March 26, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6781 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

NUCLEAR POWER ing need to move ahead with our oniy logi­ serve" of equipment and personnel immedi­ cal energy strategy: conserving energy· and ately available in the event of a nuclear · developing .all existing U.S. resources. mean~ emergency. . ing largely coal and nuclear power. Development of a · generic emergency HON. JOHN W. WYDLER 5. The national energy direction-whether public information. plan to help assure a OF NEW YORK by deliberate policy or drift:-has taken us flow of accurate, dependable information IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES farther away from domestic· energy adequa­ from any nuclear plant which might e~peri­ cy rather than closer to it. We mtlst remove ence an emergency. Wednesday, March 26, 1980 · the roadblocks to the development of do- Institution of a system' to analyze every mestic ·eriergy supply. . non-normal occurrence at any nuclear plant, • Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, this 'rhe electric power industry believes that based on information from licensee event re­ week marks the passage of 1 year since its response to the Three Mile Island acci­ ports, in order to identify any needed ·. cor­ the accident at the Three ·Mne Island dent is particularly notable. It was unprec­ rective action and immediately distribute nuclear powerplant in Pennsylvania. edented both in scope and speed. such information to .puclear utilities to We have already seen a great deal of The electric ututty industry ·is composed assure the appropriate attention and actio!L media attention to this anniversary, of more than 2900 separate ·and independ­ Completion of several studies requested mostly speculating w~ether the nucle­ ent entittes which generate,. transmit and by the President's CoD)lnlssion on the Acci­ ar industry can survive the accident distribute electrical. energy to customers. dent at Three Mile Island. The "nuclear industry" includes.many hun­ ~tablishment of special studies which ln~ and its aftermath. dreds of additional organizations which dicated that the safety margins at TMI I think it is Important that. we have study, design, manufacture. construct. main­ during and following the accident were sub-· an understanding of the progress the tain and service· nuclear plants and Compo· ­ stantfal. · industry has made iii understanding nents. many of them on · an international. Development of an industrywide commu­ what happened at Three Mile Island scale. nications systeni ·to provide substantially and implementing the Jessons learned. 'In ~he year since the March 28. 1979 acci­ immediate·distribution of information to all This industry is an .important part of dent at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant nuclear utilities. . our total energy picture-furnishing in PennSylvania. we have enlisted the · Establishment of an expanded public ,in­ support of and• .in the case of those wiih formation program to disseminate needed about 13 percent of our Nation's elec­ direct nuclear involvement, the participa­ information on energy matters in general, tricity. The completion of the 90 or so tion by the broadly diverse electric ututty and nuclear power in particular. · . nuclear · powerplants under· construc­ and nuclear ind"Q.Stries in the response to Completion· by INPO of the first two tion is vital to the lessening of our de­ TMI. Executives and technical nuclear per· audits and evaluations· of ·the management pendency on foreign oil. The following sonnel numbering in the hundreds have and operation of nuclear power plants. is a summary of the industry's report been directly involved in this coordinated Completion of a joint NSAC/iNPO inves­ to President Carter on the major, sub­ effort SJ)d the dent and publication of a report. sure that nuclear safety be enhanced man-hours expended run into many thou­ We are proud of the exceptional safety over and above the in4ustry's already sands. record of nuclear power. over its quarter Under the general supervision and coordi­ century of use, and of the tndustry's promp~ unsurpassed safety record. nation of an eight-man committee of top-ex­ and substantial response to the accident to SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ecutives representing investor-owned utlli­ assure that nuclear plants are even safer in The year since the Three Mile Island acci­ ties. ~ocal and state government-owned the future. The ~ompelllng evidence of the dent has been a watershed period not only power agencies and . rural electric coopera­ past twelve months demonstrates not only for nuclear power. but for all energy in the tives, some of the maJor accomplishments of that ·nuclear po:wer is adequately .safe, but United States. A series of dramatic events the pa.St twelev~ months have been: also that it is absolutely necessary. has demonstrated the fragutty ot cur Creation, with the assistance of the Elec­ . It-is of the utmost importance that the energy supply system-meaning the fragil­ tric Power Re8earch Institute. of the Nucle­ United States recogntu the ·urgent ·need to ity of our economy and basic way of life. ar Safety Analysis Center (NSAC> to study develop au U.S. energy sources, including The electric energy industry believes that in great depth what happened. at TMI, why nuclear power, to begin substituting for our there are five · over-riding lessons· to be it happened, what might have happened. dangerously high dependence on imported learned from the past 12 months: the best solutions to the safety· conceriut oil. Such a com_mitment wiU require· leader• 1. Three Mile Island was a serious-but ideAtified there and at other nuclear l>ower ship from the highest levels of government.· not highly dangerous-accident. Official re_. plants, and to provide ·a continuous source as well as cooperation from the public and ports since then have shOwn that many of of authentic informati9n. · the many special interest groups that are In­ the fears at the time were based largely on Organization, from a standing start at volved in energy policy decision. Beca.Use of misinformation. The .unmatched · public mid-year 1979. of a free-standing independ­ the long lead times. related to the develop­ safety record of nuclear power after more ent Instiiut~ of NuClear Power Operations ment ·of ~ny large-scale energy source; a fur­ than 25 years of commercial experience and charged with establishing "bench­ ther delay in such a c~mmltment represents almost 450 cumulative years of power reac• marks of excellence" in . the operations of a highly dangerous gamble with the very tor operatiQn remains intact. nuclear power plants and implementing pro­ stabutty and security of the United States 2. The u.S. electric power ·.industry re~ cedures to assure that . all nuclear power in the years and decades ahead. As we have swnded quickly and forcefully to the acci­ plants measure up to such standards. seen demonstrated ~atically ·in the past dent. revising procedures and.training in nu­ Creation.of a new insurance company, Nu­ year. the greatest risk related to nuclear clear power plants, making indicated equip­ clear Electric Insurance Limited , to power is the risk. of facing the future with· ment chang_es and establishing major new provide partial protection from the great fi­ out it.e organizations to correct the inadequacies in­ nancial impact of an extended outage of .a dicated by the accident. As a result, nuclear nuclear power plant caused· by an accident, power plants today are even safer than they especially the cost o.t replacement power. GRAIN TO JAPAN? were a year ago. Development of the most authentic se­ 3. Other energy developments during· the quence of events of the TMI accident." · HON. LEE .H. HAMILTON past year-long gas lines. substantially - Analysis of all information coming out of OF INDIAl'fA higher prices for oil and gasoline and the TMI and distribution of the -analysis to the ominous turmoil in the Middle East-have staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES demonstrated the serious · dangers tied to · and other interested partie&.. · We4nesday~ March 26, i 980 our heavy dependence on imported oil and Coordination of industry comments on the risks of not developing nuclear power. NRC staff proposals for actions to be taken • Mr. HAMILTON. Mr.· Speaker, in­ 4. Several maJor new energy policy stud­ in response to TMI. . January, President Carter expressed ies"7'by such ~xpert organizations as the Na­ Development of a model emergency re­ our national opposition to the Soviet tional Academy of Sciences a.nd Resources sponse plari for ~aptation by individual im­ invasion of A!ghanist~n by limiting for the Future-have emphasized the press- clear plants which provides a "ready re- exports of grain afld high technology

e This "b\lllet'' symbol ideritifi.es statements or insertions which ~e not spoken by ·the Member on the floor. 6782 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 Items to· the Soviet Union. These sane· Malva Landa, "a 60-year-old woman. a self­ £From the WashJ.ng.ton Star, Mar. 20, 19801 tions have weighed heavily on the less administrator of the Russian Social CURING rJm ADDIC1'ION 1'0 FI:DEJtAL Am economic present and future·of the.do- Fund of many years, and member of the mestic farmer. Helsinki Watch.Group!' Mrs. Landa wa8 arrested on March '1 and In the current Issue of State Governmen.t For . the · agricult1.1ra.J saneti ons t o ..Is currently confined at V18dimir Prison. At News. the lead article begins with a cheerful· have the maximum effect we need the the time of her arrest she was living in:the announcement: "The good news for states in active support of our industrial allies amau city of Petushki, approximately '18 President Carter's fiscal 1981 budget is his as well as the major grain exporters. miles east of Moscow. She has been under support for renewal of th~ $6.9 billion gen­ To date, the support of our allies has investigation for more than two monthS and eral revenue sharing ·program. including· been somewhat mixed~ is reportedly being · charged ·under Article $2.3 billion for states over the next five Recently, however, I have received 1901-"defamJ.ng the Soviet state and social years. . Well, many a slip, and don't count your some information on Japanese policy system." chickens before they hatch, and the best that is · definitely encouraging. .The Mrs. Solzhenitsyn is a board member of laid plans go oft awry. Ten days ago Mr. Forum for Policy Innovaiion. of the the Center for Appeals for Preedo~nt recent­ Carter went through an ·inspiring experi­ Keidanren-the powerful vole. e of Jap- ly established· by Freedom House for· ~he purpose of disseminating information of ence. He was born again as a b~dget ~utter, anese business-has recently prepared conditions under repressive regime. of both filled with the zeal of frugality. The $2.3 bil­ a paper entitled "Energy Proposal on the right and left. Hon .that had been earmarked for the states in fiscal '81 has fallen on the cutting room Grain Stockpiling as Part ·of a Com- Following 1s the full text of Mrs. Solzhen­ floor. And high,time. · prehensive Economic Security Strat- itsyn's statement for the .Pres&: Federal aid to the st~tes and· localities THE ,. egy." The authors of the Keldanren iN CoNNECTION WITH AKREsr 0 MALvA goes back 100 years or more. at least to the study propose that the Japanese buy LANDA time of the land grant colleges. The flow in­ and stockpile from 15 to 17 million "During the past six years of its existence creased from a trickle to a stream with fed­ metric tons of grain as part of a com- eral aid for highways. The stre~ became a ·strategy. The paper is sig- the Russian Social Fund has helped many prehensive hundreds of prisoners and their famllies. nver.: fedetal aid for hospitals, federal aid niflcant for what·it SI\YS about the cur- The authorities have constentiy hindered for sewage disposal plants. federal aid for rent thinking of perhaps Japan's most the Fund'R work and have persecuted its un­ education. Then the river became a torrent: influential interest. ·group. Will the selfish helpers: Balys GaJauskas is serving a federal aid for law enforcement, fQr this, for proposal translate into policy? I do not 15-year sentence in a speclal regbne tl:J,at. for everything \inder the sun. ~bor And in 1972, came GRS-general-revenue know. But I thought it quite signlfi- camp : Alexander Po­ with very few strings ·-ttached. It was a bad paper to an employee of the Congres· drabinek is serving his · five years of exlle: idea then, and it remains a. bad idea to this Sional R ""'"earch Service who was in Mykola Gorbal and Antanas Terleckas were ~ arrested in October of 1~79: in february of day. The best that ever Could be said of Japan to assess -the Japanese response 1980-Vyacheslav. Bakhm.ln, and now- GRS was that it demanded less ·bureaucracy to the partial embargo on exports to Malva Landa, a 60-year-old woman. a self­ than the categorical plans demanded. . GRS the Soviet Union. less ad.min.iStrator of the, Russian SOcial permitted the states to make 'independent decisions without the specific approval of The Japanese purchase of 15 to 17 Fuild of many ye&I:S. and a member of the federal planners. million tbris of grain would virtually Moscow Helsinki Watch Group. But federal aid Is narcotic. Fifty states eliminate the need for the United Sin~ the ·f&ll Qf 1979 the authorities llave and 39,000 local governments now .are States to acquire surplus grain. it initiated a campaign of arrests of such a hooked on it. Mr. Carter's modest proposal would also be welcomed as· an example scope that h~ not been in evidence since to eliminate the state share of GRS, whlle Of . urd· en sharing and as .a part of a. 1956. The Flmd knowa the names of 73 per­ continuing the local handouts, is certain to b sons who have been arrested for their be­ united Western approach to trade with liefs during the course of the past few set off an uproar among governors, state the Soviet Union. I am convinced that months. During this procesa more than 100 boards of education and other high-octane more reflection and consultation will children have becOme orphaned. lobbyists. At hearings before a Senate subcommittee help forge a common Western econom- Among those arrested were over 30 people last summer, Abe Beame. former mayor of ic policy to the Eastern bloc. With this who were deprived of their liberty for pro­ New· York City, strongly urged that GRS be in mind, I have ~ked the Congression- fessing their faith. Included among these fully funded ·for the next four years-with al Research Service to prepare a study was the Orthodox priest Pr. Dmitri Dudko, an increase added to reflect inflation. Rich-· on "East-West Commercial Polley in who was beloved and deeply respected by ard Fqtton. mayor of_Nashville. chat:ac~r­ the Wake of the Carter···-Embargo". hundreds of peopl4,'. Anc;l more than 20 ·per- ized .GRS as "vital" and "lndisl)ensable" to Before·we act iii haste, we should take ;,r::::t~Jt~ arrea~ for their human­ lOcal eovenmients. Tennessee's Governor Lamar Alexander said ·it would be a "grave definite steps toward defining a sue- Now, more than ever. our Fund will con-· mistake" . to reduce the states' share of cessful, Joint.strategy.e tinue to help the victimS of the Soviet GRS• . Within the famUy of American gov'~ Gulag, whose growth and fierceneSs also sig­ ernment, we have raised a generation of ad· nifies a threatening signal for the rest of diets. MRS. NATALIA SOLZHENITSYN the world: because internal as-gression Is a When Congresa launched the first four­ DENOUNCES ~SIFICATION preparation for extental aggression. year program ·of general revenue sharing in OF ARRESTS IN THE u:s.S.R. MRs.. NArALIA SoLZJD:NI'l'sm. 1972, proponents argued that the states and Prutdent. Ruman Soct.a.l Fund.e localities. were broke while the u.s. Treas­ HON. JAMES M. JEFFORDS ury was flush. A more .absurd argument seldom ·has been heard in the halls of Con­ 01' VERMOKT gress. The Treasury_was in fact rUnning Its IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CURING THE ADDICTION TO prmting presses night and day. Some 1~­ FEDERAL AID Wednesday, March 26; 1980 ities were in trouble, largely for want of rev­ enue sources in addition to their 1~ prop. e Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. Speaker, al­ erty t~es. but state eovernments were though our attention has been focused HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR. mastly in clover. . . on the world situation regarding Af. 01' INDIAlU · That conc;Ution continues today. The. fed­ ghanlstan, we must also recognize that IM THE HOUSE 01' REPRESENTATIVES er&l t~:easury has no money to spare. Thla year's deficit will!Vll to $40 b1llion or more. repression and ·the struggle for free­ Wednaday, March 26,1980 Mr.· Carter has pledged a balanced budget dom in the Soviet Union continues. I for fiscal 'S.1, and has announced a sertes of would like to share with my colleagues e Mr. JACOBs. Mr. Speaker, in 1972 draconian measUres to achieve it. WID Con­ the. recent statement of Mrs. Solzhen­ when 1·. spoke on the floor ~ opp()Si· gress resist the moun:ting pressures and stop ltsYii: tiori to the creation of revenue shar­ the fiscal hemorrhage? Don't bet on it.· · ing-the late Representative William The flscai contentions are the least sig­ ~EW YORK, March 13.-Mrs. ~atalla Solz.. Bray called it "debt sharing"-! said. nificant. The constitutional issue. are vastly henitsYn denounced today the Soviet more lniportant. When federal-aid tQ. state Union's "campaign of arrests of such a "It is a· blank check for irresponsibil­ ity." highways began to loom large, .a ~nuoua scope that has not been in evidence since constitutional Justification was advanced: 1956.'' ·citing in particular the latest arrest To the following Kilpatrick column I The,se were "post roads," and Congress had ln a long. 84;'des of incarceratl.ons-that of say a triple amen:· been delega~ power to provide for them. March 26, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6783 Grants for sewage disposal were expla1ned· H.R. 6932 enough to ·· s~ restoring tbe economy to In terms of Interstate commerce. How . the . A bnt' to amen~ title 38, United States Cod~.. ·health. Hlll.Burton grants for hospital construction ·to tncr~ase the tate of comperisation pay- . ·The-President has recognized both the tm­ were rationalized, I cannot remember. able to veterans who have lost .or lost- the port:ance of a balanced budget in the fight But after a ~ while, · most members of Con- use of both upper extremities as the result against .inflation and the need for tough gress .abandoned the Constitution altogeth· · of a service-connected 'diSability. · measures to take pre8sure off intere~t rates. While it ma~ not seent that a shift of a few er. Who could ·Juitify i. federal grant f9r .a Be 'it enacted b'li· the Senate and HoWJe of blllion dollars in the budget would have a local choraJ group? For a county sheriff? Representattve8 of the · Untted States of. major effect in a $21fa trillion economy, the ·For. some gimcrack experiment In . educa- America' in Congresa 48sembled, That sec­ psychological ramifications of the· shl.ft tion? Whe eared? The categorical programs tlon 314. of title 38, United States Code, is could be important. If people are persuaded were wonderfully popular, and ORB was amended- .. that the government is serious about setting more so. And for OR.S there was no consti- ( 1) In -$Ubsection ( 1), by striking out "both its "fiscal house" in order, they will begin to tutlonal basis whatever. hands, or bOth feet," and ·inserting in lieu change the buying and borrowing habits .Nothing.much ·can be done about federal thereof "both feet"; that now contribute to inflation. I was not aid in the current fiscal year. A moral com- (2> in subsection -- pleased that the President postponed an~ initment, if not ·a iegal _commitment, com- by striking out "two extremtties" and nouncement of the details of his budget cuts pelS eongre8sional ·support of GRS through inserttng In- lieu thereof "both hands or until the· end of the month. The delay next September. Be ..... """"ing in. '19'81, one pro- both legs"; and makes me wonder whether he knows where · a ...... • by striking out "elbow or"; the cuts will be made: Perhaps he is stalling gr8.m after another snould be phased out. <3> in subsection ; by striking out "of to gain political advantage in the upcoming The vice in all these handouts is that they two extremities .so ·near the shoulder or'' presidential primary in New York. What­ give state and lOcal governments the pleas- and inserting in lieu thereof "or loss of use ever his reasons, the delay may mean that ure of spending the taxpayers' money with:- of both arms at a level, or with ~omplica~ tlie cuts are hastily assembled. fn my judg­ out· the pain of raising lt. and .they create a tions, prev~nting . natural elbowractiori with ment, Congress should simply seize the ini­ weakening condition· ot dependency on prosthesis 1n place, or has suffered the ana­ tiative and. develop its. own list of cuts. I Washington. Withdrawal will be hard: con- tomlcallOss of both legs so near the"; and myseU am prepared to support reductions tinued addiction, I submit, WO\lld be·worse.e <4> in subsection , by inserting ''or 1t l&rger than those suggested by the Presi­ the veteran has sUffered the anatomical loss dent. of both arms so near the-shoulder as to pre­ Even with a baianced budget, it strikes me vent the use of a prosthetic appliance-'' after that the ·greatest· burden of the fight VETERANS' DISABILITY "or less,". agaliUit inflation will still fall on our mone­ COMPENSATION SEC. 2. The amendments made by the first tary authorities. The Federal Reserve sectiori of this Act shall take effect on Octo­ System will Impose a special deposit require· ber. 1, 1980.e ment on· banks, petroleum ·companies, retail­ HON. JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT er$, credit card companies, and other firms OJ' ARKANSAS that exten(l certain kinds of consw:ner PRESIDENT CARTER'S ANTI· IX THE HOUSE o:r REPRESENTATIVES credit. The requirement will make lt more INFLATION PROGRAM costly for lenders to raise the total amount Wednesday, March 26, 1980 of loans outstandjng. It appears to me, how­ H~ ever, that · interest ra~s will continue to e Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT. Mr. HON. LEE HAMILTON climb' in the weeks ahead. Speaker. it ls generally recognized OJ' DmiAlfA I have my own reservations about the pro- that it is much more of a burden to IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES posed fee on imported oil. It will raise the inflation rate by one-half perce~ at least. lose· an arm than a leg, although obvi­ Wednesday, March 26, 1980 encourage on exporters to hike their priees, otisiy the loss of either Ca.n be a disas­ e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I and perpetuate .the clumsy system of entl­ trous experience. Our veterans' dis­ insert my Washington Report for tlemenis which evens out on prices nation­ abUity compensation tables recognize Wednesday, Mareh 26, 1980., into the wide by mixing expenSive foreign oil with this comparative _difference tn severity low~~-priced domestic on. My own view is C ONGREsSION~. R· ECORD: that we ought to get rid of the system of en- when they address the slngie loss of PREsiDENT CARTER's ANTI-INFLATION t~"'lemo.:tts as domestic on prices are'gradual- ·such .llnlbs: LoSs of the· leg-below the PRooRAM 1y freed from controls.- knee is measured as 40-percent dis­ President Carter has proposed a five-step The anti-inflation progr&Jn Will encounter abling, while the lOS$ of an arm belQw program to bring inflation -\IIlder control. formidable obstacles on its way to tmple­ tl)e elbow is considered to be -at least There will be ·<1> federal spending cuts of mentation. Chief among these obstacles will 60-percent disabling; loss of the leg $13 billion,· enough to permit a balanced be· the trouble Congress and the President budget next ·year, <2> selective restraints on will have in agreeing on the cuts to be made above the knee ls considered 70-pet­ credit and interest; especially on unsecured to balance the budget. , Frankly-, I expect cent dtSabling; while loss of the arm consumer loans and on bank-and money this year's budget fight to be the fiercest 1n above the elbow ls rated at 90 percent. market funds, <3> a voluntary wage standard recent memory. ·The liberals will resist re· allowing increases of _ 7~ . to 9~ percent, wi~h ductions in welfare, · mass transit, and em­ However~ exlfoting veterans' law does extensive reporting and moirltoririg of wages ployment programs; _while the conservatives not make this same' distinction when and prices, (4) a $4.62 .fee on each barrel of will stand firm against cuts in the defense they address double ampu~tions ..Loss importe(l on, an effective lncrease of 10¢ per buQget. The plan to replace the on import .· of two feet or_two hands is considered gallon .in the price of gasoline, and <5> long- fee with a permanent tax on gasoline is to. be equally disabling under para­ terril economic changes to encourage pro- bound to prompt a vigorous battle· between graph O> of section 314 of title 38; loss ductlvity, savings, research, and develo~ Congress · and the President. In the final ment. . analysis, the public has the right. to be skep- of two .legs below the knee or two arms My baste·. 1m.pres8ion -IS that the ·proposals 'tical of all the proposals until p-erformance below the elbow is consider.ed the are J~,imed at the right targets: excesses in matches rhetoric. same under p~graph of that sec:. government borrowing, priv~te borrowing, The consensuS in the business community tton, and loss of two legs a_t the hip or ahd gasoline consumption. Tbe heavy em- seems to be that the. anti-inflation program two arms at the shoulder is considered phasis on restraining credit and interest will . is a good first step. Many businessmen, how­ equally disabling under paragrapll . increase the likelihood of a recession this ever, believe It to be ·less than what is year. The balanced budget will play its part needed. Dissatisfaction with the proposals I consider this to be an ov_ersight in as well since it will apply the ;'fiscal brakes" depressed the stock ·market. initially, but the 1S:w, due to the small number. of harder than at any time in the recent· past. Wall -Street rebotinded the next· day, .the veterans who would be ·affected by the Taxes, gasoline price$, unemployment, and credit markets reacted favorabJy, the dollar defenSe spending will moye up, but. avail- rose strongly overseas, and gold prices tum­ l~gislation, estimated to be 124. Num­ ability of credit and spending for the poor bled. On the whole, foreign observers of our bers aside, though, M;r. Speaker, there will fall .off. The hope is that the cooling of. economy responded positively. CongreSs, as is. a matter of equity involved, and con­ the economy will hold down wage demands It tried to put the· program 1n proper per­ sequently I am introducing legislation and price rises. Nonetheless, the impact of spective, gave cautious signs of approval. today that will remedy ~his error. I the proposals on the inflation rate will be The program also set off one of the most in· invite my colleagues to join me in this slow in coming and modest at best. Inflation ten'sive lobbying campaigns seen in Wash­ Is too entrenched for the program to have a fugton in many yearS. Special interest support._ · · $Ubstant1al impact immediately. The ·reaJ . groups are flooding Congress with pleas to The text of the· bill follow~: questio~ is whether the proposals are strong spare them from the budget cuts. - CXXvi--42a--.:Part 15 6784 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 I am convinced that President Carter's stituency is declinin~ ·at an alarmfllg . food system· see the value _that each anti-inflation-program is worthwhile. It may rate. The only way to .-everse t.hfs · ~ ·to holds for the other and work together not have an immediate impact on prices, but seek to broaden agriculture's constitu- on the problems they have in inflation surely would have gotten worse had it not been recommended. The key ency by showing the urban consumer common.e question .is what the proposals will do to the vital importance of the ,American slow inflation. No one really knows how well farmer in their lives. RETURNING VEHICLE· INSPEC­ or badly they will work, and no judgment As my colleagues well khow, I am will be possible for several months. Most im- not a kid anymore and have rio idea TION DECISION TO THE . portant is. not what is said about the pro-· how a child will receive this publica­ STATES-IT'S TIME TO REIN IN gram today, but rather what 1s done about tion. The .prevailing theory in educa­ THE EPA it tomorrow.e · tion these days seems to be to try to compete with the quick, easy messages HON. DAN QUAYLE AGRICULTURE YEARBOOK: of Saturday morning television by imi­ OF INDIANA BUILDING BRIDGES, NOT WALLS tating .their colorful, cartoon style. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whether this is effective or not, i am not sure. Wednesday, March 26, 1980 HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. . I do. know that there is much valua­ • Mr. QUAYLE, Mr. Speaker, unrea­ OF CALIFORNIA ble information about food, agricul­ sonable regulations threaten to pull IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ture, and nutrition in the book as well more than $150 million from the Hoo­ as valuable consumer hints. Tl\ere. are sler State· and more than $1.5 billion Wednesday, March 26, 198_0 also a number of projects outlined could be drained from seven other e Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. that may serve to give a youngster a States, as a resul~ of EPA actions. Speaker, there has been a great deal better. understanding of the foods that The EPA IS requiring 29 States to-in­ of diScussion recently .about the value he or she eats. I would, however, stitute experisive and burdensome in­ of the 1979 Agriculture Yearbook. adviSe that Secretary Bergland not use spection and maintenance programs "What's to Eat?" Many of my eel­ any of the gagwriters w}\o eontrlbuted for motor vehicle emission controlS leagues have taken the opportunity to to the yearbook for work on his since one. or more of their counties do . chastize the Department of Agricul­ speeches. not meet Federal guideliiies. · ture for spel)ding Federal dollars .on a I'm sure that we can all find some A total of $100 million iil Federal book that they say does not help fault with speeific parts of the 1979 highway construction ·moneys is to be American farmers deal with the many Agriculture Yearbook~ But I do not withdrawn from Indiana, plus over $50 problemS facing them. · think that we should fault·the Depart­ million in Federal sewer project funds. One of the major problems facing ment of Agriculture for attempting, Colorado could lose $300 million in a American farmers today is that they and quite successfully from my per-· combination of :Federal highw$-Y and have little support o:r understanding spective, to educate a large part of the sewage plant construction mon~ys. Siz­ from consumers in cities and towns. consumer ·pu~llc about the time, able amounts of money could aU;o be This lack of understanding is even energy, and effort that produces the pulled from California, , ·Vir­ more pronounced among young people apple, orange, steak, or bread that we ginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and possibly · who have grown up with a food mar­ tend to take for granted. This focus ·on Wisconsin. keting and processing system which the consumer ·should be seen as a gain First, I'd like to point out that the has removed the farmer from any rather than a loss . to the American environmental standards established active role, at least as these youngsters· farmer. And for those who disagree by EPA may not be attainable at the view it. Milk comes from cartons, vege­ with the form, style, or·content of this present time. A spot check by EPA of tables appear in refrigerator cases publication, I would challenge them to the 9 mUllon automobiles manufac~ atop plastic garnish. and the onlY rela­ do a better job of gettirig their mes­ tured in the United·- States in 1979 tionship ·between grains arid breakfast sage across to consumers. found that 25 percent of .the cars cereals is the ear of com o:r kernel of One of the biggest gains made by coming off the ·ass.embly line could not wheat printed on the front of the box. the American Agriculture Movement meet the ·Federal st_andard. . Ask a child where bread comes from in their visits to Washiilgton ·w~ the Second, mandatory fuspection and and he or she is likely to answer, "aisle exposure of an urban population to maintenance progranis force the 7:• How can we ·expect to generate the realities of· modem ·agriculture. States intO further financial difficUl­ much support for solving the problems· Anyone who stopped a farmer on' the ties that wo.uld have a deterimental ·in the farming sector if the farmer street or subway and took the time to effect at this time of economic does not even exist for mUlions of talk with them · received a valuable and 20· percent inflation. Americans. education. Here again there are those For example, recent estimates by It is easy for us here, especially in an who dis3gree with the style and EPA indicate that 40 million auto­ election year, 'to trot out memories of format of the AAM but their effort to mobiles in 29 States would be subject life on the farm or feeding Uncle educate the public cannot b~ taulted. to the mandatory lilspection and Fred's chickens while on sunimer visits The agriculture sector should work maintenance program at an average to his farm. or any of a number of harder to e

STATEI4ENT or REV. THoMAs G. GALLAGHEit c_onfigurations. The most prevalent type of .tures have ~roed in on the school feeding ·Mr. .Chairman, membel'l of the conl.mit- op~ration Is the self-sponsored school which _programs and.. have proposed a series of re­ tee, I am Father Thomas Gallagher, the applies· to either the State Education ductions .in several areas. We want to' look Secretary of Education for the United Agency where fea.Sible or .to the Foo4 and at each proposed cut and expiain . what· States Catholic Conference. I am. accompa- Nutrition Service of the U.S. 'Department of would result if the recommendations were nied by Mr. Richard Duffy, Representative Agriculture Regional Office. followed. · for Federal Assistance Progr&.nUJ and by sev- These operations may range in size from . The Administration proi)Osed· to reduce eral di()(:esan school food service directors 1,800 _students at a large secondary school to the Federal subsidy for the full paying stu­ who represent some of .the nation's major small elementary sc:ttools in rural areas with dents by five cents for the school lunch pro· m~tr.opolitan areas. We would like to thank fifty to sixty students. These small pfo.; gram; The attitude _on the part of Ad.minia­ you for ~roviding us wit_h the opportunity grams are usually managed by cine .person tration spokespersons is that it's only five to present our views £o .. this Subcomniittee with the assistance of ~arent volunteers. cents. They say that most paying students on the implementation · of the National· Most of the self-spons.ored programs are co~e from families which are wealthy or School Lunch Act and other child nutrition barely meeting expenses under the current upper middle class a.nc:t can well afford to programs as they apply to Catholic school~; reimbursement rates. Any .cutbacks will se- pay five cents extra fOl' their hinch: across·the country. We know that these con· verely.hurt these programs. · This could not be further from the truth. cerns are similar to other non-public schools _A second type of school food service is op­ Most of the paying students come from fam· across the country. erated from a central diocesan agency recog. Uies whose incomes are not far above the re­ I speak· today on behalf of the ten thou- · nized as the diocesan school food authority. duced price cut-off line. These families ·can sand ~lementary and secondary Catholic Even this central~ed operation can take dif· ill afford a price increase. If · the Federal schools of this country, for the 3,315,000 ferent forms. I will illustrate by describing subsidy is reduced, It is expected that a sig­ children who attend ~hem, as well as for the three different programs operated by dio,. nificant number of paying students will no. millions of people, parents and ot~er · adultS ceses. · longer participate in the program. A sizea· who support them. My stat~ment is meant The first program is that of the Archdio­ ble drop In the number of paying students to. offer-you the general views of .the Catho- cese of New Orleans. The diocesan school in any one program will have a detrimental lie school co~unity as they relate to the food authority makes application for all of impact on the total program. It Is estimated, Administration ~ proposed ~utbacks t:n the its participating schools. School food service that for. every· penny increase in the price of school based child nutrit!on pro~ams. My managers are hired and·trained by the cen­ the lunch, 1 percent of the participants associates will ~ddress more sp~Ifically the tral office. -All equipment, materials, sup­ drop out. Yet, the Administration proposes impact t}1.~se cutbacks will have on the plies and food are centrally purchased and a five cent increase, or a. S percent reduction school feeding programs in their local areas. distributed to the individual schools. Most in participation, which wru have diSastrous They will .also addre~ d~fficulties which of the school food service programs in the ef~ects · on any sch~ol lunch program. The they have been experiencing in trying to op. Archdiocese of·New Orleans are of the on- Administration ,in advocating the five cent erate quality fo~d programs as a result of site food preparation type. · · reduction in the Federal subsidy seems to be recent U.S. Department of Agriculture regu- · . l~tions. I . will be summarizing certain por· Another variety of a centralized program blind to the fact that the current rate ·of in­ tions of the written text and ask the Chair- is one which is operated by. the Archdiocese flation !s hUrting · all famiUes ' at every man to incorporate the full written text into of Chicago. The central office again makes inco~e level especially in the area of food the· record of these hearings: application for all ~f its t»articipatlng costs-any way_of holding food costs down woul~ be a.welcomed relief-even if it mP.ans· ·The 79th congresS in 1946 enacted Public schools. · The central office purchases all Law 79-396, the National School Lunch Act. equipment, materials, supplies and food. maintaining the current level of the Federal subsidy for the full price meal. This Act was th~ first piece of Federal legis- Meals which c~ be heated on-site at the lation to proVide equal benefits to all the individual school are prepared at a c~ntral The Administration is .also proposing to nation's children regardless of where they kitchen or .~ommissary and trucked daily to lower the eligiblity criteria for free ·meals· attend school. T)le Act. . as you are well all partic~pating schools. _ from 125 percent of the poverty level io 100 aware has been amended and broadened A third variety of a centralized program is percent and would lower the eligibility for over the years to provide greater health ·and the type operated l;)y the Archdiocese pf ·reduced price meals from ·195 pereent of the nutritional benefits to our nation's school Philadell)hia. The Diocesan School Food ·poverty level to 175 Percent. This wiD de­ c.hildren especially to t_hose who are poor Authority here sponsors all of its participa,t­ crease participaUon in the free meal phase and needy. The need to. safeguard the ing schools, mak~ the necessary application of .the program and force many children to health ·a.nd· well-being of eur children Hi still to the State Education Agency~ hires all pay the reduced price for their meals with· a major national priority which~ however, is school food service personnel, purchases all out any consideration a.S to whether or not threatened by the harsh economic times equipm~nt, supplies, materials and distrib· families· can afford it. Hundreds of thou­ facing our country today and even more so utes them to each school. The school food sands of children would ·lose their reduced by the ID-advised proposed cutbacks 1n these authori~y contracts with a ·rood vendor to price lunches and would have to pay the full child nutrition programs. deliver frozen pre-plated meals to each price for a lunch. With such wholesale and Currently . about . 4, 700 Catholic schools school. The meals are easily hea~ed at the drastic _changes · tn the program. many participate in the national schOOl lunch pro- school and served to the children. school food authorities would be forced to grani. These schools are chiefly located in. Many dioceses have electe4 to utilize the increase the price of the reduced price. and the major metropolitan centers across the frozen pre-plated meal service because full c~t meal to maintain a -break even country and they provide nutritious meals schools do not have cafeteria space or the point. thus. forcing both schools and· fami­ to hundreds of thousands of poor and needy necessary e.. Supposedly the tion educat~on tralnlng be reautho~ and quired laying off employees over the AIMS procedures and regulations were de­ that program fimda be increased or at least summer month8 and possibly hiring arid veloped in response to Congressional reac­ fully funded. training new employees when the school tion to reports arid studies that· there were a Mr. Chairman, and members of the sub. year resumed. number of school lunch programs poorly. committee, as you can see, there are quite a We urge this committee not to eliminate inefficiently and fraudulently operated. number of issuea peculiar tO the private private nonprofit agencies from sponsoring Coneress recommended that the , Depart­ school community with regard to'the oper­ and · operating summer feeding programs. ment devise and implement a monitoring ation ·of quality ·child nutrition programs The Administration further proposes to procedure' to prevent waste and to detect which need. to be-addressed ln a timely fash­ reduce the funding available for the food fraud in the operation ot school feeding pro­ ion. We think that one of the best ways to se_rvice equipment program. We oppose any grams. We applaud the intent to prevent assure that these peculiarities will receive cuts in an already meagerly funded pro­ waste, inefficiency and fraud. We diSagree the attention they Justly deserve would be gram. The purpose of the food service with much of the preventative measures to. have a. representative from the private equipment program is to enable schools being proposed. elementary and secondary school commutll­ without the lunch program to obtain .the We see AIMS, as orlglna).)y published. as· a ty appainted to the National Advisory nece.ssary equipment to initiate a program. la.r&ely unnecessary, costly. and burdensome Council on Child Nutrition. One of . the It encourages diocesan school food authori­ set of procedures. The procedures were de­ functions of. this National Advisory CouncU ties to expand their programs' ln order to viSed in response to a smaJi number of pro­ "is to make a continuing study of the oper- · serve more children. Tbe food service equip. gr.atns which were guilty of waste. ineffi­ ation of proirama ca'rried out under the Na­ ment program also assists a school food au­ ciency and fraud. Why the school lunch tional School Lunch· Act, the Chlld Nutri­ thority to maintain its program at its cur­ program nationWide has to be saddled wit}\ tion Act, and any related· act under which rent operational level by enabling it to re­ o~erous procedures aimed at a ·few is ques­ meals are provided to chlld.ren, with a view place worn out and· antiquated equipment. tionable. to det~rmining how such programs may be The AIMS procedures could lead to costly improved." The U.S. Department of Agriculture re­ Consequently, we recommend . that . the ports that nationwide there are 9,15-i pri­ and ~xcessive audits. IA.rge programs could po8sibly be subJect to annual audits for provisions of the National Sctlool Lunch Act vate schools without facilities to serve hot establishing the National Advisory CouncU meals. Facilities to serve hot ineals .Js de­ which they receive no extra funds to cover their co&t. State Education Agencies will re­ on Chlld Nutrition be ·amended to require fined as the necessary minimal equipment that a representative knowledgeable about to participate ln the school lunch program. ceive administrative funds to . implement AIMS but no such funds will be available to sch~l food programs from· private nonprof­ We estimate that at least 50 percent, or individual schools· or school food authoritiea it elementary and secondary schools .be ap. 4,500 of these private schools without. facW­ to compensate for the extra program mont-. pointed to this National· Advisory Council. ties to serVe hot meals are Catholic schools. . Mr. . Chairman, we thank you again !Or A cut back ln the food .service equipment toring required. al­ . pr~vidlng· this opportunity for. ua to express. funds will hinder IIl&llT of these schools It should be noted that m<>st programs ready operate in compliance with existing our concerns on these important ~ues. We · from initiating school feeding programs. respectfully request your permission to. Several of the dioceses represented here Departmental regulations. No~ all pro­ grams will have to prove. that they are In submit our statement tor the record. today are in the process of expanding their We. B.lso ·request_your permission. tor my programs to include new schools, but their compliance. AIMS places the ~t,.te Educa­ tion Agency in a position of aetlng as a po­ associates to addresS their particular per­ expansion efforts have be.en thwarted by an &J!ecttves on som.e of these issues.• already low level of funding. Further cuts licing authority and dlmlnishes its role as a may completely exclude any possibility of service-oriented agency concerned with pro­ expansion in Cathollc schools across the viding technical assistance and fostering the THE NATION'S NO. 1 aASKET• Country. operation of quality food sel'Vice ptogriuns. BALL TEAM-TRUET-1'-McCON· Numerous Catholic schools, although not Flnally, we wish to congratulate the mem­ NELL DANETTES participating in the school lunch program. bers of .Congress for authorizing and ftind­ do reeetve limited benefits under the special ing a ·much needed Nutrition Education HON. ED JENKINS -Training Program. The Nutrition Education milk program. However. this program also OP GEORGIA has been targeted for cuts by the Adminis­ Training Program. provides for the equitable tration. We strongly· urge the members of participation of students;; teacherS and IN THE Hqus!: ·oF REPRESENTATIVES · this oomm.ittee to·resist any attempt to se­ school food personnel attending or working_ Wednesday, March 26, 1980 · verely cut or eliminate the special milk pro­ in private schools. gram. Severe cuts or the total elimination of Since . its Inception . several programs ol e Mr. JENKINS. Mr. Speaker. nestled· this program would not be in the best inter­ note-for private school students have been in the foothills of the mountaiils of est of parochial school children. devised. The Archdiocese of Chicago has de­ north. Georgia. a . small town iS cele- · This Administration has often stated that veloped a. comprehensive . nutrition· educa­ brating this week because· of some it would seek any constitutionally accept­ tion curriculum -.htch has 'been successfully dedicated young women· and· their able means to provide financial assistance to introduced into all of its . elementary quest for victory. the p~nts of students who attend private. schools. Teacher training · programs were .. The women~~ )l~ketball team from elementary and· secondary schools. The provided to acquaint them with the.materi­ Truett-McConnell College in Cleve- school luncll program 18 just one such. pro­ als and to Pepnit them to feel conuortable gram which does provide a constitutionally with the .new currlculUJD · materials. This · land~ Ga.• . returned from the National acceptable form of aid to private school'stu.;. program has been lnstrumental.- in increas­ Junior : College . Athletic Association· dents and their parents. Although this fonn ing student participation in the lunch pro- tournament ·as the Nation's No. 1 of aid is minimal, now we find that-. even gram by at least 10 percent. · team. In t'he __national championship these limited benefits which the Federal Similarly, student participation in the game, Truett:.McConnell . defeated Government provides for our children are in lunch program has increased ln the Arch­ Cloud .County; ·Kans:. 63 to 61, to jeopardy of being significantly diminished. diocese of Balttinore as a result of five train- clinch the 1980 'title. · 6800 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 During the· regtilar· basketbaU Ushed by Boaton College's John Kelley. FaiTell . Olen Welle~ , Bill Rowe and Jtm Nahrrana rating.for a. team from a tiny Baptist hll teams have lost 283 pmes and tied 35. , Jtm Murray and A quiet man, Macinnes has been content Wayne Push1e . college in the hUls of north Georgia to let ·his teams do the talking for him. And whlle Macinnes 11 Jtistly proud of · brought some cynical smUes. · And. the Huskies have come through loud the8e hockeJ achievements, hll stitch­ Coach Colby Tilley remarked at that and clear over the years. Macinnes baa scarred face really beama when he points time: made his way up and down behind the out that 94% of his letter winners have left M{chlpn T~h bench. Tech with their degrees ·in their banda. - It's nice to be rated No. i. l;)ut It · really N9w Macinnes has forged another dJ~ Whlle Boughton has been enhanctna ttl doesn't mean. very much because.there will nasty In Mlchlgari'a Copper countrr. where reputation aa the eout~gt&te hockeJ capital, be a national tournament--some team will hockey was an .. estabUshed . profeulonal Macinnes has been· doma more .than devel· wln i~ . and be the - r~&J ~0 • l.:l.ju.st hope It's ffPQrt in the early 1goo ~s and· where some of opinr top.notch hockey · pl¥ and -stu­ us. . . . the game's early stars played for the Por· dents. Be also has been responsible for the His ~ope came true, _but the Dan~ tage Lake te~. · erectioh oi th.e Student Ice Aren., a 4,200.. ettes march to the title was not easy. . Macinnes toek over the reins at Michigan · seat, $2.8-million hockey arena with a play· 1ng 200 85 First. Truett ·had· to win the tough I Tech in time for .ttle 1956-57 season and surtace ot feet by feet-a surface conference in.Georgia. Then, a playoff posted a record ot ..14 victories. ·nine losses as large u IDa.n7 Qf the NHL rinks. RaUYina behind Macinnes. and hll .a,. with the Florida champion. At the na-· and five ties~ .. . kles were the atudenta, who 4ld much .more tioilal . tournament,. ' they defeated u:u::~': · ~l~~~:t&l:.e - ~~e ~ t~!yf~ than supply the cheers that resounded western Wyon;t~ng in the preliniinary western end. of the Upper Peninsula by way through ancient. . Tech'a round. Henderson, Tex., was. the next of the untv~:nity ot Michigan. A goalie, hockey home for Jeara. They reached dowli victim in the-quarterfinals. Northwest )rfaclnnes led· the Wolverines to a pair of 1nto their pockets tor a SPecial ~ent Mississippi, who had been undefeated Western. ·Collegiate Boekey Assochition to finance a gleaming new home. through the entire seaso~ was. di$- titles and i. third-place finish in the 1950. Maclnne. hu been wooed ·by other col­ posed of next. Finally,· Cloud· Ceunty, NCAA tournament.· legea with · dreama of becominr hockeJ Kans., virtually the ~ome team for the Macinnes' hockey cr~denti8ls also incl~de l)owers and rurted With by pro clubs. but he tournament . was. defe~ed _in the a stint with the Detroit Red Wing organiZa· .haa stocxl fut In the COpper Country de­ finals • · tion. Older Detroit and Windsor fans .will :spite the temptatlons.e • also recall him as a goalie in the old Inter· The true No~ 1 team and the nation- national· Hockey ·Leaiue which played its ROOT -AND CHESTER DESIGm:n al Ch&.nlPionship trophy are-. now at &ames in the OlympJa on Monday nights. . WASHINGTON HISTORY .I!!XHitJ. Truett-McCqmiell College · in Cleve:. · Although Macinnes went into business in IT IN CANNON ~OTUNDA . land, Ga. · Ann Arbor after · gradu~tlon from tlle· u. at ~t was once said, '~to travel hopefully u .. he .kept his hand in hockey as direc~r is a better thing than-to arrive, and of the Ann Arbor Hockey· Association. B~ QON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK the true success is to labor " name remalna a famlll~ one today in Ami or'· CALU'O~ . · • · · Arbor amateur hockey ranks by way of an · The Truett-McConnell Danettes AABA sportsljlanship trophy which carries IX TBJ: HOUSE 01' ~~~ATIVES traveled, hoped, arrived, labored, and his name. . · · wectnesctay, Ma.rch Z.B.-1980 . succeeded. It is With great ·pleasure Many · other personal honors have. come e Mr. STARK. Mr. Si>eaker, the and personal pride that I submit this his way during his brilliant career. . Hotise of ·Representativea, through tribute to the t~am and the college.e Be twice has been selected Hockey Coach · ,of the Year by those who· know him best­ your generous offices and the esthetic the .opposing coaches who make up -the Judgment of the Architect of .the Cap. Ainerican Hockey.Coaches Association. ltol, ·has the ·htgh honor and pleasure JOHN MAciNNEs AND MICHIGAN Macinnes has been the WCBA's Coach of currently to enjoy seeilig on Capitol . TECH. HOCKEY. the Year five time!. Be. has ~ided the Bus· Hill .a unique and w~rthy exhibit on kies to three NCAA champfonahlps whUe the histqry of downtown Washlilaton. HON. CARL D. PURSEll reaching the.finals seven times in nine tour· It is with pride that I acknowledge nament .appearances, won seven WCBA this event as a Member of Conaresa OF IIICHIGAK . titles ~d eight and chairman of the Subcommittee on IN ~ IJOUSE 9F REPRESENTATIVES crowns in 15 tournaments. · tn attalnlng natlon8.1 prominence, the Metropolitan AffailiJ of the Commit­ Wednesday, March 26, 1980 B~kies . have skated to 19 winning seasons tee ·on the District of Columbia, and a • Mr. PURSELL: Mr~ Speaker, it gives in the Macinnes era. member of the Ped.eral CouncU on the me great pleasure to pay tribute . to and Tech has ranked amorii the top four Arts and.Humanities. . teanis in .the we~ · .17. times-and the The elf;hibit, e~titled "Two Centuries John Macinnes,- veteran coach of the WCliA is considered the premi~r collegia~ hockey team. of Change: The · Idea of Downtown ·hockey association in the world. · Washington," opened 1D the Cannon John, a longtime personal friend -of · Macinnes also can point with pride tQ mine, recently became the winningest some 20 Michigan Tech players wh6 have rotunda on March ·16 ·and will:rematn coach in· college · hockey February 22 earned All-America honors-plus those who ·on Capitol. HUl through AprU 16. The with his 502d victory. I am sure my ·went on to the National· BoclteY League and .City Museum project organized the colleagues will join ·me in extending . · exhibit 'wl)lch was made possible by a Among the many Huskies. who caught the grant from · the National Endowment warmest congratulations ·to John. · eyes of the pro acouts are Tony Esposito, The Detroit News recently ran an for ·the Hllnlanities with special ass~ Lou Angott• and John Kosiancic . ance from the National Geographic ltem on John's· accompiishments and AI Karlander, , Dennis Bucu­ Society. · coaching record. I insert the article for lak, Herb Boxer; George Lyle, Doug Hinton, the RECoRD. · AI McLeod and Bryan Watts (Red Wings), David Root. and Patricia CheSter of The article follows: ·· . Gary Bauman the 'District of Columbia are the tal­ and Rob Murray ; · ented designers of this exhibit. VICTORY 502-TEcH's . Q~IET MAN ToPa ALi. . Also Steve Jensen and Mike Usitalo· Angeles>. Lyle Moffat and Lome Stanifer uniquely suited to the needS of this John Macinnes, Michigan Tech's veteran , Bob Lorimer , Jim Warden . Jim Mayer University . ot Denver Frid83 night, Mac• . Stu OstlUnd- . · · Chester's charge to craft .an exhibit made him the wlnningest .coach in college Macinnes also has sent a bevY of Huskies whose practical, IJlOdular form would· ·rank!J, boosting him past the ·mark estab- into the collegiate ranks as.CQ&Ches: D&nll7 enable the exhibit to be disp.Iayed at March 26, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6801 sites. of widely varying dlmeDslon and sold lumber, fashioned hats, tended garden. With UUs activist goal. in mind. at the end geome~ric configuration. and watched parades-all within an area of. of "the:tan;U.Iy album," 'the exhibit asks the . d i d to be · a few square miles. . . · ·viSitor to think of the city's future and the The · exhibit is a lso es gne : There are portraits of Individuals: the·· ibtllt '- ft'fted th t th h 1 has · a1· b hlldr poss ':JI 1111 r- a . e w ee come viewed with equ ease Y C en famous like Frederick Douglass: the obscure full. clrcl~ that an energy-conscious society and adults. Handicapped persorls In like Alethia · Tanner, a former slave who will onde. ag~~om want lts downtown to be a wheelchairs also find .the ·exhibit ac- earned the money to buy freedom for her- place where a pedestrian populace can Uve cessible to viewing; another specUica· self and her family by growing vegetables and · work, tend its gardens and watch pa- tton of design. near Lafayette Square: and the flamboyant rades.. · The finished design is proof that like Alexander "Boss" Shepherd who, in the Root and Chester have succeeded in 1870s, dominated the Board·of Public WorkS while miles of streets, water maina and THE .ENTi\NOLING devising the means to accomplish su- sewers were constructed and thousands of BUREAUCRACY perbly the Combined ends· of mobillty, trees were . planted. · However, lacldna au­ accessibntty, and adaptabillty to vary- thortzatlon tor his good works, he lett the lni exhibit sites. · city In debt for more than $20 million. The HON~ ROBERT J. 'LAGOMARSINO For example, last year an exposition city's insolvency ca~ an uproar in Con­ OF CALIPORNIA of "the exhibit waa held In the National gress. Washington's llmlted home rule was ll!f THE BOUSE 01' REPaESENTATIYES Portrait Gallery. That site is very dif.· revoked;. another 100 Jears passed before Wednesday, March 26, 1980 . · ferent in dimension and geometric D.C~ citizens regained the right to elect their own city government. Mr. Mr. Speaker-, configuration from the Cannon ro- The exhibit gtves frank.testimony to the e LAGOMARSINO~ tunda, but the exhibit complemented fiuctuattnt status of the black minority ' we often hear and- discuss the ill ef­ both architectui'al environments with living in a traditional, predominantly white fects of a burdensome and entangling an equally compatible presence. southern town. An 1827 document certifies bureauera.ey. Often it seems that State Mt. Speaker, I urge my colleagues, th&t Eliza Washington. "a bright mulatto .and Federal Government regulations staff, friends, and visitors to see this Woman thirty-one year old living in strangle the effectiveness of our local exhibit while It 11 on Capitol Hill. The the first ward of said city •••" was a treed governments In the cities and . towns slave, a haunting and po11Pl&nt reminder across AmeriCL'- . exhibit and the site actually adorn one that Washington, while ·one. of three cities · What Is not. often heard is how Fed­ another in compleQlentary design and in the nation where the 'free black popula-. eral redtape detrimt'mtally affects configuration of arrangement.· Never tion outnumbered slaves, was also a center finding &IKl keeping qualified person­ have I seen the ambience of the of the slave trade until 1850. Free blacks In Cannon rotun(la &q enhanCed bY. such the city unable to prove their status risked nel tri local governments. an attractively de~;igned exhibit. . ·reenslavement• . I would like to share with you a dr · ds f And, an Item dated almost 100 years later letter from one of my constituents, Dr. D a ny, th. e ·exhibit dra· ws h un e · 0 records the ultimate shame: a 1919 race riot Craig L.. La.rson of Solvang. Calif., who friterested patrons and brings llfe and in which white men. Jollowed by white has . served his c·ommunity as a · a new appreciation to that normalJ,y women and·children. roamed the streets of member of the board of truAtees at empty, but maiDificent, space. Many black ·neighborhoods· looking for people to Santa Y~ Valley Union High School Capitol Hill regulars and visitors are attack. The biacka resi.Sted and the fighting for the last 'I years. Dr. Larson Ia re­ encouraged by · the exhibit's compel· lasted for five: days. A page from the black llng presence alid substance to stop In comniunlty'a newspaper, The Washington liiDine from bis position because he Is of trying to "contend with 'red the CB.nnon rotunda· and enjoy part of Bee, carries the sardonic bann~r. "This Na­ tired what otherwise might have been Just tion•s Gratitude" arid underneath, a head· tape' Involved-In keeping achools 'open ·another routine, hUrried dar. line, "The Colored American Reward tor for business. •"' · fighting for World Democracy." · Dr. Larson's experience should serve David Root and Pat Chester deserve The exhibit was conceived by a committee as a sad renilnder to all of us that big our congl'atulations· and esteem for .of the City Museum ProJect. Inc., an organi­ goverrunent is. too often bad govern­ thetr·excellentlJ designed work. I wish u.tlon founded in 1~75 by a racially and CUI· ment. which prevents the most effec­ them every success in. the fuJ;ure. turally diverse group of people who felt that tive and qualified people from doing Mr. Speaker, in conclusion, I Include Washington needed a city museum. · their job. for the. information of my· colleagues Discussions among the group led to the The letter follows: the tollo~ article. This article aP- Idea that an exhibition telling in depth the · peared In the first edition

CX:XVI----429-Part 5 6802 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 I am sending, a copy of this letter to our the ground Is stained with the blood of Chil· The' program contains $·10 billion to· government representatives. · Not because I ean patriots, including sportsmen, this is expedite conversion ·to coal. with, envl­ feel it Will make any big wave, bu.t keeping also, of course, politics. It is a poltcy of ronplental controls, that· will save be­ In mind an big wa.ves: ·start with one small s"t,ruggltng. and protesting against fascist re­ tween 1 million and 1.5-million barrels drop and only tmoulh many small drops gimes.... So, whenever someone says that will this wave get large enough to be na:­ sport lies outside the framework of political of imported oil per day by 1990. It will tlced. If present conditions continue it wm relations, we feel their remark is not a seri· also mean an increase in coal usage of become increasingly difficult to fill school ous one." 50 million tons.per year. board vacancies ,with competent and caring, If the West took its politics as seriously as Furthermore, the plan provides $300 lndividuals. does the Russian ruling_class, there would million to install pollution control . We need some drutfe measures from our be no doubt about using the boycott as a le­ equipment at. existing coal burning State and Federal governments. Not ln. the gitimate political weapon. Unfortunately, facilities. a step that will significantly form of new lawa, but fewer laws that many of us choose to s~ the games ehvel­ loosen theil' crfp on the educatlpnal sya. oped in the mist of idealism, instead of the reduce sulfur-oxide emissions. tems, returning the control to local districts. rough and tumble world of reality. Mr. Speaker, the need for an effec­ I wish you all the very best In the many Or perhap8, as Alexander Solzhenitsyn tive coal conversion program is well difficult decisions you will have 'In . the warned in 1978 Harvard speech, Americans documented. -In 1978, Congress passed coming months and years. I think we still are losing their courage and willpower, are the Fuel Use Act. a law so riddled with have one of the best. school systems· In the too much influenced by their "possession of permanent and tempor~y exemp. state and I am happ' to have been part of material goods, moneY. and leisure" to risk a tions. that only one powerplant has it. . moral stand. converted as a result of that act. Sincuely, While we wallow in plastic abundance will Dr. CJwa_L. LARsoN.e the Soviets lap up the oil in the Middle This legislation will not mean an im· East? I doubt if even they know. But It is mediate cure to our energy problems, clear that while we debate and hestitate nor will lt put· all miners back to work ONLY SOVIETS CAN POLITICIZE they're deporting and arresting dissidents, tomorrow. It will," however, take a OLYMPICS sending Moscow's · children to· "sumnier major first step in the effort to bring camp'.' to protect thelll from the perils of coal, our most abundant resource, to western influence, and warning residents to the energy forefront and in time I:ION. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI beware of infiltrators and propagandists. reduce our dePendence on tin'ported OF ILLINOIS I see no justification for honoring this energy. . IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES kind of repressive and expansionist govern­ ment with a successful Olympic celebration. Mt. Speaker. ~ ! urge my colleagues to Wednesday, March 26, 1980 Since the Soviet government appears anx­ give . this bill a long hard look. It is ious to welcome politics into the Olympic what America needs, and we must e Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, arena, let us take a page from their own prove, to the American people that we there is a great deal of speculation book and declare it only proper for the rest are indeed committed to solving the over the involvement of the political ·of the world to boycott the Moscow games energy crisis.e world in, the Olympic games. Ari arti­ 1p consideration of the Afghan · patriots cle in the Chicago Tribune on March [many of whom are undoubtedly sports­ 24 very objectively studies this issue. I men] whose blood stains the mountains and NUCLEAR POwER AND insert this fine article by Karen L. grasslands of Afghanistan. NATIONAL SECURITY Coffin at this point: A successful boycott would be a grfevous wound to Soviet pride and Soviet legitimacy. Sovu:is SPELL IT OuT: ONLY THEY CAN It is the only course the United States can HON. JOHN W. WYDLER POLITICIZE OLYMPICS morally take.e EUGENE, ORE.-AJDong' the souvenirs OF NEW YORK- brought home from a recent visit to Lenln­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gr3(1, I found a remarkable bit of propagan­ THE POWERPLANT FUEL Wednesday, March 26, 1980 da. By Soviet standards it's a slick little pub­ CONSERVATION ACT 0~ 1980 lication, obviously designed to. please west­ • Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, recent­ ern eyes and taste, and intended to prepare ly, -Maj. Gen~ Lee v. Gossick, USA~ visitors for Moscow's version of the Olympic HON. NICK JOE RAHALL II . the frozen coal ye.rds of the severe winter of needs through the remainder of· this cen.. responsibntties for some aspect of energy 1971-78 are but two reasons to question the tury. production in the country. · In the mean- prudence of"pegglng the immediate energy As all the world now knows, the accident while, little or nothing of significance has future to this single fuel. Another 1s the en­ at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station been done to deal· with the looming short- \fironmental problem. with stringent restrie­ Unit 2 on March 28, 1979, has raised ques­ fall in. electrical capacity to meet the needs tiona on the si~ of .coal-fired plants and tions in the minds of many regarding the of the coming decades, to recognize ·as a the likelihood of new pollution concerns if. safety of nuclear power. The critical reap­ matter of national· policy that coal and nu- coal-burning 1s &reatlY Increased. Indei>end­ praisals and the self-criticism evoked by this. clear are the maJor domestic source$ of elec-- ent studies have shown that 'the health ef• serious accident could and should result in tricity available for the rest of-this century. fects of coal-fired. plants are ~bstantlally safety ·improvements, with a real and per­ and to remove the impediments to the or- greater than those_of nuclear power plants. manent reduction in the hazards of nuclear derly and adequate development of these re- LESSONS LEARNED PROM rio operations. The accident certainly presents sources to meet that purpose. that opportunity and challenge to both gov­ An insufficient electric P<>wer supply- Assuming that the .Three Mile ISland acci· ernment and industry. with extended shortages. of electricity to dent will not be perinitted to scuttle the Without a doubt, safety Is the essential serve the needs of the public-is a condition technology and the Industry. it must then pre-co~dition to the use of nuclear P<>wer. which this nation has not faced-since elec- be asked Just what will come out of the ex­ Of course, no one. can say that this or any trical power became widely available, not perience. This accident--unfortunate and other techiiology is completely without risk.· even during World War II. Even ·moderate deplorable as it certainly was-should now This was well understood from the begin· interruptions In electrical supply, because of be regarded as an invaluable opportunity to nin& of the technology.·A new development natural e.enta or breakdowns in the system. ~e the level of safety and effectiveness of which holds pro!J$e of ·substantial benefitS are viewed with great ooncern by Ameri- regulation in this vital enei'Q field. In par: seems always to be accompanied by some cans. who may suffer economic impact as ticular. it is an opportunity to bring about: new risks. The Congress .insisted trom the well as iilconvenience. Tolerance of ex- Increased awareness on the part of indU.S-. Inception of ctvWan nuclear activities that .tended shortages and periodic tOtal inter- try of its inescapable responsibntty for the such risks be considered with the utmost se­ rupti.ons In supply are not. I would think. an safe operatiOn of nuclear faeillties. · · riousness, and that sat_ety be the concern of option tO be entertained In framing ~ur na- An even higher quality regulatory pro- paramount importance. Government ·an4 in­ tion&l energy plan. · gram . · decades to reduce the risk to the public ON wo:aLDwm• NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT More participation In the lacation of nu- health and safety from nuclear accidents to On a worldwide b8s1s, nuclear energy as a clear power plants \)y state and local govern­ extremely row levels. But it must be recog­ source of electricity continues to lain adher- menta and members of the public. · nlzecl that there is a need for eontlnulng re­ ents, Including developing natlona whose Recognition by the congi-ess of the reall­ search and development to Incorporate the ·energy needs are _grovn.ng apace but whose ties of our electrical generating needs for lessons ·of experiiilent and experience Into energy options are more limited than those the balance of this century. and of the need the safety features of nuclear reactors and of Industrialized stateS. Since 1978, the for clear decisions to remove unnecessary reduce even further the· already-low prob­ number of countries outside the Uritted impediments to the construction of new abillty of nuclear aCcidents. States with amiounced nuclear energy pro- coal-fired and nuclear generating units. Without the assurance of safety,- there Is grams rose from 46 to 52 and electrie&l A candid disclosure to the people of the no question but that the economic and­ megawatt capacity rose 20 .. percent. to consequences of a curtailed eiectrical supply other benefits of nuclear energy simply 436,012 megawatts <588 reactors>. Nuclear over the ~xt few decades. In terms of the could not be made available for our people. plant orders ·fn other countries went from 12 security of·the United States, as well as the ThuS, no signifiCant safety isSue can be ne: units In 1977 to 29 units in 19'18. economic well-being of its citizens. · glected In the regulation of nuclear power. The acceptance of and reliance oil nuclear Three Mile Island can and should be an Responsible officials must thoroughly un· energy outside the United States 1s thus an opportunity• .but it could~ prove to be a derstand safetY issUes, · and the associated establlshed fact of life. and the degree of de- maJor. distraction and obsta.qe to the resolu­ risks must be candidly presented and ade­ pendence on it Is growing. In 1980. eight tion of certain longstanding Questions crltl­ quately expl~ed · tO the publlc. To· do any­ other countries WW generate a larger por- cal to the future avi.Uabillty of nuclear thing less would be literally irr-esponsible­ tion of their total electrical · output by power. Amon& these are: unresponsive to fundamental rights of a means of nuclear fission than the 13 ·percent What 1s to be done with radioactive free society-and would neither inspire nor of U.S. output contributed by our nuclear waste.. both low-level and high-level, and deserve public confidence. plants. In France. nucleat will contribute 26 will a permanent disPOSal facillty be in place THE COSTS OP DELAY IN NUCLEAR PLANT percent of the total; ~ Sweden. the share _. In time to avoid a shutdown of facilltles now. Cea, always trying to make paratively low and the competitive advan­ but what people seldom stop tO consider is the Star-Free Press better ·and more mean- .. th ta. id b bli 1 - ingtul to you. If our advertising isn't effec­ tage of the savings to be realized for the tha;" e xes P& Y pu c emp oyees are tlve, the advertisers don't have to do bust- electric consumer has increased. And nucle­ our taxes recycled-which means that we · ar plants operate in any climate at any must pay higher.. taxes so they. can pay .ness wtth us-and that keeps our advertising season of the year. They are refueled in the taxes. So the nightmare goes. · people on their toes. ~~~~ - ~g_ ~ light . ~c:l ~~t intq Government, unlike private enterprise, · And, inore important· than everything else homes. offices and factories thro~hout the needn't be efficient because it doesn't pro- put together, we have the freedom to write winter when coal barges can af\d have duce products people buy by choice. Wl1e...n ~olumns like th~e.e become stw:k in river-ice and trucks cannot It comes to government, people don't seem move over snowbound highways. And they to 'have much · choice at aU-but they still add but a min:tscule amount to the radiation must pay the.tab. that is everywhere . . · · Well~ first off. everybody m Ventura One . other point bears repeating-one would receive a subscription. The price HON. LOUIS STOKES 1,000-megawatt nuclear plant represents the would be however much it would take to OF OHIO ene.rgy equivalent .of about 10 million bar-· _produce the newspaper. And, of course, it IN THE HOtiS.E OF REPRESENTATIVES . rels of oil annually. If all of. the nuclear would cost more. plants currently ~der construction, or Wednesday, ltfarch 26, 1980 . review for construction permits, are com­ There would .be environmental impact re­ pleted and put into operation by the late ports required for certain advertisements e Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker. a few 1980s, the electrical generating capacity of and in all likelihood we· would have to print days ago I had the pleasure of partici­ the resulting 186 nuclear power plants will _bilingual versions ol t.he paper. We wouldn't patirig in the 62d anniversary lunch­ ·be equivalent to the ·consumi>tion of five publish every day because government eon of the Urban League of Greater mfilion barrels of oil per day. As of the end closes shop on holidays. Cleveland. .It has become a tradition of of October 1979, the United States was con­ We'd have to improve all the fringe bene­ the Urban League in Cleveland to give. suming, for all purposeS, about 17.5 million fits and salar)es to make them comparable awards at their annual luncheon to barrels of on per day, of which eight million to other government agencies and increase the family of the year. to. a corp.ora­ barrels were being imported. the number ot employees. And we'd ·mo~t To ins\u'e the oonti~ued availabllity of nu­ certainly have· to refurnish our building so tion who has furthered the. cause of clear power in meeting our energy nee.ds that it would be up to the plush standard& equal opportunity. and a successful and ln reducing our .. dependence on for~lgn maintained by government. Nothing ·ex­ minority business. I would like to take oi•• however, there is' needed a clear, firm, · travagant like. the County ·Government this opportunity to.share with my col­ national policy on nuclear power, including Center-but certainly something ''to make .Ieagues some b.ackground information the disposition of nuclear wastes, a stream-. t~e p~blic p10ud." · on 'this year's award winners. lined and more effective regulatory progtam But agaiil, no problem. We'd merely raise . The Urban League bestowed the involving a fully informed public, .and an all the prices· accordingly, and you couldn't Famlly of the Year Award on the pervasive safety consciousness throughout voice your protest by a.nceling your sub­ family of Melvin and Ethel Pye. Al­ the industry and the government.e scription. Y~>U could .thrdw the newspaper into the trash when it. arrived, but you'd though they are not native Cleveland­ sun have to p&Y. for.tt.. ers, during their 30-year residency in A "PUBLIC" PR~SS? And there wouldil't be any certainty when the city of Cleveland they have it wou•d ·arrive since I suspect our cir<;pla­ become entren~hed ln ~lmost every HON. ROBERT J·. LAGOMARSINO tion department would be under the arm of facet of the Cleveland community. . OF CALIFORNIA the U.S. Postal Service. The .Pye famtly established them­ IN THE HOUSE. OF REPRESENTATIVES A few thJngs wouldn't change.· (lovem­ selves li1 the business community. by ment already dictates the kinds of classified operating a day care nursery for pre­ Wednesday, March 26. i 980 advertisements we can or Ca.nnot accept~ But school children from · 1951 to' 1957. if we were government-operated, restrictions They also operated · a neighborhood ·e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, wou].d likely be even more severe. If you I would like to bring to the attention store from 1961 to 1964. Presently, wanted to run an ad for a garage sale, yo~ of my colleagues an article by· Stan might first need to -convince an agency that. they are involved in Group . Homes,· Whisenhunt in the March 3 ·Ventura you have sufficient off-street parking and Inc. in Cleveland~ County Star-Free Press. that the things you want to sell meet envi­ The famUy is also active in the com­ Mr. Whisenhunt clearly explains the ronmental and safety sta.ndards. munity. Mr. Pye is· a member · of the value of a free press lridependent of ·You would have to plan your garage sale 21st District Caucus.' Mrs. Pye is a go_vernment interference. ln addition, weeks or even .months in advance so you member of the Council on Human Re- . he upholds the principle of our free would have time to cut through all the .red lations. a board membe:r for the New enterprise system fil. which' a· product tape to make sure YOur sale would meet the Day Press and a member of the Glen- or publication mtist be continually im­ necessary standards to make it possible fOl ville Area. Community Council. · proved .to be suc'oessful with the you to run the classlfled ad. The · Pyes have four · chfidreil­ public; as we know. some government There might be some·advantages to being Melvtn. Jr.• Constance. Francine, and programs ,would not survive . if they nn'l by the government. Pollticlans wouldn't Toni Ann. The family exemplifies need to spend your money on newsletters to were not subsidized. I am as eoncemed promote their so-ealled accomplishments. · hard work, education. togetherness. as my constituent is with the progres· They'd merely print them in the newspaper. sense of c·ommunity. and ·a strong sively smaller number of. private pro~ aut it wowdn•t be reasonable to expect the belief in pod as the key to success:. ducers. We must recognize the impor-.-· newspaper to prlnt anything about ·their This year _the corpora~ award wen:t tant role that ·these private enterprises ·failures. · to TRW. The company h~ a staff of March 26, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6805 98,000 employees in the Cleveland ture limitation formula is that it is an ec~ My .bill integrates this congressional• metropolitan area and has established nomic indicator that does not rise and fall ly mandated target into legislation with economic cycles. Those formulas that pertaining to the overall budget proc­ a leadership role in the. area of equal. limit expenditures to a percentage of nomi­ opportunity employment in the gener­ nal GNP have the dis­ ess, even though. the specific objec­ al area: advantage of requiring cuts in outlays . tives of this legislation are not employ­ TRW has demonstrated its commit... ·during a,recession. ment related. ment to equal opportunity by improv­ The ·ceilings contained in my bill Will ing its employment record of minor- Although some controversy sur­ have the undeniable effect of limiting ities and women iil its U.S. plants and . rounds the use of ~ 4-percent unem­ .or reducing budget outlays and, there.: ·offices for the fifth consecutive year. ployment rate in estimating potentia_! fore. the. Government contribution to As a.result of these efforts, 8 percent GNP, Congress accepted tb.is figure as the inflation rate. of the managers and 14 percent of the an appropriate target when it passed The following two tables, compiled professional employees at TRW ·in the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employ- by CBO on March 25, compare the 1979 were minorities: ment and Balanced Growth Act of ceilings associated with the three bills The minority business awardee was 1978. As . the post-WWII baby boom referred to abov.e. Table 1 assumes im­ the Polytech Incorporated Co. It is generation matures and the growth of plementation in fiscal years. ·198) one of the largest miilority-owned en- the ·labor force slows, the difficulties through 1985. Table 2 assumes imple­ gineering consultant firms in .the associated with achieving this goal will mentation tn fiscal· years 1982 through country~ diminish in severity. 1985. · · The headquarters for the company 'is Cleveland and 15 offices are located throughout the United states. Poly­ TABLE 1.-THE EFFECT OF IMPLEME~TING H.R. 5371, H.R. 6021, and H.R. 6706 IN FISCAL YEAR.1981 ON HBC FIRST tech has completed major engineering CONCURRENT RESOLUTION FOR FISCAL YEAR 1981 OUTLAYS AND ON PROJECTED TAX EXPENDITURES, FOR FISCAL YEARS assignments in the fields of rapid rail . 1981-85 transit, highways, dams• and sewer. [In btllions of dollars] systems. · In addition to 1ts success in the busi- . 1980 1981 ~982 1983 1984' i985 ness world, Polytech Inc. has been 'in­ Projections: • HBC outlafa in FCR for fiSCal year 198-L...... 560 612 683 . 775 .•842 • 914 volved with the Urban League's tech­ 206 233 265 302 . 345 nical outreach program. The company ~~~:~edplu~t!~=:~r~: : ::: : :: : :::: : : : : : :: : : : : :::: :: : : :: : :::: ::: : :::::: : :::::::: : :::: : :::: }~~ 818 916 1,040 }.,144 1,259 Expenditures hmit: has hired over 20 individuals through 587 628 709 797 892 the Urban League's referral program. 796 8.79 975 1,096 1,226 ~ : ~ : ~m !E,:~h:: : :: :: : ::::::::: ::::: :: : : :: : : : :: :::::::: : :::::: : ::::::::::: : :::::: : ::::: :: ::::::~ : : :: : : : ::: 605 639 701' 778 850 At this time, Mr. Speaker, I would. Amount that could be added ( +) or must 1!8 cut ( - ): like all of my colleagues to join nie in H.R. 5371 • ...... ;...... -...... -25 -55 -66 -45 -22 H.R. 6021 4 .....; ...... ; ...... - ...... -22 -37 -65 -33 ·s~luting this year's award winners.e H.R. 6706 • ...... ,...... -7 -44 -68 ·-a- 4 -64 Economic assum£tions: 2,.794.3 3,139.4 3,543.7 3,984 .3 4,459.6 DODD· FEDERAL SPENDING ~:~~~ ~:P. r:~l ;~s "<: ~::: : :::: : ::: : :::: : :: : : :: ::: : : : ::: : : :: :: : : : :::: : : :::: ::: : :: : : :::::: : · B~~ : ~ 3,025.9 3,369.6 3,723.6 4,094.5 4,47Z.9 CONTROL ACT • CBO projections from HBC adopted outlays. . ' Due to hmitationl of current methodology the level of projected tax expenditures is not sensitive to changes in the economy: · • Fr0111 outlays. · d From sum of outlays plus tax expenditures. HON. CHRISTOPHER J. DODD • Economic assumptions associated with HBC First Concurrent Resolution for Fiscal Year 1981. OF CONNECTICUT 'Potential GNP assuming full employment equals 4 percent, and derived from CEA estimates. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mote: A.s of March 25, 1980. · · Wednesday, March 26, 1980 TABLE 2.-THE EFFECT OF IMPLEMENTING H,R. 5371, H.R. 6021, AND H:R. 6706 IN liSCAL YEAR 198~ ON HBC FIRST .. Mr. DODD. Mr. Speaker, on CONCURRENT RESOLUTION FOR FISCAL YEAR 1981 OUTLAYS AND ON PROJECTED TAX EXPENDITURES, FOR FISCAL YEARS Wedne&day, ~arch 5, I introduced and . 1981-85· . testified in favor of H.R. 6706, which would limit Federal budget· outlays to [In billiens gf dollars) fixed percentages of potential, 01' full 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 employment, 6NP. In my bill, poten-· Projections: tial GNP assumes a 4-percent unem­ HBC outlays in fCR for ftscal year 1981...... 560 il2 683 775 •842 • 914 ployment rate. 233 265 302 345 &~~~~~~~~~ t=~~~di~~~ : : :::: : ::::::::::::::: : :::::: :: : ::: ::: : ::::: : : : ~: : : :::: :: : : :::: :::: l~l 916 1,040 1.144 1,259 This approach differs from the ap­ Expenditures lim it: m in 559 709 797 892 proach used H.R. 5371 , rather than a· fore­ cast of actual GNP , to ;calculate · a spending limitation. First, al­ TRIBUTE TO FRANK J. ana distinguished career as the police though it is difficult to estimate potential MATTIOLI chief of the town' of Sout:tiborough,­ ·GNP, it is even more difficult to forecast Mass. The board of selectmen has pre• actual GNP. The latter task requires an as­ pared the following tribute m honor of sessment of the future behavior of all eco­ HON. JOSEPH ·i>. EARLY nomic sectors-product markets, factor mar­ Chief Mattioli, and I · am· delighted to ket6;, financial ' markets, government spend­ OF MASSACH.USETTS fusert these .. words of commendation ing and revenues, and international trade­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and appreciation in the R:a:cotm today: 'while estimating potential GNP is confined Wednesday, .March 26, 19_80 · PRANK J. MATTIOLI, CHn:r or Poucz. to a relatively few variables. RETIRED ' The. second-and more importan~advan­ e Mr. EARLY; Mr. Speaker, Frank J. Frank Mattioli was first appointed to the .tage of using potential GNP in an expend!- Mattioli ·retired recently after a long Southborough Police Department in 1952 as 6806 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 a part-time patrolman. At that time, the De­ claimed 144 Uves. Yet only this month Lindbergh. There have been too many near· _partment consisted only of a part-time chief did the F M finally announce it would misses since Flight 172 went down. · · and a part-time patrolman. Rumor has it create a terminal control area at Lind· It's not a matter of blame.· It's a matter of that sometime in 1954, without prior notifi­ bergh Field, to take effect 'May 15. A common sense. And time i.i running out.• cation, Frank received a letter from the Board of Selectmen advising him that he series ·of . near misses above San ,Diego had been appolilted Chief i Since there was no duous. SECURITY police station at that tinle, Frank had the The deJJi.y has moved many San Die· Department .telephone installed at his gans to ask why the process of devel­ home. · · oping improved safety measures has HON •. TOM HARKIN . In 1955, the Town created two full-time taken so long. Our colleague, ELLIOTT OF IOWA positions in· the Police Department, with LEvi'l'AS, describes the FAA as' a place IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Frank as Chief and Henry B. Pietrasiak ~ patrolman. At that time, the Marlbor.ough where-in part as a result of conflict­ Wednesday, March·26, 1980 Police Department provided back-up dis­ ing pressures-"* • • the right hand patch service for the Southborough Depart­ does not know what the ·left hand is e Mr.-HARKIN. Mr. Speaker, an edl· ment; that is, if no one was at Frank's house doing." Perhaps this assessment, based torial appeared thts Monday. March to answer a call, Marlborough would take on the GAO report,. goes 8. long way 24 in the Christian Science Monitor the call and dispatch to Frank or Hank in toward answering·our questions. .which I found t. heard throU:fhout the h~ of Congress. perhape to amend tbrt»u&h legislation th~ We also witnessed a President who·seemed This big man was quiet and introspectl•e administration's dual role of·matntaintng atr and disliked· notoriety. Frank preferred to to abandon the. prlnclples he earlier· sought safety programs and promoting the aviation to Include tn hls administration's foreign ro about his Job and see that the membera Industry. of his Department did the same. His twenty­ 'policy: promotion of human rights, restraint eight years of service on behalf of the Town The PAA also has been. criticized for fall· on arin8 sales, nonproliferation of nuclear of Southborough, and the affection which .ure to utilize the $3.5 bUllon surplus accrued materiala, ehecu on CIA covert· activity, an Ita residents have for Frank,' stand u the from a ticke\ tax. The fund ta for the im· all-vol~teer military service, and'reduction besl testimontals to his efforts. provement of safety facilities a~ the natiQn'e o.f defense spending. The Board of - Selectmen forinalb' ex­ airports. To date, the onl7 expenditure from In the aftermath of Vietnam and Water­ presses to Frank the ·gratitude of the rest­ the ticket tax fund was $200,000 for artistic :gate, these were the very objectives that dents of the Town, .and wiSnes him wen worJts at the Atlanta airport. Jimmy Carter pronllsed as a candidate; arid, auring the retiremeni which he has And the latest word on the local scene is as a President, he and the Conp-ess have eamed.e · that & new air · ~raffle safety plan tor San worked hard to Implement _ these goala Diego again has been delayed. Last month during the first four years. Now the PreSi­ PAA chief Langhorne B(md sald It would be dent, with the apparent blessing of the Con• GAO REPORT CRITICIZES FAA announced March 4 and put into effect gress, was promot~ somethinr different 'March 20-21. ·- · · · and disquieting. · HON. LIONEL VAN .DEERUN It has been almost ·11 months since the What does an this mean? Are we aba.ildon­ midair collision of an airliner and small atr~ ing our humanitarian goals? Ia thi.s the OF CALIFOIUfiA craft claimed the Hve.- of 144 persons. And' -death knell bf "detente?" Are we possibly IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES still nothing baa changed. revertlll&' back to the "defensive pacta­ - . manta" of the 1950s-the Dulles-Nixon-Kts. Wednesday, March 26,.1980 In the meantime, some '1 mllllon passen­ gers fiy in arid out of ldndbergh Pleld each singer policies of embracing unsavory dicta­ e MJ;. VAN DEERLIN. Mr. -Speaker. year, trusting their well ~ing to God and ·tors only because they spout anticommunist the General Accounting Office recent-· the Federal Avl&tlon Admqustratlon. slogans to win our affections? Iy released a critique of the procedures News this· week shows that Congress Is as Few doubt the need to stren&then exJstinr of the Federal Aviation Administra­ tired of waiting as we here in San Diego are; US resolve and commitments in a volatfie tion. It has told the PAA to announce an air world. but this requires more than sheer safety plan for San Diego by March 24 or be military force or strategic preparedness. US We tn .san Diego B.r~ familiar .with hauled before . the Rouse to explain the strength Is measured by 9ur self-confidence, the potential weaknes8~s 1n those pro­ delay. · our maturity as a people, and the insights cedures. It has been 18 months since a As we have said many times. there are too and actions of ·our leaders. Carter himself midair collision between a ·commercial many Uvea .Involved to continue mixing the has nqrtured this theme in US policy for­ airliner an~ a small private_ plane flights of &mall alreraft. wtth Jetliners at mulation. March 26, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6807 European pa.rltamentarians With whom I AN ANTI_SPENDING LOBBY program that. ought to be spared the ax. It recently had dlseusslons about · humari was ever thua, and it will continue ·.thus long rights expressed the view that American r~ into the summer of 1980. straint in the Iranian criSis is .a much ad· HON. ROBERT·J. LAGOMARsiNO ·Through it all we ho'pe. that the consum- ' mired stsn of our strength a.9 a people. Tbey OF ·cALIJ'ORNIA ers-who pay the fees and the high prices poln.ted out tbat for too lone we have been IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES but who also have the· votes-can lobby the wedded to pollctea ttui.t committed its to White House and Conrie5s as they never adqptlng the odious tactics. principles, and Wednesday, March 26; 1980 have before. The message needn't be com­ pollcies of our adversaries.· Too often· we e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, plicated: Reduced spending beats balancing abandoned our own values by pursuing ex­ the administration's plan · to balance any day.e pedient and symboUc actions. the budget ·by increasing revenues Even thotigh the national dialogue today while. not sufficiently trimming waste­ is dominated by military approaches-estab­ . FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF lishing mfilta.ry facUlties In the Persian ful· Government spending falls far Tin: KA~ FOREST MASSACRE Gulf, enla.rdnc our rapid deployment force, short of correct~g the . inflationary establilhlng a naval presence In the Indian spiral Ameri~a is experiencing. Ocean, the sale. of previously baimed m.ilf. · · A recent editorial in the Santa Bar­ HON. MAITHEW J. RINALDO tary eq,ulpment to ·china, and cultivation of bara. Calif., News-Press entitled, "An OF NEW JERSEY . security ties with other countries all along Anti-Spending Lobby," 1i"resents this IN THE .HOUSE 01' .REPRESENTATIVES Russia's southern border-all of this has its problem and explains it well. I would Wednesday, Mq,rch 26, 1980 price. It eomes at· ~he e;xpense of other like to share it with my colleagues: values that are equally Important In our re­ e .. Mr~ RINALDO . .Mr. Speaker, this lations with the world community. AN "ANTI-SPElmiNG LoBB'f . year marks the 40th anniversary of a It would be tragic lf we have now reached One of the biggest causes of today's awful grim event in .Polish history, which we . a point where firm promotion of human inflation has been the federal government's must never forget. The Katyn Forest rights and restraints on nuclear and conven­ reckless extravagance, spending tens of bU­ ltons of dollars more than it had. It follows, massacre is a historic8.1 reminder of tional arms .sales are politically anathema. the ruthless means used by Commu­ But clearly events In Iran, Etblopla, Phlllp­ then, that Washington mu"st drastically cut down on its spending, to restore ·worth to nist aggressors in · their quest for l>lnes, Zaire, Pakistan. Nicaragua, Cambo­ real dollars. · power. dia, Chlle~ Argentina. and Guatemala have shown that· human rights concerns are di­ But President Carter didn't seem to have In 1939, the.Soviet Army occupied a rectly related to our genuine, long-term se­ this firmly in mind when he presented his large portion of eastern PolailCt. curity interest-something that cannot be new fiscal policy to the nation. He seemed During that occupation, ·approximate­ purchased with guns, airplanes. and ·the to be st1,1ck on the phraser "balanced budget," rather than the phrase, "cut ly 15,090 Polish Army officers, civilian tralnlng of tortur~rs~ It has never been the ~pending." officials. and intellectuals were taken lack of weapons l)ut internal discord and in­ captive by th~ Red Army and placed in sensltlvity to human ·needs that threaten· . These are not necessarily the same·-thing. several prisoner-of-war camps. includ­ auch repre8sive · gaverrunents and· often otlr There 'is no.particular magic In balancing own security interests. . · a budget. You can do it by cutting spending, ing one at Starobelk• .fn the eastern . ·people tend to fo:rget that the United or bf increaslnl)'our reve~_ue, or ~ ~oPle_of Ukraine. States' uncritical support of regimes like the both. carter d~i are beinc trained tn Cuba other 10,000 Polish ,prisoners of war san. Indianapolis. Ind., Rod.Klmbrough, In· and Russia. And a real freedom fighter, An· captured by the· RusSians are still un­ dianapolis. Ind.• Ledon Upchurch, M1lncie, gola's Savlmbi, _ceta· no hearing at all when Ind., Jimmy Haines, Louisville, Ky., Fred he comes to America. accounted for. In all likelihood these· McKinney, Indianapolis, Ind., Mark Miller, Just as the Emperor Napoleon reduced men also were slaughtered, and their Ramsey, Ind., 'Mike .Bateman. Indianapolis, European countries to YaSSals of his empire bodies lie today in frozen graves, far Ind., David Skinner, Athletic Director and under the banner of.ltberU. ao too the Rus· from their homeland. · Basketball Coach, Mark Kulp, Manager, Dr. sian Empire. fa extending its grip over Africa Steve Coppock, Vice President/Director, A. under the ·banner of "liberation," like a sol· These barbaric transgressions of R. Sullivan. President, Theresa Milner, dier "liberating" bottles of cognac. · hu:man rights were only the prelude to Cheerleader, Cherie Hale, Cheerleader, But what is the point of all this? Does Dr. an even greater horror which was to Rachel Baughman, Cheerleader, Jo Lyons, Solodovnikov. generously want to take over befall the people of Poland at Soviet Cheerleader, Sandy Burton, Cheerleader, all the aid programs of the previous· col~ hands. Stripped of her military, civil­ Renee Phillips, Cheerleader, and Taminy nists? . ian, and ·intellectual leadership, the Orr. Cheerleader.e No, the prize Dr. Solodovnlkov is reaching Polish nation stood ·virtually defense­ for is far, far more valuable than that. If he less against its inevitable conquest by can grab Africa~ he coul4 achieve a strangle­ SOVIET'S SOUTH AFRICA hold on the whole industrial world. Here is a Stalinist regime whose very exist:. STRATEGY_:_WORSE THAN OPEC? ·his plan, which, Incidentally, ts frankly dis~ ence remains dedicated to world domi­ cussed by Soviet strategists: · nation. HON. JIM SANTINI · Take over the countries surrounding Death by murder, in all its horror OP NEVADA South Africa. Sponsor guerrilla incursions mto South and grief, is merciful compared with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the living hell experienced by a people Africa itself. Wednesday, March 26, 198(1 Provoke a civll war in South Africa, and whose liberties have been robbed from pour in_military sul)port to the U.S.S.R.· them. e Mr. SANTINI. Mr. Speaker, I call backed faction. . . . . In memory o{ those Polis.h patriots my colleagues• atteqtlo,n to an excel­ Since South Africa and- Russia together­ who died . 40 years· ago in Katyn lent article, written by John Train, in by a geological freak-control virtually all Forest, and in recognition of Polish the March 17. 1980, issue of Forbes the reserves of several minerals that are in· magazine. Tne article descr.bes the dispensable in mOdem industry, the Soviet people who are today denied . their Soviet Union's strategy to gain control Union then will be able to.hoid the Western 'liberties let the Soviet' Gov.ernmept over South Africa-a strategy designed World to ransom to an extent never know that neither time nor Soviet lies to control the minerai wealth; As Mr. dreamed of by OPEC. If South Africa falls, and propaganda will ever disguise the Train succinctly states, if the Soviet the West will have to. submit to extortion terrible crimes they ··have . committed Union can grab South Africa, she over these minerals or go to war-against against the people of Poland. superior Soviet forces. would have a stranglehold on the Chrome is indispensable· In making stain­ Let the Soviet Government . know whole industrial world through the less steel, fQr which there is rio substitute in that neither guns nor walls, threats of minerals essential to our survival. inany industrial appllcations. It has, inter! death, or even death itself, shall ever The. chart at the end of the article estingly, been established beyond any doubt extinguish ·the flame., of freedo!Jl, reveals the total world percentage of that the u.s .. obeying the U.N. sanctions: which burns in the hearts of all Polish against Rhodesia, has bought Rhodesian reserves of critical and strategic miner­ chrome through Russia. people.e als which are found· in the U.S.S.R. Vr.Jladium is a key alloy in special steels. and South Africa. The United States Manganese is used for battery electrolytes NLCAA TOURNAMENT and its allies rely Oii South Africa for and for hardening steel. significant import.& of chrome. vanadi• Platinum, which, as a catalyst, vastly fa· urn, manganese, and platinu~. ·Loss of cllitates some chemical reactions without HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOU access 'to these mineral supplies would. being itself consumed, is at the moment OF KENTUCKY be devastating .to the economy and de­ chiefly used for catalytic converters in auto­ .IN. THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fense security of the enttre Western moblles. The metal is also indispensable in World. crystal growth and glass manufacture. sinc.e Wednesday, March 26, 198(1 platinum is the only material that_ can .con­ e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, ou · Our reliance on OPEC for on has tain certain cliemicals without contaminat­ March 14, Sullivan Junior College of caused personal hardships, high infla­ ing them or succumbing to oxidation in the Business beat Oakland City 57 to 53 to tion rates, and an· aura of crisiS, but 1>Pen air. these would appear a.S mere incon­ Some of these metals are interchangep.ble, win its first National Little· College veniences compared to ·the effects of but losing southern Africa would expose ua Athletic Association tournament since extortion, blackman. or denial of stra­ to the loss of all of them, which would mean 1969. Sullivan has also wori titles in tegic and critical minerals as a result that Pittsburgh could be closed down after 1967 and 1968. of a Soviet Union-dominated mineral the months or few years that our stockpllea Forward Fred McKinney, a sopho­ market. · lasted. It would take us years to open new more at Sullivan, was named th~ tour­ mines, at immense coat. . nament's most valuable player. I urge you to read the. article en­ · The opportunities for blackman In thla This was the 14th annual NLCAA titled "Worse Than OPEC?": situation are outstanding. Already the WORSE THo OPEC? threat of Russi&l) military and economic tournament. Sixteen 2- and 4-year col­ power preventing our former loyal ally, leges from across the CC>Untry partici­ baa fallen into his hands, al· the U.S. wJ:io do not want to give ·South their great victory. though it fa still twitchin«, &long with Mo­ Africa the time it needs to solve its racial At this point I would like to insert lJ1 zambique. which blocka Rhodesia's access to probleD18. They are playiJlg- Dr. Solodovnl· the RECoRD the ·roster of this year's the sea. The swAPO cuerrllla gang hopes kov•a game. In .-.n upheaval in South Afr.ca Sullivan team, which compiled a ·ster­ to get South-West Africa/Namibia under stimulated by Western P9lltical and eco­ control. Like a 'chessplayer exchanging a nomic press~es or Thir · nesses for nearly 20 years. District. Thank you, Al.e · The first annual breakfast was held May 26, 1956 at the Statler Hotel, guest speaker With all of his owti business duties was Dr. Anita Hedgeman. -to oversee, Julius has never slighted A SALUTE TO THE CLEVELAND Among some of the outstanding accom­ the community which is ·his faithful CLUB OF THE NATIONAL ASSO­ plishments of t~e Cleveland Club are spon­ customer. In his roles as president of soring ·of Caree Clinics, Two life member­ the Alabama Broadcasters Association~ CIATION OF NEGRO BUSINESS ships with the NAACP, Contributing tO the AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S Legal Defense Fund, The United Negro Col­ the Selma-Dallas Chamber of Com­ CLUBS, INC. 'lege Fund, The Urban League, The Whitney merce, the Selma Rotary Club, and Young Foundation, Africa Crossroads, Con­ the U~versity of ·Alabama liational. HON. LOUIS STOK£8 sumer Education Workshops, Contributions Alumni Association; J1S ~hairman of to the Bohn Center, Volunteer Service in the Selma-Dallas County United OF OHIO. the Cleveland Community, and foremost Appeal, the Salvation Army Advisory. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ·our Individual Scholarships and Grants to Board, . and the . Selma. City School Wedn~sday, March 26, 1980 worthy youngsters. e Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, on The Cleveland Club is a part of the Na· ples l3ank & Trust and the SUnday, April 2'1, 1980~ the Cleveland tiona! organization whose headquarters are YMCA; and as council vice chairman Club of the National Association of in Washington, D.C. Some of the Cleveland 'tQ the Tuckabatchee Area Boy Scouts Negro Business & Professional Club members has held National offices, of America; Julius has been a motivat­ Women's Clubs, Inc., wlll sponsor Its Clara Woodson as 3rd VIce Presfdent, Edith ing force behind much of local com­ 24th annual . breakast and .founders Terry Wilson as Treasurer and Financial munity progress~ · Meanwhile, Julius day program. T_he Cleveland-Club is a Secretary and Betty Crouther as Life Mem- has never neglected his own family~ bership Chairperson. · and has a wonderful wife, Pearle, and part of the National Negro Business & Today the Cleveland ·Club with an active two fine youngsters to .prove it. Professional Women's Organization. membership of over nfty black women in I would like to take this opportunity various businesses and professions are work­ . Julius Talton has wo~ the recogni­ to salute the dedicated members of in& to break down barriers in every area of tion of his peers, as recipient of the thls organization for their tremendous the work force and attain even greater edu· Outstanding Aluinnus Award from the eontributions to the Cleveland metro­ catlonal .resources as - they continue· tO University of Alabama School of Com­ politan area. They have created a posi­ . expand and carry out the purpose to pro­ munications iil 1975 and as the Ala­ mote and protect ·.the interest of Buslne88 bama Broadcasters Association's 1977 tive Impact on people from all walks of and· Professional Women. To ~te &ood life In the Cleveland area. fellowship and .spirit of Cooperation among Broadcaster· of the Year. It. is an . The group has contributed to the. business and professional .Women .and to honor to join his peers and friends in business sector In.Cleveland primarily ·direct the Interest of Business· and Profes· saluting JUlius and In urging his exam· through the professional expertise inonal Women toward United Action for 1m· ple on all who . are seeking· a role -to and achievements of Its members. proved aoclal, educatlonal, Civic conditions follow:e 6810 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 ALLARD K._LOWENSTEIN plied the number of people with a stake in But even if nothing anyone could have retaining order, people who, above all, don~t done in or about Spain would have averted want a Portugal or an Argentina or a Chile World War n or the Cold War. what if HON. PAUL N. McCLOSKEY, JR. in a new Spain, and who are part of an un­ democratic countries had helped the repub­ OF CALIFORNIA expected consensus that wants ~onsensus to lic during the Civtl War instead of driving it guide the transition and wants elections to to dependence on the Soviet Union? Is it tn; IN THE'liOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES determine consensus. There is a great wish conceivable that democracy triumphant in ~ursf{ay, March 20, 1980 to see an end to political prisons, terrorism. Spain could have headed off extremes of an­ censorship, whimsical·governing, and an end ticlerical misconduct and thus defused the e Mr. McCLOSKEY. Mr. Speaker, A1 as well to conflicts swirling beyond or be­ antagonism over Franco that poisoned rela­ Lowenstein's involvement in the cause neath the governing. I go off with old Span­ tions between American Catholics and liber· of democracy and ·human rights was ish friends to the Valley of the Fallen. Here als at a time that was so critical? not limited to the United States. The Franco dramatized his peculiar notion of What a difference it might have made if following are ·excerpts from an article the way to restore .unity to Spain by forcing McCarthy and Nixon had not been helped entitled "Spain Without Franco" from Republican political prisoners to rebury Re-· In their rise by the extravagant emotions publican war dead under Nationalist flags about Spain that led so many Catholics to the Saturday Review, February -7, and slogans. And here, when ·the country suspect liberals of being soft on commu­ 1976; which won an Overseas Press was desperate for housing and schools and nism •.and so many liberals to suspect Catho-: Club Award for foreign reporting. hospitals, Franco spent billions of pesetas lies of being soft on fascism: isn't it Just pos­ The end of personal rule by Francisco erecting a cross 495 feet high and hacking sible that a different Spanish experience, Franco y Bahamonde came as a strange sort the world's largest church and his own tQmb perhaps even a concern shared as it is now of punctuation mark-an inverted Spanish out of the hard rock of a mountain. about Portugal, could have spared America, exclamation point on one side and a ques­ I realize how odd it Is to feel something so' the unhappy period of the exploited neuro­ tion mark 'on the other, a victory in the un­ sharply after all these years, but terrible sis that led first to such destructive mistrust finished war of our childhood, a kind of un­ things· have kept happenfng since it began, at home and then to such devastating conse­ earned run evening up the score a little; if way back, in Guernica decimated, in chil­ quences in Indochina? Maybe Cardinal scores can be evened up in overtime. The dren dead ·from mass bombings of open Spellman would not nave attacked Mrs. fact is, of course, that the end was· comintr cities~ in the massacres of Majorca and the Roosevelt ; and maybe John F. bring it about. Still, the end . of Frailco. Franco belling in tandem with Hitler, re­ Kennedy would have been nominated for whatever its cause, doesn't happen every viewing goose-stepping troops about ·to go Vice-President in 1956, thus perhaps ·ruining day, and I waa wondering how to treat an off to try to finish the conquest of the his career, or perhaps saving him from as­ event ·so uniquely significant and ·irrelevant world; and then the decade of democracy re­ sassination so that we could have him now. when a call came asking me to Madrid for nascent. Mussolint hanging by his ankles, But we wonder too far-that way lie screen· meetings about the "transition:• almost as the bunker burying its evil, the Emperor of plays or madness. if somehow my being there to celebrate the Japan becoming mortal, while through it all What is clear is that this has been a long end might make up a little for not having Franco's prisons overflowed, the Spanish and dark passage for the Spanish people, been there to resist the beginning. people silenced. Spanish refugees starving who did more than most people to keep B¥ this time I had . be~n attending "meet­ and forgotten in foul camps far from home. their freedom and who have suffered-more· ings" in Spain on and off for some 17 years, And.then -the last chapter, perhaps the least than most people because outside forces ever since the son of the chief of Franco's comprehensible: Franco alone, Franco vul­ were visited -upon them. And it is hard to air force, fresh from Jail, had made his way nerable till rescued by America, the trium­ see how their suffering has helped us, even to Hubert Humphrey's office, where I was phant fresh new world ·protecting the last if our own needs could be said -to justify working at the time; to plead that someone partner of Hitler, the unrepentant bully­ making the lives of others more ~tfficult. come to see the evils of the government that ghost of the old, without even trying to. his father had helped to put in power. That moderate the oppression of Spaniards who On the other hand, the United States has not paid th~ conspicuous price for its mis­ was the beginning of my association with had fought on our side in return for the conduct in Spain that it has paid elsewhere. some of Franco's new enemies. lt had never rescue. So one feela even now the needless With our help, the repression outlasted sev­ occurred to me that the risky politics of op­ suffering, and the guilt of knowing how eral generations of potential' anti-American posing a dictatorship · would attract the much one's country baa .contributed to it, rioters; and there will be those who say that pride and heirs of the realm: wealthy, and the concern that' that contribution may even if the American bases are closed soon, to\lgh, bright young men who were to dis·. not_yet have been concluded. . they will have served their purpose: we had play a ga.Ilantry that would have been nota­ Needless suffering? It Is not, of course, them wheri we needed theni-and at the ble at the Round Table. Men like these­ given ·to us to know what would have hap. . minimal cost of an insurance l><>licy whose Juan Kindellln, · Carlos de Zayas, and the pened if what happened had not happened, existence may have helped avert the fire it otherS-the scions of grandees and dukes if the republic had been allowed to win, or if never had to be used to pu.t out. The policy, and Natiohalist generals. with lives of Franeo had not been allowed to survive his it will be argued, thus succeeded: Franco almost guranteed success ahead of them, allies. A Stalinist dictatorship would have survived, Spain is not Communist, American impelled by no discernible force but con­ been as bad or worse for most of the Span­ investment flourishes; even . the American science, cnose to throw away Ute most privi­ ish people, but it is llard to see how a Stalin· Embassy is not bombed. · leged positions in a land of protected privl·· 1st dictatorship could have survived for long leges to languish at ttnies in Jails of peculiar Had the gamble failed, had the dictator­ in Spain-yet it 1s hard to see how a Fascist ship fallen despite all the United States did inhumanity. Their sacrifices. whispered dictatorship could, and it did. across a moribund countryside. reminded a to sustain it, it would have been a spectacu­ drained people of hQpe and, in the process. n we had helPed when so .many Spaniarda lar failure; but to argue that the gamble Was! wrenched at families whose loyalties to God .bought time for Western democracy at such not worth the risk of failure is·.to argue and Spain were not prepared for a clash dreadful cost to themselves, might Prague theory against results. To argue that na-. with loyalty to Family itself. have been spared, or Parts or London or tions -pay for immoral misuse of .power is tol . And they provided a remarkable introduc­ Bataan or Ouadalcanal? Was Munich inevi- argue theology; 'to talk about costs of poll­ tion to the continuing involvement that led table, and Dachau, and the Hitler-stalin cies in global intangibles is to sound fuzzy in ·me back to Madrid all these years later. pact, and so on to Hiroshima and the Berlin a discussion with people who pride them- I arrive in Madrid as Juan Carlos is skit­ wall and the bridge at Andau and the. Bay selves on their pragmatism. · tering into the strange upside-down semi-re­ of Pigs and Vietnam? Could Communist Furthermore, one's personal assessment gency made necessary .bY Franco's refusal to misbehavior in:Spain and Poland have been of American behavior in ·spain must be at­ yield authority: everything tentative. a cu­ avoided or tempered if Ollrs toward Spain fected by the long hurt of feeling years of rious uncertainty abetted by medical bulle­ and czechoslovakia had been, and so per- hate directed at one's flag by one's friends. tins announcing that an octo~renartan who 1\aps some kind of understanding if not co- My thoudlts fly to .an old bishop,-90 and seema to have every disease kllown to man is operation preserved that would. have mini- blind, returned to his village at the end of constantly rallying and is planning to mtzed the post-war ordeal of Eastern ltfe from exile for opposing Franco in the resume presiding at Cabinet meetings; but Europe and the polartzing of the post-Hitler war. spitting at my American accent, "What something more than uncertainty, too: not planet? pas become of the soul of your country?· exactly relief from fear, not yet, but an ex­ If it is foolish to underestimate the chasm Even my church has learned th~t to lie with .pectation of relief, with the famlliar fears that separated Western and Soviet attitudes· tyrants is to stink of tyranny." . receding into a soupy uneasiness about what so fatefully in the Thirties and Forties. it la ·The bishop of course is dead; two decades might follow the relief. also simplistic not to wonder whether the of angry students have graduated into- ca­ The transition is beginning. at a moment paranoid viciousness of emergent commu- reers where private distaste for American when the national mood fs forcing the mod­ nism ·might have been modified had the policy will not affect their purchasing erating of old antagonisms. The economic Western domocracies resisted soone~ thg ·1tabits, and whom they boo privately on uplift that spread political unrest has multi· calculated vtciousnesa of emergent fascism. · newscasts affects nothing at all. March 26, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6811 But there have been other consequences, over regard the. Spanish drama as -a person· WARSAW GHETTO wider costs it less tangible ones, that .should al tragedy." · REMEMBRANCE at least be noted before we conclude that And why so many meri the world over unclosed bases and an unbombed embassy pray that now the Spanish tragedy may fi· equal a successful ~oreign policy. nally be ~nding.e Global results are, after all, the only prac­ OP CALIFORNIA tical measure . of foreign policy. And the feeling of the world about the United· States Ill THE MOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is not hard to measure. Anyone who lived Wednesday, March 26, 1980 through the glory of being an American THE SPIRIT OF ~INKI, VIGIL during and early after World War II knows 1980 e Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I would that that glory resulted not only from like to call the attention of the· House strength and wealth, but from an almost ·to the 37th anniversary of the Warsaw' universal sense of fraternity as well. We HON. MICHAEL D. BARNES ghetto uprising on April 19. This is an have retained the strength, squandered the occasion that ·must not go unnoticed wealth, and ended the fraternity. Except OF MARYLAND by the friends of freedom and men of where Communist misconduct is blatant IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES good will everywhere. It is a date that and Immediately at hand, the reservoir is dry or close to it. Our isolation is unsolicited Wednesday, March 26, 1980 must never be forgotten because it is and inverted: we retain bases, we crave ap­ doubtful whether or not · civilization • Mr. BARNES. Mr. Speaker, as I join can withstand a similar happening proval, we lobby for votes at the United Na· my colleagues in the .. Spirit of Helsin­ tions; almost everyone wants the. bases out, now or in the future. · intellectuals see in us the wave of the past, ki, Vigil 1980,". ·1 wish . to once again call attention to the unfortunate situ­ The Warsaw ghetto symbolizes and fewer and fewer countries vote with us many thlngs-inhumanity, unspeak­ at the United Nations even as our position ation of· Mr. Lev Blitshtein, who only becomes more and more sensible and justifi· 10 days ago was refused permission to able horror, and barbarism. But it also able. . emigrate from the Soviet Union. represented the indomitable spirit of man against tyranny and injustice. How easy to dismiss it all as inevitable or Mr. Bli~htein has been ·separated as the result of national jealousies or Com­ from his wife, Btima, who lives in New There have been far too many exam­ munist plots or Arab oil-or to decide that York, for nearly 5 years. Stripped of ples in history of situations compara­ world opinion is inconsequential in any case. ble to'the Warsaw ghetto. But because But to refuse to examine a 25-year·erosion is his position as a chief administrator in the Ministry ·of Meat and Dairy, this this rebellion against genocide took no way for practical people to measure the place less than ·four decades ago, it effect of a policy designed to be pragmatic, national authority in the fields of and is certainly no way to determine-future breeding and meat processing must rates a· special place in a · sorry period policy. support himself . now by working part of time in the present century. The The questions basic to any realistic assess­ time as a film developer. · Nazi holocaust took place in our own· ment of the results ·of American foreign For 6 years, Soviet officals have re­ time and before our very eyes unlike policy since the first aid to Franco was the atrocities of other eras that we, peatedly denied his requ~sts to emi· voted over President Truman's opposition also, all have a duty to recall,- painful are almost never asked: is it really desirable grate on the grounds of .. state se­ crets." B~itshtein purportedly knows though it may seem. But like the Cam­ to have arrived so quickly· at so lowly a place bodia famine, ·the Warsaw massacre -is in world esteem? And if it is not desirable, .. too much about the time for storage was it really necessary? .of caru:ted meats." Other Soviet au­ our epoch's genocide. A handful of · In so grand an overview, Spain is clearly a thorities recently removed his tele­ survivors still walk among tis. small factor; but Spain as symbol and Spain. phone from his apartment in an effort · Nazism was a nihilistic force arrayed as consequence of general attitude are not: to isolate him further from ·his family against the ·Judeo-Christian tradition. Our sins in Spain seem minor compared and friends. Millions of Europeans of all religious with some we have committed. They do not faiths suffered at tbe hands of the seem minor, or course, to Spaniards, who Blitshtein, who has always comfort­ come from 35 years of darkness blinking un­ ed and uplifted the spirits of refuse­ Nazis and . their . collaborators. Yet it certaipty! and noticing not very sadly that niks, has become increasingly saddened was ~or the Jewish population of the sun. that radiated energy into their by the prolonged separation from his Europe that a special fate was decreed oppressor seems to be sinking. . · loved ones. I know that he" could not by the infamous Fuehrer order-the And from the point of viev.t of our nation­ celebrate his 25th wedding anniversa­ .. Final Solution/' Branded as subhu· al well-being, were bases in Spain, and as­ mans and parasites, Jews were subject­ siStance to Salazar, and make-believe about ry la.St August with his wife or partici­ pate in the wedding 2 years ago of his ed to every form of police state terror China, and toleratJon of apartheid, and in· and degradation even before Ausch­ tervention In the Dominican Republic, and two children, Boris Blitshtein of Rego war in Indochina, and lecturing new coun­ Park, N.Y., and Mrs. Galena Barshai witz or Treblinka were built. The-ma­ tries· steering a wobbly course between po­ of Flushing, N.Y~ Thirteen monthS lignant disease of antisemitism, cyni­ larized. titans about the immorality of not ago, he missed the joyous occasion of ·cally employed for achieving political "aligning" themselves with us-were these, the birth of his first grandchild, power, had been among the main and the rest of the policies that derived David. His mother-in-law, Mindlia points of Adolf Hitler's program as from what was thought of as hard-headed early as 1919. - realism, were these wise ·policies, even if- _S~raiman, and his brot~er, Mark. measured only by the standards of those Bhtshtein, recently arrived here from After Hitler became Reich Chancel­ who set the policies? · the Soviet Union to rejoin the family. lor in Janua:a:y 1933, the Jews ·of Ger­ If· a program devised to contain Commu- But Lev Blitshtein remains alone. many were the immediate targets of nists ends up s6mehow containing the con- Last September, I appealed to both storm trooper beatings, arbitrary ar­ tain~rs, is it really fuzzy to judge the policy Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and rests, and copcentration camp. incar­ a failure? Might we not have done better to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin cerations, and primary economic boy­ ~~~r~~o~~i:~i: ':}h!~ P;~~:: ~~~r!tbi~~ and asked them to demonstrate· com- cotts. The Nuremburg racial laws of worry about ours? Are we to reap a disagree- passion and permit Mr~ Blitshtein to 1935 stripped German Jews of citizen­ able and perhaps unnecessary harvest of leave his country. Again, I urge them ship, and further governmental action our own planting, and never even notice to honor their commitment to the Hel.. confiscated property, thereby ·reducing that we planted it? sinki accords of 1975 arid allow Le\'. this minority group of loyal Germans What is certain is that this moment, this Blitshtein to . be reunited with . his to extreme pauperization. confluence of opportunities, is evanescent, is family before he reaches his 50th In an atmosphere of growing intoler­ passing even now, and cannot. be summoned birthday on May .21 1980. ance and ever-increasing Gestapo back if squandered. · ' "It was in Spain," Albert Camus wrote, Mr. Speaker, I urg~ .Members to terror, the Jews of Germany looked "that men learned that one can be right and demonstr~te th~ir contmuing ·support abroad for help. Tragically, little as:. yet be beaten, that. force can vanquish of Mr. Bhtshtem. His address is: Bol­ sistance was given or words of comfort spirit, that there are times when courage is . sh~ya Pereyaslavskaya Street 3, Corp. offered. The record of our own De­ not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, 2, Apartment 2, Moscow 129041, partment of State during this period which explains why so many men the world RSFSR, USSR.e · arid beyond, through-World War il, 6812 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 leaves a moral stain upon .the United . gas to which the Jews were inequal to ago. It is,. therefore, ·not surprising States. We did very little to assist the reply in kind. Sadly, little help. was that the athestic Soviet Union today is persecuted as restrictive immigration given to the Jews from their Polish well below even' average standards as quotas and indifference played into countrymen who could view . the witnessed by the suppression of the hands of 'the Nazis. I call your at­ ghetto oil fire on Ea.Ster Sunday. Jewish culture, rellgious freedom, and tention to. several works on this sub­ The battle of the Warsaw ghetto the freedom of movement denied Jews ject: "While Six Million Died.'' by lasted for nearly a month. At its end, in Russi&: In m,any respects, the spirit Arthur D. Morse, "Voyage of the the remaining Jews were either ex­ of Hitler is ominously alive when anti­ Damned," by Gordon Thomas and ecuted on the spot or deported to semitism is given official or unofficial · Max Morgan Witts, and "Th.e Politics Tteblinka.. There was nothing stand­ sanction. of Rescue,'' by Henry L. Feingold, in ing but only rubble ·amidst what was There are, or course,· hopeful signs. support of the aforementioned con­ once the largest Jewish community in Last .June, tne West German Bundes­ cerning the State Department. Europe. The deatll of the Warsaw tag abolished the statute of limita­ Hitler had made his ultlniate goals ghetto· was- but a part of the even tions o~ .wanted Nazi criminals. This quite clear. He had stated them in greater catastrophe befarnng the permits Nazis to be hunted to the Mein Kampf 10 years before he came Jewish people in Europe. Etnsatzgrup­ grave in the spirit that ma,.,s murder is to power and in countless speeches for pen firing squads in RusSia had mur­ murder, regardless of how iong ago it years. Qn January 30, 1939, he warned dered over 1· million Jews. Along with was committed. The efforts to extra­ that the Jews of Europe would be ex­ 3 million Jews in Poland and deporta­ dite Josef Mengele, the- "Angel of terminated if another war broke out. tion from all over tne Continent, 6 Peath" at the Auschwitz death camp. German forces invaded ·Poland on Sep­ million Jews were put to death,includ-. is indicative of concern over Nazi tember 1, 1939, thus 3 million Jews fell ing 1 million ·chllctren. criminials. Recent reports by dedi­ into Nazi control. Throughout Poland, · Time does not perm.t~ me to recount cated persons in this- country, includ­ Jews were victimized, robbed, beaten, the all too true horror of this night­ Ing Members. of this House toward.fer­ and murdered. A deliberate poltcy of mare. But works such as "Warsaw reting out war · criminals who have forced ghettoization took place where­ Ghetto Uprisin~' by Ber Mark, "The used falsification as a means to hide by tens of thousands of people were Bravest Battle" by Dan Kurzman, and out In our midst, indicate that the les­ herded · together 1n incredibly small "The Holocaust Kingdom" by Alexan­ son.S of the past are not being lost. areas for habitation. Ali of ·this was der Donat try to convey some of the As we prepare for the Passover ·and but a prelude for what was then an human suffering in the Warsaw Easter· holidays, we should remember unknown ''final solution." ghetto. Other books lllte "Harvest of the holocaust and the Warsaw ghetto -The most outstanding . example of Hate'' by Leon Pollakoy, ''The Final uprising.· The harm done.. to the this savagery took place in the city of' Solution" by Gera.J.d Reitllnger, "The human spirit by Httlet .can never ever Warsaw; .Over 500,000 human beings Holocaust" by Nora Levin, "The De­ be completely rectified, not in centu­ were cramped 1n quarters where some­ struction of the European Jews" by ries or even millennia. But together, all times 10. to 20 were in "a single room. Raul Hilberg, and the very compi'e-. of Us have reSponsibility to those who Minimal food was available for only hensive "The War. Against the Jews" were martyred, as well as to those who half of the Jews and medical care was by Lucy S. Dawtdowtcz, all place the survived, to make . certain that . the ·below even substandarcls. Shut off uprising in the context of the entire :record of the years between 1933 and· from the rest of the city and their Nazi persecution of the Jews. 1945 will ·not be forgotten. I applaud countrymen, the Jews were left to the Presidential ·commission on Re­ endure threats from the S.S., epide­ While we cannot overlook the 6 m.U­ membering the Holocaust as a .force to mics, and .starvation. Under the guise lton other inhocent men, women, and gtve us a permanent reminder of those of "resettlement·~ te the east, famllies ·children murdered by the Nazis, in­ dark days. were · transported in ·crude boxcars cluding Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and Today the . Warsaw-. ghetto · is no from the ghetto to the death factories countless othei'S,' only the Jews were more. Only a · eoncrete m.onument of Trebllnka, Auscl\witz, and other ex­ singled out for prim.ar)r destruction.· stands where a vibrant community . termination camps. These hellholes They were hunted down "legally" with once stood. In 1966 I first· walked ·ite provided the final living horror for an of the efficiency of the modem to­ vacant cities blocks. straining to feel people who bad experienced unbeliev­ talitarian state. Ostracized .and ·sepa. rated from the rest of the population, somehow the vibrations of hlstory able hardships already from years in that .the deep. suffering of tho~ds the Jews were defenseless 1n hostile :the ghetto. Few survived the deadly a had created on t~t Sln.all sacred spot Antlse~ttsm was exported labor battalions, most were poisoned world. OQ the planet. Yet it need not be an ·to death in the gas chanibers. . •from Gennany to further Hitler's for­ obituary for the heroic dead. Rather it Eventually, skepticism on the nature :eign pol1cy. He had called. for a war stands as triumph of the.human desire of transport to the east became known against the Jews and had t~at thought for freedom, the unquenchable thirst in the .Warsaw ghetto and after a still on his mind before he committed for liberty which is part of all men and summer of maSs roundups for deporta­ suicide on April 30, 1945. · · women. ·The heroic defenders of the tion to Treblinka, the remiUning .As esteemed economist o~ o~ time. Warsaw ghetto ·did· not-die in vain as 35,000 Jews chQSe to re~lst. Using the late Dr. Ludwig von Mises, himself long. as free men Uye and are eternally homemade devices such as Molotov a refugee to this country from A\lStria vigilant against· the forces of tyranny cocktails and a few smuggled weapons wrote in "Omnipotent · Oo.vernment" and · oppression. · Soviet or other. obtained from the Polish home army, that had tt not· been for antisemitism, known or y~t unknown.• a Jewish defense organization emerged there would not have been World War to defend the ghetto from further ar­ II. This insightful observation bears, I. DRUG AWARENESS. DAY..,....· rests.. · Hoping to sun)rise the Jews at might even say, demands careful anal­ Passover ·season and present the ghet­ ysis from all thoughtful students of ROCKLAND COUNTY, ~.Y. to's liquidation to Hitler as a birthday history. For we have much to learn-as gift, German S.S. .and Polish blues en­ antisemitism .regretfully is still with HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN tered the once .teeming Jewish · quar- us. Four Y.ears ago the United Nations OF NEW YORK ter. · · · equated Zionism, the Jewish national IN THE HOUSE 01' REPRESENTATIVES The Jewish defenders bravely movement, to be a form of racism. The fought . back, chasing. the Germans Ku- Klux Klan has again reared its Wednesday, March 26,-198·0 from the ghetto. Beginning on AprU ugly head as the forces of hatred and • Mr. GlLMAN. Mr. ~JI)eaker.. in an 19; a unique struggle ensued as the bigotry are ever with us. Commitment effort to help raise the consciousness doomed J~ws valiantly strove to the to the faith of Christianity in western of the publlc regarding the dangers of death against enormous odds. T~e civilization can oftentimes be meas­ drug abuse, the Rockland County Leg­ Gennans, tired of. ·· hand-to-hand ured in a nation's treatment of -the islature recently proclaimed March 21, combat, .employed flame . ihrowers, Jews. Certainly, Germany reached the 1980, as "Drug Awareness Day" and bombardment from the air, and poison lowest forms of. civilization 40 years the we~k of March 23, 1980, as "Clean March 26, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6813 Out Your Medicine Cabinet Week." Jtobert Lefkln, J.D., M.P.A., Deputy Direc- If our Nation is going to lick . the Last Friday, March 21, I ·had the privi­ tor New York State Division of Substance drug problem. a problem that has lege of being a keynote speaker at the Abuse Services. reached epidemic proportions Drug Awareness. Day program that woRKSHoPS throughout the world and adversely· was held at Rockland County Commu­ No. 1: The National Medical Awa.reneBI affects virtually every city, town, and nity College, which is lOca.ted in my Program presented by the Pharmaceutical . school diStrict in this Nation. then congressional district. Society of the State of New York. Sal drug education programs must be es­ Rublno, Executive secretary and Dr. Jerey t blish din h 1st d t t The Rockland County Drug Aware­ Johnson, Assoeiate ·Director of Professionil a e our sc 00 0 e uca e no ness Day program, which was orga­ Services, Lederle Laboratories. only our youth but also parents. nized by George Doering. · dlrecto~ of No. 2: -Poor Mi:J:ers: Medication and Alco-· teachers, and school administrators re­ the Haverstraw Counseling Center hol Ms. Ginny szwejkowskl, R.N. Rockland garding the dangers of narcotiCs traf­ <"Reachout">, was sponsored by the Psychiatric Center, Detoxification Unit, ticking and drug abuse. A coalition of following State and local health agen­ Orangeburg. . officials and leaders from all sectors of cies and civic organizations: No. 3: coping With Reality by Tom Brat- society Is urgently needed. Programs Rockland· County Community College: ten, Ed.D, Reality Therapist. such as · the Rockland County Drug CETA Grant Program Leadership Training No~ 4: How To Talk With Your Ktds About Awareness ·Day are vitally important In Self Health for Senior Citizens; Retired Drug• and Booze by Ms. Carol Booth, MSW, in reaching into the local communities Director of Educational Services Rockland t h 1 is th · Seniors Volunteer Program. County Mental Health Association. Dramat- 0 e P ra e e consciousness of our New York State Division of Substance lc presentations by the Rockland Players. citizens regarding the problems of Abuse Services: Bureau of Community De­ velopment; Whf,te Plains Regional Office. No. 5: Coping With H48sle8 At School And drug abuse prevention and control. Rockland County Community Mental At Home by Nyack High School Players, Flo The drug problem is a crisis compa­ Health Center: . Alcohol and Su.bstance · Oreenberg, Faculty Advisor, and Mr. Randy · rable to the energy crisis and the de­ Abuse Control Services; Division of Consul­ Brown, School Community Counselor. · · plorable state of our economy, ·This No. 6: When Doea Uae Become Abuse con- N ti h t to tablish tation and Education. ducted by the RamaPo Community work- a on as ye es a compre- Municipal Cotinsellng Services:. Town of shop, Mr. Aritold Swiller, Director. hensive, coordinated F.ederal drug Clarkstown, Clarkstown Counsellne Center; Town of Haverstraw, Haverstraw Counsel­ No.7: Don't Say Yea When You Mean No- strategy, a strategy that is sorely Ing Center, "Reachout"; Town of Ramapo. "How to communicate and say what you needed but that is fragmented by a Ramapo Community Workshops; Village of really mean-how to listen and really hear" plethora of competing Federal depart­ Suffern, West Rockland/Suffern Communi­ by Ms. Marion Breland, Counselor at the _ments, agencies, bure~us. institutes, ty Workshop. Haverstraw Counseling Center "Reachout" and commissions having Jurisdiction RAFT, Responsible Acton for Teens, Inc. and Mr. Leonard Stirling, Health Coordlna- over narcotics trafficking and drug The Rockland Council on Alcoholism, Inc. ·tor, North Rockl~d High SchooL aHuse. Drug abUse prevention and con- Rockland County Mental Health AssOci- No. B: NOMAD . - . PANEL individuals who are dependent upon Where We Are-Where We Are Goirig. di'ugs. After all, we are talking about ·Mr. ·Speaker, · workshops pertaining PANELisTs the health of our citizens-unknown to the problemS of medical drug abuSe­ Moderator, Ellen Cohen. Director Clarks· millions of men. women, and children awareness, mixing drugs and alcohol, town Counseling Center. from all occupations, professions, and. coping with reality. communicating Claire Knapp, School CommUnity Coun- sectors of·society who are addicted to the drug ·-problem . to youngsters, selor, Nanuet High School and Nanuet narcotics or who are dependently school and family pressures, and the Middle School. abusing prescribed ·pills. use and abuse of drugs were conducted ·Thoma& J. Pflomm, R.Ph., Director, Phar- This Congress urgently needs to macy Service. Good Samaritan Hospital, by the New -York State Pharmaceuti­ Suffern, N.Y. create a permanent congressional com- cal Society, Lederle Laboratories, the Jack Kemp, Assistant Director for Treat- mittee that would devote its entire ef­ Rockland Psychiatric Center's detoxi­ ment and Rehab111tation, New York State forts to the problems of narcotics traf· fication unit, the Rockland County Division of Substance Abuse Services. . ficking and durg abuse, rather than re- Mental Health Association. high John Wallace, Ph.D., Director of Treat- lying upon the fragmented approach -school faculty advisers, community ment and Rehabilitation Services, New that currently exists within our con­ counselors, health professionals, and York State Division of Alcoholism and Alco- gressional committee structure. NOMAD

Our House Select CQmmittee on Narcotics suggesting a return to that area's annual uUng, dispensfn~. or possessing of PCP, in­ Abuse and Control, has conducted extensive opium production of. 350 to 500 tons. Al­ Cluding a maximum ten-year Imprisonment hearings on drug abuse · amQng our yo~th, though Mexican law enforcement authori­ and $25,000 fine, together with stiff report­ the elderly, among women, ethnic minor· ties have, to a large extent, been successful ing requirements· and penalties for the un­ lties. and in the military. Our Committee in controlling the illicit production of lawful use of piperidine, a key ingredient for baa reported on ·the deadly effects of the heroin and marihuana, Mexico annually the manufacture of PCP. · · hallucinogen · Phencyclidine . cbcaine more· than 2,000 metric tons of marihuana. York City and Miami, Florida. resulted in marihuana and has studied international Add to that the estimated 8 billion dollar the Biaggi-Gilman measure, . mentS. The armed services were asked vealing natiomil policy to be empty of This forum heard speakers calling to , submit estimates for a proposed serious-commitment by the admlnis­ for the nationalization of our energy fiscal year 1980 supplemental budget tratlon plants the seeds of Soviet mis­ resources and the splitting of the request for new pro8rammatic. initia- calculation that could .lead to war· by Democratic Party as two .steps In: a 6816 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 program for' a new and revolutionary move the U.S. toward a new kind of aovern- tlon can decide· to do whatever It damn America. ment, a new kind of country. pleases with its capital." Earlier material identified the spon- · Con.yera waa warmly applauded, but hll Commoner told his student audience that .lee.Vinl the fonpn dUrinl the question the U.S. on companies Qecided to invest sortng organizations of the "Energy period resulted in IIILI'C&Stic 'reference$ from their capital abroad and the rest of us are and the New Cold War" forum, and the podium regardlna the Con&ress~an·a · sufferina. Commoner continued: . provided an account of the speech by need for sleep. It's a strange thing; everybody in the U.S. Richard Barnet of IPS at this forum. The next speaker was Barry Commoner, suffers from the oil crista except the oil The material that follows, taken described as a noted environmentalist and companie.. I wonder why. The reason is from the most recent edition of the In­ biologist active in the Citizens Party. com- they designed the oil crista that way. They formation Digest, provides a continu­ moner has been a prominent anit-nuclear designed it to help them despite th'e fact ()rator and· is" playing an active role in the that it hurts us. So what I'm saying is the ing account of the forum, and an anal­ organizing for Big Business Day anti-corpo- very simple.conclusion it comes to, and that ysis of the material by John Rees, rate events. Commoner began his presenta- is that the freedom of the oil corporations editor and publisher of the digest.- The tion by asserting that it was ·necessary to go to determine U.S. on policy 1$ wrecking the article follows: · beyond protest· and to use this occasion to country and it's e'ot to be stopped! . ENERGY AND THE NEW COLD WAR-PART~ create a new politics for the 1980's. Commoner blamed the oil companies' Commoner asserted that the President de- freedom for the layoffs of auto workers, and The second speaker was Representatiive clared a New Cold war not in response to mixed that with an attack on auto compa­ John Conyei'S', Democrat of Michigan, since the soviet invasion 'of Afghanistan, but for niea for having had a profit -motive for 1959 a meinber· of the National Lawyers domestic political reasons, specifically the making larger cars, wasting ·on, creating Guild . a CPUSA legal front which is invasion of New England by Mr. Kennedy. smog, now throwing auto workers out of the U.S: section· of the Soviet-controlled In­ He asserted the New -Cold war was declared work. Comriioner asserted that the reason -ternational Association of Democratic Law­ . nine months earlier when Defense Secre- utilities have sought to build nu~lear power yers . Cony~rs. from 1Q58 to 1961 a tary Harold Brown concluded a visit to plants is because the AEC told them elec­ legislative aide to Representative John Din­ Saudi Arabia ·and said, we will prevent the tricity would be so cheap that they wouldn't gell, Democrat of Michigan, has been one of interruption . of the now of oil from the . even bother to meter it; they could fire j:.he most consistent opponents of all U.S. Middle East by any means necessary, includ- · their me.ter readers and make greater defense spending and supporters of a nonin· profit. · - a terventionist foreign policy in Congress. He ing military force. Commoner said all of his allegations led to Commoner said he agreed with Dick w.as an endorser of the People's Peace Barnet that no military force could protect a logical and simple generalization, that Treaty between individual anti-Vietnam ac­ the oil fields and said the consequences of most of the trouble in this country has been tivists and the Vietcong and North Vietnam­ caused by the fact that the basic decisions ese; and was ·among the first to call for im­ military action would be to destroy the on that· determine -the life of the country have peachment of President Nixon in 1972 on supplies, and induce a worldwide economic beeri made by col'porations in their interest, the grounds that the war in Vietnam was disaster. against ·the interest of the people of the unconstitutional. In more recent years, Con- Commoner. went on·to analYze ·u.s. policy United States. . yers has become active with a number of in the Middle East. He rhetorically asked Commoner's solution was to destroy the CPUSA front groups, including sponsoring how the entire Middle East crisis had come Democratic and' Republican_ parties and the formation of the U.S. Peace Council in about, and responded, The answer Is that build his. Citizens Party, with a campaign 1979. . . . ' . our foreign policy in the Middle East had based on the question, in whose interest Conyers is the eighth ranking member of been over· thirty years carefully calculated should ·the country be · run-the corpora­ the House Government Operations Commit· to obstruct the democrAtic movements in tions or the people? HiS speech was well re· tee and the fifth ranking Member of the those counties. Iran was a case in point; and ceived. House· Judiciary Committee where he is if the President had published, the day Heather Booth, executive direc.tor of the· Chairman of the Subcommittee on Criin.e after the hostages were taken, the full Ci~tien/~bor Energy coalition and and serves on the Criminal Justice Subcom­ record of our pernicious attempt, which sue- head of the . Midwest Academy, a Chica·go .mittee. ceeded, in disrupting the Mossadegh govern- school for training radical community orga­ Conyers declared that there was no real ment, the first democratic movement in nizers, was the next speaker; Heather Tobis connection between President Carter's re­ Iran, installing the Shah and teaching his Booth, wife of Paul Booth, was an early vised budget and control of inflation. Infla­ . SAV AK how to be terrorists on their own leader of the Students for a Democratic So­ tion is not being caused by reckless credit people. Commoner said that if ·the President ciety in the 1960s and pioneered the cards, but by the new defense budget, he as­ had published such admissions-and had laid u.s. New Left's efforts at building a Marxist serted. Conyers proposed his own anti-infla· before the bar of history the perfidy of the and populist grassroots base by organizing tionary program that included: American Government in attempting to de· poor and lower-income city neighborhoods Across the-board controls on profits, inter­ ·stroy democratic movement, he would have · in support of rent control, city takeovers of est and prices, with an absolute ceiling on gone a long way to establish our bona fides local utility companies, and legislation to prices, preventing them from rising and in the Middle East as democrats. . bar utilities from cutting service of those thus ending inflation. You've got to increase Commoner said ·that the United States who do not pay bills while increasinl{ rates wages in most sectors while we hold back was making the same mistake by supporting to commercial tisers. . prlces. · the Saudi monarchy for the same reason- CLEC, whose founder and prime move.r is Begin planning for full employment, because oil is there. He asserted that the the militant: president. of the International which· ought to be the priority of this gov­ Carter ·doctrine makes war over Saudi Association of Machinists . William· ernment, to put everyone to work in mean­ Arabia inevitable because the monarchy is Winpisiriger, says it is a ·coalition of over 150 ing"ful jobs, training everyone that needs despotic. Because the Saudi Arabian Royal · neighborhood, senior citizen, consumer, training. • • • That was what the Hum­ Family believes in cutting off the hands of trade union and environmental groups phrey-Hawkins Law was all about. · thieves, rebellion is inevitable. whose goal is to organize_. a grassroots citi- The December attack on the Great zen's force which can· meet head on the 'An inu'nedtate halt to any increase in de­ Mosque of Mecca was really the beginning power of the oil companies and the utilities. .fense spending. We could knock off $15 bil­ of a democratic rebellion in Saudi Arabia. Under Boot,h~s administration, CLEC is fa­ lion without hurting a thing and apply that Commoner said: Now I -tell you, sooner or cusing its lobbying efforts on promoting its money to a few of the social progr!Ull5. Con­ later that rebellion. will be reactivated; and Citizens' Energy Act which calls for forma­ yers continued: sooner or later some rebel will be found tion of a Federal Energy corporation to con­ We have a defense budget that already with a Marxist pamphlet in his or her back trol exploration, development, stockpiling has the wherewithal to kill each and every PQCket. And at that JnOment, Mr. Brzezinski and all imports of energy resources and calls Russian how many times?-30? 40? 50? 100? will tell us, Ah ha; the Soviet Union is inter- for the breakup of the major U.S. oil compa­ 145?-who knows? But we krtow one thing: fering with the internal politics of Saudi nies, both horizontally and vertically. Building more weapons of death and de­ Arabia. We are at war. Booth is an active member of the Advisory struction do not add to the national security Commoner next raised the question, how Board of the Big Business Day coalition of of the United States. · had ·the U.S. become so dependent on for- the "progressive left" groups clustered Stop the decontrol of domestic oil prices eign oil? It is the result of'a conscious deci- around IPS, the Ra,lph Nader Public Inter­ and to "break up the collusion between sian by the oil companies, he said. Back in est Research ·Group network, and OPEC and the Seven Sisters [oil compa­ the 1950s they discovered it was cheaper to several r{l.dical trade unions. nies]," establish a Federal Import Ag~ncy produce oil abroad, and so they deliberately In a presentation which, compared to the "which has the sole power and authority to cut back on exploring for new oil iri the U.S. previous talks, was a model of precisio·n and search out and bUy up· all crude oil all over Therefore, said Commoner, the·gunty party clarity, Booth outlined a three-point strat­ the world." that made us dependent on foreign -oil is the egy for the-1980s:. As Representative Conyers noted, creation profit-seeking oil company and the fact of First, it is necessary to reac.h out and work o{ sU:ch a Federal Import Agency would "free enterprise economics that a corpora- with the mass base majoritarian organiza- March 26, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6817 tions of this country-the trade unionS, the FUTURE OF FREIGHT 'Rail system can be expected to succeed. As a churches, the citizens organizations that RAILROADS IN NEW ENGLAND result, the President has requested no new have sprung up from Massachuset.ts [Mass .funds for ConRail in his proposed budget Fair Share] to Arkansas [ACORNl to Cali~ for next year. . fornia· [Tom Hayden's Campaigli for Eco­ HON.~TOPHERJ.DODD The termination of the Federal subsidy nomic . Democracy]. It is necessary to ex· OP CONNECTICUT for ConRail brings our State and our region IN·THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES face-to-face with the most serious freight plain to them why corporate power must be rail· crisis since the collapse of the old Penn broken. Wednesday, March 26. ·1980 Central. Without additional Federal subsi­ Simultaneously, we need to build our own dies, the U.S. Railway Association which is organizations, our own political wreckers • Mr. DODD. Mr. Speaker, on March the Government agency with· responsibility groups for those who are already convinced 17. I had the pleasure of moderating a for overseeing ConRail's ope·rations has said and already committed. meeting in Waterbury, Conn.• concern­ that ConRail .cannot maintain and operate · Three, while carrying out this two-level ing the future of freight railroads in the service . it now provides in Connecticut, .organizing, avoid alienating those who dis· New England. At this time. I insert the our ~eglon or systemwide. As a result, when agree with our own perspective, program text of my remarks in the REcoRD: the existing Federal subsidy runs out some­ and line. As an example, Booth said the STATEMENT OF CHRISTOP~ J .. DoDD time within the next 12 months, CoriRail deepest mistake of the anti-Vietnam war I want to thank the Waterbury Chamber will be forced to cut back its current level of movement was in not recognizing the depth of. Commerce and all of the chambers from maintenance and operations. and sincerity of patriotic passion wliich around the State who are cosl>onsoring this The U.S. Railway Association's analysis sometimes springs from decency and a wish event. It is a great pleasure for me to be shows that the cutback in ConRail service to protect one's neighbors, one's family ahd with you, to hear your views and to share would be especially severe in Connecticut one's community. with you my thoughts,on the· future of New where it estimates that ConRail would have Some members of the audience thought England's freight rail system. to "rationalize", a term I consider t-o be tan­ .Booth was straining to avoid u8ing the more This issue is not new to me or to you. For tamount to "terminate". service on 45.11)er­ traditional terminology of Lenin in calling the last 20 years, freight rail operations in cent of . the track miles it operates in the. for formation of a vanguard party to lead State-more than in any other State except our State and region have beeri going Virginia. Service would be rationalized on the masses and which would unite with all through various reorg&.nizations caused ini­ all but three ConRail-operated lines in our those who could be united. tially by the collapse of the old New Haven State-:-Plainfield_to Groton, Manchester to Booth said that the immediate priorities Railroad. The l!lSt such reorganization was Hartford, and Hartford to Waterbury. The · were to rally to stop the increasing thrust caused by the collapse of the old Penn Cen­ U.S. Railway Association's analysis assumes towards war basically by changing the reali· tral system and resulted in the creation of that some form of freight rail rate deregula· ties by removing the energy excuse for war; ConRail Each time the Federal Govern· tion will pass the Congress this year and and that organization is the only way these ment has been called on to commit its finan­ that the Federal Government will invest in programs will ·become political reality. _cial resources so that rail- service could be continued. ConRail an additional $850 million-a com­ The concluding presentation was by Stan· I came to Congress durf,ng the time that mittment ·whlch. the Federal Government is. ley Aronowitz, described in the forum pro­ ConRail was being established. I saw first­ highly unlikely to make in my judgment. gram as a visiting professor at .Columbia hand how successful businesses and indus­ While ConRail has rejected the .specific University, and who has been associated. tries in my district began to question their co_nclusions of the U.S. Railway Associ­ with Arthur Kinoy's Mass Party Organizing ability to survive not knowing whether they ation's report, it has failed to identify what· Committee .. In a higJUy emotional would continue to bave rail service. Re­ cutbacks would be needed. ConRail has said delivery, Aronowitz charged that the era of sponding. to their needs and in light of the hQwever, that it is losing money · in N e~ . traditional, pragmatic nonideologlcal poll· . availability of Federal resources, I support­ Engl~d and that the region's rail needs tics had been ended by the Right; and that ed ConRail's creation and its funding. ~ight best be served. in the future by a·core now the sorts of social benefit programs ob· · However, today I am here to tell you that system of high density lines. In addition, in­ tained by single-issue politics over the past we cannot solve ConRail's current problems for!llation beirig gathered for the joint U.S. 45 years were no longer possible. As an ex· in that way. <;liven the realities of today's Railway Association-New England Regional ample, he said we have not been able to economy, it is· :r:to·longer possible to expect Commission study of rail operations in our make a single move on National Health In· that additional Federal funding for the region shows that there has been a dramatic surance despite the fact that the most popu· 9ecline in the volume of rail freight traffic ailing ·conRail sys~in will be grariteeak here tonight as a socialist and a Friday, tJ;len you certainly understand that traffic volume since the' collapse of the old this administration is fully committed to Penn Central. radical, said Aronowitz, asserting that a con· cutting rather than · increasing Federal servative counter-coalition was aiming to Given these very .strong-even compel­ repeal many of the elementary gains won by spending in future years. For the last two or ling-signs of ConRail's vulnerability· sys­ three weeks th_ere has been occurring in temwide and particularly in Connecticut,. I the people during the era of economic ex­ Washington what I call "the great markup pansion. He charged that as the response of believe we must now develop procedures for in the sky". Leaders of the Senate and the the timely transfer of certain ConRail prop· U.S. leaders to economic contraction, the House along with officials from the adminis· United States is teetering on the brink of erties to otber private railroads that are tration have been meeting around the clock willing to provide service. authoritarianism because of the severe crisis in an effort to cut $13 billion from the pro· of capitalism. . Labor pro!ection and continuation of serv- . posed oudget for next year. PoliticallY lee on existing lines must be guaranteed it The time has come to confront and split sacred programs such as revenue sharing we are to ·have any success in protecting our the Democratic Party, said Aronowitz• . and many State gtant programs are all of a State's economy from major job lOsses and Therefore, despite his many differences, he sudden being earmarked for substantial economic · dislocations. Any program to would work with the Citizens Party. cuts. Steps to reduce berteflts under the transfer discontinued ConRail lines to pri­ Th~ brief question and answer period social security and other entitlement pro­ vate carriers must also include continuation dealt mostly with the virtues of gasohol and grams .are seriously being_considered for the of the collective bargalritng agreements with solar energy. However, · one person asked first time tn my memory. affected ConRail employees. The jobs of Barnet whether he meant to argue that the Washington is starting to respond to what railroad employees are as important·as the invasion of Afghanistan was in response to the people of the country have been saying jobs of workers in busiiiesses and industries the U.S. plans to station missiles in Europe. for the last several years. The overwhelming served by the railroad. He said that the Soviets entered Afghani· mood of the Congress is that the Federal Furthermore, to promote competition we stan because they feared that the Islamic Government has simply taken on too much must ensure that future rail carriers who . anti-communist fundamentalism of Af­ responsibility; that the l}nswers to our pro­ operate in our region can connect with rail- · ghanistan would spill over into the Soviet ductivity and inflation problems lie in halt· .roads in addition to ConRail. Presently, · Union. ing the trend of increasing the Federal Gov· about 90 percent of the traffic volume in· Barnet allowed that the Soviet action was ernment's share of our total national re­ our region must interchange with the Con- brutal, but maintained that the U.S.'s ag­ sources; and that in the future, private en· Rail system. · · gression had forced the U.S.S.R. into taking terprise must be relied on more and more to In conclusion: I would like to say that I do thiS st~p. Apparentiy he ~has not altered his achieve necessary pUblic goa1s. not favor, as some have sug~ested, the dis­ view expressed in his 1972 book, The Roots Budget cuts, progiam justification and mantling of the ConRail system. However, I of War, that There is much to hate about non-Federal solutions characterize . the do believe that the experience of the last America and nothing so much as American mood in Washington today. This is not the fiv~ years has sllowil that ConRail most ef­ militarism from which so many other evils environment in which a proposal to contin­ fiCient at providing long-haul main llne serv­ flow.e · ue subsidies for tJte federally nnanced Con- ice rather than local servJce such as we have 6818 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 in Connecticut and manY"bther P&r\1 ot Mr. Speaker, I would like to take sources, and fuel substitutes far ·the poor; New England. For this reason, I believe we this opportunity to Join the citizens of and <2> proceeds mu8t be kept out of the must act now before·the Federal subsidy for Butler, Mo., in welcoming Mr. Hein­ hands of oil companies to prevent them ConRaU ru-ns· out, to identify alternative lein home. He is one of this country'a from devouring the rest of American private carriers and to establl$h the procedures most accomplished writers, .and he ts a enterprise. · under which responsibility for the operation To begin with. a speciaJ tax .wu not of local service can be transferred. None of source of great pride for his hometown and the people of the great State of needed to underwrite the President's energy us want to see service abandoned in Con-· program. Federal taxes and royalties al· necticut; but we must act now whlle Con­ Missourt.e ready in existence would raise almost $500 Rail is stlll financially viable 1f we are to avoid that unfortunate result. billlon during the 1980s. . · I will continue to work closely With Jim ANOTHER LOOK AT WINDFALLS Also, as finany agreed to, the $227 bUUon Florio and his subcommlt~ as they consid· to be raised by the excise tax will be mainly:· er the raU deregulation leilsl-tion pow allocated for purpOses other than energy de­ before them. Over the years I have heard HON. ROBERT J. LAGO~INO. velopment. MQre than half wlll go to fi· from many of you on thla issue, and based OF CALIFOUIA nance tax cuts. Only 15 percent will be ear­ on those views and the views expressed at I.K THE HQUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES marked for alternate energy sourees. this morning's hearing, I Win ·introduce leg­ Wednesday, March 26, 1~80 The second reason advanced for the tax islation to ensure the continuation of raU was equ'ally baseless. Oil companies-con tin• service in our State. · e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, ue to reinvest in" energy development in 'Thankyou.e I wish to bring to the attention of my sums_ex~eedlng 100 percent of their profits colleagues an editorial that appeared from oll and gas operations. Their widely in the March 18 edition of the Carpin­ publlclzed dlverslflcations are - actually HONORiNG ROBERT ANSON teria , and has opened up a whole new world two II).ain ~easons for the excise tax: <1 > pro· in preparation for eventual elections. of possibilities for the generations to ceeds were needed to finance his $142 billion He began issuing careful statements to come. program for conservation, alternate. energy stake out his own spot on tne Nicara- March 26, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6819 guan political spectrum and provide peated that the sole owner of the Nicara­ ln the short- or medium-term. He said that guan revolution Is "all the people.~· · Let during the 1979 Insurrection t~e Nicaraguan the people with ~other political point them not tell us now that the Nicaraguan people elected us with their blood. of view. people have no right to freely choose their ·Guerrilla commander Rene Nunez made Sr. Robelo's effort is destined to be leaden." · the statement u he officially responded on short-lived, however, judging from In the electoral area, Robelo reiterated behalf of the FSLN to the demands made recent .Nicaraguan news reports. His his call for a strengthening of a pluralist by the Nicaraguan Democratic Movement party had not even, held its first rally and democratic system leading to truly free which on Sunday asked for the set:­ before the Sandinistas warned of the elections in which hts party will participate ttng of.a date to hold the elections. rise of "democratism" and the dangers and 1n which the people will freely choose Nunez said the organizer of the MDN, Al­ those who will lead them in the future. fonso Robelo, member of the government of criticism of · the government. And junta, still has time to think It over and cor­ now. just a few days ago, the Sandlnfs. rect the position he has assumed because it tas declared there would be no elec­ BARRICADA WARNS AGAIKS'l! RISE OP "DEMOCRATISM'' may significantly affect ~he unity of the tions in the near future. revolution. I urge my colleagues to read these MAtiAGt:iA <15 Mar.> -Hours before However, Commander Nunez just· smiled Alfonso Robelo, member of- the government and refused to make a direct comment when . excerptS from recent newscasts 111 junta, initiated a political campaign in.favor Nicaragua tQ see how. within th~ ~pace asked if it Is pc)ssible that the FSLN will of his own party-the Nicaraguan Demo­ pressure Robelo to resign from the govern­ of a week, Nicaraguans have seen their cratic Movement [MDNJ-the Sandinlst Na­ ment junta ~ he continues with his political prospects for free national elections go . tional Liberation Front [FSLNJ today sol­ a.Ctivities. We don't pressure; we just ask down the draiiL It is a telling story of einnly warned. against what it called the l"lse people to think things over, the Sandinlst what is really going on ·in the "New of democratism. leader said. · Nicaragua" as well as a self-indictment. According to local observers, the two atti­ It has been unofficially reported that the of the hypocritical SandiniStas ,and tudes apparently indicate an imminent ideo­ MDN plans to hold new rallies in .the their claim that Nicaragua is now free. logical conflict among the members of the countryside and that It Is receiving the sup­ Sandinlst government that could have deci­ port of business -and industrial groups in RoBELO ANNoUNcES MI;>N's EsTABLisHMENT sive effects in the course of the Nicaraguan As POLITICAL PARTY several cities. revolution. · In. its official reply to the MDN, the San­ MANAGUA <16 Mar.>-Alfonso Robelo, The newspaper BARRICADA, the official dinist Front said the party is trying to win member of the Nicaraguan Junta of the FSLN organ, jumping ahead of a proclama­ the SYmpathies of several national sectors government of · National Reconstruction, tion by Robelo to be announced 16 March, distorting the historical facts about the spoke to an assembly of Nicaraguan Demo­ stated today in a front page article that Sandinist revolution through a series of' cratic Moveinerit members, of which ideological currents that. want .to reexamine ·careless propaganda ploys. he Is the top leader, he~d at the Polidepor~ Sandino are riSing in Nicaragua. tivo Espana gym. The. meeting was held to The daily reiterated that the reyolution­ ORTEGA RETURNS FROM ABROAD, NOTES proclaim the conversion of the movement ary Sandinism now.in power in Nicaragua Is ROBELO SPEECHES into· an active political party. classlst and anti-Imperialist. The FSLN also MANAGUA <19 Mar.>-In Nicaragua "no one "We be}ieve in the free . exchange o~ called on its militants to initiate a relentless should be afraid to criticize the govern­ Ideas," Robelo said. He added that _"only ideological struggle now that there are some . ment," but theY. should not harm national this free exchange can give mankind the op­ who are trying to confuse Sandino with unity, Comdr Daniel Ortega, memb.er of the portunity to recognize his errors and correct bourgeoisie liberal ideology. junta of National Reconstruction, said them. He who believes he cannot make a The manifesto insists that the FSLN is the ~oday. . mistake, that he should not listen to critl· only vanguard of the revolution and reiter­ Returning from a tour of South America, cism, that he should not listen to what the ates the need for creating the single union of 'Europe and the Caribbean, the Sandin~st people wish to say has no place in our revo­ Nicaraguan workers. The FSLN adds that leader today commented on the. recent lution." with the triumph of the revolution, the ex­ speeches delivered by hls colleague, Alfonso Robelo said the MDN helped to draft the ploited classed are in power and things ~ave Robelo, another junta member. "plan of the Governinerit of National Re­ changed. The article also defends the liter­ Robelo, who tqrned his Nicaraguan Demo­ construction." the framework for the first acy campaign that will be initiated in a few cratic Movement into a political party on phase of the revolution that he and his fol­ days and that has been announced as the Sunday, has emphasized that the Sandinist lowers resolutely support. first firm step toward a new type of educa­ revolution "should be genuinely Nicaraguan "I agreed to be a member of the govern­ tion in Nicaragua. and- not follow allen patterns." He also'· ment j\mta in order to establish the basis -The FSLN niantfestO concluded by stating talked about freedom of religion, of expres­ for all Nicaraguans; withoUt regard for po­ that there is freedom in Nicaragua but the sion and of the press, as well as trade union litical, religious or social distinctions, to popular Sandinlst revolution will never freedom. Robelo's speeches have alluded. to effect the reconstruction of ~ur nation. My allow ·counterrevoltionary ~tlvities · to be the national literacy· campaign noting that acceptance carries with it the sacred com­ carried out under guise of freedom of cult, it should not be used to teach reading and mitment. before GOd an<~ the fatherland to religion arid religious values. . writing "in order to subjugate the under­ contribute all my efforts to achieve a demo­ In a recent speech FSLN leader Com­ privileged.".· cratic Nicarag1,1a in which justice, freedom mander Jaime Wheelock ·attacked the in­ Commander Ortega said Robelo's speech­ and peace prevail," he said. crease in party activlti~s and stated that the es are Indicative of the freedom existing in Robelo emphasized later that "we are a· FSLN is the only party with prestige re­ Nicaragua. However, he warned that the revolutlorup-y and truly Nicaraguan political maining in the country. Wheelock'said any freedom .to · criticize the government should party. we·'hav.e earned the right to be one effort to organize parties at this moment is not be misused so as not to endanger nation­ by our participatiori. first in the Insurrec­ ·an effor:t toward the return of Somozlsm. al unity or provide arguments "to interna­ tion· and later in the revolution. and because The planning minister, Commander tional reactionaries. Criticism should be the Nicaraguan people recognize our party's Henry Ruiz, has also referred to some busi­ made respectfully, carefully and responsi­ upright stance throughout its 2 years of ness sectors that form part of Alfonso Robe­ bly," the Nicaraguan leader said.. struggle. . This recognition is more than lo's political party characterizing them as "If anybody speakS· about freedom of rell­ enough... · fossils that should be in a paleontology In be gton, for instance," he said, "tha~ can lead what could his partY's government museum. He stated that their claims on the to the belief there Is relig!ous persecution in platform. Robelo callec;\ for a mixed econo­ revolution are purely political and not eco­ Nicaragua while the fact Is we not only my lDthls country and for the boundaries nomic. permit the people to have their own relt­ of private property ~nd state ownership to In one of its most polemical points, the glous. principles but we are also willing to be defined. . MDN maintains that the armed forces, now defend them." He ·said the same things However, Robelo then said that "pro~tly under direct FSLN control, must be placed might be thought abroad if requests are acquired private property shou~d be respect­ at the service of the fatherland and not at made for trade union freedom. ed, as long as it fulfills the social function the service of a given ideology· or party in He said "we have nothing against critic~ that is applicable to all property." He added order to guarantee. its c;ontinuity regardless ing ·the government as long as it does not that "it 1s time to uproot selfish sentiments of the politic~ group in government. :from our hearts, because in the past every­ affect national unity and it Is not perceived thing was considered so.lely for the cold ob- abroad that we are quibbling internally due· . jective of personal benefit." . FSLN SAYS No ELECTION PLANNED IN NEAR to tl}is criticism." The MDN leader called for the inviolabil­ FuTURE ity of personal property such as housing, MANAGUA. <20 Mar.> -An official RoBELo's MovEMENT DESCRIBED As "DANGER the fa.D;lilY vehicle and furniture. spokesman for thf;' Sandinist National Liber- TO REVOLUTION" Robelo, who was continuously interrupted ation Front today . dismissed the MANAGUA <19 Mar.>-Carlos Nunez, com- by heavy applause from the audience, te- possib1lity of holding elections in Nicaragua mander of the Sandinist revolution. said 6820 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 here today the criticism and politiCal posi­ Development Institute and the Su­ An administration less genuine In its tions outlined by government Junta member perior Council of Private ·· En~rprise desire to decrease human suffering would Alfonso Robelo during an assembly of his . as busJness organizations and not have sent me and others with similar party, the Nicaraguan Democratic Move­ under the Nicaraguan Democratic Move­ views on Human Rights-visits to countries ment as political organization, are like Chile, Poland, Nicaragua and South tion." 'trying to distort, neutralize and intervene in Africa. ThoSe trips were helpJul to brave Robelo criticized the political content of the foundations of the Sandinist people's people in ·difficult sitqations, and in ordi:. the national literacy campaign and the San­ revolution and are also promoting a revision nary times it might be enough to settle for. dinist orientation of the army and pro­ of Sandino's ideals for the sole purpose of making occasional contributions in an Ad· ministration with good intentions. . claimed that his party's political ideals. in­ seizing c~mtrol of the transformation proc­ clude respect for religion and legitimately But the times are not ordinary. East-West, ess being carried out by the Sandinist Na­ North-South, all around the globe, clouds obtained priva~ property, Ideological plu­ tional Liberation Front . ralism, a Nicaraguan socialism which does darken. good folk falter, deadlock· reigns. not copy other processes.· and respect for 2. We recognize only the FSLN as the van­ We despoil the planet and kid ourselves the freedoms of man, especially freedom of guard and we definitely support its govern­ that the rational alternative to nuclear the press. · ment programs. We also express our solldar­ weapons ls nuclear Power for peace, We Commander Nunez of the National Direc­ ity with .all mass. organizations identified drift into unacceptable options in Africa, torate of the Sandinist Nation&! Liberation and implementing the ·work programs estab­ and address the disarray of democracy as if Front feels that Robelo's movement lished by our vanguard iii an effort to have the Wizard of Oz wtll rescue .us- if only we is "among those which seek to make con­ a just and equitable society. skip on down the yellow brick road. · filets more acute in order to obtain greater 3. We urge all workers and peasants orga­ At home we haggle and ramble, trapped in strength with which to hinder the participa­ nizations to publicly denounce the political economic. disquiet and political charade. tion of the masses in the revolutionary opportunism of the millionaires, who oWn California at the polls shouts 'the nation's transformations being carried out within the coun_try's production centers, and who frustrationS ·in a sort of middle-class Watts. the Nicaraguan process." · are trying to maintain in our country under but the response is as barren as the re­ . In his opinion, Robelo's movement has an the same conditions of domination and ex­ sponse to the Wattses of a deCade ago. "eminently bourgeois" concept of freedom. ploitation of · the Nicaraguan workers, so Everybody is frustrated, but nobody seems "In line with this concept, the party is that they can keep for themselves the privi­ to be able to figure out' how to limit govern­ trying to oppose the changes begun by the ment without ignoring social injustice, how leges they enjoyed during the bloody Somo­ to pursue a more humane society without revolution, on the basis of an analysis that zist dictatorship. seeks to give ·the same importance to the destroying the goal in the name Of arriving No to the maneuvers of the local bour­ at it. As Dorothy Parker once remarked, various sectors that participated in the over­ geoisie. No to the political pretensions of the throw of the dictatorship without taking you can't teach old dogmas new 'tricks. into consideration the belligerent aspect of MD~. No one seems to have noticed that almost this revolution and · the fact that , it has Yes to FSLN work programs. Yes to the everyone now agrees on lots of things that taken place because it has a .very important Sandinist literacy campaign. . need to be done, and that what we ought io ·and decisive force on its side-our people," Free f~therland · or death. be seeking is ways to do them. Nunez said. But instead of searching for the delicate SERCIO 'HERRERA SO.MARRIBA, balances necessary to work through the di­ With regard to the demand for an army Secretary General of the National Ex­ lemmas presented by valid competing values. that is "apolitical and that has the right to ecutive Committee of the Julio Mar­ and difficult experience, politicians dive vote," the commander of the revolution said tinez Single Workers Union.e into old trenches and shoot tired slogans that "to propose to the members of the past· each -other, while everyone else tunes army that they be other than Sandinists is out. We worked to reform politics so every­ so absurd that anyone who does so would one could participate, only to discover that i~mediately be rejected." IN MEMORY OF ALLARD LOWENSTEIN nobody much wants to any more. So now we Danilo Aguirre S.olis, president of the must deal with the problem connected to so ,Union of Journalists of Nicaragua , many others-the problem of how to revive replied to Robelo's call for authentic free­ HON. DOUG WALGREN enthusiasm and excite energies. dom of speech. "It is true that there is no OF PENNSYLVANIA I cannot do much about that problem freedom of speech here for the dominant IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES either-the problem connected to-so many group which always used it for its own bene­ others-it I too get stuck in the cotton fit. That freedom is now the right of news­ Wednesday, March 26, 1980 candy.e men and the people. It was won in our un­ e Mr. WALGREN~ Mr. · Speaker, one yielding struggle against tyranny," Aguirre of the greatest honors give·n to AI said. Lowenstein was to be appointed by Father Fernando Cardenal, natio.nal coor­ President·Carter to be one·of our Am­ TWELVE-POINT PROGRAM TO dinator of the literacy campaign, comment­ CURE INFLATION. ed on the criticism of the MDN leader by bassadors · representing the- United saying that "the education cam!'aign that States at the United Nations. we will wage in Nicaragua is based on the AI was able to do much from that HON4! OLYMPIA J. SNOWE method of the famous teacher Pablo position because of the great confi­ OPMAINB Freire.!' He added that Freire describes edu­ dence those representing the Third Ilf THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cation Jn the capitalist countries as "bank­ World had for him personally. He was ing education, in which the student becomes even able to break the momentum of Wednesday, March 26, 1980 a container in which is deposited such the infamous "Zionism-Racism" posi­ e Mrs. SNOWE. Mr. Speaker, it Is ob­ knowledge as the exploiting classes want tion taken. by many of the, emerging vious that inflation is the No. 1 prob­ him _to have to prevent him from· knowing world. lem facing·this country today~ In that the truth." Father Cardenal added that this But for AI, he thought so much of· regard, I woud like to draw my col­ manner of dominating workers .and peasants leagues' attention to the Incisive com­ is the Congress that.· given the choice, lie "in addition to being criminal, hrtmoral, ments of my constituent~ Mr. John R. because it Is immoral for people to be pre­ felt he could do more running for the vented from knowing what· is happening House of Representatives. Therefore, ~rown of Hanc~k. Maine. In responSe around them." he resigned from our mission to the to my recent questionnaire, Mr. Brown U.N. .With the following statement: - delineated a 12-polnt program to cure Resigning from the Carter Administration . inflation. Mr. Brown. a 10-year veteran WoRKERS UNION DENOUNCES MDN is a tactical Judgment, not a moral impera­ of Wall Street, is certainly well quali­ MAN~ERS Uve. In appointive office, as in Congress, I fied to comment on the issue. He is MANAGUA RADIO SANDINO have tried to follow this precept: the business specialist for the Unlver- . could if you were out, don't cling. of Brown Dynamics, Inc., corporate fi­ Despite disagreements ·and disappoint­ nance consultants. In 1976, he brought 1. The Julio Martinez Single Workers men~. I applaud many things this AdminJs-. Union strongly criticizes the opportunism tration has done, and I'm grateful to Presi­ the Joint Mideast-American Business· and demagoguery of the milllonaire mer-· dent Carter for the chance to have worked Conference to Maine. Mr. Brown's. chants, induStrialists, farmers and cattle­ with ·Andy Young and other fine men and comments appeared in a recent edition men who, organized under the Nicaraguan women for the past ye&.f and a half. of the Bangor Daily News. ,, .

March 26, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6821 The article follows: money from investment to consumption. battle Pian, and recruiting support as the Goverruri~nt policies h&ve discouraged per­ rationale became manifest, could rescue us [Flom the Bangor Daily News, Mar. 13, . . . 19801 . sonal savings and thus retarded capital for­ from our economic lllness, end inflation and mation. Regulation has shifted capital from preserve . our economic freedom-without . BuSINESSMAlf LisTs 12 STEPS To CURB prQductive, job-creating investments .and which there is no freedom. Not before Elec­ INFLATION into activities that create no new wealth. tion Day, perhaps. But, who knows? Once Now, the term "government" Is too broad, the thrust and drive and intent were clear DEAR Ms. SMowE: Let's face it. The central pandemic and indeflnlte if we are to point the trend could easily reverse itself before Issue Is inflation, in a country ravaged by the finger specifically at those who are both the actu81 cure was applied. A form of psy- runaway inflation all other Issues are logi- responsible for lnflation and in a position to ch.osomatic healing. · cally pre-empted until this problem Is P,rovide a remedy. The Congress of. the The following actions tiy the Congress, solved. · United States enacted into law the creation not necessarily in order of importance, will Sadly, it is clear that we cannot look to of all of the programs, servtces, regulatory accomplish the desired results. ' . our president, whose leadership qualities bodies and endless other entities that have 1. Pass the Federal Spending Limit are l~ited to political maneuve~~. for di- collectivelY caused lnfiation. Amendment. As the growth of federal rection. Tragically, it Is Ukely that he wlll It Is axiomatic that the first· command­ spending drops, the need for goveriunent exacerbate the situation by yielding to pan- ment of Congress Is, "Get re-elected". To ac-·. borrowing will decline, freeing up capital for icky cries for mandatory controlS-hoping compllsh this the individual representative private investment. that the distortions won't emerge until after perceives that :Qis . image must be that of the "gift-giver•; inflation-generated increases in incomes by tnflationary fires kindled by budget deft- to his constituents. Consequently, simply move the taxpayer into a higher cits will really blow its lid. the Congress offers services and programs bracket. The only beneficiary is the govern­ To begin with, everyone should under- ''demanded" by the public. The cost of the ment. stand what causes inflation. It Ia NOT programs exceed tax -receipts; so Congress 3. Reduce Social Security benefits. Now. It caused by a shor~ge of oil. Or by the high asks the Treas\iry to issue Treasury bonds. will have to be done eventually.' By doing it price of oil. To ,be sure the precipitous rise The public buys some, but not all of the now the advantages are more pronounced in the cost of on has contributed,· but only bonds, and the Federal Reserve facilitates and less painful in the long run. . to the extent of 2.2 percent of the 20 per- the purchase of the remaining bonds by 4. Pl~ce a limit on the long-term increase cent inflation rate· we are enduring today. printing "new money". . , in federal subsidies, government benefits We ·should keep in mind, when we e The Congress thus wins the support of· and budget transfer payments to the size of tempted to blame OPEC for our oondi~ on, special interests by funding their programs that Germany, with an inflation rate of without having to increase taxes. As the the real increase in economic growth. only 5 percent imports all of Its oil. So, too, process is repeated over and over, and the 5. Sharply reduce grants to the states. with Japan. Indeed, the high cost of oll is old programs grow and grow, and more and Most of them are running surpluses and do beneficial tO the country and likely to stabi- more new money Ia inJected into the econo­ not .need the large payments. · llze if and when the basic causes of inflation my without any. real output of goods and 6. Repeal the minimum wage laws. Mini­ are brought under oontrol. services, we find too many dollars chasing mum wage laws serve to price the marginal To explain: the cutback in Iranian produc- too few goods-which is whaflnflatlon is. worker out of a job. Minimum wage codes tlon and the possibility of cutbacks by other Once inflation gains momentum and instituted in 1934 · immediately forced OPEC members has recently, for the first begins to accelerate It begins to feed on 500,000 blacks onto relief. They hurt most time, raised questions about whether oU itself. Since inflation heightens the risks of the very people they are designed to ~ "pro-. would be available at any price in the investment and leads to extreme uncertain­ teet". Repeal will put thousands of unem­ future. Thla has caused buye~ · to obtain ty, business decision-makers have no confl­ ployed to work, increasing national produc­ and hold far larger inventories than ever dence. that today's investment can pay off fn tion and reducing the costs of welfare. before. In 1979 the world consumed less on the future. They have no sound means of 7. Put a permanent 4 percent-6 percent than In 1978. Yet on production for the year estimating the cost of a long-term project. limit on the annual growth of the mpney was up, and we stlll have an extremeb' tight . no way of knowing whether profits wlll supply. This is noninflationary. market. -· · cover that cost. So they delay or aba~don 8. Relax; with a view toward eventual re­ The reason, of course, la .that people have· pro~ects. moval, limits on the interest that banks and been hurriedly building up blg ·Inventories The pubUc is buying gold, art, antiques .other savings institutions can pay-anv­ nance these idle barrels. realize that these three forces are impeding emment and Big Businesses. Six mi111on The money to finan~ th0$e inventorie$ investment necessary to re$tore economic. small investors·have dropped out of the cap. has come from two sources: one Is ~ation; stabUity: that there are no "quick fixes". ital markets ·since capital gains taxes were the other is credit, which has been made then we are conscious of the need for a doubled in 1969. ~ Gemlan. Japanese and available by reducing the credit to other grand strategy, a coordinated series of ac­ other governments reward rlsk-takfug and sectors of the economy like housing and tions based on common sense for the · economic innovation by imposing no capital consumer durables. ThiS squeezing-out proc- common good. We need only courageous po­ gains taxes, while we have the most punish­ ess is reducing economic activity .through- Utlcal leadership to tackle. the special inter- ing capital gains rates anywhere in the out the world. This derivative business slow- ests head-on. · world. When· punishing capital gains taxes down will reduce oU consumption, and high Public esteem for members of <;ongress Is deprive small business of their equity capt­ on prices wnr stimulate efforts to., conserve only a notch or so above members of the tal, the effect is to stlfie Innovation and fuel and find'supplemental energy. Mafia. I understand that there ls a move- smother enterprise. All of this suggests that we could soon ment afoot to inimortalize on the endan­ 11. Force the Census Bureau to include in~ have a glut of on that would cause today's gered species list the congressman who re­ kind services and other transfer payinen~ high inventories to unwind i.nd oil prices to fused a bribe. We have already pointed out when determining income. The biggest wel­ level off or decline in 1980. This would natu- that we cannot count upon for steadfast fare fraud of them all. is committed each rally have a very positive effect on interest guidance a man who only last week so cyni­ year ·by the U.S. Census Bureau, whlch· per­ rates, inflation and stock prices. cally politicized a United Nations resolution sists in churning out estimates of a huge So much for on and oU prices. What, then, that he embarrassed us before the whole poverty population. causes inflation? Government is the source world . . of inflation. The shortfall in investment is And so ft·is with a desperate, forlorn wish As far as the Census Bureau is concerned, the main source of the nation's economic that we must entrust our hopes of economic transfer payments don't count. It counts difficulties. The~e Is currently a tremendous salvation to the members of the U.S. Con~ only cash income; The censuS' doesn't even backlog of demand for capital projects, a gress. Surely, we tell ourselves, there are count food stamps, which in fact circulate huge amount of unmet needs for the kind of some among ·that body who would gamble as .cash. This ~ especially convenient for Investment that creates real wealth. their chances of reelection for the good of that brand of liberals who want not a pover­ ·· But the· governmen£ Is siphoning off over the nation. · ty cure but a poverty Issue. The war on pov­ 'l percent of the capital which might be If that is so, then • cadre of dedicated erty has been won. This vi~tory has been a available, and federal spending has diverted members; following the · accompanying well-kept secret, about the only. one our gov- 6822 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 ernment has been able to keep these past U.S.C. 552<6>. for ten days the period that are denied to me pursuant to my Feb­ few years. in which to respond to your request. ruary 9, 1980, request and to this appeal. There is no longer any ·Justification for We have completed our review of the doc­ Sincerely, · transfer. payments. growing faster than the uments you requested, anci wll1 make many PAT ScHROEDER. rate of inflation. Until that is understood. of these documents available to you. Since Con~resswo~n.e there is no hope of bringing federal spend- there are a large number of these docu­ ing under control. . ments, we_have made arrangements for you )2. Selectively and effectively reduce regu­ to review them to select those which you WYDLER CALLS FOR EMERGEN­ lations, beginning with those which retard want copied. You may eontact Wllliam F. CY RESPONSE PLANNING the switch to coal and the expansion o( nu­ W. Jones <395-3'12'1) regarding specific ar­ ·Clear power. If the agencies won't respond. rangements for reviewing these documents. enact legislation that wlll eliminate the As you undoubtedly recognize, however. HON. JOHN W. WYDLER agency. since your request concerns documents used OF NEW YORK As Simon J)oints out, the· evidence Is clear in preparing recommendations to the Presi· IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the regulatory process has run amok, dent and his principal advisers Jlll~ reaching far beyond legitimate concern over assistants in responding to a requirement Wednesday, March: 26, 1980 such values as health, safety and protection imposed upon him by statute, there are a • Mr. WYDLER. Mr. · Speaker, this of the environment. Most existing regula­ number of documents which consist of sen­ Friday; .March 28, marks the 1-year tion is so irrational that it should be wiped sitive and confidential advice, opinions and out by law, . along with the bureaucracies anniversary of the nuclear accident at recommendations to the President and Three Mile Island plant in· Pennsylva­ that have spawned it. · other officials of the E~ecutlve branch, the There, Ms. Snowe, is an even dozen. Not all disclosure of which would inhibit the frank nia. Since the accident, Government that could be done. But enough to do the and candid expression· and exchange of and industry have been actively in­ job.e views which are necessary to carry out, In volved in a careful scrutiny of nuclear this instance, a statutory requirement. This safety, and much progress has been material is the type of mat~rial' for which made toward increasing the already OMB HAS NO EVIDENCE TO Congress has provided an exemption from Wide safety margin of nuclear plants. BACK DRAFT REGISTRATION? mandatory release pursuant to 5 U.S.C. A trend that has disturbed me, howev­ 552<5>. We have determined not to re­ lease these materials. We are wllling to dis­ er, is the preoccupation of both the HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER cuss with you the general nature of these Nuclear Regulatory Commission and OF COLORADO documents. - various levels of State ·and local gov­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This is my personal decision, which m~y ernment with the' idea of emergency be appealed in accordance with 9MB regu­ preparedness for evacuation around Wednesday, March 26, 1980 lations, 5 C.F.R. 1303, a copy of which is at- nuclear plants. I have no trouble with e Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, tached. · the concept, but. the resources that the central recommendation in Presi­ Sil)cerely, have been allocated tow.ard such evac­ dent Carter's February 11, 1980, report uation plans are altogether dispropor­ LINDA L: SMITH, to Congress, the Presidential plan for tionate to the comp~rative risks of selective service reform, is peacetime­ Assistant to the Director this technology. . premobilization-dtaft registration. /or Administration. Tomorrow I shall· introduce a bill However, the administration has been EnClosure. called · .. The Emergency Evacuation unwilling or unable to bring forth any Act of 1'980" which places a priority on evidence to support that recommenda- emergency response planning in the tion. - HOUSE O.F REPRES~ATIVES, case of civilian nuclear attack. The On February 9, 1980, I filed a Free-. Washington. D.C., March 26. 1980. plans which would be developed for dom pf Informa~ion · Act request with Hon. JAMES T. MciNTYRE, Jr., this contingency would then be used the Office . of Management and Director, Office of Management and Budget, as models for emergency preparedness Bu would be given prima­ paring the final report to Congress. . tion, in response to my February 9, 1980, However, all of the documents pro­ ry responsibility for developing these Freedom of Information Act. request for plans and would allocate its resources vided to me as a result. of that request· documents pertaining to . the Presidential. indicate peacetime draft registration is Plan for Selective Service Reform, submit· according to the comparative risk in­ unnecessary.. · · · .ted to Congi-ess February 11, 1980. volved in various commercial and in· dustrial activities or technologies. As a result. I' have filed an appeal of I wish to appeal the denial ol th~ follow­ ing documents and ~ategories of documents: This bill is the third in a series of OMB's denial of pertinent documents <1 >The OMB final draft report on nation­ four nuclear bills which I shall intro­ supporting. the President's recommen-_ al civilian service; . duce in the 96th Congress. dation. . I am also offering OMB an 8.1• <2> Any and all documents that provide a I hope that this bill will go a long temative: they can admit that no such basts for the President's recommendation .to way toward placing the real needs for documents exist. Congress for peacetime · Government planning in this- area in ~e- reply and appeal follow: registration. The documents released to date by' OMB proper perspective. At the same time OFFICE OP MANAGEIIEifT AND BUDGET. indicate no link between the studies and re­ the Government should take this op­ Wcuhtngton, D.C., March 12, 1980. ports accomplished in preparation of the portunity to educate the public on the Hon. PATRICIA ScHROEDER, President's February 11, 1980, report to fact that dam ·breaks, for instance, are· U.S. House of Representatives, Congress and the recommendation -for much more· of a threat than any cata­ peacetime registration contained in that strophic nuclear accident. Wcuhington. D.C. report.- DEAR CONGRESSWOMAN SCHROEDER: This. Last . September the House voted 252 to Text of the bill follows: letter-Is in response to your request of Feb­ 163 to reject peacetime registration and to ruarY e. 1980 under the Freedom of Infor­ request the President to make a report on H.R.- mation Act, 5 U.S.C. 552, received in this Selective Service and military manpower A bill to authoriZe and direct the Director office February 12, 1980, for "documents, re­ issues. It would behoove the administration of the Federal Emergency Management ports, memoranda, letters, Issue papers, to provide Congress with some evidence to Agency to develop emergency evacuation Steering Committee schedules. Steering support the central recommenda~ion in the plans for highly-populated areas of the Committee minutes, Designs for each of the report. United States for use in the event of a nu­ ten Issues, drafts of recommendations, and If no documents exist that substantiate clear attack and to use such plans as a similar materials relating to the preparation the President's ·recommendation for peace­ model to the extent practicable in the de initiate emergency preparedness train· tions and for other purposes. gency evacuation plans in response to acci­ ing of state and local officials; and Be it enacted by the Senate and House o/ dents ·at facilities and on transportation sys­ <3> develop and issue a series of Inter­ Representatives of the United States- of tems where the highest likeJihood exists for agency assignments for emergency planning America in Congress assembled, That this saving multiple num~e.rs of ltves through and response. emergency re$ponse to a disaster; and Act shall be referred to as the Emergency RISK ASSESSMENT Evacuation Act of 1980. <3> to assure optimum allocation of re­ sources for em~rgency preparedness by plac· SEC. 5. The Director shall conduct a de­ FINDINGS AND PURPOSES ing primary responsib111ty for them in tailed study to ascertain the probability of SEC. 2. FEMA and by, to the maximum extent prac­ serious accidents occurring with respect to The Congress finds that: ticable, adopting plans for civlllan nuclear activities at commercial and industrial facll· <1> there is 100 percent certainty that nu· attack as model plans which can be imple· ities including those wed for the produc· clear attack on military targets in or around mented by state, local, and federal govern· tlon, handling, or storage of energy from major U.S. population centers would result ments for responding to serious nuClear fossil, nuclear or renewable sources, or haz· in a huge number of civutan fataltties; power plant accidents as well as other civil· ardous materials and referred to in Section <2> the number of fataltties _from a typical lan disasters. 4. and rank categories of-facilities accord· nuclear weapon would be far greater than <4> the Director shall have lead respon­ ing to the annual probabillty of serious acci­ the number ·of fataltties from any civ111an sibility for planning related. to. emergency dents · occurring . at each such category of disaster Which has even a remote likelthood evacuation of civilians in the event of a seri· facilities, which in the absence of the imple­ of occurring; ous accident at a civilian nuclear power . mentation of emergency preparedness meas­ <3> given the htiman factors involved, it Is plant; ures involve a significant chance of multiple Impossible to compare the likelthood of nu­ the Director in consultation with ap­ loss of life and where implementation of clear attack. with· the ltkelthood of a maJor propriate federal, state, and_local officials Is emergency plans is ltkely to save a signifi· civilian acCident. However, far fewer people directed to examine nuclear attt;LCk prepar­ cant number of those lives. have died· in all civilian major disasters in ednesS plans under Section 3 to determine SEc. 6. The Director shall also conduct a the country than died ~ a resUlt of explo­ their· applicability m the event of a serious detailed study to ascertain the probability sions of nuclear devices during World War nuclear power plant accident at or near of serious accidents occurring which involve II; . likely targets of nuclear attack. -He is fur­ energy and hazardous materials transporta­ <4> all energy technologies involve some ther directed to make necessary modifica· tion systems or acts of nature resulting in a risk to human life, either through cata· tions if he determines that the cost of these natural disaster, accordbig to the annual strophic accident or impacts on worker modifications .to 'such plans ls reasonable. probability of occurrence at such time and in such loeation which in the absence of the health and safety; _ · NUCLEAR ATrACK EVACUATION PLANS <5> some, such as nuclear reactor- acci­ implementation of emergenc¥ preparedness dents, however, have never resulted in the · SEc. 3. The Director of the Federal Emer­ measures involve a significant chance of death of a member of the. general publtc; gency Management Agency . manufacturing fac111ties and transpor­ ferred to as the "Director"> Is authorized tion of emergency plans can significantly and directed to develop nucleat attack pre· reduce the possib111ty of multiple loss of life. tation systems for certain types of fuels, ex­ patedness plans for the evacuation of civil· plosives, and hazardous materials have been ian population centers which, in his opinion, REPORTS TO CONGRESS involved in several accidents whereby multi· would ltkely be the targets or are situated SEC. 7. Six months after the date of enact­ pie deaths have occurred and under circum­ near likely targets. of a nuclear attack. ment of this Act and at .aruma! intervals stances where implemented evacuation These plans shall be developed in coordina- thereaffter, the Director shall transmit to plans have or could have resulted in a re­ -tion with· appropriate state and local au­ each House of Congress a report containing: duction 'in the number of lives lost as a thorities and shall cover the following: <1> ·the ranking of categories of commer­ result of the accident; · <1> the timely warning of appropriate fed· cial or industrial facilities and of categories <7> the present overemphasis on serious ci· eral, state, and local authorities and the cl· of transportation systems, according to the vilian nuclear accidents ln emergency re· vlltan population: probability of. multiple loss of life during a sponse planning at federal, state and local one-year period as the result of serious acci­ levels results in a misallocation of scarce re· (2) coordination of em.ergency assist~ce sources away from the more probable indus· to state and local governments in the post· dents occurring at each such Ca.tegory; trial accidents and natural disaSters; attack period; <2> a list of the number of deaths occur­ <8> because of the slmilarity of the threat <3> development of detailed evacuation ring, by category of facility, and by catea-ory from radioactive byproducts of a serious nu­ plans, including plans for necesstlrY hous­ of tranaportation systelfl, and natural disas­ clear accident to those of a ·nuclear attack, ing, medical supplies and assistance, fooct ter d~rinl · the twelve-month period cove.,ed emergency preparedness plans for nuclear and clothing for evacuees; and the designa­ by the report as the reault of eerioua acci· attack art.. more likely to be directly appltca­ tion of e~acuatloh routes from major popu- d~Qts occurring at each such category; and ble in response to a serious accident at a nu· lation centers; . <3> a detailed plan setting forth the clear power plant than to other civilian acci· <4> plans for advance instruction of the inanner tn which the Federal Emergency dents and natural disasters although the oc­ civil population that may have to be evacu­ Management Agency will allocate ita re­ currence of the latter events are much more ated concerning the details of the emergen· sources, .primarily with respect to the emer­ probable thari the occurrence of such a nu­ cy plan and how they are to respond in the gency evacuation of civilians following nu­ clear accident: event of such an emergency; and clear attack, and secondarily to application <5> the extent to which-the nuclear attack of nuclear attack emergency plans to re­ <9> federal resources dedicated to emer­ spond to high ranking accidents and disas­ gency pla.nnin,g should ~ primarily devoted preparedness plan can be used . to prepare to emergency preparedness for· nuclear for response to serious civilian nuclear ters under Sections 7<1> and 7(2), and supple­ attack on maJor targets ln heavily popu­ power plant accidents and other. serious ac· mental emergency response plans for high lated areas since the potential .loss of life cidents and natural disasters which may ranking accidents and disasters under Sec· from such an occurrence far exceeds that of occur within the geographical area covered tion& 7<1> and 7<2> which occur outside areas all other probable disasters; and by the evacuation plan. coverec;t by _nuclear attack planning. (10) the remaining federal resources EVACUATION PLANS FOR SERIOUS CIVILIAN NU•. REGULATIONS should be dedicated to emergency prepared· CLEAR ACCIDEI(TS AND OTHER SERIOUS CIVIL­ SEC. 8. The Director shall prescribe such ness for disasters at those facUlties and on IAN DISASTERS regulation&_ as·are necessary to carry out the those transportation sys~ms which fall into · SEc. 4. The Director 1s authorized to provisions of this Act.e a category where multiple loss of life has oc· develop ·plans, in consultation with appro­ curred ln the past, which do not dupltcate priate federal, state, and local authorities, the emergency preparedness · for nuclear for the emergency evacuation of civilians in attack by other agencies, and where emer­ FIGHTING INFLATION WITH the event of other serious accidents and nat­ POPULAR SYMBOLS gency preparedness Is likely to contribute to uta! disasters· in the United States, such as the saving of lives in the event of a disaster: accidents at energy production, processing, Therefore, it ·is "the purpose of this and storage facilities incldding nuclear facil­ CO~S, legislation: · ·HON. JOI;IN JR. Ities not covered under ; industrial accl· OF MICHIGAN <1 >to redirect ·emergency preparedness ac· dents involving hazardous · che)llic~ sub­ tlvities of the Federal Emergency Manage­ stances or explosives; major storms, earth· IN THE HOtlSE OF REl'RESENTATIVES ment Agency so that highest prior­ quakes, and other acts of nature; dam Wednesday, March 26, 1980 ity 18 given to emergency response following failures: or accidents Involving energy and· nuclear attack in highly populated areas of hazardous material transportation systems. eM~. CON:YERS. Mr. Speaker, 1980 the country; The Director shall: is not just another Presidential elec­ <2> after studying the history of clvllian <1> review state and local emergency plans tion year. It also is shaping up as a disasters in the U.S. and comparative risk ·and determine whether they are adequate year of acute economic crisis, in which literature, to devote the remaining FEMA and suitable for lmplementation; economic decisions. regardless of ihe 6824 .EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 merits, become instruments for salvag.; The major factors behind inflation reason being that it knows the total govern­ ing or building political careers. · today-some estimates ·range as high ment budget is al· Not surprisingly, this year candi­ as· three-quarters of it-con5ist of the ready in .balance. The federal budg~t ap. pears to be in deficit not because of federal dates are embracing all kinds of eco­ cost of imported and decontrolled do­ spending, but because Washington gives the nomic remedies that appeal to public mestic oil and the unprecedented in­ states and cities over $80 billion a year in indignation toward Government, ·but terest rates. How a balanced budget handouts of one· kind or another, some of it that are unlikely to have any impact and even tighter money would allay called "revenue sharing." If it weren't tor on solving inflation. In· the process these factors is not readily app~rent. that, the federal budget would already be in they are parceling ou~ the burden for The contradictions .in the proposed surplus. their decisions, such. as balancing. the policies to fight inflation should lead· Despite this, the president and Congress Federal budget, to those groups least us to separate out the myths from the condemn deficit financing as if it were t.he responsible for the economic mess, realities, the- symbols from the ·sub­ principal source of inflation. There is little recent evidence, however, to support this while rewarding others· who ought to stance. To this end, I recommend to notion. · · · shoulder the blame, but who have the my colleagues a commentary by. Clay­ In Gerald Ford's last two years in the most political clout. · ton Fritchey, "Deflating the Dream," White House, the federal deficit was $45.2 · The current' congressional frenzy to that appeared in the Washington Post blllion 'in 1975 and $66.4 billion in 1976, for a total of $111.6 billion. the budget is a good illustration of the Washington reporter, o{fers us the Yet when Ford left office, the inflation rate political maneuvering that· masquer­ benefit of experience and cautions Us had dropped to around 4.8 ·percent. Under ades for serious anti-inflation policy. A th,at a balanced budget plus a reces­ the Carter administration, the deficit was sion plus a failure to· address-head on $30.3 billiQn in 1979 and is projectectat $33.2 balanced budget is a political symbol, billion for 1980, for a total of $63.5 billion, plain and simple, that relates to anti­ the energy crisis is a recipe for even ·or $48.1 billion less than under .Ford. None. Government ahd tax revolt senti­ greater. economic and social disaster. theless, the inflation rate under Carter has ment-and may take · the heat off· The commentary referred to follows: more than tripled. elected officials with angry constitu­ DEFLATING THE DREAJl Another way of assessing deficits, and ents-but has no .demonstrable connec-· Gunter Schmolders, the West G~rmaJl:> . their· whimsical effect on inflation, is ·to tion with bringing down the inflation economist who made an unusual economic compare them with the gross national prod­ rate. · study of the decade between 1963 and 1973, uct-Qutput of goods an<;l services. On this As a matter of· fact, the earnest ar­ discovered that of 40 countries whose infla­ basis, Carter:s four-year deficit total is equal guments that are heard everyw:pere tion .reached 15 pel'cent in that period, 38 to 1.8 perc~nt of the GNP, just half of "abolish.ed their democratic institutions in Ford's 3.6 percent! bUt look at the respective that Government spending is the one way or another." inflation rates. major cause of inflation are. directly Today, in the United States, t:Qe inflation More and more conservative economists contradicted by the historical record .rate is already over· 18 ·percent, and still are coming to believe tnat, at this advanced and by current experience. For exam­ climbing. Nevertheless, the Carter ~dminis­ stage of inflation, only wage and price con­ ple, the biggest recent Federal deficits tration continues to dwell in a dream world trols will enable the government to zero in occurred in 1975 and ·1976, a total of when it comes to .inflation and how to cope on the worst price offenders-energy, food, $lll,6 billion in deficits~ yet during with it. housing and m~dical care. Higher ,inflation this period the inflation rate was Listening to Jimmy Carter on this subject in . the basic necessities is what cries for brought down from double-digit ~ like hearillg a replay of Herbert Hoover's relief. a reassurances during the Great Depression Not long ago, President Cart.er · said, level to 4.8 percent. On the other that "prosperity is just around the comer." "Whatever it takes to control inflation, hand, the last time ·in which the Fed­ This time a year ago, Carter told Ameri~ that's what I wlll do." Whatever it takes, eral budget was·in balance or showed a that his anti-inflation program was "begin­ that ~. except embracing the kind of .con­ sustained surplus was the -whole nln& to take hold." Last October, callill&' for trols Ted Kennedy is·now campaigning for.e decade of the 1920's, right up to the "a little patience," he predfcted that both Great Depression. · · Interest and inflation rates would go down Even the most ardent advocates of a before the end of 197~. balanced budget now concede its. Although both rates have Iince shot up to record highs, the· administration keeps .HONORIJITG BERT BOE~KMANN. impact on inflation t8 ·psychologica.l. makin& soothing· statements. . Only a few The Congressional Budget Office re­ daya ago, the secretary of tlie Treasury,· cently- estimated that a balanced Wllliam Miller, sent a telegram to the top HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN ·budget, at best, niight reduce the in· executJves of the nation's 500 largest corpo­ OF CALIFORNIA flation rate increase by two-tentru. of 1 rations. It said that the Council on Wage IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES percent, · and even that would occur and J»rtce Stability "will intensify its moni­ over an 18-month period or so. If a bal:. torin& activities to make certain that both Wednesday, March 26, 1980 · anced budget won't le8sen inflation, it the price and wage standards continue to be e Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, on most likely will lead· to even higher un­ effective." · Friday evening, March 28, the Los An­ The operative word is "continue," which employment and a substantial reces­ must have convulsed the executives in·view ·geles·Cotinty Chapter of the March· of sion. Advocacy of a Federal budget of the latest· inflation headlines, such as: Dimes will be honoring H. R. "Bert" balanced on the· back of domestic pro­ "Major. Banks Raise Prime Rates to 17.25 Boeckmann . II. with its coveted Hu­ grams, coupled with a tight money Percent." "Administration Seeks $58 Blllion manitarian Award at a dinner dance·at policy, is, iil re&.lity, a smokescreen for Boost in Debt Ceiling." "Dollar Plunges the Sportman's Lodge in Studio City, engineering another massive recession. Against Japanese Yen." · Calif. . I will be unable to Join my dis­ such as occw •ed in the mid-1970's. The· White House talks about cutting ex­ tinguished colleagues Mr. CoRMAN and The irony is tbat another massive re­ penditures by $1~ billion and aiJriing at bal­ Mr. GoLDWATER •t the dinner, .so I cession would lead tO increased Feder­ ancin& the budget, not this year, of course, would like to take this opportunity to but in 1981. At most, that would reduce in· al spending fo:r: the unemployed and flation by· two-tentha of 1 percent. ·It's like honor Mr. Boeckmann before this dis­ economically distressed communities combating a r,aging four-alarm blaze with · tingtiished body.· which, in turn, would bring about a proposala for long-range, minor finprove­ Bert Boeckmann is the owner and new round of deficits. ments lh the fire department. president of Galpin Ford in Sepulveda, One thing- should be clear about· a Both -Carter and Congre~ seem suscepti­ Calif. Bert bull~ the dealership from a balanced budget and tight. money ble to ·panaceas •that are more likely to in· 1-acre lot into an innovative 13 acre strategy: Neither solves, and both will flame -inflation than douse it. The president complex employing more than 250 only · aggravate, the overwhelming puts nearly all of the blame for inflation on · people.. Galpin Ford Square represents problems of cities already on the brink the increase of oil prices, yet his decision to a modern advance in industrial devel­ decontrol domestic oil is responsible for o·f balikruptcy, public school systems much of the recent runaway cost of gaso­ opment, offering employees· their own closed down for lack of ,funds, the line. In fact, the price of decontrolled oil restaw-ant. shuttle bus service, and gross ·maldistribution of income in the has been rising even faster than the price of other innQvations developed by Bert Nation, and declining industries and Imported oil.' · himself. Many of his conceptS on ·plant regions that may lose any chance they Congress, like Carter, preaches but does management have been adopted by car now have of reviving. not t>ractice a balp.nced federal budget,- one dealerships all over the Nation. · March 26, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6825 The popular surfer van, seen today uled, ·and any cancellations or changes Appropriations on every road in the country, made its in the · mee~ings.as · they occur. State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, initial debut as a Galpinized special in · As ·a.n iiiter1in procedure untU the . and Related Agencies Subcommittee To ,hold hearings on proposed budget es­ t~e late 1960's. Bert has always . de­ computerization of this information becomes operational. the Office of the timates for fiscal year 1981 for Eco­ manded products of the highest qual· no~ic and Statistical Analysis, Bureau lty for hls customers, a · factOr which Senate Daily· Digest will prepare this of the Census, and Minority Business led to hls founding the Establishment information for printing in the ·Exten· Development Agency, all of the De­ Motor Home Co. in 1971. Today, Es­ sion ·of Remarks section of the CoN· partment of Commerce.· tablishment ls one_of the top compa· GRESSIONAL RECORD on ·Monday and S-146, Capitol nies in the field of recreational vehi· Wednesday of each w~ek. Budget cles.. · Any .changes in committee schedul­ To continue consideration of the first Being so intimately involved ln the ing will be 11\dicated by placement of concurrent budget ·resolution setting ·sales and servicing of automotive prod· an asterisk to the lett of the name of forth recommended levels of total the unit conducting such meetings. budget outlays, Federal revenues, and uctS, Bert ls keenly aware of the prob­ new budget authority. lems we face on the energy front. In Meetings scheduled for Thursday. · 6202 Dirksen Building response to the threats we face as a March 27. 1980; may be found in the result of an increasing dependence on Daily Digest of today's REcoRD •. MARCH3~ foreigri oil, ·Bert formed a partnership 8:00a.m. with· Chuck·Stone, former director of MEETINGS SCHEDULED Armed Services the California State Legislature's syn­ Research and Development Subcommittee thetic fuels- program, to develop. MARCH28 To resume closed hearings on S. 2294, Futilre Fuels of America, a company 8:00a.m. · authorizing funds for fiscal year 1981 which converts vehicles to run on 100 Armed Services for military procurement of the DOD, percent synthetic fuel. Future .Fuels. of Research and Development Subcommittee receiving testimony on rapid deploy­ ment force programs. America also manufactures their own To continue closed hearings on s.· 2294. synfuel, Methanox x.· authorizing fundS for fiscal year 1981 224 Russell Building · Last month. the fii-st truckload of for military procurement programs of 9:30a.m. synthetic 'powered fleet vehicles were the DOD, rec~iving testimony on the Finance delivered to the. Bank of America re­ Navy's new ships and related ship pro- Taxation and Debt Management General· gional offices in San ·Francisco, offer· grams. : . ly Subcommittee · · ing a brilliant ray of hope on the 224 Russell· Building To hold hearings on proposed legtSlation 9:00a.m. to extend the temporary limit on the energy horizon. public debt. In addition to his . outstanding Appropriations Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit- 2221 Dirksen Building achievements in the business world, tee · .Judiciary Bert nas been a · pillar of numerous To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To resume hearings on S. 2377, authoriz­ charitable and philanthropic organiza· tfni.ates for fiscal year 1981 for the ing funds for fiscal year 1981 for pro­ tions throughout southe,ni California. Smithsonian Institution. grams administered .by the Depart­ Hls deep commitment to helping 1223 Dirksen Building ment of Justice. others ls powerfully illustrated in his· Finance 2228 Dirksen Building deeds. He personany contributes most Taxation and Debt Management General-' 10:00 a.m. generously ·in time and treasure every ly Subcommittee Appropriations mon~h to programs and projects which To hold hearings on miscellaneous tax Energy and Water Development Subcom- directly affect the quality of .life for proposals on capital formation for mittee · the people in his community. He has small business, recommended by the To continue hearings on proposed been .a backbone of fundraising efforts White House Conference on Small budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 to projects benefiting churches, Business. for energy and water development pro­ grams. schools. young people. senior .citizens, 2221 Dirksen Build~g the ill, the handicapped,.and the arts. *Judiciary 1114 Dirksen Buildmg While Bert and hls lovely wife· Jane To hold hearings on S. 1790, 115, and *B~king. Housing, and Urban Affairs · h~ been honored and feted by hun· 1816, bills t9 protect the press and International Finance Subcommittee dreds of groups because of their out­ other innocent ·third parties against To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ standing and meritorio\1$ service to unwarranted searches. · tionS for fiscal year 1981 for the inter­ the ·community. I wanted to express 2228 Dirksen Building national affairs programs of the De­ 9:30a.m. partment of the Treasury; S. 2271, to my own· personal admiration for the Commerce, Science, and Transportation increase the U.S. quota in the Interna­ example they hav~ set. I offer my coh To hold hearings· on.the nomination of tional Monetary Fund, and S. 1963, to leagues this brief commendation as a Reginald E. Gilliam, Jr., of Virginia, to control Government purchases . an~ reminder of the tremendous impact be a Member of the Interstate Com· sales of gold. one man can · have, especially when merce Commission. 5302 Dirksen Building. backed by · a talented and supportive 235 Russell Building Budget To resume consideration of the first wife. •Foreign Relations Well done. Bert and Jane. Los Ange­ concurrent budget resohition setting To resume hearings on S. 2423, authoriz­ forth recommended levels of total les County iS lucky indeed to have ing funds for fiscal year 1981 for for­ budget outlays, Federal revenues, and you.e eign development and security assist- new budget authority. ance programs. · 6202 Dirksen Building 4221 Dirksen Builc:Una Commerce, Science, and Transportation Labor and Human Resources Surface Transportation Subcommittee. SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS To resume oversight hearings on the im­ To hold hearings on S. 1151, proposed · Tiile. IV of Senate Resolution 4. plementation of the occupational Rail Restructuring Assistance Act. safety and health program. · 235 Russell Building agreed to by the Senate on February 4232 Dirksen Building 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a Select on Intelligence system for a eomputerized schedule of 10:00 a.m. To resume hearings on S. 2284, proposed all meetings and hearings of Senate Appropriations legislative charter governing the intel­ BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ ligence activities of the U.S. committees, subcommittees, joint com­ tee 6226 Dirksen Building mittees, and committees of conference. To continue hearings on proposed 2:00p.m. This title requires all such'committees budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Appropriations . to notify the Office of the Senate for the National Science Foundation, Energy and Water Development Sub.com­ Daily Digest-designated by the Rules and the Office of Science and Tech- mittee Committee~f the ·time, place; and nology Policy. · To continue hearings on proposed purpose ·of the meetings·. when·· sched· 1318 Dirksen Building budget estimates for ·nscal ye~r 1981 6826 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26, 1980 for energy and water development prQ­ ·· commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold hearings on proposed budget e~ grams. Business meeting, t.o consider pending timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na- 1114 Dirksen Building -calendar business. . tional Corrimission on Air Quality, the Appropriations · 235 Russ~ll Building American Battle Monuments Commis­ State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, Energy·and Natural Resources sion, and U.S. Army cemeterial ex­ and Related· Agencies Subcommittee penses. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Energy. Research and Development Sub· timates for fiscal year 1981 for the committee , _1318 DirkSen Building Chrysler Loan Guarantee Program, To resume hearings on S. 2332, authoriz· Appropriat.ions International Trade Administration, ing funds for fiScal years 1981 and Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ &nd certain other programs of the De­ 1982 for civilian progral}lS of the De-~ . tee partment of. Commerce. · -partment of Energy. .To · . continue hearings on proposed S-146, Capitol . 3110 Dirksen Building . budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Select on Intelligence Labor and Human Resources · for the Office of Territorial Affairs. Budget Authorizations Subcommittee To resume oversight heartngs on tJ:ie im­ 1224 Dirksen Building To resume closed hearings on proposed plementation of the occupational Appropriations legisl~tion authorizing funds for fiscal safety and health program. Transportation Subcommittee year 1981 for intelligence activities of · 4232 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on proposed budget the U.S. estimates for 'fiscal year 1981 for the Select on Intelligence Department of Transportation. · s-407. capitol To continue hearings on s. 2284, pro­ posed legislative charter governing the S-126, Capitol APRIL 1 intelligence activities of the United Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · 8:00a.m. .. ·States. Housing_and Urban Affairs Subcommittee Appropriations . 31,8 Russell Building To resume hearings on s. 2383, authoriz- Agriculture, Rural Development and Re- 2:00p.m. . . ing f~ds for fiscal year 1981 fot hous­ lated Agencies Subcommittee ' ' Appropriations . Ing, communitY develdpment pro­ To resume hearings on proposed budget Energy and Water Development Subcom- grams, and the urban development estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the mittee · · · action grant of the. Department of Department of Agriculture. To continue hearings on proposed Housing and Urban Development. S-128, Capitol budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 5302 Dirksel Building 9:00a.m• . for energy and water·development pro- Budget · . Finance grams. · To continue consideration of the first Taxation and Debt ·Management General- 1114 Dirksen Buildi~ concurrent budget resolution setting ly Subcommittee . . for.th reeommended levels of total To resume hearings on miscellaneous budget outlays, Federal revenues, and APRIL2 new budget authority. tax proposals on capital formation for 8:00a.m. · small 'business, recommended by the · . 6202 Dirksen Building White House Conference on Small Appropriations Agriculture, Rural Development and· Re- Conunerce, Science, and Transportation Business. To hold hearings on proposed legislation 2221 Dirksen Building lated Agencies Subcommittee . To continue hearings on proposed authorizing funds for hazardous mate­ 9:30a.m. budget estimates ·for fiscal year 1981 rials programs of the Department of. Judiciary for the Department· of Agriculttire. Transportation. · . Business meeting, to consider pending S-128, Capitol 235 Russell Building ·calendar business. 9:00a.m. Energy and Natural Resources 2228 Dirksen Building Business meeting, to consider pending 10:00 a.m. Finance calendar business. · Taxation and Debt Management General-· Agricultur~. Nutrition, and Forestry · 3110 Dfrksen.BuUding Nutrition Subcommittee . · ly Subcotnnlittee , To resume hearings on proposed legisla· Finance To hold hearings on S. 1651, proposed International Trade Subcommittee Department of Agriculture Nutrition tion to extend the temporary limit on Labeling and Information Act. the public debt. To hold hearings on the protocol to the 2221 Dirksen :Building Multilateral Trade Negotiations cuS­ · 324 Russell B~ilding toms valuation agreement. 'Appropriations 9:30a.m. Commerce, Scit?nce, and Transportation · 2221 Dirksen Building Foreign Operations Subcommittee Labor and Human Resources . To hold hearings·on prop~sed budget es­ Science, Technology, and Space Subcom· timates for fiscal year 1981 for foreign mittee ~mploynient, Poverty,· and Migrator¥_ . assistance programs. To hold hearings on S. 1393, authorizirig · Labor Subcommittee · · 1318 Dirksen Building funds for fiscal years 1981 and 1982 Busine~ meeting, to markup.S. 2337, au­ Appropriations for programs under · the National thorizmg · funds through fiscal year Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Earthquake Hazards. Reduction Act. 1983 for the Legal Services Corpora- tee . 6226 Dirksen Buildinr tion. · To .hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Judiciary 4232 D.irksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for the To resume hearings on S. 2377, authoriz· Select on Small Business Office of Territorial Affairs. lng funds for fiscal year 1981 for pro­ To reswn~ hearings on Title .I. Research 1224 Dirksen Building grams a~inistered by the Depart· and Develop~ent Contracts, of S. Appropriations ment of Justice• . 1860, proposed Small Business- Innova­ State, Justice, Commerce. the Judiciary 2228 Dirksen Buildinll tion Act. and Related Agencies Subcommittee eterans AffairS 424 Russell Building To continue hearings on proposed •v Business meeting, to considerS. 1i88, to Select on Intelligence < budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 To continue hearings on S. · 2284, pro­ for the Department of Commerce. revise the vocational ~ehabilitation program administered by the Veter­ posed legislative charter governing the S-146, Capitol . an's Administration. intelligence activities of the U.S. . Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 412 Russell Building 5110 Dirksen Building Rural Housing and Development Subcom­ 10:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. mittee Approptiations Office of: Technology Assessment To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ Energy and Wat-er Development Subcom- · The Board to hold a Joint meeting with tions for rural housing programs. mittee _ the Technology Assessment Advisory 5302 Dirksen Building To resume hearing!; on proposed budget Council on pending business items. Budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 for EF-100, Capitol To continue consideration of the first energy and water development pro­ 2:oop.m. concurrent budget resolution setting grams. Appropriations forth recommended levels ·of total 1114.Dirksen Building Energy and Water Development Subcom­ bu~get outlays, Federal revenues, and • Appropriations mittee new budget authority. BUD-Independent Agencies Subco'nlmit­ To coritlnue hearings · on . proposed 6202 Dirksen Building tee budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 March 26, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6827 for energy and water devf;!lopment pro- APRIL15 APRIL 16 grams. -- 9:30a.m. . 9:00a.m. 11 f 4 Dirksen Building Labor and Human Resources •veterans' Aff&.irs • Appropriations . To hold hearings on S. 2153, 1486, and To hold hearings on the recruitment Transportation Subcommittee· 1572, bills· to provide an exemption and retention of qualified health-care To resume hearing'S .on proposed budget from OSHA regulation for certain professionals to staff the Veterans' estimat~ for fiscal year 1981 for the workpla£es . with good safety . and Administration's health-care facilities. Department of Transportation. health records. 412 Russell Building 1318 Dirksen Building 4232 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. 9:30a.m. Select on Intelligence Labor and Human Resources Budget Authorizations Subcommittee· Appropriations . To continue hearings on S. 215~. 1486, To begin closed markup of proposed leg­ Intedor and Related Agencies Subcommit· tee and 1572, bills to provide an exemp­ islation authorizing funds for fiscal tion from OSHA regulation for certain year 1981 for intelligence activities of To hold hearings 011 proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year· 1981 for the workplac~s with good safety and the U.S. health records. S-407, Capitol Federal Inspector for Alaska pipelil'le, and the Ene:rgy Information Adminis· 4232 Dirksen Building tration of the Department.of Energy. · Labor and Human Resources AP~IL3 1223 Dirksen Building 9:30a.m. Health arid Scientific Research SubCom· Appropriations Appropriations mittee Agriculture; Rural Development, and Re­ Transportation Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 1424, proposed lated A.gencies Subcommittee To resume hearings on proposed budget. International Health Act .. . To continue hearings on proposed estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the 6226 Dirksen Building budget estimates for fiscal ·year 1981 Department of Transportation. for the Department of Agriculture. 1224 Dirksen Building · S~128, Capitol 10:00 a.m. Appropriations Appropriations Governmental Affairs _ . Treasury, Postal Service, and General Interior and Related Agencies Subcon:unit· Civil Service and General Ser:vices Sub­ Government Subcommittee tee . committee. To hold hearings on proposed budget es; To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To . resume joint hearings with the timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De· timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na· House Post Office and Civil Service partment of the Treasury. · tiona! Gallery of Art, and the Con:unis· Subcommittee on Human Resources · · 1318 Dirksen Building sion of Fine Arts. on proposed legislation to curb the 1223 Dirksen Building · Federal Government's use of consul­ Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs tants. •International Ftnance and. ~ubcommittee Appropriations ~ 357 Russell Buildi~g To hold hearings on ·s. 2097, proposed Treasury, Postal Service, and General Joint Export Marketing. Assistance Government Subconunittee Judiciary Act, and on the ·substance of S. 2040, To continue hearings on S. 2377, To continue hearings on proposed proposed Small Business Export Ex· budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 authorizing. funds for fiscal year pansion Act and S~ 2104, proposed . 1981 for programs administered by the for the Department of the Treasury; Small - Busin~ss Export Development · 1318 Dirksen ~uilding Department of Justice. .Act. 2228 Dirksen Building 53Q2 Dirksen Butlding Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Labor and Human Resources International Finance Subcommittee · Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ •Energy and Natural Resources · To resume hearings on proposed au· mittee Energy Regulation Subcommittee thorizations for fiscal year · 1981 for To hold. hearings on S. 500, proposed -To review those. items in the President's the international affairs programs of Consumer-Patient Radiation .Health budget for fiscal year 1981 which fall the Department of the Treasury S. and Safety A,ct. · within its legislative jurisdiction and consider recommendations which lt 2271, to increase the U.S. quota in the• 6226 Dirksen Building. Inte~at1onal Monetary Fund, and S. will make thereon to the Budget Com~ 10:00 a.m. mittee, receiving testimony !rom offi· 1963; to control Government pur- Appropriations cials of_ the Feder£!· Energy Regula· chases and sales-of gold. · HOD-Independent_ Agencies Subcommit· tory Commission and for the Office of 5302 Dirksen Building tee Hearings and Appeals. Commerce, Science, and Transportation· To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 6226 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 -for the Surface Transportation-Subcommittee Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and Energy and Natural Resources . To hold hearings on S. 2193, author.izing the National Institute of Building Sci· Energy Resources and Materials Produc­ funds for fiscal year 1981 for the ences. . tion Subcommittee United States Railway Association. 1318 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on S. 1455, authorizing 2~5 Russell Building· . - Appropriations· the Secretary of the Interior to issue coal leases on other Federal lands in Energy and N:atural Resources Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Business meeting, to consider pending tee . the State of New Mexico to the owner · of a specified coal lease-..upon surren· calendar business. · - · To resume hearings on proposed budget 3110 Dirksen Building. estimates for fiscal year 1981 for cer­ der of such lease; an'd -S. 1529, a pri· tain programs of the Department of vate relief bill. Foreign Relations Energy. 3110 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on the role and ac· 1224 Dirksen Building 2:00p.m. countability of the National Security Commerce, Science, and Transportation Appropriatiom Advisor. · · To hold hearings on proposed legislation Transportation· Subcommittee 4221 Dirksen IJuildihg authorizing funds for ocean pollution To continue . hearings on proposed Judiciary research and monitoring programs. - budget estimates tor fiscal year 1981 To resume hearings on.S. 2377, authoriz..' 235 Russell Building for the· Department of Transportation. fu~ds 1224 Dirksen Building ing for fiscal year 1981 for pro· Energy and Natural Resources . grams administered by the Depart­ To hold hearings on the climatic effects 2:30p.m. ment of Justice. of carbon dioxide build'-'p in the at- Foreign Relations 357 Russell Building mosphere. · To hold hearf.Dgs on the Maritime 3110 Dirksen Building Boundary Settlement Treaty with Select on Intelligence Cana~a . and the Agreement on East To hold hearings on pending nomina­ Coast Fishery ~esources with· Canada year 1981 for intelligence activities of tions. . · the U.S. 2228 Dirksen Building 4221 Dirksen Buildipg ,S-407, Capit_ol 6828 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 26. 1980 2:00p.m. .2:30p.m . 2:00p.m. Appropriations Foreign Relations Appropri~tions Military Construction Subcominittee To resume hearings on the Maritime Military Construction Subcommittee To resume hearings ·on proposed budget Boundary Settlement Treaty. with . T.o resume hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mill· Canada . and the Agreement on East tary construction of DOD. . . _1224 Dirksen Building Coast Fishery Resources with Canada 1224 Di:rksen Building , 'eliminating 301 Russell Building for the Department of the Treasury. the monthly earnings test. 2:00p.m. . 1114 Dirksen Building 2221 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources Appropriations Military Construction Subcommittee Parks, Recreation and Renewable Re- APRIL22 sources Subcommittee . To continue hearings on proposed To hold hearings on S. 1842, proposed 9:30 a.in. budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 National Heritage Policy Act. · •Energy and Natural Resources for military construction of the DOD. 3110 Dirksen _Building · To resume hearings to assess the politi­ 1224 Dirksen Building Foreign Relations· cal, military, economic; and social fac­ ·To continue hearings on the role and ac-. tors affecting world oil production and APRIL24 consumption over the next decade. countability of the National Security 10:00 a.m. Advisor. 3110 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Appropriations 4221 Dirksen Building BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Select on Indian Affairs Appropriations Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit- tee To bold hearings on H.R. 2102, to tee · · . To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ modify tfie law regulattng the devise timates f6r fiscal year 1981 for the Na­ or descent of interests in trust or re­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ ·timates for fiscal year 1981 for the tional Aeronautics and Space Adminis- · 'stricted property on the Standing tration. · Rock Sioux Reservation in North and Economic Regulatory Administration. South Dakota. Department of Energy 1318 :Dirksen Building 357 Russell Building 1223 Dirksen Building Appropriations 2:00p.m. Appropriations . Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Appropriations . Trea.Sury, Postal Service, and General tee Military Construction Subcommittee· · Government Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To continue hearings on proposed .'l;'o resume hearings on proposed budget timates for fiscal year 1981 for the budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 . estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the Bureau of Land Management. for military construction of the DOQ. Department of the Treasury, and on 12·23 Dirksen Building 1318·Dirksen Building the U.S. Postal Setvice. Appropriations Appropriations· . 1318 Qirksen Buil~ Treasury; Postal Service, and General i Treasury, · Postal Service. and General Select on Indian A.ffalrs , Government Subcommittee . Government Subcommittee To continue hearings on proposed legis­ · To continue hearings on · proposed To continue hearings on proposed lation·authorizing funds for fiscal year budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 1981 for the Indian Health Care lm· for the Executive Offic~ of the Presl- · for the Department of the Treasury. provement Act. dent. · · · S-146, Capitol SUO Dirksen Building 1114 Dirksen Building March 26. 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6829 2:00p.m. ance or similar contracts, and S. 1523 MAY6 Appropriations and H.R. 4015, proposed Veterans Military Construction Subcommittee 9:30a.m. Senior Citizen Health Care Act. AppropriatioRS To continue hearings · on proposed 412 Russell. Building budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Agriculture, Rural Development, and Re­ 10:00 a.m. lated Agencies Subcommittee for military construction of the DOD. Appropriations 1224 Dirksen Building To rest,~me hearings on proposed budget · ~nterior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the tee APRIL25 Department of Agriculture. . To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 1318 Dirksen Building· 10:00 a.m. timates for conservation programs of 2:00p.m. Appropriations the Department of Energy._ Appropriations BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit· 1224 Dirksen Building Military Construction Subcommittee ~e . . To continue hearings on proposed Appropriations To resume hearings on proposed budget budget estimates for fiscal year_ 1981 Treasury, Postal Service, ·and General estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mili­ for the National Aeronautics and Government Subcommittee tary ~onstruction of the DOD. _ Space Administration. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 1223 Dirksen Buildin~ 1318 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Federal Elections ComnHssion, Adviso­ MAY7 ry CommiSsion on Intergovernmental APRIL28 Relations, Advisory. Committee on· 10:00 a.m. 9:80a.m. Federal Pay, Committee for Purchase Appropriations •Judiciary From the Blind and Other Severely Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit;,. To resume hearings on S. 2377, authoriz· Handicapped and the Administrative tee ing funds for fiscal year 1981 for pro­ Conference of the U.S.. . To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ grams administered· by the Depart· 1318 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 198.1 tor the ment of Justice. 2:00p.m. U.S. Geological Survey. 2228 Dirksen Building 1224 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Appropriations Military Construction Subcommittee •Energy and Natural Resources MAY13 Energy Regulation Subcommittee To· continue hearings on proposed To .review those items in the President's budget estimates for fiscal year 1981' io:oo a.m. budget for fiscal year 1981 which fall for military construction of the DOD. Appropriations within its legislative jurisdiction and 1223 Dirksen Building Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit· consider recommendations which it tee . · will make thereon to the Budget. Com­ MAY1 To hold hearings on proposed budget es-. mittee, receiving testimony from offi· tb;nates for fiscal year 1981 for tne Na- cials of the Economic Regulatory Ad· 10:00 a.m. .tional ParkiService. · · ministration, the Energy Information Appropriations 1224 Oirksen Building Administration, and the Assistant Sec-· HOD-Independent Agen.cie~ Subcommit· retary for Conservation and Solar Ap· tee MAY14 plications, all of the DOE. · To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 3110 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De­ 10:00.a.m. partment of Housing and Urban De­ Appropriations velopment. Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit~ APRIL29 tee 1318 Dirksen B~ilding 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De­ Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit· Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ partment. of the Interior. ~e . tee 12-23 Dirksen Building . To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal years 1981 for the timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Appropriations Heritage Conservation and Recreation Land and Water Conservation Fund of Service. · · the Heritage Conservation and Recre­ Transportation Subcommittee 1224 Dirksen Building ation Service. To resume hearings on proposed budget estimates f~r fiscal year 1981 for the Appropriations 1224 Dirksen Building Treasury, Postal . Service, and General Department of Transportation. Appropriations 1224 Dirksen Building · Government Subcommittee Treasury; Postal Service, and General To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Government Subcommittee 'MAY 15 timates for fiscal year 1981 for the To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Office of ·Personnel Management, timates for fiscal year 1981 for the 10:00 a.m. · Merit Systems Protection Board. Fed· General Services Administration. Appropriations eral Labor Relations Authority, u.s.: BuD-Independent Agencies Subcommit~ Tax Court, and President's Commis· . 1114-Dirksen ..Building •Judiciary tee sion on Pension Policy. · . . To resume hearings on proposed budget 1318 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on S. 2377. authoriz. ing funds for fiscal year-1981 for pro­ estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the 2:00p.m. . Department of HoUsing arid Urban Appropriations grams administered by the D~part· ment of Justice. J,)evelopment. and Independent Agen­ Military Construction Subcommittee cies. To resume hearings on proposed budget 2228 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mili· •Labor and Human Resources Appropriations tary construction of the DOD. Child and Human Development Subcom· 1223 Dirksen Building Transportation ·subcommittee mitte.e ·To continue hearings on proposed To hold hearings on issues· Congress budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 APRIL30 might consider which would affect for the Department o-1 Transportation; 9:30a.m. youth in th.e coming decade. 1224 Dirksen Building •veterans' Affairs 6226 DirkSen Building Business meeting, to consider proposed MAY16 legislation on the recruitment and re· MAY2 tention of qualified health-care profes­ 10:00 a.m. sionals .to staff the Veterans' Admtnis· 10:00 a.-m. Appropriations tration health-care facilities, S. 759, to Appropriations BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ provide for the right of the United HOD-Independent AgenCies · Subcommit· tee States to recover their costs of hospi~ tee To continue hearings on proposed tal. nursing home; or outpatient medi· To continue· hearings on proposed budg~t estimates for f.iscal year 1981 cal care furnished by the Veterans' budget estimates for fiscal year. 1981 for the Department of Housing and Administration to veterans for non­ for the Department of .Housing and Urban Development~ and Independent service-connected disabilities to the Urban Development• . Agencies. extent that they have health insur- 1318 Dirksen Building 13-18 Dirksen Building 6830 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March ~6, 1980 MAY21 for service-connected disability com­ 9:00a.m. pensation. .MARCH3l 9:00a.m. •veterans' Affairs 41.2 Russell Building To resume hearings on the Federal Gov­ Energy and Natural Resources ernment's efforts to assist Vietnam-era To resume hearings to assess the politi­ veterans in readjusting to society, and cal, mil1tary, economic, and social fac­ tors affecting world oil production and the use of excepted appointments for JuNE 11 disabled veterans. consumption over the next decade. 9:30a.m. ·· ~110 Dirksen Building. 412 Russell Bullding •veterans• Affairs . To hold oversight hearings on the activi­ ties of the Inspector General of the APRIL.2 Veterans' Administration. 10:00 a.m. MAY22 · 412 Russell Building · •r.aoor and Human Resources 9:30a.m. Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom- Labor and Human Resources , mittee · · Child and Human Development Subcom- To resume hearings on title n. proposed mittee. · . . Youth Education· and 'Training Act. of To hold oversight hearings to examine S. 2385, proposed Youth Act. issues · affecting infant· mortality, and CANCELLATIONS - 4232 Dirksen Building preventable birth defects. 4232 DirkSen ~u.ilding MARCH28 APR~3 10:00 a.m. lO:OO·a.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · Labor and Human Resources MAY29 Consumer Affairs Subcommittee Education; Arts, and Humanities .Subcom- 9:30a.m. To contiime hearings on S. 1928, proposed mit-tee · · -. -veterans' Mfairs . Fair Financial Information Practices To continue · hearings on title ·u. pro­ To hold hearings on proposed legislation Act, and S. 1929, proposed Privacy of Posed Youth Education and Tralntn.r to establish a cost-of-living increase Electronic Fund Transfers Act. Act. of S. 2385, proposed Youth Act. 5302 Dirksen Building · 4232 Dirksen Buildjng