July 24, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20735 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS AN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3678 TO The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers which promoted energy independence AUTHORIZE CORPS OF ENGI and the administration both strongiy the solar and conservation tax credits NEERS DISPOSAL OF HOPPER support this amendment which would were denied. Medicaid benefits, which DREDGING EQUIPMENT authorize the Corps of Engineers to provides health care for many of the dispose of inactive, retired, or excess Nation's needy, were tightened. HON. JOHN B. BREAUX dredges which are under its control. I urge my colleagues to read this ar OP' LOUISIANA Such disposal shall be through sale ticle. Congress will no doubt have to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES or lease to governments under the draft another law in the 99th Congress Tuesday, July 24, 1984 Corps of Engineers foreign technical to reduce the deficit by a greater assistance program, to Federal or amount. Will this mean yet another e Mr. BREAUX. Mr. Speaker, Con State maritime academies for training box of goodies for the privileged of gress in 1978 enacted Public Law 95- purposes, or through sale of such ves this Nation? 269. One of the primary purposes of sels or equipment solely for scrap to The article follows: this legislation was to induce the pri foreign or domestic interests. The vate dredging industry to build corps' contracts for sale or lease of its TAX DODGERS FINDING SHELTER ON CAPITOL modern, technologically advanced retired dredges shall also contain a HILL equipment instead of having the Gov condition that such dredges shall not ernment expend large sums of public be resold for use within the United In the wee hours one morning a few days funds to build new Government-owned States for the purpose of dredging.e ago, when Congress was struggling to reduce dredges. the federal deficit, a bunch of ~illionaire The private dredging industry has tax dodgers proved that taxes are not as in responded by investing hundreds of THE SPECIAL INTEREST TAX evitable as death. ACT OF 1984 Not if you have friends who are writing millions of dollars in new hopper the tax law. dredges and other new dredging equip With most of Congress and the media ment. Not only has private industry HON. RICHARD L. OTIINGER asleep, House Ways and Means Committee provided the funds for construction of OF NEW YORK Chairman Dan Rostenkowski slipped into a new dredging fleet but it has also es IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the tax bill a provision that gives a small tablished in the marketplace that it group of accused tax cheaters-most from can do the work at a substantially Tuesday, July 24, 1984 Rostenkowski's home state-privileges en lower cost than was previously done e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I joyed by no other taxpayers. The law of this land is that every taxpay by corps-owned equipment. would like to bring to my colleagues' er must bear the responsibility of proving Industry's response to Public Law attention an article "Tax Dodgers the deductions claimed on the annual Form 95-269 and its performance in carrying Finding Shelter on Capitol Hill" from 1040 are legitimate. If the Internal Revenue out the national dredging require the July 2 Washington Post which Service questions the deduction you took ments for the Corps of Engineers, is a roots out only one of the dozens of for medical expenses, you have to prove you classic case of the great virtues of our special interest tax breaks included in were sick. free enterprise system. the final version of the Deficit Reduc But that rule of law will not apply to some The amendment which I have of tion Act of 1984. This bill, designed to 200 wealthy commodity traders who have been accused by the Internal Revenue Serv fered will promote and protect the in reduce the $200 billion deficits by rais ice of perpetrating one of the most costly vestment by private industry in its ing $50 billion over the next 3 years, is tax dodges ever discovered. new dredging fleet and equipment. If riddled with designer tax exemptions For these privileged individuals, there will the corps' retired dredges were offered specifically tailored for some of the be a presumption that certain deductions for sale for use in the United States at wealthiest corporations and individ they have claimed are legitimate. Only if a fraction of the cost of construction uals in the Nation. At a time when the the IRS can prove otherwise will the deduc of new modern equipment, it would deficits are threatening the financial tions be denied. discourage contractors from building stability of our Nation, it is uncon Outraged IRS and Treasury Department officials say that never before has Congress new dredges and defeat the purpose of scionable that Congress' tax writing turned the tax law upside down for the ben Public Law 95-269. committees can justify including such efit of a special-interest group. The Corps of Engineers needs this goodies which will cost the Federal Rostenkowski's midnight amendment authorizing language in order to pro Treasury billions of dollars. could force the government to throw out ceed with their plans to dispose of The article's author, Mr. Jerry court cases that took five years to prepare their old dredges at the earliest possi Knight, focused on a tax dodge for the and that the IRS was all but certain to win. ble time. The cost to the corps to constituents of members of the House These are not small potatoes cases. The IRS retain these retired dredges has grown Ways and Means Committee. This tax says one Chicago commodity broker owes It about $8 million and many of the 200 owe significantly. has cost the corps over break has been afforded to 200 or so more than $1 million apiece. If all the cases $3 million during the last few years to commodity traders in Chicago at a have to be dropped, it will cost the govern retain these old dredges. cost of $300 million to the Govern ment $300 million. The corps is anxious to dispose of its mEmt. While this may seem like pea Worse yet, Rostenkowski's bailout means retired or excess dredges with the ex nuts relative to the size of the Federal that two taxpayers who arranged virtually ception of the hopper dredges Hains deficit, it translates into million dollar identical commodity deals to avoid paying and the Markham which will be re breaks for these individuals. · taxes will be treated differently. tained in a standby readiness status at Yet while the wealthy Americans Ordinary investors will have to show they were trying to make money, not simply its facilities in Cleveland, OH, until with friends on the tax writing com create losses to claim as tax deductions. But the Chief of Engineers determines mittees are able to dodge taxes, most thanks to Rostenkowski, "professional com there is no longer any need to retain Americans will find themselves sad modity traders and persons who regularly these dredges on the Great Lakes and dled with greater IRS bills. For in trade commodity futures contracts" will be notifies Congress accordingly. stance, the extension of vital programs presumed to have a profit motive.
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 20736 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 24, 1984 In many cases that distinction will mean gladly carried water for the mistreated mil of the Arrow, and has earned his Boy the brokers who invented this tax dodge will lionaires among his constituents. Scout life guard medal. get away with using it, but their clients will To their credit, Reagan administration have to pay taxes. representatives from the Treasury objected I would like to commend the par The transactions at Issue are so transpar to the fix. But with a multibillion-dollar def ents, Scout leaders, and friends of ently designed only to avoid taxes that the icit bill at stake, they could not afford to these two young men for encouraging IRS has won virtually every case it has publicly challenge the powerful committee them in their pursuit of excellence. I taken to court challenging the deals known chairmen over a pet loophole. wish to congratulate Scott and Prem as "commodity tax straddles." The commodity straddle fix is an indict and wish them continued success in It takes a legal brief and a couple of ment not only of the people who pass tax the future.e charts to explain the details of even a laws but also of the entire tax-writing proc simple straddle, but the basic idea is easy: ess. So long as tax laws are drafted in mid At the end of the year you set up two paral night madness, these sordid little para lel deals by simultaneously buying and sell graphs will proliferate like Steven Spiel DON'T NEGLECT THE PORTS ing commodity futures contracts. On one berg's Gremlins. Shake some money on deal you will make money; on the other you them and they multiply. will lose about the same amount. You do The incident also is an embarrassing ex HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON the losing deal in December and claim your ample of the way the press covers the legis OF CALIFORNIA losses on this year's taxes. You complete the lative process. The $300 million fix was re profitable deal in January and recover all ported as routine tax-writing by most media, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the money you lost. Of course you owe including this newspaper. Only the Wall Tuesday, July 24, 1984 taxes on your January profits, but if you Street Journal warned in advance of the repeat the straddle every year, you can raid on the Treasury, and committee aides e Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, as avoid paying indefinitely. assured other reporters the warnings were you will recall, just prior to recessing Structuring the straddle so you don't lose needless because the provision would not be for the Independence Day/Democratic more money than you want to and are sure included. The New York Times decided the news was not fit to print, treating it not as a National Convention district work to regain your profits is not easy, but Chica period, the House overwhelmingly go commodity traders long ago mastered a scandal but as a joke about "commodes" virtually foolproof method known as the and "twaddle" on its Washington Talk page. adopted H.R. 3678, the Water Re butterfly straddle. Twaddle indeed.e sources, Conservation, Development, The IRS caught wind of it and in 1977 and Infrastructure Improvement and Issued a ruling casting doubt on all straddle A TRIBUTE TO MAINE EAGLE RehabilitatJ.on Act of 1983. deductions. In 1981 Congress closed the SCOUTS In light of the fact that the Con loophole tighter by requiring investors to gress has not adopted a comparable report their December losses and their Jan uary profits as one transaction-whose net HON. JOHN R. McKERNAN, JR. water development bill since 1970, it is tax effect was zero. or MAINE important that the Senate quickly By that time, the IRS had begun target IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES follOW the House's lead on this matter. ing returns claiming large commodity trad Unfortunately, I continue to read re- ing losses, turning up billions of dollars of Tuesday, July 24, 1984 ports that the administration-for var- dubious deductions. Pending in tax court • Mr. McKERNAN. Mr. Speaker, I ious reasons-is strongly opposed to are $2 billion worth of straddle cases-$300 million against professional traders, the re would like to join my colleagues in H.R. 3678 and is hardly thrilled with mainder from their clients. honoring Scott Bolduc, from Troop the Senate's omnibus water develop- One by one, the IRS has taken the tax 312 in North Berwick, and Prem ment bill. payers to court and ordered them to prove Thomas from Troop 124 in Lisbon, we all know that time is rapidly run the commodity trades where made with a both of whom have been chosen to re- ning out on this 98th Congress. Thus, profit motive or pay up. Only last week Tax ceive the coveted Eagle Scout Award. it is imperative that the President and Court Judge Arthur Nims gave the govern Scott Bolduc, the son of Dale and his key advisors end talk of vetoing ment another major victory by ruling there Dolly Bolduc of North Berwick, H.R. 3678-or a comparable measure was no profit motive in government securi became a Scout in November 1979. ties investments arranged by a tax shelter Since that date, Scott has worked his and, instead, concentrate their efforts promoter. way from the rank of Tenderfoot to on getting a water development bill But while Judge Nims was nailing the barn door shut, Rostenkowski opened the the rank of Life. He finished his Eagle out of the Senate. Scout project this past February. This If a water development bill is not way for the professional traders to escape signed into law by the President this without paying. project established child identification year, it would be another serious blow The tax committee's actions dismayed and folders for each child residing in to our Nation's ports. Even though our demoralized government attorneys who North Berwick, from kindergarten to spent years building their case against com grade six. This study included dental, foreign trade is at record levels, the modity tax cheating only to have their ef medical, and fingerprint charts. Scott, President has so far refused to make forts destroyed by a political fix: with the aid of North Berwick police, the commitment that is needed to de There is no · doubt that Rostenkowski's amendment is a fix, but it is a legal fix. The spent many hours fingerprinting and velop our ports allowing them to way the game is played in Washington, you gathering information to attain his accept a new generation of container can do anything you want for your friend as goal. ships. And, it goes without saying that long as you don't get caught taking a brief Scott is also active in soccer, base- the U.S. Customs Service collects bil case full of cash. Campaign contributions ball, band, show choir, and the barber- · lions of dollars annually in duties, don't count. shop quartet at Noble High School. He taxes, and fees from commercial cargo Campaign cash routinely flows to influen is a member of the National Junior arriving in our ports. tial tax writers from Chicago commodity traders. Local boy Rostenkowski gets their High Honor Society, and is a deacon in In short, our ports produce tremen money even when he has no serious opposi the First Congregational Church in dous revenue for the Treasury, provide tion. Ways and Means member Marty North Berwick. millions of jobs, and promote our na- Russo-another Illinois Democrat-is Prem, the son of Rev. C.V. and Jessy tional defense. It is in the Nation's among the industry's leading advocates in Thomas of Lewiston, maintains a high best interest that the Federal Govern the House. Democratic fund raiser Tony honors average at Philips Academy in ment renew its longstanding commit Coelho cultivates the Chicago crowd like Andover, MA. While ranking among ment to port development and 1m prize tomato plants. And this was a bipartisan fix. Bob Dole the top five students in his class, Prem provement. An excellent editorial representing Senate Republicans in the is also on the academy's swim team. which appeared in the July 10, 1984 smoke-filled room-endorsed the bailout. n He began his Scouting career 5 years edition of the Journal of Commerce on linois Republican Sen. Charles Percy-run ago. In 1979, he was Scout of the Year this important topic follows. I urge all ning scared in his reelection campaign- for his troop. He is a member of Order of my colleagues to read it. July 24, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20737 DON'T NEGLECT THE PORTS ment resolution and act. And that's not only Manufacturers has stated that rough The U.S. House of Representatives made too bad, it's downright dangerous economi ly 70 percent of everything we make in commendable progress late last month cally. this country must compete with for when it overwhelmingly passed a long-de Just as the primary users of the nation's eign products, adding that our high layed and badly needed port development port facilities aren't the only ones to benefit tech industry, which now accounts for bill. from them, neither will the primary users Unfortunately, a bill with the same goal be the only ones hurt when those facilities nearly 44 percent of manufactured ex is stalled in are allowed to languish in neglect. Someone ports, is especially susceptible to for the Senate Finance Committee because else will hurt, too, as the limited size of eign market innovation. In light of backers fear amendments attached to it will American ports hampers American trade this pressure on our domestic indus kill it. with the world: the nation.e try, I admire the efforts of the Justice And the White House, departing drastical Department to clarify the treatment ly from its advocacy of increased trade op of foreign competition in merger anal portunities for the United States, is NATIONAL CHEESEBURGER staunchly opposed to the House bill and WEEK ysis. hardly thrilled with the Senate version. J. Paul McGrath, in his remarks So it looks now as if port development will HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOU before the New York Roundtable, be put back on the shelf it has occupied for stated that the Justice Department a decade or more-while the dredging prob OF KENTUCKY will not include existing imports in de lems of the nation's ports continue to fester. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fining markets and calculating the It is a true pity-and a real danger. Tuesday, July 24, 1984 Herfindahl Indices, and also will con The steady growth of the United States into a world power was fueled by commerce. e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, today I sider the effects of such trade re Throughout America's history, the federal am introducing a resolution proclaim straints as a separate factor in inter government realized that it was in the na ing the week of October 7-13, 1984 as preting the significance of market con tion's interest to accept responsibility for "National Cheeseburger Week" in centration and market share data. developing and maintaining the nation's honor of the 50th anniversary of the I applaud the work of J. Paul navigable waters-deepening, widening, ex creation of the cheeseburger. McGrath and the Justice Department tending and maintaining the channels that I have offered this resolution be in a time when our domestic industries allow merchant ships to use the ports. are under fire from foreign competi Because of disputes, politicking and tight cause the cheeseburger was "created" finances, port development languished in October 1934 at Kaelin's Restau tion. Furthermore, I encourage and during the 1970s. The list of unfinished rant in my hometown of Louisville, support additional work that will con projects and proposals that were authorized KY. My family and I ate often at Kae tinue to take strides toward improved but not funded swelled past the $50-billion lin's over the years and always cheese domestic competition.• mark. burgers were the main fare. Then Mr. Reagan took over as president Today cheeseburgers are as much a and brought with him a new concept: that TERRORISM AT THE GAMES ocean commerce mainly benefits those in part of American tradition as baseball, volved in it, and that those involved thus hot dogs, and apple pie. Cheeseburgers should pay for the cost of federal services go with families and picnics and barbe HON. PHIUP M. CRANE like port development through some form of ques. Cheeseburgers are a part of our OF ILLINOIS user fees. daily vocabulary, and they provide a The legistative efforts and battles that re well-balanced and inexpensive meal in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sulted eventually spawned a bill authored this era of eating on the run. Tuesday, July 24, 1984 by Rep. Robert A. Roe, D-N.J., which basi I hope my colleagues will join me in cally would use U.S. Customs revenues to e Mr. PHILIP M. CRANE. Mr. Speak pay for full construction and maintenance supporting this resolution.e er, according to the Soviets, their deci of channels under 45 feet deep and half the sion to withdraw from the Olympic cost of work on big port's 45-foot and deeper NEW MERGER GUIDELINES games this summer in Los Angeles was channels; and the one authored by Sen. based on their concern over inad James Abdnor, R-S.D., which makes much greater use of user fees. The former was HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER equate security measures. Many in passed by the House 259-33; the latter is OF ILLINOIS this country have since speculated bottled up in committee. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that their decision may, in fact, have Now, the pundits say, with barely two been based more on political motiva months left to this session of Congress Tuesday, July 24, 1984 tions than anything else. Perhaps they there is little likelihood of the Senate bill e Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise were willing to sacrifice the glory of being passed, the differences between it and today to commend the Justice Depart the Olympics in order to damage the Roe bill being ironed out by a confer ment on its efforts to revise the President Reagan's reelection chances ence committee, and a threatened veto avoided. merger guidelines so that they more this fall. Or maybe they were still Meanwhile, however, the international accurately reflect current internation fuming over President Carter's 1980 ocean-shipping industry is moving forward al market conditions. By reviewing the boycott. These and many other rea with a new generation of containerships provisions of the Sherman and Clay sons have been suggested to explain that offer new economics of scale, a genera ton Antitrust Acts, the Justice Depart their rather flimsy excuse of "security tion that's sure to grow in number just as it ment has created new merger guide threats" to their Olympic contingent. ships have increased greatly in size over lines that will help boost the interna Interestingly enough, they have con those that until now have represented the norm. tional competitive posture of domestic tinued to send teams to this country to There's only one problem: the ships are so industries while retaining the original participate in other sporting events. big, U.S. ports will have difficulty handling nature of those acts, which were de But in a recent editorial, Mr. Eman them-to say the leas~without new dredg signed to protect consumers from anti uel Winston raises another, much ing. competitive behavior. The review of more sinister possible reason for the It is ironic that an administration that these two basic antitrust laws, which Soviet boycott. It may be that the So claims to be so devoted to the economics of are 94 and 70 years old respectively, is viets are aware of some imminent ter trade is so blind to the mechanics of trade. a necessary and important step toward rorist activity that will take place at Indeed, one would think that an administra the creation of a legal climate which the games. It may even be that they tion that wants to increase trade would be willing to support the cost of the physical promotes competition and innovation. are behind the activities of some ter work needed to handle increased trade. Our domestic industry is faced with rorist group. Either way, they will be Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be economic competition that is both as pleased with the results. Their ath the case. Nor does all of Congress appear sertive and inventive. Alexander Trow letes will be safely at home, and their able to accept the need for port-develop- bridge of the National Association of boycott will apparently be justified. 20738 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 24, 1984 We need to be aware of this possibil The Soviet Ministry of Defense even In a nutshell, a terrorist attack upon the ity and prepare accordingly. If we do awarded Palestine Liberation Organization Olympics may be a component of the gener not, we can be sure that attempts will terrorists graduation certificates after they al offensive against the West described by completed training at camps in the U.S.S.R. KGB defector "Maj. Korolyuk" in 1981 to be made to disrupt the games, and the Terrorists also received training in Bulgar West German debriefers. results might very well be tragic. The ia, Vietnam, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and The Soviets are aware that they can Olympics pose an almost irresistible other communist bloc satellltes. In short, in escape direct responsibility and they have target to a terrorist, and the Soviets, controvertible proof has been supplled to proved that inciting domestic hysteria and of course, have been in the terrorist link Soviet control over terrorism in what fomenting instability are successful means business long enough to know that. I Clauswitz would term as an instrument of of influencing events. The U.S. capitulation hope each of you will take a few mo pollcy. to Syrian-8oviet sponsored terrorism in Leb ments and read Mr. Winston's timely The Soviets constantly test and probe the anon and the growing trend torward Ameri thoughts on this matter. United States for strategic and polltical op can isolationism, even in our own backyard, portunities. They have succeeded in mask lend credence to their strategy. [From the Chicago Sun-Times, July 3, 19841 ing their covert role in terror and they are Whatever the true motivations of the TERRORISM THilEAT HANGS OVER GAMES probably surprised at the lack of effective Soviet Union for boycotting the Olympics, reactions from the Free World to their ac the United States must react to the nefari The Soviet decision to withdraw from the tivities. ous behavior of the Soviet leadership that Summer Olympics was certainly not rash The disgust over the downing of the KAL has for the most part gone unchecked. and was undoubtedly the result of months 007 civillan aircraft was shortlived. It is The Free World must take a united stance of contemplation by the Communist Party hardly mentioned anymore. Slmllarly, the against state-supported terrorism or live leadership. The Soviets simply do not act in Soviet role on the attack on the pope was with the dangerous consequences of even haste; thus, such a decisive action must played down despite the fact Mahmet Ali wider spread cowardly violence. have been planned long ago. Agca admitted he cooperated with the Bul Andrei Sakharov, in a letter smuggled to Soviet athletes have been participating in garian secret police and received tralnlng in the New York Times several years ago, in Western competitions for years and have a PLO course. structed us on this notion: "The world is never reacted in such a manner to security The Soviets have also escaped criticism facing very critical times and cruel cata arrangements. True, fear of defections and over their connections and support of the clysms because the West and developing steroid detections are real concerns but are Red Brigades, Sandanistas, IRA and the ter countries do not show the required firm problems with which the Soviets could con rorist Islamic groups who with Syrian support attacked the Marine totalitarian challenge. . . . It is critically im Other answers to the boycott include re compound and murdered 241 Americans portant that the common danger be fully taliation for the American 1980 boycott, and with impunity. understood and then everything else will to put political pressure on Ronald Reagan The reasons for the communist bloc fall into place.'' and dlmlnish his chances for reelection in hp.ving escaped an uproar over the use of Perhaps the Soviet decision to abandon terrorist measures is twofold: the West is November. simply reluctant to confront the U.S.S.R. in the Games will be conducive to a Western However, the sacrifice of abandoning the the name of detente. attitude of coherent circumspection. It is Olympic quest seems to be too great for The killer of Lord Mountbatten got Soviet time to pay heed to Sakharov's words and them to act upon that reasoning. Enter an tralnlng in Libya, and terrorists worldwide recognize our worst fears for the Los Ange other hypothetical explalnlng withdrawal: boast of their relationship with the commu les Olympic Games.e the prospect of a major act of terrorism at nists, yet there is the myopic belief by the the Los Angeles Games. majority that to call a spade a spade will Indeed, the Olympics afford the terrorist only exacerbate superpower relations. CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK a most sought after world showcase to in Against the backdrop of Soviet behavior flict violence and create hysteria. The path and motives, it is logical to conclude the HON. FRANK ANNUNZIO ological personality searches for public Kremlin may have knowledge of a major events to call attention to their "causes." terrorist operation planned for the Olym OF ILLINOIS Slmllarly, extremist mentalities such as pics. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES those Iranians who occupied the U.S. Em They may wish to undermine the U.S. bassy or the Moslem fanatics who engage in claim for adequate security, but it is much Tuesday, July 24, 1984 kamikaze terrorist acts are likely suspects more likely that they pulled out to lift the e Mr. ANNUNZIO. Mr. Speaker, I rise for wanton exploitation of the Games. restraints of several of the many organiza to commemorate the 26th annual ob But aside from the "crazies" who are a tions who have been planning incidents at servance of Capitive Nations Week real threat because of their irrational and the Games. perfidious behavior, Olympic security will Although the Soviets are the major spon and to remind the world of the many have to prepare for an even greater peril; sors for terrorism, they are not in complete nations suffering under the burden organized international terrorism. This also control of the activities of the individual some oppression of the Soviet Union. may be the ultimate reason for Soviet with groups. Moslem fanatics or the Puerto During Captive Nations Week we take drawal. Rican FALN have in the past acted on their time to reflect on the many freedoms Five years ago. Sen. Henry Jackson own. But perhaps the most likely suspects and liberties that we in America often summed up the Soviet role in international a.re the Libyans. take for granted, and to rededicate terror: "While there is still debate over the Last November, the State Department in extent to which the Soviet government, dicated it had evidence of a plot by Moam ourselves to the support of those mil either directly or through its allies and sat mar Khadafy to assassinate the president, lions living in captive nations who can ellites exercises central control over certain vice president and the secretaries of defense only dream about the day when they terrorist organizations, the view of the ma and state. Khadafy has made no secret too will know freedom. jority is that Soviet bloc weapons constitute about his vendetta for the United States On several recent occasions, we have an important element in the scale and suc and threatened war on our 6th Fleet after been painfully reminded of the little cess of terrorism. the Gulf of Sidra incident in 1981 where regard that the Soviet Union holds for "Whatever the ideological or nationalistic American planes downed Libyan fighters in human rights. The culmination of aspirations of individual terrorist groups, a short-lived dogfight. they have a common interest, which they Now, with the announcement of Libyan Communist atrocities occurred in Sep share with the Soviet Union, in destroying hit squads sent across the globe to ellmlnate tember 1983 when the Soviet Union the fabric of democratic, lawful societies all dissenters, the United States will have to in shot out of the sky a Korean jetliner, over the world." crease its surveillance on those extremists. killing 269 innocent victims, including Since Jackson made this analysis, the In a worst-case scenario, it could be that a Member of Congress. State Department has released intelligence the Soviets have knowledge of a planned nu More recently, the Soviet Union de data that confirms Soviet support for large clear or biological act of terror. cided to boycott the 1984 summer scale terrorist activities in Latin America However, despite all the precautions and and the Mideast. The Israell invasion of comprehensive arrangements, it is almost Olympic games in Los Angeles. The Lebanon also uncovered an elaborate train impossible to prevent a few individuals from athletes from the Soviet Union, and ing network in which terrorists from all carrying out an act of sabotage with sophis from many other captive nations who over the globe receive instruction from ticated weaponry capable of massive de have been forced to go along with this Soviet advisers on demolltions and weapons. struction. boycott, have been deprived of one of July 24, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20739 the few opportunities to express them [From the Federal Register, July 18, 19841 thorized and requested the President to des selves by competing against other ath PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, PROCLAMATION ignate the third week in July as "Captive letes of the world. This is only because 5223 OF JULY 16, 1984 CAPTIVE NATIONS Nations Week." WEEK, 1984 Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, Presi the Kremlin fears that their own ath dent of the United States of America, do letes may choose to defect, after expe 15, 1984, as Captive Nations Week. I invite country. A PROCLAMATION the people of the United States to observe In the 26 years since President Ei Once each year, all Americans are asked this week with appropriate ceremonies and senhower first designated the third to pause and to remember that their liber activities tot reaffirm their dedication to the week in July as Captive Nations Week, ties and freedoms, often taken for granted, international principles of justice and free are forbidden to many nations around the dom, which unite us and inspire others. although the Communists have been world. America continues to be dedicated to In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set ruthless in their attempts to destroy the proposition that all men are created my hand this 16th day of July, in the year the culture, the national identity, and equal. If we are to sustain our commitment of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty the religion of the many peoples of to this principle, we must recognize that the four, and of the Independence of the United the captive nations, their individuality peoples of the Captive Nations are endowed States of America the two hundred and remains, and their desire to achieve by the Creator with the same rights to give ninth. self-determination continues. A list of their consent as to who shall govern them RONALD REAGAN. the captive nations follows: as those of us who are privileged to live in Mr. Speaker, we must continue to Freedom. For those captive and oppressed condemn the Soviet Union for its nu Established captive nations list fCNL), peoples, the United States of America merous human rights violations, and country, people, and year of Communist stands as a symbol of hope and inspiration. domination This leadership requires faithfulness toward we must renew our efforts on behalf our own democratic principles as well as a of millions of men, women, and chil Armenia 1 ...... 1920 commitment to speak out in defense of man dren, enslaved against their will, in Azerbaijan 1 ...... 1920 kind's natural rights. order that they may obtain the free Byelorussia 1 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1920 Though twenty-five years have passed doms that are rightfully theirs. On the Cossackia 1 ...... 1920 since the original designation of Captive Na occasion of the 26th observance of Georgia 1 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1920 tions Week, its significance has not dimin Captive Nations Week, I am proud to ished. Rather, it has undeniably increased Idel-Ural 1 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1920 join with my constituents in the 11th especially as other nations have fallen North Caucasia 1 ...... 1920 under Communist domination. During Cap Congressional District of Illinois Ukraine 1 ••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1920 tive Nations Week we must take time tore which I am honored to represent, and Far Eastern Republic 1 ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1922 member both the countless victims and the all Americans, in praying that one day Turkestan 1 ••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1922 lonely heroes; both the targets of carpet the courageous people who suffer Mongolia ...... 1924 bombing in Afghanistan, and individuals under Communist totalitarianism will such as imprisoned Ukrainian patriot Yuriy know the blessings of self-determina Estonia 1 ••••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1940 Shukhevych. We must draw strength from tion and a free homeland. As the Latvia 1 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1940 the actions of the millions of freedom fight strongest democracy in the world, we Lithuania 1 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1940 ers in Communist-occupied countries, such must set the example, and increase Albania...... 1946 as the signers of petitions for religious our efforts, to combat Communist op Bulgaria...... 1946 rights in Lithuania, or the members of Soli darity, whose public protests require person pression wherever it appears on this Yugoslavia a brother about to move into his own home It's all in the family, especially for Dr. for the first time. Tuesday, July 24, 1984 Robert and Myriam Wolf of North Miami Eric is the reason Ken helped develop a • Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, on Febru Beach. newspaper for handicapped adults while he The entire Wolf clan will be honored by was at North Miami Beach High School, ary 29 Federal District Court Judge First Lady Nancy Reagan as one of the and helped organize a peer-support group Miles W. Lord, in a case involving a "Great American Fam111es," June 27 at the product liability against the A.H. White House. for students with handicapped siblings in his freshman year at Brandeis University. Robins Co., delivered from the bench "It's really exciting," Mrs. Wolf said an eloquent statement about the ne Monday. But most of all, Eric is the reason Bob and Some 200 families around the country Myriam Wolf of North Miami Beach have cessity for corporations in this society were nominated for the honor, said K. spent the past five years working to estab to meet their moral as well as bottom Wayne Scott, president of the American lish a Dade County chapter of the Associa line business obligations. Family Society and program coordinator. tion for the Advancement of the Mentally Apparently angered by the judge's Nine fam111es were chosen winners. The Handicapped . statement, the company has since Wolfs were selected for their family team The amazing thing about the Wolfs, say sought an official reprimand of Judge work and community service. friends and associates, is that they've taken Lord before a five-judge investigative They are best known as leaders and devel the kind of situation that wrenches most panel. Apparently, the Robins Co. opers of a community support system that families apart and turned it into a benefit seeks to have his statement in effect enables mentally handicapped adults to live not only for themselves, but for the commu as independently as possible in the commu nity at large. stricken from the record. They would nity. Not that it's been an easy path. There evidently like to have the judge's con "Our work has involved our entire were times when the kids were growing up duct punished and the judge's com family," Mrs. Wolf said. She said their four ments suppressed in much the same children, Caryn, Eric, Joanne, Kenneth and that they resented Eric for the extra atten tion he got, says Myriam, 47. When Eric was manner that they would undoubtedly son-in-law Tony all have worked hard. like to see suppressed the publicity It was the Wolf's 24-year-old son, Eric, a a child, the parents turned the special gym victim of cerebral palsy, who inspired the equipment he needed into a family play about the harm that their Dalkon family to start the Association for the Ad center with all the children and their Shield intrauterine device has appar vancement of the Mentally Handicapped six friends invited to play along-and help the ently caused to so many women. years ago. The association has provided help therapy. Mr. Speaker, the Federal Judiciary and service to the mentally handicapped for And then there was the decision to "go should not be censuring Judge Lord three years. public" with AAMH: "We're very private it should be giving him a medal. He is "The nine Great American Fam111es are people. We agonized over that. We could one of too few jurists in this country representative of all the truly outstanding have done just what we needed to do for with enough guts to consistently dem single-parent, two-parent, foster and adop Eric alone. But we didn't want him just onstrate fairness, morality, and legali tive families in this country," Scott said. functioning in a vacuum." When Eric came home after· four years of ty in our judicial system. [From the Miami News, May 18, 19841 boarding school in 1978, the Wolfs realized In his remarks, Judge Lord appealed DADE "GREAT AMERICAN FAMILY" that there are few resources for high-func to the decency of Robins executives, SPOTLIGHTED tioning handicapped adults. But instead of asking them to help seek out those looking for a place for Eric alone, they de women still using the intrauterine The Wolf family is great and they can cided to take on everyone else who was in device so that they may be spared the prove it. The North Miami Beach family the same boat. agony so many others have already en has been chosen from about 200 fam111es na So the first weekend Eric was home, they dured. Nearly 3 million Dalkon Shields tionwide as a "great American family" in organized a social club that has been going were originally sold. More than 6, 700 the second annual award program, chaired strong ever since. When Bob Wolf read claims have been settled so far, and by First Lady Nancy Reagan. .about an AAMH group in New Jersey, he another 3,000 lawsuits are pending. Bob and Myriam Wolf and their four chil knew he had found the answer. Judge Lord's statement should serve dren will travel to Washington June 27 to Wolf convinced the group's director, both as a guide for our actions and as accept their award at a White House cere Arthur Rittmaster Jr., to give a seminar at mony. Eight other families around the Barry University. Bob and Myriam, who an example of the standards that country will also receive the honors, said manages her husband's Hialeah office, used should be followed by decent people in Mary Ann Beahon, director of community the publicity techniques they had mastered this society. relations for United Family and Children in their years of work for Soviet Jewry to I am proud of Judge Lord and would Services in Miami. ensure that the meeting was a success. hope ·that all of my colleagues will Bob, Myrlam, Ken, Jody, Eric and Caryn carefully consider the very fitting and have all worked over the years establishing The Wolfs would much rather talk about support groups for the handicapped; Eric is AAMH's accomplishments than their own. moral statement he made from the mentally handicapped. They also help raise They've just helped four clients, including bench to executives of the A.H. Robins funds for other families. Eric, move into apartments of their own. Co. "We all stuck together, worked together Another client, Debbie Phillips, 30, not only I am inserting the full text of Judge and acted as a support group for each lives on her own, but as a steady job and Lord's comments in the RECORD so other," said Bob, a Hialeah dentist. "Fami plans to get married in May. that regardless of the company's in lies must remember that their own family is Helping people like Debbie and Eric live tentions, a small piece of the public the biggest most supportive group they can their own lives benefits their families as record will contain the judge's on-the have. And we've always been good communi well, says Myriam Wolf. Too often, she says, cators." the strain of caring for a handicapped but~on comments about the obligation family member breeds resentment. Helping that all of us have to each other in [From the Miami Herald] them gain independence fosters love. this society. ERic's HANDICAP Is FAMILY's BoND "I was very aware of it in December," she In a moral society it is not enough says, recalling when the whole family was for companies to make economic deci The kids are all grown and gone, now. together. "I was just glowing. They love sions solely on the basis of business Caryn, 25, is married, Ken, 19, and Jody, 21, each other and are really interested in each judgements. There is an obligation to are away at college and Eric, 24, just moved other. They're good friends."e do more than that in both public life into a house in Hollywood. But they're still and in the private business world. July 24, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20741 That is what Judge Lord's statment is the thousands. And when the time came for your direction your company has in fact all about and that is why it belongs in these women to make their claims against continued to allow women, tens of thou the public's record-the CONGRESSION your company, you attacked their charac sands of them, to wear this device-a deadly ters. You inquired into their sexual prac depth charge in their wombs, ready to ex AL RECORD of the proceedings in the tices and into the identity of their sex part plode at any time. Your attorney Mr. Alex Congress of the United States. ners. You exposed these women-and ruined ander Slaughter denies that tens of thou The material follows: families and reputations and careers-in sands of these devices are still in the bodies SPEECH TO E.C. ROBINS, JR., WILLIAM order to intimidate those who would raise of women. But I submit to you that Mr. FORREST, AND DR. LUNSFORD their voices against you. You introduced Slaughter has no more basis for his denial Mr. Robins Jr., Mr. Forrest and Dr. Luns issues that had no relationship whatsoever than the plaintiffs have for stating it as ford: After months of reflection, study and to the fact that you planted in the bodies of truth, because we simply do not know how cogitation-and no small amount of these women instruments of death, of muti many women are still wearing these devices prayer-I have concluded it perfectly appro lation, of disease. and your company is not willing to find out. priate to make to you this statement, which I wish to make it absolutely clear that I The only conceivable reasons you have not will constitute my plea to you to seek new am specifically directing and limiting my re recalled this product are that it would hurt horizons in corporate consciousness and a marks to that which I have learned and ob your balance sheet and alert women who al new sense of personal responsibility for the served in these consolidated cases before ready have been harmed that you may be activities of those who work under you in me. If an incident arises involving another liable for their injuries. You have taken the the name of the A.H. Robins Company. product made by the A.H. Robins Company, bottom line as your guiding beacon and the It is not enough to say, "I did not know," an independent judgment would have to be low road as your route. This is corporate ir "It was not me," "Look elsewhere." Time made as to the conduct of your company responsibility at its meanest. Rehabilitation and time again, each of you has used this concerning that product. Likewise, a prod involves an admission of guilt, a certain con kind of argument in refusing to acknowl uct made by any other company must be trition, an acknowledgment of wrongdoing edge your responsibility and in pretending judged upon the individual facts of that and a resolution to take a new course to the world that the chief officers and the case. toward a better life. I find none of this in directors of your gigantic multinational cor Gentlemen, you state that your company the instance of you and your corporation. poration have no responsibility for the com has suffered enough, that the infliction of Confession is good for the soul, gentlemen. pany's acts and omissions. further punishment in the form of punitive Face up to your misdeeds. Acknowledge the In a speech I gave several years ago, Minnesota Council of Churches that the ac a competitor in this industry. When the who already have been harmed. cumulation of corporate wrongs is in my poor and downtrodden in this country Mr. Robins, Jr., Mr. Forrest, Dr. Lunsford: mind a manifestation of individual sin. commit crimes, they too plead that these I see little in the history of this case that You, Mr. Robins Jr., have been heard to are crimes of survival and that they should would deter others from partaking of like boast many times that the growth and pros be excused for illegal acts which helped acts. The policy of delay and obfuscation perity of this company is a direct result of them escape desperate economic straits. On practiced by your lawyers in courts through its having been in the Robins family for a few occasions when these excuses are out this country has made it possible for three generations. The stamp of the Robins made and a contrite and remorseful defend you and your insurance company, Aetna family is upon it. The corporation is built in ant promises to mend his ways, courts will Casualty and Surety Company, to delay the the image of the Robins mentality. give heed to such a plea. But no court would payment of these claims for such a long You, Dr. Lunsford, as director of the com heed this plea when the individual denies period that the interest you earn in the in pany's most sensitive and important subdivi the wrongful nature of his deeds and gives terim covers the cost of these cases. You, in sion, have violated every ethical precept to no indication that he will mend his ways. essence, pay nothing out of your pocket to which every doctor under your supervision Your company in the face of overwhelming settle these cases. What other corporate of must pledge as he gives the oath of Hippoc evidence denies its guilt and continues its ficials could possibly learn a lesson from rates and assumes the mantle of one who monstrous mischief. this? The only lesson could be that it pays would help and cure and nuture unto the Mr. Forrest, you have told me that you to delay compensating victims and to intimi physical needs of the populace. are working with members of the Congress date, harass and shame the injured parties. You, Mr. Forrest, are a lawyer, one who of the United States to ask them to find a Mr. Robins Jr., Mr. Forrest, Dr. Lunsford: upon finding his client in trouble should way of forgiving you from punitive damages You gentlemen have consistently denied counsel and guide him along a course which which might otherwise be imposed. Yet the any knowledge of the deeds of the company will comport with the legal, moral and ethi profits of your company continue to mount. you control. Mr. Robins Jr., I have read cal principles which must bind us all. You Your last financial report boasts of new your deposition. Many times you state that have not brought honor to your profession, records for sales and earnings, with a profit your management style was such as to dele Mr. Forrest. of more than $58 million in 1983. And all gate work and responsibility to other em Gentlemen, the results of these activities the while, insofar as this court is able to de ployees in matters involving the most im and attitudes on your part have been cata termine, you three men and your company portant aspects of this nation's health. strophic. Today as you sit here attempting still engage in the self-same course of Judge Frank Theis, who presided over the once more to extricate yourselves from the wrongdoing in which you originally com discovery of these cases during the multidis legal consequences of your acts, none of you menced. Until such time as your company trict litigation proceedings, noted this phe has faced up to the fact that more than indicates that it is willing to cease and desist nomenon in a recent opinion. He wrote, 9,000 women have made claims that they this deception and to seek out and advise "The project manager for Dalkon Shield ex gave up part of their womanhood so that victims, your remonstrances to Congress plains that a particular question should your company might prosper. It is alleged and to the courts of this country are indeed have gone to the medical department, the that others gave their lives so you might so hollow and cynical. The company has not medical department representative explains prosper. And there stand behind them le suffered, nor have you men personally. You that the question was really the bailiwick of gions more who have been injured but who are collectively being enriched by millions the quality control department, and the have not sought relief in the courts of this of dollars each year. There is as yet no evi quality control department representative land. dence that your company has suffered any explains that the project manager was the I dread to think what would have been penalty whatsoever from these litigations. one with the authority to make a decision the consequences if your victims had been In fact, the evidence is to the contrary. on that question." Under these circum men rather than women, women who seem The case law indicates that the purpose of stances, Judge Theis noted, "it is not at all through some strange quirk of our society's punitive damages is to make an award unusual for the hard questions posed in mores to be expected to suffer pain, shame which will punish a defendant for his Dalkon Shield cases to be unanswerable by and humiliation. wrongdoing. Punishment traditionally in anyone from Robins." If one poor young man were by some act volves the principles of revenge, rehabilita Your company seeks to segment and frag of this-without authority or consent--to in tion and deterrence. There is no evidence I ment the litigation of these cases nation flict such damage upon one woman, he have been able to find in my review of these wide. The courts of this country are now would be jailed for a good portion of the cases to indicate that any one of these fac burdened with more than 3,000 Dalkon rest of his life. And yet your company, with tors has been accomplished. Shield cases. The sheer number of claims out warning to women, invaded their bodies Mr. Robins Jr., Mr. Forrest, Dr. Lunsford: and the dilatory tactics used by your compa by the millions and caused them injuries by You have not been rehabilitated. Under ny's attorneys clog court calendars and con- 20742 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 24, 1984 sume vast amounts of judicial and jury court does not have the power to do so. I Mr. Speaker, I would also like to ac time. Your company settles those cases in must therefore resort to moral persuasion knowledge the significant efforts of which it finds itself in an uncomfortable po and a personal appeal to each of you. Mr. my good friend, Norman Belfer, who sition, a handy device for avoiding any pro Robins Jr., Mr. Forrest and Dr. Lunsford: ceeding which would give continuity or co You are the people with the power to recall. currently serves as international secre hesiveness to this nationwide problem. The You are the corporate conscience. tary of Yad Vashem, and who is re decision as to which cases to try rests almost Please in the name of humanity lift your sponsible for bringing this project to solely at the whim and discretion of the eyes above the bottom line. You, the men in my attention. Mr. Belfer's wife, Elinor, A.B. Robins Company. In order that no charge, must surely have hearts and souls is presently the Florida State chair plaintiff or group of plaintiffs might assert and consciences. If the thought of facing up man of the American Society for Yad a auatalned assault upon your system of eva to your transgressions is so unbearable to Vashem, and has also contributed sion and avoidance, you time after time you, you might do as Rogger Tuttle did and much to American awareness of this demand that able lawyers who have knowl confess to your maker, beg forgiveness and edge of the facts must as a price of settling mend your ways. important undertaking. their cases agree to never again take a Please, gentlemen, give consideration to The·expansion of Yad Vashem is an Dalkon Shield case nor to help any less ex tracing down the victims and sparing them appropriate way to commemorate the perienced lawyers with their cases against the agony that will surely be theirs.e magnitude of the horror that was car your company. ried out against these communities. Minnesota lawyers have filed cases in this Equally symbolic is the location of this jurisdiction for women from throughout the "VALLEY OF DESTROYED COM great memorial in Jersualem-a city United States. The cases of these women MUNITIES" WILL ENHANCE that symbolizes peace, not just as an have waited on the calendar of this court YAD VASHEM MONUMENT ideal, but as a reality for the many dif for as many as three years. The evidence HONORING VICTIMS OF THE ferent religions of the world which co they will present at trial is predominantly HOLOCAUST generic evidence concerning the company's exist there. Set in the heart of the actions, which is as easy to produce in Min Holy Land, this memorial speaks to all nesota as anywhere else. Yet your compa HON. TOM LANTOS who cherish humanity.e ny's attorneys persist in asking that these OF CALIFORNIA cases be transferred to other jurisdictions IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and to other judges unfamiliar with the RELIGION AND ETHNIC cases, there to wait at the bottom of the cal Tuesday, July 24, 1984 OPPRESSION IN THE USSR endars for additional months and years • Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, several before they they have their day in court. impressive changes are being made Another of your callous legal tactics is to HON. GUS YATRON force women of little means to withstand which will both expand and enhance OF PENNSYLVANIA the onslaught of your well-financed, nation Israel's memorial to the Holocaust, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wide team of attorneys, and to default if Yad Vashem. This significant addition they cannot keep pace. You target your to the memorial is designated the Tuesday, July 24, 1984 worst tactics for the meek and the poor. "Valley of Destroyed Communities." It e Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, on May . Dr. Yitzhak Arad, chairman of the victims of persecution who detailed Despite your company's protestations, it is Yad Vashem Directorate, conceived of and documented Soviet efforts to evident that these thousands of cases this unique memorial. It will be locat eradicate religion and suppress ethnic cannot be viewed in isolation, one at a time. ed adjacent to the Mount of Remem The multidistrict litigation panel of the fed identity. eral court system found these cases to have berance and will contain a huge map One of the most moving presenta sufficient similarity on issues of fact and like structure built from the engrav tions was by Ayshe Seytmuratova, law to warrant their reference to a single ings of stone onto rock formations. who recounted the atrocities perpe judge who, for varying periods of time, con This map of Europe will illustrate the trated by the Soviet regime in the ducted discovery, depositions and proceed locations of the destroyed communi ruthless expulsion of the Crimean ings designed to devise an efficient method ties. Tatars from their native land. Forty of handling these cases. In each of these The director of this project is Eli years have passed since this tragic and thousands of cases, the focal point of the in Zborowski, a Holocaust survivor who quiry is the same: the conduct of yllur com nefarious Soviet action. However, we pany through its acts and omissions. Indeed, found refuge in the United States and must not forget the severity of the ex Judge Gerald Heaney of the Court of Ap has since focused his energies and pulsion, which resulted in unimagina peals for the Eighth Circuit recently urged commitment upon a national and ble suffering and substantial loss of judges in Minnesota to work together to international campaign for its con life. I think every Member of this devise a coordinated system for dealing with struction. Chamber should have the opportunity all of their Dalkon Shield cases. Mr. Zborowski's other important ac to read Ms. Seytmuratova's presenta These litigations must be viewed as a tivities include the establishment of tion, which, I hope, will serve to inten whole. Were these women to be gathered to the American Federation of Jewish gether with their injuries in one location, sify our commitment to help op this would be denominated a disaster of the Fighters, and Camp Inmates and Nazi pressed and abused peoples every highest magnitude. The mere fact that Victims, of which he was made honor where. these women are separated by geography ary president in 1976. In 1980 he was Ms. Seytmuratova's statement fol blurs the total picture. Here we have thou appointed by President Jimmy Carter lows: sands of victims-present and potential to serve as a member of the U.S. Holo RCDA CONFERENCE ON RELIGIOUS AND whose injuries arise from the same series of caust Memorial Council. Through his ETHNIC OPPRESSION IN THE U.S.S.R. operative facts. You have made no effort activity in these organizations, as well whatsoever to locate them and bring them as his involvement in the resistance together to seek a common solution to their DEPORTATION OF THE CRIMEAN TATAR NATION plight. movement against the Nazis during ON MAY 18, 1944 If this were a case in equity, I would order World War II, Zborowski has demon On May 18th, 1984, 40 years have passed that your company make an effort to locate strated his intense commitment to pre since the expulsion of the entire nation of each and every woman who still wears this serve the memory of this tragic Crimean Tatars from their native land. The device and recall your product. But this moment in human history. facts speak for themselves: July 24, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20743 During the night from the 17th to 18th of pelled from Crimea, 205,900 of them women one was left to bury our dead. The corpses May 1944 the whole nation-young and old, and children, i.e., 86.4% of all expellees. were often left for days with the living." children, women and the elderly-were Dr. Sulamif Prakhye witnessed the anni Tens of thousands of victims were brutal roused from their beds and at gunpoint of hilation of Crimean Tatars of which she ly destroyed according to a well planned the NKVD [KBGl troops expelled from later wrote: method. Crimea. In the homes of the Tatars the "As a young physician I was assigned to From 1957 to the mid-1970's we, the rep NKVD officers announced: "In the name of provide 'medical aid to the resettled' who resentatives of Crimean Tatars in Moscow, the Soviet government, the whole nation of were left out in the open in the market submitted thousands of such testimonies Crimean Tatars is banished from Crimea place. What could I do with only a meager written by Crimean Tatars concerning the forever because of their treason committed supply of pills? I could not even communi expulsion and annihilation of our nation; against our Fatherland. It is forbidden to cate with them properly-many of them the documentation was addressed to the assemble and search for one's family and could not speak Russian. Central Committee of the CPSU, the Su relatives. All Crimean Tatars will be exiled, "There were hardly any men among preme Soviet and the Council of Ministers wherever they may be found. They must be them-most were elderly, women and chil of the USSR. It described the taunts by the prepared for departure within 15 minutes." dren. The most distressful developments special detachment and the inhuman condi Our people were never informed of the began to take place later. Children, either tions of our life in the places of resettle route by which they would be deported. The emaciated, as they say-skin and bones, or ment. To understand the whole scope of the whole nation was arrested, shoved into on the contrary, all swollen from malnutri national tragedy experienced by the Crime cattle wagons-veritable crematoria on tion, began appearing at the hospital doors. an Tatars, I quote here at least the data on wheels-and under strict escort sent to the We would put two or three of them together those who died during the deportation or place of execution-to Central Asia, Ka on every free and even occupied cot. If there during the first year of our exile: of 112,700 zakhstan and the Urals. were any Tatar women in the hospital, they children and teenagers, 52,066 died; of For weeks the people had to travel with would share their beds with those children. out food, water and medical assistance. The 92,200 wome.n, 43,085 died; of 32,600 men, If some of the children happened to survive 15,061 died. Thus, without a shot being representatives of Crimean Tatars in on hospital rations, I would bring it up to Moscow wrote a necrolog in their Informa fired, more than 110,000 Crimean Tatars the attention of the hospital administration were killed. tion Bulletin No. 69 of May 6, 1968: that nobody had visited them, so that they "On May 18, 1944, the hungry, hastily If 10-11% of the Crimean Tatar popula be sent to orphanages. The official diagnosis tion were lost in the military action of clad people were taken in sealed freight was POE-protein-deficiency edema. Of cars, in a convoy of troops armed with sub World War II, then the barbarous deporta course, everybody knew what that meant. I tion of our whole nation on May 18, 1944, machine guns, to concentration centers. cannot recall when exactly the orphaned Those were defenseless children, women, from Crimea resulted in the death of 46.2% children began to come to the hospital. of Crimean Tatars-or almost one half of aged and disabled persons whose fathers, Most of them were 6 to 13 years old. I husbands and sons were at that time giving our nation-in 18 months! worked in the district hospital in Irgut, a While we were being physically liquidated their lives and blood on the battlefields in settlement in the province of Samarkand, the Great Patriotic War [World War Ill or far from our native land, the barbarians of from 1942 to 1948." the 20th century were using hatchets, axes serving in labor forces rebuilding factories The Crimean Tatars submitted many simi destroyed by war actions. How could we ever and picks, bulldozers and tractors to destroy forget the horror and nightmares of the lar testimonies to higher instances of the our ancient culture in Crimea-our land almost 3 week long journey to the places of USSR. For example, in 1957 the Crimean marks, our Muslim cemeteries and mosques. our exile, during which the people became Tatar writer Shamil Aliadin said at a recep The invaluable architectural treasures of swollen from starvation, infested with lice, tion in Moscow to the members of the Bakhchisarai-Gazi-Mansur and Aziz and the sick and starving travelers were con CPSU Central Committee: Dzhami-were razed. Books in the language fined with the decomposing corpses of those "At 2 AM in the night from the 17th to of Crimean Tatars and the holy scriptures who died on the way. The troops escorting the 18th of May 1944 the NKVD [KGBl of the Moslems, Koran, were burned in the train would not remove the dead imme agents armed with submachine guns sud town squares. diately, nor would they permit the families denly burst into the homes of the Tatars, dragged the sleeping women, children and After the deportation of Crimean Tatars and relatives of the deceased to bury them from their native land the Tatar names of even along the railroad tracks. People were old people from their beds, and pointing our communities, mountains and streams fainting from lack of air and from the their guns at the people's chests they or were changed to Russian names; for exam stench in the cars; many lost their mind." dered them to leave their homes in 10 min ple, the town Karasubazar to Byelogorsk, The year of 1944 was difficult for all the utes flat . . . They would not permit the the town of Eski-Krym to Stary Krym, the people in the USSR but for the deported people to get properly dressed, nor would they let them take their clothes, money and village of Besh-Terek to Donskoye, etc. and exiled nations it was a year of mass de Thus, in one stroke everything that our struction. During World War II 14 small, household goods. Soldiers armed with ma nation had created and built over 15 centur mostly Moslem nations in the USSR were chine guns and agents [of the NKVDl freely ies was destroyed. However, we see the be banished from their lands and brutally relo rummaged in the houses and confiscated ginning of our cultural genocide in the sei cated by the government; in 18 months dis the owner's money, valuables and whatever zure of Crimea by Russia in 1783. No one eases and starvation took the lives of more struck their fancy. They addressed the could express the tragedy of Crimean than 110,000 Crimean Tatars alone, i.e., Tatars as "you damn traitors," etc. The Tatars after Russia's occupation of Crimea more than 46 percent of our nation per scantily dressed, hungry people left for a month-long journey: in the sealed, stifling more poignantly than the poet Maximilian ished. Those dry figures include the corpses Voloshin: left behind in the houses, the bodies of railway cars typhoid fever was rampant and those who died on the journey, the persons children and old people were dying of star There, in those folds of sea and land, who lost their sanity, the mothers who lost vation and infection. The KGB troops Life was protected by the span of centuries, all their children in a single day, the lament would grab the corpses and toss them out Until we-Russians-came. and tears of the poor victims. through the windows of the cars." For hundred and fifty years-since Cather- It is impossible to find the words that I shall quote another letter addressed to ine the Great- would describe what took place in the reset the 23rd CPSU Congress by Tenzine Poragi We have exploited the Moslem paradise, tlement centers. The people were housed in mova: Cut down its woods, shattered its relics, dugouts, barns, horse stables, barracks and "Our expulsion was extremely brutal. At 2 Plundered and ravaged the country. even left under the skies. The most crucial AM, when the people were fast asleep, sol The deportation of Crimean Tatars from problem for us was the total lack of any diers entered with the order for us to get Crimea robbed them not only of their native means of survival. ready in 5 minutes to leave our homes. We land, their national, economic and material We, the founders of the Crimean Tatar were not permitted to take with us clothes wealth and their statehood but also of their national movement, conducted a census of and food. We were treated so roughly that language, literature and cultural heritage. our people, both the survivors and the de we were convinced that we would be execut Their nation was deprived of its customs ceased, which provided us with the follow ed. The hungry children wailed pitifully. At and way of life, its national art, of the op ing data: that time my husband was in military serv portunity to educate its people in their own Deported were 99,400 children under 16 ice and I was left with three children. Of language and to teach them their own histo years of age; 13,300 teenagers under 18 the 30 families in our village only 5 sur ry, and of the right to celebrate their na years of age; 93,200 women 18 years old or vived, but not with all of their members tional and religious holidays. older; 32,600 men over 18 years of age. one or two members of those families were History knows few such atrocities. For 40 According to the data of the census, a left and the rest succumbed to famine and years the Soviet government has been total of 238,500 Crimean Tatars were ex- disease. Our men served in the army and no trying to persuade not only the people in 20744 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 24, 1984 the USSR but the whole world that the "From this day on your beliefs and customs, aire businessman who served only a few nation of Crimean Tatars no longer exists. your national and cultural institutions shall months of desk duty should have taxpayers If there is no nation, then there can be no be free and inviolable!"?e picking up the tab for all of his health care national problem of Crimean Tatars. when he retires. They also point to a recent The policy of genocide of small nations survey which found that veterans as a group must serve as a warning not only to ethnic THE VETERAN are better off economically and socially groups in the USSR but to every nation in than are non-veterans of the same age. the world. HON. LEE H. HAMILTON Congress is more interested in proposals Nevertheless, the brutality committed OF INDIANA emphasizing the economies that may be re against the Crimean Tatars in 1944 could IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES alized if the VA health care system is ad not induce them to abrogate their native ministered better. These economies could land-Crimea. On the contrary, the tragedy Tuesday, July 24, 1984 of our nation compelled us, Crimean Tatars, lessen the need to cut back benefits later on. to unite and fight for the categorical imper e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I Suggestions along this line include: ative of our national self-preservation, would like to insert my Washington Making VA hospitals more efficient ; and our national identity, our statehood. The United States has the world's most Recovering costs from private insurance From the first days of its existence the comprehensive system of benefits for its ; against Islam had always been-and still is veterans a debt of gratitude for their serv Linking up VA programs with existing even more vicious than its campaign against ice, and it can express that gratitude best by health care services ; there are fewer than 1,000 Islamic clergy they suffered and helping them readjust to Putting more emphasis on less costly men and religious workers who once num civilian life. Only the Department of De types of health care ; estimated as 50 million and thus, the 500 the $25.8-billion budget of the Veterans' Ad· Providing vouchers to veterans seeking mosques and 1,000 clergymen are a mere ministration . Yet there is a threat to drop in the ocean. The anti-Islamic policy is future benefits on the horizon: as a group, health care outside the VA system (pay evident not only from these data but mainly veterans are growing older. ment by the VA for health care rendered from Soviet laws. I shall mention one of As a result of a 197llaw, all veterans aged elsewhere could prevent building of facili them, "The Law on Religious Cults of the 65 years or more are eligible for free health ties that would be used for a few years at Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic"-Decree of care, regardless of their need. The cost of most>; the Council of Ministers of the Uzbek SSR that general promise is finally becoming evi Boosting preventive strategies ; <1> that a census of all currently active re ans were 65 or older. By 1990, 26.4% of our Improving allocation of VA facilities ligious congregations and of clergy be made veterans will be, so half of all men in this across the country (hospitals in some areas prior to June 1, 1969; that the conditions of age group will be eligible for free health are stretched to the breaking point while vacant mosques and other houses of prayer care provided by the VA. VA outlays for those in other areas sit empty>; be surveyed and steps taken in accordance health care tripled between 1973 and 1983, Pooling the health care resources of the with the established procedure to assign and may double again to $15.4 billion by VA and the Department of Defense ; investigate prior to June 1, 1969, every such who now use VA medical facilities become Converting acute care facilities to nursing place and to prepare specific programs for aware of their eligibility. In our present homes to authorize the Ministry of Internal ans poses a real challenge. homes, it may be much cheaper for the VA Affairs of the Uzbek SSR to take steps in The 1971 law does not guarantee that all to drop construction plans and convert un order to intensify the efforts to investigate elderly veterans must receive free health derutilized hospital wards>; and prevent crimes perpetrated on religious care. It only establishes their eligibility for Revising hospitals' incentives (instead of grounds; to curtail the sales and distribution it where it is available. By law, only veter basing the budget of the VA's health care of religious literature (photocopies of ser ans with service-connected disabilities have system on the past year's spending, the cost mons, excerpts from the Koran, tapes and the guarantee. Because so much of the VA's saving incentives that are part of a medi recordings of religious poetry, hymns, etc.>; health care budget goes to veterans for the care-type scheme of fixed payments for to prevent employment of able-bodied indi treatment of conditions not connected to services might be tried). viduals in houses of prayer and the activi service, Congress could close most of the VA Providing excellent health care to our ties of parasitic elements among the clergy health care system tomorrow and still live aging veterans clearly will be one of the and leaders of sectarian organizations." up to the letter of its commitment. Howev more difficult issues on Congress's domestic The decree contains a total of 11 such er, the spirit of the commitment is another agenda in the years ahead. With foresight, paragraphs. matter, and Congress has tried to accommo planning, and willingness to meet the chal The campaign against Islam has been date all veterans. Public support for veter lenge directly, we should be able to preserve stepped up recently in Muslim republics of ans continues as strong as ever. a strong VA health care system without re the USSR, especially after the Islamic revo Many of the proposals to deal with the lution in Iran, as confirmed by the trials in problem of aging veterans involve cutting ducing the benefits or raising the costs to Tashkent in 1982. As an example I should back benefits, especially to those whose dis veterans.e like to mention the court action against Sa abilities are not connected to service. One markad Azimov, Ruzyev, Rakhimov and option would be to institute a means test, others who were charged with illegal organi providing free health care to these veterans zation of schools for teaching of Islam and only if they have limited incomes. Likewise, with illegal copying and dissemination of a the VA could require veterans without serv booklet entitled "The Islamic Faith." ice-connected conditions to share in the cost Where is the pledge triumphantly an of their treatment through deductibles and nounced to the Muslims in Russia and the co-payments. Supporters of such proposals East at the dawn of the Soviet regime: argue that there is no reason why a million- July 24, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20745 ASIAN-INDIANS AND We defer taking a position on this bill [From the Washington Post, July 23, 19841 IMMIGRATION until we see the final form of the confer ••• SPECIFICALLY ON TAXES ence report. If the conference report disap points us, we will join with all Asian Ameri Concerning Mr. Mondale's acceptance HON. ROBERT GARCIA cans and request the President of the speech statement that both he and Ronald OF NEW YORK United States to veto this legislation.e Reagan would have to raise taxes next year, Mr. Reagan says he would not raise taxes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not, at least, unless Congress met further Tuesday, July 24, 1984 SMALL BUSINESSES AND THE large and implausible conditions regarding • Mr. GARCIA. Mr. Speaker, I would FEDERAL DEFICIT spending cuts. So there you have a choice like to include for the RECORD a state between two positions-sharply defined, ment made by Dr. Joy Cherian, presi substantial and urgent. HON. ROY DYSON Mr. Reagan has adroitly moved to avoid dent of the Indian-American Forum the whole subject by initiating a study of for Political Education, on the Simp OF MARYLAND tax reform in general, with all questions and son-Mazzoli immigration bill. I believe IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES answers to be postponed until the study is Mr. Cherian's statement gives yet an completed after the election. But it's possi other perspective on this issue. Tuesday, July 24, 1984 ble to lay out a few tests by which you can I would also like to point out the • Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, I have judge all the proposals that will be floated growing importance of this Nation's heard from small businesses through between now and November. Asian-Indian community. There are out my district about the need to First, how much money? What's required approximately 500,000 Asian-Indians reduce the deficit. Their message is is something more than $100 billion a year. in this country. They are becoming a clear. We must cut the Federal deficit, But how much more? That depends on how political and economic force. Although much you want to cut out of present social because higher deficits push up inter spending. If, like ourselves, you think it there is diversity within their commu est rates. Small businesses can't fi nity, I believe that they too recognize unwise to go after more large reductions in nance inventory or expansion out of the health and welfare programs, you had that their strength lies in forging a operating profits. They can't sell better use a figure of $125 billion a year as real sense of unity. stocks or bonds. For small businesses the minimum needed for new revenue in the On May 26 and 27, the third annual to grow, they must borrow. But if the next presidential term. convention of Asian-Indians was held Federal Government continues to soak Next, which tax? The simplest would be a in Washington, DC. The conference up nearly $200 billion each year from surtax on your present income tax. But that covered a wide range of topics, from credit markets, small businesses will would only perpetuate and magnify all the cultural to political. Although, Dr. face severe credit shortages. And for present inequities in the income tax law. As Cherian's statement is concerned with what they can borrow, they will have for closing loopholes and abolishing prefer immigration reform, the forum is in ences in the present law, one by one, that's terested in a variety of subjects. to pay prohibitive rates of interest. not realistic. You have only to consider the I hope that my colleagues will take a While small businesses are acutely vast amount of effort it took to get through moment to read Dr. Cherian's re vulnerable to interest rates, they can Congress the very modest bill that Mr. marks. I also hope that they will take also be victimized by tax rates. Major Reagan signed last week, raising $50 billion corporations and large conglomerates in additional taxes over the next three the opportunity to better acquaint years. The politics of piecemeal tax reform themselves with the Asian-Indian com can often turn losses into profits simply by manipulating their taxes. is the legislative equivalent of World War munity. !-trench warfare, in which the defensive The remarks follow: For big firms, the Tax Code is a cata log of tax breaks. Smaller business and weapons are much more effective than the FAMILY REUNIFICATION PROVISIONS IN THE offensive ones. The real choice probably IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT OF families get stuck with the Federal comes down either to a national sales tax-a 1983 tab. rate of 10 percent would suffice-or a sweep On February 25, 1983, leaders o! the I have joined several of my col ing and fundamental revision of the income Indian-American Forum for Political Educa leagues in calling for a bipartisan as tax like the Bradley-Gephardt plan. tion, representing the Indian American sault on the deficit. Every aspect of That leads to the final test: what's fairer? Community of a half million legal residents the Federal budget-with the sole ex The income tax is a great deal fairer than a and U.S. Citizens, testified before the ception of Social Security-should be sales tax. But either would be preferable to Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and on the table for review. This includes the consequences of letting the deficit keep Refugee Policy on the Senate Immigration rolling along. bill, S. 529. We stated at that time that we entitlements, defense expenditures, The deficit is pushing up interest rates appreciate the efforts of Congressional lead and taxes. and Mr. Reagan's Treasury Department is ers to reform the present immigration proc There is a growing sentiment among flatly and absurdly wrong in continuing to ess in order to protect the national interests my constituents that we do not need quibble about it. But if the deficit is making of the United States. However, we strongly more taxes or higher tax rates but a trouble now, it is going to make much more opposed certain proposed restrictions intro different, simpler, and more efficient trouble over the next several years. There's duced by Senator Alan Simpson on family tax system. Other calls can be heard a circular process operating here. The defi reunification provisions under the second cit not only pushes up interest rates, but and fifth preferences of the existing immi for comprehensive tax reform. I urge my colleagues, as we push forward also adds to the federal debt on which the gration law. Those restrictions would elimi government pays interest. The rising inter nate the special consideration granted to with deficit-reduction strategies, to the immigration of adult children of U.S. bring all proposals for comprehensive est costs then increase the deficit, and so on permanent residents and siblings of U.S. around again. Federal interest payments tax reform center stage. We can no have doubled since 1980, which is to say citizens under the present law. longer pile tax upon tax, but must re Although Senator Alan Simpson and that they have been rising much faster than other members of the Subcommittee agreed store rational order and fairness to the either defense spending or Social Security. to revise one of their original proposals tax structure. To say that it can't be sustained is simple which would have eliminated the fifth pref Mr. Speaker, an editorial comment, arithmetic. erence system, the Senate passed version of published in the Washington Post on The issue isn't whether you like paying the bill which would admit only unmarried Monday, July 23, provide~ a clear taxes. The real issue is what you're willing siblings, is not at all satisfactory to Ameri statement of the linkage between tax to pay to avoid the highly unappealing al can citizens of Asian Indian origin. We hope ternative, and in what form you prefer to that the Senate-House Conference Commit- reform and deficit reduction. I offer it pay it. The Reagan administration has ruled . tee will not accept the Senate bill's provi now for my colleagues to consider. If the whole subject unmentionable for the sions which would restrict family reunifica the deficit makes tax increases un duration. Mr. Mondale is discussing it with tion rights of U.S. permanent residents and avoidable, it makes tax reform an his listeners as a responsibility that, as both U.S. citizens. urgent priorit~. he and they know, is unavoidable.e 20746 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 24, 1984 1984 ANNUAL OPINION SURVEY quires us to be stronger than our adversar strongly supporting this important RESULTS ies, or not? piece of legislation. a. Yes, 75%. I now place in the RECORD that state b. No. 18%. HON. ELDON RUDD c. Undecided, 6%. ment. OF ARIZONA 9. Investment decisions must be made TESTIMONY OF THE HONORABLE TOM LANTOS, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES soon if industrial and commercial activity in MEMBER OF CONGRESS, BEFORE THE SUBCOM· outer space is to be an important source for MITTEE ON COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE Tuesday, July 24, 1984 economic growth and new jobs for the BENEFITS ON H.R. 5029-"THE PAY EQUITY e Mr. RUDD. Mr. Speaker, each year future. Would you favor or oppose govern ACT OF 1984" SAN FRANCISCO, CA, JULY 17, I take the opportunity to conduct a ment encouragement of space commercial 1984 survey of my constituents in Arizona's ization? Madam Chairperson, as a professional Fourth Congressional District in an a. Favor Space Commercialization, 61%. economist I am deeply concerned about the effort to seek their views on key issues b. Oppose Space Commercialization, 18%. consequences to our society when we contin c. Not Sure, 19%. ue to permit enormous inequalities in pay which will be facing the House of Rep 10. The recent Bi-partisan Commission for work of equal value solely because of resentatives throughout the year. Report on Central America has recommend sex. The price our society pays for such dis Thousands of Arizonans in the ed increased U.S. economic and military aid crimination is the cost of the quality of life Fourth District responded to this to the region over the next five years. Do for women and children. Indeed, we have year's survey. Their advice is invalu you favor or oppose increased aid to the reached the point that the slogan, "the able. region? feminization of poverty," is not only widely I wish to share the results of the a. Favor Increased Aid, 51%. used but it accurately reflects actual condi 1984 survey with my colleagues and b. Oppose Increased Aid, 33%. tions in our nation. c. Not Sure, 14%. Women have entered the workforce in insert them in the REcoRD at this 11. Do you favor or oppose legislation to growing numbers in recent decades. Today, point: authorize the death sentence for federal more than half of the women in the United 1984 ANNuAL OPINION SURVEY RESULTS crimes of treason, espionage, and homicide? States are employed, wh ile only 30 years 1. Do you approve or disapprove of Presi- a. Favor Death Sentence, 85%. ago that number was 30 percent. Today's dent Reagan's job performance thus far? b. Oppose Death Sentence, 7%. working women are concentrated in low a. Approve, 70%. c. Undecided, 6%. paying dead-end jobs. Nearly 80 percent b. Disapprove, 18%. 12. Should the U.S. Constitution be work in clerical, service, and semi-skilled or c. Not sure, 11%. amended to require a balanced federal unskilled occupations. Nationally, women 2. In your opinion, the best way to budget, except in time of national emergen earn only 57 cents for every dollar earned reduce federal budget deficits is a. Favor Balanced Budget Amendment, Anthony dollar, which has been discontin a. increase taxes, 13%. 73%. ued by the U.S. Mint, was an ironic symbol b. reduce the rate of increased spending b. Oppose Balanced Budget Amendment, of the worth of the woman's dollar! for social programs, 40%. 12%. Adding to the serious implication of these c. reduce the rate of foreign aid, 53%. c. Undecided, 12%. statistics is the fact that 9.4 million families, d. reduce the rate of increase for national 13. In your opinion, the best way(s) to pre one of every six families, is a household defense, 19%. vent the bankruptcy of the Medicare pro headed by a single woman. More than half e. reduce the growth of all federal spend gram is : of all children living in poverty are in fami ing, 74%. a. Stricter controls on Medicare reim lies headed by women. For black children, 3. One proposal to exert greater control bursements, 81%. the proportion is two-thirds. Single female over federal spending is to give the Presi b. Increasing Medicare taxes, 11%. heads of household have an average income dent authority to veto specific portions of c. Shifting more costs to beneficiaries, of $10,000 compared to nearly $30,000 for a government spending bills, rather than 22%. two-parent household with both parents having to accept or reject an entire bill. Do d. Raising the age for Medicare eligibility, working. you favor or oppose this "Line-Item Veto?" 22%. This problem is further compounded by a. Favor, 80%. 14. The U.S. currently bears 25 percent of the fact that retirement and social security b. Oppose, 12%. the total cost of operating the 158-nation benefits are based on previously earned c. Undecided, 7%. United Nations. Should the U.S. limit the income. With years of low income elderly 4. Do you favor or oppose Congress enact contrbuition to our share of the population women are left in even greater poverty ing tougher laws, such as fining employers represented in the organization-about 5 when they can no longer work. Of the 4.4 who knowingly hire illegal aliens, to stop il percent, or not? million elderly who live below the poverty legal immigration? a. Yes, 83%. level in our nation, 72 percent of them are a. Favor Tougher Immigration Laws, 81%. b. No, 11%. women. b. Oppose Tougher Immigration Laws, 9%. c. Undecided, 5%. What serious social problems fester in our c. Not Sure, 9%. 15. Do you support a Constitutional society when children grow up in homes 5. Do you favor or oppose granting amnes Amendment to declare English the official with hard-working but inadequately paid ty to the millions of illegal aliens currently language of the United States, or not? mothers? These women struggle to make in the United States as part of a compre a. Yes, 80%. ends meet but all too often they are unable hensive program of immigration reform? b. No, 16%. to provide a financially secure environment. a. Favor Amnesty, 18%. c. Undecided, 3%.e The expectations and aspirations, as well as b. Oppose Amnesty, 66%. the potential for their children are crushed. c. Undecided, 15%. The hope and optimism of the mothers dies 6. In your opinion, has President Reagan's THE CONGRESS MUST ACT TO as well. This death of human spirit is insidi economic program been a success or failure? ENSURE PAY EQUITY FOR. ous but indisputable. It is tragic, but I feel a. Success, 66%. WOMEN anger-not dispair. We can and must do b. Failure, 15%. something about it. c. Not Sure, 18%. I am fighting to see women receive equal 7. A proposal calling for merit pay for HON. TOM LANTOS economic treatment. The issue is not only teachers has been suggested as a way to OF CALIFORNIA one of poverty, but equa11y important, it is reward the outstanding teachers whose IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES one of principle. I have two intelligent and work upgrades educational quality. Do you beautiful daughters, both are well educated favor or oppose merit pay for teachers? Tuesday, July 24, 1984 professionals-and yet both of them face a. Favor Merit Pay, 71%. • Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, last the prospect of being treated as "women" in b. Oppose Merit Pay, 18%. week in San. Francisco, on the very the work force. Their training and experi c. Undecided, 10%. ence will simply not be considered "equal" 8. When Congress debates the defense for doorstep of my own congressional dis to that of men with similar backgrounds. the next fiscal year, there are likely to be a trict, the Subcommittee on Compensa The phenomenon of sex inequality is not series of votes on attaining a defense pos tion and Employee Benefits held hear new. In the Old Testament the book of Le ture sufficient to assure our defenses. Do ings on the Pay Equity Act of 1984. On viticus puts the value of a women at 30 you believe that our national security re- that occasion, I made a statement shekels but that of a man is 50. Margaret July 24, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20747 Mead reported: "There are villages in which tional security, and personal privacy sud the information is growing. The Privacy Act men fish and women weave, and in which denly have jumped to the top of the na of 1974 has become ineffective, and so we women fish and men weave. But in either tion's agenda. must address again how we will defend the type of village, the work done by the men is While Congress accepts the benefits prom constitutional right to privacy, the pre valued higher than the work done by the ised by the new information technology, it sumption of innocence, and the prohibitions women." should not hesitate to look hard at the against self-incrimination and unreasonable The gender gap persists, but surely it is problems. Congress must realize that the searches and seizures. not inevitable. Two decades ago the Equal technology is moving so rapidly that laws It seems to me that Congress ought to Pay Act and the Civil Rights Act were enacted as little as four years ago are al take two steps before all else. First, it must passed prohibiting employers from paying ready outdated. Indeed, the pace of change forge a better relationship with the scientif women less than men when the work was is such that some legislation is obsolete even ic and engineering communities. Such a re similar and required equal skill or training. before it is enacted. The job of keeping up is iationship may not have been necessary in These laws have not been enforced, howev most difficult because members of Congress, the past; today, it is urgently needed. Con er, as is evident from the statistics. most of whom have little technical back gress must seek from the technicians the We must make a frontal attack on such le ground, are being asked not only to under guidance it needs to develop public policy thargic enforcement of our laws. I give my stand the workings of computers, satellites, for all kinds of new technology. Also, mem commitment here today to continue to fight and the like, but also to make decisions on for these issues, to join my colleagues in the bers of Congress must do all they can to the regulation of these devices. keep up with the technological revolution. House to build a strong coalition to enact es Take copyright law, for example, the area sential legislation assuring women an equal The Congressional Research Service, the that may be most affected by the new infor Office of Technology Assessment, and other partnership in our economy and in our soci mation technology. The last major overhaul ety. agencies that assist Congress can make a of the law took place in 1976, but ing forces to prepare continuing studies of of laws which prohibit discrimination in change left the amendments behind almost the ways in which Congress might legislate compensation. Madam Chairperson, I com before they went into effect in 1978. Ques more efficiently and effectively for the mend you and the subcommittee for your tions have arisen about how to protect new future. My feeling is that Congress had work on this legislation and your holding creations, such as microchips, from pirates better begin to improve its capacity to deal this public hearing today. I appreciate the who would copy them without the consent with the explosion of technology now occur opportunity to participate with you today ·• of the makers. Are these microchips like ring.e books or films, or are they machines better protected by patent law? Other questions CONGRESS AND TECHNOLOGY have to do with new ways to copy old forms A SAFE ENVIRONMENT DOES of information. Should extra ;royalties be NOT THREATEN CHEMICAL IN HON. LEE H. HAMILTON paid to the makers when materials under DUSTRY OF INDIANA copyright, such as movies and television IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES programs, are transmitted by cable and sat ellite, or when viewers employ their own HON. JAMES J. FLORIO Tuesday, July 24, 1984 equipment to tape the materials for private OF NEW JERSEY e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I use? How will the copyright holder's right would like to insert my Washington be enforced? Congress now has before it leg IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES islation technology. Report for Wednesday, July 11, 1984 Tuesday, July 24, 1984 into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Equally difficult issues revolve around the security of computers and the data that • Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, as my CONGRESS AND TECHNOLOGY they contain, whether they are located in a colleagues are well aware, the concern Not long ago, a few colleagues and I at military command center or in the offices of of the American people regarding the tended a meeting with the Speaker of the a large corporation. Breaking into comput House. As we reviewed the congressional ers is easier, and has become more common, disposal of toxic waste has been in schedule, the Speaker commented, "Most of then has been generally believed. With tense. As a result, considerable legisla these bills wouldn't have been on Congress' enough determination and time and a good tive attention has been focused on this legislative agenda ten years ago." One computer, anyone can hook into a growing problem. Although the need to enact a factor that explains the truth of his remark international web of military and commer comprehensive reform of the Nation's is the relentless advance of technology in cial data banks. This fact dramatically in laws governing hazardous waste man medicine, warfare, agriculture, and many creases the chance of minor disruption, and agement remains urgent, the progress other fields. Keeping up with technological also the risk of espionage, fraud, larceny, change has become a formidable challenge extortion, embezzlement, and sabotage. The that the chemical industry is accom for Congress. ease of invasion and the prospect that the plishing on its own should not be ob Information technology above all is situation may worsen as millions of comput scured. changing the world and setting bold chal ers are hooked onto telephone lines have Recently, the Du Pont Co. an lenges before Congress. Whole new indus fueled demands that Congress act. It is con nounced that its plant in Pennsville tries making and selling microchips and sidering legislation that would create clear Township, NJ, will provide wastewater software have sprung up around the coun cut penalties for tampering with data. treatment and waste incineration serv try. One third of the nation's households Concerns about individual freedom are as are connected to cable television systems pervasive as concerns about the security of ices to other companies. This is not an that use satellites to transmit programs military and commercial information. Ad act of charity: Du Pont can expect to from thousands of miles away, and videocas vances in information technology that allow profit from this venture. Nevertheless, sette recorders allow people to tape these data banks to communicate with one an it represents a significant step toward programs for viewing whenever they wish. other have outstripped the development of the goal of a safer, cleaner environ Thousands of firms use computers to do laws that could protect individual freedom. ment. The Du Pont Co., which is to be business, the military relies on state-of-the Such services as electronic mail, for in commended for its efforts in this area, art communications to defend us, and stance, transmit vast amounts of data on nearly all people have some information people instantaneously, greatly expanding has proven that protection of health about them stored in vast data banks. Per the opportunity for electronic eavesdrop and the environment is in fact compat sonal computers soon may be as common as ping. Equally important is the nature of the ible with a secure and prosperous telephones and typewriters. data exchanged. The federal government chemical industry. Faced with basic laws written decades ago maintains an average of 15 files on each citi A recent editorial in the Gloucester in a much less technologically sophisticated zen, and state governments are not lagging County Times, Woodbury, NJ, pro day, members of Congress are beginning to too far behind. outside government, banks, vides an excellent summary of the see that they must grapple with the conse insurance companies, and schools amass benefits offered by Du Pont's involve quences of explosive technological growth. computerized information on customers, cli In many cases, information technology ents, and students. Information on people's ment in proper hazardous waste man simply leapfrogs over these laws and ren habits, health problems, religion, political agement. ders them ineffective or irrelevant. Prob associations, and finances are there for the The editorial, which appeared on lems of copyright law, computer crime, na- curious to see, and the incentive to misuse June 12, 1984, follows:
~1 -01;!1 O-R7-24 I"Pt 1!'\1 20748 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 24, 1984 Du PONT HAs SKILLS FOR TOXIC WASTE JOB radically different meanings, depend government whose programs have been de- It's a good sign for those concerned about ing upon the speaker. If Walter Mon . signed to "integrate" marginal groups into the environment that the Du Pont Co. is dale is correct, then the people of the the broader national society, and to amelio getting into the industrial waste disposal United States should be trying to rate material inequalities and other dilfer business. ences that might disrupt national oneness. build one big community called the The solid truth in this Democratic vision The company announced last week it had if formed a unit at its Deepwater chemical United States. But Ronald Reagan is is that there are moments when we can and plant in Pennsville Township to provide correct, we have one Nation but many, must become one, indivisible community wastewater treatment and waste inciner many communities, out of which we primarily in times of great national crises, ation services to other companies. The Du draw diversity, innovation and resilien such as depressions and wars. The difficulty Pont Environmental Services Group will use cy. Mondale's vision of community is is that such events are (happily for the re wastewater treatment capacity at the plant one that leads inevitably to centraliza public> not always available. The Democrats to purify liquid waste and a special furnace tion; President Reagan's is one that therefore turn to dynamic, articulate presi to treat contaminated metal. takes the diverse strengths of America dents who try rhetorically to recreate in or Du Pont enjoys a superb reputation as a and uses them. This election is going dinary times the extraordinary circum pioneer in the chemical industry, having in stances of crisis. A favorite device for doing vented many of the fibers used to produce to be one that presents those compet an endless number of the products we take ing visions to the American people. so is the "moral equivalent of war," which for granted today. You can find the Du Long before Mondale gave us his was Jimmy Carter's method of handling the Pont trademark on everything from kitchen energy crisis. President Johnson used the vision of community, scholar William image of a "war on poverty," he said, be counter tops to the clothing on our backs. A. Schambra of the American Enter So it's reassuring that a company with the cause the "military image" would "rally the resources and knowledge to invent Decron prise Institute had been doing scholar nation" and "sound a call to arms which will and Teflon is getting involved in cleaning up ly work on the two concepts of com stir the people." Gov. Cuomo, in his bleak the environment. munity. Recently he distilled the es portrayal of modern America as a "tale of It's also reassuring in our own area, be sence of that work into an article for two cities," may have been testing a new cause we know the company has to care the Wall Street Journal. I believe this version of this device-the moral equivalent what happens in our environment because article accurately portrays the major of the Great Depression. all of its workers and managers live here. issue of this election. I urge our col The extraordinary sense of community We can't expect to make meaningful leagues to read this important article. created in crisis cannot be sustained, howev strides in the quest to eliminate pollution in At this point, I wish to insert into er, even by the most skillfully crafted moral our environment unless big business gets equivalent of war or depression. For a behind the move. You can't get much bigger the RECORD, "Cuomo's Sense of Com people than Du Pont, and that's why this new en munity Is a Political Hand-Me-Down" with a deep tradition of individual deavor is so important to all of us. ism, the self-forgetting public spiritedness by William A. Schambra, in the Wall this requires is too strenuous. Not that Certainly the Du Pont Co. is getting in Street Journal, Tuesday, July 24, 1984. volved because there is profit to be made. Americans are selfish or mean-spirited; it is It's also true also that the company works CUOMO'S SENSE OF COMMUNITY Is A just that, as Alexis de Tocqueville observed with and disposes of many chemicals that POLITICAL HAND-ME-DOWN 150 years ago, Americans satisfy these de can pollute the environment if not handled sires for belonging and community within properly. smaller, sub-national groups, like the So it has a financially vested interest in "America is one, indivisible community," family, neighborhood, church, and volun this endeavor. And that's good. That's what Walter Mondale asserted as he introduced tary and ethnic associations. Within such makes the project believable and, to use a Geraldine Ferraro to the nation. "We be small groups close bonds can truly form, in business phrase, "doable." lieve we must be the family of America, rec spiring, without elaborate evocations of na As group manager Nicholas J. DiMurino ognizing that at the heart of the matter we tional crisis, the sort of sharing of benefits put it, "Regulations to reduce waste and are bound to one another," added Gov. and burdens Gov. Cuomo would like to see. protect groundwater have produced an op Mario Cuomo of New York in his stirring The ultimate irony of the attempt to extend portunity for Du Pont to use its resources in keynote address at last week's Democratic this community-mindedness to the national solving environmental problems. We believe convention. It appears that this notion-the level is that the massive federal programs Du Pont management, safety experience vision of America as one, great national undertaken in its name crowd out the social and technical capabilities can be marshaled community or family-will be at the heart to help solve waste disposal problems that of the Democrats' message this year. But welfare functions formerly performed by may seem unsolvable. the Democratic vision of community is seri such smaller groups, thereby weakening Such nightmare as the contaminated oil ously flawed, and President Reagan must them and undermining the true basis for that fills lagoons at the Bridgeport Rental put forth his own ideals of community or community in America. When we try to and Oil Services Co. site in Logan Township risk conceding the moral high ground to Mr. transfer the town of Elmore's virtues to the could be treated at a facility such as Du Mondale. · entire country, we not only fail to create a Pont's. Democratic presidents since Franklin Roo national Elmore, we also make it more diffi Maybe if other major chemical and petro sevelt have built their programs and rheto cult for Elmore itself to retain its communi leum industries get involved along with Du ric around an image of national community, ty values. Pont, we can rid the environment of all of calling upon Americans to substitute for Nonetheless, the vision of national com these man-made nightmares that plague us their traditional self-interested individual munity remains a powerful symbol for worldwide. ism the compassion, concern and willingness Democrats. They are clearly hoping that it In the meantime, Du Pont's entry into to share benefits and burdens that are usu will permit them to retain the moral high this field is indeed welcomed.e ally to be found only within families and ground in this election. They will succeed if tightly knit communities. Roosevelt, for in the Republicans confine their response to a stance, described his New Deal as "extend celebration of economic recovery and entre ing to our national life the old principle of preneurial individualism. Nothing could suit THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY: local community." Twenty years ago this the Democrats better; they have decades of WHOSE VISION WILL PREVAIL? summer, Lyndon Johnson-the prophet of experience in making this appear instead as national "consensus," or unity-called upon a mean-spirited commitment to Social Dar America to come together in a "Great Socie winism and "survival of the fittest." They HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL ty" that would serve "not only the needs of could not do this in 1980, when Ronald the body and the demands of commerce, but Reagan built his campaign around the OF ILLINOIS the desire for beauty and the hunger for themes of family, neighborhood and local IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES community." And now, in speech after speech, Walter Mondale lovingly describes community. He persuasively made the case Tuesday, July 24, 1984 the sense of mutual concern and community that a powerful central government does to be found in his boyhood home, Elmore, not facilitate but, in fact, undermines the e Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, the idea Minn., and urges the nation as a whole to cause of community in America. The out of community was mentioned many embrace those virtues. This Democratic come of this election may turn on President times during the recent Democratic vision of national community has manifest Reagan's ablllty to make that argument "convention. But the world can have ed itself over the years in a powerful central again.e July 24, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20749 PERSONALLY, I AM OPPOSED TO to be stopped if human society is to be ment reaction to abortion but of govern ABORTION, BUT ... maintained, such as murder and theft and ment participation in doing abortions. so forth those other abortions which it simply a personal attitude of limited practi would not have prevented. cal relevance. A CRITIQUE OF Two THEOLOGICAL PAPERS However, one cannot erect a wall of sepa (By Germain Grisez> There also is a hint of subjectivism in Cur ration between personal morality and public ran's argument when he claims that there In November 1983, the Secretariat of the policy. The public funding of abortions is can be differing judgments resulting in dif Leadership Conference of Women Religious not simply a system of reimbursing poor ferent legitimate positions within the distributed a packet of papers bearing upon women for their medical bills; rather, it is a Catholic Church on public funding of abor the handling of the case of Agnes Mary system of procuring abortions for poor tions: Mansour. This packet included two theologi women in order to reduce public welfare ex "On the public funding question, it is cal papers, one by Charles E. Curran and penditures. Anyone who advocates or sup quite easy to see how those opposed to abor one by Richard McCormick, S.J. Because ports public funding of abortions under tion could be opposed to public funding of these papers have been widely circulated stands that fact and wills that abortions be abortion. However, others could argue that and their central arguments are often used done with these public funds. This willing of poor people should not be discriminated in other contexts, I offer the following criti abortion is a personal moral act, of the ad against either in respect to more affluent cal reflections. vocate or supporter of public funding. people or in respect to medical procedures In his paper, "The Differences between As the point of departure for his paper, Personal Morality and Public Policy," "The Magisterium," Richard A. McCormick, which they might want for themselves." Curran tries to show the relationship be S.J., cites an instance of the asserted posi Curran ignores the fact that these differ tween morality and law. He thinks he shows tion of many politicians and other public ing positions logically follow from the op with respect to the public funding of abor figures, who say they are morally opposed posed judgments they embody on the moral tion that while bishops can take a position to abortion but favor funding of abortions. ity of direct abortion. on the matter, "They must realize that they In view of the preceding, what are we to Those who regard direct abortion as a are not teaching here in the same way they think of this position? I think it can be in morally grave matter must, if they are con teach on faith and morals. They are dealing terpreted and evaluated in several different sistent, reject public funding, for to approve with the much more complex case of law ways. it is to want abortions to be done. They will and public policy." Many people regard the expression of this not consider refusal of public funds discrim Curran invokes John Courtney Murray, position by politicians as a typical example ination against the poor, for there is no dis Jacques Maritain, St. Thomas Aquinas, and of professional insincerity. Rather cynically, crimination in refusing to eliminate poverty Vatican II in support of a distinction be people assume that those who say they per by eliminating poor people and refusing to tween the "personal moral order and the sonally oppose abortion but practically want help the poor kill their children so that legal order." To confirm his opinion, heap abortions done with public funds are simply they might share more fully in the self-in peals to the U.S. bishops' support of the lying in an inept attempt to mollify propo dulgence of wealthier members of society. Hatch amendment and to statements in nents of the right to life of the unborn. But However, those who regard direct abortion "The Challenge of Peace" regarding the dis while this interpretation may be accurate in as morally acceptable may well want abor tinction between principles and applica some cases, it is not the only possible one. tions done with public funds, so that the tions. The politician who expresses moral oppo poor will neither be a burden to the wealthy Not all the sources Curran uses are of sition to abortion but supports government nor be deprived of their fair share in the lib equal weight; one could criticize some of funding also could be confused. Prior to erty to kill enjoyed by the wealthy. them. One also could point out defects in 1973, when laws against abortion were the In "The Challenge of Peace," the Ameri Curran's use of every one of them. For ex issue, some politicians-sincerely or insin can bishops do distinguish, as Curran and ample, summarizing the position of St. cerely-opposed certain methods of legal McCormick say, between moral principles Thomas on the relationship between the control of abortion without falsifying their and their application to particular policy moral and the legal orders, Curran says: claim to oppose abortion itself. That was choices. However, the bishops make it clear "Civil laws should suppress only the more possible because moral opposition to abor that the common moral teaching of the grievous vices from which the majority of tion does not necessarily entail any particu Church belongs on the side of principles. human beings can abstain ." lar legal method of controlling it. Thus, For example, the pastoral says : "In simple terms, we are saying It follows that a bishop makes no mistake ticular public policy for dealing with the that good ends (defending one's country, when he implies that there is no room for Jewish problem. The n'lagisterium has never protecting freedom, etc.) cannot justify im dissent against the teaching of the ordinary addressed this particular matter, and what moral means . posed infallibly do not thereby approve dis tion." From the preceding, it is clear that sent on the morality of abortion. That line of argument surely would have McCormick is mistaken in thinking that The samples of theological opinion appealed to antisemites, but it is transpar someone who favors government funding of McCormick offers all ignore the vital dis ently fallacious to us. We ought not to allow abortion holds a position consistent with tinction between teachings infallibly pro current prejudice against the unborn to that of the magisterium. Subjectively, such posed by the ordinary magisterium and blind us to the moral truth about public as a person may be sincere. He or she may those which could be mistaken. Yves programs of abortion.e think morality is only a matter of private Congar, 0. P., in criticizing the teaching on feelings or may be confused into overlook the magisterium in Humani generis, makes ing the fact that wanting public funding of it clear that even Pius XII did not always FIGHTING HUNGER IN THE abortions is wanting abortions to be done attend sufficiently to this distinction. WORLD with public funds. But objectively, anyone McCormick cites passages from Karl who tries to justify public funding of abor Rahner, S. J., Andr~ Naud, and Bernard tion takes a position contrary to that of the HAring, C.SsR. These passages show only HON. NICK JOE RAHALL II magisterium's absolute rejection of direct that other theologians who ignore the OF WEST VIRGINIA abortion. status of the teachings from which they dis IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nor is McCormick making adequate dis sent agree with McCormick in claiming both tinctions when he claims: "Implied in the that their dissent is justified and that the Tuesday, July 24, 1984 phrase 'contrary to the magisterium' is the teaching of Vatican II summarized above e Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, I would notion that one may not, within the canons has been nullified by dissenting theological of Catholic loyalty, hold positions that di opinion. like to take this opportunity to bring verge from those of the magisterium." For This line of argument by dissenting theo to the attention of my colleagues a McCormick, and the theological materials logians is question begging, for by it they letter written by a constituent of mine he invokes in his argument, ignore a vital try to ground their authority in their own in Huntington, WV, which appeared in distinction among the teachings proposed opinion and consensus. One might call this the Herald-Dispatch on July 4, 1984. I by the ordinary magisterium. line of argument a strategy of theological commend these dedicated people on As Lumen gentium, 25, makes clear, these boot-strapping. their commitment to fighting hunger are of two sorts. Some, although never de Rahner argues that the magisterium's tol in the world and urge my colleagues to fined by any pope or council, are proposed eration of dissent from Humanae vitae falsi infallibly by the universal, ordinary magis fies the teaching of Lumen gentium, 25. take heed of the following letter stat terium: This argument is fallacious. As Rahner and ing the goals of this fine organization, "Although the bishops individually do not other theologians long urged, disciplinary the World Runners. enjoy the prerogative of infallibility, they and legal measures to enforce theological The letter follows: nevertheless proclaim the teaching of assent to teaching are of little use and only ANTI-HUNGER MANIFESTO Christ infallibly, even when they are dis drive errors underground. For that reason, To the editor: persed throughout the world, provided that since Vatican II the magisterium has used The following excerpts are from the mes they remain in communion with each other such methods very sparingly. sage that is being carried from Geneva, and with the successor of Peter and that in But in the doctrinal field itself, the magis Switzerland, to Los Angeles, Calif., and will authoritatively teaching on a matter of terium has by no means yielded to dissent be carried across West Virginia July 10-11 faith and morals they agree in one judg ing opinions. Familiaris consortia, for exam by the local chapter of World Runners, in ment as that to be held definitely." ple, not only reaffirms the doctrine to cluding runners from Huntington, Chesa Obviously, teachings which are proposed which Rahner refers, but clarifies it, calls peake, Point Pleasant, Romney, Clarksburg infallibly leave no room for dissent on the for further theological effort to explain it, and Parkersburg. part of faithful Catholics. and directs that pastoral practice uniformly However, other teachings of the ordinary conform to it. MANIFESTO AGAINST HUNGER magisterium can be mistaken, even though Andr~ Naud says of Lumen gentium, 25: "I keep my brain active by always keeping "We appeal to all men and women of the general staff of Napoleon Bona myself interested in everything going on; I goodwill ... to bring back to life the mil parte, is a truly impressive individual. read all the time, and my body is in good lions who, as victims of the political and I urge my colleagues to read the at condition. I have a diversity of interests, economic upheavals of the world today, are tached article from the June 1982 too. This brings a wide variety of stimulat suffering from hunger and privation. Ohio State University Alumni maga ing people into my circle of friends." IDti "Their situation has no precedent. In a zine. mately, he advises, "Live life to the full single year, more people suffer than all FOREVER YOUNG est!"e those who died in the holocausts of the first He's always been involved in activities, but half of the century. Every day spreads the Albert Savoy, Eng'22, has no intention of outrage further, an outrage that assaults slowing down his pace. In fact, at the age of THE 1984 SESSION both the world around us and our own spirit 87, Savoy has his fingers in so many pies and conscience. that sometimes he loses track. "Everyone who denounces this tragic state HON. LEE H. HAMILTON For example, he's been practicing law in OF INDIANA of affairs and seeks to remedy it knows that Columbia and Lancaster for 55 years. its causes are primarily political. He belongs to the Elks, the American IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "So what we need, urgently, is a new polit Legion, and several professional organiza Tuesday, July 24, 1984 ical will, a determination to deal with the tions, too. He's also extremely proud of his causes of the situation and to mitigate its three sons with whom he keeps in close con e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I effects; and this must be found at once.... tact. But what sets him apart from his con would like to insert my Washington "We must see that the great international temporaries today is his avocation for report for Wednesday, July 18, 1984, organizations take action, together with flying. into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: states and with their peoples, to combat and According to the Guinness Book of World overcome the starvation that is overwhelm Records, Savoy at the age of 82, was the THE 1984 SESSION ing a large part of the human race today. oldest man every to receive his private When the second session of the 98th Con "Each and everyone of us must support pilot's license. Even though this was his gress began in January, few expected major measures to save the living. We must not let first official license, flying is anything but results. Election-year sessions traditionally them die through our inertia, through our new to him. have been marked more by partisan bicker failure to act, through our indifference.... He says that he first became fascinated ing than by legislative initiative. With the "If only people are told what is happen with aviation in 1911 when he was a sopho House and the Senate under the leadership ing, then the world's dark future, which more in high school, and an aviator visited of different parties, and with an incumbent now seems to threaten everyone in it, may his hometown. "His plane was the most President up for reelection, even the Senate be changed. primitive thing you could imagine," recalls Majority Leader was predicting that Con "But only if we take action. Savoy. "He packed parts in the back of a gress would take care of little more than the "Now is the time to act, now is the time to truck and put it together in the field. Then bare necessities. Yet when Congress ad create, now is the time for us to live in a he flew from one end of a racetrack to the journed at the end of June for its mid-year way that will give life to others." other." recess, it had compiled a surprising, even re DoN MEGA, A few years later, Savoy decided to take markable, record: a big deficit-reduction bill, Huntington, WV.e up the sport on his own. "In those days, you greater progress on the 13 major appropria learned by being a nosy kid who flew with tions bills than in earlier Congresses, and someone who had a plane," he remembers. enactment of 226 laws, 61 more than it pro INDIVIDUALS OF IMMENSE He received further training by observing duced in 1983. Due to a rare ability to reach TALENT pilots at McCook Field in Dayton, where he bi-partisan solutions in a political season, later became a flight instructor. At that Congress was more active in the first six HON. ELDON RUDD time, there weren't any governmental re months of the second session than during strictions on pilots and no licenses were re any comparable period since 1978. OF ARIZONA quired. The Air Force took him on as a civil A basic shift in election-year politics in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ian flight instructor during World War II, Congress made this record possible. Pres Tuesday, July 24, 1984 but he quit that assignment and enlisted in sures not to ruffle feathers normally make the Army as a "rookie doughboy." it safer for Congress to avoid issues during • Mr. RUDD. Mr. Speaker, every so "I love flying because I can think a lot an election year. This year, however, with often we encounter individuals of im when I get into the air," adds Savoy. "When wide dissatisfaction over deficits, with inter mense talent and sense of duty to detached from an annoying environment, I est rates on the rise, and with awareness their country, and I recently encoun can philosophize and work out problems. growing that Congress could be accused of tered such an individual in Albert E. But it's a demanding avocation, I have to be doing nothing, pressures were right for sig Savoy, age 89. Mr. Savoy introduced constantly alert," he contends. nificant legislative accomplishments. Al himself to me at a Civil Air Patrol As a lieutenant colonel in the Civil Air though many pieces of legislation are still Patrol, Savoy remains active training aspir pending, the record to date is solid. function in Phoenix, AZ, recently. ing pilots. through ground schools, camping The major legislative accomplishment was As a lieutenant colonel in the Civil practice drills, and other activities, Savoy is passage of the Deficit Reduction Act of Air Patrol, Albert Savoy remains one of several veteran volunteers who also 1984. To address huge deficits, Congress ap active in training prospective pilots encourages young people interested in pur proved part of its "down payment," easing who are pursuing a career in the suing a career in the Armed Forces. Addi the budget imbalance by $63 billion over the Armed Forces. He has and continues tionally, Savoy serves as the Ohio Legisla next three years through revenue increases to be a practicing lawyer, a licensed tive liaison officer for the Ohio Wing of the and spending cuts. Revenue would be raised pilot, an engineer, active in multiple Air Patrol, where he lobbies for State fund through restrictions on industrial develop ing for the air cadet program. ment bonds and tax-motivated leasing trans philanthropies and organizations, and He maintains that he doesn't plan on actions, curbs on abusive tax shelters, first and foremost, a patriotic and de stopping any of his activities in the near delays in future tax reductions, and an in voted citizen. Of interest is the fact future, and despite his age, Savoy's law crease in the building depreciation period. that he, at age 82, was the oldest man practice continues to thrive. Right now, he's Spending reductions would be made to ever receive his private pilot's li involved in a $1 million case that he's confi through changes in medicare (including a cense and was so recognized in the dent of winning. 15-month freeze on physicians' fees, in "Guinness Book of World Records." Savoy admits that he works all of the creases in premiums paid by beneficiaries, Of course, longevity for the Savoy time. "I have no idea of how many hours a and tighter limits on payments to hospi week I put in," he says. "Clients just keep tals), as well as through implementation of family is nothing unusual since his coming and going. This makes it difficult to various recommendations of the Grace great-grandfather lived to be 108, his estimate how many cases I'm working on at Commission. grandfather 95 and his father to 96 once." With deficits expected to reach $600 bil years of age. Longevity runs in Savoy's family. His lion during the next three years, this "down His motto is "live life to the fullest." great grandfather lived to be 108, his grand- payment" does not solve the problem. Yet it 20752 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 24, 1984 is a good start, more than was expected six There is a growing consensus that more rates have soared, and there is a de months ago. The tax increases, spending re action on deficits will be needed, and this clining pool of capital available to fi ductions, and reductions in domestic benefit will include action on popular entitlements nance home mortgages since housing programs complete key elements of Con and tax breaks. In a way, the easy work has gress' attack on deficits. Another element, a been done, and the issues facing Congress capital has been squeezed out by limit on the growth of defense spending, re next year promise to be among the most im record high Federal budget deficits. mains to be negotiated but could represent portant and difficult in recent memory·• Another housing barrier is the "af up to one half of the package. Overall, the fordability gap." Witnesses estimated House is· seeking to cut deficits by $183 bil that the gap between the cost of avail lion over three years, while the Senate is IMPACT OF REAGAN CUTS ON able housing and the price potential seeking $138 billion in cuts. CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMI homeowners can afford to pay is about Major bills in many other areas passed LIES both the House and the Senate. Some were $14,000 apart. Another witness report signed into law, and others are awaiting con ed that 2 or 3 million households are ference to iron out differences. These meas HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER doubling up because of the lack of ures include: the first immigration reform in OF COLORADO housing, not only in the inner cities, 30 years, containing sanctions against em IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES but also in classic suburban neighbor ployers who knowingly hire illegal aliens Tuesday, July 24, 1984 hoods. and an amnesty for otherwise law-abiding Witnesses told the select committee aliens who immigrated illegally before 1982; e Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, in a defense bill that would cut back on MX recent years we have seen an upsurge about enormous increases in homeless missiles and reject chemical weapons; bank of interest in the American family. Al ness, hunger, child abuse, and infant ruptcy reform that would restore the bank though the debate about the family mortality. ruptcy courts, curb consumer abuse, restrict its role and future-is often heated, Although the national data reveal the ability of companies to cancel labor there is general agreement that the an apparent decline in infant mortali agreements through bankruptcy, and pro ty from 26 per 1,000 live births in 1960 tect farmers who stored grain in bankrupt family is the central institution in our society and must be protected and to 12.8 per 1,000 in 1980, this data is elevators; important farm legislation to misleading. The infant mortality rate freeze federal price supports for various strengthened. There is also little dis crops, expand surplus control programs, lib agreement that the family is affected is much higher in certain cities and eralize terms for federal loans to farmers, by broad changes occurring in our so States, especially in minority and low expand agricultural export programs, and ciety: The phenomenal growth in income communities. In 1950, the make farmers who plow up fragile land in single parent-families, a declining black infant death rate (43.9 per 1,000 eligible for federal farm aid; a bill to help birth rate, the increasing labor force live births) was 16 percent higher than organ transplant agencies and patients in participation of women, the high rate the white rate (26.8 per 1,000 live need of costly drugs; traffic safety legisla births). By 1979, the black rate (21.8) tion to encourage child restraints in vehicles of inflation and its impact on families, and restrict federal highway funds to states and the effect of record high unem was 91 percent higher than the white with drinking ages under 21; a bill to bolster ployment on families, with loss of rate 01.4). enforcement of court-ordered child support both income and health insurance. We found that more women in poor payments; legislation to begin development This concern about the family cul communities are not getting the pre of a permanent manned space station; bills minated in the 1980 White House Con natal care they need to ensure that to reform procedures for removing social se ference on Families and more recently their babies are born healthy. Even curity disability beneficiaries from the rolls, more alarming, the percentage of as well as reform pension laws to make in the creation of the Select Commit them fairer to women; legislation to up tee on Children, Youth, and Families, women getting early care is going grade education in mathematics and science; on which I serve. It has been the task down and the percentage getting no and a bill to broaden presidential control of of this select committee to assess the care is going up. security-related exports. status of children, youth, and families, Witnesses reported evidence that In foreign policy, Congress pushed hard to gather information about problems low-income parents are increasingly for a withdrawal of the marines from Leba confronting them, and look at both being forced to choose between keep non. Also, it boosted pressure on the admin ing their children and placing them in istration for serious arms control, blocked public and private efforts to remedy funds for the covert war in Nicaragua, and these problems and enhance the well foster homes because they simply condemned the mining of Nicaraguan ports being of families. cannot afford to keep them at home. by U.S. intelligence agencies. The picture that the select commit Father Thomas Harvey. executive di Not all has gone smoothly. Other pieces of tee has gleaned from its 22 hearings- rector of the National Conference of legislation that were taken up now appear 12 in Washington and 10 in other re Catholic Charities, the largest social to be stalled. Among these is a bill allowing gions of the country-is that parents service agency in the Nation, told the student-initiated religious groups equal are finding it increasingly difficult to members of the select committee: access to school facilities. Others are domes tic content in imported cars, the Equal provide for the basic needs of their High rates of long-term unemployment, Rights Amendment, the youth subminimum children. frequent evictions, and spousal desertion wage, tax-free "enterprise zones" in inner Essential family household ex can also mean parting with one's children. cities, the Balanced Budget Amendment, penses-food, clothing, shelter, utili Our New Orleans agency and Galveston amendments to the Clean Air Act, banking ties, transportation, and health care Houston agency reported their experience deregulation, parts of an anti-crime pro rose faster between 1972 and 1981 with women facing the agonizing experience gram, and a ban on sex discrimination in in of deciding whether or not to give their chil than the Consumer Price Index as a dren up for short-term crisis housing or for surance. whole. Consequently, the portion of Before the session draws to a close, Con longer term foster care placement. Some gress is likely to devote much of its time to family income not required for essen times this is necessary to enable the mother the bills awaiting conference and the 13 ap tial purchases has shrunk. to try to find employment and stabilize her propriations bills. However, it may also Experts reported that declining dis situation. begin looking at bills to reform natural gas cretionary income make it more and Another witness suggested that poor pricing, clean up additional hazardous waste more difficult for families to buy a mothers choose foster care because sites, broaden the clean water program, home or to afford the cost of higher AFDC benefits are too low to ade reform the bail law, impose sanctions education for their children, even quately support a child. In some against countries that engage in unfair trad though these are part of the American States, AFDC pays $264 per month for ing practices, and revise cable television reg ulations. It is too early to say the all the ac dream. a single mother and three children. complishments of this session are past. The number of families who own This does not go far in paying for rent, Despite the solid record, my feeling is that their own home has declined. Families gas, electricity, water bills, transporta Congress deserves the highest credit for who want to buy a home have serious tion, food, and clothing for a family of laying next year's legislative foundation. financial hurdles to jump. Interest four. AFDC benefits are low because July 24, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20753 they are not increased as the cost of Over one-half of the two million and limit the role of the Federal Gov living rises. children pushed into poverty between ernment and reorder national prior One witness reported that between 1980 and 1982 live in two-parent fami ities, shifting more responsibility to 1974 and 1982, average payments for lies and almost 90 percent of the chil the private sector and State and local foster care children increased from dren are white. governments. $111 to $197 a month, while AFDC Black families are also hard hit by In sharp contract to the steep cuts payments rose from only $35 to $49 the domestic spending cuts. One out of in social programs has been increased per child per month. This decreased four black children in two-parent fam military spending and larger tax cuts. the average ratio of AFDC to foster ilies live in poverty, largely due to the Between 1981 and 1985 spending for care payments from 32 percent to 25 high unemployment rates. In black national defense increased by 35 per percent. families, 46 percent of which are single cent, a hefty $78 billion in constant HOW HAVE FAMILIES AND THEIR CHILDREN parent homes, one out of two children dollars. The tax cuts enacted since FARED UNDER THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION? live in poverty. January 1981 have reduced Federal As Chair of the Economic Security Of all children in female-headed revenues by an estimated $187 billion Task Force of the Select Committee, I households, 56 percent live in poverty, for fiscal year 1982-1984. Most of the have prepared a table that shows Pres but 70 percent of black children and cuts have decreased individual income idential budget requests and congres more than 70 percent of Hispanic chil taxes, primarily aiding middle- and sional appropriations for fiscal years dren in female-headed households live upper-income people. Both increased 1982, 1983, and 1984 for the areas of in poverty. military spending and the tax cuts education, health, nutrition, social The Reagan budget cuts represent a have contributed to the growing Fed services, youth, housing, and entitle step back from this country's commit eral deficit. ments. It also shows fiscal year 1981 ment to high-risk children and fami CBO estimates that the budget defi appropriations, before the new admin lies. It is disheartening that in many instances these cuts have interrupted cit under policies now in place will rise istration took office, and Congression from $190 billion in 1984 to $326 bil al Budget Office forecasts of basic programs that have been proven cost effective. lion in 1989. The CBO reported that reductions in outlays for fiscal year while the recession accounted for 1982-85 due to legislative changes STATE AND LOCAL EFFORTS TO FILL THE GAP since January 1981. The CBO figures about half of the 1983 deficit, most of The Federal spending cutbacks the deficits in future years will be the are based on services provided under during the Reagan years have shifted 2 1980 law before the changes in eligibil a heavy burden onto State and local result of budget policies. Most econo ity requirements and benefit levels in governments which are struggling to mists agree that deficits of this size stituted during the Reagan adminis provide services to the truly needy will push up interest rates. There is tration.1 with diminished Federal assistance. also growing alarm about the extreme I have also prepared a series of Lester Salamon of the Urban Institute ly rapid growth in the outlays neces tables that track fiscal year 1982-84 told the select committee that when sary to pay the interest on the nation budget requests and appropriations States have not been able to offset al debt which CBO expects to rise for major programs that benefit chil Federal cutbacks with either State from $90 billion in fiscal year 1983 to dren, youth, and families, and com funds or by shifting expenses among $218 billion in fiscal year 1989. Since pare them with fiscal year 1981 appro programs, they have responded by in outlays for interest on the debt are priations for these programs. troducing fee systems, reducing the sensitive to interest rates, the costs of While President Reagan extolls the quality of care provided, and/or by the debt will rise considerably if the value of the American family, his poli shifting resources into shorter term interest rate increases. cies have been devastating to families. emergency needs at the expense of There should be great concern that The Reagan budget cuts have had a longer term prevention activities. the burden of the Reagan spending crippling effect on programs for fami With State and local government re cuts has been unevenly distributed. lies. CBO projects that the programs sources strained to their limits, there Programs for poor families have borne that serve children, youth, and fami have been increased demands on pri a disproportionate share of the cuts lies will be cut by $62 billion in outlays vate charitable organizations to pro contained in the administration's during fiscal year 1982-85. The harm vide these basic services. Salamon told budget proposals. Even though State done by these cuts would have almost the committee that the Federal and local governments, as well as pri doubled if Congress had not rejected budget cuts have already cost nonprof vate charities, have strained to meet an additional $52 billion in appropria it organizations $8.6 billion for social the increased demand for human serv tions cuts proposed by the Reagan ad service activities, and he estimated ices, their resources have been inad ministration during fiscal year 1982- that nonprofits would lose $32 billion equate to fill the gap caused by dimin 84. in revenues between 1982 and 1986 ished Federal funding. High unemployment and cuts in under measures already enacted or Children are generally given a low Government social spending have proposed. Salamon concluded that pri priority in our society. That is one of pushed families deeper into poverty, vate giving cannot make up for this the reasons we find one out of every unable to find jobs because of econom lost revenue, telling the committee: five children in the United States lives ic conditions and ineligible for public If we take into account the level of private in poverty. Yet children are a precious programs because of cutbacks. giving as of 1981, the anticipated rate of in resource that we cannot afford to Increasing poverty rates show that flation, and the revenue losses that non waste. If the young are ignored or ill the safety net has not been adequate profit organizations would sustain as a treated, society will pay the price in to protect families. Both two-parent result of the budget changes already en the long run. It is important that we families and single parent homes have acted or proposed, private giving would have invest in preventive programs that suffered under this administration. to grow by at least 22 percent in 1982, 24 percent in 1983, and in excess of 30 percent help our disadvantaged grow into good in 1984, 1985, and 1986 to allow nonprofit citizens. 1 Congressional Budget Office, Major Legislative organizations to maintain their 1980 level of It is crucial that the Congress reject Changes in Human Resources Programs Since Jan activity. This represents a rate of increase the President's 1985 budget proposals uaT]I1981, August 1983. The CBO figures are literal in private giving that is two to three times estimates of reductions in outlays based on 1980 which adversely affect families, as it law before the legislative changes that were insti greater than any that has been recorded in has done in the past. Otherwise, poor tuted under the Reagan administration. The CBO recent memory. baseline data assumes price growth with some infla 1984 AND BEYOND tion and adjustment, in addition to adjustments for 2 Congressional Budget Office, The Economic changes in eligible population and cost-of-living ad The 1985 budget proposals continue Outlook: A Report to the Senate and House Com Justments for entitlement programs. the administration's efforts to reshape mittees on the Budget, February 1984. 20754 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 24, 1984 families themselves, those who are the caps. Some 16.9 million students are restored some of the cuts made in the least able, who will be forced to absorb enrolled in federally supported voca health block grants in 1982. the burden of the Reagan budget cuts. tional education programs. The maternal and child health care There is a growing concern about During this Administration, the Vo block grant was created in fiscal year the skyrocketing Federal deficit, and cational Education Program has been 1982. Its funding was cut back from rightfully so. Policymakers are looking cut by $600 million in outlays, based $454 million in fiscal year 1981 to $399 for solutions to the deficit problem. on CBO assumptions about program million in fiscal year 1984. Congress But in our efforts to lower the Federal costs under 1980 law. Congress reject rejected another $269 million in addi deficit, we must examine the policy ed $574 million in additional cuts pro tional cuts proposed between fiscal options before us carefully in terms of posed by the administration. year 1982 and 1984. their impact on the families of this Guaranteed student loan . Since tions of families. In spite of the in natives to incarceration, have been crease in the proportions of the prob shown to be highly cost effective and 1967, WIN has provided job counsel lem, for 4 years in a row the adminis to reduce rates of offender recidivism, ing, training, placement, and support tration has proposed block granting the administration for 4 years in a row services for AFDC recipients who are the child abuse program and reducing has requested no funding for this pro working their way off welfare through its funding. Congress rejected the gram. The committee was told about paid employment. Funding has fallen block grant proposal and responded in the trend in the country toward pun from $365 million in fiscal year 1981 to 1984 by passing H.R. 1904, which reau ishment and incarceration, rather $271 million in fiscal year 1984. How thorizes the Child Abuse Treatment than investment in treatment, a move ever, Congress has rejected the admin and Prevention Act, raising its funding which is costly both in dollars and in istration's proposal for the past 2 from $17 million to $30 million in human terms. For instance, in some years to eliminate the program entire fiscal year 1984, with 5-percent in States funding available for youth pro ly. creases for the next 3 years. The Sen grams is being used to construct secure HOUSING ate's child abuse bill, S. 1003, was re facilities, while treatment programs Low-income housing has suffered ported by committee but has not yet are weakened. The committee learned greater cuts than any other human gone to the Senate floor for a vote. that in Florida all community-based needs program. Federally assisted The Runaway Youth Act was passed treatment programs were filled housing is important for low-income in 1974 to provide assistance to youth beyond capacity so that juveniles were families who cannot afford adequate who have left their homes voluntarily frequently put into training schools at housing. Two major programs com because of abuse, or conflict, or were a cost of $12,000 per youth for each prise assisted housing. Public housing forced out. In fiscal year 1982 the ad year. projects provide low rent and standard ministration proposed that the pro Employment and Training. Youth quality housing, primarily to low gram be included in the social services unemployment and school drop out income families with children. Ap block grant, with reduced funding. rates have reached staggering propor proximately half of all residents in The 1983 proposal recommended that tions. In March 1984, the unemploy public housing projects are children its budget be cut from $11 million to ment rate for teenagers 06-19) was under age 18, about 1,817,000 children. $7 million. Congress rejected the block 19.9 percent, while unemployment for The Section 8 Rental Assistance Pro grant proposal and increased its fund black teenagers was 46.7 percent, more gram was established to help low ing to $22 million in fiscal year 1983 than twice that of white teens. A con income households occupy privately and $23 million in fiscal year 1984. servative estimate indicates that owned, modest quality housing with The President's fiscal year 1985 700,000 youth leave school each year out excessive rent payment. Of the oc budget proposal would cut the pro without graduating. According to the cupants of the Section 8 Rental Assist gram by more than half, from $23.3 National Center for Educational Sta ance Program, 42 percent are under million to $10.5 million. tistics, 28 percent of the Nation's age 18 . assistance are programs that have school before their senior years. The Reagan administration's hous been successful in keeping troubled In spite of the dimensions of the ing policies have been devastating to youth in their own homes or returning youth problem, in 1982, at the Presi low-income housing programs. The them home as expeditiously as possi- dent's request, Congress repealed the 1981 Omnibus Budget and Reconcilia- 20756 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 24, 1984 tion Act cut budget authority gram and nearly 20 million others ENERGY CONSERVATION for assisted housing Part B: Existing the annual appropriations levels. Be The State needs standards vary, rang North American Residential cause of these budget cuts, an estimat ing from $168 for a family of 3 in Buildings, Leonard W. Wall, ed 2 million recipients have been Texas to $816 for the same family in Charles A. Goldman, and dropped from the Food Stamp Pro- Vermont.e Arthur H. Rosenfeld...... 81 July 24, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20757 The Modular Retrofit Experi Analysis of Oregon's Statewide Appendix A: List of Summer Study ment: Exploring the House Water Heater Efficiency /Re Papers by Topic...... 505 Doctor Concept, Gautam S. placement Programs, Anthony Appendix B: Abstracts...... 511 Dutt, Michael L. Lavine, Bar G. 'White ...... 334 Indexes: bara Levi, and Robert H. Soco- Quality Control ...... 340 low ...... :.. . 95 Institutional Approaches to pro Subject Index...... 557 A House Heating Study in the viding Systematic Quality Con Author Index...... 561e Darien, Connecticut Area, trol for the Realization of Pre James Forbes Bell, Paul P. Rei dicted Energy Savings, Lynda chertz, and Curtis R. Thomas .... 110 T. Connor ...... 340 TRIBUTE TO GERALDINE Documented Energy Savings in Quality Assurance Techniques FERRARO Multi-Unit Housing with Em Used in the Massachusetts Res phasis on Efficiency Improving idential Conservation Service Measures for Existent Space Program, John P. da Silva and HON. MARIO BIAGGI Heating Systems, John Theo- Dominick Parisi ...... •...... 353 OF NEW YORK dore Katrakis ...... 125 The Effectiveness of Residential The Page Homes Demonstration Energy Audits in Minnesota: A IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Energy Conservation Comput- Process Evaluation, Keith Koz- Tuesday, July 24, 1984 er System, Chaim S. Gold ...... 140 loff ...... 360 Sharing Savings in Multi-Family Residential Conservation Service e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, I am Housing: The Incentive Divi- Audits: An Evaluation of Four proud to join in paying tribute to my dend, Stephen J. Morgan ...... 151 Types, Roger H. Johnston, Jr. ... 372 friend and distinguished colleague Metering Conversions: An Equi New Utility Strategies for Saving from New York City-GERALDINE FER table and Cost-Effective Con Energy in the Commercial Sector, Sharon Maves and Jef- RARO, the nominee of the Democratic servation Investment for Ten Party to be Vice President of the ants: A Massachusetts Case frey P. Harris ...... 382 Study, Mitchell Rosenberg ...... 161 Energy Ratings for Buildings ...... 388 United States. New Residences ...... 172 Technical Issues for Building With her selection-GERRY FERRARo The Measured Performance of Energy Ratings, Arthur H. Ro makes so many different groups of Low-Energy Passive Solar sen/eld and Barbara S. Wagner 388 people proud. She, of course, makes all Houses for 1981-1982, Robert The Development, Implementa of her colleagues in the House proud. W. Besant, Tom Hamlin, and tion, and Evaluation of She makes millions of women in Amer John Rowe ...... 172 PG&E's Energy Conservation Home Program, Brion C. Rich- ica proud. She makes millions of Ital Measured Thermal Performance ian Americans proud. and the Cost of Conservation ardson and Greg Haddow ...... 403 Community and Local Govern- However, for those of us who live in for a Group of Energy-Effi and serve on the New York congres cient Minnesota Homes, May ment Programs ...... 418 Hutchinson, Gary Nelson, and Lessons and Accomplishments of sional delegation-we can be a little Mary Fagerson ...... 185 Community-Wide Volunteer selfish and confess to a special paro Measured Passive Solar Perform Energy Conservation Cam- chial pride today as the Congresswom ance from New Residences in paigns, Tamera Stanton ...... 418 an from Queens takes her place in the Denver, Colorado, Joel N. Behavioral Influences on Con- annals of American political history. Swisher ...... 212 sumer Energy Use ...... 429 Do Consumers Know 'What When Walter Mondale and later the Kitsun Vancouver Passive Solar Works' in Energy Conserva full Democratic Party made their se Townhouse Monitoring Results tion?, Willett Kempton, Craig lection of GERALDINE FERRARO, they and Evaluation, Ken Cooper and Raymond J. Cole ...... 225 K. Harris, Joanne G. Keith, were choosing a special woman-a and JefferyS. Weihl ...... 429 woman who has proven herself in all Monitored Low-energy Houses in Comparing the Methodologies of North America and Europe: A of her career endeavors-as a teacher, Research on Household Energy an assistant district attorney, a three Compilation and Economic Consumption, Bruce Hackett, Analysis, Jesse C. Ribot, Arthur Paul Craig, James Cramer, term Member of this House and, of H. Rosen.teld, Francoise Flou- Thomas Dietz, Dan Kowalczyk, course, as a wife and mother. quet, and Wolfgang Luhrsen ...... 242 Mark Levine, and Edward Vine. 439 Yet GERALDINE FERRARO is in a spe Existing Commercial Buildings ...... 257 Energy and equity ...... 445 cial place in history now-a woman of A summary Review of Building Building Energy and Equity: destiny-a political pioneer. Those Energy Use Compilation and Back to the Drawing Board, who know her know full well that her Analysis Part C: Con Nancy Carson Naismith ...... 445 servation Progress in Retro tremendous personal energy, commit Filling the Cracks in Federal ment, compassion, and rapport with fitted Commercial Buildings, Weatherization: The Implica Leonard W. Wall and John Fla- tions of Conflicting Policy Ob the people will serve her so well as she herty ...... 257 jectives, Steven Ferrey and Joy embarks on this national campaign. Energy Conservation on the Gordon ...... 453 The Democratic Party was show Campus, Carl Blumstein ...... 276 Uncertainty and the Distribution cased in its best light before millions New Commercial Buildings ...... 281 of Benefits from Utility Con of Americans last week at the conven Introduction of Passive Hybrid servation Programs, Edward tion. Yet the event that produced the Design into a Corporate Build Kahn ...... 462 most excitement among the delegates ing Program: Design, Construc Instrumentation Techniques ...... 470 was the selection of GERRY FERRARo as tion, and Initial Monitoring, Monitoring Energy Use: What is John R. Schade ...... 281 Needed?, David T. Harrje ...... 470 the nominee for Vice President. This Appliances and Equipment...... 292 Monitoring of Residences with excitement has spread across this Efficient Refrigerators: Market Modified Oil-Heating Systems, Nation and will continue as the cam Availability and Potential Sav- Robert J. Hoppe and William paign continues. ings, David Goldstein ...... 292 L. Graves ...... 478 The words of Aristotle seem appro Performance of Retrofitted and Evaluation Methods and Data priate: "If liberty and equality as is New High Efficiency Gas Issues ...... 489 thought by some, are chiefly to be Equipment: Some Recent GRI Estimates of the Impact of the found in democracy, they will be best Projects, Gregory T. Linteris ....• 305 1981 Demand Subscription attained when all persons alike share Description, Initial Results, and Service Program, Mark S. Evaluation Plan for Northern Kumm ...... 489 in the government to the utmost." States Power Company's Appli Appendices: List and Abstracts of GERALDINE FERRARO has the potential ance Rebate Program, Ran- Summer Study Papers: to share in the utmost, and I wish her dolph G-unn ...... •....•... 317 Editors' Note ...... 503 well in the pursuit.e 20758 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 24, 1984 RUBE GOLDBERG IS BACK berg rule into a progressive policy to We have serious doubts whether anybody provide tangible incentives for States involved is that cunning. In any event, the to move forward with seat belt legisla manufacturers cannot wait for legislative HON. JOHN D. DINGELL fights in dozens of states. the 1987 models OF MICHIGAN tion to save thousands of lives and mil are being firmed up now. It looks like the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lions of dollars. only way out for the manufacturers is to fit Public opposition to the recent DOT Tuesday, July 24, 1984 automatically deploying seat belts-such as rulemaking decision is just beginning the carload of snakes that VW had a few • Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, it now to build and Secretary Dole should act years ago. These are an annoyance, but are appears that the U.S. Department of expeditiously to take further action to much cheaper and more reliable than air Transportation [DOTl has proven form good policy, not just bad prece bags, and have the advantage that we can that the legacy of Rube Goldberg is dent. I commend my colleagues to read cut them away easily. alive and well in our Nation's Capital. an editorial entitled, "Mrs. Dole's But once again Detroit and the consumer will have to pay the freight for political chi After several months of hearings and Compromise," which appeared in the canery. We don't need this kind of hassle thousands of pages of documents, Sec July 12 issue of the Detroit News. from Washington. We had hoped the retary Dole, on July 11, decided it was MRS. DoLE'S COMPROMISE Reagan administration, of all administra far better to require automakers and The long-awaited air bag decision was tions, would protect us with active restraints consumers to pay millions of dollars to greeted by Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., a against additional regulatory costs.e equip new cars with passive restraints leading bagman, as a welcome bang, not the or air bags than to encourage individ whimper he feared. We're afraid he's cor uals to buckle up with existing seat rect. Despite frantic calls from Grand Bou NATIONAL POW/MIA DAY belt equipment in order to reduce levard to the White House, Transportation highway deaths. This Rube Goldberg Secretary Elizabeth Dole has announced what seems to be an odd compromise be HON. JAMES L. OBERST AR rule will require automobile manufac tween requiring air bags on cars as demand turers to install air bags or passive re ed by the Naderites and seeking other OF MINNESOTA straints in all new cars beginning Sep safety options as begged by the auto indus IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tember 1, 1986. The rule applies to 10 try. In the end, however, this "compromise" percent of the automakers' production really amounts to a capitulation to the anti Tuesday, July 24, 1984 in the first year, increasing to 25 per auto fanatics. e Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, on cent of all cars built after September Ten percent of 1987 model year cars must July 20, 1984, the Nation paid tribute 1, 1987, and 40 percent of those pro have air bags or other passive restraints, to American prisoners of war, service going up in steps to 100 percent by 1990, duced after September 1, 1988. All unless the manufacturers can come up with men still missing in action, and their automobiles manufactured after Sep some other means of improving passenger families. As a cosponsor of the legisla tember 1, 1989, will have to be protection in crashes, or unless states with tion which designated July 20 as Na equipped with automatic crash protec two-thirds of the national population pass tional POW/MIA Recognition Day, I tion. Some automakers estimate that compulsory seat belt use laws. believe that we owe these people a the rule provides insufficient lead time Well, the two "unlesses" are obviously great debt and that we must continue for compliance since planning for stale crumbs thrown to the industry. Re doing everything we can to account for model year 1987 cars no longer claim. The date was April 10, 1934, and Louis Kariel said he will have no advice to offer HON. SAM B. HALL, JR. Kariel Sr. attended the city commission commissioners during the brief remarks he OF TEXAS meeting. His purpose-to be seated as the will make tonight. "I'm not going to try to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Place 1 representative. tell them how to do it. I never have. The Tonight, Kariel will attend another com only suggestion I ever made was that the Tuesday, July 24, 1984 mission session. His purpose-to celebrate square should be named for couraging signs. For example, the Ameri A season of death has befallen refugees cans succeeded in having a proposal for pro porations. half a world away. viding the Thais with a $3 million patrol H. Clifford Bowman of Russellville, The season, the good weather months of boat tabled, a development that could leave AR, while only 17, has already distin February through June in the Gulf of Thai funds for less expensive but innovative anti guished himself academically and in land, has been especially deadly this year. piracy approaches, and also quell concern his community. In a recent two-month period, for example, that the anti-piracy program has succeeded This fall, Clifford will be a senior at more than 100 Vietnamese boat people who only in outfitting the Thais with vessels and were escaping on the Gulf of Thailand from aircraft. Russellville High School, where he is their homeland are said to have been killed Thailand has yet to agree to this develop enrolled in the honors program and by Thai pirates. ment, however, and it is an understatement, carries a perfect 4.0 grade point aver Their deaths inflate an already sickening to say the least, that it remains to be seen age. In addition, Clifford has already total. According to a February report by the whether the final plan for the next year of embarked on his college education, United Nations High Commissioner for Ref the international anti-piracy program will having earned perfect marks in college ugees, 1,400 boat people have perished at make the Gulf's waters safer for boat the hands of pirates since 1980. Many more people, who now are leaving Vietnam at a physics and trigonometry classes at have been robbed, raped, abducted, not only rate of 21,000 annually. Arkansas Tech University. At Russell during the February-through-June time of What is not an understatement came from ville High School, he is a student sena good weather and high boat flows, but also the American representative at Geneva. Re tor, model United Nations delegate, in other months. The victims apparently are ferring to the severity of the piracy prob science club officer, first chair violinist overwhelmingly women. lem, Ambassador Gerald P. Carmaen told Although the death counts should be participants at the May meeting that ". . . in the orchestra, and also participated chilling in themselves, they mask the bru people's lives are at stake." in the Arkansas Close Up Program. tality. Imagine in recent weeks; boat people, Of all that has been said by observers, it Yet he also finds time to be involved many perhaps former allies of the United would serve nations well to ponder that as in his church choir and youth group, States who weren't fortunate enough to sessment as they continue to search for re and unselfishly serves as a volunteer make it out of Vietnam before Saigon fell, sults in the battle against piracy. at St. Mary's Hospital. reportedly have had gasoline poured on Otherwise, yet another season of death them and been burned or have been tied will befall boat people, and haunt the civil I had the honor of having this fine and tossed into the sea before the eyes of ized world.e young man intern in my Washington loved ones, or watched as pirates rammed office for 4 weeks this summer before their rickety boats, sinking them with chil he went on to Leesburg, VA, for the dren aboard. CLARENCE L. JORDAN: THE MAN Rickover Science Institute, and he The world's answer to the crushing finali WHO IS DEDICATED TO HELP proved himself to be a most capable ty of these attacks has been less than re ING OTHERS sounding. This month, for example, a dozen staff member. nations met in Geneva under U.N. auspices In these times when we hear much to consider extending an international anti HON. GEORGE C. WORTLEY about the negative side of youth, Clif piracy program that has been largely known ford can certainly stand out as an ex for its ineffectiveness. OF NEW YORK ample of the positive qualities that My own organization took a firsthand IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES look at the situation, too, and issued a Tuesday, July 24, 1984 many of this Nation's teenagers pos report last February. Though its findings sess. His accomplishments bring honor are generally similar to those of others, e Mr. WORTLEY. Mr. Speaker, it is not only to himself, but to his parents, they are distinctive in one respect-the con with great pleasure that I bring to the Leo and Michiko Bowman, as well. I clusion that resources and technical exper attention of my colleagues in the Con wish him well at the Rickover Insti tise are important to saving the boat people gress an outstanding humanitarian tute, and believe that he will distin from horrible ends, but the will to do some and a dedicated civic leader who, on guish himself further in whatever thing to improve things is crucial. As the greatest contributor to the $26 Inil Wednesday, July 25, will be honored career path he chooses.e lion anti-piracy program and the richest and by my friends in the greater Syracuse most powerful of Western nations, the community. United States is in the best position to bring I am speaking about a man whom I that will to bear. To a small degree, it has. am proud to represent, my constituent July 24, 1984 ·EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20761 Mr. Clarence L. Jordan, the executive system as they seek to enforce Federal Act, the Age Discrimination in Em director of the Syracuse Rescue Mis civil rights protections designed to ployment Act, the Age Discrimination sion. ensure that their handicapped chil Act of 1975, the Equal Credit Opportu For a quarter of a century, Clarence dren receive a free and appropriate nity Act, the Voting Rights Act of Jordan, with seemingly tireless energy public education. When Congress 1965, the post-Civil War Acts, title IX, and unique talent, has devoted his life passed the Education of. the Handi the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the to bringing hope to our people who capped Act in 1975, parents of handi State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act had despaired, shelter for our home capped children were given adminis of 1973, the Civil Service Reform Act less and food to our hungry. trative remedies as well as a right to of 1978, and the Civil Rights of Insti Clarence Jordan began his service to private action as a means toward real tutionalized Persons Act. the mission and the people of our com izing the goals for their children in The July 5 decision was clearly mis munity as a lodging house manager in special education. Today there are guided and will result in disastrous 1959. Within a short period of time, he over 4 million handicapped children in consequences for low and middle was appointed executive director. special education and the gains that income parents of handicapped chil From the beginning of his tenure and have been made in the quality of their dren, if Congress does not act. My to this day, his commitment to the education are remarkable. These gains office received a call from a single mission's goal of "putting God's love can be attributed in part to parents' working mother in San Antonio short into action" has been an inspiration to ability to shape various educational ly after the Smith against Robinson the countless people he has helped components of their child's program decision was handed down. Just the and to all of us who are privileged to ming. month before a district court in west know him. In the overwhelming number of in ern Texas had ruled in her favor that Under Clarence Jordan's innovative stances when parents and educators her son who has cerebral palsy, is leadership, the Syracuse Rescue Mis conference to design an appropriate mentally retarded, is unable to walk sion has emerged as a model for not educational program for a handi without assistance, and has no verbal only other cities in New York State capped child, they work cooperatively language, should receive summer but for cities throughout our Nation. toward common goals. In some in stances, however, parents and educa school in order to preserve the The mission's comprehensive alcohol progress that he had made during the rehabilitation program, involving tors disagree and require a third party to resolve their differences. Congress regular school year. This single parent short- and long-term care, and nutri had prevailed through every adminis tional, counseling and work therapy, foresaw this in 1975 and incorporated the elaborate administrative proce trative procedure, again in district has enabled alcoholics to climb from court, and the judge was in the process the chasm of despair onto the ladder dures as well as a private right of action into the act. Parties are re of awarding a reasonable attorney fee of health and opportunity. when Smith against Robinson was The mission provides 40 to 200 beds quired to exhaust their administrative remedies prior to filing suit, and in an handed down. Not surprisingly, the and meals for the destitute and trans school system had filed a motion to re portation for the street people in need overwhelming number of cases, dis agreements are resolved at the due consider and the award of the attor of shelter and care. ney's fee of many thousands of dollars The mission's network of collectim:l process level and litigation is not pur sued. When litigation is pursued and for 4 years worth of litigation is in centers, seven retail thrift stores and a jeopardy. If Congress does not act workshop warehouse provide work and parents or the legal representatives of a handicapped child prevail, courts then this parent of a handicapped training for the disadvantaged and al child and many like her will face a coholics receiving treatment as well as have awarded attorney's fees in a jobs for other citizens in our communi number of instances, when litigants debt that will plague her family for ty. The mission operates an inner city have filed for relief under the Reha years to come. Other parents who are family center which offers recreation bilitation Act of 1973 and the Civil considering litigation will be unneces and counseling by trained staff per Rights Attorney's Fee Awards Act of sarily stifled by the prospects of tre sonnel, in addition to a day camp for 1976 as well as under the Education of mendous indebtness and will not seek youth. the Handicapped Act. the legal redress that Congress had in The mission's annual budget has On July 5, 1984 the U.S. Supreme tended to allow them. The economic grown from $60,000 to a present level Court ruled, 6 to 3, that awards of at resources of parents should not be the of $2.4 million which supports a staff torney's fees are not permitted to pre critical factor in their ability to pro of more than 120 persons as well as vailing parties that are in essence tect their children's rights under the the mission's varied and worthy pro brought to enforce the Education of Education of the Handicapped Act. grams. Handicapped Act. The Court opined The legislation that I am introduc Mr. Speaker, Mr. Clarence Jordan that because· the Education of the ing today will not alter the act's re personally epitomizes America's tradi Handicapped Act is silent on the ques quirement that administrative reme tion of service to our country's less tion of attorney's fee, parents who had dies be exhausted before a lawsuit is fortunate citizens. successfully proven that public schools brought. The legislation allows for the I am honored to share the com had unlawfully denied their handi recovery of reasonable attorney's fees memoration of his 25 years of dedica capped children the free and appropri for the prevailing parent or legal rep tion to his fellow citizens with my col ate public education guaranteed by resentative, and will therefore not en leagues.e both the Education of the Handi courage frivolous litigation. capped Act and the Rehabilitation Act The legislation will also clarify the of 1973, as amended, were not allowed relationship between the Education of ATI'ORNEY'S FEES to recover attorney's fees even though the Handicapped Act, the Rehabilita secton 505 of the Rehabilitation Act tion Act, and other Federal statutes. HON. AUSTIN J. MURPHY provides for recovery for prevailing This clarification will serve to signal OF PENNSYLVANIA parties. our intention that the Education of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Congress has authorized award of at the Handicapped Act is intended to torney's fees in virtually all civil rights complement and not preempt other . Tuesday, July 24, 1984 actions brought under Federal law. At Federal statutes that affect handi • Mr. MURPHY. Mr. Speaker, today I torney's fees may be recovered for civil capped children in elementary and sec am introducing legislation which will rights violations under the Civil ondary education. maintain the access of low and middle Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing The dissent in Smith against Robin income parents to our Nation's judicial Act of 1968, the Fair Labor Standards son concluded that, and I quote: 20762 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 24, 1984 With today's decision coming as it does ment. Doing so will not be easy, given the there is an increase in the earned after Congress has spoken on the subject of generosity of our political system in an elec income tax credit for the working poor attorney's fees, Congress will now have to tion year and the greed of so many· farmers take the time to revisit the matter. And who insist on taking all they can get from of our Nation and an extension of the until is does, the handicapped children of the government. mortgage subsidy bond program which this country whose difficulties are com If you are in an optimistic frame of mind, helps Americans to afford their pounded by discrimination and by other you can find a few encouraging signs that at homes. deprivations of constitutional rights will least some farmers are ready to admit their On the benefit side, there are impor have to pay the costs. It is at best ironic past mistakes and take some of their most tant changes in the medicare program that the Court had managed to impose this erodible land out of production. that will force physicians to accept burden on handicapped children in the The idea was tried on a limited scale this part of the burden of keeping the course of interpreting a statute wholly in year under what Secretary of Agriculture tended to promote the educational rights of John Block called the Acreage Conservation medicare system solvent. The confer those children. Reserve Program. A total of 264,000 acres in ence agreement imposes a 15-month I am happy to note that as I drop the U.S., including 12,807 in Illinois, were freeze on fees charges by physicians this important piece of legislation in placed in new program initiative which of for treating medicare patients, and it fered land owners 90 percent of the cost of provides incentives for doctors to the hopper today, my distinguished planting grass or trees on highly erodible colleague in the Senate, Mr. WEICKER, accept the charges allowed by medi land in exchange for agreement to keep the care as payment in full for health care is dropping in an identical piece of leg land out of crop production for six years. islation. Our staffs have worked coop The program was publicized so little that services. While medicare beneficiaries eratively on the drafting of this bill, it may have been the USDA's best kept and hospitals have already been asked signaling our intentions to correct this secret of 1984 and the fact that a quarter to make considerable sacrifices to keep injustice as soon as possible.e million acres were enrolled shows that farm medicare solvent, physicians have not ers are searching for ways to save their land shared fully in this burden. from further damage. The conference agreement also es NEED FOR SOIL CONSERVATION At least Jerry Sierra, Rock Island County tablishes a new program of expanded Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service office manager is convinced that if medicaid coverage for low-income chil HON. LANE EVANS the program had been more vigorously pro dren and pregnant women. This essen OF ILLINOIS moted participation in his county would tial program will extend the protec IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have been substantially better than the four tions of medicaid to a forgotten seg farmers who signed up 60 acres for long ment of our society that is in substan Tuesday, July 24, 1984 term conservation. tial need of improved health care serv • Mr. EVANS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, In writing the new farm bill, the U.S. Con ices. farmers are by nature independent gress must seriously consider the extent to Finally, the conference agreement thinkers. However, one topic which which farm commodity and credit programs provides for important add-ons in the brings a quick consensus is the need encourage row-crop production on erodible land. medicaid program, the Aid to Families for soil conservation. Agricultural col No farmer ought to be subsidized unless with Dependent Children [AFDCl pro umnist Charles Hallam pointed out he is in compliance with provisions of exist gram, and the Supplemental Security the need for cooperation between the ing laws which mandate a reduction of soil Income program. Federal Government and farmers to loss to a tolerable level-usually no more All of these provisions are highly im address the problem in a recent article than five tons per acre-by the year 2000.e portant for the poor, disabled, and the for the Rock Island Argus. I commend elderly members of our society. How this article to your attention: DEFICIT REDUCTION ACT OF ever, they exist side-by-side with other LEGISLATORS AGREE ON NEED FOR 1984 provisions that will make further cuts CONSERVATION in programs of historic importance to
