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<rongrtssional 1Rtcord United States of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 99th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION SENATE-Tuesday, July 23, 1985 (Legislative day of Tuesday, July 16, 1985) The Senate met at 2 p.m., on the ex At 3 p.m., a live quorum will begin, in September and October, and some piration of the recess, and was called under the provisions of rule XXII of of these matters could slip and fall by to order by the President pro tempore the Standing Rules of the Senate, to the wayside. We have time in the next [Mr. THURMOND]. be followed by a vote on the cloture 10 days to deal with almost every one motion to proceed to S. 43, the line of the legislative items, and I hope PRAYER item veto. that every Senator on both sides of The Chaplain, the Reverend Rich Rollcall votes are expected today. the aisle will cooperate with us so that ard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the fol We could have more than one rollcall we might dispose of as many measures lowing prayer: vote today. as possible. Let us pray. Shortly after the vote on cloture or <Mr. EVANS assumed the Chair.) "Dear God, give me the guidance to at a later time this afternoon or know when to hold on and when to let evening, it will be the majority lead go and the grace to make the right de er's intention to proceed to the consid ORDER OF BUSINESS cision with dignity." eration of S. 876, veterans' health care Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I reserve Father in Heaven, that simple, anon bill, if cleared by unanimous consent. all but 5 minutes of my time, and I ymous prayer is profound in its impli I also indicate that there are a yield 5 minutes to the distinguished cations and relevance to the tug and number of other bills we hope to dis Senator from South Carolina [Mr. pull, hold-on and hold-out aspects of pose of this week, including, but not THuRMOND]. the present budget conflict. Lord, you limited to, the following: Senate Joint know the hearts, minds, motivation Resolution 77, compact of free associa and reasons of each on every side of tion; S. 1404, Japanese trade practices; RECOGNITION OF THE this complicated, multifaceted issue. S. 367, veterans' judicial review; S. 876, MINORITY LEADER As the Senate, the House of Repre veterans' health care; S. 410, Conser The PRESIDING OFFICER. The sentatives, and the White House con vation Service Reform Act. I also un distinguished Democratic leader is rec tend for their positions, dissolve atti derstand that airport security legisla ognized. tion is in the process of being worked tudes and arguments which are intran Mr. BYRD. I ask unanimous consent sigent and indifferent to the merits of out. It is still my hope that the farm bill, that I may reserve the remainder of the issue. Forbid it, Lord, that the my time. Nation and its future should be hos S. 616, will be available, at least for tage to debate that has no resolution. debate and opening statements on The PRESIDING OFFICER. With May truth and justice prevail. Guide Friday. out objection, it is so ordered. to decision which will guarantee the There are some other measures. Per Mr. BYRD. I yield the floor. welfare of the people and the prosperi haps not this week but next week we The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ty of the Republic. In His name who is will have at least two appropriations Senator from South Carolina. virtue incarnate. Amen. bills-the legislative appropriations bill and the energy and water appro CRISIS IN THE TEXTILE priations bill-and maybe the supple INDUSTRY RECOGNITION OF MAJORITY mental appropriations conference LEADER report. Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The I have discussed the FTC authoriza almost daily, textile mills are closing distinguished majority leader is recog tion bill with the distinguished chair or curtailing production. I hold in my nized. man of that subcommittee, the Sena hand a news article entitled "Springs tor from Wisconsin [Mr. KASTEN], and Industries to Lay Off 100 at Kershaw the consumer products safety authori Plant." The article reads as follows: SCHEDULE zation. He would like to dispose of Springs Industries will lay off about 100 Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, under the both those bills. I understand that the employees in two weeks when the company standing order, the leaders have 10 Senator from Iowa [Mr. GRASSLEY] begins phasing out one-third of its weaving minutes each, to be followed by special has an amendment to the FTC author operation at its Kershaw plant. orders, not to exceed 15 minutes each, ization. I urge him to try to work out Robert E. Slough, director of public rela tions for the Fort Mill-based textile firm, for the following Senators: Senators any problem he may have with the said the employees-mostly weavers, loom PROXMIRE, HART, HATFIELD, MATTING Senator who will manage those bills, maintenance personnel and cloth inspec LY, and EVANS. Senator KASTEN. tors-were notified of the layoff Tuesday. If time permits, there will be routine I indicate that these are not, for the He said about 550 employees will remain morning business, not to extend most part, major items of legislation; at the plant when the phaseout of 357 of beyond 3 p.m. but we will have a very busy schedule the plant's 944 weaving looms is complete. e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 19939 19940 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE July 23, 1985 Slough said the layoffs and decrease in er efficiency. Since 1976 literally 100 nologies and are superior to the production are caused by import competi percent of industrial plants employing United States in literally none. tion. 500 or more in the United States had Mr. President, the last great super "The apparel fiber industry has been under great pressure from imports," he said. main frame computers. That is nearly power war was fought 40 years ago. a full decade of U.S. industrial total Since then there has been a series of Mr. President, that is the word we computerization. Today less than one technological revolutions in military are getting almost every day from the third of Soviet plants of similar size power and efficiency. How do the su textile mills and the apparel industry. have main frames. In the July 8, 1985 perpowers and their respective alli The apparel industry is in every State issue of Fortune magazine, Daniel Sel ances stack up in this new technologi in this Nation. These people are losing igman tells the story in an article he their jobs. cal age? The answer is easy. It is obvi I want to see trade with other coun titles: "The Great Soviet Computer ous. The United States and the NATO tries, but fair trade, not the kind of Screw Up." Seligman writes: alliance have surely achieved a solid trade that closes down industries in Soviet industry is in big trouble with com technological and military as well as our own country and puts people out puters. Its hardware isn't modern. Break economic advantage over the Soviet of jobs by the thousands. In my State downs occur endlessly. The telecommunica Union and the Warsaw Pact. tions are terrible. And Soviet managers have Again and again we hear leading ad alone, we have lost more than 20,000 lots of sneaky reasons for not wanting effec jobs in the last year or two. Nation ministration figures telling Congress tive information systems. that we must build up the military wide, we have lost hundreds of thou Seligman goes on to observe: sands of jobs. before we negotiate an end to the nu Mr. President, the textile industry At the enterprise level, the Russians have clear arms race with the Soviet jugger textile and apparel-employs over 1 generally failed to exploit the fantastic effi naut. We have been fed the myth that ciencies made possible by the new electronic the Russians somehow have a military million people. technology, and this failure is a major As I say, it is in every State in the reason for expecting the gap between the advantage that might be frozen in Nation and we are going to find they Soviet and Western economies to keep wid place if we stopped nuclear weapons are going to begin to lay off in all the ening. testing, production, and deployment. States. In fact, they are doing it now. This is bad news for the Russians, The article in Fortune magazine on Employment is way down. I hope the Mr. President. From a military stand "The Great Soviet Computer Screw administration will wake up before it point it is great news for the United Up" provides additional evidence that is too late because if it does not do so, States. First, our main adversary lacks the Russians are not 10 feet tall, that these people have to go on relief now and will continue to lack for years we can stop the arms race, stop it now unless they can get some other work. to come the ability to pull their cen and in the process both save hundreds Mr. President, it is inexcusable to tralized totalitarian economy into the of billions of dollars of military spend follow a policy that allows thousands modern efficient system that charac ing and provide greater military stabil and thousands of Americans to lose terizes American industry. Military ity and security.

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