May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11567 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS FIGHTING FOR RAPE VICTIMS need. It saves victims from the stress and crimes in summer. A lot of people come to the trauma of having to go to different loca­ the beach on very hot nights, take a walk on tions and different agencies. the beach, and they can be attacked under HON. MEL LEVINE We provide 24-hour emergency medical those circumstances. OF CALIFORNIA care and the evidentiary examination for the We also have a large tourist and vulnerable IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES victim. We also provide long-term profes­ population, especially in summer. And we sional counseling services. We provide legal have several large college campuses-college Thursday, May 14,1992 assistance and advocacy. We provide accom­ students are in the highest-risk group for Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise paniment services-we accompany victims rape. today to recognize my dear friend, Gail during the medical exam, during police re­ We have a large homeless population, and Abarbanel, and to share with my colleagues porting and to the courts. And then we also many homeless victims. The myth is that have extensive education and prevention homeless people are committing these an interview published in the Los Angeles programs. crimes, but we actually see more homeless Times. Gail's commitment to women and chil­ We have a large school-based prevention people who are victims. We have had a lot of dren who have been sexually abused is clear. program that reaches about 6,000 teen-agers cases with women who are living on the She has been a pioneer in this area; both the each year in the public schools. It's a three­ streets with children who are raped in front Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center day program that Rape Center instructors of their kids, or cases in which the children [SMRTC] and Stuart House, a program for teach in high school classes for lOth-graders, are also sexually assaulted. sexually abused children, are used as models because teen-agers are more vulnerable to Q: When homeless people go to the police rape than any other age group. to establish similar programs around the coun­ or to someone else for help, are they be­ We have a national campus rape campaign lieved? try. that we've developed because we were seeing A: Yes, but I think the tragedy is that Q&A-FIGHTING FOR RAPE VICTIMS a lot of victims from college campuses. We these people have no alternative but to re­ Gail Abarbanel, director of the Santa produced a film, "Campus Rape," that's turn to the street and to the circumstances Monica Rape Treatment Center. being used in every state in the country on in which they remain vulnerable. Claim to Fame: Founded center that com­ college campuses. We also wrote a book, Q: Do your victims "come from all over Los bines medical treatment with psychological "Sexual Assualt on Campus-What Colleges Angeles? counseling for rape victims. Since its incep­ Can Do," that's being used across the coun­ A: The Rape Treatment Center has no geo­ tion in 1974, the center, based at Santa try to change policy and procedures on col­ graphic restrictions or limitations on serv­ Monica Hospital, has spearheaded a variety lege campuses so that they're more respon­ ices, so we get victims from all over Los An­ of studies and programs. sive. geles County. More come from the Western Background: Abarbanel, 47, earned her un­ Q: What have been some of the center's region of Los Angeles County, but because of dergraduate degree at UCLA and a master's principal innovations? the unique services we provide they come in social work at USC. In 1974, she became A: The center in the mid-'70s pioneered a from far away as well. the first social worker at Santa Monica Hos­ model for hospital-based treatment of sexual Q: Where does the money come from? pital, where she pioneered the concept of assualt victims, and that model has been A: All the center's services are supported counseling rape victims in a hospital. In 1988, adopted all over the country at hospitals and by the community. We receive some dona­ she founded Stuart House to treat sexually other agencies that provide services for rape tions that come into the hospital, as well as abused children. victims. We incorporated psychological con­ private donations through our own fundrais­ (Interviewer: Staff writer Petula Dvorak.) siderations into the medical response; up ing efforts. We have a broad base of commu­ Q: How did you get so involved in the issue until that time rape was really not recog­ nity support, and that enables us to provide of rape? nized to be a psychological emergency as services for free, so there's no obstacle to A: It was one of the first issues I became well as a medical-care issue. getting help if you're a rape victim. Q: What kinds of cases do you handle? Is Q: Do you counsel only women? interested in when I started working at there such a thing as a typical rape? A: Yes. Santa Monica Hospital. It was really by A. We see victims of all ages-small chil­ Q: What would you tell a victim? chance-it was at that point in history when dren to the oldest victim we had last year, A: I don't know if I could answer that in a people were · starting to pay more attention who was 92. They come from every neighbor­ simple way. One issue that some victims to rape. hood, every walk of life, every socioeconomic come here struggling with is a decision Within the first month I saw two women and ethnic group. They really reflect the re­ about reporting the rape. Our belief has al­ who had been raped, who had come here after ality of rape in this community and in this ways been that it's important to report rapes receiving very bad treatment at other places. society. It can happen to anyone. because that's the only way that we're going I was really affected by their experiences. We see a mixture of stranger rapes and ac­ to be able to stop this violence. One victim was a young woman who took a quaintance rapes. We see victims who come But we also believe that each victim has to walk on the beach on a Sunday afternoon here immediately following a rape, and we make her own decision. We encourage it and and was brutally raped by a stranger. She also see victims who were raped a long time we provide the support that helps victims go was filled with humiliation. ago. We see women who were raped months through that process, but we don't coerce She had a lot of fears about her family ago, sometimes as many as 50 years ago, who them. finding out because she felt there was a stig­ never told anyone when it happened. I think that there is more willingness now ma attached to being a rape victim and she The other thing that's striking is that rape than there was 10 years ago to report these felt that they would blame her. Seven days happens in every possible kind of situation. assaults, but there are very different report­ after the rape, she felt no way out other than A lot of stranger rapes happen in the vic­ ing patterns in stranger and acquaintance making a suicide attempt and she actually tim's own home-there are break-ins in the rapes. came to Santa Monica Hospital in the emer­ middle of the night. They also happen in Q: When did acquaintance rape come into gency department having slashed her wrist. parking lots in broad daylight. Sometimes the forefront and become acknowledged as a That really had a profound impact on me women are kidnaped off the street. They problem? and I realized there was no place for her to happen in situations that we're all in and A: The center started dealing with ac­ go, there was no special place for rape vic­ places that we all go. quaintance rape in the late '70s. We began to tims. So that led to the Rape Treatment Q: Is there anything in the Westside that's publicize the issue because we felt there was Center. particularly conducive to creating an atmos­ so much misunderstanding about it. Q: What services does the Rape Treatment phere were a rape can occur? I think acquaintance rape is the most mis­ Center provide? A: I don't think so, but I think in any com­ understood and one of the most prevalent A: What's unique about the Rape Treat­ munity there may be locations or situations forms of criminal violence in this country. It ment Center is it provides all of the services in which rapes are going to occur. certainly is the most common form of rape. victims need in one facility-all the medical, This is a big beach community so there's If you look at police statistics, stranger psychological and legal services the victims always an increase in rape and other violent rape is more prevalent, but in reality ac-

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594>59 0-97 Vol. 138 (Pt. 8) 48 11568 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 quaintance rape happens far more often. It's quaintance rape, usually the force and coer­ public's attention. We had a lot of support just underreported, for understandable rea­ cion that are used are just physical-the vic­ for the changes we've advocated, whether it's sons. tim is physically held down or pinned down been changing the California rape law, or de­ Q: How have the headline cases-the Mike or forced to submit. veloping Stuart House for child rape victims Tyson and the [William) Kennedy Smith The other really significant difference is because they were suffering so much dis­ trials-affected public perceptions and the that a lot of times people look at acquaint­ crimination and bad treatment. atmosphere here at the center? ance rape situations in retrospect-which is I feel like I'm giving victims a voice A: They have opened up public dialogue how we always view them in the courtroom­ through the actions I take, and empowering about acquaintance rapes. I think that's a and conclude that the victim used poor judg­ them to be part of changing the process. positive outcome because it has been a very ment, or should have sensed danger sooner, hidden crime. Until it is out in the open and or should have gotten herself out of the situ­ dealt with we're not going to stop it or solve ation or shouldn't have gotten herself into TRIBUTE TO EMANUEL it. the situation. CATSOULES Q: Are lawsuits becoming a more popular I think that we make certain assumptions venue for rape victims?. about people we know, people who go to our A: Over the last five to 10 years we've seen schools, people who our friends fixed us up HON.J~~~CANT, JR an increase in civil suits, mainly lawsuits in on a date with, people who have a certain OF OHIO which the victim sues a third party for some status in our society, and we assume those IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES form of negligence that may have resulted in people are safe. We don't expect criminal vi­ her being raped. There has been, I think, an olence from those kinds of people. Thursday, May 14, 1992 increase in using lawsuits against landlords So the case is not just that the victim was Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I would like dealing with security issues, against colleges careless or reckless, it's just that she trusted to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. and sometimes lawsuits filed against the of­ the person and really she had no reason not Emanuel Catsoules of my 17th Congressional fender himself. to. A lot of times society blames the victim District of Ohio. Q: How about the legal system? Is the vic­ and also the victim blames herself. tim still on trial when she goes to court? One of the after-effects, one of the strong I am honored to offer Mr. Catsoules my con­ A: In a lot of rape cases still, the victim is feelings the victims have after an acquaint­ gratulations and thanks for serving the on trial, and the outcome depends more on ance rape is that somehow their judgment Youngstown City schools as superintendent. how the jury views the victim's behavior failed them and they blame themselves. Since 1962, Mr. Catsoules has dedicated his than how they evaluate the conduct of the They feel that somehow they should have energies to improving education for youth in defendant. foreseen that this person was dangerous Youngstown. People have a lot of misconceptions about when the reality is that often there isn't a Starting in 1962 as a teacher at his high rape and those end up influencing decisions signal or a cue before this happens. school alma mater, Rayen, Mr. Catsoules jurors make. There are behaviors that are Q: Why do men rape? very typical and very common in rape vic­ A: We know a lot more about rapists than soon emerged as principal in 1971. However, tims that historically have been misinter­ we used to. There are many different kinds his contributions to society were yet to begin. preted and used to discredit victims. The of sex offenders, and there are differences in He expanded his horizons to the city level most common ones are non-resistance and the nature of the attack depending on the where he was elected city councilman in 1968 the absence of physical injuries. kind of rapist committing the crime. and served there through 1975 and again in The reality is that in a lot of cases the vio­ The rapes that tend to get the most public­ 1976-77. He also became a part of the Buck­ lence is threatened, not actually inflicted. ity are the most violent ones, committed by eye Association of School Administrators, the You can have a gun at your head or a knife what we call anger rapists or sadistic rap­ Ruben McMillen Library, and the Eastern Or­ at your throat and it doesn't leave a mark. ists. You're still terrorized and you're psycho­ But the most prevalent rapes are the ones thodox Men's Society, among others. logically traumatized. that get the least publicity in the media. The pinnacle of Mr. Catsoules' career came But rape trauma doesn't show on the out­ They are what we call power rapes, where in 1978 when he became the superintendent side and so a lot of people disbelieve the vic­ the goal of the offender isn't to physically of the Youngtown city schools. In this position, tim-she doesn't have any bruises or broken brutalize the victim, it's to dominate her Mr. Catsoules demonstrated outstanding lea~ bones to prove she was in a violent assault. and have a conquest. Those are the kind of ership and dedication. I know that his perform­ One of the main concerns I have now is rapes we see on college campuses, among ance was exemplary in times of trouble and that hospitals are increasingly unwilling to teenagers. innovative at all other times. provide treatment for rape victims, and are Q. On a societal level, what can be done to starting to turn victims away. Many physi­ prevent rape? Mr. Speaker, I take my hat off to Mr. cians do not want to be involved in a rape in­ A. Prevention starts with being informed Catsoules as he retires from his position as vestigation, or they don't receive adequate and being educated. As long as we continue superintendent. reimbursement, and it's difficult for them to to blame the victim we're never going to deal with victims who have been through solve this problem. When a rape occurs, we that kind of trauma. ask the wrong questions. In these recent FALSEHOOD ABOUT REAGAN It's primarily a problem in Los Angeles highly publicized cases, people were asking, "CUTS" GOES UNCHALLENGED County. Other counties throughout Califor­ "Why did she go to his house at 2 in the TOO OFTEN nia seem to be more responsive. We're look­ morning?'' ing at legislation to change this, to increase In other cases they may ask, "Why did she physicians' reimbursements, and we're put­ have a drink?" and so forth. What we should HON. DOUG BEREliTER ting on a major seminar in June for emer­ really be asking is, "Why did the offender in­ OF NEBRASKA gency room personnel to teach them to deal vite her to his house at two in the morning? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with rape victims. Why did he buy her drinks?" We need to Q. Should women ever by held responsible focus on the people committing these Thursday, May 14, 1992 for being raped? crimes. Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, I commend A. Never. One of the biggest problems we Q. What do you, personally, bring to the to my colleagues the following editorial which have with acquaintance rape is that in many Rape Treatment Center? appeared in the Omaha Wori~Herald on May cases people don't see it as real rape. They A. A strong sense of justice, I think, and view it as less violent and less damaging. maybe an ability to take what we learned 12, 1992: That's a misconception because acquaint­ from victims and translate it into social ac­ FALSEHOOD ABOUT REAGAN "CUTS" GOES ance rape is the same crime as stranger tion and programs and reforms that have UNCHALLENGED TOO OFTEN rape-the only difference is the relationship created an environment in which victims re­ A recent panel discussion at the University between the victim and the offender. But ceive better treatment. of Missouri illustrates why it is hard for the there is much more of a tendency to blame Q. Are you angry? public to get an accurate understanding of the victim in an acquaintance rape. That's A. I'm not angry. I'm not a person who's inner-city poverty. one of the reasons the victims are less will­ driven by anger. But I have a strong sense of . An old falsehood is the reason understand­ ing to report it. justice and I have always felt that if the pub­ ing is sometimes difficult. The falsehood has Another difference is the circumstances in lic knew what I know and what we see in the been repeated so often that it has become which these crimes occur. A stranger rape is cases that come here, things would change. the truth in the minds of some people. It was likely to involve a lethal weapon, a gun or a I have tried to take what we know and repeated again during the Missouri panel dis­ knife used to threaten the victim. In ac- what we've learned and bring it to the cussion. May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11569 One member of the panel was Charles lenge them, the chances of a straight story legislation in a timely manner and to provide Sampson, associate dean of the university's getting out are often slim, indeed. strong leadership and direction on legislative graduate school. A news story about the and local issues. panel, which appeared in a. newspaper trade publication, said he criticized journalists for She created the transportation management LA PROGRESIVA ALUMNI association to help companies comply with the remaining silent during the presidency of CELEBRATES LATIN MUSIC Ronald Reagan. Under Reagan, he alleged, State's tough antismog laws. the federal government cut its spending on She created the Leadership Simi Valley pro­ social programs by 64 percent. HON. ILEANA ROS.LEHTINEN gram. The dean said the cutbacks were largely OF FLORIDA And under her leadership, the Simi Valley responsible for racial tensions and other ills IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Chamber was named one of the 10 best of society. chambers in cities of fewer than 200,000 peo­ Someone on the panel should have chal­ 'J'hursday, May 14, 1992 lenged him. The story gave no indication, ple in the entire Nation. Ms. R05-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I am I have been privileged to know and work however, that anyone considered his state­ pleased to have the opportunity to acknowl­ ments even a. little outlandish. with Nancy for many years, including serving Such too often is the case. The falsehood edge the alumni of La Progresiva School for together on the Simi Valley City Council. She about slashed social spending has been pre­ their production and presentation of Acuarela is truly a special person, and I ask my col­ sented a.s the truth, accepted as the truth Musical de las Americas-The Americas' Mu­ leagues to join me in saluting her for her many and absorbed into a. general misimpression sical Festival. accomplishments. about the problems of the inner cities. This musical festival complete with songs Spending on those programs didn't de­ and dances of Hispanic origin will celebrate crease 64 percent during the Reagan years. It ethnic and cultural diversity. The Argentine didn't decrease at all. According to the Con­ tango, the Brazilian bolero, as well as Span­ H.R. 5132, A HELPING HAND IS ALL gressional Budget Office, it rose. From 1981 THEY NEED to 1988, spending on social programs rose 18 ish, Cuban, Mexican, and Venezuelan art and percent faster than the rate of inflation. folklore will be performed during this festive Not every individual program grew. Some exhibition. HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON were cut or phased out because they didn't Lourdes Montaner will be the Master of OF CALIFORNIA work, or because the money could be spent Ceremonies during the presentation with per­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more effectively in other ways. Other pro­ formances by international artists Rene grams, however. grew more than enough to Touzet, Armando Terron, Martica F'luiz, Vivian Thursday, May 14, 1992 offset any cuts. Spending on Head Start, a Tobio, and Armando Pico. Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, 2 weeks ago popular and effective program for kids, rose 12 percent faster than inflation. Medicaid The proceeds of this event will go to fund the city of Los Angeles was ravaged by the spending, which pays for health care for wel­ scholarships, summer camp, the Presbyterian worst civil strife our country has ever known. fare recipients, was up 40 percent. The Home for the Elderly, and other programs of The headlines are staggering: 59 people dead amount spent on leased public housing out­ La Progresiva Alumni Association. and an estimated $700 million in damage. paced inflation by 136 percent. This celebration, Acuarela Musical de las These are numbers so large that they cannot Furthermore, spending for social programs Americas, is a celebration of heritage and tra­ be captured by a few minutes of TV news. continued to increase after George Bush suc­ dition. The students and alumni of La Only by walking through the area can one ceeded Reagan in the White House. Progresiva are proud of their roots and their grasp the despair and destruction caused by A few days ago, the White House asked for figures to help evaluate the charge that fed­ culture, and they are eager to contribute and the riots. We must come to grips with what eral stinginess was to blame for the Los An­ take part in their historical background. this tragic event meant to ordinary people. geles riots. The Congressional Budget Office Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate the Some lost everything they owned, everything confirmed that spending on benefits for poor members of this organization and Dr. Rolando they had worked for, everything they had people has increased $70 billion, a total of 80 Gomez-Gil for their commitment and dedica­ hoped would support their family in the years percent, during the three years that Bush tion to the people of our community. I com­ to come. Some had worked all their lives to has been in office. mend them for their hard work and their loy­ get to where they were, only to lose every­ Perhaps the nation needs a debate over alty to the young students of La Progresiva. thing in one brief explosion of blind fury. how the vast amounts that are spent on the poor could be more effectively targeted. Per­ In this time of true disaster, our Nation has haps it is time to determine whether health come together to help these people in need. care is soaking up too much of the money. SALUTE TO NANCY BENDER One. day after a request from Governor Pete whether more should be diverted into hous­ Wilson, the President declared the county of ing, job training or assistance to parents. HON. ELTON GALLEGLY Los Angeles a Federal disaster area. The very But that's a separate debate. The debate OF CALIFORNIA next day the disaster field office opened to co­ that too many people seem to want to have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ordinate the recovery effort. Since that time, now, unfortunately, starts with a false seven fully staffed disaster assistance offices premise. They have swallowed the notion Thursday, May 14, 1992 that programs for the poor have been gutted have opened throughout the L.A. county area, and that the first order of business should be Mr. GALLEGL Y. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased and the first check is already in the mail. Over restoring lost financing. to rise today to honor a good friend and an 4,000 people have registered for State and How does the notion stay alive? The report outstanding leader of her community as she Federal assistance in the past week in these of Dean Sampson's comments varied so marks 10 years of service as executive direc- · offices, and I am sure that number will con­ sharply from reality that we telephoned him tor of the Simi Valley Chamber of Commerce. tinue to grow. There remains one problem. to see whether he had been misquoted. During her decade of service, Nancy Bender The damage caused by the L.A. riots far ex­ The information had come from a book. He has played a major role in building the busi­ ceeds the amount of Federal money available mentioned the title and the name of the au­ ness community of Simi Valley. I'd like to take to provide relief for those in need. For this rea­ thor. Then he mentioned the date of publica­ tion-1982, the first full year of the Reagan a few moments to list some of her many ac­ son Congress has taken quick action in bring­ presidency. complishments: ing a bill to the floor, H.R. 5132, to assure that He had taken a. description of a Reagan ad­ The Simi Valley Chamber was accredited by those who were hurt in these disasters will be ministration proposal, much of which was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. helped. subsequently rejected by Congress, and pre­ She created a strong working relationship H.R. 5132, the dire emergency supple­ sented it as though it were an after-the-fact between city leaders and the business com­ mental appropriations for disaster relief, "pro­ report. He not only said that the cuts had oc­ munity. vides the funds to cover the estimated disaster curred but went on to blame them for racial She has worked with local and State agen­ costs for the L.A. County riots. Specifically, it tension and other social problems. It's no wonder that the general public cies to promote and attract clean industry and would appropriate $495 million in emergency sometimes has trouble getting an accurate commercial businesses to Simi Valley. funds for Small Business Administration [SBA] picture. When academic leaders have trouble She established the governmental review disaster loans and Federal Emergency Man­ with the facts, and journalists don't chal- council to help the chamber act on proposed agement Agency [FEMA] disaster assistance. 11570 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 This bill is not a partisan issue, it is not a re­ forgotten the importance of his family. He and ject to expenditure limits. Congressional gional issue. It is an effort by the Federal Gov­ his wife, Sue, have two married sons and elections however, are privately financed ernment to lend a helping hand to those rav­ share in the enjoyment of being grandparents with candidates subject to no spending lim­ its. Obviously, with this latter system, the aged by disasters. to 6 grandchildren. danger exists of electing a candidate on the The SBA Disaster Assistance Loan Program I join with the Tuscaloosa business commu­ basis of his larger campaign coffer, instead is a productive, financially prudent program nity and private sector in expressing our grati­ of his platform. that helps people help themselves. Through tude to Claud Morrison for his wise and Thus, the absence of spending limits for the SBA, the Federal Government provides thoughtful leadership as a member of the Congressional campaigns often metamor­ low interest loans to cover uninsured losses board of education. His conviction that a phoses these races into wars of money, rath­ from a disaster. These loans provide the seed strong public education foundation builds a er than ideology. Quite simply, more money in today's political milieu means more money for the eventual rebuilding of dev­ stronger America is a legacy that we should media exposure. Media exposure translates astated communities. With these loans, indi­ all try to emulate. into voter recognition, an essential pre­ viduals are able to go back to their neighbor­ requisite to winning a Congressional elec­ hoods to reopen businesses and rebuild tion. Hence, without money, a candidate's houses. This money will turn gutted buildings TRIBUTE TO ALEX VELASQUEZ electoral prospects are doomed. into thriving stores, devastated neighborhoods Confronted with this reality, candidates into livable communities. It will bring back the HON. RONALD K. MACHilEY often find themselves taking money from po­ litical action committees (PACs). Much of jobs to our damaged city. The Government OF RHODE ISLAND the current debate over campaign finance re­ and the taxpayers reap substantial benefits by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES form hinges on the role P ACs play in elec­ providing seed money to rebuild communities. Thursday, May 14, 1992 tions. P ACs are established by unions, cor­ People get back on their feet, get off public porations, and trade associations, as well as assistance, and eventually return to produc­ Mr. MACHTLEY. Mr. Speaker, it is my dis­ ideological and issue oriented groups. Be­ tive, taxpaying employment. tinct pleasure to congratulate Alex Velasquez, cause PACs have access to large reservoirs of The bill also provides $300 million to FEMA of Central Falls, as this year's recipient of the cash, relationships between them and politi­ cal candidates invariably result. Unfortu­ for disaster assistance grants for those people Congressman RONALD K. MACHTLEY Academic and Leadership Excellence Award for Central nately, these relationships frequently allow who lost property in the riot, but do not qualify PACs undue influence in Congress, as is for SBA loans. Through no fault of their own Falls High School in Central Falls, Rl. manifested by the recent Keating Five scan­ the people least able to cope with an eco­ This award is presented to the student, cho­ dal. Writes Inside Congress reporter Chuck nomic loss were severely hurt by the riots. sen by Central Falls High School, who dem­ Alston in his February 2, article, "The FEMA provides a modest grant to help them onstrates a mature blend of academic Keating Five scandal has exposed how cam­ get back on their feet. achievement, community involvement, and paign contributions can govern behavior in By stepping in now, the Federal Govern­ leadership qualities. Congress." Alex Velasquez has more than fulfilled this Our present campaign finance system also ment assures that communities ravaged by needs revamping because it favors incum­ disasters return as vibrant, productive assets criteria. He is an A level student and a mem­ bents. This is imputable to the fact that in­ to our State and Nation. The people in my city ber of the Academic Decathlon Team. He is cumbents receive the bulk of PAC money. have been through so much in the last few also active in extracurricular activities. He is a PACs like to reward Congressmen who have weeks, H.R. 5132 will help them on the road member of the football, baseball, and basket­ supported their policies in the past and who toward recovery. ball teams, and has participated in model leg­ will continue to do so in the future. By fill­ islature. He is also a member of the student ing an incumbent's campaign coffer, a PAC council and the drama club. ensures continued representation in Con­ CLAUD A. MORRISON CONCLUDES I commend Alex Velasquez for his outstand­ gress. Thus, an incumbent can easily mar­ shal the financial resources necessary for his 21 YEARS OF SERViCE ON TUS­ ing achievements and wish him all the best in Congressional campaign through his PAC CALOOSA CITY BOARD OF EDU­ his future endeavors. connections. His opponent, conversely, is left CATION facing the daunting challenge of fund raising without PAC assistance. Compounding this HON. CLAUDE HARRIS THE CONGRESSIONAL REFORM inequity is the greater visibility incumbents MOST NEEDED have, which enables them to raise individual OF ALABAMA donations much more easily than their oppo­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR. nents. Thursday, May 14, 1992 As a result of these pecuniary advantages OF INDIANA enjoyed by incumbents, challengers are un­ Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, a long-time com­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES able to compete. In the 1990 elections, incum­ munity leader and friend, Claud Morrison, is Thursday, May 14, 1992 bent U.S. Senators raised four dollars to retiring from the the Tuscaloosa city board of every one raised by their opponents. Even education after 21 years. His active member­ Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, the following is more astonishingly, U.S. Representatives ship in all aspects of the board and particularly this year's winning essay in our annual contest running for reelection were able to raise to determine who will be the congressional in­ twelve dollars for every one raised by their his participation on the financial and building opponents. committees have contributed to the growth tern for the 1Oth District of Indiana. It was writ­ ten by Rob King of Indianapolis. At issue here is whether this Congressional and strength of our community's public edu­ electoral process, with its heavy reliance on cation system. THE CONGRESSIONAL REFORM MOST NEEDED money appropriated by PACs, undermines As a native Alabamaian and graduate of the The recent surge in popular dissatisfaction the basic democratic principles of equal ac­ University of Alabama, Claud has been a pub­ with Congress, exacerbated by the checking cess to public office for all citizens and equal lic accountant in Tuscaloosa since 1951. As abuses at the House Bank, has put the sub­ opportunity for all segments of society to be someone who takes his citizenship seriously, ject of Congressional reform on the minds of heard by those making public policy. Real­ our country's lawmakers once again. Some istically, under the present system, money Claud has been involved in many community, of the current suggestions being bandied has become the primary factor in gaining civic, and religious organizations. His commit­ about in revisionist minded circles (aside both voter and legislative attention. Clearly, ment to hard work is not unknown to those of from an overhaul of the House Bank) deal this is wrong. Thinking of this problem, I am us in Tuscaloosa. Besides his successful CPA with term limitations, negative campaign­ reminded of what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. practice, Claud has devoted his talents to ing, gerrymandering, and the improvement once said: " A man should be judged not by memberships on the Tuscaloosa Park and of voter participation. While all of these sub­ the color of his skin, but by the content of Recreation Board, the Tuscaloosa Exchange jects necessitate legislative attention, the his character." Similarly, as citizens of this Club, the Dollar-Hide Hunting Club, and serv­ most needed Congressional reform lies in the great land, we should judge our elected offi­ arena of campaign finance. cials, not by the largess of the campaign cof­ ing as a deacon at the First Baptist Church. In the heavily regulated presidential elec­ fers, but by the contents of their character Although Claud has earned a reputation for tions, public funds account for a substantial and the value of their messages. Only when lending his support to many worthwhile causes portion of a candidate's financing. Addition­ we do this will America truly realize its in the Tuscaloosa community, he has never ally, candidates for executive office are sub- democratic potential. May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11571 NUTRITION SCREENING RESEARCH a national study of nutrition screening and carry out this legislation to be appropriated ACT interventions could provide the basis for in­ and not less than S3 million for each of the stitutionalizing these activities. fiscal years 1993 through 1995. Presents the purposes of the legislation: to HON. MARILYN Il.OYD provide for research to determine the effi­ MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS OF THE NUTRITION OF TENNESSEE cacy and cost-effectiveness of nutrition SCREENING INITIATIVE SUPPORTING THE NU­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES screening and intervention activities in TRITION SCREENING RESEARCH ACT older people and to determine the extent of Alliance for Aging Research. Thursday, May 14, 1992 malnutrition in the elderly. American Association of Homes for the Mrs. LLOYD. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro­ Section 3. (Research) calls for two studies. Aging. ducing legislation, the Nutrition Screening Re­ One study is to determine the efficacy and American Association of Retired Persons. cost effectiveness of nutrition screening and American College of Health Care Adminis- search Act, to attack the devastating problem intervention activities. This three-year trators. of malnutrition among older adults. I am joined study is to be conducted by the Secretary of American Geriatrics Society. in sponsoring this bill by two distinguished ad­ Health and Human Services, acting through American Health Care Association. vocates for the elderly: Representative RoN the National Institute on Aging, coordinat­ American Hospital Association. WYDEN and Representative TOM DOWNEY. ing with the Agency for Health Care Policy American Medical Association. This legislation has been introduced in the and Research and, to the extent possible, American Medical Directors Association. American Nurses' Association, Inc. Senate by Senators ADAMS and BINGAMAN. working in cooperation with the National Nutrition Monitoring System. American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Mr. Speaker, a recent study conducted by Inc. Peter D. Hart Research Associates found that The study will determine if nutrition screening and intervention activities for American Society for Geriatric Dentistry. 40 percent of older patients in acute care and older individuals result in changes in health American Society for Parenteral and En­ long-term care facilities are malnourished. The or quality of life for those individuals or in teral Nutrition. cost of malnutrition in human suffering and ad­ reductions in federally subsidized home or American Society of Consultant Phar­ macists. ditional medical services is simply unaccept­ institutional care. It also will determine if a Gerontological Society of America. able to me. We must do the research now so multidisciplinary nutritional approach is ef­ Joint Commission on Accreditation of that we can determine the most effective ways fective in addressing the nutritional needs of Healthcare Organizations. to prevent malnutrition in the future. older individuals and if reimbursement for National Association of Directors of Nurs­ The Nutrition Screening Research Act will nutrition screening and interventions is a ing Administration in Long Term Care. cost-effective means of improving the health National Association of Meal Programs. authorize research to be conducted by the status of older people. Secretary of Health and Human Services National Association of Nutrition & Aging The populations in the study include older Services Programs. through the National Institute on Aging. There people who are: (1) living independently, in­ National Association of State Units on will be two 3-year studies conducted. The first cluding those receiving family support or Aging. will determine the efficacy and cost effective­ home and community-based services and National or Home Care. ness · of nutrition screening and intervention those who do not have additional services National Gerontological Nurses Associa- activities. This study will shed some light on and support; (2) hospitalized, including indi­ tion. how such screening can affect the health and viduals admitted from home and from insti­ National Hispanic Council on Aging, Inc. tutions; and, (3) institutionalized. National League of Nursing. quality of life of older Americans, and whether The second study, the Malnutrition Study, Older Women's League. we can reduce unnecessary institutionalization is a three-year study to be conducted by the The Catholic Health Association. with proper nutrition screening and by provid­ Secretary of Health and Human Services, The National Caucus and Center on Black ing needed nutrition. acting through the National Institute on Aged, Inc. The second study addresses the issue of Aging. it will determine the extent of mal­ malnutriton. This study will provide Congress nutrition in older people in hospitals and with a true reading of the extent that older in­ long-term care facilities and in older individ­ GANG-FREE SCHOOLS AND dividuals are malnourished in our society. It uals who are living independently. COMMUNITIES ACT OF 1992 A report of the findings of the studies shall will focus on persons in hospitals and long­ be submitted by the Secretary of Health and term care facilities, as well as persons living Human Services to the Committee on Labor HON. DALE E. KILDEE independently. The study will also assess the and Human Resources of the Senate and the OF MICHIGAN need for nutrition screening and intervention Committee on Energy and Commerce of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES programs. House of Representatives. This report also Thursday, May 14, 1992 There is a related nutrition issue that I will include a determination regarding the would like to mention. There are thousands of institutionalization of a nutrition screening Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, together with Mr. nutrition providers across this Nation serving and intervention program. The rationale for MARTINEZ, the chairman of the Subcommittee the determination also is to be presented. on Human Resources, Mr. FORD of Michigan, the elderly under the Older Americans Act, An Advisory Panel is to be established by who are extremely anxious and disturbed that the chairman of the Committee on Education the Secretary, acting through the Director and Labor, Mr. FAWELL, the ranking Repub­ the Senate has not passed this year's Older of the National Institute on Aging, to over­ Americans Act reauthorization. It is unfair for see the design, implementation and evalua­ lican of the Subcommittee on Human Re­ service providers and the elderly to live with tion of the studies. The members are to be sources, Mrs. LOWEY of New York, and Mr. DE such uncertainty regarding their reimburse­ appointed for the life of the panel from orga­ LUGO, I am introducing the Gang-Free Schools ment levels and the number of meals they will nizations including, but not limited to, the and Communities Act of 1992. be able to provide. I hope that we can get this Health Care Financing Administration, the This bill authorizes $25 million to enable the Social Security Administration, the Na­ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency critical legislation passed and signed into law tional Center for Health Statistics, the Ad­ immediately. Prevention [OJJDP] to makes grants directly ministration on Aging, the National Council to local school districts, other local public and Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to on the Aging, the American Dietetic Asso­ have a short description of the Nutrition Re­ ciation, and the American Academy of Fam­ private agencies, institutions, and organiza­ search Screening Act, and a list of organiza­ ily Physicians. tions to support a broad variety of juvenile tions that support the bill placed in the Compensation for panel members who are gang prevention and intervention programs. In RECORD at this time, and I ask that my col­ not federal government employees is speci­ making grants, the Administrator of OJJDP is leagues join me in supporting this bill. fied. Panel members also are to receive trav­ required to give priority consideration to appli­ el expenses related to panel business. cants which: First, are submitted by or sub­ SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS OF THE The panel may request that the head of stantially involve local school districts; second, NUTRITION SCREENING RESEARCH ACT any federal agency assign, without reim­ are broadly supported in their communities; Section 1. (Short Title) entitles the bill, bursement, any agency personnel to assist the Nutrition Screening Research Act. the panel in carrying out its duties. third, substantially involve the families of youth Section 2. (Findings and Purposes) presents The panel shall terminate 3 years after the who are or may become gang members; and findings related to malnutrition in the elder­ date of enactment of this legislation. fourth are based on the incidence and severity ly. These findings indicate that malnutrition Section 4. (Authorization of Appropria­ of gang related crime in their respective com­ is pervasive in the older population and that tions) authorizes such sums as necessary to munities. 11572 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 We are all aware of the serious problems technological advances in a changing world. dian Health Service chemical treatment cen­ faced by large cities like Los Angeles where As part of that mission, he has specialized in ters do not have. For example, the Winnebago gang related killings rose from 317 in 1987 to the training of attorneys in the field of science DDU routinely treats native Americans for dia­ 619 in 1990. But smaller cities have also seen and relationship to the law through the Acad­ betes and alcoholism within the same pro­ a substantial growth in crimes committed by emy of Applied Science and the gram. In addition, there is a special effort to members of juvenile gangs. Thirty years ago, Germeshausen Center for the law of innova­ treat pregnant women for alcoholism in order there was evidence of street gang activity in tion and entrepreneurship. to combat fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal al­ only 23 cities. By contrast, recent research Born in Boston, Dr. Rines received a B.S. in cohol effect. In addition, there is an integral found evidence of street gang operations in physics from MIT in 1942 and a J.D. from program to fight domestic violence-to provide 187 cities. Georgetown in 194 7 after serving in the Army treatment both to the perpetrator and the vic­ The Gang-Free Schools and Communities in World War II. A registered professional en­ tim. Act is designed to complement and expand gineer, he has also received a Ph.D. from The DDU is unique among Indian Health existing Federal, State, and local efforts to ad­ Chiao Tung University and an honorary LL.D. Service substance abuse units in that it is lo­ dress a difficult and increasingly serious prob­ from the New England School of Law. Dr. cated in a hospital. This allows for comprehen­ lem. To date, the principal Federal responses Rines' leadership in the field of science, tech­ have been law enforcement measures. During nology and the law, and his leadership in help- sive service to respond to the complex needs the last year, the Department of Justice, . ing to develop patents and inventions in elec­ of the clients. Since the DDU is operated with­ through the Office of Justice Programs, the tronics and sonar, have been recognized in the hospital, a wide range of services can Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Bu­ widely over the years. be provided that clinics alone cannot provide. reau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, sub­ Mr. Speaker, I rise today to salute Dr. Rines This Member is not surprised that the Win­ stantially increased its intelligence and en­ and his accomplishments as a lawyer, sci­ nebago DDU received this award. Their hard forcement efforts. entist and educator. work, caring spirit, and perseverance in the While law enforcement is doing its job by midst of adversity have served very will the cracking down on illegal gang activities, we native Americans of Nebraska and other must also ensure that local communities, WINNEBAGO DDU WINS PUBLIC States. through their public and private agencies and SERVICE AWARD organizations, have other resources to cooper­ ate and do their part. The causes and prob­ HON. DOUG BEREUTER lems associated with gangs are complex and OF NEBRASKA SALUTE TO MANAGEMENT WEEK require comprehensive solutions. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES As former chairman of the Subcommittee on Thursday, May 14,1992 Human Resources and the current chairman HON. ELTON GAUEGLY of the Subcommittee on Elementary, Second­ Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, this Member OF CALIFORNIA ary, and Vocational Education, I am very is pleased to congratulate the drug depend­ aware that youth who are or may become ency unit [DDU] in the Winnebago Indian IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gang members are frequently educationally Health Service Hospital on receiving the very disadvantaged and that older adolescents may prestigious 1992 Public Service Excellence Thursday, May 14, 1992 Award in the Federal category. The Winne­ need access to education instruction outside Mr. GALLEGL Y. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased bago Hospital is located in Nebraska's First of the regular school classroom. These edu­ to recognize the men and women who keep Congressional District. cational services, when coordinated with social the wheels of industry and commerce moving This Member is well aware of the long list and mental health services available through in our great Nation as we observe Manage­ of accomplishments of the drug dependency community-based youth services organizations ment Week in America. and other public agencies, can become pow­ program at the Winnebago Hospital, which will erful gang prevention/intervention tools. Youth be referred to as the Winnebago DDU. This Management Week is sponsored every year who are, or may become, gang members program serves both the Winnebago and by the National Management Association, an must have access to these kinds ·of com­ Omaha Tribes in addition to many other native organization dedicated to making our man­ prehensive services if we want them to partici­ Americans from throughout the Nation. agers even more productive through profes­ pate in lawful, constructive activities and to The drug dependency service unit employs sional development. The group believes there make safe and healthy decisions about their 7 people and is a 12-bed facility that serves is no substitute for attaining the highest level futures. approximately 100 people a year. Mr. Robert of professionalism in each of the many fields Hallowell has been the director of the drug de­ of management-a credo, by the way, that we pendency service unit for 5 years. could all learn from. TRffiUTE TO DR. ROBERT H. The DDU has an amazingly high success Since its inception in 1978, Management RINES, PRESIDENT OF FRANKLIN rate when compared with other programs that Week in America has grown in recognition and PIERCE LAW CENTER treat native Americans. It is reported that it activities each succeeding year. Every year, has a 50-percent success rate in treating alco­ leaders of our country proclaim the first week HON. DICK SWE'IT hol and substance abuse while non-Indian in June as a time to recognize the profession OF NEW HAMPSHIRE treatment programs serving Indian people of management and to appreciate the con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have a zero- to 5-percent success rate. Not tribution and dedication that millions of man­ only is the DDU the first adult in-patient sub­ agers offer in support of our free enterprise Thursday, May 14, 1992 stance abuse program in the Indian Health system. Mr. SWETT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Service system, it also has the highest suc­ pay tribute to Dr. Robert H. Rines and his ten­ cess rate of programs assisting native Ameri­ In addition, Mr. Speaker, I'd like to pay spe­ ure as founder and president of Franklin cans. cial recognition to the Rockwell Valley chapter Pierce Law Center in Concord, NH. Dr. Rines The Winnebago and Omaha Tribes created of the NMA. The chapter is a nonprofit organi­ zation of roughly 1,1 00 members from Rock­ has been a leader in the field of patent and in­ this unit to help stem an extraordinarily serious tellectual property law, both nationally and problem in Indian country. The tragic results of well International's Rocketdyne, Science Cen­ internationally. As an intellectual property law­ alcoholism and substance abuse can be seen ter, and Digital Communications Divisions. Its members work in several portions of my 21st yer, he has represented many inventors in the throughout the United States, and especially successful commercialization of their inven­ among Indian people. the Winnebago DDU Distriet, including Canoga Park, Westlake Vil­ lage, Thousand Oaks, Santa Susana, and tions. has developed an innovative treatment pro­ In 1973, Dr; Rines founded Franklin Pierce gram for native Americans that deserves to be Newbury Park. Law Center as an institution designed to make considered elsewhere. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me legal education more relevant to the needs of The DDU provides several special treatment in honoring Management Week in America, the public and private sectors in dealing with programs for native Americans that other In- June 1-6. May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11573 TRIBUTE TO LEE-ANN HEVEY their most recent winner, "Weird AI" responsibilities include administration and Yankovick. Others who have conducted the management of the planning, design and ft­ HON. RONALD K. MACHfLEY JPO include Jack Benny, Chevy Chase, Henry nancing of regional shopping malls and cert­ OF RHODE ISLAND Fonda, Jayne Mansfield, Cesar Romero, ters throughout the United States. Yakov Smirnoff, and many others. Mr. Speaker, I am sure that I join his wife IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Dr. Katz has provided teenagers from all Josephine and his children, Phyllis and John Thursday, May 14, 1992 backgrounds with musical training, and more in congratulating J. Phillip on receiving this Mr. MACHTLEY. Mr. Speaker, it is my dis­ importantly, guidance and motivation to be­ coveted award from the Youngstown State tinct pleasure to congratulate Lee-Ann Hevey, come productive member so four society. The University Alumni Association. of Pawtucket, as this year's recipient of the many thousands who participate in the J PO Congressman Ronald K. Machtley Academic do so at a most impressionable young age and Leadership Excellence Award for Shea when drugs and other less wholesome life­ NASA ASTRONAUTS "ENDEAVOUR" High School in Pawtucket, Rl. styles clamor for their attention. He takes a TO PERSEVERE This award is presented to the student, cho­ personal interest in all youth, providing the sen by Shea High School, who demonstrates guidance and attention that this often sorely HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON a mature blend of academic achievement, missing at home and at school. As an out­ OF CALIFORNIA community involvement and leadership quali­ spoken critic of drug use, he firmly believes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ties. that the best deterrent to the drug problem is Thursday, May 14, 1992 participation in a musical aggregation; for 55 Lee-Ann Hevey has more than fulfilled this Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, yesterday years he has provided that opportunity. criteria. She is a member of the National and the entire world witnessed human ingenuity, Rhode Island Societies. She is also active in It is an honor to bring to the attention of my colleagues in ttie House of Representatives courage, and skill of the highest caliber. At extra-curricular activities. She is a member of 5:15 p.m. astronauts Pierre Thuot, Richard the swim team, the volleyball team and a writ­ the significant achievements of this remark­ able man. I ask that you join me in expressing Hieb, and Thomas Akers stepped into space er for the yearbook. She is a Presidential Fit­ to implement an emergency satellite rescue ness Award Winner and participated in Project praise and gratitude for his work with young people and the community, and to wish Dr. plan that they helped conceive. I would like to Close-Up. pay tribute to the crew of Endeavour and all Katz good health and many years o ~ continued I commend Lee-Ann Hevey for her out­ those who contributed to this successful res­ standing achievements and wish her all the contributions to our community and our Na­ tion. cue effort. This mission marks the first time in best in her future endeavors. history that three humans have ever space walked simultaneously. Their mission was to IN HONOR OF DR. ERNST KATZ TRIBUTE TO J. PHILLIP RICHLEY snare and secure the runaway lntelsat, a state-of-the-art communications satellite which HON. MEL LEVINE HON. JAMES A. TRAFlCANf, JR. had eluded two previous capture attempts. OF OHIO This third and final attempt did not rely on a OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $7 million high-technology grappling hook, but IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, May 14, 1992 rather on the gloved hands of the astronauts Thursday, May 14, 1992 themselves. These brave men placed them­ Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I rise here Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. Speaker, selves in great danger and exhibited supreme today to pay tribute to J. Phillip Richley, a man control and coordination as they gingerly held today I rise to honor Dr. Ernst Katz, founder who has served the people of the Mahoning and conductor of the Junior Philharmonic Or­ the massive satellite in place. Four and one­ Valley for over 30 years. J. Phillip Richley will half painstaking hours later, lntelsat was safe­ chestra [JPO] of California for his 55 years of now receive, among his many other awards, dedicated service on the podium. This makes ty attached to the Endeavoul's robot arm, and the 1992 Distinguished Citizen Award pre­ the necessary repairs where underway. the Junior Philharmonic the only 55-year-old sented by the Alumni Association of the orchestra with its original conductor and also Such creative problem solving accomplished Youngstown State University. in the most extreme environment of space the oldest young people's symphony in the Born in Roccanova, Italy, J. Phillip Richley's West. He will be honored on May 27, 1992, at represents the best of the human spirit. Just a family came to the Town of Niles, OH, in my couple of weeks ago, we voted to continue the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Los Angeles. 17th Congressional District. After graduating While Dr. Katz has been a leader in numer­ manned missions into space through our sup­ from Niles McKinley High School in 1954, J. port of the space station, which will serve as ous projects relating to music, his work has Phillip Richley attended Youngstown State never lost the focus of young people. His the centerpiece of our manned space pro­ University. He also graduated from the U.S. gram. This latest rescue operation is sure to projects show his dedication to his orchestra's Navy Quartermaster School and the U.S. motto: "Give Youth a Chance To Be Heard." provide invaluable practical experience for our Naval Academy Prep School. future excursions into space, and once again Since January 22, 1937, the date Dr. Katz Mr. Richley's career mirrors a Horatio Alger founded the JPO, this devoted American has illustrates the importance of manned space story from the past. An immigrant's son, J. flight. I applaud the remarkable efforts of the volunteered to provide musical training, edu­ Phillip Richley began his rise to the ranks of Endeavour team, and wish them good luck cation, and a musical library at no charge to mayor in 1950 when he started as a surveyor thousands of our youth. He has done so with­ and God's speed as they complete their mis­ for the city of Youngstown. In 1971, Governor sion and return home. out government subsidy. Under his direction, John J. Gilligan appointed J. Phillip Richley the Junior Philharmonic is completely non­ the director of the Ohio Department of Trans­ commercial and does not ask for contributions, portation. Then in 1978, the people of Youngs­ RECOGNIZING THE ACHIEVEMENTS while volunteering hundreds of performances town elected J. Phillip Richley to be mayor of OF THE EMPIRE STATESMEN raising millions of dollars for many recognized Youngstown, at a time when the city boomed charities. with people and steel mills. HON. FRANK HORTON The story of the JPO also relates an impor­ Aside his civic duties, J. Phillips Richley OF NEW YORK tant part of their history with a close affiliation serves in several boards and councils. He de­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to most of Hollywood's motion picture, tele­ votes much of his time to economic develop­ vision, and radio personalities. Upon being ment and transportation planning. While direc­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 founded, the Junior Philharmonic created the tor of transportation he was responsible for the Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrity "Battle of Batons" featuring Holly­ administration of planning, design, construc­ recognize the tremendous accomplishments wood's biggest names conducting the JPO in tion, operation, and maintenance of 18,000 and continuing achievement of the World competition. The most humorous event is miles of the State and Federal highway sys­ Champion Empire Statesmen of Rochester, crowned each year with the awarding of the tem in Ohio. NY. coveted Golden Baton. Hundreds of perform­ Currently, J. Phillip Richley is the vice presi­ The Empire Statesmen, New York's senior ers have participated in the "Battle" including dent of Development for the Cafaro Co. His drum and bugle corps, is a 11 0-member corps 11574 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 celebrating its 1Oth anniversary. The States­ insurance for their employees. With some 30 ing muscles. But obstacles can be over come men are directed by Mr. Vincent Bruni, who I million folks who are uninsured in this country on the way to victory with America's chal­ am pleased to have known for many years. that is a worthwhile goal all by itself. lenge to inspire us. Our nation is not perfect, Mr. Bruni, an internationally acclaimed cho­ I urge my colleagues to join me in this effort there is a lot of flab, soft spots, our lungs are clouded. I will speak directly to four obsta­ reographer, has guided the Statesmen through to provide equitable tax treatment and an in­ cles that stand between America and its their first decade, a time that has seen the centive to ensure adequate health coverage challenge. group grow from a mere idea into a world by cosponsoring this bill. We ought to be en­ First crime. It is like a cancer in the tissue champion corps. couraging self-employed taxpayers to provide of our society. Our national body is addicted Under Mr. Bruni's direction, the corps has sufficient health care coverage for themselves, to the poison of drugs and the crime and kill­ received many accolades. Some of the corps their families, and employees. ing they bring. "The Unesco Courier" re­ accomplishments include performing at Rich ports a robbery every fifty five seconds, an Stadium for the Buffalo Bills, in Toronto for the aggravated assault every forty nine, a mur­ JOEL STEPHAN ANTE8-UTAH WIN­ der every twenty four minutes. Blue Jays, and opening and leading the 1986 A second obstacle between America and its Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. The NER OF THE "VOICE OF DEMOC­ RACY'' ESSAY CONTEST challenge, is like poor nutrition to a Statesmen have also performed charity con­ marathoner. It is poverty. The United States certs in the Greater Rochester area for the is the world's richest nation yet over thirty families of children with cancer. HON. JAMES V. HANSEN million people live below the poverty level. Recently, the Statesmen captured the 1991 OF UTAH People in poverty while many live in an ex­ Drug Corps Associates World Championships, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cess that allows us to waste so much. This waste ties directly to a third weak­ which were held last September in Scranton, Thursday, May 14, 1992 ness. The destruction of our environment. In PA. This championship performance resulted Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Speaker, each year, the its study of "Our Dying Planet" Time maga­ in the Statesmen being invited to perform at Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States zine reveals Americans as weal thy wasters. the final game of the European Soccer Cham­ and its Ladies Auxiliary conduct its "Voice of Six percent of the world's population we pionships in Goteberg, Sweden this June. The Democracy" broadcast scriptwriting contest. consume fifty percent of the resources used Statesmen are the only American unit selected This program allows students all across the each year. And we squander these treasures. to participate in the World Cup festivities, and There are thousands of landfills, open sores country to express their views on vital national filling faster than we can cut new ones. Each they have also been asked to continuously issues and to develop their writing skills. Out promote the 1994 World Cup Soccer Cham­ year Americans cast aside 220 million tires, of the 147,000 students who participated this 1.6 billion ballpoint pens, 2 billion razors, pionships to be held in the United States. year, only 22 were chosen as finalists. Each fi­ and 16 billion disposable diapers: 22 and a Mr. Speaker, we in upstate New York are nalist will share $76,000 in scholarships from half billion pounds of waste a year. Filled extremely proud to call the Empire Statesmen the VFW to help in furthering their education. with trash we can not meet the challenge. our own. I congratulate them on their out­ I am proud, Mr. Speaker, to note that one Finally, like any athlete Americans face standing achievement and wish them the best of these 22 students was 16-year-old Joel problems of the mind. Here our nation's edu­ of luck in Sweden. Stephan Antes, from Layton High School in cation system fails. The refusal to support education has led not to cutting fat, but the Layton, UT. arteries of learning. Student scores and SELF-EMPLOYED TAX DEDUCTION His essay, on the theme of "Meeting Ameri­ skills crumble in a world where success in FOR HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS ca's Challenge," follows: education does not mean excellence it means MEETING AMERICA'S CHALLENGE survival. My Challenge is just ahead. The strange In the early morning cold it's no good to HON. PAT WilliAMS rows of old world houses flit by to the steady lie in the warm covers and make excuses. I OF MONTANA pounding of my feet on the cobblestones. The refuse to consider the idea I will not win IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES straggling line of runners turn the last cor­ olympic gold. To meet that challenge I ner and two things loom ahead, the great throw myself into the task. America must Thursday, May 14, 1992 gate of the stadium and the sweat soaked demand discipline. Flaws must not become Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, today I am in­ number across the back of the one runner be­ excuses. Overcoming them will give ·us troducing legislation that would provide equity tween me and the gold medal. As we pass strength. The challenge lies ahead, Our in­ into the shade of the tunnel a gate opens in alienable rights, our government of, by and for farmers and ranchers along with all other for the people, our day when all men will be self-employed taxpayers by giving them 1 my heart, the burden of twenty six miles oo­ falls from me, my muscles leap and I shoot free at last. These dreams of America's percent deductibility of health insurance costs past my staggering opponent and into the founders, these words of Lincoln and King which would be retroactive to December 31 , blinding sun and deafening roar of 120 thou­ are more than platitudes they embody the 1991. sand spectators. I surge around the track to­ golden challenge that we must strive to The current 25-percent health insurance ward the finish line and turn the great bend meet. As we dodge the icy puddles and face cost tax deduction has been extended twice. It into the sun. The roar grows deafening. I the cold drizzle in the dark let's keep our is high time that we make the tax deduction raise my arms to break the ribbon * * * eyes on these golden dreams, on meeting permanent and expand the deduction to 100 Splat. A wall of muddy slush covers me, America's challenge. the bright head lights of a car swerve past percent of health insurance costs. This puts with a honk and a jeer to disappear into sole proprietors on the same level as their small red tail lights in the drizzle of the competitors who are organized as C corpora­ early morning dark. I've been jerked back to TRIBUTE TO STUART ROSE tions and are able to take advantage of full the reality of my before-school run, the cold deductibility of these same health costs. dark of my home town in dingy late winter. HON. JAMFS A. TRAflCANT, JR. The cost of health care and health insur­ But even as I dodge the rotting snow banks OF OHIO and splash the edges of the black-water slush ance premiums has escalated over the last IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES decade. In 1990, the United States spent $666 pools the vision of Olympic gold begins once again to grow in my mind. My burning deter­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 billion on health care. The private sector paid mination to meet that distant challenge roughly $380 billion or 58 percent of national brings strength to my muscles, and resolve Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I would like health expenditures. Meanwhile, the farmers to my heart. to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. and ranchers all over the country have had America, too, holds a challenge in its Stuart Rose, the owner of Rex Radio and Tel­ some tough economic times. In Montana the heart. A distant prize, a time when all men evision, Inc., who is the recipient of the Spirit 1980's were accompanied by drought and in­ can be free at last, a dream of life, liberty of Life Award given by the City of Hope Medi­ creased Federal regulations. Montana alone and happiness for all. The inalienable rights cal Center. has over 20,000 farm and ranch families that of men are like rare and distant gold medals Noted for his outstanding business accom­ to a runner. Only by providing them to all would benefit from this legislation. these people will we be "Meeting America's plishments, Mr. Rose is honored this year as My bill, along with providing an even playing Challenge". an outstanding community leader and exem­ field for sole proprietorships, gives them the Our nation faces many obstacles, even as a plary mark on the radio and television indus­ incentive to furnish employer-provided health runner must face the morning cold and ach- try. May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11575 Mr. Rose is not only an accomplished busi­ being chosen the 1992 State Small Business the United Nations and overflights by our nessman, but also a supporter of several wor­ Person of the Year. This week is America's American planes, that has kept the Iraqi Army thy organizations including the Humane Soci­ 29th Annual Small Business Week, a time to at bay and allowed these people a slight ety, the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton, recognize our Nation's small business men measure of security and safety. and the Dayton Natural History Museum. and women and their accomplishments. On However, a deadline is looming. Next month Mr. Speaker, I congratulate Mr. Rose for all May 12, I attended a luncheon here in Wash­ the United Nations mandate in that area will he has contributed to the people and commu­ ington honoring Mr. Myers and other State expire and what will follow will surely be a nity that surround him. small business persons. genocide of the Kurdish people. Saddam Hus­ Jim Myers has been serving the public for sein has had no qualms about expressing his years through his business and community disdain for the Kurdish people through gassing IN HONOR OF MARVIN LENDER service. By providing quality products and the town of Habladja and the continued care, he has come to exemplify success for slaughter of innocent women and children. HON. ROSA L DeLAURO small business people as they continue to Yet, we now have the opportunity to bring to OF CONNECTICUT help build America's future. the Bush administrations notice an historic IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I would like to commend Mr. Myers for his event. This Sunday, May 17, the Kurdish peo­ loyalty and contributions to Tuscaloosa, and ple will take an historic step toward expressing Thursday, May 14, 1992 again, congratulate him on being selected Ala­ their desire to be part of the democratic com­ Ms. DELAURO. Mr. Speaker, this week peo­ bama's Small Business Person of the Year. munity by holding parliamentary and presi­ ple from all over Connecticut will come to­ dential elections. In this way, they hope to pro­ gether to pay tribute to a unique individual vide the world with concise proof that what we who has made outstanding contributions to his NATIONAL POLICE WEEK have is a freedom-loving people who want the community at the local, national, and inter­ same guarantees of freedom and security that national levels. I join Marvin Lender's many HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER the rest of the democratic world shares. friends and colleagues in recognizing his tre­ OF NEW YORK At this time, a delegation of congressional mendous achievements. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES staff members, foreign affairs specialists and In addition to his extremely successful busi­ human rights activists have departed for Tur­ ness career, Marvin Lender has always been Thursday, May 14, 1992 key in order to travel into the Kurdish areas a leader in helping others. As he retires from Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, in recognition and observe these elections. Led by the his successful term as national chairman of of National Police Week, and the National former two-time Governor of Nevada and cur­ the United Jewish Appeal, he is completing Peace Officers' Memorial Service held today, rent editor of the Las Vegas Sun Mike just one more chapter in a long series of May 15, we pay respects to the brave men O'Callahan, this delegation will report back to achievements that have made a difference in and women in law enforcement who lost their myself and other Members of Congress about many lives worldwide. He has encouraged lives in the performance of their duties. Last the continued plight of these people and the others to give to those less fortunate than year, we lost 118 of our gallant officers. need to afford them continued security. themselves and led by his own example, gen­ Every year, the names of these men and Currently I have introduced legislation be­ erously dedicating his time and talents to helr:r women who gave their lives in service to their fore the Congress, with the cosponsorship of ing those most in need. Within the United country are enshrined in the National Law En­ Chairman DANTE FASCELL, LEE HAMILTON, and Jewish Appeal, he has served in many capac­ forcement Officers Memorial in Washington, STEPHEN SOLARZ, that will express the sense ities, from helping Soviet and Ethiopian Jews DC. This memorial already includes the of Congress that the United Nations presence emigrate to Israel to raising money for local names of more than 12,500 Federal, State, should be extended and that this conflict charities. His efforts have improved the lives and local law enforcement officers killed in the should be resolved once and for all in order to of Jews in the United States, Israel, and all line of duty since the existence of organized afford these people the security that they de­ over the world. police in our country. When you begin to con­ serve. I urge my colleagues to support House Mr. Lender's leadership has also extended sider the number of living victims-wives, hus­ Concurrent Resolution 299 and call for its im­ beyond the Jewish community, touching the bands, children, families-one can begin to mediate enactment. lives of many throughout the New Haven area. understand the level of anguish felt across the I would also like to submit for the RECORD He has lent his vision and expertise to Yale country for those who make this ultimate sac­ today's article from the New York Times which New Haven Hospital as well as the New rifice. covers the upcoming election. so that my fel­ Haven Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Foun­ As we somberly remember those law en­ low members will be aware of the historic dation. As cochairman of the New Haven Hol­ forcement officers who gave their lives, we events occurring in the region. I urge them not ocaust and Prejudice Reduction Program, he must recommit ourselves to protecting the only to read this article but to make the choice helps to educate schoolchildren in order to di­ hundreds of thousands of brave officers who to support an end to the violence perpetrated minish racial and ethnic tensions in our com­ daily make enormous sacrifices in performing against these people. munity. vital service to these United States. [From the New York Times, May 13, 1992] In every way, Marvin Lender has been an IRAQI KURDS PREPARE FOR FIRST FREE outstanding citizen and a role model to us all. ELECTIONS All of us in Connecticut owe him our gratitude IN RECOGNITION OF KURDISH (By Leslie Weaver) and deep admiration. We are truly proud · of HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE UP­ Erbil, Iraq, May 12.-With campaign, ral­ him. I am confident that he will continue to COMING ELECTIONS lies, parades, slogans and speeches, Kurds in lend his enormous talents and commitment to northern Iraq are gearing up for their first our community in the years to come. HON. JAMES H. BILBRAY free elections outside of Iraqi control. "This election is the first historical chance OF NEVADA for the Kurdish people to determine their fu­ JAMES MYERS CHOSEN AS ALA­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ture," said Jalal Talabani, one of the Kurds' BAMA'S STATE SMALL BUSINESS Thursday, May 14, 1992 two main party leaders, together with Massoud Barzani. PERSON OF THE YEAR Mr. BILBRAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise before The two are offering different visions of you today to appraise the Members of this the future: autonomy through direct nego­ HON. CLAUDE HARRIS House about the dire situation that continues tiations with Baghdad, favored by Mr. Barzani, or a more independent self-rule OF ALABAMA to rage in the Kurdish occupied areas of the within Iraq, with any negotiations with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES northern Iraq. There continues to be nearly a million refu­ Baghdad conducted through the United Na­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 tions. gees stranded in the peaks of the treacherous With Iraqi rule loosened when Western coa­ Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Iraqi/Turkish border with the very real fear that lition forces established a security zone in congratulate Mr. James N. Myers, president of death is what they face if they return to their northern Iraq after the Kurds' failed uprising Jim Myers Drug, Inc., in Tuscaloosa, AL, on homes. It is only the continued presence of last spring, about a million Kurds are ex- 11576 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 pected to vote on Sunday, election officials Law Assistance Programs for Central and the Commonwealth of Independent States. I said. Eastern Europe attached. The text of the cor­ regret our delay in responding. They will vote for one of seven party lists respondence follows: You ask first for our overall evaluation of from which a roughly 100-member legislative the Rule of Law Program for Central and assembly will be drawn proportionally. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Eastern Europe. We believe that the program The voters will also choose one of four can­ Washington, DC, February 21, 1992. has been extremely successful. I am enclos­ didates, including Mr. Barzani and Mr. The Hon. LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER, ing by way of background a summary list of Talabani, as Kurdish leader, though ultimate Deputy Secretary of State, Department of State, programs that have been funded in FY 1991 power will rest with the assembly, they said. Washington, DC. under the Rule of Law Program. A few of our The prospect that the elections could fur­ DEAR MR. SECRETARY: I write with respect achievements with the FY 1991 allocation in­ ther weaken Iraq's grip on the region has to the Rule of Law program in Central and clude: raised fears that Baghdad, which recently Eastern Europe. The purpose of this letter is Providing long-term consultants as advis­ strengthened its forces along the Kurdish to obtain your assessment of the speed, qual­ ers to aid individuals involved in legal re­ front, may try to disrupt the polls through ity, and effectiveness of program implemen­ forms in Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia; military action or sabotage, Kurdish offi­ tation, and your plans for a similar program Conducting an intensive week-long judicial cials said. in the former Soviet Union. seminar in Romania that was so successful Campaigning has been most intense in this First, I would like your overall evaluation that the Romanians requested that it be sprawling city of some 800,000 on the south­ of the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern made an annual tradition; ern fringe of the Kurdish-controlled zone, Europe. It is my understanding that USIA In limited cases as appropriate, conducting where senior officials in the two main par­ has taken the lead on program implementa­ thorough needs assessments to ensure a ties say a local victory could spell victory tion, under the combined policy oversight di­ thoughtful approach to future assistance ef­ overall. rection of USIA and the Human Rights Bu­ forts; and Both claim to hold majority support in the reau of the Department of State. Providing focused shorter-term consult­ city, where residents say the parties' stands What were the successes and problems in ants to provide advice on particular subjects on future relations with Baghdad is the key program implementation during FY 1990 and under consideration by Central and Eastern issue. 1991? European governments, such as judicial re­ Mr. Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Demo­ What changes do you propose in the man­ structuring, parliamentary oversight of se­ cratic Party led for years by his father, the agement of the FY 1992 Rule of Law program curity forces, and civil control of the mili­ late tribal and guerrilla leader Mustafa and how will those changes improve the tary. Barzani, has said he favors reaching an speed, quality and effectiveness of program For FY 1992, we have enhanced the inter­ implementation? automony agreement with Baghdad because Who will monitor and organize the pro­ agency group that oversees the program. In he does not believe any other solution would gram in the field? the field, programs will be carried out, as win the support of neighboring countries or Second, I would like to know about the they have in the past, by USIS officers under the West. role of non-governmental organizations in the direction of the Public Affairs Officer, Mr. Talabani, veteran leader of the Patri­ the Rule of Law program. and, ultimately, the Ambassador. otic Union of Kurdistan, has said that Bagh­ What role do you see for NGO's in this pro­ You also ask about the role of nongovern­ dad has lost credibility in past autonomy gram? mental organizations in the rule of law pro­ talks. How specifically does this program benefit gram and particularly about the work of the He said he favors self-determination for from the participation of a number of agen­ American Bar Association Central and East­ the Kurds within a democratic Iraq that cies and organizations, both inside and out­ ern European Law Initiative [ABA CEELI]. would grant .the Kurds more self-rule than side the U.S. government? We believe that the CEELI project has pro­ simple autonomy, and has said that any fu­ What is your assessment of the work done vided valuable services to Central and East­ ture talks should be carried out through the to date by the American Bar Association, ern European legal reforms in the course of United Nations. the NGO which nas worked on implementa­ its assistance program funded by the $400,000 Many residents said they believed the elec­ tion of the Rule of Law program? grant it received from the National Endow­ tions, particularly for the assembly, were Do you foresee a continuing role for the ment from Democracy in FY 1990. The Agen­ too close to call. They said Mr. Barzani's ABA and other non-governmental organiza­ cy for International Development is in the party was generally believed to have the tions in the Rule of Law program? process of making a grant award to the ABA widest overall support. But they said many Do you plan to set aside a specific share of CEELI of nearly $280,000 to carry out assist­ Kurds were also expected to vote for Mr. Rule of Law funding for proposals and par­ ance activities in the rule of law area in Talabani's party because they fear that ticipation by non-governmental organiza­ order to permit CEELI to carry on its suc­ under autonomy, Iraq might use the return tions? cessful assistance activities, and additional of its civil administration, withdrawn from Finally, I would like to inquire about the funding for the ABA is contemplated in the the Kurdish area last fall, to restore its grip SEED model for Rule of Law programs in the future. on the area. former Soviet Union. We also contemplate that a portion of the Kurdish officials are struggling to insure Do you seek to replicate the same struc­ FY 1992 Rule of Law funds administered at fair elections, with polling places to be su­ tures and program in the former Soviet USIA will also be made available as grants pervised by representatives of all seven par­ Union? to private organizations prepared to contrib­ ties as well as international observers. Is the replication of existing SEED pro­ ute to program goals in the rule of law area. After two incidents between supporters of gram structures, and participation by the We will also continue, as we have in the past, rival parties in the last few weeks erupted in same or similar non-governmental organiza­ to encourage coordination and collaboration gunfire, leaders of all parties have called on tions, the quickest and most effective way to among a variety of governmental agencies supporters to calm campaign rivalry and begin Rule of Law programs in the former and organizations such as the Department of have publicly pledged to abide by the results. Soviet Union? Justice, the Federal Judicial Center, the Ad­ How precisely will you monitor and imple­ ministrative Conference of the United ment a program in the former Soviet Union? States. These agencies all have a substantial RULE OF LAW PROGRAM IN I appreciate your attention to this letter amount of expertise and resources to con­ CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE and look forward to your reply. tribute to the problems faced by Central and With best regards, Eastern European governments in effecting Sincerely, legal reform. HON. LEE H. HAMILTON LEE H. HAMILTON, The allocation of funding under the Rule of OF INDIANA Chairman, Subcommittee on Europe Law program is still under discussion, but as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and the Middle East. a general matter, the amount of funds ex­ pended on grants to outside organizations Thursday, May 14, 1992 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, will be determined in large part by the cali­ Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I would like to Washington, DC, May 4, 1992. ber of the grant applications received. In ad­ bring to the attention of my colleagues cor­ The Hon. LEE H. HAMILTON, dition, because of the importance of Central respondence I had with the Department of Chairman, Subcommittee on Europe and the and Eastern European legal reforms to the American foreign policy agenda, we believe State concerning the Rule of Law Program in Middle East, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC. that when U.S. Government funds are sup­ Central and Eastern Europe. I wrote to the DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: This responds to your porting an effort to provide basic assistance Department of State on February 21, 1992 on February 21 letter to Deputy Secretary to a foreign government related to the shap­ this topic, and on May 4, 1992, I received a Eagleburger inquiring about the Rule of Law ing of a Constitution or the design and im­ reply, to which a summary list of U.S. Rule of program for Central and Eastern Europe and plementation of basic laws establishing a May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11577 legal system, it is imperative that the U.S. American Bar Association with several Slovakian Ministries to provide Government be involved on a cooperative The United States has provided funding to assistance on criminal justice reform. basis. the Central and East European Law Initia­ (Also see regional programs: George Wash­ Finally, you ask about program plans for tive [CEELI] of the American Bar Associa­ ington University.) rule of law assistance to the Commonwealth tion to support assistance activities in the F. HUNGARY of Independent States. Final decisions have rule of law area throughout the region. A list Long-Term Legal Consultant yet to be made on the ultimate size and pro­ of ABA CEELI activities to date is available. Colombia University Law School (Profes­ gramming of our assistance activities in this George Washington University LLM Program area. sor George Fletcher) has received a grant to Thus far, $250,000 has been made available George Washington University has pro­ advise the Hungarian Ministry of Justice on to the State Department Bureau of Human vided tuition waivers for six Central and legal reforms. The grant is supporting the Rights and Humanitarian Affairs to continue Eastern European lawyers (three from placement of an on-site attorney, Henry and expand on a series of rule of law pro­ Czechoslovakia, two from Romania, and one Baker, as an advisor to the Ministry. grams that it had initiated in the past. We from Hungary) attending a year-long master Long-Term Legal Consultant to the General expect that these will include: (1) regular in­ of laws program at the University during the Prosecutor and Interior Ministry volvement of U.S. judges in continuing edu­ 1991-1992 academic year. USG grant funds are being used to cover travel to and from the An Assistant U.S. Attorney, John cation programs of the Legal Academy of the McEnany, is spending six months in Hungary Russian Ministry of Justice (formerly a part U.S. and housing and living expenses while the students attend the program. providing advice on criminal justice reform of the Soviet Ministry of Justice); (2) a simi­ efforts. B. ALBANIA lar judicial cooperation effort with the Advice on Drafting of Labor Codes Ukrainian Government, and, (3) an intensive Analysis and Advice on Criminal Justice System three- or four-week summer seminar in The Chief Deputy Administrative Law A U.S. District Court judge, Robert Sweet, Judge of the National Labor Relations Washington D.C. for legal system officials visited Albania for 3 weeks in November-De­ from throughout the CIS. In fact, a group of Board, David Davidson, has been identified cember 1991 to advise Albanian officials on to provide technical legal assistance to the U.S. judges has recently returned from a judicial reform and to assess legal system three-week program at the Russian Legal Hungarian Ministry of Labor on matters of needs. Follow-up is planned now that elec­ labor legislation and law. Academy earlier this month. tions have been held. In addition, USIA is conducting a number (Also see regional programs: George Wash­ of rule of law activities out of its base pro­ C. BALTICS ington University.) gram budget. These include work with the Council of Europe-Estonia Conference G. POLAND Administrative Conference of the United Two U.S. judges participated in a seminar Future Programs States on a program in Moscow and Kiev to sponsored by the Council of Europe in con­ The Interagency Steering Committee on provide information and assistance in the ad­ junction with the Estonian Ministry of Jus­ Rule of Law Programs is considering pro­ ministrative law area. USIA will also be sup­ tice. Roughly two-thirds of the judges in Es­ gram possibilities. porting assistance for the Russian Constitu­ tonia attended. The U.S. delegation also tional Court. spent a week in discussions with Estonian H. ROMANIA Beyond current funding, we contemplate legal system officials and officials and stu­ Needs Assessment that substantial additional funding will be dents of the University of Tartu Law School. A U.S. delegation in April 1991 led by made available for rule of law activities. We Baltic Judicial Visit former U.S. Ambassador to Romania Harry anticipate that both governmental and non­ Nine judges, three each from Lithuania, Barnes assessed the state of Romanian legal governmental organizations (such as the Latvia, and Estonia, visited the U.S. in Feb­ reforms, provided advice on several issues, ABA CEELI project) will receive consider­ ruary-March 1992 for a four-week inter­ and identified specific future needs and as­ able resources to expand current efforts. national visitor program to study the U.S. sistance projects. Policy direction for rule of law assistance legal system. Technical Assistance Materials to the Commonwealth of Independent States Additional programs are under develop­ A large volume of materials describing is provided by the Bureau of Human Rights ment. particular areas of U.S. laws has been pro­ and Humanitarian Affairs, as is the case for D. BULGARIA vided to specific Romanian officials who re­ the Central and Eastern European assistance Long Term Legal Consultant quested information on U.S. treatment of program. Implementation in Washington and these subjects (e.g., government regulation in the field reflects cooperative relations be­ The United States is in the process of of­ fering an Assistant U.S. Attorney as a legal of citizen demonstrations, oversight of intel­ tween the State Department and other agen­ ligence, slander and libel law, among others). cies, including A.I.D., USIA, the Department consultant for six months to the Ministry of of Justice, and the Federal Judicial Center. Justice on criminal procedure law (among Judicial Seminar Evaluations will also be done as required by other subjects) as requested by the Minister A week-long judicial seminar was held in A.I.D. standards. of Justice. Poiana Brasov, Romania in August 1991. Six I hope this information is useful to you. Administrative Law U.S. judges and 60 Romanian judges and Please feel free to let me know if additional A delegation from the Administrative Con­ prosecutors addressed various topics dealing information would be helpful. ference of the United States visited Bulgaria with the independence of the judiciary, judi­ Sincerely, to explore the need for assistance in adminis­ cial reform, and responsibility. The con­ JANET G. MULLINS, trative law issues. Follow up is contemplated ference was featured on Romanian tele­ Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs. this summer, possibly to include a two­ vision, and papers presented at the con­ month stay by a Bulgarian-speaking State ference are expected to be published in a Ro­ U.S. RULE OF LAW ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR Department attorney experienced in admin­ manian legal journal. CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, FISCAL istrative law. Advice on Parliamentary Oversight of Security YEAR 1991-92 Civil OVersight of the Military Organizations A. REGIONAL PROGRAMS A former General Counsel of the U.S. De­ Responding to a request from the chairman Interagency Steering Committee on Rule of Law partment of Defense spent a week in Sofia in of the Parliamentary Committee on Na­ Programs February 1992 working with the Ministry of tional Defense and Public Order, a U.S. ex­ The Human Rights Bureau of Human Defense on reform legislation establishing pert in intelligence oversight and former De­ Rights and Humanitarian Affairs of the civilian control of the military. partment of Justice official spent a week in State Department and the U.S. Information Romania in December 1991 advising members E. CZECH AND SLOVAK FEDERAL REPUBLIC of Parliament on effective means of estab­ Agency [USIA] Programs Bureau co-chair an Needs Assessment Interagency Steering Committee on Rule of lishing oversight. Law Programs that administers USIA assist­ At the request of the Embassy, a needs as­ Long-Term Legal Consultant ance in the rule of law area for Central and sessment was conducted in September 1991 to An Oregon state judge and an attorney em­ Eastern Europe. The overall funding levels develop a comprehensive strategy for legal ployed by the Oregon State Attorney Gen­ for FY 1991 and FY 1992 respectively under assistance. Implementation of the report's eral's Office are spending six months as legal this program were Sl.1 million (of which recommendations is currently under discus­ consultants in Romania. Based in the Insti­ $350,000 was set aside for the Baltics), and $1 sion by the Interagency Steering Committee tute on Juridical Sciences of the Romanian million. Country-specific programs described on Rule of Law Programs. Academy, they are working with the Min­ below were funded with FY 1991 Rule of Law Slovak Legal Consultant istry of Justice, the Office of the General Program funds administered by the Working An Assistant U.S. Attorney, Adam Schiff, Prosecutor, and other officials on various as­ Group. is spending six months in Bratislava working pects of legal reform. 11578 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 JudiciaVProsecutorial Seminar Mr. Speaker, it is with great pride that I ask that will enable the people of East Timor to At the request of Romanian officials, a you and my fellow Members of Congress to exercise freely their right to self-determina­ seminar for judges and prosecutors is being join me in paying tribute to the Pontiac Youth tion." planned for Bucharest in summer 1992 as a In Government project. Their unyielding com­ Despite the revulsion of the world commu­ follow-up to the August 1991 judicial semi­ mitment to the development of their city's nity to the illegal annexation of East Timor by nar. In connection with the upcoming pro­ youth should serve as a model for the entire Indonesia, Indonesia continues to occupy East gram, mini-seminars would be conducted at Timor in contravention of international law and other locations in Romania. Two to three Nation. U.S. judges and two U.S. prosecutors would global opinion expressed through the United participate. It is hoped that one of these U.S. Nations. In the years since the invasion of prosecutors, experienced in forensic inves­ BILL TO PROMOTE SELF­ East Timor, international human rights groups tigation, can arrive in Romania several DETERMINATION FOR EAST TIMOR have continued to report widespread and on­ weeks before the seminar and stay several going violations of basic human rights. Visitors weeks afterwards to provide additional ad­ HON. TONY P. HAil from the outside world who have managed to vice to the General Prosecutor's Office. OF OHIO get into Indonesia-occupied East Timor have Magistrate School IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES consistently noted a climate of fear and re­ Assistance to the newly-formed Romanian pression. As an editorial of The Christian magistrate's training school is underway in Thursday, May 14, 1992 Science Monitor of April 28, 1992, summa­ a number of forms. Both U.S. legal consult­ Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, today I am rized it: "For 16 years Indonesia has kept East ants and two ABA legal liaisons are lectur­ introducing legislation to promote self-deter­ Timor in a state of perpetual repression. There ing at the school, and provision of additional mination for the people of East Timor and to is no self-government, press, unions, student, resources (including books, faculty, and in­ tangible support) is being contemplated, in terminate United States assistance to Indo­ or professional groups. The few reporters dar­ conjunction with the ABA CEELI project. nesia. I am pleased that the gentleman from ing to venture into Timor tell of police stations New York [Mr. DOWNEY], the gentleman from and torture chambers spread throughout the Massachusetts [Mr. MOAKLEY], the gentleman capital, Dili." CONGRESSMEN KILDEE PAYS from Rhode Island [Mr. MACHTLEY], and the From time-to-time, specific details of Indo­ TRIBUTE TO YOUTH IN GOVERN­ gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. FRANK] nesian atrocities have come to world attention, MENT WEEK are joining me as original cosponsors. but no such incident had the impact of the On December 7, 1975, Indonesian military massacre of unarmed Timorese at Dili's Santa HON. DALE E. KILDEE forces invaded the former Portuguese colony Cruz cemetery by Indonesian military forces of East Timor. The territory was made the on November 12, 1991. At least 75 to 100 ci­ OF MICHIGAN vilians were killed, with many more injured. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 27th Province of Indonesia in 1976. The Washington Post termed this action "integra­ The precise number of casualties may never Thursday, May 14, 1992 tion without choice," and observed in an edi­ be determined. Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to torial on May 23, 1976: "Timor's absorption Other massacres and other atrocities have rise before you today to recognize an effort ·has been a depressing example of inter­ occurred in East Timor since 1975. But this in­ promoting educational and academic interest national double standards." cident was different: it was videotaped by an among the young people of Pontiac, Ml, the At least tens of thousands of East Timor­ outsider who succeeded in smuggling the tape "Youth In Government Project". Founded over ese-most experts say between 100,000 and out of the militarized territory. In addition, two 3 years ago by two dynamic community lead­ 200,00Q-out of a population of nearly American reporters, Allan Nairn and Amy ers, Rev. Douglas Jones and former Mayor 700,000, died in the fighting, famine, and dis­ Goodman, were savagely beaten and nearly Walter Moore, the project continues to make ease that followed Indonesia's invasion and killed by the Indonesian soldiers who per­ great strides toward achieving educational eq­ occupation of East Timor. Most of these petrated the massacre. They survived to be­ come witnesses to the world of the tragedy of uity and parity for the citizens of Pontiac. deaths occurred outside of the world's view, with Indonesia effectively closing and control­ East Timor. Each school involved in the project selects The wake of the Santa Cruz massacre in ling all access to the territory. A bloodstained 13 students. One of these students will be se­ Dili, the House and the Senate each passed lected to compete for the position of "Mayor "khaki curtain" was draped over East Timor. resolutions condemning the killings, asking for For A Day". The mayor is elected by a panel Like the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the justice, and urging the monitoring of human of judges based on a brief speech prepared Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975 rights conditions in East Timor. Throughout by each contestant. The top speaker is se­ was condemned as a violation of international the years since the invasion, large numbers of lected to be mayor and the runners up fill the law. The United Nations General Assembly Representatives and Senators have cosigned positions of city council, president pro tern or passed Resolution 3485 and a Security Coun­ numerous letters and resolutions about human serve as head of a department. The program cil passed Resolution 384, both of which de­ rights violations in East Timor. In essence, is designed to give each participant a working ployed the Indonesian military intervention in these initiatives have urged the United States knowledge of municipal government structure. East Timor, called upon the Government of In­ and other concerned nations to encourage the Last night, the Pontiac Youth In Government donesia to withdraw without delay its armed Indonesian Government to stop the killing in project held a banquet for the students, par­ forces from East Timor, and reiterated the East Timor, respect basic human rights, and ents, public officials, and the officers and staff right of the people of East Timor to self-deter­ allow increased access to East Timor by inter­ of Welcome Missionary Baptist Church at 7 mination. In adopting Resolution 3485, the national human rights groups and journalists. p.m. at the Main Event, in the Pontiac United Nations General Assembly stated that Until today, these congressional efforts have Silverdome. This banquet culminated the ac­ it: "Calls upon all States to respect the inalien­ not directly addressed the question of self-de­ tivities for the 3d Annual Youth In Government able right of the people of Portuguese Timor termination for the people of East Timor. How­ Week. The 1992 Youth Mayor For A Day ad­ to self-determination, freedom and independ­ ever, the convergence of the November mas­ dressed the banquet with an award winning ence and to determine their future political sta­ sacre and current international realities have speech. tus in accordance with the principles of the sparked congressional interest in the issue of The Pontiac Youth In Government project is Charter of the United Nations and the Declara­ self-determination. dedicated to the full development of our Na­ tion on the Granting of Independence to Colo­ With the ending of the cold war, the revital­ tion's most valuable resource, our youth. The nial Countries and Peoples." ization of the United Nations, and the inter­ project represents a continuous partnership As the Indonesian occupation continued into national trend to recognize long-postponed na­ between Welcome Missionary Baptist Church, 1976, the United Nations Security Council tionalistic aspirations. the question of self-de­ the city of Pontiac and the Pontiac Board of passed Resolution 389, which again called for termination for East Timor can now be put Education. The Pontiac Youth In Government the withdrawal of Indonesian military forces upon the table. At the core of the human project has demonstrated to the Nation that from East Timor and which reaffirmed "the in­ rights violations in East Timor is a fundamen­ great achievements may be accomplished alienable right of its people to self-determina­ tal injustice: The Timorese have never been when a community works together toward a tion." This resolution further declared that "all granted the chance to determine their own fu­ common goal. efforts should be made to create conditions ture. May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11579 It is insufficient to beg the Indonesians re­ ments and international organizations that Secretary-General to initiate consultations peatedly to treat the Timorese with basic have participated in the Inter-Governmental with all parties directly involved in the situ­ human decency. This is like condoning slav­ Group on Indonesia [IGGI], whose members ation in East Timor in order to achieve a comprehensive settlement of the issue. ery, but asking the slave driver to spare the have included: Australia, Austria, Belgium, (5) Tens of thousands of East Timorese, out whip. Attention instead must be focused on Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, of a population of nearly 700,000, died in the getting the Indonesians to withdraw from East Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, fighting, famine, and disease that followed Timor and to allow the Timorese to participate Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the Indonesia's invasion and occupation of East in a referendum on self-determination. United States. Multilateral representation has Timor. Unfortunately, the Indonesians have not re­ included: the World Bank, the International (6) Throughout the years of Indonesia's oc­ sponded positively to appeals to allow the Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, cupation of East Timor, international people of East Timor to vote on their own sta­ and the U.N. Development Program. At the human rights organizations have reported June 1991 meeting of the IGGI, Indonesia's evidence of human rights violations, includ­ tus. The Government of Indonesia has ing killings, torture, arbitrary arrest, and claimed that the question of self-determination international donor community pledged a total repression of freedom of expression. was settled in 1976. The position of the United of $4.75 billion, made up of $1.89 billion in bi­ (7) Indonesia's forceful suppression of basic States has been to recognize the de facto in­ lateral aid and $2.86 billion in multilateral aid. human rights in East Timor was brought to corporation of East Timor into Indonesia, with­ The IGGI mechanism essentially was dis­ world attention on November 12, 1991 , when out acknowledging that a valid act of self-de­ solved with the discontinuation of aid to Indo­ Indonesian military forces opened fire on un­ termination occurred. nesia from the Netherlands. A World Bank ef­ armed Timorese civilians in Dili, killing 75 Since human rights violations by Indonesian fort is underway to create the Consultative to 100 people and injuring many more. (8) International human rights organiza­ forces in East Timor continue, and since Indo­ Group on Indonesia [CGI] to replace the IGGI. tions report intense repression in East Timor nesia has failed to respect the United Nations World Bank loans approved in fiscal year 1991 in the period since the massacre of November declarations calling for the withdrawal of its for Indonesia totaled $1 .6 billion. 12, 1991. troops from East Timor and self-determination The termination of bilateral aid, the suspen­ (9) In section 359 of the Foreign Relations for the Timorese, greater international pres­ sion of multilateral assistance, and the denial Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and sure must be brought to bear on Indonesia. of trade preferences would remain in effect 1993, the Congress called for an end to all Following the November massacre, Canada until the President certifies to Congress that: forms of human rights violations in East and Denmark suspended aid to Indonesia, (1) Indonesia is permitting immediate and un­ Timor and for an internationally acceptable restricted access to East Timor for inter­ solution which addresses the underlying and the Netherlands recently severed its aid to causes of the conflict in East Timor. Indonesia, including its chairing of the Inter­ national human rights organizations and inter­ (10) Indonesian military forces remain in Governmental Group on Indonesia. national organizations; (2) international human East Timor in contravention of resolutions When Iraq invaded Kuwait, the United rights organizations report that Indonesian adopted by the United Nations General As­ States spearheaded the international effort to Government forces or other military or para­ sembly and Security Council, and the Gov­ impose sanctions against the Saddam Hus­ military forces under the control of the Govern­ ernment of Indonesia has failed to initiate sein government. It was clear there could no ment of Indonesia have ended all forms of in­ an internationally recognized process for self-determination for East Timor. longer be "business as usual" with a govern­ humane treatment, including torture; (3) Indo­ nesia is in compliance with United Nations SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ment acting in blatant violation of international FOR INDONESIA. law. Similarly, there should be no "business General Assembly Resolution 3485 and Unit­ (a) TERMINATION OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE as usual" with Indonesia as long as it perpet­ ed Nations Security Council Resolutions 384 FOR lNDONESIA.-United States assistance to uates its illegal annexation of East Timor. Out­ and 389; and (4) Indonesia allows a United Indonesia shall be suspended on the date of dated cold war geopolitical considerations Nations supervised referendum on self-deter­ the enactment of this Act until the Presi­ have no place in a new world order based mination for the people of East Timor. dent determines and certifies to the Congress This is strong legislation, but a strong re­ that--- upon respect for international law and the (1) Indonesia is permitting immediate and rights of peoples to determine their own des­ sponse is long overdue to Indonesia's aggres­ sion, repression, and terror in East Timor. At unrestricted access to East Timor for inter­ tinies. national human rights organizations and The bill my colleagues and I are introducing a time when every U.S. foreign aid dollar is international organizations; today terminates United States bilateral assist­ undergoing rigorous scrutiny, why should the (2) international human rights organiza­ ance to Indonesia upon the date of enactment. taxpayers provide aid to a nation which has tions report that Indonesian government It further suspends generalized system of pref­ seized and subjugated its neighbor? The Con­ forces or other military or paramilitary erence benefits for Indonesian products and gress can both save money and stand for forces under the control of the Government principle in terminating aid to Indonesia. of Indonesia have ended all forms of inhu­ requires the Secretary of the Treasury to in­ mane treatment, including torture; struct the United States representative at the I would urge my colleagues to join with me in cosponsoring this bill, the full text of which (3) Indonesia is in compliance with United World Bank to oppose any loan or other utili­ Nations General Assembly Resolution 3485 zation of Bank funds for Indonesia. follows: · and United Nations Security Council Resolu­ Estimated fiscal year 1992 military and eco­ H.R. 5176 tions 384 and 389; and nomic aid for Indonesia is about $58 million. In Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep­ (4) Indonesia allows a United Nations su­ addition, commercial arms deliveries under the resentatives of the United States of America in pervised referendum on self-determination Arms Export Control Act are expected to total Congress assembled, for the people of East Timor. SECTION 1. FINDINGS. (b) DEFINITION.- $42.9 million in fiscal 1992, and foreign mili­ The Congress makes the following findings: (1) For the purposes of this section, the tary sales agreements should add another $1 0 (1) In violation of international law, Indo­ term "United States assistance" means as­ million. nesia invaded East Timor in December 1975, sistance of any kind which is provided by Under the generalized system of pref­ and forcefully annexed the territory in July grant, sale, loan, lease, credit, guaranty, or erences [GSP], the President can extend duty­ 1976. insurance, or by any other means, by any free treatment to some or all of the exports of (2) Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor agency or instrumentality of the United a developing nation. In 1990, total United has never been recognized by the United Na­ States Government. tions. (2) Such term includes- States imports of GSP products from Indo­ (3) The United Nations General Assembly (A) assistance under the Foreign Assist­ nesia totaled about $562 million, of which adopted Resolution 3485 in 1975 and the Unit­ ance Act of 1961 (including programs under about $216 million was in the form of GSP ed Nations Security Council adopted Resolu­ title IV of chapter 2 of part I of such Act); free imports and $346 million was in the form tion 384 in 1975 and Resolution 389 in 1976, (B) assistance under the Arms Export Con- of GSP dutiable imports. The 1991 United each of which called upon the government of trol Act; States trade deficit with Indonesia was $1.3 Indonesia to withdraw without delay its (C) sales under title I or title III and dona­ billion, with United States imports from Indo­ armed forces from East Timor and which re­ tions under title II of the Agricultural Trade iterated the right of the people of East Developn:tent and Assistance Act of 1954 of nesia of $3.2 billion and United States export Timor to self-determination in accordance nonfood commodities; to Indonesia of $1.9 billion. with General Assembly Resolution 1514(XV). (D) other financing programs of the Com­ Up until this year, Indonesia has received (4) United Nations General Assembly Reso­ modity Credit Corporation for export sales of considerable financial assistance from govern- lution 37/30 of November 1982 requested the nonfood commodities; 11580 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 (E) financing under the Export-Import can ensure that President Bush can garner an lations have little or no clear benefit, yet cost Bank Act of 1945; and international commitment to end this horror. businesses millions or billions of dollars in (F) assistance provided by the Central In­ Mr. Speaker, we are not naive. We all know compliance costs. And those costs are passed telligence Agency or assistance provided by that the divisions in Karabakh will take time to any other entity or component of the United on to consumers. States Government if such assistance is car­ resolve themselves, just as our own internal Not only do Federal agencies fail to ade­ ried out in connection with, or for purposes divisions will take time to resolve themselves. quately consider the impact of their rules on of conducting, intelligence or intelligence­ But, as the proverb says, "the journey of a small businesses, but sometimes it seems that related activities except that this shall not thousand miles begins with a single step." these bureaucrats don't care about the fact include activities undertaken solely to col­ That first step is the immediate cessation of that their mandates are driving businesses into lect necessary intelligence. violence. This is our bottom line. We call on the ground and therefore destroying jobs. In (3) Such term does not include- Azerbaijan to immediately cease shelling 1980, the Regulatory Flexibility Act [RFA] was (A) assistance which involves the donation Karabakh and to lift the blockade without passed to require agencies to analyze the im­ of food or medicine; (B) disaster relief assistance (including any delay. We also call for U.N. peacekeepers to pact of regulations on small businesses and assistance under chapter 9 of part I of the be sent to Karabakh to prevent further vio­ offer alternative solutions to costly mandates. Foreign Assistance Act of 1961); lence. The House Republican Research Committee (C) assistance for refugees; and Violence sometimes seems an easy path to Task Force on Small Business recently held a (D) assistance made available for termi­ take when faced with intractable issues. But it hearing on the implementation of the RFA. It nation costs arising from the requirements is the wrong path. The road to peace can be as exceedingly ciP.ar at that hearing that Fed­ of this section. a harder path to tread, but its rewards are eral regulators have circumvented or simply SEC. 3. SUSPENSION OF MULTILATERAL ASSIST· many, and they will withstand the test of time. ignored important provisions of the RFA and ANCE Until the President makes the determina­ Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join the efforts of the Small Business Administra­ tion and certification pursuant to section me in working to live up to the challenge of tion to implement the RFA. 2(a), the Secretary of the Treasury shall in­ paving the way for peace and stability in this If the Regulatory Flexibility Act were prop­ struct the United· States executive directors region. erly implemented and appropriately strength­ of the International Monetary Fund, the May God bless the Armenian nation. ened we would go a long way toward easing International Bank for Reconstruction and the regulatory burdens on small businesses. Development, and the International Develop­ This should be a priority matter for Congress. ment Association to oppose any loan or REGULATORY REFORM NEEDED However, it is also important that regulatory other utilization of the fund of their respec­ TO HELP SMALL BUSINESSES tive institutions to or for Indonesia. agencies begin to respect the spirit of the RFA. HON. 1HOMAS W. EWING The level of Federal regulation has in­ SEC. 4. DENIAL OF TRADE PREFERENCES. OF ILLINOIS creased dramatically in recent years. The Nothwithstanding any other provision of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pages in the Federal Register numbered over law, until the President makes the deter­ 67,000 last year, . an increase of 26 percent mination and certification pursuant to sec­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 tion 2(a), the provisions of title V of the over 1990. The Federal Government employs Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2461 et seq.) shall Mr. EWING. Mr. Speaker, this morning Rep­ over 122,000 Federal regulators in over 50 dif­ not apply with respect to the products of In­ resentative RIGGS offered an amendment to ferent agencies. These bureaucrats are work­ donesia. the Small Business Credit Crunch Relief Act ing on nearly 5,000 new regulations. This reg­ stating that the Congress supports the Presi­ ulating machine costs taxpayers about $11 bil­ dent's moratorium on regulations. Had that lion per year. THE VIOLENCE IN KARABAKH amendment not been ruled nongermane by The National Chamber Foundation recently MUST END the chairman, I would have been in strong released a report which estimates the eco­ support. nomic cost at about $400 billion every year. HON. DICK SWETT There are few issues which are more impor­ This translates to a cost of over $4,000 for OF NEW HAMPSHIRE tant to American businesses and to the every American household. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES strength of our economy than Federal over­ These costs, while they don't show up in the regulation, which is driving small business per­ Federal budget, are a tremendous drain on Thursday, May 14, 1992 sons out of business and crippling economic our economy. Dollars spent to meet Federal Mr. SWETT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in · expansion. Stopping the avalanche of Federal mandates are dollars not spent on new plants solidarity with the Armenian people, and espe­ mandates must be a top priority for Congress or equipment. They are dollars not spent on cially those brave Armenians besieged in the and the President. creating new capital or creating new jobs. Be­ struggling region of Karabakh. I am filled with I have been a strong supporter of the Presi­ cause the cost of regulations are passed on to sorrow to think of the violence being directed dent's 9Q-day moratorium on regulations and consumers by way of higher prices, Federal at these innocent people, and the suffering his work on regulatory reform. I have intro­ regulation means that each American has less they are enduring. duced a separate resolution calling on him to disposable income. Today, these victims of aggression are, in extend the moratorium for a full year. Eighty­ One of the most frustrating things for small many cases, without electricity, food, fuel, and five of my colleagues from both sides of the businesses is the required paperwork. At least water, even medical supplies are in dan­ aisle have cosponsored that resolution, and I 5 billion man-hours are expended every year gerously short supply. encourage each of them to support the in meeting the Federal paperwork burden. Over 180,000 people are suffering right now amendment before us. While we would have Time spent filling out forms is time not spent from these and other consequences of the an­ liked to see the President extend the morato­ creating a product or providing a service. I archy and violence raging in Karabakh. In the rium for a year, we are pleased that he has know there are many small businesses which meantime, the world's only superpower stands extended it through August. have hired people just to do the paperwork by and watches. Since this week is Small Business Week, I mandated by the Government. Where is this New World Order? Is think it is important that we draw attention to The President's moratorium has helped get Karabakh destined to be forgotten? Where is issues facing small businesses, and a top con­ our economy moving again and I commend our foreign policy President? And finally, cern is excessive Federal regulation. Because him for his actions. Dozens of new regulations where are we? Are we ready to commit our­ they have fewer resources to spend, small have been put on hold, and it has been esti­ selves to end this ongoing atrocity? Are we business bears the heaviest burden of Federal mated that the moratorium has saved the ready to end the nightmare of women and mandates. Small business closings and bank­ economy as much as $20 billion so far. I ap­ children trapped by the constant shelling? ruptcies are up sharply in the last few years, plaud the President's extension for the mora­ The United States need not sit on the side­ and Federal regulation is partly to blame. torium through August. lines and watch the horror unfold. We can and Too often the Federal Government does not We must scale back the level of Federal will make a difference. I know that my col­ consider the impact of Federal regulations on regulation and reform the regulatory process. leagues do not feel powerless. Together we small businesses. In fact, many Federal regu- Our goal must be to make the regulatory proc- May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11581 ess responsible and fair to those who are re­ THE RIOTS IN L.A.: A RESPONSE women and children. Yes, violence is wrong quired to meet Federal mandates. We must and it begets violence, but we as the Church look at how regulations will affect businesses must plead with our leaders to understand HON. UNDSAY THOMAS that you cannot, lest you be a hypocrit, de­ and take that into account. Our Federal regu­ OF GEORGIA nounce violence by the powerless while at lators should work with small businesses, in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the same time withholding condemnation of stead of working against them, to find ways to that violence which denies a people their achieve the goals of regulations without crip­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 past and a future. pling business. I believe that small businesses Mr. THOMAS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, We have our work and mission set out be­ want to work with agencies to achieve mutu­ there is much despair and anger in the wake fore us. Our particular church, Riverside ally acceptable rules. of the racial violence that has shaken the Na­ Baptist Church, must reawaken to its his­ tion in recent days. But as we stir the cooling toric purpose and mission, that we proclaim Federal regulations stifle small business en­ the Gospel of Christ knowing but one law, trepreneurship, drain scarce resources, crip­ ashes of Los Angeles and other cities, we can the love of God and the love of humanity. pled productivity, and inhibit economic expan­ find the early glimmer of hope that something Were it not for such a Gospel, were it not for sion and job creation. good may yet come from this tragedy. the power of Christ to break asunder the in­ We have seen Americans of all colors­ human chains of racism and violence, we I would have strongly supported the amend­ black, white, and brown-rally to peacefully would be despairing indeed. But alas, we do ment offered by Mr. RIGGS if it had not been express their commitment against racism. I have a hope greater than that which would ruled to be nongermane. I commend Mr. sense a determination in the hearts of good crush us. Together let us in these coming RIGGS for his efforts. men and women everywhere to take a stand, days speak with courage, live in compassion and work passionately for justice. For Mar­ and chart' a new course. tin Luther King, Jr. has warned us "Either Also, in the pulpits of America, our ministers we will live together as brothers and sisters have raised their voices to give guidance to or we will perish together as fools. " CHELSEA LANTOS-SWETT: A FU­ people of faith. TURE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER One of those voices recently was the Rev. FOR POETRY? Michael Bledsoe of the Riverside Baptist DESPERATE PLIGHT OF THE ETH­ Church in Washington. This is a biracial NIC ALBANIANS IN KOSOV A AND church whose parishioners come from OTHER AREAS OF THE FORMER HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ throughout the United States. YUGOSLAV FEDERATION OF NEW YORK Mr. Speaker, I insert Pastor Bledsoe's re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES marks delivered on May 3, 1992, in the HON. TOM LANTOS RECORD at this point: OF CALIFORNIA Thursday, May 14, 1992 THE RIOTS IN L.A.: A RESPONSE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, the timeworn cli­ (By Pastor Michael Bledsoe) Thursday, May 14, 1992 che instructs us to take time to "smell the One year ago, our President, our congress Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, Slobodan and our military led our nation into the Milosevic, the last Communist dictator in Eu­ roses." For Members of Congress, wrapped desert sands of Saudi Arabia. The declared up as we are in our unbelievably hectic sched­ goal was the freeing of the Kuwaiti people rope, continues to shock and horrify the civ­ ules at home and in Washington, it is easy for from the tyranny of the Iraqi dictator, Sad­ ilized world as he directs his wanton campaign us to overlook some of the small but special dam Hussein. Now, one year later, our Presi­ against the successor states of Yugoslavia. details which round out our lives. dent has sent troops into Los Angeles, not Milosevic's wrath has caused incalculable Sadly, in the crazy pace of Congress, we for the liberation of a people, but for the human suffering. The Communist Serbian ef­ shoring up and defense of the status quo. fort to dominate the freedom-seeking Repub­ often sacrifice the time we spend with, and the The events of this past week are heart attention we pay to, our families. And the peo­ lics of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovia, rending and even maddening. Surely we can Macedonia, and Kosova will continue until we ple who need us the most, our children and concur with the President that the brutal our grandchildren, sometimes receive the murder of people and the wanton destruction in the United States take steadfast and deci­ shortest shrift of all. of property should end. But the Church of sive steps to stamp it out. Jesus Christ pleads for something more: we The violent means through which Serbian For this reason, I was delighted to come ask that the same energy, commitment and Communists seek to dominate the region were across a wonderful poem that was written by resources pledged to a war far from our on display for all to see 12 years ago when, Chelsea Lantos-Swett, a third-grader, who is shores be expended upon the emancipation of after the death of Tito, they opened a cam­ the daughter of DICK SWETT, and grand­ our own people within our own cities. I am, paign of terror against the Albanians in the au­ daughter of TOM LANTOS. Our colleagues have like many clergy, confounded by our nation's tonomous Republic of Kosova. a great deal to be proud of in Chelsea, who seeming ability to cre.ate Marshall Plans for The efforts to isolate and vilify Albanians in is clearly destined for literary greatness. I other nations, but when it comes to the eco­ Kosova were as revolting as they were com­ hope the Members of this House will enjoy nomic and social well-being of minorities in our own country, somehow the energy dis­ prehensive. The Communists in Belgrade Chelsea's work as much as I did, and I hope sipates. Like you, I am appalled by the mur­ purged the Kosovar Communists, closed the her poem inspires all of us to contemplate the der of people who were innocent and simply parliament in Kosova and persecuted its freely achievements of those who are dear to us. in the wrong place at the wrong time. But I and fairly elected members, placed restrictions MOTHER EARTH' S TURN am equally appalled by a continued neglect on the use of Albanian language and symbols, of our inner cities and the racism which fuels and ultimately imposed martial law on Kosova. (By Chelsea Lantos-Swett) much of that neglect. The dire situation in the former Yugoslavia Swirling snow, most unexpected, Twenty-six years ago, the National Com­ requires that uncompromising attention be Winter's over, March is here. mittee of Negro Churchmen, issued a state­ ment on "Black Power." That statement paid to the plight of Albanians in Kosova. As Mother Earth is now corrected? an historic whipping boy to the Communist Now we get our frozen tear? noted something our President and Congress are apparently unable to grasp: "powerless­ Serbians, the ethnic Albanian population in Snow that winter could not bring, Kosova is particularly vulnerable in these vola­ How it spirals down so fast. ness breeds a race of beggars. We are faced What happened to the fresh new Spring? now with a situation where conscienceless tile times. Are we frozen in the past? power meet powerless conscience, threaten­ Dr. lvo Sanae, a professor of history and ing the very foundation of our nation." That master of Pierson College at Yale University, Caught in blasts of icy sleet, statement is, unfortunately, as accurate Captured in a blank white world, has written an excellent paper on the serious today as it was on July 31, 1966. plight of Albanians in Kosova, entitled, "Posi­ Walking on a frozen street All of us know that the travesty of the Watching little leaves go curl. inane verdicts handed down in the Rodney tion Paper on the Question of Kosova and the Oh how I wish to have a flower, King beating case was and is simply the fuse. Status of Albanians in the Successor States of Have one bluebird passing by, We are faced not only with the travesty of Yugoslavia." Spot spring from her daisy tower this particular case, but with racist injustice Dr. Sanae's work highlights the importance And push away the winter sky! which continues to trap and enslave men, of Congress' vigilance with respect to the situ- 11582 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 ation in the former Yugoslavia. There is a Under Milosevic, Albanians have been sub­ the Bush-Baker foreign policy is the mainte­ clear need for aggressive action against the jected to terror and threat of extinction. He nance of status quo. Serbian Communists who continue their brutal closed their schools, fired their profes­ and deadly assault against the citizens of the sionals, banned their press and institutions, imposed the arbitrary rule by members of a HARRY H. COHEN POST NO. 723 freedom-seeking republics of the disintegrated tiny and privileged Serbian minority, and JEWISH WAR VETERANS HELPS Yugoslavia. I ask that his paper be placed in carried out a series of electoral farces that THE POOR OVER PASSOVER today's RECORD and I urge my colleagues to have been boycotted by Albanians. It is not give it the thoughtful attention it deserves. an exaggeration to say that apartheid, POSITION PAPER ON THE QUESTION OF KOSOVA though moribund in South Africa, is alive HON. ILEANA ROS.LEHTINEN AND THE STATUS OF ALBANIANS IN THE SUC­ and well in Kosova. Nowhere else in former OF FLORIDA CESSOR STATES OF YUGOSLAVIA Yugoslavia-nowhere else in Eastern Eu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Autonomous Province of Kosova rope-are human and national rights abused Thursday, May 14, 1992 (Kosovo in Serbia), a federal unit in disinte­ with such ferocity as in Milosevic-ruled grating Yugoslavia, has been an Albanian Kosova. In 1989, after subverting the provi­ Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I would majority area for several centuries. Accord­ sions of the constitution. Milosevic forced like to recognize the Harry H. Cohen Post No. ing to the official Yugoslav censuses, which changes in the constitution of Serbia and 703 of the Jewish War Veterans of the United were always biased against minority nation­ Yugoslavia, abolished the autonomy of States of America under the leadership of alities, Albanians constituted 65.7 percent of Kosova and Vojvodina, and proceeded to gov­ Cmdr. Ruth Sondak. This post, recognized Kosova's population in 1921 and 77.4 percent ern Kosova by fiat. After the Kosovar assem­ both at the State and national level for its in 1981. In fact, they now constitute as much bly held out against Milosevic's misrule, he arbitrarily dismissed it. He has systemati­ community service, is located in my congres­ as 90 percent of Kosova's population. In addi­ sional district. Whenever I have visited the tion, Albanians constitute a fifth of the pop­ cally ignored and thwarted all popular meas­ ulation of Macedonia, and are an absolute ures by Kosovar Albanians to reassert their post I have come away impressed by the majority in western Macedonia. They also self-rule. In fact, the legally-constituted as­ dedication and energy of its members. This have significant enclaves in eastern sembly of Kosova still functions, though un­ post has been recognized by the State of Flor­ Montenegro (Ulqin!Ulcinj, Plave/Plav, Tivar/ derground. It claims the allegiance of most ida for its hospital support program and by the Bar, Titograd) and southern Serbia Kosovars. national Jewish War Veterans organizations (Bujanovac, Presevo). Milosevic's arbitrary rule in Kosova was for their support of the Boy Scouts. The large concentrations of Albanians in the direct source of the subsequent dissolu­ tion of Yugoslavia. Other federal units, nota­ This past Passover the members of the former Yugoslavia are a result of an unjust Harry H. Cohen Post collected and distributed settlement of the Balkan wars of 1912-1913. bly Slovenia and Croatia, saw the terror The powers that arbitrated the disposition of against Kosova as the Milosevic model for food for the less fortunate. The details of that these territories, which were ruled by the the whole of Yugoslavia. It would therefore activity are recounted by post members as fol­ Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth cen­ be doubly unjust should the emancipation of lows: tury. were guided more by expediency than Croatia, Slovenia and the other ex-Yugoslav The Harry H. Cohen Post #723 of the Jew­ by the wishes of the local people. They fa­ republics leave Kosova under Milosevic's ish War Veterans of USA delivered Passover vored Serbia and Montenegro over the weak martial law. This means that the United Baskets to the needy of Dade County, Flor­ and newly independent Albanian state. The States should support not only the independ­ ida, on Sunday, April 12th. The Jewish War situation did not change with the establish­ ence of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia­ Veterans of USA has 43 posts in Florida and ment of Yugoslavia (1918), in which Serbia Hercegovina, and Macedonia, but also the over 300 nationwide, each of which has its dominated and pursued a policy of denation­ independence of Kosova. The United States own special facet of activities that are com­ alization and expulsion of Albanians, nor should not only support the restoration of munity related. with the Communist revolution in Yugo­ human legal rights of Kosova, but promote Ruth Sondak, Commander of Post #723, or­ slavia (1941-1945), which brought Albanians an internationally-supervised referendum on ganized and coordinated the program in still more repression. the status of Kosova. Let the Kosovars de­ which several community groups partici­ The Communist regime of Marshal Tito, cide by themselves on their future course. pated with the Post. The Post members however, from the beginning recognized the The Albanians of Kosova seek no revenge began collecting money in February setting autonomy of Kosova within the Serbian re­ and are willing to guarantee the individual a goal of 36 baskets, each to contain chicken, public. This was originally no more than a and group rights of the Serbian minority. eggs, gifilte fish with horse-radish, borscht, token measure that could hardly obscure the Moreover, there should be legal guarantees fresh fruit and vegetables, grape juice, subordinate position of Albanians in Yugo­ of access to any Serbian monastery or other matzos, etc., enough food for a family of four slavia. In 1974, as Tito increasingly reacted such ... (indecipherable) ... yearn for the for two Seders with enough left over for the against his rivals in Serbian Communist es­ freedom of travel, mutual access. and rest of the week. The food was purchased tablishment, he promulgated a new constitu­ unity-which were denied to them since 1913. from local merchants. Cmdr. Sondak con­ tion that granted considerable self-rule to For the moment, however, the relations be­ tacted Dir. Gail Weisberg, Community Coun­ the six Yugoslav republics, but also to the tween Kosova and Albania can best be ac­ cil of Jewish Elderly, and Remee Bomzer, two autonomous provinces-Kosovo and complished by promoting European-wide in­ Jewish Family Services, for names of there­ Vojvodina, whose status was enhanced to tegrations. Nevertheless, in order to allevi­ cipients, among whom were 18 Russian virtually the level of a federal republic. ate Serbian fears on this score, the Alba­ emigres in the U.S. less than four months. Henceforth, Kosovar Albanians participated nians of Kosova should be willing to enter­ All were families with children, several were in power-sharing. They increasingly were tain no arrangements with Albania without veterans families. Individuals on last year's represented in various federal agencies from the agreement of Kosova's Serbian commu­ list were put on the Nutrition Program of which they were hitherto excluded. One of nity. This can be the most important Alba­ the Federation and received lesser baskets their representatives-Sinan Hasani-even nian contribution to the restoration of de­ from them. On Sunday, April 12th, the day of served as the President of Yugoslavia in 1986. mocracy in Serbia, which, together with delivery, 5 members of the Shomrim Society The position of Albanians started deterio­ Montenegro, remains the last Communist­ of South Florida (Shomrim means Guard­ rating after Tito's death in 1980. Serbian governed country in Europe. ian), policemen and firemen arrived at the Communists opened a campaign against the The failure of the Bush-Baker foreign pol­ Surfside Community Center to work with autonomy of Kosova and systematically in­ icy is especially evident in the case of Post members preparing the baskets. The po­ flamed Serbian public opinion against the al­ Kosova. Most of the administration's efforts licemen: Ken Goodman, Frances Miller, Herb leged Albanian "irredentism." The Belgrade during the last three years consisted of fee­ Schoenfeld, David Waksman and his daugh­ authorities vilified the Albanians and por­ ble protests about the violation of human ter, Danielle, and Sam Rothstein, and Post trayed them as extremists who were pre­ rights in Kosova. In fact, despite an occa­ members: Max Akst, Norton Banner, Abe disposed to mayhem. In the process, the Ser­ sional expression of displeasure, the adminis­ Garfinkel. bian Communist leadership purged the ma­ tration's principal worry was not to offend Leo Goldstein, Ben Levine, Murry Ollin, jority of Kosovar Communists, started plac­ Milosevic. Unfortunately, the policy of ap­ laughed and joked as they worked together. ing restrictions on the use of Albanian lan­ peasement was no more successful in the Then the policemen in groups of two began guage and symbols, and ultimately imposed case of Milosevic than in the case of any delivering the baskets to Homestead, to martial law on Kosova. The worst excesses other despot. Moreover, had Mllosevic been South Beach, to North Shore, to North took place after 1987, when Slobodan stopped in Kosova in 1987, Slovenia, Croatia, Miami Beach. Each time they returned for Mllosevic, the most extreme among Serbia's and now Bosnia-Hercegovina, would have another "load" they wore broad smiles be­ Communist leaders, became the head of Ser­ been spared the holocaust of war and de­ cause of the happy responses of the recipi­ bia's Communist Party. struction. In this case, too, the essence of ents. May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11583 Cmdr. Sondak thanked all who partici­ that activity. If, on the other hand, state law cided in favor of the tribe. In reaffirming the pated in this program: "It gave us all a good civilly regulates a form of gambling, then ''criminal-prohibitory/civil-regulatory'' test, feeling of accomplishment for a deed well the tribes within the state may engage in the court nevertheless indicated that if Con­ done, knowing that we contributed some­ that gaming free of any state control. Flor­ gress chose to limit the rights of the tribes, thing to those less fortunate than we, and ida, like most states, allows bingo for some it could do so by legislative means. In 1988, knowing that they would enjoy this holiday charitable purposes, and therefore, under Congress did precisely that, passing the In­ of renewal, redemption and freedom with us. this judicial test, the Seminole high-stakes dian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (IGRA), Mr. Speaker, I commend the members of bingo game was given a green light. which was signed into law by President Under this theory and its subsequent reaf­ Reagan. the Harry H. Cohen Post No. 703 of the Jew­ firmation in other courts, Indian bingo ex­ Like most compromises, IGRA has some­ ish War Veterans of the United States of ploded in the 1980s. A recent Los Angeles thing for everyone to hate. Indian sov­ America and their commander Ruth Sondak. I Times article estimated gross revenues from ereignty is limited in the context of gam­ wish them many more years of such commu­ tribal games growing from $255 million in bling; states don't have carte blanche au­ nity service. 1987 to $1 billion in 1991, involving 150 of the thority to control gaming on Indian lands nation's 278 reservations. within their borders; and the organized gam­ Such unfettered activity within the bound­ ing interests have agreed to look to the INDIAN GAMING AND THE STATES aries of the states quickly raised tension lev­ states to protect them from unfair competi­ els between the tribes and a number of state tion from tribal games. law enforcement officials. Most states feared The law sets up three categories of Indian HON. ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA that the growth of such "regulation-free" games. Class I games include low-level OF AMERICAN SAMOA enclaves within their borders would act as a games played only by tribal members, i.e., IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES magnet for crime and corruption. true "Indian gambling." Appropriately, Thursday, May 14, 1992 Control of gambling has traditionally been those games remain solely within the con­ vested with the states. While some may trol of the tribe. The other two categories Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Mr. Speaker, argue that a uniform federal law providing address the real public policy issue of gam­ through Public Law 102-188 (S.J. Res 217, for one set of gaming regulations would be bling on Indian lands by non-Indians. Class II H.J. Res. 342), Congress and the President an improvement over 50 different gaming games include bingo, certain card games and designated 1992 as the Year of the American laws, few observers-other than the tribes video displays of those games. Class II games Indian. This law pays tribute to the people who and their promoters that stood to benefit are controlled by both the tribe and the from the games-supported the further "Bal­ newly formed federal Indian Gaming Com­ first inhabited the land now known as the con­ kanization of gaming regulations. mission. Class m games constitute every­ tinental United States. Although only symbolic, Moreover, the bingo games conducted on thing else-pari-mutuel horse and dog rac­ this gesture is important because it shows Indian lands were aimed almost exclusively ing, jai-alai, casinos and slot machines. there is sympathy in the eyes of a majority of at attracting the non-Indian residents of the Tribes are not allowed to engage in such both Houses of the Congress for those Indian state. The decision by any state to approve gaming without an agreement with the issues which we as a Congress have been high-stakes gaming for their citizens is high­ state. struggling with for over 200 years. In support ly controversial, and if approved, the games In the case of both Class II and Class m of the Year of the American Indian, and as are usually strictly regulated. Suddenly, games, the now familiar "criminal-prohibi­ many jurisdictions that never anticipated or tory/civil-regulatory" test is the starting part of my on-going series this year, I am pro­ wanted high-stakes bingo gaming within point to determine what games, if any, may viding for the consideration of my colleagues their borders found themselves face to face occur on Indian lands. Since most states con­ an article entitled "The Real Truth About In­ with this reality. States questioned why one tinue to allow bingo for some purpose, In­ dian Gaming and the States" in the March set of rules should apply to citizens standing dian-run high stakes bingo games have been 1992 edition of State Legislatures. The article on state property, but the rules were ignored allowed to grow and flourish without state describes Federal law with regard to Indian if those same citizens stepped over the line control under IGRA. This consequence was gaming and summarizes Connecticut's experi­ onto "Indian lands." intended by the congressional framers of the ence. At the same time, many tribes and their act since Indian bingo games had already congressional supporters were also express­ proliferated and it was viewed as politically THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT INDIAN GAMING AND ing concern about the conduct of these impossible to close down such operations. THE STATES games. In some cases, the non-Indian "pro­ Most of the controversy surrounding IGRA (By Henry C. Cashen and John C. Dill) moters" actually running the games were centered on so-called Class m gaming-the Will large-scale Indian-run gambling casi­ skimming off huge sums of money, leaving complicated games of pari-mutuel wagering, nos soon dot the landscape of dozens of the tribes with little or no profits. There casinos and slots-the very issues that Con­ states? were also some documented incidents of cor­ necticut grappled with in its discussions Construction of a full-blown casino by the ruption and bribery infecting the games. with the Pequot tribe. For these games, Con­ Pequot Indians in Connecticut has raised In 1985, the first congressional hearing on gress set up a system of negotiations be­ that very possibility. this issue was conducted by the U.S. House tween the states and the tribes. Unless the Most reports have described the issue in Interior Committee, chaired by Congressman negotiations concluded successfully and were simplistic terms: If a state allows gambling Mo Udall of Arizona. At that time, Chairman adopted in the form of a tribal-state "com­ activity in any form, then an Indian tribe Udall recommended the establishment of a pact," the tribe was prohibited from engag­ within the boundaries of that state must be "national commission" to control and regu­ ing in such activity. This prohibition pro­ allowed to conduct a commercialized version late gaming on Indian lands. A similar ap­ tected states from a unilateral decision by a of that game. proach was also suggested by Arizona Sen­ tribe to begin sophisticated gaming within This view does not accurately reflect the ator Dennis DeConcini. the state's borders. federal law. A careful analysis of the 1988 In­ The concept of such a national commission At the same time, Congress was also con­ dian Gaming Regulatory Act shows that the did not address the fundamental tension be­ cerned about the states simply stonewalling Connecticut situation need not be replicated tween the states and the tribes. If adopted, it the Indians. To balance these two competing in other states, provided they do not make would have allowed the unchecked expansion interests, Congress constructed a com­ the same mistake that Connecticut made in of gaming into more exotic forms such as plicated framework of time limits and tests dealing with the Pequots. horse and dog racing, casino gambling and to determine if the states are negotiating in Indians have a long tradition of gambling slot machines, all of which would have been, "good faith." Contrary to reports surround­ among themselves, but the use of reservation in theory, regulated by one federal entity lo­ ing the Connecticut-Pequot negotiations, lands for large-scale commercial gaming de­ cated in Washington. This initial "solution" Congress neither mandated nor assumed that signed to attract non-Indian players is a rel­ to the problem of unrestricted gaming on In­ all such negotiations would lead to a tribal­ atively new phenomenon. In 1979, the Semi­ dian lands served as a wake-up call for the state compact, but Congress did insist that a nole tribe of Florida started a highstakes states and organized gaming interests. "good faith" effort be made to reach such a bingo game on their land. Florida challenged For the next three years, the battle over settlement. It appears that Connecticut did this activity in the lower federal courts and regulation of gaming on Indian lands raged not carefully analyze its rights and respon­ lost. In ruling for the tribe, the courts used behind the scenes in Congress. Like most sibilities under the law in dealing with the what has come to be known as the "crimi­ hard-fought battles, it was about power, con­ Pequot tribe. nal-prohibitory/civil-regulatory" test. In trol, compromise and, yes, economics. In Only those who participated in the discus­ brief, the test holds that if state law crimi­ early 1987, the issue of Indian gaming finally sion between Connecticut and the Pequots nally prohibits a form of gambling, then the reached the Supreme Court when it took up know all the twists and turns of those ill­ tribes within the state may not engage in the California vs. Cabazon bingo case and de- fated negotiations. Nevertheless, it is clear 11584 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 from published reports that Connecticut but it is not inevitable. States can approach ter, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary made several major mistakes. First, when negotiations with their tribes in a different on May 10, 1992. approached by the Pequots, the state refused manner, and insist that the debate more Few in our Virgin Islands are so beloved; to sit down and discuss with the tribe their carefully balance the rights of all parties. At the esteem in which they are held is an honor interest in starting a commercial casino, the same time, the 1988 Indian Gaming Regu­ which was based on the existence of limited, latory Act could be amended to take some of they have earned through two lifetimes of gen­ low-stakes "Las Vegas Night" gaming laws the uncertainties out of the negotiating uine concern and deep loyalty for family, in the state. These laws met the "criminal­ process between tribes and states. When friends, and community. prohibitory/civil-regulatory" test, and the IGRA was debated, the organized gaming in­ As highly respected and dearly held as we state therefore had the legal responsibility terests argued without success that some hold them as individuals, as a couple Joe and to negotiate with the tribe, which it appar­ legislative limitations be written into the Beulah are truly unsurpassed. By bringing out ently ignored. After waiting the legislatively act to avoid low-stakes, state-sanctioned the best in each other they bring forth the best mandated six-month period, the tribe went gaming ever being used as an excuse to boot­ in themselves. The strong and vibrant family to federal court, and using provisions of strap creation of high-stakes Indian gam­ IGRA, obtained a court order forcing the bling enclaves. Such a position was derided they have nurtured is proof positive of the tri­ state to the table. as unnecessary and "discriminatory" by the umph of love, generosity, and understanding. Second, it appears that the state failed to Indians and their congressional supporters. Today, I place in the RECORD an article that fully analyze its rights under IGRA. The law Perhaps the Connecticut experience will appeared recently in the Virgin Islands Daily is less than perfect, but it does allow the send some of those individuals back to the News titled, "50 Years of Love," that well illus­ states to raise a number of issues including drawing boards to ensure a more level play­ trates the personalities and the accomplish­ the application of state or tribal laws di­ ing field for all interests. ments of Joe and Beulah Potter. rectly related to gaming, operating and li­ [From the Virgin Islands Daily News, May censing standards, and other subjects rel­ 11, 1992] evant to gaming in general. The accompany­ DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS IN ing legislative history makes it clear that KURDISTAN 50 YEARS OF LOVE "licensing standard" could include agree­ (By Athniel J. Thomas) ments on hours of operation, wager and pot In these days, when even 20th anniversaries limits, types of wagering and the size of the HON. MEL LEVINE are growing scarce, Joe and Beulah Potter facility. The law also makes it clear that the OF CALIFORNIA are celebrating their 50th year of marriage. states can raise such issues as public interest IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES When asked for the secret of their long and public safety, the adverse effect on other marriage, Joe Potter said, "If I knew, I'd gaming enterprises and criminality issues. Thursday, May 14, 1992 write a book and be rich." Because Connecticut refused to negotiate Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. Speaker, this The Potters, who moved to the Virgin Is­ when first approached by the tribe, the Sunday, May 17, the Kurdish minority of north­ lands from Harlem, N.Y., in 1967, credit their court-mandated negotiations were legisla­ ern Iraq will be holding elections to choose a joyous years together to love, respect, trust, tively fast-tracked to conclude within 60 communications and the Bible. days. IGRA provides that if no agreement is national legislative assembly. This is an impor­ "Corinthians I, in the New Testament, is reached within that period, the issue is sent tant event for the population of Kurdistan and all about love," the Potters said they slowly to a court-appointed mediator who considers the entire international community. begin to reveal their secrets. the "last best offers" from both the tribe and The Kurds of Iraq have suffered immensely "We resolved our problems before the the state. The mediator's choice is then sub­ as a result of the Bush administration's failed night's end because we laugh a lot and never mitted to the state for approval. If the state Iraq policy. It is estimated that 200,000 Kurds forgot how to play." rejects that choice, the secretary of the inte­ have been murdered by Saddam Hussein's The young Harlem couple first heard about rior is asked to prescribe procedures to allow the Virgin Islands from Joe Potter's mother, the tribe to engage in Class ill gaming. military forces. Hundreds of thousands more who spoke strongly of the promise the is­ These provisions were written into IGRA have been uprooted and live in the inhos­ lands had in the 1940s. But with German war­ in the hope, of course, that they would never pitable terrain of northern Iraq where food and ships cruising New York harbors, they de­ be used. Careful reading of the law should shelter are scarce. And amidst this despair, layed the visit. convince any state that it would be in its Saddam's regime continues to attack Kurdish After the death of his mother in the mid best interests to avoid handing over the deci­ villages throughout Iraq. 1960s, the Potters decided to "visit the is­ sion to a mediator or the secretary of inte­ Despite these hardships, the Kurdish people lands of her youth." rior. At the least, if no agreement can be have not given up hope for a better life. Carry­ "We visited some friends and family in the reached, it is assumed that a state will islands in 1966, and we liked what we saw so produce a "last best offer" that represents ing out democratic elections that will create much we came back to stay in February its strongest position for review by the medi­ democratic institutions is a manifestation of 1967." ator, the secretary and the courts. these desires. Additionally, free and fair demo­ Now, with their four kids and fond memo­ Only those Connecticut state negotiators cratic elections in Kurdistan would also set an ries, the Potters say they have no regrets. present at the table know precisely what was important example for democracy in Iraq and Beulah Potter worked for the federal gov­ said or done during those 60 days, but the the Persian Gulf region. ernment, which provided them with a house public record is clear on several subsequent Mr. Speaker, the Kurdish people are suffer­ in Red Hook while they had a house built in developments. The state and the tribe did ing great hardships at the hands of Saddam Estate Tutu. not reach an agreement within the allotted Joe Potter wanted to raise a family of all time. Most mysteriously, the "last best Hussein and an international community that boys in that Tutu home, and he already had offer" from Connecticut acquiesced to full­ has shown little inclination to help. On May 17, the names picked out: Joe Jr., Leslie, Jeffrey blown high-stakes casino gaming, instead of the Kurds will take measures to help them­ and Tommye. taking the position that any gaming enter­ selves. The U.S. Government and the inter­ But Joe Jr. was the only boy, much to the prise conducted on Indian lands be in line national community should pay close attention chagrin of the couple's three daughters. with the more modest "Las Vegas Night" to the elections in Kurdistan and encourage its "We didn't like the names at first," state statute. Finally, after the mediator neighbors to pursue a similar democratic Tommye Alicia James said, "but we began to chose the state proposal, the state then re­ course. appreciate the uniqueness as we got older." jected its own scheme, thus sending the deci­ James said her parents taught their chil­ sion to the secretary of the interior. dren to enjoy life and be responsible, lessons In short, it appears Connecticut has no one they still adhere to now. to blame but itself for its current casino THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JOE "I remember when I was 12, I had to con­ problem. The subsequent efforts of newly AND BEULAH POTTER tribute a portion of my babysitting earnings elected Governor Lowell Weicker and others to the household," James said. to solve it by repealing the state's "Las HON. RON de LUGO "I couldn't understand then, but I'm still Vegas Night" statute were rejected by the thanking him for that lesson." legislature. On May 31, 1991, Secretary of In­ OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS The Potters also preached giving back to terior Lujan approved the state's own plan IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the community what they gained from it, with minor modifications, and construction Thursday, May 14, 1992 and give back they did. is now under way on the Pequot casino. Joe Potter has served as president of the The spread of high-stakes gaming on In­ Mr. DE LUGO. Mr. Speaker, two of the most St. Thomas-St. John USO Council, board dian lands may well occur in other states, wonderful people I know, Joe and Beulah Pot- member of V.I. Special Olympics committee, May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11585 Community Foundation of the V.I., Amer­ What Ms. Radice is providing is, again in and he poured energy and dedication into this ican Cancer Society of St. Thomas, Carib­ the words of Mr. GRANDY: effort. Karl was a labor activist, a State DFL bean Support Network on AIDS; Member of A hunting license to go after every single party chair, a church activist and a stellar vol­ Rotary Club II, former president of the Unit­ sculptor, or painter, or photographer whose unteer in many, many campaigns and commu­ ed Way. work they find patently offensive. Beulah Potter is a past president of League nity efforts. He never turned away a request or of Women Voters, assistant national rep­ The National Endowment for the Arts should let anyone down when they needed his help. resentative for Retired Federal Employees, encourage and sustain the creative process, I join hundreds of Karl Neid's friends and minister's assistant at the Lutheran Church the creative impulses of America's artists, es­ family members in remembering Karl Neid and of the Reformation and president of the pecially, Mr. Speaker, those whose work may his lifetime of dedicated service. Karl Neid was Friends of Channel 12. not, in fact, appeal to the popular or commer­ the epitome of St. Paul's east side and was a Joe Potter wrote a weekly sports column cial standards so cherished by Ms. Radice. true friend citywide to all of our community. In for The Daily News. He also hosted "Good It is the process, not the content, the NEA the political sphere, where you have a lot of Sports" at WBNB-TV on St. Thomas, but his temporary alliances, his constant reassurance wife started at the TV station first, hosting should fund. "The Julia Show," which modeled fashions There is no advance guarantee that a work was especially appreciated. My heartfelt from Marshall's Department Store. of art will meet some common denominator of thanks and recognition of his accomplishments While at WBNB, Joe Potter recruited V.I. public or congressional taste. and friendship and sincere sorrow at Karl students on the mainland to intern at the In fact, demanding such a guarantee would Neid's passing. station. In 1989, he retired as the station's only ensure a Nation in which elevator music, I enter into the RECORD the editorial from general manager. the Pioneer Press from May 12, 1992, reflect­ Now he distributes flags from his home in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD and house paint would pass for officially sanctioned art. ing on the life of Karl Neid, a dear friend and Tutu. inspiration. The Potters expressed a yearning for good One would think, Mr. Speaker, that the chair local talent in all areas of communication, of the NEA could figure out these things for KARL NEID-MODEL CITIZEN LOST especially in the rejuvenation of WBNB, herself. Karl Neid's strengths as one of the newest which has not reopened since it was de­ But what can the Nation expect, Mr. Speak­ members of the St. Paul City Council were stroyed by Hurricane Hugo. his unselfishness, his humility, his affection er, from an administration that in a single for the city and his East Side ward, his en­ "Technology is constantly developing, and breath blames the Los Angeles riots on over we cannot let the V.I. fall further behind," thusiasm, his tirelessness and-most of all­ Joe Potter said. funded 1960's social programs and tells us the his eagerness to offer a helping hand. His un­ And he said he hopes the next book about solution is tax breaks for business? expected death at age 43 last Friday deprives the Virgin Islands will be written with the St. Paul of both a model citizen and political unique, colorful vocabulary of a Virgin Is­ figure whose highest calling was to enhance lander. TRIBUTE TO KARL NEID the image of the East Side as a place to live The Potter family will hold a reunion this and work. summer with 12 grandchildren, including Joe HON. BRUCE F. VENTO Nathan Potter ill, and three great grandsons. OF MINNESOTA THE PRESIDENT'S REGULATORY With 50 anniversaries behind them, the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MORATORIUM AND ECONOMIC Potters' motto for the next 50 is, "If it ain't Thursday, May 14, 1992 GROWTH broke, don't fix it." Mr. VENTO. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to pay tribute to my special friend, St. Paul City HON. PHIUP M. CRANE BRING BACK FROHNMAYER Councilman Karl Neid, who passed away in OF ILLINOIS his sleep, at age 43 on Friday, May 8, 1992. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. PETER H. KOSTMA YER I know I join many others in paying tribute to Thursday, May 14, 1992 OF PENNSYLVANIA this special person who has spent his life Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, it is my under­ working on behalf of others. His love of life IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES standing that the amendment the gentleman and hard work has served and will continue to from California [Mr. RIGGS] had hoped to offer Thursday, May 14, 1992 serve as an example for all who strive in pub­ to H.R. 4111 was not made in order. This Mr. KOSTMA YER. Mr. Speaker, the acting lic service. Karl Neid brought his sincerity and amendment would have commended the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, kindness to the people of Minnesota and has President for his 120-day extension of the Anne Imelda Radice, has set a course for the left a warm impression on all who knew him. moratorium on the issuing of new regulations. endowment which will as our colleague from Karl seemed a tireless man who would ar­ I believe it would have been most appropriate Iowa, Mr. GRANDY once said, give its music range numerous meetings after normal work for Congress to go on record in support of the the quality of Muzak and its literature the qual­ hours in the evening just to ensure that he President in this matter and I regret that we ity of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. met with all who sought to visit him. Just last were not afforded this opportunity. While the gentleman from Iowa was not week I met with Karl, one of his many nightly Earlier this year, the Ways and Means Com­ speaking of Ms. Radice at the time, but rather meetings, and we talked about new ways to mittee, on which I serve, spent a great deal of of the Helms amendment, I think his admoni­ continue to outreach into the community in time discussing ways to foster economic tion that "art becomes house paint" when the which we both grew up-our beloved east growth and create jobs through changes in the Government determines the content is equally side of St. Paul. Karl did not wait until an elec­ Tax Code. Despite the fact that we were un­ valid. Ms. Radice is more subtle than Senator tion year to reach out to people; · he was in the able to reach agreement on this issue, the HELMS, but possibly more dangerous. neighborhoods and on the doorstep year President took other action, in the form of a Ms. Radice says she'll veto art and other round. He wanted to constantly understand 90-day regulatory moratorium, to provide eco­ projects that deal with difficult subject matter. what was on the minds and concerns of peo­ nomic relief for businesses in every region of When considering the artistic merit of pro­ ple in his community and elsewhere in Min­ the country. Each year, regulations cost our posals to fund the visual arts, paintings, pho­ nesota. industries an estimated $400 to $500 billion. tography, drama, music, dance, and literature I have worked with Karl throughout the Moreover, the resulting higher prices for goods she will give equal weight to the concerns of years on numerous projects, the Phalen Park cost the average American household $4,000 the taxpayers, and the concerns of Congress. restoration, neighborhood housing services on to $5,000 annually. An example of this stran­ I wonder if she'll hire a pollster before fund­ the bluff, and numerous political campaigns gulation by regulation is the 1990 Clean Air ing a sculptor or, like Ross Perot, establish where he served as a volunteer. Karl had held Act, which required the Environmental Protec­ enormous town meetings in which voters from nearly every office that existed in the Min­ tion Agency to issue nearly 200 new regula­ across the . country could, using their tele­ nesota DF.L political party. He had high re­ tions at an estimated expense to industry of phones, render the Nation's collective judg­ spect and expectations for our party and his $34 billion and created 684 million man-hours ment on Jasper Johns, Joyce Carol Oates or volunteer efforts were a labor of love in the of paperwork over 5 years. even Ricardo Mutti. political world. Karl volunteered at the Vento Since the President's regulatory moratorium How crazy. corn feed and organized the corn huskers- went into effect, the unemployment rate 11586 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 dropped for the first time in a year and many munity-based organizations that are committed many cases, attempts to address multiple edu­ people believe that the economy has begun to to providing quality health care services to all cational needs of a single child in separate grow. I believe it would have been foolhardy people. In addition to providing medical care, programs results in discontinuity of services for the President to let his moratorium expire VNA's offer social services; physical, speech, and the child may lose the benefit of some of in April and allow the Government to renew its and occupational therapy; nutritional counsel­ the regular classroom instruction. It is time to vigor for issuing regulations. As a cosponsor ing; and meals-on-wheels programs. They explore the effectiveness of other ways of of legislation urging the President to extend also operate wellness clinics, hospices, and serving disadvantaged children and this bill his moratorium for 1 year, I was pleased that adult day care centers. provides a carefully structured opportunity to he took the initiative in extending it for 120 Today's VNA's are also at the forefront of do so. Schools and school districts will select days. I believe that this is an important step bringing new and complex treatments into the categories of programs to be combined with toward facilitating the Nation's economic re­ home care setting, ensuring that health care is the Chapter 1 (Education for the Disadvan­ covery and regret that my colleagues were not more accessible and more affordable. Sup­ taged) Program for preschool, elementary, able to consider the Riggs amendment and ported in their efforts by legions of volunteers and/or secondary school flexibility projects. commend the President for his action. who commit selflessly of their time and re­ They are permitted to waive a broad range of sources, visiting nurse associations enable requirements except for those pertaining to Americans to receive the health care services civil rights and privacy protections, anti­ INTRODUCTION OF NATIONAL VIS- they need to recover, or die quietly-with dig­ discrimination, comparability of services, main­ ITING NURSE ASSOCIATIONS nity-in the familiar surrounding of their own tenance of effort, supplement not supplant, WEEK homes. participation of private students, and parental By naming the week beginning February 14, participation. HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR 1993, "National Visiting Nurse Associations This bill provides a bottom-up process for OF OHIO Week," we pay tribute to the thousands of selecting the requirements to be waived. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hard-working, committed professionals and School districts apply to the States on behalf volunteers who carry on the tradition of serv­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 of schools. States waive applicable State re­ ice that visiting nurse associations have sup­ quirements and apply to a new Federal Com­ Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, it is with great plied our Nation for well over 100 years. We mittee on Services to Children, composed of pleasure that I join my colleague, Mr. BURTON extol the modern day samaritans of visiting the Secretaries of Education, Agriculture, of Indiana, in introducing the resolution des­ nurse associations so they may receive the Labor, and Health and Human Services, for ignating the week beginning February 14, appreciation and recognition they so justly de­ authority to waive Federal requirements. 1993, as "National Visiting Nurse Associations serve. Finally, the bill contains requirements that Week." States and local school districts make con­ While this is the fifth year we are honoring certed efforts to coordinate the provision of the good work of visiting nurse associations all FLEXIBILITY FOR EDUCATIONAL education with health, mental health, sutr across America, the VNA tradition dates back EFFECTIVENESS ACT OF 1992 stance abuse prevention and treatment, and to the 1800's when thousands of Americans social services and provides an application pri­ lacked the resources to secure medical care HON. DALE E. KILDEE ority for those who do. or even basic necessities-such as milk for OF MICHIGAN Mr. Speaker, this is an important bill. It will their infants-that was so vital to improving IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES enable 300 schools to take available re­ the quality of life in our growing Nation. Visit­ sources and attempt to make them work more Thursday, May 14, 1992 ing nurse associations began to spring up efficiently and effectively for disadvantaged across the United States with the mission of Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I am introducing children. At the same time, it also provides for providing basic nursing care to all who needed the Flexibility for Educational Effectiveness Act important linkages between programs like it. of 1992. Chapter 1, Head Start, and National School These early pioneers were guided by a spirit This bill establishes a new Federal Commit­ Lunch. of caring and compassion that still emanates tee on Services to Children which is author­ from the over 420 visiting nurse associations ized to grant waivers of certain statutory and operating in rural and urban areas across the regulatory requirements in Federal education, MORTGAGE REFINANCING REFORM United States. As a matter of fact, the Depart­ nutrition, and training programs in 300 schools ACT OF 1992 ment of Health and Human Services estimates nationwide. This will enable these schools to that VNA's are providing home health care combine these various program funds, side­ HON. ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES and support services to more than 1.5 million step cumbersome requirements, and experi­ OF CALIFORNIA men, women, and children-all regardless of ment with innovative, comprehensive ap­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the patient's ability to pay. In my own commu­ proaches to meeting the multiple educational nity, the 200 colon and rectal cancer patients needs of disadvantaged children. Thursday, May 14, 1992 who receive visits from VNA enterostomal Mr. Speaker, the Congress has traditionally Mr. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, today I am in­ therapists each month are just a small exam­ identified unmet educational needs of groups troducing legislation to address a problem that ple of the thousands of people that the visiting of students and enacted categorical programs thousands of Americans are presently facing. nurse association in my hometown of Cleve­ to address those specific needs. Each of Because of reductions in the prime rate land touches each year with their compas­ these laws has specific eligibility, pro­ many Americans are refinancing their mort­ sionate spirit. grammatic, and administrative requirements gages. Mr. Speaker, as a Member who had the designed to ensure that intended recipients Unforunately, during this refinancing boom privilege of serving on the Pepper Commis­ are actually served, that the authorized serv­ there has been a corresponding boom in the sion, I know well the crisis facing our citizens ices are actually provided, and that the Con­ number of problems individuals are experienc- not only in affordability of access to health gress and Federal agencies are apprised of ing with lenders. . care, but with respect to long-term care. At a the results. Many of these laws also include, It is estimated that over 1.4 million house­ time when our Nation's health care costs a(e for very good reasons, requirements designed holds refinanced their mortgages in the past skyrocketing-and those with the greatest to mandate or prohibit certain actions by Fed­ year and another 3 million new refinances are need of home care are increasingly those who eral, State, or local agencies. anticipated this year. can least afford it-visiting nurse associations In recent years, we have observed dramatic As chairman of the House Banking Sutr are to be commended for providing a full increases in the numbers of disadvantaged committee on Consumer Affairs and Coinage, range of health care and support services to children due to increases in the numbers of I have received numerous complaints in this patients in the comfort of their own home re­ immigrants, children living in poverty, and dys­ area. gardless of their ability to pay. As a unique functional families. Additionally, a disadvan­ The problem is that consumers currently are health care delivery option, visiting nurse as­ taged child eligible for one program is usually not protected by disclosure laws that cover sociations across America are nonprofit, com- also eligible for several other programs. In first-time home loans. May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11587 Existing law does not provide the consumer A TRIBUTE TO EUCARIO NH. In particular, they are to be commended with timely information regarding the closing BERMUDEZ for the Young Inventors Program which they costs on a refinancing. For example, some have implemented. consumers reach the closing stage of the loan HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN This program, initiated by educators like process, only to find that they are paying more oF FLORIDA Linda Farrington, provides children in their points or higher attorney fees than those IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES formative years with the fundamentals of prac­ which had been previously quoted. tical problem-solving through proper planning The consumer may be faced with process­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 and hands-on experimentation. Critical think- ing fees, warehousing fees, underwriting fees, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, recently ing skills, which are essential in every facet of and tax service fees that were previously un­ the Colombian community in Miami honored life, are being developed in children as early disclosed. Eucario Bermudez for his 35 years of continu- as first grade, and are evidenced by the ability My bill, the Mortgage Refinancing Reform ous service on the radio. The vice president of of these young students to identify problems Act of 1992, will address this lack of consumer the Colombian-American Chamber of Com- and to seek out practical solutions to them. protection and require disclosure of the annual merce and the director of news of Radio A sterling example of the effectiveness of percentage rate 3 days before settlement on a Klaridad, Mr. Bermudez started his profes- this program was the recent invention of Brian mortgage refinancing. The bill will also require sional career as a radio announcer in the Winslow, a first grader at Greenville Elemen­ disclousre of closing costs and any fees that beautiful city of Manizales, in his native Co- tary. He recognized that this schoolmate, are part of settlement. lombia. His talent and dedication to his work Emmalee Coponon, was not able to handle According to consumer experts and some proved fruitful and he was soon promoted her lunch tray because of interference from mortgage industry executives, the practical ef­ from his position as announcer to director of the walker which she must use for mobility. fect of-the lack of disclosure-is to allow un­ the station "Nuevo Mundo." Later, Mr. Through design and experiment, Brian created scrupulous leaders or brokers to lure Bermudez was further promoted to general di- a device which attaches to the walker and ar­ refinancers to their application windows with rector of CARACOL, one of the most re- lows Emmalee the freedom to be self-suffi­ low rate quotes and verbal estimates of credit spected radio chains in Colombia. cient when getting her lunch. This single ex- fees at application only to disclose higher fees For many years, Eucario Bermudez was the ample illustrates not only the worth of the pro­ in the truth-in-lending form at the settlement director of the broadcast of the Reinado gram from an inventive standpoint, but also table. Nacional de Belleza of Cartagena (The Na- how children develop compassionate inter­ In a recent newspaper article, an executive tiona! Beauty Pageant). He was also master of personal skills which they will use throughout of a major national mortgage firm, requesting ceremonies of the first color TV broadcast in their lives. anonymity, was reported as saying that he Colombia and was host and producer of TV The Greenville Young Inventors Program is had seen the harm the refinancing loophole programs which were quite popular, such as indicative of the kind of programs which public can cause consumers firsthand. "Contamos Contigo," "Tierra Colombiana" y and private schools should adopt in order to In one case, he said, a mortgage broker "Noticiero TV Hoy." He quickly earned the re- spark the spirit of inventiveness and discovery had made a verbal estimate to a borrower that spect of his colleagues and was elected presi- in children. It is only through the fostering of loan fees would total about $1 ,500. dent of the Colombian Association of Broad- such programs that today's youth will become The broker did not provide a written truth-in­ casters. leaders who are prepared to face and conquer lending disclosure estimate at application, ac­ In the 1980's Mr. Bermudez, an excellent the challenges of tomorrow. cording to the executive, "because he knew Colombian broadcaster, came to Miami. He pi- Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me he didn't have to under the Federal law." oneered many radio programs that highlighted in commending the outstanding accomplish­ I am pleased that Senator ROTH has already the many beneficial aspects and progress of ments of the faculty, staff, and students of introduced and passed legislation in the Sen­ his native land. He continues to work as a Greenville Elementary School and their exem­ ate to address this problem. Miami correspondent to the various radio sta- · plary Young Inventors Program. Lastly, a method by which unearned interest tions in Colombia and is a member of the As- sociation of Hispanic Journalists in Florida and is calculated when refinancing or prepaying NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY loans must be eliminated. the United States. He was appointed director Most lenders are fair and use the actuarial of Radio Klaridad, which is a well respected radio station in Miami. method to compute unearned interest. How­ HON. MICHAEL A. ANDREWS In his hope to give back to this Nation that ever, in some cases lenders use an inaccurate OF TEXAS welcomed him warmly, Eucario Bermudez has shorthand method called the Rule of 78's to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dedicated himself to make stronger the ties compute unearned interest, which award the Thursday, May 14, 1992 which hold together this beautiful Colombian lender with a greater level of interest paid community in the United States. Mr. ANDREWS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, you early in the loan term. This shorthand method For his work, his commitment and dedica­ would think that we would have ·learned our leaves the consumer shortchanged. tion, Mr. Bermudez was acknowledged by the lesson. Yet little more than a year after our In effect, if the lender uses the Rule of 78, community that he serves. On Saturday, May victory in the Persian Gulf, the United States the consumer winds up paying off the loan 2, a large group of civic leaders as well as cul­ still has not enacted a long-term energy policy and interest on money they did not end up tural and professional groups who work daily capable of enhancing national energy ·security using. with all Hispanics in our area gave a much de­ and promoting economic growth. Refusing to Sixteen states have already passed laws to served banquet honoring this very special rep­ manage our energy usage and domestic pro­ prohibit the use of the Rule of 78's. Federal resentative of Colombia. duction wisely over the past 10 years has left credit unions are prohibited from using the us-as Saddam Hussein demonstrated-at Rule of 78's. the mercy of foreign oil cartels, despots and In this day and age of computers and cal­ A TRIBUTE TO GREENVILLE ELE- uncontrollable events in the Middle East. A culators, there is no excuse to use this anti­ MENTARY SCHOOL AND ITS continued laxity in energy policy will only in­ quated accounting method to compute interest YOUNG INVENTORS PROGRAM crease that vulnerability. owed in a refinancing or prepayment. What the United States needs as it heads · The consumer mortgage refinancing legisla­ HON. DICK SWElT into the next century is a truly integrated and tion I am introducing today will prohibit the use OF NEW HAMPSHIRE comprehensive energy strategy. We must in­ of the Rule of 78's for calculating unearned in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sist on increasing our use of domestic alter­ terest. native and renewable fuels, demand aggres­ I ask my colleagues to join me in supporting Thursday, May 14, 1992 sive efficiency and conservation standards, this legislation by signing on as a cosponsor. Mr. SWETT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to and prudently exploit our traditional domestic The Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and recognize and applaud the fine work being energy resources. Coinage will be holding a hearing on this issue done by the faculty, staff, and students of the The erosion of our domestic energy sector on May 19, 1990. Greenville Elementary School in Greenville, is frightening. The industry has lost more than 11588 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 317,000 jobs in just 10 years. The number of remedy this inequity and provide AMT relief America, and Trans Mississippi Champion­ operating drilling rigs is at its lowest level in for independent oil and gas producers. ships. She competed in her first USGA Wom­ recorded history and domestic production con­ Finally, the committee agreed to my amend­ en's Amateur Championship in 1969. During tinues to plummet. We produced only 7.3 mil­ ment to eliminate a mandatory in-kind con­ the late 1980's, Ms. Shorb competed in the lion barrels per day in 199Q-the lowest level tribution to the strategic petroleum reserve USGA Women's Mid-Amateur Championship. in almost 30 years. Yet our appetite for oil [SPA]. By requiring all oil importers and pur­ Connie Shorb played with the best women continues to escalate with imports accounting chasers of domestic crude to contribute a per­ golfers in the world in the USGA Women's for nearly 50 percent of our oil consumption, centage of imports or purchases to the SPA, Open Championship five times, her first at the up from just 32 percent in 1985. this provision would have amounted to a $15 Cascades course in Hot Springs, VA in 1967. Meanwhile, American companies are in­ billion tax on the oil and gas industry and con­ As she is being honored this weekend, her creasingly searching for exploration and pro­ sumers. While filling the SPA is an admirable community has recognized her achievements duction opportunities overseas. A mass exo­ goal and one that could benefit us all, it would in the past. She has received many honors, dus overseas of domestic capital could poten­ be fairer to finance such a plan with a straight­ including: Sportsman of the Year in 1970; Dis­ tially jeopardize the ability of the energy sector forward appropriation of general revenues. tinguished Achievement Award, York Chamber to rebound domestically even if economic con­ After too much neglect, inconsistency, and of Commerce; York County Sports Hall of ditions at home were to change. lack of direction, this Nation must unite in pro­ Fame, 1981; York County Jr. Golf Sports Hall During the Committee on Ways and Means moting an aggressive and innovative energy of Fame, 1982; and the York Daily Record markup of H.R. 776, the Comprehensive Na­ policy for our future. Decisions that we make Athlete of the Decade for the 1980's. tional Energy Policy Act, we achieved three in this Congress will affect our Nation's energy Connie Shorb's accomplishments during the vital goals: First, the establishment of tax in­ future for decades to come and those deci­ late 1960's alone would have made her de­ centives for the purchase of vehicles using sions should be made now. serving of Connie Shorb Day which is being clean-burning alternative fuels; second, an end While what we recently accomplished in the celebrated. Connie Shorb has maintained a to onerous alternative minimum tax restrictions Committee on Ways and Means counts as a high level of playing excellence for a period of on independent oil and gas producers; and good success for a national energy policy, 25 years. As many of my colleagues know, third, the lifting of a hidden $15 billion tax on more needs to be done. By continuing to work golf is a sport of incredible skill and patience. the oil and gas industry and consumers to fill with the energy industry, the environmental To be able to maintain this level of physical the strategic petroleum reserve. Each of these community, and public policy makers we can skill and mental fortitude over such a period of victories should mean more domestic drilling build a consensus to enhance energy security, time is a remarkable feat indeed. for oil and gas, more jobs, and a stronger en­ promote economic growth, and protect the en­ It is my pleasure to share with my col­ ergy policy for America. vironment in a free market, economically effi­ leagues the truly noteworthy accomplishments Tax incentives for alternative fuels has been cient manner. of Connie Shorb in the world of amateur golf. one of my top priorities since 1988. Inclusion of this provision represents the culmination of years of working with the energy industry, the CONNIE SHORB automotive industry, and the environmental . TRIBUTE TO LETTIE GAY CARSON community to determine how best to give the HON. WilliAM F. GOODUNG most efficient economic incentive to gain the OF PENNSYLVANIA HON. HAMILTON ASH, JR. greatest environmental benefit at the lowest IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF NEW YORK cost. The result is a deduction for consumers IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES who buy vehicles using clean fuels such as Thursday, May 14, 1992 Thursday, May 14, 1992 natural gas, methanol, ethanol, and electricity, Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, i would like as well as refueling stations for those vehicles. to commend to my colleagues the exploits of Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues This deduction should fit well with the re­ my constituent and friend Connie Hirschman in the House of Representatives to join me in quirements of the Clean Air Act that many Shorb. To honor her, Connie Shorb Day will honoring the memory of a very special lady, fleet-owners convert to alternative fuel use. By be celebrated with a mixed doubles golf tour­ and personal friend, who touched the lives of providing a deduction for those who comply, nament at the Country Club of York in Penn­ all of those around her-Lettie Gay Carson. this tax initiative will ease the economic bur­ sylvania on Sunday, May 17, 1992. Lettie passed away recently at the age of den on those committed to a clean environ­ Connie Shorb has distinguished herself as a 91 . She was known in Dutchess County, NY ment. For many communities, this kind of tax great amateur golf champion in the Common­ as one of the founders of the Mid-Hudson Li­ incentive is crucial to improve our air quality. wealth of Pennsylvania and throughout the brary System and as the leading advocate to Houston is one of the most air polluted cities country. Ms. Shorb competed in her first club save the Harlem Railroad Line in the eastern in America with much of the pollution caused championship at the Country Club of York part of the county. by tailpipe emissions. Alternative fuels in our when she was 16 years of age, too young to She was born in 1901 in Pike County, IL. big cities are imperative if we are to make real use the ladies locker room. Through she did She graduated from the University of Illinois, and lasting progress. not win that first club tournament, she went on trained as a nutritionist and moved to New Independent oil and gas producers have to be the Country Club of York Champion for York in the early 1920's where she was direc­ been hamstrung by the alternative minimum 26 straight years from 1965 to 1990. She con­ tor of the New York Herald Tribune's Home In­ tax [AMT] since it was created in the Tax Re­ tinues to remind today's younger women's stitute from 1927 to 1933. She later worked as form Act of 1986. Created as a backstop to players that the course was significantly longer an editor and writer for Parents Magazine. guarantee that all taxpayers pay a certain when she began winning the club champion­ In 1959, Lettie led the planning committee amount of tax, . the AMT has unintentionally ships. Connie Shorb's skill led her to 20 York to create the Mid-Hudson Library System, an punished independents who typically are more County Championships as well. This feat, organization of public libraries offering serv­ willing to take risks on the sort of drilling that though great, may have been even greater ices systemwide to people in Dutchess, Co­ leads to significant new discoveries. had she competed each year throughout this lumbia, Ulster, Greene, and Putnam counties. The AMT was never meant to substitute for span. Prior to her initiative, library services in parts the normal rules of taxation, but many inde­ Connie's exploits extended throughout the of these counties were meager or nonexistent. pendents have been paying the tax every year State when she became the Central Penn­ As founder and president of the Harlem Val­ since it was enacted. This situation totally ig­ sylvania Champion in 1968 and again in 1969. ley Transportation Association [HTVA]. she nores the economic situation of the industry Her level of play continued to improve as she delayed the shutdown of rail service, NYC to and partially as a result, the drilling rig count, faced better competition. She earned the title Millerton, by nearly a decade and was respon­ the number of working seismic crews, and re­ of Pennsylvania State Champion in 1968, sible for keeping the tracks to Wassaic for lated economic activity are all at the lowest 1972, and 1974, in addition to being runner-up continued freight service. The HTVA. success­ level in recorded history. The committee several times before. fully sued Penn Central in a case that had na­ adopted an amendment offered by my col­ Connie Shorb competed in such national tional implications. A Federal district judge league and fellow Houstonian BILL ARCHER to tournaments as the Doherty, Amateur of ruled that railroad service couldn't be stopped May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11589 without rail operators first showing that aban­ spirit of IGA. The marketing image of IGA is colleagues the fine work of one of my constitu­ donment would not harm the surrounding based on hometown proud. This commitment ents, Ms. Jean K. Spees, who is retiring after human environment. to excellence is as applicable in Osaka as it a long and superlative career as a teacher Diminutive in size, Lettie's spirit was indomi­ is in Oklahoma or Illinois. and leader in the community. table. She was hard-working and an avid col­ Jean K. Spees will retire as director of Linda lector of facts and information. As a former CONGRESSMAN KILDEE HONORS Beach Preschool at the end of this year after journalist, she knew how effectively to use the a 22-year career. Past and present parents press. Her persistence and careful recitation of FLINT CENTRAL HIGH ALUMNI AND GRADUATES and friends will gather to honor her at a recep­ facts kept reporters following her causes. She tion on May 16, 1992. pushed hard to hold public bodies account­ Jean has balanced a long career of public able, to see that money was well spent and HON. DALE E. KILDEE service as a hospital clinical dietician, journal­ that meetings were open to everyone. OF MICHIGAN After moving to Pennsylvania in 1980, she ist, early childhood specialist, parent, and ac­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tive community volunteer. carried on her crusade, fighting to save rail Thursday, May 14,1992 transportation in her suburban Philadelphia Jean is a graduate of Oregon State Univer­ community and creating an Alliance for Public Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor for sity where she majored in hospital dietetics Transportation. me to rise before you today to pay tribute to and early childhood education. She graduated The legacy Lettie Carson leaves us is that, the outstanding graduates, both past and Phi Beta Kappa, was editor of the women's yes through persistence and determination, present, of Flint Central High School. These page of the college newspaper, and was a one person can and does make a difference. graduates will be recognized at the 1st Annual member of the Mortar Board. Mr. Speaker, people's lives don't just stop Flint Central High School Alumni Association Her career began as a dietician, first at St. when they do. The good they do goes on-in awards ceremony on May 14, 1992, at 7 p.m., Luke's hospital in Boise, ID, and then as chief the events they set in motion and in the exam­ at the Grand Blanc Country Club. dietician at Columbia Hospital for Women in ple they set for others. At a time when there Flint Central High will always hold a special Washington, DC. Following a family move and are too few role models for our young people, place in my heart. I taught history, Latin and the arrival of her second son, Jean began the shining example set by Lettie Carson con­ English there for 8 wonderful years. Many of working part time as a reporter for the tinues to inspire those she left behind. my former students remain active as alumni. It Charleston, WV Gazette, and the Petersburg, is indeed a pleasure to see Central High WV News. School's long record of academic excellence After another move, this time to Oakland, IGA: DOING BUSINESS IN JAPAN continue with the present graduating class. CA in 1959, and the arrival of two more chil­ Being awarded the Flint Central alumni dren, Jean attended Merritt College to com­ HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL scholarship is not the end, but the beginning, of a life-long commitment to academic excel­ plete the requirements necessary for receiving OF ILLINOIS her early childhood teaching credential. She lence. It is my hope that each 1992 scholar­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES then became director of Linda Beach Pre­ ship recipient will be recognized, in later school, serving both Oakland and Piedmont Thursday, May 14,1992 years, as an outstanding graduate. The win­ children. Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, some time ago I ners of this year's $500 Flint Central alumni brought to the attention of our colleagues the scholarship are Benjamin Bigelow, Spaci During her 22 years at Linda Beach, she success of the Caterpillar Co. in Japan. I said Gatica, James Godley, Timothy MacDonald, has helped more than 800 children prepare for at the time that this success shows Americans and Dayne Walling. their life at school-learing to share, listen, can complete and thrive in a tough economic These fine young men and women will join learn and ultimately, grow into successful stu­ arena. Today, I'd like to bring to your attention the revered ranks of alumni who have re­ dents and youths. At the same time she has another success story of a similar kind. ceived regional and national recognition for taught parenting and served as a role model In my congressional district, I am fortunate their outstanding achievements in their fields. for many young parents learning to cope with to have 17 members of the Independent Gro­ The individuals honored at this year's banquet careers and young children. cers Alliance [IGA]. This organization was are a true testament to this remarkable legacy: Jean has a long career of public service: formed in the United States in 1926. Its mis­ Paul L. Brady, the Nation's first black Federal president of Joaquin Miller PTA; co-president sion then was to find ways in which independ­ administrative law judge; Lloyd Brazil, de­ of Montera Junior High PTA; co-founder and ent grocers could better serve consumers ceased, one of the first seven inductees into long time board member of the national edu­ through cooperation. IGA started with a few the Greater Flint area sports hall of fame; cational film and video festival, co-founder and small independent stores. Today, this alliance Maurie B. Cossman, former sports writer and early participant in the Oakland tours program; has grown into the largest voluntary food editor for the Flint Journal; Romain Johnston, a member of the first class of the Oakland Mu­ group, with aggregate sales of more than winner of three Emmy awards and nationally seum's history documents program; Girl Scout $16.2 billion annually through its global alli­ renowned art director; and Margaret L.A. leader, member of the Foundation Board of ance of 3,750 supermarkets, ranking IGA sixth MacVicar, deceased, former dean of under­ Lincoln Child Center, and co-president of the in the world and third in North America in food graduate education at Massachusetts Institute East Bay cotillion. industry sales. IGA stores are located in the of Technology and founder of its undergradu­ She has also been a member of the land­ 48 contiguous States in the United States, ate research opportunities program. marks preservation advisory board since 1980 Japan, Canada, Australia, and Papua, New Mr. Speaker, it is an honor and a privilege and has assisted her husband, Oakland City Guinea. for me to ask you and my fellow Members of Councilmember Richard Spees, in many pub­ In 1987, independent food retailers from Congress to join me in paying tribute to the lic appearances. Japan began to join the IGA. This process outstanding graduates and alumni of Flint In addition to all of her achievements, Jean transformed IGA into the International Grocers Central High School. Their achievements and her husband have raised four children: Alliance. serve as a model for all Americans. These businessmen work together for the Richard, Jr, an attorney in Washington, DC; common benefit of their consumers without re­ John, a vice president with the Bank of Amer­ gard for international barriers. Their objectives TRIBUTE TO JEAN K. SPEES ica in San Francisco; Kathryn, a teacher in are to serve their customers better than any­ Kona, HI, and Patricia, the executive vice­ one else. This is a classic example of the free HON. RONALD V. DELLUMS president and chief of operating officer of St. market system at work to build bridges of Jude's Hospital in Fullerton. Jean is also an OF CALIFORNIA active grandmother to her three grandsons. friendship in the highest tradition of inter­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES national cooperation. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to share the To any who seek a model for teamwork be­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 work of this fine constituent with my col­ tween the two most powerful economic giants Mr. DELLUMS. Mr. Speaker, it gives me leagues and I wish her the very best in her re­ in the world today, I recommend to you the great pleasure to bring to the attention of my tirement. 11590 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 THE SPORTS STANDARDS ACT OF antitrust litigation hanging over their heads. be classified as disabled, making them eligible 1992 The Sports Standards Act would remove that for SSI payments even if they've never worked threat and let these organizations go about the or paid into the Social Security fund. The max­ HON. DON EDWARDS business of promoting and organizing amateur imum disability payment now authorized is OF CALIFORNIA competition. $442 a month plus any supplementary State IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES benefits, which vary according to need. SSI payments are not made to the addicts Thursday, May 14, 1992 CONGRESSMAN FISH TO BE HON- directly. Checks go to a supposedly respon­ Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. Speaker, ORED BY AMERICAN BANK- sible third party who is expected to provide today I am introducing legislation which ad­ RUPTCY INSTITUTE funds to the addict as required. Spokesman dresses a narrow but important problem faced for the Social Security Administration readily by sports organizations in the United States. HON.CARLOSJ.MOORHEAD concede that it is not easy to find really re­ The goal of the Sports Standards Act of OF CALIFORNIA sponsible third parties. 1992 is to promote the administration of ama­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES When this program was brought to my at­ teur sports by protecting qualifying sports or­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 tention by a constituent of mine, Mr. Anthony ganizations from needless litigation over the Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Speaker, the Amer­ Purcell, Sr., of Greensburg, PA, I was shocked setting of equipment standards and rules of ican Bankruptcy Institute is an organization and astounded. As a public servant, I know competition. that part of my responsibility is looking out for In addition to promoting their sports, ama­ that makes a major contribution to national un­ derstanding of bankruptcy-related issues. Its those citizens overcome by life's difficulties. teur sports organizations often adopt official membership of approximately 3,500 includes The Government should always be respon­ rules of competition, which frequently include lawyers, trustees, accountants, bankers, and sible to the electorate, and we must always be equipment standards. No one would argue others with a professional interest in bank­ here to help victims of disease, drugs and against an organizing body setting the stand­ crime. But, inherent in that mission to help, ards of competition for its sport. After all, com­ ruptcy. Congress often relies on ABI witnesses to present informed and dispassionate testi­ however, is an enormous accountability to petition is meaningless unless it is based on a mony on proposals for bankruptcy law reform. spend the tax dollars of Americans in the consistent set of rules. ABI newsletters and studies provide thoughtful wisest and most judicious manner possible. In Setting rules often requires an amateur this case, we are missing both of these goals. sports organization to consult with other na­ analysis and commentary on a variety of bankruptcy-related subjects. This year, as the Throwing good money at a serious problem tional and international organizations. Unfortu­ like drug and alcohol abuse is not a solution. nately, it is this consultation which has landed American Bankruptcy Institute celebrates its 1Oth anniversary, we reflect on its many ac­ I support funding for programs to help these amateur sports organizations in court, defend­ trouble citizens, but only when there is thor­ ing against charges of participating in unlawful complishments and look forward to its helpful input in the the years ahead. ough and scrupulous accounting of all the conspiracies in restraint of trade. funds. Continuing these payments does noth­ Manufacturers of nonconforming equipment During the May 15-18 time period, that ABI holds its annual spring meeting in Washing­ ing more than fund a vicious cycle of destruc­ regularly file suit against amateur sports orga­ tive and painful substance abuse. nizations, which must then spend enormous ton-with sessions on a range of bankruptcy topics. The closing event will include the pres­ When so many deserving sections of soci­ sums to defend their legitimate actions in ety are crying out for scarce public funds from court. To cite just one example, the U.S. Golf entation of the Second Annual Congressional Service Award. Our colleague, Congressman the Federal Government we should be Association has had to defend itself against ashamed to waste money in useless programs golf shoe and golf club manufacturers who HAMILTON FISH, Jr., the ranking minority mem­ ber of the Committee on the Judiciary, will re­ like this. I call on the Social Security Program produced equipment which did not meet the to remember that accountability is the sound­ USGA's standards. ceive this special recognition. I am delighted to commend the American est foundation of all aid programs. Please This is an unfair burden on organizations remedy this mess. which set rules solely to preserve the integrity Bankruptcy Institute on its selection of the of their sport, not to keep manufacturers out of gentleman from New York. Congressman FISH a particular market. Moreover, the threat of has been deeply involved in the development END FRIVOLOUS USE OF THE these suits discourages the consultation nec­ and passage of many bankruptcy law changes RECORD essary to maintain uniform competitive condi­ and has been at the forefront of bankruptcy tions both here and abroad. reform efforts for many years. Today, at a time HON. GEORGE MILLER My bill would simply clarify that a non-profit of increased national focus on the bankruptcy system, he challenges the Congress to devote OF CALIFORNIA amateur sports organizations, which functions IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as the rule-making body for the sport is ex­ increased attention to improving our bank- empt for liability for actions taken in good faith ruptcy laws. - Thursday, May 14, 1992 The Members of this body congratulate · pursuant to consultations concerning rules arid Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, Congressman FISH on a well deserved award equipment standards for national and inter­ today I am, seemingly contradictorily, inserting and express our appreciation to ABI for its national competition. Specifically, the bill this extension of remarks to achieve a cost­ commitment to public service. would recognize the right of such organiza­ saving House reform; an end to the frivolous tions to engage in consultations with similarly and costly use of special orders and exten­ situated bodies in the United States and over­ SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS sions of remarks. seas. SUBSIDIZE JUNKIES I am grateful to the 22 colleagues who are The bill's protection would extend only to joining me in introducing this resolution today. not-for-profit corporations which have as their HON. AUSTIN J. MURPHY Every day, extensions and special orders purpose the advancement of amateur athletic consume many pages in the CONGRESSIONAL OF PENNSYLVANIA competition. It would not affect the liability of RECORD, pages that cost in excess of $2 mil­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES any for-profit corporation for any action that lion a year to print. And that does not include may be in violation of the law. Nor would it Thursday, May 14, 1992 the costs of mailing a dubiously swollen protect not-for-profit organizations from other Mr. MURPHY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to RECORD to thousands of recipients. independent claims, such as product liability alert the Congress to the sad fact that the So­ Nor does the $2 million represent the cost claims. cial Security Administration in currently ladling in tens of thousands of hours of staff time that Mr. Speaker, athletic competition requires out millions of dollars in disability payments to is spent researching and writing these tomes, that someone make the rules of play. Amateur alcoholics and drug addicts who claim that staff time that could, and should, instead be sports organizations are formed in large part they are unable to work because of the addic­ spent on addressing the many urgent issues to perform that function. However, those who tion. It's true, and it's part of current law. that are before the Congress and the Nation. serve on these organizations cannot be free to The payment was authorized under a 197 4 But my resolution would limit their use to legis­ adopt proper rules with the constant threat of law that permits alcoholics and drug addicts to lative and policy questions that are before the May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11591 House, including explanations of legislation congratulating Jim on receiving this truly out­ Under the leadership of Mr. Truhill, the Or­ Members are introducing, comments on bills standing award and wishing him success in fu­ ange County Chamber of Commerce has re­ before the House, and the actions of other ture endeavors. ceived national recognition from local, State, branches of · government. These are appro­ and Federal agencies and has participated ac­ priate. tively in every facet of Orange County's The credibility of the Congress is not en­ JACK CAPPS HONORED growth. hanced when millions of viewers tune in c­ Under Lucien Truhill's leadership, accom­ SPAN and see a lone Member pontificating on HON. BEN ERDREICH plishments during the last 30 years have been some irrelevant issue before an empty Cham­ OF ALABAMA many for the chamber and for Orange County. ber. Constituents ask me, and I am sure ask IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Truhill worked on the original plans for the you, "Why aren't you people spending your county's developing highway and freeway sys­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 time addressing real issues instead of giving tem, as well as the planning and implementa­ speeches to empty Chambers?" The fact is Mr. ERDREICH. Mr. Speaker, I take this tion of the Orange County Transit District and they are right: We ought to spend more time time to thank one of Alabama's most outstand­ the subsequent bus system. He was involved legislating and less time speechifying. And ap­ ing citizens, Mr. Jack Capps. This 64-year-old from the start with the Santa Ana River Flood proval of my resolution will send that message volunteer is working to return what was la­ Control Project, which has recently been loud and clear. beled "Alabama's dirtiest lake," Bayview Lake, awarded full funding in the Federal budget. I realize that there are Boy and Girl Scout to its original natural beauty. Mr. Truhill has also participated in numerous troops, art exhibitions, 50-year anniversary Years ago, Jack came to my office with other noteworthy endeavors. He has been a celebrants, and Kiwanis/Lions/Rotary/Moose nothing more than just a dream. I was glad to member of the American Economic Develop- People of the Year who will not be honored in help. Together, we brought the plight of this . ment Council since 1961. He was an execu­ the Extensions of Remarks if this rule change lake to the attention of the USX Corp., the Re­ tive committee member of the regional advi­ passes. I think the Republic can survive the source Conservation and Development Coun­ sory council for the Southern California Asso­ loss. I think every one of those Americans cil, the city of Birmingham, and Jefferson ciation of Governments as well as chairman of would rather have us, and our staffs, working County. With their help, we were able to work the Economic Development Corporation of Or­ on the urgent national business rather than with the Bayview Lake Cleanup Association to ange County. Mr. Truhill also served as chair­ penning congratulatory missives for the help turn this dream into reality. Today, the man of the Orange County Metro Alliance of RECORD. duckweed that once filled Bayview Lake has Business, where he received a Presidential ci­ I realize that the savings aren't enormous, been replaced by hundreds of fish, and the tation for his work. just $2 or $3 million a year. But considering trash that once lined its shores is slowly dis­ Mr. Truhill has been an active member of that amount represents many times the life­ appearing. But Jack Capps didn't stop there, numerous charities and other organizations. In time tax payments of nearly every one of our he continues to work to raise money and do­ fact, Mr. Truhill is currently serving as a direc­ constituents, I think we can agree forgoing nates his time and efforts to rid this lake of tor of Goodwill Industries, Inc., in Orange these traditions is appropriate. I am hopeful trash and debris. County. that the House will adopt this overdue change Jack Capps was recently hospitalized with a Mr. Speaker, it is clear that Mr. Truhill's con­ and demonstrate that we are going to devote prolonged illness and can no longer walk tributions over the years characterize the ourselves to serious public business in the fu­ through the beauty he worked so hard to pre­ American spirit of hard work and dedication. I ture. serve. But Jack has left a legacy, hundreds of know that Mr. Truhill will continue to give of volunteers committed to the same ideals he himself throughout his retirement both to his stands for, preserving America's natural re­ TRIBUTE TO JIM MILLER community and to his country. It is with great sources for all to enjoy, and for that, Jack, pleasure that I bring Lucien Truhill's accom­ Alabama thanks you. plishments to the attention of the Col)gress of HON. DAVE CAMP Mr. Speaker, it was said at a recent testi­ the United States and the American people, OF MICHIGAN monial honoring Jack that he is what America and offer my thanks to him on the eve of his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is all about; I wholeheartedly agree. We all retirement for his years of service. Thursday, May 14, 1992 look forward to the future, inspired by Jack Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, it is with great Capps' strength and good works. pleasure that I rise today to recognize a spe­ TRIBUTE TO LISA THOMAS cial individual, Mr. Jim Miller, from Midland, TRIBUTE TO LUCIEN D. TRUHILL MI. Jim is being honored tonight as the recipi­ HON. BOB McEWEN UPON HIS RETIREMENT ent of the 1992 Association for Retarded Citi­ OF OHIO zens/Michigan Citizenship Award. HON. C. CHRISTOPHER COX IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jim has been a good friend, giving unself­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 ishly of his time to benefit organizations OF CALIFORNIA throughout the county. His involvement with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise today to pay tribute to a re­ the League of Woman Voters Program helped Thursday, May 14, 1992 to increase voting among those with disabil­ markable young eighth-grader from Wellston, ities, as well as helping them to become more Mr. COX of California. Mr. Speaker, it is an OH. On May 1, Lisa Thomas was honored in active in our democratic process. He is cur­ honor to rise and pay tribute to one of Orange the Rotunda of the Capitol by the U.S. Holo­ rently serving on the regional interagency co­ County's truly outstanding citizens, Mr. Lucien caust Memorial Council for her essay "The ordinating committee "Get out the Vote" steer­ D. Truhill. Mr. Truhill, president and chief ex­ Final Solution", which was judged the best of ing committee, in addition to being an active ecutive officer of the Orange County Chamber approximately 4,000 contest entries. member in the People First Organization. of Commerce, has announced his retirement Encouraged by her English teacher to enter Jim's continual commitment and dedication effective May 15, 1992, after 30 years of serv­ this contest, with the theme of "What Lessons to the betterment of the community, also al­ ice to the chamber and the people of Orange Can Be Learned from The Holocaust", Lisa lowed him to be honored earlier this year with County. As Mr. Truhill begins a new phase of decided to research and write about a topic the Midland County Association Retarded Citi­ his life with this announcement, his tremen­ she said she knew little about and wanted to zens Citizenship award. dous contributions to his community, his State, better understand. She read numerous books Jim's activities display a positive union be­ and his country will not be forgotten. and articles, including "The Hiding Place," tween government and its local citizens work­ When Mr. Truhill became president of the written by the famous Auschwitz survivor ing together, hand in hand, to impact a dif­ chamber in 1962, the chamber had fewer than Corrie Ten Boom, who was imprisoned for ference in the daily lives of their community 200 members and an annual budget of ap­ helping Jews during the war. residents. proximately $18,000. Today, the chamber Lisa worked on her entry for months, and Mr. Speaker, Jim Miller is truly a remarkable boasts almost 1,700 members and an annual after many revisions, wrote her essay, in dia­ individual. I know that you will join with me in operating budget of more than $1 ,000,000. logue form, which places Adolf Hitler on trial. 11592 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 God, as the judge, sentences Hitler to a prison that of her family's. Many of the letters include tinguished preachers of the time, including Dr. camp exactly like the camps in which millions contributions, but she is sending the money Fosdick, Dr. Jefferson, Dr. S. Parks Cadman, of Jews suffered. back. What she wants is for people to come and dedicated the present building to the serv­ Watching the trial are many spectators per­ forward and agree with her that change is ice of God. The cost was $51,000, a stagger­ secuted under Hitler. One character named needed. Such change may not be easy, but ing amount for those times. Most of these Anna Marie asks God about the suffering ex­ she is convinced that Americans are ready to funds had been raised through youth group perienced during the Holocaust. God answers, make the necessary choices to move the de­ suppers. "A lesson child. A lesson for all men, every­ bate forward. Since those times, the members of the con­ where, a lesson to never underestimate the Her granddaughter's illness has propelled gregation of this church have done much to capacity of man for evil, once he forgets God Georgia Fitzwilliams to the front of the health benefit the Jamaica community. They have or refuses to acknowledge anything or anyone care reform debate in Wisconsin. She adds a volunteered in areas such as health and hos­ higher." much needed element. Her family thought pital services, aided in the formation of a local Mr. Speaker, that is a lesson that should be they were fine. I'm sure they complained family court, and developed the Adult Center remembered by all. We honor the sacrifices of about paying too much for health insurance of Jamaica to care for the elderly of the com­ those persecuted by never forgetting. And, I like we all do, but they thought these costs munity, and have participated in many other would like to congratulate Lisa for her award, would secure them from financial ruin in the charitable activities. as well as thank her for helping us to remem­ case of a serious illness. Instead, they were Mr. Speaker, I ask all of our colleagues in ber. left out in the col~eft without insurance for the House to rise and join me in honoring their daughter's illness, without $130,000 just Reverend Macklin and the generous and car­ to pursue treatment-the actual cost of such ing congregation of the Victoria Congrega­ THE U.S. HEALTH CRISIS treatment will soar much higher. tional Church of Jamaica, NY, on the occasion I agree with Georgia Fitzwilliams. It is un­ of their 75th anniversary of service to God and HON. JIM MOODY conscionable that we withhold medically prov­ to the local community. OF WISCONSIN en treatment from individuals based on their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ability to pay. It is happening across the Unit­ ed States. The 200-plus stories collected in H.R. 1747, THE INDIAN ECONOMIC Thursday May 14, 1992 Wisconsin are only a microcosm of the crisis. DEVELOPMENT ACT Mr. MOODY. Mr. Speaker, I know that we What is most maddening is that we, as a all hear stories from home about people who country, have the ability to repair this wrong. HON. JOHN J. RHODFS m are falling through the abundant cracks of the If we gather the political will to pass a single OF ARIZONA current U.S. health care system. I have re­ payer health care system in the United States, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cently become acquainted with a woman stories like Maggie's will be only historical who's story I would like to share with my col­ ancedotes. Thursday, May 14, 1992 leagues. Georgia Fitzwilliams is working to In the House of Representatives, we now Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, as we consider unite the voices of people in Wisconsin who have 70 cosponsors of H.R. 1300, the Univer­ legislation to help urban communities strug­ are crying out for health care reform. sal Health Care Act. I urge my colleagues to gling to combat poverty and violence, let us Ms. Fitzwilliam's new granddaughter, talk to their constituents, hear their stories, not forget the hardest hit communities in our Maggie, was born with a liver condition called and join us in pursuing a health care system country-Indian reservations. Native American biliary atresia. Without a liver transplant­ for our country that will provide universal ac­ tribes are dealing with some of the harshest which is 85 percent effective-she will die. cess, ensure cost containment, maintain pa­ economic conditions in our country. Unem­ Maggie's parents have health insurance and tient choice, and cost less money as a Nation ployment and poverty are rampant on reserva­ thought they were fully covered until Maggie's than we spend today. tions across the country. In Arizona, 43 per­ illness was diagnosed. Then they learned that As Members of Congress who are elected cent of the native Americans are unemployed the HMO to which they belong, and pay a to represent our constituents, it is imperative and seeking work. On some reservations, the $350 monthly premium, does not cover treat­ that each of us become involved in the debate unemployment r(lte is over 70 percent, accord­ ment for this particular disease. for health care reform. Once you look at all ing to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Maggie needs the transplant to live, so the the facts and statistics, the clear winner for Indian tribes across the United States have Fitzwilliams began investigating other payment America is H.R. 1300, the Universal Health tried to provide money and jobs to their com­ alternatives. Before their daughter could even Care Act. munities through the revenues generated by be placed on the list for organ transplants they bingo and other gaming activities. These tribes needed to come up with $130,000. There was TRIBUTE TO VICTORIA CONGREGA­ are trying to become more self-reliant and are no question that a highly successful treatment TIONAL CHURCH OF JAMAICA, improving the programs and services they pro­ existed, but the treatment was off-limits with­ NY vide to their communities. out enormous financial resources. Yesterday, special agents from the Federal Maggie is lucky. The family discovered the Bureau of Investigation seized about 700 Katie Beckett Program-a State program for HON. GARY L ACKERMAN video gambling machines during early-morning disabled children that will pay for the trans­ OF NEW YORK raids at five Arizona Indian reservations. An a­ plant. However, had Maggie been an adult in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hour standoff between FBI agent and Indians the same situation, she would not have quali­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 ensued during one of the raids at the Fort fied. Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today McDowell Indian Reservation which is about Led by Maggie's grandmother Georgia to pay tribute to the Victoria Congregational 20 miles northeast of Phoenix. Indians blocked Fitzwilliams, the family made their story public. Church of Jamaica, NY. The congregation of the agents from taking the machines from the As Georgia said. "If they said she was termi­ this church will be celebrating 75 years of reservation. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed nal-take her home and hug her, she has 6 service to God, and to the local community on and violence was avoided. A temporary agree­ months to live-that's one thing. But they're Sunday, June 7. ment negotiated by Governor Fife Symington saying its $130,000 up front. I know we're This church was founded in 1917 by the was reached between the U.S. attorney's of­ going to find the money-we'll find the way to Reverend Egbert C. Macklin, and services fice and the tribe. get it. But what about all the families who were held in a small, borrowed building, that Congress must provide alternative economic can't? If my granddaughter dies or doesn't die, some said should have been condemned. For stimulation for the tribes. Both Congressmen this needs to be done." years the youth group of the church held s­ BYRON DoRGAN and I have sponsored legisla­ Georgia has taken this debate even further. cent ham suppers to raise money for a new tion to extend the enterprise zone concept and She has requested that people write to tell her building that would be more worthy of the reli­ program to Indian tribes and Indian reserva­ their stories of trying to obtain health care in gious services to be performed there. tions. Enterprise zones and the accompanying today's system. To date, she has received On Sunday, March 18, 1923, Reverend tax incentives will bring prospects for new jobs more than 200 letters telling stories similar to Macklin was joined by some of the most dis- in Indian communities. May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11593 THE SMALL BUSINESS COST SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This satellite rescue shows how the manned ESTIMATE ACT OF 1992 This Act may be cited as the "Small Busi­ and unmanned parts of the space program ness Cost Estimate Act of 1992". can effectively complement-not compete­ SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE COST HON. ANDY IRELAND ANALYSIS. with each other. Without the shuttle and the OF FLORIDA (A) CBO ANALYSIS.-Title IV of the Con­ capability for astronauts to conduct IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U .S.C. 651 et spacewalks, the lntelsat satellite would have · Thursday, May 14,1992 seq.) is amended by inserting after section been stuck in a useless orbit with no hope of 403 the following new section: recovery, and its capacity of 120,000 voice cir­ Mr. IRELAND. Mr. Speaker, in honor of "SMALL BUSINESS COST ANALYSIS BY cuits and four television channels would have Small Business Week and the hardworking CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE been wasted. men and women of the small business com­ "SEC. 404. (a) The Director of the Congres­ It was the presence of humans, with their munity, I am pleased to introduce, with Mrs. sional Budget Office shall, to the extent ability to adapt to new situations, and figure MEYERS of Kansas, Ms. MOLINARI, Mr. FIELDS, practicable, prepare for each bill or resolu­ out alternative approaches, that made the dif­ Mr. RAMSTAD, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. OXLEY, Mr. tion of a public character reported by any ference. lntelsat was not designed to be re­ MOORHEAD, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. MAR­ committee of the House of Representatives covered or repaired by astronauts, and no one TIN, and Mr. LIGHTFOOT, the Small Business or the Senate (except the Committee on Ap­ propriations of each House), and submit to knew whether it could be done. However, Cost Estimate Act of 1992. careful planning and execution by dedicated This bill requires the Congressional Budget such committee- "(1) an estimate of the costs which would NASA and contractor personnel, along with Office to prepare an estimate of the costs im­ be incurred in carrying out such bill or reso­ the willingness to rise to a challenge, led to posed on small businesses by any significant lution in the fiscal year in which it is to be­ the success we observed last night. bill or resolution reported out of any commit­ come effective and in each of the 4 fiscal Mr. Speaker, we have learned a great deal tee, except Appropriations. This estimate will years following such fiscal year, together from this mission, as we have from each of be appended to the bill for the information of with the basis for each such estimate the shuttle flights. The lessons we have the Members during consideration on the floor. "(2) an estimate of the cost which would be The purpose of the Small Business Cost Es­ incurred by small businesses in carrying out learned will be put to good use as we plan for timate Act is simple-to give Members of Con­ or complying with any significant bill or res­ the assembly and operation of space station gress an idea of the effect we have on small olution in the fiscal year in which it is to be­ Freedom. come effective and in each of the 4 fiscal Moreover, we can look ahead to the day business on almost every occasion we pass years following such fiscal year, together legislation. We have to stop legislating in a when the space station is operational and hu­ with the basis for each such estimate; and mans are busy working in the shirtsleeve envi­ vacuum, and this bill will allow some fresh out­ "(3) a comparison of the estimates of costs side air into our deliberations. described in paragraphs (1) and (2) with any ronment of sophisticated life science and ma­ I see this bill as the legislative equivalent of available estimates of costs made by such terials science laboratories on orbit, as well as the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980. That bill committee or by an Federal agency. performing useful work outside the station. As requires all Federal agencies to estimate the The estimates, comparison, and description I look further ahead, I can envision the repair impact on small business when they promul­ so submitted shall be included in the report of satellites on the space station-<.tescend­ gate new regulation and consider if there are accompanying such bill or resolution if time­ ents of the lntelsat satellite so successfully re­ alternatives. Furthermore, on April 29, 1992 ly submitted to such committee before such paired last night. report is filed. That is what the space station Freedom pro­ President Bush ordered the heads of all De­ "(b) For purposes of subsection (a)(2), the partments and Agencies to begin determining gram is all about. Freedom will be a perma­ term 'small business' has the same meaning nent outpost where we will learn to live and the costs and benefits of proposed legislation as the term 'small-business concern' in sec­ work in space. But it will also be a place and furnishing that information to Congress tion 3(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. and the people. I want Congress to start doing 632(a)). where cutting edge research is performed that the same thing. How many bills have we "(c) For purposes of subsection (a)(2), the holds the promise of benefiting all Americans passed here with the best of intentions but term 'signifcant bill or resolution' is defined back here on Earth. For example, I have no with little or no thought to their real impact on as any bill or resolution which in the judg­ doubt that we will learn much from biomedical ment of the Director of the. Congressional the people we serve, and how often have we research conducted in space that will help us Budget Office is likely to result in an aver­ better understand and even treat terrestrial ever seen real alternatives? age annual cost to a small business of $1,000 At a recent hearing I heard several hours of or more, or is likely to have exceptional fis­ diseases and medical conditions. In addition, I testimony from the small business community cal consequences for a geographic region or a believe that we are going to be learning a on the impact of Government regulation. Call­ particular industry segment.". great deal about the fundamental properties of ing this testimony "horror stories" would be in­ (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.-The table of materials by studying their behavior in the ab­ dulging in understatement. To the men and contents set forth in section 2(b) of the Con­ sence of gravity, and I would not be surprised women who are trying to make the American gressional Budget and Impoundment Control if that knowledge does not eventually lead to Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after the dream come true, our actions are a nightmare. new materials that could have far-reaching item relating to section 404 the following economic benefits. · Every year the Federal Register publishes new item: over 50,000 pages of new regulations from Mr. Speaker, I think that the successful cap­ "Sec. 404. Small business cost analysis by ture and repair of the lntelsat satellite is a 1,400 Federal agencies and commissions. We Congressional Budget Office.". often rail about Government regulation but I highly visible symbol of the ways in which our don't think we realize or want to acknowledge Nation's space program benefits Americans. how much of it derives solely from our actions. THE SUCCESSFUL CAPTURE OF We often forget how much the space program The Small Business Cost Estimate Act will THE INTELSAT SATELLITE has changed our lives for the better over the help us take stock of our actions. It will give last 30 years. Communications satellites such us the information we need to make informed HON. RALPH M. HAlL as lntelsat allow us to communicate all over decisions that will achieve our goals and retain OF TEXAS the world almost instantaneously. The artificial our economic competitiveness. I urge all my IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES joints that have become such a godsend for colleagues to join me, Mrs. MEYERS of Kan­ our veterans and senior citizens are made Thursday, May 14, 1992 sas, Ms. MOLINARI, and Messrs. FIELDS, possible by the chrome cobalt and titanium RAMSTAD, LIPINSKI, OXLEY, MOORHEAD, BUR­ Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I wish to alloy metals developed by NASA. Many of the TON of Indiana, MARTIN, and LIGHTFOOT in SUjr congratulate the crew of the space shuttle diagnostic tools and medical telemetry devices porting the Small Business Cost Estimate Act Endeavour on their successful capture and re­ in use in our hospitals today are spinoffs from and making Congress a more responsive insti­ pair of the lntelsat communications satellite. technology in use in the space program. In tution. This event marks another significant step for­ many, many ways we benefit from our activi­ H.R. 5177 ward in learning how to work in space, and ties in space. As we applaud the achievement Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep­ serves as an important reminder that the Na­ of our astronauts in rescuing the lntelsat sat­ resentatives of the United States of America in tion has a civil space program of which we all ellite, I hope we keep in mind these other Congress assembled, can be proud. gains that have resulted from NASA's efforts. 11594 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1992 CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT and older boys were sepa·rated from the Nutrition: The Challenge to Older Americans' LEE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA groups, never again to be seen, and those re­ Health", as part of the celebration of National maining were forced on death marches into Senior Nutrition Week. The purpose of the HON. LAWRENCE J. SMilH the desert of Syria. In all, over 1.5 million Ar­ hearing is to measure existing nutrition pro­ OF FLORIDA menians were massacred during the 7 years grams against the need for those programs IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of genocide and more than 500,000 exiled and to learn of ways in which we can reach from their homeland in the Ottoman Empire. those individuals not now being served, but Thursday, May 14, 1992 History tells us that those who do not study who desperately need nutritional support. Mr. SMITH of Florida. Mr. Speaker, much the past are doomed to repeat its mistakes. The Subcommittee on Human Services has has been written and said about the economic Nowhere in modern history is this lesson more emphasized health promotion and disease growth and political advances made by the poignant than in the case of the Armenian prevention activities and programs. It is clear Republic of China during the last few years. genocide. While we closed our eyes and let from earlier hearings that we need to do more Taiwan's achievements are respected through­ the painful memory of this atrocity slip from to help people stay well and not just treat out the world. Much of the credit is due to the our collective memory, Adolf Hitler remem­ them when they become ill. I am very encour­ country's evolving political leadership. bered the effectiveness of this systematic de­ aged by the fact that simple, low-technology The Republic of China is led by Cornell-ed~ struction of the Armenian people and rested routine exercise and sound nutrition programs cated Dr. Lee Teng-hui, who was elected Tai­ secure in the belief that the Western Powers have the potential to help so many older peo­ wan's eight President on May 20, 1990. His would not intervene in his Holocaust. ple live a healthy and independent life. running mate was Vice-President Li Yuan-zu, Let us not again forget the atrocities of the Mr. Speaker, the National Association of a European-educated jurist who has been in past. Nutrition and Aging Services Programs and charge of Taiwan's constitutional reform task other professional organizations working with force. Other governmental leaders include older Americans support this legislation. I Justice Minister Premier Hau Pei-tsun and THE NUTRITION SCREENING should point out that this provision has been Yale-educated Foreign Minister Frederick RESEARCH ACT incorporated in the authorization for the Na­ Chien. While Premier Hau has worked to tional Institutes of Health in the other body. maintain stability and respect for the law at HON. THOMASJ.DOWNEY Once again, I commend Representative LLOYD home, Minister Chien wisely exerts the ROC's OF NEW YORK for her initiative in introducing the Nutrition presence abroad, having recently established IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Screening Research Act and I urge my col­ new diplomatic offices throughout the former Thursday, May 14, 1992 leagues to support this bill. U.S.S.R. and upgraded substantive ties with other nations in Asia and Central America. Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. Speaker, today, my col­ Together, Taiwan's leaders have continued league, Representative MARILYN LLOYD of STOP UNFAIR FOREIGN SUBSIDIES to bring their people economic progress and Tennessee, is introducing the Nutrition an improved political climate. The result is to­ Screening Research Act and I am pleased to HON. SONNY CAllAHAN day's Republic of China, a young, dynamic na­ join her as an original cosponsor. This bill is OF ALABAMA tion, a model for the developing world. Mr. an important step toward improving the health IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of older Americans. Speaker, I extend my congratulations to its Thursday, May 14, 1992 President, Dr. Lee Teng-hui, on the occasion For the past two decades, we have recog­ of his second anniversary in office. nized the fact that good nutrition is the basis Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Speaker, as a cochair­ for maintaining healthy and independent older man of the Forestry 2000 Task Force, I want individuals in our communities. The Older to express my grave concerns about rumors ARMENIAN ATROCITIES Americans Act's congregate and home deliv­ that the administration is about to concede to ered meals programs have become the first the Canadian's on the softwood lumber issue. HON. JAMES P. MORAN, JR. contact that many elderly people have with the Mr. Speaker, I, and I am sure the other 125 OF VIRGINIA wide range of services aimed at improving the members of the congressional task force, am IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES quality of their lives. However, in recent years hoping these rumors are not true. it has become increasingly clear that there are As we all know, Canada has subsidized its Thursday, May 14, 1992 many senior citizens who are nutritionally at lumber industry at the expense of the United Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to risk who are not being reached by existing States industry for years. In fact, in 1986 the lead my voice to the memory of those 1.5 mil­ programs. The Nutrition Screening Research Department of Commerce conducted an inves­ lion Armenians massacred during and imme­ Act is a response to that problem. tigation of Canadian softwood lumber prod­ diately after World War I in one of this cen­ The act, which has also been introduced as ucts, and found that the Canadian Govern­ tury's cruelest atrocities. S. 2351 in the other body by Senators ADAMS ment was indeed subsidizing this industry. On April 24, 1915, over 200 Armenian intel­ and BINGAMAN, authorizes the Secretary of Consequently, Canadian lumber captured lectual leaders were arrested in Constantino­ Health and Human Services to carry out a 3- one-third of the United States market. More ple and other centers of Armenian life in the year study of the extent of malnutrition among than 600 United States mills were forced to Ottoman Empire. These Armenians were the elderly and of the efficacy and cost-effec­ close and tens of thousands of American taken from their homes and executed. With tiveness of nutrition screening for the elderly. workers lost their jobs due in large part to one fell swoop, the leadership of Armenia was This study is to be carried out by the National Canada's practices. Meanwhile, Canadian pro­ destroyed and the flame of the Armenian cul­ Institute on Aging in collaboration with the ducers opened 85 new softwood mills. ture extinguished. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. To remedy the situation, Canada and the In the months following the execution, Tur­ The results of this study should help us to United States signed a memorandum of un­ key began a program of rounding up Arme­ under:>tand the relationship between nutritional derstanding. Under the agreement, Canada nian religious, intellectual, and political leaders status' and the need for institutional care for an imposed a 15 percent charge on softwood and deporting them to Anatolia where they individual. Recent research shows that about lumber headed for the United States to offset were systematically executed. In the months 40 percent of elderly patients in acute care or its Government subsidies. This action leveled following, over 250,000 Armenian soldiers long-term care facilities are malnourished. If the playing field and allowed competitive U.S. serving in the Ottoman army were disarmed we can .help more individuals stay out of nurs­ mills to compete with unfairly subsidized for­ and placed in forced labor battalions. Those ing homes by the relatively simple step of eign manufacturers. that did not succumb to the ravages of famine, supplementing their nutritional resources, then Then last fall, Canada announced it was disease, and exhaustion were executed by the surely we ought to take those steps which will withdrawing from the 1986 agreement. In Ottoman army. help to identify those most at risk. March, the Commerce Department issued a The Armenian civilians remaining, the Next week, as chairman of the Select Aging preliminary decision that a subsidy exists on women, seniors, and children left behind, were Committee's Subcommittee on Human Serv­ Canadian lumber and that a countervailing deported from their cities and towns. The men ices, I will hold a hearing entitled "Hunger and duty is required to offset the subsidy. May 14, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11595 Mr. Speaker, the rumor I am hearing is that 6 spacecraft and attaching it to the rocket space. We are also learning about how very the administration is expected to issue its final motor that will propel it from its current use­ massive payloads react when they are han­ decision this month, possibly as early as to­ less orbit into one located 22,000 miles above dled by a crewman or a robotic arm that is morrow, and that thanks to the Canadians' full the surface of the Earth. being operated by a crewman. court press, the administration is going to side Once again, astronauts have vividly dem­ Mr. Speaker, I take great comfort in knowing with our neighbors to the north. onstrated the tremendous value of having peo­ that when space station Freedom is being as­ Mr. Speaker, the timber industry in this ple living and working in space. If this mission sembled that crews of very highly trained as­ country is already in dire straits. Environ­ had been attempted in an automated mode tronauts will be on location to deal with any mental laws, such as the Endangered Species without people present on the scene, it is clear problems that might arise. The space station Act, have greatly reduced its access to this that it would have been a dismal failure. is simply too valuable an asset to depend on country's timber supply. Now if the administra­ It was the availability of humans on the automated machines to put it together. If tion allows subsidized Canadian lumber to scene, with their inherent ingenuity, flexibility, things always worked in space as planned and flood our markets, I am afraid it will spell dis­ and adaptability, that was able to transform tested on the ground, this would be OK. But, aster for the industry and the tens of thou­ failure into success. This is a lesson that we we have learned again and again that this sands of American workers it employs. have been taught again and again in the his­ simply is not the case. tory of the space program. Many times in the Mr. Speaker, I urge the administration to Mr. Speaker, I believe that this mission also past, hardware or procedures have failed to give careful consideration to the needs and tells us that we should probably adopt a policy work after reaching orbit. These have ranged concerns of Americans. Let's stop unfair for­ of placing a grappling fixture on all spacecraft from scientific experiments and data recorders eign subsidies once and for all. that are launched into orbit. Such a fixture onboard the orbiter, to the main communica­ does not add much weight to a spacecraft, but tions antenna on the gamma ray observatory. it significantly improves the ability of space TRIBUTE TO THE SPACE SHUTTLE In each case, the experiment or the entire shuttle crews to provide aid to the spacecraft, "ENDEAVOUR" mission would have been a total failure if it should the need arise. were not for the presence of crew members HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. who could deal with problems, on the spot, Finally, Mr. Speaker, this mission also rep­ OF CALIFORNIA and turn failure into success. resents another important first. It is the first flight of the orbiter Endeavour. The flawless IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Computers and machines simply cannot be programmed or constructed to be so flexible. performance of this orbiter on its maiden voy­ Thursday, May 14, 1992 The lessons that we have learned in this age is another tribute to the excellent work­ Mr. BROWN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to offer my mission will be of great value as we move into manship of the people who comprise the U.S. heartiest congratulations to the crew of the the era of building and operating the space aerospace industry. space shuttle Endeavour and the team of station. Through missions such as the current Mr. Speaker, our astronauts, NASA employ­ NASA and contractor personnel who assisted one, we are learning a great deal about the ees, and aerospace industry workers have them for their success in retrieving the lntelsat capabilities and the limits of people working in once again made us proud to be Americans.