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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 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 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

• 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

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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

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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

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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 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