June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16425 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS CABLE MAKERS FACE GRIM The wire rope companies are now in for a ines industries it once targeted. "Orders FUTURE bout of domestic pressure, as well. In May, don't terminate-they are as current as if the Federal Trade Commission served sub­ they were issued last year," he said. poenas on each of them. Although the com­ Over all, a cloud of gloom has settled on HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS mission would not confirm its investigation, the wire rope makers. The future? "There's OF PENNSYLVANIA a copy of the subpoena shows that the com­ no other way to describe it," said Mr. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mission is requesting documents that refer Sayenga. "It's just bleak." to "prices, pricing plans, price competition, The current nadir in fortunes is a sharp Wednesday, June 19, 1985 and price cutting." That seems to indicate contrast to the industry's formerly bright • Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, the steel an investigation into price fixing. prospects. Wire rope technology spawned This new development, combined with in­ the Brooklyn Bridge, the Otis Elevator industry in the United States is going tense pressure from imports and from bal­ through a very rough time. But one Company and the oil boom in the South­ ance sheets overwhelmed by red ink, may west in the early 1900's. The product, a portion of that industry, wire rope­ force several of the surviving wire rope com­ highly engineered mass of wire, twisted into also known as cable-is having the panies to close as well. tight strands and then lubricated and bound worst of it. For the small producers, many of which together to form ropes of varying widths, A recent article in the Sunday, June are family-owned, the last two decades have supports enormous amounts of tension and 9, New York Times casts an especially produced a depressing casualty list. Key­ pressure. The industry calls wire rope the grim light on this industry which has stone Consolidated Industries, Leschen Wire "cheapest, strongest product that will go Rope and Pacific Wire Rope died. The around a comer to connect two points." more than a few plants in my congres­ American Chain and Cable Company and sional district. In its finished form, wire rope is used in Jones & Laughlin Wire Rope were pur­ equipment that activates elevators, mines I offer this article for printing in the chased by a British company, the Bridon for coal, drills for oil, operates ocean vessels CONGRESSIONAL RECORD so that Mem­ Corporation, which closed their plants. The and airplanes. It is used on submarines, on bers may read and become more ac­ Wickwire Rope Company folded, as did E. construction sites and even in the brakes of quainted with this serious issue. H.Edwards. Even earlier, one of the most famous wire the family car. It is, quite literally, every­ [From the New York Times June 9, 19851 rope companies disappeared : The John A. where. THE CABLE MAKERs' Los1NG BAlTLE Roehling Sons Company, the first United But the problem for the American indus­ States producer of wire rope. try is that these days it seems to be made IMPORTS AND A FEDERAL INQUIRY BESIEGE THE everywhere, too. Imports have risen phe­ WIRE ROPE INDUSTRY "Many of the small businesses have closed because they could not operate on the nomenally. They accounted in 1984 for

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 16426 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 exported 2,633 tons and 1, 736 tons to the vice president of the Wire Rope Corporation as well as a carding machine and full­ United States, respectively. of America. "Our only hope is that we can ing wheel, a wheelwright shop, tan­ But the domestic industry remains par­ survive until the trade laws are renegotiat­ nery, and a factory that produced ticularly worried about its main nemesis, ed." South Korea. It has twice filed petitions Mr. Sayenga of Bethlehem Steel says the wood planes and bench tools. An abun­ charging that country with dumping and low-cost producers-generally independents dance of iron and sulpher containing other illegal trade practices. Both were un­ whose entire business is wire rope and who pyrites, as well as talc and soap stones, successful. The industry has also filed two have the most modern plants-will probably allowed the area's freight station to other actions, one of which it withdrew. The be able to compete for the next five years. handle the greatest tonnage on their second led to the recent negotiations. "After that, they are in just as difficult a section of the Boston and Maine Rail­ "The Korean wire rope producers have situation as the high-cost manufacturers," road. been under a microscope since 1977-1978," he said. said N. David Palmeter, an attorney with The low-cost producers fear the problems The modem history of Rowe is cen­ the Washington firm of Mudge, Rose, Guth­ will hit sooner. "My only hope," Mr. Paul­ tered on a bold and historic "first" for rie, Alexander & Ferdon, which represents son said, "is that what is left in sales volume New England-the Yankee Atomic several Korean industries. "The U.S. hasn't will be divided among fewer people."• Power plant, which has been generat­ been able to pin anything on them." ing electricity for the region since In the recently completed negotiations, the United States trade representative final­ COMMEMORATE BICENTENNIAL 1960. New England's fuel need, due to ized an agreement that will, for five years, OF ROWE, MA the diversity of its climate, is great the hold wire rope imports from South Korea to year round. Yankee Atomic in Rowe 50,000 tons a year, only slightly less than has helped to alleviate this problem. the 53,000 tons Korea sent to this country HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE Over the past quarter century, Yankee in 1984. That quantity repesented nearly a OF MASSACHUSETTS Atomic has generated over 22 billion third of total domestic shipments of wire IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES kilowatt hours of electricity at a sav­ cable and about 70 percent of all imports. Before the agreements had been initialed, Wednesday, June 19, 1985 ings of over 35 million barrels of oil. industry spokesmen were lobbying frantical­ •Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to Yankee Atomic has been good to ly for greater restrictions. "If the agreement commemorate the bicentennial of the Rowe in many ways, the most impor­ as currently negotiated goes through, the town of Rowe, MA. What started with tant of which being that the plant has industry could be wiped out," Herbert E. the sale of 10,000 acres of hill country allowed the town to become one of the Harris 2d, the Washington attorney who is top education-spending communities counsel to a committee of representatives of in western Massachusetts by the all the domestic producers, said at the time. Great and General Court of the Com­ in Massachusetts. In fact, Rowe Ele­ After it was signed, however, Mr. Harris monwealth to the Rev. Cornelius mentary is the community's pride and spoke in a softer tone: "I know that people Jones in 1762, has, today, become a joy; the sixth graders visit with me in in the industry feel the level should have rich and vibrant community as inde­ Washington practically every year. been much lower than 50,000 tons. But the pendently disposed as it was in coloni­ Overall, the townspeople strive for the negotiators felt that getting the cap was the well-rounded education of their chil­ important accomplishment." Now, he said, al days. The history of Rowe actually can be dren, and they are not hesitant in the committee is "trying to set up a proce­ using revenues gained from Atomic dure to make sure the agreement is not cir­ dated to 17 45, with the establishment cumvented." of Fort Pelham as a wilderness strong­ Yankee to meet that goal. The Koreans claim it will not be. "The hold during the French and Indian Mr. Speaker, I am proud to repre­ tonnage is specified in the agreement-and War. Reverend Jones' purchase repre­ sent the people of Rowe in the Con­ that's it," Mr. Palmeter said. "The Koreans sented the first permanent settlement gress of the United States. Through certainly aren't happy. Most of the other of the land. In Rowe's bicentennial their hopes and hard work, they have steel products in the agreement have a per­ built a remarkable town. As they cele­ centage of consumption, not a flat cap." year, it is interesting to note that Rev­ The line-item treatment, Mr. Harris said, erend Jones made his historic real brate their town's bicentennial, I was a coup. In fact, he said, "The negotia­ estate deal with a down payment of 10 salute them on the contributions they tions centered on the big-ticket items of pounds sterling and a bond for an ad­ have made to Massachusetts, New basic steel, and giving consideration at all to ditional 370 pounds. England, and America. Thank you, wire rope was a major breakthrough." Students of American history, those Mr. Speaker.e If more severe import restrictions on the Koreans had been won, the wire rope indus­ who know the stories of Ethan Allen try says it could have taken a deep breath and the Green Mountain Boys, will well understand and appreciate the ANDREI SAKHAROV AND and started to rebuild. In a brief filed with YELENA BONNER the United States trade representative, the people, past and present, of Rowe. In members of the domestic committee listed the town, the Soldiers of All Wars Me­ several steps they would take "to firmly re­ morial stands as a legacy to the sons SPEECH OF establish their competitive position." They of Rowe who answered their Nation's HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER included: call-from the 60 who fought in the Purchasing new equipment to improve OF ILLINOIS productivity and lower costs. Revolutionary War to the 12 who Expanding product lines by offering served in Vietnam. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES larger-diameter rope and ropes of new de­ To properly understand the town of Tuesday, June 18, 1985 signs, especially in oceanographic, marine Rowe, one must first realize that, con­ and mining areas. trary to a popular view, it is not a e Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, it is Conducting research into such areas as farming community that owes its ex­ with great sorrow that I participate in improved lubricating methods and materi­ istence and livelihood to the gentle­ today's special order to call attention als, higher grades of wire and use of syn­ ness of the rolling Berkshires and to the plight of Andrei Sakharov and thetic materials. But as negotiated, the agreement "will not their spacious meadows. The Rowe his wife Yelena Bonner. provide any substantial relief for the indus­ countryside, rugged and mountainous, Like many of my .colleagues, I have try," Mr. Harris said. And a spokesman for is more an extension of its majestic been waiting with great anticipation Senator John C. Danforth, Republican of neighbors to the north: Vermont's for the day when I could stand on the Missouri who has several wire rope plants in Green Mountains. Early in the 19th floor of the House and announce that his state, said, "They got their quota and century, this agricultural unsuitability the Soviet Government had finally they got a line item. But the bottom line re­ was offset by the development of light permitted Yelena Bonner to go abroad mains to be seen." Industry executives say the bottom line is manufacturing. And, later in the cen­ and receive the medical help she des­ unfortunately quite clear. tury, the town turned to mining. perately needs, and that the Soviet "The industry feels it has been sacri­ Pelham Brook allowed for the devel­ Government had ceased harassing ficed," said Charles W. Salanski, executive opment of saw and grist mills in Rowe, Andrei Sakharov. June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16427 Unfortunately, today is not that day. U.S. SYNTHETIC FUELS CORPO- INTERNATIONAL AIR PASSEN- In fact, the outlook for Sakharov and RATION MAKES THREE GER PROTECTION AND AIR- Bonner has never been more bleak. RECESS APPOINTMENTS PORT SAFETY ACT OF 1985 As my colleagues are aware, Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner are re­ garded as symbols of the struggle for HON. PAT SWINDALL HON. STAN PARRIS OF VIRGINIA basic human rights around the world. OF GEORGIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Despite their standing in the inter­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES national community, they both have Wednesday, June 19, 1985 suffered greatly in the U.S.S.R. The Wednesday, June 19, 1985 •Mr. PARRIS. Mr. Speaker, I intro­ past year has been particularly diffi­ Mr. SWINDALL. Mr. Speaker, last cult for Sakharov and Bonner. On e duced legislation yesterday which May 2, 1984, Sakharov began a hunger fall, President Reagan reconstituted would provide us a tool with which we strike to gather sympathy for his the Board of Directors of the U.S. may help fight the forces of terrorism wife's desperate need to travel to the Synthetic Fuels Corporation by now rampant in the world's airways. West to receive medical help. He making three recess appointments: An It is a travesty that innocent individ­ pledged to "fast to the end if they do eminent energy expert, Eric Reich!; uals, Americans or not, cannot be in­ not let her go abroad for medical the former ranking minority member sured safe transport from point A to treatment." And now, over a year of the House Subcommittee on Fossil point B. Why can't their safety be in­ later, Bonner still has not been al­ and Synthetic Fuels, Tom Corcoran; sured? Well, I'll tell you Mr. Speaker: lowed to receive this medical treat­ and a former member of President For years now, The Air Line Pilots As­ ment. We can only second guess what Ford's Council of Economic Advisors sociation and other such groups, have happened to Sakharov during his and now dean of the graduate school been fighting to get Athens and many hunger strike-that he was taken to a of management at the University of other airports worldwide to upgrade hospital and force fed. Rochester, Paul W. MacAvoy. their gate security facilities. But to no Most recently I have become increas­ Mr. Speaker, Dr. MacAvoy is a free avail. ingly concerned by the lack of infor­ market economist, but he has done his The APA knew this would happen mation Yelena Bonner's family has someday-we all could have guessed calculations on the value to the Nation that. And if it hadn't happened in been receiving from Gorki. Since last of synthetic fuels development and May, relatives of Sakharov and Athens, it would have happened at an­ concluded that it is both needed and other, similarly security-lax airport in Bonner have received very few letters cost effective. from Gorki. The letters they receive the world. In light of the current appear to have been deliberately al­ Dr. MacAvoy points out that: world political situation, we knew this tered by Soviet authorities to misrep­ At the present time, government outlays could happen, as it had only days resent the facts of their situation. Ac­ are necessary to establish a working inven­ before the present crisis began. It cording to Bonner's daughter Tatiana tory of knowledge of synfuels technology to shouldn't have happened. This fact is Yankelevich, the date of the most be used decades later in private industry in­ something we have all considered in recent letter she received from her vestment decisions. recent days. mother was altered. This raises serious His analysis shows that in the 1990's Mr. Speaker, as a pilot and someone concerns about Bonner's current or 2000's "prospects are substantial for who has long worked for airport health situation, and her whereabouts. synfuel technologies to be econom- safety, I am determined that the According to recent reports, Sak­ ic ... " ordeal that is presently holding our harov is no longer living at his apart­ entire Nation hostage in Lebanon, and The gains that Dr. MacAvoy sees the terror that is being levied on the ment in Gorki. Since 1980, Sakharov from a properly structured synfuels has been banished to Gorki by Soviet American citizens being held hostage, authorities for his activities in support program, given reasonable price pro­ will not be repeated because of lax and of human rights. During the past 5 jections, will probably be realized in inadequate security at foreign air­ years his wife has been able to main­ the first decade of the next century ports. My purpose in introducing this tain residence in Moscow, and often with more immediate gains in the legislation is to take what we have traveled between the two cities carry­ event of an embargo or warfare-de­ learned in the past, and apply it to the ing messages from her husband to for­ rived distruptions in crude supply. future. Specifically, this bill seeks to eigners. However, it now appears that Dr. MacAvoy says: modify one existing section of the Fed­ Yelena Bonner has also been banished The present value of the total of these eral Aviation Act. to Gorki. gains justifies undertaking a synfuels devel­ The existing section, section 1114, I feel a great sense of frustration as opment program of the magnitude found in would be amended to say that the Sec­ I chronicle the suffering of these two the SFC Business Plan. retary of Transportation will certify modern day heroes. I have participat­ He goes on to say that the gains that individual airports in foreign na­ ed in numerous congressional efforts tions sh&.ll comply with security meas­ to call attention to the plight of Sak­ make up an amount ". . . substantial­ ures required in domestic airports harov and Bonner and have also initi­ ly in excess of the prospective Syn­ under section 315 of the Federal Avia­ ated several appeals to the Soviet Gov­ fuels Corp. outlays for construction tion Act. Should such airport fail to ernment urging a change in their offi­ and price supports in the business comply within a given period of time, cial policy of harassing these two plan." the Secretary of Transportation, in people. Unfortunately, I know all too Mr. Speaker, Dr. MacAvoy presented consultation with the Secretary of well that my efforts have fallen on this important analysis during his con­ State, shall suspend that nation's cer­ deaf ears. firmation hearings before the Senate tificate permitting it to operate in the As cochairman of the congressional Energy Committee. A condensation of United States. human rights caucus, I pledge the sup­ his remarks appeared in the Oil Daily In addition, the Secretary of Trans­ port of the caucus in calling attention of May 29, and I ask unanimous con­ portation shall prohibit our domestic to this situation. I urge my colleagues sent that they be included in the carriers from servicing airports in for­ to join me in voicing their outrage at RECORD at this point.• eign nations that fail to comply with this example of the Soviet Govern­ safety regulations under section 315 of ment's official policy of subjecting its the Federal Aviation Act-again, until citizens to ongoing harassment and such time as that airport complies persecution.• with the regulations. 16428 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 There is absolutely no reason why blatant disregard for human rights of Whereas the anniversary of the birth of Americans traveling abroad cannot be which the Soviet's shameful mistreat­ Helen Keller occurs on June 27; asmired that, in so doing, they are as ment of Sakharov and Bonner is a Whereas deaf-blindness is a severe disabil­ safe traveling outside of the borders of ity that results in the loss of 2 primary poignant example. The need for such senses; the United States as they are within abuses to come to an immediate end Whereas 40,000 Americans, including ap­ our borders. should not be underestimated. In this proximately 6,000 children, suffer from Mr. Chairman, we have the power to age of superpower rivalry, when the deaf-blindness as the result of the rubella provide this peace of mind to our citi­ world is haunted by the nuclear epidemic of the 1960's and other causes; zens-and we are bound by our respec­ menace, any impediment to increased Whereas the nature of deaf-blindness tive oaths to provide it to them. I, mutual understanding must be elimi­ causes the cost of education, training, and therefore, urge my colleagues to sup­ nated. The Soviet Union must cease its .rehabilitation for deaf-blind individuals to port this legislation as the tool which incessant trampling of human rights if be higher than the cost of such aid to indi­ viduals with other disabilities; would aid us in this important endeav­ a more stable peace is to be estab­ Whereas the high level of such costs cause or. lished. Such a peace is in the interest many service agencies to be reluctant to Thankyou.e of us all, and a Soviet decision to re­ serve deaf-blind individuals, further pre­ spect the human rights of Andrei Sak­ venting such individuals from becoming in­ harov and Yelena Bonner would con­ dependent and frequently resulting in their NOBEL LAUREATE ANDREI stitute a significant step in its direc­ placement in custodial instititions; SAKHAROV tion.e Whereas national and regional deaf-blind centers serve only a portion of the deaf­ SPEBCH or blind population, leaving the remainder to HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 227, receive inadequate education, training, and ''HELEN KEJJ.ER, rehabilitation services, an inadequacy which or llASS&CBUSETTS DEAF-BLIND AWARENESS WEEK" leads to a terrible waste of human lives and IX THE HOUSE 01' llEPllESDTAT.IVES resources and imposes high costs on our Tuesday, June 18, 1985 Nation; HON. DAVID E. BONIOR Whereas it is in the national interest to e Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, in just or llICRIGAB prevent this waste of human resources by over a month, on August l, 1985, the IX THE HOUSE OF RBPRBSDTATIVBS fostering the independence of, creating em­ world will observe an important anni­ ployment opportunties for, and max1mizing versary. That date will mark the 10th Wednesday, June 19, 1985 the opportunities for achievement among, anniversary of the signing of the Hel­ e Mr. BONIOR of Michigan. Mr. deaf-blind individuals; sinki Final calls Whereas these objectives can be accom­ Act, an accord which Speaker, today with passage of House plished only through increased public for universal adherence to a widely ac­ Joint Resolution 227, designating the awareness of, and attention to, the needs, cepted code of fundamental human last week of June as "Helen Keller abilities, and potential contributions to soci­ rights. As we approach this anniversa­ Deaf-Blind Awareness Week," we are ety of deaf-blind individuals; and ry, it is sadly ironic that one of the reaffirming our commitment to the Whereas it is highly appropriate to publi­ act's major signatories, the Soviet American ideal that "all men are cre­ cize the needs, abilities, and potential of Union, has numbered itself among the ated equal" and that every man, deaf-blind individuals, and to recognize world's most consistent violators of woman and child should have the Helen Keller not only 88 a guiding example the very human rights which the act of courage and hope for our Nation. but also right to contribute to this society. The as an illustration of what deaf-blind individ­ was intended to protect. blind and deaf cannot and should not uals can achieve when given a chance: Now, In compiling its dismal record on be excepted, in spite of the many ob­ therefore, be it human rights, the Soviet Union has stacles they face. Reaolved bJI the Senate and Howe of ReP­ committed a long list of deplorable of­ Many of the obstacles confronting ruentativea of the United Sta.ta of America fenses; but today we focus our atten­ blind and deaf Americans go unnoticed in Conureu a.uembled, That the week of tion on the plight of Nobel laureate by most Americans. It is, therefore, June 23, 1985, through June 29, 1985, is des­ Andrei Sakharov and his wife Yelena imperative that action be taken to in­ ignated as "Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Aware­ Bonner. It was more than 51h years ness Week", and the President is authorized crease public awareness. Congressional and requested to issue a proclamation call­ ago that the Soviet Government con­ support of "Helen Keller Deaf-Blind ing upon the people of the United States to demned Sakharov to internal exile in Awareness Week" is certainly a first observe such week with appropriate ceremo­ the city of Gorky in an attempt to si­ step toward heightening public aware­ nies and actlvities.e lence his criticisms of its inhumane ness, and thus eliminating many of policies. Since that time, concerned in­ the obstacles facing deaf and blind dividuals and groups throughout the Americans. TRIBUTE TO FRED PAULSEN world have expressed their collective Helen Keller is but one example of outrage over this injustice. Further, what one can do, given the opportuni­ HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS they have implored the Soviet Govern­ ty. This great lady has inspired us all. or PDNSYLVAJlfIA ment to both allow .Sakharov to speak Her accomplishments stand as a IN THE HOUSE 01' REPRESBNTATIVBS freely and permit Bonner to travel to beacon of courage for people the world the West for an urgently needed medi­ over. By proclaiming the last week of Wednesday, June 19, 1985 cal operation. June as "Helen Keller Deaf-Blind •Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, I would Yet as of this date, these protests Awareness Week" we not only honor like to express to the Members of Con­ and requests have gone largely un­ this remarkable lady on the 105th an­ gress a few thoughts about Mr. Fred heeded. In fact, according to that in­ niversary of her birth, we also pay Paulsen, head of the last family-owned formation which has slipped through tribute to all those valiant men, wire-rope business in the United official Soviet filters, the Government women, and children, who carry on States, a business located in Sunbury, has sought to neutralize Sakharov's her legacy of hope and achievement. PA, in my congressional district. influence by treating him with mind­ H.J. R:a. 227 Fred Paulsen has spent a lifetime alterlng drugs. And in another disturb­ Joint resolution designating the week of promoting the American wire-rope in­ ing development, Sakharov and June 23, 1985, through June 29, 1985, 88 dustry, which has played an important Bonner have recently been moved "Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness role in the defense and economic de­ from their Gorky apartment to an­ Week'' velopment of the United States. other, and thus far unknown. location. Whereas Helen Keller ts the most accom­ The company that Paulsen heads, Now is the time for all responsible plished. respected, and renowned deaf-blind Paulsen Wire Rope Co., has created people to raise their voices against the American in history; Jobs in States all across the country, June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16429 particularly in Pennsylvania, where Fishermen and sailors also know point of the stratagem, Sally Sawatzki ex­ the main wire-rope factory is located, about wire-rope products. Paulsen wire plained. was to get her children to eat more and in New York, the site of a large and rope got its start at the turn of without letting them guess she was denying herself for their sake. And what, I asked. marketing outlet. the century when Fred Paulsen's did she do after they left the table? As a former member of the board of father would meet Scandinavian ves­ "You eat a lot of popcorn," Mrs. Sawatzki trustees of the United Industrial sels on the west side docks in New replied. "I can get by with popcorn for a Workers Union Pension and Welfare York and sell the captains onboard night. It's tacky but true." Plans, Paulsen has had a chance to wire-rope nets. Having said that much, she flushed and forge stronger ties between manage­ Paulsen continued that tradition. He looked away in embarrassment. At the ment and labor. He believes that such broke his teeth in the business by urging of the minister of the Baptist church cooperation is in everybody's interest, going down to the South Street sea­ she attends, she had agreed to speak to me because the problems facing the Amer­ port and talking to the fishermen so that people in need would understand that they must not be too proud to accept ican economy can only be resolved there. They liked him and his product. help in the form of food stamps or charity through a cooperative national effort. The rest is history. food, and so people not in need would know Fred knows first hand the problems Fred Paulsen is, through his hard that not all those on food stamps were affecting the American economy. The work and efforts, a respected member cheats. But finding words for her predica­ large budget deficits and the the unre­ of his community, State, and country. ment was visibly painful. "Gosh, I can't be­ alistic value of the American dollar He serves as a model of productive citi­ lieve I'm saying these things," she said have made it impossible for American zenship of which we can all proudly Losing their home because they couldn't meet their mortgage payments was certain­ wire-rope companies to export their emulate. ly hard Applying for food stamps may have products abroad, or even to keep a Thank you, Fred, and good luck.e been harder, but the worst moment for Don hold on the domestic market. and Sally Sawatzki was probably when the Over the past few years, the number HUNGER IN AMERICA youngest of their two sons, Brock, now 9 of domestic wire-rope companies has years old, had to be told the reason there declined from 22 to 8. Foreign compa­ wasn't any milk in the refrigerator. "He nies, spurred by subsidies and under­ HON. LEON E. PANEITA went digging in his drawer and found 32 valued currencies, have captured a OF CALIFORNIA cents, which was all he had, and told me I large percentage of the American IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES could use it to buy food," Mrs. Sawatzki said. "And that Just done me in." market. Korean products alone have Wednesday, June 19, 1985 The Sawatzkis are one of many families I garnered 35 percent of all American visited that had recently experienced food sales. • Mr. PANE'ITA. Mr. Speaker, on June 16, 1985, the New York Times emergencies. My aim was to see, after five Fred Paulsen has spoken eloquently years of the "Reagan revolution," what re­ about these developments. Earlier this Sunday Magazine featured an article mained of the social safety net that was year, he and the other seven remain­ entitled, "Hunger in America: The supposed to save Americans from hunger, ing domestic producers of wire-rope Safety Net Has Shrunk But It's Still and that now, so the President's critics con­ tried to obtain some action to stem the in Place." Few authors have exposed stantly charge, is full of gaping holes. wave of foreign imports. Unfortunate­ the hidden faces of hunger as realisti­ The number of poor people in America ly, this attempt failed, a failure espe­ cally as Joseph Lelyveld has in this re­ has increased by about 10 million since 19'18, vealing article. according to Census figures, and the poor cially frustrating to people like Fred are generally further below the poverty Paulsen because of his belief that the Last week, the Subcommittee on Nu­ llne-now calculated by the Census Bureau hurt is due to events largely out of trition, which I chair, forwarded H.R. to be $10,610 for a family of four-than their control. Wire-rope has been suf­ 2422, the 1985 Hunger Relief Act to they were then. It follows that, like the fering, along with other steel indus­ the full Agriculture Committee. This Sawatzkis, they are probably eating less tries, with the automatic price disad­ legislation reauthorizes and improves well. Yet those who try to be heard on vantage of nearly 40 percent due to the effectiveness of the Food Stamp behalf of the poor as a moral obligation or the American dollar and the extreme­ and Emergency Food Assistance Pro­ political cause are often met with skepticism grams which are the lifeline for mil­ when they draw this deduction. When they ly low costs of foreign labor. go a step further, to contend that hunger is During World War II, the Paulsen lions of American families. a central experience in the lives of millions Wire Rope Co. manufactured thou­ As Joseph Lelyveld has so ably de­ of Americans-many of them children-they sands of wire-mesh nets which were picted in his feature article, the invest­ are met with downright disbelief. Neverthe­ hung alongside vessels in convoy. ment in food and nutrition programs less, when the country is not supposed to be Often, these nets prevented enemy must be continued to prevent both in a recession, there are more soup kitchens torpedoes from penetrating the hulls human and budget costs. It is not by serving more meals to more people than at of American vessels. cold indifference that the Federal any time since the Great Depression. There Government will reach the poor and has been a steep annual rise in the 1980's in Wire rope continues to be an impor­ the tonnage of outdated, unsalable or sur­ tant defense-related product. Two undernourished of America, it is by plus food that is channeled by food compa­ years ago, the Department of Defense our courage and compassion. nies to the needy through private "food gave the company a special Contractor Mr. Speaker, I submit Mr. Lelyveld's banks" serving thousands of "food pantries" Assessment Program Award because it article, "Hunger in America," in the in churches and charitable agencies. But had never received a complaint about RECORD and call it to the attention of Congress has generally held the llne again.st a Paulsen-made product. all of our congressional colleagues: proposed cuts in food and nutrition pro­ Wire rope is used everywhere, not CFrom the New York Times Magazine, June grams since bowing in 1981 to Ronald Rea­ 14, 1985] gan's original mandate at the polls, by tight­ just in defense products. Indeed, the ening up on access to the Federal larder. most beautiful sight in the world is HUNGER IN AllERICA: T!u 8AnTY Nft HAs About a million Americans were cut off food the New York skyline at night. Yet, SHRUNK BUT IT'S STILL 11' PLACK stamps then, but 20 million still get them. most of the buildings you see are oper­ Federal outlays on food and child nutrition able because wire-rope products have It is hard even to think the word hunger are significantly lower than they would been used in their construction. while sitting in a typical American kitchen have been had the basic laws not been In New York City alone, Paulsen with a freezer and other appliances gleam­ changed, but $18.5 billion-in absolute num­ wire and rope products have been used ing as they do in the pages of a Sears cata­ bers, if not in real terms, the highest logue, but in Just such a kitchen, in Peoria, amount ever appropriated for these pro­ in the elevators of the Citicorp Build­ m., the wife of a laid-off worker at the grams-still buys a lot of food. ing, the Waldorf-Astoria, and the slumping Caterpillar Corporation described Such figures, however, are as remote from World Trade Center. Parisians know how she sometimes takes only a little food the lives of the poor as a satellite weather about Paulsen wire rope-it was used on her plate at dinner, then plays with it as photo, and the debate over the subject of in the elevators of the Eiffel Tower. if she isn't really interested in eating. The hunger is as amorphous as a bank of clouds. 16430 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 To some, the emergence of food banks is Instead of quibbling over the word tively, who had headed west from Amarillo, something to celebrate, a healthy private­ "hunger," it often seemed better to say that Tex., with four small sons and wound up sector initiative that redresses overdepend­ they had severe food problems. What that destitute on the doorstep of the Salvation ence on public welfare programs and pre­ means, in everyday terms, can be seen in the Army. Instead, I visited them on a Saturday, serves a reasonably comprehensive social following verbal snapshots of families I vis­ the day after they had collected their safety net. To others, budget cuts and the ited across the country: monthly allotment of food stamps, and ever-growing demand for charity food signi­ "Oh, I've missed a lot of meals," said Ger­ there wasn't room for another frozen tuna fy a "growing hunger crisis" Cto quote the elene Gibbs, who had taken refuge with two casserole, chicken pie or packet of hamburg­ New York City Coalition Against Hunger, grandchildren in a shelter for homeless er meat in their refrigerator. The cupboard one of the many public-interest lobbying mothers and children on Chicago's South was crowded with canned green beans, 40 groups that have sprung into being on the Side after having been cut off food stamps jars of baby food, Mr. T cereal, instant issue>. Latter-day social Darwinists, while for failing to find her way through recertifi­ strawberry-and-cream oatmeal, a large cyl­ not exactly denying the possibility of cation formalities. Before she came to the inder of regular oatmeal and 20 boxes of hunger in America, imply that those who shelter, the children sometimes got only America's favorite low-budget, dollar­ fail to eat adequately are themselves to oatmeal for dinner. As for herself, "You stretching staple, macaroni and cheese. The blame for their own ignorance or indiffer­ drink a lot of water," she said. "Water or Stembridges' idea, being tested for the first ence to the nutritional needs of their fami­ black tea. It's not a meal, but it's better time, was that if they spent all their food lies. The counterargument-bristling with than nothing." stamps at once, they would be able to statistics on the shrinkage in the real value Farther down the shore of Lake Michigan, budget their provisions for the month. of welfare payments and the paltry dispos­ in a neighborhood called South Chicago Twice in recent months the Stembridges able incomes of the underclass-is that it that has been hard hit by steel-mill closings, had gone to an Albuquerque food pantry for has become virtually impossible to sustain Ricardo and Hilda Escotto told me how the a box of emergency groceries. The boxes are an adequate diet if you are poor. youngest of their nine children, 2-year-old designed to last a family in need for at least The debate has its unseemly side, for in­ Veronica, kicks the refrigerator and cries a few days. The Stembridges said they made evitably it involves the well-fed seeking to when she can't find any bologna inside. The them last seven. Their children had missed determine what degree of nutritional depri­ Escotto children mainly subsist on rice and meals, but never for a whole day, Bobby vation is unavoidable for the poor in exist­ beans at home and free school lunches. said. But 15-month-old Joseph, called Jo-Jo, ing economic and political circumstances. It Also in Chicago, in a devastated inner-city weighed only 18 pounds, just 4 pounds more is a hard political fact, if not exactly a slum called Garfield Park, I encountered a than cherubic Christopher, who is 10 moral axiom, that they cannot be seen to grandmother named Ruthar May Hines at a months his junior. Plainly, Jo-Jo was what eat better than those who are nearly poor, Catholic settlement house to which she had pediatricians call a "failure to thrive" who are expected to get by without direct turned for a bag of emergency groceries. infant. food aid. Throughout, the word "hunger" is She had eaten only bananas and a chicken Back in New York, I met Celia Rosado, used in different senses by those who deny sandwich the day before. So she said, I be­ who lives with her two sons, ages 8 and 4, in its existence as a widespread and worsening lieved the part about the bananas. I wasn't an East Harlem tenement. Her last welfare phenomenon in America and those who so sure about the sandwich. It seemed to be check had been stolen from her mailbox insist it is there, "silent" and "invisible"-a mentioned as an afterthought, an embel­ and she was still three days from getting far cry, obviously, from Ethiopia, but lishment, to make her plight sound a little her next allotment of food stamps. Celia spreading insidiously, nonetheless, in a less grim. She had a grown daughter living said she took her older boy, Jose, to Public bountiful land that habitually discards nearby, she said, but couldn't tum to her, School 72 every morning and returned there about one-fifth of its food. because "She's unable to feed her own for his lunch period, to watch over him in Even in inner-city emergency rooms and kids." That must be hard, I commented, not the cafeteria, just to be sure he finished his soup kitchens, it is far from an everyday ex­ knowing what else to say. subsidized lunch. Jose was a picky eater, she perience to see a child or adult who is visi­ "It brings tears to the mother and to the explained. She had no money, but her bly malnourished. A pediatrician at Boston grandmother, too," said Mrs. Hines, with mother, who was also on food stamps, had City Hospital, Dr. Deborah A. Frank, said great dignity. Ruth Ann Hamm lives with managed to feed her and the boys the night she had seen three cases in three years of her husband and three children in a dilapi­ before. St. Cecilia's Parish Services on East kwashiorkor the protein-deficiency disease, dated bungalow in the small Mississippi 105th Street had given her enough food to and a handful of cases of marasmus, the dis­ River town of Caruthersville, in the south­ tide her over the coming weekend and, ease that gives Ethiopian children their east comer of Missouri known as the boot being a responsible mother, she had already spectral look. "But you can come here any heel. I asked her how often she served her made arrangements to be driven to the day and there will be something like this," family meat. "Maybe twice a month," she Bronx when her stamps finally came she said, holding up a sweet infant who ap­ said. Typical meals were "beans and taters" through to buy a large economy packet of peared normal, except that at the age of 1 or pancakes and gravy made from water, meat at a cut-rate market called Tops. she weighed only 15 pounds and could flour and grease. "That's about it," Mrs. She had negotiated with the comer grocer barely sit up. "She looks like a brilliant 6- Hamm said. for a little more credit, with the landlord for month-old," she sad, adding that social "They get full off rice and butter and an extension on the rent, with the welfare workers had found no evidence of neglect, sugar," a welfare mother in Houston named system for a new check. It was an arduous only poverty, in the home from which that Joyce Wiltz replied when I asked her how business, taking days, but she could now feel baby came. she kept her children from going hungry that her crisis management in the case of Sometimes what is called "hunger" in after she has used up her monthly allot­ the burgled mailbox had been effective­ America means "going hungry," in the sense ment of food stamps. The staples she was except for the small detail that she herself of frequently missing meals. More often it mentioning, I realized, come in the distribu­ had skipped breakfast and lunch that day means being chronically anxious about food tion of commodities from surplus Federal and had tasted only coffee. If somebody said because you are eating less than you believe food stocks. Her friend Ernestine Coleman that her family was suffering from hunger, you should and, episodically, perhaps every was appealing a ruling of the local branch I asked, what would she reply? few weeks, don't know where your next of the Texas Department of Human Re­ "It's not true," Celia Rosado said proudly. meal is coming from. Malnutrition is a clini­ sources, which had terminated her food I dwell on the particulars in order to make cal state, readily gauged by physicians. stamps, forcing her to use the rent money the point that what is called "hunger" in Hunger is described by health experts as for her apartment in a row of dingy so­ America is not everywhere the same. And "subclinical"-that is, subjective, necessarily called "efficiencies" to buy food. Mrs. Cole­ yet everywhere there are families for whom gauged in the first instance by the hungry. man allowed me to peer into the fetid interi­ food is an abiding problem. I visited many When do hungry Americans acknowledge or of her refrigerator, which hadn't worked more of them, for I was trying to view that to themselves and others, "I am hungry"? since the power company turned off the problem through the opposite end of the Far less often, I found in the course of visits electricity several days earlier. There I telescope from the one that is usually used in six states to families that had recently found a package of grits, the remains of a by Congressmen and budget-makers, to un­ experienced food emergencies, than one box of powdered mashed potatoes, three derstand the dietary strategies and choices would expect from talking to those who at­ onions, a half-used container of Parmesan people are forced to improvise when they tempt to be heard on their behalf. Least of cheese, some milk that had long since are hardpressed. But, of course, I could only all, however spare the diets of their fami­ turned sour and a little Coffee-Mate. skim the surface. Each of these stories was a lies, were they ready, by calling their chil­ If I had arrived in Albuquerque, N.M., on saga, with its own distinct causes and con­ dren hungry, to acknowledge that they had a Thursday, I might have found even less in text and possible outcomes. You could failed in the basic duty of a parent to nur­ the refrigerator of Bobby and Julie Stem­ choose your stereotype in order to score a ture and provide. bridge, a young couple of 22, and 21, respec- political point by blaming either the needy June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16431 or the system. They were all there-families Harlem Interfaith Welfare Committee of riorate and what sort of deficiencies become that grew up on welfare, families that were 1,506 households with children that sought chronic. Especially in small children, where trapped into it by sudden economic reversals emergency food assistance from pantries in there is the greatest danger of permanent or bureaucratic Catch-22's that seemed to New York last year found that 88.3 percent damage, the quality of the environment and penalize them for going to work or observ­ were involved with the welfare system. Most nurturing has a great deal to do with the ing the rules, and families that were none­ were receiving benefits; others had just rate of recovery from a period of nutritional theless fighting their way out. All of them been cut off and were trying to get back; deprivation. seemed to know what it was to run out of still others had pending applications. Those who man the barricades when Fed­ food as a regular, recurring experience in Far from matching the stereotype of eral food and nutrition programs come their lives. social deadbeats and down-and-outers, more under attack in the annual budget squeeze It was clearly possible to know hunger on than two-thirds of the recipients of private are reduced to having to advance arguments public assistance, at least episodically. Advo­ food aid in the New York survey were chil­ that might seem self-evident: that well­ cates on behalf of the poor regularly stress dren, which is not altogether surprising, nourished women produce healthier babies; the constant shrinkage in the value of wel­ considering the point underscored by Sena­ that infants deprived of proper nutrition fare checks, which vary hugely from state tor Daniel Patrick Moynihan in his Godkin may fail to realize their full growth, phys­ to state. Often their calculations neglect the Lectures at Harvard that children account ically or mentally; that children who come value of food stamps, which are supposed to for an increasing proportion-39 percent as to school hungry tend not to learn as well­ rise with the cost of living. Yet even when of 1983-of all Americans living in poverty. in short, that eating properly is good for the food stamps are counted, there is no That was 22.2 percent of all American humans. What they can't easily prove is an question that the poor are poorer than they children then and 46. 7 percent of all black incontrovertible relationship between a spe­ were only a few years ago. For those who children. The younger the child, the more cific legislative action and the health of got them without interruption, the com­ likely he was to be living in poverty, accord­ children. "But then we never have to prove bined value of food stamps and welfare pay­ ing to those figures. Whether all children in a clear and present danger to throw money ments declined by 8 to 9.7 percent in real poverty should be counted as "hungry" at defense," remarked Dr. Irwin H. Rosen­ terms in the four years starting in 1980, ac­ seems debatable, but it is hardly debatable berg, a professor of medicine and an expert cording to a study done last year for the that most of them periodically are at "nutri­ on nutrition at the University of Chicago. House Ways and Means Committee; in 18 tional risk," to use a more carefully hedged There is some evidence that deteriorating states, for families with no other income, bit of public-health jargon. diets may be taking a greater toll on the their value is now only two-thirds of the Inevitably, most food-stamp families live health of poor Americans than they were poverty threshold-or less. on a nutritional cycle that starts off reason­ five or six years ago, but the data are spotty On the other hand, it is also true that ably well, then deteriorates as the month and open to conflicting interpretations. Var­ emergency food assistance is more available wears on, becoming marginal if not desper­ ious local studies have pointed to a rise in than ever before, so that in most urban cen­ ate in the final week or 10 days, depending the number of low-birth-weight babies, of ters it is possible to repeat the boast made on how frugal they were earlier. "The first "failure to thrive" infants and young chil­ by the Rev. Jud Wagg, an Episcopal priest part of the month I always cook us a good dren whose growth seems to be stunted, or in Albuquerque who runs a food pantry: meal," said Patricia Roberts, who is raising who are suffering from infections that could "Hunger is not a problem in this communi­ three children in Houston on a Social Secu­ be related to undernutrition. The level of ty. Food is there for those who are willing rity widow's pension and food stamps. infant mortality, although shocking by com­ to go to the missions and follow proce­ "Something we don't get and something we parison to that of other developed nations, dures." A group sponsored by the Harvard like. Fish usually." There are ample por­ is now actually lower than it has ever been School of Public Health, called the Physi­ tions and fresh vegetables and all the milk in the country's history, but the rate of de­ cian Task Force on Hunger in America, the children can drink, and Mrs. Roberts cline has been tapering off and poor nutri­ whose path across America I was more or tries for one night not to worry about her tion is often blamed. less retracing, visited Albuquerque last year unpaid bills. "I just say at that point, 'I Yet in all these instances there are com­ and concluded that hunger there had don't care what happens,' " she said. " 'I'm plicating factors that cannot easily be laid reached epidemic proportions. In the coun­ going to take care of myself.' " at the door of the Reagan Administration or try as a whole, the task force estimated, The splurge is over almost as soon as it Congress. The large number of babies born there was an "epidemic" of undernutrition begins. By the end of the month, the Rob­ to young teen-agers is one; the use of drugs, affecting 20 million hungry people. Plainly, erts family is sometimes reduced to eating alcohol and cigarettes is another. Still an­ the health experts dispatched by Harvard potatoes as a staple and Mrs. Roberts has to other factor is the resistance of the over­ and Mr. Wagg were using the word borrow from relatives. She is the head of a whelming majority of mothers in poverty to "hunger" in different senses. If people faced single-parent household and black, so she breast-feeding. This is costly in terms of the a threat of hunger and sought emergency conforms to another kind of sterotype. But health of their children as well as in terms help, the task force reasoned that they were she was laid off two and a half years ago of Federal funds that go to supplemental hungry; it further reasoned that undernu­ from a job as a machinist at the Hughes feeding programs, but it is not subject to trition had health consequences in their Tool Company, where she had earned $13.62 legislative correction. Technological strides lives. If they found help in some measure, an hour. Since then she has taken any work in neonatal care-that is, the care of infants the minister was saying, they were not she could get, for as little as $3.35 an hour. in the first month of life-are not unrelated hungry; and if they failed to find it, it was The idea that she is not classed with women to the number of low-birth-weight infants probably their own fault. who have never found their way into the or even, where further advances are now be­ Those who debunk the existence of a job market incenses her. "There seems to be coming difficult because limits have been hunger crisis tend to assume that private a mix-up as to who's who," she said. reached, for slower progress on infant mor­ food and feeding schemes are mainly for the The food problems of the so-called "new tality. incompetent, persons unable to clear the poor-industrial workers like Mrs. Roberts In other words, nutrition is a crucial many procedural hurdles established for who have fallen into dependence on public factor, but it is not the only factor. Nutri­ public aid. "A far-gone alcoholic or a border­ assistance-shed light on the nutritional tion, nurturing and poverty are all subtly line schizophrenic may not be able, and cer­ problems of the old poor, undercutting the interrelated, as a public health nurse in Mis­ tainly isn't often inclined, to go through easy, middle-class assumption that the im­ souri suggested when she asked: "How much that sort of hassle if he knows of a church­ poverished diets of the poor are traceable to love and affection can a 20-year-old give her supported soup kitchen nearby that will ignorance and a dependence on Junk food, fourth child when there's not enough feed him without asking any questions rather than lack of money. food?" whatever," William A. Rusher, the conserv­ The cyclical nature of undernutrition in Often when I left the homes of people ative commentator, observed last year. America-the monthly slide to a meager who had experienced food emergencies, I That is true as far as it goes, but it doesn't diet of starches that will stave off the sensa­ found myself reflecting that hunger was not explain the growing number of soup kitch­ tion of hunger-cannot be good for the really their central problem. It was the ens that find themselves feeding families health of the poor, but experts on nutrition whole poverty cycle-the demeaning en­ with children, or the proliferation of food find it hard to be precise about how bad it counters with the welfare system, squalid pantries. The St. Martin de Porres House of is. Not all essential nutrients have to be con­ housing, lack of preparation for changing Hope, a shelter for homeless mothers and sumed every day. Some, like iron or vitamin job market and the high level of stress, children in the Woodlawn section of Chica­ A, are stored in the body and used up gradu­ anger or self-doubt that come with all these go, reports that it had to turn away 14,192 ally; others, such as soluble vitamins like B burdens and are nightly reinforced by a cas­ mothers and children for lack of space and and C, have a shorter cycle. The conse­ cade of television commercials showing the funds in its first 20 months of operation. A quences depend on various factors: how kinds of cars Americans are supposed to recently published survey by the East good the diet w~ before it started to dete- drive, the kinds of kitchens they're sup- 16432 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 posed to have, the kinds of meals they are altogether, doesn't count as an error for the ens can manage. There was roast chicken supposed to serve their families, and the purpose of that calculation. Only overpay­ done to a turn, enough for seconds, even kinds of planes they are supposed to fly in ment is penalized. thirds, fresh vegetables, salad, cake, fruit, to far-off lands. The pressure is logical from the stand­ brownies and ice cream-a feast, by any It seems a sign of the times that hunger point of legal draftsmen trying to freeze standard. was singled out as an issue by advocates for social "entitlement" programs as part of a That day, I had been in homes of needy the poor as if they recognized that poverty crusade against budget deficits. It may even families whose children had seldom, if ever, and even homelessness were issues that had be necessary as a political fact to save food seen a meal as succulent. But they were been classed by many as unmanageable. and nutrition programs from more drastic miles away on the north side of town, while Hunger is still not supposed to happen in cutbacks. But the level of suspicion a genu­ the missions were in a downtown area that America. It is the social issue of last resort. inely needy person meets as a consequence looked semideserted and a little on the "I acknowledge that and don't feel badly on venturing into a government office to rough side on a Saturday afternoon. A about it," said Dr. Larry Brown, a nutrition­ apply for help is suggested by two findings single mother with three or four children ist at Harvard School of Public Health who in the report of the East Harlem Interfaith would think twice before taking them there, chaired the Physician Task Force, when I Welfare Committee: in the cases of 585 fam­ unless she was desperate. remarked that hunger might be more emo­ ilies turning to welfare centers in food emer­ Had they known about the roast chicken tive as an issue than the larger question of gencies, only five-fewer than 1 percent-re­ dinner, Dale and Kathy Robertson would poverty. "There is nothing wrong from a ported receiving any kind of tangible assist­ also have thought twice about taking their medical standpoint with addressing the ance. four children, in part because they are wor­ symptoms rather than the cause." Is it possible that significant numbers of ried about the gas-guzzling Plymouth Trail The puzzle is why, if there are more poor people are turning away from the wel­ Duster in which they drove to Albuquerque hungry people living below the poverty line, fare system to private charity because they from Elk City, Okla., last year. They were in there are not now more people receiving find the hours of waiting, the cold indiffer­ search of a new start-after Dale had been food stamps. Robert Greenstein, who ran ence and occasional rudeness more than incapacitated for work in the oil fields by the Food and Nutrition Service in the they can take? It's possible, but I didn't two accidents . The vehicle has 110,000 miles on it, its group in Washington, calculates on the fered food emergencies. Instead, I kept run­ tires are bald and there is no money for re­ basis of current poverty estimates that the ning into people who had tumbled out of pairs or new tires. Keeping it running comes number of foodstamp recipients should be 2 the system because they had failed to com­ second in the family's priorities to eating­ million higher than it was in 1980, even prehend or comply promptly with one of its and ahead of eating well-because Dale after taking into account the 1981 tighten­ many demands for documentation; or had needs it to get to a vocational course that is ing of eligibility requirements that knocked moved and discovered it could take weeks, supposed to retrain him for work as a com­ a million working poor out of the program. even months, for them to reestablish their puter repairman. Instead, there are 300,000 fewer recipients. bona fides; or were now waiting for their There came a time last fall when the Rob­ The reason, he speculated, must have some­ cases to be reviewed. ertsons had nothing but a dollar to buy gas thing to do with difficulty of access to the The efforts of philanthropic and religious so they could drive to the Salvation Army system, its nightmarish qualities as experi­ groups to mend and extend the social safety with their children. Then they were caught enced by the poor. It might even, he theo­ net as it unravels and frays at the edges are by the safety net. At first they took all their rized, have something to do with a deeper undertaken for a variety of moral and ideo­ meals at the missions-breakfast with the sense of social disapproval. logical motives. Feeding the poor can be as Salvation Army, lunch with the Baptists It isn't Just whites new to food stamps worthwhile an activity for conservatives and dinner at the Good Shepherd shelter who feel or express that judgment. I met who believe government has done all it can coordinated with the St. Vincent de Paul Barbara Davis in a public housing project in and more as for the left-liberal set, which is Society-and then they were discovered, Peoria called Harrison Homes that is over­ given to comparing the cost of school housed and fed by a single Catholic family whelmingly tenanted by black families on lunches to the cost of MX missiles . There could be little Yes, the system could be said to have at 32 and now has 2 daughters and 5 grand­ doubt that, as a byproduct, the specter of worked, for the Robertsons now had a place children who are on welfare themselves, hunger has awakened something fine in to live and they were not starving. They Mrs. Davis was as unsparing in her Judg­ America, permitting cooperation across ide­ were also not eating very well. "You can get ment of what was happening to her commu­ ological boundaries. But it was impossible a craving for a good old lettuce and tomato nity as any suburbanite. not to notice that this common effort was salad, but you know you'll end up paying for "My daddy worked every day," she said. sometimes oddly selective in the ways it it at the end of the month," said Dale, who "He was a meat cutter at the Armour pack­ benefited the poor. regarded steak as a staple when oil was ing house. My daughters are doing pretty However the poor spend their food booming and he was making $29,000 a year. good, they all right, but I didn't want them money-nutrition surveys indicate they are Along the way they had learned some to wind up like this. They don't care. They no less prudent or more foolish than every­ painful and sometimes contradictory les­ figure the more babies they have, the more one else-it is hard to imagine families that sons. One was that it was not a disgrace to money they get from A.F.D.C. [Aid to Fami­ would be quite as erratic in their choices as ask, even beg, for food to feed your children. lies With Dependent Children, as the main food pantries are forced to be in what they Another was that, though they sometimes welfare program is formally known]." distribute as a result of the unplanned, still depended on the generosity of others, Social scientists who have studied the sub­ helter-skelter pattern of the donations that they themselves could not afford to share ject contend that there is little evidence flow in from food companies. One day they what they have. Not yet, anyhow. There that the prospect of welfare benefits has are rolling in doughnuts, the next they are was a minor domestic scene on this theme anything to do with the pregnancy rate drowning in pink lemonade. In Peoria, at the afternoon I visited their apartment. among teenagers. But as Mrs. Davis's judg­ the Central Illinois Food Bank, I saw crates Lunch was Japanese noodles, the kind that ment showed, popular attitudes on what the and crates of cast-off marketing ideas that come dried, in the shape of small bricks, and system is doing to those it is supposed to had gathered dust on supermarket shelves­ are cheaper even than marcaroni and benefit are not necessarily determined by peaches-and-cream instant oatmeal, cherry cheese. Seven-year-old Latisha showed up which side of the poverty line a person Pop-Tarts, apple-cinnamon cream cheese, with her friend Erica from downstairs and stands on. caramel candy bars, fruit sticks and Dijon Dale hit the roof. "I can't feed all the kids The sense of judgment is even stronger mustard. Most of these items would come in in the neighborhood," he protested. inside the welfare centers, where case work­ handy somewhere, but they were hardly "It's weird,'' said Kathy. "We're teaching ers are under constant and increasing pres­ building blocks of a sensible diet. our kids not to share." She then pointed out sure to uncover fraud and repel cheats. Then there is the problem of getting the to Dale that Erica's mother had given Lati­ Under an "error rate reduction system" im­ poor-especially poor children-to the food. sha a piece of pie. By this time Erica had plemented by the Reagan Administration, a On a Saturday afternoon in Albuquerque, a vanished. state that can be shown to have an error Jewish congregation, Nahalat Shalom, had Shamed, Dale stepped outside to the head rate of more than 5 percent on food-stamp taken responsibility for serving meals to the of the stairs. "Erica, you come up here, cases loses out on a portion of the funds it needy at the Salvation Army. These were girlie," he shouted. "You can have a little." would otherwise have received from Wash­ not "almost fresh" groceries saved from su­ Moments later, the Japanese noodles were ington. Underpayment to an eligible recipi­ permarket dumpsters or the pallid institu­ gone and 2-year-old Christopher was squall­ ent, or the failure to serve an eligible person tional fare that is the best most soup k.itch- ing. "If we hadn't given that kid noodles," June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16433 Dale now grumbled, "there'd be enough for Twenty years ago in Appalachia, Mr. And now we are close, Mr. President. We Christopher." President, we were a region apart, and seem­ are building the bridge to opportunity, the "Life's a bummer sometimes," said Kathy ingly destined to stay that way. bridge that will let us leave behind forever Robertson. But then something happened. Communi­ that time when we were truly a region But if you had asked her that afternoon, ty leaders began organizing, and public offi­ apart. The structure is in place. We just she would have had to say that her children cials began to speak out about the needs of need to lay the pavement. weren't hungry.e their communities. Governors got together We'll lay the pavement ourselves. But we to plan cooperative efforts and to speak to need the tools. the Nation about their region and its suffer­ We need the tools to deal with an unem­ OPEN LE'! !ER TO PRESIDENT ing, and John F. Kennedy, campaigning for ployment rate that remains almost 1 % times RONALD REAGAN President, heard their voices and promised the national average. to do something about it. We need the tools to provide the basic JENKINS Appalachian people were used to prom­ services-water and sewer systems, decent HON. ED ises. But this was more than a promise. housing-that are still missing in some OFGEORGli John Kennedy was serious, and with the counties. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leadership provided by our Governors-Bert We need the tools to complete the critical Wednesday, June 19, 1985 Combs, Ned Breathitt, Terry Sanford, Bill gaps in the road system. Scranton, Hulett Smith, Millard Tawes-he But, Mr. President, just when we are on •Mr. JENKINS. Mr. Speaker, the created the President's Appalachian Region­ the threshold of a new beginning, Just when conference on the budget is now con­ al Commission. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. we are about to be able to cross that bridge, sidering the fate of the Appalachian chaired that Commission, John Whisman we are losing our tools. In the past 4 years Regional Commission. The Senate has was executive secretary, and John SWeeney we've lost many of our tools. Now, we are in proposed eliminating this important was executive director. They brought forth danger of losing them all-ARC, EDA, Reve­ program, while the House has pro­ a report-the PARC Report-with recom­ nue Sharing, CDBG, Housing Assistance, mendations designed to strike at the heart Job Training, FmHA, TVA, Water and pased a 10-percent cut in funding of the Appalachia's problems. Sewer Programs and transit subsidies. The below a budget freeze level. Sadly, tragically, President Kennedy was tool box would be left, but it would be I would like to place in the RECORD dead by the time that report was Issued. But empty. excerpts of a recent speech made by President Johnson picked up the promise. We know, Mr. President, that resources Michael R. Wenger, the ARC States, With the help of the people of Appalachia are scarce, we know that there are compet­ Washington representative. His speech and such stalwarts as Jennings Randolph, ing priorities, and we know that the budget is an open letter to the President re­ John Sherman Cooper, and Bob Jones, he deficit must be reduced. But all we ask for Is steered that legislation through Congress. fairness, for the promise that was made 20 garding the fate of the ARC. On March 9, 1965, President Johnson years ago, for the tools to help ourselves-to OPD LE'rrER TO PllESmENT RONALD REAGAN signed the bill that created one of the most pave that bridge. FR011 MICHAEL R. WENGER, ARC STATES unique experiments in the history of Ameri­ We've taken more than our fair share of W ASHIBGTOB RBPRl:sENTATIVE, DELlvEREJ> can Government-a federally assisted re­ cuts. ARC's annual appropriation Is less AT AlnroAL CollfFERE1'CE OF DEvELoPMENT gional development program governed joint­ than half of what it was 5 years ago. DISTRICT .AssoclATIOl!I' OF APPALACHIA, FEB­ ly by the Federal Government and the We know it will take longer to pave the RUARY 21, 1985 States, and with a mandate to reach out to bridge, and we know we will have to provide Today, as ARC's 20th anniversary ap­ local officials and community leaders to more of the tools ourselves. proaches and we remain locked in a grim spearhead that effort. But, Mr. President, if the tool box, Is struggle for survival, I'd like to speak to the Twenty years later, Mr. President, we are empty, the bridge may never be paved. The one person with the power to make a differ­ proud We are proud that a baby now born bright, new gleaming structure would slowly ence. I'd like to speak to Ronald Reagan, in Appalachia has as much opportunity to decay from lack of use and lack of mainte­ through you, in the form of an open letter live as a baby born anywhere else in the nance. Before too long, Appalachia would be to the President of the United States. United States. as it was 20 years ago. DEAR MR. PllESmENT: I am writing to share We are proud that in Appalachia doctors It doesn't have to be, Mr. President, and with you our feeling about the Appalachian now see opportunity rather than isolation I'm convinced it wouldn't be if only you region and about the importance of the Ap­ and that primary medical care Is now within knew the whole story. palachian Regional Commission to the 30 minutes of most Appalachians. David Stockman has portrayed our region people of the region. We are proud that in Appalachia young­ as just like the rest of the country, with Appalachia Is rich-rich in natural re­ sters now graduate from high schools with problems no worse than anywhere else. sources, rich in its wondrous beauty, rich in the skills necessary to take advantage of Job Our hopes, our dreams, our aspirations the spirit and strength of it.s people. opportunities that now exist. are the same-and our spirit Is · stronger. But Mr. President, it Is a region which We are proud that in Appalachia the But, Mr. Stockman has not been to Appa­ during the century following the Civil War, buses which once took our children from lachia. Perhaps he Is unaware of the centu­ suffered the rape of its natural resources, the region have been bringing them back in ry of isolation, neglect and exploitation the ravaging of its wondrous beauty, the ex­ record numbers. which we have been attempting to redress. ploitation of its generous people, and per­ We are proud that in Appalachia those But don't take our word for it, Mr. Presi­ haps most sadly, it suffered neglect by a buses now travel over modem four-lane dent. Ask our friends in the House, not only Nation to which it had contributed so much. highways cut through some of the most dif­ JAllD WHITTEN and Toll BEVILL, but BILL Twenty years ago in some parts of Appa­ ficult terrain in the country. CLnfGER and HAL ROGERS. And ask our lachia babies died at a rate comparable to And we are proud of something else, Mr. friends in the Senate, not only JoHl!I' STEN­ infant mortality rates in many Third World President. We've done the Job in a way that NIS and BoB BYRD, but JOHl!I' WARJ!l'ER and countries. would bring a smile to your face-in a way STROii THuallol!l'D. Ask our Governors, not Twenty years ago in Appalachia medical that demonstrates how effective your phi­ only Joe Frank Harris and Martha Layne care was often either nonexistent or nor ac­ losophy of turning power back to the people Collins, but Lamar Alexander and Arch cessible. can be. Moore. Twenty years ago in Appalachia young­ We've done it by using the talent and skill These public officials-Democrats and Re­ sters graduating from high school were fre­ in our city halls, in our county courthouses, publicans-buoyed by unprecedented grass­ quently the exception rather than the rule. and in our statehouaes. roots support, have sustained us through Twenty years ago in Appalachia those We've done it by unleashing the spirit, the these past 4 years. And they show no sign of youngsters who did graduate from high strength, and the creativity of the people of weakening, because they know what's at school were on the next bus to Cincinnati, Appalachia. stake. or Dayton, or Columbus, or Detroit, Chica­ We've done it by providing a hand-up It's the baby in Logan, WV whose mother go, Cleveland or Pittsburgh-anyplace rather than an hand-out. We've done it as can now receive prenatal care, and thus, where they might find better opportunities. partners. dramatically increase the chances for a Twenty years ago in Appalachia, if you Yes, Mr. President, we've worked togeth­ normal birth. stayed, you either worked in the mines or er-the Federal Government, State govern­ It's the young child in Asheville, NC who you didn't work. ments, local governments, community lead­ can now go to day care while mommy works, Twenty years ago in Appalachia, getting ers, the private sector-to bring to reality and thus, receive the kind of preschool in­ in or out on our mountain roads was an ad­ things about which we could only dream 20 struction necessary to succeed in public venture at best, life-threatening at worst. years ago. school. 16434 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 It's the teenager in Tupelo, MS who wants ship of Wayne, my congressional dis­ freight, baggage, American Express a decent education so he can get a decent trict and State of New Jersey will join and Western Union facilities for the job. It's the mother in Hazard, KY who wants together without fellow Rotarians in railroad. For two decades he was an her children to have the opportunity to testimony to an outstanding communi­ employee of the firm of Bogart and make a decent life in the region they love. ty leader, distinguished citizen, and Hanson in the electrical and appliance It's the father in Johnstown, PA who good friend, the Honorable Irving Ja­ business. During the same period, he wants the self-respect that comes from a cobus Grieves of Wayne, NJ, whose was a partner in the operation of a gift decent job and the ability to support his standards of excellence throughout shop in Art Philips Ice Cream Parlor. family. his lifetime have earned him the most He also operated a radio sales and Last week, Mr. President, I attended a highly coveted honor of being chosen public hearing in Tupelo, MS. I wish you service facility at Dixon's Drug Store had been there to see and hear the people. 1985 Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary selling radios manufactured by People who had voted for you but who Club of Wayne-the highest award Atwater Kent, Philco, Majestic, and asked plaintively why anyone would want to that Rotary can bestow upon any of RCA. He was also a highly respected take away their tools and their self-respect. its members. I know you and our col­ entrepreneur of several business ven­ They voted for you, Mr. President, be­ leagues here in the Congress will want tures. He operated a retail sales outlet cause you said you would protect them. You to join with me in extending our for electrical fixtures, lamps, fire­ said you would be fair. You said you could heartiest congratulations to Irving reduce the budget deficit without taking places, and other sundry equipment on away their tools. Grieves and share the great pride of Jacobus Avenue in Wayne, NJ. He was And they don't blame you, Mr. President. his children, Arnold Grieves and Joan most successful and well regarded for They understand your dilemma. But they Grieves Grimm; his grandchildren, his business acumen in the operation still want to know. They want to know why. Arnold, Jr., Donna Grieves Kroegman, of a gift and confectionery shop in If you could come to Appalachia, Mr. Glenn and Thomas Grieves, Carol, Packanack Lake, Wayne, NJ, during President, talk to the people, see the pride Peter, and Diane Grimm; and great his years of employment with Bogart in their accomplishments, see how close we grandchild, Fred Kroegman in ap­ are to achieving our goals, see what it would and Hanson. mean to pave the bridge, I believe you plauding this milestone of achieve­ During the war years he served our would understand what I've been trying to ment in their family endeavors. country in the production line of the say, and what the people were saying in The Rotary Club of Wayne is one of experimental department of the elec­ Tupelo last week. our Nation's most prestigious affiliates trical division of Curtiss-Wright Corp., Come to Appalachia, Mr. President. of Rotary International whose motto: Let us show you corridor G in southern one of our Nation's major defense con­ "We make a living by what we get-we tractors. Following World War II, he West Virginia-how that beautiful new four­ make a life by what we give"-"service lane suddenly turns into a two-lane moun­ opened his own sales outlet in electri­ tain adventure, because the job's not done. above self"-and their good deeds in cal equipment which flourished under Let us show you the new water system in helping others, young and adults alike, his ownership and management. He Williamson, WV-but the sewerage still in have served to inspire all of us. Irving served as full-time proprietor until many creeks, because the job's not done. has by his example and lifetime of 1963 but continues as semiretired in a Let us show you the thriving industrial dedication to these same true Ameri­ park in Duffield, VA-and the unemploy­ most prestigious commercial establish­ can ideals personified exemplary lead­ ment now known as Mountain View ment rate in Letcher County, KY, because ership in his outstanding responsible the job's not done. Electric Co. Let us show you the incubator projects in service to our people. Mr. Speaker, the pleasure of great Mr. Speaker, Irving's personal com­ Girard, PA-and the silent steel mills in mitment to the economic, social, and Johnstown, PA, because the job's not done. personal dedication and always work­ We'd welcome you, Mr. President, just as ing to the peak of one's ability with cultural enhancement of our commu­ we did last year when you visited Greenville sincerity of purpose and determination nity has been a way of life for him. His Tech in Greenville, SC, and when you met to fulfill a life's dream-that is the business acumen and expertise has en­ with the Tennessee Technology Foundation success of the opportunity of Amer­ abled him to achieve success in his in Tennessee. career pursuits in the business world. Perhaps you weren't aware that this was ica-and the mark of distinction in our society of the self-made man. The as­ His sincerity of purpose and compas­ ARC country. Perhaps you didn't know sion in responding to the needs of our these were ARC-supported efforts. Perhaps, pirations and success of Irving Grieves you didn't know we were there. But you in the mainstream of our business people are applauded by all of us who know what you saw. And you liked what you community does, indeed, portray a have the good fortune to know him. saw. And what you saw was ARC in action­ great American success story. He has attained the greatest respect quietly, with no frills, with local people in Irving Grieves was born in my home­ and deepest appreciation from a grate­ charge-but there, and in many ways-indis­ town of Wayne, NJ, on March 4, 1908, ful community for his dedication and pensable. and points with pride to 12 genera­ untiring efforts in service to his fell ow That's our story, Mr. President, about a man. land we love. About a people whose spirit tions of the Jacobus family who have and strength have enabled them to endure made their home and pursued life's Among his many achievements we the hardest of times. And about a promise fulfillment in the Wayne area of New particularly commend him for his out­ made 20 years ago-a promise to build a Jersey. He was educated in local standing public service with the Moun­ bridge-and to pave it. schools-Mountain View School, tain View Community Fire Co. in We're almost there, Mr. President.• Montclair High School and evening Wayne, NJ. He is a member and past classes of Montclair Vocational president and one of the founders of CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO School. the Wayne County Fair which raised THE HONORABLE IRVING JA­ As a young man during his after­ funds to build the community fire COBUS GRIEVES OF NEW school hours and vacation time, he company's recreation building. He has JERSEY 1985 "PAUL HARRIS was vigorously engaged in farm and been actively involved in the Shrine FELLOW," ROTARY CLUB OF dairy work, sold vegetables, and for 35 years and has been a member of WAYNE trapped. He also was busily employed the Wayne Rotary Club for 19 years at Campbells Hardware Store. After with 100 percent attendance. He was a coming home from high school and on member of the Mountain View Busi­ HON. ROBERT A. ROE nessmen's Association and a charter OF NEW JERSEY weekends, he worked at the Union Newsstand which was located at the member of its successor organization, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mountain View Erie Railroad Station. the Wayne Chamber of Commerce. Wednesday, June 19, 1985 Subsequently he became assistant Some of his additional affiliations e Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker, on Wednes­ agent of the Erie Railroad. In those with nationally recognized fraternal day, June 26 the residents of the town- days the agents handled tickets, and civic organizations include mem- June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16435 bership in the following organizations: involved in Indian affairs. I would like ties such as a septic tank and drain Mountain View Masonic Lodge No. to set the record straight in terms of field. 154, Scottish Rite, Royal Order of responsibility, cost, and need. Since fiscal year 1982, the adminis­ Jesters Court No. 37, Lake Shrine In 1959, the Congress passed legisla­ tration has proposed zeroing out the Club, Gold Coast Billiken Club, Gold tion directing the Surgeon General: IHS Sanitation Facilities Program. In Coast Shrine Club, Kachina Klub, and To construct, improve, extend or other­ response, Congress continued funding Salaam Temple. wise provide and maintain • • • essential anyway, but required the administra­ Mr. Speaker, as we reflect upon the sanitation facilities including domestic and tion to provide HUD funds for sanita­ history of our great country and the community water supplies and facilities, drainage facilities, and sewage- and waste­ tion facilities for HUD homes. HUD good deeds of our people who have disposal facilities, together with necessary and IHS then developed a memoran­ made our representative democracy appurtenances and fixtures, for Indian dum of agreement, at the direction of second to none among all nations homes, communities, and lands. the Office of Management and throughout the world, I appreciate the In the early 1960's, both the Depart­ Budget, that allows HUD to transfer opportunity to call your attention to ments of Housing-now the Depart­ funds in order for the IHS to continue this distinguished gentleman and seek ment of Housing and Urban Develop­ construction of the offsite facilities for this national recognition of all of his ment-and Interior-via the Bureau of HUD homes. good deeds. I know you will want to Indian Affairs-were given the respon­ A major problem that currently join with the Rotary Club of Wayne, sibility of providing housing assistance exists is the slowness of HUD to trans­ NJ, in honoring our good friend Irving to Indian communities. This assistance fer money to IHS. This makes it ex­ as an outstanding citizen and great was provided some 25 years after the tremely difficult for IHS to build the American. We do indeed salute the rest of the Nation had been provided offsite facilities in a timely manner. Wayne Rotary Club's "Paul Harris with Federal assistance for decent And, this is why there are approxi­ Fellow"-the Honorable Irving Jaco­ homes and indoor plumbing. Now, mately 400 HUD homes being built bus Grieves of New Jersey. HUD provides new construction of without sanitation facilities construc­ homes through the Indian Housing tion underway. The Bureau of Indian THE HOMES AND HEALTH OF Program, and the BIA primarily pro­ Affairs is not the agency where the AMERICAN INDIANS vides rehabilitation for existing homes problems have occurred in getting under the Housing Improvement Pro­ water and sewer to match housing HON. PAT WILLIAMS gram, although a few new homes can construction completion. In fact, no be built under certain circumstances new homes are being proposed under OF MONTANA with BIA funds. For HUD homes, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the current budget request for the Indian Health Service, until fiscal year BIA; however, the administration is Wednesday, June 19, 1985 1982, was the primary agency to pro­ proposing rehabilitation of homes e Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, much vide offsite water and sewer facilities­ without upgrading the water and sani­ of the improvement in Indian health that is, up to the project or lot line. tary sewage facilities. care during the past 25 years is the Onsite facilities were provided out of The cost of providing all of the cur­ direct result of the Indian Health the HUD budget. Further, in the rent offsite water and sewer needs plus Service Sanitation Facilities Program, 1970's a triagency agreement was es­ improvement or the establishment of which provides water supply, sewage tablished to define responsibilities for solid waste collection and disposal sys­ disposal, and solid waste disposal for HUD housing construction activities, the provision of adequate water and tems or setting up the operation and Indian homes and communities. Al­ maintenance organizations is present­ though American Indian and Alaskan sewer facilities, IHS, and the provision of road construction and real estate ly estimated at $520 million. The per­ Native families have the highest mor­ unit cost is currently estimated at tality and morbidity rates in the services, BIA. Because homes funded under HUD $8,000 to $8,500, including the high Nation, for the past 5 years, this ad­ cost areas of interior and northern ministration has requested nothing for for Indian communities take about 2 years to be completed-a conservative Alaska. This figure does not include the continued improvement of sanita­ estimate-water and sewer and hous­ HUD homes, but does include BIA and tion facilities in Indian country. How­ ing budget appropriations do not other construction, 22,000 existing ever, the administration's own budget always match and occasionally some homes and the 60,000 homes in need justifications state that: HUD homes have been completed of water improvement, and some The scarcity of safe water supplies and before the water and sewer were in be­ 30,000 needing adequate sewage and the lack of adequate facilities for the dispos­ solid waste disposal. This is approxi­ al of human and household wastes still pre­ cause IHS had the flexibility of meet­ ing other needs while waiting for HUD mately $1,000 per person needed in vail in Indian country. The lack of these fa­ Indian country to provide water and cilities contributes to the spread of micro­ to complete homes. Testimony in con­ organisms responsible for diarrhea and dys­ gressional hearings has often cited the other sanitation facilities to the stand­ entery, to insect and rodent infestations in numbers and locations of government­ ard that most other U.S. citizens take both Indian homes and communities, and to constructed homes in this condition, for granted. The savings that would be the contamination of food and water sup­ and congressional response has usually provided because of this preventive plies. been prompt in remedying this sched­ health care measure would be in the Thus, on March 26 when the Indian uling and coordination problem. Cur­ billions. To American Indians and Health Service testified before the rently, it is estimated that about 400- Alaska Natives, it is a much-needed House Interior Appropriations Sub­ 385 quoted in hearing-HUD homes safety net. committee, officials were unable to are in this situation. How can this be accomplished? justify their lack of commitment to In addition to new homes being Under consideration by both Houses providing the essential services that built, HUD, and existing homes being of Congress is legislation that would the rest of the Nation enjoys. The rehabilitated, BIA, there is presently begin to remedy these deplorable con­ tragedy, of course, is to the half mil­ an unmet need in Indian country of ditions. The Indian Health Care lion residents of rural Indian reserva­ approximately 22,000 existing homes, Amendments of 1985 would reestablish tions and remote Alaskan villages. not government built, that lack basic Indian Health Service as the primary Considerable attention has been plumbing facilities. Another 60,000 agency responsible for all sanitation drawn to articles about this matter in homes need their water supplies and facilities in Indian country and would the Washington Post, CONGRESSIONAL community facilities upgraded and ap­ provide for a 10-year implementation RECORD, and Washington Times, and proximately 30,000 homes in 300 com­ plan to provide the necessary services. within the two agencies most notably munities need upgraded sewer facili- The alternative which the Administra- 16436 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 tion proposes. is by far the higher Terrel H. Bell, in commenting on this the National Security Council, the ar­ price to pay.e propasal during the SALT-D meeting ticle describes the international Com­ last week, stated that teacher salaries munist tyranny that has descended on need to be competitive. Local commu­ Nicaragua and the impartance of the SALT-D UNDERSCORES FATAL nities cannot expect to compete for President's request to suppart the FLAW IN THE TAX REFORM well-trained teachers if they cannot Freedom Fighters in their struggle to MEASURE afford to pay them salaries that are at remain free. least comparable to private sector The article follows. I urge my col­ HON. MARIO BIAGGI wages. Our Nation faces a drastic leagues to read it. OP NEW YORK teacher shortage that threatens to es­ 1IITBIUUTI01'AL COIDIUllISll A1'D NICARAGUA­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES calate to 1 million by the year 1990. AJI' AD1111'ISTRATI01' V:mw Wednesday, June 19, 1985 We fail in our efforts to be future-ori­ ented if we adopt backward and re­ e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker. the gressive propasals such as this one. It is often unpleasant to resurrect what President's proposed elimination of de­ The tax reform proposal also takes a many think are the unpleasant ghosts of ductibility of State and local taxes will the past. Unfortunately, that is what we do hard hit at charitable contributions when we talk frankly about the forces of spell the death knell for the current and the use of tax-exempt bonds to fi­ slate of educational reform measures "international communism" at work in our nance higher education. At the SALT­ hemisphere. It has long been politically the now before a number of State legisla­ D meeting last week. it was revealed safe thing to do to ridicule any mention of tures. that deductions for charitable contri­ this alleged phenomenon. Professors and A national effort. entitled "SALT­ butions now account for $910 million pundits have assured us for years that D." is being formed to fight the effort nationwide. This would be reduced to "international communism" as such no to delete State and local taxes from $905 million. According to independ­ longer really exists-which is why it is ridi­ Federal income tax forms. In the ad­ ent sector, four out of five taxpayers culed as a "phantom," the object of irration­ ministration's first term-we witnessed would lose their deduction for charita­ al phobias of extremist.s. know-nothings, or the wholesale gutting of major nation­ people living in the past. It has been ex­ ble contributions because of the com­ plained to us that we can no longer clinical­ al programs which provided education­ bined effect of repeal of the nonitem­ ly and accurately use this loaded expression al opportunity to special and disadvan­ izers deduction and tax changes such because of the Sino-Soviet split, the Yugo­ taged papulations. What we now see in as the reduction in marginal rates. slav-Boviet split, the Albanian-Boviet split. the second term-is a reign of terror The impact upon private colleges and other manifestations of polycentrism. not of an overt nature-but of a back­ and universities would be especially Perhaps communism is no longer a mono­ door nature. If the provisions for State significant. Under current law, 18 per­ lithic force subsuming all Marx~Leninist and local taxes are adopted by Con­ cent of the revenues of independent states under the Soviet banner. Neverthe­ gress as part of its tax reform effort­ colleges and universities come from less. how can one label the presence today State and local governments could lose in Nicaragua of CUbans, Bulgarians, Liby­ gifts from nonitemizers. Under the ans, Czechs, North Koreans, F.ast Germans, $39 billion in revenues in 1987. In my propased changes, scholarship income, Vietnamese, Soviets and communist ele­ opinion. this $39 billion loss is a fron­ which is now tax exempt and accounts ments of the Palestine Liberation Organjm­ tal attack on the very system that pro­ for $645 million in exclusions set aside tion? Il this is not some facsimile of interna­ vides the backbone of local support to for education, would be cut to $545 tional communism, then we are at a loss at education in this Nation. million. how to explain the common thread that We continue to hear that education binds these forces together. Il we must pay Mr. Speaker, I believe that SALT-D our dues to the gods of polycentrism. then must remain a local issue. However. is an important coalition that will help with this tax reform propasal-we are perhaps we might refine our terminology by to bring the fundamental flaws of the calling this phenomenon "Soviet interna­ virtually assuring the inability of edu­ administration's tax reform proposal tional communism," since neither Maoist, cation to provide the fiscal resources to light. I believe that tax reform Titoist, or Albanian brands of communism that make it a local issue. should be high on the congressional are at work. Under present law. taxpayers now agenda for this session of Congress. Since we so rarely discuss the facts about take $16 billion in deductions for edu­ However-tax reforms should not international communism, here are a few cation-related purposes. $14 billion mean a rubberstamp approval of a that should be remembered in the context which come from State and local de­ proposal that does not reflect a fair of the debate on Nicaragua: ductions. The tax reform proposal set of economic priorities. Our priority The people do not want communism. would slash this amount to $1.5 billion in this instance should be rejection of Never in history has a majority of a free in taxes earmarked for education. electorate democratically chosen a commu­ the deduction for State and local taxes nist form of government. Every other vince others that they are not really com­ Technically, the White House has fallen form of government offers people the munist. This is done in many ways by the short on its promise to the industry. The 11 chance to retain a system of trial and error. Sandinistas, but most prominently by the accords it has negotiated so far would hold It is easy to overthrow a Shah or a Somoza "guided tour." Countless American visitors imports only to between 213 and 233 of the after trial has been granted and error per­ are taken on this guided tour and see nice U.S. market, not the 20.23 that the presi­ ceived. But once communism is firmly in things and talk to "average citizens" who dent cited. Similar compacts with the two or place, the possibility of trial and error is no tell them what the regime wants them to three small producers yet to sign-East Ger­ more. A vote against aid to the "freedom hear. Nobody wants to believe that he has many, Poland and the like-won't trim that fighters" is a vote to consign Nicaragua to been fooled. But if Congress is to believe the total much. an indefinite pe.riod of no freedom of choice. testimony of constituents and reporters who Yet the administration has put in place a The human cost of communism exceeds base their information on the "guided tour," set of restrictions so stringent that they most Americans' expectations. The number Congress may as well believe everything it is rival the Multi-Fiber Arrangement on tex­ of people murdered by communist regimes told on identical guided tours in Moscow, tile and apparel imports, often cited as the is estimated at between 60 million and 150 Havana, East Germany, and North Korea. nation's most egregious protectionist meas­ million with the higher figure probably Congress must decide whether it will ure. Gary Horlick, a former Commerce De­ more accurate in light of recent scholarship. resist international communism on our con­ partment trade official, contends the cur­ The greatest tide of refugees in world histo­ tinent or let it prosper. Isolationist in Con­ rent steel quota system is more comprehen­ ry flows from communist states to noncom­ gress may base their opposition to the ad­ sive than the textile accord It covers pro­ munist ones: Today it comes from Ethiopia, ministration on the principle that other ducers from Europe, not just from Japan Afghanistan, Indochina, East Europe, and countries should be allowed self-determina­ and developing countries; it sets an overall Nicaragua. (During the entire Vietnam war tion. Unfortunately, in Nicaragua today ceiling for world-wide imports, where the there was nary a refugee fleeing from Indo­ there can be no self-determination, because MFA does not; it precludes allowing imports china. It was not until communism tri­ of the reality of "foreign-force determina­ to grow more rapidly than the domestic umphed that life became so unbearable that tion.'' The foreign force is the USSR and its market; it applies even to the smallest steel­ people who could withstand decades of war proxies, otherwise known as the forces of producing countries; and finally, unlike the fled to the seas.> Communism invented the international communism. Will the Nicara­ case of the MFA, the steel industry may dis­ concentration camp. Millions have been im­ guans be given enough assistance so that mantle this whole system anytime it wants, prisoned and executed, have worked and they will be able to determine their future merely by filing unfair trade-practice cases. starved to death, in these camps. Commu­ on the basis of a balance of foreign forces, This effectively gives the industry a veto nist regimes will not permit enterprising or will Congress permit an imbalance, an im­ against any liberalization moves. "This is Western reporters near these camps, so you balance against democracy, against any the most protectionist thing we have going," don't hear about them on the news. Com­ system of trial and error? If Congress choos­ Mr. Horlick asserts. munist regimes recogniu no restraint on es to deny the Nicaraguan friends of democ­ William Walker, a former Ford adminis- , their absolute power. From this they estab­ racy a chance for self-determination, it will tration trade officlal, notes that foreigners lish ideological falsehoods as the standards be voting in favor of the first victory of the began last September deluging the U.S. of right and wrong and the standards by Soviet strategic offensive on our own conti­ market to get their goods in before the ne­ which deviationtsm is measured; from this nent.• gotiations were completed. Now some al­ stems the systematic denial of all individual ready have used up--or even exceeded­ human rights. The quality of life always de­ their quotas. Mr. Walker predicts a crunch, teriorates under communism: the militariza­ STEEL IMPORT QUOTAS: TRY beginning in late summer when the next tion of society; the destruction of the con­ NOW, PAY LATER quota year approaches. Supplies will dry up sumer economy; the rationing of food; the and there'll be intense pressure from im­ deterioration of housing and insufficient HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. porters to relax the restraints, he says, new construction to meet population OF OHIO adding. "It's going to have a real impact in growth; the marketplace." the destruction of medical care IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES through lack of medicine and medical sup­ Robert Crandall, a Brookings Institution plies; the destruction of religion; the de­ Wednesday, June 19, 1985 steel analyst, points out that such shortages struction and political control of education e Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, frequently spawn schemes to circumvent and culture; the rewriting of history and de­ the import limits-often at the expense of struction of monuments to the national her­ many arguments have been heard other domestic industries. If a Nissan plant itage; and the assault on family life and pa­ from both sides of the issue concern­ in California can't buy enough foreign steel rental jurisdiction over children. ing the President's program last year to stamp out doors for its cars, it can in­ Soviet-style communism invariably means to provide import relief to the U.S. stead buy already-stamped doors from the export of terrorism, violence, and revo­ steel industry. This industry continues abroad and not be affected by the steel lution. Soviet proxy states participate in an to suffer through difficult times while quotas. As a result, steel fabricators all over efficient division of labor: Cubans as troops, recognizing limited improvement as a the U.S. may soon begin to feel the heat, Bulgarians and Vietnamese as arms suppli­ result of the President's program. Mr. Crandall says. "None of these things ers, East Germans as secret-police trainers An article appeared in the June 17, works well for very long," he adds. "There and military advisers. Since the Soviet prox­ was a lot of cheating that went on to get ies are present on our continent today, it is Wall Street Journal which discusses around the old trigger-price mechanism no accident that the communist Sandinista the President's relief efforts and the import limitations in the late 1970s. It's no regime is an active collaborator in this divi­ overall prognosis of the U.S. industry wonder that Caterpillar lob­ sion of labor. for the future as a international com­ bied against the current quotas." The Sandinistas are communists. Nicara­ petitor. I submit this article for the Indeed, some analysts believe the new lim­ guan President Daniel Ortega has said: RECORD. itations are so detailed they may create "Marxism-Leninism is the scientific doctrine [From the Washington Post, June 17, 19851 their own problems very soon. Steel experts that guides our revolution . . . [Without contend that a special limitation on import­ Sandinismo we cannot be Marxist-Leninist, STD:L IMPORT QUOTAS: TRY Now, PAY LATD ing silicon steel armatures already has dis­ and Sandinismo without Marxism-Leninism torted the market here and eventually may cannot be revolutionary." The identical pat­ WASBilfGTON.-When President Reagan force domestic producers to go offshore. tern of communist takeover methods, inter­ announced his new import relief program And there are indications that some Ameri­ nal policies, and external behavior is repeat­ for the steel industry just before last No­ can steelmakers already are pondering a re­ ing itself in Nicaragua. There can be no vember's election the details were so murky quest to relax restrictions on countries from doubt, given the vast evidence we have accu­ that analysis weren't sure whether it would which they themselves want to import. mulated, that Nicaragua is becoming an­ prove protectionist or merely a ploy. Much Nor is the skirmishing over. The U.S. is other Cuba. depended on how tough the administration preparing for another confrontation with Communist regimes, including the Nicara­ planned to be in seeking export-limitation European steel producers in July that could guan regime, spend vast resources on disin­ agreements from other steel-producing well jeopardize a broader U.S.-Common formation-to deceive the international countries. One outside analyst predicted Market steel pact. If that collapses, the news media and foreign political decision­ then that if the president really were to entire array of export-limitation pacts that makers. A principal goal is to disseminate reach his goal of llmiting overall imports to the U.S. has negotiated could come crashing 16438 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 down. And there may be trouble ahead with fund sites range from 2,000 to 10,000. To Other key issues must be resolved. EPA Canadian producers. Although the adminis­ make matters worse, data about what types now has authority to prescribe cleanups tration hasn't been able to show that the and quantities of waste were dumped at case-by-case, considering factors like the Canadians are subsidizing their steel indus­ these sites are sketchy, and cleanup meth­ extent of damage, the threat to the commu­ try heavily, President Reagan personally ods will require much analysis. nity, available cleanup methods, and cost. told American steelmakers late last month The Adminstration contends that its sug­ Frustrated by the scope of the problem and he thought imports from Canada still "are gested funding level is all that EPA can ef­ the cleanup pace, support is growing for well above traditional levels"-a reference fectively manage over five years. Supporters Congress to set mandatory cleanup stand­ that both U.S. and Canadian producers took of higher funding argue that the severity of ards and schedules. Congress must also con­ as a warning that Washington might push the problem demands greater resources to sider: compensation for victims of toxic ex­ its steel fight northward. support aggressive cleanup efforts, research posure; state and municipal financial re­ Industry analysts are split over what to do on safe, cost-effective disposal technology, sponsibility; and appropriate cleanup liabil­ to help the U.S. industry. Many believe the studies on the health risks of chemicals, and ity standards. government could serve American steel com­ investigations to find leaking dumps before Industry efforts to reduce the use of toxic panies best over the long run simply by re­ they become Superfund sites. My feeling is chemicals are promising. Safety records are moving all quotas and forcing the industry that, even with the budget constraints, we impressive, but improvements can be made. to pare costs further and modernize its cannot afford not to clean up. If we delay Plants must be built and maintained with plant and equipment. Portions of the indus­ we only increase costs. We could, as the safety. Both inspections and training pro­ try already are prospering. The mini-mills saving goes, "save ourselves broke." So I will grams to educate workers on safety proce­ that have bought new equipment and dis­ support a strengthened Superfund program. dures must be rigorous. Transportation con­ carded restrictive work rules are competing How to finance Superfund is another key tainers must be strong enough to avoid nicely. Many of the older "integrated" mills issue. Getting firms to pay for cleaning up breaks and leaks. An intensive national are largely outmoded, and few in the indus­ waste they have dumped is difficult. So far, effort to gather data, set responsibilities try have the money-or the will-to update only $6.1 million has been recovered from and pursue aggressive cleanups is urgently them. For these mills, the quota are little responsible parties. Superfund is now fi­ needed. The only way to ensure permanent more than a placebo, outside analysts say. nanced by a tax on petroleum and chemical protection from hazardous wastes is to not "The quotas may help reduce the pressure feedstocks (87.5%) and with general reve­ generate them at all. At present, that goal is somewhat, but if the economy turns down, nues <12.5%>. This tax was chosen because beyond our reach. As the number of waste they'll be filing Chapter 11 bankruptcies these feedstocks are toxic or become toxic sites grows, and the potential health and en­ anyway," says Harald B. Malmgren, a Wash­ during manufacturing. The petroleum and vironmental risks increase, cleanup efforts ington-based trade consultant. chemical industries say that expanding this will be slow, expensive, and tough to com­ Whatever the final fate of major steel tax is unfair because it inhibits their com­ plete. But the effort must be made.e producers, it's becoming apparent that pro­ petitiveness and does not penalize other tection-to whatever extent it works-is a toxic-producing industries. These concerns, messy business that is fraught with pitfalls which make sense to me, have prompted MORE REASONS TO PROVIDE for the industry and the government as consideration of alternate funding plans. CHILD CARE wen .• The Senate plan keeps the feedstock tax, but adds an excise tax <.08%> on all manu­ facturers with annual receipts over $5 mil­ HON. SALA BURTON THE SUPERFUND lion. There are several benefits to this ap­ OF CALIFORNIA proach. It requires no general revenues, and HON. LEE H. HAMILTON the tax would be suspended when sufficient IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF INDIANA revenues had been raised. The tax is small Wednesday, June 19, 1985 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and spread among many firms, so ample rev­ enue can be raised easily without overbur­ e Mrs. BURTON of California. Mr. Wednesday, June 19, 1985, dening any industry. Critics of this excise Speaker, from time to time I have e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I tax, including the Administration, believe been sharing with our colleagues arti­ would like to insert my Washington the tax is so small and so easily passed to cles and surveys on the state of this consumers that it gives firms little incentive Nation's ability to provide decent and Report for Wednesday, June 19, 1985 to stop generating toxics. Also, the tax into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: affordable child care. I would like to would require a complicated reporting and submit a recent article by Sylvia THE SUPERFUND collection procedure at a time when tax sim­ Improper disposal of hazardous wastes is plification is an important goal. Porter whose point should be very America's chief environmental problem. Other funding plans would keep the feed­ clear to those of us seeking the prover­ Many Hoosiers have experienced first-hand stock tax and general revenue contribution, bial "bottom line." In this case, the the frustrations of trying to rid their com­ and add a waste-end tax. A carefully struc­ message is "While day care is expen­ munities of toxics. Five years after launch­ tured waste-end tax, imposed when waste is sive, it makes good business sense to ing the Superfund program, we have found delivered to a disposal facility, meets several provide it because employers actually that stopping toxic contamination is far goals. It makes waste producers share the save more than they spend." I highly more difficult, costly and time-consuming cleanup burden, and it is easier to adminis­ recommend the following article: than expected. While there is broad support ter than a broad excise tax. It also gives to renew Superfund before it expires this firms important economic incentives to WHY CHILD-CARE BENEFITS MAKE Goon year, several key issues remain. lower waste production and reduce their re­ BUSINESS SENSE EPA cleanup efforts have been disappoint­ liance on land dumping. Land dumping is As an employer, would you like to see a ing. After spending more than $1 billion to the cheapest and most common form of major increase in productivity among your clean up mountains of waste, the nation can waste disposal, but it can contaminate employees as well as a decline in absentee­ point to little progress and a nearly depleted ground water and might lead to higher ism and a shrinkage in turnover of your Superfund. Some 800 of the worst sites have future cleanup costs. Other disposal strate­ workforce? been proposed for EPA's national priority gies-recycling, chemical neutralization, in­ Sure? Then provide some form of child­ list, but only 15 have been fully restored. cineration-have greater potential for safe care assistance in the benefit package you With an astounding 270 million tons of poi­ disposal of waste, but they are also more ex­ put together to attract the most qualified sonous waste produced each year, the dan­ pensive. By raising the cost of land dump­ employees and to remain competitive with gers continue to grow. The Superfund is ing, the waste-end tax can make other dis­ other businesses in your field. There is doing far less than a super job of cleanup. posal techniques more competitive. simply no disputing that this is a clear, un­ Everyone agrees that the Superfund must A waste-end tax has disadvantages. Most mistakable lesson to be learned from the en­ be expanded well beyond the initial five estimates show that this tax will raise less lightened employers who are now providing year funding level of $1.6 billion, but one than $300 million a year. Too heavy a tax this benefit. issue is how much more money is needed. would unfairly burden current waste dispos­ Day care has long since passed out of the The Administration wants to spend $5.3 bil­ ers and might encourage illegal dumping. experimental stage. In fact, an estimated lion over five years, two Senate Committees Also, if the waste-end tax works as planned, 2,800 companies to 3,400 companies with propose $7 .5 billion, and others in Congress the revenue generated would decline as more than 100 employees already sponsor favor $10 billion. Setting a figure is hard be­ firms modify their waste production. My some form of child-care program-ranging cause the extent of the problem is unclear. guess is that the Congress will finally decide from on-site day-care facilities to informa­ Studies of the eventual number of Super- on some combination of these tax measures. tion and referral services. June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16439 "The companies that invest the most in ANDREI SAKHAROV-THE MAN and a 24-hour-a-day bodyguard. In 1953, at child-care programs derive the greatest ben­ AND HIS THOUGHT the age of 32, he was elected to full member­ efits in reduced turnover and absenteeism, ship in the Soviet Academy of Sciences. and boosted employee morale," says Sandra Although well placed in the Soviet estab­ Burud, a consultant and author of "Employ­ HON. JACK F. KEMP lishment, Sakharov was not a Communist er-Supported Child Care: Investing in OF NEW YORK Party member and thus was not bound by Human Resources"

. 16440 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 his academician's status, Sakharov sat in a periods of crisis, such a system engenders cords "there has been no real improvement" courtroom packed with KGB trainees, while rule by terror, in quieter periods, the domi­ in the Soviet Union regarding these rights the friends of the defendants were forced to nance of a bungling bureaucracy and the and freedoms. "In fact," he asserts, "there remain in a hallway throughout the pro­ permanent militarization of the economy. have been attempts on the part of Soviet ceedings. Subsequently, Sakharov, too, was Genuine d~tente, he repeats, is inextricably hardliners to 'give the screw another tum,' " denied entrance to the courtroom. And at bound to human freedoms. and he describes the inhuman conditions for the 1971 trial of astrophysicist Kronid Lu­ In the wake of "My Country and the the many "prisoners of conscience" in the barsky on identical charges, the practice of World" came the announcement that Sak­ USSR who shiver from cold, damp and ex­ barring the defendants' friends from the harov had been awarded the 1975 Nobel haustion in ill-lit dungeons, where they are courtroom went even farther. ''When the Peace Prize. As a year before, the Soviet forced to wage a ceaseless struggle for their session began," wroter Sakharov, "the 'un­ media rushed to attack him. Again a group human dignity and to maintain their convic­ known persons in civilian clothes' used force of Soviet academicians-this time seventy­ tions against the "indoctrination machine,'' to push us out of the vestibule of the court two of them-issued a statement of condem­ in fact against the destruction of their into the street. Then a big padlock was nation: "Soviet scientists believe that the souls. Worst of all is the hell that exists in hung on the door leading into the people's award of the Nobel Prize to Academician the special psychiatric clinics in Dneprope­ court." As appalled as Sakharov was by the Sakharov is unworthy and provocative and trovsk, Sytchevka, Blagoveshchensk, Kazan, disregard for even a semblance of "open a blasphemy against the noble ideas-dear Chernyakhovsk, Orel, Leningrad, Tash­ court" hearings, he was stunned all the to us all-of humanism, peace, justice and kent ... more by the harsh sentences meted out to friendship among the peoples of all coun­ He mentions by name over a hundred pris­ the defendants: five years of exile each for tries." Sakharov's visa application to travel oners whom he knows personally and says Pi,menov and Vail, five years of imprison­ to Oslo for the award ceremonies was that they, with all those unknown to him, ment for Lubarsky. turned down, as explained by an official, share with him "the honor of the Nobel The impact of dissident trials became in­ "for reasons of security, because A. Sak­ Prize.'' creasingly evident in Sakharov's writings. In harov is the possessor of exceptionally im­ his "Memorandum," dated March 1971, he portant state and military secrets.'' This For Sakharov and other Soviet dissident.&, places a much stronger emphasis on human denial provoked an uproar in the West and the year 1976 marked the beginning of what rights declaring that "the basic aim of the drew official protests from, among others, could be called the "Helsinki period." All state is the protection and safe-guarding of the French and SWedish Communist Par­ signatories to the Helsinki Accords formally the basic rights of its citizens. The defense ties, the EEC, the European Parliament, 180 acknowledged that human right.& were a of human rights is the loftiest of all aims." Christian Democratic deputes to the Italian matter of international concern and protec­ He appealed to the Supreme Soviet, first in Parliament, and thirty-seven U.S. Senators. tion, and it was in this context that human September 1971, for free emigration from At home, thirty-seven dissident intellectuals rights activists in the USSR formed the Hel­ the USSR and unobstructed return, and gave foreign newsmen a statement con­ sinki Watch Groups Cthe first was estab­ then in April 1972 for amnesty for political gratulating Sakharov and criticizing the lished in Moscow in May 1976) to monitor prisoners and the abolition of capital pun­ government's refusal to let him go abroad to Soviet compliance with the human rights ishment. In the "Postscript to the Memo­ accept the award. provisions of the Accords. Sakharov himself randum" of June 1972, Sakharov repeated Sakharov's Nobel lecture delivered by his did not join, although his wife did, but he his call for a halt to all political persecution wife Elena Bonner, who was undergoing eye strongly encouraged and supported the for­ in yet stronger terms. treatment in Italy at the time and went to mation of the groups. He also expressed sol­ The most essential condition for the cure Oslo in his stead. Entitled "Peace, Progress idarity with Charter 77 in C7.echoslovakia of our society is the abandonment of politi­ and Human Right," the lecture stresses that and the Workers' Defense Committee in cal persecution in its judicial and psychiat­ these three themes are "indissolubly Poland, both of which sprang up in the ric forms or in any other form of which our linked" and that "it is impossible to achieve wake of Helsinki. bureaucratic and bigoted system, with its to­ one of them if the others are ignored." As in The wave of arrests of Soviet Helsinki talitarian interference by the state ·in the his previous writings, Sakharov says that monitors began in February 1977, and with lives of the citizens, is capable, such as dis­ international cooperation is vital to peace, it came a string of appeals from Sakharov missal from work, expulsion from college, but that it can only work if "based on on their behalf. His "Appeal to the Parlia­ refusal of residence permits, limitation of mutual trust between open societies" and ments of All Helsinki Signatory States" promotion at work, etc. emphasizes anew that "international confi­ sums up Sakharov's views on the Helsinki Since the days of Stalin, he contends, "the dence, mutual understanding, disarmament process: that the historical significance of basic class, social and ideological features of and international security are inconceivable the Helsinki Final Act "was the proclama­ the regime did not undergo essential without an open society with freedom of in­ tion of an inseparable bond between inter­ change" despite "a period of largely illusory formation, freedom of conscience, the right national security and an open society-that liberalism" that followed Stalin's death. to publish, to travel and to choose the coun- is, freedom of conscience.'' He then asks: "Is "Restrictions on ideological freedom, efforts · try in which one wishes to reside." He un­ the West prepared to defend these noble to suppress information not controlled by derlines the decisive significance of civil and and vitally important principles? Or will it the state, fresh persecution for political and political right.a in molc:lin,g the destiny of gradually, in silence, acquiesce in the inter­ ideological reasons, and a deliberate aggra­ mankind. Reaffirming his belief in the pretation of the principles of Helsinki, and vation of nationalities problems" continue virtue of scientific and technological of d~tente as a whole, that the leaders of to be the order of the day. progress, Sakharov wa.rna that "any attempt the Soviet Union and of Eastern Europe are In July 1975 Sakharov finished his essay, to reduce the tempo of scientific and techni­ trying to impose?" The West, Sakharov "My Country and the World," timing its ap­ cal progress, to reverse the process of urban­ says, should have foreseen a confrontation pearance for the August opening of the Hel­ ization, to call for isolationism, patriarchal with the Soviet bloc on Helsinki's humani­ sinki Conference on Security and Coopera­ ways of life, and a renaissance based on an­ tarian provisions. Meaningful discussion tion in Europe. The issues raised in the cient national traditions, would lead to the had always been cut off on the pretext of essay bear directly on the subject matter of decline and fall of our civilization.'' But non-interference in the internal affairs of the conference: human and political rights, progress is possible and beneficial only sovereign nations-a posture which, Sak­ free emigration, disarmament and security. when conducted openly, subject to the con­ harov point.a o~t. contradicts the United Na­ Unlike "Progress, Coexistence and Intellec­ trol of reason and to an uninhibited public tions Charter, the Covenant on Civil and tual Freedom," "My County and the World" debate. Unfortunately, he notes, these con­ Political Rights, the Universal Declaration is addressed primarily to the West. Sak­ ditions are in short supply in socialist coun­ on Human Right.a, and the Helsinki Accord harov dwells at length on the negative as­ tries, leaving ample room for the abuse of The arrest.a and trials of Soviet Helsinki pects of Soviet society, hoping that his anal­ technological capabilities. For this reason, monitors, he contends, "are not simply rou­ ysis will help the West understand the real he cautions, if internal democratic reforms tine violations of the right of freedom of situation in the Soviet Union, since it so do not take place in Communist countries, conscience, but a defiant act by the Soviet strongly influences the international rela­ the danger of military confrontation and authorities-a test of the West's resolve to tions of the USSR. Large-scale Soviet mili­ nuclear disaster in the world will increase. insist on the fulfillment of the principles of tary expenditures and huge sums spent for While praising the Final Act of the Hel­ Helsinki." He warns that "to ignore this overt and covert operations around the sinki Conference because it "contains far­ challenge would be a faint-hearted capitula­ globe are made possible, he explains, by the reaching declarations of the relationship be­ tion to "blackmail" and "would probably monopoly of power in the USSR, by policy tween international security and preserva­ have further negative consequences in all decision-making behind closed doors, by the tion of human rights, freedom of informa­ aspects of East-West relations without ex­ absence of democratic processes and free­ tion, and freedom of movement," Sakharov ception, including the fundamental issues of doms, and by the low standard of living. In remarks that since the signing of the ac- international security." June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16441 Sakharov's conflict with the authorities tist Andrei Sakharov is indeed a humanist nately this too frequently is not the came to a head in the wake of the Soviet in­ in the best sense of that word. case. I have been extremely concerned vasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. On January 2, 1980, he made a statement con­ to hear that children are leaving the demning Soviet actions and calling for the IMPROVING THE LIVES OF foster care system only to become a pull-out of Soviet troops. On January 22, FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTED part of the growing number of home­ 1980, he was arrested on the street, notified CHILDREN less youth wandering around our of a decree passed by the Presidium of the major cities. Supreme Soviet twelve days earlier that HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) ST ARK In one study of emergency shelter stripped him of his awards, and told that he users in New York City, 50 percent of was being banished to Gorky, located some OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the youth seeking shelter had been in 250 miles east of Moscow and closed to for­ foster care. Without the education, job eigners. That same day he and his wife were Wednesday, June 19, 1985 put on a special flight to that city, and upon training and other supports necessary their arrival, the local deputy procurator in­ •Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, on behalf to help them live independently, they formed Sakharov that he would be under of Congressman FoRD of Tennessee, are likely to move from one public pro­ constant surveillance and restricted to the Congressman MATSUI, Congresswoman gram to another. We must invest in city limits, prohibited from meeting foreign­ KENNELLY and myself, I am today in­ them today or see them in the adult ers and "criminal elements," and even troducing the "Foster Care, Adoption mental health or criminal justice sys­ denied the right to correspond or have tele­ Assistance, and Child Welfare Amend­ tems. In California alone, 33 percent phone conversations of any kind with for­ ments of 1985." eigners or with his stepchildren now living of children at the California Youth in the United States. Recognizing the need to address the Authority have been in foster care Sakharov's banishment to Gorky early in problems of foster children, 5 years while 69 percent of the inmates in the 1980 and the almost total isolation imposed ago this week, the Congress, with prison system were foster children. on him there have made it virtually impossi­ strong bipartisan support, passed the Our bill seeks to prepare foster chil­ ble for him to communicate his thoughts, Adoption Assistance and Child Wel­ dren for independent living in two views or ideas to anyone on the outside. The fare Act of 1980. I am happy to report situation is further aggravated by the fact that the 1980 act, which I helped ways. First, it attempts to ensure that that Sakharov's wife, Elena Bonner, who write, has significantly improved the foster children have at least a high until recently had been his only link with lives of the millions of children in school diploma before leaving foster the outside world, at the time of this writing foster care. No longer are these chil­ care by requiring that States provide is sharing a similar fate. Thus, for all in­ dren lost in the limbo of foster care. foster care maintenance payments to tents and purposes, Sakharov's exile to Instead, the Adoption Assistance foster care children to the age of 21 if Gorky and the ever-growing pressures to they are full-time high school students which he is being subjected there have ef­ and Child Welfare Act, known as fectively interrupted, at least for the Public Law 96-272, has increased the or in an equivalent training program. present, the powerful flow of his social, po­ likelihood that children who enter Under present Aid to Families with litical and economic thought. One cannot foster care will receive individualized Dependent Children CAFDCl law, say whether hope exists that at any time in plans to ensure that they are provided which also applies to federally funded the future he might be allowed to pick up with the necessary care and services; foster care, children can remain in again where he left off-or whether he foster care only until age 18 or 19 at would ever be in any physical or mental con­ its goal is to move the children toward a return to their families or adoption. the option of the State. Yet foster dition to do so. children on average are 2 years behind Although neither a politician nor an ideo­ Services are also provided to help logue in the conventional sense, and certain­ some children stay at home, or be in school. ly not an organizer, Sakharov has managed quickly reunited with their families. What this means is that thousands­ to acquire a moral authority that has en­ Incentives to adopt handicapped and in 1982 approximately 16,000 adoles­ abled him to withstand the assaults of the other special needs children were also cents age 17 and 18 faced discharge all-powerful state and that has won him and authorized for the first time under from substitute care-of foster chil­ his cause world-wide recognition and admi­ this act. dren must leave the foster care system ration. Among his fellow dissidents in the without an adequate education. As we Soviet Union and in exile-even those who The Department of Health and may not necessarily subscribe to his views­ Human Services reported to us a year all know, without a high school diplo­ Sakharov has emerged as a unifying and ago that the number of children in ma we are condemning these children highly respected figure. His impact on West­ foster care has been reduced to under to at best low-paying Jobs or worse, ern public opinion has been dramatic; indi­ 300,000, that the duration of place­ the world of crime. It seems to me viduals, groups, public and government lead­ ment in foster care was decreased that it makes more sense to allow ers have spoken forcefully on his behalf. from almost 4 years to 3, that there these children to remain in foster care Known primarily as a champion of human until they have a diploma. rights and a man of integrity and courage, had been a 50-percent decline in the Sakharov is no less important as a thinker. number available for adoption, and Having accepted the responsibility His ideas and beliefs have rekindled the that close to 5,000 children a month for the custody of abused, abandoned, Russian pre-revolutionary liberal tradition. were benefiting from the Federal neglected and handicapped children Like a liberal member of the pre-revolution­ adoption assistance program. we cannot simply send them into the ary Russian intelligentsia, Sakharov advo­ Yet significant gaps still remain in world because they have aged out of cates a free and democratic society and the system. After holding hearings in the system. To better prepare these manifests an emotional and intellectual af­ California and Connecticut last year, children for independent living, the finity with the West. Although not uncriti­ bill also requires that as of October l, cal of Western society, he views it as the Members of the Subcommittee on best model for true democracy and believes Public Assistance and Unemployment 1987, States must establish transition­ in the ultimate triumph of democratic ideas Compensation, of which I am ranking al independent living programs for and institutions around the globe. member, determined that the law did children who have attained age 16. Sakharov is not a brilliant stylist. His not, one, adequately assist older foster Each child will have an individualized prose is often dry and cumbersome. In children in making the transition to plan, based on the needs of the child, terms of literary merit, he cannot be com­ independent living, two, provide for to help the child prepare to live an in­ pared to Solzhenitsyn or others of that cali­ the training of foster parents or insti­ dependent life. The independent living ber. Nevertheless, his writing is forceful and plan may include training in daily convincing because of its integrity and tutional workers, and three, provide candor. He takes pains to be specific in his enough incentives to increase the living skills, budgeting, the location facts. He is not afraid to show the evolution adoption of special needs children. and maintenance of housing, and of his views. He readily admits his mistakes. A major goal of this legislation is to career planning, and may also include He is compassionate and warm. He loves and ensure that foster children ultimately appropriate academic and vocational respects his fellow human beings. The scien- become productive citizens. Unfortu- counseling. 16442 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 The 1985 amendments, which we are the impossible. As a result, the propos­ SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS, FOSTER CARE/ proposing today, also are designed to al includes a requirement that the ADOPTION ASSISTANCE LEGISLATION help facilitate the adoption of handi­ States provide, as a condition of licens­ TITLE I-PROVISIONS RELATED TO OLDER FOSTER capped children and others with spe­ ing, training and retraining for indi­ CHILDREN cial needs who are often in need of ex­ viduals maintaining or preparing to Section 101-Eligibility of older children for tensive medical care. The 1980 act maintain a foster family home and for foster care made a significant step forward when members of the staffs of child-care in­ Mandates that States provide foster care it extended Medicaid to children re­ stitutions. maintenance payments to foster care chil­ ceiving federally reimbursed adoption dren to the age of 21 if they are full time assistance payments. Prior to that Our legislation also extends two pro­ high school students or in an equivalent time foster children often lost their visions of the Adoption Assistance and training program. Medicaid eligibility when they became Child Welfare Act scheduled to expire Section 102-Transitional independent adopted, even if they remained with this year. We are recommending per­ living programs for older foster children the same family. Yet families could manently extending Federal funding Provides that each state may establish in- not cover the children under their pri­ for voluntarily placed children. We dividualized independent living plans for vate health insurance plans because have deliberately left in place the pro­ foster children, age 16 and over, where it is the children's handicaps were consid­ tections included in the act originally appropriate, with the objective of helping ered preexisting disabilities which to prevent abuses of such placements. these children prepare to live an independ­ ent life. made them ineligible for coverage. This proposal also recommends ex­ Adoptive parents also find it diffi­ tending the provision in Public Law TITLE II-ADOPTION PROGRAM IMPROVEMENTS cult to continue Medicaid coverage for 96-272 which provides that a cap will Section 201-Medicaid coverage for all their adopted special needs children adopted children with special needs, and be imposed on out-of-home care costs for children prior to the finalization of when they move to another State. I only if States have had the opportuni­ have heard tragic cases of children adoption ty to establish alternative services to Requires medicaid eligibility for all special being denied medical care because foster care. I have heard repeatedly their Medicaid card was from another needs children who are adopted regardless State. Needless to say, the absence or from across the country that the abili­ of whether adoption assistance payments ty of child welfare agencies to develop are being made. Specifies that adoption as­ difficulty in obtaining Medicaid for sistance children are eligible for medicaid these special needs children has pre­ preventive and reunification service programs as alternatives to foster care from the state where they reside, regardless vented too many of them from know­ of whether that is the state which was party ing the stability only an adoption can have been limited by reductions in the to the adoption assistance agreement. provide. title IV B Child Welfare Services Pro­ Requires medicaid coverage for children To solve these problems, our bill will gram, Title XX Social Services Block deemed eligible for adoption assistance establish eligibility for Medicaid in the Grant, and State programs as well. prior to the finalization of adoption. State where the adopted child resides. When we enacted the Adoption As­ Section 202-Post-adoptive services It will also require Medicaid eligibility sistance and Child Welfare Act in Requires states to provide post-adoptive for all special needs children who are 1980, for example, we anticipated that counseling services if the adopting parents adopted regardless of whether adop­ States would have received 30 percent so request, to children with adoption assist­ tion assistance payments are being more funding under the title IV B pro­ ance agreements, with the objective of as­ made. This will mean that the Federal gram than they have in fact received, suring the success of the adoption. Government will no longer need to and we did not count on the fact that TITLE III-TRAINING REQUIREMENTS make a token $1 adoption subsidy pay­ title XX funding would still be at a Section 301-Training for foster parents and ment to ensure that the child receives level below that at which it was sta.tf members in child care institutions Medicaid. It also means that there will funded in 1981. I am troubled by pro­ Requires states to provide, as a condition be an incentive to adopt all State and of licensing, training and retraining for indi­ Federal foster care special needs chil­ posals that close the door on foster viduals maintaining or preparing to main­ dren. The proposal also provides Med­ care without first making sure that ap­ tain a foster family home and for members icaid coverage for children deemed eli­ propriate alternative services are in of the staffs of child-care institutions. The gible for adoption assistance prior to place. With this in mind, we are rec­ training and retraining shall be offered on a the finalization of adoption. ommending a 3-year extension of the periodic basis no less often than every six provision to allow States to transfer months in readily accessible places. Re­ Another serious problem we have quires reimbursement for child care services heard about is the growing number of title IV E funds not needed for foster for foster parents while in training. care to title IV B child welfare serv­ failed adoptions. Because the children TITLE IV-EXTENSION OF VOLUNTARY PLACE­ in foster care have often been phys­ ices. MENT AND TRANSFER OF FUNDS PROVISIONS ically, mentally and emotionally Last, we included several biennial re­ Section 401-Permanent extension of federal abused, they frequently have difficul­ porting requirements whereby the De­ funding for voluntarily placed foster care ty in adjusting to being adopted. To partment of Health and Human Serv­ children help ensure that the adoption is suc­ ices will keep Congress advised on the Authorizes states to claim Federal funds cessful, this legislation requires States progress being made on behalf of for eligible children who are placed in foster to provide post-adoptive counseling foster care and adopted children. Ad­ care under a voluntary placement agree­ services if the adopting parents so re­ vances have been made over the last 5 ment. quest. years in establishing laws, policies, and Section 402-Three year extension of foster The bill also offers help for the first procedures to protect children, but the care ceiling and of authority to transfer time to the unsung heroes in the foster care funds for child welfare services foster care system, namely foster par­ bottom line for children is results. And to assess results we need data. One of Extends for three years the provision to ents. These dedicated people frequent­ allow states to transfer Title IV E funds not ly are asked to care for troubled chil­ the most frustrating parts of putting needed for foster care to Title IV B child dren with every special needs without this legislation together has been the welfare services. the training or adequate supports nec­ difficulty in obtaining information TITLE V-ADMINISTRATIVE AND ELIGIBILITY essary to provide the care they need. about these children. The data we PROVISIONS Any one who is a parent knows how seek for the most part is already in the Section 501-Periodic redetermination of tough it is to raise a normal child. To States information systems. eligibility of children in foster care ask foster parents, without proper At this point I would like to include Permits states to redetermine a child's eli­ training, to successfully raise children a summary of the provisions. gibility for foster care maintenance pay­ with so many problems is truly to ask ments when there is a change in this child's June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16443 circumstances, rather than every six and not by their ethnic origin. Mr. reaches age 75 varies from less than 15 months. Trudeau, through the medium of his percent to well over 60 percent de­ Section 502-Biennial Reporting comic strip, has implied that we pending on her place of residence. Requirement should once again measure a person by Clearly, there is unnecessary surgery Directs the Secretary of Health and the ethnic group of which he or she is performed in the United States. To Human Services to conduct, on a biennial a member. This comic strip series basis, a study of the programs of foster care reduce it, and to reduce the risks asso­ and adoption assistance operated by the helps to perpetuate the gangster ciated with unneeded surgery-this states. stereotype which Italian Americans bill will require Medicare and Medic­ have had to fight for years. Mr. Speaker, we must invest in our aid beneficiaries to obtain a second I believe that we should continue op1mon before undergoing certain children. They are our future. Social with our goal of achieving racial equal­ scientists have long theorized that if, elective surgical procedures, such as ity. It seems clear to me, that Mr. Tru­ coronary bypass, pacemaker implants, for one generation of children, we deau has given up on his fervor to could break the cycle of abuse and ne­ cataracts, gall bladders, prostate sur­ point out places where discrimination gery, knee surgery, hysterectomy, glect and substitute a nurturing envi­ still exists. In one of his earlier strips, ronment, we would be well on our way Michael Doonesbury had this conver­ back surgery, hernia repair, and hem­ toward solving some of the world's big­ sation with another character, Mark: orrhoidectomy. gest problems. We have this opportu­ Whatcha staring at Mike? The bill does not require the second nity for at least the 300,000 children in The black table. Why do they always sit opinion to confirm the first in order foster caree by themselves? for the beneficiary or provider to re­ Because they want to, Mark answers. ceive reimbursement. It only requires I don't think so Mark. I think it's because the beneficiary to get the second opin­ CARTOONIST TRUDEAU INSULTS no one's made any effort! Until now, that is. ITALIAN AMERICANS ion. In certain cases, such as a situa­ Mr. Trudeau, we miss your enthusi­ tion where a delay in providing the asm for equal rights. Why have you surgical procedure would be a risk to HON. GENE CHAPPIE chosen to be a turncoat and now evoke the patient, beneficiaries will be eligi­ OF CALIFORNIA discrimination based on ethnic back­ ble for waivers relieving them from IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ground? the requirement of obtaining a second Wednesday, June 19, 1985 To Mr. Trudeau I would offer the opinion. The idea is that informed pa­ e Mr. CHAPPIE. Mr. Speaker, I come following advice: In the future you tients will be better prepared to avoid before the House today to speak of a may wish to pick on those less capable surgery that is not only unnecessary very dangerous and grave action taken of defending themselves-say for in­ and costly, but also associated with by cartoonist Gary Trudeau. I am, of stance those of French-Canadian de­ high health risks. course, referring to his recent comic scent.• The Medicare beneficiary who is ad­ strip in which Frank Sinatra was his vised to undergo one of the listed sur­ subject. MEDICARE AND MEDICAID geries will be advised by his or her I have nothing against Mr. Trudeau, SECOND OPINION ACT OF 1985 physician of the need for a second in fact, I had not heard of the man opinion. The patient is then free to except through reference to "that car­ HON. BARBARA B. KENNELLY choose any physician in an appropri­ toonist who is the husband of Jane OF CONNECTICUT ate specialty to provide the second Pauley." As far as I knew, his name IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES opinion. However, a second opinion was Gary Pauley. I had heard that may not be provided by a physician sometimes the comic strip Doones­ Wednesday, June 19, 1985 who is affiliated with the physician bury, which I later found out Mr. Tru­ e Mrs. KENNELLY. Mr. Speaker, I who rendered the first opinion that deau wrote, insulted many people. I am introducing today the Medicare the procedure was necessary. never considered this to be much of a and Medicaid Second Opinion Act of Medicare will pay 10 percent of the problem until recently. This time, 1985. This bill serves two important however, he had gone too far by in­ purposes. First, it will save money for reasonable cost of the second opinion sulting one of America's great ethnic Medicare, as the inspector general of and 100 percent of the reasonable cost groups. the Department of Health and Human of a third opinion, if the patient Although Mr. Sinatra has always Services indicated when he endorsed should desire a third opinion to re­ been one of my favorite singers, I am the bill. Second and more important, solve conflicting first and second opin­ not concerned with the blatant at­ this bill, by requiring a second surgical ions. If necessary, peer review organi­ tempt to hurt his reputation. Mr. opinion, should help consumers of zations will be able to refer benefici­ Speaker, as I am sure you are well health care make informed decisions aries to an appropriate specialist who aware, the real danger lies in having and could potentially reduce unneces­ will accept Medicare's charge as pay­ insulted those of Italian heritage. As sary surgery for our Nation's senior ment in full for providing a second Mr. Trudeau went to great lengths to citizens. opinion. The referral center will then point out, by using a picture taken of For many common medical condi­ obtain the relevant medical records Mr. Sinatra with alleged Italian Mafia tions, there is no consensus among from the first physician and provide members, the wrath of an angry Ital­ health practitioners as to which treat­ the necessary information to the ian can be severe. I happen to know ment is either appropriate or neces­ second physician in a form that does this from personal experience because, sary. Elective surgery can be recom­ not identify the first physician. as my surname implies, I, too, am of mended for a variety of good reasons­ In order to be approved for partici­ that bloodline. Mr. Speaker, my fear scientific consensus or the relative pation in Medicaid, State plans must arises out of the danger to this coun­ risks and benefits of treatment-or include requirements that second try and to Mr. Trudeau should this bad ones-an individual physician's id­ opinions be obtained before payment comic strip boil the already hot blood iosyncrasies, insecurity, or inexperi­ will be made under Medicaid. In gener­ of the many Italians who are citizens ence; professional or patient conven­ al, the Medicaid second opinion pro­ of this great Nation. ience; or the perceived need to practice gram will operate much like the Medi­ The United States has turned the defensive medicine. As a result, medi­ care second opinion program. No re­ corner on putting an end to discrimi­ cal services for a given condition vary quirement for a copayment or any natory practices based on race. We widely from place to place. For exam­ other form of cost sharing shall apply have finally begun to demonstrate our ple, the probability that a woman will in the case of obtaining a second or desire to judge people by their actions undergo a hysterectomy before she third opinion. 16444 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 Use of mandatory second surgical I congratulate the Festina communi­ Today this historic chapel remains a trib­ opinion programs has grown dramati­ ty and St. Anthony's Chapel on its ute to the ideals, faith and perseverance of cally in the private sector over the lOOth anniversary. I also would like to Iowa's early settlers, qualities espoused by past several years, with rates for cer­ share with my colleagues a brief histo­ the Founders of our country and still evi­ tain elective surgical procedures fall­ ry of the chapel. dent in Iowa families in 1985.e ing as much as 60 percent. Net savings "SMALLEST CHURCH IN THE WORLD" TO MARK for the insurers range up to $8 saved 100 YEARS H.R. 1460 for ever $1 spent in implementation. On Sunday, June 16, 1985, an Iowa land­ About two-thirds of all Blue Cross mark, St. Anthony's Chapel, widely known plans require second opinions prior to as "The Smallest Church in the World," will HON.THOMASF.HARTNEli elective surgery, and 10 States have observe its lOOth Anniversary. The tiny OF SOUTH CAROLINA chapel ety, politics, and essentially their way care and. Medicaid Programs. Equally Each year in mid-June, on the Sunday of thinking. It is my contention that important is the fact that this bill may closest to June 13, the traditional feast of uprooting this institution is a time­ reduce the amount of unnecessary sur­ St. Anthony of Padua, a Mass of Thanksgiv­ consuming endeavor; that we will ex­ gery for Medicare and Medicaid bene­ ing is celebrated at the chapel and descend­ perience numerous setbacks; and that ants of the Gaertner-Huber families travel eventually significant positive change ficiaries and thus remove them from from all over the United States to the site any risks that may accompany such will be our reward. To state my posi­ 100 miles north of Dubuque to renew family tion simply: evolution is preferable to surgery. I urge my colleagues to give ties, feast together, and pass on to the careful consideration to this legisla­ younger generations the tradition of faith revolution in the instance of South tion.e which the chapel symbolizes. This year rela­ Africa, because that nation has been a tives will gather several hundred strong at friend, an ally, and an important trad­ the chapel to participate in an 11 a.m. Mass ing partner for the United States. Is it "SMALLEST CHURCH IN THE marking the special occasion. While only a better to achieve our goal of ending WORLD" MARKS 100 YEARS few will be able to be seated or stand inside, apartheid by means which retard vio­ others will spill out the door and onto the lence, or by means which serve to po­ surrounding lawn to answer the responses larize South African society even more HON. COOPER EV ANS and Join in the hymns while refiecting on OF IOWA the meaning of this chapel in the lives of than is currently experienced? Is it IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES their predecessors. worth the extra time and effort to No formal invitations are issued for this work for peaceful change in order to Wednesday, June 19, 1985 annual event since aunts and uncles and ensure that South Africa retains a •Mr. EVANS of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I cousins and great-great relatives of every democratic form of government? would like to bring to the attention of degree mark their calendars from one year These are important questions which the House of Representatives the to the next. Those living in Iowa towns need to be considered against the nearby open their hearts and their homes lOOth anniversary that was observed and look forward to the yearly pilgrimage of background of racial inequality that last week of an Iowa landmark. Locat­ their less-rural relations. Photographs from the United States has experienced. ed outside of Festina, IA, the St. An­ the late 1920s show automobiles of that era America became an independent de­ thony's Chapel follows one family's crowding an adjacent field while their mocracy in 1776, permitted a system of heritage back to the days of Napoleon. owners gather inside and around the chap­ slavery for 100 years, and maintained It has been considered the smallest el's stone edifice and its wood bell tower virtually complete segregation until church in the world with its seating amidst a peaceful pastoral setting. the 1960's. It simply is not realistic to capacity of only eight. Even so, the During the intervening months between expect the South African Government chapel brings hundreds of family the annual celebrations of St. Anthony's Day, family weddings and other special reli­ to change in a short period of time. members together annually as a trib­ gious observances are scheduled in the The advocates for H.R. 1460 would ute and celebration of Iowa's early set­ chapel. There is a small cemetery with have us punish the South African tlers and those characteristics that are graves of the early settlers and a few places Government with sanctions and with­ still present in families today. are left for some of those still living. draw our progressive influence. Some- June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16445 how this will magically cause apart­ When Robert Frost, the great American spirit of national pride to strive to better heid to go away. I reject that ap­ poet, was called upon to dedicate a magnifi­ ourselves as a people? proach. It is an abdication of responsi­ cent new building in New York City, he A large part of the problem lies in the at­ asked what he should talk about. His spon­ titudes of the so-called "makers and shak­ bility cloaked in righteous indignation. sors told him, "Just talk about the future." ers" of our government and business estab­ To quote Chester A. Crocker, Assist­ Dismayingly, Frost replied, "I will, but I lishments. The policies they advocate en­ ant Secretary for African Affairs, don't advocate it." courage elitism, concentration of wealth in "That is not foreign policy; it is 'os­ Despite the inequities and injustice, and a few and a desire to assist only those who trich' policy." the voluminous problems those of my gen­ they deem "worthy". We seem to be living The administration's policy of con­ eration have bequeathed to you, I have in the past with discredited economic and structive engagement has not abol­ great confidence in our ability not merely to social policies that are more reminiscent of ished apartheid, nor are we on the be a spectator of the future . . . but to be the 1920's than appropriate for the 1980's. verge of some diplomatic break­ active in shaping it, in converting our faith This is not the first time this has hap­ and our dreams and aspirations into cooper­ pened over the last sixty years. Time and through. But, it has not been a failure ative and constructive action. again, we find people who revert back to the either. Changes are taking place, I do, however, have a genuine sense of old ways of doing things, only they just though to Americans it may seem to concern about what needs to be done to package their views in contemporary rheto­ be at a glacial pace. Somewhere be­ attack the problems facing this great coun­ ric. tween the administration's construc­ try of ours. In our over two hundred year For instance, in 1948, then President tive engagement and the sanctions of history, Americans have challenged obsta­ Harry S. Truman said of those who were H.R. 1460 lies an effective approach cles with a creative, pioneering spirit; we proponents of restrictive policies and afraid which should be acceptable to both have used our innate sense of discontent to try new ideas: the Congress and the President. Per­ and restiveness to create and conquer new " ... Those men who live in the past frontiers in every imaginable endeavor and remind me of a toy I'm sure all of you have haps progressive engagement, whereby discipline. We have always seemed capable seen. The toy is a small wooden bird called certain mid-course objectives could be of calling up from within ourselves a deep the "Floogie Bird." Around the Floogie achieved via gradually increasing pres­ belief, or faith if you will, in ourselves and Bird's neck is a label reading: "I fly back­ ure from the United States, would in our future. wards. I don't care where I'm going. I just erve as a more workable solution. Recently, however, our leaders seem to want to see where I've been." essure should be applied in degrees, have lost this truly American idealism. De­ These backward-looking men refuse to see ot waves. We must realize that there spite some improvements in the overall where courageous leadership can take this · no simple solution to this problem, standard of living, we live in a society where Nation in the years that lie ahead. These d that H.R. 1460 is a simple ap­ some of us enjoy the finest things life has to men of small vision and faint hearts have offer, and money can buy, while millions of set up their familiar cry, "Of course it's roach to a complex situation.e others suffer from the indignities and de­ fine, but it can't be done." bilitating effects of what I consider to be Today there are many in government who AL STATE COMMENCEMENT the four great cancers of our otherwise favor policies that result in stifled growth, ADDRF.SS OF AUGUSTUS HAW­ healthy economic and social being . . . the limited opportunities and therefore in­ alarming increase in poverty, illiteracy, un­ creased tensions among the various groups KINS employment and discrimination. that struggle for a fair share of the rewards Despite an abundance of natural resources and riches that make up our unique plural­ HON. CHARLES A. HAYES and inexhaustible human enthusiasm, over istic society. They ignore our great unused OF ILLINOIS 35 million of our fellow citizens languish in capabilities, undeveloped human resources, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES poverty, unable to secure decent housing, our tremendous needs in the areas of educa­ essential medical care, or adequate nutri­ tion, health, housing and economic develop­ Wednesday, June 19, 1985 tion. While those of you graduating today ment. Mr. HAYF.S. Mr. Speaker, recently, are celebrating the crowning achievement of Past experience indicates that the U.S. ur distinguished colleague, AUGUSTUS mastering a wide variety of academic spe­ economy must grow between 4 and 4 ~ per­ WKINS, was awarded an honorary cialties, 23 million Americans can't even cent in its Gross National Production just to read or write and are officially classified as keep up in terms of employment creation octor of laws degree from California functionally illiterate, while another 40 mil­ for those entering the labor force, such as tate University at Los Angeles. lion are estimated to be borderline illiter­ yourselves. However, in approximately the While I am ·certain many of the ates. last twenty years real growth has averaged embers of this Chamber know Gus While hopefully many if not all of you only 3 percent, and currently is running or his tireless efforts in education and will be able to use the foundations you have even less than that. In addition, we have ex­ mployment opportunities, I think all acquired here at Cal State to secure produc­ perienced several recessions in the time f us would benefit from the remarks tive and useful jobs at fair rates of compen­ period, including the recent recession of e made during the commencement sation, over 13 million people are involun­ 1981-1982, which created the highest levels tarily jobless and millions of others are of unemployment and business bankruptcies xercises at Cal State. Whether here working for wages below their maximum po­ since the Great Depression of the 1930's. n the floor of the U.S. House of Rep­ tential. This low growth with all of its economic esentatives or around the country, And finally, despite the many achieve­ and social consequences is not some mysteri­ us has always carried a positive ments of the civil rights struggles of the last ous force beyond our control. It is not · ion of the future-a future that can 30 years, the repulsive specter of racism normal, uncontrollable or conscionable. It is e shaped with positive actions, coop­ continues to permeate the economic and the direct result of deliberate policies of re­ rative undertakings and confidence in social fabric of our nation, preventing some stricting production, employment opportu­ nes' own abilities to conquer waiting Americans from sharing equally in the op­ nities, and social gains out of fear that infla­ portunities our country has to offer. tion may erode the value of the dollar. rontiers. I think the National Commission on Ex­ As it has turned out, however, despite fol­ I am glad to have the opportunity to cellence in Education stated it alarmingly lowing these mistaken policies, we still see hare with you the following remarks: when it recently concluded "we are a nation that inflation is rising, the Federal debt SHAPING OUR FUTURE-CALIFORNIA STATE at risk". They found that our once unchal­ grows, and misguided budget cuts deprive us UNIVERSITY AT LOS ANGELES, .JUNE 15, 1985 lenged preeminence in commerce, industry, of vital goods and services, and allow human It is a great honor for me to be here with science, and technological innovation is needs to go unmet. The resulting consistent ou today to receive your honorary Doctor being overtaken throughout the world. high levels of unemployment is depriving us f Laws Degree and to have the distinctive While there are many reasons for this loss of the revenues we need to balance the leasure of addressing you at your gradua­ of international preeminence, one can not budget, support social services and our na­ ion exercises. help but make the connection between this tional defense. Unlike Trudeau's comic strip character problem and those I have just enumerated I am afraid that many of the policy 'Doonesbury" at a recent graduation exer­ to you. makers of my generation are leaving to your ise in which he lulled the students into What has become of our historic unwill­ generation the unenviable task of overcom­ lumber with his discourse on "unspent ingness to be complacent in view of these ing the problems which we have failed to outh", I will try my best not to unduly conditions, our restless creativity to use our eradicate. However, it is up to you to look at elay your shining hour of glory. great resources to remove these stigma, our these problems not as insurmountable bar- 16446 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 riers, but as challenging opportunities in COMPREHENSIVE TRADE LAW ings. This would enable domestic color pic­ which we can live up to our collective capa­ REFORM ACT OF 1985 ture tube companies, for example, to file bilities as a nation. and participate in Antidumping and Coun­ You have the opportunity to regain our tervailing Duty cases on color televisions. historic goals, to rekindle the spirit that HON. JOHN P. MURTHA It amends the definition of subsidy to made this country great. Don't let the enor­ OF PENNSYLVANIA make countervailable the provision of goods mity of some of these difficulties sway your IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES or services which are on terms inconsistent commitment. with commercial considerations, as well as In the past, we have succeeded at tackling Wednesday, June 19, 1985 loans, loan guarantees and equity infusions some of these very problems in responsible e Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, today which are on preferential terms. This would and positive ways. In the past, we have suc­ the Comprehensive Trade Law Reform permit the Commerce Department, for ex­ ceeded at bringing unemployment down to ample, to countervail against the Canadian what can truly be called full employment Act of 1985 was introduced by Messrs. GAYDOS, SCHULZE, SPRATT, and myself. government's "stumpage" payments to Can­ levels. In the field of education, we have ada's softwood lumber industry if such pay­ demonstrated the effectiveness of compen­ This legislation is the result of biparti­ ments were inconsistent with commercial satory education programs, and government san efforts to provide thorough and considerations. financial aid assistance. From 1959 to 1969 comprehensive reforms for current It specifies the kinds of commitments to we reduced poverty by 40 percent 05 mil­ U.S. trade laws. These proposals have eliminate subsidies that foreign govern­ lion persons>. In the last twenty years, we received a broad range of support legally knocked down barriers for equal ments would need to make in order to qual­ access to public accommodations, employ­ throughout American industry and ify for (and continue to get) the injury test ment opportunities, and the right to vote. labor including such sectors as chemi­ under Countervailing Duty law. This would These accomplishments are genuine, but cals, color televisions, fiber and appar­ require, for example, that Mexico and other they were not and still are not sufficient el, footwear, leather goods, metalwork­ advanced developing countries phase-down given the severity of the problems facing us. ing, nonferrous metals, and steel. and eliminate export subsidies promptly; But it does give credence to the belief that that the President review compliance on an By introducing this legislation annual basis; and that the injury test bene­ when we have had the will to do so, we have today, we genuinely hope to encourage been able to pull together, set moral, social fit be withdrawn in the event of non-compli­ and economic goals, and have succeeded at and contribute to further debate, dis­ ance. collectively working together to accomplish cussion, and deliberation on trade It eliminates the Commerce Department's many laudable and desirable objectives. issues. authority to suspend Countervailing Duty I call upon those of you graduating today, This bill seeks changes in four major cases on the basis of foreign government who represent our future ability to do the areas of U.S. laws: first, our antidump­ export taxes. This would have precluded the same, to have faith in yourselves that you ing/countervailing duty statutes; Commerce Department, for example, from have what it takes to accomplish even more. second, our escape clause which is sec­ suspending past CVD cases on Brazilian Faith really means confidence, and you steel in this manner. can only prove its force by actually doing tion 201; third, our unfair trade It waives preliminary ITC injury determi­ something. As Basil King, a noted minister remedy tool, which is section 301; and nations in Antidumping and Countervailing and novelist once said: fourth, the Revenue Act of 1916, Duty cases involving products for which "Faith covers all the ground to Trust, but which allows for court cases to be there have been recent findings of injury. it covers more. It is not content to rest in brought against dumped imports. This would allow domestic companies, for confidence. To do, to aspire to scale heights These reforms are intended to make example, to save the time and expense of a are the motives of its being. It begins its U.S. trade laws less complex, less ex­ preliminary injury determination in "revolv­ mission where that of Trust leaves off. ing door" cases involving multiple supplers Trust is satisfied. Faith is moved by divine pensive, less arbitrary, more certain, of the same product. discontent. It seems; it asks; it strives. . . . more expeditious, more fair and more It provides for a number of important pro­ To exist at all Faith must prove its force by effective for all petitioners. The fol­ cedural changes, including: ( 1) more ration­ doing." lowing summary provides a basic over­ al procedures for the disclosure of confiden­ Those of you receiving your degrees today view of the legislatjon's major provi­ tial information under administrative pro­ have labored long and hard to prepare for sions: tective order; (2) various limitations on the the world you are about to enter. While it is Commerce Department's authority to con­ extremely important to be able to secure a THE COMPREHENSIVE TRADE LAW REFORM ACT OF 1985 duct "quick and dirty" 90-day reviews of satisfying, challenging job for your own Antidumping orders; and (3) elimination of sense of well-being and worth, I dare you to TITLE I-IMPROVEMENTS IN ANTIDUMPING AND the ITC role in determining whether "criti­ step beyond the personal and reach out to COUNTERVAILING DUTY LAWS cal circumstances" exist to trigger the retro­ your fellow citizens and your country who This title does the following: active application of duties. are in need of your help. It makes actionable under Antidumping You must begin by having faith in your law, in certain circumstances, the foreign TITLE II-IMPROVEMENTS IN SECTION 201 !THE own abilities. Add to this, confidence and unfair trade practice of "diversionary dump­ "ESCAPE CLAUSE"> trust in those with whom you seek coopera­ ing" (similar to the "upstream dumping!' This Title does the following: tive undertakings. But do not be deceived amendment passed by both houses of Con­ It eliminates the current role of the Presi­ into believing that these two ingredients gress last year>. The provision would only dent and makes the USTR the "adminis­ will give you the entire arsenal necessary to apply where an existing Antidumping order trating authority". This would help depoliti­ change the world. You must take that next or other arrangement is in effect. This cize Section 201 cases. step, frightening and intimidating as it would allow the Commerce Department to It replaces the requirement that imports might be, in which you use your discontent pursue investigations where, for example, be the "substantial cause" of serious injury with the status-quo, with the existence of Japanese structurals were sold to a Korean with the requirement that they merely be inequity, insecurity, and inequality, to take drill rig manufacturer at a dumped price, the "cause" of serious injury. Has this been action to determine your own future and and the Korean rigs containing this dumped law in 1980, it is probable that the Ford­ that of those around you. steel were then exported to the U.S. market. UAW petition would have produced an af­ Remember, that faith must prove its force It expands the coverage of "upstream sub­ firmative injury vote. by doing. You have the ability to determine sidies" under the 1984 Trade Act to subsi­ It makes relief more effective and certain your own future and our country's future. dies provided or authorized by a customs by strengthening the "threat of injury" con­ You have the golden opportunity to rekin­ union and strengthens the law where the cept; precluding adjustment assistance as dle the American creative and pioneering input is subject to an existing CVD order or the sole form of relief; allowing for provi­ spirit and to conquer the waiting frontiers other arrangement. This would allow the sional relief measures in the early stages of of justice and equality. I will leave you with Commerce Department to pursue investiga­ investigations if import surges occur; requir­ just these words which sum up what I have tions where, for example, the "upstream" ing USTR to consult with foreign govern­ been trying to communicate to you today. subsidy on the input was authorized by the ments that have contributed to serious The quality of our daily lives must match EEC but paid by the member country. injury by targeting export markets or re­ or exceed our tallest skyscrapers, our tech­ It allows companies and workers who stricting imports of the product; allowing nological advances into space, our industrial make major components Cwhich are irrevo­ major parts and component producers to capacity and our defense weapons. We must cably destined for incorporation into final file and participate in proceedings; requiring not be content with less when our potential products> to file and participate in Anti­ USTR, if dumping or subsidization is uncov­ to do more is so great.e dumping and Countervailing Duty proceed- ered, to consult with affected U.S. compa- June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16447 nies and workers about taking appropriate Now, I regret to note, serious consid­ stantial subsidy from the taxpayers. action under the Antidumping and Counter­ eration is being given to returning to Moreover, in addition to costing sig­ vailing Duty laws: and permitting petition­ ers to reapply for relief in less two years if the diversion program. There remains, nificantly more money, a successful di­ good cause is shown. unfortunately, an adamant refusal by version program does nothing to ad­ It establishes an optional alternative pro­ some to confront the fundamental dress the fundamental problems in the cedure designed to provide greater assur­ problem with the Federal Govern­ dairy sector. The Federal Government ance that the relief provided is consistent ment's role in the production of dairy has paid billions upon billions of dol­ with the requirements of enhanced competi­ products. The support price has his­ lars buying up dairy products that tiveness or adjustment to new methods of torically been considerably above the nobody wants. We have encouraged a competition facing the industry. This in­ market clearing level resulting in a volves the voluntary establishment of a tri­ productive capacity whose only pur­ partite advisory group to assess current supply far in excess of demand. pose is to produce milk for Govern­ problems and recommend a strategy to en­ Rather than stabilize this industry, ment warehouses. Now, it is proposed hance competitiveness. the Federal Government has granted that we make permanent a program TITLE Ill-IMPROVEMENTS IN SECTION 301 it massive subsidies, which have made that encourages people to not produce <" ENFORCEMENT OF U.S. RIGHTS"> it profitable for highly capitalized in­ milk for the Government. It is time This Title does the following: divitluals and corporations to dramati­ that we faced the reality that the only It eliminates the current role of the Presi­ cally expand production. These large sure way to reduce production in the dent and the interagency Section 301 Com­ operations also have a greater flexibil­ long term is to reduce the incentive mittee, and makes the USTR the "adminis­ ity to adjust production downward that a high support price provides. tering authority". In addition, it provides when it is in their interest, unlike the Thus, we should drop the support for strict investigatory and decision-making smaller producers who must maintain time lines; written questionnaires to foreign price and drop any consideration of governments; verification of information full production in order to keep an reinstituting the failed diversion pro­ submitted by foreign governments; and dis­ adequate cash flow. Thus, while less gram.• closure of confidential information under than 8 percent of the participants in administrative protection order. These the program were exceeded $50,000 in changes would help depoliticize Section 301 payments received, they claimed 37 TRIBUTE TOW. AVERELL and make its procedures more like those in percent of the total expenditures. One HARRIMAN Antidumping and Countervailing Duty operation in California was paid $3 cases. million for not producing milk. It defines the term "targeting" and re­ HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ quires the USTR to take corrective action Defenders of the diversion program OF NEW YORK on behalf of domestic companies and work­ have credited it with a savings of $1 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ers injured by foreign industrial targeting. billion in the price support program in Wednesday, June 19, 1985 TITLE IV-NEGOTIATING OBJECTIVES fiscal year 1984. The USDA data dis­ This Title does the following: proves this claim. In the first place, • Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, several It clarifies that all U.S. products and serv­ actual purchases by the Commodity weeks ago a remarkable event took ices, not just high technology products, Credit Corporation dropped by 6.2 bil­ place in Washington when Ambassa­ should be accorded maximum access to for­ lion pounds in 1984 for a savings of dor Anatoly F. Dobrynin of the Soviet eign markets. $733 million. Of this 6.2 billion, fully Union, on behalf of his country, It authorizes USTR to enter into negoti­ 3.2 billion pounds are due to increased awarded "the Order of the Patriotic tions aimed at strengthening GATT rules governing conduct by state-owned or con­ commercial use, which occurred as a War First Degree" to the Honorable trolled enterprises that engage in interna­ result of the economy, the drops in W. Averell Harriman. This marked tional trade. Such talks would seek to estab­ the support price and, possibly, the only the second time that this award lish objective standards for determining promotion program. Thus, more than has been given to someone who is not when state-owned or controlled enterprises half the reduced purchases were due a Soviet citizen. Its presentation was are operated on terms inconsistent with to increased consumption, not reduced indeed a tribute to Governor Harri­ commercial considerations.e production. In addition, in fiscal year man, but also gave a hint that rela­ 1984, the program benefited from net tions with the U.S.S.R. might be im­ THE DAIRY DIVERSION receipts of $340 million accruing to the proved. PROGRAM WAS A FAILURE Government as a result of the $1 per Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to hundredweight assessment collected in offer for inclusion in the RECORD re­ HON. BARNEY FRANK October, November, and December of marks made by Ambassador Dobrynin OF MASSACHUSETTS 1983 from a program that preceded upon the occasion of conferring the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the diversion plan. Last, of the produc­ award. As you know, Governor Harri­ tion drops that occurred attendant to man is a great American, a renowned Wednesday, June 19, 1985 the diversion program, the USDA esti­ statesman, and a diplomat of proven e Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, the De­ mates that 30 percent were decreases repute. As President Roosevelt's Spe­ partment of Agriculture has released that would have occurred with or cial Representative and Ambassador to information on the dairy diversion without the program, payments the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1946, he plan, which expired this past April, toward which are, in the parlance, made a profound contribution to win­ that demonstrates clearly both the in­ buying air. Thus, the diversion pro­ ning the Second World War, to waging effectiveness of this program and its gram had little impact on the long­ the struggle for peace in Europe, and basic unfairness. Billed as a program term problem of excess productive ca­ to the establishment of a diplomatic to restore equilibrium of supply and pacity in the dairy industry and not modus vivendi with the Soviet Union. demand to milk production at no cost much more impact on the short-term These achievements have been long to the Government, it has achieved problem of massive surpluses. known to Americans as was Governor only half of the promised reduction in Mr. Speaker, the diversion program Harriman's subsequent distinguished milk production and cost the Federal did not succeed. And even if it had suc­ service to the Nation in various capac­ Government $80 million over and ceeded in reducing production as ities under eight Presidents. Two of above the assessment designed to fi­ promised, assessment collections the notable accomplishments in which nance it. And, had it succeeded in re­ would have dropped and diversion pay­ he had a hand were the 1963 Limited ducing production by the targeted ments would have increased, driving Test Ban Treaty and the Paris Peace amount, the assessment would have up the net costs dramatically. The sig­ Talks on Vietnam. Nonetheless, it is covered only half the costs of the di­ nificance of this result is that any particularly fitting that Governor version payments leaving the Federal future diversion plan will require Harriman's service for the betterment Government to cover the balance. either higher assessments or a sub- of United States-Soviet relations be 16448 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 appropriately recognized by the Soviet such a letter-at least somewhere. Averell TRIBUTE TO OUR FLAG BY BOY Union. It is indeed a great distinction has never cared very much about the for- SCOUT TROOP NO. 395 for Governor Harriman to be accorded malities of protocol; that is what made him this honor. such an outstanding diplomat. I always tried Mr. Speaker, I want to take this op­ during my career to follow his example in HON. LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS this regard. portunity to commend Ambassador OF LOUISIANA Recently, I looked through the collection Dobrynin for his tribute to Governor IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Harriman. At this time in history of letters which Roosevelt, Stalin, and when our bilateral relations with the Churchill exchanged during the war years Wednesday, June 19, 1985 Soviet Union are going through a diffi­ of 1941-1945. My impression is that next to those three great names, Averell's name was •Mrs. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I would cult and contentious period, the mere the most often mentioned in this corre­ like to insert in the RECORD a lovely fact that an award such as this one spondence. could be given-not just given, but tribute to our flag that was made by conferred in such a warm and gener­ Once President Roosevelt wrote to the Boy Scout Troop No. 395 earlier this ous manner-leads us to hope that it Soviet Premier: "Please discuss with Ambas­ year. sador Harriman all the questions you have; A flag that had been flown over the may indeed be possible to forge better he will explain to you our position in relations with the Soviet Union. Cer­ detail." And he did. I consider this as not U.S. Capitol had been flown by this tainly, we all can hope for a return to only to be a mark of great confidence in his troop for many years, and was retired the spirit of mutual cooperation that Ambassador by the U.S. President, but also with dignity in Marrero, LA. characterized our ties during the dark as recognition of his authority and compe­ Here is the scoutmaster's letter days of World War II. tence by the Soviet Government as well. about Old Glory. Mr. Speaker, such a spirit was ably The name of Ambassador Harriman is spe­ MARRERO, LA, February 9, 1985. embodied in the work of Governor cially tied to the period of the war. He saw Hon. RONALD WILSON REAGAN, Harriman. I join Governor Harriman's both bad and good days of my country and President, U.S.A., many friends and admirers in con­ not only from the windows of his residence The White House Office, gratulating him on receiving this pres­ at Spaso House on a quiet Moscow Street. Washington, DC. tigious award. In 1945 he watched the Victory Day mili­ DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: We are the Boy REMARKS OF AMBASSADOR A.F. DOBRYNIN tary parade in Red Square from the review­ Scouts of America, Troop # 395, of Marrero, Today we are honoring a great man, a dis­ ing stand of Lenin's Mausoleum. General Ei­ Louisiana. Our Scout Troop was given a tinguished American, a truly great states­ senhower and Averell Harriman were the very tattered, United States Flag, which we man, and wise diplomat, my very good only Americans so honored by my country. were told, had flown over our Nation's Cap­ friend Governor and Ambassador Averell So it was only natural that 10 years ago, itol, in Washington, DC. Harriman. in 1975, it was Averell who led the American This flag, #D-80228, had been given to On behalf of my government it gives me World War II veterans to Moscow to com­ Colt Industries by our Congresswoman, Mrs. great pleasure to award Averell "the Order memorate the 30th Anniversary of VE Day. Lindy Boggs, We received the flag from an of Patriotic War". Following is a quotation As U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Averell employee of Colt Industries. I am enclosing from the Decree of the Presidium: was instrumental in having many Americans the end piece of flap from the box which "The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of decorated by the Soviet Union for their con­ the flag was stored in. the U.S.S.R. awards Averell Harriman, tribution to our common war effort. Inci­ This morning, we flew this flag for its prominent American politician and public dentally, he, himself, did not get his Soviet very last time. She flew from a tall limb of a figure, and former Ambassador to the beautiful pine tree in our camping area at U.S.S.R., with the Order of the Patriotic decoration only because with characteristic modesty he crossed out his name from the the Avondale Scout Reservation in Clinton, War First-Degree. The Order is conferred Louisiana. upon him for his profound personal contri­ list of Americans approved by Washington bution to the establishment and consolida­ for the awards. Mr. President, as tired and tattered as she tion of Soviet-American cooperation in the Now 40 years later my government has de- was, Old Glory never looked more beautiful, years of the Great Patriotic War and on the cided that Averell's modesty could be over- · flying from the limb atop Woodbadge Hill, occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Vic­ ruled, and that he should be given the all day long, today. She reminded us of a tory." honor which he deserves. So this order, like tired old soldier who was coming home from Of course, Averell, who has served under a rare and expensive spirit, I hope you will battle for the last time. no less than 8 American presidents and per­ permit me to use the expression, is 40 years She had served our forefathers and her sonally knew and knows many Soviet lead­ proof. country well. She held her head high and ers, needs no introduction, at least from me. By the way, when Averell left Moscow in proud for all to see. She, alone, had been But allow me to mention some facts about 1946 he received as a departure gift a stal- the symbol of hope and freedom for many, his award. and the ray of sunshine that had shone so The Order of the Patriotic War, estab­ lion named "Fact" which was the mount of brightly through our Country's darkest lished on May 20, 1942, was the first truly the Chief of Staff of the Soviet Army and a hours. She stood tall, as a symbol of the wartime order established by the Soviet rug made of a huge Russian bear. He is blood which was shed by our forefathers, Union during World War II. It was awarded probably the only one in the West who can and for the precious freedom that we all only to those people who distinguished say that he had met face to face with a no- know. Tonight, we laid her to rest, forever. themselves in the struggle against the fas­ torious Russian bear and got away with his For the ceremony, our Boy Scouts built a cist aggressors. skin. . fine bonfire. We called the Troop to atten- Very few foreign citizens are given this His role in the betterment of Soviet-Amer- tion and our Scoutmaster read an article, order. Among them is our friend Averell, an­ lean relatioll!! during the post-war period titled, "I Am Old Glory," from page #22 of other is the President of Italy. continued to be significant. The Nuclear a pamphlet titled, "How To Respect And The Soviet people know and honor Gover­ Test Ban Treaty of 1963 and the Hotline are Display Our Flag,'' a U.S. Marine Corps nor Harriman as one of the most prominent in some fashion his accomplishments. I wish publication. creators of the historic alliance between our two countries during World War II. He we had comparable achievements today. We lowered the Flag as the flames of our spared no effort to lay a firm foundation for Ladies and gentlemen, Averell Harriman bonfire danced in the northerly breeze Soviet-American political, economic, and occupies a special place in the public life of which was blowing. We all stood at atten­ military cooperation. And we are forever the United States, as well as in the history tion and gave the Boy Scout salute, when at grateful to him for that. of Soviet-American relations. Once again it 9:20 O'Clock P.M., our Scouts unfolded Old In September 1941, before the United is my great pleasure and honor to present to Glory and placed her on top of the fire. States entered the war, Averell was sent to you, dear Averell, the Order of the Patriotic We didn't have a bugle, so I whistled the the Soviet Union as "special representative" War First-Degree; and to take this opportu- bars of "Taps" as best as I could remember from President Roosevelt. He went to the nity to say what a great loving friend and them from having been a U.S. Marine, some U.S.S.R. so quickly that his letter of intro­ companion Pamela is to you. twenty-two years ago. I believe that we are duction from the President to the Soviet Our love to both of you. stood a little taller, and certainly much Government never caught up with him. But Congratulations.e richer, from having the privilege of partici­ my government took his word that he had pating in this sacred ceremony. June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16449 Long live Old Glory. This is attested to by she was selected by President Dwight D. Ei­ ing academic achievements of students the undersigned who were all present and senhower for a six-month, worldwide lecture from John Clancy Elementary School did participate in this service. tour. Sincerely yours, She was a member of the U.S. delegation of Kenner, LA, and Harold Keller Ele­ Emory L. Lewis, Assistant Scoutmaster, to the 15th General Assembly of the United mentary School of Metairie, LA. At Robert C. Ladousier, Sr., Scoutmaster, Nations in 1960. She was named director of the recent 1985 National Academic Sterling M. Guidry, Unit-Commission­ the Cleveland Job Corps Center in 1966 and Games Olympics in Eatonton, GA, er, David Bergeron, Larry Lewis, held the position until her retirement in these students won three national Bobby Bergeron, Jr., Joey Vasquez, 1974. championships in individual games Jason Ford, Paul Schexnaydre, Robert "Those were the greatest experiences in and 13 national awards-more national Ladousier, Jr., Weldon Lewis, and Joel life for me," she said. "They presented me with obstacles and made me come up with a trophy positions than any other Crossland, Members, BSA Troop No. In 395. philosophy · of action in order to keep my school system in the Nation. the sanity," George said.e three previous competitions, Louisiana students won sweepstakes champion­ ZELMA GEORGE ships as the most outstanding overall ANDREI SAKHAROV academic team in the country. HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR SPEECH OF I am proud of these students and all of the other students across Louisiana Ol'OHIO HON. BRUCE A. MORRISON IN THE BOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and throughout the Nation who par­ OP' CONNECl'ICUT ticipated in the games, as well as those Wednesday, June 19, 1985 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES who are working hard in school and e Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, in light Tuesday, June 18, 1985 aiming to make the team in the of the recent bestowal of the James Mr. future. Their quest for knowledge and Dodman e MORRISON of Connecticut. Nobel Award in Human Rela­ Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to add my their joy in learning should be emulat­ tions to Zelma Watson George, I rise voice to those of my colleagues pro­ ed by all of us. . to congratulate this great woman. testing the Soviet authorities' treat­ Mr. Speaker, I know you join me in Ms. George is a fine example of per­ ment of the renowned Soviet scientist, saluting Mr. Don M. Shannon and his severance and excellence in furthering Nobel Peace Laureate, and human Clancy Wff'ers team, as well as all the the cause of minorities, her city, and rights activist, Andrei Sakharov. Academic Olympics participants: those less privileged. She has been a As we stand here today, Andrei Sak­ Academic Games Coordinator: Mr. Don trailblazer in many diverse situations. harov's whereabouts are unknown. Ac­ M. Shannon, Clancy Elementary. The following is an article from the cording to recent reports Sakharov John Clancy ElementaTJJ School: Scotty Plain Dealer, which I would like to call and his ailing wife, Dr. Yelena Bonner, Scott, Lesa Aymami, Philip Grego, Foster to all Members' attention, which ac­ have been moved out of their home in Wimberly, Erik V. Winter, Ron Davis, knowledges her great contributions. Christian Trosclair, Clay Nix, Chris Haw­ Gorki to a more isolated area. The cur­ kins, Rickly Perkins, Danny Edwards, Drew ZELMA GEORGE: THE PoWER OP' Om: tains on the windows of the Sakhar­ Sperandeo, Vanessa Marquez, Traci Rodney, ovs' apartment have been closed for and Staci Rodney. Zelma Watson George, opera singer and more than a month and their car is no Harold Keller ElementaTJJ School: Dyann retired director of the Job Corps here, said longer parked outside the apartment Chao, Tam Nguyen, John Barron, and that her life-long commitment to public building. We have learned that Sak­ Karen Shell. service was a result of her belief in the harov's mail to his family in the Louisiana Teams: Jefferson Starship, Jef­ power of one person to create social change. ferson All Stars, Clancy Wff'ers, New Orle­ George was honored yesterday before United States was tampered with, so ans Osborne Knights, New Orleans Little hundreds of educators and community lead­ that the Soviets could learn the details Woods "A" Team, 2nd-Jefferson All Stars, ers at Stouffer Inn on the Square, where about Sakharov's intention to engage and 3rd-Jefferson Starship. she became the third recipient of the James in a hunger strike. Tournament Director: Mr. Robert W. Dodman Nobel Award in Human Relations I hope that my colleagues in the Allen. from the Council on Human Relations. House will join me in expressing their Thank you, Mr. Speaker.e "Zelma is to Cleveland as Eleanor Roose­ outrage at the mistreatment of the velt was to the nation," said Dagmar Ce­ leste, wife of the governor. Sakharovs, which demonstrates to the The 81-year-old George told of the many rest of the world the Soviets' blatant SUPERFUND CLEANUP TECHNOL­ experiences that had influenced her person­ disregard for human rights. We must OGY RESEARCH AND DEMON­ al and career decisions. She spoke of how impress upon the new Soviet leader­ STRATION ACT OF 1985 the discouraging words of a high school ship that the Sakharovs' plight, and counselor fueled her to attend the Universi­ the plight of others who are also HON. ROBERT G. TORRICEW ty of Chicago during the 1920s. "I was told denied their rights to speech, religion, OP' NEW JERSEY that I couldn't make it there," she said, and freedom, will not be forgotten by "and it made me more determined to go." Members of this body or the American IN THI: BOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Once accepted at the university George Wednesday, June 19, 1985 was denied dormitory space because she was public.e a "Negro." Undaunted, her family moved e Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. Speaker, I from Topeka, Kan., to Chicago so she could JEFFERSON PARISH STUDENTS rise today to address an issue of par­ live at home and attend the prestigious uni­ SHINE ACADEMICALLY ticular concern to me coming from a versity. State with the highest number of She was instrumental in integrating the toxic waste sites on the national prior­ university's "whites only" choir and swim­ HON. BOB LIVINGSTON ity list-the Federal Superfund Pro­ ming pool, she said. OJ' LOUISIANA gram. She is concerned with the current state of IN THI: HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES minorities, particularly the black family. Since 1980, many of us, including "Only recently has literature included the Wednesda.11, June 19, 1985 myself, have looked to the Federal Su­ strength of the black family," she said. She e Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, perfund Program for progress in the said that the school systems could be im­ our kids are great. We sometimes lose fight against toxic waste. The original proved by including more materials that in­ sight of that fact in the face of the legislation, born of a national commit­ fluenced and related to black children. ment to rid our country of toxic haz­ George's diverse career includes work as a media's overwhelming attention to the sociologist, educator, musicologist, diplomat, bad news about America's youngsters. ards, was a bold and innovative begin­ lecturer and champion of human rights. But there is a lot of good news to tell. ning. Today, 5 years and $1.6 billion George earned her doctorate in sociology To accentuate the positive, I call my later, we must acknowledge a simple from New York University in 1954. In 1959, colleagues' attention to the out.stand- truth: We are not cleaning up toxic 16450 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 waste, we are merely moving it. We are establish a central depository for in­ ees whose benefits will be substantial­ not destroying hazardous waste, we formation relating to the new technol­ ly reduced. are merely dumping the problem, and ogies, make the information available Other firms, rushing to turn their the danger, onto other communities to the public, and provide assistance employee pension plans into revolving and yet another generation of Ameri­ for testing and evaluation of new tech­ corporate bank accounts, include cans. nologies. To facilitate such research, American Express, Texaco, Mobil Oil, News brought to us by a recent the Administrator will make available Dr. Pepper, Humana, Reynolds Office of Technology Assessment samples of hazardous waste from na­ Metals, U.S. Sugar, and many others. report on Superfund cleanup technol­ tional priority sites to researchers, and More are in the offing. ogies contains reasons for hope as well arrange for access to Superfund sites While the pension plan terminations as reasons for continued concern. We for demonstrations and research. The may be a financial bonanza for major are concerned because the goal of bill establishes 10 national technology corporations, they are truly a disaster cleaning up this Nation's hazardous demonstration sites, 1 in each EPA for the working women and men of waste sites appears to be a task far region and requires the Administrator this country. According to a study by larger and more difficult than origi­ to carry out coordinated demonstra­ the Department of Labor, the cost of nally thought. We are concerned, too, tion projects at these sites. termination to workers runs as high as because the Superfund Program's It is time we realize the extent of 45 cents on every promised pension strategy to clean up sites through a our Nation's hazardous waste problem, dollar! These terminations deprive re­ combination of containment and re­ and our potential for solving it. The tirees of any hope of receiving future moval will not protect our ground dangers posed by toxic waste did not cost-of-living increases. water from contamination or our citi­ appear overnight, nor will they be Pension plan terminations hurt zens from risk. A congressional com­ eliminated overnight. However, it is many segments of our population-the mittee review of operating waste facili­ our generation's responsibility to elderly, older workers-who are least ties nationwide indicated that about ensure that we keep pace with the de­ able to protect themselves. These are three-quarters of these facilities are velopment of modern technology. The hard working men and women who presently, or in danger, of leakage, and legislation I have introduced will do have played by the rules and who look that 87 percent of those receiving Su­ just that. It will allow the technology forward to retirement with what they perfund waste are currently, or have we possess to be fully developed and rightfully thought was a federally pro­ the potential, for leaking toxic sub­ implemented in order to once again tected retirement income, only to dis­ stances in the future. make our towns and communities safe cover that they are the victims of The message of hope is that new for our generation and those to come. hollow promises. technologies are available and being I urge my colleagues support in this The time has come for action to pro­ developed which may be able to de­ venture.e stroy or detoxify those wastes on the tect the integrity of our Nation's pen­ Superfund site, and reduce the present sion systems. I have joined like­ production of toxic wastes which A NEW FACE ON CORPORATE minded colleagues in an effort to pre­ might result in future Superfund sites. CRIME-PENSION FUNDS TER­ vent such blatant abuses. I am cospon­ These new technologies reflect the MINATED AS CORPORATIONS soring H.R. 2701-the Plan Termina­ great engineering genius of America TURN THEM INTO REVOLVING tion and Reversion Control Act of drawing on a wide variety of disci­ BANK ACCOUNTS 1985-to stop this appalling practice of plines, from biotechnology, to ad­ terminating over-funded pension plans vanced physics, to sophisticated chem­ and to prohibit the further deception istry. HON. TOM LANTOS of so-called spin off terminations and Tragically, the development of these OF CALIFORNIA termination reestablishment. and other emerging waste treatment IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join in stopping this new face on cor­ technologies in this country have been Wednesday, June 19, 1985 hampered. The problem is not a lack porate crime. Pension funds are not of innovation or ideas, nor a lack of •Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, more revolving bank accounts to be raided enthusiasm, but rather a failure of our than 10 years ago Congress enacted and used at will by big corporations. Government to provide the incentives, the Employee Retirement Income Se­ We must take action now to prevent financial assistance, and encourage­ curity Act CERISAJ to protect pension the further erosion of the pension ment for private companies to test and rights of American workers. Without rights of working men and women.e develop these new forms of technolo­ question, that act has been successful gy. in bringing important improvements to pension systems. SNEAK ATTACK ON PUBLIC To help our Nation meet this chal­ CAMPAIGN FINANCING NOT lenge, I have introduced H.R. 2802, the These improvements, however, are WORTHY OF PRESIDENT Superfund Cleanup Technology Re­ being deliberately sabotaged today as search and Demonstration Act of 1985. one major company after another ter­ The legislation would establish within minates its pension plan. Nearly HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. the Environmental Protection Agency 700,000 workers have seen their pen­ OF CALIFORNIA an administrative structure specifical­ sion benefits affected by these termi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ly created to develop, evaluate, and nations as more than 700 companies disseminate information related to the have seized their employees' pension Wednesday, June 19, 1985 use of new and alternative forms of assets since 1980. • Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. cleanup technology. This agency will United Airlines is the latest corpora­ Speaker, President Reagan coura­ compliment the existing Superfund tion to join this group, announcing geously opened the debate on tax sim­ process in promoting and identifying last week it plans to terminate its pen­ plification last month with his reform new and reliable forms of technology sion plan. This was the largest pension proposals. Our tax structure is compli­ for use in waste removal projects. plan reversion in history-resulting in cated and inequitable; as the President Under the program, the EPA Admin­ the removal of $962 million from the noted, it is a "source of confusion and istrator would be required to conduct United Airlines pension plan. United's resentment." I commend the President research and demonstration projects assurance that it will initiate a new for setting the framework for the for new technologies, including a pension plan, after using the retrieved debate that will occur here in Con­ grants program for promising new funds to purchase new airplanes, is no gress as we aspire to create a just and technologies. The program would also comfort to current and retired employ- equitable tax structure. June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16451 But the President's proposal also Alexander Heard, in a 1960 study Constructive engagement has not contains a provision that would elimi­ titled "The Costs of Democracy," out­ encouraged a negotiated peace. It has nate a system accepted by candidates, lined three requirements for a cam­ instead created a climate of distrust, Congress and the American public. paign finance system for American violence, and acrimony. Constructive This is the checkoff for public financ­ elections. These requirements were engagement must end, and it must end ing of Presidential campaigns. This is that such a system make sufficient now. We are merely encouraging state­ the system that the New York Times money available to allow the principal sponsored terrorism. reports contributed $90 million to the candidates adequate opportunities to I would like to submit the following President's own campaigns. communicate with the electorate; pro­ article for inclusion in the CONGRES­ In 1972, Congress adopted the Feder­ vided that those funds be obtained in SIONAL RECORD. al Election Campaign Act which estab­ a manner that does not give special po­ lished public financing for Presidential [From the Washington Post, June 19, 19851 litical opportunities for inordinate in­ F'ROM SOUTH AFRICA, CONTEMPT candidates in the general election. The fluence in the processes of govern­ act was amended in 1974 and 1976 to ment; and command the confidence of The South African government intensifies establish public financing of primary its campaign of force and threat against its the electorate. Mr. Speaker, the neighbors. Just in the last few days, its elections, limits on campaign contribu­ income tax checkoff has provided just armed forces, claiming to be attacking guer­ tions and an independent body to over­ such a system, and the President's pro­ rilla bases, invaded neighboring Botswana's see the campaign finance law. The posal to eliminate the checkoff repre­ capital and coldly killed some 14 persons, in­ income tax checkoff provided a vehicle sents a sneak attack on the public fi­ cluding three women and a 5-year-old child. for taxpayer participation in Presiden­ nancing of Presidential campaigns. Then Pretoria proceeded with its long.ru­ tial campaign financing. Tax reform is a laudable goal. The mored plan to set up a pliant puppet regime, The checkoff permits taxpayers to its alternative to internationally acceptable campaign checkoff system was enacted independence, in its longtime colony of Na· authorize that $1 of their annual tax to reduce the potential for political mibia. payments go into a fund for Presiden­ corruption. This, too, is a laudable The attack on Botswana makes plain why tial campaigns. About one-third of goal. We can maintain the campaign the existence of apartheid in South Africa is those who pay taxes contribute to this financing checkoff while still provid­ itself a source of danger to the region. fund. This amounts to about $35 mil­ ing a fair and simple tax structure. Mr. South Africa has made no showing that Af­ lion a year. The taxpayer's bill re­ Speaker, I caution my colleagues rican National Congress guerrillas were op­ mains the same whether the $1 is erating out of Botswana. It simply stormed about falling into the either/or trap in, strewing about death, intending presum­ checked off or not. The revenue the on this issue. Public participation in Government receives is the same, too; ably to add one more mark of intimidation Presidential campaigns must be main­ to all the others that have made life misera­ the only difference is that the amount tained. The proposed elimination of ble for its neighbors over the years. The im­ checked off is put into the fund for fi­ the income tax checkoff is an unwor­ perial arrogance of South Africa, its deter­ nancing Presidential campaigns. thy attempt to confuse public financ­ mination to flaunt its uncontested power, The Reagan tax plan would abolish ing of political campaigns with tax was on full view. But what it really demon­ the checkoff fund, and also repeal an­ reform. Americans want both; I en­ strates is the lack of self-confidence, the in­ other measure, enacted in 1971 to security, that lie not far under the readiness courage my colleagues to safeguard to go to the gun. stimulate public participation: A tax public campaign financing while pro­ credit of up to $50 for campaign con­ South Africa has spent decades failing to viding true tax reform.e deliver on its promise to grant independence tributions. Only 6 percent of taxpay­ to Namibia, also a neighbor. In the Carter ers claim this credit, and it probably period, it went the puppet regime route, does little to encourage contributions. THE FRUITS OF CONSTRUCTIVE which led nowhere, and now it is trying But the checkoff system does further ENGAGEMENT again. There is always a fancy excuse; this the goal of public campaign financing. time it is that Cuban troops remain in It reduces the need for private financ­ Angola, to Namibia's north. But what South ing, and gives nominees enough money HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL Africa does not say is that Cuban troops to share their messages with the OF NEW YORK remain there to protect the Angolan govern­ ment precisely against South Africa. Last American people. It equalizes access to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES month its commandoes were caught about the public for both heavily and poorly Wednesday, June 19, 1985 to sabotage the American-owned oil facility financed candidates. that is Angola's most valuable economic One of the most significant of the •Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise in asset. Meanwhile, Pretoria continues to campaign financing reforms of the response to President Reagan's weak sponsor the Angolan insurgency led by 1970's was the creation of the public explanation of why the United States Jonas Savimbi. The same lack of self-confi­ financing system for Presidential elec­ continues to pursue its policy of con­ dence is evident: a fear of the fact and ex­ tions. The country learned an impor­ structive engagement. ample of self-rule by blacks not beholden to South Africa. tant lesson from the Watergate-era Mr. Reagan's press statements have The United States responded to the raid improprieties, and acted to take the often been notoriously vague in the into Botswana by calling the ambassador American Presidency out of the hands past. In his most recent briefing, he home. It boycotted the installation of the of special interest groups, fat cats, and completely circumvented the issue of new setup in Namibia, which it had already other contributors shrouded in secre­ South African aggression, and com­ denounced as null and void. The question is cy. And the system works. In 1976, for mented that the African National not whether these protests are right and example, the average individual Presi­ Congress is responsible for violence in sufficient, however. The question is why dential primary campaign contribution that region. The implication is clear South Africa proceeds with policies-its re­ pression at home as well as acts outside its was approximately $27. The general from the administration's perspective: borders-that trash the expressed opinions election campaign committees of the It is the ANC which is to blame, not and urgings of the government whose favor nominees of the two major parties in South Africa's bellicose refusal to end is most important to it. It proceeds with 1976, 1980, and 1984 were financed en­ apartheid. them, moreover, as Congress contemplates tirely by Federal funds, accumulated Let us not mince words, Mr. Speaker. sanctions. from millions of $1 contributions from Apartheid is at the root of violence in The evident answer is that South Africa the voluntary income tax checkoff. South Africa. Pretoria has resolved to has taken the U.S. policy of "constructive The checkoff system has removed the engagement" as a big wink. The policy was use any means to preserve the status supposed to earn President Reagan a South susp1c1on that wealthy donors or quo. Why? Because it perceives con­ Africa hearing for his counsel to reform but, groups are able to use campaign con­ structive engagement as tacit accept­ regrettably, what it has actually brought tributions to purchase special influ­ ance of our lucrative trade with that seems much closer to contempt. What a pity ence in the White House. country. that the president, in his unconvincing de- 16452 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 fense of administration policy last night, the Private Sector Council are getting the Soviet Union. We must seek the could not recogniy.e that fact.e personally involved in the fight for a enforcement of the Helsinki accords more efficient Government-and we and impress upon the Soviet Union THE PRIVATE SECTOR COUNCIL all owe them a large amount of grati­ our objection to the denial of basic tude for their successful efforts to this human rights.e HON. TONY COEIJIO end. I commend the concerned leaders of business, industry, and finance who OF CALD'OR1'IA IT IS TIME TO STOP THE FLOOD 11' THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are involved in this effort. and I extend my best wishes for continued OF IEXllLE IMPORTS Wednesday, June 19, 1985 success in their campaign of efficiency e Mr. COELHO. Mr. Speaker, I re­ and deficit reduction through the Pri­ HON. JAMES T. BROYHDJ. discuss cently had the opportunity to vate Sector Council.• OF llOJlTJI CAJlOLllfA the work of the Private Sector Council with Mr. Frank Carlucci, the chairman Ilf THE HOUSE OF REPRESDTATIVBS of Sears World Trade, Inc., and a SOVIET VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN Wednesday, June 1.9, 1985 RIGHTS member of the national advisory board e Mr. BROYHILL. Mr. Speaker, I of the council. The Private Sector have appeared before this body many Council is a nonpartisan organization HON. WIWAM D. FORD times to comment on the importance of business, industry, and financial OF llICBIGA!f of the textile, fiber, and apparel indus­ leaders founded in 1983 to assist the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tries to North Carolina and the Federal Government in its financial Wednesday, June 19, 1985 Nation. North C&rolina, the largest management systems, with an ulti­ e Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speak­ t.extile manufacturing State in the mate goal of reducing the Federal def­ Nation, lost over 18,000 jobs last year icit. er, I am pleased to Join my colleagues in speaking out against violations of as a result of uncontrolled import The Private Sector Council has al­ growth. ready produced savings and increased human rights by the Soviet Union. efficiency in its projects in cooperation Continuing violations of human rights The problems, however, are not lim­ with both the executive and legislative in the areas of family reunification, ited to North C&rolina. We have a na­ branches of the Government. The right to travel and emigrate, and free­ tional disaster on our hands. The U.S. council has worked successfully with dom of religion, thought, and con­ textile and apparel industry has lost the Treasury, Agriculture, Defense, science are evident. Such is the case almost 300,000 Jobs in recent years due and Education Departments to save for Andrei Sakharov, who has never to unfair imports, and record Job the Pederal Government an estimated been convicted of a crime, yet he has losses are expected to continue $16 billion. The council has provided been exiled in Gorki for over 5 years throughout 1985. the Treasury Department with exper­ now. His wife, Yelena Bonner, has The industry employs over 2 million tise in the fields of systems analysis, been exiled with him for over a year citizens across the Nation. These indi­ conceptual design, and integration of and there is continuous concern about viduals work in 7 ,200 plants. cash management systems. The re­ their health. The domestic industry has spent $1 search center of the council has im­ As my colleagues are aware. Sak­ billion a year for the past two decades proved the Defense Department's cash harov, a distinguished physicist, won to become the most productive in the management system. The council has the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 for his world The resulting productivity in­ worked very closely with the Agricul­ work. Though isolated and harassed creases have been significantly greater ture Department. improving the effi­ by the authorities, he 1continues to ad­ than the rate of productivity growth ciency of the Farmers Home Adminis­ vocate freedom of emigration, amnesty for all U.S. manufacturing. Despite tration, the Federal Crop Insurance for all prisoners of conscience, and those achievements. the U.S. manufac­ Corporation, and other agencies other rights set forth in the 1975 Hel­ turers continue to lose a share of the within the Department. The Depart­ sinki Final Act and other human market. ment of Housing and Urban Develop­ rights documents. I feel .strongly that we must contin­ ment has recently requested assistance Recently, another unfortunate twist ue our efforts to restore fairness to from the council in streamlining its ac­ of events has taken place. Sakharov's this country~s trading policies and to counting system. mail to his family in the United States preserve this Nation's 1traditiona1 in­ The council was asked by the Senate has been tampered with, in an attempt dustries. At a time w:hen so many Budget .Committee to review the to learn the details about a possible doors overseas are closed to U.S. man­ major Federal credit programs in hunger strike. It is deplorable that the ufacturers, we must strive to support order to recommend methods of Soviet Union has attempted to alter or domestic production. The "Crafted streamlining the Government's finan­ ban the mail of this brOliant Nobel With Pride in U.S.A." campaign en­ cial operations and contribute to the prize-winning academician. courages American consumers to look reduction of the Federal deficit. The It was 10 years ago that the 35 signa­ for the "Crafted With Pride" star and council's research center has complet­ tories representing Europe and North "Made in U.S.A.~ ' labels. Launched in ed a final report highlighting major America established the Helsinki Final 1983, the campaign is designed to pro­ methods of increasing efficiency in the Act thereby pledging to respect mote American-made products. Federal credit programs. human rights and fundamental free­ Today I had the opportunity to meet The leaders of the business commu­ doms, including the freedom of with representatives of the Cherry­ nity who are involved with the council thought, conscience, religion ·Or belief, ville, NC, Chamber of Commerce to are performing a great service to our for all without distinction as to race, discuss that community's support for country-by sharing their expertise in sex, language or religion. As the the "Crafted With Pride" program. I financial matters with the Govern­ human rights experts meeting in am personally proud of the role which ment, they are contributing signifi­ Ottawa, Canada, conclude their busi­ the citizens of Cherryville have taken cantly in the effort to control the ness of reviewing the provisions of the in this fight. rising costs of the Federal Govern­ Helsinki accords it is important rthat Five thousand citizens currently ment, and to increase overall Govern­ violations of human rights in the Sak­ reside in Cherryville-1,·000 of those ment efficiency. Almost everyone harov case and other cases be raised at residents depend on the textile indus­ today criticizes the waste and ineffi­ this time. try for their livelihood. The textile in­ ciency in Government, but few do As members of a free nation we must dustry is vital to this town and its citi­ more than complain. The members of speak out against such violations by zens-plants pay 26 percent of the June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16453 town's taxes and buy 63 percent of the the troubled Environmental Protec­ taxpayers of this country will feel the af­ electricity and water. tion Agency for a 3-month period in fects in their future contributions. The chamber's delegation came to early 1983. Then on June 1, 1983, he We respectfully need your reconsideration Washington to offer the Members of of the educational appropriations bill as it was brought to the White House to presently is proposed. this body the opportunity to join them serve as Assistant to the President for Sincerely, in the "Crafted With Pride" campaign Intergovernmental Affairs. SHIRLEY ZAHNO, by displaying red, white, and blue li­ Whatever the branch or level of Students Needing Their Education For cense tags. You should receive your Government, you will find no shortage Their Nation's Future.e tag in the office this afternoon. When of spokesmen willing to testify to the it is received, I ask you to note the abilities and accomplishments of this back of each tag-each Member is talented public servant. It has been REAGAN'S UNTRUTHS ABOUT urged to "Keep America Great and my pleasure to work with Lee, and I MANAGUA Working." am confident that he will continue to I firmly believe that a majority in be an asset to this administration as HON. GEORGE MILLER this body supports that position, and I Under Secretary of the Department of OF CALIFORNIA commend the Cherryville, NC, Cham­ Housing and Urban Development. I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ber of Commerce for its commitment trust the Senate, charged with his con­ to this worthwhile endeavor.• firmation, will feel likewise.e Wednesday, June 19, 1985 e Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, last week the House voted to REVIEW OF THE CAREER OF FUNDING FOR HIGHER EDUCATION send $27 million in so-called humani­ LEE VERSTANDIG, NOMINEE tarian aid to the Contras fighting to FOR HUD UNDER SECRETARY HON. PAT WILLIAMS overthrow the Government of Nicara­ SPEECH OF gua. OF MONTANA I was particularly struck by a com­ HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment made by the distinguished gen­ OF NEW YORK Wednesday, June 19, 1985 tleman from Massachusetts [Mr. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, as we BOLAND] to the effect that never in his Tuesday, June 18, 1985 proceed with the reauthorization proc­ 32 years in the Congress had he heard such frenetic rhetoric from an admin­ e Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I wish ess for the Higher Education Act, I would like to place in the RECORD the istration as on the issue of aid to the to say a few words on behalf of Presi­ Contras. dent Reagan's nominee to the post of following letter sent by students from Montana to the President. This letter The hyperbolic misrepresentation Under Secretary of the Department of used by this administration to describe Housing and Urban Development, Lee well illustrates how disasterous some of the administration's proposals on fi­ the Nicaraguan Government and crit­ L. Verstandig. ics of his policy does us a grave dis­ I have known Lee personally and nancial aid would be for students across this country. service. Can the Congress accurately professionally for some years now, and debate, or the American public com­ I can safely say that he epitomizes STUDENTS WITH A PURPOSE, prehend, a policy and the nature of public service. Able and experienced as EASTERN MONTANA COLLEGE, Billings, MT. U.S. interests when reality is so ob­ both an academic and an administra­ Hon. RONALD REAGAN, scured by the thick cloud of rhetoric? tor, Lee would make an outstanding Washington, DC. Calling the Contras "freedom fight- · addition to the top-level management DEAR PRESIDENT REAGAN: We would like to ers" and the moral equivalent of our team at HUD. solicit our support in our opposition to the Founding Fathers detracts attention Allow me to briefly sketch the high­ proposed higher education cutbacks. We from the real question: Is this adminis­ lights of Lee's career. have already lodged a protest with the Mon­ tration spending millions of dollars on A former professor of history and tana delegation and we have their support. The majority of the students that will be a policy which is likely to lead us to political science at Brown University, affected by the proposed federal Higher military intervention in Nicaragua? Lee served as Assistant Secretary of Education Act are single; one-parent fami­ I commend to the attention of the Transportation from 1981 to 1983. He lies; non-minority; and minority students. House the following article by Abra­ thus worked under Transportation Resources that some of these students have ham Brumberg in the New York Secretary Drew Lewis at the same found to supplement their education are Times of June 18. Mr. Brumberg accu­ time I served on the House Public being threatended by the cutbacks. rately portrays the nature of the cur­ Works and Transportation Committee. On the Eastern Montana campus, ap­ proximately 64 percent of the independent rent debate and the dangers inherent There is no doubt in my mind that in policymaking by bombast: Drew Lewis' successful tenure was due students are under the poverty level ; dependent students CFrom the New York Times, June 18, 19851 under the criteria of poverty are under REAGAN'S UNTRUTHS ABOUT MANAGUA outstanding deputies, very definitely $24,000 annual income, with a percentage of including Lee Verstandig. 67. Your cutbacks will affect this campus

51-059 0-86-21 (Pt. 12) 16454 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 take him seriously might expose them to see as their historical homeland.) The kill­ for example, receives between a $750 the dread suspicion of being "soft on Com­ ings were odious and deserving of condem­ and $400 tax cut, depending on the munism." It took four years for Congress to nation. So may be the Sandinistas' apparent cost of his or her home. curb his power, and by that time, the inflexibility toward the Miskitos' demands. damage to our moral and political sanity­ But how could anyone with any sense of his­ Brookes also shows that the State not to mention to the livelihoods and rep­ tory or moral distinctions compare this with and local tax deduction is regressive utations of thousands of innocent men and the systematic slaughter of six million Jews and primarily helps upper income women-had already been done. and millions of others during the Second Americans. Due to this deduction, Comparisons are proverbially odius, but it World War? upper income taxpayers who itemize is hard not to detect similarities between Whether the President knows it or not, now pay State and local taxes at a rate Senator McCarthy's methods and those his tactics are borrowed from the totalitar­ one-third less than average workers used today by President Reagan in his re­ ian arsenal. He is determined to portray who do not itemize. Is that fair? lentless crusade against "totalitarian" Nica­ those he wishes to destroy in the most lurid ragua. Mr. Reagan has not called his domes­ and reprehensible colors. Convinced, appar­ I don't believe that the President's tic critics "dupes" or "Communist agents"­ ently, that the end justifies the means, he is plan is the perfect plan; but I do com­ although he came close to it earlier this prepared to use even the most unscrupulous mend his courage for introducing a bill month when he claimed that those who tools-including untruths, quarter truths which sharply cuts marginal tax rates oppose his Nicaraguan policy suffer from and travesties of history-to topple the San­ on capital and labor, while improving "illusions about Communist regimes." But dinistas. And then, to top it off, he has the gall to claim that he "remains committed to the position of families and the poor. what is strikingly reminiscent of Senator In my own State of New York, howev­ McCarthy's tactics is the flood of distor­ a peaceful solution in Central America." tions, exaggerations and plain unvarnished Joseph McCarthy fomented and thrived er, two-earner homeowners seem to be lies about the Sandinistas that issues forth on a climate of hysteria in which dissent getting the least benefit from the almost daily from the administration. came perilously close to being identified Reagan plan. We should explore op­ Consider what the President said recently with treason and rational discussion of tions to strengthen the President's to a group in Birmingham, Alabama. There Communism was virtually impossible. The plan, such as lowering rates further, is "incontrovertible evidence,'' he asserted, net effect of Ronald Reagan's anti-Sandi­ restoring the property tax deduction, of "religious persecution of Catholics, Jews nista crusade is likely to be exactly the same. In an atmosphere of extravagent or allowing the two-income earner de­ and Fundamentalists in Nicaragua." The duction. Sandinistas, he went on, are conducting "a mendacity and pressure to "fall into line,'' it campaign of virtual genocide against the becomes increasingly difficult to arrive at These changes strengthen the bill; Miskito Indians." Furthermore "thanks to an objective assessment of what is happen­ insisting on retaining the entire State the Sandinista, Communists, the P.L.O., ing in Nicaragua or to discuss what the tax deduction would derail reform by Libya and the followers of the Ayatollah United States should do about it. losing about $40 billion in tax revenue. Khomeini have now a foothold in Central The blame for this baleful state of affairs And it encourages higher State taxes. America, just two hours from our southern lies not only with the President, but also with those-whether Republicans or Demo­ My New York constituents want border." lower Federal and State taxes; the If any of these charges were even partially crats, conservatives or liberals-who now so true, we should indeed consider taking fear being branded "soft" or "naive" about President's tax reform efforts promise measures against the Sandinistas. But none Communism. It is they, after all, who that for my State. Let's quit the carp­ is. There is no evidence of persecution of permit his contempt for truth to go unchal­ ing and get on with a bipartisan cam­ Fundamentalists, most of whom-rightly or lenged, they who are allowing us to drift paign to strengthen and then pass the wrongly-are in fact rather sympathetic to ever further from a realistic foreign policy. President's tax simplification bill-this the Sandinistas. The claim that the Sandi­ The four destructive and insane years of year. McCarthyism provide a lesson that no one nistas are persecuting the 20 or so Jewish STATE AND LoCAL TAXES ARE REGRESSIVE families in Nicaragua is pure humbug: that, truly interested in "a peaceful solution in anyway was the conclusion of a special Central America" can afford to ignore.e report issued in 1983 by Rabbi Marc H. Tan­ It was perfectly predictable but no less enbaum of the American Jewish Committee. outrageous that on May 26, two days before True, the Sandinistas are engaged in a TAX REFORM IS GOOD FOR President Reagan's speech, liberal Rep. struggle with a good part of the Roman NEW YORK'S WORKING PEOPLE David Obey, from very-high-tax Wisconsin, Catholic hierarchy. But this is a political should abuse his position as chairman of struggle, not a religious one, and both sides HON. JACK F. KEMP the Joint Economic Committee to deliber­ are seeking to resolve it. Several "opposi­ OF NEW YORK ately "disinform" the public that a Congres­ tionist" priests have been shabbily treated. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sional Research Service study showed that During his trip to Nicaragua in 1983, Pope the loss of the state and local tax deduction John Paul II, who sided with the church hi­ Wednesday, June 19, 1985 would cost the average family that itemizes erarchy, was subjected to offensive jeering • Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, Columnist $927-while failing to point out that the and hooting by Sandinista mobs. But to see Warren Brookes recently unmasked CRS study did not consider the savings this as a concerted attempt to "eradicate" these families would get from tax-reform's the religion of 95 percent of the Nicaraguan the argument that the loss of the lower rates. people is to take leave of reality. State and local tax deduction would When questioned about it, CRS research­ So is the claim that the Sandinistas have cost the average family that itemizes ers directly disowned Mr. Obey's release as provided international terrorist organiza­ $927-a falacious and deceiving "disin­ "deceptive." A week later, Mr. Obey re­ tions with a base from which to launch at­ formation" campaign that most re­ leased a study by Arthur Andersen which tacks against the United States. Certainly, if cently has been spread by Representa­ confirmed that even with the loss of the de­ there is any evidence to support such a tive DAVID OBEY, supposedly based on duction, taxpayers in every state would pay charge , for a total marginal French, later a prominent teacher and rate of 56.5 percent. composer himself, founded the society brate their national day. Under the Treasury bill, your marginal in 1786. The society quickly rose to a Portugal is perhaps unique among rate drops to 35 percent, but your state and position of musical excellence, win­ the countries of the world for taking local tax burden jumps to about 12 percent, ning, in 1790, what is believed to be as its national day the anniversary of a combined rate of 47 percent-or 9 points the first organized singing contest a poet, Luis de Camoes, author of lower. held in Am:.?rica when its 20 member "The Lusiads," Portugal's national If you are a $25,000/year itemizer, your male chorus defeated the chorus from epic poem. This work relates the histo­ combined marginal rate will fall from 33 the First Parish Chuch in Dorchester, ry of the nation from its founding- percent to 26 percent, 6 point lower. 850 years ago-through the epoch of The plain truth is, the only people who MA. are "hurt" by killing this deduction are the Other society accomplishments in­ the discoveries when Portuguese navi­ very rich and the big-spending politicians in clude its being chosen as the only mu­ gators discovered two-thirds of the states like New York, Michigan, and Wis- sical society representing early Ameri- world known today. The Portuguese 16456 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 were fishing off the east coast of the Americans learned that the FBI and The documents say the FBI also shared United States in the 15th century. The the National Conference of Bar Exam­ information with local bar character com­ first European to reach California was iners secretly exchanged information mittees in Manhattan and in Washington, Portuguese. about bar applicants for 40 years, in­ D.C.e In contrast to the United States, a cluding, of course, reports about their country whose universality derives political beliefs. CHILDREN IN POVERTY from the fact that it has welcomed im­ The news article by the Associated migrants from all races, nationalities Press which appeared in hundreds of and religions, and whose culture has June 16, 1985, newspapers is as fol­ HON. CARDISS COLLINS been influenced by the diverse origins lows: OF ILLINOIS of its people, Portugal is a country FBI, BAR-GROUP LINK REVEALED IN PAPERS IN THE ~OUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES whose people, language, and culture Wednesday, June 19, 1985 have spread to all parts of the world. NEW YoRK.-The FBI and a prominent lawyers' group secretly exchanged informa­ e Mrs. COLLINS. Mr. Speaker, last The Portuguese left behind, scattered tion about bar applicants for 40 years, in­ throughout the world, the symbols of cluding reports on their political beliefs and month, the Committee on Ways and their presence which can still be seen whether they took civil rights cases, accord­ Means released a study on the topic of in fortifications, churches, monu­ ing to newly disclosed FBI documents. "Children in Poverty." The conclu­ ments, geographic names, vocabulary, The FBI demanded that its arrangement sions drawn in the report confirm art, religion, and customs in all five with the National Conference of Bar Exam­ what many of us have known all continents. Portuguese ranks fifth iners be "treated as strictly confidential," along-that the "have nots" in our so­ among the world's languages and is the documents say, according to an article ciety are the most vulnerable, and, in to be published Monday by the National general, they are resigned to a life of the official language of seven coun­ Law Journal. tries in Europe, South America, and The FBI provided the data because the abject poverty and must languish in Africa, in addition to being spoken in conference had been "extremely coopera­ the depths of our Nation's economic several regions of Asia and the Pacific. tive" with it, according to a 1945 memo, the structure. Portugal's universality is also re­ Journal reported. It said the documents The real tragedy, however, is that vealed in the presence of Portuguese were obtained by the National Lawyers the targets of poverty are children. communities in various countries of Guild through a suit against the federal Nearly one-fourth of American chil­ the world. Here in the United States government. dren are victims, with black and His­ the major concentrations are found in In Washington, D.C., FBI Special Agent panic children disproportionately af­ Jeffrey Maynard said yesterday that he was New England, New Jersey, and Califor­ not aware of the article, and had no com­ fected. The incidence of poverty has nia. Newer communities have been ment. climbed sharply in the period of 1973 founded in Pennsylvania and Florida. The conference, a private group, helps to 1983, translating into almost 14 mil­ Traces of early Portuguese contact are state and local bar associations investigate lion children who are poor. particularly visible in Hawaii. the character of bar applicants. The confer­ These alarming statistics can, at Immigrants from Portugal and Por­ ence in 1976 said it no longer would make least in part, be ascribed to soaring di­ tuguese Americans are proud to be "routine" requests for FBI information, ac­ vorce rates, the growing problem of living and working in the United cording to the documents. teenage pregnancy, and the rising de­ States, but they are also proud of the However, an FBI memo dated the next day said: "Liaison channels between the linquency rates in child support pay­ traditions brought from their home­ Bureau and NCBE remain open concerning ments by fathers who have abandoned land. Several States and cities having matters of mutual interest." their families. Each of these contrib­ large Portuguese communities desig­ The arrangement, which began in 1936, utes to the problem of poverty because nate June 10 as "Portuguese American "is certainly news to me," Sumner T. Bern­ they force children to grow up in Day" and plan major events to cele­ stein, chairman of the Chicago-based con­ single parent homes with limited op­ brate the Portuguese heritage. ference and a lawyer in Portland, Maine, portunity and income potential. As a Portuguese American, I am nat­ told the Journal. "I'm sure it's not happen­ To add insult to injury, we've seen urally extremely proud of my herit­ ing now." an unfortunate downward trend in the age, and proud of the contributions of Information the FBI gave to the confer­ ence included whether bar applicants criti­ funding of social programs, a trend ac­ so many of our fell ow citizens of Por­ cized U.S. Supreme Court decisions, sup­ celerated by this administration. tuguese ancestry to this great ported labor unions, took on civil rights The day after the report was issued, Nation.e cases or attended Lawyers Guild meetings. the House Health Subcommittee and The guild, formed by lawyers who split the Select Committee on Hunger held THE "JUSTICE" DEPARTMENT from the American Bar Association, was ac­ a joint hearing to examine the health cused in the 1940s and 1950s of sympathiz­ impact of hunger on pregnant women ing with communists. It charged the federal HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. government with harassment in a suit filed and children. At the hearing, Dr. Jean Mayer, the distinguished president of OF KENTUCKY eight years ago, which still is pending in a Tufts University and an international­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES federal court in Manhattan. The documents say the FBI's arrange­ ly renowned nutritionist, attributed Wednesday, June 19, 1985 ment with the NCBE was established by the the growing hunger problem in the •Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, more late J. Edgar Hoover, then FBI director. In United States to-as he put it-the and more Americans are becoming exchange for access to NCBE files, the FBI "savage cuts" by the Reagan adminis­ also agreed to conduct security checks on tration in programs such as WIC, aware that the U.S. Justice Depart­ conference employees, without their knowl­ ment is the most politically conscious, edge, the Journal reported. school lunches, and AFDC. And he politically active agency in our Federal In a 1961 memo, Hoover wrote: "One of pointed out that the human suffering Government. the considerations in our making this excep­ caused by these cuts is due to an OMB For years the Federal Bureau of In­ tional service available is the fact that on a budget-cutting machine that operates vestigation has targeted and investi­ reciprocal basis we will, of course, have in a vacuum and fails to assess the gated certain public officials for politi­ access to files for our official need." health and economic consequences of cal reasons. The documents say Hoover had the attor­ its actions. Nothing in the news nowadays about ney general's office authorize each release of information to the NCBE until 1954, And the evidence keeps coming in. the political activities of the FBI when then-Attorney General Herber Brow­ On Monday, the Children's Defense shocks anyone familiar with the work­ nell formerly approved the arrangement. Fund made public a study entitled, ings of our U.S. Justice Department. That was "one of the things I don't re­ "Black and White Children in Amer­ Last Sunday, in a nationally distrib­ member, but it sounds reasonable to me," ica: Key Facts." This latest report fur­ uted Associated Press news article, Brownell, 81, told the Journal. ther documents the pervasiveness of June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16457 poverty in contemporary America and As part of the Citation Program for role models. Parents are able to inter­ underscores the worsening plight of Private Sector Initiatives, a series of act with an adult who is a positive and children in black families. "C-flags," the symbol of "we can and inspiring force to their children. These reports add to the growing we care," are awarded to organizations Over the years, Dr. Mays has been body of evidence which clearly shows that are recognized. On Monday, June active in community affairs. He served the President's policies to be unjust, 24, 1985, I will present a "C-flag" to as the Los Angeles chapter president misguided, and out of step with the Jim Jacobsen, editor of the Birming­ of Operation PUSH; cofounder of Los human needs of this country. They ham News, and Victor Hanson, pub­ Angeles County High Blood Pressure bear out what so many people, includ­ lisher of the News, to be flown atop Foundation and medical director of ing myself, have been saying-that their company's building. Compton Hypertension Foundation. this administration is more concerned Effective private sector initiatives I thank Dr. Mays for his untiring ef­ with financing military weaponry and use all of our society's resources by re­ forts to assist the less fortunate in my less interested in ensuring that food lying on the expertise of businesses community, especially after recent sta­ and other assistance programs, which and nonprofit organizations and by tistics showing the overall percentage are so vital to the homeless and the forming partnerships between the pri­ climb of black children living in pover­ poor, are made available. And they vate and public sectors. ty. Dr. Mays deserves this special rec­ reveal the fallacy of President Rea­ The News has proven that by com­ ognition for his unselfish efforts in gan's so-called safety net, which to me bining the skills, talents, and resources helping to combat the problem of pov­ and millions of Americans is as imagi­ of every sector of society, we can suc­ erty in the black community.e nary as the emperor's new clothes. cessfully help solve a variety of com­ How much more proof does the munity, economic, and social prob­ White House need?e lems. I am proud to have nominated ESTHER KRATZER EVERETT: A the News to receive this special recog­ PROFILE IN COURAGE nition for initiating Project Help. It is THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS' to be congratulated for the contribu­ HON. JACK F. KEMP PROJECT HELP RECOGNIZED tion its efforts have made to our com­ FOR OUTSTANDING VOLUN­ munity. This valuable private sector OF NEW YORK TEERISM initiative has not only made our com­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES munity aware of the hardships faced Wednesday, June 19, 1985 HON. BEN ERDREICH by fell ow citizens, but also has provid­ •Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, it is my OF ALABAMA ed a way for those who are more fortu­ privilege to know Esther Kratzer Ever­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nate to help those who are in need.e ett and call her my friend. She is an Wednesday, June 19, 1985 individual of vision and commitment, TRIBUTE TO DR. JAMES MAYS who has overcome a handicap that e Mr. ERDREICH. Mr. Speaker, it is would leave many without hope. Only imperative, with necessary program re­ HON.AUGUSTUSF.HAWKINS 6 months after undergoing surgery to straint to reduce the Federal deficit, remove her larynx and natural voice, that citizens volunteer their time, OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Esther embarked on a speaking tour, energy and resources to help those less and delivered, with the help of an elec­ fortunate than themselves. The spirit Wednesday, June 19, 1985 tronic microphone, speeches around of volunteerism and compassion for e Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, I the country in her capacity as presi­ others is an important part of our na­ would like to take this opportunity to dent of the New York State Federa­ tional character, particularly among commend Dr. James Mays of Los An­ tion of Republican Women. the people of Jefferson County, AL, geles, the 1984 national recipient of Esther was honored last week by the whom I am privileged to represent in the George Washington Honor Medal National Council on Communicative the House. for Individual Achievement. This Disorders, as the communicatively im­ This year, the White House award was bestowed upon Dr. Mays by paired individual who, by overcoming launched a Citation Program for pri­ the Freedoms Foundation at Valley her handicap, serves as a model for vate sector initiatives to recognize Forge for his founding of the "Adopt­ other impaired individuals. I am sorry businesses, trade associations, and a-Family Endowment", which is dedi­ that I was not able to join her at the community-based organizations for cated to helping the plight of poor award presentation due to the heavy their outstanding private sector contri­ black families by placing them under schedule of legislation on the floor of butions toward solving community the "adoption" of black professionals the House, but I want to bring Es­ problems. I am particularly proud that in the Los Angeles area. These black ther's accomplishments to the atten­ a major newspaper in my district that professionals lend their services and tion of my colleagues, and praise I nominated for the Private Sector Ini­ guidance to their respective adopted Esther as a model for all of us. As an tiatives Program, the Birmingham families. Although the "Adopt-a­ individual of dedication, insight, and News, is being honored for its Project Family Endowment" program is only commitment, Esther continues to Help Program that offers aid to fami­ in its second year, there are many suc­ make a lasting contribution to her lies hard hit by unemployment or ill­ cess stories. Approximately 125 Los country and community, a contribu­ ness. Angeles-area professionals have adopt­ tion from which we all benefit.• Project Help was developed by the ed 25 families. News in December 1982 in response to I would like to cite one success story the hardships caused by record-high for the RECORD. A family with two ARE OUR VETERANS RECEIVING unemployment in Alabama and Jeffer­ teenage pregnant daughters, who both ADEQUATE MEDICAL CARE? son County. The News publishes the dropped out of school, was "adopted" names and needs of families referred as a result of the "Adopt-a-Family En­ HON. NICK JOE RAHALL II by local social agencies, and encour­ dowment" program. One daughter has OF WEST VIRGINIA ages readers to donate financial aid currently completed her first year at IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES either to Project Help's general fund Long Beach City College in the electri­ or to the referring agency. While cal engineering program and the other Wednesday, June 19, 1985 Project Help encourages other sources daughter plans to enter nursing school e Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, recently to help shoulder costs, it will pay as in the fall. my distinguished colleague from West much as is needed to solve the prob­ The adopt-a-family concept gives Virginia, Senator JAY ROCKEFELLER, lem if it is the only source of help. black youngsters professional black sent a letter to Veterans' Administra- 16458 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 tion officials demanding a study which least adequate medical care. The employer being reported out of Ways and Means was requested by Congress 1 year ago has not met this requirement. by the end of the year. on staffing levels at the VA hospital The administrative law judge will take ju­ While I am a strong supporter of tax affiliated with the Marshall University dicial notice that in June, 1984 the United reform, I think that it is important to School of Medicine. States Senate instructed the Veterans' Ad­ ministration in Huntington to report on remember that relative to other com­ The Senate Appropriations Commit­ what constitutes adequate levels of person­ prehensive legislative proposals, we tee instructed the VA in June 1984 to nel resources by January l, 1985. To date have thus far spent little time study­ report by January 1, 1985, "what con­ the Veterans' Administration has not com­ ing in full all the possible results and stitutes adequate levels of personnel plied. side effects of the different plans resources" at five VA medical centers At this unemployment compensation before us. When the Tax Code was affiliated with medical schools. At hearing the employer introduced some ab­ overhauled the last time in the early that time, West Virginia Senator stract meaningless figures that prove noth­ 1950's, it took more than 3 years to ac­ ROBERT BYRD included the Huntington ing. It is also noted that of the five hospitals VA Medical Center after constituents that are being investigated, the Huntington complish. Timely consideration is im­ complained that the center was under­ VA Medical Center has the lowest staffing. perative, but hasty decisions that we This is on the authority of the Associate Di­ will regret later are not in the best in­ staffed. rector of the VA Medical Center. terest of reform. On this point, I would like to bring a For whatever reason that the Veterans' recent ruling by Administrative Law I think that this is especially true of Administration can live with, they are not the provision in Treasury II to tax the Judge James Chambers, of the De­ providing adequate staffing for the proper partment of Employment Security care of sick and disabled veterans. This is a so-called "inside buildup" of perma­ Board of Review in West Virginia to national disgrace. nent life insurance policies. What this the attention of my colleagues. I be­ Since the claimant's reputation was on means is that the policyowner will lieve this ruling has far-reaching im­ the line, she was justified in quitting this have to declare as interest income plications and could set a precedent job. each year the annual increase in his or that may affect VA medical facilities I find this decision and the failure of her policy's cash surrender value. This across the Nation. the VA to submit the report on staff­ would occur even though the poli­ One of my constituents, a resident of ing levels which was requested by Con­ cyowner cannot obtain those increased Barboursville, WV, was employed as a gress in 1984 to be very disquieting. values without forfeiting the guaran­ licensed practical nurse at the VA While it is my understanding that the teed insurance protection provided by Medical Center in Huntington from report has been completed, to my the policy. November 18, 1979 to February 26, knowledge it has not been submitted The tax law governing life insurance 1985. My constituent was assigned to a by the VP.. I fail to understand the was rewritten last year with the pas­ ward that had older patients, most of VA's extended delay in submitting the sage of Stark-Moore and it is my opin­ whom required constant care. The pa­ report. If there are problems-and ion that the subject should not be re­ tient load averaged 40, and the staff there seems to be every indication that opened now. Stark-Moore was the assigned to this ward totaled 4. On sev­ staffing deficiencies do exist-delaying product of compromise by all sides, eral occasions my constituent com­ the report will only further exacerbate the kind of compromise we will need plained to the employer that the lack them. to enact tax reform. Unraveling this of personnel was adversely affecting This entire situation reveals the delicate package will further compli­ the care given to these elderly and dis­ growing tendency of Federal institu­ cate the task ahead. abled patients, however there was no tions and agencies to provide less than Second, with sufficient consideration apparent attempt on the part of the adequate service to the Americans of tax reform, the American people Medical Center to rectify this abhor­ which are entrusted to their care. and Congress will discover that this rent situation. While cost-cutting to reduce the Fed­ proposal marks a radical departure Subsequently, my constituent volun­ eral deficit is desirable, we must also from current tax policy under which tarily left her position at the Medical insure that it is manageable. The offi­ gains are taxed only when they are re­ Center and sought unemployment cials of the VA Medical Center in Hun­ alized. If enacted, the provision of compensation. The Deputy at Hunt­ tington must believe that the reduced Treasury II would be just as unfair as ington, WV, made the following deci­ number of personnel is necessary in taxing unrealized income gains such as sion on April 25, 1985: "Claimant eligi­ light of the Federal economy. However the increases in the value of a house. ble. Claimant not disqualified; left I jmplore the Veterans' Administra­ When the present administration work voluntarily with good cause in­ tion to review staffing levels in order took office, their appeal to the Ameri­ volving fault on the part of the em­ to provide both adequate and quality can people was that the Federal Gov­ ployer." The VA Medical Center as the care to our veterans. Our debt to these ernment could no longer afford to employer appealed this decision. The Americans is a great one. I urge my "take care" of its citizens and that case then went before the West Vir­ colleagues to join me in this effort.e they had to begin "taking care" of ginia Board of Review. I believe that themselves. Life insurance has histori­ my colleagues will find the conclusions cally been the American public's way of the administrative law judge in this TAX REFORM of providing for their own financial se­ case to be most enlightening if not curity in the event of premature death downright disturbing. The following is HON. BOB EDGAR or retirement. the conclusion of the judge. Moreover, this threatened tax on The claimant is a licensed practical nurse, OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the very instrument used by most this is a profession devoted to the care of people to provide for their financial the sick. These professionals have not only Wednesday, June 19, 1985 a right, but a duty to maintain a high security represents a breach of faith degree of care and reputation to protect •Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, now that of major proportions. In addition, be­ their professionalism. the dust is settling on the tax reform cause many older Americans hold The claimant was not satisfied that the issue, I think that it is time to take a more mature life insurance contracts, Veterans' Adminiskation was providing the good, hard look at the proposals ad­ the incidence of this tax would dispro­ staff necessary to insure that disabled and vanced in the President's Treasury II porttonately penalize older Americans. sick veterans were receiving the care that they are entitled to. The claimant com­ plan. I know that tax reform has After examining all of the tax plained several times, however, her concern become an increasingly hot political reform proposals, I make a sharp dis­ went unanswered. issue in the last 6 months since the tinction between those employee bene­ The Veterans' Administration owes a duty Regan proposal was unveiled in De­ fits that protect wage earners from to the veterans of this country to provide at cember and there is talk of a measure the hardships of illness, old age, and June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16459 layoffs, and those that are used pri­ stowed upon them today. Their likely that this would be fiscally possi­ marily to shelter income. By enacting strength and determination are a dem­ ble. Certainly the cost of such alterna­ this proposal, this Nation would be the onstration to us all of what the word tives would be far greater than con­ only one in the world to ignore the im­ "family" means. I ask you and all of tinuing the present deduction. portance of life insurance to society by my colleagues in the U.S. House of H.R. 481 represents a simple, direct taxing the inside buildup of perma­ Representatives to join me in my con­ approach to the problem, and I would nent life insurance. I am opposed to gratulations to this great American urge my colleagues to give it favorable the Treasury Department's proposal family.e consideration when the issue of tax to tax cash values and urge my col­ reform arises. In the case of military leagues to join me in standing up for families, we are talking about tax dol­ fairness on this issue.e HELP FOR THE MILITARY lars, whether for deductions, pay HOMEOWNER raises, allowances, or construction of housing, and we need to decide, in CYRUS AND SARA PETTIS­ HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST effect, which pocket the money is to GREAT AMERICAN FAMILY OF VIRGINIA come from. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Please join me in ensuring that IRS HON. E. CLAY SHAW, JR. Wednesday, June 19, 1985 ruling 83-3 will not result in further OF FLORIDA erosion of military benefits.e IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, in their ruling 83-3, the Internal Reve­ Wednesday, June 19, 1985 nue Service proposed to eliminate the A TRIBUTE TO THE GOSPEL •Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker, I would itemized deduction for interest and AWARDS PROGRAM OF ZION like to take this opportunity to recog­ real estate taxes up to the level of tax­ UNITED METHODIST CHURCH nize the accomplishments of Cyrus exempt military housing allowances and Sara Pettis of Fort Lauderdale paid to military personnel. This action HON. ROY DYSON and their children, who are being hon­ placed in jeopardy the longstanding OF MARYLAND ored today as a "Great American tradition shared by both the Depart­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Family." ment of Defense and the Department Mr. and Mrs. Pettis have raised 7 of the Treasury that service members Wednesday, June 19, 1985 children during their 44 years of mar­ should be entitled to deduct the ex­ e Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise riage. Thanks to their parents' hard penses of homeownership. while the today to commend the actions of the work and example, all seven of the department of the Treasury has now Committee for Gospel Music of the children are college educated. As part indicated that the ruling will not be Zion United Methodist Church, in of the family's teamwork, when the put into effect before 1987 at the earli­ Lexington Park, MD, as they hold older children completed college they est, the threat remains. their Second Annual Gospel Awards contributed to the family's finances so In order to try to resolve this for Program on June 22, 1985. their younger brothers and sisters military families, I introduced H.R. Catherine Butler, Mary Barnes, could be educated. 4572 in the 98th Congress and have re­ Mary Smith, and Idolia Shubrooks, re­ Mr. Pettis, a U.S. postal worker, took introduced it as H.R. 481 in the 99th. alized the need for recognition of dedi­ over baby sitting chores when his wife Rather than attempting simply to nul­ cated persons who have shared their decided to return to school herself. lify the IRS ruling, the bill would spe­ gift of vocal talents for the listening Today, Mrs. Pettis is a teacher's assist­ cifically exempt the variable housing pleasure of all. Forming a committee, ant in the Broward County School allowance from the provisions of para­ they worked with great determination system. In addition to their family graph <1) of section 265 of the Inter­ to organize a program that would ex­ duties, Mr. and Mrs. Pettis are also nal Revenue Code of 1954 by adding a press the appreciation of the commu­ active in their community in Fort Lau­ new sentence: "The preceding sen­ nity for gospel music. Knowing the im­ derdale. Mrs. Pettis has served on the tence shall not apply to income de­ portant role that gospel music played P.T.A. of her childrens' elementary scribed in section 403 of title 37, in our country's early years as people and high schools, raised money for the United States Code, Basic allowance gathered in homes to worship God YMCA and served as a charter for quarters; variable housing allow­ through the blending of their voices in member of the Northwest Federated ance." praise, the committee formed a Gospel Women's Club. The family has also This does not effect a new tax de­ Awards Program in their desire to pre­ worked for such worthy causes as the duction; it simply continues an exist­ serve the gospel music's rich legacy for United Fund, the YWCA and local ing benefit which has long been ac­ future generations. school band and scholarship programs. cepted by both Congress and the ad­ I am proud to present the names of Mr. and Mrs. Pettis have much to be ministration. Military personnel are the following persons recognized for proud of when they consider the ac­ paid directly from Federal funds, their outstanding contributions in the complishments of their offspring. using tax dollars, and if the existing area of gospel music: Zion United Gwendolyn Joyce Pettis Rogers is a deductions were to be terminated, it Methodist Men's Choir, Zion U.M. customer service representative with could well lead to the need for a pay Choir, True Holiness Male Chorus, Pan American Mortgage Corp. in raise for service members, particularly Zion Choralaires, St. Peter's Gospel Miami. Cyrella Pettis Peeler is a reser­ where housing is involved. There is Choir, St. Mary's Community Choir, vation agent with Piedmont Airlines in rarely sufficient base housing in an Sheri Waters, Hoppy Adams, Janine Springfield, VA. Dr. Cyrus R. Pettis is area, and military families should Jones, Tonia Johnson, Feleshia a dentist in Pompano Beach. Mila most certainly be afforded the oppor­ Slaughter, Donna Blackwell, Layressia Sara Pettis Manners is a Kentucky tunity to live in adequate civilian Dickerson, Phyllis Grough, Idolia Shu­ personnel counselor. Lydia Pettis housing within reasonable commuting brooks, Sunlight Gospel Singers, Ida Patton is director of recreation in Pe­ distance of their duty station. Briscoe, James Ball Singers, Mary tersburg, VA. Toba Pettis Leverett is a Were we not to raise military pay to Smith, Reverend Carl Hickerson, saleswoman for United Airlines in Los alleviate the impact of the tax-deduc­ Yvonne Kelly, Mary Barnes, Marsha Angeles and Eugene Pettis earned his tion loss, the alternative would be to Curtis, Earl Young, De Anna Shu­ law degree this year at the University construct additional military housing, brooks, Elvera Gaskins, Catherine of Florida. and at a time when we are seeking Butler, James Diggs, Perry Rothwell, Mr. Speaker, the Pettises and their ways to reduce the deficit and limit Vincent Curtis, True Gospel Singers, children greatly deserve the honor be- Federal expenditures, it is highly un- and John P. Jones. 16460 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1985 Gospel music has served as an inspi­ DAVID ERIC KRUM expensive weapons system, which ar­ ration and source of spiritual fulfill­ guably adds to our national security. ment in the history of our Nation. It HON. NANCY L. JOHNSON Although I would have preferred provides the expression of the love of OF CONNECTICUT passage of the Bennett amendment, I God and man in a melodious blend of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES was pleased that in the alternative the voices that will continue to enrich our Mavroules amendment was adopted. lives. For this reason, I am pleased to Wednesday, June 19, 1985 While the Mavroules amendment fun­ be able to share this occasion with my e Mrs. JOHNSON. Mr. Speaker, I nels further funding toward the devel­ colleagues.• would like to take this opportunity to opment of the MX, it also caps deploy­ recognize Mr. David Eric Krum, an ment at 40 missiles. Our colleagues in outstanding educator from Simsbury, the Senate earlier this month ap­ REV. NORMAN F. MARTIN, S.J. CT. Mr. Krum is the supervisor of the proved a 50 missile cap. social studies department at the Henry I would like to most strongly urge James Junior High School and the di­ the Members appointed to the confer­ HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA rector of continuing education for the ence committee to stand fast for the OF CALIFORNIA Simsbury public school system. 40 missile cap. Our Nation will enjoy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Today, as in years past, Mr. Krum is greater security if we hold MX deploy­ visiting our Nation's Capital. An avid ment to 40, rather than acceding to Wednesday, June 19, 1985 historian and enthusiastic teacher, the Senate's 50 missile cap. Fewer MX Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, today I Mr. Krum has led over 1,300 students missiles in our defence program will e through our capital city as though he mean less reliance upon a destabiliz­ would like to ask that my colleagues were a 200-year native. The apprecia­ ing, vulnerable weapon. The money join with me in honoring Father tion he imparts to his students of our saved, by adopting the lower deploy­ Norman Martin on the occasion of his Nation's extraordinary history is un­ ment figure, would be better spent on 50th anniversary of his entry into the paralled. He knows every bit of history more efficient and proven weapons or Society of Jes us. involved in virtually every attraction the strenthening of our conventional Father Martin has been an active Washington has to offer, and this trip fighting forces. Let's stand fast for member of the Santa Clara communi­ is the annual culmination of a compre­ 40 .• ty including his contributions to our hensive U.S. history course. Over 1,000 fine University of Santa Clara. A students have benefited, not only from native Californian, Father Martin at­ his stimulating classroom teaching, JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL tended the University of Santa Clara but also from his inspiring and excit­ BASEBALL TEAM SALUTED before he entered the Society of Jesus. ing trip to our Nation's Capital. The university's loss of a student was In this age of increased focus on ex­ HON. JOSEPH P. ADDABBO the society's gain of a priest, scholar, cellence in our education system, it is OF NEW YORK community activist, and teacher. thrilling to see David Krum's selfless IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In his 50 years as a Jesuit, Father dedication to educating our future Wednesday, June 19, 1985 Martin has served the society, the leaders. David Krum's students are not only excited about our Govern­ • Mr. ADDABBO. Mr. Speaker, John community and the university well. He ment and their own participation, but Adams High School in Queens recent­ is a accomplished historian specializ­ proud of their distinguished heritage ly won the New York metropolitan ing in Latin America where he has as well. He has been teaching the area baseball championship. In recog­ worked and studied. His scholarship youth of Simsbury for 25 years with nition of that achievement, they will includes service as a Guggenheim his own personal style filled with en­ be receiving awards from the New Fellow and grant work under the Na­ thusiasm and humor. David Krum is York City Public School Athletic tional Endowment for the Humanities. loved and respected by the generations League and the metropolitan public In addition to publishing a number of students, parents and colleagues he school athletic league Catholic high of works on Latin America, Father has touched during the course of his school athletic association on June 26. Martin has shared his knowledge with distinguished career. High school athletics are an impor­ students at the University of Santa I salute Mr. David Eric Krum and tant part of the development of young Clara where he taught Latin American am proud to have him educating our people. They compete not for millions youth. He is truly an inspiration to of dollars, but simply for the thrill of history, Spanish history, and the the competition. Along the way, the course on western civilization. all.• young men of the John Adams High And while making his contributions School baseball team have learned les­ to scholarship and teaching, Father STAND FAST FOR THE 40 sons in sportsmanship, hard work, and Martin has been active in the commu­ MISSILE CAP ON MX perseverence that will serve them well nity. When individuals in the commu­ whether they go on to star for the nity have asked for Father Martin's HON. ROBERT T. MATSUI New York Yankees or make their help, he has not refused them. He was OF CALIFORNIA marks in other professions. To be recognized as the best-in any instrumental in helping others by his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE~ personal efforts in helping on a neigh­ field or at any level of competition­ borhood issue regarding the rerouting Wednesday, June 19, 1985 requires not only natural ability but of the local road. •Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, yester­ strength of character. In saluting the Mr. Speaker, for 50 years Norman F. day this Chamber debated numerous John Adams baseball team for its Martin has dedicated his life to God MX missile amendments as a part of championship season, we can all feel through his vocation, study of history, its deliberations over the 1986 Defense confident that they will carry this authorization bill. strength of character with them teaching, and community service. On I strongly supported the Bennett through life and become constructive the occasion of his 50th anniversary of amendment, which would have deleted members of our society. his entry into the Society of Jesus, I all funding for the MX Program in But it is not only the players who ask you and our colleagues in the U.S. fiscal year 1986 and money not yet ob­ are to be congratulated for their ac­ House of Representatives to join with ligated for fiscal year 1985. At this complishments. The supporting cast, me in congratulating Rev. Norman F. time of tremendous budget deficits we school officials, the manager, and the Martin of the Society of J esus.e should not be pouring money into an coaches all deserve their share of rec- June 19, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16461 ognition. Their leadership and guid­ Gladys' advice to other parents? JUNE 24 ance was as important to this champi­ Know your children well-from their 9:30 a.m. onship as good hitting, pitching, and favorite colors to understanding the Finance fielding.e thinking of their algebra teacher. Taxation and Debt Management Subcom­ When your inquiry involves love and mittee To hold hearings on S. 203, to provide a GLADYS DICKEY FAMILY bonding, your memory is enhanced. one-time amnesty from criminal and HONORED Your children appreciate your knowl­ civil tax penalties, as well as 50% of edge for its genuine love and concern, any interest penalty, for taxpayers HON. HAL DAUB rather than as a threat to their priva­ who pay previous Federal tax under­ cy. payments during the amnesty period, OF NEBRASKA and S. 205, to create a mechanism for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the privi­ taxpayers to designate $1 of any Fed­ Wednesday, June 19, 1985 lege to recognize the Gladys Dickey eral tax overpayment for payment to family and congratulate them on re­ the National Organ Transplant Trust e Mr. DAUB. Mr. Speaker, today is ceiving this prestigious award. Their Fund. the third annual Great American growth, teamwork, and service to SD-215 Family Awards Program, sponsored by others are examples for us all to Judiciary the American Family Society [AFSJ. follow.e Immigration and Refugee Policy Subcom­ The AFS is a nonprofit membership mittee organization dedicated to honor and To resume hearings on S. 1200, to con­ improve the quality of American trol unauthorized immigration into family life. First Lady Nancy Reagan, SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS the United States. honorary chairperson, will present Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, SD-226 awards to nine families honored for agreed to by the Senate on February 10:00 a.m. their exemplary performance under 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a Joint Economic three criteria: how well families nur­ To resume hearings on the impact of system for a computerized schedule of the international debt crisis on the ture individuals growth, how well they all meetings and hearings of Senate U.S. economy. build teamwork in the home; and the committees, subcommittees, joint com­ 2218 Rayburn Building influence of a family's unselfish serv­ mittees, and committees of conference. 2:00 p.m. ice to others in the community. This title requires all such committees Finance I am deeply privileged to congratu­ to notify the Office of the Senate Social Security and Income Maintenance late the Gladys Dickey family of Daily Digest-designated by the Rules Programs Subcommittee Omaha, NE, on being named a 1985 re­ To hold oversight hearings on the im­ ceipient of the Great American Family Committee-of the time, place, and plementation of the Adoption Assist­ Award. purpose of the meetings, when sched­ ance and Child Welfare Act on states and their political tions. Natural Resources Development and Pro­ subdivisions. SD-226 duction Subcommittee SD-106 To hold oversight hearings on the 10:00 a.m. Appropriations JUNE 27 impact on the coal industry of the 9:00 a.m. Office of Surface Mining's proposed Defense Subcommittee rulemaking to collect permit applica­ To resume hearings on proposed budget Armed Services estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the tion fees. Closed business meeting, to consider S. SD-366 Department of Defense. 1271, authorizing funds for fiscal year SD-192 1986 for intelligence activities of the JULY 10 Environment and Public Works United States Government, and rou­ Business meeting, to consider pending tine military nominations. 9:30 a.m. calendar business. Commerce, Science, and Transportation SD-406 SR-222 To hold hearings on S. 1310, to improve Foreign Relations Special on Aging the effectiveness of political broad­ Business meeting, to consider pending To hold hearings on the problems of the casting laws. calendar business. medically uninsured. SR-253 SD-419 SD-628 Labor and Human Resources 2:00 p.m. 9:30 a.m. To resume oversight hearings to exam­ Finance Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs International Trade Subcommittee ine certain barriers to adoption. To hold hearings to examine the en­ To hold hearings on S. 1151, the Farm SD-430 forcement of U.S. prohibitions on the Credit Relief Act of 1985. 10:00 a.m. importation of goods produced by con­ SD-538 Environment and Public Works vict labor. Finance Transportation Subcommittee SD-215 To continue hearings on the President's To hold hearings on proposed legislation Judiciary tax reform proposal. authorizing funds for the Federal Aid Administrative Practice and Procedure SD-215 Highway Program. Subcommittee SD-406 To hold hearings on S. 1145, Rulemak­ 10:00 a.m. ing Procedures Reform Act of 1985. Commerce, Science, and Transportation JULY 11 SD-226 To hold hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on S. 10:00 a.m. 1245, the Fishery Conservation and Environment and Public Works JUNE 26 Transportation Subcommittee 9:30 a.m. Management Act Amendments of 1985. To continue hearings on proposed legis­ Commerce, Science, and Transportation lation authorizing funds for the Feder­ Aviation Subcommittee SR-253 al Aid Highway Program. To hold hearings on S. 1017, to provide Energy and Natural Resources SD-406 for the transfer of the Metropolitan Public Lands, Reserved Water and Re­ Washington Airports to an independ­ source Conservation Subcommittee JULY 12 ent airport authority, and S. 1110, to To hold oversight hearings on recrea­ provide for the award of grants to the 9:30 a.m. tion fees as authorized in the Land Energy and Natural Resources Washington Metropolitan Airports for and Water Conservation Fund Act of certain capital expenditures. Public Lands, Reserved Water and Re­ 1965. source Conservation Subcommittee SR-253 SD-366 Finance To hold hearings on S. 720, to establish To continue hearings on the President's Environment and Public Works a permanent boundary for the Acadia tax reform proposal. Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee National Park in the State of Maine. SD-215 To continue hearings on S. 836, to revise SD-366 Governmental Affairs licensing procedures for production 10:00 a.m. Oversight of Government Management and utilization facilities for nuclear Environment and Public Works Subcommittee material, and S. 16, to establish a Na­ To hold oversight hearings on the imple­ To continue hearings on the Depart­ tional Academy for Nuclear Power mentation of the Asbestos School ment of Labor's enforcement of the Safety to provide training to civilian Hazard Abatement Act