11080 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS DON REGAN: AN ELOQUENT whose patriotism I esteem. I appreciate allies, and our former enemies, in rebuilding SPOKESMAN FOR THE REAGAN your efforts, Bill, and those of your vice their shattered lands. And I would submit REVOLUTION chairmen, in arranging this dinner. Eliza that this economic creativity was but one beth Dole-well, I don't suppose Liddy Dole aspect of a wider creativity that permeated needs any introduction in this town. Suffice the culture as the rest of the world turned HON. JACK F. KEMP it to say that she serves President Reagan to America as its leader. Although in the OF NEW YORK with savvy, with style, and with a quality sixties and seventies it became fashionable IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that's often rare in government-a sense of to portray the decade of the fifties as dull humor. She also has a persistent quality or square-a period culturally inert-in fact Thursday, May 15, 1986 that won't take "no" for an answer-! it was anything but that. Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, I recently had the know-! have to deal with her regularly and "Not since the 1920's," Professor Jeffrey privilege to be in the audience to hear White she's remaking me into a "yes" man. Hart of Dartmouth writes in his book on House Chief of Staff Donald Regan's remarks There are so many others, so many good the fifties, "had so much been happening, to the Center for the Study of the Presidency friends. I can't possibly summon up the both in popular and in high culture. . . . For phrases to tell you how grateful I feel, so the first time in history, New York was the where he received the Distinguished Service permit me to use those two old, simple art capital of the world.... In philosophy Award. He spoke eloquently of the accom words-and let you know that they come and theology, important things were hap plishments of the Reagan administration, and from my heart: My friends, thank you. pening. And the Nation as a whole experi gave a more personal side of the President's But the assignment of making a speech enced an unprecedented burst of prosperity, leadership and strength of will-qualities that before this distinguished group is one that I of home buying, car owning, and, of course, have helped transform that national mood to approach with trepidation. Much of what I television." New inventions, some of them as one of pride and optimism about the future. have to tell you, you will already have a result of wartime innovation, came to We in Congress have had the opportunity to heard. Standing before so many presidential market, spawning new growth industries. work with President Reagan on various issues, scholars and others who have worked for, or More marriages and the baby boom pro with Presidents, indeed, I'm reminded of the duced a challenge to our economy to keep and we can see the evidence of the new be story about a man who drowned in the pace. ginning he has given our Nation and the free Johnstown flood. When the man got to There were indeed exceptions, some dras world. However, Donald Regan works with the heaven, St. Peter told him an audience had tic. Black Americans in particular still suf President on a day-to-day basis, and plays an gathered to hear the latest news from fered severe discrimination, but they were important role in shaping the policies that are Earth. "No problem," he told St. Peter, "I'll able to make some progress. All in all, at the core of the Reagan revolution. I com talk about the flood I was just in." St. Peter though, the country took a justifiable pride mend Don's provocative speech to my col answered, "Better make it good. The beard in itself. Hart writes, "Americans felt good leagues, and hope every Member will find it of ed fellow in the front row is Noah." about themselves and their country during But perhaps my perspective as Chief of the fifties." interest. Staff has permitted me certain insights that The sixties began with a sense of prom MR. REGAN'S REMARKS: THE CENTER FOR THE will prove of interest; and if I may, I'd like ise-then of promise betrayed. STUDY oF THE PREsiDENCY to spend a few moments considering the Here are the words of John Kennedy as Ladies and gentlemen, for two decades the place of the Reagan Presidency in the he campaigned for President at the outset Center for the Study of the Presidency has second half of the 20th century, the period of the decade. "Can the world exist half sought to shed light upon a peculiar institu since Franklin Roosevelt established the slave and half free • • •? The enemy is lean tion. Theodore Roosevelt called the office a modem presidency itself. Permit me first to and hungry, and the United States is the "bully pulpit." Roosevelt may have been too present in broad outline a number of devel only sentinel at the gate.... Extraordinary bully to his successor, William Howard Taft; opments that took place during these dec efforts are called for by every American Taft, it's said, referred to the office as "the ades-and to begin with a word about my who knows the value of freedom." Yet by loneliest place on Earth." And shortly after own vantage point when this period began, the time of John Kennedy's death, the his inauguration, Harry Truman said to the more than 40 years ago. Soviet Union had established itself and com press corps, "When they told me yesterday During the final years of the Roosevelt munism in Cuba, and the United States had what had happened, I felt like the moon, Presidency, I found myself serving as a sent soldiers to Vietnam. the stars, and all the planets had fallen on major in the Marine Corps in the Pacific. There followed two decades of national me." As Chief of Staff, I understand the The battle conditions we encountered were, agony. The bitter fiascos of Vietnam and part about getting hit by falling objects. to paraphrase Churchill, not uneventful Watergate preoccupied our leaders and But in the midst of shifting and often con planes roaring overhead, ships pounding brought low the presidency itself. tradictory viewpoints on the Presidency, the their guns, the islands themselves seeming Throughout the world, the Soviets ad Center has provided high standards of to shudder; landing on beaches under heavy vanced. Between 1960 and 1980, the list of scholarship and genuine understanding. fire, pursuing a dogged enemy through countries under Soviet domination grew to This award from the Center represents a jungle or over rock. All this has of course include Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, South high honor indeed. I must add that I feel been described in detail by historians and Yemen, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Angola, Af likewise honored by the presence here to journalists, and I mention it only because I ghanistan, and Nicaragua. The United night of so many I deeply respect-scholars believe it throws light on the sense of unity States, meanwhile, suffered a profound eco whose work I admire, friends from the busi and mission that our Nation then evinced. nomic disturbance. By 1980, inflation had ness world, colleagues in the Administra Freedom, democracy, opportunity for the risen to 12 percent and the prime rate of in tion. Dr. Hoxie, the Center's president, is an common man-all these we considered terest had reached more than 20 percent, old friend. He is also a man who served with worth fighting for, and yes, if need be, the highest level since the Civil War; our distinction in World War II, who rose in the worth dying for. Gross National Product had virtually Air Force to become a brigadier general, and When the war ended, as we were leaving stopped growing. who has had a long and distinguished career the service, the country was alive with a The mood of the country during this in education. Thank you, Dr. Hoxie, for sense of expectation, an eagerness to go on period went sour. It was as if the youthful those king words. Dr. Farkas, the Center's from the destruction of combat to the chal ness and exuberance of the fifties had been chairman, is another friend. Our Ambassa lenges of peacetime. Economists and many replaced by old age-anxious, bitter, self dor to Luxembourg under Presidents Nixon politicians of course made dire predictions. deprecating. Americans of my generation and Ford, Dr. Farkas has served the Center When war production ended, they claimed, could hardly believe what they had wit selflessly for the past 6 years. Thank you, recession would follow. Massive Govern nessed-from victory in world war to vascil Dr. Farkas, for this fine plaque. ment intervention would be needed. Noth lation and self-doubt in less than two dec Bill Marriott, our master of ceremonies, is ing of the kind happened. The economy ades. Younger Americans-Americans who a man whose business acumen I admire and began to grow. We were able to assist our had known nothing else-accepted it as a re-
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11081 ceived fact that they lived in a Nation in de sumptions that have dominated strategic provided some advice. "We need cline. Few were proud of this Nation, most planning since the end of the War. There is someone ...," Kissinger said, "who will were bewildered. Even though we spent an irony here. Critics have referred to the take a big jump-not just improve on exist more we got less. Our trade picture was President as a Cold Warrior, a man whose ing trends but produce a new frame of mind, gloomy, our dollar weak, and many felt cap ideas are out of date. Now Ronald Reagan a new national atmosphere. . . . The issue italism itself was on trial. has asked a simple question: "Why not a de is not one technical program or another. This, then, is the background against fense that defends-a defense that actually The issue is a new epoch. If we get a new which Ronald Reagan took office as the protects our people by keeping missiles from epoch and a new spirit, the technical pro 40th President of the United States. reaching the United States in the first grams will take care of themselves.' " Agree with him or not, virtually all ob place?" And with that question, the Presi Two decades later, Ronald Reagan pro servers admit that the President arrived dent who is supposedly behind the times duced just that, a new epoch and spirit. I with a coherent plan of action and moved at has made his critics look old-fashioned would add that President Reagan's vision is once to put it into effect. On the economic they still want the threat of mutual destruc not only new, but ancient-as ancient front, the President cut taxes dramatically tion as a deterrent. indeed as Athens and Jerusalem. For at its and asked the Federal Reserve Board to The fruits of the President's foreign most fundamental level, President Reagan's steady the growth of our money supply to policy are already clear. In the more than 5 vision is the vision of all Western civiliza bring inflation to an end. He curtailed the years since he took office, not one inch of tion-the belief in a just and loving God, in growth of Federal regualtions, de-regulated territory has fallen to the Communists, and individual responsibility, in the importance financial institutions, and began using anti one nation, Grenada, has been set free. of the family. By reasserting, for example, trust policy to encourage competition and With our military strength re-established, the ancient belief in the goodness of cre benefit consumers. the President was able to hold a successful ation-a belief advanced in Genesis-Presi The result? A very difficult period of ad summit meeting with the Soviet leader, Mr. dent Reagan has reawakened our sense of justment, a recession of 18 months. Yet Gorbachev, and to invite Mr. Gorbachev to the goodness of our own people and land. since then, the return to economic health visit the United States for a second summit And by reasserting the ancient belief that has been dramatic: Forty months of eco meeting this year. At the same time, the history has meaning-that human existence nomic growth. Inflation down to roughly 3 President has extended material support to is a vast story ultimately unfolding accord percent. Interest rates down and Govern those struggling against the Soviet empire, ing to the will of its almightly Author ment bond rates back to the levels of the and now in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, President Reagan has opened our eyes to early seventies. Close to 10 million new jobs. and Nicaragua, the forces of democracy are the importance of America's place and mis And the stock market competing with the winning new recruits. sion in this story, as the bastion of human bond market in setting one record after an In a wider sense, the United States has freedom in our time. other. once again become an economic and politi This restoration of a sense of meaning, I One of the President's economic achieve cal model for the rest of the world. Witness believe, has a great deal to do with the ments deserves special mention. On taking the establishment of democracy in six Latin recent emergence of so many new democra office, the President completely de-con American nations since the President took cies. Not long ago, it was the communist trolled the price of oil. This set off a search office. And witness the way in which the model that was attractive to much of the for new sources of oil and other forms of free-market aspects of the Reagan revolu Third World-Fidel Castro was a cultural energy in our own country which, when cou tion are being picked up around the globe. hero in Latin America and posters of Che pled with vast deposits of oil and natural China has moved to free markets dramati Guevara appeared around the globe. Those gas found elsewhere, forced down the price cally. The International Monetary Fund of us in Western democracies were puzzled. of oil. OPEC has been rendered largely inef and the World Bank are preaching market Why, we asked, does communism hold so fective, and it's once again possible to tank economic and equity financing as an anti much appeal for the Third World when it so up for under 10 bucks-Iaccoca in his Chrys dote to state socialism and large debts. In obviously requires the surrender of human ler and me in my Mercury. To be sure, some the Philippines, Jaime Ongpin, the new fi liberty? sectors must undergo a difficult adjustment nance minister, has said, quote, "I am philo The answer was that in many parts of the as a result of the new lower prices. But be sophically committed to the absolute mini world, the freedoms we enjoyed had never cause President Reagan set them free to do mum of government interference." And in been known. To quote the historian Christo so, consumers were able to use the free France, voters have supported freer markets pher Dawson, "In [many places] life has market to take on OPEC-and win. and more private enterprise. been short and hard and uncertain. . . . In Today, even the President's alleged eco Here at home, a profound change-a sea such a world the evils of totalitarianism nomic failing, the growth of the Federal change-has taken place in the mood and which shock the Western mind-its denial deficit, appears to be coming under control. outlook of the country. Indications of re of personal liberty, of freedom of opinion Yes, the deficit has grown quickly, and newed social health abound. Student test and free enterprise-are less we've been concerned about it. As a percent scores are up, crime rates are down, person apparent.... Communism demands age of GNP, however, the Federal debt has al donations to charity are running at an everything ... but in return it makes men grown for the most part in line with histori all-time high. The President of the United feel that there is a power watching over cal standards. And with the outlook calling States can go to a college campus and get them which is immune from human weak for continued economic growth, this-the cheered. As I noted earlier, Jeffrey Hart ness and is based on an unchanging founda deficit monster that just a few months ago wrote of the fifties, "By and large, Ameri tion of absolute principles." However false was supposed to swallow the Reagan Presi cans felt good about themselves and their ly, in other words, communism offered to dency-is beginning to shrink. Indeed, it country.... " For perhaps the first time in oppressed peoples a sense that their lives now appears clear that with Gramm the three decades since, this is once again had meaning. By comparison, Western de Rudman-Hollings assisting the process, the the case. We cheer our athletes in interna mocracies often appeared adrift, meaning deficit can be whittled down to zero if we tional competition, and applaud our mili less, gripped by anxiety and self-doubt. have the will to fight more spending. tary as they show our flag. Now, however, President Reagan has re In foreign policy, again, the President has Economic growth, a successful foreign stated the Western belief that democracy acted decisively. When he took office, Amer policy, a newly patriotic and self-confident represents, not just a way of organizing soci ica's underlying military structure-the Nation-why should this be? Is it that Presi ety for the production of wealth, but a factor on which all diplomacy depends-lay dent Reagan's policies are technically supe means by which men can participate in the in weakness. During virtually the entire rior to those of his predecessors? Is it simply life of their nation and in history itself. De decade of the seventies, we had failed to that Ronald Reagan is in some marginal or mocracy, he has made clear, is based upon make major capital investments in defense incremental sense better at his job? The ancient and coherent values. It arises from a and had barely met replacement costs. Our answer, I believe, has less to do with techni view of the universe as meaningful, and naval fleet, for example, had fallen from cal superiority than with the President's itself serves as a source of meaning for nearly a thousand ships to under 500. The most fundamental beliefs about this coun men's lives. President immediately set in train a rebuild try-in a word, with Ronald Reagan's vision As the President has reasserted these ing program, signaling the world that the of America. truths, the Soviet Union has become more United States was returning to the global Recently I came upon a passage that illu and more clearly, in the words of George scene in an active way. Today there is still minates this very point, the distinction be Will, "an invalid trapped in a bureaucracy much to be done, but our military strength tween incremental improvements and the drunk on a 19th century fallacy Marxism. has been substantially re-established, and matter of vision. Arthur Schlesinger writes ... It is a system being driven toward suffo we are once again universally respected. in his biography of Robert Kennedy that, cation and anemia. . . ." Far from burying In nuclear policy, the President's Strate before the 1960 debates between John Ken the United States, communism is burying gic Defense Initiative has challenged the as- nedy and Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger itself. And from the green mountains of 11082 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 Nicaragua to the green islands of the Philip 4:30-5:00 p.m. The President presents an and well versed in the relationships between pines, the world conflict has entered a new award for courage to a young cancer victim the SOl and nuclear deterrence, strategy, sta and perhaps decisive phase. Now it is democ and poses for photographs with a number of bility, and other key arms control aspects of racy that is on the offensive: the dictators, people, including-and nothing illustrates totalitarians, and state socialists who are on the variety of the presidential day more the program. Moreover, he demonstrates sig guard and fearful. clearly than this-the concert pianist Vladi nificant sensitivity to overriding questions such Permit me to turn now from the wider mir Horowitz and the middle-weight boxing as U.S. commitments to allies and the morality world to the White House and to Ronald champion, Marvelous Marvin Hagler. of nuclear deterrence. There is no better way Reagan, the man himself. The President's 5:00 p.m. The President leaves the Oval to describe Dr. Payne's contribution than the humor, his grace, the way he puts those Office for the Residence, under his arm a excellent foreword to the book written by Dr. around him at ease-all these are well thick folder of homework, including speech Zbigniew Brzezinski. Dr. Brzezinski has im known. But there is one aspect of the Presi drafts, issues papers, and a sheaf of docu dent that I would like to discuss on the ments for his signature. pressive credentials in the defense policy public record, an aspect that has struck me In the midst of days like this, the Presi arena, having served as National Security Ad again and again since becoming his Chief of dent remains affable and serene. He does so viser to President Carter and as a key adviser Staff, all the more forcefully on this point· because his mind is disciplined and resilient. to the U.S. Government for several decades. since the public perception-or rather the Perhaps more effectively that any other His objective, yet very complimentary fore public cliche-seems to me badly mistaken. man I have known, the President is able to word to Dr. Payne's book, follows: Let me speak for a moment of the Presi give his full concentration to the issue at dent's mind. hand; then take a deep breath, clear his FOREWORD Now, as the former chairman of a large mind, and give the same concentration to . It will do so control. Indeed, because Keith Payne is able revert to us upon the disso by allowing our negotiators to present their to weave offense, defense and arms control lution of the trust at our Soviet counterparts with two options, one into a single strategy this book will prove to mother's death. The follow mutually beneficial, the other particularly be a major contribution not only to the ing represents my one-third costly to the Soviet Union. debate over the SDI, but also to the much interest in the trust: The first option would be to renegotiate larger debate over the general direction that Colin A. Studds, III, Trustee Beatrice Studds, irrev ABM Treaty restrictions against the defense American strategy should take in coming ocable trust, under agreement dated Aug. 1, 1973 of retaliatory forces. In return for real re decades. No. shares-Security: Market value ductions in modern counterforce-capable 5,000.000-U.S. Treasury ICBMs, of which the Soviet Union possesses 13.875 note, due Nov. 15, the vast majority, the United States would FINANCIAL STATEMENT 1985 1986...... 5,000.00 agree not to proceed with deployment of its Common stock: strategic defense system. If the Soviet Union refuses this bargain the U.S. would HON. GERRY E. STUDDS 133-West Point Pepperell .... . 7,086.00 declare that the continued Soviet offensive OF MASSACHUSETTS 67-W.R. Grace ...... 3,283.00 buildup has placed in jeopardy supreme IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 50-General Motors ...... 4,150.00 33-IBM ...... 5,066.00 American interests and that the U.S. conse Thursday, May 15, 1986 quently is compelled to withdraw from the 167-Detroit Edison ...... 3,173.00 ABM Treaty. Such an action would both re Mr. STUDDS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to 112-Munford...... 2,352.00 flect the truth concerning Soviet ICBM de submit my 1985 personal financial statement 183-Park Electro-Chemical... 3,300.00 ployments and be consistent with Article 15 for publication in the CONGRESSIONAL 167-Rogers Corporation ...... 3,841.00 of the Treaty governing legal withdrawal. RECORD. This statement is a complete disclo 67-Eastman Kodak ...... 4,020.00 Following withdrawal from the Treaty the sure of my 1985 income, assets, and liabilities 167-Toledo Edison ...... 4,008.00 U.S. would deploy a BMD system for protec 67-GTE ...... 3,484.00 tion of its strategic retaliatory capabilities. which I have done every year since entering This action would nullify the decade-long office in 1973. 133-Home Group ...... 3,866.00 Soviet deployment of counterforce-capable Congressman Gerry E. Studds' 1985 2. I own the following securi ICBMs. If the Soviet response was to in Financial Statement ties: crease its ICBM arsenal in an attempt to re Part !-Income 1985 : No. Shares-Security: establish its threat to our retaliatory forces, Salary ...... $74,892.00 Bonds: the Soviets would be engaging in a losing Dividends-See part II for de- $3,100.00-Lorillard, Inc. tailchase that would be excessively costly tailed explanation...... 1,262.00 67fs debenture ...... 2,666.00 for them. It would be easier and cheaper for Interest-See part III for de- 3,333.00-U.S. Treasury 12 the U.S. to augment its defenses and restore tailed explanation...... 2,208.00 percent, May 15, 1987 ...... 3,333.00 the survivability of its retaliatory capability Honoraria-See part IV for de- Common Stocks: than it would be for the Soviet Union to at tailed explanation...... 2,750.00 40-Burlington Industries .. . 1,520.00 tempt to overturn those defenses through 347-Exxon ...... 19,432.00 an increase in its offensive threat. Total income...... 81,112.00 200-PBA ...... 00.00 In order to pursue such an approach to Part II-Dividend income 1985: 3. Our family home in Cohas strategic defense and arms control the No. Shares-Security: Income derived 1985 set, Massachusetts, with an United States must revise the current orien 40-Burlington Industries ...... 66.00 estimated market value of tation of the SDI. The Reagan Administra 347-Exxon...... 1,196.00 approximately $300,000 is tion has focused the emphasis of the SDI on owned jointly by my broth those "exotic" technologies that might one Total...... 1,262.00 er, my sister and me. My in day provide effective protection for large Part III-Interest Income 1985: terest in the home there urban areas. It has given less emphasis to Bonds-Security: fore, is roughly 100,000.00 the near-term potential for the defense of $3,100.00-Lorillard, Inc. 61fs selected strategic retaliatory forces-al debenture ...... 213.00 4. Bank Accounts: though there is general agreement that 3,333.00-U.S. Treasury 12 a. NOW account, First Na- such defensive capabilities are now or soon percent, May 15, 1987 ...... 400.00 tional Bank of Boston ...... 850.00 will be in hand. To provide the necessary Bank accounts: b. NOW account, American impetus for real Soviet offensive arms re Bank of Boston ...... 55.00 Security Bank ...... 1,500.00 ductions, the SDI must convince Moscow's American Security Bank c. Money Market Account, leadership of our capability and willingness ...... 1,540.00 American Security Bank ..... 11,000.00 to deploy a strategy defense system soon if d. NOW account, Seamen's it continues to reject significant limitations Total...... 2,208.00 Savings Bank ...... 100.00 11084 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 5. Two bedroom house in Pro The Forum has already stimulated impor <3> Meanwhile at home, we should econo vincetown, Mass., estimated tant departures in national education mize on the time and political energy we market value 400,000.00 policy. Now I hope you will be as persistent spend on secondary problems. 6. Efficiency Condominium and successful in the field of competitive To explain staggering trade deficits of Apartment, Washington, ness. It is an honor to take part in your recent years, we have to look beyond the DC estimated market value 52,000.00 work. ways in which foreigners close their mar 7. 1981 Chevrolet Caprice 4,600.00 I. WE HAVE A CRISIS kets ... and abuse our hospitality. After 8. 1985 Jeep Wagoneer 15,400.00 all, last year, less than one percent of the 9. IRA-Fidelity Magellan I do not exaggerate when I say that inter national trade has become a matter of na total value of U.S. imports was even chal Fund 13,000.00 tional security. Our power in the world has lenged before the lTC. And in the vast ma Part VI-Liabilities 1985: become as much a function of the balance jority of the cases we probed, an affirmative 1. Mortgage, two bedroom Commission ruling would only have resulted house, Provincetown, MA, of trade as of the balance of terror. And our future depends as surely on our grain silos in marginally raising the price of imports, New Bedford Institution for not in eliminating them. Savings, approximately ...... 206,000.00 as on our missile silos. Yet while we are used to strategic think Thus, unfair trade practices of other na 2. Mortgage, efficiency condo tions, however, vexing to individual U.S. in mmmm, Washington, DC, ing about defense matters and strategic planning for corporate policy, we have set dustries, are not the chief menace to Amer Home Unity Savings and ica. It's time to recognize this reality. That Loan ...... 41,000.00 tled for improvisation in international com merce. The result is crisis-six years of is item three on my list. record trade deficits and a seventh big one (4) My fourth wish is that we move on the way. The more important trade has beyond improvising trade policy. We should AMERICA'S COMPETITIVENESS become to our economy, the less well it begin by fully examining the costs and ben seems we are performing. efits of all our options before, not after, we HON. DON BONKER The dimensions of the crisis, however, are act. For instance, last December the lTC found that the President's steel import re OF WASHINGTON now producing pressure for response. Speak ing for myself and not the Commission I straint program-if it works as planned IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES head, I'd like to outline six specific re will cost U.S. exporters of steel-containing Thursday, May 15, 1986 sponses we should pursue and some broader products over $15 billion. The higher costs issues we must face. It will be up to you to for steel they will face here will translate Mr. BONKER. Mr. Speaker, last month, a decide whether my advice is bad enough to into higher prices for their products and number of business leaders, university presi qualify for a big publisher's advance. hence lost sales-abroad. Unfortunately, dents, and Members of Congress gathered at II. REAL REMEDIES FOR U.S. TRADE PROBLEMS this calculation of export disadvantage was Hot Springs, VA, to· discuss one of the most requested and aired only well after the I'll present my ideas as a wish list, remem vital and challenging issues of our times import restraint program was underway. bering the old proverb: "If wishes were <5 > Wish number five is that we change America's competitiveness. It is an issue that horses, beggars would ride." Since it's after touches every aspect of this Nation's institu the way we approach legislation affecting dinner, this beggar will gallop. trade. Historically, we have written trade tions and our declining position in the interna <1) Item one on my wish list is a real com laws, not competitiveness legislation. As we tional economy. Those of us who attended mitment to consider the international ef have worked to liberalize international com the conference dealt with the range of issues fects when we set domestic monetary and merce, we have also created exemptions or that contribute to our national potential and fiscal policy. American industry and agricul shelters for declining or particularly power what we need to do as a Nation to restore our ture were put on a five-year long roller ful domestic industries. coaster. ride by policies which ignored, yet competitive position. Many laws offer U.S. claimants relief from indirectly fanned the value of the dollar. the strain of trade competition. But an ap The reports and recommendations that will Last fall, the Administration changed its be forthcoming from the Hot Springs confer proach that focuses narrowly on imports tune, and there has been a healthy, if over often overlooks more basic causes of com ence and three previous sessions on competi due, weakening of the dollar. petitive decline. tiveness around the country will help to lay But even so, we will not easily or painless (6) My sixth wish is that the law be the groundwork for the task before us all. ly recoup the jobs we lost at home and the changed to require that when the lTC rec The keynote address was given by the sales we missed abroad. The dollar's decline ommends relief, we give the President more Chairwoman of the International Trade Com cannot completely "solve" our trade prob than the current take-it-or-leave-it option. mission, Dr. Paula Stern. More than anyone lem. It will have an impact on our Japanese The President should have a broad and deep and European Community accounts, but range of choices based on an industry's com else, Dr. Stern sees the evidence of our de Canada-our single biggest trading part clining competitiveness. Industries impeded by petitive position and its readiness to adapt ner-has devalued its dollar faster than to new conditions. imports-and often experiencing a loss of ours. With the present push for changes in our competitiveness-usually appear before the The dollar is also stronger-not weaker trade laws, it is clear that there will be bene lTC seeking relief. against the currencies of Mexico, Korea, fits for American industry. We have an obli While Dr. Stern and I may not agree on Taiwan, Hong Kong, Brazil, Venezuela, and gation to maximize the long-range returns every point, her address, "The U.S. Trade Australia. Thus, the overall decline of the from this public investment. And that can System and the National Interest: Can We Do dollar will not by itself solve all the trade only be accomplished by creating the possi problems we have been experiencing. bility of package deals that bring labor, Better?" offers a sobering account of our (2) The most prominent single economic trade problems and several thought-provoking management, and government into joint ef event of this year is the reverse oil shock of forts that increase productivity, flexibility, suggestions on how America could recover 1986. Since oil is priced in dollars, this de and new investment. her competitive position. cline in price will be magnified for those We need not finance such efforts with I hope my colleagues will take time to read countries whose currencies have appreciated new taxes or greater deficits. Instead of the text of Dr. Stern's address: against the dollar-Japan, West Germany simply giving away import quotas to Japan, and the remainder of the European Com THE U.S. TRADE SYSTEM AND THE NATIONAL Korea and other nations, we should be auc munity. tioning them. In addition to financing ad INTEREST: CAN WE Do BETTER? Growth in these economies will increase justment here rather than abroad, auctions their domestic demand, help restrain their would put a concrete price tag on import Thank you for including me in this im exports, and possibly stimulate imports relief, make the whole importing process pressive gathering of thinkers and doers. from the U.S. But these countries need not more predictable, and ration quotas more Analysis and action tend to get separated have waited for the fortuitous oil glut. efficiently. By adding positive relief to the in official Washington, and as David Stock Having waited, they are still not doing negative relief accorded by quotas, an auc man admits, even in Washington's officials. enough. tioning system could make it possible to When the payoff for bad policy advice is a So my second wish is that we continue to achieve the same overall level of assistance big publishers' advance, it may be time to pressure the governments of Japan and to U.S. firms and workers with less restric move your Forum from temporary quarters Europe to adopt more expansive economic tive quotas. in Virginia to permanent location on the policies. If we are successful, there will be a north bank of the Potomac. As a Southern welcome bonus for the indebted third world, III. TRADE AND THE NATIONAL INTEREST er, and a Washingtonian, I would be happy which could then look to other markets for I have given you six wishes. I hope you to offer you hospitality. increased export sales. will let me take one more roll of the dice. May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11085 The character of my wish list raises a very shipped to southern California from Austra MIMI SILBERT AND DELANCEY broad question which troubles me deeply lia cheaper than it can be shipped from STREET and with which I would like to close. Do we northern California. And in many areas, it is have a trade policy which reflects our true cheaper-even with the decline of the national interest? dollar-to buy foreign steel products be HON. MEL LEVINE Let me cite some specific practices and cause ocean transport from Europe or the their unintended, unexamined conse Far East is cheaper than barge transport in OF CALIFORNIA quences. The first is technology transfer, the U.S. We seem to be cutting off our noses IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the not-so-innocent passage of our know to spite our faces. Thursday, May 15, 1986 how to our partners and rivals. A careful new look at this politically and Export deals, particularly military sales, Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. Speaker, as often depend on barter arrangements. They emotionally loaded subject could come up regularly include obligations for transfer with changes that would foster competitive part of a series on drug abuse, a remarkable abroad of U.S. technology. Between 1980 ness of regional industries in the U.S., pro person and an extensive innovative drug reha and 1984, such offsets resulted in new or en tect legitimate national security interests in bilitation program were featured in yesterday's hanced production of civilian aircraft or a merchant marine, and quite possibly even Washington Post. components by seven of our trading part stimulate employment of our seamen. As it The person is Dr. Mimi Silbert, one of the ners. Likewise, we have spread American stands now, our regional industries, mer most talented people I know, and the program technology to foreign electronics, communi chant marine, and shipbuilding all suffer. cations, steel and machinery industries. We can do better by all three. is called the Delancey Street Foundation. This kind of transfer is on the rise and so Let me close with one subject that is for Mimi Silbert and Delancey Street should is the competition it fosters. It poses obvi good reason a part of the liturgy of every serve as both an inspiration and a model for ous long-term economic implications. We American trade official. Consider Japan, others. · need to examine more closely the costs and which has a fundamental problem in the I commend the Post article to my col benefits of the "free" flow of knowledge. imbalance between its huge savings and rel leagues for their review and consideration: Another example: much of our diplomatic atively low domestic consumption. DELANCEY STREET: FOR A FEw ADDICTS, A 4- effort with countries like Brazil, which I vis The result is a flow of Japanese capital ited in January, has been devoted to pro abroad rather than an inflow to Japan of YEAR LESSON IN LIVING tecting entry rights for U.S.-based multina exports from the U.S. and Europe. Yet, the BREWSTER, NY.-ln a 19th century oak tionals. They want to expand overseas sub Administration has in the past expended its paneled dining room, before a long table set sidiaries which may well wind up exporting diplomatic capital with Japan on serious, with sterling silver, 75 drug addicts jostled to the U.S. but nevertheless less important market for standing room. We push hard for that access and not All eyes were fixed on a small woman with enough on opening up heavily protected access issues. We must find new energy to press the Jap a broad, ironic smile. "Good afternoon," Third World markets to exports of goods Mimi Silbert said. The group returned the made in the U.S. Our negotiators seem to anese to make whatever changes are neces greeting in unison, and then broke into despair that it is a hopeless task. The banks, sary to encourage greater consumption. The laughter. Silbert, president of the Delancey understanding how debtor nations pay their exact way that "keeping up with the Jon Street Foundation drug rehabilitation pro loans, want to see countries like Brazil eses" will get translated into "keeping up gram, was already playing the room like a import less and export more. But the stakes with the Tanakas" is of course a Japanese violin. are too high to assume that our national in affair. But the necessity of doing so is a fact The surroundings-a Tudor-style mansion terest is best pursued by making life more of life given current international trade set in 92 wooded acres about 70 miles north comfortable for our diplomats and bankers. flows. We can only hope that Prime Minis of New York City-seemed impossibly opu Now that our domestic firms once again ter Nakasone's visit will help speed the proc lent for a drug treatment program. But they are moving into position to challenge for ess. But this kind of change will not come reflected Delancey Street's style, as well as eign producers on their home turf with easily to Japan; real progress requires con its success at turning drug problems into goods made in the U.S.A., do we really want tinuous pressure from all Japan's trading manpower, all the while shunning govern to trade that competitive revival off for the partners. ment money. right to establish new U.S. subsidiaries These examples show that we have yet to The money that residents make selling abroad? Where does our real national inter develop a deep understanding of where our stenciled coffee mugs to university book est lie? national interest lies. We are even further Not all of our miscalculations of national stores, moving furniture with Delancey's interest are new in origin. Since 1789, Amer from a trade policy consistent with that in fleet of trucks, or building ornamental ican law has discriminated against foreign terest. However troubling, we should not be planters at the foundation's factory puts shipping to favor domestic shipping in our surprised that there is apparently no clear food on the table-and working capital into coastal trade. But in the process, it has also expression of America's national interest in the foundation's budget. In turn, addicts discriminated against other U.S. industries its trade policy. After all, only in the past and criminals get a taste of what it's like to by raising their transport costs, while leav year has there been a serious appreciation lead a normal, workaday life. ing untouched their foreign competitors of the need for a national trade policy, one Nearly one of every three residents here who can send their wares directly to U.S. on an equal footing with macroeconomic was convicted in D.C. Superior Court of sell ports in foreign bottoms. and foreign policy. ing drugs, prostitution or violent crimes The present day incarnation of this sacred The time has never been better for chang such as robbery or assault. They were cow comes in the form of the Jones Act. It ing course. The political debate has placed on probation to come to Brewster, requires that all intracoastal trade be con switched gears away from the illusion of and before they are deemed ready to return ducted in vessels built in and documented protection and toward the reality of compe to society, most will spend at least four under the laws of the United States, and tition. The second wind of the present re years in one of three Delancey facilities in owned by American citizens. The restric covery has given us unique possibilities of California and New Mexico, or in this 30- tions are intended to provide for the nation implementing a long-term perspective room, renovated castle. al defense and the growth of foreign and do before the next recession again inevitably During that time, they are supposed to mestic commerce. narrows our vision. learn to read and write; cook a meal or lay But the tab for the Jones Act now goes We have some difficult work ahead in bricks; drive a truck or keep books. When well beyond the increased opeating costs it forging a trade policy to replace our outdat they sit down to dinner, there might be oys foists on users of domestic transport. Ocean ters or snails on their plates. Silbert con freight costs have fallen so dramatically in ed passive approach with measures that tends that exposure to the finer and more the last 25 years that the Jones Act itself truly promote our national interest. The exotic things in life takes some of the fear has now become a significant impediment to issues are so fundamental that they will out of being an addict, fear of a larger world supplying many regions of the U.S. with do only be clarified when they are presented to that for them seems full of complications mestic rather than foreign products which the entire body politic, rather than just the and problems too big to overcome without are carried in much cheaper foreign bot handful of insiders who have until now gen using drugs. toms. erally monopolized discussion of trade "Our peale who stay here have to do four At the lTC, we have seen sugar coming issues. years just like Harvard," said Silbert, 44, a into New Orleans from Europe rather than I hope you will join in sorting out the criminologist and psychologist who once Florida in large part because the shipping issues we as a nation must face together. counseled offenders at Lorton Reformato costs were cheaper from Europe. Cement is Thank you. ry's Youth Center. 11086 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 "NEVER LEARNED TO MAKE THEIR WAY" haven for immigrants at the turn of the can in fact find herself with fewer resources "We're dealing with a lot of people who century. Silbert said she adopted many of because she has chosen to work in an effort have never learned to make their way legiti the ideas for Delancey's self-supporting in to become less dependent upon public aid: mately or successfully into American socie dustries from what she saw while visiting an It is not uncommon in North Dakota to ty. We teach them how to do it on the as Israeli kibbutz. find a 20-year-old woman who is single, has sumption that you can then reject anything She sees addicts as people trapped in a a three-year-old child, and receives AFDC in society you don't like, but not because cycle of guilt, self-hatred and destructive be benefits in the amount of $301.00 a month you don't know about it." havior who don't know how to cope or live and $125.00 a month in food stamps. This is Each morning there is a new vocabulary with other people and who desperately need the maximum amount of AFDC and food word to learn-"ghetto talk" is strictly pro to learn traditional American values. stamp benefits an individual can receive in hibited. Breakfast call comes at 7:30 a.m., The surroundings at Brewster might be North Dakota for a two person household and for the rest of the day it's work at one lush, but residents, she maintains, are doing with no other source of income. Typically, of the several industries, supervised by more more penance than if they were locked in a this woman's only employment opportuni experienced residents. cell. They must finally take responsibility ties are less than full-time employment at At Delancey's four facilities there is only for their lives. minimum rate. If she works 30 hours per one paid employee: Silbert. The rest of the "Prison does not give anyone a sense of re week for a minimum wage of $3.35 per hour, job of managing the foundation's properties sponsibility. It's the exact opposite," she her gross income is $432.15 per month. This and business is left to the residents them said. "You see a cell in the prison system income will affect her and her child's AFDC selves, the most successful of whom move to and its disgusting, but it's not necessarily the hardest punishment for a person and food stamp benefits substantially, as the top of the Delancey hierarchy and the can be seen on the attached chart. The most coveted rewards, a private room and coming from a world these people have come from. working mother made $36.15 for the first dating privileges. four months. The next eight months actual The 23 D.C. convicts at Brewster, many of "Our punishment is much worse. It's that you work." ly cost her $12.85 per month to work. After them unable to get into packed programs one year, it cost her $32.85 per month to near Washington, found out about Delancey work. Street through their attorneys or from the It is also noteworthy to remember that brochures the foundation sends to the D.C. DISINCENTIVES TO EMPLOYMENT full-time employment would exacerbate this Jail. problem even more for this woman. Most graduates go on to lead successful This situation is not atypical. We solicit lives, Silbert said, because they must have HON. BYRON L. DORGAN your support in alleviatii}g the problem of three skills and a job before they leave. So OF NORTH DAKOTA far, though, none of the D.C. enrollees has disincentives to employment for AFDC par been in the program long enough to gradu IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ents. We sincerely hope you will involve ate. Thursday, May 15, 1986 yourself in what we perceive to be a mean Started in San Francisco by four addicts ingful reform of the welfare system. 15 years ago with a $1,000 loan, Delancey Mr. DORGAN of North Dakota. Mr. Speaker, We feel that there must be a better design Street prefers to take serious criminals, re job layoffs, illness, the death of a wage to the system towards the goal of assisting jecting only sex offenders. Silbert said she earner, the closing of a plant, the failure of a and encouraging AFDC recipients who want joined the group after being asked to help crop are some of the factors that can trigger a to work with more generous transitional in write a proposal for a government grant, family's becoming poor; all are events beyond centives which will save taxpayers money in and later took full charge. She tries to the control of an individual. We need to be the long run. accept all who apply, although she has had sure we are there to help that person or that We would be interested in your feelings about the matter of incentives/disincentives to close the doors to some in the past year family to be able to help themselves as soon because of a crush of applicants. for AFDC parents wanting to work. We Melvin Peoples, a 32-year-old heroin as possible. We cannot do that when we are would also be interested in knowing if you addict and drug peddler, took the train to actually providing disincentives to work. are aware of any efforts within Congress, Brewster from Washington last year after a The Grand Forks Committee on Human the Department of Health and Human Serv Superior Court judge placed him on proba Needs recently addressed the disincentive our ices, or the Administration to deal with this tion following Peoples' guilty plea to a current AFDC and Food Stamp system im problem. We would be happy to meet with charge of trying to kill his wife. poses on parents who want to work but have you or your staff at some mutually conven "I didn't know where to go," said Peoples, dependent children and no one to take care ient time to explore the situation further. who was turned away from at least three of the children. Thank you very much for your consider programs in Washington. "Either they were ation and assistance. full up or they wouldn't accept me." Attached is the report of the Mayor's Com Sincerely, Now he is helping to install electrical mittee on Human Needs. This information ELIOT GLASSHEIM, wiring at the expanding Brewster complex, should help us when we formulate policy on Major's Committee on Human Needs. aiming to become a master electrician. "I'd how to provide incentives to people to move Eliot Glassheim, Chairman, Quad been in it [drugs] for a long time. And this from the welfare roles to the payrolls. County Community Action Agency; has given me a chance to see the other side, April 8, 1986. Rosie Black, Vice Chair, Citizen Rep how it is without any heroin, without the Representative BYRON DoRGAN, resentative; Renee Moon, Secretary, craziness of the streets." House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Grand Forks Public School, Special Joe Henery, 39, who grew up around 14th DEAR REPRESENTATIVE DORGAN: We are a Services; David Braaten, Grand Forks and U streets NW, was peddling drugs and group of concerned citizens who serve on County Social Services; Tim Heisler, stealing purses out of offices to support his the Grand Forks Mayor's Committee on North Dakota Job Service; Robert addiction when he was caught driving a Human Needs. The major goal of this com Sanderson, Northeast Human Service stolen car. He was placed on probation to mittee is to address the concerns of the poor Center. enter Delancey Street last year and said he and disadvantaged groups in our city. A con Ron Volden, United Way; Bob Gustaf sees this as his last, best chance to go cern with which the committee has been son, Grand Forks Chamber of Com straight. He's got a carpentry job, turning struggling is the disincentives to employ merce; Dennis Johnson, Grand Forks one of the estate's outbuildings into an ment for parents receiving Aid to Families City Council; Margaret Olmstead, office. of Dependent Children Sociology Department; lion in income last year, according to a fi examine means to reward, rather than frus Ed Waldron, UND Medical School; nancial statement she provided. Residents trate, efforts of these parents to find and Earl Beal, Citizen Representative; attend the program free of charge. keep employment. John O'Leary, Grand Forks Office of The foundation was named for a street on To illustrate this point, we share the fol Urban Development; Ruth Jones New York's Lower East Side that was a lowing realistic example in which a parent Project Self-Sufficiency. May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11087 SYSTEMIC DISINCENTIVES AGAINST WORKING me some thoughts he has written about his of my ability, and above all else to be grandfather, Harry Watanabe. The elder Mr. honest. By his actions and through the ab House- Household B-Single mother w/3- Watanabe was one of the 120,000 loyal sence of words concerning his difficult past, hold year -old child, who goes to work he demonstrated humility. O.K., so his crop A-non- 30 hr. per week at $3.35 an hour Americans of Japanese ancestry interned by failed; who was he to be immune from natu wgf~g (months after starting work) this Government during World War 11. ral disaster. O.K., so the country he chose recipient 1-4 5-12 12+ The story of Mr. Watanabe's life is one that to live in ordered him into a camp; of what brings to life the human tragedy of the intern benefit would it be for his children and Gross work earnings...... $432.15 $432.15 $432.15 ment; and of the spirit and endurance that en their children to protest this occurrence and ( + l Total AFDC ~ant...... $301 162.00 93.00 64.00 (+ Total foods mps ...... __I2_5 __63_ .o_o ____83.00 92__:_..:...:.... .009 abled Americans of Japanese ancestry to re thus kinder more prejudice. Because he felt build their lives. this way he left his home without arrogance Total gross income...... 426 657.15 608.15 588.15 although it meant placing himself in a posi !-l Ba~ sitting cost...... (120.00l (1 20.00l (120.00l I am sure my colleagues will find this brief - W -aSSOCiated costs ...... _... _.... _ ... _.... _ .... ---'(:._75_.00_:___:__...:.___:_:...:..:..:.. (75.00 (75.00 remembrance moving and interesting. tion inferior to his fellow Americans. In the Japanese culture this meant not being fit Actual disposal income.. 426 462.15 413.15 393.15 A PROFILE IN HUMILITY-MITCHELL Y. for society. Furthermore, he had completely ======WATANABE Net gain(loss) from working ...... 36.15 (12.85l (32.85l abstained from any anger, bitterness, or re Gain(loss) per hour ...... 0.28 (0.10 (0.25 This is an article about perhaps that least morse concerning the past as it could inter admired of human virtues-humility. St. fere with the contentment of the present Paul described humility as 'Not to think and future. The chart above compares disposable more highly of oneself than he ought to A biblical proverb states that 'before income for two households: Household A is think'. And this is a story of the pressures a single mother who has a 3-year old child honor comes humility'. A local newspaper and who does not work; Household B is ex experienced by a turn of the century immi article proclaimed that 'at one time Harry actly the same, except that the mother at grant and the grace with which he endowed Watanabe was just about the best known tempts to take care of hersell by working. them-an account of the loss of his occupa man in Coalinga'. I was taught in fifth Our assumption, based on experience, is tions, the relocation of his being and the grade that the city council had moved to that the woman in Household B does not vindication of his reputation and principles. allow my grandfather and his family to stay have much training, is not sought after in A nation which has forgotten the quality in town during World War II. Throughout the labor market, and will have to start as a of humility which in the past was brought my life people from the community have 30 hour/week worker at minimum wage. into the public spotlight is not likely to spontaneously told me warm stories and Under the present system, there is some insist upon or require that quality in its gen praises of my grandparents. However, my attempt to build work incentives into the eral public today-and in fact we may have grandfather has always been the proudest system. That is, a work allowance and a forgotten. We may remember the hardships of raising three children that have never child care allowance are subtracted from endured by our immediate forefathers when spent a day in jail and have gone on to be earnings in computing AFDC benefits. An they first immigrated to American, or were contributing members of their community. additional $30 a month in earnings are dis forced onto reservations, but we have for To most Americans, at least a part of this regarded for the first four months and an gotten their convictions of providing a story has been heard countless times from additional one-third of the net earnings better way of life for their children. We their forefathers. However, to the people fuel cells to a coal gasifier. ated the first $400 million for the fund, we re North Marion Development, Inc./MA Coal Tech Corp., Merion, Pa. For a test of an advanced, air-cooled cyclone coal com alized that there existed a clear Federal need DIFCO, Fairmont, W.Va. A project that will recover coal from refuse piles and lagoons. bustor on a 23 million Btu/hour oil-designed to encourage a focused effort to obtain ac Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. Seek package boiler in Williamsport, Pa. ceptance in the marketplace through acceler ing support for a compressed air storage Southwestern Public Service Co., Amaril ated clean coal technology demonstrations. powerplant with a coal-fired fluidized bed lo, Texas. To replace an 18-year-old gas This program will enable us to utilize our vast combustor as a heat source. fired plant with a 250 megawatt circulating coal resources in the most beneficial manner Charwill Corp., Boren, Calif. Project not bed boiler, with DOE picking up $43 million and may also help to revitalize our U.S. coal specified in public documents. of the $114 million total. industry. I still believe that both of these goals Dow Corning Corp., Midland, Mich. A Recovery Systems, Ltd., Oakbrook, Ill. For can be accomplished and that the degree of project to collect and use waste gas pro a 100-megawatt demonstration of the duced in submerged-arc electric furnaces Pircon-Peck process of using phosphate interest shown in this program as well as the during reduction of silica ores with coal to rock and ammonia to capture flue gas pol quality of the proposals is a heartening indica produce high-silicon ferroalloys. lutants, with a fertilizer by-product. tion that our hopes for this program were well NOXSO Corp., Library, Pa. A demonstra PPG Industries, Inc., Lake Charles, La. founded. It is clear from the wide range of tion of the NOXSO process at Ohio Edison's For a demonstration of a 375 kilowatt fuel companies involved and technologies sug- Toronto plant in Toronto, Ohio. cell, with fuel from gasified coal. May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11089 McDonnell Douglas Energy Systems, Inc. Whereas, The people of Falmouth, Massa formance, but that your own Development Louisville, Ky. For development of an ad chusetts, did valiantly and effectively defend Test and Evaluation office also seriously vanced coal cleaning plant using microbub their shores against the enemies of the United questioned the performance of the ble column flotation. States in the War of Independence and the AMRAAM. Westinghouse Electric Corp., Madison. Pa. Let me add that there is no ambiguity in To combine coal gasification with the KRW War of 1812; DT&E's viewpoint: "We can not recommend gasifier and the Westinghouse air-cooled Whereas, The Town of Falmouth did, in the that AMRAAM be certified as being expect phosphoric acid fuel cell, a $36 million course of time, become a favorite summer ed to meet all its performance requirements project with DOE picking up 36 percent of resort, a beloved retirement haven and the on the basis of the limited FSD testing done to date." ChemCoal Associates, Cleveland, Ohio. devoted to the study of the oceans and the Your point is well taken that the perform For a project using coal solvents and alkali creatures that dwell therein, ance certification was to be based on infor to dissolve and breakdown coal, yielding I, therefore, urge my colleagues to join with mation that would be available by March solid and distillate fuels. me in saluting the Town of Falmouth as it 1st under the revised DSARC testing sched Tennessee Valley Authority. To install a ule. However, the AMRAAM did not even full-scale dry scrubber on the 160 megawatt celebrates its Tricentennial on Sunday, the meet the revised testing schedule. The re unit 8 at the Shawnee power plant near Pa Fifteenth Day of June in the Year One Thou vised testing schedule called for 6 DT&E ducah, Ky. sand Nine Hundred and Eighty Six. tests to be completed by March 1st. Only 3 Tennessee Valley Authority, National Fer tests were conducted by March 1st due to tilizer Development Center, Air Products various problems with the missile. Accord and Chemicals Inc., Chern Systems Inc. and THE TAXPAYERS CANNOT ing to Hughes, along with the 3 succ;:essful the Electric Power Research Institute. To AFFORD AN UNTESTED AMRAAM launches there were eight launch failures. demonstrate the once-through methanol Two of these failures occured after the process as an enhancement to integrated HON. DENNY SMITH three successful launches . make the required certification to Con Subject: AMRAAM certification. of June, was granted Charter as the Town of gress.'' Your memo of 14 Feb requested comments Suckanesset; and , I agree with you that the OT&E memo on the USAF's proposed letter to Congress Whereas, Several years later said Town of randum did not state directly that you for SECDEF signature relative to certifica Suckanesset, to honor the English explorer shouldn't certify the AMRAAM's perform tion of the AMRAAM PROGRAM. There Bartholomew Gosnold, did change its name to ance. Nonetheless, I'm sure if you reread were five concerns contained in Congres Falmouth, this being the anchorage at the the memorandum you'll agree that such sional language, three of which are perti mouth of the river Fal in England from which statements as "There is a low probability of nent for DTE comment. Our comments are Gosnold sailed in the year One Thousand Six adequate test results being available for an summarized as follows and discussed in operational capability forecast before detail on the attached. Hundred and Two on his voyage of explora March certification" leaves little uncertain We believe that the Secretary can certify tion, in the course of which he explored the ty as to the intended message. that AMRAAM's design is complete with coast of New England and, according to tradi Moreover, I was just as chagrined to learn regard only to the design as we know it tion, set foot on the shore of Suckanesset; that not only did the OT&E office question today, on paper, and that [AMRAAM's per and the certification of the AMRAAM's per- formance to date has been nominal indicat- 11090 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 ing at least a slow but positive trend toward issues will surely surface as apparently they further design definition. The point here is meeting all its performance requirements. have already with the limited number of fir that the USAF does intend to test produci We can not recommend that AMRAAM be ings that have occurred. There is nothing bility design changes as they are developed certified as being expected to meet all its new here for such is to be expected at this and incorporated into follow-on test missiles performance requirements on the basis of stage in development of AMRAAM or any to ensure performance requirements are the limited FSD testing done to date.] [Fur other weapon system. met prior to making changes to baseline ther, the Secretary can certify that it is our As an example. the seeker RF transmitter production. Annex E of the current DCP re intent to ensure that testing will be con has been redesigned from a solid state flects this intent. ducted on any and all producibility changes system to a Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier. incorporated into AMRAAM as a follow-on The need for this design change first came test after FSD and prior to incorporating to light during the validation phase when it such changes into production missiles.] was learned that the solid state seeker tech SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, Beyond this any statements as to certifica nology was not as mature as originally Washington, DC, April17, 1986. tion should contain appropriate caveats as thought. Unlike the solid state transmitter Hon. DENNY SMITH, further delineated in the attached backup system, the power output of the TWTA House of Representatives, discussion. could meet average and peak power require Washington, DC. ments, however, output of the TWTA has JOSEPH A NAVARRO, DEAR CONGRESSMAN: I am responding to Deputy Under Secretary, been scaled down temporarily in FSD in Test and Evaluation. order to continue flight testing and avoid a your March 20 letter regarding the Attachment. problem with self jamming of the receiver AMRAAM program. I understand several while an engineering solution to this prob offices in the Department of Defense also lem is intended to demonstrate effectiveness have received letters from you recently on AMRAAM CERTIFICATION against self screening of the targets or ECM this program, and I believe that you have a. Congress.-Is the AMRAAM design generated by a SOJ. some misunderstandings about AMRAAM complete and are you confident the present Therefore certification of design is contin that are leading to incorrect conclusions. design will work? gent upon the realization that design In you letter you questioned my certifying Discussion. To the extent that the FSD changes will likely occur as a result of devel AMRAAM performance without complete critical design review has been completed we opment and operational tests and it is not testing information. As you know, Public can say that the design for AMRAAM is possible to predict the magnitude of these Law 99-145, Section 210 required that I cer complete. However, to date, the manufac changes or how they might affect perform tify to five design, performance, test, and turer, Hughes has experienced considerable ance. Of course, all of this is independent of cost areas by March 1, 1986. This arbitrary difficulty in delivering flight test missiles the design changes that are already under date selected by the Congress did not relate due to the complexity of the design which consideration for producibility enhance specifically to any program milestone. At has contributed to the delay in manufactur ment. the time the law was drafted, the Congress ing FSD missiles that can be certified as b. Congress.-Do you believe performance ready for acceptance and test by the govern will not be degraded from the original devel knew that the AMRAAM full-scale develop ment. This necessitated USAF's restructur opment specification as modified by the 14 ment program had been restructured and ing of the FSD schedule in the fall of 1985 June 85 DCP, i.e., do you believe perform exended from 50 to 79 months and that after 44 months into a 50 month FSD pro ance will meet expectations? "complete test information" could not possi gram in which Hughes should have deliv Discussion. The Validation Phase against this particular requirement. Since my last flight test missiles have been fired to date single non-maneuvering targets in a benign letter to you, the General Accounting Office all of which were considered successful not ECM environment. Based on these limited withstanding the fact that significant delays tests it is difficult to say with a high degree has testified that there was no legal basis were encountered in achieving launch due of certainty that AMRAAM can be expected for objecting to the certification. in part to quality assurances anomalies en to meet its requirements as specified in the You have focused on the memorandum countered in manufacturing. A fourth at development specification and modified by written to me by my Director of Operation tempt to fire an AMRAAM test missile in the latest version of the DCP United States Senate ap spread suffering caused by this erosion. needy American veterans-the very old, the proved the Genocide Convention, ending a In the best interest of veterans across the very sick, the very poor-be denied their 37 year deadlock on this issue. The passage Nation, I am submitting this article for my col earned benefits. I certainly don't believe my of this measure is a clear and firm state 28 million fellow veterans across this land ment against all genocide. Our nation is the leagues' review. We have a commitment to will sit still for it either. greatest symbol of human rights, personal provide veterans with the benefits they were Most of them will never set foot in a VA freedom and economic opportunity. The promised when they sacrificed years of their hospital, but neither would one of them Genocide Treaty puts those countries which lives and suffered extreme hardships to pro stand by as a needy comrade is turned away. rely on oppression, tyranny and assassina tect our national security and ideals. I urge my Let me give you an idea of what we're up tion on notice that their actions will no colleagues to read the following article and re against: longer be tolerated by freedom-loving affirm their individual commitments to Ameri A 60 percent rise in the average number of people. ca's veterans. veterans turned away from VA clinics-up So tonight, I am renewing my call on the to 37,000 per month! U.S. State Department to reject the pres HE DIED IN DEBT BECAUSE THE VA DIDN'T An average waiting time of 29 days for sure of the Turkish leaders and recognize HAVE A BED FOR HIM new-patient appointments. the historical facts of the Armenian Geno· Much has been written and said about the A three-fold increase in the number of cide. history and purpose of Memorial Day but, outpatients discharged even though they re Looking around the room tonight, I see this year, in addition to our traditional ob quired further medical care. many young people-our sons and daugh servance, we also must recognize a new di My fellow Legionnaires, there is a growing ters and grandchildren. Perhaps some of mension to the sacrifices of this nation's feeling of discontent in America, and it's not you wonder why we come together to com veterans. just among our membership. It's with all memorate an event which took place so long Those we honor this Memorial Day served veterans. ago. Perhaps some of you think that we are their country; they served her well and have And I believe that once our elected legisla too absorbed by the heartaches of the past received their final reward. We will decorate tors understand that we represent a con and should move on. their graves, pay them tribute with rifle sa stituency of 28 million veterans and their What we do here tonight is not for us, but lutes, and say prayers in their memory. families-Americans from every walk of so for you. We cannot change the past. But But there is another group of veterans we ciety-they'll begin to listen, and listen at unless we continue to speak out against the also must remember this month and, tentively. tragedy our people suffered, this cycle of indeed, the year' round. They are the very They were elected to reflect the views of horrors will go on and on. sick, the very old, the very poor of Ameri American citizens, not to endorse the opin So we remember, not only to honor our ca's veterans. They are the men and women ions of appointed bureaucrats, and here's loved ones who died, but to heed the lessons who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with us in one citizen from a group of 28 million who of that sorrow so that we can build a safer time of national need. Yet they continue to says it definitely is not my desire to see my and brighter future for all the world's chil sacrifice for their nation by having their fellow veterans bear a disproportionate dren. earned rights and benefits eroded with share of balancing the budget. This is a day of sadness, but let us not every turning of the page on the legislative So, this Memorial Day, when we pay trib overlook the rays of hope on the horizon. In calendar. ute to our fellow veterans who served, sacri so many parts of the world, differences tear Is there a real threat? Is the American ficed and now have passed on, remember communities apart. Diversity breeds hate, Legion crying "woll"? also that their number has been increased violence, terrorism and civil war. But here in Hardly. Let me give you an example: by one more: a very old, very sick, very poor May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11093 veteran who believed the only medical in My congratulations go out to the honorees horizon, we must not lose sight of the fact surance he needed was that which was guar and to the organizers of this very successful that the United States' Space Program has anteed by his wartime service to America. event. They showed me how senior citizens been a singular success that has put this Remind your fellow veterans of him, and enlist them in The American Legion on his remain truly young at heart. country in an unquestionable leadership role behalf. in mankind's exploration and utilization of the space environment. THE NASA LEGACY; IT'S NOT Mismanagement, waste of public funds and ALL BAD, LET'S PRESERVE THE EAST ORANGE SENIOR CITIZENS sloppy decisionmaking cannot be tolerated at BEST FOR THE FUTURE LUNCHEON AND AWARDS any level of government, and it is incumbent CEREMONY upon us to assure that any problems which HON. MARILYN LLOYD have led to abuses of Federal trust be cor HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. OF TENNESSEE rected. Nevertheless, we must proceed in our OF NEW JERSEY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES effortS to assure that the NASA Program is re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, May 15, 1986 established on the right track and get on with Thursday, May 15, 1986 our space endeavor in a way that once again Mrs. LLOYD. Mr. Speaker, The Challenger will make us all proud. Thus, I hope that both Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, on May 9 I had tragedy has shocked the American public and Congress and the Executive will move careful the privilege to attend the mayor's Annual the Congress into the realization that the most ly to preserve the core capability of the Senior Citizens Luncheon and Awards Cere accomplished of the modern Federal bureauc agency while providing a climate for badly mony for the city of East Orange. This well-at racies, that is the National Aeronautics and needed change. tended and gala affair is held each year to Space Administration, may be flawed. Reports recognize the contributions senior citizens abound on the errors in judgment that may make to the East Orange community. have permeated our space program through COURT RULES AGAINST BLUE Welcoming us to the ceremony was East the overconfidence and apparent xenophobic CROSS & BLUE SHIELD Orange Mayor John C. Hatcher, Jr., who pre style of NASA management. Within the next sented the awards and gave the keynote month or so, the Rogers Commission will HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK speech. Mrs. Pearl Harrison, the director of present its report on the Shuttle 51-L accident OF CALIFORNIA the office of public relations, served as the to the Congress and the American public. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mistress of ceremonies. The event was orga Most recently, the New York Times (April 23, nized by the division of senior citizens of the 1986) published the first of two articles on al Thursday, May 15, 1986 East Orange Department of Community Serv leged mismanagement and wasteful practices Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, a Federal court ices. Special appearances were made by identified by NASA's Inspector General's ruling against Blue Cross & Blue Shield has Rhoda Scott, the internationally-known jazz pi Office that may have cost the space program just negated the argument that the Blues anist, and Jean Cheek, a Broadway star and more than $3.5 billion. These articles identify should be exempt from paying Federal taxes popular entertainer. potential contractor mismanagement activities, because of their charitable activity in covering As Mayor Hatcher stated in his proclama cost overruns, and perhaps even fraudulent high risk individuals. The Blues serve no chari tion, May is the month of senior citizens. expenditures, all of which contribute to casting table purpose if they take premium dollars There are few better ways to commemorate a dark cloud over the space agency's hereto from high risk individuals and then subse this month than to honor the senior citizens fore relatively unblemished image. quently refuse to pay for any medical ex who have made a difference in their communi However, it appears to me that as we pro penses of these individuals. ties. Twenty-nine awards were given out at ceed into our detailed investigations of these The tax exempt status for the Blues was the ceremony-all for outstanding leadership programs, that we should not fail to recognize based on their claim that the Blues cover among the senior citizens of East Orange. the extraordinary accomplishments that our people that the commercial insurers refused Honored as the Mother of East Orange Nation's Space Program has produced over to insure. The Blues argue that coverage of the Mother of the Year-was Mrs. Mary F. the last two decades. At this time we know high risk individuals is an inherently charitable Wright. Mrs. Wright is 104 years old but is as orders of magnitude more about our own solar activity and warrants a tax exempt status. independent and lively as anyone. Born in system and interplanetary space than we When the tax exempt status of the Blues Florida in 1882, she moved to New Jersey in knew after the previous millennia of scientific was considered by the House Ways and the 191O's and worked for years as a seam inquiry into these phenomena. All of this was Means Committee during the tax reform con stress. Though she never had children of her accomplished in the remarkably short span of siderations, the Blues were unable to demon own, she managed to have her own family by less than two decades, commencing with our strate to the members that their charitable ac adopting and raising two young girls whose first entry into space in the Mercury Program, tivity was substantial enough to warrant a tax mother had died in 1950. She indeed de through our Apollo landing on the Moon and exempt status. serves her new title as Mother of East culminating recently in the revealing images While the Blues were petitioning Congress Orange. returned from our Voyager spacecraft's tour of to keep this tax exempt status because of Also honored at the ceremony were: Mrs. the outer planet Uranus. In spite of its present their coverage for high risk individuals and Willie Mae Farrah, Mrs. Claudia Harold, Mr. difficulties, the shuttle program has shown the small groups, Loretta Washington, a local Ernest Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hatch way toward a new era for man's presence in sanitation worker, was forced to haul the er, Sr., Mr. Jack Hunter, Dr. Theodore lnge, space. No longer will we be simply passive Blues into court just to get them to pay her Mrs. Geraldine Johnson, Mrs. Mittie Kornegay, observers of the world and the universe. The hospital and doctor bills for a hysterectomy Dr. Frank M. Lapeyrolerie, Mr. William Macklin. results of the very successful shuttle series of that occurred while she was insured by Blue Mrs. Delia Martin, Mrs. Betty Moshier, Mrs. flights have shown the way to unique opportu Cross & Blue Shield of the National Capital Mildred Patwell, Mrs. Lucille Purdie, Mrs. Rita nities for mankind both from a scientific per Area. Roscoe, Mrs. Bridie Slevin, Mrs. Ida B. Smith, spective as well as a commercial viewpoint. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of the National Mrs. Queenie Smith, Mr. William Smith, Mrs. We have learned how to recover wayward sat Capital Area has the dubious distinction, as a Fran Wilkerson, Mrs. Carrie Williams, Mrs. ellites. We have opened up new vistas in result of this lawsuit, of being the first insurer Florence Henry. communication and the advances in manufac in the District of Columbia to lose a case for Mr. Robert Ritchie, Bailey-Holt Tower turing techniques in the microgravity of space bad faith due to this refusal to pay the claims Tenant Association; Mr. Gerald Alexander will certainly pave the way for future genera of an insured. Brangman-Posthumously (Mrs. Ida Brang tions of entrepreneurs and others who can This conduct is the antithesis of charitable man accepting); Brookside What-Not Shop benefit from this unique environment. In my activity and should be considered as Con (Mrs. Marie Holmes accepting); Coppergate view, our world is a better place as a result of gress reviews the tax exempt status of Blue Senior Committee (Mrs. Gathering Selfridge this Nation's Space Program and although we Cross & Blue Shield in the tax reform process. accepting); Mrs. Mildred Eoff-Posthumously must improve and continually refine our meth The Washington Post article of May 9, 1986 (Mr. Reginald Eoff accepting). ods and processes for exploiting this unique follows: 11094 ·EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 PATIENT GETS $800,000 IN INSURANCE SUIT Arson is the fastest growing crime in this fires were caused by persons under 16 years He described his escape plan learned this program prevented two fires "I just thank God for the blessing," Wash and alibi. He told of his desire for danger that could have been major and in one case, ington said yesterday. and thrill of danger. This was his third fire, a life was probably saved. Of course there is Blue Cross officials could not be reached the first being the lighting of matches and no way of knowing what type of fires were for comment. lighters, the second was setting fire to prevented or how many lives saved, but we papers on the gas stove. The parents, other know the program is working. agencies and I worked with the juvenile. He The 1984 population indicated that Roch JUVENILE ARSON demonstrates the progressive characteristic ester had 244,094 residents and the County of the three stages of a fire setter and possi another 702,200 people. The Rochester Fire ble future arsonist. The juvenile was 5 years Department responded that year to approxi HON. FRANK HORTON old. mately 10,328 incidents and found that 40% OF NEW YORK Many other incidents come to mind-the of all fires set involved youngsters. 65% of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES child who set his brother on fire because those were caused by children between 5 & the devil told him to, or the 12 year old 9 years old. In 1984 the F.R.Y. unit contact Thursday, May 15, 1986 female who set fire to her home because she ed 312 juveniles; 268 were males, 127 were Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, recently a fire had no bedroom door, and the child who black, 149 were white. The highest percent investigator from Rochester, NY, sent me a was angry and set his cat on fire. age were children 2 through 7 years old letter and a copy of a report compiled by the Annually, in the United States, millions of 034%) followed by children 8 through 12 New York State Office of Fire Prevention and dollars worth of property are lost due to 033%>. 53% were from fatherless homes. arson. The loss of life and personal injury to Firesetting problems affect all walks of Control. That investigator, Jonathon Beldue, citizens and fire department personnel, com life, from the sons of top executives and shared with me the problem of juvenile arson, bined, number in the tens of thousands, Ju daughters of doctors to sons and daughters and the cost to this Nation as a result of veniles contribute greatly to this problem. of families on welfare. The problem is the young arsonists. I would like to share this in Arson is the fastest growing crime in Amer same throughout the country. Our program formation with my colleagues. ica and a disturbingly large number of those is now being used as a pilot program in New May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11095 York State and inquiries have come from Not whether they will perish in death ar weapons that we now have. We ought to other countries pertaining to this problem. camps, but whether they will languish in concentrate on the task at hand before we Approximately two years ago we needed labor camps. embark on further uncharted waters. fresh ideas so two new investigators were Not the annihilation of 6 million Jews, but STAR WARS' Two EDGES trained for the program. I then returned to the attempted annihilation of almost 4,000 basic fire investigation. A third man was years of Jewish history. The Reagan administration likes to call its added with the help of a state grant and I And so, once again, we face a terrible test. spaced-based missile defense the "strategic still promote this program as much as possi But whatever our brethren ask of us defense initiatve" and doesn't like it when ble. Any verbal support you care to give cannot compare to what they ask of them people refer to it as Star Wars. But the term would be appreciated. selves. for it that probably annoys the administra I am enclosing a manual developed by our Theirs is a story of unshakable moral tion even more is the one the Soviet Union department and the University of Roches strength. uses, "space strike forces," because it makes ter. I believe this information will be inter They have sacrified their jobs, they have the system sound more offensive than de esting and informative. impaired their health, they have jeopard fensive. Sincerely, ized their safety, they have been separated Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev uses JONATHAN BELDUE, from their loved ones. Yet still they carry that term for self-evident public-relations Fire Investigator. on. purposes. But the phrase is not entirely They would rather light a Sabbath candle propaganda. Star Wars could very easily than simply curse the darkness at noon. play a decisive offensive role in the hands of THE MEANING OF They seek only to honor and uphold the sacred traditions of their faith. either superpower. Even if it were used only SHCHARANSKY'S STRUGGLE Yet they live under a Government that as a shield against an adversary's incoming knows no honor, that daily breaks faith missiles, it could embolden an attacker to HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN with its people, from the radiation in Cher attempt a preemptive first strike_ He could nobyl to the refuseniks in Moscow. rely on the defensive system to ward off OF CALIFORNIA A Government that has no shame, no whatever weapons the victim of his attack IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES moral compass, no respect for creativity or was able to fire off after seeing most of his Thursday, May 15, 1986 conscience, will not quickly be converted to missiles destroyed til their silos. the free emigration of Soviet Jewry-cer That is one way that Star Wars has an of Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, my colleague tainly not in the course of a single after fensive potential. More directly, it could STEPHEN SOLARZ recently gave a short, very noon. also be used as part of a pre-emptive strike eloquent speech on the experience of Anatoly But today we take a historic step. itself if its own space-based warheads were Shcharansky and what it can teach us in our We send an unmistakable message to Mr. targeted at enemy missiles on the ground commitment to Soviet Jews. I would like to Gorbachev: and not in the air. Another offensive mis As much as we rejoice over the freedom of sion for which spaced-based defenses would share it with my colleagues by placing it in the Anatoly Shcharansky, we will not be side RECORD. tracked or satisfied by the release of 1 indi be ideally suited is the destruction of an ad WHY WE MusT PERsEVERE FOR SoviET JEWs vidual, or even 100, however heroic or versary's orbiting reconnaissance and com munications satellites. Without such satel ing as a share of GNP-and how steeply it has actually fallen since the peacetime tion to the study written by the editor. Copies Most American monetary experts have budgets of the Eisenhower administration, of the complete study may be obtained by been shocked by how rapidly the dollar has when it averaged more than 10 percent, contacting the Central American and Caribbe fallen against world currencies-much more compared with only 6.2 percent as proposed an Program. than monetary policies alone would have by Mr. Reagan for 1987, which, in turn, is The material referred to follows: suggested. nearly 40 percent less than the pre-Vietnam They are ignoring the one nonmonetary Kennedy budgets of 1962 and 1963. INTRODUCTION fundamental that has been changing even That kind of information might have fore The two essays published jointly in this more rapidly than our monetary policies: stalled the kind of outrageous proposals CACP Occasional Paper focus on the dra our rapid abandonment of the original Democrats are now making that would cut matic plight of Central America's refugees Carter-Reagan defense buildup, signaled current defense outlays back to 6.1 percent in the early 1980s. Since the original field both by the 1986 defense budget freeze, and of GNP, the lowest level since 1982, and work was done by Dr. Patricia Weiss Fagen the dangerous proposals by the Democrats budget authority back to 6.2 percent, the and Dr. Sergio Aguayo in 1983-84, the on on the House Budget Committee to slash lowest since 1981, a dangerous drawback in going conflicts in the region have exacerbat 1987-1989 defense spending back to pre-Af defense posture. ed the refugee problem even further. As a ghanistan and pre-Reagan levels. During the peak of the Reagan defense result, some of the data cited in these two Weak defense has always meant weak cur buildup in 1984 and 1985, a buildup that fol articles understate the current situation. rency, and vice versa. It is no accident that lowed closely the Carter proposals of 1980- The CAPC at SAIS feels that the basic from 1974 to 1979, while national defense 81, budget authority reached 7.6 percent of problems and trends highlighted by each spending was slashed from 5.8 percent of GNP-and Mr. Reagan's proposal for 1987, author retain considerable analytic utility GNP to 4.7 percent and carried on by President Nicaragua, President Ronald Reagan Reagan which raised defense outlays from House Democrats would have you believe this is all because of Gramm-Rudman-Hol warned his critics that the United States 4.7 to 5.9 percent of gross national product was facing a "strategic disaster" of great in Mr. Carter's last budget In short, they are cutting defense because lysts of Central America that $100 million but by the ominous proposals now coming that's what they have always done-and the more in U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan Contras out of the House Budget Committee to Russians are smiling, again. will not topple the Sandinistas, nor will it slash that budget authority still further, to resolve the region's development problems. $285 billion ($240 billion in 1982 dollars). Quite to the contrary, new "lethal" assist That proposal amounts to a 10 percent CONTRA AID WILL PRODUCE ance from Washington will inevitably inten real cut in budget author MORE, NOT FEWER, CENTRAL sify the conflcits and compound the eco ity from 1985, and, as a percent of GNP, AMERICAN REFUGEES nomic and social disruption in Nicaragua would take us back to the same level of and surrounding countries which lay at the spending we had in 1981, before the Reagan HON. MICHAEL D. BARNES heart of the mounting refugee problem in buildup. Central America. Whether justificable or In short, the House Democrats are propos OF MARYLAND not on other grounds, to argue that aid to ing to abort the entire Reagan defense re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Contras will help prevent more refugees vival, long before it has even reached the Thursday, May 15, 1986 from appearing in the region is patently in timid 1986 levels which a frightened Jimmy consistent and illogical. Carter suddenly proposed in January of Mr. BARNES. Mr. Speaker, one of the nu Although President Reagan has repeated 1980, after the fall of Kabul. merous pieces of misinformation that we are ly made reference to "feet people" fleeing The fact they are willing to risk such a constantly subjected to by the Reagan admin the "totalitarian" Sandinista regime 71~59 0-87-27 (Pt. 8) 11098 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 analyses presented here make it crystal crisis which has paralyzed the Federal Gov I am both surprised and concerned that a clear that more-rather than fewer-refu ernment over the past several years. high official of the Department of Defense gees can be expected to be caught up in the Material mentioned above follows: would have such a distorted view of defense Central American diaspora. and budget priorities. I hope that we both BRUCE MICHAEL BAGLEY, UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, agree that the most important function of Editor, CACP Occasional Paper Series. Washington, DC, April21, 1986. the Federal government in this thermonu Hon. LEON E. PANETTA, clear age is to avoid a nuclear holocaust Chainnan, Subcommittee on Domestic Mar which could destroy both the United States FOOD STAMPS VERSUS ICBM'S keting, Consumer Relations, and Nutri and the Soviet Union as viable societies. tion, Committee on Agriculture, House While reasonable people may disagree about of Representatives, Washington, DC. whether deployment of Midgetman would HON. LEON E. PANETTA DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your increase or decrease our national security, I OF CALIFORNIA letter of April 9, 1986. I want to assure you think that it is highly inappropriate for an that the remarks attributed to me in a April official of the Department of Defense to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 4, 1986 Los Angeles Times article which con argue for a $50 billion weapon system on Thursday, May 15, 1986 cerned you, were taken out of context. It the grounds that it will keep nutrition as was not my intent to criticize any particular sistance from being provided to poor Ameri Mr. PANETIA. Mr. Speaker, I wish to share domestic program, but to point up the curi cans. with my colleagues an exchange of letters be ous fact that some who are concerned about Your reported comments betray some ig tween me and the Under Secretary of De the impact of defense spending on domestic norance of the Food Stamp Program. In the fense for Research and Engineering, Hon. programs are at the same time insensitive to first place, support for this program cuts Donald A. Hicks. These letters shed some potential cost tradeoffs in the defense area across party lines. One of the strongest sup light on this administration's budget priorities. which could save many taxpayer dollars. porters of the program has been the Repub Specifically, during a discussion of alter lican Majority Leader of the Senate, Robert Earlier this month, Mr. Hicks had an inter native approaches to completing our land view with the press on strategic offensive Dole of Kansas. In the second place, we based ICBM modernization program, I out could fund the Food Stamp Program weapons. In an excellent article by James lined the costs associated with various op through the rest of this decade for substan Gerstenzang in the Los Angeles Times, Mr. tions for deploying a second 50 MX missiles. tially less than you seek for Midgetman. In Hicks was quoted as favoring deployment of I pointed out that these options are sub the third place, cost growth in the Food Midgetman, "recognizing that it costs a lot of stantially cheaper than the $50 billion it is Stamp Program since the Reagan adminis money and prevents the Democrats from estimated to cost to deploy the baseline, tration took office has been substantially giving a lot of food stamps out they might give single-warhead Midgetman. In fact, we less than the cost growth in Defense re could deploy an additional 50 MX missiles out otherwise." search and development. The increase in in Minuteman silos for about 1/25 the cost Defense RDT&E between fiscal year 1981 I wrote to Mr. Hicks to express my surprise of Midgetman. when the Reagan administration took office and concern that a high official of the Depart I then expressed surprise that some mem and the President's request for fiscal year ment of Defense would make such a state bers of Congress, particularly some strong 1987 was 107 percent in current dollars and ment. I noted that support for food stamps supporters of domestic programs such as 168 percent in constant 1982 dollars. In con has been bipartisan and that the Food Stamp food stamps, seem so unwilling to consider trast, funding for food stamps over the same Program is substantially less costly than Midg relatively inexpensive solutions to our period will increase only 16 percent oi cur ICBM modernization problem while readily rent dollars and 50 percent in constant dol etman-in fact we could fund food stamps embracing a more expensive program such through the rest of the decade for less than lars. as Midgetman. The projection of cost growth in food Midgetman will cost. Finally, I noted that since As Under Secretary of Defense for Re stamps assumes that the Congress will the Reagan administration took office, cost search and Engineering, one of my responsi accept the recommendation of the Republi growth in Defense research, development, bilities is to see that we pursue the most can-controlled Senate Budget Committee to testing, and evaluation [RDT&E] has been cost effective solutions to meeting defense reject the cuts proposed by the President in substantially higher than increased spending requirements. Only by achieving this objec the Food Stamp Program. for food stamps. tive can we hope to meet critical needs for Finally, your reported comments show a In response to my letter, Mr. Hicks wrote a national defense and support legitimate do remarkable insensitivity to the budgetary mestic requirements. crisis which in large part has been created most gracious reply in which he did not deny I regret that the thought did not come the quotation but argued that his remark had by the increase in Defense spending since through clearly in the reportage, as carried 1981. If Midgetman is needed for strategic been taken out of context. He wrote that he in the Times. reasons, you should base the justification had meant to say that some Members of Con Sincerely, for spending the $50 billion on those gress, particularly supporters of domestic pro DONALD A. HICKS. grounds. If you really consider Defense grams such as food stamps, are unwilling to spending a way to avoid spending on a pro consider relatively inexpensive solutions to U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, gram which you apparently dislike, I think ICBM modernization, as he characterizes the COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, SUB you reveal an alarming insensitivity to the administration's MX proposal, while they sup COMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC MARKET deficit crisis which we in the Congress have ING, CONSUMER RELATIONS, AND been trying to resolve. Frankly, we could go port what he considers the more costly pro NUTRITION, a long way toward eliminating the deficit if gram such as Midgetman. Washington, DC, April 9, 1986. we subjected Defense spending to the same Frankly, while Mr. Hicks' reply is gracious, Hon. DONALD A. HicKs, scrutiny that the Food Stamp Program has his answer to my letter highlights the dilemma Undersecretary of Defense tor Research and experienced in recent years. we confront in attempting to control defense Engineering, Department of Defense, Sincerely, spending. When we reauthorized the Food Washington, DC. LEON E. PANETTA, Stamp Program last year, every facet of the DEAR MR. HicKs: I am writing to express Chainnan. program was carefully scrutinized. My fellow my profound concern about the remarks at tributed to you in an article by James Ger [From the Los Angeles Times, May 4, 19861 Members on the Agriculture Committee and stenzang which appeared in the Los Angeles our colleagues on the Education and Labor MIDGETMAN 25 TIMES COSTLIER BUT Is Times on April 4, 1986. NECESSARY, PENTAGON SAYS Committee had to share an increase of $0.30 The article notes that you favor deploy billion in fiscal year 1986 for nutrition pro ment of the Midgetman because you believe . the manufacturer's product was available at Section 106. Service of Process. The sum A person ·may not submit an expedited the time the product that caused the harm mons and complaint shall be served as pro claim if they have already brought a civil was purchased. Claimant must also provide vided by applicable law. action against the manufacturer under any a written explanation of efforts to identify Section 107. Admissibility of Certain Evi theory /law to recover damages for the same the manufacturer of the individual product dence. Evidence of an admission of liability, harm. unit. either expressly, or impliedly, is inadmissi A manufacturer who makes payment Statute of Limitations. Two years. A ble in any other action brought under or under Title II or who is found not liable person under legal disability may submit a subject to this Act. may not be made a defendant in any action claim within 2 years after the disability This is a codification of the federal rules brought by any other party for contribu ceases. of evidence. The rationale for finding this tion, reimbursement or indemnity for dam Section 204. Duty To Disclose Informa type of evidence inadmissible is that public ages arising from the same harm. tion. A claimant must cooperate fully with policy wants to encourage product improve Payment of an expedited claim, or a find the manufacturer in the manufacturer's in ment and voluntary payment to a claimant. ing of nonliability will not bar an action for vestigation of the claim. Section 108. Expert Opinion. Expert scien associated harm which is physical damage Section 205. Liability for Harm. A manu tific or medical opinion is not sufficient evi to property other than the product itself. facturer will be liable to a claimant under dence to establish a fact absent support in Section 202. Manufacturer's Liability For an expedited claims procedure if: peer-reviewed scientific or medical studies. Net Economic Loss. A manufacturer's liabil <1 > the product, when it left the manufac Section 109. Subsequent Remedial Meas ity is limited to "net economic loss" under turer's control, was unreasonably danger ures. Evidence of subsequent remedial meas Title II. "Net economic loss" is defined as: ous; and ures taken by a manufacturer or product (1) reasonable expenses incurred for rea (2) the unreasonably dangerous aspect of seller after the occurrence of a claimant's sonably needed and used medical and reha the product was the proximate cause of harm which, if taken previously, would have bilitation services; claimant's harm while the product was made the harm less likely to occur is not ad <2> lost income from work reduced by any being used in a manner intended or reason missible to prove liability. A product which is a drug or device ability or failure to respond within the time (3) the failure to conform to the warranty which may only be administered by a li required, the court shall award exemplary caused the claimant's harm. censed practitioner will not be found unrea damages in an amount not to exceed twice A product seller shall be treated as a man sonably dangerous if the manufacturer pro the amount of net ecomomic loss or $10,000 ufacturer and shall be liable for harm as if vided warnings in compliance with FDA re whichever is greater. it were the manufacturer if the manufactur quirements. If the court finds there was not good er is not subject to service of process or the <4> If the claimant has suffered toxic cause for claimant to file an action, the court determines that the claimant would harm of a kind which manifests itself only court shall require the claimant or claim be unable to enforce the judgment against after many years of exposure, proximate ant's attorney to pay all of the manufactur the manufacturer. cause will be presumed if: er's costs of investigation and defending the Section 304. Determination of Responsi the claimant was exposed to the prod claim. bility in a Product Liability Action. All uct at the relevant time; and A person who willfully violates an enforce claims under this Act shall be governed by (b) the claimant's exposure to the product ment order or an order of ·an arbitrator principles of comparative responsibility. would "significantly increase" (incidence to shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine The court shall instruct the jury to make an exposed population exceed's incidence in of not more than $2,000 for each day of vio findings indicating the total amount of dam an unexposed population by 30% or more) lation, or imprisonment, not to exceed two ages to each claimant for claimant's harm the risk of incurring the toxic harm unless years, or both. and the percentage of total responsibility another toxic agent is more likely to have Section 209. Supplemental Expedited for harm attributable to each claimant, independently produced claimant's harm. Claim. If claimant incurs additional net eco each defendant, and to any other cuase. The The claimant must establish by a prepon nomic loss arising from the same harm, and percentage attributable to each defendant derance of the evidence that, in the best manufacturer has admitted liability, claim or third-party defendant shall be deter available scientific opinion, exposure to a ant may submit supplement claims. These mined by subtracting the percentage of re product of a certain chemical composition, claims will be handled like the original sponsibility attributable to the claimant and in the circumstances of claimant's case, sig claim. to any other cause or person who is not a nificantly increased the claimant's risk of Section 210. Time Limitation on Liability. party to the action from 100% and allocat incurring toxic harm. Statute of Repose for all harms which are ing the percentage remaining to the defend Section 206. Payment or Rejection of an not toxic harm is 25 years from the date of ants according to their individual responsi Expedited Claim. Within 90 days of receipt delivery of the product to its first purchaser bility for harm. of an expedited claim a manufacturer shall or lessee not engaged in the business of sell determine whether it is liable for the ing or leasing the product or using the prod Evidence of claimant's misuse, alteration claimed harm and notify the claimant. uct as a component in the manufacture of of modification of a product shall be consid If a manufacturer agrees it is liable, it another product. ered in determining claimant's responsibil shall make payment for net economic loss Section 211. Reimbursement of Manufac ity for harm. or enter into an agreement with claimant turer. Any manufacturer who pays an expe Joint and several liability shall be deter for another acceptable disposition of the dited claim may seek reimbursement, contri mined in accordance with state law except claim. bution, or indemnity on the basis of compar that the basis for contribution shall be each If manufacturer determines it is not ative responsibility within 2 years of such joint tortfeasor's percentage of responsibil liable, it shall give the claimant written payment. Contribution, reimbursement or ity for harm. If an amount is not collectible notice of rejection and a written explana indemnity may be sought in a State court from one joint tortfeasor, the portion which tion of claimant's rights to bring a civil with original jurisdiction or a District is uncollectible shall be reallocated among action for an order enforcing those rights. Court. other joint tortfeasors according to their If a manufacturer does not contest liabil Section 212. Collective Processing of percentage of responsibility. ity but disputes the amount of the claim, Claims. Nothing in this title or in the anti Section 305. Relevance of Government the manufacturer shall pay the undisputed trust laws shall preclude manufacturers or Standards and Contracts. If a product seller portion and provide claimant with an expla product sellers from establishing and main proves by a preponderance of the evidence nation of claimant's rights to initiate bind taining collective means of processing that the aspect of the product or its use ing arbitration within 90 days. Arbitration claims. which claimant cites as defective substan will be the exclusive remedy when the dis tially complies with applicable mandatory pute is over the amount of net economic TITLE III (CIVIL ACTIONS) contract specifications of a Federal, State, loss. Section 301. Civil Actions. A person may or local government pertaining directly to Section 207. Rights Upon Denial of Full bring a civil action against a manufacturer that aspect of the product or its use, the Payment. If a manufacturer disputes the or product seller pursuant to applicable law claimant shall be deemed to have failed to amount of a claim and the claimant initiates except where such law is superseded by this satisfy the proof requirements. arbitration proceedings within 90 days, the Act. By bringing a civil action, a person This section will not apply if a product Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service waives all rights to recovery under the expe identical to the product at issue is identical will appoint an arbitrator to make a final dited claims procedure in Title II. in all significant aspects to one which is detemination within 60 days, of the amount Section 302. Uniform Standards of Manu commercially available prior to the date of owed by manufacturer. No court shall have facturer Liability. A manufacturer will be the product's first sale to Federal, State, or the power to review this determination liable if claimant proves by a preponderance local government. except where either party alleges fraud or of the evidence that: Section 306. Uniform Standards for Offset misrepresentation. <1 > a product unit manufactured by the of Worker's Compensation Benefits. The Section 208. Rights Upon Denial of Liabil manufacturer was a proximate cause of the judgment shall be reduced by the sum of ity. If a manufacturer declines liability or harm; and the amount paid as workers' compensation fails to respond to a claim, the claimant (2) a. the manufacturer was negligent in benefits for that harm and the present may bring a civil action enforcing the claim constructing, designing, providing warnings value of all workers' compensation benefits ant's rights under this title. If the manufac about the proper use of the product or that to which the employee is or would be enti turer provides claimant with a notice of re the product did not conform to the express tled for the harm. jection, the issues at trial shall be limited to warranty made by the manufacturer. (provi Section 307. Uniform Standards for Award those issues raised by claimant and set forth sions for negligence conform to general neg of Punitive Damages. Punitive damages may in such notice. All issues shall be tried by ligence standards). be awarded upon establishment of clear and the court without a jury. Such action may Section 303. Uniform Standards of Prod convincing evidence that the harm suffered be brought within one year of the date of uct Seller Liability. A product seller may be was the result of conduct manifesting con submission of the claim, or within 90 days of found liable if claimant can prove by a pre scious, flagrant indifference to the safety of the manufacturer's rejection of the cliam, ponderance of the evidence that: persons who may be harmed by a product. which ever is later. <1 > the product unit which caused the Punitive damages may not be awarded in If the court finds that the manufacturer harm was sold by the defendant; and the absence of a compensatory award unless is liable the court shall enter an order en <2 > the product seller failed to exercise death results from product use. forcing the claimant's rights and directing reasonable care; and In determining whether punitive damages arbitration to settle any dispute over net (3) seller's failure to exercise care was the are appropriate the trier of fact shall take economic loss and award reasonable attor proximate cause of claimant's harm; or into account the conduct of manufacturer1 ney's fees and expenses as well as interest ( 1) the product seller made an express seller upon learning that the product caused on the amount of claimant's net economic warranty, independent of any express war harm and the duration of the conduct and loss equal to 2% per month. ranty made by the manufacturer; and any concealment. 11104 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 The amount of punitive damages may not for producing a compromise measure with It might be of special interest to my col exceed twice the amount of other damages broad bipartisan support. I am pleased that leagues to know that the elderly and the near awarded or $1,000,000 whichever is greater. the funding levels agreed to in the conference elderly are the most likely age groups to vote. Section 308. Uniform Standards of Limita tion and Repose. Statute of Limitations report are even higher than those originally Data from the 1980 and 1982 elections dem shall be 2 years from the date the claimant set in H.R. 1650. These funds will be well onstrate that about one-third of all voters are discovered the harm, or in the exercise of spent, and should the President sign this leg age 55 or older. In view of the electoral power reasonable care, should have discovered the islation into law, it will save future, more costly of this group, we in Congress would be wise harm. In the case of a disabled claimant, an outlays. I am also pleased to see that the En to pay careful attention to the special needs action may commence within 2 years after vironmental Protection Agency will be required and interests of our older constituents. Inci the disability ceases. to set maximum contaminant level goals and The Statute of Repose will be 12 years for dentally, over half of all senior citizens in non-toxic harm and 25 years for toxic harm. primary drinking water regulations for 83 con America live in just eight States, of which Ohio Section 309. Uniform Standard for Settle taminants previously identified for regulation in is one. ment Incentives. If either party offers a 1982 and 1983. I am especially pleased that "reasonable" settlement which is rejected the conferees took the initiative on an issue This increasingly large and important sector by the opposing party who is later deter that was not addressed originally by either the of America is deserving of the attention and mined to be at fault and who receives dam House or Senate measure. I applaud the con honor bestowed upon it this month and o'n ages less than or equal to those offered in ferees for setting restrictions on the use of Senior Citizen's Day. Our older citizens have the settlement, that party will also be re lead pipes or fittings in the installation or devoted many years of their lives to building sponsible for attorney fees and costs attrib uted to prolonged litigation. repair of public water systems. Reducing the this country, and they continue to serve it with Section 310. Uniform Standard for Period exposure of our drinking waters to lead is an their hands, their minds, and their hearts. I am ic Payment of Awards. Provides that pay important step in ensuring safe water supplies. sure I echo the sentiments of my congression ments for future economic damages may be Another important feature of this bill re al colleagues and my fellow Americans, when made periodically. If the court suspects that quires the States to establish plans to protect I say to all the older Ohioans, thank you for future economic damages may not be paid, the ground water resources which supply half the beauty of your many years of sacrifice, the court may require the party responsible for payment to purchase an annuity to of the U.S population with drinking water. and for your continuing contributions to Ameri cover the expected cost of future payments. These plans would be submitted to EPA for can society. It is my privilege today to join with Section 311. Application of Other Law. approval, and would have to include contin the many voices honoring American and Ohio Except as otherwise provided in this act, gency plans for locating and providing alter senior citizens. nothing shall be construed to affect any nate drinking water supplies in the event of statutory or common law rule governing re contamination of a water supply. Also, moni covery by a claimant or the effect of com toring of class I injection wells, which are parative responsibility upon the recovery. wells that inject hazardous waste below an underground drinking water source, is required HONORING THE SERVICE OF ENDORSEMENT OF SAFE DRINK to provide the earliest possible detection of SAMUEL J. MITCHELL ING WATER ACT AMENDMENTS fluid migration toward or into underground sources of drinking water. HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN We cannot afford to be negligent in protect HON. ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES OF NEW YORK ing one of our most important natural re OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sources. This bill is necessary to protect our IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, May 15, 1986 Nation's drinking sources in a farsighted, cost effective manner. Thursday, May 15, 1986 Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I strongly sup Accordingly, I urge the President to sign S. port the conference report accompanying S. 124, the Safe Drinking Water Amendments Mr. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, I ask my col 124, the Safe Drinking Water Act Amend and hope for its speedy implementation. leagues in Congress to join me in honoring ments, which was adopted by the House the service and dedication of Samuel J. Mitch Tuesday. I would like to take this opportunity ell. to commend my colleagues in this Chamber, On May 21, 1986, Mr. Mitchell will be retir particularly the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. MAY 20, 1986, IS SENIOR ing from the Los Nietos School District. He MADIGAN], who introduced the House com CITIZENS' DAY IN OHIO has served over 28 years in the district at the panion bill, H.R. 1650, the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. DINGELL], the distinguished Los Nietos Junior High/Middle School. As a chairman of the Committee on Energy and HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. teacher Mr. Mitchell was known for conduct Commerce, and the gentleman from California OF OHIO ing a well-disciplined classroom with high ex [Mr. WAXMAN], the distinguished chairman of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pectations for his students. He completed special courses so he would be able to teach the Subcommitte on Health and the Environ Thursday, May 15, 1986 ment, all of whom worked diligently to secure and communicate in Spanish. His fundraising adoption of this important measure. Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, it is my great efforts for the Los Nietos Teachers' Associa Despite the strides we have made in clean pleasure to inform you and my colleagues that tion Scholarship Fund have made it a suc ing up our Nation's waterways and supplies, on May 20, 1986, Senior Citizens' Day will be cessful program, helping students go on to there remains much for us in the Congress to observed throughout the great State of Ohio. college. do. Our surface water supplies are polluted by As you know, this celebration falls in the Mr. Mitchell is a native of Danville, PA. He over 700 pollutants, including synthetic organ month of May, which the President has de graduated in 1958 from Bloomsburg State ic chemicals and heavy metals. Congress has clared "Older Americans Month." Teachers' College in Pennsylvania after serv worked hard to control the spread of these It is certainly fitting and right that we should ing 6 years in the Air Force. After finishing contaminants to our water supplies through so honor our Nation's older citizens through a school he moved to California with his wife, such measures as the Resource Conservation specially designated month and day. Senior Iris, where they raised their four children. His and Recovery Act and the Superfund laws. citizens are comprising an increasingly larger However, it would be shortsighted and fiscally percentage of America's population-it is ex hobbies include coin collecting and model irresponsible to rely on cleanup laws to main pected that between the years 1980 and train collecting. He also has several classic tain safe drinking water supplies. What is 2000, the elderly population will grow by 27 and antique automobiles. needed is this kind of legislation, preventing percent. It is by now becoming common Mr. Speaker, I want to recognize the devo our water supplies from contamination in the knowledge that the elderly are the fastest tion and commitment Mr. Samuel J. Mitchell first place. growing segment of the population, having has given to the students of the los Nietos While this is not a perfect bill, the conferees grown twice as fast as the rest of the popula School District. I wish him all the best on his from both Chambers are to be commended tion in the last two decades. well-deserved retirement. May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11105 AMELIA BRASKIE HONORED tion and operation of the northside pumping Idaho, this project will significantly improve the division extension project in southern Idaho. economic situation on the existing farms and HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI The extension project shall be an addition to will restore the area so that it will once again OF PENNSYLVANIA the existing northside pumping division which offer some of the best pheasant hunting in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is a 77,000-acre reclamation project built in United States. the 1950's. I urge my colleagues to support this multi Thursday, May 15, 1986 The major elements of this project include beneficial and cost-effective reclamation Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, many gen the following: project. The text of the bill follows: erations of immigrants from around the world First, provide irrigation service to 9,400 H.R. 4844 have contributed to the rich cultural diversity acres of irrigable drylands which will be sold in A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Inte of our country, and I would like to take this small tracts to add to existing farms. Part of rior to construct, operate, and maintain opportunity to draw to your attention the ac each tract will be managed for wildlife habitat the North Side Pumping Division Exten complishments of one such immigrant who by the landowners. sion, Minidoka Project, Idaho, for irriga brought a bit of her homeland to America. Second, improve and manage for wildlife, tion, fish and wildlife, and other purposes Sunday, May 4, the Tirolesi Alpini of Hazle mainly ring-necked pheasants, 5,590 acres of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ton, PA, honored their founder, Mrs. Amelia Federal lands scattered throughout this area. Representatives of the United States of DeFant Braskie, at their 18th annual Festa Tir Third, provide replacement water supplies America in Congress assembled, olesa. It is a pleasure for me to join with this to 81 0 acres of existing northside pumping di SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXTENSION fine organization of Old World culture in com vision lands in a localized area with unde PROJECT. memorating Mrs. Braskie for her efforts in es pendable ground water yields. For the purpose of providing irrigation, tablishing the Tirolesi Alpini. Fourth, provide for other minor uses of the enchancement of fish and wildlife, and In 1920 and at the age of 13, Amelia remaining Federal lands in the area, including other purposes, the Secretary of the Interi or, acting pursuant to the Federal reclama DeFant left her homeland of Taio, Val di Non, about 240 arces which will be sold in small tion laws The lands shall be sold for the purpose of irrigation development to owners of lands HON. RICHARD STALLINGS dients to make it very successful and a pru within the operating North Side Pumping dent investment of Federal dollars. Water OF IDAHO Division according to terms determined by users will repay 100 percent of the irrigation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Secretary. construction costs and the Idaho Department SEC. 4. EXCHANGE OF LAND. Thursday, May 15, 1986 of Fish and Game will repay all reimbursable The Secretary is authorized to exchange Mr. STALLINGS. Mr. Speaker, I am intro wildlife enhancement costs in accordance with small tracts of withdrawn or acquired land, ducing a bill today to authorize the construe- cost-sharing policies. More importantly to in aggregate totaling approximately 300 11106 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 acres, for private lands in the North Side power facilities of reclamation projects in THE 15TH DISTRICT Pumping Division required to enhance the the Snake River basin at charges deter QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS effectiveness of the development of the Ex mined by the Secretary. tension project. SEC. 9. POWER FOR IRRIGATION SPRINKLER PRES SEC. 5. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE HEAD· SURE. HON. WILLIAM D. FORD QUARTERS. Power and energy required for the provi OF MICHIGAN The Secretary is authorized to reserve ap sion of sprinkler irrigation pressure for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES proximately 30 acres of land for use as an Extension shall be made available by the operation and maintenance headquarters Secretary from the power facilities of recla Thursday, May 15, 1986 site for the North Side Pumping Division mation projects in the Snake River basin at Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I re and for the Extension authorized by this charges determined by the Secretary sub cently completed tabulating the responses Act. The site shall be transferred to the ject to the following conditions: that I received from my 22d annual question A&B Irrigation District, which shall operate <1 >The Secretary shall determine where it naire. I want to share the thoughts of my con and maintain both the existing project and is cost effective to provide project sprinkler the Extension, under conditions acceptable pressure as a part of the Extension. stituents with you and the other Members of to the Secretary. The Secretary is author (2) The modifications in the Extension Congress. ized to convey by quitclaim deed to the irri plan shall not result in a requirement for in The response from 15th District residents gation district all or part of the three Feder creased Federal construction appropriations this year was again overwhelming. I received al land areas, totaling approximately 28 over the amount stated in this Act. more than 4,000 completed surveys with re acres, which are now used for operation and sponses from over 5,600 constituents. Over maintenance headquarters and related fa SEC. 10. CONSTRUCTION. cilities for the existing project, subject to the years, I have found my annual survey to the following conditions: Notwithstanding any other provision of be an effective means to measure opinion in <1) These lands and related facilities shall law and subject to such terms as the Secre the 15th District. I want to take this opportuni be sold in accordance with conditions ac tary deems appropriate, the Secretary is au ty to thank those who took the time to re ceptable to the Secretary. thorized to contract with the A&B Irriga spond to my survey. (2) The proceeds shall be used by the irri tion District to construct certain irrigation The questions that I asked my constituents gation district to develop a new operation features of the Extension, utilizing funds are among the most crucial issues on which advanced by the purchasers of the Exten and maintenance headquarters and related the Congress has been working in recent facilities at the new site. sion lands for construction assistance and months. These subjects included deficit reduc SEC. 6. CONVEYANCE TO THE CITY OF RUPERT. funds appropriated for construction of the irrigation features. tion, Gramm-Rudman, aid to Nicaragua, tax The Secretary is authorized to convey reform, and trade policy. without charge by quitclaim deed to the city SEC. 11. IRRIGATION REPAYMENT CONTRACTS. In the area of deficit reduction, 43 percent of Rupert, Idaho, all right, title, and inter Irrigation repayment contracts shall be of the respondents think that the Congress est in and to approximately 600 acres of entered into pursuant to section 9(d) of the should reduce military spending to cut the def Federal land for use as a disposal area for Reclamation Project Act of 1939 <43 U.S.C. treated effluent from the city's wastewater icit, while 26 percent feel that the Congress 485h(d)). The term of such contracts shall should cut domestic spending. An additional treatment plant, with a provision for irriga not exceed 50 years, exclusive of any devel tion farming on the land using the treated 13 percent stated that revenues should be in effluent. Such conveyance shall be made in opment period authorized by law. Any con creased to cut the deficit. Eighteen percent struction costs allocated to irrigation accordance with conditions acceptable to think that the Congress should adopt a deficit the Secretary and subject to the following beyond the ability of irrigators to repay shall be charged to and returned to the rec reduction package including all three op conditions: tions-reductions in Pentagon spending, re <1 > There is reserved to the United States lamation fund in accordance with the provi a wildlife conservation easement. sions of section 2 of the Act of June 14, 1966 ductions in domestic spending, and increases (2) There is reserved to the United States (80 Stat. 200). in revenue. I am pleased to report to my constituents a reversion of title subject to the discretion SEC. 12. COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL WATER of the Secretary if the land is not used for PROJECT RECREATION ACT. that the House approved a budget plan today the purpose authorized in this section. that cuts next year's deficit from a projected The provision of lands, facilities, and $174 billion to $137 billion. House Concurrent SEC. 7. LEASE AND CONVEYANCE OF LAND TO MIN project modifications which furnish fish IDOKA COUNTY. Resolution 337, the first concurrent resolution and wildlife benefits in connection with the · There is set aside approximately 210 acres Extension project shall be in accordance on the budget, makes these deficit reductions of Federal land for a public golf course or with the Federal Water Project Recreation in a fair and equitable manner, incorporating other public recreational features to be con Act <16 U.S.C. 4601-12 et seq.). Pentagon cuts, domestic reductions, and structed and operated by or for Minidoka minor revenue increases. The spending cuts County, State of Idaho, within 10 years SEC. 13. RATE OF INTEREST. in this budget plan are distributed evenly be after the date of enactment of this Act. The rate used for computing interest tween domestic and Pentagon spending. This During that period, the Secretary shall during construction and, where appropriate, budget plan also contains $10.7 billion in rev lease the land without charge to Minidoka interest on the unpaid balance of the reim enue increases-the same amount as that in County. The lease shall permit Minidoka bursable costs of the Extension shall be de cluded in the Senate-passed budget and only County to sublease all or part of the land termined by the Secretary of the Treasury, for agriculture, with the net proceeds col $4.7 billion more than the amount requested as of the beginning of the fiscal year in by the President. Certain high priority pro lected by Minidoka County to be applied to which construction on the Extension is com the development of the golf course or other menced, on the basis of the computed aver grams, such as education, job training, and public recreational features. Upon substan age interest rate payable by the Treasury drug enforcement, will receive modest in tial completion of the golf course or other creases from the current level. public recreational features within 10 years upon its outstanding marketable public obli gations which are neither due nor callable By reducing the deficit to $137, this budget after the date of enactment of this Act, the exceeds the Gramm-Rudman deficit target of Secretary shall convey such land without for 15 years from date of issue. charge by quitclaim deed to Minidoka $144 billion by $7 billion, thus avoiding an SEC. 14. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION. other round of cuts. Fifty-five percent of my County subject to the following conditions: There is authorized to be appropriated for <1 > A wildlife conservation easement is re constituents oppose the automatic, across served to the United States. construction of the works and measures au the-board cuts of Gramm-Rudman. <2> Title shall, at the discretion of the Sec thorized by this Act for the fiscal year 1988 As part of his budget plan, the President re retary, revert to the United States if the and thereafter $15,490,000 (October 1985 prices), plus or minus such amounts as may quested an increase of 12 percent for Penta land is not used for the purposes authorized gon spending over the current level. Over half in this section. be required by reason of changes in the cost of construction work of the types involved the survey respondents feel that Pentagon SEC. 8. IRRIGATION PUMPING POWER. therein as shown by engineering cost index spending should be cut while an additional 34 Power and energy required for pumping es. There is authorized to be appropriated percent said that it should be frozen at the irrigation water for the Extension shall be such sums as may be necessary for the oper current level. Fourteen percent think that the made available by the Secretary from the ation and maintenance of the Extension. Congress should approve the President's re- May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11107 quest. Under the House-passed budget, out this bill, I am hopeful that H.R. 4800 will help IMPROVING EFFICIENCY AND lays next year for Pentagon spending would improve our current trade situation and move ECONOMY OF VA MEDICAL increase by approximately $7 billion over the the United States away from our current failed CENTERS current level. At the same time, this resolution trade policies. would reduce Pentagon budget authority by Not surprisingly, my constituents identified HON. G.V. (SONNY) $1.8 billion compared to the current amount. three of the most pressing national issues as MONTGOMERY This would reduce future years' spending those which the Congress should be working while still funding the Pentagon at nearly to solve-the budget deficit, tax reform, and OF MISSISSIPPI double the 1980 level. trade problems. As I have noted, the House IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In the area of housing, 61 percent of my has taken or will take action during the 99th Thursday, May 15, 1986 constituents stated that the Congress should not agree to the President's proposed in Congress to address each of these issues. Of Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, I am crease in the Federal Housing Administration course, the ultimate success of congressional pleased to introduce a bill which would estab [FHA] mortgage insurance premium to 5 per solutions depends on enactment of these lish a pilot program for the improvement of the cent. The House budget does not include this bills. efficiency and economy of the Veterans' Ad premium increase. As some of my constitu Mr. Speaker, my constitutents also listed ministration medical centers. ents may know, the FHA ran out of money at the three areas on which the Federal Govern The objective of this pilot program is to test the end of April, delaying the receipt of FHA ment should spend more money and the three whether giving maximum flexibility and author mortgages by prospective homebuyers. This on which the Government should spend less. ity to local managers of VA hospitals will funding shortfall was a result of the exploding The highest percentage-19 percent-of the result in more effective utilization of VA re demand for new mortgage credit resulting respondents identified education as the area sources and management skills. from falling interest rates. On April 30 the on which the Federal Government should All too frequently, Mr. Speaker, in both the Congress approved legislation increasing the spend more money. Education is one of the private and public sectors, managers must op credit limits for the FHA and renewing its au few high priority areas for which the House erate within constraints that do not allow suffi thority to insure loans. These FHA loans are passed budget increases spending. cient opportunity or appropriate incentives to particularly important to low and moderate An additional 7 percent replied that the Fed manage their resources effectively. This test income homebuyers. eral Government should allocate more re program would allow a small number of hospi In the area of foreign affairs, only 11 per sources for programs benefiting the elderly, tal directors to be freed of limitations on per cent of those answering my survey think that sonnel constraints and to have minimum re and the same percentage of respondents the Congress should approve the President's strictions on the use of resources provided to identified health programs as their top priority. requested 16 percent increase in foreign aid. the medical facility. The House-passed budget plan recognizes The House-passed budget is fair to our Na This test program would involve five medi that, while spending for important domestic tion's senior citizens. This budget plan as cal centers. They would be chosen by the VA programs is cut or frozen, our Nation cannot sumes that Social Security recipients and Fed in consultation with Congress and would be afford to send additional money overseas. As eral civilian and military retirees will receive a expected to be selected for a cross section of a result, the House budget cuts foreign aid by full cost-of-living adjustment [COLA]. The demographic diversity, size, and affiliation 10 percent rather than increase this portion of committee's resolution rejects the drastic cuts status. the budget. in Medicare and Medicaid sought by the ad During the 3 years of the pilot program, the My constituents overwhelmingly oppose the ministration. The resolution includes Medicare medical centers would continue to receive op President's request for $100 million in assist cuts of $1.75 billion over 3 years but recom erating budgets based on the most recent ance to the Nicaragua rebels. Over 71 percent mends that these cuts be made without any fiscal year actual performance by means of do not think that the Congress should approve reduction in benefits or increases in out-of the VA's resource allocation model [RAM] as this request. The House defeated the adminis pocket payments for beneficiaries. House all medical centers do now. The target allow tration's proposal on March 20 by a vote of Concurrent Resolution 337 also assumes that ance would include all adjustments and each 222-210. I opposed this request and will con $1 billion will be used to limit the skyrocketing medical center would still receive additional tinue to support regional peace efforts favored Medicare hospital deductable. funds for new programs, new facility activa by the leaders of our Central and South Amer Similarly, the areas identified by my con tions, enhancements, program improvements, ican allies. This $100 million could be put to stituents as those on which the Federal Gov and normal reimbursable items such as termi better uses helping the citizens of the 15th ernment should spend less are also in line nal leave, pay raises and sharing agreements. District. with the priorities of the House budget. Centralized funding would continue for pro Two-thirds of those answering my question grams such as stipends and contracts for Twenty-seven percent identified foreign aid as naire agree that Federal funding for grants medical trainees, CHAMPVA, per diem costs among the three areas where the Government and loans to college students from low- and for State veterans homes, and payment for should spend less. The same percentage also middle-income families should be maintained. non-VA workload services specifically adminis I am pleased to report that the House budget think the Pentagon programs should be a tered by clinics of jurisdiction. resolution rejects the drastic cuts in these lower spending priority. Ten percent identified Mr. Speaker, let me stress that there would areas sought by the President. Instead, House welfare as a program for which the Federal be no changes to the eligibility for VA medical Concurrent Resolution 337 assumes only Government should spend less. services. minor cuts included in the House-passed re Let me close by saying that I was delighted Within the overall budget and following the authorization of the Higher Education Act. with the number of responses to my survey. In eligibility categories, the hospitals selected for An overwhelming majority of respondents- addition, I received a number of thoughtful in the pilot program would be exempt for the du 87 percent-feel that the House-passed tax dividual letters along with my questionnaire re ration of the pilot from the following types of reform should be enacted into law. The pros plies. I feel that this is an excellent learning restrictions: Restrictions internal to the pects for ultimate enactment of comprehen experience for both me and my constituents, agency, FTEE limitations including personal sive tax reform legislation improved dramati and I want to thank my constituents for re services ceilings and floors, bed service and cally with the approval of a tax bill by the sponding. section mix restrictions, A-76 restrictions, em Senate Committee on Finance early in May. ployee travel, restrictions on the use of VAMC In the area of trade, only 7 percent think funds for medical center or postgraduate in that the United States should continue current service training episodes, and other limita trade policies that have contributed to a tions, restrictions, ceilings, floors, and other record 1985 trade deficit of $148.5 billion. My constraints other than the overall availability constituents will be pleased to know that the of funds. House will consider H.R. 4800, the Trade and This pilot program is a test of whether International Economic Policy Reform Act of greater management flexibility yields greater 1986, next week. As an original cosponsor of productivity. Therefore it would be evaluated 11108 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 in terms of the factors currently measured by face of a 1984 congressional directive that sunset in 1984, the Civil Aeronautics Board the VA's resource allocation methodology merger LPP's should continue to be imposed. always imposed LPP's when it approved [RAM]: Workload, costs, timeliness of service, The failure of the Department of Transpor mergers of major and national airlines. The and range of services. These results would be tation to follow the congressional directive on merger LPP's were designed to ensure that contained in annual reports to Congress along merger LPP's comes on the heels of the De the seniority lists of the merging airlines would with descriptions of VAMC operations which partment of Labor's refusal to implement the be integrated in a fair and equitable manner were facilitated or impeded by participation in employee protection programs established by and to provide direct financial benefits to help the test. the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. The leg relieve the burdens on employees who lost In summary, Mr. Speaker, we all need to islation I am introducing will begin the process their jobs or suffered a reduction in wages as look for ways to get more product out of each of forcing the Reagan administration to follow a result of a merger. Federal dollar. There is the possibility that congressional intent and take regulatory In 1984, when the Civil Aeronautics Board flexibility for Federal managers in the VA hos action to ensure that airline employees will not was terminated and its remaining responsibil pital system-who are right there where serv be required to bear an unfair share of the ities transferred to the Department of Trans ices are delivered-will help. This will cost no costs of deregulation. The need for this legis portation, Congress clearly and explicitly indi money, since the same allocations to the test lation is evidenced by the fact that it is co cated-in the House committee report on the sites will be made as if there were no test. sponsored by 35 of my colleagues on the CAB Sunset Act-that we intended DOT to The text of the bill follows: Committee on Public Works and Transporta continue to impose LPP's in merger cases. H.R. 4839 tion, comprising a majority of the committee's Despite this directive, DOT's recent decisions membership, and made up of Members from A bill to establish a pilot program for the in airlines mergers and similar cases indicates improvement of the efficiency and econo both sides of the aisle. I must especially note an unwillingness to impose LPP's. that full committee chairman, JIM HOWARD of my of Veterans' Administration medical The basic policy DOT has announced is New Jersey, and ranking minority member, center that LPP's will not be imposed "unless it is GENE SNYDER of Kentucky, have both joined Be it enacted by the Senate and House of necessary to prevent labor strife that could me in introducing this important bill. Representatives of the United States of disrupt the national air transportation system." America in Congress assembled, When we deregulated the airlines in 1978, we recognized that deregulation would impose In a deregulated system, it is unlikely that SECfiON I. PILOT PROGRAM ON HOSPITAL MAN labor strife arising out of a merger would dis AGEMENT EFFICIENCY. penalties on companies which were ineffi (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.-The Ad ciently managed or who misjudged what the rupt the national air transportation system ministrator shall carry out a pilot program public wanted. We wanted to be sure that air since other carriers are free to provide the to determine the effect of the authorities line employees would not be required to carry services affected by a strike. Although DOT provided by this section on the efficiency too great a portion of the burden of deregula has stated that it will decide whether to and economy of the management of Veter tion. For this reason, the 1978 Deregulation impose LPP's on a case-by-case basis, in re an' Administration medical centers. ality the standard DOT is using is highly likely (b) DESIGNATION OF MEDICAL CENTERS. Act included labor protective provisions pro viding, first, that dislocated employees are en to result in L.PP's never being imposed. The Administrator shall designate five med Thus, the Reagan administration's Depart ical centers to participate in the pilot pro titled to financial benefits if there is a finding gram. The Administrator shall consult with by the Civil Aeronautics Board-or, since ments of Labor and Transportation have re the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the 1985, by the Department of Transportation fused to follow existing legislation and explicit Senate and House of Representatives before that the employee lost his or her job because congressional directives designed to ensure making such designation. of deregulation. The second LPP in the 1978 that airline employees would not be required (C) MANAGEMENT EFFICIENCY.-The Direc law provides that dislocated airline employees to bear an unfair share of the costs of deregu tor of a medical center designated under have the right of first hire on other airlines. lation. The legislation I am introducing today subsection (b) may waive or alter such laws will help restore the balance which Congress and regulations applicable to the manage The LPP's which we added to the Deregula ment and administration of the medical tion Act in 1978 have never been implement thought it had already established between center as may be au the refusal of the Reagan administration's De My bill would require the Department of thorized by the Administrator in order to partment of Labor to adopt implementing reg Transportation to impose LPP's when it ap improve the efficiency and economy of such ulations. Under the 1978 act, the Secretary proves airline mergers or similar transactions. medical center. was supposed to adopt these regulations 6 Imposition of LPP's would be required in any REPORTS.-The Administrator shall case in which the transaction would tend to submit to Congress an annual report on the months after the bill was enacted. This dead pilot program under this section. line has not been met. Moreover, shortly after cause reductions in employment or adversely (e) DURATION OF PROGRAM.-The pilot pro taking office, the Reagan administration with affect working conditions, including seniority. gram under this section shall expire on Sep drew LPP regulations which had been adopt However, LPP's would not be imposed if DOT tember 30, 1989. ed by the prior administration. Since that time, found that the projected cost of LPP's would the Department of Labor has never adopted outweigh the benefits. The legislation does regulations to implement the financial benefits not dictate the exact terms of the LPP's which LEGISLATION REQUIRING DOT of LPP. Regulations on the right-of-first-hire are to be imposed, but gives DOT some dis TO IMPOSE LABOR PROTEC were not adopted until 1983 and, since then, cretion to tailor LPP's to fit the unique needs TIVE CONDITIONS IN AIRLINE these regulations have been tied up in litiga of each case. MERGER CASES tion. Mr. Speaker, as this bill goes forward in the In short, airline employees have never re legislative process, I expect that we will hear HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA ceived the protections which were an essen from airline management that the airlines are OF CALIFORNIA tial part of the deregulation package. all on their own under deregulation, and that it IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Besides providing for flexible market entry is only fair that the employees be treated the and fare setting, the Deregulation Act also fa same way. In reality, there are definite limits to Thursday, May 15, 1986 cilitated the ability of airlines to merge. How the willingness of airline management to face Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, today, I am intro ever, we made it clear that we did not intend the risks of a merger or hostile takeover. ducing legislation to require the Department of that these increased economic freedoms be When it comes to their own salaries and ben Transportation to impose labor protective con used to treat airline employees unfairly. In efits, top airline management has not always ditions [LPP's] in airline merger cases to recent months it has become increasingly ob been willing to leave the decisions to the mar ensure that the merger is fair to employees. vious that the Reagan administration's Depart ketplace. The legislation is needed because DOT has ment of Transportation intends to ignore the This was clearly demonstrated at hearings been refusing to follow the longstanding policy congressional intent on this issue as well. we held last year on the efforts of Carl lcahn of the Civil Aeronautics Board of imposing In directing that employees be protected in to acquire control of TWA. At those hearings LPP's in airline merger cases. DOT's refusal the mergers, Congress was only directing a we learned that when the takeover effort to impose LPP's in merger· cases flies in the continuation of historic practice. Until it was began, TWA's top management quickly ar- May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11109 ranged golden parachute contracts for 32 force the concept of the conference as well would make other countries live up to these members of top management whose salaries as its purpose: vaguely defined rights or face punishment by ranged from $150,000 to $300,000. Most of First, to disseminate information on profes the United States. the contracts provided that if the managers sional development of Hispanas in terms of Finally, the amendment strikes the provi left the company they would get 1 year's sev career mobility, image, entrepreneurship, lead sions that require mandatory action in the erance pay. Some of the contracts even pro ership skills, and presentation style. form of quotas, surcharges or voluntary re vided 3 years severance pay. The managers Second, to develop the role of Hispanic straints against foreign countries that have were given the right to severance pay if there women in community issues. trade surpluses with the United States. A was a change in the board of directors. For Third, to provide a forum by which to ad somewhat watered-down version of an earlier many, that right could be exercised even if the dress legal issues and consumer concerns af Gephardt surcharge bill, these provisions fecting Hispanics. manager left TWA voluntarily. remain GATT illegal and bad trade policy. My bill would simply afford these types of Fourth, to emphasize the development of Countries that are the targets of this provision protection to airline employees below the level an Hispanic power base in terms of political can be expected to retaliate where we are of top management. The merger LPP's re participation, network, mentoring, and board quired by my bill are far less generous than membership. most vulnerable, specifically in agricultural many of the TWA golden parachutes, since Fifth, to provide information on financial products. Ironically, with the dollar now falling, the merger LPP's do not provide any financial planning-CO's, insurance, loan options, IRAs, the United States should regain some of its benefits for workers who leave their jobs vol and other investments. own historic surpluses, yet this bill defines sur untarily. Sixth, to discuss the psychology affecting pluses that meet a unilateral formula as a In sum, my bill would require the continu Hispanic family relationships in the areas of trade violation. ation of the merger LPP policy followed by aging, sexuality, role reversals, physical and The amendment follows: CAB for many years, a policy which Congress mental health. CRANE AMENDMENT No. 1 has directed the Department of Transportation Seventh, to promote the importance and Amend subtitle A of title I. On page 12, to continue. Requiring merger LPP's is the effect of education and employment on Hi line 18, strike the word "because" and all least we can do to reverse the administra spanas. that follows thereafter through line 24, and tion's refusal to afford airline employees the Eighth, to promote the arts and cultural tal insert in lieu thereof: ", in which case the protections which Congress intended them to ents of the Hispanas in our community. President must announce alternative meas have. We must do everything possible to re Hispanic women are becoming more aware ures which may include a continuation of verse the administration's disregard of the in of their role in the community throughout the negotiations". terests and future livelihood of employees and United States, and are realizing that their tal On page 13, strike lines 6 through 14; on the administration's refusal to carry out the ents do have a place in society. Not only are line 18, place a period after the word "tar clear legislative intent now on the books. we in the midst of an awareness revolution geting" and strike all the follows through among Hispanics in terms of the educational, line 21 on page 14. On page 21, beginning on social and political contributions they have to line 4, strike section 113. On page 19, strike line 9 and all that fol ADELANTE MUJER HISPANA offer, but also in terms of their becoming more CONFERENCE IV lows thereafter through line 9 on page 20. actively involved in enhancing the value of life Beginning on page 37, strike section 119. that is our constitutional right. HON. RONALD D. COLEMAN Mr. Speaker, I salute the Hispanic women OF TEXAS of El Paso who are effecting change and wish IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES them continued success in their endeavors. MSGR. FRANCIS J. BEEDA Thursday, May 15, 1986 HONORED Mr. COLEMAN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, on AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED May 24, 1986, I will again have the opportuni TO TRADE BILL HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI ty to attend in my district the Fourth Annual Adelante Mujer Hispana Conference-Onward HON. PHILIP M. CRANE OF PENNSYLVANIA Hispanic Women-which this year will attract OF ILLINOIS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES approximately 700 participants, predominantly IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, May 15, 1986 women, from all socioeconomic and educa tional levels in El Paso, TX; Las Cruces, NM; Thursday, May 15, 1986 Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, It is my and Juarez, Mexico. The conference has as Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, in an attempt to pleasure to bring your attention to Msgr. Fran its goal the political, educational, social, em make H.R. 4800 a bipartisan trade bill that is cis J. Beeda, who has recently been honored ployment, and cultural advancement of His also responsible and consistent with our inter for his 20 years of service to the Sacred Heart panic women. national obligations, I and several of my col Church, North Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA. The theme of this year's conference, "Hi leagues will offer amendments to remove the A native of Scranton, PA, Monsignor Beeda spanas Effecting Change," reflects the contri most offensive elements of the bill. The is the son of Mrs. Anna Beeda and the late butions that Hispanic women have made to amendment that I plan to offer is described Roman Beeda. Monsignor Beeda was or our society in educational, political, and social below. dained in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy, on realms by taking an active role in the commu To begin with, the amendment would main December 20, 1961 and offered his first Mass nity and enhancing the awareness toward tain Presidential discretion to determine at St. Clement's Basilica, Rome. those issues that most affect us and our chil whether action under section 301 is in the na Monsignor Beeda was assigned as assist dren. tional economic interest. The President, unlike ant pastor to Sacred Heart Church in 1965. The impact and momentum that the Ade under current law, would be required to an On November 24, 197 4, he was appointed lante Mujer Hispana Conference creates each nounce alternative measures if he elected to year as one of the major events in El Paso is exercise this discretionary authority. pastor and was elevated to his present title on helping to build linkages, not only among the Second, the amendment would remove March 14, 1983, by Bishop J. Carroll McCor members of the community, but also between from section 301 a separate lTC procedure mick of the Scranton Diocese. Monsignor the two border cities, El Paso and Juarez, and injury test for targeting offenses. ·Target Beeda now serves as pastor of St. Joseph's Mexico, by inviting and encouraging the par ing would still be addressed, only it would be Church in Hazelton, PA. ticipation of our Mexican neighbors. made specifically actionable under section Mr. Speaker, Monsignor Beeda's devotion The Adelante Mujer Hispana Planning Com 301. The amendment also removes, again as and commitment to his church and his com mittee, consisting of 18 dedicated women a separate cause of action under 301, viola munity are an inspiration to all of us. It is with from the El Paso community, and headed by tions of internationally recognized worker honor and great pride that I take this opportu my district assistant, Lucy A. Calderon, has rights. Such workers' rights have not been nity to honor Monsignor Beeda for his 20 adopted the following objectives which rein- sanctioned by the United States, yet this bill years of service to the Sacred Heart Church. 11110 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 NATIONAL POLICE MEMORIAL MAKING MONEY BY MAKING grams, and the Mint and its employees should DAY COINS be proud of successfully executing them.
HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. HON. FRANK ANNUNZIO WESTERN STATES PENALIZED IN OF OHIO OF ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC BUDGET PLAN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, May 15, 1986 HON. DICK CHENEY Thursday, May 15, 1986 OF WYOMING Mr. ANNUNZIO. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, today is Na IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to report that not only does the U.S. Mint tional Police Memorial Day, and I would like to make coins, but it also makes money. Over Thursday, May 15, 1986 make a few remarks about the signficance of the past several years a number of programs Mr. CHENEY. Mr. Speaker, I wonder wheth this day for me, and all Americans. As a authorized by Congress have provided signifi er the architects of the House Budget Com former sheriff, I know what it means to be a cant profits to the Federal Government, and mittee's budget resolution were working with a law enforcement officer, and I can appreciate there are a couple more programs that begin map of the United States that ends at the the importance of the service our police offi later this year. 1OOth meridian. I wouldn't blame people in the cers provide. In 1981 , Congress authorized the George Western States telling their Eastern counter This day is a day to reflect upon all those Washington Commemorative Coin Program, parts, "Congress always liked you best." brave officers who have given their lives in the sponsored by the gentleman from Georgia My Democratic colleagues have seen to it line of duty-the ultimate sacrifice. We pay [Mr. BARNARD] and myself. This was the first that the budget resolution takes care of tribute to them and we remind each other of commemorative coin program authorized in Amtrak, urban development block grants, and how lucky we are to be served by such brave almost 25 years. The legislation required that the Appalachian Regional Commission. But men and women. In paying tribute to those each coin sold carry a 15-percent surcharge the Democratic budget plan omits money for who gave their lives, we must also pay tribute to be used solely to reduce the national debt. building Forest Service roads and shrinks the to all police officers across America, who The coins went on sale in 1982, and over the Bureau of Reclamation's programs by 20 per every day put their lives on the line. life of the program 7 million coins were sold, cent. It is a day to reflect upon how we take for resulting in a profit of $42 million. The Democrats have a message for the granted the stalwart job that our Nation's law In 1983 and 1984, the Mint sold congres American cattle rancher, who is already strug enforcement officers do, day in and day out. sionally authorized U.S. Olympic coins under gling with low prices and a red meat market As a former sheriff I know that it is the daily legislation I authored. This program raised $73 flooded by the dairy industry's sweetheart deal routine of regular police work that also de million to help train our Olympic athletes and called the whole-herd buy out. The Budget serves recognition. While the less glamorous stage the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic games. Committee says, "If you liked the farm bill, In addition to helping the Olympics, the U.S. you'll love the budget resolution." The com side of police is so often overlooked by Holly Treasury benefited from an operational profit mittee would double grazing fees, to $2.70 a wood and the media, it should never be over of $8 million, and a profit on the use of Gov month per animal from $1.35. looked by Congress. We here in Congress ernment-owned gold and silver of $127 mil Payments to the States from mineral and must continue to do everything possible to lion. timber receipts would be cut by 10 percent. assist the law enforcement community in fight Last year Congress authorized the sale of Mineral royalties are income to the Federal ing crime and in making police work as safe Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island commemorative Government, shared equally with the States as possible. I am proud of the fact that after 7 coins, also under legislation I authored. The from which the minerals were extracted. My long years, Congress has finally acted on coins went on sale in October 1985, and the Democratic colleagues are not content with a passing the Law Enforcement Officers Protec gold coin sold out by December. The program 50-50 partnership. They now want their half to tion Act-legislation to ban armor piercing am has already generated sales of $124 million, be bigger. munition. including surcharges of $32.3 million. The sur And the House Budget Committee has a But our work is far from over. Congress charges are used for the restoration of the particularly special way of encouraging the do must continue to listen to and work with the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Sales of the mestic oil and gas industry, which has been law enforcement community to ensure that remaining silver and half dollar coins remain hit so hard by the drop in international oil the laws of this Nation adequately reflect the strong and the coins have met critical acclaim. prices. My Democratic friends want to double very real and important needs of police offi The Mint annually sells sets of proof and the cost of filing for a Federal oil lease in the cers in the field. Let the memory of those uncirculated coins. When the Mint stopped noncompetitive system, to $150 from $75. police officers who have given their lives in selling uncirculated sets, Congress required Mr. Speaker, I voted against the House the line of duty inspire us to do all we can to that the sets be placed back on sale. Sales of Budget Committee's resolution because it ensure the maximum possible safety and wel both kinds of sets average about 5 million an would be so tough on the West. And I am fur fare of the law enforcement community. nually, generating an annual $20 million profit ther concerned that the committee would We live in a world that many times is filled to the Treasury. make deep cuts in defense spending. The Finally, the U.S. Gold Medallion Program, committee's resolution would result in a re with violence. At the present time this Nation which ran from 1980 to 1985, contributed duction of 11 percent in defense spending is faced with a serious crisis-drug abuse and $691 million to the Treasury from profits on over 2 years. They recommend spending $35 drug trafficking. Out in the forefront in the fight the gold contained in the medallions. billion less than the President's request and against drug abuse and the vile drug traffick In October the United States will, for the $16 billion below what the Senate suggested. ers is the law enforcement community. Today first time, begin selling gold and silver bullion Such a cut would significantly reduce the is a fitting occasion to pause and thank Ameri coins. These coins are sure to become the American defense capability. The resolution ca's policemen for their tireless efforts to world standard for bullion coins. The Director would hit hardest at defense, the single most combat drug abuse and the drug traffickers. of the Mint, Donna Pope, is predicting annual important role of the U.S. Government, and Indeed, it is a day to thank them for their vital sales of 4 million ounces of silver and 2.2 mil the only function which the Federal Govern contribution to our communities and their lion ounces of gold in this program. These ment alone provides. deep commitment to the communities they programs will generate significant profits No one believes more strongly than I do serve. which, by law enacted by this Congress, can that Federal spending must be reduced. We To conclude, Mr. Speaker, I would just like be used only to reduce the national debt. must continue to make sacrifices. But I cannot to state that I am truly honored to pay tribute Mr. Speaker, these programs of the Mint support a spending plan that asks the West to America's police officers-those who have not only meet the public's needs and wants and the Department of Defense to take the given their lives, and those who continue to for U.S. coins, but also provide significant rev cuts so that Eastern States can get by with serve their communities with duty, honor, enues to the United States. Congress should business as usual. I would favor a spending courage, and devotion. be proud of having authorized these pro- plan that makes cuts without consulting that May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11111 abbreviated map in the Budget Committee's tion plants around the country within 10 years. sented faiths to make available more clergy hearing room. This would mean that greater quantities of ra for assignment as chaplains in the military. For these reasons, I cannot support the dioactive materials would be transported on Clergy belonging to these faiths would be House Budget Committee's resolution. our Nation's freeways and railways, increasing immediately accepted for appointment. Finally, the risk to accidents. Yet, in drafting its final the Secretary would be instructed to use all rule on produce, FDA did not prepare an envi viable means to alleviate the faith imbalance, FOOD IRRADIATION ronmental impact statement. Instead, the including the use of standby tours. agency contends that existing regulations are Mr. Speaker, there is no greater sacrifice a HON. DOUGLAS H. BOSCO adequate to ensure that there will be no sig citizen can make than to serve in the military OF CALIFORNIA nificant environmental impact. One would and defend our Nation. We must make certain IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hope this assumption to hold true. However, that our brave military personnal are provided Thursday, May 15, 1986 the probability of earthquakes, plane crashes, the guidance, counsel, and good offices of a vandalism, or any other potential mishaps that chaplain of their own faith. Mr. BOSCO. Mr. Speaker, last week, I intro could trigger radioactive emissions into the Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join duced legislation to curb the expansion of the environment, would be increased by the large me in cosponsoring H.R. 1875, ' the military food irradiation program in this country until number of facilities and vehicles carrying the chaplains bill. safety assurances about this technology have radioactive materials. It seems to me that a been clearly established. In light of the many thorough assessment of the existing regula unknowns about food irradiation, I believe a tory structure is warranted before burdening CONGRESSIONAL ARTS CAUCUS closer examination of the possible conse the system with even greater numbers of ra HONORS JOHN HOUSEMAN quence is in order before the Federal Govern dioactive materials. ment sanctions its use any further. My legislation would: Block the implementa HON.THOMASJ.DOWNEY Food irradiation refers to a preservatio:1 tion of FDA's April 18 rule which, among other OF NEW YORK method in which foods are exposed to ionizing provisions, permits the irradiation of produce; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES radiation to kill insects and harmful bacteria, block the implementation of the FDA and Thursday, May 15, 1986 thereby preventing spoilage and extending the Food Safety and Inspection Service rules al shelf-life. Until recently, no irradiated food lowing for the irradiation of pork; block any Mr. DOWNEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, products were commercially available in the further promulgation of rules expanding the today the congressional arts caucus is proud United States even though FDA had permitted use of food irradiation; and require a study to to honor an outstanding American artist the irradiation of wheat, wheat flour, and pota review the impact of food irradiation to human whose contributions to our cultural heritage toes for some time. However, in the last 3 health and the environment. In addition, this have been exceptionally varied and extensive. years FDA has published rules broadening the bill would tighten existing FDA labeling re Over more than four decades, John House use of food irradiation to include spices, pork, quirements for irradiated foods. Currently, FDA man has distinguished himself as a writer, pro fresh produce, and other foods that may does not require irradiated ingredients to be ducer, director, actor, and educator. become infested. Still, the prospect of utilizing identified on the label. In other words, if irradi Winning an Academy Award in 1973 for his this potentially hazardous technology alarms at~d potatoes are used to make potato soup, portrayal of Law Professor Kingsfield in "The many scientists and concerned citizens, given the soup can would bear no warning label to Paper Chase," Mr. Houseman became nation that the safety of consuming irradiated foods indicate this. In my view, these labeling re ally known, although his outstanding contribu is open to serious doubt, and that food irradia quirements are insufficient to allow consumers tions to the arts in America began years tion will involve the transportation and han to make informed choices about eating irradi before. Over the course of his career, he con dling of large quantities of highly radioactive ated foods. My bill would extend labeling re tinued to revitalize the American theater by materials. quirements to include irradiated ingredients founding eight repertory companies, including On April 18 of this year, FDA published a and require a written label indicating that the the renowned Acting Company, currently ap final rule permitting the irradiation of fresh food or its components has been subjected to pearing at the Kennedy Center. fruits and vegetables, and tripling the amount irradiation. His direction of the Broadway production of radiation that may be used on dried herbs, Mr. Speaker, food irradiation is likely to be a "Four Saints in Three Acts"-an opera with spices, and tea. In promulgating the rule, FDA dangerous and expensive process. Under the an all-black cast-brought him much critical asserts that foods exposed to low levels of ra circumstances, Congress would do well to acclaim, as well as his appointment to head diation are safe for human consumption. How hold the program in abeyance until we have a WPA's negro theatre project in 1935. His in ever, in an unusual move, FDA based its find more profound understanding of the possible novative work with the Federal theatre ings of safety not on toxicological testing, consequences. I invite my colleagues to join project-a program unique in the history of which is generally required to establish the me in supporting this important legislation. government and the arts-makes this con safety of food additives, but rather on calcula gressional award particularly appropriate. tions of radiation chemistry and on the antici In addition to his work on Broadway and the pated low levels of human exposure to the CONGRESS MUST ADDRESS THE Federal theatre project, Mr. Houseman wrote unique chemical products that occur in irradi CHAPLAIN SHORTAGE IN THE and produced numerous radio series, includ- ated foods. Furthermore, no long-term studies ARMED FORCES . ing H.G. Wells "The War of the Worlds" and have been conducted on human consumption collaborated on the screenplay that later of irradiated foods, and existing safety studies HON.THOMASJ.MANTON came to be called "Citizen Kane." Over the are by no means conclusive. In fact, a 1982 OF NEW YORK years, his contributions to the art of filmmak internal FDA audit found that of 441 studies IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing earned him 20 Academy Award nomina reviewed by the agency, only 5 were ade tions and 7 Oscars. quately designed and appeared to support Thursday, May 15, 1986 His work in television is no less remarkable. safety. The others were rejected for deficien Mr. MANTON. Mr. Speaker, several reli He conceived, prepared, and produced the cies or improprieties. gious faiths are experiencing severe shortages series "The Seven Lively Arts" and served as A further problem associated with food irra of military chaplains. As a result, a number of executive producer for one of the best dra diation, which concerns me a great deal, in servicemen and women are unable to fully matic anthologies on television-"Piayhouse volves the transportation of the radioactive and effectively practice their faith. 90." Together these two programs earned him isotopes involved. Millions of curies of cesium I have cosponsored legislation to remedy three Emmy Awards-with "Playhouse 90" re 137 or cobalt 60 would be required at just one this serious situation. H.R. 1875, the Military ceiving the prestigious Peabody Award. irradiation plant. In contrast, medical centers Chaplains Faith Balance Act, would require a He has served in such varied positions as currently utilizing radiation machines to treat more balanced representation of religious head of the theatre department at Vassar Col cancer of the radioactive source. Yet, industry faiths among chaplains in the Armed Forces. lege; artistic director of the American Shake spokespersons and other proponents of food Under the bill, the Secretary of Defense would speare Festival Theatre and Academy in irradiation envision hundreds of food irradia- be instructed to ask leaders of underrepre- Stratford, CT; and director of the drama divi- 11112 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 sian of the Juilliard School. In 1973, however, urns throughout the country. The museum POLICE MEMORIAL DAY his career in acting became prominent with also has created complete kits and instruc his Oscar-winning performance in "The Paper tions to assist science teachers in the elemen HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY Chase." Numerous film and television roles tary schools to demonstrate scientific princi followed-including appearances as spokes ples in a "hands-on fun way". OF CALIFORNIA man for companies as varied as Smith It is approaches like these which will pro IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Barney, the Chrysler Corp., and McDonald's. vide the United States with a continuing Thursday, May 15, 1986 John Houseman has contributed so much strong science base and enable us to com Mr. DYMALL Y. Mr. Speaker, by an act of to the American theatrical tradition. The con pete effectively in the global marketplace and Congress, we designated this special day, gressional arts caucus is honored to present allow us to celebrate National Science Week May 15, "Police Memorial Day." Throughout him its award "in recognition of outstanding in the future. the Nation, ceremonies are being held to achievement and dedication to the enrichment honor the sacrifices of our law enforcement of Americ~n·s cultural legacy." officers in the effort to keep the peace. To TRIBUTE TO SUGAR RAY families, friends, and peers of these dedicated LEONARD public servants, I extend my warmest personal NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK sympathies and condolences. Ironically, this body agreed on a measure HON. DON RITTER HON. STENY H. HOYER just a few weeks ago that effectively weak OF PENNSYLVANIA OF MARYLAND ened Federal gun-control laws. The President IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is expected to sign into law this measure de IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, May 15, 1986 spite the objections of our Nation's entire Thursday, May 15, 1986 police force. When this law is enacted, we can Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, May 11-17 is be certain that it would be easier for private designated as National Science Week to Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, May citizens to obtain guns. That is a frightening honor our past scientific endeavors. In my 17, the World Boxing Council will host a reality. It is argued that with gun control, the own district, the Northhampton Junior High dinner for the benefit of the WBC Sports Med constitutional right of private citizens to bear School participated in the nation-wide launch icine Foundation. The dinner will honor arms is reduced. I submit to you, however, of 175,000 weather tracking balloons to mark "Sugar" Ray Leonard, who is surely one of that for those private citizens that have the beginning of the second annual National the most famous, successful and beloved pledged to secure peaceful communities their Science Week. As a former scientist and a sons of my own community, Prince Georges rights as human beings have been neglected. member of the Science and Technology Com County, MD. On the memorial section of the American mittee, I am fully aware of how these past Since his gold medal victory at the 1976 Police Hall of Fame, more than 300 California achievements have provided the United Olympics, Ray Leonard has been a hometown officers are listed. An average of three police States with its current high standard of living hero. In fact, he is a national hero as well. He men are killed each year in the line of duty and quality of life. America's scientific leader has had a distinguished professional boxing around the country. Ask ourselves, is that ship is recognized world-wide and America's career, culminating in 1981 with his winning really a fair reward for men and women who contributions to science is evident by the 124 seek nothing but peace? Are we trading off Nobel Prizes awarded to American scientists the unified title of Welterweight Champion of the World. It is not, however, exclusively in lives for the right to own arms? We speak of and engineers since the mid-1940's. These those killed in combat as the price for free recognition of Ray Leonard's outstanding ath awards and the technological benefits that oc dom. Am I to refer to the Americans we honor letic ability and achievements that he is so ad curred since 1945 reflect the strong, long-term today as the price for peace when we, in Con U.S. investment in science and technology by mired. It is because of the grace and class gress, are contributing to their deaths by mini the Federal Government and its partner-in with which he confronts life. mizing gun control? I cannot in good con dustrial America. Certainly, if he wanted, Ray Leonard could science convey that message to any Ameri This investment did not pay dividends in the retire for the rest of his life and not work an can or to the families of those citizens we 1st year nor in the 5th year. We are reaping other day. He has not been content to do so. mourn today. the benefits today-just look at the products Instead, he has become a respected broad I can, however, say to their families, friends, and possible products coming from our invest caster. Also, there is every indication that he and peers that it is truly an honor for me to ment in recombinant DNA research-new is about to resume his professional boxing enjoy the protection afforded by the sacrifices drugs to fight cancer, new weather and dis career, at least for one fight. Last but not of your loved ones. Every American should ease-resistant plants and novel industrial least, Ray Leonard has committed much of appreciate the difficult task that these dedicat products such as metal ore recovery mi his time and energy to charitable causes. The ed officers perform daily. I am sure that those crobes. The investment in semiconductors re list of boards and charitable organizations in who have died in the line of duty would rather search in the 1940-SO's now provides com which he participates extends to several have lived, but somehow I feel that they puters in cars to optimize performance and to pages. valued their lives as much as they valued reduce pollution. In Palmer Park, MD, Ray Leonard has been ours. For the forces that are performing this But what about our future? Do we continue the moving force behind the boxing center much needed public service today, remember to follow what is apparently a "sharp invest which is named for him. He has donated thou the lives that depend on you-those who have passed and those who live on. With my ment" strategy and provide adequate support sands of dollars to it, and he spends count warmest personal regards, thank you. for our ongoing basic research and invest in less hours there working with aspiring young the development of our future scientists? The boxers. These efforts are a demonstration of National Science Foundation, under the direc the best of Ray Leonard as a role model for tion of Mr. Erich Block, has taken the initiative THE BUDGET RESOLUTION youth who has not forgotten his roots. to increase the support of the U.S. science in frastructure and to develop highly inncvative Mr. Speaker, I know all of my colleagues HON. JOSEPH J. DioGUARDI programs like the Engineering Research Cen will want to join me in sending our greetings, OF NEW YORK congratulations and best wishes to Ray Leon ters to accelerate the transition of basic re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES search to industrial use. The Franklin Institute ard, his wife Juanita and their two sons, as he Science Museum and Planetarium in Philadel is honored at the WBC Sports Medicine Foun Thursday, May 15, 1986 phia, PA, under the direction of Mr. Joel dation's "Main Event." I am sure you will Mr. DIOGUARDI. Mr. Speaker, today I voted Bloom, have created a wonderfully stimulating agree they could not have chosen a greater on the two budget resolutions offered by the "Hands On" science exhibit for children of the champion to honer-a man who is a champi majority and minority parties in the House. Un ages 8 to 14. This exhibit is now here in Con on as an athlete, and, more importantly, as a fortunately, I could support neither. I consider gress and will travel to other science muse- human being. both budgets undeserving of support and be- May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11113 lieve that we should begin to work on a re celebrations. This sad history of abuse culmi "That was about the best thing that ever sponsible budget plan that addresses the nated in the Holocaust, a systematic effort to happened to me," said Nath. need to reduce the deficit. I feel, however, completely erase the existence, the culture, Last month, after going through on-the that now that a budget has been passed, and and the history of Jewish people. Neverthe job training as a data entry operator at the no new alternative can come forward from the less, their spirit and determination one day to state's employment services office in Newark, she was hired at $5 an hour in a House, I should offer my own plan to reduce be able to seek new lives in freedom and clerical job with an East Orange manufac the deficit while meeting our pressing domes human dignity in the land of their forefathers turing firm. tic needs and international responsibilities. never waivered. Nath is one of the 3,770 New Jerseyans First, let me say that I cannot believe that Seen in this historic context, the establish who were on public assistance rolls only six the Democrats still want to raise taxes. Under ment of the State of Israel was a momentous months ago but are now earning their own their own projections, the cuts they made in turning point in the 2,000-year struggle by the living in private business-at an annual wel spending would have been sufficient to meet Jewish people to achieve self-determination fare cost savings of about $9.9 million. the Gramm-Rudman targets. And they still and religious freedom. The Jewish people, State officials are projecting $20.3 million in welfare savings for all of 1986. Last year, want to raise taxes. I believe that it is time the who had suffered so many centuries of perse welfare savings amount to $18.8 million for Democrats go out and ask the average Ameri cution, and had experienced the bitterness an overall total of $39.1 million during the can, who they purport to represent, if they and despair of an existence without even the two-year period. should raise taxes. most basic human rights, were able to finally The majority of persons were able to find Second, the Republicans voted to increase declare their independence. jobs after receiving job training and coun defense spending by $6 billion. For over 1 In 38 short years, the people of the State of seling or other assistance through a special year now I have listened to an endless litany Israel have turned the desert into a modern Work Incentive Program welfare bene ing of their nation. Thirty-eight years ago, at tion's young people, the cycle of poverty and hopelessness will surely continue. fits is required by law to register with WIN, midnight, May 14-15, 1948, the fifth and sixth some people-such as mothers with children days of lyar, 5708, under the Jewish calendar, Mr. Speaker, I commend to you the follow under six or the sick, disabled or elderly the Israeli people proudly proclaimed their in ing article which appeared in the Newark Star are exempt. dependence under the most adverse of condi Ledger on April 27, 1986. The article profiles According to William Tracy, director of tions and the British mandate for Palestine young women to refuse to be trapped in an the Division of Employment Services in the came to an end. endless web of poverty and hopelessness, but state Department of Labor, WIN is not really a new program. "But its performance From the destruction of the Second Temple instead insist upon striving for self-reliance and a better way of life. has been going up constantly" and despite a in 70 A.D. and their final heroic stand against cutback in staff, "a bullish economy" has al the Romans at Massada in 73 A.D. until they JOB TRAINING HELPS WELFARE RECIPIENTS TO lowed the labor department to place more declared their independence on May 14, WIN people in jobs, he said. 1948, the Jewish people were without a [By Linda Lamendola] Funded by the federal government, the homeland and in the diaspora-dispersed Pearl Nath is a 35-year-old mother of WIN program is aimed at persons applying throughout the world but without the loss of three whose work history was limited to un for welfare under the AFDC program, he skilled, low-paying job such as dishwasher said. The program focuses on reducing wel their identity. and cashier. fare costs by providing recipients with the In most countries of the world during these But that was before she registered for a help to find good jobs and become independ tragic centuries, Jews were politically, socially, job training program because the law re ent tax-paying citizens. and physically persecuted, and prohibited quires eligible welfare recipients to actively "We provide them with the employment, from engaging in religious rituals and cultural look for work or lose public assistance. training and social services necessary to find 11114 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 jobs so they are able to end their depend She is now a senior clerk typist earning OLDER AMERICANS MONTH ence on wellare benefits," said Tracy. $11,900 a year and no longer on welfare. Eligible recipients are referred for job David Phillips, chief of the Bureau of training through 13 state employment of Manpower Training Programs in the state HON. DAN COATS fices. labor department, said the average cost for "Pearl Nath is one of our best success sto training a welfare recipient is about $920. In OF INDIANA ries," said Sally Hall, supervising WIN spe some cases, he said, where an eligible client IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cialist at the state labor department. requires more training and assistance, costs "In spite of Pearl's eagerness, her lack of could run about $2,100 for each trainee. Wednesday, May 7, 1986 experience proved to be a barrier to employ But state officials see the costs as a one Mr. GOATS. Mr. Speaker, the month of May ment," noted Hall. time expenditure. is traditionally observed as Older Americans The WIN staff, impressed by her enthusi Month. It is a time when we can recognize the asm and on learning that she had high valuable contributions senior citizens make to school typing, suggested some work experi TRIBUTE TO CLINGAN JACKSON ence would improve her chances to land a our country. We should not only focus on job in the business world. older Americans' accomplishments, but also Nath was assigned to the state's employ HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. commit, as a nation, to protect their rights and ment services and WIN office in Newark. enhance their opportunities. After a few months, she became experi OF OHIO Seniors comprise the fastest growing popu enced enough to be placed with the East IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lation segment in this country; 1 in 9 Ameri Orange firm. "It was frightening at first to have to go Thursday, May 15, 1986 cans is at least 65, and, as more and more to work especially after you have been rais Americans Jive longer and play prominent ing kids and staying at home so much," Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, it is my roles in our society, I believe we should take Nath said. "Having to get up early to go to pleasure to rise today to honor Mr. Clingan special note of their concerns. Age creates no the job and then come home and care for Jackson, for whom a testimonial dinner will be philosophical barriers and draws no philosphi the kids is double work and when you have held on May 25, 1986, in Youngstown, OH. cal lines, unless we choose to construct those to do it along with your housework, it's a Clingan Jackson has given Ohio's Mahoning barriers and draw those lines. We should learn triple job. But I love it. I feel great and Valley a lifetime of service, and he is not done from the matured wisdom that older Ameri having a job has boosted my morale." yet. In fact, even as he is honored, he contin Nath is not the only WIN success. cans possess because that is a valuable re Andrianna Rodriguez is another "shining ues to contribute to our community; funds source we cannot afford to ignore. star" of the WIN program. A 44-year-old raised from his testimonial dinner will go In the Fourth District of Indiana, and I be mother of one child, she had been on and toward the establishment of a scholarship in lieve it is true across the country, our seniors off wellare since 1975. political science at Youngstown State Univer are particularly aware of the issues being con In 1983, after being laid off from her cleri sity. sidered by the Federal Government. Many cal job, she was unable to find work and ap Clingan Jackson, father of two, has lead an plied for public wellare. older citizens have taken an active role in ex illustrious 44-year career in journalism. He pressing their opinions about Federal Govern Rodriguez said she was required to regis ·began in 1929, doing general reporting for the ter for WIN and in July 1984 was enrolled in ment activities, and thus, continue to make a federally funded clerical training course in Youngstown Vindicator. He became the Vindi constructive contributions to the debate on a Newark run by the New Jersey Department cator's political editor in 1936. In 1958, he wide range of issues. of Civil Service, after being placed there by covered his own campaign for Governor of Working with the senior community has the labor counselor. Ohio. His election night story prompted the been one of my most rewarding jobs as a Now Rodriguez works as teacher's aid at head of Scripps-Howard to proclaim, "By God, the school where she was once a student. Federal Representative and I will continue to he is a newspaperman." Over the years, Clin protect the well-being of our older population. "School officials were so impressed by her gan Jackson has interviewed many Ohio and motivation, attitude and ability she was Our seniors are entitled to be singled out and hired as a teacher's assistant," said Jane national legislators, including Presidents Her I applaud the month of May as Older Ameri Egee, her supervisor. "She is working with bert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry cans Month. us now." Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, "She contributes so much to our trainees. Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Having been there herseU, she is a source of Carter, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. INTRODUCTION OF DUMPING inspiration to them," Egee added. Mr. Jackson has also Jed an active political BILL For Rodriguez, life now is "just great." life. He began as Lowellville Village council "When you are on welfare, you feel very low about yourself. But you have to do it be man, served as State representative and HON. NANCY L. JOHNSON cause without help, you can't pay your rent State senator, and chaired the Ohio Highway or buy food for your children. Construction Council. OF CONNECTICUT "But now, I have a reason to get up every In addition to a successful and active jour IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES day and come to work and try to look as nalistic and political career, Clingan Jackson nice as I can. I try to encourage the girls in found time to serve others through civic and Thursday, May 15, 1986 our class who are trying to learn some office religious volunteer activities. He was an elder Mrs. JOHNSON. Mr. Speaker, the predatory skills, to tell them they can do it, too." There are thousands of other success sto and trustee of his church, where he taught pricing policies of our foreign competitors ries. Like Linda Countryman, for example. adult education classes for many years. He threaten American jobs in basic U.S. indus A 37-year-old mother of three, her only was president of the Downtown Kiwanis in tries such as machine tools, ball-bearings, and recent work experience was one year as a 1956, and was a member of the Ohio Civil semiconductors and we have not been able to sewing machine operator in 1984. She hurt Rights Commission for over 22 years. He is stop them. her back and was no longer able to continue currently a member of the Youngstown Char We have ample evidence that foreign firms on the job. ter Review Commission and chairman of the are "dumping" goods in the U.S. market, in In July 1984, she registered for the WIN program when she applied for welfare. With senior citizens' multipurpose center. He was violation of U.S. laws and international agree the assistance of a WIN counselor, she was honored by his community in 1956 with a spe ments, by lowering prices below their actual enrolled in a one-year course at Burlington cial "Jackson" edition of the Vindicator-truly cost of production and fair market value in County Community College, attending half a testament to the special character and con order to gain U.S. market share and force time and working at a state employment tribution of this fine individual. U.S. producers out of business. service office where she did data entry work I am delighted that so many have chosen to Current remedies, which include the applica part time. honor Clingan Jackson on May 25, and am tion of off-setting duties, have proven ineffec In January 1985, she decided she wanted to start working immediately although she pleased to add my voice to those who thank tive in deterring foreign firms from such vi could have remained in school longer. WIN and congratulate him. His many years of suc cious price-cutting behavior. Proposed reme paid for repairs to her car so she could com cess and accomplishment, of tireless commit dies in the new trade bill, which include allow mute to Trenton where she started working ment to duty and to others, is an example to ing U.S. companies to seek damages in Fed as as clerk typist at $8,900. us all. eral district court, will not halt this practice May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11115 either because they do not address the search, manufacturing, sales, and distribution Representatives, I have frequently visited with market share problem. facilities in more than 200 locations in about the Paducah Lions Club. This club is a highly Only the denial of that which foreign com 150 nations. respected organization with a large member panies seek most, U.S. market share, will pre But although the company has grown enor ship and is the sponsor each year of Padu vent dumping. Therefore, today I am propos mously in its century of existence and oper cah's most successful telethon-raising ing perhaps the toughest dumping penalties ates in the four corners of the world, its home money for handicapped children-over ever because I have seen the damage done base has always been and remains in Kala WPSD-TV, the NBC station in Paducah. by unrestrained foreign predatories who target mazoo. The city of Kalamazoo is in my district, I am to speak next Tuesday at the weekly our basic industries and undermine employ so I'm very well aware of what Upjohn has meeting of the Paducah Lions Club. However, meant there. ment and security in this country. it won't be the same without Raymond Herring First, Upjohn is the largest employer in I believe we need legislation on the books being present. Raymond was the tail twister which would give our trade officials the power Kalamazoo County. Its direct financial impact for the Lions in Paducah. He could and would to impose temporary exclusion of all goods on the area in 1984 was more than $441 mil fine the members for being late to their noon from the U.S. market which are produced by lion annually, and it employs almost 8,000 luncheon meeting, or for not wearing their any person or firm found to be engaged in people in the county. predatory pricing in violation of the U.S. anti The Upjohn Co. has made its mark on the club pin, or whatever. This was and is a fund dumping code. And under my bill, incorrigible community in other ways. Long before the raising method for miscellaneous purposes. repeat offenders could be excluded perma phrase "corporate social responsibility" Raymond Herring, as club tail twister, even nently. became fashionable, the Upjohn Co. and the fined a few club guests ever so often. I was It would work like this: If you're caught Upjohn family were busy making magnificent one of his favorite targets for humorous ridi once, you cannot import for at least 90 days contributions to the area. Today, you can drive cule and for fines. and perhaps on up to a year, depending on through Kalamazoo and see the Upjohn con The club members would await my re your previous record. If you're caught a tributions all around you-a civic auditorium, a sponse in kind to Raymond Herring. I can re second time, you cannot import for at least 1 beautiful park, an art center, a municipal golf member looking forward to the Paducah Lions year and possibly up to 5 years. Three strikes course, a philanthropic foundation, an interna Club meetings just so I could find out Ray and you're out for at least 5 years, or if the tionally respected think tank, and much more. mond Herring's latest humor regarding club Secretary of Commerce determines that you It is apt that in its centennial year, the members and guests. demonstrate no respect for our laws, he or Upjohn Co. is giving a gift to the children of Obviously, it is easy to tell that I was very she may bar you permanently. Kalamazoo. It is the Kalamazoo Area Mathe fond of Raymond Herring. I believe we need to get to the root problem matics and Science Center, which will offer A veteran of World War II, serving in the of this particular unfair trading problem by youngsters in the 9th through 12th grades the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Herring was a son of convincing other nations that our market is accelerated math and science instruction not the late Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Herring. He not easy pickings for their companies which now available to them at individual schools. was a member of Fountain Avenue United This gift, worth some $2 million, will operate undercut prices as a matter of policy. When Methodist Church; Paducah Masonic Lodge under the direction of the Kalamazoo Board of they see that the price of getting caught is not No. 127; Rizpah Shrine Temple of Madison Education and is scheduled to begin operation worth the risk, then they will stop. ville; Paducah Lions Club; Paducah Elks Club, After the fanfare of the omnibus trade bill this fall. I've had the privilege of knowing and work and all Masonic bodies. subsidies, I would ask my colleagues to inves Mr. Herring is survived by his wife, Mrs. tigate this issue further and consider my ap ing with countless Upjohn executives and em ployees on all sorts of civic projects. These Kathleen Herring; a daughter, Kathy Moore of proach as the only effective way to stop for Paducah; two stepdaughters, Harriet Kay eign dumping. days, the company is ably led by three gentle men: R.T. Parfet, Jr., the chairman of the Rudy Blades of Newburgh, IN, and Beverly board and chief executive officer; Theodore Rudy Baker of Madrid, Spain; three sisters, THE UPJOHN COMPANY AND Cooper, M.D., the vice chairman of the board; Ruth Madrey of Mayfield, Birdie Thomas of KALAMAZOO: 100 YEARS TO- and Lawrence C. Hoff, the company's presi Paducah, and Lela Harris of Chicago, and six GETHER dent. Upjohn has been blessed with other ex grandchildren. ecutives who provided first-rate leadership My wife Carol and I extend to Kathleen and HON. HOWARD WOLPE and contributed much to the community, such the family our sympathy and prayers at this as Dr. Gifford Upjohn and Donald Gilmore. Ev difficult time. OF MICHIGAN eryone in Kalamazoo knows all these names. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Kalamazoo is a more prosperous, more at Thursday, May 15, 1986 tractive, more cultivated, and more pleasant PERSONAL EXPLANATION Mr. WOLPE. Mr. Speaker, 100 years ago, in place to live because of the Upjohn Co. They the basement of a downtown building in Kala have done very well indeed in their first 100 HON. WILLIAM F. GOODUNG mazoo, Ml, four brothers named Upjohn-Wil years. I wish them just as much success in liam, Henry, James, and Frederick, all of them their next 100 years. OF PENNSYLVANIA doctors-started a small company called the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Upjohn Pill and Granule Co. The new firm was TRIBUTE TO RAYMOND L. Thursday, May 15, 1986 a small operation. Its first product list included HERRING 186 pill formulas compounded from 56 drugs Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, today, May and botanicals. Its sales in its first year of op 15, 1986, I was unable to stay for the final HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. votes on the concurrent budget resolution for eration amounted to $50,000. OF KENTUCKY From those modest beginnings, the compa fiscal year 1987. I had a previous commitment IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ny steadily grew. It opened its first branch which I could not cancel and had to leave sales office in New York City 4 years later. It Thursday, May 15, 1986 before the floor debate was completed. I began the 20th century by expanding and be Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, at this time I would have voted "yea" for the Latta substi coming a manufacturer of general pharmaceu want to pay tribute to a dear friend of mine, tute to House Concurrent Resolution 337, and ticals, changing its name in 1902 to the Raymond L. Herring, who died at age 72 on "no" on final passage of this resolution which Upjohn Co. April 30 at Western Baptist Hospital in his was Chairman GRAY's version. The Latta In their wildest dreams, the four brothers hqmetown of Paducah. budget contained the necessary spending re who started business in 1886 could not have Raymond Herring owned and operated the ductions, adequate defense numbers which imagined what their company would become. R.L. Herring Insurance Agency in Paducah for would not cause cuts in military personnel, as Today, as the Upjohn Co. celebrates its cen many years. would the chairman's budget, and most impor tennial, it is a worldwide enterprise with Through the years I have served as a Ken tantly it did not call for an unconscionable and annual sales surpassing $2 billion. It has re- tucky State senator and in the U.S. House of unexplained increase in taxes. 11116 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION rather expects to work extensively with Whereas, The National Association of STEPS UP ASSISTANCE TO DE local government authorities and also to tap Regulatory Utility Commissioners was es VELOPING WORLD the talent of the many younger scientists tablished at the Interstate Commerce Com and technicians it has trained over the years mission convention in March 1889. Since under fellowship programs. There are about that time, the Association has been a major HON. CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER 2,000 working abroad in 50 countries. force in the study and discussion of regula OF RHODE ISLAND Although the specific outlays of the new tory subjects and in the uniformity in state IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES global program have not been decided, foun regulation. In honor of the contributions dation officials provided these initial exam the Association has made to this country Thursday, May 15, 1986 ples of activities: over the past one hundred years, the Com Mrs. SCHNEIDER. Mr. Speaker, I would like The Rockefeller program will focus on in missioners Emeritus have requested the is suring that research gains, such as recent suance of a postage stamp commemorating to share with my colleagues an article about advances made in vaccine research against this auspicious anniversary; and the Rockefeller Foundation which recently ap malaria and other diseases, are made avail Whereas, Composed of nearly one hun peared in the New York Times. The Rockefel able to "end users." It will also support dred state, federal, and international agen ler Foundation recently embarked upon a new availability to China and African countries cies, including the Economic Regulatory strategy in its efforts to promote economic of an improved contraceptive, Norplant, a Commission, the United States Department and social development around the globe. I hormone capsule implanted under the skin of Labor, and the Tennessee Valley Author was privileged to learn about this new direc that provides protection for five years. ity, the National Association of Regulatory tion at a luncheon I attended recently hosted The foundation will improve links be Utility Commissioners provides state agen tween existing international agricultural re cies with technical assistance and research, by Dr. Richard Lyman, president of the foun search centers and the domestic agricultural which promote uniform regulatory practices dation. I believe that we in the Congress programs of African countries and through nationwide; and should take a cue from Dr. Lyman and his as them "to reach the African farmer." Whereas, The National Association of sociates as to how to turn dollars and cents New research will be initiated to deter Regulatory Utility Commissioners has not into meaningful programs. mine how women in developing countries in only offered much-needed information and [From the New York Times, May 4, 1986] fluence and are affected by the expansion services to state and federal agencies over of industry or modernization of agriculture. the past century, but it has also been a vital ROCKEFELLER UNIT DOUBLES ITS THIRD A related project will examine how import WORLD instrument for community improvement by Am ed technologies can be blended with famil standardizing the regulation of transporta (By Kathleen Teltsch> iar local ones. tion and utility industries; therefore be it The Rockefeller Foundation, adopting an The foundation will examine research, Resolved, That we, the members of the expanded global program, will spend up to education and technology-management poli Senate of the 116th General Assembly of $300 million in the next five years to pro cies in some third world countries to deter Ohio, in adopting this Resolution, congratu mote economic and social development in mine how they affect developmental efforts. late the National Association of Regulatory third-world countries. The sum is double It will also support work in technology Utility Commissioners on the occasion of its the money the private philanthropy provid transfer and examine license and patent One Hundredth Anniversary and salute the ed for overseas aid in the last five years. practices that could obstruct the transfer. members of the regulatory commissions, Dr. Richard W. Lyman, the foundation Dr. Kenneth Prewitt, vice president of the past and present, as outstanding citizens; president, said Thursday that the new strat foundation who will have overall direction and be it further egy sought to insure that benefits from of the program, said he regarded it as a Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate recent research in agriculture, health and long-term undertaking. "We see it as a start transmit duly authenticated copies of this population control reached those in greatest ing point to insure the benefits of science Resolution to the National Association of need, "the poor and vulnerable." reach those most in need-the farmer, the Regulatory Utility Commissioners and to More than a billion people live in poverty, mother trying to control pregnancy and the the news media of Ohio. he said, and the sub-Saharan countries will parent trying to protect a child against dis get particular attention because their prob ease," he said. lems are the most intractable. LEGISLATION TO REFORM FED "We believe that by promoting the equita ERAL ONSHORE OIL AND GAS ble and effective use of science and technol THE lOOTH ANNIVERSARY OF LEASING PROGRAM ogy to benefit hitherto excluded groups, we THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION will capitalize on our own strengths and OF REGULATORY UTILITY HON. NICK JOE RAHALL II complement the efforts of others," Dr. COMMISSIONERS Lyman said at a news conference. OF WEST VIRGINIA The increase in funding puts the Rocke IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES feller Foundation roughly on a level with HON. BOB McEWEN Thursday, May 15, 1986 the overseas aid supplied by the Ford Foun OF OHIO dation, which is spending $60 million annu Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, I am joining the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ally for developing countries, and well chairman of the Committee on Interior and In ahead of the Carnegie Corporation and the Thursday, May 15, 1986 sular Affairs, Mo UDALL, in introducing legisla Kellogg Foundation, which each spend about $10 million on foreign assistance, ac Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to tion which seeks to reform the manner in cording to Tom Fox, vice president of the take this opportunity to share with my col which the Federal onshore oil and gas leasing Council on Foundations. leagues a copy of a resolution recently ap program is conducted. By comparison, Federal assistance to proved by the Ohio House of Representatives The chairman's legislation represents an third-world countries through the Agency and the Ohio Senate commemorating the appropriate vehicle for the consideration of for International Development will total 1OOth anniversary of the National Association onshore oil and gas leasing reform. During $600 million this year. of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. The this Congress, the Subcommittee on Mining Dr. Lyman and Rockefeller officials, in and Natural Resources has conducted two outlining the program, said recent biotech NARUC, in partnership with the Public Utilities nological progress could have an effect in Commission of the State of Ohio have provid oversight hearings on the program and it has the poorer countries comparable with the ed very valuable services for all utilities cus become clear that the Bureau of Land Man gains accomplished in the 1950's when the tomers and I commend this forthcoming anni agement is at this time uncertain about the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations promot versary celebration to the attention of my col ability of its noncompetitive leasing system to ed new high-yield grains that brought about leagues. withstand fraud and abuse as well as its ability a "green revolution." to determine whether tracts of land should be He added that the foundation wanted to A RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE 100TH ANNI VERSARY OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF made available for leasing under the competi call attention to the needs of the third tive or noncompetitive system. world countries, which could otherwise be REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS overlooked as the powerful industrial coun Whereas, The members of the Senate of This uncertainty calls into question the suit tries focus mainly on the competition for the 116th General Assembly of Ohio are ability of the current program to meet the trade advantages. pleased to congratulate the National Asso energy needs of the Nation. Not only is the The foundation does not contemplate ex ciation of Regulatory Utility Commissioners energy potential of public lands being threat pansion of its overseas staff, he said, but on the occasion of its Centennial; and ened under such an environment, but also the May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11117 public's right to receive a fair rate of return ing as sponsors. In 1961-62, the VFW as beries, frightened citizens hiding behind from the development of federally owned oil sumed sole sponsorship responsibility. locked doors occur because we tolerate in and gas resources. This past year more than 250,000 students justice-injustice victimizing the innocent, The Department of the Interior's onshore oil participated, receiving awards amounting to and the helpless. We Americans stand by and gas leasing program, as authorized by the over $675,000. During the past 24 years of witnessing, but not acting. To be the best, America's youth must no longer be specta Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920, consists VFW sponsorship, over 5 million students tors of injustice, rather, we must be partici of a competitive and noncompetitive system. have participated and awards totaling more pants in establishing justice. With justice For lands within a known geological structure than $3 million have been given to winners at achieved in America, we can strive for global (KGS) of a producing oil and gas field, a com all levels. peace. petitive leasing procedure is used. For lands Mr. Jacobo is a senior at Calvert Hall Col To be "the best and not the last", is outside of a KGS, the simultaneous leasing lege High School in Baltimore. I congratulate frightening, challenging, demanding. Our system, commonly referred to as the lottery, is him on winning the scholarship, and I wish efforts to be the best will determine wheth used as is over-the-counter trading. him well in his college career and his future er we will even "be". With undying devo endeavors in the study of law. tion, undiminishing determination to hones While this system is fine in theory, the BLM ty, hard work and justice, America's youth has encountered problems in making KGS de NEW HORIZONS FOR AMERICA'S YOUTH will be able to overcome the fears and the terminations. Further, the lottery system due There, in the distance, is a foreboding ho obstacles. to allegations of abuse has been suspended a rizon, a challenge to reach unsurpassed ex There, in the distance, is a beacon of hope number of times. Because of these controver cellence, or unthinkable destruction. or a foreshadowing of doom, a New Horizon sies, the orderly development of the Nation's "You will be America's best generation, or for America's Youth, to be the best and not onshore oil and gas potential is rapidly being you will be her last"! the last. We cannot, we must not ... fail. These demanding, apocalyptic words of undermined. Dr. Harold Bosley, former Dean of the Duke As one who strongly believes in the abso University Divinity School, challenge Amer IN PRAISE OF NONPROFIT lute necessity of increased reliance upon do ica's youth to be her best generation or her ORGANIZATIONS mestic energy resources, the current threat to last. An America in need of direction, a the integrity of the Federal onshore oil and planet in need of genuine peace, a new hori gas leasing program is of great concern. Con zon, beckoning all young Americans to be HON. WYCHE FOWLER, JR. sider the fact that by the end of fiscal year the best. OF GEORGIA 1985, there were 22,718 producing oil and How are we, the youth of America, to be the best? I firmly believe we can be the best IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gas leases under BLM supervision. During by personally committing ourselves to genu Thursday, May 15, 1986 that fiscal year 175 million barrels of oil and ine honesty and hard work. 1062 billion cubic feet of gas was produced Honesty is a virtue, which must be learned Mr. FOWLER. Mr. Speaker, nonprofit orga from Federal leases. and lived at our young age. It is essential in nizations are the embodiment of the American As I have stated, Chairman UDALL's legisla our quest for the horizon, the quest to be volunteer spirit. I want to take this opportunity tion appears to represent a good starting point the best. Along the way, we must not fall to applaud some of the good work done in my for discussions on reform legislation. While I into the tempting traps dishonesty lays for home State of Georgia-and in each of my have some reservations with certain provi us. All too often, youthful inexperience colleague's home States-by nonprofit organi leaves us vulnerable to dishonest actions. sions in the bill, the proposal provides for a zations that strive to meet humanitarian and We are all tempted to lie ... "Everybody's public service goals. compromise between those seeking the total doing it" ... or to cheat ... "just this elimination of the noncompetitive leasing once" ... or to steal ... "I'm not really Over the past several years, our Govern system and those who believe some sem hurting anyone". And little by little dishon ment has been shifting much of the social and blance of this type of leasing is necessary to esty takes over. humanitarian responsibilities to the private preserve competition and promote exploration. Honesty produces trust. Trust is the key sector. Efforts to decrease the Federal deficit It certainly would not be in the public interest to society's success, the success of any rela have placed new burdens and new strains on to reduce the participation of the independent tionship, be it parent-child, student-teacher, even the most established and well-recog husband-wife, or even President and Pre nized nonprofit organizations. While the Gov oil and gas sector in the Federal leasing pro mier. Unless behavior is honest there can be gram. no success, no trust, and the horizon of ernment has whittled away at many programs, I look forward to working closely with the America's youth will slowly recede. we have hoped that the private sector would gentleman from Arizona on this matter, as Honesty also demands hard work. What continue to provide those services to our el well as with others who have expressed an in our nation is today has been achieved by derly, our sick, our needy, our disadvan terest in the issues we are seeking to ad hard work. The American dream, of attain taged-the folks not able to provide for them dress. ing one's goals, through hard work, must in selves. spire my generation. We must understand, In the President's last State of the Union dreams can only be realized by our personal address, he praised the "mighty river of good VFW ESSAY WINNER LEO efforts, and will not be handed to us on a works" that contributed $74 billion in voluntary PROCESO JACOBO silver platter. America's youth, needed to learn the lesson of the idealistic young man, giving last year alone. We've come to rely on who, at the age of 20, believed he could that river for so many services to our friends HON. BARBARA A. MIKULSKI change the world. At age 40, he realized and families that it's difficult to imagine the OF MARYLAND that changing the world was impossible, so state of our Union without those organizations IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES he would judge life a success if he could working with us. only change 20 other people. Finally, at age Well, whether knowingly or not-whether Thursday, May 15, 1986 60, he realized, that life would have been aware of the implications or not-a lot of folks Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker, I would like to successful if he had changed just one are talking about damming up that river. submit into the RECORD an essay by Leo Pro person-himself. Now, and not at age 60, my generation, should understand we cannot Organizations must raise funds and commu ceso Jacobo, the Maryland winner of the change our troubled world unless we first nicate with volunteers if they are to make any Voice of Democracy Scholarship Program. change ourselves. Our individual honesty impact in their missions. They rely on the The program was started 38 years ago with and hard work will eventually improve soci mails to solicit those donations and help co the endorsement of the U.S. Office of Educa ety, and will guide us to the horizon. ordinate that volunteer spirit. If we close off tion and the National Association of Second The challenge to be the "best or the last" their access to the mails-dam up that river ary Schools Principals. Sponsorship was pro is a demanding one, in a world where mis the consequences may be more dramatic than vided by the National Association of Broad siles are far more accurately guided than we anticipate. casters, Electronic Industries Association and men. Our honesty and hard work will lead us to appreciate, the prophetic worlds of I don't think any of us would willingly thwart State Association of Broadcasters. Pope Paul VI: "If you want peace, work for the efforts of groups that are trying to pick up Starting in 1958-59, the program was con injustice"! the slack created by government cuts. But ducted in cooperation with the Veterans of We must overcome apathy and settle for third-class nonprofit postal rates have shot up Foreign Wars with the broadcasters still serv- nothing less than injustice. Murders, rob- over 45 percent since December. Where are 11118 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 nonprofits going to make up those costs? minimum of $2,000, and indexing to prevent since 1982 has a national ceremony been They may have to reduce services, or start further erosion. This was included as a key conducted in Washington, DC. charging fees for services. component of tax reform by President Reagan Sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Imagine the Red Cross, for example. Be in his proposals, and was a major part of my Fraternal Order of Police, the event has grown cause of that rash of disasters that we experi tax reform bill, the Kemp-Kasten proposal. I considerably in size and impact. This year enced last year, they spent a record $48 mil applaud the efforts of this coalition, led by there were more than 300 police survivors in lion in 6 months and ended up $14 million in such outstanding Americans as Dr. James attendance, and more than 3,000 law enforce the red as a result. They have had to redouble Dobson, Phyllis Shafly, Tim and Beverly ment officials from police forces across the their efforts to raise funds if they are to be LaHaye, Connie Marshner, and many others United States. ready when needed again-and they surely who are committed to making the American Many persons deserve credit for the tre will be. The Red Cross is turning to direct mail family the cornerstone of our public policy ef mendous success and growth of the National to raise funds and bolster the donor base for forts. I commend the following statement to Peace Officers' Memorial Day Service; most their reserve disaster fund. I will not be re my colleagues. notably, Suzie Sawyer, president of the Frater sponsible for hiking the already soaring non THE COMMITTEE FOR FAIRNESS TO FAMILIES nal Order of Police Ladies Auxiliary. Suzie, profit postal rates on folks like the Red Cross The Committee for Fairness to Families who is the wife of a police officer, has been or forcing them to charge user fees to victims applauds the pro-family features of the untiring in her work on behalf of law enforce of disaster. Senate Finance Committee's tax bill. ment causes. It was Suzie, and then-President Now, more than ever, Congress must reaf Worthy of special praise is the Committee's decision to approve the $2,000 personal ex Trudy Chapman who were the driving forces firm our support for the works of the private behind the first national memorial service in sector. Without such support, religious, philan emption and significantly reduce tax rates for virtually all families. 1982; and it was Suzie, who 2 years ago thropic, educational, scientific, cultural, frater We urge the full Senate to approve this spearheaded the formation of Concerns of nal, veterans, and labor groups will be forced legislation promptly. We commend the Fi Police Survivors, the country's first national into making hard decisions that can only de nance Committee for its unanimous action law enforcement survivors group. Suzie also crease private sector activity. and urge its conferees to insist upon these serves as the executive director of COPS, and Remembering that figure of $7 4 billion in important pro-family measures in negotia in that position has provided invaluable assist voluntary giving last year-consider that the tions with the House. Alive and Free. ance and support to the surviving families of revenue forgone payment to the Postal Serv our fallen police heroes. She is to be com ices was reduced to only $716 million last American Association of Christian Schools. mended for her compassion and her devotion. year. This year, the Alliance of Nonprofit Mail American Christian Task Force. Others deserving of special recognition for ers tells me that we need $833 million to fund American Coalition for Traditional their contributions to this year's memorial the program for fiscal year 1987-and that in Values. service include Dick Boyd, president of the cludes $58 million for a prior year adjustment. Americans Against Abortion. Fraternal Order of Police; Yolanda Cline, Christian Impact. Mr. Speaker, I sincerely believe that this con president of COPS; and Tom Singleton of stitutes a wise investment in behalf of our Citizens for America. Take One Productions, Inc., a retired police entire society. Coalitions for America. Contact America. officer who produced the 1986 Memorial Serv I ask my colleagues to remember the good Couple to Couple League. ice. works done by the nonprofit private sector in Dick Dingman and Associates. But, I concur with the sponsors of this their communities and salute that work by pro Eagle Forum. year's memorial service, who stated that: viding them with the tools to continue to do Family Protection Lobby. the job. Let us show our support for their ef The people who allow this effort to be Free the Eagle. successful are the surviving families of our forts by providing adequate funding for reve Intercessors for America. fallen heroes. They have been forced to nue forgone. Leadership Action. LIMIT Taxes Committee. accept law enforcement's ultimate demand. Maranatha Christian Churches. They have traveled to Washington this year National Association of Evangelicals. representing over 60 of the 154 officers we PROFAMILY COALITION URGES honored here today. The tribute today was HOUSE AND SENATE TO MAIN National Association of Pro America. National Federation of Church Schools. even more meaningful to these surviving TAIN PROFAMILY ASPECTS OF family members when they saw the num TAX REFORM National Integrity Forum. National Pro-Family Coalition. bers of officers who have traveled from all Plain Facts. across the United States to assist in making HON. JACK F. KEMP Public Advocate of the United States. law enforcement's statement to the Nation: "Our fallen law enforcement officers have OF NEW YORK Union of Orthodox Rabbis. United Families of America. not died in vain and their human sacrifice IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES American Conservative Union. will never be forgotten. Thursday, May 15, 1986 Concerned Women for America. Mr. Speaker, let me say that no matter how Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, one of the most re Great Commission International. impressive the National Peace Officers Memo warding aspects of the recent debate over tax rial Day ceremony has become, our Nation's reform has been the opportunity to bring NATIONAL PEACE OFFICERS' fallen heroes and their survivors deserve some fairness to the Tax Code in its treatment MEMORIAL DAY something more, and I am proud to be a part of the American family. I am gratified that the of such an effort. In October 1984, President other body has included a $2,000 exemption HON. MARIO BIAGGI Reagan signed into law legislation I authorized along with Senator CLAIRBORNE PELL to au for every family member as a part of its tax OF NEW YORK thorize the construction of a National Law En reform proposal, and I am hopeful that the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES final legislation will maintain this crucial com forcement Heroes Memorial in Washington, ponent of tax reform, without which the pro Thursday, May 15, 1986 DC. As chairman of that organization, I am posal would fall far short of its goals of fair Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, I have just re pleased to report that major strides are being ness to the American family. The success we turned from the fifth annual "National Peace made toward the construction of that memori have been able to attain in making this the Officers' ·Memorial Day" service in Senate al. It will be built exclusively by private funds, centerpiece, along with lower rates on labor park. It was a truly moving experience, and a and the fundraising effort is already under and capital, of tax reform is largely attributable tribute worthy of the supreme sacrifice made way, as is the selection process for a suitable to the work of a broad-based coalition of pro by the 154 law enforcement officers who died site and design. Most importantly, our Nation's family groups that have made this their No. 1 in the line of duty during 1985. leading national law enforcement organiza priority. The impact that this coalition has had National Peace Officers' Memorial Day is an tions have all expressed a total commitment on the concept of tax reform is evident in the event that dates back to 1963. Always on May to the cause. Seated on the board of directors Republican Platform of 1984, which called for 15, this occasion has long been marked by of the National Law Enforcement Officers Me the increase of the personal exemption to a local ceremonies across the country, but only morial Fund, Inc., are the Concerns of Police May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11119 Survivors, the Federal Law Enforcement Offi KANSAS WEST VIRGINIA cers Association, the Fraternal Order of Deanna S. Rose. Clemmie L. Curtis, J. David Harris, and Police, the Fraternal Order of Police Ladies KENTUCKY John R. Tucker. Auxiliary, the International Association of William R. Burns and Roy H. Mardis III. WISCONSIN Chiefs of Police, the International Brotherhood LOUISIANA Rosario J. Collura, Leonard R. Lesnieski, of Police Officers, the International Union of Joseph W. Jarreau, Sr., and Richard A. and Gerald W. Mork. Police Associations/ AFL-CIO, the National Kent III. WYOMING Association of Police Organizations, the Na MARYLAND Robert A. Van Alyne, Jr. tional Black Police Association, the National Vincent J. Adolfo and Richard J. Lear. Organization of Black Law Enforcement Ex DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MASSACHUSETTS ecutives, the National Sheriffs Association, the Robin L. Ahrens, Enrique Salazar Camar National Troopers Coalition, the Police Execu Alain Y.J. Beauregard, Marvin C. Bland, ena, Larry N. Carwell, and Joseph M. Cour Mary M. Foley, Michael J. Schiavina, noyer. tive Research Forum, the Police Foundation, Thomas E. Strunk, and Harold L. Vitale. and the United Federation of Police. Senator MICHIGAN MARIAN A ISLANDS PELL is the honorary chairman and Tam my Roy L. Graham, Paul L. Hutchins, Donald Manuel A. Aquino. Kennedy Wolfe is a valued adviser to the or E. Rice, and Dean A. Whitehead. PUERTO RICO ganization. MINNESOTA Eladio Aponte Rivera, Pedro A. Burgos Much work still lies ahead, but one thing is Lacourt, Francisco Diaz Melendez, Herminia certain-when all is said and done, our Nation John T. Scanlon. MISSISSIPPI Lopez Pilar, Homero Ortiz Martinez, Pablo will finally have an impressive day-to-day re Ramirez Morales, Ramon Luis Reyes Rosa, minder of the supreme sacrifice that more John R. Klem III and Alma B. Waters. Isidro Rodriguez Monclova, Osvaldo San than 1,500 law enforcement officers have MISSOURI tiago Oliver, and Carlos A. Velazquez Colon. made in the last 10 years alone. It will also Johnnie C. Corbin, James M. Froemsdorf, serve as a much-needed reminder of the need and Jimmie E. Linegar. to better protect those who continue to pro MONTANA tect us. Timothy J. Sullivan. TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH E. KELLER Mr. Speaker, as one who served as a law NEW JERSEY enforcement officer for 23 years, I am deeply William H. Fordham, Albert J. Mallen, HON. ROBERT A. YOUNG honored to pay a personal tribute to the 154 Sr., Abigail J. Powlett, Nathaniel H. Taylor, OF MISSOURI law enforcement officers who died in the line and Robert E. Walls. of duty during 1985. This "Roll Call of NEW MEXICO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Heroes-1985" lists those courageous men Manuel Olivas. Thursday, May 15, 1986 and women by the State they served: NEW YORK Mr. YOUNG of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, ROLL CALL OF HEROES-1985 Oronzo L. Cellamare, Thomas F. Hudson, would like to take a moment to congratulate ALABAMA Brian Rooney, and Gary R. Stymiloski. one of the country's foremost transportation Robert E. Armstrong, Charles W. Biles, NORTH CAROLINA officials, Joseph E. Keller, who was recently Larry D. Cawyer, Louie E. Cosby, Issac D. Robert L. Coggins, Giles A. Harmon, named counsel emeritus for the Private Carri Hamby, John W. Mann, Myron J. Massey, Johnny W. Wagner, Timothy W. Whitting Julius N. Schulte, and James C. Vines. er Conference. Mr. Keller, during his long and ton, and Raymond E. Worley. distinguished career, helped to redefine the ALASKA OHIO Nation's transportation systems. In fact, he Ignatius J. Charlie. Jody S. Dye and David H. Massel. was largely responsible for creating the defini ARIZONA OKLAHOMA tion of what constitutes a private carrier. Lester L. Haynie and Darrell D. McCloud. James A. Bradley, Lowry D. Durington, The largest of 11 conferences affiliated with ARKANSAS Darrell E. James, William R. Stewart, and the American Trucking Associations, the Pri John Fallis and Phillip G. Ostermann. Gary L. Ward. vate Carrier Conference is the national trade CALIFORNIA OREGON association that represents manufacturers, George L. Arthur, Henry I. Bunch, Jose Gerald G. Chirrick, Virgile D. Knight, Jr., distributors, shippers, and receivers who oper Cisneros, Monty L. Conley, David W. Cople and Ronald H. Terwilliger. ate motor trucks as an extension of their pri man, Dean J. Esquibel, Joe R. Landin, Mi PENNSYLVANIA mary business endeavors. Private carriers are chael 0. Lewis, Raymond E. Miller, Thomas John J. Brown, Robert M. Daiss, Gary W. the dominant sector of the trucking industry E. Riggs, Clifford E. Sanchez, and Thomas Fisher, Charles P. O'Hanlon, Donald W. today, hauling nearly 60 percent of the Na C. Williams. Parker, Jr., Thomas J. Trench, and Ronald tion's intercity truck ton-mileage and operating COLORADO J. Turek. 6 million vehicles. Thomas J. Dietzman, Jr. SOUTH CAROLINA Before being named counsel emeritus, Mr. CONNECTICUT Vaughn E. Kee, Valdon 0. Keith, Bruce Keller had served as general counsel of the Jeffrey G. Casner. K. Smalls, and Robert A. Way. Private Carrier Conference since its reactiva FLORIDA SOUTH DAKOTA tion after World War 11-during which he John c. Baxter, Jr., James A. Bevis, Lin- Oren S. Hindman, Leslie P. Hollers, and served as a major in the U.S. Army. dell J. Gibbons, Harold L. Holerger, and Matthew V. Schofield. A graduate of the University of Dayton, John R. Melendez. TEXAS where he received his law degrees in 1930, GEORGIA Adrian S. Aguilar, John P. Frisco, Thomas he practiced law in Dayton before coming to Walter N. Coleman, George E. Goare, L. Harris, Charles D. Heinrich, G. Darrell Washington, DC, as an attorney for the Feder John T. King III, and Philip B. Mathis. Honea, Billy E. Jones, William P. Kohllep al Communications Commission. He has prac HAWAII pel III, James D. Mitchell, Jr., David E. Nelson, Reginald F. Norwood, David W. ticed law in Washington for the past 50 years, David W. Parker. Roberts, Manuel Salcido, Jr., Joseph R. first with the firm of Dow, Lohnes & Albertson IDAHO Steenbergen, Walter L. Terry, Lewis W. and then with his own firm, Keller & Heckman James E. Simono. Wahl, Kevin J. Williams, and Robert D. which he founded in 1962. ILLINOIS Wright. Mr. Keller has served as a law instructor Kenneth R. Dawson, Wayne G. King, Mi VIRGINIA and has contributed numerous articles to lead chael W. Ridges, and Raymond H. Topo H. Glenn Lawson, Jr., Barry L. Pendry, ing law reviews and served as legal editor for lewski. and Leo Whitt. the Private Carrier, a motor carrier trade jour IOWA WASHINGTON nal. Daniel M. McPherren, Sr., and Charles G. Dale E. Eggers, Richard D. Glass, Craig A. Throughout his career, Joe Keller has been Whitney. Nollmeyer, and Glenda D. Thomas. a leader with a solid track record. So today 11120 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 15, 1986 we recognize and pay tribute to a capable and NEWARK'S INTERNATIONAL pants improve their basic education and learn effective representative. of the Nation's motor YOUTH ORGANIZATION job skills that will last a lifetime. carrier industry. This is not the time to close down programs I wish him every continued success. HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. aimed at teaching job skills. In Cherokee County, where Talking Leaves is located, un OF NEW JERSEY employment is currently 11 percent. March fig IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ures place the average unemployment rate A TRIBUTE TO A MOST DISTIN Thursday, May 15, 1986 among counties in my district at 10.9 percent. The T aI king Leaves Job Corps Center directly GIDSHED EDUCATOR: MR. BOB Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, on May 10, I serves more than 400 young people each WHITE had the honor to attend the opening ceremo year. Almost half are from Oklahoma. ny of the International Youth Organization's This is not the time to close down programs Little League and its Westside Women's Soft aimed at improving educational skills. For the HON. BOB TRAXLER ball League, held at Westside Park in Newark. fiscal year 1984-85, the dropout rate for the OF MICHIGAN Each of the two WO leagues consists of 6 State of Oklahoma was 9,000 students. The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES teams of 25 players. Drawing participants from dropout rate in that time period for the 14 all neighborhoods of Newark, these leagues Thursday, May 15, 1986 counties that make up Cherokee Nation was contribute to a positive sense of the urban more than 4,500 students-half the State Mr. TRAXLER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay community. They give parents and children total. constructive recreational time together, pro tribute today to a good friend and most distin Oklahoma is facing some tough economic moting family life and offering young people guished individual. Mr. Robert Buell White has times. Because of the drop in energy prices an opportunity to enrich themselves and dis dedicated the past 37 years to teaching music and the crisis in agriculture, Oklahoma has play their talents. at my alma mater, T.L. Handy High School in had to cut the State budget by 14.7 percent The International Youth Organization is a Bay City, MI. I am honored to recognize Mr. this year. Oklahoma may lose Federal match community-based organization founded by White as he prepares to enter retirement. ing funds for Aid to Families with Dependent James Wallace and his wife, Carolyn. Mr. Wal I would like to take this opportunity to share Children and Medicaid. lace, now the organization's executive director with my colleagues some important informa The T a Iking Leaves Job Corps Center con and commissioner, was a special police officer tion about Bob White and his dedication to the tributes to the local community. The Center in the early 1970's when he saw the need to Bay City community. Bob White is a lifelong has a $2.5 million annual budget and 80 em provide a positive outlet for Newark's youth. resident of Bay City, attending Handy High's ployees. The Corpsmembers participate in So he established the IYO to meet the needs community projects such as local cleanups, a current rival school, Bay City Central, Bay City of the local community. Starting with 13 Christmas food drive for needy families, and Junior College and graduating from the Uni youngsters, the organization now involves 700 volunteer work at the Cherokee Nation Youth versity of Michigan in 1949. His education was people and employs 3 certified teachers. Shelter. Vocational Skills Training Corpsmem interrupted by military duty with the U.S. Navy Besides the IYO's Little League and bers have assisted in many projects such as from 1942 to 1945. Women's softball, the organization runs a vari building an airport in Stilwell, OK, and con ety of after-school programs, including com Bob White began his teaching career at T.L. structing 5 miles of road near a local lake. puter literacy classes, tutoring sessions, junior Handy High School in 1949, and has re The Department of Labor must make cuts and senior youth leadership groups, and other mained an institution within an institution. He to achieve the 4.3-percent budget cut mandat recreational activities. is well respected by staff and students alike. ed under Gramm-Rudman. Along with 74 col This is the type of initiative that enhances Bob's teaching career was not simply a job, leagues, I signed a letter to Chairman NATCH the life of our city, and I applaud the Wallaces but a way of life for him. He has been deeply ER of the Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and all the softball and Little League players involved with not only high school aged stu Education Appropriations asking him to urge for their community spirit. I was proud to be a dents, but children of grade school and middle Secretary Brock to authorize using Job Corps part of their opening day ceremonies. school age as well. Bob has directed musical construction funds to maintain current slot productions such as the "Merry-Go-Round" levels and keep all Job Corps Centers open. Summer Band Programs, and has acted as IN SUPPORT OF THE TALKING People can look at the big picture. Comput city wide music coordinator, planning pro LEAVES JOB CORPS CENTER ers cannot. When we take the human facts grams and curriculums for music students of into account, it is clearly a bad decision to all ages. Throughout all of his dedication of HON. MIKE SYNAR close this program that teaches young people time and diligent hard work with his students, skills that will lift them from the welfare cycle Bob found the time to act as a liaison be OF OKLAHOMA . and make them tax-paying citizens. tween the Bay County Board of Education and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the music teachers throughout the area. Thursday, May 15, 1986 POLICE MEMORIAL DAY Bob also has taken time out of his busy Mr. SYNAR. Mr. Speaker, 1 week ago the schedule to plan, organize and execute band Department of Labor announced plans to HON. RICHARD J. DURBIN trips to Washington, DC in order to give the close six Job Corps centers across the coun OF ILLINOIS students of Handy High School the perhaps try as a result of the March 1986 Gramm IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES once in a lifetime opportunity of performing at Rudman budget cut. One of the six centers Thursday, May 15, 1986 our Nation's Capital. targeted for closing is the T a Iking Leaves Job My personal contact with Bob White over Corps Center in Tahlequah, OK. Mr. DURBIN. Mr. Speaker, today is Police It's no secret that I oppose Gramm Memorial Day, a day we have set aside to pay the years has been highlighted by allowing me Rudman. The Labor Department's plan to tribute to law enforcement officers who have the honor of marching with the Handy High close these Job Corps centers is a prime ex died in the line of duty. It is the most solemn School Marching Band in the annual St. Pat ample of why Gramm-Rudman is bad law. of our celebrations during National Police rick's Day parade in Bay City. Computer statistics cannot measure the full Week. Mr. Robert B. White has left his everlasting human importance of these centers-to the Law enforcement officers have earned a mark on the students and citizens of Bay City, community or to the participant. special place of honor in our society. Working and current and future generations of people Job Corps provides the last chance for long hours and often under difficult conditions, living in that area will be able to reap the ben many disadvantaged young people to learn they protect our lives, our families, and our efits of his efforts. I ask my colleagues to join the skills to become productive citizens. It's property. That work is often thankless; it is with me today in honoring a fine individual, like the saying, "Give a man a fish and you always dangerous. This week, we honor police and wish him every continued success in his feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and officers around the country who willingly make retirement. you feed him for a lifetime." Job Corps partici- that commitment to our safety. Today, we re- May 15, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11121 member those who have lost their lives in that portunity to meet her. Her courage in the face production below maximum at the discretion cause. of this adversity is also to be admired, as is of the administration, taking into account oil I would like to pay special tribute to three her devotion to her husband. market conditions, energy security, and reve officers from my district who have been killed Mr. Speaker, the Sakharovs are a unique nue implications. It also provides that DOE in recent years while serving their communi couple who maintain their commitment to our cannot sell the oil below: ties-Patrolman David Tapscott, of the Spring common respect for fundamental human free First, 90 percent of the prevailing market field Police Department; Officer William Sim doms, in spite of the fact that they suffer price, or mons, of the Sangamon County Sheriff's De physically and emotionally from doing so. In Second, the price of oil being purchased for partment; and Patrolman Osmer Milbert, of his attempt to ensure that the Soviet Union the strategic petroleum reserve, adjusted for the Quincy Police Department. Their families adheres to and respects the precepts of the cost of transportation and oil quality. should know our gratitude and appreciation. Helsinki Final Act and the Universal Declara These adjustments will not cause a shutting According to the Justice Department, 72 tion on Human Rights, Andrei Sakharov is tor in of NPR production and will still allow Cali law enforcement officers were killed in the line tured with forcefeedings, kept under continu fornia refiners to acquire Elk Hills oil at a fair of duty in 1984-an average of more than one ous surveillance and · is isolated in a remote price. Nonetheless, these reductions will pre each week. This is a disgracefully large part of the country. He cannot speak for him vent Uncle Sam from being a price predator number. Unfortunately, our steps to protect self at this time, and it is, therefore, our duty and helping drive independent producers out law enforcement officers have been erratic. In to speak for him. By proclaiming May 21 as of business. It will also prevent the scandal this session, Congress banned the manufac "National Andrei Sakharov Day" we can ous situation of the Government selling oil ture and importation of armor-piercing ammu assure that at the very least, the American with one hand at 50 cents on the dollar while nition; the so-called "cop-killer" bullets. But people will commemorate this day by focusing with ·the other hand paying full price to pur many Members also ignored police warnings special attention on Dr. Sakharov and on the chase oil. and approved a bill which will weaken gun concepts which he espouses, and which the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUB control laws and make it easier for criminals Soviets would so obviously prefer that we COMMITTEE ON FOSSIL AND SYN to get handguns. forget. THETIC FuELS, COMMITTEE ON The National Association of Chiefs of Police ENERGY AND COMMERCE, pays tribute to colleagues killed in action by Washington, DC., May 12, 1986. LEGISLATION TO PREVENT Hon. JOHN S. HERRINGTON, inscribing their names at the American Police WASTE OF U.S. ENERGY RE Hall of Fame in North Port, FL. It is a long list. Secretary, Department of Energy, Washing SOURCES By working to protect police officers, and by ton, DC. remembering, we can keep that list from DEAR MR. SECRETARY: The General Ac growing longer. HON. PHILIP R. SHARP counting Office has completed a prelimi OF INDIANA nary investigation