1916 and 1936, and detrimental to our na Rep. Sam Gejdenson . I am referring to the conditional approval tional defense. Unless such a determination Rep. Ben Gilman . is issued, foreign interests will continue to Rep. Bart Gordon . given by the Maritime Administration to a re structure proposals which may serve the fi Rep. Charles Hayes . sell one of only three U.S.-flag passenger ves the SS Monterey but which do not serve the Rep. Tim Johnson . sels to a foreign shipping concern. This best interests of the American merchant Rep. Harry Johnston . of the U.S. fleet of vessels capable of provid nation. Rep. Marcy Kaptur . direct control in time of war or emergency. tion to this important matter. Your prompt Rep. Gerald Kleczka . America's maritime industry is at its lowest We look forward to hearing from you. Rep. Peter Kostmayer . since the end of World War II. Many of us in Sincerely, Rep. Martin Lancaster . Billy Tauzin, Jack Fields, Helen Delich Rep. Tom Lantos . Congress, in concert with the leadership of Bentley, Herbert H. Bateman, Curt Rep. Bill Lehman . the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fish Weldon, Ron Machtley, Roy Dyson, Rep. John Lewis . eries, want to work with the Administration to Tom McMillen, Harley 0 . Staggers, Rep. Marilyn Lloyd . fashion a maritime policy that revitalizes our Jr., Chris Smith, Carroll Hubbard, Rep. Nicholas Mavroules . Nation's fourth arm of defense. This decision Mike Parker, Clyde C. Holloway, Eliot L. Engel, Donald M. Payne, Joe Rep. Jim McDermott . by the Maritime Administration, if allowed to Rep. Matthew McHugh . Kolter, Robert Torricelli, George Rep. Mike McNulty CD-NY>. become final, will be a serious setback to Hochbrueckner. Rep. George Miller . merchant marine if the Maritime Administra Rep. John Joseph Moakley . ships to the highest foreign bidder. OF 1989 Rep. Connie Morella . I urge Maritime Administrator Capt. Warren Rep. Richard Neal . Rep. Steve Neal . Leback to reject this application and to keep HON. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II Rep. Mary Rose Oakar . the SS Monterey under our flag and under our OF MASSACHUSETTS Rep. James Oberstar . control. Our security demands no less. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Rep. Wayne Owens . I would also like to take this opportunity to Rep. Leon Panetta . enter into the RECORD a letter signed by Tuesday, March 13, 1990 Rep. Nancy Pelosi . Rep. Tim Penny . myself and 17 of my colleagues which was Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, thanks to the Rep. Thomas Petri . time Administrator: the House Committee Science, Space and
39-059 0-91- 40 (Pt. 3) 4318 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1990 Technology Subcommittee on Natural Re means do-it-yourself oil changers and others same location will tell you different things. sources, Agriculture Research and Environ dump 35 times more oil into our soil and If they Dallas. posed, according to environmental groups. in the House of Representatives since the Chief Auto Parts and its president, Mike About 95 percent of oil dumped or put in bill's initial introduction in the 1OOth Congress. Manor, understand that all of us and future landfills is from do-it-yourselfers. Put an I personally want to commend Chairman JIM generations will pay dearly in dollars and the other way; 35 times more oil is improperly SCHEUER and ranking minority member, CLAU quality of lite for the damage we do to the en disposed of each year than was spilled by DINE SCHNEIDER for their leadership on this vironment today. the Exxon Valdez last March. legislation along with their commitment and Chief Auto Parts has established a program It costs Chief about $400 to set up a store sincere interest in seeing the indoor air quality to receive at many of its stores used motor to receive used motor oil and $20 per 50- issue addressed. oil, which it will then have re-refined for use gallon barrel to haul it to a recycle facility, again as motor oil, tar products, road material, Mr. Manor said. The used oil is re-refined Much of the focus of clean air lately has and used again as motor oil, in making tar been directed at cleaning up outdoor air pollu or ship fuel. products, road materials and as fuel for tion. Certainly, this is one of the most pressing What this company has begun to do helps ocean-going ships. environmental problems facing our Nation and our world in two important ways. It will slow Chief officials quickly discovered that oil world, but at the same time, I feel the right of this common way of polluting our environ recycling was more complex than they origi an individual to breathe clean air does not end ment, and it will conserve a dwindling natural nally thought. But they also decided they the moment they walk indoors. Pollutants in resource, for which we are increasingly relying could not ethically turn away from the indoor air can be 1,000 times higher in con on foreign sources. project. centration than outdoor air. At the same time, I could not agree more with a recently edito "As we found more and more about the rial salute in the Dallas Times Herald, which downside of what was happening to this oil, Americans spend over 90 percent of their time it became one of these situations we just indoors, placing them at much higher risks for observed: couldn't turn our back on," Mr. Manor said. adverse health effects due to exposure of pol The Chief Auto Parts program is an excel Used motor oil is the largest source of lutants found indoors versus outdoors. lent example of the kind of corporate and water pollution, responsible for an estimat The Environmental Protection Agency personal responsibility needed if real head ed 40 percent of the environmental damage admits that the indoor air quality problem is way is ever to be accomplished in the battle to harbors and waterways, according to the for the planet. The bottom line in that Department of Energy. As the oil breaks the No. 1 environmental health problem facing battle must be a new morality for all man this country, ahead of exposure to outdoor air down, it kills fish and waterfowl. The used kind-a morality by which people are will oil is contaminated with lead, heavy metals pollutants or hazardous wastes. Yet, the ing to take a few extra moments from their and other poisonous and carcinogenic by indoor air problem receives only $2.5 million in own lives in order to preserve life itself. products of engine combustion. funding and we are spending millions if not bil I hope this fine example by a good corpo "It's really bad when people pour it down lions on the latter programs. The time for rate neighbor takes root and inspires all of us. the drain, down the gutter, on the ground action is now in order to protect Americans by I call to the attention of my colleagues a or whatever." Ms Seay said. Many do-it reducing this major public health threat. news story about the program which appeared yourselfers put their used oil in the garbage, We have yet to see any action in the Com recently in the Dallas Morning News: "Oil's which is also environmentally unsound, she said. mittee on Energy and Commerce in this legis Well That Ends Well." lation's 3-year history-not even a hearing. I Despite increasing efforts to recycle glass, [From the Dallas Morning News, Feb. 4, paper and aluminum, oil recycling has am calling on all Members in Congress, espe 1990] dropped drastically over the past three dec cially the members of the Committee on OIL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL: AREA CHIEF ades. Energy and Commerce, to take a good hard STORES BEGIN PROGRAM OF RECYCLING Only 10 of the 150 used-oil plants operat look at this problem as this issue affects mil ing 30 years ago remain open, Christopher lions of Americans annually in the form of SEAGOVILLE.-Chief Auto Parts Inc. is ex Bryant, and analyst with a Washington law cancer, respiratory illnesses, fatigue, head panding its motor oil recycling campaign to firm specializing in environmental law, said aches, blurred vision, and so forth. include Dallas-Fort Worth by March 1. in the November issue of Resource Recy I applaud this good work of the Subcommit The former Southland Corp. unit began cling, Oil lost to dumping is especially tee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Re testing the concept Nov. 21 in California. costly, because it takes 42 gallons of crude oil to produce 2112 quarts of lubricating oil, search and the Environment, and urge the Now it's preparing Chief Auto Parts stores selected in Texas, Arizona and Nevada for but only one gallon of recycled oil, he said members of the Committee on Energy and in the recycling trade journal article. Commerce to follow in their lead. expansion of the program. By month's end, 18 Chief stores in Dallas Mr. Manor is pleased with the pilot pro and Tarrant counties, plus one store in gram in California. Within 45 days, the 10 California stores collected 3,100 gallons of CHIEF AUTO PARTS IN THE Denison, Grayson County, will accept used oil. Eventually, about half of Chief's outlets oil. VANGUARD OF RECYCLING will be in the program. "The customer has really responded, Chief Auto Parts president Michael which indicates there is a real need," Mr. HON. JOHN BRYANT Manor said the oil recycling program grew Manor said. "Given a convenient, safe and OF TEXAS out of a lunch conversation with a friend accessible, disposal system, people will basi last spring. "Once we found the amount of cally do the right thing." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES oil that was being dumped into the environ Although some of the initial surge is due Tuesday, March 13, 1990 ment . . . we became more and more con to individuals who had been holding oil with vinced it was the right thing to do," Mr. no safe or easy means of disposal. Chief esti Mr. BAY ANT. Mr. Speaker, Chief Auto Manor said. mates it is recapturing 16 percent of the oil Parts, a Dallas-based company, has initiated Molly Seay, the Sierra Club's reycyling co it sells. ''We're starting to get regular cus an innovative new program of recycling that ordinator in Dallas, said the Chief move is tomers, those who come in to buy things to should set an example for corporate and per significant if the company adopts recycling change their oil. We're encouraged by the sonal responsibility. as corporate policy. While many auto-serv amount of oil because we haven't done any For too many years, too many American ice centers and quick-change franchises big promotion." businesses and citizens have created ever in accept used motor oil, inconsistency makes Chief researched its program, learning the creasing quantities of waste that have re recycling used oil a hit-and-miss proposition rules and regulations, then did a back at best, she said. ground check on 16 companies that could quired ever more complicated and expensive "One problem we're encountering is pick up the oil at Chief stores. "We didn't disposal. people will tell us that they are going to do want to get involved with someone who had An estimated one-third of the 700 million it but different branches of the same com improperly disposed of oil," Mr. Manor said, gallons of motor oil used each year in the pany will accept things and others won't," "We got down to three companies that had United States is disposed of improperly. That Ms. Seay said. "And different people at the pretty pristine records." March 13, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4319 Chief is launching its initial recycling for trading partners, not surrogate father fig Africa, our traditional forms of assistance effort at company-owned stores to avoid ures, as expressed by both Polish Solidarity could use revision and more emphasis should possible negative reaction of landlords at leased outlets. With an operating history, leader Lech Walesa and President Havel of be placed on private sector development. Chief hopes property managers will be ac Czechoslovakia in recent addresses to Con Therefore, I believe the most appropriate commodating. gress. vehicles for the United States to provide this "The purpose of the test was to test our There are problems in these countries and assistance are the Export-Import Bank, the procedures, not test whether we were going many unknowns. But, in Eastern Europe Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the to get involved," Mr. Manor said, "Once you alone, there are 136 million consumers who Trade Development Program and the Interna get educated on it, you can't walk away." will want everything from trench fries to tele tional Finance Corporation [IFC]. The Chief program could be jeopardized phones, computers to clothing. The success In light of these growing needs and the po by other efforts to' control the hazards of of the reform movements in these countries used oil, Mr. Manor said. Last month, the tential benefit to the U.S. economy from great Chief executive testified before a Senate depends largely on these needs being met. er exports, the fiscal year 1991 budget re subcommittee on transportation and haz Although these events may seem far re quest for the Export-Import Bank's Direct ardous materials. Adding used oil to the fed moved from the citizens of the United States, Loan Program is totally inadequate. eral list of hazardous materials would in the results will reach each and every one of With the increased demands on foreign aid crease the handling expense, he said. us. It means the opening of new markets for and the need for foreign aid that is flexible, in "I am here to tell you that's the worst our goods and services. novative and geared to the private sector, thing you could do, because it would vastly American private enterprise can lead the increase the expense of handling used oil now is the time to strengthen programs such and put recyclers in an insurance risk cate way in this effort. The Commerce Department as the Export-Import Bank, not weaken them. gory that is absolutely cost-prohibitive," he sees particular opportunities in the agriculture, We must restore the Export-Import budget testified. health care, telecommunications, energy, tour back to a level that meets the growing Service stations already have been ex ism, and housing markets. Already, the demand for its services. empted from Superfund liability, a status number of United States firms requesting li American industry cannot afford to be side Mr. Manor would like to see recycling retail censing and other information to do business lined in the international market. It took ers receive. "We want any retailer who recy in Eastern Europe has increased tenfold. cles, and any retail property where used oil McDonald's 14 years to set up shop in With the U.S. trade deficit still running at Moscow, but no-one will ever be able to com is collected to be considered a service sta more than $100 billion annually, it is important tion," he said. "Without this protection, you pete now with Bolshoi Macs. simply will not see retailers decide to recycle that we are able to compete successfully in It is alarming when the Congress hears that oil." emerging markets. One private study indicates the American presence in Eastern Europe is Mr. Manor also asked the subcommittee that the Soviet Union alone may generate something like the Stealth bomber-we be to begin a recycling credit program that $200 billion in trade opportunities by the year lieve it's there but we cannot see it-as it was would add to the economic value of used oil. 2010. . Separately, Chief introduced a line of described to us in a recent hearing in foreign In order for the United States to win these operations. more environmentally safe automotive prod partnerships, rather than lose these opportuni ucts just before the oil recycling campaign. U.S. companies can and should be a major Following 10 years as a Southland Corp, ties to the Japanese and others, we have to player in our policy goals. Congress should do unit, Chief Auto Parts will complete its change the way we think about foreign aid its part to help with the means and American second year as an independent company in because in the 1990's aid and trade should go business needs to show the initiative and the April. The auto parts business was sold as hand in hand. The world has changed and we commitment. Working together, we can com part of Southland's leveraged buyout. must respond to ensure our participation in pete effectively in these emerging markets. Chief is the nation's third-largest auto the global economy. parts retailer, with more than 500 stores in While there is a lot of talk in Congress nine states. It sells 7 million gallons of INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLA motor oil each year, most of it to do-it-your about competitiveness, trade deficits, and selfers. newly emerging markets, the key to making it TION TO GIVE PRIORITY CON Chief executives led a leveraged buyout of happen is adequate and available export fi SIDERATION FOR THE INCLU the auto-parts company with Shearson nancing. SION OF MORRO BAY, CA IN Lehman Hutton and General Electric Cap U.S. companies, whether large or small, are THE NATIONAL ESTUARY PRO ital Corp. handling the debt. The company confronted with foreign competition that GRAM is ahead of schedule on repaying its debt, always seems to have a leg up on financing which is on a seven-year pay back. their ventures. One only has to compare the HON. LEON E. PANETTA size of the Japanese Export-Import Bank and OF CALIFORNIA A STRONG EXPORT-IMPORT the United States Export-Import Bank: $4.4 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BANK STRENGTHENS AMERICA billion Japanese Ex-Im Bank, $615 million United States Ex-Im Bank. Tuesday, March 13, 1990 HON. DEAN A. GALLO As a member of the Budget Committee and Mr. PANETTA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to OF NEW JERSEY the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of Ap introduce legislation which amends the Feder IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES propriations, I believe we can meet the new al Water Pollution Control Act to direct the En demands on foreign assistance within our lim vironmental Protection Agency [EPA] to give Tuesday, March 13, 1990 ited resources and, at the same time, improve priority consideration to Morro Bay, CA, for in Mr. GALLO. Mr. Speaker, the dramatic the competitive advantage for U.S. business in clusion in the National Estuary Program. changes taking place in Eastern Europe, Cen new emerging markets throughout the world. The Morro Bay estuary, which is in my con tral America, and hopefully, southern Africa, There are pressures on all areas of the gressional district, contains the most signifi and the emergence of new global markets Federal budget, but the foreign assistance ac cant wetland system of the central California present us with opportunities to invest in our count faces some of the most formidable coastline. Because of the bay's interconnect future economic prosperity at home by pro with new aid packages to Panama, Nicaragua, ed ecosystems associated with its saltwater moting stability and free enterprise in coun and Eastern Europe. We all know that there is and freshwater wetlands, Morro Bay has an tries where it has not existed for more than 40 no broad based support for foreign aid and an unusually diverse habitat. The bay's intertidal years. overall increase in foreign aid will be difficult areas support one of the largest bay wildlife These countries need private investment, at best. habitats on the California coast and is home goods and services, as well as assistance in But, there is strong bipartisan support for to many threatened or endangered species of streamlining their banking and investment American competitiveness and for reducing birds and marine mammals, including the laws and systems. the massive trade deficit. southern sea otter. These features combine to These countries are not asking for hand When we look at ways to assist Eastern make Morro Bay an estuary of national signifi outs. They have spent 40 years with con Europe, our traditional form of aid will simply cance. trolled economies and they are not interested not be effective. I would even venture to say In addition, Morro Bay is of great economic in becoming indebted to us. They are looking that in other areas of the world, such as importance to the local community and the 4320 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1990 Nation as a whole. The bay supports a thriv ness of their sign language affords them the Jack Bono has been an important part of ing commercial fishing industry and many possibilities of insight, invention, and irony. the established U.S. safety system which is other industries which are dependent on the Indeed, it is this insight, invention and, yes, dedicated to protection of the public. He has health of the bay, such as tourism and mari irony, that have typified my interaction and ex contributed to the American economy through culture. As one of the few relatively intact nat perience with the deaf and hearing impaired. I UL's standards development programs, work ural estuaries along the Pacific coastline, think that at times those of us who hear and on national safety codes, and the develop Morro Bay attracts approximately 1.5 million converse with the audible word are prone to ment of operational practices and policies that visitors a year. grow lackadaisical in our exchanges. Many have led to the safety certification of billions Despite the importance of Morro Bay to words have lost their meaning, and conversa of products that are used every day by Ameri both the Nation and the local community, its tion often occurs amongst distraction. It is, in can consumers. well-being is threatened by a variety of pollut the end, the necessity of being present-of His work, and the work of UL, is a critical ants and fragmented management. Serious being directly attentive and interested in an building block in the foundation upon which sedimentation, as well as significant amounts other-that we need to learn and can learn the U.S. safety system has been built. of urban runoff, are threatening the survival of from deaf culture. Jack is also a member of the board of di the estuary. As many of the Members of this House rectors of the National Fire Protection Asso Management of the bay is currently divided know, deaf culture is of a special interest to ciation [NFPA], a past president and fellow of among numerous governmental entities, none me. I have a niece who is deaf and each the Society of Fire Protection Engineers and a of which executes singular authority over the interaction with her is a learning experience former member of the boards of directors of management and protection of the estuary. which I have come to treasure. Furthermore, I the American National Standards Institute The variety of threats to the bay and the frag am a trustee on Gallaudet's board of trustees [ANSI], and the American Society of Testing mented management have made it difficult to with our colleague, DAVE BONIOR. That, too, and Materials [ASTM]. develop a comprehensive approach to ad has proven to be an experience rivalled by I extend my best wishes to Jack and his dressing the needs of the bay. few. Finally, I have had the opportunity to lovely wife, Bette, for a long, happy, and The National Estuary Program appears to employ deaf students on my staff. That has healthy retirement, and I commend him on his be ideally suited for solving the problems as been and continues to be a source of great distinguished career with UL. sociated with the preservation of the Morro humility. Bay estuary. The National Estuary Program Each instance of exchange with deaf and would bring together those agencies responsi hearing impaired individuals has brought a MAINTAIN AMERICA'S MARITIME ble for management of the bay and help them new appreciation for and understanding of CAPABILITY develop a meaningful plan for long-term man both deaf culture and humanity at large. agement of this important and sensitive estu Deaf culture is a powerful testimony to HON. ROBERT G. TORRICELLI ary. Furthermore, the management plan devel both the profound needs and the profound OF NEW JERSEY oped for Morro Bay could serve as a model possibilities of human beings. The fact that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES management plan for the other threatened the culture of deaf people has endured, de spite indirect and tenuous lines of transmis Tuesday, March 13, 1990 small estuaries along our Nation's coastline. sions and despite generations of changing Clearly, the Morro Bay estuary is worthy of Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. Speaker, I am very social conditions, attests to the tenacity of pleased to see that the newly released nation inclusion in the National Estuary Program. The the basic human needs for language and program offers Morro Bay a real chance to symbol. ILLINOIS ger ships to a foreign buyer for operation "silent" culture. In doing so I mean not to sug under foreign IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES flag. gest that it is opposed to or in competition There is no valid reason whatsoever why with American culture. Rather, deaf culture, as Tuesday, March 13, 1990 the Maritime Administration should choose to you may know or as you will see, flows from Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I ask my col act as an agent of foreign shipping interests our American ingenuity and complements its leagues to join me in paying tribute to a distin rather than as an agent of the American heritage. Nonetheless, deaf culture, because guished constituent of mine, Mr. Jack Bono, people. This is the worst kind of dereliction of of its rich symbolic nature, has vast lessons who is retiring after an outstanding 44-year duty. Marad should have immediately rejected from which the "hearing" world can learn. career with Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. the request to sell a national security asset to In their impressive book, "Deaf in America: (UL]. For the last 12 years, Jack has been the highest foreign bidder. It should and must Voices From a Culture," Carol Padden and president of UL. On March 22, 1990, .Jack will promote and preserve our maritime industry Tom Humphries, themselves both deaf, speak be honored by his friends and coworkers at a and not worry about promoting the bottom line of deaf culture in this way. dinner commemorating his achievements. of foreign maritime interests. Deaf people have accumulated a set of Jack began his career with UL in 1946, fol The law is clear. U.S.-flag vessels may not knowledge about themselves in the face of lowing his honorable discharge from the Navy be sold for operation under a foreign flag if the larger society's understanding-or mis understanding-of them. They have found and his graduation from Northwestern Univer the sale is inconsistent with national maritime ways to define and express themselves sity. In succeeding years, he held various en policy or otherwise detrimental to the best in through their rituals, tales, performances, gineering and management positions at UL, terests of the United States. The national in and everyday social encounters. The rich- and in May 1978, he was named president. terest must be the controlling factor when March 13, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4321 making such a determination, not the econom of troop sealift, the problem is particularly DESIGNATING JULY 10, 1990, AS ic gain to the vessel's owners. acute. The Commission projected a significant "WYOMING CENTENNIAL DAY" Mr. Speaker, it is not too late for this situa shortfall in total troop lift capacity by the year tion to be corrected. Maritime Administrator 2000. Mr. Speaker, it is patently ridiculous to HON. CRAIG THOMAS Capt. Warren Leback has not given final ap allow such an important sealift asset to be proval to the foreign sale request. He still has transferred to foreign control. OF WYOMING the opportunity to maintain this sealift capabil The Monterey is scheduled to go on the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ity under the American flag; to preserve the auction block on Thursday, March 15. It is my Tuesday, March 13, 1990 more than 250 shipboard jobs for American understanding that there is serious American workers; to ensure that American shipyard interest in the vessel. However, the actions of Mr. THOMAS of Wyoming. Mr. Speaker, have the drydock work; to keep tourist dollars rise to speak in favor of a ·resolution giving of the Maritime Administration have made it diffi in the United States; and to generate reve ficial Presidential, congressional, and national cult, if not impossible, for these American in nues for American taxing authorities. All these attention to a great event that made and con benefits will be achieved at no cost to the terests to receive serious consideration. tinues to make a significant contribution to this U.S. Government. All these benefits will be Mr. Speaker, the foreign transfer of the SS Nation: The day of Wyoming's statehood. lost at the expense of the U.S. Government, Monterey is inimical to the bests interests of On July 10, 1890, President Benjamin Harri the maritime industry, and the American the United States. I urge my colleagues to join son signed a proclamation admitting Wyoming people if the Monterey is sold to foreign inter me in doing all that is possible to have the as the 44th State in the Union. Now, 100 ests. Maritime Administration rescind its approval. years later, with a legacy of firsts and a lasting The ultimate outcome of this case will say a spirit of rugged individualism, Wyoming is what great deal about the future of our merchant America was-plus a whole lot more. And, for marine. If the Maritime Administration is going me, it is a particular honor to serve the people to cavalierly dispose of modern, operational STUDENTS FOR WORLD PEACE of the State in my first term in Congress American ship and sabotage efforts in the pri during Wyoming's centennial year. vate sector to increase the size of our fleet, This resolution touches on some of the out then it will be virtually impossible to implement standing features in Wyoming's past and a meaningful national maritime policy. If the HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN present. A proud past. A vital part of the Maritime Administration no longer believes our OF NEW YORK United States. It is our future that will also be Nation's security demands a U.S.-flag mer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES closely watched and I believe celebrated. In chant marine, then our whole approach to this next 100 years, Wyoming will use its sealift must be reexamined. Tuesday, March 13, 1990 bountiful reserves to provide energy for I strongly support the policy that only ships people throughout the country. At the same flying our flag and crewed by American citi Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I stand here time, giving many Americans their first real ex zens can be relied upon to respond to our today in order to commend the students of perience with nature. The pristine beauty of country's needs in time of war or national Ramapo Senior High School upon the occa the Tetons. The solitude of the open space in emergency. By his action on the Monterey, sion of their visit to the Soviet Union, April 6, the Red Desert. The quiet way of life, the Maritime Administrator Leback will clearly and through April 18, 1990. proud, pioneering way of life that is Wyoming. loudly let us all know whether he agrees with This high school located in my own 22d This centennial is an opportunity to review the this policy and whether he supports an Ameri Congressional District in Spring Valley, NY, past, present, and future of Wyoming. Wyo can merchant marine. has for the past 6 years traveled to the cities ming's lasting legacy to this Nation is a spirit I strongly urge all my colleagues to urge the of Moscow, Minsk, and Leningrad. During and determination of the true West. God bless Maritime Administrator to keep our Nation these visits, Ramapo High School has main the great State of Wyoming, the 44th State of the United States. strong by keeping U.S. vessels afloat. I would tained contact with two Soviet high schools also request that if this ship is sold to foreign and will again this year meet with their Soviet interests, the leadership of the Committee on counterparts. Merchant Marine and Fisheries investigate the A TRIBUTE TO ELSIE B. process and the purpose which led to the ad Mr. Speaker, at their recent meeting, Presi HOWERTON ministrative dismantling of our merchant dent George Bush and President Mikhail Gor marine. bachev agreed to a renewed program of in creased contacts between the citizens of both HON. RONALD V. DELLUMS the United States of America and the Union of OF CALIFORNIA GOING, GOING, GONE? Soviet Socialist Republics, and further agreed IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and urged that educational exchanges at the Tuesday, March 13, 1990 HON. HERBERT H. BATEMAN earliest level be encouraged and fostered. OF VIRGINIA Moreover, Mr. Speaker, we have and now Mr. DELLUMS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES continue to feel the changing climate toward share with my colleagues my congratulatory message to Mrs. Elsie B. Howerton, a distin Tuesday, March 13, 1990 global peace. The maintenance and achieve ment of this peace will require mutual knowl guished citizen of the Eighth California Con Mr. BATEMAN. Mr. Speaker, late last week, edge and understanding of the history, culture, gressional District, and the wife of an equally I was shocked to learn of the Maritime Admin and peoples of our two nations. distinguished constituent, Mr. Joseph L. How istration's plans to allow the sale and transfer erton. Accordingly, I would like to commend the of the U.S.-flag passenger vessel, SS Monte Mrs. Howerton is a 34-year resident of the public schools of Rockland County for their rey, to foreign citizens. This misguided deci city of Berkeley. She presently serves as the active educational programs of global studies, sion clearly contravenes our longstanding na elected president of the Congress of Califor tional policy of promoting a strong merchant including the history, culture, people, and lan nia Seniors, the elected president of North marine fleet capable of fulfilling our Nation's guage of the Soviet Union. In addition, I ap Berkeley Senior Center Advisory Council, and security and defense requirements. plaud both the students from Ramapo High is a volunteer to the Lawrence Hall of Science The SS Monterey is one of only three School and their Soviet counterparts as they Intergenerational Science Program wherein oceangoing passenger vessels flying the continue to serve as young ambassadors. she participates in weekly biology workshops American flag. Such vessels are a vital com By their diligent commitment to a greater for fourth-grade students at Malcolm X ponent of our sealift resources. The Commis understanding of the people of the Soviet School. Mrs. Howerton is also a member of sion on Merchant Marine and Defense con Union, the students of Ramapo High School the Commission on Aging for the city of cluded that our current sealift capability is in have demonstrated the spirit of international Berkeley which she has chaired for a 5-year adequate for defense purposes, even if all brotherhood necessary for the foundation of period, and is a participant in the Retired available assets were to be used. In the area global peace. Senior Volunteer Program of Alameda County 4322 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 13, 1990 [RSVP], sponsored by Peralta Community Col however, the composition of those values has THE SALE OF SS "MONTEREY" lege District. been the subject of much discussion but little On March 14, 1990, Mrs. Howerton will be attempt at quantification. honored at an event sponsored by the Com A company headquartered in my congres HON. ROY DYSON mission on the Status of Women. We wish to sional district, the Massachusetts Mutual Life OF MARYLAND join our constituents in congratulating Mrs. Insurance Co., recently commissioned a study IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Howerton and in commending her for her dis to attempt to crystallize this notion of family Tuesday, March 13, 1990 tinguished service to her city, her State, and values. This study, the MassMutual Family Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, I am absolutely to this Nation. Values Program, included a survey of 1,200 appalled to learn that the Maritime Administra randomly selected Americans from across the country, and revealed that there are universal tion is giving the go-ahead to sell to foreign TRANSPORTATION TRUST buyers an American flag, Jones-Act-eligible ly held values in America, values which tran FUNDS passenger vessel. This vessel, the SS Monte scend the boundaries of geography, demogra rey, is precisely the national defense and sea phy, or politics. Chief among these values is lift asset that everyone-from the President's HON. BOB McEWEN the importance of family, as a source of pleas OF OHIO ure, and responsibility, and a cause of con Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense to those within the Defense Department re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cern. The preeminent status of family attaches sponsible for sealift requirements-states we Tuesday, March 13, 1990 without regard to marital status and applies must have under our flag and under our con primarily in emotional, rather than legal terms. Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, the Washington trol. The MassMutual Family Values Program Post recently ran a feature article on Secre Under the Shipping Act of 1916, the Mari also revealed that Americans see the family tary Skinner and the ambitious transportation time Administration has the responsibility to policy he has developed. I commend the Sec as the wellspring of emotional support, and the primary teacher of the fundamental skills protect the national interest by ensuring that retary for taking the initiative and developing U.S.-flagships are not routinely sold to the by which a person successfully relates to soci this critical plan for the future, and I hope to highest foreign bidder. This law is in place to be of assistance in seeing the plan come to ety. In this regard, the study seems to me to mark rather clearly areas in which government guarantee that American vessels which have fruition. However, I am convinced that in order recognizable miliary and economic value to to meet targeted infrastructure priorities we may be of assistance, and areas in which it may not intrude. the United States are not sold off simply in will need to make full use of the transportation order to increase the profits of foreign ship Mr. Speaker, I believe MassMutual should trust funds. ping interests. Our national security demands be saluted for the valuable public service it The article about Secretary Skinner raised that the interests of the United States take has performed in undertaking this survey of the question of the trust funds: Why do we precedence over the bottom line of foreign America's family values. The results should be have large balances in the trust fund accounts concerns. considered by government at all levels in de when infrastructure needs are clearly going In this case, Mr. Speaker, the Maritime Ad veloping and implementing social policy. I unmet? Federal Highway Administrator Tom ministration is abrogating its responsibility. It is commend the survey and its findings to the at Larson's response was, "It's a dicey question choosing to act as an agent for foreign inter tention of my colleagues. that we've danced around." I am encouraged ests looking to maximize profits at the ex by that response, after years of denying even pense of the American Merchant Marine, the existence of the surplus, maybe the ad CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO rather than as an agent for the American ministration will finally admit that the enor LIBERATO "CHIP" PARILLO people. mous balances in the trust funds accounts In February of this year, Maritime Adminis should be spent as soon as possible in order HON. THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA trator Capt. Warren Leback told the National to protect our infrastrL•cture investment. For Defense Transportation Association that, "De OF PENNSYLVANIA both safety reasons and economic reasons fense and transportation are links in the same IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES our infrastructure needs are now critical, and chain. The civilian commercial transportation we can no longer afford to use the trust fund Tuesday, March 13, 1990 industry is a major part of our national de money to hide deficit spending in other pro Mr. FOGLIETTA. Mr. Speaker, it is with fense readiness structure." Mr. Speaker, I to grams. great enthusiasm that I rise today to salute tally agree with Captain Leback's assessment I look forward to the upcoming Public Works Mr. Liberato "Chip" Parillo. Mr. Parillo brought and I urge him to reject the foreign transfer and Transportation Committee action on the his long career of public service to a close application when it reaches his desk. highway program as well as the national this year. January 1990 marked the end of a transportation policy, and I look forward to career spanning over 50 years. I want to take working with the administration to resolve the this opportunity to honor Mr. Parillo's strong TRANSFER TO FOREIGN OWN trust fund issue. commitment to our Nation. ERSHIP OF THE SS "MONTEREY" Mr. Parillo enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1936. MASSMUTUAL: HELPING TO For the next 25 years he served proudly-in HON. LANE EVANS DEFINE FAMILY VALUES World War II, Korea, Canada, China and else OF ILLINOIS where around the world. He has served in 11 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Army camps in the United States as well. HON. RICHARD E. NEAL Tuesday, March 13, 1990 OF MASSACHUSETTS While in the Army, Mr. Parillo earned many IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES medals and ribbons including the Combat Mr. EVANS. Mr. Speaker, I have been made Medical Badge for excellent performance of aware recently of an action about to be taken Tuesday, March 13, 1990 duty on the battlefield. by our own Maritime Administration which will, Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, After retiring from military service, Mr. Parillo if it is allowed to be carried out, severely one of the beliefs that unifies our society is joined the U.S. Customs Service. From 1964 damage our maritime industry and our military that there exists a core set of values on which until this year, he served in Philadelphia as an readiness. What I am referring to is the pend the overwhelming majority of Americans inspector. Recently, he was honored at a re ing approval for transfer to foreign ownership agree. On this belief rests the justification for tirement party by coworkers, family, and of the U.S.-built and -flagged passenger a number of the actions that are taken by friends who saluted his five decades service ship-the SS Monterey. government, actions which affect virtually in several branches of the U.S. Government. The Monterey is one of only three U.S. every aspect of our lives. If asked to enumer Mr. Speaker, I congratulate Mr. Parillo upon flagged, Jones-Act passenger vessels oper ate those values, I think most Americans his retirement from the U.S. Customs Service ational today. It would serve our national inter would mention many which could be collec and salute his outstanding service to our est by carrying U.S. troops in time of war-an tively labeled as "family values." While there country. I wish him good luck and continued advantage we do not have with those non may be agreement that family values exist, success. U .S. -flag vessels which sail from our ports. March 13, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4323 Currently on the auction block, the Monte from which he never recovered. He passed reporting that Just Cause personnel were in rey, when operating, employs more than 250 away 5 days later. volved. American citizens operating cruises within the Although Ed and I were both elected to the I urge the media to make it clear to the United States. Those citizens employed on Indiana House of Representatives in 1974, Ed American people that our brave troops, who the vessel pay taxes and the company pays had more experience in public service having fought and died to restore democracy in taxes-all money which is returned to the served several terms as a member of the Mar Panama, were unfairly maligned. United States. shall County Council. Our districts bordered Operating from a U.S. port, the Monterey one another in north central Indiana and we creates additional jobs: dockworkers and joined forces many times to bring the needs THE BENEFITS OF OLDER marine support personnel are put to work. of our area to the attention of the legislature. WORKERS More jobs are available for food service com No one knew the needs of the district he panies, linen suppliers, tour companies and a represented better than Ed. As co-owner of host of other businesses which employ Ameri Cook Brothers Furniture in Plymouth, Ed HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS cans and pay taxes in America. It contributes brought the common sense and community OF PENNSYLVANIA to the trickle-down effect in our society. What values of his hometown to the general assem IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is good for us and our national security is also bly. He was appreciated on both sides of the good for our economy-it keeps the money at aisle for his straightforwardness and his love Tuesday, March 13, 1990 home. of a good joke. Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask my col What do we gain by allowing this uniquely Despite declining health in recent years, Ed leagues to join me in recognizing a very spe American vessel to be sold to foreign inter never tired of representing the people who cial effort in my congressional district. ests? This is a question I cannot answer. We elected him. He will be missed, both in his dis This week marks "National Employ the lose-we lose tax revenues, we lose Ameri trict and in the halls of the Indiana state can jobs, we lose security. Who gains then? house. Older American Week," a chance for all em MarAd gains nothing by this sale-they have ployers to examine the advantages of hiring our senior citizens. The benefits of exploring no financial stake in the vessel. The only win OPERATION JUST CAUSE ners in this hand are foreign interests. They this largely untapped resource are many. will have the ship and all of the related reve These workers have a lifetime of experience. nues it generates. HON. JOHN P. MURTHA Tt:iey understand the needs of employers as Mr. Speaker, one the SS Monterey is gone, OF PENNSYLVANIA well as those of the customer or client. I think we cannot retrieve it. If we need an additional IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES it is valid to say that older individuals are de vessel for troop transport, it will be too late Tuesday, March 13, 1990 pendable, honest, conscientious, and enthusi and we will have sold ourselves and our con Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, last week, the astic about their jobs. stituents short. I urge all of my colleagues to news media reported extensively on allega There is a program in Williamsport that call Maritime Administrator Warren Leback tions that United States military personnel in seeks to match older workers with local busi and insist that the Monterey remain at home. Panama had been used to smuggle drugs into nesses. Known as STEP [Social Service the United States. It was even reported that Training Employment Programs], it is a com IN MEMORY OF STATE our troops sent to Panama last December as prehensiva service that assists seniors in find REPRESENTATIVE ED COOK a part of Operation Just Cause were involved, ing work. One of the incentives STEP offers is even though they were in Panama for only a participation in the Pennsylvania Hall of Fame HON. JIM JONTZ few weeks. of Champions of Older Workers Council. Em OF INDIANA Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, it appears that a ployers who have outstanding records of deal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES handful of the thousands of troops who are ing with older workers in the labor force are permanently stationed in Panama may indeed nominated for the Hall of Fame. I am proud to Tuesday, March 13, 1990 have been corrupted by the drug lords. How say that STEP has nominated two such em Mr. JONTZ. Mr. Speaker, today the 106th ever, I have been assured by both the Depart ployers from Lycoming County in the 17th session of the Indiana General Assembly will ment of Defense as well as the Drug Enforce Congressional District: Victor's Auto Sales, draw to a close and for the first time in 16 ment Agency that there is no evidence that and Clark's Farm Store. years, State Representative Ed Cook will not even one military person sent to Panama with I commend these employers and STEP for be present when the speaker of the house an Just Cause was involved in this unfortunate in the compassion and understanding to appreci nounces "The house is adjourned, sine die." cident. ate the wide range of skills older workers On February 15, Representative Cook suf It is regrettable that the media did not wait have to offer. fered a severe stroke and lapsed into a coma until the facts were known before erroneously