E10 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 5, 2007 House Science Committee. As a professional Congregational Memorial Church at Main and that politics should unite people. They both staffer on the Energy Subcommittee, Charlie’s Plainfield Streets became available. The were firm believers that in public life one could expertise on the issues of energy production, Greek Community took advantage of this op- disagree without being disagreeable. energy research and development, and energy portunity and purchased the Memorial Church This is a credo I continue to believe in, and conservation have been unmatched. and its spacious parish house on October 7, I commend the memory of both good men to Charlie has been working on energy issues 1940. This magnificent Gothic Church, built in this House, an institution they loved. since the 1960s, when he was a staffer for the 1866, was designed by the noted architect, Coloradans, especially those in the Vail Val- Texas State Legislature. In the 1970s he Richard Upjohn, with a high vaulted ceiling ley, have come to think of him as the first moved to to work with the Federal and priceless stained glass windows. President from because he was a Power Commission. He represented Southern By 1975 the Church began looking at new great ambassador for the State, who estab- California Edison in its Washington office in sites for a community center and by June lished long ties to the people of Colorado. the late seventies. From 1979 to 1985 he was 1977 it was decided that St. George would ex- As a dedicated public servant, President a principal in a consulting firm that rep- pand and stay in Springfield. A General As- Ford served honorably in his years in Con- resented Texas interests in Washington and sembly approved plans for a parish center by gress and in the . Most important, Austin. purchasing the old Memorial Square Library when America needed someone to reassure Charlie came to Capitol Hill in 1985, first as Building. The St. George Greek Orthodox their trust in government after Watergate, he a legislative assistant to Rep. RALPH HALL Church Cultural Center was opened in 1978 filled that leadership role with authenticity. (TX) and then as staff of the Committee on and to the present time it houses administra- I believe President Ford’s special relation- Science. In 1990, Charlie went back to work tive offices, classrooms for Sunday and Greek ship and legacy in Colorado should be appro- for Southern California Edison on energy re- Schools, a gymnasium and facilities for social priately recognized by naming the postal facili- structuring, telecommunications, electric trans- functions. A Chapel was added to the building ties in Vail, Colorado, in his honor. portation, and tax issues. After leaving Edison, in 1986. f he joined the EOP Group, an energy and envi- The first Greek immigrants in Springfield ronmental consulting firm, and then returned brought with them their history, their philoso- IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND to the Hill in 1998 to serve as Special Assist- phies, their democratic ideals, their courage, SOCIAL SECURITY PROTECTION ant to Congressman HALL, working on utility their culture and traditions, their Greek lan- ACT restructuring. Finally, in 2000 Charlie returned guage and customs, their festive celebrations, to the Science Committee as a professional their foods, music and dance and most of all HON. DAVID DREIER staff member with responsibility for energy their Greek Orthodox faith which they have OF CALIFORNIA issues. handed down from one generation to the next IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Before switching to the political science all of which we celebrate this Centennial Year. field, Charlie began his early studies in elec- Thursday, January 4, 2007 f trical engineering, and his engineering training Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, in the last comes through, both in his approach to prob- INTRODUCTION OF THE GERALD R. two Congresses we have spent considerable lems and in his passions: home improvement FORD, JR. POST OFFICE ACT time on the extremely important issue of immi- and landscape architecture. He has been an gration and homeland security. In the 108th active volunteer in planning the House botan- HON. Congress, we passed the National Intelligence ical gardens and on the Advisory Board of the OF COLORADO Reform Act, a landmark piece of legislation to Landscape Architecture Department at the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES overhaul our intelligence agencies. But, as I University of Texas. noted at that time, the bill unfortunately did not Charlie’s easy going personality, issue ex- Thursday, January 4, 2007 go far enough in addressing the major security pertise, and his talent for making great Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Madam Speaker, I vulnerability presented by the porous nature of barbeque will be long remembered on this rise to introduce legislation to name the post our borders. Committee. The Science Committee’s Mem- office in Vail, Colorado, after our Nation’s 39th Seeing that need, in the 109th Congress we bers and staff wish him well as he moves on President, Gerald R. Ford, Jr. debated immigration extensively and even to new endeavors and a relaxing retirement. I believe this legislation is appropriate as passed H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Thank you, Charlie, for your many years of another means of honoring the legacy of Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control dedicated and loyal service. President Ford, in large part because of his Act of 2005. Regrettably, the Senate failed to f special connection to Colorado and the Vail act on this important piece of legislation. That Valley. is why I rise to ask for the support of my col- TRIBUTE TO THE FIRST GREEK In 1968 then-Congressman Ford and wife, leagues for an illegal immigration control plan ORTHODOX CHURCH OF SPRING- Betty, first came to Colorado with their chil- that I am pleased to introduce today. This pro- FIELD, MASSACHUSETTS dren to celebrate Christmas and to ski in the posal, the Immigration Enforcement and Social mountains at Vail. Like many other visitors, Security Protection Act, is designed to elimi- HON. RICHARD E. NEAL President Ford was inspired by the beauty of nate up to 98 percent of the illegal border OF MASSACHUSETTS the area and found a connection to the land crossings into the . IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and to the surrounding community. I believe that in order for any proposal to Thursday, January 4, 2007 The Fords later owned a home and contin- stop illegal immigration to be successful, it Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts. Madam Speak- ued to vacation in Vail. When he became must get at the root cause of what attracts ille- er, it is my privilege to pay my respects to the President, his vacations in Colorado helped in- gal immigrants to our country—and that is the First Greek Orthodox Church in Springfield, troduce the world to the Town of Vail, and in lure of economic opportunity and the ease Massachusetts upon the occasion of its 100th fact, the family home was dubbed ‘‘the West- with which illegal workers can find jobs. Under anniversary ern White House.’’ the Immigration Enforcement and Social Secu- In 1907 an old house was acquired on Au- Vail residents knew President Ford and his rity Protection Act, we will dramatically in- burn Street, converted into a place of worship family as neighbors and friends and are proud crease the enforcement of laws which prohibit and it was here that the rapidly growing Greek of their long association with them. Gerald American businesses from employing illegal community held their first church services. Ford was beloved in Vail, where he was immigrants. Regrettably, too many employers By 1920 the Greek population had grown so known to be a good neighbor, an avid golfer have been unwilling to comply with the law. large that the Auburn Street building no longer and a lover of the outdoors. The growing availability of counterfeit identity could accommodate the members of St. President Ford will rightly be remembered documents has also undermined the current George’s Greek Orthodox Church. A building for his personal warmth, his decency, his inter- system because employers are increasingly fund campaign was soon inaugurated to raise est in bridging the many divisions in America unable to establish the authenticity of docu- the funds to buy a new church. A building was during the 1970s. My father, Mo Udall, served ments presented by job applicants. purchased on Patton Street which provided in Congress with , and while they Our legislation adds new features to the So- adequate facilities for church services, a were often on different sides in political mat- cial Security card to deter counterfeiting and Greek School and administrative offices. ters—so much so that my father hoped to run make it easier for employers to determine By 1940 the Greek population had again in- against President Ford in the famous election whether a card is genuine by including a creased greatly. It was at this time that the of 1976—they were united by a common view digitized photo of the cardholder on the card.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 05:33 Jan 06, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A04JA8.034 E05JAPT1 jcorcoran on PROD1PC65 with REMARKS January 5, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E11 The improved Social Security card will also be of California and an immigrant himself has distinguished professors at Yale, Princeton, encoded with a unique electronic encryption said, many arrive in America ‘‘owning nothing Harvard, NYU, Brown and other universities code to allow employers to verify each pro- but a dream.’’ However, the Governor has have filed letters with the National Park Serv- spective applicant’s work eligibility status prior also noted that the first order of our govern- ice strongly recommending a National Histor- to hiring, through either an electronic card- ment must be to provide security for our bor- ical Park for the Great Falls Historic District. reader or a toll-free telephone number. The ders. If foreign nationals wish to come to the Editorial boards, federal, state, and local offi- Department of Homeland Security will be re- United States, they must, as Governor cials and community groups have also en- quired to establish and maintain an Employ- Schwarzenegger said, ‘‘play by the rules,’’ and dorsed the campaign to award a National Park ment Eligibility Database with information on a we must make clear that there will be no eco- Service designation to the Falls. person’s proof of citizenship data, work, and nomic opportunity for anyone who enters this Scholars have concluded that Pierre residency eligibility information, including expi- country illegally. I look forward to continuing to L’Enfant’s innovative water power system in ration dates for non-citizens. This database work with my colleagues in this effort, and Paterson, and many factories built later, con- will also include information from the Social hope they will consider joining me as we take stitute the finest remaining collection of engi- Security Administration that the Commissioner action on this vital national security priority. neering and architectural structures rep- determines necessary and appropriate for the I would like to thank my original co-sponsors resenting each stage of America’s progress purpose of verifying an individual’s work eligi- for this legislation, including, Mr. REYES of from a weak agrarian society to a leader in the bility status. Employers who hire an illegal im- Texas, who began his career in public service global economy. It is a little known fact that migrant or choose not to verify a prospective with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization L’Enfant was hired by Hamilton to create employee’s work eligibility will face stiff federal Service in the U.S. Border Patrol, where he Paterson as the sister city to Washington, DC, fines of $50,000 and up to 5 years in prison. worked for 261⁄2 years, as well as my col- having completed his plan of Washington only The employer would also be required to reim- leagues from California, Mr. ISSA, Mr. CAL- months before arriving in Paterson. burse the government for the cost of deporting VERT, and Mr. BILBRAY. This proposed National Park would also en- the illegal immigrant. Moreover, this bill pro- f compass historic Hinchliffe Stadium, which vides that no officer or employee of the De- was added to the National Register of Historic partment of Homeland Security shall have ac- THE PATERSON GREAT FALLS Places by the in 2004. cess to any information contained in the Em- NATIONAL PARK ACT OF 2007 This stadium, built in 1932, is adjacent to the ployment Eligibility Database for any purpose Great Falls and was home to the New York other than the establishment of a system of HON. BILL PASCRELL, JR. Black Yankees. Baseball legend Larry Doby records necessary for the effective administra- OF NEW JERSEY played in Hinchliffe Stadium both as a star tion of this act, and will imposes penalties of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES high school athlete and again as a Negro $10,000 in fines and mandatory-minimum sen- Thursday, January 4, 2007 League player, shortly before becoming the tence of 5 years in prison on anyone who mis- first African-American to play in the American uses information on the database. Mr. PASCRELL. Madam Speaker, it is my League. With the improved Social Security card and pleasure today to introduce the Paterson Madam Speaker, Congress must act now to national verification system, employers will Great Falls National Park Act of 2007. This bi- pass this vital piece of legislation, so that we have no excuse for hiring illegal immigrants. partisan legislation is cosponsored by every may fully recognize these cultural and historic By eliminating the supply of jobs for illegal Member of the New Jersey Congressional del- landmarks that have played such a seminal workers, we will end the incentive for illegal egation, and would designate a National Park role in America’s history. immigrants to enter the United States because at the majestic Great Falls in Paterson, New f they will know that they will be unable to make Jersey. I urge my colleagues to pass this leg- a living here. Legal workers will only need to islation as soon as possible. STATEMENT OF INTRODUCTION OF update their Social Security card once to have Fifteen miles west of New York City, the THE COMMISSION TO STUDY their photo placed on the card and for other Great Falls was the second largest waterfall in REPARATION PROPOSALS FOR long-overdue anti-fraud measures to be ap- colonial America. No other natural wonder in AFRICAN-AMERICANS ACT plied. Moreover, a worker would only need the America has played such an important role in updated Social Security card when applying our Nation’s historic quest for freedom and HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. for a new job. I want to make it very, very prosperity. At the Great Falls, Alexander Ham- OF MICHIGAN clear that this proposal does not represent the ilton conceived and implemented a plan to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES creation of a national identification card. This harness the force of water to power the new bill strictly prohibits the use of the Social Se- industries that would secure our economic Thursday, January 4, 2007 curity card as a national ID card, and stipu- independence. Mr. CONYERS. Madam Speaker, today I lates that the card not be required to be rou- Hamilton told Congress and the American come before this body to reintroduce the Com- tinely carried on one’s person. Social Security people that at the Great Falls he would begin mission to Study Reparation Proposals for Af- cards are often already required to be pro- implementation of his ambitious strategy to rican-Americans Act. I have advanced the vided to new employers; the changes we are transform a rural agrarian society dependent Commission bill for over 15 years to direct at- proposing to the Social Security card take us upon slavery into a modem economy based tention to a historical wrong that warrants sub- no further down the road of creating a national on freedom. True to Hamilton’s vision, stantial consideration and discussion. Since in- ID card. It should be noted that the govern- Paterson became a great manufacturing city, troduction in 1989, I have never intended to ment already has the information that would producing the Colt revolver, the first sub- spark controversy or promote division. Rather, be contained in the Employment Eligibility marine, the aircraft engine for the first trans- I have worked to further a national dialogue on Database. an individual’s eligibility to work Atlantic flight, more locomotives than any city the plight of African Americans in the context under the law is dependent on whether they in the Nation, and more silk than any city in of slavery, Jim Crow, and other legally sanc- are a U.S. citizen, and if not, their immigration the world. tioned discrimination. status. Finally, the Immigration Enforcement New Jersey’s Great Falls is the only Na- As a result, our dialogue has become more and Social Security Protection Act also puts tional Historic District that includes both a Na- substantive and afforded us invaluable knowl- teeth into the new enforcement procedures by tional Natural Resource and a National His- edge over the years. This Congress I intend to calling for the addition of 10,000 new Home- toric Landmark. In a special Bicentennial continue such discourse. I will also work to en- land Security officers whose sole responsibility speech in Paterson with the spectacular nat- sure that more people understand the benefit will be to enforce employer compliance with ural beauty of the Great Falls in the back- and the promise of a Commission. Unfortu- the law. These new agents will free up the ground, the late President Gerald R. Ford nately, there are too many that do not under- rest of the Border Patrol to exclusively focus said, ‘‘We can see the Great Falls as a sym- stand its purpose. This means that we must on border enforcement and terrorism preven- bol of the industrial might which helps to make dispel the myths and correct the mistruths sur- tion. America the most powerful nation in the rounding the Commission bill. Madam Speaker, I do not stand here today world.’’ Each Congress, the conversations and ef- to tell the rest of the world that we intend to Preeminent Hamilton biographers; an es- forts surrounding the Commission bill become limit opportunities for the American dream to teemed former Smithsonian Institution curator, more mature and sophisticated. Today we be fulfilled. As my good friend Arnold the former chief of the National Park Service have a better understanding of slavery and its Schwarzenegger, Governor of my home state Historic American Engineering Record, and implications than we did 16 years ago. Since

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