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CO~CEMENT ADDRESS OF Mr. Richard Bennett, Chairman of our at one point in our conversation, exclaimed JAMES C. FINLAY, S.J. AT Board of Trustees, together with all those with a considerable degree of emotion: "I FORDHAM UNIVERSITY'S 139TH trustees assembled here; my faculty col don't want to subsidize the education of rich COMMENCEMENT AND IN leagues and members of the administration; kids." With equal emotion I responded: TRIBUTE TO LECH W ALESA devoted members of the University Staff; "That is precisely my point of view." members of the graduating classes of 1984, Today I want to talk to you about the use their families and friends; our very distin of public dollars to support students who guished honorary alumni. seek a college education. We live in an era of HON. MARIO BIAGGI The Honorable Mario Biaggi, Member of scarce resources. Our staggering national OF NEW YORK Congress from New York's lOth District for debt looms as a terrifying symbol of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the past 16 years, and an articulate advocate pressures on the public purse. Yet the de of diversity in higher education, and federal Thursday, May 31, 1984 mands for a share of our State and nation's aid to needy students. economic pie are increasing on a geometric e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, for the Rev. Robert I. Burns, S.J., Medieval Histo scale. The overriding issue of public policy benefit of my colleagues I would like ry scholar at the University of California at in our times may well be: how do we assess to place into the REcoRD the recent Los Angeles and alumnus of Fordham's this array of human needs and allocate re commencement address given by Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. sources to them in a prudent and responsi Willard A. Genrich, Chancellor of the ble fashion? How much for housing? How Father James C. Finlay at Fordham New York State Board of Regents, which is University's commencement earlier much for missiles? How much for health celebrating its 200th anniversary this year, care? How much for foreign aid? Would a this month. This address was unique and a pioneer in advocating guaranteed stu dollar spent to support economic develop in the sense that it represents the re dent loans. ment of high technology pay more social flections of a dedicated leader and Rita Webb Smith, Director of Administra dividends than a dollar spent on our president of this institution as Father tive Consultation Services at the Family schools? How do we assign priorities to all of Systems for Living Center in New York these compelling needs? Finlay steps down this year in his co. City, community activist and medical social pacity as president of Fordham. worker, alumna of Fordham's College at In my personal list of priorities, educa While I had the distinct honor and Lincoln Center and Graduate School of tion, at every level, ranks very high. I sus priviledge to be awarded an honorary Social Service. pect I am not too different from other doctor of laws from Fordham this Frank E. Taplin, President of the Metro Americans because, as a nation, we have in year, it is both fitting and appropriate politan Opera, which is observing its lOOth sisted that an enlightened citizenry forms anniversary, successful lawyer and entrepre the foundation of our republic. We believe, that this honor was bestowed, in part, as a people and as a nation, that knowledge by Father Finlay. In tribute to his own neur, amateur pianist and fund-raiser ex traordinaire. is an absolute requirement for an enlight work on behalf of our Fordham com Peter K. Warren, Executive Vice Presi ened citizenry. Historically, we have sought, munity in the Bronx, I want to share dent of Pepsico, Inc. and Chairman of the with a success unmatched by any other his parting words to those of us who Council of Governing Boards, a statewide nation, to provide for the education of all were assembled at the ceremony. They organization of some 3,000 trustees of inde those seeking to learn, irrespective of their reflect the man and his vision for pendent colleges and universities in New religion, race, sex or economic status. But higher education in this Nation as well York State; and, Lech Walesa whose faith, we are now just beginning to learn that courage and wisdom inspires free men and maybe-just maybe-we may not have the as Fordham's role in making that resources to achieve that goal. vision a reality. women everywhere. Greetings to you one and all. Hail and I have been, as some of you may know, a In addition to Father Finlay's ad farewell. spokesman for independent higher educa dress, I also wish to include the "Cita I entered Fordham University as a tion here in the State of New York, but I do tion for Honorary Degree" that was member of the Class of 1944. I . hope to not wish to argue the case of the independ awarded by Fordham to Lech Walesa. depart today as a member of the Class of ent sector today. My remarks will be ad More touching is the letter that he 1984-if you will allow me the privilege of dressed to all sectors of higher education sent to Father Finlay and the universi honorary membership in your graduating across the board. I will advocate a general ty in appreciation for the honor of class. I would count it a privilege and a policy not a special case. being awarded an honorary doctor of source of personal pride if I could call each Neither will I advocate treating students of you women and men of Fordham my in independent institutions in the same way, laws. I believe that the words of Lech classmates. financially, as the State treats students at Walesa are as applicable to the situa I congratulate each one of you, your par tending public institutions. There is a price tion in Poland as they are to any other ents, your spouses, your families and your to be paid for independence. Both students place in the world which is faced with friends. and parents should be willing to pay that oppression and denial of civil liberties What message do I have for you on this price. My only concern is that the price not and human justice-Central America great moment in your lives? My first mes be so high as to make the choice of an inde Afghanistan-Northern Ireland, to sage will be a reassuring one. If there is one pendent university prohibitive. name a few. We should never forget lesson I have learned ii} tl).e . twelve years My point is simple: public funds in sup that I have had the honor of presiding over port of students seeking higher education that universities have an important Fordham commencements it is this: the should be allocated according to a student's role in assuring that man's struggle shorter the speech the better. need or his family's capacity to pay. for a better life can continue. Schools My second message will have to do with Federal grants for college students-the of higher learning provide not only an issue that has concerned me for many so-called Pell Grants-are based on an indi the knowledge to their students-but years and that should concern all of you vidual's capacity to pay. The College Schol also recognition to those goals and both as citizens and taxpayers. I speak of arship Service has been in operation now values that must remain an integral the policy that governs the public funding for 30 years. Working on the tax forms sub part of a free and civilized world. of higher education. mitted by families, the CSS determines how Last September I attended a meeting of much of college costs a family can be ex The article follows: higher education executives here in New pected to pay for its son or daughter's col COKMENCDIENT ADDRESS GIVEN BY JAKES C. York City. The issue being discussed was lege education. Several thousand Colleges, FINLAY, S.J. AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ON support of higher education by the State of across this vast country, public and private, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1984 New York. A colleague and good friend of use the reports of the College Scholarship Your Excellency, Bishop Ahern. mine, the president of a public institution, Service to help distribute financial aid.
e This "bullet.. symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. May 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14733 The principle of "aid according to need" is Were there to be a serious attempt to link frontation will ultimately ensure the rights established. Earlier protests against the sup funding to need, then the policy of subsidiz and dignity of the Polish people. He speaks posed "indignity" of a needs test have yield ing one segment of the student population for all who want to be free-free to live and ed to the acceptance of tests over a range of by more than $6,000 per year, without any enjoy the fullness of life. In the face of a re public programs from Medicaid to Food reference to need or capacity to pay, would pressive ideology, he has dared to give hope Stamps. end, and a reservoir of funds could be made to his fellow countrymen. If that is a crime, Education is no different nor should it be available to enhance the access of minority then by such logic all free men are guilty. in the contest for scarce dollars. students and the poor to insitutions other So to you, Pan Walesa, sto lat! May you The technique for establishing need is than those of the City University alone. live for a hundred years. And may the ideals available. Indeed there are several devices in And this could be achieved without any in crease in the tax burden for our citizens. you cherish live for a thousand years in a addition to the College Scholarship Service. free Poland and a free world. Am I alone in advocating that the public I have no intention of entering into a de investment in a student's college education scription or discussion of tne various ways a Fordham acclaims a man-more than a should be in proportion to the need that need-based funding system for higher edu man-we acclaim the unquenchable quest student has for assistance? cation in New York State or other states for freedom that he and his comrades in So By no means. Some very eminent and re might be established. Specific proposals lidarnosc have so valiantly embraced. It is, flective people have stated the case better have already been made for graduated tui therefore, for Fordham an honor and a than I can. Let me cite one example, a state tion and other. techniques to achieve the privilege to confer today on Lech Walesa, ment by the Honorable Mario Cuomo, Gov same goal. this son of Poland, the degree of Doctor of ernor of the State of New York, and I quote: My purpose today is to raise the issue, to Laws. "Should my child pay the same as a child ask the question: should a student's or his Fordham University, New York City, May of a $20,000-a-year family? My daughter family capacity to pay be a determining 19, 1984. Madeline is now going to Albany State. She factor in the allocation of public funds for a transferred up there from St. John's. I'm college education? GDANSK, POLAND, delighted I've got her in the house again I hope this issue will be raised by the tax payers, by the business community and by April 4, 1984. where I can watch her. our legislators as it has been by Governor JAMES C. FINLAY, S.J., "I make $100,000-it's not as much as the Cuomo. Unless need becomes the basis for President, Fordham University. Mayor-but it's a pretty good salary. She entitlements, to use the Governor's words, I DEAR PRESIDENT, FACULTY, AND ALL THOSE pays the same as a kid from the family that predict that the public institutions in New · GATHERED HERE TODAY: I deeply regret not makes $20,000 and in all cases they're heavi York State will become increasingly segre- being able to be with you today at Fordham ly subsidized by the state. gated by race and social class while rising University to thank you personally for "People talk about fairness, but what's fair? It's impossible to define. Everybody tuition costs in independent institutions will awarding me this honorary degree. has a different interpretation of the word. I place such colleges out of the reach of work- I am proud that such an eminent and dis- perfer to talk about need. Need should be ing-class and middle-class families. tinguished university has bestowed this the basis for entitlements ... this is the di The time to act is now. In this year of honor upon me. I hope that the time will rection we should be heading in." 1984 New York State is celebrating the two come when I shall be able to thank you in These words are taken from a news story hundredth anniversary of the founding of person and sit, at least once, in a university dated September 15, 1983 and published in that unique institution to which all schools classroom as a worker who has been singled the New York Post. It was a story that at and colleges belong, the University of the out for this distinction. At the present time, tracted very little attention. State of New York which most of you know however, when my friends and comrades are I applaud the Governor for recognizing as "The Regents." This afternoon we hon- sitting in prisons and undertaking hunger ored Mr. Genrich, the Chancellor of the that his daughter, a student in the State University of the State of New York. No strikes to achieve humane living conditions, University, is the recipient of a very sub greater good, in my opinion, could emerge I am unable to leave the country. I regard stantial subsidy paid, without any reference from this bicentennial celebration than a se- the doctorate which I have the privilege of to need, by New York State taxpayers. rious rethinking of the financing of all receiving as due not so much to my personal I am sure the Governor's sensitivity is en higher education in the State of New York, merits, but rather as a gesture of support hanced by the knowledge that 80 percent of leading to the elimination of subsidies unre- for the ideals of NSZZ "Solidarnosc" and its New York State's taxpayers have net tax lated to need, and a distribution of financial peaceful struggle on behalf of mankind's able incomes below $25,000 while about aid that will be more equitable and more ef- right to a better life, an aspiration shared 100,000 of his daughter's fellow students at fective. by many peoples. I hope that they, too-all SUNY come from families with income above that figure-some very far above. And with this I say goodbye to you and to those anonymous fighters who defend these The Governor is absolutely right when he Fordham. May the Lord's blessing be upon ideals-may one day receive their reward. says: "Need should be the basis for entitle you in all your endeavors and upon Ford- For these people-workers, farmers or in ments. This is the direction we should be ham in all its efforts to seek truth, and thus tellectuals who have renounced the use of heading in." to serve the People of God. And say a violence-the word "fighter" has a different It would seem to me that there are obvi prayer for me that I may never forget the meaning. Even though they have chosen to ous advantages to linking public funds to men and women, at all levels of this Univer- fight for peace inconspicuously, they have proven need. Are there other advantages sity's life, who have assisted me and inspired nevertheless done much for peace and dia- that might flow from a more equitable dis me these last twelve years. Iogue. Although violence persists in my tribution of state dollars in support of col God bless you all and farewell! country, many remain convinced that dia lege students? logue is essential, and that it will ultim~tely Let me mention one advantage that might CITATION FOR HONORARY DEGREE-LECH lead to results. We cannot forsake this dia not seem so obvious. WALESA logue without risking confrontation. Access would be improved, especially for DOCTOR OF LAWS The need to come to an understanding is minorities and low-come families. The City Son of a carpenter. Child of the Holo not only a political position born of common University of New York is an extraordinary caust. Master electrician. Devoted father sense, but is also evidence of our attach institution that has courageously, imagina and loving husband. Devout Catholic. Nobel ment to Christian values. In Poland today, tively and effectively opened the doors of laureate. Imprisoned labor leader. Man of the search for values that are more lasting educational opportunity to the poor in this the year. Voice of the Polish people and than ideological doctrines-which have not City and it is doing this with ever increasing working people everywhere. materialized and which hinder social devel success. In 1982, 49.8% of CUNY's full-time History may make men, but Lech Walesa opment-is universal. Working people find undergraduate student body were blacks or has made history. He has indelibly reshaped these values in Christianity and in the hispanics. In that same year 13.8% of the the spirit of his own time and his own full-time undergraduates at independent in people. While Poland has been the arena of teachings of John Paul II. stitutions were blacks and hispanics. At the his struggle, he has fought for the rights of In conclusion, allow me to express my State University the comparable figure was all people. He has proclaimed that men are belief that this honorary doctorate, though 7.8%. creatures of God, not of the State, and that awarded to me, has wider implications, for it In absolute numbers again for 1982, 49,875 man's allegiance to God is foremost. He has reinforces our conviction that the road we black and hispanic students were enrolled at not denied the State, but he has challenged have chosen is the right one. It reinforces CUNY. In the independent sector there its assault on human dignity. our hope. were 30,119 blacks and hispanics and at Lech Walesa has pushed, but not too far. And for this, I thank you. SUNY 17,683. He believes that dialogue rather than con- LECH W ALESA.e 14734 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1984 LET THEM GO sioned enough and convincing enough to ary school students participated in the persuade governments and multinational contest, competing for five national corporations and individuals who have deal HON. BARNEY FRANK ings with the Soviet Union that they have scholarships which are awarded as top OF MASSACHUSETTS to do something. Not later, now. For the prizes. First prize is a $14,000 scholar IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sakharovs are both very ill-and could die if ship, second prize is $7,000, third prize feet are dragged and efforts are postponed. is $4,500, fourth prize is $3,500, and Thursday, May 31, 1984 There is, in fact, a ready-made vehicle for fifth prize is $2,500. The contest • Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, as we focusing a current of protest and appeal-a theme this year was "My Role in Up meet, the lives of Andrei Sakharov and just-finished film produced for Home Box holding Our Constitution." Yelena Bonner are in danger because Office, the television movie channel. It is titled, simply, "Sakharov," and it stars This year's winner from the Com of the brutal, inhumane, and wholly Jason Robards and Glenda Jackson. I at monwealth of Massachusetts is Wil unjustified repression they are suffer tended a screening of the film last week, liam Wilhelm, Jr., of 33 Leroi Drive in ing in the Soviet Union. We must con and it is very powerful. Pittsfield, Mass., a city which I repre tinue to insist that the Soviet Union The timing of its completion is fortuitous, sent. Mr. Wilhelm has written an out allow to Sakharov and Bonner-and to but there's a hitch in getting it on television standing composition describing why other victims of oppression-the basic right away. The executives at H.B.O. de he believes it is so important to freedoms that ought to be the right of serve credit for taking on this project, but become actively engaged in upholding all people, In Tuesday's New York they are concerned now that rushing the film onto the air immediately-instead of the tenets of the Constitution. Times, Sydney Schanberg eloquently following their original plan to present it in I am very proud to represent this restated the case for our continued September, with several months of advance fine young man, who has such a clear speaking out on this question, and I publicity to attract new subscribers-could idea of his responsibility for citizen ask that his forceful and cogent cost them financially. ship under our Constitution. There column be reprinted here. To their credit again, they are giving seri fore, I insert the text of his entry in The article follows: ous thought to an early release. They are this most important national contest [From the New York Times, May 29, 19841 listening to arguments from members of the into the RECORD. Sakharov family and others that the atten LET THEM GO tion presently directed at the plight of Dr. MY ROLE IN UPHOLDING OUR CONSTITUTION United States is courage and sacrifice in defense of personal add my voice to this appeal. not just the basic principles and laws of our freedoms, so it is fitting on such an occasion Meanwhile, nothing has been heard from nation, determining the powers and duties to consider Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Dr. Sakharov since the start of his hunger of our government, but also a written in Yelena Bonner. strike. The Kremlin will seek to keep it that strument guaranteeing certain rights to its This is an American holiday and they are way. citizens. Soviet citizens, but they-by risking, and re But communications blackouts will never As with all rights and privileges, there are ceiving, grave punishment for championing obscure the character of this man they have responsibilities. civil rights and free expression in a society tried to silence-a man who so galls them As a citizen of this great country, I have a where such activities are anathema-have for having won the Nobel Peace Prize in responsibility to support the Constitution, become the kin of humanists everywhere. It 1975. and through this commitment, become is why their fate is so important to all of us. In a superb magazine piece written before keenly aware of my many privileges. The Sakharovs are now confined in inter the scientist's exile in Gorky, The Times' By active participation in my school, nal exile in the closed city of Gorky. When Hedrick Smith described him this way: "Pri church, family, neighborhood, and commu the distinguished theoretical physicist went vate, reticent, soft-spoken and kindly as he nity, I am not only supporting the Constitu on a hunger strike earlier this month-in an is, Sakharov wears his heart on his sleeve. tion, but nourishing it, for if the freedom we attempt to pressure the Kremlin into allow When moved, he has a vibrant sense of out now enjoy is to prevail, it must either be ing his ailing wife to go abroad for medical rage at injustice, a quick and deep compas nourished by the individual efforts of its treatment for her damaged heart-Soviet sion for the suffering of others, a naive di citizens, or die of starvation by our indiffer authorities responded by tightening their rectness in action and speech, almost heed ence. We cannot become parasites, taking confinement. No contact with friends or rel less of the consequences for himself." from our country and returning nothing, for atives in the outside world has been permit The Smith article also described an ex to do so would eventually deplete its re ted since. change in which Dr. Sakharov was asked by sources. And we are the most valuable asset In his early years of protest against re someone why he kept going this way. He re our country possesses. pression in the Soviet Union, the scientist plied: "You always need to make ideals clear I must learn all that I can from the teach who was one of the fathers of the Soviet hy to yourself. You always have to be aware of ers and schools that my country's laws pro drogen bomb and was of the stature of Op them, even if there is no direct path to their vide for me, and use this knowledge to con penheimer and Teller-was somewhat pro realization. Were there no ideals, there tribute, not only for my personal growth, tected from the system's worst punishments would be no hope whatsoever. Then every but to the betterment of this nation, and by the great prestige he enjoyed at home thing would be hopelessness, darkness-a the people it serves. This I can achieve only and abroad. He lost his considerable privi- blind alley." through active participation in the class . leges and his job, and he and his family There can be no question that the Sakhar room and . through activities provided me were persistently harassed, but other less ovs represent everyone who cares about hu from niy scfiool. I must also comply with my well-known dissidents were suffering trials, maneness and human rights. They are school's rules so that each member in it may imprisonment, hard labor, confinement in braver than nearly all of us, but they are co-exist peacefully and retain the most fun mental institutions. not symbols. They are human beings-and damental value of the Constitution, human But now the authorities have moved to they must be saved.e dignity. break the Sakharovs as well-which must I must actively practice my faith, for in mean they feel free to do it to anyone. They doing so, I become a living example of God's apparently no longer believe that Western MY ROLE IN UPHOLDING OUR love for mankind. Fortified with this knowl public opinion will rise to a pitch that could CONSTITUTION edge, I feel compassion for my fellow man, cause damage to their interests abroad. respect for their individual differences, and It is, therefore, difficult to know what HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE a strong feeling of brotherhood. The same might possibly influence the Kremlin tore OF MASSACHUSETTS emotions our forefathers conveyed in the lease this brave couple. But certainly silence Constitution. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES will not. Ever since man, woman and child set foot Dr. Sakharov himself-though he has Thursday, May 31, 1984 upon this country, the family has become a never entertained false hopes about chang • Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, each year symbol of the diligence and strength of the ing the system by sudden strokes-has nev American people. From the days when Pil ertheless always believed in the usefulness the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the grim families fought the harsh New Eng and necessity of publicity. United States and its ladies' auxiliary land winters, through the trials and tribula Yes, publicity is crucial now. There must conduct a Voice of Democracy contest. tions of the pioneers up through today, be a chorus of speaking-out that is impas- This year more than 300,000 second- families have endured, and struggled for May 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14735 their lives and rights. As a young individual this country exists. It is designed for the of free-mens will and the devotion of honor I feel myself bound to continue this great primary goal of assuring the survival of this to his fellow citizen. tradition with pride. As a member of an great free nation. It enforces the God given This country has long survived as a sover American family, I notice that those inevita freedoms that we Americans enjoy today. eign free nation in the world because its ble circumstances that try to tear the family In upholding the constitution, we must re legal constitution has been upheld for two apart, most often bring it closer together. member the philosophies that this country centures that it has been in existence. How As these ties grow stronger, I have, and will was based on contained in the Declaration ever, its upholding has required the dedica continue to become aware of mutual re of Independence. This country was founded tion and the brave sacrifice from the great spect, unselfishness, democracy, and the upon the ideals set that, "We hold these Americans who have given their lives to highly praised American ability to allow ma truths to be self-evident: That all men are assure that this nation, its constitution, and jority rule and maintain minority rights. created equal, that they are endowed by freedoms survive. I intend to be one of those With this knowledge I am prepared to help their creator with certain unalienable great Americans for there is nothing greater a neighbor, to participate in my community, rights, that among these are life, liberty, than service toward the freedom of a socie and to become a friend. and the pursuit of happiness." We must see ty, which in the United States, is guaran With all of these tools, that I have had that these ideals survive by our individual teed by our constitution.e the privilege to receive, I can become an help in upholding the United States Consti active participant in my community. For, as tution either by military service or partici in a family, the problems and interests of pation in the American political processes. each member affects us all, and we must I believe that military service is the most HENRY LAURENS, RIGHT MAN work together. I can learn and obey the direct manner in which one can serve FOR THE JOB rules of my city, learn how it operates and toward the constitution, for we as Ameri keep myself informed on political issues. cans must "provide for the common de For, as each drop of water helps create a fense" of this great nation. I would find HON. IKE SKELTON stream, and each stream create a river, what great satisfaction in serving as a military of OF MISSOURI I actively contribute not only represents my ficer in the armed forces to help with lead IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES school, church, family, neighborhood and ership on the battlefield against the en community, but also my country, and in ac emies of democracy. However, there are Thursday, May 31, 1984 tively supporting these individual endeavors many other ways that others can serve as I am fully supporting the Constitution. well. Such as service behind the lines with e Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, I As Adlai Stevenson once said, "It seems to supplies for the fighting forces or those bring to the attention of this body an me that government is a pump, and what it serving in the medical corps. On the home essay written by Laura Croston of In pumps up is just what we are, a fair sample front, one can serve in factories helping to dependence, Mo. The essay is titled of the intellect, ethics, and the morals of turn out the equipment and ammunition the people, no better, no worse."e "Henry Laurens, Right Man for the that are required overseas. And, even in Job." This essay recently won the Na lesser direct manner, one could participate in the selling of bonds if so needed to help tional Sixth Grade DAR History Essay VFW VOICE OF DEMOCRACY pay for the great debts in times of direct Contest and I wish to further honor SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM conflict. We must realize that the price of this fine historical essay and its liberty and democracy is high, and to secure author by having it printed in the HON. JOE SKEEN those rights bestowed upon us by our God, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. I ask my col OF NEW MEXICO we must be willing to sacrifice and serve the leagues to join me in commending this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES common cause. Americans have been willing fine piece of writing. to serve that cause since the days of the co The essay follows: Thursday, May 31, 1984 lonial minutemen to those of the modern e Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Speaker, I would day soldier serving in the armed forces HENRY LAURENS, RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB like to take this opportunity to com throughout the world. The military has The Treaty of Paris of 1783 was one of the always been the forceful arm of American most important stepping stones in the histo mend New Mexico's winner in this justice and democracy. ry of our nation. It dictated that the United year's Voice of Democracy contest. He Political service is one other way in which States was truly free and responsible for its is Raymond Niblock, a student at the we as Americans can help in strengthening own actions and fate. The future of the new New Mexico Military Institute in Ros the integrity of the constitution. Degrees of nation was now and forevermore in the well. I would also like to praise the political service can range from aid in local hands of true Americans. VFW for sponsoring this contest and campaigns to running for political office at Congress selected Benjamin Franklin, for promoting patriotism among our the state or national level. A good example John Jay, John Adams, Henry Laurens, and young people. Raymond Niblock's win of local political service would be rallying Thomas Jefferson to represent our country for people to register and vote in the up in the negotiations. Thomas Jefferson never ning speech follows: coming elections. Some people would deem participated, due to his wife's grave illness. MY RoLE IN UPHOLDING OUR CONSTITUTION it worthy of them to run for a political Although Jefferson was missing, the re As a citizen of the United States of Amer office such as a governorship or senatorial maining four carried out their task well. ica, it is my moral duty to do the things that seat. Within my own personal goals, I want Three of these negotiators are fairly well I believe would best uphold the Constitu to go to law school after I graduate from know, while the fourth one's name has been tion of the United States. We as Americans college and become an attorney. In later lost in the mists of time, not for the lack of should never forget the words laid down in years, if it is within my capacity, I want to participation, but for the lack of a signa the Preamble of the Constitution that, "We, run for political office in the national con ture. Henry Laurens participated in, and the people of the United States, in order to gress such as a representative or a senator. I contributed to the writing of the treaty. He form a more perfect Union, establish jus feel that by holding either of those posi signed the preliminary agreement in No tice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for tions, I would best be able to serve the con vember of 1782. This document was then the common defense, promote the general stitution by equitable representation for my sent to the British Parliament and the welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty constituents. Americans must realize that United States Congress to be approved. to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain equitable representation in our federal Their approval was not received in Paris and establish this Constitution of the system is one of the goals of our constitu until late 1783. Only then could the negotia United States of America." We as individ tion by the assurance that each American's tors make a few changes and re-copy the uals share the moral obligation to uphold rights are not taken away by allowing one document, which was formally signed on the United States Constitution in the best faction of our government to gain too much September 3, 1783. manner that we see fit. Why is it the duty power. We must cherish the freedoms that Because he was not present for the sign of each American to do his part in uphold we enjoy, and be thankful that we have a ing of the formal document, history has for ing the constitution? It is our duty because constitution that enforces those freedoms. gotten Henry Laurens. Some people have that document belongs to each and every In turn, we must uphold the constitution in called him "The Neglected Negotiator". one of us. We must see that it survives the the best ways'that we know how. Although not well-known .today, Henry test of time. I love this country very much because I Laurens was recognized as a statesman and The United States Constitution is the believe in the freedoms and human rights of patriot during his own lifetime. Despite his most important document that belongs to all peoples. Serving this country by doing tragic personal life, which included the loss the American people. It is important be my part to uphold the constitution is serv of all but four of his children in their early cause the constitution is the basis by which ing democracy, which is the manifestation childhood, and later, the loss of his wife. 14736 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1984 Henry Laurens served his country in many [From the Texarkana Gazette, Mar. 31, tions facing the U.S. shoe industry and ways and for many years. 1984] its workers today are far worse than in After a successful career as a merchant, MAXCINE GUFFEY HONORED AT "SALUTE TO 1976 and 1977 when the International trader, and plantation owner, Henry Laur EXCELLENCE'' Trade Commission found that imports ens began his career in politics. He served were seriously injuring the domestic on many important committees in the colo "Drat!" said Maxcine Guffey after return nial government, including a term as vice industry. The International Trade ing to Texarkana from Washington, D.C., Commission has since completed its president of the colony of South Carolina. late this week. "I missed a free flight to In 1777, he was elected to the Continental Havana." hearing on the petition. Congress, and later was unanimously elect Mrs. Guffey, who lives in the Liberty I had joined with my colleagues in ed president of the Continental Congress Eylau community, changed from a Pied the Massachusetts delegation in writ when John Hancock resigned. Mr. Laurens mont flight in Charlotte, N.C., only hours ing a letter to the lTC in support of later resigned the presidency over a matter before a highjacker took a Piedmont jet and the footwear petition. We had asked of principle, but remained as a delegate. its passengers to Cuba. that section 201 of the Trade Act of In 1779, he was appointed minister to Hol "It would have been exciting," she said, 1974 be implemented to save the foot land and was sent there to make a treaty "but I've had a lot of excitement already with the Dutch. On his way to Holland, he this week." wear industry of New England and the was captured by the British and imprisoned She was honored at the second 4-H Salute footwear industry throughout the in the Tower of London under accusation of to Excellence program at the National 4-H country. A copy of our letter can be treason. He was offered King's Pardon if he Center in Washington. found at the end of my statement. would renounce his allegiance to America. "We participated in a reception for The statistics show why immediate He refused. After nearly four years of semi French President Francois Mitterand on the action is so vital. Unemployment in starvation and mal-treatment, he was ex White House lawn," she said. "It was hosted the shoe industry now stands at 14.9 changed for General Cornwallis. by President Reagan, and the First Lady was absolutely stunning. So was Mrs. Mit percent, while production has dropped Mr. Laurens arrived in Paris just in time terand. You should have seen their dresses!" to 52 percent of 1968 levels. to add two important items to the treaty: Mrs. Guffey was one of 52 outstanding 4- For 100 years, my own State of Mas boundaries for fishing rights, and a provi H volunteer leaders selected from each sachusetts has stood No. 1 in the rank sion preventing the British from carrying state, the District of Columbia and Puerto off American property. ing for the most important footwear Rico to attend the recognition and training producing State; it now ranks fifth. Mr. Laurens did not sign the final treaty program supported by R. J. Reynolds Indus of 1783 because he was carrying out other tries Inc. and arranged by the National 4-H Production in 1982 alone fell from the duties for his country. At the time of the Council. 1968 levels of 85.2 million pairs to a formal signing, Henry Laurens was in The "Salute to Excellence" congressional mere 23.5 million pairs. London, meeting with Prime Minister Fox, banquet in their honor was held in the A city in my district, Haverhill, discussing the possibility of an American Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Mass., stands as a prime example of ambassador to England. After completing Building. this steady decline. Once known as the his final mission, Mr. Laurens returned "There is no way to estimate the value of Queen Shoe City of the World, with home to live the remaining seven years of your leadership," U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, D more than 10,000 workers in 300 facto his life in retirement. He continued to re N.C., told the volunteers in his keynote ad ceive honors even after he returned from dress at the banquet. ries, Haverhill now has less than 500 Europe. A county in South Carolina is "You are the central core of a great pro workers in only three shoeshops. And named for him. gram that has the effect of an ever-widen there are other grim examples across While Henry Laurens may have been in ing ripple that will last for generations." this great Nation. the wrong place at the wrong time to be re While in Washington, she also was treated But rather than continuing on, membered in history, we are lucky that he to a tour of the U.S. Capitol Building and a citing statistics, let me include a letter visit to the Smithsonian Institution. and his fellow delegates were the right men Mrs. Guffey has served as leader of the from the mayor of the city of Haver with the "right stuff" to do the right job Liberty-Eylau 4-H club for 15 years, and has hill to the President of the United protecting the freedom of our country.e been member of the Bowie County Adult States. This letter is a poignant state Leader Association for 12 years. She also ment of the devastating toll declining has been a member of the Community Edu domestic footwear production has SALUTE TO MAXCINE GUFFEY cation Council the past four years, and taken on our cities. worked with the Bowie County Building Program for 10 years. · The letter follows: HON. SAM B. HALL, JR. "I was very impressed with Washington," CITY OF HAVERHILL, MAss., OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, OF TEXAS she said, "even though security went through our purses after we lunched in the March 14, 1984. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Madison Building where the Library of Con The President, gress is housed."e Mr. RoNALD REAGAN, Thursday, May 31, 1984 The White House, Washington, D.C. e Mr. SAM B. HALL, JR. Mr. Speak DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: As a State Leg~~a er, the National 4-H is unexcelled as a THE DECLIN~ OF THE DOMES tor, and now Mayor of the City of Haverhlll, TIC FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY Massachusetts, I have watched the slow de program dedicated to our youth and cline of the shoe industry in both our city the future of American agriculture. I and throughout the nation. It is grievous to am especially proud that one of the HON. NICHOLAS MA VROULES me and many others that this decline has top 4-H volunteer leaders, Maxcine OF MASSACHUSE'ITS continued, mainly because of foreign im Guffey, is from my congressional dis IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ports. Haverhill stands as a prime example of trict in Texas. Thursday, May 31, 1984 Just recently Maxcine Guffey was this decline. In the 1920s, it was known as e Mr. MAVROULES. Mr. Speaker, the "Queen Shoe City of the World" with one of 52 men and women from each today I am joining my colleagues in more than 10,000 workers in over 300 facto State selected for a 5-day program at the Footwear Caucus in urging that ries. Following the sharp decline in the the National 4-H Center in Chevy immediate action be taken before our 1950s and 1960s, because of imports, the city Chase, Md., designed to expand 4-H domestic shoe industry goes complete- suffered 15 percent unemployment and now and its role in educating America's has only three shoe shops with less than 500 ly under in the face of rising imports. workers. The city is only now recovering youth. In January, a petition was filed with from this disaster. A very interesting article about Max the International Trade Commission Statistics compiled throughout the nation cine Guffey appeared in the Texar on behalf of the industry for relief during the past decade support the conten kana Gazette and I commend it to the from imports of nonrubber footwear. tion that a similar situation is developing in attention of my colleagues as follows: This petition pointed out that condi- other parts of the country where the shoe May 31, 1981,. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14737 industry was surviving. Between 1968 and Joe Moakley, Edward M. Kennedy, cure in the foreseeable future for the 1982, imports of shoes increased 174%. U.S.S., Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Gerry diabetic patient. An $8.5 billion industry employing 135,000 E. Studds.e I am proud to report that the North people is being threatened unless the feder em Virginia Chapter and the Wash al government can take action to slow the rise of imports. JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDA ington Metro Chapter of JDF, working I urge your support for any efforts to cur TION INTERNATIONAL CON together jointly out of a donated tail the rise of shoe imports and also urge FERENCE office in Georgetown, have raised you to take the initiative in this cause. I be more than $200,000 in the past year lieve this would greatly enhance your com alone. That is quite an accomplish mitment to the cause of domestic economic HON. FRANK R. WOLF ment for the many volunteers from growth-a commitment which I share with OF VIRGINIA our community, including Washington you. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and its suburbs in Maryland and My personal thanks for your consider Thursday, May 31, 1984 northern Virgina, supported only by ation of this matter. one paid person to coordinate their ac Yours truly, e Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I am WIU.IAM H. RYAN, tivities. Mayor. pleased to advise my colleagues that This kind of dedication and hard the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation work is a credit to these many volun HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, International is holding its 14th teers and complements that U.S. Gov Washington, D.C., January 27, 1984. Annual International Conference, ernment effort whch JDF also has Hon. ALFRED ECKES, May 29 to June 3, in Washington, D.C. made to support congressionally man Chairman, U.S. International Trade Com Over 500 delegates from the United mission, Washington, D. C. dated funding for diabetes research States, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Israel, conducted by the National Institutes DEAR CHAIRMAN EcKEs: We are writing to and France, and leading medical scien urge the U.S. International Trade Commis of Health out of the Department of sion to give full and complete consideration tists involved in diabetes research and Health and Human Services budget. to the petition presented Monday by the treatment will convene at the Hyatt The record of the Juvenile Diabetes Footwear Industries of America, the Amal Regency Hotel here on Capitol Hill Foundation International is an envia gamated Clothing and Textile Workers and will be hosted by the two Wash ble one, indeed. In just 14 years this Union, and the United Food and Commer ington area chapters, the Northern national health agency has grown cial Workers International. Virginia Chapter and the Washington Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 pro from one group of parents of diabetics Metro Chapter of JDF. in the Philadelphia area to a world vides for import relief under an "escape The conference will focus on train clause." We join the petitioners in asking wide organization, recognized by the that the provisions of Section 201 be imple ing sessions to help each of the dele medical science community as a reli mented to save the Footwear Industry of gates with their fundraising efforts, able provider of research funds and a New England, and the Footwear Industry public education, and special events responsible supporter of research throughout the United States. preparation. Highlighting the confer projects which may have otherwise It is essential that the Commission pro ence will be the introduction of the failed for lack of that support. vide this immediate relief to our domestic foundation's new public service "cure" industry. Statistics show why this action is The success of this organization is campaign by JDF international chair based on the energetic and dedicated vital. For instance, while the average unem person, Mary Tyler Moore. In addi ployment for U.S. manufacturing is 8.3 per individual efforts of its volunteers in cent, shoe industry unemployment stands at tion, the foundation will announce its all of its local chapters. The record of 14.9 percent. At least 4,000 shoe workers lost 1983-84 funding awards to research of the two national capital chapters in their jobs in 1983 alone. some $2.8 million. the Washington area speaks for itself. In 1968, nearly 350,000 people worked in The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation I am deeply gratified that so many of the nonrubber footwear and allied indus International, a voluntary, not-for these wonderful volunteers are resi tries. More than 230,000 were in direct man profit health organization, is dedicated dents of the lOth Congressional Dis ufacturing, and another 115,000 worked for to finding the cause, cure, treatment, the supplier industries. Today, the industry trict of Virginia which I have the has shrunk to only 133,000 manufacturing and prevention of diabetes and its honor to represent in this House.e and 90,000 supplier workers. many complications through research. On an overall industry basis, profits have Diabetes afflicts some 12 million fallen substantially. In 1982, the industry Americans and is the third leading HANDGUN ANTICRIME wide pre-tax net profit rate was 6.1 percent, cause of death by disease. In 10 years LEGISLATION down from 8.8 percent in 1981. For firms of active fundraising by 165 JDF chap producing fewer than 4 million pairs of ters worldwide, the foundation now HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. shoes a year, profit levels were only 3.2 per has contributed over $21 million to di cent. One out of six companies actually suf OF NEW JERSEY abetes research. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fered net losses during 1982. Locally, two JDF chapters have been - ~.. ~ .•· ii Yet, while American footwear companies Thursday, May 31, 1984 ·: . ~educed their production, imported shoes serving the urgent needs of the Wash made astonishing inroads into the U.S. ington metropolitan area's diabetic e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, in 1968, market. In 1968, 21.5 percent of all shoes population for the past 12 years, and stunned by the murders of Dr. Martin sold in the U.S. were made in other coun their numbers have grown in volun Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert tries; by 1983, imported shoes comprised teers committed to finding the cure Kennedy, the Congress enacted legis almost 65 percent of the U.S. market. for his dreaded disease and all of its lation designed to keep guns out of the American companies will not be in a posi tion to regain their economic vitality if this complications, such as blindness, hands of the criminal, the addict, the flood of imports continues to saturate our kidney failure, heart attack, nerve deranged, the would-be assassin. We markets. damage, and gangrene. soon sadly learned, however, that de We ask for your fair consideration of the As one Member of Congress who has fects in the law rendered it woefully petition presented by the Footwear Indus worked closely with JDF'ers at the ineffective. This ineffectiveness was tries and the interested labor organizations. local level, I have observed firsthand dramatized by the history of the hand Their request is both appropriate and neces the effectiveness of their many suc gun used in the attempt to kill Presi sary if this American industry is to regain cessful fundraising projects to help dent Reagan. its economic health. For years, I have worked to remedy Very sincerely, find a cure which many of us believe Nicholas Mavroules, Edward P. Boland, now may be within the very grasp of those defects. Now, virtually on the Silvio 0. Conte, James M. Shannon, the biomedical scientists who just a very eve of the 16th anniversary of the Brian Donnelly, Joseph D. Early, Paul few years ago despaired in the belief assassination of Robert Kennedy, the E. Tsongas, U.S.S., Edward J. Markey, that there simply was no hope for a Senate Judiciary Committee is pre- 14738 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1984 pared to report a bill not to close the control the criminal violence that clubs, or cheerleading clubs, they must also loopholes but to create new ones and snuffs out thousands of innocent lives admit religious groups. open old ones wider. each year.e There is a crucial difference, however. While keeping existing, inadequate The consequence of saying "no" to a stu restrictions on snubnosed guns, this dent-initiated request for a hockey team are EQUAL ACCESS: A BURDEN OF some disappointed hockey players. Say "no" bill would allow interstate sales of LOCAL SCHOOLS to Jews for Jesus and the roof falls in. The other weapons for the .... first time since dissimilar consequences of denying two such 1968. It would allow unlicensed per requests makes very clear the preferential sons to sell handguns interstate with HON. WILLIAM. D. FORD treatment bestowed upon religious groups no recordkeeping requirements. It OF MICHIGAN by bills like H.R. 5345. Basically, the bill would narrow the definition of a gun IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES strips local school boards of the right to say dealer, so that pawnbrokers would be Thursday, May 31, 1984 "yes" or "no" to any group seeking to use exempt from dealer requirements and public schoolhouses and substitutes a form • Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speak of federal "guidance" that no one asked for from Federal inspection. It would er, when the House debated the so or needs. impede such inspection by requiring called Equal Access Act, H.R. 5345, on Many of the groups certain to seek entry that dealers be notified in advance May 15, supporters of this legislation into classrooms have made no secret that that Federal agents were about to visit vigorously maintained that it would proselytizing young people is their highest them. not intrude on local school districts; it priority. H.R. 5345 would, at taxpayer ex In sum, this legislation would make pense, provide both a home base and a fer would not be disruptive of the oper tile stalking ground for any such group able it easier for criminals to get handguns ations of local schools and that it and make it harder for police to trace to satisfy the bill's criteria. In New York would not be a burden on local City and many suburban districts with siza weapons and capture criminals. schools. In the May 23 issue of Educa ble Jewish populations, for example, H.R. The debate in the other body is not tion Week, Mr. Ira J. Singer, the su 5345 would require that space be provided over. What the final outcome will be perintendent of the Herricks Public for Jews for Jesus, a group known for its remains to be seen. For my part, I will Schools in New Hyde Park, N.Y., con proselytizing efforts among Jewish youths. continue to work to curb handgun vio tradicts these easy assurances about It would be ironic for the taxpayers of these lence. communities to be forced to pay for space, a My legislation has these main fea the impact of this legislation, in an teacher, and other related costs to support tures: It would totally ban snub-nosed essay titled "Equal Access Means Pro the recruiting efforts of a religious group guns, the favorite weapon of the crimi moting Religion.'' Mr. Herricks notes, out to recruit their own children. nal; it would provide for a mandatory Omitted from any part of H.R. 5345 are Furthermore, New York and other major ways to contend with the nightmarish prob cities are filled with Pentecostal churches of minimum prison sentence for anyone lems of providing for the orderly operation all sorts, operating out of storefronts and using or carrying a handgun in the of the schoolhouse, the education and wel cramped tenement spaces. But according to commission of a felony; it would estab fare of the students, and the costs to the H.R. 5345, hard-pressed public schools of lish a 21-day waiting period before a taxpayer brought on by such a change. major cities will be threatened with the loss handgun could be purchased, to allow I commend Mr. Singer's article, of significant federal aid if they fail to pro time to verify the eligibility of the which follows, to my colleagues. I vide classroom space for each and every reli buyer. gious group that seeks entry. think that his articulate views, from Sponsors of H.R. 5345 assume that all re In addition, it would ban the sale of one working directly in the schools, quests for religious use of noninstructional handguns by pawnbrokers; raise the li demonstrate the wisdom of the House time will be student-initiated. But one must cense fees for the handgun industry; in defeating the Equal Access Act on be truly naive to assume that requests from require better recordkeeping; require May 15. students, already recruited by or interested that the theft or loss of a handgun be The article follows: in various religious cults, sects, and denomi reported; require that guns be trans nations, will be "student-initiated." In fact, ferred through a dealer; and control EQUAL ACCESS MEANS PROMOTING RELIGION it is more likely that such requests will multiple purchases of handguns. originate in religious planning offices, and Each and every year, the public schools students, acting as middlemen, will convey In sum, what my bill would do is are confronted by new campaigns, strate them to school authorities. Boards of educa make it harder for criminals to get gies, and loopholes designed to advance reli tion currently respond to such requests for handguns and easier for police to trace gion in the schools. The motivation behind use of the schools by making decisions based guns and catch criminals. the type of "equal access" legislation defeat upon what is best for the children, the What it would not do is deny a hand ed last week in the House of Representa schools, and the community, and they gun to sportsmen or to those law-abid tives is no different: to probe and break should be permitted to continue this exer ing citizens who believe they need and through the separation of church and state cise free from federal threats. have a right to a weapon to protect embodied in our Constitution. Furthermore, school districts in my region H.R. 5345, a bill endorsed in this newspa now release thousands of students for "re themselves. per by Representative Don Bonker, Demo lease-time" activities, sponsored primarily Mr. Speaker, there have been a lot crat of Washington State, is the latest by Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish denomi of speeches in this body lately about knock on the schoolhouse door by advocates nations. This bill could lead these iroups to anticrime legislation. I think my hand of prayer in the classroom. Only this one is request that their students remain in gun bill is real anticrime legislation. bizarre. church or synagogue facilities. I make no sweeping claim that my bill Although this particular bill was defeated Omitted from any part of H.R. 5345 are last week, the debate on the subject of ways to contend with the nightmarish prob will stop crime. But I do believe it "equal access" is far from over; therefore lems of providing for the orderly operation would help curb criminal violence by it's necessary to look very carefully at what of the schoolhouse, the education and wel restricting the flow of new handguns such a bill would do. fare of the students, and the costs to the into the lethal pool of 50 million or The bill says, in effect, that a board of taxpayer brought on by such a change. On more that now exist. It would not education must allow entry to the Rev. Sun this latter point H.R. 5345 is quite vague. outlaw handguns, but it would keep Myung Moon or suffer a cutoff of all feder The bill provides only for the expenditure them out of the hands of some out al aid. Say "no" to any religious cult seeking of public funds to provide space for ap to use public-school classrooms and your proved meetings. However, it also requires laws. gifted, poor, and handicapped will suffer the that an employee of the district be present. In communities across the country, loss of federal assistance. Representative It is likely that the cost of the employee will public officials are enacting sensible Bonker says this is the only way to be fair exceed that of the space. Since school dis handgun reforms. But handgun crime to religious groups. He points out that since tricts will be required to assign such employ is a national problem. It requires a na- boards of education say "yes" to student-ini- ees, they will have to pay them. Given the tional response if we can ever hope to tiated requests for stamp clubs, computer number of religious groups likely to apply May 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14739 for space, a whole new department of reli creased 700 percent since 1965. Currently, being introduced for hospitals, and may be gous counselors might be established, prob America spends 11 percent of its income for expanded to other areas. Medicare will pay ably represented by a union and subject to health care, a sum much larger than our ex hospitals a predetermined figure for each contractually agreed-upon salary and bene penditures for national defense. If the diagnosed illness rather than reimbursing fits. The possibility of significant new costs present trends continue, the medicare trust hospitals for incurred costs, which provides is high. fund will be bankrupt by the early 1990s, little incentive to cut costs. In addition, According to H.R. 5345, use of school and $1 out of every $7 of GNP will be spent more employers are using Preferred Provid classrooms on "noninstructional" time can on health care by the turn of the century. er Organizations , negotiating direct occur before, after, or even during school Coupled with these concerns is the grow ly with doctors and hospitals to handle their since the bill has been interpreted to mean ing feeling that we may be reaching the employees' needs at discounts. "unassigned" student time. In the Lubbock, point of diminishing returns, and that our Redirect Medical Research Efforts: An es Texas, equal-access decision is provoking the school that religious activity had been cause of the projected surplus of doctors. fundamental structural reform in the authorized and sanctioned by the board of Make Individuals More Cost-Conscious: health care sector. In the years ahead, we education. This likelihood, coupled with lan• Much of the increase can be traced to the may see most health care contractually ar guage in the bill threatening school districts shielding of patients from the direct cost of ranged are not only ridic Negotiations were entered into with the fices in Jerusalem appear to operate as ulous on the face of it given U.S.-Israel rela famed Chief Engineer of the New York City an independent entity reporting di tions, but in some ways a bit irresponsible. Fire Department, Harry Howard. to pur rectly to the State Department in For anyone to label a U.S. government insti chase a surplus ladder. For the sum of $90, Washington rather than to our Am tution or its personnel as anti-Israel could Harry Howard sold these men a hand drawn bassador to Israel, who is in Tel Aviv. be taken as license by irresponsible people." ladder truck and included a large platform The anomalous situation and the po An official said there have been no threats ladder, hooks, poles and other pieces of tential perils and pitfalls this could against the consulate or its employees, but equipment to start a fire company. The first that "if you point at that place and say, 'It regular meeting of the newly formed fire create for U.S. foreign policy were dis is against us,' who knows what some crazy company was held on October 13, 1858. It cussed recently by David Clayman, di might do?" was this meeting that the first members and rector of the Israel office of the Amer Terrorist actions by extremist Jewish fire officers were elected and a company ican Jewish Congress, and Peretz groups are a subject of increased concern name chosen. Levine, a research intern in the office, here. In recent months, there have been a The following month, the stockholders of in an article in the April 1 issue of the number of attacks on Moslem and Christian the truck met and agreed to petition the Jerusalem Post. The Washington Post, targets here by an underground Jewish board of trustees of the Fire Department in an April 5 article, reported on the group called Terror Against Terror. for the acceptance of their property and After the U.S. response, Theodore R. convey it into becoming part of the Port Clayman-Peretz article and offered Mann, the newly elected president of the Chester Fire Department. The board of comments by American officials de American Jewish Congress, said at a press trustees, at their meeting of December 3, fending the situation. On April 4, the conference that it was "highly unlikely" 1858, received the communication from the American Jewish Congress Convention that the charges against the consulate by stockholders and voted to accept the fire adopted a resolution urging the United his organization would encourage violence equipment. At the same time the board States to correct the situation regard by Jewish extremists. voted to confirm the name of this new orga ing the status of the Consulate Offices But he said that U.S. policy toward Jeru nization to be the Harry Howard Hook and salem, as symbolized by the consulate, "ap Ladder Company No. 1, making the organi in Jerusalem. pears to be saying that Jerusalem is an ap zation and its name a permanent part of the I commend to my colleagues the propriate capital for whatever emerges in Port Chester Fire Department. three items I have mentioned and ask the West Bank. I find that gross." As the new fire company grew, so did its that they be reprinted. The articles Clayman said in an interview that he does association with Chief Harry Howard. It is follow: not consider the consulate "pro-PLO" but recorded that in 1868, as a token of his ap [From the Washington Post, Apr. 5, 19841 he said that is the "perception" of many Is preciation for the naming of the fire compa raelis. He said his dispute was not with Clu ny after himself, the famed Chief presented u.s.. JEWISH GROUP TRADE CHARGES OVER verius or other consulate officials, whom he the company with an oil portrait of himself, CONSULATE praised, but with the U.S. policy of not rec posed in the uniform of the Chief Engineer ognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and of of the City of New York Fire Department. JERUSALEM, April 4.-A major American operating an independent diplomatic mis The members graciously accepted this fine Jewish organization meeting here has at sion here that has no formal ties with the gift and elected Harry Howard an honorary tacked as "intolerable" the U.S. Consulate's Israeli government. member of the fire company. The oil paint independent dealings with the Israeli-occu Between 1948 and 1967, when Jordan con ing was one of many in a long line of gifts pied West Bank and said the Jerusalem mis trolled East Jerusalem and the West Bank, that "Uncle Harry", as he was affectionate sion's status undermines U.S. policy in the the United States had independent consul ly known to the boys, brought to the gallant Middle East. ates in both Arab East Jerusalem and volunteers that bore his name. But U.S. officials today termed the criti Jewish West Jerusalem. Following the war, A long parade of Harry Howard men have cism "ridiculous" and potentially dangerous in which Israel captured East Jerusalem not only battled fires but have proudly for U.S. diplomats in this emotion-charged and the West Bank, the consulate became a served our great country in all wars and con- city. single administrative entity. 14746 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1984 The consul general has continued to live U.S. ambassador to Kuwait last year the the consulate in Jerusalem. Here the consul in West Jerusalem while consular services nomination was rejected by the government general is not accredited to the government such as the processing of visa applications of Kuwait because he had served in Jerusa of Israel. The consulate maintains no were done, after the war, in East Jerusalem. lem. formal ties or relations with Israeli officials. The consulate also was made responsible for Other than security arrangements and mu reporting to the State Department on activi STATEMENT ON THE U.S. CONSULATE IN nicipal services, which the consulate coordi ties in the West Bank, a task that has of ne JERUSALEM nates with the mayor's office, the Israel cessity led it to develop contacts with Since 1948, when Israel became a state, police and the consular department of the strongly nationalistic Palestinians who sup American policy has designated Jerusalem a Foreign Ministry, the consulate does not do port the PLO. corpus separatum, that is, neither a part of business with Israel. The consulate does not Cluverius reports directly to Washington Israel, nor a part of any other country or even report to Washington through the em and is not under the jurisdiction of U.S. Am territory. In fact, in the years following bassy in Tel Aviv; rather it has its own bassador Samuel W. Lewis in Tel Aviv. The 1967 this policy has been quietly violated by direct reporting system to Washington. only other similarly independent U.S. con the assignment of responsibility for the Ad The historical background to this abnor sulate is in Hong Kong. ministered Territories to the Consulate in mal role of the consulate explains why The Jerusalem Post article complained Jerusalem. Thus, Jerusalem, since 1967, has many people sense that the Jerusalem con that consular services are provided "in an been treated in U.S. diplomatic practice as sulate is the would-be embassy to a FLO overwhelmingly Arab environment" in East the de facto center, or capital, of what is Palestine state. U.S. policy in Jerusalem Jerusalem and that as a result "the feeling usually called the West Bank-the site of a going back to the United Nations Partition is reinforced that the consulate serves Arabs potential PLO /Palestinian state. Resolution of 1947 designated Jerusalem a and not Jews." It said that by meeting regu While the Consulate develops contacts corpus separatum-that is, not part of any larly with "pro-PLO Arabs" and other ac and develops its political links with pro-PLO state. Since 1967, when the city of Jerusa tivities, consulate officials have "over and nationalist Arabs in the Territories, it lem was reunified, the U.S. has continued to stepped the bounds of diplomatic decency." refuses to meet with Arab moderates such withhold recognition of Jerusalem as part Until today, U.S. officials in Israel had re as those who represent the Village Leagues of Israel. fused to discuss the issue, saying the dispute and others. The Consulate reports directly From 1948 until 1967 there was an inde would be settled in Washington. But it WJ!S to Washington, bypassing the Embassy in pendent American consulate in Jerusalem clear that Lewis, Cluverius and other senior Tel Aviv. Regarding Israel and the Israeli with a facility in Arab East Jerusalem and American diplomats in Israel strongly government, the Consulate follows a careful another in Jewish West Jerusalem. During oppose any change in the status or oper policy of isolation. The Consul General is that time, tqe consulate restricted its activi ations of the embassy or the consulate. not accredited to the Israeli authorities, and ties to Jerusalem, reporting directly to The issue of the consulate's status is tied the Consulate maintains no official ties or Washington. The consulate was accredited to the emotional question of Jerusalem, relations on the national level with repre neither to Jordan nor to Israel, thereby which the Israeli government has declared sentatives of Israel. maintaining American policy that Jerusa its "eternal capital" but which is also a holy We therefore call upon the United States lem was a corpus separatum. city to Moslems and Christians. to remedy this anomalous situation: the After the Six Day War in 1967 a change The United States has never recognized U.S. Consulate General-the representative was effected. This change ostensibly reflect Jerusalem as Israel's capital, maintaining of the American people :md the U.S. govern ed an administrative decision but has had that the city is a separate entity whose ment-should conform to normal diplomatic serious and far-reaching political implica status is to be decided by negotiations. Of practice regarding accreditation to and rela the nations that have diplomatic relations tions. The Jerusalem consulate was assigned tions with the host country. It is ironic and the responsibility for providing consular with Israel, only Costa Rica has its embassy intolerable that the only diplomatic repre here. The others, like the United States, services in the administered territories of sentatives of the U.S. in Jerusalem should the West Bank. maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv. be allowed to disregard the interests and Israeli officials have tried to steer clear of Although U.S. policy never recognized concerns of the nation of which that city is Jordan's occupation of the West Bank in the dispute over the embassy's location lest the capital. they be accused of interfering in domestic ·1948, consular services from 1948 to 1967 were provided out of its embassy in Amman. U.S. politics. At times they have seemed [From the Jerusalem Post, Apr. 1, 19841 almost embarrassed by the furor over the After the Six Day War it was decided that bill by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan provided out of the U.S. embassy in Tel to defeat or a veto by President Reagan. American embassies are located in the Aviv. Rather, it was decided to contravene Israeli Cabinet secretary Dan Meridor on capital city of every country with which the declared U.S. policy regarding Jerusalem as Sunday called the embassy controversy "an U.S. enjoys full diplomatic relations-except a corpus separatum and to assign responsi internal American debate." one. The exception is Israel, an ally of the bility for the West Bank to the Jerusalem He denied that the Israeli Embassy in U.S. and a sister democracy. Even in the consulate. This administrative decision, ex proach us regarding a compromise on the representative of the U.S. government and plained away as a matter of convenience by matter." the American people located elsewhere than consular officials, contradicts American Meridor repeated Israel's longstanding in the capital. policy in Jerusalem and has produced a policy on Jerusalem as the country's capital The Moynihan Bill • May 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14747 In 1979 a vice consul forwarded to Wash officially isolated from the Israeli main ing, May 19, at Flower Hill Cemetery, ington unsubstantiated allegations of sys stream. North Bergen, N.J., with about 250 tematic Israeli torture of Arab detainees. On the personal and informal levels the veterans and friends joining with us in Somehow, her charges reached the press consul-general and his, staff, together with and received headline treatment. The fact American Jewish organizations in Israel and paying tribute to Sergeant Dorsey, that this consular official was engaged to individual Israelis, have made efforts to fur whose grave was rediscovered last No one of the Palestinians who accused Israel ther dialogue, outreach and understanding. vember, after being neglected since his of torture, and to whom she had issued a Sadly, these activities have not and cannot death in 1891. visa, was reported only in the last para succeed in changing the perception that the Last week Anthony again joined me graph of the story. U.S. consulate in Jerusalem has overstepped in an informal ceremony at my office In 1980 a consular political officer gave a the bounds of diplomatic decency by the de pro-PLO briefing to visiting congressmen facto recognition of a Jerusalem-West Bank remembering June 6, 1944, the D-day which resulted in a rebuke from the U.S. entity while ignoring Jerusalem as the cap invasion of World War II, which was ambassador , but the idea is right. individual of excellent character who Thursday, May 31, 1984 The sponsors also maintain that this bill has accepted the challenge of working is aimed at the 45 percent of minority teen for brotherhood every day in many • Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, I would agers who are unemployed. It is this claim like to bring the following article by that won support for the bill from the Con ways. His lifetime has echoed the Ellen Goodman to the attention of my ference of Black Mayors, who understand words: "To be needed in human lives colleagues. The article, which was syn ably are willing to try anything. is there anything greater or more dicated by the Boston Globe, appeared But there is little evidence this bill would beautiful in this world." in the Washington Post on May 22, help poorer communities. It might harm He daily reiterates the theme set by them. In March 1984, 500,000 black teen 1984. agers were listed as unemployed. Most are Henrik Willem Van Loon, when he In the article, Ms. Goodman does a in school looking for part-time and summer wrote: superb job of debunking the myths jobs. We are all of us fellow-passengers on the the Reagan administration is attempt What we know about teen-age employ same planet and we are all of us equally re ing to spread concerning the conse ment is that most teens get jobs through sponsible for the happiness and the well quences of a youth subminimum wage. parents, friends or neighborhood contacts. being of the world in which we happen to As Ms. Goodman points out, a youth They get jobs in areas where they live. As live. subminimum codifies discrimination Wellesely College economist Carolyn Shaw Bell says, "If by lowering the wage you It is my sincere hope that while An based on age, arbitrarily denies youth could get McDonald's to open up lots of new thony will retire from his vocation he fair compensation for their services, restaurants all over Harlem and Roxbury will not retire his interest and efforts and jeopardizes the jobs of older mini for five months, it would work." Bell also working for community gain. He has a mum wage workers. notes that if you cut wages, you make it record of volunteerism long before the While a subminimum wage may cer harder for black teen-agers to commute to tainly improve McDonald's profits, we those jobs. term became popular. His character Today the adults who work for minimum certainly includes the four important will not create jobs by undermining the wages of American workers. If this wage come largely from low-income fami cornerstones on which our beloved administration is serious about ad lies. This is not true for teen-agers. The sub America is built; namely, initiative, dressing the problem of youth unem minimum wage might well encourage em ambition, independence, and service to ployers to replace poorer white adults with ployment, a problem that has grown more affluent white suburban teen-agers. others. to catastrophic proportions under this Our young ice cream scooper is not exactly Anthony Varsalone can indeed look administration, I urge the President to the worker that Reagan was targeting. forward to his retirement from work, demonstrate that commitment by en Beyond all that, there is also the matter but at the same time not retiring from dorsing the Youth Incentive Employ of creating a two-tier wage structure. Even his lifelong thrust in helping others. ment Act, a bill introduced by the gen economists who favor getting rid of the min Oscar Wilde had to be thinking of tleman from California health is failing. He has diabetes, has had week we honored the men and women TAIPEI, Taiwan.-A foreign diplomat who two eye operations in the last three years who sacrificed their lives so the citi was first posted to Taiwan a decade ago re and has trouble walking. zens of our country, and those of cently remarked on the changes he noticed Thus, should Mr. Chiang be unable to many other nations around the world, when he returned last year. He was struck complete the six-year term, Mr. Lee would could remain free. We are forever in most of all, he said, by the easing of censor be in line to succeed him. When Mr. Chiang the debt of those brave persons who ship, especially of opposition magazines, passes from the scene, Taiwan is likely to insured that democracy and basic which now regularly carry spirited criticism enter a period of collective leadership, ac of the ruling Kuomintang, or Nationalist cording to analysts here, with power shared human rights flourish in the United Party, and its leaders. by the Kuomintang, bureaucrats, the mili States today. "Years ago, those magazines would never tary, security forces and native Taiwanese. Many ceremonies were conducted have seen the light of day," the diplomat Today, more than 70 percent of the Kuo across the country on Monday to com said. "And once the Government security mintang's two million members are native memorate Memorial Day, and no forces got hold of them, the people who Taiwanese. In elections last December, Kuo doubt many fine speeches were given wrote and published these articles wouldn't mintang candidates won 62 of the 71 "sup at those events. One in particular that be seeing much daylight either." plementary" seats in the national legisla I found inspiring was delivered by The jailing has stopped in recent years, ture, and most of them were native Taiwan though some censorship remains. Antonio ese. But a majority of the seats in the 371- Craig Truax at Independence Hall in Chiang, editor of the Eighties, a leading op member legislature are held by lifetime Philadelphia. Craig is a member of the position journal, noted that his magazine members elected on the mainland in 1947. House of Representatives in the Com had been banned by the Government 20 They nominally claim to represent districts monwealth of Pennsylvania, and I times for varying periods in the last three in China. would like to share his remarks at this years. A report this year by Amnesty Interna time by inserting them in the RECORD But even Mr. Chiang says, "There is in tional, the human rights organization, noted for the review of my colleagues. creasing freedom of the press in Taiwan, that Taiwan, alone among Asian nations, Craig Truax's Memorial Day address and political repression is greatly reduced." had made improvements in the treatment of Taiwan, whose strong economic growth prisoners. for "Sons of Union Veterans of the has made it a model for some developing Civil War" at Independence Hall, A CHANGE IN THE LAW Philadelphia, Pa., follows: countries, appears to be undergoing a proc The organization observed that in 1982, ess of political modernization as well, diplo Taiwan's laws were amended to allow sus WITH PEAcE oN EARTH, Goon WILL TO MEN mats and others here say. In recent months pects in custody to retain a defense lawyer We meet on the hallowed soil of Inde there have been indications that the pace of immediately after arrest. Such a change is pendence Hall to Praise God, and to honor Taiwan's political evolution, which has considered important, according to Amnesty ancestors from whose vision, faith, courage lagged behind its economic development is International, because most torture occurs and sacrifice is derived the American birth quickening. right after arrest. Later in 1982, the report right. ONE OF ASIA'S "NEW JAPANS" said, a few Government officials were, for Please sense my gratefulness to you for The loosening of political reins and eco the first time, convicted of mistreating sus this privilege of offering the 1984 Memorial nomic modernization are viewed here as pects. Day address for the Sons of Union Veterans interrelated. Taiwan's rapid economic Opposition politicians estimate the of the Civil War. It is an honor of great ascent has given it a per capita income of number of political prisoners at fewer than magnitude, and imposes a special duty. roughly $3,000 and the distinction of being 200, and the number has been dwindling in From this hallowed soil was proclaimed labeled one of East Asia's "new Japans," the last few years. our Country's Declaration of Independence. along with Singapore, Hong Kong and The opposition contends that the liberal Here was rooted the costly struggle for rec South Korea. Taiwan is now straining to ization of Taiwan's political life is proceed- ognition as a free Nation. Here was born the 14750 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1981,. Constitution of the United States of Amer The Boone family and a portion of the good and loving hands; and to hearts which ica. Lincoln family moved southward down the shall never break faith with them. Above this soil, the Liberty Bell rang in Shenandoah Valley to accept Virginia's For those aged veterans of the Mexican protest against arbitrary government and offer of land. It was there that President Border War, and of World War I ... and of tyranny. It rang with the defiance of war Lincoln's grandfather grew to manhood, and World War 11-and for all others-whose ap ... and pealed in celebrating the birth of served in the Revolution. pointed time draws near, we recall the the Nation. The portion of Abraham Lincoln's family words of Dr. John McCrae written on the It rang in tribute to generations of fallen which continued its roots in Pennsylvania European battlefield before his death seven leaders, until its voice was stilled after ex likewise met its duty. It also produced an decades ago, in a war which saw 10 million pressing the people's love for the Father of Abraham Lincoln, who served as a Patriot killed, and left 27 million casualties in its their Country, George Washington, in 1846. officer in the Revolution . . . and as a wake. - To this hallowed soil of Independence member of the wartime Pennsylvania As IN FLANDERS FIELDS Hall, on February 22, 1861, came a saddened sembly in Independence Hall . . . and as a and burdened Abraham Lincoln. He was en member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional In Flanders fields the poppies blow, route to assume the Presidency of this divid Ratification Convention of 1787. Between the crosses, row on row, ed Republic. The violent winds of civil war President Lincoln would have acquired a That mark our Place; were on their way. special glow, had he learned that this Penn And in the sky the larks, still bravely sing- Lincoln here removed his coat to raise the sylvania Abraham Lincoln stood with that ing, Nation's flag. He prayerfully honored our lonely band of civil righters, who refused to Fly scarce heard amid the guns below. Nation's founders, and humbly re-commit approve the proposed Constitution because We are the dead, short days ago ted himself to the preservation of America. it did not then contain a Bill of Rights for We lived, knelt down, saw sunset glow, In service to that covenant, Abraham Lin the people. Loved and were loved, and now we lie, coln entered the realm of spiritual greatness It was in tribute to the fallen President, In Flanders fields. for all people, for all ages. and to all who had made the supreme sacri Take up our quarrel with the foe; - Lincoln viewed the birthright of freedom fice in the Union cause, that Memorial Day To you from fallen hands we throw to be sacred. He revered his Country's herit was established in 1868. It was with that The torch; be yours to hold it high. age. In his first inaugural address, he in same high motive and resolve that your If ye break faith with us who die voked the dead by speaking of what he Anna M. Ross Camp Number One, Sons of We shall not sleep, though poppies grow called: "the mystic chord of memory, Union Veterans of the Civil War, was found In Flanders fields. stretching from every battlefield and patri ed on September 29, 1879. There is none among us who would not ot grave, to every living heart, and hearth With faithful allegiance, you have contin hope that Divine Providence will make the stone." ued this Memorial Day observance at Inde dead we honor, today, aware that we have We, of 1984, have joined in listening again pendence Hall for 95 consecutive years. sought to commune with them; to the immortal words Lincoln spoke in Through five wars-and through the ebbing And, that our living patroits of dimming dedicating the Cemetery at Gettysburg. of patriotic fervor which too often marks eye ... will know that we have remembered Those words were directed, with equal devo peacetime-you have kept faith with your and revered them this day, on the hallowed tion, to the fallen sons of both North and organization's mission. soil of Independence Hall. South; and ought to be heard today wherev That mission, adopted 105 years ago, is May Americans, through all time, meet in er Americans gather; and be carried in every this: "To inculcate patriotism and love of such memorial assembly. heart. country . . . among all the people of our And, may their prayers forever include The words and meaning of that address land, and to spread and sustain the doctrine the sentiments of Oliver Wendell Holmes' were used in the sermon of Philadelphia's of equal rights, universal liberty, and justice Memorial to Abraham Lincoln, in whose Church of The Holy Trinity given while the to all." service his own son was thrice wounded. slain President lay in state here on April 23, Memorial Day has become a day of tribute Holmes wrote: 1865-enroute home to his beloved Spring to the dead of all wars; and to the families "Hear us, 0 Father, while we raise field. who produced those warriors; who were so With trembling lips our song of praise, Respect for America's heritage was ever often visited by that wrenching grief so And bless Thy Name forever." present within Lincoln. He was a student of large as to be accommodated, not through So shall one Nation's song ascend history. As President, he expressed the human sympathy, but only through the To Thee, our Ruler, Father, Friend, strong desire to someday learn of his own silent comfort of God. While Heaven's wide arch resounds again family's role in the making of his nation. Our land is blessed this Memorial Day With Peace on earth, good-will to men.e Lincoln, as a boy, had been told only that with over 30 million citizens who gave a por his grandfather, for whom he was named, tion of their lives to military service; sub had served as a soldier in the Revolution, mitting themselves to whatever risk fate NONBANK BANKS and had died at the hands of an Indian in might extend to them in meeting that re Kentucky. sponsibility. Wartime duties of office, and an assassin's Many veterans are crippled and in failing HON. STAN LUNDINE bullet, precluded Lincoln from learning of health ... many are in their twilight hour OF NEW YORK his family's American heritage. Had he when, with continuing courage and faith, learned, he would have spoken with addi they approach their appointed time of join IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tional emotion-if such were possible-here ing beloved ancestors . . . and will become Thursday, May 31, 1984 at Independence Hall . . . and on the Penn another revered link in the chain of ever sylvania soil of Gettysburg. lasting life which is eternal, and binds us all e Mr. LUNDINE. Mr. Speaker, last He would have held further appreciation, as one in God. week an article appeared in the Wall if such were possible, for the sons of Penn The eyes of these aging warriors have Street Journal which I believe pro sylvania who went to war to support him; at seen the generations of their children, and vides valuable insights into the contro the cost of 33,283 deaths, and legions of grandchildren, and great-grandchildren give versial and confusing issue of nonbank crippled and ill. their boys to war. banks. As many of you know, a non Abraham Lincoln's first American ances Their fading vision was once that of boy bank bank is a legal classification used tor was Samuel Lincoln . . . a 1639 immi hood, glowing with zeal, and shining with by financial institutions which enables grant tailor of Hingham, Massachusetts. A pride in having served in a war to end all descendant, Mordacai Lincoln, moved south wars, and to make the world safe for democ them to expand into markets from ward to Monmouth County, New Jersey in racy. which they would be precluded if they the early 1700's to join a community of Bap Their eyes have been often misted by were classified as traditional banks. In tists, Presbyterians and Quakers. Mordacai tears, and clouded by worry; yet illuminated light of the fact that legislation de was a blacksmith. He married . . . began his by faith, and the flickering light of their signed to close the nonbank bank loop family ... and moved onward to the Penn boyhood dreams. hole was introduced last week by sylvania frontier to present day Berks There is hardly an extended family in House Banking Committee Chairman America ... and, certainly, no community County. FERNAND ST GERMAIN and Congress Mordacai Lincoln's Pennsylvania frontier ... which does not contain such citizens, to neighbor was the family which produced whom, in life, is owed our Country's expres man CHALMERS WYLIE, I think that Daniel Boone. When Mordacai died, Daniel sion of devotion for their having given. this article is particularly timely. Boone's grandfather served as trustee of the They are owed assurance that they will go The issue of nonbank banks is a very estate. to rest, having given their birthright into important one, and one that needs to May 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14751 be addressed soon. But it is not the written into the 1970 amendments to the country were a level playing field for them, only issue that must be addressed in Bank Holding Company Act. they could score endless touchdowns. Even the broad area of deregulation of the Under those amendments, a bank is a the major New York banks have been filing bank only if it both accepts demand deposits for charters, despite their bitter experience financial services industries. I think subject to withdrawal by check and makes in the late 1970s, when they were released that the recent events surrounding the commercial loans. It is fashionable these from their previous cage in the city and near failure of the Continental Illinois days to describe this definition as a "loop freed to run upstate-whence most of them Bank, the Third World debt crises, hole," but in fact there was considerable dis returned a few years later with their tails and the growing lack of confidence in cussion in the Senate about the need to protect fi sized banks of Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse tions point out, in a most dramatic nance companies, trust companies, savings and especially (of all places) Albany. The fashion, the urgent need to address and loan associations, and credit unions parish priest still knows his parish better from the stifling regulatory embrace of the than the pope can. the problems inherent in the struc Federal Reserve. Moreover, the definition is Still, the local and regional banks are tures governing our financial services reasonable: A bank that cannot take scared. Ernest Deal, who ran Houston's very industries. The nonbank bank loop demand deposits is out of the loop of money successful half-billion dollar Fannin Bank, hole may be the place where the creation , and a will come in here and put in an operation the process. bank that does not make commercial loans across the street. They'll start a loss-leader clearly isn't a "commercial bank," which is operation, and they'll get away with it. We The article follows: the kind of bank people mean when they feared Houston would be a place where NoN-BANKs ARE NoN-STARTERs use the word. dumb people would come in and do dumb The holding companies that have bought things and wreck the house." And because Congressmen on the House Banking Com or started non-bank banks have all had le their constituents are scared, the congress mittee have been getting themselves into gitimate purposes that do not in fact im men are scared.: Even in this do-nothing something of a lather about the danger that pinge upon the central commercial work of year, legislation to "preserve community the giant money-center banks, with the con the banking system. Gulf & Western banks" may very well pass. nivance of the Comptroller of the Currency, wanted a non-bank bank charter mostly to But dumb people doing dumb things are are about to make an end run around the handle Keogh/IRA and other trust business not the sort of competition a businessman rules forbidding interstate banking. But the that is most conveniently managed from a or a banker has to fear. The regulators and play the banks have chosen for this purpose bank. Merrill Lynch started a non-bank Congress should stop fretting over the is virtually guaranteed to leave them at the bank to give itself the option of inhouse sudden emergence of real competition in the line of scrimmage (if not behind it>. Ideally, processing of checks and credit cards in its financial-services business, and should let the congressmen should calm down-and "cash management accounts·• and to offer the public get its free toasters and cash gifts the banks should forget it. We should be so its own insured deposits to money market and cut-rate loans. fund customers who want insurance. Drey WILL HAVE HAD TO SHAPE UP lucky, on either side. fus pushed into banking to apply its mass "The commercial banks went into the con When the dust clears, the community sumer business for the cheap money," John marketing techniques to the solicitation of consumer deposits and the offering of mort banks will still be there, offering better Heimann said when he was Comptroller of services because they've had to shape up. the Currency a few years ago. "Now that gage and auto loans. Fidelity Funds wanted membership in a credit-card association and The money-center giants, having added the the cheap money is gone, they will go into non-bank bank to their collection of fash other businesses." an automated teller machine network. Sears wants all of this and more, and can use its ionable disasters , will be back at their Chicago banks to envy the Bank of America But why on earth would a bank want a accustomed stand in the big city, railing at and North Carolina National Bank because non-bank charter? Nearly all of those who the government but dependent on it for the they had branches all over their states and have announced their plans have said they credibility that sells their paper. funded their loans from people's checking expect to use these new establishments to Maybe then the bankers and the congress accounts. Inflation and the market interest make commercial loans, and would qualify men will both-finally-tum their attention rates it created had persuaded lots of ordi under the definitions by not taking demand to the changes that will be necessary if the nary middle-class people to economize on deposits. That means every penny they lend information system we call banking is to cash and keep money in interest-bearing ac on this chassis would have to go right out of function efficiently, effectively and safely in counts even if they planned to spend it the bank, because businesses can't have an era when anybody with spare computer fairly soon. If the banks were going to have NOW accounts. It also means that the time can do the sort of information gather to buy the money they lent, branches were blended cost of funds at the new non-bank ing, processing and communicating that was a very expensive way to make the pur would be higher than that in existing once the exclusive preserve ·of the banks.e chases. Indeed, many of the big banks have branches and subsidiaries, because there been confirming this analysis during the wouldn't be any interest-free demand depos past few years by closing long-established its in the mix. CONGRESSIONAL SENIOR branches-some noisily with public pro There's no need to have a local bank char CITIZEN INTERN PROGRAM nouncements, some stealthily to avoid stir ter to make commercial loans anywhere in ring up the animals among the consumer-ac the U.S.-indeed, the big banks already have HON. JOHN BRYANT tivist groups. "loan production offices" all over the coun Now, quite suddenly, the big banks have try. A bank that is closing its fully depreci OF TEXAS filed requests with the Comptroller for ated, relatively cheap branch in Queens, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES charters that would allow them to operate N.Y., or Stockton, Calif., and starting a new, Thursday, May 31, 1984 300 new branches in other states. These expensive, restricted subsidiary bank in would not even be real, full-service Memphis, Tenn., looks suspiciously like a • Mr. BRYANT. Mr. Speaker, if there branches, for the McFadden act and the decapitated chicken in the farmyard. were ever any doubt about the value Douglas Amendment to the Bank Holding If the Comptroller will OK these char of the congressional senior citizen Company Act still forbid banks to open ters-and he has threatened to do so, be intern program, it should be dismissed branches or subsidiary banks in states other cause he wants Congress to change some immediately. than their home state, unless the state that banking laws and this looks like a good I was recently privileged to have as is being invaded has given its approval. The weapon-no doubt the banks will run in cir charters being requested are for what the cles. We are dealing here with a deep-seated, interns from the Fifth Congressional trade calls "non-bank banks," a Dr. Seuss atavistic impulse from before the days of District of Dallas County two resi creature born of the cleverness of the late computers and satellite communications: dents of Mesquite, Tex.-Ralph and Charles Bluhdorn's Gulf & Western in ex The men now running the giant banks were Jean Wisenbaker-who are active, in ploiting the definition of the word "bank" brought up with the idea that if the whole volved, concerned citizens. 14752 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1981,. The story of their internship week ty was wrangled over several times, but we "plus the information we gathered to pass in Washington, D.C., which clearly were told several times that the Social Secu along." gave them a better and more complete rity program was very sound. The Kennedy "I think the whole group was very nice perspective on how their Government Gephardt bill is the big thing there now." and very congenial and we met a lot of "ThiS is a bill before Congress now that people from all over the U.S.," said Mrs. Wi operates as well as a wealth of facts deals with the senior citizens' program," senbaker. "It didn't matter what party they and figures, was well told in a recent said Wisenbaker, "and it has to do with the belonged to or where they were from. We article by reporter Janet Mardis in the control of doctor bills and medical costs. found we all had the same problems." Mesquite News. Doctor bills are so exorbitant that Medicare Although the Wisenbakers said they I commend the article, which fol is complaining and this bill is supposed to didn't get to see President Reagan, they did lows, to the attention of my col solve that, although this will probably not get to see most of the members of the leagues. come up until next year." House and Senate. They were surprised at "I think it is going to be better," said Mrs. how relatively small the rooms were in the INTERNS LEARN How SYSTEM WORKS Wisenbaker, "and hopefully it will become White House and the assembly rooms of the to represent his dis decided how much they would pay on a bill, Wisenbaker said he has never seen so trict during the May 7-11 week-long activi but we know now. It is based on the cost of much brass and marble and most of the ties. living index for 1972 and has never been up people they saw on Capitol Hill were be The Wisenbakers, both retired, have long dated." tween 20 to 40 years old, but they encour been politically active and feel that involve Both the Wisenbakers said they were con aged everyone to become involved in poli ment led to the Washington trip. cerned about medical expenses for the el tics. "It was probably because we were active in derly because after age 65, any private "Get involved!" said Mrs. Wisenbaker. the political process," said Mrs. Wisenbaker, policy automatically becomes supplemental. "This is your country and your government "at least that is what we have assumed. "After you get to be Medicare age at 65," so get actively involved. If you think one Ralph is the precinct chairman of Precinct said Mrs. Wisenbaker, "your private policy voice doesn't count, you're mistaken and if No. 2288 and has been for the last four becomes supplemental and they don't ask you think your congressman or senator years. We go to the senatorial convention you, they just do it. All insurance companies doesn't listen, you're wrong. They do every two years and we have both been state drop you to a supplemental level." listen." delegates twice. The Wisenbakers said since Medicare "Everything you do is political," said Wi "We had done a lot of volunteer work for bases its payouts on 1972 figures, that is all senbaker. "Register to vote and voice your the different candidates around and Ralph the supplemental policies will pay on as opinion." is on the executive board of the Dallas well. "Another benefit of getting involved," said County Democratic Party, although we "For instance," said Mrs. Wisenbaker, "if Mrs. Wisenbaker, "is you get to meet all the were not selected because of the party we you got a doctor bill that was $800, but Med candidates and talk to them. When they belong to. This program is non-partisan." icare said his charges should only have been come to town, we go and get our 10 cents Since the Congressional Senior Citizen $500 with the public interest." the federal Internal Revenue Code must en benefit the federal government and the gen But the champions of the common people compass a new tax system that improves eral economy. against re thirds of the tax liability wasted or fonns, we will have passed up a signifi stricting the right to vote. not collected, the balance of taxes cant opportunity to reduce the deficit Since then, the political force has been raised are absorbed solely by interest and improve our economic outlook.e with those committed to broadening the on the Federal debt and by transfer right to vote. Of the 16 Amendments to the payments. In other words, all individ constitution passed since the Bill of Rights, ual income tax revenues are gone UNITY AND GREAT MERIT IN six have broadened the right to vote: No. 15, FOOTWEAR INDUSTRIES CASE prohibited the denial of the vote on account before anything is spent on many of of race, color, or previous condition of servi the services that citizens expect from tude; No. 17, providing that people, not the their Government. HON. GUY VANDER JAGT legislatures, of the states should vote for The Grace Commission provided the oF MICHIGAN U.S. Senator; No. 19, extending the vote to Congress With a list Of 2,478 COSt-cut- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES women: No. 23, giving the residents of ting, revenue-enhancing recommenda- Washington, D.C., the right to vote for tions that could save $424 billion over Thursday, May 31, 1984 president; No. 24, prohibited the denial of the vote in federal elections to one who had a 3-year period. System failures- • Mr. VANDER JAGT. Mr. Speaker, failed to pay any poll or other tax; and No. $160.9 billion and personal misman- trade issues-imports and exports 26, extending the vote to 18-year olds. agement-$90.9 billion, together com- impact on our domestic economy; all In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court held that prised well over one-half of the total continue to mount and all continue to "wealth, or free paying status has, in our efficiency savings. Program waste- attract greater importance and need view, no relation to voting qualifications; $151.3 billion-accounts for 37.9 per- for appropriate, decisive action. Cer the right to vote is too precious, too funda cent of savings recommendations and tainly among the foremost domestic mental to be so burdened or conditioned." this waste could be substantially elimi- industries hit by imports has been the The risk of unfair taxation has indeed nated if reforms were instituted. Footwear Industries of America and come to pass. Secretaries and blue-collar A sample of proposed savings over a its thousands of workers. workers are now paying taxes at rates once 3-year period would include the follow- As ranking minority member of the reserved for the very rich. But it is the ing programs: House Ways and Means Committee's common person, the "little guy," who is Mailing lists maintained by the Fed- Trade Subcommittee, I closely fol bearing the brunt. And it is they who, in eral Government can repeat the same lowed many of the import relief cases many regions, are supporting a revolt address dozens of times. Elimination that come before the Commission. In against too-high income and property taxes. of these needless errors could save recent months, I have had the oppor Let us take a spark from the torch of in spiration lit by Benjamin'"Franklin in 1787. nearly $100 million-a significant frac- tunity to review a great deal of materi Let us commit ourselves to the virtue and tion of the entire budget of the State al discussing the petition filed under spirit of the common people, who are-and of New Hampshire. section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 by repeatedly prove themselves to be-among Prohibitions on competitive bidding Footwear Industries of America, Amal the worthiest members of our body politic. on the movement of servicemen's gamated Clothing & Textile Workers Let our political leaders listen closely to the goods to and from Alaska and Hawaii Union, AFL-CIO, and the United Food suffering of the common people, and lift the cost taxpayers nearly $70 million. & Commercial Workers International heavy hand of taxation from one and all.e Improved management of govern- Union, AFL-CIO. ment property, according to the Com- No other major industry in this THE GRACE COMMISSION-IM mission, could save taxpayers over $60 country comes close to the record PROVING GOVERNMENT: CUT million. The Grace Commission found import penetration rates that confront TING SPENDING IS ONLY PART that compared to a private-sector com- the footwear industry. The rising OF THE ANSWER pany managing similar space, the Gen- import penetration since 1981 is mind eral Services Administration employs boggling. In 1983, imports captured HON. JUDD GREGG 17 times as many people and spends 14 63.5 percent of the market. In early OF NEW HAMPSHIRE times as much on total management 1984, the import penetration was up to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES costs. 70 percent. Employment has dropped Improved handling of cash seized to 132,700, the lowest level in the his Thursday, May 31, 1984 from criminal could save $50 million. tory of the U.S. footwear industry, in e Mr. GREGG. Mr. Speaker, the find Currently, cash taken from criminals eluding the period of the Great De ings of the Grace Commission show is held rather than deposited in inter- pression. Imports of nonrubber foot that there is a tremendous potential est-bearing accounts. wear were 3. 7 billion of the record for saving tax dollars by improving the The Commission also found that · total of the U.S. trade deficit in 1983. efficiency of the bureaucracy without computer and data processing activi- Domestic production has declined by reducing services. The Commission ties are disorganized and inefficient, almost 13 percent in just 2 years. concluded its work in January and in and that numerous functions and serv- Our domestic firms ask only the cluded over 160 managers from private ices performed by the bureaucracy chance to become fully competitive for business and other organizations. could be more efficiently performed in a fair share of the domestic market. More than 850 companies and individ the private sector. Furthermore, the The industry has made every effort to uals donated people, financial support, Commission suggested that Govern- compete with imports despite the services, and equipment to the 36 task ment agencies with functions similar strong effect imports has had on cap forces that delved into nearly every to commercial businesses should apply ital investment. The domestic industry aspect of the Federal bureaucracy. user charges and business methods has made an extensive commitment to The table summarizes the savings rather than favoring special interest research, development, and moderniza identified by the Commission that groups. tion during the period of the market- would be possible by improving Gov Bringing efficiency to the manage- ing agreements between Korea and ernment efficiency. ment of Government activities will be Taiwan, which lasted from 1977 to Without these refonns, the losses in a difficult task. Every program and 1980. During this time, research and taxes to the average citizen would con procedure has a group of supporters development expenditures rose stead tinue to grow. The Commission found that will surely protest cost-saving ef- ily from $5.4 to $7 million according to May 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14755 the International Trade Commission EXCLUSIONS ON IDEOLOGICAL such as Julio Cortazar, Marcelo Covian, data. Capital expenditures also rose GROUNDS ARE AN AFFRONT Mahmoud Darwish, Regis Debray, Daria Fo, TO FREE SPEECH Michel Foucault, Carlos Fuentes, Jose Luis from $80.1 to $115.6 million in 1981. Gonzalez, Yotara Konaka, Carlo Levi, Czes The results were just beginning to law Milosz, Alberto Moravia, Pablo Neruda, show when the orderly marketing HON. BARNEY FRANK Cosmo Pietarse, Angel Rama, Ernesto agreements were terminated. OF MASSACHUSETTS Sabato, and Marta Traba. I admire and respect the determina Il'J THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Public protest in the United States is now gaining some momentum. On April 30, for tion of the domestic nonrubber foot Thursday, May 31, 1984 wear industry to survive. The footwear example, in St. Peter's Church in New York • Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, Jeri City, some well-known American writers-E. industry has played a vital role in the L. Doctorow, Carolyn Forche, John Irving, American economy for over 200 years. Laber, the executive director of the Arthur Miller, Susan Sontag and William I am confident that they will continue U.S. Helsinki ·watch Committee, wrote Styron-will dramatize the situation by to remain a competitive part of the an article in the New York Times reading from the works of some "excluda Book Review, April 29, 1984, which U.S. market if they are given the op ble" foreign writers-Messrs, Cortazar, Dar criticized the policy of denying foreign wish, Fo, Garcia Marquez, Neruda and portunity for a respite from the unre writers entry into the United States Rama. This event, one of a series of activi mitting import penetration. I urge my because of their political beliefs. I ties in a campaign against ideological exclu colleagues from the Congress and ad agree with Ms. Laber: The section of sions, is sponsored by the international writ ministration officials to carefully our immigration law which excludes ers' association PEN and the Fund for Free review the conditions of this impor Expression, two of the more than 30 organi people for ideological reasons is a last zations now cooperating with the American tant industry and to give every possi vestige of the McCarthy era. It is of Civil Liberties Union in preparing for a ble consideration to relief.e fensive and should be repealed. I have major national conference on the subject to introduced a bill that would revise this be held in Washington on Sept. 18. The goal portion of the law. of the campaign is the repeal of the ideolog MENTAL STANDSTILL It is truly inconsistent for this coun ical exclusion provisions of the 1952 Immi try to advocate the freedom of travel gration and Naturalization Act. Known as HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR. and the free flow of information and the McCarran-Walter Act, this anachronis ideas, and at the same time to keep tic legacy from the McCarthy era provides OF INDIANA the legal grounds for the United States to out individuals based on the content of exclude aliens on the basis of their political IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES speeches they intend to give in this beliefs. Thursday, May 31, 1984 country. It is fitting that the Helsinki Under the McCarran-Walter Act, visas Watch Committee has chosen to speak may be denied to aliens who are Commu e Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, I insert out on this issue. This is not to say nists, anarchists or subversives, or whose ac a letter to the editor of the Indianapo that the U.S. violations of the Helsinki tivities are deemed "prejudicial to the lis Star sent by Indianapolis attorney public interest" or "subversive to national Agreement even approach the blatant security." The 1977 McGovern Amendment Judson F. Haggerty. and outrageous violations of the to the Act attempted to ease the situation It is said that the only thing we Soviet bloc. However, if we are to criti somewhat for people who are excludable be learn from history is that we do not cize these countries, we must hold our cause of "membership in a proscribed orga learn from history. Would not it _be selves to a very strict standard. nization," but it has been of limited use. nice if, at long last, we could disprove I insert Ms. Laber's excellent article Under the Reagan Administration, ways what they say: here: have been found to circumvent it altogeth er. BLACKSTONE PROFESSIONAL CENTER, WHY SoME WRITERS AREN'T WELCOME HERE The Administration has used the ideologi Indianapolis, Ind., May 25, 1984. 31-059 o-87-12 (Pt. 11) 14756 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1981, long since passed. Carlos Fuentes's landing Service and the National Marine Fish many recommendations are included card was once torn up by an immigration of eries Service concerns their recom in project requirements, and, in fact, ficial when he sought to disembark from a mendations for mitigation on Federal cruise ship for a few hours in Puerto Rico. are complied with; nor is it possible to He must apply for a waiver each time he projects and Federal permits and li estimate that these recommendations wishes to come to the United States, and censes. Project sponsors and appli which were implemented have the de appear in person at the United States Con cants for licenses often cite a lack of sired effect on fish and wildlife re sulate in Mexico City to obtain his visa. Cor certainty in dealing with projects that sources. Indeed, it is impossible to tell tazar once reported that each time he ap require long-term planning. Applicants whether they were necessary or effec plied to the consulate for a visa he was told are often faced with the problem of tive at all. that he was persona non grata because of negotiating each individual action The legislation I have introduced "Communist activities" and was forced to within the larger project when, in fact, wait for more than a month to receive·a re today requires the Fish and Wildlife stricted visa valid only for the number of all parties would benefit from an over Service and the National Marine Fish days necessary for his work. all review, with mitigation, if neces eries Service to compile an inventory Many people who have been subjected to sary, planned for the whole project. of water projects for which recommen these procedures in the past now refuse to The use of long-term agreements dations were made under the act. Fol come to the United States as a matter of which are entered into by all affected lowing the inventory, an evaluation is principle. They point out that the United parties offers a concept which may be required of a representative sample of States is the only Western democracy that useful in general negotiation of miti projects to determine the extent to imposes a political test for visas for visitors gaton requirements for long-term, and that American citizens would be justifi which recommendations are incorpo ably outraged if they were forced to submit large-scale projects. rated as conditions of the project, the to questioning about their beliefs and asso A second concept, mitigation bank extent those recommendations were ciations every time they wished to visit ing, has been utilized on a limited complied with, and the result and ef Paris or London. They marvel at the hypoc basis. Mitigation banking is the setting fectiveness of such compliance. risy of American leaders whenever they crit aside of a relatively large area of valu Mr. Speaker, I believe this legisla icize other governments for violating their able habitat from which credits will be commitments under the Helsinki accords, tion will enhance our ability to plan allowed for future projects. The legis water projects and to conserve our fish an agreement dedicated to encouraging the lation I have introduced today will free exchange of ideas and the free move and wildlife resources, and I commend ment of citizens across national borders. allow the commenting agencies to rec it to my fellow Members' attention.e American visa policies are shameful and ommend mitigation measures at either embarrassing. They give the world the im onsight or offsight locations and will pression that the Government is so fearful serve as a vehicle for reviewing other FIRE DEPARTMENT OF MA and defensive that it will not give foreigners innovative measures for providing en MARONECK AND RYE NECK, who are critical of its policies an opportuni vironmental protection and certainty N.Y. CELEBRATE 100TH YEAR ty to express their views.e in the planning of development projects. HON. RICHARD L. OTIINGER AMENDMENTS TO THE FISH AND A second concern is that the Coordi OF NEW YORK WILDLIFE COORDINATION ACT nation Act authorizes, but does not re quire, the transfer of funds from a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. JOHN B. BREAUX Federal agency planning construction Thursday, May 31, 1984 OF LOUISIANA to the commenting agencies to con e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES duct the studies necessary and re today to pay tribute to the Union No. quired under the provisions of the act. 1 of Mamaroneck and Rye Neck Hook Thursday, May 31, 1984 This transfer of funds has not always & Ladder Co. of Mamaroneck, N.Y., e Mr. BREAUX. Mr. Speaker, today I proceeded in a consistent and reliable my hometown. have introduced legislation to amend fashion. In order for the Fish and On June 5, 1884, a group of men in the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Wildlife Service to adequately plan for terested in protecting our community Act to address a need for improved the commitment or resources neces from the ravages of fire, banded to interagency coordination regarding sary to offer consultation required gether to organize a hook and ladder the protection of fish and wildlife re under the act, such funds must be company, an event which marked the sources. available on a regular and consistent beginning of the Mamaroneck Village The Fish and Wildlife Coordination basis. The legislation I have intro Fire Department. Act, enacted by Congress in 1932, was duced today requires and agency plan Hook and ladder started with a one of the earliest attempts to inte ning the construction of a water re hand-drawn, handmade truck built in grate fish and wildlife conservation source development project to transfer Mamaroneck. This truck remained in measures into the Federal Govern sufficient funds to the commenting service until1901. ment's water resources planning activi agency to allow them to carry out That year, a horse-drawn truck with ties. As amended in 1946, the act re their responsibilities under the act. tiller was purchased. Membership in quires Federal agencies that adminis Finally, a recent study by the Na creased until it reached the maximum ter projects modifying water resources tional Marine Fisheries Service in the of 65. to consult with State and Federal fish Southeast region illustrated a reoccur In 1916, the members of hook and and wildlife agencies and to take fish ring problem that the legislation ad ladder formed a land company and and wildlife resources into consider dresses. While recommendations for built the first floor of the present ation before proceeding. The act is not alternative actions or mitigation meas truck house. A second story was added intended to affect each agency's dis ures may be incorporated as terms in in 1916. cretion in making final decisions, but permits, the rate of noncompliance Today, Union No. 1 of Mamaroneck rather to highlight the effects of pro with those terms was found to be as and Rye Neck Hook & Ladder has two posed water projects and offer recom high as 25 percent. Inquiries to the 100-foot ladder trucks in service. mendations for mitigation measures to agencies involved revealed a complete The main mission of hook and compensate for possible or anticipated lack of followup on the effectiveness ladder is rescue, and we stand ready as fish and wildlife resource damage. of the incorporated recommendations, a volunteer company with 100 years of In recent years, several concerns as well as a lack of monitoring of the service-to protect the lives or proper have surfaced regarding the consulta permits to ensure compliance by the ty of the people who live and work in tion process required by the act. One permittee. the village of Mamaroneck. of the most frequently raised com In other words, it is not possible to I ask my distinguished colleagues to plaints about the Fish and Wildlife estimate, on a national basis, how join me in honoring the Union No. 1 of May 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14757 Mamaroneck and Rye Neck Hook & Sporting events and competitors have target of Congress and the administra Ladder Co. on the occasion of this, its figured significantly in such cam tion to shoulder a disproportionate lOOth year of outstanding service to paigns. Our resolution encourages the share of budget cuts. It is with pride the people of its community.e networks to take advantage of the spe that I can commend to you a civil serv cial opportunity provided by the Los ant such as Mrs. Orrico in the face of Angeles Summer Olympics to inform a this disservice we do to the concept of URGING NETWORKS TO BROAD large segment of our Nation's youth of public service. The Government would CAST DRUG AWARENESS AN the benefits that can be enjoyed by not function very effectively without NOUNCEMENTS DURING COV saying "no" to alcohol and drug use. the dedication and skills of employees ERAGE OF THE SUMMER Congress has achieved a solid aware such as Mrs. Orrico. OLYMPICS ness in recent years of the very real I have been particularly pleased dangers posed to our young people by with the accomplishments of Mrs. HON. TOM LANTOS alcohol and drug abuse. Utilizing a va Orrico during her tenure in the OF CALIFORNIA riety of options, we have attempted to caucus. Foremost of these is a very IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES act in the best interests of young successful breakfast symposium on ar Thursday, May 31, 1984 Americans to stem a near-epidemic of tificial intelligence which she planned substance abuse that plagues a dis and organized for members of the e Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I am turbingly large number of young lives. caucus and their staffs. The symposi pleased today to join my respected col I encourage you to support this coop um topic is highly germane to congres league from New York BARBARA BOXER
in self-regulation on the part of the where he worked for nearly 24 years. OF CALIFORNIA television networks and everyone in He then served as a crossing guard for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the election reporting business. some 14 years. Mrs. Bone was a leader Thursday, May 31, 1984 This editorial comes from an inter in the establishment of the Pontiac esting perspective-that of a broad e Mrs. BOXER. Mr. Speaker, I rise caster. I urge my colleagues to read it. Boys Club. Mr. and Mrs. Bone have a commit today to share with my colleagues the A weco editorial on TV election cover civic contributions made by one of my age. Here's Ron Handberg: ment to make the world a better place constituents, Ms. Anne Belisle Daley. To people in the news media, there's noth for their children and all others. Their On the occasion of Anne's 77th ing like getting the news first, beating the 70th wedding anniversary will be rec birthday, she will be honored by competition. Sometimes, no matter what ognized on June 3, at the First United fellow Democrats and San Francisco the cost. Methodist Church in Pontiac. Expect activists. Anne was a founding member It's the right stuff of American journal ed to attend will be many of the 28 of San Francisco Tomorrow and ism-a tradition, an instinct so strong, so grandchildren and 29 great grandchil deep that nobody in the news business has Friends of San Francisco Deputies and questioned it. Until now. dren of this extraordinary couple. It is Inmates. As a member of the San Now, news organizations have the tech certain to be a remarkable celebration Francisco County Democratic Central niques and the technology to accurately of the lives of two people who have Committee, she has been a solid sup predict election results long before the polls persevered from many trials in the porter of progressive issues and candi have closed-to be first with the news of past to make an indelible mark on the dates for the last several decades. who has won and who has lost. Before many voters have even had time to cast a ballot. lives of many who have known them.e Anne has demonstrated her commit Members of Congress are upset. State offi ment to many social and political cials are upset. Voters are upset. And, un arenas: Criminal justice-as director of derstandably so. DECLINE OF DOMESTIC the Victim Witness Assistance pro At stake here are two fundamental free FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY gram and former personal secretary to doms: the right of news organizations to be the San Francisco sheriff; women's unfettered in how and when they report the rights-as past president of the Demo news. And, the right of each American voter HON. BEVERLY B. BYRON to make an election choice uninfluenced by cratic Women's Forum, member of the news of what earlier voters have done. OF MARYLAND National Women's Political Caucus, The right, in other words, to believe that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES National Organization for Women; every vote truly does count. and Feminist Democrats; and human Trying to restrict the TV networks by Thursday, May 31, 1984 rights-as a member of the Harvey passing laws probably won't work, and most • Mrs. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, I would Milk Lesbian and Gay Democratic likely would not be constitutional anyway. like to address an issue of vital con Club, the Alice B. Toklas Lesbian and Changing State election procedures-such Gay Democratic Club, Chinese Ameri as experimenting with 24-hour balloting cern to me and Maryland's Sixth Dis would have little impact on the media. And trict. Today I wish to discuss the dis can Democratic Club, Stonewall and the networks attempting to simply forge tressing plight of America's domestic countless others. It can truly be said ahead with their polling projections in the nonrubber footwear industry. that Anne Daley is a legend in her face of adverse political and public opinion In the period between 1968 and 1983, own time. will serve neither the networks' long-term imports of nonrubber footwear have Congratulations and happy birth interests, nor the greater public good. day.e The only answer, it seems to us, is real risen a remarkable 232 percent. Ameri self-control-self-regulation on the part of can production of nonrubber shoes, on the networks and all of us in the election re the other hand, is only 53 percent of THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS porting business. the 1968 levels. As a result, over At Channel Four we're committed to vol BASIC SKILLS ACT untary restraint. We won't call an election 120,000 American workers have lost in our coverage area before the polls have their jobs in this industry over the closed. past 15 years. And, as of 1983, imports HON. JAMES J. FLORIO We understand and believe that in this of nonrubber footwear composed ap OF NEW JERSEY one very special area of reporting, being proximately 6 percent, or $3.7 billion IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES first is not necessarily being best. of the U.S. trade deficit. I'm Ron Handberg.e I believe this is a problem that de Thursday, May 31, 1984 mands our immediate attention. • Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, a little SEVENTIETH WEDDING ANNI Import penetration of the U.S. shoe over a year ago the President's Com VERSARY OF STEPHEN AND market is hovering near a record 65 mission on Excellence in Education RUTH BONE percent. No other major domestic in challenged us all to take a closer look dustry has been hit as hard recently at our Nation's education system. HON. BOB CARR by the onslaught of foreign competi As you know, the "Nation at Risk" report and other educational studies OF MICHIGAN tion. Currently, the International have shown that proficiency in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Trade Commission is investigating a basic skills has seriously faltered over Thursday, May 31, 1984 petition filed by the members of the the past 20 years. At this time, it is es e Mr. CARR. Mr. Speaker, I want to shoe industry for relief under section timated that 23 million Americans, bring to my colleagues' attention the 201 of the 1974 Trade Act. I, and the and approximately 13 percent of all 70th wedding anniversary of Mr. and other members of the House Footwear 17-year-olds, do not have adequate Mrs. Stephen Bone of Pontiac, Mich. Caucus, urge the lTC to propose a reading, writing, and comprehension Stephen and Ruth Bone are true pil viable means for protecting this vital skills to function in everyday life. Last lars of the community. They have domestic industry·• year, in my own State of New Jersey, been residents of Pontiac for some 56 over 50,000 entering freshmen took years and have contributed much of the New Jersey college basic skills test. their time and energy to the improve- Less than a third proved proficient in May 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14759 verbal skills, and only 12 percent were commendable history of promoting fortunately there is no way of knowing proficient in elementary algebra. educational, social, and welfare serv the cumulative effect of these efforts. Without question, there is an urgent ices to numerous communities not The hearing will focus on three as need in this country to revive our basic only across our Nation, but through pects of private sector plans: the type skills, to instill in our children the out the world. For the past five dec of activity being undertaken or knowledge and know-how they will ades, the Progressive Slovene Women planned; actual or projected benefits; need to survive in the workplace to of America have contributed countless and the applicability of such activities morrow. hours of selfless devotion to providing to Federal Government programs.e Yesterday, along with my colleague financial and moral support in many PAT WILLIAMS of Montana and several varied directions. other colleagues, I introduced the Sec The Progressive Slovene Women of A SALUTE TO REV. WILFRED ondary Schools Basic Skills Act. This America have contributed to organiza HODGKIN bill would provide local secondary tions and provided support for the schools with large numbers of eco American Red Cross; the United Na nomically disadvantaged students with tions Relief Committee; the March of HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK $900 million annually to upgrade their Dimes; the· American Museum of Im OF CALIFORNIA basic skills programs. After the first 2 migration; the Restoration and Preser IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES years, continued funding would be vation of Cultural Gardens; and many contingent upon a school's improve others. Thursday, May 31, 1984 ment in the number of students pass If a need existed, this group found • Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, on June ing a State-approved basic skills test, the means to assist people in all parts 14, 1984, a civic dinner will be held to or a decrease in the school's dropout of the world. After a half century of honor one of the leading citizens in Al rate. activity, the devotion and strength of ameda, Calif., the Reverend Wilfred Department of Education analyses this organization stands as a model for indicate that, although chapter I has all of us to emulate.e Hodgkin. Few people have contributed significantly strengthened our Na as much to the community as Rever tion's elementary schools, our second end Hodgkin over the past several dec ary schools receive very little supple HEALTH TASK FORCE ades. Now that he is retiring, I want to mental moneys through this program. HEARINGS express my gratitude, on behalf of the Seventy-seven percent of the partici community, for all he has done for the pants in chapter I are enrolled in pre HON.RAYMONDJ.McGRATH people of Alameda. school and elementary school pro OF NEW YORK Reverend Hodgkin has been active in grams. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES countless organizations and causes. Our bill would provide high schools Thursday, May 31, 1984 For example, he has spent over 50 with abour one-half of the moneys re years in Scouting, and has served as quired to meet the needs of all eligible e Mr. McGRATH. Mr. Speaker, on the president of the Alameda County students in all eligible secondary Tuesday, June 5, the Republican Re~ Boy Scouts of America. He is a long schools. It is estimated that approxi search Committee's Task Force on standing member of Rotary Interna mately $2 billion would be required to Health and Environment, which I chair, will hold a hearing on private tional and has served as president of fully meet the needs of these second the Alameda Rotary Club. In addition, ary schools. sector activities to reduce employee health care costs. he has been a member of the Heart Our country is on the brink of a Association, the Red Cross, the Mental new, high-technology revolution. The The hearing will commence at 9:30 a.m. in room 2203, Rayburn House Health Association, four citizens com importance of the mastery of basic mittees for the Alameda School Dis skills, as well as advanced skills, is ob Office Building. Witnesses will include leaders of business groups and coali trict, and the Alameda City Communi vious. We must begin now to prepare ty Relations Commission. our students for the future, because tions, and executives of companies quite simply, they are our future. that have successfully implemented His contributions extend well I ask for your support in this health care cost management pro beyond Alameda. He served his coun effort.e grams: The U.S. Chamber of Com try in World War II and thereafter, in merce, NFIB, the Business Roundta cluding heroic action in New Guinea ble, Washington Business Groups on and the Philippines. After being or RECOGNIZING THE 50TH ANNI Health, Richmond Area Health Care dained, he remained active in the re VERSARY OF THE PROGRES Coalition, ARCO, ALCOA, Ryder serves as a member of the Chaplain's SIVE SLOVENE WOMEN OF System, Quaker Oats, Mobil, Sun Co., Corps until his retirement in 1953. AMERICA Inc., Owens-Illinois, IBM, and United More recently, he has been a member Technologies. of the Navy League. HON. DENNIS E. ECKART While considerable attention has Reverend Hodgkin's efforts have not OF OHIO been focused on the sharply rising cost gone unnoticed. He has received sever IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the medicare program, private al awards and honors for his tireless sector contributions to employee Thursday, May 31, 1984 work. For example, he is a recipient of health insurance plans have risen the St. George Episcopal Award for e Mr. ECKART. Mr. Speaker, I would from $78 million in 1950 to $70 billion like to take this opportunity to pay in 1983. As a result, many businesses Scouting, the Bronze Star with Oak special tribute to the Progressive Slo have taken action to better control Leaf Cluster, and the Coast Guard vene Women of America upon the these costs, without sacrificing the Meritorious Operational Award for celebration of their 50th anniversary quality of care to their employees. It is Life Saving. He also has been honored of service. As a member of Slovenian reasonable to believe the impact of as a Paul Harris fellow. descent, I am proud to take this these various actions on health care Reverend Hodgkin is an outstanding moment to honor those who have con providers and the health care delivery citizen. I am proud to wish him all the tributed so much to America's cultural system can result in reduced health best as he moves into retirement. He heritage. care costs across the board. will not be forgotten.e This service-oriented organization, Many of these efforts have been un comprised of active, progressive dertaken generally by individual firms, women of Slovenian heritage, has a local area groups or coalitions, so un- 14760 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1984 THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF will be open through September of What is better, these trends are projected THE PUBLICATION OF "JOUR this year.e to continue through 1984 and 1985. NEY IN NORTH AMERICA" BY The improved national economy has had a positive impact on the St. Lawrence Seaway SANDOR BOLON! FARKAS-THE ADMINISTRATOR JIM EMERY HUNGARIAN DE TOCQUEVILLE as well. LEADS THE WAY FOR A RE The 45 million metric tons of cargo that BIRTH OF THE ST. LAWRENCE passed through the Seaway last year repre HON. TOM LANTOS SEAWAY IN ITS SILVER ANNI s.ented .a 5.25 percent annual gain; right in OF CALIFORNIA VERSARY YEAR lme With the national rate of economic growth. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. JACK F. KEMP Equally significant, 1983 Seaway cargo Thursday, May 31, 1984 generated an estimated $3 billion of direct OF NEW YORK and indirect economic activity at Great e Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, 150 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Lakes ports located in Minnesota, Wiscon years ago, Sandor Boloni Farkas Thursday, May 31, 1984 sin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, west 0795-1842) published his excellent ern Pennsylvania and western New York. book ''Utazas Eszak-Amerikaban e Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, the St. Lawrence Seaway is undergoing a There also were substantial economic bene Journey in North America." The fits to Canadian Great Lakes ports in On volume, published in the Transylva major revitalization in trade and traf tario and Quebec. nian city of Kolosvar ly overlooked function; copies, however, escaped confiscation. Start-up of a new customer service called The Library of Congress has one of President Ronald Reagan has led the United States on a robust and remarkable "Seaway Nightcast" designed to furnish in the copies that has survived. economic recovtrY. dustry with up-to-date information on the Although plans for publication of a When President Reagan assumed office in outbound cargo needs of ocean vessels as German language edition of the book January of 1981, he inherited an economic they enter the system through Seaway Cor came to naught because of Metter swampland. Inflation in 1980 had roared out poration locks at Massena, N.Y. Matching nich's opposition, the Hungarian work of control at a 12.4 percent annual pace. In cargoes and vessels more efficiently will did exert great influence upon the po terest rates at the start of 1981 were sky help the shipping industry, ports and the litical leaders of Hungary. It was high at 21 percent. Stymied by the double Seaway. awarded the grand prize of the Hun whammy of high inflation and high interest Called for the formation of a Great r~tes, the national economy suffered nega Lakes/Seaway Working Group composed of garian Academy of Sciences in Buda tive growth in 1980. By every indication the pest and many of Hungary's reformist the numerous and diverse federal agencies American economy had lost its "will to ~in." now serving the maritime industry. This leaders-including Count Stephen Sze In the three years since, President Reagan Working Group will be an action-oriented cheny, founder of the Academy, and has captained an economic comeback that forum to improve communication across de Louis Kossuth, leader of the Hungari many had written-off as impossible. partments and create a unified federal pres an struggle for independence in 1848- The inflation rate for 1983 was a mere 3.8 ence on the Great Lakes. 49-became admirers of the United percent; less than a third of what it was when President Reagan took office. During 1984, the St. Lawrence Seaway will States in part thanks to this volume. Interest rates by the end of 1983 had celebrate its 25th anniversary year of serv Mr. Speaker, in commemoration of fallen to half of what they were when the ice to America and the world. As a result of the publication of this important President took over. the on-going Reagan recovery, we are now volume, the special display in the Eu Spurred along by lower inflation and in poised to make the second 25 years even ropean Reading Room of the Library terest rates, the American economy surged better than the first.e of Congress has been prepared and ahead at a healthy 6 percent clip last year. May 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14761 A BUSINESSMAN'S VIEW OF half of the year should be markedly better Many Americans believe-with some justifi INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND than in the first half. cation-that Europeans, Japanese, Canadi ECONOMIC ISSUES First-quarter economic momentum in the ans, Latin Americans, and others have United States, Canada, Japan, the Federal better access to U.S. markets than Ameri Republic of Germany, and the United King cans have to theirs. HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL dom appears to be sustainable through Others may criticize the United States for OF ILLINOIS 1984. Also, our order rates in developing its auto quotas, for example, but so may we countries are strong enough to suggest that note, for example, Japanese restraints on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES business has bottomed out. tobacco imports and the investment policies Thursday, May 31, 1984 It's been an unhappy period, but we feel of Canada, Mexico, and numerous develop we're turning the corner. ing countries, which restrict the free flow of e Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, in a Many of our economic difficulties these trade and investment. short while, leaders of the major in past two years can be attributed to the gen Protectionism is not only growing . : . it's dustrial nations will gather in London eral worldwide recession. It affected every becoming more sophisticated and harder to for the annual economic summit. industry we serve-road building, energy, deal with. GA'IT has largely succeeded in President Reagan will, of course, play housing, logging, and all the others. knocking down high tariff walls. But now a major role at these meetings. And it was a major cause of the general such factors as investment-oriented per Recently, Lee Morgan, chairman of downturn in international trade-a signifi formance requirements, capital-flow-gener the Caterpillar Tractor Co., made a cant reversal from postwar history. Follow ated exchange rate relationships, and mas ing World War II, the world benefited from sive LDC debt have formed a new set of bar major address on trade and economic dramatic progress in international trade for riers. They need to be addressed. issues which I believe has much to more than 30 years. Growth rates in trade Fortunately, if we all have the will, we're contribute to an understanding of the far outdistanced the growth rates of individ in the midst of some opportunities to start problems-and possible solutions ual countries. the process. faced by the major industrial democra The Kennedy and Tokyo rounds of trade Last week, the United States Trade Repre cies as they meet. talks through GA'IT-the General Agree sentative, Bill Brock, hosted trade ministers It is my hope our colleagues will get ment on Trade and Tariffs-made outstand from 15 nations to discuss some of these a chance to read the text of this ing contributions to trade growth. Over the issues. They'll be on the agenda when the years, tariffs were gradually reduced, and OECD ministers meet in Paris tomorrow speech, for it truly represents the kind international agreements helped hold the and Friday. of clear, commonsence thinking Amer line on non-tariff barriers. But today, the And most important, in just a few weeks ican industry was once universally spirit of these agreements is being under leaders of the major industrialized nations known for. Lee Morgan has made an mined by governments all around the world. will gather in London for the annual Eco outstanding contribution to the under Even in the United States, protectionist nomic Summit. l-and other U.S. business standing of economic and trade prob thinking is growing dangerously. As many men-have urged the United States to make lems, and I commend his remarks to of you know, the United States last year restraint of protectionism a top priority in your attention. had a $69 billion merchandise trade deficit London. Today I'd like to urge our Europe by far the largest in its history. This year an friends to put this topic at the top of At this point I wish to insert in the our country's first-quarter deficit has your agenda as well. RECORD, "Toward the Summit: An topped $30 billion and we appear headed for Our heads of state must strongly recon American Businessman's View of a $100 billion plus deficit for .the year. firm their commitment to a free and open International Trade and Economic The Congress, some businessmen, and trade and investment climate. Issues," a speech delivered before the most labor unions in the United States are Some "trial balloons" have been floated in American International Club and talking protectionism. I worry about new recent months about the possible need for a Swiss-American Chamber of Com protectionist legislation that can develop new round of trade negotiations. In my merce in Geneva, Switzerland, May 16, into trade wars and further decline in inter view, this initiative is timely. I hope the national trade. That will lead inevitably to Economic Summit will give it a "green 1984. strained political relations, just as it did in light." TOWARD THE SUMMIT: AN AMERICAN Busi the 1930s. . Clearly, there's some unfinished business NESSMAN'S VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Two prominent protectionist problems from past negotiating rounds. More work AND ECONOMIC ISSUES we're dealing with in the United States are needs to be done on the subsidies code, and It's always a pleasure to return to this so-called "domestic content" legislation and in the area of safeguards. Also, the prolif beautiful city, especially in the spring. a steel quota proposal. These are designed eration of bilateral quota arrangements is Caterpillar has maintained its headquar to minimize U.S. imports of autos and steel worrisome. ters for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East products. But beyond these traditional trade prob in Geneva since 1960. That's almost a quar These sectors-autos and steel-are criti lems, there are some new kinds of restraints that need at of this city, but long enough in modern my view, neither these industries nor the tention. times to affirm our intention to stay. Last U.S. can afford the inevitable results of pro One is restraints on trade in services. Serv October our offices moved from the rue du tectionism. ices trade now accounts for over 20% of all Rhone to a new headquarters next to the Caterpillar's a good example of the prob international commerce. Yet there is really Stade Richmond, just behind the Pare des lems protectionism breeds. For example, if no meaningful international understanding Eaux Vives. If you haven't seen the new the present protection afforded our auto or agreement on how to deal with the serv building yet, you should drive by. I think sector reduces wage re ices explosion. It needs to be addressed. the architects did an excellent job of blend straint in the industry, Caterpillar-which Similarly, on the question of investment ing a superb new structure into the Geneva also has contracts with the United Auto policy. The trade-distorting effects of na landscape. Workers Union-will have its costs adversely tional investment policies are increasing. The building was completed during the affected. Similarly, if proposed steel quotas U.S. interests are significantly affected by most difficult period Caterpillar has ever lead to higher priced steel from U.S. manu developing country investment require endured. In the third quarter of 1982, we facturers, those higher prices would be re ments. I'm sure the same is true of Europe suffered a loss for the first time in 50 flected in the cost of our equipment and an interests. Yet we've seen little evidence years-and we haven't turned a quarterly would diminish our competitiveness. of any momentum toward establishing a profit since. We've had seven consecutive Caterpillar remains a strong opponent of meaningful international dialogue on these quarters of losses, mounting to $686 million. protectionism in the United States and kinds of investment issues. A forum must be This wasn't the most opportune time to con wherever else in the world it might appear. formed for that multilateral debate. The struct a new building-and, frankly, in hind We advocate open trade, with no unfair ad Economic Summit could provide some impe sight, we probably would have delayed a vantages for any country. tus for that. year or two. Nonetheless, the fact that we But free and open trade can't be a one Out-of-balance currencies are another did open new headquarters • • • in the way street. I believe the U.S. has been the fair-trade impediment that should receive middle of this period of losses • • • is strong world's leader in advocating fair, open trade. close attention at the London Summit. evidence of our commitment to Geneva. We That leadership has caused consternation in Countries with overvalued currencies get like it here. some sectors of American industry. hurt when competing in the international Let me add, too, that we intend to return The reason? The perceived lack of reci marketplace • • • those with undervalued to profitability this year. Results in the last procity in the world's trading relationships. currencies gain an artificial advantage. 14762 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1981,. Some economists like to point out that Since November, when President Reagan tant extension of the Resource Con there can be no such thing as an "underval and Prime Minister Nakasone agreed to servation and Recovery Act, the law ued" or "overvalued" currency. They argue work to resolve the yen/dollar problem, bi that the market determines the value of the lateral discussions have been going forward. that regulates the disposal of hazard currency. But they've not moved quickly enough, ap ous and solid waste. In a strict economic sense they're correct parently because of Japanese resistance. It has been almost 1 year since the because supply and demand are always sup I believe there are a couple of critical companion bill was reported from the posed to balance. But the system isn't work points in these thoughts on exchange rates. Senate Environment and Public Works ing as intended because too many other fac The world's leading nations need to sustain Committee. Passage of this legislation tors-like capital flows-influence exchange the pressure on Japan to internationalize this year is vital to efforts nationally rates. The rate don't reflect competitive dif their currency and to liberalize their capital to deal with this major environmental ferences because they're obscured QY these and financial market access. Also, there's a other factors. need for a more serious, sustained interna problem. From my perspective, there are two princi tional dialogue on the role exchange rates As a member of the r,ubcommittee pal components of the exchange rate prob play in determining trade flows. The Eco that authorized RCRA I was pleased lem that need action. First, excessive U.S. nomic Summit would be a good place to kick to note that our panel's chairman, federal spending is leading to mounting off that dialogue. Congressman JIM FLORIO of New budget deficits. The federal government There's a third item the London Summit Jersey, recently joined his State's sen soaks up available funding, thus driving in must address-a situation that has had dev terest rates high. American keep their astating impact on the flow of goods around ators in a press conference to urge the money at home to take advantage of the the world. I'm referring to the debt prob Senate to schedule RCRA for floor high interest rates. Outsiders invest in the lems of many developing nations. action. United States to take advantage of the in The U.S. trade relationship with Latin An article in Chemical Marketing terest rates. Demand for the dollar is America dramatically illustrates the prob Reporter described that press confer strengthened. lem. In the last three years, U.S. exports to ence, and I believe that our colleagues That may benefit me if I go to France for Latin America have fallen 40 percent. The will find it a helpful update on this dinner. With the French franc at eight to 1981 U.S. trade surplus of $7 billion with issue. the dollar, I can get a good meal at a good Latin America turned into a $13 billion price. trade deficit in 1983. One cost associated The article follows: But the impact on American exporters is with this decline is hundreds of thousands [From the Chemical Marketing Reporter, catastrophic. Caterpillar's exports dropped of U.S. jobs. May 28, 19841 from $3.5 billion in 1981 to $1.6 billion in I'm not talking about jobs lost to Europe RCRA SENATE DELAY TROUBLES NEW JERSEY 1983. Purchasers in Europe had to come up an or Japanese competitors. I'm talking LAWMAKERS AND THEY LAUNCH DRIVE with more and more francs, deutschemarks, about needed work, that's just not getting and other European currencies to buy dorte because of the continuing debt situa Three lawmakers from New Jersey, miffed American products. If the price for an tion. by what they see as the Senate leadership's American product is $100,000, it would cost I'd like to borrow a theme recently devel failure to move expeditiously on a bill sub the French 810,000 francs today. Two years oped by Bob Hormats, now with the invest stantially stiffening the Resource Conserva ago he could have bought it for 650,000 ment firm of Goldman Sachs and formerly tion & Recovery Act, have launched a drive francs-and we're assuming there's been no a high-ranking U.S. trade official. Bob to place that bill on the Senate schedule im inflation. That's a pretty hefty price in points out that most solutions to the debt mediately following the Memorial Day crease, caused not by the productivity of the problems of .LDCs have been short- to recess, which ends June 4. manufacturer or the cost of the factors of medium-term rescue plans designed to pro Sens. Bill Bradley and Frank Lautenberg, production, but by the change in the ex vide relief on interest payments. But longer Rep. James Florio, representatives from var change rate. term solutions haven't been developed, or ious environmental organizations, state offi The second part of the exchange rate even debated very much. I agree with his cials and the Hazardous Waste Treatment problem relates to the Japanese yen. Japan conclusion that the London Economic Council, a trade group which advocates is operating with enormous trade surpluses, Summit should focus some attention on this high-technology methods of hazardous while most of its trading partners are build problem in an effort to stimulate longer waste disposal, met with reporters last Tues ing higher and higher deficits. term thinking about the implications of the day to talk up their new push for Senate European countries still run big trade debt problem. action. deficits with Japan, even though the yen Attending the London Economic Summit Rep. Florio, who shepherded a stringent has strengthened against most European will be the leaders of the United Kingdom, RCRA bill through the House last Fall currencies. We believe Europeans should be France, Italy, the Federal Republic of Ger superfund "are probably being cre The fact the yen is not a truly interna leader undoubtedly has his own private ated." The Senate E::nvironment and Public tionalized currency; agenda. Works Committee approved S 757, the bill The fact Japanese capital markets contin No matter what else they do, though, it now awaiting floor debate, by a 15 to one ue to have restraints; and seems to be the three matters I've reviewed margin last July. The fact non-Japanese access to the Japa today surely must be at the top of their Last Thursday, an aide to Sen. Lautenberg nese financial sector is very limited. lists • • • and this fair city seems a most said that the letter to be sent Senate Major It's in your interest-and ours-to support appropriate place to suggest this. As you ity Leader Howard Baker Robert Stafford there is another spectre, briefly future. Therefore, a federally en Last, and most disturbingly, are the but significantly mentioned by the Presi forced, coastwide moratorium can be latest statistics on our "other defi dent. He referred to the fact that subversion instituted without unfairly punishing in Salvador had caused 400,000 refugees. cit"-the U.S. trade imbalance. The There are another 800,000 refugees all over fishermen in New York and Connecti Commerce Department reports the Central America. cut. U.S. merchandise trade deficit reached "Concerns about the prospect of hundreds Many scientists speculate that the $12.2 billion last month. The annual of thousands of refugees fleeing communist Hudson is not alone in its population deficit for 1984 is now projected at a oppression to seek entry into our country of stripers with high PCB levels. Some staggering $130 billion. Today's head are well founded", Mr. Reagan said. Com have even suggested that not one line read: "Trade Deficit Mounting at pared to the private misgivings in the Ad striper along the entire east coast can ministration that was an understatement. Twice 1983 Pace." Officials fear that continuing subversion of meet the 2-ppm standard. In light of Mr. Speaker, these may be separate the 100 million people who live between the the FDA's action, I call on the scientif developments, but they are all related Panama Canal and the US/Mexican border ic community to provide detailed evi and they add up to one alarming fact. could provoke a massive domestic upheaval dence of the PCB levels of fish in the The world economy is on a collision within the United States itself. They think Roanoke River, Chesapeake Bay, and course. The vehicle for this disaster that it is only a matter of time before Cen Narragansett Bay. If the fish in these ride is the Federal budget. Unless Con tral American stability creates an influx of rivers do not meet the new standard, gress and the White House take posi refugees traveling north through Mexico which could amount to millions if the insta then a coastwide, commercial morato tive action, the impending credit bility had by then also infected Mexico. rium will go into effect without con crunch may well precipitate a collapse Such an influx could not be tolerated within gressional action. of the Nation's money center banks. the United States, but since the border with Pity the plight of the striped bass. At that point it may be too late for Mexico is currently manned by only 600 cus The fish is being polluted to death on corrective action. toms officials, how could it be prevented? one hand, and overfished on the other. Time is running out for the Presi The Administration calculates that it would It is time for the Federal Government dent and this Congress to act.e take at least eight divisions to police such a border properly in conditions of major to act. I hope that my distinguished social disturbance. colleagues on the House Merchant America's allies in Nato might ponder seri Marine Committee will soon report my IN HONOR OF JOSEPH H. ously on the fact that there is only one Federal moratorium proposal to the WEISMAN place those divisions could come from: floor, so that the entire Congress can Europe. Such a strategic prize as the Ameri have the opportunity to save this mag can detachment from Europe would be well nificent fish before it is too late.e HON. MEL LEVINE worth the 5 billion dollar annual subsidy OF CALIFORNIA which the Soviet Union currently extends IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to Cuba.e OMINOUS ECONOMIC SIGNS Thursday, May 31, 1984 NEW FDA RULES AND THE HON. DON BONKER • Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. STRIPED BASS OF WASHINGTON Speaker, I rise today in honor of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Joseph H. Weisman, a beloved friend of mine and of my family, who will be HON. CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER Thursday, May 31, 1984 OF RHODE ISLAND honored on the occasion of his 75th e Mr. BONKER. Mr. Speaker, this birthday at the Jewish Homes for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES morning's Washington Post business Aging of Greater Los Angeles' Dia Thursday, May 31, 1984 section carried four articles that ought mond Jubilee Ball on June 10, 1984. e Mrs. SCHNEIDER. Mr. Speaker, to concern all Members of the House. As Joe Weisman turns 75, it is an last week the Food and Drug Adminis They provide ominous signs that the honor and a privilege for me to share tration released new require economy is feeling the strains of the a few of his many accomplishments ments for acceptable levels of poly administration's large budget deficits with my colleagues. chlorinated biphenyls eers. He was imburse Rockland County for all rea New York, Baton Rouge, Albuquerque instrumental in the establishment of sonable expenses incurred in connec or the like would probably stir in rec optometric referral clinic, the so-called tion with the Brink's robbery trial. ognition at the mention of the name Atlanta project, and the development The Federal Government has a clear Takamiyama. Yet, here we have an of technicians programs in the schools interest in seeing this case prosecuted American-born son who was truly cut of optometry. to the fullest extent of the law, and in from a special mold. He had the cour Dr. Eure has contributed greatly to fact conferred with Rockland County age to attempt something that others optometric literature for over 25 years, attorneys in this matter. It was agreed would not even begin to dream about. as shown by the attached list. The that because State penalties were He had the ability and dedication to many honors and awards he has re more stringent than the Federal, achieve goals that none had ever ceived span a period of four decades. Rockland County should prosecute reached. And he possesses the kind of Dr. Eure has truly played a major these terrorists. The Federal Govern dignity and humility that adds that role in raising the level of optometric ment now bears the responsibility of extra measure of luster to all he has education and the profession itself. seeing to it that justice is achieved on done with his life. Without question, Dr. Eure's efforts two fronts: the successful prosecution The people of the United States, not have contributed greatly to the re of members of the Weather Under just those of Hawaii, have reason to be spect and recognition optometry ground, and the reimbursement of proud of Jesse Kuhaulua "Taka enjoys today. Rockland County residents, who have miyama." In a way in which most I would like to ask my colleagues in shouldered these enormous and un Americans are unaware, he has the House to join with me in saluting ending costs. brought great honor to our country.e the life's work of Dr. Eure and wish Mr. Speaker, I insert the full text of him a very pleasurable and rewarding this legislation at this point in the RETIREMENT OF DR. SPURGEON retirement.e REcoRD, and I urge my colleagues to EURE support us in this endeavor: GILMAN AGAIN SEEKS RELIEF H.R. 5763 HON. HAROLD E. FORD FOR BRINK'S TRIAL COSTS Be it enacted by the Senate and House of OF TENNESSEE Representatives of the United States of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES America in Congress assembled, That the HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN Attorney General of the United States Thursday, May 31, 1984 OF NEW YORK the cost of prosecuting the defendants; expand resources for the education of the extensive length of these trials, as <2> the cost of providing and maintaining well as the added security precautions courtroom security in these criminal ac optometry, improvement in curricu tions; and lum and upgrading of school facilities. that have been taken in each locale, <3> the cost of ensuring and maintaining Construction grants were awarded to the interim price tag of the Brink's the safety and security of the defendants the University of Houston College of trial is now estimated at more than $6 and the residents of the State of New York Optometry, Southern California Col million. Final costs are as yet un in connection with these criminal actions. lege of Optometry, and Illinois College known, since prosecution continues to SEc. 2. The Government of Rockland of Optometry, thanks to Dr. Eure's this very day. County shall keep accurate and detailed hard work and influence, In addition, New York State law proscribes that records pertaining to all reasonable ex it was Dr. Eure's efforts that obtained all costs associated with a criminal penses incurred in connection with these trials. Such records shall remain subject to the construction grant for the estab prosecution must be borne by the audit and examination by the Attorney lishment of the University of Alabama county in which the crime was com General and Comptroller General of the School of Optometry. mitted. This means that Rockland citi United States for three years after the date Dr. Eure was instrumental in the es zens must reimburse both Orange and of enactment of this Act. Following the tablishing of State funding for stu- Westchester Counties for their shares completion of each criminal action de- 14772 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1984- scribed in Section 1, the Government of A PLEA TO THE SOVIET PLUGGING LEAKS Rockland County shall submit to the Attor GOVERNMENT ney General a final and detailed report dis closing all reasonable expenses incurred in HON.HENRYJ.HYDE connection with these criminal actions. The HON. ALAN WHEAT OF ILLINOIS Attorney General shall examine each report OF MISSOURI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and determine the amount of reimburse ment for which Rockland County is eligible IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, May 31, 1984 under this Act. Thursday, May 31, 1984 • Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, in October SEc. 3. There are hereby authorized to be 1982, one of the intelligence communi appropriated for any fiscal year beginning • Mr. WHEAT. Mr. Speaker, I am ty's most respected alumni, Adm. on or after October 1, 1984, such sums as proud to join my colleagues by partici Bobby Inman teen factories have closed and 2,000 to keep its citizens from praying as Under the polarizing pressure of differ jobs in direct manufacturing have they wish. America has long been a ences over U.S. policy toward Central Amer been lost. I have over a dozen shoe symbol of freedom for the oppressed ica, the congressional oversight designed to manufacturers in my district, and I peoples of the world. It is important keep the intelligence agencies honest is coming apart at the seams. have seen the impact of the recent that we reaffirm our commitment to Reagan officials and the CIA leadership surge of imports in my district as I am this basic principle. place primary responsibility for a series of sure many of you have as well. In I strongly urge the Soviet Govern damaging leaks on covert-action operations order to combat the serious injury to ment to end its attempts to destroy on the congressional watchdog committees the industry's economic health, I take the Jewish religion and culture in and particularly on their staffs. For their this opportunity to urge the Interna their country. With the recent change part, the Senate and House Intelligence tional Trade Commission to carefully in power in the Soviet Union, it is an Committees claim they have not been kept appropriate time to renew our efforts. "fully and currently" informed. They main examine the evidence submitted in tain they would have opposed the covert support of the nonrubber footwear in And I ask my colleagues to join in a re mining operation successfully if advised dustry's 201 petition.e newed united front to assist the brave promptly, as the law requires. men and women who because of their Whoever may be to blame, there is unani courage are suffering from increased mous agreement that relations between the Soviet oppression.e legislative and executive branches never May 31, 1981,. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14773 have been worse on the question of how to been allowed to be transformed into a hard BUCKS COUNTY VIETNAM ensure effective congressional review of ening police state, its escape from the Soviet VETERANS HONORED secret intelligence operations. Both adminis orbit is rarely possible. · tration and CIA officials are bitterly resent Hoping to avoid continuing confrontation ful of deliberate leaks to the press they is this vital area of foreign policy decision HON. PETER H. KOSTMA YER think can only come from individual mem making, cooler heads in the administration OF PENNSYLVANIA bers and staffers of the two intelligence and moderates of both parties in Congress IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES committees. are beginning to think through the reforms A single authoritative news leak often can Thursday, May 31, 1984 be enough to destroy or terminate even the in procedures and institutions that might e Mr. KOSTMAYER. Mr. Speaker, 3 best-planned covert action. The congression enable the United States to conduct covert operations both responsibly and securely. days ago on Memorial Day, the United al staffer, who chooses to reveal anony States interred the Unknown Soldier mously to the press details of such an oper There is, for example, growing senatorial ation, wields the destructive power of a support for periodic lie detector tests as a of the Vietnam war at Arlington Na secret personal veto over national security condition for continuing employment on the tional Cemetery. This American serv policy. staffs of the intelligence committees. These iceman, known only to God, represents The confirmation by Sen. Jesse Helms R staffers carry in their heads more sensitive those who gave their lives for this N.C. of CIA involvement in the Salvadoran information than most CIA employees, who country and for those things for which election is only the most publicized of many all are required to take the tests. Adminis it stands. such damaging disclosures, and there has trated by the FBI in this case, these period The recognition of those lost in Viet been no sign yet of any effective punish ic polygraph checks would not be a total nam, both known and unknown, serves ment to discourage the practice. As one of guarantee of security but they would act as as a reminder to us of the 30,000 the intelligence chiefs remarked, "Congres a powerful deterrent to the temptation to sional oversight has become a device Bucks Countians who served in Viet leak. nam. through which to impose massive losses on Also, there is growing awareness among ourselves." Mr. Speaker, 133 were killed and 3 Understandable fear of policy sabotage by the elected members of both committees are still missing from Bucks County, calculated lead has led in turn to CIA offi that they have allowed too much of there Pa. On June 16, 1984, the Bucks cials becoming reluctant to supply staffers sponsibility for oversight to fall into the hands of assistants. Too much authority has County Vietnam War Memorial will be with advance detail on operations. This has dedicated in Doylestown, Pa., and will fed the fires of congressional suspicion that been delegated to too many unelected staff their access to essential information is being ers who have their own axes to grind. By record the names of the 136 coura deliberately obstructed. limiting the number of other assignments geous citizens who have not returned CIA Director William Casey has written a they can hold, the members of the intelli from Vietnam. tough letter to the committees complaining gence committees can find the time to exer Mr. Speaker, this memorial is a reali of excessive legislative intrusion. In reac cise personal responsibility, and, on sensi ty only because of the dedication and tion, congressional staffers are busily draft tive issues, a case can be made for excluding hard work of the Bucks County Viet ing new procedural rules that will define in the staff entirely. nam War Memorial Committee which debilitating detail when and how the CIA For his part, the CIA director has to be is chaired by Vietnam veteran Daniel must inform the Congress in advance of any willing to meet this reform movement half Fraley. This memorial will continue to covert action. way. Mr. Casey has to be ready to spend remind us of those 136 Bucks Coun The executive and legislative branches more time on the Hill and to be more forth seem to be on a collision course in their at tians who died for us or are still miss tempt to solve the oversight dilemma. In coming in his briefings when there is evi ing. This memorial will further serve the process, the U.S. government could lose dence of a serious commitment to improve as an expression of the love, honor, the capacity to respond effectively to the security. and commitment we in Bucks County Soviet threat that is most immediate and In the American democracy, some form of accord to our Vietnam veterans, both menacing. congressional oversight of the secret power living and dead. In the absence of a covert-action capabil of intelligence is inevitable and necessary. ity, the United States would have no means The problem is to prevent Congress from It is with great honor that I place in of giving discreet and timely assistance to destroying what it seeks to oversee.e the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the names its democratic allies in the Third World and hometowns of the 136 Vietnam when they are threatened by Soviet and veterans which will be inscribed on the Cuban proxies. Once a small country has Bucks County Vietnam War Memorial:
Date of- Name Rank Service City Birth casualty
1963: lielmanis, Atis Karl is...... 1lT AF 2 Jan 39 24 Nov 63 Quakertown. 1965: AF 18 Apr 30 16 Dec 65 Doylestown. r;~;~, ~or:.~~-~-~.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~ MC 8 Oct 45 18 Dec 65 Une Lexington. TICe, Fred Rost ...... CAPT AF 16 Dec 31 18 Sep 65 Une Lexington. Yatsko, Joseph Paul Jr ...... 1LT AR 3 Mar 42 18 Dec 65 Levittown. 1966: Adams, Robert Lee Jr ...... 2LT AR 15 Oct 43 4 Nov 66 Levittown. Cope, Stanley Smith Jr ...... PFC MC 2 Oct 46 27 Oct 66 Sellersville. Daloia, John Francis 111 ...... PFC AR 1 Oct 47 7 Oct 66 Penndel. Detrixhe, James B. W...... ~ ...... CAPT AR 25 Nov 40 24 Feb 66 Fairless Hills. AR 6 Apr 47 25 Mar 66 Eddi on. ~ef&rr~~~:~~~~. :::::: :::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : :::::::: ~~ AR 11 Apr 43 28 Jun 66 Brist1 . Hennessy, Daniel A...... 1LT AR 4 Jun 43 28 Dec 66 Newtown. NA 23 Sept 28 Jan 66 Bristol. =~~\a~IIE~~;~.::::::::: : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::: :::::::::: ::: ::::::::::::::::: : :: : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: J~ AR 26 Mar 47 8 Nov 66 Sellersville. AR 27 Dec 47 3 Jul 66 Oakford. AR 11 May 34 11 Feb 66 Levittown. t~=:e~ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: m AR 21 ~41 28 Jun 66 Bristol. Sanford, John Francis ...... lLT AR 19 F 42 7Feb 66 Coopersburg. AR 14 Dec 36 25 Aug 66 Bristol. = . ~~er~ia~ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~T AR 22 Feb 42 10 Jan 66 Levittown. Thornton, Rodney Gardner ...... SGT MC 19 Jan 41 5 Oct 66 Croydon. Wellings, Edward Alfred...... PFC MC 14 Dec 43 21 Sep 66 Warrington. 1967: MC 26 Jun 38 30 Apr 67 Wrightstown. t:la~r~=;cc :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~T AR 11 Aug 46 27 Apr 67 Hulmeville. cantu, Emesto Soliz...... SP4 AR 28 Feb 47 20 Nov 67 Bristol. AR 20 Oct 43 29 Dec 67 Bristol. ~~~ :::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::: :::: :::::: :::::::::::::::::::: : ::::::: : : : :::::::: : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: ::::::: : ::::::: : :::::::::::::::::::: ~T AR 27 Mar 34 26 Feb 67 Neshaminy. Decker, David John...... CAPT AR 30 Aug 37 19 Nov 67 Yardley. Dougherty, Theodore Aloyis ...... •...... SGT AR 11 Nov 26 24 Nov 67 Cornwells Heights. 14774 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1984
Date of- Name Rank Service City Birth casualty
Downey, Clay Edward ...... SGT AR 16 Aug 46 12 Feb 67 Bristol. AR 10 Dec 43 22 Feb 67 New Hope. AR 30 Jan 43 28 Jun 67 Ivyland. ~:~~,:~ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: m AR 30 Jul 46 25 May 67 Bristol. Holland, David Herman ...... PFC MC 27 May 48 21 May 67 Springtown. lgoe, William John ...... PFC AR 15 Oct 46 11 Jul 67 Warrington. MC 28 Aug 48 3 Jun 67 Croydon. ~~R~~a~~~1; :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::: : :::::::::::: gt MC 11 Jan 46 20 May 67 Yardley. Morris, Walter F...... CWO AR 27 Jun 43 26 Apr 67 Feasterville. Newby, Frederick Albert Jr ...... lCPl MC 12 Jul 46 6 Aug 67 Feasterville. NA 27 Dec 45 29 Jul 67 Richboro. AR 24 May 47 16 Dec 67 levittown. $~:£sR5: : :::::::::::: :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : ::::::: :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : :::::: :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::r~l MC 4 Mar 47 11 Aug 67 levittown. Scott, Robert l...... WO AR 20 Sep 47 25 Aug 67 Churchville. AR 17 Jan 46 25 Dec 67 Comwells Heights. MC 21 Dec 46 8 Apr 67 langhorne. ~~~::~~1~~~:: ~~ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~ MC 14 Nov 49 2 Jun 67 New Britain. Smith, Robert Harold ...... SP4 AR 27 Oct 46 24 Jan 67 Warminster. Thomas, Frank Herbert Jr...... PFC MC 18 Jan 47 30 Mar 67 levittown. Williams, John Kirby ...... SW3 NA 21 Jun 43 9 Aug 67 New Britain. Wilson, Harry Conrad II ...... SP4 AR 23 Dec 46 18 Nov 67 Richboro. Worman, Kenneth Glen ...... PFC AR 21 Apr 47 22 May 67 Perkasie. 1968: Barr, William James ...... HN NA 22 Sep 48 16 Jul 68 Warminster. Beaumont, Warren Martin ...... PFC AR 24 Nov 48 12 ~ 68 Biers, Edward Nelson ...... PFC MC 25 Nov 47 23 ay 68 ~~f~~ills . Bezenski, Steven Michael ...... SP5 AR 25 Oct 45 26 Mar 68 levittown. Breece, William Warren, Jr ...... WO AR 3 May 48 5 Dec 68 Morrisville. NA 3 Jan 36 22 Feb 68 Penndel. MC 31 May 36 28 Jul 68 Richboro. ~~~~;. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::: : :: :::::::::::::::::: :::: :: :::::::::: :::::: ~~ MC 15 Nov 47 11 Oct 68 langhorne. Ciesielka, Michael J., Jr ...... llT AR 23 Jan 48 9 Dec 68 Eddington. Clampffer, Robert lee ...... CPl AR 26 Sep 47 6 May 68 Cornwells Heights. Cunnane, Dennis Thomas ...... PFC MC 19 Jun 48 31 Jan 68 levittown. D'Amico, Philip Anthony, Jr ...... PFC MC 28 Sep 49 18 Aug 68 Morrisville. 111 AR 3 Dec 49 21 May 68 levittown. l:rs.~~~~~ .. ...:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: r~~l MC 5 ~r 49 25 Apr 68 Cornwell Heights. Dunlap, John Turner 111...... 2lT AR 16 eb 46 29 Apr 68 Feasterville. Guest, James Walker ...... PFC AR 7 Apr 46 20 Feb 68 levittown. AR 28 Jan 47 11 Jul 68 Warminster. ~:~~~.on~Wen~·~~f :: : ::::: : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~l MC 18 Nov 48 14 Dec 68 Croydon. Hille, Frank Elton ...... SSGT AR 10 Apr 30 9 Feb 68 Danboro. Holland, Gary David ...... PFC AR 5 Sep 44 9 Feb 68 Quakertown. Kaleikini, Theodore K., Jr ...... SGT AR 31 May 45 18 Jan 68 levittown. ~John Michael ...... CPl AR 12 Jan 48 16 Sep 68 Andalusia. AR 21 Dec 47 31 Aug 68 Warminster. MC 4 Mar 49 28 May 68 Quakertown. :rf:a·r.:~:!:~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : : : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::: ::::: ::::::::::::::::: : : :::::::::::::::::::::: :: :::::::::::::::: ~~ AR 23 Jul 47 18 .g 68 Quakertown. Neill, Terry Thomas Patrick ...... CPl AR 25 Oct 48 23 Jun 68 Bristol. Porter, James Frank ...... PFC AR 15 Jun 46 31 Jan 68 Warrington. Radecki, Philip~ ...... AlC AF 16 Apr 47 7 May 68 Andalusia. AR 12 Aug 48 3 Mar 68 Bristol. MC 18 Nov 49 17 Jul 68 Feasterville. AR 10 Oct 46 13 May 68 Fairless Hills. a~~rr. ::~ :::::::·:::::::.: __ ··:::_·.:::::::·.··:··::::::::.::·::::::::::::::-::·· .. ·:::··::_:·:-::::::.·:::::.·:·:·::::::.::.:::_·_::.·:_:::·::·::_:::·::.:::::·:·::.::·:··i:::-:_=::·::·:i··_.:.::i.:·::::-:::·· ~~ MC 6 Nov 47 21 Sep 68 Gardenville. AR 23 May 43 26 Jan 68 Bristol. AR 18 Oct 48 14 Apr 68 levittown. ~~~1J~:~~ :::~ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: : :::: :::::::::::::: m AR 25 Dec 49 9 May 68 Plumsteadville. Weaver, Ronald lee ...... PFC AR 9 May 46 23 Feb 68 Quakertown. Weintraub, Neil William ...... PFC MC 26 Dec 49 22 Jun 68 York, larry lee ...... CPl AR 16 Dec 47 1 Jun 68 ~~~~~~~~ts . 1969: Adams, Dennis Michael ...... PFC AR 15 Aug 47 28 Feb 69 Andalusia. aickner, lee Fulton ...... llT AR 18 May 45 25 Oct 69 26 Jul 43 28 Oct 69 ~~t~~ - 18 Jul 48 8 May 69 levittown. ;:~h~~~:~ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: J~~ . ~~ 11 Aug 50 17 May 69 levittown. 7 Aug 50 10 Aug 69 Qoylestown. ~:V.'>;:~Idl~lliaiii ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : ::::::::: : ::::::::::::::::::::::::: : :::::::::::::::::::::: : :::::::::::: : :::::::: : ::::::::::::::::::::: : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: J~~ :~ 22 Dec 48 23 Feb 69 Bnstol. 8 Jun 48 27 Feb 69 Bristol. 5 Jul 49 29 Oct 69 langhorne. ~rrS~l~ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~1 ~ 23 41 26 Mar 69 Croyt!on. Laveuoli, Paul Richard...... 2lT AR 26 tar 44 25 Nov 69 levittown. McDonnell, William Herber ...... •...... WO AR 16 Mar 49 24 Jan 69 Newtown. McDowell, laurence Thomas...... CPl AR 21 Jun 50 29 Sep 69 levittown. McGinnis, Michael Brian ...... PFC MC 11 Aug 49 17 Sep 49 levittown. Pastorino, Michael Anthony ...... SP4 AR 23 ~ 49 17 Nov 69 Southhampton. Patton, David Alan ...... PFC MC 24 ay 49 7 Jun 69 Bristol. Wunsch, Michael Charles...... CAPT MC 16 Mar 44 28 Jul 69 Feasterville. 1970: Bloshichak, John Rodman ...... lCPL MC 23 Aug 51 19 Jun 70 levittown. AR 13 Nov 41 Ivyland. ~na~1~:S~ag~tj; ·:::::::::: : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: .. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: .. ::::::::::::::: ~~T NA 22 Nov 49 FJ~a~JO levittown. C3ucci, Steven Richard ...... PFC AR 15 Sep 49 5 Aug 70 Fairless Hills. DeWalt, Viclor Monroe ...... ~ ...... lCPl MC 11 Sep 49 10 Nov 70 Revere. AR 23 Apr 40 7 Sep 70 Cornwells Hei~hts . AR 24 Nov 49 7 Jan 70 Upper Black ddy. AR 7 Sep 51 29 Jun 70 levittown. AR 10 Feb 48 27 Sep 70 Churchville. AR 27 Dec 49 1 May 70 Newtown. AR 29 Aug 41 9 May 70 Warminster. AR 7 Mar 40 17 ~ 70 Bristol. AR 13 Sep 49 27 ay 70 Newtown. MC 6 Feb 48 22 May 70 levittown. AR 23 Aug 45 29 May 70 Souderton. AR 10 Apr 52 28 Jul 70 Yardley. AR 6 Sep 50 2 Sep 70 Cornwells Heights. AR 18 Jan 46 4 Jan 70 levittown. AR 31 May 47 28 Mar 70 Bristol. 1971: AR 8 Jul 45 7 Mar 71 levittown. AR 11 Sep 52 18 Oct 71 Sellersville. AR 9 Aug 48 1 Oct 71 lahaska. AR 4 Jun 47 26 Jan 71 Warminster. ~.JBE :;;;;;:;;;;;;;; ;; ::;: ; ;; : : ; : :: ;; J AR 6 Feb 50 11Feb71 Warminster. May 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14775
Date of- Name Rank Service City Birth Casualty
McDonald, Martin Terrance ...... SGT AR 15 Dec 50 10 Ape 71 ~home . :Vasey, William Charles ...... LT NA 2 Nov 44 7 Jan 71 town. 1972 Longfellow, Ronald Anthony ...... •...... •...... •....••.....••...... •...... •.•.....•...... SP4 AR 22 Sep 51 19 Jan 72 Chalfont. MIA:' AF 20 May 41 8 Aug 67 Quakertown. AF 2 Mar 40 29 Dec 67 Quakertown. ~~~~1~~~~£:=~ :~.;~~:~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Wr AF 29 Aug 46 25 Ape 71 Richboro. 1 Taken from records of U.S. Archives, March 11, 1982.e
FOOTWEAR IMPORTS ital resources, and made "infrastruc break the task down into manageable ture" a fitting item for the front cover proportions. HON. BERYL ANTHONY, JR. of Newsweek, and feature of U.S. News The bill I introduce today will not OF ARKANSAS & World Report and Time magazine. solve the entire multitrillion-dollar in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Since those halcyon days of a year frastructure problem in this country. Thursday, May 31, 1984 or two ago, infrastructure has slipped Nor can Federal grants do the job from the front pages-except when a alone. I expect that the bill which ulti e Mr. ANTHONY. Mr. Speaker, im bridge collapses, or a road turns into a mately comes to the House floor will ports have severely injured the domes bombscape of potholes. But the prob have a loan provision as well as grants, tic footwear industry in the United lem has not disappeared with the but we will need to explore all forms States, and a serious effort must be headlines, and while my colleagues on of financing, including the private made to institute a comprehensive the Public Works and Transportation bond market, and many other innova import control program. Committee have reported two major tive means of financing. I am a member of the footwear bills with loan provisions for water caucus and am cognizant of the vari I am convinced, however, that a ous problems that this industry has supply and waste water treatment sys grant program to help distressed areas been experiencing during the last one tems, we still do not have before the repair and improve their infrastruc and a half decades. The footwear in Congress a comprehensive program to ture is a necessary component of a dustry is extremely important to the rehabilitate, repair and renovate our more comprehensive approach to the economic well-being of small town portfolio of public capital resources. overall problem. America. In my district and through The legislation I propose today The importance of maintaining our out the State of Arkansas, many work would provide the seeds of that overall public capital portfolio goes beyond ers have become permanently unem program, as a companion to the Na eradication of potholes and patching ployed. In the first 2 months of 1984, tional Public Works Corporation, H.R. of pipe. The future economic well 16 additional plants have closed in the 2419, introduced by my colleague, Mr. being of our country depends on United States, and at least 2,000 jobs Clinger, and other proposals being sound, adequate public capital facili in manufacturing have been lost. considered by the Public Works Com ties, the underpinning for all our pri This industry has made a Herculean mittee. vate endeavors. Private productivity, effort to modernize .in order to more As the initial multitrillion-dollar cost which is the quintessential element in effectively compete with foreign firms. estimates were announced, I asked the keeping our Nation preeminent as an Despite these efforts, the imported U.S. Conference of Mayors and the economic force in the world, depends products have taken increasingly League of Cities to survey their mem ultimately on public productivity. In larger portions of the market. bers, to determine, first, how cities dustry and business cannot expand, Recently, the Footwear Industries of handle their infrastructure decision and certainly would not locate, in com America, the Amalgamated Clothing making and financing and, second, the munities where water and sewer capac & Textile Workers, AFL-CIO, and the condition of municipal public facilities ity are not adequate, and where raw United Food & Commercial Workers around the country. materials and finished products International Union, .AFL-CIO filed a The results were heartening. The cannot be easily or competitively petition under section 201 of the survey, "Capital Budgeting and Infra transported. Trade Act of 1974, before the Interna structure in American Cities: an Initial Today, as many as half to three tional Trade Commission. I support Assessment," indicated that over 90 quarters of our communities cannot the industry and the unions in their percent of those 800 cities responding expand because their infrastructure is efforts to obtain import relief by es do use some sort of capital budgeting inadequate to accommodate new tablishing quantitative restrictions on or some similar orderly decisionmak growth. nonrubber footwear imports for a 5- ing process. Further, the survey indi The bill I introduce today has two year period.e cated that infrastructure is a national purposes: One, to protect our priceless issue, which is important in all regions existing investment in public capital, PUBLIC PRODUCTIVITY ACT: A of the country, not just the older ones. which American citizens have built SPECIFIC INFRASTRUCTURE It also revealed that cities' infrastruc with their tax dollars over the entire PROPOSAL ture needs vary widely, although pri life of this country, by reversing the orities cluster in a relatively few gen neglect and declining investment of HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR eral categories such as streets and the last several decades; and two, to roads, waste water treatment, storm prevent future neglect, by assisting OF :MINNESOTA water collection and sewers. Cities owners and operators of public facili IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vary greatly in their ability to finance ties to establish long-term capital im Thursday, May 31, 1984 infrastructure needs, and these needs provement programs to assure mainte e Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, it cannot be met in many cases without nance and upkeep of this great re has been 3 years since the book Federal and State assistance. source. "America in Ruins," by Pat Choate Most important, however, the survey The Infrastructure Improvement and Susan Walters, first raised to na showed that while infrastructure and Public Productivity Act of 1984 is tional consciousness the deteriorating needs are great, we should not be par a multiyear, one-shot catchup pro condition of our Nation's public cap- alyzed by their magnitude. We can gram to assist owners and operators of 14776 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1984 public capital in restoring private pro veloped by the agencies, the bill would new construction would be permitted ductivity by upgrading local public fa use the ACIR's most recent version. only where no similar facilities already cilities and making them more produc Tax effort, which measures the over exist. Funds could also be used to sup tive. This bill would provide $2 billion all tax burden a State places on its tax plement a grant for a similar project . per year in grants, on a 50-50 match base-tax capacity-would be similarly made under another Federal program ing basis, to distressed areas to repair, derived. The capacity measure per as long as the total Federal share did renovate, reconstruct or construct tains only to the level of economic re not exceed 80 percent. public facilities which contribute to sources in any State, resources that Further, to assure that facilities re that area's economic growth and de are potentially taxable, whether or paired under this program are not al velopment. not the particular State actually taxes lowed to deteriorate, the bill requires Eligible recipients would be owners those resources. Tax effort is the ratio that the project and all its costs, in and operators of economic develop of a State's actual tax collections to its cluding operating and maintenance ment-related public facilities: States, tax capacity. costs, have been included in the cap counties, townships, municipalities, Therefore, my formula would make ital improvement program which this and special districts such as water and capacity in inverse proportion to the bill requires as a prerequisite to fund sewer districts and port authorities. other factors. ing. Funds would be apportioned to The final fraction in the formula I also have targeted projects which reward States and other levels of gov would be capital expenditures, as de will expand the economic base of a ernment which are making the great termined by the Secretary of Com community, promote economic diversi merce, based on the 3 most recent ty, or enhance economic development est effort to preserve their own public years by State and local government, facilities; and to target areas where from non-Federal funding sources. opportunities of its area, and will sub the needs are the greatest. · Capital expenditures are defined as stantially contribute to the economic The bill looks to the future in its es the average general expenditures for development of the area. tablishment of a pattern of capital capital outlays. The data on expendi The bill further requires that funds budgeting and capital improvement tures are collected by the Bureau of be apportioned fairly between urban programing, so that, once an area has the Census for publication in "Govern and rural areas. caught up with its deferred infrastruc mental Finances." The second major innovative feature ture needs, it will not go back to its old Each of these four factors would be of this bill is the capital budgeting and ways of doing business, and allow its expressed as ratios of each State's capital improvement program require newly refurbished facilities to deterio share to the national total. ments I referred to above. This is an rate again. A set-aside would be taken off the extremely important element of the This is an ambitious bill, and I do top of the appropriation, prior to allo program, in that it is the means to not pretend that it is the final prod cation, of one-fourth of 1 percent for assure that owners and operators will uct. Rather, I introduce it as the sub Puerto Rico, and another one-fourth establish and maintain an orderly ject of what I anticipate will be an ex of 1 percent for the territories, to be schedule for protecting their capital tensfve and lively debate. I will wel apportioned by population. plant. come comment from all sides on it, At the substate level, funds would be Once funds have been allocated to and will deal with these comments divided roughly on the basis of each the States, the Governor is required to both during the hearing process of the level of government's proportionate set aside 1 percent of that allocation Subcommittee on Economic Develop share of capital spending within the for capital budgeting and capital im ment, which I chair, and in any other State; that is, by the State itself, coun provement programs. The State itself, forum. ties, townships, municipalities, and and any local governments, could re The formula, I expect, will elicit the special districts. Data on such expendi ceive a grant on a one-time basis to de most comment. The State-by-State al tures, by State and local governments, velop a capital improvement program. locations are made on a four-part for are gathered by the Census Bureau for The National Council on Govern mula which reflects population, fiscal the publication "Governmental Fi mental Accounting has defined the capacity, tax effort and capital ex nances." capital improvements program as: penditures. Projects would have to be located in, A plan for capital expenditures to be in Fiscal capacity would be determined curred each year over a fixed period of or substantially benefit, an area which years to meet capital needs arising from the by means of the representative tax is eligible for assistance under the long-term work program or otherwise. It system to be developed by the Secre urban development action grant pro sets forth each project or other contemplat tary of Commerce on consultation gram in the Department of Housing ed expenditure in which the local govern with the Secretaries of Treasury and and Urban Development. Small cities ment is to have a part and specifies the full Interior, the Comptroller General and currently eligible for UDAG assistance resources estimated to be available to fi the Advisory Commission on Intergov were published in the Federal Register nance the projected expenditures. ernmental Relations. It would be simi on February 13, 1984. A list of eligible Capital improvement programs vary lar to the RTS described in the March large cities and urban counties was from the simple to the extremely com 1982, report by the ACIR entitled published on February 9, 1984. More plex, depending on the size of the gov "Tax Capacity of the Fifty States: than 10,000, or about 56 percent, of ernmental unit and the sophistication Methodology and Estimates." smaller communities and over 400, or of the participants. The CIP is usually The RTS method defines "tax ca roughly 51 percent, of municipalities for 5 to 6 years. Capital improvements pacity" as the amount of revenue that meet the distress standards using the programing is the multiyear schedul each State would raise if every State UDAG criteria. The UDAG formula ing of capital improvements for a com applied identical tax rates to each of also includes so-called pockets of pov munity based on agreed-upon . prior 26 commonly used tax bases, including erty in wealthy and therefore other ities, available funding sources, and sales taxes, license taxes, individual wise ineligible communities. I used the local financing capabilities. The cap income and corporate income taxes, UDAG formula because, in addition to ital improvements program includes a property taxes, estate and gift taxes, traditional indicators of economic dis list of all proposed capital improve and severance taxes. tress, it contains an age of housing cri ments ranked in order of priority, an I realize that the RTS does not in terion, which would seem a good sur identification of all possible funding clude user fees and other equally valid rogate for age of infrastructure. sources, an analysis of the financing measures of · tax effort, and recom Funds could be used for the con capability of the local government, mend that these be included in the struction, renovation, reconstruction, and a schedule or timetable for devel RTS as well. Until the final RTS is de- and repair of public facilities; however, opment. May 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14777 In many cases, the first year of the the conditions in their permits-often 16 years. He is a highly acclaimed pio CIP is called the capital budget, which because of excessive industrial inputs. neer in the use of interferon along refers to those capital improvements According to a General Accounting with other therapies in the treatment that are programed for the next fiscal Office study, 31 percent of the treat of cancer, and is presently in the year. A capital budget can generally be ment plants it surveyed were in "sig United States seeking citizenship. thought of as the link between the nificant noncompliance" with their Dr. Medenica was appointed by the longer term capital improvements pro permit requirements. Moreover, treat World Health Organization to serve as gram and the current annual budget ment plant overloading-particularly a member of its Panel of Experts in and appropriation process used by from industrial sources-was a major Cancer. Most recently, he has been ap most governmental units. Most gov cause of this noncompliance. Eliminat pointed scientific consultant at Ros ernmental units update the CIP annu ing the EPA's authority to require ad ally. ditional pretreatment as an enforce well Park Memorial Institute, the Na An important distinction between ment tool will exacerbate municipal tion's oldest and one of its most pres the capital budget and the capital im noncompliance problems and increase tigious cancer research facilities, by provements program is that the 1-year pollution caused by discharges of mu Dr. Gerald P. Murphy, president of capital budget is a part of the legally nicipal wastes. the American Cancer Society and in adopted annual operating budget, A continued Federal role is needed stitute director. Dr. Murphy is activity while the longer term capital improve since many municipalities have nei supporting Dr. Medenica's effort to ments program does not have legally ther the will nor the economic re gain U.S. citizenship. binding significance. sources to require major local indus This short recitation of Dr. Medeni A capital improvements program for tries to provide additional pretreat ca's background, however, does not all of the owner-operator's public fa ment of their wastes. even begin to do justice to the count cilities would be a condition for receiv Over $40 billion have been invested less professional accomplishments, di ing funding under this program for in municipal sewage treatment plants agnostic and treatment successes he repair or improvement of a single over the past decade. As a result, has achieved. project or element in that overall pro much progress has been made in cor Mr. Speaker, Dr. Medenica has been gram. recting water pollution problems. But in the United States since February 4, I want to note also that this bill will because many of these plants are not 1984, under parole granted by the U.S. dovetail nicely with the National De operating correctly, our investment Immigration and Naturalization Serv velopment Investment Act, H.R. 10, has not yielded the expected clean ice and is currently residing in South which passed the House last summer water dividends. I feel strongly that Carolina. The Immigration and Natu by a margin of 306 to 113. H.R. 10 re the few enforcement tools available to ralization Service has recently repar quires communities to design develop assist municipalities in meeting the oled Dr. Medenica for humanitarian ment investment strategies as a pre law's requirements must be preserved. reasons because of the critical nature requisite for individual projects. These I cannot, therefore, condone a weaken of his consultations in the treatment strategies will be important compo ing of the Clean Water Act in the of a particular cancer patient whose nents of the capital improvement pro fashion proposed in the bill passed by life expectancy was measured in days grams developed under this legislation. the Public Works Committee.e I put this bill forward to initiate prior to meeting Dr. Medenica in Feb debate on a concrete proposal, and ruary. This particular patient has real look forward to full discussion of all A BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF DR. ized a complete remission of a tumor the issues this legislation raises.e RAJKO MEDENICA that was deemed inoperable, as well as a cessation of pain that necessitated HON. BUTLER DERRICK his taking medication every 2 hours. REVITALIZING THE WATER OF SOUTH CAROLINA Licensed U.S. physicians have QUALITY RENEWAL ACT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES achieved near miraculous results in several other case studies utilizing the HON.THOMASR.CARPER Thursday, May 31, 1984 treatment protocol recommended by OF DELAWARE e Mr. DERRICK. Mr. Speaker, today Dr. Medenica. Because he is not li IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I am introducing a private bill to censed to practice here, Dr. Medenica permit entry into the United States, cannot actually prescribe and super Thursday, May 31, 1984 under permanent resident status, a re vise the administration of medication. e Mr. CARPER. Mr. Speaker, as a co nowned cancer specialist and native of However, his treatment protocol has sponsor of the original Water Quality Yugoslavia, Dr. Rajko Medenica. I am been successfully administered, and in Renewal Act, I am extremely disap pleased to note all of my colleagues in his capacity as a consultant to Roswell pointed with the bill that emerged the South Carolina House delegation Park Memorial Institute at Buffalo, from the Public Works Committee. are original cosponsors of this bill, and Dr. Medenica has already been put in Public opinion polls consistently dem I would note that Senator HoLLINGS charge of a research program at that onstrate a strong interest in cleaner has introduced this measure in the institution. waterways and safe drinking water, Senate for himself and Senator THUR Mr. Speaker, I have always ap but this bill would reverse a decade of MOND. progress in controlling water pollu Mr. Speaker, the plight of Dr. Me proached private immigration bills tion. The bill reported by the commit denica was first brought to my atten with some degree of skepticism. How tee would weaken current law in a tion by the former Governor of South ever, I honestly believe Dr. Medenica's number of critical respects. Carolina, and former Ambassador to experience and expertise holds the I am particularly concerned with one Saudi Arabia, the Honorable John promise of providing a true national weakening provision in the bill that West. Governor West has had person asset to the United States in its war on has the potential to hinder the ability al and direct knowledge of the work of cancer. Dr. Medenica has already es of public sewage treatment plant to Dr. Medenica, and is presently spear tablished a record of success in the comply with the act's requirements. heading an effort to insure permanent United States, and I urge my col This provision removes EPA's author resident status for Dr. Medenica. leagues on the House Judiciary Com ity to require industries to implement Rajko D. Medenica, M.D., Ph. D., mittee to expeditiously consider the additional pretreatment of convention age 45, was born in Montenegro, Yugo admission of Dr. Medenica to the al pollutants when municipal treat slavia, and has lived and practiced United States under permanent resi ment plants are unable to comply with medicine in Switzerland for the past dent status.e 14778 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 31, 1984 H.R. 3282: A GOOD BILL CAN BE organic chemicals per year. EPA has EPA can require additional pretreat MADE BETTER finally issued an enforcement strategy ment of these pollutants by the dis to bring electroplaters into compli charging industry if the treatment HON.JAMESL.OBERSTAR ance. plant is having difficulty meeting its OF MINNESOTA H.R. 3282, which grants them up to permit limits. H.R. 3282 would limit IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a 1-year extension of the current dead enforcement of pretreatment require Thursday, May 31, 1984 line, negates EPA's enforcement strat ments to the municipality, and prohib egy, and rewards a category of indus it enforcement against industrial dis e Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, the try which has dragged its feet, and chargers where the design or oper House will in the very near future con spent its allotted compliance time in ation of the treatment plant are inad- sider H.R. 3282, the Water Quality Re court rather than in implementing newal Act of 1984. . equate. This precludes enforcement cleanup. Rewarding the footdraggers flexibility and would encourage end The bill has many good features, here penalizes the competition within less lawsuits over whether the plant or with strong and needed support for the industry which has installed con industry was at fault, and hopelessly many important programs, such as trols, and sends a signal to other in construction grants, clean lakes, the exacerbate sewage treatment noncom dustries that delay is the best strategy pliance. Chesapeake Bay, estuary protection, as well. and my nonpoint source control provi INTEGRATED FACILITIES STORMWATER RUNOFF FROM CERTAIN sions. I commend the bill's authors FACILITIES EXEMPTED and the Public Works and Transporta Those which combine wastes from tion Committee for their very fine various industrial processes into one Currently, stormwater runoff from work on these and many other sec waste stream, discharge large amounts mining sites and refineries must have tions. . . of such toxic pollutants as lead, chro a permit if it is collected and dis Regrettably, however, in certain spe mium, cyanide, copper and zinc into charged through pipes. H.R. 3282 cific sections, the bill weakens provi sewage treatment plants. Their cur would eliminate permits for these dis sions of the existing Clean Water Act, rent compliance deadline is June 1984. charges if the stormwater does not and undoes the carefully crafted pollu H.R. 3282 would postpone compliance contain toxic pollutants above back tion control strategies worked out by with the first standard for those facili ground levels. Unregulating a regulat previous Congresses and now being im ties for up to a year, and give electro ed activity would remove the only plemented by the Environmental Pro platers an extra year and a half to means of monitoring these dis tection Agency. comply. Again, the need for this meas charges-the permit-and put the A number of colleagues and I intend ure has not been proven to outweigh burden of proof on EPA, not on the to offer amendments on the floor to the environmental damage this addi polluter, in cases where it is very diffi restore the integrity of the Clean tional release of toxics into the envi cult, if not impossible, to determine Water Act, and make H.R. 3282 a bill ronment will cause. background levels of pollutants. in which we all can take pride. REOPENED MINES As a member of the Public Works ALASKA PULPMILLS H.R. 3282 contains a provision which and Transportation Committee, which Pulpmills in the lower 48 States developed this bill, I do not offer these would weaken the Surface Mining Act changes lightly. I do hope that my as well as the Clean Water Act by al have complied with water discharge committee colleagues, as well as the lowing coal mining companies that requirements, at added production other Members of this body, will be want to remine old surface mines to costs. H.R. 3282 would give two mills able to support our amendments, treat only the wastes created by the in Alaska a variance which EPA has which will be available to all before new operation and not any discharges already tentatively denied, and give the bill comes to the floor. However, from · the old site, as required under these same mills not only the right to since neither the committee report nor current law. No need for this type of pollute but an unfair commercial ad the final version of the bill as amend relief has been demonstrated, and it vantage over their good citizen compe ed in full committee is available yet, I would wreak havoc with the streams tition. will limit my remarks today to high and rivers adjacent to coal mining op lighting the provisions of concern. erations. GROUND WATER PROTECTION TEN-YEAR PERMITS Nonpoint source pollution is a major INCREASED FUNDS FOR SPRAWL-CAUSING cause of ground water contamination. Under current law, water pollution COLLECTOR SEWERS discharge permits are issued for 5 In many areas of the country, EDB, years. H.R. 3282 would extend this to H.R. 3282 restores funding eligibility other pesticides, and fertilizers have 10 years, making permits immune, for for collector sewers, the lines which leached into drinking water supplies. a full decade, to modifications needed run from individual homes to the cen The nonpoint source control provi to reflect upgraded water quality tral system. Funding for these sewers sions of H.R. 3282 currently apply standards, or changes in many impor was curtailed in the 1981 amendments, only to surface waters. The authority tant pollution control requirements. to assure that scarce dollars were di of this bill should be broadened to in rected to pollution control, to the clude protection of ground water. While EPA and the States currently treatment plants themselves, rather have a considerable backlog of per than to very costly pipes which have Mr. Speaker, as I said at the outset, mits, this backlog can be expected to little or no bang for the buck. The there are many good and sound provi disappear once EPA issues all of its Clean Water Act already permits a sions in H.R. 3282, which deserve to be long-awaited industrial toxic regula State to use up to 20 percent of its supported by the Congress. But at the tions. construction grant allotment for these same time, there are provisions which ONE-YEAR EXTENSION FOR ELECTROPLATERS sewers where they are absolutely nec undo sections of existing law which UNWARRANTED essary. We need to concentrate our re have not been proven faulty. My hope Electroplaters, the first major indus sources on pollution control rather at this point is that the House will try facing pretreatment controls, have than on encouraging urban sprawl and have the time necessary to read the had 5 years to comply with pretreat the destruction of agricultural lands. final version of the bill, the report, ment standards. They are the largest PRETREATMENT FOR CONVENTIONAL POLLUTANTS and to let us make our case for the industrial dischargers of toxic metals amendments we will offer. I am con into sewage treatment plants, dis Some industries discharge large vinced that we can make this good bill charging 50 million pounds of highly amounts of conventional pollutants a better and indeed the best bill possi toxic cadmium, lead, other metals and into public sewer systems. Currently, ble.e May 31, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14779 THE IMPORTANCE OF COAL country today either offers or is developing Mahwah Rivers is flooding caused by RESEARCH a fluidized-bed combustor. overtopping of the channel banks. In coal preparation-where new opportu nities are being found to remove sulfur and In November 1977, a flood resulting HON. DOUG WALGREN mineral matter at or near the mine through from the overflow of these two rivers OF PENNSYLVANIA fine grinding, physical cleaning, and chemi caused in excess of $3,891,000 in dam IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cal cleaning where we hope to remove or ages to both private and public proper ganic sulfur. We've made quantum leaps in ty. More recently, in April 1984, flood Thursday, May 31, 1984 our understanding of coal chemistry, and ing which occurred in Rockland e Mr. WALGREN. Mr. Speaker, the that makes it likely that a new chemical County prompted a Presidential disas following excerpt from a speech by cleaning concept will cross the commercial ter declaration. Among the areas that Secretary of Energy Donald Hodel ap threshold in the early 1990s. In scrubbers-where opportunities exist to were particularly hard hit were the pears as the May 28 editorial in Chem improve today's scrubbers, both for new Village of Suffern and surrounding ical and Engineering News and is evi power plants and for retrofitting existing communities. The damage which oc dence of a changing attitude toward plants. At the Department of Energy, our curred as a result of the flooding, di coal research within the Department research focus in to develop scrubber sys rectly attributable to the overflow of of Energy. tems that remove 90 percent of sulfur diox the Ramapo River, was both wide According to the Secretary, great ides and nitrogen oxides-hoping for com spread and extensive, effecting both strides have been made in research mercial potential in the 1990s. business and residential property. into finding ways to burn coal cleanly. This Administration increasingly has em phasized the importance of research across The current project being consid Much of this research is being done at the entire frontier of energy issues, in an ered, which would alleviate the recur the Pittsburgh Energy Technology effort to push back technological and scien rent destructive flooding in Mahwah/ Center, located in my district near tific boundaries. We seek to make opportu Suffern area, is being studied as part South Park, Pa., which is one of two nities available for the innovation and of the Passaic River basin remaining federally operated research imagination of the private sector to move phase I advanced engineering and laboratories in the country. forward with whatever appears to be appro design study which was authorized by For many of these technologies, the priate and promising technologies. the Water Resources Development Act necessary bridge to the commercial I believe that in my lifetime we will see what a layman would call a scientific or of 1976 dated Oc marketplace would be demonstration technological "breakthrough" which will tober 22, 1976). The current study, or semiworks projects which illustrate change the way in which energy is pro which separ~tes the review of the the cost effectiveness and maturity of duced, consumed, and priced. The world's Mahwah and~l Ramapo Rivers from the the technologies. Several bills current and [the U.S.'s] energy potential is enor mainstem of the Passaic River basin, ly pending, including my bill, H.R. mous. It is the science of conversion that is was initiated in June 1979. This sever 5044, the National Coal Science, Tech difficult. It is on that aspect of the problem ance was un ertaken so as to expedite nology, and Engineering Development that we are determined to place emphasis. We have increased our expenditures in sci the review of the Ramapo and Act of 1984, would set programs to entific research in the hope that we can Mahwah Rivers. The study area was meet this need. move closer to such a breakthrough. When approved for interim study in April I was further heartened a month ago we succeed, whether in the public or private 1982 and the draft interim report was when Secretary Hodel phoned me in sector, development and commercialization approved in March 1983. The final in response to my work in this area to ex fall to the private sector. terim report was approved on March press the administration's recognition We all recognize that if we don't improve 21, 1984 by the board of engineers. of an unmet need in the area of coal the way coal is burned, both economically With the recent appropriation of technology demonstrations. and environmentally, intensified pressures to control emissions may create obstacles to $250,000, the area engineer will be able I commend Secretary Hodel's speech the use of this vital resource. to initiate the drafting of the General to my colleagues as a lucid explana But we are making real progress in re Design Memorandum as the Army tion of part of the great promise of search. Tremendous opportunities exist for Corps of Engineers enters phase II of our coal research program. coal to play an increasing role in our energy the project. It is clear that area resi mix without compromising our environmen COA,L RESEARCH dents have suffered far too long from tal objectives.~ . thought back to my graduation from medicine; but was out of medicine; so Regardless of your level of participation Humble High School 14 years ago. It was jumped in the car and headed for the veteri your involvement keeps the United States a humid, as it is tonight, my graduation robe narian's on the way, ran out of gas." participative and representative democra was hot as I'm sure yours must be, and I was Don't be a Farmer Jones-set goals. Also, to compete effectively and success cy-we all have a duty and obligation to pre filled with mixed emotions. I was scared be serve the freedoms for which our forefa cause of uncertainty, I was sad because Ire fully I have found that perspiration is an es sential ingredient. I'm sure that you have thers fought, bled, and died. alized that I was seeing some life-long And the fourth decision that the pastor friends for the last time