2292 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS LEGISLATION TO REIMBURSE than $200,000 in their own defense, some not overlook India's brutal repression of Sikhs, WHITE HOUSE TRAVEL OFFICE $150,000 of which was reimbursed in a Trans­ Christians, and Muslims. India and the United EMPLOYEES FOR LEGAL EX­ portation appropriations bill in 1994. States should be friends, but our friendship PENSES While this bill will make financially whole the will become increasingly strained unless India seven fired Travel Office workers for their starts to practice the democratic values it HON. WIWAM F. CUNGER, JR. legal expenses, I regret that nothing I can do claims. OF PENNSYLVANIA will ever erase the needless, baseless· suffer­ Also troubling are India's testing of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing inflicted upon them and their families as their reputations were trashed before the world Prithvi-11 missile. The missile's 156-mile range Thursday, February 1,1996 to make way for friends of the First Family and is a clear threat to Pakistan. In context of this Mr. CLINGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Harry Thomason. For that, I am deeply sorry. blatant intimidation of Pakistan, India's desire with several of my colleagues, including Major­ I want to commend the White House to test another nuclear device can only be ity Leader ARMEY, to introduce legislation to spokesman for publicly admonishing Mr. Rob­ seen as an extension of its threats to Paki­ reimburse the seven White House Travel Of­ ert Bennett, the attorney representing Presi­ stan. I share India's suspicion of China's re­ fice employees for legal expenses incurred as dent Clinton and Harry Thomason for continu­ gional intentions, but that mutual suspicion a result of their firings on May 19, 1993. ing the administration's attack on Mr. Dale and does not give it leeway to threaten force It was nearly 3 years ago that seven men his colleagues. I wrote the President asking who had served in the Travel Office for any­ him to call off his attack squad and that now against its other neighbors. where from 9 to 32 years were fired summarily seems to be happening. According to the United States State De­ and placed under a cloud of suspicion when The White House spokesman also indicated partment the Indian Government paid over the White House announced they were the that the President will sign this legislation. I 41 ,000 cash bounties to police officers for the subjects of a criminal investigation. Only one anticipate these bills will pass both Chambers killing of Sikhs since 1991. Sikhs are not the of the seven men was indicted and, in the relatively quickly. only victims of India's state terrorism. In addi­ wake of a 3D-month long investigation, a jury I am pleased to introduce this bill on behalf tion to the estimated 150,000 Sikhs who have took only 2 hours to acquit Billy Dale of the of the seven Travel Office employees. They been murdered by the Indian Government two charges against him. served their country for many years with pride, The seven men fired from the White House integrity, and ethics. All of these characteris­ since 1984, tens of thousands of Christians Travel Office on May 19, 1993, appeared be­ tics are essential if we ever hope to restore and Muslims have also been killed. In fact, all fore the Committee on Government Reform people's faith in their Government. non-Hindus are at risk, of oppression in India. and Oversight last Wednesday. Individually H.R.- If India is "the world's largest democracy," as and collectively, they spoke, with an elo­ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep­ it claims to be, then how can it pile up such quence which has touched the Nation, of the resentatives of the United States of America in a gruesome death toll? If India respects the pride they took in serving the White House Congress assembled, human rights of the people who live in India, under Democrat and Republican Presidents. SEC110N 1. REIMBURSEMENT OF CERTAIN why do so many citizens of India want to get Mr. McSweeney put it best when he said, and LEGAL EXPENSES AND RELATED out from under Indian rule? I quote: FEES. I would hope that people would understand (a) IN GENERAL.-The Secretary of the I have criticized the absence of religious that, for me and thousands of others, when Treasury shall pay, from amounts in the freedom in Burma, Vietnam, China, and other Air Force One would arrive, the markings on Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as are necessary to reimburse former totalitarian countries. India's record does not the side were not Democratic Party or Re­ seem much better. Just this week, the Indian publican Party-it read "United States of employees of the White House Travel Office America." The emblem on its side was not a whose employment in that Office was termi­ Government jailed an 88-year-old Catholic political poster, it was the seal of the Execu­ nated on May 19, 1993, for any legal expenses priest and a 5Q-year-old nun on charges of tive Office of the President of the United and related fees they incurred with respect violating a law outlawing religious conversion. States. When the door opened, the man or to that termination. woman chosen by the people of this country (b) VERIFICATION REQUIRED.-The Secretary Beyond India's systematic abuse of human to fill that office had my complete loyalty shall pay an individual in full under sub­ rights in Kashmir, Nagaland, and Khalistan, I and support. I did that for 13 of the proudest section (a) upon submission by the individual am deeply concerned with India's growing years of my life. of documentation verifying the legal ex­ penses and related fees. negative role in Afghanistan. India's support I know that Mr. McSweeney spoke for all six (C) NO INFERENCE OF LIABILITY.-Liability for the Rabbani regime in Kabul troubles me of his colleagues when he said those words of the United States shall not be inferred because of Mr. Rabanni's rejection of efforts and he spoke for the pride of a nation in the from enactment of or payment under this to return Afghanistan to peace. I have pro­ Office of the President. section. posed that former King Zahir Shah serve as a It pains me to say that I now believe that the charges made against those seven men transitional Head of State of Afghanistan while by this administration appear to have been HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND the Afghan people write a constitution, orga­ baseless, unwarranted, and intended to pro­ UNFRIENDLY FOREIGN POLICY nize elections, and ultimately, establish a vide cover for an act of political cronyism. The IN INDIA peaceful and democratic Afghanistan. Unfortu­ fact that these men were, and are, innocent, nately, Mr. Rabanni has opposed this possible however, does not mitigate their suffering as HON. DANA ROHRABACHER solution in favor of continued fighting and FBI and IRS agents trooped through their OF CALIFORNIA chaos. Indian's support for Rabanni makes neighborhoods inquiring into their character, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES him less likely to accept reasonable efforts to their conduct, and their families. Nor does it end Afghanistan's bloodshed. make up for nearly three-quarters of $1 million Thursday, February 1, 1996 in legal expenses they incurred in the course Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, India re- India should be our friend. But, Mr. Speaker, of mounting their own defense. cently celebrated the anniversary of the adop- the more we learn about India, the harder that Billy Dale's legal defense has cost him near­ tion of its constitution. While 1 applaud India's friendship will be to sustain. ly $500,000. His six colleagues spent more embrace of democratic principles, we should

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. February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2293 TRIBUTE TO THOMAS FRANCIS season, he had increased the stock and store group AA championship. The Blue Devils fin­ CORCORAN of the world. And today. at the close of his ished the year 14-1 under Coach Tom final season, he has added to the storehouse McFerrin. Lincoln County High School won the of memories of each of us. HON. JERRY WELLER Grandpa was a strong man, who did hard group A championship. The Red Devils were OF ll..LINOIS physical labor all his life. In recent years the undefeated, going 15-0 under Coach Larry IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES time had taken a toll. One of his great loves Campbell. I am very proud of the efforts of was training and racing horses. Remember these young men, . the.re coaches, teachers, Thursday, February 1, 1996 that in a race the horse and jockey do not and the communities that supported them. Mr. WELLER. Mr. Speaker, I want to inform stop when they reach the line: there is a lit­ They are a credit to the State of Georgia. my colleagues in the House of Representa­ tle canter before reaching a standstill. It is Mr. Speaker, it is my distinct pleasure to tives of the recent death of Thomas Francis then that the jockey hears the cheers of the herald the accomplishments of these three Corcoran of Ottawa, IL, at the age of 86. crowd, and thinks back on the race just run. champions. I like to think that Grandpa was in a canter Through his son, former Illinois Congressman these last years: and special thanks is due to Tom Corcoran, I first became acquainted with those who on a daily basis cared for him and the late Mr. Corcoran many years ago. He gave him cheer. SALUTING COACH NEAL QUILLIN was a true man of the land, loved and re­ Thomas Francis Corcoran was not a man of AND THE HUMBLE WILDCATS ON spected by all who knew him. Moreover, he sorrow, he was a man of great humor. He ANOTHER GREAT SEASON was representative of the hard working, hon­ never spoke a harsh word to anyone, and est, good men and women who farm our Na­ never lost his smile. He would not think it HON. JACK FIELDS tion's fields to produce food for our own peo­ inappropriate to have humor at a funeral. His humor gave him strength and stability OF TEXAS ple and others around the world. to meet the challenges life presents. A story IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES One of the privileges of serving in Congress illustrates the point. Thursday, February 1,1996 is meeting America's unsung heroes, either in One day in late summer when I was 11 and our congressional district or across this great my brother Phil 10, we worked an afternoon Mr. FIELDS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the country of ours. Thomas Francis Corcoran with Grandpa and there came a time when 1995 football season was yet another out­ was one of those unsung heroes. we needed to return a small tractor to a standing season for the Humble High School Mr. Corcoran's grandson, Evan, worked on shed, some distance away. Always encourag­ Wildcats. The same "experts" who predicted the staff of our friend and colleague from Vir­ ing us, Grandpa asked Phil if he knew how to that Humble would finish seventh in their dis­ ginia, Mr. WOLF, and he served on the staff of drive the tractor. Phil, always eager to trict in 1994-only to see them win the District please his grandfather, said "Yes." Well we 21-5A championship-were again proven the House Appropriations Committee before started off down the narrow lane with Phil becoming an assistant U.S. attorney here in on the tractor and Grandpa and me in the wrong last year. Humble, predicted to finish Washington. In the eloquent eulogy which fol­ truck behind. I watched first with amuse­ fifth in their district in 1995, instead fought lows, given by his grandson, Evan, at the fu­ ment, then with concern, as the tractor their way to a 9-4-2 record, ending their sea­ neral on December 9, 1995, we are reminded began to pick up speed. It began to go faster son in a Division II state semi-final game. once again about the everyday greatness of and faster, and as it did it moved from one Coach Neal Quillin and the members of the our people and therefore the greatness of our side of the lane, bounded by a field of corn, Humble Wildcats football team have earned country. to the other, bounded by a fence, and back the gratitude of their community and fans, and and forth again. Well eventually the tractor have earned the respect not only of their op­ Mr. Speaker, I commend the following Cor­ took out a couple of rows of corn for a dis­ coran eulogy to my colleagues: tance and then came to rest against the ponents, but of high school football "experts" THOMAS FRANCIS CORCORAN fence. We stopped and Grandpa walked over as well. As an Humble native, and a graduate What better place is there in the world to Phil. With not a hint of anger in his voice, of Humble High School, I want to take a mo­ when you are 11 years old on a sunny sum­ he said, "I thought you said you knew how ment to salute the remarkable success of the mer afternoon than to be at your grand­ to drive it." Phil replied, "I know how to Humble High School Wildcat football team this father's side, in a field, mending fences? drive it Grandpa. I just don't know how to past season. What better place to learn what is valuable stop." Well, Grandpa just loved that. He The Wildcats began the 1995 season on a would appreciate the humor in life. in life? My brothers and sisters and I learned low not~a 24-21 loss to Baytown Sterling, Grandpa was a man who, in his own hum­ many lessons from Thomas Francis Corcoran before recovering to defeat Katy Taylor 27-23. when we lived on the family farm just out­ ble way, walked with God. When he drove a side of Ottawa. combine into a new field, he would make the A narrow 21-20 loss to Westfield followed be­ We learned not by being told-for Grandpa sign of the cross. He is with God now. The fore the Wildcats defeated MacArthur 28-7; was a man who chose his words carefully, monument to Thomas Francis Corcoran is defeated Aldine 26-7; tied Spring 24-24; and and used them sparingly-but by observing. his contribution to our collective spirit, his defeated Kingwood 2~3. He taught by example. We saw his Quiet dig­ place in the hearts and minds of the family Next, Humble lost to Eisenhower 42-2Q­ nity, his discipline, his economy, and his and friends and neighbors gathered here in putting the Wildcats in a must-win situation to honesty. We saw a man at peace with himself prayer. In a world where so many forces secure a playoff spot. The Wildcats were up to and with the world. He gave unQualified love, work to keep us all apart, memories of him a love my sister Camilla described yesterday bind us together. What greater legacy from a the challenge; in their regular-season finale, as the purest she had encountered. He left an decent and a fine man. they defeated Nimitz 23-7, winning a place in enduring imprint. M. EVAN CORCORAN, post-season play. Thomas Francis Corcoran was a lifelong Ottawa, IL. In the playoffs, the Wildcats, and their farmer. He loved the land. He was in concert coaching staff, showed what they were made with the great silent forces that shape the of. They defeated Baytown Lee 17-14, over­ world. His work connected him with his com­ HONORING THREE STATE coming the area's number one-ranked offense. munity and with the world. He came from a CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL TEAMS Next, they tied Texas City 21-21, before going time when you would call your neighbors in the evening and say, "The crops are in, be on to defeat Madison 2~7. and Elkins, ~5. here early." And the men would come and HON. CHARUE NORWOOD While the Wildcats' 17-7 loss to San Anto­ work in the fields until lunch. There would OF GEORGIA nio Roosevelt was disappointing, Humble's be two tables set up outside, and after wash­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES players and coaching staff demonstrated last ing at the pump, they would try to sit down year what they demonstrated the year before: at the first table. because there were some Thursday, February 1,1996 that the experts mediocre expectations can be great eaters in that crowd and you could not Mr. NORWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased exceeded through hard work, dedication, be sure that the food would hold out. At the to bring to your attention three Georgia high teamwork and planning. end of the day no money would change hands. school championship football teams from my In addition, to the outstanding record com­ He took pride in the visible return that the district. T.W. Josey High School won the piled last year by the Wildcats, I want to point earth makes for labor. He took pride in pass­ group AAA championship. The Eagles were out that last year's season also saw Coach ing the land on to the next generation, when undefeated, going 15-0 under Coach John Quillin achieve his 1OOth career victory-a tes­ his son returned to farm. At the end of each Starr. Elbert County High School won the tament to his coaching skills. 2294 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 In the Wildcats' third-round playoff game by the SBA, and the rate offered to larger TRIBUTE TO CLAIR A. HILL against Madison, the 17-5A champions-a businesses by the Eximbank. This will likely game held in Houston Astrodome-Humble have a chilling effect on small business lend­ HON. WAUY HERGER quarterback Steve O'Neill showed just how tal­ ers who will have to incur greater risk in fi­ OF CALIFORNIA ented he is. In that game, O'Neill passed for nancing small business exports. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 92 yards, rushed for 141 yards, and caught Mr. Speaker, that is why I am introducing Thursday, February 1, 1996 two critical passes. His performance in that legislation today to restore the 90 percent game impressed even those who were already guarantee rate for small businesses who fi­ Mr. HERGER.' Mr. Speaker, I rise this morn­ familiar with his playing skills earlier in the nance their export transactions through the ing, to recognize Clair A. Hill, an outstanding season. SBA's Export Working Capital Program. My leader in the State of California. Mr. Hill has been an active public servant in While those of us who cheer for the Humble bill will place small businesses back on a level northern California for 30 years and has Wildcats were disappointed by their loss to playing field with larger businesses. This is served as chairman of the California Water oniy fair. San Antonio Roosevelt, we remember that Commission, a director of the California during their five-game playoff run, the Wildcats Exporting can be a very lucrative business Chamber of Commerce and an active member won bidistrict, area and regional champion­ for many of these firms. It's also beneficial for of the American Society of Civil Engineers. ships. And that's not bad for a team picked to our Nation's economy. The Labor Department His dedication to the balanced management finish fifth in their district! Estimates that for every $1 billion in increased of California's water supply was recognized by Mr. Speaker, thank you for allowing me to trade, 20,000 manufacturing jobs and 40,00(}- the U.S. Bureau of Redamation in its citizen do this little hometown boasting. I know you 60,000 service and support jobs are created. award to him for outstanding lifelong commit­ join with me in congratulating the Humble Moreover, wages are 22 percent higher on ex­ ment to the wise use and development of Cali­ Wildcats and their coaching staff on a truly re­ ported goods. fornia's water resources. markable 1995 football season, and in wishing I don't believe anyone in this Chamber Mr. Speaker, I wish to submit for the them continued success on an off the field in would intentionally discriminate against small RECORD the following written tribute to Mr. Hill the years ahead. They have made all of us businesses who wish to export their products. in recognition of his distinguished public serv­ proud of their accomplishments, and to them That is why it is important that we restore the ice and his extraordinary efforts to improve we say "thank you." 90 percent guaranty rate to the Export Work­ California water management. Thank you. ing Capital Program. IN RECOGNITION OF CLAIR A. HILL FOR The SBA has been invaluable in helping EXTRAORDINARY PUBLIC SERVICE SMALL BUSINESS EXPORT WORK- small businesses enter international markets. Whereas, Clair A. Hill is leaving the Cali­ ING CAPITAL ENHANCEMENT Nationally, exporters received a total of 1,161 fornia Water Commission after 30 years of ACT loan from the SBA for more than $481 million public service on that body, his tenure hav­ in fiscal year 1994. It is imperative that we ing spanned the terms of seven governors; and HON. JOHN EUAS BALDACCI continue to help the SBA help on small busi­ Whereas, Mr. Hill began his service on the OF MAINE nesses through the Export Working Capital California Water Commission in 1949, when it IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Program. I urge my colleagues to show their was then known as the State Water Re­ sources Board, and has ably served as Vice­ Thursday, February 1, 1996 support for small business exports by cospon­ soring this legislation. Chair and Chair of that body; and Mr. BALDACCI. Mr. Speaker, as a small Whereas, His interest in, and dedication to, businessman, I am acutely aware of the fact multi-purposes coordinated management of California's water supply was recognized by that small businesses are the engines that IN RECOGNITION OF ARMSTRONG U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in its Citizen drive our Nation's economy. I also recognize WORLD INDUSTRIES OF MARIETTA Award to him for "outstanding lifelong com­ that these businesses often need assistance mitment to the wise use and development of so that they can expand and increase employ­ HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS California's water resources"; and Whereas, Mr. Hill's history of involvement ment. OF PENNSYLV A:t-I"IA As part of their efforts to expand, many in water resources management at the state­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wide level is demonstrated by his long asso­ small businesses have begun to recognize the Thursday, February 1, 1996 ciation with the California Water Plan. In potential of markets outside of the United 1957, he signed the State Water Resources States. In fact, the percentage of small firms Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, last April, Ameri­ Board's letter transmitting Department of involved in exporting is projected to increase cans were horrified by the image of a Water Resources Bulletin 3, the first Califor­ from 23 percent to 33 percent by the year bombed-out courthouse in Oklahoma City. We nia water plan. In his most recent term on 2005. Realizing the potential of foreign mar­ prayed that the tired heroes working day and the California Water Commission, he partici­ kets, delegates to the White House Con­ night in the rubble would find more victims pated in the Commission public hearing on the latest update of the plan; and ference on Small Business recommended that alive, and return them safely to their worried Whereas, As fishery issues have increas­ the Federal Government provide export assist­ families. ingly become an important component of ance to small businesses, and make export fi­ Nearly a year after the tragedy, there are water resources management, Mr. Hill has nance more available to these firms through still heroes working to heal the wounds of represented the California Water Commis­ Federal guarantees. Oklahoma City. One such hero is a well­ sion before Congress and before federal agen­ Currently, the Small Business Administration known business in central Pennsylvania, Arm­ cies to seek funding for needed federal fish­ ery restoration projects; and has a short-term financing program for export strong World Industries of Marietta. Whereas, Mr. Hill has been a lifelong resi­ transactions. The SBA's Export Working Cap­ In January, the Marietta plant donated dent of northern California, having been ital Program, which works in conjunction with 40,000 square feet of Armstrong ceiling tiles to founder and present of the Redding engineer­ the Export-Import Bank, provides loan guaran­ assist in the rebuilding of the Federal court­ ing firm of Clair A. Hill and Associates, now tees to finance small business exports. Until house in Oklahoma City. This generous gift grown to the international firm of CH2MH111. last year, the SBA and the Eximbank har­ was delivered to the director of the Oklahoma In addition to his participation on the Cali­ monized their export loan programs to ensure City Customer Service Center of the General fornia Water Commission, he has served as a director of the California Chamber of Com­ that all borrowers would have the same loan Services Administration. merce and has been involved with the Amer­ terms. Both provided a 90 percent guarantee Armstrong World Industries is a shining ex­ ican Society of Civil Engineers; and rate on loans. Businesses seeking to borrow ample of the charitable spirit that so exempli­ Whereas, Mr. Hill's wealth of knowledge on less than $750,000 would apply for an SBA fies central Pennsylvania. It is this spirit that California water resources management and guaranty. Those seeking more than $750,000 overcomes tragedies and brings people to­ long experience in helping the State meet its would deal with the Eximbank. Unfortunately, gether as a community and a nation. water supply needs have made him an in­ valuable asset to the Water Commission; the SBA guarantee rate was reduced in small I am extremely proud of the efforts of the Now, Therefore, I express my sincere business legislation we enacted last year. As Marietta plant and its workers to help their fel­ thanks to Mr. Hill for his service to the peo­ a result, a disparity has been created between low Americans in Oklahoma City. I am certain ple of California and of the Nation, and com­ the guarantee rate offered to small businesses their generosity will not soon be forgotten. mend him for his personal and professional February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2295 contributions throughout his career to help­ appreciation of your achievements to go Germany, Korea and Vietnam. Much of his ing improve California water management. unstated. career was spent in military intelligence as a WALLY HERGER. Your contributions to U.S. national secu­ Soviet specialist, and he became an expert in rity and the U.S. space program are excep­ missile defense systems and satellite surveil­ tionally well known in Congress. As Director lance. He rose to become deputy director of TRIDUTE TO JOHN E. KUMPF of the Defense Intelligence Agency, your un­ the Central Intelligence Agency for two flinching analysis of Soviet capabilities and years in the 1970's, before he became the di­ intentions reminded us that the Soviet rector of the . Defense Intelligence Agency HON. SAM JOHNSON Union was an unfailing adversary that from 1974 to 1976, when he retired. OF TEXAS wished the United States immense harm. The general was known as an ardent hawk, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Your fortitude in telling elected officials the even among his Pentagon peers, a man who Thursday, February 1,1996 cold, hard truth, even when they sometimes strongly believed in the 1970's that the rapid did not want to hear it, served as a guidepost growth of the Soviet Union's military was Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, by which we could reorient U.S. foreign pol­ being ignored within the American intel­ it is with a great deal of personal pleasure that icy and win the Cold War. ligence community. And it was after General I recognize the major accomplishments of an Even in retirement, General Graham, you Graham retired from the military that he individual who dedicated his career to serving were dedicated and forward-thinking which was able to press his views most effectively. In 1976, General Graham advised Ronald the interests of our country, Mr. John E. you proved by founding High Frontier, a citi­ zen's organization dedicated to leading the Reagan in his first Presidential campaign, Kumpf. United States towards a secure future in which was unsuccessful. In late 1979, the gen­ Mr. Kumpf, who has been a resident of Dal­ space. Your leadership helped President eral was again asked to advise Mr. Reagan las, TX, for the past 23 years, distinguished Reagan launch the Strategic Defense Initia­ on military matters in his bid for the Presi­ himself as a fighter pilot from 1950 to 1954. tive, which has brought us ever closer to dency. Even then, General Graham was en­ He was a member of the 25th Interceptor ending the threat of nuclear annihilation. thusiastic about shifting the nation's mili­ Squadron and flew an F-86 Sabre jet during However, you were not satisfied to simply tary resources to an antimissile defense. But the Korean war. Mr. Kumpf flew over 100 air improve national security, but you led High as the general recalled later, the invitation combat and support missions from his base of Frontier and its sister organization, the from Mr. Reagan prompted him to get "real­ Space Transportation Association, to cre­ ly busy" on finding a way to pursue an anti­ operations at Suwon, Korea. For his dedicated atively think about the U.S. future in space. missile defense policy. efforts during this campaign, Mr. Kumpf re­ Today, under you care and instruction, these In his research, General Graham came ceived the Distinguished Flying Cross and the two organizations are among the most cre­ upon a plan developed in the Eisenhower Ad­ Air Medal with three clusters. He continued in ative sources of thinking on developing outer ministration to destroy Russian missiles the U.S. Air Force until December 1954 when space as a national resource. The X-33 pro­ early in flight with Ballistic Missile Boost he received an honorable discharge as a cap­ gram to create a reusable rocket that dra­ Intercepts, or Bambi, an early blueprint for tain. Mr. Kumpf continued to serve his country matically lowers the cost of access to space, space-based battle stations. The project was canceled after the Kennedy Administration for 20 years through the U.S. Air Force Re­ for example, would not be happening today without the contributions of you and your concluded that it would be costly and un­ serve as a pilot and public information officer, colleagues. workable. retiring as a lieutenant colonel. In closing, I can only say thank you for Yet General Graham came to the view that After Korea, he continued his career in the your past service in the Cold War and your technical strides in the intervening two dec­ defense sector by joining Sperry Rand Corp. wonderful contributions to America's future. ades gave the concept of space-based missile in 1956. He served them admirably in public In formulating a vision for space develop­ defense new life, according to "Teller's relations and marketing for 16 years in his ment, you planted, watered, and nurtured a War," a 1992 history of Star Wars by William seed that is growing as we speak and will one J. Broad. hometown of Minneapolis, MN. In 1981, General Graham set up High Fron­ In 1972, he joined E-Systems, in Dallas, TX, day surpass our wildest imagination. Thank you Lieutenant General Daniel 0. Graham tier Inc., a policy organization intended to as director of public relations and later as vice for helping save America. study and promote defense systems in space. president, corporate communications. He di­ Your friend, In the last few years, High Frontier has fo­ rected the annual U.S. savings bonds drive to NEWT GINGRICH. cused more on space transportation and sup­ solicit employees to buy U.S. savings bonds [From the New York Times, Jan. 3, 1996) port systems instead of missiles, said Gen­ through payroll deduction. As a result, over a eral Richardson, deputy director of High D.O. GRAHAM, 70, CREATOR OF 'STAR WARS' Frontier in Arlington, Va. 23-year period, E-Systems employees have DEFENSE Born on April 13, 1925, General Graham purchased more than $110 million of U.S. sav­ (By Steve Lohr) spent his childhood as the son of farmers ings bonds. Lieut. Gen. Daniel 0. Graham, one of the near Medford, Ore. He came from a poor fam­ In summary, Mr. Kumpf merits our thanks leading architects of President Ronald Rea­ ily, working in saw mills and orchards as a and tribute for the outstanding contribution he gan's Strategic Defense Initiative, also teen-ager, his son, Douglas, of Arlington, has made to his country. My personal thanks known as "Star Wars," died on Sunday at his said yesterday. to an extraordinary citizen and constituent. home in Arlington, Va. He was 70. General Graham is survived by his second General Graham died of colon cancer, Brig. wife, Adele Piro Graham, whom he married Gen. Robert Richardson 3d, a friend and in 1994. His first wife, Ruth Maxwell Graham, longtime colleague, said yesterday. died in 1989. TRIBUTE TO GENERAL D.O. While others, including Dr. Edward Teller, Besides his wife and son, General Graham GRAHAM played roles in getting the Reagan Adminis­ is survived by six other children, Daniel Jr. tration to adopt the Star Wars plan to shield of Fairfax, Va.; Melanie of Los Angeles; Lau­ HON. DANA ROHRABACHER the United States from Soviet nuclear at­ rie of Falls Church, Va.; EliZabeth of Fal­ OF CALIFORNIA tack with space-based missiles, even General mouth, Va.; Julianne Stovall of Alexandria, Graham's opponents acknowledge that he and Margaret Cuccinello of Thomaston, Me.; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES was probably the most persistent advocate two brothers, Patrick of San Diego and Thursday, February 1, 1996 for the approach. James of Colorado Springs, and one sister, "Dan Graham got it on the national agen­ Sharon Martinez of Pacifica, Calif. Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, Gen. da and, though it's been modified recently, Daniel Graham's service to this country has the ballistic missile defense concept has re­ been matched by few Americans. As a tribute mained on the agenda ever since," said John TRIBUTE TO DR. JAMES A DOPPKE to him and his achievements, I would like to Pike, director of the space policy project of submit for the RECORD, a letter that Speaker the Federation of American Scientists, a re­ HON. JERRY WEllER search group in Washington. NEWT GINGRICH wrote to General Graham last OF ILLINOIS year, and General Graham's obituary as it ap­ The Strategic Defense Initiative changed its name to the Ballistic Missile Defense IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES peared in the January 3, 1996, edition of the Project in 1993, Mr. Pike noted, but the Thursday, February 1, 1996 New York Times. project is still spending more than S3 billion Mr. WELLER. Mr. Speaker, today, I'd like to U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, a year on the kind of high-technology pro­ Washington, DC, May 10, 1995. grams that General Graham championed congratulate Dr. James A. Doppke as he is in­ DEAR DAN: I am sorry I am not able to join A graduate of West Point, General Graham augurated the seventh president to serve at you this evening. However, I do not want my spent 30 years in the military, serving in the College of St. Francis in Joliet, IL. 2296 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 As part of its 75th anniversary celebration, as the American Dental Association and recently. Coach Mills was voted coach of the the College of St. Francis will inaugurate Dr. American Dental Hygienists' Association to be year by his colleagues, and 19 Sealy players Doppke on February 9, 1996. a major preventative measure against gum were named to the all district team. Dr. Doppke, who previously served as exec­ disease and tooth decay. Among those players named to the all-dis­ utive vice president of the College of St. Mr. Speaker, as a Member of the House trict teams was linebacker Steven Newsome, Francis, was appointed president by unani­ and as a dentist, let me stress that flossing is who was voted defensive player of the year. mous board decision, which cited. his leader­ as important for children as it is for adults. Pe­ Others named tQ the first team offense were ship and commitment to the college and its diatric dentists have found that during the cav­ running back Chris Tate; kicker Jeremy growth. ity prone years of childhood, flossing morning Monsivais; center Ryan Eckelberg; tackle Mike Before coming to the College of St. Francis, and night can actually reverse the earliest Kovar; and quarterback Brad Burttschell. Dr. Doppke was vice president for Educational stages of tooth decay by allowing the tooth Named to the second team were guard Vince Affairs at the College of Lake County. He also enamel to reharden. Doyle; tight end Jarrod Novicke; back Jaron served as associate provost and professor of Attitudes and habits established at an early Dabney; and receiver Chris Lincecum. English at Chicago State University. age are critical in maintaining good oral health In addition to Steven Newsome, players Dr. Doppke holds a baccalaureate degree throughout life. During National Children's named to the first team defense were lineman with honors from the University of Notre Dame Dental Health Month, I urge parents to make Taurus Downey; end Chase Schavrda; line­ and master's degree and doctor of philosophy sure their children are following a good oral backer Paul Martinez; secondary Gary Hill; degrees in English from the university of Chi­ healthcare program that includes regular and secondary Stephen Kaye. Named to the cago. brushing and flossing. I also urge everyone to second team were lineman Steve Aguado; We need dedicated and hard working edu­ visit their oral healthcare professional to learn end Nathan Pless; linebacker Mario Tarver; cators like Dr. Doppke as we look to a young­ how to properly care for their teeth and gums. and secondary Forrest Wagner. er generation for our future leaders, workers, I ask my colleagues to join me as I salute To each of them, and to everyone associ­ parents, and citizens. the American Dental Association for their con­ ated with the Sealy Tigers football team, I say Thank you, Dr. Doppke, for your commit­ tinued responsibility and dedication to the congratulations. You have much to be proud ment to education, and we wish you the best health and well-being of America's children, of, and you, together with your coaching staff, of luck during your tenure as President of the and to congratulate Johnson & Johnson for a have set an example of excellence for others College of St. Francis. century of giving Americans a healthy smile. to follow in the years ahead.

NATIONAL CHILDREN'S DENTAL SEALY TIGERS WIN CLASS 3A A TRffiUTE TO JESTENE McCORD, HEALTH MONTH STATE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL A PIONEER IN THE FIELD OF CHAMPIONSffiP-AGAIN HEALTH CARE HON. CHARUE NORWOOD OF GEORGIA HON. JACK AELDS HON. TIIOMAS M. BARRETT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF TEXAS OF WISCONSIN Thursday, February 1, 1996 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. NORWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Thursday, February 1, 1996 Thursday, February 1, 1996 to recognize two events which have helped to Mr. FIELDS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, we Tex­ Mr. BARRETT of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, it keep America smiling over the years. The year ans take our football pretty seriously. We look is with great pride that I join with my col­ 1996 marks the 55th year of annual recogni­ forward to Sunday afternoons when we can leagues in commemorating the beginning of tion of the importance of children's dental watch the Houston Oilers and the Dallas Cow­ Black History Month by paying tribute to one health. It also marks the 1OOth anniversary of boys. Even more, we relish Saturday after­ of Wisconsin's truly outstanding African Amer­ Johnson & Johnson's dental floss product. noons-when our A&M Aggies, UT ican women, Ms. Jestene McCord. The annual observance of children's dental Longhorns, Baylor Bears and others take the As the director of urban affairs for Aurora health began as a 1-day event in Cleveland, field. But what we really live for is Friday eve­ Health Care, Jestene is a tireless advocate for OH, on February 3, 1941. On February 8, nings, when young men throughout our State the people of Milwaukee and cities throughout 1949, the American Dental Association held don their uniforms and helmets to fight for the Wisconsin. In addition to her work at Aurora, the first national observance of Children's honor of their high schools and their commu­ Jestene devotes her time and expertise to Dental Health Day. This single day observ­ nities. several key Wisconsin organizations. Jestene ance became a week-long event in 1995. By Sealy High School is one such high school, is the chairwoman of the Private Industry 1981, the program was extended to a month­ and Sealy, TX, is one such community. Council Board. She also serves on the State long celebration known today as National Chil­ Again last year, the players and coaching Maternal and Child Health Program Advisory dren's Dental Health Month. staff of the Sealy Tigers defended the honor of Committee, the Milwaukee Area Health Edu­ As far back as 1850 dental references rec­ their high school and their home town by com­ cation Centers of Wisconsin board, the UW­ ommended the use of "waxen silken floss." In piling a 15-0 record, and winning the class 3A Milwaukee School of Nursing advisory council, 1896, Johnson & Johnson introduced its den­ Texas high school football championship for the National Black Nurses executive commit­ tal floss by advertising in dental journals. It the second consecutive year. The Sealy Ti­ tee, and the Wisconsin Black Health Coalition was a welcome alternative to the popular gers have compiled a 32-0 record over the advisory council. In addition, Jestene chairs method of treating gum disease at the time­ last two seasons, and a 42-3 record over the the Milwaukee Breast Cancer Awareness live leeches. The product was originally made last three seasons. Project advisory board which received a Thou­ out of silk-the same silk that was used in the Such an outstanding record is a testament sand Points of Light award from former Presi­ company's surgical sutures. During World War to the hard work and dedication of the dent Bush for its unfailing energy in fighting for II, with silk in great demand for parachutes, school's football players, and its coaching a breast cancer cure. Johnson & Johnson began manufacturing its staff-especially Sealy High School's head Jestene's record of community service is as floss using nylon. Today, its floss is available football coach and athletic director, T.J. Mills. equally impressive as her professional en­ in a wide variety of forms and flavors. Flossing Throughout his career, coach Mills has re­ deavors. She has served as a personal men­ removes plaque, a sticky colorless substance peated one phrase to his players time and tor for many nursing students and developed that forms on your teeth, from places that can­ time again: "You've got to find a way to win." a school-wide mentor program for Milwaukee's not be reached by a toothbrush. If plaque isn't And they have. In fact, during the 1995 regular North Division High School. Jestene has fur­ removed, especially from below the gum line, season, Sealy outscored its opponents 449 to ther coordinated scores of community health the bacteria in the plaque can attack the sur­ 58; during the playoffs, the Tigers outscored fairs for Milwaukee public school students and rounding gums and supporting bone. Flossing their opponents 229 to 43. at area senior centers-demonstrating that is an integral part of proper tooth and gum The success of the 1995 Sealy Tigers was health care awareness is critical for people of care, and is considered by organizations such recognized when district 23-AAA coaches met all ages. Jestene is also a familiar face to February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2297 most Wisconsin residents, routinely appearing threats and minimize risk. I ask all Americans played an eagerness to help his fellow citizens on television and radio programs to discuss to join with me, Mrs. Janet Maguire, and the and their quality of life. pressing health issues. St. Clair Shores City Council in flying the flag Emergency Medical Services Award.-An­ Jestene has received several awards and and support our troops while they pave the thony Hool. Mr. Hool has been a member of commendations for her remarkable work, in­ road to peace in the former Yugoslavia. the Dale City Volunteer Fire and Rescue De­ cluding the prestigious Health Advancement partment for the past 18 years. During this Award. Throughout my career in the Wiscon­ time Mr. Hoot ,l:)as been responsible for devel­ sin State Legislature and here in Congress, I HONORING THE AWARD WINNERS oping the E.M.S. system in Dale City. He is have seldom seen a person in public life who OF THE DALE CITY CIVIC ASSO­ also one of the most respected E.M.S. provid­ commands as much respect and admiration CIATION ers in the Commonwealth of Virginia. as Jestene. A countless number of elected of­ Elementary School Teacher of the Year.­ ficials and policymakers including myself, have HON. THOMAS M. DAVIS Carolyn Harrington. Ms. Harrington is a sec­ come to rely on Jestene's expertise, and will OF VIRGINIA ond grade teacher at Neabsco Elementary continue to do so well into the future. Jestene IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES School in Dale City. Her dedication and love is truly at the forefront of the health care pro­ of her work is reflected in the children of the Thursday, February 1,1996 fession, and her compassion and energy community. knows no bounds. Mr. DAVIS. Mr. Speaker, it gives me great Middle School Teacher of the Year.­ Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me pleasure today to rise and bring to the atten­ Vemice Turner. Ms. Turner is a seventh grade in saluting the accomplishments of Jestene tion of my colleagues some very special and language arts teacher at Mills E. Godwin Mid­ McCord. The people of Milwaukee, and all of important people in Dale City in the 11th Con­ dle School. She is one who gives generously Wisconsin have indeed been blessed by her gressional District of Virginia. These are peo­ of her time and demonstrates the highest level selfless devotion to both her profession and ple who have put the good of their community, of professionalism and competence. her community. Date City, VA, above their own needs and de­ High School Teacher of the Year.-Jim sires, not only performing their jobs, but going Sivells. Mr. Sivells is a social studies teacher above and beyond the call of duty. These indi­ at Cecil D. Hylton High School. His dedication IN SUPPORT OF OUR TROOPS viduals have become role models to others in to his work truly makes government come their professions and to other volunteers. They alive for his students and is reflected in their HON. DAVID E. BONIOR will be honored on Saturday, February 3, admiration for him. OF MICHIGAN 1996, by the Dale City Civic Association, one Mr. Speaker, I know my colleagues join with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the largest, most active, and accomplished me in congratulating these outstanding citi­ citizens associations in the Commonwealth of zens for their tireless efforts to make Dale Thursday, February 1, 1996 Virginia. I would like to offer my congratula­ City, VA a better place to live. Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, I proudly rise to tions to the award recipients. pay tribute to the American troops who are The Dale City Civic Awards Association was helping implement peace in Bosnia and created nearly 30 years ago and hosts an an­ TRmUTE TO LLOYD CHARLES Herzegovina. In the words of Mrs. Janet nual service awards banquet. In addition, the BROWN Maguire, one of the constituents I have the association awards a number of scholarships privilege to represent, "The men and women for college bound students from Dale City, HON.JOSEE.SERRANO are prepared to give the ultimate sacrifice if monitors development, and serves as a OF NEW YORK need be and we should not take them for sounding board for citizens and businesses. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES granted." Citizen of the Year.-Jo Ann Mains. Ms. Thursday, February 1, 1996 Mrs. Maguire epitomizes both the pride and Mains serves on numerous community boards, Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay concern that Americans have for the members helps raise money for the Dale City Volunteer tribute to the memory of Mr. Lloyd Charles of our Armed Forces. In her Jetter to me she Fire Department, ACTS, the Boys and Girls Brown, an active community leader who dedi­ states "They [our troops] have agreed to go to Clubs, and she also gives her valuable time cated his life for the betterment of the Bronx. a strange land and risk their lives to ensure by helping needy families. Mr. Brown was born in Banes, Cuba in 1922 peace and the least we as Americans can do Young Citizen of the Year.-Shivon to Lesseps Brown and Susan Lawrence is give them our support and let them know Kershaw. Ms. Kershaw serves in many church Brown. He worked on the Guantanamo Bay they will not be forgotten." Because of her ef­ and civic associations in Prince William Coun­ Naval Base for 20 years. forts, the St. Clair Shores City Council passed ty. In addition to these activities she has won Mr. Brown immigrated to the United States a resolution calling for all citizens to "support Martin Luther King oratory contests both at the in 1964. He became a businessman in the our service men and women by flying the flag middle school and high school levels for the Bronx and initiated many ideas for the better­ and keeping them and their families in our past 2 years. Despite her many extracurricular ment of the community. thoughts and prayers." I applaud Mrs. Maguire activities she still maintains a very high grade Mr. Brown's active rote in the community in­ and the city's leaders for their show of sup­ point average. cluded his work at community board No. 9, port. Community Service Award.-Terrance where he was chairman of the Rainbow After I am proud of the fact the American troops Spellane. Mr. Spellane served on the county School Program, youth committee member, are saving lives in Bosnia. We in the United board of supervisors for 8 years and was a and chairman of the housing committee. He States have a moral duty to stand up for leader in sound fiscal policies, human serv­ was also the chairman of the Dankner Eye In­ peace whenever possible. To do so is in our ices, and economic development stitute, president of the Blackrock Avenue national interest and is in keeping with the Nurse of the Year.-Deana Michell. Ms. Tenant Association and a member of the ideals on which our Nation was founded. For Michell is a nurse at Potomac Hospital whose Mitchell-Lama Council, the America Security 220 years we have sent American men and constant pursuit of perfection and relationship Council National Advisory Board, and the women overseas, not just to defend American with patients has earned her the respect and Bronx Municipal Hospital Corporation Advisory interests, but to defend American values-to admiration of her colleagues and patients at Board. stand up for freedom, democrary, and human the hospital. His career in politics Jed him to become rights. This is what America stands for. And Police Officer of the Year.-Qfficer Patricia president of the Community Democratic Club that is why we should all be proud of our Harmon. Officer Harmon has given not only of the 76th Assembly District in New York. He troops who are carrying out their missions in her official time, but her private time helping was also a member of the community advisory support of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina the people of her community become edu­ committee for Assemblyman Hector L. Diaz. with professional excellence, dedicated patriot­ cated in safety. Mr. Brown received the Rev. Dr. Martin Lu­ ism, and exemplary bravery. Fire Fighter of the Year.-Howard Coleman. ther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award for his We have a responsibility to support these Mr. Coleman has been a member of the Dale achievements in helping the people of our brave men and women and give them the re­ City Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department community. He was also honored with a Cita­ sources needed to protect themselves against since 1991. Mr. Coleman has always dis- tion of Merit from Bronx Borough President 2298 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 17 1996 Fernando Ferrer and a Citation of Merit from ried James C. Fields and moved with him to Unfortunately, it appears that the Commis­ Assemblyman Hector Diaz. Louisiana. During this time, she received her sioner of the Food and Drug Administration Mr. Brown left a legacy of courage, respon­ R.N. degree at the Providence Hospital School was not watching the President's address last sibility, hard work, camaraderie, and love for of Nursing, and her B.S.N. degree and B.A. week because the FDA is still pressing for­ the community. He is survived by his wife, four degree at the Sacred Heart School of Health ward with its plans to regulate tobacco. children, three grandchildren, an aunt, and Administration at Tulane University. In the President's new era of smaller Gov­ other relatives and friends. Peggy always loved teaching, and she had ernment, the FPA.has proposed, in 140 pages Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me the opportunity to educate young people dur­ in the Federal Register, to wrest from Con­ in honoring the life of Mr. Lloyd Brown who left ing her 15 years as an elementary school gress, from the Federal agencies and from the a mark on our community through his commit­ teacher. She also always loved nursing, and States, the authority to regulate the sale, dis­ ment to serve with love and to the best of his she served as a nurse for 20 years in Hous­ tribution, advertising, and promotion of to­ abilities. ton, at Our Lady of Lake Medical Center in bacco. The FDA has made this proposal de­ Baton Rouge, and at Ascension General Hos­ spite the fact that Congress has traditionally pital, where she served· as director of nurses left to the States most elements of tobacco TRIBUTE TO RALPH E. DALTON and as a private nursing consultant. regulation-including age of purchase. In the 1970's, Peggy opened and sold the The President also outlined in his State of HON. JERRY WELLER first home health agency in Baton Rouge, the Union Address, a number of challenges he OF ILLINOIS which is now known as Capitol Home Health. sees facing our Nation-including preventing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES She also owned several businesses in Ascen­ underage tobacco use. However, I would re­ sion Parish, and, in 1989, she opened Ascen­ mind the President that Congress has already Thursday, February 1, 1996 sion College of Gonzales, where she contin­ risen to this challenge, having enacted in Mr. WELLER. Mr. Speaker, today I'd like to ues to serve as chairman of the board. 1992, the ADAMHA Reorganization Act, re­ honor the retirement of Ralph E. Dalton after In addition to being active in her church (St. quiring the States, as a condition for receiving serving the public in the Illinois Department of John the Evangelist) where she is the organ­ certain Federal grants, to enact and enforce Transportation for 37 years, 7 months, and 11 ist, Peggy has been active in many organiza­ laws preventing the sale or distribution of to­ days of service. tions in her community. She helped found and bacco products to minors. Mr. Dalton, a native of Farmington, IL, grad­ lead the Taxpayers for Ascension General; Although this legislation became law before uated from Western Illinois University with a she served as president of her local art guild; Mr. Clinton took office, it was only last week bachelor's degree in physics and Bradley Uni­ and she served as president of her fellowship that his Department of Health and Human versity with a master's degree in engineering center. Services issued its final rule for implementa­ administration. He married Joyce Scott on Oc­ The recipient of the 1994 National Volunteer tion. Indeed, it took the Department almost tober 19, 1958, and they have one daughter, Service Citation, Peggy continues to serve on 2112 years from the time it issued its proposed Libby. the state board of directors of the Arthritis rule to the time it promulgated its final rule. Mr. Dalton's career with lOOT started in Foundation. Previously, she received the 1993 This delay helps underscore the inherent 1958 with district 4 in Peoria, IL. Then, in Employer of the Year Award from the Baton limitations of big Government and serves as 1965 he was appointed district 4 geotechnical Rouge Catholic Diocese's senior employment proof that Congress had the right idea when it engineer and in 1985 he became district 4 en­ division. She has been named Business­ granted to the States, and not to the Federal gineer of materials. In 1988 he moved to the woman of the Year and, in 1995, was award­ Government, responsibility for reducing under­ engineer of land acquisition in district 4. ed the Research Advocate Award from the age tobacco use. In 1990 he was appointed assistant district National Arthritis Foundation. While the Federal Government has a legiti­ engineer at district 6 and in 1992 was ap­ Mr. Speaker, I may not be totally impartial mate interest in preventing the purchase of to­ pointed district engineer for the district 3 Ot­ when it comes to Peggy Fields. But I happen bacco products by minors, the matter is prop­ tawa office. to believe that she represents the kind of vol­ erly the domain of State governments, not a And, above and beyond the call of duty, unteerism and private-sector assistance that Federal agency acting without congressional Ralph Dalton served for 8 years as a member so many of us believe in . Her tireless efforts authorization or direction. The individual of the Illinois National Guard. over many years in so many different ways to States are much better equipped to deal with Mr. Dalton is the type of civil servant who is help her neighbors and her community have the complex factors involved with underage loyal, diligent, and has a proven record of inspired all who know her, and have given all use, than is the FDA with its "one size fits all" achievement. He will be missed at the Illinois of us an example of what each of us can do approach and its unwieldy bureaucracy. Department of Transportation. to make our communities better places. I know Mr. Speaker, since all 50 States already I speak for the thousands of men, women, and have laws prohibiting the sale or distribution of children who have benefited from her work tobacco products to persons under age 18, I SALUTING AWARD WINNER PEARL and her compassion when I say, thank you to would think that the FDA's time and resources R. " PEGGY" FIELDS my aunt, Pearl R. "Peggy" Fields. could be better spent on approving new medi­ Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you cines and medical devices and allow the HON. JACK FIELDS again, Aunt Peggy. States to combat underage tobacco use. OF TEXAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REGULATION OF TOBACCO BY FDA FOUR LETTERS Thursday, February 1, 1996 Mr. FIELDS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I was HON. ED BRYANT HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH remiss last year in not taking time to salute a OF TENNESSEE OF NEW JERSEY remarkable woman, Pearl R. "Peggy" Fields, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES who was honored with the Arthritis Founda­ tion-Louisiana chapter's Humanitarian Award Thursday, February 1, 1996 Thursday , February 1, 1996 last June. I am proud to say that Peggy is my Mr. BRYANT of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, to­ aunt, and I want to take a moment today to know you were as relieved as I was, to hear morrow on February 2, my parents, Bern and salute her not only for this latest honor, but for the President reveal that the "era of big Gov­ Kay Smith, will celebrate their 50th wedding her long and distinguished record of service to ernment is over." This likely will be welcome anniversary. For our family and friends this will her community. news to the millions of Americans who are fed be an historic milestone filled not only with Peggy was born Pelagia Rosko in Ohio, and up with a Federal Government which has enormous happiness and joy, but gratitude, as entered the convent at age 13 as Sister Maria spent itself into a $5 trillion debt and which well. Consolata. She remained at the convent until, has been injecting itself into nearly every as­ My parents' love for each other, and for my at age 37, she moved to Houston and pect of the lives of working men and women two older brothers and me, was always strong, changed her name to Pearl Rosko. She mar- in the process. an absolutely sure thing, never in question. February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2299 They always had our best interest at heart. In I think the answer to my question on bow Life's challenges, and I feel strongly that raising us, we always knew they were raising to describe Kay and Bern's fifty years of this training helped me in my aviation ca­ their three sons not just for this life on earth, marriage is rather simple. How beautiful and reer. The dinner table discussions at the but for eternity with God. The bond of love wonderful they are . . . my Morn and Dad are Smith Family house also helped us to really an everlasting, unending love story. know and appreciate each other and honed was strong for their own parents, my dad's Happy Anniversary! our skills at the presentation of opinions. No brother Gil and his daughter Sue-who was MICK. topic was off limits and we all learned that like a daughter to them and a sister to us­ to bave an opinion on something was to be and my mother's nine brothers and sisters. My Morn and Dad are proudly celebrating prepared to clearly debate the issues, with Conceding up front that mere words are in­ their 50th wedding anniversary, and the im­ Morn & Dad guiding us in making sure our adequate in expressing the depth and breadth pact of this day has made me reflect on just "Ducks were in a row." My brothers and I of our feelings, mom and dad, here are three how unique and special they are to my benefited tremendously from these now leg­ letters from your three sons brothers and I. We have enjoyed a lifetime of endary happenings, and to this day when we genuine love and involvement, and it is not get together there will be strongly held opin­ And mom, a letter from dad. possible for me to truly measure all that I ions discussed and dissected, and the learn­ KATHERINE J. ROLL AND BERNARD H. SMITH have learned from them. Sometimes the ing will continue. There was no need to have How do we label fifty years of marriage? Is "push" to grow and change was subtle, at the television on to keep us busy. it an event, an achievement, a celebration, a other times it was not, but even as kids, the Mom is the "Heart Of Our Family" and is milestone, survival of the fittest, a bit of Smith boys recognized somehow that the very sk1lled at making others feel welcome luck or just plain true love? The answer love we received on a daily basis was to be and a part of our family. We were fortunate probably lies somewhere within all of these cherished. to meet and know many of Mom & Dad's concepts and more. It is difficult to accu­ Of all the qualities that parents can imbue friends over the years, as they entertained rately and to adequately describe my Mom in their sons, several have come to be guid­ often and graciously. We were never treated and Dad, Kay and Bern. ing forces in my life. From my earliest recol­ like little kids unless we acted that way, My first recollection of them begins at lections of the teachings of my Mom & Dad, which we tried very hard not to do so that their wedding in February 1946. I insisted they have stressed the importance of honor we could be involved in more adult matters that I attended and can prove it by merely and duty. My brothers and I have now seen and discussions. Often upon leaving a large viewing pictures and scenes from their 16mm for ourselves the results of "doing the right family gathering, we would be praised for movie films. Of course the "me" was my 12 thing" in our daily lives and we can (and do) being good kids and for making them proud year old uncle, but nonetheless I continue to thank Mom & Dad for their hands-on style of with the way we handled ourselves. My assert otherwise. parenting. In the 90's, it is rather common brothers and I always appreciated this posi­ Growing up in the Smith home was never for many to be unconcerned of the con­ tive feedback. dull. Adventure is a good description for sequences of their actions, but my brothers Dad likes to say "show me" on occasions those times. Mom and Dad were intimately and I were taught that we must be true to where he needs to be convinced of the verac­ involved in our lives. Their love nurtured ourselves and to "own" our behavior. The ity of a statement. Morn & Dad showed us and encouraged without smothering. Reas­ "Golden Rule" was often the answer we re­ how they felt about us all the time, and they surance and challenge were always present. ceived when we were seeking advice from our still do. We knew that we were loved, we They were always there for us. They gave us parents. I remember a discussion I had with were not just told that we were. It is com­ room to grow and were ready to support and my Dad when I was unsure whether it was mon now to speak of "family values" as if comfort their boys. O.K. to vote for myself in the upcoming they could be capsulized and distributed to If there is an ideal childhood then cer­ Freshman Class Presidential election. Dad's people for their enrichment. When you have tainly we had one. The lessons of life were view on this matter was disarmingly simple had good strong family values as the defin­ taught by example through an exquisite bal­ and direct. He said, that if I was to ask any­ ing fabric of your entire life, as we have had, ance of firmness, fairness and fun. Opportu­ one else to vote for me, that this was akin to you begin to sense that "love is the answer, nities of many varieties were provided, asking them to trust in me, and if I had their no matter the question." I can honestly shared and celebrated. Success of one was trust, then surely I must trust in myself to state, that Morn & Dad by constantly dem­ joy for all. Adversity was met directly and, do the job. So I voted for myself, as I had the onstrating their unwavering love for God, for ultimately, viewed as a learning experience confidence in myself that loving parents help us, and for each other, have shown the way to prepare us for the future. engender in their children. Trust in oneself to true happiness in this life. They have Mom the Club Scout Den Mother, Dad the took many forms in our household. One only taught us the secret. It is up to us to live little league coach, both the homework need look at some of the events that we that secret and to pass it on to everyone we "checkers" have left their imprint on us. brothers engaged in from some pretty young touch. That these acorns did not fall far from the ages, with full support from Mom & Dad. Mom & Dad, congratulations on your 50- tree is evidenced by the Smith boys' char­ Chris had his first paper route at age 6! I was year achievement!! acter and individual traits. All different yet about 8 years old when Mick and I started I love you very much! each possessing the basic core values Mom scuba diving. Mom and Dad endeavored to T. and Dad lived. We are the fruit of their love treat us equally. I know we all appreciated and labor. that, and I believe the results of that even­ DEAR MOM AND DAD: Fifty years ago today, Although their lives revolved around us handed treatment are partly responsible for you both said "I do," and what you've done they ensure their love and happiness was the closeness we brothers feel for each other together bas truly left, and continues to rooted in each other. They believed in their to this day. Sibling rivalry was never an leave, a special legacy for all of us who deep­ families and showed us the treasures in issue, unless the issue was sports! ly love and respect you. grandparent, uncles, aunts and cousins. We All of us participated in sports, seemingly I am certain that your parents--Nana and were fortunate to have so many. Kay and always showing a preference for those sport­ Grarnp Smith and Roll-Sue and all our Bern's friends over these last fifty years are ing events where individual achievement loved ones who are with the Lord, rejoice too numerous to list and there are always could be measured. I think we all desired today in your achievement. You have been a more being added to the fold. Wherever they very strongly to show Mom & Dad that we blessing and inspiration beyond what you'll live, travel or 'hang out' some new acquaint­ could be as good as they told us we were! ever know. Someday perhaps the Lord will ances emerge, most become friends. The Mom & Dad were early devotees of swimming tell you in Heaven how the thousands of strength we know was and is felt by many. and tennis and filled our community's need seemingly little things-acts of kindness or Their generosity and friendliness is well re­ for a place to play, by organizing wl th assist­ honesty-affected us for the good. You nowned. They have known tough times in ance from uncle Gil, a Swim Club. Dad was taught Mick, Torn and me as much, if not their fifty years and after each have emerged also instrumental in the start-up of a boy's more, by your consistent example and good stronger in their love for each other. Kay baseball league, and even coached one of the works than by what you said. And Mom, you and Bern live life vigorously, content in teams. I think we can all remember Dad's know bow Dad loves to talk. their past while expectantly anticipating the frequent calls to be " Heads Up!" and to stay Growing up in Iselin, our family was future. in the flow of the action by being prepared to strong-like a rock-because of your faith in To be their son is a supreme gift from God. act immediately if we fielded a ball. He God, your devotion to the Blessed Mother, To live up to and emulate their greatness is would keep us thinking by having us say to your goodness, your sense of humor, your a difficult task to achieve yet a goal worthy ourselves: "What am I going to do if the ball work ethic and concern for others-espe­ of the quest. Morn and Dad made it simpler comes to me?" The situational awareness cially the little guy. because they gave us the template for suc­ that was fostered by this and other self­ You taught us to look beyond the obvious cess and are always there to pick us up and knowledge exercises while growing up, and below the surface. To think deep 'point our beads' in the right direction. uniquely prepared my brothers and I for thoughts and big ideas, but not to get bogged 2300 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 down in dreams. "You can keep your head in tion, and I'm not talking about ketchup. often explosively, cataclysmic, earth moving the clouds," you often said, Dad, "as long as Your mantra was to ask: "what do I do if the events that produced Mick, Tom and Chris you keep your feet on the ground." And then ball comes to me." You instilled in us a pro­ became for us, wondrously frequent happen­ there's your old friend "economics." active way of thinking-not just making ings. It sure hasn't been ho-hum nor routine. You never did anything half-way or half­ double plays. I'm sure Mick and Tom-espe­ Do you remember many, many years ago baked or half-hearted. Yet, if I heard it once cially when making critical flight decisions discussing. "The Magic Cottage" by 0. I heard it a thousand times, "everything in in the pilot's seat somewhere in the strato­ Henry? It told of a young, handsome and vi­ moderation and balance." You poured your­ sphere-find this training extremely useful. brant couple who never saw themselves older selves first into making your marriage work, Although we had to prod you for details with the passing years, as long as they were and then into the challenge of raising three about World War II-much of it too hellish in the confines of their "Magic Cottage". hard-driving, independent-minded, rough­ to recount-we always admired your gal­ Much the same as the fabled, "Shangri-La". and-tumble boys. lantry and courage serving America as a Well, I believe we have found the spirit of I never knew a time when you both didn't combat soldier in New Guinea, the Phil­ our, "Magic Cottage" in our minds. The work hard to make a decent living; and you ippines, and other battles in the Pacific. And "Fountain of Youth" is not a place but rath­ did it honestly. Remember the time what guy wouldn't be impressed with all er that tenuous, delicate spirit of love along Rawlings sent several dozen top of the line those medals you earned. When I read your with our "Joie de Vivre". The joy of life. baseball gloves which would sell for almost historic novel-Horizons of Glory-! couldn't The very phrase-Joy of Life-has such a $100 each, but billed us for rawhide laces at help wonder how many of the scenes depicted positive ring to it. Very few of us are born 50 cents a pop. What a profit! What a killing! had their root in your actual war experience. with it. It must be cultivated over a span of No one would ever know. Not! You called Both you and Mom are extremely well-read; years and, I believe we have done that. Rawlings immediately to set the record thanks for passing the importance of books It has manifested itself countless times straight. Well, I remember that day, and I and reading on to us. And Dad, you have al­ through the quiet pride we take in our loving learned a lesson in integrity to last a life­ ways had the gift-the flair-for writing. parents, brothers, sisters, three fine sons and time. Years later when Mick and I were in And talk about a guy with that "competi­ our grandchildren. the store, a van filled with "hot" merchan­ tive edge." In sports and life you have risen We have been separated by war, have expe­ dise-good deals, for sure-pulled into our to every challenge. rienced illness and pain, suffered the loss of parking lot. When approached, Mick said, In 1977, when I married my college sweet­ loved ones always putting our faith in God "not interested," called the police, and they heart Marie, no one was more happy for me­ and His Blessed Mother-and we have been arrested the thief as he was making a "sale" us-than the two of you. I like to think our sustained. a short distance away. These kinds of les­ happy home is like "our" happy home. We My dearest Kay, I have learned, and will sons, and others like them, etched values couldn't be more pleased that Melissa, Chris, continue to learn from your example of into the depths of our souls concerning right Mike and Elyse think of the two of you (aka never complaining. Someone who knows us and wrong in ways no book or words could Mom-Mom and Bobby) as really neat-and both very well once asked me if I found it ever do. they, too, love you. difficult to live with a saint? Mom, you were a "career woman" long be­ I just realized, I'm getting a little long­ "Not at all", I answered. "it's kind of fore that idea came into vogue; yet, you were which is really not fair. Mick, Tom and I nice". always available to Mick, Tom and me be­ agreed that each letter was to be concise. Now we celebrate our fiftieth and I know cause of the way you arranged your hours. Hey, number three son's a politician-what'd you wonder as I do, "Where in the world did We never had to ask, "Where's Mom?" There you expect? A postcard? Happy 50th! those years go so quickly?" Would I do it all was never any doubt whatsoever that your Love, over again? In a minute and I wouldn't first priority was us-and, of course, B. H. CHRIS. change a thing. In the store you were the bookkeeping And I'll bet you feel exactly as I. Remem­ guru, Mom, and much more, making sense of A LOVE LE'ITER TO KAY ON OUR FIFTIETH ber the line from an old song? "A million accounts payable, receivable and purchase ANNIVERSARY FEBRUARY 2, 1946-1996 laughs and a few little tears?" That sums it orders. As long as you had a cup of Herb's MY DARLING KAY: The unabashed, no apol­ up pretty good, don't you agree? coffee-we all lived on that stuff for a while ogy romantic in me happily says, "Kay, you Since writing you hundreds of letters be­ (except Tom, who hated it)-you were ready are synonymous with Love". ginning in 1939, I always ended them with a for anything that might walk through that Love is the only perfect place on our plan­ simple-"! love you" but I don't think I'll front door. et. It can move mountains; it has brought actually end this one. The song is still play­ While Dad did most of the selling to down kings. Yet, Love is paradoxically deli­ ing and I don't think it will ever end. schools and athletic teams, with a minor as­ cate and tenuous and must never be maneu­ So, I'll break off here with something you sist-for a time-from his sons, you were the vered, and certainly never be manipulated. told me you liked very much after hearing it super glue behind the scenes who made it all To paraphrase St. Paul in one of his letters in a speech I once gave. work. to the Corinthians ... Love is selfless, Love "Age is not a time of life-youth is merely Come to think of it, you were the glue at is sacrificial, Love, if nurtured, can be a state of mind. We become old when we home, as well. unending. desert our ideals and dreams. We are as You are a truly remarkable lady, Mom; a You neither have to agree to love, nor young as our faith, as old as our doubts. As real softy with a great big heart. And the should there be a reimbursement to Love. We young as our self confidence, as old as our way you've handled your health ordeal fur­ don't have to be Loved back to Love the way fears". ther reveals your inner strength and faith in God intended. Very simply, it is the never "And deep within our hearts is a recording God. Dad is right on target when he calls you ending gift of totally giving our ourselves­ chamber, and as long as that chamber is re­ "St. Katherine of Robbinsville." And Dad and asking nothing in return. ceiving messages of hope-faith and cheer, you are an example of unfa111ng love and Cynics may scoff at these sentiments but we will never, never grow old. Happy anni­ dedication to mom in "sickness and in they come and go like the waves on a beach versary. health"-you're always just there for her­ and, we have spent more than fifty years, Love, don't think your devotion goes unnoticed. most of our lives, proving them wrong. Liv­ BERN. Dad, I sure do respect your courage and ing as we do, in an age of hedonism, you and boldness. I have never measured success with material Mick, Tom and I are tough on the inside wealth-the size or location of our homes: REMARKS BY SENATOR SIMPSON because of your "tough love." You were easy the cost of our cars; labels on our clothes, AT NATIONAL PRAYER BREAK­ to please, but hard to satisfy. We were ad­ etc.... FAST monished to ask the difficult questions; Our wealth-indeed our legacy is our chil­ stand on principle, even if you do it alone; to dren and their children and obviously, there never give in; to be prepared; to give 100%. is no way to put a dollar value on that, nor HON. TOM LANTOS You coached our Little League teams; co­ should there be a need to. OF CALIFORNIA founded a family swim club with Gil, your You and I would like to think that the brother, with whom you are best friends; and magic that we first felt for each other was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES founded our Boy Scout troop. You taught us not just blind chance-and we never lost it. Thursday, February 1, 1996 to love the outdoors, camping, hiking and Were we just lucky? Maybe-but I think not. Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure citizenship. Both you and Mom seemed aw­ Just as a craftsman, a technician and an fully proud when Mick, Tom and I each made athlete constantly hone and refine their for me to introduce into the CONGRESSIONAL Eagle Scout. skills, so too did we, through constant com­ RECORD the following speech, by my friend In life, and in baseball, you drilled it into munication and understanding the needs of and colleague Senator ALAN SIMPSON, given at us one of the secrets of success: Anticipa- each other. And, the tender, sometimes wild, the National Prayer Breakfast this morning. February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2301 Senator SIMPSON delivered this eloquent ad­ "We'd rather see a sermon than hear one any was struggling with itself. We understood dress with his legendary wit and humor. I en­ day, you even when we did not love you. courage all of my colleagues to read this most We'd rather you would walk with us than In recent years, however, even though you significant speech by Senator ALAN SIMPSON. merely show the way. continue to proclaim your undying devotion The eye is a better pupil and more willing to democratic ideals, you have at first slow­ NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST than the ear. ly, and then more and more abruptly, FEBRUARY 1, 1996 Fine counsel is confusing, but example's al­ changed the course of government policy. Mr. President, First Lady Hillary, Mr. Vice ways clear. Now your government is trying to turn the President and President of our Senate and We can soon learn how to do it if you'll let country in a direction completely contrary Tipper Gore, distinguished guests. Greetings, us see it done, to the one proclaimed in August 1991. ... my fellow seekers, discoverers, and wander­ We can watch you well in action, but your Beginning in late 1993 if not even earlier, ers (not necessarily in that order!) Always a tongue too fast may run you have consistently taken decisions grand morning. And the lecture you deliver may be very wise which-instead of strengthening the rule of One of the great honors of my life was to and true, law in a democratic society-have revived give the principal address at this National But we'd rather get our lessons by observing the blunt and inhuman might of a state ma­ Prayer Breakfast in 1989. I was filled with what you do." chine that stands above justice, law and the trepidation that a seeker like me would be Now there's "The Word" for the day! God individual. . . . asked. bless you all. During the tragic days of the fall of 1993 The night before, the Reverend Billy [when Yeltsin dissolved the Supreme Soviet], Graham, one of the most loving, inspira­ I decided to stand by you despite my serious tional, caring men in this world, called and YELTSIN ADVISOR PROCLAIMS inner doubts. I don't deny my responsibility said, "Alan, we are praying for you." I said, YELTSIN REFORM ERA OVER for that support. I believed that the use of "You're praying for me! I'm doing plenty of force was a tragic necessity given the immi­ that for myself!" So typical of Billy Graham. nent threat of civil war. Even then I under­ Long ago in public life I learned where to HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON stood that the events of October might en­ turn when I didn't know where to turn. One OF NEW YORK courage the top leaders to perceive force as source. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a convenient and familiar instrument for re­ The Senate prayer breakfast group gathers Thursday, February 1, 1996 solving political problems. But I hoped for a every Wednesday morning for a convivial different outcome, that by overcoming the half hour between 8 and 9:00. Our leaders are Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, I would like to crisis of legitimacy and creating a basis for Bob Bennett, the Republican from Utah and submit for the record the text of Boris Yeltsin's the rule of law in Russia, the president and Dan Akaka a Democrat from Hawaii. Rare human rights advisor Sergei Kovalev's letter of the government would do everything possible gentlemen both. resignation. for our country's peaceful and free develop­ The presenter of the day-after an opening Mr. Speaker, this devastating critique of the ment. To a very great extent, the outcome prayer-shares much of himself or herself Yeltsin regime is most timely, considering the depended on you, Boris Nikolaevich. I be­ with us for fifteen or twenty minutes and IMF's current considerations of a $9 billion in­ lieved that you would choose the second then a time of discussion and fellowship. path. I was wrong. Promptly at the hour of nine we close with fusion into the Russian treasury. It also comes The 1993 Constitution confers enormous a prayer as we stand with hands joined at a time when Prime Minister Chemomyrdin powers on the president, but it also places around the tables. Sometimes the theme is is here in the United States assuring the ad­ enormous responsibilities on him: to be the the Bible. Sometimes it's public life. Some­ ministration and other officials that all is well in guarantor of the rights and liberties of citi­ times it's about family and our jobs but al­ Russia. All is not well Mr. Speaker, and those, zens, to safeguard their security and to pro­ ways it's about ourselves and the impact of like the administration, who still don't get it are tect law and order in the country. How have that greater force in our lives-a higher plainly referred to by Mr. Kovalev as naive. I you discharged these duties? How have you being. All faiths. All philosophies. All believ­ urge all Members to read this critical letter. fulfilled your responsib111ties? ers. You have virtually halted judicial reform, These are always very moving times. We THE CASE AGAINST YELTSIN which was designed to make the administra­ share much with each other and we gain (By Sergei Kovalev) tion of justice truly independent from the much from each other. For the past six years I have considered it other branches of government. You openly It helps us endure in the partisan and po­ my duty to promote in every way possible professed the principle: "Let the innocent litical world in which we have chosen to the policy that can fairly be called the suffer as long as the guilty are punished." labor. Kindness, civ111ty, tolerance and for­ "democratic transformation of Russia" not­ You loudly proclaimed the launching of a giveness all are part of the essence of our withstanding many reservations. For a long war on organized crime. In order to imple­ gatherings. We try to put aside harsh judg­ time that policy was closely linked with ment this, you granted exceptional, extra­ ment and criticism. your name. You were the head of a country legal authority to the security ministries. I remember the words of a wonderful cou­ on the road to democracy, and at first, you The result? The criminals continue to roam plet my mother used to share. were even considered the leader of the demo­ freely, while law-abiding citizens have to tol­ "There is so much good in the worst of us. crats. As long as you remained headed in erate the abuse of the uniformed forces with­ And so much bad in the best of us. That it ill that direction. I considered myself your ally, out gaining the security they were promised. behooves any of us to find fault with the rest or, in those instances when you departed You stated that your goal was the preser­ of us." from the overall course or drastically slowed vation and strengthening of the Russian Fed­ I like that one. I knew you would! the tempo of advance, a member of the loyal eration's territorial integrity. The result? A We also talk about our human frailties. We opposition. shameful and bungled civil war which has talk about how easy it is to fall for the blan­ Russia's road to freedom never promised to been raging in the North Caucasus for more dishments of flattery and be overcome by be easy. Many difficulties were obvious from than a year. Under the guise of strengthen­ ego. I have often said that those who travel the very beginning. Many others cropped up ing Russia's defense capability, you've the high road of humility in Washington DC unexpectedly. To overcome them, all of us­ blocked all m111tary reforms which would are not really troubled by heavy traffic! the government, society, each individual­ give Russia an effective modern army. The It is always a very uplifting time. Yes, ac­ had to make complicated and sometimes result? Spending on the army is growing, and tually too a time of sharing of our own tragic decisions. The main things the coun­ the number of generals has increased to an vulnerabilities. It was Will Rogers, our great try expected from you were the will to make indecent figure. In order to justify their ex­ American humorist, who said, "It's great to changes and honesty. Especially honesty. In istence, the term of service has been in­ be great but it is greater to be human." electing you, Russia saw not only a politi­ creased and draft deferments have been We are very privileged to be able to serve cian ready to demolish the former state ended. Meanwhile, soldiers and officers are in the United States Senate. A special obli­ structure, but a person who was sincerely impoverished, ragged and hungry. And the gation. People do observe us. We are scruti­ trying to change himself, his views, his prej­ degradation, ill-treatment and corruption, nized. (Indeed we are!) We hope to do more udices and his habits of rule. You convinced traditional in our army, are as prevalent as than just talk a good game. We need to live many-myself included-that humane and ever. Not surprisingly, tens of thousands of the things we learn and share. democratic values could become the founda­ young men are evading this medieval re­ Let me close with a poem that is some­ tion of your life, your work and your poli­ cruitment like the plague. thing we try to take from the weekly Senate cies. We weren't blind. We saw the typical You speak of a policy of openness, of trans­ prayer breakfast group and something we traits of a Communist Party secretary pre­ parency and of public accountability, yet at might hope to remember from this mar­ served in your behavior. But all Russia, like the same time you sign secret decrees con­ velous convocation today. That little poem. a man striving to overcome a serious defect, cerning the most important matters of state. 2302 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 You create closed institutions, and you clas­ With the word "Peace" still on his lips hundreds of troops have been deployed with sify as secret ever more information about And his heart filled with hope anew the Apache AH--64 attack helicopters and government operations and the state of the This Great man fell, and tears did flow, OH-58D Kiowa Warrior scouts to monitor country. Presidential decisions are made al­ And the Dove of Peace wept, too. military peacekeeping movements into the most in the same backroom fashion as in the Reaching beyond Israel's boundaries, Zone of Separation between Bosnia and Ser­ era of the Politburo. It's no secret that you This was a loss to all the world, bia. increasingly depend on the security services Leaders gathered from near and far "The Kiowa is uniquely suited [for Bosnia] and on their system of clandestine informa­ To join as mournful words unfurled because of its stealth capability, its high ma­ tion. Isn't it obvious to you how unreliable For this man who'd struggled to ensure neuverability and its ability to protect itself and tendentious this information is? The survival of one small nation with a variety of weapons systems," Suttle The thrust of your personnel policy is be­ And worked tirelessly to bring peace said. coming clearer with each passing day. At In the Mideast-a great revelation! first there were quite a few competent, hon­ The Kiowas are being flown by members of orable people around you. But you also en­ Soldier, statesman, family man. the 2nd Brigade's 4th Cavalry Division who thusiastically welcomed individuals whose In his wisdom, he'd come to see are "conducting routine reconnaissance in only virtue consisted in their personal loy­ That war was no solution addition to providing quick reaction by plac­ alty to you. Gradually such loyalty has be­ And killing brings no victory. ing their eyes on 'hot spots' as the command come your primary demand when recruiting May his memory be for a blessing, deems necessary," said Suttle. He said their staff, just as it was in the heyday of the Others will carry his ideas through; recon maneuvers have been important to the Community Party.... This was promised amidst the tears, Sava River Bridge building and crossing of You began your democratic career as a And the Dove of Peace wept, too. troops into Bosnia. forceful and energetic crusader against offi­ Yitzhak Rabin is with us yet: The Apache units are staged with the 4th cial deceit and party disposition, but you are He lives in every believing heart Brigade in both Tazar, Hungary and in Tuzla, ending it as the obedient executor of the will That peace must and will be achieved, Bosnia. "The Apaches can do the same types of the power-seekers in your entourage. You And each dawn offers a new start. of missions as the Kiowas, but they're much took an oath to build a government of the more of a heavy hitter," said Suttle. The people and for the people, but instead you Apaches are also flying continuous recon­ have built a bureaucratic pyramid over the KIOWA WARRIORS PROTECTING naissance missions to allow pilots to "get a people and against the people. Moreover, U.S. TROOPS IN BOSNIA feel for the surrounding area." having rejected democratic values and prin­ Apaches are also serving as a protective ciples, you haven't stopped using the word HON. PETE GEREN measure for arriving VIPs such as Defense "democracy" so that naive people may well OF TEXAS Secretary William Perry, who took a holiday believe that "democrats" remain in power in visit to the troops, and for President Bill the Kremlin. Your policies have com­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Clinton, who at press time was preparing for promised the very word, and if democracy is Thursday, February 1, 1996 a trip to the region. fated to someday exist in Russia (and I be­ lieve it will), it will exist not because of you, Mr. PETE GEREN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, in Suttle said the river crossing has become a but in spite of you. the Department of Defense authorization and "piece of cake" since flooding of the Sava appropriations bills for fiscal year 1996, Con­ River was stopped by the Army Corps of En­ gress added $140 million to the Army's pro­ gineers. During a Pentagon briefing for re­ porters last week, officials said peacekeeping HARRY KUBO CELEBRATES 25 curement budget to buy 20 armed OH-58D vehicles are moving over the bridge at a rate YEARS AT HELM OF THE NISEI helicopters, better known as Kiowa Warriors. of 230 per day. FARMERS LEAGUE The proof that Congress made the right deci­ Earlier this month the same officials said sion is demonstrated in the attached article they planned to build a second span across HON. GEORGE P. RADANOVICH from the January 15, 1996, edition of Inside the Sava River to help expand the flow of OF CALIFORNIA the Army. personnel and equipment into the Zone of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Chairman, you will note that the Kiowa Separation. But in a Pentagon press briefing Warrior-with its mast-mounted sight and day­ Thursday, Ken Bacon, assistant to the sec­ Thursday, February 1,1996 night, all weather surveillance capability-is retary of defense public affairs, said "we be­ Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, on March deployed to monitor military peacekeeping lieve we're getting enough flow across the movements in the zone of separation between Sava River now. We believe that the time of 8, 1996, the Nisei Farmers League will cele­ the engineers could be better spent improv­ brate its 25th anniversary. This will be the Bosnia and Serbia. It is proving its mission ef­ ing the quality of the life for the troops closing of an era with Harry Kubo at the helm fectiveness by protecting the lives of thou­ there, and we'll delay the second bridge for and the dawning of a new era with him hand­ sands of American servicemen and women about a month." ing over the reins to Manuel Cunha, Jr. Harry moving into dangerous territory. Quality-of-life matters are a concern for will be stepping down as president but will re­ As Army Major General John Suttle of the the soldiers settling in to areas like Camp main on the board as president ex-officio. 1st Armored Division's Task Force Eagle Harmon, where Army officials expect to states: "The Kiowa is uniquely suited [for Bos­ house 2,500 troops by March 1. nia] because of its stealth capability, its high According to Capt. Tom Evans, Army AND THE DOVE OF PEACE WEPT, maneuverability and its ability to protect itself spokesman stationed in Zupanja, near the TOO with a variety of weapons systems." Sava River Bridge, the Army will house The Army has a valid requirement for 507 "about 10 people per tent at Camp Harmon." HON. CHAKA FATIAH Kiowa Warriors, but through this fiscal year, He said nearly 100 tents with temporary fewer than 400 OH-58D's have been funded. wood floors, reinforced with straw, have been OF PENNSYLVANIA erected in the camp. As Army units cross the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I hope that my colleagues in Congress will Sava Bridge, they are being asked if they continue to act wisely and show support for Thursday, February 1, 1996 have enough supplies for the areas in which further acquisition of Kiowa Warriors for the they are assigned; cold weather gear and Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Marilyn Army until the requirement for this outstanding heating units top the list. Krantz of Philadelphia, in response to the as­ military aircraft is fully met. Evans said soldiers are issued heating sassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak The full text of the Inside the Army article units that have been on supply in the Euro­ Rabin, was moved to pen the following poem follows. pean theater for some time. According to entitled "And the Dove of Peace Wept, Too." U.S. TROOPS ROLLING INTO BOSNIA UNDER U.S. Army Europe, the heaters are the stand­ Feelings* * *shared by countless many, COVER OF APACHES, KIOWA WARRIORS ard Army stoves that can use a variety of Amidst the shock and grief, As U.S. troop move into Bosnia at a rate of fuels including the standard Army fuel JP-8, In prayers and prose and poetry ~ a day---6,600 servicemembers arrived wood, diesel or coaL Expressing horror and disbelief by Friday-Army aviators are flying contin­ Concerns about the diesel-fueled heaters That Israel's leader, Yitzhak Rabin uous protection missions to help protect the have been voiced by soldiers housed in tents Had so mercilessly been slain­ flow of deployment. in Germany, where countermine training is And by one of his countrymen Maj. John Suttle, spokesman for the 1st conducted before they are deployed in the Whose deed marked the return of Cain! Armored Division's Task Force Eagle, said Bosnian mission. February 1:~ 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2303 TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF TRIBUTE TO DAVID R. ELLEMAN licensed deepwater port, the Louisiana Off­ THE FERROALLOY ASSOCIATION shore Oil Port or LOOP. Unfortunately, despite HON. JAMES T. WALSH Congress' original miscalculation on the ability OF NEW YORK of deepwater ports to control the market, the HON. RALPH REGULA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES burdensome environmental regulations of the seventies remain in place. OF OHIO Thursday, February 1,1996 First of all, our· legislation would promote the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, I want to pay trib­ efficient transportation of crude oil from the ute today to an outstanding elected official and Thursday, February 1, 1996 outer continental shelf [OCS] of the Gulf of public servant from Onondaga County in my Mexico, which is currently not listed as one of Mr. REGULA. Mr. Speaker, this year marks home district. David Elleman served the peo­ the priorities of the act. New technologies the 25th anniversary of the Ferroalloy Associa­ ple of the Greater Syracuse area and the en­ have resulted and will continue to undoubtedly tion representing U.S. producers of Ferroalloy tire County of Onondaga as its comptroller result in increased production of OCS oil. products. It is an industry that has supported since 1967. Without a more cost effective and environ­ He has played an important role in keeping America's economic engine through wars, de­ mentally sound means of getting the oil to Onondaga County at the highest level of finan­ pression, and into the information age. You market, expanding production of our domestic cial stability, with an excellent credit rating, have seen its products in the shiny metal sur­ resources in the gulf will occur more slowly to through challenging economic times. the detriment of the consumer. Deepwater face of a new car, or the armor plating of an Recently retired, he is a respected and M1A1 tank patrolling the streets of Bosnia. It ports will allow us to utilize the increased OCS warmly regarded man of integrity; a civic lead­ production and capitalize on the estimated 15 is a product critical to the production of steel, er with an enviable career. iron, aluminum, and silicon, as well as newer billion barrels untapped in the deepwater of Since serving as his senior high school the gulf. applications in chemicals, semiconductors, class president in Syracuse, Dave Elleman solar cells, coatings and catalysts. As a collec­ has been a leader of his community and his Second, our bill would repeal the antitrust tion, the over 50 different alloys and metals Nation. A retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. provisions of the 197 4 act and clarify the in­ ferroalloys are critical to the economic well Air Force, he is a decorated veteran of combat tent of the 1984 amendments in order that being of the United States. in Berlin and Korea. Returning home, he has deepwater ports may better respond to market served on numerous foundations and boards conditions to set rates, terms, and conditions. Apart from its pivotal position within our including Blue Shield Central Board, New York Deepwater ports are highly regulated due to commercial economy the ferroalloy industry Regional Planning Board, and the Syracuse/ the aforementioned belief that monopolies has long been a strategic asset in the defense Onondaga County Planning Board. would form. But, nothing could be farther from of our Nation. Begun just over 100 years ago Dave Elleman founded the New York State the truth. Deepwater ports have many strong with the introduction of the electric-arc furnace Government Finance Officers Association and competitors that can constantly and instantly in 1892, the industry expanded rapidly 7 years he has served as New York Stake representa­ adjust their own rates. Our bill will level the later when it was called on to meet the needs tive of the Government Finance Officers Asso­ playing field to encourage competition by pro­ for projectiles and armor plate during the ciation of the United States and Canada. viding deepwater ports such as LOOP with the Spanish American War. Since that time, do­ His family, and his community, are very same rate structure as their competitors. mestic producers have seen major expansions proud of him. I would ask my colleagues to Additionally, our legislation would simplify during every war period up to the last expan­ join me in wishing David Rundel Elleman and the regulatory framework under which deep­ sion during the Vietnam war. Each time the in­ his wife, Ruth Calale Elleman, all the best as water ports function. The bill replaces the dustry met the challenges placed upon it as they enjoy the time they have earned. three-tiered system of requirements on deep­ part of the defense industrial base. On a personal note, I want to say I look for­ water ports-overlapping Federal regulations, ward to seeing the Ellemans very soon and licensure provisions, and operations manual­ However, in recent years, U.S. manufactur­ often in years to come. with the requirement that a port comply with ers have watched capacity and jobs sharply the published guidelines of the Secretary of decline, due primarily to increased foreign im­ Transportation for a facilities operations man­ ports and increased regulatory requirements. DEEPWATER PORT ual. Furthermore, a licensee's operations man­ During the 1970's there were 15 companies MODERNIZATION ACT ual, and proposed changes to the manual, with 26 plants operating 97 furnances. By shall be approved and reviewed by the Coast 1990 there were only 12 companies with 16 HON. JAMES A. HAYFS Guard. plants operating 42 furnaces. In a matter of OF LOUISIANA LOOP currently pumps approximately $32.7 two decades, a more vibrant domestic industry IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES million in direct and indirect revenues in Lou­ had lost 60 percent of its work force and was Thursday, February 1,1996 isiana's economy, not to mention additional expected to cease to exist completely by the impacts from other economic multipliers and end of the century. Mr. HAYES. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise today with my Louisiana colleagues, both benefits from a more environmentally safe But, in response to these difficulties, man­ Democrats and Republicans, to introduce the transportation system. Because LOOP is only agement and workers joined together to meet Deepwater Port Modernization Act-legislation operating at about 63 percent of capacity, the challenge once again. Through the use of to amend the Deepwater Port Act of 1974. there is clearly room for expansion and for U.S. trade remedies against illegal predatory Our efforts go to the heart of the battles this construction of more such deepwater facilities. pricing, the industry has recovered market year in Congress to change the anticompeti­ We, accordingly, must correct the provisions share and increased profits. The industry has tive, overregulatory approaches of the past within the current law which are stifling market invested in new technology and has improved and streamline and focus Government's role usage of deepwater ports and burying with ar­ the capital infrastructure of existing facilities. overseeing American businesses. chaic government regulations what would be Management and workers have continued to Clearly, when this legislation originally another efficient transportation source. Mr. work together to increase competitiveness by passed Congress over two decades ago, the Speaker, my Louisiana colleagues in the improving productivity and improving the man­ oil industry faced markedly different chal­ House and the Senate join me in requesting ufacturing process. The result has been the lenges than the industry encounters today. that Congress take action to clarify the intent resurrection of the industry. There was much concern that the efficiency of the 1974 act to promote the usage of deep­ and environmental advantages offered by water ports by eliminating duplicate and un­ Quality, productivity, and world-class tech­ deepwater ports would so eclipse the market necessary licensure and other requirements. It nology are the watchwords for the U.S. that they would monopolize the bulk of oil is clear that, while the market has changed, ferroalloy industry as it continues to provide transportation to shore. the conclusion of the seventies that deepwater our Nation with the tools it needs to grow and To the contrary, in the 22 years since this ports can bring substantial financial and envi­ defend itself. legislation passed Congress, there is only one ronmental savings to oil transportation remains 2304 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 true. We must act responsibly this year to en­ Association fought hard against special pro­ emption was that phone companies are heav­ sure that deepwater ports are allowed to oper­ tections for access providers. So too did such ily regulated common carriers. Access pro­ ate in the future in a way to maximize com­ notables with a high profile in the fight viders are not common carriers and after petition and minimize unnecessary regulatory against pornography as former Attorney this bill won't be regulated at all. General Edwin Meese ill and Rep. Henry Congress, in the telecommunications bill barriers which prevent efficient, environ­ Hyde, chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary to which Exon-White is appended, will im­ mentally protective commerce in this country. Committee. pose on them all the benefits of a common Why is Congress so willing to protect those carrier but none of the burdens. If Congress who distribute and profit from computer por­ wants an appropriate computer pornography FIGHTING PORNOGRAPHY ON THE nography? Because one major pro-family model, it should mirror the federal child por­ INTERNET group and a few smaller ones urged it to. Ac­ nography law which, like the Hyde proposal, cess providers and the so-called "free does not exempt access providers. That is un­ HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN speech" lobby fought for the protections, but doubtedly a major reason why one access OF CALIFORNIA they couldn't have gotten such major con­ provider, America OnLine, so willingly co­ cessions from the family-friendly 104th Con­ operated with the Justice Department in a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gress without the cover certain pro-family recent computer child pornography sting op­ Thursday, February 1, 1996 groups gave them. eration. Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, we are discuss­ Pro-family champion Mr. Hyde offered a As Compuserve has demonstrated, the best ing the telecommunication bill which is a large much tougher, no-exceptions computer por­ carrot and stick approach is a tough law. nography provision in committee as an alter­ and complicated piece of legislation. Buried Only when Compuserve understood it was native to Exon-White. He was defeated, how­ the liable under German law for the distribu­ within this complex labyrinth of highly technical ever, by Mr. White-who liberally touted the tion of pornography did it block porno­ legislation is an important provision that at­ support of the few pro-family groups who graphic site. The company has indicated that tempts to control child pornography on the supported the position of the access provid­ it regretted the blockage of pornographic Internet. This provision gives us false security ers. sites to its customers in this country and to believe that we are dealing with this hei­ Soon Congress will vote on the final ver­ quickly ended the blockage. nous crime. However, the reality is that the sion of the telecommunications bill, which Finally, some pro-family advocated argued provision does not have the power to eradi­ contains this soft-on-pornography language. that any law is better than what we have cate computer pornography. Mark my words: The effect on the Internet is predictable­ now. That arguments assumes that current computer pornography will continue to flow federal obscenity laws do not allow prosecu­ We will have to come back to this issue 6 or freely. · tion of those who traffic in such material by 7 months from now trying to fix the defi­ Under the Hyde provision anyone would computer. There is no court that has ever ciencies in this provision. Read about the Ger­ have been liable, including access providers, taken this position and, indeed, the Justice man experience and laws. for knowingly and intentionally distribution Department has successfully used current Mr. Speaker, I highly recommend to my col­ or making available pornography to children law to prosecute a computer pornography leagues the following article by Patrick or obscene pornography to anyone. The argu­ crime. Thus, it only makes sense to enact a Trueman, one of America's foremost legal ex­ ment in favor of the Hyde provision-that by new computer pornography law 1f it im­ perts in the area of child protection and the providing no exceptions in the law, access proves the ability of the Justice Department former Director of the Child Exploitation and providers will voluntarily restrict access to to prosecute for computer pornography pornography-was made crystal clear by crimes. Obscenity Office in the U.S. Department of Compuserve's response to the German pros­ The Justice Department has told Congress Justice. ecutor. in three letters that any law that exempts PORN ON THE INTERNET, HERE AND ABROAD That is the exact response that could be access providers from l1ab111ty undermines (By Patrick A. Trueman) expected from all U.S. Internet access pro­ its ability to prosecute those who traffic in Compuserve, one of the nation's top Inter­ viders by passage of the Hyde language. It is computer pornography. Exon-White, then, is net access providers, temporarily blocked an inexplicable irony that due only to the ef­ a retreat in the war against pornography. more than 200 sexually explicit sites recently forts of some pro-family groups, Compuserve Sure, Exon-White will allow the Justice because a German prosecutor thought the and other access providers may have to Department to prosecute the individuals who provision of such material by the company block pornography to German children, but put obscene pornography on the Internet or to German citizens violated that country's are free to provide it to the children of provide pornography via the Internet to chil­ law. Compuserve may have reason to fear America. dren. But how many of the thousands of indi­ German law but seems safe in providing por­ Why did pro-family groups go to bat for ac­ viduals in this country who are potential nography to American citizens, even chil­ cess providers? I still wonder. The arguments prosecution targets will really be deterred by dren. That is because Congress is con­ of their representatives shifted throughout Exon-White? The Justice Department can templating passage of a telecommunications the months-long debate during consideration only do a relatively few prosecutions a year bill which will protect Compuserve and all of the various computer pornography provi­ for such violations? Not long ago it an­ Internet access providers from criminal li­ sions in Congress. The lawyer for one argued nounced it was dropping or postponing a ability for the provision of similar material that it is unconstitutional to hold access great number of investigations targeting to anyone, including children. providers liable because they have no ability those who distribute child pornography by Yes, the bill in question contains specific to block pornographic Internet sites. Her computer for lack of investigative resources. protective language for those access provid­ "constitutional argument" is undermined by Certainly child pornography will be given ers who make millions distributing pornog­ Compuserve's response to the German pros­ the highest priority by the department, leav­ raphy, even hard-core pornography, to chil­ ecutor. She also contended that the Internet ing few resources to enforce Exon-White dren and others. Sen. James Exon, Democrat is a "wonderful resource" and we shouldn't against violators in this country. And what Nebraska, and Rep. Rick White, Washington go "too far" in regulating it. about the tens of thousands of individuals in Republican, are responsible for this political Wow. Since when did Internet protection other countries who fill the Internet with favor. They are the principle authors of the become a pro-family priority? Another pornography? Since our government has no Communications Decency Act, which they prominent argument was that any computer jurisdiction to prosecute them, there is no have characterized as a measure to control pornography measure should be modeled reason to believe they will change their be­ computer pornography. after the federal dial-a-porn law with access havior. Computer pornography should be eradi­ providers treated like the phone companies There is also no reason to believe that any cated, not controlled. Senator Exon origi­ are in that law. There is no more ineffective pornographic Internet sites will disappear. nally proposed a bill that was a simple, criminal law than the federal dial-a-porn Exon-White guarantees they will rer.nain straightforward prohibition. His top staffer law. It is hardly an appropriate model. Dial­ since access providers who make those sites on the bill frankly admitted to me that he a-porn is a thriving business in America pre­ available will be free under Exon-White to caved in to demands of access providers cisely because this law has almost zero de­ provide them. under heavy lobbying pressure by them and terrent effect. The simple solution to eliminating or sub­ thousands of Internet users. The interests of There have been no prosecutions under it stantially reducing those sites was Henry Rep. White are patently obvious. In his since it was revised in the late 1980s to give Hyde's bill. If access providers are liable for Washington state district is the head­ phone companies almost blanket exemption making pornography available, they will quarters of major Internet access provider, from prosecution for what otherwise would clean up the Internet. The Hyde proposal Microsoft. be a crime of conspiracy when they know­ would have allowed access providers to make Last year when the telecommunications ingly provide service to and profit from dial­ indecent but not obscene pornography avail­ bill was in committee, the American Family a-porn companies. The reason for this ex- able to adults so long as they took measures February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2305 to assure that the material was not available Today those gathered in His name number Regarding our differences, and they are to children. This provision is made necessary in the thousands, and we thank Him for his many, we grow to understand them better. by a line of court cases indicating that presence. We close with another prayer. We pray adults have a constitutional right to inde­ Every Thursday morning that the House is that we may be salt and light in this world cent material. It could have been accom­ in session, we gather, 40-50 members strong, we share. plished by providing access codes or pin in His name. Our gathering is extraordinary Each of us truly is blessed by our partici­ numbers to adult customers like banks do by Capitol Hill standards, for so many rea­ pation and pray that somehow our Congress for ATM card customers. sons, and truly a blessing to those who have and nation, o.ne natl_on under God, are as Under Hyde, access providers would not be made it a part of their lives. well. held liable for all illegal pornography on the Extraordinary by Capitol Hill standards: In Internet which their services may be used to a super-charged environment where most all obtain. Nor would it require that they check meetings are restricted by party member­ BALANCE THE BUDGET all communications to ensure that no viola­ ship, even more narrowly, by philosophical tions of the law are occurring. They would subsets within a party, by race, by religion, HON. RON PACKARD simply be required to avoid knowing viola­ by region or by cause, our meetings are tions of the law. inter-faith, ecumenical, multi-racial, non­ OF CALIFORNIA This is an obligation imposed on all citi­ partisan and as diverse as this great land of IN THE HOUSE OF_REPRESENTATIVES zens, and Congress is foolish to exempt ours. Thursday, February 1,1996 Compuserve and others like it from such a The Irish brogue of South Boston, the responsibility, especially since those most syrupy drawl of South Georgia, the sharp Mr. PACKARD. Mr. Speaker, last week, dur­ likely to be harmed will be children who, and clipped tongue of Brooklyn, the twang of ing his State of the Union Address to Con­ with a few clicks of a computer mouse, can Texas and the flat tones of Minnesota fill the gress, the President paid a great deal of lip­ enter that grand international pornographic room every week. service to the need for balancing the budget. swap meet that the Internet will be for There are no guests, not even family mem­ Ironically, it was only 2 weeks earlier, that them, courtesy of the access provider compa­ bers, no cameras, no press, no record of the members of his own party, said "We-Demo­ nies. proceedings. It is as private as Capitol Hill Federal criminal law has traditionally as­ crats-are advantaged, both politically and can be and members share their hearts. substantially, in not reaching an agreement on signed equal liability both for those who I said no guests, well there is one excep­ commit a crime and those who aid and abet tion: Legislators or parliamentarians from the budget." This confirms the President and a crime. Thus any notion that access provid­ around the world join us to learn about our his colleagues are more interested in cam­ ers aren't directly responsible for the provi­ breakfast, and, on occasion, return years paign politics than in the future of this country. sion of pornography on the Internet should later to tell us of the leadership groups they While my colleagues on the other side of be legally irrelevant because without their have started in their land. the aisle believe that it is to their advantage willing facilitation there would be no Inter­ Today, prayer breakfasts are held in over not to balance the budget, let me remind them net pornography. 100 countries, in countries as far-flung as of who stands to gain the most from a bal­ Exon-White won't make the issue dis­ India, Peru, and Japan. So in a way, then we appear from Congress. The access providers anced budget-every American. All the work­ engage in outreach to the world, but that is ing families who have mortgages, car notes, and those who enjoy the easy availability of not our main purpose. pornography on the Internet have won round Our focus is internal, on the lives, hearts or student loans will benefit. Interest rates di­ one. Soon, however, that segment of decent and souls of our colleagues. It is fellowship, rectly affect their standard of living and lower American society that began the clamor for an eye in the storm of the swirling world of interest rates mean more money in their pock­ a solution to the disease of computer pornog­ politics. ets. Those who currently rely on Medicare, raphy will realize that Exon-White is little There is a saying that "If you want a more than the placebo it was designed to be and those who will in the future, will be able friend in Washington, buy a dog" . Our break­ to rest assured that these services will be and they will demand that Congress provide fast belies that expression. a serious response. there for them. Families, the middle class, and Breakfast begins at 8 am and it is the only businesses are targeted for tax cuts. These $3.00 breakfast left in Washington. I am sure it somehow violates the gift ban. are the people who need and will receive the NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST We visit informally for most of the first advantages of a balanced budget. REMARKS half hour. When we are called to order we Mr. Speaker, the Republican majority in begin our day's program with a scripture Congress will continue to work toward a bal­ HON. TOM LANTOS reading. anced-budget agreement. We take our com­ OF CALIFORNIA Our very own General, Congressman Sonny mitments seriously. It is time the President IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Montgomery, then brings us up to date on and his colleagues did the same. the lives, and too often of late, the deaths of Thursday, February 1, 1996 House members, past and present. He shares Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, it is a great with us celebrations such as recent births SALUTE TO MARION AND NATALIE pleasure for me to introduce into the CON­ and the trials and tribulations of others. CHARD OF THE MADISON We then lift up our colleagues and their ms­ GRESSIONAL RECORD the following speech families in prayer, with rejoiceful prayers of TORICAL SOCIETY given by my friend and colleague, Congress­ thanksgiving, prayers for healing, for com­ man PETE GEREN, at the National Prayer fort and for the blessing of our nation and HON. ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRFS Breakfast this morning. As a member of the our leaders. OF CALIFORNIA National Prayer Breakfast Committee, Con­ We follow the prayer with a hymn, long on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gressman GEREN clearly emulates the values enthusiasm, but short on harmony. Con­ Thursday , February 1, 1996 represented by the National Prayer Breakfast. gressman Jake Pickle of Texas used to re­ I urge my colleagues to read PETE GEREN's gale us with the history of each hymn, or at Mr. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor least the " history according to Jake", but he address with the thoughtfulness and sincerity the outstanding work of Mr. Marion Chard and now has retired and we miss him. Mrs. Natalie Chard of Madison, CT. Although with which it was delivered. Following the hymn, a House member, NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST tells us his/her life story-about the influ­ Mr. and Mrs. Chard are not my constituents, Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Vice ences that shaped his life, values, philoso­ I have a great respect for their work with the President, Mrs. Gore, distinguished guests phy, politics and faith. Madison Historical Society and the Allis­ one and all, I bring you greetings from the On these occasions, members offer a win­ Bushnell House. During the Civil War, Madi­ Prayer Breakfast of the U.S. House of Rep­ dow into their souls that I expect few others son's C.W. Bushnell contributed to keeping resentatives. My charge today is to tell you have ever seen. Through this sharing each of our Nation whole by contributing to the con­ about our prayer breakfast, with the hope us, so often is surprised that, beyond the ac­ struction of the Monitor. The Madison Histori­ and prayer that perhaps you can build on our cents, geography and political labels, sur­ cal Society has in its collection the original experience in your nation, your state, your prised at how much we have in common. neighborhood or place of work. After hearing Joe Moakley of Massachusetts telegram from President Abraham Lincoln to In the book of Matthew, Jesus told us: tell of his South Boston childhood, Charlie C.W. Bushnell requesting immediate assist­ "Where two or three are gathered together Rangel, who grew up in Harlem. said "Joe, ance in building the Monitor. in my name, there am I in the midst of we really grew up in the same neighborhood I, too, have a great affinity and interest in them.'' we just never knew it!" . the history of the Civil War. A little known fact 2306 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 of the Civil War was that Union Naval Officer contains a factual account, by Lieutenant Sir: Recently learning that Lieutenant­ David Glasgow Farragut was of Hispanic ori­ Worden, of this trip to Hampton Roads and Commander S.D. Greene the executive offi­ gin. He is credited with splitting the Confed­ of the famous battle between the MONITOR cer of the MONITOR in her conflict with the eracy in two with his victories along the Mis­ and CSS VIRGINIA (ex-MERRIMACK). MERRIMACK in Hampton Roads. on the 9th The MONITOR arrived at Hampton Roads of March 1862, has been annoyed by sissippi River and the Gulf of Mexico and suc­ during the evening of 8 March. The next ungenerous allusions to the fact that no offi­ cessfully blockading the South. Farragut be­ morning, she engaged the CSS VIRGINIA cial record existed at the Department, in re­ came the first American awarded the rank of (ex-MERRIMACK), commanded by Lieuten­ lation to my opinion of his conduct on that Admiral of the Navy and was recognized ant Catesby ap R. Jones, CSN, in battle in occasion, I desire now to remedy a wrong, worldwide as a hero. Farrugut was one of ap­ Hampton Roads. Lieutenant Worden was which I regret should so long have existed, proximately 10,000 Hispanic soldiers that wounded during the engagement and the and to do justice to that gallant and excel­ fought on both sides of the Civil War. command fell to Lieutenant Samuel D. lent officer. as well as to all the officers and I ask my colleagues here assembled to join Greene, USN. The battle lasted over three crew of the MONITOR, who, without excep­ hours when the VIRGINIA retired from ac­ tion, did their duty nobly in that remarkable me in saluting the efforts of the Chards, and tion to Norfolk. the MONITOR remained at encounter, by placing in the file of the De­ other historical preservation groups nation­ Hampton Roads for the protection of the partment the following report. wide, for their dedication to safeguarding our wooden Union ships. In order to do full justice to him and to the Nation's history. Their efforts will benefit future Consular dispatches received in Washing­ others under my command, I beg leave to generations of Americans that seek to learn ton revealed the plan of the Confederates to state narratively the prominent points in more about our past. Mr. Speaker, I ask to concentrate their vessels and force the the history of that vessel from the date of enter into the RECORD, following this state­ blockade of Wilmington. In consequence of my orders to her, until the encounter with this it was decided in December 1862, at ment, a copy of a historical account of the the MERRIMACK. Washington, to send more vessels to Wil­ I was ordered to her on the 13th January U.S.S. Monitor from the U.S. Navy's Division mington, including the three ironclad mon­ 1862, when she was still on sticks. Prior to of Naval History. itors PASSAIC, MONTAUK AND MONITOR, that date, Lieutenant S.D. Greene had inter­ Navy Department to cooperate with the army in an attack on ested himself in her and thoroughly exam­ Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Wilmington and the defenses about the city. ined her construction and design, and in­ Division of Naval History (OP-29) The fall of Wilmington would have rendered formed himself as to her qualities and not­ Ships' Histories Section the blockade more effective and cutoff a withstanding the many gloomy predictions USSMONITOR large part of the supply of goods received by of naval officers and of officers of the mer­ On 4 July 1861, Secretary of the Navy the South from abroad. cantile marine as to the great probability of On 29 December 1862, the MONITOR. Com­ her sinking at sea, volunteered to go in her, Welles recommended the appointment of a mander J.P. Bankhead, USN, commanding, Board to report on the merits of ironclads. and at my request was ordered. From the The recommendation was approved by Con­ left Hampton Roads for Beaufort, North date of his orders, he applied himself gress and a board was authorized. The Board Carolina. She left under her own steam, but unremittingly and intelligently to the study was appointed on 8 August, and on 16 Sep­ in tow of USS RHODE ISLAND and accom­ of her peculiar qualities and to her fitting tember, it reported, recommending accept­ panied by the monitor PASSAIC. A very and equipment. When she was nearly ready ance of three of the proposals submitted for rough sea was encountered off Cape Hat­ for putting in commission, I was authorized their review. One of the proposals rec­ teras. and the MONITOR began leaking and by the Department to select a crew from the ommended was Ericsson's MONITOR. taking water to such an extent that the receiving ship NORTH CAROLINA, or any The contract for the building of the MON­ pumps could not discharge it. The work of other vessel of war in the harbor of New ITOR, was signed on 4 October 1861, between transferring the crew was attempted by the York. Under that authority I asked for vol­ John Ericsson, principal, John F. Winslow, RHODE ISLAND, but the vessel foundered unteers from the NORTH CAROLINA and the John A. Griswold, C.S. Bushnell, sureties, before this could be fully accomplished and frigate SABINE: and after stating fully to and Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. four officers and 12 men were lost. the crews of these vessels the probable dan­ One of the provisions of the contract was The MONITOR sank shortly after mid­ gers of the passage to Hampton Road and the that the vessel be completed and ready for night, 31 December 1862, twenty miles S.S.W. certainty of having important service to per­ sea in 100 days from the date of the contract. of Cape Hatteras. The exact location of her form after arriving there, had many more In order to expedite the work, Ericsson sinking is not known. At noon on 30 Decem­ men to volunteer than was required. From made contracts with various concerns. The ber 1862, the RHODE ISLAND's position by them I selected a crew, and a better one no hull was built by Thomas F. Rowland of the dead reckoning was Latitude 35-25 North and naval commander ever had the honor to com­ Continental Iron Works, Green Point, Long Longitude 75-16 West, and at noon on 31 De­ mand. Island, New York; the main engines and aux­ cember 1862, her position by head reckoning She was put in Commission February 1862, iliary machinery by Delameter and Company was Latitude 34-56 North, Longitude 7~5 and from that time until her day of sailing, of New York; the turret by the Novelty Iron West. The RHODE ISLAND endeavored tore­ Lieutenant Greene and all the officers and Works of New York, and many other estab­ main as near as possible to the position, crew displayed untiring energy and zeal in lishments contributed to the work by con­ where the MONITOR was believed to have her fitting and equipment, and in the con­ tracts for forgings, bolts, etc. sunk, until daylight on the morning of the duct of the several trials of her engines, tur­ The iron hull of the vessel was launched at 31st, but after daylight she cruised looking ret machinery. etc. Green Point, on 30 January 1862; the turret for her missing small boat, so that the posi­ She left the lower bay of New York on the guns, and other fittings being added later. tion taken at noon was not necessarily that afternoon of the 6th of March, with a mod­ On 19 February, the MONITOR left Green of the sinking of the MONITOR. erate wind from the westward and smooth Point and went to the New York Navy Yard, At 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. the RHODE ISLAND sea, in tow of a small tugboat, and accom­ where it appears, she was commissioned on sounded with 30 and 40 fathoms of line re­ panied by the U.S. steamers CURRITUCK 25 February. Lieutenant John L. Worden, spectively, but got no bottom. At 7 a.m. and SACHEM. About midday of the 7th, the USN, was her first commanding officer. soundings showed her in 35 fathoms of water. wind had freshened to a strong breeze, caus­ The MONITOR's dimensions were as fol­ Quoting from a letter written by Com­ ing in our then position off the capes of the lows; length, 179 feet; beam, 41 feet feet 6 mander Bankhead concerning the sinking of Delaware, a rough sea, which broke con­ inches, depth, 11 feet 4 inches; tonnage, 776 the MONITOR, the position is given thus: stantly and violently over her deck and forc­ (Navy Register). Her battery consisted of "As near as I could judge, making allowance ing the water in considerable quantities into two XI-inch Dahlgren pattern guns. They for current. drift, and sea, we were about 25 the vessel through the hawse pipes, under were cast at the West Point Foundry and had miles south of Cape Hatteras, say in Lati­ the turret and in various other places. About the following characteristics; length, 13 feet tude 34-50 North, Longitude 75-30 West, 4 o'clock p.m. the wind and sea still increas­ 3. 7 inches; weight of guns, 16,000 pounds; depth of water, 30 fathoms. ing, the water broke over the smoke and The MONITOR has never been raised. weight of shot, 166-170 pounds; weight of Compiled: 14 FEB 1957. blower pipes (the former 6 feet and the latter shell, 127-130 pounds; and weight of service 4 feet high) which wetting the blower bands charge powder, 15 pounds. The ship's com­ APPENDIX I caused them to slip and finally to break. The plement, as of 6 March 1862, may be obtained Report of Captain John L. Worden, U.S. blowers being thus stopped, there was no from Appendix II. Navy, to the Secretary of the Navy, concern­ draft for the furnaces and the engine and fire On 27 February 1962, the ironclad left the ing the services of Lieutenant S.D. Greene, rooms became immediately filled with gas. yard for sea, but because of poor steering U.S. Navy on the USS MONITOR. March 9, The senior engineer, Mr. Isaac Newton, and qualities she returned to the yard. A few 1862. his assistants met the emergency with great changes were made and she departed for Brooklyn, New York determination, but were unable to fight Hampton Roads on 6 March 1862. (Appendix I January 5, 1868. against the gas, which in a very short time February 17 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2307 prostrated them, apparently lifeless, upon turned and stood back in the direction from ingly to the gallantry of any officer and be the floor of the engine room, from which which they had come, and she turned her difficult to resist, is undeniable; yet I am they were rescued and carried to the top of head up stream, against the tide, remaining convinced that under the condition of affairs the turret, where they finally revived. With nearly stationary, and commenced firing. At then existing at Hampton Roads, and the motive power thus useless for propulsion or this time, about 8 o'clock a.m. I was ap­ great interests at stake there, all of which pumping, the water which was entering the proaching her on her starboard bow, on a were entirely dependent upon the MONITOR, vessel in many places, was increasing rap­ course nearly at right angles with her line of good judgment and sound direction forbade idly. The hand pump was used and men set to keel, reserving my fire until near enough it. It must b.e ..remembered that the pilot work bailing, but with little effect. The tug­ that every shot might take effect. I contin­ house of the MONITOR was situated well for­ boat, having us in tow, was ordered to head ued to so approach until within very short ward in her bows and that it was quite con­ directly inshore, but being light and of mod­ range, when I altered my course parallel siderably damaged. In following in the wake erate power, she could move us but slowly with hers, but with bows in opposite direc­ of the enemy. it would have been necessary. against wind and sea. Between 7 and 8 tions, stopped the engine and commenced fir­ in order to fire clear of the pilot house, to o'clock however, we got into smoother water ing. In this way I passed slowly by her, with­ have made broad "yaws" to starboard or and were enabled to so far clear the engine in a few yards, delivering fire as rapidly as port, involving in the excitement of such a room of gas as to permit the blower bands to possible, and receiving from her a rapid fire chase, the very serious danger of grounding be repaired and the blowers to be gotten in in return, both from her great guns and mus­ in the narrower portions of the channel and motion, and by 8 o'clock were on our course ketry, the latter aim at the pilot house, hop­ near some of the enemy's batteries, whence again, with the engines going slowly and a ing undoubtedly to penetrate it through the it would have been very difficult to extricate comparatively smooth sea. This lasted until lookout holes and to disable the command­ her, possibly involving her loss. Such a dan­ shortly after midnight, when in crossing a ing officer and helmsman. At this period I ger her commanding officer would not, in my shoal the sea suddenly became rough again, felt some anxiety about the turret machin­ judgment, have been justified in encounter­ broke violently over the deck, causing fears ery, it having been predicted by many per­ ing, for her loss would have left the vital in­ of another disaster to the blowers. The wheel sons, that a heavy slot with great initial ve­ terests in all the waters of the Chesapeake at ropes too, became entangled and jammed and locity striking the turret, would so derange the mercy of future attacks from the for half an hour, until it was cleared, the it as to stop it working, but finding that it MERRIMACK. Had there been another iron­ vessel yawed unmanageably and seriously had been twice struck and still revolved as clad in reserve at that point, to guard those endangered the towing hawser, which fortu­ freely as ever, I turned back with renewed interests, the question would have presented nately held and in a short time we were clear confidence and hope and continued the en­ a different aspect, which would not only of the shoal and in smooth water again. gagement at close quarters every shot from have justified him in following, but perhaps From this time no further serious mishap oc­ our guns taking effect upon the huge sides of made it his imperative duty to do so. curred, and about 4 o'clock p.m. of Saturday our adversary, stripping off the iron freely. The fact that the battle with the March 8th, we passed Cape Henry light and Once, during the engagement, I ran across MERRIMACK was not more decided and soon after heard heavy firing in the direction and close to her stern, hoping to disable her prompt was due to the want of knowledge of the endurance of the XI-inch Dahlgren guns of Fortress Monroe, indicating an engage­ screw, which I could not have missed by with which the MONITOR was armed, and ment, which I rightly concluded to be with more than 2 feet. Once, after having passed which had not been fully tested. Just before the MERRIMACK. I immediately ordered the upon her port side, in crossing her bow to get leaving New York, I received a peremptory vessel stripped of her sea rig. Turret keyed between her and the MINNESOTA again, she order from the Bureau of Ordnance to use up and in every way to be prepared for ac­ steamed up quickly and finding that she only the prescribed service charge, viz. 15 tion. About midway between Cape Henry and would strike my vessel with her prow or pounds, and I did not feel justified in violat­ Fortress Monroe, a pilot boat came alongside ram, I put the helm "hard a port" giving a ing those instructions, at the risk of burst­ and gave us a pilot, from whom we learned of broad sheer, with our bow towards the en­ ing one of the guns, which placed as they the advent of the MERRIMACK, the disaster emy's stern, thus avoiding a direct blow and were in turret, would almost entirely have to the CONGRESS and CUMBERLAND, and receiving it at a sharp angle on the starboard disabled the vessel. Had I been able to have the generally gloomy condition of affairs in quarter, which caused it to glance without used the 30 pound charges which experience Hampton Roads. inflicting any inquiry. The contest so contin­ has since shown the guns capable of endur­ About 9 o'clock p.m. we anchored near the ued except for an interval of about fifteen ing, there is little doubt in my mind, that frigate ROANOKE, Captain Marston, the sen­ minutes when I hauled off to remedy some the contest would have been shorter and the ior officer present, to whom I reported, and deficiency in the supply of shot in the turret, result more decided. Further, the crew had who suggested that I should go to the assist­ until near noon, when being within 10 yards been but a few days on board, the weather ance of the frigate MINNESOTA, then of the enemy a shell from her struck the bad, mechanics at work on her up to the mo­ aground off Newport News. Finding difficulty pilot house near the lookout hole, through ment of sailing and sufficient opportunity in getting a pilot, I accepted the services of which I was looking, and exploded, fractur- had not been afforded to practice them prop­ Acting Master Saml. Howard, who earnestly . ing one of the "logs" of iron of which it was erly at the guns, the mode of manipulating volunteered for that service, and under composed, filling my face and eyes with pow­ which was entirely novel. A few days at whose pilotage we reached the MINNESOTA der, utterly blinding and in a degree stun­ Hampton Roads to have drilled them and about 11:30 o'clock p.m. when I reported to ning me. The top of the pilot house too, was gotten the gun and turret gear in smooth Captain Van Brunt, her commanding officer, partially lifted off by the force of the concus­ working order (which from having been con­ and anchored near him at about 1 o'clock sion which let in a flood of light, so strong as stantly wet on the passage was somewhat a.m. of Sunday March 9th. He hoped to get to be apparent to me, blind as I was, and rusted) would have enabled the guns to have his ship afloat at high water, about 2 o'clock caused me to believe that the pilot house been handled more quickly and effectively a.m., but failed to do so. At daylight the was seriously disabled. I therefore gave or­ and with better results. MERRIMACK, with several consorts, was ders to put the helm to a starboard and sheer And now sir, I desire to express my high discovered at anchor under Sewell's Point. I off and sent for Lieutenant Greene and di­ appreciation of the zeal, energy and courage went at once to see Captain Van Brunt, rected him to take command. I was then displayed by every officer and man under my whose vessel was still aground, a good deal taken to my quarters and had been there but command during this remarkable combat, as damaged from the attack of the day before a short time when it was reported to me that well as during this remarkable combat, as and in a helpless condition. After a few min­ the MERRIMACK was retiring in the direc­ well as during the trying scenes of the pas­ utes conversation with him in relation to the tion of Norfolk. In the meantime Lieutenant sage from New York. I commend one and all situation of affairs, I left, telling him that I Greene, after taking his place in the pilot most heartily to the favorable consideration would develop all the qualities, offensive and house and finding the injuries there less seri­ of the Department and of the country. defensive, possessed by the "Battery" under ous than I supposed, had turned the vessel's Lieutenant Greene, the executive officer, my command to protect his vessel from the head again in the direction of the enemy, to had charge in the turret, and handled the attack of the MERRIMACK, should she come continue the engagement, but before he guns with great courage, coolness and skill out again, and that I had great faith in her could get at close quarters with her, she re­ and throughout the engagement, as in the capabilities. Soon after reaching my vessel tired. He therefore very properly returned to equipment of the vessel, and on her passage and at about 7:30 o'clock a.m. the the MINNESOTA and lay by her until she to Hampton Roads, exhibited and earnest de­ MERRIMACK was observed to be underway, floated. votion to duty, unsurpassed in my experi­ accompanied by her consorts, steaming slow­ The MERRIMACK having been thus ence, and for which I had the honor in person ly. I got underway as soon as possible and checked in her career of destruction, and to recommend him to the Department and to stood directly for her, with crew at quarters, driven back crippled and discomfited, the the board of admirals (some three years in order to meet and engage her as far a way question arises should she have been fol­ since) for advancement, in accordance with from the MINNESOTA as possible. As I ap­ lowed in her retreat to Norfolk? That such the precedent established in the case of Lieu­ proached the enemy, her wooden consorts course would commend itself very tempt- tenant Commander Thornton, the executive 2308 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 officer of the KEARSARGE. I beg leave now, Peterson, Charles, Seaman In 1993, Dr. McKay received the Dr. Nathan most respectfully and earnestly to reiterate Quinn, Robert, Coal Heaver Davis Award, presented by the American Med­ that recommendation. Riddey, Francis A. , Seaman ical Association, in recognition of his long and Act ing Mast er Saml. Howard, who volun­ Rooney, John, Master-at-Arms distinguished medical career as well as his teered as pilot, stood by me in the pilot Richardson, William, 1st Class Fireman house during the engagement and behaved Roberts, Ellis, Coal Heaver government and community service. In 1979, with courage and coolness. He has since been Sinclair, Henry, Ship's Cook he received the Distinguished Service Award promoted to acting volunteer lieutenant for Seery, James, Coal Heaver of the Texas Medical Association, only the his services on that occasion. Stocking, John, Boatswain's Mate fourth physician to receive the award. Chief Engineer A. C. Stimers USN, made Stearns, Moses M. , Quartermaster Dr. McKay was a past president of the the passage in the vessel to report upon the Sylvester, Charles, Seaman Texas Academy of Family Practice; a past performance of the machinery, etc., and per­ Truscott, Peter, Seaman chairman of the board of councilors to the formed useful service during the engagement Tester, Abraham, 1st Class Fireman Texas Medical Association; a past president of in manipulating the turret. Viall, Thomas B. , Seaman First Assistant Engineer Isaac Newton, the Williams, Peter, Quartermaster the Harris County Academy of General Prac­ chief engineer of the vessel and his assist­ Williams, Robert, 1st Class Fireman tice; and a former committee member of the ants, managed the machinery with attention Welch, Daniel, Seaman American Medical Association. He found and and skill and gave prompt and correct atten­ John L. Worden, Lt. Commander served as the first chief of staff of the North­ tion to all the signals from the pilot house. east Medical Center Hospital, and he was a Acting Assistant Paymaster W.F. Keeler medical staff member at both St. Joseph Hos­ and Captain's Clerk Danl. Toffey made their A TRIDUTE TO HUMBLE MAYOR pital and Memorial Baptist Hospital in Hous­ services very useful in transmitting my or­ HADEN E. McKAY, JR., M.D. ders to the turret. ton. Peter Williams, quartermaster, was at the Dr. McKay even found a way to combine his helm by my side and merited my admiration HON. JACK FlELDS love of medicine with his devotion to his coun­ by his cool and steady handling of the wheel. OF TEXAS try. In 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Med­ Very respectfully, your obedient servant, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ical Corps as a 1st lieutenant. Serving until JOHN L. WORDEN, 1946, he held the rank of major at the time of Thursday, February 1, 1996 Captain. his discharge. Honorable Gideon Welles Mr. FIELDS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it is with Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C. Despite the pressures and long hours Dr. profound sadness that I bring to the attention McKay spent caring for the health of his APPENDIX IT of the House the passing of former Humble, neighbors, he also found time to serve his LIST OF OFFICERS OF USS MONITOR, MARCH 6, TX, Mayor Haden Edwards McKay, Jr., M.D. community in other ways. A long-time member 1862 Dr. McKay died on Saturday, January 13 in of the Humble Area Chamber of Commerce, Lieutenant Humble-a town he lived in, helped build, and Dr. McKay was the recipient of the chamber's Lieutenant Worden, John L., Commanding governed for more than three quarters of a Outstanding Citizen Award-which was later Lieutenant Greene, Samuel D., Executive Of- century. Indeed, Dr. McKay was known ficer renamed the Haden E. McKay Award. Dr. Stodder, Louis N. , Master throughout my home town simply as "Mr. McKay was a longtime member of the Humble Webber, John J.N., Master Humble." Intercontinental Rotary Club, of which he was Logue, Daniel C., Assistant Surgeon I know you join with me in extending your a charter member and a past president, and Keeler, W.P., Paymaster deepest sympathy to his loving wife of 55 he was an active member of the First United Newton, Isaac, 1st Assist. Engineer years, Lillian McKay. Methodist Church of Humble. Campbell, Albert B., 2nd Assist. Engineer Dr. McKay served as an Humble city coun­ Dr. McKay was a member of the Masonic Hands, R.W. , 3rd Assist. Engineer cilman for 14 years before beginning his 24- Lodge and the Arabia Shrine. He not only was Sunstrum, A.T., 3rd Assist. Engineer year tenure as mayor. During that time, he the recipient of a 50-year Masonic member­ Toffey, Daniel, Captain's Clerk oversaw Humble's transition from a sleepy lit­ Frederickson, Geo., Acting Master's Mate ship pin, but he was presented with the Sam Stimers, A.C., Chief Engineer, passenger, and tle town with wooden sidewalks and privately­ Houston Award by the Most Worshipful Grand volunteer officer owned utility companies to a modern, booming Master of the Grand Lodge of the State of MUSTER ROLL USS MONITOR BEFORE SAILING town with an unsurpassed quality of life for all Texas-the highest Masonic award for distin­ FROM NEW YORK NAVY YARD 6 MARCH, 1862 of its people. guished service that a Texas Mason can re­ Augier, Richard, Quartermaster The impact Dr. McKay had on my home ceive. Atkins, John, Seaman town-both as a respected medical doctor and As mayor of Humble, Dr. McKay played a Anderson, Hans, Seaman a dedicated public servant-was demonstrated key role in building a new community center; Bringman, Girick, Carpenter's Mate by the more than 1,000 persons who attended in remodeling and expanding the new Humble Baston, Anton, Seaman his funeral in the Humble Civic Center on City Hall; in building a new criminal justice Bryan, William, Yeoman Wednesday, January 17. center; in building a new fire/EMS center; in Crown, Joseph, Gunner's Mate Dr. McKay was, first and foremost, a medi­ building a new public works center; in expand­ Cuddeback, David, Capt. Steward Carroll, Thomas 1st, Capt. Hold cal professional who delivered into this world ing city parks and the criminal justice center; Conklin, John P., Quarter Gunner and cared for generations of Humble-area in spearheading the effort to build Deerbrook Carroll, Thomas 2d, 1st Class Boy residents-including generations in my own Shopping Mall; and in offering a site for the Connely, Anthony, Seaman family. With his family, Dr. McKay moved to Houston Intercontinental Airport. Driscoll, John, lst Class Fireman Humble in late 1919. He graduated from Mr. Speaker, it is fair to say that Dr. Haden Durst, William, Coal Heaver Charles Bender High School-now Humble E. McKay, Jr., was larger than life. For several Fisher, Hugh, 1st Class Fireman High School-in 1926 before receiving his generations of Humble residents, he was the Feeny, Thomas, Coal Heaver bachelor of science degree from Mississippi man who delivered them into this world; cared Fenwick, James. Seaman Garrety, John, 1st Class Fireman State University and his medical degree from for them when they were sick; ensured the Geer, GeorgeS., 1st Class Fireman the Chicago Medical School in 1936. With his quality of their life and the lives of their fellow Hubbell, R.K., Ship's -- father, the late Dr. Haden E. McKay, Sr., he citizens as their mayor; and comforted their Hannan, Patrick, 1st Class Fireman ­ opened a thriving medical practice in Humble survivors following their passing. Joice, Thomas, 1st Class Fireman in 1938. Dr. McKay did for my home town what he Leonard, Matthew, 1st Class Fireman Some health care providers might have re­ did for many of his patients-helping it grow Longhran, Thomas, Seaman tired to easier and more peaceful pastures as from infancy to maturity, providing his wisdom McPherson, Norman, Seaman they aged. Not Dr. McKay. He passed away and compassion in time of need, and prescrib­ Moore, Edward, Wardroom Cook Murray, Lawrence, Wardroom Steward Saturday at 87; he saw his last patient on the ing effective treatments for the problems that Mooney, Michael, Coal Heaver day before his death. inevitably arise in any community as it grows Mason, John, Coal Heaver It was that type of dedication that earned and matures. Marion, William, Seaman Dr. McKay innumerable medical and commu­ Mr. Speaker, those of us who knew him, Nichols, William H. , Landsman nity service awards. loved him, and depended on his wise counsel, February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2309 were deeply saddened at Dr. McKay's pass­ posed of groups of physicians which set prices the sharing of "substantial financial risk." A ing. But we know that our community, and for their services as a group will be considered network which integrates in any other way­ those of us whose lives he touched, are much per se illegal under the antitrust laws if they regardless of the extent of that integration, or the better for his having spent his life among are not economically integrated joint ventures. whether a court interpreting the antitrust laws us. We will continue to honor his memory and In the typical provider network, competing phy­ would find it to be integrated-cannot qualify the contributions he made to our city's well­ sicians relinquish some of their independence as a legitimate joint venture. This means that being, and we will continue to keep him, and to permit the venture to win the business of the agencies would not proceed to examine his beloved Lillian, in our thoughts and our health care purchasers, such as large employ­ the specific facts of these joint ventures to de­ prayers. ers. These networks promise to provide serv­ termine their likely impact on competition; the ices to plan subscribers at reduced rates. The arrangement would be deemed per se illegal. ANTITRUST HEALTH CARE ventures also achieve another central goal of health care reform: careful, common sense This restrictive notion of what constitutes a ADVANCEMENT ACT OF 1996 controls on the provision of unnecessary care. legitimate joint venture discourages procom­ However, agreements among physicians petitive ventures from entering the health care HON. HENRY J. HYDE who retain a great deal of independence but marketplace, under the guise of antitrust en­ OF ILLINOIS set fees for their services as part of a network forcement. It excludes potential provider net­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bear a striking resemblance to horizontal price works which would mean an expanded set of Thursday, February 1,1996 fixing agreements. These are the most consumer choices and increased competition, Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro­ disfavored and most quickly condemned re­ and thereby, lower costs, for health care serv­ ducing legislation designed to ensure that the straints in antitrust jurisprudence. The key fac­ ices. antitrust laws permit full utilization of private tual question which distinguishes an arrange­ H.R. 2925 overcomes this barrier by requir­ cooperative initiatives which can help make ment that is per se unlawful from one which, ing that the conduct of an organization meet­ the Nation's health care system more efficient. upon consideration of the circumstances, is ing the criteria of a health care provider net­ H.R. 2925, the Antitrust Health Care Advance­ acceptable because it is not anticompetitive in work be judged under the rule of reason. The ment Act of 1996, provides that when doctors, nature, is the degree of integration of the indi­ result will be to permit a case-by-case deter­ nurses, and hospitals form integrated joint viduals who form the network. mination as to whether the conduct of that While the antitrust laws provide substantial ventures to offer health are services, their con­ HCPN would be procompetitive, and thus per­ latitude in the context of collaboration among duct will be reviewed on the basis of its missible under the antitrust laws. It is impor­ health care professionals, there is an under­ reasonabless-rule of reason-for purposes of tant to understand, however, that this is not an standable degree of uncertainty associated the antitrust laws. The end result of this case­ exemption from the antitrust laws. In no event by-case analysis will be to increase consumer with their enforcement. Because each network would providers be allowed to set prices or choice while ensuring full competition in the involves unique facts--differences not only in control markets if, in doing so, they have an marketplace. the structure of the network, but also in the Health care provider networks, or HCPN's­ market in which it will compete--the ability of anticompetitive effect on the market. The nor­ those composed of doctors, hospitals, and providers to prospectively determine whether mal principles of antitrust law will continue to other entities who actually deliver health care their arrangement will be considered legal is apply. services-are potentially vigorous competitors limited. Only an organization meeting specified cri­ in the health care market. Their formation will In order to eliminate this uncertainty, and to teria would qualify for the more liberal, rule of lead to lower health care costs and higher encourage procompetitive behavior that would reason consideration. The network must have quality of care. Costs will be lower because otherwise be chilled, the Department of Jus­ in place written programs for quality assur­ contracting directly with health care providers tice and Federal Trade Commission have es­ ance, utilization review, coordination of care would eliminate an intermediate layer of over­ tablished a mechanism for prospective review and resolution of patient grievances and com­ head and profit. Quality will be higher because of proposed HCPN's. In 1993, the antitrust en­ plaints. It must contract as a group, and man­ providers, and particularly physicians, would forcement agencies jointly issued "Statements date that all providers forming part of the have direct control over medical decision­ of Enforcement Policy and Analytical Prin­ group be accountable for provision of the serv­ making. Physicians and other health care pro­ ciples Relating to Health Care and Antitrust." ices for which the organization has contracted. fessionals are better qualified than insurers to These guidelines, which were amended in If these criteria are not met, the entity could strike the proper balance between conserving 1994, contain safety zones which describe still be considered per se illegal. costs and meeting the needs of the patient. providers network joint ventures that will not Currently, however, there are obstacles to be challenged by the agencies under the anti­ Rule of reason consideration would be ex­ the formation of HCPN's. One of the most se­ trust laws, along with principles for analysis of tended not only to the actual performance of rious is the application of the antitrust laws to joint ventures that fall outside the safety a contract to provide health care services, but such groups in a manner which does not allow zones. A group of providers wishing to embark also to the exchange of information necessary the network to engage in joint pricing agree­ on a joint venture may request an advisory to establish a HCPN. An important limitation ments, regardless of whether its effect on opinion from the agencies. The agencies, after on the exchange of information is that it must competition is positive rather than negative. It reviewing the particulars of the proposed ven­ be reasonably required in order to create a is this obstacle, that H.R. 2925 will eliminate, ture, then determine whether the network HCPN. Further, information obtained in that by conforming agency enforcement practices would fall within a safety zone, or otherwise context may not be used for any other pur­ to the manner in which courts have interpreted not be challenged under the antitrust laws. pose. the law. The problem is that these enforcement H.R. 2925 delegates to the Department of Antitrust law prohibits agreements among guidelines articulate standards that are more Justice and the Federal Trade Commission competitors that fix prices or allocate markets. restrictive than the realities of the agencies' authority to specify how rule of reason consid­ Such agreements are per se illegal. Where enforcement practices and the current state of eration would be implemented under these cir­ competitors economically integrate in a joint the law. They treat as per se illegal many cumstances. venture, however, agreements on prices or more networks than the antitrust laws would other terms of competition that are reasonably require. Mr. Speaker, the Antitrust Health Care Ad­ necessary to accomplish to procompetitive The guidelines promise rule of reason treat­ vancement Act of 1996 means greater choice benefits of the integration are not unlawful. ment to ventures where the competitors in­ for consumers regarding health care services Price setting conduct by these joint ventures volved are "sufficiently integrated through the and the delivery of quality health care at lower should be evaluated under the rule of reason, network." This is consistent with judicial inter­ price. Later this month, on February 27 and that is, on the basis of its reasonableness, tak­ pretations of the law. See, e.g., Broadcast 28, the full Judiciary Committee will be holding ing into account all relevant factors affecting Music, Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting Sys., hearings on health care reform initiatives, both competition. 441 U.S. 1, 19-20 (1979). Where the guide­ in the antitrust area and in the liability area. The antitrust laws treat individual physicians lines diverge significantly from current law, H.R. 2925 will be one of the proposals consid­ as separate competitors. Thus, networks com- however, is in defining integration solely as ered in those hearings. 2310 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1 ~ 1996 GUAM COMMONWEALTH PROCESS their way. The Republicans have virtually The Republicans have said they will use MOVING TOWARD CLOSURE abandoned any pretense of true debate and any means at their disposal to force the Presi­ discussion of differing views as they have lit­ dent to accept their program. HON. ROBERT A. UNDERWOOD erally stalled the functions of government in an America must not default on its debt. We OF GUAM attempt to force their extreme priorities on the are the preeminent financial power in the President and the American people. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES world because we keep our word. If we allow Twice, the Republicans shut down the Fed­ that faith to be .dam;aged, our economy will be Thursday, February 1,1996 eral Government because the President and hurt in ways that will hit every family in the Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I had the Congressional Democrats wanted to balance pocketbook. privilege of participating in a meeting in San the budget without large tax breaks for the Congress should not go into recess, as the Francisco earlier this week with the Governor wealthy, and without the deep cuts in Medi­ Republicans propose to do, until we vote to of Guam, the Honorable Carl T.C. Gutierrez, care, Medicaid, education, and the environ­ raise the debt limit. The situation will become the Guam Commission on Self-Determination, ment needed to pay for them. House Repub­ critical by the end of February unless we do and the Deputy Secretary of the Interior, the licans seriously miscalculated the President's so. Honorable John Garamendi. Mr. Garamendi resolve and thought closing our Nation's So­ On January 22, the Treasury Secretary noti­ will be soon named as the President's Special cial Security offices, Medicare offices and na­ fied the Congressional leadership by letter, Representative for the Guam Commonwealth tional parks, would force him to sign their that unless the debt ceiling is increased, he discussions. The members of the Guam Com­ budget, a right wing vision of how America would have to take additional steps to prevent mission on Self-Determination who partici­ should be run. To his credit, the President did default in mid-February, and that even those pated in this meeting with the Governor in­ not succumb to this pressure. steps would provide funds only until March 1. cluded Presiding Judge Alberto Lamorena, Now, once again, the Republicans want to Congress should take action this week to Senator Hope Cristobal, Senator Francis take this country down the road of irrespon­ enact a clean debt limit increase. Santos, Mayor Francisco Lizama, former Sen­ sibility; this time with very dangerous con­ It is time to raise the debt limit with no gim­ ator Jose R. Duenas, and Youth Congress sequences. Republicans want to throw our micks, conditions, threats or delays. The Speaker Rory Respicio. country into default by refusing to extend American people deserve congressional ac­ The Guam Commonwealth process that we America's borrowing authority. This would tion, not watching a parade of politicians go to are engaged in sorely needed a jump start, jeopardize our Nation's credit rating-currently recess. and the meeting in San Francisco renewed the highest in the world. Not only would this the commitment of the President and the lead­ throw the world's financial markets into a tail­ spin, and would cause the value of the dollar TRffiUTE TO THE PARKWAY CEN­ ership of Guam to an improved political status to plummet worldwide, it would have a dev­ TRAL ffiGH SCHOOL SYMPHONIC for our island. I am pleased that the adminis­ astating impact on hard-working American BAND tration has refocused on the Guam Common­ families who are struggling to pay their own wealth, and that bringing some form of closure bills and obligations. TALENT to this process is the common goal of the par­ HON. JAMFS M. The reason we must raise our debt limit is OF MISSOURI ticipants. because America must issue bonds and bor­ The people of Guam are growing increas­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES row money to meet its current obligations, Thursday, February 1, 1996 ingly frustrated by the lack of progress on the even as we gradually eliminate all borrowing Guam Commonwealth. There is a growing to balance the Federal budget. Those obliga­ Mr. TALENT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to sense that the Commonwealth discussions will tions include $30 billion in Social Security pay tribute to the Parkway Central High continue to drag on with no end in sight. This checks, which would not be issued if the Gov­ School Symphonic Band from Chesterfield, is not acceptable to the people of Guam. Our ernment goes into default next month. It would MO. The Marching Colts proudly represented patience has limits, but our resolve is not di­ also mean that no tax refunds would be paid the St. Louis area by participating in the 1996 minished. That is why I am particularly encour­ to Americans who are owed these funds. And Tournament of Roses Parade. aged by the consensus to complete the cur­ it would prevent America from making pay­ Parkway Central is located in the Parkway rent discussions in a timely manner, and to ments on its other financial obligations, which School District, which has long been commit­ wrap up these discussions by early this sum­ would mean that America's financial credibil­ ted to providing their students excellent facili­ mer. ity-unquestioned throughout our history­ ties and instructors for its music programs. It is important to note that Mr. Garamendi would be destroyed. Under the skilled guidance of their director, reaffirmed in San Francisco that progress al­ The result? Interest rates would go up on Mr. Doug Hoover, the Parkway Central band ready made, and agreements already reached credit cards, home mortgages, and loans. Av­ has a history of national performances; includ­ with Guam, will be honored. erage Americans would pay a heavy price for ing performances at the 1989 George Bush Once the Clinton administration has com­ the Republicans' childlike behavior for dec­ Presidential Inaugural Parade, and the 1991 pleted its discussions with the Guam Commis­ ades. Moody's Investors Service announced and 1993 King Orange Parades in Miami. sion on Self-Determination, the focus of our recently that for the first time in history it was The Marching Colts have benefitted from efforts will shift to the U.S. Congress, which considering lowering the credit rating for cer­ outstanding community support from Chester­ has plenary authority over the territories. tain U.S. Treasury bonds. field and the entire St. Louis community. The I commend Governor Gutierrez, the Guam The reason? Because NEWT GINGRICH and band has successfully used various fundrais­ Commission on Self-Determination, and Mr. his extremist allies would rather promulgate ing efforts, including their annual fall craft Garamendi for this very good beginning. I look their right-wing agenda than compromise. The show known as the Craft Harvest, to raise forward to continuing the progress for the Republicans understand the need to raise the thousands of dollars. This event boasts over Guam Commonwealth, and to advancing the debt limit. In their Seven Year Balanced Budg­ 200 vendors and several thousand patrons. cause of self-government for the people of et Reconciliation Act, even after cutting Medi­ These efforts stand as a testament to the Guam in this legislative body. care and Medicaid, they, themselves, call for dedication of the parents, faculty, and local the raising of the debt limit by $5.5 trillion. community who have rallied around the efforts America paid its bills during the Reagan­ of these young people. PLAYING WITH FIRE Bush years. When a Republican President Mr. Speaker, the Parkway Central band is to controlled the White House and Democrats be commended for its continued hard work HON. RONALD D. CO~ controlled one or both Houses of Congress, and dedication to excellence, which has OF TEXAS and we borrowed to pay for annual deficits, brought not only their school nationwide rec­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the debt limit was raised 27 times. Our prede­ ognition, but is also a great source of pride to cessors understood the importance of keeping the residents of St. Louis County. It is with Thursday, February 1, 1996 our financial obligations. Now, the Republican­ great pride that I congratulate these fine edu­ Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, the past 2 run Congress is willing to throw that away and cators and students and recognize the con­ months have brought into sharp focus the risk financial catastrophe in order to score po­ tributions they have made while at Parkway lengths our new House Majority will go to get litical points. Central High School. February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2311 PARENTS TELEVISION STATEMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPH P. H.R.- EMPOWERMENT ACT OF 1996 KENNEDY II REGARDING THE PARENTS TELE­ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep­ VISION EMPOWERMENT ACT OF 1996 resentatives of the United States of America in Mr. Speaker, the bill I am introducing Congress assembled, HON. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY ll today addresses a problem faced by parents SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. OF MASSACHUSETTS across the country-controlling what their This Act may be cited as the "Parents Tel­ children watch on television. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES evision Empowerment Act of 1996". When it comes to movies, parents can con­ SEC. 2. FINDINGS. . · Thursday, February 1,1996 trol what their children see by paying atten­ The Congress finds the following: tion to ratings. But what. can a parent do (1) The average American child watches Mr. KENNEDY of Massachusetts. Mr. when their kids can turn on the TV almost 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on Speaker, the bill I am introducing today ad­ every night and see murder, blood and gore? television before finishing elementary dresses a problem faced by parents across What can a parent do when their kids can school. the country-controlling what their children come home after school, flip on the TV and (2) Many of the poorest and potentially see on television. see talk shows with titles such as, "Nude most vulnerable groups in our society are Parents can control what movies their chil­ dancing daughters," "Incest Family," and the heaviest viewers of television. "Wives of Rapists"? (3) Television violence is often presented dren see, but what can a parent do when their The television industry, in a rush for rat­ without context or judgment as to its ac­ kids can turn on the TV every night and see ings, too often takes an 'anything goes' atti­ ceptab1lity. murder and gore? What can a parent do when tude and loses its sense of responsibility. The (4) Most of the violence on television is their kids can come home after school, flip on industry has every right to make a profit, presented during times when children are the TV and see talk shows with titles such as, but when in the process they help to debase likely to be viewing. "Nude Dancing Daughters, "Incest Family," our culture, we have to say enough is (5) The 1972 Surgeon General's Report, Tel­ "Get Bigger Breasts or Else," and "Women enough. In the long run, this chipping away evision and Growing Up: The Impact of Tele­ at our moral foundation will be disastrous. It vised Violence, found that there was a sig­ Who Marry Their Rapists"? may sound trite, but it's certainly true: A nificant and consistent correlation between The television industry, in a rush for ratings, society without clear collective values and a television viewing and aggressive behavior too often takes an anything goes attitude and strong sense of moral responsibility is like and a direct, causal link between exposure to loses its sense of responsibility. The industry an engine without oil. televised violence and subsequent aggressive has every right to make a profit, but when in The Parents Television Empowerment Act behavior on the part of the viewer. the process they help to debase our culture, of 1996 requires the Federal Communications (6) The 1982 National Institute of Mental we have to say enough is enough. They're Commission (FCC) to establish a toll-free Health report, Television and Behavior: Ten number that television viewers can call to Years of Scientific Progress and Implica­ chipping away at our moral foundation and, in complain about violence and other patently tions for the Eighties, found that "violence the long run, this will be disastrous. It may offensive materiaL The complaints would be on television does lead to aggressive behav­ sound corny in this day and age, but it's still considered by federal officials when deciding ior by children and teenagers who watch the true: A society without clear collective values whether to renew the licenses of stations programs," and that some viewers learn to and strong morals is like an engine without that aired the materiaL be passive victims. oil-eventually, it grinds to a halt. The FCC would be required to publish sum­ (7) Numerous other studies establish a The Parents Television Empowerment Act maries of viewer comments on a quarterly causal connection between watching vio­ basis. The comments would also be for­ lence on television and increasingly violent of 1996 requires the Federal Communications warded to the offending station and would behavior of children. Commission to establish a toll-free number become part of that station's relicensing (8) There has been a proliferation of tele­ that television viewers can call to complain process. The stations must, under law, re­ vision talk shows that, in a race for ratings, about violence and other patently offensive spond to each complaint. air ever more outrageous programs dealing material. The complaints would be considered Let me stress: This is not censorship. This with rape, incest, and other sensitive topics by the FCC when deciding whether to renew is not some sort of pollyanish attempt to in a manner that seeks to sensationalize and the licenses of stations that aired the material. block out the real world. This is an attempt shock rather than educate and inform. Al­ to give viewers a better way to bring pres­ though the impact on the hundreds of thou­ Callers' comments would also be forwarded sure on television producers and to help im­ sands of children who view these programs to the offending stations, and the stations prove a situation that has truly gotten out has yet to be fully documented, the pro­ would have to respond to each caller. of hand. grams have raised strong concerns among This is not censorship. This is an attempt to The average American child watches 8,000 psychologists. give viewers a better way to bring pressure on murders and 100,000 acts of violence on tele­ SEC. 3. AMENDMENT. television producers and to help improve a sit­ vision before finishing elementary school. Title VII of the Communications Act of uation that has truly gotten out of hand. Study after study has shown that violence on 1934 is amended by adding at the end the fol­ television causes aggressive and violent be­ lowing new section: The average American child watches 8,000 havior in children who watch it. Despite this "SEC. 714. COMPILATION AND PUBLICATION OF murders and 100,000 acts of violence on tele­ growing body of evidence, networks, cable COMPLAINTS CONCERNING VIOLENT vision before finishing elementary school. TV companies and producers continue to PROGRAMMING. Study after study has shown that television vi­ broadcast murders, rapes and gratuitous vio­ "(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF FACILITY FOR THE olence causes aggressive and violent behavior lence into our living rooms for our children COLLECTION OF COMMENTS AND COMPLAINTS.­ in children who watch it. Despite this growing to see. The Commission shall, within 6 months after body of evidence, TV and cable companies While there is less scientific evidence the date of enactment of this section, estab­ about the impact of television talk shows on lish a toll-free number for the collection of continue to broadcast murders, rapes, and children, psychologists have raised strong comments, suggestions, and complaints from gratuitous violence into our living rooms. concerns about them. Many of these shows the public concerning the transmission by Psychologists have raised strong concerns explore topics such as incest, rape and por­ broadcast stations or cable systems of pro­ about the impact on children from talk shows nography in a manner intended more to sen­ gramming containing depictions of violence that explore such topics as incest, rape, and sationalize and shock than educate and in­ and other patently offensive material. The pornography in an manner intended more to form. Commission shall take such steps as may be sensationalize and shock than educate and in­ Television producers are fond of saying, necessary to publicize such number and the "We're only giving viewers what they want. Commission's functions under this section. form. Let the market decide what shows appear on "(b) PuBLICATION OF DATA CONCERNING The V-chip is part of the solution. But I think TV." Well, this bill simply establishes a way COMPLAINTS.-The Commission shall publish that the conversation about this problem to make the market work better by giving in the Federal Register, on a quarterly basis, should not be just in our living rooms, but also consumers, especially parents, an avenue to a summary of the comments, suggestions, in institutions where public policy is made. express their opinions and concerns. and complaints received pursuant to sub­ Television producers are fond of saying, Concern about television programming section (a) during the preceding period. Such cuts across lines of ideology, race and gen­ summary shall include- "We're only giving viewers what they want." der. There's an outcry across the land to give "(1) a breakdown of the complaints by Well, this bill gives consumers, especially par­ people a better way to do something about broadcast or cable network and broadcast ents, a way to tell the television industry what what they see on TV. My bill gives them station, and by program name, date, and it wants. that opportunity. time; 2312 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 " (2) an identification, with respect to the has pushed for the State's first statewide with a wide variety of committees and individ­ 50 programs for which the highest number of taxes to support public education and it spear­ ual Members of Congress. His ability to re­ complaints were received, of the production headed a successful effort to launch a state­ main calm and focused during a period of tre­ company, the principal advertisers support­ ing network distribution, the broadcast or wide chamber of commerce. mendous change was demonstrated contin­ cable network and broadcast station, and the The APA played a role through many of its ually in his dealings with both Members of program name, date, and time; and leaders in guiding the State through some of Congress, professional staff and personal "(3) a statement of observed trends in such the important and cultural changes of the last staff. Through David Schock's involvement complaints as compared with complaints re­ half of the 20th century. Its officers have in­ with the Speaker of the House and his staff ceived during prior periods. cluded some of the leading newspaper men and the House National Security and Inter­ " (c) AVAILABLE OF RECORDS.-The Commis­ and women in America, and its member news­ national Relations Committees, he ensured sion shall transcribe the comments, sugges­ papers have won the Nation's highest awards that the very best service was provided to the tions, and complaints received pursuant to for journalistic excellence. this section and shall- Congress and that the Army and its programs "(1) transmit to each licensee any com­ Additionally, before coming to the Congress were professionally represented. ments, suggestions, or complaints made with it was my pleasure to serve as president of David Schock's career reflects a commit­ respect to its station; and the APA in 1991 . Alabama and the Nation can ment to our Nation, characterized by dedi­ " (2) make the transcribed comments, sug­ be justly proud of the contributions and leader­ cated selfless service, love for the Army and gestions, and complaints available for public ship of the Alabama Press Association as it a commitment to excellence. Lieutenant Colo­ inspection. continues toward another 125 years of public nel David Schock's performance, almost a The Commission shall omit from any records service. quarter of a century of service, personifies the transmitted or made available under this subsection the name and address of any call­ traits of courage, competency, and integrity er requesting confidentiality. TRIDUTE TO LT. COL. DAVID that our Nation has come to expect from its "(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.-The Commis­ SCHOCK Army Officers. On behalf of the Congress of sion shall include in each annual report to the United States and the people of this great Congress under section 4(k) an analysis of Nation, I offer our heartfelt appreciation and the complaints received pursuant to this sec­ HON. WALTER B. JONES, JR. OF NORTH CAROLINA best wishes for a soldier who served his coun­ tion. Such analysis shall include- try so admirably. "(1) an evaluation of whether, consistent IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with its obligations to serve the public inter­ Thursday, February 1, 1996 est and meet the educational and informa­ A TRIBUTE TO HERBERT G. tional need of children, the broadcasting in­ Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, I pay tribute to a dustry has effectively responded to the com­ great American, a great Army officer, and a PERSIL, A DEDICATED CIVIL ments, suggestions, and complaints received greater soldier. Last month Lt. Col. David SERVANT pursuant to this section regarding video pro­ Schock completed over 24 years of dedicated gramming containing depictions of violence service to our country. As a soldier, leader HON. JERRY LEWIS and other patently offense material; and and finally as a trusted member of the Army's OF CALIFORNIA " (2) such recommendations as the Commis­ Office of Congressional Liaison, House Divi­ sion considers appropriate to secure more IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sion, he has provided dedicated and distin­ conscientious fulfillment of those obliga­ Thursday, February 1, 1996 tions with regard to such programming." . guished service. Today as we honor his retirement, we re­ Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise flect on the outstanding career which David to pay tribute to Herbert G. Persil, the Director TRIBUTE TO THE ALABAMA PRESS started in 1972 when he enlisted in the Army. of the Office of Budget at the U.S. Department ASSOCIATION ON ITS 125TH ANNI­ Less than 2 years later, David successfully of Housing and Urban Development. Herb is VERSARY completed Officer Candidate School and was retiring after 41 years of Federal service. commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Herb has appeared many times as a wit­ HON. TERRY EVERETI infantry. David went on to complete the Rotary ness before the Appropriations Subcommittee OF ALABAMA Wing Aviator Course and became proficient in on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the AH1 Cobra, CH47 Chinook, UH1 Huey, defense of HUD's budget requests. We have and OH58 Scout. Over the course of the past always found him to be most knowledgeable Thursday, February 1, 1996 24 years, he served in a variety of exception­ and most responsive. Mr. EVERETT. Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege ally challenging troop and staff assignments in Over the years, he has been of great assist­ to bring to the attention of this body a historic the United States, Hawaii, and Alaska. His po­ ance to the subcommittee in its day to day and noteworthy anniversary. This year marks sitions of leadership include Aviation Section dealings with the Department. We have al­ the 125th year since the founding of the Ala­ Commander, Aviation Platoon Leader, Aviation ways valued his counsel. bama Press Association [APA], the oldest Company Commander, and Squadron Execu­ Herb is, I believe, a truly dedicated civil statewide trade association in Alabama and tive. servant. His high standards represent what is one of the oldest State newspaper associa­ As a staff officer he saw duty in many tough best about the civil service. tions in the Nation. and challenging assignments to include Bri­ Since 1990, Herb has been Director of the In 1871 , as Alabama continued to recover gade and Battalion Personnel Officer and Bat­ Office of Budget. Prior to that he served for a from the ravages of the Civil War, its news­ talion Intelligence Officer, validating the con­ number of years as Deputy Director in the Of­ paper editors and publishers, joined by com­ fidence the Army placed in his demonstrated fice of Budget. He has made countless con­ munity leaders, sought new ways to promote abilities. After serving in the field with many tributions to efficient and effective program economic growth. This was the genesis of the aviation units, David Schock demonstrated his management. Alabama Press Association which actually superb organizational skills while serving as Mr. Persil began his Federal service at the came into being with the first statewide meet­ the Aviation Branch Assignments Officers and Department of Agriculture in 1958. In 1964, ing of newspaper executives on March 17, as the Combat Arms Division Coordinator for Herb moved to HUD's predecessor agency, 1871 at the Montgomery Advertiser. the U.S. Army Military Personnel Command. the Housing and Home Finance Agency. In his Since those early days, the APA has His selection as a headquarters, Department early years at HUD, Herb helped in the devel­ evolved from a social organization of editors of the Army Staff Officer further demonstrated opment and initial administration of the Model and publishers to an association. that has the high regard in which David is held by the Cities Program. He also helped in the devel­ played an important role in developing the leadership of the Army. This led to his final as­ opment of the first community development daily and weekly newspapers of Alabama and signment as a Congressional Liaison Officer consolidated grant proposal which later serving as a catalyst for the State's economic for the Secretary of the Army, first in programs evolved into the community development block and cultural development. working personnel issued and lastly in the grant program. The APA worked on behalf of the citizenry House Liaison Division. Mr. Persil's achievements and skills are not of Alabama by advocating stronger public ac­ During David Schock's tour in Army Legisla­ only recognized throughout HUD, but also in cess to government records and meetings. It tive Liaison, he guided the Army's relationship the academic community. As adjunct faculty, February 1~ 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2313 he teaches courses in public financial man­ mass, geothermal, and other renewables in­ words, my bill deregulates-but it deregulates agement for Golden Gate University and the dustries can be directly traced to PURPA. by creating the conditions in which true com­ American University. He is a member of the In 1982, the Energy Policy Act [EPACT] petition can exist. board of directors of Public Financial Publica­ built on the foundation established under I agree with Commerce Committee Chair­ tions, Inc., which publishes Public Budgeting PURPA by adopting an amendment I authored man BULEY and Energy and Power Sub­ and Finance, jointly sponsored by the Amer­ along with the gentleman from California [Mr. committee Chairman SCHAEFER it makes little ican Association for Budget and Program MOORHEAD] which opened up wholesale trans­ sense to adopt piecemeal bills such as a re­ Analysis [AABPA] and the American Society mission access. In the same legislation, Con­ peal of the mandatory power purchase provi­ for Public Administration. He has served as gress also adopted amendments to the Public sions of PURPA or a repeal of PUHCA. We chairman of special committees on AABPA Utility Holding Company Act [PUHCA] aimed cannot get rid of the protections built into and has participated as an expert in numerous at allowing utilities to establish exempt whole­ these bills without also attaching the fun­ panel discussions on topics such as training sale generators. damental reason these laws were enacted in budget staff and managing under limited re­ As a result of industry changes prompted by the first place: the continued existence of a sources. He is also a frequent contributor to these bills, we are now at a crossroads for the government protected utility monopoly. With professional journals. electric utility industry-half-way between the the bill I am introducing today, I hope to ad­ I understand that Herb plans to spend his old heavily regulated monopolies of the past vance the dialog on the difficult and complex time with his family, reading, and traveling. and the new competitive electricity market­ issues Congress will be confronting as we While he claims to be retiring, there are many place of the future. We now have a growing consider legislation regarding PURPA. Obvi­ who know that old habits are hard to break independent power industry, increased cogen­ ously, there are many broader restructuring and suspect he will continue to serve through eration, and increased interest by industrial issues that are not specifically addressed in his teaching, writing, and panels on govern­ customers in lowering rates through competi­ my bill. These include the need to retain cer­ ment issues. tion. While transmission and distribution sys­ tain PUHCA restrictions on abusive interaffili­ Mr. Speaker, Friday, February 2, 1996, is tems appear likely to remain a natural monop­ ate transactions, the appropriate boundaries of Herb's last day at HUD. We will miss him. I oly, we now have an historic opportunity to Federal and State regulatory jurisdiction, treat­ know that you join with me in wishing him and bring full competition to the business of elec­ ment of conservation, efficiency, and renew­ his wife, Blythe, a long, happy, and healthy re­ tricity generation. The transition to such a abies, and need to eliminate certain Govern­ tirement after 41 years of distinguished Fed­ competitive market, however, will require both ment subsidizes for the power marketing ad­ eral service. Federal and State action. ministrations. Right now, following the overall policy direc­ While these are difficult and complex issues, tion mandated by the transmission access pro­ I believe that electric utility restructuring-if ELECTRIC POWER COMPETITION visions of EPACT, the Federal Energy Regu­ done properly-will benefit all consumers of ACT OF 1995 latory Commission [FERC] is moving forward electricity. A properly crafted approach holds on a proposed rulemaking on wholesale out the hope of lowering electricity rates HON. EDWARD J. MARKEY wheeling and stranded investment. This is a through increased competition, while simulta­ positive development and I look forward to neously protecting the societal and environ­ OF MASSACHUSETTS mental benefits of conservation, improved effi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES adoption of a final FERC rule this year. In ad­ dition, several States, including Massachu­ ciency, and greater fuel diversity. I look for­ Thursday, February 1, 1996 setts, have initiated retail wheeling proceed­ ward to working with the leadership of the Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, I am today in­ ings which, when completed, will open up re­ Commerce Committee as we proceed into this troducing legislation aimed at promoting com­ tail competition and consumer choice by elimi­ debate on electricity restructuring legislation, petition in the electric utility industry. This leg­ nating monopoly control over retail electricity so that we can produce a truly balanced and islation creates Federal incentives for the re­ generation. bipartisan approach to bringing real competi­ moval existing State-level barriers to competi­ Unfortunately, many other States are either tion and consumer choice to the electricity in­ tion in the generation of electricity-so that not moving forward all or have become stalled dustry. competition and market forces can be un­ part of the way through the process. I find this leashed in a manner which will efficiently and troubling in light of the fact that many in the CONGRESSIONAL BOYCOTT reliably provide electric energy to retail con­ utility industry are now arguing for a repeal of sumers at a lower cost. PURPA by suggesting that competition is al­ Today, the electric utility industry operates ready here. The reality is that full competition HON. PETER A. DeFAZIO as one of our Nation's last great protected mo­ has not yet arrived. We cannot and should not OF OREGON nopolies. Presently, the generation, trans­ deregulate into a monopoly environment; we IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mission, and distribution of electricity remains can and should deregulate into a competitive Thurdsay, February 1, 1996 fundamentally a monopoly enterprise. The mo­ marketplace. Mr. DEFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I wish to voice nopoly nature of this industry has, in turn, ne­ The bill I am introducing today provides in­ my strong disapproval with the French Gov­ cessitated a very strict system of Federal and centives to move toward competition. Specifi­ ernment's nuclear testing program. I join with State utility regulation aimed at protecting cap­ cally, my legislation will link any repeal of the many of my colleagues-and most of the tive utility ratepayers from potential over­ mandatory power purchase provisions of world community-in protesting the detonation charges, abuses, and conflicts-of-interest. PURPA to the arrival of real competition in the of six French nuclear weapons in the South Over the years, Congress has taken the market for electricity generation. It would es­ Pacific. That is why I am joining the congres­ lead in promoting increased competition in the tablish overall Federal standards for competi­ sional boycott of the French President's visit to electricity industry. In 1978, the Public Utility tion which could be met either by divesting Congress. Regulatory Policies Act [PURPA] first opened generation from transmission and distribution French President Jacques Chirac will ap­ up competition by making possible the growth assets or, alternatively by permitting retail pear today before a joint session of Congress. of independent power. This was achieved by power generation competition on an open and I can not of good conscience attend. France requiring utilities to purchase power from such nondiscriminatory basis. In addition, the bill and the United States have a proud relation­ independent producers at their avoided cost. establishes certain minimum certification re­ ship of cooperation extending back to the be­ While there have been problems in some quirements aimed at ensuring that energy effi­ ginning of our Nation. However, France's con­ States with implementation of the act, by most ciency and renewables programs are retained duct in the South Pacific can not be justified. accounts, PURPA has been largely successful and that the low-income consumers receive Exploding nuclear weapons in pursuit of fur­ in achieving its objectives. The congressional protections against price discrimination. Utili­ ther weapons development contradicts the conference report accompanying the bill pre­ ties in States that meet the minimum certifi­ view of 175 nations-including France and the dicted that 12,000 megawatts of nonutility cation requirements and either the retail com­ United States-who signed the Nuclear Non­ projects would be on-line by 1995. In actuality, petition or divestiture standards in the bill Proliferation Treaty. It also needlessly endan­ by 1991, 32,000 megawatts was on line. In would be freed of the mandatory power pur­ gers the environment and people of the re­ addition, the emergence of wind, solar, bio- chase requirements of PURPA. In other gion. 2314 EXTENSIO~S OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 Just last week, France acknowledged the sponsibilities by passing a clean debt ceiling Betty Doughner's warmth, enthusiasm, and presence or radioactive iodine in the lagoon extension bill and not allow this great Nation dedication are greatly missed by all of her col­ near the Mururoa test site. Despite their dec­ for the first time in 220 years to default. leagues at the district, and by everyone else laration that the tests blast are perfectly safe, Just last week Moody's Investors Service who knew her. The entire Topanga community we have no way to know if this is true. Since announced that it might lower the credit rating joins me in expressing our deep sorrow to her the French Government refuses to allow inde­ for U.S. Treasury bonds-the first time in our family and friends, and our heartfelt apprecia­ pendent assessment of the environment im­ Nation's history. This should not be a source tion for her many years of outstanding public pact of these nuclear explosions, I must re­ of pride to any Member of Congress. service. main suspicious. Are the people who live in America cannot afford to have its full faith, the South Pacific threatened by nuclear poison its good word and its credit sacrificed on the in their region of the world? What will the eco­ altar of partisan posturing. Imagine Social Se­ TRIDUTE TO MONROE WOODS logical and human health threats 10, 20, or curity checks and veterans' checks not being 100 years from now? sent to recipients or honored when deposited HON. BOBBYL RUSH Although the Clinton administration has offi­ by individuals who earned these benefits and OF ILLINOIS cially denounced the French nuclear testing rely on them. The American people cannot af­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES program, its actions hardly match its rhetoric. ford the higher interest rates that would result Thursday, February 1, 1996 I urge the White House to put real pressure on from default. We rail against "dead beat" dads Mr. RUSH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to the Chirac government. Let us not forget our * * * no one should be part of a "dead beat" honor Monroe Woods who is retiring as the responsibility in the matter: The United States Government. Midwest Regional Administrator for the U.S. Mr. Speaker, only you and your colleagues has long supported the French nuclear weap­ Department of Agriculture's Food and Con­ have the power to keep America from the dis­ ons program. sumer Service. An event will be held in his I must take special exception to the United grace and disaster of default. Let us together honor on Thursday, February 1, 1996, in Chi­ States decision to allow French military aircraft pass a bill now to avoid default and inter­ cago, IL. to fly to the South Pacific test site via the use national discredit. Mr. Woods joined the Food and Consumer of United States airspace. How can the world Service in 1966 as a member of the Los An­ take seriously a United States criticism of the geles Field Office staff. He has held various French nuclear weapons testing program TRIBUTE TO ELIZABETH DOUGHNER positions in Oakland and the San Francisco when the United States refuses to take even Regional Office, the New England Region in the most basic action to resist the French ac­ HON. ANlHONY C. BEILENSON Boston, MA, and the Mountain Plains Region tion. The only assurance Congress can get in Denver, · CO, before his appointment in July from the U.S. State Department is that no nu­ OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1978 as Regional Administrator of the Midwest clear materials are being transported "accord­ Region in Chicago. ing to the best of our knowledge." This hardly Thursday, February 1,1996 As Regional Administrator of the Midwest represents strong scrutiny by our Government. Mr. BEILENSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Region, Mr. Woods administers the agency's Now that the French Government has to pay tribute to one of Topanga, CA's most food assistance programs in Illinois, Indiana, ended its series of nuclear detonations, I call dedicated and admired citizens, Elizabeth Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin; on President Chirac to firmly commit his nation Doughner, who passed away recently. oversees annual expenditures of $5.6 billion; to end all future tests. At the very least, Betty Doughner served as executive officer/ and manages approximately 200 employees. France should declare the permanent closing clerk of the Board of Resource Conservation His service, and outstanding dedication to of the South Pacific test site. France should District of the Santa Monica Mountains-for­ his work and to the citizenry, have merited him also clean up the nuclear mess it left behind merly the Topanga-Las Virgenes Resource appointments on a number of national and and allow independent monitoring of the area. Conservation District-which carries out envi­ local advisory boards, task forces, and coun­ It is the least they can do for the South Pacific ronmental education and restoration projects. cils, including the National Advisory Council peoples who will have to live with the legacy During the 34 years Betty was employed by for the Child Nutrition Programs and the Insti­ of decades of nuclear weapons testing. the District, she watched it grow from an oper­ tute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Univer­ The rationale for nuclear testing ran out ation with one employee--herself-to the so­ sity of Illinois. Mr. Woods also served as years ago. If the world governments won't employee agency it is today. Chairman of the Chicago Federal Executive stop this cold war relic now, then when? I look In her position with the district, Betty worked Board in 1987 and 1988, and is an alumni of forward to the recognition by France that their tirelessly for our community. She helped se­ the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottes­ ongoing nuclear weapons testing program was cure conservation services for landowners in ville, VA. simply wrong. Perhaps we can now move to­ the area, wrote the district's quarterly news­ Mr. Woods received a Presidential Rank ward an international ban on all future such letter, coordinated the annual plant sale, hired Award at a private White House ceremony in explosive tests. The United States must con­ personnel, maintained all the district's records, 1984, where he was conferred "distinguished tinue to press for a comprehensive ban on all and helped establish and maintain the dis­ executive status". In 1991, Mr. Woods was such future nuclear test explosions. And trict's Vance Hoyt Memorial Library. She be­ named to Who's Who in Government Service. France must become an active player in these came an expert on the law governing the op­ In 1992, Mr. Woods was presented with a me­ negotiations. eration of Resource Conservation Districts in dallion of the city of Detroit by the President It is my hope that a change in the behavior order to properly advise the District Board. of the Detroit City Council. of France's Government will allow me to par­ Betty was also responsible for writing and In 1994, the U.S. Department of Agri­ ticipate in Mr. Chirac's next visit to Congress. obtaining the first grants that expanded the culture's Food and Consumer Service became I also look forward to a successful conclusion district's education program. The large number the sponsor of, and Mr. Woods was named to the ongoing comprehensive nuclear talks so of awards to the district for conservation and chairperson of, the U.S. Department of Com­ the world can take an important step toward education are a testimony to the effectiveness merce, Minority Business Opportunity Commit­ nuclear disarmament. of her work, for which she was twice honored tee. It is in this capacity that I became most with a Distinguished Service Award by the familiar with Mr. Woods. Mr. Woods' dedica­ A CLEAN DEBT CEILING Employee Association of the California Asso­ tion to the Inclusion of minority and women­ EXTENSION BILL ciation of Resource Conservation Districts. owned businesses in the Federal procurement Betty contributed much to the community in process have been well documented. This other ways as well. For her volunteer work dedication led him to willingly take responsibil­ HON. ANNA G. ESHOO with schools, the Womens' Club, and the ity for the continued mission of the Minority OF CALIFORNIA Strawberry Festival, the Topanga Chamber of Business Opportunity Committee to increase IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Commerce recognized her as the 1979 "Citi­ the participation of such businesses in the Thursday , February 1, 1996 zen of the Year." She was also a volunteer marketplace. Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, the time has with Share International, where she helped 1 ask that my colleagues join me in honoring come for this Congress to face up to its re- publish its monthly magazine. Monroe Woods, an outstanding community February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2315 and business leader and role model. I wish CONGRESS SHOULD VOTE "NO" ON community and the city of Sacramento from him the best of luck in his retirement. May he THE AUBURN DAM flooding in the event of a storm the size of any continue to share his talent and love of com­ which have previously struck. In order to jus­ munity that he has given to the Federal Gov­ HON. TIIOMAS E. PETRI tify the latest proposal, proponents claim that ernment and the community at large. OF WISCONSIN the dam is needed to protect the region from IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES storms that are far larger than the greatest Thursday, February 1, 1996 flood that may reasonably be expected on the American River. Fortunately, however, the TRIBUTE TO JEROME DAVIS Mr. PETRI. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro­ Corps of Engineers and regional flood control ducing a bill to prohibit the use of Federal authorities have identified much less expen­ funds to pay for the construction of a dam on HON. HOWARD COBLE sive alternatives which will significantly im­ the North Fork of the American River at Au­ prove the performance of Sacramento's flood OF NORTH CAROLINA burn, CA. In 1992, I led the successful biparti­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES san effort to defeat the authorization of the control system. And it is possible that these al­ ternatives could be paid for by the local com­ $700,000,000 Auburn Dam-potentially the Thursday, February 1, 1996 munity without any Federal funding-or at most expensive dam project in U.S. history. Mr. COBLE. Mr. Speaker, when you hear However, this project has been resurrected. I least without the majority of project costs the terms rodeos and cowboys, your mind understand that the U.S. Army Corps of Engi­ being borne by Federal taxpayers. In order to build the latest Auburn Dam, wanders off to images of the wide open plains neers is poised to seek Congressional author­ of the American West. Now, however, when ity and funding once again for another Auburn project supporters expect U.S. taxpayers to you think of champion cowboys, you will have Dam project-this time, for a larger, more ex­ bear 75 percent of its approximate cost of $1 to think of the Sixth District of North Carolina pensive version of the dam that we defeated billion. I feel strongly that the Federal civil because we are now home to a world cham­ on the House floor in 1992. Furthermore, I un­ works program is not an entitlement program, pion bullrider. derstand that the Federal Bureau of Reclama­ and that it certainly should not be expected to Mr. Jerome Davis of the Glenola community tion is now also considering dam construction bear this kind of burden in the case of a re­ in Randolph County, NC, won the world proposals. . gional water project. Those who know flood bullriding title in Las Vegas, NV, on December This project has been opposed and reJected control concur with this assessment. In fact, 10, 1995. Davis had fulfilled a lifelong dream time and time again in recent history. Back in the National Academy of Engineering released by capturing the top bullriding trophy. In fact, 1965, it was authorized as a multipurpose a blue ribbon report on the American River he entered the 10-day national finals rodeo project, mainly for the purpose of farm irriga­ flood control project which found that, since competition ranked No. 1 in the world stand­ tion. In 1975, after about $200 million had the project was without widespread benefits ings, but Davis needed a final-day win to se­ been spent on site preparation and other sep­ and located in an area with substantial finan­ cure the top prize. arate features, construction was halted be­ cial resources, there was no Federal interest Runner-up rider Terry West scored an 89 on cause of concerns that the dam might trigger in additional flood control work on the Amer­ his final ride which meant that Davis could not seismic activity. In 1979, the Department of ican River. be thrown off his final mount or he would lose the Interior concluded that seismic activity in But cost is far from the only reason why I the title. Davis was able to stay on the aptly­ the earthquake faults located under the pro­ am introducing this bill today. A few months named "The Jam" and scored an 84 to clinch posed dam site might jeopardize the structural ago, the Environmental Protection Agency the title. He won more than $72,000 at the na­ integrity of the dam, the failure of which could [EPA] declared an Auburn Dam to be environ­ tional finals to complete the season with more devastate the Sacramento metropolitan area. mentally unacceptable. Each year, about half than $135,000 in earnings. Davis beat West In 1980, the dam was redesigned, but the a million people visit the American River can­ by only $3,000 to claim the world title. project never moved forward because of the yons that would be inundated by such a dam, As reported in the High Point Enterprise, advent of Federal water program cost sharing and many of them strongly oppose actions by more than 300 well-wishers greeted Jerome reforms under the Reagan administration. their Government to take this resource away Davis when he returned to the Piedmont Triad Under these reforms, traditional beneficiaries from them. Up to 39 miles of pristine canyon International Airport on the day after his world of Auburn Dam were no longer interested in habitat would be flooded by a dam built ac­ victory. "I never expected anything like this," advancing the project if they were to be partly cording to the latest proposal, robbing wildlife David told the Enterprise's Mark McKinney. "I responsible for its financing. Realizing that the of precious habitat. Citizens and editorial figured maybe my Mom would be here with a multipurpose dam proposal was doomed, in boards throughout California have denounced few folks. This is more than I could have 1992 proponents found a new reason for the the dam in both its past and present incarna­ dam to live: flood control. But the evidence tions. imagined." It appeared that the entire Glenola against a dam project hadn't changed, and the community turned out to greet Davis, sporting This dam was stopped in the 1970's be­ House rejected funding authority for the homemade lapel pins that read "Jerome cause of concerns about seismic safety. It project again on September 23, 1992. Davis, World Champion!" and "#1 Jerome never moved forward during the 1980's be­ I am introducing this legislation today to cause of President Reagan's commitment to Davis." Calvin Wagner of Silver Valley, a long­ once again deliver a strong message to my time rodeo promoter and enthusiast, told the seek full reimbursement for the water and fellow Members of Congress, the Army Corps power benefits which a multipurpose dam newspaper that Davis is a trail blazer. "Je­ of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation: rome brought it home," Wagner said. "By would provide to the region and its residents. Financial constraints, environmental concerns, In the 1990's, Congress has thus far said no being the first world champion bullrider east of and the availability of less expensive, less en­ the Mississippi River, Jerome has opened once already to an Auburn Dam because of vironmentally intrusive alternatives led the economic and environmental concerns. My in­ doors for cowboys that previously were House to reject previous Auburn Dam propos­ closed." troduction of this legislation today is intended als-and they will do so again if the issue is to send a strong message: Congress must say Davis told his crowd of supporters that he brought before Congress. Every time this pro­ no to building an Auburn Dam once again-for could not have won by himself. "A lot of work posal has been reincarnated, its estimated all of the above reasons. goes into winning a world title," Davis re­ costs have risen dramatically. This time, the marked. "But I never could have done it with­ price tag has ballooned to just under $1 bil­ out the support of my family and friends. I lion. At a time when the Congress is grappling A REQUEST FOR KINDNESS don't know how to thank everybody for all with the question of exactly how to balance this." the Federal budget and desperately seeking HON. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON We know how to thank you, Jerome. On be­ solutions on how the deal with our $5 trillion OF TEXAS half of all the citizens in the Sixth District of public debt, how can the Congress possibly IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES North Carolina, we offer our congratulations justify the unnecessary expenditure of such a on winning the world bullriding title. Now when gross amount of money? Thursday, February 1, 1996 people talk about champion cowboys, we can It is not necessary to build a dam at Auburn Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. say just look to Glenola and Jerome Davis. in order to protect the California Central Valley Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of 2316 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 Kindness Week in the city of Dallas, sched­ most punishing attacks of World Warn, died THE NINTH CffiCUIT COURT OF uled for the week of February 11 , 1996. The Sunday in Wynnewood a.t age 87. APPEALS mission of this event is to celebrate and pro­ A native of Arkansas and a 1931 graduate of mote the value and spirit of kindness, and to the U.S. Naval Academy, Adm. Becton was a. HON. JIM BUNN help bring all races, religious, and socio­ lieutenant when the war broke out. He was to see action in the Atlantic and Pacific The­ OF OREGON economic groups within the city of Dallas to­ aters and would win many decorations and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gether to foster understanding among us all. medals for his exploits. Thursday, February 1, 1996 As a part of the celebration of Kindness The most dramatic came in April 1945, Week, I ask all the citizens of Dallas to come when the destroyer USS Laffey, commanded Mr. BUNN of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, today I together in the true spirit of the week, and if by Adm. Becton, was off Okinawa. on radar am introducing a plan, already approved by possible, to attend a formal "Kindness Cele­ picket duty. the Judiciary Committee in the other body, to bration" at Thanksgiving Square, at 12 p.m. The Laffey was a relatively new ship but reorganize the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. on February 14, 1996. had already been bloodied-in June 1944, This proposal, which is long overdue, would This week-long event presents the city of when it supported the D-Da.y invasion of divide a circuit that is twice as large as the na­ Dallas an opportunity that seldom occurs: a Normandy and pa.rticipa.ted in the bombard­ tional average in terms of geographical area, ment of Cherbourg, France. Among its scars chance to lead the Nation, and hopefully the from that engagement was an unexploded 8- population, and caseload. world, in making our small planet a better inch shell lodged in the superstructure. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was place to live. Attitudes are contagious, and By this late stage of the war, the Japanese originally designed during the Civil War, when with a unified effort, Dallas can assist the Na­ had begun to expa.nd the use of Kamikaze at­ six of the nine States in the circuit had not yet tion in creating an attitude of kindness that tacks, the suicidal crashing of armed planes been admitted to the Union. Since then, the can carry on for years to come. into Allied ships. laws of the Nation, and the resources required I ask all of my friends in Dallas to participate For the Laffey, the attack began shortly to interpret those laws, have grown exponen­ in Kindness Week in a variety of ways, all of after sunrise April 16 with a formation of tially. Caseload growth is a concern in many which are easily done but pay big rewards. four planes. The kamikazes split up to make circuits, but no circuit suffers the burden as Such things as visiting a senior center, driving it more difficult for the crew to keep guns does the ninth circuit. trained on them, and the assault was on. safely and courteously, and speaking with an One large problem is the magnitude of It was to last 79 minutes, and eventually, old friend take very little effort and time, and 22 planes drew a bead on the Laffey. Adm. cases that has led to lengthy delays. Even create a good feeling for each person in­ Becton, wearing a. steel helmet and life vest, Chief Judge Wallace, the top judge in the volved. Compliment rather than criticize; help stood in the open to better see the action. ninth circuit, admitted that cases can be de­ rather than shout; and smile rather than frown. Planes seemed to come from every direc­ layed for 4 months over the national average. Each of us has a role to play, and I hope we tion and altitude, he said in a.n Inquirer While the judges have worked very hard to im­ will all do our part in Kindness Week. interview shortly before the 50th anniversary prove an unacceptable situation, I believe we of the battle this year. can do better. Though the Laffey's gunners and those The number of judges alone prevents con­ TRIBUTE TO REAR ADMIRAL from nearby craft were aided by U.S. war­ sistency in the ninth circuit. There are 28 FREDERICK JULIAN BECTON planes, some of the kamikaze inevitably judges in the ninth, more than twice the na­ found their mark. tional average of 12.6, leading to thousands of "Each time one crashed, there was always HON. CURT WFJOON a. flood of gasoline from the plane-and one possible combinations of three-judge panels to OF PENNSYLVANIA hell of a. fire," Adm. Becton told The In­ hear a case. Because there are so many sit­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES quirer. ting and visiting judges, there is little uniformity among decisions, leading to greater uncer­ Thursday, February 1,1996 The guns took out at least eight of the planes, but five hit the destroyer, jamming tainty of the law of the land. Furthermore, the Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, its rudder and spreading fire everywhere. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has a higher I am saddened today to bring to your attention "Near the end of the action, one of my offi­ rate of cases being overturned by the U.S. Su­ the recent passing of Frederick Julian Becton, cers, Frank Mason, came to me and said, preme Court than the national average. a retired rear admiral of the U.S. Navy. A true 'Captain, we're in pretty bad shape aft. Do In addition, Chief Judge Wallace recently hero, Admiral Becton demonstrated his cour­ you think you'll have to abandon ship?' called for 1 0 additional judges to ease the bur­ age and mettle many times over throughout "It never entered my mind to abandon den on the current judges, while others have ship. The ship might sink under us. We his 35 years of military service. requested that the number of judges be dou­ A World War II hero, Admiral Becton passed might not be able to sail her. But I wasn't going to abandon her. bled to 56. However, adding judges to the al­ away in his hometown of Wynnewood, PA, on "So I said, 'No, Frank, I'll never abandon ready unwieldy panel of 28 would only worsen Christmas Eve at the age of 87. No episode ship as long a.s a gun will fire.' " the problem; reorganizing the ninth circuit into better portrays Admiral Becton's tenacity and Thirty-one crew members died, and the two more manageable circuits provides a bravery than when he refused to abandon his Laffey had to be towed to Seattle, where a much more efficient solution. ship during one of the most punishing attacks newspaper reported that it was "riddled like There is recent precedent for the successful of the war. Admiral Becton was later awarded a sieve above the water line." split of a Circuit Court of Appeals. The Hruska the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism as The citation for the Navy Cross praised Commission recommended in 1973 that both commander of the USS LAFFEY in action Adm. Becton's "extraordinary herosim" in the fifth and the ninth circuits be divided due against Japanese forces off Okinawa, on April keeping his ship afloat and in action. to overwhelming size and caseload. The fifth 16, 1945 * * * with his ship under savage at­ He was promoted to captain in 1951 and to circuit was split in 1980 with great success in tack by 30 hostile planes. rear admiral in 1959, and was assigned to the Bureau of Naval Personnel and other posts. improving efficiency. Chief Judge Tjoflat of the I would like to submit for the RECORD an ar­ When he retired in 1966, he and his wife, the 11th circuit testified before the other body's ticle that appeared on December 26, 1995, in former Elizabeth Hilary Reuss, moved to her Judiciary Committee that while the new fifth the Philadelphia Inquirer regarding Admiral hometown of Wynnewood. and the eleventh circuits have approximately Becton. When you read this article, I am sure He wrote a book on his experience-The the same number of judges as does the ninth, that you too will come to understand what a Ship That Would Not Die-and kept in touch the two new circuits are able to process 50 fine genUeman and hero that America has with many former crew members. percent more cases than the current ninth cir­ lost. I know that my colleagues join me today He is also survived by two daughters, cuit. in mourning the passing of Admiral Becton, an Hilary Becton Wagner and Julie Bradford Judges, lawyers, and legislators have been American hero. Becton. calling for a reorganization of the ninth circuit A viewing will be held at 10 a.m. Jan .. 3 at F. BECTON, NAVY HERO IN WWll Ardmore Presbyterian Church, Montgomery since the formal recommendation in 1973, and (By Larry Fish) Avenue and Mill Creek Road; a service will the attorneys general of nearly all of the Frederick Julian Becton, a retired rear ad­ follow at 11 a.m. Burial will be 11 a.m. Jan. States involved have endorsed the ninth circuit miral who was awarded the Navy Cross for 4 at Arlington National Cemetery, Arling­ split. While many people agree that much refusing to give up his ship after one of the ton, Va. greater reform of the Federal judicial system is February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2317 needed, this bill is a crucial first step. 1 ask my They also would have seen a black man in made it clear that he loved the sinner. He be­ colleagues to join me in support for this impor­ South Africa emerge from prison after 26 friended beggars and prostitutes and even tant legislation. years and become the President of his na­ tax collectors while condemning the hypoc­ tion, personifying forgiveness and reconcili­ risy of those in power. He treated every indi­ ation; the first hesitant but hopeful steps to­ vidual with love and dignity and taught that REMARKS BY SENATOR NUNN AT ward peace between Jews and Arabs in the we should do the same. He died like a com­ NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST Middle East, and between Protestants and mon criminal, on a cross, and gave us the op­ Catholics in Northern Ireland. They would portunity for redemption and the hope of see that in 1996 we are blessed to live in a eternal life. HON. TOM LANTOS world where more people enjoy religious He also put the role of government in prop­ OF CALIFORNIA freedom than at any other time in history. er perspective when he said, "Render unto IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Can we doubt this morning that a loving God Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's." Thursday, February 1, 1996 has watched over us and guided us through this dangerous and challenging period? Shortly after I announced that I would not Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor During the early days of the Russian par­ seek reelection, a reporter asked me and a great personal pleasure for me to intro­ liament, the Duma, I joined several other "You've been in the Congress for 24 years; duce into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the fol­ Senators in attending a meeting with anum­ what do you consider to be your greatest ac­ lowing statement by our distinguished col­ ber of newly elected members of that body. complishment?" I paused for a moment and league and my good friend, Senator SAM The second day, a few of us were invi ted to replied, "Keeping my family together for 24 years and helping my wife Colleen raise two NUNN. His speech, delivered at the National a very small "prayer breakfast" with a group of Duma members who were just form­ wonderful children, Michelle and Brian." Prayer Breakfast this morning, was very pow­ ing a fellowship, no doubt stimulated by Upon hearing this, the reporter scoffed, erful and given with his usual sense of Doug Coe. As in the larger meeting the day "Don't give me that soft sound-bite stuff. thoughtfulness and sincerity. I strongly urge all before, the breakfast discussion started with What laws did you get passed? of my colleagues to take a moment and read a degree of coldness and tension. One of the When he said that, I had several thoughts­ this moving address given by Senator NUNN. Russians, in obvious sadness and a little em­ only a couple of them I can share with you [National Prayer Breakfast, Feb. 1, 1996] barrassment, remarked that Russia was in this morning. Four years ago, my daughter, great economic distress and that the United Michelle, and a few of her friends started an SENATOR SAM NUNN-TRANSCRIPT OF organization in Atlanta called Hands on At­ REMARKS States was the only remaining superpower. It was clear that this was a very sensitive lanta, making it exciting, efficient and fun Thank you Bob Bennett, President and point for them. It had been abundantly clear for young people to volunteer their time to Mrs. Clinton, Vice President and Mrs. Gore, the day before. help those in need. Now, about 5 years later, fellow sinners. Have I left anyone out? I say 10,000 volunteers each month render about to my good friend, Alan Simpson, Billy Senator Dirk Kempthorne and I then pointed out that in the real sense there is 20,000 hours of personal, one-on-one service. Graham called me also, Alan. He said, as he only one superpower in the world, our heav­ What laws have I passed that have had this did in his message, that he was praying for enly Father who watches over us all. The impact? us all. But, he felt particularly compelled to tension immediately eased and the spirit of I also thought about the difference be­ pray for Alan Simpson and for me. Alan I tween being a Senator and being a father. don't know what he meant by that, but fellowship was built, and we prayed together y~u to that superpower, the God who loves us all. When we in the Senate make a mistake, we and I appreciate it. have checks and balances-99 other Senate A few years ago during the Brezhnev era, Our world is a strange and tragic place. It is very ironic in many ways. The Cold War is colleagues, plus the House of Representa­ Dr. Billy Graham returned from a highly tives, plus the President, plus a final review publicized trip to Moscow and was con­ now over, but in a tragic sense, the world has now been made safer for ethnic, tribal, and by the Supreme Court. But, when we as par­ fronted when he returned by one of his crit­ ents make a mistake with our children, ics with these words, "Dr. Graham, you have religious vengeance and savagery. Such trag­ edy has come to the people of Somalia, Bos­ where are the checks and where are the bal­ set the church back 50 years." Billy Graham ances? lowered his head and replied, "I am deeply nia, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Haiti and oth­ ers. Congress can pass laws cracking down on ashamed. I have been trying very hard to set those who refuse to support their children. the church back 2,000 years." At home, the pillar of our national strength, the American family, is crumbling. But we cannot force husbands to honor their Today we represent different political par­ wives, wives to love their husbands, and both ties, different religions and different nations, Television and movies saturate our children with sex and violence. We have watered down parents to nurture their children. Congress but as your invitation states, we gather as can pass laws on civil rights and equal brothers and sisters in the spirit of Jesus our moral standards to the point where many of our youth are confused, discouraged rights, but we cannot force people of dif­ who lived 2,000 years ago, and who lives in ferent races to love each other as brothers. our hearts and minds today. and in deep trouble. We are reaping the har­ vest of parental neglect, divorce, child abuse, Congress can promote fairness and efficiency The first prayer breakfast was held in 1953 in our tax code, but we cannot force the rich in a world of great danger. President Eisen­ teen pregnancy, school dropouts, illegal drugs, and streets full of violence. to show compassion toward the poor. We can hower was newly inaugurated and had just join with our NATO allies to separate the returned from Korea where our young sol­ It's as if our house, having survived the great earthquake we call the Cold War, is warring factions in Bosnia, as we are doing, diers were fighting desperately. World Com­ and give them a breathing space, but we can­ munism was on the move. ·Eastern Europe now being eaten away by termites. Where should we turn this morning and in the days not force Muslims, Croats and Serbs to live and the Baltics were locked behind the Iron together as brothers in peace. Curtain. All across the globe, the lights of ahead? I recently heard a story on the radio. It religious freedom and individual rights were Our problems in America today are pri­ happened in Bosnia, but I think it has mean­ going out, and the specter of nuclear de­ marily problems of the heart. The soul of our ing for all of us. A reporter was covering that struction loomed over our planet. nation is the sum of our individual char­ tragic conflict in the middle of Sarajevo, and I wonder this morning how those who at­ acters. Yes, we must balance the federal he saw a little girl shot by a sniper. The tended that first national prayer breakfast budget and there are a lot of other things we back of her head had been torn away by the 43 years ago would have reacted if God had need to do at the Federal level, but unless we bullet. The reporter threw down his pad and given them a window to see the world of the change our hearts we will still have a deficit pencil, and stopped being a reporter for a few 1980's and 1990's. of the soul. minutes. He rushed to the man who was They would have seen truly amazing The human inclination to seek political so­ holding the child, and helped them both into things: Catholic nuns kneeling to pray in the lutions for problems of the heart is nothing his car. path of 50-ton tanks-the power of their faith new. It is natural. Two thousand years ago, As the reporter stepped on the accelerator, bringing down the Philippine dictatorship; another society found itself in deeper trouble racing to the hospital, the man holding the the Iron Curtain being smashed, not by than our own. An oppressive empire stran­ bleeding child said, "Hurry, my friend, my tanks of war, but by the hands of those who gled liberties. Violence and corruption were child is still alive." built it and those who were oppressed by it; pervasive. A moment or two later, "Hurry, my friend, the Cold War ending, not in a nuclear in­ Many of the people of the day hoped for the my child is still breathing." ferno, but in a blaze of candles in the church­ triumphant coming of a political savior, a A moment later, "Hurry, my friend, my es of Eastern Europe, in the singing of long-expected king to establish a new, right­ child is still warm." hymns and the opening of long-closed syna­ eous government. Instead, God sent his son, Finally, "Hurry. Oh my God, my child is gogues. I believe that God gave Joseph Sta­ a baby, born in a stable. Jesus grew up to be­ getting cold." lin the answer to his question, "How many come a peasant carpenter in a backwater When they got to the hospital, the little divisions does the Pope have?" town called Nazareth. He condemned sin but girl had died. As the two men were in the 2318 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 lavatory, washing the blood off their hands We are all sinners, so we will slip and we The mission of the Catholic schools of the and their clothes, the man turned to the re­ will fall. But I have felt God's sustaining Archdiocese of Agana is "to proclaim the Gos­ porter and said, "This is a terrible task for hand through every phase of my life-grow­ pel, build community, and educate for service me. I must go tell her father that his child ing up in Perry, Georgia, raising a family, by integrating the truths of the is dead. He will be heartbroken." my relationship with my wife Colleen, in to humanity The reporter was amazed. He looked at the Senate floor debates, in committee meet­ Catholic faith with the learning process." grieving man and said, "I thought she was ings, visiting our troops in war, or being part School children are taught values along with your child." of a mission for peace. academics and truth along with facts. The man looked back and said, "No, but In the years ahead, when I think back on Catholic schools on Guam are not just on aren't they all our children?" my public service, I am certain that my the forefront of elementary and secondary Aren't they all our children? most cherished memories will be those mo­ education, they are on the cutting edge. Our Yes, they are all our children. They are ments spent with my colleagues in the Sen­ Catholic schools, in addition to traditional qual­ also God's children as well, and he has en­ ate prayer breakfasts and in my meetings ity teaching, are leaders in innovation. Last trusted us with their care in Sarajevo, in So­ with leaders from around the world, usually malia, in New York City, in Los Angeles, in arranged by Doug Coe, in the spirit of Jesus. year three elementary schools started year­ my hometown of Perry, Georgia and here in I have also been blessed by many friends in round education. This new strategy is sure to Washington, D.C. the Senate and also a small fellowship with benefit our students and our island. In the book of Micah, the prophet asks, a group of Senate brothers like the late The Catholic school system rose to promi­ " Shall I give my firstborn for my trans­ Dewey Bartlett, Republican of Oklahoma; nence after World War II. Many fine educators gressions, the fruit of my body for the sin of Lawton Chiles, Democrat of Florida; Pete and religious leaders built the foundation of my soul?'' Domenici, Republican of New Mexico; Harold our present Catholic school system. On a per­ The cruelest aspect of our wars and our Hughes, Democrat of Iowa; and Mark Hat­ sonal note, I would. also like to mention the sins is what they do to our children. Jesus field, Republican of Oregon. No one can ac­ said, " Suffer the little children to come unto cuse that group of being of like minds politi­ contributions of my aunt, Mary Underwood­ me . . . For of such is the kingdom of God.'' cally. formerly Sister lnes. After joining the Sisters of Too often today we shorten this command­ Yet, these brothers have listened to my Mercy, she returned to her native Guam after ment to-suffer-little children. problems, shared in my joys, held me ac­ World War II to help organize the Catholic Mrs. Clinton, thank you for the emphasis countable and upheld me in their prayers. school system. After many years of retirement you have put on children and the spotlight Fellowship in the spirit of Jesus does amaz­ in San Francisco, she recently returned to you have shined on our challenges. You are ing things. It puts political and philosophical Guam. great. differences, even profound differences, even Congratulations to all the Catholic schools The world is watching America today. Peo­ profound differences, in a totally different ple around the world are watching not just perspective. on Guam, Archbishop Anthony Sablan our President or our Congress or our econ­ I believe that 2,000 years ago Jesus was Apuron, Sr. M. Dominic Reichart, RSM, interim omy or even our military deployments. They speaking to each of us when he delivered his director of Catholic schools, and to the other are watching our cities, our towns, and our Sermon on the Mount. And, my prayer this members of the Archdiocesan Board of Edu­ families to see how much we value our chil­ morning for our leaders and our nation is in cation: Dr. Katherine Aguon, Sr. Emiline Artero dren, and whether we care enough to stop the spirit of his words then. RSM, Mr. Zenon Belanger, Mr. Frank America's moral and cultural erosion. Do we May we who would be leaders always be Campillo, Mrs. Fay Carbullido, Mr. Manuel in America in 1996 love our neighbors as our­ aware that we must first be servants. May Cruz-vice-president, Mr. Carl Dominquez­ selves as explained by Bob Bennett as our we who compete in the arena of government theme for the morning and by Tom Lantos and politics remember that we are com­ president, Mrs. Teresita Hagen, Mr. Paul and his personal example? manded to love our enemies and pray for Boyd, Dr. Richardo Eusebio, and attorney Jay I do not have the answer to these questions those who persecute us. I can't find any ex­ Arriola. These individuals, along with every this morning, and I don't pretend to. These ception for the news media or our opponents. teacher and student, make Guam's Catholic problems can be solved only in the hearts May we who seek to be admired by others re­ schools, schools we can believe in. Si Yu'os and minds of our people and one child at a member that when we practice our piety be­ Ma'ase yan todos hamyo. time. I do, however, have a few observations. fore men in order to be seen by them, we will The Cold War provided as with a clarity of have no reward in heaven. May we who have purpose and a sense of unity as a people. Our large egos and great ambitions recall that NCEITA TO PARTICIPATE IN THE survival as a nation was at stake. We came the Kingdom of Heaven is promised to those TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM together often in fear. The challenges that who are humble and poor in spirit. May we DEBATE confront as today are far different, but the who depend on publicity as our daily bread stakes are the same. I pray that our chil­ recall that when we do a secret kindness to dren, all of our children, will be the bridge others, our Father, who knows all secrets, HON. RICHARD BURR that brings us together, not in fear, but in will reward us. May the citizens whom we OF NORTH CAROLINA love. serve as stewards of government be sensitive IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Each year millions of our children are to the fact that we are human beings subject abused, abandoned and aborted. Millions to error and that while we need their cri­ Thursday, February 1,1996 more receive little care, discipline and al­ t iques, we also desperately need their pray­ Mr. BURR. Mr. Speaker, I would like to most no love. While we continue to debate ers. May we never forget that the final judg­ commend the fine efforts of the North Carolina our deeply-held beliefs as to which of these ment of our tenure here on earth will not be sins should also be violations of our criminal decided by a majority vote, and that an elec­ Electronics and Information Technologies code, I pray that we as parents, as extended tion is not required to bring us home. [NCEITA] to play a constructive role in the de­ families, and as communities, will come to­ May God bless each of you. bate over telecommunications reform this gether to provide love and spiritual care to year. NCEITA was formed in 1993 as the pri­ every mother and to every child, born or un­ mary association representing North Carolina's born. SCHOOLS YOU CAN BELIEVE IN high-technology companies. Rapid growth in Government at every level must play a our State's electronics and information indus­ role in these challenges, but I do not believe tries has made it the second largest employer that it will be the decisive role. What, then, HON. ROBERT A. UNDERWOOD are our duties as leaders, not just in the OF GUAM in North Carolina, accounting for more than world of politics and government, but in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 145,000 jobs. North Carolina, with its Re­ every field represented here this morning search Triangle Park, the Nation's oldest and and throughout our land? Like basketball Thursday, February 1, 1996 largest research park, has become one of the stars Charles Barkley and Dennis Rodman, Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, this week Nation's premier locations for firms in elec­ we are role models whether we like it or not. is National Catholic Schools Week. I want to tronics, telecommunications, computer sys­ I believe that the example we set, particu­ take this opportunity to highlight, praise, and tems, and other high-technology fields. larly for our young people, may be the most As Congress considered the sweeping re­ important responsibility of public service. congratulate our Catholic schools. Catholic We must demonstrate with our daily lives schools are an integral part of our island com­ write of our communications laws this year, that it is possible to be involved in politics munity on Guam. In fact, nearly one out of NCEIT A encouraged policymakers to take a and still retain intellectual honesty and every five students on Guam attend Catholic close look at North Carolina's commitment to moral and ethical behavior. schools. build a fully interactive fiber-optic network February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2319 throughout the State and the advanced tele­ First, I want to thank you, not just for system. For years I have worked to prepare communications capabilities available to its saving me from the draft, but for being so myself for a political life characterized by citizens. At the end of 1994, over 40,000 kind and decent to me last summer, when I both practical political ability and concern was as low as I have ever been. One thing for rapid social progress. It is a life I still sheath miles of fiber-optic cable had been de­ which made the bond we struck in good faith feel compelled to try to lead. I do not think ployed throughout our State, providing the somewhat palatable to me was my high re­ our system of government is by definition backbone for date transmission. Currently, gard for you personally. In retrospect, it corrupt, however dangerous and inadequate over 97 percent of North Carolina businesses seems that the admiration might not have it has been in recent years. (The society may have access to digital switching. This inter­ been mutual had you known a little more be corrupt, but that is not the same thing, active broadband network allows students to about me, about my political beliefs and ac­ and if that is true, we are all finished any­ participate in classroom debates taking place tivities. At least you might have thought me way.) on the other side of the State or browse more fit for the draft than for ROTC. When the draft came, despite political con­ through the library collections at distant univer­ Let me try to explain. As you know, I victions, I was having a hard time facing the worked for two years in a very minor posi­ prospect of fighting a war I had been fighting sities. Cardiac specialists in Chapel Hill can tion on the Senate Foreign Relations Com­ against, and that is why I contacted you. now examine video images of the beating mittee. I did it for the experience and the ROTC was the one way left in which I could heart of an elderly woman in her doctor's of­ salary but also for the opportunity, however, possibly, but not positively, avoid both Viet­ fice in the mountains of Hendersonville, NC. small, of working every day against a war I nam and resistance. Going on with my edu­ Using North Carolina as a model of the ben­ opposed and despised with a depth of feeling cation, even coming back to England, played efits of advanced telecommunications capabili­ I had reserved solely for racism in America no part in my decision to join ROTC. I am ties, NCEIT A urged legislators to promote the before Vietnam. I did not take the matter back here, and would have been at Arkansas deployment of advanced telecommunications lightly but studied it carefully, and there Law School because there is nothing else I was a time when not many people had more can do. In fact, I would like to have been networks nationwide to enable all Americans information about Vietnam at hand than I able to take a year out perhaps to teach in to originate and receive affordable, high-qual­ did. a small college or work on some community ity voice, data, image, graphic, and video tele­ I have written and spoken and marched action project and in the process to decide communications services. NCEIT A empha­ against the war. One of the national organiz­ whether to attend law school or graduate sized deregulation and competition in the local ers of the Vietnam Moratorium is a close school and how to begin putting what I have telephone exchange as the means toward friend of mine. After I left Arkansas last learned to use. spurring investment in these advanced summer, I went to Washington to work in But the particulars of my personal life are broadband networks. As a result of their ef­ the national headquarters of the Morato­ not nearly as important to me as the prin­ rium, then to England to organize the Amer­ ciples involved. After I signed the ROTC let­ forts on the legislative front, Congress chose ica here for demonstrations Oct. 15 and Nov. ter of intent, I began to wonder whether the to include a provision authorizing the Federal 16. compromise I had made with myself was not Communications Commission to encourage Interlocked with the war is the draft issue, more objectionable than the draft would the timely deployment of advanced tele­ which I did not begin to consider separately have been, because I had no interest in the communications capabilities, if necessary, until early 1968. For a law seminar at ROTC program in itself and all I seemed to through policies of pricing regulation, regu­ Georgetown I wrote a paper on the legal ar­ have done was to protect myself from phys­ latory forbearance and promoting competition guments for and against allowing, within the ical harm. Also, I began to think I had de­ in the local telephone exchange. Quite simply, Selective Service System, the classification ceived you, not by lies-there were none­ of selective conscientious objection for those but by failing to tell you all the things I'm this will enable Americans to communicate opposed to participation in a particular war, writing now. I doubt that I had the mental better tomorrow than they can today. For that, not simply to "participation in war in any coherence to articulate them then. NCEIT A member companies-particularly form." At that time, after we had made our agree­ Broad Band Technologies, Siecor, Nortel, and From my work I came to believe that the ment and you had sent my 1-D deferment to General Instruments-deserve special rec­ draft system itself is illegitimate. No gov­ my draft board, the anguish and loss of my ognition. ernment really rooted in limited, parliamen­ self-regard and self-confidence really set in. I tary democracy should have the power to hardly slept for weeks and kept going by eat­ make its citizens fight and kill and die in a ing compulsively and reading until exhaus­ BASIS FOR CHARGE THAT BILL war they may oppose, a war which even pos­ tion brought sleep. Finally, on Sept. 12 I CLINTON "LOATHES" THE MILI­ sibly may be wrong, a war which, in any stayed up all night writing a letter to the case, does not involve immediately the peace chairman of my draft board, saying basically TARY and freedom of the nation. what is in the preceding paragraph, thanking The draft was justified in World War IT be­ him for trying to help in a case where he HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN cause the life of the people collectively was really couldn't, and stating that I couldn't OF CALIFORNIA at stake. Individuals had to fight, if the na­ do the ROTC after all and would he please IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion was to survive, for the lives of their draft me as soon as possible. countrymen and their way of life. Vietnam is I never mailed the letter, but I did carry it Thursday, February 1, 1996 no such case. Nor was Korea an example on me every day until I got on the plane to Mr. DORNAN, Mr. Speaker, at your own re­ where, in my opinion, certain military ac­ return to England. I didn't mail the letter quest, Mr. GINGRICH, I am including the follow­ tion was justified but the draft was not, for because I didn't see, in the end, how my the reasons stated above. going in the Army and maybe going to Viet­ ing letters from a young Bill Clinton to his Because of my opposition to the draft and nam would achieve anything except a feeling ROTC draft board adviser Bataan Death the war, I am in great sympathy with those that I had punished myself and gotten what March survivor Col. Eugene Holmes, as well who are not willing to fight, kill and maybe I deserved. So I came back to England to try as Colonel Holmes' response 20 years later. die for their country (i.e. the particular pol­ to make something of this second year of my Also included are some of my comments on icy of a particular government) right or Rhodes scholarship. this issue that you and other Members have wrong. Two of my friends at Oxford are con­ And that is where I am now, writing to you requested be printed in the RECORD. scientious objectors. I wrote a letter of rec­ because you have been good to me and have ommendation for one of them to his Mis­ a right to know what I think and feel. I am [From the Washington Times] sissippi draft board, a letter which I am more writing too in the hope that my telling this TEXT OF BILL CLINTON'S LETTER TO ROTC proud of than anything else I wrote at Oxford one story will help you to understand more COLONEL last year. One of my roommates is a draft re­ clearly how so many fine people have come The text of the letter Bill Clinton wrote to sister who is possibly under indictment and to find themselves still loving their country Col. Eugene Holmes, director of the ROTC may never be able to go home again. He is but loathing the military, to which you and program at the University of Arkansas, on one of the bravest, best men I know. His other good men have devoted years, life­ Dec. 3, 1969: country needs men like him more than they times, of the best service you could give. To I am sorry to be so long in writing. I know know. That he is considered criminal is an many of us, it is no longer clear what is serv­ I promised to let you hear from me at least obscenity. ice and what is disservice, or if it is clear, once a month, and from now on you will, but The decision not to be a resister and the the conclusion is likely to be illegal. I have had to have some time to think about related subsequent decisions were the most Forgive the length of this letter. There was this first letter. Almost daily since my re­ difficult of my life. I decided to accept the much to say. There is still a lot to be said, turn to England I have thought about writ­ draft in spite of my beliefs for one reason: to but it can wait. Please say hello to Col. ing, about what I want to and ought to say. maintain my political inability within the Jones for me. 2320 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 Merry Christmas. the University of Arkansas Law School. I Maj. Sullivan Ballou of the 2nd Rhode Island Sincerely, had explained to him the necessity of enroll­ to his wife Sarah on July 14, 1861. This was BILL CLINTON. ing at the University of Arkansas as a stu­ a week before the battle of Manassas in dent in order to be eligible to take the ROTC which Ballou, to use Lincoln's phrase, "gave SEPTEMBER 7, 1992. program at the University. He never enrolled the full measure of devotion." I have yet to Memorandum for Record. at the University of Arkansas, but instead meet anyone who did not have tears in their Subject: Bill Clinton and the University of enrolled at Yale after attending Oxford. I be­ eyes after hearing Ballou's beautiful and Arkansas ROTC Program. lieve that he purposely deceived me, using timeless words. There have been many unanswered ques­ the possibility of joining the ROTC as a ploy I thought it might prove enlightening to tions as to the circumstances surrounding to work with the draft board to delay his in­ compare the feelings and attitudes found in Bill Clinton's involvement with the ROTC duction and get a new draft classification. Ballou's letter to those found in the wartime department at the University of Arkansas. The December 3rd letter written to me by letter penned by Bill Clinton on Dec. 3, 1969, Prior to this time I have not felt the neces­ Mr. Clinton, and subsequently taken from concerning his being drafted into the mili­ sity for discussing the details. The reason I the files by Lt. Col. Clint Jones, my execu­ tary. By that time, Clinton had used re­ have not done so before is that my poor tive officer, was placed into the ROTC files peated political influence to avoid the draft physical health (a consequence of participa­ so that a record would be available in case and had organized anti-war demonstrations tion in the Bataan Death March and the sub­ the applicant should again petition to enter on foreign soil. It is these events during the sequent 3lh years internment in Japanese into the ROTC program. The information in fall and winter of 1969 that make his POW camps) has precluded me from getting that letter alone would have restricted Bill companionless trip to Moscow and Prague Clinton from ever qualifying to be an officer during the first weeks of 1970 so suspect. into what I felt was unnecessary involve­ On dying for their country: ment. However, present polls show that in the United States Military. Even more Clinton: "Because of my opposition to the there is the imminent danger to our country significant was his lack of veracity in pur­ draft and the war, I am in great sympathy of a draft dodger becoming the Commander­ posefully defrauding the m1litary by deceiv­ with those who are not willing to fight, kill in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United ing me, both in concealing his anti-military and maybe die for their country." States. While it is true, as Mr. Clinton has activities overseas and his counterfeit inten­ Ballou: "I know how * * * great a debt we stated, that there were many others who tions for later military service. These ac­ owe to those who went before us through the avoided serving their country in the Viet­ tions cause me to question both his patriot­ blood and sufferings of the Revolution. And I nam war, they are not aspiring to be the ism and his integrity. am willing-perfectly willing-to lay down President of the United States. When I consider the calabre, the bravery, all my joys* * * to pay that debt." The tremendous implications of the possi­ and the patriotism of the fine young soldiers On the future: bility of his becoming Commander-in-Chief whose deaths I have witnessed, and others Clinton: "For years I have worked to pre­ of the United States Armed Forces compels whose funerals I have attended ... When I pare myself for a political life characterized me now to comment on the facts concerning reflect on not only the willingness but eager­ by both practical political ability and con­ Mr. Clinton's evasion of the draft. ness that so many of them displayed in their cern for rapid social progress. It is a life I This account would not have been impera­ earnest desire to defend and serve their still feel compelled to try to lead." tive had Bill Clinton been completely honest country, it is untenable and incompre­ Ballou: "The memories of the blissful mo­ with the American public concerning this hensable to me that a man who was not ments I have spent with you come creeping matter. But as Mr. Clinton replied on a news merely unwilling to serve his country, but over me, and I feel most gratified to God and conference this evening (September 5, 1992) actually protested against its military, to you that I have enjoyed them so long. And after being asked another particular about should ever be in the position of Commander­ hard it is for me to give them up and burn to his dodging the draft, "Almost everyone con­ in-Chief of our Armed Forces. ashes the hopes of future years when, God cerned with these incidents are dead. I have I write this declaration not only for the willing, we might still have lived and loved no more comments to make". Since I may be living and future generations, but for those together, and seen our sons grown up to hon­ the only person living who can give a first who fought and died for our country. If space orable manhood." hand account of what actually transpired, I and time permitted I would include the On sacrifice: am obligated by my love for my country and names of the ones I knew and fought with, Clinton: "The decision not to be a resister my sense of duty to divulge what actually and along with them I would mention my and the related subsequent decisions were happened and make it a matter of record. brother Bob, who was killed during World the most difficult of my life. I decided to ac­ War II and is buried in Cambridge, England cept the draft in spite of my beliefs for one Bill Clinton came to see me at my home in reason: To maintain my political viability 1969 to discuss his desire to enroll in the (at the age of 23, about the age Bill Clinton was when he was over in England protesting within the system." ROTC program at the University of Arkan­ Ballou: "Sarah, my love for you is death­ sas. We engaged in an extensive, approxi­ the war). I have agonized over whether or not to sub­ less, it seems to bind me with mighty cables mately two (2) hour interview. At no time that nothing but Omnipotence could break, during this long conversation about his de­ mit this statement to the American people. But, I realize that even though I served my and yet my love of country comes over me sire to join the program did he inform me of like a strong wind and bears me unresistably his involvement. participation and actually country by being in the military for over 32 years, and having gone through the ordeal of on with all these chains to the battle field." organizing protests against the United On agony: States involvement in South East Asia. He months of combat under the worst of condi­ Clinton: "At that time, after we had made was shrewd enough to realize that had I been tions followed by years of imprisonment by our agreement and you had sent my 1-D aware of his activities, he would not have the Japanese, it is not enough. I'm writing deferment to my draft board, the anguish been accepted into the ROTC program as a these comments to let everyone know that I and loss of my self-regard and self-confidence potential officer in the United States Army. love my country more than I do my own per­ really set in. I hardly slept for weeks and The next day I began to receive phone calls sonal security and well-being. I will go to my kept going by eating compulsively and read­ regarding Bill Clinton's draft status. I was grave loving these United States of America ing until exhaustion brought sleep. Finally, informed by the draft board that it was of in­ and the liberty for which so many men have on September 12, I stayed up all night writ­ terest to Senator Fullbright's office that Bill fought and died. ing a letter to the chairman of my draft Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, should be admit­ Because of my poor physical condition this board." ted to the ROTC program. I received several will be my final statement. I will make no Ballou: "I have, I know, but few and small such calls. The general message conveyed by further comments to any of the media re­ claims upon Divine Providence, but some­ the draft board to me was that Senator garding this issue. thing whispers to me-perhaps it is the waft­ Fullbright's office was putting pressure on EUGENE J. HOLMES, ed prayer of my little Edgar-that I shall re­ them and that they needed my help. I then Colonel, U.S.A., Ret. turn to my loved ones unharmed. If I do not, made the necessary arrangements to enroll my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love Mr. Clinton into the ROTC program at the LETTERS TAKE THE MEASURE OF TwO MEN you, and when my last breath escapes me on University of Arkansas. (By Robert K. Dornan) the battlefield, it will whisper your name, I was not "saving" him from serving his A couple of years ago, Americans sat Forgive my many faults, and the many pains country, as he erroneously thanked me for in transfixed before the remarkable documen­ I have caused you. How thoughtless and fool­ his letter from England (dated December 3, tary on the Civil War produced by Ken ish I have oftentimes been! How gladly would 1969). I was making it possible for a Rhodes Burns. It was the most watched program in I wash out with my tears every little spot Scholar to serve in the military as an officer. the history of public broadcasting and set upon your happiness." In retrospect I see that Mr. Clinton had no new standards of excellence. When you compare the two, it is astonish­ intention of following through with his Perhaps the most moving and memorable ing that so many commentators found Clin­ agreement to join the Army ROTC program scene occurred at the end of the first episode, ton's mawkish letter "thoughtful" and "tor­ at the University of Arkansas or to attend during the reading of a letter written by mented." And I often wonder how Ballou- February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2321 who went into battle with teenagers-would sional District, the Brooklyn Chinese American shutdown. I also concur that the shutdown have reacted to Clinton's excuse that he was Association [BCA] on its eighth anniversary. would have had disastrous ramifications, most just a 23-year old " boy" at the time. The Brooklyn Chinese America Association But more to the point. Whereas Ballou's of all for our Social Security beneficiaries, vet­ definition of success is raising " honorable" serves the vibrant Asian American community erans, Federal employees and our students. men, Clint on's is a career in politics. Where­ in Brooklyn through a multitude of programs The ongoing chaotic budgetary clashes as Ballou found the call of his country to be including a senior citizens center, and con­ have paralyzed parts of the Government and more powerful than even his " deathless" fidential police information hot line, adult lit­ alienated many Americans. Partial shutdowns love for his wife, Clinton found the call of his eracy and citizenship programs, employment that started in mid.:.November and December country couldn't match the love he had for and skills training programs, leadership train­ closed many Federal operations for 27 days * * * himself. ing and academic tutoring for youth as well as and cost taxpayers $1.4 billion. My constitu­ Clearly there is more than just a century that separates these two men. an Asian Youth Orchestra. The Brooklyn Chi­ ents should not have to suffer nefarious con­ nese American Association serves more than sequences because of Republican ineptness CAMP CLARK, WASHINGTON, 400 clients daily in these and other programs at passing necessary appropriations bills. July 14, 1861. such as through case management services Many El Pasoans were furloughed and re­ MY VERY DEAR SARAH: The indications are and a program for the mentally retarded and ceived truncated paychecks. My constituents very strong that we shall move in a few developmentally disabled. These services are are fed up with Republican maneuvers and days-perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not an invaluable contribution to the Asian Amer­ several Federal employees publicly protested be able to write again, I feel impelled to ican community of Sunset part, Brooklyn and against NEWT GINGRICH and the Republicans' write a few lines that may fall under your to New York City as a whole. extreme agenda. These hard working citizens eye when I shall be no more. I have no misgivings about, or lack of con­ Through Brooklyn Chinese American Asso­ should not be treated as pawns by the Repub­ fidence in, the cause in which I am engaged, ciation's efforts, Chinese American's of Brook­ lican majority in order to score political points. and my courage does not halt or falter. I lyn have been able to access the information I voted for the measure to restore funding know how strongly American Civilization and resources needed to succeed in their new for many social, health and educational pro­ now leans on the triumph of the Govern­ homes. Simultaneously, the tremendous tal­ grams which many citizens depend on. I do, ment, and how great a debt we owe to those ents, enterprise, and energy that immigrants however, have grave concerns regarding the who went before us though the blood and have always brought to America, especially to Republicans' decision to curb education fund­ sufferings of the Revolution. I am willing­ perfectly willing-to lay down all my joys in our cities, has been untapped for all to enjoy. ing for programs such as safe and drug free this life, to help maintain this Government, In the 8 years that the Brooklyn Chinese schools and bilingual education. and to pay that debt.. .. American Association has developed from a I am proud to represent El Paso, TX, whose Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it one person service project in the corner of a 600,000 citizens and residents have success­ seems to bind me with might cables that surrounding Asian American community of fully integrated bilingualism and biculturalism noting but Omnipotence could break; and yet Brooklyn has revitalized Eight Avenue, open­ into their education system, health care facili­ my love for Country comes over me like a ing up more than 50 new businesses. All ties, and economy. Bilingual education pro­ strong wind and bears me unresistibly on along the way, Brooklyn Chinese American grams are essential in my district and many with all these chains to the battlefield. others throughout the country to integrate new The memories of the blissful moments I Association has been there growing with and have spent with you come creeping over me, serving the needs of this dynamic community. immigrants and their children into our society and I feel most gratified to God and you that A year ago, Brooklyn Chinese American As­ successfully. Because much of the rhetoric I have enjoyed them so long. And hard it is sociation celebrated the grand opening of its surrounding the subject of immigrants has be­ for me to give them up and burn to ashes the community service center which houses its come increasingly harsh, these programs are hopes of future years, when God willing, we day care center, computer for employment easy targets for budget cuts. However, any might still have lived and loved together, skills training, classrooms for English as a decrease in funding for bilingual and immi­ and seen our sons grown up to honorable second language [ESL] and citizenship class­ grant education would be very poorly advised. manhood around us. I have, I know, but few Our immigrant population is growing and the and small claims upon Divine providence, es as well as space for social services provi­ but something whispers to me-perhaps it is sion. Through this and other centers which are vast majority of these immigrants are from the wafted prayer of my little Edgar, that I readily accessible, the Brooklyn Chinese Asia and Latin America. If we can capitalize shall return to my loved ones unharmed. If I American Association is able to accommodate upon their linguistic abilities, we can ensure do not, my dear Sarah, never forget how the educational, employment training and so­ that young immigrants and the children of im­ much I love you, and when my last breath es­ cial service needs of the Chinese American migrants will be a valuable asset to our na­ capes me on the battlefield, it will whisper community in a culturally competent manner. tional competitiveness in the global economy. your name. Forgive my many faults, and the In closing, I'd like to say that as a country Moreover, if we fail to adequately fund bilin­ many pains I have caused you. How thought­ of immigrants, the United States has always gual and immigrant education programs, we less and foolish I have often time been! How will set many children up for failure and lose gladly would I wash out with my tears every welcomed and encouraged immigrants to fulfill little spot upon your happiness. . . . their hopes and dreams as active and contrib­ the benefits of their valuable linguistic skills. In But, 0 Sarah! If the dead can come back to uting members of our society. Hard work and the long run, the result will be that many of this earth and the unseen around those they enterprise by our Nation's immigrants should our young immigrants and their children will be loved, I shall always be near you; in the glad­ be applauded and it is in that spirit, Mr. unable to contribute fully to the future of this dest days and in the darkest nights ... al­ Speaker, that I ask my colleagues to join me Nation. I do not believe neglecting the needs ways, always, and if there be a soft breeze in congratulating the Brooklyn Chinese Amer­ of citizens that speak English as a second lan­ upon your cheek, it shall be my breath, as guage is sound policy. the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it ican Association and wish it much success as shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah, do not it works to empower the Asian American com­ Any decrease in funding for bilingual edu­ mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for munity of Brooklyn and of New York City. cation programs will promote frustration, seg­ thee, for we shall meet again. regation, and discrimination between those who have mastered the English language and A COMMITMENT TO ALL those who have been denied the opportunity BROOKLYN CHINESE AMERICAN AMERICANS to do so. ASSOCIATION Further, the safe and drug free schools HON. RONALD D. COLEMAN have proven to be effective in informing our HON. NYDIA M. VEI.AzQUFZ OF TEXAS youth of the severe consequences of partici­ OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pating in this illicit activity. Although there has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been a shift in favor of punishment rather than Thursday, February 1, 1996 prevention in dealing with crime, this approach Thursday, February 1, 1996 Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to may not be the best solution for young people. Ms. VELAzQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, it pleases voice the concerns of my constituents of El The sad fact is that between 1985 and 1993, me to congratulate one of the leading multi- Paso, TX. I voted today for the current con­ juvenile crime rose 58 percent. Clearly, an service organizations in the 12th Congres- tinuing resolution to avert a third Government interventionist response that reaches out to 2322 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 our Nations' youth is needed. Funds for crime priations bills remained in limbo. As a result, 48 years. He served continuously in the sen­ and drug prevention programs in schools help the second Government shutdown did not af­ ate for 42 years, and was the longest serving to meet this need. Furthermore, these funds fect Congressional operations. State senator in the Nation. ensure that important State and local edu­ We should never again leave major portions Marshall Williams was a gentleman of the cational resources will not have to be increas­ of the Government hanging, with ourselves "old school," who was an accomplished trial ingly diverted from mainstream educational ini­ high and dry. We should never again play with attorney, a successful farmer, and a sports­ tiatives in order to address the problems of the lives of innocent Federal employees and man. He lived all of his life in rural Orange­ crime and drugs. In short, the program not disrupt the operations of Government unless burg County, an area in which his family had only provides important preventative initiatives, we are willing to risk our own time, our own resided for many generations. Growing up on but indirectly helps to ensure that all students staff, and our own operations. We should a farm, Marshall Williams developed a deep get the resources they deserve for education, never again enjoy our dessert while our main affection for the land and the people who and that they are educated in a safe and fo­ course remains on the table before us. made their living from it. When asked his oc­ cused environment. I urge my colleagues to join me in cospon­ cupation, he would tell you that he was a law­ These particular programs address some of soring this resolution to make sure that before yer and a farmer. He excelled at both. the most pressing needs of my district and I we ever fund ourselves again, we have first Senator Williams and I became friends believe these programs simply cannot afford met our obligation to take care of the rest of when I was elected to the South Carolina to be cut. our Government operations and the public we House of Representatives, and I had the privi­ I am pleased by the bipartisan effort to are here to serve. lege of serving with him when I was in the stave off another Government shutdown. senate. He was a reasonable person who ap­ Moreover, I encourage my colleagues to fulfill preciate the needs of his constituency and he their commitment to the American people and NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF AP­ was always working to improve the lives of continue to serve the interest of the American PEALS REORGANIZATION ACT OF those who lived in rural areas of our State. people in protecting essential social and edu­ 1966 Senator Williams was noted for his contem­ cational programs. plative style. He was very effective at bringing HON. RICK WHITE lawmakers holding opposing views together to OF WASHINGTON craft a compromise, often using humorous sto­ NO DESSERT UNTIL WE CLEAN ries to make a point. He was a skillful arbiter OUR PLATES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of issues, and he was highly respected by his Thursday, February 1, 1996 colleagues. HON. RICHARD J. DURBIN Mr. WHITE. Mr. Speaker, today, the gen­ Marshall Williams also distinguished himself OF ILLINOIS tleman from Oregon, Mr. Bunn, is introducing in the legal profession. He relished being a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Reorganiza­ trial attorney, and he was widely recognized Thursday, February 1, 1996 tion Act of 1996. I am an original cosponsor of for his courtroom skills. He was especially Mr. DURBIN. Mr. Speaker, until we have this legislation. proud of being a Fellow of the American Col­ taken care of spending bills for the rest of gov­ The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Reorga­ lege of Trial Lawyers. ernment operations, we have no business tak­ nization Act is important legislation which will Throughout his life, Marshall Williams was ing care of ourselves. Today, along with my vastly improve the judicial process in the west­ dedicated to being of service to others. This colleagues, Representatives MORELLA, DAVIS, ern United States. In terms of geographic brought him much success in politics and in and LUTHER, I am introducing a resolution to area, population, and caseload, the current his profession; however, he did not seek rec­ postpone final action on Legislative Branch Ninth Circuit is much too big. By splitting the ognition. In his unassuming manner, he appropriations for any fiscal year until all other Ninth Circuit and creating a new Twelfth Cir­ helped to direct South Carolina from being a regular appropriations for that fiscal year have cuit, we will ensure the highest quality and State in which the economy was largely based been enacted into law. most efficient jurisprudence for both the Ninth on agriculture, to one which focused on edu­ The resolution adds new points of order Circuit and the new Twelfth Circuit. cation and economic development-the pro­ under three House Rules. These would pre­ Under Mr. Bunn's bill, the headquarters of gressive Palmetto State that we know today. clude final action on the regular Legislative the Twelfth Circuit will be Portland, OR. Al­ Senator Williams was an outstanding man Branch appropriations bill, if all other regular though I am original cosponsor of this legisla­ who cherished his family. His passing is appropriations bills for the fiscal year have not tion, it is my belief that the Twelfth Circuit's mourned by many who knew him as their been enacted into law. Similarly, a continuing headquarters should be Seattle, WA. I com­ friend. Our State has greatly benefited from resolution could not contain Legislative Branch mend Mr. Bunn for his leadership on this his leadership. appropriations unless it also included continu­ issue, but I differ with him on this one point. ing appropriations for the same period for all In terms of accessibility and economic signifi­ other regular appropriations bills for the fiscal cance, Seattle is the logical location for the THANK YOU SHERIFF year that have not yet been enacted into law. headquarters of the Twelfth Circuit. As this bill ENGLEHARDT Basically, this means, for Legislative Branch moves through the legislative process, I look appropriations, there could be no final action forward to working with Mr. BUNN and Chair­ HON. WIWAM J. MARTINI on conference reports, no motions on Senate man HYDE and hopefully come to an equitable OF NEW JERSEY amendments, and no action on continuing res­ solution to this issue. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES olutions if we have not first, or concurrently, Thursday, February 1, 1996 provided appropriations for the other twelve regular appropriations. This resolution would TRIBUTE TO SENATOR MARSHALL Mr. MARTINI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ensure that the Legislative Branch is last in BURNS WILLIAMS honor an outstanding citizen and public serv­ line for appropriations in the future. ant who has contributed to the growth and the The concept is elementary-no desserfuntil HON. FLOYD SPENCE safety of his community. Sheriff Ed Englehardt we clean our plates. OF SOUTH CAROLINA of Passaic County, NJ, has for decades been Last September, Congress made the mis­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a leader who has inspired both the men and take of trying to fully fund the Legislative women of Passaic County to tackle the chal­ Branch bill for fiscal year 1996 before taking Thursday, February 1, 1996 lenges their community faces on a daily basis. care of nearly every other appropriations bill. Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to In the very challenging world of law enforce­ And it backfired. The Legislative Branch honor the memory of Marshall Burns Williams, ment, Sheriff Englehardt has demonstrated the spending bill was vetoed the first time who at the time of his death, on December 28, uncanny ability to harness all the energy avail­ around-not because of its content, but be­ 1995, was the president pro tempore of the able to him, and create a safer environment cause of its timing. South Carolina Senate. Senator Williams was for the betterment of the residents of his com­ Even after a Legislative Branch appropria­ a distinguished statesman, who had been a munity. His commitment is to serve with firm­ tions bill was enacted, many regular appro- member of the South Carolina Legislature for ness, fairness, and efficiency. February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2323 At a time when other sheriffs are complain­ of the Federal Government attempting to as­ gressional intent or grant of authority to the ing that their jails are full and they cannot take sume powers rightfully within the purview of FDA to assume authority over tobacco sales any more prisoners, Sheriff Englehardt stands Congress and of the individual states. Con­ to minors. alone in letting the judges know that he can gress has expressly reserved to itself the au­ The President recently addressed the Na­ always find room to receive the criminals that thority to regulate tobacco products, leaving tion, sharing with American people his assess­ they sentence. the bulk of tobacco regulation to the states­ ment as to the state of the nation-and the For over 20 years, Ed Englehardt has including taxation, age of purchase, and cer­ challenges the country faces in the coming served as Sheriff of Passaic County, employ­ tain aspects of tobacco use, including the year. Among the challenges he cited was re­ ing approximately 600 sworn and civilian per­ manner and method of retail transaction. ducing underage tobacco use. However, this sonnel. Sheriff Englehardt's strong leadership In its most recent action with respect to the is challenge which Congress has already ad­ abilities have enabled him to foster feelings of regulation of tobacco, the ADAMHA Reorga­ dressed. With the promulgation of the final mutual respect and trust between the civilians nization of 1992, Congress addressed this in rule implementing the ADAMHA Reorganiza­ and the Sheriff's officers of Passaic County. the appropriate manner-it required states, as tion Act of 1992, the tools for addressing this Despite budgetary constraints that are affect­ a condition for receiving certain federal grants, problem in the most effective and efficient ing not only Passaic County but also the entire to enact statutes prohibiting tobacco sales to manner are now in place. The Federal Gov­ country, Sheriff Englehardt vowed not to be a minors. Also required of the states are random ernment should continue to work with the indi­ victim. He has avoided any cutbacks that inspections and certain reporting obligations. vidual states as they each undertake, as dele­ would alter his proficient training system. As a result of the congressional-established gated to them under this Act, the challenge of Sheriff Englehardt's officers receive top-of-the­ scheme, every state in the Union now has a preventing the distribution of tobacco products line training to guarantee safety and efficiency law on its books banning tobacco sales to mi­ to minors. for the entire community. This is an unbeliev­ nors. But beyond this arrangement, Congress At the same time, for the purpose of pre­ able accomplishment, one that the entire com­ left to the States virtually every other aspect of serving the integrity of the Constitutional munity should be thankful for. underage sale of tobacco. All States accepting framework of our government, the FDA must One of Sheriff Englehardt's greatest accom­ funds under the federal scheme remain free to be prevented from assuming jurisdiction over plishments is his creation of the Sheriff's enact or reject other steps relative to tobacco this product. A precedent must not be set Emergency Response Team. For over 13 sales to minors. whereby a Federal bureaucrat, in contraven­ years, this service has provided immediate re­ Proposed regulations for implementing this tion of the Constitution, can carve out for him­ sponse to emergencies anywhere in the coun­ Act were issued on August 23, 1993. Last self and his agency, rights and prerogatives ty. The men and women who serve on the week, after nearly 2 years and 5 months, the specifically reserved by the Constitution to the emergency response teams are highly trained Department of Health and Human Services fi­ Congress and the states. professionals who volunteer their time to meet nally promulgated its final regulations. The fact the needs of their community 24 hours a day. that it took the Department so long to set forth A GREAT MAN RETIRES Sheriff Englehardt's ability to make his vision these regulations underscores the inherent a reality is exemplary. He not only has pro­ limitation of Federal action and further dem­ vided this sophisticated service to the county, onstrates that Congress was on the right track HON. ROB PORTMAN but also he has saved taxpayers thousands of when it gave to the states the primary respon­ OF OHIO dollars and more importantly, he has saved sibility for handling this complex problem. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lives and has protected the residents of Pas­ Still, FDA has attempted to seize jurisdiction Thursday, February 1,1996 saic County. over tobacco products. For nearly 90 years, Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to To recognize Sheriff Ed Englehardt is a and on at least twenty different occasions con­ call your attention to a constituent of mine, great honor for me. By honoring him, I am gress has specifically rejected proposed legis­ Robert Groh, who has devoted over two and also applauding the county of Passaic for rec­ lation to grant FDA jurisdiction over tobacco. a half decades of service to the State of Ohio ognizing his abilities and his successes time This includes seven occasion over the last and the Town of Amelia. He retired on Sunday and time again. His constant will to improve a decade. January 1, 1995 and Mayor of Amelia, ending diversified community is a testament to his be­ During this same period, FDA itself has con­ his 18 years of public life. lief in and love of Passaic County. His reputa­ cluded on numerous occasions that it has no Mayor Groh first served in the early 1950's tion as being, 'The toughest Sheriff in the jurisdiction over tobacco markets without when the town of Amelia was a rural commu­ State" is respectfully deserved. claims of "therapeutic benefit." It has recog­ nity with roughly 500 residents and only one Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure today not only nized that Congress never granted it such au­ two-lane road. Today, thanks to Robert Groh's to recognize the toughest Sheriff in the State, thority, and it has acted only where a particu­ dedication, Amelia has bloomed into a com­ but the best. It is a real honor to be able to lar brand of cigarettes carried specious claims munity of over 2,200. Mr. Groh is credited with call Sheriff Ed Englehardt a friend. that it would prevent disease or affect the being able to ease the "growing pains" of this structure of the body. Indeed, as recently as developing community with his ability to under­ CAN THE FDA REDUCE UNDERAGE last year, FDA Commissioner Kessler stated stand the concerns of the parties involved and TOBACCO USE? that Congress would need to provide some to create solutions meeting the needs of all new direction before the FDA could assert ju­ concerned. risdiction over cigarettes. As a father of three, and a grandfather of HON. JOHN S. TANNER Despite this long history of Congressional six, Robert Groh balanced a career at Proctor OF TENNESSEE denial of FDA jurisdiction over tobacco, and & Gamble with his family-run monument busi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the long history of FDA concurrence in this ju­ ness, and his 26 years of service to Amelia as Thursday, February 1, 1996 risdictional arrangement, the FDA is now with­ Mayor and Councilman. He was responsible Mr. TANNER. Mr. Speaker, almost six out any legislation or other guidance from for developing the Amanda Acres senior-citi­ months go, claiming his desire to curb under­ Congress whatsoever, attempting to assert ju­ zen facility and the village municipal building. age tobacco use, President Clinton announced risdiction over tobacco products. He also assisted in developing the town's in­ that the Food and Drug Administration would The FDA proposal cites 21 U.S.C., section frastructure from his position on the Public be asserting regulatory jurisdiction over to­ 352 (misbranded drugs), section 360 (registra­ Works District Integrating Committee. bacco products. I share the President's con­ tion of producers of drugs or devices), section Robert W. Groh is the heart and soul of cern for preventing tobacco use by minors. 360j (general provisions respecting control of Amelia and has made this town a wonderful But, for the FDA to assume responsibility for devices intended for human use), section 371 place in which to live and work. He has unself­ this issue runs counter to statutory, regulatory, (authority to promulgate regulations for the ef­ ishly given his time and energy to the commu­ and agency precedence. I do not believe, it ficient enforcement of the Federal Food, Drug nity and to our country. Robert Groh is a spe­ will prove effective in reducing underage to­ and Cosmetic Act), and section 374 (inspec­ cial man to Amelia and its citizens and he will bacco use. tion of manufactures of food, drugs, devices or always be a valued member of the community. The FDA's proposed assertion of jurisdiction cosmetics) as authority. However, nowhere in I am proud to know Mayor Groh, have him as over tobacco stands out as another example these statutes is there any expression of con- a constituent, and call him a friend. 2324 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 Mr. Speaker, Members of the House of ceive a hearing in the regular committee proc­ agreements be deposited in the Medicare trust Representatives, please join me in saluting ess, so that interests on all sides of the issue fund. The revenue generated by my bill will Robert W. Groh for his many years of service can be heard and considered. It is important guarantee the solvency of the Medicare trust and wishing him the best for many years to that we reform the FDA with an awareness of fund through 2007, eliminating the need for come. the agency's responsibility, which is to see the huge cuts in Medicare services that have that the medicines we use are safe and effec­ been approved by the Republican Congress tive. and vetoed by President Clinton. IN SUPPORT OF FDA LEGISLATION It is not fair that the United States continues to pay for the defense costs of these countries HON. CHARLFS W. STENHOLM PERSONAL EXPLANATION while they continue to pour billions into subsi­ OF TEXAS dizing industries that compete with American IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. PETER G. TORKILDSEN jobs, and provide social services to their citi­ Thursday, February 1,1996 OF MASSACHUSETTS zens that the American taxpayer cannot afford IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for our own. It is not fair to the American tax­ Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased payer or the American worker. Thursday, February 1,1996 to be an original cosponsor of the Food and It is not fair that the United States continues Drug Administration [FDA] legislation intro­ Mr. TORKILDSEN. Mr. Speaker, I requested to pay the defense costs of these countries duced today by Congressman BuRR, which and was granted on January 23, 1996, leave while our Nation cuts billions from services would provide some regulatory relief for health of absence for that day, the 23d, as well as provided to the people who won World War II professionals. The legislation would allow the the 24th and 25th, as I was on my honey­ on the front lines and the homefront. The sol­ holder of an approved new drug application to moon. diers who fought at lwo Jima and the Battle of provide health professionals a reprint of a However, I would like to enter in the the Bulge and Inchon now receive Medicare medical journal article which includes informa­ RECORD how I would have voted on the three benefits. The future of that program has been tion about the drug that is not in the FDA-ap­ suspension votes had I been here. jeopardized by huge reductions in services ap­ proved package insert. On rollcall vote No. 13-H.R. 2657, I would proved by the House but vetoed by the Presi­ While I certainly support the basic health have voted "yes." dent. My legislation guarantees the solvency and safety mission of the FDA, I have heard On rollcall vote No. 14-S. 1341, I would of Medicare by generating up to $90 billion in numerous concerns from my constituents have voted "yes." revenue from burdensharing agreements. about the FDA approved process and the frus­ On rollcall vote No. 15-H.R. 2726, I would My bill gives the administration a hammer to trations they have in dealing with the Federal have voted "yes." force the host nations to share this burden by bureaucracy in general. As a representative of Additionally, I would also like it to be noted requiring the withdrawal of our troops if agree­ a rural district, I am very aware of the feeling that on rollcall vote No. 16-S. 1124 a non­ ments are not reached by the end of 1997. I of isolation that rural providers experience. suspension vote, I would also have voted do not expect one company of troops, one Many times, rural providers find themselves "yes." wing of aircraft or a single tank to be with­ with limited access to information they are un­ drawn as a result of this legislation. The host able to find someone to cover their practices nations involved want the American military so that they can attend conferences or meet­ BURDENSHARING LEGISLATION presence in their countries. We have failed in ings at which new medical technology is dis­ the past to achieve adequate burden-sharing cussed. I believe Representative BURR's legis­ HON. JIM CHAPMAN agreements because there was no credible in­ lation is a good first step in addressing some OF TEXAS centive to force them to the table. My bill gives of my constituents' frustrations. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the host nations every possible motivation to Current law allows doctors to prescribe Thursday, February 1,1996 bargain in good faith because a failure in ne­ drugs for the users they feel most appro­ gotiations delivers results unacceptable to priately meet their patients' needs. For in­ Mr. CHAPMAN. Mr. Speaker, this summer them. If I am wrong about the wishes of the stance, if a doctor reads a journal article the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of host nations, my bill will still protect Medicare showing the effectiveness of a particular drug V-J Day and the end of World War II. For by investing the savings that result from a treating an illness for which it was not origi­ thousands of veterans who fought to defend troop withdrawal into the Medicare trust fund. nally approved, the doctor is not prohibited democracy in Europe, North Africa and the It is time, Mr. Speaker, that those who won from prescribing the drug for that use. Pacific, it recalled a proud moment in Amer­ World War II and contained communism at the However, current FDA regulations prohibit ican history. 38th Parallel stop paying the price for our vic­ drug manufacturers from providing doctors For America's veterans and the widows of tory through unacceptable cuts in health care. with information about any use of the drug that America's fallen heroes, the observance of It is time that the United States force the host has not been previously approved by the FDA. this anniversary was laced with poignant irony. nations of NATO, Japan, and Korea to pay the Therefore, while studies might have shown the Those who made the sacrifices 50 years ago bills for their own protection. It is time that the safety and effectiveness of the drug for addi­ are being asked by some in our Government U.S. taxpayer stop subsidizing foreign indus­ tional uses, manufacturers are not allowed to to make sacrifices again. tries that compete with American jobs. It is share this information with doctors. Represent­ Since the United States won victories in Eu­ time that the U.S. taxpayer stop subsidizing ative BURR's legislation attempts to address rope and Japan more than 50 years ago, and better health care and social security for our this issue in a fair way that will maintain the in Korea more than 40 years ago, we have allies than American can afford for our own. It FDA's mission of protecting consumers from continued our military presence in those na­ is time, Mr. Speaker. unsafe, ineffective drugs. tions. At a vast cost to the American taxpayer, I believe it is important for the committees of we have preserved the peace, assured victory jurisdiction to consider this legislation and all over global communism and allowed war-rav­ CHARITABLE MEDICAL CARE ACT of its ramifications, particularly with regard to aged economies to prosper and grow. OF 1996 consumer safety. I feel very confident that li­ America did the right thing in building world ability responsibilities shouldered by physi­ stability, freedom and hope. But America can HON. BOB GOODLATTE cians more than adequately ensure that they no longer afford to bear the financial burden OF VIRGINIA will not carelessly prescribe inadequately prov­ imposed on our people by protecting Europe, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES en drugs. Japan and Korea. Many agree that the FDA approval process, I am introducing legislation today to require Thursday, February 1,1996 while attempting to ensure consumers have the host nations of NATO, Japan and Korea to Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, I would like safe and efficient drugs, may actually delay share the burden of the direct costs of the to bring to my colleagues' attention the Chari­ the availability of some breakthrough drugs. United States military presence in those na­ table Medical Care Act of 1996 which I am This bill may not contain all of the answers, tions. My legislation also provides that the rev­ today introducing with Representatives MOOR­ but it is a productive first step and it should re- enues resulting from those burdensharing HEAD, MCCOLLUM, SMITH Of Texas, HOKE, and February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2325 BRYANT of Tennessee. This important legisla­ DISPUTE SETTLEMENT IN THE able to enforce rules of fair trade. That is tion will make it easier for free medical clinics WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION beneficial to the United States. which brings to recruit medical professionals to volunteer more complaints to trade-dispute panels their services for the poor. than any other country. Washington will win HON. PHIUP M. CRANE more than its cases in the years ahead. The Free clinics have developed as a privately OF ILLINOIS W.T.O. has shown it can keep trading honest. funded, grass-roots effort to provide outpatient IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES That is a welcome development. health services primarily to the working poor. Thursday, February 1, 1996 There are over 200 free clinics in the United Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, the World Trade HONORING MRS. ANNA GAYLE States which have evolved with no Federal Organization [WTO] recently ruled against the support and little local government support. United States in a case involving the Environ­ HON. DAN MILLER My District is privileged to be home of sev­ mental Protection Agency's [EPA's] regula­ OF FLORIDA eral outstanding free clinics including one of tions on reformulated gasoline to achieve the the finest free clinics in the country, the Brad­ standards of the Clean Air Act. Unfortunately, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ley Free Clinic of Roanoke, VA. The Bradley this decision has been portrayed by some as Thursday, February 1, 1996 Free Clinic is also headquarters of the Free an assault on U.S. environmental laws. Noth­ Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I would Clinic Foundation of America, which has been ing could be further from the truth. like to thank you for this opportunity to honor To begin, it should be pointed out that the working to provide services to assist and es­ a remarkable person and a wonderful citizen. case involved an EPA regulation, not U.S. law, tablish free clinics across the country. I am sad to report that this past Tuesday, one U.S. air quality standards, as legislated in the of my most admired constituents, Anna Gayle, My friends at the Bradley Free Clinic Clean Air Act, were not at issue. Rather, the passed away at the age of 99. Now Ms. Gayle brought to my attention the problems free clin­ case dealt with the different set of regulations ics nationwide encounter finding medical staff that are imposed on imports of reformulated was known for many great things in Manatee willing to volunteer their time and services be­ gasoline from those imposed on domestically County. She was a deaconess and missionary cause of concerns over medical liability. Medi­ refined reformulated gasoline. In the WTO, the at St. John First Baptist Institutional Church in cal professionals who would like to provide case was filed under the national treatment Palmetto, FL. She served as the director of free care for the poor are discouraged by the clause which says that you cannot have one the Senior Citizens Centers of Manatee Coun­ possibility that doing so will put their medical regulatory standard for imports and a different ty in Bradenton and Palmetto for over 10 malpractice coverage at risk. Retired medical one for domestic products. This is a principle years. And she also in 1984 received a na­ professionals don't have liability coverage and of trade that the United States, as the world's tional award from the National Council on therefore can't volunteer. As a result, the poor leading exporter, has espoused for years in Aging for her advocacy. don't get the care they need. our efforts to open new markets to U.S. goods But the qualities that everyone attributed most to her were her strong character, her In response I am introducing a bill similar to and services. It works to protect the competi­ tiveness of U.S. goods and services overseas kindness, and above all, her willingness to legislation passed in Virginia in the 1980's to help those that were less fortunate. As stated exempt health care professionals who provide by ensuring that our trading partners treat our exports in their markets in the same manner by one of her many fans, "If people were sick, free services in connection with a free clinic she helped them. If a child needed care, she from liability for simple negligence only. In that they treat their own products. I urge my colleagues to carefully study this saw that he got it. If you needed a hand, she fact, Virginia is one of eight States which have was there." It was this commitment to provide laws in place exempting doctors who volun­ decision and, more importantly, to learn the facts before urging action which would dam­ for those less fortunate and her drive to better tarily provide free care in good faith from liabil­ surrounding neighborhoods which led to the ity for simple negligence. age U.S. credibility in the short term and our trading relationships in the long run. Indeed, Anna Gayle Resource Center-a neighbor­ While Medical liability suits against health the United States fought to establish the WTO hood center for families experiencing drug and care professionals who volunteer their serv­ dispute settlement process because of the crime problems in her much loved community ices at free clinics are very rare, under this way it will help us pry open foreign markets to of Palmetto, FL. Her legacy of improving the legislation health care professionals would not our products. Under the old GATT dispute set­ quality of life will long be remembered by be protected if they commit gross negligence tlement procedure, the United States filed the many for years to come. or willful misconduct. In addition, the exemp­ greatest number of cases of any member I have always found such commitment to tion would only apply if the patient received country. However, because countries could help others inspiring, and mourn deeply the the care at no charge, there was no reim­ block the old dispute settlement process, we passing of such an outstanding human being. bursement to the health care professional for sometimes could not get decisions in cases We will all miss her. providing the service and the patient had in­ that would have helped us remove barriers to formed consent before the service was ren­ our exports overseas. The new process estab­ dered that any liability incurred by their health lished in the WTO removes the possibility of LET'S REEXAMINE THE CUBAN care provider would be limited to gross neg­ such obstruction and ensures that the proce­ EMBARGO ligence and willful misconduct. dure will work on a predictable timetable and With over 30 million uninsured Americans, that a decision will be rendered. Based on our HON. SAM FARR the need for privately sponsored free clinics history of using the GATT dispute settlement OF CALIFORNIA and health services has never been more process, the new procedure is likely to be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES acute. It is estimated that charitable medical used frequently by the United States in the fu­ Thursday, February 1, 1996 ture to help us achieve our trade liberalization care provides care to 30 percent of the Na­ Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise tion's uninsured and is an important alternative goals. As chairman of the Ways and Means Sub­ to bring to the attention of my colleagues a re­ to expensive emergency room care which is cent event in California. far too often the only care available for the un­ committee on Trade, I am proud of the great strides that the United States has made in re­ On Wednesday, a caravan of 30 vehicles insured or underinsured. This legislation would was stopped at the United States-Mexico bor­ help ensure that free clinics continue to fulfill cent years toward opening markets and re­ moving barriers to trade around the world. As der by United States Customs officers. The this important role by making it possible for caravan was carrying approximately 300 used them to attract volunteers. we work to ensure that our trading partners fulfill their WTO commitments, it is critical that personal computers and modems for medical The Free Clinic Foundation and the Catholic we set an example by living up to our own. and educational purposes in Cuba. Health Association are strong supporters of In sum, I would like to quote from an edi­ Why was the delivery stopped? Because the this legislation. Senator MOSELEY-BRAUN has torial from the January 21, 1996 issue of the United States imposes a comprehensive trade sponsored companion legislation in the Sen­ New York Times. The editorial, entitled "Win­ and travel embargo against Cuba. ate. I urge my colleagues to support this bipar­ ning, by Losing on Trade," concludes: Mr. Speaker, the equipment these people tisan effort and cosponsor the Charitable Med- The ruling helps establish the W.T.O. pan­ were trying to deliver to Cuba was not high ical Care Act of 1996. · els as deliberative judicial bodies willing and technology. It was not a threat to our national 2326 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 security. The equipment-outdated 286 per­ Asbury Park Middle School, in the neighboring ber 1997. Last April, the Russian Duma ap­ sonal computers and used modems-was for community. From 1978 to 1981, she served as proved a resolution opposing the 3-year with­ schools and hospitals in Cuba. coordinator of the math program and the com­ drawal agreement. This recent event demonstrates the prob­ pensatory education program. For the next The Russian Government has stated its in­ lems with our embargo against Cuba. How three years, she chaired the math/science de­ could the Cuban Government oppress the partment for kindergarten through eighth grade tention to live up to the agreement but little Cuban people with obsolete computers? How in Asbury Park. In 1984, Ms. Thomas moved progress has been made. At present about could these computers be used to threaten the into the administrative side, becoming principal 4,00~,500 Russian troops stationed in as security of the United States, a country where of Green Grove Elementary School in Nep­ many as eight garrisons in eastern Moldova, many individuals have personal computers tune. She was transferred to the Middle known as Transdniestria. These are the that are many times more powerful? School as vice principal, and subsequently be­ vestiges of the former Soviet 14th Army which We need to face the fact that the best way came principal six years ago. During her ten­ once had troops stationed throughout Moldova to help the Cuban people is to work with ure at Neptune Middle School, the school in­ and the Odessa Military Region in Ukraine. Cuba, not against it. How better could we creased its emphasis on math and science, The Russian Army has essentially maintained bring our values to Cuba than help improve acquired additional computer equipment and its force strength in the region, and troops the health and welfare of the Cuban people? made many capital improvements. have even been sent to Moldova to replace How better could we help Cubans learn about In a recent profile of Ms. Thomas by staff American philanthropy and goodwill than sup­ writer Travis R. Moore in The Asbury Park those that have been demobilized. Mr. Speak­ port private donations by Americans? Press, one of the major newspapers in our er, Moldova is the only former Soviet Republic Mr Speaker, we need to reexamine our ap­ area, Mr. Michael T. Lake, superintendent of upon which Russian troops are still stationed proach to Cuba. We are the only nation left Neptune public schools, who has worked with without permission of the host government, that imposes such severe restrictions on trade Ms. Thomas for the past 11 years, described and Moldovan officials have raised this issue with Cuba. Let us help the Cuban people by her as "a consummate professional." Ms. at several international meetings. letting Americans help Cubans. Peola Smith-Smith, chairperson of the coun­ Mr. Speaker, I would note that the adminis­ seling/guidance department at Neptune High tration has consistently supported the with­ School, said Ms. Thomas has been an "inspi­ TRffiUTE TO SYLVIA E. THOMAS ration" and an "exemplary administrator." In drawal of Russian forces from Moldova. Dur­ the article, Ms. Thomas herself described the ing his meeting with Moldovan President HON. FRANK PAllONE, JR. key to success for the men and women who Snegur last year, President Clinton made clear OF NEW JERSEY run our public schools. While she stressed her that the United States expects the 1994 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES reluctance to compromise on her high expec­ agreement to be implemented on time. Thursday, February 1,1996 tations, she nonetheless recognized the need With respect to the international community, for flexibility: "You do whatever has to be Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, the Organization for Security and Cooperation done to get the job done." in Europe and the United Nations have February 10, a retirement ceremony for a re­ In addition to her distinguished career as a passed resolutions calling for the removal of markable woman will be held. On that date, at teacher and administrator, Ms. Thomas has the Fort Monmouth Officers Club, the friends been a leader in numerous community organi­ the Russian military forces. As part of the re­ and colleagues of Sylvia E. Thomas will pay zations, including the Central Jersey Club of cent vote of the Council of Europe Parliamen­ tribute to Ms. Thomas' 35-year career as an the National Association of Negro Business tary Assembly that recommended Russian ac­ educator, school administrator and a perfec­ and Professional Women's Club, the National cession to the Council of Europe, an amend­ tionist who has always strived to give the most Coalition of Black Meeting Planners, St. ment was included that Russia should ratify for her students. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Asbury Park, the October 1994 agreement within 6 months. A resident of Neptune Township, NJ, Ms. and Lambda Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha In view of this situation, 1-along with Mr. Thomas retired on January 1 as the principal Kappa Alpha Sorority. She has also main­ WOLF, Mr. SOLOMON, Mr. HOYER, and Mr. of Neptune Middle School. The career that tained a long-time association with Drifters, Sylvia Thomas is now concluding is not only Inc., a nonprofit civic organization of black DURBIN-am introducing a resolution calling a great testimony to her own talent, courage women with 30 chapters nationwide dedicated upon the Government of the Russian Federa­ and determination, but it is a true indication of to serving the community and enhancing the tion to adhere to the provisions of the with­ what public education in this country is all universal image of womanhood. Ms. Thomas drawal agreement signed on October 21, about: dedicated professionals, often working served as national president of Drifters from 1994. The resolution further urges the Sec­ under adverse conditions, without lavish sala­ 1989 to 1993, is a charter member of the retary of State to use every appropriate oppor­ ries, to shape future generations. Sylvia Ocean Chapter of Drifters, and has also co­ tunity and means, including multilateral and bi­ Thomas, like so many unsung heroes working ordinated public relations and edited the orga­ lateral diplomacy, to secure removal of Rus­ in public education, has earned the respect nization's newsletter. She was the recipient of sian military forces from Moldova. and gratitude of her former students, their par­ the 1993 Now Black Woman Award given by ents and our entire community. the national Drifters, Inc. In addition, this resolution calls upon Mr. Speaker, Ms. Thomas was born in Mr. Speaker, it is a great honor and privi­ Moldova's neighbors to recognize its territorial Georgia and raised in Alabama, the daughter lege for me to join the friends and colleagues integrity and notes the efforts of the OSCE of educators Royal and Lilian Hope Dunham. of Sylvia Thomas in saluting a great educator and the Government of Ukraine to assist in re­ She earned her bachelor of science degree in and community leader. solving issues that have arisen in secondary education from Tuskegee Univer­ Transdniestria, including the withdrawal of the sity in Alabama in 1958, and received her Russian forces. masters degree from Columbia University in REMOVAL OF RUSSIAN MILITARY New York in 1959. She earned her principal's FORCES FROM MOLDOVA Mr. Speaker, I would stress that this resolu­ and supervisor's certificates from Monmouth tion does not ask the Russian Government to College-now Univesity-in West Long HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH do anything to which it has not already Branch, NJ, between 197 4 and 1976. OF NEW JERSEY agreed. It merely underscores the concern of Ms. Thomas began her career as a ninth IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Congress and the American people for the im­ grade teacher in Augusta, GA., in 1959. She Thursday, February 1,1996 plementation of international law and for the taught math and science throughout the coun­ easing of potential conflict in Europe. try wherever her husband, Govan, a former Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, in Army serviceman, was stationed at the time. October 1994 the Prime Minister of Russia I urge my colleagues to support this resolu­ She has also taught Gl's. In 1973, the and the Prime Minister of Moldova signed an tion. Thomases settled in Neptune, on the Jersey agreement according to which Russian military Shore. She taught math to eighth graders at forces would leave Moldovan territory by Octo- February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2327 TRIBUTE TO HON. DONALD P. SALUTE TO THE TOWN OF Federal and State assistance were: Mercer, McCULLUM SOMERSET, MD Greenbrier, Pocahontas, Webster, Summers, and Monroe Counties. HON. CONSTANCE A. MORELLA Let me begin by saying that the West Vir­ HON. RONALD V. DELLUMS OF MARYLAND ginia Legislature acted promptly and with com­ passion without politics in expeditiously ap­ OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES proving the State's matching share of $7.5 mil­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, February 1,1996 lion to begin to assist southern West Virginia Mrs. MORELLA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to to clean up and dig out after the devastation Thursday, February 1,1996 salute the town of Somerset, MD, which cele­ of the flood waters. The Salvation Army, who Mr. DELLUMS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to brates its 90th birthday this year. is ever present at disasters of all kinds, was share with my colleagues the tremendous con­ Somerset is a very special place. One of the there in force to help southern West Virginia. tributions of a highly esteemed constituent, oldest suburbs of Washington, DC, Somerset The West Virginia National Guard provided Judge Donald P. McCullum. Judge McCullum was originally settled in 1890 by five Depart­ cleaning supplies, shovels, and helped set up was born in Little Rock, AR, to Charles and ment of Agriculture scientists who paid a total the shelter at the elementary school in Talcott, Irene McCullum, and was the fourth of six chil­ of $19,000 for their 50-acre "suburban col­ Summers County, for families and children dren. ony." One of the town's distinguished found­ whose homes were washed away or who had ers, Dr. Harvey Wiley, was the father of the to be evacuated from their homes. Our Na­ Influenced by NAACP lawyer Thurgood Mar­ Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. tional Guard was super. shall's court victories, Justice McCullum at­ By 1905, 35 families called Somerset The State Department of Highways and tended Talladega College in Alabama. After "home" and it was soon apparent that if the county emergency services directors took im­ attending and graduating with honors from "colony" were to succeed it needed to orga­ mediate action to make heavy equipment Boston University, School of Law in 1951 , he nize to provide for the common good. In 1906 available and provided other debris-removal was then sworn in as a member of the Massa­ the "colony" received a charter from the State and salvage assistance. Directors of emer­ chusetts Bar in 1953. A highly decorated of Maryland and it became a town. Soon, gency services made local relief available im­ Naval Officer during the Korean War, he sepa­ taxes were levied for water, sewers, roads, mediately. Local businesses are to be com­ rated from the service and settled in Oakland, schools, and the public safety. mended highly for their free donation of nec­ CAin 1955. Women played an important role in the de­ essary supplies of immediate necessity to As a civil rights attorney and NAACP activ­ velopment and history of Somerset and, in­ families in the community at large in dealing ist, he championed the causes of the deed, in the civic life of Montgomery County with all aspects of the flooding. disenfranchised, the politically under-rep­ throughout this century. In 1902, Somerset Deserving of highest praise were the local resented, the non-represented and poor youth. women organized themselves into the fire departments, city mayors, county commis­ He then led his contemporary colleagues in Wednesday Club, where over tea and the sioners, and concerned individuals and fami­ the fight for civil rights during the 1950's, week's mending they discussed the town's lies who took it upon themselves to stand by 1960's and 1970's and received recognition as problems and later the larger issues of child night and day to provide food and beverages a civil rights leader. He served as Deputy Dis­ labor, their right to vote, and the war in Eu­ for the workers, and shelter, blankets, space trict Attorney of Alameda County, and was the rope in each other's parlors. By 1916, the heaters, and clothing for families. Wednesday Club became the Women's Club first Black City Attorney of Berkeley, and serv­ I would like to specifically mention many of Somerset and eventually joined with the iced as a California State Inheritance Tax Ref­ of-but not all-those individuals and agen­ eree. In 1977, Justice McCullum was ap­ Montgomery County Federation of Women's cies by name, who were strong and steadfast pointed to the Alameda County Superior Court Clubs. in getting assistance to those who needed The town of Somerset has a mayor-council bench by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr., special food for those on medically required form of government. Current officials elected and was then elected Presiding Judge for two diets, many who needed warm clothing for by residents of Somerset are Mayor Walter J. terms. In 1982, McCullum was appointed As­ themselves and children who lost homes and Behr, Council members George Snow, Nat sociate Justice of the State Court of Appeals, escaped with only the clothes on their backs. Finkelstein, Judy Frankel, Peter Gubser, and and in 1984, was appointed Associate Justice There were those in need of special medica­ Richard Kessler. of the California Supreme Court. tions left behind when home evacuations were As the town celebrates its history this year, necessary, and transportation was provided His organizational affiliations include Sigma there will be a special tour highlighting Somer­ for those in need of a physician's care or for Pi Phi and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternities, the set's private gardens that contribute so much shopping for other of life's necessities for peo­ American Bar Association, the National Bar to the natural beauty of the area. And in July, ple finding themselves suddenly homeless. Association, the California Association of the town will come together as it has tradition­ And those who wanted cleaning supplies and Black Lawyers, Director of the National Urban ally done over the years for a glorious July 4th brooms, shovels, and water hoses to start get­ Coalition in Washington, DC, lifetime member celebration. ting rid of the mud and muck in their homes, of both the National Council of Negro Woman Mr. Speaker, please join me in wishing the businesses, churches and public buildings and the NAACP and Director of the New Oak­ town and people of Somerset, MD, a most were also served by local businesses and land Committee. Justice McCullum has also happy 90th birthday. emergency relief offices mentioned above. been characterized by the San Francisco Ex­ aminer's Image Magazine, as "one of three First I want to pay tribute, with the highest great contributors to Bay Area Social Justice IN PRAISE OF WEST VIRGINIANS praise possible, to the Talcott Volunteer Fire in the past 100 years." DURING RECENT FLOOD DISASTER Department Chief Tom Talbott and Tim Ulrich, his able assistant chief, in Summers County­ Judge Donald P. McCullum is survived by HON. NICK J. RAHAll D for it was this volunteer fire department that his wife of 25 years, Peggy, a son, Donald An­ stood by night and day throughout the flood's OF WEST VIRGINIA thony, two daughters, Peggy Lisa and Erica, intensity and afterward, and who provided one brother, Charles and two sisters, Laura IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES food and drink for everyone else on the flood and Ernize. He will forever shine bright in the Thursday, February 1, 1996 sites. These volunteers showed real leader­ hearts of those he touched, and will be re­ Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, it is difficult to ship in stressful and often dangerous situa­ membered for years and years to come. know where to begin in praise of the people tions, including heroic rescues, and who Judge McCullum's philosophy for life is re­ of West Virginia in their concerted and unself­ helped keep the local victims of the flood­ flected in the following statement by him, "The ish efforts to help start cleaning up and their neighbors-calm, safe, warm, and fed. measure of performance and the value of an digging out after recent disastrous floods In that context, I wish to convey special endeavor is directly related to the obstacles throughout 6 of the 16 counties I have the thanks and gratitude to the following individ­ surmounted, the adversity overcome and the high honor to represent in the House. The uals who are members of the Talcott Volun­ sacrifices made by a person." counties which are scheduled to receive both teer Fire Department: 2328 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 Kenny Simmons, Pete Weikle and his sons, only could people get their mail-a very impor­ accomplishments. South Texas will miss this David, James, and Darin; Matt Stalnaker, Eve­ tant daily ritual of normalcy for people every­ strong leader, who fought so hard and so well lyn and Robert Bailey, Wayne Martin, Bryan where-as well as a place for people to gather for the principles we all hold dear. Keatley, Wesley Ward and John Gold, Kellis and assure one another that they were safe. Robert Leo served this Nation in the United Miller, Tommy Ward, and Charles "Chucky" I commend each of them for this public serv­ States Army during World War II, defending Gore, all of whom responded beyond the call ice and for their humanitarian concern. this Nation in the battle of Attu in the Aleutian of duty as they reached out to neighbors and My hat is off to Talcott Elementary School Islands. He received the purple heart for his friends to provide food and shelter. Principal Gaye Shaver, whose assistance in service. Mr. Leo sacrificed his future for this During my tour of Pocahontas County's turning the school's gymnasium and cafeteria Nation, because his wound prevented him Marlinton flood area, I received able assist­ over as a shelter to families seeking refuge from enjoying a career in baseball with the ance and support from Dana Moyers, presi­ from the storms and the rising waters is and New York Yankees, who had selected him in dent of the Pocahontas County Commission, was invaluable. Praise goes also to Rev. Dana the baseball draft. and Commissioner Joel Collison, as well as Stalnaker, pastor of the local Baptist Church After serving this Nation in war and sacrific­ county superintendent of schools, Thomas for helping with the shelter and getting the ing himself to protect our freedoms, Mr. Leo Long. I have the highest praise for Marlinton's Red Cross involved in Summers County, and never forgot the foundations of the republic he acting mayor, Jean Hite, who did an outstand­ to . Peggy Elkins who started within a few fought to preserve. He knew that a healthy de­ ing job. For myself and all others engaged in hours of receding flood waters to obtain local mocracy depends on the education of its citi­ assessing how to best meet the short- and emergency relief for families-while awaiting zens, so he went to work educating young long-term needs of the city's people, she went the often longer process of getting State and south Texans, teaching in his native La Joya all out to make the city's emergency relief and Federal relief started. Thank you Peggy. and later serving as principal and assistant su­ other resources available. Her's was a job well During the early tour of the flood-torn area perintendent of Webb County school district in done. in my district, I was accompanied by FEMA's Oilton. Even after his retirement, he served as Last, but certainly not the least of fine-cali­ regional director from Kansas City, John Mil­ the president of the board of trustees of the ber, able people who accompanied me on the ler, who was asked by the Philadelphia Re­ Ramirez Common School District for many Marlinton tour of damages, I am most deeply gional Director to help us out due to the inten­ years. He enjoyed researching the rich history appreciative of the work and support of Jane sity of the flooding. of south Texas all the way back to the Span­ Price Sharp, of the Pocahontas Times, whose In the week after the floods, after the six ish colonial and Mexican land records. job it was to observe and to write of the flood counties were declared an emergency disaster Robert Leo understood the importance of and its devastating effects on people and insti­ area by the President, I was joined by FEMA public service to American democracy. He tutions. Under the time-honored banner of the Director James Lee Witt on a tour of Poca­ was active with the Disabled American Veter­ Fourth Estate's credo that "people have the hontas County and other areas, again to ans and was a life member of the Boy Scouts right to know," Jane did an outstanding job. stress the need for Federal assistance and to of America. He served on many boards, in­ The Salvation Army-any organization on assess the extent of the damages suffered in cluding an appointment to the State Commit­ which all of can and do rely during disasters the six-county area. tee for the Control of Pesticides and the State of all kinds-were outstanding in their offers of As we have seen happen in natural disas­ Committee for Exports to Mexico. As a mem­ assistance to individuals and families and fol­ ters throughout the country and the world, ber of the board of directors for Valley Tele­ lowed through with dothing, blankets, and all people do come together and help one an­ phone Cooperative, including 2 years as chair­ other forms of human assistance possible to other in times of stress and even danger. Dis­ man, he helped spearhead improvements in the flood victims throughout the areas hardest asters, call upon the best that is in us-and communications for south Texas. Whether it hit people seldom fail to meet their duties and re­ was helping veterans, or young people, or pro­ I want to particularly thank Mayor Jim Leslie sponsibilities to their neighbors both close and moting the Texas economy, modernizing com­ of Hinton in Summers County for his assist­ far. munications, or preserving our agricultural and ance in touring the Bluestone Dam. My deep This is what I have observed in West Vir­ ranchlands, Robert Leo, with his energy and appreciation goes to Mayor Lindy Hodges of ginia: A binding together of people from all dedication, left his unique stamp on these criti­ Ronceverte in Greenbrier County, who met me walks of life, helping each other in this most cal efforts. at the Ronceverte townhall-the old townhall frightening of ordeals with floodwaters swirling Above all, Robert Leo stood for the impor­ because the new one was flooded-as we dis­ about their homes, schools, churches, busi­ tance of the accountability of those in Govern­ cussed Greenbrier County to assess the dam­ nesses, and public buildings. It makes me ment and the free exchange of ideas. He age and determine what the immediate and very proud to be a West Virginian and to be founded the Freedom Party in Duval County, long-term needs would be. their Representative in Congress. and was appointed to chair the committee to Mayor Tom Housby of Alderson, between My hat is off to the people of West Vir­ investigate county corruption. Above all he Monroe and Greenbrier Counties, met me at ginia-all those whom I have named in these cared deeply about our Democratic institutions the Alderson townhall and accompanied me to remarks, and all those whose names are un­ and he was outspoken in their defense, work­ view the flood's toll taken on the people, their known to me who did their part and who con­ ing for decades to make them serve the peo­ homes and businesses in that area, and to do tinue to help one another. a quick assessment of damage and loss there. ple as they should. And I salute the locally elected members of We in Congress should take a moment to the West Virginia Legislature, Delegate Ron TRIBUTE TO ROBERT E. LEO, remember this outstanding man, who had a Thompson of Beckley, Delegate Mary Pearl VETERAN AND EDUCATOR rare gift for giving to others and for public Compton of Summers County, house majority service. Above all, he stands as a shining ex­ leader Jim Rowe and Delegate Bill Wallace of HON. FRANK TFJEDA ample of how to work for. change and at the Greenbrier County, Delegate Joe Martin and same time honor the principles of liberty and OF TEXAS freedom which make this democracy unique. Delegate Bill Proudfoot of Pocahontas County, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and State Senators Mike Ross and Walt As his local newspaper, The Duval County Helmick, for their quick action along with their Thursday, February 1, 1996 Picture, wrote recently, "There will never be colleagues in the West Virginia House of dele­ Mr. TEJEDA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to another Robert Leo but we must never forget gates and the State senate, to approve the ·pay tribute to the memory of a true patriot, a the genuine article. He will serve as a role State's matching share of funds so that the man who dedicated his life to the principles model for all citizens. His life will serve as an cleanup of their communities could go forward. that make this Nation great. I am referring to example to future leaders of what a true public Honorable mention must go also to Post­ Mr. Robert Leo, a veteran, rancher, and edu­ servant is about. master John "Bill" Dillion, of the Talcott Post cator, who for many decades was a great and "We will miss our friend. He can never be Office, and his assistant Lorene Cales, and respected leader in south Texas. Mr. Leo replaced but we must never stop trying to live carriers Ronnie Quick and Patsy Mills for passed away on Saturday, January 27, and I up to the high standards he set for all of us." keeping the post office open for mail services respectfully request that this House of Rep­ We have lost a great American, but his mem­ as well as a community center, so that not resentatives take a moment to honor his many ory will provide inspiration for years to come. February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2329 TRIBUTE TO SYD KRONENTHAL TRIBUTE TO SID LUCKMAN [STOP]. STOP is a national coalition orga­ nized by families and friends who have lost HON. WILIJAM 0. UPINKSI loved ones to serious illness due to the con­ HON. JUUAN C. DIXON OF ILLINOIS tamination of ground beef with E. coli 0157:H7 bacteria. The coalition has been dedicated to OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, February 1, 1996 educating the public and legislators about this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES deadly bacteria .. Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Americans became painfully aware of the Thursday, February 1, 1996 pay tribute to a true Chicago sports legend­ dangers associated with the consumption of Sid Luckman-at the news he will receive our raw meat products upon an outbreak of the E. Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to bring to State's highest honor, the Order of Lincoln, on the attention of the House Syd Kronenthal, coli bacteria 3 years ago. This outbreak, which April 20, 1996. occurred on the west coast, infected 600 peo­ whose remarkable record of 50 years of serv­ Sid Luckman joined the Chicago Bears in ple and killed 4 children. Following this trag­ ice as Director of Human Services for the City 1939 and quarterbacked them to four NFL edy, STOP began actively working to change of Culver City has become a major source of championships in the next 12 seasons, the the system in order to make sure others did years that earned the Bears their reputation as civic pride. not suffer from this deadly bacteria. Their jour­ the "Monsters of the Midway." Syd began his work for Culver City on De­ Perhaps his most memorable performance ney brought them to Capitol Hill to work with cember 14, 1945, following his service in the was in the 1946 championship game against Members of Congress to reduce this E. coli United States Air Corps in World War II. His the New York Giants, the first football game I hazard, and educate Americans on the safe Culver City employment record was punc­ can remember listening to on the radio. Sid handling of foods. tuated only by a brief hiatus in 1946, when Luckman's championship performance was I commend the efforts of STOP in their work General Omar Bradley summoned him to be capped by scoring the winning touchdown on on the Family Food Protection Act, H.R. 1423, rehabilitation supervisor for the Veterans Ad­ what was called the "bingo keeper" play. With of which I am a cosponsor. This legislation ministration. He returned to Culver City in April the Bears at the goal line, he faked a handoff amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and of 1947 where he has been ever since. to one running back, faked to another rusher, the Poultry Products Inspection Act to improve public health and safety through reduction in One of his most significant contributions tucked the ball under his arm and outran the defense along the line of scrimmage and into harmful contaminants in meat and poultry. was his leadership in drafting and obtaining When the Center for Disease Control esti­ voter approval for Culver City's first major the end zone. In addition to earning his teammates respect mates that 500 deaths and 20,000 illnesses recreation bond issue after World War II. This while serving as their captain, he was honored are attributed to E. coli each year, legislation bond issue enabled the city to construct the by all of football as the NFL's most valuable such as this will help protect the health of Veterans Memorial Building, the Olympic-size player three times and was named an all-pro Americans. swimming pool, new recreation buildings at seven times. He received football's highest STOP has also been very active in the agri­ McManus Park and Culver West Park. It also honor when he was enshrined into the Hall of culture appropriations process. Most recently, provided the means to rehabilitate the old pis­ Fame after his retirement. I worked on their behalf to ensure that there tol range at Lindberg Park that has been con­ Sid Luckman also enjoyed a 14-year stint as would not be a delay of the USDA's imple­ verted into the present recreational facility. a coach with both the Bears and the Univer­ mentation of safeguards and standards to im­ As a leader in the Sister City Program, Syd sity of Notre Dame. In addition, he recently prove meat inspection. Because of their ef­ has been a pioneer in building bridges of un­ completed a successful business career when forts, additional public hearings will be held to derstanding to people of other nations and cul­ the packaging company, Cell-Craft, he bought consider the views of all interested parties throughout the rule-making process. tures. His commitment to the Olympic move­ into in 1946 was sold. But perhaps the thing that has made Sid Once again, I thank each member of STOP. ment dates back to the historic 1932 Olympic Luckman so special has been his tireless de­ I encourage my colleagues in Congress to fol­ Games where he helped create the Olympic votion to his community. He has always been low their lead in the fight against the E. coli Village in the area now known as Baldwin willing to lend his time, efforts, and stellar rep­ bacteria, and for better food safety. Hills, and later served as a member of the utation to good causes both in the Chicago 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games Citizens area and throughout the country. For instance, Advisory Committee. he established a scholarship to the prestigious SALUTING DANA MORAN It was under Syd's leadership that in later Mayo Clinic to help deserving medical stu­ years Culver City developed a youth and com­ dents study there. HON. DAN SCHAEFER munity center, and converted the former coun­ For his athletic and civic accomplishments, OF COLORADO ty library into a multi-purpose senior citizen Sid Luckman will join the likes of former Presi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES center. The Culver City Senior Center is wide­ dent Reagan, actor Charleton Heston, journal­ ist John Chancellor, and one of his successors Thursday, February 1, 1996 ly recognized as one of the finest senior facili­ in football's pantheon, Walter Payton of the Mr. SCHAEFER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased ties in the United States. He continues his out­ Bears, in the Lincoln Academy. The Academy, to salute Dana Moran of Golden, CO. Dana, standing stewardship over a myriad of essen­ named for Illinois' most famous son, was es­ an aero engineer at the National Renewable tial social services and recreational programs. tablished 31 years ago to honor distinguished Energy Laboratory [NREL], is retiring after 18 In grateful appreciation of his many efforts Illinoisans, either by birth or residency, who years of service to that national laboratory. on behalf of the city, McManus Park was re­ have brought honor to the Land of Lincoln. Among other things, Dana has served named Syd Kronenthal Park in 1992. Mr. Speaker, I congratulate Sid Luckman on NREL in the structures and materials design/ joining the Order of Lincoln and wish him Over the years these important institutions application field and has provided research many more years of enjoying the respect and project management in materials science. He have proven to be vital community assets admiration of his community. which have greatly enriched the lives of the is also experienced in large program and sub­ people of Culver City. Like a tall oak tree contract management, having spend more than two decades in technology transfer activi­ which has endured the test of time, his leader­ TRIBUTE TO STOP OF SAN DIEGO ties. He was the executive secretary for ship and service become more valuable with COUNTY, CA NREL's Science and advisory board, as well every passing year. as of all previous NREL advisory boards and Mr. Speaker, on Friday, February 23, 1996, HON. RANDY "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM committees, including the days when NREL there will be a civic celebration and apprecia­ OF CALIFORNIA was known as the Solar Energy Research In­ tion of Syd Kronenthal in Culver City. I know IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stitute [SERI]. In fact, Dana spearheaded I speak for all of my colleagues in congratulat­ Thursday, February 1, 1996 SERIINREL's participation in promoting the ing him on this extraordinary milestone, and Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise Lena Gulch interchange on Interstate 70 and offering best wishes for another 50 years. today to pay tribute to Safe Tables Our Priority replacing its overpass. 2330 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 Not only has Dana served NREL with dis­ lence and a moral grounding for their stu­ Since those early days, the APA has tinction during these 18 years, but he has dents, and I wish these institutions continued evolved from a social organization of editors been extraordinarily active in a number of success in educating our young people. and publishers to an association that has other professional, civic, and business affairs. played an important role in developing the For example, Dana is a fellow of the American daily and weekly newspapers of Alabama and Association for the Advancement of Science, STOP THE ATTACK ON AMERICA'S serving as a catalyst for the State's economic an associate fellow of the American Institute of AVOCADO GROWERS and cultural development. Aeronautics and Astronautics and a past di­ The APA worked on behalf of the citizenry rector of the Technology Transfer Society. HON. RANDY "DUKE" CUNMNGHAM of Alabama by advocating stronger public ac­ Dana's civil and community service has OF CALIFORNIA cess to government records and meetings. It been extensive. He has been a member of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has pushed for the State's first statewide board of directors and vice president of the Thursday, February 1, 1996 taxes to support public education and it spear­ Jefferson Economic Council. He has been a headed a successful effort to launch a state­ member of the Denver Chamber of Com­ Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, America's wide chamber of commerce. merce's Energy and Transportation Committee avocado growers are threatened with extinc­ and of the Golden Rotary Club, serving as its tion. Why? The Department of Agriculture is The APA played a role through many of its president in 1989-90. He was the founder, likely to modify the quarantine on Mexican leaders in guiding the State through some of trustee, and president of the Colorado Innova­ Hass avocados. The quarantine was placed in the important and cultural changes of the last tion Foundation from 1984 to 1995. Serving 1914 to protect our avocado crops from Mexi­ half of the 20th century. Its officers have in­ three 3--year terms on the Golden Chamber of can pests and fruit flies. The USDA believes cluded some of the leading newspaper men Commerce, Dana was its president in 1995. that Mexico can eradicate their serious pest and women in America, and its member news­ He has also served in a wide range of civic problem. But, science has proven that Mexico papers have won the Nation's highest awards has failed to destroy pests for years. NAFT A groups and organizations dedicated to com­ for journalistic excellence. specifically left the quarantine intact, because munity advancement and technological inno­ Additionally, before coming to the Congress Mexican pests would devastate American avo­ vation. it was my pleasure to serve as president of Among his many business associations, cados. Avocado growers in my district are ringing the APA in 1991. Alabama and the Nation can Dana has participated in small business incu­ be justly proud of the contributions and leader­ bators and has served as the Department of my phone off the hook. They fear that this Clinton administration action will destroy their ship of the Alabama Press Association as it Energy's Regional Small Business Coordina­ continues toward another 125 years of public tor. He has experience in trade shows and ex­ crops and destroy their lives. Mexican pest-infested avocados have al­ service. hibits, as well as international business, espe­ ready been smuggled across our border. Most cially in the Australia/New Zealand area. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Dana for his recently, on January 5, 1996, the U.S. Cus­ toms Service confiscated and destroyed 3,337 tireless devotion to NREL and to the Commu­ TRffiUTE TO THE WINNERS OF nity. On a personal note, I want to thank him pounds of Mexican Hass avocados at the Otay Mesa commercial facility in San Diego THE TAKE PRIDE IN CICERO for his work on the small business con­ AWARD ferences I have sponsored in my district. County. The driver, who had previously been NREL is losing a valuable member of its arrested for the same offense, admitted to team, but I am certain that the community will similar smuggling activities in recent months. HON. WIWAM 0. UPINSKI continue to benefit from his many talents and Although U.S. Customs officials thought they skill for years to come. On behalf of all the were seizing a truck loaded with drugs, they OF ILLINOIS residents of Colorado's Sixth Congressional definitely touched on a problem of significant IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES District, I want to wish Dana Moran all the concern to California's avocado-growing re­ best in his retirement. gion. Thursday, February 1,1996 We must stop this from happening every Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to day. Stop the Clinton administration's assault pay tribute to the winners of the Take Pride in TRIDUTE TO CATHOLIC SCHOOLS on California jobs. Join me in stopping the Cicero Award, which recognizes residents and DURING CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK USDA's attack on America's avocado growers. businesses in the community for improving HON. WIUJAM 0. UPINSKI their property. TRIDUTE TO THE ALABAMA PRESS OF ILLINOIS While many communities sponsor similar IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ASSOCIATION ON ITS !25TH ANNI­ programs, Cicero, a community in my district, VERSARY warrants special mention because of the leaps Thursday, February 1, 1996 and bounds it has made in improving its Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to HON. TERRY EVERETT image. While municipal government leaders pay tribute to an educational institution that OF ALABAMA have played an important role in this trans­ has been educating American children since IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES formation, it is the residents, small businesses, the founding of the Republic, and continues to Thursday, February 1, 1996 and community organizations in Cicero who provide top quality instruction and a moral have been the real catalyst for this change. To framework for young students-Catholic Mr. EVERETT. Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege recognize these efforts, the Take Pride in Cic­ schools-during Catholic Schools Week, Jan. to bring to the attention of this body a historic ero Award was established by the town gov­ 29-Feb. 2. and noteworthy anniversary. This year marks ernment, Cicero Chamber of Commerce, and There are dozens of these fine institutions the 125th year since the founding of the Ala­ Life newspapers. serving my district, and they are celebrating bama Press Association [APA], the oldest their educational contributions with events statewide trade association in Alabama and The winners of the Take Pride in Cicero ranging from family skating parties to a visit one of the oldest State newspaper associa­ Award in four different categories included: from a NASA astronaut. Ms. Penny Wright, a tions in the Nation. Ms. Geraldine Ceranek; Mr. Juan Perez; Mr. music teacher at St. Cletus School in La­ In 1871 as Alabama continued to recover Clark Burkhart; Mr. Edward Lopez; Seguin Grange, is being honored with a Heart of the from the ravages of the Civil War, its news­ Services; Central Building Materials; St. School Award from the Chicago Archdiocese paper editors and publishers, joined by com­ Dionysius Church; Lang's Ace Hardware; for her dedication and creative approach to munity leaders, sought new ways to promote CasaAmerica; Osco Drug; and Ms. Mary education. Ms. Wright is 1 of only 20 teachers economic growth. This was the genesis of the Rosario, with help from Habitat for Humanity. working in the archdiocese receiving this Alabama Press Association which actually Mr. Speaker, I commend the winners of this honor. came into being with the first statewide meet­ award and hope their spirit of community im­ Mr. Speaker, I congratulate Catholic schools ing of newspaper executives on March 17, provement spreads throughout Cicero and all on their heritage of providing academic excel- 1871, at the Montgomery Advertiser. the towns and villages of our great country. February 1, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2331 "JUST SAY 'WHOA'" children are by drugs. I'm worried that for tics. We should all question what they mean the first time in many years, tolerance for to our futures and those of our children. We drugs and the mistaken perception that 'ev­ should all resolve not to be silent any longer. HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL eryone is doing it' is creeping back into our By the latest drug statistics and the renewed OF NEW YORK national mentality. And I am worried that calls for legalization of marijuana, it is pain­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the psychological momentum we had against fully obvious that our "letting up" is going Thursday, February 1, 1996 drug use has been lost. to let down the young people of this country. " [Y]et it's more than worry," I pleaded. It's time to just say "Whoa!" Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the "This weakening vigilance against the drug congressional narcotics abuse and control threat can have a tragic effect on this coun­ caucus, I would like to bring to my colleagues' try for many years to come .... How could TRIBUTE TO THE HONORABLE attention the following article, "Just Say we have forgotten so quickly? Why is it we BETTY LOREN-MALTESE 'Whoa'", written by former First Lady Nancy no longer hear the drumbeat of condemna­ Reagan, which appeared last month in the tion against drugs coming from our leaders and our culture? Is it any wonder drug use HON. WIWAM 0. UPINSKI Wall Street Journal. has started climbing again, and dramatically OF ILLINOIS I rise to thank and congratulate her for her so?" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES editorial, "Just Say 'Whoa"', which appeared Regarding the drug use survey, NBC News Thursday, February 1,1996 in this week's Wall Street Journal. The article reported: "'Just Say No' was an effective correctly described how apathy, neglect, and message in the '80s . . . in the '90s much Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to irresponsible attitudes have corrupted efforts more will be needed," Denver drug counselor pay tribute to a leader in my district who has to stem the trafficking and abuse of narcotics Bob Cota emphasized, "Kids have to be worked diligently to dramatically improve the in this country. I share her outrage, but I am shown why they need to learn it early, in the quality of life in her community, Betty Loren­ third and fourth grades-and it has to be re­ Maltese, town president of Cicero, IL. Presi­ heartened to know that Mrs. Reagan's com­ peated often." mitment to this Nation's future-our children­ dent Loren-Maltese was recently recognized Repeated often-like in the '80s when the for her efforts by Grit magazine which be­ continues. national leadership was vigilant and visible. As Americans, we all hail from different And yes, we do need even more now. In re­ stowed her with its True Grit Award for Distin­ backgrounds. Our ethnic, cultural, and spiritual sponse to the 1994 Monitoring the Future guished Volunteer Service. diversity have served us well as sources of Survey, Joseph Califano Jr., chairman and Although I could comment on the remark­ community, strength, and pride but occasion­ president of the Center on Addiction and able job president Loren-Maltese has done for ally test the strength of our Union. The one Substance Abuse at Columbia University her community in her less than 3 years in of­ virtue that unites us all however, is our goal to (CASA), warned: "If historical trends con­ fice, I will instead convey the words of the Cic­ tinue, the jump in marijuana use among ero resident who nominated her for the award: provide a better future for children. This America's children (age 12-18) from 1992 to shared sense of destiny will always include a "Cicero had a bad reputation. But because of 1994 signals that 820,000 more of these chil­ town president Loren-Maltese, we can hold world free of drugs and the associated vio­ dren will try cocaine in their lifetime. Of lence, crime, disease, and death. Increased that number, about 58,000 will become regu­ our heads up high. She has declared war on drug use and tolerance by our children how­ lar cocaine users and addicts." In a 1995 sur­ gangs, slums, and dope pushers and [is] mak­ ever, turns our dreams into nightmares. vey by CASA, adolescents said that drugs ing Cicero a haven for law-abiding citizens." As discouraging as the increase in the use were their "number one" problem. Our chil­ Mr. Speaker, I congratulate president Loren­ of drugs by teens is the silence and indiffer­ dren are crying out for help. Maltese for receiving this prestigious award ence of responsible policymakers who have While drug use is on the rise, the perceived and the great job she has done as a leader of risk of drug use is on the decline. The two go her community. ignored the fears of our children. Worse still hand in hand. Only a few short years ago, the are the people, both conservative and liberal, constant message to young people-in the who perpetuate misguided rhetoric supporting media, in their classrooms, and in their TRIBUTE TO ELMER "FUZZY" legalization of this scourge. Such irresponsible homes-was that drugs lead to destruction. MUELLER behavior further erodes the ability of teachers, But where are those messages today? Those mentors, and parents to shield children from messages, those lessons, are what change the seductive lure of drugs. perceptions, change attitudes, change lives. HON. WIWAM 0. LIPINSKI Instead of equivocating on the harms of Each of us have a responsibility to bring OF ILLINOIS back those messages-loud and clear. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES drugs, we need to inspire, educate, train, and Before the drug-use increases of the past employ our young people. Opportunity and re­ three years, we really had seen marked Thursday, February 1, 1996 sponsibility offer perhaps the best alternative progress. As I told the members of the com­ Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to to drug use. Instead of endlessly incarcerating mittee: "A decade of effort was beginning to pay tribute to a true community servant in my our children at a shameful rate, we need to lift pay off. Attitudes were being changed. I district, Mr. Elmer Mueller, who was recently them up with hope and show them alter­ don't mean to sit here and say that we had selected as the Pleasantview Fire Protection natives. It's time to act. won the battle against drugs. I think it's District Employee of the Year. The article follows: plain we had not." However, between 1985 and 1992, monthly cocaine use declined 78%, Mr. Mueller, or "Fuzzy," as he is known to JUST SAy "WHOA" or to an annual rate of 3.1% from its peak of virtually everyone, has served the district as a (By Nancy Reagan) 13.1% in 1985. It's the same story with other paid-on-call firefighter for 35 years, starting Statistic released last fall from the annual numbers: Annual use of any illicit drug by when the multicommunity district had two Household Survey of Drug Use and, more re­ high school seniors dropped to 27.1% in 1992 firehouses and two full-time employees. Now cently, from the 21st annual Monitoring the from 54.2% in 1979. "The battle was going for­ there are 4 facilities, 2 paramedic units, and Future Survey show that marijuana use ward one child at a time,'' I said in March. 16 people on duty staffing the district around among teenagers was up again last year. "There was momentum, unity, intolerance of the clock. Where is the public outrage over this find­ the exaggeration and glorification of drug Fuzzy's dedication has helped the depart­ ing? When will this country realize that as use by the media-we were building peer sup­ long as we don't wake up and adopt a zero port for saying 'no.' Children were being ment become one of the finest in the State. tolerance for drug use, we are heading down taught resistance skills-in short, there was He currently oversees the district's air rehab a path of no return? Must we lose another progress.'' unit, which provides sometimes life-saving air generation of children to the horrors of Now there is silence-and not without con­ to firefighters and victims on the scene. The crack addiction? Must the statistics soar to sequence. In 1994, twice the number of unit also provides a few comforts for his col­ all-time highs before we bother to take no­ eighth-graders were experimenting with leagues weary from battling a fire, like coffee, tice? marijuana as did in 1991, and daily use of snacks, and blankets. Fuzzy also serves as Last March I was invited to testify before marijuana by high school seniors in 1994 was treasurer, responsible for fundraising that a congressional committee, at which time I up by half from 1993. The 1995 Monitoring the said: "I am not here to criticize or place Future Survey shows that daily use has helps cover the district's expenses and special blame, but after the great strides that were made another jump. programs, like providing bath thermometers to made just a few years back, I'm worried that We should all, as citizens of this great na­ senior citizens so they will be less likely to this nation is forgetting how endangered our tion, be frightened by the latest drug statis- scald themselves. 2332 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 1, 1996 Fuzzy is also active in his church, Hope Lu­ in the students' shoes and seeing how you're prevent three crimes in Berwyn, IL, in my dis­ theran in LaGrange, singing in the choir, and meeting their needs. Mr. Sieple, a psychology trict-Ms. Caryn Saimo of Berwyn, Mr. Tom he only recently stepped down as coach of the teacher and football coach, said he likes to Haymes of Berwyn, and Mr. Eugene church's softball team after 48 years. use students' own experiences to illustrate the Wojcichowski of Chicago. All three were re­ In the words of his chief, Dan Hemers, points he makes in class and believes teach­ cently honored with commendations by the po­ Fuzzy "goes at it full-bore, does it on his own, ers must be flexible for their students. Mr. lice department and the city council of Berwyn and makes sure it's done right." Boyd, a music teacher and choral director at LTHS for 23 years, often gets to teach stu­ for their efforts in preventing crimes and ap­ dents from their freshman through senior prehending criminals in the community. TRIBUTE TO KURT ENGEL, JOHN years and says he finds it rewarding to wit­ Ms. Saimo stepped in to physically rescue SIEPLE, AND BOB BOYD ness the progression of their skills. an 11-year-old girl who was the victim of an Mr. Speaker, I congratulate these three fine HON. WilliAM 0. UPINSKI abduction attempt and provided information to teachers on receiving this honor and wish the police on the attacker. Mr. Wojcichowski OF ILLL.~OIS them, and all other dedicated teachers in our pursued a purse snatcher and helped police IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nation, further success in shaping the minds catch him. Mr. Haymes' telephone call to the Thursday, February 1, 1996 and character of young people. police about a suspicious stranger in his apart­ Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ment building led police to recover $1 ,400 in salute three teachers in my district who rep­ TRffiUTE TO CARYN M. SAIMO, stolen property in the suspect's car. resent all that is good in education today-Mr. TOM HAYMES, AND EUGENE Kurt . Engel, Mr. John Sieple, and Mr. Bob WOJCICHOWSKI Mr. Speaker, I congratulate these three indi­ Boyd of Lyons Township, IL, High School. viduals on their willingness to get involved and These three educators were recently honored HON. WIWAM 0. UPINSKI not look the other way, and I hope that all as a Most Inspirational Teacher, an award for OF ILLINOIS Americans develop their spirit of responsibility which they were nominated by former stu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in our war against criminals. dents. Mr. Engel, a physics teacher and baseball Thursday, February 1, 1996 and football coach, characterizes his teaching Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to method as stepping back and putting yourself pay tribute to three heroic citizens who helped